November 10, 2012 China’s current 18th Party Congress may prove even more important that America’s just-fought election whose outcome was perfectly predictable. Both nations maintained the political status quo. The Republican Party, as I’ve been saying in recent columns, is headed for irrelevance unless it can change its membership, end […]
THE GOP BECOMES THE PARTY OF THE BIBLE BELT August 31, 2012 Watching the storm-battered Republican convention at Tampa, Florida, does not reinforce faith in democracy or the Grand Old Party (GOP). American political conventions traditionally mix back-room horse trading with tasteless hoopla in which mostly […]
ROGUE REPUBLICAN Oct 5, 2012 NEW YORK – The two titans of American politics, President Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney, locked horns this week in the first televised debate of the election season. Romney managed to show that he was still a viable candidate in spite of a […]
