Health Care You Can Believe In
by Pat Ryan It was an odd convergence of events that struck me as I was driving across Monterey Mountain in the snow last week. President Obama was hosting the health care “summit” in Washington and I was keeping up…
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Cold War on Ice
by Pat Ryan Are you getting tired of the long, cold winter around here? Just consider the long, cold winter it’s going to be for the 2010 Russian Olympic officials who can hear the wolves back home howling for their…
Closing in on Midnight With Iran
by Pat Ryan Like most things in the Middle East the impending train wreck in the Persian Gulf that is America’s confrontation with Iran is complicated. It is one more scenario where there are innumerable consequences to American action, or…
Connecting the dots of America’s well-being
by Pat Ryan “Certain” was certainly an unambiguous answer to a question, about the likelihood the United States would be attacked in the next six months, put to Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair in testimony before the U.S. Senate…
Now in Cookeville
by Pat Ryan “How did this happen in Cookeville?” was the question I was asked in both Nashville and Knoxville when, almost three years ago, I described the newly founded Tennessee World Affairs Council to university professors and civic leaders…
Helping the Helpless in Haiti
by Pat Ryan The pictures are hard to look at, the stories are hard to listen to and the magnitude of what has befallen the people of Haiti is hard to comprehend. In less than two minutes the earth dealt…
Resolutions Past, Present and Future
By Pat Ryan There’s no better place to start writing a column on international affairs than parked in front of Cookeville’s South Jefferson Avenue WalMart Supercenter, that bastion of global commerce, waiting for my family to finish their shopping. Did…