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Last month my car insurance went up by 30%. Nothing at all had changed regarding my policy or use of insurance, so I called my insurance company to ask about the abrupt change. “Our costs have gone up, and we had to make the decision to raise premiums across the company,” is the answer I was given. (more…)
Ethan Liming, the 17-year-old who was recently beaten to death for the sin of shooting a water gun at a group of blacks playing basketball.
Ethan Liming, the 17-year-old who was recently beaten to death for the sin of shooting a water gun at a group of blacks playing basketball.
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When an interracial murder occurs, why do so many people assume that race was a motivating factor? Isn’t it possible that race was simply incidental to the murder? After all, when someone from Kansas shoots and kills someone from Missouri, we don’t leap to the conclusion that it was because the victim was from Missouri. (more…)