A little while ago Donald Trump issued one of his cockamamie statements. This time he denied the fact that he took top secret material to Mar-a-Lago. He said, "I wasn't a filing clerk." He also said in the body...
OK, now I'm worried. It's bad enough that Der Gropinfuror has already been played like a cheap fiddle by Kim Jong Un, but we're about to find out if he's about to be put back in his case, and...
Turkey just had a Presidential election.  Accounts are that it was fair, at least when it comes to issues like ballot box stuffing and similar shenanigans.  Voter intimidation was something of an issue but it's actually more subtle there. ...
"Nowhere to run to, baby, nowhere to hide." -- Martha and The Vandellas It fascinates me when people are riotously self destructive. We've all made bad decisions from time to time, that's why hindsight is 20/20. But Stuart Scheller, the...
An interesting day has dawned in America when the Kremlin knows more about the travels of top administration officials than we do. The White House verified John Bolton’s upcoming trip to Russia only after the Kremlin broke the news. Radio...
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...
Benjamin "Bibi" Netanyahu is a man in deep political trouble. For years, the power player in Israeli politics, Netanyahu barely scraped out an electoral victory in the last Israeli elections, then, in that Israeli parliamentary way that we with a...
Shortly after the second World War, we fought what became an unpopular war in Korea. Since then, we haven't engaged in a righteous war or achieved legitimate American goals, culminating in America's longest war, Afghanistan. American media has focused extensively,...
On July 13th, Donald Trump will pay a scaled-down visit to the U.K. for bilateral talks with British Prime Minister Theresa May, in his first visit to the U.K. since taking office.  Despite his visit being scaled-down, one thing...
Harley Davidson started out as a Trump poster child for “building things in America” a “true American icon.” All that has changed since they announced they’re moving some of their production overseas. Now he’s using emotional blackmail to deride...

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