Trump’s one big idea

I stole this idea from Fred Clark at Slacktivist. Here: Read the original. Through all the posturing and insults and Twitter-pouts, Trump’s message boils down to: Some people are legitimate Americans and other people — regardless of citizenship — are illegitimate and not really real Americans at all. And that, sports fans, is precisely what has made …

Surely we can figure out the refugee crisis

I know it’s more complicated than this, but in 1883, Emma Lazarus wrote: Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame, With conquering limbs astride from land to land; Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name Mother of Exiles. …