There is a Congressional mandate that requires U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to fill 34,000 beds in some 250 facilities across the country, per day, with immigrant detainees (truly!). Not many people know about this “civilised” idea from the huge brains of the leaders of the US House of Representatives, so intent on cutting expenditure. …
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American higher education is sick, especially in the social sciences & the humanities, the subjects that are needed to give direction and moral guidance to the natural & physical sciences. Today the graduate schools are obsessed with “research” ….. which is irrelevant to what the vast majority exposed to it will be doing for the …
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Pope Francis has appointed an Irish victim to the Vatican’s panel on sexual abuse. While the Pope has called the sexual abuse of children “the shame of the Church”, what he could just as usefully do is to allow priests to marry. There is no biblical justification for celibacy; on the contrary, celibacy was adopted …
“Money is not speech. All these decisions Citizens United, McCutcheon) have done is to make sure that congress does not represent people, which is what it is supposed to do. Rather, Congress represents people who have the money to finance campaigns”. Former Justice of the Supreme Court, John Stevens) One can argue that an army …
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When you have been running the world for a century, the moment you stop people perceive you to be weak. The British found this out after the 1st World War, and especially after the 2nd World War, when they were astounded to discover that no one thanked them for standing alone against Hitler, but, on …
