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Al Kaltman

Al Kaltman is a political science professor who teaches a leadership studies course at George Washington University. He is the author of Cigars, Whiskey and Winning: Leadership Lessons from General Ulysses S. Grant.

Most Recent Articles by Al Kaltman:

The False Narrative: Calling Americans who Believe in the Rule of Law Xenophobic Nativists who Hate Immigrants

The False Narrative: Calling Americans who Believe in the Rule of Law Xenophobic Nativists who Hate Immigrants A Rabbi in Virginia recently posted a sermon he had delivered on his congregation’s website. In the sermon he accused citizens of being xenophobic nativists who hate immigrants. Those same citizens, who believe that we are a nation of laws, and that the 50,000 people who are illegally crossing our southern border every month are lawbreakers and should be denied entry to our country.
- Thursday, August 9, 2018

A Two Step Approach that Begins to Solve the Current Immigration Crisis

A Two Step Approach that Begins to Solve the Current Immigration Crisis A feckless Congress has failed to face up to the issue of illegal immigration. Even if the House had passed an immigration reform bill it would have been dead on arrival in the Senate. The President has pinned his hopes for immigration reform on the Republicans retaining control of the House and gaining seats in the Senate in the upcoming mid-term election.
- Wednesday, June 27, 2018

A Tough Love Suggestion to End the Annual Caravan from Central America

A Tough Love Suggestion to End the Annual Caravan from Central America For the past 10 years Pueblo Sin Fronteras has been coordinating the transit of a caravan of Central Americans through Mexico into the United States. Every year as many as 1,000 men, women and children from Honduras and El Salvador have been allowed to enter the U.S. claiming asylum.
- Friday, April 27, 2018

Leadership Lessons from Trump’s Cancellation of His London Trip

Leadership Lessons from Trump’s Cancellation of His London Trip In the first episode of The Game of Thrones, King Robert asks Lord Stark to come to the capital as his Hand of the King because he is the one person that the King can trust. The first lesson in leadership is that the work must be done by others and there is no more important task for a leader than the selection of subordinates who can be trusted to faithfully carry out the leader’s instructions.
- Thursday, January 18, 2018

The Right Way to Repeal and Replace Obamacare

Obamacare was intended to be the first step to a government run national health insurance system. Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid, with all the Congressional Democrats following their lead in lock step like lemmings, foisted this government mandated and partially government run insurance monstrosity on the American people
- Monday, March 27, 2017


It wasn’t the Russians—they wanted Hillary not Trump

Watching the sequel to the 1966 comedy The Russians Are Coming, the Russians Are Coming that played on Capitol Hill yesterday, one was reminded of the conclusion attributed to John Adam’s that “one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.”
- Saturday, January 7, 2017



Donald Trump’s stance on illegal immigration

By shining a spotlight on illegal immigration, Donald Trump has touched a raw nerve in the American body politic. While what he promises to do is unrealistic, by bringing the issue to the fore, he is forcing the other candidates to spell out what they would do to stop the flood of illegal immigrants and secure our borders. For this, if nothing else, we owe him our thanks. Donald Trump has said that if elected President he would round up and deport all of the illegal immigrants living in the United States. Then to make sure they didn’t reenter our country he would make Mexico pay to build an impenetrable wall from the Pacific Ocean to the Gulf of Mexico along the entire 1,952 miles of our southern border. His ringing rhetoric has great populist appeal, but the simple truth is that finding, arresting and deporting the estimated 11-12 million illegal immigrants living in the US would be about as unrealistic as traveling from the earth to the moon in a hot air balloon.
- Sunday, August 30, 2015

Long past time to make English the official national language of the United States

Donald Trump’s stance on illegal immigration is a timely reminder that assimilation (to a common language, culture and values) is what makes the United States exceptional. If we are to continue to be the greatest nation on earth then we must remain a melting pot. As Senator Hayakawa so eloquently explained, “The United States, a land of immigrants from every corner of the world, has been strengthened and unified because its newcomers have historically chosen ultimately to forgo their native language for the English language. We have all benefited from the sharing of ideas, of cultures and beliefs, made possible by a common language. We have all enriched each other.”
- Wednesday, August 26, 2015

Hillary Clinton lied when she swore she would faithfully discharge the duties of Secretary of State

On February 2, 2009, Vice President Biden administered the oath of office for Secretary of State to Hillary Rodham Clinton. As part of that oath, Mrs. Clinton swore that she would faithfully discharge the duties of the office upon which she was about to enter and that she took the obligation to do so without any purpose of evasion. She lied. At the time she took the oath she was busy setting up a private email server through which she would conduct official business, one that would allow her to cloak those activities which she wished to keep hidden from public scrutiny. In doing so, she at a minimum, violated State Department regulations regarding the handling of sensitive information.
- Wednesday, May 27, 2015

How badly do I want to be president--Hillary Clinton reviews the lies she's told

Author's Note: I only listed the lies that Hillary Clinton has told that came immediately to mind. I expect I forgot to mention some and as her campaign rolls out she will surely tell additional lies, so if anyone reading this remembers any that I haven't listed or becomes aware of any new ones she tells please be sure to add them to the list of Hillary's Lies.
- Tuesday, April 14, 2015

Ulysses S. Grant and Barack Obama: A study in opposites

April 9, 2015 marks the 150th anniversary of the surrender of the Army of Northern Virginia by Robert E. Lee to Ulysses S. Grant. After the war, Lee became the president of Washington College, now Washington and Lee University, where he established the model for the modern American institution of higher learning. Grant was elected President in 1868 and reelected by an even wider margin in 1872.
- Wednesday, April 8, 2015

A Work of Fiction: President Hillary Clinton

In Britain, the play King Charles III closed on January 31, 2015, after a successful run. Dubbed a future history play, it tells how shortly after becoming king, Charles is forced to abdicate by his son William and William’s scheming manipulative wife Kate. If Britons could be treated to a fictional story about future backstabbing in the palace, then Americans deserved to see a fictional tale about future skullduggery by one of their political families in the White House. To be believable, the persons portrayed would have to be known as liars who would stop at nothing to achieve and maintain political power. Among America’s political families only the Clintons meet those requirements. What follows is the synopsis for a fictional tale of political betrayal and murder that Hollywood would never dare to make into a motion picture.
- Monday, March 23, 2015

Hillary Clinton Responds to Questions about Her Emails..

Bill Clinton famously asked what the meaning of the word “is” is. He then went on to say he had not had “sexual relations with that woman.” The Clinton’s are masters of misinforming by careful phrasing.
- Friday, March 13, 2015


Islamic Extremists and Islamic Fundamentalists: A distinction without a difference

The Muslim Council of Britain reacted angrily to the letter written by Communities Secretary Eric Pickles to Muslim religious leaders urging them to do more to combat Islamic extremism and telling them that they had a responsibility to explain to their followers "how faith in Islam can be part of British identity." In responding to the letter, the Deputy Secretary of the Council, Harun Khan, asked if Mr. Pickles was seriously suggesting that "Muslims and Islam are inherently apart from British society?"
- Wednesday, February 11, 2015


The United Kingdom’s Health Care Mess and Its Implications for a Clinton Presidency

Hillary Clinton was clearly disappointed when the health care legislation proposed by the task force she headed was declared dead on arrival when it was submitted to a Democrat controlled Congress on November 30, 1993. Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s comment that anyone who thought her health care plans would work wasn’t living in the real world served as a fitting epitaph.
- Monday, February 2, 2015

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