Politics
Benefits of a Paper Ballot System for State and National Elections
By Maximus Tyrannus Avery · 2 years ago
The US has approximately 213,768,000 registered voters at the time of this publication. Even though American voting systems have been enhanced for security and functionality on some levels, tampering is still a major possibility. There ...
Signs of the 70's
By Larry Farmer · 2 years ago
Signs of the 70’s
Ronald Reagan was elected President in 1980 and ushered in a conservative era which would last until the Obama presidency. I never saw it coming, but I should have. The signs ...
Who is Responsible for the Mass Shootings in America?
By June Stepansky · 2 years ago
This week we all experienced the terrible tragedy and loss of 19 young Children and 2 teachers in the school shooting at the Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas. In the aftermath of that horrific ...
Bigotry Doesn't Belong in Medical Care
By Michael J. Talmo · 2 years ago
Bigotry Doesn't Belong in Medical Care
By Michael J. Talmo
May 27, 2022
Bigotry is an ugly thing. In my country, the US, it has had a long and nasty history. From treating black people ...
Young People, Women, Independents, Minorities-- You Can Save our Democracy
By June Stepansky · 2 years ago
There was a time when we could live our personal lives without thinking too much about what was happening in our country. Except for those rare occasions where some government official was caught in a ...
Why We Need an Independent President
By Matthew Wringer · 2 years ago
For too long America has had presidents representing one side or another, a political war within a nation. To quote the words of Martin Luther King Jr., “Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can ...
A Question for Moderate Republicans
By June Stepansky · 2 years ago
I have been voting for a very long time. Sometimes democrats won and sometimes republicans won. The issues that we voted on then were simple. Republicans voted for fiscal responsibility and lower taxes and democrats ...
The 5 Reasons It’s Time for School Choice
By Maximus Tyrannus Avery · 2 years ago
Parents know their children best and understand the environment that will help them succeed, and this is why a child’s parents will be the best judge of where their children attend school. It only makes ...
Fake News
By Larry Farmer · 2 years ago
Fake News
We hear a great deal these days about misinformation, disinformation, and fake news. It is leading some people to question the first amendment guarantee on freedom of expression. This is understandable; after all, ...
Politics at Trinity High School
By Larry Farmer · 2 years ago
Politics at Trinity High School
Those who know me realize I am a very conservative person politically. When I attended a teacher In-Service after being hired by Trinity High School in 1985 at age 39, ...
How Zelensky left Mariupol Ukraine open for Russia to come in?
By David Stern · 2 years ago
Ukrainian President Zelensky did not protect the citizens of Mariupol from an attack by Russia. The small city has been utterly destroyed, there is nothing left, the footage coming in from the city is absolutely ...
Explaining Civil Litigation
By Brian Abergel · 2 years ago
Lawyers can build their careers across various fields, from family lawyers to corporate attornies. One common field of practice is civil litigation. Civil litigation attorneys work with cases with no criminal charges or penalties. Instead, ...
There is a problem with Ukraine
By Larry Farmer · 2 years ago
There is a problem with Ukraine
There is something going on in Ukraine which is just not as it appears. Sophistication, complexity, and intrigue are the three best words to describe this beleaguered country. To ...
Cyberwar History and Ukraine
By Steve Burgess · 2 years ago
People are much more drawn to images of blown-up building, fires, mushroom clouds, refugees in dire circumstances, color pictures of pain that are better in black and white than they are to explanations of code ...
We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us
By June Stepansky · 2 years ago
Cartoonist Walt Kelly modified and changed Commodore Perry’s famous quote to, “We have met the enemy and he is us” in a cartoon he created in 1970 celebrating the first Earth Day in 1970. The ...
Cowardice of Culture for Collusive Consensus - 1
By Randy Gonzalez · 2 years ago
Cowardice in a culture of sameness, contrived by the lameness of intellectual regression, portends the recession that harkens the end by collusive and contrived consensus. For a viewpoint arguing contrary to the herded powers of ...
American Roads
By Taylor Phipps · 2 years ago
“Racist” Roads
Recently an infrastructure bill was voted on with the promise to fix American roads. Not because they are run down, broken, or old but because they are racist. Racist. Apparently, American roads are ...
A Society in Transition
By June Stepansky · 3 years ago
We all are aware that change in our personal lives is difficult, constant, and inevitable. We notice it when we look in the mirror or see our children grow. What is not so noticeable, however, ...
The Assault on Science
By June Stepansky · 3 years ago
When I was a young girl, there was a great respect for people of science (doctors, scientists etc.). We trusted them and felt that the contributions of all of our world scientists had made our ...
The Evolution and Effects of Quebec Independence Movement
By Neaz Mujeri · 3 years ago
The independence movement in Quebec is not really a recent phenomenon, in fact, nationalistic feelings in French Canadians in forming a nation of their own has its root in pre-industrial Quebec or New France, when ...