Name Michael Smerconsih Age 55 Birth Date March 15‚1962 Career and Profession RJ and TV Moderator Gender Male Spouse Lavinia Nardini Net Worth 2 Million Dollars Michael Smerconish: Michael A. Smerconish (conceived March 15‚ 1962) is an American radio host and TV moderator‚ daily paper feature writer‚ writer‚ and legal counsellor. He hosts The Michael Smerconish Program at 9:00 a.m. All weekdays‚ and has the CNN and CNN International program Smerconish at 9:00 a.m. ET‚ with a re-play at 6:00 pm
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Torture is Torture. Period Torture is causing pain and suffering to gain information and confessions. It’s a traditional‚ historical‚ well-understood term. Waterboarding is a form of torture in which a bound‚ gagged prisoner is forced to breathe in water. There are several techniques but all produce the same effects‚ a physical sensation of drowning and a psychological sensation of panic‚ fear and loss of control. Calling it anything other than torture is absurd. You wouldn’t call a bank robbery
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America has a history of misleading the common people to gain public support. Whether rallying its citizens to fight the Nazis in Germany or to fight communism in Korea‚ the United States has‚ for the most part‚ been considered righteous. But the United States and more importantly the people that govern it‚ have had ulterior motives. The most prominent example was in the early 2000s on the tragic day of September 11. 9/11 was one of the most infamous incidents ever which unified the nation behind
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this month marks the ninth anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Iraq. Regardless of your views on the wisdom of that decision‚ it’s fair to say that the results were not what most Americans expected. Now that the war is officially over and most U.S. forces have withdrawn‚ what lessons should Americans (and others) draw from the experience? There are many lessons that one might learn‚ of course‚ but here are my Top 10 Lessons from the Iraq War. Lesson #1: The United States lost. The first and most
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According to study.com website (2015)‚ a groupthink can simply be defined as an occurrence that gives a group of people a fault verdict or a conclusion a that a group has made that is an ineffective decision whereby it was reached just to appease the spirit of harmony among group members than allowing individuals to act independently and creatively. As alluded on‚ groupthink blocks individual creativity by ignoring alternatives allowing irrational actions to tale precedence. It happens most when
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Aside from having the largest benefit for the wealthy population‚ the Bush tax cuts were also controversial for a multitude of reasons. These tax cuts forced the government‚ Congress in particular‚ to make a variety of changes and adaptations to the new financial situation they would find themselves in. Due to the decrease in revenue the government would be receiving in taxes‚ Alterations in spending had to be expected. According to Isaac Shapiro‚ the Bush tax cuts “have been a major contributor
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the world. I. Barack Hussein Obama was born to the Barack Hussein Obama Sr. (a Kenyan international) and Stanley Ann Durham. Apart from being biracial (African & White)‚ He maintains a maternal lineage with famous personalities such as Dick Cheney‚ Wild Bill Hickok and Christopher Columbus Clark‚(his great-great great grandfather) a highly decorated Civil War union soldier . I like to talk about how President Obama inspired my life through a number of direct and indirect actions A.
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The attacks of September 11 2001 prompted the first major shift in U.S. foreign policy since the Cold War era. Whereas President Clinton had prioritised domestic issues over international affairs during the 1990s‚ the perceived threat of terrorism post-9/11 led to a highly activist Bush administration intent on supressing the influence of both the “Axis of Evil” (Iraq‚ Iran and North Korea) and dangerous non-state actors‚ such as Al-Qaeda. The strategy of pre-emptive intervention championed by Deputy
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Why Did the United States Invade Iraq? A Survey of International Relations and Foreign Policy Scholars Jane K. Cramer and A. Trevor Thrall Author Info: A. Trevor Thrall (corresponding author) Assistant Professor Department of Social Sciences and Master of Public Policy Program University of Michigan – Dearborn 4910 Evergreen Rd Dearborn‚ MI 48128 313-593-5282 atthrall@umich.edu Jane K. Cramer Assistant Professor‚ Department of Political Science University of Oregon Eugene‚ OR 97403-1284 (541) 346-4626
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Massimo Calabresi’s “Troublemaker” is an article about Putin and his relations with the United States. The article contains several complex topics but there is one imminent goal‚ to expose the efforts Russia is making in degrading the standard of professionalism carried by the United States. Calabresi writes to an audience that is the typical United States citizen. Mr. Calabresi has proven his credibly by the several documentaries and articles that he has previously done for TIME magazine. Massimo
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