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Highway robbery – oops! – I mean, “civil asset forfeiture” is still alive and kicking in the United States, despite louder calls for reform and more prominent negative publicity surrounding the program. Civil asset forfeiture is one of the most corrupt and vile programs that “law enforcement” agencies practice in …

Last week, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton appeared on the urban hip-hop radio show The Breakfast Club, where she told the hosts that she carries hot sauce with her at all times. This caught the attention of the Twitter-sphere, and led to the creation of the hashtag #WhatsInHillarysPurse, and Hillarity …

This is the epitome of modern Orwellian America. A group of 51 middle schoolers from North Carolina traveled all the way to the 9/11 memorial and decided to sing the national anthem. They were stopped — from singing the national anthem at the 9/11 memorial — halfway through by 9/11 …

In a video uploaded to Youtube recently, a brave grandmother filmed herself refusing to ‘show her papers’ at an unconstitutional DUI checkpoint in California. The results were inspiring. Sobriety checkpoints — also known as DUI checkpoints — are the most common roadblocks you might encounter. They function as a general …

Broomfield, CO – Sometimes a simple act of kindness and compassion by a friend can overflow into a spring of humanity and understanding that brings an entire school community together, as was the case for 9-year-old Marlee Pack. Last spring, Marlee was heartbreakingly diagnosed with Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma, a form of …

There is so much economic despair in our country today, but if you have a good job and if you live in a good neighborhood you might not ever encounter it.  There really are “two Americas” in 2016, and they are getting farther and farther apart with each passing year.  …

New York, N.Y. – On Sunday, in an extremely damning indictment, the New York Post exposed the extreme corruption and cover up the U.S. government engaged in after the attacks of 9/11 — as it took a look at what has become known as the “28 pages” – a classified …

The threat of a large-scale terrorist attack caused by chemical, biological, radiological or nuclear weapons of mass destruction has been at the forefront of investigations in recent months, so much so that in March the White House issued a warning highlighting the four most likely scenarios for a nuclear attack on U.S. soil. Following the attack …

Corporate revenues in the United States have been falling for quite some time, but now some of the biggest companies in the entire nation are reporting extremely disappointing results.  On Tuesday, Apple shocked the financial world by reporting that revenue for the first quarter had fallen 7.4 billion dollars compared to the …

If there were ever a signal that large investment banks may be preparing for financial crisis and that they’ll be using your money to bail themselves out when it hits, this could be it. According to a new report from the Financial Times via The Daily Star, mega-banking giant Goldman Sachs is now getting …