I wonder whether President Donald Trump could pass a merit-based immigration panel of non-immigrants or descendents of non-immigrants. That group should include Native Americans.
Judging by his history, actions, words, morals and character, what do you think his chances would be of qualifying?
Jim Siress
Overland Park
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— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 26, 2018
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— Montreal Expos ⚾️ #HallOfVlad (@Montreal_Expos) January 24, 2018
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Europe's slow-motion suicide continues apace. Americans should take note. I'm glad I won't be around when Muslims impose sharia law on everyone.
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My friend Tom Riness died 40 years ago today in a car-train accident in rural Michigan. He was 21. Nobody knows what happened. Tom was on his way to work (as a surveyor) on a cold winter morning. Perhaps he was wearing headphones and didn't hear the train whistle. Perhaps he tried unsuccessfully to race the train. Perhaps he tried to stop but slid on the ice. Perhaps he killed himself.
I have thought about Tom many times over the years, always fondly. I miss him. It saddens me that I have had 40 wonderful years to live that he never had. I'm sure that he would have had a long and successful career as an architect, for he had just received his degree in architecture and had even designed a house already. I know that he wanted kids and would have had a large, loving family. A few days before he died, he asked me to be in his wedding. The house that he designed, as far as I know, is still there, a tangible tribute to the man who conceived it.
Tom's father had a fatal heart attack a year or so before Tom died. A day or so after Tom died, we had a blizzard. One of Tom's friends brought his tractor over to clear the roadway, so that people could pay their respects to Tom's mother. The tractor slid into the ditch, pinning the friend against the seat. He suffocated. A year or so after Tom died, his brother Bill died in a motorcycle accident on a lonely road near Bad Axe. In the space of four or five years, Tom's mother lost her husband and both of her sons. It's heartbreaking.
Life is precious and fragile. Don't take it for granted.
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Here is Kurt Schlichter's latest column.
The president of the United States recently tweeted that the East Coast, in the grip of unseasonably cold weather, “could use a little bit” of global warming. The other night, I heard a radio interview with a coal company executive who cast doubt on the existence of global warming because temperatures in West Virginia, his home state, have recently been in the single digits.
I would respectfully ask both of these men to spend a few seconds reading a brief news article in the Jan. 19 Post-Gazette. “2017 Among Earth’s Hottest Years on Record.” This article reminds us not to conflate the weather we happen to be experiencing locally with climate patterns affecting the entire planet.
While our corner of North America recently experienced colder than normal temperatures, Alaska recorded its warmest December on record. In southern Australia, people are facing possible power outages because of a record heat wave, with temperatures exceeding 104 degrees.
Weather fluctuates daily and seasonally. Climate, by contrast, relates to patterns of weather over time across regions, continents and the globe. As this news article reminds us, those patterns indicate that the Earth is getting warmer and that, depending on what measurement technique is used, 2017 was either the second- or third-hottest year on record.
ELEANOR MAYFIELD
Squirrel Hill
Note from KBJ: Eleanor Mayfield is correct: climate is not the same as weather. I hope she writes this same letter (with appropriate changes) next summer, when climate alarmists cite hot weather in support of the global-warming hypothesis. By the way, isn't it possible that President Trump was joking? Leftists have no sense of humor. They're dead serious to the point of insufferability. Lighten up! Enjoy life! Is it any wonder that conservatives are happier than progressives? My leftist friends are miserable, joyless people. I wonder sometimes why they don't kill themselves to escape what they consider an awful existence. Remember: If you're unhappy (and certainly if you're miserable), your demise increases the average happiness of the world.
