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Sen. Cruz: Our Thoughts and Prayers Are With The Family of Taylor ForceMarch 9, 2016 | 202-228-7561
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) released the following statement regarding recent terrorist attacks in Israel:
Submitted by Howard Kunstler via Kunstler.com,
The Twitter-incited mob that shut down last week’s Donald Trump rally at the University of Illinois’ Chicago pavilion was the first skirmish in what is shaping up to be a civil war between a political Left that has lost its mind and a political Right that has lost its mind and its soul. The tensions between these two camps are so contorted and dishonest that even trying to unpack the issues puts the un-packer in jeopardy of being branded as one kind of thought-criminal or another.
On Sunday, Angela Merkel suffered a bitter defeat at the ballot box in state elections that effectively served as a referendum on Berlin’s open-door migrant policy.
Exit polls showed support for the Chancellor’s CDU falling in Baden-Wuerttemberg, in Saxony-Anhalt, and in Rhineland-Palatinate versus 2011. Those results were validated as CDU lost ground versus the last election across the board.
Authored by Bill Bonner of Bonner & Partners (annotated by Acting-Man.com's Pater Tenebrarum),
Bumpy, Lumpy and Slumpy
Three million people took to the streets across Brazil on Sunday to demonstrate against the country’s president, Dilma Rousseff. According to reports, protests took place in at least 17 cities across Brazil with about 1.4 million people participating in the demonstration in Sao Paulo, and another million in Rio de Janeiro. RT reports: The nation’s capital, Brasilia, saw some 100,000 demonstrators surround the National Congress building in the biggest protest since last March, when about 1 million people took to the streets.