Why is this man on the right, identified as a 26-year-old British hostage named Ben Innes, posing with Seifedeen Mustafa, the man who hijacked an EgyptAir flight today? Nobody knows yet. But … Continue reading Hijack Pics or It Didn’t Happen

Publicly Traded Summer 2013 Preface: For-profit colleges have been cropping up in the news recently. Investigations are being conducted, the 2011 GAO report (United States Government Accountability Office) has been released, and … Continue reading Publicly Traded

Mr. Trump is far better than any other candidate — maybe any candidate ever — at drawing attention without having to advertise for it. The New York Times is reporting that Trump … Continue reading Trump has been given $1.9 Billion in free press coverage so far

The major cable networks briefly mentioned Sanders’s March 26th vote tallies but noted that he ran out of steam well shy of eighty per cent. What’s funny is that this satirical piece … Continue reading Media Unimpressed as Sanders Barely Gets Seventy Per Cent of Vote – The New Yorker

A new federal hazard map includes man-made quakes for the first time Oklahoma which never had earthquakes, now has as many as California due to fracking. Nice. Source: Oklahoma Earthquakes: USGS Hazard … Continue reading Oklahoma Earthquakes as risky as California – What the frack?

Cover of Newsweek this past year. And no, this is not an metaphor for Global Warming, they actually proposed this dilemma at a space conference last April. The title of the Newsweek … Continue reading We can stop earth-killing asteroids. But how will we pay??? Huh?

A crowdsourced constitution. America? You paying any attention to Iceland? Source: Iceland’s ‘pots and pans revolution’: Lessons from a nation that people power helped to emerge from its 2008 crisis all the … Continue reading Iceland’s ‘pots and pans revolution’: Lessons from a nation that people power helped to emerge from its 2008 crisis all the stronger

The war on drugs has failed, fuelling higher rates of infection and harming public health and human rights to such a degree that it’s time to decriminalize non-violent minor drug offences, according … Continue reading War on drugs harmed public health: report

The petition, posted anonymously to Change.org last week, declares the Cleveland arena’s weapons ban “a direct affront to the second amendment and puts all attendees at risk”. The best response I’ve seen … Continue reading Petition to allow guns at the Republican Convention

Gotta love these conspiracy theories! I had a feeling this was the reason! Continue reading Conspiracy! Why Amazon Is Worth More Money Than Walmart!

Burner phones might be about to be banned in the US. A Congresswoman has proposed that everyone buying a phone in the country would have to register with personal ID, to stop … Continue reading ‘Burner’ phones could be made illegal under US law that would require personal details of anyone buying a new handset

Susan Hasler says terrorists want to foster a global struggle between the West and Islam, and political candidates are giving credence to that false idea Interesting article by a former CIA counterterrorist. … Continue reading Giving the terrorists what they want