What's wrong with Americans? No, not their political choices, domestic arsenals or supersized appetites. I mean literally. Why do nearly nine million American workers collect federal disability insurance, one for every 13 with full-time jobs? Click here to read the rest.
If you’re among the people psychologists claim are having trouble coping with the Mayan apocalypse no-show, relax. Western civilization faces a genuine threat of staggering proportions that our leaders are ignoring, perhaps because of its boring name, Electro-Magnetic Pulse or EMP. Click here to read the rest.
So the United States didn’t go off the so-called “fiscal cliff.” Instead Republicans circled the wagons, fired inward then gave President Obama and the Democrats almost all the tax increases they wanted in return for — spending increases. Progressive opinion cheered even though the nation and its politicians remain poised atop a real fiscal cliff a trillion dollars high. Click here to read the rest.