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As 2016 begins, an article from yahoo.com via Drudge, indicates some very tough going for the POTUS and his highly questionable Iran nuclear deal.  

Comments made by General Hossein Salami, Iran's Revolutionary Guards' deputy, referred to the deepening of a row with the US over Iran's growing ballistic missile program. 

The senior commandant indicated after Friday prayers, that Iran has so many missiles it doesn’t know where to hide them. The statement: “We lack enough space in our stockpiles to house our missiles," came after the United States threatened to impose fresh sanctions on Iran. 

The commandant told worshipers in Tehran that “hundreds of long tunnels are full of missiles ready to fly to protect your integrity, independence and freedom." Also promising to “never stop developing our defence deterrent"

According to yahoo: “The general's comments came after reports that the US had planned -- but later shelved -- to unveil a fresh round of sanctions following two recent missile tests by the Islamic republic. 

“The mooted financial penalties on companies and individuals in Iran, Hong Kong and the United Arab Emirates, for apparent links to Tehran's missile programme, highlighted worsening US-Iran relations. 

“They also put in jeopardy a landmark deal struck in July between Iran and six world powers including the US, which is due to be formally implemented within weeks. 

“Iran's President Hassan Rouhani denounced the US moves Thursday as "hostile and illegal interventions" that must be met with a response.” 

So, with the passage of time, continuing events indicate what the administration should have known from the very beginning. That Iran had no true intention of living up to its false promises, but would say anything to gain relief from crippling sanctions. 

And what’s most interesting about the dire weaponry situation is that, while the POTUS tries his best to afford Iran the benefit of all doubts, continuing to protect that nation from dissenters in Congress and the public, Iran itself won’t let him as it keeps doing what it pleases militarily, regardless.    

 

On another subject, it appears that the Carson campaign’s suffering major problems. Although reaching second place in the polls in the middle of 2015, the latest Real Clear Politics average of recent polls shows he’s slipped to fourth place, behind Trump, Cruz and  Rubio. 

Perhaps that’s why the doctor’s campaign was shaken up Thursday by the resignation of three of his most senior staffers, despite taking in more donations than his GOP rivals. His camp has announced that they had brought in $23 million in donations in the fourth quarter, surpassing all other Republicans, including Texas Sen. Ted Cruz who had brought in $20 million.

One of those resigning, Communications Director Doug Watts, told Fox News: “Having just announced raising $23 million for the 4th quarter, more than any other Republican candidate, and passing 1 million contributions and over 600K unique donors since March, we are proud of our efforts for Dr. Carson and we wish him and his campaign the best of luck.” 

However, “luck” isn’t likely the real answer. Because as time goes by voters realize that the job of POTUS requires significant skills and experience at senior government levels, which the doctor and several other candidates simply don’t possess despite their considerable success elsewhere.

And although there’s almost a year left until election day 2016, all those that haven’t at least been governors, ought to drop out of the race for the good of their nation. Because, as mentioned here often before, the job doesn’t come with training wheels.  

Which brings us to today’s update on Bill Clinton's wife. 

According to Rachael Bade and Josh Gerstein @politico.com, “More than 1,200 emails from Hillary Clinton's private server during her time at the State Department have now been deemed classified, after the agency publicly released its eighth batch of the messages late Thursday.” 

Among those roughly 5,500 more pages of emails, an additional 275 messages have now upgraded to classified, bringing the total number of retroactively classified emails that moved through Bill’s wife’s unsecured server to 1,274. 

“While most of those were elevated to the “confidential” level, according to a State Department official, two in the most recent batch were upgraded to the “Secret” level, a more sensitive classification for issues that affect national security.” 

In keeping with the pattern uncovered by the ongoing email releases: “Two other emails highlight the extent to which Clinton as secretary of state continued her involvement with the Clinton Global Initiative and the Clinton Foundation — at least from a distance. A Sept. 15, 2011 email shows State sent 10 of Clinton’s senior staffers to the 2011 annual CGI event, where world leaders and CEOs mingle to discuss global problems while also striking business deals.”

Furthermore, the releases show an ever higher number of classified messages: “Some 8.6 percent were redacted in whole or in part because they contained information that the government deemed too secret to be released to the public.”

Thus, the probability of future punitive action from the FBI as its investigation develops now seems considerably higher. Which brings up the continuing question: Joe Biden, Mayor Bloomberg, Jerry Brown, and Starbuck’s chairman and CEO, Howard Schultz, are you guys reading this?  

That’s it for today folks.

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