The Pirate Party has won a huge victory in the Swedish elections and is marching on to Brussels. After months of campaigning against well established parties, the Pirate Party has gathered enough votes to be guaranteed a seat in the European Parliament.

When the Swedish Pirate Party was founded in early 2006, the majority of the mainstream press were skeptical, with some simply laughing it away. But they were wrong to dismiss this political movement out of hand. Today, the Pirate Party accomplished what some believed to be the impossible, by securing a seat in the European Parliament.

Check out the whole story at TorrentFreak.com, here!

Sen. John McCain will choose businessman and former Massachusetts Governor, Mitt Romney as Vice President, in his bid for the White House this November, a source closely connected with the McCain campaign, who asked to remain anonymous, told us earlier this afternoon.

Though others were close in the running, the choice ultimately came down to the money–not the man. According to our source, the campaign narrowed their Vice Presidential options to Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney, the two most successful opponents of McCain in the bid for the Republican nomination. But despite Huckabee’s sway with far Right conservatives and evangelical voters, Romney packs the deepest fund-raising pockets. (more…)

Sen. Barack Obama has secured enough delegates to clinch the Democratic nomination for President, beating Sen. Hillary Clinton in the five-month-long race. Even if he loses today’s primaries, in South Dakota and Montana, he will still have enough committed delegates to declare himself the winning candidate, according to the Associated Press count (which is the count the Hillary campaign has been using).

Get all the details after the jump! (more…)

If you have been following American politics, and by the looks of current strawhat polls – if you are 18-24 years old – you are not, you would notice a wonderful new trend. The trend is not so much in the formation or operations of American public policy, but in the way our wonderful professional politicians name the laws and policies that they spend so much time caressing and molding. The best part, is that these wonderful rules and regulations have, in most cases, an affect on Americans that is almost completely opposite to that which their name would have you believe.

Being the underachiever I am, I was motivated to do a little research.

The higher the Name/Affectation Ridiculousness Ratio (NARR), the more likely the legislation was to pass in both Congressional houses. Isn’t that wonderful? It is almost as if our lawmakers were trying to confuse the sh*t out of us! LOL, and we all know that they would NEVER do something like that.

So what does it take to make a wonderfully creative and counterproductive law? (more…)