In the aftermath of the Orlando Terrorist Attack only one candidate, Donald Trump, has expressed moral clarity on the substantive issue. In a speech delivered earlier this week a singular sentence stands out against all others:
[…] America must unite the whole civilized world in the fight against Islamic terrorism, just like we did against communism in the Cold War… (more)
That sentence identifies a global vacuum. A missing element just too uncomfortable for President Obama and liberal leaders within multiple Western nations to acknowledge. From that sentence a clear policy is born. A missing policy; missing leadership.


I predict that in the coming weeks/months candidate Hillary Clinton and President Obama will be forced to accept and adopt the clarity within Donald Trump’s position. They’ll simply have to. Because if they don’t, the voters they need will abandon them in droves.
Neither Hillary Clinton, nor President Obama are willing to admit the transparently obvious: there is a threat from Islamic Terrorism, that directly endangers the core liberal values carried by their own base constituency. (more…)

This coming Sunday Fareed Zakaria (CNN) will broadcast an interview with Russian leader Vladimir Putin; that might actually be worth paying attention to… 


Baltimore Police Officer Cesar Goodson (left) is scheduled to begin his bench trial today, Thursday, in the third prosecution revolving around the Freddie Gray case. However, a stunning last minute motion to dismiss, based on a severe Brady violation from prosecutor Marilyn Mosby’s office, might just end the entire trial before it begins.