If media interviews with voters are to be believed, some people– perhaps many – will cast their midterm votes based on the high price of gasoline. It's one thing to read about high California gas prices; it's another to fill up my 20-gallon rental car with regular gas costing more than $6 ...
In 1978, Ohio police arrested a man named Cledith Arthur for raping his stepdaughter, then 12. On the basis of the evidence of Arthur's guilt presented to it, a grand jury indicted him. Facing trial, Arthur fled the jurisdiction and spent the rest of his life as a fugitive, ducking arrest ...
Latin American democracy is being put to the test in Brazil and Venezuela. At stake is whether the left-wing government in either country can countenance the idea of legitimate opposition. The day after losing Brazil's presidential election, Senator Flavio Bolsonaro had his personal and ...
Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate candidate in Michigan, thinks he's another JFK, not in terms of charm or wit, but as a fellow victim of religious bigotry. When he ran for president in 1960, Jack Kennedy indeed encountered anti-Catholic prejudice, including the preposterous claim that ...
"The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield, and government to gain ground." – Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) The U.S. Constitution was ratified to create and to restrain the government. Its purpose is not to make government more powerful but to keep the government off the ...
There are ways to get famous, to gain power or become rich. The real question isn't whether you want those things, but what you are willing to do to get them. What are you prepared to do? It's the only question that matters. Because you can keep the money or the power or the fame, you can ...
