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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The first debate(s) showed us that the Republicans are often in a war between substance and style. Can a candidate emerge that will combine both? Or will theatricality and style Trump competence and substance? Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse August ...

Author's note: I challenge readers to find pieces by non-Trump-supporters that recognized the threat Trump presented to the degree I did when I wrote this in early August 2015... ***** You may not respect his message, his positions, or the ...

The rebel "Confederate" flag is much less of a problem than the values and system it represents. The romanticization of the South's traitorous slaveowner-led rebellion is an insult to America and American values and 150 years after the defeat of ...

The rebel "Confederate" flag is much less of a problem than the values and system it represents. The romanticization of the South's traitorous slaveowner-led rebellion is an insult to America and American values and 150 years after the defeat of ...

It's hard to be so wrong and silly on such substantive issues as war and peace, nuclear proliferation, improving our relationship with Iran, and our Constitution, but the Republican Party is trying very hard and is succeeding spectacularly. We should ...

The rebel "Confederate" flag is much less of a problem than the values and system it represents. The romanticization of the South's traitorous slaveowner-led rebellion is an insult to America and American values and 150 years after the defeat of ...

How the GOP's playbook for myopia, overreaction, and inaction empowers terrorism, violent criminals, and mass shooters Originally published on LinkedIn Pulse June 30, 2015 By Brian E. Frydenborg (LinkedIn, Facebook, and Twitter @bfry1981) June 30th, 2015 The Boston area on ...