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"In the year since President Donald Trump has been in office, the economy has done something it has been unable to do since 2005: maintain 3 percent growth for three quarters in a row."

Economic...

Singapore executes drug dealers and it is possibly the safest country on earth. I can't see the U.S. going that far, however.


Yep.

He means London, Ontario, Canada, "the other London."

There's no treaty that grants the Standing Rock Sioux the land Dakota Access crosses. The route made a point of skirting it, and the Standing Rock refused to participate in the permitting process...

Obama stopped it, just before completion, due to political pressure, after it had been approved. It was a political football that he was more than happy to hand off to his successor.

Intelligent people are noticing that George W. Bush, once regularly accused by liberals of being a terrible, evil menace to civilized good, has been rehabilitated by the liberal press. Hell, they've...

The key factor in the rise of the Third Reich was that private armies were legal in Germany. The pop narratives that sprang up to defame Trump during the election conveniently omit this fact.

Enjoy or not, effective control of U.S. borders is a U.S. prerogative. And it's the well-off who enjoy the income disparity that results from unfettered unskilled immigration, both legal and illegal....

An idea that might make more sense than a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border is to assist the Mexicans with controlling their own southern border, which would not only reduce the flow of illegal...

A well-patrolled wall or fence would make sneaking into the country much more difficult, and that would reduce the number of border jumpers.

If fences and walls were ineffective at securing...

He can't seem to make up his mind whether Venezuela is a friend or an enemy. He slapped phoney sanctions on Venezuela, but left their economic lifeline, oil exports, intact, at the expense of...

Florida's results have already been certified.

Battling offshoring and nearshoring was the signature issue of his campaign. It's interesting that Diane Francis, editor of Canada's Financial Post, has come to support him. (Canada as well as the...

Trump is in favor of gay rights. End of story.


Among other things, mass unskilled immigration pushes up corporate profits and pushes down working-class wages, which is why the elite favors it....

From what I read, the NRA never wavered in their support, even during the darkest points of his campaign. He might be inclined to reward such fealty.

$12000 in 1976 is $50,916.27, per the BLS Inflation Calculator.


From the early Thirties to the late Seventies, income inequality narrowed. It started to increase in the late Seventies due to...

If boorish behavior didn't matter for Bill Clinton (both during his candidacy and while he was in office, including grabbing a flight attendant by her 'ahem' area), then boorish talk doesn't matter...

Meanwhile, HRC is seemingly eager for war with Russia, and at the least is intent on starting a new Cold War with that country.

Bill Clinton was excused both while campaigning for and holding office. Those who made excuses for him (it doesn't affect his ability to perform his duties) lost their right to judge.

If Trump...

Bill Clinton, primary psychopath and known serial sexual predator, enjoyed overwhelming public support after his disgusting acts that disgraced and tarnished his office. Those who supported him,...

We can look for more wars, more offshoring, more income inequality, among others.


Any bets on whether HRC is eager to fight the Russians to show her mettle? Will she be surprised when she finds...

I can't imagine Clinton or Biden would be popular in Serbia, given that her husband tried to bomb that country back to the Stone Age.

Not that I'm a Trump fan, but in his defence, he was quoted out of context. His point was that Obama-Clinton policies allowed the shattered remnants of al Qaeda in Iraq, which had fled to Syria to...

I predicted during the primaries that a Trump win in the primaries would mean a Clinton blowout in the general.


Any bets?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN6nkRzHDSU

Interesting segment concerning Trump, Clinton and psychopathic traits.

The president isn't the architect of the economy, and there are checks and balances to guard against a bad president. And if he's really bad, he'll be voted out four years later.

Much of Trump's...

Being a member of the elite, he could be forgiven for not comprehending working class angst, and even if he could, he'd likely be indifferent.

Quinnipiac has Trump and Clinton statistically tied in three crucial battleground states.

Lincoln was arguably the closest the U.S. came to a dictator.


Very true.

Germany in January 1933 was a completely different situation. The Weimar Republic was less than 15 years old, and it had been forced on the country through defeat. Many powerful Germans loathed the...

The President is not a Führer. The office's powers are limited, and it would take much more than a President Trump acting alone to turn the country into a dictatorship.

Trump is now the presumptive GOP nominee.

There's nothing over-the-top about their concerns, chief among which is his casual willingness to promote animus against identifiable groups for political gain.

Personally, I think Trump is...

One observer noted that Trump had struck a motherlode of discontent, but that he was not the candidate to exploit it.

Stating Trump is worse than Hitler trivializes the suffering of Hitler's victims. And that's my last word on the subject.

He came to power only with the assistance of a huge, well-organized private army called the Sturmbabteilung (SA or Brownshirts). Note how everyone in a photo of a 1920s Nazi rally or meeting is in...

It's called Godwin's Law, and its progenitor, Mike Godwin, has taken people to task for their spurious comparisons of Trump to Hitler.


Regardless of their intent, that's what they're doing. As...

Comparisons of Trump to Hitler trivialize the suffering of Hitler's victims.

There's a historical precedent in Roosevelt's interment of Japanese-Americans, but it won't come to pass. It's just bluster.

Me too, especially finger-pointing at 'villains' and simple solutions.


An interesting control foil is France, which has retained its pre-Reagan policies. Has France flourished? No; France is...

He's smart enough to have vaulted into first place without Establishment support and spending almost no money.