Emanuel Cleaver: “We are witnessing a gargantuan loss of wealth, which will leave a permanent impact on this nation.”

as I sat on the bed this morning, trying to get up, I received a phone call to tell me that Congressman Bill Clay had just passed. I sat there for a few minutes, feeling sad. Then it occurred to me that death is not the greatest loss in…

Mandela would have been a political prisoner?

No culture can live if it attempts to be exclusive.

This was supposed to be one of the great celebrations. We won the Super Bowl and probably had a million or so people at the parade. In a great tragedy that has befallen all of us over and over again, a shooter has ruined the lives of many…