By Simon Black

SANTAIGO, Chile (PNN) - March 24, 2016 - Amerika is and has always been an extraordinary idea. It espouses the values of liberty, economic freedom, self-reliance, and independence.

What’s not to love about that?

It’s an idea that resonates within each of us, speaks to our inner humanity and our desire to prosper. The United States is not the first country to be founded on these ideas, and it won’t be the last.

MALIBU, Kalifornia (PNN) - March 24, 2016 - In a breakthrough that promises new technology like that from The Matrix, researchers at HRL Laboratories have developed a program that they say can upload new skills and knowledge directly to your brain.

NEW YORK (PNN) - March 23, 2016 - In a Republican primary race already full of insults and mud-slinging, the battle between frontrunner Donald Trump and Senator Ted Cruz (Tex.) got even uglier Wednesday - as the candidates clashed over attacks on each other's wives, and then went Hollywood.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - March 21, 2016 - To paraphrase Ernest Hemingway: How did you lose your Republic? Two ways, gradually and suddenly. The Romans experienced this when their Republic was extinguished by Empire.

The erosion of the Republic was gradual: slowly but surely, the lower classes' representation in governance was curtailed; the Oligarchy of the wealthy and powerful cemented their privileges at the expense of the many; Oligarchs rose above the laws that were supposed to apply to all, and executive power was consolidated in top administrators and the wealthy at the expense of the Senate.

By C. Clay Whittaker

March 18, 2016 - China has a new strategy in fighting crime, ripped from science fiction and hastily pasted at the top of the list of paranoia-inducing concepts.

It’s called pre-crime. It goes further than sting operations, counterterrorism, or any other government action to preempt criminal activity ever has before.

SEATTLE, Washington (PNN) - March 14, 2016 - A 7/11 shopper in Washington state relied on his concealed carry firearm over the weekend to subdue a man who attacked customers and staff with a small ax.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (PNN) - March 12, 2016 - Tens of thousands of Iraqis have taken to the streets of Baghdad for the third week in a row to demand a political overhaul.

Gathering on Friday in the capital, protesters heeded a call to gather by powerful Shia cleric Muqtada al- Sadr, who is pressuring the Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi to push on with a plan to form a cabinet of independent ministers.

OKLAHOMA CITY, Oklahoma (PNN) - March 11, 2016 - On March 10, the Oklahoma House passed legislation to legalize carrying a handgun openly on one’s hip without a concealed carry permit.

The measure is being referred to as “constitutional open carry” and the vote for passage was 73-15, a landslide victory for abolishing the permit requirement.

PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (PNN) - March 8, 2016 - Computers are getting pretty good at predicting the future. In many cases they do it better than people. That’s why Amazon uses them to figure out what you’re likely to buy, how Netflix knows what you might want to watch, the way meteorologists come up with accurate 10-day forecasts.

NEW YORK (PNN) - March 6, 2016 - In a stunningly honest and frank rant, FOX News Judge Jeanine unleashes anchor hell upon Mitt Romney and the GOP establishment hordes.