As a dad (and blogger) I’m concerned with the integrity of the news and entertainment my family and I consume every day. Who really produces, owns and airs the shows my kids are glued to every evening and which companies select the stories I read with such loyalty each morning? I’ve always advocated for critical [...]
Not for the weak-minded.
A cartoon explaining comedian George Carlin’s thoughts on assassination.
The infographic below will help you in all of your researching endeavors when it comes to finding out information on Google.
The growth of government is built on the back of fear, slowly strangling the rights of everyone and enriching the few at the expense of the many.
On Friday, a group of University of California, Davis students, part of the Occupy Wall Street movement on campus, became the latest victims of alleged police brutality to be captured on video. The videos show the students seated on the ground as a UC Davis police officer brandishes a red canister of pepper spray, showing [...]
Government would never take marching orders from bankers and the well-to-do, right?
Some of the first small businesses in America were appropriately titled “mom and pop shops,” owned and operated by families. Centuries later, not much has changed: 90 percent of the 21 million small businesses in America are family-owned, according to the Small Business Administration. While some “mom and pop shops” expand to Wal-Mart sized proportions, [...]
This chart from the Consumer Federation of America (via HuffPo) shows just how much Wall Street is in fact regulated. Of course, what they want — and what might make a lot more sense — is a system like this.
So sad, so true. This is what we get for letting the people in Washington orchestrate things.