Archive for June, 2012

There is a great misconception among Americans that the United States was founded as a Christian nation by Christians. Evidence actually suggests that many of the Founding Fathers neither believed in organized religion nor supported its principles. In John Adams’s A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United [...]

African American civil rights leaders often lambast professional sports leagues for not hiring more black coaches and, in the case of the NFL, quarterbacks to match their racial prevalence in the league, but somehow the most important positions in sports are often overlooked. The leadership of 80% of the major [...]

Why would a rational person living in a 320 million person mega-democracy cast a vote when the odds of his/her ballot actually counting are between 1 in 10 million and 1 in 100 million depending on what state the voter lives in? Those odds are about as bad as winning [...]

Fifth Amendment: No person shall be held to answer for a capital, or otherwise infamous crime, unless on a presentment or indictment of a grand jury, except in cases arising in the land or naval forces, or in the militia, when in actual service in time of war or public [...]