Browsing: Opinions

Dr. Claud Anderson, best-selling author and President of The Harvest Institute, says, “Whether it is building a wall or open admission of immigrants, the partisan debate on immigration shut down the federal government and furloughed hundreds of thousands of employee, but has ignored a core issue: the effects of immigration on Native Blacks, the most vulnerable citizens.” The Harvest Institute, a Washington, D.C. based non-profit policy and advocacy organization, has released an article on its website at www.HarvestInstitute.org, meant to address that issue.

     Georgia Governor Brian Kemp’s proposed $3,000 teacher pay increase is not deserved by some teachers is the message of a January 3, 2019 article in The Economist, The rise in American high-school graduation rates looks puffed-up.

     One of the most brutal dictators on Earth, Vladimir Putin, is a happy despot these days. His boy Trump has been performing even better than commanded. Yes, we know from past pondering that Putin was getting some of the joy he ordered up, but consider how his smirk is now an uncontrollable grin as he reflects on our Trump-inflicted nation, his enemy:

A special Task Force comprised of civic, business, professional and faith-based leaders has organized to ad-dress the plight of hundreds of families in Tallahassee, Fla, who are being heavily impacted by the partial government shutdown. Tallahassee, this is a clarion call for “Hope, Help, Healing, and Harmony!”  The duration of the present government shutdown has far surpassed our original expectations.   This shutdown is the longest stoppage in the history of this great country.