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There's a Need to Police the Internet: More Than Half of Americans Say That They Have Been Harassed Online
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Don’t get me wrong; I am against online snooping done by governments. I firmly believe that the internet should remain free from government interference. The massive online surveillance program that the US government conducted during Obama’s rule was not just unconstitutional, but it irrevocably harmed the democracy that generations of Americans have toiled to preserve and strengthen. However, I am also very strongly in favor of online policing. While both of these might sound similar, they are in fact two very different things. Let’s look at an analogy to better understa...
Not Just Trump, Putin and Russia Also Owe an Apology From the Media
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She lied to the world for 22 straight months. Night after night she sold the Trump-Russia collusion conspiracy. But that, fortunately, has now come to an end. MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow’s lie has been exposed. No Collusion, that is what Robert Muller’s investigation found. The four-page summary issued by Attorney General William P. Barr declared: “The Special Counsel’s investigation did not find that the Trump campaign or anyone associated with it conspired or coordinated with Russia in its efforts to influence the 2016 U.S. presidential election.” Barr also confirmed that t...
Unless You Want a Mobocracy, Don’t Kill the Electoral College
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A large number of Democrats for some un-understandable reason are joining the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination fray. To stand out and be the chosen one, they are trying to do many things, some of them reasonable, some of them crazy and some of them utterly confusing. Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts’ call for abolishing the Electoral College, while might seem logical to many, to experts it is confusing, and many are of the opinion that it undermines the American spirit, and can be tantamount to cheating the innocent citizens. But we must not call a Harvard Pr...
Americans Care More About Their Pets Than Their Fellow Citizens
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Who would you save from getting run over by an out-of-control bus: your pet dog or a fellow human, albeit someone you don’t know? While I for sure without a doubt will leap to save the man (or woman), data suggests that a majority of Americans would without flapping an eyelid try to save their beloved pet. The findings of the study left me baffled. How on earth can anyone consider the life of a dog more important than the life of a human being. Don’t get me wrong, I have three pet cats, and I absolutely adore them, but if a day comes when I have to choose between saving a...
It’s Shameful That We Still Need a “Green Book” Today Just as Dr. Don Shirley Needed in 1962
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Based on the rave reviews that a friend of my wife showered on the movie ‘Green Book,’ my wife and I decided to watch it. I was, however, a little skeptical about how the movie would turn out, given the fact that many film critics had panned it and compared it to past Oscar winners such as “Driving Miss Daisy” and “Crash,” both of which have been accused of trying to capitalize on outdated racial attitudes. But boy what a soul-stirring movie it was, I left the movie theater lachrymose. And so I asked myself why did the movie critics, who pretending to be experts, almost a...
More Than 7 Million American Children Suffer From Mental Illness
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Gun-related killing sprees in schools make for catchy headlines, but the fact that more than 7 million children in the US suffer from mental illness does not. Maybe that’s because in guns people find a silent culprit whom they can blame or maybe because it is easier to politicize death statistics than address a real problem. With one in every seven school-goer suffering from mental illness, who should we blame for the gun-related violence at schools? It is for you to answer: the guns or those policy-makers who have failed to address the problem of mental illness among tho...
Vice’s Vice
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Gambling is a vice, and Vice’s founder is a gambler. And then there are many other vices that are commonplace in the organization too, including groping and forced kisses. More than two dozen women have reported experiencing or witnessing sexual harassment at the company first hand. The Sexual Harassment Incidents One woman said that while she was riding a Ferris wheel at Coney Island after a company event, a co-worker suddenly took her hand and put it on his crotch. Another complained that she was fired because she rejected the sexual advances of a male colleague. A...
Stop the Blame Game: Research Shows That the US Is the Real Election Meddler, Not Russia
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Let’s be clear on one thing, although there is a lot of fuss now regarding election meddling, it is not something new, neither is it something rare. And while recently there has been a lot of unsubstantiated finger pointing at Russia for its alleged meddling in the American election, Russia is not the only country that stands accused of meddling in the elections of other countries. As a matter of fact, there is much more evidence of the West, particularly the US meddling in the elections of other countries—by way of various means including channeling funds to spread propag...
Rome Traded Freedom for Autocracy. What Will America Decide?
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“Two things only the people anxiously desire — bread and circuses.” Rome was not built in a day. And while the might of the empire pinnacled, the gulf between the rich and the poor widened. When the empire started stretching its geographical boundaries, the rulers found it cheaper to build the cities, and its infrastructure using the slaves it had acquired by conquest. As cheap labor put Roman citizens out of work, unemployment increased. And with unemployment came hunger and other problems associated with it. Crime in society increased and so did poverty and ill health....