Below is the front page of a Florida newspaper from a couple of weeks ago. You will try in vain to find anything remotely like this stupidity, greed, and cruelty anywhere else on this planet.
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Gun Violence Isn’t Unique to the U.S. Though We Certainly DO Excel in this Category
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Where America Has Gone, Where It’s Going
All the tragedy in American society: the erosion of the middle class, environmental degradation, gun violence, bigotry, educational collapse, authoritarianism, etc., makes one wonder if there are any areas of improvement over the last few decades. As suggested in the …
Religion: Poison or Antidote?
Depicted here is a huge source of our problems. If you happen to have a globe handy, please take a minute and scan it. While so doing, note the huge correlation between countries in which religion plays a minor role …
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The U.S. Midterms
If Republicans can convince voters that they and only they can curb inflation, get tough on crime, and prevent immigrants from stealing their jobs, it seems possible that they’ll emerge victorious in the midterms. But on the other issues that …
Psychiatric Drugs and Gun Violence
As suggested at left, some folks believe that psychiatric drugs cause gun violence, reasoning that many shooters are, in fact, on such drugs. Apparently it doesn’t occur to them that anyone who commits such a crime is mentally ill, and …
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Why Gun Violence Is Such an Intractable Problem in America
America may not be unique in the world for its culture of rugged individualism, but it most certainly is for the role that guns play within its society. Consider for a moment that about one-half of our congresspeople believe that …
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Incredibly, Active Shooter Drills Are Our Most Potent Weapon Against Gun Violence
I’m glad people like Rep. Pramila Jayapal haven’t given up on gun reform. FWIW, I have to admit that I have. American lawmakers are terrified of the gun lobby. The pressure it exerts on these slimy cowards is sufficient to …
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Mourning the Loss of Truth
As you read the exchange to the left, ask yourself: how did it become this way? How have facts ceased to matter? Sure, there have been hundreds of discussions to the effect that truth is the biggest and most tragic …
Gun Violence in America: Its Causes, Solutions
What’s the underlying cause of all this gun violence? How did the United States come to have more than one mass shooting per day (251 in the last 216 days of 2019 thus far)? The truth is that no one …
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Wall Street Journal: Teachers Quit Jobs at Highest Rate on Record
A popular song from the 1980s began, “I believe the children are our future…” Wouldn’t you like to interview the lyricist and ask his reasoning? He might have thought: well, at first I wrote, “I believe that the old people …
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