Somewhere in the middle of my raging levels of hot mess hormones, at roughly 15 or 16, I remember like it was yesterday that my grandmother got after me about my rising levels of angst and decreasing levels of interest...

By most accounts, Homo sapiens first appeared 300,000 years ago. According to science we have as of this writing, the first empire, Mesopotamia, appeared around 2330 B.C.E., and while it has been said that earlier kings...

In part III of Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense” published a few months prior to the Declaration of Independence, Paine made the observation that “a government which cannot preserve the peace, is no...

When the Declaration of Independence was signed in Philadelphia in 1776, the American population at the time was approximately 2.5 million people occupying land in 13 states. In today’s numbers, we are fast...

As an animal species, the human race can be separated into one of two necessarily- opposing groups; the “conqueror” and the “conquered.” The higher-minded Sciences would vehemently reject such a...