"My wife was the love of my life, she's gone, my children have to suffer without their mother. Now my rights are being taken away. As an American, I have the right to my day in court. I want senators to know that the gun industry must be responsible for what they sell."

Those are the words of a distraught James Ballenger, husband of Hong ( Read more... )

     The conservatives on campus already see me as some crazed liberal, finding fault with the current administration over its respect, or lack of respect paid to its controlling document, The Constitution.

And now for the campus liberals to view me as some crazy conservative as I take this space to inform about one of the most discouraging ( Read more... )

     Perhaps I should have stated last week that I intended this column to be the first in a two part series. I made a considerable number of statements which while true, many may consider irrelevant due to the necessity of our times.

Many that I have spoken with agree that the concept behind both racial and religious profiling is inconsistent ( Read more... )

     "We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

"We hold ( Read more... )

     Last week I spoke about our civil liberties. We have reached a point where we can be considered guilty based on our association, no matter how small, with suspected groups.

Today, let us see what has happened to the notion of due process which is guaranteed to us all as citizens in this nation. Let us see what has occurred to the concept ( Read more... )

    In the United States of America, you are innocent until proven guilty.

Or that used to be the case anyway.

The song goes “And I’m proud to be an American where at least I know I’m free.
And I won’t forget the men who died, who gave that right to me.”

But in this new age, post “War on Terror” is it possible that we’re forgetting ( Read more... )

    I'm fairly certain that, barring the remote possibility that you've been living under a rock for the last month or so, you're aware of what is currently going on in California. It seems that, an old, and rarely called upon law in California allows the people to recall their governor.

The first step of a California gubernatorial recall is a ( Read more... )

"As nightfall does not come at once, neither does oppression. In both instances there is a twilight when everything remains seemingly unchanged. And it is in such twilight that we all must be most aware of change in the air - however slight - lest we become unwitting victims of the darkness." --Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas ( Read more... )