Trump, Pentagon set to announce plan to withdraw more US troops from Iraq

A coordinated announcement is expected sometime Wednesday. President Trump and the Pentagon plan to announce a reduction of U.S. troop levels from 5,200 to about 3,500, a senior defense official told Fox News. The coordinated announcement is expected sometime Wednesday and the Iraqis … Read More

Israel-UAE deal: Will Jordan’s custodianship of the Al-Aqsa Mosque be affected?

posted in: Middle East, News

An ambiguously phrased statement has left Jordan guessing whether its custody of Jerusalem’s Muslim and Christian religious sites is under threat. A Palestinian Muslim man leaves after performing the Friday prayer in occupied East Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque compound on 21 … Read More

NBA Playoff Ratings Slip As Fans Grumble That League Has Become ‘Too Political’

LeBron James has been an outspoken critic of President Trump.  KEVORK DJANSEZIAN/GETTY IMAGES Some basketball fans are souring on the NBA’s support of teams and players bringing politics onto the court, tossing an assist to President Donald Trump in his … Read More

Donald Trump’s no racist, as past acts and presidential record prove

Donald Trump is no racist. I have known him since 1973 and have never seen any indication or any form of racism. In fact, quite the contrary. When I was Manhattan Borough president and president of the New York City … Read More

ICE arrests 2,000 immigrants in largest sweep of the pandemic

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) announced on Tuesday it made more than 2,000 arrests during a six-week nationwide operation in July and August that focused on those with criminal convictions and charges, but also led to the arrests of … Read More

Weekly Report by Mark Armstrong – 28 August 2020

posted in: News, Weekly Update

Greetings from Tyler, Who said they didn’t? One of the things that everyone’s had to grapple with is the non-stop accusations hurled at the President and the United States in general, is that we’re all a bunch of racists.  They … Read More

Will We See a ‘Biden Effect’ at the Border?

Migrants being floated over the Rio Suchiate border from Guatemala to Mexico, January 2020, where they were required to apply for Mexican asylum if they want to stay. Photo by Todd Bensman. A few months after President Donald Trump’s 2016 … Read More

Trump: If Biden is elected, ‘China will own our country’

‘We lose billions, hundreds of billions of dollars. We get nothing from China’ President Trump told Fox News’ Steve Hilton on Sunday that he would be open to completely decoupling the U.S. economy from China, before warning:  “If Biden is elected, China … Read More

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