THE POLITICS OF SCAPEGOATING: PART ONE (OF THREE)
“All revolutions,” said Ernst Rohem, leader of Adolf Hitler’s brown-shirted thugs, the S.A., “devour their own children.” Ernst Rohem Fittingly, he said this as he sat inside a prison cell awaiting his...
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“Judge not, that you not be judged. For with what judgment you judged, you shall be judged, and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.” So warns the Gospel of St. Matthew,...
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If Newt Gingrich becomes President, he has big plans for the American federal judiciary: To arrest and remove all those judges who do not follow his right-wing agenda. Adolf Hitler laid out his plans...
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Republican Congressional candidates like Kentucky U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell have long demanded an end to illegal immigration. In 2012, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum made illegal immigration a...
View ArticleSECRET SERVICE PROBLEMS – A LONG HISTORY: PART ONE (OF TWO)
On September 11, 2001, Secret Service agents literally grabbed Vice President Dick Cheney and hauled him from the White House to a secure facility beneath the Executive Mansion. As for everyone else...
View ArticleSECRET SERVICE PROBLEMS – A LONG HISTORY: PART TWO (END)
On the night of September 19, an Iraq war veteran, Omar Gonzales, jumped the White House fence, ran more than 70 yards across the north lawn, and sprinted just past the north portico White House doors....
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View ArticleTWO LIVES, TWO LEGACIES
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View ArticleTHE POLITICS OF SCAPEGOATING: PART ONE (OF THREE)
All revolutions,” said Ernst Rohem, leader of Adolf Hitler’s brown-shirted thugs, the S.A., “devour their own children.” Ernst Rohem Fittingly, he said this as he sat inside a prison cell awaiting his...
View ArticleTHE POLITICS OF SCAPEGOATING: PART TWO (OF THREE
“Judge not, that you not be judged. For with what judgment you judged, you shall be judged, and with what measure you mete, it shall be measured to you again.” So warns the Gospel of St. Matthew,...
View ArticleTHE POLITICS OF SCAPETOATING: 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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The White House has made it official: President Barack Obama has chosen the man he wants to run the agency responsible for protecting him. It’s Joseph Clancy, the former special agent who Obama asked...
View ArticleSECRET SERVICE: REFORMS URGENTLY NEEDED – PART TWO (END)
The United States Secret Service is an agency in trouble. On September 16, 2014, while on a trip to Atlanta’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, President Barack Obama was inside an elevator...
View ArticleEND THE “REVOLVING MEXICAN DOOR”: PART ONE (OF TWO)
Except in times of war, no nation has ever been invaded by so many alien residents as the United States. Throughout 2014, tens of thousands of unaccompanied Hispanic minors–all of them...
View ArticleEND THE “REVOLVING MEXICAN DOOR”: PART TWO (END)
Republican Congressional candidates like Kentucky U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell have long demanded an end to illegal immigration. In 2012, former U.S. Senator Rick Santorum made illegal immigration a...
View ArticleTWO LIVES, TWO LEGACIES
Benjamin C. Bradlee and Richard M. Nixon. Both men were driven to succeed. And both achieved fame and power in doing so. Bradlee made his name in journalism. Benjamin C. Bradlee Nixon made his in...
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