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Policing the Police, Part 1

Policing the Police, Part 1

July 15, 2015

“Pissing and shitting in suspect’s homes during raids, on their beds and clothes.” This is just one of many disturbing and frankly disgusting instances of routine police injustice revealed by Michael...

Campus Crime on the Decline

Campus Crime on the Decline

July 7, 2015

Have you ever wondered how easy it might have been to rob a bank in the earlier half of the 20th century? There were no cameras, silent alarms, rising safety screens on teller windows, federal crime databases...

Charleston Shooting Distracts from an Even More Disturbing Crime

Charleston Shooting Distracts from an Even More Disturbing Crime

June 23, 2015

[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]   (Picture from citizen.org) Anyone who grew up playing sports is probably familiar with the term head-fake. A head-fake is a classic misdirection move. A player...

Prescription Drugs Need to be Understood Before They Are Promoted

Prescription Drugs Need to be Understood Before They Are Promoted

June 16, 2015

How many people do you know who are addicted to drugs? I suspect that you know more than you think. Many drug addicts in America today don’t fit the typical junkie stereotype. They aren’t out combing...

The U.S. needs to give all fuel sources an equal chance

The U.S. needs to give all fuel sources an equal chance

June 7, 2015

Fear of environmentalism and global warming seems to stem, among many skeptics, from the fear that they will have to give up the technological luxuries that have become deeply entrenched in modern life....

On the essence of time

May 21, 2015

Have you ever watched the World Population Clock? It’s a website that tracks population growth in real time. It’s about 9 a.m. MT right now and nearly 150,000 new people have already entered...

Books beat video games on every level

May 14, 2015

Most people probably don’t think of reading and playing video games as being on the same plane in terms of their entertainment value. From an early age we are conditioned to think that books are...

To curb eventual climatic failure, society needs to shift its economic mentality

May 13, 2015

The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is an international coalition composed of the world’s top scientists and climatologists. The panel conducts regular assessments on the state of...

Americans should oppose the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership

May 12, 2015

Today Congress voted down a bill that would have given President Obama authority to expedite negotiations in the latest international trade agreement, called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The bill...

Belief in God and belief in science aren’t mutually exclusive

April 27, 2015

The schism between creationism and evolution has become so pronounced in our culture that many people consider the ideas incompatible. Proponents on both sides of the false divide are so uncompromisingly...

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