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Person of the Week – Dallas County Judge Clay Jenkins

Judge Clay Jenkins, credit: The Scoop, Dallas News
Judge Clay Jenkins, credit: The Scoop, Dallas News

Dallas County, Texas Judge Clay Jenkins is coordinating a church — local government — Texas — federal government effort to develop temporary, humanitarian shelters for the flood of refugee children who have crossed the Texas border and are now in detention.

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Failure in Central America — When I Stopped Being a Reagan Republican

Like kindness, brutality changes lives. And it often changes lives with more permanence than kindness does.

Even though I was a witness to brutality from far away, it changed my life in the 1980s toward a new political course. It was when I stopped being a “Reagan Republican”.

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