A Message from Her Majesty The Queen, Head of the Commonwealth This year the Commonwealth commemorates its foundation sixty years ago. The London Declaration of 1949 was the start of a new era in which our member countries committed themselves to work together, in partnership and as equals, towards ...

On the night of the Grammy Awards last month, a female friend and I were discussing what was then pure speculation surrounding the Chris Brown-Rihanna fight that caused them both to cancel scheduled performances.   As we recalled that discussion last night, we agreed that she became extremely annoy...

Yesterday, Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir became the first sitting head of state to have a warrant issued for his arrest.  The International Criminal Court (ICC) issued it pursuant to an indictment against him for war crimes and crimes against humanity, all stemmig from the atrocities A...

Judging from the title to this commentary, you might expect me to join the chorus of Wall Street Cassandras now predicting Armageddon for the U.S. (if not the global) economy. But this is not the case. Instead, I merely feel compelled to reinforce my admonition that the “the only thing we hav...

In a long-overdue move, the U.S. government has finally smashed Swiss bank secrecy laws by prevailing upon the Union Bank of Switzerland (UBS) to give up the names of hundreds of Americans who have used those laws to evade billions of dollars in taxes.  In fact, given President Obama’s d...

The impact of this recession is real, and it is everywhere. But while our economy may be weakened and our confidence shaken; though we are living through difficult and uncertain times, tonight I want every American to know this: We will rebuild, we will recover, and the United States of America will...

One of the more ironic features of President Obama’s one-month-old presidency is that his critics are accusing him - whose presidential campaign was predicated on hope - of not inspiring enough hope that the U.S. will weather this ongoing financial crisis.  And it does not matter to them tha...

No one has been a more ardent critic of the black-victimology politics that Reverends Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton have turned into a very profitable business enterprise.  But even these firebrands occasionally stumble upon a perceived racial slight that is in fact worthy of outrage and protest. ...

I appreciate the fact that Alex Rodriguez became the first superstar baseball player to admit taking performance-enhancing drugs while still in his prime.  He made this game attempt to come clean during a press conference yesterday at the Yankees’ spring-training camp in Tampa, Florida. Regre...

Frankly, these days, money can buy you love… But love can’t buy you a damn thing !...