The national debt is at an all-time high of around $16 trillion. That’s scary enough. But it turns out that number is just piercing the surface. If you include all the unfunded federal obligations to Social Security and Medicare it would add up to near $116 trillion!
Election season is approaching and as it nears you will hear more talk of campaign finance and the need to reform it. Here are 10 facts that cut through the rhetoric. Photo by Vince Alongi 1. Free Speech and Campaigning If political speech and the printing press are protected under the First Amendment, by extension…
Language is important when communicating ideas. Often, when it comes to politics, words can be twisted, perverted, or misused in order to alter perception. Sometimes a word comes to take on a meaning so distant to its original intent, those of us left communicating ideas forced to either use the word in the new context…
When the use of steroids and performance enhancing supplements became widespread in Major League Baseball, fans were in outraged. If some players had an unfair advantage over others, it sullied the entire sport. Americans who followed baseball felt cheated and duped. Congress even got involved, citing The Federally Controlled Substances Act and anti-trust exemptions held…
They’re ruthless and powerful beyond measure. Some say they’re worse than ISIS. Here’s 10 facts you should know about Mexican drug cartels and that country’s bloody drug war. 1.Mexican Cartels rake in $19-$29 billion annually in just U.S. drug sales. That number is astronomically high. Such high profits make buying politicians and law enforcement easy….
Photo by University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) 1. Melissa Harris-Perry’s Tax Evasion MSNBC anchor Melissa Harris-Perry has proclaimed that people should be happy to pay their taxes. She tweeted back in 2010, “Thanks tweeps for the reminders of how many of you are struggling with unemployment or underemployment. Will pay my taxes with a smile.”…
If there is one thing politicians must hate about the information age, it’s that their gaffes live on in infamy. Here are 10 examples where elected leaders made us all cringe and shudder in disbelief. 1. Senator John Kerry: “You know, education, if you make the most of it, you study hard, you do your…