"It is forbidden to kill; therefore all murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets." — Voltaire (1694-1778) A government that claims the authority to kill persons after they have been subdued, disarmed, tried, convicted and confined in prison has ...
Science, technology, widespread circulation of information, indiscriminate intelligence and the pervasiveness of algorithms might incorrectly be considered aids in the search for truth. Instead, they have done little to transform our conditioned materialistic mindset into a more highly valuable spiritualized mentality and consciousness. Such ideas may seem neither practical nor legitimate in our present society, culture, civilization, or traditional Western institutionalized system, where profit rules and property rights dominate over human needs. But true evolution of mankind will ...
Ghosts? Fun! Zombies? Bring them on. Haunted houses? We’ll take two tickets. But this Halloween, there is something genuinely frightening we should talk about. Every day, animals are transported into slaughterhouses most of us will never see. What happens inside is kept far away from grocery stores, restaurant menus and cheerful food packaging. We even use comfortable words like “beef,” “pork,” and “poultry” to help us forget who our food once was. Maybe that is because looking closely would scare us. Here is the good news: Halloween horror is supposed to be ...
The federal government just closed fiscal year 2026 with a deficit of nearly $2 trillion, according to figures the Congressional Budget Office released last Thursday. Only the two pandemic years of 2020 and 2021 were worse. Today, though, there is no recession and no emergency. These enormous ...
The November midterm vote will be shaped less by party slogans than by the judgments voters make about their daily lives: whether prices feel manageable, whether their communities feel safe, and whether Washington is listening. Neither party can assume that frustration with its opponent ...
The United Kingdom stood virtually alone against the Nazi war machine in June 1941. As Germany prepared to invade the Soviet Union that month, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a lifelong anti-communist, declared, "If Hitler invaded Hell, I would make at least a favourable reference of ...
