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*Monday, April 29, 2013 – Professional basketball player Jason Collins comes out as a gay man. That night the NBA playoffs continued with three teams avoiding the end of their seasons. Tuesday, April 30, 2013 – An American Airlines flight from Portugal crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Georgia. The last words [...]
“A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” That is the text of the 2nd Amendment of the United States Constitution in its entirety. I am not big on the original intent of the founding fathers. [...]
*The United States has never been a Christian nation. Rather it has always been a nation with a large number of Christians in it. There is a difference. It is the difference between having a basis in certain spiritual truths, and living by an interpretation of sacred texts. The Founding Fathers were students of the [...]
*The origins of unions in this country are part of the story of industrialization. In fact unions were labor’s response to the advent of Robber Barons – extremely powerful capitalist entrepreneurs of the late 19th century. As such they have always been charged with ensuring that any person or company’s profit is paralleled by a [...]
*If all Muslims are terrorists then all black people are lazy and on welfare and trying to get society to support them or they are athletes, rappers or singers. If all Muslims are terrorists then all women are helpless beings who need men to support them because they are not as capable. If all Muslims [...]
*LeBron James chose to sign as a free agent with the Miami Heat and in doing so made himself public enemy number one to basketball fans in Cleveland and anywhere else outside of south Florida. Much of the criticism of James’ decision focused on the idea that he was supposed to be loyal to his [...]
*One of the most popular programs on television, True Blood, had commentators buzzing recently when they aired a male-male kiss. The ensuing debate raises the question of where is the line of acceptable behavior for homosexual and heterosexual displays of affection in entertainment and in society more generally. The first aspect of this issue is [...]
*With the questioning and possible confirmation of proposed Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagen there is the obligatory hand wringing by conservatives over what is assumed to be a liberal leaning mind. One of the favored arguments against liberal judges is that they are activist – meaning their decisions on cases take into consideration their vision [...]
*War and peace are the black and white of diplomatic relations. Unfortunately it is rare that two countries relate to one another in one of those two contexts; much more likely is the state of gray that encompasses various likes and dislikes, favors and affronts. The problem with pre-emptive military action is that governments that [...]
*Theocracy is partly the source of the biggest problem today in that it is a perspective that produces religious fundamentalists. Contrarily theology is the biggest source of hope for ending conflict in the world. Ironically enough these two concepts are closely related and one grows out of the other. In its most basic form theology [...]
*This summer will demonstrate the degree to which sports matter in American society. Athletic games as they originated centuries ago at the beginning of civilizations all over the globe were leisure activities. Sports were contests designed to amuse the elites and distract the masses from their burden of creating wealth for others. But in the [...]
*One of the unintended consequences of the American Revolution is the all powerful belief in freedom. The freedom of the individual and by extension the freedom of the groups of individuals in North America was allegedly under attack from the British throne. Once the revolution was completed and individual freedom was affirmed, two related concepts [...]
*Sex holds a special place in our society and consciousness. It is at once the thing that we embrace to attract the attention of others and sell goods and services while at the same time being the thing that we fear for its potential to ruin us. Sex is the thing that bumps a movie’s [...]
*In the never ending battle that educators engage in to inspire and teach young people, paying students has become the latest strategy. And while positive reinforcement certainly has a place in schools, paying students outright goes overboard in attempting to motivate young people. Admittedly education is a system in which rewards are deferred until the [...]
*My wife and I fundamentally disagree about the prevalence of infidelity. She believes that a majority, and probably a high majority of men are unfaithful to their wives. My contention is that we only hear about relationships in trouble which leads to the incorrect perception that everyone is cheating. After all no one calls their [...]
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