https://www.expertclick.com/RssFeed.aspx?nrwid=20600&type=releases en My Releases of ExpertClick Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:58:20 GMT Fri, 17 Apr 2026 04:58:20 GMT Happiness is in severe deficit today. There is so much doom and gloom everywhere, no matter what country one looks at. Economic anxiety and divisive politics are the main drivers of the widespread malaise. How does anyone even attempt to put together http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/This-holiday-season-I-am-thankful-for-the-life-I-have-in-17thranked-America,2026314037.aspx Sun, 28 Dec 2025 14:39:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=314037 It is quite apparent that President Trump and Vice President JD Vance harbor a bit of disdain for the current political leaders of Europe. It is also clear that the president and his deputy are not shy about openly expressing those feelings whenever http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Europe-falling-within-Russias-sphere-of-influence-is-inconceivable,2026313952.aspx Sat, 20 Dec 2025 08:51:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313952 ?If you see something, say something.? That is what our political leaders have told us repeatedly in the last couple of decades. The message is that as ordinary citizens, we all have roles to play in helping to prevent acts of domestic terrorism. Mor http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/What-considerations-do-climate-activists-give-to-national-security-and-geopolitics,2026313852.aspx Sun, 14 Dec 2025 14:47:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313852 In Louisa Lim?s book, The People?s Republic of Amnesia, she wrote about how the authorities in China have managed to erase a highly consequential national event, the 1989 Tiananmen Square massacre, from the collective memory of Chinese society. The t http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-Europeans-are-playing-nice-in-a-gunfight-That-is-suicidal,2026313775.aspx Tue, 09 Dec 2025 14:47:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313775 Regardless of country of residence, anyone who follows soccer, even casually, knows the names Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. They are two megastars of the sport. Over the past two decades, they have entertained fans around the world with their s http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-employed-the-methods-of-Michael-Jordan-and-Cristiano-Ronaldo-to-learn-to-read,2026313741.aspx Sun, 07 Dec 2025 14:40:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313741 I first learned about the history of European colonization of Africa in middle school in Ghana. Britain ruled Ghana for more than a century before it became an independent nation in 1957. France, Portugal, Belgium and a few other European countries h http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Is-this-the-same-Europe-that-I-learned-about-in-middle-school-in-Ghana,2026313720.aspx Fri, 05 Dec 2025 08:48:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313720 In recent months, several companies in different industries have announced thousands of layoffs. Some of those staff reductions have been routine measures that companies periodically take to cut costs and increase profitability. But a few CEOs have s http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/What-if-the-robots-end-up-being-as-allergic-to-paying-taxes-as-we-are-Would-they-rebel,2026313638.aspx Sun, 30 Nov 2025 14:47:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313638 When President Trump issued his ultimatum last week asking President Volodymyr Zelensky to sign the proposed Ukraine Peace Plan by Thanksgiving, he said something that was quite troubling. He threatened to stop U.S. intelligence sharing with Ukraine http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Russia-weaponized-energy-against-Europe-Could-America-do-the-same-thing-to-Europe,2026313629.aspx Sat, 29 Nov 2025 15:48:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313629 As an immigrant, one of the things that impresses me the most about America is the extent to which leading politicians in this country focus on their legacies. Presidents and their cabinet members, as well as Congresspeople, take great pains to ensur http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-disagree-with-Thomas-Friedman-This-Ukraine-Peace-Plan-is-not-similar-to-the-1938-Munich-Agreement,2026313562.aspx Mon, 24 Nov 2025 13:45:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313562 During the two years that I taught in an urban public school here in America, I saw my students waste educational opportunities that I couldn?t dream about when I was growing up in a village in Ghana. Constant disciplinary problems meant that most da http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/What-happened-to-me-the-week-before-my-daughter-graduated-from-Princeton,2026313542.aspx Sun, 23 Nov 2025 14:38:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313542 The American presidency is a strange beast. Seekers of the office routinely promise to focus their attention predominantly on domestic priorities if they win power. But those who ultimately get to sit behind the Oval Office desk quickly find themselv http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Donald-Trump-and-the-evolution-of-an-American-presidency,2026313520.aspx Fri, 21 Nov 2025 13:47:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313520 Just three days ago, I wrote about the increasing number of authoritative voices warning about signs of an AI-related stock market bubble. As is always the case with financial markets, there is another body of opinion that says that the pessimism is http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Thank-you-Sundar-Pichai,2026313491.aspx Thu, 20 Nov 2025 08:40:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313491 In the last few months, many influential voices have raised concerns about the risk of a stock market bubble building from the sky-high valuations of artificial intelligence (AI) stocks. Some people are comparing the current moment to the late 1990s, http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Is-an-AIrelated-stock-market-bubble-building-I-wonder-what-tech-CEOs-think,2026313424.aspx Sun, 16 Nov 2025 13:03:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313424 The first English settlers in America spoke a variety of dialects that they brought with them from England. British English largely retains the original spellings of words borrowed from languages such as French, Greek and Latin. Examples of British w http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-like-the-efficiency-of-American-English-I-wonder-whether-I-can-ever-return-to-writing-in-British-English,2026313407.aspx Fri, 14 Nov 2025 08:56:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313407 That didn?t take long. Exactly a year ago, Republicans were triumphant. Donald Trump had won a decisive victory in the 2024 presidential election. Democrats were dazed, and it appeared at the time that they were going to be in the political wildernes http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Our-Blue-and-Red-teams-keep-making-deep-throws-and-they-keep-getting-intercepted,2026313321.aspx Sun, 09 Nov 2025 14:01:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313321 Finland is known to be the happiest country in the world. It topped the chart in the 2025 World Happiness Report. I was therefore surprised to read this recent article that seemed to suggest that the level of cheerfulness in Finland is perhaps not as http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-Finns-seem-perplexed-by-their-designation-as-the-worlds-happiest-people,2026313297.aspx Fri, 07 Nov 2025 09:03:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313297 Several questions ran through my mind as I was reading Dead Wake, Erik Larson?s magnificent book. In it, Larson meticulously details the events leading up to the sinking of the British ocean liner, the Lusitania. The ship had sailed from New York on http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/President-Woodrow-Wilson-chose-to-do-nothing-for-two-years-after-the-sinking-of-the-Lusitania-Was-his-approach-correct,2026313198.aspx Sun, 02 Nov 2025 14:30:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313198 ?Welcome to India, where everything is against the law.? That is a line from a recent article in The Economist. India is said to have 7,305 crimes at the national level, with three-quarters of them punishable by imprisonment. According to The Economi http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-absurdities-and-hypocrisies-in-criminal-codes-and-how-they-disproportionately-harm-women-in-many-societies,2026313091.aspx Sun, 26 Oct 2025 14:27:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313091 Recent U.S. presidents and their senior administration officials have frequently blamed political leaders in Europe for making their countries overly dependent on Russian energy. President Trump has been the most vocal critic. For years, Washington?s http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/On-rareearth-minerals-the-US-has-repeated-the-kind-of-strategic-mistake-it-frequently-warned-Europe-about,2026313065.aspx Fri, 24 Oct 2025 14:33:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=313065 Food production, water supply, medical care delivery, and many of the other essentials that make life on this planet possible, all require some form of energy. Because of that, it is in everyone?s interest that the world has adequate and reliable sup http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Should-the-International-Energy-Agency-be-given-the-benefit-of-the-doubt-on-this-aboutface,2026312958.aspx Sun, 12 Oct 2025 17:07:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312958 A couple of weeks ago, I returned home from a walk to find a missed call on my cell phone from my son. He had tried to reach me for something that he considered urgent. When I returned the call and he told me what the issue was, I said to him that it http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/This-New-Englander-finds-it-crazy-that-I-dont-carry-my-cell-phone-when-I-am-out-walking,2026312855.aspx Sun, 05 Oct 2025 14:44:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312855 Until recently, other than water stored in dams, we purchased the fuels that we used to generate electricity. Coal, natural gas, oil and uranium are extracted and sold by companies that invest billions of dollars in their operations. With the advent http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Even-Americas-electricity-now-comes-in-two-colors-blue-and-red,2026312752.aspx Sun, 28 Sep 2025 16:06:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312752 Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM), which manages Norway?s $2 trillion sovereign wealth fund, announced last month that it was divesting from its investment in U.S. construction equipment manufacturer, Caterpillar, Inc. NBIM reportedly had a ro http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Norways-sovereign-wealth-fund-divests-from-its-investment-in-Caterpillar-Inc-That-is-rather-odd,2026312727.aspx Thu, 25 Sep 2025 17:47:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312727 Despite the raft of sanctions that the U.S. and its allies have imposed on Russia since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russia?s war machine continues to operate at full tilt. That has led to calls for additional sanctions, and f http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/New-sanctions-on-Russia-are-needed-but-the-existing-ones-might-well-do-the-trick,2026312513.aspx Sat, 13 Sep 2025 08:47:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312513 I am not an economist so I have no business questioning anything written in The Economist. But I was a bit baffled by something I read in a recent article in that newspaper. Is immigration a contributor to the persistent inflation problem in the Engl http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-Economist-partly-blames-immigration-for-the-chronic-inflation-problem-in-Anglophone-countries-Is-that-true,2026312418.aspx Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:35:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312418 Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi was shown clasping both of his hands around those of Vladimir Putin as the two men chatted heartily. They were then shown walking together, smiling, with Mr. Modi holding the hand of the Russian president. The two http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/After-that-public-display-of-affection-in-Tianjin-why-was-Narendra-Modi-a-noshow-at-the-lovefest-in-Beijing,2026312408.aspx Sat, 06 Sep 2025 10:34:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312408 ?Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America.? That was part of a Truth Social post by President Trump directed to Chinese President Xi Jinping. President Trump was referring http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Is-this-a-sign-that-President-Trump-regrets-laying-down-the-red-carpet-for-Vladimir-Putin,2026312396.aspx Fri, 05 Sep 2025 08:39:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312396 Those who make decisions that affect entire societies, or the world, must constantly weigh the benefits of actions against their costs. Certain policies are simply not worth pursuing. That is especially true when it is plainly obvious that enacting t http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/It-shouldnt-take-experience-with-poverty-to-realize-the-callousness-of-this-action,2026312282.aspx Fri, 29 Aug 2025 08:36:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312282 Earlier in the year, most economists and commentators predicted that other countries would retaliate against the tariffs that President Trump was threatening to impose on them. That kind of response was expected to trigger a full-blown trade war, lea http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Do-all-these-trade-deals-mean-that-President-Trump-was-right-Were-other-countries-ripping-us-off,2026312205.aspx Sun, 24 Aug 2025 15:35:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312205 At the G7 Summit in Alberta, Canada in June, a visibly dismayed President Trump said that Russia?s expulsion from what used to be the G8 was wrong. The ejection occurred after Russia?s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014. President Trump argued that http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/European-leaders-have-more-selfrespect-than-John-Bolton-suggests,2026312180.aspx Fri, 22 Aug 2025 09:36:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312180 According to a story that is often told in West Africa, after God created the Earth, He began to fill the lands of the different continents with resources. One observant angel is said to have asked God why He was giving so much to Africa?minerals suc http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Who-would-you-rather-be-a-Russian-or-a-Norwegian,2026312073.aspx Sun, 17 Aug 2025 15:56:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312073 Because we live in a morally confused world, trying to make sense of anything nowadays is a totally futile exercise. Despite their publicly stated goal of depriving Russia of the funds it needs to sustain its war machine, Western leaders winked and n http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/India-is-right-to-be-angry,2026312066.aspx Sat, 16 Aug 2025 14:53:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=312066 ?I follow on social media fixtures of the MAGA movement. They say of each other in public what in politics 40 years ago people said in private and when drunk. FRAUD, LIAR, GRIFTER, WHORE. What a hothouse. Do they expect that with a nature like that t http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/We-dont-seem-to-worry-about-it-Why-not,2026311676.aspx Sun, 03 Aug 2025 14:13:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311676 A lot has been written and said in the media and elsewhere about New York State Assemblyman Zohran Mamdani since his surprise win in the New York City Democratic mayoral primary earlier this month. Pundits, mostly on the right, are flabbergasted that http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/By-lazily-dismissing-Zohran-Mamdani-we-are-repeating-a-recent-colossal-mistake,2026311572.aspx Sun, 27 Jul 2025 13:19:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311572 It is never a good idea to take anything for granted in life. For decades, successive U.S. presidents cajoled other NATO member countries to take defense spending seriously but those pleas largely fell on deaf ears. Most of the countries decided that http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Past-European-leaders-failure-to-shore-up-the-continents-defense-constitutes-political-malpractice,2026311470.aspx Sun, 20 Jul 2025 15:14:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311470 For the past several months, President Trump has been looking for ways to fire Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell for ignoring his calls to lower interest rates. The president knows that he can only dismiss the Fed chair ?for cause,? and that rel http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-hope-Richard-Claridas-faith-in-Senate-Republicans-isnt-misplaced,2026311437.aspx Thu, 17 Jul 2025 09:20:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311437 I discovered my love of reading when I was still a young boy. I have been reading voraciously since then. Lately, I have become more obsessed with writing. I get so much pleasure from stringing words together that every spare minute I have, I find my http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/What-are-your-simple-pleasures,2026311370.aspx Sun, 13 Jul 2025 14:30:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311370 BRICS is an unusual alliance. Three of the bloc?s five initial members, Brazil, India and South Africa, are democracies. The other two, Russia and China, are autocracies. This ideological mismatch would normally prevent such an edifice from even gett http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-have-no-love-for-BRICS-but-President-Trumps-public-threats-against-the-alliance-are-inappropriate,2026311351.aspx Fri, 11 Jul 2025 14:18:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311351 ?We?ve had bad presidents before, but none who have personally profited as much from the office.??That line is taken from a sharply critical New York Times article written by Ben Rhodes, former Deputy National Security Advisor in the Obama White Hous http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Do-the-Democrats-have-what-it-takes-to-do-what-Ben-Rhodes-recommends,2026311335.aspx Thu, 10 Jul 2025 09:20:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311335 The person who coined the acronym TACO (Trump Always Chickens Out) probably did not intend it to be complimentary toward the president. Since its introduction, the abbreviation has been invoked whenever President Trump reverses or suspends any of his http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-would-rather-have-a-president-who-chickens-out-when-it-is-prudent-to-do-so,2026311273.aspx Sun, 06 Jul 2025 17:12:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311273 When I first arrived in America in the early 1990s, there were still ?national? television channels that both people on the right and the left watched. Genuine debates occurred in that media. Anchors invited proper conservatives and liberals to their http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-moral-versus-the-legal-argument-on-immigration,2026311161.aspx Sun, 29 Jun 2025 16:12:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311161 NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte recently said this: ?The Russians have only a $2 trillion economy compared to a $50 trillion economy for NATO but are producing four times more in terms of ammunition. NATO?s job is to make sure that collectively we http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Has-NATO-chosen-to-work-harder-not-smarter,2026311144.aspx Fri, 27 Jun 2025 15:13:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=311144 There are times when the cost of trying to prove something is so much greater than the benefit that it isn?t worth the effort and time. President Trump faces such a moment now. He has to figure out whether his deployment of ICE agents to round up und http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/On-immigration-President-Trump-should-perhaps-declare-victory-and-move-on,2026310964.aspx Sat, 14 Jun 2025 13:15:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310964 Rahm Emanuel, the former Clinton White House chief of staff and most recently the U.S. ambassador to Japan, divides opinion. Liberals particularly dislike him because of some of his policies and actions during his time as mayor of Chicago. He may hav http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Rahm-Emanuel-gets-it,2026310946.aspx Fri, 13 Jun 2025 09:18:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310946 Relative to the world that I grew up in, the young people of today have a lot more opportunities available to them in all aspects of their lives. But I?m not sure that I would necessarily want to be in their shoes. When I was a young boy, my only dis http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Finding-happiness-in-an-ultracompetitive-and-stressful-world,2026310864.aspx Sun, 08 Jun 2025 14:18:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310864 This has to be the most amusing thing that I?ve read in quite a while. The Wall Street Journal recently reported that President Trump?s proposal to build a ?Golden Dome? defense system has deeply angered China, Russia and North Korea. Those three adv http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/These-three-autocrats-lovers-of-pyrotechnics-are-suddenly-complaining-about-a-new-arms-race-How-come,2026310851.aspx Fri, 06 Jun 2025 18:15:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310851 Children ask questions in a simple and direct manner. It is one of the many things I love about kids. Those of us in the adult population have mastered the art of taking straightforward matters and complicating them. Because our minds have become jum http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-am-looking-for-a-child-to-ask-this-question-for-me,2026310826.aspx Thu, 05 Jun 2025 09:17:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310826 Republican Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Democratic Senator Richard Blumenthal of Connecticut have jointly introduced a bill that is aimed at putting pressure on Russian President Vladimir Putin to end his illegal war on Ukraine. Under http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/George-Will-demonstrates-how-journalism-should-be-practiced,2026310793.aspx Tue, 03 Jun 2025 09:14:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310793 Something struck me as odd a few weeks ago when I was going through immigration at the airport in Accra, Ghana?s capital city. I spoke Twi (the major Ghanaian dialect) with the passport control officer who inspected my travel documents. I knew right http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/On-immigration-I-hope-the-Democrats-will-govern-a-bit-more-responsibly-the-next-time-they-are-in-power,2026310765.aspx Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:19:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310765 It happened in 1975. I was still a young boy, and had just started my first term at a boarding secondary school in Ghana. At the time, all of the country?s secondary institutions were located in major towns and cities so children who grew up in villa http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-frightening-experience-that-taught-me-how-to-live-within-my-means,2026310724.aspx Thu, 29 May 2025 08:55:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310724 Kathleen Parker?s Washington Post article about the political views of Pope Leo XIV?s brother brought an age-old question to mind. How much responsibility should anyone bear for the actions of another person, especially one who is a close relative? P http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Pope-Leo-XIV-shouldnt-have-to-answer-for-his-brothers-controversial-political-language,2026310655.aspx Sun, 25 May 2025 23:49:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310655 ?The administration has alienated allies while not clearly impressing competitors and foes. In the short term our old friends will step warily, in the long term they?ll wish us ill.? That sentence is taken from Peggy Noonan?s excellent summary of how http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Reading-this-was-a-gut-punch-for-me,2026310620.aspx Thu, 22 May 2025 08:40:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310620 I happened to be in Rome on a Sunday many years ago. It was during the reign of Pope John Paul II as head of the Catholic Church. Rather fortuitously, at noon that day, I found myself in St. Peter?s Square, standing with the thousands of people who w http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/There-is-something-about-Pope-Leo-XIV-that-I-find-comforting,2026310549.aspx Sun, 18 May 2025 13:36:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310549 The first rule of parenting is to ensure that as a father or mother, you don?t squander your moral authority in front of your children. Molding a child?s character is the most important job of any parent. To do that effectively, we must lead by examp http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Are-these-conservatives-not-feeling-too-uncomfortable-with-their-silence,2026310542.aspx Sat, 17 May 2025 12:47:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310542 The first step in any quest to gain admission into an institution, organization or place is to pay careful attention to the entry requirements. That is followed by making one?s best effort to meet those prerequisites. As a young boy, I learned in chu http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Are-most-of-us-still-aspiring-to-go-to-Heaven,2026310522.aspx Fri, 16 May 2025 08:43:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310522 Last weekend?s meeting in Geneva between U.S. and Chinese senior government officials to discuss trade policies and tariffs was hailed as a success by the Trump administration. The two countries reached a deal for a 90-day suspension of the punitivel http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/There-is-something-fishy-about-this-math,2026310501.aspx Thu, 15 May 2025 08:40:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310501 My father had a nickname for my mother. He used to call her Yesu, which is the Akan name for Jesus. Akan is the major dialect in Ghana. My father?s reference to her as a Jesus-type figure stemmed from his impression of her as a person with boundless http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Remembering-my-beloved-mother-on-this-Mothers-Day,2026310442.aspx Sun, 11 May 2025 15:40:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310442 When we are extremely upset, we tend to say things that we later regret. Some Chinese officials appear to have fallen into that trap recently. They should perhaps have thought twice about some of the words they used when they issued their strong stat http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/This-must-be-a-case-of-mistaken-identity,2026310436.aspx Sat, 10 May 2025 15:36:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310436 Centuries ago, planet Earth used to be an inhospitable place for most people. Because it was a world with few rules, those with power had the freedom to grab, often by brute force, whatever they wanted. Their hunting targets were not only natural res http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/David-Brooks-says-news-outlets-advance-public-understanding-Have-they-been-doing-that-lately,2026310422.aspx Fri, 09 May 2025 08:50:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310422 As President Trump is finding out, trying to negotiate with Vladimir Putin is pretty much a waste of time. The Russian president has repeatedly said in recent weeks that the root causes of the war in Ukraine will have to be addressed before Russia wo http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Why-isnt-Mexico-desperate-to-join-NATO-Someone-should-ask-Vladimir-Putin-that-question,2026310380.aspx Wed, 07 May 2025 08:50:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310380 When engineers design electromechanical systems, they build what are called ?tolerances? into them. The devices that control the operation of electromechanical systems are calibrated to stop them from reacting to some of the external signals they enc http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/To-maintain-my-sanity-I-have-had-to-make-a-mental-adjustment,2026310336.aspx Sun, 04 May 2025 13:49:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310336 In Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt?s debut novel, the narrator, Marcellus, a giant Pacific octopus, is baffled by human nature. Marcellus resides in Sowell Bay Aquarium in Washington state. He is a highly intelligent octopus who has tons http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Marcellus-cant-understand-human-beings,2026310214.aspx Fri, 25 Apr 2025 08:51:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310214 The chronic U.S. trade deficits have been blamed on a variety of factors. One reason, in the view of Stephen Miran, the current chairman of President Trump?s Council of Economic advisers, is that America?s status as the issuer of the world?s reserve http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/What-is-Stephen-Miran-thinking,2026310180.aspx Wed, 23 Apr 2025 08:52:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310180 A friend of mine told me a story about her father?s unusual encounter with a police officer many years ago. He was driving on a highway when he was stopped by the cop. Because he was going well below the speed limit and there were no problems with hi http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-will-not-yield-this-middle-lane,2026310149.aspx Sun, 20 Apr 2025 17:49:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310149 Something caught my eye yesterday as I read Peggy Noonan?s wonderful column in the Wall Street Journal this week. The article centers on the story of the good thief in Luke?s Gospel, and the lesson the tale teaches. Noonan mentions a conversation she http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Is-that-what-has-happened-to-me,2026310142.aspx Sat, 19 Apr 2025 14:51:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310142 [unable to retrieve full-text content]?You don?t start a war against someone 20 times your size and then hope that people give you some missiles.? Those were the words of U.S. President Donald Trump, uttered the day after a Russian ballistic missile http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Should-anyone-blame-a-petite-woman-for-getting-hurt-while-resisting-a-violent-sexual-assault-by-a-400pound-guy,2026310118.aspx Thu, 17 Apr 2025 08:50:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=310118 In 2016, Congress set up the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission to organize the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence of the United States. The Commission, a nonpartisan body, was tasked with engaging Americans all over http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Why-arent-we-hearing-anything-about-the-Semiquincentennial,2026309818.aspx Sat, 29 Mar 2025 17:21:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309818 Too often, we learn about the exemplary character of a person, or some amazing things they did in life, only after their death. It is quite a shame. I felt a great deal of regret at a friend?s funeral not too long ago. Although I had known him for a http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-wish-this-article-had-been-published-when-Edward-Leamer-was-alive,2026309804.aspx Fri, 28 Mar 2025 08:48:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309804 Until just a couple of years ago, there existed something called a rules-based world order. In that universe, it was widely thought that nuclear weapons were a threat to humanity. Nations were therefore discouraged from possessing or acquiring them. http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-Budapest-Memorandum-is-one-of-the-worst-agreements-ever-signed-in-history,2026309717.aspx Sun, 23 Mar 2025 12:48:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309717 According to a report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), at the end of January 2023, less than three years after COVID-19 was declared a global pandemic, the U.S. federal government had spent about $4.6 trillion to fund various stimu http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Are-we-witnessing-the-emergence-of-another-Team-Transitory,2026309694.aspx Fri, 21 Mar 2025 08:48:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309694 I really miss John McCain. In 2014, shortly after its illegal annexation of Crimea, the late Senator from Arizona took to the Senate floor and derisively described Russia as ?a gas station masquerading as a country.? His point was that despite its va http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Is-Russia-still-a-gas-station-masquerading-as-a-country,2026309643.aspx Wed, 19 Mar 2025 08:48:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309643 Article 5 of the NATO Treaty contains the following language: ?The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an a http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/President-Trump-deserves-a-lot-of-credit-on-this-issue,2026309593.aspx Sun, 16 Mar 2025 19:09:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309593 Discussions about the tariffs that President Trump has imposed on various countries, or is threatening to, have mostly centered on two things. One is the president?s desire to reduce America?s trade deficits with other nations, and the other being hi http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Should-Main-Street-care-about-asset-prices-on-Wall-Street,2026309587.aspx Sun, 16 Mar 2025 09:16:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309587 As a trained engineer, I like to diagnose problems. Because the turbulent winds blowing across the American landscape these past couple of months have caused me some dizziness, I have been thinking a lot lately about how, as a nation, we found oursel http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-could-easily-have-been-radicalized,2026309495.aspx Sun, 09 Mar 2025 18:12:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309495 I support the notion that in a democracy like America, winners of elections should be allowed to carry out their agendas. The electoral victory of any candidate reflects the preferences of a plurality of constituents. However, I am also aware that ba http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Thank-you-Senator-Lisa-Murkowski-and-the-handful-of-Republicans-standing-up-for-decency-in-Washington,2026309487.aspx Sat, 08 Mar 2025 17:09:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309487 I am surprised by how quickly the world has changed in the last two months. Six months ago, when I wrote that the Monroe Doctrine should be dead and buried, I said that it would never again become possible for anyone to openly talk about major powers http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/These-Africans-are-the-strangest-people-I-have-encountered-in-my-life,2026309426.aspx Wed, 05 Mar 2025 09:12:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309426 What Trump supporters say they love about him is his ability to speak his mind clearly, even when his positions are deeply unpopular. Personally, I have never liked the way President Trump talks. Frankness is a desirable trait, but his incessant use http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Didnt-people-say-they-like-Trump-because-he-speaks-his-mind,2026309398.aspx Tue, 04 Mar 2025 09:11:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309398 Many years ago, I lived next to a man named Smart Polite. Most people in the area called him by his initials, SP. The neighborhood was extremely violent so almost all of the residents there owned guns, which they used to protect themselves and their http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/It-would-be-shocking-if-Smart-Polite-werent-busy-reacquiring-guns,2026309367.aspx Sun, 02 Mar 2025 16:08:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309367 The Wall Street Journal recently published an article titled ?Trump?s Sweeping Expulsions Have Sent the FBI Into Chaos.? Six of the most senior officials at the FBI, including one who was a lead investigator in the 9/11 attacks, were said to have bee http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/This-Wall-Street-Journal-headline-made-me-quite-nervous,2026309255.aspx Sun, 23 Feb 2025 14:48:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309255 Our world is getting stranger by the day. Yesterday, U.S. President Donald Trump blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy for causing the war with Russia. He says that President Zelenskyy should have done a deal with Putin to avert the war. Wha http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Are-Blacks-going-to-be-blamed-for-allowing-themselves-to-be-enslaved,2026309212.aspx Thu, 20 Feb 2025 08:55:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309212 I should have been utterly dispirited when the literary agent I approached for representation of the book I was working on told me that she wouldn?t read any personal essays I wrote because I am not Thomas Friedman. I wasn?t, however, for two reasons http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/She-wouldnt-read-my-personal-essays-because-I-am-not-Thomas-Friedman,2026309088.aspx Tue, 11 Feb 2025 20:16:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309088 ?The individual is foolish, but the species is wise? has become one of my favorite Burkean quotes. The older I get, the more I realize how exceedingly complex the world is, and how little we know as individuals. Because of that, my skepticism of peop http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Burkean-conservatism-versus-revolutionism,2026309048.aspx Sat, 08 Feb 2025 12:59:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309048 I could have made a fortune when I was still a young boy. I had a treasure trove of highly salacious stories that I had accumulated over several years. Unfortunately for me, there were no tabloid newspaper publishers anywhere near the village where I http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-was-mainly-there-for-the-salacious-stories-but-I-learned-a-lot,2026309029.aspx Fri, 07 Feb 2025 08:27:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=309029 One of the loudest Republican complaints in the last few years was about the calls by liberal activists to defund the police in the aftermath of the George Floyd murder. Prior to Floyd?s death, there had been several other high-profile cases of polic http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-dismissals-in-the-Justice-Department-look-and-feel-like-defundthepolice,2026308977.aspx Tue, 04 Feb 2025 14:14:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308977 I recently read an article in the New York Times written by former U.S. Treasury Secretary Robert Rubin. In it, Mr. Rubin talked briefly about his time as co-head of the investment banking giant Goldman Sachs in the early 1990s, and the advice he use http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Is-former-US-Treasury-Secretary-Robert-Rubin-unqualified-to-offer-life-advice-now,2026308917.aspx Fri, 31 Jan 2025 13:13:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308917 It is impossible to live in Buffalo, New York for more than a week and not become a fan of football. Buffalo is my hometown in America. It was the place I lived for two years after my arrival in this country in 1992. There was a bit of a dark gloom h http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/We-should-all-approach-life-the-way-running-backs-play-football,2026308855.aspx Tue, 28 Jan 2025 14:13:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308855 What do I want to be when I grow up? I am thinking about this question quite a bit lately and I have a few ideas in mind. Evangelist is close to the top of the list. I would very much like to travel around the world to spread the gospel about the tra http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/My-message-to-the-boy-who-hates-reading,2026308815.aspx Sun, 26 Jan 2025 11:26:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308815 On Thursday, President Donald Trump spoke via video link to attendees at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. He touched on many subjects, but the one that stood out for me was his request for company bosses to locate their manufacturing a http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/President-Trump-is-repeating-the-free-trade-mistakes-he-says-he-came-to-correct,2026308812.aspx Sat, 25 Jan 2025 11:26:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308812 Shortly after the Taliban retook power in Afghanistan in August 2021, it banned education beyond sixth grade for girls. Since then, no female Afghans have been allowed to obtain either secondary or tertiary education. Women who were pursuing professi http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Is-anyone-going-to-do-something-about-this-female-education-issue-in-Afghanistan,2026308788.aspx Fri, 24 Jan 2025 08:30:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308788 One of the most crucial lessons I have learned over time is that being able to look at the world with clear eyes is half the battle in life. Regardless of our nationality, religion or other affiliation, we are all part of a global landscape where ind http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/In-praise-of-Aliko-Dangote-and-all-the-African-businesspeople-creating-a-different-image-for-the-continent,2026308637.aspx Tue, 14 Jan 2025 13:54:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308637 ?Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.? There is some dispute about the source of this quote. Some people attribute it to Anglo-Irish philosopher Edmund Burke. Others ascribe it to English writer and http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/These-two-men-could-be-you-and-me,2026308592.aspx Sun, 12 Jan 2025 13:20:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308592 The late President Jimmy Carter, whose funeral service was held in Washington earlier today, gave his farewell presidential address to the nation on January 14, 1981. He opened the speech with the following sentence: ?In a few days I will lay down my http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/How-was-the-American-citizen-formed,2026308562.aspx Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:23:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308562 The world is in great turmoil now, at a time when it is also perilously rudderless. America is the one nation that has the capacity to take charge of this teetering globe and right the ship. To fulfill that urgent role, our leaders must speak and act http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Why-isnt-any-authority-figure-in-Washington-asking-the-presidentelect-to-stop-his-loose-talk-about-Greenland,2026308538.aspx Wed, 08 Jan 2025 09:23:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308538 Boadua, the village in southeastern Ghana where I grew up, had a population of about two hundred. It was so tiny that it was not on the country?s map. Much of the rest of the nation didn?t know we existed. With nearly all adults there being illiterat http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/I-wasnt-supposed-to-leave-my-Ghanaian-village-I-ended-up-meeting-everyone-in-the-world,2026308500.aspx Sun, 05 Jan 2025 16:21:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308500 When my son was in kindergarten, he came home from school one afternoon looking quite peeved. I asked him what had happened in class or on the bus to make him so upset. He told me that during recess earlier that day, he was at the playground with a b http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-inattentive-bee-and-a-lesson-in-letting-go-of-silly-grievances,2026308455.aspx Wed, 01 Jan 2025 12:38:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308455 Chang Che?s recent essay in The New Yorker magazine was a quite a fascinating read. The article was based on Che?s conversations with a Shanghai-based Chinese professor of history, Xiao Gongqin, who said he had predicted Trump?s win in this year?s pr http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Xiao-Gongqin-says-strongman-rule-is-necessary-at-times-If-so-the-Constitution-is-Americas-strongman,2026308411.aspx Sun, 29 Dec 2024 15:50:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308411 President-elect Donald Trump has frequently complained about unfair treatment of the U.S. by various countries in trade and other relationships. Arguably, his biggest grievance has been the longstanding failure of most NATO members to spend at least http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Presidentelect-Trumps-browbeating-of-the-EU-on-this-issue-is-quite-needless,2026308404.aspx Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:51:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308404 The word ?lobbying? has a negative connotation these days. That is unfortunate because it is a legitimate form of advocacy that is necessary in any democratic society. In the process of making policy on any matter of national importance, we expect ou http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/What-if-some-team-owners-visited-referees-in-their-homes-the-night-before-games,2026308322.aspx Fri, 20 Dec 2024 13:25:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308322 Mistakes are a fact of life. Even the saintliest among us make them. When our foibles are pointed out to us, the expectation is that we would acknowledge them and make sincere efforts to correct them. Most of us do. But there is a category of people http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Picture-one-of-your-loved-ones-in-an-Assad-prison,2026308263.aspx Tue, 17 Dec 2024 14:11:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308263 Whether democracy as we know it here in the West is a good governance model for every other country is a question that has been on my mind a lot lately. That is because a good number of my Ghanaian friends, including some highly educated ones, increa http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Former-Australian-Prime-Minister-Tony-Abbott-gives-up-on-democracy-for-some-people,2026308222.aspx Sun, 15 Dec 2024 17:22:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308222 As Russian tanks, backed by air support, rolled menacingly toward Kyiv on February 24, 2022, much of the world expected the Ukrainian government to fall within days, if not hours. Among those who held that view was U.S. President Joe Biden. In his la http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Syria-highlights-the-crucial-value-of-Volodymyr-Zelenskyy-to-the-free-world,2026308138.aspx Tue, 10 Dec 2024 15:33:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308138 My most recent article published last week was quite timely. It was about pressure cookers, which despots have used throughout history to control their populations. One of the sturdiest of those devices in operation in recent decades was in Damascus, http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/The-pressure-cooker-bursts-open-in-Damascus,2026308111.aspx Mon, 09 Dec 2024 13:22:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308111 Freedom is arguably the one thing that every human craves the most. It is widely thought that mass migration is mainly driven by economic factors. That is largely true, but there are millions of people who make extremely perilous journeys from their http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Do-the-Putin-apologists-also-blame-America-for-what-is-happening-now-in-Tbilisi,2026308056.aspx Thu, 05 Dec 2024 13:25:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=308056 I just finished reading Susanna Clarke?s delightful fantasy novel, Piranesi. The protagonist, Piranesi, lives in a house that has an infinite number of rooms, endless corridors, and a maze of halls. There are thousands upon thousands of different sta http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Are-some-mortals-able-to-see-things-that-the-rest-of-us-cant,2026307967.aspx Sun, 01 Dec 2024 18:27:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307967 Nearly every country in the world claims to have institutions. However, in many places, because those institutions are built on weak foundations, they exist in name only. In too many parts of the globe, presidents and prime ministers, and their enabl http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/This-is-one-of-the-things-I-am-thankful-for-on-this-Thanksgiving-Day,2026307939.aspx Thu, 28 Nov 2024 12:13:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307939 In her Wall Street Journal column published a week ago, Peggy Noonan characterized the first batch of President-elect Donald Trump?s cabinet picks as ?normal Republicans.? For a few of the next choices however, she wrote that ?it is impossible to tel http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/America-urgently-needs-a-George-Marshall-in-this-moment-Can-Senator-John-Thune-rise-to-the-occasion,2026307879.aspx Mon, 25 Nov 2024 14:12:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307879 Racism, sexism, misogyny, wokeism and other culture-war issues have all being assigned as reasons for Vice President Kamala Harris?s devastating loss in the Nov. 5 presidential election. Most likely, there is quite a bit of truth to all that. But, as http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Did-America-forget-to-thank-retiring-Senator-Joe-Manchin,2026307718.aspx Sun, 17 Nov 2024 13:35:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307718 It is never wise for anyone, regardless of how powerful or wealthy they are, to spend their moral capital all the way down to zero. That, unfortunately, is precisely what Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing. In the process, he is dragg http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Even-the-most-ardent-supporters-of-Israel-should-be-extremely-bothered-by-this,2026307710.aspx Sat, 16 Nov 2024 13:37:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307710 One of the most consistent themes in this year?s presidential election campaign was the warning by Democratic Party leaders and grassroots activists that America risks becoming a dictatorship under a second Trump presidency. Those worries account for http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Now-imagine-how-it-must-feel-like-to-live-under-a-real-dictatorship,2026307692.aspx Thu, 14 Nov 2024 17:27:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307692 Republicans have for the past eight years charged that the Democrats, with their allegations of Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election, never recognized the legitimacy of Donald Trump?s first-term presidency. In the summer of 2020, a Repu http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/A-chance-to-end-election-denialism-once-and-for-all,2026307594.aspx Sun, 10 Nov 2024 15:21:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307594 The Wall Street Journal Editorial Board (EB) wrote a piece last week about the return of bond vigilantes to London. According to the EB, investors were unhappy with the budget just unveiled by the new Labour Party government in Britain, considering i http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Are-bond-vigilantes-ignoring-the-elephant-and-picking-on-Britain,2026307560.aspx Thu, 07 Nov 2024 19:12:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307560 My faith in America has always been unshakable. But I must admit that I have found the rancorous nature of our politics in this election season, and the media coverage of it, quite depressing. The whole of this year has felt as if our nation is on th http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Voting-yesterday-recharged-my-faith-in-America,2026307542.aspx Wed, 06 Nov 2024 18:19:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307542 One of the people most frequently blamed for igniting the long-running Arab-Israeli conflict is Arthur James Balfour, popularly known as Lord Balfour, the one-time U.K. Foreign Secretary and later Prime Minister (1902-1905). His 1917 proposal, the Ba http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Was-the-UN-that-voted-in-1947-for-the-creation-of-Israel-illegitimate,2026307472.aspx Sun, 03 Nov 2024 16:10:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307472 Vladimir Putin was indicted on war crimes charges by the International Criminal Court (ICC) last year for atrocities committed on his orders by Russian forces in Ukraine. The ICC?s issuance of a warrant for his arrest has severely curtailed Putin?s f http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/What-the-UN-Secretary-General-did-in-Kazan-last-week-was-an-embarrassment,2026307387.aspx Tue, 29 Oct 2024 13:58:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307387 The more I look around the world, the more aware I become of how vital a role culture plays in the success or failure of organizations and entire societies. Physical assets such as human and natural resources, money, and other forms of wealth are ess http://www.expertclick.com/NewsRelease/Sir-Alex-Ferguson-leadership-and-culture,2026307349.aspx Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:57:00 GMT http://www.expertclick.com/NRWire/Releasedetails.aspx?id=307349 A couple of weeks ago, I was admonished for using an offensive word. I was about to sign a service contract with a company and had a few questions about the terms of the agreement. 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