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Wednesday on ABC’s “The View,” the co-hosts argued with guest co-host and former Trump spokeswoman Stephanie Grisham over the issue of immigration. Grisham said, “I come from a border state, so I can speak to it pretty well. Arizona, 20 years I lived there, and I’ve seen what open border policies can do to the country and to the people who are trying to get into this country.”

ABC couldn’t stop gushing over the Democrats and their invited guests to tonight's State of the Union address, on Tuesday’s Good Morning America. Congressional correspondent Mary Bruce even ludicrously called failed gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams, a “rising star,” hoping that she might run again in the Senate. Bruce also touted Democrats inviting illegal aliens and activists to the annual address, but failed to mention any of the guests invited by the White House. Anchor George Stephanopoulos led into the two reports calling it “unusual” for Democrats to pick Abrams to give the Democrat rebuttal to President Trump’s address. Bruce touted...

A Clinton aide asks why presidents don't learn that full candor is always the best policy Two recent television docudramas suggest lessons for how leaders can level with the public in a time of war. In one, Winston Churchill told citizens the truth about security lapses leading up to World War II. In the other, President Lyndon Johnson-certain that voters would not tolerate bad news from Vietnam-hid the true cost and trajectory of that war. PERHAPS THE BUSH WHITE HOUSE was watching the wrong one. The long-hidden warnings, given to George W. Bush, of possible Al Qaeda hijackings last summer...

The great question of this new century is whether the age of interdependence is going to be good or bad for humanity. The answer depends upon whether we in the wealthy nations spread the benefits and reduce the burdens of the modern world, on whether the poor nations enact the changes necessary to make progress possible, and on whether we all can develop a level of consciousness high enough to understand our obligations and responsibilities to each other. We cannot make it if the poor of the world are led by people like Osama bin Laden who believe they can...