Category: America Now

A scandalous program is now coming to light, as it’s been revealed that New York City has shipped over 12,000 homeless people to other areas of the country. The program to reduce the burden of homeless people on the city spent $89 million to relocate those people, or over $7,000 per person. While some of […]

For all those waiting with bated breath for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union, the much anticipated Brexit has been delayed yet again. It seems that, despite the clear will of the British voters to leave the EU, neither UK nor EU leaders want to see that happening. But they can’t quite figure […]

While most Americans were waiting for President Trump’s inauguration in January 2017, and irate leftists were plotting ways to disrupt the festivities in downtown Washington, DC, the Secret Service was dealing with a crisis that threatened the very security of the inauguration parade. Someone had hacked DC police department computers and taken control of two-thirds […]

The era of antibiotics has saved the lives of countless millions of people. Common infections that once would have turned deadly now can be combated with cheap medication. But as both misuse and overuse of antibiotics has increased, so too has antibiotic resistance. Now we’re faced with the prospect of bacteria that are able to […]

The M1 carbine was developed in World War II to give support troops a rifle that was lighter and easier to carry than the standard M1 Garand rifle. It featured a brand-new rifle cartridge that was based on the obsolete .32 Winchester Self-Loading cartridge. The resulting .30 Carbine cartridge quickly became a popular one once […]

Sugar gets a bad rap nowadays for contributing to obesity, diabetes, and a whole host of health ailments. Trendy diets today go to great lengths to cut out sugar. But while too much sugar can certainly be detrimental to your health, there are other uses for sugar that can make it a very useful survival […]

One of the characteristics of the dotcom bubble in the late ‘90s and early 2000s was the absurd overvaluation of numerous tech companies that weren’t making money and that had no plan to make money. Perhaps the best known example of that was Pets.com, which sought to gain market share by selling pet food and […]

There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth last month as Californians in the San Francisco Bay area had to withstand days of electrical blackouts. Northern California utility Pacific Gas & Electricity (PG&E) shut off distribution to hundreds of thousands of households in an attempt to forestall the possibility of wildfires. PG&E power cables had […]

It seems as though there is no limit as to what Democrats will spend taxpayer money on. As if it weren’t bad enough already that the federal government is $23 trillion in debt, Democrats want to keep spending as if that debt didn’t exist. And the things they want to spend that money on sometimes […]

More and more is being written today about how millennials are different from the generations before them. But while much of the focus is on millennials’ different spending patterns, work ethic, or consumer choices, an increasing amount of focus is on millennials’ financial well-being. For the first time since the Great Depression or, according to […]