• Our politicians talk, constantly, about how the United States is “the greatest country on earth” but they’re oddly reluctant to pursue the policy implications of the fact that millions of people around the world agree with them about that. We treat the desire to migrate here with suspicion, as a problem we need to solve with better guards and biometric identity verification systems rather than as something that should be taken at face value.

    —

    Immigration in the 2012 debates: The missing issue.

    My ultra-liberal political platform in three bullets:

  • The overall messages of the conventions by the two major political parties offer voters two vastly different visions for America. One party offers a nightmare for the nation, and the other a bright future for it. The onus for us voters is to cut through all the hype, anger, fist-shaking, accusations, gutter tactics, deceit, class warfare, race-baiting, and downright lies, and decide which vision to choose in November, keeping in mind that our decision will determine if our children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren will suffer under a nightmare or thrive in a bright future. We have to decide for ourselves, each in the privacy of our homes and in the depths of our hearts, if we want to be part of the nightmare or part of a bright future.

    Jimmie L. Hollis, Millville

  • Can you get from the + to the -? The boxes labeled A, B, and C each contain a complete copy of the entire maze. Be sure you end at the same level you started. (via CIS 399-03)