Author: Carma Henry

Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) of Broward County raised almost $400,000 at its 22nd annual signature fundraiser, Déjà Vu: Drift Away to Summer.

he countdown is on to History Fort Lauderdale and Galleria Fort Lauderdale’s “Women Trailblazers: Champions of Change – Broward County” benefit reception on 6 p.m. on Thursday, March 26, at Galleria Fort Lauderdale (2414 E. Sunrise Boulevard). This year’s impactful and inspiring leaders to be honored are Mary Adams, principal consultant and owner of The Employee Relations Group; Monica Cepero, county administrator at Broward County Government; Genia Duncan Ellis, president and CEO at Riverwalk Fort Lauderdale, Inc.; Kristina Hebert, president and CEO of Wards Marine Electric; Suzanne Higgins, director of development at Henderson Behavioral Health and Dara Levan, author, public speaker and board member of Joe DiMaggio Children’s Hospital Foundation/Memorial Foundation. The Women’s History Month celebration hosted by radio personalities Julie Guy and Tamara Gant, will kick off a special photo exhibit highlighting these women alongside their groundbreaking historical female predecessors who helped to pave the way for our community. The exhibition celebrating their achievements will be on display through April 19.

    I have previously commented about the strategic blunders the Trump regime has made in its war on Iran. Add this one: the gains both China and Russia have made at US expense. While the war has had costs for both those countries, on balance it has benefited both more.       

    The American Secretary of War, Pete Hegseth, announced that American and Israeli warplanes would soon gain total control of Iranian airspace allowing them to deliver “death and destruction from the sky all day long.” Think about it–that is what America will mean to the people of Iran—as it already means to Afghanistan, Libya, and Iraq–“death and destruction from the sky all day long.” Do we want our country to strike fear in the people of the world?  Where is our vaunted Christian faith? Where is our humanity?

A speech by a president who really wished to avoid more Middle East wars

    I have previously commented about the strategic blunders the Trump regime has made in its war on Iran. Add this one: the gains both China and Russia have made at US expense. While the war has had costs for both those countries, on balance it has benefited both more.       

    It does not feel like it is for the average American family watching prices creep up again. It does not feel like it is for parents with children in uniform. It does not feel like it is for younger Americans who were told, over and over, that the country had finally had enough of endless war in the Middle East.

    In Greek lore, Achilles was said to be the quintessential warrior – valiant and fierce. In dispatching Hector outside the walls of Troy, Achilles did so on his own authority and in single combat. He was an effective dealer of death, but not very good at following orders or being part of a team. He was known to brood and pout. United States Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has declared that he wants the US military to train and deploy warriors along the lines of the good old days of Homer’s Iliad. We will argue here that this is not a good idea.

       That is what unchecked power looks like. And we are living inside it.

       “I kind of felt violated,” she recalls, describing how two male correctional officers searched her and unzipped her hoodie despite her objections. Angry and intoxicated, she flooded a toilet in her pod after being denied a phone call. “It was like an out of body situation,” she says. “I was so mad they wouldn’t let me make a phone call. I could’ve bonded out that night.”