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Last Saturday in Atlanta, 8-year-old Secoriea Turner was killed while riding in a car with her mother and a family friend who was driving. According to police, as the driver attempted to enter a parking lot where a group of protesters had illegally placed barricades, armed individuals opened fire on the vehicle, striking it multiple times and killing Turner. Secoriea Turner was black, as is a person of interest police are seeking in her killing. So, in admonishing blacks to choose whether they want to be upstanding citizens who happen to be black or, well, that other word – we...

Typically, when I disagree with my good friend Allen West it is over my belief in the merits of a good cigar and his stubborn belief that green tea is the elixir of angels. So, with respect to his June 15, 2020, commentary titled: "The Great Society Has Failed," (cnsnews.com) I submit what he and others call failure is the desired outcome. I believe that secretly the "success" of Lyndon Johnson's Great Society Program must be measured by what reasonable minds view as an unmitigated disaster vis-à-vis the destruction of the nuclear family, specifically the nuclear family of Americans who...