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Troop Surge in Iraq will deepen Quagmire
By Richard Stoyeck · 17 years ago
It looks like President Bush is going to announce a "temporary increase" in the number of American troops serving in Iraq. The President is adding complexity to a series of wrong decisions he has made ...
Six Years later – A Failed Presidency
By Richard Stoyeck · 17 years ago
President Bush came into office with great promise, and the reality has been one failure after another, and this is coming from a writer who was a conservative Republican before the President knew what the ...
President Bush and the GREAT MYTHS of Iraq
By Richard Stoyeck · 17 years ago
What a world we live in. Let's look at Iraq. We know the President said ostensibly that the reason for invading was to find weapons of mass destruction, and prevent Saddam Hussein from using them. ...
Mayor Bloomberg says, “Shooting Unacceptable”
By Richard Stoyeck · 17 years ago
Several days ago, an unfortunate shooting took place in New York City. A team of five undercover police officers were sitting in a van outside a strip club doing surveillance. There was an additional officer ...
Iraq and the Misery Index
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
The other day it occurred to me that during Ronald Reagan's run for the Presidency he created a "Misery Index". This index represented a total of the rate of inflation, plus the prime rate, as ...
New Defense Secretary Changes Everything – Perhaps
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
On Election Day, the American people spoke very strongly that the direction the President and the Republican Party was taking America towards, is not the direction the country wanted to go in. Presidents are not ...
Internet and Cable TV Shake Up Democracy
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Very rarely are we given the opportunity as citizens to participate in a revolution. The citizens that founded our republic participated in a revolution that has affected every corner of the earth for more than ...
Navy Seal dies the hero’s death in Iraq
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
It may surprise you to learn that during the entire Iraq war and post war engagement period, only two of the elite Navy Seals have paid the ultimate price of service. I remember when the ...
North Korea – Yes, you have our attention
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
North Korea has tested a low yield nuclear device with 4% of the destructive power of the bomb that the United States dropped on Hiroshima, Japan at the end of World War II. Some believe ...
Disney / ABC deserve credit-Sept. 11th ABC movie
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
It is rare, rare indeed when a major media entity bucks the trend, and does what it believes in. Recently ABC under Disney’s guidance aired the $40 million production, “The Path to 9/11”. This was ...
Sept. 11th ABC movie-Historically accurate
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Sometimes Hollywood does get it right. The landings at the beaches of Normandy in the Steven Spielberg movie, “Saving Private Ryan” is a vivid, stunning, blood and gore portrayal of the horror that young American ...
Croc Hunter and the notion of risk in business and life
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
Steve Irwin the international crocodile hunting celebrity from Australia died while filming a new TV program on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. A videotape of the incident is purported to show Irwin on one side of ...
Dell versus Hewlett Packard
By Richard Stoyeck · 18 years ago
There is a war shaping up that involves two giant companies facing off, and soon there will be three. The war is between Dell Computer, and Hewlett Packard for supremacy in the personal computer world. ...