Be warned, the Vice President’s foreign policy positions invoke a messianism not seen since the Bush Administration.
Barbara BOLAND
As Congress lurches towards impeachment, complete with Cabinet-level subpoenas, the specter of a Mike Pence presidency looms larger.
With President Trump’s long overdue firing of John Bolton on September 10th, a window into the battle between neocon zombies infesting the White House and Donald Trump was made visible once more. As much as people enjoy oversimplifying American politics- clumping all “right wing politicians” together as ideological war mongers, the reality as showcased again this week, is that things are more nuanced and that President Trump is not just another neocon.
On May 25th Vice President Mike Pence was the featured speaker at the United States Military Academy commencement. His speech was predictably an encomium celebrating both the diversity and the success of the newly commissioned officers as well as of the system at West Point that had produced them, but it also included interesting insights into how he and the other non-veterans who dominate the policy making in the White House see the military.
In an address to West Point military graduates, US Vice President Mike Pence told them they will one day fight for America.
Sparks by Nancy OhanianIvanka and Kushner-in-law are Jews. When government-sanctioned Cossacks-- quietly sanctioned-- were murdering Jews in Imperial Russia there were tsars who protected wealthy Jews in St. Petersburg. A few years ago, I visited the Grand Choral Synagogue that Alexander II sanctioned in 1869 at the request of wealthy Jewish financier Joseph Günzburg-- loudly sanctioned-- Petersburg's first synogogue.
Virtual bombs, microbot disasters and homeless barcodes + this day in history w/the capture of Carlos The Jackal and our song of the day by Trevor Moore on your Morning Monarchy for August 14, 2018.
Shocking practices, meritless efforts and digitizing Edison + this day in history w/the Hand of God goal and our song of the day by Trevor Moore on your Morning Monarchy for June 22, 2018.
Yesterday's Wall Street Journal reported that Marc Short, Trump's liaison to Congress is quitting, complaining that trying to push Trump's agenda through the GOP-controlled Congress has reached a point of "diminishing returns." Far right extremists are delighted because they view him as a champion for the GOP establishment’s.
