As recently as a decade ago, one of the most hot button topics in the American political discourse was the application of the ultimate criminal sentence – the death penalty.  While 29 states and the federal government authorize the imposition of death sentences, capital punishment – while still a disputed...

Target raises its minimum wage to $13 an hour in tight labor market. https://t.co/9cImI71prc — NBC News (@NBCNews) April 4, 2019 As the above tweet shows, retail superstore Target announced an intent to raise its minimum employee pay to $13/hour. A tight labor market – and an effort to...

As Bill Clinton rode to what would ultimately turn out to be a stunning upset in the 1992 President election, one of his top strategists – the “Ragin’ Cajun” James Carville – emphasized a primary theme of the Clinton campaign. Three simple words – “The economy, stupid.” Coming off...

Roughly 4,500 American war dead and a total cost of $1.06T (most of it borrowed, meaning interest still mounts). The War in Iraq was costly in both US lives and treasure. To the present day, politicians on the right (Trump) and on the left (AOC this very week) have...

Today, in a letter to a bipartisan group of US Senators, Donald Trump announced his commitment to maintain up to 400 US troops in Syria to assist with ongoing operations against the remnants of ISIS and with peacekeeping in the region. This policy is a reversal of Trump’s prior...

Only 21 months prior to the November 2020 election, the Democratic primary field – minus a few big names – is already taking shape. And it is undeniably clear that these Presidential hopefuls, at least on policy issues, intend to take and support some of the most liberal positions...

The statistics are in, and they are glowing. In 1960, in excess of 40% of African American men were impoverished; as of 2016, that number had been more than halved to 18%.  Fully 57% of African American men are presently ensconced in the nation’s middle or upper income classifications. ...

Last week, I wrote an article on my belief that Kamala Harris is a demagogue, and her style of discourse, while more polished, in many ways mimics that of the current President.  This week – again at a hearing of the Senate Judiciary Committee – Senator Harris did not...

According to the Merriam-Webster Dictionary, the term “demagogue” is defined as “a leader who makes use of popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power.” Without getting into the merits of this claim (I have strong opinions on the matter, but they aren’t for this...

I certainly did not start this blog to review movies, but yesterday I watched a film that deserves mention in the context of the relatively serious discussions I am attempting to have here. The movie I saw was named “Minding the Gap,” a well-crafted documentary by young filmmaker Bing...