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   Presidential hopeful Donald Trump revealed yesterday morning, via 'X' (the platform formerly known as Twitter)  that he has a plan to deal with the issue of illegal immigrants and refugees entering the U.S. across its southern border. He laid out the details in a series of tweets.
   The plan seemingly involves allowing private citizens to 'sponsor' illegal immigrants, who would otherwise be deported to their countries of origin in South and Central America at the expense of the United States, according to a spokesperson in Trump's campaign office.

   Imagine that you're almost seventy years old. Throughout those years you've lived what would be considered a normal, happy life, having grown strong family ties, and having built close community relationships.
   One day, in an instant, your world is turned upside down and inside out, when you find out that your entire life has been based on a mistake.

   If someone tries to tell you that there are just two kinds of people in this world, don't believe them. Whatever those "two kinds" may be, they are almost always just two extremes of a range of possibilities. There is only one kind of person, although we come in different models, styles, shapes and sizes. Any character trait has is opposite, but almost everyone falls somewhere in between. All traits of personalities are potentially present in each of us to some degree. Every genius is part idiot; every idiot is part genius.
   

Recently. the Supreme Court of Alabama found itself contemplating the 'sanctity of unborn life'. Unfortunately, it allowed itself to be distracted by theological dogma and the much-misunderstood Biblical concept of the 'image of God'. There is a much simpler and clearer approach that the court could have taken: The sanctity of unborn life is exactly the same as the sanctity of life that has been  born - or hatched, or cloned. All life is sacred.

Alexei Navalny, for years the greatest potential threat to Vladimir Putin's corrupt, iron-clad, despotic regime, died last week in a Siberian prison camp under very suspicious circumstances. He was in seemingly good health and good spirits right up until he went for a walk in the camp's yard, where he suddenly collapsed and died.

I’ve been suspicious of Taylor Swift’s popularity for some time now. Don’t get me wrong: She can certainly “belt a tune,” as they say. But one can only poeticise heartbreak so many times before my sympathy begins to dry up like a Cruel Summer. (Haha!) And she certainly won’t be revolutionizing musical theory anytime soon, either. After all, how many pop-singers use vocal layering to spice up those verses and choruses; or give us a good old key change for the grand finale; or sing about love? Answer: All of them.