September 18, 2024

Venezuela is an America First Priority

After four years of the Biden/Harris administration‘s feeble foreign policy, the redefining of the United States’ redlines should begin in our own backyard: Latin America and the Caribbean. After all, the value of renovating one's hou...

August 23, 2024

Obama’s Proxy Presidencies: No, You Can’t!

Mattieu Mabin, France 24’s Washington correspondent, reported on Barack Obama’s DNC 2024 speech Tuesday, noting: It is remarkable to see how little Barack Obama has changed. What’s even more surprising is that, after leaving th...

May 10, 2017

The stark realities of Macron's French Revolution

The adjective that was most used by the English-language press to describe Sunday's runoff election in France was "stark."  In most cases it modified the noun "choice." After the April 23 primary results matched Emmanu...

April 29, 2017

France: The Crucifixion of Fillon and the Unholy Resurrection of the Left

Last November, there was a political shake-up in France.  In the Républican primary, François Fillon unexpectedly defeated both former president Nicolas Sarkozy, under whom he served as prime minister, and veteran politician and fo...

January 14, 2017

The Strange Saga of Osama and Obama

They are the two men who changed the course of the history of the United States and the world in the new millennium: one by his capacity for evil, the other by his incapacity to comprehend it.  The saga of Osama and Obama begins at the dawn of t...

December 11, 2016

Reminiscences of my neighborhood dictator, Fidel Castro

Most kids grow up with a neighborhood bully, often wishing he were dead.  South Floridians, like me, are the only Americans who grew up with a neighborhood dictator – his name was Fidel Castro.  Now, he's gone, but I'm not rej...

September 9, 2016

Is a Picture Worth a Thousand Years?

The most striking image of Europe’s refugee crises flashed around the world a year ago: the lifeless body of a three year old Syrian on a Turkish beach.  The situation had been intensifying since late 2011 following the assassination of Li...

May 8, 2016

Brazil's Impeachment of President Dilma and America's Hillary Dilemma

Impeachment is an English word, yet it now rings across the vastness of Brazil.  It is chanted in the massive street demonstrations in the country's cities and intoned in the Congresso Nacional (Brazil's parliament), where the lower hous...

January 22, 2016

Dreams from his Father: Steve Jobs and Immigration

For those of us who are steeped in high-tech celebrity minutiae, it was bound to happen. Steve Jobs, founder of the most highly-valued company in American history, has posthumously become a poster boy for those supporting Syrian immigration to the U....

September 13, 2015

Obama, Trump, and the Great American Divide

America is more divided today than it has been since the Civil War, according to political observers such as former president Jimmy Carter and California governor Jerry Brown.  A 2014 historical study reached the same conclusion.  During th...