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Character is one of those topics, like culture or morality, that everyone strongly supports yet also argues about. When James Q. Wilson, one of the greatest social scientists of the last half-century, turned his scholarly attention to character, many of his colleagues in academia were repulsed. Even though every one of them surely believed in […]

It’s too late on Christmas day to affect the contents of anyone’s stockings. Nevertheless, if we’d been the ones loading up Santa’s sleigh on Monday, this would have been our list of who’s been naughty and who’s been nice. Naughty President Trump, unsurprisingly, sits at the top of our list for… Source: latimes.com – Los […]

Reports from climate experts were grim as well. A dire report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, released in October, predicted widespread food shortages, massive coral reef die-offs and more deadly heat waves by 2040 if greenhouse gas emissions are not rapidly brought under control. A U.S. government study released last month warned […]

Thick red mud clung to Jonah Yellowman’s boots as he sidestepped down the embankment into a narrow valley of sagebrush. When he spotted perfect stems — not too dry, not too long — he snapped them from the waist-high bushes. Every few months for much of his life, the 66-year-old Navajo spiritual leader has trekked […]

Playoff scenarios heading into Week 17, with current seed: AFC 1. KANSAS CITY CHIEFS: Clinch the top seed in the conference with a win over the Oakland Raiders. If they lose or tie and the Chargers win at Denver, then L.A. would win the AFC West and earn the top seed. Kansas City would fall […]

If those influential and experienced generals and politicians had been more honest about the threat and had refused, openly and with stark candor, to support Trump, we might not find ourselves in this dilemma. However, almost every rational Republican, including Mattis, looked the other way while the country suffered. Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times