Let us take it for given that the second amendment guarantees all Americans the right to bear arms... Question: how many armless bears can the National Forest Service support, and can someone pass the BBQ sauce? If political parties are to...
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A federal judge today blocked many of the key provisions of the Arizona Immigration law. Score one for the Constitution and rationality. Aside from the aspects of this law that institutionalized racism (giving BS lip service to, "We won't racially...
We are stardust, we are golden we are billion year old carbon and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden - Jonie Mitchell, "Woodstock" Ferrets are more determined than they are bright. Case in point being my own pet ferret, Rosie....
Well, Joe Biden was certainly right when he said that President Obama would be "tested" soon after taking office. The question is not so much "how did he do" on the test as it is, "when will the tests...
The first years of Obama's presidency may be remembered for many things but one of the inescapable results has been a renaissance of racism. We have become far too familiar with the racism spewing from those on the right including...
I came across a site that contained a test Harvard created for a study which tries to measure your conscious and even subconscious biases. The have bias tests for race like black and white, ethnicity, religiosity, gender preference,...
I think we all recognize that poverty in our nation has increased in the past three years, but what is not so much discussed is that it has been increasing steadily over the past 10 years.  In the past...
I. History of Nowruz Imagine it’s the fifth century before the Common Era, on a plain bejeweled with a magnificent palace complex and flowing gardens, with the coffee brown Zagros mountains in the distance, and a sky the color of...

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