SOME OF you may remember watching demonstrations in the late 1960s protesting President Johnson’s war in Vietnam. It was a war that American youth neither supported nor wanted to participate in. I believe we are witnessing a similar reaction by...
“It’s better to keep your mouth shut and appear stupid than open it, and remove all doubt.” Mark Twain Which brings us to Squire Adam Stewart, who was born on third base (using a baseball metaphor), and believes he hit a triple. Stewart, son of...
My good friend, (retired) US Ambassador Luis Moreno called recently to ask my advice on how to help two former State Department colleagues get their ambassadorial nominations confirmed by the US Senate. After all, I managed to get Moreno’s...
Never in my four decades of working in US politics and elections would I anticipate looking to Jamaican politics for lessons to be learned. However, in the past five years, there are some interesting correlations between the two countries. During...