This week's headlines are more than a footnote

This is going to hurt.

The headline on Alter Net, an online publication, on Tuesday morning was:

'In the Kremlin's pocket': NatSec advisor says world leaders thought he was a 'chump'

The headline referred to the upcoming book by H.R. McMasters, a three-star general who served in the Trump Administration.

In his book, "At War With Ourselves," McMasters has written that Trump was "often outmaneuvered by world leaders who used flattery to take advantage of him."

My old man commonly used the old phrase, "Flattery will get you nowhere."

And Dad was just a high school graduate with a lot of common s...