Ward R. Jones

The Republicans don't want a moderate jurist to serve on the Supreme Court, they want a staunch conservative. There are few among our millions of voters who are moderate, which is why Mitch McConnell and his brethren preach to their choir of conservatives. Harry Reid, were he still the Majority Leader, would preach the same sermon to his liberals. Divided we are, more deeply than at any time in our nation's history. A Franklin Roosevelt, a Ronald Reagan, can't unite the country, when we need it the most.

The United Nations Refugee Agency has 9,300 employees in 23 countries to protect, its website says, millions of refugees. Those millions are in a few countries, Hungary the current roadblock. Shouldn't there be a migration, by air, of these thousands of UN employees to where these millions of desperate people are?

Desperate Crossing For 733 migrants crammed aboard two tiny boats somewhere between Libya and Italy, a leaky hull was neither the beginning nor the end of their troubles.