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Mitch PerryDecember 11, 2015

Since he began campaigning for president this year, one part of Donald Trump’s stump speech that has remained intact is when he attacks Bowe Bergdahl, calling him a traitor and saying he should be executed for deserting. “We’re tired of Sgt. Bergdahl, who’s a traitor, a no-good traitor, who should have been executed,’ Trump said in […]

A.G. GancarskiOctober 15, 2015

In a statement on Thursday, Representative Corrine Brown said that she stood by President Barack Obama when it comes to the continued American military presence in Afghanistan. “I strongly support our brave troops and the mission they were sent to achieve in Afghanistan. Given that the Taliban have now spread throughout the majority of the […]

Mitch PerryMay 21, 2015

Donald Trump has flirted with running a serious presidential campaign four times in the past 18 years -in 1988, when he was arguably at the zenith of his popularity as his Art of the Deal memoir topped the New York Times best-seller list, as well as 2000, 2004 and four years ago. So even though he says […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 5, 2015

There wasn’t a lot of news that broke over the holiday season the past two weeks. One event that barely registered in the press that did occur was the fact that the U.S. military’s combat role in Afghanistan ended last Wednesday, though the president has authorized 10,000 U.S. troops to attack the Taliban if they pose a threat […]

Mitch PerryJanuary 5, 2015

There wasn’t a lot of news that broke over the holiday season the past two weeks. One event that barely registered in the press that did occur was the fact that the U.S. military’s combat role in Afghanistan ended last Wednesday, though the president has authorized 10,000 U.S. troops to attack the Taliban if they pose a threat […]

Guest AuthorJune 10, 2014

The jury is still out on the Bowe Bergdahl case but the verdict is in. Bergdahl is a traitor. The five Talibani prisoners we swapped for him are the most dangerous people on the planet and we’ll pay the price on the battle field. The Obama administration pulled a fast one by keeping Congress in […]

Guest AuthorOctober 15, 2013

For the Nobel Peace Prize this year, I was rooting for Malala Yousafzai, the 16-year-old Pakistani girl who a year ago was shot in the head by a shaking, demented terrorist whose allegiance to the Taliban tells us all we need to know about the lethality of religious fundamentalism. Any kind of fundamentalism, really. It […]

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Mitch Perry Report for 12.11.15 – Bowe Bergdahl speaks

Corrine Brown supports continued Afghanistan military action

In Sarasota, Donald Trump says the world is abusing the United States

Mitch Perry Report for 1.5.15 – As Afghanistan “winds down,” majority still not supportive of war

Mitch Perry Report for 1.5.15 – As Afghanistan "winds down," majority still not supportive of war

Doug Clifton: Bergdahl case: Another GOP-inflated controversy to discredit Obama

Pierre Tristam: Why Malala Yousafzai should have won the Nobel Peace Prize