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James Riordan‘s current events article series, “A Well Thought-Out Scream”

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Somehow back in the early days of media and politics an unspoken agreement was made. I imagine this was pretty early on – perhaps when Gronk, the caveman, decided he wanted to be the leader of his cave dweller tribe and thought it best if Donk, who was drawing pictures

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Most of the time the new we see on television, hear on the radio or discover on the Internet is pretty discouraging — a longtime cop turns out to be a serial rapist and murderer, the who played the greatest father ever turns out to have drugged and raped vulnerable

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It’s funny how before something very unusual and quite terrible happens, there are always a bunch of people saying “Don’t be silly. Don’t worry about such nonsense.  These things just don’t happen.”  Well, yeah, they do.  They happen a lot actually. Of course, when they happen, the same people that

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What is scarier than seeing a shark in the water?  How about 1,400 of them!  Recently, nearly 1,400 basking sharks were seen in aerial photos gathering off the East Coast of the U.S.  Basking sharks are not man-eaters, but they are the second largest fish in the world.  They can grow up to

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Where is the line that we all agree not to cross?  What is the limit of evil, the amount of death, the level of human pain that we agree not to exceed in the name of humanity.  The answer, unfortunately, when it comes to political power and rule is that

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Missing the important by focusing on the mundane is a horrific trait becoming more and more evident in modern media.  In an effort to gain higher ratings and sell more papers, modern media continues to create meaningless controversy and ignore the real issues. The very important and historic national conversation

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As Americans, we often take for granted the tremendous amounts of benefits we have compared to the rest of the world.  Sure, there are a lot of things that could be better and a lot of things that need to be changed, but for the most part we are relatively

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JENIN, West Bank (Reuters) – A Palestinian driver rammed his vehicle into a group of Israeli soldiers in the occupied West Bank , killing two of them and wounding two others on Friday, the Israeli military said.  Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, an Israeli military spokesman, said on Twitter that an “officer and

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The deeply wounded parents whose children were killed in the worst high school shooting since Columbine stood in the Florida Capitol and watched Gov. Rick Scott sign a bill that places new restrictions on guns. Hours later, the National Rifle Association filed a federal lawsuit to block it. This very well may be

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Avalanches are rare and they are especially rare on ski slopes.  They are the single worst fear a skier can have when they are soaring down the mountain in those magic moments.  You can be the best there is, but you can’t ski on a mountain that moves.  On March

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