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Benghazi Hearing: GOP’s Embarrassing Shame, Clinton’s Triumphant Vindication
Beyond any shadow of a doubt, Republicans set out to tear down and disgrace Hillary Clinton with the Benghazi hearing and made that obvious in their conduct; in the end, they only succeeded in tearing down and disgracing themselves, and ...
U.S. Deployment of Special Operations Forces to Syria: Another Low-Risk, High-reward Move by Team Obama
Author's note: as Trump pulls U.S. troops out of Syria, it's worth noting what I pointed out here in late 2015: that the limited deployments there (then and now) were/are (still) very low-risk, high reward, that we gained so much ...
Blame Bibi Netanyahu for the Violence First, Then Blame Both the Israeli and Palestinian People
Netanyahu, by far, has the most power of anybody in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and this has been the case for over six years. Nobody has done more to shape the current situation over this period, and therefore, nobody deserves more ...
THE DEFINITIVE Clinton E-mail Scandal Analysis
THE DEFINITIVE Clinton E-mail Scandal Analysis Below is the most comprehensive analysis of Hillary Clinton's e-mail "scandal" you will find anywhere. There certainly are some legitimate questions about what happened and Secretary Clinton's judgement in this instance, but those questions ...
Syria, ISIS, The Walking Dead, The Leftovers, & Tolkien: Musings on the Crumbling of Civilization & Morality
How three TV shows illustrate critical dynamics of the Syrian Civil War and how two books show us why we need to care Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse October 12, 2015 By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981) October ...
Putin’s Reckless Syria Escalation Makes Russia, Russians, Target of Global Jihad (Again)
By intervening squarely on the side of Shiite Bashar al-Assad against his own mainly Sunni people and the entire Sunni Middle East, Russia may once again be the center of attention from the global Sunni jihadist movement. But, unlike the ...
Fiorina Key Exec on Team that Destroyed Lucent, Making It Enron of Telecom World.
She Is Also Hardly Self-Made, Hails from Elite: Carly's Campaign Narrative of Herself Is Mostly False Having examined Republican presidential candidate Carly Fiorina's rise to the #3 spot in polls of Republican voters in the context of gender politics and ...
Fiorina the Female: The Republican Party’s Desperation for a Viable Woman Candidate and the Lowering of the Bar
In this three-part series, we look at the candidacy of the new darling of the Republican Party, former HP CEO Carly Fiorina. We will look at the troubling rise of Carly Fiorina in the Republican field in the context of ...
Republican “Debate” Circus Round 2: Trump vs. Fiorina
Also, Why the Kids'-Table Debate Was Better Why the debate should not be called a debate, why it is embarrassing for Republicans to say Fiorina "won," and why the "kids'-table" candidates were far more impressive Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse ...
Scott Walker’s Weak Wisconsin Record
What His Candidacy Says About Today's GOP Republican Presidential Candidate Scott Walker's Record as Governor of Wisconsin Is, Objectively, Hardly an Asset, Especially When It Comes to the Economy, and, What the Republicans' Fling with Walker Says About the State ...
Grading Obama on Reducing U.S. “Dependency” on Middle East Oil
Energy Moves An Underreported Triumph by Any Objective Standard Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse August 27, 2015 By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981) September 2nd, 2015 The following is excerpted from the upcoming part of my series grading ...
The State of Illegal Immigration 2015: Reality vs. Republican Fantasy
Author's note: as we enter the longest government shutdown in American history as 2019 unfolds because of Trump's border wall delusions, my look at the immigration debate from 2015 is still deeply relevant. Anti-immigrant Americans in the mid-nineteenth century were ...
