[BLOGGER’S NOTE: On the Deprogramming101 home page, I warn readers not to take everything I write as gospel. Today’s post is one for which I urge everyone to take that advice.] In the runup to the Iowa caucuses and the New Hampshire primary, the contenders for the Republican nomination for president have uttered words one … Read more
More revealing than yesterday’s decision by the Colorado Supreme Court to disqualify Donald Trump as a candidate for President in the state’s primary was the reaction of the other contenders for the Republican nomination. Let’s begin with Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and whatever Vivek Ramaswamy. Remember all three raised … Read more
On Tuesday, New York Representative Elise Stefanik asked the presidents of Harvard, MIT and the University of Pennsylvania a simple question. “…does calling for the genocide of Jews violate (your university’s) code of conduct or rules regarding bullying and harassment? Yes or no?” There are only two possible answers. #1: Of course it does. #2: … Read more
Israeli officials obtained Hamas’s battle plan for the Oct. 7 terrorist attack more than a year before it happened, documents, emails and interviews show. But Israeli military and intelligence officials dismissed the plan as aspirational, considering it too difficult for Hamas to carry out. Underpinning all these failures was a single, fatally inaccurate belief that … Read more
NOTE: I have been working on this entry since Israel greenlighted military operations in Gaza. But was unsure of the intended message until today when I learned that China, which now chairs the UN Security Council, plans to introduce a resolution calling for a permanent ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. I trust you are familiar … Read more