The need to make the Iraq conflict more eco-friendly
The Onion News Network is right on top of this trendy story: In The Know: How Can We Make The War In Iraq More Eco-Friendly?
1,000 veterans per month attempt suicide, far more than Veterans Administration admitted.
According to McClatchy, the Veterans Administration withheld inconvenient information regarding the number of veterans who have attempted suicide: The Veterans Administration has lied about the number of veterans who've attempted suicide, a senator charged Wednesday, citing internal e-mails that put the number at 12,000 a year when the department was…
First Freedom First: Defending the right to worship . . . or not.
FirstFreedomFirst.org was co-founded by two Believers, Barry Lynn and Dr. Welton Gaddy. On behalf of First Freedom First, they have produced an hour-long video to inform others of the importance of maintaining a political wall of separation between church and state. The Separation Clause appears in an abstract form in…
Hypocrisy, anyone? The MSM and politicians do more than their share this week.
Arianna Huffington recently wrote a post that summarizes enough hypocrisy to throw the happiest concerned citizen into a long-term funk. The deep theme that all of these recent events have in common is that prominent American sources of information are demonstrably untrustworthy. How else can you explain the Administration's military…
Bush helping Big Oil
Bush sure has a talent for driving up the retail price of oil (and, thus, oil company profits). This week, with gasoline hitting all-time high prices, Bush directed the U.S. DoE's Strategic Petroleum Reserve to *buy* gasoline -- a move that enriches oil companies both directly (i.e., by making long-range…