There is a new initiative taking hold in Michigan that is seeking to put affirmative action back in place, allowing formally disenfranchised people to gain a leg up. But diversity does not create, or equate, freedom. When the Fairness Doctrine was enacted, it stated to promote diversity in the media, yet, once it was repealed […]
There have always unintended consequences with many things in life, but the falling prices of digital storage products and services seems like that would be something that could avoid the lifelong cliché. Apparently, it cannot. With the decreasing cost of digital data storage and the increase in digital data use, authoritarian governments could very soon […]
When the Founding Fathers drafted the Declaration of Independence some 240 years ago, the small part about “all men are created equal” was only held to be true for white men who owned property, disenfranchising those of different races and of certain sub-socioeconomic creeds. Slavery was a common practice then, with many of the founding […]
Photo by ensceptcio Even though I have never met Christopher Hitchens, and only recently, yet sadly, came upon his work, I feel like I have lost a fried. Through his rhetoric and undeniable quit wit, he was un-debatable, a master of words who I can only wish to achieve a miniscule portion of his infinite […]
With 2011 models being shipped off dealership lots with incentives stacked in the truck, 2012 models are already showing up before the end of the year. There are a multitude of amazing vehicles poised to rearrange your garage, from high-tech fuel-sippers to high-tech asphalt shredding machines; below are a few of those cars. 2012 Ford […]
“Mrs. Henry Ford hated the smell of gasoline and drove an electric car until 1938,” said Matt Lee, an automotive historian and longtime employee of the Detroit Big Three. Lee helps upkeep the National Automotive History Collection at the Detroit Public Library, which he has been a part of for the last 24 years. “Last […]
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