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I guess we've reached the point where anything manly, masculine, witty, silly, or just plain nutty is too "real" for the pansy contingent.
I hope Cruz starts getting more traction. I think he is, and is an anti establishment Republican.
Cruz is a brilliant man. I worry that he is too far-Right to get elected, though. In that case all Hillary would have to do is stop trying to out-Bernie herself, and she'd squeak by.
Does it work like this:
That's disappointing, but not surprising.
Hollywood heavyweight Harrison Ford has told the ABC he hopes world leaders can "finally do something" about climate change as he launched a broadside at squabbling world powers.
During an interview with 7.30, Ford said the consequences of inaction were dire.
"Nature will take care of itself — nature doesn't need people, people need nature to survive," Ford told presenter Leigh Sales.
"The planet will be OK, there just won't be any damn people on it."
Article V Convention of the States.
That is the ONLY way to stop this behemoth And oppressive federal government.
The States need to grow some stones and take their power back where it was intended to reside.
Huh. And I thought John Effing Kerry was Secretary of State, and was supposed to be doing, you know, Secretary of State stuff.
Thomas Jefferson must be rolling over in his grave with what the last two Sec States have done to that office.
The Department of Housing and Urban Development plans to expand its view of discriminatory housing practices to include local zoning rules to control building in suburban neighborhoods, a New York county official battling the federal agency warns.
Rob Astorino, the Republican executive of Westchester County, says his Manhattan suburb illustrates what the rest of the country can expect under a sweeping anti-discrimination regulation HUD is expected to finalize by Christmas.
"The battle for zoning in Westchester County (will be) the battle everywhere," Astorino said Tuesday during an American Enterprise Institute (AEI) briefing on Capitol Hill.
HUD has cut off $17 million in funding to Westchester for refusing to sue local municipalities to modify zoning ordinances to accommodate more subsidized housing. HUD claims the ordinances, which like almost every locality in America, set limits on building density, are racially "exclusionary.
"HUD has said that even quarter-acre (lot) single-family zoning, in their view, may very well be discriminatory and perpetuate 'segregation,'" Astorino said. "And (it) must be looked at, and even maybe attacked.
Disparities Vs. Discrimination
Over the past few years, Westchester, one of the toniest communities in America, has built 400 affordable-housing units in mostly white neighborhoods. It's under federal orders to build 350 more at a total cost of $51 million.
But HUD's not satisfied. "This is about changing every block, every neighborhood to the viewpoint of federal bureaucrats at HUD," Astorino said.
Under the Obama administration, housing officials no longer limit their view of housing discrimination to overt acts such as landlords and Realtors steering minorities away from predominantly white areas. They now consider any race-neutral policy that has the "effect" of creating "disparate access" for minorities to good jobs, schools and other suburban "assets" to be a racist "barrier.
