government shutdown has been more common in recent years so there was a possibility, but there has always been a relatively quick fix to them -- pass a budget or continuing resolution. In this case, Congress passed a combination in the form of the $1.1 trillion cromnibus.

cromnibus. As a result, the government will not shutdown. Crisis adverted, right? Not exactly.

"If a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.” – Mark 3:25“Politics at its purest is philosophy in action” – Margaret Thatcher“Every difference of opinion is not a difference of principle.” – Thomas Jefferson

Whereas to many outside the liberty movement, including the mainstream media, politicians like Rand Paul seem quite libertarian, many Americans who actually call themselves “libertarians” seem to despise Rand Paul for not being libertarian enough in various areas, and so they call him a “neo-con” or a “shill”

intelligence gathering and another increases sanctions on Russia and purports to allow the president to militarily arm Ukraine.

2015 National Defense Authorization Act passed Congress recently, and the details of the bill have military families worried.

CIA torture report summary was released to the public. As compelling as her words may have been, however, her vocal condemnation of the use of torture serves only to distract from the fact that she has no interest in actually preventing any U.S.

CIA torture report this week, America is once again getting nothing but bad press about our involvement in the Middle East.

But what would historians say 100 years from now, once outside of the immediate politics and partisanship of the issues. Would they think that the wars in the Middle East were worth it?

In light of retaking the Senate and winning the most House seats since World War II, the majority of Republican lawmakers are looking to create as close to a bipartisan path forward as possible.

Discussions of the morality of torture have a bad habit of descending into a common game-theory scenario derived from the "Trolley Problem."  It goes  like this: imagine that your entire family was locked in a building that was going to blow up in ten minutes. You don’t know where the bomb is, but you have the person who placed it in custody. Would you torture the person in order to save your family?

Approaching the subject of racism is hard for a couple of reasons: there are no common definitions to reference what racism is, why it is, or where it comes from; and talking about racism makes people uncomfortable, offended, and sometimes angry.