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Okay, readers, hands up if you or your ancestors are/were immigrants to the United States, legal or illegal. All hands up? Even Native Americans came across the Bering Straits or by land. They have the best claim to land, however, since they arrived long before Europeans, Africans and Asians. Then, explain the Mass Deportation signs on display at the Republican National Convention and the anti-immigrant tone to the speeches; and why Republicans just scuttled the bipartisan immigration bill. Should legal and illegal immigrants be deported? If...
Why haven’t we read or heard more about the immuno-compromised who are dealing with the decision to remove mask mandates by a newly-appointed 33-year-old Florida U.S. District judge deemed unqualified by the American Bar Association? The unyielding power of one person in our country, seen over and over, is a defect in our Constitution needing correction (consider Sen. Joe Manchin). In fact, an individual’s health situation may not always be evident. There are veterans, who signed up to protect our freedoms, who may not be able to take adv...
Listening to the news every day is a downer for the most part. All the bad events that are happening in the nation and the world line up on your radio or television stations and online feeds. What a breath of fresh air to hear Cory Booker’s impassioned speech at the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday, March 23. Instead of angry rhetoric that has been the usual discourse, here was a delightful description of the progress people have made in the country to right the wrongs of the past, and a p...
Listening to the news every day is a downer for the most part. All the bad events that are happening in the nation and the world line up on your radio or television stations and online feeds. What a breath of fresh air to hear Cory Booker’s impassioned speech at the U.S. Senate confirmation hearings of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson on Wednesday, March 23. Instead of angry rhetoric that has been the usual discourse, here was a delightful description of the progress people have made in the country to right the wrongs of the past, and a p...
Who would have thought that school board members would be accosted by parents? Who would have imagined flight attendants taking self-defense classes? Who would have considered people would vote for a presidential candidate that mocked someone disabled? Who could believe that patriotic volunteer election officials and secretaries of state would receive death threats? Who would have thought that law enforcement officials would say the quiet part out loud – that they would not enforce the laws? And who would have considered that our competent d...
Having lived in three developing countries for 17 years, I met very fine Americans as well as arrogant, and ignorant Americans. Representatives from the U.S. Embassy, USAID, Peace Corp, U.S. Military, UNICEfF, UNESCO, and missionaries are among those I encountered. Many stayed briefly, never getting to know the culture. Not fitting into any of those categories gave me special insight into others and myself. Most Americans, including me, travel with American glasses and don’t often see what is happening right before our eyes. For instance, in Si...
As children, we hear many insightful stories that are simple, but often full of meaning. The one mentioned above seems to resonate with what is happening in our country today. Right before our eyes, we are seeing over and over the truth. Even though videos and pictures can be altered, it would have been an almost impossible undertaking to make fake videos of what happened that led up to and included the infamous events that took place on Jan. 6. Can we assume that most of the Republicans in the Senate and House are seeing what you and I have...
