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Trump: An international dud

聽President Trump is now fighting wars on two fronts.In this country, he鈥檚 battling those pesky, impeachment-happy Democrats.Overseas, he鈥檚 battling any world leader who doesn鈥檛 bow (or curtsy) at the sight of him.At this point, he鈥檚 losing on both fronts.Last week, while Democrats were ...

Everyone was in the loop

Donald Trump had a plan.He鈥檇 take out Joe Biden with a carefully formulated scandal.That plan didn鈥檛 work.Trump and his fellow Republicans are being revealed as dunderheads at the ongoing impeachment hearings.Oh, Republicans swear they鈥檙e seeing it another way.That Trump was merely making ...

And the impeachment fireworks begin

聽I remember waking up very early on the morning of May 17th, 1973.That was the opening day of the Senate Watergate Committee hearings.I also remember being a little disappointed, because nobody managed to finger Richard Nixon as the culprit of the Watergate break-in.Instead, all we got were ...

He鈥檚 going it alone

President Trump is one world leader that stands alone.He鈥檚 the only head-of-state to have walked away from a plan that had been embraced by leaders around the world 鈥 The Paris Climate Agreement.He鈥檇 promised he鈥檇 do it.Last Monday he did.While 187 countries across the globe signed onto ...

Impeachment: Something a tweet can鈥檛 stop

There鈥檚 unrest all over the world.In the Catalonia region of Spain, there are hundreds of thousands of people in the streets 鈥 protesting for secession. They don鈥檛 want to be part of Spain, anymore.In Lebanon, Iraq, Bolivia, Pakistan, Chili, and Hong Kong there are hundreds of thousands ...

A de facto quid pro quo per se

There I was.Minding my own business back in February of 1991.I was taking in that classic thriller, 鈥淪ilence of the Lambs.鈥漇uddenly, and without warning, that vile, serial killing cannibal (with the cleverly rhymed first name), Hannibal Lecter (played by Anthony Hopkins), utters the phrase, ...