Afrikaner Refugees: Essential Context

Genocide There is no genocide in South Africa, which for all its faults has been a constitutional democracy since 1994 when apartheid ended and democracy arrived. For the most part property rights and individual liberties are respected. South Africa has a vibrant free media.   The genocide narrative is linked to the firebrand Economic Freedom Fighters, the country’s fourth largest political party whose members wear red … Continue reading Afrikaner Refugees: Essential Context

Failed Debate, Republicans Self Destruct

Make no mistake, Donald Trump won the November 8th Republican debate despite not being there. For the third time the former president thumbed his nose at his disheartened opponents, this time upstaging them by rallying an enthusiastic throng of Hispanics 10 miles away in Hialeah.  The two-hour NBC debate in Miami, Trump declared, was unwatchable. Trump won because none of his rivals explained to voters that even … Continue reading Failed Debate, Republicans Self Destruct