Soon to be former President Obama once famously boasted that he had a pen and a phone, and if Congress didn't do what he wanted to, he would act unilaterally.  Liberals didn't have a problem with that.  But now that Trump is using a phone, liberals are outraged.  Imagine what color they will turn when he whips out his pen! The left is outraged that Trump spoke to foreign leaders without the sage counsel of the State Department.  Look at the New York Times' inflammatory, and untrue headline: "How Trump's Calls to World Leaders Are Upsetting Decades of Diplomacy." Decades of diplomacy!  Among Trump's alleged missteps is that he spoke to the leader of Taiwan.  Evidently, no president has spoken to the leader of Taiwan since 1979 for fear of upsetting China.  But Trump did, and now China is upset.  It is almost as if we are considering our own national interests before China's.  Taiwan is a democracy;...(Read Full Post)