First impressions can be lasting, or fleeting. I don’t know which it will be with my first imipression of The Pilot’s new online design, but overall I like it.

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https://www.pilotonline.com/opinion/letters/article_d1e6637a-c2bb-11e9-a2a5-2b3ff8e924bc.html

The writer sates, “The overwhelming mass shootings are by angry white men.” This is both true and false.

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The letter writer says, “Nothing has scared me more than looking at my child’s face with a look of hopelessness.”

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The writer of this LTE reasons that consumer price inflation reulting from a $15 an hour minimum wage will be offset by lower taxes as the welfare rolls are cleared through higher employment. This assumption is a leap of faith for several reasons:

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The editors misread Emma Lazarus’s poem, The New Colossus.

You don’t need a WordPress account to reply to posts in this forum, but having one makes posting easier (once logged in you don’t have to re-enter your email addy and username every time you reply to an existing post) and it creates the option to be given “Author status” by the site owner. You need Author status to create new, original posts that other’s can comment on.

It is easy to create a WordPress account, and only takes a few minutes. The process involves creating your own blog site, but you are under no obligation to maintain it, or even ever to use it. No one will see it unless you intentionally publish it.

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Interesting perspective from a former Deputy Secretary of State under Henry Kissinger.

Abraham Lincoln was assassinated on April 14, 1865.

https://pjmedia.com/trending/there-are-10000-illegals-from-terror-states-at-large-in-the-u-s-ice-reports/

Stories like this one are one reason I support construction of a border wall. Broadly speaking, there are many issues to consider within the topic of immigration, but none of them matters unless and until our borders can be sealed where they need to be.

https://pilotonline.com/opinion/columnist/guest/article_9df492fc-b07e-5333-a17d-60aa7ada9490.html

“Economics is all about the allocation of scarce resources. There are no gains without costs. Is one really prepared to let the world perish rather than allow the smallest injustice?”