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Apr 23 2018
Opinion
OPINION: Why the U.S. Senate should confirm Mike Pompeo
The world is rife with turmoil, much of it affecting American interests, from the Middle East to Venezuela to the Korean peninsula. All this makes the role of the U.S. State Department even more vital than usual. But for the past 15 months, under Rex Tillerson, it has been handicapped by weak leadership and lack of influence with the White House.
Chicago TribuneMay 17 2016
Opinion
Don't be a sucker for socialism
From the USSR to Venezuela, experience reveals Sanders' policies wouldn't enrich anyone but a ruling elite. It is a common misconception that socialism is about helping poor people. Actually, what socialism does is create poor people, and keep them poor. And that’s not by accident.
Under capitalism, rich people become powerful. But under socialism, powerful people become rich. When you
Guest Writer - RightSep 21 2021
News
Trump Campaign Knew Lawyers’ Voting Machine Claims Were Baseless, Memo Shows
Two weeks after the 2020 election, a team of lawyers closely allied with Donald J. Trump held a widely watched news conference at the Republican Party’s headquarters in Washington. At the event, they laid out a bizarre conspiracy theory claiming that a voting machine company had worked with an election software firm, the financier George Soros and Venezuela to steal the presidential contest
New York Times (News)Jun 20 2016
News
Legendary Baseball Announcer Vin Scully Dismantles Socialism in 20 Seconds During Live Broadcast
Veteran baseball announcer Vin Scully is known for some of the most memorable calls in sports history — Kirk Gibson’s game-winning homer in the 1988 World Series, Bill Buckner’s infamous error to let the New York Mets stay alive in the 1986 Fall Classic, to name a few.
But on Friday night, the Los Angeles Dodgers’ veteran announcer, who’s in his 67th season calling games for the team,
The BlazeAug 13 2020
Background
How to Reset U.S.-Russian Relations Today
For thirty years, since the end of the Cold War, U.S. policy toward Russia has been going in circles with the relationship getting worse as different U.S. administrations came and went. Today, the U.S.-Russian relationship is at the lowest point since before the Cold War ended and the best we can hope for is that it will not get even worse.
Russia is to blame for most of what went wrong
Time MagazineAug 13 2020
Analysis
Conflict With Small Powers Derails U.S. Foreign Policy
Over the past decade, U.S. policymakers have argued for a renewed focus on great-power competition. The primary threats facing the United States, they suggest, are powerful states with global reach that seek to counter both American interests and the international order that safeguards them.
But American foreign policy has in reality focused elsewhere. The United States remains mired in
Foreign AffairsOct 24 2012
News
Bigger Than Either of Them?
“DRILL, baby, drill. It is among the best-remembered lines of the 2008 presidential campaign, colorfully capturing the desire of many Americans for cheap, reliable energy produced at home rather than in unpredictable places like Iran or Venezuela.
New York Times (News)Nov 30 2020
Fact Check
Does the Dominion Voting Systems organization have ties to Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, George Soros and the Clinton Foundation?
CLAIM: Attorney Sidney Powell claimed that widely used voting machines from the election technology company Dominion Voting Systems featured software created "at the direction" of former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to swing his own election results, and that the company has ties to the Clinton Foundation and Soros.
This is false
EVIDENCE: None of this is true. Dominion has
CNN (Online News)Oct 22 2021
News
Border apprehensions hit yearly high as another migrant caravan gathers in Mexico
Apprehensions of undocumented migrants crossing the southern U.S. border passed 1.7 million in fiscal year 2021 to hit an all-time high, according to Customs and Border Protection data obtained by NBC News, as U.S. officials turn their attention to a huge new caravan of migrants in southern Mexico that may head north as soon as this weekend.
The caravan gathered in Tapachula, near the
NBC News (Online)Oct 27 2020
News
Report: Hunter Biden Touted Dad's Relationship With Colombian President in Investment Pitch
SinoHawk Holdings, a joint venture that included members of the Biden family, in 2017 touted Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden’s relationship with then-Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos in an effort to secure $10 million in seed money from CEFC China Energy, a Chinese energy conglomerate, reports The Daily Caller.
Tony Bobulinski, Hunter Biden’s former business partner
Newsmax (News)