The recent desperate antics of the emerging Democrat Socialists reveal without question the dire situation of the Democrat Party. Without demeaning confrontations, vile and bombastic name calling, threatening accusations and attempted scare tactics, their agenda is practically a blank page. In fact, most of this is not well received by the public. It is without […]
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Trump can shut down his Russia critics with one bold move
WASHINGTON — If President Trump wants to shut down the critics of his performance last week in Helsinki and strengthen U.S. national security, he can do so with one bold move: Announce he is moving out most U.S. forces currently stationed in Germany and sending them to Poland. The Polish government recently presented Trump with […]
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Sen. Collins missed an opportunity to rein in federal spending
Just a few years ago, Sen. Susan Collins said: “I will work with my colleagues in the Senate to develop a responsible budget that sets priorities while also ensuring that future generations are not burdened with unsustainable debt.” When Sen. Collins made that remark the national debt was about $18 trillion. Now? It’s about $21 […]
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U.S.-Russian relations might have been destined to deteriorate
NEW YORK — Donald Trump’s press conference Monday in Helsinki was the most embarrassing performance by an American president I can think of. And his preposterous efforts to talk his way out of his troubles made him seem even more absurd. But what has been obscured by this disastrous and humiliating display is the other […]
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Silent messengers create dangerous void
We commonly try to distinguish the message from the messenger. “Don’t shoot the messenger,” we used to holler when someone suggested that news they didn’t like was the fault of journalists doing their job. Nowadays, though, rather than shoot the messenger, power is working overtime to muzzle the messenger. Let the messenger live, but don’t […]
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How will America get its reputation back?
Are President Trump’s threats and insults against our allies just an obnoxious negotiating tactic? It hardly matters, because they haven’t worked. And it’s worse than not working. Trump has turned “made in America” into consumer poison around the globe. Trump is not content to wage a simple war on trade, itself an economically ignorant endeavor. […]
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Trump could take leasons from Putin
Donald Trump is not, and never will be, the Moscow correspondent for The Nation magazine, and he shouldn’t sound like it. The left-wing publication is prone to extend sympathetic understanding to adversaries of the United States and find some reason, any reason, to blame ourselves for their external aggression and internal suppression. Especially to the […]
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Work requirement for welfare proposed
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration may have declared it over, but a new War on Poverty is coming anyways. It will be fought largely over the “work requirement” — should the government require welfare recipients either to get a job or to train for one? It’s a philosophical as much as a practical question. A […]
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Turkey-U.S. relations under increasing strain
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s authoritarian behavior has further stressed Turkey’s already frayed defense relationships with the U.S. and other NATO members. The increasing strain — to the point of permanent break — is bad news for an already unstable Middle East, Central Asia and eastern Europe. It is flat-out awful news for culturally Muslim […]
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Trump's summit was an embarrassment, not a disaster
WASHINGTON — The definition of insanity is doing the same thing again and again and expecting to get a different result, which is one of the many reasons President Trump’s news conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin seemed so insane. Trump is trying to do something that both of his immediate predecessors tried to do: […]