Prospect of NAFTA rewrite gives US farmers a case of jitters : A sizable majority of rural Americans backed Donald Trump’s presidential bid, drawn to his calls to slash environmental rules, strengthen law enforcement and replace the federal health care law. But many farmers are nervous about another plank in Trump’s agenda: His vow […]
Trump can’t be trusted with sensitive information — and now the world knows : PRESIDENT TRUMP’S disclosure of highly classified information to senior Russian officials was the most disturbing demonstration yet that he is dangerously unprepared to handle sensitive national security matters. On Tuesday, Mr. Trump essentially confirmed a Post report that he provided […]
How to clean up the Comey mess : IT’S FAIR to doubt that President Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey because of his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation — a performance the president had previously praised . But whatever his motive, Mr. Trump has removed an independent official overseeing inquiries into […]
Life Expectancy Can Vary By 20 Years Depending On Where You Live : New research documents significant disparities in the life spans of Americans depending on where they live. And those gaps appear to be widening, according to the research.
Trump says Obamacare is broken. He’s the one who broke it. : What […]
Trump orders review of national monuments, vows to ‘end these abuses and return control to the people’ : Referring to the 1906 law that empowers a president to take unilateral action to protect cultural, historic or natural resources on federal land that is under threat, Trump declared, “The Antiquities Act does not give the […]
Walker’s Policies Hurting Small Farms : It’s not surprising that smaller farming operations are at the greater risk when the supply chain takes a sudden hit due to changes in Canada, yet Wisconsin government in the Walker years of one-party, corporate-obeisant rule has been applying its official authority in a coordinated way to increase […]
The New York Times and The Washington Post Fight Back
For the first time in forever, the New York Times purchased ad time on the Oscars Telecast:
There has been a great deal of controversy around the ad from the left, from the media, and Twitter’s number one account holder. I am not sure exactly what they hope to accomplish…but I am grateful that […]
Nothing to see here? Really?
The Washington Post published an exhaustive piece yesterday (3-27) about the ramped up FBI investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private basement internet server, and the possibility that she and her staff committed crimes related to national security.
For many months now, democrats nationwide have been led to believe that this ” security review ” […]
Are They Right? Trump Is Obama’s Fault?
From the front page of the March 13, 2016 Sunday New York Times: Donald Trump’s Presidential Run Began in an Effort to Gain Stature
Donald J. Trump arrived at the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner in April 2011, reveling in the moment as he mingled with the political luminaries who gathered at the Washington […]
An interesting article from the Washington Post has a somewhat whiny Ben Carson dumping on Donald Trump. Big deal…that will be the main theme at tonight’s debate if Mr. Trump in fact doesn’t show for the last GOP debate before the Iowa Caucus.
But what was interesting is how Dr. Carson explains exactly how […]
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