Patriot News Network

The following collection of articles by various authors are their opinions, inspiration and humor for your reading enjoyment.

Road to Depression

Housing shows stability but factory orders fall!

WASHINGTON - October 4, 2010 - Pending sales of previously owned homes rose to a four-month high in August, implying the housing market was regaining some stability after recent steep declines following the end of a home-buyer tax credit.

Another report on Monday showed new orders received by domestic factories fell 0.5% in August as demand for transportation equipment fell sharply

Road to Depression

Cities in debt turn to states for help!

NEW YORK - October 4, 2010 - Harrisburg, the capital of Pennsylvania, dodged financial disaster last month by getting money from the state to make a payment to its bondholders.

It did so even though the state warned that the money had to be used for city workers’ pensions.

Road to Depression

AMBROSE EVANS-PRITCHARD: IMF admits that the West is stuck in near Depression!

By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard

LONDON, England - October 3, 2010 - If you strip away the political correctness, Chapter Three of the IMF's World Economic Outlook more or less condemns southern Europe to death by slow suffocation and leaves little doubt that fiscal tightening will trap north Europe, Britain and America in a slump for a long time.

Road to Depression

Las Vegas faces deepest slide since 1940s!

LAS VEGAS, Nevada - October 2, 2010 - There are many cities across the country that have deluded themselves into believing they are beginning to see the first glimpses of the end of the Depression.

Las Vegas is not one of them.

War on Freedom

Counterterror operation targets bus station!

ATLANTA, Georgia - October 7, 2010 - Federal agents launched a counterterrorism operation in Metro Atlanta for the third time in 10 days, inspecting every inch of a downtown Atlanta bus station.

Bomb sniffing dogs and officers from several agencies searched passengers, baggage and vehicles at the Forsyth Street bus station on Wednesday night.

War on Freedom

Action Alert: Firefighters let home burn due to unpaid fees!

MEMPHIS, Tennessee - October 6, 2010 - A small rural community in western Tennessee is outraged and the fire chief is nursing a black eye after firefighters stood by and watched a mobile home burn to the ground because the homeowner hadn't paid a $75 municipal fee.

South Fulton city firefighters - equipped with trucks, hoses and other firefighting equipment - didn't intervene to sa

War on Freedom

School installs facial recognition cameras to stop tardiness!

LONDON, England - October 5, 2010 - It could make the time-honored tradition of taking the school register a thing of the past

Cutting-edge cameras are being used to scan children’s faces as they enter school. The face-recognition technology makes sure they have turned up, records whether they were on time or late, and keeps an accurate roll call.