Last week, President Joe Biden began his second month in office by ordering an airstrike in Syria without receiving congressional authorization. At about the same time, Biden received a US intelligence report that confirmed what has long been known: that the brutal 2017 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was authorized by Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed […]
Author Archive | Bekah Congdon
Disastrous debate shows the need for another option – NOW!
It is difficult to even come up with words to say after such an embarrassingly childish display. That debate was a joke — just like we knew it would be. It would have been difficult to imagine such a disgraceful event, and yet it was exactly what we should expect from two out of touch […]
June Supreme Court Update
Last month saw several major decisions handed down by the Supreme Court that had an impact on a variety of factors affecting individual sovereignty, including reproductive freedom, the freedom to direct the religious education of one’s own children, and the freedom from state discrimination based upon sexual orientation. The following is a brief synopsis of […]
In the US, Luck is Not on Everyone’s Side
If you ask the average American, today is a day of beer and green-dyed rivers and shamrocks. It’s a day that, in modern times, we set aside simply for enjoying ourselves. We hopefully all find a moment in the day to feel how lucky and blessed we are to have such a day — to […]