This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Banks are in business to make money. They loan it, compound it, hold it hostage, exchange it, invest it and sometimes buy uniforms for...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
One thousand plants are grown worldwide for food, beverages, spices and medicine. Seventy-five percent of flowering plants rely on hummingbirds, bees, butterflies and other...
This Week’s Independent Thinkers
Kids are smart. We were kids. We were smart. Right?
“Smart” doesn’t mean quoting what someone else wrote or finding our way to Tahlequah. Smart...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Lots of times people want handouts, but there are those who seriously want to work.
Patrick Hoagland, 30, of Phoenix was laid off. After a...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
The Grizzly Bear is California’s state animal. Its likeness is on the state flag and seal.
This is not about grizzly bears, but it happened...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
Golly, a photographer who has talent, self-confidence, experience, and benevolence. And instead of starving, she’s thriving. How does that work?
Carol M. Highsmith donated more...
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Yes, there are plenty of people who questioned Sir Richard Branson’s flight last Saturday morning. A great American pastime is to tell the rich...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
We’re such suckers for brilliance that’s also precious.
Cincinnati cop James Givens was sitting in his patrol car last week when he heard a pecking...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
We always wish kids knew how much we love them, all of them. It’s because of their innocence, curiosity and spontaneity.
Anyone who’s read about...
This Week’s Independent Thinker
New York high school teacher Shaina Harrison is on a mission to explain that having a gun do your talking always comes to no...