By Peter Roff |
On April 24 a film will open on about 1,000 screens across America. It’s called "Little Boy." Go see it. You won’t be disappointed.
Rarely have I come across a motion picture that affirms so strongly all that is best about the totality of the American experience – even while addressing the ...
By Peter Roff |
As those who are regular visitors to this little corner of cyberspace know, I have a passion for the U.S. Constitution shared with, among others, Golden Globe-nominated actress Janine Turner and Cathy Gillespie, a former senior staffer on Capitol Hill.
Together they created an organization ...
By Peter Roff |
As Mel Brooks once said, “It’s good to be the king.”
It’s an idea that seems close to the heart of our current president who, both often and insufferably, seeks to remind everyone how smart he is and how most everyone else needs to get to work catching up. It’s an unattractive quality,
By Peter Roff |
In political circles and financial markets, information is power.
When these two areas intersect, as they do with increasing frequency, it provides certain people possessing the right kind of data to have an explosive, even disruptive influence if they choose to do so. They can move markets,
By Peter Roff |
The furor has died down but the conversation continues concerning the recently passed (and even more recently amended) Indiana law protecting religious liberty. The distortions over what the law actually did, even before it was changed, were legion but provoked so much outrage among the state’s ...
By Peter Roff |
President Barack Obama and Secretary of State John Kerry are to be congratulated for their perseverance in pursuing an international pact on the subject of Iran and its pursuit of nuclear capabilities. It was not an easy feat and they deserve credit for pushing the government in Tehran and the ...
By Peter Roff |
Even as Internal Revenue Service Chairman John Koskinen has repeatedly traveled to Capitol Hill for the purpose of justifying the continued existence of his agency, Republicans in the House of Representatives were moving to checks its authority, bit by bit but in important ways.
Last week, the ...
By Peter Roff |
A new Indiana law concerning religious freedom has produced a hysterical, even over-the-top backlash composed of denunciations of the state and its popular Republican governor, Mike Pence, along with threatened boycotts and a ban on state-funded travel to the land of the Hoosiers by the governor of ...
By Peter Roff |
This summer, it will be 75 years since Franklin Delano Roosevelt broke with a precedent established by Gen. George Washington and agreed to accept renomination for a third term as president of the United States.
Things in 1940 looked admittedly bleak. The Great Depression had not yet ended ...
By Peter Roff |
The Democrats have yet to realize they are in free fall, dragged down by the anchor that is the unsuccessful reign of Barack Obama. Despite evidence to the contrary from all across the country, where the president’s party and its allies continue to suffer unexpected electoral defeats and are ...
