Last week, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki rightly referred to the situation at the southern border as a “crisis on the border,” but then quickly walked it back after reporters asked if her comments represented a change in the Biden administration’s assessment of the deluge of migrants at the border.

During the early 1930s, Joseph Stalin was consolidating his power in the Communist Party and purging anyone that criticized him. He called them “enemies of the people” (that sounds familiar) and arrested them. During the peak of these purges, over seven million Soviet citizens were arrested, and millions more died in prison camps (or gulags).

Good ideas are not intrinsically “left” or “right.” They are rooted in common sense. Thomas Jefferson said, “I can never fear that things will go far wrong where common sense has fair play.” Ralph Waldo Emerson commented that “nothing astonishes people so much as common sense and plain dealing.

From back in 2019, when Joe Biden released a video announcing his decision to run for president for a third time, the headlines positioned him as the “return to normalcy” candidate. “Joe Biden’s presidency could make America normal again,” screamed The New York Post,.

And that was after the Trump tax cuts, which increased middle-class household income by $4,000 in just three years (compared to only $1,000 per household gain under Obama in eight years); and reduced unemployment to a 49-year low (compared to the highest jobless rate for any administration since the end of World War II under Obama).

There are always motivations to do what is wrong in order to gain something. Maybe it’s lying on a resumé to get a job or taking something from someone that doesn’t belong to you just because you wanted it (or needed it).

The Court wrote, “But even in a pandemic, the Constitution cannot be put away and forgotten. The restrictions at issue here, by effectively barring many from attending religious services, strike at the very heart of the First Amendment’s guarantee of religious liberty.

Too many people today are too willing to go along to get along. Yet it’s true in Matthew 5:9, where the Bible says, “Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.” And in Romans 12:18, where it says, as much as possible, “Live at peace with everyone.