Author Archives: Rik Schneider

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About Rik Schneider

Blogger/writer on a lot of different subjects.

The National Interest: Seyed Hossein Mousavian: How to Fix The Syrian Mess

Source:The National Interest I think I found an issue where I agree with Senator John McCain on. Someone who when it comes to foreign policy we rarely agree on anything. It is about Syria where four years ago I believe … Continue reading

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The Heritage Foundation: Larry Schweikart: A Patriot’s History of The Modern World

. Even though I’m favor of Freedom of Religion in America, even as an Agnostic, I have a hard time agreeing that what makes America great at least up to the 20th Century is because of how many Christians are … Continue reading

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The Film Archives: David Frost- Oral History on Richard Nixon Interviews- Vietnam War To Watergate

Source:The Film Archives First of all, I believe that Richard Nixon already knew by 1968, or at the very latest in the early days of his presidency in 1969 that the Vietnam War was already lost. Just from his own … Continue reading

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Frost/Nixon Interviews: Full Interview About Watergate

I covered this last week, but the White House coverup of Watergate was about ending a story that the Nixon White House thought could explode in their faces. Which was an attempted burglary of Democratic National Headquarters. Even though the … Continue reading

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American Enterprise: Arthur Brooks & Robert Doar: Welfare Reform & Lessons From The United Kingdom

Source:AEI I don’t agree with U.S. Senator Jeff Sessions on much if anything. But C-SPAN was covering the Senate Budget Committee markup yesterday and I saw part of that as the committee was voting on amendments to Senate Republicans budget … Continue reading

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Secular Talk: Video: U.S. Senator Tom Cotton First U.S. Senate Floor Speech

. I saw about twenty-minutes of Senator Tom Cotton’s first U.S. Senate floor speech. (Thank God for C-SPAN) And twenty-minutes was about all as I could take from the freshman Senator, who sounded like a freshman in his first ever … Continue reading

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The Heritage Foundation: William J. Bennett & Robert White: Going to Pot, Why The Rush to Legalize Marijuana is Harming America

. You know, if I was a lawyer and I was listening to Bill Bennett and Bob White give their presentation about marijuana, I would probably conceive every point that they made about marijuana. Other than why they say marijuana … Continue reading

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Frost/Nixon The Complete Interviews: Foreign Policy

The real genius of the Nixon Presidency was the foreign policy. President Nixon and his National Security Director, could simply see things happening twenty-years in advance. I don’t believe we’ve ever had two people that high up in the U.S. … Continue reading

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The American Mind: Charles Kesler & Francis Fukuyama: The Meaning of Life

. There’s an obvious reason why people from at best developing countries, but in some cases come from countries where the economy is barely moving at all and come to America or Canada and Europe to a certain extent, but … Continue reading

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U.S. News: Peter Fenn: ‘The Rapid Radicalization of the Republican Party’

Source:U.S. News– U.S. Representative Jim Jordan (Republican, Ohio) one of the members of the Tea Party Caucus, in the House of Representatives. “This is a blog, not a history lesson. But I can’t resist trying to make some sense of … Continue reading

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