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Oh, we know it well. That big beautiful blue Boeing 747-200B that ferried our beloved President Trump from MAGA rally to MAGA rally as he "whistle-stopped by Air Force One." Crowds of thousands waited patiently in rain and cold, cheering madly as that gleaming big bird approached the airport while RSBN's veteran reporter admitted to getting choked up every time it appeared on the horizon. I know just how he feels. And this is the plane the MSM implied Joseph the Senile flew home to Delaware aboard on Friday. Fiddlesticks! While I fully realize that every plane carrying the person...

If he can’t impeach Donald Trump, he may try to oust the president the old-fashioned way. Former billionaire investor, climate activist and impeachment agitator Tom Steyer will take several steps toward a 2020 presidential bid Tuesday. That will include a six-figure web ad buy on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Instagram, along with a full-page ad in USA Today and other Gannett newspapers outlining a political platform, a revamped TomSteyer.com and the announcement of five town halls across the country, the first of which will be in the crucial early primary state of South Carolina, according to copies of the ad...

CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday weighed in on the Trump-Kim summit arguing that other presidents did not meet with North Korean leaders to avoid giving their dictatorships “prestige.” “It's not as if other presidents couldn't have done this,” Tapper said of Trump's historic meeting with the North Korean leader. “It's that they didn't want to.” Tapper, the host of CNN shows “The Lead” and “State of the Union,” prefaced his comments that past presidents decided not to meet for direct talks with North Korea because “the concern was, you don't want to give North Korea that kind of prestige.” “You...

I knew going into my 30-day experiment of living with a gun that I was putting my family and myself at risk. Only two days into my experiment I went to breakfast with my two kids and some friends. After eating and shopping, my gun with me the entire time, I was anxious to get home to enjoy the warm weather. I put my purse on the counter and then spent the next hour out on the back deck. Walking into the kitchen to refresh our drinks, I noticed my purse with the 9mm Glock still inside it. I’d forgotten...

That DHS right wing terrorist memo was no accident. Verum Serum dug this up from a Wolf Blitzer interview last month with Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano: BLITZER: And so do you still consider the United States be engaged in the war on terror? NAPOLITANO: I consider the United States, yes, to be very engaged in and working with our international partners and others in preventing terrorist acts from occurring. BLITZER: Is it a bigger threat from your perspective and other [ed. - another?] al Qaeda and foreign related terror attack against the United States or domestic terrorism along...

John McCain is a liar and flip-flopper and panderer and bully and whiner. And it seems to be workingWhen people start running to be president, we learn new things about them. The amount and intensity of exposure – the fact that suddenly we are subjected to their thinking on every conceivable issue and non-issue – makes this inevitable. As a result of this our opinions change. We either like them more or less than at the beginning, but rarely in just the same measure. I've been surprised at how much less I like John McCain than I did a year...

When it comes to vice presidential picks, there have been some good ones and some not so good ones. CNN asked conservative historian Lee Edwards to rank the VP choices since the 1950s. [Snip] Coming in at No. 4 is Richard Nixon. He was Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower's running mate. Nixon brought with him youth -- and California. The former senator also had other assets that became huge liabilities when he later ended up in the White House. "Richard Nixon was known as the man who would cut and slash the opposition, and so that kind of dirty politics work...

Arabs and Muslims support Barak Hussein Obama for Presidency of the United States after George Bush. He will certainly be better than that ignorant fool who was appointed president the first time, and stole the presidency the second time. I claim that I, or any of my readers, am a better president for the US than the current president. For any successor to George Bush in the White House to be better than him "goes without saying". However, I cannot yet assert that Arabs and Muslims will not be disappointed with the new president, as they were with the current...

Prominent journalist Seymour Hersh exposes details of a plan considered by US Vice President Dick Cheney on how to provoke war with Iran. "There was a dozen ideas proffered about how to trigger a war [with Iran]," Hersh said recently in reference to the subject of discussion at a meeting held at Cheney's office. In a July article published in the New Yorker, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist revealed information about covert US operations carried out in Iran. He did not disclose the content of the talks with Cheney in his article. In a recent interview with Think Progress, however,...

August 01, 2008 So Much for St. John By Eugene Robinson WASHINGTON -- It's awfully early for John McCain to be running such a desperate, ugly campaign against Barack Obama. But I guess it's useful for Democrats to get a reminder that the Republican Party plays presidential politics by the same moral code that guided the bad-boy Oakland Raiders in their heyday: "Just win, baby." The latest bit of snarling, mean-spirited nonsense to come out of the McCain camp was the accusation, leveled by campaign manager Rick Davis, that Obama had "played the race card." He did so, apparently, by...

WASHINGTON - The United States can defeat al-Qaida if it relies less on force and more on policing and intelligence to root out the terror group's leaders, a new study contends. [snip] "Terrorists should be perceived and described as criminals, not holy warriors, and our analysis suggests there is no battlefield solution to terrorism," said Seth Jones, the lead author of the study and a Rand political scientist.

WASHINGTON -- Let's put aside the possible comparisons of Barack Obama on his foreign trip -- a true "tour de force," as one of the breathless headlines put it -- to Caesar marching down to Rome. We'll stop ourselves from calling him a modern-day Alexander the Great, Marco Polo or, merely, John F. Kennedy. But even without the hyperbole, we can say that the Democratic presumptive presidential candidate had a wildly successful trip. From making a basket in Kuwait with our troops, to dramatically posing for pictures before the Temple of Hercules outside Amman in Jordan, to giving a rousing...

It made no sense when Barack Obama left the country on his nine-day overseas tour for some of my fellow columnists to describe it as a high-risk venture. Foreign leaders, who can read the polls as well as anyone, would go out of their way not to embarrass a man who may, six months from now, be president of the United States. Obama prepares thoroughly for the big occasions. He is almost always well-briefed, and he was traveling in sharp company — with Sens. Jack Reed and Chuck Hagel — so you knew he would be thoroughly ready for these...

Barack Obama has begun, finally and reasonably firmly, to clarify his stance regarding the scope and character of the ongoing U.S. role in Iraq. In so doing, the senator from Illinois has imposed clarity on a race for the presidency that, while it certainly is not a single-issue contest, will always at its fundamental level be about whether America is going to elect a president who plans to end the war or one who intends to manage it. The presumptive Democratic nominee for president says that on his first day in office he will begin the process of extracting U.S....

It is unlikely that a Nobel laureate, Oscar winner and former vice president of the United States would return to the nuts and bolts of the federal bureaucracy, but it is obvious who Barack Obama or John McCain should make either energy secretary or administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. Given the impact each agency has on the other, they could hand both over to Al Gore so the nation has a shot at a coherent energy and environmental policy. Last week, Gore called for an effort akin to President Kennedy's mission to put a man on the moon to...

My new book White Protestant Nation: The Rise of the American Conservative Movement places conservatism within the big picture of modern American history. The book traces the origins of modern conservatism to the 1920s. It explains why conservativism triumphed in the late twentieth century and why it is has fallen into disarray under the leadership of President George W. Bush. The review of my book in the New York Times by former George W. Bush speechwriter David Frum shows that at least some diehard defenders of the Bush administration do not wish to enter into in a serious conversation about...

My previous commentaries on Barack Obama's candidature for the presidency of the United States have made it clear that I am sceptical about his winning. I am now even more sceptical despite his de facto defeat of Hillary Clinton for the nomination of the Democratic Party. Sir Ronald Sanders This is not because I don't want him to win. I firmly believe that his election as US president could make for a stronger America both within its own borders and in the world. For, if Obama wins, it will be because a majority of white people joined black people in...

"There are no short-term answers. And I know that there's going to be long-term pain. I predict to you that gas prices will be as much as $5 before the end of this year and they will go to $6 at some point next year," he said during an interview with reporters and editorial writers at the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. "When they go to $6 it will fluctuate between $5 and $6 and more for some time to come. That's the harsh reality no matter what law we pass," he said. "I get tired of hearing people, politicians, friends of...

When the Republicans choose their candidate on September 4th, there is a very real chance that they could throw the election into an unexpected chaos as they pull a genuine September Surprise. I think there is every reason to believe John McCain won't be the nominee. Ok, let me say that again. McCain will not be the Republican candidate in November. Here's how it could happen: At some point in mid August, John McCain will announce that he has decided that he can not accept his party's nomination for president. The reason will be health-related, and that may turn out...

The de-racialization of US politics has implications that go far beyond the possibility that we’re about to elect an African-American president. Fervent supporters of Barack Obama like to say that putting him in the White House would transform America. With all due respect to the candidate, that gets it backward. Mr. Obama is an impressive speaker who has run a brilliant campaign -- but if he wins in November, it will be because our country has already been transformed. Mr. Obama’s nomination wouldn’t have been possible 20 years ago. It’s possible today only because racial division, which has driven US...