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FIGHTING TANKS WITH DAISIES
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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MACHIAVELLI WARNED AMERICA ABOUT TRUMP
As a Presidential candidate, Donald Trump was fiercely attacked by Democrats and his fellow Republicans. But one of his sharpest critics lived more than 500 years ago He was Niccolo Machiavelli, the...
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DUMBOCRATS AND THEIR COMPUTERS
On July 22, 2016, 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...
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STALIN IN THE WHITE HOUSE: PART ONE (OF TWO)
It’s perhaps the most famous—and most widely quoted—part of The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli’s classic work on gaining political power: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved...
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STALIN IN THE WHITE HOUSE: PART TWO (END)
On May 10, The Hill reported that White House Special Assistant Kelly Sadler had joked derisively about Arizona United States Senator John McCain. Aware that the 81-year-old McCain was dying of brain...
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THE EYE VERSUS THE HAND IN “TAKING A KNEE”
To understand the ongoing war between President Donald Trump and the National Football League, you need to first read a crucial passage in Niccolo Machiavelli’s classic work, The Prince: “…For men in...
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THE TOAD WHO NEVER BECAME A PRINCE
Many pundits have sized up Donald Trump—as a Presidential candidate and President. But how would Niccolo Machiavelli, the 16th-century Florentine statesman, assess Trump? Machiavelli’s two great...
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GIVING ADVICE SAFELY—THE MACHIAVELLI WAY
Ask the average person, “What do you think of Niccolo Machiavelli?” and he’s likely to say: “The devil.” In fact, “The Old Nick” became an English term used to describe Satan and slander Machiavelli...
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WHY OMAROSA WINS AND LIBERALS LOSE: PART ONE (OF FIVE)
Throughout the 2016 Presidential election, then-First Lady Michelle Obama famously exhorted: “When they go low, we go high!” Inspiring, yes. But it didn’t prevent Republican Presidential nominee Donald...
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WHY OMAROSA WINS AND LIBERALS LOSE: PART TWO (OF FIVE)
“When they go low, we go high!” was an inspiring line from then-First Lady Michelle Obama during the 2016 Presidential election. Unfortunately, it proved only that good guys finish last. During the...
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WHY OMAROSA WINS AND LIBERALS LOSE: PART THREE (OF FIVE)
On December 13, 2017, Omarosa Manigault-Newman was told that she would be leaving the White House on January 20, 2018—one year from the day she had arrived there. But Omarosa didn’t want to part with...
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WHY OMAROSA WINS AND LIBERALS LOSE: PART FOUR (OF FIVE)
On the August 12, 2018 edition of NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Omarosa Manigault-Newman revealed that she had recorded a conversation with White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. This had occurred on...
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WHY OMAROSA WINS AND LIBERALS LOSE: PART FIVE (END)
Omarosa Manigault-Newman has struck a chord of fear in President Donald Trump that rivals the fear he has struck in others. She has done so by using many of his own tactics against him: Deceit,...
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HYPOCRISY ON BOTH SIDES OF THE STADIUM
A war is flaring in football stadiums across the country. It’s a symbolic war—with football players literally “taking a knee” on one side and with President Donald Trump and his Right-wing minions...
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TRUMP A STATESMAN? MACHIAVELLI SAYS “NO”
No shortage of pundits have sized up Donald Trump—first as a Presidential candidate, and now as the nation’s 45th President. But how does Trump measure up in the estimate of Niccolo Machiavelli, the...
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WHEN PRESIDENTS ACT LIKE MAFIA BOSSES: PART ONE (OF TWO)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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WHEN PRESIDENTS ACT LIKE MAFIA BOSSES: PART TWO (END)
A reputation for being feared can be useful. But it’s dangerous to constantly employ cruelties or punishments. Whoever does so, warns Niccolo Machiavelli, “is always obliged to stand with knife in...
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OUT OF EVIL, CHAOS: PART ONE (OF FIVE)
Donald Trump has often been compared to Adolf Hitler. But his reign bears far more resemblance to that of Joseph Stalin. Germany’s Fuhrer, for all his brutality, maintained a relatively stable...
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OUT OF EVIL, CHAOS: PART TWO (OF FIVE)
In his infamous treatise, The Prince, Niccolo Machiavelli warns that it is safer to be feared than loved. And he lays out his reason thusly: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be...
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OUT OF EVIL, CHAOS: PART THREE (OF FIVE)
In January, 2018, the White House banned the use of personal cell phones in the West Wing. The official reason: National security. The real reason: To stop staffers from leaking to reporters. More...
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