Jon Letendre

That's interesting. Of course, Islamic State is a threat to the Arab rulers, but only if it got too successful. As long as it doesn't, it exists to the benefit of Arab rulers, as a force opposing ongoing Persian expansion. Islamic State and the Saudi rulers agree on religion. It would be interesting to see if the Arab states could even find significant numbers willing to fight against IS. I would think the target recruits are against IS reaching their homeland, but happy with it being strong in Iraq and Syria.

Every participant in national, let alone Presidential elections is a vicious, power-grubbing monster who will do anything. Those who fall for their "let's demand decency and decorum" act are naive tools. Trump found that cesspool, he did not create it. He is playing by it's actual rules and winning, that's all.

So Trump may have found and hired a woman Lyin' Ted had an affair with? Tha's one way to rattle the opposition! Can you imagine looking at the tv one day and she's on screen and it says "Trump Spokeswoman" under her image? Can you imagine being Bill Clinton right now and seeing this?

Wrong. In a honest count, not a Wiki towing the official bs figures, we have already paid many times over the cost of the wall in gifts and various giveaways to the Mexican state.

Some aid is not called "aid" in the official figures. Here are some wonderful stories about the Export-Import Bank... http://www.heritage.org/research/testimony/2014/08/mismanagement-of-export-import-bank-invites-fraud Similar lapses were noted in the bank’s $420 million financing of a copper-cobalt-zinc mine in Mexico, which defaulted within months of receiving the loan.[18] According to the OIG, project vulnerabilities “were not sufficiently addressed in Ex-Im Bank’s due diligence efforts, nor sufficiently evaluated in the internal documents submitted to the Board of Directors for consideration.”[19] In a number of criminal cases,[20] the bank has engaged in multiple transactions with an individual or company before discovering that taxpayers were being defrauded. For example: From 2008 through 2010, Jose L. Quijano, through Gangaland USA, LLC, acted as an exporter in 96 loan transactions insured by Ex-Im Bank and received approximately $3.6 million in proceeds. Quijano admitted that he and others falsified financial statements, waybills, purchase orders, and bills of lading to falsely represent that purchases and the exporting of U.S. goods were for buyers in South America. All of the loans involving Gangaland were fraudulent and no U.S. goods of any kind were shipped to South American buyers. From 2003 through 2009, Guillermo O. Mondino assisted foreign buyers to create fraudulent loan applications, financial statements, purchase orders, invoices, and bills of lading to falsely represent the purchase and export of U.S. goods to buyers in South and Central America. After receiving more than $24 million in Ex-Im Bank insured loan proceeds, Mondino diverted about $6.4 million of the loan proceeds. Between April 2004 and November 2007, Ismael Garcia acted as a purported exporter in at least 31 fraudulent transactions involving $23 million in loans insured by Ex-Im Bank. Garcia retained some $1.1 million of the proceeds, and sent the balance to co-conspirators and foreign buyers in Mexico. Ex-Im Bank paid out nearly $18 million in losses on the defaulted loans. From April 2004 through November 2007, Jose Velasco and others prepared and submitted false commercial invoices, bills of sale, and bills of lading for goods purportedly purchased and shipped using the proceeds of 13 Ex-Im loan guarantees. The bank subsequently paid $17.9 million in claims on the defaulted loans. Between 2004 and 2009, Luis E. Moy acted as the exporter in 11 fraudulent Ex-Im Bank insured or guaranteed loans totaling $11.2 million. Moy and others conspired to make false statements about the purchase of U.S. manufactured equipment, supplied false invoices, and falsified other records to fraudulently represent to the lending bank and Ex-Im Bank the purchase and export of U.S. goods to various buyers in Mexico. Leopoldo Parra and others defrauded Ex-Im Bank by engaging in 18 fraudulent and fictitious loans. Parra and his co-conspirators submitted false documents stating that U.S. goods had been purchased by and shipped to various buyers in Mexico. Parra retained for his own personal use and benefit approximately $809,007.

Your first sentence is false. She did not say "/yr" as you claim. She just said "billions," and your figures are large enough to make her statement true many, many times over by now. We have paid for the wall already, probably many times over, in gifts to a state owned by a drug cartel, and your response is to nibble at details as though they even touch the point at hand. You look silly.

Presidential power has been expanding contra the Constitution for a long time. Democrats did not excercise all their powers against Bush's power-creeping and abuses. The last two terms were and continue to be the most dangerous in recent history, because everyone everywhere, including media, refuse to oppose Obama in any real way. Old time liberal, Obama-voting law professor Jonathan Turley argued a year ago that, "the president poses a clear and present danger to the constitutional framework of the government. He argues that Mr. Obama has “become the very danger the Constitution was designed to avoid,” and warns that the president’s overreach has led to a “tipping point” that could permanently alter the system that has for so long made Americans a free people." http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/mar/26/editorial-jonathan-turley-laurence-tribe-cite-obam/ It is so important that other branches of government assert their just powers to check executive power-creep. A Trump election will reignite that sorely-missed tradition. America needs that. It will make us all safer. VOTE TRUMP

Hillary has contributed to disorder in Syria, Libya, and now Arizona.

When one of these aggressive, forceful, essentially violent acts such as blocking and trapping people on the highways turns into a shootout with a body count, the Sheriffs, chiefs of police, mayors, etc., who continue to choose to look the other way instead of throwing the book at them, they will be the ones with blood on their hands, not the innocent trapped who next see "protestors" coming up from the rear.

Peter, Merlin, You both remind of the Prohibition enthusiasts who demanded the admission that "things will STILL not be perfect!" It's true, things were still not perfect after ending Prohibition, there is still driving deaths, health costs, contribution to disturbances and poor behavior, etc. I for one, admit it. Trump will not bring perfection. Not all the money will get out of politics. Not all the regulations wil be abolished. Not all the crony shitheads will have to leave. But he can ditch any one them, or any group of them, in a New York minute. They will all show him the proper deference, or be walked out. They won't own our President, because he didn't accumulate a mass of interconnected Washington locked-in commitments like Hillary, over decades of climbing up that cesspool of a community. That's a big difference, (even if we really will have to live with the things that are never going away anyway.)

Their options and outlook utterly suck. That's why their panties are more bunched up now than we have ever seen before. They have another stage of grief or two to go through, then they will understand that they will most likely face a Trump in 2017 who hates them, and it just isn't a good bet. Getting off of him, and not helping Hillary, if that's all they have to do to play and maybe get treated better than the ones who hold out too long, better bet. One by one, they will finish the stages, extract heads from asses, and go quiet.

I think he is likely picking them off right now, just like he did the 16 nominees. He won't have to promise them much, he doesn't need them behind him, just off of him. Then he will renege after the election, make them beg, extract things from them, give them nothing, kick them to the curb, save the country.

Trump is going to take Hillary apart piece by piece in the coming months. He is largely immune to attacks because he mostly won't defend himself because he won't have to. The Clinton team will never find space and time to implement their plan to win. He will cause them chaos, one emergency after another. Implementation of the winning plan will always be for NEXT WEEK, first they will have to deal with the emergency. Patriots and her enemies, including the women Bill has raped who we've never heard of yet, FBI agents, etc., will forward him proofs, and the next emergency for them will erupt. He has fought many large battles against very powerful people. He is the master. Just watch.

The Republican traitors in Washington are continuing today with more schoolmarm impersonations over Trump's innocent and obvious comment that if the American people feel an election is being taken, they may riot. They should be demanding arrests for rioting already committed and they should be scolding Hillary, Bernie, Soros, Move-On (to tyranny,) BLM, and all the rest who are behind ACTUAL riots and who are still today explicitly encouraging and PROMISING more riots. But that would be an attack on Democrats and there is no point to that when you are one of these bags of shit, because to them, at least Democrats will maintain the trough and offer some sloppy seconds, while Trump will not.

All the candidates except Trump were dropping their pants and turning around as ordered after Chicago Friday. She would punch them, Kasich, Cruz, all the other weak, naive, useful idiots. She would happily punch them, (then again, and then a third time, just like with NB) and then she would avail herself of Trump's generous offer to cover any legal defense arising therefrom.

Ilya Sheyman, the Illinois director of MoveOn, a campaign creature of the Soros billions, quickly took credit for the riot and promised more. “To all of those who took to the streets of Chicago,” he said, “we say ‘thank you’ for standing up and saying enough is enough. To Donald Trump, and the GOP, we say, welcome to the general election.” Ayn Rand Answers, pg 48, "Once a country accepts censorship of the press and of speech, then nothing can be won without violence. Therefore, so long as you have free speech, protect it. This is the life and death issue in this country: do not give up the freedom of the press - of newspapers, books, magazines, television, radio, movies, and every form of presenting ideas. So long as that's free, a peaceful intellectual turn is possible." 1961. That's the final paragraph in answer to question "Is it possible to change the direction of mankind without first experiencing disaster?" She answers yes, so long as the country is not already under dictatorship.

North Korea is China's, and everything North Korea does and says is China doing and saying.

The Washington Times: The riot — and riot is precisely what it was — was organized by a small group funded in part by George Soros, the billionaire friend and enabler of everything on the left. Ilya Sheyman, the Illinois director of MoveOn, a campaign creature of the Soros billions, quickly took credit for the riot and promised more. “To all of those who took to the streets of Chicago,” he said, “we say ‘thank you’ for standing up and saying enough is enough. To Donald Trump, and the GOP, we say, welcome to the general election.” [...] MoveOn has served notice that violence and intimidation will continue. Messrs. Rubio, Cruz and Kasich, being experienced in politics, should know that if one of them becomes the Republican nominee the violence and intimidation will be directed at him. The left wants blood, and it’s the blood of whomever stands in the way of remaking the republic to their design. Once the lion is let loose in the streets, no one and no one’s speech will be safe. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/mar/14/editorial-trump-rally-protesters-are-to-blame/ Note to freedom-loving people of America: If you think your non-Trump favorite is going make it out alive, fight and win not fold and lose when the Left amps up, then you my friend, you deserve Lions in your streets.

Kasich could plausibly claim, until yesterday, to want nothing more than an honest win. His continuation now is not innocent. It's only logic is wait for the vicious Sea Island takeout of Trump, the cheat at Clevelad, and he'll step in.

If Kasich is still talking like that in a couple days then we will know he is a partner in the Sea Island Conspiracy coming to the convention.

WILLIAN MCGURN: Now, it’s certainly possible that a President Trump would seed the federal agencies with men and women who would abuse their powers for Trumpian outcomes. In real life, however, the compulsion to decree to one’s neighbor what’s best for him (and use the federal government to enforce it) is an affliction of modern American liberalism. In other words, the kind of people Hillary Clinton, if elected, would rely on to fill the federal bureaucracies, every last one of them eager and willing to impose rules on the American people that would never fly in Congress. What kind of rules and regulations? Here are a few instances from recent years: • In the run-up to the 2012 presidential election, the IRS targets groups regarded as enemies of the president—pro-Israel, pro-life, pro-tea-party, etc. When this became public, its officials, including the new IRS commissioner, John Koskinen, make clear their contempt for congressional panels trying to investigate. • In a frontal assault on religious liberty, the Department of Health and Human Services issues a mandate that would force the Little Sisters of the Poor, Catholic nuns who run homes for the elderly poor, to offer their employees contraceptives the sisters regard as a violation of their faith. They are threatened with fines of $100 per employee per day if they refuse, which adds up to $70 million a year—equal to about a third of their operating budget. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/?state=nwa Not so how long link will work, paid article? Wall Street Journal

Attorney General Chris Christie

Strong maybe.

"Ends Justify Means" is horrific enough, we are up against people who have long ago switched, explicitly, to: "By any means necessary." Notice that at least Ends Justify Means is a limiting injunction, one may do something wrong, even very wrong, but only if the ends will include enough good to vastly and assuredly overcome the bad means. "By any means necessary" contains no limiting metric. No mention of ends. So it's just, what we want, by any means necessary.

Dennis Prager: And the truth is that the left-wing attack on Trump's Chicago rally had little, if anything, to do with what the incendiary comments Donald Trump has made about attacking protestors at his events. Leftist mobs attack and shut down events with which they differ as a matter of course. They do so regularly on American college campuses, where conservative speakers -- on the rare occasion they are invited -- are routinely shouted down by left-wing students (and sometimes faculty) or simply disinvited as a result of leftist pressure on the college administration. A couple of weeks ago conservative writer and speaker Ben Shapiro was disinvited from California State University, Los Angeles. When he nevertheless showed up, 150 left-wing demonstrators blocked the entrance to the theater in which he was speaking, and sounded a fire alarm to further disrupt his speech. In just the last year, left-wing students have violently taken over presidents' or deans' offices at Princeton, Virginia Commonwealth University, Dartmouth, Providence College, Harvard, Lewis & Clark College, Temple University and many others. Conservative speakers have either been disinvited or shouted down at Brandeis University, Brown University, the University of Michigan and myriad other campuses. http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2016/03/15/the_left_may_well_get_trump_nominated_129978.html