Obama’s Speech Ignores The Fundamental Issue

by | Mar 26, 2008 | POLITICS

Some pundits ask whether America is ready for Obama. The much more important question is whether Obama is ready for America and even more important is whether black people can afford Obama. Let’s look at it in the context of a historical tidbit. In 1947, Jackie...

The Audacity of Rhetoric

by | Mar 25, 2008 | POLITICS

It is painful to watch defenders of Barack Obama tying themselves into knots trying to evade the obvious. Some are saying that Senator Obama cannot be held responsible for what his pastor, Jeremiah Wright, said. In their version of events, Barack Obama just happened...

Bipartisan Primary Blues

by | Mar 24, 2008 | POLITICS

Leaders of the Democratic Party and much of the media are wringing their hands over what to do about Democratic voters in Florida and Michigan, in order not to leave them out of the process of picking a nominee, and perhaps alienating them as for as the general...

The Dalai Lama: Dumb and Dumber

by | Mar 23, 2008 | POLITICS

In researching what a potential “free Tibet” would look like absent Chinese rule, I found the following quote which is attributed to Tenzin Gyatso, aka the 14th Dalai Lama and the head of Tibet’s government in exile: Of all the modern economic...

Immigration and Individual Rights

by | Mar 21, 2008 | Immigration, POLITICS

Every year, millions of people seek to immigrate to the United States, and with good reason: Opportunities to improve their lives abound here. Immigrants and would-be immigrants want to pursue the American dream. Whether or not they would put it in these terms, they...

The Myth of the “Peace-Loving Muslims”

by | Mar 19, 2008 | POLITICS

All of us should give some serious thought to some of the ideas contained in an article circulating the blogsphere titled “Why a Peaceful Majority is Irrelevant.” So often our political leaders, “experts” and talking heads tell us that Islam is...