The “flag burning” controversy has been a hotly debated issue of election-year political opportunism since the Supreme Court’s 1989 decision, in Texas vs. Johnson, that burning the American flag is constitutionally protected free speech.
On June 27, 2006, a proposed constitutional amendment banning the desecration of the flag was narrowly defeated in the Senate, 66-34, [...]

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While I find Christian dominionism to be as dreadful a notion as “white power,” (both ideologies promote the idea that one group of people is somehow superior and entitled to hold a higher status and greater authority than the people whom it perceives as their inferiors) I cannot help but admire religious conservatives’ dedication to [...]

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In a congressional election-year pitch to religious conservatives whose interests have been neglected in favor of far more pressing matters such as the war in Iraq, immigration, and the price of gasoline, President George W. Bush, in his weekly radio address, urged the Senate to pass the Federal Marriage Amendment, asserting that it is needed [...]

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The war on drugs was lost the moment it was declared. As we should have learned from the results of that “Noble Experiment” we conducted between 1920 and 1933, outlawing things that the people, for the most part, usually enjoy without violating the rights of others does not result in orderly and unquestioning compliance, but [...]

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