The events of the past week or so have come so fast that they’ve made my head spin and my heart despair. We are at a place in this country on the topic of race that I never envisioned for the second decade of the 21st century, and we need to pull back from the [...]
It seems as though millions of Americans have woken up to the reality that the United States is on the fast track towards socialism. The individual is shrinking in importance as we give homage to the collective mob. This is not a new problem. Barack Obama has simply made the situation so bad that Americans [...]
In early 2009 the Obama administration informed us that, without more subsidies, the US would see unemployment of eight percent. In a little over a year the government has spent trillions of dollars in bailouts and unemployment is now at ten percent. Furthermore, there is no sign of relief in sight. With that, Obama is trying to do [...]
I am always shocked by the type of policy proposals that come from the political left. As a rule, the left completely disregards the ability of humans to respond to policy in a protective manner — be it taxation, regulation, or licensure laws. The way individuals and businesses protect themselves is usually in a manner [...]
Note: This is an excerpt from my upcoming book “Sellout: Musings from Uncle Tom’s Porch”, which will be released in July or August of this year. Happy Independence Day! Recalling the archetype of the “authentic black,” I suppose the expectation is that I’m supposed to temper my passion for America with my knowledge of her [...]
As we commemorate the 46th anniversary of the signing of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, it seems appropriate to assess the current state of one of the key organizations which was in the arena, engaged in the fight leading up to its passage. Every great warrior that lives to fight numerous battles knows they can’t [...]
I grew up in Detroit, Michigan and left that city when I was 13 years old. It was bad then. The common joke among “Michiganders” that “flew” South in search of jobs and opportunities is that we hoped that “the last person who leaves turns the lights out.” That was back in the 1970s and [...]
It would be impossible to overstate the significance of yesterday’s Supreme Court ruling which effectively struck down gun bans nationwide as unconstitutional. The decision, however, resonates even more in the black community, whose people are more likely than any other group to be murdered by a gun-wielding assailant. That fact made two of the protagonists [...]
Hi, I’m Natalie Nichols, Every year on July 4th we celebrate what has come to be known as “Independence Day.” I think back to the letter that Founding Father, John Adams wrote to his wife Abigail, July 3, 1776 with great awe and admiration. Adams wrote to his wife that day that America’s independence should [...]
Currently the United States suffers from the worst unemployment in over a quarter of a century. The recent (and modest) job growth the US enjoyed last month was largely created by the government at the tune of 95 percent, according to CNN Radio. One of the biggest areas of growth in government was by the [...]
