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On Friday, the Senate approved additional federal funding for the Car Allowance Rebate System, more popularly known as “cash for clunkers.” Originally initiated in late July with a one billion dollar budget, the program has proved to be a boon for the struggling auto industry in the U.S. Pitched to the public as a way to improve the economy as well as …

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After nearly seven years on the job, Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton announced his resignation last week, effective October 31st. Claiming to have made LA “one of the safest cities in America,” Bratton’s future job is the head of a private security firm in New York. LA Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has remarked that he favors a replacement LAPD chief who would …

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Former Alaska Governor and Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin posted a press release to her Facebook Page recently that characterized Congress’ Healthcare Reform bill as “downright evil.” She went further in claiming that “The America I know and love is not one in which my parents or my baby with Down Syndrome will have to stand in front of Obama’s ‘death panel’ …

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Stuart Christie Arrested in Spain

Back in the day on August 11th, 1964, Stuart Christie was arrested in Madrid, Spain in connection with an assassination plot to kill Spanish dictator Francisco Franco. The 18 year-old anarchist from Glasgow, Scotland had smuggled explosives across the border for what was to be the latest in at least thirty attempts on the …

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“What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.” — Albert Pike …

We’ll analyze the environmental impact of the Cash for Clunkers program that was recently re-funded. And, examine the legacy of LAPD Chief Bratton who recently resigned after 7 years on the job. Plus, Sarah Palin denounces a publicly funded health care option as “downright evil.” …

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Last Thursday, the Obama Administration announced its intention to overhaul the nation’s immigrant detention system. Though details are still forthcoming, the administration is apparently looking to centralize authority over the loose patchwork of public jails and private prisons that currently house violators of immigration law. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano acknowledged that these proposed changes could take years to …

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Officials from various nations are looking to amend the Montreal Protocol to regulate so-called F-gases – the environmentally toxic gas commonly used in refrigerators and air conditioners. In 1986, Chlorofluorocarbons, the pre-cursors to HFCs, were banned because of their serious danger to the Ozone layer. Touted by the major chemical companies as the environmentally friendly substitution to CFC’s, Hydrochlorofluorocarbons …

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A bill addressing solutions for climate change recently passed the House of Representatives, but is facing a serious battle in the Senate. The most daunting challenges particularly for President Obama include limiting manufacturing and coal producing industries at a time of economic recession, as well as holding other large developing and greenhouse-gas producing nations to high emissions standards. Now, a …

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The Nueces Massacre

Back in the day on August 10th, 1862, the Nueces Massacre occurred in Texas. With the Civil War raging in the not-so-United States, many German immigrants living in Texas did not wish to serve in the Confederate Army. They continued their objections even after a new confederacy conscription law was passed that sought to force …

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