America the year in review

January 1st commentary by Tony Aguilar

The phrase “may you live in interesting times” is a statement usually attributed to China. While the statement is associated with a Chinese curse, it can describe the present state of the United States.

Americans are indeed living in interesting times. It is a time when America is being governed by a president whose personality seems more like a petulant child than a mature adult. continue 

January 3rd Commentary by Tony Aguilar

Early on Saturday morning the United States launched a military attack on the nation of Venezuela. As a result, the President of the nation, Nicolas Maduro was captured and will be tried in New York. The domestic side of this issue, including whether the administration had legal authority to engage in an attack on a sovereign nation, will certainly be a point of contention.  continue

January 7th Commentary by Tony Aguilar

On December 4th, the Trump administration laid out its 2025 National Security Strategy. Having a strategic plan for security whether economically or otherwise is actually a good thing. For the most part, this is less a strategy and more of a wish list with congratulatory statements meant to appease the commander in chief. continue

Commentary by Tony Aguilar

America has had its share of boycotts. From the grape boycotts led by Caesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta to the Jewish-led Henry Ford boycott to protest Ford’s anti-Semitic Dearborn Independent newspaper. This month marks the 70th anniversary of what is probably the most famous one, namely the Montgomery Bus Boycott. continue

Commentary by Tony Aguilar

Americans are in a bad mood over perceptions about the economy, anger over the administration’s deportations, a potential war in Venezuela as well as Nigeria, that people feel is unnecessary, as well as increasing health care costs because of Republican’s refusal to continue subsidies for the Affordable Care Act.  continue

Commentary by Tony Aguilar

It would be a mistake to think that eugenics has disappeared from the American mindset. It has simply morphed. The term, created by Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin, was “an inaccurate theory that humans can be improved through selective breeding of populations.” David Starr Jordan, founding president of Stanford University, and proponent of eugenics said “ indiscriminate charity has been a fruitful cause of the survival of the unfit.  To kill the strong and feed the weak is to provide for a progeny of weakness. ” continue