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

https://twitter.com/JudgeJimGrayVP/status/233250588001972224

https://twitter.com/SpatialO/status/233242261419343872

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.

Of that number, around 50% is owned by foreign investors. China is the largest single holder of U.S. government debt, owning around $1.2 trillion in bills, notes, and bonds.

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.

Tea party candidate Kerry Bentivolio won the GOP primary in Michigan's 11th District after trouncing a write-in challenge from party establishment pick, former state Sen. Nancy Cassis.

Plutonium is the nuclear nightmare of nuclear power. A by-product of conventional power-station reactors, it is the key ingredient in nuclear weapons. And even when not made into bombs, it is a million-year radioactive waste legacy that is already costing the world billions of dollars a year to contain.