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• Half Staff Flags July 11, 2026
  I watched it fluttering in the wind and took a moment to wonder why. My mind flipped through the Rolodex of reasons. As the world has changed, so has the traditional symbolism. In my life, it was a symbol of a country attacked by a foreign enemy. It was the symbol of a country in mourning. It was […]
  Jake Smith
• Bellum Omnium Contra Omnes: The Permanent Logic of Human Conflict July 10, 2026
  “Bellum omnium contra omnes.” The phrase is most commonly translated from Latin as “the war of all against all.” It originates from the political philosophy of Thomas Hobbes, particularly his 1651 work Leviathan, where Hobbes described the condition of humanity absent political authority as one of perpetual insecurity and violent competition. For Hobbes, the “state […]
  Charles Faint
• The Job Has Outgrown Police Training July 10, 2026
  There comes a point in every profession where experience alone is no longer enough. Society changes. Technology evolves. New challenges emerge. Expectations increase. If the profession refuses to evolve with them, it slowly falls behind. Law enforcement has reached that point. Today’s police officer is expected to wear more hats than at any other time […]
  Sergeant Ayman Kafel, MSC
• Parliament Rejects Petition to Protect Robots From Being Called “Clankers,” Leaving Future Machine Overlords Deeply Concerned July 10, 2026
  By Hugh Jashol, Article 107 News* LONDON — In what experts are already calling “the greatest setback for human-AI relations since somebody unplugged a Roomba mid-cleaning cycle,” the UK Parliament has rejected (for now) a petition seeking to criminalize the anti-AI slur “clanker.” The petition argued that the government should classify the term as hate […]
  Art107 News
• Citizenship Shouldn’t Need a Ouija Board July 9, 2026
  There’s a special little circus tent in American politics where adults in tailored jackets pretend that asking whether a voter is legally eligible to vote is somehow the first goose-step toward national ruin. You ask for citizenship verification, and suddenly half the room clutches its pearls so hard the oysters file a workplace complaint. Let’s […]
  Tammy Pondsmith