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December 3rd, 2019
Trump exits air-force-one
By: Victor Davis Hanson – NationalReview.com – December 3, 2019 Donald Trump promised to shake up U.S. foreign policy. He has certainly done that from the Middle East to Asia. The U.S. is currently engaged in a three-front, maximum-pressure standoff with China, Iran, and North Korea — involving everything from tariffs to possible military action and the strictest sanctions in memory....
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November 22nd, 2019
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By: Dave Seminara – wsj.com – November 21, 2019 I think the House impeachment inquiry is a partisan fishing expedition, but as a former U.S. foreign-service officer, I tuned in to the hearings rooting for my erstwhile colleagues to acquit themselves well. Instead, the hearings were a made-for-TV spectacle in which foreign-service officers were used as props in a political drama....
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November 5th, 2019
Trump points finger at media
By: Theodore Bunker – newsmax.com – November 5, 2019 President Donald Trump on Tuesday accused Mexico of not doing enough to fight drug cartels, calling for the country “to wage war” in the wake of a deadly attack on a family of nine U.S. citzens in northern Mexico. Three adult women and six children, all members of the LeBaron family that settled...
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October 31st, 2019
By: Jim Denison – denisonforum.org – October 28, 2019 President Trump made an announcement Sunday morning that has dominated global headlines: “Last night, the United States brought the world’s No. 1 terrorist leader to justice. Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead. He was the founder and leader of ISIS, the most ruthless and violent terror organization anywhere in the world.” The...
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October 16th, 2019
LeBron James
By: Jim Geraghty – nationalreview.com – October 15, 2019  “Yes, we do have freedom of speech, it can be a lot of negative that comes with it.” — LeBron James. LeBron James announced that, like everyone else in the NBA, he finds the imprisonment of one to two million Uighurs in concentration camps and increasingly violent crackdown on protesters in Hong Kong simply too complicated...
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October 11th, 2019
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By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – October 8, 2019 It looks like the decade-old U.S. shale oil boom may keep us out of war. Recall that when Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait in August 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush led a coalition of countries against Iraq — though it was mostly a U.S. effort. The aerial attack began in January...
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October 11th, 2019
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By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – October 8, 2019 It looks like the decade-old U.S. shale oil boom may keep us out of war. Recall that when Iraqi President Saddam Hussein invaded neighboring Kuwait in August 1990, then-President George H.W. Bush led a coalition of countries against Iraq — though it was mostly a U.S. effort. The aerial attack began in January...
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October 9th, 2019
former KS Gov - Ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback
by Jeffrey Cimmino – washingtonexaminer.com – September 11, 2019 Ambassador-at-large for International Religious Freedom Sam Brownback said Christians are possibly facing the worst period of persecution in history and accused Western countries of failing to protect Christians because of a sense of guilt. “There is more persecution of Christians now, arguably, than any time in the history of world, and the Christian...
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October 8th, 2019
By: Tzvi Joffre – jpost.com – October 8, 2019 The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights denied a report by Syrian state news agency SANA earlier on Monday evening claiming that Turkey had conducted airstrikes in Syria against the Syrian Democratic Forces. According to the SOHR, the airstrikes hit targets in Iraq.A White House official stated later on Monday night that...
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October 4th, 2019
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But did she wake up just in time or too late? In these times of near civil war, Americans agree on almost nothing. Yet sometime in 2019, almost all of America finally got “woke” on China. For years, our leaders had yawned about Silk Road neo-imperialism in Africa and Asia, and gross abuses of human rights against Chinese religious minorities...
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