The Practical Parson

 So this afternoon I was looking at the news, and an article being promoted by Yahoo popped up.  It purported that Donald Trump's concern with illegal immigrants working can be debunked because illegal immigrants are ONLY taking the lesser, more menial jobs that no one else wants to work; and further claims that seeking to prevent this from happening would cost the nation nearly one Trillion dollars.  Apart from the inflammatory words and terms used in the article, and the customary fluff about how the present administration wants Black and Hispanic citizens to have good, higher paying jobs; there is a diabolical undercurrent which no one seems to address, one which proves history is indeed repeating itself. I'm sure some of us will remember Nancy Pelosi's now famous line about Illegal immigrants working in the US- "Who's going to pick our crops?"  The truth is that the Democratic party in the United States has never gotten over losing the rights to slaves and...

  As most people in the States are aware, the District Attorney of Manhattan, NY has been pursuing an investigation into former President Donald Trump's relationship and subsequent clashes with a woman who claims to have had an intimate relationship with him years ago.  The facts of the matter seem fairly clear and clean-cut: Trump had an affair with a porn star, got her to agree to a non-disclosure agreement, then when he ran for president his attorney arranged a payment to the woman to help maintain her agreement to silence.  Now at face value this may seem like a damning situation, and one that the attorney general of Manhattan is banking on people thinking so; but what is the legal basis of seeking prosecution against the man?  The entire search for prosecution hinges on a vague (and as the NY Times itself refers to it as) legal "theory", that one of Trump's former attorneys arranging such a payment was an violation of campaign finance laws.  Not that paying...