As Obama concludes his fourth and supposedly final meeting to Saudi Arabia as U.S. president, the White House was quick to explain where relations with the Saudi Kingdom lay, and as CNN reported this morning, moved to tamp down suggestions that ties with Saudi Arabia are fraying, with administration officials saying that President Barack Obama "really cleared the air" with King Salman at a meeting Wednesday.
Submitted by Mike Krieger via Liberty Blitzkrieg blog,
For the past week or so, I’ve been warning readers that the supposedly “liberal” state of New York has some of the most repressive voting laws in the country. Before reading the rest of this post, I suggest refreshing your memory on just how undemocratic New York is by checking out the following:
Published April 13th: Hillary Clinton Will Win New York, Because New York is Running a Banana Republic Primary
The New York Primary elections this week were deliberately fixed in order to ensure that establishment politician Hillary Clinton received the nomination, according to political activist Kazembe Balagun. “People are pretty much sick and tired of the status quo and they want something completely different,” Balagun told radio show Loud & Clear. “The fact of the matter is that neither of the establishment candidates, Trump or Clinton, offer any real solutions…“ Sputniknews.com reports: While Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders provides some with hope for change, New York’s needlessly complica
Bryan McGrath notices something about the effort to draft Gen. Mattis to be the Republican nominee:
I had this very chat with a friend of mine on Facebook recently, and his view was that because he had such admiration for Mattis, it did not matter what the general’s political views were. And besides, how could a man he admired as much as Mattis possibly have political views antithetical to his own?
Authored by Chris Cillizza, originally posted at The Washington Post,
Gone was "Lyin' Ted." In its place was "Senator Cruz." Gone was the long-winded speech that went nowhere. In its place was a succinct recitation of states and delegates won. Gone was the two-day vacation as a reward for winning. In its place was an early morning trip to Indiana followed by another planned stop in Maryland.