John Whitehead: A Graduation Message for a Dark Age
"Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness."
"Overcoming the evils of our age will require more than intellect and activism. It will require decency, morality, goodness, truth and toughness."
"In one case, federal officials had turned over eight immigrant children to human traffickers."
Parents concerned about mass murders perpetrated in gun-free zones should ditch public schools for safer alternatives with better educational outcomes, writes Thomas Eckert.
"McCain, who is battling brain cancer, writes that the Iraq War 'can’t be judged as anything other than a mistake, a very serious one, and I have to accept my share of the blame for it.'"
"The fact that this criminalizes speech against a public official is even more concerning."
"The judge admitted that whether one is allowed to film certain court procedures comes down to where a comma is placed in the law."
"Why the lie? Why keep saying that U.S. soldiers have died protecting our rights and freedoms? Because the truth is too embarrassing and too shameful."
"Thanks to a combination of sloppy drafting and clear reluctance to take the executive branch head-on, Corker and Kaine’s proposed AUMF could do the opposite, handing genuinely tyrannical powers over to the president."
"It was a banality of evil that characterized the mindsets of bureaucrats who worked in the Nazi governmental machinery. They were just enforcing the rules. It is that banality of evil that pervades the bureaucracy that enforces the U.S. federal war on drugs."
"States that have legalized either recreational or medicinal marijuana now lead the way in companies which are dropping drug tests."