“Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable”. – Thomas Jefferson In today’s political climate, it is evident that [...] Continue Reading

Rape.  Just reading or hearing the word elicits a slew of intense emotional responses.  It is a vile act, second to murder on the list of behaviors that most humans view as wholly immoral.  So, imagine what getting raped must be like if just the sound or sight of the word has such a heavy [...] Continue Reading

I attended my first Obama mandated death panel last week. It went exactly as I had expected.  My mother was busy cooking my wife and I dinner.  She frantically maneuvered her new Jazzy Electric WheelChair around the cramped kitchen. She unleashed a series of profanities as she magically kept the gravy from bubbling over the [...] Continue Reading

First HR 875 and now it's equally ugly cousin. Continue Reading

A common sense approach to population control. Continue Reading

Bill Clinton swooped into North Korea on a mission to rescue two Current.com journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee.  He succeeded, but it’s not as though the negotiations were going to be particularly hard.  After all, Kim Jong-il just wanted some Western attention–as usual–and he got it.  He just wanted the U.S. to acknowledge that [...] Continue Reading

Ghoulish Geithner has already started on the path towards tax hikes by doing what all good sneaks do: Dropping the hard news through subtle hints that work subconsciously to lower expectations in the minds of the audience.  Geithner appeared with bubble blower and one of the causes of the 2000 recession, Alan Greenspan, in an [...] Continue Reading

The more Byron Dorgan, the better.  The Democratic Senator from North Dakota has been a strong opponent of wasteful government spending and in his newest campaign against government fraud and mismanagement he has set out to take back bonuses from the former subsidiary of Halliburton, KBR.  And if you’re wondering who the hell KBR is, [...] Continue Reading

Embedded video from <a href=”http://www.cnn.com/video” mce_href=”http://www.cnn.com/video”>CNN Video</a> Probably heard about this by now:  Self-described, “former English teacher, writer, current police officer, father, husband, and military veterean,” Justin Barrett sent quite the email to the Boston Globe and his Yahoo! address book.  His apology is in the video above.  The letter is below.  Really, there’s not much [...] Continue Reading

I remember awhile ago I was thinking about how efficient it would be to put a receiving facility on the outskirts of a town in order to receive shipments coming into the town. I also realized you would need environmentally friendly vehicles to take the incoming shipments and then distribute them throughout the town. Apparently, [...] Continue Reading

When people hear hemp they immediately think hippies and bongs and the apocalypse.  Well, some people think that–mostly idiots.  Fortunately, U.S. states are starting to abandon antiquated assumptions about hemp, and instead, are starting to realize it as a legitimate and budding industry with great potential to not just create jobs, but lessen the load [...] Continue Reading

You want to know how marijuana is going to get legalized?  It’s going to happen on the state and local level; and we have California and their defiance of federal law to thank for starting the localization movement.  The federal government, which has become nothing more than a finely tuned group of organized criminals, makes [...] Continue Reading

When Gil Kerlikowske was tapped to be the country’s drug czar there was plenty of hope among potheads everywhere.  After all, he was the police chief of Seattle, a pot friendly city that hosts an annual festival, Hemp Fest, which pretty much consists of people just walking around and openly smoking pot.  Rather than order [...] Continue Reading

Philly recently replaced 500 of its 700 downtown garbage cans with new, BigBelly solar-powered trash compactors.   The switch will save the city $875,000 annually, which goes to show little things can have big implications.  Streets Commissioner Clarena Tolson also notes that the garbage cans will only have to be emptied 5 times a week rather [...] Continue Reading

Bribes, black market kidney deals, and money being funneled to Israel. Continue Reading