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Jusme wrote:

mojo84 wrote:Trump's new communications director may not be so 2nd Amendment friendly. Hopefully he won't have Abby influence in this area.

http://twitter.com/Scaramucci/status/232349114979975168

I don't follow teeeter, so I can't verify the accuracy of that twitting. But it sounds a lot like left wing drivel to me.
Even if it can be attributed to the new press secretary, he has no legislative control. JMHO

Beiruty wrote:Trump has to stop self-inflicted wounds. Too many mayhem is going on in the west wing.

dale blanker wrote:

Beiruty wrote:Trump has to stop self-inflicted wounds. Too many mayhem is going on in the west wing.

Are we headed for a Constitutional crisis when the president fires the special prosecutor (Mueller) for digging into Trump family business finances? This was just predicted by conservative columnist David Brooks on PBS tonight and I hope Brooks is wrong... the country has enough problems to deal with.

Too bad there is so much time wasted on this Russia thing...

ScottDLS wrote: David Brooks is not a conservative columnist

dale blanker wrote:

ScottDLS wrote: David Brooks is not a conservative columnist

Ok, corrected, he's a conservative author, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bro ... mmentator)
When asked what he thinks of charges that he's "not a real conservative", Brooks has said that "if you define conservative by support for the Republican candidate or the belief that tax cuts are the correct answer to all problems, I guess I don’t fit that agenda. But I do think that I’m part of a long-standing conservative tradition that has to do with Edmund Burke... and Alexander Hamilton."

Conservatism is in the eye of the beholder(?).

philip964 wrote:I realize now that history is written by the victorious, so I am hoping history will write that he is the best president of the 21 century.

bblhd672 wrote:That victory will require the tree of liberty to be refreshed.

The ban on transgender service that President Trump reaffirmed was there for eight years under Obama. It was there in his first term and his second term. And the media said nothing.

Only in the summer of last year did the ban technically end. And, in practice, it remained in force. All the while there was no angry clamor about the suffering of potential recruits who couldn’t enlist. Those who are fuming with outrage now had hypocritically remained silent. Obama had done it. So it must be good.

Obama had kept the ban in place for almost his entire two terms in office. And he found a way to retain it throughout his final months. With a year’s review, the transgender recruits could only be accepted after he was out of the White House. That way he could have his social justice cake and eat it too. He would get the credit for ending the transgender ban without dealing with any of the problems.

Military readiness demands personnel who can deploy on short notice without ongoing medical problems holding them back. It wants recruits in prime health who can give all they have. Medical issues don’t just drive up costs so that hard choices have to be made. They also cost lives.

“I think you have to start by separating the tool from the perpetrator,” Adams said. “Cars are not a public health problem. Car accidents are a public health problem. Guns and gun owners aren’t inherently a public health problem, but the violence that results absolutely is.

If one feeds only at the informational troughs of the mainstream media, one might assume the only thing our 45th President has done during his first six months is make controversial tweets and buck allegations of Russian “collusion.” Neither of those affects the average American, but much of what Trump has accomplished or set in motion does, or will. Space constraints prevent a comprehensive enumeration, so what follows are only highlights.