Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. New American Flush with electoral capital, President Barack Obama is spending it like mad in pursuit of his radical power consolidating agenda. Over the past few days we have chronicled the fast-tracking of a UN gun control treaty, the prosecution of another alleged espionage case
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By Zack Whittaker The U.S. government — and likely your own government, for that matter — is either watching your online activity every minute of the day through automated methods and non-human eavesdropping techniques, or has the ability to dip in as and when it deems necessary — sometimes with a warrant, sometimes without.
By Harlan Green President Obama’s victory means it’s back to the future for economic as well as social policies. It means he now has the mandate to implement what the electorate chose him for — a functioning government to not only fix disasters such as Hurricane Sandy, but the economy; to lead the United States of America into the future, rather than backward with Republican economic policies of the 1920s, as Obama said in the third debate.
By Jordana Divon Every week it seems as though there’s a new study detailing how everything we eat, drink, or inhale is colluding to make us ill and this week is no exception.
Televised and published pictures plus personal appeals of Hurricane Sandy victims in New York and New Jersey touched the hearts of Shelter Islanders who generously filled truckloads of clothing and other goods bound for Island Park and Long Beach last week. But the word from the Federal Emergency Management Agency now is “stop.”
Did you know that in Hurricane Katrina and Sandy people went to local Libertarian preppers and volunteers for leadership and supplies–many pre-organizing their communities? Get started in a whole new realm of freedom and self-responsibility/ voluntary mutual help here
By Seth Fiegerman Over the weekend, Apple and HTC announced a surprise settlement to their global patent battle, along with a 10-year licensing agreement that includes current and future patents held by both companies.
This Saturday, the Midwest Marxist Conference was held at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism. The event was teeming with teachers who spoke about the new found bond between the radical socialists and their Teachers Union.
(Myth) — A miracle calling for obedience to God, or merely a window crying out for a cleaning job? Malaysia’s Sime Darby Medical Centre has become a major attraction for Catholic believers coming to pray and light candles after an image resembling the Virgin Mary developed on the exterior of the building:
By Susan K. Livio Hurricane Sandy victims who rely on food stamps may qualify for additional aid to reimburse them for lost and spoiled food, state Human Services officials announced.
The puppeteer who performs as Elmo on “Sesame Street” is taking a leave of absence from the iconic kids’ show in the wake of allegations that he had a relationship with a 16-year-old boy.
Long story short, Google is attempting to knock Time Warner off their throne (thank science, right?). So far they have succeeded wildly in this goal (at least in my neighborhood). I’m part of a beta/pilot program and we’re the first community in the entire world to get Google’s gigabit technology installed in our homes.
By Ben Kersey Scientists across the globe have been working on self-healing materials for some time, but the latest efforts by a team at Stanford have led to a significant advancement.
A jury acquitted a Florida photojournalist who was arrested on January 31 while documenting the eviction of Occupy Miami protesters. The police accused Carlos Miller, author of a popular blog about the rights of photojournalists, of disobeying a lawful police order to clear the area. But another journalist testified he had been standing nearby without incident.
After three and a half months of downtime Demonoid’s tracker is now back online. The unexpected revival of the tracker is the first sign of life in weeks and suggests that the Demonoid team is working to bring the full site back online. While the index and forum remain offline, the many thousands of torrents tracked by Demonoid have been brought back to life.
NEW: BBC General Director George Entwistle resigns over elitist child sex ring allegations -Nov 10th George Entwistle, director general of the British Broadcasting Corporation, said Saturday that he would step down amid controversy over the broadcasting of false claims by a sex abuse victim.
By Olga Zharin Time has been one of the most complicated and less studied scientific issues since ancient times. Eight years ago (1995), American and British scientists who conducted investigations in Antarctica made a sensational discovery. US physicist Mariann McLein told the researchers noticed some spinning gray fog in the sky over the pole on January 27 which they believed to be just ordinary sandstorm. However, the gray fog did not change the form and did not move in the course of time.
Calls for Germany to repatriate its 1,536 tons of gold reserves held at the NY Fed are intensifying as Der Spiegel reports the Federal Reserve has refused to allow German inspectors to even view the country’s massive gold reserves “in the interest of security and of the control process“.