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I was glancing through Ben Smith’s blog over at Politico.com and ran across an interesting entry about a Public Service Announcement running here in California concerning the LAPD’s iWatch Program. iWatch appears to be an attempt at a city wide anti-terrorism neighborhood watch. On the LAPD’s website under iWatch it reads: “iWATCH, iREPORT, i KEEP [...]
We’re pleased to announce the premiere of our new series/segment “Breaking Bread” where I sit down over a meal with a guest and discuss a topic about which we don’t fundamentally see eye to eye and hope that by the end of the meal we’ll find some common ground. And to kick things off we tackled that unifying of all topics – Religion.
“Peace and friendship with all mankind is our wisest policy, and I wish we may be permitted to pursue it.” – Thomas Jefferson Peace. Something we shy away from really – we act as if it’s some goal we want to achieve but our actions never quite match up – we relegate the concept to [...]
This week in the Jungle
we are searching for the truth about wealthy—what it means to be wealthy, how that differs around the world, and if and when wealthy people deserve to be treated differently than everyone else. Last week: poverty. Next week: big government.
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