Politics
The 5 Reasons It’s Time for School Choice
By Maximus Tyrannus Avery · 2 years ago
Parents know their children best and understand the environment that will help them succeed, and this is why a child’s parents will be the best judge of where their children attend school. It only makes ...
Fake News
By Larry Farmer · 2 years ago
Fake News
We hear a great deal these days about misinformation, disinformation, and fake news. It is leading some people to question the first amendment guarantee on freedom of expression. This is understandable; after all, ...
Politics at Trinity High School
By Larry Farmer · 2 years ago
Politics at Trinity High School
Those who know me realize I am a very conservative person politically. When I attended a teacher In-Service after being hired by Trinity High School in 1985 at age 39, ...
How Zelensky left Mariupol Ukraine open for Russia to come in?
By David Stern · 2 years ago
Ukrainian President Zelensky did not protect the citizens of Mariupol from an attack by Russia. The small city has been utterly destroyed, there is nothing left, the footage coming in from the city is absolutely ...
Explaining Civil Litigation
By Brian Abergel · 2 years ago
Lawyers can build their careers across various fields, from family lawyers to corporate attornies. One common field of practice is civil litigation. Civil litigation attorneys work with cases with no criminal charges or penalties. Instead, ...
There is a problem with Ukraine
By Larry Farmer · 2 years ago
There is a problem with Ukraine
There is something going on in Ukraine which is just not as it appears. Sophistication, complexity, and intrigue are the three best words to describe this beleaguered country. To ...
Cyberwar History and Ukraine
By Steve Burgess · 2 years ago
People are much more drawn to images of blown-up building, fires, mushroom clouds, refugees in dire circumstances, color pictures of pain that are better in black and white than they are to explanations of code ...
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
By June Stepansky · 2 years ago
Cartoonist Walt Kelly modified and changed Commodore Perry’s famous quote to, “We have met the enemy and he is us” in a cartoon he created in 1970 celebrating the first Earth Day in 1970. The ...
Cowardice of Culture for Collusive Consensus - 1
By Randy Gonzalez · 2 years ago
Cowardice in a culture of sameness, contrived by the lameness of intellectual regression, portends the recession that harkens the end by collusive and contrived consensus. For a viewpoint arguing contrary to the herded powers of ...
American Roads
By Taylor Phipps · 2 years ago
“Racist” Roads
Recently an infrastructure bill was voted on with the promise to fix American roads. Not because they are run down, broken, or old but because they are racist. Racist. Apparently, American roads are ...
A Society in Transition
By June Stepansky · 2 years ago
We all are aware that change in our personal lives is difficult, constant, and inevitable. We notice it when we look in the mirror or see our children grow. What is not so noticeable, however, ...
The Assault on Science
By June Stepansky · 3 years ago
When I was a young girl, there was a great respect for people of science (doctors, scientists etc.). We trusted them and felt that the contributions of all of our world scientists had made our ...
The Evolution and Effects of Quebec Independence Movement
By Neaz Mujeri · 3 years ago
The independence movement in Quebec is not really a recent phenomenon, in fact, nationalistic feelings in French Canadians in forming a nation of their own has its root in pre-industrial Quebec or New France, when ...
Covid Conspiracies and the Animal Rights community in Victoria, Australia
By April Boxshall · 3 years ago
Let us think rationally if that is possible.
Why would any government, left, right, or in the middle, proceed with the up-popular choice of a lockdown if they did not believe it was the only ...
Democracy in the Crosshairs
By June Stepansky · 3 years ago
I have been a witness to the democratic process for many, many years. I have participated in numerous elections that have brought to office Democrats and Republicans of various philosophies and styles, but I have ...
The Continuing Fight for Equality
By June Stepansky · 3 years ago
“We hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal. That they are endowed, by their Creator with certain unalienable rights. That among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness."-- ...
A Question of Survival
By June Stepansky · 3 years ago
Recently I was watching the movie Conquest of Paradise with Gerard Depardieu, a movie about Columbus and his discovery of the new world. As I was watching the cruelty that occurred in those days (1492)– ...
HESTON RUSSELL OP-ED - BUREAUCRATIC BOX-TICKING
By Jane Henschke · 3 years ago
Sunday, 11 July 2021, saw the anticlimactic announcement that the last of Australia’s military personnel have been withdrawn from Afghanistan, a conflict that saw over 39,000 veterans deployed over the 20 years our country committed ...
American Aristocracy and Societal Devolution
By Randy Gonzalez · 3 years ago
Aristocracy, the brevity for a metaphorical assertion of upper-class dominance, rule and hereditary perpetuity. By indirect inference, the special interests of the wealthy elite, the up and coming elite, generational replication, that furthers the materiality ...
Tragedy, Fear and Terrorism Arrogantly Near
By Randy Gonzalez · 3 years ago
Terrorism is crime and crime are terrorism. Add the externality of effects, from community to country, and criminogenic factors are elevated to a more adventurous status. Fear factors are influential, likewise, so is human weakness ...