As more and more animal habitats are destroyed or compromised by human presence or activity there may be an increased need for zoos, sanctua...

New York City recently made it legal for non-citizens to vote in municipal elections.  This will include legal immigrants on green cards/vis...

It's unavoidable. In life we will have arguments, debates, disagreements, altercations, squabbles, or outright fights with other people:...

It's a source of cynical amusement, frustration, and anger to me how some Americans think that THOSE people should always immediately an...

The real mystery about de Blasio's campaign, is not that he dropped out but rather,what made him waste his time running in the first p...

I support public and private sector workplace affirmative action programs. Due to this country's history many people have a strong pre...

What do you do when your furnace doesn't work? Well if you own your own home then you will spend money to fix it. But if you rent your...

We've talked before about the seeming modern phenomenon of women assaulting men and the internal moral conflicts which such actions can ...

As you may have heard former tennis star James Blake was wrongly detained by the NYPD when he was mistaken for a suspect in an identity thef...

Big Sister Is Watching You I am often glad that I live in a region where public transportation is all but considered an environmentalist plo...

As you might have noticed ( and I was planning on writing a separate post touching on this and still may later this week or next ) there hav...

One thing which my father and other mentors always told me is to pay less attention to what people say and more attention to what they do. A...

You've heard me say this numerous times on this site, but it bears repeating. I have the utmost respect for the Republican Party when it...