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Take these two warring political factions out of the social nexus and America would do just fine, with neither social engineering globalists nor “America First” interventionists.

Oswald was eventually allowed to remain. But rather than keeping him in Moscow, the KGB shipped him 400 miles away to Minsk. He wrote to his brother Robert that "I feel I am at last with my own people." Or so he thought, or wanted to think. Oswald was plainly ignorant about the Soviet Union.
 

The first 100 days of Donald Trump’s US presidency have been controversial to say the least. But his administration’s most anti-progressive policies have been met with a wall of creative responses, in the US and elsewhere
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I had actually hoped that the repeal of Obamacare would be Trump’s equivalent of FDR’s actions to repeal alcohol prohibition, the one thing he would accomplish as a sop to the voters who backed him. No such luck.

With his firing of missiles into Syria, it took our new President about 76 days to start doing exactly what all the others do. Thinking about the politics of life-and-death questions, such as intervention in Syria, I imagine looking in the eyes of the mother of a person who would die if my preferred course of action be carried through, but who would live if an opposing course of action were carried through.

As Obama finally departs from the scene, this seems as good a moment as any to assess his Presidency.
In my opinion it has been a disastrous Presidency, which has hugely deepened divisions in America – a fact which more than any other explains the exaggerated reaction to his successor – and which has brought international relations to its most dangerous point of crisis since the end of the Second World War.

Barack Obama has ended his presidential career doing what he does best.

Marijuana legalization won out big time on election day. California, Massachusetts, and Nevada legalized recreational weed, and Arkansas, Florida, Montana, and North Dakota voted to legalize medical marijuana. Some form of pot use is now legal in the majority of U.S. states, but what will marijuana legalization efforts look like under a Trump presidency?
Source: Marijuana Policy Project

Senator Ted had his chance to speak out against the loonery of birtherism. It's only fitting that he now pay some small price."No Person except a natural born Citizen, or a Citizen of the United States, at the time of the Adoption of this Constitution, shall be eligible to the Office of President."-- from Article II, Section 1, No. 5, of the U.S. Constitution"Because I was a U.S.