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For the first time in the nation’s history, more than one in a hundred American adults or 1.6 million people, are incarcerated , the Pew Center reports. Both in absolute terms and on a per capita basis, the U.S imprisons more people than any other nation. The New York Times Were Epicurus alive today he …
Flag pins are like those yellow ribbon things on cars, a membership badge of the unreflective, nationalist wing of the Republican Party. Since we have the Pope in the country let me quote an ardent Catholic writer: "My country right or wrong" is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a …
According to the drivel put out by the media, it is now elitist to drink tea! I declare myself to be irremediably elitist. I drink 6 (six) cups of tea before getting up in the morning. This puts paid to my carefully laid plans to run as President of these United States. Epicurus was not …
Intellectuals. Are there any left? The people who used to be intellectuals are busy dumbing down universities and awarding A’s all round in an effort to boost enrollment. Their colleagues preach de-constructionism and relativism and are proud to have no standards of behaviour, ethics or morals whatsoever. Anything goes and intellectually it seems a lot …
If you think Islamic thought is alien, then try this! Islam and women Conversation between Stenham and the Arab boy, Amar: "Words are for people, not for women." "Aren’t women people?" People are people. Women are women." "If women aren’t people, how does it happen that they go to Paradise?" "They have their own place …
