Europeans Push Back Against Criminal Immigrants
As debate continues in the United States over the impact of illegal immigration on the economy, crime, and the future course of American culture, the nations of Europe have...
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Schools Track Students with RFID Chips
It appears that in several Houston-area schools, the motto for student security is: “If it is works for tracking cattle, it will work for tracking children.” The school district...
CBS News to America: Don’t Worry about Sharia Law
According to a story by Brian Montopoli of CBS News, it would seem that America has little to fear from the brutality of Islamic Sharia law; no, the danger...
A Review of “Spanish Texas, 1519-1821”
In an age of American culture wars against the particularities of the various regions of these United States, many citizens act as if such regional differences which remain are...
Sociologists Analyze America’s “Four Gods”
That different people have different understandings of the nature of God is far from news, but two sociology professors at Baylor University believe they have found a newsworthy angle...
CEO Schmidt Insists Google Is Not “Creepy”
Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently attracted attention with his strange vision of a technological utopia, which is an odd blend of the unimaginative (cars that can drive themselves) —...
The Effect of “The Pill” on Brain Development
Fifty years after the Food and Drug Administration approved the use of oral contraceptives, a scientific study has documented the changes in the brain chemistry which “the Pill” causes...
UN pushes Economic Scheme for Climate Conference
After the significant defeat that confronted environmental extremists at last year’s United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, organizers for the 2010 conference in Cancun are trying to avoid...
Have Scientists Found an “Earth-like” Planet?
The discovery of a planet circling Gliese 581, a red dwarf star, has led to a round of press reports discussing the existence of an “Earth-like” planet. ...
Congress Approves New NASA Budget
Nearly a year has passed since President Obama’s controversial Augustine Committee’s report recommended a dramatic change in the future of NASA’s manned space flight program. However, it seems that...
Google CEO Imagines a Dull Version of Utopia
Google CEO Eric Schmidt has once again found himself in the midst of controversy. This time, however, the controversy has nothing to do with China, or even Apple; instead,...
UN May Appoint Ambassador to Outer Space
Since the signing of the United Nations charter in 1945 the international institution which has grown since that day has made a point of proving itself invasive, irrelevant, meddlesome,...
Pentagon Destroys Books for “National Security”
The decision of the Pentagon to consign Lt. Col. Anthony Shaffer’s memoir, Operation Dark Heart, to the flames has revealed how shallow and Janus-faced the government can be when...
Are Americans “Deeply Ignorant” Regarding Religion?
What do most Americans know about various world religions? According to a recent study by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, not very much. But the questions...
Six UK Men Jailed as Racists for Burning Koran
When Australian lawyer (and atheist) Alex Stewart allegedly rolled marijuana “joints” from pages of the Bible and Koran and smoked them on YouTube, he quickly learned that many Muslims...