Current Events
Republicans Miss the Real Issue Regarding TSA Scanners
The Transportation Security Administration (TSA) is back in the news again, and, as usual, it is not because the agency did something noteworthy. The TSA was established by the Aviation and Transportation Security Act (S.1447) that was passed by the 107th Congress and...
Ukraine War Shows How far U.S. has strayed from George Washington’s Foreign Policy
Its involvement in the war between Ukraine and Russia reveals just how far the United States have strayed from the foreign policy articulated by Pres. George Washington. During Washington’s presidency, conflict in Europe broke out following the French...
Bush and His Torturers
Last week, prosecutors and defense counsel at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, completed three weeks of plea negotiations. At the end of the three weeks, the military judge presiding over the trials of the five plotters of the attacks on 9/11 signed an order reflecting that...
End the Fed and Get More Doritos
The US government’s Consumer Price Index indicates prices have increased 7.9 percent in the last year. While this statistic shows the highest rate of increase in forty years, it still understates the amount prices have increased, in part because the statistic is...