The agencies charged with handling abuse and neglect of children -- Child Protective/Welfare Services -- are mismanaged and unorganized. Ultimately the children, not CPS, are the ones who pay the price.
Sun Tzu said, “It is essential to seek out enemy agents who have come to conduct espionage against you and to bribe them to serve you. Give them instructions and care for them. Thus doubled agents are recruited and used.” …
According to the U.S. Department of Justice, 45% of Federal inmates in 2005 had mental health issues. As for state prisons, it was 56%, and in local jails it was 64%. Isn’t it time that mental illness stopped being a death sentence?
According to former Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” The crisis following the outbreak of COVID-19 is shaping up to be quite a case in point. What is a right? A right is defined as a…
News media being dishonest is as American as apple pie. When defending Dark Alliance — his article about the CIA’s turning a blind eye to cocaine being smuggled into the US titled — Gary Webb says, “The government side of…
Upon the signing of the Declaration of Independence, Benjamin Franklin stated, “Yes, we must, indeed, all hang together, or most assuredly we shall all hang separately.” On Monday, January 20th, an armed gun rights rally took place in Richmond, VA.…
The war on fun started well before prohibition and it didn’t stop there either. On essay Wednesday, we’re going to be discussing the fruitless war on drugs.
Do you trust your government? According to a recent Pew Research poll, only 17% of Americans trust their government. Why would so many people be so cynical about the elected officials they’ve chosen? To answer that, all you have to…
At what point will you decide that enough is enough? Or do we simply wait until we're slaves and hope for the next generation to redeem us?
