The president tries to downplay the continuing crisis. In mid-May, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revised its previous estimate of the federal government’s 2013 deficit downward by 24 percent. The fiscal year (which ends on September 30) will feature red ink of merely $642 billion, down from the $1 trillion-plus of the ... MOREVeronique de Rugy: Yes, We Do -- Have A Debt Problem
The president tries to downplay the continuing crisis. In mid-May, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) revised its previous estimate of the federal government’s 2013 deficit downward by 24 percent. The fiscal year (which ends on September 30) will feature red ink of merely $642 billion, down from the $1 trillion-plus of the ... MOREKurt Loder: How Privacy Died
"Terms and conditions may apply." Whatever happened to the Fourth Amendment? You know, that bulwark of our right to privacy? Its protections against government intrusion and coercion aren't exactly dead — not yet — but they're going fast. Because we can't seem to stop giving them away. It's useful to have all the bad news about this ... MOREJohn Hudson: U.S. Repeals Propaganda Ban
Government-made news to be spread to Americans. For decades, a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences. But on July 2, that came silently to an end with the implementation of a new reform passed in January. The result: ... MORERonald Bailey: Seven Surprising Truths About The World
A lot of the bad news you think you know is wrong. Did you know that the incidence of cancer in the United States has been declining for nearly 20 years? That the spread of pornography correlates with a decline in rape? That average IQs are going up substantially all around the world? These are just some of the truths that are well-known ... MORERyan Gorman: Mississippi Cops Legally Steal $360,000
Even though no crime was committed. Police in Mississippi have confiscated almost $365,000 found hidden in the secret compartment of a car. Pulled over July 9 during a routine traffic stop on Interstate 20/59 in Meridian, officers suspected the car was being used for criminal activity and asked for permission to search the car. ... MOREWashington D. C. To Consider Legalizing Marijuana
by Susan L. Ruth. Washington D.C. is considering making marijuana legal in the nation’s capital. A bill was introduced on Wednesday, July 10, 2013 that would virtually eliminate all criminal penalties for minor marijuana offenses. The “Simple Possession of Small Quantities of Marijuana Decriminalization Amendment Act” was introduced by ... MOREFRACKNATION: Journalist Searches For the Fracking Truth
by John F. McManus. More intensely than almost any other nation, we Americans are dependent on energy — to run businesses, heat and light homes and buildings, power the many forms of transportation we frequently take for granted, and more. Worry over recent years that the world is running out of energy, especially the sources known ... MOREWilliam Tucker: Press Goes Crackers Over Fracking
Latest in the smear campaign against fracking. If you want to see how the press acts like a bunch of hysterical ninnies, just look at the way an article in Science about earthquakes and underground wastewater storage pools has been distorted into a national alarm about fracking. By the time you read this, you will have already read the headline ... MOREThe Ethics Of Sacrifice, The Politics Of Slavery
by Boyd Richard Boyd. Bad political ideas come from bad ethical ideas, which are originally spread by the words of bad philosophers. Progressives and their Utopian counterparts throughout history have pushed a corrupt and inverted morality on the world, causing man to act as his own destroyer. It is from an ... MORESteven Greenhut: Journalism Is An Act, Not A Profession
Great journalism can come from average citizens. Watching some recent debates about who is a “real journalist” and who isn’t has been a source of amusement for me given that being a real journalist has not always been that great of an honor. When I told Mom I was getting a job in journalism, she was miffed that her son would waste ... MORERoger L. Simon: Obama Big Loser In Zimmerman Trial
No accident race relations are going backwards. Forget the over-zealous prosecutors and the repellent state attorney Angela Corey (who should be immediately disbarred or, my wife said sarcastically, elevated to director of Homeland Security) and even the unfortunate Trayvon Martin family (although it is certainly hard to forget ... MORE
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