Political Junkie

At the beginning of the Iraq War, The Dixie Chicks went to London , where they told their audience that “We’re embarrassed that the President of the United States is from Texas .”   I have a feeling they would have received a different reception had they made those comments in Texas .   The Iraq war ended up bringing back the Anti-Americanism that became widespread in America throughout the Vietnam War.         The Anti-American Revolution took a temporary pause during the Obama Presidency as Michelle Obama declared “For the first time in my adult life, I am really proud of my country.”   Many members of the elite ruling classes who relentlessly criticized the Bush administration considered any criticism of the Obama Administration racist.   R. Lee Ermey had done several GEICO commercials playing a drill sergeant but GEICO stopped airing his commercials after he made comments critical of President Obama’s economic policies at a To...

The 72 nd General Assembly of the United Nations has officially begun as leaders from all over the globe convene at the organization’s headquarters in the Big Apple.   The United Nations is one of the many supra-national organizations created after World War II with the intention of preventing the breakout of World War III.   Will more accomplishments come out of the 72 nd UN General Assembly than the 115 th United States Congress?   At this point, it would not surprise me if the answer to that question turned out to be yes.                 On Tuesday, President Trump gave his first speech to the United Nations General Assembly in New York City .   His speech managed to win some praise from Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, one of our closest allies on the world stage; as well as some of his Republican critics, including Jeb Bush and Mitt Romney.   In his speech, he promised to put America...