There has been some discussion in the media lately about whether President Barack Obama is a Muslim or not. Despite a recent survey that showed that as many as 20% of Americans asked believe this might be the case, it is clear from the evidence that this is not true. Just because a person or [...]
About a year ago, we reported here about the plight of Blanca Catt, a young lady who was adopted by a local Portland couple as a baby, raised in the Portland/Vancouver area, and knew only this place as home. Her new parents had adopted her after her birth parents, who had turned to a life [...]
News Item: A group of Muslims in New York City are looking to build a new community center, including a mosque, a few blocks from the site of the former World Trade Center. A small group of “conservative” US politicians have come forward to try to convince us that it would be wrong to build [...]
According to a recent Oregonian article, the issue of racial discrimination in housing is as bad as ever. In the story, we find that the Fair Housing Council of Oregon sent black and white testers with the same credentials into Beaverton and Ashland to look at apartments advertised in newspapers and online. In the tests, [...]
Sometimes you read a story and you just have to wonder how things got this far. An article in today’s Oregonian tells us the story of a 19-year-old Vancouver WA girl named Blanca Catt. Despite having a hard start in life, she had become a success story of a bad situation turning out well. But [...]
Oregon, like all the states, has had it’s share of growth from immigrants from around the world. Most of us in the United States are the descendants of immigrants. Many came from Europe, others came from Asia, Africa, or elsewhere in the Americas. In most cases, our ancestors were met with suspicion or contempt by [...]
There are perhaps twelve million people in the United States today who are working here without the legal right to do so. This figure represents less than four percent of the US population of about 305,000. Yet, if you look around at the news media and online sources, you will find that most of our [...]
We live in a society where we value the lives of some people over the lives of others. What gives us this right to play God? I try to keep this blog local, but sometimes we need to get involved outside the confines of our own safe little homeland. Think back a few years when [...]
