Author: Ring of Fire Radio

With a botched 2000 election, voter suppression laws, homeless hating municipal politicians, the country’s weirdest and most deranged residents, and a criminal governor, Florida has developed a lackluster reputation. Now, the Sunshine State has one more thing to add to its repertoire as a circuit court judge ruled that the GOP-controlled state legislature illegally redrew district lines to benefit the party. Hooray, Florida. The Florida legislature redrew the state’s 5th and 10th Congressional Districts in 2012 in order to benefit the Florida Republican Party. However, the League of Women Voters challenged the Florida GOP on the basis that the...

After the 2010 oil disaster, BP gave Texas Gov. Rick Perry’s office a $5 million grant, and the company is asking for it’s money back: a slimy move. But here’s the kicker. Perry just sat on the money for the last four years. He never spent it on wildlife conservation or cleanup efforts, or any of the purposes which the money was supposed to be used. That’s a slimy move too. In fact, Perry’s office kept the money a secret until a legislative hearing in May made Texas state and local officials tasked with directing the state’s recovery efforts...

Remember Blackwater? Excuse me, Academi. Oops, it was Triple Canopy. But now they’re Constellis Holdings. It can be so hard to keep the names straight since they keep changing to try and distance themselves from the horrible things they did in Iraq. But one thing they definitely aren’t distancing themselves from is the money they made during that war. A recent report from the New York Times outlines how a top manager at Blackwater threatened the government’s chief investigator of contractor operations in Iraq. “… the inquiry was abandoned after Blackwater’s top manager there issued a threat: ‘that he...

Freedom Industries, the West Virginia corporation that was responsible for contaminating the drinking water of at least 300,000 people, has been issued a veritable slap on the wrist. The company has been issued fines that total only $11,000.00 for the spill. That works out to about $0.04 per person potentially poisoned. The fine was split into two portions. The first for $7,000 was for failing to keep chemicals in diked areas that would retain the liquid. The second was for $4,000 for failing to provide safe hand railing to employees for walking over the dikes. So the real number...

In light of the consistently failing attempts by municipal police to rein in the drug cartels in Mexico, citizens have taken up arms to push the cartels out of their areas. The fight occurred mostly in southern and central Mexico, but now the fight appears to be moving closer to the US-Mexico border and could disrupt a portion of cartel drug traffic into America. When former Mexican president Felipe Calderon launched the government offensive against the country’s drug cartels in 2006, violence, murders, and kidnappings in Mexico skyrocketed. Mexican police were having trouble with the cartels because they were...