Lies deserve no sympathy

CHICAGO – In retelling last week’s revelation that Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas is an illegal immigrant, civil rights metaphors have been trotted out to describe the plight of a talented young man who got caught up in an immigration mess but, through his shocking confession, has become to some people a new American hero.

Pure water or just water

Of course, pure water is not the same as just water. The low quality of tap water in Mexico is one of the main concerns among the general population because of the presence of bacteria and microbes and also in some regions the water is not clean, it has a foul smell and leaves residue in the faucets.