Ben Sasse is the man of the hour. On this first-term Republican senator from Nebraska lie the hopes of conservatives opposed to presumptive GOP nominee Donald Trump.
Conservative columnists beg him to run for president. Erick Erickson, arguably the right’s best-known blogger, calls him a hero and “the voice of intellectual conservatives in the United States.”
From Bloomberg News to George Soros to the Houston Chronicle, suddenly gold and the gold standard is hot in the news. Have the elites finally begun to understand real money…or is something else at play?
Authored by Chris Hedges, originally posted at TruthDig.com,
The artifice of corporate totalitarianism has been exposed. The citizens, disgusted by the lies and manipulation, have turned on the political establishment. But the game is not over. Corporate power has within its arsenal potent forms of control. It will use them. As the pretense of democracy is unmasked, the naked fist of state repression takes its place. America is about—unless we act quickly—to get ugly.
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Submitted by David Stockman via Contra Corner blog,
You have to love it when one of Donald Trump’s wild pitches sends the beltway hypocrites into high dudgeon. But his rumination about negotiating a discount on the Federal debt was priceless.