Nowhere To Run To

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 ...

Senator Manchin

Joe Manchin: Racist or Profile in Courage

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 ...

Dictatorship and Confinement

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 ...

Bill Clinton

Impeachment: Do Republicns Have More Fun?

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 ...

Article 1: Remove this Beast from My Sight!

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 ...

Alexander Vindman

He’s a One-Man Ukrainian Lobby!

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. ...

‘Heartbroken’ Pelosi Fast-Tracks Impeachment

"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 ...

Exploiting Massacres to Raise Poll Ratings

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 ...

Nicolas Sarkozy

The Nature of the Narcissist

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 ...

President Barack Obama

Obama: Helpless Fool or Willing Tool?

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 ...

Kim Jong Un

Big Talker in Little Asia

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

Rick Santorum, I Hate Your Face

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 ...

Nancy Pelosi

They Don’t Have a Clue

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 Year’s 10 Most Ridiculous Political Moments

The night Obama was elected, the streets around my Brooklyn home were hysterical with glee. People were climbing up streetlights and screaming "€œOBAMA!"€ at the top of their ...


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