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I met Svetlana (not her real name) outside a Russian tea house in New York City. Not the famous Russian Tea Room on W. 57th St. that has hosted glitterati, literati and Russian ex-pats since 1927, but a hole-in-the-wall, Mama and Papa joint in the far reaches ... More »
Edward Stanton 14 November 2017 I’m not in the White House Situation Room right now because I’m representing the Free World in Asia, but I want to tell you the situation anyway. I’ll make this brief because I like short documents. I like them even more i... More »
By Tom Deisboeck 3 November 2017 ### Tom Deisboeck is a Harvard-affiliated scientist turned entrepreneur who attended Technical University Medical School in Munich, Germany, and The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan Business School in Cambridge, ... More »
The president is revising the dictionary of the English language! Though he’s a man with three adjectives, two pronouns and few verbs, he’s made considerable headway in a daunting project. Usually, he simply reverses the meaning of a word, a phrase, or an ... More »
By Dan Geddes Thank god for the Deep State! If I thought Trump were really in charge, I wouldn’t sleep well at night. I have to say that with Trump as President I have new found appreciation for what is now called the Deep State, or what has been called the ... More »
“The P.R. Towel…because compassion needs a solid stance.” Tom Deisboeck is a Harvard-affiliated scientist turned entrepreneur who attended Technical University Medical School in Munich, Germany, and The Massachusetts Institut... More »
Let me be perfectly clear: President Donald J. Trump is not a murderer. I say this with absolute certainty. Our president is a fine man, a wonderful husband and father not to mention a billionaire and pure genius in business. There is no possible way he could ... More »
Hillary Clinton Yes, Trump could be right. I do have a few Russian connections; dinner twice at the Russian Tea Room before it closed in 2012, and as I recall, we had Beef Stroganoff and Chicken Kiev, though I don’t remember ordering caviar or borscht, or ... More »
By Dan Geddes WASHINGTON – “Trump is Putin’s puppet,” read several signs in the crowd. A liberal umbrella group called the Coalition for an Integrated America (CIA) held a rally yesterday in Lafayette Square near the White House, protesting Donald Trum... More »
Choose A for Donald John Trump, B for Don Vito Corleone from The Godfather by Mario Puzo Answers appear below. A friend should always underestimate your virtues and an enemy overestimate your faults. A or B? Friendship is everything. Friendship is more than th... More »