728 x 90



Latest Posts

Top Authors

  • What’s So Wrong with Melania Trump Dressing Like a Lady?

    What’s So Wrong with Melania Trump Dressing Like a Lady?0

    Earlier this week, the Trump administration hosted its first Easter Egg Roll at the White House. But while Melania Trump’s subtle reminder for the President to place his hand over his heart garnered most of the attention, the New York Times fashion writer appeared to be more interested in Melania’s wardrobe selection: “A spun-sugar pink

    READ MORE
  • What’s Really Causing So Many School Suspensions

    What’s Really Causing So Many School Suspensions0

    ‘Tis the season for campaign promises and Hillary Clinton is not to be outdone in offering a variety of goodies to her constituents. According to TIME Magazine: “Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton announced Tuesday her $2-billion plan to hire social workers and staff for school districts nationwide in an attempt to tamp down on black

    READ MORE
  • What’s Really Behind the Soaring Cost of Weddings

    What’s Really Behind the Soaring Cost of Weddings0

    Talking with a friend the other day, she expressed frustration that she and her boyfriend weren’t engaged yet. Both have degrees, jobs and want to get married. When I suggested she and her beau take the leap, she shook her head. “Oh no,” she replied, “We don’t have the money right now, weddings are soooo

    READ MORE
  • What’s Really Behind the Multiverse Theory

    What’s Really Behind the Multiverse Theory0

    That there might be more than one universe, indeed infinitely many, seems at first to be more than a science-fiction fantasy. Respectable scientific cosmologists seriously posit and explore the hypothesis that there is a “multiverse.” But there’s good reason to believe that not all is as it seems. The piece I linked to above, which

    READ MORE
  • What’s Next for Venezuela?

    What’s Next for Venezuela?0

    • August 2, 2017

    Yesterday’s fraudulent and illegitimate vote to install a constituent assembly in Venezuela is the definitive step towards consolidating a de jure dictatorship in that country. The constituent assembly will enjoy supra-constitutional powers, which means that its prerogatives go beyond writing a new constitution and include, inter alia, dissolving and removing all existing institutions—including those controlled by the opposition or held

    READ MORE
  • What’s Missing in the Lives of School Shooters?

    What’s Missing in the Lives of School Shooters?0

    • October 7, 2015

    Another mass shooting, another round of handwringing in the United States about gun control and adolescent mental health. Christopher Harper-Mercer, the 26-year-old who took the lives of nine people at Umpqua Community College in Oregon, and wounded several others before taking his own life, had access to a small arsenal of guns. His suicidal mission

    READ MORE