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Dear readers, the U.S Navy would like to introduce to you its most technologically sophisticated destroyer to date: The USS Zumwalt. The USS Zumwalt (designed by Raytheon) is powered by electricity produced by turbines, has guns that can hit targets over 70 miles away, and has a sharp-angled geometric design that apparently makes the 610 […]

Submitted by Jeff Thomas via InternationalMan.com, For half a century, Americans have been largely unable to visit Cuba and have had to rely on the US government and media for an understanding of the political, social and economic conditions there. What has been described as the “American Berlin Wall” has been successful in providing Americans […]

The FBI’s probe into Clinton’s use of a private server isn’t the only noose that is keeping Clinton (and the State Department) up at night: this week interviews begin in a separate Judicial Watch civil suit, previously profiled here, against key State Department figures, all of whom just happen to be close co-workers of Hillary. […]Read More

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog, He had made the drive enough times to already suspect what he might find. Stride Rite had left Huntington for Mexico at the tail end of the recession; Breyers Ice Cream had closed its doors after 100 years. In the weeks after each factory closing in his […]

Well that’s embarrassing… Meet ‘Conservative’ Mike Webb – he is running for U.S. Congress in Virginia’s 8th District, and he would appreciate your vote. He would also appreciate, as Gawker reports, judging from a screenshot uploaded to his Facebook page earlier today, a little alone time with the pages “IVONE SEXY AMATEUR” and “LAYLA RIVERA […]Read More

Authored by Chris Hedges, originally posted at TruthDig.com, The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not over. Corporate power has within its arsenal potent forms of control. It will use them. As the pretense of democracy […]

President Muhammadu Buhari The strike action called upon by the Nigerian Labour Congress, NLC, the Trade Union Congress, TUC, and other civil society groups is going ahead on Wednesday and there will be no work, the NLC said on Tuesday evening. In Lagos, the protests will begin at 6 am at the Nigerian Labour Congress […]

Femi Fani-Kayode The Economic and Financial Crimes Commission has seized the passport belonging to a former Minister of Aviation, Chief Femi Fani-Kayode, The PUNCH has learnt. The former minister, who served as the Director of Publicity of the Goodluck Jonathan during the 2015 presidential election, was arrested on Monday last week for receiving N840m. The […]

Though it was only created within the last few years under the America Invents Act of 2012, the Patent Trial and Appeal Board (PTAB) has been the situs of much intellectual property drama and bloodletting. Generally, boards that are this young need even a decade or two to pass before lawyers can start generating a […]

If you like the law and you love literature, the American Bar Association wants to hear from you. The ABA and the University of Alabama School of Law announced the finalists for the 2016 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction last week. The Harper Lee Prize (which the late author of “To Kill a Mockingbird” […]

The California State Bar’s chief trial counsel, Jayne Kim, will be leaving for good amid controversy and a recent “no confidence” vote against her by fellow state bar employees. Apparently, Kim’s resignation has been in the cards for a while, delayed only by circumstances surrounding an infusion of new blood at the trial counsel level. […]Read More

One problem with the jobs “recovery” that many people still can’t quite figure out, is if jobs are growing, why are wages relatively flat. As we have explained on numerous occasions, the jobs that have been created can largely been divvied up between leisure and hospitality (our waiter and bartender chart should be familiar to […]