Category Archives: Politics
A Tale of Two Parties
Among his opening words of Charles Dickens’ classic novel, A Tale of Two Cities, he captures the enormous decisions, challenges, and choices that face people, institutions, and nations:“It was the best of times, it was the worst of times… It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair.”
China’s Influence Activity in the US Is Unprecedented
[President Joe] Biden’s closing the China Initiative played, of course, right into the Chinese Communist Party’s hands.While the Biden administration worries about political correctness, the Chinese Communist Party is successfully using every means at its disposal to weaken the US in all fields.
Justice Requires Fair Procedures
“Justice, justice you shall pursue,” the Bible commands (Deuteronomy 16:20); and that, in doing justice, one must not “recognize faces.”The late US Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter once observed that the history of liberty is largely a history of procedural fairness. Our constitution embodies that history by reading “the due process of law.”
Will China, Russia, and North Korea Launch Their Nukes?
Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un see the world in the same terms, and they all realize that none of them will accomplish their goals unless they get the United States out of the way.
The We’ve Got to Do Something Syndrome
Is the Sahel region in West Africa becoming a new hub for international terrorism, as the badlands of Afghanistan were almost three decades ago? Last week, the question forced its way into global policymakers’ circles with the military coup in Niamey, the capital of Niger, an impoverished state in that region.
