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Judge Sentences Teens to Read Books to Pay for Crimes 0
- Culture
- February 9, 2017
Many Americans today are troubled by the anger, disrespect, and ignorant attitudes they see in the younger generations. Unfortunately, these attitudes often spill over in violent protests and other inappropriate actions. Such was the case last fall in Loudon County, Virginia when a group of five teenagers defaced the historic, one-room “Ashburn Colored School” with
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Torture Cannot Be Condoned By Civilized Nations 0
- Culture
- February 8, 2017
Until relatively recently, the notion that torture was wrong was a proposition to which everyone assented; governments that practiced torture lied about what they were doing. Under the Bush Administration, in the wake of 9/11, the reluctance of officials to admit that what they had authorized was torture, or their insistence that it was at
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Is Trump Fudging Murder Stats to Claim More Power?0
- Culture
- February 8, 2017
Donald Trump appeared deeply confused this week as the president declared today that “the murder rate in our country is the highest it’s been in 47 years.” Perhaps Trump confused the word “highest” with “lowest” since he would be far closer to the truth if he said the homicide rate in the US is “the lowest
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A Catholic Priest’s Observations on Islam—in 1851 0
- Culture
- February 8, 2017
Rummaging through some antique books recently, I came across a volume of church history from 1851, originally written in German by a Catholic priest, Dr. Giovanni Alzog, and translated into Italian. The volume, translated Universal History the Christian Church, covers the period from 400 until just before the Protestant Reformation. Naturally, the author had occasion
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Mother of 3 Rips Franken for Elitist Comments on Education 0
- Education
- February 8, 2017
As we know, the legislators in Congress are supposed to represent all of us, the Joe Averages in the streets and lanes of the nation. Our legislators know this too – or at least they know how to give lip service to the idea. In all likelihood, it is this mentality of needing to represent
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5 Causes of the Civil War (Besides Slavery)3
- Culture
- February 8, 2017
As I type, the secession movement in California is picking up steam. Polling shows that one in three Californians support leaving the Union following Donald Trump’s victorious presidential campaign, and an organization–YesCalifornia.org–is circulating a petition calling for a special election that would allow Californians to vote for or against independence. The movement is unlikely to
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Judge Sentences Teens to Read Books to Pay for Crimes 0