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The Wrong Men for a Dangerous Moment We are being led by amateurs playing statesmen By Joe Broadmeadow — Retired Captain, East Providence Police Department…... https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2026/06/08/the-wrong-men-for-a-dangerous-moment/
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Catholic Conditioning (Author's note: This is a short story, so the specific events are fictional, but the central themes—the intentional conditioning of children who are too young to understand and susceptible to imprinting and the concept of religion as a virus—are very much real.... https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2026/06/07/catholic-conditioning/
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How the Sun Came to Paint the Clouds A little thought experiment. Here's how the same misunderstood phenomenon, viewed through distinct cultures and perspectives, can generate common stories with varying degrees of similarity and differences.... https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2026/06/06/how-the-sun-came-to-paint-the-clouds/
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The Perils of Prosperity Theology in American Politics When Salvation Has a Price: The Danger of Prosperity Preachers in the West Wing In the spring of 2016, a television preacher looked into the camera and told her audience that God had instructed her to ask them for $1,144.... https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2026/06/05/the-perils-of-prosperity-theology-in-american-politics/
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Sick for Profit: The Crime of Private Prison Healthcare Author’s Note: The issue around the use of private prisons for criminal justice purposes is fraught with moral and constitutional problems....
Eleven Minutes What if? What if the recent meteor strike that rattled New England had hit downtown Boston instead of the ocean?... https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2026/06/02/eleven-minutes/
The Dangers of Loyalty Over Truth in Politics
The Other TDS: Trump Delusion Syndrome and the Politics of Believing Anyway For most of the decade, “TDS” has been a weapon pointed in one direction. Trump Derangement Syndrome, the diagnosis goes, is what afflicts anyone who criticizes the man—proof that the critic, not the president, is the one who has lost touch with reality. It is clever rhetoric because it converts disagreement itself into…
America by the Numbers: We're First Where It's Easy, and Last Where It Counts
Walk into any room in this country and ask people where the United States ranks in the world, and you’ll hear the same reflex: number one. Best schools. Best hospitals. Longest lives. Smartest kids. Strongest military. Richest economy. Most God-fearing nation on the planet. It is a comforting story. A few pieces of it are true. The rest, by the most current international data, is wrong on every…
The Broadmeadow Line
A Story in Three Generations 956 C.E. — Broad Meadow, Mercia Joseph stood ankle-deep in frost-stubbled grass when they brought the boy through. Two men of the reeve’s household had him by the elbows, and the boy was crying without sound, the kind of crying that meant he had been at it long enough to lose the noise of it. “Stole bread,” one of the men said. “From the abbey kitchen.” Joseph…
Cages for Cash: Private Prisons, Political Money, and the Corruption of American Justice
Author’s Note: The issue around the use of private prisons for criminal justice purposes is fraught with moral and constitutional problems. Add in corporate profitability, and one has a volatile recipe for corruption and political influence peddling. If one then considers the issues of inmate health care, recidivism prevention, and proportionality, it is a path to disaster. I’ve broken this into…
First Contact, Second Base
(And now, a momentary detour from writing about the state of the world, and enjoy the diversion of humor. Imagine you meet a curious alien who asks you to explain the phenomenon of human reproduction...) Dr. Marjorie Henshaw had trained for sixteen years to be humanity’s First Contact ambassador. She had memorized the periodic table in three languages. She had prepared a speech about peace so…
The Wrong Enemy: Why We’re Looking at the Wrong Threat
The nations we fear have too much to lose. The ones we should fear have nothing. For decades, American foreign policy has treated Iran and North Korea as the supreme nuclear and biological threats—the rogue states most likely to unleash catastrophic weapons against the West. Politicians invoke their names to justify sanctions, military budgets, and geopolitical maneuvering. The fear is…
Imagining Iran’s Nuclear Strike: A Fictional Scenario (Part II)
SCENARIO TWO: CRIMSON GATE Clear Attribution. Inbound Threat. The intercept. Scenario Brief September 2029. The Iranian regime is in its eighteenth month of a slow-motion collapse. Sanctions have crushed the rial. The Supreme Leader died of a stroke in March. His successor, hardline cleric Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Movahedi-Kermani, was installed by an IRGC-dominated Assembly of Experts after a…
What If...?
What if Iran does develop nuclear weapons? Even without ICBM capability, there are alternative delivery methods. The complexities involving the appropriate response to such circumstances are fluid and dynamic. They are not simple decisions, or at least they should not be. I’ve researched the process that might happen under such conditions and drawn out two possible situations. One where the…
The Uninformed Commitment: Willful Ignorance and the Death of Truth
There was a time when ignorance was considered a flaw, a temporary condition to be corrected with curiosity, education, or experience. Today, it has hardened into something else entirely: a conscious choice, a stubborn posture, a commitment to “willful” ignorance in the face of truth. We are no longer merely uninformed. We are, in many cases, willfully ignorant, choosing not to know, not to…
If Jesus Walked Among Us
By Joe Broadmeadow If Jesus walked among us, would he bless the bombs before they fell or weep over the children beneath them?Joe Broadmeadow If Jesus walked among us, would he be dressed in a suit or in rags? If Jesus walked among us, would he ignore the downtrodden or be among them? If Jesus walked among us, would he stand at the gates of the wealthy, hat in hand, or would he overturn their…
Lessons in Alliances from Washington to Today
The room had the unmistakable energy of men who had all, at one point, been the most powerful person on Earth—and were now deeply annoyed at what had been done with the job since. Washington stood slightly apart at first, hands clasped behind his back, as if still deciding whether this counted as a proper assembly or a mutiny. Eisenhower stood at the head of the table like NATO itself had…