Politics

Heidi Cruz dropped a bombshell during an Indiana campaign trail on Saturday, saying that her husband Senator Ted Cruz “is an immigrant”.  “Ted is an immigrant. He is Hispanic,” Heidi Cruz said of her husband, an American citizen who renounced his Canadian citizenship even though he was born north of the American border. “He can unify this party.” “We have libertarians joining our cause. I have people every day from the Democrat Party telling me that they re-registered to vote for Ted as a Republican.

CIA Director John Brennan has said that the official 9/11 report is full of inaccuracies and unsubstantiated information.  Brennan told NBC’s “Meet the Press” program that releasing the 28 classified pages from the 9/11 Commission report would be a huge mistake. “This chapter was kept out because of concerns about sensitive methods, investigative actions, and the investigation of 9/11 was still underway in 2002.“ Brennan said information in the 28 pages hasn’t been vetted or corroborated, and warned that people would use the information to unfairly attack Saudi Arabia.

A popular Iranian newspaper has called on the government to intercept US cargo ships stationed in the Persian Gulf in retaliation to America freezing Iran’s assets.  Kayhan newspaper urged the government to take action, after Iran’s appeal to the UN to stop US violations of state immunity and seizure of assets fell on deaf ears. Presstv.com reports: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif wrote to UN chief Ban Ki-moon on Thursday to ask him to intervene with his “good offices,” but the United Nations said it would intervene should both parties request it.

Bernie Sanders’ wife, Jane Sanders, has urged FBI investigators to hurry up in disclosing their findings on the Hillary Clinton email investigation.  During an interview with Fox Business Network’s “Cavuto Coast to Coast” show, Sanders said “it would be nice” if the FBI sped up its investigation of the potentially illegal use of an email server when Clinton was Secretary of State.

The falcon cannot hear the falconer, wrote William Butler Yeats. Political leaders, like the falcon, were meant to obey their minders, but Yeats’s falcon had soared above them and loosed mere anarchy on the world. Today, Donald Trump’s campaign soars above our conservative elites, who in their foundations, their little magazines, their think tanks, define what conservatives may do or say. Trump ignores them, they tell us, and disorder and chaos must follow.