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BIDEN: Condolences for Ukraine. America, build more bridges! | Steve Berman

BIDEN: Condolences for Ukraine. America, build more bridges! | Steve Berman


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My expectations were deliciously low, like getting a New York pizza slice at a shopping-center parking lot carnival food truck. Even so, President Biden delivered a tasteless, bland experience. I was headed for bed at 9:30, just about the time he started to gaffe the TelePrompTer text. When I awoke this morning, I found I …

SOTU: We Need a “Biden Doctrine” But We’ll Get Word Salad | Steve Berman

SOTU: We Need a “Biden Doctrine” But We’ll Get Word Salad | Steve Berman


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President Biden is not polling well. The latest Yahoo News/YouGov poll shows him badly under water. A majority of those polled (53%) think Biden is not doing a good job, and a larger majority—over 60%—say he hasn’t kept his promises. Today, less than 40 percent of the public approves of Biden’s handling of nearly every major issue: …

Joe Biden is Vladimir Putin’s Goldilocks | Steve Berman

Joe Biden is Vladimir Putin’s Goldilocks | Steve Berman


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In 2008, Russia attacked Georgia. Last August, in 2021, the Atlantic Council called that event “Putin’s green light.” In 2008, George W. Bush was in the twilight of his presidency, U.S. forces were busy trying to hand over sections of Iraq to local forces, while Gen. David Petraeus took the reins of CENTCOM. In Afghanistan, the U.N. investigated …

UKRAINE: Resistance is Not Futile

UKRAINE: Resistance is Not Futile


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I have a couple of thoughts on Ukraine, like everyone else this morning. The news is rather numbing. In 1991, I was in Europe as the tension turned to celebration when the Berlin Wall fell. After 31 years, the Russian leader has betrayed his own country, peace, prosperity (except his own), and assumed a mantle …

UKRAINE: Putin Got His Strategy from Studying America | Steve Berman

UKRAINE: Putin Got His Strategy from Studying America | Steve Berman


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As predicted, Vladimir Putin signed a law recognizing the Donetsk and Luhansk people’s republics, and immediately the Russians came in as “peacekeepers.” What’s key here is the territory claimed by the two newly carved out republics, that Ukraine hasn’t recognized by the way, is larger than the territory their militias control. That means the Russians will …

BABEL: God Lets Some White Churches Die | Steve Berman

BABEL: God Lets Some White Churches Die | Steve Berman


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In 1959, Rev. Kyle Haselden, wrote “The Racial Problem in Christian Perspective,” which took five years for Harper to publish, in 1964. Haselden pastored an all-Black church in Charleston, West Virginia. When the book hit, the New York Times, published Haselden’s essay, “11 A.M. Sunday Is Our Most Segregated Hour.” It’s a marvelous piece of …