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Is Democracy Dead in Romania? 

When the "wrong" candidate gets more votes than anyone else, what is the establishment to do? Declare the election null and void...and ban that candidate from running again. Sound like a bad fictional movie? It's present day Romania. Tim talks to the leader of Romania's conservative party to learn what's really going on.

20 Years Later:
What does Iraq think of the United States? 

It was 20 years ago that Iraq ratified their post-Saddam Constitution. Tim traveled to Baghdad and sat down with Iraq's sitting President to talk about what the nation and its people think of America. 

Childish hissy fit:
Why some federal workers can’t describe
their own job to DOGE

Elon Musk and his team at the Department of Government Efficiency are trying to route out waste at all levels of government. They have implemented a common step in corporate America: asking employees to explain what they do. Musk specifically asked for five things government workers had done the previous week. This should be a 3 minute exercise via email. No big deal. Why then are so many employees having a melt down over the request? 

America's Superpower has met it's Kryptonite...
...the left's hatred for Donald Trump

In the real world, America developed its own superpower with a stable, consistent approach to war, peace, economics, human rights and criminal justice for more than 200 years -- a superpower known as the moral high ground.

Choosing the President by National Popular Vote:
A horrible idea

It’s time for the quadrennial discussion of the Electoral College. Every four years more than a few folks wonder aloud why the U.S. president isn’t simply chosen via a national popular vote. Since American schools don’t teach civics in class anymore, many newly minted adults have no idea the actual answer to this question

The 2024 US Presidential Campaign

Being the Best by Beating the Best - Neither Harris nor Trump are following that cliche​

Some of life's greatest wisdom comes from sports cliches. Among the greatest nuggets is the notion that to be the best you have to beat the best. We hear coaches say it. We hear players say it. In boxing the all-time greats are often considered such because of whom they fought. 

The Debate. Don't Ask Who Won, Ask Who Failed

The first and quite possibly only debate of the 2024 presidential election season between former President Donald Trump and current Vice President Kamala Harris is in the books. At the conclusion of every presidential debate, the one question that everyone asks and the two campaigns try to control the answer to, is, "Who won the debate?"

I Told You So...
Biden will not be the 2024 Democratic Nominee

For well over a year, I have been saying President Biden will not be the 2024 nominee of the Democrat Party. For well over a year I have been saying the nominee would be a black woman who would do next to no interviews...except with Oprah. I was right.