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1. Jeff Ferry: Aggressive Trump Trade Strategy Begins to Emerge

2. Michael Stumo: Trump’s Executive Order on Trade Deficits is a Step Towards Action

3. Lowell Ponte: Can Secession Succeed?

4. James Hirsen: Scarlett Johansson Film Ensnared in “Whitewashing” Controversy

5. Dr. Gerard Lameiro: Left’s Power to Attack Trump is About to Collapse

6. Joe Messina: Dems Chasing the Lie

Aggressive Trump Trade Strategy Begins to Emerge

By Jeff Ferry

Two developments in recent days provide an early indication that the Trump Administration is determined to take a new approach to international trade.  And it looks like this new approach is aggressively focused on trade agreement reform and policies that could lead to higher U.S economic growth. First, was last weekend’s meeting of the Group of 20 (G-20) nations finance ministers in Baden-Baden, Germany. The finance ministers agreed on a “communiqué” to form the basis for the July meeting of G-20 heads of state. U.S. Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin was the “new kid in school” at the meeting as most of the other finance ministers have attended many previous such get-togethers. But instead of standing shyly at the back of the room, Mnuchin demanded that a phrase about “resisting protectionism” be removed from the communiqué. That’s significant because it shows that the Administration is determined to fight its corner in international forums. It’s also significant because Mnuchin, a Goldman, Sachs veteran, had not said much about trade policies before last weekend. Mnuchin has now made it clear he is supporting President Trump’s desire for a new aggressive trade policy. [more...]

Trump’s Executive Order on Trade Deficits is a Step Towards Action

By Michael Stumo

While the trade deficit deniers continue issuing Fake Trade News, President Trump signed a recent executive order entitled “Omnibus Report on Significant Trade Deficits.” This is an important step towards action.  The resulting document trade deficits and their causes in the context of harm to U.S. workers as well as the productive capacity of the U.S. Trump’s executive order directs the Secretary of the Commerce, the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and other agencies to prepare the Omnibus Trade Deficit report in 90 days. [more...]

Can Secession Succeed?

By Lowell Ponte

On March 29 the UK began its official exit from the European Union (EU), an emerging empire that has been erasing the sovereignty and identity of 28 member nations. President Trump praised the British and urged more nations to leave the EU. “Brexit isn’t the end,” said a furious Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the European Commission and EU boss. “If [Mr. Trump] goes on like that, I am going to promote the independence of Ohio and Austin, Texas in the U.S.” In rare agreement over secession, Brexit leader Nigel Farage now supports the independence of part of California, at least from Los Angeles and Hollywood north to the San Francisco Bay. Farage would let the more conservative parts of California – its eastern counties plus Orange County and the state’s second largest city San Diego – remain in the U.S. [more...]

Scarlett Johansson Film Ensnared in “Whitewashing” Controversy

By James Hirsen

“Whitewashing” is the term currently used to describe the Hollywood practice of casting white actors in non-white character roles. It is being used in a severe critique of actress Scarlett Johansson and the film in which she appears, “Ghost in the Shell,” which opened this past weekend. The Media Action Network for Asian Americans (MANAA), a group that monitors the depiction and coverage of Asian Americans in the media, issued a statement condemning the casting of Johansson in the new movie. The group’s statement accuses the film of whitewashing the character of Motoku Kusanagi, a role that Johansson plays in the film derived from a Japanese graphic novel of the same name as the movie’s title. MANAA made it a point to pick apart Johansson’s recent interview on “Good Morning America” (GMA), an appearance in which the actress stated that she “would never attempt to play a person of a different race, obviously.” MANAA responded with some strong words, writing that “she [Johansson] was lying.” [more...]

Left’s Power to Attack Trump is About to Collapse

By Dr. Gerard Lameiro

While the Left’s power to attack and block President Trump might seem formidable at the moment, look closer and you will see that it’s about to collapse. In fact, later this year, you can expect the Left’s power to shrivel up to a more typical level of opposition seen during other administrations. You probably will ask: Why will the Left’s power collapse? The truth is President Trump won the election fairly in the Electoral College. And it’s within the realm of possibility that Trump also won the popular vote because there might have been millions of votes cast for Clinton that were questionable. [more...]

Dems Chasing the Lie

By Joe Messina

I’ve been chasing the minute-by-minute propaganda machine and their minions in the Democrat Party. The fake news mill machine has been putting out fake titles faster than a BushMaster AR-15 can empty a 30-round magazine of .223’s. Now they want to pound home that the Russians influenced the election and that the Trump team colluded with them. However, those same 17 intelligence agencies that the Dems say have information on the Russian involvement also say there is NO connection between the Trump team and the Russians (they don’t want to hear it). Influence? You mean because they may have (not proven they did) hacked the DNC server and released e-mails showing how Dems really feel about Jews and blacks and how they burned Bernie? Because those 17 agencies say there was no tampering with any voting equipment, that means the Russians didn’t steal votes. The hack just let Democrat voters see the real truth about how their Party sees them. [more...]