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Enough of this charade. The people of the world have spoken, and just 22% of asked by Pew Research have confidence in President Trump -- down from Obama's stellar 64%. More than that, the only two nations in the world where Trump was more popular than Obama was Russia (shocker!) and Israel.

Why doesn't Trump move to Jerusalem and become President there? He seems to love that wall so much -- plus he'd be closer to his friends in Russia.

He loves walls.

After suffering through a series of complete embarrassments this week (and it's only Tuesday) it should surprise almost no one that CNN, and it's constant barrage of "fake news", took center stage at today's White House press briefing.  Unfortunately, after a seemingly delusional reporter made the mistake of asking why the White House wasn't satisfied with CNN's recent dismissal of 3 'journalists', as if that was supposed to suddenly absolve them from months of reporting fake news in a thinly-veiled effort to topple a Presidency, Sarah Huckabee Sanders decided to launch an epic rant that wi

The following article by David Haggith was published first on The Great Recession Blog: 

What could be smellier and more tempting bait to get ISIS to launch a chemical-weapon attack than a US guarantee that “any” chemical weapon attack in Syria will be automatically blamed on Assad’s regime and will automatically result in the US attacking Assad and all of ISIS’s other enemies?

Today the White House offered ISIS that ironclad guarantee.

White House issues preemptive warning to Syria on chemical attack

Authored by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

If Gov. Bruce Rauner and his legislature in Springfield do not put a budget together by Friday, the Land of Lincoln will be the first state in the Union to see its debt plunge into junk-bond status.

Illinois has $14.5 billion in overdue bills, $130 billion in unfunded pension obligations, and no budget. “We can’t manage our money,” says Rauner. “We’re like a banana republic.”

Via The Daily Bell

Finally, Congress is doing something about a serious issue on everyone’s mind; they have introduced a bill to ban dog and cat meat from being sold and eaten in the United States.

But wait, isn’t this cultural insensitivity towards those from countries who regularly eat dogs and cats?