On her website, Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton calls for “up to 12 weeks of paid family leave and medical leave” for an employee to “care for a new child or a seriously-ill family member.” She claimed, in her acceptance speech for the Democratic presidential nomination, that this would benefit women with children.

America’s successful melting pot should not be replaced with discredited salad-bowl separatism.

Who would have thought that Donald Trump, of all people, would be addressing the fact that the black community suffers the most from a breakdown of law and order? But sanity on racial issues is sufficiently rare that it must be welcomed, from whatever source it comes.

We keep hearing that "black lives matter," but they seem to matter only when that helps politicians to get votes, or when that slogan helps demagogues demonize the police. The other 99 percent of black lives destroyed by people who are not police do not seem to attract nearly as much attention in the media.