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WHEN PRESIDENTS ACT LIKE MAFIA BOSSES: PART TWO (END)
A reputation for being feared can be useful. But it’s dangerous to constantly employ cruelties or punishments. Whoever does so, warns Niccolo Machiavelli, “is always obliged to stand with knife...
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WHEN PRESIDENTS ACT LIKE MAFIA BOSSES: PART ONE (OF TWO)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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50 YEARS AGO, JIMMY HOFFA–AND HIS LEGACY–DISAPPEARED: PART THREE (END)
The 1983 TV mini-series, Blood Feud, chronicles the decade-long struggle between Robert F. Kennedy (Cotter Smith) and James R. Hoffa (Robert Blake), president of the International Brotherhood of...
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50 YEARS AGO, JIMMY HOFFA–AND HIS LEGACY–DISAPPEARED: PART TWO (OF THREE)
The 1983 TV mini-series, Blood Feud, chronicles the decade-long struggle between Robert F. Kennedy and James R. Hoffa. Having “helped” Kennedy (Cotter Smith) to oust corrupt Teamsters President Dave...
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50 YEARS AGO, JIMMY HOFFA–AND HIS LEGACY–DISAPPEARED: PART ONE (OF THREE)
James Riddle Hoffa, the onetime president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters (IBT) Union, vanished 50 years ago—on July 30, 1975. Once a powerful union boss courted by mobsters and...
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REPUBLICANS: WEAPONIZING MURDER, EVADING RESPONSIBILITY: PART FIVE (END)
To understand Republicans’ behavior, you need to understand the word “projection.“ As defined by psychologists, “projection” means unconsciously taking unwanted emotions or traits you...
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REPUBLICANS: WEAPONIZING MURDER, EVADING RESPONSIBILITY: PART FOUR (OF FIVE)
Republicans and their Rightist allies have repeatedly compared President Barack Obama and other Democrats to Adolf Hitler. But their propaganda campaign draws heavily on the Nazi leader’s own advice....
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REPUBLICANS: WEAPONIZING MURDER, EVADING RESPONSIBILITY: PART THREE (OF FIVE)
Increasingly, Republicans have repeatedly aimed violent—-and violence-arousing—-rhetoric at their Democratic opponents. This is not a case of careless language that is simply misinterpreted, with...
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REPUBLICANS: WEAPONIZING MURDER, EVADING RESPONSIBILITY: PART TWO (OF FIVE)
On June 17, 2015, Dylann Roof, a white high school dropout, gunned down three black men and six black women at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. The evidence...
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REPUBLICANS: WEAPONIZING MURDER, ESCAPING RESPONSIBILITY: PART ONE (OF FIVE)
On June 14, 2025, Minnesota State Representative and Speaker of the House of Representatives Melissa Hortman was shot to death in her home in Brooklyn Park, Minnesota. She was the leader of the state...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART THREE (END)
American Presidents—like politicians everywhere—strive to be loved. There are two primary reasons for this. First, even the vilest dictators want to believe they are good people—and that their...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART TWO (OF THREE)
Is it better to be loved or feared? That was the question Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli raised more than 500 years ago. Presidents have struggled to answer this question—and have come to...
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THE LIMITS OF LOVE AND FEAR: PART ONE (OF THREE)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than loved. The...
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REPUBLICANS: SOLICITING ASSASSINATION
“The Republican Party has weaponized its supporters, made violence a virtue and, with almost every pronouncement for 50 years, given them an enemy politicized, radicalized and indivisible.” So wrote a...
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OBAMA AND TRUMP: THE COSTS OF IGNORING MACHIAVELLI
American Presidents—like politicians everywhere—strive to be loved. There are two primary reasons for this. First, even the vilest dictators want to believe they are good people—and that...
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LOVE VS. FEAR: PART TWO (END)
Is it better to be loved or feared? That was the question Florentine statesman Niccolo Machiavelli raised more than 500 years ago. Presidents have struggled to answer this question—and have come...
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LOVE VS. FEAR: PART ONE (OF TWO)
It’s probably the most-quoted passage of Niccolo Machiavelli’s infamous book, The Prince: “From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved than feared, or feared more than...
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“OUR CASINOS ARE MORAL–THEIRS ARE IMMORAL”: PART TWO (END)
The pace of climate change is dangerously accelerating. A psychopathic dictator—Donald Trump—is preparing to overturn democratic rule in the United States. And COVID-19 continues to ravish the...
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“OUR CASINOS ARE MORAL–THEIRS ARE IMMORAL”: PART ONE (OF TWO)
According to the August 24 edition of the Orange County Register, Californians are most concerned about these issues: Their No. 1 concern remains COVID-19. After that come Homelessness Rising prices...
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JIMMY HOFFA RETURNS–ON NETFLIX: PART THREE (END)
The 1983 TV mini-series, Blood Feud, chronicles the decade-long struggle between Robert F. Kennedy (Cotter Smith) and James R. Hoffa (Robert Blake), president of the International Brotherhood of...
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