Preparing Children to Be Poor at College

By: Sunday September 12, 2010 7:39 pm

Your child’s been accepted to an Ivy League school. You’re excited. Although children from Podunk have been accepted to college, none had a scholarship that actually allowed them to attend. But as a poor protective parent your next thought probably is, “How will my child cope in a ‘mixed’ environment?”

Under Obama Nothing Has Changed for Minorities

By: Friday September 3, 2010 10:55 pm

Under Obama nothing has changed for minorities a personal look at the problems minorities have with Racism on the job and government failure to address the issue.

Other Religions are Dumb, Wrong, Bad & Strange: YouTube Inspires Reinstatement of Spanish Inquisition

By: Thursday September 2, 2010 9:17 am

Other Religions are Dumb, Wrong, Bad, and Strange: YouTube Inspires Reinstatement of Spanish Inquisition — by NormanB (“Deviations from the Norm”)

Watercooler – The Onion On Anti-Islamic Prejudice

By: Monday August 30, 2010 7:00 pm

This Onion piece would hilarious if it weren’t so true.

A Few Small Questions

By: Sunday August 1, 2010 4:54 am

What is an opinion?

Guy Convicted of Rape for Consensual Sex with Woman of Different Religion

By: Friday July 23, 2010 1:17 pm

Israeli citizen, Sabbar Kashur goes by the name of Dudu. In Israel, Dudu is often a diminutive or nickname for David. The slimeball is married. Two years ago, he talked an Israeli woman into having sex with him. Both agree it was consensual.

The woman is Jewish. Dudu isn’t. She thought he was when they had consensual sex. When she found out he wasn’t Jewish, she went to the cops.

Dudu has now been convicted of rape.

DADT: When Barriers Fall

By: Wednesday February 3, 2010 9:00 am
(Promoted by jasonrosenbaum - A powerful piece.)

A bittersweet commentary on gays in the military

Profiles Encouraged

By: Friday February 6, 2009 11:03 am

In daylight we flaunt our banners but in the night we flout them.

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