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,…
Tag: Barack Obama
L’Etat c’est Moi, the Rise of a Genuine Royal Class in America
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…
Obama is Coming Undone
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,…
GOP Candidates and the Presidential Gut-Check
In 1966, I worked one summer with an upperclassman from Princeton at a camp for rich kids. (That’s where I learned to cuss.) His family was friends with other New Englanders who had known the Kennedys, and JFK had only been…
How Hillary Can Win…in Fact, the ONLY WAY Hillary Can Win
I’ve been laying odds for months now that Hillary won’t get into the 2016 race. My math was simple: Her low positives among the general public, plus her still-unfolding legal problems about 1) private server missteps, 2) Benghazi missteps, and 3) foreign government donations for her foundation missteps,…