The Hundredth Monkey Phenomenon

An excellent article on how corn and sugar subsidies provided to industry by the US government are keeping us reliant on foreign oil. Great, short, important read.

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I don’t mean to make any connection to the Connecticut senator’s politics, as I actually don’t mind the guy, but this is just awesome.

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The US government, in its valiant attempt to stem the invasion of our country by the imperial Mexican Empire to the south (sarcasm intended), is now getting ordinary citizens involved. The government has begun testing a website that allows ordinary citizens to monitor the border from the Mexican-free safety of their own bedrooms/basements/offices. [...]

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This report on a clearly subjective list of the dumbest congressmen is pretty frightening. The elite in America are definitely not those writing its laws, sadly.

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The story from the BBC, among other places. Just another sign that we’re turning into an isolationist culture in many ways; scared of outside cultural influence and motives. Pat Buchanan was on NPR a week or two ago and posited that the Mexicans are coming in such numbers that they will not be [...]

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An article in the International Herald Tribune. An exerpt:
KINTBURY, England In the autumn of 68 B.C. the world’s only military superpower was dealt a profound psychological blow by a daring terrorist attack on its very heart. Rome’s port at Ostia was set on fire, the consular war fleet destroyed, and two prominent senators, together [...]

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Far from being a specifically Muslim problem, religious extremism is found in both Judaism, which had the violent Zionist movement pre-World War II, and Christianity, which had the German Nazis, among many other hate groups. The latest act by a Christian terrorist, as reported here, was a failed car bombing (yes, they’re not just [...]

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