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IS THE UNITED STATES AT END OF EMPIRE? OR IS IT TIME FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP IN 2024?
AMERICA’S ECONOMIC PRIMACY IS ON A SLIPPERY SLOPE
America’s economic primacy is pretty much behind us. And, I don’t believe there is any chance of reversing a trend that began thirty plus years ago. The modest-case scenario for the nation is to slow the rate of economic decline – never mind social and cultural decline, which are probably lodged in irreversible decay. Read More…
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PUTIN, STALIN, AND FDR
The atrocities and wholesale destruction visited upon the nation of Ukraine beginning February 24, 2022, and the annexation of Crimea in 2014 by Vladimir Putin’s Red Army is as much due to the megalomania of a madman as it is to the fecklessness of democracies who have failed to stand together to confront such evil. Tragically, we have seen this movie before. Read More…
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GREECE REMAINS THE EUROPEAN UNION’S FAVORITE WHIPPING BOY
Prefatory note: In my frequent travels to Greece on business, I have witnessed firsthand the devastation which has been visited on this beautiful land by the nation’s European lenders. Read More…
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SWISS AIR DOES NOT RESPECT SERVICE DOGS
“As the airline of Switzerland, we cherish everything that makes our country unique.” So says an official Swiss Air Tweet.
That slogan, however, is sheer propaganda. Read More…
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GERMANY HAS WELCHED ON ITS MORAL OBLIGATIONS BEFORE
Prefatory note: Having traveled on business throughout Germany deploying complex information technology projects, I can vouch for the German predilection with rules, process, programs, and structures. In the end, everything we set out to accomplish as part of our project rollouts we did so on time and on budget thanks to the hard work of our German team members. Read More…
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AMERICA’S ADDICTION TO CHINA MUST END OR IT WILL KILL US
China’s handling of the coronavirus outbreak and its aftermath is evidence, if any further evidence is needed, that the totalitarian regime would rather run roughshod over the community of nations and more perversely over its own citizens than to act with the transparency, honesty, and integrity expected of a presumed superpower. Read More…
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CUBA AND VENEZUELA: THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE’S AXIS OF EVIL
Editor’s note: President Trump’s speech before the United Nation’s General Assembly, September 24, 2019, made clear that Venezuelan Dictator Nicolas Maduro’s Marxist regime was being held afloat with the help of his Cuban communist comrades: “The Dictator Maduro is a Cuban puppet, protected by Cuban bodyguards, hiding from his own people, while Cuba plunders Venezuela’s oil wealt Read More…
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BOOK REVIEW: SEA POWER BY ADMIRAL JAMES STAVRIDIS
It is a sad state of affairs when a four-star Admiral of the United States Navy publishes a book on the geopolitics of sea power that is filled with sloppy research, non-sequiturs, serious omissions, and platitudes. Read More…
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A DISREGARD FOR SERVING THE PUBLIC: THE UNITED STATES GOVERNMENT AT WORK
Editor’s note: A recent reader to my blog asked: “I’m interested in your perspective on the recent government stalemate regarding spending. Read More…
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HOW IDEOLOGY MASQUERADES AS IMPARTIAL ECONOMIC ANALYSIS
Editor’s note: Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Samuelson has
been hugely influential in promoting his views from the day he published his
economics textbook in 1948. He also penned a regular column in Newsweek
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CLIMATE CHANGE: SCIENCE OR PROPAGANDA?
The fear being stoked by the power elites in academia, business, government, and the media that climate change poses, as the current cliché has it, an “existential” threat to the planet is a threat alright but one that seeks to undermine a sovereign nation’s interests and priorities. Read More…
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THE MASK OF MAYORKAS: MORE DISINFORMATION FROM THE BIDEN ADMINISTRATION
The White House Propaganda machine was working overtime when it labeled its choice for Secretary of Homeland Security, Alejandro Mayorkas, a “Latino.” A good try, perhaps, but disingenuous in the end. The fact is that Mr. Mayorkas’ father was Turkish and his mother Romanian. That the Secretary was born in Havana is irrelevant. Army brats born in Korea of U.S. Read More…