Santa has changed in two salient ways since I was a kid – he is making much cooler toys and he has become exceedingly more generous.
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Immigration Report: More Than 1 in 5 DOJ Prisoners Foreign-Born, Vast Majority Here Illegally
Setting the stage for a likely fight in Congress next year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions pointed to the report’s figures as showing U.S. citizens were “being victimized by illegal aliens who commit crimes,” especially drug-related offenses.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities’ by Bettany Hughes
Hughes makes it easy to believe that should human civilization persist another thousand years, Istanbul – by whatever name it may go by at that time – is likely to remain central to its region and the world.
Read More »Theater Review (San Antonio): ‘A Charlie Brown Christmas’
The beloved 1965 animated Christmas special comes to life in an amusing staging by the Magik Theatre company.
Read More »Aliens and UFOs – Either Our Best Hope or Worst Nightmare
I believe Fravor because I too saw something many years ago for which I have no explanation.
Read More »Book Review: ‘Ramas Para Un Nido’ by Viggo Mortensen
'Ramas Para Un Nido' is Viggo Mortensen's latest collection of photographs. A beautiful examination of the details which make up home.
Read More »Weighing Prison Time for Juvenile Offenders
Each crime has individual circumstances and each perpetrator a different background, but one thing we do know is that teen brains are not yet fully developed.
Read More »Roy Moore, Donald Trump, and the Fall of White Evangelical Christians
A little less than of half of the people who cast a vote in Alabama voted for an accused child molester, it took the black vote, especially that of black women, to bring about the right outcome.
Read More »Theater Review (NYC): ‘A Regular Little Houdini’ by Daniel Llewelyn-Williams
This impactful one-man show presents a fascinating tale about the great magician and escape artist and the romanticism found deep in the hearts of the people of South Wales. It sensitizes us to the history and lives of the individuals of that time.
Read More »‘Star Wars’: Why Rian Johnson Isn’t Any Better Than George Lucas
For the past two years, Star Wars fans have been speculating on all of the questions J.J. Abrams' The Force Awakens posed. Who are Rey's parents? Who is Snoke? Where the heck did the First Order come from?
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