Ah, socialism. When the left has steadily used government to create leftist institutions that spin out of control, you get … well, France.
A goal of the left is to create artificial new power centers in society that are supported by government - and vice versa. This way leftism goes on forever. For example, once laws [...]

Liberal black leaders in the US operate on a double standard. They correctly demand that blacks are never stereotyped and are instead judged as individuals. So if the black murder rate is seven times higher than the white murder rate, it is unfair for whites to talk as if all blacks are violent. All of [...]

Hugo Chavez, the wannabe Venezuelan strongman, may be in trouble in his bid to hold on to power indefinitely:
CARACAS (Reuters) - Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has lost his lead eight days before a referendum on ending his term limit, an independent pollster said on Saturday, in a swing in voter sentiment against the Cuba ally.
Forty-nine [...]

Al Qaeda in Iraq has become so fanatical and irrational that it is as if their followers have been sent straight from hell:
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three suspected al Qaeda militants, including two sisters, beheaded their uncle and his wife, forcing the couple’s children to watch, Iraqi police said on Friday.
The militants considered that school guard [...]

To all those Muslim woman behaving badly, well this will teach you a lesson:
RIYADH (Reuters) - Saudi Arabia defended on Tuesday a court’s decision to sentence a woman who was gang-raped to 200 lashes of the whip, after the United States described the verdict as “astonishing”.
The 19-year-old Shi’ite woman from the town of Qatif in [...]

There are so many reforms needed within American Democracy. One of them is to end the ugly practice of gerrymandering. Gerrymandering is a technique used by powerful political interests to lock up voting within districts in the states. This is accomplished by redrawing boundaries of Congressional districts until it is clear that the locally most [...]

Dave Nalle writes about the latest Farm Bill in Congress:
The new Farm Bill which just passed the House and is headed to the Senate spends $286 billion over 5 years to underwrite the expenses of giant agrobusinesses, maintain the production of unnecessary and unprofitable crops, pay farmers not to grow certain profitable crops, guarantee high [...]

Yesterday I learned that to keep my current role as a systems & electrical engineer at the company I work for, I must move from the Dallas area to Silicon Valley in California. Since my current job role as an engineer is a really good one (I like my job), I will have to think [...]

Will Franklin writes:
The Project for Excellence in Journalism, affiliated with the Pew Research Center, has produced a highly illuminating study on bias in the media. They teamed up with Harvard’s Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy to objectively analyze campaign media coverage in America this year.
Now, Pew and Harvard are not [...]