When I watched LTC Vindman march up to Congress for his off-camera testimony before Adam Schiff’s impeachment committee, and heard that he was a naturalized US citizen originally from Ukraine, I first noticed the CIB (Combat Infantryman’s Badge) he wore. That told me he was no…
Category: Race and Culture
The Many Oaths of Jean-Jacques Dessaline
I doubt anyone here knows of Jean-Jacques Dessaline. He was the first president of Haiti after the former slave-island had defeated the army of Napoleon Bonaparte in 1804, who had invaded the island with an army of 40,000 battle-hardened French…
A Memo to President Trump: Beware of the Green Card Bias
This is a hard subject to talk about. President Trump and I belong to a generation when the natural law of “becoming American” was still operational, even for Indians who immigrated here in the 1960s. I know several. Donald Trump’s…



