Last week, a half-dozen masked and unidentifiable Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents killed a 37-year-old federal employee, a nurse, by spraying pepper spray into his eyes, pushing him to the ground, stealing his lawfully owned and carried handgun, and then shooting him nine times in the back.
We are living through a period of open lawlessness at the highest levels of government.
A bill intended to stop members of Congress from using their positions to play the stock market with the benefit of inside information was advanced inside the House last week, but was called a “political scam” by critics who say the legislation leaves a lot of wiggle room.
In recent days, the government in America has not only failed to protect the freedom of speech, it has attacked it.
In January 1776, Thomas Paine published Common Sense, a pamphlet that gave voice to the discontent of a nation struggling to free itself from a tyrannical ruler who believed power flowed from his own will rather than the consent of the governed.
It did not take long for President Trump to change the reason for sending the US military to “arrest” Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro and his wife.
U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision last week to kidnap Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro, seize oil tankers, threaten to take over Greenland, and threaten war with Iran was seen as evidence that his second term in office will be devoted to expansionism through military means.
In a scene in Robert Bolt’s famous play “A Man for All Seasons,” about the treason trial of St. Thomas More, More argues with the attorney general of Wales about the law.
What’s missing from the headlines as of late? ANY talk of recession… its just gone.
Democrats have been able to weaponize the word “affordability” to resonate with the American voter who feels like the Trump administration has dropped the ball on the subject, and Republicans seem to be struggling to take back control of the narrative.