A Humanitarian Crisis That Brings Out the Worst In Us
Posted in Main Blog (All Posts) on July 17th, 2014 11:08 pm by HL
A Humanitarian Crisis That Brings Out the Worst In Us
Mike Littwin, RealClearPolitics
There is a rush to send the children back. That’s the message we get from Washington. There are 50,000 unaccompanied minors at the border now. The number may grow to as many as 90,000 by year’s end. It doesn’t seem to matter so much why they came here, just so long as they go. We hear stories. We hear awful stories. Stories of rape and murder and even dismemberment. There is the now famously sad quote from the young boy to the Women’s Refugee Commission: “In El Salvador, there is a wrong — it is being young. It is better to be old.” The young are…
Children’s Deportations; God and Man in Arkansas; Apollo 11
Carl M. Cannon, RealClearPolitics
Good morning. It’s Wednesday, July 16, 2014. Forty-five years ago today, at 9:32 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time, Apollo 11 was launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Destination: the surface of the moon. On their third day in space, after having voyaged 240,000 miles, astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin, and Michael Collins entered into lunar orbit. The following day, Sunday, July 20, 1969, the landing vehicle known as Eagle, with Armstrong and Aldrin aboard, separated from the command module and began its historic descent to a place on the moon’s surface named…