“We will not see diseases like the coronavirus come here… and isn’t it refreshing when contrasting it with the awful presidency of President Obama.”
— Trump campaign press secretary Kayleigh McEnamy, on Fox News on...
Has The US Cold War Shifted From Russia To China?
Authored by Tom Luongo via Gold, Goats, 'n Guns blog,
Starting in the Obama administration the U.S. increased its full spectrum dominance campaign against Russia as an extension of its...
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Donald Trump recently accused Barack Obama‘s White House of failing to replenish the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC’s) Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) of personal protective equipment (PPE), including N95...
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Despite the China coronavirus nightmare and worldwide crisis, President Trump’s economy is still much better than what he inherited and way better than Obama’s economy at his respective time in office.
The numbers are astounding.
With...
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Five Years Ago
This week in 2015, in what was not an April Fool's joke, President Obama signed a silly cybersecurity executive order that amounted to little more than an empty threat, while raising some concerning questions. Meanwhile, in the TV...
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Massachusetts Senator and former Democratic presidential frontrunner Elizabeth Warren hasn’t made an official endorsement yet, but she gave some ringing praise that effectively acknowledged that former Vice President Joe...
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"About '75 percent of N95 respirators and 25 percent of face masks contained in the CDC's Strategic National Stockpile (∼100 million products) were deployed for use in health care settings over the course of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic response,'...
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If President Barack Obama had overseen the deaths of 100,000 Americans during the Ebola outbreak in 2014, do you think many Beltway journalists...
Trump's leadership is inadequate in one of the worst crises ever. Perhaps typically quiet ex-presidents can put forth a plan for a national lockdown.
On Thursday's Morning Joe, former Obama aide Seth Harris said that if he were advising President Trump, "I'd ask him to resign." Harris condemned Trump as "the worst failed leader our country has ever seen," who has put...
In the final days of Barack Obama’s time in office and just two weeks before Donald Trump’s inauguration, the Pentagon issued a dire warning — a “novel respiratory disease” had the potential to spread rapidly, causing...
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“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste.”
That was what Rahm Emanuel, a former mayor of Chicago who also served as chief of staff for President Barack Obama, said about the 2007-2008 financial crash, viewing that moment as an...
“Your boss is the richest person on Earth, and he just became $3.4 billion richer last month dumping stock in anticipation of this pandemic. How much does he pay you to pretend he can’t afford to give his workers PPE and a sane paid sick...
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Last fall, the most-enlightened folks among us praised the move by some tech giants to police and even censor political ads. Sure, back in the day, Barack Obama had used Facebook and micro-targeting to good effect. Indeed, his campaign's embrace of...
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Joe Biden and his associates are consulting allies, Eric Holder and Barack Obama as he weighs his options — including a woman of color — for the Democratic candidate for vice president.
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Around two million guns were bought in the U.S. last month, the New York Times reports.
“The surge in gun sales as coronavirus spreads across the country is second highest on record, after January 2013, the month when President Obama began his...
The rule will require the U.S. car and light truck fleet to improve its average fuel efficiency by 1.5 percent per year between model years 2021 and 2026, compared to a nearly 5 percent annual increase under current law.
Wall Street Journal: “Mr. Biden’s ex-boss is staying on the sidelines even after he became the most likely Democratic nominee. That is delaying what might have been a period of boosted fundraising and postponing Mr. Biden’s ability to...
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After 9/11, they said irony was dead. After Obama was elected, they said satire was dead. Despite the dire predictions we're hearing amid the coronavirus crisis, our lives will return to normal one day. But our behaviors may change dramatically for...
In 2018, the Trump Administration announced that federal gun control laws would now be read to prohibit bump stocks. Previously, the Obama Administration determined that the National Firearms Act and the Gun Control Act did not prohibit bump stocks....
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