The state is flush with mineral resource money.  A little more 10th Amendment please, and less "The Feds ride in to solve every friggin' prob."

That comment is grammatically and rhetorical nonsense.

The residents Newtok, Alaska, are about to become the first climate refugees in America... or not.   Ten thousand years ago the last ice age caused quite a few "climate refugees", in America and elsewhere.  The climate changes... constantly.  Scare stories like this are pathetic and beyond the decency of honest repor...more

Too bad The AP didn't have a better profanity filter.  The justice department just "Richard" them.

Did you have to look up that "joke" on your smartphone?

Could've been worse.  She could have put OJ mixed with antifreeze in the 'fridge.

Further evidence that mankind has outlived it's usefulness.   Thousands of years from now, sentient cockroaches will be digging up our cities as archeology sites.  The question will arise: "I wonder what caused their extinction?"   Nature has a way of weeding out the week.  We just nominated ourselves.  Oh well, it...more

Nothing shocking to see here.  In the US, The Fed just prints money every day.  Same result.  The Dollar is worth less day by day.  The US government may as well be up-front about it like Cyprus and just take the money out of our bank accounts, instead of slowly de-valuing it.

When the s4it hits the fan (crippling cyber attack, mass bank collapse) do you really think the cops will keep showing up for work?  A bunch of scared, crazy folks will be roaming the streets, unchecked.   If the creeps roam into our neigborhood, most of our town for that matter, they'll wish they didn't.  We take ca...more