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Less than 100 days into the new administration, the dominant story has been his campaign’s involvement with Russia pre and post election. David French gives us understanding as to what we have evidence of happening and what we don’t. Hacking The Russians hacked a few computers, but they...
“I made my mistakes, but in all of my years of public life, I have never profited, never profited from public service — I earned every cent,” he said. “And in all of my years of public life, I have never obstructed justice. And I think, too, that I could...
“Crooked Hillary” went the cries. “Lock her up,” they chanted. They accused her of manipulations and profiteering; berated her for using her private email and especially her shady ties to foreign leaders. So as Donald Trump’s presidency rolls into its 100 days dragged down by an unprecedented amount of corruption...
We’ve lost Yemen. The first casualty in Trump’s embrace of the global fashion trend isolationism is a Middle East nation and key player in America’s war on terror, one that has continued to help us despite many years of US drone strikes that have killed civilians and flattened villages. President 45 ran on...
While digging through the dumpster outside of Trump Towers (aka White House North) our hardworking team at Killing the Breeze found this letter crumpled up in a copy of How Washington Actually Works for Dummies that had been sandwiched between what appeared to be two broken halves of a Trump Tower Grill taco...
Richard Nixon had a tightrope to walk while campaigning for the presidency in 1968. He wanted to keep the Vietnam War going as to not give a diplomatic victory to Democrats, making him the architect of his own “October Surprise,” but he also had to placate a war weary nation....
I think we can all agree that publishing stolen private e-mails is wrong, even if those e-mails are authentic. As a Hillary supporter and someone that thought what Snowden did was illegal and treasonous since the leaks immensely damaged national security, I agree with Andrew McCarthy when he says some...
With Trump’s recent call for Russia to hack his opponents’ emails (a proxy-Watergate except standards of conduct are so twisted in this foul year of our lord 2016 that what used to be considered an impeachable (or at least inconsolably treasonous) offense is written off as just more campaign bluster)(though misuse of email...
There are people out there who don’t like our western way of life. Who see us as pompous bullies, who take every opportunity to issue edicts against us and our European allies. Who take over territory and declare it theirs using underhanded subversive violence, claiming historic ownership to justify the...
Ascribing inherent violence to any religion has its roots in secular philosophy and therefore only scores points against the religious people who use that line of reasoning. The opinion that Islam is somehow necessarily more violent than Christianity is fairly recent and in no sense part of any hard...