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Racism is More Complicated Than That!
BREAKING THE MYTH OF THE RACIST “BAD APPLES” If the Black Lives Matter movement does nothing else, at the very least it, and associated movements, forces us to discuss race. In many regards, race and racism has been a silenced issue for about a generation. We have the Civil Rights Act and the Voting Rights… Read more
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When did the violence in Baltimore start, again?
THE DISCOURSE OF STATE VS. CIVIC VIOLENCE Discourse is a foundational principle in the sociology of knowledge. It could be described as the genetics of knowledge. On the one hand, discourse is the way we share our knowledge, through discussion, of some aspect of the world in which we live. However, our discourse is shaped… Read more
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Thom Hartmann on the We The People Amendment
ONLY PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE RIGHTS, AND ONLY THE PEOPLE SHOULD HAVE A SAY IN GOVERNMENT Read more
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On Riots and Protests
SOME PRELIMINARY THOUGHTS ON BALTIMORE Like most Americans, I’m appalled at the level of violence that has taken place in Baltimore, escalating yesterday to an extreme pitch. That being said, I’m appalled about a lot of things. I will never condone violence. It should go without saying that I am equally, if not more appalled… Read more
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Lessons Not Learned on Flying Killer Robots
WE CANNOT USE TERROR TO FIGHT TERROR Imagine, if you will, living with the certainty that that at any given time a cold, electronic eye might be focused on you from miles away. You cannot see it, you cannot hear the whirring it makes as it positions its acutely sensitive lens on you. Through this… Read more
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Oh, Boy! Phil Gramm is Giving Advice!
WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG? Today, one of my students came into my class with an editorial in the Wall Street Journal written by Phil Gramm. Gramm is a visiting scholar for the American Enterprise Institute. the American Enterprise Institute, according to its own website, is “committed to expanding liberty, increasing individual opportunity and strengthening… Read more
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