The Weekly Riot: Healthcare Sanity

Let me pose a scenario to all of you. Please imagine this scenario in relation to your normal lives. Suppose you and your significant other had just mortgaged all that you owned on an investment that you thought...

The Weekly Riot: A Return to Systemic Racism

The battles won in the civil rights era were perhaps some of the most far reaching equality measures achieved in an epoch. Aside from the ostracism of open cultural racism, subgroups from across many demographics...

The Weekly Riot: Critical Mass

Can I ask an honest question without arousing incredulity? What the hell is going on? I mean really! Every week I propose that we all have a serious discussion about the unprecedented nature of our current...

The Weekly Riot: An American Third Way?

George Washington, the father of our nation once opined that "Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force! Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. Founding Father Samuel Adams...

The Recall Option: Reclaiming People Power

By P.H. Rolen and Paul E. Vallely Since Barack Obama took office in January 2009 over 20 states have considered measures that reassert state and individual sovereignty as outlined under the 10th amendment of the U.S....

The Weekly Riot: The Shot Heard Round the World

Abraham Lincoln once observed that “If by the mere force of numbers a majority should deprive a minority of any clearly written constitutional right, it might, in a moral point of view, justify revolution”...

The Weekly Riot: Barack O'Bunyan?

As a kid one of my favorite yarns was the tale of the great American woodsmen Paul Bunyan. Legend has it that Bunyan was dropped in at birth by not one, but three of the storks that deliver infant surprises into...

The Weekly Riot: Leaving Antipathy

In the 1960's media genius Marshal MacLuhan predicted that "visual, individualistic print culture would soon be brought to an end by what he called "electronic interdependence": when electronic media replace visual...

The Train is On Time in Obamerica

In one of the more famous episodes of the Bill Maher Show, which I am very sorry to say I miss most of the time, the late great George Carlin appeared in 2005 along with American Enterprise Institute Resident...

Billions and Trillions and Bears, Oh My!

During Tuesday’s White House press conference in response to a question about the morality of passing massive federal deficits on to future generations President Barack Obama responded by instructing critics to...

Lost City of Atlantis Found!!! No Joke

The UK Sun is running an article suggesting that Atlantis may have been found by a Google satellite. The report seems to be verified by the writings of Greek Philosopher Plato and where he indicated Atlantis...

Barack Obumbler

The Obama Administration’s gravitas is sinking faster than Atreyu's horse into the Swamp of Sorrow. Less than 700 hours into the Presidency, Obama, who promised the most ethical Administration ever, has placed a...

Here Comes Nanny Sam

By P.H. Rolen NowPublic Guest EditorThough the power of the pen can be powerfully moving, at times it can also be powerfully exhausting. For me the past election season proved to be one of the exhausting periods...