Human Rights Reevaluated?

The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) was adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1948 in Paris. The U.S. State Department has something new: a Commission on Unalienable Rights to provide “fresh thinking about human rights discourse where such discourse has departed from our nation’s founding principles of natural law and natural rights.” The Secretary in a recent WSJ op-ed complained that human rights advocates have created “new categories of rights” that “blur the distinction between unalienable rights and . . .

2020

The “Make America Great Again” experiment has issues. What should we look for in 2020? Character Needed? Honesty Yes Effort Yes Experience Yes Intelligence Yes Maturity Yes What about a combination of honesty, effort, intelligence and maturity? Despite being a “stable genius” and “very rich” the current “Commander” does poorly with the requirements above. Maybe we allow partial credit for thirty months and no new direct “kill chain” wars? The other aspirants offer an array of experience (Vice President, Governors, . . .