Politics

French authorities have started alerting migrants at the “Jungle” refugee camp outside Calais on Friday to leave the shanty town. A French judge gave the go ahead for partial demolition of the southern part of the camp which is home to 1,000 people. The Guardian reports: French authorities begin making the rounds in a Calais migrant camp on Friday to alert residents that they would need to leave, after a French judge approved the partial demolition of the shantytown nicknamed ‘the jungle’.

"One of the calmest periods [in Damascus] since the start of the war," is due to Russia's hit on Jaysh al Islam chief Zahran Alloush, Reuters wrote on Friday, citing local sources.

Alloush was something of a hero among some Sunnis but as we said in the wake of the airstrike that killed him in December, he was, in reality, a radical militant who advocated the extermination of Alawites and Shiites in Syria.

The person most surprised by Donald Trump’s political success is Donald Trump, Al Sharpton says.

“[He’s a] prisoner of this wave that could go all the way if there is not a counter-wave,” the reverend told an audience at a Center for American Progress Action Fund event on Friday.

Sharpton discussed a variety of issues, including the “super predator” comments made by Hillary Clinton in 1996 when the former First Lady was stumping for her husband’s tough-on-crime bill. Here's the now infamous clip:

Submitted by Patrick Buchanan via Buchanan.org,

In a Hillary Clinton vs. Donald Trump race – which, the Beltway keening aside, seems the probable outcome of the primaries – what are the odds the GOP can take the White House, Congress and the Supreme Court?

If Republicans can unite, not bad, not bad at all.

Undeniably, Democrats open with a strong hand.

In what is clearly a play for Vice-President, Fox News reports:

• *CHRIS CHRISTIE ENDORSES DONALD TRUMP FOR PRESIDENT

The establishment is coming out of denial.

Christie speaks...

"I can guarantee you that the one person Hillary Clinton does not want to see on that stage come September, is Donald Trump"

 

"The best person to beat Hillary Clinton on that stage is undoubtedly Donald Trump"