The sleeping fox gathers no poultry, and lost time it never found again. In less developed cultures, the predatory powers of a man or tribe were held in high esteem, giving honorific status to their holders. Predatory powers of a manifest themselves in employments that result in high incomes for few members of society. However, the large incomes are of little value if they cannot be recognized, so our culture supplies a number of mechanisms to permit them to be displayed. Because emulation is a powerful motive, these wealth-displaying activities quickly spread throughout the society. News has taken two divergent paths in content in recent years. Some news organizations have moved into sophisticated, interpretative and investigative reporting. Others have emphasized superficial, tantalizing about ketch arts and crafts, bestiality, and sleazy gossip. However, it costs more to maintain one vice than to raise two children.  Sloth makes all things difficult but industry all easy. Journalism is supposed to tack issues in depth and with intelligence. These days, I cannot find much real journalism anymore. TV stations basically have half an hour of news, which they play on repeat throughout the day, simply using different anchors to all read the same scripts. I especially admire CBS up to the Minute, Face the Nation, and CBS Morning News, which runs thoroughly researched, thoughtful mini documentaries on stories, that is what news is! And I cannot stress that enough. It is not unusual for CBS to commit weeks, even months, and years of reporters’ time to develop major stories, nor is that unusual at ABC World News, and some of the newer ones like Harris International Research and Development. Newspapers, profitable as never before, were able to hire larger staffs that permitted them to try more labor-intensive, exploratory kinds of journalism. Instead of merely letting the vultures descent and pick your bones, or merely responding to events, newspapers, particularly big ones, began digging for stories.

When thinking about corporate ethics, CBS13 KOVR-TV has been called into question many times, they have a handful of reporters who are very unethical. However, this unethical and often illegal behavior has spread throughout our community. Federal law enforcement officials today arrested 14 owners and employees of New England Compounding Center (NECC) for charges including second-degree murder, racketeering, criminal contempt and mail fraud, in connection with the deadly 2012 fungal meningitis outbreak. The two co-founders of the New England Compounding Center, Barry Cadden and Greg Conigliaro, and 12 other former employees were arrested at their homes around the state early this morning. Tainted steroids manufactured by the pharmacy were blamed for a 2012 outbreak that killed 64 people. About 750 people in 20 states developed meningitis or other infections after receiving the contaminated steroids. Michigan, Tennessee and Indiana were the hardest-hit states. Television News should be more like newspapers and offer in-depth coverage. The job of a journalist is to chronicle events: meetings, speeches, deaths, catastrophes, scientific discoveries, and heartwarming stories. However, the emphasis began changing noticeably in 2010, as it dawned on reporters that chronicling easily identifiable events was sufficient to capture larger, duller audiences. They now cover insignificant issues and trends. The failure of event-based reporting became clear in the Mike Brown fueled race riots in late 2014. Reporters had missed one of the 21^st century’s most significant changes: the migration of African Americans. Had reporters covered the migration and provided information on the festering social divisions that resulted, there might have been a chance to develop public polices before the frustration over the racial injustices blew up, with heavy losses of life and property and great destruction.

Population growth and economic development gradually transformed the landscape of 18^th century British America. Three variations of colonial society emerged: the farming society of the North, the plantation society of the South, and the urban society of the seaboard commercial towns. New Englanders staked their future on a mixed economy. They cleared forest for timber used in barrels, ships, houses, and barns. They plumbed the offshore waters for fish that fed both local populations and the ballooning tax burden. And they cultivated and grazed as much of the thin-soiled, rocky hills and bottomlands as they could recover from the forest. The farmers of the middle colonies—Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York—set their wooden plows to much richer soils than New Englanders did. They enjoyed additional advantage of setline an area cleared by Native Americans who has relied more on agriculture than New England tribes. Thus favored, mid Atlantic farm families, produced modest surpluses of corn, wheat, beef, and pork, and by the mid-18^th century, New York and Philadelphia ships were carrying these foodstuffs not only to the West Indies, always a primary market, but also to areas that could no longer feed themselves—England, Spain, Portugal, and even New England. And in the North, the broad ownership of land distinguished farming society from every other agricultural region of the Western World. Although differences in circumstances and ability led gradually toward greater social stratification, in most communities, the truly rich and abjectly poor were few and the gap between them small compared with European society. Most men other than indentured servants lived to purchase or inherit a far of at least acres. With their family’s labor, they earned a decent existence and provided a small inheritance for each of their children. Settler valued land highly, for freehold tenure ordinarily guaranteed both economic independence and political rights.

Amid widespread property ownership, a rising population pressed against a limited land supply by the mid-18^th century, especially in New England. Family farms could not be divided and subdivided indefinitely, for it took at least 50 acres (of which only a quarter could usually be cropped) to support a single family. In Concord, Massachusetts, for example, the founders had worked farms averaging about 250 acres. A century later, the average farm had shrunk by 66 percent as farm owners struggled to provide an inheritance for three or four sons that the average marriage produced, and the decreasing fertility of the soil compounded the problem of dwindling farm size. When land had been plentiful, farmers planted crops in the same field for three years and then let it lay fallow in pasturage seven years or more until it regained its fertility. However, on the smaller farms of the 18^th century, farmers had reduced fallow time to only a year or two. Such intense use of the soil reduced crop yields, forcing farmers to plow marginal land or shift to livestock production. So when someone tells you that you are from a cow town, remind them that your cows are providing much needed food for the World. However, the diminishing size and productivity of family farmed forced many New Englanders to move to the frontier or out of the area altogether, in the mid-18^th century. One resident, Jaret Eliot reported, “Many of our old towns are too full of inhabitants for husbandry, many of them living on small share of land.” In Concord, one of every four adult males migrated from town every decade from, the 1740s on, and in many towns out-migration was even greater. Some drifted south to New York and Pennsylvania. Others sought opportunities as artisans in the coastal towns or took to the sea. More headed for the colony’s western frontier of Maine and several thousand New England families migrated even farther north, to the Annapolis valley of Nova Scotia. Throughout New England after the early 18^th century, most farmers’ sons knew that their destiny lay elsewhere. Wherever they took up farming, northern cultivators engaged in agriculture work routines that were far less intense than in the South. The growing season was much shorter, and the cultivation of cereal crops required incessant labor only during the spring planting and autumn harvesting. The less burdensome work rhythm led many northern cultivators to fill out their calendars with intermittent work as clockmakers, shoemakers, carpenters, and weaves.

Boston’s weather on 29 April 1695, began warm and sunny, noted the devout merchant Samuel Sewall in his diary. However, by afternoon, thunder, lightning, and hailstones as big as pistol and musket bullets pummeled the town. Samuel Sewall dined that evening with Cotton Mather, New England’s most prominent puritan clergyman. Cotton Mather wondered why more ministers’ houses than others proportionately had been smitten with lightening. The words were hardly out of his mouth before hailstones began to shatter the windows of Samuel Sewall’s house, flying to the middle of the room or father. However, that is not the end of the story either. Faces suddenly appeared in mirrors—faces that were not reflections. The lid on a music box, in the Blue Room, rose of its own accord and music began to play. Shadowy figures appear to glide across the floor. Samuel Sewall felt as though he had walked into someone or something, suddenly, he founded himself racked from head to toe with a cold tingly sensation. He turned quickly and excited, and saw flashes of red light in the adjacent main bedroom. Samuel Sewall and Cotton Mather fell to their knees and broke into prayer, after this awful Providence. These two third-generation Massachusetts Puritans understood that God was angry with them as leaders of the people whose piety and moral rectitude were being overtaken by worldliness. Even if farms were getting smaller and open land scarcer, growth and success had undermined early utopian dreams and made Massachusetts sermon-proof, as one dejected minister reported.

In other parts of the North, the expansive environment and the Protestant emphasis on self-discipline and hard work were also breeding qualities that would become hallmarks of American culture: ambitions outlooks, individualistic behavior, and a love of material things. In Europe, most tillers of the soil expected little from life. With no frontier lands ripe for exploitation, impoverished peasant farmers viewed life not as a quest for achievement, but as a perpetual struggled against famine and disease. In American, starvation was almost unknown, and few obstacles held people back from uncharted expanses of land once they had overwhelmed the Native Americans, and every man, expected one day or another to be upon a footing with his wealthiest neighbor. Commitment to religion, family, and community did not disappear in the 18^th century. However, fewer men and women saw daily existence as a preparation for the afterlife. They began to regard land not simply as a source of livelihood, but as a commodity to be bought and sold for profit. Every man for himself, holy experiment, and the only principle of life propagated among the young people is to get money, and men are only esteemed according to what they are worth, that is, the money they are possessed of. Rather than following the pack, discerning people develop their own criteria for evaluating news sources. There are no cookie-cutter formulas. One size does not fit all.  At its best, journalism is a truth-seeking and truth-telling media activity that is undeterred by anything except serving the public good. In reality, however, journalists do not operate in a pristine environment. Political and social pressures have always existed.  Advertising has been a dynamic in the mix since the penny press period. Today, a great issue is whether journalism can insulate itself from the agendas of the giant corporations that most journalistic enterprises when interest conflict. As it stands, 33 percent of reporters believe that their newsrooms ignore stories that might conflict with the financial interest of their owners or advertisers. The issue of editorial independence is essential to truth-seeking, truth-telling, and inspiring audience trust.  As an alternative syntactical characterization of sentential logic, a natural deduction system has marked advantages. For one thing, it is deductive apparatus consists of inferences rules alone, thus eliminating the awkward business of logical axioms. For another, its method of testing validity of argument forms is much closer to ordinary patterns of reasoning.

The fall of man resulted in a largely negative view of the civil state. One held that save in the ideal case of a Christian commonwealth, earthly states are merely coercive institutions which would not exist had man not fallen and serve simply to issue punishments and remedies for the corruption if human nature. Correspondingly, divine grace is seen by intellects as playing a dramatically elevating part in the reformation and preordination of the will.  However, some believe that humans are subject to civil subordination, and would exists even if the fall of man had not taken place, and hence could not be written off as an extraneous penal imposition; the state possess an optimistic value in its own right. In humanist, ethics, and politics, we want to give a Christian completion; perfection and fulfillment of human nature in the intellect rather than in the will, allows on to view the law as essentially a rule of right reason, rather than as a species of will-based command. Look at the distinction between the righteous price (who remains within the bounds of the law) and the tyrant (who puts himself above the law) had been trenchantly enunciated the non-Roman medieval legal tradition, and clearly presupposes limits to the powers of the chief legal authority. Justify the resistance of tyranny, and follow Roman Law. The silent hog was the swill.

Conspicuous consumption in the articles people buy is a most efficient means of displaying our predatory abilities. People’s automobiles, housing, and especially their clothes give a clear indication of one’s place in the predatory order. If the male of the household is too busily involved in his predatory activities, his wife is expected to carry the burden of displaying the family wealth. She does this in dress and the display of other articles as well as by carefully avoiding any sort of work—the number of people employed is a good index of economic capacity. Moreover, because the leisure class is the high-income class, what work is done should be in strictly pecuniary employments; absentee ownership is preferred, but if some actual work must be done, high management, finance, and banking are ceremonially acceptable. Law is a good profession because the lawyer is exclusively occupied with the details of predatory fraud. Our leisure activities, too, reflect this desire for honorific statue in the culture. Higher education, which makes a person unfit for honest work, is of great value. The leisure class has also cultivated a great interest in sporting activities and rationalizes this on the grounds that they promote physical well-being and manly qualities. It has been said, not inaptly, that the relation of football to physical culture is much the same as that of the bull-fight to agriculture.

Whereas individuals associated with technological employments, such as inventors and engineers, are bold and resourceful, and American businesspeople exhibit a spirit of quietism, compromise, caution, collusion, and chicane. However, businesspeople reap the benefits of the technological society in unearned income. Therefore, the curses and sworn judgments written in the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out on us, because we have sinned against you. You have fulfilled the word spoken against us and against our rulers by brining upon us great disaster. Under the whole Heaven, nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Randolph Harris. There is no such thing as moral responsibility for past acts, no such thing as real justice in punishing them, for the reason that human beings are not stationary existences, but changing, growing, incessantly progressive organisms, which in no two moments are the same. Therefore, justice, whose only possible mode of proceeding is to punish in present time for what is done in past time, must always punish a person more or less similar to, but never identical with, the one who committed the offense, and therein must be no justice.