Contrary to what many of the history books will say, America did not lose the Vietnam War. While the country paid a horrific price in losing so many lives (over 58,000 American soldiers by many counts) and destroying countless more, as well as tearing away at the very fabric of our society, the fact is that the major goal of the Vietnam War was accomplished: the spread of communism was halted. There is no reason to attempt to minimize the…
“Being gay isn’t a choice”. “Gay people are born that way”. We’ve all heard these statements a million times. They’ve been repeated and reiterated to the point that disagreeing with them will bring nothing but scorn in the ultimate expression of political correctness. But why do these statements exist? It seems that these statements (which don’t really have any conclusive scientific evidence to support them, although that never seems to stop something from being widely accepted as fact nowadays)…
America has a prison problem. There are far too many people locked up in jails and prisons in our country. The cost of this mass incarceration to our country on economic and social levels is staggering. However, the reason so many people are incarcerated, and the response to the problem, is not what the media would have you believe. A day doesn’t go by when our media isn’t flooded with stories and editorials screaming how America is locking away far…
We’d all like to hold the whole world in our hands. Pretty sure there’s even a catchy song along those lines. But since an object with a roughly 25,000 mile circumference might be too large for even the hands of the woman Jerry Seinfeld was dating in the “Man Hands” episode, perhaps owning a globe is the next best thing. Yes, a globe, that standard of every elementary school classroom across the country. In fact, for many, that might be…