Keith Burgess-Jackson, J.D., Ph.D.

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Here are highlights from Stage 1 of the Giro d'Italia (Tour of Italy).

Best of Prism (1996).

I was at the May Day march. I volunteer with one of numerous organizations that were present, permitted and peaceful. Our goal was to promote protection and solidarity between all people who call the United States home and to peacefully draw attention to the problems that immigrants face here. Our right to peacefully assemble was disrespected when the anarchists and police turned it into their own personal battlefield.

All I saw from the anarchists was cowardice and selfishness. They cover their faces to avoid identification; they shield themselves in a large group of peaceful demonstrators. They wreak destruction and the police chase them; downtown Portland becomes an obstacle course for a game of cat-and-mouse. I wonder if it occurred to any of these "anarchists" that their destructive actions give the police free rein to arrest anyone associated with the protest—including someone to whom an arrest could be especially detrimental, like an undocumented immigrant.

And all I saw from the police was indiscriminate authoritarianism. Although the permitted demonstrators remained peaceful, Portland Police revoked our permit to peacefully assemble as punishment for the anarchists being in the same vicinity.

The current presidential administration seeks to revoke the rights of millions of immigrants in this country. On May Day, the Portland Police Bureau and the anarchists did a great job of following suit. As usual, the ones who suffer are the ones who are doing nothing more than peacefully exercising their rights, and our message is diluted as the media sensationalizes the chaos.

Brynn Macaulay, Southeast Portland

It was a GREAT day for the United States of America! This is a great plan that is a repeal & replace of ObamaCare. Make no mistake about it. pic.twitter.com/fYtghBlXxS

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 5, 2017

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Why do so many Democrats, liberals and progressives still think Hillary Clinton would make a better president than Donald Trump?

She has a political organization that dates continuously from Bill Clinton’s Arkansas governorship. Her key political advisers and managers were kept on standby, employed at the Clinton Foundation between campaigns.

This was Hillary Clinton’s second presidential campaign. And she was endorsed by most of the media, except Fox News and Rush Limbaugh.

Her campaign gathered and spent nearly twice as much money as did Trump’s (and Democrats continually complain about the effect of big-money contributors toward winning political campaigns).

With all of this going for her, she couldn’t defeat Trump (nor Barack Obama, for that matter). So why would she be a better president?

Domestically and internationally, winning is the name of the game.

Harvey A. Jetmore Jr.

Lenexa

I am watching the Democrats trying to defend the "you can keep you doctor, you can keep your plan & premiums will go down" ObamaCare lie."

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 4, 2017

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