It's Important Not To Demonize

Most Of Us Employ The Internet Not To Seek The Best Information, But Rather To Select Information That Confirms Our Prejudices .

The Intelligence Community Is So Vast That More People Have Top Secret Clearance Than Live In Washington. The U.s. Will Spend More On The War In Afghanistan This Year, Adjusting For Inflation, Than We Spent On The Revolutionary War, The War Of 1812, The Mexican-american War, The Civil War And The Spanish-american War Combined.

Half A Million Women Die Each Year Around The World In Pregnancy. It's Not Biology That Kills Them So Much As Neglect.

So Kim Kardashian Is Getting A Divorce, 72 Days After A Wedding That Is Variously Reported To Have Cost $10 Million Or More. Just To Put That In Perspective, That Sum Could Have Built 200 Schools In Poor Countries Around The World For Kids Who Desperately Want An Education. Then Kardashian Could Have Helped Transform The World, Not Just Entertain It. And The Schools Would Have Lasted Incomparably Longer Than Her Marriage.

One Of The Great Failings Of The American Education System (in Our View) Is That Young People Can Graduate From University Without Any Understanding Of Poverty At Home Or Abroad.