A story rocking my part of the world is that of a police officer tazing a ten-year-old girl. [...]
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Let’s think of some better words to use when we must discuss people under the age of 18 when they do dreadful things. [...] Is the current crop of Washington legislators too stupid to govern? [...] While wealthy legislators in Washington haggle over how to protect the profits of private insurance providers, men and women trying to live in the United States on less than $30,000 a year are standing in line for two and a half hours to get flu shots for themselves and their children. And they stand in line gladly [...] More amazing than the fact that a member of the American Congress had the impudence to shout “You lie!” at an American President during a speech is the fact that this appalling behavior is being defended by people who should know better. The childish behavior of Serena Williams, on the other hand, a tennis player who spoke [...] If it wasn’t clear before, it should be after the pathetic exhibitions of spoilt/ignorant behavior swirling around the President that we witnessed this week. This country is in a weakened condition. The general public is confused and misled by a media that should provide them with objective information. The nation’s leadership is divided between elected officials who seem [...] The threat to honeybees is neither laughable nor inconsequential. The power brokers in Washington need to figure that out, and soon. [...] They can’t agree on anything else, but Democrats, Republicans and the President found it easy to pass legislation intended to link teacher pay to student performance. [...] Allowing children to watch children’s programming on public television without sitting with them to comment is to turn them over to a questionable indoctrination. [...] Vegans and other animal advocates are frequently ridiculed by those who feel that the only “right” an animal should have is the right to be used by a human being. The theory is that animals exist to be exploited by mankind (one of the pernicious legacies of the Hebrew Book of Genesis). A case brought by animal activists [...] |
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