Over the past several decades, cars have become increasingly high tech allowing for computers to take larger roles in the routine functions of the car. Computerized functions have been a boon to consumers, who advantage from greater reliability and efficiency, but also to criminal hackers who advantage from greater vulnerability.Starting around the turn of the last decade tech enthusiasts starte...Read More
Germany has taken its war on “hate speech,” also known as free speech, to the people.Already Germany has pretty strict laws against citizens using Nazi symbols and denying that the Holocaust happened. Apparently, lawmakers miss the irony of going full Gestapo on citizens for free speech, as offensive as it may be.But they are not stopping there. The German government has raided the hom...Read More
Germany has taken its war on “hate speech,” also known as free speech, to the people.Already Germany has pretty strict laws against citizens using Nazi symbols and denying that the Holocaust happened. Apparently, lawmakers miss the irony of going full Gestapo on citizens for free speech, as offensive as it may be.But they are not stopping there. The German government has raided the hom...Read More
The police do not care about keeping you safe. If they did, they wouldn’t put innocent people in danger every day by driving unmarked cars, behaving unprofessionally, and performing no-knock raids. All these things make it quite easy to impersonate an officer in order to commit a crime.People know their lives are literally in jeopardy if they disobey even the most minor order from a police o...Read More
The police do not care about keeping you safe. If they did, they wouldn’t put innocent people in danger every day by driving unmarked cars, behaving unprofessionally, and performing no-knock raids. All these things make it quite easy to impersonate an officer in order to commit a crime.People know their lives are literally in jeopardy if they disobey even the most minor order from a police o...Read More
Canada's largest diversified miner Teck Resources (TSX:TCK.B) (NYSE:TCK) is buying Goldcorp's (TSX:G) (NYSE:GG) 21% minority interest in the San Nicol??s copper-zinc project located in Zacatecas, Mexico for $50 million.Once the deal is completed, which is expected to happen in the third quarter of 2017, Teck will be the sole owner of the San Nicol??s project, which it would be an open-pit oper...Read More
Is the FBI a political organization run rampant, using trumped up charges against anyone with whom they or the political elites disagree?That’s what you would be told from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and now Bernie Sanders. All three (or Bernie’s wife rather) have been embroiled in some sort of FBI shenanigans within the last year.For Hillary, even though she was obvio...Read More
Is the FBI a political organization run rampant, using trumped up charges against anyone with whom they or the political elites disagree?That’s what you would be told from the likes of Hillary Clinton, Donald Trump, and now Bernie Sanders. All three (or Bernie’s wife rather) have been embroiled in some sort of FBI shenanigans within the last year.For Hillary, even though she was obvio...Read More
Finally, Congress is doing something about a serious issue on everyone's mind; they have introduced a bill to ban dog and cat meat from being sold and eaten in the United States.But wait, isn't this cultural insensitivity towards those from countries who regularly eat dogs and cats?China is still the most likely country to see dog or cat meat eaten, even hosting a dog meat festival every year. But...Read More
Finally, Congress is doing something about a serious issue on everyone's mind; they have introduced a bill to ban dog and cat meat from being sold and eaten in the United States.But wait, isn't this cultural insensitivity towards those from countries who regularly eat dogs and cats?China is still the most likely country to see dog or cat meat eaten, even hosting a dog meat festival every year. But...Read More
Freedom of speech is up there with guns for rights that Americans hold sacred. The political elite has to get creative when they try to take these rights away, lest the backlash makes them lose ground rather than gain it.By and large, that has been the case with guns; everytime talk starts about restrictive gun control, gun sales soar. Most people realize banning guns would not be feasible, and ev...Read More
Freedom of speech is up there with guns for rights that Americans hold sacred. The political elite has to get creative when they try to take these rights away, lest the backlash makes them lose ground rather than gain it.By and large, that has been the case with guns; everytime talk starts about restrictive gun control, gun sales soar. Most people realize banning guns would not be feasible, and ev...Read More
New Hampshire is in an abusive relationship, according to Carla Gericke, the President of Foundation for New Hampshire Independence. Uncle Sam won’t let New Hampshire leave; he arrests the citizens for victimless crimes, he overrides the legislature for policy and regulation, and he takes her money.The state is a net payer of federal taxes, meaning they pay more federal taxes than they get b...Read More
New Hampshire is in an abusive relationship, according to Carla Gericke, the President of Foundation for New Hampshire Independence. Uncle Sam won’t let New Hampshire leave; he arrests the citizens for victimless crimes, he overrides the legislature for policy and regulation, and he takes her money.The state is a net payer of federal taxes, meaning they pay more federal taxes than they get b...Read More
Can you count how many ways the government manipulates people to be the type of citizen they can easily control?I think that would be impossible to come up with an actual number when every facet of government is dedicated to shaping the citizen in ways contrary to his or her nature.It ranges from tax credits for having kids to increased welfare for being a single mom; from subsidies for growing co...Read More
Can you count how many ways the government manipulates people to be the type of citizen they can easily control?I think that would be impossible to come up with an actual number when every facet of government is dedicated to shaping the citizen in ways contrary to his or her nature.It ranges from tax credits for having kids to increased welfare for being a single mom; from subsidies for growing co...Read More
Canada's Goldcorp (TSX:G) (NYSE:GG) the world's number four bullion miner in terms of output, is selling its Camino Rojo gold and silver project in Mexico to Orla Mining (TSX-V:OLA), adding to the list of operations it has been unloading in recent months to focus on highly profitable, core assets.As part of the deal, the Vancouver-based gold producer will receive 19.9% of the outstanding common sh...Read More
How many successful people can there be? It seems like, after every article you read these days, the author bio talks about a book they have written, an invention they created, a prestigious award or some other indicator of great success. Yet I’ve never really heard of most of them.I used to get pings of jealousy when I would see descriptions like that of successful people; it almost felt li...Read More
How many successful people can there be? It seems like, after every article you read these days, the author bio talks about a book they have written, an invention they created, a prestigious award or some other indicator of great success. Yet I’ve never really heard of most of them.I used to get pings of jealousy when I would see descriptions like that of successful people; it almost felt li...Read More
The leviathan created by the modern welfare state is one of the gravest threats facing the American republican system. Dangers levied by the continued use of the government's dole come both fiscally and socially. Fixes being floated from Congress to community organizations still lack a cohesive focus on reform in the mainstream public discourse.The federal welfare apparatus has bloomed into a disa...Read More