America

Submitted by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (annotated by Acting-Man.com's Pater Tenebrarum),

Everything Is Nonsense

If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?

– Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

A public service message from the Mad Hatter – bad news is bad. Ominous, even. Hat help us all!

Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders had as good a Tuesday as could have been expected.

Back in December, Pakistani-born Tashfeen Malik and her husband Syed Farook stormed a holiday party at a social services center in San Bernardino and killed 14 people with assault rifles. “Radical Islamic terrorism” had once again manifested itself on American soil.

In the wake of the shootings, Donald Trump - who at that point was still thought to be a long shot for the GOP presidential nomination - took his biggest political risk yet. He called for a complete ban on Muslims entering the country until lawmakers “can figure out what’s going on.”

On Monday, I read a 2009 book by sociologist Christian Smith and his research team, called Lost In Transition: The Dark Side of Emerging Adulthood. It talks about the inner lives — the moral lives — of young adults 18-23.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump is all pumped up against Muslims, calling for surveillance, torture and banning of people from the Islamic faith following the Belgium terror attacks. “This is going to happen in the United States,” said Trump on his social media account, hours after the horrific suicide bombings in Brussels. He also said that the country of “Belgium” is one of the most beautiful “cities” in the world. How does he get away with it all? Only time will tell. Maybe it is not that difficult being a billionaire!