According to Edward Gibbon, the author of the voluminous The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, the following were the five signs of Rome’s “decaying culture”: Concern with displaying affluence instead of building wealth. Obsession with sex and perversions of sex. Art becomes freakish and sensationalistic instead of creative and original. Widening disparity between [...]
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Got four minute to get smart on current events? Read this intelligent analyses of the current debt crisis. It’s well written and straightforward. The scariest part about it isn’t the numbers—which are big but understandable—the scariest part is the political cowardice holding us in check. One line that stands out is this quote from Secretary [...]
This blog title could apply to so many areas of life, couldn’t it? Right now, I want to focus the lens here on our government. Here’s an article about a police chief who runs seminars for parents about how to spy on their kids online. Not “educate” them. Not “prepare them for the virtual world.” [...]
Have you ever read the comments on popular news sites like WSJ or HuffPost? If I had to come up with three words to describe the average comment, the first to come to mind would be nonsensical, hurtful, and ignorant. It makes me sad: -It saddens me that people cannot express themselves. I’ll forgive typos—heavens [...]
I don’t get it. Read this: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers [...]
Congresswoman Giffords was shot today as she met with constituents in a public meeting in Tucson, AZ. We are about to find out if we are still a nation of laws. By definition, when individuals choose to make their voice heard through violence rather than the ballot, they are testing test our laws, because they [...]
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