I had a test today about Jewish history in the modern era. One part of the test included analyzing one of two texts. I picked the second one which consisted of two letters written by a Jewish woman named Rivka Samuel who apparently moved from England to America some time circa the Revolution...
A rendition by John Williams (yes, the John Williams) of Woodie Guthrie's song This Land is Your Land
EDIT: for some reason, Youtube blocks the live recording, so I added another version
I came across this article by Ben Shapiro (I know...) entitled "America's silent majority must fight liberals killing freedom of speech." Granted, it's Ben Shapiro so he may be intentionally misleading people since I'm sure he's aware of basic Constitutional law, but he exploits a common...
Who is hacking who?
I am just curious. I hear many times Americans whining in the news "Russia hacked US". I never hear Russia whining to be hacked by America, or did I miss those?
I do remember Putin ones responding to "America blaming Russia for hacking" saying something like:
"We don't...
1) Resign the Iran nuclear agreement
2) Increase taxes on big businesses and high earners while keeping current taxes the same for SMEs and the average earners
3) Abolish protective tariffs on imports: particularly those from China and India
4) Commit to renewable and eco -friendly energy...
It seems that religion in the United States is on the decline:
Do you think that this is a positive, or a negative change? Me, I would have to say positive. But since I'm an atheist, that's probably a bit biased.
I found this article quite fascinating.
America's Changing Religious Identity
Christianity has sharply declined, especially among white Americans (dropping 38% since 1976), while Christianity among non-white Americans appears to be static.
The religiously unaffiliated population appears to be...
I had tried to defend Trump for awhile now, not because I thought he was great but just because I didn't think he was the antichrist. Of course he had to do something I couldn't defend though or well a lot of things lately.
He gave 100 billion dollars to Saudi Arabia. That was about the straw...