Dennis Mullin

A veteran White House, State Department and foreign correspondent, Dennis Mullin is President of Mullin Communications Inc, which produces ContinentalDivide.us and all of its associated publications and services. Mr. Mullin left U.S. News & World Report as Chief White House Correspondent and held the prestigious Edward R. Murrow Press Fellow Chair at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York. Among his assignments were: The Lebanese civil war; the war on the Horn of Africa; the Iranian revolution and fall of the Shah; the invasion of Grenada; the Falklands War; the Iran-Iraq War, and the petro-dollar boom. He has interviewed the Shah of Iran; King Hussein of Jordan; Saddam Hussein of Iraq; King Fahd of Saudi Arabia; Prime Ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres of Israel; the PLO's Yasser Arafat, Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines, many cabinet-level officials around the world and most recently the Sultan of Oman and President Glafcos Clerides of Cyprus. Prior to joining U.S. News, Mr. Mullin covered the Vietnam War for the Far Eastern Economic Review and the South China Morning Post Co. in Hong Kong. He has worked for the Federal Times and the Navy Times and has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Orange County Register, The Christian Science Monitor, The Sacramento Bee and numerous other publications and has appeared widely on television.

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TO INFINITY AND BEYOND:

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TO INFINITY AND BEYOND: From one political end to the other of the American process, it is the art of the possible and our experience that defines us as the special nation we have become. The late social catalyst Abbie Hoffman once said: “Expedience, not justice, is the rule of contemporary American law.” That is where we are today – can expedience and justice be reconciled? Historically they end up defining each other. And therein lies the rub; which wins this time around in our short history?

By Dennis Mullin

OBAMA IS DETERMINED TO CHANGE THE COUNTRY- FROM NATIONALIZING GM TO TAXING US TO DEATH, TO BANNING OFF-SHORE DRILLING

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POINTS OF ORDER: This administration is clearly determined to destroy American private industry – from nationalizing GM to taxing everyone to death to banning all off-shore drilling. The list of crazy decisions is nearly endless and increasingly unpopular. Louisiana for example, will lose 40 percent of its revenue if the drilling ban passes, and every Democrat in the state believes that Obama is trying to exploit the Gulf crisis to pass Cap-and-Trade before the Party is destroyed in November. The EPA now wants to tax every firm making over $2 million to pay for the Superfund. None of this makes any political sense, unless you don’t care what anyone thinks and want to change the country forever while you have the chance. Come Nov. 2, all of this is going to be stopped – and reversed. This guy makes Stalin look fair: Consider the list:

 

By Dennis Mullin

 

IN THE TANK FOR OBAMA, THE NYT REPORTAGE HAS FALLEN OFF BADLY

Pro-Obama bias emains 2 years later/pblakeney.com

ALL THE NEWS THAT'S NOT FIT TO PRINT:  How much nonsense can we tolerate? A responsible newspaper might say, “Americans need jobs and the President is a fool, squandering America’s future, under the direction of an ex-Israeli soldier ready to move back to Chicago to replace Al Capone.”  But not the NYT. As the nation dissolves, the New York Times and the genius, Arthur Sulzberger, continue to patronize us; if this were a high school J course (Goodman article below) would flunk; but so would the entire paper -- which Arthur has personally destroyed. I once left him drunk in a gutter on Fleet Street in London where he was pretending to be a foreign correspondent– should have dropped him in the Thames in the best interests of our nation. Priceless reality, miles of gibberish which goes on for pages. And blah, blah, blah by someone from Harvard who tripped in an airport. No wonder nobody reads that trash anymore. NYT “All the Tripe Fit to Print.” No editors or judgment in sight. Just read the compendium of drivel below.

 

By Dennis Mullin

THE PRESIDENT'S APPROVAL RATINGS CONTINUE THEIR INEXORABLE DECLINE

POLITICS: They say one day can be a lifetime in politics. Obama hasn’t even been behind the Oval Office desk for 18 months and he is already a haunted apparition of the man who sent homoerotic chills up Chirs Matthews leg and had the Democrats and their media lapdogs swooning nationwide. The President’s approval ratings continue their steady inexorable decline, 60.7 percent believe the country is headed for hell in a hand basket, and his handling of the oil spill has disapproval ratings far greater than Bush on Katrina. He ran as a “progressive” who would make everybody rich overnight without working and against the handling of Katrina and the war in Iraq, while promising a new global love in. Now he’s given all the money away and soon won’t be able to borrow any more – he and the nation are about to become homeless; he is soaking in oil and getting hammered in Afghanistan and they are laughing at him out loud from Paris to Pago Pago. If this were a fight, they’d stop it.

 

By Dennis Mullin

 

SPORTS FLASH II. THE "BEST" SCHOOLS AREN'T NECESSARILY THE CLEANEST

Michigan coach Rodriguez in action

SPORTS FLASH (II): There is major activity afoot in big time college football. We have already noted that conferences are furiously expanding in search of even more TV revenue. Meanwhile the NCAA continues to penalized schools for cheating; USC is the latest to be sanctioned. What we look at here is how good academic schools cheat to make money, and some mediocre academic ones make an honest effort to teach their players something of value.  There are some shocking examples. For example, the NCAA says Michigan, the 27the best school academically according to US News, has the second worst record for athletic compliance in the country.

 

By Dennis Mullin

 

NCAA SANCTIONS: "SOME GOOD SCHOOLS CHEAT THE MOST, SOME MEDIOCRE ONES MAKE AN EFFORT TO REALLY TEACH THEIR PLAYERS SOMETHING OF VALUE"

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SPORTS FLASH: There is major activity afoot in big time college football. Conferences are furiously switching member schools like shirts, in frantic efforts to maximize television revenue. Multi-million dollar contracts are at stake, and at many schools sports revenue plays a crucial role in funding academic programs. Meanwhile, the NCAA continues to pretend this is all about “scholar athletes,” even as top schools are penalized for virtually paying 350 pound “kids” to play ball. USC is the latest to be sanctioned, and what is interesting is that the case symbolizes how some good schools cheat the most, and some mediocre academic ones make an effort to really teach their players something of value.

 

By Dennis Mullin

 

 

HELEN THOMAS SAID THE JEWS SHOULD 'GET THE HELL OUT OF PALESTINE" AND "GO BACK TO POLAND OR GERMANY."

Helen Thomas and her audience

SHIP OF FOOLS: With friends like this, Obama should just turn in his Passport and move to Havana . Longtime White House correspondent Helen Thomas said last week Jews should "get the hell out of Palestine" and go back to Poland and Germany. Remember these people are occupied and it’s their land,” Thomas said. “It’s not German and it’s not Polish.” Asked what Jews in Israel should do, Thomas said “go to Poland, Germany or America and everywhere else.” YOUR PRESIDENT LAUGHED. (Thomas has since apologized on her web site).
 

By Dennis Mullin
 

 HEARD ON THE STREET: If Obama was a Mexican they would impeach him. But they can't because he is merrily bringing them all here, When they all get citizenshp they will deport him back to Tijuana -- for being stupid. Then he will try to sneak back in -- or move to Poland with Rahm Emmanual and Helen Thomas. Billy and Jimmy Carter couldn't make this stuff up.

 

BEAT THE SYSTEM AND HOW THE FED'S PREOCCUPATION WITH "MINORITY RIGHTS" HAS TURNED OUR BORDERS INTO A JOKE

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POINTS OF ORDER:

 

● How you can beat the system -- Postal Service and DMV.

 

● Immigration: Fox News reports that while Obama is babbling about racial profiling, the FBI is on full alert on the Arizona border over OTM’s. That means “Other Than Mexicans,” as the federal government’s TOTAL avoidance of immigration and its absurd obsession with “minority rights,” has turned our borders into a joke. The patients are running the insane asylum called Washington.

 

By Dennis Mullin

 

THE PRESIDENT HAS INSTRUCTED HIS MINIONS TO BREAK THE LAWS CONGRESS HAS ALREADY PASSED

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BREAKING LAWS: In other words, the President has instructed his officials to break the laws Congress has already passed. The top immigration official in the country is going to refuse to carry out his assigned constitutional duties because he personally doesn't like the Arizona immigration law -- sort of like, Stalin, Idi Amin or Hitler. This has become the pattern of this quasi-fascist administration -- which turns a blind eye to its own transgressions, assaults it foes mercilessly, and is stealing and squandering  taxpayer money with reckless abandon

 

By Dennis Mullin.

 

THE OBAMA PRESIDENCY: JIMMY CARTER 6.0?

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SNAPSHOT: Time to take off the blinders. Something is happening here. Has anyone noticed that the Clintons (the two most astute pure politicians in our lifetime), are staying a half-a-world away from the buffoon in the Oval Office. Yes, the record now justifies that remark, without the fear of racist accusation -- and we are prepared to say what everyone has been thinking but has been afraid to say out loud: this is Jimmy Carter 6.0.

 

By Dennis Mullin