ISIL and Heroism: Why Americans Have to Be Better than Our Fantasies
This is an editorial I’ve been sitting on for a long time. I hoped that, as time went on, the need for it would decline. However, regrettably, in 2016 both of our [...]
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The Trump Folk Community
I like to read on the toilet. It’s a pretty common trait, I know, but it facilitates a time of introspection when the mind is completely unoccupied except for a biological [...]
The Importance of Voting
Election Day is almost here. Next week, the question that has been in the minds of thousands of Americans for months will finally be answered. Will Donald Trump or Hilary [...]
“Gotcha!” Moments: Progress or Posturing?
Injustices should cease. That’s practically definitional: we basically define injustices as “unfair things that should not happen.” But how do we get that to occur? As [...]
American Socialization
One of the most essential keys in raising a Rottweiler puppy is excessive socialization. At least, when I decided after nearly six years of thinking about owning a [...]
The American Khan
On June 8th, 2004, an orange colored taxi drove up through an American Army compound gate located in Baquabah, Iraq. Captain Humayun Khan was inspecting soldiers on guard [...]
The Fourth R of American Education
There is a crisis in American Public Education. Students are now being tested to the point of adult level stress as early as 3rd grade, and there is no end in sight. It [...]
The Expatriate Relations of a Nation
Ask the average American what they know about foreign policy, and they might answer that it is how one nation conducts itself with other nation, and probably won’t have [...]
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