NY exhibit imagines utopian, green cities in 2030
NEW YORK (AP) -- Imagine no cars - or fewer, anyway. In New York, a two-mile stretch of the FDR Drive parkway is torn down to open lower Manhattan for parks and plazas, and bicyclists are given their...
View ArticleS.F. saturated with services - some have to go
San Francisco is generous, good-hearted and socially conscious. It is eager to help the disadvantaged and the poor. There's just one flaw in our civic personality. Tough choices. We'd rather not make...
View ArticleThe Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression
The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression By Stephane Courtois, Mark Kramer (Translator), Jonathan Murphy (Translator), Karel Bartosek, Andrzej Paczkowski, Jean-Louis Panne, Jean-Louis...
View ArticleWhite House Unveils Free Preventative Services (No, really, it's FREE -...
White House Unveils Free Preventative ServicesBY JANET ADAMY JULY 15, 2010 WASHINGTONTreatments for the prevention of alcohol abuse, depression and obesity are among the services that will be free to...
View ArticleUtopian Dream Becomes Battleground in France
A utopian dream of a new urban community, built here in the 1970s, had slowly degraded into a poor neighborhood plagued by aimless youths before it finally burst into flames three weeks ago. After...
View ArticleThe Myth of Technological Progress
Many of you will still be alive in 50 years. Its interesting to think about what life will be like in 50 years technologically and otherwise. Predictions are risky, especially when theyre about the...
View ArticleTGIF Rock-n-Roll Oldies: Todd Rundgren 1975
Todd Rundgren -dob 6.22.1948- is a multi-talented American musician, singer-songwriter and record producer who still tours on a limited basis, up-to and including earlier this year. Hailed in the early...
View ArticleMan long dead foretold Obama's fate
Lots of pundits are trying to figure out why President Obama is facing disaster this midterm election, but few have said it better than Michael Oakeshott, despite his disadvantage of having been dead...
View ArticleThe Snake in the Garden of History: A Brief Overview of Socialist Utopians...
In the 1930â²s there were three newly planted gardens in which the snake of progressivism had invested much hope and inspiration; each garden was tended by three different gardeners with different...
View ArticleHave South American natives inherited a legacy of violent blood shed?
I watched a National Geographic special the other day on NetFlix. It was about the Mayan culture in South America and Mexico. This documentary was about several anthropologist who took it upon...
View ArticleTransient Meth Head Rakes In $95,000 By Stealing Copper to Support $100-a-Day...
Transient meth-head Kirk Wise probably made more money than you did last year -- and he didn't even have a job. Wise, 45, is a professional copper thief who steals copper wire to support his $100-a-day...
View ArticleProposed List Of Demands For Occupy Wall St Movement!
Demand one: Restoration of the living wage. This demand can only be met by ending "Freetrade" by re-imposing trade tariffs on all imported goods entering the American market to level the playing field...
View ArticleOccupy Wall Street signals end of utopia economics
Commentary: Rich worlds social discontent will result in restored trade barriersBy Amotz Asa-El JERUSALEM (MarketWatch) -- The basis of our government is the opinion of the people, said Thomas...
View ArticleVenezuela suffers 'record murder rate' in 2011
A Venezuelan campaign group says the country has suffered a record number of murders in 2011. The Venezuela Violence Observatory says at least 19,336 people have been killed this year, an average of 53...
View ArticleMark Levin's bestseller "Ameritopia" excerpt now available!
The publisher of Mark Levin's new #1 book Ameritopia has made the Epilogue publicly available. It is one of the most compelling 8 pages I've ever read in a book. Here it is.
View ArticleUtopianism, Ancient and Modern
Men are dreaming animals, and the incapacity to dream makes a man less than human. Indeed, we have no knowledge of any human community where men do fail to dream. Which is to say, we know of no human...
View ArticleRead Aldous Huxley’s review of 1984 he sent to George Orwell
Read Aldous Huxleys review of 1984 he sent to George Orwell Several months after George Orwell's dystopian classic 1984 was published in 1949, Aldous Huxley sent a letter to his former French pupil....
View ArticleJim Jones’ Sinister Grip on San Francisco (Peoples Temple Cult Leader...
Jim Jones sinister grip on San Francisco How the Peoples Temple cult leader ensnared Harvey Milk and other progressive icons Season of the Witch, the new book by Salon founder David Talbot, tells...
View ArticleCan liberals "wish" socialist utopia into existence?
California is in the midst of a monstrous debt crisis, the inescapable result of its leading Democrats having gambled on an annual deficit less than $9.2 billion (an immense sum in itself), but now...
View ArticleReplacing "In God We Trust" With Government? (pic)
This was inspired by a tweet I favorited from @RaulCorrea, I snarked it up a bit. You can see the original tweet here.
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