Philip Klein discovers that Rubio is unreliable:
But to actually say that he would be “honored” by the chance to speak on Trump’s behalf at the GOP convention, and to downplay his previously stated problems with Trump as mere “policy differences,” is to prove the Rubio skeptics right.
That is, far from being an inspirational moral leader, Rubio has shown himself to be more of an opportunistic politician with his finger to the wind.
According to Russia’s General Staff the terrorist group Al-Nusra Front is receiving daily arms shipments across the border from Turkey. Lt. Gen. Sergey Rudskoy told journalists on Friday that the Al-Qaeda linked group remains a major destabilizing factor in Syria. The group used the ceasefire between government forces and moderate rebels in Syria to regroup and renew hostilities. RT reports: “Damascus is being continuously shelled from Eastern Ghouta. There were numerous attempts to capture power station near Homs and block the road connecting Aleppo and Damascus.
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
Here, a Clinton match-up is highly likely to be an unmitigated electoral disaster, whereas a Sanders candidacy stands a far better chance. Every one of Clinton’s (considerable) weaknesses plays to every one of Trump’s strengths, whereas every one of Trump’s (few) weaknesses plays to every one of Sanders’s strengths. From a purely pragmatic standpoint, running Clinton against Trump is a disastrous, suicidal proposition.
Following the propagandist double-speak gushing forth from the Obama administration over when a "boot on the ground" in Syria is a "boot on the ground," the following photographs via Agence France-Presse confirm US special operation forces in a rural village 40 miles from Raqqa.
France is running out of gasoline and suffering blackouts as the number of French strikers continues to grow, bringing the country to a grinding halt. Strikes in air traffic control rooms have seen most flights cancelled and hundreds of thousands of passengers stranded – and now the strike is about to hit the country’s nuclear power plants. Mishtalk.com reports: I offer this quote of the day: “One cannot just turn off a nuclear plant, it is not like a thermal or hydro plant.” The BBC reports French Labour Dispute: Strike Hits All Eight Oil Refineries.