Common Sense Magazine

After a month of patching up, Nick is back to Rational Rants and addresses the obsolesence of unionized labor.  With the global economy, modern transportation and communications, reform of labor laws, and the ability to easily trade jobs, unions are now outdated. Now unions only hurt America by protectionism, increasing unemployment, rewarding mediocre work quality, [...]

For years the Euro-leagues have been nothing but an afterthought to NBA fans. Undrafted rookies or washed up veterans who failed to make the twelve man roster often go to Europe to languish in obscurity as the NBA’a version of the CFL. However, with departures of NBA prospects such as Brandon Jennings and players [...]

In 1895, the New York Times printed “geologists think the world might be frozen up again” and now more than one century later we can look back and scoff at the science of the day. “If only they knew what we know now” however who is to say that in the [...]

Written by: Brian Peotter
Earth is alive, and it changes at every moment of every day. Mankind can see earthquakes, tsunamis, volcanoes, tornadoes, hurricanes, and many more terrible, and awesome events. Regardless of what one thinks, this small blue planet continues to remind us that the human race knows very little [...]

Through the primary system, parties select their candidates for president through the popular votes of each state in elections across the winter and spring of the election year. Historically, the primary system winners have been determined by the momentum generated from winners of early state victories and the front runner after the fifth primary tends [...]

Dear Readers,
New Strips of The West Side are Up in the comic section and a new Political Football will be released shortly. As for the delay in Rational Rants, I have been doing work to improve both the quality of the sound, SFX, and the content of the show, so that is why there has [...]

In American professional sports, franchise relocation is inevitable. The Seattle Supersonics’ move to Oklahoma city is just the most Due to financial problems, poor stadium deals, lack of fan support, and more opportunities for success in bigger market cities there are several current major sports teams that are primed to move. The following teams have [...]

It is July 4th today. Soon this country’s cities and towns will fill today with parades, barbecues, and parties. The night’s sky will be illuminated with bursting fireworks with colors of red, white and blue but we should sit back and remember what this day is truly about. This is the 232nd birthday of this [...]

I discussed the new cell phone law that went into effect this week in a post last April. Driving on the freeway to LAX I saw on all the Amber Alert signs preceding July 1st that we must buy hands free cell phone devices by that time because “it’s the law” making some scramble to [...]