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The first time Matt Hawn suspected that he might run into trouble for what he was teaching was last August. His contemporary-issues class was discussing the events in Kenosha, Wisconsin, where protesters had taken to the streets after a police officer was filmed shooting 29-year-old Jacob Blake in the back. Hawn showed his students a picture of Kyle Rittenhouse, the 17-year-old accused of killing two people and injuring another during the protests, to demonstrate the concept of white privilege. “What are we going to do about racism in the U.S.?” he asked his students. The principal of Sullivan Central High...

U.S. President Barack Obama mocked Republican lawmakers' plan to file a lawsuit against him for using his executive authority to make policy, saying Congress had forced his hand by failing to take action. "The suit is a stunt," Obama said in an interview with ABC News that aired on Friday. House of Representatives Speaker John Boehner said on Wednesday he planned take legal action alleging the president has abused his executive authority by implementing policies without congressional approval. "I'm not going to apologize for trying to do something while they're doing nothing," Obama said. As an example, Obama pointed to...

Apparently we just can’t trust government statistics. But, then again, what else is new? According to a new report, released by John Crudele with the NY Post, the jobs reports leading up to the 2012 Presidential Election were “faked.” Remember when the unemployment rate magically dropped from 8.1 percent to 7.8 percent (coincidently helping Obama keep his previous promise of lowering the unemployment rate before the end of his first term)? Yeah, that’s just one of the jobs reports in question. More than being simply being manipulate, the Census Bureau was aware of the tampered numbers. Never did the bureau...

Behind Wal-Mart, the second-largest employer in America is Kelly Services, a temporary work provider. Friday´s disappointing jobs report showed that part-time jobs are at an all-time high, with 28 million Americans now working part-time. The report also showed another disturbing fact: There are now a record number of Americans with temporary jobs. Approximately 2.7 million, in fact. And the trend has been growing. In the first quarter of 2013, U.S. staffing companies employed an average of 2.86 million temporary and contract workers, according to the American Staffing Association.