Virtually all my life—well, since I could read, write, listen, and understand—I have looked respectfully to the Western democracies of the world as examples of how successful countries should be structured, governed, and led. As an African of European descent I have long longed for the day our leaders would take their cue from Western role models and improve the quality of governance visited upon populations struggling under mostly corrupt, incompetent, authoritarian misrule. As old age beckons, in a country where social safety nets are unavailable and the future looks so bleak, I have ...
To understand what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi's select committee investigation of the Capitol Hill events of Jan. 6 is all about, a good place to begin is with the sentencing hearing last week of ...
Article IV of the Constitution addresses the obligations of the federal government to the state governments that were being asked to surrender aspects of their sovereignty to form our new ...
In 1859, Abraham Lincoln related the tale of an Eastern monarch who charged his wise men with discovering words that would everywhere and always be true. The wise men went away ...
Envy and denunciation abound with fanatic ardor against those who dare to circumvent the confinement in Spain. The last case has been carried out by the former president, Mariano ...
Impeachments aren't what they used to be. Today, young people are supposed to be excited that the president withheld taxpayer money from Ukraine -- a half-billion-dollar foreign ...
In the history of politics, there is no precedent for the media's entire focus to be on undoing the last presidential election. True, the left has wanted to impeach every ...
I have a confession. I behaved badly recently, and I'm just going to admit it. As a guest at a dinner party in Georgetown, I stormed in and started bossing everyone around. ...
"This is a very sad time for our country. There is no joy in this," said Nancy Pelosi Saturday. "We must be somber. We must be prayerful. ... I'm heartbroken about it." Thus did ...
It was two days of contrast that tell us about America 2019. In El Paso, Texas, and Dayton, Ohio, following the mass murders of Saturday and Sunday morning, the local folks on ...
Some months ago I had the opportunity—I won’t call it the privilege—of listening to a speech given in the flesh by the former president of France, Nicolas Sarkozy. I do not ...
So Obama wasn’t aware we’d spent years spying on our ally Germany. Color me unsurprised. Throughout a career as community activist and several campaigns, he ...
The world is filled with tough guys who say they are going to smash your face in but never throw a punch. Whether it's a barroom blowhard or Asia's Big Bluffer, few things ...
Rick Santorum has been the Republican primary season's Surprise Moral Warrior. He has already won eleven states, and depending on how he performs in Wisconsin tomorrow, he may ...
Watching President Obama deliver his State of the Union Address, I got to thinking of my dad. Derb, Sr. was born in 1899 and was compulsorily retired from his job as a ...
The night Obama was elected, the streets around my Brooklyn home were hysterical with glee. People were climbing up streetlights and screaming "OBAMA!" at the top of their ...
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