By Lanny Davis – 6/24/15 We are again facing the fallacy of the false choice. Those who are concerned about protecting the privacy rights of Americans (including this writer) should not have to choose between protection of those rights and avoiding another 9/11 terrorist attack. The National Security Agency went too far when it established […]
By Lanny Davis – 5/8/15 What do Hillary Clinton, Rand Paul, Cory Booker, Tim Scott, Elijah Cummings, Rick Perry, Newt Gingrich, Van Jones, John Kasich, Bob Goodlatte, Koch Industries and the Tea Party-aligned group FreedomWorks have in common? They all agree on the need for fundamental reforms to the nation’s criminal justice system, with a […]
By Lanny Davis – 4/22/2015 It is a felony for a prosecutor or law enforcement official with knowledge of a grand jury’s investigation to disclose to newspapers that an individual is about to be indicted by that grand jury. It is also a fundamental violation of due process. It taints the jury pool. It prejudices […]
by Lanny Davis – 4/15/2015 So what do the many current and pending Republican presidential candidates have to say to the country about why they should be president in these challenging times at home and abroad? I must say, there is one thing that impresses me so far: Their remarkable unity about one Big Idea. […]
By Lanny Davis – 03/10/15 Is there a double standard applied to the Clintons but not to Gov. Bush or Secretary Powell? What else is new? There’s a rule in mathematics that also should apply to charges often made against the Clintons: No matter how high the number, if you multiply it by zero, it […]
By Lanny Davis – 02/13/15 Let’s not rush to judgment; memories can play tricks. NBC certainly had its legitimate business reasons to try to stop the PR hemorrhage by suspending Brian Williams for six months just one week after the story broke. But that struck me as a rush to judgment — with a suspension […]
By Lanny Davis – 02/12/15 The issue for me regarding the Brian Williams controversy is whether he made a mistake or intentionally misled people by making a claim he knew was false, i.e., lied. To conclude that a mistake is actually a lie requires a lot of proof. Otherwise, if there is a possible explanation […]
By Lanny Davis – 02/6/15 Many political pundits and Republicans are hyperventilating about the news that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton may actually wait a while longer before making up her mind whether to run for president of the United States. How could she delay? How dare she? If you do a Web search […]
By Lanny Davis – January 26, 2015 Former President George W. Bush’s biography of his father, 41: A Portrait of My Father, reminds us of the many significant accomplishments of our 41st president, George H.W. Bush, during his one term, from 1989 to 1993. These were accomplishments that many of us missed at the time, […]
By Lanny Davis – January 21, 2015 President Obama’s State of the Union Address was faithful to the core values of progressive government for which the Democratic Party has long stood — expecting the wealthier taxpayers to finance programs needed by the middle class and the poor. But it failed to address the rising and […]