Politics

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.

Well, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s worst nightmare is about to come true.

For days there have been rumors that Syria might attempt to adopt some manner of federal system at peace talks in Geneva as a kind of compromise on the way to negotiating a political solution to the country’s five-year conflict that’s killed some 300,000 people and created the worst refugee crisis Europe has seen since World War II.

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith of OfTwoMinds blog,

The core belief of the Establishment is the central state should run everything.

For weeks, pundits had been wondering why Donald Trump is holding back from launching direct attacks on Hillary Clinton: after all, only some unpredictable event, or a "brokered convention" (which would "lead to riots" according to Trump) can prevent Trump from being the republican candidate at this point, and the longer Trump delays, the higher the momentum against him on the national arena.

That all changed earlier today when Trump finally launched his first "attack ad" against Hillary in a tweet asking "Is this what we want for a president":