On September 21, concerned citizens and global thinkers will collaborate in order to bring local, national, and international leaders into the fold of environmental stewardship by marching worldwide. A San Diego chapter, SanDiego350, organized a local march to show solidarity for the national march in New York. They are scheduled to coincide with the arrival of world leaders for the UN Climate Summit on Tuesday.

"I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.”—Oliver Cromwell, in a letter to the Church of Scotland

"We must mistrust utopias: they usually end in holocausts."--Mario Vargas Llosa, "Sartre, Fierabrás, and Utopia"

If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issue of currency, first by inflation , then by deflation , the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all property until their children wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” - Thomas Jefferson

Picture yourself in this situation:

On June 9, 1903, USS Neckar was moored into Baltimore Port, completing its transatlantic journey from Bremen. For most passengers, it was the first time they set foot on American soil.

Their first act as immigrants to a new country consisted in responding to a 20 question survey which went through the following questions:

Update, 09/19/2014: Kobach backtracked from his initial statement and said ballots will meet federal deadlines and will be printed and mailed out without a Democratic candidate in the U.S. Senate race. 

The major networks are buzzing with the news that the Kansas Supreme Court has ruled that Democratic candidate Chad Taylor's name is to be removed from the U.S. Senate ballot for the November election.

But all the networks are missing a vital point, one that will probably mean this battle is just beginning.

It seems like most politicians today sound like pre-programmed robots, spewing partisan sermons and perpetuating a superficial battle between a so-called “left” and a “right.”

But why?

The air was a little tense as witnesses began testifying at the first open hearing the House Select Committee on Benghazi held on Wednesday.

The five committee Democrats seemed weary of the ongoing debate and stuck to questions about security effectiveness. Lurching forward in their seats at times, the seven committee Republicans looked eager to pick fights and uncover evidence of wrongdoing, somewhere, anywhere.

But the committee didn’t always retread old ground or air new accusations.

hottest year on record in California, with the drought costing the state $2.2 billion and 17,100 seasonal and part-time jobs.

Efforts to increase transparency and accountability in the Federal Reserve continue to pick up steam on Capitol Hill. On Wednesday, an Audit the Fed bill overwhelmingly passed the House, 333-92. Over a hundred (106 to be precise) Democrats joined all but one Republican to approve the legislation.

On July 31, freshman U.S. Rep. John Delaney (D-Md.) introduced a bill titled, “Open Our Democracy Act,” which was referred to the Committees on House Administration, Oversight and Government Reform, and the Judiciary. The bill proposes the following: