Immigrants and others flood into formerly-Republican suburbs, a churn that turns red to blue. If demography is destiny, what can the GOP do? The New York Times profiles a typical voter who came here with Republican values, but turned to Democrats thanks to President Trump’s rhetoric about immigrants.
Former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg getting into the presidential race would be a gift to Democrats, America and the world, according to Bret Stephens in The New York Times. Could the billionaire whom Trump calls “Little Michael” neutralize the president’s massive fundraising advantage, as well as some GOP critiques of Democrats, because Bloomberg reportedly doesn’t hate America, hate Israel or hate cops?
The North Bristol Trust, a British health care provider, says doctors can withhold care from patients it determines to be racists or sexists, based on their public statements. When you give power of attorney to the government, don’t be surprised if funding for your line item gets redistributed to a better sort of person.
Fox News panel explodes when Steve Hilton accuses former State Department spokesman Marie Harf of covering up the link between Secretary of State John Kerry’s chief of staff and Burisma, the Ukraine energy firm that paid Hunter Biden $50,000/month for his lack of expertise.
The Justice Department tries to force a book publisher to reveal the Anonymous author of last year’s “resistance” op-ed in the New York Times before “A Warning” from the unknown senior administration official comes out on November 19.
The New York Times polls battleground states like Pennsylvania, Michigan and Florida and finds President Donald Trump beating leading Democrats Joe Biden, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders — despite Trump’s punishing disapproval rating, and other polls that show him trailing nationwide.
Now it looks like a big win for ISIS, but what can President Trump do after the U.S. pull-out from Northeast Syria? The loss of intel on the ground from our abandoned Kurdish allies, the release/escape of terrorist prisoners, and the perception of U.S. apathy, creates conditions for an Islamic State revival. Is there a U.S. position somewhere between warmongering and isolationism?
Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis makes jokes that react to President Trump’s general insults to Gen. Mattis as “the world’s most overrated general.”
North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un rides a white horse on Mt. Paektu (aka Baekdu), the holy mountain of his grandfather Kim Il-Sung, in advance of “a great operation to strike the world with wonder again and make a step forward in the Korean revolution,” according to official news coverage.
Democrat presidential candidate Joe Biden says his White House will follow the “squeaky clean transparent” model of the Obama administration. This, just hours after Hunter Biden bails from board of financial firm in China.
As Turkish troops roll into Northern Syria, attacking the Kurds, erstwhile U.S. alllies in the fight against ISIS, did President Trump’s chaotic approach to the growing conflict invite Turk aggression? Can you support President Trump, but oppose his approach to this conflict?
David Wasserman of Cook Political Report says a significant number of Republican House Members would vote to impeach President Trump if their ballots were secret. In private conversations, Wasserman says, some GOP lawmakers confess Trump is “wildly unfit to be president.”
President Trump’s former National Security Adviser, John Bolton, says Trump’s dealings with North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un benefit Mr. Kim more than the U.S.. In his first public remarks outside the White House, Politico reports that Bolton thinks the Trump focus on high-profile summits rewards Kim, but that North Korea will never honor any nuke deal.
Shay Assad gets forced into retirement from the Pentagon after saving taxpayers billions of dollars through shrewd negotiation. A reformer who proposed ways to catch defective pricing, and to hold defense contractors accountable for performance when issuing progress payments, Assad suddenly fell out of favor after years of award-winning performance. Donald Trump ran for office promising to drain the swamp. Why not drain THIS swamp?
