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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

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America 2025: A glimpse through Trump’s looking glass

America has fallen through the looking glass into an un-wonderland where the Red Queen’s demand for “sentence before verdict” has become the...

27.01.2025 10

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

As long as the US is buying countries, why stop at two?

Could Russia be open for sale?

14.01.2025 2

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

The greatest political comeback in history

Donald J. Trump, the 45th and soon to be 47th president of the United States, makes a strong case in that his political comeback was...

30.12.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Will America's checks and balances survive the Trump 'Politburo?'

President-elect Donald Trump has transformed the Republican party into the "Make-America-Great-Again" party and is set to take over the government...

23.12.2024 10

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Could AI war games predict the next Pearl Harbor? 

War games have expanded far beyond traditional armed conflict in examining future scenarios and alternatives.

16.12.2024 2

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Good luck reforming the Department of Defense

Reforming and transforming the Department of Defense are aspirations, not actions. 

10.12.2024 20

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Senate Democrat: California will use tax dollars to help migrants facing Trump 'threats' 

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said the state of California was prepared to spend taxpayer dollars on migrants in need of “legal assistance, legal...

02.12.2024 2

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Beyond budget cuts, DOGE should consider the government's organizational flaws

Until DOGE grapples with the fundamental organization of government as well as the regulations, it will not succeed.

02.12.2024 3

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Elon and Vivek: Please listen before cutting government 

If Elon and Vivek are to make any headway, here are the three largest points of leverage.

26.11.2024 6

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Could Trump start with preemptive firings at the Pentagon?

Hegseth has already informed the world as to where he stands in opposing so-called “woke” policies allegedly destroying morale and the fighting...

19.11.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Veterans Day lessons of remembrance for Donald Trump

Donald Trump would benefit from this history lesson.

11.11.2024 5

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Harris and Trump are ignoring the US defense crisis

Why have Kamala Harris and Donald Trump completely ignored any serious discussion of the dire state of America’s defenses in the campaign? 

04.11.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

JD Vance is Donald Trump’s Spiro Agnew

With more than a whiff of linkage between Nixon’s choice of Agnew and Trump’s of Vance, the notion of an insurance policy and antidote against...

28.10.2024 2

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Watch live: White House holds press briefing ahead of busy Biden travel week

The White House will hold a press briefing Monday ahead of a busy week with President Biden. Biden will be in Washington on Monday before departing...

21.10.2024 2

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

What if Joe Biden was the better candidate all along?

Whenever the 47th president is decided, at some stage, people may wonder whether the best choice was not Harris or Trump.  

21.10.2024 1

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Whether it's natural or nuclear destruction, America must be prepared 

With the damage wrought by these two hurricanes very much in mind, appreciating the power of fission (nuclear) and fusion (thermonuclear weapons)...

14.10.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Watch live: White House holds press briefing

The White House is scheduled to hold its daily press briefing at 1:45 p.m. Monday. The briefing is likely to be dominated by questions about...

07.10.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

After Election Day, expect more questions than answers

There is no single conclusion to be drawn other than Nov. 6 maybe a day of reckoning. 

07.10.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Watch live: White House news briefing

White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre will brief reporters at the White House on Monday in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene disaster...

30.09.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Americans are asking all the wrong questions

Until the right questions are asked, the answers will be neither relevant nor helpful.

30.09.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

America inching toward World War III? Nonsense.

If an objective, fact-based analysis is made, no matter how dangerous conditions may superficially look, no evidence is forthcoming that suggests a...

23.09.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

'Word salad' no more: Let go of the words and phrases dividing America

Hyphenated adjectives, “word salad” and “policy” have become terms of division and dissension and not unity. 

16.09.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

To slow election misinformation, start with our candidates 

As long as both political parties use their own misinformation and disinformation campaigns, largely fact and truth-free, law enforcement is...

10.09.2024 2

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

The 2024 presidential campaign is disconnected from reality

How will each candidate implement the promises, aspirations and assurances given to the public, most of which lack specificity and substance or are...

03.09.2024 2

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Will the real Donald Trump and Kamala Harris please stand up? 

It seems that whoever Harris and Trump were in the past has been “disappeared” and replaced with different personalities.

26.08.2024 2

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Three terrifying questions loom over the 2024 election

On Nov. 6, the nation may awake to one of the most contested elections in America’s history.

18.08.2024 1

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Who killed Hamas’s leader? Regional stability depends on the answer.

The murder of Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran is one such event that could precipitate a disastrous outcome for the wrong reasons.

12.08.2024 4

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

60 years later, the Gulf of Tonkin's shadow looms over the Middle East

With so many crises and hot spots, an actual or fabricated attack against the United States could easily provoke an overreaction similar to...

05.08.2024 6

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

One day, three extraordinary speeches and three new lows

At no other time in American history has a current and former president and an Israeli prime minister pontificated on the same day and in the same...

29.07.2024 10

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

The Vance pick won’t mark a return to legitimate dissent 

In a rational and apolitical world, many of Vance’s positions deserve serious debate.

22.07.2024 3

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor

Joe Biden, Donald Trump and the wolf who cried boy

Biden must become the wolf to Trump’s boy, incessantly screaming, “Joe is coming, Joe coming.”

15.07.2024 2

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Harlan Ullman, Opinion Contributor