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WHY FASCISTS WIN AND LIBERALS LOSE
Most Americans believe that Nazi Germany was defeated because “we were the Good Guys and they were the Bad Guys.” Not so. The United States–and its allies, Great Britain and the Soviet Union– won the...
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TRUMP VS. MACHIAVELLI: PART ONE (OF TWO)
Donald Trump has swept the field of his political rivals. The Republican nomination for President now stands within his reach. The “Anybody-But-Trump” coalition no longer has a champion. Its last...
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TRUMP VS. MACHIAVELLI: PART TWO (END)
Donald Trump is riding high, the almost certain Republican nominee for President when that party holds its convention in Cleveland during the week of July 18. But Niccolo Machiavelli, the 16th-century...
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WORDS AS WEAPONS: PART ONE (OF THREE)
Syndicated columnist Mark Shields and New York Times columnist David Brooks appear every Friday on the PBS Newshour to review the week’s major political events. On May 27, Shields–a liberal, and...
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WORDS AS WEAPONS: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Donald Trump, “for all his moral flaws, is a marketing genius.” So stated New York Times columnist David Brooks on the May 27 edition of the PBS Newshour. “And you look at what he does. He just picks a...
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WORDS AS WEAPONS: PART THREE (END)
Massachusetts U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren seems to know something that most of her fellow Democrats don’t–or choose to ignore. Nazi Germany wasn’t defeated because “we were the Good Guys and they...
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KGB AIRWAYS: PART ONE (OF FOUR)
With the summer tourism season now on, tens of thousands of Americans will be flying across the country to visit with loved ones. And many of them will become the victims of KGB Airways. In truth,...
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KGB AIRWAYS: PART TWO (OF FOUR)
The First Amendment of the American Constitution guarantees freedom of speech. But some airline employees haven’t gotten the word. Click here: 3 Easy Ways to Tell If a Business Puts Its Customers...
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KGB AIRWAYS: PART THREE (OF FOUR)
When Leisha Hailey and her girlfriend kissed aboard a Southwest Airlines flight to Los Angeles, they quickly found themselves in trouble. Leisha Hailey A flight attendant told them that Southwest was...
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KGB AIRWAYS: PART FOUR (END)
The concept of “consumer rights” has not yet reached the airline industry. Under Federal law, as enforced by the Federal Aviation Administration, airline passengers have only the following guaranteed...
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GIVING ADVICE–SAFELY
On the rare occasion when most people think of Niccolo Machiavelli, the image of the devil comes to mind. Niccolo Machiavelli In fact, “The Old Nick” became an English term used to describe Satan and...
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AVOIDING OBAMA’S MISTAKES: PART ONE (OF THREE)
If Hillary Clinton becomes the nation’s first woman President, that will certainly be as big a historical milestone as Barack Obama’s becoming the first black man to hold that office. But simply being...
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AVOIDING OBAMA’S MISTAKES: PART TWO (OF THREE)
If Hillary Clinton succeeds Barack Obama as President, can gain much by learning from his mistakes. In 2011, Obama could have ended Republican extortion by invoking the law–that of the Racketeer...
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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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THE FIRST RULE OF CONSPIRACIES–AND COMPUTERS
On July 22, Wikileaks released 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments hacked from computers of the highest-ranking officials of the Democratic National Committee (DNC). The emails were exchanged from...
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CHARACTER AND DESTINY: PART ONE (OF TWO)
“He appeared to need enemies the way other men need friends, and his conduct assured that he would always have plenty of them.” So wrote William Manchester about General Douglas MacArthur in his...
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CHARACTER AND DESTINY: PART TWO (END)
Republican Presidential nominee Donald Trump recently attacked the integrity of the parents of an Army captain who died heroically in Iraq in 2004. For this, he has taken heavy fire from Democrats,...
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A RULER AND HIS BRAINS: PART ONE (OF THREE)
“The first impression that one gets of a ruler and his brains is from seeing the men that he has about him. “When they are competent and loyal one can always consider him wise, as he has been able to...
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A RULER AND HIS BRAINS: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Even the Secret Service can’t protect Donald Trump from the notoriety of his supporters. The current manager of Trump’s Presidential campaign is Stephen Bannon, who’s under fire for anti-Semitic...
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A RULER AND HIS BRAINS: PART THREE (END)
In late July, Donald Trump’s new spokeswoman, Katrina Pierson, accepted an impossible mission that even Jim Phelps would have turned down: Convince Americans that Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton were...
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