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

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America has the finest legal system in the world.  But it’s far from perfect.  One of the problems is concept that if you pit people trained in the law at opposite ends of an issue, the truth will emerge.   The first duty of a District Attorney is to discover

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Unless you’re a parent of a teenager or close to someone who is, you probably have no idea how epidemic teenage drinking has become in our country.   Of the four leading causes of teenage death – automobile accidents, drownings, murders and suicides – alcohol is more than a fifty percent

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What’s that old saying? Pride goes before a fall.  That’s from the Bible and it applies in many ways to the 2016 Summer Olympics about to conclude in Rio.  How ironic that it was a male swimmer who generated this scandal.  After all, the greatest success story of these Olympics

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Ah, those Greek gods!  How romantic are the names of Zeus, Apollo, Athena, Hermes, Poseidon and others with all their wild tales of interaction with men.  Unfortunately, the reality is  just as dark and horrifying as the reality of any other false gods including one of the vilest pratices ever

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At the risk of being labeled a supermarket tabloid, I’m reporting on a very strange discovery in Mexico.  Now, before you judge me. remember that the Tommy Lee Jones character in the first Men in Black referred to the bizarre rumor-based publications as the “hot sheets” emphasizing that many of the

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I have a buddy in Taiwan that makes a pretty good living teaching English as a second language.  He should probably keep his ears open for the possibility of another career.  I say ears because the device that may put him and other language teachers out of a job is

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For the past year British archaeologists have been digging around the Must Farm project in England’s Cambridgeshire Fens and their efforts have unearthed a well-preserved Bronze Age settlement and revealed some very interesting information about a lost time.  For example, people in the Brone Age had TV!  No, that’s not true.

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The ongoing public clash and controversy over the way in which police officers treat black suspects reached a new plateau in Atlanta this week when a city police officer who opened fire on an unarmed black man last month was charged with murder charge  Officer James Burns turned himself in

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Was Britain’s decision to pull out of the European Union predicted by ancient bible prophesies and does it mean the beginning of the end? This question will be asked over and over again for months to come as we watch what happens next in both the United Kingdom and the

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Can you hear those dice rolling? Great Britain just took a mighty spin of the wheel or whatever gambling metaphor you prefer by voting to leave the European Common Market. The immediate effect of the vote, in which Britons voted to leave the 28-nation bloc by a 52-48 margin, was

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