By Dr Wilmer J Leon III

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Ungovernable Union: Ted Cruz Relives Shay’s Rebellion

Cruz: To the barricades! [The View From Washington] Shortly after the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4, 1776 the Second Continental Congress ...

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Obama’s “Red-Line” Syria Rhetoric Was Irresponsible

Columnist questions wisdom of President Obama’s “Redline” remarks [The Syrian Conflict] On August 20, 2012 President Obama said: “We have been very clear to ...

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1963 vs. 2013: From Aggressive Peaceful Activism To Tranquilizing Gradualism

[The View From Washington] “We have also come to this hallowed spot to remind America of the fierce urgency of Now. This is no ...

March On Washington: Dr. King’s Dream And Obama’s Realpolitik

[The View From Washington] “Even when pressed by the demands of inner truth, men do not easily assume the task of opposing their government’s ...

Mr. President: Ray Kelly’s The Champion Of Race Profiling

[View From Washington] Last week President Barack Obama addressed the George Zimmerman verdict and the ugly reality of racial profiling.  He spoke through the ...

The Zimmerman Verdict; America is Still America to Me

“I talked to old Lem and old Lem said…They got the judges…the lawyers…the jury-rolls. They got the law. They don’t come by ones. They ...

Roberts’ Supreme Court’s conservative assault on Civil Rights

Ever since the first 20 and some odd African “indentured servants” disembarked from that Dutch man of war in Jamestown, VA in 1619, Africans ...

Oh The Hypocrisy: Cheney, Misleader Into Iraq War Calls Snowden ‘Traitor’

Cheney– He’s Back!   [The View From Washington] As the whole literate world now knows, Edward Snowden, the former Booz Allen Hamilton infrastructure analyst ...

Domestic Spygate: We Hear You, You Don’t Hear U.S.

Columnist says President Obama’s defending indefensible [View From Washington] As Benjamin Franklin put it: “They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a ...

Botched Job: Dr. Ben Carson Is A Great Surgeon But Clueless Politician

[The View From Washington] In modern culture, an icon is a symbol; a name, face, picture, or even a person readily recognized as having ...