Provea, the Venezuelan Program of Education Action in Human Rights, recently released statistics on violence in Venezuela during the year 2009. The Venezuelan police killed 2,685 Venezuela’s last year. That is almost as many people as were murdered in the attacks on the World Trade Centers in New York City. That is about seven times [...]
Dr. Pervez Hoodbhoy, a Professor of Nuclear Physics at Quaid-i-Azam University in Islamabad Pakistan, has written an intensely insightful analysis of the problems of science in the Islamic world titled Science and the Islamic world — The Quest for Rapprochement. The entire article is well worth reading. I will excerpt a few paragraphs which highlight [...]
The Small Arms Survey estimates that there are 270 million privately owned firearms in the United States, which equals approximately .9 firearms for every American. To my mind, that’s a good start. That number represents a large percentage of the approximately 650 million firearms in private hands across the globe. This is why Americans enjoy [...]
Don’t Tread On Me is a phrase that appeared on several flags used in the early United States, including the First Navy Jack, the Flag of the Culpeper Minutemen, and the Gadsden flag (pictured). The Gadsden flag was designed by Colonel Christopher Gadsden and presented to the Second Continental Congress in 1775. From the South [...]
Kevin Jennings is Obama’s “Safe Schools Czar”. That description seems pretty clear, but apparently it means something a lot different to Obama than it does to me and probably you. Kevin is the founder of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN). One of the main tasks of GSLEN was to publish a recommended [...]
The Human Rights Foundation is a private foundation dedicated to improving human rights in the Americas. The foundation defines these basic human rights to which all humans are entitled as: The right to speak freely The right to worship in the manner of their choice The right to freely associate with those of like mind [...]
