Higher taxes. An open-arms policy toward migrants from the Middle East and Africa. More centralized control over everyday life. Tougher restrictions on national sovereignty. Sound appealing?
The Veterans of Foreign Wars and the American Legion issued blistering condemnations of the National Football League – calling recent protests against the national anthem disrespectful, misguided and ungrateful.
If this island commonwealth is to survive, it needs folks back in the states to remember these people sweating and worrying about their future are their fellow Americans.
Tzvetan Vassilev, a fugitive indicted Bulgarian businessman, has hired a Washington law firm to help him avoid prosecution and settle a score with a politician by invoking the Magnitsky Act, a law that empowers the U.S. government to impose sanctions as retaliation for corruption and abuses of human rights.
For all of Donald Trump’s often baffling social commentary, he could not have asked for better opponents in an ongoing culture war that has the political left crying foul
For all of Donald Trump’s often baffling social commentary, he could not have asked for better opponents in an ongoing culture war that has the political left crying foul
Do you remember your first best friends? Schools in the U.K., and even here in the United States, are now taking aim at robbing kids of those deep friendships that teach them empathy, character and, yes, even heartbreak.
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.
