I’m willing to bet a large sum of money that you heard about the 1997 murder of rap superstar Notorious B.I.G. on Wilshire Boulevard in Los Angeles. And of course, you heard about the murder of Clive Jackson near Western and Vernon in South Central. Wait, who? I thought so. Jackson and hundreds of other […]
Author Archives: Shiva Bhaskar
Sexual suppression sustains social ills
As teenage pregnancy and abortion continue to damage U.S. youth, and Catholic priests are implicated in sex abuse scandals, a large segment of cultural critics have cited excessive sexuality and liberal sexual values as the source of the problem. But in reality, eliminating sexual taboos and pursuing an aggressive contraception campaign is the only way […]
Liberals at risk, trade rationale for emotion
Recently, members of the radical left have been spewing emotional but intellectually unsound ideas instead of rational debate. If fellow liberals do not confront this trend, they risk compromising their own credibility. One example is Rev. Al Sharpton. Sharpton’s first indiscretion occurred in 1987, when a black teenager named Tawana Brawley was allegedly raped and […]