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Human society has advanced to the stage where a substantially illiterate population would handicap, restrain the national economy, the GDP. The U.S. remedy for this is "public" education, a euphemism for "government" schooling. Education is compulsory, truancy not permitted. BUT !! We allow...

May 22, 2025, 10:46 AM GMT-5 The U.S. will soon mint its last penny The Treasury Department said it made its last order of blank pennies. It currently costs 3.7 cents to make the 1-cent coin. https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/treasury-dept-winding-penny-production-rcna208522 Inflation...

VP JD Vance is runaway Republican candidate, polling reveals Rob Crilly / Fri, May 16, 2025 at 5:30 AM EDT Donald Trump may appear to be running an Apprentice-style contest to select his successor but a new poll reveals that there is only one name in the frame for voters. JD Vance, the...

Army ditches helicopters for new radical air assault planes Tiltrotor planes are replacing Black Hawk helicopters and the Army wants them now By Rebecca Grant Fox News / Published May 11, 2025 8:00am EDT "We can't actually do the large-scale, long-range air assault...

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from Shiftless2 This one is important enough to have its own thread This thread is locked. BUT ! There's a duplicate thread at CitizenVoice / Main Forum. Contributions / comments welcome at: https://citizenvoice.us/threads/suicide-hotline.465/ Please don't judge the world by the...

We have a few additional "Like" options to respond to a post. I don't want my emoji apathy to be a contagion. When awarding a post a dislike "like", shouldn't we avoid the "kill the messenger" response? Inauguration Day has rendered us awash with bad news. BUT !! Is awarding the post a...

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Democrats worry on ‘how disadvantaged they are right now as a brand’ and their descent into the minority against Trump and MAGA Rhian Lubin / Fri, March 28, 2025 at 3:21 PM EDT Democrats are “f***** right now,” one strategist warned, as others said the party risks becoming a “permanent minority”...

Compensating people who are wrongfully convicted is a hard sell in some states By CHARLOTTE KRAMON / Updated 11:05 PM GMT-5, March 14, 2025 ATLANTA (AP) — Earlier this year, Michael Woolfolk attended a legislative committee in Georgia where lawmakers considered for a third year...

Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening By Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between...

Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. inspired by Matthew 7:12 (the Golden Rule) None the less, life is messy, some deviate with this sensible behavioral convention. Some of those deviants are murderers. Some of those murderers are condemned to capital execution. "The Devil's in...

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Over 3 years ago Russia invaded Ukraine. On the third anniversary of that invasion, President Trump accused Ukraine of starting the War, though did not explain how such thing is possible given the undisputed geographic realities / occupations. Jeff Bezos announces big change to Washington Post...

Saint Valentine (Italian: San Valentino; Latin: Valentinus) was a 3rd-century Roman saint, commemorated in Western Christianity on February 14 and in Eastern Orthodoxy on July 6. From the High Middle Ages, his feast day has been associated with a tradition of courtly love. He is also a patron...

Martin Luther King Jr. (1929–1968) Martin Luther King Jr. (born Michael King Jr.; January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American Baptist minister, activist, and political philosopher who was one of the most prominent leaders in the civil rights movement from 1955 until his assassination in...

Trump's second presidential term begins at approximately noon, January 20, 2025, aka Dr. Martin Luther King Day. This second Trump term begins with the conclusion of the presidential oath as enumerated within the Constitution Trump shall yet once again swear to "preserve, protect and defend"...

California Fires Death toll climbs, thousands more structures burn as LA races to get control of fires Devastation could cost insurers $20,000,000,000 "There's enough water. This has nothing to do with the supply of water. It has to do with the pressure in the system." Juliette Kayyem...

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