Next Tuesday is election day.  For months we’ve been hearing about a coming Red Wave, a Democrat resurgence after the Supreme Court’s abortion decision, then a Republican rebound.  Republicans need to gain 5 seats to control the House, and the Senate, now tied 50-50 requires but one net pickup to put control in Republican hands.  […]

In 1866, Fyodor Dostoevsky published his masterpiece, Crime and Punishment.  The book essentially was a morality play.  The notion that punishment would follow the commission of a crime was not a new concept.  It was founded upon Judeo-Christian religious values.  After one has sinned, one must atone.  Those values were engrafted into our laws, and […]