This section is devoted to studying the local impacts of specific issues the Trump Administration or Republican Congress will propose. Artwork by Hilary Co by Lyle Harris Sr. Donald Trump used the term “shithole” countries then denied he had said it. But Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL), said Trump [Read More...]
This section is devoted to studying the local impacts of specific issues the Trump Administration or Republican Congress will propose. by Lyle Harris Sr. For an historical reflection on today’s Trump-GOP dominance, David Brooks, a conservative (of the old school) political writer, focused on the Nobel Prize author Thomas Mann, [Read More...]
This section is devoted to studying the local impacts of specific issues the Trump Administration or Republican Congress will propose. by Lyle Harris Sr. Why does politics escape careful examination? Why do some people in their professional field quickly distinguish falsehood from fact and rarely fall for unreliable information, but [Read More...]
Artwork by Hilary Cole by Bob Schober Consider this story: Two gay men walk into a bakery and ask to buy a cake for their wedding. The owner, citing religious conscience, declines. The two men sue the owner and win in lower courts, but the owner appeals, and [Read More...]
by Lyle Harris Sr. Would our country be better off with Vice President Mike Pence as president or with Donald Trump? That question has been raised many times starting just weeks after Trump’s inauguration in January. The question can be broken down to this: would our country be served better [Read More...]
by Bob Schober This section is devoted to studying the local impacts of specific issues the Trump Administration or Republican Congress will propose. “The Bible insists that the best test of a nation’s righteousness is how it treats the poorest and most vulnerable in its midst.” Jim Wallis, Christian writer [Read More...]
by Lyle Harris Sr. Even before the tragic events in Charlottesville in which Heather D. Heyer was killed when white supremacist James Alex Fields Jr. rammed his car into a group of protestors, two Republican senators, Jeff Flake of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, were speaking out against [Read More...]
This section is devoted to studying the local impacts of specific issues the Trump Administration or Republican Congress will propose. Artwork by Hilary Cole by Lyle Harris Ronald Reagan said this in 1983: “Since the founding of this nation, freedom of the press has been a fundamental tenet [Read More...]
This section is devoted to studying the local impacts of specific issues the Trump Administration or Republican Congress will propose. by Bob Schober “A person is forced by the sparseness of what is outward and visible in all this land and sky … what seems stern and almost empty is [Read More...]
This section is devoted to studying the local impacts of specific issues the Trump Administration or Republican Congress will propose. by Bob Schober “Words may show a man’s wit, but actions his meaning.” — Benjamin Franklin “Actions speak louder than words. Words cost nothing. Actions can cost everything.” — Aleksandra [Read More...]