Politics

Incredible waste is, of course, natural to Washington, particularly in the trillion dollar national security budget—which includes nuclear bombs, intelligence, and veterans’ costs. Three years ago, when I suggested “16 Ways to Cut Defense Spending,” one of the cost savings I wrote about was duplicative hospital costs, this from a system of separate Army, Navy, and Air Force medical services. They should be combined into a single system, but imagine the screaming about lost jobs.

What does Hillary Clinton have to say about Donald Trump, Chris Christie and the general state of the election when she is not being recorded? Luckily for some, a recording has been leaked from her recent appearance on “Hardball” with Chris Matthews.

Submitted by Brandon Smith via Alt-Market.com,

I want to start this analysis by stating that I fully understand the whirlwind of public interest in Donald Trump’s campaign. However, for those that don’t get it, let me break it down for you.

The Republican field once included as many as 17 candidates. Most of them really had no business running, and many were throwbacks to earlier eras that guaranteed that they would be poor fits with the current electorate. This included no-hopers such as Jim Gilmore and George Pataki as well as yesterday’s men Mike Huckabee and Rick Santorum. Rick Perry could never recover from his last disastrous outing, and Bobby Jindal was weighed down by the mess he had created in Louisiana.

Hardly discussed in the Hillary Clinton 2016 Democratic Party presidential primaries race is Hillary’s actions in the illegal 2009 Honduras coup, a major human rights crisis, which lead to the recent murder of an esteemed human rights activist. There is a noteworthy difference between Senator Bernie Sanders and Secretary Hillary Clinton on their positions on whether children who fled violence in Central American countries, namely Honduras, two years ago should be deported or allowed to remain in the United States. Sen.