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This meeting is part of the 25th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall... Kissinger (now 94) reflects on the events, personalities, and thinking that characterized the United States and Soviet Union's leadership.

It is uproariously entertaining to see the scurryings of the innumerable host of Democratic presidential candidates in what is already more of a lottery than a quest for the nomination of a great party to the world’s greatest office. The Gadarene stampede to (and over) the edge of the abyss of all who advocate open borders, 70 percent income taxes, the green terror, socialized medicine, legalized infanticide, reparations to native and African-Americans, packing the Supreme Court, and vacation of the Electoral College, has finally elicited, in a Churchillian expression, a tiny mouse of dissent. The charge to oblivion reminds me...

He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted. Isaiah 53:3-4 KJV This was not a coup against President Trump; this was a coup against you. The last thing the District of corruption wants is a true populist President in charge who can upset the money machine. Everyone on the side of the coup is...

(CNN) - Edward Nixon, former President Richard Nixon's youngest and last surviving brother, died Wednesday. He was 88. He had been living in a skilled nursing facility in Bothell, Washington. In the past 25 years since Richard Nixon's death, Edward Nixon had become "our family's rock," his nieces, Tricia Nixon Cox and Julie Nixon Eisenhower, said in a statement. "He was a source of guidance to our father, whose favorite little Eddie grew up into a renowned geologist with an infectious curiosity," they said. "He was always thinking, always working -- never for his own benefit, but to uncover the...

I was half awake and the news was on. I heard that Queen had just won some sort of top award, that the  President is en route to Asia to meet with a Communist dictator, people were still arguing about abortion “rights” and that speculation on a presidential impeachment continues as strong as ever.I thought it was Groundhog Day - again.Queen show off their first ever gold disk in 1974Nixon meets with Mao, 1972March for Abortion 1971March for Impeachment, 1974I’d go back to sleep but I don’t want to wake up to this mess again.Is it possible that the human...

Raymond K. Price Jr., a cerebral, pipe-smoking speechwriter for President Richard M. Nixon who helped write the first and last words of his presidency, his Inaugural Addresses and his resignation speech, died on Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 88. His former lawyer Zenon B. Masnyj said Mr. Price had had a stroke and died at Lenox Hill Hospital. He lived in Lower Manhattan. Mr. Price was the editorial page editor of The New York Herald Tribune when it closed in 1966, and when he joined Nixon’s nascent second presidential campaign the next year, he brought with him the sort of...

One of the few advantages of changing addresses is that you sometimes discover long-forgotten items. In a recent move, I found an old recording that contained an interview of Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (D-MT) by Paul Duke for NBC's "Today" show. The year was 1968. Richard Nixon had just been elected president. Duke asked Mansfield how much cooperation the president-elect should expect from Congress. Mansfield's response to this and subsequent questions, compared to what we hear from the mouths of contemporary Democrats, is a shocking reminder of how far we have fallen in the last 50 years. After saying...

With the midterms mere weeks away, Democrats are already preparing to invoke the era of Richard M. Nixon and Watergate. Anticipating a "blue wave" that will retake the House in November, they have started laying out plans for impeachment proceedings — or at least serious investigations with that goal in mind. But the Democrats’ political positions, combined with their actions during and in the wake of the confirmation hearings for now-Justice Brett Kavanaugh’s U.S. Supreme Court nomination, suggest a different Nixon-era touchstone: his 1972 landslide re-election. The actions of Democrats in 1972 helped propel a Republican president originally brought into...

Insane lunatic, NY Governor, Cuomo, politically slaughters supreme Nutcase Cynthia. You do not want to know the numbers...it's hilarious!!!

Eleventh-hour campaign mailings from the New York State Democratic Committee imply Cynthia Nixon is anti-Semitic — prompting an online maelstrom of outrage and denials Saturday night, with Gov. Cuomo and the state party calling the mailer a “mistake.” “With anti-Semitism and bigotry on the rise, we can’t take a chance with inexperienced Cynthia Nixon,” reads the mailer, which says it was paid for by the New York State Democratic Committee. It goes on to accuse Nixon of being against the funding of yeshivas — a topic she’s actually dodged — and falsely accuses her of being “silent on the rise...

Actress/activist Cynthia Nixon, a socialist who wants to govern the State of New York, is honest about how she intends to do it. “I will tax the rich to fix the subway,” Nixon tweeted on Wednesday. It’s not the first time she’s said that. Her tweet includes a short video, explaining that she takes the subway every day; the system on which New Yorkers depend is broken; and she will do something about it. “It’s not going to be easy,” she admits. “And it’s not going to be cheap. But we don’t have a choice.” …

It’s four more days until the big Democratic primary in New York, and gubernatorial candidate (and actress) Cynthia Nixon is pulling out all the stops. In an interview this week, she returned to one of the favorite talking points of Democratic socialists these days, Medicare for all. Speaking with the New York Daily News, Nixon was adamant that lawmakers should move forward and pass “her plan” rather than listening to Governor Andrew Cuomo who has managed to resist the idea so far. And how will New York pay for this massive show of generosity to its residents? Nixon openly...

Under the unusual circumstances surrounding his selection, Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh should have agreed to recuse himself from deciding cases involving the investigation of President Trump. The reason Kavanaugh asserted at his confirmation hearing for refusing to make such a pledge — that it would violate the imperative of judicial independence — is entirely unconvincing. In turn, senators should decline to approve Kavanaugh’s nomination unless he does so. And, since that’s not likely to happen, in the event that a case involving the Trump investigation were to come before a Justice Kavanaugh, he should not participate — for his...

Actress Cynthia Nixon has been routinely described as trying to become the state’s first lesbian governor. But Nixon actually doesn't self-identify as a lesbian. She considers herself queer, campaign spokeswoman Lauren Hitt said. Queer - one of the Qs in the LGBTQ movement, along with questioning—encompasses people who don't necessarily feel they fall under any specific label. Queer for decades had been used as a derisive term to attack nonheterosexuals. But in recent years, the term has been reclaimed by some - especially younger people - in the LGBTQ community. Hitt declined to discuss the reasons why Nixon identifies as...

At their contentious debate Wednesday night, Democrat Gov. Andrew Cuomo and Socialist candidate Cynthia Nixon disagreed on just about everything, including law and order in their State of New York. Nixon said if she’s elected governor, she would prioritize “things that really make a difference in people’s lives” over law and order. The debate moderator noted that Cuomo has been criticized for deploying New York State Troopers from upstate to patrol New York City bridges and streets. “Would you continue putting troopers on the streets of New York City?” the moderator asked Nixon. “Look, we are at a moment where...

**SNIP** Defending against her suggestion that he's a corrupt parallel to President Donald Trump in Washington and deflecting the odor of criminal prosecutions of people close to him, Cuomo tried to cast Nixon as a corporate donor herself who solicited "favors" from her friend de Blasio. "You're a corporation," he said, faulting the allegedly minimal way by which she disclosed her income tax forms. She noted that in his first race for governor in 2010, his disclosure followed the election. She said her business corporation is that of a small business owner. Also hyperbolically, Cuomo called agents of the Immigration...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) and actress Cynthia Nixon traded personal barbs Wednesday night during a tense gubernatorial primary debate. Arguments erupted over the degree to which each candidate has opposed President Trump, New York City's subway system, health care and corruption during the 60-minute debate . Cuomo is the heavy favorite to win a third term in the Sept. 13 primary against political newcomer Nixon, who trails Cuomo in every public poll, according to The Washington Post. The debate became heated following a question about New York's MTA (Metropolitan Transportation Authority), which Nixon said Cuomo had left underfunded. Cuomo was...

Before Cynthia Nixon’s wife Christine Marinoni landed on the city payroll, she got a salary from - Cynthia Nixon. Newly-released tax documents show that Marinoni in 2013 drew a $96,200 salary - $117,560 counting retirement contributions - from The Fickle Mermaid, a pass-through corporation Nixon set up to handle her acting income and expenses. Nixon paid Marinoni a salary because of her role as her business partner, a campaign spokeswoman said. The company stopped paying Marinoni in 2014, when she got a job in the city Department of Education under Mayor de Blasio, a longtime Nixon pal whose campaign she...

Its become a common Anti American trope to blame the United States for PinochetÂ’s atrocities. Despite the fact that there was never any American Involvement in the 1973 coup which installed Pinochet, a criticism of US Foreign Policy has been of its support of Dictators and one of those commonly named is Pinochet. However the notion that the United States supported Augusto Pinochet is also a false one. From the Years of Upheaval By Henry Kissinger; "It soon emerged that there were major obstacles to assisting the new Chilean authorities. To be sure, loans from private banks increased sharply as...

he Watergate tapes stand as one of the stunning, implausible twists of American history. Nixon confessed his crimes and recorded himself in the process. Who does that? In their book The Final Days, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein write, “the single thread that linked the problems together was the President’s tapes. The lawyers represented a President who had bugged himself, who had blurted his secrets into hidden microphones. They had not yet heard the tapes, nor seen any transcripts of them. The President would not permit it. They were told to mount a defense, but were not given the information...