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A pair of suspected U.S. drone strikes killed four al Qaeda militants in Yemen as the United States maintained a heightened security alert in the country and urged all Americans to leave immediately.
What prompted this post was an incredible CBC interview with Rachel Parent, a 14-year old anti-GMO activist. She had some critical words directed at the show’s co-host Kevin O’Leary prior to the interview, which led to her being invited on. What is s
Mr. Editor, I write today to speak on the topic of materialism. Materialism bears on Ayn Rand's "Objectivism". Rand figures prominently in some circles within the liberty movement. My sense of Rand's "objectivism" is
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As former U.S. security contractor Edward Snowden settles into a new, albeit temporary, home in Russia, he’s left a storm of questions about mass surveillance in his wake. Part of the famous fugitive’s deal with Moscow is that he’s not allowed to
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"FBI allowed informants to commit 5,600 crimes" (actually, 5658 crimes in a single year) and a lede that ends, "…newly disclosed documents … show just how often the nation's top law enforcement agency enlists criminals to help it battle crime."
In a crackdown that FBI claims to be about hunting down pedophiles, half of the onion sites in the TOR network has been compromised, including the e-mail counterpart of TOR deep web, TORmail.
Will rapidly rising interest rates rip through the U.S. financial system like a giant lawnmower blade? Yes, the U.S. economy survived much higher interest rates in the past, but at that time there were not hundreds of trillions of dollars worth of i
Orange County Sheriff’s Deputy Juan Tavera is facing a bizarre charge this week for allegedly spraying a teenager’s pizza with pepper spray without his knowledge in a routine traffic stop.
Thousands of evidence kits collected from rape victims that have sat untested for years in Texas can now be analyzed, thanks to an $11 million budget appropriation earmarked for the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The judge overseeing the trial examining the constitutionality of the New York Police Department’s stop-and-frisk practices had a novel idea for how to reduce illegal police stops.
Eight Miami Beach police officers cluster near the driver’s side. Then they unleash a barrage of more than 100 bullets, a volley so startling that the hands of the person recording the scene from his cellphone shake.
There is a relentless assault on the family in America today unlike anything that we have ever seen before. For decades, the entertainment industry and the mainstream media have been portraying marriage as the time “when your fun is over” and they h
As hundreds of commuters emerged from Amtrak and commuter trains at Union Station on a recent morning, an armed squad of men and women dressed in bulletproof vests made their way through the crowds.
Even gun makers want to be liked. So governors and other politicians from states eager to embrace the industry have descended on places where they are not so popular — like Connecticut, Maryland, New York and Colorado — offering
The marketplace for firearms on the Internet, where buyers are not required to undergo background checks, is so vast that advocates for stricter regulations now consider online sales a greater threat than the gun-show loophole.
The Washington Post Co. agreed to sell its flagship newspaper to Amazon.com founder and chief executive Jeffrey P. Bezos, ending the Graham family’s stewardship of one of America’s leading news organizations after four generations.
Featuring survival and sustainable communities that are already established. What can we learn from them, and how can we incorporate what they have done to help our own communities.
One of the areas where government would like to have absolute control is in the area of money creation. By having control of money creation, the government can, of course, control a monetary spigot that allows it to spend well beyond its ability to t
Those of you who didn’t sleep completely through American history class probably recall the phenomenon of Hoovervilles throughout the U.S. in the early years of the Great Depression. These were shantytowns that sprung up all across the nation and wer
Despite some positive data, the global economy is showing signs of slowing, a remarkable development in itself when you consider all the money printing and deficit spending that's transpired over the past few years.
Roy Middleton was shot in his driveway on Saturday, July 27th by two ECSO officers while retrieving a cigarette. I am holding a rally to raise money for his family to pay for bills and to demand accountability from the shooters.
Also, no cops and no snitches -- but some cameras might be allowed
Saving the world one cardboard chair at a time
Mayor Bob Filner isn't taking a few sexual harassment charges lying down -- or pinned against the office supply room door.
Is this a peek at the future of energy? This artist's impression shows a giant solar water-splitting array announced last week by a team from the University of Colorado Boulder.
Arctic ice is losing its reflective sheen.
What could possibly go wrong on a trip to the beach? We'll tell you.
On July 20, 2013 Yoichi Shimatsu and I departed from Ueno station in Tokyo to visit the Fukushima nuclear disaster region and see what we could see.
