Tag Archives: Dwight Eisenhower

Yes We Can: How Eisenhower Wrestled Down the U.S. Warfare State

A former war hero practices fiscal rectitude at the Pentagon.

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Blame the U.S. Congress, Not Illegal Immigrants

Will immigration reform repeat the past abuses of illegal immigration, a history perpetrated by members of the U.S. Congress at the behest of their business associates?

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How the Republicans Empower U.S. Minorities

Why are the Republicans so keen on creating their own worst nightmare?

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America, Enjoy the Downward Slide

Can the United States sustain its power? Even more relevant is the question, Is it worth it?

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How We Lost American Exceptionalism

How did Democrats and Republicans both become the parties of war and the purveyors of an interventionist foreign policy?

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Democratic and Republican Exceptionalism

How are the Democratic and Republican parties both complicit in turning the United States into a warfare/welfare state?

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A Lament for San Francisco

How is an increasingly dilapidated San Francisco symbolic of the challenges facing the United States?

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2011: Where’s the Space Odyssey?

Why is the U.S. space program shying away from its ambitious missions of the past?

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President Paulson

Would the U.S. Treasury Secretary make a good president?

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Britain’s Dark Shadow Over Iran

How was the United Kingdom complicit in undermining Iran’s budding democracy half a century ago?

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