He’s also dangerous, they say. He is “divisive.” He is alienating U.S. allies and encouraging U.S. enemies, the naysayers claim . . .
May I, as a Ted Cruz supporter, just step in here for a minute and explain why Donald Trump, as Republican nominee for president, will win a landslide election victory over Hillary and actually be a welcome alternative to the kind of leadership America has experienced for the last 27 years?
I don’t care what the national polls say now about a matchup between Trump and Clinton. I am old enough to remember vividly what the polls between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter looked like in 1980 at this point in the presidential campaign. They suggested Reagan had no chance to win. He trailed Carter in the polls by double digits. He went on to carry 44 states that year, including New York and California – 49 states four years later.
That is very close to what I expect Trump to do to Hillary if he becomes the nominee. (Read more from “The Coming Trump Landslide” HERE)
By Malcolm Ritter. Scientists have deleted nearly half the genes of a microbe, creating a . . . bacterium [that] has a smaller genetic code than does any natural free-living counterpart, with 531,000 DNA building blocks containing 473 genes. (Humans have more than 3 billion building blocks and more than 20,000 genes).
But even this stripped-down organism is full of mystery. Scientists say they have little to no idea what a third of its genes actually do.
“We’re showing how complex life is, even in the simplest of organisms,” researcher J. Craig Venter told reporters. “These findings are very humbling.” (Read more from “Scientists Create Ultra-Simplified Bacteria but Discover Life Is Still Mind-Boggling Complex” HERE)
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Scientists Create Tiniest Life Form yet, Not Sure What It Is
By Eric Roston. For years, DNA and computer operating systems served as cliches for each other: DNA is the “operating software” of living cells in the same way that system software is the “DNA” of a computer.
The problem with the comparison, as shown by research two decades in the making, is how much biologists still don’t know about DNA, or genomes. That’s an especially problematic development, given the industry sprouting up around genetic manipulation.
Genomics pioneer Craig Venter and more than 20 colleagues engineered a living microbe with a genome simpler than any seen in nature. In other words, they created a life form whose relative simplicity and modular design make it a platform that one day may be as easily manipulated as, say, software. Setting aside fears of Blade Runner replicants running amok, the breakthrough revealed on Thursday in the journal Science may hold promise for a new era in medicine, industry, and energy. (Read more from “Scientists Create Tiniest Life Form yet, Not Sure What It Is” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-25 00:02:542016-04-11 10:51:08Scientists Create Ultra-Simplified Bacteria but Discover Life Is Still Mind-Boggling Complex
Sen. Lindsey Graham said John Kasich is the best Republican presidential candidate but that he can’t win the nomination, which is why the South Carolina Republican is backing Ted Cruz.
“I think John Kasich would be the best nominee, but he doesn’t have a chance,” Graham said during an appearance Thursday on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.”
“John Kasich’s problem is he is an insider in an outsider year and nobody seems to want to buy that,” he added.
Graham signaled his support for Cruz last week, when news emerged he would be hosting a fundraiser for him. This comes after harsh comments Graham made about his Senate colleague, including while running against the Texas senator in his own White house bid.
Graham has argued that while he has differences with Cruz (joking the runner-up in delegates was his “15th choice” in the race), he’s the best-positioned Republican other than Donald Trump. (Read more from “Graham: Kasich Is Better Candidate Than Cruz — but Can’t Win” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-25 00:02:172016-04-11 10:51:08Graham: Kasich Is Better Candidate Than Cruz — but Can’t Win
Ted Cruz called Donald Trump a “sniveling coward” and told him to leave his wife “the hell alone” on Thursday after Trump retweeted an unflattering photo of his spouse, Heidi Cruz.
“It’s not easy to tick me off. I don’t get angry often,” Cruz told reporters while campaigning in Wisconsin. “But you mess with my wife, you mess with my kids, that’ll do it every time. Donald you are a sniveling coward and leave Heidi the hell alone.”
“Our spouses and our children are off bounds,” Cruz warned. “It is not acceptable for a big loud New York bully to attack my wife.”
The Texas senator said Trump is scared by “strong women” and that “real men don’t try to bully women” . . .
The rivalry between the two got increasingly personal this week after an anti-Trump super PAC made an ad featuring a photo shoot of Melania Trump from 2000 with the meme caption: “meet Melania Trump. Your next first lady. Or, you could support Ted Cruz on Tuesday.” (Read more from “You’ll Never Believe What Ted Cruz Just Called Donald Trump” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-25 00:00:482016-04-11 10:51:08You’ll Never Believe What Ted Cruz Just Called Donald Trump
Thursday on ABC’s “The View,” former presidential candidate Dr. Ben Carson defended his endorsement of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump against co-host Whoopi Goldberg’s charges of racism and sexism.
Whoopi Goldberg asked, “Sir, I hate to ask this question, but you have aligned yourself with a man who has bashed women, made countless racist remarks, and you’re Ben Carson. Why would you — why would you align yourself with that is this this?”
Carson answered, “Well, you know, you have to look at the good and the bad. There’s no perfect person.”
Goldberg said, “No, I know that.”
Carson continued, “But you look at when Donald Trump first went down to Palm Beach area and a lot of the clubs down there would not accept Jews and Blacks. He insisted on Jews and Blacks and helped to break that open. So, has he said some things that I wouldn’t say or that you wouldn’t say? Of course.” (Read more from “Whoopi Goldberg to Ben Carson: Why Support ‘Racist’ Trump? ‘That’s How Hitler Got In'” HERE)
00kathleenhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngkathleen2016-03-25 00:00:242016-04-11 10:51:08Whoopi Goldberg to Ben Carson: Why Support ‘Racist’ Trump? ‘That’s How Hitler Got In’
The leaders of Democracy Spring, a coalition of far-left groups plotting a mass civil disobedience movement to begin next month, told Breitbart News they have already confirmed 2,912 protesters who pledged specifically to risk arrest.
Those protesters signed an option on the coalition’s website explicitly stating, “I pledge to be one among thousands who will risk arrest to save democracy in DC between April 11 – 16.”
Other pledge options for protests include:
*I pledge to come to Washington DC to support the sit in through legal protest but cannot risk arrest.
*I want to join the march from Philadelphia to Washington DC, sometime between April 2 – 11.
*I want to volunteer to help organize this campaign.
Kai Newkirk, Democracy Spring’s campaign director, explained that his team called each of the 2,912 protesters pledging to risk arrest and spent about twenty minutes on the phone expounding on the movement’s goals as well as helping to coordinate travel and logistics. (Read more from “Thousands Pledge to Get Arrested in D.C. Protests Next Month” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-24 23:59:432016-04-11 10:51:08Thousands Pledge to Get Arrested in D.C. Protests Next Month
New Jersey’s bizarre gun laws have struck again. An actor who used a pellet gun while filming a movie now faces 10 years behind bars on felony possession of a firearm charges.
Carlo Goias, whose screen name is Carlo Bellario, was recently filming “Vendetta Games” when he was arrested in a residential neighborhood for having an Airsoft gun. The Toms River resident was holding a plastic toy outside a vehicle during a chase scene, which prompted some 9-1-1 calls. He was then forced to spend four days in jail while trying to raise $10,000 bail.
“I was shooting a movie – I wasn’t committing a crime intentionally,” Goias told the Associated Press on Wednesday. “Robert De Niro doesn’t ask Marty Scorsese if he has gun permits. We’re actors. That’s for the production company to worry about.”
Goias rejected a plea deal offer Tuesday that would have resulted in less than one year in prison. Prosecutors said prior convictions for theft and burglary could result in a 10-year sentence.
“I pretended to shoot out the window; they were going to dub in the sound later,” Goias said. “We get back, and within a couple of minutes we’re surrounded by cop cars.” (Read more from “Prop Pistol May Cost New Jersey Actor 10 Years Behind Bars” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-24 23:59:262016-04-11 10:51:09Prop Pistol May Cost New Jersey Actor 10 Years Behind Bars
By Fred Maxwell. Should front-runner Donald Trump fail to obtain the necessary 1,237 delegates to clinch its nomination, the Republican Party may have a contested convention.
According to a poll released Wednesday by Monmouth University, 54 percent of those expected to vote Republican believe if a contest convention takes place, Trump should receive the Republican presidential nomination.
When asked if another person should be nominated if Trump failed to garner the delegates needed, 34 percent said yes. When asked who should win the nomination in the event of a contested convention, 33 percent chose Sen. Ted Cruz, while 23 percent went for Ohio Gov. John Kasich. Sen. Marco Rubio earned 10 percent of the vote.
If Trump should fall short of the mark by a narrow margin, he has predicted his supporters would riot as well as sit out the election if he is not given the party’s nomination.
However, 43 percent of those polled said that even though they support Trump, they would cast their vote for whoever is the Republican nominee.
Trump has remained in the lead of the majority of preference polls for months, and according to the Monmouth survey, leads the overall Republican field with 41 percent of the support, followed by Cruz at 29 percent and Kasich with 18 percent. (Read more from “Republicans Just Sent Trump This HUGE Message the Establishment Won’t Want You to See” HERE)
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John Kasich Rejects a G.O.P. Call to Quit to Block Donald Trump
By Trip Bariel. Republicans desperate to stop Donald J. Trump from capturing the presidential nomination increased the pressure Wednesday on Gov. John Kasich of Ohio to quit the race, with Jeb Bush joining the growing number of party figures throwing their weight behind Senator Ted Cruz.
Mr. Kasich refused, saying that he, not the Texas senator, was the best option to stop Mr. Trump. But his argument was undercut by his dismal showings Tuesday in Utah and Arizona, where he won no delegates — as well as by the surprise endorsement Wednesday morning by Mr. Bush of Mr. Cruz.
Mr. Bush, who dropped out of the presidential race last month, is the latest mainstream Republican — following Mitt Romney and Senator Lindsey Graham — who is ideologically closer to Mr. Kasich, but whose embrace of Mr. Cruz is a strategic calculation that he has a better shot at stopping Mr. Trump. (Read more from “John Kasich Rejects a G.O.P. Call to Quit to Block Donald Trump” HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-23 22:56:062016-04-11 10:51:09Republicans Just Sent Trump This HUGE Message the Establishment Won’t Want You to See
Accomplished author Ed Klein, who has an superb track record for unearthing scoops regarding the Clinton Crime Family (which is the term they prefer, I hear) has another breaking report regarding Hillary’s illegal bathroom email server. Which was, I understand, a magnet for both spies and flies.
As context, please recall Hillary’s response to the question she was asked during a recent Democrat debate, to wit, whether she would step down if indicted for various crimes related to her email server, mishandling classified information, and/or other criminal activities related to the Clinton Global Graft Foundation.
She responded, “Oh for goodness … that’s not going to happen. I’m not even answering that question.”
Well, she better get ready to answer that question, because the investigation of Hillary’s email scandal is reaching a climax.
My sources tell me that the Justice Department is close to empaneling a grand jury and deciding whether to grant statutory immunity to Huma Abedin, Hillary’s closest adviser.
That would force Huma to testify under oath and face perjury charges and jail time if she lies. I’m also told that Hillary herself will most likely be forced to testify.
Klein indicates that FBI director James Comey is inching ever closer to a recommendation to indict Hillary Clinton, a political hot potato handed to Attorney General Loretta Lynch the likes of which the political system hasn’t seen since Nixon.
My sources say the likelihood is that Lynch will not make that decision herself. Instead, she’ll probably appoint a special counsel to make the decision. That will get the Obama administration off the hook and avoid charges of a conflict of interest or, even worse, obstruction of justice.
Klein offers a series of intriguing questions that this scenario raises, the first four of which are:
1. Could Hillary run for president if she is under criminal indictment?
2. Would she step down voluntarily?
3. Could the Democratic [sic] Party make her step down?
4. Who would take her place as the party’s presidential standard-bearer?
Maybe the Democrats could run someone to the left of Crazy old Marxist Bernie Sanders. Say, Obama’s baseball buddy Raul Castro, perhaps. (For more from the author of “FBI May Seek Immunity for Huma to Nail Hillary, Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That” please click HERE)
00Joe Millerhttps://joemiller.us/wp-content/uploads/logotext.pngJoe Miller2016-03-23 22:55:272016-04-11 10:51:09FBI May Seek Immunity for Huma to Nail Hillary, Not That There’s Anything Wrong With That
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker hinted at a possible Ted Cruz endorsement Wednesday, adding that Cruz would be the strategic choice to beat Donald Trump for the nomination.
In the interview with radio host Charlie Sykes, Walker fell short of an official endorsement, however, saying that he is still deciding between Sen. Cruz and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
Gov. Walker said he would make an endorsement within the week so as to have the “maximum impact” before his state’s primary April 5th – the only voting state on the calendar over the next month.
Continuing on, the former presidential hopeful spoke positively about the prospect of an “open convention”:
“And I stress open convention. Some in the media call it a brokered convention. It’s not a brokered convention. Republicans don’t have the capacity to have a brokered convention by our laws because it’s either the voters pick delegates who pick the nominee, or delegates, when it’s wide open, pick.”
Walker, once a top candidate for president, became one of the first to end his bid calling on others to do the same in hopes an alternative to Trump would emerge.
Still very popular among conservative Republicans, Walker could potentially be a vice presidential nominee. In response to that assertion Walker indicated to USA Today that he wouldn’t rule it out but, smiling, added, “That’s just way too premature.” (For more from the author of “Scott Walker Hints at Endorsing This Candidate” please click HERE)
