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It’s Been A Bad Week For Liberals 
by Derek Hunter
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Congressman scumbag-Keith Ellison, Deputy Chairman
dummycrats-DNC, Faces Serious Allegations of Domestic Violence
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Congressional Representative scumbag-Keith Ellison was elected to congress in 2007, and has been serving as Deputy Chairman of the dummycrats-Democrat National Committee since 2017... Additionally, scumbag-Ellison is a current candidate for Attorney General of Minnesota. Representative scumbag-Ellison has been accused of domestic violence by his former partner Karen Monahan.  Yesterday Karen Monahan’s son, Austin Monahan, provided details of the allegations in a Facebook Post that outlines prior evidence of the horrific abuse he discovered in 2017, and Austin’s motive for bringing the issue to light now to support Karen Monahan’s recent claims. Austin Monahan claims there is video evidence of the abuse, and there are numerous text messages between his mom Karen Monahan and scumbag-Keith Ellison outlining the history of the events and threats from scumbag- Ellison if she went public...  ttps://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/12/congressman-keith-ellison-deputy-chairman-dnc-faces-serious-allegations-of-domestic-violence-assault/
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Here’s why authorities waited for months
to raid the Muslim-extremist compound in NM 
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by Jana J. Pruet
{ theblaze.com } ~ The owner of the New Mexico property raided by authorities last week said... he had notified police about seeing a child that appeared to be the Georgia toddler who had gone missing last year, NBC News reported, raising questions about why it took so long for authorities to raid the compound and discover the appalling conditions. Jason Badger owns the land in Taos County where investigators discovered child remains on Monday following Friday’s raid of the compound where 11 children were found starving. Badger said he called police about four months ago after he realized that a missing child poster of Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj he had seen looked like a boy who lived on the remote compound. Remains, possibly belonging to Abdul-Ghani Wahhaj, were found on what would have been the boy’s fourth birthday. His mother, Hakima Ramzi, said she has not seen her son since his father disappeared with him from Jonesboro, Georgia, in December. The identity of the remains is still pending and “could take many weeks,” according to Kurt Nolte, the chief medical investigator at the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator. Five adults, including the missing boy’s father, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, were arrested during the raid. The children, ages 1 to 15, were found wearing rags and living in squalid conditions on the remote property in Amalia, near the Colorado border. Wahhaj is believed to be a Muslim extremist...  https://www.theblaze.com/news/2018/08/10/heres-why-authorities-waited-for-months-to-raid-the-muslim-extremist-compound-in-nm
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The Old Blue Wave, She Ain’t What She Used To Be
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{ lidblog.com } ~ For months the mainstream media has been ballyhooing the supposed “blue wave” advantage that dummycrats-Democrats have had on the”generic ballot,”... but one reason you’ve heard less of that story lately is that the numbers favoring dummycrats-Democrats have evaporated. If you pay any attention at all to the media’s reports on the coming general election, the midterms, you’ve no doubt heared that the dummycrats-Democrats are going to enjoy a “blue wave” bringing them roaring back to power. The media has based this assumption on the higher poll numbers that the dummycrats-Democrat Party has enjoyed until recently. This higher “generic ballot” polling has led the liberal media to declare 2018’s election a lock for significant dummycrats-Democrat gains. But will that happen? Are media reports correct Well, according to some polls, that “generic ballot” advantage has disappeared. The below represents  every survey displayed in Real Clear Politics that ended in August and the previous result of the same poll...  https://lidblog.com/old-blue-wave-she-aint/ 
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China Folds to Trump’s Pressure, Quietly Removes Oil Tariff 
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by CILLIAN ZEAL
{ westernjournal.com } ~ China has removed crude oil from its list of items being slapped with a 25 percent tariff... The Wall Street Journal reported Friday. It seems unusual for those used to America being an energy importer to hear about energy exports, particularly to a country as big as China. However, America’s role in petroleum production has steadily increased for quite some time now, meaning industry in China was about to feel a serious pinch. “Over the past two years China has become the biggest buyer of U.S. crude-oil exports, last year taking a fifth of the total,” Chuin-Wei Yap wrote in the Journal. Beijing had originally announced that oil was going to be on the list of items slapped with a 25 percent tariff issued in response to the Trump administration’s tariffs. However, when the final list of $16 billion in tariffed goods was issued on Wednesday, oil was conspicuously absent...
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Exposed: the Deep State's Authorship
and Publication of the Dossier
by Clarice Feldman

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The Internet is full of information, some of it not well researched or considered, but every now and then a star appears on the horizon... To my mind the new star is Yaacov Apelbaum, who, using his considerable technical skills, has produced a masterpiece of well-documented analysis underscoring the nonsensical and partisan nature of the Mueller operation. He compares this effort by the anti-Trumpers to the plot line of the Dreyfus affair, where falsified evidence and suppressed evidence led to Captain Alfred Dreyfus’s conviction for treason. It’s lengthy and detailed and on a lovely Sunday in summer you may not want to study it completely, but if this subject is of interest to you, I strongly suggest you bookmark the article and study it at your leisure. I cannot do it justice in any summary, but I’ll try to hit the main points. He concludes, after a long, substantive, technologically adept investigation: The real dossier story is not the scandalous insinuations that it makes, but rather it’s the funding sources, the teams that worked on it, and its compilation and distribution channels. At peak capacity, the dossier team must have consisted of at least 25 individuals who worked on it for over 6-12 months. Assuming a modest $200 per hour rate per person, some first/business class travel and accommodations, media, consulting, IT, and legal services, this project most have cost an upwards of 5-10 million dollars. According to Simpson’s testimony and documents, Fusion GPS was only paid about a million dollars by the dummycarts-DNC and liar-Clinton campaign, which begs the questions of what was Hakluyt’s Ed: another private UK intelligence operation closely connected to liar-Hillary Clinton cut and where did the rest of the money go?...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/the_real_dossier_story.html 
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It’s Been A Bad Week For Liberals 
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by Derek Hunter

{ townhall.com } ~ I hate weeks like this. I’m sitting here, Friday at midnight, trying to think of something to write about. My deadline is Saturday at noon, so I have a little time. But with so many topics to choose from, how can anyone be expected to pick just one? August used to be a traditionally slow time in politics – the month of Congressional recess and vacations when cable news tries out D-listers and new hopefuls desperately seeking fame and human-interest stories become all the rage. It’s still those things, mostly, but in 2018 there is never a dull moment, even when you want one.

This week saw a special election in Ohio that never should have been anything more than a footnote on a random Tuesday that was transformed into the most important election ever, or at least since the last most important election ever. dummycrats-Democrats, both in and out of the media, did what they always do – they assigned the weight of the world, and their personal hopes and dreams, to the results.

Of course, just like 2016, leftists were sure they knew the outcome. The dummycrats-Democrat was going to win, fairly easily for a dummycrats-Democrat in that district, and that victory was going to serve as a chance to inspire their base to the polls come November. The voters of Ohio’s 12th district had other ideas.

dummycrats-Democrats did what too many in politics do – the spiked the ball on the 5-yard-line. Republican Troy Balderson won, in a squeaker. But as my father told me when I was a kid, it doesn’t matter if you win by one or one million, it’s still a win. dummycrats-Democrats will try to steal the election, as they always to with close elections. 

Still, watching the air drain from liberal’s bubbles as the returns showed, once again, their plans had been thwarted by voters is one of life’s simpler pleasures. Just as knowing socialism lost this week brought me a smile. 

The golden girl of MSNBC and CNN saw her and the Senate’s angry grandpa’s candidates lost, some by quite a lot, in their primaries. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, whose name you must pronounce like you’re a cheesy local news anchor trying to sound culturally sensitive while speaking a Hispanic name or else it’s a hate crime, and commie-Bernie Sanders could not share their socialist magic with fellow traveler seeking dummycrats-Democratic nominations. 

It’s a shame, really, as the more leftists who speak of their policy ideas, especially those with the “wisdom” of commie-Alexandria in interviews, the more ammunition Republicans have against all dummycrats-Democrats this fall. It’s why, while liberals seek to silence conservative voices, conservatives want to put a megaphone to leftists’ mouths so everyone can hear their craziness. 

She’ll likely win her election in November, her district is that liberal if she ever actually spends any time there since she’s busy basking in her celebrity status and traveling around the country giving the kiss of death to other “progressives” in their primaries, but she will serve as an anchor to other dummycrats-Democrats who will have to answer for her anti-liberty and anti-American proposals, not to mention her inability to do math. So please, commie-Alexandria, by all means, keep talking.

Also this week the “Russian collusion” investigatory scam rolled on, with the trial of Paul Manafort for unrelated tax and banking charges. What he’s charged with happened long before he’d met Donald Trump and would send a mortal to prison for about a year, but because he did meet Trump, Manafort now faces spending the rest of his life plus another couple hundred years in prison, 305 in total, for hiding taxable income and lying on a loan application. John Hinckley, who show President Ronald Reagan and seriously wounded three others in an assassination attempt in 1981, is now a free man but Manafort may be sent to prison until the year 2323. Ain’t justice grand?

Still, even if convicted, what Manafort is charged with has nothing to do with Trump or Russia, so it couldn’t really be used by liberals in any honest way not that that will stop them from trying.

As you can see, it’s tough to decide what to write about. How can anyone pick just one thing? I’m sure somebody could, but I can’t. So I didn’t.

Of course, I could have just written about the interview I conducted with Gregg Jarrett about his new book, “The Russia Hoax,” on my newish podcast, which you should watch or listen and subscribe to because it’s really good, but that would have been too easy. Maybe next week when the news cycle slows down a little. Then again, it is 2018, so probably not.

PS: Once yet again, I want to encourage you to order a copy of my book, “Outrage, INC: How the Liberal Mob Ruined Science, Journalism, and Hollywood.” It explains the why and how of what the left does in ways that haven’t been before, and it does so with a lot of humor. Don’t take my word for it, take the words of Mark Levin, Ann Coulter, David Limbaugh, Dana Loesch, Dan Bongino, Michelle Malkin, Ben Shapiro, Kurt Schlichter, and countless others. Obviously, I have an interest in selling you a copy of the book, but they don’t. Yet they’ve all endorsed it. And, for reasons I don’t understand but am eternally grateful for, people are still buying it. You’ll love it, trust me. Thanks.

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Mon/Med-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Company incinerates aborted
babies in 'reverent way'
by ART MOORE 
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Fusion GPS tried to tie Trump to liar-Clinton's
pedophile pal Epstein as part of smear campaign 
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{ washingtontimes.com } ~ Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm whose dummycrats-Democrat-financed Russia dossier fueled an FBI investigation into Donald Trump... pitched other stories about the Republican presidential candidate to Washington reporters, including an attempt to tie him to a convicted pedophile who was once buddies with former President liar-Bill Clinton. Journalist sources told The Washington Times that Fusion founder Glenn Simpson pushed the idea of a close relationship between Mr. Trump and Jeffrey Epstein, who pleaded guilty in 2008 to soliciting sex from an underage girl. The Trump-Epstein link appears purely social, far short of Mr. liar-Clinton’s 20-plus plane rides on Epstein’s “Lolita Express” private jet around the globe in the early 2000s. Ken Silverstein, the reporter who ultimately wrote an Epstein-Trump  report, confirmed to The Times that Fusion had sourced the story. Mr. Silverstein, founder and editor of WashingtonBabylon.com who wrote the story for Vice.com, defended Mr. Simpson as a solid source of information that must first be confirmed. For years, Fusion GPS has been an influential hidden hand in Washington, with entree into the city’s most powerful news bureaus...
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Trey Gowdy Strikes Fear into Justice Department:
‘We Have Run Out of Patience’
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ If the Justice Department wants to keep on stonewalling when it comes to former FBI official Bruce Ohr... they have a very rude awakening coming: Rep. Trey “The Bulldog” Gowdy and his Republican compatriots have “run out of patience.” Ohr, you might recall, is caught up in a kerfuffle over possible improper contact with Christopher Steele, the former MI6 agent who assembled the Trump dossier. The FBI had “suspended and then terminated” Steele as a source in November of 2016 for “unauthorized disclosure to the media of his relationship with the FBI.” The FBI characterized this, according to Fox News, as “the most serious of violations” and told Steele he could no longer “operate to obtain any intelligence whatsoever on behalf of the FBI.” In an interview on Fox News, Rep. Gowdy said that Republicans in the House were likely to issue a subpoena for Ohr if the DOJ continued to drag its feet...
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President Trump Highlights Lack of Reform Within DOJ and FBI
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ In an interesting set of tweets today President Trump highlights the institutions of the DOJ and FBI with separate and blunt emphasis... Toward the DOJ, President trump notes the relationship between Deputy AG Bruce Ohr, his wife Nellie Ohr as a Fusion GPS contractor and Christopher Steele the author of the “phony and discredited Dossier”, also a Fusion GPS contractor.  All of the entities were paid by liar-Hillary Clinton through her legal representation. Additionally, President Trump highlights the lack of DOJ leadership specifically AG Jeff Sessions to address the institutional corruption which led to “spygate” and a fraudulent application for an unlawful FISA application. In the second set of tweets, President Trump noted how officials within the FBI are continuing to obstruct oversight and refuse to turn over evidence of institutional corruption. In a pointed question President Trump asks: “What are they hiding”?...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/11/blunt-honesty-president-trump-highlights-lack-of-reform-within-doj-and-fbi/ 
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2nd city tries to tell state how to run gun law
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{ wnd.com } ~ A second Washington city has decided to tell the state how to run its gun laws and now is in court because of the decision... WND reported last month that Seattle was being sued for imposing a gun “safe storage” requirement on residents that goes beyond what state law allows. Now the Second Amendment Foundation says the city of Edmonds is being sued over the same issue. The foundation is joined by the National Rifle Association in the case over the state’s 35-year-old preemption statute establishing the state’s authority to set gun rules. Edmonds, a suburban community north of Seattle, also is being sued by two residents, Brett Bass and Swan Seaberg. Defendants in the case are the city, Mayor Dave Earling and Police Chief Al Compaan...  https://www.wnd.com/2018/08/2nd-city-tries-to-tell-state-how-to-run-gun-law/ 
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NASA's Parker Solar Probe blasts off
on epic journey to 'touch the Sun' 
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by James Rogers
{ foxnews.com } ~ NASA’s Parker Solar Probe has blasted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force station on its historic mission to the Sun... The probe lit up the night sky as it blasted off at 3:31 a.m. EDT. “It was a really clean launch,” Dr. Thomas Zurbuchen, associate administrator for NASA’s Science Mission Directorate, told reporters. “It took off like it should.” “Everything was exactly like we thought it would be – it really was textbook,” he added. Carried by a United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy rocket, Parker lifted off from Cape Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 37. The launch had intially been scheduled for early Saturday, but last-minute technical glitches ate away at the launch window, prompting a 24-hour delay...
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Company incinerates aborted
babies in 'reverent way'
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by ART MOORE

{ wnd.com } ~ Challenged for its business of incinerating the bodies of aborted babies, a medical waste company insists it carries out its work for a late-term abortionist “in a reverent way.”

Bio-Haz Solutions Inc. was seen in early July picking up medical waste at Leroy Carhart’s late-term abortion facility, AbortionClinics.org in Bethesda, Maryland, reported LifeNews.com.

Citing investigative work by the pro-life group Created Equal, LifeNews said that two other two other medical waste companies canceled contracts with Carhart earlier this summer after pro-lifers expressed outrage.

Bio-Haz Solutions of Nesquehoning, Pennsylvania, told Created Equal leader Mark Harrington that his company opposes abortion but argues it has a moral
responsibility to “reverently” dispose of aborted babies.

Bio-Haz CEO David Henritzy said in a voicemail responding to Harrington that “we feel a reverential and moral responsibility with the goodness of God and His blessing that we take of the souls of the children with no voice.”

“No other company does what we do in a very reverent and respectful way for the lost souls of these children,” he said. “We take responsibility of handling and managing how said containers are handled once they leave the facility of origin.”

Henritzy said all of his company’s vehicles “carry holy water and place golden crosses on containers we pick up at the aforementioned locations.”

“We also carry the Holy Bible to guide us in time of need.”

Unsatisfied by the response, Harrington urged pro-lifers to continue politely asking the company to stop doing business with Carhart, who runs one of the few clinics that openly aborts babied through all nine months of pregnancy.

“Whether you place a cross on them or not, whether waste trucks carry holy water and Bibles, this doesn’t change the fact that these children who are made in God’s image are being shipped off to be burned like common garbage,” Harrington told LifeNews.com.

“Enabling abortion is a moral evil irrespective of the religious symbols used to cover for the killing,” he said.

The pro-life group Operation Rescue, which was first to report seeing Bio-Haz at Carhart’s abortion facility, said it saw the driver go in with flat cardboard boxes and empty red plastic biohazard bags.

“He came out with two boxes at a time that were so full of aborted baby remains that the cardboard bowed out and crunched at the bottom,” Operation Rescue said.

Operation Rescue President Troy Newman said there apparently had not been a pick up there for at least two weeks, meaning there could have been as many as two dozen babies weighing up to five pounds each in the boxes.

“That really brings home the barbarity of late-term abortions. It’s really the stuff of nightmares,” Newman said.
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Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Declassified: Did Rosenstein Make
False Statements to the FISA Judge?
by Allan J. Favish
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Why dummycrats-Democratic Socialists Can’t
Legitimately Claim Sweden, Denmark as Success Stories
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders and congressional candidate commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez are popularizing the philosophy of dummycrats-democratic socialism, especially among younger age groups... Meanwhile, the Young dummycrats-Democratic Socialists of America (YDSA) are gaining influence on college and high school campuses, claiming to have organizing activities planned at more than 250 campuses across the nation. The dummycrats-YDSA website describes the group’s vision as “a humane social order based on popular control of resources and production, economic planning, equitable distribution, feminism, racial equality and non-oppressive relationships.” Many on the right question this vision, pointing to countries such as Venezuela and Cuba as examples of socialist disasters. dummycrats-Democratic socialists claim those countries implemented socialism “incorrectly” or that other factors are to blame. They prefer to cite Norway, Sweden, and Denmark as examples of socialist success. There are, however, several key problems with that....
Trump questions why FBI hasn’t released McCabe text
messages, warns ‘I may have to get involved’
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump questioned Saturday morning why the FBI had not provided conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch and others with text messages... of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, warning he “may have to get involved.” “Why isn’t the FBI giving Andrew McCabe text messages to Judicial Watch or appropriate governmental authorities. FBI said they won’t give up even one I may have to get involved, DO NOT DESTROY. What are they hiding? McCabe wife took big campaign dollars from liar-Hillary people......,” Trump tweeted Saturday morning. “.....Will the FBI ever recover it’s once stellar reputation, so badly damaged by scumbag-Comey, McCabe, Peter S and his lover, the lovely Lisa Page, and other top officials now dismissed or fired? So many of the great men and women of the FBI have been hurt by these clowns and losers!”...
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Israel Unleashes Fury After Hamas Rocket
Barrage Causes Numerous Civilian Casualties
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ Israeli Defense Forces hit back against Palestinian militants... after a barrage of rockets were fired from Gaza to Southern Israel beginning Wednesday, the Jerusalem Post  reported. Hamas took responsibility for the rocket attacks. A spokesman for the group, Abdullatif al-Kanoo, said Hamas was acting “in self-defense and has a duty to respond to the aggression against our people,” according to a translation from Al Jazeera. “The escalation of the barbaric shelling of Gaza and the deliberate targeting of civilians is premeditated and the occupation will suffer the repercussions and pay a higher price for its crimes,” he said. The rockets hit the southern Israeli town of Sderot, wounding 11 people, including a woman who is in serious condition. Thirteen others were treated for shock trauma, according to Harretz. Israeli military retaliated against the attack with 150 airstrikes early Thursday, killing three. Six others were wounded...
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Trump Administration Boots Hundreds More
Federal Employees out of Washington DC
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ The U.S. Department of Agriculture is moving two agencies and roughly 700 federal employees out of Washington, D.C. ... to save money and improve the department’s service to taxpayers. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced  Thursday that the Economic Research Service and the National Institute of Food and Agriculture will be fully moved out of the nation’s capital by 2020, according to the USDA. A location hasn’t been picked yet. “It’s been our goal to make USDA the most effective, efficient, and customer-focused department in the entire federal government,” Perdue said in a statement. “In our Administration, we have looked critically at the way we do business, with the ultimate goal of ensuring the best service possible for our customers, and for the taxpayers of the United States. “In some cases, this has meant realigning some of our offices and functions, or even relocating them, in order to make more logical sense or provide more streamlined and efficient services,” Perdue said...
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Huge incendiary kite from Gaza lands on kibbutz power lines 
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ A large incendiary kite launched from Gaza landed on power lines near Kibbutz Sufa... sparking a quick operation Saturday by employees from the Israeli Electric Corporation to remove the device before a fire was started. The kite caused a brief power cut at the kibbutz. It was removed from the high-voltage wires by electric company workers using a crane. In another community near the Gaza Strip, police sappers neutralized an incendiary balloon flown over from the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave that landed next to a dining room in an Israeli community in the Eshkol Region...
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Declassified: Did Rosenstein Make
False Statements to the FISA Judge?
by Allan J. Favish

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Journalist Paul Sperry tweeted on August 5, 2018 that we should look this month for President Donald Trump to "declassify 20 redacted pages of the June 2017 FISA renewal." Sperry is referring to a Portable Document Format file released on July 21, 2018 by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which contains heavily redacted versions of four Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrant applications to conduct surveillance of Carter Page, who had been a foreign policy adviser to presidential candidate Donald Trump. Even with the redactions, the June 2017 warrant application is damning for deputy United States attorney general Rod Rosenstein.

The June 2017 warrant application begins on PDF page 292, with the title "VERIFIED APPLICATION."  On PDF page 379, it states: "The FBI has reviewed this verified application for accuracy in accordance with its April 5, 2001 procedures."  On PDF pages 390-391, it states the following under the heading "APPROVAL":

I find that this application regarding Carter W. Page satisfies the criteria and requirements for such applications set forth in the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978, as amended, and hereby approve its filing with this Court. redacted Accordingly, I approve the filing of this application regarding Carter W. Page with the Court redacted.

This APPROVAL is signed on PDF page 391 by Rosenstein.

The unredacted portions of the June 2017 warrant application reveal two deceptions by Rosenstein that have not received sufficient attention.  The first is that Rosenstein told the FISA judge that the information from former British intelligence agent Christopher Steele that was in the warrant application was "verified" but failed to tell the FISA judge that a month earlier, Steele admitted that his information was "unverified." After Steele's dossier was published in early 2017, Steele was sued for libel in Great Britain. On page seven of Steele's response to interrogatories in that case, Steele stated:

The December memorandum a portion of Steele's dossier was a raw intelligence report which contained information gathered from a confidential source(s) about various national security issues that warranted further investigation.

Further, the words complained of [by the plaintiffs in the libel suit] were published by BuzzFeed as part of an article which stressed that the contents of the dossier which included the December memorandum were "unverified", "unconfirmed" and contained "unverified, and potentially unverifiable allegations".  The article added that, "BuzzFeed News reporters in the US and Europe have been investigating the alleged facts in the dossier but have not verified or falsified them."  The article reported that the President-elect's attorney, Michael Cohen, had said that allegations in the dossier "were absolutely false".

In these circumstances, readers of the words complained of were therefore aware that (i) the contents of the December memorandum did not represent and did not purport to represent verified facts, but were raw intelligence which had identified a range of allegations that warranted investigation given their potential national security implications; (ii) persons mentioned in the December memorandum were unlikely to have been approached for comment, and therefore many of those persons were likely to deny the allegations contained in the raw intelligence; and (iii) while the December memorandum was prepared in good faith, its content must be critically viewed in light of the purpose for and circumstances in which the information was collected.

As seen on page nine of Steele's response to the interrogatories, the document is dated May 18, 2017. Presumably, this document was made public on that date or shortly thereafter. Although we know that Senator Charles Grassley, chairman of the United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary, sent FBI director Christopher Wray a copy of Steele's interrogatory responses in October 2017, it is likely that the FBI and the DOJ had a copy before the June 2017 warrant application was submitted.   It would be difficult to believe that the FBI and DOJ were not monitoring the lawsuit against Steele. If for no other reason, failure to monitor the lawsuit would have been a dereliction of duty by the FBI and DOJ, given that the Steele dossier was used in the three previous FISA warrant applications and was being used again in the fourth FISA warrant application for a warrant that would allow surveillance for another 90 days.

The FBI and DOJ had a duty to monitor the lawsuit to see if anything developed that would impact the representations the FBI and DOJ were making to the FISA judges. This is precisely what happened in May of 2017, when Steele responded to the interrogatories. Yet there is nothing in the June FISA warrant application indicating that Rosenstein informed the FISA judge about Steele's interrogatory responses. It is unlikely that a disclosure about Steele's interrogatory responses was redacted in the publicly released version of the June 2017 FISA warrant application because there would be no legitimate reason to redact it given that Steele's interrogatory responses were public information.

Rosenstein's second deception was falsely telling the FISA judge that Steele did not disclose his information to the press in September 2016, but disclosed to the press only in October 2016. Footnotes on PDF pages 308-309 and 320-321 in the June 2017 warrant application state that 1) Steele told the FBI that he shared his information only to Fusion GPS and the FBI, and the FBI did not believe that Steele shared his information with the press in September 2016; 2) in late October 2016, when FBI director James Comey publicly announced the reopening of the liar-Hillary email server investigation, Steele became "frustrated" with this action and, in response, disobeyed the FBI and shared his information with the press in late October 2016; and 3) the FBI continues to assess Steele's reporting as reliable but closed Steele as an active source.

The problem for Rosenstein is that on page eight of Steele's interrogatory responses, from May 2017, Steele admitted that he shared his information with the press in September 2016. This is the opposite of what Rosenstein told the FISA judge in June 2017. Rosenstein did not tell the FISA judge in June 2017 about Steele's admission from a month earlier. The FISA judge was likely left with the impression that Steele had only disobeyed the FBI once regarding sharing with the press, and then only because Steele was "frustrated" at the reopening of the liar-Hillary email investigation in late October 2016, and Steele had no other motivation for sharing with the press. This was a false impression because Steele's "frustration" over the reopening of the liar-Hillary investigation could not account for Steele's sharing with the press in September 2016. Moreover, Rosenstein did not tell the FISA judge that Steele had lied to the FBI about his sharing with the press in September 2016. The FISA judge was not given any indication that Steele's credibility was in serious doubt because of that lie. This is especially egregious, given that the June 2017 warrant application was significantly based on Steele's credibility.

Senator Grassley and Senator Lindsey Graham, chairman of the Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, noticed the significance of Steele's interrogatory responses over six months before the public release of the FISA warrant applications. On February 6, 2018, Grassley and Graham, released a redacted version of their memorandum on the topic dated January 4, 2018. On pages 4-5 of their memorandum, they asserted that FBI and DOJ officials misrepresented Steele's credibility to the FISA Court in order to make Steele appear more credible than the facts would justify.

The Grassley-Graham memorandum is primarily focused on Steele's lying to the FBI about when he spoke to the press. However, the memorandum sets forth a compelling case that Rosenstein was dishonest with the FISA judge in June 2017, and the unredacted portions of the June 2017 warrant application support this conclusion.


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Kathleen Turner Was One of Hollywood’s Biggest Stars Until Hidden Disease Derailed Her Career
by Loren Eaton 
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Monday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  FBI fires Peter Strzok, months after anti-Trump texts revealed (Fox News)
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Senate Judiciary announces Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearing (The Hill)
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U.S. sanctions Russia over nerve-agent attack in Britain (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Underreported: What tax reform “crumbs” meant for these blue-collar workers (The Daily Signal)
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Anti-Semitism soars on U.S. college campuses (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Trump to sign Confucius Institute funding ban (Campus Reform)
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Pence lays out plans for “Space Force” sought by Trump (The Wall Street Journal)
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“Unite the Right” white nationalist rally in DC attracts few supporters, dwarfed by counterprotests (Washington Examiner)
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Charlottesville rally turns into anti-police protest (Hot Air)
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Facebook deletes Infowars page, Apple deletes all Alex Jones podcasts (National Review)
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dummycrats-Democrats, unions declare victory as “right to work” loses by wide margin in Missouri (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
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Betsy DeVos’s loan-forgiveness rule gets slimed by the college cartel (National Review)
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FBI agent acquitted of lying about shots fired at rancher in Oregon standoff (NBC News)
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Billionaire drops quest to split California into three parts (Associated Press)
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Sinclair’s merger with Tribune is officially dead (CNET)
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Melania Trump’s parents become U.S. citizens (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Good news: There are a lot of reasons to feel optimistic about America’s future (National Review)
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Humor: commie-Ocasio-Cortez appears on “Sesame Street” to debate economic plan with the Count (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: The merits of criminal justice reform (The Washington Times)
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Policy: Getting ready for China (National Review  
 
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Nelson Has ‘Little Bit of Egg on
His Face’ With Russian Hacking Claim 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Tampa Bay Times political editor Adam Smith appeared on CNN Friday where he broke down Sen. Bill Nelson's (D., Fla.) claim... that Russians compromised voting systems in Florida. Nelson's claim Wednesday was shot down by election officials in the state who said they haven't seen any sign of interference. Both the Florida Department of State and county election officials told the Sun-Sentinel they had received no information from Nelson about any threats to Florida's election system. CNN's Kate Bolduan told Smith the network has reached out to Nelson for more information and has asked for an interview over his claims. She said CNN hasn't heard back...  https://freebeacon.com/politics/florida-reporter-nelson-little-egg-face-russian-hacking-claim/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=68d96c3249-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_10_06_42_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-68d96c3249-45611665
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Europe: Prayer in Public Spaces
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ A few months ago, a global media tempest erupted after Polish Catholics held a mass public prayer event across the country... The BBC deemed it "controversial", due to "concerns it could be seen as endorsing the state's refusal to let in Muslim migrants". The same controversy, however, did not erupt in Britain when 140,000 Muslims prayed in Birmingham's Small Heath Park, in an event organized by the Green Lane Mosque to mark the end of Ramadan. France is debating whether or not to block prayer on the street. "They will not have prayers on the street, we will prevent street praying" Interior Minister Gerard Collomb announced. "Public space cannot be taken over in this way", said the president of the Paris regional council, Valérie Pécresse, who led a protest by councilors and MPs. In Italy, hundreds of Muslims prayed next to Colosseum, and Muslim prayers were held in front of Milan's Cathedral... Why is there a double standard?   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12568/europe-public-prayer
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Poll Watcher Invents Dress Code
To Prevent Conservative From Voting
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{ lidblog.com } Since reaching the age of eighteen, there hasn’t been a national or local election that I’ve missed... Most times my visit to the polling takes place as soon as the polling station opens at 6am usually looking like I just crawled out of bed because that’s what I did. You see here in New York there is no dress code for voters, as long as one is not wearing something promoting someone who is running, that’s pretty standard for most states including Missouri. But this week in Kansas City Mo., one poll watcher invented another criterion, they have to like what the voter is wearing. During this past Tuesday’s primary Randy Thornton, a registered Republican voter in Kansas City was told he wasn’t allowed to enter the polling place because he was Make America Great (MAGA) hat on his head. Now unless I pulled a Rip Van Winkle and slept for two years, President Trump wasn’t running in this week’s GOP primary. Thornton only wanted to perform his sacred American duty of casting his vote in the Missouri primary was told by a poll worker on Tuesday that he was not allowed to vote because he was wearing one of the president’s signature campaign hats. The dummycrats-Democrat poll worker was apparently triggered by the MAGA hat and, like all dummycrats- Democrats revealed his inner scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters by telling the voter to leave the polling place...That was totally wrong and illegal.  https://lidblog.com/poll-watcher-dress-code/ 
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Lawmakers Ask Pompeo for Help to
Free California Man Held Without Charge by Vietnam
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{ pjmedia.com } ~ California lawmakers, including House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Ed Royce (R-Calif.), urged Secretary of State Mike Pompeo... to "make every effort" to free an Orange County, Calif., man detained without charge since June by Vietnam. Michael Phuong Minh Nguyen, 54, a U.S. citizen, flew to Vietnam on June 27 to visit family and friends but never made his return flight July 16. The Vietnamese regime admitted to the U.S. Embassy on July 17 that he had been detained July 7 and was being held at the Phan Dang Luu Detention Center in Ho Chi Minh City. Nguyen, a print shop owner who was born in Vietnam but has lived in the United States since childhood, is married to Helen Nguyen, an operating room nurse. They have four daughters. Nguyen is described by friends as an active member of his Catholic parish and not political. The Vietnamese regime has regularly persecuted Catholics such as Father Thadeus Nguyen Van Ly, a democracy activist. They are reportedly holding Michael Phuong Minh Nguyen on suspicion of activity against the Vietnamese government, but he has not been charged with a crime...
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Plane crashes after 'unauthorized
take-off' from SeaTac airport, officials say 
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by Bradford Betz
{ foxnews.com } ~ A Horizon Air passenger plane crashed on an island in Puget Sound Friday night... not long after a suspect conducted an "unauthorized take-off" from Seattle-Tacoma International Airport in Washington state, officials said. Witnesses reported seeing a large plume of smoke in the air above Ketron Island after the plane went down. No passengers were believed to be aboard the Q400 aircraft, airport officials said. No one on the sparsely inhabited island was believed to have been injured, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department said on Twitter. The unidentified pilot was a 29-year-old "suicidal male," the sheriff's department said. The Seattle Times reported that he was a Horizon Air employee from Sumner, Wash. The drama played out in real time on the Internet as the public was able to hear the suspect communicating with air traffic controllers via the air traffic control scanner...   http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2018/08/11/plane-crashes-after-unauthorized-take-off-from-seatac-airport-officials-say.html
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Kathleen Turner Was One of Hollywood’s Biggest Stars Until Hidden Disease Derailed Her Career
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by Loren Eaton

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Fame is a fickle thing, always arriving and leaving when you least expect it. I think Bill Murray (“Groundhog Day,” “Ghostbusters”) captured it pretty well when, according to Esquire, he said, “I always want to say to people who want to be rich and famous: ‘try being rich first.’ …

“There’s not much downside to being rich, other than paying taxes and having your relatives ask you for money. But when you become famous, you end up with a 24-hour job.”

The ancient Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius felt much the same way, writing, “Consider the lives led once by others, long ago, the lives to be led by others after you, the lives led even now, in foreign lands. … How many offer you praise now — and tomorrow, perhaps, contempt.”

Aurelius came to the conclusion that fame was worthless, and I suspect that Hollywood legend Kathleen Turner probably feels the same way. When you look at her Biography.com profile, you understand that she ruled the silver screen for about a dozen years.

Turner made a splash with the 1981 noir “Body Heat” and then went on to appear in the comedies “Romancing the Stone,” “The Jewel of the Nile,” and “Peggy Sue Got Married.” But in the early ’90s, her on-screen appearances dramatically declined.

People blamed her absence on alcoholism. But her lack of visibility owed to something more insidious: rheumatoid arthritis.

“It’s hard to understand the level of pain that this disease brings,” Turner said in an interview with Vulture published on August 7. “I don’t know how I got through it.

“One of the areas that was most painful was my right wrist. Just touching it would make me want to scream.”

Today explains that rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disease, an illness where the body attacks itself. This particular variant assaults the joints and can cause permanent damage.

Around 1.3 million Americans suffer from it. But when Turner was diagnosed, it was more mysterious.

The arthritis hurt her career as much as herself. She noted, “If you say, ‘I have a mysterious illness and I don’t know if I’ll be able to walk tomorrow,’ you’re not getting hired. …

“Rheumatoid arthritis hit in my late 30s, the last of my years in which Hollywood would consider me a sexually appealing leading lady. The hardest part was that so much of my confidence was based on my physicality. If I didn’t have that, who was I?”

Unwilling to stew in regret, Turner reinvented herself, enjoying multiple cameos on numerous television shows. She also became something of presence in theater.

“The roles for mature women onstage are a thousand times better than anything written in film,” she said. “The screen roles are usually stereotypes: the evil stepmother, the bitter spinster.”

Though she rues her loss of fame, Turner hasn’t let it cripple her. She says she has more important things to consider.

“I’m too busy coping with disease to think much outside the day-to-day. For me it’s, ‘Can I hold a pen? Can I stand up? Can I climb those stairs?’”
 
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Analysis: Kamala Harris' Backwards 
Attack on 'Identity Politics' 
by Guy Benson
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Former DEA Agent Says Bruce Ohr Had Other Priorities 
{ rickwells.us } ~ A former agent in charge of the Drug Enforcement Agency’s Special Operations Division called into the Mark Levin Show Thursday night... and wondered if Bruce Ohr prioritized other issues over his previous job as director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force. The agent, Derek Maltz, detailed to Levin how illicit American businesses were funneling money to terrorist organizations, and that his suspicion was Ohr either sidelined or ignored his responsibility to track these businesses in order to pursue a political agenda against the Donald Trump campaign. Maltz called into Levin’s show and explained to the radio host he was the head of his division when there was an initiative against Hezbollah in their cocaine and money laundering activities. “Major cocaine loads leaving Colombia South America going into West Africa. Cocaine is sold millions and millions of dollars are collected Middle Eastern couriers transporting the cash back to Beiruit, Lebanon. Hezbollah militants protecting the money going into the banks. Money transfers back to America. Going into bank accounts,” Maltz said...  https://rickwells.us/former-agent-bruce-ohr-priorities/
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Judge Hears Testimony in Texas-Led DACA Case
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{ numbersusa.com } ~ Texas District Judge Andrew Hanen heard arguments in a lawsuit brought by 7 states seeking to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program... The plaintiff states largely relied on arguments that persuaded Hanen to block implementation of the Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents (DAPA) program and extended DACA program in 2015. The states asked Hanen for a nationwide injunction but he did not issue a ruling yesterday. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who is leading the state coalition, said "DACA is unconstitutional because it rewrote federal law over the objections of Congress…It represents a dangerous view of executive power, which would allow the president to unilaterally set aside any duly enacted law. It cannot be allowed to stand without doing serious harm to our Constitution. This lawsuit is vital to restoring the rule of law to our immigration system." The Trump Administration is not defending DACA, but Hanen allowed illegal-alien advocates and the State of New Jersey to assume that role. The Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF), which is leading the defense, said the states don’t have standing to sue because DACA had been operating for six years before they lodged a lawsuit. “Any assertion of irreparable damages is necessarily weak with regards to a program that has been implemented in Texas for six years, as throughout the country,” MALDEF said. Hanen said he would postpone ruling on DACA’s constitutionality, and just consider the plaintiff’s request for an injunction. He asked both sides to file briefs by Monday answering the questions he raised during the hearing, including whether the liar-nObama Administration violated the Administrative Procedures Act in creating DACA...liar-nObama did violated the law by EO.
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Manafort Judge Delays Testimony
After Special Counsel Complains
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{ saraacarter.com } ~ The fiery judge presiding over the special counsel’s tax fraud case against former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort suddenly delayed new testimony Friday... following a strong “push back” from Mueller’s team. “Judge T.S. Ellis III mysteriously delayed testimony Friday in the case of ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, pushing off the day’s proceedings for hours after prosecutors once again complained about his criticism of them,” writes Fox News. “It’s not clear if the delay is connected to the complaint filed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team.” Robert Mueller’s legal team filed a motion against Ellis Friday morning, claiming the judge was “unfairly criticizing them” in front of the jury, adding it may impact their final decision.   https://saraacarter.com/manafort-judge-delays-testimony-after-special-counsel-complains/
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Bruce Ohr Scheduled to Testify To
Joint Congressional Committee August 28th
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Representative Mark Meadows has announced on twitter that DOJ official Bruce Ohr has been scheduled to testify on August 28th, this month... According to additional details provided to the Daily Caller, Ohr will testify to the same joint committee that previously heard testimony from Lisa Page. The joint committee is a blend of House Oversight Trey Gowdy, Chairman and House Judiciary Bob Goodlatte, Chairman. If the same process is used, Chairman Goodlatte will determine which committee members will conduct the questioning. The August 28th Bruce Ohr testimony will be closed; however, it is possible another open hearing may be held at another date. In recent days a great deal of information has surfaced from communication between Bruce Ohr and participants in the 2016 FBI/DOJ and Fusion GPS operation against candidate Donald Trump.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/10/bruce-ohr-scheduled-to-testify-to-joint-congressional-committee-august-28th/
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Maria Bartiromo Talks U.S. Bilateral Trade With Mexico
by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Methinks Maria Bartiromo is the only media person who has caught on to “the secret“... Within her wording and presentation today, inside this interview Fox News Maria Bartiromo hints toward her understanding of the Trump trade strategy as it pertains to Mexico, Canada and ::cough:: NAFTA. After the end of Round #6 January 2018, it was obvious to POTUS Trump a NAFTA renegotiated deal was impossible. In March, 2018, Team Trump stealthily began moving in a different direction. In June,2018, Canada accidentally made the admission there were no ongoing talks between the U.S. and Canada. The reasoning is simple yet stunning...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/12/sunday-talks-maria-bartiromo-talks-u-s-bilateral-trade-with-mexico/.
JW Videos of the Week
How Judicial Watch Blasted Open the Strzok-Steele-FISA Scandals Targeting Trump
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Tom Fitton’s Video Weekly Update – August 10, 2018
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Fitton Accepts Award from YouTube Reaching "An Astonishing" 100k Subscribers
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Mueller Operation Built on ‘Sand and Corruption’
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FBI Documents show Russia Dossier Author Deemed ‘not Suitable for Use’
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Fitton breaks down Judicial Watch's DOJ lawsuit
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Analysis: Kamala Harris' Backwards 
Attack on 'Identity Politics' 
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by Guy Benson

{ townhall.com } ~ Late last week, the dummycrats-Democratic Party's far-left base gathered in New Orleans for the annual 'Netroots Nation' conference. A number of rumored presidential aspirants were in attendance, including Senators scumbag-Cory "complicit in evil" Booker, Elizabeth dinky-Warren, and Kamala Harris. I'll circle back to dinky-Warren, but let's begin with a notable commentary offered by the junior Senator from California. During her remarks from the dais, Sen. Harris took aim at the term "identity politics," ripping it as a formulation designed to divide and silence:
 
 
To further emphasize her theme, Harris fired off a number of subsequent tweets vowing not to be silent on various issues:

Let's set aside the reality that nobody can seriously claim the Left is being silent about much of anything these days, let alone the topics she invokes. What strikes me as interesting is not just her apparent effort to "problematic-ize" the term 'identity politics' itself, but also her profound twisting of the concept. In a monologue on my radio show this week, I picked apart her inverted definition, explaining why her paean to intersectionality is a demagogic distortion of reality.  My main points:

(1) Conservatives' problem with the Left's regime of identity enforcement stems from the cynical sorting of human beings into little ideologically-determinative boxes, based on immutable characteristics such as race, sex, sexuality, etc.  We shouldn't take issue with substantive debates that include serious questions and data about how policies impact certain populations. We also shouldn't begrudge members of certain identity groups weighing their collective well-being as they consider various political proposals and candidates. But we should roundly reject the insistence that individuals ought to think or vote a certain way based on their assigned identity groups.

(2) The other major objection to identity politics -- as outlined at length in my book -- is the lazy smears that frequently accompany disagreement with the Left's agenda. If you're for voter ID laws, you're racist. If you're pro-life you're sexist. If you're for religious liberty, you're homophobic. If you aren't sure whether this is fair, you're transphobic. If you raise issues like this or this, you're Islamophobic. And if you prefer tighter immigration restrictions, you're a nativist or xenophobe. These are rhetorical attacks used to short-circuit actual debate. Yes, real bigotry does exist, but tarring large groups of voters by impugning their motives is standard operating procedure in our politics today.  It's toxic.

In essence, Harris' complaints feel like projection. It's the Left that too often exploits identity to "divide and distract" from substance, or to deflect from or disqualify good-faith disagreement. And it's the Left that too often seizes on identity politics as a cudgel with which to attack ideological opponents and bully them into silence. Sen. Harris and friends are more than welcome to speak out on whatever issues they see fit; they are not welcome to use identity-rooted grievances and scorecards to stifle serious discussion or to demand conformity. Here's the audio of my radio segment advancing these arguments in detail:
AUDIO:  https://radio.foxnews.com/2018/08/06/guy-benson-on-sen-kamala-harris-blasting-critics-of-identity-politics/

Seemingly determined to reinforce my point, Sen. dinky-Warren also made a number of fiery statements in New Orleans, playing to various constituencies as she reportedly reconsiders her decision not to seek the presidency. What may have changed her mind?  Two words, she says: "Donald Trump". In assailing the politics of division -- a topic on which she's quite familiar -- she rattled off the typical list of 'isms' and 'phobias:'
"According to Trump, the problem is other working people - people who are black or brown, people who are born somewhere else, people who don’t worship the same, talk the same, or dress the same as Trump and his buddies. And it comes in all sorts of flavors - racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia. It comes in all sorts of forms - nasty personal attacks, trolling on Twitter, winking at white supremacists," dinky-Warren said.

She later declared the entire US criminal justice system -- all of it -- to be "racist:

Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren on Friday called the criminal justice system “racist … front to back,” while further hinting at a potential presidential run. “Let’s just start with the hard truth about our criminal justice system,” dinky-Warren said at a forum at Dillard University in New Orleans. “It’s racist … I mean all the way. I mean front to back.”

Even if you favor criminal justice reform, as I do, this is dreadful, broad-brush demagoguery and demonization that slanders countless Americans who work within the current system. This type of comment is harmful no matter who is spouting it, but it's uniquely galling coming from a woman who built and advanced her career upon a shameless racial fraud. When it comes to "privilege checking" and "cultural appropriation," hot concepts within the realm of obsessive identity politics, dinky-Warren is an egregious violator on both fronts. It will be interesting to see what Harris and others may have to say about that if and when they find themselves competing with dinky-Warren for their party's presidential nomination.


https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2018/08/09/kamala-harris-has-identity-politics-exactly-backwards-n2507638?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Who Determines Universal Values?
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
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Conservative Confusion About Who and What We’re Fighting
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{ spectator.org } ~ At this moment, Ohio dummycrats-Democrats and their Beltway masters are diligently working to steal the state’s 12th Congressional District from Republican Troy Balderson... Balderson’s dummycrats-Democratic opponent, Danny O’Connor, refused to concede after narrowly losing the special election and a few hours later — the county where he works — miraculously “discovered” 588 uncounted votes in a “routine audit.” When they were counted, Balderson’s lead shrank by 190. Similar skull duggery will accompany the count of provisional and absentee ballots, which will inevitably lead to an automatic recount, which will ultimately lead to an O’Connor “victory.” What does this have to do with conservative confusion? It’s a timely reminder that the dummycrats-Democratic Party is little more than a criminal conspiracy and that any conservative who sits at home during the midterms, griping about “GOPes,” will be complicit in the destruction of the republic. If this sounds over the top, think about who will take over the leadership of crucial committees if the dummycrats-Democrats flip enough seats to regain a majority in the House: scumbag-Adam Schiff will probably become the Chairman of the Intelligence Committee — scumbag-Adam Schiff! Before we go any further, think about that. This buffoon is still braying about Russian collusion even as he covers up the crimes of Barack liar-nObama and liar-Hillary Clinton. scumbag- Schiff’s first order of business as Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee will be to halt any ongoing investigations into liar-nObama administration abuses of power — particularly the illegal deployment of the FBI, CIA, and IRS against domestic political opponents of the dummycrats-Democratic Party, including the Trump presidential campaign. scumbag-Schiff will likewise close down all inquiries into Mrs. liar-Clinton’s copious catalogue of crimes. Having thus enabled liar-nObama administration officials to escape justice, scumbag-Schiff will then pivot to his primary goal — destroying the Trump Presidency. Just three months ago, he wrote the following in the New York Times...   https://spectator.org/conservative-confusion-about-who-and-what-were-fighting/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=685c72c994-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_10_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-685c72c994-104608113 
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dummycrats-DNC Chairman Led scumbag-Soros 
Group Lobbying for Illegals to Vote
{ libertyheadlines.com } ~ The dummycrats-Democratic National Committee (DNC) Chairman, Tom Perez, previously headed an organization funded by globalist billionaire scumbag-George Soros... that lobbies for giving illegal aliens and noncitizens the right to vote in American elections. Perez, who now heads the dummycrats-DNC, gloats on his website about his work with the scumbag-Soros-funded “CASA De Maryland” organization, which most recently successfully lobbied a local Maryland town to extend voting rights to illegal aliens and noncitizens. “In 2002, Tom started as board president at CASA de Maryland, an organization that provides services to immigrants,” Perez’s website notes. “Under his leadership, CASA experienced monumental growth – from the basement of a church to a $7M headquarters that opened without a lease – and grew from a service provider to one of the largest immigrant advocacy organizations in the country.” Most recently, CASA De Maryland was influential in pushing local public officials in College Park, Maryland to approve noncitizen voting rights, claiming the move will make for a “stronger democracy.”...No it will not, its illegal. They know it is.  https://www.libertyheadlines.com/dnc-chairman-soros-illegals-vote/
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A Most Expected Backlash
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{ spectator.org } ~ There is an essential read by Steve Sailer at Taki’s Magazine from a week ago which might well explain the cultural and political landscape... better than anything else you’ve seen in recent vintage. It’s entitled “A Half Century of Amnesia,” and you should take the time to have a look. Sailer makes several important points, which could very easily be lost to readers not courageous enough to wade through obvious, though perhaps politically incorrect, facts, in recognizing the current cultural atmosphere which has not only given us Donald Trump in the White House but an apparent brewing sea change in the culture which the academic and media-elite Left simply isn’t recognizing Caitlan Flanagan’s surprising piece on Jordan Peterson’s growing celebrity at the Atlantic  notwithstanding. Chief among those is Sailer’s central point; namely that the Left has declared war on straight American white people for decades — and there is a natural price to pay for that hostility. That sounds like a wild accusation, and it certainly feels strange to levy it, but how can anyone disagree? This is a season, after all, in which the New York Times has gone totally off the deep end — embracing as part of its editorial staff a stunning mediocrity of a writer named Sarah Jeong whose Twitter is a fountain of anti-white racism so dependable as to put half of Yellowstone to shame, and which not so long ago ran a piece in its sports section decrying The Unbearable Whiteness of Baseball, decrying the fact that Major League rosters contain a proportion of white players which conforms to the population as a whole. This is, in case you’re not aware, the purported newspaper of record for the United States of America — and in its pages can be found practically daily expositions of virulent bigotry toward the nation’s majority population...   https://spectator.org/a-most-expected-backlash/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=685c72c994-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_10_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-685c72c994-104608113
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Far-left millennial with hopes of becoming nation’s 
first Muslim governor loses Michigan primary 
{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ El-Sayed, who is a doctor and the former head of Detroit’s health department, lost the race by nearly 20 points to Whitmer... who captured half the vote. El-Sayed split the other half with Shri Thanedar, a self-funded millionaire who also ran as a progressive. Trump-backed Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette beat out Lt. Gov. Brian Calley to become the Republican nominee. If Whitmer beats him in November, she will be the second female governor in Michigan’s history. El-Sayed followed up his defeat by calling for unity ahead of the November election. Speaking to supporters at a concession rally, El-Sayed promised that the socialist movement was not over and urged supporters to rally behind Whitmer. “I like to think that even though I’m not going to get the opportunity to serve, now we’ve ignited a belief of what’s possible in young people,” El-Sayed said at the Cobo Center in Detroit on Tuesday...
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by JOHN MCCORMACK
{ weeklystandard.com } ~ In June 2016, Marco Rubio changed his mind and announced that he would not be retiring from the Senate as he had planned... A major reason he was seeking a second term, Rubio said, was to help the Senate exercise what “could end up being its most important role in the years to come: the constitutional power to act as a check and balance on the excesses of a president”—whether that would be President liar-Clinton or President Trump. After rattling off his concerns about liar-Hillary Clinton, Rubio said: “The prospect of a Trump presidency is also worrisome to me. It is no secret that I have significant disagreements with Donald Trump. His positions on many key issues are still unknown. And some of his statements, especially about women and minorities, I find not just offensive but unacceptable. If he is elected, we will need senators willing to encourage him in the right direction, and if necessary, stand up to him. I’ve proven a willingness to do both.” Rubio then defeated a populist, Trumpian primary challenger that August by 54 percentage points. He went on to win by 8 points in the general election that November, while Donald Trump defeated liar-Hillary Clinton in Florida by 1 point. Other conservative GOP senators outperformed Trump in the key battleground states of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin. And Trump’s approval rating today is mired in the 40s despite a roaring economy. Yet the lesson of 2016 for many Republicans is that they need to be more like Trump. One of those Republicans appears to be Marco Rubio. The Florida senator fully backs Trump’s trade war with China. “The most catastrophic thing that could happen is not a trade war, but that we lose one, or that we back down from one,” Rubio tells me in an interview...  https://www.weeklystandard.com/john-mccormack/rubio-goes-nationalist?utm_source=8%2010%2018%20TDS_08/10/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TWS_Daily%20Standard 
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More Suspicions Confirmed: 
Glenn Simpson Lied During Congressional Testimony
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Newly released Department of Justice records appear to conflict with testimony that Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson... gave to Congress in 2017 about the timeline of his interactions with top DOJ official Bruce Ohr. Simpson claimed in testimony to the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence on Nov. 14 that he did not have contact with any FBI or DOJ officials regarding the infamous Steele dossier until after the 2016 election. But Ohr’s emails, which have been provided to Congress, show that he and Simpson were in contact as early as August 2016. […]  The Washington Examiner reported on Wednesday that Simpson sent an email with the subject line “Can u ring” to Ohr on Aug. 22, 2016. Ohr’s log shows he had contact of some sort with Simpson on that day. Here’s how we noted the Glenn Simpson, Chris Steele and Bruce Ohr conflict in February: Within the HPSCI Memo release there is an aspect that directly conflicts with the prior release of Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson in his testimony to the committee....
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Who Determines Universal Values?
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN

{ wnd.com } ~ Is it any of Canada’s business whether Saudi women have the right to drive? Well, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland just made it her business.

Repeatedly denouncing Riyadh’s arrest of women’s rights advocate Samar Badawi, Freeland has driven the two countries close to a break in diplomatic relations.

“Reprehensible,” said Riyadh of Freeland’s tweeted attack. Canada is “engaged in blatant interference in the Kingdom’s domestic affairs.”

The Saudis responded by expelling Canada’s ambassador and ordering 15,000 Saudi students to end their studies in Canada and barred imports of Canadian wheat. A $15 billion contract to provide armored vehicles to Saudi Arabia may be in jeopardy.

Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman, who has been backsliding on his promises to modernize the kingdom, appears to have had enough of Western lectures on democratic values and morality.

A week after Pope Francis denounced the death penalty as always “impermissible,” Riyadh went ahead and crucified a convicted murderer in Mecca. In Saudi Arabia, homosexuality can get you a death sentence.

Neither President Donald Trump nor the State Department has taken sides, but the Washington Post has weighed in with an editorial: “Human Rights Are Everyone’s Business.”

“What Ms. Freeland and Canada correctly understand is that human rights … are universal values, not the property of kings and dictators to arbitrarily grant and remove on a whim. Saudi Arabia’s long-standing practice of denying basic rights to citizens, especially women – and its particularly cruel treatment of some dissidents – such as the public lashes meted out to Ms. Badawi’s brother – are matters of legitimate concern to all democracies and free societies.

“It is the traditional role of the United States to defend universal values everywhere they are trampled upon and to show bullying autocrats they cannot get away with hiding their dirty work behind closed doors.”

The Post called on the foreign ministers of all Group of Seven nations to retweet Freeland’s post saying, “Basic rights are everybody’s business.”

But these sweeping assertions raise not a few questions.

Who determines what are “basic rights” or “universal values”?

Saudi Arabia is an absolute monarchy that has never permitted women to drive and has always whipped criminals and had a death penalty.

When did these practices first begin to contradict “universal values”?

When did it become America’s “traditional role” to defend women’s right to drive automobiles in every country, when women had no right to vote in America until after World War I?

In the America of the 1950s, homosexuality and abortion were regarded as shameful offenses and serious crimes. Now abortion and homosexuality have been declared constitutional rights.

Are they basic human rights? To whom? Do 55 million abortions in the U.S. in 45 years not raise an issue of human rights?

Has it become the moral duty of the U.S. government to champion abortion and LGBT rights worldwide, when a goodly slice of America still regards them as marks of national decadence and decline?

And if the Saudis are reactionaries whom we should join Canada in condemning, why are we dreaming up an “Arab NATO” in which Saudi Arabia would be a treaty ally alongside whom we would fight Iran?

Iran, at least, holds quadrennial elections, and Iranian women seem less restricted and anti-regime demonstrations more tolerated than they are in Saudi Arabia.

Consider our own history.

From 1865 to 1965, segregation was the law in the American South. Did those denials of civil and political rights justify foreign intervention in the internal affairs of the United States?

How would President Eisenhower, who used troops to integrate Little Rock High, have responded to the British and French demanding that America end segregation now?

In a newly de-Christianized America, all religions are to be treated equally and none may be taught in any public school.

In nearly 50 nations, however, Muslims are the majority, and they believe there is but one God, Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet, and all other religions are false. Do Muslims have no right to insist upon the primacy of their faith in the nations they rule?

Is Western interference with this claim not a formula for endless conflict?

In America, free speech and freedom of the press are guaranteed. And these First Amendment rights protect libel, slander, filthy language, blasphemy, pornography, flag burning and published attacks on religious beliefs, our country itself, and the government of the United States.

If other nations reject such freedoms as suicidal stupidity, do we have some obligation to intervene in their internal affairs to promote them?

Recently, the Independent reported: “Since last year, hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of innocent Uighurs and other ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region in northwest China have been unjustly arrested and imprisoned in what the Chinese government calls ‘political re-education camps.’ Thousands have disappeared. There are credible reports of torture and death among the prisoners. … The international community has largely reacted with silence.”

Anyone up for sanctioning Xi Jinping’s China?

Or do Uighurs’ rights rank below those of Saudi feminists?
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Sat/Med - PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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One FBI text message in Russia probe 
that should alarm every American
by John Solomon
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Bruce Ohr Emails Show Links Among liar-nObama DOJ, Steele, Simpson…
And Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska 
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{ thegatewaypundit.com } ~ New emails obtained by investigative journalist Byron York show Christopher Steele may have been working on behalf of Russian Oligarch Oleg Deripaska at the same time... he was compiling his dossier in 2016–and liar-nObama’s Justice Department, along with Fusion GPS’s Glenn Simpson may have been a part of the conspiracy. It’s important to note the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Chuck Grassley has been trying to find out if Christopher Steele was working on behalf of Oleg Deripaska. Republican Senator Tom Cotton, a member of the Senate Intel Committee also asked FBI Director Christopher Wray in a February 14 hearing if Steele was working on behalf of the Russian oligarch Deripaska, and of course Wray replied  with his usual vague, “That’s not something I can answer.” The emails between Steele and Ohr begin in January of 2016 when Steele sent Ohr an email about the US revoking Oleg Deripaska’s visa. For the first few months of 2016, Ohr and Steele discuss the Russian oligarch Deripaska and the rehabilitation of his US visa. In July of 2016, the two begin to discuss Donald Trump as he’s preparing to accept the Republican nomination for president...
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Iran test-fires ballistic missile for first time in 2018, officials say 
by Lucas Tomlinson
{ foxnews.com } ~ For the first time in more than a year, Iran test-fired a ballistic missile in a brazen display of defiance... months after President Trump pulled the United States out of a landmark nuclear deal and days before his administration slapped new sanctions on the Islamic Republic, three U.S. officials with knowledge of the launch tell Fox News. The test of an Iranian Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missile coincided with a large-scale naval exercise by Iran’s Revolutionary Guard forces late last week involving over 50 small gunboats in the Strait of Hormuz to rehearse “swarm” tactics which could one day potentially shut down the vital waterway, through which 30 percent of the world’s oil passes each year. While the U.S. military publicly acknowledged the naval activity, the missile test from an Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps base in Bandar-e-Jask in southeastern Iran has not been previously reported. The launch was detected by a U.S. spy satellite. According to the officials, the anti-ship Fateh-110 Mod 3 flew over 100 miles on a flight path over the Strait of Hormuz to a test range in the Iranian desert. “It was shore-to-shore,” said one U.S. official describing the launch, who like the others requested anonymity to discuss sensitive information...   http://www.foxnews.com/world/2018/08/10/iran-test-fires-ballistic-missile-for-first-time-in-2018-officials-say.html
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Veteran Reporter Says Uncovered 
FBI Text on Trump Should Alarm Every American
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ The Strzok-Page texts will be scrutinized by Americans for years to come... They’re the closest evidence we have to the thought processes going on inside the Department of Justice and FBI during the 2016 campaign season and as the special counsel began its investigation. There’s one text that most people who find something seriously wrong with how the nation’s top law enforcement agencies have behaved point to in particular — one where Peter Strzok said that “we’ll stop” Trump. According to The Hill’s John Solomon, that’s not where our gaze ought to be fixed, however. If you’re not familiar with him, Solomon is a veteran reporter who’s done some of the most important investigative journalism on the FBI and DOJ’s conduct involving the Trump/Russia investigation. He’s the one who first reported that the FBI had been investigating Russian connections before they said they were and that they hadn’t used their own protocols during the investigation and that the Bureau had tried to pressure a Russian oligarch to give evidence about Russian collusion within Trump’s campaign even though the oligarch said they were “trying to create something out of nothing.”..   https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/veteran-reporter-says-uncovered-fbi-text-trump-alarm-every-american/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=conservative-tribune 
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Antifa, the Real Fascists
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ Foul-mouthed Antifa demonstrators went on a rampage August 6 as they assaulted two high-profile conservative activists at a downtown Philadelphia restaurant... for being conservatives and supporters of President Trump. The attack came the day after Antifa smashed the windows at a U.S. Marine Corps recruiting office in Berkeley, Calif., during a leftist counter-protest of a “No to Marxism” rally. Twenty people were arrested. “Besides the damage to the Marine Corps post, Berkeley police also said ‘an extremist element among a large group’ damaged 21 city vehicles, setting one on fire, and slashed their tires,” Fox News reported. The incident in Pennsylvania’s biggest city also came after the leftist mayor of Portland, Ore., Ted Wheeler (D), allowed anarchy to break out in his city, instead of cracking down on Antifa troublemaking. For 38 days Wheeler, who is also police commissioner, allowed hundreds of his Antifa allies to unlawfully occupy public property at an Occupy ICE protest site that eventually became a biohazard. “I do not want the @PortlandPolice to be engaged or sucked into a conflict, particularly from a federal agency that I believe is on the wrong track,” he tweeted. “If ICE is looking for a bailout from this mayor, they are looking in the wrong place.” The attack in Philadelphia and other recent violent actions by Antifa are yet another reminder that the totalitarianism-loving domestic terrorists of Antifa, who call themselves anti-fascist activists, are the real fascists in today’s America because, among other things, they use violent tactics pioneered by the real-live fascist storm-troopers of Weimar Germany, the Sturmabteilung (SA). These Antifa goons opposed the Nazis but eagerly copied their tactics, using their fists to shut down political opponents and break up meetings and rallies. Some Antifa today even dress like Nazis, wearing black and red, the anarchist colors which traditionally have also been used by Nazis...
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dummycrats-Dems Are Hiding A Secret Document 
That Could Destroy The Party Forever 
{ americanpatriotdaily.com } ~ dummycrats-Democrats relied on the media and pressure campaigns by outside groups to get InfoWars taken down... but what dummycrats- Democrats really have planned is far more frightening. Virginia dummycrats-Democrat Senator Mark Warner authored an over 20 page memo outlining the dummycrats-Democrats strategy for a complete government takeover of the internet. It is straight out of communist Russia. Warner and the dummycrats-Democrats want to force greater disclosure on political speech. The left loves to promote the idea that identifying political donors and forcing social media accounts to post under their true identities is being done in the name of transparency. But anonymous political speech is an American tradition going back to the Founding Fathers and the Federalist Papers. What the dummycrats-Democrats really want is to use the publicity of having your name attached to speech as a way to suppress dissenting opinions. Liberals will sic their outrage mobs on conservative donors who fund pro-family and pro-Second Amendment groups to harass them at their place of business or destroy their lives and careers. This is no idle threat...   https://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/featured/democrats-are-hiding-a-secret-document-that-could-destroy-the-party-forever/
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One FBI text message in Russia probe 
that should alarm every American
by John Solomon

{ thehill.com } ~ Lisa Page and Peter Strzok, the reported FBI lovebirds, are the poster children for the next “Don’t Text and Investigate” public service ads airing soon at an FBI office near you.

Their extraordinary texting affair on their government phones has given the FBI a black eye, laying bare a raw political bias brought into the workplace that agents are supposed to check at the door when they strap on their guns and badges.

It is no longer in dispute that they held animus for Donald Trump, who was a subject of their Russia probe, or that they openly discussed using the powers of their office to “stop” Trumpfrom becoming president. The only question is whether any official acts they took in the Russia collusion probe were driven by those sentiments.

The Justice Department’s inspector general is endeavoring to answer that question.

For any American who wants an answer sooner, there are just five words, among the thousands of suggestive texts Page and Strzok exchanged, that you should read.

That passage was transmitted on May 19, 2017. “There’s no big there there,” Strzok texted.

The date of the text long has intrigued investigators: It is two days after Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein named special counsel Robert Mueller to oversee an investigation into alleged collusion between Trump and the Russia campaign.

Since the text was turned over to Congress, investigators wondered whether it referred to the evidence against the Trump campaign.

This month, they finally got the chance to ask. Strzok declined to say — but Page, during a closed-door interview with lawmakers, confirmed in the most pained and contorted way that the message in fact referred to the quality of the Russia case, according to multiple eyewitnesses.

The admission is deeply consequential. It means Rosenstein unleashed the most awesome powers of a special counsel to investigate an allegation that the key FBI officials, driving the investigation for 10 months beforehand, did not think was “there.”

By the time of the text and Mueller’s appointment, the FBI’s best counterintelligence agents had had plenty of time to dig. They knowingly used a dossier funded by Hillary Clinton’s campaign — which contained uncorroborated allegations — to persuade the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court to issue a warrant to monitor Trump campaign adviser Carter Page no relation to Lisa Page.

They sat on Carter Page’s phones and emails for nearly six months without getting evidence that would warrant prosecuting him. The evidence they had gathered was deemed so weak that their boss, then-FBI Director James Comey, was forced to admit to Congress after being fired by Trump that the core allegation remained substantially uncorroborated.

In other words, they had a big nothing burger. And, based on that empty-calorie dish, Rosenstein authorized the buffet menu of a special prosecutor that has cost America millions of dollars and months of political strife.

The work product Strzok created to justify the collusion probe now has been shown to be inferior: A Clinton-hired contractor produced multiple documents accusing Trump of wrongdoing during the election; each was routed to the FBI through a different source or was used to seed news articles with similar allegations that further built an uncorroborated public narrative of Trump-Russia collusion. Most troubling, the FBI relied on at least one of those news stories to justify the FISA warrant against Carter Page.

That sort of multifaceted allegation machine, which can be traced back to a single source, is known in spy craft as “circular intelligence reporting,” and it’s the sort of bad product that professional spooks are trained to spot and reject.

But Team Strzok kept pushing it through the system, causing a major escalation of a probe for which, by his own words, he knew had “no big there there.”

The answer as to why a pro such as Strzok would take such action has become clearer, at least to congressional investigators. That clarity comes from the context of the other emails and text messages that surrounded the May 19, 2017, declaration.

It turns out that what Strzok and Lisa Page were really doing that day was debating whether they should stay with the FBI and try to rise through the ranks to the level of an assistant director (AD) or join Mueller’s special counsel team.

“Who gives a f*ck, one more AD like [redacted] or whoever?” Strzok wrote, weighing the merits of promotion, before apparently suggesting what would be a more attractive role: “An investigation leading to impeachment?”

Lisa Page apparently realized the conversation had gone too far and tried to reel it in. “We should stop having this conversation here,” she texted back, adding later it was important to examine “the different realistic outcomes of this case.”

A few minutes later Strzok texted his own handicap of the Russia evidence: “You and I both know the odds are nothing. If I thought it was likely, I’d be there no question. I hesitate in part because of my gut sense and concern there’s no big there there.”

So the FBI agents who helped drive the Russia collusion narrative — as well as Rosenstein’s decision to appoint Mueller — apparently knew all along that the evidence was going to lead to “nothing” and, yet, they proceeded because they thought there was still a possibility of impeachment.

Impeachment is a political outcome. The only logical conclusion, then, that congressional investigators can make is that political bias led these agents to press an investigation forward to achieve the political outcome of impeachment, even though their professional training told them it had “no big there there.”

And that, by definition, is political bias in action.

How concerned you are by this conduct is almost certainly affected by your love or hatred for Trump. But put yourself for a second in the hot seat of an investigation by the same FBI cast of characters: You are under investigation for a crime the agents don’t think occurred, but the investigation still advances because the desired outcome is to get you fired from your job.

Is that an FBI you can live with?
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Trump Hatred, A Consuming Virus
by DAVID LIMBAUGH
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Trump: Aluminum and steel tariffs on Turkey will be doubled
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The U.S. is doubling tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from Turkey, President Trump announced Friday... as he admitted the relationship with the NATO ally were strained. “I have just authorized a doubling of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum with respect to Turkey as their currency, the Turkish Lira, slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar! Aluminum will now be 20% and Steel 50%. Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time!” Trump tweeted.  The Trump administration has implemented broad-based tariffs of 25 percent tariff on steel and 10 percent tariff on aluminum. The lira continued to drop as Trump tweeted about raising the tariffs for Turkey, by as much as 14 percent against the U.S. dollar on Friday. The tension between the U.S. and Turkey has increased as the Trump administration has called for the release of Andrew Brunson, a 50-year-old evangelical Christian pastor from North Carolina. He was detained in 2016 after he was blamed for assisting rebels in a coup. He has denied charges that say he engaged in espionage and collusion with terrorist organizations...  https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/trump-aluminum-and-steel-tariffs-on-turkey-will-be-doubled?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_08/10/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News
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Nearly Three Fourths Of People, Half 
Of dummycrats-Dems Think Pulosi Needs To Go
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ A new poll released on Thursday revealed that nearly 75% of the people surveyed believe that House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi should be replaced come November... 73% of the 2,021 registered voters think that Pulosi should not be retained as the leader of the dummycrats-Democratic Party. 49% of the registered dummycrats-Democrats polled said that they believe the party should look for new leadership. That number balloons to 91% when accounting only for the Republicans who were asked. Independents came in at 79% in favor of going a different direction. The new American Barometer poll released Thursday by Hill.TV and HarrisX conducted the survey. The survey interviewed registered voters on August 3-4. The margin of error is 3.07%...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/08/09/poll-pelosi-not-endorse/?utm_medium=email
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Suspect arrested for arson, accused 
of starting California’s Holy Fire
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{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ As of today, there are 17 wildfires burning in California. In late July, I reported on the Cranston Fire... which was reportedly started by an arsonist and is now nearing containment. Brandon McGlover, 32, now faces life in prison for setting the blaze that ultimately forced 6,000 from their homes and threatened another 4,900 structures. Now, a second suspected arsonist has been arrested, this one accused of setting the Holy Fire now burning in Orange County. A man was arrested Wednesday in connection with the Holy Fire, which has burned over 4,000 acres in the Cleveland National Forest. Forrest Gordon Clark, 51, was booked into the Orange County Jail on suspicion of two counts of felony arson, one count of felony threat to terrorize, and one count of misdemeanor resisting arrest. If convicted on all of the charges he faces, Clark could be behind bars for life. He is being held in lieu of $1 million bail and is set to be arraigned Thursday. Officials do not believe Clark is connected to any other fires in Orange County...
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Southern mayors say Gaza truce 
a ‘mistake,’ call for long-term solution 
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Leaders of Israeli cities and towns near the Gaza border on Friday criticized the government over an apparent ceasefire with Hamas and called for a long-term solution... after a two-day bout of violence saw the heaviest exchange of fire between Israel and the Gaza terrorist organization since the 2014 war. Hours after fighting grounded to a halt, local officials called on the government to secure a permanent end to rocket fire from the Palestinian coastal enclave, whether by military or diplomatic means. Residents of southern Israel for several months have been rattled by a series of one or two-day rounds of fighting between Hamas and Israel, sending them scrambling to their bomb shelters and raising fears of war. In all cases, violence later subsided under ceasefires negotiated by Egypt and the UN, before resuming weeks later. Alon Davidi, the mayor of Sderot, which suffered the brunt of the rocket fire from Gaza, said the effective truce was a “mistake” and that the IDF must decisively curb attacks on Israel through military action...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/southern-mayors-say-gaza-truce-a-mistake-call-for-long-term-solution/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=9fb307fa2e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_10_09_46&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-9fb307fa2e-54638825
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commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is 
a Total Flop Outside New York City

{ themadpatriots.com } ~ It may be that establishment dummycrats-Democrats are breathing a sigh of relief this week. While they didn’t manage to pull off the upset victory in the Ohio special election that they were hoping for... they did manage to fend off another problem: The insurgent left-wing movement coming from socialist stars like commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and commie-Bernie Sanders. Three of the five candidates that commie-Ocasio-Cortez stumped for and endorsed lost their primaries on Tuesday, showing that the dummycrats-democratic socialist does not have nearly the sway in middle America that she does in New York and the media. Could it be that this is a phantom movement with no real juice behind it? Or will it just be a matter of time before commie-Ocasio-Cortez and commie-Sanders spread their socialist tentacles beyond the northeast? commie-Ocasio-Cortez traveled to Michigan to stump for gubernatorial candidate Abdul El-Sayed and congressional candidate Fayrouz Saad, and she jetted over the Missouri to endorse Cori Bush for the state’s 1st District. Unfortunately for her, the results were dismal. El-Sayed lost by more than 20 points, Saad came in fourth place with a mere 18% of the vote, and Bush lost in a landslide to William Lacy Clay in Missouri. It remains to be seen if commie-Ocasio-Cortez’s other chosen candidate – Kaniela Ing of Hawaii – can win his primary race on Saturday, but the polls aren’t looking too hot...  http://www.themadpatriots.com/freedom-news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-a-total-flop-outside-new-york-city/ 
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Trump Hatred, A Consuming Virus
by DAVID LIMBAUGH

{ wnd.com } ~ It’s ironic that the loudest of Trump haters routinely breach the very civil standards of decency they claim justify their antipathy. Others are just creepily obsessed.

I’m not exaggerating. Trump haters from both sides of the political aisle have fretted themselves into a consuming frenzy against the president.

Whatever worldview they had, it is now overlaid with a Trump-animus fixation that obscures rational thought. It has slain their civility and subordinated their passion for certain policies.

For them, everything in the Trump era is personal. Convinced of Trump’s pure evil, they remorselessly suspend rules they previously observed. Defiant professions of their spitting contempt for Trump are a defense to any charge of misconduct or verbal abuse.

They shame Trump supporters for their tribalism, but we’ve not witnessed anything like the cohesiveness and ferocity of their Trump-hating tribalism in my adult lifetime. Their intense revulsion has fueled extremely unlikely political alliances, between some formerly staunch conservatives and outright left-wing liberals.

Many of the most virulent Trump loathers on the right jump at any opportunity to appear on liberal TV and radio shows to exchange fond glances of admiration with liberals who stand for myriad things they have always professed to be against – a stunning irony, considering that one of their main complaints against Trump supporters is their alleged abandonment of conservative ideals in exchange for membership in a cult. Sadly, their Trump derangement syndrome induces them to believe these myths in good faith.

We see them approvingly retweeting vitriolic anti-Trump tweets from leftist Twitter trolls and Trump’s mainstream liberal media critics. They glom onto ludicrous anti-Trump conspiracy theories – ones that are similar to those they smugly ridicule Trump supporters for allegedly embracing.

While such statements from longtime political allies and friends are disillusioning, Trump hating from the left has reached stratospheric proportions.

Just surf the web on any given week and see whether you don’t find a dozen stories documenting liberals’ insane, despicable or disturbingly bizarre behavior. The offenders, even when exposed outright, rarely apologize, because they are defiantly proud of their intentionally obnoxious infractions in the name of advancing the cause of Trump hatred. Can none of them see the paradox in becoming what they profess to hate? Of course not, because there are no rules in this game, as long as you are serving the tribe-hating super-tribe. This phenomenon is so far-reaching that it can even justify a patently indefensible position such as praising the notorious MS-13 gang – because Trump is tough on immigration, one supposes.

Some don’t think twice about spitting on Trump-supporting women whose crime is showing up at a restaurant for dinner without having recanted their allegiance to Trump. Hotshot actors such as scumbag-Robert De Niro earn a standing ovation for yelling expletives at Trump on national TV – because Trump is vile.

Consider other recent examples.

“Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings brutally mocked on Twitter a mother who lost her son, because she is an “awful MAGA grandma.” Soon after Trump was elected, Jennings tweeted, “When Trump starts a war, I’m just hoping the other side understands the deal and only bombs, like, the Midwest and the South” – presumably where Trump’s main supporters reside.

A philosophy professor struck a Trump supporter in the head with a bike lock at a rally promoting free speech in Berkeley, California, last year.

USA Today inadvertently exposed the monolithic anti-Trump bias of late-night talk shows in its “Best of Late Night” highlight reel, featuring Jimmy Kimmel, Jimmy Fallon, James Corden and Trevor Noah.

Several instances of violence have occurred on or around Donald Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star. Trump haters assaulted his supporters in the vicinity, and one hater attacked the star with a pickax. Not to be confused with decent people who might have contrition for this abominable behavior, the West Hollywood City Council passed a resolution requesting that Trump’s Hollywood star be removed.

Though the liberal media and their enablers lament Trump’s demonization of the “fake news,” they more than validate his claims almost every broadcast with their compulsive defamation of Trump to the exclusion of reporting the news. CNN’s Don Lemon recently ranted against Trump for 10 minutes, culminating in his outright calling Trump a racist.

Trumply deranged Rosie O’Donnell proudly led a controlled mob of Broadway performers in a singalong against “Lyin’ King” President Trump. Even more unhinged was Philadelphia Mayor Jim Kenney’s scapegoating of Trump’s “hateful rhetoric” for a black doll hung at a city playground.

The Washington Post’s deceitfully labeled “conservative” Jennifer Rubin took a moment from her Trump-bashing to call for the permanent shunning of Trump’s press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders. Rubin believes Sanders should never be hired by anyone again. Just a lovely sentiment, Jen.

Apparently because too many days had passed since Trump haters launched a restaurant assault against prominent Trump supporters, a mini-mob of haters harassed Turning Point USA’s Charlie Kirk and Candace Owen inside and outside a Philadelphia restaurant.

Please don’t make the mistake of assuming these examples are merely anecdotal. Honesty demands that we recognize there is an unhealthy stench in the air – and there’s way more of it aimed at Trump than coming from him.
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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Rename America
by Daniel Greenfield 
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The Special Counsel Files A Complaint Against Manafort Judge 
{ politico.com } ~ Special counsel Robert Mueller filed a formal complaint against the judge presiding over Paul Manafort’s tax fraud case this week... claiming T.S. Ellis III violated protocol while ruling against the prosecution’s star witness. According to Politico, Mueller’s team is increasingly frustrated with the “cranky judge” who has rebuked the special counsel’s office on multiple occasions. “The judge’s condescending attitude could give the jury the impression that the prosecution’s case is dubious,” said a former US Deputy Solicitor General. “This is an especially severe risk when the core of the case is the testimony of a co-conspirator who is admittedly a thief, liar, and embezzler. When the standard of proof is ‘beyond a reasonable doubt,’ there is no margin for error.”...  https://www.politico.com/story/2018/08/08/manafort-trial-mueller-gates-ellis-768715
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Children of Linda Sarsour’s mentor arrested 
for terrorist training camp in New Mexico
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{ conservativereview.com } ~ The son and two daughters of Linda Sarsour’s mentor have been busted by authorities for setting up an Islamic extremist terrorist training camp on American soil... This week, police raided an Islamic extremist compound in New Mexico, where its leaders were reportedly training children to become school shooters. The leader of the terrorist training camp, Siraj Ibn Wahhaj, was arrested by police during the raid. He and two of his sisters, along with his brother-in-law, were also arrested by authorities. Taos County Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe described the arrested parties as “most likely heavily armed and considered extremist of the Muslim belief.” Wahhaj and his sisters are the children of controversial Brooklyn Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who was once listed as a co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombings. Imam Wahhaj is a high-profile individual in the American Islamist community. He often keynotes conferences held by fringe groups such as the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), two entities that were founded as part of the global Muslim Brotherhood network. Imam Wahhaj is also the chief mentor to Women’s March co-founder Linda Sarsour. She regularly showers praise on Wahhaj. At an ISNA conference last year, Linda Sarsour began her speech thanking her “favorite person in this room … Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who has been a mentor, motivator, and encourager of mine. Someone who has taught me to speak truth to power & not worry about the consequences.”...   https://www.conservativereview.com/news/children-of-linda-sarsours-mentor-arrested-for-terrorist-training-camp-in-new-mexico/ 
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What's Behind the Latest Escalation in Israel's South? 
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by Yochanan Visser
{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ The situation in southern Israel deteriorated significantly Wednesday night after Hamas started to pound the Israeli towns and communities in the  Gaza belt with 180 rockets and mortar shells... Tens of thousands of Israelis spent several nights in bomb shelters, the IDF retaliated against over 150 terrorist targets, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his generals contemplated full-scale war. According to Hamas, this brush with another destructive conflagration began as retaliation for an IDF attack on two of its snipers last Tuesday. The two were taking part in an exercise that was attended by Hamas leaders and aimed their rifles at an IDF position opposite the border after which they were taken out by a Merkava tank. However, the lead-up to this fresh outbreak of violence really started on July 20th, when Hamas killed an IDF soldier close to the border fence in Gaza using a sniper...   http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/34595/Default.aspx
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A Tale of Three Cities
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ Charles Dickens wrote the classic A Tale of Two Cities a century and a half ago.  It's a story about two famous cities of the times, Paris and London, around the time of the French Revolution... These cities were the height of sophistication and enlightenment in the world, long before American cities caught up. Three American cities did catch up and were at one time shining beacons of American success: San Francisco, Chicago, and Detroit. San Francisco was the gateway to the Pacific and lands beyond – a beautiful city on hills with the Golden Gate Bridge connecting San Francisco to Marin County, one of the wonders of the modern world. Chicago was the hub of transportation and commerce, connecting the eastern and western halves of the United States. Detroit was an industrial behemoth, home of the auto industry and the assembly line, bringing prosperity and convenience to millions. Songs were written to celebrate these great cities. Tony Bennett left his heart in San Francisco. Chicago was Frank Sinatra's kind of town. And the Motown music genre began in the Motor City. As Dickens wrote, "it was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness." Perhaps the best of times for these American cities was 50 years ago, when they and their leaders basked in the age of wisdom. Today, these cities are facing the worst of times, due to their own foolishness. What happened?...One answer, dummycrats-Dems.
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Sweden's Government Funds Anti-Semitism
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ As major Swedish cities such as Malmö have become known as places where Jews are threatened, anti-Semitism in Sweden has attracted international attention... Does Sweden, however, really deserve this bad reputation or is there some misunderstanding. In December 2017, when US President Donald J. Trump recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, demonstrations broke out in Malmö. Protesters, often people with an Arab background, shouted, "We want our freedom back and we're going to shoot the Jews", and a chapel at the Jewish cemetery was attacked with firebombs. In Gothenburg, the city's synagogue was also attacked with firebombs. The local newspaper in Malmö, Kvällsposten, described how the Jewish congregation in Malmö -- not Israelis; Swedish Jews -- tries to protect itself: "At the synagogue in Malmö, the Jewish congregation has set up poles to prevent attacks with vehicles. In addition, the building is protected by a high fence around the building. The area has been guarded for a long time by the police. As soon as the congregation holds a service, the premises are guarded by the police." One could fairly say that the Jews in Malmö are under siege. Reports also note that Jews in Malmö cannot wear any Jewish symbols in public without the risk of being attacked...These people are sick.
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Rename America
by Daniel Greenfield 

{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ Austin’s Equity Office has recommended renaming the Texas city because of Stephen F. Austin's alleged views on slavery. But why stop at just renaming Austin when Amerigo Vespucci took and sold slaves. 

Austin, Texas is named after Stephen F. Austin, but America is named after Amerigo Vespucci. 

New York City has been on its own anti-history binge, demoting the statue of the ‘Father of Gynecology’ and tearing out plaques memorializing Robert E. Lee attached to a tree that he had once planted, but it’s got bigger problems. The city is named after King James II whose Royal African Company branded thousands of slaves with DY for the Duke of York. 

And New York’s problems don’t end there. Its Bronx borough is named after Jonas Bronck, who was likely killed in an Indian raid. Queens is named after the wife of King Charles II James’ brother whose husband was also quite active in the slave trade. New York is full of places named after Charlie and his relatives, like Richmond County, and the city and the state would both have to be renamed. 

So would South and North Carolina, named after Charles I, and Maryland, named after his wife, who had authorized a trade in African slaves. The Maryland charter was received by Cecil Calvert, the second Lord Baltimore, whose family owned slaves. Anne Arundel County is named after Cecil's wife. 

New Jersey was named by George Carteret under a grant from Charles II. Carteret was connected to the African slave trade through the Royal African Company. A number of areas in New Jersey are named after him and his family. That includes the city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, named after Carteret’s wife. 

Royal names are a problem that bedevils even the leftist parts of the country. 

Prince George’s County is a reliable dummycrats-Dem area in Maryland populated mostly by African-Americans. And it’s one the wealthiest black areas in the country. But it’s named after Prince George of Denmark. What’s a Danish prince doing in Maryland? George was married to Queen Anne. Anne’s extensive shares in the South Sea Company and his formal role as High Lord Admiral tied him to the slave trade. 

Virginia and West Virginia are named after Elizabeth I who authorized a trade in slaves and at least one of whose ships carried slaves. Delaware is named after Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, who served as governor of Virginia. His tenure in office predated the importation of African slaves but, was current with the use of indentured servants and Indian slaves. Louisiana is named after Louis XIV, the Sun King, whose Code Noir Black Code set out the parameters of slavery. 

But leaving behind royals doesn’t help. William Penn, the Quaker and liberal role model after whom Pennsylvania is named, owned slaves. Nor does heading west offer any escape from history. 

Over in California, Comandante General Mariano Guadalupe Vallejo’s name rests on the city of Vallejo, that of his wife on the city of Benicia. He was also the founding father of Sonoma and San Francisco was also allegedly nearly named after his wife. Vallejo relied on Indian slave labor to maintain his ranch and oversaw an Indian slave labor system. Vallejo was also responsible for naming Marin County. 

California itself is appropriately enough named after a fictional character, Queen Calafia, who was both black and a slave owner. West Coast political correctness becomes even more confusing as we head up north. Washington is obviously named after a slave owner, but what about Seattle? It’s named after Chief Seattle, an American-Indian leader, environmentalist icon and a slave owner. Slave ownership by Indian tribes was not uncommon and has led to debates and lawsuits over tribal membership. 

But back in California, its leftist city has an even bigger problem. Berkeley is named after the Irish empiricist George Berkeley. Berkeley was not only a slave owner, but a vigorous advocate for the enslavement of Africans and Indians. His name has touched off controversy at Yale and UC Berkeley. 

Denver is named after James W. Denver, whose tenures as Commissioner of Indian Affairs and as Territorial Governor of Kansas during the struggle between pro and anti-slavery forces were controversial. The same would be true of anyone involved in politics at the time, but the entire anti-history movement is animated by a refusal to see things in any shade other than black or white. 

So we can start off by renaming New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, West Virginia, California, Washington, and Maryland. That’s eleven states. 

Not to mention the name of the entire country. 

And we’ll have to rename Berkeley, New York City, Seattle, Marin County, Austin, Elizabeth and thousands of other cities, town and county names all across the breadth of the United States. 

Or we can stop the insanity right now. 

The left starts its culture wars with wedge issues. It began with the statues of Confederate generals. But if this goes on, it’s going to end with the renaming of cities, of states and then finally the renaming of the entire United States of America. 

These are the stakes. 

Either we stop the left’s assault on history or we lose our country. Every time a statue is taken down, a school is renamed, a building is vandalized, a holiday is abolished, we move one step closer to the final undoing of our history. We should not be afraid of the truth. And the truth is that history is complex. 

Judging the past by the present is its own form of cultural appropriation. Long after a revolution against the British Crown, Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, New York and many others maintain royal names not because Americans have any allegiance or respect for those dead rulers, but because these places are a part of our history. As are the Indian tribes, the French, the Spanish and all those others too. 

Names are not necessarily a form of respect. Identity is, more importantly, a form of memory. 

The cultural revolutions of the left promise to purify history by purging it. But that Stalinist solution is a lie. History cannot be purified, only learned from. We are all the descendants of flawed heroes. And we can hope to find the truth of our heroism through our flaws, not by the light of the book burner’s fire. 

A hundred nations were plunged into dystopian horrors in search of the garden path to the left’s utopia. That’s all that the left’s rituals of purification and mortification of history, the vandalism of statues and facts, offer America. And it is America. Not Marxville, Leninstadt or Maostan. The flawed explorers, generals, and nobles whose names our cities and states bear are far better than the monsters of the left. 

The American Revolution, unlike the French, was based not on a murderous search for leftist revolutionary purity, but on accepting our faults and flaws while trying to still live as our best selves. Those who search for a better future by destroying the past will move on to destroying the present.

Our choice is clear. 

Reject the left or rename America.
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Sat/Med - AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Explain the Chinese spy, Sen. Fein-stein 
by Marc A. Thiessen
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The Preeminent Challenge
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{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ The biggest foreign-policy challenge before Donald Trump isn’t North Korea, where the usual pattern of diplomacy and deception persists. Nor is it Russia... it doesn’t have the muscle to take on the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, which isn’t dead yet. Nor is the most imminent problem China, which doesn’t have the navy and air force to tempt fate in the South and East China Seas. It will one day really challenge the United States and East Asia’s democratic and anti-Chinese authoritarian states—the type of fascist confrontation that could lead to carnage—but Washington probably has years to check Beijing’s ambitions. The most troublesome, immediate challenge comes from Iran. Trump’s decision to walk away from his predecessor’s deeply flawed arms-control agreement will likely soon consume the administration’s attention since, depending on what the mullahs do, war may once more be on the horizon. If the president fails to corral the clerics and the Revolutionary Guards through sanctions and the threat of force, the reverberations will surely weaken, if not gut, the administration’s capacity to play hardball elsewhere. Barack liar-nObama punted the Iranian nuclear problem down the road slightly and didn’t really pivot to Asia. Trump has probably eliminated the possibility of punting. He now may have to deal with Iran more decisively than his predecessors. So far, the administration has developed a somewhat contradictory yet potentially successful Iran policy. The White House has all the elements of a regime-change strategy despite its denials; yet Donald Trump aspires to new nuclear negotiations, even suggesting a meeting could take place with Iranian president Hassan Rouhani without prerequisites. Some have called this Reaganesque...   http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/the-preeminent-challenge/
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Conservative Artist Strikes Back… Multiplies 
President Trump’s Hollywood Walk Of Fame Star
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{ noisyroom.net } ~ I freaking love this! When my hubby showed this to me last night, I was thrilled to pieces over it... I immediately thought of Sabo and let’s just say he’s ‘involved’. As you know, President Trump’s Hollywood Walk of Fame star has been destroyed multiple times by unhinged, leftist moonbats. In fact, the city council there voted unanimously to remove Trump’s star, but the mayor says it will stay. Since he’s a Marxist dummycrats-Democrat, I’m not taking him at his word on that and evidently, I’m not alone. One night this week, Trump’s star mysteriously multiplied all over the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Thursday morning there were several dozen Trump stars. It appears that a team of rogue conservative artists laminated vinyl stars and placed them in blank squares on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. Genius! That will drive the leftist Trump-haters nuts!! Dressed in neon orange construction vests and hard-hat helmets, they placed vinyl stickers replicating Trump’s star around actual stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, including the likes of late night host Jimmy Kimmel and actor/director Rob Reiner. LOL...
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Energy Security Is the Real Way to Put America First 
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{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ Since withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal in May, the Trump administration has faced a serious dilemma... On one hand, with the upcoming re-imposition of oil-related sanctions in November, it hopes to bring maximum economic pressure to bear on the Iranian government by cutting its petroleum exports as close to zero as possible. On the other hand, in a tight global oil market already under threat from geopolitical disruptions in Venezuela, Libya, and Nigeria, the loss of Iranian crude could trigger a major price spike in coming months—potentially inflicting significant damage on both the U.S. and world economies. In an effort to mitigate the danger, President Donald Trump has lobbied hard for Saudi Arabia and other oil producers with excess capacity, including Russia, to cover Iranian losses by increasing production. But the administration has also signaled  that it may need to pare back its maximum pressure campaign by allowing a portion of Iran’s oil sales to continue past the November deadline. The situation should make any national security expert uneasy. The United States has a clear goal: Starve Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of the revenues they systematically use to spread terror and violence across the Middle East. But Washington’s ability to achieve that goal is heavily constrained by the U.S. economy’s continued vulnerability to oil market volatility. U.S. officials are left in the unenviable position of having to expend precious diplomatic capital pleading with the likes of Saudi Arabia, Russia, and other authoritarian petrostates to help salvage the policy. Or worse yet, the United States is forced to throttle back the policy’s implementation, reducing its effectiveness and leaving the Iranians better resourced to resist U.S. coercive diplomacy...   http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/john-hannah-energy-security-is-the-real-way-to-put-america-first/
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Fein-stein Easy Target for Chinese Spy
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{ wnd.com } ~ The revelation that Sen. Dianne Fein-stein had a 20-year employee who spied for China while she chaired the Senate Intelligence Committee... takes on greater significance in light of the California dummycrats-Democrat’s decades of favors to the communist regime that have co-coincided with China investments that have helped make her one of the richest members in Congress. Investigative reporter Paul Sperry noted Fein-stein’s multi-millionaire investor husband, Richard C. Blum, has been able to take large stakes in Chinese state-run steel and food companies, brokering more than $100 million in deals since 1996, when China began aggressively currying favor with his wife. In a 2001 expose on Fein-stein, Sperry, then WND’s Washington bureau chief, reported the business interests already had spanned two decades, going back to Fein-stein’s tenure as San Francisco mayor, from 1978 to 1988. The couple, Sperry pointed out in a New York Post piece Wednesday, live in a $17 million mansion in San Francisco and keep a $5 million vacation home in Hawaii...
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Erdogan-Linked Group Asks Senators to Oppose Turkey Sanctions
by John Rossomando

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ MUSIAD USA sent letters to several U.S. senators last week protesting sanction the Trump administration's imposed on Turkey over its continuing detention of American Pastor Andrew Brunson... MUSIAD is a businessmen's association connected with Turkey's ruling Islamist Justice and Development Party (AKP). Its close links to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan led FBI agents to question MUSIAD USA's leaders in 2016 on suspicion they were engaged in political espionage on behalf of the Turkish government. This group also has close links with U.S. Islamists in the U.S. Council of Muslim Organizations (USCMO). Despite its connection with Turkey's ruling party, MUSIAD USA remains unregistered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA). All who lobby on behalf of foreign governments are required to register under this law. MUSIAD USA President Mustafa Tuncer, one of those questioned by the FBI, posted photos of the letters opposing the sanctions on Facebook...
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Explain the Chinese spy, Sen. Fein-stein 
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by Marc A. Thiessen

{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ Imagine if it emerged that the Republican chairman of the House or Senate intelligence committee had a Russian spy working on their senate staff.

Think it would cause a political firestorm? Well, this week we learned that Sen. Diane Fein-stein, D-Calif., had a Chinese spy on her staff who worked for her for 20 years, who was listed as an "office director" on payroll records and served as her driver when she was in San Francisco, all while reporting to China's Ministry of State Security though China's San Francisco Consulate. The reaction of the mainstream media?

Barely a peep.

Fein-stein acknowledged the infiltration, but downplayed its significance.

"Five years ago the FBI informed me it had concerns that an administrative member of my California staff was potentially being sought out by the Chinese government to provide information" Fein-stein said in statement -- which means the breach took place while Fein-stein was heading the intelligence committee.

But, Fein-stein insisted, "he never had access to classified or sensitive information or legislative matters" and was immediately fired. In other words: junior staffer, no policy role, no access to secrets, quickly fired -- no big deal.

But it is a big deal. I asked several former senior intelligence and law enforcement officials how serious this breach might have been. "It's plenty serious," one former top Justice Department official told me. "Focusing on his driver function alone, in Mafia families, the boss's driver was among the most trusted men in the crew, because among other things he heard everything that was discussed in the car."

A former top CIA clandestine officer explained to me what the agency would do if they had recruited the driver of a senior official like Fein-stein. "We would have the driver record on his phone all conversations that Fein-stein would have with passengers and phone calls in her car. If she left her phone, iPad or laptop in the car while she went to meetings, social events, dinners, etc., we would have the driver download all her devices.

If the driver drove for her for 20 years he would probably would have had access to her office and homes. We would have had the source put down an audio device in her office or homes if the opportunity presented itself. Depending on the take from all of what the source reported, we would use the info to target others that were close to her and exhibited some type of vulnerability."

"In short," this officer says, "we would have had a field day."

It seems improbable that Fein-stein never once discussed anything sensitive in her car over a period of years. But let's assume that Fein-stein was extraordinarily careful and never discussed any classified information in front of her driver or on any devices to which he had access. Even so, one former top intelligence official told me, "someone in that position could give an adversary a whole bunch on atmospherics and trends and attitudes which are from time to time far more important than the things we call secrets."

He added "It's like having access to her unclassified emails." And we all know no one ever exposes classified information on unclassified emails. Washington is understandably focused on the threat from Russia. But according to FBI director Chris Wray, "China from a counterintelligence perspective represents the broadest, most pervasive, most threatening challenge we face as a country." It was China, after all, which hacked the Office of Personnel Management in 2015, stealing the SF-86 security clearance forms of many thousands of executive branch employees in the most devastating cyberattack in the history of our country.

Beijing has successfully recruited FBI agents and State Department employees as spies, and has used information from U.S. informants to kill dozens of CIA sources inside the regime. And now, we know they recruited a high value senate staffer who worked in immediate proximity to the head of the senate intelligence committee.

Fein-stein owes the country a detailed explanation of how she let a Chinese spy into her inner sanctum. And the media should give this security breach the same attention they would if it involved Russia and the Republicans.
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Oklahoma's Wretched Record
on Wrongful Convictions 
by Michelle Malkin
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Chairman Goodlatte Prepares Subpoenas 
For DOJ/FBI ‘Steele Dossier’ Conspiracy Group
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ According to a report in The Hill, House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte is preparing to issue subpoenas and appearance requests... for current and former members of the FBI and DOJ teams who were engaged in constructing, and advancing, the liar-Clinton-Steele dossier. Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) is preparing subpoenas for Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, his wife Nellie Ohr and Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson, according to two congressional sources familiar with the matter.  The subpoenas will also go after other current and former FBI and DOJ officials including Jim Baker, Sally Moyer, Jonathan Moffa and George Toscas, the sources said. Justice Department spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores told The Hill that Goodlatte has been in touch with the DOJ about seeking testimonies from these officials...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/09/chairman-goodlatte-prepares-subpoenas-for-doj-fbi-steele-dossier-conspiracy-group/ 
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Clarion Assists Police in New Mexico Islamist Compound Tragedy 
{ clarionproject.org } ~ Clarion’s Shillman Fellow and Clarion Intelligence Network Director Ryan Mauro explains how we worked hand in hand... with authorities investigating a New Mexico Islamist compound. Reports suggest children kept in the compound were being trained to stage school shootings. Here’s more from Ryan:   https://clarionproject.org/clarion-assists-police-in-new-mexico-islamist-compound-tragedy/
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dummycrats-Dem blows up at reporter’s 
question about socialism, and it’s caught on video 
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{ theblaze.com } ~ Former NAACP president and current Maryland gubernatorial candidate Ben Jealous blew up at a reporter... over a simple questions about socialism, and it was all caught on tape. “Are you ****ing kidding me?!” Jealous was taking questions from the media when Washington Post reporter Erin Cox asked him to comment on the statement from his Republican competitor, incumbent Larry Hogan, calling him a socialist. “Governor Hogan and the RGA have made a significant amount of effort and investment in trying to paint you as a socialist, they’ve actually called you a socialist,” Cox asked. “What is your response to first the term socialist, whether you embrace and identify to any degree, and secondly the charge about whether the state can afford you?” “Him calling me a far-left socialist, that’s what the Tea Party called President liar-nObama, it’s what Barry Goldwater called Martin Luther King,” Jealous responded to the reporter. “And when you see conservatives like Hogan name-calling, you realize that they’re scared.”...
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In Saudi-Canada standoff, Riyadh should stand down
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{ nypost.com } ~ The last time Canada undertook an act of aggression was in 1999, when it declared war on the United States... in the comedic universe of “South Park,” that is. But few were laughing Monday when Saudi Arabia shockingly cut ties with Canada and enacted severe punitive measures against Ottawa. Riyadh’s gripe? A Canadian Foreign Ministry tweet criticizing the kingdom’s arrests of several human-rights activists. After new arrests last week, the total number of detained activists is now 18. In retaliation for what it described as Canadian meddling, Riyadh divested from its Canadian assets, froze new trade and investment, halted flights to the Great White North and recalled Saudi doctors and students from Canadian hospitals and universities. The kingdom called Canada’s response an “unacceptable affront” and a direct violation of its sovereignty. That’s a valid, diplomatic response. But every other measure is utterly disproportionate. Riyadh’s actions undercut its recent unprecedented progress. Women finally got behind the wheel of their cars in June — legally. Movie theaters opened. Western visitors have lined up. The once-dreaded religious police have been effectively declawed. And many regulatory changes have been implemented to open up the Saudi economy for foreign investment...
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Danger Ahead: The Game-Changer Drone
by Michael Curtis

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. The unease of rulers may result from personal factors, constant worry, lack of sleep, and guilt for past odious actions... but also often from fear of assassination. The list is long of the sad stories of the deaths of murdered kings. The Bible tells the story of Joab, commander of King David's army, who killed the king's rebellious son and rival, Absalom. A quick survey of some of the well known victims illustrates the targeted killings. Phillip II of Macedonia was assassinated in 336 B.C. and Julius Caesar on the Ides of March in 44 B.C. For a number of centuries, the 8th through the 14th, an Islamic sect called the Assassins was active in the areas of what is now Iran and Syria, killing, often under influence of hashish, caliphs, viziers, sultans, and Crusaders for political and religious reasons. The Renaissance illuminates a catalogue of tyrannicide. Rulers and challengers for power continued to be subject to assassination, which then influenced official policy: Henry IV in France in 1610; Russian tsars Paul I and Alexander II and Rasputin in 1916; Prime Minister Spencer Perceval in May 1812, the only British prime minister to suffer this fate; Archduke Ferdinand in Sarajevo on June 28, 1914; and Leon Trotsky in Mexico City on August 21, 1940. The U.S. has lost four presidents to assassins, and Huey Long in Baton Rouge on September 10, 1935; Robert F. Kennedy in Los Angeles on June 5, 1968; and Martin Luther King, Jr. in Memphis on April 4, 1968. In recent years, other countries have lost leaders or leading figures; among them are Mohandas Gandhi in Delhi on January 30, 1948; Anwar Sadat in Cairo on October 6, 1981; Olaf Palme in Stockholm on February 28, 1986; Yitzhak Rabin in Tel Aviv on November 4, 1995; and Benazir Bhutto, prime minister in Pakistan and the first woman to head a democratic country in a Muslim-majority nation, in Rawalpindi on December 27, 2007...
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Oklahoma's Wretched Record
on Wrongful Convictions 
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by Michelle Malkin

{ townhall.com } ~ "Frontier justice" costs too many citizens of all races, creeds, and backgrounds their freedom and their lives. In the old days of the Wild West, vigilantes worked outside the judicial system to punish rivals regardless of their guilt or innocence. Today, outlaws operate inside the bureaucracy to secure criminal convictions at all costs.

Oklahoma -- the notorious home of "Hang 'Em High" executions -- stands out for its decades of trampling due process, subverting public disclosure, perpetuating forensic junk science, manufacturing false accusations and enabling official misconduct.

Since 1993, 35 wrongfully convicted Oklahomans have been officially exonerated, according to the National Registry of Exonerations; 15 inmates have been freed in the past decade. Almost half of the state's exonerees had been convicted of murder; 17 percent for sexual assault. The reign of prosecutorial terror and forensic error by the late Oklahoma County District Attorney Bob Macy and rogue Oklahoma City police department crime lab analyst Joyce Gilchrist resulted in at least 11 wrongful convictions, according to the Innocence Project. Those victims included:

Exoneree Curtis McCarty, who was sent to death row for a stabbing and strangulation murder after Macy withheld evidence and Gilchrist falsified blood evidence and destroyed hair evidence.

Exoneree Robert Lee Miller Jr., another death row inmate falsely convicted of two rapes and two murders based on a coerced confession and atrocious forensic misconduct involving junk analysis of semen, blood, saliva, human hair and dog hair.

Exoneree Jeffrey Pierce, who was falsely convicted of rape in 1986 based on Gilchrist's misconduct and won a $4 million settlement from Oklahoma City.

Exoneree David Bryson, who was wrongfully convicted of kidnapping and rape and freed after 18 years in prison when Gilchrist's destruction of evidence was discovered and follow-up DNA testing excluded him as the attacker.

Law enforcement and legal insiders alike have shared stories with me about good ol' boys club corruption that crosses party lines in the Sooner State. Government prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys routinely cut deals. Judges bend over backwards to preserve "harmless errors" caused by flawed investigations, faulty verdicts and clerical incompetence. Police brass retaliate against whistleblowers. And, according to one veteran cop, Oklahoma City is a hopeless "nest of incestuous nepotism."

Unlike neighboring Texas, where Dallas County prosecutors founded the first conviction integrity unit in the country sparking the creation of 30 such agencies nationwide, not a single Oklahoma district attorney's office has established an official mechanism to review tainted convictions. Nor does Oklahoma have anything like the Texas Forensic Science Commission, which investigates professional misconduct by crime labs and other entities that conduct forensic analyses used in criminal proceedings. The Texas panel was created in the wake of the infamous scandal at the Houston Police Department crime lab a decade ago and its audits led to the more recent shutdown of the Austin PD's mess of a crime lab.

Meanwhile, no systemic reform ensued after the Macy/Gilchrist disgrace in Oklahoma. In fact, one of Gilchrist's colleagues who admitted destroying rape kit evidence at her behest was kept on for nearly 15 more years until she mysteriously retired last year amid questions about her DNA testimony.

OCPD crime lab analyst Elaine Taylor's work (challenged by at least eight independent scientists internationally over the past year) was at the center of illegal secret hearings last summer in the high-profile wrongful conviction of former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw. He is serving 263 years for sexual assault allegations solicited by police, who ignored accusers' wild contradictions and discrepancies, long rap sheets and drug-addled testimony during an out-of-control media feeding frenzy before and during trial. Taylor is the mother-in-law of Det. Rocky Gregory, the co-lead detective in the botched Holtzclaw investigation -- a glaring conflict of interest undisclosed by police and prosecutors.

Kathleen Zellner, the nation's most successful exoneration lawyer defending Holtzclaw against accusers' high-dollar civil lawsuits, quipped that she was "surprised they have not put crime scene tape around the OKC crime lab."

While appealing his case, Holtzclaw has faced a series of Keystone Kops blunders every step of the way, with the Court of Criminal Appeals failing to follow its own rules on publicly disclosing court protective orders; a court clerk who simply "forgot" to file a public notice of the state attorney general requesting the secret hearing transcripts and exhibits; the court admitting that Holtzclaw's public defender, James Lockard, shouldn't have been barred from the unconstitutional secret hearings; the court realizing more than a year late that its clerk had never formally filed a critical state attorney general's motion under seal; and the clerk failing to properly tender Holtzclaw's amended motion for an evidentiary hearing despite it being filed with the clerk more than a month ago.

This lackadaisical attitude toward matters of life and liberty pervades Okie culture.

Take the case of the missing sealed envelope in death row inmate Julius Jones' appeal. Jones, a basketball star at the University of Oklahoma, has served 19 years in prison for a murder he steadfastly maintains he did not commit. Recent episodes of ABC's "The Last Defense" spotlighted troubling inconsistencies in the testimony of the prosecution's star witness, who took a plea deal; ineffective counsel by overwhelmed defense attorneys who called no witnesses at trial; and the glaring failure to test a central piece of evidence -- a bandana purportedly warn by the shooter.

Last December, Jones' appellate lawyers filed an application for post-conviction relief and related motions for discovery and an evidentiary hearing to consider newly discovered evidence of racial animus by a juror. Jones' lawyers included supporting exhibits, which a court clerk instructed the legal team to place in a separate envelope labeled "protected material." Through a chain of bureaucratic mishaps, the key exhibits were somehow lost until Jones' investigator, Kim Marks, personally visited the clerk's office in June and unearthed them. The court, which had rejected Jones' appeal without seeing the missing exhibits, was forced to acknowledge two weeks ago that it couldn't ignore its clerk's "mismanagement of the exhibits" and has been forced to reconsider the case.

Chilling exit fact: Despite its wretched record on wrongful convictions the past two decades, not to mention three horrific botched executions in the last three years, Oklahoma's incompetent and corrupted criminal justice system is set to resume putting people to death next year come hell or high water.

Silence over this human rights crisis is complicity.
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Fri/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Is Collusion Criminal? 
by Ben Shapiro
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Levin: So-Called Free Press, dummycrats-Dems 
Are Urging Mueller to Create a Crime
{ rickwells.us } ~ Host Mark Levin said that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is being urged to create a crime “by a so-called free press... that pretends to be protecting us from tyranny” and the dummycrats-Democrat Party. He continued saying, so we have a prosecutor with an open-ended portfolio with no actual crime. And seeks to create one, and he’s urged to create one by a so-called free press that pretends to be protecting us from tyranny. He’s urged to create one by a dummycrats-Democrat party—which, from day one, sought to undo Trump’s election. This is why I’ve spent so much time on Fox, not because I want to, because I felt I needed to, because I felt the president’s lawyers could hear me that way. This is why I spent so much time on Levin TV and behind this microphone talking about these subjects, to get the word out to you, the people, so you could spread the word too...  https://rickwells.us/levin-dems-mueller-crime/
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dummycrats-Dem Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Pleads 
Guilty to Federal Corruption Charges 
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by Merrill Hope
{ breitbart.com } ~ Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway (D) pleaded guilty to federal corruption charges Thursday morning... said Erin Nealy Cox, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Texas. In a press conference, Cox announced Caraway, 66, was part of a scheme that bankrupted Dallas County Schools (DCS), a bus agency, along with businessman Bob Leonard, who owned the surveillance company that took millions from DCS. She said Leonard paid Caraway and Rick Sorrells, the former DCS superintendent, more than $3.5 million in bribes, kickbacks, and other benefits. In April, Sorrells pleaded guilty to accepting more than $3 million. Caraway, the second most powerful official at Dallas City Hall, resigned from his seat on the city council Thursday effective immediately, said Cox. He pleaded guilty to criminal conspiracy, wire fraud, and tax evasion. She said each charge carries a sentence of five years in federal prison. For his cooperation, the legal parties agreed to 84 months imprisonment. Leonard was charged with one count of conspiracy...
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No Way Bob!
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{ ipatriot.com } ~ Robert Swan Mueller III, Special Counsel, wants to interview President Trump in what we, and many, suspect is a trap... How do we come to such a conclusion. Special Counsel, aka Federal Prosecutor, Robert Swan Mueller III, Esq., Philadelphia high born, Ivy League educated lawyer with a deeply flawed record starting in 1970’s San Francisco; first case, Federal Prosecutor, with a “slam dunk” case to put away 18 Hells Angel drug runners, blew it so badly all got off! In business that would end the career of R. S. Mueller III, but “The Swamp” creatures, or as we say, “The Web,” noticed and gave him a post in Boston. Bob fumbled his first case of an East German spy physicist indicted on a ton of glowing evidence but walked thanks to Bob’s screwups! Then he was assigned to prosecute the Whitey Bolger Mafia mob. The FBI had several snitches in their ranks so he chose to protect them by indicting four innocent men from a mob the FBI had not compromised, convicted them on false evidence getting 40 year sentences. Two died in prison, but all four were found innocent on a review of the case and their families were awarded $101 million of our money! Was Bob cashiered from the Department of Justice? No and the Swamp/Web got a greater grip on B.S.III  Can you spell “corrupt?”...   https://ipatriot.com/no-way-bob/
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Death to the Rule of Law
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{ renewamerica.com } ~ Once upon a time, boys and girls, there was a country, unique in the world and in history, where the people were not subjects of the whims and delusional rule of tyrannical kings and other potentates... but lived free under the Rule of Law, laid out in a constitution written by the People themselves. It clearly enumerated the powers they granted to the government, not the other way 'round. It also listed (and guaranteed) rights granted to them by God, not by government, and thus "unalienable." This happened not "long ago and far away," but right here, a mere 230 years ago. The power granted to We, the People, the unprecedented liberty guaranteed under the constitutional Rule of Law, made the United States of America into the Beacon of Freedom, the Shining City on the Hill, and attracted people from all over the world to our shores, eager to become Americans and improve the lives of their children for generations to come. Then, in late 1963, something happened. Our president, John F. Kennedy, was assassinated and the killers have never been caught. A scapegoat knee-jerk communist, Lee Harvey Oswald, was blamed, but he, too, was killed before he could talk. Kennedy was a dummycrats-Democrat, but if he were around today, his policies would have made him a moderate to conservative Republican. Many believe this was why he was killed, and the direction the country was taken by his successor and vice president – racist, far-leftist Lyndon B. Johnson – reinforces this idea...   http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/oberndorf/180806 
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Joe diGenova Discusses Ongoing Possibilities in Congressional
Investigation into Spygate and FISA Abuse
by sundaocnce

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Joe diGenova appears on Newsmax TV with Howie Carr to discuss the current drip of document leaks surrounding Bruce Ohr (DOJ)... Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS), Christopher Steele and Oleg Derispaska; additionally, the likelihood of more FISA declassification which will lay bare the larger FBI/DOJ conspiracy.
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/08/09/joe-digenova-discusses-ongoing-possibilities-in-congressional-investigation-into-spygate-and-fisa-abuse/
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVV200a9O 
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Is Collusion Criminal? 
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by Ben Shapiro

{ townhall.com } ~ In the last two weeks, the Trump administration has begun to make a rather interesting legal argument: Collusion isn't criminal. President Trump's lawyer Rudy Giuliani made this argument on television; Trump repeated it on Twitter. But is it true?

Technically, collusion isn't a crime. There is no statutory definition of "collusion"; the closest we could come is "conspiracy." So let's be more specific: Would it be criminal activity if the Trump campaign solicited opposition research from the Russian government? The short answer: Not clearly, unless the campaign was also involved in underlying criminal activity, such as hacking the Democratic National Committee or the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign. UCLA professor of law Eugene Volokh explained in the Washington Post last year that barring such activity, it seems violative of the First Amendment to prevent campaigns from talking with foreign citizens about opposition research on other candidates. After all, liar-Clinton's team paid Fusion GPS to create an opposition-research dossier, much of the material provided by a foreign citizen, Christopher Steele. Even exchanging information with the Russian government wouldn't clearly violate the law, if Volokh is correct.

Now, this doesn't mean that the Trump campaign is in the clear. It just means that Trump's opponents will have to prove far more than they've proved so far.

 All of which means that the slim hook on which the dummycrats-Democratic hopes of a Trump criminal charge are based grows even more tenuous. Now dummycrats-Democrats are banking on the possibility of an obstruction charge emerging against Trump: perhaps, they say, Trump has attempted to shut down special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in some way. After all, he's constantly tweeting about the myriad evils of the so-called "witch hunt." But even here, the statutory basis for such a charge is thin: There are provisions covering destruction of evidence or threatening to influence a "pending judicial proceeding," but obstruction generally requires an active attempt to impede -- and the Mueller investigation, according to the testimony of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, hasn't actually been impacted by Trump's fulmination.

The best hope for dummycrats-Democrats is a perjury charge against Donald Trump Jr. They hope that Trump Jr. lied when he said that his father didn't know about the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting with Russian lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya; perhaps, they think, they can charge Trump Jr. with something to get him to flip on his father. But so far, there's been no evidence that Trump knew about that meeting, and Trump continues to deny it.

More and more, the dummycrats-Democratic hope for a deus ex machina to oust Trump seems like a chimerical fancy. Even if Trump were to be indicted for a crime, it's utterly unclear constitutionally whether he could be prosecuted; the constitutional remedy for high crimes and misdemeanors is impeachment. But they do have one hope yet: Trump could continue to pour out his feelings on Twitter, creating possible legal problems for himself and undermining his credibility with the American people.

That's why Trump should stop chatting about these matters. The more he chats, the higher the chances he creates a thicket he cannot escape. The dummycrats-Democrats' best hope at this point isn't the law or even Robert Mueller. It's President Trump's rage, and his pathological inability to avoid venting it in public fora.
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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Should Trump Voluntarily Talk to Mueller? 
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
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Judge threatens to hold AG Sessions
in contempt over asylum deportation
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{ washingtontimes.com } ~ A furious federal judge threatened Thursday to hold Attorney General Jeff Sessions in contempt of court... in a touchy case over asylum seekers’ rights after learning that some plaintiffs might have been deported in defiance of his wishes. Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said the government appeared to have “spirited away” a woman and her child who’d fled a violent husband in El Salvador and were seeking asylum in the U.S., but who were struggling against a new tougher asylum policy Mr. Sessions created in June. The mother, known in court files by the pseudonym “Carmen,” was taken from her detention facility and likely put on a plane Thursday morning, the American Civil Liberties Union said — even though the Justice Department had promised the court none of the plaintiffs would be deported before the judge could rule. “Turn that plane around,” the judge ordered the government, while repeatedly saying he was “extremely upset” with the development. He threatened to start issuing show-cause orders and then hold people in contempt of court if the situation wasn’t immediately remedied...   https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/aug/9/sessions-threatened-contempt-asylum-deportation/?bt_ee=HPhnCfEJb2wiitqi7s594znxrbQTyeS/HPLdpHr+uhizH2j7qO8sUbSUFZ1T88FG&bt_ts=1533839955038
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Carla Provost Officially Becomes Chief of U.S. Border Patrol – 
First Female Head of U.S.B.P.
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{ nbcnews.com } ~ Carla Provost, a 23-year veteran of the U.S. Border Patrol, was officially appointed the agency's first female chief Thursday... more than a year after she was named acting chief. Customs and Border Protection commissioner Kevin McAleenan called it a historic announcement. "No one is better suited or better prepared to be chief,” he said. “Carla is an agent’s agent.” In becoming the Border Patrol’s 18th chief, Provost said, “I don’t know if it’s possible to be both humble and proud, but that’s the emotion I’m feeling today.” As for the challenges the agency faces, she said, "Border security is more than just what we do on the border every day." Supporting the men and women in the force requires closing "some of these loopholes that are drawing people to bring their families and their children in a very treacherous trip to come into this country."...
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Former Ohio State Wrestler Recants Claim Against Jim Jordan
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Everyone with a reasonable amount of common sense knows the claims that Representative Jim Jordan knew of sexual abuse at Ohio State twenty-years-ago was a manufactured political hit-job... Now one of the accusers recants. A former Ohio State University wrestler is recanting his claims that Ohio Republican Rep. Jim Jordan knew of sexual abuse allegations against a university physician when he coached wrestling at the school over 20 years ago. “At no time did I ever say or have any direct knowledge that Jim Jordan knew of Dr. Richard Strauss’s inappropriate behavior,” Mark Coleman, a former MMA fighter who wrestled at Ohio State when Jordan coached there, said in a statement. “I have nothing but respect for Jim Jordan as I have known him for more than 30 years and know him to be of impeccable character.”....
Special master finishes review of materials 
seized from Michael Cohen in FBI raids: Report
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{ washingtonexaminer.com The court-appointed special master tasked with reviewing materials seized during FBI raids targeting Michael Cohen has reportedly completed her assessment... a major development as federal prosecutors in New York investigate whether President Trump's former personal lawyer committed tax fraud. Barbara Jones has deemed 2,558 items to not be privileged nor highly personal given the lawyer-client relationship that once existed betwee} ~ n Cohen and the president, per an MSNBC report Thursday.  The materials may now be used by federal prosecutors from the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York as they probe Cohen for possible tax fraud violations related to his taxi medallion business. More than 3.7 million items were seized in April. The prosecutors are assessing whether Cohen under reported his income from the business in federal tax returns, the Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday. Authorities are also investigating if Cohen was allowed to apply for loans through Sterling National Bank without providing necessary documentation, the report said...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/special-master-finishes-review-of-materials-seized-from-michael-cohen-in-fbi-raids-report?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_08/09/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News 
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Truth Behind Alex Jones Banishment Surfaces, 
All Rooted in Jealousy from Millennial
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ There’s a hint of snark and undeniable glee in the reporting on some liberal media sites at the most recent assault on a high-profile voice... in the media that liberals love to hate. Alex Jones is the latest commentator to fall from the good graces of social media’s Apple, YouTube, Facebook and Spotify and liberals couldn’t be happier. The independent talk radio host and conspiracy theorist of Infowars fame is the target of a massive ban prompted by what is considered “hate speech” by the powers that be at those distribution platforms. While Jones has certainly said some unconventional, unpopular, and ultimately untrue things throughout his 22-year career, it may seem this latest action against him was more or less a premeditated attack from a surprising source — with a possibly surprising motivation. Enter, Jared Holt. He’s apparently the latest left-wing millennial attempting to make a name for himself by throwing media bombs at the biggest targets available outside the left-wing bubble. He advertises himself on his personal blog as a writer, an award-winning photographer and a video and imaging specialist. He’s a 2015 graduate of the University of Central Arkansas, and has a way of getting around in liberal circles. He’s written for People For the American Way, Right Wing Watch and Media Matters. The guy is a go-getter who isn’t short on opinion...
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Should Trump Voluntarily Talk to Mueller? 
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by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ When federal prosecutors are nearing the end of criminal investigations, they often invite the subjects of those investigations to speak with them. The soon-to-be defendants are tempted to give their version of events to prosecutors, and prosecutors are looking to take the legal pulse of the subjects of their work. These invitations should always be declined, but they are not.

Special counsel Robert Mueller — who is investigating President Donald Trump for obstruction of justice, pre-presidential banking irregularities and conspiracy to solicit or receive campaign aid from foreign nationals the latter is what the media erroneously call collusion — has made it known to former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, the head of Trump's legal team, that he wants to speak to the president.

Should Trump voluntarily speak with Mueller? In a word: No. Here is the back story.

Though I have been critical of some judgment calls made by Giuliani in his representation of Trump, I recognize, like anyone who has watched him or worked with or against him, that Giuliani is a smart and experienced lawyer. He has prosecuted directly or indirectly more than 5,000 criminal cases. He knows the criminal justice system, and he understands the power of prosecutors.

Yet the advice of most criminal defense lawyers and legal commentators familiar with the situation in which Giuliani finds himself today is to keep his client far away from the prosecutors. Here's why.

Thanks to Giuliani's numerous television appearances during which he has forcefully defended his client, Giuliani and Mueller have engaged in a very public series of negotiations on the limits, if any, that they might agree to as ground rules for an interview of the president.

Giuliani wants to limit the subject of questions to the alleged conspiracy between Trump's campaign and Russians. After all, he argues, this is the stated purpose given by the Department of Justice for starting the special counsel's investigation. And he wants to limit the number of questions and the time for all questions and answers. He argues that the president's constitutional obligations transcend the needs of Mueller's probe.

Mueller argues that he has an ethical obligation to follow whatever evidence of criminal behavior lawfully comes into his hands, about the president or his colleagues. As such, because he does not know in advance what Trump's answers to his questions will be, he cannot consent to any limitations on his follow-up questions.

If I were Giuliani, I would tell Mueller that the negotiations are terminated and the president will not voluntarily sit for an interview with him. There are paramount and prudential reasons for this.

First, when prosecutors want to talk to a person they are investigating, the talk is intended to help the prosecutors, not the subject of the investigation. So why should Trump engage in a process that could only help those pursuing him?

Second, the prosecutors know their evidence far better than the president or his legal team possibly could know it, and these prosecutors know how to trip up whomever they are interviewing. So why should Trump give prosecutors an opportunity to trap him into uttering a falsehood in an environment where doing so can be a criminal act?

I recognize that Giuliani's client is the most powerful person on earth, someone who is accustomed to having his way followed. And he has said countless times that he wants to talk to Mueller. Yet President Trump does not use an economy of words. Experience teaches that the undisciplined use of words by the subject of a criminal investigation is a prosecutor's dream when it takes place in an official inquiry.

It is Giuliani's job to prevent that dream from becoming reality by convincing his client, perhaps through an aggressive mock question-and-answer session conducted by Giuliani himself, that no good for Trump could come from a Mueller interview. I have seen many criminal cases in which potential defendants who thought they could talk prosecutors out of an indictment tried to do so and made matters worse for themselves.

But there is an elephant in the room.

That elephant is a grand jury subpoena. The Mueller interview is voluntary. If Trump agreed to it, he would not be under oath, and he could consult with counsel during it. Also, he could leave it whenever he wished. A grand jury subpoena compels a person to testify. The testimony is under oath, takes place without counsel present and can go on for as long as prosecutors and the grand jurors want to question the person. And they can ask him any questions they want to ask.

Surely, Trump would challenge a subpoena before a federal district court, and the challenge might land in the Supreme Court. Yet the controlling case, United States v. Nixon, is a unanimous 1974 Supreme Court decision requiring President Richard Nixon to surrender his infamous Oval Office tapes.

Though not directly on the point of compelled presidential personal oral testimony, the language in the Nixon case and the values underlying it all favor enforcement of a subpoena requiring personal testimony by the president. When the Ken Starr grand jury served a subpoena for the president's testimony on liar-Bill Clinton, whose crimes it was investigating, liar-Clinton and his lawyers concluded that he needed to comply with it, which he did.

Of course, Trump could accept the subpoena and then invoke his Fifth Amendment-protected right to silence. However, he once publicly said, "If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth?" So such an invocation would be catastrophic politically, but it would legally insulate him from helping Mueller to prosecute him.

Another president once weighed in on dealings with bureaucrats and prosecutors. Ronald Reagan quipped many times that the nine most terrifying words in the English language are: "I'm from the government, and I'm here to help." Mr. President, beware of prosecutors bearing invitations.
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Fri/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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dummycrats-Democratic socialism is an oxymoron
by Dan Popp
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Witness: Trump Tower Meeting Was ‘Boring’ Policy Presentation 
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by Aaron Klein
{ breitbart.com } ~ A Russian businessman who was present at the infamous, brief meeting at Trump Tower on June 9, 2016 has provided the most extensive publicly documented description... yet about what allegedly transpired inside the room in which Russian nationals met with Donald Trump Jr. and other campaign officials. Irakly “Ike” Kaveladze is senior vice president at Crocus Group, the real estate development firm run by Russian oligarch Aras Agalarov, whose associate and son were both reportedly involved in setting up the Trump Tower meeting. In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that was recently made public, Kaveladze related that no one at the meeting presented themselves there as representing the Russian government, no one discussed hacked emails and no conversation took place that could possibly be characterized as “collusion” between Russia and the Trump campaign. In the testimony, reviewed in full by Breitbart News, Kaveladze asserted that the meeting was an informational presentation that focused largely the Magnitsky Act, which sanctions Russian officials accused of involvement in the death of a Russian tax accountant. In his testimony, he further related how he called the meeting “boring” when describing it afterwards...
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Julian Assange Asked To Testify In Front Of Senate 
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{ activistpost.com } ~ The founder of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, has been asked to testify before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee as part of their Russia investigation... according to a letter signed by Senators Richard Burr (R-NC) and Mark Warner (D-VA) posted by the WikiLeaks Twitter account. The letter was delivered to Assange at the Ecuadorian embassy in London. “As part of the inquiry, the Committee requests that you make yourself available for a closed interview with bipartisan Committee staff at a mutually agreeable time and location,” the letter reads. WikiLeaks says their legal team is “considering the offer but testimony must conform to a high ethical standard,” after which the whistleblower organization added a tweet linking to a list of 10 dummycrats-Democratic senators who demanded in late June that Assange’s asylum be revoked in violation of international law...
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Appalachian Justice: Here’s How WV
Handles an Out-of-Control Supreme Court
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ The issue of corruption among elected officials is one that enrages many American citizens as far too often... it seems that the “powers that be” are willing to let suspected corrupt officials slide or slink away quietly without ever being held accountable to the people. However, in at least one instance it appears that won’t be the case. The four sitting justices on West Virginia’s state Supreme Court are collectively facing 14 counts of impeachment for alleged corrupt activities, according to the Charleston Gazette-Mail. The 14 articles of impeachment against the justices were approved on Tuesday by the West Virginia House Judiciary Committee and include such charges as corruption, neglect of duty and “unnecessary and lavish” spending of taxpayer money, among other allegations. The articles of impeachment will soon be submitted to the House for a vote, and if they obtain a majority will then proceed to the Senate. If two-thirds of the senators approve the impeachment articles, a trial will commence that would require another two-thirds majority for conviction, at which point the justices would be removed from the bench and barred from ever seeking public office in the state again. “It’s a sad day, and it certainly isn’t a cause for celebration,” Judiciary Chairman John Shott said Tuesday, according to the Gazette-Mail. The four justices charged under the articles of impeachment, which stem from violations of the impeachable offenses listed in Section 9, Article 4 of the West Virginia Constitution, include Chief Justice Margaret Workman (four counts) and Justices Robin Davis (four counts), Allen Loughry (eight counts) and Beth Walker (two counts)...
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Senate releases 5,700 documents
from Kavanaugh's time in Bush White House
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, released a trove of documents on Thursday from Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh's tenure... as associate White House counsel to former President George W. Bush. The document dump, which contained nearly 6,000 pages, came a day after ranking dummycrats-Democrats on the Judiciary Committee filed a series of Freedom of Information Act requests to access records from Kavanaugh's time in the Bush White House. Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer, D-N.Y., has repeatedly accused Republicans of providing insufficient material involving the Supreme Court nominee ahead of his confirmation hearing this fall. According to Grassley's office, the total number of documents planned for release exceeds 125,000 pages. The Judiciary Committee moved to make the records public after receiving them on a confidential basis from the National Archives and Records Administration last week. Normally, records from Kavanaugh's time in the White House would be protected by the Presidential Records Act, which allows former presidents to keep their White House files secret for up to 12 years after leaving office...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/white-house/senate-releases-5-700-documents-from-kavanaughs-time-in-bush-white-house?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_08/09/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News
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Illegal Alien Alleged Serial Killer Caught in Miami, Florida 
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{ cnsnews.com } ~ Although the liberal media are ignoring the case, an illegal alien from Honduras was recently arrested in Miami, Fla., and charged with the murder of two women... When apprehended by Miami-Dade police, the suspect, Juan Carlos Hernandez-Caseres, 37, "confessed to both murders," reported the Miami Herald.  Hernandez-Caseres has been charged with two counts of first-degree murder. The victims were Ann Farrin, 41, and Neidy Roche, 39, both of whom were prostitutes, according to the police. Hernandez-Caseres picked up Farrin in his car for sex on June 13 "but sometime during intercourse he became 'enraged' and punched her in the throat and neck," he told the police, as reported in the Herald. In surveillance camera footage at Northwest 38th and Northwest 37th street, Hernandez-Caseres's dark, four-door car is seen pulling to the side of the road, the driver gets out and opens the passenger door, and then the driver pulls a body out and dumps it on the street. That apparently was the body of Ann Farrin...   https://www.cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/illegal-alien-serial-killer-caught-miami-florida?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1VNU5qVXpNR1ptWkdNMiIsInQiOiJ5K2ZuR1RETUsxWTFVYXpkSjJvTW82Q0QycEViZzVmYnNtaW1wQVFSRTVcL2g0TlFEeHVsUWFucE9HcHVlMGJLblFRTnhZVzJjVEZldHljaFwvWk85ZEdSTFA3MzBCS0d1ZWYwa2J3WlhkUXZcL1FHQ2RwZU9USFNlMFZqY2pXM0VuTCJ9
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dummycrats-Democratic socialism is an oxymoron
by Dan Popp

A society which is socialist cannot also be democratic, in the sense of guaranteeing individual freedom. – Milton Friedman

{ renewamerica.com } ~ With all the folks recently declaring themselves "dummycrats-democratic socialists," I thought it would be worthwhile to examine why this is another assault on language by the barbarian left.

Some of us live in reality, and try to understand our experiences through the template of reason. More and more are trying to live in a fantasy world. Logic and honest language are enemies of that world. The fundamental building block of logic, as Aristotle laid it down, is that a thing can't be both itself and its opposite in the same way, at the same time. 

The phrase " dummycrats-democratic socialism" violates this basic principle of rational thought. Here, courtesy of Dictionary.com, are the definitions of our root terms.

Democracy: government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system.
 
Socialism: a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole.

Here are some of the ways that democracy and socialism are inherently contradictory:

Locus of power

Socialism, as defined above, puts control "in the community as a whole." But in a democracy "the supreme power is vested in the people." This may seem like two ways of saying the same thing if you've spent your formative years under socialist indoctrination. In principle, however, they're opposites. The "community" of the socialists means everyone, collectively. But the ultimate rulers of the democracy are individuals, not the group. In practice, since rule by everyone is impossible a fantasy, socialist countries invariably are ruled by a few central planners, who often oppose the group's wishes.

Ownership of property

A democracy is set up to protect the rights of individuals, particularly property rights. Socialism is set up for the express purpose of nullifying property rights. Its motto is "You didn't build that!" The state owns everything, and the state will determine what, if anything, you get.

Yes, a democracy can degenerate into a rights-violating mob more about that later, but that is not its purpose, whereas the purpose of a socialist government is to relieve you of the fruits of your labor by means of violence.

Concept of citizenship

If democracy means "rule of the people," in practice it must be the rule of the citizens. In ancient Athens, it was the adult males of the polis; in early America, it was the landowners. The implementation of democracy, including the republican variety, requires a clear delineation between citizen and non-citizen. "Who may vote?" is a burning question. "Who may exercise this personal political power?" Certainly not foreigners or potential enemies of the society. Only those who have attained a certain age, perhaps who have a personal stake in the well-being of the community.

The fantasy of borderless political zones that make no distinction between citizens and trespassers may be compatible with socialism, but it is inimical to democracy.

Value of free speech

Democracy requires an uninhibited exchange of ideas. Socialism because it is a failed fantasy requires opposing ideas to be squelched. Exhibits 1 through infinity: suppression of conservative speech and speakers on college campuses, currently the temples of socialism.

Other rights protected in democracies are turned upside down where socialism dominates. To give just one more example, my God tells me, "You shall not steal." How safe are my religious rights in a political system based on theft? 

"But what about countries with socialist 'safety nets,' run by the will of the people – like America? Can we not correctly call them both democratic and socialist?"

Let me put the question to you: What if I were to say, "Here is a healthy man with cancer?" "Wait a minute," you would say. "Is he healthy or does he have cancer?" You would not call him a healthy-sick fellow. Just as cancer is not compatible with health but drives out health, so the malignancy of state robbery drives wellness from the body politic. Yes, it's undeniable that the U.S. is afflicted by many socialist lesions, and as they continue to grow they must eventually kill the patient. That does not make America a hybrid democratic-socialist state. It makes us a former republic, a sick and wasting society.

One of the problems with schemes of popular rule is that they're susceptible to the contagion of covetousness. Hear wise old Ben Franklin: "When the people find that they can vote themselves money, that will herald the end of the republic." The next stage after socialism isn't communist paradise, as Marx predicted. It is death, as our Founders predicted.

Here in the real world, there are no sunshiny nights, no Christian atheists, and no dummycrats-democratic socialists. Abusers of language are enemies of humanity.  
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TheFrontPageCover
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Who Really Stands Up for America?
by Daniel Greenfield 
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WikiLeaks legal team ‘considering’ offer for Julian Assange
to testify before Senate Intelligence Committee
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ WikiLeaks said Wednesday its legal team is “considering” whether to allow founder Julian Assange to testify before the U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee... posting a letter it says is from committee leadership. The letter, dated Aug. 1, says the committee is requesting Assange make himself “available for a closed interview with bipartisan Committee staff at a mutually agreeable time and location.” The letter is signed by Chairman Richard Burr, R-N.C., and Vice Chairman Mark Warner, D-Va. A spokeswoman for Burr declined to comment about the authenticity of the letter. Senators want to question Assange as part of their investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. WikiLeaks played a role in the dissemination of emails stolen from liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign chairman John Podesta and other dummycrats-Democratic officials during the campaign. An indictment from special counsel Robert Mueller alleges Russia stole thousands of emails and passed them along to WikiLeaks, who trickled out their release in the weeks leading up to Election Day...
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Mueller’s ‘Star Witness’ Rick Gates Falls Apart During Cross-Examination by Manafort Lawyers – Perjures Himself 
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{ thegatewaypundit.com } ~ Paul Manafort’s legal team painted Rick Gates, a former business associate to Manafort as a liar who embezzled millions of dollars... to fund his secret life with his mistress in a blistering cross-examination Tuesday. Rick Gates previously pleaded guilty and agreed to cooperate with Mueller; he was even referred to as the Special Counsel’s ‘star witness.’ On Tuesday, the Special Counsel’s ‘star witness’ Rick Gates fell apart during the cross-examination and perjured himself which is very damning for the prosecution. Gates appeared nervous on Tuesday, using the phrases “it’s possible” and “I don’t recall” many times as he was grilled by Manafort’s lawyers, reported The Guardian. Manafort’s lawyers continued to erode Gates’ credibility. At one point Manafort’s lawyer Kevin Downing asked Gates, “After all the lies you’ve told and fraud you’ve committed, you expect this jury to believe you?”...
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IDF says war in Gaza approaching,
communities near Strip could be evacuated 
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by MICHAEL BACHNER and JUDAH ARI GROSS
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ A senior army official warned Thursday morning that Israel was nearing a full-blown military confrontation in the Gaza Strip... after hundreds of rockets were launched overnight by Palestinian terror groups, adding that the government could begin evacuating communities near the coastal enclave in preparation. “We are rapidly nearing a confrontation,” the IDF senior officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity. “Hamas is making serious mistakes, and we may have to make it clear after four years that this path doesn’t yield any results for it and isn’t worth it.” Authorities said over 150 rockets and mortar shells were launched at Israeli communities since Wednesday evening. The barrages by the Hamas terror group continued throughout the night and into Thursday. According to IDF spokesperson Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus, at least seven people in total were injured in southern Israel by the Gaza rocket attacks, including a woman who was seriously injured when a projectile struck her home in the Eshkol region of southern Israel...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/idf-says-war-in-gaza-approaching-communities-near-strip-could-be-evacuated/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=94d791c555-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_09_06_58&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-94d791c555-54638825
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dummycrats-Democrats ‘Flabbergasted’ by Lack of Latino Support
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ Liberal pollsters are saying they are confounded by the fact that large numbers of Latinos are supporting President Donald Trump... instead of anti-Trump dummycrats-Democrats. “My instant analysis is it’s because of the economy,” Fernand Amandi, principal at the dummycrats- Democrat polling firm Bendixen & Amandi International, told CNN. “These are people who are not necessarily paying attention to every inning of political baseball,” he said. “They are working. They are maybe getting a little bit more money.” And that translates into support. The most recent NBC/Wall Street Journal national poll found Trump’s approval rating at 39 percent among Latinos. That’s well about the 28 percent of the Latino vote he received in the 2016 election. Amandi said Latinos should be supporting dummycrats-Democrats due to Trump’s position on issues such as illegal immigration. “I still think it’s a little too soon to push the panic button, but having said that, we are not seeing the types of numbers with Hispanic voters that we should be seeing with the most hostile person to ever hold public office against Hispanics as the president,” he said. “And that in and of itself is a concern...
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The Pitiful Roots of Anti-Americanism
by Robert Curry

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The anti-Semite is a crank and a bore. However, the anti-Semite has an important psychological and even spiritual advantage over certain other kinds of cranks... he knows that to other people, he is a crackpot. This leaves the door slightly ajar for him to discover that he is one. Anti-Americanism is anti-Semitism's first cousin, but with an important difference. A person afflicted with this terrible condition is also a crank and a bore, but because anti-Americanism is so widespread both in America and abroad, it is all too easy for the sufferers never to realize they are cranks. After all, anti-Americanism is the norm among the globalist elites. In his book Anti-Americanism, Jean-François Revel writes that he had "formed his opinion about the United States through the filter of the European press, which means my judgment was unfavorable."  But Revel wants us to understand that he has learned that anti-Americanism is more than simply a widespread climate of opinion. Instead, he labels it a "psychopathology" and an "obsession." For Revel, the source of this malady is obvious. America has supplanted Europe, and the elites of Europe resent it. Europe once dominated the world. It no longer does, and the European elites blame America instead of themselves...
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Who Really Stands Up for America?
by Daniel Greenfield 

{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ On October 1962, destroyers from the Second Fleet streamed out to intercept Russian vessels suspected of delivering missiles to Cuba. Under the shadow of DEFCON 2, Vice Admiral Alfred Ward, commander of the Second Fleet, watched over a blockade of Cuba. The Navy men putting Russian ships under their guns knew that they were the tip of the spear in what might at any moment become the next world war.

The Russians had ordered their ships to keep going. It was up to the Second Fleet to hold the line. 

"Admiral, it looks as though this is up to the Navy," President Kennedy told Admiral Anderson. 

“Mr. President,” the admiral replied, “the Navy will not let you down.” 

On September 2011, under the leftist politico whose admirers tried to sell him as another JFK, the flag of the Second Fleet was taken down. The fleet that had taken point against the Russians was no more. 

The justification for the disestablishment of the Second Fleet was the diminished threat from Russia. The Navy was being cut to pieces while liar-nObama focused on boondoggles like the “Green Fleet”. 

“Our Navy is smaller now than any time since 1917,” Mitt Romney had objected next year during a presidential debate. "We also have fewer horses and bayonets," liar-nObama sneered, to the cheers of the media. "The question is not a game of Battleship where we're counting ships." 

When Romney brought up the Russian threat, liar-nObama sneered some more. "The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because, you know, the Cold War's been over for 20 years." 

These days, liar-nObama’s party is mired in a haze of Russian paranoia. But it was their leader who dismantled our first lines of defense and Trump who is restoring our military deterrence. 

Seven years after liar-nObama shuttered the Second Fleet, its flag is flying again. The fleet isn’t green any more, it is mean. And it will watch over the East Coast and the Atlantic to checkmate Russian subs. 

The shutdown of the Second Fleet was part of liar-nObama’s failed pivot to Asia which ended with a humiliating apology to China for flying a plane too close to one of the Communist dictatorship’s fake South China Sea islands. Trump has since dispatched B-52s, outraging China, with no apology. 

That was December 2015. 

On January 2016, the complete collapse of naval credibility led Iran to seize two United States Navy boats, steal classified information, hold their crews hostage and humiliate them on television. 

liar-nObama had forced the Navy to grovel to China. Why not Iran? 

Instead of taking decisive action against this second Iran hostage crisis, the appeasement administration instead used it to spin the success of the Iran Deal. The humiliation of the Navy was complete. 

But the humiliation of the United States Navy and the United States of America ended on Jan 20, 2017. 

The restoration of the Second Fleet is an important step in the revival of America’s Navy. But the full scope of the harm   liar-nObama inflicted on our readiness will take generations of hard work to repair. 

The USS Enterprise, the descendant of a fabled history stretching back to the American Revolution, which took part in the Cuban blockade, was scrapped by liar-nObama. The Enterprise was one of six carriers scrapped by liar-nObama who wasn’t interested in counting ships or horses and bayonets. 

Or in fulfilling the congressional mandate to maintain at least eleven aircraft carriers at all times. Scrapping the USS Enterprise took us to ten even though 10 U.S. Code § 5062 specifically states, "The naval combat forces of the Navy shall include not less than 11 operational aircraft carriers." 

liar-nObama broke the law. He undermined our national security. And once again, he got away with it. 

The great dismantling of our military fueled Chinese, Russian and Islamic aggressive expansionism. But now the Second Fleet will be headquartered in Norfolk along with NATO’s Joint Force Command for the Atlantic. While media pundits wailed about Trump’s commitment to NATO, Norfolk sends a clear and direct message to the Russians and to NATO about American capabilities and determination. 

Under liar-nObama, Russian attack subs and spy ships showed up on our coastlines, approaching naval bases, coming close to our waters, occasionally passing undetected, testing our capabilities and our nerve. Whileliar-nObama did nothing about the threat to our naval forces, Trump shut down the Russian consulate in Seattle to stop its spying on Naval Base Kitsap, one of the homes of our underwater nuclear arsenal. 

Our capabilities have room to regrow, but no matter how much the media lies, our nerve is not lacking. 

President Trump nominated Vice Admiral Andrew "Woody" Lewis, a former fighter pilot, who had served on the Enterprise, the Truman, and the Roosevelt, to head the Second Fleet. The Lewis pick demonstrates the administration’s commitment to projecting naval and air power in the Atlantic. 

There are no horses and bayonets here. Just Trump’s vision for restoring carrier power. While liar-nObama scrapped carriers in his own game of Battleship, Trump wants 12 supercarriers and a fleet of 350 ships. 

"American ships will sail the seas, American planes will soar the skies, American workers will build our fleets," President Trump had declared at the dedication of the USS Gerald R. Ford. 

Ford brings the Navy up to 11 carriers. liar-n Obama took the Navy below its mandated minimum strength. Now for the first time since those terrible years of appeasement, American naval power is recovering. 

By the time Trump is ready to leave office, the Navy should be back up to twelve carriers again. A few years later, the People’s Republic of China expects to have four carriers. Its advanced new vessels will likely rely on stolen technology ripped off by Chinese hackers in the weak and feckless liar-nObama years. 

These include the Littoral Combat Ship and Aegis system designs. 

The dummycrats-Democrats and the media howling about the national security threat from Russian hackers remain uninterested in the Chinese hacks that stole some of our most vital and advanced national security secrets. They expect us to believe that hacking John Podesta and Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s emails, and posting spam on Facebook, was a bigger threat than China making off with the F-35 plans. 

China’s ambitious new supercarrier designs take advantage of our failures during the liar-nObama era. These carriers show that the People’s Republic is thinking of projecting force beyond its territories and islands. 

And China has worked closely together with Russia. Its first carrier is an unfinished Russian model. Russian and Chinese vessels are also participating in joint naval maneuvers because they know that seapower hasn’t, despite liar-nObama’s assertions, gone the way of the era of horses and bayonets. 

Not a day goes by without dummycrats-Democrat politicians and media ranting that President Trump is failing to protect us from Russian attacks. The return of the Second Fleet is an example of how Trump is doing just that. It doesn’t take the military to protect dummycrat-Democrat email accounts from hackers. The dummycrat-DNC could have spent 20 bucks on physical security keys for its people, instead of on lavish dresses for Debbie. 

A single one of Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s dresses would have paid for 200 security keys. 

Or the dummycrat-Democrats could have spent the money to maintain the military and deter foreign enemies instead of believing that empty speechifying and diplomacy could take the place of aircraft carriers. 

While liar-nObama cut the US Navy, the Russians added warships with cruise missiles. They’re adding an amphibious assault ship capable of carrying 13 tanks. Their missile patrol boats are being hailed for their innovative designs. Putin has announced 26 new ships will be added to the Russian Navy this year. 

Where are all the dummycrat-Democrats who shout about how we need to challenge Russia? Nowhere. 

In 2016, a Russian warship made it to within 300 yards of the USS Gravely. The Gravely was protecting the USS Harry S. Truman. The warship pointed at the Truman. As usual, liar-nObama did nothing. 

These days, the Harry S. Truman Carrier Group is already sending a message to Russian subs in the Atlantic. If thedummycrat-Democrats want to see Trump standing up to Russia, they can look to the waves. 
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Three-Card Mueller
by Clarice Feldman
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Sbarro Bombing To Iran Sanctions:
Will Europe Ever Stop Appeasing Terrorism?
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{ lidblog.com } ~ As Europe continues to complain about President Trump’s sanctions on terrorist supporting Iran... it is important to point out their failure to learn from the past. At the same time, they are pushing back against the sanctions and supporting a deal that gave Iran the funds to support terror, fifteen families, indeed an entire nation is mourning a horrible terrorist attack that happened a few weeks before 9/11/01. Seventeen years ago on August 9th, 2001 Palestinian terrorists blew up a pizza place in the heart of Jerusalem killing 15 people including seven children and a pregnant woman. They wounded 130. A month later, other Islamist terrorists blew up the World Trade Centers in NY, the Pentagon Building in Washington DC, and were foiled in their attempt to destroy the Capital building by the brave passengers of Flight 93. It is important to remember these acts, not merely to memorialize the innocent victims whose only crime was to be at the wrong place at the wrong time, but as a reminder that Europe’s rejection of President Trump’s actions prove terrorism is still suckling at the teat of political correctness and Western World appeasement...
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Israeli Aid to Syrians Offers Hope for Future Peace
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by Steve Postal
{ americanthinker.com } ~ On August 3, The Times of Israel reported that Israel has frozen its aid to Syrian citizens, dubbed "Operation Good Neighbor," and has begun to dismantle its field clinic used to treat those wounded in the Syrian Civil War... These developments come in the wake of Syrian president Bashar Assad consolidating his power on the Syrian side of the Golan Heights, following the end of the Southern Syrian Offensive on July 31 and the recapture of Daara and Quneitra Provinces.  Operation Good Neighbor began in March 2013, when the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) chose to allow seven Syrians to cross the border into Israel for medical treatment. It has since grown exponentially in scope, encompassing the utmost compassion and bravery from Israeli military, non-governmental organizations (NGOs), and civil society. Operation Good Neighbor's achievements demonstrate that Israel is not the problem in the Middle East and give a glimmer of hope for future Israeli-Syrian relations. Since 2016 alone, Operation Good Neighbor has shuttled  approximately  1,500 tons of food, 50 tons of baby food, 250 tons of clothing, 25,000 boxes of medicine and medical equipment, 250,000 gallons of fuel, 7,900 packages of diapers, and 14,000 hygienic products to Syrians. Donated by NGOs and sometimes even by the Israeli government itself, relief has included baby formula; 3-D printers to make prosthetic limbs; and even generators, cars, and mules...   https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/08/israeli_aid_to_syrians_offers_hope_for_future_peace.html 
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Recording reveals Nunes saying Rosenstein
impeachment would complicate Kavanaugh confirmation
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{ thehill.com } ~ Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) told supporters at a recent fundraiser that impeaching Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein... would pose a political dilemma because it would delay the confirmation process for Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh, according to audio obtained by MSNBC. Nunes, who has been among the most vocal critics of Rosenstein and the Department of Justice (DOJ), reasoned to supporters that the impeachment process was "a bit complicated" because the Senate would have to deal with much of the fallout. "Do you want them to drop everything and not confirm the Supreme Court justice, the new Supreme Court justice?" Nunes said in the recording, which was first obtained by MSNBC's "The Rachel Maddow Show" and aired Wednesday night. "The Senate would have to drop everything they're doing ... and start with impeachment on Rosenstein," he continued. "And then take the risk of not getting Kavanaugh confirmed. So it's not a matter that any of us like Rosenstein. It's a matter of ... timing."...  http://thehill.com/homenews/house/401022-recording-reveals-nunes-saying-rosenstein-impeachment-would-complicate-supreme 
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Rocket sirens wail across southern Israel as IDF strikes Gaza
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by ANNA AHRONHEIM 
{ jpost.com } ~ Incoming rocket sirens continued to wail throughout southern Israel, including the city of Ashkelon... as projectiles continued to be launched from the Gaza Strip on Thursday as Israeli jets and tanks continued to pound the coastal enclave. Some 200 mortars and rockets were fired towards southern Israeli communities since Wednesday evening by Hamas and other terror groups in the coastal enclave. The majority hit open fields and caused no damage but several landed in Gaza border communities, including the college city of Sderot. The Iron Dome missile defense system destroyed 25 of the rockets. In retaliation the Israeli Air Force struck over 100 military sites in Gaza including training areas, production complexes, a factory used for producing materials used for building tunnels, a tunnel intended for maritime terrorism as well as other strategic Hamas targets on their military sites which held a variety of weapons, rockets as well as a military compound that serves as a central logistic warehouse. The IDF Spokesperson's unit announced that Israel struck several underground targets belonging to Hamas following continued rocket fire towards southern Israel...    https://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Rocket-sirens-wail-across-southern-Israel-as-IDF-strikes-Gaza-564454?utm_source=newsletter&utm_campaign=8-9-2018&utm_content=rocket-sirens-wail-across-southern-israel-as-idf-strikes-gaza-564454
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Bruce Ohr Docs Raise Serious Questions
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{ saraacarter.com } ~ A law enforcement sensitive document written by senior Justice Department official, Bruce Ohr, is raising serious concerns... amongst congressional investigators regarding testimony provided to Congress on the involvement of FBI special agents in the probe into the Trump campaign and its alleged Russian ties. Nov. 21, 2016, the handwritten document lists former FBI Special Agent Peter Strzok, his paramour FBI Attorney Lisa Page and Special Agent Joe Pientka who along with Strzok interviewed former National Security Advisor Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. Strzok, who was the lead investigator in the FBI’s investigation into Trump, was removed last August from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation after the DOJ’s Inspector General discovered a barrage of anti-Trump text messages between him and Page. Page, who was working as the general counsel for now fired Deputy Attorney General Andrew McCabe, is no longer with the FBI.   https://saraacarter.com/breaking-bruce-ohr-docs-raise-serious-questions/ 
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Three-Card Mueller
by Clarice Feldman

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Three-card Monte is a centuries-old con game in which the dealer and his shills trick the unsuspecting mark into betting on a rigged card game. Only the dealer and his people know where the winning card is, though the mark believes he's smart enough to find out where the winning card is buried.

The public – in this case, the mark – has been led to believe that the entire years-long Mueller investigation was into Trump's "collusion" with Russians.  But the dealer Mueller himself knows that it is part of a plan to undermine the president and reverse the 2016 presidential election, in which the only real Russian collusion was with liar-Hillary. By now his press supporters surely should know this, but they continue to feed the fiction that the game is to find the collusion in the one campaign in which there was none.

A recent Harvard-Harris poll shows that the universe of marks is getting smaller: sixty percent of Americans believe that the FBI demonstrates bias against the president and has set out to wound him politically. Mueller's popularity keeps plummeting. By mid-June the last figure I've seen, "a record 53 percent are now saying they view the lead Russia investigator in an unfavorable light. That's a 26-point spike since July 2017, when the poll first started asking voters whether they viewed Mueller favorably or unfavorably. ... Thirty-six percent of all registered voters are also seeing Mueller unfavorably, which represents the highest level since the polling first raised the topic 11 months ago. Back then, 23 percent of all voters said they viewed Mueller negatively." 

Unfortunately for Mueller, not all those charged by his team are foreigners not subject to U.S. jurisdiction and therefore unlikely to contest the charges, nor so impecunious that they plead guilty to avoid bankrupting themselves – or, in the case of General Michael Flynn, protective of family members Mueller has threatened to also break on the rack.

Last week, the long-awaited trial of Paul Manafort, who briefly served as a campaign aide for the president, began. He's being charged with 31 violations of law, none of which has anything to do with Trump or the campaign's supposed collusion with Russia. The indictment charges tax fraud, bank fraud, and FBFA reporting foreign bank accounts violations.

As has been the wont of recent special prosecutors, particularly harsh measures at the prosecution's hand were employed – a middle-of-the-night raid on his home, with Mr. and Mrs. Manafort rousted from their beds and frisked in their nightclothes. In this week's trial, an FBI agent testified that they knocked three times first but entered with a key, though he could not say how the key came into the FBI's possession. Manafort has been held in solitary confinement during the proceedings based on a ruling by an liar-nObama-appointed district court judge in D.C., where there is a second proceeding pending. It is reminiscent of Patrick Fitzgerald's throwing former New York Times reporter Judith Miller in jail in the Libby case until she agreed to testify. After this, he confused her about her notes and led her to give false testimony. Her recantation was the basis on which the D.C. Court of Appeals years later found Libby to have been likely innocent of the crimes for which he'd been convicted and reinstated him to practice. President Trump subsequently pardoned him.

In 2016 the District of Columbia Court of Appeals reinstated Mr. Libby to the D.C. bar after it said a legal disciplinary counsel had presented "credible evidence" in support of his innocence. Mr. Trump's pardon should now restore his reputation in full. ...

Yet there is a broader lesson in the Libby case about special counsels and zealotry. Mr. Fitzgerald knew from his first days on the job that Mr. Libby hadn't leaked Ms. Plame's name. Yet rather than close up shop, he pursued dubious obstruction of justice charges based on the flimsiest of evidence. For two years Mr. Fitzgerald also let the country think a crime may have been committed by people close to President Bush or Vice President Cheney when he already knew better.

As it happens, Mr. Fitzgerald was appointed by his good friend, scumbag-James Comey, who was then Deputy Attorney General. This is the scumbag-Jim Comey who told Congress last year that his goal in leaking information to the press about his conversations with Donald Trump after he was fired was to trigger a special counsel investigation that is now led by Mr. Mueller. This special counsel's work isn't done, but the Fitzgerald episode is worth keeping in mind as it unfolds.

It may be that the jury will find Manafort guilty of something, but to date, the trial court judge, T.S. Ellis III of Virginia, is showing far less credulity about the prosecution's claims and granting them far less license than did Judge Reggie Walton Libby case or Judge Emmett G. Sullivan the Ted Stevens case. Indeed, Judge Sullivan later acknowledged that the FBI and Department of Justice had pulled the wool over his eyes and has become a leading force in the fight against prosecutorial overreach and ethical breaches.

The best account of this week's trial doings comes from Daniel Greenfield. 

He begins by noting that Paul Manafort is not the only high-profile lobbyist who did work for the Ukrainian pro-Russian faction. So did Tony Podesta, whose brother was liar-Hillary's campaign manager; commie-Bernie Sanders's chief strategist, Tad Devine; and liar-nObama's White House counsel Greg Craig. For those three, Mueller simply handed the matter over to Southern District of New York, where it has seemingly died.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson, an liar-nObama appointee and liar-Clinton donor, had been shepherding the Manafort case while giving the Mueller gang everything they wanted. And then there was Judge Beryl Howell, an liar-nObama nominee and dummycrats-Dem donor who was friends with Andrew Weissmann, the most aggressive figure on Mueller's team, who tore up Manafort's attorney-client privilege. ...

Unlike Judge Jackson and Judge Howell, Judge Ellis hasn't favored a side. Instead he he's [sic] refused to put up with any nonsense from either side.

The Mueller gang realized that the free ride was over when back in May when [sic] Judge Ellis directly called out the prosecution over its real motives in bringing the case.

"You don't really care about Mr. Manafort," he snapped.  "You really care about what information Mr. Manafort can give you to lead to Mr. Trump."

Judge Ellis wasn't happy at being used as a prop in a fake trial whose only purpose was to pressure Manafort into turning on Trump. Unlike the previous rubber stamp judges, Ellis showed little patience with Mueller's nasty habit of treating everything involving the case as top secret. He demanded to know the limits of Mueller's authority and a copy of the unredacted DOJ memo on which it was based.

He refused to allow the prosecution its usual poisoning of the well by parading at length through Manafort's closet and possessions. He cut them down when they used the term "oligarch" to further muddy the waters and tried to get expert testimony from a non-expert witness on definitions the parties had already agreed to before trial.

When the prosecution persisted in its tricks, he shouted at the prosecution and ended the court session early.

Judge T.S. Ellis, a Reagan appointee, became very irritated with Mueller's prosecutors Wednesday as they droned on an on [sic] over Manafort's lavish lifestyle and his expensive suits.

"It isn't a crime to have money and be profligate with your spending," Judge Ellis said to Mueller's hack lawyer, Asonye.

On Wednesday Mueller's lawyers took a beating from Judge Ellis after they went into detail about Manafort's spending habits, whining about his expensive suits and how he paid for them via wire transfer – as if that's somehow illegal.

At one point, Judge Ellis became so irritated with Mueller's thugs fixating on Manafort's spending habits, he interrupted the prosecutor and sternly said, "Let's move on. Enough is enough. They can add."

It looks like Mueller's lawyers fall apart when they're actually challenged by an ethical judge; they're also getting smacked around in a the [sic] junk Russian bot case by Concord Management's legal team because they aren't prepared to try that case.

Mueller's key witness in the case, Manafort associate Rick Gates, immunized by the special prosecutor, will be the key witness – not Manafort's tailors – and much of the outcome of the case will depend on whether the defense counsel can persuade the jury that his testimony is not credible.

In the meantime, more skull duggery at the FBI has turned up – with still no apparent effort at transparency by Attorney General Jeff Sessions or FBI director Christopher Wray. It turns out that even after the election and after the FBI knew that Steele had lied about press contacts, the FBI continued to seek reports from dossier fabulist Christopher Steele. 

Because he had broken his agreement with the FBI, bureau procedure did not allow agents to keep using Steele as a source.  But they did so anyway – by devising a system in which Steele spoke regularly with Bruce Ohr, a top liar-nObama Justice Department official whose wife worked for Fusion GPS, which hired Steele to search for dirt on Donald Trump in Russia. Ohr then passed on Steele's information to the FBI.

In a highly unusual arrangement, Ohr, who was the fourth-highest ranking official in the Justice Department, acted as an intermediary for a terminated source for the FBI's Trump-Russia probe.  His task was to deliver to the FBI what Steele told him, which effectively meant the bureau kept Steele as a source.

Agents made a record of each time Ohr gave the bureau information from Steele. Those records are in the form of so-called 302 reports, in which the FBI agents write up notes of interviews during an investigation.

There are a dozen 302 reports on FBI post-election interviews of Ohr. The first was Nov. 22, 2016. After that, the FBI interviewed Ohr on Dec. 5; Dec. 12; Dec. 20; Jan. 23, 2017; Jan. 25; Jan. 27; Feb. 6; Feb. 14; May 8; May 12; and May 15. The dates, previously unreported publicly, were included in a July letter from Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, to the FBI and Justice Department.

Congressional investigators have read the Ohr-Steele 302s. But the FBI has kept them under tight control, insisting they remain classified and limiting access to a few lawmakers and staff. Congress is not allowed to physically possess copies of any of the documents.

Like York, I think the people at the FBI had two reasons for maintaining the information flow from Steele. They were still looking to unseat the president, but as well, they were desperately trying to get any confirmation of the unverified charges in the dossier. After all, the FBI regulations prohibit using unverified information to obtain a FISA court warrant, and even after the election, the FBI's people had none.

They still don't.

And they are still covering up their malfeasance and protecting their own. It's time for Congress to seriously consider stripping counterintelligence from the FBI. Thomas Lipscomb reminds us that FDR added that to the bureau's portfolio to pacify J. Edgar Hoover, who was jealous of the reports of derring-do by OSS head Raymond Donovan. The FBI is ill equipped for this function and in any event has seditiously misused it. As for its skill in solving domestic crimes, the FBI announced on Friday it was closing down its investigation of the Las Vegas shooting massacre because it could not determine the shooter's motive.
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commie-Bernie Sanders Smitten
with Cuba’s Healthcare 
by Humberto Fontova
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Robert Mueller is Now
Implicated in Collusion and Soft Coup Attempt
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Interesting.  As previously said: the biggest takeaway from the documents today... showing the 2017 communication between Christopher Steele and Bruce Ohr, is the fact that Steele viewed Robert Mueller as part of the soft coup team. In this interview Rudy Giuliani goes further than ever before in calling out the nature of the DOJ/FBI investigation; and specifically outlining the Robert Mueller team as part of the larger conspiracy group to take-down President Donald Trump. According to Giuliani this information/evidence will surface over the next year to year-and-a-half, and will lead to a fundamental change in the institutions of the Department of Justice and FBI....
Israel and Trump's New Iran Sanctions 
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by Yochanan Visser
{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ While the Trump Administrations re-imposed sanctions on Iran, Israeli pundits and politicians expressed hope... that the new measures would ultimately lead to the downfall of the Islamic Republic. At the same time, they blasted the European Union for its continuing support for the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, the 2015 landmark nuclear deal with Iran. Israel Radio, for example, quoted an anonymous high-ranking official who claimed that the entire Israeli intelligence community was optimistic that Trump's new sanctions would bring Iran to its knees and would force it to renegotiate the nuclear agreement. “We would like to see a change in policy, but there is no way of knowing how long that will take,” the official said, adding that “the only hammer available right now is economic, and using that, there is a good chance Iran will fall to its knees.” In his estimation, Iran is “weak and hysterical.”...
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New STLDP options: Limited lifeboats, 
not luxury liners, for liar-nObamacare victims
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by Thomas P. Miller
{ aei.org } ~ Last week, the Trump administration’s Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) published its final rule... to revise regulations for Short-Term Limited-Duration (STLD) Plans in the non-group, private insurance market. It was one small step for some individuals, but far from one giant leap  ahead across the entire marketplace. The slam dunk part of the regulatory change involved restoring the longstanding rule that such plans would be defined as involving insurance policies whose initial period of coverage including renewals and extensions not at the option of the issuer lasts fewer than 12 full months i.e., even as long as 364 days, or perhaps 365 days during Leap Years!. At least since the 1996 Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), such insurance had been defined under federal law and in state regulatory practice as distinct from “individual insurance,” which is subject to a more restrictive set of federal rules and regulations, including those imposed by the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But in October 2016, the liar-nObama administration tried to lock the regulatory doors on potential individual exchange market customers who might want to stray and find more affordable coverage elsewhere without liar-nObamacare’s mandated benefits and regulatory burdens. It changed the rules and limited STLD coverage to a maximum period of three months, with no further opportunity to renew and extend it. The hope of liar-nObama administration regulators was that curbing the length of STLD options would reduce the competitive threat they posed to the ACA’s regulatory scheme for exchange-based individual insurance market coverage...
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Hamas Blackmail, Media Silence
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Hamas, the Palestinian Islamist group that rules the Gaza Strip, says it wants Israel and Egypt to keep the border crossings with its coastal territory open on a permanent basis... The message that Hamas has been relaying to Israel and Egypt has been along the lines of: If you seek a cease-fire, you must reopen, on a permanent basis, the Kerem Shalom commercial border crossing with Israel and the Rafah terminal along the border with Egypt. It is worth noting that the Kerem Shalom border crossing has been open for most of the time in the past few years, with Israel allowing the entry of goods and medical supplies into the Gaza Strip. Recently, Israel shut down the border crossing temporarily, but only after Palestinian rioters had set the terminal on fire at least twice in the previous weeks. Israel's decision temporarily to shut down the Kerem Shalom also came in response to hundreds of kite and balloon arson attacks launched from the Gaza Strip against Israel, and which have set fire to more than 30,000 dunams more than 7,400 acres of land in southern Israel. The Rafah border crossing with Egypt is a different story altogether. For the past few years, the Egyptian authorities have kept the terminal almost completely shut. Why? Because the Egyptians do not like Hamas in particular and the Palestinians in general. They see Hamas as an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood and suspect that the Gaza-based group has been involved with Islamist terror groups waging war on the Egyptian army in the Sinai Peninsula...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12808/hamas-corruption-media-silence 
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dummycrats-Dems excited about possibly electing first
Native American woman to Congress (no one tell Elizabeth dinky-Warren)
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{ legalinsurrection.com } ~ Sharice Davids just won the dummycrats-Democratic primary in the KS-03 District... She defeated the commie-Bernie-Ocasio-Cortez backed progressive candidate. She will face incumbent Republican Kevin Yoder in November. I normally wouldn’t take interest in the race, except that Sharice is a former student of mine. She did research for me and also took my course. We got along great, and I only have fond memories of her. It’s interesting to see Democrats celebrate the fact that Sharice is Native American. According to Salon, Kansas could elect first Native American woman to Congress...
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commie-Bernie Sanders Smitten
with Cuba’s Healthcare 
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by Humberto Fontova

{ townhall.com } ~ “It would be wrong not to state that in Cuba they have made some good advances in healthcare, they are sending doctors all over the world.…They have made some progress in education." commie-Bernie Sanders.

But why pick on dummycrats-Democrat commie-Bernie Sanders for swallowing and parroting a hoary KGB/DGI Cuba’s KGB-founded and mentored Directorio General de Inteligencia-concocted disinformation meme?

After all, this classic communist disinformation meme has become a mainstream dummycrats-Democrat/Fake News Media meme. 

And, after all, the KGB’s successor (FSB) also employs the   dummycrats-Democrats and their publicity arm the Fake News Media as eager disseminators of their current propaganda projects the Steele Dossier.

But in this column we’ll stick with the KGB-concocted anddummycrats-Democrat/Fake News Media- disseminated “Cuba’s free and fabulous healthcare” dossier.  

“The countries like Cuba or Canada or Russia or a lot of places in this world spend half what we spend per capita and they got better health outcomes than we do,” deputy chair of the dummycrats-Democratic National Committee Rep. scumbag-Keith Ellison.

“Castro brought superb systems of healthcare and education to his people.” Jimmy Carter, 2002.

“The United States recognizes the progress that Castro’s Cuba has made as a nation, its enormous achievements in education and in health care.” President Barack liar-nObama March, 2016.

Now over to the dummycrats-Democrat Party’s public relations subsidiaries:

 “One of Cuba's greatest prides is its health care system. PBS’s Ray Suarez reporting from Havana.

“Cuba could serve as 'a model for health care reform in the United States'” CNN’s Morgan Neil.

‘Castro has brought great healthcare to his country.” ABC’s Barbara Walters

Most alarmingly, dummycrats-Democrats seem to actually believe this KGB/DGI disinformation meme! Back in 2016 liar-nObama’s Department of Health and Human Services actually signed a healthcare cooperation deal with the Castro-regime because: “Cuba has made significant contributions to health and science.” 

Or so former HHS Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell said in an official statement. “This new collaboration is a historic opportunity for two nations to build on each other’s knowledge and experience, and benefit biomedical research and public health at large,” she added.

Tell that to Tuvalu, Ex-President liar-nObama and Secretary Mathews-Burwell. 

You see, amigos: Tuvalu is a group of Pacific islands big atolls, actually north of Fiji and east of New Guinea formerly belonging to Britain, when they were known as the “Ellice Islands.” Tuvalu is not known as a particularly advanced place scientifically-speaking — and yet its natives recently gasped while witnessing the medical practices of a place even more primitive in its medical practices: Cuba.

“Cuba’s contribution to medical education in the region has been welcomed by many Pacific countries,” according to a story at the time from Radio Australia. “But some are finding that doctors who’ve studied in Cuba need extra training when they return home.”

Back in 2008, Tuvalu fell for Castro-regime/United Nations/Fake News Media propaganda mantra about Cuba’s free and fabulous healthcare and eagerly sent 22 promising Tuvaluan students to medical school in Cuba. 

But upon their return with those Cuban “medical degrees”—whoops! Radio Australia explains the problem:

“The Tuvaluan government is concerned about their level of practical training …So the Education Department is planning to send the returning from Cuba Tuvalu doctors to Kiribati a nearby primitive island for a special internship, as the department’s pre-service training officer Atabi Ewekia explains.”

In brief, the incompetence of Cuba-trained doctors is such that they will be essentially “de-programmed” in a medical school where two generations ago medicine was probably the province of witch-doctors with bones through their noses. 

And had American voters not swept Donald Trump into office, the U.S. taxpayer would be paying for the Cuban trainers of those Cuban doctors who so desperately needed de-programming to share their “significant contributions to health and science” with U.S. health professionals and researchers! Whooo, amigos! That was close! 

But perhaps my mention of communist intelligence agencies involved in this meme-spreading strikes some of my amigos as unnecessarily “hyperbolic”—perhaps even a tad “McCarthyite?” 

“Have you no sense of decency, Mr Fontova? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” 

Objection sustained. Fine. Now let’s have a closer look at this issue: Among the Fake News Media’s “go-to-persons” on Cuban healthcare besides Michael Moore we find Gail Reed. Indeed, the Huffington Post proudly carries Reed as a contributor and reverentially quoted her on that mercifully cancelled liar-nObama HHS/Cuba cooperation deal: 

"This the liar-nObama HHS-Cuba deal is a win-win for Americans and Cubans!” gushed Reed in the Huffpo. “We’re now one step closer to a safer, healthier future for people in both countries!" The Huffpo describes their contributor Gail Reed as: “Founder of Medical Education Cooperation with Cuba, a US non-profit promoting cooperation among the US, Cuban and global health communities, where she is currently Research Director.”

In the way of a brief bio, CNN, another media fan of Gail Reed’s “impartial expertise,” hails their frequent contributor as “a Medical Expert!”

Over at MSNBC, Andrea Mitchell, who often interviews Gail Reed, describes her as: “international director of the nonprofit group Medical Education Cooperation.”

True, perhaps. But for the past 36 years Havana resident Gail Reed has also been married to an officer of Cuba’s KGB-founded-funded and mentored Directorio General de Inteligencia named Julian Torres Rizo. The partnership of this future Huffington Post, CNN, NBC and Business Week correspondent with Castro’s secret police began in 1969 when as a member of the DGI-created Venceremos Brigades, Reed began visiting Cuba alongside Bill Ayres’ concubine Bernadine Dohrn. 

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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Trump and Sulzberger on Media Bias 
by Cal Thomas
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Pulosi Voting For dummycrats-Dems
Gives Illegal Immigrants Leverage
{ rickwells.us } ~ House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi claimed on Wednesday that a vote for the dummycrats-Democratic Party in the coming midterm elections... would provide “leverage” to illegal immigrants in the immigration debate. She made those comments during a press conference held in El Paso, Texas, with immigrant-rights advocates and Veronica Escobar, the dummycrats-Democratic nominee in Texas’ 16th congressional district. The minority leader officially journeyed to the region in order to gauge the impact of policies instituted by the Trump administration to mitigate unlawful border crossings. While discussing her opposition to the president’s zero tolerance policy on illegal immigration, which has since been rescinded, Pulosi was asked how long migrants, both lawful and unlawful, would have to wait for Congress to act on comprehensive reform. The congresswoman asserted she didn’t “want to be political” in her response, before alleging reform would be impossible as long as the Republican Party remained in control of Congress. Because this is the right thing to do, I have confidence that we will get where we need to go,” she said. “But everything is about time and we want to shorten the distance, as your question indicated, between what we think is inevitable for America, they think is inconceivable.”... Pulosi is totally wrong on the issues.  https://rickwells.us/pelosi-democrats-illegal-leverage/
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Pompeo told North Korea to cut its
nuclear arsenal by 60 to 70 percent
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{ vox.com } ~ The Trump administration has presented North Korea with a formal timeline for starting the process of denuclearization... and Pyongyang has rejected it several times. It shows that even after months of talks, Washington and Pyongyang have made little progress toward ending the North Korean nuclear threat. The details of the US-proposed timeline, which have not previously been reported, are as follows: North Korea hands over 60 to 70 percent of its nuclear warheads within six to eight months; the US or a third party — likely another country — takes possession of them and removes them from North Korea. It’s unclear what concessions, if any, the US would offer in exchange beyond sanctions relief or removing North Korea from the state sponsors of terrorism list. According to two people familiar with the discussions, this is the plan that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has presented to North Korean negotiators multiple times over the past two months. But each time, the North Korean negotiators, led by Kim Yong Chol — a top aide to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un — have turned down Pompeo’s proposal. Further complicating matters, North Korea hasn’t yet disclosed to the United States exactly how many nuclear bombs it even has. So even if North Korean negotiators did agree to the US timeline and handed over what it says is 60 to 70 percent of its arsenal, it would be difficult to verify that...   https://www.vox.com/2018/8/8/17663746/pompeo-north-korea-nuclear-60-70 
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More Communication Between Chris Steele
and Bruce Ohr is “Leaked”?
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ There’s something about the construct of these releases that just doesn’t pass the proverbial sniff test... John Solomon – Sara Carter – and Byron York – each writing articles from what appears to be the same sourcing and reference framework; however, each being very opaque in describing their sourcing and context. The transparent lack of providing the sourcing context who is providing the information/documents and why are they providing it, for their seemingly coordinated articles has the historic hallmark of  controlled narrative distribution. I’ll come back to that…. for now, let’s look at the Solomon release where he provides the documents to support his authorship. The key takeaway within the 2017 communication between Bruce Ohr and Chris Steele, seemingly glossed over amid the granular presentation, is that Christopher Steele viewed Special Counsel Robert Mueller as part of the “small group team.”  The fact that Steele viewed Mueller as an extension of the Strzok, Comey, Page and McCabe objective is a rather big deal, yet generally not given much attention....
Anti-Semitism Soars on U.S. College Campuses 
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by Adam Kredo
{ freebeacon.com } ~ Anti-Semitic incidents on U.S. college campuses have continued to grow in 2018, with at least 384 recorded incidents in the first half of this year... according to a new report showing the number of genocidal expressions towards Jewish hit new highs on campuses across the United States. A new report by released Wednesday by pro-Israel organization the AMCHA Initiative, a group that tracks anti-Israel and anti-Semitic activity on college campuses, shows that much of the anti-Semitism on U.S. campuses is the result of activity by anti-Israel activists who promote imagery such as swastikas and tropes calling for the destruction of the Jewish people, according to the report. Genocidal expression, such as images and language promoting the killing of Jews and destruction of Israel, "rose dramatically" over the past years, with at least 75 percent of such incidents "involving classic anti-Semitism" and "genocidal expression," according to the report. The number of such incidents appear to have dropped slightly from 2017 to the first part of 2018, the report notes. Most notably, according to the report, "Israel-related incidents were significantly more likely to contribute to a hostile campus," the report found...This is really sad. Are we becoming Germany of the '30s. Our students are being brainwashed and that needs to change.
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Number of Illegal Border Crossers Falls
for Second Month in a Row  
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ The number of individuals apprehended trying to cross the border with Mexico fell for the second successive month in July... new data from U.S. Customs and Border Protection show. 31,303 individuals were apprehended trying to cross the border between ports of entry or at a port of entry without proper authorization. This is a decline from June, when 34,000 were apprehended. June, in turn, followed three straight months of more than 50,000 apprehensions. The July drop actually deviates from the trend over the past five years, which—with the exception of FY 2014—have consistently seen numbers of apprehensions remain roughly constant between June and July. This makes last month's decline distinct from the June one, which itself was basically in line with recent trends and likely driven by the changing seasons as much as anything...
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Trump and Sulzberger on Media Bias 
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by Cal Thomas

{ townhall.com } ~ Every president since George Washington has suffered from a critical press.

John F. Kennedy canceled all White House subscriptions to the New York Herald Tribune because of coverage he regarded as unfavorable. President liar-nObama, who was almost universally adored by mainstream media, sometimes complained he wasn't getting all the credit he thought he deserved for his policies; never mind that in many cases -- liar-nObamacare is just one example -- liberal media rarely criticized him when those policies faltered.

New York Times columnist David Brooks once remarked that he believed liar-nObama would be a great president simply because he observed during an interview with the then-senator that he had a fine crease in his pants. No bias there.

President Trump has taken media criticism to new heights or depths, depending on your perspective, calling any questioning or opposition to his policies "fake news" and labeling the press an "enemy of the people."

The publisher of The New York Times, A.G. Sulzberger, recently met with the president and told him his comments were encouraging dictators to persecute and suppress independent media coverage of their regimes and worse, putting American journalists at risk of physical harm. Sulzberger said the Times was forced to hire armed guards to protect employees.

Media bias has long been a complaint, especially among conservatives. Reporters and others in the media usually associate with like-minded members of their "tribe" and so either deliberately separate themselves from the majority of the nation in "flyover country," or oppose the values, faith and politics practiced by many. Generally they only read or watch each other's work. How do I know? A columnist for the Times once asked me if I am still writing this column. I read his but clearly he doesn't read mine, or probably most other conservatives'.

Examples of bias, whether in the way stories are covered, or ignored, are legion. One doesn't have to visit only conservative websites, such as the Media Research Center and its sister publication Newsbusters to find examples.

While columnists enjoy greater freedom than reporters to express their opinions, some have crossed a line of decency that has apparently been erased for the Trump administration.

Last Sunday, New York Times columnist Frank Bruni published a hateful piece on Vice President Mike Pence. Bruni called Pence "self-infatuated. Also a bigot. Also a liar. Also cruel. To that brimming potpourri he adds two ingredients that Trump doesn't genuinely possess: the conviction that he's on a mission from God and a determination to mold the entire nation in the shape of his own faith, a regressive, repressive version of Christianity. Trade Trump for Pence and you go from kleptocracy to theocracy."

I have known Pence for 30 years and he is none of these things. Besides, even if he could impose his sincere and consistently practiced faith on the nation -- which he can't and probably doesn't want to -- what have secular progressives imposed on the nation since the '60s?

In the meeting between the president and Sulzberger, there was no indication that the publisher of America's most influential newspaper feels the need to examine the charges of bias made against his reporters, editors and columnists, or why virtually all appear to favor liberal dummycrats-Democrats.

Journalism is unlike any other profession, because it is the only one that doesn't seem to care what its readers and viewers think. It is like a parent forcing a child to take bad-tasting medicine because "it is good for you."

This attitude has fueled declining TV ratings and, sadly, a drop in newspaper subscriptions, but apparently too many in the profession would rather criticize customers, or more accurately former customers, than change. That is bad for the profession and for the country, which needs strong journalism. Journalism that mostly promotes a single worldview and disparages all others is not journalism. It is propaganda.
https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2018/08/02/trump-and-sulzberger-on-media-bias-n2505863?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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Thurs/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
ACLU won't rest till every illegal gets in
by ANN COULTER
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Who Hired Stefan Halper?
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{ spectator.org } ~ Stefan Halper, the Cambridge University con man that the liar-nObama administration hired to brush up against the Trump campaign... is not a household name, thanks to the Fake News media, which refuses to cover Spygate honestly. Had this fraud, who enriched himself for years at taxpayer expense during the liar-nObama administration he pulled down hundreds of thousands of dollars for phony-as-hell research projects at the Department of Defense, spied on a dummycrats-Democratic presidential candidate at the direction of a Republican administration, he would have reporters staked out in front of his house 24/7. As it is, the “Walrus,” as the Brits nicknamed him, can probably waddle around his “Virginia farm” which was one of the places where he tried to entrap Carter Page without any trouble from pesky journalists. A few weeks ago, the media reported that the White House had ordered the FBI to disclose more information about Halper. Naturally, Justice Department officials are dragging their feet. So we still don’t know who hired Halper: Did scumbag/commie-John Brennan hire him? Or Peter Strzok? Did scumbag/commie-Brennan’s “working Langley group,” which had been meeting before the FBI investigation officially began in July 2016, discuss hiring Halper? Did scumbag/commie-Brennan’s gang get a recommendation from British intelligence to use Halper? We know from existing press accounts that Halper, who ran a forum for British spies at Cambridge University, had ties to many, if not all, of the sorry players in this London-to-Langley farce. We also know from those accounts that Halper had been spying on Michael Flynn since 2014, around the time Flynn had left defense intelligence in the liar-nObama administration and become persona non grata in the eyes of scumbag/commie-John Brennan for opposing his feeble approach to Islamic terrorism...   https://spectator.org/who-hired-stefan-halper/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=1c7e11c3b7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_08_08_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-1c7e11c3b7-104608113 
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Police Capture Illegal Posing with Daughter He Was Raping
{ rickwells.us } ~ U.S. officials have arrested an illegal alien for multiple counts of rape after he tried to gain entry to the United States... with a child he claimed was his daughter, a DHS official said in a Tuesday statement. A DHS official noted that the illegal alien, Ramon Pedro, arrived with a young girl he claimed was his daughter at the Ysleta Port of Entry in Texas in mid-April. After Pedro and his claimed daughter was hospitalized for tuberculosis testing in July, U.S. authorities discovered she was not only not related to him in any way but was being systematically sexually abused by him. “In fact, the victim’s mother told her daughter to accompany Pedro to the United States and he would secure her employment,” a DHS official said, adding that “on July 27, 2018, the Huron Police Department arrested him for multiple felony offenses for rape, oral copulation, forcible sexual penetration and endangering/causing injury to a child. He is currently detained in Fresno County Jail on a $310,000 bond.”...  https://rickwells.us/capture-illegal-daughter-rape/
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EU Unable to Neutralize US Sanctions against Iran
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The European Union has announced a new regulation aimed at shielding European companies from the impact of US sanctions on Iran... The measure, which has been greeted with skepticism by the European business media, is unlikely to succeed: it expects European companies to risk their business interests in the US market for interests in the much smaller Iranian market. The so-called "Blocking Statute" entered into effect on August 7, the same day that the first round of US sanctions on Iran officially snapped back into place. Those sanctions target Iran's purchases of US dollars — the main currency for international financial transactions and oil purchases — as well as the auto, civil aviation, coal, industrial software and metals sectors. A second, much stronger round of sanctions targeting Iran's oil exports, takes effect on November 5. The action follows up on President Donald J. Trump's decision on May 8 to withdraw from the 2015 Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action JCPOA, also known as the Iran Nuclear Deal negotiated by the liar-nObama administration, which lifted sanctions on Iran in exchange for a freeze on its nuclear program. The Trump administration  said that the deal negotiated by the liar-nObama administration did not go far enough to curtail Iran's nuclear weapons program, or its ballistic missile program, or its malign behavior in the Middle East and elsewhere...
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Trump imposes chemical weapons sanctions on Russia
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump is imposing new sanctions on Russia in response to the use of a chemical weapon in an assassination attempt... that took place on British soil, the State Department announced Wednesday. “The United States, on Aug. 6, 2018, determined under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (CBW Act) that the Government of the Russian Federation has used chemical or biological weapons in violation of international law or has used lethal chemical or biological weapons against its own nationals,” State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in an afternoon bulletin. Trump’s decision restricts Russia's access to U.S. government financing and foreign aid, and bans the export of national security technology to Russia. The decision sets the table for a more aggressive round of sanctions in November, including moves to desire Russia of international financing and to downgrade diplomatic relations. “These goods are currently subject to a case-by-case license determination,” a senior State Department official told reporters Wednesday. “When these sanctions go into effect, we will be presumptively denying these applications.”...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense-national-security/trump-imposes-chemical-weapons-sanctions-on-russia?utm_source=WEX_Breaking%20News%20Alert_08/08/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_Breaking%20News 
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Trump's lawyers counter-offer Mueller's
request for interview, demand quick end to probe 
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{ washingtontimes.com } ~ President Trump’s attorneys sent their written counter-offer Wednesday to special counsel Robert Mueller on a potential interview... of the president and urged him to wrap up his probe quickly. “We have responded in writing to the latest proposal from the Office of Special Counsel regarding its request to interview the president,” said attorney Jay Sekulow. “It is not appropriate at this time to comment publicly about the content of that response.” The New York Times, citing people familiar with the matter, said Mr. Trump’s lawyers rejected the special counsel’s latest terms for an interview in the Russia investigation, instead offering a narrow path for answering questions. Trump lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani said in a statement, “Millions of pages of documents, along with testimony from dozens of witnesses, have been provided. We are restating what we have been saying for months. It is time for the Office of Special Counsel to conclude its inquiry without further delay.”...
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ACLU won't rest till every illegal gets in
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by ANN COULTER

{ wnd.com } ~ After all the wailing about the children streaming across our wide-open, wall-less border, there was very little media interest in the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday on this very subject. Knowing facts could interfere with their showboating displays of compassion.

Among the facts journalists might have learned is that, although the Constitution technically gives Congress the power to write laws, it turns out our immigration laws are written by the ACLU.

The children clamoring across our border can’t be held for more than 20 days. This isn’t because Congress, after hearings, debate and negotiation, passed a law. The 20-day rule was the ACLU’s innovation.

The Alien Civil Liberties Union brought endless lawsuits, resulting in a 1997 “settlement agreement” between two parties who appeared to be opposed, but were actually on the same side: the pro-open borders Janet Reno Justice Department versus the pro-open borders ACLU. No, no – not the briar patch, ACLU! Anything but that!

The 20-day limit is unfortunate because, from capture to final order, an immigration proceeding takes 30 to 40 days. Illegals who are detained at the border cost the taxpayers $1,600 to remove. By contrast, releasing illegals, even under the much-celebrated “alternatives to detention” ankle monitors and “community supervision”, costs U.S. taxpayers $75,000 per removal – and most of them don’t ever get removed. By some estimates, 90 percent don’t even show up for their hearings.

The biggest spike in illegal border crossings came after Dolly Gee, an liar-nObama-appointed federal district court judge in California, announced in 2015 that not only “children,” but also any adults traveling with them, had to be released into our country after 20 days.

I wonder if Judge Gee’s order created any sort of incentive. Drag some unfortunate child across thousands of miles of desert and … YOU WIN! You’re in and will most likely never be caught and deported. Arrive alone and you will be detained and probably removed after 30 days.

How insane was that ruling? It was too much even for the 9th Circuit, which ruled that the free pass applies only to “the children.” Child defined as “anyone who claims to be under 18 years old.” Drug dealers, coyotes and scam artists would have to wait for Rachel Maddow to cry about SEPARATING FAMILIES! for their free passes.

If the kids can’t be held for longer than 20 days and the parents can’t be separated from their alleged children, then the only option is to release both adults and children into the U.S. As Matthew Albence, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) official, said, Judge Gee effectively imposed “catch and release” on the entire country.

Members of Congress pass laws to stop child trafficking – and then the ACLU comes in and creates a gigantic incentive to engage in child trafficking.

The parents are so broken up about being separated from “their” children that hundreds of them have gone home without them. Reams of articles hysterically claimed that the evil Trump administration tricked these super-involved parents into signing forms they couldn’t understand!

– “Migrant parents were misled into waiving rights to family reunification, ACLU tells court” – Washington Post, July 26, 2018

– “Immigrant Parents Unwittingly Signed Away Right to Reunite With Children, Lawyers Say” – Huffington Post, July 25, 2018

– “‘Why Did You Leave Me?’ The Migrant Children Left Behind as Parents Are Deported” – New York Times, July 27, 2018

Nowhere will you read that the form the parents signed was written by the ACLU.

Liberals don’t care about kids. They want to wreck our country.

More than 700,000 illegals who were caught sneaking into our country – not the 40 million we didn’t catch – are now living here free. Really free: free health care, free housing, free food. Last year, with a force less than half the size of the New York City Police Department, ICE removed more than 100,000 illegal aliens with criminal convictions.

At $75,000 per removal and assuming 80 percent are ordered removed, it will cost taxpayers approximately $42 billion to remove the 700,000 illegals the ACLU made us release – forget the ones we never caught in the first place. That’s just procedural costs – not the costs in welfare, schooling, vaccinations, dental care, drunk driving accidents, MS-13 violence and the ongoing heroin epidemic.

How much would that wall cost, again?
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Trump Sabotaged by His Own Lawyer 
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
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Agent Violates Many Federal Regulations,
Escapes DOJ Prosecution 
{ rickwells.us } ~ The Department of Justice says it will not prosecute an FBI special agent after an investigation determined that the agent...  violated several standards of FBI policy and conduct, including lying to the bureau and with holding “information related to a state criminal investigation from a local police department.” The dense, one-page release by the FBI Office of the Inspector General did not name the special agent, but the report itemized at least eight significant violations. Many of the allegations substantiated by the OIG investigation dealt with the agent’s interactions with a confidential human source (CHS). The OIG investigation substantiated the allegations that the special agent received gifts, including money and items of value from the CHS, in violation of federal regulations regarding standards of conduct for federal employees and FBI policy. The OIG further found that the SA: continued to use the CHS after the CHS had been deactivated by the FBI; protected the CHS and the CHS’s illegal business; misused FBI assets for personal gain; and committed computer security violations, all in violation of federal regulations and FBI policy. The OIG also found that the SA improperly withheld information related to a state criminal investigation from a local police department, and provided false information to the police department regarding the CHS’s status as an FBI CHS, which actions were wholly inconsistent with the SA’s obligations as a federal law enforcement officer. The OIG also found that the SA lacked candor with the FBI and the OIG, in violation of FBI policy...   https://rickwells.us/fbi-agent-escapes-prosecution/
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The Latest Disgusting Anti-Cop Move By Black Lives Matter
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{ lidblog.com } ~ The thugs of Black Lives Matter crashed the wedding of a Sacramento, California, African-American policeman... and paraded about calling him a murderer in front of his friends and family. The police officer Terrence Mercadal, whose wedding was destroyed by the protesters has been named by BLM as being involved in the shooting of Stephon Clark, but the Sacramento Police  Department has not named him. Clark, 22, died on March 18 after being shot by a police officer who responded to a call about someone breaking into cars. Police arrived at the scene and said they believed Clark was the suspect. Clark ran when a police helicopter responded, then failed to obey officers’ orders. Police officers said they thought Clark was holding a gun when he moved toward them, but he was found holding only a cellphone...  https://lidblog.com/black-lives-matter/ 
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The DNC Leaks and Crossfire Hurricane: A Timeline
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ The media's and the dumycrats-Democratic Party's obsession with the Trump-Russia conspiracy theory originates from events of April-June 2016... Media operations by the dumycrats-Democratic Party and its media echo chamber have distorted not only the information about the relevant events, but even the background political picture of April 2016. The dumycrats-DNC and liar-Hillary constructed a conspiracy theory in which Putin ordered the hacking of the dumycrats-DNC network and subsequent mass distribution of the exfiltrated documents to help Trump beat liar-Hillary. Such actions were against Russian interests and very unusual for Russian intelligence.  Driven by their conspiracy theory, liar-Hillary indulged in anti-Russian rhetoric, and the liar-nObama administration drove relations with Russia to the worst point in the last 40 years. Since the elections, the dumycrats-Democrats, the hard left, and the institutions owned by them have been pushing Trump to aggravate the conflict, started by liar-nObama and liar-Hillary.  But let's proceed in chronological order...
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dummycrats-Democrats' New Anti-Kavanaugh
Smear Strategy: Guilt By Association 
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{ townhall.com } ~ They've got nothing of substance on him, and they know it -- so we now appear to be entering another round of impotent foot-stomping in the Kavanaugh confirmation drama... Having failed to find any coherent line of argument against Kavanaugh's qualifications for the position, and after test-driving some school yard taunts and shouting about  complicity in "evil" or whatever, the Left is moving on to a furrowed-brow fishing expedition over Kavanaugh's ties to a judge on a different circuit court of appeals who retired amid allegations of sexual harassment. Unless they're engaged in an elaborate head fake and have some heretofore unseen bombshell to drop during the confirmation hearings, Senate dummycrats-Democrats look like they're resorting to exceptionally thin gruel with this: Senate dummycrats-Democrats are gearing up to press Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh on his decades-long relationship with former Judge Alex Kozinski, who was forced into retirement last year by a mounting sexual harassment scandal. It’s not just what, if anything, Kavanaugh saw during his time as a Kozinski clerk in the early 1990s that’s on dummycrats- Democratic minds. They also want to know how President Donald Trump’s high court pick would address the judiciary’s ongoing internal reckoning with sexual misconduct that was sparked by Kozinski — one of Kavanaugh’s early mentors who introduced the younger appellate court judge at his Senate confirmation hearing in 2006...
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Paul Manafort's lawyers hit Rick Gates
for stealing, leading 'secret life'
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Lawyers for Paul Manafort took aim at his former business partner Rick Gates on Tuesday... painting Gates as a liar who stole money from his former boss and forcing him to acknowledge publicly he had an extramarital affair roughly 10 years ago. After facing several hours of questioning from prosecutor Greg Andres, Gates, considered to be the star witness, underwent cross-examination from Manafort’s defense lawyer, Kevin Downing, who questioned why the jury of six men and six women should take his word in detailing Manafort’s alleged criminal activity. Downing announced to the courtroom there was “another Richard Gates, isn't that right?" “A secret Richard Gates?” he continued. The line of questioning prompted Gates to admit to having “another relationship” roughly a decade ago. During the extramarital affair, Gates said he had an apartment in London he used for trysts and traveled during the course of the relationship. The revelation was one of several made during the course of Gates’ testimony, during which he has admitted to falsifying documents to help Manafort secure bank loans, stealing money from Manafort, and committing other crimes with his former business associate...
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Trump Sabotaged by His Own Lawyer 
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by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano

{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ In the past week, former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, now the chief lawyer and principal spokesman for President Donald Trump's legal team, has offered arguments more harmful to Trump than helpful.

In a series of combative, disjointed and logically challenged television rants, Giuliani has essentially argued that Trump did not engage in any conspiracy with the Russians for them to provide help to his campaign and that even if he did, it wasn't criminal.

In making this argument, Giuliani has played a word game in which he has effectively created a straw man and then denied it's real because it's made of straw. He has done this by avoiding the use of the word "conspiracy," substituting the word "collusion" and then arguing that there is no crime of collusion and therefore Trump did not commit a crime. This is an argument based on a false premise.

Here is the back story.

When the FBI received word from a former British intelligence source in June 2016 that Russian intelligence agents might be providing assistance to the Trump campaign, it began an investigation of the campaign. After the British source gave the FBI a dossier that alleged salacious behavior by Trump in Moscow in 2013 — behavior he has denied — and purported to corroborate awareness of the behavior by Russian government officials, the FBI used the dossier as part of a presentation to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, which authorized surveillance of the Trump campaign.

Because one of the Trump campaign officials under surveillance, Jeff Sessions, became the attorney general in January 2017, he recused himself from the investigation, and the Department of Justice appointed former FBI Director Robert Mueller special counsel to head the investigation independent of the attorney general.

Mueller discovered dozens of contacts between the Trump campaign and Russians, many of them Russian intelligence agents. Mueller's grand juries have indicted over two dozen Russians, some Russian intelligence officials, for interfering with the 2016 presidential campaign, and President Trump imposed heavy financial sanctions on many of them.

Mueller also discovered the existence of a June 2016 meeting in Trump Tower in New York between high-ranking campaign officials and Russian agents. When The New York Times revealed the meeting a year after it took place, the Trump folks claimed that the meeting was about the difficulties Americans were having adopting Russian children. Then emails emerged showing an offer to Donald Trump Jr. by a Russian agent to meet and provide help to the campaign in the form of dirt on liar-Hillary Clinton. This was dirt allegedly obtained by hacking into her campaign's computers. This was an offer that Don Jr. accepted.

The president has denied any knowledge of this meeting until it emerged publicly in July 2017, and Don Jr. has testified under oath before Congress that his father did not know of the meeting until the media revealed it. But last week, Michael Cohen, a lawyer who represented Trump for the 10 years preceding his inauguration and whose office was three doors down a hall from Trump's, told Mueller and the media that Trump knew of the meeting beforehand and encouraged his campaign folks, including Don Jr., to make it happen.

Is any of this unlawful? That question brings us back to Giuliani.

In Giuliani's zeal to represent his client, he has unleashed vitriolic verbal attacks on the credibility, morality and ethics of Cohen, using words and innuendo too lurid to recount here. Yet the ferocity of Giuliani's attacks is now a problem for Trump. That's because the rules of legal ethics prohibit lawyers from attacking the credibility of likely witnesses against their clients outside the courtroom. This is especially so for government witnesses.

Government witnesses meet with prosecutors and testify before grand juries in secret. When defense counsel attacks those witnesses in public, the government often views that as witness tampering — behavior that gives witnesses pause before testifying by freighting or threatening them. When defense counsel did that to government witnesses in cases that a young Rudy Giuliani prosecuted, he persuaded judges to remove those lawyers from the cases. That is the danger that confronts Giuliani and Trump now.

If Mueller has enough ammo all of it from Giuliani's mouth to persuade a federal judge to bar Giuliani from continuing to represent Trump — and it appears he does — whoever replaces Giuliani will need to review and understand more than 1.4 million documents that the White House and the Trump campaign have surrendered to Mueller. That will be an enormous burden and a major financial, political and legal setback for Trump.

The case Mueller is investigating is not about collusion. Collusion is a Hollywood and a media word. The case is about conspiracy — and Giuliani knows this. A conspiracy is an agreement to commit a crime as a result of which at least one of those who agreed took at least one material step in furtherance of the agreement. Stated differently, Mueller is investigating an alleged agreement between Russian intelligence agents and Trump campaign officials for the Russians to provide dirt on liar-Clinton to the campaign. The dirt need not have arrived — and whatever may have arrived need not have been dirt — for the crime of conspiracy to have taken place, because the essence of conspiracy is an agreement, whether consummated or not.

In one of his more bizarre rants on Fox News Channel early this week, Giuliani said there may have been a meeting at Trump Tower to plan the meeting with the Russians. Why would he reveal this? Because Mueller knows it and will reveal it. And both know that such a meeting would be the beginning of an agreement, as well as a material step in furtherance of it.

Sometimes even famous lawyers do more harm than good to their clients.
 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0818/napolitano080218.php3
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