Politics

A couple of good pieces for your consideration, one from the right, the other from the left. First, from the right, here’s one by Trump backer John Kluge, a lawyer and veteran of two Mideast deployments. Excerpts:

On Tuesday, Tehran demonstrated its “deterrent” capabilities by launching several mid-range ballistic missiles.

In a show of force dubbed “The Power of Velayat” (a nod to the Republic’s religious doctrine), Iran tested what looked like several medium-range Qiam-1s, missiles based on the Shahab of which Iran has hundreds stashed in underground storage facilities.

As expected, Trump won easily in Michigan and Mississippi. Trump threatened to get 50% in the primary down south, but didn’t quite get there. With 92% reporting, Trump had 48% of the vote to Cruz’s 36%. In Michigan, he was ahead of Kasich 37-24% with 73% reporting. Cruz posted a very respectable second-place result in Mississippi, and was slightly ahead of Kasich at the time of this writing. Cruz clearly has the best claim to be Trump’s top rival, and proved it again tonight.

The Turkish opposition party has filed a criminal lawsuit against President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, accusing him of directly supporting ISIS.  The Republican People’s Party’s (CHP) have filed a criminal complaint on President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu, National Intelligence Organization (MİT) Chief Hakan Fidan and other officials on charges of “aiding and abetting a terrorist organization.” Hurriyetdailynews.com reports: CHP Deputy Chair Bülent Tezcan filed the complaints about Erdoğan, Davutoğlu, Fidan, Deputy Prime Minister Yalçın Akdoğan, Interior Minister Efkan

Kim Jong-un has announced that North Korea have successfully developed a miniature nuclear warhead on Wednesday.  South Korea’s Yonhap news Agency says that Jong-un described the warhead as “a very great warhead that is designed in a reasonable structure that enables an instantaneous thermonuclear reaction using our own style of mixed explosives.”. Washingtontimes.com reports: He called it a “tremendous” achievement and said the North had realized a “standardized” design, a term that would imply serial production.