From the monthly archives: June 2008
The Bush Administration should also strive to keep at bay, with the facts, the factually-challenged Washington, DC lobby and other supporters of the Cuban Communist Party.
I have been a staunch supporter of hard line U.S.-Cuba policy for as long as I have been involved in politics and public policy. For those of you that [...]
“Until an investigation has been completed, Plan Merida funding and cooperation for Mexico should be placed on hold.”
Increased tensions and skirmishes with drug dealers, illegal aliens, and law-breakers at the U.S.-Mexico border is not a recent phenomena. It has been a national security challenge for many decades that has only become more pressing a [...]
If you are wondering when was the last time the U.S. acted in its national interest with regards to Cuba, rather than in the interests of others, you would have to review the Reagan Administration. During the past few years the Bush Administration has most pursued a policy that focuses more on the interests of [...]
When I first read about the proposed Rapid Organ Recovery Ambulance (RORA) program in New York City, the first thing I thought about was China. While the comparison is completely unfair, the thought of an Organ Ambulance sounded, at first, like the Chinese Government’s well-documented program of harvesting organs from political dissidents then [...]
The U.S. Department of the Treasury yesterday issued a press release announcing the designation of two Venezuelan-based supporters of the terrorist group Hizballah. The Director of the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) said that “[i]t is extremely troubling to see the Government of Venezuela employing and providing safe harbor to Hizballah facilitators [...]
If you live in the Washington, DC area long enough, you will eventually be visited by droves of relatives and friends; some that you never knew you had. For some reason, the visits come every so often, in two to four year cycles. A visit from family and friends is a good thing. In a [...]
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