John Thomas Urban
I'm a retired NYS Parole Officer and had spent about a dozen years as a Reservist and National Guardsman.
I have written a couple paid articles on criminal justice issues as well as previously writing for the Chronicle using the name John T. Urban.
I hold a NYS Practical Nurse's license which I received through the Army, and am also a Licensed Private Investigator in New York.
I have written a couple paid articles on criminal justice issues as well as previously writing for the Chronicle using the name John T. Urban.
I hold a NYS Practical Nurse's license which I received through the Army, and am also a Licensed Private Investigator in New York.
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Articles by John Thomas Urban
August 30, 2010
Dear Editor:
While perception often is viewed as reality, it would be prudent when an issue is presented as the truth to examine that very issue not only for its veracity but the motivation for its existence.
Last week,propitiously, a TIME magazine cover raised the issue of an unwarranted fear of ...
June 12, 2010
An incompetent presidency at home and abroad
June 05, 2010
I have always been skeptical of Barack Obama's competence as an executive.
His lack of expertise as such was a focal point of his opponents during the last presidential campaign. When he won the presidency in November 2008, I was hopeful he would be as successful in running the country as he was...
September 21, 2009
Dear Mr.Ahmadinejad,
I wish you could have been with me last week in the little Polish town of Oswiecim. It may have been an enlightening experience for you. It might have helped you come to grips with your hatred, a venom that consumes you.
I was apprehensive initially upon arriving at t...
August 31, 2009
If you access Codepink's website and view their mission statement, you will find they claim to be a movement to end wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. What's not indicated is their true mission of going after anything that is or was Bush.
Obama has been President for the better part of a year (perhaps ...
August 28, 2009
John Fund's OPINION article in the 8/21/09 edition of the WALL STREET JOURNAL in the matter of the New Black Panther Party's voter intimidation case prompts a closer look at this disturbing issue.
Many may recall the media coverage of menacing(yes menacing) black men, one of whom carried a trunche...
August 28, 2009
In July, 1969, at the tender age of 20, having just finished my third year of college, three friends and I embarked on our first trip away from home without our parents. What made this trip so noteworthy was something beyond our control, something solely in the hands of happenstance. Our destinati...
August 08, 2009
The White House recently took the initiative to a Big Brother approach to dissent. Specifically, the Obama Administration wants people to report anything they see or receive that seems fishy regarding the health care reform issue to them via email (flag@whitehouse.gov).
During Stalin's regime, Sov...