Essay: Suicide by Stupidity: How the Republican Party is Killing Itself
ELEPHANT GRAVEYARDS: The Caucus Room restaurant in Washington [photo at left, from fall 2012] was once popular with leaders of the Republican Party, affectionately symbolized by the elephant in...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: The 10 Dumbest Members of the U.S. Congress
Am Mittwoch hatte sich unser USA-Korrespondent Thomas Adcock mit den selbstmörderischen Aspekten von Dummheit unter den Republikanern beschäftigt. Heute liefert er ein paar Beispiele – wanted! – die...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: Execution, American-Style
Einer der eher unangenehmen Aspekte der USA ist die Neigung, Leute hinzurichten. Unser USA-Korrespondent Thomas Adcock beschäftigt sich im Zuge seiner präzisen USA-Analysen heute und in der nächsten...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: Execution, American-Style, Teil 2
Lesen Sie heute den zweiten Teil (zu Teil 1) von Thomas Adcocks Reflexionen über die Hinrichtungspraxis in den USA – und dazu ein kleines, korrektes Narrativ: Der Fall von Joseph Amrine! Execution,...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: On Being a Foreign Correspondent at Home
Citizen-Stranger in a Strange Land: On Being a Foreign Correspondent at Home By Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America In days of yore, when people used stamps and stationery and fountain pens to...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: The Party of Mass Murder
Unser USA-Korrespondent Thomas Adcock fährt mit seiner Analyse der amerikanischen Gesellschaft fort und kümmert sich um die Realien, die für die Kriminalliteratur grundlegend sind: Gewalt & Tod...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: Two Shades of Evil in the U.S.A.
Thomas Adcock untersucht in seinem Essay den Unterschied zwischen „Evildoers“ und „Evildoers“, also zwischen Übeltätern und Übeltätern. Da gibt es schon welche … EVILDOERS & EVILDOERS. Clockwise,...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: The F-Words
The F-Words “F**r”of F***ism by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock HUDSON, New York Back in the day, ordinary Americans feared less and questioned more. In that time, an unknown graffitist...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: Annals of American Panic, Paranoia & Profiteering
LEAKERS & PROFITEERS (clockwise, from top left): Daniel Ellsberg, former military analyst, gave classified “Pentagon Papers” to the New York Times in 1971; Bradley Manning, imprisoned U.S. Army...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: This Week’s Crazy Talk in the „Hew-Hess-Hay“
AMERICAN IDIOTS (clockwise, from top left): Louie Gohmert, hands-down dumbest member of Congress; Texas physician and Congressman Michael Burgess says male fetuses can masturbate; Michele Bachmann,...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: The Law is a Ass—a Idiot!
NATIONAL SHAME (clockwise, from top left): Kimberly McCarthy, homicidal nurse sent “home to Jesus” on June 26 by the homicidal state of Texas; Rick Perry, the “Christian” governor of Texas, heir to a...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: Thrown-Away City
‘MOTOWN’ THEN and NOW, clockwise from top left: John F. Kennedy, Democratic Party candidate for president, campaigns in Detroit on Labor Day 1960; Diana Ross (center) and The Supremes—Detroit girls who...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: The Lone Ranger Rides Again
The Lone Ranger Rides Again ‘Heigh-ho the derry-o, the Cheese Stands Alone’ By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America As a young boy in Detroit, once a grand city and a...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: Left Turn in the Big Apple
Die Demokraten haben in ihrer Vorwahl klar für den linken Kandidaten Bill de Blasio gestimmt, er dürfte der nächste Bürgermeister werden. Und unser US-Amerikakorrespondent Thomas Adcock freut sich: Der...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: Another Day, Another Massacre
Another Day, Another Massacre Gun industry shills to America: ‘Ho-hum’ By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Here’s what happened the other day to two motorists...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: The Racketeer & the Christian Taliban
The Racketeer & the Christian Taliban By Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2013 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America In two hundred-plus years of national history, we Americans have not witnessed...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: So Leave, Already!
ACHTUNG, BIGOTS! Out-of-uniform Ku Klux Klan oafs unfurl the stars-and-bars flag of the Confederate States of America during a 1957 demonstration against racial integration of public schools in...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: Amerikanische Schadenfreude
THIS MAN is an unrepentant alcoholic crack-head from a family of drug dealers who has issued at least one death threat, knocked down a granny, and who consorts with the Toronto demimonde. Naturally, he...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: Dangerous People
RED ALERT! Determined to summon the better angels of our nature, clockwise from top left: Bill de Blasio, alleged socialist as mayor-elect of New York City; Kshama Sawant, proudly socialist city...
View ArticleThomas Adcock: Who’s Afraid of a PAF?
Who’s Afraid of a PAF? Dead End for the Red Bogeyman by Thomas Adcock Copyright © 2014 – Thomas Adcock NEW YORK, near America Among the first card-carrying communists of my acquaintance was Arvo Kustaa...
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