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Washington is abuzz this morning with speculation about Trump pardoning Cohen and Manafort. He has the absolute power to do so, of course. And he willfully laid the predicate for pardoning undeserving criminals like these when he pardoned defiantly racist Sheriff Joe Arpaio of Arizona. Except that, far from protecting Trump from impeachment, doing so… Read more.
Michael Cohen, President Trump’s hapless lawyer and fixer, pleaded guilty this afternoon to eight criminal charges. Significantly, while allocuting to his crimes under oath, Cohen implicated Trump, sealing this president’s fate as an unindicted co-conspirator. Cohen … pleaded guilty on Tuesday to campaign finance and other charges. He made the extraordinary admission that he paid… Read more.
Carlson No doubt you recall how the media hailed Gretchen Carlson as the proverbial Joan of Arc of the #MeToo movement. This, after she forced serial abuser Roger Ailes to resign as CEO of Fox News. I joined the chorus of those hailing her in “Women Complain Fox News Head, Roger Ailes, Has Dick for… Read more.
China colonizing the developing world China is colonizing the developing world. It’s doing so by getting countries hooked on debts like cartels get people hooked on drugs. My mother country, The Bahamas, is among those countries. So I know firsthand the effects of this unwitting addiction. But I’ve been sounding the alarm far and wide. Here are… Read more.
The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel, he must be a John Dean type “RAT.” But I allowed him and all others to testify – I didn’t have to. I have nothing to hide…… — Donald J.… Read more.
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William H. McRaven, a retired Navy admiral, was commander of the U.S. Joint Special Operations Command from 2011 to 2014. He oversaw the 2011 Navy SEAL raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden. Dear Mr. President: Former CIA director John Brennan, whose security clearance you revoked on Wednesday, is one of the… Read more.
Billy Graham was hailed as the pastor to presidents of the United States. In a similar vein, Aretha Franklin could be hailed as the singer for presidents, singing as she did at the inauguration of more presidents (namely Carter, Clinton, and Obama) than any other performer in US history. Not to mention the respect the… Read more.
Nearly 350 news organizations are set to publish editorials on Thursday pushing back against Donald Trump’s attacks on the media and defending freedom of the press. The publications are participating in a push organized by the Boston Globe to run coordinated editorials denouncing what the paper called a ‘dirty war against the free press’. (The… Read more.
Lately I am finding that I’ve already written all I care to on many topics. Chief among them is the cardinal crime of child sexual abuse (as well as the brazen hypocrisy of homosexual indulgences) in the Catholic Church. I cite in this regard such commentaries as “Pope Accused of Harboring Pedophile Priest,” March 16,… Read more.
