Update to Just in time for the new year: a North Korean nuclear crisis. The Washington Post reports, North Korea launches two projectiles in Thanksgiving message to Trump: North Korea fired two projectiles on Thursday, using the start of the Thanksgiving holiday in the United States to telegraph its frustration over Washington’s refusal to grant … Read more
Those of you who are C-Span junkies are all too familiar with this. During the viewer Call-in program, the hosts take questions from viewers about the major news events of the day. Most of the questions are reasonably well thought out and rationally related to the topic. And then there is the occasional tinfoil hat … Read more
The North Koreans previously set a deadline of the end of 2019 for negotiations to produce a result. Time Is Running out for a Deal with North Korea. There is a good chance that Pyongyang will follow through with shifting gears if no deal is reached by the end of 2019. It is a firm … Read more
I will reiterate what I said in an earlier post: Donald Trump is pushing the conspiracy theories of his pal Vladimir Putin. Democrats Say Trump’s Ukraine Conspiracy Theories Parallel Putin’s. During Friday’s questioning of Marie Yovanovitch, the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Daniel Goldman, a top Democratic aide on the House Intelligence Committee, cited a … Read more
Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee would have you believe the Ukraine scandal was just one phone call on July 25, the call that prompted the whistleblower complaint, and despite the inspector general of the intelligence community finding that complaint an “urgent matter of concern,” Republicans do not find anything in the call readout to … Read more