GOP should stop holding DHS hostage


When Otto von Bismarck compared the process of making laws to making sausage — saying in both cases it is better not to observe the process — he likely never imagined that sausage factories like Congress would keep accidentally shutting themselves down. And yet, come Feb. 27, the Department of Homeland Security is scheduled to […]

ISIS threat to western world persists


This week, the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIS) released a video depicting the beheading of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians in Libya. The video is the latest demonstration of the level of communication ISIS has within its satellite groups. Before I begin, I want to say that I am a Coptic Christian myself. […]

AUMF enaction would be dangerous


In 2002, a young state senator from the 13th district of Illinois had this to say about former President George W. Bush’s proposed war in Iraq: “I don’t oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war.” As he spoke, the nation hurdled […]