By OcJim Grover Norquist is an American lobbyist, conservative activist and founder of Americans for Tax Reform. Most Republicans have signed his pledge not to raise taxes under any circumstances. Where does that leave us? When Republicans have a majority in the House and the means to hamstring any…
By Paul J. Burgess On June 23rd 1912, in Maida Vale, London, a boy was born who would go on to become a world legend. He was a man without whom you may not be reading this piece by means of computer technology. Without whom the United Kingdom would…
By: Justin Finneston The news is aflutter with Obama's recent issue of an executive order that effectively warrants the detainment of enemies of the United States deemed "terrorists" indefinitely. Constitutionally, the executive order is in the gray area. Historically, though, it's not unprecedented. Most commentators seem to have forgotten…
By: Jack Synten Since James Kirchick's 2008 discovery of Ron Paul old (though not that old) newsletters from the nineties, Paul has been back-tracking quite a bit. His newsletters expose Paul's tendencies towards the conspiratorial, as he espouses ideas that a "race war" is soon to begin, the IRS…
By Tom Hastings @ Hastings on Nonviolence The US military message machine never sleeps, is everywhere, and spends $billions on being dominant in the category of conflict turn-to sources for members of the American mainstream media. Editors want experts and they want experts who have been on the ground…
Virginia and West Virginia police have a reputation not only for being sticklers on the law but for being incredible assholes. Be careful driving through these two states because they very rarely will have any mercy on you. How it is that some of these people (cops) ever get…
By: Victoria Westen Many glorify the legacy of Steve Jobs to iconic levels of worship, and much of it is justified. He was one of a few polymaths that innovated the fields of not only personal computers, but phones, music, publishing, video games, animation, and many more with an…
By: Daniel Griffith Profit-driven market strategies have been used for the past century or so to dictate human behavior into compactable, superficial roles to sell a product so that we as a society will buy said products to look 'normal' so that we might fit in and be accepted…
By: James Buntil What do you get when you mix three Southern ladies, entrepreneurial spirit, and vodka? Answer: Vixen Vodka. Conceived out of North Fulton, GA, Vixen Vodka is sure to become a competitive company within the vodka industry for the sheer fact that it is the only vodka…
By OcJim President Barack Obama just signed the National Defense Authorization bill which will continue the funding of our troops stationed throughout the world, but what is attached to it raises my ire and disgust.. It is something totally unrelated and disconnected from the function of the defense bill,…