Here are the Blogs in the G. Murphy Donovan category.
Saturday, 13 February 2021

by G. Murphy Donovan
A candid book about small wars, for the most part Muslim conflicts, is a rare volume these days. Government sponsored and/or commercial authors are loath to touch anything Islamic, especially fascist religious states like ISIS, in any context tactical, operational, or strategic.
Writers ...Read More...
Posted on 02/13/2021 1:11 PM by G. Murphy Donovan
Monday, 4 January 2021

by G. Murphy Donovan
“Sin by silence makes cowards of men.” - Lincoln
Good people across America are wringing their hands over the 2020 presidential election results. Seventy million voters are a lot of political angst.
Worse still, many serious observers are challenging the legitimacy ...Read More...
Posted on 01/04/2021 5:06 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Saturday, 24 October 2020

by G. Murphy Donovan
“Don’t you see that the whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought.” - George Orwell
(What follows here is the text of a letter sent to the C-Span Politburo in the wake of the Steve Scully affair. Scully, is a Biden foot soldier and erstwhile network moderator ...Read More...
Posted on 10/24/2020 6:22 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Tuesday, 6 October 2020

by G. Murphy Donovan
I believe that Trump won the other night at the first presidential debate of 2020, an amazing feat as Trump had to take on Biden and a partisan moderator in the same fight.
Albeit, you might not know that Trump won if you didn’t watch and believed the post-fight media ...Read More...
Posted on 10/06/2020 3:58 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Tuesday, 22 September 2020

by G. Murphy Donovan
Donald Trump might be the most controversial president since Abraham Lincoln.
The other day Trump compared himself to Lincoln in a civil rights context and ignited another media tantrum. Surely, Trump is no match for Lincoln’s lawyerly reticence or rhetorical eloquence. ...Read More...
Posted on 09/22/2020 1:29 PM by G. Murphy Donovan
Tuesday, 1 September 2020

Cooking the Books on Your Dime
by G. Murphy Donovan
“All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia.” - Orwell
I am an equal opportunity political observer.
I watched or listened to both the Democrat and Republican national ...Read More...
Posted on 09/01/2020 7:13 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Friday, 10 July 2020

No Noose Is Good News?
by G. Murphy Donovan
Most media outlets attribute civic upheaval in 2020 to historical social injustice or Donald Trump, or maybe both. Before the history of 2020 gets written in stone, let’s suggest an alternative explanation; the self-inflicted, state ...Read More...
Posted on 07/10/2020 7:15 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Sunday, 21 June 2020

by G. Murphy Donovan
I have always been more than a little ambiguous about about taking a knee. For me, genuflection or submission is something you do to express humility before an idea or tradition greater than yourself.
Kneeling in church captures the idea.
You might also hit you knees ...Read More...
Posted on 06/21/2020 5:59 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Monday, 8 June 2020

by G. Murphy Donovan
A quintet of unmasked white tweens, oblivious to Covid social distancing, has been plastering our neighborhood with flyers. One reads “You are contributing to killing black people…do something you racist fucks.” Another reads “A man was lynched by police. What are you doing ...Read More...
Posted on 06/08/2020 8:42 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Friday, 22 May 2020

by G. Murphy Donovan
Donald Trump provoked a controversy mid-way through the 2020 Covid-19 crisis by asserting that he, the president, set national pandemic policy. If the truth be told, he stepped onto a political minefield, the predictable push/pull of state versus national control on any matter. ...Read More...
Posted on 05/22/2020 7:58 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Saturday, 25 April 2020

by G. Murphy Donovan
“Most Americans say they do not trust the media.” - Columbia Journalism Review.
Murray Kempton once said that “a critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.” Kempton, earned his spurs at Hopkins and then at the Baltimore ...Read More...
Posted on 04/25/2020 7:52 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Friday, 17 April 2020

by G. Murphy Donovan
“There is no greater misfortune than dying alone.” – Marquez
The Corona pandemic has precipitated a behavioral sea change across the land.
We all now do things that might have seemed ludicrous just a few short months ago; no handshakes, no hugs, no kisses, and no large ...Read More...
Posted on 04/17/2020 1:00 PM by G. Murphy Donovan
Thursday, 12 March 2020

by G. Murphy Donovan
“The duty of a true patriot is to protect his country from its government.”-- Thomas Paine
A tired American political axiom claims that “money talks and bull s--t walks.” Clichés are, unfortunately, often the most pernicious varieties of bravo sierra. Presidential primary ...Read More...
Posted on 03/12/2020 9:53 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Monday, 6 January 2020

by G. Murphy Donovan
“Believe nothing until it has been officially denied.” - Claude Cockburn
Not many things get better with age. Clint Eastwood might be the exception.
At age 89, Eastwood still manages to redeem a film industry that usually panders to liberal tropes or adolescent morons. ...Read More...
Posted on 01/06/2020 11:12 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
Wednesday, 20 November 2019

by G. Murphy Donovan
We like to think of military officers as political eunuchs, but that fairy tale, like free lunch, is a smug myth. No American government institutions, including the military services, thrive or survive in Washington without vigorous internal and external political engagement.
Outspoken ...Read More...
Posted on 11/20/2019 9:22 AM by G. Murphy Donovan
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