President Trump visited the memorial wall of the CIA operatives who lost their lives in the course of duty, ignored the dead and spent his time complaining about the reports in the media about the size of attendance at the inauguration. Attendance in person, mind you, not total world- wide viewers on the media. Side by …
As if America didn’t have enough to worry about, the US Census Bureau has just released data highlighting a troubling fall in the rate of population growth. The US population grew by just 0.7% last year – the lowest figure since the Great Depression years of 1936 and 1937. Although the US is still faring better …
We are asked to believe that a bunch of elderly billionaires, mostly with some very dubious and illiberal aspects to their backgrounds, are really going to give the power back to the people, work for social justice, create jobs at above minimum wage, offer a rational health scheme to replace Obamacare, get rid of all …
“Words change. When Donald Trump, Arron Banks or Nigel Farage rail against ‘the elite’, they don’t mean rich, powerful men like themselves. They mean liberals. They mean middle-class, degree-educated, city-dwelling progressives; the do-gooders, the tree-huggers, the PC brigade. And that is the definition their audiences hear. They know who Trump and Farage are talking about. …
In 2011, when Iranian-backed insurgents in Iraq, using Iranian-supplied rockets, were killing American troops, Marine General James Mattis, head of U.S. Central Command, grew increasingly incensed. As a result, he formulated a plan, which made it to (and was rejected by) the Obama White House, to launch a direct American “dead-of-night” attack on Iran either to …
