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Reflections on the US Supreme Court

The United States Supreme Court is the most powerful and respected tribunal in world history. It commands the power of judicial review to invalidate acts of the president or Congress. Its relative impartiality, compared with the legislative and executive branches, finds expression in ...

The pursuit of happiness, spiked

WASHINGTON -- The Trump whirling dervish has come and gone to Turkey -- to demand NATO hand over Greenland! -- leaving a city exhausted by his wild Fourth of July displays. But first, it was so great to see legions of World Cup soccer fans all over the world, at all hours, cheering on their ...

America's Momentous Birthday

I consider it an incredible blessing to have witnessed two of America's great milestone birthdays: the 200th celebration in 1976, when I was a rising second grader, and now the 250th anniversary as an older, seasoned adult. Looking back to 1976, as a kid, I enjoyed the fireworks and the parades I watched on television, and for me, this was a time of innocence when I began to learn about our country's principal ideals of freedom, individual liberty, opportunity and democracy. Although the suffering of Native Americans was glossed over in school, and the contributions and achievements of ...

Behind the brick walls of hurt and anger

This is a vulnerable topic for me because anger has been my greatest weakness, and words have often been my weapons throughout much of my adult life. My hope is that sharing this journey will help others like me gain a greater understanding of how to gain traction over anger and the hurt that ...