Democratic Presidential Candidate Jim Webb Says He Won't Vote For Clinton, Might Vote Trump
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
By nominating Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party is handing over the presidency to Donald Trump.
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
By nominating Hillary Clinton, the Democratic Party is handing over the presidency to Donald Trump.
I’ve been pretty explicit in this space for some time about how I think the Donald J. Trump phenomenon is based in something real. I mean, the grievances to which he speaks are not phantoms. What I find impossible to accept is that Trump is anything other than a voice of resentment. If he offered some kind of way to redress those grievances, to do something concrete about them, things would be different. If he had the moral probity and personal character to lead others to solutions, things would be different.
Overnight both freedom of press and democracy officially died in Turkey, with time of death just before midnight, when Turkish authorities stormed the Zaman daily, a newspaper staunchly opposed to president Recep Tayyip Erdogan, and after using tear gas and water cannon they seized its headquarters in a dramatic raid that raised fresh alarm over declining media freedoms.
The police used water cannon late on Friday at a hundreds-strong crowd that had formed outside the headquarters of the Zaman daily in Istanbul following a court order issued earlier in the day.
Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,
Donald Trump “appeals to racism.”
“[F]rom the beginning … his campaign has profited from voter prejudice and hatred” and represents an “authoritarian assault upon democracy.”
If Speaker Paul Ryan wishes to be “on the right side of history … he must condemn Mr. Trump clearly and comprehensively. The same goes for every other Republican leader.”
And the revelations just keep on coming.
One day after the St. Louis Fed spent thousands in taxpayer funds to "discover" that, gasp, "consumers across the country are borrowing more to buy cars and go to school", yes really...
Consumers across the country are borrowing more to buy cars and go to school https://t.co/mkKAoVya2o pic.twitter.com/DxMiHo7kki