Matt Drudge has decided to start pushing socialism. Look at his big headline right now: Here’s the story Drudge links to, but I want to go to a story about this that came out two days earlier: Hardheaded Socialism Makes Canada Richer Than U.S. On July 1, Canada Day, Canadians awoke to a startling, if […]
The United States is number one in the world when it comes to persons incarcerated per capita. That appears to be a standing we want to keep: Nearly one in three Americans will already have been arrested by the age of 23, recent research suggests. A study analyzing data from the federal government’s National Longitudinal […]
With the price of gas on the rise again, this is really shocking news: The United States is awash in gasoline. So much so, in fact, that the country is exporting a record amount of it. The country exported 430,000 more barrels of gasoline a day than it imported in September, according to the U.S. […]
Overnight a new tropical depression got its act together, pulled in tighter and became our next hurricane, Katia. The storm is still way out in the Atlantic, but it’s moving very fast and predicted to become a major hurricane by Sunday, as seen on the 5-day probability cone: Compare this to the 5-day cone from […]
Al Qaeda has vowed revenge for the killing of Osama bin Laden and it looks like they are making good on it: Pakistan’s Taliban on Friday claimed their first major attack to avenge Osama bin Laden’s death as 80 people were killed in a double suicide bombing on a paramilitary police training centre. Around 140 […]
It looks like the field of 2012 GOP candidates are quickly setting up their boogeyman – Sharia law. For years now there has been noise on the right that Sharia law is taking over the country and now that noise is getting louder. Over at Ben Smith’s blog, he has gathered a sampling of what […]
As we get ready to roll into 2011 the fringe wingnuts have decided it’s time to come up with some brand new conspiracy theories about the President: The good news is that the right-wing isn’t talking about President Obama being a secret Muslim right now. The bad news is that they’re now concerned that he’s […]
With the resignation of Rep. Mark Souder (R-IN) today, that leaves a question of who could end up replacing him on the ballot this November. Most are predicting that Bob Thomas will pick up the mantle, especially given the close defeat Thomas saw in his primary challenge to Souder a couple of weeks ago. I […]
In under a week the civil rights movement have lost two big names. Last week Benjamin Hooks passed away and today it’s Dorothy Height: Dorothy Height, a longtime leader of the U.S. civil rights movement and the chairwoman of the National Council of Negro Women, died on Tuesday in Washington. She was 98. Trained as […]
From Raw Story: An increasing number of Indiana residents are declaring themselves “sovereign citizens” and personally seceding from the United States, says a report from ABC channel 6 in Indianapolis. By doing so, residents contend that they no longer have to pay taxes, claiming their homes as embassies and using identification cards that show them […]