Society & Culture

With the founding of Earth Day on April 22, 1970 by the late Senator Gaylord Nelson, environmentalists created a rallying point.

With a law set to raise the minimum wage from $8 to $15 an hour, Seattle begins its journey to help those who are impoverished while stimulating its economy at the same time. On the surface this appears to be a win-win situation that only the ignorant and hard-hearted could condemn.

It seems that whenever the communist Chinese have a problem, they like to wall it off by separating the problem from the general population. For a long time, dissidents have been separated in labor and reeducation camps. Now it appears that unwelcome commentary is getting its own wall—a firewall.

It seems liberals have no problem with the clergy lending credibility to their claim of global warming. It appears that the end justifies the means, because in this matter, there is no crying foul demanding the separation of church and state.

With civilized countries looking to depart from traditional methods of healthcare, and some forcibly implementing a socialist alternative, a quick look at how things are going in socialist Venezuela might give a taste of things to come.

As hundreds of thousands of pro-life activists gathered in Washington DC for the annual March for Life on January 22, it marks 42 years of protest against legalized abortion.

Resource rich Venezuela, which boasts of having some of the largest oil reserves in the world, has now reached an all time low in petroleum production. The exportation of crude oil used to account for 95 percent of Venezuela’s export earnings until the late socialist savior, Hugo Chávez, began to re-distribute the country’s wealth in the form of cash subsidies.

In a stunning exposé revealing the truth about the abortion movement, Time Magazine ran a January 2013 cover article titled “Roe v. Wade, They’ve Been Losing Ever Since.” Young women and politicians alike are distancing themselves from the abortion industry and have now even chosen to depart from their cherished cliché—pro-choice.

After decades of pumping money into the Cuban prison island, Russia’s efforts ceased due to its own failed economy in 1991. The Russian bear was left hanging with $35 billion in uncollectable debt.