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ISIL Is Islam, and the West Is Committing Suicide by Refusing to Recognize This

The Western world has grown complacent. A culture of moral relativism and multiculturalism has led to an inability, borne largely of an urge to be politically correct, to condemn, or even to label, evil. There is an ease in believing the lie that all cultures are equivalent and that all systems of morals are merely different, with none being superior to any other. For many, it is simply easier…

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Ebola Is No Longer Just a Demonstration of the Insufficient and Ineffective Response Capabilities of African and Western Governments When It Comes to Health Crises, It Is Now an Active and Existential Threat

Ebola Is No Longer Just a Demonstration of the Insufficient and Ineffective Response Capabilities of African and Western Governments When It Comes to Health Crises, It Is Now an Active and Existential Threat

Ebola is part of the viral hemorrhagic fever family, and there are a number of different strains of Ebola. The current outbreak is an outbreak of the Zaire strain, the most deadly strain of Ebola with death rates of up to ninety percent. Just a few short weeks ago, when we wrote about Ebola for the first time, there were no reported cases in the Western world. This is no longer the case. A…

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Objections by Law Enforcement to New, Stronger Encryption for Mobile Devices Are Misguided; Encryption Does Not Place the User above the Law, It Merely Protects the Privacy Right in the Digital Age

Objections by Law Enforcement to New, Stronger Encryption for Mobile Devices Are Misguided; Encryption Does Not Place the User above the Law, It Merely Protects the Privacy Right in the Digital Age

Mr. Comey doesn’t believe you have rights. He doesn’t believe you’re innocent until proven guilty, and he certainly doesn’t believe law enforcement should have to obtain a warrant to search your “houses, papers, and effects”, particularly your papers and effects. He believes that your personal, private information should be freely accessible to law enforcement. In fact, he believes that if you…

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The Republic Died Decades Ago, Welcome to the Plutocracy

The Republic Died Decades Ago, Welcome to the Plutocracy

When Senator Sessions (R-AL) recently said on the floor of the Senatethat the US is not an oligarchy, he was correct, though not for the reason he thought: An oligarchy is a system ruled by a select few, when those select few are the very rich, the proper term is “plutocracy”, not “oligarchy”. Technically, the United States is a constitutionally-limited, democratic republic comprised of federated…

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The IRS Is Lying, and That's Bad for Everyone

The IRS Is Lying, and That’s Bad for Everyone

The IRS Is Lying, and That’s Bad for Everyone

Let us assume, for the moment, that the IRS did not target Conservative and Tea Party groups for specialtreatment. If that were the case, the IRS, being a Federal agency tasked with responsibility both to the Government and to the People, should willingly, and immediately, open its records for review. Those records should be released, in redacted form…

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Ebola Serves to Highlight the Disgraceful State of the West's Readiness to Address an Epidemic or a Pandemic

Ebola Serves to Highlight the Disgraceful State of the West’s Readiness to Address an Epidemic or a Pandemic

To date, we have been lucky. Since the first confirmed cases in 1976, Ebola has spread little and remained relatively unchanged. However, we have no guarantees that this will continue. Already, the 2014 Ebola outbreak has claimed thousands of lives. In fact, the current outbreak is spreadingand shows no signs of decelerating. Worse still, the outbreak may be far worse than available data would…

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The Impacts of Unrestricted Immigration on National and Domestic Security and the Public Health and its Economic, Cultural, and Environmental Costs

The Impacts of Unrestricted Immigration on National and Domestic Security and the Public Health and its Economic, Cultural, and Environmental Costs

Background

There is currently an unprecedented number of illegal immigrants crossing the US’s southern border, many of them children. Not only are these individuals coming from Mexico, and Central and South America, but also from places as far away as Somalia and China. This is a crisis that is unprecedented in scope and in scale, and which dwarfs anything that has befallen the US since the Cold…

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The Ferguson, Missouri Microcosm: Law Enforcement Militarization and the Protestor-Rioter Distinction

@: The Ferguson, Missouri Microcosm- Law Enforcement Militarization and the Protestor-Rioter While it would appear that the state of affairs in Ferguson, Missouri has calmed significantly over the course of the last day or two, the shooting of a young, black male which was followed by protests, riots, and an arguably disproportionate police response illustrates a growing problem in many parts of…

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