I'll just say that there are things I like and dislike about this book. For starters, this is a thoughtful book on how to teach children to be empatheI'll just say that there are things I like and dislike about this book. For starters, this is a thoughtful book on how to teach children to be empathetic and caring towards others and I strongly agree with the author that social media and all-about-me'ism is a real and growing problem in our society. She provides a lot of useful tips and suggestions for families and I particularly like the idea of a family mission statement. I agree that children are influenced way too heavily by celebrities and too many children lack true heroes to look up to. Our society today is facing a crisis of entitlement where kids and college students lack altruism and moral courage and are focused almost exclusively on themselves. As the younger generation enters the workforce they are almost entirely incapable of feeling empathy towards others and yet demand to receive special attention for themselves.
The book is narrowly focused on feelings, empathy, kindness, and standing up for others, and it felt like the author was rehashing some of the same arguments over and over again. The reader would gather that the message provided by the author is that kindness and empathy and tuning into feelings is paramount above all else. The author approaches the subject from a purely secular perspective even though the principles taught are derived from long-held Christian teachings.
"According to science....." I CRINGED every time the author used this phrase which she does over and over again. What exactly is she referring to? Should I assume that she means a select obscure group of like-minded people who refer to themselves as "scientists" who have all arrived to some specific conclusion, or is it specifically stated is some universally accepted compendium called "Science"? To open an argument with such a vague statement is shallow and something I would expect from a high school kid, not a researcher with a PhD.
The author refers exclusively to her "science" statement and Ivy League School style studies and makes no mention of time-tested Christ-centered teachings that have always traditionally addressed the very same issues. Is she unaware that the principles taught in this book have been around for hundreds of years and just conveniently forgotten by so many? It's religion, so to-hell-with-it? Actually, you don't need "according to science" to teach children fundamental concepts of 'Love towards Thy Neighbor', serving others and thoughtful personal prayer. Oops... calling it meditation must be what is socially acceptable nowadays. She mentions other notable icons such as Nelson Mandela, Gandhi, and Mother Teresa, but never makes a single mention of Christ. (careful not to offend the atheist core out there) I understand that the author is attempting to address a wide audience, but I think that writing such a narrowly focused book regarding empathy and thoughtful service towards others while excluding the teachings of Christ who epitomized empathy and love towards others clearly robs the book of a lot of useful and inspiring material.
The author also proclaims that competition is counterproductive and harmful. I strongly disagree with the author on this. Although I believe that empathy and cooperation are important, competition for teenagers and young adults is crucial to building character and fine-tuning our skills and our development. I have personally grown in many ways through healthy competition in my life. Competitiveness is difficult to face but has never been counterproductive or harmful in any experience that I've been involved with. Competition should always coincide with good sportsmanship and respect towards our opponents. When we do not prepare our children for the difficult competition they will inevitably face, then we are setting them up for failure.
The author also suggested a list of books to help combat stereotypes commonly confronted by children but I was appalled when the author suggested a book about a white gay couple who adopted a young African boy. Forcing amoral 'progressive' ideologies on young children is repugnant and abusive....more
Given the recent passing of Bush 41, I felt inclined to read this biography on the former president. This is a great book by George W Bush about his fGiven the recent passing of Bush 41, I felt inclined to read this biography on the former president. This is a great book by George W Bush about his father. There is a lot about George H.W. Bush that I did not know previously and his 1988 election is the first presidential election that I can remember from my childhood. Although he wasn't perfect, he was a very admirable man and a president who truly cared about his country rather than a political agenda. I can vividly remember that I did not like the T.V. advertisements from Bush's opponent Michael Dukakis and I vividly remember thinking he seemed real sinister.
Although the focus of the book is about his father, Bush writes about the whole Bush family as well, particularly his mother, brothers, and his own upbringing and career with his wife Laura. Bush avoids politics in this biography and focuses primarily on his father's experiences and achievements....more
"There's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole."
Of the military memoirs I've read so far, I don't think any single author has been more candid and "There's no such thing as an atheist in a foxhole."
Of the military memoirs I've read so far, I don't think any single author has been more candid and brutally honest as Ryan Smithson. I've never experienced war, but I would imagine that this is about as close as you could get to understanding what the army and Iraq is like from the eyes of a 19-year-old kid straight out of high school. Most military memoirs are written by special ops guys or infantry; SEAL's, rangers, or other soldiers who have really been through the thick of it. Smithson, was Army Reserve and was deployed to Iraq as an army engineer. A lot of guys are deployed without seeing any fighting at all. What Ryan experienced changed his life.
This is a book I would highly recommend to youth who have any interest in the military or anyone considering joining....more
Another page-turner from Ann Rule. I've read "Stranger Beside Me" about Ted Bundy, and she delivered another excellent writing here. The first half ofAnother page-turner from Ann Rule. I've read "Stranger Beside Me" about Ted Bundy, and she delivered another excellent writing here. The first half of the story covers the murders, rapes, and other crimes committed by Woodfield, and in the latter half she covers prosecution, trials and sentencing of Woodfield following his capture, including the atrocities he continued to commit from prison.
Woodfield is a prime example of when the death penalty is necessary. I am perplexed and angered by the amount of freedom Woodfield was allowed within his prison cell. While in prison, he continued to have correspondence with many more women, continued multiple relationships through writing, and by extension damaged many more lives. He continued to send and receive explicit photographs to and from women and a mother of a young girl even sent him child pornography. I am disgusted that the prison system allows him to get away with so much, even as the families of his victims continue to grieve over the loss of their innocent loved ones he raped and robbed from them. ...more
Hilarious and interesting book. I like Jim Gafffigan. This is the first book I've read by him, and it was great. I can particularly relate to most of Hilarious and interesting book. I like Jim Gafffigan. This is the first book I've read by him, and it was great. I can particularly relate to most of his jokes in this book, since I am also a dad who loves food....more
Sometimes being reminded of the basics on any subject matter is more helpful than we might think. The author provides advice on ways we can assess hidSometimes being reminded of the basics on any subject matter is more helpful than we might think. The author provides advice on ways we can assess hidden reactions by judging another person's body language or eye movement. Good advice with specific exercises to practice. ...more
A huge amount of time and research went into writing this book. I'm impressed how Dan provides solid and irrefutable proof to the corruption of the FBA huge amount of time and research went into writing this book. I'm impressed how Dan provides solid and irrefutable proof to the corruption of the FBI, the Obama administration, the DNC and Clinton campaign, and the fake Steele dossier etc. He manages to do this by using actual statements by the perpetrators themselves, either intercepted or recorded during congressional hearings. He also cites reports provided by the very same media outlets themselves who were in bed with the Clinton campaign that help contradict the entire Trump-collusion narrative. Finally, Dan lays out the REAL scandal as it happened under the watch of the Justice Department, the DNC, the FBI, and the Clinton campaign....more
*Edit: Mark Bowden is a political hack who wrote "The Steal" which basically condemns and trashes anyone with the audacity to even so much as question*Edit: Mark Bowden is a political hack who wrote "The Steal" which basically condemns and trashes anyone with the audacity to even so much as question the legitimacy of the 2020 election. I enjoyed the book so won't change my rating... but certainly won't read anything else authored by this clown.
The book is intense and very fast paced, particularly when trying to illustrate in your mind the sequence of events vividly rendered by the author which seemed to me to to be very condensed. Most military accounts and memoirs that I read spend a great deal of time covering the bio's and all the individual preparations and tasks leading up to the main event. In contrast, Mark Bowden jumps right into the action....more
We have all heard the story about the goose that laid the golden egg. By the same token if we tax the wealthy and businesses to the point to where it We have all heard the story about the goose that laid the golden egg. By the same token if we tax the wealthy and businesses to the point to where it is no longer beneficial or advantageous to them to produce wealth, then the contributing source will disappear and the state will be left with nothing.
The worst thing about American slavery is that happened. The best thing about American slavery is we put an end to it. At the expense of hundreds of thousands of lives. Those who today now demand some sort of compensation for slavery that they have neither witnessed nor endured represent the most despicable form of ingratitude and greed imaginable
In this world of prudish personal restraint where image and self-promotion is everything (at work, school, church, etc) social media is an Avenue by which we can be ourselves and speak our mind within a controlled setting. Therefore, if you post something that a "friend" cannot tolerate and that friend subsequently "unfriends" or "unfollows" you, you will know that your friendship with that person was never genuine and was irrelevant to begin with. It's a great social filtering mechanism by which we can weed out the fake friends in our lives, the type we are forced to interact with in other more professional settings.
THE LOCKEAN REVOLUTION Locke vs Russo: at the beginning of chapter 5 he makes a great comparative analysis between the philosophies of Locke and Rousseau. John Jack Rousseau had several mistresses one of which bore several of his children. After they were born he demanded that each one be placed in an orphanage. Russo was very immoral and very hypocritical
Woodrow Wilson had contempt for the Constitution and coined the term of a living document in reference to the Constitution. He was a Statist and a huge fan of Charles Darwin.
Many people lost their jobs during the Industrial Revolution when machines took over mass production. It wasn't a positive thing for them at the time, but in the end everyone mutually benefited. We shouldn't discourage innovation just because of a few growing pains.
Author openly admits in the book that he holds Trump in contempt but then admits that if he had the deciding vote today in the election between Hillary and Trump that he would "probably" vote for Trump.
(my opinion)Even if you were to take Donald Trump's very worst scandals and character flaws and multiply them by 10 it would still not even come close to the depravity and sheer evil of that of Hillary Clinton. I would not vote for Hillary any more than I would Mao, Stalin or Hitler. So, for the author to suggest that he would "probably" vote for Trump tells me that there is a fair amount of ignorance on the authors part regarding Hillary Clinton.
I feel like the last few years have taught us that for every Yin that comes from the left there is a Yang that comes from the right. Through their actions and hostility towards whites and conservatives and Christians the left is literally paving the way to a another Trump election
Towards the end of the book the author claims that most conservatives voted for Trump because or primarily because he was so entertaining. But I strongly disagree with the author. The entertainment value is probably what attracted the most attention from the media and both sides of the political Spectrum but it was by no means how he won the presidency. After so many years of government waste and government corruption, particularly after the Obama presidency, but also much further before then is how Trump won the presidency.
Our country is not managed by Congress and the president. It is it is plainly obvious that America is being run by such groups as unions and big business such as Goldman Sachs. Only the most stupid and naive people would truly believe that there nationally elected leaders are serving in their constituents best interest. The biggest thing that set Trump apart from other candidates and from previous presidents is simply that Trump is no politician. Trump is by and large a business man and a very successful one at that.
Many of his voters were sick and tired of never ending war that did nothing but put our soldiers lives at risk and waste billions of taxpayer dollars on rebuilding countries that in the end led to absolutely no real Improvement. We were sick of our country being abused by exploitative trade agreements by countries such as China. We are sick of the new social justice warrior class and political correctness and progressive ideology that is polluting our universities and our society. We are sick of the propagandizing nature and the bias and sensational news media that has been a plague since the Bush Administration. We are absolutely thrilled that Trump is taking them on like the roaches they are. We are sick of our once low health insurance rates Rising ever since the Obamacare Fiasco. We are sick of the nationally run education system that is failing our teachers and failing our students. We are sick and tired of the thousands of regulations and taxes that are harming our businesses. We are sick and tired of the swamp our pathetic congressional representatives who do little to nothing more then ensure their next election. We are sick and tired of company bailouts and government propping up and rewarding failing big businesses. The last four presidents that this country has had have all been unsuccessful in handling each and every one of these topics. Finally with all of her lies, deceptions, secrets, and Scandals, Hillary Clinton was arguably the most evil and despicable serious Contender for president since our nation was founded. How can the author argue in light of all of this, that Trump is a threat to our nation just because he is a cocky bullheaded potty mouth. I'd be the first person to admit that Trump has a poor character. But I would much rather someone who could effectively run a massive institution like our country as successfully as he has his corporate Empire and win. And for the most part from what I have seen I am happy with what he has done, and I am more optimistic about his leadership than I have been in years of establishment presidents.
I believe at this time, Trump was exactly what our nation needed. We needed a a president who could lead and who knew how to win, not just another polite, well-groomed scmoozola like Obama was. There was no real progress of any kind under the Obama Administration. Only lots of pretty photo-ops of Obama with his family which was the only thing that the public really took notice of. The author paints very bleak, pessimistic, and nostalgic portrayal of the Trump Administration, and the author also seems to completely ignore the defining skills and positive attributes of the president.
The author also erroneously claims that some of the very same conservatives who support Trump wanted Clinton impeached for his adulterous Behavior. Clinton was in fact impeached on two charges, those being perjury and obstruction of justice. Most of the country, Republicans and Democrats alike were disgusted by Bill's immoral Behavior but this in of itself had nothing to do with his impeachment....more
Another incredible masterpiece by my favorite author. O'Reilly follows the worst of the worst of the Nazi SS throughout Europe and even into the UniteAnother incredible masterpiece by my favorite author. O'Reilly follows the worst of the worst of the Nazi SS throughout Europe and even into the United States, Brazil, Argentina, Bolivia, and Paraguay. I was amazed how many SS fled to South America after WWII, including one notorious and particular brutal female SS who ended up immigrating to San Francisco after the war. Also surprising was the support they received from the Vatican and the Red Cross. Even the CIA and FBI offered refuge to some of the escaped Nazi SS in exchange for intel and espionage actions against the Soviets. Then there is the heroic actions of the new State of Israel tracking down the most notorious escaped SS in South American, capturing them, and bringing them to justice.
This is a phenomenal read and Bill O' Reilly is one of the best history authors alive today. ...more
I was expecting a book on trade Wars, economic sanctions, currency manipulation, cyber-espionage, and other hostile trading practices such as dumping,I was expecting a book on trade Wars, economic sanctions, currency manipulation, cyber-espionage, and other hostile trading practices such as dumping, Chinese flooding of the US market with extremely cheap Goods to obtain in monopoly and then jacking up the prices. And the ever present fear of war with China. Anti-dumping trade disputes in the steel and textile Industries. This book hardly addresses these issues.
To begin, Paulson addresses the fledgling state-owned telecommunications company and in comparison with United States only a small percentage of the Chinese have access to wireless service and most of these people live on in the coastal regions or in the large cities, and even still the service is undependable and slow. This is where the author and Goldman Sachs step in with an offering to Ju Jintao to help the state-owned company go public with an IPO. After an important meeting making this offer with the leaders of the Marxist regime the author describes thinking "How exactly are we going to get this done?" The author and his team from Goldman Sachs also led the IPO of Bank of China Hong Kong
Paulson also discusses how he and Goldman Sachs helped lead Petro-china through major restructurings which was also introduced to the Chinese Public Market.
A crucial lesson in negotiating large business deals in a state-run authoritarian economy like China "...many officials could approve a deal, but it took only one well-placed official in a consensus ruled system to kill it."
The author is an avid conservationist and he used his clout with Chinese authorities to to convince them to strengthen the Chinese State Environmental agency and adopt new reforms to protect the environment at a time when China's surging industry was causing massive pollution. This along with the creation of China's first conservation area in the Ulong province. The area is about the size of the state of West Virginia. (see TNC - The Nature Conservancy)
The author is entirely neutral and if anything a little too complimentary of the Chinese government. He does not raise any criticism of Chinese Trade Practices such as the undervaluing of Chinese currency which has been detrimental to business in the United States...more
Fame comes generously to Heroes during peacetime. I certainly don't mean to diminish the incredible heroic acts accomplished by these guys, particularFame comes generously to Heroes during peacetime. I certainly don't mean to diminish the incredible heroic acts accomplished by these guys, particularly Spencer. Sprinting unarmed directly at a heavily armed terrorist in his line of fire requires balls of steel most of us will never have. But there are a countless number comparable heroic acts achieved by our soldiers amidst battle or during an ambush, or after an IED that go without such fanfare.
I've never read a book more oddly compiled as this one. Maybe because the book was written by multiple authors, namely, the three friends who helped take down and subdue the terrorist. All three of these guys took part in writing this book so the narrative is rehashed three different times. The first half of the book is a biography of sorts of the three of them as well as a travelogue of their trip through Europe which I found interesting. The latter half of the book is the reminiscing and celebrating that followed. The actual train attack, which of course lasted a grand total of several minutes is mentioned sporadically throughout, like the slow-motion climax of a suspense novel.
All the reminiscing and the media and celebrity Hoo-Ha during the second half of the book is where I completely lost interest an wished for things to quickly wrap up.
I'm still confused as to what role Anthony had to play in taking down the terrorist, aside from being on scene during the whole event. The story makes it pretty clear that Spencer takes down and subdues the terrorist while Alec beats him into unconsciousness. ...more
"Many of the decisions reached in the wake of 9/11 were wrong, but they were issued by men and women frightened far more by the prospect of having don"Many of the decisions reached in the wake of 9/11 were wrong, but they were issued by men and women frightened far more by the prospect of having done too little, than by the consequences of having done too much." -Ted Koppel
I thoroughly enjoyed Koppel's take on our infrastructure vulnerabilities, and his suggestions on needed reforms and national vs personal emergency preparedness. Where his major concern seems to be the electric grid, I disagree. I strongly feel that our communications and financial infrastructures are MUCH more vulnerable. What scares me most of all, even more than a cyber/bio/chem/nuke/ attack is the compromising of top officials and powerful key leaders within our military and government, international leadership bodies, or major businesses and financial institutions through blackmail or extortion. We live in a time of digital footprints, when dark, closely guarded secrets can be retrieved and exploited. Most people have no idea how much of what they do is recorded, stored, and easily accessible by anyone who has the desire and means to do so. If our nation is somehow toppled or faces a major crisis, it will happen slowly and at the hands of our own leaders because they have been compromised. I also fear for the rising generation of leaders. Most of this new generation SEVERELY lacks ethics/morals, critical thinking skills, grit, character, and interpersonal communication skills so desperately needed in good leadership. I'm a realist and I believe our world and nation faces a very dark future.
He raves about the LDS church and the church's unrivaled massive collection of food, clothing, and other preparedness aid, and it's measures to strongly encourage community planning and food storage through it's membership.
In a nutshell Ted Koppel discusses the following: EMP attacks and powerful solar flares, cyber terrorism including Viruses such as Stuxnet, back-doors, data exploitation, the fallacy of air gap security, deterioration of major transformers, the NSA, NORAD, DHS, power grid vulnerabilities, rogue state and non-state actor threats, cyber terrorism, survivalists and preppers, Wyoming and rural self sufficiency, and of course, the Mormon Church.
On an unrelated note regarding the author, I grew up seeing Ted Koppel on the nightly news in the 80's and 90's and saw him as a solid guy. Although I still think well of Ted, I was strongly disappointed and disenchanted with him after his cruel exchanges with both Bill O' Reilly and Sean Hannity, essentially telling them that they were horrible for American viewers and cable TV. Obviously, these guys are COMMENTATORS, not traditional news reporters. Bill injects a lot of factual journalism in his show along with his commentary. It was unfair for Ted to attack Bill and Sean for the same type of political commentary heavily practice by pundits on CNN, MSNBC, and ABC among other TV networks, and publications such as the New York Times, Newsweek, etc. More and more, particularly within the last few years (including when this book was written) the entire Media industry including ALL the major outlets heavily participate in bias, selective, nonobjective reporting and commentary. This is no secret and I'm sure Koppel knows this very well. Bill and Sean have contributed greatly to us and our troops. Needless to say, following Ted's loathsome remarks, I lost a lot of respect for him.
*** Additional Quotes from the Book *** The U.S. Tax code in a nutshell. The Basic Tools of Government: "... which are extortion and bribes: Either I give you grant dollars to get you to do something you would not otherwise do, or I tax you to change behavior for what you will not otherwise do." Craig Fugate, former Director of FEMA under Obama
"If we insist to adamantly on protecting privacy, we will sacrifice both free enterprise and security. In the age of the internet privacy is at risk no matter what we do. What is at issue is if we are prepared to surrender some of our privacy to our own intelligence agencies in order to protect against even greater intrusions from a growing array of external enemies." -Ted Koppel
"We're all ignorant, just about different things" -Will Rogers...more
This book is primarily the author's philosophy and personal biography. Interesting parts of the book include his discussion of literary history and edThis book is primarily the author's philosophy and personal biography. Interesting parts of the book include his discussion of literary history and education policy.
We live in a time of increasing entitlement. Our schools and the incompetent bureaucracy that controls them is failing our children despite funding that increases drastically year after year. (note: this funding does not go to the deserving teachers in our k-12 schools) Yet in side-by-side comparative studies, our students are falling further behind other countries and have been for years. Microaggressions and "safe spaces" continue to overshadow real world learning and substantive debate. Our universities are getting pathetic. More adults are living at home and and have an increasingly difficult time graduating from the "training-wheel" phase. More and more adults are brainwashed by fake online 'news' and main stream media propaganda 'news' while college professors spoon feed students with bias personal opinion rather than teach students to challenge all sides of an issue. The coming crisis will take place when professionals in the public sector, media, government, and even some parts of the private sector will be too incompetent and foolish to effectively fill the shoes of their predecessors. This will end in the toppling of the system by some means.
He spends a lot of time talking about his personal experiences growing up, and family life. He spends a lot of time on philosophical discussion quoting several authors and philosophers but some large segments of the book seem to drag on.
My biggest problem with the author is that throughout the book he rattles off a number of surveys and studies but often does not cite the source where he retrieved the data. This is frustrating because some of the information is very interesting but is completely useless to me without a source.
The author seems to place a lot of importance on poetry and Shakespeare. Useful in certain environments, but certainly not necessary enough to distract children from other more meaningful areas of study.
*** Interesting quotes from the book *** " I have never let School interfere with my education" Mark Twain
"He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have." Socrates
"The very idea of trigger warnings marginalizes the idea of very big topics insulating people from not only new ideas but intellectual and character development that comes from being forced to articulate, and potentially, to revise our views and positions." -Ben Sasse
"Congress appropriated in inflation-adjusted dollars 67 billion to the Department of Education Federally up from 56 billion a decade earlier in 2004 and up from 25 billion in 1994 and that up from 14 billion in 1984 again all inflation-adjusted dollars and yet there was no substitute of improvement in the reading or the math scores of 8 through 12th grade students on the national assessment of educational progress over the period. " Ben Sasse...more
Newt Gingrich is one of the few career politicians from Washington who I believe sincerely has the best interests of our nation at heart. Therefore, INewt Gingrich is one of the few career politicians from Washington who I believe sincerely has the best interests of our nation at heart. Therefore, I put a great deal of confidence in what he says. I was actually quite surprised by his support for Trump since many of the establishment Republicans who have been serving in Washington for a long period of time have voiced opposition to Trump due to their fears of Trump undermining the status quo of the Republican Party (one of the very reasons why I've been a Trump supporter). As this is a favorable take on Trump written during the early months of his administration, Gingrich explains throughout the book why he supports the President.
The book is not entirely about Trump, and one shouldn't suppose that this should be akin to a biography. Gingrich provides plenty of his own personal commentary on political issues.
There is so much of value to take from the book. In the section below I listed a handful of quotes that I found particularly useful or interesting in no particular order. The statements were made by Newt Gingrich himself unless otherwise noted.
(view spoiler)[ "Natural learning means learning on an as needed basis. In such a learning situation, motivation is never a problem. We learn because something caused us to want to know. School has no natural motivation associated with it. Students go there because they have no choice. The same is true for most training situations." -Roger Schank
"Learning occurs when someone wants to learn, not when someone wants to teach." -Roger Schank
"After only a few days in office, President Trump saved U.S. taxpayers a half-billion dollars on the disastrous F-35 joint-strike fighter program."
"As a result of stringent and unnecessary regulatory processes, many people have died waiting for a drug not yet approved by the FDA. Trump has taken on the FDA as he vowed to do, and pushed through reform to allow streamlining the drug approval process."
"One thing that's always disturbed me, they come up with a new drug for a patient who is terminal and the FDA says, 'We can't have this drug used on the patient.' But they say, 'But the patient within 4 weeks will be dead.' They the FDS says, 'Well, we still can't approve the drug and we don't want to hurt the patient'." -Donald Trump
"The Congressional Budget Office, CBO, is a corrupt institution which used the designer of Obamacare as its adviser in scoring Obamacare. The score was a lie. It was so wrong it was fundamentally indefensible. A year later the CBO produced a new score that was so much more expensive, that it was clear Obamacare would have been defeated if it had been the original score." -Newt Gingrich
The Intellectual Yet Idiot- "A rising group of people who are quietly filling roles in government, politics, journalism and academia..... Members of this group are characterized by being 'highly qualified on paper' but bereft of real practical intelligence." -Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Author of Skin in the Game
"One of the continuing surprises to president Trump has been the continued willingness of the elite media to lie. Initially he would be shocked and uncertain how to respond... he was simply unprepared for the brutality and depth of dishonesty of our national media. To this day, he is surprised when reporters repeat various stories even when it is clear how false they are."
"Over the last 20 years, the left has shifted from being anti-segregation and pro-integration to a new desire for racial identity and the new segregation."
"One message I do have for Democrats is that a strategy that's just micro-targeting particular discreet groups in a Democratic coalition, sometimes will win an election, but it's not going to win you the broad mandate that you need." -President Barrack Obama
According to the office of the U.S. Trade Representative, we bought $497.8 billion worth of goods and services from China in 2015 and only sold $161.6 Billion. That means China companies made $336.2 Billion off of trade with the U.S. China achieves this lopsided trade ratio through a deliberate strategy of cheating and stealing. Just look at the aluminum trade, The Wall Street Journal reported in September 2016, that One of China's largest aluminum producers was avoiding a U.S. tariff by rerouting its products through Mexico. (hide spoiler)]...more
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