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2018-06-19 Feature Article
Government Eyes Are Watching You: We Are All Prisoners of the Surveillance State
In fact, it is in the mind that prisons are created for us. And in the lockdown of political correctness, it becomes extremely difficult to speak or act individually without being ostracized. Thus, so often we are forced to retreat inwardly into our
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2018-06-13 Feature Article
Caging Children, Separating Families: Has the War on Immigration Gone Too Far?
Be warned: the White House's new "zero tolerance policy" for separating undocumented parents from their children at the border as a way of discouraging illegal immigration is pushing us into dangerous territory morally and otherwise.
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2016-12-15 Feature Article
How to Beat the Post-Election Blues and Recapture the True Spirit of Christmas
I keep waiting to encounter the "kind, forgiving, charitable, pleasant" Christmastime environment that Charles Dickens describes in A Christmas Carol: "when men and women seem by one consent to open their shut-up hearts freely, and to think of
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2016-05-02 Feature Article
Don't Sleep Through the Revolution: A Graduation Message for a Dark Age
Those coming of age today will face some of the greatest obstacles ever encountered by young people. They will find themselves overtaxed and struggling to find worthwhile employment in a debt-ridden economy on the brink of implosion. Their privacy wi
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2016-04-26 Feature Article
Censored, Surveilled, Watch Listed and Jailed...
The Absurdity of Being a Citizen in the American Police State
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2016-04-19 Feature Article
Saint or Sinner, Government Eyes Are Watching Every Move You Make
Every move you make is being monitored, mined for data, crunched, and tabulated in order to form a picture of who you are, what makes you tick, and how best to control you when and if it becomes necessary to bring you in line.
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2016-03-16 Feature Article
America's Gestapo: The FBI's Reign of Terror
As part of the government's so-called ongoing war on terror, the nation's de facto secret police force is now recruiting students and teachers to spy on each other and report anyone who appears to have the potential to be "anti-government" or
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2016-01-26 Feature Article
Circus Politics: Will Our Freedoms Survive Another Presidential Election?
Adding yet another layer of farce to an already comical spectacle, the 2016 presidential election has been given its own reality show. Presented by Showtime, The Circus: Inside the Greatest Political Show on Earth will follow the various presidential
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2015-11-16 Feature Article
To France from a Post-9/11 America: Lessons We Learned Too Late
For those who remember when the first towers fell on 9/11, there is an unnerving feeling of déjà vu about the Paris attacks...Once again, there is that same sense of shock. The same shocking images of carnage and grief dominating the news.
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2015-11-10 Feature Article
The Deep State: The Unelected Shadow Government Is Here to Stay
America's next president will inherit more than a bitterly divided nation teetering on the brink of financial catastrophe when he or she assumes office. He will also inherit a shadow government, one that is fully operational and staffed by unelecte
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2015-11-04 Feature Article
Fear of the Walking Dead: The American Police State Takes Aim
"Fear is a primitive impulse, brainless as hunger, and because the aim of horror fiction is the production of the deepest kinds of fears, the genre tends to reinforce some remarkably uncivilized ideas about self-protection.
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2015-09-29 Feature Article
'Minority Report' Is 40 Years Ahead of Schedule: The Fictional World Has Become Reality
We are a scant 40 years away from the futuristic world that science fiction author Philip K. Dick envisioned for Minority Report in which the government is all-seeing, all-knowing and all-powerful, and if you dare to step out of line, dark-clad polic
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2013-09-26 Magazine Article • Defending Archimedes
Common Core: A Lesson Plan for Raising Up Compliant, Non-Thinking Citizens
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John Whitehead
Those who founded America believed that an educated citizenry knowledgeable about their rights was the surest means of preserving freedom. If so, then the inverse should also hold true: that the surest way for a government to maintain its power and k
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