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Getting at the Truth
Alan Zendell, July 5, 2021 The next few weeks should be fascinating if you don’t mind sitting on the edge of your seat waiting to see if your elected leaders do their jobs or continue to trash the Constitution. The … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, civil war, greed, Growth of the Internet, hyposcrisy, insurrection, kevin mccarthy, lack of regulation, misogyny, radical agendas, The Big Lie, vladimir Putin
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Comparing Then and Now
Alan Zendell, July 6, 2021 Running for re-election in 1984, Ronald Reagan asked Americans if they were better off than they were when he took office. Yesterday, President Biden delivered an Independence Day speech that asked Americans to compare where … Continue reading
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Tagged bigotry, COVID, divisiveness, Donald Trump, Frankling Roosevelt, greatness, hate, Joe Biden, John Kennedy, lyndon johnson, ronald reagan, the role of government, truth, vaccines
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Charismatic Leaders and Their Mobs
Alan Zendell, January 17, 2021 The summer I was seventeen, I worked for the Herald Tribune Fresh Air Fund at a summer camp. The Fund took hundreds of kids out of the New York City slums, and gave them a … Continue reading
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Tagged beheading a snake, Biden's inauguration, bigotry, brainwashing, FBI, Fresh Air Fund, gangs, Herald Tribune, indoctrination, lynch mobs, police
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Can It Happen Here?
Alan Zendell, February 26, 2018 One of the nearly continuous lessons I learned growing up in post-World War Two New York, was that America was the strongest and most virtuous country on Earth. The idea that America was where the … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-semitism, autocracy, bigotry, Communism, divisiveness, Donald Trump, dystopia, Fascism, fear, Franklin Roosevelt, hitler, Judiciary, Mussolini, Nazism, Philip K. Dick, racism, sexism, Sinclair Lewis, Stalin, the press, totalitarianism, truth, World War 2
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Who the Hell is Stephen Miller?
Alan Zendell, January 29, 2019 Like most people whose ethnic or religious heritage is associated with groups that tend to be the targets of bigotry and hate crimes, I’m extremely sensitive to actions by people with a background similar to … Continue reading
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Tagged alt-right, anger, anti-semitism, Bernie Madoff, bigotry, border wall, charlottesville, ethnic heritage, hypocrisy, isolationism, Nazism, persecution, Steve Bannon
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Huckster in Chief
Alan Zendell, January 21, 2019 One of my sons has held a number of sales jobs. He learned what was necessary to sell effectively, and he excelled at it. A successful salesperson needs good communication skills, a combination of eloquent … Continue reading
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Tagged ann coulter, bigotry, border wall, chaos, DACA, demographics, distraction, ethics, government shutdown, immigration, integrity, lies, misdirection, reagan, roy cohn, rush limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Trump, xenophobia
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December Reflections
Alan Zendell, December 27, 2017 For almost my entire life, December began with a remembrance of Pearl Harbor, but that changed somewhat after nine-eleven. At the time, a Japanese newspaper columnist writing in the Seattle Times even thanked Al Qaeda … Continue reading
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Tagged Al Qaeda, alt-right, bigotry, courts, divisiveness, fascists, fear, free press, love, Love Actually, Nazis, nine-eleven, North Korea, Pearl Harbor, Putin, russia, Trump
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Train Wrecks
Alan Zendell, December 18, 2017\ Today’s unfortunate, tragic train accident between Tacoma and Olympia, Washington elicited a couple of perplexing reactions from President Trump. As emergency crews were desperately trying to stabilize train cars hanging over interstate 5 so they … Continue reading
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Tagged 2018 election, bigotry, bridges, cycnicism, greed, health care, highways, infrastructure, mysogyny, Progressive values, railroads, Steve Bannon, taxes, Trump, wealth
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The Despicables
Alan Zendell, August 13, 2017 One of the worst moments in one of the most poorly executed presidential campaigns in recent memory was Hillary’s ill-advised characterization of Donald Trump’s supporters as a Basket of Deplorables. Of course, she didn’t mean … Continue reading
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Tagged alt-right, bigotry, charlottesville, domestic terrorism, leadership, neo Nazis, racism, Stephen Miller, Steve Bannon, Trump, white supremacy
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