Favorite From the start of his presidency, Donald Trump’s “war on terror” has entailed the seemingly indiscriminate slaughter of innocent people in the name of killing terrorists. In other words, Trump has escalated the 16-year-old core premise of America’s foreign policy — that it has the right to bomb any country in the world where…
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Donald Trump Makes It Very Hard to Figure Out What He Really Thinks
Favorite Moments after Donald Trump told supporters at a rally in Erie, Pennsylvania on Friday that he was “obviously being sarcastic” when he repeatedly called President Barack Obama “the founder of ISIS,” he seemed to backtrack on backtracking, by adding, “but not that sarcastic, to be honest with you.” Video: Trump says he was being…
Donald Trump’s Spokeswoman Katrina Pierson Says a Lot of Things That Are Not True
Favorite Let this news, and the fact that it is news, sink in: Katrina Pierson, the former Tea Party activist who is now Donald Trump’s national spokeswoman, admitted on Wednesday that Barack Obama was not the president of the United States in 2004. The reason it was considered necessary to extract this concession to reality…
Khizr Khan, Father of American Muslim Soldier Killed in Iraq, Shames Donald Trump
Favorite Updated | Friday, 5:42 p.m. Given that Hillary Clinton’s Senate vote, on October 11, 2002, to authorize the invasion of Iraq might have been what cost her the Democratic nomination for the presidency in 2008, it was remarkable that the most powerful speech on her behalf on Thursday night in Philadelphia came from the…
Newt Gingrich Pals Around With Terrorists Saddam Hussein Once Armed
Favorite Newt Gingrich, who is being vetted to be Donald Trump’s running mate and appeared with the candidate in Cincinnati on Wednesday, left the campaign trail this weekend for an unusual reason. The former Speaker of the House had to fly to Paris to appear at a gala celebration for the Mojahedin-e Khalq, or People’s…
In Political Fights Over Chilcot Report, Iraqi Lives Don’t Matter
Favorite The bitter political debate over the 2003 Iraq War resumed once again on Wednesday in the United Kingdom and the United States, thanks to the release of a report on the British role in the invasion and occupation. Parsing the report, prepared by a committee of Privy Counsellors chaired by Sir John Chilcot, will…