In this infographic entitled The Secret Side of Military Spending there's a section titled The Wastes of War that caught our attention. From: OnlineMilitaryEducation.org Some examples of the waste of war include: Each year, $360 million spent by the US ends up in the hands of the Taliban via...
Andrew Jackson was the seventh President of the United States and the eponym of the Jacksonian Democracy. Jackson was born on March 15, 1767 in Waxhaw, North Carolina, or Lancaster, South Carolina, as the border between the states had not been resolved at the time of his birth. Jackson was born...
Liberal democracy is a type of representative democracy. In this government system, representatives who have been elected by the people are given the power to decide on laws and political issues, guided of course by the constitution. The constitution, In turn, tends to center around individual...
On Tuesday, conservative Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas spoke at a law school remarking that he had stopped attending the State of the Union event each year because in recent years the event had become too politicized. Justice Thomas, speaking to law students at a law school in Florida,...
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and present President of the United States. Born on August 4, 1961 in Honolulu, Hawaii, to Ann Dunham and Barack Obama, Sr., Obama spent his childhood in Witchita, Kansas. Obama's parents separated when he was a toddler at the age of two, and later divorced....
Thomas Jefferson was the third President of the United States and one of the most influential Founding Fathers of America. Jefferson was born to an affluent family in 1743 in Albemarle County, Virginia and was educated at local schools led by ministers and pastors as a child. At the age of nine,...
James Monroe was the fifth President of the United States and considered the last Founding Father of America from the Virginia Dynasty and Republican generation. Monroe was born on April 28, 1758 in Westmoreland County, Virginia, to Spence Monroe, a planter and carpenter, and Elizabeth Jones, an...
Running an army is kind of like running a day care, only instead of rattles, the children have bombs and guns. Hey, it may not be easy to win a war, but we should at least expect military leaders to be more adept than some kid playing Starcraft.
Former President George W. Bush has officially joined the ranks of grandfatherhood! His daughter, Today Show correspondent Jenna Bush Hager gave birth to a daughter, named Margaret Laura "Mila," in New York City on Saturday, April 13, 2013. The birth was confirmed by an official statement issued...
Election season may be over, but that's no reason to stop wearing t-shirts that show your true political colors. And while Bush is finally out of office, the last 8 years have spawned countless witty t-shirts that should not be forgotten. If you are looking for some fresh additions to your left-wing...
