Social Issues

Confirming a choice that many had already pegged as a front-runner to fill Antonin Scalia's vacant seat, President Trump just officially announced Judge Neil Gorsuch as his nominee for the Supreme Court of the United States. 

Per Politico, Gorsuch has the typical pedigree of a Supreme Court Justice with degrees from Columbia, Harvard and Oxford.  Moreover, Gorsuch's professional background includes time at a Washington law firm, the Department of Justice and clerkships with Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy.

Just yesterday we noted that, according to a Rasmussen poll, while the vocal, and often violent, disaffected Hillary protesters may get a lot of media attention, the silent majority of Americans, men and women who don't have time to protest 24 hours a day because they actually go to work to provide for their families, support Trump's temporary immigration ban from 7 mostly-Muslim countries in the Middle East and Africa.

Anthony Weiner faces 15 years in prison after FBI agents found child pornography on a laptop connected to a Hillary Clinton investigation. Anthony Weiner is set to be charged with production of child pornography, according to the Wall Street Journal, amid claims a Washington D.C. pedophile ring is about to be blown wide open. Mr. Weiner, a New York Democrat and the estranged husband of Huma Abedin, is being investigated by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan and the FBI, which seized his electronic devices, including a laptop and a cellphone, as part of the probe.

Seemingly following the proposals of Bill Clinton (and Ron Paul), The Washington Post reports that a leaked document shows the Trump administration is planning to crackdown on current, and would-be, immigrants who are likely to require public assistance.

After Bill Clinton received a standing ovation for suggesting crackdown on immigrant welfare...

"We are a nation of immigrants.. but we are a nation of laws"

 

Submitted by Charles Hugh-Smith via OfTwoMinds blog,

Solutions gut the rackets by breaking down the status quo's regulatory walls protecting the privileged elites who are strip-mining the bottom 95%.