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Yesterday, in the close aftermath of the Isis bombing in Pakistan, Donald Trump made one of the more incredibly grandiose claims of this incredibly bizarre campaign season: that only he could solve the war with Isis. “I alone,” he boasted. In this regard, he is so much like the Obama of 2008 that it is downright scary. Almost eight years ago to the date, at a San Francisco fundraiser, Obama said, “…foreign policy is the area where I am probably most confident that I know more and understand the world better than Senator Clinton or Senator McCain.” After belittling Mrs....

Chris Wallace just claimed on national TV that he looked up the word "grandiose" in the dictionary and that it is a negative word and that Gingrich misused and misapplied it to himself. In the segment, Wallace was obviously spinning against Gingrich, and in that piece he was saying the "grandiose" exchange with Santorum was Santorum's shining moment. However, he claimed he looked the word up in a dictionary and that the word is negative in meaning. If he actually looked it up in any dictionary, it would have had multiple meanings. In honesty, he would have had to report...

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama plans to address Congress for the first time on Feb. 24, five weeks after his inauguration. White House officials say that Obama's speech to a joint session of the House and Senate will have the trappings of a State of the Union address, but it will not be considered one. His first State of the Union speech won't come until next January.

Oh how I pine for the Weather Channel of old. The one where they just did a damn good job of reporting well, you know, the weather. Then after years of just doing that which they were designed to do they began having delusions of their own grandiosity. Reporting the weather in studio was not enough, they had to have their so called "meteorolgist reporters" on scene. And from there on it has been all downhill. They lost me two summers ago when during the most active night for tornadoes in decades (some 450+ sightings) across the country they chose...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - U.S. bombs never hit Saddam Hussein's grandiose presidential palace in Baghdad, making its ample meeting rooms and vast conference tables an ideal headquarters for U.S.-led occupation authorities after the war. Now the building — the physical seat and biggest symbol of Saddam's 23-year dictatorship — is the likely site for the next U.S. Embassy in Iraq, U.S. officials in Washington and Iraq said this week. A State Department official in Washington, speaking on condition of anonymity, said the palace is among several locations under consideration for the embassy, where the U.S. government's official representative will be based...