Hallie Jean Mayes Knauss Culpepper was a vibrant, beautiful woman. She was stylish. She was sharp as a tack. She was good-natured. She was a trailblazer, a businesswoman, a woman who gave to the community and to her...
Yesterday was the last day on earth for Troy Davis and I am angry. I am angry that a potentially innocent man is dead. I am angry that our great country resorts to such barbaric practices. I’m...
Rick Perry has been making a lot of headlines lately with his claim that Social Security is a Ponzi scheme. Before 2008, when Bernie Madoff was arrested for his Ponzi scheme, it’s doubtful most...
Progressives are really good at two things - the internet and petitions. When the two are combined, well, watch out...you have what most progressives call "political activism."We all get them. Hardly a day goes by when...
Last Saturday, nearly half a million people took to the streets of Israel to protest the country's increasing economic inequities. Over 5% of the small country's population flooded Tel Aviv, Jerusalem and other towns and cities...
In a memo dated June 17, John Morton, Director of the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement Agency (ICE) encouraged prosecutors to use discretion when dealing with undocumented immigrants. Like most government agencies, ICE's financial resources are stretched...
With just a whisper of publicity, the Supreme Court weakened the Constitution's 4th Amendment. On a near unanimous 8-1 decision, the justices ruled that police have the right to break into the home of a suspect if...
Conspiracy theories aside, Osama Bin Laden, master mind of the 9/11 attacks and the world's most wanted man, is dead. Conventional wisdom had held that Bin Laden was holed up in a cave in Afghanistan or in...
Sharia law is going to get you. At least that's what some in Tennessee are saying. Nashville lawmakers are holding hearings on SB 1028, a bill that will make providing material support to terrorists a felony. Of course...
Imagine this scenario...it shouldn't be difficult:You have a family. You have a mortgage, two car payments and some credit card debt. You have a job, but for some reason, have recently agreed to take a cut...