Last week, the Census Bureau dropped a demographic bombshell. According to its 2020 count, the number of white people in this country has fallen for the first time since the first census in 1790.

The initial goal of America’s entry into Afghanistan was to defeat al-Qaida, which was responsible for the 9/11 attacks on the U.S. That was fine as far as it went, but President Bush got distracted over an unnecessary conflict with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq and then erred in believing he could nation-build in Afghanistan.

I believe that everyone who is able to should get vaccinated. What I don’t believe is that the government has the authority or power to force a citizen to inject a foreign object and drug into their bodies against their will.

It’s obvious that children of today’s immigrants who work, speak English and pay rent are more like the children of past immigration waves than different. Many Latinos may be browner than Americans with roots in Europe, but so what. Americans whose forebears came from southern Europe tend to be darker than those of northern European stock.