Imagine this: a dystopian world where speech is highly regulated by a controlling “Big Brother” who teaches and curates young minds, but only allows one train of thought to run on its track, forcing people to go into hiding and to withdraw their viewpoints.
I was admitted to the writers’ branch of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in 1983. I was thrilled at the time, joining a short, but august list that included people like Neil Simon and Tom Stoppard.
Sunday was a day unlike any other in NFL history, as the kneeling-for-the-national-anthem protest against racism and police brutality that Colin Kaepernick started more than a year ago reached new highs and/or lows, thanks to some well- and/or poorly-timed remarks from Donald Trump.
By saying he is willing to “totally destroy” North Korea to defend the U.S. and its allies, President Trump opened the door last week to possibly launching a pre-emptive military strike, even a nuclear strike.
When Hurricane Maria took aim at the already Hurricane Irma-battered island commonwealth of Puerto Rico, Geraldo Rivera said he was filled with despair. “How much can these poor people take?”
Donald Trump has a right to say what he said on Friday about the NFL and his remarks will resonate with many Americans, especially military families, but I confess a doubt about his timing.
As more than 100 NFL players protested during the singing of America’s national anthem across the country Sunday, what had been a small protest of the way police treat African-Americans turned into a much larger protest directed at President Trump.
The biggest issue facing our country today is the tip-toeing and political correctness that has brought us to the brink of disaster in national security, politics, and sports.
Only 47 ambassadors out of 188 positions have been nominated - it is in America’s best interest that the Trump administration swiftly name ambassadors to these vacant posts and for Republicans and Democrats in the Senate to come together and swiftly confirm them.
Trump’s speech, optimistic and pro-American as it was, falls in the mainstream of American presidential tradition. Indeed, it is the stuff of a Truman or a Reagan.