Recently, troubled teenagers in residential treatment programs throughout America have been brutally marched to death, sexually abused, raped, electrocuted over 30 times a day (warning: upsetting video), restrained until nearly dead, and more. However, the gory details of several cases aren’t the worst part. The worst part, according to testimony before Congress and much evidence, is […]
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The controversy surrounding the proposal to relocate the Colorado Springs Sky Sox’s stadium has become a misguided battle between perception and reality. The impression many citizens seem to have is that Mayor Steve Bach is a puppet of some very powerful property and land developers. Hence, this line of reasoning suggests that the stadium shouldn’t be relocated at all, under any
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The three cars ahead of me were stopped for no apparent reason, and I was in a hurry to get to work. Then I saw the deer. Four deer had crossed, and one was gingerly picking her way across the asphalt. Once she got to the side of the road, she ran. The drivers, congratulating
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In the late months of 2014, human space exploration had a rough week—one dead, one critically injured, and two spacecraft wrecked. A lot of commentators wrote about the importance of the space program in terms of jobs, new technologies, and satisfying the human need for exploration and discovery. On the other side, the haters didn’t
The rich really are different from the rest of us. Exhibit A is the woman who asked an advice columnist if it was alright to not give Halloween candy to the poor kids who carpooled into her wealthy neighborhood. Studies support this difference as noted by Fitzgerald. The rich give much less to charity. They
