Social Issues

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‘The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.’ – The Hurt Locker, 2009

‘You still think it’s beautiful to die for your country. The first bombardment taught us better. When it comes to dying for country, it’s better not to die at all.’ – All Quiet On The Western Front, 1930

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Kansas City Chiefs DB Justin Cox-Accused of domestic violence, trespassing and burglary in Mississippi. (AP Photo)

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President Obama has less than a year to put his signature health care act on firmer footing before he leaves office. (Associated Press)

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This Nov. 9, 2015, file frame grab provided by Mark Schierbecker shows Melissa Click, right, an assistant professor in the University of Missouri's communications, during a run-in with student journalists at a campus protest that followed the resignations of the university system's president and the Columbia campus' chancellor in Columbia, Mo. (Mark Schierbecker via AP)

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Refugee woman and a child, wrapped in thermal blankets, walk in freezing weather towards the border with Serbia from the transit center for refugees near northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce on their journey toward Western Europe Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016. Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia, the countries on the so-called Balkan migrant corridor that starts in Greece, are only letting in people whose stated final destination is Germany or Austria. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

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No Speech is Free Speech Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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No Speech is Free Speech Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Refugees try to warm themselves up in a tent at the transit center for refugees near northern Macedonian village of Tabanovce, before continuing their journey to Serbia, on Sunday, Jan. 24, 2016. Macedonia, Serbia and Croatia, the countries on the so-called Balkan migrant corridor that starts in Greece, are only letting in people whose stated final destination is Germany or Austria. (AP Photo/Boris Grdanoski)

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Immigrants from El Salvador and Guatemala who entered the country illegally board a bus after they were released from a family detention center in San Antonio. (AP Photo/Eric Gay, File)

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File - In this Dec. 29, 2015 file photo, a guard checks identification of a person leaving the east gate of San Quentin State Prison in San Quentin, Calif. The prison is the site of the state's lethal injection facility. Californians are preparing to decide whether to resume executions that stopped a decade ago or end them entirely. But while advocates push to put both choices before voters this year, officials overseeing the 746 condemned inmates on the nation's largest death row are moving ahead with plans to use a single lethal drug amid a nationwide shortage of execution drugs. (AP Photo/Ben Margot, File)

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Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nev., joined by Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., speaks with reporters on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2016, before Democrats blocked legislation from the GOP-led House on a bill that would crack down on Syrian and Iraqi refugees entering America. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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A CNN survey conducted this month found that 55 percent of Democratic voters consider Hillary Clinton to be the "least honest" candidate in the race. (Associated Press)

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Andy Slavitt, acting administrator at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. (Image: http://www.cms.gov)

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In this image made from undated video released by China Central Television (CCTV), Peter Dahlin, a Swedish co-founder of a human rights group, speaks on camera in an unknown location. (CCTV via AP Video)

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"This is the way the system gets eroded. This is where public confidence is being destroyed. This is how we're sending a message to the world that you can get away with it," said Sen. Jeff Sessions, Alabama Republican and chairman of the immigration subcommittee, which held a hearing exploring the new numbers, released late Tuesday by Homeland Security. (Associated Press)