Peter Olsson

Peter Olsson


  • Trump’s first cabinet meeting

    March 1, 2025

    Trump’s first cabinet meeting

    At Trump's first cabinet meeting he showed strong leadership and intuitive understanding of group process and dynamics. Trump, clearly in charge, was also able to share authority with his cabinet members in answering key questions. The major dang...

  • The paradox of Trump’s love affair with Evangelical Christians

    February 7, 2025

    The paradox of Trump’s love affair with Evangelical Christians

    As I watched Trump's appearances at two prayer breakfasts yesterday, I reviewed my thoughts and meditations about why many evangelical Christians love and support Trump -- often despite Trump's profane, bombastic, devaluing, an...

  • 'Our Democracy':' Biden and Obama’s fading version

    January 18, 2025

    'Our Democracy':' Biden and Obama’s fading version

    Joe Biden, Barack Obama, and their Democrat acolytes endlessly echo the phrase, “Our Democracy” or “Our Democratic Values.” In reality, it is strictly their version of Democracy that mingles their conceptions of “so...

  • Kamala Harris’s Freudian slip

    October 22, 2024

    Kamala Harris’s Freudian slip

    During Bret Baier’s recent interview with Kamala Harris, he asked her about what moment during Joe Biden’s term as president did she become aware of his difficulty conducting an effective campaign for re-election. This important question ...

  • Merrick Garland's failures

    September 13, 2024

    Merrick Garland's failures

    During his term as Biden-Harris’s appointed attorney general, Merrick Garland has often sanctimoniously bragged that his DoJ faithfully pursues the facts and the law in its search for justice. He repeated it again this week in his defensiv...

  • Trump is entitled to not turn the other cheek

    August 23, 2024

    Trump is entitled to not turn the other cheek

    In typical flamboyant style, Donald Trump jokes at recent campaign rallies about whether he should be nice to political opponents or not, even taking a live voice poll with the rally audience. The being nice option usually loses. Perhaps, Trump like ...

  • Mahmoud Taha: Sudan’s Martyr for Islamic Reform

    March 16, 2024

    Mahmoud Taha: Sudan’s Martyr for Islamic Reform

    If Mahmoud Muhammad Taha had become world famous rather than the world-infamous Osama bin Laden and Ayman Zawahiri of Al Qaeda, the Muslim world would be a very different place today. Mahmoud Muhammad Taha was 76 years old when he was executed by ...

  • January 6, 2024

    How Obama Pulls Biden's Strings

    Barack Obama and his “Hope and Change” for America represented a political Trojan Horse phenomenon.  Joe Biden was Obama’s choice for his vice president for eight years of his Trojan Horse presidency. Joe Biden’s pre...

  • December 7, 2023

    University professors, it’s time to make a decision

    In the recent tumultuous times, college and university professors face extraordinary tests of their ethical, moral, and professional integrity.  Professors of history, philosophy, political science, and the social and psychological sciences...

  • November 21, 2023

    Osama bin Laden’s Evil Legacy

    Even though Bin Laden/Zawahiri of Al Qaeda and Abu Bakr al Baghdadi of ISIS are dead, on anniversaries of 9/11 -- and now Hamas’s October 7th event -- a haunting and important question lurks. Why do many young Arabs, Muslims, and even Amer...

  • November 11, 2023

    The Squad: Hamas' fifth column

    The “Squad,” Rashida Tlaib, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Jamaal Bowman, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna, Pressley, and Cori Bush, in supporting Hamas actions are clearly a fifth column in America. They are ignorant about the facts around the war of ...

  • October 20, 2023

    Joe Biden's don'ts

    In his vague warning to Hezb’allah in Lebanon -- really Iran -- against widening the Israel-Gaza War, Joe Biden warned Arab aggressors from widening their war against Israel by saying, Don’t, Don’t, Don’t in his trademark...

  • October 10, 2023

    When Antony Blinken blinks

    When Blinken was a trusted staffer to senator and V.P. Biden's, he Blinked during what Bob Gates said were Biden's perpetual erroneous decisions about foreign policy. Blinken blinked when he was on the Penn-Biden payroll, when Biden held c...

  • October 9, 2023

    Biden the Weak: Too many dots to count

    When all Biden’s policies and decisions of weakness are added up, the violent Iran-backed Hamas attack of Israel is easy to explain. Let’s connect the dots: Biden ignores follow-up on the magnificent Nobel-deserving Tru...

  • September 25, 2023

    Merrick Garland’s folly

    This past week AG Merrick Garland testified before the judicial committee of the US House of Representatives. Garland provocatively and erroneously declared that he was not the president’s attorney nor was he the Congress’s prosecutor. Ga...

  • November 27, 2018

    WWIII is a predominantly economic war, as of now

    China has been winning an economic war with America for decades.  Unfair currency maneuvers, tariffs, stealing of technology and intellectual property, and tariff-like burdens have been China's war machine against America for a long tim...

  • May 16, 2015

    A voter's quandary

    So many times in November, I think I  have cast an intelligent vote for which our founding fathers would be proud.  Then come the years of disappointments.  The attractive, seemingly sensible, practical, and fair-minded person for whom...

  • March 17, 2010

    Obama's Capoeira (a poem)

    He struts to the lecturn, lifts his chin skyward, points.The sparkling grin a politician's wordless preamble.A nimble new dance of empathy and political power. Baritone voice claims cadence in America's heartbeat. Haunting intonations of Martin, Fran...