Hello everyone. I want to return to an article from 2012 and update it for 2026. The piece I am writing now is based on Caron Beesley's 2012 overview of employee background checks. I am conducting this update for my public group, Ethics of Marijuana and Workplace Safety. Today is June 28, 2026. So let us go back in time to 2012, when Caron Beesley examined the growing use of Facebook searches, credit reports, and criminal records in hiring. The core questions she raised still stand. Employers still need reliable information.

his article explores how media coverage of the Columbine school shooting influenced public opinion, school safety policies, and national conversations about violence. Using Columbine as a case study, I examine how news coverage, documentaries, survivor testimonies, and statistics shaped public understanding of school shootings. The article also discusses the role media plays in influencing policy decisions, perceptions of safety, and discussions surrounding prevention and mental health.

A French-Jewish journalist allegedly seduced over 120 Iranian top officials to obtain classified information and exposed the Tehran regime’s hypocrisy on virtues.

Three lies that govern a people, and the one command that breaks them There is a sentence I have come to fear more than any slogan a tyrant ever shouted. It is quiet. It is usually said with a shrug by a tired, decent person who means no harm, and it goes like this: I do not know what to believe anymore. That sentence sounds like humility. Most of the time, it is surrender. A man who can no longer tell truth from counterfeit has not become wise. He has become governable. He will believe the next confident voice, or he will believe nothing and call his exhaustion discernment. Either way, someone else now holds the pen that writes his reality.

A message to all, I want to call this the Mamdani Effect… I think we are dancing around the real issue. We keep playing a secular word game about taxation, natural law, common law, wealth, human rights, and democracy. But underneath all of it sits one question: Who gets power over your life? Because in the real world, power does not stay abstract. Power taxes. Power regulates. Power audits. Power censors. Power licenses. Power punishes. Power decides who gets rewarded and who gets squeezed. The bigger the government, the bigger the reach. And when government becomes the parent, the citizen slowly becomes the child.

40 Million Christians Don't Vote. They Should. Dan Mason, Ph.D. There is a particular kind of contradiction that appears only within the church. A believer will decline to vote because earthly politics are beneath their heavenly citizenship and then spend considerable energy complaining about the direction of the country. These two positions coexist without apparent tension for millions of American Christians. They should not.

And why Russia's Vladimir Putin, who likes lecturing everyone about history, learned nothing from it.

Cleophus, now we are finally talking substance. But your argument stretches claims into conclusions the historical record does not support. You want to talk about patterns? Let's compare actual presidents, actual policies, and real-world actions. No slogans. Just the record.

“And the future eyes are blinded in the richest country on Earth” As I’ve spent more time lately finding my voice through art and words, I find myself looking closer at the world we are leaving for the next generation. Sometimes, the only way to process the "mounting deficit"—both financial and moral—is to put it to the page.

Marxist Socialism, the 2030 Agenda, and the Death of Freedom Freedom rarely dies in one dramatic act. It is usually renamed first. It becomes “safety.” Then “equity.” Then “public health.” Then “climate necessity.” Then “democratic planning.” Then “social responsibility.” By the time the citizen notices what has happened, his choices have already been filtered through agencies, algorithms, financial controls, public-private partnerships, school systems, and speech codes.

Analyzing how a female-dominated country would fare in a male world. For most of recorded history, men have held the overwhelming share of political, economic, and military power. What if women ruled the world?

I asked four AI systems the same question. Not a softball. A stress test. Compare the United States to at least ten other nations across both world wars. Look at how we police our own military. Look at how we treat defeated enemies. Look at how we behave toward our neighbors compared to how China behaves toward the Philippines, Taiwan, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, and Vietnam. Look at Venezuela. Strip away rhetoric. Look only at behavior. Then tell me whether American exceptionalism is real. Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Grok each produced independent analyses. They disagreed on emphasis. They disagreed on causation. They did not disagree on the data. And the data settles the question.

Who was Leonidas I's mate during Persian invasion? Although resilient, the Spartan oligarchic system lacked the long-term perspective.

In 2011, a researcher named Marc Tessera published a paper with a simple proposal: stop asking about the origin of life. Ask about the origin of evolution instead.

The Split Nobody Is Naming On April 9, 2026, Donald Trump published a 482-word rant on Truth Social, calling Tucker Carlson, Megyn Kelly, Candace Owens, and Alex Jones "losers," "nut jobs," and "stupid people." Their crime: opposing his war in Iran. Carlson had called Trump's threats against Iranian civilians "a war crime." Owens demanded Trump's removal via the 25th Amendment. Jones asked on air how to "25th Amendment his ass." Kelly called the war "folly" and the ceasefire "surrender." Every major outlet covered the political fallout. Almost nobody covered the theological one.

My country does not oblige legally registered couples to assume a single name for all members. Wives are allowed to keep theirs or create a double-barreled family name. Husbands have the same legal right, though no one usually asks what they truly desire. Other countries, even democratic ones, drastically limit the choice.

Federal funding cuts to nonprofits are creating a structural shift in the sector, a people story often overlooked by coverage focused on programs and service reductions. Marvin Webb, CEO & Founder of Nonprofit Operations, argues that HR is bearing the fastest-growing pressure, forcing operations leaders to rapidly navigate complex issues like managing unavoidable layoffs, handling labor laws, negotiating benefits, and maintaining staff morale. This disruption is leading to a difficult-to-reverse talent drain as experienced professionals leave the sector and the recruitment pipeline thins. Marvin offers how to manage these changes.

How will we remember you? I promise it won't be as kind You watch the poor starve As you hoard your last dime From the poem "The Hoarder's Legacy"

When will they announce that the Earth is no longer habitable and that they are hiring those who are still well enough to serve them to make them their rocket ships to the New World What will their speeches entail at that point? When will they tell the people they made poor, sick, and starving that they wish they could bring all of humanity to the New World but they unfortunately can’t because it would simply cost too much

Ravitch recalls their wins in the Courtroom Frank S. Ravitch highlights their many courtroom victories in his paper, "Beyond Jurisdiction: A Critical Response." This is Frank S. Ravitch’s Legal Framing of Intelligent Design, which has lost several arguments in recent court cases; however, they may have won a legal argument. They have not won the final argument. That distinction matters more than most people realize. In America, people are trained to bow before institutions. If a court speaks, many assume the matter is closed. If a school board approves a curriculum, many assume the question is settled. If a judge excludes one view and permits another, many act as if truth itself has been weighed, measured, and stamped with official approval.