The final innovation which profoundly affected my personal sense of identity was the advent of the Internet. By the time my wife and I broke down and bought our first PC in the early 90s, the World Wide Web was already a full-blown global phenomenon. The Internet opened up entirely new vistas of research and […]
“Congratulations, America! We spent 40 million dollars surveying Bud Light® drinkers all over the country and the results from two years of consumer focus groups have shown that for some reason the words ‘mix’ and ‘tail’ scored highly with our target audience: people with an IQ below 80 and the tastes and desires of the average 10-year old child. Adding […]
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 […]
We’ve all heard the story about George Washington chopping down the cherry tree, right? “I can’t tell a lie, Pa; you know I can’t tell a lie. I did cut it with my hatchet,” Little George said, when his father asked the boy what he’d done to his favorite tree. Guess what? It’s a lie. […]
Is America a “police state?” Within the context of mainstream political discourse in America, the subject is unworthy of discussion. Despite the lack of any critical public debate on the issue, however, it’s clear that we are already well on our way to reaching full-blown police state status. We’re a lot closer than most people […]
I consider myself sort of a ‘quasi-libertarian.’ The fewer laws the better, as far as I‘m concerned. There are some laws I agree with, though. Laws which protect children, the elderly, animals and private property should be applied and enforced, and I am in favor of any legislation that protects the public’s safety – which is […]
American Millennials are some of the most unskilled people on the planet, according to a recent study published by the Educational Testing Service (ETS), America’s Skills Challenge: Millennials and the Future. The Princeton-based researchers administered a test called the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) to measure the aptitude of adults in […]
A recent report from the Council on Foreign Relations 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 or […]
“I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. I have a dream…” I always get chills when I see that clip of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.’s famous “I […]
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