1. Dr. Gerard Lameiro: Trump’s Brilliant NFL
Strategy
2. Daniel Greenfield: America’s Dumbest
Congresswoman Kneels in Congress to Support NFL Racists
3. Michelle
Seiler-Tucker:
I Stand for the Flag
4. Lowell Ponte: Is
it Time for Racial Equality in Pro Sports?
5. Bruce Thornton: Trump Should Reject
Fatally Flawed International Institutions
Trump’s Brilliant NFL
Strategy
I
think you will see Trump’s political instincts are superb and his response to
the NFL protests were actually a brilliant political strategy that will pay off
with handsome dividends in 2018 and in 2020. The president’s political strategy
has had three major impacts on the political dynamics of America in the fall of
2017: first, this political strategy solidifies Trump’s base; second, it is
bringing more people from the old Democrat Party alliance into Trump’s orbit of
support; and third, this political strategy is further isolating the left and
Democrat Party from main street American voters. [more...]
America’s Dumbest
Congresswoman Kneels in Congress to Support NFL Racists
Sheila
Jackson Lee seems to think that NFL players are disrespecting the anthem
because Trump called them sons of bitches. Rather than the other way around. The
saddest part is that this is a pre-written speech she's reading from a piece of
paper. Then she accuses President Trump of abridging speech with tweets. And
how better to stand with America, the flag and our soldiers than by
disrespecting the anthem. But there are excellent odds that Sheila Jackson Lee
has no idea what the protests are about. This is the woman who thought that we
won the Vietnam War. And that the Constitution is 400 years old. [more...]
I Stand for the Flag
It’s
been a few days since the NFL decided to protest the American flag. Before
Sunday, it was a few pro football’s players’ choice to kneel in protest while
the national anthem was being sung before kickoff, but that escalated when
entire teams knelt and stood locked in arms in protest of our country. Although
I am strongly against their actions, I do believe that they have a
constitutional right to protest. However, I also believe that there is a time
and a place for everything. In this case, kneeling in protest before an NFL
game was not the right time nor the right place. Although they were on a
football field, the players were still in a professional environment. Their
actions would be equivalent to any one of us protesting at our place of work.
Their actions were not just unpatriotic, but also unprofessional. [more...]
Is
it Time for Racial Equality in Pro Sports?
By
Lowell Ponte
African-American
males are only about six percent of America's population, yet they are so
talented that they are approximately 70 percent of NFL and 74.4 percent of NBA
players. Perhaps the NFL and NBA, to fix this racial equality, should be
required to hire and fire players by race until by, say, 2020, each team fits
the mix of America itself. In the most recent Census, the USA was 12.6 percent
African-American, 16.3 percent Hispanic or Latino, 4.8 percent Asian-American,
and 72.4 percent white. NFL and NBA players should reflect that same racial
proportion. If our sports are to be politicized, then it is time we make merit
and talent secondary and impose racial quotas first and foremost. Sports should
reflect America's proportion of races. [more...]
Trump Should Reject
Fatally Flawed International Institutions
Trump’s
recent comments about renegotiating the Paris agreement and reforming the UN
imply an acceptance of the assumptions on which both are built: that
multilateral cooperation is better able to serve the interests and security of
the United States. If this is so, then Trump is buying into the flaws of those assumptions
that need to be utterly discredited in order to enact meaningful change. [more...]
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