by Piper Bayard | Aug 18, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes On June 29, 2014, after gaining control over large swaths of northern Iraq, ISIS declared itself to be a caliphate. Its intention is to expand this caliphate from Morocco to Malaysia and Indonesia. ISIS “Caliph,” is supreme leader Abu Bakr...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 10, 2014 | Foreign Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes In April of 2014, Hamas, which governs the Palestinian Gaza Strip, and Fatah, which governs the Palestinian areas of the West Bank, agreed to make peace and form a unity government. Predictably, Israel reacted negatively to the Hamas-Fatah...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 28, 2014 | Current Affairs, Interviews, News
By Piper Bayard A great deal of misinformation regularly fires throughout the Cyberverse about gun control. Tempers flaring, insults flying, and people “unfriending” those who state even the barest, most uncontested facts from any source on any side of the issue. In...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 21, 2014 | Amusing Ourselves and Hopefully You
By Piper Bayard and Jay Holmes Psychological tests have inundated social media lately, giving people the opportunity to find out everything about themselves from which Lord of the Rings character they are to which weapon they most resemble. However, in all of this, no...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 14, 2014 | Current Affairs, History, News
When the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict recently flared up, Holmes and I discussed the possibility of a fresh article on the topic. We concluded, however, that there was nothing fresh to say. To verify this, I looked up an article that Holmes wrote in November,...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 7, 2014 | Current Affairs, News
By Jay Holmes This past February, Russian Dictator Vladimir Putin ordered his intelligence and military services to invade Crimea in the Eastern Ukraine. Western governments loudly condemned Russia’s aggression, but practical responses have been limited to minor...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 30, 2014 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard Meet Parker. We got Parker from the Humane Society when I had a feeling there was a dog waiting there that would be a perfect fit for our family. Parker had been taken back twice because he doesn’t play well with others. He...
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