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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. [...]
*Black history month is often attacked as a tool of oppression because it allows black history to be ignored the rest of the year. Nothing could be further from the truth. Eliminating black history month would not create any urgency to focus on African-American interests throughout the year, nor does having black history month prevent [...]
*Last week Muslims in the New York City metropolitan area attempted to celebrate the end of Ramadan at an amusement park. The result was multiple arrests and charges of Islamophobia. The story was on the front page of the local newspaper and was mentioned in national news outlets. Of course with the 10th anniversary of [...]
*The economy flourishes when people buy stuff. People buy stuff when there are products they want and when they have money. Most analysis of economics focus on how to get money in the pockets of consumers. But the real trick is creating products that people want; desire is a function of “newness”. Energy conserving products [...]
*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 [...]
*Jesus Christ was the most anti-capitalist person in human history. Throughout the Gospels He can be found redistributing assets, speaking against the accumulation of wealth, and teaching against using people for your own goals. Much to the contrary of capitalism Jesus taught that that being rich made it nearly impossible to make it to heaven [...]
*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 [...]
*In the first session of each history class I teach, I take the time to explain the difference between liberals and conservatives. My typical explanation involves describing many changes to American society that we consider positive progress. The distinction between the two camps is their reaction to these changes; liberals are typically fighting for the [...]
*Sincerity is dangerous. It is a character trait that has a good reputation because it means someone truly believes what they’re saying or doing. We equate being sincere with being genuine, honest, earnest, straightforward, frank, and open. But sincerity’s twin sibling is stubbornness, which is synonymous with being obstinate, inflexible, willful, and intractable. To be [...]
*One day I asked my dad why he only watched sports on television. His paraphrased response: “I don’t know what is going to happen. In every other program I can tell what will happen in the end.” And for the most part he was right. When I was growing up we knew the guy would [...]
*Religion has always played a pivotal role in America. School children each year are told how the Pilgrims came to North America because they were being persecuted for their religious beliefs. Pilgrims left Europe because they believed they were practicing the true form of Christianity. Over time various denominations from several countries, believing the same [...]
*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 [...]
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