God's guest list includes a disconcerting number of poor and broken people, those who appear to bring little to any gathering except their need.
— Christine D. Pohl, Making Room: Recovering Hospitality as a Christian Tradition
While many religious groups have come out against President Trump's immigration ban, some significant figures in the faith community, including Liberty University's Jerry Falwell Jr., have stood in support of it. Attempting to defend the ban from a religious point of view, evangelist Franklin Graham declared, "That's not a Bible issue."
I've canceled my recurring donation to Samaritan's Purse. Despite my strong belief in their ministry, I don't believe in and can no longer abide the theology of Franklin Graham.
You wouldn't walk into a hospital and want to be treated without evidence-based treatment, but we do that all the time with incarceration.
— George Gascón, San Francisco District Attorney at the 2017 AbleForum
We're imprisoning people we're mad at rather than people we're afraid of.
— Frederick Hutson at the 2017 AbleForum
The market can't fix this because neither the buyer nor the seller cares. The owners of the webcams and DVRs used in the denial-of-service attacks don't care. Their devices were cheap to buy, they still work, and they don't know any of the victims of the attacks. The sellers of those devices don't care: they're now selling newer and better models, and the original buyers only cared about price and features. There is no market solution, because the insecurity is what economists call an externality: It's an effect of the purchasing decision that affects other people.
Bruce might be right about the need for regulation since that's generally how we control competing interests in public holdings like the environment.
Of these three players [...] one of them enabled the digital revolution, one of them executed it and one of them benefited from it.
Even though Jesus loves everyone, even to the point of dying for their sins, he went out of his way to intentionally help specific groups of people — the alienated, mistreated, and those facing injustice.
According to the Brookings analysis, the less-than-500 counties that Clinton won nationwide combined to generate 64 percent of America's economic activity in 2015. The more-than-2,600 counties that Trump won combined to generate 36 percent of the country's economic activity last year.
Trump said that El Chapo's "tremendous success in the private sector" showed that he has what it takes to "shake things up" at the D.E.A.
"Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven."
- Matthew 5:3-10
There is perhaps no greater irony than to have these words applied to the person of President Donald Trump during the inauguration. May they transform his heart.