Announcing the Winners of the 2016 FPP Peace Prize
The FPP Peace Prize was founded in 2009 due to the history of the Nobel Prize Committee selecting pro-war recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize. The FPP Peace Prize has …
Is Black Friday dead?
Still one of the top shopping days of the year, ShopperTrak, a website which counts foot traffic in retail stores, reports “preliminary retail visit data for Thanksgiving Day and Black …
Do we really need time zones?
A couple of weeks ago most Americans, many in Arizona and everyone in Hawai’i excluded, “fell back” with the end of Daylight Saving Time. And as happens in this twice …
The secession debate has a new flavor
Every few years it seems the political compass flips around. You may recall following Barack Obama’s re-election, petitions were placed on the White House petition website supporting secession for Texas …
A different look at the wasted vote theory
Every couple of years supporters of candidates who are not from the ruling duopoly are inundated with claims that their vote is “wasted.” The vast majority of people who perpetuate …
Ballot selfie ban violates free speech
A growing trend across the country at the state level is passage of laws prohibiting so-called ballot selfies, which is “taking a digital image or photograph of [a] marked ballot …
Report shows more arrests for cannabis than violent crime
A recent report from the ACLU and Human Rights Watch revealed some interesting facts about the 45 year old War on Drugs. It may not come as a surprise to …
Rethinking Columbus Day
In fourteen hundred and ninety-two Columbus sailed the ocean blue and found a land inhabited by other people. Christopher Columbus believed he had visited Asia, and it was Amerigo Vespucci …
The Donald’s 180 on not paying taxes
During the first Presidential debate at Hofstra University on September 26, Donald Trump uttered one simple sentence that has caused a lot of headlines ever since. The sentence “That makes …
Going to school on the Electoral College
It seems that every four years people need a reminder about the Electoral College and how the President is actually elected. On election day, if you vote in the Presidential …