Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad.

Stop the Madness, What if Iran is Telling the Truth

Despite all the hype, Iran's nuclear program has yet to violate international law. It's time to calm down, think, and above all halt the rush to war.

Government Destruction of Rule of Law

One just needs to compare and contrast the government's response to the S and L crisis and the 2008 crisis and you will see a big difference.

Robotics Meets Architecture: 50 Quadcopters To Autonomously Build 20ft Tower

The video is pretty neat.

Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis: EFSF

I recall about a year ago that many people believed that the Euro was a far more stable currency than the USD.  Well, a year later we see that really isn't the case.

Fed Gloms Onto Obama's `Jobs Created' Fantasy: Caroline Baum

Just when you thought you'd heard the last of "jobs created or saved," the Obama administration's quarterly report card on its $814 billion fiscal stimulus, along comes the Federal Reserve with its own model-derived guesstimates.

Increasing Authoritarianism In the Land of the Free

A University of Rochester international services director "whose foreign students, scholars and parents have been questioned and jailed" says, "It's turned into a police state on the northern border … . It's essentially become an internal document check.

Playing Chicken with Debt Limits: Obama as a Senator vs. Obama the Hypocrite President Today

President Obama is very concerned that Republicans might "Play Chicken" with the debt ceiling. The president is so concerned his aids are sending out dire warnings about dollar defaults and "catastrophic impacts" to the economy.

Unix Engineer gets 41 Months for Nearly Shutting Down Fannie Mae

Computer programmer Rajendrasinh Babubhai Makwana was last week sentenced to 41 months in prison for planting a logic bomb on Fannie Mae's computer servers.

The Peak Oil Crisis: 2011 A Pivotal Year

As we enter 2011, the denials that significant change is coming continue. Oil prices continue to rise, but until recently they have been met with the idea oil that could go up a bit more, but certainly not enough to damage the economic recovery.

The Executive Branch Overstepping its Bounds...Again

"The FCC is not Congress. We cannot make laws," said Republican Commission Robert McDowell, describing Tuesday as "one of the darkest days in FCC history."

Wikileaks...not what it seems to be

Wikileaks has the essential features of a process of "manufactured dissent". It seeks to expose government lies. It has released important information on US war crimes.

Market alarm as US fails to control biggest debt in history

The new worry in the market is that this latest round of tax cuts could add another $1 trillion to the US deficit, on top of the already horrendous numbers produced in June.

Wall Street's Pentagon Papers

Now that you know, what will you do about it?

Behind the scene Iraq Videos

Update: On July 6, 2010, Private Bradley Manning, a 22 year old intelligence analyst with the United States Army in Baghdad, was charged with disclosing this video (after allegedly speaking to an unfaithful journalist).

Brammo Empulse 100% Electric, 100% Real Motorcycle

Brammo Motorsports has announced the debut of its all-new Empulse electric motorcycle.

Reagan Insider: GOP Destroyed the Economy

"How my G.O.P. destroyed the U.S. economy." Yes, that is exactly what David Stockman, President Ronald Reagan's director of the Office of Management and Budget, wrote in a recent New York Times op-ed piece, "Four Deformations of the Apocalypse."

Chasing Gordon Pirie

I've come to a crossroad in my life. I can either stay here, in my current form on the 'vine, and try to do battle with the political hardheads from both sides of the aisle or I can open a new door and start to enjoy myself again while writing about it.

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Military Spying and Torture Continues

Despite promises to the contrary, the Obama administration has consolidated, even expanded privacy- and civil liberties killing programs launched by the Bush government.

For Freedom

To any and all that have come this way I offer my deepest thanks (even if you’re here to disagree) and ask only that you raise a glass in memory of our nation’s independence.

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Crash Dead Ahead?

A bigger meltdown than the credit crisis? Yes, Bush's team drove America into a ditch. But now Obama and his money men, Summers, Geithner, Bernanke, are digging the hole deeper.

The Deed is Done

“When do you place the time of death?” the teary eyed woman asked the coroner.

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I am a Standard Bearer for Freedom

As a child born in the mid seventies, I have not known a time of want for most of my life. I took so much for granted growing up through the eighties and nineties not realizing that my comfort was provided by something more than a pledge of allegiance.

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20 Reasons to Worry

From MarketWatch, which is fairly mainstream, this is pretty good doom and gloom. Check it out then sound off if you have an opinion.

TARP is the Acronym for FRAUD

Mish Shedlock shines some light on the TARP program as well as many of the other shady deals that went down during the fall (pun intended) of 2008.

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