Published on January 20th, 2014
When Congress passed the Johnson-Era Civil Rights Acts, America began an unprecedented expansion of personal liberty that reached far beyond the black community. For the first time ever, the meritocratic ideals that have always rested at [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on January 10th, 2014
At some point soon, Republicans will be forced to develop a governing agenda built on something other than white paranoia, something with roots in real world problems and an emphasis on practical solutions. Hollow rhetoric that [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on January 5th, 2014
A year ago, in lieu of resolutions or predictions, I offered a more guarded set of wishes for the new calendar year. Could the track record have been worse? There was the melancholy: Mandela no longer [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on December 26th, 2013
The face of tyranny is changing on the African continent. Sure enough we might have fewer; Mobutu’s, Bokasa’s, Babaginda’s, Moi’s Gadhafi’s and other men synonymous with despotism at the helm of African Seats of power, but [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on December 26th, 2013
For Christians, Christmas is a celebration of hope amid darkness. Its setting in December reminds us of the bold promise of new life born at a moment when so little light and life surrounds us. Christmas [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on December 20th, 2013
There is a meaningful question hiding among the Palinesque blather over Phil Robertson’s suspension from Duck Dynasty. We seem to have reached a broad general agreement that differing viewpoints, choices and values should be tolerated in [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on December 7th, 2013
With the passing of President Nelson Mandela—arguably the most transformative world figure of the last century—our nation’s airwaves are awash in soaring and well deserved testimonials from all sides of the American political spectrum. While the [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on November 25th, 2013
If you are an American over sixty, you remember when you learned that John F. Kennedy had died. If you are one of my contemporaries—too young to have experienced Kennedy, too old to be a cynic [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on November 15th, 2013
Darrell Jordan, a black Republican from Virginia offers some advice to the Virginia Republican Party on winning the minority vote: Many Republican Party of Virginia Convention-goers assumed that electing E.W. Jackson would secure greater support from minorities in [&hellip…; Read More →
Published on November 13th, 2013
Of the many bizarre delusions that have overwhelmed the Republican grassroots in recent years, none may be a greater obstacle to policy making than the Makers/Takers myth – the arrogant notion that a few God-loving, hard-working [&hellip…; Read More →
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