Tag: NATO
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No Shame in Saying…With Trump Gone, the Alternative May Well be Hell!
January 20, 2021 Dear Editor, As long expressed in writing and orally, I have always been appalled by Donald Trump, the man, and even more so today! However, I now feel no shame in making the following points: For some 15 years now, those truly caring for world peace have, with great trepidation, watched as…
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Some Clarity on the US Withdrawal from Syria
“WE ARE NOT GOING THIS ALONE” October 10, 2019 Dear Friends and Colleagues: Many in the media and some in the Congress are joining “ex-Pentagon” and “ex-State Department officials” complaining about the president’s decision to withdraw the tiny remaining US force from Syria. They make it sound as though President Trump has given the Turks…
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U.S. Army Veteran Shares Painful Experiences of Military Racism, Part 23
“THOSE ORDERS WERE NOT LEGITIMATE” by Sharon Rondeau (Mar. 19, 2019) — Part 22 of our series about the military experiences of former Capt. Gary Mason concluded with Mason’s having returned to Hawaii from a strange temporary assignment in South Korea, where his accommodations, to his surprise, proved to be “a Korean whorehouse” rather than…
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Pastor Brunson to Meet with Trump Saturday
“HE SUFFERED GREATLY” by Sharon Rondeau (Oct. 12, 2018) — Pastor Andrew Brunson, who was freed by his Turkish jailers after a hearing on Friday following intense negotiations with the Trump administration and Turkish government, is to meet with President Trump at the White House Saturday. Two years ago Brunson was accused of participating in…
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Trump Threw A Stick of Dynamite Into The Establishment
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2018, President, NARLO (Jul. 19, 2018) — “One of the remarkable things about Donald Trump is that he didn’t just beat the Progressive establishment – he also beat the Conservative establishment. Two political tribes that have dominated Washington for half a century were defeated in the…
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When the Giving Tree Stops Giving
“ENOUGH IS ENOUGH” by Linda Goudsmit, ©2018, blogging at Pundicity (Jul. 15, 2018) — The United States of America emerged from World War II as the world’s undisputed superpower economically and militarily. The Marshall Plan (officially the European Recovery Program, ERP) was an American initiative to aid Western Europe that gave over $13 billion (nearly $110 billion in…
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Known as Roving’s Corner (RR)
“INGRATES” by OPOVV, ©2018 (Feb. 1, 2018) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to ‘The Pulse of the Nation,’ your daily info-news break. Hello, my name is Roving and what we do is to stop passersby and ask them their pressing concerns of the day, excluding medical problems affecting themselves and their families…
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Never Trump Critics Look Foolish Today
“THE EVIDENCE IS CLEAR” by Jeff Crouere, ©2017 (Jul. 7, 2017) — During the 2016 election, the “Never Trump” conservative critics of Donald Trump predicted a catastrophe for the country if he was elected President. Well, as we approach the six-month anniversary, America is witnessing our most successful presidency since Ronald Reagan. Contrary to worries…
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More Rational Policies in our Future?
TRUMP’S PARIS DECISION CHALLENGES BAD SCIENCE, ECONOMICS AND ENERGY POLITICS BEHIND TREATY by Paul Driessen, ©2017 (Jun. 11, 2017) — In the wake of President Trump’s exit from the Paris climate treaty, reactions from other quarters were predictably swift, nasty, sanctimonious and hypocritical. Al Gore paused near one of the private jets he takes to…
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Shooting the Breeze
“YOU CAN’T TRUST ANYBODY THESE DAYS” by OPOVV, 2017 (May 30, 3017) — This conversation takes place on the 02 deck of a US Navy destroyer operating in the Med. The sun just set; it’s 78 degrees and the ship is cruising East at 12 knots. “Another day, another dollar.” “You’ve got to figure taxes.…
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Now We Get It. Putin Good, America Bad!
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2017 (Jan. 15, 2017) — Now before you turn all red-faced and apoplectic from the title, we’ll explain. Our last week’s article was entitled “Putin Needs to be Injected With a Large Dose of Estrogen.” In the 11 years we have been writing a…
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For Survival
DO GOVERNMENTS PROTECT THEIR PEOPLE OR SEEK MORE POWER? by OPOVV, ©2016 (Sep. 5, 2016) — “So what’s the skinny?” “We stay in port an extra day, is what. Now let me tell you the good news: no liberty. Apparently someone got wind of something brewing so we’re to stay put, I guess to act as…
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WOBC Volunteer Attends Trump Rally, Distributes Sheriff’s Kits on Obama Forgeries, Impeachment Information
“IMPEACH OBAMA??? HERE’S HOW!!!” by Jeffrey Harrison, ©2016 (Apr. 23, 2016) — On April 13 I went to Pittsburgh, PA to the Trump interview for the Hannity Show at Oakland’s Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum. I arrived there with my 21-year-old son about noon and the doors opened about 4:00 pm. While there…
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Tales They Win, Heads You Lose (RR)
“NOT GOOD FOR AMERICA” by OPOVV, ©2015 (Nov. 26, 2015) — “Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, this morning we received a call from Professor Wert, so we’re here at the docks to welcome him home from his travels. And here’s the crane with the gangplank, so we’ll just hustle on up. “Welcome home, Mr. Wert;…
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Why Is Obama Allowing Iran to Develop Nuclear Weapons?
“DESTABILIZING THE WORLD” by Capt. Joseph R. John (Ret.), ©2015, Co-Founder, CombatVeteransForCongress (Apr. 13, 2015) — This op-ed will explain why Obama is allowing Iran’s Shiite regime to develop nuclear weapons and what has prompted Obama to undercut and destabilize the security interests of the United States’ traditional Sunni allies in the Middle East which…
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Gauging Leadership pb
“TURKEY IS NO FRIEND OF OURS” by OPOVV, ©2015 (Feb. 2, 2015) — As in all endeavors, if you want the desired results, the quickest way to achieve them is also the safest. An ambulance driving onto a construction site is a sure way to make all work stop. A co-worker suffering a fatal heart attack…
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The General Speaks
ARE WE FIGHTING TO WIN? by OPOVV, ©2014 (Nov. 16, 2014) — “Troops, I want you to know how proud I am of you and that I’ve no doubt that you will do the service and the country proud. Today, you’re about to embark on an important mission to the Middle East. “Many obstacles are in…
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A National Embarrassment… and A Great Danger pb
“I WILL DO WHATEVER I WANT” by Don Fredrick, ©2014, blogging at The Obama Timeline (Sep. 2, 2014) — On August 28, as the world watched Russian troops invade Ukraine, and as the terrorist army known as ISIS, ISIL, or the Islamic State was rapidly increasing its troop head count (as well as its “behead…