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  • ‘Just Be You’: Our Culture’s Sad Embrace of Moral Anarchy

    ‘Just Be You’: Our Culture’s Sad Embrace of Moral Anarchy3

    Earlier this week, traveling back home from California and during a layover at Dallas/Fort Worth, I decided to draw some cash from an ATM near my departure gate. The company dispensing the cash was Chase Bank, a subsidiary of the multinational corporation, JP Morgan Chase. On the screen, in an affront to the millions of

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  • Why Are Basic Manners Becoming So Rare?

    Why Are Basic Manners Becoming So Rare?0

    Every so often the internet plays host to a viral sensation. One of the latest hits is a twitter post from the UK, which features a snapshot a grandson took of his grandmother’s Google search. The thing that set this Google search apart from the billions of other daily searches? The grandmother prefaced her request

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  • Latin America: Way more violent than the U.S.

    Latin America: Way more violent than the U.S.0

    InSight Crime is “a foundation dedicated to the study of the principal threat to national and citizen security in Latin America and the Caribbean: organized crime.” Toward that end, the foundation put together a fascinating chart comparing the homicide rate between the various countries of Latin America and the Caribbean. Here it is:  Regarding the

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  • Jane Austen Vindicates the Rights of Women

    Jane Austen Vindicates the Rights of Women0

    Jane Austen’s Lady Susan is a wrecking ball in petticoats. The main character of the new film Love and Friendship, drawn from Jane Austen’s novella Lady Susan, is a widowed mother of a marriageable daughter. She is also widely known as “the most accomplished Coquette in England.” She has a married lover. She seduces wealthy young men

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  • Is Islam Actually a Christian Heresy?

    Is Islam Actually a Christian Heresy?1

    Is Islam actually a Christian heresy? Was it actually not a “new religion,” but rather, a perversion of orthodox Christian teaching?   1,400 years after Mohammed supposedly received his revelation from the archangel Gabriel, it’s difficult to determine. But nevertheless, it’s interesting to note that this charge has been made by some influential figures throughout history. For

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  • Ex-CIA Officer: US needs to hear ISIS’ policy concerns

    Ex-CIA Officer: US needs to hear ISIS’ policy concerns0

    The video featuring former CIA officer Amaryllis Fox is going bonkers on Facebook. We’re talking 61 million views, 1.2 million shares, and 21,000 comments in three days. So of course I had to watch and see what the ex undercover officer had to say. Here’s the clip:       I don’t know about you,

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