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December 19, 2015

Trump will be a handful for either Sanders or Clinton.

His total disregard for the truth or for any moderation of rhetoric means he will disavow his out of wack primary statements. He will certainly continue with his over simplified views of every issue but will aim directly at the independent voter who sees the government as the problem rather than the solution. He will be confident of his support from the GOP mainstream and will simply say anything to court the disaffected Democrat and the mildly interested.

What do you think?

December 18, 2015

Say what you want about ISIS, they can spread fear pretty effectively.

The United States correctional department could learn a lesson from ISIS. If the point of the death penalty is to deter crime, the courts should order release of videos of the executions all across the country like ISIS apparently has no trouble posting on the web.

This link brings you to an array of ISIS videos of executions. I found it when googling for information on the estimated size of the group. That seems to range from 30,000 to 200,000 but there seems to be nothing definitive.

http://heavy.com/tag/isis/

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