Science & Technology

Obama Quiet as UN & Dictators Push to Control Internet

A new effort to hand control over the Internet to the United Nations is underway as oppressive regimes such as the communist dictatorship...

Alex Newman February 22, 2012

FBI Plans to Shut Down Internet Servers Infected With Notorious Trojan

Dave Bohon February 21, 2012

Computers experts around the world are warning that, in an attempt to stop the damage inflicted by a Trojan virus that has infected...

John Glenn Marks 50th Anniversary of Historic Spaceflight

James Heiser February 20, 2012

It was in the fall of 1962 that President John F. Kennedy set forth his vision of seeing Americans successful land on the...

Environmentalists’ Dilemma: “Green” Wind Farms Threaten Endangered Species

Bruce Walker February 17, 2012

One dilemma faced by environmentalists pushing the use of wind farms to generate electricity is that the machines are actually a deadly environmental...

Nearly 2 Million Deceased U.S. Citizens Still Registered to Vote

Brian Koenig February 15, 2012

As the 2012 election nears, a report published by the non-partisan Pew Center on the States asserted that nearly two million deceased Americans...

FBI Pursues Social Media Surveillance to Gather Intelligence

Brian Koenig February 14, 2012

In a formal "request for information," the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) asked software companies for a digital tool that would systematically scan...

Columnist Calls for Internet “Quality Control” to Quash Dissent

Michael Tennant January 25, 2012

Do you think anthropogenic global warming is a hoax? Are you unconvinced that your ancestors had more in common with Cheetah than with...

Hackers Take Down DOJ and FBI Sites After Piracy Arrests

Alex Newman January 20, 2012

A coalition of hacker activists known as “Anonymous” — styling itself a “hacktivist” collective that fights for Internet freedom — took credit for...

Is SOPA on the Ropes?

Michael Tennant January 19, 2012

On Wednesday Internet users got a taste of what opponents of an intellectual property bill currently before Congress say the web could look...

SOPA, PIPA Blackouts Are Working

Bob Adelmann January 18, 2012

After months of discussion between and among 1,800 contributors to Wikipedia, the online information source, it decided to “go black" on Wednesday to...

Homeland Security Is Reading and Recording Every Keystroke

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. January 13, 2012

With so many of our most essential liberties under attack from the oligarchy on the Potomac, it is little wonder that the freedom...

Oil Companies Fined for Not Buying Nonexistent Cellulosic Ethanol

Michael Tennant January 11, 2012

In 2007, Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed the Energy Independence and Security Act (EISA). In keeping with Bush’s 2006 State...

Google’s New Personal Search Results Feature Raises Concerns

Brian Koenig January 11, 2012

Google announced Tuesday a new social networking maneuver that will rummage through photos and commentary on its budding social network, Google+, so search...