opinion
Opinion pieces from the left, right, and everyone in between.
2nd Amendment
Hey Evan, I hope all is well. Today I would like to talk about a thought I had. Not too long ago a group wanted to have a peaceful protest not at but near our county’s courthouse which is about a mile from where I am living. In response to this protest which was being carried out by liberals a group of men surrounded the courthouse armed with their assault rifles. It seems this group had been told that these protesters wished to attack our courthouse. They spent the night walking about the courthouse fulfilling what they perceived as their patriotic duty and possibly fueling their testosterone needs. While the protest was at the place they had originally scheduled which was a block away at the town square.
By V. H. Eberle4 years ago in The Swamp
US Politics: An unbiased opinion from an outsider.
When I was a teenager in my native country, Haiti, one of my biggest dreams was to move to the USA. At that time watching movies, and how well the USA had been described through Hollywood, your own reality became non-existent. As time passed, I have developed a sense of curiosity about myself, my surroundings, my country, and more precisely the world I have been living in. There was one thing that has drastically changed the perception I had for this world, in my last year in high school, it was reading.
By Pierre Antoine4 years ago in The Swamp
Grey is Gone
It was my first day of kindergarten and as I peered into my brand new box of 64, there were all shades of grey…light grey, dark grey and even blue grey. From the beginning there was always grey. My Mom would say, ”the world is not black and white; it is grey”. The meaning of her words were lost on me at the time, but as I grew older, I understood.
By Jenny merchant4 years ago in The Swamp
The Constitution for Today
"We the People," are the first three words of the Constitution of the United States of America. They are there to tell us who has the true power in this country if we are, as Ben Franklin said after the Constitution was written, "a Republic, if we are strong enough to keep it." We do not elect people to rule over us but represent us.
By Joseph Barrow4 years ago in The Swamp
The Issue Of Using Guns And Bombs
I keep reading in various places about shootings in Texas and perhaps in other places too and at the same time we are reading about the atrocities happening in Ukraine and the fact that Russia is using some forms of fire arms and bombs that have been declared forbidden in international humanitarian law. Without being in such places and without seeing anything, our inboxes are taken up with reports, arguments, information and newspapers are covered with sad faces and women and children crying.
By Aisha Mohammad4 years ago in The Swamp
Weapons Aren't The Problem
The U.S is mourning yet another mass shooting, this time at an elementary school in Uvalde, Texas. I’m going to spare you the statistics and graph charts; you can look those up on your favorite news outlet. I’m hoping some of you are getting to know my writing style by now, so you know this is another engagement piece.
By The Rogue Scribe4 years ago in The Swamp
The Enemy Within
The audacity of the Biden Administration and Congress in a time of urgent crisis right here in the US to send $40 Billion of our tax dollars to Ukraine. This when it is our own government along with NATO had been developing Bioweapon technology in Ukraine for years, it is no wonder then that Russia acted when it did. Now we are just adding fuel to the already firestorm that has cost thousands of lives, livelihoods and decimated cities all across Ukraine by sending more armed forces to Europe and sending our navy to the Baltic. This Administration is doing everything possible to push Russa into major confrontations with NATO and the US. We are now on that slippery slope where at any moment the world will be engulfed in flames of War yet again.
By Dr. Williams4 years ago in The Swamp
Should Journalists Receive Awards for Covering Hard News? My Thought Is No; I’ll Tell You Why
The Way Journalists Are Rewarded Needs to Change When I worked in news, one of the strangest things to me was that people sought out awards for their coverage on topics that were deeply sorrowful, traumatic, and disturbing. I think journalists should receive something else for their hard work, especially when it comes to covering challenging topics. Let me explain.
By Andrea Lawrence4 years ago in The Swamp
Weapons of Mass Distraction
The element fueling economic growth is not a rare earth metal, processing power, or NFTs: It’s attention. The average American spends 11 hours per day consuming media, 65% of their waking life. Roughly 40% of that time is spent on a mobile device. Billions of dollars and millions of person-years are spent capturing and monetizing that attention. The more attention, the more data, the more money, the more relevant offering(s), the more attention … and so on and so on.
By Vlad Andrei Apostol4 years ago in The Swamp
