It's time to face reality. Having handily won the last three primary contests heading into Super Tuesday, absent some unforeseen circumstance, Donald Trump is the odds-on favorite to be the Republican presidential nominee and very possibly our next president. Published February 28, 2016
Ben Carson's last-place finish in the South Carolina Republican primary (he earned 7.2 percent of the total votes cast) has given rise to speculation that he must make some difficult choices about whether to continue his campaign — especially after Jeb Bush, who slightly bested Mr. Carson at 7.8 percent, announced after Saturday's vote that he was suspending his campaign. Published February 21, 2016
The outside observer looking at what I have been able to accomplish over the years might agree that I have been blessed with an abundance of outward success. But I tend to view life from a much different angle. Whereas the outward success is the result of God's blessings, the true blessing is the vantage point from which I view my life's work, and all the opportunities and challenges that comes along with it. Published February 14, 2016
Scores of dead white men glared back at them from the walls of the college dorm. The thought that some of those esteemed alumni could have actually owned their ancestors apparently haunted the dreams of some of the privileged, elite students at Yale so much that they took to the yard in protest. The dorms at Yale, they have declared, are no longer a "safe space" for black students. Published February 7, 2016
Something is definitely rotten in the state of Michigan. And it's not just the lead-poisoned water coming from the corroded pipes undergirding Flint's public water system. The rottenness goes to the very core of an attitude of managerial expediency unfettered by moral leadership. Published January 31, 2016
Something is definitely rotten in the state of Michigan. And it's not just the lead-poisoned water coming from the corroded pipes undergirding Flint's public water system. The rottenness goes to the very core of an attitude of managerial expediency unfettered by moral leadership. Published January 31, 2016
There are certain moments in time when the weight of history is more noticeable than at others. Many of us felt that weight earlier this month as we listened to what will likely be President Obama's last State of the Union address to Congress. Published January 24, 2016
The images that flashed on television screens all across the world last week were an epic propaganda victory for Iran and the latest in a series of reminders that the Obama presidency's biggest foreign policy "achievement" is destined to leave a legacy of even greater bloodshed and conflict. Iran, literally and figuratively, has brought America to its knees. Published January 17, 2016
Many people continue to reflect and remark on the strange eulogy President Obama delivered from the Oval Office in the aftermath of the San Bernardino attacks. It seemed to many more like an exercise in defending Islam rather than an address to honor the dead, comfort the living, or express our righteous fury at the perpetrators of this barbarism. Published January 10, 2016
It has been said time and again, but it bears repeating: About the only thing that restrictive gun laws have done in our country is prevent the good guys from defending themselves when bad guys attack. This maxim applies directly to the San Bernardino, California, situation, an immense tragedy in which fourteen innocent people were gunned down by a married couple with Islamic extremist allegiances. Published January 3, 2016
The famed satirist Aldous Huxley once remarked that "experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him." Thus, as we look forward to 2016, we should do so while keeping in mind the lessons that past years of experience have taught us. Published January 3, 2016
By all accounts, the political arena has proved to be full of surprises this year. We've witnessed the improbable and inexorable rise of the outsider candidate, as first-time office seekers Ben Carson and Donald Trump have led the Republican primary race for the better part of the year. The assumption that Hillary Clinton would rise uncontested to the Democratic nomination has also been challenged by the improbable left-flank insurgency of Sen. Bernard Sanders of Vermont. Published December 27, 2015
It has been said time and again, but it bears repeating: About the only thing that restrictive gun laws have done in our country is prevent the good guys from defending themselves when bad guys attack. This maxim applies directly to the San Bernardino, California, rampage, an immense tragedy in which 14 innocent people were gunned down by a married couple with Islamist allegiances. Published December 20, 2015
In the days before Thanksgiving this year, a young mother left her newborn baby boy (umbilical cord intact) swaddled in a manger that was part of the Nativity scene at Holy Child Jesus Church, a Catholic congregation in the Richmond Hill neighborhood of Queens, New York. This is not the first time a mother in distress has left her child on the steps of a church, but when such acts do occur it is a sign for us all to reflect about the society we live in and how we can make it a better place for mothers and children. Published December 14, 2015
With every passing day new and increasingly vile reports of evil acts bombard our lives, jolting us out of our day-to-day lives. The latest comes courtesy of a man and woman in San Bernardino, California, who viciously murdered 14 people and left at least 17 wounded. Published December 6, 2015
It is an oft-stated maxim that acts of terrorism are carried out by organizations with weak military power and a strong political motive. Despite receiving some funding and munitions by way of black market oil sales the Islamic State is a minuscule military force, especially when compared against the military power of their two most recent targets -- France, Lebanon and (likely) Russia. Published December 1, 2015
One of the things we have much to be grateful for in this country is that, for the past century and a half, our wars have not been fought on our own soil. Published November 29, 2015
It is an oft-stated maxim that acts of terrorism are carried out by organizations with weak military power and a strong political motive. Published November 22, 2015
Sometimes life guides us in the strangest of ways. Just last week my production team and I arrived in London to begin filming a series of news pieces dealing with immigration in Europe and the threat of domestic terrorism on the continent. Published November 15, 2015
Public agitation and rhetoric surrounding police relations with the black community have reached a fever pitch. Many have already chosen sides, either blindly siding with law enforcement or, conversely, viewing every publicized encounter between police and black citizens as a referendum on race. Published November 8, 2015
