In Puerto Rico three and a half million Americans are suffering without food, water, medicine, shelter, or electricity. Many people are dying. This is the worst humanitarian crisis in America since Hurricane Katrina. There is food and water apparently being delivered to the capital, San Juan, sitting in containers, but inadequate manpower and transport to …
When Thomas Hobbes claimed that in the state of nature, before authority arose to keep us in check, we were engaged in a war “of every man against every man”, he could not have been more wrong. We have always been social creatures who depend on each other. The hominins of east Africa could not …
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The following passage occurs on Winston Churchill’s book, “The River War”, first edition, Vol II, pages 248-250 “How dreadful are the curses which Mohammedanism lays on its votaries! Besides the fanatical frenzy, which is as dangerous in a man as hydrophobia in a dog, there is this fearful fatalistic apathy. “The effects are apparent in …
“President Trump’s Trickle Down Tax Plan is somewhere between indefensible and obscene. “What kind of people see the devastation of Harvey, Irma, and Maria; watch Houston residents wading through the streets; and see Puerto Rico in total darkness and think to themselves “Wow, millionaires really need a tax cut?’” “The Trump Tax Plan is nothing …
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For the period of about a century, average IQ scores in wealthy nations kept rising by about three points a decade. This “Flynn effect” is thought to be the result of improvements in social conditions like public health, nutrition and education, and has been seen in many countries, from the Netherlands to Japan. But by …
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