Paul Luvera Journal

My view is that this nation has both the right and the responsibility to regulate immigration and to remove individuals who are legally subject to removal, particularly those who commit serious crimes. But that authority must be exercised through the rule of law—with due process, fair hearings, and respect for individual rights. Effective immigration enforcement should focus its greatest resources on people who pose a genuine threat to public safety, rather than treating every undocumented immigrant as a criminal. What…

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That’s what Senator Everett Dirksen, the Republican Senate Minority Leader from Illinois, said about government spending sixty-four years ago at a  Republican leadership press conference. It has been pointed out that “A government that spends more than it takes in eventually discovers that math doesn’t vote.” Our federal government and the Democratic Party in the state of Washington will experience the reality of that quote unless they change their approach to government spending & taxation. As a lifelong Democrat, it…

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The editorial board of The New York Times recently published an opinion that is worth reviewing. The subject is that the President of the United States sued the United States for $10 billion dollars for his alleged wrongful treatment. The Justice Department was intended to be an independent judicial body that enforces our laws, but he removed the Justice Department head and staff with his own appointees. He appointed his own personal attorney as head of this department and then…

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Donald Trump has many upsetting quirks and idiosyncrasies. Two are particularly noticeable. One is his obsession with putting his name on anything that is available. The other is his habitual use of threats, intimidation, reward, or punishment to get his way. The most annoying one is, however, his obsession with self-aggrandizement. TRUMP’S “KILROY WAS HERE” OBSESSION His name obsession reminds me of the historical phenomenon “Kilroy Was Here.” That history is one of graffiti from World War II.   This simple…

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