The Roots of Our Deep Political Divide
Douglas Young
2021-02-12 20:06
Column by Douglas Young.
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There are many culprits for why so many Americans of different political persuasions today have trouble maintaining or even starting a rational dialogue on controversial topics without angry emotion and name-calling soon taking over.
Before TV, we were a far more literate society where folks read...
More Annals From America's Cultural Revolution
Douglas Young
2021-02-10 17:57
Column by Douglas Young.
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"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always...
The Ugliness of the COVID Lockdowns
Douglas Young
2021-01-30 13:37
Column by Dr. Douglas Young.
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In 2020 COVID fears enabled American elites to grab a record amount of power -- and they love it and don't want to give it up. But if the American people don't take back our constitutional rights in 2021, it could be much more difficult to ever get them back.
There are many...
Questions to Consider Regarding Mass Shootings
Douglas Young
2020-01-23 08:01
Column by Dr. Douglas Young
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To prevent more mass shootings, many demand more gun control laws. But do these laws prevent such massacres or address their root causes? Here are 11 questions to ponder.
First, why do almost all U.S. mass shootings occur in "gun-free zones”? Indeed, it’s hard to name any that have not. The 2015 Charleston mass-murderer apparently...
How to Define 'Pro-Choice'?
Douglas Young
2015-05-22 07:38
Column by Douglas Young.
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The defining feature of a free society is every individual enjoying the freedom to make choices, good and bad, within the law. Enjoying the liberty to make your own choices is highly valued. So political groups market themselves as supporting Americans’ autonomy of choice.
Yet it is ironic that most leftists proudly proclaim themselves "pro-...
The Assaults on Freedom in Government Schools
Douglas Young
2013-12-23 07:54
Column by Dr. Douglas Young.
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P { margin-bottom: 0.08in; }Today some of America’s least free places are many government schools where students enjoy less free speech than prisoners since “zero tolerance” and “social justice” trump liberty.
In October, a Pennsylvania school’s zero tolerance for violence policy dictated that a 5th grader be...
Words and Deeds
Douglas Young
2013-07-15 07:26
Column by Douglas Young.
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Celebrity chef Paula Deen was professionally lynched for having once used a racist epithet at home 30 years ago when referring to the black man who robbed her at gunpoint. This came in a legal deposition prompted by an extortionist $1.25 million discrimination lawsuit filed by a white female former employee who admitted she hadn’t heard Ms. Deen use...
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