ON THIS DAY – AT 8:07 A.M. ET:  The day is symbolic, given the events of the week.  On this day in 1945, exactly 70 years ago, the United States detonated the first nuclear device in the New Mexico desert.  It was familiarly called "the gadget," and the test was called Trinity. 

This week the United States and other powers concluded a nuclear agreement with Iran, one of the worst regimes in the world, supposedly to prevent that country from getting its own nuclear bomb.  The agreement does nothing of the kind, and we can expect Iran will eventually be a nuclear power. 

America on this day in 1945 was led by Harry S. Truman, a man ridiculed by some as too minor for the presidency, and who achieved the office only because he'd been vice president when Franklin D. Roosevelt died suddenly on April 12th of that year.  But Truman grew in office, and is now regarded as one of our great, or near-great presidents.  It was under his leadership that the foundation of our struggle against Soviet Communism was put in place. 

Today America is led by one Barack Hussein Obama Jr., a man seen as a demigod by some when he was swept into office in 2008 with the help of an adoring press.  But he has shrunk in office, and is the petty little man we see today.

This week, with his "agreement" with Iran, Barack Obama put this country in grave danger.  It is something Harry Truman would never have done. 

And yet Harry Truman could not come anywhere near the presidential nomination of his party, the Democratic Party, today. 

Sad.

July 16,  2015