Dr. Ron Thomas, Jr.
Dr. Ron Thomas, Jr. heads Thomas Consulting Group, a consortium of experts in crisis management, media relations and leadership development.
Category Archives: Politics
Here is a DACA deal even Trump could like
Imagine being six years old and uprooted from the only place you’ve ever lived and taken north into a completely alien culture with people you don’t understand who speak with a different accent. Then, imagine being shuttled around from place … Continue reading
Some “Red Light Districts” in Florida are no fun at all
I could have killed him but chose not to and it cost me. As with many Florida summer days, a brief shower had turned an oily six-lane road into a frictionless surface fit only for Physics 101 experiments. However, it … Continue reading
Stop me if you’ve heard this one: A Russian meets an American at a bus stop …
They are a rugged people who conquered a rugged land. The territory was vast, ranging from forests to grasslands, from deserts to a mountain range that separated the country into East and West. The land did not yield its resources … Continue reading
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Tagged Apollo, Berger, Calabrese, matryoshka, NASA, Sochi, Soyuz, uncertainty reduction, ushanka, Winter Olympics
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Why the Justice Department had no “business” interfering with the US Airways, American Airlines merger
The concept of anti-trust laws goes back to the trust-busting days of Teddy Roosevelt. That makes it, literally, a late 19th Century idea that has lost some of its relevancy in an early 21st Century global economy. When the industrial … Continue reading
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Tagged Adam Smith, Aeroflot, Air France, American Airlines, Andrew Carnegie, British Airways, FEMA, Free Market, JAL, John D. Rockefeller, KLM, LaGuardia Airport, National Air and Space Museum, Reagan National, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Teddy Roosevelt, United States, US Airway
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Working to live, not living to work, in the 21st Century
Any discussion of worklife needs to break this compound word into its component parts, work and life. Most people, if asked, would probably say that they work to live, not the reverse. There are people whose work is their life; … Continue reading
Can the Government Define who is a Journalist?
“Most of the other provisions in the Bill of Rights protect specific liberties or specific rights of individuals … In contrast, the free-press clause extends protection to an institution. The publishing business is, in short, the only organized private business … Continue reading
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Tagged Benjamin Franklin, bill of rights, censorship, Dianne Feinstein, First Amendment, freedom of the press, Jeff Sessions, journalism, journalism schools, Potter Stewart, Senate, student journalism, Thomas Paine, Truman Capote, United State Supreme Court, United States, United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary
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Striking Out at Syria: This Week’s “Shiny Object”
If you’re trying to take a picture of toddlers or pets, you are constantly trying to keep their attention on you and the camera. One tried-and-true technique is to jingle your car keys near the camera lens so that the … Continue reading
Posted in Politics, Terrorism
Tagged Benghazi, Central Intelligence Agency, CIA, DoJ, IRS, Libya, Middle East, NSA, Obama, Syria, United States, Vladimir Putin
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Put to the Test: Thinking Critically About College Testing
Does being a “university educated person” still mean what it did to previous generations? Our cultural expectation was that college graduates would be broadly conversant on many subjects, be able to engage in cocktail chatter with a variety of people, … Continue reading
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