“As was foreseen by the Constitution, foreign policy must be left to the executive branch or future presidents will lose the credibility necessary to conduct diplomacy. Recent events have proven that Congress has ample leverage to influence that policy: we cannot afford let the world believe that it…”
“Keep in mind that 95% of convicts WILL rejoin the rest of us. If all our prisons do is punish them, then the ex-cons they produce will be MUCH more dangerous than when they were arrested. The Constitution does not allow us to simply execute criminals en masse, so we have no choice but to focus on re…”
“Border control won't stop this: prescription abuse begins domestically, then brings in foreign heroin to support the habit. Holding abusers accountable won't help either: abusers no longer care what happens to them, so the REAL cost is to all the innocent families that are utterly destroyed. We mus…”
“Given the alternative of more benefits for "job creators", I would much prefer to raise the minimum wage. The working poor will create jobs by immediately spending their wages right here in the US. Corporate "job creators", on the other hand, would prefer to spend their benefits on cheap overseas l…”
“I do not believe this will solve the problem, but we cannot sit back and argue while mass murder continues. This will allow us to take proactive steps whose success or failure will shed light on the nature of terrorist movements, a proactive form of to research that will hopefully develop the insigh…”