Headlines

Hurricane pounds Bahamas with record fury

President Trump ordered US firms to ditch China, but many already have and more are on the way

Mandatory evacuations ordered for Palm Beach, including Mar-a-Largo ...

GOP Sen, Scott criticizes Trump’s Puerto Rico tweets

German far right surges in eastern elections

Death toll rises to 7 in West Texas shooting rampage

Hezbollah fires anti-tank missiles toward northern Israel ...

Report: Terminated alleged West Wing leaker trashed Ivanka, Tiffany

Hong Kong burns during another weekend of violence

Trump says trade talks still planned for September after China tariffs take effect

Bernie plans to cancel all medical debt!

Study: No single ‘gay gene’

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Tillerson says he plans 'to be here for the whole year'

House committee receives Fusion GPS bank records

Bannon leaks more Trump dirt to NYT ...

Report: Hezbollah chief claims Iran pays him $1300 monthly salary

Tillerson denies questioning Trump's 'mental fitness'

Trump dossier author referred to FBI for criminal investigation

$18 billion [over 10 years] sought to expand [Mexican] border wall ...

Iran has arrested 'at least 1,000' protesters

Roy Moore's accuser's home burns down in possible arson

Trump book author says his revelations will bring down the US president

ADHD drug tied to heart defects in babies ...

China caps oil supplies to Notth Korea, bans steel imports

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.

Headlines

Sessions orders review of abandoned Hezbollah-linked drug prosecutions

9th Circuit deals another blow to Trump's travel ban

Mattis: 'Storm clouds gathering' over Korean peninsula ...

FBI arrests man for planning [Frisco] Christmas jihadi attack with truck, guns, bomb

Democrats block dozens of Trump nominees

Trump approves weapons sales to Ukraine, Russian collusion theorists hardest hit

NBA enjoys ratings renaissance as NFL flounders ...

Winning: Consumer sentiment highest since 2000

Cochran's future in the Senate in doubt

Bitcoin plunges as low as $10,400 in volatile trading on Coinbase: now sown 27 percent from record

Rasmussen: [Trump] Approval 44% ...

Trump: $7 trillion 'foolishly' spent in the Middle East

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[Sen.] Franken urged to reverse his resignation

The secret backstory of how Obama let Hezbollah off the hook [for Iran deal]

Poll shows nation divided between American first and blame America

CONDE NAST yo announce layoffs after facing terrible year ...

California legislature plans to pass its own net neutrality

Trump: McCain has returned to Arizona

Trump says he is not thinking about firing Mueller

Deems hold biggest lead in congressional preference since '08 ...

Revealed: Pentagon's secret UFO-hunting program

Putin thanks Trump for sharing intelligence that stopped bombings in Russia

Power outage at Atlanta airport, the world's busiest, grounds hundreds of flights

DisneyFox films controlled 92% of weekend boxoffice ...

Poll: 2/3 of Americans believe Jesus was born to a virgin

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which ones from Politico?

Trump: 'Loser terrorists' responsible for London explosion 'were in the sights of Scotland Yard'

Trump is a terrible negotiator

NAVY investigating if cyberattacks caused USS McCain crash ...

Tunisia ends ban on non-Muslim men marrying Muslim women

Pepsi, Schumer face ire from the left over Dreamer talks

[Breitbart columnist] Ben Shapiro's appearance at Berkeley remains peaceful

Mueller worked for Flynn-linked company not listed on ethics disclosure ...

Report: Iran boosts funding to $800 million for Hezbollah terrorists

Harvard withdraws invitation to Chelsea Manning after backlash

US military believes North Korea has the hydrogen bomb

Maddow interrupts Hillary Clinton interview -- for sneezing panda video ...

Terror arrests in Britain surge 68 per cent to record high

Headlines

All from Internet news sites. Guess which ones from Politico.

Doomsday canceled, NKorea calls off Guam

Republicans stand up to Trump over Charlottesville comments

DOJ Charlottesville hate crime probe will extend beyond driver

Pope warns against 'horoscopes band fortune tellers' ...

Fleas in 2 Arizona counties test positive for the plague

Venezuelan leader may have launched Rubio assassination plot

Why were the police held back in Charlottesville?

China bans key North Korean imports ...

Kuwait arrests 12 for ties to Iran, Hezbollah

McMaster declines to rule out military response to North Korea threats

Senate Intel Chair: Russian probe could end up within months

Assange: 'The last government was evil. This government is evil' ...

Awwww: No one likes Al Gore's new movie

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These headlines are real ... they have all been discovered on Internet news sites.

Twitter purges 'alt-right' accounts ...

Republicans now control record number of state chambers ...

Elon Musk in crosshairs over billions in government subsidies ...

TX oil discovery BIGGEST EVER: $900 billion

CITI to stop accepting cash in branches ...

Team Trump announces five year lobbying ban for administration officials

Hezbollah parade features U.S. armored vehicles ...

Springsteen, De Niro to receive Presidential Medal of Freedom ...

HAWKING: Mankind will be extinct in 1,000 years ...

Three NBA teams boycott Trump hotels

Study: People crave Wi-Fi more than chocolate, sex, alcohol

Jesse Jackson: Obama should pardon Hillary ...

The Escalator

The United States, after an exhaustive study, has reluctantly concluded that Syria leaders have used chemical weapons against their own people … crossing Obama’s “red line.”  Thus the U.S. will now send small arms and ammunition to the rebels there … “satisfying” Presidents Obama’s pronouncement that such actions on Syria’s part would incur “enormous consequences.”  Not to be outdone in this pissing contest, Russia’s Premier Putin has warned Obama not to take such an action.  Meanwhile Saudi Arabia is also providing the Syrian rebels with MANPAD anti-aircraft missiles (however unfortunate the name) … see: France24 Story.

Again upping the ante, Iran is sending 4,000 Revolutionary Guard soldiers to aid Assad in his counter-revolutionary struggle … see: Daily Mail Story …  and Hezbollah has also entered the fray on the side of Assad … see: Huffington Post Story.

This Syrian struggle has clearly now become another proxy war between the East and the West … like so many of the other bloody conflicts over the last seventy years. And it is also another brutal cage match between the various Muslim sects. Moreover, it is rapidly escalating … to a point where things might easily get out of hand.  Clearly, the American public has not the stomach for more involvement in such mayhem and Israel is secretly relishing the possible neutralization of one of its primary enemies … at least for the nonce.

This weekend I drove past a group of about a dozen postered protesters against war … standing in a local church yard.  I somehow doubt that Assad or Putin or Senator John McCain were listening.  Maybe President Obama heard their visual whispers.  Then again, maybe not ... there is this thing called "saving face.".