by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Dec 18, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpePinch me!Wake me from this nightmare!Am I really stuck in an America awash in arguments pro torture put forth by fellow Americans proudly proclaiming they’d do it again? Waterboarding. Rectal rapes. Chaining. Hanging. Agonizing stress...
by Patricia H. Kushlis | Dec 12, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia H Kushlis It’s been nearly four months since we asked the State Department to grant open and public access to its statistics – broken down by gender and race – regarding promotions in the Foreign Service in “What’s the big secret with the...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Dec 10, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee Sharpe The protests stemming from the failure of a grand jury to indict the Ferguson, Missouri, policeman who shot and killed an unarmed Black man continue. In fact, demonstrations tied to this and recent similar shootings are blocking traffic and...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Oct 30, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeYou gotta feel sorry for those ISIS guys. Young guys. In great physical condition. Yeah! Probably their equipment is in top working condition, by which I don’t mean the tanks and rocket launchers they captured from the Iraqi so-called army...
by Patricia Lee Sharpe | Oct 22, 2014 | Monitor
By Patricia Lee SharpeWhen Barack Obama, a constitutional lawyer, took office as President of the United States, his supporters expected that he would act aggressively to reverse his predecessor’s disrespect for civil liberties. Astonishingly, he’s turned out...
