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Timely and always to the point, "The Group's View" Blog includes Tom Rogan, Pat Buchanan, Eleanor Clift and Clarence Page plus an on-going array of recent guests and thought leaders discussing the hottest issues concerning our nation and world today.
Tom Rogan
October 13, 2020
How US gas exports to Europe are undermining Vladimir Putin
Russia's energy giant Gazprom isn't very happy with its energy competitors in the United States. The reason? Expanding U.S. liquid natural gas exports to Europe, which is good news for the U.S. and its European allies but not for Gazprom and its Kremlin masters.
Speaking on Monday, Elena Burmistrova, head of Gazprom exports, explained why the end of the coronavirus pandemic offers little cause for optimism. "One of [the challenges] is general oversupply, which we are likely to see in 2021 as well." Burmistrova continued, “U.S. LNG suppliers have unbalanced the European market and failed to stabilize it." That's another way of saying that competition and increased supply drive down prices.
Pat Buchanan
October 13, 2020
Is War With China Becoming Inevitable?
Tensions are rising between the U.S. and China, as the list of ideological, political and economic clashes continues to lengthen. And there is a transparent new reality: China seems in no mood to back down.
“The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border,” Secretary of State Michael Pompeo ominously warned on Friday.
He spelled out what he meant to commentator Larry O’Connor:
“The Chinese have now begun to amass huge forces against India in the north…They absolutely need the United States to be their ally and partner in this fight.”
Eleanor Clift
October 12, 2020
Here’s How McConnell Gets Amy Coney Barrett Confirmed No Matter What
Neither sickness nor gloom will keep the majority leader from the swift completion of her appointment.
Stopping Mitch McConnell from his latest SCOTUS power grab will take an act of providence even with three GOP senators sidelined by COVID-19 and Senate rules requiring an in-person vote to advance the nomination of Amy Coney Barrett and then confirm her before the election.
There is nothing McConnell won’t do to get Barrett on the Supreme Court. If senators infected with COVID can’t be in Washington, he could change the rules about in-person voting, just for SCOTUS nominations, the same way he deployed the so-called nuclear option to end the filibuster so he could confirm Justices Gorsuch and Kavanaugh with fewer than 60 votes.
Clarence Page
October 13, 2020
How hatred became all the rage in our politics
Are we Americans hating more now but enjoying it less? Let me count the ways:
A self-styled “militia” group is charged by the FBI with an alleged plot to kidnap Michigan’s Democratic Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and make her stand “trial” for forcing residents to wear masks during the COVID-19 pandemic.