When the founders wrote the Constitution of the United States, they were very careful to protect certain freedoms.
Many people believe that freedom of speech is most vital to the functioning of a democratic society. As part...
The U.S Senate will be reconvening on September 6, and some of those Senators may be changing their minds about President Barack Obama's choice for Supreme Court Justice.
President Obama nominated Chief Judge Merrick Garland to...
When Donald Trump tapped Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly as White House Chief of Staff, it was widely believed that he would bring a heavy dose of discipline to a White House that was severely...
Most of us use Google each and every day. Sure, other search engines have come along and tried to challenge Google's supremacy as the search engine the world turns to (i.e. Bing), but Google is...
I'm not oblivious to the fact that the South is the butt of many jokes from both sides of the political spectrum. So stumbling upon this video of a Lowndes County Deputy doing his job...
Whenever there is a security breach compromising sensitive information, corporations affected typically offer free credit monitoring services for a specified period of time.
On Thursday, credit agency Equifax experienced a data breach that impacted at least 143 million...
The people of Houston need all the help they can get.
And, yes, they will be receiving it from Quebec, contrary to initial reports.
Tuesday afternoon, Quebec Minister of International Relations, Christine St-Pierre, spoke with Texas Secretary of State Rolando...
At first glance, the tea party looks like right-wing populism run amok. However, as anyone who follows politics to any degree knows, it's actually one of the biggest astroturf projects in recent memory. We got...
When President Donald Trump announced Monday he would be reducing the sizes of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante national monuments in Utah, he delivered the following message:
“The families and communities of Utah know and love this land...
There is no shortage of encouragement and benevolence all around us during this global pandemic.
People get it we are all in this together.
No one embodies this sentiment more than those on the front line, like...
You may recall that several members of the University of Missouri's football team announced that they're going on strike from all team activities in protest of how officials at the main campus in Columbia and...
As 2017 draws to a close, those tracking Donald Trump's approval ratings have run out of ways to show just how rotten they are compared with other newly elected presidents. FiveThirtyEight's latest average pegs Trump's...
This appeal is directed specifically to Millennials and will likely infuriate most of the Baby Boomer generation. I would apologize, but I am really not that sorry. For the past decade or so, Baby Boomers...
Flag burning is in the news, thanks to yet another seemingly impromptu tweet by President-elect Donald Trump. His words reek of a petulant autocrat in the making. Although it's impossible to determine what exactly might have prompted the...
Let us start by clearing up a few misconceptions about Michelle Obama and the fact that she did not wear a headscarf in Saudi Arabia on Jan. 27.
First of all, she was not at a...
815 million people around the world went hungry last year.
This, according to the latest data from the United Nations, is the first increase in global hunger in more than 15 years.
Sweeping initiatives from nations all...
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton will win the election in November.
As long as she does not make any major mistakes in the next 98 days, it appears she will be our 45th President of The United...
Do you think you know a lot about poverty and inequality? You can take a quiz at The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality to find out. Some of the answers may shock you. We...
On Sunday, the New York Times?published a report on FISA, the secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, that has proved to be a real eye-opener. So far, Americans have paid scant attention to FISA and its...
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was at Georgetown Law School this week to give a scheduled talk on campus free speech, and boy did the students and faculty there have opinions about that. In an homage...
