The DiploMad 2.0

Wracked with angst over the fate of our beloved and horribly misgoverned Republic, the DiploMad returns to do battle on the world wide web, swearing death to political correctness, and pulling no punches.

Monday, November 11, 2013

Veterans Day 2013

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When I was a kid in the 1950s most adults still called Veterans Day, Armistice Day. The name was formally changed around 1954, given that fo...

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Saturday, November 9, 2013

Jakarta Drive By

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I spent three tumultuous years in Indonesia, 2003-06. It was a strange and wonderful time and country. Indonesia was, in theory, Muslim, the...

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Exhausted by the Fraud

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I haven't blogged in several days as the six regular readers of this little exercise in narcissism can attest. Quite aside from life int...

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Tuesday, November 5, 2013

The US Treasury as the Birthright of All Mankind

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To paraphrase Ricky Gervais, "I was 'aving a laugh" reading about a Massachusetts politician complaining that EBT money is goi...

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Monday, November 4, 2013

Lying in State

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On a previous occasion , I have written of my mixed views re political commentator, ex-presidential candidate, and celebrity pundit Pat Buch...

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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Trick or Treat: Invented by Democrats?

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Halloween. I am back in California. I am sitting in the dark. Blanket over the screen. Don't want any light to leak out and reveal t...

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Obama and The Hate That Dares Not Speak Its Name

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Well, folks, we paid for it for so we might as well enjoy the show, The Greatest Show on Earth, that is. I write, of course, about the gre...

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DiploMad: W. Lewis Amselem, long time US Foreign Service Officer; now retired; served all over the world and under all sorts of conditions. Convinced the State Department needs to be drastically slashed and reformed so that it will no longer pose a threat to the national interests of the United States.

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