Politics

Poor Helen Beristain! She voted for Donald Trump. But now her undocumented husband has been deported to Mexico by Trump. Now she cries tears heavy with a Jack Daniels' sadness, a sadness most wives would prefer not to drink.

She thought Trump would deport only people with criminal records—the “bad hombres,” as her fuhrer called them. “I don't think ICE is out there to detain anyone and break families, no,” Beristain told CNN affiliate WSBT in March 2017, shortly after her husband, Roberto Beristain, was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

First it was Lil Wayne; now it is Kanye West. It’s true. Ignorance knows no color and stupidity sidesteps fame.

Alan Dershowitz’s Aug. 15 op-ed “Black Lives Matter must rescind anti-Israel declaration” argues that Israel is a democratic state that should not be compared with apartheid South Africa.

That question is neither morbid nor cynical. The question, in fact, is almost philosophical, like “To cry like a man must you feel like a man?” It may pose a problem for babies and pine trees, but an ordinary man and woman with insomnia or merely a 10th-grade education would find the question amusing.