A general category for things related to our society and how we interact with one another.
I think it was just last week that Miami-Dade police officers used a taser stun gun to subdue a very dangerous six year old boy. They claimed he was holding a shard of glass and threatening to hurt himself, so I went easy on that one.
Read moreThe state of Georgia found “more than 10,000 children of Wal-Mart employees were in the state’s health program for children at an annual cost of nearly $10 million to taxpayers.”
Read more"Welcome aboard Trans America Airlines. Your captain today is Clarence Oveur, and your co-pilot will be a petri dish of
Read moreLast week Congress began to take up the 9/11 Commission?s recommendations but now we have the details of the proposed legislation and it is much worse than we had expected. The proposed House bill would likely create what amounts to a national identification card, drastically curtail basic fairness in the nation?s immigration system and expand government powers under the PATRIOT Act.
Read moreAn Article by Frederic Morton: If this rainbow array of hopes is indeed dying now, it is not the terrorists but the recent cumulative acts of the United States itself that are the slayers. To Europeans of nearly every stripe, the statue in New York harbor brandishes not a torch but a tommy gun. Lady Liberty has transmogrified into an ominous colossus. Here is the ultimate Godfather, enforcing with missile and aircraft carrier a protection racket on all seven seas. Here is an America shrugging armored shoulders at the ozone hole, at collateral damage, at its own poor, an America practicing domination in the name of freedom.
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