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Marc YachtNovember 18, 2015

Being a strong imperial power offers no guarantee of continued existence. Ask any Mayan whose empire survived 3,500 years. They sit alongside the Roman, British, Spanish and Mongol empires. The French faced the revolution with Madame Defarge knitting while the People’s Court sentenced French nobility to death. One cannot ignore the Russian revolution and the […]

Bill PrescottNovember 18, 2015

Just before Halloween, Yale sent out a message to students, asking that they consider other students’ cultural sensitivities when dressing in costume. Asking grown people to not act like jerks is tedious, but this message seemed appropriate to some students who feel marginalized on Yale’s campus. An email went out afterward from Erika Christakis, a […]

Guest AuthorNovember 18, 2015

I will never forget the first time I had to think – and I mean really think – about gender equality. It was after class during my senior year of high school and I was having a casual conversation with my literature teacher. I always enjoyed listening to her perspective on life and this time […]

Florence SnyderNovember 17, 2015

Death happens to the best of us, and also to the worst. We saw that again last week in Paris, and in Beirut, where hundreds of people going about the business of daily living had the bad fortune to cross paths with fanatics armed with weapons of war and hearts full of hate. The Grim […]

Guest AuthorNovember 17, 2015

You no doubt feel overwhelmed by the reporting and commentary after this past Friday’s slaughter in Paris. A lot of smart people have written about the brutality of the attacks, the complexities of the ISIS threat and the West’s response. To simplify things, I’ve drafted sobering answers to basic questions I suspect many of you […]

Shannon NickinsonNovember 17, 2015

Florida Gov. Rick Scott wants the state university system to aim high. To achieve that he announced the “Ready, Set, Work” College Challenge this past week at the Association of Florida Colleges Trustee Commission meeting in Lake Buena Vista. The governor wants all 28 state colleges to participate by graduating 100 percent of their full-time […]

Julie DelegalNovember 17, 2015

Nine-eleven. Eleven-thirteen. These are days we’ll remember. Friday’s psychotic mass killings in Paris shook the Western world. The president of the United States has spoken. Where we might have been interested before, where we might have been engaged, we are now invested. My young friends tell me that we’re less outraged by the murders of […]

Jac VerSteegNovember 17, 2015

Prepare for disaster. I’m not saying America can’t win the war against Islamic extremism – embodied at this point in history by the Islamic State. But war is not a series of inspiring victories. War is a series of dispiriting calamities. Think Black Hawk down in Somalia. Think the USS Stark off the coast of […]

A.G. GancarskiNovember 17, 2015

FloridaPolitics.com has received a list of the panelists for Tuesday night’s “community conversation” on the potential expansion of the Jacksonville Human Rights Ordinance. They are: Cheryl Grymes, Duval County School Board Dr. Jeff Goldhagen, University of Florida Roger Gannam, Liberty Counsel Cindy Watson, JASMYN Garry Bevel, Jacksonville System of Care Initiative Joey Vaughn, Vaughn Law […]

Jac VerSteegNovember 16, 2015

Prepare for disaster. I’m not saying America can’t win the war against Islamic extremism – embodied at this point in history by the Islamic State. But war is not a series of inspiring victories. War is a series of dispiriting calamities. Think Black Hawk down in Somalia. Think the USS Stark off the coast of […]

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Dr. Marc J. Yacht: The mighty always have fallen. Always.

Catherine Durkin Robinson: 20 things social justice warriors should know

Elizabeth Santiago: The conversation that determined my views on gender equality

Florence Snyder: He’s waiting, we just don’t when or where

Tom O’Hara: Grim questions, sobering answers after Paris

Shannon Nickinson: School, community collaboration key to educated workforce

Julie Delegal: Is luxury of peace now yielding to horror of war?

Jac VerSteeg: To win war against ISIS, prepare for disaster

Kim Davis’ Liberty Counsel lawyer on Jax HRO panel

Jac VerSteeg: To win war against ISIS, prepare for disaster