In the past 48hrs, the USA horrifically lost 34 people to mass shootings. On average, across any 48hrs, we also lose… 500 to Medical errors300 to the Flu250 to Suicide200 to Car Accidents40 to Homicide via Handgun Often our emotions respond more to spectacle than to data. — Neil...

While the cacophony of complaints regarding the crisis at the southern border has died down over the last few weeks, the recent, multi-year surge in migration to the United States through that border is predicated on just a few facts.  First, large scale migration from the part of central America...

Since it appears – probably based on JD Vance’s comments implying the impending death of the libertarian grasp on GOP policy – to be a day for weighing in on the future of conservatism, this blog will endeavor to do the same. Many rightists are taking the position that the...

A very quick post on GOP Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell in light of today’s unconditional surrender by Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi on the emergency border appropriations bill on the precipice of passage by Congress. By no means was this bill some boondoggle for the Republican Party or...

Imagine paying into a government program such as Social Security or Medicare for 40-50 years and then expecting to receive a return upon hitting the age requirement for collecting benefits from said programs. You must be “left of center” on economics, some assessors of ideology believe. Imagine indicating support...

In recent days, a skirmish has broken out between two types of religious conservatives on the American political right–those who favor individual protections of religious liberty and those who favor an effort to utilize the powers of the state to promote the “common good.”  Effectively, the latter camp believes...

Prior to his death, the late conservative firebrand Andrew Breitbart was apparently fond of saying that “politics is downstream of culture.”  After the 2016 election season, Breitbart’s prediction was routinely hailed, with the political rise of “cultural icon” Donald Trump to the Presidency utilized as an example of its...

Forty-six years after the decision in Roe v. Wade was handed down by the Supreme Court, the topic of abortion has yet again surged to the forefront of the American political conversation. In recent days, state legislatures in several conservative states have taken direct aim at the holding in...

In my article from earlier this week, I referenced a differential standard applied by Republicans and Democrats for federal judges whose qualifications are believed to be solid but whose perceived ideology is contrary to the party which did not make the nomination. In effect, the piece argued that Republicans...

Last week, President Donald Trump announced that he was nominating Judge Peter J. Phipps to the Third Circuit Court of Appeal (the appellate court for the federal districts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and the Virgin Islands). The elevation of Phipps – who has served as a district court...