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Former President George W. Bush called Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky “the Winston Churchill of our time” after the two spoke in a videoconference Thursday morning. Bush posted two images of the meeting on Instagram tagged with a location of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Texas, showing the 43rd president smiling while seated at a conference table. The chat came as Ukraine remains under siege by Russian President Vladimir Putin’s invading forces. “I was honored to spend a few minutes talking with President Zelenskyy – the Winston Churchill of our time – this morning,” Bush said in the post....

As the Russia investigation heated up and threatened to shadow Donald Trump's presidency, he became increasingly concerned. But the portrait painted by special counsel Robert Mueller is not of a president who believed he or anyone on his campaign colluded with Russians to interfere in the 2016 election. Instead, the Trump of the Mueller report is gripped by fear that Americans would question the very legitimacy of his presidency. Would Trump, the man who put his name on skyscrapers and his imprint on television, be perceived as a cheater and a fraud? To Trump, his victory over Hillary Clinton was...

#Pizzagate is now trending at 13th place on Twitter. If you have a Twitter account, please retweet this hashtag as much as you can. We have to let the world know about this horrible atrocity!!

It should be the best of times for American conservatism. Republican majorities in the House and Senate, a re-elected Republican president, an increasing number of Republican governors and a rightwards tilt in the judiciary. While the British Tories and German Christian Democrats flounder, America’s right seems to flourish. Well, that’s the cover story. Beneath the surface, however, American conservatism is in increasing trouble. The Republican coalition, always fragile, now depends as much on the haplessness of the Democrats as on its own internal logic. On foreign and domestic policy alike the American right is splintering. With no obvious successor to...

Once again Kevin Harvick gets blamed for being willing to really race! The NASCAR web site says "Harvick caused wreck in qualifying race." I can tell you this anyone who says kevin was responsible for that wreck has never driven a race car. Think about it this way. If you are racing the kiddie go carts at the local track and you are following your buddy at a distance of about 6 inches or so what do you think is going to happen if your buddy lets his foot off of the gas pedal? Guess what... you just bumped into...