Cheers! For the 27th year in a row, worldwide production of beer increased, says the Associated Press. A new report commissioned by Kirin Holdings, a Japanese brewery, said 50.9 billion gallons of beer were produced last year. That's a 3.7% increase from 2010.

Who is the leading beer producer worldwide?

Another success for third parties in the social media world: #IAmLibertarian is trending on Twitter. Here are a few tweets from the hashtag:

https://twitter.com/GovGaryJohnson/status/233252803441745921

https://twitter.com/christoferguson/status/233243232581066752

Rumors consistently circulate regarding how vocal opponents of partisanship within either party are quickly silenced or shunned. Jon Huntsman has become the latest victim of this behind-the-scenes suppression of dissent.

Abby Huntsman, daughter of Jon Huntsman, was interviewed last night on Current TV’s ‘The War Room’ and she disclosed an interesting bit about the RNC and their actions towards her father.

As of July 2012, the United States combined public debt reached $15.93 trillion. We found this visualization to help put that number into perspective.

Fault Lines, a new documentary from AlJazeera takes a look at the internet regulation battle that we don't hear much about on our regular news channels. they take a deep look into the dynamic battle over cyber security.  A battle occurring between Hollywood, Congress, and the internet.

While the War on Women and Chick-fil-A might be getting all the juicy headlines lately, there's another issue quietly smoldering in the background noise of this election season. It's buried under all the campaign rhetoric and doom-and-gloom forecasts about the economy.

The US now has 50 GW of installed wind power, enough to power almost 13 million homes. Of course, all the turbines won't be generating at full power simultaneously so the amount of actual generated power will be less. Still, we are moving forward fast on wind power - except for offshore wind where the US, almost comically still does not have any offshore turbines.

There was a bit of a fly in the ointment for the birthday bash for Obama in Chicago on Saturday, as any of his advisors who read the New York Times were able to plainly see.