Mallory Weggemann has been a competitive swimmer since she was 7 years old. In 2008, she went to the hospital to receive her third and final epidural injection that was supposed to help with debilitating post-shingles back pain. Instead, 18-year-old Weggemann was left a paraplegic with complete loss of movement from her abdomen down. Determined…
Victory at last
National Security Advisor H. R. McMaster and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly await the arrival of President Donald J. Trump, August 2017. CNP/SIPA USA/Press Association. All rights reserved. It was bloody and brutal, a true generational struggle, but give them credit. In the end, they won when so many lost. James Comey…
Hungarian public employees victimised for connections to the Central European University
Csorba Zoltán, a Hungarian civil servant, has recently lost his job because of his political views (own photo).It seems that in Hungary, the official propaganda regarding the struggle between the Central European University (CEU) and the Orban government, has started to have serious repercussions not only on people connected to the University, but other progressive…
70 Oregon Football Players Banded Together To Keep Their New Coach From Being Fired
In the world of college football, a player’s “career” has a short shelf life. However, in the few years that they spend in a program, they bond closely not just with each other, but with their coaches and other team members as well. Just days ago, the Oregon football team was shaken to learn that…
Famine in Yemen finally reaches western headlines
People gather in the site of an airstrike in Sanaa, Yemen, on November 11, 2017. The Saudi-led coalition has been bombing northern Yemen for several days. Mohammed Mohammed/Press Association. All rights reserved. Yemen is finally making the headlines of mainstream media in UK. Why now? Since early this year, UN and other humanitarian agencies working…
For People Of Color, Banks Are Shutting The Door To Homeownership
50 years after the federal Fair Housing Act banned racial discrimination in lending, African-Americans and Latinos continue to be routinely denied conventional mortgage loans at rates far higher than their white counterparts. This modern-day redlining persisted in 61 metro areas even when controlling for applicants’ income, loan amount, and neighborhood, according to a mountain of…
Corbyn, and an election surprise
"Game on": Corbyn delivers a stump speech in Croydon. Dominic Lipinski/PA Images. All rights reserved.The previous article in this series, published a week ago, examined the idea that something was happening in the United Kingdom's general-election campaign that was not being picked up by the great majority of analysts. The consensus at the time was…
Everything You Need To Know About James Comey’s New Book, ‘A Higher Loyalty’
Former FBI director James Comey has been both admired and reviled by both sides of the political spectrum over the past three years. His announcement that the Hillary Clinton investigation was being reopened just days before the 2016 election was seen by Democrats as an attempt to thwart her election bid, while his investigation into…
Britain's security: time to rethink
Prime Minister Theresa May speaking in the House of Commons in London about the Salisbury attack, March 12, 2018. PA/Press Association. All rights reserved.The controversy over the nerve-agent attack in the southern English city of Salisbury on 4 March is escalating tensions between the United Kingdom and Russia. A by-product is further demands on the…
Here’s How Expensive It Is To Have Kids In The U.S.
THE GOOD NEWS: States and companies are starting to invest in family support policies, parental benefits, and competitive education. Today, roughly one in five women in the U.S. doesn’t have children. Thanks in part to this decline in birthrate, for the first time in U.S. history, there may soon be more elderly people than children….