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“THE ENEMY OF MY ENEMY IS MY FRIEND”
All in all, this is a wise proverb. President Trump’s decision to stay out of the Turkish-Kurdish fray unless our geopolitical interests are threatened is a wise decision.
Turkey’s incursion into Northern Syria in pursuit of Kurdish rebels has been almost universally deplored by the media and politicians in both the United States and Europe. Read More…
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THE SERVICE ETHIC: THE ULTIMATE GUARANTOR AGAINST MORAL HAZARDS
It is commonplace that individuals and the companies they represent over-commit, over-sell, and over-promise in an effort to make a sale, and in a broader context to steal a march on the competition. Read More…
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CUBA AND VENEZUELA: THE WESTERN HEMISPHERE’S AXIS OF EVIL
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 brethren. Read More…
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Globalization: An Anti-Democratic Nightmare in the Making
Editor’s note: The current demagoguery in the hands of globalists takes the ugly form that a citizen who believes in national borders and national priorities cannot be a good citizen – that he is a fascist some claim. We need to be reminded that the American revolution was a nationalist uprising which few would call fascist. Read More…
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CUSTOMER SERVICE CLAIMS AS RHETORICAL SPIN
What can I believe? This is a familiar lamentation by consumers when confronted by the product and service claims made by firms of every size and stripe in the marketplace. Read More…
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MUELLER AND STALIN: SOMETHING IN COMMON?
Robert Mueller’s report conclusion that he could not “exonerate the President of obstruction of justice” left the reader to infer that the President was, therefore, guilty. This is eerily reminiscent of the tactics employed at Stalin’s show trials in the nineteen fifties meant to root out “enemies” of the State. Read More…
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SUPERIOR CUSTOMER SERVICE: TURKEY SHOULD HOPE IT WERE THE SOLE ADMISSION STANDARD TO THE EUROPEAN UNION
Editor’s note: A couple of summers ago my wife and I had
occasion to spend a week in Istanbul, Turkey. The city is clean, bustling, and
thriving. Construction cranes can be seen on the horizon in every direction.
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THE UNITED KINGDOM IS RESURGENT
During
the 1990’s, our company was involved in projects in the United Kingdom to automate metal packaging plants for
improved cost and service efficiencies. The projects took our team far and wide
from London to Wales, and from Windsor to Coventry. Marketing missions also took
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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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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 the
debt ceiling. Read More…
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