The New York Times and CNN led media coverage last month of discussions among senior FBI officials in May 2017 of a possible national security investigation of President Donald Trump himself, on the premise that he may have acted as an agent of Russia. The episode has...
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FPF #309 – Trump’s Next Meeting with Kim
On FPF #309, I discuss the next meeting between Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un. The meeting will take place at the end of February in Vietnam. Trump's tweets suggest the talks could take important steps in Korean Peace. I give my take on what could come from the talks. ...
Democrat All-Stars Look Toward 2020
Que Darude’s techno classic Sandstorm. It’s Whitehouse or bust for the Democrats in 2020 and the Iowa Caucus is almost a year away, with the first primary debates slated to begin this June. This year the DNC has promised to allow all candidates to debate no matter how...
You Don’t Want to Ride the Fence on Immigration
Immigration is shaping up to be the defining political issue of the 21st century. It is a debate that just five years ago state officials wanted to ignore, preferring that details be worked out in the quiet backrooms of capitals than on public stages with widespread...
The Perfect Amount of Government
In a broad sense, political philosophy is very simple: if you’re not an anarchist, then everything else is just debating the “ideal” amount or level of government. Conservatives supposedly want the government out of their wallets, while liberals want them out of their...
How Trump Thwarted Calculated Israeli Effort to Keep U.S. in Syria
The Pentagon was not the only party pressing Donald Trump to keep troops in Syria last year. It turns out the Israeli government and its supporters in Washington were working very hard to get the Trump administration to use America’s military presence there to support...
Bill Arkin Resigns from NBC, Slams Their Militarism
A veteran national security journalist with NBC News and MSNBC blasted the networks in a Monday email for becoming captive and subservient to the national security state, reflexively pro-war in the name of stopping President Donald Trump, and now the prime propaganda...
Send a Message to the White House!
Complaining to them doesn't usually do much good, but when Donald Trump does something right and important like order troops out of Syria and some out of Afghanistan, he needs to be told that the American people out here in the country agree and support this decision....
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