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Debate over guns requires clear thinking and facts

Debate over guns requires clear thinking and facts

Nicolas Briscoe October 4, 2017

“We shall draw from the heart of suffering itself the means for inspiration and survival.” These words, spoken with defiant confidence by Winston Churchill to his beleaguered nation, have never lost...

Alabama's Senate run-off decides the future of Trumpism

Alabama’s Senate run-off decides the future of Trumpism

Nicolas Briscoe September 26, 2017

   With the constant shifting of loyalties and landscape in the Senate, each race has the potential to mean the difference in the Republican majority and legislative agenda. In the ever-fractured Republican...

DACA needed to be rescinded to create a permanent solution

DACA needed to be rescinded to create a permanent solution

Nicolas Briscoe September 11, 2017

The raging debate over former President Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) and President Donald Trump’s recent flirtation with ending it is a battle being fought on several fronts....

Charlottesville exemplifies America's regressive tribal politics

Charlottesville exemplifies America’s regressive tribal politics

Nicolas Briscoe August 24, 2017

As a Miami Dolphins fan, the 2014 saga featuring Richie Incognito and Jonathan Martin remains seared in my memory. Beginning in 2012 Incognito, an all-star offensive guard with a well-known mean streak...

Governments should be careful creating hate speech laws

Governments should be careful creating hate speech laws

Nicolas Briscoe July 6, 2017

On June 20, the Sussex Police Force, of Sussex, England, posted a tweet  that would go on to draw mixed reactions from those responding. It read “This man used Facebook to express his hatred for Muslims...

Ossoff does not represent a national trend

Ossoff does not represent a national trend

Nicolas Briscoe April 25, 2017

The decaying of the bridge between politics and representative government has never been more apparent than in this week’s special election in Georgia’s sixth district. Jon Ossoff, a 30-year-old Democrat...

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Nicolas Briscoe April 6, 2017

The vast majority of racial and identity politics today requires a suspension of common sense in order to be understood. “If you are not racist, you are still racist.” “If you are not sexist, you...

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Nicolas Briscoe April 6, 2017

The vast majority of racial and identity politics today requires a suspension of common sense in order to be understood. “If you are not racist, you are still racist.” “If you are not sexist, you...

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Nicolas Briscoe April 6, 2017

The vast majority of racial and identity politics today requires a suspension of common sense in order to be understood. “If you are not racist, you are still racist.” “If you are not sexist, you...

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Nicolas Briscoe April 6, 2017

The vast majority of racial and identity politics today requires a suspension of common sense in order to be understood. “If you are not racist, you are still racist.” “If you are not sexist, you...

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Nicolas Briscoe April 6, 2017

The vast majority of racial and identity politics today requires a suspension of common sense in order to be understood. “If you are not racist, you are still racist.” “If you are not sexist, you...

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Nicolas Briscoe April 6, 2017

The vast majority of racial and identity politics today requires a suspension of common sense in order to be understood. “If you are not racist, you are still racist.” “If you are not sexist, you...

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Identity politics creates a culture of victimhood

Nicolas Briscoe April 6, 2017

The vast majority of racial and identity politics today requires a suspension of common sense in order to be understood. “If you are not racist, you are still racist.” “If you are not sexist, you...

The future of Cuba is capitalism

The future of Cuba is capitalism

Nicolas Briscoe March 21, 2017

The greatest blessing of my life has been my Cuban heritage. The warmth, love and fun that accompany every aspect of Cuban family and culture are incomparable forces for good in my life. In my hometown...

Sensational media incites fear

Sensational media incites fear

Nicolas Briscoe February 20, 2017

In an age of social media obsession, instantaneous access to news (fake and otherwise), and the words “like,” “basically” and “extra” meaning things they were never intended to mean, it should...