by Byron Williams | Feb 25, 2018 | Features, Politics |
I would like to the pose the following questions to current supporters of President Trump. If say, Sen. Elizabeth Warren was our next president and failed to divest from any business interest, would that be acceptable? If she failed to divest, would you be comfortable...
by Byron Williams | Feb 18, 2018 | Features, Politics |
For decades the political party in Congress championing concern for the deficit, at least rhetorically, was invariably the one relegated to the minority. With righteous indignation, it decried the invoice created by the present generation for their children and...
by Byron Williams | Feb 11, 2018 | Features, Politics |
“I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation. War is hell.” William Tecumseh Sherman Sherman is correct,...
by Byron Williams | Feb 7, 2018 | Features, Politics |
Looking at where America currently stands in terms of adherence to its democratic norms, I feel like Vito Corleone in The Godfather, when he asked rhetorically at a meeting with the other heads of the Mafia families, “How did things get so far?” Two respected scholars...
by Byron Williams | Jan 27, 2018 | Features, Politics |
With the latest government shutdown, which coincidently came last weekend on President Donald Trump’s first-year anniversary in office, the tally for failing to authorize funding for the federal government now stands at 19. Since the Congressional Budget Act of 1974,...
