State government is furious.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - February 28, 2017 - On March 1, Harris County and the city of Houston will take an historic step toward freedom and common sense. District Attorney Kim Ogg is rolling out the Misdemeanor Marijuana Diversion Program, effectively decriminalizing low-level possession of cannabis.

BOISE, Idaho (PNN) - February 24, 2017 - The Framers of our nation established that gold and silver are money, but federal taxing authorities in recent decades have required taxpayers to pay taxes on this form of money when its exchange for Federal Reserve Notes results in nominal capital “gains”.

But that problem may soon be mitigated, at least in Idaho.

Three of them may be habitable.

HOUSTON, Texas (PNN) - February 23, 2017 - Planet-hunters are always on the lookout for worlds that look like Earth - rocky planets that are not too hot and not too cold for liquid water to flow on the surface. Now scientists have hit the jackpot, discovering seven Earth-size exoplanets orbiting a single star just 39 light-years away.

PHOENIX, Arizona (PNN) - February 21, 2017 - As central economic planners at the Federal Reserve continue their vision of “prosperity” through crushing debt and dollar devaluation, some states are fighting back. The Arizona House took a major step toward sound money by passing a bill to eliminate penalties in the form of taxes on gold and silver specie.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - February 7, 2017 - Vizio, one of the world's biggest makers of Smart TVs, is paying $2.2 million to settle charges that it collected viewing habits from 11 million devices without the knowledge or consent of the people watching them.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - February 20, 2017 - Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recently laid off several employees associated with the “7th-floor group” at the Amerikan Gestapo Department of State division, a group which FBI documents revealed is part of a “Shadow Government” that once stepped in to protect Hillary Clinton from prosecution.

ROME, Italy (PNN) - February 20, 2017 - The Financial Times reports on the Rebellion that threatens to split Italy’s Democratic Party.

Eurointelligence goes one further and suggests it’s a done deal, not just a threat.

The immediate impact would be a loss of 6 percentage points or more support for PD, putting Beppe Grillo’s Five Star Movement solidly in the lead.

LONDON, England (PNN) - February 8, 2017 - A study by a British think tank Reform says that 90% of British civil service workers have jobs so pointless they could easily be replaced by robots, saving the government around $8 billion per year.

By L. Neil Smith

February 1, 2017 - Okay, the 2016 General Election is well and truly over, and I fully intend this to be my final commentary on it. Many individuals have written to me or about me, denigrating, in various ways, my difficult decision to vote for Donald J. Trump. As I had already explained at some length on several occasions, whatever electoral pacifists may say, I believe in voting defensively; the prospect that Hillary Clinton might be elected - further extending the reign of vile, brutalitarian collectivism that began with the election of spymaster George H.W. Bush - was so bleak and repulsive to me that I would have voted for practically anybody to prevent the end of Western Civilization.

MADRID, Spain (PNN) - February 5, 2017 - Separatists in Catalonia plan to come out in force Monday when the Spanish region's former leader, Artur Mas, stands trial over a non-binding independence referendum he held, further straining ties with Madrid.