Tuesday, September 22, 2015

A Subtle Conflict of Interest in Obama’s Nominee for FDA Commissioner

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Robert Califf, U.S. President Barak Obama’s nominee in 2015 to head the federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA), had received consulting...
Saturday, September 19, 2015

Bank of America Board Ignores a Binding Resolution: Fiduciaries Seizing Power from Shareholders

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Corporate board directors have a fiduciary duty to act in the shareholders’ financial interest. What if a board’s directors think they know...
Friday, September 18, 2015

Pope Francis Puts Up A Syrian Refugee Family: An Opportunity to Clean House

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During wars, houses of worship have become temporary hospitals meeting very practical needs. Caring for the suffering is particularly close...
Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Gay Marriage: God’s Law, Legal Reasoning, and Ideology

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Mixing religion, jurisprudence, and ideology together is one potent drink. Ingestion can cause palpable heart-burn as well as migraine head...
Monday, September 14, 2015

Why the E.U. is Compromised in Handling the Refugee Crisis

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At least four E.U. states, including Hungary, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and Poland, rejected a federal plan on September 11, 2015 that ...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Corbyn as Labour Party Leader in Britain: Are Increased Deficits Implied or Avoidable?

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The notion that a political party oriented to redressing the widening economic inequality during the years following the financial crisis o...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Moral Grounds Found Sufficient to Deny Employees Contraception Coverage: Is Morality Distinct from Religion?

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In addition to religious organizations and their respective affiliates being excluded from having to include contraceptives in employee hea...
Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Fewer Blue-Collar Lawmakers in Maine’s Legislature: Public Financing Cut by the U.S. Supreme Court on Free Speech Grounds

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In 1996, Maine became the first American state to enact a public financing system for statewide elections. Voters passed a referendum by w...
Sunday, September 6, 2015

Pope Francis On Taking In Refugees In Europe: A Basis For An Alternative Approach To Christianity

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As tens of thousands of refugees from the Middle East were seeking refuge in the E.U., Pope Francis “called on every parish, religious comm...
Thursday, September 3, 2015

Capitalism in Vietnam: War as Overrated

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Going to war might seem like the most expedited course to achieving geopolitical aims, even when they in actuality predominately economic i...
Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Mass Shootings in the U.S.: Why Are Americans So Angry?

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Even though the United States account for less than 5% of the world’s population, 31% of the total number of mass killings worldwide betwee...

Is God the Father Marginalized in Christianity?

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The name of Jesus (or Christ) is common on Christian lips. “Jesus saves” is a typical expression, whereas expressions highlighting the Fath...
Tuesday, August 25, 2015

Migrants Overwhelming Europe: Unfairness Impeding the E.U.

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More than 100,000 migrants, many of them refugees from conflicts in the Middle East and Africa, entered Hungary from January to August 2015...
Sunday, August 23, 2015

American Consumers Using Gas-Savings to Reduce Debt: Frugality or Responsibility?

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The steep drop in the price of oil in July 2015 was a concern for traders. Drillers and other energy companies comprise a significant porti...
Saturday, August 22, 2015

Humans As the Intense Predator: Unbalancing the Food-Chain Unsustainably

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By 2015, humans—the homo sapiens species in particular—had become “the dominant predator across many systems”; that is to say, the species ...