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New Technologies that threaten our Safety and Privacy

In the USA the TV watches YOU! Technology is a wonderful thing. It makes our lives easier. But some technologies can put us in danger and threaten our privacy. By now we all know that every modern cell...

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Sharia Law infiltrating the UK and USA?

In the past few weeks, areas of East London have seen the rise of a group called the “Muslim Patrol.” Consisting of young Islamic men, they have posted several Youtube videos which show them harassing...

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Government Regulation: America’s Regulatory Complex

Government Regulation: The Problem or the Solution? Wander America’s statehouses with open ears and a word recurs: government regulation. It dominates floor speeches and press conferences—government is...

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Republican Party Split: Is it over?

Republican Party Split: The Dawn of a New Era? Since 2009, the Tea Party and the Republican Party have worked together on the conservative side of political spectrum, and until recently these two...

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The Forgotten History of Gun Control

History of Gun Control: With all the debate over gun control, people are forgetting why the Second Amendment was put in the Constitution in the first place. Ever since the Sandy Hook Elementary...

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Hillary Clinton for President 2016: Will she Run?

Hillary Clinton for President 2016- may legitimize the struggles of generations of women in America. Before former secretary Clinton decides the scope of her political future, she should consider a...

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Corn Ethanol: Food as Fuel Controversy.

Corn Ethanol- Corn for Food Not Fuel? Even as another winter storm makes its way across the plains, through the Midwest and on to the eastern shore, the farming community is looking beyond this last...

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Right Wing Media Bias

Right Wing Media Bias Debacle When republicans side stepped FCC regulations which only allowed ownership of sixteen media outlets of one type per person, they couched it as ‘free enterprise’ to the few...

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What is Socialism? The Root of all Good?

What is Socialism? Opponents to Socialism like to paint a picture of the “evil government” taking all of your hard earned money and redistributing it a way that they deem necessary. Rather than...

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Sequestration: Now you see it, now you don’t.

The devil is in the details or as Nancy Pelosi famously remarked prior to passage of obamacare, “You’ll know what’s in it after we pass it.”  Smart girl that Nancy.  The Balanced Budget and Emergency...

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Congress Salaries and Expenses- Is Congress actually Working?

$40,000 for State Office Furniture? Is Congress actually Working? What if we could change the way our elected officials served their time in office by voting on their pay scale? It would be interesting...

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THE SOLE POLITICAL PARTY

Republicans sermonize from a pulpit that appears to connect with people who value tradition and minimal free-market regulations. Democrats whine from a stage that seemingly plays to people who value...

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Why are Traditionalists upset about the New Pope?

Why are Traditionalists so upset about Pope Francis? When comparing the new Pope to the first ever “Retired Pope,” there are some interesting differences. The first is that Pope Francis is doing...

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Stacey Campfield Wants to Punish Poor Kids

Two Tennessee politicians, Sen. Stacey Campfield (R-Knoxville) and Rep. Vance Dennis (R-Savannah), recently proposed legislation in their state that would cut welfare benefits to families if their...

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Drones, Kill Lists, and The Phoenix Program

The use of drones and President Obama’s “Kill List” have dominated military related news for many months now, and it has begun to shed light on what the American public deems as the proper way to...

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Social Security, Wheres the Money?

“The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” – Franklin D. Roosevelt said this at his First Inaugural Address in 1933. President Roosevelt had the task of reviving America to what it was prior to...

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Event at Boston Unites Americans

The events which transpired on Monday in Boston were horrific and repulsing. Two bombs were detonated near the finish line of the charity event for programs such as: The American Red Cross of Eastern...

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Conspiracy Theories

With the second suspect now in custody after a day of Boston being on lock down  justice can finally be served to one of the two men responsible for the bombing on Monday. I have been following this...

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If I get a bad credit score, why can’t I just raise my debt ceiling?

Public distress about the debt ceiling started at the end of 2012 with the introduction of the phrase “fiscal cliff”. Two daunting words next to each other without a third for ease, and without proper...

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What is Socialism? The Root of all Good?

What is Socialism? Opponents to Socialism like to paint a picture of the “evil government” taking all of your hard earned money and redistributing it a way that they deem necessary. Rather than...

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