"Thanks Mom" is a campaign of public service ads aired during the 2016 Olympics, showing famed, accomplished athletes voicing appreciation for the sacrifices made by their mothers. Throughout the Olympic broadcast was heard over and again that simple powerful refrain from Aly Raisman, Ashton Eaton, Simone Biles, Michael Phelps and others.

To the delight of 25 states, the Supreme Court has ruled that President Obama’s executive action relative to undocumented aliens is illegal. We highlight the hole in the wall, so to speak, in the book HOLA AMERICA.

There is something reprehensible about using the death of a human being to endorse a philosophical point of view or score brownie points on a particular political platform. A last name or a country of origin does not make Omar Mateen a killer.

Since the tragic massacre that took place in Orlando, Donald Trump is tapping into and exploiting the fear and basest instinct of the American. “Can you imagine what they’ll do in large groups, which we’re allowing now to come here?” he said of Muslims in America. Columnist V. Knowles speaks of freedom as choice.

While Donald Trump insults everyone in his path, Carlos Beruff, son of Cuban refugees seeking the senatorial seat in multicultural Florida, has gone on record calling President Barack Obama an animal.

We are about to enter a nasty campaign for the White House. There will be mudslinging left and right. Columnist V. Knowles shares how anything, even the legacy of something like the Anglican church, can have corrupt roots.

Sometimes familiarity with a person, place or thing breeds contempt. Because of proximity and availability of something or someone, we forget or neglect to appreciate their value or worth. Columnist V. Knowles believes we have become too careless with God and doing good.

Years of working with the homeless and incarcerated have bought this notion sharply into focus, and afforded me a deeper insight into the workings and fallout of wrong thinking and wrong doing.