This was a sad thing to read on Memorial Day. We’re nearly a hundred years on from World War I, and many of the memorials to our honored dead have begun to succumb to age and neglect. Meanwhile, cities eye the space and wonder if it could be put to better use. From the …
Arizona Senator John McCain is strongly opposed to President Obama’s current policy in Syria, i.e., we aren’t giving the Syrian rebels weapons to fight Assad (yet). On this Memorial Day, Senator McCain visited Syria to meet with the head of the Free Syrian Army “for a few hours before going back to Turkey.” McCain supports arming …
As we enjoy this day off from work to spend with family and friends or just relaxing at home, let’s never forget the sacrifice those who wore the uniform gave for all of us. Rather than write a post, I thought I would just share President Ronald Reagan’s comments from Arlington National Cemetery on Memorial …
Twenty years ago, the United States led the world in science & technology and innovative research & development. Now, more than half of all U.S. patents are issued to non-U.S. companies. Does this mean other countries are catching up or that US research and innovation is declining? It’s not that students aren’t curious about science and math. About 1 million …
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The United States Attorney General gave the okay to get a warrant to read through the private emails of a journalist. Attorney General Eric Holder signed off on a controversial search warrant that identified Fox News reporter James Rosen as a “possible co-conspirator” in violations of the Espionage Act and authorized seizure of his private …
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I am not a conspiracy theorist. So much so that I’ve never even given credence to the grassy knoll shooter theory surrounding President John F. Kennedy’s assassination, despite knowing full well how near impossible it was for Lee Harvey Oswald to be a lone gunman. But in light of what has been revealed regarding the …
The latest witch hunt du jour is courtesy of the Senate Democrats. They hauled Apple CEO Tim Cook before a committee to inquire about Apple’s legal tax avoidance practices. The Senate brought in professors and other “smart set” types to basically highlight what we all know: our tax code is broken and, as a result, …
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In an amusing story from NewsBusters, it appears as if Bill Nye the Science Guy is under the impression that “not many countries beside[s] the U.S. have tornadoes.” Nye was also quick to blame global warming for the extreme weather event in Oklahoma this week in spite of the fact that most meteorologists and climatologists (yes, even those …
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With each passing day, we are learning more about the IRS scandal and more about the Justice Department’s efforts to silence whistleblowers and informants in particular. First, the news broke that the Justice Department seized two months of phone records from the Associated Press. Records for 20 different numbers were seized — from phone lines …
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The LA Times reported on Friday, May 17th that an asteroid with the endearing name “1998 QE2″ will passing by to visit Earth on May 31st (closest approach will be at 1:59 p.m. PDT). 1998 QE2 is 1.7 miles long and has the potential to trigger a worldwide dinosaur-scale extinction if it were to collide …