In May of 2018, Nicolas Maduro was re-elected for another term as Venezuela’s president and sworn into power on January 10th 2019. This second term will continue to 2025. However, foreign powers such as the European Union, United States, and the Lima Group have denounced Maduro as Venezuela’s president. In the months following Maduro’s “election,” […]
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2016 Popular Vote: Clinton, 65,835,514 Trump: 62,984,828 Winner: Trump “‘This may be the year when we finally come face to face with ourselves: finally just lay back and say it – that we are really just a nation of 220 million used car salesmen with all the money we need to buy guns, and no qualms at
Since November 8, 2016, many progressives have been pitching a collective hissy fit. Unable to believe that the shoo-in for office, that unsinkable-as-the-Titanic candidate, Hillary Rodham Clinton, lost the presidency to a “loser” like Donald J. Trump, they’ve lived in a perpetual state of denial—a state without a single electoral vote. Many see no irony
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I have to give Donald Trump credit. His presidency is truly historic, and future academics will be riding the Trump train through graduate schools in record numbers. Of course, he and his supporters disagree with me on why his administration is historic. They point to what he has done as success stories while I think
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Donald Trump is an abysmal failure when it comes to international politics. If you disagree with that statement, I offer China and Saudi Arabia as evidence. It was obvious to many when he was on the campaign trail that the Donald was a fraud when it came to his grandiose proclamations about his negotiating skills.
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There’s an old saying that even a broken clock is right twice a day. Of course that was pre-digital clocks. Now, a broken clock just stares at you with a blank face. The point is that it’s hard for anyone to be wrong all of the time. And sometimes, when talking about historical figures, what
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