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In a recent piece in The Atlantic, Reuel Marc Gerecht, a senior fellow with the neoconservative Foundation for Defense of Democracies, urged the United States to confront Turkey. According to Gerecht, Turkey has emerged, under the presidency of Recep Tayyip Erdogan, “as perhaps the greatest danger to Israel in the Middle East, escalating the threat of a conflict he won’t be able to avoid.” Gerecht charges Erdogan with setting the stage for a clash with Israel as a key tactic in his power projection strategy abroad. To reduce the risk of “yet another regional war,” Gerecht urges President Donald Trump...

America now must face its biggest political crisis in history because she has a sitting President whose credentials to hold office can not and will not be verified by the very institutions charged with protecting her, and her media are covering up Certifigate. ”The document failed every test we put it through,” said lead investigator Mike Zullo who told Sheriff Joe Arpaio “We had a forgery” referring to the document released last year by the White House as being President Barack Obama’s birth certificate. Speaking at a Maricopa County, AZ press conference in front of a very hostile media scrum...

The budget deficits from the first two years of the Obama administration are of sufficient magnitude to spring Dr. “Billions and Billions” Carl Sagan from his grave. Sagan could sue for copyright infringement for misuse of astronomical numbers. On second thought, the figures now being bandied about are in the trillions, which no doubt would send the venerable atheist skulking back, perhaps muttering something about the “unsustainability” of it all. Sagan would not be alone. Multi-trillion dollar deficits that generate debt obligations in the hundreds of trillions of dollars cannot continue even in the short run, at least not without...

Spend federal funds on people, not pets I recently heard a report on National Public Radio regarding proposed federal legislation for universal pet health care, at a projected cost that is in the trillion-dollar range. I am shocked that this type of proposal is being taken seriously. As a former pet owner, I appreciate the comfort, affection, loyalty and companionship a pet offers. But in these times of fiscal responsibility, I suggest that if the federal government has any funds available, they should be used to support a section of the population that also offers love, affection and companionship -...