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Do I need to rethink my ideas about gun control? After the murders of 26 first-graders at Sandy Hook Elementary School, I was angry. A legally purchased semi-automatic rifle, with…

With the horror in Orlando with a radical Islamist killing and wounding people in a gay nightclub, the President has done everything to take the responsibility off the sick person…

From the blog of Mister Journalism: Reading, Sharing, Discussing, Learning By Jeff Salisbury https://misterjournalism.wordpress.com/ Pearson's Cyber-Kindergarten sales pitch Education blogger Peter Greene writes, “So I stumbled across the Connections Academy…

by Barry Hastings Who, and where, are all the National Rifle Association's good guys? You know who I mean, the ones who have claimed (for years) they would step to…

Common political discourse these days too often includes erroneous commentary about “entitlements,” by confusing them with “privileges.” Entitlements wrongfully are thought of as perks unearned by lazy and shiftless people…

“I'm killing time while I wait for life to shower me with meaning and happiness.” — Bill Watterson,   “Calvin & Hobbes”   Once, very early in my military service,…

The idea of constructing a wall between the U.S. and Mexico is either cheered or jeered, depending mostly on your political affiliation and feelings toward illegal immigration. The vast majority…

by Jeff Salisbury Mindless underfunding of schools continues, doing irreparable harm to kids High school graduation season is in full bloom in many communities around the nation, but in some…

Revisionism is easy... but making harsh, horrid, homicidal decisions, in real life and real time, is not as easy as most people think (check out the ever-whiter hair of every…