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Ron Klain, the Obama administration’s former point person on Ebola, on Tuesday weighed in on the growing debate in the wake of the deadly Paris attacks of what to do with refugees fleeing Syria’s bloody civil war. It is worth repeating Klain is the former Ebola czar because fears over the deadly virus turned out to…
Not one of them can win, but one must. That’s the paradox of the race for the 2016 Republican presidential nomination, fast becoming the signature event in the history of black comedy. Conventional wisdom says that with the primaries and caucuses rapidly approaching, front-running nuts Donald Trump and Dr. Ben Carson must soon give way…
As the world continues to mourn terrorist attacks in Paris that left 129 dead and hundreds more injured, a number of U.S. politicians are beginning to question a planned move to accept up to 100,000 Syrian (and other) refugees into the United States by the end of 2017. The point: It is known that a passport…
“I will oppose any attempt to relocate Syrian refugees to Alabama,” Gov. Robert Bentley said in a statement.Photo by Sutherland Boswell Alabama Republican Gov. Robert Bentley announced late Sunday that his state would refuse to allow any Syrian refugees to be relocated there. “After full consideration of this weekend’s attacks of terror on innocent…
As authorities made sense of the aftermath from Friday’s Paris attacks and the death toll count began to stabilize, reports emerged over the weekend that a gunman involved with the coordinated bombings and shootings may have entered Europe, embedded in the scores of refugees fleeing Syria. By Monday afternoon, the number of American state governors,…
Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders during the second official Democratic presidential debate, in Des Moines. (REUTERS/Jim Young) Sometimes I feel as though the Democratic Party doesn’t WANT us to watch its debates. This second one took place on a Saturday night, and spending your Saturday night watching the Democratic debate is one…
It is long past time for the oligarchies of the Gulf states to stop paying protection to the men in the suicide belts. Their societies are stunted and parasitic. The main job of the elites there is to find enough foreign workers to ensla…er…indenture to do all the real work. The example of Qatar and…
Jeb Bush, by some measures, despises conflict. This is, of course, an especially curious personality trait for someone running for a presidential nomination in one of the largest fields ever. Case in point would be Bush getting railroaded multiple times by John Kasich in last night’s debate. The most memorable time, which you see above,…
First and foremost, the latest unscientific poll out of Western Illinois University has Bernie Sanders winning the presidency. Therefore, if polls are gospel, we’ll have a Democrat in the White House who plans on fixing the structural issues plaguing Wall Street and the U.S. economy. With Sanders, we’ll have an honest attempt at breaking up…
Another mediocre debate performance. No feel for the mood of the primary electorate. Poll numbers plummeting into the mid-single digits. Campaign contributions drying up. Stiff and awkward on the stump. An insider candidate groping for relevance in the age of the outsider. Jeb Bush has had a brutal few weeks, it’s true. And the vultures…