In Baltimore, the judge presiding over the trial of William Porter, the first police officer charged in the death of Freddie Gray, declared a mistrial on Wednesday. Gray died while in police custody in April. The jury twice decided it couldn’t come to a unanimous verdict. Porter was indicted for […]
Privacy and civil liberty advocates are organizing to block a dubious piece of cybersecurity legislation that was slipped into a massive, “must-pass” federal spending bill in Congress. The tactic is a way to make the additions virtually unstoppable. Speaker Paul Ryan announced the $1.1 trillion omnibus spending bill on […]
Hunter Thompson had it right when he said, “Politics is the art of controlling your environment.” As it stands, we have two parties with top tier demagogues using class/wealth on one side and race/religion on the other who have evidently mastered the art of environment control. Sun Tzu couldn’t have […]
In a protest marking the third anniversary of the Sandy Hook school shooting, gun control activists called for expanded background checks for firearms buyers and for banning sales to people on federal watch lists. U.S. Rep. Gerry Connolly and survivors of recent mass shootings stood outside of the Fairfax, VA […]
by Bradley James Weber “There it is again,” he says The aura The slight dizziness and the déjà vu another memory of things that never happened
Some esteemed boner over at CNN is declaring an, “…end to fossil fuels.” CNN Digital columnist John Sutter exclaims, “It’s a truly remarkable moment.” I really do read this guy’s articles sometimes. He seems to me like the guy that thinks it’s perfectly acceptable to tuck a golf shirt into […]
A Statement from the Managing Editor: “…and you thought we were all godless heathens! Well, mostly we are. But the Gonzo reach goes far and, believe it or not, we even got church Gonzos. The anonymous writer of this article, now a Unitarian Universalist, hits on some interesting tenets of […]
American chemical giants DuPont Co. and Dow Chemical announced on Friday they would merge as part of a $130 billion deal. The corporation will be re-branded as DowDuPont and will eventually split up into three different, publicly-traded companies. The focus of the new ventures will be on plastics and materials, […]
By Malcolm Mc Neill The first time I saw Mrs. Smith, she was lying next to me on the side of a bus. Later that same day I spotted her husband on the side of another one. De rigueur as it is for Hollywood movie stars, each of them […]
by Josh Chambers In America’s war on terrorism, one of the most commonly used tactics by law enforcement in the homeland are sting operations. Are they effective, efficient, and more importantly, constitutional? Since 9/11/2001, nearly 50% of all US counterterror convictions were informant-based 30% were cases where the informants played an […]
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