Back in 2013 (ah, the good old days…) Donald Trump Tweeted thusly:
China, Russia and Iran are laughing at us. We have weak leaders who are threatening our national security. Dangerous times.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 12, 2013
Fast-forward to 2017, and newly inaugurated President Donald Trump took to […]
Last night I questioned the official stance of the US government on protecting American assets from foreign hacking: Why Are We Acting Like the Russian Hacking is Over?
Well I had overlooked the president’s ardent promise to take it on! Except he forgot about it too!
After a receiving a U.S. intelligence assessment […]
A lot of ink was sacrificed over the Russian hacking of the DNC and other political activists. But now it’s dropped off the map. Why? Just because the election is over doesn’t mean the Russians aren’t actively attempting to hack both parties, news media sites, law enforcement agencies, the power grid, and of course all […]
In just two days, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson changed his tune on the US response to North Korea. On Thursday he’s saying that North Korea has nothing to fear from the United States: Tillerson says NKorea ‘need not fear’ United States
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson called on North Korea on Thursday […]
These posts are taken from one of the articles included in this morning’s What We Are Reading installment. I am not going to comment on it…but in case you didn’t have time to read the whole article…it generally talks about the workings and future of an Attorney General Sessions’ Department of Justice…there are a […]
Three Thoughts On Trump and Sweden
By now all of us have had a chance to digest the eddy of controversy surrounding President Trump and is misspoken attribution to terrorist violence in Sweden. He now claims he was referring to a documentary feature on Fox News and not an actual event from the previous evening. From ABC News:
President […]
Bolton Disqualified For State Department Gig
On Sunday, John Bolton, former Ambassador to the United Nations under President George W Bush, totally disqualified himself for a state department gig. While President-elect Donald Trump is personally in denial over the reported Russian responsibility for the DNC hacks, Mr. Bolton decided he had to be the fringiest of the fringe in his view […]
They aren’t migrants!
For those of you who haven’t seen the news lately…or haven’t visited news sites that carry such news…the French government is tearing down a refugee camp in Calais and moving its residents to other facilities in France. Many of the residents are upset because they would like to reach Great Britain and feel that being […]
Congress was all full speed ahead damn the torpedoes in passing their Justice Against Sponsors of Terrorism Act, known as JASTA, that would allow Americans who suffered a loss on 9/11 to sue Saudi Arabia. Despite the stern warnings from the White House and President Obama’s veto…they went ahead and for the first time in […]
By now you’ve no doubt seen the infamous “Skittles tweet” sent out by Donald Trump Jr., who used the tweet to compare refugees of the violence in Syria to Skittles.
As reprehensible as Trump Jr.’s tweet was, it appears the image used in the tweet to make his point was used […]
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