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Don’t Let the Fog Blind You
Alan Zendell, June 11, 2024 Fifty years ago, I had a life-changing experience that still resonates with me. After visiting there myself in February of 1974, I returned to Seattle in April with my wife, who I hoped would be … Continue reading
An Unhinged Trump Threatens All of Us
Alan Zendell, February 14, 2024 My wife summed up yesterday’s news perfectly: Trump intends to divide the world in half with himself and Valdimir Putin in complete control of their shares. She may have erred in excluding China’s Xi Jinping, … Continue reading
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Tagged alliances, autocrats, democracy, Donald Trump, isolationism, israel, leadership, national security, NATO, Taiwan, Ukraine, vladimir Putin, xi Jinping
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Will Mike Johnson Support America or Putin?
Alan Zendell, December 13, 2023 Most of us had never heard of Representative Mike Johnson (R-LA) until he was suddenly voted in to replace Kevin McCarthy as Speaker of the House. We quickly learned that he is an evangelistic Christian … Continue reading
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Tagged abortion, border security, china, Christianity, government shutdown, iran, israel, Joe Biden, kevin mccarthy, lyndon johnson, MAGA, national security, North Korea, russia, Trump, Ukraine
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Classified Documents
Alan Zendell, January 13, 2023 It’s obvious on its face that no matter how you feel about them, Donald Trump and Joe Biden are entirely different kinds of people. The kerfuffles over the handling of classified documents is but the … Continue reading
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Tagged Anita Hill, Donald Trump, FBI, Joe Biden, kevin mccarthy, Merrick Garland, NARA, national archives, national security, opacity, transparency
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The Double-edged Sword of Technology
Alan Zendell, August 23, 2022 Ask any computer or IT specialist about technology, and you’ll hear a litany of all the ways our twenty-first century world couldn’t function without it. Everything from cars, planes, electronics, televisions – even modern refrigerators … Continue reading
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Tagged anonymity, Carrington event, cars, computer chips, computers, EMP, Facebook, fake identity, hackers, Internet, IT, Mudge, national security, nuclear weapons, Peiter Zatko, solar flares, spy networks, Twitter, whistle blower
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Classified Hypocrisy
Alan Zendell, February 11, 2022 I was one of many Americans who held top secret clearance during the Cold War and Vietnam years. Everyone took that stuff very seriously back then. We were read the riot act concerning all the … Continue reading
Season 116, Episode 1
Alan Zendell, January 4, 2019 You might think from what I’ve said or written, that I’m one of those Democrats who Senator Orrin Hatch (R, Utah) ramblingly described as hating Trump so much I would do anything to defeat him, … Continue reading
The Slide to Autocracy
Alan Zendell, July 25, 2018 I was one of many who was struck, early on, by the similarities between Donald Trump’s rise to power and that of Adolf Hitler. The number of websites devoted to the subject is astounding, and … Continue reading
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Tagged congress, constitution, democracy, disruption, divisiveness, Fascism, Hermann Goring, hitler, lock her up, national security, Nazism, Putin, separation of powers, supreme court, Trump
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Another White House Leak
Alan Zendell, March 21, 2018 Oh no! Someone in the White House leaked another embarrassing bit of news to the media. Apparently, the president’s national security team “instructed” him not to congratulate Vladimir Putin on his election victory, but he … Continue reading