Social Issues

According to a new study more people in the world are obese than underweight, and by the year 2025 roughly 20 percent of the world’s population will be considered medically obese.  Analysis conducted by the Non-Communicable Disease (NCD) Risk Factor Collaboration looked at 19.2 million participants and discovered that the global obesity epidemic is set to become much, much worse. Tctmd.com reports: Researchers led by Mariachiara Di Cesare, PhD (Imperial College London, England), looked at BMI trends of adults living in 186 countries between 1975 and 2014.

A 69-year-old Los Angeles father has been charged with one count of premeditated murder for fatally shooting his son for being gay. Father Charged With Killing Son for Being Gay Amir Issa was found dead outside the family home in North Hills on Tuesday, the result of what prosecutors say was a hate crime. Shehada Issa told police he shot his son Amir in self-defense after he discovered his wife’s dead body in the house.

One of the most troubling features of our current political and social climate is how powerfully it is shaped by sheer animus.

The Great Divide: The Death of the Middle Class

Written by Jeff Nielson (CLICK FOR ORIGINAL)

Several months ago, a chart produced by one of the Big Banks was presented to readers . It was supposed to be innocuous data on global wealth distribution, but instead portrayed a horrifying picture.

A reader named Andrew Beckwith, a lawyer and president of the Massachusetts Family Institute, sent the following e-mail in response to my earlier post on religious liberty. I post it with his permission: