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Trump's ‘Rookie Error’ Revisited
Chuck Schumer asked the question about the health-care bill that no one at the White House asked. The New York Democratic senator put it rhetorically to The New York Times: “Why,” he asked, “would you risk voting yes for a bill that is devastating to your constituents and has no chance of becoming law?”
Michael Eric RossPublished 7 years ago in The SwampAmerica's Future Isn't Germany's Past
Here’s an obscure quiz question for you. Don’t cheat. When Harrods decided to set up its first overseas shop, back in the early twentieth century, which city did it choose?
Andrew LegonPublished 7 years ago in The SwampDan Rather Takes President Trump To Task - Again
Legendary newsman Dan Rather is making news again - this time, as someone who is taking the United States 45th president to task.
Christina St-JeanPublished 7 years ago in The SwampDid North Korea Flinch?
I genuinely love South Korea. I was stationed there in 1999 to 2000. My wife is Korean, and I traveled everywhere I could in the nation. While my base was far from the DMZ, Seoul-the South’s capital city, was within artillery range of the DPRK’s (The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, i.e. North Korea) guns. Whenever I traveled to Seoul I couldn’t help thinking this beautiful city with all its 20 million inhabitants could be cast into oblivion at any moment. For the South Korean people, this was just a fact of life. But for me, an American, that thought made me very uncomfortable.
Patrick HostisPublished 7 years ago in The SwampThe, um, Evolution of Donald Trump
This time a year ago, Donald Trump was throwing red meat to the crowds with both hands at campaign rallies across America; their appetite as political carnivores helped power Trump into the White House. But reality has a way of intruding on fantasy -- to be expected when the fantasy depends on the reality to exist.
Michael Eric RossPublished 7 years ago in The SwampTrump: "We’re not going into Syria"
President Trump seems to have put to rest fears that he was considering escalating the war in Syria. “We’re not going into Syria,” he said in an exclusive interview. “Our policy is the same — it hasn’t changed. We’re not going into Syria.”
Patrick HostisPublished 7 years ago in The SwampTo Jeff Sessions, With Love
Dear Mr. Sessions, I was born and raised in the great state of Alabama and most of my, if not all of my life you have been a senator or political figure in the state. I grew up on a farm in rural north Alabama, going to a small school with only roughly 68 people in my graduating class. I obeyed the states laws and I attempted to bet he best citizen I could be.
Megan BradfordPublished 7 years ago in The SwampIn Defense of Brian Williams
Poor Brian Williams. The MSNBC anchor is getting it from all sides, from the liberal elites who are appalled at his supposed glorification of war, and from the anti-elites, who hate everything that comes out of his mouth.
Michael LawsonPublished 7 years ago in The SwampInto The Breach
Today, the world is that much closer to being engulfed in flames of violent horror. The match was lit by the United States where once again military action was taken. The aerial attack in Syria that Trump authorized is just another instance of governmental interference that has global ramifications. Implications that could very well be interpreted as an act of war without authentic justification.
Dr. WilliamsPublished 7 years ago in The SwampSyria Could become Trump’s Vietnam
In a striking policy 180-degree change, President Trump launched a punitive missile strike on the base he believes launched a chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier in the week. This policy shift could lead to yet another neo-con sponsored war in the middle east.
Patrick HostisPublished 7 years ago in The SwampSusan Rice is the Deep State’s Sacrificial Lamb
Somebody must be Obama’s Ehrlichman. Looks like it will be Susan Rice…again. Now, the side for truth needs our John Dean. This has all the ingredients to be the biggest political scandal in American history. The question is, will it? The Deep State will do everything in its power to prevent the full story from getting out. The mainstream media will certainly parrot whatever talking points the Deep State wishes to spread.
Patrick HostisPublished 7 years ago in The SwampThe Inconclusive GOP ‘Autopsy’
Nothing blunts the inconvenient discomfort of failure like the narcotic of success. Achieving victory has a way of obscuring the pre-existing conditions that could have otherwise led to defeat. The Republican Party avoided defeat in 2016, but the GOP had fundamental, deeply structural problems brewing long before the 2016 election. Those problems didn’t vanish when Donald Trump raised his right hand in January.
Michael Eric RossPublished 7 years ago in The Swamp