Social Issues

Legendary comedian Jerry Lewis asserted that Syrian refugees should "stay where the hell they are" and declared his support for Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump in a recent interview with Catholic journalist Raymond Arroyo. (YouTube/@Amanda Prestigiacomo)

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President Obama has acquiesced to Congress' fiscal tweaks but has fended off every effort to repeal or cut benefits from his health care law. (Associated Press)

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Polling over the summer showed some youth and Hispanic support for Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush, but much has changed. (Associated Press)

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National Edition News cover for December 28, 2015 - States pushing legislation for concealed weapons on campus: Johnny Colombo visits a booth on the campus of Texas State University-San Marcos in San Marcos, Texas, Monday, Nov. 19, 2007. A group at the school are among 8,000 students nationwide who have joined the non-partisan Students for Concealed Carry on Campus, arguing that students and faculty should be allowed to do so on college campuses. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

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National Edition Opinion cover for December 28, 2015 - The voters must choose, anyway (Illustration by Linas Garsys for The Washington Times)

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Pope Francis delivers his "Urbi et Orbi" (to the city and to the world) blessing from the central balcony of St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican, Friday, Dec. 25, 2015. Pope Francis is praying that recent U.N.-backed peace agreements for Syria and Libya will quickly end the suffering of their people while praising the generosity of those countries that have taken their refugees in. (AP Photo/Gregorio Borgia)

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National Edition News cover for December 25, 2015 - HUD makes progress in housing veterans: Luis Vazquez, a 49-year-old Navy veteran who was homeless off and on for 10 years, sits outside his home in a veterans' housing complex Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, in Newington, Conn. U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald and Connecticut officials were at the housing complex Thursday to announce that the state is the first in the country to end chronic homelessness among veterans. (AP Photo/Dave Collins)

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Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernard Sanders was "disturbed by reports that the government may commence raids to deport families who have fled here to escape violence in Central America." (Associated Press)

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has tamped down — at least for now — the outrage and a flight of support from her Christian Democratic Union, or CDU, among conservative voters who fear that the approximately 1 million refugees arriving in Europe's largest economy this year might include terrorists like those who staged mass shootings in Paris last month. (Associated Press)

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The German political climate has set up a busy winter for Chancellor Angela Merkel, who is struggling to accommodate refugees and to convince her people of the fundamental morality of accepting them. (Associated Press) ** FILE **

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Luis Vazquez, a 49-year-old Navy veteran who was homeless off and on for 10 years, sits outside his home in a veterans' housing complex Thursday, Aug. 27, 2015, in Newington, Conn. U.S. Veterans Affairs Secretary Robert McDonald and Connecticut officials were at the housing complex Thursday to announce that the state is the first in the country to end chronic homelessness among veterans. (AP Photo/Dave Collins)

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Luis Vazquez, a Navy veteran who was homeless off and on for 10 years, sits outside his home in a veterans housing complex in Newington, Connecticut. Twelve cities, three counties and one state, Virginia, say they have ended veteran homelessness altogether. Connecticut says it has ended chronic homelessness. (Associated Press)

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A group of immigrants from Honduras and El Salvador who crossed the U.S.-Mexico border illegally are stopped on June 25, 2014, in Granjeno, Texas. (Associated Press) **FILE**

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The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's lawsuit joins cases on immigration, Obamacare's contraceptive policies and several other lawsuits against the EPA, all of which are winding their way through the courts and will serve as either an endorsement or rebuke of President Obama's expansive use of executive authority to try to force through his agenda. (Associated Press)

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Paying Debts with Borrowed Dollars Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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Paying Debts with Borrowed Dollars Illustration by Greg Groesch/The Washington Times

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A series of prank videos showing a group of large black men singing Christmas carols in wealthy Louisville neighborhoods is going viral. (WDRB)

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A migrant man and a boy react as they are stuck between Macedonian riot police officers and migrants during a clash near the border train station of Idomeni, northern Greece, as they wait to be allowed by the Macedonian police to cross the border from Greece to Macedonia, Friday, Aug. 21, 2015. Macedonian special police forces fired stun grenades to disperse thousands of migrants stuck on a no-man's land with Greece, a day after Macedonia declared a state of emergency on its borders to deal with a massive influx of migrants heading north to Europe. (AP Photo/Darko Vojinovic, File)