Collecting My Thoughts

For someone my age, a pedicure is pure luxury, and also a necessity. The salon I've been using the last year and a half has an all Asian...

The CATO Institute has some good information and detail on immigrants vs. native born and their use of the safety net programs. https://www....

We’re still living under emergency powers put in place by previous presidents.  According to Democrats, only President Trump can't call ...

White House documents show that former President Barack Obama banned people at least six times, 2011-2014; President Bill Clinton issued six...

More is coming out about the handsome young Somali refugee, a legal resident, who wounded 9 with his car and a butcher knife at OSU yesterd...

 Syria’s civil war has created the worst humanitarian crisis of our time. Half the country’s pre-war population — more than 11 million peopl...

Multifaith Alliance for Syrian Refugees, pt. 2 (couldn't get the HTML to work) See part 1 here . London School of Economics and Polit...

“In 2015, more people fled from persecution, war, human rights violations, discrimination, and other hardship than at any other time since ...

As I’ve said before, I’m all for resettling Christian refugees from the Middle-east. I think I read somewhere that so far, 53 Christia...

By 2017, the U.S. could accept as many as 100,000 refugees from Syria, up from its current annual total of 85,000, according to the Wall Str...

My letter to President Obama: In light of Paris terrorist attacks, time to pause process of refugees coming to the US. Dear President Obam...

I'm about to offend liberals and conservatives and Christians  alike.  I think the U.S. needs to resettle Syrian Christians. Now before ...

MMWR report in JAMA Of the resettled Iraqi refugees (San Diego) over 18, 24.6% were classified as obese, and 64.3% of those over 65 were h...

There's an "amazing grace" Methodist church in Albany, NY called Emmaus--it has taken in and resettled many refugees including...

Pastor Dave Mann and his wife Pam of Upper Arlington Lutheran Church are teaching in Ouanaminthe, Haiti. This is where my husband will soon...

The Iraqi refugee problem Did you see the recent PBS show on the crisis in Syria, Jordan (and even U.S.) for Iraqi refugees? We did a lousy...