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Sound Off for July 29, 2016

Well, we haven’t heard it before

Hillary makes a lot of her money off countries that practice Sharia law. Yep, sounds like a Christian to me. Editorial staff: Is this plagiarism?

Mob shrinkage

Trump’s politics: psychopathology in which gnawing insecurities, envy and hatreds nursed by people in private converge in public in scary social eruptions that present themselves as noble crusades, but diminish their participants.

Do your jobs

By law, churches and their pastors must refrain from getting involved in matters of state. They need to be doing God's work, not attacking school board members.

The company they keep

Why would you want to back a presidential candidate who is backed by Russian hackers, and perhaps even by Vladimir Putin himself?

It’s been done

VP hopeful Mike Pence said you can't fake good kids. Well, that depends on how much money you have.

Lock ’em up! Lock ’em up!

Clinton and Kaine receive hundreds of thousands of questionable donations and gifts. Birds of the same feather should serve prison together.

And no candidate is addressing this?

Does it bother anyone that ice cubes really aren’t cubes anymore?

This story was originally published July 27, 2016 at 2:58 PM with the headline "Sound Off for July 29, 2016."

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