Deflate Gate is Not Just About Footballs -- It's About The Future of America

The United States is now facing the worst enemy in the nation's history. While many people thought the biggest threat to American society and our way of life was a foreign enemy or a government that does not adequately represent its people or their interests, the truth is much graver. I am, of course, talking about the very serious threat of deflated footballs.

I know what you're thinking? Why does this matter so much? Why are we so obsessed with how much air was in the footballs used during the AFC Championship game?

Accountability in the Media: The Cautionary Tale of 'No-Go Zones'

This week, Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo threatened to sue Fox News for reporting that there were certain areas of Paris that were "no-go zones" for a majority of the city's population -- a story that would later be proven false.

Beginning the day of the Charlie Hebdo shooting, Fox News reported a series of stories centered on the idea of "no-go zones." Such “no-go zones” were portrayed as areas in Europe where non-Muslims and government officials are both banned, and Sharia Law is enforced.

Looking to the Founders: Our First President

Ready to have everything you ever learned in school about the nation's first president thrown out the window?

It wasn't George Washington.

While George Washington was our first president under the Constitution, Samuel Huntington was president of the Continental Congress when the Articles of Confederation were ratified by all thirteen colonies, thereby officially forming the United States of America.

47 U.S. Representatives Co-Sponsor Bipartisan Industrial Hemp Farming Act

Vote Hemp, a major grassroots hemp advocacy group, on Thursday announced the introduction of complementary bills in the U.S. House and Senate, S. 134 and H.R. 525, titled the "

Industrial Hemp Farming Act of 2015," with support on both sides of the political aisle. The Act would remove federal restrictions on the cultivation of industrial hemp, the non-drug oilseed and fiber varieties of Cannabis.

Politics and Religion: Can Religion Help Fix Our Broken Political System?

"There are three things I have learned never to discuss with people: religion, politics, and the Great Pumpkin.” – Linus, in Charles M. Shultz’s Peanuts

The Great Pumpkin notwithstanding, two topics often said to be avoided in polite conversation are politics and religion. Yet citing this maxim in his introductory comments at an event sponsored by the John C. Danforth Center on Religion and Politics, Chancellor Mark Wrighton added: “here, we do both.”

4 Important Regions That Did Not Make Obama's Foreign Policy Agenda

President Barack Obama addressed an array of foreign policy issues in his State of the Union speech on Tuesday, including the ISIL threat, a resurgent Russia, and his policy changes toward Cuba. However, in a sprawling speech to lay out his policy agenda for the next two years, he also did not address some of the most pressing issues of the past year. Here are some of the most striking ones about the U.S.’s role on the international scene.