Untied Tongue: Trump Speaks American Ugly With A French Accent

Democrats Troll Flint: Misery Serves As A Political Backdrop

Donald

Trump, the frontrunner among Republican candidates in the 2016

presidential race, has an admirer in Jean-Marie Le Pen, founder of the

far-right, trenchantly racist National Front party in France. Gilbert

Mercier, editor in chief of News Junkie Post, draws parallels between

the ascendancy and growing appeal of Trump and that of LePen.

At the urging of Hillary Clinton, Sunday

night’s CNN-hosted Democratic “debate” with fellow contender Bernie

Sanders was held in the beleaguered city of Flint, Michigan, which

remains mired in a public-health disaster as the city concedes

responsibility for exposing tens of thousands of residents to lead

poisoning and bacterial infections from its water system. Abayomi

Azikiwe, a Detroit organizer for the Workers World Party and editor in chief of the Pan-African

Newswire, says Flint served as a convenient political backdrop, but

substantive issues affecting its residents went missing.