And now, for the first time since WWII, we find ourselves in a nuclear arms race. And he’s not even president yet.
Last week, President-Elect Trump said he was planning to expand the United States’ nuclear arsenal . In response, Russian President Vladimir Putin retaliated with his own saber rattling: “The Russian Federation is stronger than any potential aggressor,” he said. “It’s very important to note that it’s not a coincidence that I put it that way. What does aggressor mean?
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“He is who he is,” Melania Trump told People Magazine earlier this year. “Even if you give him advice, he will maybe take it in, but then he will do it the way he wants to do it. You cannot change a person. Let them be. Let them be the way they are.”
Although I’m sure Melania meant her words to be an asset and compliment to her husband’s personality, I see the characteristics she describes as being a huge liability to his being the forty-fifth president of the United States.
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At this writing, Hillary Clinton’s popular vote lead is just shy of three million votes, a number the size of the city of Chicago, the state of Nevada, Kuwait. She has won more votes than any white man has ever gotten, win or lose. Barack Obama is the only president to receive more votes than Mrs. Clinton, including the one the Electoral College is expected to confirm on December 19. In fact, the difference between the number of votes for her and those for Mr.
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Way back in February Sean Illing spelled it out for us in Salon.com: “Donald Trump Is a Fraud: Report Confirms the Billionaire’s Presidential Bid Is a Long and Calculated Con Job.”
Illing began his blog by saying, “Everything Trump has done during the campaign is designed to dupe the media into funding his marketing strategy.”
Illing continued: “Donald Trump’s presidential campaign feels whimsical, like a practical joke or publicity tour gone awry. But it turns out that Donald is running a long con.
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As I listened to Donald Trump give his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention last week in Cleveland, Ohio, the old saying the proof is in the pudding came to mind. Then it occurred to me: In this case, the adage is not quite correct. It should be the proof is in the recipe, not the pudding! For, if Congress actually allowed the Republican presidential nominee’s recipe for “curing the ills” of our country to be concocted,
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