Amazon is looking for a location for its second headquarters, “HQ2,” and it seems the world’s largest online retailer will have quite the crop to choose from. According to Reuters, …
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The effects of Hurricane Harvey on the state of Texas and of Hurricane Irma on Florida have brought a renewed focus to the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) and its …
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Many observers of the increasingly partisan American political landscape believe the nation has not been this divided since at least the Vietnam war era, with some going so far as …
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Threats to the American petrodollar, with its weakening monopoly over the oil trade and its declining status as the world’s reserve currency, are continuing to mount. The latest geopolitical/economic challenge: …
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The recent hurricanes in Texas and Puerto Rico should serve as an important reminder that it’s better to be prepared for disaster before it strikes. And since nature doesn’t wait, …
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Still reeling from Hurricane Harvey, the United States may have to face another major hurricane, Hurricane Irma. The successor to Hurricane Harvey, Irma has developed over the Atlantic and turned …
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As Hurricane Harvey continues to move slowly over southeastern Texas, the Houston area is bracing for more catastrophic flooding. Water levels surged in many areas to 500-year floodplains, and with …
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Forty years ago the United States government began stockpiling crude oil, creating the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR). Enacted to counter the OPEC cartel’s attempts to drive up oil prices, the …
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There’s a lot of talk in the media about swing states. But how can just a handful of states make or break the election for the entire nation?
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NAACP President Cornell Brooks and the group’s youth leader, Stephen Green, were detained this week in a congressional office in Roanoke, Virginia. The two were part of a sit-in at …