Cheney released from hospital after heart transplant WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Former Vice President Dick Cheney, who underwent a heart transplant 10 days earlier, was released from the hospital on Tuesday, a spokeswoman […]
What will America look like after the apocalypse? Not what you think.
Recently, a left-wing colleague described his vision of where America is headed over the next forty years–breakdown of government, mass starvation, roving bands of marauders, etc. It’s interesting that this is exactly […]
Who's reading what: Scrogues Nightstand
What books have been sitting by the Scrogues’ bedside these days? “My patterns are diverse to the point of randomness,” says Lex. Mike Sheehan echoes that sentiment: “There is no rhyme or […]
America vs. the Terrorists, 9/11/10: a status report, nine years on…
In September 11, 2001, al Qaeda terrorists hijacked four passenger jets. They flew three of them into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The fourth was retaken by the passengers and […]
Bring Back the Draft–the All-Volunteer Military Should be Retired
The United States gave up universal conscription in 1973. The Draft, as we all knew it, had been in effect since 1948, when President Truman and Congress re-introduced it. It was the […]
The 2000s in review: worst decade of the decade
by Rich Herschlag We have never known more about others and less about ourselves. How bad did this decade suck? Well, let’s put it this way. The damn thing never even got […]
Joe the Heart Patient
by Rich Herschlag I want to keep the health insurance I have—which is no health insurance. I was dropped when I had a heart attack. My insurance company called it a preexisting […]
Anchors A-waste
by Jeff Huber The U.S. Navy is fumbling a blue and golden opportunity to demonstrate the relevance of its maritime global reach capability (and justify its phony baloney budget) in the age […]
Poor affected most as Environmental Destruction Agency blasts away barrier to expand mountaintop removal mining
“Clean” coal’s dirtiest secret: Part III This article, third in a series on mountaintop removal coal mining, was originally titled “The poor are always downstream.” It must now be amended to add […]
Meet Satan's towel boy, Ralph Nader, and other famous rabblerousers in a call for open debates
He’s the man who caused Sep. 11, war in the Gulf, a million Iraqi deaths and probably mad cow disease too, as you’ve no doubt heard from disgruntled Democrats. Of course I’m […]
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