Imagine a classroom where asking thought provoking questions is encouraged and becomes just as important as having the right answers,
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Is the Truth Actually Out There Somewhere?
Perhaps one of the biggest areas in our lives where we are looking for truth is in what we read, hear, and see about how to maintain or restore our health.
Read More »Presidential Campaign Is Ruining People’s Quality of Life
In short let’s not start the conversation someone else may not want to finish.
Read More »2016 Summer Olympics – Gold Medal Winner Lochte’s Behavior Disgraces America and Tarnishes His Reputation
On that Olympic world stage, the people are not merely players, but rather living symbols of the country they represent.
Read More »Time to Abolish Political Parties – Before It’s Too Late
The Founding Fathers were oddly prescient at times. If you think about the system that led Donald Trump to the threshold of the most powerful position in the world, and the corruption that has elevated Hillary Clinton to her party's nomination, you have to wonder if they weren't psychic. Because if we don't do something to resolve this national horror, America will lose everything – including itself.
Read More »Politics and Pressure In Social Media – Please Make It All Go Away
I know it will never stop because social media is a monster that keeps feeding upon itself.
Read More »What the World Needs Now – A Real ‘The Day the Earth Stood Still’
What the world needs now is not peace, love, and prayer vigils – it needs a good kick in the ass.
Read More »2016 ESPYs Honor Tennessee Heroes Who Transcended Sports
How do you take the measure of lives like these? It’s not the trophies, the medals, or the sports championships. It’s the championship off the field and court.
Read More »Bahamas Officially Warns its Black Male Citizens About Travel to the U.S.
When American racial tensions and violence cause the same diplomatic reactions as Islamic State terrorist atrocities, we can come to only one conclusion: Houston – and Dallas, etc. – we have a problem.
Read More »An Open Letter to President Obama: It’s Time to Lead
Mr. President— You may never read this. I’d be willing to bet that you’ll never see any of this letter, isolated as you are in the gilded cage that is the Oval Office. But perhaps, just perhaps, you might, and on the off-chance you do I cannot be more blunt …
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