When people are afraid to speak the truth, the world suffers. We have examples of this throughout history, some so familiar that they are in danger of becoming canonical. We’ve all read about the horrors of Nazi Germany, the mass killings in Mao’s China, and the list goes on. But hindsight is always 20-20 and the present moment blurs an eye towards critical observation. Mix that with a generation hellbent on being unobtrusive and liked, along with a pinch of vitriol towards d

From what you wear to what you do with your life, there seems to be a foundational obsession with being different in my generation. Every coming of age movie touts youth with tastes and habits that border on insane, rewrapped in witty dialogue and the beauty of Hollywood’s lovely faces—all in the name and defense of being different. Books, too, once a bastion of reason and depth of thought, have fallen into the same trap, relating characters that have little to no basis in re

“I’m not the emperor of the United States.” – President Obama Thursday President Obama announced he would move forward on reforming immigration without congress. Meaning by executive order (signing an order/degree) he will bypass congress voting on new laws and instead issue them himself. Ironically, our nation is in the situation we are in because the executive branch of government (office of the President) refused to do its job, upholding the laws that are already on the bo