The current tempest engulfing Washington involves a memo prepared at the direction of House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) concerning a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant for Carter Page. Who is Devin Nunes? Nunes is an eight-term Republican Congressman from California’s San Joaquin Valley, who chairs the House Intelligence Committee which is conducting an investigation …
The GOP’s War on America: From the Reagan Revolution to the Hijacking of American Government The election of Ronald Reagan in 1980 was a turning point in our history and brought into government a phalanx of ideological conservatives. Reagan’s foot soldiers would be the Generals in the Gingrich Revolution a decade later, as Republicans took …
New York Times’ White House correspondent Mark Landler has written a very important assessment of President Trump’s first year in foreign policy entitled: Trump’s Way: Trump, the Insurgent, Breaks With 70 Years of American Foreign Policy. Here are six key takeaways from this assessment of an uninformed amateur blundering his way through the world. Trump … Continue reading
Below are a few resources outlining how President Trump’s removing climate change as a national security threat is contrary to the view of the Pentagon and Congress and ignores the link between climate change and terrorism, the refugee crisis and food security. Trump’s Continued Recklessness on Climate Change While military commanders consider climate change a … Continue reading
The fact that the Trump administration’s decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem breaks with 60 years of U.S. policy; has caused the U.S. to put troops on alert and warn Americans traveling abroad, and is opposed by our allies worldwide; tells you everything you need to know. It … Continue reading
Donald Trump is anti-woman, anti-Hispanic, anti-black, anti-anything that would bring the country together. — Sally Bradshaw, Republican Strategist This appears to be the unifying theme for policy under the Trump administration. Trump has no hesitation appealing to his white nationalist base. He confirmed this when he defended Neo-Nazis and Ku Klux Klan members after Charlottesville. … Continue reading
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The National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) advises the Department of Homeland Security on cyber security and infrastructure protection. The NIAC has recently warned that dramatic steps were required to prevent a possible “9/11-level cyber attacks”. On August 21st, seven of the NIAC’s 27 members resigned en masse, claiming President Donald Trump and…
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In Brief features pull together content from multiple sources to provide an overview on a topic. This segment is on President Trump’s many conflicts of interests. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZTi_svWWCxw See Sunlight Foundation’s Ongoing List of Trump Conflict of Interest. CONSIDER THIS: https://twitter.com/Newsweek/status/881895353808814081 https://twitter.com/essenviews/status/896198668042227713 https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/898909185596940288 https://twitter.com/SafetyPinDaily/status/895643443346714624 THE EMOLUMENTS LITIGATION https://twitter.com/NationB4Party/status/889047529903595520…
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A Bipartisan Response To Charlottesville And The Trump Administration Like many Americans, I was appalled by the events this weekend in Charlottesville. As the cameras turned to the president’s golf retreat in New Jersey, my disgust turned to outrage as Trump failed an early test of…
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Under Section 4 of the 25th Amendment: Whenever the Vice President and a majority of either the principal officers of the executive departments or of such other body as Congress may by law provide, transmit to the President pro tempore of the Senate and the Speaker…
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A memorandum prepared for Whitewater Independent Counsel Ken Starr by then-University of Illinois Law Professor Ronald D. Rotunda asserting that a sitting President may be impeached has surfaced. Rotunda, now the Doy and Dee Henley Chair and Distinguished Professor of Jurisprudence at Chapman University, had also served…
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NotPetya, Trump and a Cyber Katrina The Dangers of a President Who is AWOL on Cyber Attacks In May the WannaCry ransomware attack hit approximately 400,000 computers in 150 countries. Ransomware is a form of malware that encrypts some portion of your computer files, demanding payment by the victim via Bitcoin…
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