Of course, all of the positive economic trends Trump cited began with his predecessor, Barack Obama, who guided the country out of the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. Obama was, in essence, like the homeowner who purchased a tumbledown wreck of a house, renovated it completely and turned it over to a new owner. Trump has the key now, and likes to show it off, but he never mentions the hard work done before he moved in.

The Davos crowd knows the back story, and generally approved of Obama's leadership on trade, climate change and other global issues that Trump has generally reversed. They also worry about Trump's temperament when it comes to the basics of democracy. It's worth noting that when the President complained about the "nasty, mean, and fake" press, some in the crowd subjected him to boos and hissing.
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This negative response reminded all of the reality hanging over Trump and his presidency. For all his salesmanship and cheerleading, he remains a troubling and divisive figure. His distortions, lies and frequent reversals have led many to believe he is not to be trusted. Yes, his tax cut bought him a moment of acceptance at Davos, but it didn't buy him the kind of love that lasts.

The Hill is left of center????


The fish wrap you use does not even make the graph..

But to the point.. Franken was elected in a very close election the first time and all recounts and voting was done by the law of Minnesota..

It was fair and honest. You will never believe that, but the people of Minnesota backed it up with a resounding vote for him in the next election..

It also has nothing to do with voter fraud as overturned by the courts..

drivers licence keep being used as the id form.. But some of the laws overturned specifies that drivers license can not be used for voter id not for getting that voter id..

And those alternative forms of id prove very difficult for some people to get.. Thus a form of voter suppression..

http://www.e-ir.info/2015/01/03/review-us-arms-policies-towards-the-shahs-iran/

the us canceled the last order of plains, not Iran. the US also stopped delivery of spare parts which proved very successful in limiting the use of this plains in later years.

the price was negotiated as it always is. Plains are not purchased from a catalog..

The supply of arms from the US started to climb in 1953 after Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammad Mosaddegh was overthrown in a coup engineered by the British and American intelligence services. The Iranian shah, Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi, returned from exile to rule and become a close ally of the US.

According to a Senate Committee on Foreign Relations staff report in 1976, Iran was the largest single purchaser of US military equipment then. Military sales had increased more than sevenfold from $524 million in 1972 to $3.91 billion in 1974.

SIPRI data shows that the amount rose and peaked in 1977.

(Note: The import values shown in the chart are not actual transaction price. They are measured using a common unit formulated by the SIPRI called trend-indicator value expressed in US dollars at constant 1990 prices to allow comparison and identification of general trends.)

The staff report stated that in 1972 President Richard Nixon and his then-national security adviser, Henry Kissinger, agreed for the first time to “sell Iran virtually any conventional weapons it wanted.” With its oil revenue, Iran acquired some of the most sophisticated US military equipment and received training and technical assistance from American personnel.

The US-Iran alliance collapsed in 1979 when the shah's authoritarian rule led to riots, protests and eventually the Iranian Revolution. The shah was again forced into exile. An Islamic fundamentalist force, led by anti-American cleric Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, took power and turned Iran into an Islamic republic.

US arms export to Iran was ceased abruptly and earlier orders canceled after Islamic militants took 52 Americans hostage inside the US embassy in Tehran in November 1979.

If you click the zoom-in button on the chart above to focus on the period from 1980 to 2015, you'll notice the US still sold a small amount of weapons to Iran between 1984 to 1986. According to SIPRI database, those are arms were sold covertly and illegally by the US with the help of Israel despite an arms embargo against the Iran.

The US attempted to secure the release of hostages in Lebanon through the clandestine arms deals. The proceeds from the sales were used to fund guerrillas fighting against the left-wing government in Nicaragua in an effort to stop the spread of socialism in Latin America. The scandal would later known as the Iran-Contra affair.