Geeks for Monarchy: The Rise of the Neoreactionaries Link: Many of us yearn for a return to one golden age or another. But there’s a community of bloggers taking the idea to an extreme: they want to turn the dial way back to the days before the French Revolution.
A New Civil Rights Movement Frees Our Communities from Corporate Control Link: To protect small and family farms from industrial factory farming, over a decade ago a handful of Pennsylvania townships stood up to some of the country’s largest agribusiness corporations. Recognizing that the state and federal government, rather than protecting them from factory farms, were in fact forcing them into communities, the townships took the unprecedented step of banning corporate farming within their borders.
19 Things That All High School Students Should Be Told Before They Go To College Link: Don’t you wish that someone had told you the truth before you went to college? Don’t you wish that someone had told you that college has become a giant money-making scam that is designed to drain as much money out of students and parents as possible?
Daylight Saving Time Is Terrible: Here’s a Simple Plan to Fix It Link: Daylight saving time ends Nov. 3, setting off an annual ritual where Americans (who don’t live in Arizona or Hawaii) and residents of 78 other countries including Canada (but not Saskatchewan), most of Europe, Australia and New Zealand turn their clocks back one hour. It’s a controversial practice that became popular in the 1970s with the intent of conserving energy. The fall time change feels particularly hard because we lose another hour of evening daylight, just as the days grow shorter. It also creates confusion because countries that observe daylight saving change their clocks on different days.
Hollywood’s New Favorite Cars Are Armored and Electrified Link: The combination of guns, death and the particular vulnerability that a car on a public street presents to stars who are under siege from paparazzi and stalkers hits close to home for many in L.A.’s celebrity culture, where spending lavishly on personal security is a seldom-discussed necessity.
A Closer Look at Obama’s Culture of Death Link: Normally, Democrats like Pelosi and even Obama are anti-war. However, now they are pushing hard to use American military firepower to kill Syrians who have never attacked Americans, in order to defend other Syrians who have ties to Al-Qaeda terrorists.
It’s The Devil, Stupid! Like it or not, our country was founded on and sustained by the notion of a Creator.
Total Destruction of the U.S.: An Interview with Larry Grathwohl If your church’s new pastor had a long and well-known history of atheism, contradicting church doctrine, or fire-bombing churches, would you trust him to serve the church community in good faith, and to do everything in his power to uphold the church’s principles and practices?
More Than 100,000 Rally to Protect Marriage in Puerto Rico Between 120,000 and 200,000 people blanketed the Capitol Building in San Juan, Puerto Rico, today to encourage the island’s lawmakers to defend marriage as a union between one man and one woman.
Church in Mexico Has ‘Traffic Signal’ to Tell Worshippers If It’s Safe to Leave Red means, STOP. A church in Mexico has installed a ‘traffic signal’ inside the place of worship in an attempt to keep parishioners safe from the constant violence outside its walls.
The United States, from 1970 to 2005, Increased its Prison Population by about 700 Percent Obey, 40, a Guatemalan and the single mother of a 12-year-old and a 6-year-old, was picked up in an immigration raid as she and nine other undocumented workers walked out of an office building they cleaned in Newark, N.J. Her two children instantly lost their only parent.
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.
‘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.
Back to the Basics: Straightening Up America “How far can you make a man bend over backwards before he breaks?” This anguished cry is a defining moment in one of the most widely acclaimed musical productions of the Twentieth Century, “Fiddler on the Roof.”
Survey: Young Adults More Stressed Than Other Generations A new survey released Thursday says young adults, between 18 and 33-years-old, are more stressed than any other generation.
