Politics

By Victor Davis Hanson, Wayne and Marcia Buske, Imprimis - First, we are blurring the line between mere residents and citizens. We have between 45-50 million non-native-born residents in the U.S. today — the largest absolute number we’ve ever had. There’s no legal problem with the 30 million of them who have green cards or have acquired citizenship — although even 30 million is a challenge for the American melting pot to assimilate and integrate… But we also have, according to a recent Yale and MIT study, about 20 million people who are here illegally. In regard to them, the classical ingredients of American citizenship — the right to leave or enter the country as one pleases, for example, or to vote in elections, or to reside here as long as one pleases — are being blurred.

By John Zmirak, The Stream - That’s what almost happened to Britain this week. The nation narrowly avoided lopping off its vital members and becoming a Frankenstein monster. It’s hard to convey to Americans quite how insane the British left has gone. Except, of course, to those who live in enclaves like Portland, San Francisco, New York City, or those who work in universities. The anti-Trump “resistance” has not quite dared in most places to plumb the depths of the faction that dominates the British Labour Party, and most of that nation’s media. Not quite.

By Dorothy Cummings McLean, LifeSiteNews - An influential Catholic prelate has praised teen environmental activist Greta Thunberg… Cardinal Peter Turkson, 71, told reporters yesterday that Thunberg is “a great witness to what the Church teaches on the care of the environment and the care of the person.”… “What is her objective? Skipping school for a future, a future that can’t be guaranteed because there is no care for the environment,” he continued.