The number of juveniles in the nation’s criminal justice system has been in decline for years. California and New York have closed some of their largest and most troubled juvenile detention facilities. Missouri has recently been credited with doing a better job of caring for its most troubled children, further limiting the state’s population of teens in punitive settings. But […]
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“To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone, and a funnybone.”
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“It is what you learn after you know it all that counts.” – Earl Weaver
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Crack cocaine is one of the most addictive drugs because of its strong, quick-onset high that lasts minutes, leaving users wanting more. Less addictive drugs are not necessarily less dangerous. Opioid pills, for example, can be gateway drugs to heroin.
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An astonishing 40,000 Americans are injured each year by their toilet bowls.
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“In societies where men are truly confident of their own worth, women are not merely tolerated but valued.” – Aung San Suu Kyi
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Deputy Accidentally Shoots His Mother In Church You would think that police officers would be the most responsible gun owners… No? After all, they are experts, having received training in how to properly handle firearms — or so we would think! If that were entirely true, then we wouldn’t be left wondering how a McCracken County deputy sheriff shot his […]
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“Hope has two beautiful daughters – their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” – St. Augustine
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Discourse He was the foam on the backwash of conversation, Repelled by the safety-pier; Seeming to crave a knife to answer The upward wave-choppings, He felt as if there were an invisible plastic partition Segmenting the round, globular flatness Of all within his view – A tank, cramping and inflexible To cramp that perfect essence. Blocks and straight lines […]
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