In his press conference last week, President Obama announced that he would be sending 300 “non-combat” military advisors to Iraq to help the Iraqi military quell the incursion of the Sunni insurgency.  Calling the group a terrorist cell, Mr. Obama identified American interest in the maintenance of Iraq’s “democratic government.”               All reports indicate […]

              For years now, Congress has been hamstrung by what has come to be called “gridlock.”  In its traditional form the word refers to the situation that occurs when opposing parties control the separate legislative houses, with the result that a particular bill can only pass out of one of the two and thus never […]

              Much is being made of the recent Supreme Court decision in Hall v. Florida.  That’s the death penalty case where the Court decided, by a 5-4 vote, that Florida’s rigid adherence to a specific IQ number (70) for those sentenced to death was unconstitutional.  The decision has garnered a lot of attention, primarily from […]

              It must be loads of fun to be a woman living in rural Pakistan.  That’s where you can get stoned to death for marrying against your family’s wishes or strangled to death by your husband if he would rather be married to another woman.               Those realities came to light over the course of […]