One of my goals in writing blogs for your viewing pleasure is to bring up issues that may not be often talked about. We all know about healthcare, the current state of the economy, the ongoing War on Terror, and the other various stories that dominate the headlines. One thing you may not know about [...]

“The Immorality of the Income Tax”
This is a follow up article to Kris’ “Is the Fair Tax really fair?”
Why do we bother to justify the income tax? Who proved it to us to be a necessity? Everyone pretty much hates April 15th, but not everyone is willing to invest in a way to balance a [...]

If you are  like me, you spend your news-seeking time looking for stories outside of the norm. There are too many stories now-a-days that center around the same media driven topics that we lose sight of some of the more interesting stories. I think the best stories are the ones that most people have never [...]

“Highly Offensive.”
Oct. 20, 2009
By: Laura Ashley
Our country is founded upon freedoms, but those freedoms are only boundless until a certain measure. And that measure is based upon the well being of others and… someone else’s feelings?
We’ve heard it all before: “that material is just offensive,”  “I found it highly offensive,” and “that’s offensive.” It seems [...]

If you’re like me you can appreciate the parallels that exist between sports and society. In fact, quite often I find that the two are intertwined. I find myself, at times, thinking about these stories and how they fit into the big picture.
Few sports stories make the memory bank. Most fade into next season’s [...]

By David Blane
7/23/09
Maybe when we were all little it was a little more harmless to be naive. When you are stopped at stop light with your parents driving you might think, “How would people function with out this magical light?” Well, as we get older our dependency just becomes something you justify. Maybe your pride [...]