Josh Encinias

Ayotte: Putin Interfering in Ukraine’s Election

By Josh Encinias May 25, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/embed/tW7QzCPvhGc Senator Kelly Ayotte blamed Russian president Vladimir Putin for the tense security situation during Ukraine’s election this weekend that might be driving down turnout. Ayotte is in Ukraine with a group ...

Krugman in 2011: The ‘VA Is a Huge Policy Success Story’

By Josh Encinias May 23, 2014

In 2011, New York Times columnist and Princeton economist Paul Krugman wrote an article praising the Veterans Health administration, calling the VA a “huge policy success story, which offers important lessons for future health ...

SEIU Takes the Spotlight at a Fast-Food Protest for Once

By Josh Encinias May 23, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/embed/fZKGoRnAiZs The Service Employees International Union (SEIU) has played a large role in the global protests against fast-food restaurants calling for more unionizing privileges and a $15 minimum wage, but not ...

Teacher Explains He Helped Write Common Core Because of His White Guilt, Gets Laughed At

By Josh Encinias May 22, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/embed/LQ8Nr3_2724 David Pook, an English and language arts teacher at a private school in New Hampshire, didn’t get the best reception when he told the St. Anselm College Institute of Politics ...

Commencement Speaker Gets Standing Ovation for Slamming ‘Immature, Arrogant’ Protesters Who Blocked the Original Speaker

By Josh Encinias May 19, 2014

http://www.youtube.com/embed/alPu6hFj0Zk Haverford College’s commencement speaker, former Princeton president William Bowen, slammed the “immature” and “arrogant” protest that got the originally planned speaker, former Berkeley chancellor Robert Birgeneau, to withdraw — and Bowen got a ...

Harvard Says It Won’t Be Conducting ‘Check Your Privilege’ Training at Orientation

By Josh Encinias May 19, 2014

The student activist group “HKS Speak Out” falsely claimed that the Harvard Kennedy School will hold a required session during orientation about “checking” their personal power and privilege, the school says. The activist group ...

Greenwald: Bush v. Clinton in ’16 Is a Return to the Monarchy We Threw Off

By Josh Encinias May 16, 2014

Journalist Glenn Greenwald thinks a Jeb Bush vs. Hillary Clinton 2016 presidential race would mean America’s essentially become ”the British monarchy model that we waged a war to liberate ourselves from.” The former ...