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Jun 22, 2018, 1:21 AM

Illegal Immigration and Child Separation

Finally, the Dems may have found an issue they can run on in November. The economy? No, it is very robust and improving further. Consumer confidence is the highest it has been in years. Unemployment? No, it has been...

Dana Janine Diamond

May 27, 2018, 8:07 PM

Saluting the Brave

You can count on me to be a voice of good cheer on this holiday weekend. More school children were gunned down in America than US soldiers were killed in battle last year. Black men are 13 times as likely to...

May 21, 2018, 7:33 AM

Democrats’ Dysfunction

What has happened to the Democratic Party? In my opinion, the broad "new deal" coalition of labor, ethnics, minorities, other disadvantaged persons, liberals and even some moderates forged by FDR during the 1930s in the depths of the Great...

Apr 25, 2018, 4:25 PM

Ban police training with Israel? Dumb idea

CT Training

Durham North Carolina shot itself in the foot when it chose (bad) politics over security

Apr 22, 2018, 8:24 PM

This Month in History — April

Many significant events have occurred in April. Below please find some of them: April 2, 1513 - Spanish explorer Ponce de Leon landed at present-day St. Augustine, and claimed FL on behalf of Spain. St. Augustine is the oldest city...

Dana Janine Diamond

Apr 6, 2018, 9:18 AM

Well, either Evangelical Christians believe, as this research demonstrates, that Trump was anointed by God, which is more cult voodoo than actual Christianity...or, they easily identify with sexual predators. 78% of Evangelicals STILL support Trump, only down 2% from the...

Mar 30, 2018, 6:32 AM

Amend the Second Amendment

Major American Jewish organizations have called for stricter gun-control laws following the mass shooting in February at a high school in Parkland, Florida. In a March 27 Op-Ed in the New York Times, retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens...

Douglas M. Bloomfield

Mar 26, 2018, 11:52 PM

‘Never Again!’ Student Demonstrators Warn: ‘We Vote’

It was a clash of messages and generations. Close to a million showed up on the Mall in Washington and around the country. Their message to the Congress — which had conveniently left town along with President Donald the...

Mar 26, 2018, 11:22 AM

Marching forward

This weekend, liked many others in cities across America and the globe, I marched in the March for Our Lives. And in marching forward, I couldn’t help but think about our country’s future. School shootings cut across divides; like other...

Sandy Wasserman

Mar 26, 2018, 7:49 AM

March for Our Lives and Shabbat HaGadol; my life lived in two places

This is not a memoir or a journal entry, though it may appear to be at first glance. It’s about how I spent last week's Shabbat, my Sabbath on March 24th, 2018. The day known as MARCH FOR OUR...

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