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  • Trump says he’ll leave if Electoral College seats Biden

    11/26/2020 5:41:36 PM PST · by buckalfa · 247 replies
    Associated Press Via WSPA News7 ^ | November 26, 2020 | Jill Colvin
    WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he will leave the White House if the Electoral College formalizes President-Elect Joe Biden’s victory — even as he insisted such a decision would be a “mistake” — as he spent his Thanksgiving renewing baseless claims that “massive fraud” and crooked officials in battleground states caused his election defeat. “Certainly I will. But you know that,” Trump said Thursday when asked whether he would vacate the building, allowing a peaceful transition of power in January. But Trump — taking questions for the first time since Election Day — insisted that “a...
  • Why Donald Trump Needs a Realist Secretary of Defense

    12/26/2018 9:54:27 AM PST · by Yo-Yo · 22 replies
    The National Interest ^ | December 26, 2018 | Daniel L. Davis
    The president needs help uprooting a Washington foreign-policy establishment that has mindlessly kept the U.S. military involved in unnecessary wars across the globe. The next top military leader must share this goal. Secretary of Defense James Mattis is a good man and a patriot who has served his country with distinction. President Trump was right, however, in asking for his resignation because Mattis represents the Washington foreign-policy establishment that has mindlessly kept the U.S. military involved in unnecessary wars across the globe. President Donald Trump ran on a realist platform, decrying “stupid wars,” and vowing that there would be “...
  • Ideals Versus Realities (Thomas Sowell)

    07/27/2011 3:16:26 PM PDT · by jazusamo · 31 replies
    Creators Syndicate ^ | July 27, 2011 | Thomas Sowell
      Many of us never thought that the Republicans would hold tough long enough to get President Obama and the Democrats to agree to a budget deal that does not include raising income tax rates. But they did — and Speaker of the House John Boehner no doubt desires much of the credit for that.Despite the widespread notion that raising tax rates automatically means collecting more revenue for the government, history says otherwise. As far back as the 1920s, Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon pointed out that the government received a very similar amount of revenue from high-income...
  • Mike Huckabee: President Obama is Gonna Be Tough To Beat in 2012 (Video)

    02/21/2011 11:17:20 AM PST · by Talkradio03 · 78 replies
    hap ^ | 2/21/10 | mike huckabee abcnews
    You'd think with a $1.65 trillion deficit, adding 4 trillion to the debt in 3 years, unemployment between 9-10% after promising it wouldn't go above 8, a foreign policy that's a disaster, a domestic policy that's a disaster Mike Huckabee would list all the reasons why Obama can't be reelected. Sadly, he tells Stephanopoulos why it's an uphill battle for Republicans
  • Visitors from a Weird Planet

    05/02/2008 11:39:38 AM PDT · by thinkingIsPresuppositional · 10 replies · 153+ views
    Modern Conservative ^ | May 02, 2008 | Burt Prelutsky
    Visitors from a Weird Planet By Burt Prelutsky When I tell liberals that I can’t figure them out, they tend to assume I’m owning up to my own intellectual shortcomings. They figure their thinking is so profound that it’s simply beyond the scope of little old me. Well, let them enjoy their fantasies. The truth is, I can’t fathom their belief system because it seems so divorced from reality that if we discovered tomorrow that, like the pods in the movie, “Invasion of the Body Snatchers,” liberals only look like human beings, but are actually from outer space, I’d be...
  • Pol: Shooting Won't Change Gun Laws

    04/19/2007 5:56:16 PM PDT · by buccaneer81 · 19 replies · 804+ views
    am New York ^ | 19 April 2007 | NA
    Pol: Shooting won't change gun laws Email this story Printer friendly format April 17, 2007, 6:44 PM EDT WASHINGTON _ Rep. Charles Rangel, a top House Democrat from Harlem, said Tuesday the shooting carnage at Virginia Tech won't change the nation's gun control laws. He told an audience at the National Press Club that he didn't think the Second Amendment should be repealed and added that fellow Democrats told him the fatal shootings of 33 people Monday would not change votes in Congress on gun issues. advertisement Rangel, who chairs an influential tax-writing committee, also took a jab at a...
  • Kissinger: Lessons for an Exit Strategy

    08/13/2005 4:42:15 AM PDT · by RWR8189 · 16 replies · 820+ views
    Washington Post ^ | August 12, 2005 | Henry A. Kissinger
    There have been conflicting reports about the timing of American troop withdrawals from Iraq. Gen. George Casey, commander of U.S. forces there, has announced that the United States intends to begin a "fairly substantial" withdrawal of U.S. forces after the projected December elections establish a constitutional government. Other sources have indicated that this will involve 30,000 troops, or some 22 percent of U.S. forces in Iraq. Some high-level statements from Baghdad have indicated that the beginning of withdrawals may be delayed until next summer. On either schedule, progress is dependent upon improvements in the security situation and in the training...
  • Henry Kissinger: Conflict is not an option (Relations Between China and the U.S.)

    06/09/2005 5:40:56 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 19 replies · 743+ views
    International Herald Tribune ^ | June 9, 2005 | Henry A. Kissinger
    NEW YORK The relationship between the United States and China is beset by ambiguity. On the one hand, seven presidents have affirmed the importance of cooperative relations with China and a commitment to a one-China policy.   Nevertheless, ambivalence has suddenly re-emerged. Various U.S. officials, members of Congress and the news media are attacking China's policies, from the exchange rate to military buildup, much of it in a tone implying that China is on some sort of probation.   Before continuing on this subject, I must point out that the consulting company I chair advises clients with business interests around...
  • Henry Kissinger: Spreading democracy (A realist's assessment of the 'freedom agenda')

    06/05/2005 12:16:52 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 7 replies · 539+ views
    San Diego Union-Tribune ^ | June 5, 2005 | Henry A. Kissinger
    Extraordinary advances of democracy have occurred in recent months: elections in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine and Palestine; local elections in Saudi Arabia; Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon; the opening of the presidential election in Egypt; and upheavals against entrenched authoritarians in Kyrgyzstan. Rarely have conditions seemed so fluid and the environment so malleable. This welcome trend was partly triggered by President Bush's Middle East policy and accelerated by his second inaugural address, which elevated the progress of freedom in the world to the defining objective of American foreign policy. Pundits have interpreted these events as a victory of "idealists" over "realists"...
  • Henry Kissinger: Implementing Bush's Vision

    05/16/2005 3:13:38 PM PDT · by RWR8189 · 2 replies · 476+ views
    Washington Post ^ | May 16, 2005 | Henry A. Kissinger
    To Effectively Spread Democracy, We Must Balance Values and Geopolitical ChallengesExtraordinary advances of democracy have occurred in recent months: elections in Afghanistan, Iraq, Ukraine and Palestine; local elections in Saudi Arabia; Syrian withdrawal from Lebanon; the opening up of the presidential election in Egypt; and upheavals against entrenched authoritarians in Kyrgyzstan. This welcome trend was partly triggered by President Bush's Middle East policy and accelerated by his second inaugural address, which elevated the progress of freedom in the world to the defining objective of U.S. foreign policy.Pundits have interpreted these events as a victory of "idealists" over "realists" in the...
  • You could be a neo-con and not even know it...

    09/28/2004 11:41:38 AM PDT · by thepace · 8 replies · 284+ views
    Pacetown ^ | 09.28.2004 | Jeremy Chrysler
    Political dilettante that I am, I often find myself both confused and fascinated by many things I read on a daily basis around the web. Whether my post-read mental state is the former or the latter, I almost always end up reading more about the subject that inspired my aforementioned state of mind. And thus, when I read about the shadowy "neo-con plots", I wanted to know more, particularly since the plots to which pejorative descriptions were applied appeared on the surface to be attempts to democratize otherwise totalitarian governments around the world. What was I to do? Well, friends,...
  • Are you a neoconservative? Take this quiz to find out.

    06/28/2004 10:42:58 AM PDT · by Remember_Salamis · 189 replies · 645+ views
    Christian Science Monitor ^ | 2004 | Christian Science Monitor
    http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/quiz/neoconQuiz.html