Accepting Syrian Refugees Will Make the US Safer

The very idea that U.S. governors would refuse to accept Syrian refugees, out of overblown fear and demagogic politics, fills me with despair at the complete eclipse of both reason and compassion. What has it come to? Do we turn away the victims of violence, because they frighten us so?

I am at a loss for words ... oh, wait...strike that... here are a few...

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2015/11/19/opinion-accepting-syrian-refugees-makes-us-safer-from-terror/

Gentrification: The Eviction Next Time

For some, leaving is like an amputation. For others, it means freedom. There are those who are forced out, but cannot leave. We live in an urban test-tube.....
http://aldianews.com/articles/opinion/gentrification-eviction-next-time/41226

And here is the first piece which introduces the series:
 http://aldianews.com/articles/opinion/belly-gentrification/41090

Clash of Neighborhoods

A chronicle of an increasingly bitter conflict, as lived by friends and neighbors, as my neighborhood undergoes the metamorphosis of gentrification...
http://aldianews.com/articles/opinion/inside-belly-gentrification/41090

Football and Fascism -- The Lazio Conundrum

We all have clothes in our closets that we just want to forget we ever owned. Preppy and punk, mohair or leather, they are the textile skeletons of our past lives.  If we go near them at all, its with gloves on.

But some, don't seem to think twice about echoes and ghosts. Take SS Lazio, a professional soccer club in Rome. Lazio is one of the oldest sporting clubs in Italy, with a lot of history under the bridge, some aspects of which, to extend the analogy, are delicate to wear in public.

But the design and marketing department at the club did not put 2 and 2 together, as it were, and unveiled a new kit that has stirred up a hornet's nest of accusations and defensive denials.

When is black just black? And when a political and racial badge? Here is the story....

http://aldianews.com/articles/opinion/lazio-those-who-forget-history-are-condemned-wear-it/40963

The Education of Hillary, and the Mal-Education of The Donald

Hillary Clinton is signalling that she thinks that a strongly pro-immigration stance will be a winner for her in the US election. Meanwhile, Donald Trump tries running a hiding behind a Latina fan. An interesting week ... 

http://aldianews.com/articles/opinion/education-hillary-clinton-and-mal-education-donald-trump/40875

Football's 'We Are the World' Moment

The refugee crisis is a major stepping-up moment for the world's most popular, and profitable, sport. Here is my take...

http://aldianews.com/articles/opinion/refugees-welcome-soccer-has-its-we-are-world-moment/40778

Separated at Birth: Donald Trump and Silvio Berlusconi

I wrote this piece a week or so ago on the weird similarities between The Donald and Il Silvio. I see that WaPo just published a piece yesterday riffing on the same idea. Great minds...

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/opinion/2015/09/16/opinion-donald-trump-and-silvio-berlusconi-politicians-separated-at-birth/

Pope Francis and the Refugee Crisis

As the refugee crisis shakes Europe, and immigration polarizes America, Pope Francis arrives in the US with a revolutionary approach.

http://aldianews.com/articles/opinion/pope-and-elephant/40502