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Editorials and columns

Has Trump already lost the Latino vote?

For generations, foreign policy eggheads debated the question, "Who lost China?" I'm wondering if election analysts might soon ask, "Who lost the Latinos?" Almost exactly one year ago, President Trump won an impressive election victory. It wasn't the landslide his boosters claim, but it was ...

Confronting anti-Ellis Island immigration

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. -- or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams. They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, ...

Confronting anti-Ellis Island immigration

Between 1892 and 1954, approximately 12 million immigrants arrived at the now-iconic Ellis Island to enter the U.S. -- or nearly 200,000 legal entries per year. All were registered, documented, and given rudimentary health exams. They arrived as rich and poor, white and non-white, and, ...

Then along came Hitler

John 8:32 “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” Often I have been asked “What is your favorite country?” Or “What is the most beautiful country you’ve traveled in?” But I’ve never been asked “What is the most impressive country you’ve ...

Blessed are the poor, if they are truly poor in spirit

There are few absolutes in this world, death and taxes easily come to mind. Everything else tends to be this or that, and not dogmatic. Only those things of Heaven, or the afterlife are unchangeable. Another view of the difference between this world and Heaven is that change and growth is of ...

The next social epidemic is already here: legalized sports gambling

In 2018, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association. A fractured court, led by a conservative majority, held that the Professional and Amateur Sports Protection Act of 1992, signed into law in the final months of the George H.W. Bush presidency, was ...