For all human beings, the reality we experience on a daily basis is the product of our language. Language allows people in every culture to categorize and conceptualize reality, define it in rational terms, and ultimately, to help create it. More importantly, it enables people to communicate with each other about this physical realm we […]
Martin Luther King, Jr.’s heartbreaking 1963 Letter from a Birmingham Jail is a classic rhetorical response to social injustice and to those who seek to perpetuate injustice either by ignorance, complacency, or tacit approval. MLK eloquently calls out the clergymen in Alabama who condemned him as an “extremist” for his very reasonable and honorable – […]
When former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower warned the nation about the dangers of the ‘military-industrial complex’ in his farewell address on Jan. 17, 1961, he knew what he was talking about. In that famous speech, Eisenhower challenged the American people to limit the undue influence of the military on our democratic society: “In the […]
Michele Leonhart’s days as head of the US Drug Enforcement Agency are numbered. Last week, members of the House Oversight Committee delivered a vote of “no confidence” in her leadership abilities. Leonhart’s tenure as chief administrator for the troubled agency has seen a litany of scandals, including – among others – the massacre of civilians […]
According to a recent study [2015], study by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future, American millennials are some of the most unskilled people on the planet The Princeton-based researchers administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to measure the aptitude of adults […]
A recent report from the Council on Foreign Relations [CFR] confirms that the U.S. public education system is making Americans so dumb it has now become a national security risk. Our very survival as a nation is at stake, according to the task force. Forget the threat of terrorism, the war on drugs, gay marriage […]
My wife and I made the trip to the National Museum of Nuclear Science and Industry on a lovely Sunday morning in late October, 2012. The new facility was already a noticeable improvement from our last visit to the museum many years ago. That was pre-911 days, when it was still located in a musty […]
Bring up the subject of UFOs in mixed company and you’re likely to get one of the following reactions: sarcastic eye-rolling or a silent, vacant stare. The reality of unidentified flying objects is universally derided in the mainstream media as unworthy of serious consideration. Very little news coverage regarding UFOs is rational, intelligent or balanced, […]
Wright-Patterson AFB is known among UFO researchers as the home of the infamous Project Blue Book, and because of its connection with the Roswell UFO incident. Some believe that the enigmatic Hangar 18, assigned to the Air Force’s Foreign Technology Division located at Wright-Patterson contains, or once contained, wreckage of a crashed UFO. In March […]
Introduction At the end of World War II, thousands of Nazi war criminals and collaborators from Germany, Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Belgium, Holland and France fled Europe and escaped prosecution for crimes against humanity, including genocide. Many high-ranking Nazi leaders such as Adolf Eichmann, Vice-Chancellor of Germany Martin Bormann, Auschwitz’s “Angel of Death” Josef Mengele, Heinrich […]
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