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Here are the Blogs in the G. Murphy Donovan category.
Friday, 5 April 2013
“Humankind cannot bear too much reality.” – TS Eliot Ensign of Islamist Resistance Barack Hussein Obama finally went to Israel. Before the trip, America had a schizophrenic, yet constant, Mideast foreign policy; stroking autocratic Arabs and alienating democratic Israelis. Indeed, ...Read More...
Posted on 04/05/2013 7:40 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Friday, 11 January 2013
      “The nature of lies is to please…. Truth has no concern for anyone’s comfort.” – Catherine Dunn A dog whistle makes a sound or sends a command that only a canine can hear  A rhetorical dog whistle is a coded message for select listeners, ...Read More...
Posted on 01/11/2013 11:01 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Friday, 7 December 2012
“There is nothing as agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the rough sand of truth.”                                               ...Read More...
Posted on 12/07/2012 6:49 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Saturday, 17 November 2012
 “It wasn’t his infidelity that I couldn’t bear; it was his cowardice.” – Tatiana de Rosnay General David Petraeus illuminates two grand military issues at just the right moment; officer corps character and flag officer performance. Petraeus could be the poster child ...Read More...
Posted on 11/17/2012 8:00 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Wednesday, 7 November 2012
Wednesday morning political quarterbacks are like the Monday sports variety, only you hear from the former two days later. Similar to literary critics, the “I told you so” crowd usually stays above the fray and then comes down only to shoot the wounded. With such caveats in mind, we assess ...Read More...
Posted on 11/07/2012 3:42 PM by G. Murphy Donovan
Saturday, 22 September 2012
“Bully pulpit” is a phrase coined by Teddy Roosevelt to describe the White House as a platform from which to promote an agenda. Today, almost any high office might be seen as a bully pulpit. Take, as an example, the American Secretary of State, an office now occupied by Mrs. William Clinton. Mrs. ...Read More...
Posted on 09/22/2012 9:18 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Saturday, 25 August 2012
                                     “Every why hath a wherefore.” - WS, Comedy of Errors Let’s stop ...Read More...
Posted on 08/25/2012 11:47 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Friday, 22 June 2012
 “A multitude of books is making us ignorant.” - Voltaire What we believe, or think we know, often gets in the way of what we do not, or should, know. These tensions; facts versus ignorance, truth versus error, and good intentions versus unintended consequences are now a unique field ...Read More...
Posted on 06/22/2012 7:44 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Wednesday, 30 May 2012
Two successive administrations now have sought to appease Muslims by minimizing the threat from Islamists. Indeed, science has now been enlisted in that effort. Early stimulus came from the White House. Hours after 9/11, a Republican president allowed a host of Saudi elites to flee the US by chartered ...Read More...
Posted on 05/30/2012 9:00 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Tuesday, 1 May 2012
Choice is one of those issues that never leave the headlines for very long. The latest brouhaha began when Hilary Rosen, a Democratic Party advisor, claimed that Mitt Romney’s wife, mother of five, grandmother to 16, “never worked a day in her life.” What Rosen meant was that stay-at-home ...Read More...
Posted on 05/01/2012 9:18 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Monday, 23 April 2012
 “I realized what a ridiculous lie my whole life has been.”     - Biff, Act II, Death of a Salesman - Arthur Miller Mike Wallace, veteran media personality, died the other day at age 93. If air time and salary are measures of merit, Wallace was an American television ...Read More...
Posted on 04/23/2012 4:02 PM by G. Murphy Donovan
Tuesday, 3 April 2012
                   “A fool and his money are soon elected.” - Will Rogers   A few days ago,  American Thinker carried a piece entitled: “How Mitt Can Win.” The argument was ...Read More...
Posted on 04/03/2012 9:38 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Tuesday, 6 March 2012
“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear, not absence of fear.” - Mark Twain Every time Benjamin Netanyahu comes to America, the world is reminded that Barak Obama has never been to Israel as president. After nearly four years, the leader of the free world continues to shun the only ...Read More...
Posted on 03/06/2012 7:43 AM by G. Murphy Donovan




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