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In America’s so-called war on drugs, for some strange reason, became a war on Black people, that has been earning them lengthy jail time, although in some states the same drug has become legal.  Now that it has been found to also affect white people, the rules have changed to emphasize treatment for addicts, for whom in both cases are actually victims.  America has been fighting drug abuse for almost over a century.  At least four Presidents have personally waged a war on drugs.   Unfortunately, it is a war that Americans are losing.  Drug abusers continue to fill courts, hospitals, and prisons.  The drug trade causes violent crime that ravages neighbourhoods.  Children of drug abusers are neglected, abused, and even abandoned.   The only beneficiaries of this war are organised crime members and drug dealers.  The United States now appears to want to focus its efforts on the decriminalization of certain categories of d...

As President Chump has not thus far been able to get his health-care or any other law passed and will soon be shown up to be an incompetent windbag.  Should we, as a result, be worried that his next step to save face will be to assume absolute power by clandestine means? He has been appointing conservative judges all over the country with lightning speed.  Causing many sleepless nights to those who care about constitutional matters.  Chump’s  behaviour and lack of morality demonstrate ominous signs for the country’s long-term democratic health. The president's detractors often accuse him of having authoritarian aspirations.  And he has given them many good reasons to worry.  He displays contempt for the rule of law and the separation of powers.  He denounces the press as the "enemy of the American people."  He shows flagrant disregard for the truth and deftly marshals populist appeals to the grubbier emotions.  And last but...

Proverbs 14:30 A sound heart is the life of the flesh: but envy the rottenness of the bones. Most of us have experienced jealousy at some point.  We know how to identify jealousy when it appears in us, and we can usually tell when someone else experiences jealousy, based on their actions. The green-eyed monster, as Shakespeare called it, can camp in your head at any time during a relationship, when you believe are madly in love when you are snugly attached, even when you dislike your partner.  Neither gender is routinely more jealous, although women are more willing to work to win back a lover, while men tend to flaunt their money and status and are more likely to walk out to protect their self-esteem or save face.  Jealousy bedevils other creatures, too.  Primatologist Jane Goodall describes Passion, a female chimp who was tipping her buttocks toward a young male in the classic (for chimps) "come hither" pose when he ignored her and began to court...

The First Amendment The Oath of Office of the President of the United States is the oath or affirmation that the President of the United States takes after assuming the presidency but before he or she begins the execution of the office.  The wording of the oath is specified in Article II, Section One, Clause 8, of the United States Constitution.  This is one of two oaths or affirmation clauses, but it alone actually specifies the words that must be spoken. The other, Article VI, Clause 3, simply requires the person specified therein to "be bound by oath or affirmation, to support the Constitution."  The presidential oath, on the other hand, requires much more than this general oath of allegiance and fidelity.  This clause enjoins the new president to swear or affirm that he "will to the best of his ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."   It was shortly before the Fourth of July 1989, two centuries after the Consti...

But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:   In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Yeshua Hamashiach, who is the image of Yahuwah, should shine unto them.   2 Corinthians 4:3-4 In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds, refers to the description of the persons to whom the Gospel is hid, is here further carried on, in which the character of Satan is given, who is here styled "the god of this world", just as he is by Yeshua Hamashiach, "the prince of this world", not because he had any hand in the making of it, or has any concern in the government of it, or in the disposal of men or things in it.  But because of his influence over the worst, and the greatest part of the world, which lies in wickedness, under the power of this wicked one, being led captive by him at his will, who have voluntarily given themselves up to him, and whose lusts they will ...

2 Corinthians 4:3-4 But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost:   In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Yeshua Hamashiach, who is the image of Yahuwah, should shine unto them.   In whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds, refers to the description of the persons to whom the Gospel is hid, is here further carried on, in which the character of Satan is given, who is here styled "the god of this world", just as he is by Yeshua Hamashiach, "the prince of this world", not because he had any hand in the making of it, or has any concern in the government of it, or in the disposal of men or things in it.  But because of his influence over the worst, and the greatest part of the world, which lies in wickedness, under the power of this wicked one, being led captive by him at his will, who have voluntarily given themselves up to him, and whose lusts they will d...

Before 1973 it was illegal in the United States to profit from providing any aspect regarding general health care for citizens?  The Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973 passed by Nixon changed everything.   Is the health insurance business a racket?   Yes, literally, and this is why the shameless pandering to robber baron corporations posing as “health providers” is such an egregious, and obvious, tactic to do nothing more than plump up insurance company profits.   Who can be blamed for this outrageous state of affairs?  Believe it or not, the downfall of the American health insurance system falls squarely on the shoulders of former President Richard M. Nixon. In 1973, Nixon did a personal favour for his friend and campaign financier, Edgar Kaiser, then president and chairman of Kaiser-Permanente.  Nixon signed into law, the Health Maintenance Organization Act of 1973, in which medical insurance agencies, hospitals, clinics and...