Category: EDITORIAL COLUMNISTS
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EQUALITY – WITH ALL “DELIBERATE” SPEED?
We have made a national holiday to celebrate the freedom of slaves after the Civil War. We have legislation on the Hill that could protect persons of color…
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Letter from The Plains - June 2021
In the first five months of the Biden Administration the United States has moved positively and effectively back to its “Alliance Roots”. In so doing the…
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TRUMP-GIULIANI AGONISTES - BLUE
Trump and Giuliani appear unable to conquer their shared self-pity and despair, and so, drawing upon art and biblical myth, we may conclude that, unlike…
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Welcome to the New Venezuela
America has for over 200 years been that shining city on the hill, the envy of the world where the freedom to speak and think for oneself was the birthright of…
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Letter From the Plains
Eccentric readers do not need to be reminded that Tuesday, November 3, is a “Moment in Time,” not just for American citizens, but for the rest of the Planet,…
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TRUMP LOSES IN THE SUPREME COURT – but not entirely - BLUE
Mr. Donald Trump is not “absolutely immune” from N.Y. DA Cyrus Vance’s subpoenas for Trump’s tax records held by a third party so ruled the Supreme Court in a…
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Down the Rabbit Hole - RED
We live in very strange times where a significant segment of our society seems to have fallen into Lewis Carroll’s rabbit hole, and now like Alice, live in a…
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Letter From the Plains
In the mid to late 1960s, the mentors who trained me in British Intelligence were distinguished World War Two veterans in the sources and methods of the…
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The Deferred Dream - BLUE
Years ago, in Staten Island, Eric Garner, a black man, was choked to death, suffocated by a police officer. His mother still suffers the indignity that the…
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George Floyd - RED
On March 25th, a white police officer knelt on George Floyd’s neck for nearly 9 minutes during an arrest, which led to his tragic death. Three fellow officers…
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Letter From the Plains -June 2020
First, let me say that I hope all Eccentric readers and their families and friends are all safe and well in these challenging times. I want to address how the…
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Trump reopens a bleeding wound - BLUE
William Butler Yeats has been quoted with some regularity, first, the phrase, “the center cannot hold,” and, second, how “the best lack all conviction, while…
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COVID, Fear and “Fundamental Transformation” - RED
COVID 19 presents a serious public health menace to our nation, but the fear instilled by our “leaders” and the media seems intentional and without…
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Letter From the Plains
On March 9, 2020 I was privileged to listen to the Director of the National Drug Control Policy (the “Drug Tsar” by another name), James Carroll, and his…
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Letter From the Plains
Since the March Letter, the International Criminal Court (the ICC) at The Hague in the Netherlands has come into sharp focus because of various allegations of…
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We Are Just Collateral Damage - RED
When viewed through the lens of Clausewitz, a military theorist, the democratic party’s action’s over the last four-plus years are totally understandable “War…
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ARE WE THERE YET? - BLUE
Most of us have seen the Columbus, Ohio protesters, shoulder to shoulder, piercing, crazed eyes, mouths wide open shouting, their shouts gratefully unheard in…
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Letter From the Plains - Editorial
Eccentric readers may not have heard of Benjamin B. Ferencz. On March 11, 2020 he was 100 years old. I had a wonderful teleconference call with him recently.…
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Bernie is a Socialist? Who knew? - Editorial
Despite the coronavirus, our topic this month is the current state of the presidential primaries, and obviously the focus is on the Democrats. I will resist…
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Fear and Loathing During a Pandemic in an Election Year - Editorial
Often in presidential election years, the question is, should we let the incumbent have a chance to finish what he started? I don’t think we can extend that…