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Republican Debate: Trump Holds Off Cruz, but From Start to Finish, Yet Another Circus
Sane Republicans and the rest of America saw little to reassure themselves that a sane dark horse would emerge in time to prevent an extremist from securing the nomination, and after this debate, pundits and the public alike must start ...
December Republican Debate Exposed GOP As Joke on National Security
With its focus on national security, the mid-December Republican debate, though a month past, can still serve as a stark reminder of how silly and insubstantial leading Republicans are when it comes to dealing with problems like ISIS and Putin, ...
Happy—Wait, No—Risky New Year 2016
Happy Risky New Year If people thought 2015 was bad, 2016 shows no sign of letting on up on risk. The Middle East, China, Europe, Central Africa, even the United States will all raise serious questions about risk in 2016 ...
2015 Year in Risk Review: Risky Business
2015 was a tough year, but not altogether bad… Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse January 4, 2016 By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter @bfry1981) January 4th, 2016; alternate version published on Global Risk Insights AMMAN — The year 2015 ...
NRA, GOP Gun Disinformation Completely Debunked by these Maps, Charts
Yes, people kill people. But guns and laws make a huge difference in how many people get killed and the data clearly demonstrates the NRA and Republican narrative is myth-based fantasy, not fact-based reality. Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse December ...
Needless Deaths, Inexcusable Responses: Missives on Guns, Policy, and Politics in America eBook Preview
Missives on Guns, Policy, and Politics in America eBook Preview One author's attempt to combine all his writing on gun policy/politics in America in way that he hopes will help others understand this pressing issue and arm them with knowledge ...
Republicans vs. Syrian Refugees: Keep Your tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free Because We’re Scared
Republicans, predictably after the Paris attacks, have turned on Syrian refugees as the latest group from which they can arouse fear in the American people to Republicans' political benefit. Buying into this fear would be ignorant and stupid, and the ...
America Has Two Major Political Parties, but Only One Is Serious (and It’s Definitely Not the Republican Party)
Author's note: even at this stage of the game in late 2015, it was clear the Republican Party was a party of extremists, one intellectually unsound and not serious about policy. The events of the past summer and fall have ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
