Headlines

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

Trump's trade pullout roils rural America

Google fires engineer who wrote 'anti-diversity' memo

Miami drops 'sanctuary' for Trump ...

Duterte meets Tillerson: 'I am your humble servant"

Trump: 'Fake news media' won't report on North Korea sanctions

Maxine Waters won't rule out forming an all-black party

GREAT AGAIN: 1.1 million fewer Americans on food stamps ...

Report: Anthony Weiner shunned by Clinton-supporting neighbors

Sessions: DOJ reviewing policies on media subpoenas

Trump tell [Sen.] Brumenthal to take a vacation in Vietnam so he can 'at least say he was there'

USA may start air strikes against ISIS in Philippines ...

Deaths along U.S./Mex border up 17%

Headlines

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Breaking news: Police have arrested three more in connection to Manchester bombing

Trump's hazy views confuse allies ahead of summit...

Former CIA chief testimony: Still no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion

If you bought $100 in Bitcoin 7 years ago, you'd be sitting on $75 million today

Poll: Voters back Russia special prosecutor

DeBlasio on Trump budget: 'Children will die'

White House is very pleased with testimony of [Obama's] intelligence officials

Trump's budget: Long on wishful thinking, short on shared sacrifice

Podesta: 'I see no sign' Trump will be impeached

Dem Sen: Trump's rhetoric could lead to U.S. attack like Manchester

Trump praises Duterte for 'unbelievable job' of stopping drugs in the Philippines

Big game hunter dies when elephant collapses on top of him

Dissing Us

President  Obummer's reception in China at the current G20 summit was, to say the most, shockingly disrespectful. To me, a possible reason for these almost unprecedented diplomatic slights is simple ...  at the top of our president's agenda is his denigrating ... through word and deed ... of the country he represents ... or, to put a shine on his lassitude, "leading from behind." For a deeper analysis of these shameful Chinese reception incidents, see: Powerline Blog.

And we're not just being dissed by China ... Russia, Iran, Cuba, Venezuela, and North Korea openly spit on us at every opportunity. And even many of our former allies, the Philippines, Israel, Brazil, Egypt, and Turkey are crossing the street to avoid tipping their hats to our president ... and thus to the United States.

Why have we become such pariahs to such a wide swath of the world? And all in just eight short years! I've got it! It must be that all these world leaders are, at heart, racists!

Chinese Hegemony

China is flexing its expansionist muscles ... making outrageous claims to large swaths of the South China Sea ... and building artificial islands to reinforce its sea lanes, oil exploration and fishing assertions in this region. All of its Asian neighbors (the Philippines, Vietnam, Malaysia, Brunei, Indonesia) are pushing back and the Philippines just won a important victory in the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague wherein China's claims have been denied ... see: AP Story. Unfortunately this decision in the Netherlands carries no force of real law ... just moral suasion ... and China is not swayed by suasion. This blatant Chinese hegemony presents one of the most serious threats to world peace in quite a few years.

In a related matter, President Obummer, after he returns from his current Black Lives Matter trip, is planning a few rounds of golf and a White House rap concert.

Afterward: See: Chuck Hagel Weighs In On CNBC and Enews: China Rattles Sword.

Climate Change Horsesh.t

An Effect of Climate Change

CNBC has posted a slideshow listing 10 countries predicted to be hit hard by climate change …see: CNBC Story, The countries that they tag are the Philippines, Nigeria, Vietnam, Haiti, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Malawi, Fiji, Sudan, and Japan. The effects of climate change listed by these Chicken Little’s are typhoons, hurricanes, cyclones, sea-level rising, flooding, and droughts as well as (guffaw) volcanoes, landslides, earthquakes and decreased tourism.

When I was younger these events (except for decreased tourism) used to be called natural disasters, acts of God, or even forces majeure. Now, the climate alarmists have co-opted these things, labeling them “climate change,” and blaming them all on that evil gas, carbon dioxide … the very same gas that is the primary reason that life on Earth is possible. Without it, we would not be here. And these yoyos have gotten the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to dub this gas a “pollutant.” Excuse me, but they all need to go back to school and re-study their science.

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