Blood, treasure and soul. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when it happened, but clear evidence can be seen at least in the aftermath of World War II. Some trace the origins back to 1898 and the Spanish-American War, or even earlier to the War of 1812. And still others would say that imperial ambitions were even on the minds of some of ... MORE
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Mike Marion: The Exorbitant Price Of The American Empire
Blood, treasure and soul. It is difficult to pinpoint exactly when it happened, but clear evidence can be seen at least in the aftermath of World War II. Some trace the origins back to 1898 and the Spanish-American War, or even earlier to the War of 1812. And still others would say that imperial ambitions were even on the minds of some of ... MOREWoman Dies In Jail Because She Failed To Pay A Fine
by Brian Doherty. Jailed for her child's truancy from school. Some monstrous policy out of Pennsylvania, from Associated Press
via the Pottstown Mercury News, a land where there is
no such thing as debtors prison for the poor unless that debt is to
the government, that institution that only monsters question
because after all it's there to help ... MOREScience: E-Cigs Could Save Hundreds Of Millions Of Lives
As U.S. politicians try to ban the device ... A group of 53 leading scientists has warned the World Health
Organization not to classify e-cigarettes as tobacco products, arguing
that doing so would jeopardize a major opportunity to slash disease and
deaths caused by smoking. The UN agency, which is currently assessing its position on the
matter, ... MORERemembering Our Ultimate Defenders Of Freedom
by Rob Woodall. It was President James A. Garfield who said, “For love of country they accepted death,” and in that brief sentence we find a simple, solemn truth. It’s a truth for which we set aside a special day each year to pay tribute to the sacrifice of so many. Their sacrifice is a gift for which we are grateful, and on Memorial Day we pause to ... MOREWalter E. Williams: How To Assist Evil
Enhancing governments power to tyrannize. "Engineering Evil" is a documentary recently shown on the Military History channel. It's a story of Nazi Germany's murder campaign before and during World War II. According to some estimates, 16 million Jews and other people died at the hands of Nazis. Though the Holocaust ranks high among the ... MORE
Alex Greig: Six Year Old Dies From Medical Pot Prohibition
Another victim of the drug war. A little girl has died just days after a Utah bill, HB104, was named Charlee's Law in her honor. Six-year-old Charlee Nelson died on Saturday after battling a debilitating neurological disorder called Batten disease. On Thursday, the Utah Legislature passed a law named for Charlee that allows children ... MORE
The Electric Chair Could Return In Louisiana
by Michelle Millhollon. Twenty-three years after the state retired Gruesome Gertie and switched to lethal injection for executions, the electric chair could make a comeback in Louisiana. States are scrambling for death penalty alternatives because of a clampdown on the availability of deadly drugs for executions. Old-time tools that were ... MOREMark Nestmann: When You Need To Disappear
Leave no footprints. Whistleblower Edward Snowden needs to disappear if he is to avoid kidnapping, assassination, extradition, or deportation to the United States. If you’re ever faced by a situation in which you need to disappear, right away, what would you do? Perhaps someone is bent on revenge and has threatened to kill you. ... MORE
Zach Weissmueller: Who Decides How You Die?
A question of self-ownership. You may have the right to control your own life, but what about
your own death? This is a question facing several states across the
U.S., including, most recently, Vermont and Montana. While physician aid-in-dying, or assisted suicide, has been
legal in Oregon for almost two decades and legal in Washington
for ... MORENicole Russell: Rand's Band Of Brothers
The liberty diehards. Whatever his ideological leanings, surely Shakespeare would have raised an eyebrow at the political scene Wednesday, if only for the content it would have stirred in his creative mind. Though Rand Paul spearheaded an epic 13-hour filibuster, he didn’t fill that time alone. Fourteen other Senators total — including one ... MOREU.S. Senator Says 4,700 Have Been Killed By Drones
"Sometimes you hit innocent people, and I hate that." It was the first time a politician or any government representative had referred to a total number of fatalities in the drone strikes, which have been condemned by rights groups as extrajudicial assassinations. The toll from hundreds of drone-launched missile strikes against suspected ... MORERand Paul Tells Hillary Clinton: "I Would Have Fired You"
by Alexis Levinson. Republican Sen. Rand Paul said Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had been negligent in conducting her job, and said that if he were president, he would have relieved her of her post. Paul said that the fact that she was not aware of the requests of more security for the U.S. Embassy in Libya constituted “a failure of leadership” and said it ... MOREDr. Gilbert Ross: The Deadly Crusade Against E-Cigarettes
Gov't to ban a sure-fire way to prevent death from smoking. Thursday was "The Great American Smokeout" -- an appropriate day to
take a moment to spare a thought for the 44 million Americans in
the grip of a deadly addiction. Over half of all smokers tried to
quit last year, and an estimated 443,000 died from
cigarette-related illness. ... MOREObama Proves Himself Unworthy As Commander-In-Chief
from the Las Vegas Review-Journal. U.S. Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens and three other Americans died in a well-planned military assault on their diplomatic mission in Benghazi seven weeks ago, the anniversary of the 9/11 terrorist attacks. So why are details surfacing, piecemeal, only now? The Obama administration sat by doing ... MORE
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