violence
November 6, 2009
- At Fort Hood, a soldier gunned down 12 and injured 31 people. His name is Nidal Malik Hassan. He opened fire at a military processing center and In my opinion the 39 year old psychiatrist felt like it was wrong for him to declare war against the Muslim world, while he being a Muslim himself. Malik Hassan has always opposed the war in Iraq. He was a psychiatrist at the Darnall Army Medical Center ...
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October 22, 2009
- The news this morning was not good. (is it ever?) "Detectives searching for 7-year-old Somer Thompson say they believe they have found her body. " How often do we turn on the news and hear stories like this? Too often! 87 sex offenders lived within a five year radius of her. The strongest punishment for sex offenders is one year in prison. Most sex offenders will sexually molest ...
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October 7, 2009
- Recently, I received the following email from an old friend. “A topic I would like you to cover/explore is that curious phenomenon which permits otherwise independent women to be dominated...even abused...by males with whom they share some sort or relationship. Why is it that a seemingly strong, intelligent woman would allow herself to be hurt...her life to be altered in a negative way ...
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September 13, 2009
- As a recovering journalist, I still find my decades-old j-school training occasionally reminding me how lazy --even cowardly-- I often feel these days. It nags particularly loudly when I catch myself personally avoiding that most rare of today's journalistic attributes: an impartial fairness in dealing with an uncomfortable story. I try to ease that guilt by telling myself that I'm no longer ...
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September 12, 2009
- To thoroughly discuss the issue of gun violence in America or anywhere, one would need thirty to forty pages instead of seven to eight paragraphs, but I'll try to consolidate. The statistics of gun related violence in the U.S. are absolutely staggering. In one study, it was found that 3012 children and teens were killed by the use of guns in one year, five times as many suffered ...
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August 28, 2009
- Doing 60, 90, 120…ignoring or liberally interpreting the yellow “RIGHT LANE ENDS, MERGE NOW” sign, the driver of a white pick up truck scattering gravel in the break down lane passed us and cut us off, the raised bumper inches from ours, the dual exhaust rumbling. I was captaining our station wagon. My beautiful wife sat next to me, her hand proffering reassurance to my shoulder. ...
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June 5, 2009
- Story Needs To Be Told So We Never Forget And Allow It To Happen Again by Annette DunleaThe child abuse in the orphanages of times past in the subject of a new report. The Full Irish Government Report is now online at http://www.childabusecommission.com/rpt/pdfs/. It is horrifying reading. It is the source of many books, articles and even movies.“The report, nine years in the making and ...
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June 2, 2009
- WINNER OF THE BELLWETHER PRIZE FOR FICTIONMudbound by Hillary Jordan (Book Review) This debut novel Mudbound has rightly won many literary awards and praises from literary critics. It is published by Windmill and its ISBN is 0099524686. The book begins with a grave scene and each character tells in their own voice the story of how they arrived at the pitiless burial ...
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March 25, 2009
- About the book: Freedom of press the sitting duck is about journalists who get killed because of their works buy bandits who like controlling the press in fear of them being exposed to the audience. Genre: It is a book of poetry: Details: Time after time, journalists are killed for their works by criminal groups who don’t like the truth. Journalists are often victims of violence in ...
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February 5, 2009
- I have been all charged up about some recent finds I want to share with you. One is Michael Port’s Book Yourself Solid — a book, audiobook and system for marketing and building your business that takes that brave journey away from crass, haranguing, uphill effort and turns it into connecting with what you love and sharing it. That sounds simplistic, but it’s not. His book is packed with ...
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