Roman history, a treasure trove of insights, is the key to unraveling the fate of America’s Democracy. This information, though often overlooked, holds immense relevance. On a Roman history true-false test, it’s accurate to guess that approximately 99% of students would answer True, indicating that the Roman Empire collapsed. This percentage would drop if students were asked to identify two reasons for the collapse of the Roman Empire. This underlines the untapped potential of Roman history in understanding America’s political challenges.
Author: Carma Henry
Carma Henry
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Florida may be known as the Sunshine State but there’s a cloudy undercurrent in the state’s legal system that most people are unaware of—a loophole in the law that allows one parent to manipulate custody arrangements without facing civil penalties. This gap in the law, which constitutes a “parental manipulation exemption,” has dire consequences for children and custodial parents. It creates a legal environment where the emotional and psychological well-being of children is put at risk, and it’s time for Florida to take decisive action to close this loophole.
“…People know that something’s wrong; Everybody oughta know winter…The truth is there ain’t nobody fighting; Because, well nobody knows what to save, Brother, save your soul; Lord knows it’s winter in America. The Constitution, a noble piece of paper; With free society; Well, they struggled but they died in vain; And now democracy is ragtime on the corners; On the cord, hoping it’d rain…” – Winter In America – Gil Scott-Heron
When conceding the presidential election to Donald Trump, Kamala Harris told supporters gathered at Howard University that they needed to keep up the fight for freedom. She said, “the fight for our freedom will take hard work. But . . . we like hard work. Hard work is good work. Hard work can be joyful work.”
Maybe our national healing can start with our families, around the holiday table.
In The Delusions of Crowds, author William Bernstein comments, “The current polarization of American society cannot be fully understood without a working knowledge of the… dispensationalist [End Times] narrative,” which predicts a period of “Tribulation,” the second coming of Christ and the “Rapture” by which righteous Christians ascend to heaven.
We have just elected a cruel and ruthless monster who represents the worst of humanity and I feel my blood vessels pulsing with rage. I’m boiling with fury at the misguided electorate who were duped into thinking that a billionaire criminal had their interests at heart. Most of them don’t even know what a tariff is (or a fascist).
Donald Trump thinks the world of tariffs. “Tariffs are the greatest thing ever invented,” Trump said in September at a town hall event in Michigan. On another occasion he said “tariff” is the most beautiful word in the English language. Hmm. And he really has had a love affair with tariffs. After all, they mark his entry into national politics. Back in the mid-1980s, his one big gripe was the trade deficit with Japan. Then China became the target, and while president, Trump kept raising tariffs with China in the belief China would bend a knee and surrender. It didn’t, and Biden has been stuck in a tariff war ever since.