by Barry Fagin | Apr 15, 2013 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Colorado Springs Gazette, 2013-01-24} The growing disparity between Colorado’s whites and nonwhites in virtually every important statistic of social well-being is a national disgrace. As the recent I-News series “Losing Ground” documents (full disclosure: I was a...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Apr 11, 2013 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law
I saw an allegedly uber-eye-opening short video a while back convincing us of astronomical economic disparity. It doesn’t really explain anything or give any solution, just a picture made to shock, like a documentary on the vastness of space. Now if it had...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Apr 5, 2013 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
I came across an article from the “truthout” website clearly showing that where gun laws were weak there were more gun-related deaths. Why would that be? I dunno, maybe BECAUSE THERE ARE MORE GUNS? That is like saying more people die of illness in...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Mar 15, 2013 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
In follow-up to Dr. Barry Fagin’s article recently published here, I present a wonderful article that lays out social and other consequences of the so-aclled “[[War on Drugs]]”. I will not excerpt it because I think it’s better to be surprised...
by Barry Fagin | Mar 11, 2013 | Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 2009-10-29} Ten more Americans died this week in a senseless and pointless war in Afghanistan, fighting an enemy with allegedly supernatural powers that is impossible to kill. I’m talking about the opium poppy. Three DEA...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Mar 7, 2013 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture, Technology & Futurism
Drones don’t kill people. Those following orders from our Commander in Chief do. And most drones, like most guns, won’t kill anyone. In a civilian capacity (at this point) they are used for police and border surveillance. Sure there are privacy issues...