Articles by Armstrong Williams
One of the things that really stood out over the past few weeks in the aftermath of the tragedy in South Carolina was the incredible grace with which the community of Charleston has borne both its own anguish as well as the intense international media circus that has enveloped the town. The city's response stands in stark contrast to some of protests and outright chaos that occurred in places such as Ferguson and Baltimore.
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July 26, 2015
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As Americans, the threat of terrorism today seems at a comfortable, manageable distance: miles, oceans and armies away. At most, we turn on our TVs to the international news and watch with a tune of sympathy.
Published
July 19, 2015
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When an overwhelming majority of the Greek people voted "no" in a referendum that would decide whether Greece would continue to borrow its way into a hopeless debt spiral, the bankers that own the country's debt recoiled in confusion.
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July 12, 2015
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Late last month, pure evil visited the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. It came in the form of a deranged, racist gunman who attended Bible study among the welcoming members of the church before pulling a weapon and cruelly cutting them down.
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July 5, 2015
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Lately I am having a really hard time sleeping at night, and the source of my worry is the Middle East. Specifically, I am deeply concerned that the deal President Obama is relentlessly pursuing at all costs with the terrorism-sponsoring regime in Iran will shred the global nonproliferation regime and spur additional countries in the world's most unpredictable region to amass atomic arsenals.
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June 28, 2015
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Among the nine innocents murdered at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, this past Wednesday was the church's pastor, the Rev. Clementa Pinckney.
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June 21, 2015
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Let's face it -- with the grand debut of Bruce Jenner as a woman named Caitlyn (and the accompanying demand from the liberal media that we take it as anything more serious than attention-seeking narcissism) -- we have finally arrived at the post-postmodern era.
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June 14, 2015
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While America was undoubtedly founded upon a bedrock of religious freedom, it is equally true that the Christian faith has been probably the greatest contributor to the social fabric of this country.
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June 7, 2015
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In a case that deserved more attention than it has received, former South Dakota U.S. Senate candidate Annette Bosworth was found guilty by a jury of her peers last week in Pierre.
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May 31, 2015
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For a selected few in the know, the elections of President Obama and the passage of his signature health care act mark not the pinnacle (as is widely assumed) but rather the twilight end of a golden era of racial progress and progressive social policy in America. If the civil rights-era legislation and government programs could be characterized as the second Reconstruction, then Mr. Obama's presidency marks its wane. An essential question that blacks must ask at this point: How will they adapt to post-progressive America?
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May 24, 2015
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While the Obama administration has been clumsily stumbling from one negotiating deadline to the next, Iran has been working hard to destabilize the Middle East and threaten U.S. interests. The time is past due for the White House to take to heart the threat of an Iranian nuclear weapon and get serious about changing Tehran's behavior.
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May 17, 2015
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Fifty years later, the experiment has finally earned a retrospective. Looking back on it, we should have seen as a nation that the Great Society could not have been a permanent solution and might even be detrimental to America's growth.
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May 10, 2015
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Let's face it. Baltimore has been a riot for decades and was looted long before its citizens finally rose up in glaring, sad and pathetic anger, long before the global media last week turned attention to the still-unexplained death of Freddie Gray in police custody. While the cops try to get their story straight, the citizens have taken to the street in a largely symbolic display of outrage, burning a few cars and torching a few businesses in a city that for all intents and purposes is already too burnt-out to really destroy.
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May 3, 2015
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Looking back on the past couple of years, it's hard for me to imagine the progress we've made in our businesses and pet projects. If someone were to tell me that my vision of owning broadcast TV stations in four regional markets would have come to fruition in that time, it would have been hard to believe.
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April 26, 2015
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Never before in America's history have three black men occupied such official positions of power: President Obama, Attorney General Eric Holder, and Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. What would be intriguing is a conversation between Mr. Obama and Justice Thomas — two men who are seemingly polar opposites on the political spectrum, but at the same time in important ways represent the fruits of a great turning point in America's racial saga.
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April 19, 2015
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As if the Islamic Republic of Iran's determined pursuit of nuclear weapons, track record of bloody terrorism, aggressive geopolitical power grabs, abhorrent human rights violations and history of lies were not enough — President Obama's recent interview should prove to everyone just how dangerous the framework agreement announced in Lausanne earlier this month really is.
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April 12, 2015
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It looks like the "convenient to have one device" explanation Hillary Rodham Clinton used to deflect inquiries as to why she used her private email account to conduct official business while serving as secretary of state is a bunch of pure hogwash. It has become evident that, in addition to her personal phone, she also used an iPad connected to her personal email account to send and receive information related to her official duties.
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April 5, 2015
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Imagine if the president were a Republican, and if during the second half of his second term, after having been elected both times with record turnout by blacks, the black unemployment rate remained stagnant at 11 percent while the black poverty rate hit a record high of 27 percent. What would black politicians be saying about that Republican president?
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March 29, 2015
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Comedian, educator and actor Bill Cosby, now 77, came of age during a particularly nasty time in this country for race relations. In the late 1940s and 1950s, the regime that controlled the Jim Crow South was baring its lethal fangs in the face of increasing agitation by blacks for legal and social equality.
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March 22, 2015
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So what do we make of the 47 Republican senators who decided to write a letter to Iran's leaders in the midst of nuclear arms negotiations between President Obama and the mullahs' less-than-transparent nation?
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March 15, 2015
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