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Donna Scuderi is a writer, political junkie, and impassioned worshiper of the Most High. She loves music, Levis, and cowboy boots. For more from Donna, visit Born Again Baby Boomer Ex-Lefty American Gal at http://donnascuderi77.wordpress.com/
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Truth, Where Is Thy Sting? Oh, There It Is
“What difference, at this point, does it make?” barked Hillary Clinton when Wisconsin Senator Ron Johnson pressed for answers in the Benghazi hearings of January 23, 2013. Mrs. Clinton had it up to here, as the saying goes. She’d been… Read More ›
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The Benghazi Boomerang
Fasten your seatbelt. The whistleblowers are set to speak; the high and haughty are poised to lose their cover. If only they’d come clean as a matter of honor. If only they hadn’t scoffed at the importance of truth. But… Read More ›
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Confusion and Every Evil Work
“Where envying and strife is, there is confusion and every evil work” (James 3:16 NKJV). The wheels are coming off in Washington, D.C. and across the homeland. Finger-pointing, blame-gaming, whiplash-producing baiting-and-switching, flip-flopping, stagnation, and pathological lying have replaced leadership, responsibility,… Read More ›
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The Builder-in-Chief: What Is Obama’s End-Game?
What you are about to read is discomfiting. It may seem unkind or clash with your worldview. Neither is the intent. The goal is truth. Can we remain free without asking questions? Can we assume that our freedoms will never be… Read More ›
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The Bully in the Pulpit
The politics of strife and derision. Powerful and mean-spirited. Designed to stir the pot and brew crises. Its core mission is twofold: destroy your “enemies” and fuel the backbiting. Not that division ever needed a nudge. Issues alone are capable… Read More ›
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A Post-Election Look at the War on Truth
In the weeks since Election Day I have taken some time to think and think hard. The political details are important, but they are not the real issue. So I’ve tried to drill down past the drama to where the… Read More ›
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Benghazi, Obfuscation, and a Petulant President
In nine long days since Election 2012 a downpour of news stories has flooded the American psyche. Magically, the stories held their water until the President’s reelection was history. Then they washed over the nation with torrential force. Yesterday, the… Read More ›
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Our Long National Nightmare Continues, With Shouts of Joy
It is unnatural. It defies logic. It is more than a bad case of denial. It is like jumping into the fire with both feet, after burning your fingers on a hot stove. Like returning to vomit left rotting for… Read More ›
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Sandy and Benghazi: Two Storms and “Two Presidents”
The superstorm, Sandy, has wreaked havoc, taken lives, and added her two cents to the white-hot political scene. To those in despair, the muddied political waters she stirred are the least of the problems. It is not surprising, therefore, that… Read More ›
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Enough Is Enough, Mr. President—And the Same for You, Brian Williams
This is not the time for soothing rationalizations. The following details about Benghazi speak loudly. If they don’t turn your stomach and drive you toward the truth, maybe nothing will. If you handed a mackerel a microphone this week, it… Read More ›
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The Incredible Presidential “Reveal”
With one presidential debate left to go, the high-stakes race of 2012 has reached an ear-shattering crescendo. The race is wildly dynamic, and for very good reason. A lot has transpired in recent years. We have entered uncharted, anything-goes territory…. Read More ›
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The Shuttle Endeavour and the Nation That Soars
We are living in a metaphor-rich environment: empty chairs…beer summits…people hugging trees… others “clinging to their guns and religion”…wars on women, Christmas, and the Ninety-nine Percent… towering Greek (Styrofoam) columns in a Mile-High stadium… …And now the space shuttle Endeavour… Read More ›
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No, Mr. President, You Can’t Do That
We are a nation of laws, with a President who cares little for them. Strong words? No doubt. But the time for nicely-couched descriptors is over. Queasiness about straight talk ought to fall away when the Chief Executive elevates himself… Read More ›
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Welcome to the War…On Truth
In light of the Benghazi terrorist attack, its apparent cover-up by the administration, the “anything goes” fiction-for-fact approach of the President ‘s campaign, this AWOL presidency, and the unbridled manipulation of a seemingly deluded electorate, I thought it fitting to reprise… Read More ›
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Time to Put Your “Mitt” On
Amazing, but the plea is the same as when I wrote this blog 50 odd days ago… Under one hundred days to the ballot box and the presidential Play-Doh is taking the shape of a cliffhanger. I don’t know about… Read More ›
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How to Boil a Frog and Fundamentally Transform America
Brace yourself. This is one of those posts. It is not partisan, but some will insist it is. Forgive the mixing of animal metaphors, but this is a snapshot of an elephant in the room—the one we have rationalized… Read More ›
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The Audacity of Air Guitar and Election 2012
This post was originally published prior to the Democratic National Convention. (It has been retitled, but the body of the article is unchanged.) Although the Democrats have since staged a week of high drama and soaring emotions, I believe that the article’s… Read More ›
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DNC and the Saga of the Empty Chair(s)
Finding ironies and metaphors in political silly season is like shooting fish in a barrel. This year, the barrel is particularly well stocked. When Clint Eastwood stepped onto the RNC platform last week, he came loaded for bear—er, actually fish—and… Read More ›
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A Fly on the Wall Reporting From 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue
Paul Ryan speaks into the airwaves from his unimposing podium in Tampa. No Greek columns. No smoke machines. The slowing rise of the oceans is never mentioned. The healing of the planet is not promised. There are neither messianic musings nor mountaintop… Read More ›
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Welcome to the War…On Truth
It isn’t new, but the ferocity is increasing. There is no way around it; we are all neck deep. By design or default, we have been conscripted. Some know it, and some don’t yet. It is the war on truth…. Read More ›
