Henry Pelifian Favoritism in public arenas, to include “private” sectors, has as many pitfalls as there are minds which embrace it. While favoritism in one’s private life is a preference that one may embrace as a choice (often involving one’s family and friends), favoritism in public arenas is perilous for it embraces policies and decisions based…
b. traven Mission accomplished, George Bush! You succeeded in making Saddam Hussein look like Mahatma Gandhi compared to Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi of the ISIS Caliphate. Your invention of non-existent weapons of mass destruction (WMD) back in 2002 as an excuse to invade the sovereign state of Iraq in 2003 has come back to bite us…
Richard Sahn Not a day goes by in our local newspaper that there isn’t a letter to the editor blaming people who are facing economic hardship in America because they simply refuse to get a job. And any job will do, says a recent “letter to the editor.” Any job? Does “any job” mean that…
b. traven In 1937 my father died and my mother was left penniless with three young boys under twelve. She didn’t go to pieces, or maybe she did and I just didn’t know, but we moved to poorer quarters and she got a job handing out samples of food in the big local department store…
Michael Gallagher Thanks to my Irish heritage, I have my fair share of the melancholy of the bogs. It’s true we Irish joke a lot, but that doesn’t mean we’re optimistic. Our best jokes are invariably ironic—e.g. when a priest becomes a bishop, he’s never thereafter served a bad meal or told the truth—and so…
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Egyptian Students Protesting the Decision to Exonerate Mubarak of Murder b. traven and W.J. Astore It’s time to eliminate U.S. and Israeli intelligence agencies. It is they who are most responsible for setting up the extremist and jihadist organizations that are creating havoc throughout the world community. Amazingly, the…
Walter Stewart (Major General, US Army, retired) My essay explains why America is losing its wars and offers a simple solution – one requiring nothing more than moral courage on the part of our most senior military officers. 1. America is losing its wars because they are unconstitutional to begin with. They are unconstitutional because…
Alex Dunn. Introduction by b. traven. Alex Dunn is one of TCP’s EU correspondents. An English ex-pat living in Luxembourg gives us a view of this disturbing massacre in Paris. I am sure that Alex’s view from Europe is as concerned as some of our views that the wrong lesson will be learned by politicians…
Matthew Jacobson. Introduction by William Astore. America has always postured as being open to immigrants – of the right kind, that is. Posturing becomes imposture when those immigrants are judged to be the “wrong kind” by prevailing groups. Matthew Jacobson reminds us of this in this satirical list, and poses a telling question at the…
b. traven We talk a lot about war on this blog but we only talk about the deaths as numbers killed. We don’t talk about the intimate details of how a mother, a father, a spouse and children, and other relatives and loved ones can handle that horror. The government and the media like to…
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