As part of a voluntary effort to submit themselves to public scrutiny, Carnival Corporation released three years worth of data relating to 127 alleged crimes that took place on board their cruise fleet. Carnival was joined by Royal Caribbean and Norwegian Cruise Line...
You read it here first. In a quick peek behind the curtain at innovative online retailer Amazon’s plans for the future, we learn that CEO Jeff Bezos is cooking up plans to deliver your packages in 30 minutes or less. For those who didn’t make the immediate connection,...
More than one-third of Generation Y (also known as Millennials and categorized as those born in the early 1980s to the early 2000s) are living with their parents, according to a Pew Research Center report. That works out to 21.6 million people. More Millennial...
In perhaps the most startling success in human history, the Chinese government has at long last been able to declare a complete victory in the war against rumors, negativity, and other forms of unruly online conversations which have permeated the internet since the...
The United States greeted China’s new claim to an expanded no-fly zone in the East China Sea by flying two B-52 bombers through the area. Though the U.S. claimed the flights were part of routine training and had nothing to do with recent Chinese declarations, it...
It’s hard for state troopers in any state to crack down on drivers who are texting. Their low-slung police cars are ill-designed to allow them to peer inside a car piloted by a text-mad driver with his smart phone held below window level. The state of New York had an...
By now, you’ve probably heard the news that Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev) decided to enact a fundamental change in the way the United States Senate conducts its business. Previously, the decision to end debate regarding presidential nominees for judicial...
It’s been 12 years since the first al-Qaida and Taliban prisoners of the post-911 Afghanistan conflict were taken to prison cells in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Denied access to the American legal system by Congress, the nebulous 2001 law that allowed for indefinite...
Following a four-day meeting of party leaders, China’s ruling Communist Party appears set to make changes to an enduring policy that limits most families to a single child, as well as do away with a “guilty because we said so” labor camp system that holds more than...
Every year, there are at least a few hundred people who get tired of one thing or another about America, often taxes, and decide to renounce their citizenship. Reported by the media as nothing more than malcontents and rabble-rousers who don’t know how good they have...
