Politics

President-elect Trump has once again started off his day with a tweet storm, this time aimed at Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer for being a "head clown" for his defense of the "Obamacare lie." 

Trump says that Democrats fully understand how badly Obamacare has failed but rather than admit their failures and try to find solutions they simply resort to the "typical political thing and blame" others.  He then closes with a plea for democrats and republicans to work together to find a "healthcare plan that really works."

Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,

As the financial crisis jolted the nation in September, Senator Charles E. Schumer was consumed. He traded telephone calls with bankers, then became one of the first officials to promote a Wall Street bailout. He spent hours in closed-door briefings and a weekend helping Congressional leaders nail down details of the $700 billion rescue package.

 

Submitted by Simon Black via SovereignMan.com,

It’s amazing what can happen in a week.

Before this publication went on hiatus last week, one of the last letters I wrote to you in 2016 was about the National Defense Authorization Act and its treasure trove of freedom-killing provisions.

Section 1287, for example, creates a new agency called the “Global Engagement Center”, aka Ministry of Truth.

It has one purpose: to combat fake news.

"In 2017 we enter a period of geopolitical recession," warns Eurasia Group president Ian Bremmer, adding that international war or "the breakdown of major central government institutions" isn't inevitable, though "such an outcome is now thinkable." In the company's 19th annual outlook, Eurasia fears that U.S. unilateralism under Donald Trump, China’s growing assertiveness and a weakened German Chancellor Angela Merkel will make 2017 the "most volatile" year for political risk since World War II.