The North Atlantic Treaty Organization is the U.S.-led military alliance created in 1949. Is it obsolete? Republican presidential frontrunner Donald Trump says yes. He says NATO should be reconfigured to address the realities of today’s terrorist threats. He may have a point. After the terrorist attacks on Americans in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, Congress asked […]
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8 Trump enemies helping him succeed
Regardless of what happens next, Trump has made it farther than virtually all original projections. With the benefit of hindsight, Trump’s attackers might have accurately stated: “This is going to hurt me more than it hurts you.” Here are eight Trump enemies helping him succeed. John McCain: McCain’s insult of Trump supporters last summer launched one of the […]
Fact Check: Media claims that Trump is anti-immigrant
This morning on ABC’s This Week, Univision‘s Jorge Ramos once again claimed Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called all Mexicans “rapists.” It’s a theme often forwarded by opinion reporters, as well as supposedly unbiased journalists. Other common narratives include that Trump is “racist,” “anti-immigrant,” “anti-Muslim,” “anti-Hispanic,” and “anti-Mexican.” For his part, Trump claims to be pro-immigration and says […]
NBC Survey: Trump Up (Cruz and Fiorina, too)
It’s just one survey but, if it is accurate, reports of Donald Trump’s imminent political demise once again appear to have been greatly exaggerated. A new NBC News Online Survey measured “Public Opinion on Republican Debates,” and was at odds, in some instances, with many pundits and a great deal of conventional wisdom. The survey was […]
