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Former Trump White House national security official Fiona Hill said Russian President Vladimir Putin had “to explain everything to all the time” to former President Trump. “He had to keep explaining things, and Putin doesn’t like to do that,” Hill said this week, speaking at a Chicago Council on Global Affairs event in remarks reported by Insider. Hill added that Putin intentionally chose to invade Ukraine during President Biden’s tenure in the White House.

If you aren’t freaking out about something, then… well, then I’m freaking out that you’re not freaking out. Tell the rest of us: what’s your secret? Because the rest of us are pretty sure the world is going to hell in a flaming handbasket. And not only do we not know why, but we don’t know what to do. We live in a strange and contradictory time. On the one hand, the economies of the world are doing great! On the other, unless you’re wearing $2,000 Prada shoes and brush your teeth with truffle toothpaste, you’re not benefiting much from...

RUSH: Liz in Camden, Tennessee, it's great to have you with us, the EIB Network. Hello. CALLER: Hello, Rush. It's a delight and an honor to get to finally speak to you after all these years. RUSH: Well, thank yeeew so much. CALLER: I've got a question. RUSH: What is it? CALLER: I'm one of those what the Democrats think as dumb Americans. Could you explain to me why the media and the Democratic Party are trashing the Republicans for all the cuts that are fixin' to be made but yet they have not one -- not one, correct me...

Former Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) said Monday that former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin would have “some explaining” to do if she seeks the White House. “She's done a lot to draw attention to herself that's positive,” Santorum during an interview on ABC’s “Top Line,” adding that the former Republican vice presidential nominee has “done some things that, you know, certainly are going to cause her to have to do some explaining if she runs for president.” “But right now I think she's on a roll, she's having a good time, she's having an impact,” he continued. “If you're sitting here...

WASHINGTON – It's a political squall that won't die: What did House Speaker Nancy Pelosi know about harsh questioning of detainees, and when did she know it? On Friday, the California Democrat was forced to issue yet another press release, reiterating her past assertions that she had been briefed in 2002 only on new interrogation techniques that had been deemed legal and were planned for future use. Pelosi had made the same comments in 2007 when word first leaked that she was aware of the interrogation program and had not objected to it.

9/11 COMMISSION Jaime Gorelick has some explaining to do April 24, 2004, 12:45AM Houston Chronicle No matter how long conservatives protest, Jaime Gorelick is unlikely to resign from her position on the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Against the United States. Despite her distinctly partisan approach, her place on the 10-member, supposedly nonpartisan 9/11 commission is defended by such Republican heavyweights as Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah and former New Jersey Gov. Thomas Kean, the commission's chairman. The problem is that Gorelick, deputy attorney general in the Clinton administration, wrote a key Justice Department memo in 1995 raising the "wall"...

Explaining the very real benefits of globalization Globalization isn't ruining the world -- but is actually offering millions of people in third-world countries the opportunity for a better life. That was the message delivered by Ronald Bailey, science correspondent for Reason magazine, at a Globalization Forum sponsored by University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Libertarians. "Globalization is the only way to make hundreds of millions of poor people rich," Bailey told an audience that included a number of anti-globalism activists. "I don't mean rich in terms of greed, but in terms of opportunity." In his presentation, Bailey argued that globalization...