Headlines

White House prepares to brief lawmakers on Iranian leader’s killing

Wall Street market analyst see ‘developing Iranian conflict’ leading to deeper market sell-off

Pelosi: House to vote on limiting Trump actions

Iran formally announces it will continue violating the nuclear deal

Julian Castro endorses Warren for president

Defense stocks double S&P 500’s return six months after Middle East turmoil, history shows

Judge Judy will join Bloomberg on trail ...

AOC: Biden and I would not be in the same party in any other country

John Bolton willing to testify in Trump’s impeachment trial

Donald Trump Jr. shows off rifle magazine that shows Hillary Clinton behind bars, crusader cross

More pump: Fed adds $76.5 million in overnight money to markets ...

Bloomberg: ‘Outrageous’ to call Soleimani death an ‘assasination’

I See BM

Acid Test

There is a clear acid test to differentiate the foreign policies of Obama and Trump ... and that is now occurring in Iran. There, demonstrations are getting more deadly every day. What started as economic protests have blossomed into full-throated anti-mullah uprisings. The Iran government is a very repressive anti-American and anti-Israel theocracy ... trying to establish Shiite hegemony throughout the Sunni Middle East. However, Trump-style populism is even creeping into Tehran ... causing distrust of its leadership. The Persian government there is even forced now to augment its police and special forces with Gaza and Hezbollah Arabs.

When the Green Revolution took place after disputed elections in Iran back in 2009, President Obama turned his back on this infant insurrection ... and it died as did many of its supporters. Obama then went on to suck up to Iran's despotic mullahs by negotiating a horrible one-sided nuclear pact that gave Iran back $150  billion in frozen assets and an easy path to atomic weaponry ... as well as some other goodies ... Obama's $1.7 billion cash ransoming of American prisoners, his secret letters to the mullahs, his allowing the humiliation of U.S. sailors and his calling off the drug-enforcement dogs from Iran-backed Hezbollah ... all to placate, for some mysterious reason, a major sponsor of Islamic terrorism.

In opposition to what many consider to be capitulation on Obama's part, Trump is vigorously supporting these recent protests by the Iranian populus ... a populus that generally supports America. Trump has tweeted his enthusiastic endorsement of these mew Iranian insurgents ... saying the 'time has come' for these thuggish mullahs to be overthrown. Hopefully other nations will fall in line behind Trump.

So, the acid test now presents itself ... is Trump right to go with the Iranian populus ... or was Obama's mullah boot-licking the right policy? We should know the answer within Trump's first term in office.

Plain Talk

The Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Ron Dermer, was interviewed on Morning Joe this  morning to talk about President Trump's decision to decertify the Iran nuclear deal. He kept the panelists there stippling their coffee with the strength and clarity of his arguments. If you, dear reader, think that Trump is wrong with this decertification move, please listen to the ambassador's plain talk and try to refute his logic.

Listen to the interview: MSNBC Video.

Headlines

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Trump: 'I disavow alt-right groups'

Politico editor RESIGNS after publishing home addresses of alt-right icon Richard Spencer, advocating 'baseball bats'

Iran warns of retaliation if USA breaches nuclear deal ...

Mom: Bus driver asked children: 'Who's ready to die?

Australian population grows solely due to new migrants

HUD has no answer as to why its financial books are worthless

Top 0.7% of world's population controls $116.6T of wealth

Schweizer: Letting Hillary off hook 'definition of rigged system'

Clinton campaign may challenge election

Winning: Pentagon to end 'gun-free zones' on military bases

Kim Jong-un pens nine page letter to Trump listing grievances

Satellite abandoned in 1967 mysteriously comes back online ...

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Scanning software deciphers ancient Biblical scroll

School allows boy to run for Homecoming Queen after appeal

Trump vows to drive down college costs

60% of voters believe that Iran has already or will cheat on nuclear deal

Kim Kardashian rethinking Clinton endorsement ...

Tulsa cop charged in shooting

Pythons extend their grip on parts of South Florida

Clinton IT employee held in contempt of Congress

Clinton gives nod to Sanders with 65% top estate tax rate

Charlotte riots: 70% arrested have out-of-state IDs ...

New Black Panther Chair: 'Ain't no fun when the rabbit has the gun'

Clinton demands a step-stool at debate podium to add height ...

Sad if True

Lemmings

A Washington Post/ABC news poll indicates that, by close to a 2 to 1 margin, Americans think that the nuclear deal taking shape with Iran is a good thing ... see: Washington Post Article. Although there are a few bright spots in these poll results (almost 60% feel that such a deal won't prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon), the poll shows why the Obama administration is hell-bent on this bit of insane appeasement. Fortunately, Congress seems not quite so lemming-like.

Teddy Roosevelt claimed that the president has a "bully pulpit" to get his ideas across. Can we revise this thought just a bit?  Apparently, the president can also bully the American people into sealing their own sad fate.

For a much more rational assessment of these negotiations, read Paul Mirengoff's thoughts in the Powerline Blog.

God, I hope we walk away from this insanity ... even though John Kerry is beseeching a different almighty for a different result ... see: The Gateway Pundit.

Scrambled Eggs

The United States' policy in the Middle East is a plate of scrambled eggs. We have been launching air strikes against the ISIS powers (partly Sunni Muslims) in Tikrit, Iraq along side the Iranian-backed Shia Muslim militias ... which were not gaining an edge and are now pulling back ... see: Powerline Blog Comments. In Yemen we are encouraging the Saudis (Sunnis) to attack the Iranian-backed Houthi Shia rebels with both air power and soon possibly with ground troops ... see: Al Jazeera Story. So we are helping Iran with one hand while slapping it down with the other.

The situation is somewhat duplicated in Libya where Egypt (Sunni) is bombing the ISIS forces there ... see: BBC Story. Simultaneously, we are grabbing our ankles in order to close the nuclear deal with Shia Iran. What a mishmash!

And all the while, President Obama (a Shia sympathiser IMHO) is playing golf in Florida ... see: Washington Times Story.