Entries by Dr. Rich Swier

Devastating Impact of Marijuana Legalization on Colorado’s Children

National Families in Action reports: Past-month marijuana use among Colorado’s adolescents, ages 12-17, was 74 percent higher (12.56% vs. 7.22% nationwide) than the national average for the two years following legalization in the state, according to a new report from the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area. Further, the average usage rate in states […]

Five Steps To Get Ready For Primary Season

WASHINGTON, D.C. /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — We are less than a month away from the start of the 2016 presidential primary and caucus season. On February 1, the Iowa caucuses will kick off the 2016 election cycle. A little over a week later, the New Hampshire primaries will follow. The process goes on through spring as both parties choose […]

VIDEO: Commander of captured U.S. sailors apologizing on Iran state TV

Dramatic video shows ten American sailors on their knees as they surrendered to Iranian troops in the Persian Gulf while a U.S. ‘commander’ is filmed apologizing to the revolutionary guard. Footage of sailors with hands behind their heads has been released It was aired on the Islamic republic’s state television after they were freed When […]

86% of Millennials Believe Presidential Candidates Ignore Them

NEW YORK, NY /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The vast majority of recent college graduates believe that the current presidential candidates are not talking about the issues that matter most to them, according to a new survey of millennials by GenFKD, a non-partisan organization dedicated to promoting economic understanding and financial literacy to college students and recent graduates. Millennials […]

Benghazi: Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it

Excerpts from the forward to Mitchell Zuckoff’s book “13 Hours: The Inside Account of What Really Happened in Benghazi”: “A BLOODTHIRSTY MOB BORE DOWN ON THE UNITED States’ poorly defended diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya. Besieged American envoys and staffers withdrew to a locked room as fires set by the attackers drew closer. The Americans […]

Hillary’s ‘High Stakes Hypocrisy’

BELLEVUE, Washington /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — When it comes to civil rights, Hillary Rodham Clinton engages in a deplorable double standard, considering her remarks Sunday during an appearance before Planned Parenthood to get their endorsement, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms said today. Clinton was in Manchester, N.H. to pick up the endorsement, and […]

White Washing Islam

The Institute for National Security Studies found that 450 of the 452 suicide attacks it counted in 2015 were carried out by Muslim extremists. The remaining two attacks were carried out by the Kurdish underground and another by a Turkish leftist. Daily we see atrocities, savagery and slaughter carried out by Muslims, Muslim groups, Muslim nation states […]

VIDEO: A Call to Battle – A Short Film on ‘Society’s Crisis in Masculinity’

The Roman Catholic Diocese of Phoenix released for the first time ever in its history a documentary-style short film that seeks to create awareness of a crisis in masculinity found in today’s society. Please watch this short film, titled “A Call to Battle” in English with Spanish subtitles: Released only a few months after the […]

The Trump Insurgency

If you Google the words “Trump” and “insurgency” you will get over 650,000 links to articles and commentary. I recently said to a friend that Donald Trump has gone from being a candidate for the Republican Party nomination for President to the leader of a movement. Can this movement now be called an insurgency? The […]

Virginia: Will new voting machines prevent voter fraud?

RICHMOND, Virginia /PRNewswire/ — Facing a busy election year and worried about the reliability of aging voting systems, election officials across Virginia are moving quickly to find new solutions with long, dependable life spans.  Verity® Voting by Hart InterCivic, certified both federally and by Virginia’s State Board of Elections, is an increasingly popular choice. Westmoreland and Northumberland Counties […]

Google’s vindictive blocking app: The ‘Trump Filter’

Kate Scanlon, from the Blaze, in her column “Trump Filter’ Blocks References to the GOP Candidate While You Browse the Internet” reports: There’s a new Google Chrome extension in town called the Trump Filter — and its creator said it blocks all references to the Republican presidential candidate while you browse the Internet. “Eliminate Donald Trump from […]