No! No! and No!

Obama’s last Secretary of State, John F. Kerry, has a bit of a horse face ... which is appropriate considering he is a horse’s nether end. During his sad tenure his appeasement and payoff of Iran, his humiliation of Israel, his fake pushback against ISIS, his coddling of Palestinian terrorists ... almost everything he did in the Obama Cabinet was wrong ... clodishy wrong.

As an example of his ineptness the above video displays how very wrongheaded he was about the possibility of Mideast peace without first achieving a Palestinian two-state solution with Israel.

Given what Trump has recently accomplished with the Abraham Accords, accomplishing peace between Israel, Bahrain and the UAE, one would think Mr. Ed would slink back to his stable ... his face a bright red for flubbing his “hard reality.”


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Headlines

Romney supports holding a vote on next Supreme Court nominee

Billionaire media mogul Haim Saban ramps up support for Biden and Democrats in Senate races

No cash needed: Iran says it’s willing to exchange all prisoners with U.S.

WI ruling: Ballots will be counted without definitive postmarks

Poll: Biden tied withTrump in Georgia

Coronavirus live updates: Europe turns to curfews, army to slow spread; Lowe’s unveils contactless lockers

Florida Governor unveils legislation making rioting a third-degree felony

CNN Lemon: ‘We’re gonna have to blow up the entire system’

Bloomberg, others rack up $20 million to register Florida felon after time served

Existing home sales jump to 14-year high, as prices set another record

NYPD officer and Army reservist charged with acting as illegal agent[s] of China

Collins proposes Const. Amendment to prohibit ‘threat of the moment’ SCOTUS packing

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Headlines

Ginsberg’s death gives GOP an edge in 2020 legal fights

Trump to pick nominee to fill Ginsberg Supreme Court seat this week and the candidate will be a woman

Because the first one went so well, Pelosi floats Impeachment 2.0

Iran vows revenge for Solemani killing

Pelosi: No one has ‘any interest’ in government shutdown

Trump agrees to TikTok deal with Oracle and Walmart, allowing app’s U.S. operations to continue

Judge halts Trump’s ban on downloads of China’s WeChat

Sweden spared surge in virus cases

Former British cyber chief warns of Chinese data grab

Biden maintains 8 point national lead over Trump after tumultuous month of news

Dems threaten to pack the Supreme Court if GOP votes on RBG replacement

Moroccans make up nearly 25% of all juvenile inmates in Spain


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Headlines

Democrats build big edge in early voting

Just 14% of workers trust their CEOs as they return to the workplace

Five alleged 9/11 co-conspirators could go on trial next year after countless delays

 Poll: Likely voters disapprove of BLM protests

‘We’ll put them down very quickly’: Trump threatens to quash election night riots

Fraternities blamed for campus coronavirus outbreaks as universities struggle to resume classes

Trump won’t give more time for TikTok owner to find buyer for U.S. operations

Biden admits ‘USMCA better than NAFTA’

NIH director: ‘I’m pretty puzzled and rather disheartened’ by Trump rallies

Dr. Scott Gottlieb blames early virus testing failures for making March lockdown the only choice

Iran runs online disinformation campaign to boost Biden

Salvani physically attacked by leftist migrant in Tuscany


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Why?

A whole lot of people disliked President Obama ... for his apology tour, for his fake war against ISIS and the Taliban, for his stoking of our racial division, for his kowtowing to China and Russia, for his crony capitalism, for his pissing on Israel, for his funding Iran’s terrorism and nuclear ambitions, for his spending a trillion dollars on non “shovel-ready jobs,” for his attempt to kill our fossil-fuel industry, for his hollowing out of our military, for his attempt to take down his duly-elected successor, for his increasing our medical costs while reducing its quality, for his over regulation, for his multiple disruptions to our social norms, for his lackluster economic policies and for his general inatentiveness to his country’s progress.

Yet, we never ratched up our animus to anywhere near the white-hot hatred which has been directed toward the Orangeman by the left and the media (but I repeat myself) ... so, the question insists itself ... why?

Can you, kind readers, who find yourselves among the never-Trumpers, come up with a list of policy miscues for Trump that is anywhere near those posted above?

Again,, why the disparate hatred?


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Just My Opinion

I hear many say that the people of Iran are good. ... it is just their leaders who are evil. Well, as much as I would like to concur with that rationalization, I can’t. The people of Iran have by their once vote and by their continued complacency allowed their country to become what it is today ... the world’s chief sponsor of terrorism. This is just like the people of North Korea, Russia, Cuba, China, Venezuela, Chicago, New York, Portland and many others have made their corrupt beds and now unhappily are tucked into them.

If a citizenry allows idiot dictators to rule them, then they deserve being pariahs. And yes, dear reader ... anticipating some of your snarky comments ... if I sense that Donald Trump is taking America in an autocratic direction, I will not be an accomplice in such a degradation. And although Trump’s enemies ... including the pipsqueak press and some of you, kind readers, do so avow ... I have yet to sense such a turn.

If such a circumstance presents itself ... and I am sensitive to this possibility because of all the feral abuse that he has suffered, it could be a predictable reaction ... I still will raise my pen in protest.

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Today’s Poser

How come ‘virtually’ all the speakers at the Democrat Nomination Convention have not touched on our China challenge, the riots in our streets, “redirecting”  police funding, soaring US crime rates, homelessness in blue cities, Middle East peace progress, ISIS destruction, Iran sanctions, the Afghanistan pullout and our military’s rebuilding? All that we have heard is how evil Trump is ... and what a visionary Biden is.  Are none of these other things worth talking about?


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Headlines

Trump administration piles more restrictions on Huawei

Trump makes another attempt to blame Amazon for post office problems

Legal experts say NY AG’s attempt to dissolve NRA will probably fail

Online trolls mock president over death of brother, Robert Trump

New Zealand delays election after virus outbreak in Auckland

Home builder sentiment jumps to record high, but lumber prices could hit momentum

U.S. Intel says Iran paid Taliban bounties to target U.S. troops

Newsweek apologized for op-Ed about Kamala Harris’s elegibility

Japan’s economy shrinks at record rate, slammed by pandemic

Belarus’ president remains defiant despite massive protests, NATO ‘closely monitoring’ situation

Pelosi calls House back to ‘save the USPS’

CNN poll: Biden lead shrinks with double-digit shift to Trump

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Election Interference

The U.S. intelligence community is warning Congress and the American people that Russia would like to see Trump re-elected and may be planning to interfere to this end. And they also say that China and Iran hope Biden will prevail and may be taking covert actions to this end ... see: CNBC Story.

Dear reader, these both seem to be logical conclusions although I have yet to hear of any specific Russian election chicanery ... but the Democrats do have operatives with vivid imaginations ... and I am sure we will soon be supplied with sensational details. (Perhaps the Dems have gone to this Ruskie well once too often?)

Yes, the specifics of what Russia might do or is doing are rather vague ... perhaps some more Facebook ads or another peepee dossier? However, we already have compelling evidence of China’s massive election interference on behalf of Sleepy Joe — it unleashed coronavirus on us and the world to destroy our economies ... the very best way to defeat incumbents!

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Headlines

Pompeo claims he didn’t  interact significantly with ousted Ukraine Ambassador, Marie Yovanovitch

Trump suggests delaying election amid fraud claims, but he has no power to do so

Senate investigators target CIA, State records in expansion of Russian probe

Daily Caller experienced Google suppression, says EIC

Ruth Bader Ginsberg undergoes medical procedure [stent] at hospital

Former GOP presidential candidate, Herman Caine, dies after battle with coronavirus

1.43 million filed for [unemployment] benefits last week

Twitter under fire for flagging Trump posts but not Iran Ayatollah

U.S. suffers worse quarterly contraction on record as virus ravages economy

Congress has the goods on Apple, Amazon, Facebook and Google

Additional 26 million Americans likely to qualify for round 2.0 of stimulus checks

Poll: Trump narrows gap in battleground states


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Spook Stuff

There has been a kinetic aspect added to the Trump-Iranian standoff ... a continuing series of explosions and/or bombings at Iran strategic facilities. Is it Israel? Is it Saudi Arabia? Or is it the United States? 

Well a podcast offered through the Powerline blog ... featuring the former head of Israel’s military intelligence ... does not answer these questions directly ... but it does offer broad hints. Take a listen by activating the podcast within this link: Powerline Reference ... it’s fascinating!


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Headlines

Vaccine makers’ ‘no profit’ pledge stirs doubts in Congress

U.S. carries out 1st execution in 17 years after Supreme Court clears the way

California governor orders widespread closures of indoor activities

Poll: 35% of Americans ‘comfortable’ returning to normal

Biden signals openness to eliminating Senate filibuster

Schools have low coronavirus infection rate, German study finds

NYC sees 17 shootings Monday — ‘astronomical’ for a weekday

Cuomo: Trump ‘COVID scandal’ makes ‘Watergate look innocent’

Iran executes Defense Ministry staffer as alleged CIA spy

Coronavirus updates: Pandemic roils corporate earnings, 3M developing rapid antigen test

Britain bans China’s Huawei from 5G network

Fauci downplays lower coronavirus death rate as ‘false narrative’

Headlines

Schiff: Supporters of rule of law ‘nauseated’ at Trump letting Roger Stone go free

Florida reports more than 15,000 new coronavirus cases, shattering record

Coronavirus expert predicts Americans will be wearing masks ‘for several years’

Mitt Romney on Trump commuting Stone’s sentence: ‘Historic corruption’

HHS testing chief: We do expect deaths to go up

Election officials fear voting changes will confuse voters in November

Trump, Pence both have higher favorability ratings than Congressional leaders

Rifle seized from St. Louis couple who defended home with guns

Iran blames errors for [Ukrainian] jet shoot down

Mueller speaks out on Stone clemency: ‘He remains a convicted felon, and rightly so’

Portland is a war zone: Driver shoots his way out of danger as rioters surrounded car

PA Democrat calls to remove Gettysburg‘s Confederate statues

Headlines

POLITICO’s election forecast: Trump, GOP Senate in trouble

Trump administration releases list of companies that received most money from small business loans

Soros set to double 2016 election spending this year

Nike won’t sell [Redskins] team gear until name changes

Federal judge orders Dakota Access pipeline to close

Electoral College voters can be forced to back state popular vote winners, Supreme Court says

Chinese firm removes Hunter Biden from board on company website, but he still owns 10% of company

Hundreds return to protest outside armed couple’s home in St. Louis

Trump criticizes NASCAR ban on Confederate flags, attacks black driver

Coronavirus hospitalizations grow in more than 20 states as Texas admissions soar to new record

Niagara Falls - area becomes ground zero of maijuana smuggling

Israel blew up nuclear site in Iran, official tells New York Times

Headlines

Voters in deep-red Oklahoma weigh Medicaid expansion as virus cases soar

Top CEOs see business impact from coronavirus lingering through 2021

LOL, Iran issues arrest warrant for Trump over death of Soleimani

Supreme Court strikes down abortion safety law

Schumer, Pelosi to McConnell: Move on coronavirus relief

NY malls can’t open without air systems that filter coronavirus, Cuomo says

Oklahoma DA hits rioters with terrorism charges — ‘This is not Seattle’

New Jersey Democrats charged with mail-in voter fraud

House Dems propose strengthening Congress’ contempt powers to break administration’s stonewalls

Supreme Court leaves CFBP standing, but backs president’s ability to fire director

One dead and another critical after ANOTHER CHAZ/CHOP shooting

Over 60 shot, 16 killed, during weekend in Mayor Lightfoot’s Chicago

An Apt Comparison

Like clockwork, the New York Times has reported that Russia had bribed Afghans to kill American soldiers ... and President Trump ignored this intelligence and still wanted to invite Putin to the G-7 meeting this week ... all to compound the Orangeman’s recent poll slippage.

Like most Times stories, we don’t and probably can’t know if this reportage is true.

But, this sniper attack invites a partisan comparison ... OK? Now it was well verified that many of the IEDs that were used in Iraq to kill and maim thousands of American soldiers were made in Iran and supplied to the Iraqi insurgents. Sooo, how did the Obama regime respond to this Iranian evil? Well, as far as I remember, they negotiated a sham nuclear pact that gave Iran $150 billion in bank transfers ... and $1.8 billion in hard cash ... a bit more than a meeting invitation.

Did the Gray Lady draw a similar tut-tut back when Iran was killing Americans?

You know the answer.

Why Trump Won

- He is genuine in thought and action

- He is a patriot and loves his country

- He identified many issues* that were being ignored by our betters

- He promised to fix them ... and the voters believed him

- He said he would make America great again

- He knew that Washington was corrupt to the core

- And promised to “drain this swamp”

- He identified our fake media ... something that many suspected

- He wasn’t Hillary

* uncontrolled immigration, unfair trading pacts, anemic economic growth, Chinese hegemony, pointless international nation building, tolerance of terrorism at home and abroad, NATO slackers, climate change hoax, Obamacare disaster, liberal courts, insane Iran nuclear deal, North Korea nuclear and missile problems

Headlines

Broken windows and Molotov cocktail: DOJ finds creative ways into local rioting cases

Manhattan U.S. Attorney Berman refuses to leave after Trump says SEC chief Clayton will replace him

One dead and another wounded from shooting in CHAZ/CHOP

Black Lives Matter co-founder: ‘Our goal is to get Trump out’

Fox News poll: Voters say campaign rallies are a bad idea

The stock market might be pricey, but it is nothing like the genuine market bubbles of the past

Rioters in California tear down statue of Francis Scott Key, composer of The Star Spangled Banner

Poll: 8-in-10 have ‘favorable’ view of people who wear masks

Trump rejects Fauci’s warning about football’s return

Judge denies Trump administration’s attempt to block John Bolton’s book

Iran unsuprisingly found to be engaging in secret nuclear work

Barr: I would have preferred grand jury, completed investigation in Brooks case

Cold Hard Reality

 

Barack Obama was a corrupt, pro-Muslim, pro-China, pro-Russia, pro-Iran, anti-American, Reggie Love-loving president ... whose major talent was reading a TelePrompter with conviction.

Headlines

NCAA proposes letting college athletes get paid for endorsements

US GDP shrank 4.8% during the first quarter amid biggest contraction since the financial crisis

U.S. deaths 58,611 ...

Poll: Trump net approval on coronavirus response hits new low

Gilead says remdesivir data shows encouraging signs against coronavirus

Pending home sales shrank nearly 21% in March, but Realtors claim prices will hold up

Medication shortages next crisis ...

Report: FoxNews severs ties with Diamond & Silk

‘Criminal incompetence’: Outrage after de Blasio breaks up crowded Orthodox Jewish funeral

Coronavirus testing chief says ‘no way on Earth’ US can test 5 million a day

Despite McConnell comment, states can’t go bankrupt, only default ...

Iran warns U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf: Get ready for a ‘hand slap in the face’