Armstrong Williams

The uncanny road ahead for Donald Trump

With the GOP convention finally at hand, Team Trump faces the truly daunting task of keeping his brand afloat and maintaining a course to victory in the fall. It appears that the GOP is anything but all-hands-on-deck, with splinter factions threatening to abandon the candidate and some delegates actually planning a convention floor revolt.

July 17, 2016

A clear double standard for black men with guns

As a licensed firearm carrier, I have had to undergo significant and ongoing training, in both the safe operation of firearm and in the legal and prudential implications of bearing arms as a civilian. One of the first things they teach you in training is that when you are pulled over or detained by a police officer, you have a duty to disclose to the officer that you are carrying a firearm you are legally licensed to possess.

July 10, 2016

Brexit’s U.S. effects economic, political

Being in Europe, and interacting one on one with many people across the spectrum, truly gives a different perspective and feelings about Brexit.

July 3, 2016

Hillary Clinton’s campaign could fizzle with no sizzle

All steak and no sizzle? Well, that might be OK -- at least you're getting a steak. But presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton's campaign of late may be a case of the worst of both worlds: all fizzle and no sizzle.

June 26, 2016

Colleges failing in fight against sexual assaults

The Department of Education numbers are staggering regardless of what geographic region is analyzed. While almost 100 colleges and universities had at least 10 rapes on their main campuses during 2014, Brown University and the University of Connecticut reported the highest number with 43 each, followed by Dartmouth College and Harvard University with 42 and 33, respectively. On the opposite side of the country was Stanford University with 26.

June 19, 2016

Mass killings of Americans backfire on evil, hate, fear

One year can seem as if it passed in the blink of an eye. It can rush by in the day-to-day chaos that all too often defines our busy lives. One year can slip by unnoticed, as imperceptible as the beating of a heart, the flutter of a loved one's memory through the mind. I know this because I have lived it.

June 12, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Muhammad Ali a champion fighter inside and outside the boxing ring

As the world mourns the passing of Muhammad Ali, the global icon, boxer and father of nine children, I am reminded of my own father's love for "Cassius Clay," as he was known at one time.

June 5, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Bernie Sanders’ utopian nightmare

Bernard Sanders' appeal among young people has focused on the supposed benefits a socialist society can give them: free education, free health care and a government-mandated "living wage." But his vision for a socialist utopia flies in the face of reason — and the sad saga of socialism in Europe.

May 29, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Education problems need smart answers, not more money

For far too many years, we've tried to address the problem of failing educational achievement in America essentially by ignoring it — meaning "throwing money at it and hoping it'll go away." Yet those problems persist. There's a gross disconnect here that no one's talking about and no one really wants to address.

May 22, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Presidential election a choice between truth and repose

As Ralph Waldo Emerson once wrote in an essay titled "Intellect," "God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please -- you can never have both." Rarely in our nation's recent political history has Emerson's instructive insight seemed more apropos.

May 15, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: White Americans in doldrums of despair

No one has quite been able to put their finger on it. But there is something definitely afoot in America, with an alarming rise in suicides among those ages 35 to 64. This trend has disproportionately affected middle-age white Americans, who have a whopping 40 percent increase in the suicide rate since 1999. The rise, particularly among people in prime working age, should serve as a canary in the coal mine, warning us of a larger sociological problem.

May 8, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Obama’s Iran deal emboldens American enemy

Why, when Iranians chant "Death to America" in the streets and proudly proclaim their hatred of the Western world, would the U.S. do anything that even might aid Iran in acquiring a nuclear weapon that would be used to threaten our nation and our allies?

May 1, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Response to claims by 9/11 victims shows U.S.-Saudi relationship changing

On Sept. 11, 2001, at least 19 men -- 15 of them Saudi citizens -- boarded several commercial flights and executed the largest terrorist attack ever on U.S. soil. That event set off two major wars in the Middle East, both still ongoing at some level, and it signaled a new age in American foreign policy in which the U.S. is increasingly focused on deterring state sponsors of global Islamic terrorism.

April 24, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Black voters’ blind loyalty to Democrats must go

I was recently invited by the Rev. Al Sharpton to be on a panel during his National Action Network convention. Mr. Sharpton was gracious in his introduction, calling me an outstanding Republican.

April 17, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: European terror carnage is a warning to America

As we have seen from recent events in Paris, Brussels and all across the world, terrorism is not an obscure phenomenon that only affects the Middle East. And no longer can Americans ignore the threat of terrorism as primarily a European problem. Although attacks in the U.S. are less frequent, in part because of our distance from the region, leaders associated with terrorist groups are increasingly finding their way onto American soil.

April 10, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Evolving an entrepreneurial mindset

If you consider yourself an employee, you look at time as a finite resource. You arrive at work on time, leave on time, and expect to be paid on time. You essentially are tying your income to a fixed, linear relationship with time. But entrepreneurs view time much, much differently.

April 3, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Deciphering the Islamic State mindset

We arrived in Paris last weekend to continue to develop our television and print platform. Before we got here, a suspect in November's terrorist attack in Paris was captured. Not less than three days later — in what seemed to be an accelerated operation — a major attack was carried out in Brussels, leaving more than 30 people dead and hundreds more wounded.

March 27, 2016

Donald Trump’s anger message echoes American trend of discontent

The American people are angry. And this time it is not cyclical anger -- after all, we are sitting at the top of the current business cycle. The anger is the culmination of several economic and demographic trends that have been gaining traction but are now becoming apparent to the majority of the population.

March 20, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Our day in Flint

As the proud owner of TV station WEYI, NBC-25 in Flint, Michigan, it is important for us to understand the community and to become a part of it as much as we can. As a station owner, we can elevate the needs and concerns of the downtrodden, hold those in power accountable and showcase the resilience of Flint. It's a responsibility that we don't take lightly.

March 13, 2016

ARMSTRONG WILLIAMS: Tribute to a good man in Ben Carson

Dr. Ben Carson, who announced last week that he would be suspending his campaign, has forever changed electoral politics in the U.S. for the better. He will be remembered as having run one of the most unique and (especially by contrast) dignified campaigns in presidential election history.

March 6, 2016