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.

Sunday, May 29, 2016

More on National Defense

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On Memorial Day 2013, I wrote a piece titled "The Right of National Defense." If the piece had a "money quote" it was,...

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Thursday, May 26, 2016

Clinton and the OIG: OMG!

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Well, finally, the long awaited OIG report on Secretary Clinton's email practices has come out (text here ). There are some excellent ...

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Tuesday, May 24, 2016

A Death in Managua

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This is roughly the 30th anniversary of my first visit to Sandinista Nicaragua, back in April-May, 1987. I wrote about that trip before (her...

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Wednesday, May 18, 2016

Venezuela Implodes

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I have written quite a bit about Venezuela, for example, here , here , here , here , and here . I n one of those posts, I referred to...

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Sunday, May 15, 2016

Progressives and Bathrooms

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About a year ago, I wrote , [P]rogressivism is about generating uncertainty, about keeping society off balance. It is about disrupting l...

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Saturday, May 14, 2016

Interview on Podcast

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You can go listen to an interview of The Diplomad on Do We Love It . It's all on the record . . . . horrors!

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Mayor of London: Another Reason to Vote Trump

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There seems no end of meddlesome foreigners telling us how to vote. We, for example, have the former President of Mexico, Vicente Fox, who...

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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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