"Nancy's VoiceBox", Lou Gehrig's Disease, Google Glass

Occasionally I receive a touching email that also offers a practical solution to extreme challenges. This is one of those times. Please cons...

Driverless Cars on UK Public Streets Starting January; Transforming Personal Mobility; Taxi and Truck-Drivers Targeted

The march for fully autonomous driverless cars marches on. In May, Google announced the Next Phase in Driverless Cars: No Steering Wheel or ...

Sanctions Starting to Bite the Hands That Promoted Them

As I have said on numerous occasions, sanctions are a lose-lose game. So it is not surprising in the least to discover Russian Crisis Alread...

When All Else Fails Blame "Free Markets"

It's rather amazing how people blame "free markets" for things that are 180 degrees removed from "free markets". For...

Political Greenwashing: US Exports Coal Pollution to Europe; What About China?

While president Obama brags about clean energy advances in the US (mostly hot air and subsidies to uneconomic businesses), the US quietly ex...

M.A.D. Sanctions; Two Games at Once

M.A.D. Sanctions Sanctions are a lose-lose-lose game. Consumers lose, businesses lose, countries lose. And the hypocrisy alone is appalling....

Whopping 35% Have Debt in Collection! Delinquent Debt in America: By Region and Metro Area, Where Is It?

The Urban Institute has an interesting 14-page synopsis on Delinquent Debt in America . By percentage, the number of people in collections i...

Ukrainians Ordered to War, Women Burn the Military Writs

The war in Ukraine is going so well that soldiers are unpaid and men are ordered to serve whether they want to or not. Hats off to a group o...

Calling All Munitions and Fighter Plane Experts: Is German Pilot Claim "Air-to-Air Attack" Brought Down MH17 Credible?

Peter Haisenko, a German aviation expert made a claim yesterday that air-to-air fire brought down MH17 . The above link is to a translated p...

IMF Warns Pound Overvalued; What About Other Currencies?

Is the British pound overvalued? What about the Euro? The US Dollar? The Yen? Curiously, economists make that case for all of those currenci...

No BBC Video Removal Scandal After All; Evidence of Military Planes Shadowing MH17 Mounts

On July 23 the BBC deleted a video report from correspondent Olga Ivishina regarding the crash of MH17. This has caused quite a stir in the ...

Ukraine's Army Advances; Unguided Rockets Kill Civilians; Demise of Rebels?

There are lots of conflicting, even contradictory news reports regarding Ukraine in the past couple of days. Let's take a look at a few ...

"Place to Avoid" - French Blogger Fined $2,000 for Writing Bad Restaurant Review

Want to review a French restaurant? Only good reviews are allowed in France. Caroline Doudet a blogger who runs the site “ Cultur'elle ,...

Bad Day for Bad Teachers, Good Day for Kids

This is a guest post courtesy of Richard Berman at the Capital Research Center , under the title A Bad Day for Bad Teachers . Summary: In 19...