Opinion & Editorials
Science Blogs | The girl did not bring the prescription drug to her Jeffersonville, IN school, nor did she take it, but she admits that she touched it and in Greater Clark County Schools that is drug possession
MPR News | It says something about the glamorous life I lead that my heart skipped a beat last night when I went through the daily mail and found the census form had arrived. "Oh cool, the census," I actually said as my wife leaned in for acknowledgment that I was glad to see her, too.
Go Green or Die | They were nice enough about it – told him they really just came to look at his car. (He has a Ferrari.) They had left a card earlier for him, from some constable in the Saanich Police Department, asking him to contact them.
The People's Voice | Some may rationally ponder that how is it, that such a long running global conspiracy for world government as outlined in Project Humanbeingsfirst's report “The Enduring Capitalist Conspiracy for World Government”, can be kept alive across centuries and across geographies. ...
McClatchy | Recent days instead have shown Washington at its worst. An ethics mess in the House of Representatives, even in its ethics committee. A nasty fight over spending in the Senate with the two major parties scrambling for political advantage rather than helping Americans in need.
Mondo Weiss | I’m too distracted to fall asleep. Everyone is quietly snoring. The sun rises ever so slowly and the wings of the plane rudely cut through the calmness of the clouds. It’s hard to believe that the intensity of the sun repeats itself with this beauty every day.
Mondo Weiss | For those of us who view the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as being an issue of injustice, there’s plenty of reason to believe no resolution is in sight simply because justice is one of the weakest among the principles governing world affairs.
Truth Dig | Obama lies as cravenly, if not as crudely, as George W. Bush. He promised us that the transfer of $12.8 trillion in taxpayer money to Wall Street would open up credit and lending to the average consumer.
Dissident Voice | There is a controversy raging in North America over Israeli Apartheid Week (March 1-7 2010). A resolution was passed in the Ontario Provincial Parliament which was unanimously supported (only 30 MPPs voted) and declared the comparison of Israel’s treatment of the Palest...
Karen De Coster | Nolan Finley is a very conventional columnist for the Detroit News. Nolan has just published a very good column (for the most part) on the Tenth Amendment movement. However, he just has to get in that one little comment that separates him from the radical states’ rights moveme...
Orange County Register | While Barack Obama was making his latest pitch for a brand new, even more unsustainable entitlement at the health care "summit," thousands of Greeks took to the streets to riot.
Global Shift | With emotions flying high the Patriot Act, also called Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism, was passed nearly unanimously, with only Russ Feingold voting against the measure.
Haaretz | A leading light in her field, Butler chose not to visit any academic institutions in Israel itself. In the conversation below, conducted in New York several months ago, Butler talks about gender, the dehumanization of Gazans, and how Jewish values drove her to criticize the actions of ...
Texas on the Potomac | At the same time, Americans are having a hard time defining Obama's politics. He has caved on many issues in pursuit of his goal of pleasing all factions. He could be called ``the great compromiser`` but the Republicans apparently see his attempts to get along as a weakne...
End is Coming | Analysts suggests that this is no surprise and that it is even part of a “decades-long drug culture” that has been running wild at Oxford and other high-level institutions of schooling since the 1960s.
New World Order Report | Glenn, this was nothing more than a fueling of hatred and division. Your inaccuracy of reporting on the tea party is laughable at best and sorry at worst. The tea party is the Ron Paul movement. The right has not taken it over, it has co-opted it and ass...
Arms Control Wonk | Jeffrey’s posts and videos of the walkabout at the NATO nuclear weapon storage site in Belgium reminded me of a story with a much sharper edge that I retold in Better Safe than Sorry. ACW readers can file this one, along with last week’s account of the U.S. Navy’s encounter...
Zero Hedge | And everyone knows that the White House and Congress - while talking about cracking down on Wall Street with strict regulation - have actually watered down some of the most important protections that were in place.
Chuck Baldwin | Most of us Americans have a deep and abiding respect and admiration for our country's fighting men who have served--and are serving--within the US Armed Forces. We appreciate their willingness to put themselves in harm's way for the pres...
Doctor Zero | People who support socialist programs harbor some incorrect assumptions about the nature of government agencies. Politicians and bureaucrats don’t automatically become more intelligent or virtuous than private-sector business owners and employees
Straight Dope | We've dealt with some weird topics in this column--quantum mechanics, penile lengthening, Circus Peanuts. But for my money the personhood of corporations proves there's nothing so strange as the law.
Market Ticker | Forcing people into Treasuries as an "annuity" is exactly what Social Security allegedly is. Except that Treasury stole the money that was collected in FICA taxes and spent it! The problem is that with an aging population and the immigrant problem, along with offshoring, ...
Before It's News | What was supposed to be the State of the Union Address turned into a partisan attack on the Republican Party and the Supreme Court last night when Barack Obama lashed out at his dissenters. He used the podium to continue to stump for his Healthcare and criminally flawed environmen...
Telegraph | I’ve noted several times how Hillary Clinton has backed the creation of a European superstate, and how the Obama administration is the first US government to wholeheartedly support the European project. But their stance on EU integration seems strikingly at odds with their claim to suppo...
Cryptogon | I was pretty wild, so I decided to call in. I spent about twenty minutes on the phone verifying this, that and the other thing. I had to talk to two different BofA fraud department people. But this is the kicker: The last thing they asked was for me to name a close relative and the state...
Associated Content | Due to rising tobacco taxes our federal government feels is necessary to justify their influence over smoking for more years than most who read this are old, it has come to my attention the government feels that it is time for the average tobacco consumer to pay their part for m...
Real Clear Politics | Before John McCain unwittingly picked a tabloid-magazine cover girl for his running mate, I was leaning toward going Republican this time around. I did the second time Bush was on the ballot and I very nearly did the first time, too.
Online Journal | On October 25, 2005, I wrote an article for Online Journal, headlined Is it the weather or government terror, detailing government manipulation of weather, including earthquakes, for terror and destruction, mentioning that “your local weatherman was surely not up to pointing this ou...
Kitko | At certain times, focusing on the big picture is important not just for investment success, but for personal welfare, and even survival. We believe such times are here. It is estimated that 98% of Americans have never held a gold coin in their hands. Yet 100% of Americans regularly handle Fe...
Philly.com | Rebecca Solomon is 22 and a student at the University of Michigan, and on Jan. 5 she was flying back to school after holiday break. She made sure she arrived at Philadelphia International Airport 90 minutes before takeoff, given the new regulations.
The Economic Collapse Blog | Will Americans be able to handle the next Great Depression? The truth is that most Americans today simply do not possess the strength of character to handle losing their jobs, their homes and the inflated lifestyles that we have all enjoyed by spending be...
Canada Free Press | Countless times throughout history we have seen governments tell the people that they will offer them security in the threat of danger. In return the people would have their freedoms taken away and given tyranny. Growing up in North America we have always had the perc...
Truth Alliance | At the expense of sounding callous and unpatriotic I will attempt to lay out exactly why the "Support the Troops" mantra is anti-American and determinental to the health of our Republic. Though I certainly do pray for them, I simply can't and won't "support" the American soldi...
Baltimore Sun | You'll remember that shortly after the Sept. 11 attacks, President George W. Bush said the motivation of the hijackers was that they hated freedom. Hating freedom seemed then and now to be a pretty weak reason to give up one's own life to inflict death and destruction on others.
Lew Rockwell | We will not recognize [American Fascism] as it rises. It will wear no black shirts here. It will probably have no marching songs. It will rise out of a congealing of a group of elements that exist here and that are the essent...
Arizona Indymedia | "Unprovoked, a female officer on horseback (who later covered her name on her uniform) charged her horse headlong into the march, colliding with several people and in the process almost running over at least one child in a stroller.
OpEd News | One of the most insidious corporations to ever taint the consumer realm, Monsanto is a global killer; a maker of growth hormones in livestock, Agent Orange (dioxin), MON 810, and RoundUp Ultra, a highly concentrated Glophosate herbicide used on global agriculture crops with additiona...
Wall Street Journal | The Washington state legislature will hold a preliminary vote Wednesday on whether to sell pot in state liquor stores, though even its authors say the bill is unlikely to pass. The same day in California, backers of a well-funded ballot measure to legalize marijuana are expecte...
Huffington Post | As an editor at Huffington Post Impact, I have the honor of reporting daily the generous acts of others and the devastating issues that our communities have yet to address sufficiently to make this world a safe and healthy place for everyone.
Censored News | In a statement released today, Rev. Annett said, "I have waited to comment on the attack because of my need to rest and recover, but concerns from many people have prompted me to go public with what happened to me."
Wall Street Pit | An interesting recurring fact of human history is the endless supply of doomsayers. One would think that this large supply would drive the price (wages) of these prophets of doom to zero. But from Isaiah to Al Gore, we see that this is not so. We are left to conclude one of t...
Huffington Post | Here's a wake-up call: Gallup reports that the number of 18-29 year-olds who identify as Republicans fell from 41% to 32% over the course of the Bush presidency. I am a young conservative. But like many conservatives my own age, I don't consider myself a Republican.
The New Republic | One tried-and-true way to start off a course in elementary economics is to call the students’ attention to a common object, such as the spiral notebooks in which they are presumably busy taking notes. Somewhere paper is manufactured with the appropriate strength and slickness, som...
Socialist Watch | In my study of political economy, one of the most overlooked yet fascinating historical episodes I have come across is the Recession of 1920-21. A handful of free-market economists have tackled this crisis, and I decided to throw in my lot with them and pursue the subject further m...
Economics of Contempt | The housing bubble has precipitated a severe, and possibly catastprophic, economic crisis, so I thought it would be useful to put together a list of pundits and experts who were dead-wrong on the housing bubble.
Informaiton Clearing House | What are we to make of the failed Underwear Bomber plot, the Toothpaste, Shampoo, and Bottled Water Bomber plot, and the Shoe Bomber plot? These blundering and implausible plots to bring down an airliner seem far removed from al-Qaida’s expertise in pulling off 9/11.
The Nation | Israel's relentless drive to establish "facts on the ground" in the occupied West Bank, a drive that continues in violation of even the limited settlement freeze to which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu committed himself, seems finally to have succeeded in locking in the irreversibili...
Alternet | The man is a crook and a psychopath and should have been thrown out of office long before now. He's gotten away with murder for years.
Guardian | My country hasn't been liberated: it's still under the warlords' control, and Nato occupation only reinforces their power
Antiwar | It has been eight years since al-Qaeda attacked the Twin Towers and the Pentagon: eight long years in which the "war on terrorism" – begun by George W. Bush in a blaze of righteousness, and since carried on by his successor, in Afghanistan and Pakistan – has been waged on several ...