Veritas – Truth – is the motto of Harvard University. Harvard is not a perfect institution, but in its current battles against the Trump Administration, it has Veritas on its side, at least when it comes to its lawsuits. As pundits, legal scholars, academics and left-leaning politicians have been stressing for as long as Trump […]
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Immigration Lessons from the Bible
We in the United States remain in a season of partisan contention, angst, uncertainty, resistance, divisiveness, and a recent government shutdown. One of the major issues of disagreement between our political parties is that of the “dreamers,” those young people brought to the US illegally as children by their parents, and the Obama-era measure put […]
Doublespeak and American “Greatness”
Supporters of President Trump may not agree with this, but many Americans (and presumably others around the globe) would maintain that much of what Trump, other administration officials and many conservative lawmakers consistently use is doublespeak – “language used to deceive usually through concealment or misrepresentation of truth.” The term was originally associated with George […]