by Pennel Bird | Jul 10, 2020 | Articles, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Social Issues
The president and first lady held a summit to urge schools across the nation to reopen this fall. Mr. and Mrs. Trump were joined by Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos, Second Lady and educator Karen Pence, and Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar, among...
by Pennel Bird | Jun 18, 2020 | Articles, Education, Healthcare, Politics, Social Issues
Children all over the world have suffered immeasurably during the COVID-19 pandemic. To be clear, they didn’t suffer from the disease itself, as every data set available irrefutably indicates that child mortality has been somewhere between vanishingly rare and...
by Graham J Noble | Jun 10, 2020 | Articles, Healthcare, Law, Politics, Race, Social Issues
The United States has gone full Twilight Zone since the tragic and entirely unjustified killing of George Floyd. Yes, there is the obvious hypocrisy of those people who have come to be known on social media as “Karens” scolding those of us who dared to leave the house...
by Kelli Ballard | Jun 9, 2020 | Articles, Healthcare, Politics, Science, Social Issues
Have you all been good little boys and girls, wearing your masks in public and practicing social distancing? Have you kept your businesses closed, waiting for the day the governor would finally give the okay to reopen? Congratulations, it was all for naught. Or so it...
by Graham J Noble | Jun 1, 2020 | Articles, First Amendment, Free Speech, Politics, The Constitution, The Left
Americans understand “the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.” That concept, embedded within the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, is cherished no more dearly any place on Earth than it is in...