Another piece by New York Times columnist David Brooks is going viral. This one is entitled “The Republicans’ Incompetence Caucus”. I think Brooks’ main point is in the neighborhood of the problem with today’s Republican Party: “The Republican Party’s capacity for effective self-governance degraded slowly, over the course of a long chain of rhetorical excesses,
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Military.com reports that: “Women will eventually have to register for the draft if ‘true and pure equality’ is to be realized in the U.S. military, Army Secretary John McHugh said Monday. ‘If your objective is true and pure equality then you have to look at all aspects’ of the roles of women in the military,
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Like it or not, election season seems to be in full swing… a year ahead of time. One of the most highly sought voting blocs is the Latino population. But if politicians are trying to gain the Latino vote by offering some form of immigration support, they may be barking up the wrong tree. Judging
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You may think that sounds like an Onion headline, but it’s not. According to a Wall Street Journal article penned by Dr. John McWhorter of Columbia University, “The Oregon Shakespeare Festival… has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to perform in three
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Overpopulation? Yeah, right… Granted, rural migration since the advent of the Industrial Revolution has caused many cities around the world to become overcrowded. But don’t let that fool you. Many countries are graying at rapid speed, and will soon not have enough employed men and women to support their non-working citizens (someone has to pay
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If demographics is destiny then the world will change mightily in coming decades with Africa, especially Nigeria, featuring prominently with an exploding population of young people. The United Nations recently released its 2015 Word Population Prospects report and the findings are fascinating, if not shocking, for those who haven’t been paying attention to global population
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