Alex Dunn It has been quiet here of late. I think that a brief pause to reflect on just how long 4 years can seem has benefitted us all. Such was the perceived length of Trump’s presidency, it seems appropriate to refer to the Trump Epoch. Here in Europe, as Inauguration Day approached, we waited…
Stuart Lyle You have heard of the “October Surprise,” that unexpected turn of events, sometimes manufactured or timed, sometimes just random, that has out-sized influence on the results in November due to its close proximity to the election. Think Comey’s 2016 announcement of reopening the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email server, or Kissinger’s announcement that…
Dan Mason After the spectacular failure of Hillary Clinton to win a shoe-in election for one anointed and “whose time had come,” someone who deserved to be rewarded for past service to the people, the country, and the entirety of humanity at large, the Democrat Party elites tried to grapple with the reality of the…
Richard Silverstein One of the most stunning defeats in tonight’s primary voting across the country was that of long-time Congressional Democrat Rep. Eliot Engel in a NY primary. Engel, who served in Congress 32 years, chaired the House foreign affairs committee. Its role in bringing forward foreign policy legislation crucial to the Israel Lobby. Engel…
Stuart Lyle Was America ever really “great?” There are many blotches on our history going back to the days before the Articles of the Confederacy: the wanton destruction of Native American communities slavery of African’s on American soil the post-Civil War poll taxes the Monroe Doctrine of subjugation of Latin America dropping an atomic bomb…
Don Rose What’s up with ABC News? The producers of its Sunday morning talk show “This Week with George Stephanopoulos” are set to inflict us regularly with the “insights” of a pair of the most obnoxious former office-holders in a nation filled with obnoxious former office-holders. I speak here of the recently departed neoliberal Democrat…
Peter Van Buren A guy on Facebook I don’t know wrote a version of what has become a kind of set-piece article in today’s America. Here’s a portion: Losing The War of Attrition or How To Turn Any Normal Person Into A Broken, Angry Radical You are one of the millions who are employed at…
Dr. Stephen Ray A few things to remember for those fretting and not celebrating last Tuesday’s election results. There was not a single pollster who gave the Democrats any chance of retaking the Senate. The question was always about the margin by which they would lose. Anything within 4 percentage in states which Trump carried…
The author of the piece is a 30 year veteran of jazz radio broadcasting in New England. He’s also a long-time Contrary Perspective reader and active commenter. We encourage other readers to submit their ideas to the blog. – Ed. Greg Laxer In what is unquestionably, in this writer’s mind, already the most bizarre presidency…
b. traven What an unforeseen resistance scenario! Millionaire athletes leading the political resistance against Trump. Ret. General John Kelly who was selected as Trump’s Chief of Staff to keep Trump sane and was described by the Washington Post as “not suffering idiots” has one on his hands. If he would get down on a knee…
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