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THE AMERICAN MIRACLE
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AT KEY TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY, AMERICA CATCHES EVERY BREAK
The history of the United States displays an uncanny pattern: at moments of crisis, when odds against success seem overwhelming and...
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Unexpected Praise for Trump’s Turnaround
One of history’s worst natural disasters produced one of the best weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. The chief executive and his administration rose to the challenge of responding to Hurricane Harvey and even his implacable media critics praised his change in attitude.
The normally hostile New York Times featured TWO positive headlines:...
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Unexpected Praise for Trump’s Turnaround
One of history’s worst natural disasters produced one of the best weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. The chief executive and his administration rose to the challenge of responding to Hurricane Harvey and even his implacable media critics praised his change in attitude.
The normally hostile New York Times featured TWO positive headlines:...
Read More
Unexpected Praise for Trump’s Turnaround
One of history’s worst natural disasters produced one of the best weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. The chief executive and his administration rose to the challenge of responding to Hurricane Harvey and even his implacable media critics praised his change in attitude.
The normally hostile New York Times featured TWO positive headlines:...
Read More
Unexpected Praise for Trump’s Turnaround
One of history’s worst natural disasters produced one of the best weeks of Donald Trump’s presidency. The chief executive and his administration rose to the challenge of responding to Hurricane Harvey and even his implacable media critics praised his change in attitude.
The normally hostile New York Times featured TWO positive headlines:...
Read More
Four Hopeful Messages from an Epic Catastrophe
As Texas begins the long process of recovery from the catastrophe of Hurricane Harvey, Americans across the country should embrace four important lessons:
* First, let’s acknowledge that government isn’t always the enemy and, in emergencies like this one, government at the local, state and federal levels has a crucial, life-saving role to...
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Four Hopeful Messages from an Epic Catastrophe
As Texas begins the long process of recovery from the catastrophe of Hurricane Harvey, Americans across the country should embrace four important lessons:
* First, let’s acknowledge that government isn’t always the enemy and, in emergencies like this one, government at the local, state and federal levels has a crucial, life-saving role to...
Read More
Four Hopeful Messages from an Epic Catastrophe
As Texas begins the long process of recovery from the catastrophe of Hurricane Harvey, Americans across the country should embrace four important lessons:
* First, let’s acknowledge that government isn’t always the enemy and, in emergencies like this one, government at the local, state and federal levels has a crucial, life-saving role to...
Read More
Four Hopeful Messages from an Epic Catastrophe
As Texas begins the long process of recovery from the catastrophe of Hurricane Harvey, Americans across the country should embrace four important lessons:
* First, let’s acknowledge that government isn’t always the enemy and, in emergencies like this one, government at the local, state and federal levels has a crucial, life-saving role to...
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Those Who Don’t Fight Evil Fight Statues
All my life, I have known this rule about people: Those who don’t fight the greatest evils will fight lesser evils or make-believe evils.This happens to be the morally defining characteristic of the left. During the Cold War, many liberals and nearly all conservatives fought communism, but the left fought anti-communism. The left opposed American...
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How the Mainstream Media Operate
“Our leading media” are characterized by “indefensibly corrupt manipulations of language repeated incessantly.” Patrick Lawrence in The Nation, Aug. 9, 2017, on the media’s reporting of the alleged collusion between Donald Trump’s campaign and Russia To understand America’s crises today, one must first understand what...
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Reshuffle? Reset? Restart? Call it what you want — Trump and the GOP need it.
British politicians are familiar with the term “reshuffle,” when senior figures in the government switch portfolios or get tossed out or brought into the government. And they’re also very familiar with “coalition governments,” when ruling governments divide jobs and authorities between two or more parties. American politicians could find study of both...
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Reshuffle? Reset? Restart? Call it what you want — Trump and the GOP need it.
British politicians are familiar with the term “reshuffle,” when senior figures in the government switch portfolios or get tossed out or brought into the government. And they’re also very familiar with “coalition governments,” when ruling governments divide jobs and authorities between two or more parties. American politicians could find study of both...
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Reshuffle? Reset? Restart? Call it what you want — Trump and the GOP need it.
British politicians are familiar with the term “reshuffle,” when senior figures in the government switch portfolios or get tossed out or brought into the government. And they’re also very familiar with “coalition governments,” when ruling governments divide jobs and authorities between two or more parties. American politicians could find study of both...
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Reshuffle? Reset? Restart? Call it what you want — Trump and the GOP need it.
British politicians are familiar with the term “reshuffle,” when senior figures in the government switch portfolios or get tossed out or brought into the government. And they’re also very familiar with “coalition governments,” when ruling governments divide jobs and authorities between two or more parties. American politicians could find study of both...
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Reshuffle? Reset? Restart? Call it what you want — Trump and the GOP need it.
British politicians are familiar with the term “reshuffle,” when senior figures in the government switch portfolios or get tossed out or brought into the government. And they’re also very familiar with “coalition governments,” when ruling governments divide jobs and authorities between two or more parties. American politicians could find study of both...
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