As time goes on and more and more of our personal information finds its way onto the internet, our chances of falling prey to cyber criminals increases dramatically. All of these “connected” devices that we’ve introduced into our lives, have…
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Why Slavery Continues in the USA
The next presidential farce (er, race) is already starting to heat up, and it promises to be great entertainment. I admit it, I absolutely love good theater. The presidential campaigns are reality TV at its best — a year-and-a-half of…
Read MoreRepublicans In Trouble Over Secret ObamaTrade Plans
Establishment Republicans desperately trying to secure the passage of Trade Promotion Authority (TPA), which would give President Obama fast-track authority to secure congressional approval of at least three secretive trade deals, are now willing to increase taxes on small businesses…
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White Leader of NAACP Resigns
The leader of the NAACP in Spokane is stepping down amid controversy after her parents said the 37-year-old activist falsely portrayed herself as black for years. Rachel Dolezal announced Monday she was resigning after canceling a chapter meeting where she…
Read MoreNashville a Benchmark for the Nation
With one shocking gunshot, Paul Thomas Anderson bisected his epochal porn epic Boogie Nights. On New Year’s Eve 1979, William H. Macy’s emasculated assistant director Little Bill walks in on his wife rutting with another man one too many times,…
Read MoreNashville Judge Accused of Improper Bias
Accusations that suggest “bias” and “prejudice” were leveled late Thursday against a Metro Nashville General Sessions judge by the Metro public defender’s office. Judge Allegra Walker’s impartiality was called into question in a motion filed by the public defender’s office…
Read MoreAlmost Everything You Know About Diet Is Wrong
For decades, the federal government has been advising Americans on what to eat. Those recommendations have been subject to the shifting sands of dietary science. And have those sands ever been shifting. At first, fat and cholesterol were vilified, while…
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Are You Embarrassing Yourself by Email?
When was the last time you gave a millisecond’s thought to how you sign off your e-mails? Do you reach for the safety of ‘yours sincerely’, ‘kind regards’ or ‘best wishes’ without so much as a thought for the recipient?…
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Give Poor Minorities a Chance at a Good Education
Last summer’s Ferguson, Missouri, disturbances revealed that while blacks were 67 percent of its population, only three members of its 53-officer police force were black. Some might conclude that such a statistic is evidence of hiring discrimination. That’s a possibility,…
Read MoreSigns You May Be Short of Vitamin D
Vitamin D deficiency is incredibly common in the US, but many Americans mistakenly believe they aren’t at risk because they consume vitamin-D-fortified foods (such as milk). There are very few foods that actually have therapeutic levels of vitamin D naturally…
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