by Kelli Ballard | Mar 6, 2022 | Columns, Culture and Entertainment News, Opinion
Editor’s Note: Whether on screen or off, Hollywood can always be counted on to keep us entertained. This is especially true when it comes to politics. Join us each week as we shine the spotlight on Tinseltown’s A-listers and their wacky and sometimes inspiring takes...
by Leesa K. Donner | Mar 1, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, International, Opinion
The brash action of Russian President Vladimir Putin to invade neighboring Ukraine confounded military experts, but no one imagined the young nation would be able to put up a resistance that the world is now witnessing. Thus far, it appears this defiance has been...
by Tim Donner | Feb 28, 2022 | Articles, Good Reads, International, Opinion
At first it was almost a dare. Then it was a threat. And then the hammer of Russian military power came down on what Vladimir Putin apparently believed would be a shell-shocked Ukrainian leadership and populace, ready and willing to cut and run or surrender. Instead,...
by Graham J Noble | Dec 13, 2019 | Articles, Law, Politics, Social Issues
In 1985, Sol Wachtler, who was then the chief judge of the New York Court of Appeals, told The New York Daily News that district attorneys have so much influence on grand juries that “by and large” they could get them to “indict a ham sandwich.” It certainly appears...
by Sarah Cowgill | Dec 4, 2019 | Articles, Intelligence, Politics
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is the latest in a long line of people including politicians, lawyers, and Republicans to deny his conversation with Donald Trump was a “quid pro quo” moment. At the epicenter of the impeachment investigation, the phone call...