Category: America Now

You may already be familiar with emergency blankets, or maybe you’re not. Emergency blankets are compact, lightweight blankets that feature at least one side coated with an aluminum-foil-looking sheet that helps reflect body heat back to the user of the blanket. Very often they’ll also feature one side covered in orange to make the blanket […]

The US government has finally publicized that it expelled two Chinese diplomats who attempted to break onto the US naval base in Norfolk, Virginia. The two diplomats, at least one of whom was assumed to be an intelligence officer working under diplomatic cover, claimed not to understand guards’ instructions to turn around, leading guards on […]

Intellectual property theft is a major concern among US corporations, and for good reason. If competitors get a hold of an idea that has taken huge amounts of research, they can replicate the product and outcompete the originator or inventor without having to spend huge amounts of money on research and development. That then reduces […]

You may be getting tired of reading articles about how badly off millennials are, but it’s an important topic that bears repeating. The current generation of millennials lags far behind previous generations in several vital metrics related to wealth appreciation, and it’s very likely that millennials won’t be able to catch up on their own. […]

Last week saw a very sad situation unfold on the naval base in Pensacola, as three US servicemen were shot and killed by a Saudi Arabian military student. The shooter was eventually confronted by sheriff’s deputies and killed by them, but the Trump administration’s reaction to the shooting has been incredibly subdued, focusing more on […]

For decades the left liked to describe itself as “liberal,” co-opting the language of classical liberalism to push leftist ideas that classical liberals would have stridently opposed. Those leftists advocated for an incredibly permissive view of free speech, so that no idea was too crazy to be advanced or advocated for. They pushed for moral […]

Ever since the development of gunpowder, men have been trying to create more and powerful weapons. With the advent of smokeless powder in the late 19th century, engineers, shooters, and cartridge designer similarly sought to create more and more powerful cartridges. The mid-20th century was perhaps the heyday of “magnum-itis,” with numerous powerful, flat-shooting, long-range […]

Alzheimer’s disease is a dangerous disease that many people fear. The thought of not recognizing family, not remembering who we are, and not being capable of taking care of ourselves is a sobering one that many Americans will unfortunately have to deal with. While researchers still don’t understand what causes Alzheimer’s disease, they have identified […]

Numerous countries around the world have been rocked by protests against government authorities. But while protesters in Chile, Hong Kong, and other areas may be protesting for different reasons, they do have one thing in common. Protesters are being observed by police using surveillance cameras and drones, and the protesters are fighting back against that […]

We all know and are aware of the censorship efforts undertaken by Big Tech, particularly those focused on conservatives. But many of us tend to downplay just how serious the threat from Big Tech’s tyranny is. We may think that because these are “private” companies that they’re free to do what they want and that […]