There is so much said these days about the need to reform our justice system. But where does that start and what exactly do these changes look like?Should prosecutors be allowed to buck the law and decide not to prosecute certain offenses? Should the system of cash bail be scrapped because poor ...
A few weeks after Christmas late in the 1930s, the president of the United States addressed himself to the problems attendant to 鈥渕aintaining the morals of democracy.鈥滻t was not the first, and it wouldn鈥檛 be the last time, that Franklin Roosevelt spoke of civic virtue. He pretty regularly ...
鈥淕et off our front porch. Get out of our front yard. And stay out of our backyard.鈥漈his might stand as a crude summary of two draft security pacts Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei A. Ryabkov delivered last week as Russia鈥檚 price for resolving the crisis created by those 100,000 Russian ...
For a fuller account of the story relating to the Birth of Christ, one is always directed to Luke Ch2, Matt 1:18-25 and Matt Ch2. The reader can easily harmonize the account and see for themselves the associated drama and scope of reality. As history unfolded, bringing us to today, Christians ...
WASHINGTON 鈥� When I walk by John Calhoun in the Capitol, I stare at his severe portrait and ask, are you happy now with democracy cracking up? And I swear the ghost says yes, fire burning in his eyes.Make no mistake, this Southern senator isn鈥檛 a vestige of the antebellum past. Calhoun鈥檚 ...
If you have at least a couple of gray hairs, you鈥檝e almost certainly fallen into the occasional nostalgic reverie for your younger days, when your energy seemed boundless and life seemed to hold a limitless array of possibilities.And though it鈥檚 part of the human condition to clamp on ...
