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Playing the game of “What if” has led to some of humankind’s greatest discoveries and achievements. It can also be a sorrowful acknowledgement of the status quo, an exercise of quiet desperation when time and opportunity are floating away like fall leaves. As President Trump enters the fourth year of his presidency, I can’t help but ask the “what if” question about so many things, opportunities squandered over ambition, animosity, and partisan politics. While Trump has accomplished much, I still see unfulfilled destiny, not quite reached, or initiatives that have destroyed and divided rather than built and unified. Let’s look...

Mar. 18, 2017 - 7:23 - Part 1: President steps into 'Watters' World'

It occured to me I can not be the only Freeper with inlaw issues that are driving a wedge between myself and other family members, in my case my inlaws. On a side note, my mother in law lives in AZ and went to high school with Harry Reid. She claims a personal relationship with him and is a complete groupthinker, informed = 0, believes everything he says, all others need not apply, father in law hoping to continue to get some agrees with her. Fall out from the recent Reid lies are driving a wedge between family members. Considering...

Shadowy corporate figures who cut backroom deals. Stealthy terrorists who drive cabs by day. Immigrants who steal across the border by night. Politicians are finding no shortage of boogeymen to associate with their opponents this campaign season. And it turns out that some of the most popular targets of opportunity at this early stage in the elections are simply other politicians — those whose mere mention is enough to raise partisan hairs on the backs of loyal party members. Sure, candidates are tying their opponents to Big Oil and Islamic fascists. And to special interests and partisan bloggers. But they're...

We now understand, based on our experience in trying to liberate the citizens of Iraq from despotism, that despotism can take many forms. It is becoming more and more evident — and this is something we could not have known until we had deposed Saddam Hussein and begun to deal with the forces which reorganized and redeployed themselves after his fall — that those committed to realizing power through inflicting death and destruction will likely persist in the form of Iraqi "insurgents" for the foreseeable future. As has become clear, the notion that, after the fall of Saddam Hussein's regime,...