9/18/2018 Dear Senator Young, As a distinguished graduate of the US Naval Academy, a former Naval intelligence officer with a top secret clearance, and a former leader of the VMU-2 intelligence department, I want to know what you think about Trump’s broad and indiscriminate declassification of information related to the Russia probe. If you can, … More An open letter to Senator Todd Young regarding declassifying documents related to the Russia investigation

It’s been nearly a month since an August 9th airstrike by the Saudi coalition destroyed a school bus in Northern Yemen. Over 40 children were killed in the attack by a bomb made in America. Initially, the Saudi’s claimed the bombing in the Saada province had targeted missile launchers, but they have since acknowledged the strike … More The Military-Industrial Complex at age 57: A bomb made in Pennsylvania obliterates a school bus in Yemen.

August 31, 2018: “The results show that insects will cause significantly increased grain loss across many regions of a warmer world.”[1] July 26, 2018: “Trump administration to freeze Obama-era fuel standards for cars, light trucks”[2] These two, recent headlines caught my attention and reinforced to me that humans are failing to put the climate change … More EPA deregulation accelerates the demise of our species. Or, killing humanity is just dumb.

Spoiler Alert- Brooks (R): $1,705,504 Thornton (D): $29,042 Axios published an article on August 28, “Most campaign contributions come from outside candidates’ districts,”[1] that has an interactive map showing the source of campaign contributions for US Senate and House candidates. The data for the map is from the Federal Election Commission (FEC) data repository.[2] The map is a … More Representative Susan Brooks: Campaign finance in Indiana’s 5th congressional district