Armstrong Williams

Daily litany

The sun rose yesterday in Washington, D.C. at 6:02 a.m. I made my routine morning run in the silence of dawn, passing the Lincoln Memorial and running along the still water of the Reflecting Pool.

It’s time to talk about recession

Is America in a recession? It’s an unpopular question to ask, but it has now been over three months since COVID-19 restrictions were initiated and it is time for us to get realistic about where we are economically so that we can take the proper steps to minimize further damage to our economy.

While much of white America reckons with Black Lives Matter, others feel marginalized

The recent scenes of largely white crowds across the world demonstrating in support of Black Lives Matter in the wake of George Floyd’s death are reminiscent of another watershed moment in America: the 1960s civil rights revolution.

When the protesting ends – do you just go home?

There is a ground swell in America, and for 13 days there has been multiracial protests and demonstrations based on the killing of George Floyd by four Minnesota police.

Do you harbor racist thoughts?

When Ahmaud Arbery’s sensational killing became media fodder, many in the media decried it as a clearly racist murder, and even former Vice President Joe Biden got in on the act, calling it a “lynching.”

America is better than this

The orchestrated violence roiling an increasing number of American cities is cause for considerable concern.

Thoughts on reopening the economy

A by now familiar and in fact quite hypocritical claim permeating the liberal media bubble is that President Trump and the GOP are engaging in a cynical plan to relax shelter-in-place restrictions due to coronavirus and rush reopening the country in hope of reviving the economy enough to bolster the president’s reelection prospects.

The game of truth

When newly minted White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany took the stage last week for the first time, the first time a Trump press secretary has issued a formal conference in over six months, she encountered a ravenously bloodthirsty media gaggle.

ESPN’s ‘Last Dance’ replete with life lessons

ESPN’s documentary on Michael Jordan and the Chicago Bulls is already receiving rave reviews for shining a spotlight on the greatest basketball player ever, who should also be considered one of the best athletes of all time.