Recently, Donald Trump pardoned Jack Johnson, the first black-American World Heavyweight Champion. Johnson’s story is instructive, just as Obama’s refusal, not neglect, but refusal, to pardon him was. Jack Johnson was not only the first black champion, but a long-reigning champion,…
First Bill Clinton, then Obama and now another Clinton. A dynasty of royals, not a regular political dynasty, mind you, but genuinely royals-of-the-mind, is now in launch mode in American politics….all premised on that singular comment by Louis XIV in the late…
I didn’t title this as a question. Cracking up, Going ’round the Bend, Slipping into Madness, are just a few of the thoughts running through many Americans’ minds these days. My only thought is “Finally it’s becoming apparent.” Over the years,…