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If a modern-day Diogenes were to search for honesty in the mainstream media, he would need barrels of lamp oil. Diogenes the Cynic was an ...
If a modern-day Diogenes were to search for honesty in the mainstream media, he would need barrels of lamp oil. Diogenes the Cynic was an ...
“The Mountain in Labour” is one of the fables credited to the Greek storyteller Aesop in the 6th Century BCE. “The Mountain in Labour” was ...
Japan’s Kabuki theater tradition is over four-centuries-old. Kabuki performers are heavily made up, ornately dressed and engage at a snail’s pace in a highly stylized ...
Articles in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and The Washington Post recently detailed how the government has agreed to pay $3.5 million ...
This country’s 30th President, Calvin Coolidge, led the nation through the Roaring Twenties, a time of social upheaval and rapidly changing mores. The United States ...
The occupation of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) field office for five weeks in June and July, and a violent confrontation between anarchist groups ...
Last month’s victory of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 28, in New York City’s 14th Congressional District Democrat primary over 10-term incumbent and Democrat Caucus Chair Joe Crowley ...
One of the unfortunate byproducts of the dumbing down of America is the increased susceptibility of the populace to mass hysteria. Mass or collective hysteria ...
In October 2017, Federal District Judge Derrick Kahala Watson, appointed by then-President Barack Obama in 2013, issued a nationwide injunction against President Donald Trump’s travel ...
Steven Godfrey’s excellent May 30 piece in SBNation, “Crooked Letters,” is an even-handed analysis of the NCAA’s gross mishandling of its 6-year investigation into Ole ...
On the few occasions when Iran has taken a break from chanting “death to America,” it tells the world it is going to drive all ...
It is estimated that Hillary Rodham Clinton spent $2 billion in her failed bid for the presidency. Money spent on political campaigns seems to increase ...
Lavrentiy Beria, the most ruthless and longest-serving secret police chief in Joseph Stalin’s reign of terror in Russia and Eastern Europe, bragged that he could ...
Lawyers with active practices in the federal system are familiar with “black robe fever.” It’s a virulent disease that strikes some attorneys when they are ...
James Thurber’s short story, “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty,”was first published in 1939 in The New Yorker. Walter Mitty is a world-class day-dreamer. He’s ...
Disgraced FBI chief James Comey’s tortured explanation of his bizarre official conduct before and after the 2016 election aptly reflects the murky atmosphere in The ...
The speed at which information is available is difficult to comprehend. Like magic, an e-mail, text or breaking news appears on our devices in a ...
It is estimated that at least one-third of the homeless in the United States suffer from some form of serious mental illness. Schizophrenia, paranoia, and ...
Last Wednesday, Senate and House of Representatives leaders in Washington agreed on a $1.3 trillion spending bill two days before an impending government “shutdown.” Like ...
By Michael Henry David Horowitz and David Mamet, two powerhouse American intellectuals and brilliant writers, each had a “Saul on the Road to Damascus” moment ...
Samuel Taylor Coleridge, a leader of the Romantic Movement in English poetry, defined the term “willing suspension of disbelief” in his “Biographia Literaria” (1817) as ...
The Memphis Grizzlies (4-4) take the court against the Los Angeles Lakers (4-3) as just 1.5-point favorites on…
There are lots of betting options to take into account for the upcoming game that has the Washington…
The Memphis Grizzlies (4-4) are favored by 1.5 points against the Los Angeles Lakers (4-3) on Wednesday, November…
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The Detroit Lions versus the Houston Texans is one of many strong options on the Week 10 NFL…