Today is Friday, August 12, 2022. This is the Daily Article podcast written by Dr. Jim

Denison and narrated by Chris Elkins of the Denison Forum. The warrant to search former

President Donald Trump's Mar-a-Lago home in Florida could be unsealed as soon as this afternoon.

This, after Attorney General Merrick Garland announced yesterday that the Justice Department

had filed a request in court that the search warrant and property receipt from the search

be unsealed.

Late last night, Mr. Trump encouraged their immediate release.

Since the search of Mr. Trump's home last Monday, threats against the FBI

and the Justice Department have escalated to such a level that some have called for the assassination

of federal agents and of Mr. Garland. As one example, an armed man reportedly attempted to breach

the Cincinnati FBI office yesterday. When law enforcement officers tried to take him into custody, he raised a gun at them and was fatally shot.

In other news, the number of homicides in Philadelphia is on track to become the highest in police records.

Two people, including one teenager, are in custody for fatally shooting an off-duty police officer in California.

An Indiana police officer was critically wounded in a shootout following a traffic stop and search for possible narcotics.

The police department in Austin, Texas, is investigating three separate shootings that occurred within three hours yesterday morning.

And a gunman shot and wounded a police officer and two other people Wednesday in California.

In 1976, Ronald Reagan said of Americans, millions of us ask nothing more, but certainly nothing less, than to live our own lives

according to our values, at peace with ourselves, our neighbors, and the world.

Five decades later, we wonder if such peace is so elusive as to be impossible in our divided,

violent nation. It has been estimated that since America's birth in 1776, our nation has been at war for

93% of our existence. Each year, more than 1.6 million people around the world lose their lives

to violence. In Why We Fight the Root of War and the Paths to Peace, Professor Christopher Blatman of the University of Chicago explains the five reasons why groups, including nations, gangs, sex, and factions, resort to armed conflict.

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