A couple of days ago President Obama gave a speech in which he described how he was re-engaging American military forces in Iraq to combat the growing terrorist threat from ISIS (Islamic State… Continue reading
I hope that you will excuse me for not writing about this issue immediately. But for someone like me who studies these types of issues regularly it takes a while before my mind… Continue reading
Now that we’ve given proper attention to how this whole sordid mess got started we can move on because there is no one whose hands are clean when it comes to Iraq. This… Continue reading
George Bush famously commented that history would judge whether his actions in Iraq were successful or not. At this point I think we have enough evidence to understand that this is definitely not… Continue reading
If you have been following my twitter you know that I have been spending most of my time watching the NBA playoffs. So it was much to my dismay that my favorite time… Continue reading
Since I finally got around to writing about Ukraine I figured I’d go ahead and fill in some reasons why Ukraine is important to the Russia and the United States. Why is Ukraine… Continue reading
Generally speaking, the attachment of a President’s name to a doctrine is about a foreign policy position and by now it is public knowledge that President Obama has been confronted with some great… Continue reading
So why do Black people claim it is a term of endearment? Somewhere along the line the N-Word became shorthand for “I understand.” It’s not that the N Word is a good word… Continue reading
Knowing what I know about American history it is pretty obvious that for White people the word meant “slave, animal, property, inferior.” As time went on and stereotypes of Black people became more… Continue reading
Janay Rice: Men shouldn’t hit women
Ok here we go I finally got up enough courage and have done enough thinking on this subject that I feel that I can speak on this issue without saying something thoroughly ignorant… Continue reading →