Year: 2013

Before we head to Syria to avenge the mass murder of their kids, how about we finish avenging ours: ? When I say “finish,” of course I really mean “start.” A dozen years after the 9/11 attacks, the trials against the jihadist plotters who incinerated pregnant women, firefighters, grandparents, newlyweds, toddlers and schoolkids on their first-ever […]

Some things you just: have: to do, in spite of great uncertainty. Launching missiles at Syria isn’t one of them. Many pundits talk about going to war as if all we have to do is make up our minds about what “ought” to happen — who the bad guys are — and the rest is just details. […]

No one can blame you if you start out in life poor, because how you start is not your fault. If you stay poor, you’re to blame because it is your fault. Nowhere has this been made clearer than in Dennis Kimbro’s new book, “The Wealth Choice: Success Secrets of Black Millionaires.” Kimbro, a business […]

Opposition to American involvement in the war in Syria is uniting the far left and the far right in a new coalition for peace and the Constitution. The coalition made its debut when it lost by seven votes in its attempt to get the House to put limits on NSA surveillance. It is not just […]

The Syrian conflict is far from resolved, but with Russia finally stepping in and offering to broker a solution — something this column has long recommended — a stand-down now seems increasingly likely. As the world now mulls Russia’s proposal for Syria to place its chemical arsenal under international control, what have we really learned […]

In August 2012, President Obama inadvertently set America up for war: He said that if Syria crossed a “red line” by using chemical weapons, that would amount to a “game changer”. In August 2013, Syrian dictator Bashar Assad apparently did just that, gassing some 1,429 people in Damascus. On Sept. 1, 2013, Secretary of State […]

Chickens are coming home to roost for Barack Obama, both at home and overseas. When he first entered the White house, to worldwide acclaim, and backed by huge majorities in both the Senate and the House of Representatives, he could do whatever he wanted — and could do no wrong, in the eyes of the […]

As: CEO of 5WPR, a leading: PR agency, I am well aware that personal relationships are vital. Interpersonal skills, relationships and chemistry matter tremendously in business, politics, and in life.:  History demonstrates occurrences where relationships have changed the course of history, for example, how the personal bond between Roosevelt and Churchill helped end the Second World War. […]

I cannot see why even a single American, a single Israeli or a single Syrian civilian should be killed as a result of a token U.S. military action, undertaken simply to spare Barack Obama the embarrassment of doing nothing, after his ill-advised public ultimatum to the Syrian government to not use chemical weapons was ignored. […]

While President Barack Obama and Congress pontificate over whether Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons on his own people and whether a limited U.S. attack on Syria would be justified, what Washington needs to realize is this: Assad launched sarin on its citizens in hopes of moving the U.S. like a chess piece into […]

Do you ever get the idea that this nation is not only in decline but completely rudderless under the Obama administration? Well, it’s not really rudderless; it only appears rudderless because Obama isn’t pursuing the same goals as past presidents. Let’s first concede that Obama expressly admitted his goal of fundamentally changing the nation — […]

Readers are undoubtedly familiar with the various “doctrines” named after American presidents. Those named after James Monroe, Harry Truman and George W. Bush are among the best known. Well, we have a new one, announced this week by Secretary of State John Kerry. It is a new doctrine of war — so new, in fact, […]

Russian dictator Vladimir Putin would never have proposed a compromise plan to put Syrian chemical weapons under U.N. control unless he had cleared it with Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad. Inevitably, now, Syria will accept some variation of this offer. It’s an offer they can’t refuse. You can’t turn down an offer from your only friend […]