There are a number of reasons why Marine Le Pen should not be elected President of France, apart from the fact that she has headed a neo-Fascist political party that was founded by her father, the former military officer and parliamentary deputy, Jean-Marie Le Pen.

"According to ex-President Obama's political director, David Simas, religious institutions, academia, and the media have traditionally set the limits of acceptable discourse. Now, through Facebook and Twitter, one can get around this restriction. This creates a whole new permission structure, a sense of social affirmation for what was once thought unthinkable."

"I have spent a great deal of time over the past three months using Uber as a means of transportation. I would describe Uber as the hidden success story in the American integration of immigrants."

"So we now have a situation whereby the intimidating Mr. Trump has injected  two right-wing ideologues (Bannon and Flynn) into the national security mix, and between the three of them, they probably figure they can carry the day on most issues. Pardon my observation that it sounds like 1933 in the ancient fatherhood of the Drumpf (sic) family."

"As Mr. Trump has pointed out, January 20 is fast approaching. This means the arrival eventually of the one-state solution and the end forever of the pretense that Israel is — or will ever become — a truly democratic state."

"...Hillary didn't even visit Wisconsin! .... Wisconsin is part of a list of post-manufacturing states.

"The remark (and others) demonstrated not only that the Republican Party had allowed to be nominated a man lacking the usual dignity expected in an American presidential candidate; but also, that American public discourse had developed a coarseness over the recent decades that is a disturbing development to those who have a sense of what American history is all about."

"...[I]f the U.S. had taken charge of the skies over Syria at that time, it would have made it more difficult for Vladimir Putin to throw his air force into the mix later on and thereby outwit his American counterpart."

"Apart from the issue of the harm done to national security by this case, it is important to point out the unintended consequences of giving Snowden a pardon. Present and past CIA employees could regard such an action as a softening of standards and as an invitation to transgress."