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AVOIDING OBAMA’S MISTAKES: PART THREE (END)
The ancient Greeks believed: “A man’s character is his fate.” It is Barack Obama’s character–and America’s fate–that he is more inclined to conciliation than confrontation. Richard Wolffe chronicled...
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TAKING EXCEPTION WITH “AMERICAN EXCEPTION”
On September 11, 2013, the New York Times published an Op-Ed (guest editorial) from Russian President Vladimir Putin, entitled: “A Plea for Caution from Russia: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About...
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FASCISTIC HATRED THEN–AND NOW: PART THREE (END)
With the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991, the Republican Party went into a tailspin of dismay. For almost 50 years, Republicans had conjured up The Red Bogeyman to scare voters into sending them to...
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YOUR FRIENDS AS YOUR WORST ENEMIES: PART ONE (OF TWO)
It’s a truth well-known to cross-examining attorneys: The best way to obtain the truth is often to “kill your opponents with kindness.” Witnesses always expect the opposing counsel to immediately start...
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YOUR FRIENDS AS YOUR WORST ENEMIES: PART TWO (END)
President Donald Trump has two major legal problems. First, he’s under investigation by Independent Counsel and former FBI director Robert Mueller, who’s armed with top-flight investigators and an...
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TRUMP AS SLAYER
“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters,” Donald Trump—then a candidate for President—said at a rally in Sioux Center, Iowa. That low moment—one of...
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THE MYTH OF AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM
On September 11, 2013, the New York Times published an Op-Ed (guest editorial) from Russian President Vladimir Putin, entitled: “A Plea for Caution from Russia: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About...
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“AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM” IS KILLING US: PART ONE (OF TWO)
“Who are we?” asks Christian G. Appy in the opening of his 2015 book, American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity. For Appy, it’s impossible to understand the enormous impact of the...
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“AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM” IS KILLING US: PART TWO (END)
In his 2015 book, American Reckoning: The Vietnam War and Our National Identity, Christian G. Appy describes the way Americans saw their country before the war: “The United States [was] a unique...
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REPUBLICANS: LOOKING FOR “THE REAL TRAITORS”: PART ONE (OF TWO)
On July 21, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi rejected two Republicans tapped by House GOP Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy to sit on a committee investigating the January 6 Capitol attempted coup. The two...
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REPUBLICANS: LOOKING FOR “THE REAL TRAITORS”: PART TWO (END)
Before being elected to the House of Representatives in 1994, Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) served as an assistant coach at Ohio State University (OSU) from 1987 to 1995. Several former OSU wrestlers claim...
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“AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM”: A DANGEROUS MYTH
On September 11, 2013, the New York Times published an Op-Ed (guest editorial) from Russian President Vladimir Putin, entitled: “A Plea for Caution from Russia: What Putin Has to Say to Americans About...
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