Politics

Jeb Bush held a rally with his brother yesterday in South Carolina where the former president endorsed the younger Bush:

Jeb Bush, facing increasing pressure in South Carolina after lackluster showings in early contests, brought his older brother, George W. Bush, and the former first lady, Laura Bush, to vouch for his decency and judgment here in a race that has been driven in recent weeks by coarse language, anger and personal insults.

It is a measure of the stature and the significance of Justice Antonin Scalia that, upon the news of his death at a hunting lodge in Texas, Washington was instantly caught up in an unseemly quarrel over who would succeed him.

But no one can replace Justice Scalia.

He was a giant among jurists. For a third of a century, he led the conservative wing of the high court, creating a new school of judicial thought called “originalism.”

Alysia Finley thinks that the vacancy on the Supreme Court is an opening for (you guessed it) Marco Rubio:

The death of Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has raised the stakes of the presidential election. If there is a silver lining, it’s that maybe conservatives will finally sober up and stop indulging their self-destructive impulse to choose the “most conservative” candidate or the one with no internal censor (or compass). They may finally realize how important electability is—and take a fresh look at Marco Rubio.

Authored by Cynthia McKinney, Op-Ed via RT.com,

Jesus once remarked to a wealthy man that “it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to go to heaven.”

Today, we could amend the words of that Biblical reference with the US presidential race underway:

“It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a voter in the US to know and understand the rules regulating the administration of all elections, including elections for President of the United States.”

Once upon a time, the CIA and Washington’s Mid-East Sunni allies had an idea.

The American forces occupying Iraq were handed a bit of a lemon in 2004 when Abu-Mus'ab al-Zarqawi pledged allegiance to Osama Bin Laden and took command of the al-Qaeda cell in Iraq, which grew by recruiting from the ranks of Saddam’s scattered security apparatus.