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On Sunday morning, October 27, 2019, President Trump formally announced that U.S. Special Operating Forces seized the compound of ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, who detonated an explosive vest rather than be captured. Baghdadi was among the world’s most dangerous and evil individuals whose death makes us all a little safer. As leader of ISIS, he was responsible for kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering civilians as well as insidious ethnic cleansing and other atrocities. It may normally be bad form to cheer the death of a person, but this mission was a huge success and cause for celebration. It ...
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Trump Fails with Oval Office Wall Address
Last night on “The Booth” we discussed the ongoing government shutdown and President Trump’s border wall demands. Our discussion included predictions for his Oval Office address shortly following our show. Unfortunately, we were right, and Trump utterly failed to make his case. Historically and with little exception Presidents have requested time from the networks and news media outlets to address the nation from the Oval Office in order to address a bona fide crisis or critical issue of national importance. They get the air time and the American people tune in because they trust their leaders when they say ...
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State of Confusion – The Democrats’ Perilous Primary of 2020
As of today, April 9, 2019, seventeen candidates have declared for the Democratic Party nomination to run against Donald Trump for President in 2020. Four to eight more candidates are expected to announce in the coming weeks, and there is speculation the field may grow to thirty! Such a large field is untenable and counter-productive. It would be virtually impossible for voters to truly get to know and assess the candidates and for the candidates to get out their message. The Republicans had a field of seventeen in 2016, with demonstrable challenges to an effective primary campaign. Legally ...
Read More »War on Christmas?
Here we are in December. Christmas is right around the corner – the trees are decorated, the lights are strung, and the carols are playing. And if it is December, we are again hearing false claims of a “war on Christmas.” Put bluntly, it is a ludicrous notion. There is not a single person in our great and free country that is not able to celebrate Christmas (or any of the other seasonal holidays). Every family in the country is free to gather in their homes and churches, pray however they desire, sing carols at home or in the community, ...
Read More »Asia or Bust
I waited after President Trump returned from Asia before writing this piece to try and see what came from the trip. I wanted the trip to be successful. Whenever the President, regardless of party, regardless of how we voted, regardless of how we view his performance, travels abroad we need him to be successful. Domestic politics goes aside during these trips because so much is at stake and it is about our country as a whole: National security, nuclear weapons, fair trade, the environment, etc. I watched coverage of the trip and hoped there was real substance beneath all the ...
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