Barack Obama looks back to Lincoln, and in doing so identifies with a President regarded as our greatest. Lincoln presided over one of the most brutal conflicts in history. Barack also looks back to that preacher from Atlanta who sang We Shall Overcome and espoused nonviolence.

Water is important. We all know this. Everybody. Water is so essential to life that a visitor to our planet might assume that us humans are all water experts. But what do we really know about water? How much do we need to know?

Honeywell, best known for their automatic controls and thermostats, bought the patent to the thermostat in 1916 from Albert Butz boosting the company’s sales to almost $300,000 that year (Honeywell Project 1988: 7). However, just prior to World War II, Honeywell consented to its first contract for the defense department. The United States government [...]

We sit around while our tax dollars are given away to wealthy corporations in the business of war profiteering. We kick our feet up while our leader makes a mockery of our Constitution and everything our founding fathers stood for by abusing the executive branch. We laugh at the television while hundreds and thousands of innocent civilians are dying from our bombs.