*Doing something I rarely do, update, up front, to re-emphasize the meaning of this. As you read below, realize this. What this means, is that Republicans are not fooled. They know that Trump is a Putin Puppet and a...
I don't know whether to call Stuart Scheller the mad Marine or the sad Marine. He made a big splash when he released a video criticizing the withdrawal from Afghanistan and bragging how patriots such as himself could take...
The fact that Vladimir Putin is a war criminal and a butcher doesn’t bother Donald Trump. He even jokes about Putin being KGB. But Putin did finally offend Trump’s sensibilities when he released a propaganda video earlier this year...
Trump had a group over to breakfast at the U.S. Embassy in Belgium and "got right to work" so to speak, in attacking German policy. In true Trump fashion, he started out wrong on the facts:  Trump accused Germany of...
Say what you will about the Boy Plunder, he has an amazing gift for framing issues of great complexity and long duration as simple misunderstandings that can be redressed with equally simple solutions, not to worry. It's a bit...
Let the games begin. As I write this, the world is waiting for the Tangerine Tantrum Machine to tell us all how we totally misunderstood what he said yesterday, and how strongly he shoved Putin into the corner when nobody...
Andrei Kozyrev Russia's former Secretary of Foreign Affairs warned that Trump "appeared to be repeating, almost verbatim, Putin’s talking points on a variety of topics." He added, that he believed Americans should be worried. That's strong stuff. We all suspect...
Presidential historian Jon Meachem said Donald Trump’s performance at the NATO breakfast reminded him of “a guy at the end of the bar with a bee in his bonnet and he’s already had four beers.” Right after Trump spoke...
When a new blockbuster movie comes out, the producers know that they're in trouble when the rave reviews they can put on their ads are all about the scenery, the costumes, and the theme song. When the critics don't...
Many decades ago, the 26 year old version of me became a Marine. Infantry. While things were raging in Beirut in fact. I won't bore you with more on that but note that in the PX and shops surrounding...

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