Category Archives: america

A Thin Crowd For Trump

January 21, 2017 – 4:22 pm

Watching the inauguration yesterday I was struck by the low volume of the applause and then spotted large gaps in the audience. The National Park Service is banned from estimating crowds due to GOP budget constraints. The Trump people said the crowd numbered around 250,000 supporters or an eighth of the turn-out for Barack Obama. […]

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Goodbye Good, Hello The Donald

January 20, 2017 – 1:41 pm

Barack Obama has been president for the last eight years. Today he walked out of the White House to resume his life as an ordinary citizen of the USA and hours later the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court swore in Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States. The new leader of […]

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ROADS OF THE FLYOVER Chapter 1 by Peter Nolan Smith

December 30, 2016 – 8:10 am

The Old crew met at Miguel Abreau’s Gallery on Orchard Street to honor Brock Dundee’s documentary about Afghanistan that he had filmed for the UK MoD. The Scot had flown in helicopters to battle sites and crossed the mountains on foot with the assassins of the SAS. At dinner Dannatt joked that his old friend […]

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Donald Trump’s Grreat

December 1, 2016 – 7:03 pm

Donald Trump touched his followers with his promise of leading America to greatness and his election to the White House shocked his Democratic opponents. The actual vote gave the plurality to the former Secretary of State, despite the suspect results from the electronic voting machines. Hillary Clinton accepted the results and her supporters cried at […]

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Donald Trump To Declare A Tax Jubilee

November 13, 2016 – 12:41 pm

Throughout the 2016 presidential campaign rumors of a tax jubilee leaked from Donald J Trump camp and one confidential informer said that the billionaire was planning to extend the tax holiday of the rich to every native born American. This insider had allegedly overheard Trump state to his entourage, “If I don’t pay taxes, why […]

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