Any true democracy guarantees certain rights and freedoms that a few other countries might not, the most important being the freedom of speech. One of the most fundamental rights in the U.S. Constitution is the First Amendment which protects the right to speech. It guarantees equal opportunity for people of all backgrounds to speak their
Martin Walker, the gifted former Washington correspondent of The Guardian, used to start his speeches saying that the Fourth of July wasn’t a time for sorrow for him, as it was a time when good British yeomen farmers in the colonies revolted against a German king and his German mercenaries. Walker — who now lives
Photo: A button evoking “The Handmaid’s Tale,” a novel about repression of women in a United States that has become a Christian theocracy, hangs on a cork board at the West Alabama Women’s Center in Tuscaloosa, Ala., on Tuesday, March 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Allen G. Breed) It was lunch hour at the abortion clinic, so
Photo: Congressman Gosar accepts the American PATRIOT Award from AMAC CEO Rebecca Weber on Capitol Hill. Representative Paul Gosar, DDS (AZ-04) issued the following statement after receiving the coveted American PATRIOT Award by the Association of Mature American Citizens (AMAC) for consistently standing up against harmful policies and promoting the American values of faith, family
Protesters gather at Indiana University in June 2021 to demonstrate against mandatory COVID-19 vaccinations for students, staff and faculty. SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images S. Shyam Sundar, Penn State With the FDA approval of the Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine and the continued surge of the delta variant, governments across the world have renewed their push to increase
I received an email from an Afghan man who worked with me as a translator during my time as Commander of NATO Training Mission – Afghanistan and Commander of Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan. He wrote, “I am under immense threat for my life,” and asked if I could write a letter to help
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