The Drug Laws That Changed How We Punish The United States puts more people behind bars than any other country, five times as many per capita compared with Britain or Spain.
U.S. Professor Finds Longest Prime Number With 17,425,170 Digits After running 1,000 computers non-stop for 39 days to uncover the world’s largest prime number yet, a Missouri college professor said this week he is starting all over to top his own record.
GMO Giant Monsanto Joins Big Business Coalition for UN Agenda 21 Corporate giant Monsanto, known for its controversial business model, lobbying, and its widely criticized genetically modified organisms (GMOs), has officially joined the World Business Council for Sustainable Development, a group of powerful interests including major banks and Big Oil backing the United Nations “Agenda 21” scheme for so-called “sustainable development.”
Huge Victory! 2 States Pass Anti-NDAA Bills Through Committee The day before anti-National Defense Authorization Act legislation got its first hearing in Colorado, two states passed anti-NDAA bills from committee. Both Indiana and South Carolina moved their anti-NDAA legislation out of committee.
Big Brother Task Force to Monitor “Anti-Government Extremists” Although it was not widely announced, there is a new “task force” set up to target people who aren’t in lock-step with the socialist regime.
Coalition of Black Pro-Life Groups Protests NAACP Award Ceremony; Twitter Shuts Their Account Down Black Pro-Life groups protested the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People’s (NAACP) close relationship with Planned Parenthood and its positive stance toward homosexual “marriage” by picketing the organization’s Image Awards ceremony on February 1.
Antonin Scalia: State Of The Union Is A ‘Childish Spectacle’ While his colleagues got ready to go to the Capitol, Justice Antonin Scalia sat on a stage across town and held forth about why, for the 16th consecutive year, he would not be joining them for the State of the Union.
‘Severe Epidemic’ of Sexually-Transmitted Diseases is Sweeping the Nation, Warns CDC on Valentine’s Day Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control released data Wednesday revealing that 20 million new sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are diagnosed each year nationwide, costing some $16 billion in taxpayer funds.
Here’s A Side-By-Side Comparison Of How Obama, Rubio, & Paul View The State of the Union Shortly after the president’s speech, Florida senator and rising GOP star Marco Rubio delivered the official Republican response. And shortly after Sen. Rubio’s response, Kentucky Senator Rand Paul delivered the official Tea Party response.
TSA Breaks World Renowned Cellist’s $20,000 Bow One of the world’s top cellists had his rare and precious bow damaged after Transportation Security Administration workers at the airport in Chicago brutally and carelessly probed his cello case.
5 Reasons to Kick Your Diet Soda Habit Chances are, you already know that diet soda is too good to be true. With that sweet taste and zero calories, something’s gotta give. And chances are, it’s your waistline and your health.
Help Scientists Name Pluto’s Moons The discoverers of Pluto’s fourth and fifth moons are letting Internet users have a say in what they should be named, by throwing the question open for a non-binding advisory vote.
Happy 100th Birthday, Grand Central Station! It made its debut in the heyday of cross-country train travel, faced demolition in the era of the auto, and got a new lease on life with a facelift in its eighth decade.
Gallup: Americans Disapprove of Obama Policy on Nearly Every Issue Even though Obama gets about 50% approval, the second-term honeymoon is over before it began.
The Moop – Designer Chicken Coop For City In San Francisco’s Eureka Valley, three young chickens are living the good life.
U.S. Retail Sales Growth Slows After Tax Hike U.S. consumers increased their purchases of retail goods in January at a slower pace, suggesting that a beginning-of-the-year tax hike partly restrained spending.
Carney Forced To Admit Sequester Was Obama Team Idea Bret Baier: Fair to say, but it was the president’s idea… You concede that point, right?
Medal of Honor Recipient Declines White House Invite One day after receiving the U.S. Army’s highest accolade, former Staff Sergeant Clint Romesha will not be attending President Barack Obama’s State of the Union, despite an invitation from the first lady.
So God Made a Banker And on the eighth day God looked down on his planned paradise and said, “I need someone who can flip this for a quick buck.”
Indian Man Single-Handedly Plants a 1,360-Acre Forest A little more than 30 years ago, a teenager named Jadav “Molai” Payeng began burying seeds along a barren sandbar near his birthplace in northern India’s Assam region to grow a refuge for wildlife.
Rare King Cheetahs Born in Japan Tokyo: Two king cheetahs, of which only a few dozen are believed to exist in captivity, were born last month at Tama Zoo in the Japanese capital, a park spokesperson said.
Gas Prices Hit a Historic High: What’s Driving Them Up? A combination of high crude prices, refinery shutdowns, and early speculation has sent gas prices soaring to seasonal highs earlier than usual this year, with no signs of prices at the pump falling until spring, according to recent estimates.
Tim Cook at Goldman Sachs Conference: Retail Philosophy, Acquisitions, and the Apple Ecosystem Question about Apple’s cash usage strategy…do you have a Depression-era mentality?
Did You Know DHS Can Seize And Search Your Electronic Devices Without Any Suspicion, For Any Reason, Within 100 Miles Of A Border? The Department of Homeland Security’s civil rights watchdog has concluded that travelers along the nation’s borders may have their electronics seized and the contents of those devices examined for any reason whatsoever — all in the name of national security.
Lightning Hits St Peter’s Hours After Pope Benedict Stuns Cardinals with First Resignation in 600 Years In a decision that has surprised even his closest aides, the 85-year-old Pontiff said his strength was ‘no longer adequate to continue in office due to his advanced age’ .
