By Michael Snyder Are people dumber than they used to be? Were previous generations mentally sharper than us? You may have suspected that people are getting stupider for quite some time, but now we actually have […]
By Michael Snyder A new law that has been introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives “would prohibit the sale, transfer or possession of military-level body armor by civilians”. In other words, private citizens all […]
By Paul Joseph Watson MSNBC host Ed Schultz suggested on his show last night that police like those currently occupying Ferguson, Missouri may need military gear in order to deal with the threat posed by “anti-government […]
By Michael Snyder On Friday night, the city of Ferguson, Missouri was absolutely packed withmilitarized police. But when the looting started, they did nothing about it. In fact, news reports indicate that the police were […]
By Andrew Sullivan I’ve wondered for quite a while what Barack Obama thinks about torture. We now know a little more: Even before I came into office I was very clear that in the immediate aftermath […]
John Vachon General store and post office in Little Creek, Delaware Jul 1938 Boy, what a day so far; hard to keep up. tell me, is it just me, or has the US really started another round […]
By Melissa Melton The headline from today’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Two days ago, a so far unnamed police officer in the St. Louis suburb of Ferguson shot and killed an unarmed, 18-year-old black teen named Michael […]
By Melissa Melton This is how the war of the words is fought on the Internet. A simple battle of semantics. Take the most notorious search engine’s news aggregate, Google News, for example. Go there and […]
By The Automatic Earths Arthur Rothstein Installation of a 30,000 kilowatt generator at Cherokee Dam Jun 1942 There are presidential elections in Turkey today, and current prime minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan looks set to win. Which means […]
By Melissa Melton The single quotes in this article’s headline denote a paraphrase of something Obama basically said Wednesday at his U.S.-Africa Leaders Summit specifically in defense of his use of executive orders to bypass Congress […]
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