Attorney General Loretta Lynch (AP file photo)
The Trump Cabinet: Bonfire of the agencies
December 18, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Democrats spent the first two decades of the post-Cold War era rather relaxed about Russian provocations and revanchism. 
President Obama famously mocked Mitt Romney in 2012 for suggesting that Russia was our principal geopolitical adversary. Yet today the Dems are in high dudgeon over the closeness of secretary of state nominee, Rex Tillerson, to Vladimir Putin. Hypocrisy aside, it is true that, as head of ExxonMobil, Tillerson made major deals with Russia, received Russia’s Order of Friendship and opposed U.S. sanctions. That’s troubling but not necessarily disqualifying. At the time, after all, Tillerson was acting as an agent of ExxonMobil, whose interest it is to extract oil and make money Click to read Charles Krauthammer’s weekly editorial from the Washington Post.
Liberal Hollywood stars reach out to Republican electors to stop them from voting for Trump
December 17, 2016 By Leave a Comment
A bevy of liberal Hollywood stars have put aside their differences with Republicans in an eleventh-hour plea to GOP electors to convince them not to cast their ballots for Donald Trump at the Monday vote of the Electoral College. A self-described “public 
service announcement” released last week by Unite for America featured 17 celebrities assuring the Republican electors that “you will have my respect” by refusing to vote for Mr. Trump. “You have the position, the authority and the opportunity to go down in the books as an American hero who changed the course of history,” said the stars in the YouTube video. “And you have my respect for your patriotism and service to the American people.” Please click on this link to read the rest of the story by Valerie Richardson of the Washington Post.
Donald Trump picks David Friedman as Israel envoy, eyes moving embassy to Jerusalem
December 17, 2016 By Leave a Comment
WASHINGTON (AP) — President-elect Donald Trump has announced that he will nominate attorney David Friedman as U.S. ambassador to Israel, selecting an envoy who supports Israeli 
settlements and other changes to U.S. policies in the region. Friedman said he looked forward to carrying out his duties from “the U.S. embassy in Israel’s eternal capital, Jerusalem,” even though the embassy is in Tel Aviv. Like some of his predecessors, Trump has vowed to move the American embassy to Jerusalem, a politically charged act that would anger Palestinians who want east Jerusalem as part of their sovereign territory. The move would also distance the U.S. from most of the international community, including its closest allies in Western Europe and the Arab world. The president-elect said Friedman would “maintain the special relationship” between the U.S. and Israel. Please click on the link to read the rest of the Associated Press story.
China’s Navy seizes American underwater drone in South China Sea
December 16, 2016 By Leave a Comment
A Chinese Navy warship has seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters in the South China Sea, triggering a formal demarche from the United 
States and a demand for its return, a U.S. defense official told Reuters on Friday. The incident — the first of its kind in recent memory — took place on Dec. 15 northwest of Subic Bay just as the USNS Bowditch, an oceanographic survey ship, was about to retrieve the unmanned, underwater vehicle (UUV), the official said, speaking on condition of anonymity. There will be more posts as this incident unfolds. (Reuters)
GUILTY…Dylann Roof found guilty on all counts in Emanuel AME Church massacre case
December 15, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Mass murderer and white supremacist Dylan Roof ,who brutally murdered nine blacks attending a Wednesday night service at an AME church (Post and Courier photo)
Inventor of Dairy Queen’s ‘Blizzard’ machine dies in Bettendorf IA
December 15, 2016 By Leave a Comment
The Medd Family (Quad City Times file photo.)
Long-Shot Bid to Block Trump Arrives at Electoral College Monday
December 15, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Trump at a victory rally after the election. (Washington Times photo)
Energy Dept. rebuffs Trump’s request for list of climate-change workers
December 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment
President Barack Obama and President-elect Donald Trump shake hands following their meeting in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, Thursday, Nov. 10, 2016. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
Obama shrugs off Russian hacking — until Donald Trump elected president
December 14, 2016 By Leave a Comment
Foreign governments have launched numerous cyberattacks on the 
U.S. government and sensitive industrial sites, but Republicans say President Obama has not responded in a forceful way to years of Russian hacking. A more assertive response might have headed off the type of hacking Russia is accused of launching during the presidential election, they say. Russia, whose supposed cyberoffensive now is generating a Democratic Party movement that would delegitimize the incoming presidency of Donald Trump, has hacked Pentagon systems. In 2014 it penetrated computer networks at the White House and the State Department. Neither the White House nor the mainstream media reacted with any great alarm. Please click on the link to read the entire story from The Washington Times
