I want to ask when the gun violence will finally stop in this country. But I know better than to ask, because the answer is “not anytime soon.” A gunman wielding an assault-type rifle and a handgun took hostages and opened fire inside a crowded Florida nightclub, killing approximately 20 people dead and wounding 42 […]
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Without charismatic Castro and Russian/Venezuelan support, and with sky-high oil prices, the communist regime is brittle. But as the secretary of state discovers in Iran, breaking things is the easy part.
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