"But people will die!" That's what some shout whenever anyone proposes cutting government spending. An audience member at a town hall shouted it when Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst said Medicaid shouldn't cover illegal immigrants. Ernst responded with an obvious truth: "We all are going to ...
A little over a week ago more than 7 million of us poured into the streets to reject Trump's dictatorship. That's more than 2% of the adult population of the United States. Historical studies suggest that 3.5% of a population engaged in sustained nonviolent resistance can topple even the most ...
Undermining the principles that made America wealthy is no way to fix poverty. Sen. Bernie Sanders and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez recently participated in a CNN Town Hall. Sanders appears to be passing the socialist leadership torch to AOC. Don't expect her to support collective ownership ...
It is 6:14 p.m. on a Thursday. You're hiking along the Forbes Trail, nestled deep in the Appalachian Mountains somewhere along the Westmoreland-Somerset County lines. It is 19 minutes until sunset, and you have just over a mile to go, mostly uphill, before you are out of the deep forest and in ...
As I’ve entered the latter years of my twenties, I’ve found it increasingly difficult to navigate society. I am particularly fearful of becoming a pariah because of a poorly crafted Facebook post or a viral video of me placing a can of tomato soup back in the chicken noodle section. ...
President Donald Trump's use of the U.S. military to kill persons on speed boats in international waters, or in territorial waters claimed by other sovereign nations -- all 1,500 miles from the U.S. -- has posed grave issues of due process. The Constitution's guarantee of due process requires ...