by Brent Johnson

I weep for what once was; for the vaunted achievements of intelligent and passionate men; for the blood shed and sacrifices made by those committed to the principles of freedom and self-determination; for the broken dreams of countless generations. I weep for the hope of a free country. I weep for America.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 11, 2015 - When is a gun not just a gun? When it's also constitutionally protected free speech.

That is the legal argument being made by Cody Wilson, a Texas man who gained attention two years ago by posting what are believed to be the world's first online instructions for how to build a 3-D printable gun. Wilson's files for what he called the Liberator, a single-shot pistol mostly made of plastic, were partly a statement about freedom in the digital age and partly a provocation - and provoke they did.

LONDON, England (PNN) - May 10, 2015 - He's the self-styled revolutionary who backed Ed Miliband at the election and advocates the overthrow of "corporate tyranny".

WASHINGTON (PNN) - May 7, 2015 - Senator Rand Paul (Kent.) is celebrating the news that a federal appeals court rejected illegitimate dictator President Barack Obama’s National Security Agency (NSA) data collection program on Thursday. Paul says he can’t wait for the Supreme Court to eventually rule it unconstitutional.

WASHINGTON (PNN) - April 21, 2015 - Dr. Ron Paul - the former presidential candidate and 22-year Congressional veteran - was briefly back in Washington, D.C., recently.

Dr. Paul was in the nation’s capital to educate Amerikans on what he believes our country’s next financial crisis will look like.

He says Amerika is on the verge of a real “currency crisis” - the likes of which we have not seen in more than 50 years.

GUANGDONG, China (PNN) - May 5, 2015 - Construction work has begun on the first factory in China’s manufacturing hub of Dongguan to use only robots for production, the official Xinhua news agency reported.

AUSTIN, Texas (PNN) - May 2, 2015 - Since General Sam Houston executed his famous retreat to glory to defeat the superior forces of General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, Texas has been ground zero for military training. We have so many military bases in the Lone Star State we could practically attack Russia.

BALTIMORE, Maryland (PNN) - May 1, 2015 - The Baltimore riots could be the beginning of a new black history in urban Amerika. Too bad all so many people can see is thugs.

The supposedly sophisticated twitterati take on what has happened after Freddie Gray’s funeral is to essentially rationalize the riots by explaining that the looting we’ve seen on our TV screens was just collateral damage for institutional racism.

WATERLOO, Ontario, Canada (PNN) - April 30, 2015 - Astrophysicists from the University of Waterloo have compiled the most comprehensive 3D map of our cosmic surroundings to date. The map describes how ordinary matter is distributed in space up to a distance of about a billion light-years away from us. This survey will help scientists better understand the distribution of dark matter and explain why, to some extent, galaxies are moving erratically with respect to us.

BALTIMORE, Maryland (PNN) - April 28, 2015 - The Foreign Intelligence Service states in a new report today that they were “horrified” over the use by the Amerikan Gestapo National Security Agency division of a powerful mass-psychology weapon against unsuspecting Amerikan citizens yesterday in Baltimore, Maryland, which caused these people, who were mostly schoolchildren, to erupt in a crazed frenzy of rioting, burning and looting.