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TheFrontPageCover
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The dummycrats-Democrats' 
Socialist Meltdown 
by Michael Reagan
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The Strzok Hearing Shows How Deeply Corrupt DC 
Has Become – Defiance And Chaos Rule The Floor 
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by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
{ trevorloudon.com } ~ I watched parts of the Strzok hearing today and it ticked me off. I was so angry, I couldn’t even write on it... I’ve calmed down a bit now and I wanted to give you an update on today’s treasonous activities. The dummycrats-Democrats actually applauded Strzok’s obstruction today. The first thing I saw this morning after Denise Simon kindly pointed it out, was Rep. scumbag-Elijah Cummings (D-MD) highlighting the number of guilty pleas and indictments secured by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. As he spoke, dummycrats- Democratic staffers then held up five large posters showing the three Trump campaign officials – including Michael Flynn and Rick Gates – and two campaign associates who have pleaded guilty to charges in the special counsel’s probe. House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-VA) interrupted scumbag-Cummings and questioned if the posters were appropriate. But unfortunately, the Republicans could not cite a rule disallowing the disgraceful display, so it was allowed...   http://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/07/the-strzok-hearing-shows-how-deeply-corrupt-dc-has-become-defiance-and-chaos-rule-the-floor/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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Why is Mueller probe still ongoing with corruption?
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{ judicialwatch.org } ~ Additional emails and texts between FBI lovebirds Peter Strzok and Lisa Page were released during an explosive House hearing... Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wonders how the Mueller investigation can still be going on.  I also wonder the same.
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The Muslim Brotherhood’s Global Threat 
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{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ The Muslim Brotherhood is often correctly described as a gateway to extremism and jihadism... Its ideology is xenophobic, bigoted, and totalitarian. And although its various branches all seek to promote this ideology, they differ in terms of their preferred tactics. Specifically, some of its branches are violent and some are not. This, in short, is the challenge in targeting the entire Brotherhood under the current system. But my testimony will also explain that there are still opportunities for designating some of the worst factions of the Brotherhood. In addition to being less controversial, such a piecemeal approach is more suitable to the current U.S. system. I will suggest some possible targets in my testimony today. Finally, I will argue today that if U.S. policymakers truly wish to undermine the global reach of the Muslim Brotherhood, it must take a hard look at the group’s state sponsors. Qatar and Turkey, often referred to as U.S. allies, are the primary state backers today of the Brotherhood. Congress must craft thoughtful policies on how to deter this support...
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Peter Strzok, A Cocky Liar to the End
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{ spectator.org } ~ The Peter Strzok hearing was a travesty, starting with the fact that he testified as a cocooned, lawyered-up government employee still working for the FBI... It is outrageous that he hasn’t been fired yet. He even still has a security clearance! That alone is proof of the deep state’s hold on certain executive branch agencies. If the FBI keeps its so-so employees close, it keeps its worst employees even closer. That Strzok could huddle with FBI lawyers while stonewalling a Republican-led committee speaks to the corruption of official Washington and the comparative impotence of Republican administrations. Does anybody think an FBI agent who had vowed to “stop” the candidacy of Barack liar-nObama would have lasted a week at his job, let alone over a year, after the discovery of his bias? The cockiness of Strzok at Thursday’s hearing is a reflection of the immunity that ruling-class mandarins enjoy in liberal Washington. He was testifying from the safety of the deep state and thus knew that he could lie his head off without consequence. How else to explain his unrepentant opening statement, with its blatant anti-Trump special pleading? The statement sounded like it had been written by Rachel Maddow, resting on the lamest and hackiest of MSNBC-style talking points, that “today’s hearing is just another victory notch in Putin’s belt and another milestone in our enemies’ campaign to tear America apart.” Whatever credibility Strzok as an FBI agent still possessed vanished with that partisan cant, and he spent much of the hearing tossing out similarly hackish anti-Trump gibes designed to win the applause of the ruling class. He couldn’t remember his “we-will-stop”-Trump-from-winning text, though he could remember its noble meaning — that righteous Americans would stop a candidate like Trump who evinced “disgusting behavior.”...   https://spectator.org/peter-strzok-a-cocky-liar-to-the-end/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=eed3413e3d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_13_07_42&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-eed3413e3d-104608113 
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The Relentless Radicalization of Sweden
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ A new study of Salafism in Sweden, conducted by the Swedish Defence University... paints a bleak picture of the ongoing radicalization of Muslims in Sweden. The Salaf are the "pious ancestors" during the first three generations of the followers of Mohammed; its ideology has come to be associated over the last few decades with al-Qaeda and ISIS, as well as with local al-Qaeda affiliates. According to the study, Salafists, who believe in Islam as Mohammed's early followers practiced it, tend to reject Western society in favor of a "pure" Islam: "Not all Salafists are jihadists, but all jihadists are Salafists". Although the study does not give an estimate of how many Salafists are in Sweden, it does describe how Salafist milieus there have evolved and grown stronger, especially during the past decade, and lists several examples of the influence they wield in different Swedish cities and localities...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12693/sweden-radicalization-muslims 
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The dummycrats-Democrats' 
Socialist Meltdown 
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by Michael Reagan

{ townhall.com } ~ What a great July 4.

The skies over America the Beautiful were filled with fireworks, and the Twittersphere was filled with three dummycrats-Democratic senators blowing themselves up.

My U.S. Senator Kamal Harris, Massachusetts's Elizabeth dinky-Warren and New York's Kirsten Gillibrand spent their holiday week attacking President Trump in speeches and tweets.

It was rough stuff from three lefties who think they're going to be the next president and apparently think that tweeting like Trump is going to make their delusion come true.

Sen. Harris of California warned her followers that Trump is planning to nominate someone who'll overturn Roe v. Wade because she's certain he wants to punish women "for wanting to control their bodies, their lives, and their futures."

Sen. dinky-Warren tweeted to her followers and fellow Native Americans that Trump's short list of Supreme Court nominees "was hand-picked by right-wing extremists who want to criminalize abortions."

And Sen. Gillibrand echoed socialist commie-Bernie Sanders, hitting the president for strictly enforcing immigration laws that separated illegal immigrants from their children at the Mexican border.

No word on what CNN pundit-in-training Stormy Daniels tweeted, probably because she's still touring the senior strip-club circuit.

The dummycrats-Democrats are in deep trouble and they know it. As Trump is only getting stronger, wilier and more popular, dummycrats-Democrats only get more desperate and stupid.

When Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy announced his retirement last week, the thought of President Trump naming his successor sent dummycrats-Democrats into a complete meltdown.

The mental state of the typical diehard dummycrats-Democrat or MSNBC host is now somewhere between terrified and my congresswoman scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters.

Somehow the bosses of the desperate dummycrats-Democratic Party have concluded that the only way they're going to capture the House this fall and take the White House away from President Trump in 2020 is to out commie-Bernie Bernie.

Good luck with that plan in Texas, Florida and Pennsylvania, comrades.

But I'm a kinder and gentler Republican. I like to help the less fortunate when I can.

I'd like to offer the dummycrats-Democratic leadership a free TV or radio spot to help them.

It's not perfect, and it hasn't been cleared yet by the Russians. But maybe they can use it in their fall media campaign.

Here goes:

"IF YOU WANT TO SEE TRUMP IMPEACHED, VOTE FOR US ON NOVEMBER 6.

"IF YOU WANT NANCY PULOSI IN CHARGE OF THE HOUSE AGAIN, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT SOCIALISM FOR AMERICA LIKE THEY JUST VOTED FOR IN NEW YORK, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT TO ELIMINATE BORDER PROTECTION, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT A WEAK MILITARY, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU DON'T LIKE YOUR FEDERAL INCOME TAX CUT, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT MORE ABORTIONS, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU WANT TO TURN THE USA INTO CALIFORNIA, VOTE FOR US.

"IF YOU DON'T LIKE AMERICA'S OIL AND GAS BOOM, VOTE FOR US."

I'll leave a dozen other easy examples for desperatedummycrats-Democrats to think up. It'll be easy for them, now that they've dropped their masks and are showing us their true socialist faces.

Maybe they can get help from Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the socialist from the Bronx who knocked off 10-term incumbent House member Joe Crowley in a dummycrats-Democrat primary last week.

She's only 28, but I hear some people think she's the future of the dummycrats-Democratic Party.

If that's true, that's good news for Republicans. The only thing we'll have to worry about now is who we should pick to succeed President Trump in 2024.
 
https://townhall.com/columnists/michaelreagan/2018/07/07/the-democrats-socialist-meltdown-n2497857?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Sat/Med - AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Memos detail FBI’s ‘Hurry the F up 
pressure’ to probe Trump campaign
by John Solomon
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Judge Jeanine Pirro Drops Gavel On Biased Russia ‘Witch Hunt’
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro sat down with The Daily Caller for an exclusive interview about her upcoming book... and the bias in the investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election. “This is one of the darkest moments in American history in terms of politics,” Pirro told TheDC. “These are people who try to do what they do in third world countries, which is depose a duly-elected leader, and it shouldn’t happen. It’s not going to happen because the American people are too smart.” “They see through the mainstream media and now, at least we live in a great country where we can take the veil down and let them see, as I do in my book, what is happening in Washington,” she said. “I am very dismayed at what we are seeing.”
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Peter Strzok’s Biggest Problem Is Peter Strzok’s Text Messages 
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{ lifezette.com } ~ Over and over again during Thursday’s combative hearing... former FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok argued that his repeated crude and bitterly critical cell-phone comments to his bureau colleague and mistress, lawyer Lisa Page, were meaningless. “I can tell you that those text messages are not indicative of bias,” Strzok said many dozens of times, referring to the communications between himself and Page. Repeatedly, Strzok also insisted that a recent Department of Justice inspector general’s report concluded his personal biases had no influence on any decisions made by the FBI in its investigations of former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server to do official business and allegations that 2016 campaign aides to President Donald Trump colluded with Russian interests. Just as often, Republicans at the joint hearing of the House Judiciary Committee and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee either read verbatim statements by Strzok from his messages — or required the embattled FBI agent to read his statements aloud...
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Trump pressured to cancel 
Putin meeting after new Russia indictments
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump is facing mounting pressure to confront Vladimir Putin during their bilateral summit next week about Russia’s cyberattacks during the 2016 election... following a series of indictments on Friday that accused Russian intelligence officers of hacking the emails of dummycrats-Democratic operatives to interfere with the U.S. presidential race. The latest charges against 12 Russian nationals, which Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein announced as Trump was midway through a visit to Windsor Castle on Friday, prompted bipartisan calls from lawmakers for the president to cancel his meeting with Putin or hold the Russian leader accountable in some fashion during their first one-on-one meeting. Sen. rino-John McCain, R-Ariz., led Republican opposition to the meeting, saying the indictments complemented a body of evidence confirming an extensive plot by Russia to "sow chaos and dissention among the American electorate, and undermine faith in our democracy." “And despite repeated warnings from our nation’s top intelligence and military leaders, the Kremlin's efforts to weaken our institutions have continued unabated with insufficient action taken by the administration or Congress to strengthen our cyber defenses, safeguard our election systems, and deter further destabilizing activities," rino-McCain, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said in a statement...
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dummycrats-Dems Will Get to Vote to 
Abolish All Immigration Enforcement Before Midterms 
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{ breitbart.com } ~ GOP House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy says the dummycrats-Democrats will get to vote to abolish... all interior immigration enforcement before the 2018 midterm elections. As Breitbart News reported, House dummycrats-Democrats have crafted legislation that would abolish the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agency — the sole law enforcement unit tasked with arresting and deporting criminal illegal aliens. If dummycrats-Democrats had their way and ICE had been abolished five years ago, back in 2013, there would have been at least 1.64 million illegal aliens — many of whom are convicted criminals — released into U.S. neighborhoods and communities rather than being deported, as Breitbart News reported...
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liar-nObama Returns to Boost scumbag-Eric Holder-
Led Group Targeting Republicans in 12 States 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Former president Barack liar-nObama, who has maintained a low profile since leaving the White House... reemerged in a new video to garner support for a redistricting group led by former attorney general scumbag-Eric Holder that is targeting Republican politicians in a dozen states across the country. The National dummycrats-Democratic Redistricting Committee (NDRC), a group headquartered in Washington, D.C., and chaired by scumbag-Holder, emailed the video out on Wednesday. The NDRC seeks to enact a "comprehensive" strategy to impact the 2021 redistricting process by using electoral, legal, and ballot initiative components. "In America, politicians shouldn't pick their voters. Voters are supposed to pick their politicians," liar-nObama says in the video. "That's why I supported former attorney general scumbag-Eric Holder in starting the National dummycrats-Democratic Redistricting Committee." The group argues that Republican-controlled legislatures have locked in "structural advantages" that would determine future elections...Boy, are they really scared.
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Memos detail FBI’s ‘Hurry the F up 
pressure’ to probe Trump campaign
by John Solomon


{ thehill.com } ~ Multiple reviews of whether FBI agents’ political bias affected the Russia-Trump collusion case remain in their infancy, but investigators already have unearthed troubling internal communications long withheld from public view.

We already know from FBI counterintelligence agent Peter Strzok’s now-infamous text messages with his fellow agent and reported lover, Lisa Page, that Strzok — the man driving that Russia collusion investigation — disdained Donald Trump and expressed willingness to use his law enforcement powers to “stop” the Republican from becoming president.

The question that lingers, unanswered: Did those sentiments affect official actions?

Memos the FBI is now producing to the Department of Justice (DOJ) inspector general and multiple Senate and House committees offer what sources involved in the production, review or investigation describe to me as “damning” or “troubling” evidence.

They show Strzok and his counterintelligence team rushing in the fall of 2016 to find “derogatory” information from informants or a “pretext” to accelerate the probe and get a surveillance warrant on figures tied to the future president.

One of those figures was Carter Page, an academic and an energy consultant from New York; he was briefly a volunteer foreign policy adviser for the GOP nominee’s campaign and visited Moscow the summer before the election.

The memos show Strzok, Lisa Page and others in counterintelligence monitored news articles in September 2016 that quoted a law enforcement source as saying the FBI was investigating Carter Page’s travel to Moscow.

The FBI team pounced on what it saw as an opportunity as soon as Page wrote a letter to then-FBI Director James Comey complaining about the “completely false” leak.

“At a minimum, the letter provides us a pretext to interview,” Strzok wrote to Lisa Page on Sept. 26, 2016.

Within weeks, that “pretext” — often a synonym for an excuse — had been upsized to a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) court warrant, giving the FBI the ability to use some of its most awesome powers to monitor Carter Page and his activities.

To date, the former Trump adviser has been accused of no wrongdoing despite being subjected to nearly a year of surveillance.

Some internal memos detail the pressure being applied by the FBI to DOJ prosecutors to get the warrant on Carter Page buttoned up before Election Day.

In one email exchange with the subject line “Crossfire FISA,” Strzok and Lisa Page discussed talking points to get then-FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to persuade a high-ranking DOJ official to sign off on the warrant.

“Crossfire Hurricane” was one of the code names for four separate investigations the FBI conducted related to Russia matters in the 2016 election.

“At a minimum, that keeps the hurry the F up pressure on him,” Strzok emailed Page on Oct. 14, 2016, less than four weeks before Election Day.

Four days later the same team was emailing about rushing to get approval for another FISA warrant for another Russia-related investigation code-named “Dragon.”

“Still an expedite?” one of the emails beckoned, as the FBI tried to meet the requirements of a process known as a Woods review before a FISA warrant can be approved by the courts.

“Any idea what time he can have it woods-ed by?” Strzok asked Page. “I know it’s not going to matter because DOJ is going to take the time DOJ wants to take. I just don’t want this waiting on us at all.”

Until all the interviews are completed by Congress and DOJ’s inspector general later this year, we won’t know why counterintelligence agents who normally take a methodical approach to investigation felt so much pressure days before the election on this case.

Were they concerned about losing a chance to gather evidence at a critical moment? Or maybe, as some Republicans long have suspected, they wanted to impact the election?

The agents got the Carter Page warrant in October and, within two weeks, Democrats in Congress such as then-Sen. Harry dinky-Reid (Nev.) and some media members were raising questions about the FBI withholding word of a probe that could hurt Trump. FBI agents monitored those reports, too.

The day after Trump’s surprising win on Nov. 9, 2016, the FBI counterintelligence team engaged in a new mission, bluntly described in another string of emails prompted by another news leak.

“We need ALL of their names to scrub, and we should give them ours for the same purpose,” Strzok emailed Page on Nov. 10, 2016, citing a Daily Beast article about some of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s allegedly unsavory ties overseas.

“Andy didn’t get any others,” Page wrote back, apparently indicating McCabe didn’t have names to add to the “scrub.”

“That’s what Bill said,” Strzok wrote back, apparently referring to then-FBI chief of counterintelligence William Priestap. “I suggested we need to exchange our entire lists as we each have potential derogatory CI info the other doesn’t.” CI is short for confidential informants.

It’s an extraordinary exchange, if for no other reason than this: The very day after Trump wins the presidency, some top FBI officials are involved in the sort of gum-shoeing normally reserved for field agents, and their goal is to find derogatory information about someone who had worked for the president-elect.

As the president-elect geared up to take over, the FBI made another move that has captured investigators’ attention: It named an executive with expertise in the FBI’s most sensitive surveillance equipment to be a liaison to the Trump transition.

On its face, that seems odd; technical surveillance nerds aren’t normally the first picks for plum political assignments. Even odder, the FBI counterintelligence team running the Russia-Trump collusion probe seemed to have an interest in the appointment.

These and other documents are still being disseminated to various oversight bodies in Congress, and more revelations are certain to occur.

Yet, now, irrefutable proof exists that agents sought to create pressure to get “derogatory” information and a “pretext” to interview people close to a future president they didn’t like.

Clear evidence also exists that an investigation into still-unproven collusion between a foreign power and a U.S. presidential candidate was driven less by secret information from Moscow and more by politically tainted media leaks.

And that means the dots between expressions of political bias and official actions just got a little more connected.

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Kavanaugh Threatens the Left's Right to Cheat 
by Ann Coulter
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FBI ignored hacking of liar-Hillary's emails by 'foreign entity'
by ART MOORE 

{ wnd.com } ~ At the contentious hearing Thursday with FBI agent Peter Strzok, Rep. Louis Gohmert, R-Texas, revealed the FBI didn’t follow up on a government watchdog’s finding... that nearly all of former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s emails were sent to a foreign entity. Gohmert, a member of the House Committee on the Judiciary, said the Intelligence Community Inspector General found an “anomaly on liar-Hillary Clinton’s emails going through their private server, and when they had done the forensic analysis, they found that her emails, every single one except four, over 30,000, were going to an address that was not on the distribution list.” “It was going to an unauthorized source that was a foreign entity unrelated to Russia,” Gohmert said. Strzok received the information from ICIG investigator Frank Rucker but didn’t act on it, the Republican lawmaker said. The FBI agent told Gohmert he remembered meeting with Rucker but didn’t recall the “specific content.”....
Strzok Strikes Out
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ “I have the utmost respect for Congress’s oversight role, but I truly believe that today’s hearing is just another victory notch in Putin’s belt... and another milestone in our enemies’ campaign to tear America apart. As someone who loves this country and cherishes its ideals, it is profoundly painful to watch and even worse to play a part in.” That was FBI counterintelligence boss Peter Strzok, the key player in the investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump, in his opening statement Thursday to a joint session of the House Oversight and Judiciary Committees. This was the same man who said in texts to his FBI girlfriend Lisa Page: “Fuck Trump,” “Trump is a disaster,” “I could SMELL the Trump support,” and that Trump supporters were “ignorant hillbillies.” For Peter Strzok, liar-Hillary Clinton would win “100 million to zero” and when Page raised the possibility of a Trump win, Strzok responded, “No, no he’s not. We’ll stop it.” The FBI man also alluded to an “insurance policy,” in the event that candidate Trump did prevail. The man who said all that, and much more, told the committee Thursday: “Let me be clear, unequivocally and under oath, not once in my 26 years of defending my nation did my personal opinions impact any official action I took.” And agent Strzok was dead certain it was Russian election interference was “sowing discord in our nation and shaking faith in our institutions.” dummycrats-Democrats loved it, and Rep. Steve Cohen, Tennessee dummycrats-Democrat, wanted to recommend Strzok for a Purple Heart. For their part, Republicans weren’t buying it...    https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270730/strzok-strikes-out-lloyd-billingsley
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California orders online gun registration, then lets website fail
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by BOB UNRUH
{ wnd.com } ~ The state of California is being sued for “refusing” to provide a way for gun owners burdened by a new registration requirement to comply with the law... ultimately forcing them to “face becoming criminals because they couldn’t do what the law requires.” The lawsuit was filed by the Second Amendment Foundation, which named California’s Department of Justice and Attorney General Xavier Becerra as defendants in its request for an injunction against the agency “for failing and refusing to establish a properly functioning internet-based firearms registration system.” Joining SAF in the legal action are the Calguns Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition, Firearms Policy Foundation and three private citizens. The lawsuit was filed in Shasta County Superior Court. “We’re suing because California DOJ’s Firearms Application Reporting System (CFARS) broke down during the deadline week for people to register their firearms in accordance with new state laws,” said SAF Executive Vice President Alan M. Gottlieb...
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The Old versus the New Left
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ Politics often evolves in strange, unpredictable ways. For example... what white Southern dummycrats-Democrat in 1960 would have foreseen that within forty years, the South would be solidly Republican?  And that black voters would help elect a black dummycrats-Democrat as president? An even more extreme transformation has been the American left. In a nutshell, if a leftist from the 1930s were transported to the present via a time machine, he would not only fail to recognize today's left, but would denounce it as a fraud, the antithesis of its historic mission and a traitor to the working class. If this time-traveler were to return to the 1930s and recount what he had observed, nobody would believe him. Surely, he would be told, the left could not have evolved into such a perversion of its historic mission, and this ludicrous time machine tale is just a cover-up for a week of binge-drinking. To understand the left's bizarre transformation, begin with Marxism's central principle: the centrality of class – namely, the idea that the division between those owning the means of production the capitalists and all others explains everything from politics to art and science. Moreover, it is the responsibility of the left i.e., the Communist Party to keep class central and thus advance interests of workers sometimes called the proletariat. To be sure, political necessity periodically counsels promoting a non-class agenda recall the U.S. Communist Party's foray into the 1931 racially charged Scottsboro Boys case, but these are temporary tactics and are always ultimately subordinated to advancing class interests. Promoting policies based on religion, ethnicity, sex, geography, race, and all else thus makes for counterproductive distractions...
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Time for the dummycrats-Democratic Party 
to Recognize its Antisemitism Problem
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ In early May 2017, Britain’s Labour Party suffered humiliating reversals in local elections and failed in their bid to wrest control of the council of Barnet from conservatives... Labour candidates campaigning in areas with substantial Jewish constituencies were handed stinging defeats. In West Hendon, which is an area of Barnet, all three candidates fielded by the Labour Party lost. West Hendon was thought to be a safe Labour bastion. The Party had retained these seats for nearly 40 years. The reason for Labour’s defeat was obvious. Jewish constituents who had previously been loyal to Labour to a fault, defected en masse to conservatives, and Labour’s leader, Jeremy Corbyn gave them virtually no choice. Corbyn has referred to Hezbollah as his “friends,” and has spoken of Hamas in glowing terms. He defended a rabidly anti-Semitic mural depicting Jewish bankers counting money and playing monopoly on the backs of people with dark complexions. He joined Facebook groups dedicated to propagating anti-Semitic conspiracy theories and was dismissive of claims that members of his own party engaged in Holocaust revisionism. Britain’s Labour Party membership, taking cue from Corbyn, is rife with antisemitism and this deleterious trend shows no sign of abating. If anything, it is intensifying. Labour MP Naz Shah, who previously espoused anti-Semitic memes and complained on social media about “Jews” skewing online polls, was recently appointed Labour’s shadow equalities minister. Even more disquieting is the fact that the Labour Party recently adopted a very watered down definition of antisemitism which omits critical defining elements of Jew-hatred. There are worrying signs that America’s dummycrats- Democratic Party is following in the footsteps of its Labour Party cousin across the Atlantic. Radical elements within the Party are increasingly pulling dummycrats-Democrats farther to the Left. They are calling for open borders, the dismantling of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement bureau, an end to free enterprise and single payer healthcare. Radical Intersectionalists have also latched themselves on to the Palestinians, viewing them as victims of Israeli and Jewish aggression, colonialism and imperialism...   https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270728/time-democratic-party-recognize-its-antisemitism-ari-lieberman
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Kavanaugh Threatens the Left's Right to Cheat 

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by Ann Coulter:  The fact that the media responded to the nomination of a Supreme Court justice by obsessively covering Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, Russia and NATO proves that Trump has checkmated them with Brett Kavanaugh.

             Liberals know they can’t stop Kavanaugh’s confirmation, so they’d just as soon not hear any news about it at all. Please cheer us up with stories about Paul Manafort’s solitary confinement!
               But there was one very peculiar reaction to the nomination. The nut wing of the dummycrats-Democratic Party instantly denounced Kavanaugh by claiming that his elevation to the High Court would threaten all sorts of “rights.”
               Sen. scumbag-Cory Booker (D-NJ) tweeted: “Our next justice should be a champion for protecting & advancing rights, not rolling them back — but Kavanaugh has a long history of demonstrating hostility toward defending the rights of everyday Americans.”
               Sen. commie-Bernie Sanders (I-VT) tweeted: “If Brett Kavanaugh is confirmed to the Supreme Court it will have a profoundly negative effect on workers’ rights, women’s rights and voting rights for decades to come. We must do everything we can to stop this nomination.
               If only these guys could get themselves elected to some sort of legislative body, they could pass laws protecting these rights!
               Wait, I’m sorry. These are elected United States senators. Of all people, why are they carrying on about “rights”? If senators can’t protect these alleged “rights,” it can only be because most Americans do not agree that they should be “rights.”
               That’s exactly why the Left is so hysterical about the Supreme Court. It runs to the courts to win its most unpopular policy ideas, gift-wrapped and handed to it as “constitutional rights.
               What liberals call “rights” are legislative proposals that they can’t pass through normal democratic processes — at least outside of the states they’ve already flipped with immigration, like California.
               Realizing how widely reviled its ideas are, several decades ago the Left figured out a procedural scam to give it whatever it wanted without ever having to pass a law. Hey! You can’t review a Supreme Court decision!
               Instead of persuading a majority of its fellow citizens, it would need to persuade only five justices to invent any rights it pleased. It didn’t have to ask twice. Apparently, justices find it much funner to be all-powerful despots than boring technocrats interpreting written law.
               Soon the Court was creating “rights” promoting all the Left’s favorite causes — abortion, criminals, busing, pornography, stamping out religion, forcing military academies to admit girls and so on.
               There was nothing America could do about it. OK, liberals, you cheated and got all your demented policy ideas declared “constitutional rights.” But it’s very strange having elected legislators act as if they are helpless serfs, with no capacity to protect “rights.
               It’s stranger still for politicians to pretend that these putative “rights” are supported by a majority of Americans. By definition, the majority does not support them. Otherwise, they’d already be protected by law and not by Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s latest newsletter.
               On MSNBC, Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D-MA) said people storming into the streets and making their voices heard about Kavanaugh is “the remarkable part about a democracy.
               Actually, that isn’t democracy at all. Liberals don’t do well at democracy. Why don’t politicians run for office promising to ban the death penalty, spring criminals from prison or enshrine late-term abortion? Hmmm … I wonder why those “I (heart) partial-birth abortion!” T-shirts aren’t selling?
               Unless the Constitution forbids it — and there are very few things proscribed by the Constitution — democracy entails persuading a majority of your fellow Americans or state citizens to support something, and then either putting it on the ballot or electing representatives who will write it into law — perhaps even a constitutional amendment.
               Otherwise, these “rights” whereof you speak are no more real than the Beastie Boys’ assertion of THE RIGHT TO PARTEEEEEEEE!
               Gay marriage, for example, was foisted on the country not through ballot initiatives, persuasion, public acceptance, lobbying or politicians winning elections by promising to legalize it. No, what happened was, in 2003, the Massachusetts Supreme Court suddenly discovered a right to gay marriage lurking in the state’s 223-year-old Constitution — written by the very religious John Adams. (Surprise!)
               After that, the people rose up and banned gay marriage in state after state, even in liberal bastions like Oregon and California. The year after the Massachusetts court’s remarkable discovery, gay marriage lost in all 11 states where it was on the ballot.
               Everywhere gay marriage was submitted to a popular vote, it lost. (Only one state’s voters briefly seemed to approve of gay marriage — Arizona, in 2006 — but that was evidently a problem with the wording of the initiative, because two years later, the voters overwhelmingly approved a constitutional ban on gay marriage.)
               Inasmuch as allowing people to vote resulted in a resounding “NO!” on gay marriage, liberals ran back to the courts. Still, the public rebelled. The year after the Iowa Supreme Court concocted a right to gay marriage, voters recalled three of the court’s seven justices.
               A handful of blue state legislatures passed gay marriage laws, but even in the Soviet Republic of New York, a gay marriage bill failed in 2009.
               And then the U.S. Supreme Court decided that was quite enough democracy on the question of gay marriage! It turned out that — just like the Massachusetts Constitution — a gay marriage clause had been hiding in our Constitution all along!
               Conservatives could never dream of victories like this from the judiciary. Even nine Antonin Scalias on the Supreme Court are never going to discover a “constitutional right” to a border wall, mass deportations, a flat tax, publicly funded churches and gun ranges, the “right” to smoke or to consume 24-ounce sugary sodas.
               These are “constitutional rights” every bit as much as the alleged “constitutional rights” to abortion, pornography, gay marriage, transgender bathrooms, the exclusionary rule and on and on and on.
               The only rights conservatives ever seek under the Constitution are the ones that are written in black and white, such as the freedom of speech and the right of the people to keep and bear arms. Mostly, we sit trembling, waiting to see what new nonexistent rights the Court will impose on us, contravening everything we believe.
               So when you hear liberals carrying on about all the “rights” threatened by Kavanaugh, remember that by “rights,” they mean “policy ideas so unpopular that we can’t pass a law creating such rights.”

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/57060?mailing_id=3624&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3624&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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The Courage to Think 
by Caroline C. Lewis
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Gowdy Gets Heated With Anti-Trump 
FBI Agent Strozik: 'I Don't Give a Damn'
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{ rickwells.us } ~ Gowdy questioned Strzok on why specifically he was let go from the Mueller investigation... How long did you talk to him when he let you go? He responded: My recollection it was a short meeting, somewhere between 15 to 30 minutes, probably around 15 minutes. And your testimony is: Bob Mueller did not kick you off because of the content of your texts; he kicked out you off because of some appearance he was worried about, Gowdy said. My testimony — what you asked and what I responded to — is that he kicked me off because of my bias, Strzok responded. I’m stating to you it is not my understanding that he kicked me off because of any bias — that it was done based on the appearance. If you want to represent what you said accurately I’m happy to answer that question, but I don’t appreciate what was originally said being changed...   https://rickwells.us/gowdy-anti-trump-strzok/
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Gohmert and Desantis Discuss Strzok Testimony and Fallout
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Congressman Louie Gohmert (TX-01) talked to Brian Kilmeade, guest hosting for Tucker Carlson, on Fox News... He weighed in on his comments to FBI Agent Strzok today in a joint House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committee hearing: Additionally, Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) discusses questioning of FBI official Peter Strzok during his testimony on Capitol Hill.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/07/12/gohmert-and-desantis-discuss-strzok-testimony-and-fallout/.
Russia and Iran increasingly threaten Israel's security from Syria
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by Yochanan Visser
{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ As Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin Netanyahu arrived in Moscow for the third time in six months to hold “very important talks”... with Russian president Vladimir Putin the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) shot down a Syrian or Iranian drone which was already flying in Israeli airspace 10 kilometers. The interception of the drone by a Patriot missile triggered the code red alarm in Israeli communities in the northern Jordan valley and on the Golan Heights. No damages or casualties were reported, however. The new provocation by the Iranian axis in Syria underlined the importance of Netanyahu’s visit to Moscow now that the Iranian-Russian backed pro-Assad coalition is on the verge of launching an offensive to ‘liberate’ the Kuneitra province which borders on Israel. Israeli and Arab media reported on Wednesday that after seizing more than 70 percent of the territory of the Daraa province in southwest Syria and laying siege on Daraa city, where the uprising against Assad started in 2011, the Syrian army and its Shiite allies are now approaching the Israeli border on the Golan Heights...
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The SCOTUS Confirmation Process Has Gotten Out of Hand
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The framers of our constitution would be turning over in their graves if they could see what happened to their words... "with the advice and consent of the senate." Now senators neither advise nor consent to Supreme Court nominations. They politicize, delay, demonize, obscure, fabricate and discredit what should be a non-partisan process of assuring that the most qualified lawyers serve on our highest court. Instead we have come to expect votes that are cast largely along party lines. It was not always what it has now become. Even in the recent past, highly qualified but controversial nominees -- such as Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsberg -- were confirmed with hardly any dissents. No more. There is enough blame to go around. Republicans point to the Bork rejection which resulted in the Kennedy nomination and the Clarence Thomas "high-tech lynching." dummycrats-Democrats point to the Republican refusal even to consider former President Barack liar-nObama's nomination of the highly qualified and centrist Merrick Garland. They also point to the fact that President Trump has "outsourced the selection process to the Federalist Society."...
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Sessions Announces New Taskforce to Tackle Fentanyl 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Thursday a surge in federal prosecutors to combat the boom in fentanyl trafficking and associated deaths... "We are going to arrest, prosecute, and convict fentanyl dealers and we are going to put them in jail," Sessions said. The initiative, operation Synthetic Opioid Surge (S.O.S.), will see federal prosecutors targeting synthetic opioid peddling as part of an effort to cut down on the deadliest drugs in America. Drug overdoses—of which there were some 64,000 fatal instances in 2016—are the leading cause of injury death in the United States, and have single-handedly driven down the life expectancy of white Americans. In his speech, Sessions said the data for 2017 suggest we are not out of the woods yet...Session should do more than that, get on Rosenstein back to release all of the documents without redacted.   http://freebeacon.com/national-security/sessions-announces-new-taskforce-tackle-fentanyl/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=988db41476-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_12_09_36_COPY_73&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-988db41476-45611665
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The Courage to Think 

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by Caroline C. Lewis:  More than ever before, young conservatives face persecution on their high school and college campuses for their beliefs. Risking grades, academic advancement and putting career options in jeopardy, a generation of courageous young conservatives display moral courage to think for themselves, despite the consequences.

             In early June, young conservative women gathered at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit to hear from women like Judge Jeanine Pirro, Dana Loesch and Kellyanne Conway along with thought leaders like Professor Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro. Turning Point USA stands as the largest and fastest growing student organization dedicated to fighting socialism and defending free-market principles. Founded in 2012 by Charlie Kirk (at 18 years old), the organization has grown to over 1,300 chapters across the country with student training of over 5,000. TPUSA’s communication director, Candice Owens, boldly defends conservative principles and articulately rejects the promotion of “victim mentality” for women and minorities.
               The conference room swelled with several hundred young women excited about the future of conservatism and their place in it. Their questions revealed not only the high stakes for being a conservative but their courage to stand for principles despite the consequences.
               One young woman asked about how to start a club, knowing that doing so could adversely affect her chances for admission at an elite university. Another girl said that she wore a conservative T-shirt to school and her entire town has boycotted her parents’ business. Some have endured physical violence. Another mentioned that a person at her school posted a suggestion that she commit suicide. It received 500 likes.
               The political climate has become increasingly intolerant, vengeful and hateful. No longer being bullied solely by their peers, young conservatives face persecution by teachers, administrators and a culture that seems stacked against them.
               However, these young women display a different type of resiliency. While no research can define every individual in a generation, some trends are worth noting. Generation Z, the post-Millennial generation born between 1995-2010, comprises those between the ages of eight and 23. According to Forbes, this generation tends to be more fiscally conservative and entrepreneurial, with 72% of high school students desiring to own a business. They value both independence and independent thinking.
               This perhaps accounts for the many young women at the TPUSA conference who described their conservative “conversion” that occurred after reading and listening to reasoned arguments. They are not afraid to “come out” publicly as conservatives.
               Though the media long to portray Gen Z as gun control advocates in the mold of David Hogg, they conveniently ignore the conservative voice, Kyle Kashuv, another Parkland shooting survivor, who counters the gun control lobby with reasoned arguments for the 2nd Amendment.
               In addition, Kendall Jones, a former college cheerleader and avid hunter, spoke about how, at the age of 19, she became one of the most cyber-bullied teens in the world for posting pictures of her hunts on social media. Kendall has endured death threats and “Kill Kendall Jones” hate pages, emerging as a model of how to be unmoved by the opinions of others.
               Thinking independently has less to do with age or generation and more to do with raw courage, bravery and conviction. Yet in any generation, a remnant remains to speak up, stand up and shape up society. The young women at Turning Point USA’s Young Women’s Leadership Summit pay a high price for their beliefs despite physical, social and cultural abuse. The courage of these young conservative women who think for themselves and stand up for their beliefs should be admired, applauded and emulated. Their courage should inspire all conservatives to turn our faces to the wind and stand boldly for the enduring principles of liberty and freedom.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57050?mailing_id=3624&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3624&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Fri/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Trump Reassures NATO After 
Winning Concessions 
by Jordan Candler
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Gowdy Clashes With Strzok Over Agent’s Impeachment Talk: 
‘I Don’t Give a Damn What You Appreciate’ 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Rep. Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, had harsh words for FBI agent Peter Strzok during questioning Thursday... about the behavior that got Strzok kicked off special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe. "I don't appreciate having an FBI agent with an unprecedented level of animus working on two major investigations during 2016," Gowdy told Strzok during a contentious exchange about Strzok's alleged bias while investigating Donald Trump and liar-Hillary Clinton. Gowdy pressed Strzok about the quickness with which he jumped to the conclusion of impeaching Trump within a day of Mueller’s investigation beginning, but Strzok insisted he had no bias. "Do you remember how long it took for you to start talking about impeachment after Bob Mueller was appointed?" Gowdy asked...
http://freebeacon.com/politics/gowdy-strzok-clash-impeachment-dont-give-damn-appreciate/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=019c7dc4e1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_19_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-019c7dc4e1-45611665
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Nunes Leaves in Middle of Hearing 
Following Questions on Russia Probe
{ rickwells.us } ~ dummycrats-Democrats on the House Rules Committee expressed frustration when House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes... was allowed to leave a panel hearing on a bill before they could ask questions about his panel’s investigation into Russia’s influence in the 2016 presidential election.  dummycrats-Democrats tried to grill Nunes about his committee’s probe while he sat to testify about a bill Wednesday, CNN reported. Rep. Norma Torres (D-Calif.) began to ask about President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner’s statement to the House Intelligence Committee, according to the report. But Rules Committee Chairman Pete Sessions (R-Texas) interrupted her, CNN reported. He broke up the committee for a recess and later dismissed Nunes before dummycrats-Democrats could ask him any more questions. In all my years on the Rules Committee, I don’t ever recall an instance where any member was prevented from asking questions of a witness, Rep. Jim McGovern (D-Mass.) said in a statement to CNN. “What is Chairman Nunes trying to hide? Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-Fla.) ripped Nunes for leaving...   https://rickwells.us/nunes-leaves-hearing-russia-probe/
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Jim Jordan Discusses Strzok Testimony and Admission 
of Receiving Dossier Material from Bruce Ohr
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ This is important. This is VERY important. The collective DOJ, FBI and “allied contractors” activity in 2015 and 2016 is the origin of the political opposition research... that developed into the Trump investigation via the FISA applications. Jordan appears to be one of the few who understand the importance of the timeline. Jim Jordan discusses FBI Agent Peter Strzok admitting he received the Dossier material from DOJ Deputy Bruce Ohr. Bruce’s wife was hired by Fusion-GPS to assist in the formation of the liar-Clinton funded opposition research that became the Steele Dossier..
Rod Rosenstein Drops A Dozen 
New Indictments Against Russian Hackers
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{ constitution.com } ~ In a stunning turn of events today, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein called an impromptu press conference to speak... on a subject simply described as a “law enforcement matter”, with the vagary piquing America’s interest. Of course, the presumption was that Rod Rosenstein would be speaking on the subject Special Counsel investigation into Russian election tampering that has now been ongoing for over a year with no real results to speak of. The left still believes that the Paul Manafort charges will somehow  create an issue for President Trump, but no evidence has been presented to bolster that opinion in the least. Rosenstein’s announcement came quickly and bluntly this afternoon. Rod J. Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, on Friday announced new charges against 12 Russian intelligence officers accused of hacking the dummycrats-Democratic National Committee and the liar-Clinton presidential campaign. The announcement came just a few days before President Trump is expected to meet with President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia in Helsinki, Finland...Is Rosenstein working with the Mueller investigation?
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Black Leaders Call for Civility,
 Rebuke Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ Star Parker, president of the Center for Urban Renewal and Education, joined other black leaders Thursday in calling for Congress to censure Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters, D-Calif... who said in June, “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd. And you push back on them. And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere.” Rachel del Guidice shares from her exclusive interview with Parker. Plus: A Business Insider columnist quits after her piece on transgenderism and Hollywood is taken down.
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Trump Reassures NATO After Winning Concessions 

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by Jordan Candler:  As this week’s NATO summit was closing, President Donald Trump professed: “I believe in NATO. I think NATO is … very important… But the United States was paying for anywhere from 70 percent to 90 percent of it.” He noted that “I told people that I’d be very unhappy if they did not up their commitments very substantially” while also stating that “the United States was not being treated fairly, but now we are.” According to Trump, “Everyone’s agreed to substantially up their commitment.”

              The Hill reports, “Trump on Wednesday told other leaders behind closed doors he wants them to spend 4 percent of their GDPs on defense… He later pressed allies to hit the 2-percent goal ‘immediately,’ rather than through a gradual increase. It remains unclear if any commitments were made to accelerate spending. French President Emmanuel Macron denied that NATO allies will increase defense spending beyond previously set goals, according to The Associated Press.” But Trump wouldn’t have said what he did if his goals weren’t accomplished.
               As we noted yesterday, Trump’s focus is more about balancing the economic playing field rather than securing military alliances. The tariffs he has imposed are directly targeting unfair trade deals. And based on Trump’s remarks at the NATO summit, he managed to get what he was after. We’ll see exactly how this all plays out in the months ahead.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57073?mailing_id=3624&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3624&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back 
by Pat Buchanan
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Friday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  In UK, Trump throws fuel onto Britain’s fiery political debate over Brexit (Fox News)
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What to know ahead of the Trump-Putin summit (The Daily Signal)
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Nikki Haley: Cut off North Korea’s oil (Washington Examiner)
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Three dummycrats-Democrats introduce “Abolish ICE” proposal, then say they’ll vote no (The Daily Wire)
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Trump’s state approval ratings and the Senate (Washington Examiner)
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Surprise: Senate schedule longest in 47 years, summer break “shortest in decades” (Washington Examiner)
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Migrant children being used as “commodity to circumvent a loophole,” border agent says (Fox News)
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Muslim reformer urges terror designation for Muslim Brotherhood (CNS News)
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GOP moderates hint at smooth confirmation ahead for Brett Kavanaugh (The Hill)
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The other important confirmation: New top cop at DOJ (Washington Examiner)
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The DOJ has turned the Russia investigation into a puzzle designed never to be solved (The Federalist)
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Gun-rights groups sue California over registration failures that could result in gun owners being locked up (The Washington Free Beacon)
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University of Kansas flies defaced American flag as anti-Trump “art” (MRCTV)
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Universities block movie that tells “untold story” of Roe v. Wade from filming on campus (The College Fix)
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Humor: More protective MAGA helmets now available for Trump supporters brave enough to go out in public (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Before judging Trump, NATO allies should do some soul-searching (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: Despite its dark past, Berlin continues to appease a regime seeking to murder six million Jews (The Washington Free Beacon)   
 
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Louie Gohmert Tells FBI Agent Peter Strzok He’s a Liar – 
“Did You Use That Smirk When You Lied To Your Wife”
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Wolverine Congressman Louie Gohmert (TX-01) had a fiery exchange with FBI Deputy Assistant Director Peter Strzok during today’s joint hearing... with the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform Committees. Mr. Gohmert dispatched all the nonsense, looked weasel Strzok straight in the eyes and called him a lying liar who lies.  Epic in the scale of brutal honesty…. Louie Gohmert was plumb-mad-dog angry; and within his direct assertion of everything everyone knows to be true: “did you use that smirk when you lied to your wife”? Gohmert sent the dummycrats-Democrats into fits of spontaneous combustion..
Haley team: China and Russia ‘must 
immediately stop’ delivering oil to North Korea
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ China and Russia “must immediately stop” delivering oil to North Korea in light of analysis that shows the rogue regime has acquired more fuel in 2018 than the United Nations Security Council permits... according to U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley’s team. “Ambassador Haley and her team submitted a report to the 1718 committee showing that the DPRK has breached the 2018 annual cap for refined petroleum products – in violation of UNSCR 2397,” a U.N. Security Council diplomat told the Washington Examiner. Resolution 2397, which passed in December of 2017, stipulates that North Korea can import only 500,000 barrels of oil annually. But the regime has blown through that cap. North Korea’s access to “refined petroleum products” has been enhanced through dozens of illegal ship-to-ship transfers, according to U.S. analysis contained in a report to the council...
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Fake History That Inspires Today’s Progressives
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{ spectator.org } ~ Mindful of Voltaire’s dictum “To hold a pen is to be at war”, we take up the pen against five enduring myths about the Russian Revolution and the advent of socialism... The five myths are long-standing pillars of falsehood — used to curtail liberty, justify past atrocities, and in the name of “progress” lead free people into servitude. Calling themselves “progressives,” many people today readily accept most or all of these myths as the truth. Filled with socialist yearnings, they have become a new force to be reckoned with in American politics. Myth #1  The false story of a heroic beginning to socialism — as a popular uprising by an oppressed people against social injustice and the cruelties under the Tsar. In truth, the Russian revolution did not really begin until after the military coup that brought the Bolsheviks to power on Nov. 7, 1917. The coup was an almost bloodless event — “as easy as picking up a feather,” Lenin admitted. The Bolsheviks were just one of several parties contending for power in Russia following the abdication of Nicholas II, the last Tsar, early in the year. Credit Lenin with some real foresight: He was quick to realize the advantage that might come from putting together a private army from soldiers and sailors set adrift by the collapse of the old regime. It was a small group of disaffected soldiers — not alienated workers — who stormed the Winter Palace in Petersburg, arrested members of a feeble Provisional Government, and catapulted Lenin — who enjoyed no widespread popular support — into power. The historian Bertram Wolfe quipped...
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House puts aside Peter Strzok fight 
to authorize US intelligence programs
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The House on Thursday passed a bipartisan bill reauthorizing policies and spending for the nation’s intelligence community for two years... The bill passed without much opposition and made no major changes to the surveillance law, even though the issue has led to more heated debate in recent years. It passed easily, 363-54; most of the "no" votes came from dummycrats-Democrats. But it does include a provision aimed at making it harder for foreign operators to interfere with U.S. election, by requiring the Director of National Intelligence to provide an advisory report on cyberthreats to candidates running for federal offices. And it adds accountability measures that will require the 17 agencies that make up the U.S. intelligence community to report to Congress about leaks of classified information...
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U.S. Muslim Leaders Mourn Jordanian MB Leader
by John Rossomando

{ investigativeproject.org } ~ A who's who of anti-Israel radical leaders in the U.S. Muslim community mourned last week's death of Ishaq al-Farhan... the co-founder of Jordan's Muslim Brotherhood political wing, the Islamic Action Front (IAF). "May God have mercy on the thinker, the Islamic leader, and Jordanian national personality, Professor Dr. Ishaq al-Farhan. He lived for his religion, his Umma and Palestine, from which he descended, and people remember his virtues ... This is a great loss, not only for Jordan, Palestine and the Islamic movement, but also a loss for this whole Umma Islamic nation," wrote  American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) National Policy Director Osama Abu Irshaid. Sabri Samirah, who worked as chairman of the now-defunct Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP), posted video of al-Farhan's funeral from Jordan on Abu Irshaid's Facebook timeline. IAP was the propaganda arm of the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestine Committee, and Marzook served on its board. The Palestine Committee was created to serve Hamas politically and financially, court records show. Samirah served as IAF's spokesman during a period of exile in Jordan for due to his pro-Hamas sympathies that began in 2002. He returned to the U.S. in 2014... Muslim Brotherhood is a terrorist organization..
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The Never-Trumpers Are Never Coming Back 
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by Pat Buchanan

{ townhall.com } ~ With never-Trump conservatives bailing on the GOP and crying out for the Party of Pulosi to save us, some painful truths need to be restated.

The Republican Party of Bush I and II, of Bob Dole and rino-John McCain, is history. It's not coming back. Unlike the Bourbons after the Revolution and the Terror, after Napoleon and the Empire, no restoration is in the cards.

It is over. The GOP's policies of recent decades -- the New World Order of George H.W. Bush, the crusades for democracy of Bush II -- failed, and are seen as having failed. With Trump's capture of the party they were repudiated.

There will be no turning back.

What were the historic blunders?

It was not supporting tax cuts, deregulation, conservative judges and justices, or funding a defense second to none. Donald Trump has delivered on these as well as any president since Reagan.

The failures that killed the Bush party, and that represented departures from Reaganite traditionalism and conservatism, are:

First, the hubristic drive, despite the warnings of statesmen like George Kennan, to exploit our Cold War victory and pursue a policy of permanent containment of a Russia that had lost a third of its territory and half its people.

We moved NATO into Eastern Europe and the Baltic, onto her doorstep. We abrogated the ABM treaty Nixon had negotiated and moved defensive missiles into Poland. rino-John McCain pushed to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO, and even to send U.S. forces to face off against Russian troops.


Thus we got a second Cold War that need never have begun and that our allies seem content to let us fight alone.

Europe today is not afraid of Vladimir Putin reaching the Rhine. Europe is afraid of Africa and the Middle East reaching the Danube.

Let the Americans, who relish playing empire, pay for NATO.

Second, in a reflexive response to 9/11, we invaded Afghanistan and Iraq, dumped over the regime in Libya, armed rebels to overthrow Bashar Assad in Syria, and backed Saudi intervention in a Yemeni civil war, creating a humanitarian crisis in that poorest of Arab countries that is exceeded in horrors only by the Syrian civil war.

Since Y2K, hundreds of thousands in the Middle East have perished, the ancient Christian community has all but ceased to exist, and the refugees now number in the millions. What are the gains for democracy from these wars, all backed enthusiastically by the Republican establishment?

Why are the people responsible for these wars still being listened to, rather than confessing their sins at second-thoughts conferences?

The GOP elite also played a crucial role in throwing open U.S. markets to China and ceding transnational corporations full freedom to move factories and jobs there and ship their Chinese-made goods back here, free of charge.

Result: In three decades, the U.S. has run up $12 trillion in merchandise trade deficits -- $4 trillion with China -- and Beijing's revenue from the USA has more than covered China's defense budget for most of those years.

Beijing swept past Italy, France, Britain, Germany and Japan to become the premier manufacturing power on earth and a geo-strategic rival. Now, from East Africa to Sri Lanka in the Indian Ocean, and from the South and East China Sea to Taiwan, Beijing's expansionist ambitions have become clear.

And where are the Republicans responsible for building up this potentially malevolent power that thieves our technology? Talking of building a Reagan-like Navy to contain the mammoth they nourished.

Since the Cold War, America's elites have been exhibiting symptoms of that congenital blindness associated since Rome with declining and falling empires.

While GOP grass roots have begged for measures to control our bleeding southern border, they were regularly denounced as nativists by party elites, many of whom are now backing Trump's wall.

For decades, America's elites failed to see that the transnational moment of the post-Cold War era was passing and an era of rising nationalism and tribalism was at hand.

"We live in a time," said U2's Bono this week, "when institutions as vital to human progress as the United Nations are under attack."

The institutions Bono referenced -- the U.N., EU, NATO -- all trace their roots to the 1940s and 1950s, a time that bears little resemblance to the era we have entered, an era marked by a spreading and desperate desire of peoples everywhere to preserve who and what they are.

No, Trump didn't start the fire.

The world was ablaze with tribalism and was raising up authoritarians to realize nationalist ends -- Xi Jinping, Putin, Narendra Modi in India, Erdogan in Turkey, Gen. el-Sissi in Egypt -- before he came down that elevator.

And so the elites who were in charge when the fire broke out, and who failed to respond and refused even to recognize it, and who now denounce Trump for how he is coping with it, are unlikely to be called upon again to lead this republic.
 
https://townhall.com/columnists/patbuchanan/2018/07/06/the-nevertrumpers-are-never-coming-back-n2497684?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=
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Care about those poor, helpless and 
hopeless Palestinians? Immediately 
end their United Nations relief
by Caroline B. Glick
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Peter Strzok Denies Bias Affected His Work, Claims He 
Sent Anti-Trump Text Messages ‘Out of Deep Patriotism’
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{ nationalreview.com } ~ During his congressional testimony Thursday, anti-Trump FBI agent Peter Strzok denied that political bias affected his professional conduct... and said that the opinions he expressed in the text messages that resulted in his firing were sent “out of deep patriotism.” “Like many people, I had and expressed personal political opinions during an extraordinary presidential election,” said Strzok, who was dismissed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s team after the inspector general’s office discovered text messages that were harshly critical of then-candidate Trump. “My opinions were expressed out of deep patriotism,” Strzok added. When asked specifically about his explosive text message vowing to “stop” Trump’s election, released by the inspector general last month, Strzok said he could not recall sending it... The text that we know of and some demuments, Strzok is not being honest and he is lying. 
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Jim Jordan Questions FBI Agent Peter Strzok 
About Steele Dossier and Contacts With Media
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Representative Jim Jordan questions FBI Agent Peter Strzok about the foundational document, the “Steele Dossier”... which underpins the FISA Title-1 search warrant application; and the extent to which Strzok had contacts with media. Representative Trey Gowdy confronts the spin by agent Strzok that he is not “biased”.
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Legislation to Combat scumbagp-Soros-Funded 
Antifa In US At Federal Level
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{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ Four Republicans in Congress introduced a bill that would punish those wearing masks and committing acts of egregious injury against others... in the name of the First Amendment, no less — up to 15 years in jail. The act is aimed at combatting Antifa members who are largely funded by scumbagp-George Soros. The bill, “Unmasking Antifa,” was introduced after members of the violent organization committed one too many acts of violence against peaceful citizens and MAGA hat-wearing President Donald Trump supporters...
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FBI agent Strzok’s hearing hijacked 
by angry dummycrats-Democrats 
{ gopusa.com } ~ Embattled FBI agent Peter Strzok’s Thursday appearance in front of the House Judiciary and Oversight Committees was disrupted when he refused to answer questions... and angry dummycrats-Democrats tried to hijack the hearing. House Judiciary Chairman Bob Goodlatte threatened Strzok with criminal liability if he refused to answer a question from Rep. Trey Gowdy, as Strzok insisted that FBI lawyers counseled him not to answer any questions about ongoing investigations. “Mr. Strzok, you are under subpoena and are required to answer the question,” Goodlatte asserted...   http://www.gopusa.com/?p=50134?omhide=true
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Gowdy Slams Strzok While Dems Cheer Claim 
That Anti-Trump Bias Is Rooted in ‘Patriotism’
by Rusty

{ thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Nowhere was the partisan and obstructionist nature of the dummycrats-Democrat Party more obviously displayed than at this morning’s congressional hearing with Peter Strzok...
 While Republicans were seeking and demanding answers for the FBI agent’s damning biased anti-Trump text messages, dummycrats- Democrats were stalling, trying to prevent him from answering, and actively cheering some of his testimony. Strzok played key roles in Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s original Russia probe as well as the liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation while referring to Trump in vulgar terms and openly discussing that his agency would “stop” his Presidency. Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) got involved in a testy exchange with the combative interviewee very early on. Gowdy opened with comments indicating that Strzok’s vast text messages with his lover, FBI lawyer Lisa Page, demonstrated “textbook bias” against President Trump, something that should never be glaringly apparent for someone involved in an investigation of that person....
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Care about those poor, helpless and 
hopeless Palestinians? Immediately 
end their United Nations relief
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by Caroline B. Glick

{ jewishworldreview.com } ~ On Monday, seven former US ambassadors to the UN sent a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo insisting that the administration restore full funding to UNRWA, the UN agency that funds so-called Palestinian refugees.

Since UNRWA was established in 1949, the US has given nearly $5 billion to the agency tasked with perpetuating refugee status among descendants of Arabs who left Israel in the 1948-1949 pan-Arab invasion.

In January, then-secretary of state Rex Tillerson informed the UN that the US was slashing its assistance to UNRWA by 50%, from $260 million to $130 million.

At the time, citing UNRWA’s support for terrorism and economic corruption, UN Ambassador Nikki Haley recommended ending US financial assistance for the agency outright.

The issue of UNRWA, and the US’s involvement with the group, hasn’t received much attention in the intervening months. But now that the former ambassadors have brought it up, it is worth taking a second look at UNRWA and considering whether they are right, and what their bipartisan position tells us about the bipartisan consensus that controlled US policy toward Israel and the Palestinians until President Donald Trump took office.

UNRWA and its supporters present the agency as an organization dedicated to supporting Palestinian refugees. But this is a lie.

UNRWA is a political warfare organization that deliberately perpetuates the misery of innocent people.

It indoctrinates them from the cradle to the grave to support and engage in terrorism and genocide against the Jewish state and its people. It exists not to help the descendants of Arabs who left Israel at its inception, it exists as a tool of political warfare in the never-ending war to annihilate the Jewish state. As then-Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser said in 1960, “If the refugees return to Israel, Israel will cease to exist.”

UNRWA’s distinctively non-humanitarian purpose is baked in. Refugees worldwide are helped by the UN’s High Commissioner for Refugees. UNHCR targets its services to real refugees – people who meet the definition of the Refugee Convention of having lost their state home due to persecution. UNRWA targets its services to people of Palestinian descent it calls “refugees” for political reasons; fewer than 1% of the UNRWA refugees would actually meet the Refugee Convention definition.

UNHCR finds refugees and gives them help; UNRWA finds people who need help and makes them refugees.

The UNHCR is responsible for helping refugees find asylum and settle in another country. Today it cares for nearly 66 million refugees worldwide. It has one staffer for every 6,000 refugees.

UNRWA, in contrast, is responsible for preventing Palestinian refugees from gaining asylum or resettling anywhere. It is responsible for 5.2 million refugees and has one staffer for every 186 refugees.

Over the past 70 years, UNHCR has permanently resettled tens of millions of refugees. It found permanent homes for 189,300 refugees in 2016 alone.

UNRWA has resettled no refugees in its 69-year history.

It is now responsible for the fifth generation of descendants of the Arabs who left Israel in 1948-49.

Every dollar the US transfers to UNRWA is a dollar used to perpetuate this misery. And it is arguably a dollar spent in breach of US law. According to the US Law on Derivative Refugee Status, spouses and children of refugees can apply for derivative status as refugees. Grandchildren are explicitly ineligible for that status. But by funding UNRWA, the US funds an agency that has required the perpetuation of refugee status of the Arab refugees from 1948-49 for five generations.

For years, then-US senator from Illinois Mark Kirk tried to compel the State Department to reveal how many Palestinian refugees actually left Israel during the pan-Arab invasion. Due to his efforts, in 2013, the Senate Appropriations Committee unanimously approved an amendment to the annual State Department foreign operations appropriations bill requiring the State Department to report how many of the 5 .2 million Palestinians on UNRWA’s rolls were actual refugees.

Rather than reveal the number, which is estimated to stand at 20,000, or 1% of the number UNRWA claims, the State Department classified the figure in 2015. It still refuses to release it.

Former president Barack liar-nObama’s administration’s position was to accept UNRWA’s numbers as true. The liar-nObama State Department insisted that any accounting for the actual number of refugees or attempt to remove the millions of “refugees” who have been Jordanian citizens for most of the past 70 years from its refugee rolls, would be detrimental for chances of peace.

That is, despite the fact that during the 2008 presidential race liar-nObama said he did not support the Palestinian demand that UNRWA’s “refugees” be permitted to immigrate to Israel and, as Nasser said, cause Israel to “cease to exist,” his administration’s actual policy was to legitimize this position. By refusing to reveal how many Arabs who left their homes in Israel in the 1948-49 pan-Arab invasion of Israel receive support from UNRWA, liar-nObama enabled the Palestinians to insist that more than 5.2 million people, all but 20,000 of whom have never stepped foot in Israel and have no ties to the country, should be permitted to enter Israel as citizens and so destroy the Jewish state.

UNRWA’s existential rejection of Israel’s right to exist is not the only reason it is a deeply problematic, indeed, toxic organization. On a daily basis, UNRWA personnel and facilities are used to advance the physical annihilation of Israel.

UNRWA schools and clinics in Gaza have been used repeatedly by Hamas to store missiles and rockets and to launch projectile attacks on Israel. Several of their employees are senior Hamas terrorists. In the past year and a half, two senior UNRWA employees in Gaza were elected to senior leadership positions in Hamas. Funding UNRWA funds Hamas.

As multiple researchers have copiously documented over decades, UNRWA schools indoctrinate Palestinian children to hate Israel and Jews and to seek their annihilation. UNRWA employees throughout the Middle East praise terrorists, praise Nazis, and call for the annihilation of the Jewish people. By funding UNRWA, the US pays their salaries.

This brings us to the seven US ambassadors and their letter to Pompeo.

Former UN ambassadors Thomas Pickering and Edward Perkins, who served under president George H.W. Bush; Madeline Albright and Bill Richardson, who served under president liar-Bill Clinton; John Negroponte, who served under George W. Bush; and Samantha Power and Susan Rice who served under President Barack liar-nObama, claimed in their letter that funding cuts “put into question the ability of UNRWA to continue to deliver education and healthcare services to millions of people.”

Oddly, they think this is a bad thing.

But it is a good thing.

Consider the case of Hamas terror master Suhail al-Hindi. Hindi was elected to a senior leadership position in the terror group in 2011 and reelected in 2017.

During this entire period, Hindi worked as principal of an UNRWA high school and chairman of the teachers’ union for UNRWA schools in Gaza.

UNRWA only fired him from his position as principal in 2017. For six years the agency ignored the problem hoping everyone would forget or not notice.

Why do the former ambassadors want US taxpayers to support a school system run by the likes of Hindi? Then there are the clinics they express such concern for.

During the course of Hamas’s 2014 war against Israel, on July 31, a team of commandos from the Maglan unit entered an UNRWA clinic in Khan Younis to seal an attack tunnel that was dug out from its floor.

Three soldiers, St.-Sgt. Matan Gotlieb, St.-Sgt. Omer Chai and St.-Sgt. Guy Algernaty, were killed when the clinic exploded on top of them. Twenty other soldiers were wounded in the blast.

The IDF discovered afterwards that Hamas-UNRWA constructed the clinic not only as the starting point of an attack tunnel, but as a booby trap. Twelve barrels, each containing 80 kg. of explosives were built into the walls.

Why do the ambassadors wish to build more UNRWA clinics? This then brings us to the question of the seven former envoys’ motivation in writing the letter in the first place. The seven wrote that ending US financial support for UNRWA will have “national security ramifications for our closest allies, including Israel and Jordan.”

This is true enough. But at least in Israel’s case, those ramifications would be positive. The less money UNRWA has, the less damage it can do to the Palestinians and to Israel. With less money, UNRWA can teach fewer Palestinians that they should strive to become suicide bombers. With less money, they can build fewer booby trapped clinics and fewer attack tunnels under the floors of their examination rooms.

With less money, UNRWA becomes a less attractive option for millions of Arabs for whom accepting cradle-to-grave welfare payments from UNRWA has substituted work as an economic model. “Employed” on the UNRWA dole, they have been able to take low paying jobs as terrorists.

Obviously, as former UN ambassadors, the seven signatories know all of this. So obviously, they weren’t motivated to write due to some sort of deep seated desire to improve the welfare of the Palestinians. They were also clearly not motivated by genuine concern for Israel’s security, much less for the cause of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

Indeed, given what we know – and what they know – about UNRWA, it is impossible to attribute any positive justification to their actions. Rather, the only logical explanation for their decision to sign and send the letter to Pompeo is that they want to perpetuate US assistance to UNRWA because they like what it does. They think it is a good idea to doom Palestinians to perpetual misery and ensure that they will never, ever accept Israel’s right to exist in secure borders unmolested by war and terrorism and demonization.

That is, like UNRWA, the seven former senior diplomats were motivated by rank hostility to Israel. This is remarkable.

Power, Rice, Pickering, Perkins, Albright, Richardson and Negroponte represent the top tier of Washington’s bipartisan foreign policy clique. Together, they have played key roles in shaping US policy towards Israel for 30 years. And they like UNRWA.

Pompeo should thank them for their letter. He should thank them for reminding him to reconsider the administration’s position on the UN agency. And then he should follow Haley’s advice from January and end all US funding to UNRWA.

Furthermore, Pompeo should declassify the data on the actual number of Palestinian refugees and he should call for their cases to be dealt with by the UNHCR, without prejudice. And then he should announce that out of concern for the welfare of the Palestinians and in the interests of peace and regional security in the Middle East, the US believes the time has come to shut UNRWA down completely.

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The dummycrats-Democratic 
Party’s Christian problem
by DAVID LIMBAUGH
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Peter Strzok Testifies To Joint Session of Congress
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The FBI counterintelligence official at the center of the liar-Clinton and Trump investigations is scheduled to testify today...  FBI Agent Peter Strzok will testify publicly before a joint House Oversight/Judiciary Committee. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/07/12/peter-strzok-testifies-to-joint-session-of-congress-1000am-livestream/.
Liberman: Israel should close its Irish embassy 
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{ jpost.com } ~ Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman called on Israel to close its embassy in Dublin in response to the Irish Senate vote... to advance legislation that would criminalize trade with east Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the West Bank. On Thursday, the Foreign Ministry met with Irish Ambassador Alison Kelly. The foreign ministry summoned her for a conversation to protest the legislation’s advancement, even though Ireland’s government has opposed it. No further action was taken after the meeting. "There is no point in summoning the Irish ambassador to Israel for a reprimand,” Liberman wrote on his twitter account. “Israel should immediately close its embassy in Dublin. We will not turn the other cheek to those who boycott us,” Liberman wrote. Ireland has made it clear that it opposes any boycotts against areas of Israel within the pre-1967 lines. It has vigorously opposed any Israeli activity over those lines. But its opposition to the private member’s bill is more about strategy and legality. It believes that the legislation runs counter to European Union law and would harm its ability to be involved in any Middle East peace process...
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rino-McCain may resign to push 
Kavanaugh confirmation through Senate 
{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ With a tight battle looming to confirm Trump nominee Brett Kavanaugh as a Supreme Court justice... one Republican senator may make a sacrifice to push the nominee through. Sen. rino-John McCain (R-AZ) could finally step down — and have someone appointed in his place — if he is not well enough to make the trip to Washington to vote in favor of the nominee, ABC analyst Alex Castellanos reported on Tuesday. “There’s some word that if rino-McCain is not able to vote and his vote is needed, he might resign and let someone appoint a senator who would support this judge,” Castellanos said. If rino-McCain were to step down, Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey, a Republican, would appoint a replacement...
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Trump shares letter from 
Kim Jong Un heralding start of 'meaningful journey'
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump shared on social media Thursday a letter he received from North Korean leader Kim Jong Un last week... in which Kim says he appreciated the "energetic and extraordinary" diplomatic efforts made by the Trump administration to engage the rogue nation. "The significant first meeting with Your Excellency and the joint statement that we signed together in Singapore 24 days ago was indeed the start of a meaningful journey," Kim wrote in the note, dated July 6, of the pair's historic summit on June 12. "I firmly believe that the strong will, sincere efforts and unique approach of myself and Your Excellency Mr. President aimed at opening up a new future between the DPRK and the U.S. will surely come to fruition," Kim continued...
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Rod Rosenstein requests 93 federal 
prosecutors help vet Brett Kavanaugh: Report
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein has requested that federal prosecutors help vet President Trump’s Supreme Court nominee... Brett Kavanaugh, a new report says. Rosenstein requested that the prosecutors examine Kavanaugh’s government documents and asked the 93 United States attorneys to have every office submit several federal prosecutors “who can make this important project a priority for the next several weeks,” the New York Times reports. The move departs from the norm, as it is standard for Justice Department lawyers to participate in work for Supreme Court nominations, but not prosecutors...
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The dummycrats-Democratic 
Party’s Christian problem
by DAVID LIMBAUGH


{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ People on the left are outraged when you question their patriotism, their dedication to the nation as founded and their respect for the Constitution as originally written, but they continually vindicate our concerns.

The most recent example is the left’s unhinged mania at Judge Amy Coney Barrett’s inclusion on President Trump’s list of potential Supreme Court appointees.

In times of perceived crisis — and this is certainly one of those times for leftists — they show their colors, and you can color them militantly opposed to Barrett, in large part because of her Catholicism.

And guess what else. Rumor is that she frequents a Bible study, as well.

Forget Barrett’s distinguished career and formidable legal credentials. The leftist media went bonkers, unapologetically displaying their bigotry when it comes to Christians.

One commentator pointed out that Barrett “went to Notre Dame. She is very Catholic.”

Get that? She’s not only an evil Catholic; she’s very much a Catholic.

Another pundit said, “It’s kind of a dubious position, but I’m sure that if Trump does pick a woman, she’ll be known as the Aunt Lydia of the Supreme Court” — a derogatory reference to the villainous character in the popular show The Handmaid’s Tale.

This is reminiscent of Dianne Fein-stein’s astounding alarm, expressed during Barrett’s appellate court confirmation hearing in the Senate, that Barrett’s Catholic “dogma lives loudly within” her.

When leftists aren’t denying their prejudice, they often selectively cite Scripture to “prove” that Jesus Christ was a social justice warrior or that the Bible mandates open borders.

Oh, yes, and Jesus didn’t judge people as we dastardly conservatives do. In a 2010 piece, liberal professor Michael Shermer quoted the oft-misinterpreted passage in which Jesus begins, “Judge not, that ye be not judged.” Then Shermer declared:

Would any red-blooded, gun-toting, Hummer-driving, hard-drinking, Bible-toting conservative today say anything like this? (Matthew 5:43-44): “You have heard that it was said, ‘You shall love your neighbor and hate your enemy.’ But I say to you, Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.”

It is astounding that leftists see themselves as tolerant and nonjudgmental, but I’ll let their record speak for itself on this.

But when they’re not cherry-picking Scripture to shame immigration hawks or to pander to Christian voters during political campaigns, they show us another side.

I’m not saying that no leftists are Christians, but I am saying that far too many of them show a hostility toward Christianity and Bible-believing Christians. It’s more than just a disdain for political conservatives who are also churchgoing Christians.

My 2003 book, Persecution: How Liberals Are Waging War Against Christianity, documents the left’s pattern of discrimination against Christian influences in culture, Christian values and Christian religious liberty.

When I appeared on “Hannity & Colmes” for an interview on the book, I had great difficulty getting an airing with liberal co-host Alan Colmes because he couldn’t get over the subtitle.

I was friendly with Alan, and he was respectful, but he insisted on my defending his inferred premise that I was saying that liberals can’t be Christian.

As I explained to Alan, I would never suggest that liberals can’t be Christian, and indeed, I know many who are. I happen to believe that in many cases, their political worldview is at odds with a biblical worldview, but I don’t presume to challenge the authenticity of their faith.

No — my point is that irrespective of their deep-felt faith or lack thereof, they too often are at odds with biblical Christianity and Bible-believing Christians in the media, at universities and other schools, in our culture, and in the political sphere.

And is it any coincidence that the overwhelming number of mocking atheists on Twitter, in my admittedly anecdotal experience, are flaming leftists? I don’t think so.

Barack liar-nObama infamously disparaged Bible-and gun-toting Americans who live in small Midwestern towns.

“It’s not surprising,” said liar-nObama, that “they get bitter and cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”

That statement set off alarm bells for me for many reasons, not the least of which was that Christians are supposed to cling to Jesus Christ. Their faith in him is central to the religion.

There is not only no shame in trusting and depending on Christ; it is essential as the road to their salvation and their Christian living. What’s more telling than liar-nObama’s appalling statement is that he was wholly unaware what he was revealing about himself with it.

It’s not just liar-nObama but the dummycrats-Democratic Party at large. Is its frequent disrespect for the God of the Bible, Christian home-schoolers and the constitutionally protected religious liberty of Christians indicative of something or just a matter of my imagination?

How about dummycrats-Democrats’ hostility to voluntary prayer in public schools, their selective excising of Christian history from public school textbooks, their allergy to Christian-themed hymns in public schools or their dislike of Christmas displays in the public square?

How about leftist Hollywood’s routine depiction of Christians as fanatical lunatics? Remember when thedummycrats-Democratic National Committee denounced God in three votes and took the word and concept of God out of the party platform at the 2012 convention?

If you don’t like my anecdotal impressions, what do you make of the Pew Research Center’s reporting that just 45 percent of dummycrats-Democrats believe in the God of the Bible and a significantly lower percentage of white Democrats do?

According to Pew, “in their beliefs about God, nonwhitedummycrats-Democrats more closely resemble Republicans than white dummycrats-Democrats.”

This fact alone, coupled with Kanye West’s admiration for Donald Trump, should have dummycrats-Democrats quaking in their boots — but I digress.

If dummycrats-Democrats don’t want to be perceived as being anti-Christian in their attitudes and policies, they’d better regroup, because plenty of people have taken notice.

You can’t convince me they’re unconcerned about it, or they wouldn’t spend so much time defending themselves against the charge.

They definitely don’t want Middle America to believe these things about them, so they’ll continue to deny their prejudice during election season, but one of these days, to quote one of their Christian icons, their chickens will come home to roost.

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Social Security, Medicaid 
Rapidly Nearing Collapse 
by Louis DeBroux
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Unleash the Potential of Federal Lands
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{ economics21.org } ~ Over 1,900 local governments received $553 million from the Department of Interior this year to compensate them for lost tax revenue for federal lands... that cannot be developed in their territory. These payments are the consequence of more than 640 million acres of land or 28 percent of the U.S. territory owned by the federal government. The costs of federal ownership are not only payments to local governments, but environmental damage due to mismanagement and deferred maintenance, and the lost economic activity that cannot occur in 28 percent of the country. Of all federal land, 27.4 million acres are National Parks, while approximately 600 million acres are managed by the Bureau of Land Management, the National Forest Service, the Fish and Wildlife Service, and the National Park Service. These government agencies allow grazing and other economic activities on federal lands in exchange for fees. However, since fees are not enough for the expenses of these agencies, the federal government spends several billion dollars per year to cover the difference...
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Ethiopia-Eritrea: A New Hope for Peace
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The leaders of Ethiopia and Eritrea signed a declaration on July 9, ending a state of war between the two countries... It was a major step toward resolving one of post-colonial Africa's bloodiest and most protracted conflicts. The U.N. Security Council said the peace declaration signed by Ethiopia and Eritrea after 20 years as enemies "represents a historic and significant development with far-reaching positive consequences for the Horn of Africa and beyond." The council commended Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Eritrean President Isaias Afwerki for signing the agreement and welcomed their commitment "to resume diplomatic ties and open a new chapter of cooperation and partnership." A statement by the governing party of Ethiopia, the second-most populous country in Africa,  said it would "fully accept and implement" the agreement with Eritrea, a former province of Ethiopia, which was signed but never honored...
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Why Do Palestinian Leaders Oppose Helping Their People?
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ For years, Palestinian leaders have been complaining that the Gaza Strip was "on the verge of a humanitarian catastrophe."... Time and again, they have warned that unless the world helps the Palestinians living there, the Gaza Strip will "erupt like a volcano." Israel and the US are now offering to help improve the living conditions of the Palestinians living under Hamas rule in the Gaza Strip. But guess who is fiercely opposed to any attempt to resolve the "humanitarian and economic crisis" in the coastal enclave, home to some two million Palestinians? Answer: Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his ruling Fatah faction. In the past few weeks, both Israel and the US administration have come up with different ideas to help the Palestinians of the Gaza Strip. US envoys Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt, who recently visited the Middle East, are said to have presented initiatives that included providing necessities such as electricity, desalinating drinking water, employment opportunities and reviving the industrial zone in the Gaza Strip...
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Justice Dept pulls virtual trigger for online 3D guns
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{ wnd.com } ~ In its settlement of a free speech lawsuit, the federal government has agreed to acknowledge that popular semi-automatic sporting rifles such as the AR-15 are not inherently military weapons... “Not only is this a First Amendment victory for free speech, it also is a devastating blow to the gun prohibition lobby,” explained Alan M. Gottlieb, the founder and executive vice president of the Second Amendment Foundation. Gun-control activists frequently argue that military weapons are not appropriate for consumer use. But then they define consumer products such as the AR-15 to be a “military” weapon. The new admission by the government could affect many proposed bans across the nation...
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liar-nObama-Nominated Judge 
Orders Return to Catch and Release Policy
by Shawn

{ fixthisnation.com } ~ liar-Obama-nominated Judge Dolly Gee dealt a blow to both the Trump administration and the rule of law on Monday with a ruling that orders a return to the failed... unethical, illegal catch-and-release policies that have allowed illegal immigration to get to the unmanageable state it is in today. Gee ruled that when an illegal immigrant crosses into the U.S. with a minor child, they must be processed and immediately released to await their court date. In practice, this means that very few of these migrants will ever be seen by immigration officials again. They will descend into the shadows and wait until we once again have a legislature and/or president who deems them fit for amnesty. Gee’s ruling comes about as a result of a case in which the Department of Justice asked the court for a revision to the 1997 Flores decision, in which the court ruled that child migrants could not be detained for more than 20 days. In order to get around the family separation crisis that led to so many terrible headlines, the Trump administration wanted to revise that ruling so that children and adults could be kept in detention together, solving two problems at once. In her decision on Monday, however, Gee stomped on any possibility of a compromise. The only solution thus left on the table is a return to catch-and-release; in other words, the abdication of American immigration law....
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Social Security, Medicaid Rapidly Nearing Collapse 

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by Louis DeBroux:  For years, fiscal conservatives have warned of the ticking time bombs that are America’s entitlement programs and were rewarded with mockery and contempt, dismissed as “The Boy Who Cried Wolf.” Unfortunately, as readers of Aesop’s fables recall, in the end the wolf actually existed, and it devoured the sheep.

             Several recent reports combine to paint a frightening picture for America’s economic future if corrective action is not taken swiftly.
               The first is a recent report by the Social Security Board of Trustees. It reveals that for the first time since 1982, the program must dip into its trust fund to pay benefits because the fund is now running a $200 billion annual deficit even as the number of beneficiaries (60 million and rising, with an average of 10,000 Baby Boomers a day retiring through 2029) continues to skyrocket.
               This skyrocketing increase in beneficiaries is occurring at a time when Americans are having fewer children, or none at all (a staggering 60 million children have been aborted since Roe v. Wade, equivalent to killing the entire populations of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Ohio and Georgia). These are children who will never live to enter the workforce or have families.
               When FDR established Social Security, there were 42 workers for every beneficiary. Today that ratio is 3:1 and quickly approaching 2:1. There are simply not enough workers to fund the full benefits for 60-80 million retirees.
               Even worse, bankruptcy is even nearer than we thought. According to researchers from Harvard and Dartmouth, the Social Security Trustees have been using antiquated accounting methods (which they describe as “steering by sextant and dead reckoning” rather than using “global-positioning-systems”) and outdated demographic information to paint a rosier picture of Social Security’s future than is warranted. Updated projections from the Trustees report that the program will be insolvent within 16 years, but with their outdated accounting methods, insolvency is likely to occur within the next 10 years.
               Politicians talk of a Social Security “trust fund,” but as the Washington Examiner’s Philip Klein notes, the trust fund is “an accounting fiction that pretends that spending doesn’t ultimately all come from the bank accounts of taxpayers.” He further notes that, with politicians borrowing from it for decades to cover general budget expenditures, the “trust fund” is nothing more than $3 trillion in IOUs, meaning the money is gone unless we raise taxes on current workers to repay the IOUs.
               This is nothing more than “generational theft.” We must either slash benefits to current retirees by 25% or more, or raise payroll taxes significantly on current workers, placing a tremendous burden on working families.
               Up through 2010, retirees received more in benefits than they paid in contributions. That year, a couple received about $20,000 less than they paid in, and that ratio is getting worse each year. That is compounded by the fact that inflation drains even more from retirement accounts. According to a new study, Social Security benefits, due to rising costs and inflation, provide 34% less purchasing power than just 18 years ago.
               Clearly, the answer is private retirement accounts, which not only accrue wealth far greater than Social Security benefits (which are now losing money for retirees), with even modest returns on investment “allow[ing] middle-income earners to retire on six-figure incomes,” but unlike Social Security, there are property rights in private accounts.
               Americans would be shocked and outraged to discover that the Supreme Court has twice ruled that there is no right to Social Security benefits, regardless of how long or how much has been paid into the system. In Helvering v. Davis (1937), the Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of Social Security, agreeing with Asst. AG Robert Jackson’s argument: “There is no contract created by which any person becomes entitled… [to] a claim for any particular sum of money. Not only is there no contract implied but it is expressly negatived, because it is provided in the act, section 1104, that it may be repealed, altered, or amended in any of its provisions at any time.”
               The Supreme Court further expanded that ruling in Flemming v. Nestor (1960), concurring with the government’s argument that a beneficiary acquires no property right to benefits, stating that the claim that Social Security benefits are “fully accrued property rights” is “wholly erroneous.” For those who still doubt that Congress can reduce or even eliminate benefits at any time, the Social Security Administration states it right there on its website.
               So, barring a rare display of political bravery, which President George W. Bush and Speaker Paul Ryan were politically crucified for attempting with partial privatization, Congress will kick the can down the road until the house of cards collapses. Social Security is nothing more than a Ponzi scheme, legal only because it is run by the government and more despicable because government forces us to participate in the fraud.
               The situation with Social Security is bad enough, but Medicaid is even worse, projected to be insolvent in just eight years. Couple this with a $20 trillion national debt, rising federal spending and an estimated $91 trillion in unfunded entitlement liabilities, and the situation is dire. The time to act is now, before the wolf eats us.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57028?mailing_id=3621&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3621&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Trump Takes on NATO 
by Political Editors
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Goodlatte and Gowdy Give Lisa Page Attorney Three Options 
to Avoid Contempt Charges Scheduled for Friday 13th
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) and House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) today called on Lisa Page to comply... with a congressional subpoena, which required her to come before the committees to answer questions, or face contempt proceedings. Lisa Page, legal counsel to former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, is a key witness in the Committees’ joint investigation into decisions made by the Justice Department in 2016. Chairman Goodlatte subpoenaed Lisa Page to appear on July 11, 2018 for a deposition but she refused to appear. Following Ms. Page’s refusal to appear, Chairmen Goodlatte and Gowdy sent a letter to Amy Jeffress, the attorney representing Ms. Page, calling on her client to testify voluntarily at an already scheduled public hearing on July 12, 2018 or appear for a deposition on Friday, July 13, 2018. If Ms. Page refuses these two accommodations, the House Judiciary Committee plans to initiate contempt proceedings on Friday, July 13, 2018....
Congress Needs to Make Changes to the Final NDAA
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ Before Congress sends the final 2019 National Defense Authorization Act legislation to President Donald Trump, lawmakers should improve upon certain areas... In June, the House and Senate passed their individual versions of the 2019 NDAA and started to conference to work on the differences in their bills. While both versions have laudable provisions, there is also room for improvement. The NDAA is one of the few pieces of legislation that have passed reliably in the last 55 years and the 2019 version of the bill will set the trajectory of our current military rebuilding effort. One good change is the increased funding for the Defense Department. Currently, the base discretionary budget will go from $626.4 billion to $639.1 billion. The increase in funding will greatly help rebuild the U.S. military by funding important training, spare parts, facility sustainment, and purchases of critically needed equipment...
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Congress Renews Push to 
Designate Muslim Brotherhood as Terror Group 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Lawmakers on Capitol Hill are renewing a years-long push to designate the international Muslim Brotherhood organization as a terrorist organization... due to its support for terror organizations that threaten U.S. security interests across the globe, according to conversations with U.S. officials spearheading the effort. The congressional effort to target the Muslim Brotherhood will kick off early Wednesday, when lawmakers on the House's Subcommittee on National Security gather for a hearing to "examine the threat that the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates pose to the United States and its interests and how to most effectively counter it, including potential next steps for U.S. policy," according to the committee. The hearing is expected to set the stage for Congress to follow through on efforts that begun in 2015 to convince the liar-nObama administration to designate the Muslim Brotherhood as a terror group following its violent, and eventually failed, takeover in Egypt...
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GOP Prepares for New Civil War
 with ‘Unmasking ANTIFA’ Act of 2018
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{ constitution.com } ~ The “New” Civil War may very well be upon us in this day and age, with the mainstream media stoking the fires... They know full well that this will be the goose that laid the golden egg for them during this death spiral of theirs, and they’ll do anything in their power to bring the ruckus to fruition. Remember, the media needs conflict to create a compelling product. Without that product, they can’t attract advertisers to pay their salaries and overhead. By agitating the American populace, they are guaranteeing themselves a payday. It’s not unlike an inside trading fiend making mince meat out of your 401K in order to buy his mistress that Lexus she’s been hinting at for her birthday, at least insomuch as both actions are completely wrong. Meanwhile, the good people of America want nothing but a little peace and prosperity. We’re trained to value the pursuit of happiness, and with Donald Trump sitting behind the desk in the Oval Office, we have the prosperity part down….Now if we could only get the radical left back in line, we might have some peace...
United States Designates Iran-backed 
Militant Group in Bahrain a Terrorist Organization 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ The United States designated an Iran-sponsored militant group in Bahrain a terrorist organization Tuesday... in an effort to stop the Islamic Republic from extending its grip in the Middle East. Al-Ashtar Brigades (AAB) was established in 2013 with the primary objective of toppling the government of Bahrain. The terrorist group has received weapons and explosives from Iran in its efforts to desolate the Bahraini regime. AAB also adopted Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in January 2018 to mimic the Islamic Republic's military strategy and further demonstrate Iran's influence on militant groups operating within Arab states in the Persian Gulf. "Al-Ashtar is yet another in a long line of Iranian sponsored terrorists who kill on behalf of a corrupt regime," coordinator for counterterrorism Nathan A. Sales said in a statement. "Today's designation serves notice that the United States sees plainly what Iran is trying to do to Bahrain through its proxy, the terrorist group Al-Ashtar."...
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Trump Takes on NATO 
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by Political Editors:  If we’ve learned anything about President Donald Trump, it’s that he hates bad deals. He especially hates those bad deals that are costing the American taxpayer. Trump has repeatedly blasted how unfairly the U.S. has been treated in international trade. These unfair trade deals have been his primary justification for imposing tariffs. But Trump has also voiced criticism of America’s historical military alliances, specifically in regards to the U.S. having borne the lion’s share of defense costs. The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in particular has been one of Trump’s favorite targets, as he again made clear last week in Great Falls, Montana, stating at a rally, “I’m going to tell NATO, ‘You got to start paying your bills. The United States is not going to take care of everything.’”

             On Tuesday, Trump headed to the NATO summit where many of Europe’s leaders have been wondering just how serious he is about balancing the scales. If last month’s G7 summit indicated anything, it’s that Trump will not be moved simply because of historical precedent. For Trump, the U.S. has been getting a raw deal and he intends to rectify it. But it would be a mistake to see this as simply a play by Trump to get NATO allies to spend more on their military defense. For Trump, this ultimately is about rebalancing the U.S.‘ economic relationship with Europe.
               After arriving at the NATO summit, it didn’t take the president long to deliver his message. Trump once again aired his grievance to NATO’s European leaders that the U.S. was “spending far too much” on defense. But Trump aimed his most pointed criticism at Germany. Speaking to NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg, Trump said, “Germany, as far as I’m concerned, is captive to Russia because it’s getting so much of its energy from Russia. Explain that. We’re supposed to be guarding against Russia and Germany goes out and pays billions and billions of dollars a year to Russia.” Trump added, “I think it’s very sad when Germany makes a massive oil and gas deal with Russia where we’re supposed to be guarding against Russia.”
               Trump was referencing a pipeline deal that Germany and Russia have brokered. Germany is the European Union’s leading importer of natural gas from Russia, amounting to 40% of the country’s annual natural gas purchases. Trump further noted, “The former chancellor of Germany is head of the pipeline company that’s supplying the gas. You tell me, is that appropriate? I’ve been complaining about this from the time I got here.
               Trump’s complaint is legitimate and NATO nations known it. But like when a new boss comes in calling for changes to an underperforming, recalcitrant company, the old management will often chafe angrily against those demands. While several European leaders have expressed concerns that Trump is not committed to NATO, the facts simply don’t support this accusation, as White House officials recently noted that Trump had done more to secure NATO allies than Barack liar-nObama did in his “first six years in office.” For example, it was Trump who gave the green light to supply Ukraine with long-requested weapons to defend itself against Russian aggression, something liar-nObama repeatedly refused to do. Far from abandoning NATO, Trump is working to reform it, to whip it back into shape. And in so doing, he’s rebalancing our military alliance commitments with NATO nations as well as working to pave the way for a level economic relationship between the U.S. and Europe.
               According to NATO’s defense spending agreement, member nations are to spend 2% of their GDP on defense. Below is a graph showing where nations currently stand. (Note: Not all NATO nations are represented on the graph. However, all those nations that meet the defense spending obligation are represented.)

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57032?mailing_id=3621&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3621&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Thurs/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Vulnerable dummycrats-Democrats
Should Hope for GOP Unity on Kavanaugh 
by Marc A. Thiessen 
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Thursday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  Brett Kavanaugh’s view on the Second Amendment (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Trump: NATO allies agree to “substantially up” spending (The Hill)
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House dummycrats-Democrat: “China declared trade war,” not Trump (Washington Examiner)
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ISIS “capital” captured in Afghanistan, over 160 fighters killed by U.S., Afghan troops (Fox News)
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Immigrants find noncitizen voter registration easy (The Washington Times)
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Feds’ new rules could stop asylum surge (The Washington Times)
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Grassley, Meadows find more evidence of political bias at FBI as Strzok, Page summoned to testify (CNS News)
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Peter Strzok faces the music (Washington Examiner)
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Congress authorized sanctions against Russia’s Nord Stream pipeline last summer (CNS News)
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Trump cracks down on disability skimming (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Jim Jordan targeted by deep-state-tied group in Ohio State abuse scandal, Matt Gaetz says (Washington Examiner)
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Good news: Taking the task “to serve and protect” to the next level: Pasco firefighters help save man, then return to save his lawn (Tampa Bay Times)
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Stormy Daniels arrested inside strip club (Fox News)
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Papa John’s found resigns hours after apologizing for using the N-word (The Washington Post)
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Humor: New study reveals humanity just one “coexist” bumper sticker away from world peace (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Congress needs to make changes to the final NDAA (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: Making the right move on racial preferences (City Journal)  
 
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Sanctuary Cities | America’s Safest Space for Outlaws
by MICHELLE MALKIN

{ crtv.com } ~ Illegal aliens convicted of heinous crimes are being set free to roam the streets... 
And the results of these Sanctuary City policies are disastrous for law-abiding American citizens. We talk to Brian McCann whose brother was murdered by a convicted illegal alien and hear his pleas to lawmakers to enforce immigration policy. We hear from Utah Senator Mike Lee on the importance of rule of law and interview Robert Law from the Federation for American Immigration Reform about the need to overhaul our visa system. Finally, we sit down with investigative reporter Michele McPhee who found evidence that officials turned a blind eye to the Tsarnaev brothers before they bombed the Boston marathon. 
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dummycrats-Dems’ Derangement Over Kavanaugh
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ “Judge Kavanaugh should not be allowed anywhere near our nation’s highest bench... Let’s be clear: a vote for Kavanaugh would be a vote to rip health care from American families and deny women their constitutional right to make their own health care decisions.” That was a statement from dummycrats-DNC boss Tom Perez shortly after President Trump nominated Brett Kavanaugh for the U.S. Supreme Court. In a sense it was ironic because as a DC native and DC Appeal Court judge, the Yale law alum is already near the nation’s highest bench. On the other hand, the statement typified the tide of reaction from leftist dummycrats-Democrats. “Are you ready for the fight? Are you ready to defend Roe v. Wade?” bellowed a wide-eyed commie-Bernie Sanders, face glowing a bright shade of pink. Many in the Monday crowd may have forgotten that the Vermont socialist would have lost to Trump in 2016 if liar-Hillary Clinton had not rigged the process. In June, commie-Sanders former cadre commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez tweeted that Kavanaugh’s views on the president’s eligibility for a criminal investigation constituted an “automatic disqualification” from the high court. In similar style, New Jersey Senator scumbag-Cory Booker, told reporters, “We have an ongoing investigation that is a bi-partisan supported investigation as we saw throughout the Senate committee and a president who is saying, ‘I now have a chance to make sure the Supreme Court gives me a get out of jail free card.’” So the Yale Law grad has already determined the president’s guilt and sentence...The dummycrats are all fools and shouldn't be where they are today.     https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270702/dems-derangement-over-kavanaugh-lloyd-billingsley 
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EIA: U.S. Shortly to Become 
“the World’s Leading Producer of Crude oil”
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{ thenewamerican.com } ~ The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) proclaimed on Tuesday that, if its forecasts are correct, “the United States will average nearly 12 million barrels a day (mbd) … in 2019 … making the U.S. the world’s leading producer of crude oil.” Those forecasts could understate the U.S. oil industry’s production, as it builds into its calculations the present bottlenecks of pipeline capacity, being experienced especially in the Permian Basin. One month ago, IHS Markit, the global information marketplace, focused on what’s happening in the Permian Basin and concluded that, even with those bottlenecks currently slowing the flow of crude from wellheads to refineries along the Gulf Coast, it expects a “stunning” increase in production there between now and 2023. Total crude-oil production will nearly double over that time to 5.4 mbd once the 41,000 new wells and $308 billion in new investment have been completed. Said Daniel Yergin, IHS Markit’s vice chairman: “In the past 24 months, production from just this one region — the Permian — has grown far more than any other entire country in the world. Add in another 3 mbd by 2023 — more than the total present-day production of Kuwait — and you have a level of production that exceeds the current production of every OPEC nation, except Saudi Arabia.”..
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dummycrats-Democrats Release List Of All The
Awesome Questions Republicans Asked Peter Strzok
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Congressional dummycrats-Democrats released a list of questions Wednesday... that their Republican counterparts asked of Peter Strzok, the former FBI official who sent anti-Trump text messages while working on the Russia investigation. dummycrats- Democrats published the questions in an attempt to force Republicans to release a transcript of Strzok’s 10-plus hour closed-door testimony before the House Judiciary and House Oversight Committees on June 27. Strzok is scheduled to appear before both committees for an open hearing on Thursday. While dummycrats-Democrats complained that the questions show the GOP lawmakers’ lines of inquiry appear in line with the questions that Trump supporters have raised about Strzok and the FBI’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government...
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Ryan Warns Ex-FBI Lawyer Lisa Page Over Defying Subpoena
{ newsmax.com } ~ House Speaker Paul Ryan is warning former FBI lawyer Lisa Page that she must appear for a private interview with two House committees... investigating the Justice Department or the House could take action against her. Page's attorney said late Tuesday that she would not appear for a private interview Wednesday with the House Judiciary and Oversight and Government Reform committees, despite a subpoena. In response, House Judiciary Chairman Robert Goodlatte said Page has known for months about an interview, and the committee will use "all tools at our disposal" to obtain it. If a witness does not respond to a subpoena, the full House can vote to hold that person in contempt of Congress. Ryan said Wednesday the House will "do what we need to do to protect this branch of government" and that he stands behind Goodlatte. "A subpoena to testify before Congress is not optional, it's mandatory," Ryan said...
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Vulnerable dummycrats-Democrats Should Hope for GOP Unity on Kavanaugh 

by Marc A. Thiessen

 

It is difficult to imagine any Republican senator opposing President Trump’s nomination to the Supreme Court of Brett M. Kavanaugh, a judge with impeccable credentials, strong intellect and sterling character. If Republicans stay united, Kavanaugh’s confirmation as the next associate justice is assured. And no one is praying harder for Republican unity than the three dummycrats-Democratic senators — Joe Manchin III (WV), Heidi Heitkamp (ND) and Joe Donnelly (IN) — who voted to confirm Justice Neil M. Gorsuch and who are up for reelection this fall in states Donald Trump won by double digits.
               A Supreme Court fight is already a nightmare for these vulnerable dummycrats-Democrats. The Left understands that Kavanaugh’s nomination is an existential threat to its activist judicial agenda, so it is going to throw everything it has at him in a multimillion-dollar sliming. The confirmation hearings are going to make the infamous Robert H. Bork hearings seem like a kumbaya session by comparison.
               Caught in the crossfire are Manchin, Heitkamp and Donnelly, all of whom were hoping to steer a steady course down the middle to reelection but will now have to spend the next couple of months getting pushed and pulled by both sides. The dummycrats-Democrats’ left-wing base will demand that they vote “no” on Kavanaugh, while the trio’s pro-Trump constituents will demand they vote “yes.” And the confirmation fight will dominate the final months of their campaigns.
               That’s a nightmare. But so long as Republicans are united, Manchin, Heitkamp and Donnelly more or less get a free vote. They won’t pay much of a price if they end up as the 51st, 52nd and 53rd votes confirming Trump’s nominee, adding a bipartisan veneer to the final vote. But if any Republicans defect, the nightmare becomes a disaster, because each of these red-state dummycrats-Democrats suddenly becomes the deciding vote. That is the last thing they want. If any dummycrats-Democrats provide the swing vote that puts Trump’s nominee on the High Court, many on the Left will be furious and abandon them on Election Day. But if they are the deciding vote against Trump’s nominee, then voters in their states — which all voted for Trump decisively — would be more energized and determined to throw them out of office. It’s a no-win situation.
               Normally, it is the job of a party’s Senate leadership to protect vulnerable incumbents by giving them political cover to do what they need to do to win reelection. But in this case, the dummycrats-Democratic leadership seems to be throwing these three senators under the bus. Sen. Richard J. Durbin, Ill., the No. 2 dummycrats-Democrat in the Senate, suggested on NBC’s “Meet the Press” this past weekend that these vulnerable red-statedummycrats-Democrats should sacrifice their reelection to stop Trump’s nominee. “They understand it’s a historic decision,” he said. “It’s about more than the next election.”
               That is unprecedented. scumbag-Durbin just told these dummycrats-Democrats to commit political suicide. It is shocking that one of its own leaders just gave the left-wing base license to demand that these senators vote in such a way that will virtually guarantee the loss of their seats. Don’t expect these senators to forget it if they are still in office for the next leadership election.
               Red-state dummycrats-Democrats want to get this vote over with as quickly as possible. A delayed vote could backfire terribly. Right now, dummycrats-Democrats enjoy a significant enthusiasm advantage in the 2018 midterm elections. In a Wall Street Journal-NBC News poll last month, 63% of dummycrats- Democrats rate their interest level as a “9 or 10” on a 10-point scale, while only 47% of Republicans do the same. Any delay in Kavanaugh’s confirmation can only help Republicans close that enthusiasm gap. According to the Post, 26% of all Trump voters said the Supreme Court was most important factor in their vote, compared with just 18% among liar-Hillary Clinton’s voters. The Supreme Court motivates the Right more than the Left. The best way dummycrats-Democrats can guarantee a strong GOP turnout in key Senate races is to make the Supreme Court an election issue this November.
               So, conservatives are hoping that Republicans stay united. But deep in their hearts, red-state dummycrats-Democrats are praying for GOP unity as well.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/57039?mailing_id=3621&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3621&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Have Jordan Accusers Reported 
Abuse at Their Work Places?
by DOV FISCHER 
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‘I Felt Threatened’: Fox News Anchor Shannon Bream
Flees Supreme Court As Leftist Mob Grew ‘Volatile’ 
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{ trevorloudon.com } ~ Fox News anchor Shannon Bream was all set last night to go live from the steps of the Supreme Court as President Trump nominated Appeals Court Judge Brett Kavanaugh as the replacement for Justice Kennedy... who is retiring from SCOTUS. However, things took a threatening turn as she was in front of the iconic building. Hundreds of liberals protesting the nomination were looking to get their violence on and Bream had enough sense to get out of there. “Very few times I’ve felt threatened while out in the field. The mood here tonight is very volatile,” Bream wrote on Twitter just minutes after Trump’s announcement in the White House. “Law enforcement appears to be closing down 1st Street in front of SCOTUS". Bream followed that with a second Tweet that left no doubt about the precarious nature of her safety, “Literally had to bail on our live show from #SCOTUS. Moving the show back to the safety of the studio. See y’all at 11p.” The left has been harassing and threatening everyone on the right. Some are serious death threats and it doesn’t take much to make a mob turn violent. We’ve seen White House officials harassed in restaurants and senators and Trump supporters have been hassled and threatened as well, both verbally and physically. Leaders of “The Resistance” movement, like Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters (D-CA), have called for more harassment of anyone who supports Trump. Bream spoke of the scene at the Supreme Court on her broadcast last night, “Last year, there were certainly protesters out there and there was definitely opposition to justice Neil Gorsuch upon his name being announced that night. Tonight, we saw something different. We did have a plan to have our show out their live. It got so volatile at points that we — we ultimately didn’t feel like it would be safe to do an hour of live television out there,” she said. And that is the state of America currently...Where were the DC police?
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'Fortify Syrian border with an iron wall' 
{ israelnationalnews.com } ~ Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein (Likud) on Wednesday spoke about the dangers on Israel's northern border... At an event commemorating the anniversary of Ze'ev Jabotinsky's passing, Edelstein said, "Jabotinsky's legacy require us to fortify the Syrian border with an iron wall." "For dozens of years, the leaders of this State despised Jabotinsky and made him out to be a dangerous person," Edelstein explained. "Today, it's clear how wrong they were, and how important his legacy is." "Today, we are witness to the creation of a new reality on the Syrian border. We don't know who will control the area in the future, and how long the bloodbath will continue. Jabotinsky's legacy obligates us to fortify the Syrian border with an iron wall...  https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/248757
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Video shows how bad scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters’ 
district really is
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{ patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ A VERY damaging video is blowing up social media today and has a leading dummycrats-Democrat in panic mode... A two-minute tour through some of the streets in scumbag/mad-Waters’ 43rd District show the future of America if dummycrats-Dems are able to gain control of the House, Senate, and White House…It is hard to argue with the sentiments of the man that took the video after touring those streets...
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GOP bill would make first-time illegal 
border crossing a felony, send sanctuary city funds to ICE
by Anna Giaritelli

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn., introduced legislation Tuesday that would reclassify a first-time illegal entry at the border as a felony instead of a misdemeanor... Her Zero Tolerance for Illegal Entry Act would change the punishment for those apprehended illegally entering the U.S. for the first time to one year and one day in prison, which therefore makes it a felony. Today, the misdemeanor offense comes with jail term of up to six months. The Tennessee lawmaker said she is proposing the change because she believes it would prevent would-be illegal entrants from coming to the U.S., and encourage migrants to apply for asylum at ports of entry instead of using smugglers to travel to the U.S.-Mexico border then cross between ports...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/gop-bill-would-make-first-time-illegal-border-crossing-a-felony-send-sanctuary-city-funds-to-ice
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Ancient city gate uncovered in 
the Galilee may have tie to biblical King David 
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{ timesofisrael.com } ~ A 10th century BCE Galilee city gate through which King David may have walked to claim a bride was uncovered by archaeologists... at the recently finished 2018 season of the Bethsaida Excavations Project, excavation director Prof. Rami Arav told The Times of Israel. Standing at 3 meters, “it is the largest and the best preserved city gate in Israel,” said Arav. Likewise, this year’s excavation provides evidence that Bethsaida, an Aramean settlement, houses one of the earliest towers incorporated in city walls in Israel, he said. “In the entire archaeology of the Land of Israel from 10-8th century BCE, there are no towers on city walls. Israelites did not have this feature. This is the first example of towers surrounding a city in Israel,” Arav said. Located north of the Sea of Galilee, Bethsaida is famously known as the site of Jesus’s miracle of the loaves and the fishes, as recounted in the Gospels of John and Matthew. Arav’s excavation is one of two dueling potential locations for this historical site...
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Have Jordan Accusers Reported 
Abuse at Their Work Places?
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by DOV FISCHER

{ spectator.org } ~ In the viciously cynical American political environment where we now live, it no longer is about quality and competence, skills and ability. It is about destruction of the opponent: destroy them, their character, their children, their family. Just destroy them. For example, let’s show pictures of a girl crying at the southern border when her mother puts her down for a moment — and then let’s tweet that we hope that the President’s child gets kidnapped and sexually abused. Let’s destroy that kid.

Let’s destroy Melania. She never hurt anyone. Seems a really decent person. Many women that famous, that rich — frankly that above-average in appearance — would reek of arrogance and self-importance. And yet she is so modest. She dresses modestly. She speaks softly and with humility.

Y’know what? Let’s destroy her anyway!

So you get a racist bigot like Chelsea Handler mocking Melania’s accent. A fair-minded person would think: “For a woman born in Slovenia near the border of Croatia, who basically does not even have to speak to make millions of dollars in modeling, she speaks English fabulously.” But Chelsea instead mocked Melania’s accent, something Handler never would dare do to someone hailing from south of our country. But it’s Melania — so let’s destroy her!

And, no, I haven’t seen Chelsea lately. Last I remember on the Chelsea front, she swore that she would leave America, move to Spain, and never come back if Donald Trump were elected President. He got elected; she stayed. So she not only is a bigot and racist, but also a brazen liar. Trifecta. She also promised that, if he were elected, she would “blow her head up.” On that she gets a pass.

“Let’s destroy.” Let’s check into their histories, do “oppo research.” There must be something. Nothing the past ten years? OK, look back another ten years. Nothing? Go back another ten. What was he doing in grad school? How about college? How about half a century ago in high school?

And so, it turned out in 2012 that 65-year-old Mitt Romney, when he was in high school — fifty years earlier — pulled pranks. Drugs? No. Sex? No. Even then, the guy was a good kid, a Mormon. Not a drinker. Not a smoker. Maybe, despite the Mormon ban on coffee, maybe once sneaked a sip of frappucino without inhaling? He was a teenager. “Well, if that’s all we got… let’s destroy him with that!”

And what was liar-Clinton doing as a teenager? Or Kennedy — any and all of them? Or Jesse Jackson? Or Elizabeth dinky-Warren? Or Kamala Harris? Kamala does not actually generate her interesting story until she starts consorting publicly with another woman’s husband whose powerful standing in California politics raises her station overnight.

And now the Seedier Media are going after Rep. Jim Jordan. They think maybe they got something on him from thirty years ago. Maybe he was not johnny-on-the-spot to know that a pervert doctor at the college wrestling team in Ohio was doing perverted stuff. Not that he did anything wrong. But that — thirty years ago — he did not know or believe or say.

This is so vicious, so base, the endless character assassination — leveled by hypocrites and phonies who, in front of their own very eyes, see the evil and villainy of the scumbag-Keith Ellisons and liar-Hillary Clintons, the liar-Bill Clintons and scumbag/mad-Maxine Waterses who should be ostracized and vomited out of the body politic.  scumbag-Keith Ellison is a Jew-hater who hobnobbed with Farrakhan and whose anti-Jewish snide remarks have been caught on tape. liar-Hillary is a felon. Her husband is the sequel to Raging Bull: Raping liar-Bill. And  scumbag/ mad-Maxine: at this moment in American history, suddenly that name will never be the same.

But all those crooks and knaves are fine for the dummycrats-Democrat liberals smelling blood in the water near Jim Jordan. So let us consider a bit more deeply — in a case where an underling knows about abuse, which Jordan did not — what it means to speak out against abuse at the workplace. What it means in real life to be employed as a grunt at a place where the boss, or someone a bit less high up, is abusive — sexually abusive, physically abusive, emotionally abusive. Many inevitably encounter something like this at some job, but we prefer not to discuss it. Well, may as well discuss it:

I have been an attorney at three of America’s most prominent and distinguished law firms. I had serious responsibilities when practicing law, handling multi-million-dollar complex civil litigation cases. The way it works at the large firms is that the partners and senior associates call on you or on others among your peers when they need staffing — for legal research in preparation for bringing motions, for drafting complaints or some discovery requests. Lots of research and drafting. You often become part of a team that may include two associates of different experience levels, all working under a partner’s or senior associate’s direction. Over a period of time, you eventually get to work with most of the partners in your practice section. And you want that. You want them to get to know you and your work, as you begin inching up the ladder.

There was a partner at one firm, a real pig. All the associates knew it. We talked about it over lunch. And we knew there was not a thing we could do about it. Go to the managing partner and report the pig? First of all, he probably already knew, too. But without the most hard and irrefutable evidence, you would just get yourself fired. Yes, yes, it is unlawful to fire a whistle-blower. World-class law firms know how to unload undesirable associates lawfully. Such a firm is not going to remove a major source of income, a rainmaking partner with a brilliant mind, simply because some associate with pristine principles and archaic notions of spiritual right and wrong has come to town. Interestingly, a few years later — long after my friends and I had moved respectively to other firms — word got back to us that, at a firmwide retreat at that old firm, the pig apparently was sitting at a bar with a female associate, drank a bit too much, touched or said what he should not have — and, to some degree, got punished. But only temporarily before being restored to his former glory.

I worked at another firm. Another pig, a different kind. This one did not bother people sexually, but was the most foul-mouthed viciously abusive curser. He would holler four-letter words up and down the hall. The legal secretaries tried their darnedest not to get assigned to him. Everyone knew his abusive mouth — because he shouted down the hall so loudly. I deftly was able to avoid working with him for more than a year. One day I got cornered: several of my cases recently had settled, my workload was light, and he needed an associate. It was my lucky day. I sat with him in his office and quietly clenched my jaws. He was cold, no personality. With this guy, cold was good. Cold, no personality meant no cursing, no yelling, no insulting. Interestingly, there was one moment of actual unabashed warmth and charm: as he was assigning the project to me, his desk phone rang. It was a client. Suddenly, life, charm, warmth. Even a giggle. The client conversation ended, the phone returned to its rest. And thenceforth back to the day the music died.

That is life in corporate America and in the whole world, from the communists in Ayn Rand’s We the Living to the employees at the National Broadcasting Company. Powerful people who sometimes get into their heads that they can abuse anyone who draws a paycheck from them. I encountered it a third time when I was one of three personal attorneys to a fabulously rich guy. An eccentric billionaire with a “b.” It was the easiest, cushiest job I ever had: a six-figure salary paid in 52 equal high installments, with a relatively super-light workload and an actual requirement to leave the office every day at 5:00 p.m. and a matching job requirement virtually never to bring work home. Beyond cushy. The Caucasian guy maintained an office staff comprised of lots of really pretty, young Asian women. I had my office, and each of the other two attorneys had their offices. There were a few other employees on hand: the boss’s “Girl Friday,” the front desk receptionist, the financial guy.

It soon became clear that the boss was a person whose attitude towards and treatment of women was appalling. One day, his Girl Friday quit, claiming he had overstepped boundaries. Two months later, one of the pretty Asian young ladies came into my office, also tears. The boss saw she now had begun wearing an engagement ring, and he ordered her to take it off: “The women who work here do not wear engagement rings.” She had been showing it off and now was devastated. Why tell me? My yarmulka: “I heard you used to be a rabbi. I needed to cry to someone.” And then a few days later another comes in crying: “The boss wants me to use a different first name at work. He doesn’t like my name, says it sounds too ethnic, and he doesn’t want me using that name at work. He wants me to tell people that my name is ‘Tiffany.’”

It is not easy to walk up to the boss and to call him out. You know you probably are going to get fired… or he will find a way, with someone else’s legal counsel, to create an opportunity to downsize your position at the first possible opportunity. So I went home, and I discussed the matter with the love of my life. In my prior marriage the conversation would have gone one way, but with my second wife I knew we would be on the same page: no amount of money ever will justify avoiding doing the right thing. If I have to give up the job, then I give up the cushy job. G-d will find me another job. We are not going to starve the rest of our lives if we do the right thing. So I took the steps needed to leave the job immediately. On my last day there, I told the lady with the engagement ring that, partly because of her ring, I was quitting my job. And I thanked her. I added that I would not blame her for doing so, too.

I know of a religious congregation. A woman in the congregation sought a pastoral session with the clergyman, and she reported that a married member of the congregation’s Board of Directors had forced a kiss on her. She was crying. The clergyman soon after learned of a second such incident with a second woman. The clergyman knew that, if he spoke out and blew the whistle, he would face a really difficult time with the management of the congregation. The congregants themselves were the most wonderful people, but the Board of Directors were a mix of the best and the least-best. The clergyman, after prayer and consulting with his spouse, reported the matter to an internal committee of the Board and demanded that the violator be removed from the Board and from all congregational honors. The reaction of the Committee was a mix of (i) “we will have to investigate it,” and (ii) “the allegations better be accurate —or else.” They investigated. The allegations were accurate. The violator was stripped of his Board position and all honors. And then, when it all calmed down, his friends on the Board and he began the quiet methodical campaign to implement the “Or Else” component.

That is how it works in real life. It happens to pastors in churches. It happens to attorneys at law firms. It happens to coal miners. It happens to stock traders. It happens in every industry, trade, and profession. It happens in the real world. And then there is Hollywood.

Meryl Streep publicly praised Harvey Weinstein as “god.” She did not know? And the clapping seals loved it, cheering and gleefully giggling at the Academy Awards.

Streep jumped to her feet, applauding Roman Polanski at the Academy Awards ceremony. She did not know he was a convicted child rapist? His very name elicited long and overwhelming standing applause, even from the guy at whose home the rape took place. Everyone stood and cheered — the same sorts who a few years later would stand and cheer scumbag-Robert De Niro for cursing the duly elected President of the United States. They did not know they were standing and cheering for a child rapist?

Ashley Judd, who enjoys historical significance as the first American whose mind has landed in a planet outside our known galaxy, detoured completely into an alternate zone of reality after President Trump’s election. But, while insanely trying to associate the President with incestual inclinations, never had the courage to tell the women of Hollywood about Harvey Weinstein. And she knew. She could have spoken out years earlier and spared other victims. But she was a coward. And she knew.

No one at CBS spoke out about Charlie Rose. No one knew? No one at NBC spoke out against Matt Lauer. No one knew?

Where were all the heroes and moralists and keepers of the public standards when the abusers were right under their well-sculpted-and-reshaped noses at their places of work, and they turned the other way for years and years to preserve their positions, get cast for movie parts, while holding their silence? And now they want to tackle Congressman Jim Jordan on the eve of his subpoenaing Rod Rosenstein or others at the Department of Justice because, thirty years ago, maybe he heard a rumor that he did not report in a different time, a different era? And he did not know.

It all is cynical and dishonest beyond words. Jim Jordan is a good man. He is a very honorable man. If we are going to go back thirty years to start digging up bones and skeletons, looking to destroy people who conducted themselves thoroughly properly for their time and place, though perhaps differently from what today’s standards would expect, let us take John Kennedy’s name off the airport sign at Idlewild because he fooled around with Judith Exner, if not Marilyn Monroe. Let us remove the name “Roosevelt” from the FDR Drive that runs up Manhattan’s east side because the man prevented refugees from Hitler from finding safety in this country, and he actually just-plain hated Jews. Let us revisit Al Sharpton’s role in instigating riots that led to death, and in advocating deathly violence against police, and in expressing so much hate against gays and Asians — so get him out of the public arena. Let us demand Kirsten Gillibrand’s resignation for aiding, abetting, and eagerly associating with the liar-Clintons — long after we all knew that liar-Bill would force himself on one woman, then another.

The campaign to destroy Rep. Jim Jordan is despicable stuff and nonsense. There is a reason that we have statutes of limitation and laws of repose. Otherwise, let us open a new category of litigation and start suing anyone we ever have met for anything that ever has happened. The eighth-grade kid who stole your cookie. The adult who knew it and did not whistleblow. The bus driver who laughed at you when you ran to catch the bus at age 14, and then closed the door just before you got in. The general practice family doctor at whose office you sought to be treated for symptoms of a virus, but who first told you that he wanted to check for an inguinal hernia — even though you insisted that you did not have any iguanas at home but were coughing phlegm and sneezing mucus.

If we had even one television news station dedicated to coverage of Hollywood and Broadway stars who knew of abusers at work but who never reported them, that channel would have enough to cover 24-7. Maybe when TMZ or “Access Hollywood” ratings start to slump.

So stand with Jim Jordan. He is a good man. And let him subpoena the records as Congress delves deeper and deeper into the bowels of the Deep State. And if you must get a daily fix on the politics of destruction and character assassination leveled against good people — now that Admiral Jackson has been defamed viciously, and the Trump Family seems to be enjoying a brief post-Peter-Fonda respite — fear not. The next campaign of personal destruction is about to launch: We now have a fabulous world-class United States Supreme Court justice nominee, with only two months available for the dummycrats-Democrat left and their Seedier Media to destroy a wonderfully dignified human being and perhaps an entire family.

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TheFrontPageCover
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Trump's SCOTUS Nomination 
Provides Little Resistance Ammo
by Thomas Gallatin
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House Freedom Caucus Is Standing By Jim Jordan
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ The House Freedom Caucus voted unanimously on Tuesday to support Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan amid allegations... that he ignored claims of sexual abuse while he was a wrestling coach at Ohio State University. “Jim Jordan is a man of integrity, and we believe him and stand with him 100 percent,” reads a statement from the caucus’s Twitter account. Jordan is a co-founder of the caucus, which consists of conservative and libertarian Republicans. North Carolina Rep. Mark Meadows, the chairman of the caucus and a close ally of Jordan’s, told reporters  that Jordan has the “unanimous support” of the nearly three dozen Freedom Caucus members. Meadows also said that there were unspecified “motives at play” to take down Jordan...I also stand by Jordan.   http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/10/house-freedom-caucus-jim-jordan/?utm_medium=email
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Germany Outlaws Turkish Boxing Gang
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer has banned a Turkish boxing gang called "Osmanen Germania BC" ("Germania Ottomans")... on the grounds that it poses a serious threat to public order. The gang, most of whose members are Turkish Germans, is said to be involved in organized criminal activity in all of Germany's 16 federal states. It is also believed to have close ties to the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. The German ban comes less than a day after Buzzfeed, an American internet media company, falsely accused Gatestone Institute of fabricating the existence of such gangs in Germany. Seehofer said the gang "poses a serious threat to individual legal interests and for the general public."...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12692/germany-turkish-boxing-gang 
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Israel launches Patriot missile against Syrian drone
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{ jpost.com } ~ A Patriot missile intercepted a drone which infiltrated into northern Israel on Wednesday... with some parts of the UAV falling in the Sea of Galilee. According to IDF Spokesman Brig.-Gen. Ronen Manelis the Syrian reconnaissance drone, which is not believed to have been armed, flew some 10 kilometers into Israeli territory and fell south of the Kinneret after it was intercepted. “The aerial defense systems identified the threat and tracked it,” read a IDF Spokesperson’s Unit statement, which added that “the IDF will not allow any violation of Israeli airspace and will act against any attempt to hurt its civilians.” Manelis stated that while it is still unclear whether the drone entered Israel intentionally or not, the drone was identified and tracked before it flew into the buffer zone by Israel. Two attack helicopters and four fighter jets were scrambled as options to intercept it but due to operational considerations a patriot missile was chosen to intercept it...
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Did Mayor De Blasio Cross the Border Illegally? 
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{ townhall.com } ~ When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio visited El Paso, Texas last month... he crossed a part of the U.S.-Mexico border on foot. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection is now alleging that he did so illegally. The Associated Press obtained a letter from Aaron Hull, the chief patrol agent for the Border Patrol’s El Paso Sector, to New York Police Department Commissioner James O’Neill  detailing how De Blasio potentially violated immigration law. De Blasio went to a holding facility for immigrant children but was denied entry. He then went to Mexico and crossed into the U.S. to get a view of the facility. The New York Police Department runs de Blasio’s security detail.  According to the letter, a uniformed Border Patrol agent noticed a group on the Rio Grande River flood plain south of the Tornillo, Texas, Port of Entry, taking photos of the holding facility. The agent asked if anyone from Border Patrol or public affairs was there to authorize their presence. A New York Police Department inspector said no, according to the letter, and when the agent asked the group how they arrived, they pointed to Mexico. The agent told them they’d crossed the border illegally and asked them to remain there while he got a supervisor and took them to an official crossing for an inspection per federal law, according to the letter. But the group disregarded the order and drove back to Mexico, according to the letter...Lock him up!
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Wrecking NATO
by Shoshana Bryen

{ americanthinker.com } ~ The Washington Post headline blared, "Trump is bent on wrecking NATO. Prepare for catastrophe."... The Post fears that President Trump's diplomacy will benefit Vladimir Putin to the detriment of American and European interests. European Council president Donald Tusk sniped, "Dear America, appreciate your allies. After all, you don't have that many." The NATO countries are, indeed, among America's closest allies, but some of them appear more interested in oil, natural gas, and trade with Iran than in the Fulda Gap. Some of our "closest allies" have been working overtime to undermine America. If Mr. Trump is irritated with them, there is a reason. Iran is preparing to take $300 million in cash out of German banks to get ahead of impending U.S. banking sanctions. While American intelligence officials are concerned that the money will finance terrorism, the German government says it has "no evidence" to that effect. According to the German newspaper Bild, "Iran ... says that they need the money 'to pass it on to Iranian individuals who, when travelling abroad, are dependent on euros in cash due to their lack of access to accepted credit cards.'"  The German government appears to think that one million Iranian tourists might need $300 each – or perhaps 300 tourists might need $1 million each....
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Trump's SCOTUS Nomination Provides Little Resistance Ammo

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by Thomas Gallatin:  President Donald Trump’s choice of Brett Kavanaugh to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy quickly earned high praise from Republicans who laud his conservative judicial record on the DC Circuit Court while at the same time presented dummycrats-Democrats with little substantive material to raise against his confirmation. In introducing Kavanaugh, Trump  noted  the importance of choosing a justice who was committed to upholding the Constitution, stating, “In keeping with President Reagan’s legacy, I do not ask about a nominee’s personal opinions. What matters is not a judge’s political views, but whether they can set aside those views to do what the law and the Constitution require. I am pleased to say that I have found, without doubt, such a person.”

             While Kavanaugh was not the flashiest pick as some of the others potential nominees may have been, he was by far the safest choice in light of the dummycrats-Democrats’ determined resistance. Former President George W. Bush, who originally tabbed Kavanaugh for the DC Circuit Court back in 2003, offered his full-throated support, stating that Trump had made an “outstanding decision” and that Kavanaugh was a “brilliant jurist” who “will make a superb Justice of the Supreme Court of the United State.” And maybe more importantly, Sen. rino-Susan Collins (R-ME), who is one of two moderate Republicans that dummycrats-Democrats have targeted to swing their way, struck a positive note, stating, “Judge Kavanaugh has impressive credentials and extensive experience.”
               However, the reality is that no matter who Trump chose, dummycrats-Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media were committed to engaging the #Resistance, doing everything in their power to prevent Trump from replacing Kennedy — famously or infamously known for being the Court’s swing vote — with a constitutionally committed conservative justice. Fordummycrats- Democrats, it is a hill worth dying on. In fact, Senate Minority Whip Dick Durbin (D-IL) called the issue a “life-and-death” scenario and even suggested thatdummycrats-Democrat senators up for reelection in red states need to be willing to lose in an effort to prevent confirmation.
               scumbag-Durbin further opined, “They [dummycrats- Democrats] understand it’s an historic decision. It’s about more than the next election. It’s about what future the United States of America is going to chart.” scumbag-Durban’s comments were clearly intended for those three dummycrats-Democrats up for reelection in states that Trump won. Those dummycrats- Democrats, who previously crossed the aisle to vote in favor of Justice Neil Gorsuch last time — West Virginia’s Joe Manchin, North Dakota’s Heidi Heitkamp and Indiana’s Joe Donnelly — will now be faced with even greater party pressure this time to toe the line.
               The dummycrats-Democrats’ strategy in opposing Kavanaugh will be two-fold. First will be an attempt to make the issue of liar-nObamaCare central by raising questions as to whether Kavanaugh would continue to support it as constitutional. Kavanaugh’s past remarks on liar-nObamaCare are something dummycrats-Democrats will undoubtedly target. Secondly, dummycrats-Democrats will attack his Roman Catholic faith in order to call into question his stance on abortion. As far as Kavanaugh’s judicial record, dummycrats-Democrats have little ammunition to challenge him on, therefore they will seek to attack his personal beliefs and not his commitment to upholding the Constitution. Ultimately, the dummycrats-Democrat Party’s endgame is to convince those dummycrats-Democrats in tight election races not to break ranks while at the same time convincing one or two moderate Republicans to do just that.
               One thing is becoming increasingly obvious, as evidenced by House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi’s (D-CA) recent stratospheric hyperbole: “Civilization as we know it today is at risk in this election. We have to win. We have to win.” dummycrats- Democrats are entering panic mode.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57026?mailing_id=3619&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3619&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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A #WalkAway Movement 
Whose Time Has Come  
by Arnold Ahlert
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 Russia Investigation Infected by 
Hyper-Political Bias Against Pres Trump
{ rickwells.us } ~ The ongoing probe into alleged collusion between Russia and the 2016 Trump presidential campaign was “infected by hyper-political bias against President Trump,”... Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said Friday. Appearing on The Ingraham Angle, Fitton discussed FBI memos detailing the pressure of FBI agent Peter Strzok put on former Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to ultimately get a warrant on Carter Page. He said that the memos are confirmation Strzok and his allies were looking for excuses to target Trump’s team: “Oh, it’s further confirmation that the Trump-Russia investigation was infected by this hyper-political bias against President Trump, where they’re looking for excuses to target his team.” Fitton further addressed Strzok’s statement on Carter Page, in which Strzok said “At the minimum, the letter provides a pretext to interview...
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DOJ Attorney Lisa Page Refuses To Testify To Congress
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) issued the following statement after Lisa Page decided to defy the Committee’s subpoena... “It appears that Lisa Page has something to hide. She plans to blatantly defy a congressional subpoena by refusing to appear for her deposition. She has known for months that the House Judiciary Committee has sought her testimony as part of our joint investigation with the Oversight Committee into decisions made by the Justice Department in 2016, and she has no excuse for her failure to appear. Lisa Page is a key witness, and it is critical that she come before our committees to answer questions as part of our investigation. “We will use all tools at our disposal to obtain her testimony. Americans across the country are alarmed at the bias exhibited by top officials at the Justice Department and FBI, and it is imperative Congress conduct vigorous oversight to ensure that never happens again.” When are you going to start charging these people who fail to testify?.
Trump, NATO head Stoltenberg have testy exchange at summit 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump on Wednesday had a testy exchange with the head of NATO... when he asked about energy agreements between Russia and several European countries. Trump repeatedly pressed Jens Stoltenberg, NATO's secretary general, on why the U.S. continued to pay money to the military alliance while countries continue to purchase energy from Moscow. “We are stronger together,” Stoltenberg insisted, but acknowledged that there can be differences among allies. Still, Trump persisted. “But how can you be together when you’re getting energy from the group you want protection from?” the president asked...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/11/trump-nato-head-have-testy-exchange-at-summit.html
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Michael Flynn Joins International Lobbying Firm
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Former national security advisor Michael Flynn has joined a global consulting firm as he awaits sentencing... in a case before the special counsel’s office. The Wall Street Journal reported that Flynn will work as a consultant for Stonington Global LLC., a lobbying firm founded by Nick Muzin and Joey Allaham. The firm will “help private investors and sovereign-wealth funds develop and execute investment strategies,” according to a statement provided to TheWSJ. “I will work every day to put my 33 years of experience in the military and serving Presidents of both parties in the White House to good use in helping companies and governments enhance the goals of freedom and liberty,” Flynn said in a statement...
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Tedra Cobb Tells Supporters She Wants 
‘Assault Rifle’ Ban But ‘Cannot Say That’ in Public 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Tedra Cobb, the dummycrats-Democratic candidate in New York's 21st Congressional District... told a group of teenage supporters that she supports a ban on certain firearms but won't say so publicly for fear of losing her election. "When I was at this thing today, it was the first table I was at, a woman said, ‘How do you feel about assault rifles?' And I said they should be banned," Cobb can be heard saying in the video recorded by one of the attendees. "And I said, you know, people were getting up to go, to go get their lunch because it was a buffet, and I just said to her, I want you to know Cindy, I cannot say that." When the woman pushed back on Cobb keeping quiet on how she feels about banning certain firearms, Cobb said coming out in favor of a gun ban would lead to her losing her bid against Republican incumbent Elise Stefanik...
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A #WalkAway Movement Whose Time Has Come  

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by Arnold Ahlert:  “I didn’t leave the dummycrats-Democratic Party, the Democratic Party left me."—Ronald Reagan, 1962

             "What do these people stand for? What is their platform? All I can figure out so far is ‘We hate Trump’ and ‘We love illegal immigrants.’"—openly gay Brandon Straka, founder of the #WalkAway campaign, 2018
               Of all the things exposed by the 2016 election — the rank corruption at the highest levels of national law enforcement, the astounding arrogance of judicial branch members who substitute political ideology for law, and the profound devolution of a mainstream media into a de facto Ministry of Truth whose "truth” is the advancement of the progressive agenda — none was more cathartic than the exposure of the “tolerant” American Left as the nation’s foremost promulgators of hate and hysteria.
               For decades, these self-appointed doyens of “enlightened” thinking have tasked themselves with fundamentally transforming a fundamentally flawed America into a socialist utopia run by globalist elites answerable to no one but themselves. Globalist elites whose commitment to “social justice” amounted to remaining wholly immune to the damage they inflicted on “deplorable” Americans while enriching themselves.
               On Nov. 8, 2016, their self-serving construct was conspicuously rejected.
               Ever since, the wisdom of an electorate rejecting that odious status quo — the one former president Barack liar-nObama assured us would be his “third term” with liar-Hillary Clinton in charge — has been completely validated. All one would have to do to realize the level of bankruptcy that attends progressive ideology is substitute Barack liar-nObama’s name for Donald Trump’s. And imagine the Left’s reaction if a comedian  stated liar-nObama’s mouth is Putin’s c—k holster, a high school mural depicted liar-nObama’s severed head, a Hollywood celebrity tweeted  someone should “rip” Malia or Sasha from Michelle liar-nObama’s arms and put one or the other in a cage full of pedophiles, or a Republican House representative  urged   conservatives to “push back” and “create a crowd” so that liar-nObama administration officials understood “they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!
               Just for starters. Brandon Straka has had enough. “The #WalkAway Campaign is a true grassroots movement,” his campaign’s Facebook page states. “It is a video campaign movement, dedicated to sharing the stories of people who can no longer accept the current ideology of liberalism and what the dummycrats-Democratic Party has become. … Some here have wanted to leave for some time, but have feared the consequences they might suffer from friends or family if they walk away.”
               Attorney Alan Dershowitz revealed some of those consequences, explaining that his “friends” on Martha’s Vineyard have shunned him for defending Trump’s constitutional rights. He cites one of them as saying that if he appeared at one of her parties she’d “stab him through the heart.
               MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough defends such puerile close-mindedness. “As my grandmother would say, Alan, when you lie down with dogs, you get up with fleas,” Scarborough sniffed. “And so he can’t try to undermine Robert Mueller … and then be shocked that he’s not allowed to go to the finest spots on Martha’s Vineyard.
               Scarborough’s contempt is shared by Washington Post columnist Abby Ohlheiser, who dismisses the #WalkAway campaign as a conservative-orchestrated mirage. “As the Internet fragments, our understanding of what it means to go ‘viral’ has become complicated, and increasingly meaningless. A hashtag claiming to capture a movement among liberals has gone viral, in this case, almost exclusively on the right-wing Internet, as a reinforcement of one of its binding ideas,” she writes. “There’s little actual evidence to suggest that #WalkAway represents a mass conversion of millions — or even thousands — of dummycrats- Democrats to the Trump Train since Straka’s video.
               As columnist David Catron explains, Ohlheiser misses the point, especially with regard to black Americans who have been one of the dummycrats-Democrat Party’s most reliable voting blocs — and thus taken for granted. “A ‘Great Awakening’ isn’t required,” he writes. “All that is needed is about 5 percent more African-Americans to vote Republican and another 5 to 10 percent to simply stay home. … That means, to quote Reagan, ‘We win, they lose.’”
               Unfortunately for dummycrats-Democrats, it’s not just black Americans Straka is recruiting. “If you are a person of color, an LGBT person, a woman or an American immigrant, the dummycrats-Democratic Party wants you to know you are a victim,” Straka says in a video he posted May 26. “This is perhaps the dummycrats-Democratic Party’s greatest, and most insidious, lie.”
               Lie? Political platform is more like it. Without the continued cultivation of victimization that fuels big-government dependency, dummycrats-Democrats are in serious trouble. Straka notes what their concern has engendered. “The dummycrats-Democratic Party that I once loved has joined forces with the extremist left.
               Don’t take his word for it. DNC Chairman Tom Perez has dubbed socialist dummycrats-Democrat commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez “the future of our party” following her defeat of incumbent Joe Crowley in New York’s 14th Congressional District primary.
               commie-Ocasio-Cortez makes it clear what that future portends: “free” Medicare for all, the abolishment of ICE, a federal government-imposed jobs guarantee, housing as a “human right,” mobilization against climate change, gun control and higher education “for everyone.” And like many of her fellow dummycrats- Democrats, she supports impeaching Donald Trump.
               Moreover, like commie-Bernie Sanders, who owns three homes and earned over a million dollars in 2016, commie-Ocasio-Cortez’s socialist, working class “girl from the Bronx” bona fides are conspicuously lacking. While she was born in the Bronx, her family moved to Yorktown Heights, a wealthy Westchester County suburban town, when she was five — a detail her biography conspicuously omitted until she subsequently “tweaked” it.
               Maybe that’s because Westchester is the eighth-richest county in the nation.
               “Do as I say, not as I do” hypocrisy and extremism are beginning to take a toll. “For far too long, the left has controlled the narrative in this country in news and media while the ‘silent majority’ on the right have done what they always do — remained silent,” the #WalkAway Facebook page continues. “The left has been allowed for so long to reinforce the narrative that everybody on the right is a bigot, a racist, a homophobe, a misogynist, etc. But the left has become so extreme, it’s now time to fight back.”
               Now? Conservatives have been fighting for quite some time. Fighting against Hollywood, academia, the media and the dummycrats-Democrat Party, along with the faction of GOPers who spinelessly acquiesce to the progressive agenda. Fighting against #NeverTrump blowhards like backstabber-Bill Kristol, George Will, Max Boot, Bret Stephens and others whose “principles” would have abided undiscovered Deep State machinations, a leftist Supreme Court, the continued hollowing out of Heartland America, and the open-borders/amnesty agenda a liar-Clinton presidency would have surely inflicted on the nation. The same “principles” that have them rooting for dummycrats-Democrats to prevail in November.
               Straka has other ideas. “This is a movement of patriots of all walks of life — men, women, black, brown, white, straight, LGBTQ, religious, non-believers, who share something very important in common… WE ARE AMERICAN and we will not surrender our country!” Amen to that.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/57002?mailing_id=3617&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3617&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body



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Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Is a Trump Court in the Making? 
by Pat Buchanan
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Mueller reveals tenuous link between Manafort charges and Trump
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ It's often been observed that special counsel Robert Mueller, assigned to investigate alleged Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign... has yet to charge anyone with a crime involving Trump-Russia collusion in the 2016 presidential campaign. The biggest of Mueller's indictments, that of one-time Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, has no connection at all to collusion. And until a few days ago, it appeared to have no connection to Donald Trump, either. Now, though, Mueller has revealed why he believes the Manafort prosecution is related to the 2016 Trump campaign. It's a small part, a very small part, of the overall charges against Manafort. And it has nothing to do with any actions by the candidate – now the president – himself...
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Voters in Key Swing District Reject ‘Abolish ICE’ Push 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ It's a typically mild, bright, and cloudless Fourth of July in this beachside swing Congressional district just a thirty-minute drive north of the San Diego border... Relaxed customers amble into a grocery store, some with children and dogs in tow, to gather last-minute items for their patriotic festivities. Most are not eager or willing to stop and talk about one of the most divisive political topics of the day—a new push by some dummycrats-Democrats to abolish U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the federal government agency known as ICE. Those who do stop to chat say they disagree with the rhetoric coming from liberal protesters and left-wing dummycrats- Democratic lawmakers and candidates demonizing the federal agency charged with detaining and deporting illegal immigrants...
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Six wrestling coaches defend 
Jim Jordan against allegations he ignored abuse claims
by Susan Ferrechio

{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Six former Ohio State University wresting coaches defended Rep. Jim Jordan on Monday against accusations... the GOP lawmaker ignored complaints of abuse by a team doctor when he was an assistant coach there. “I fully believe that Jim did not know of any allegations of sexual abuse by Dr. Richard Strauss at the Ohio State University,” former OSU assistant coach Rex Holman said in a letter released Monday signed by four other assistant coaches and a former head coach. “Jim is a leader that was very protective of his athletes. He would ask how you were doing in an effort to understand your mental state. It wasn’t a formality, but a genuine request to communicate. He wanted to make sure you were OK and help problem solve.” A group of former college wrestlers has accused the Ohio Republican of failing to act on talk of the abuse during Jordan’s time coaching at the school, which lasted from 1987 until 1995....
Islamist Foothold Discovered Here in America
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Tucked away in a quiet D.C. suburb in Maryland, the Diyanet Center of America (DCA) recently celebrated its two-year anniversary since opening in 2016... It was established with great fanfare, with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and other officials from his Justice and Development Party (AKP) attending the opening. To the casual observer, the DCA appears a harmless organization that seamlessly fits into a US society embracing cultural and religious diversity. For its American audience, the DCA’s website says that it serves “to provide religious, social and educational services to Turkish immigrants and Muslims living in the United States of America.” Writing in the Turkish publication Daily Sabah, however, the chief advisor to the Turkish Prime Minister declared that the DCA would spread the Turkish strain of Islam and fight the “Islamophobia engineers” that “darken the prospects for humanity.”... Kinda of reminds me of CAIR.   http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/09/turkey-building-islamist-beachheads-right-in-america/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=atdailycaller
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New HHS Documents Reveal that ‘Unaccompanied Alien Children’
Processed During Obama Years Included Violent Criminals, 
Drug Smugglers, and Human Traffickers 
{ judicialwatch.org } ~ Judicial Watch today released 224 pages of documents containing nearly 1,000 summaries of Significant Incident Reports (SIRs) from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)... revealing that “Unaccompanied Alien Children” (UAC) processed during the liar-nObama administration included admitted murderers, rapists, drug smugglers, prostitutes, and human traffickers. The documents, from the HHS Administration for Children and Families reported to the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR), are for the approximate six-month period May to November 2014. They were produced to Judicial Watch after a three-year delay in response to a November 12, 2014, Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request seeking. To the extent any information may be contained in the SIRs or SIR Addenda that is considered exempt from disclosure under 5 (U.S.C. § 552(b)(6), all non-exempt, segregable portions of the reports should be provided...
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Is a Trump Court in the Making? 
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by Pat Buchanan

{ townhall.com } ~ If Mitch McConnell's Senate can confirm his new nominee for the Supreme Court, President Donald Trump may have completed the capture of all three branches of the U.S. government for the Republican Party.

Not bad for a rookie.
         
And the lamentations on the left are surely justified. 
         
For liberalism's great strategic ally and asset of 60 years, the judicial dictatorship erected by Earl Warren and associates, may be about to fall.

Judicial supremacy may be on the way out.      

Another constitutionalist on the court, in the tradition of Antonin Scalia, could ring down the curtain on the social revolution the court has been imposing since the salad days of Chief Justice Earl Warren. 

Among the changes Warren's court and its successors succeeded in imposing: The de-Christianization of all public institutions in America. The social war of the 1970s over forced busing for racial balance in the public schools. The creation, ex nihilo, of new constitutional rights, first to an abortion, and then to homosexuality and same-sex marriage.

But while the confirmation of a new Trump justice may bring an end to the revolution, it will return power to where it belongs in a constitutional republic, with elected legislators and elected executives.

There will not likely be any sudden and radical rollback of changes wrought in six decades. For some of those changes have become embedded in the public consciousness as the new normal, and will endure.

Roe v. Wade may be challenged. But even if overturned, states like New York and California, which had liberalized abortion laws before Roe, are not likely to re-criminalize it. 

Affirmative action, however, racial discrimination against white males to promote diversity, may be on the chopping block. 

Why did it take until Trump to restore constitutionalism to the Supreme Court, when the Warren Court had been a blazing issue since the 1950s and Republicans held the presidency for 28 years from 1968 to 2016, and had managed to elevate 12 justices? 

Answer: Every GOP president save Bush II, has appointed justices who grew to believe the court had a right to remake America to conform to their image of the ideal liberal democracy. And they so acted. 

Said Ike ruefully on his retirement: Two of my worst mistakes are sitting up there on the Supreme Court. 

The two were Warren, who, as California's governor, had pushed to put Japanese-Americans in concentration camps in World War II, and William Brennan, the most radical justice to sit in over half a century.

Nixon came to office committed to rein in the court by naming "strict constructionists." Yet three of the four justices he named would vote for Roe v. Wade in 1973. Harry Blackmun, whom Nixon rushed onto the bench after his Southern nominees Clement Haynsworth and G. Harrold Carswell were trashed and rejected, became the author of Roe. 

Nixon's fourth nominee, William Rehnquist, was his best, a brilliant jurist whom Reagan himself would elevate to chief justice.

Gerald Ford's sole nominee, John Paul Stevens, confirmed 97-0 in the Senate, turned left soon after his confirmation to join Blackmun.

Reagan named Sandra Day O'Connor, the first woman, and Scalia. 

But when his effort to elevate Judge Robert Bork failed, he turned to Anthony Kennedy of California, whose seat Trump is filling today.

Over 30 years, Kennedy's vote proved decisive in 5-4 decisions to uphold Roe, to discover homosexuality as a constitutional right, and to raise same-sex unions to the legal level of traditional marriage.

George H.W. Bush's first choice was David Souter, who also turned left to join the liberal bloc. Bush I got it right on his second try in 1991, naming the constitutionalist Clarence Thomas.

As for George W. Bush, he chose John Roberts as Chief Justice to succeed Rehnquist and then Sam Alito as associate justice.

Thus, of 15 justices Republican Presidents have named since World War II, five -- Warren, Brennan, Blackmun, Stevens and Souter -- became liberal activists. Kennedy and Sandra Day O'Connor, both Reagan choices, became swing justices and voted with the court's liberals on critical social issues.

dummycrats-Democratic presidents have done far better by their constituents. 

Of seven justices named by LBJ, liar-Clinton and liar-nObama, every one -- Thurgood Marshall, Arthur Goldberg, Abe Fortas, Ruth Ginsburg, Stephen Breyer, Elena Kagan, Sonia Sotomayor -- turned out to be predictably and consistently liberal. 

Clearly, the advisers to George W. Bush and President Trump looked back at the successes and the failures of previous GOP presidents, and have done a far better job of vetting nominees. They reached outside for counsel.

It was Trump's 2016 pledge to draw his nominees to the high court from a list of 20 judges and scholars supplied by the Federalist Society that reassured conservatives and helped him unite his party and get elected. 

On the issue of judicial nominees and justices to the Supreme Court, Trump has kept his word. 

And the next Supreme Court may one day be called the Trump Court.

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Wed/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Family Separation Not 
Trump Administration's Fault
by Hans von Spakovsky 
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Wednesday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  As NATO summit begins, Trump says allies “must pay more,” the U.S. “must pay less” (CNS News)
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Trump challenges NATO on defense spending (BizPac Review)
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Trump’s “fresh eyes” spark massive federal reform (Washington Examiner)
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dummycrats-Dems attack, but know they don’t have the votes on Brett Kavanaugh (The Hill)
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How significant is rino-McCain’s cheerleading for Kavanaugh? (Hot Air)
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Here’s what happened the last time dummycrats-Democrats tried to deny Kavanaugh a court seat (The Daily Signal)
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Illegal border crossing would be felony offense under proposed GOP bill (Fox News)
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Sen. Lankford: Some illegal alien parents don’t want to take their children back (CNS News)
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DNA tests, criminal charges complicate effort to reunite illegal alien families (The Washington Times)
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Judge warns Trump administration to stick to deadline on family reunification (The Hill)
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Trump hits two more countries with visa sanctions for refusing to take back deportees (The Daily Caller)
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Trump administration details $200 billion in new tariffs on China (Washington Examiner)
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rino-Jeff Flake says Senate will vote on resolution opposing Trump’s tariffs (Washington Examiner)
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The case for civil disobedience in Oregon (National Review)
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U.S. will become world’s top oil-producing country (Bloomberg News)
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YouTube will use “quality news” sources to fight fake news (The Daily Signal)
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commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez with another surprise election win — in a district she wasn’t even running in (New York Daily News)
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Trump pardons Oregon cattle ranchers in land dispute (The Washington Times)
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Anti-Trump FBI lawyer Lisa Page refuses to testify, despite subpoena (The Washington Times)
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CU Boulder students join effort to fight Boulder’s new “assault weapons” ban (The College Fix)
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Policy: A “balanced” Supreme Court isn’t the point (Washington Examiner)
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Policy: Costly prevailing wage laws harm minorities and younger workers (E21)   
 
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The UN Fraudulently Addresses 
"Extreme Poverty" in the United States
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Is the United Nations a group of people of good faith, joining together in the effort to help bring peace and justice and economic development to the world?... Or is it a group of haters of freedom and capitalism engaged primarily in spewing ignorance, malice or both toward the United States? For a clue, you might take a look at the "Report of the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights on his mission to the United States of America," recently issued by the UN's so-called Human Rights Council. Yes, this is the same Human Rights Council from which the U.S. just announced its withdrawal. It is also the same Human Rights Council that includes among its members China, Cuba, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Venezuela -- with ambassadors who think that the best use of their time and resources is to criticize the economic and human rights record of the U.S. The UN's Report grew out of a two-week December 1-15, 2017 "visit" to the United States by an Englishman, Philip Alston, designated the "Special Rapporteur." After its issuance in May, the Report drew more attention than it might have otherwise because on June 12 it brought forth a letter to UN Ambassador Nikki Haley from a collection of Members of Congress, led by commie-Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth dimky-Warren, expressing supposed "deep concern" about the findings. This letter in turn provoked a sharp rebuke from Haley on June 21...
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Israeli spacecraft aims for historic moon landing… within months
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by STUART WINER AND SHOSHANNA SOLOMON
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Save the date. On February 13, 2019, an Israeli-built unmanned spacecraft is expected to land on the moon... having blasted off from Earth two months earlier, project managers said at a news conference Tuesday. If all goes well, the SpaceIL spider-like craft will give Israel entry into the exclusive club of just three nations that have so far achieved a controlled landing on the moon’s surface. The probe will be launched sometime in December from Cape Canaveral aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, officials said during the media event, held at an Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) space technology site in Yehud. It is scheduled to land on February 13, 2019...
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Trump pardons ranchers whose 
arrests led to armed occupation of wildlife refuge 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump on Tuesday pardoned the father and son ranchers from Oregon... whose imprisonment for setting fires on federal land sparked a 41-day takeover of a wildlife refuge in the state. Trump signed the order granting clemency to 76-year-old Dwight Hammond and his son, Steven Hammond, 49, who were convicted of arson in 2012 for fires that burned on federal land in 2001 and 2006. Though they served their original sentences for the conviction -- Dwight serving three months, Steven serving one year -- an appellate judge ruled in 2015 that the terms were too short under federal minimum sentencing laws and the Hammonds were resentenced to serve the mandatory minimum. This decision led to the 2016 protests...
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Mexico Creates ‘Police Force’ to 
Stop Illegals from Crossing Its Southern Border 
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ Mexican President-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is planning on strengthening his nation’s southern border... with a new specialized police force in an effort to crack down on drug-related gun violence and illegal crossings. Alfonso Durazo, who has been picked by Obrador to head up the effort, told  Bloomberg the new force will be sizable. The force will be deployed to Mexico’s northern border with the U.S., as well. “We’re going to create a border police force that will be highly specialized,” Durazo said. “They need to apply the law,” including stopping undocumented migrants and human traffickers from crossing into Mexico...Its really hard to believe this stroy, we will need to see it.
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The Inauthentic Flip-Flopping of commie-Bernie Sanders
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ "Open borders? No, that's a Koch brothers proposal," commie- Bernie Sanders snapped... "You're doing away with the concept of a nation state, and I don't think there's any country in the world that believes in that." "What right-wing people in this country would love is an open-border policy,” he continued. "You know what youth unemployment is in the United States of America today? If you're a white high school graduate, it's 33 percent, Hispanic 36 percent, African American 51 percent. You think we should open the borders and bring in a lot of low-wage workers, or do you think maybe we should try to get jobs for those kids?" That was three years ago. commie-Bernie’s final surrender came after dodging a question on CNN about abolishing ICE. After the backlash, he went even further, issuing a statement urging that we "abolish the cruel, dysfunctional immigration system we have today”. Open borders had gone from a right-wing position to a commie-Bernie position. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, commie-Bernie's rare successful socialist candidate, had already told Al Jazeera that, "We should grant people a safe and documented right of passage"...
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Family Separation Not Trump Administration's Fault

by Hans von Spakovsky

 

             The furor over the family separation issue — children not being kept with their parents who have been detained for illegally entering the country — is odd. This is not some new phenomenon suddenly imposed by the Trump administration. It happened during the liar-nObama, Bush, and liar-Clinton administrations, too.
               Where did the policy come from? In 1997, then-Attorney General Janet Reno settled a lawsuit, Flores v. Reno, filed in California challenging the liar-Clinton administration’s detention of juvenile migrants taken into custody by the INS. In the settlement, the government agreed that it could detain unaccompanied minors for only 20 days before releasing them to the Department of Health and Human Services for placement either in foster care or with their parents, close relatives, or a legal guardian. A controversial decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit extended this 20-day limit to juveniles who illegally cross the border with their parents.
               So the reason that children can’t stay with their parents who are being prosecuted under federal immigration law is because of a court’s misinterpretation of a settlement agreed to by the liar-Clinton administration — not the Trump administration.
               Keep in mind that those parents would be instantly reunited with their families if they did the right thing — volunteered to return to their native country. By breaking the law and bypassing our legal immigration process, those parents are responsible for what is happening to their children.
               President Trump signed an executive order on June 20 directing that families who enter the country illegally be kept together “to the extent permitted by law.” This is an obvious reference to the Flores settlement and the limits it places on the government. But at least Trump is trying to do something about that. The executive order directs the attorney general to go to the California court with jurisdiction over the Flores case and ask the court to modify the settlement agreement to allow the government to keep families together while the parents are detained.
               The current outrage over this was generated by a recent Associated Press story about 2,000 children separated from their parents. The hypocrisy of the critics and protesters is demonstrated by their lack of concern for the much larger number of children who are placed in foster care when their parents are incarcerated. We don’t fail to arrest, prosecute and jail Americans who commit crimes because they have children.
               In 2016 alone, according to a report by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, 20,939 children were placed in foster care because their parents were incarcerated. In 2015, the number was 21,006. So the number of American kids who are placed in foster care because their parents are incarcerated is exponentially larger than the number of children who are also separated from the parents because their parents broke federal immigration law.
               Another reason for the separation problem is immigrants who enter the county illegally making false asylum claims to avoid being deported. If an immigrant follows the law by presenting himself at a port of entry with his family and claiming asylum, then his family will stay together. It is when immigrants who are caught illegally crossing the border then claim asylum that they risk being prosecuted for illegal entry. They are then separated from their children because of the liar-Clinton-era settlement.
               Many immigrants claiming asylum pass through countries such as Mexico with their own generous asylum laws. If an immigrant doesn’t claim asylum before he gets to the U.S., that is a clear indication that he is coming here for economic reasons, not because he has a valid asylum claim.
               No one wants to see families separated — and that includes the families of immigrants and of American citizens. But one of the consequences of breaking the law is that you may be separated from your children when you go to prison. Moreover, they may end up in foster care because of your misdeeds. That applies whether you are committing a domestic crime such as assault or robbery, or violating federal immigration law by illegally crossing — or recrossing — our border.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/56987?mailing_id=3617&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3617&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Framing Creation
by Tom McLaughlin
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Chinese Aviation Firm Seeking Investment in U.S. Aircraft Makers 
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ A Chinese state-run aircraft and missile manufacturer linked to military programs and past espionage is attempting to purchase interests in major U.S. aircraft manufacturers... According to Trump administration officials, the Aviation Industry Corp of China, known as AVIC, is seeking to gain access to advanced technology through attempts to buy minority stakes in major aircraft companies. The attempts were detected by U.S. intelligence agencies several months ago and reported internally within the U.S. government. One unit that has been tracking the activity is a special Air Force group known as the Office of Competitive Economic Analysis. Spy agencies are concerned about the buy-in effort since AVIC already has made inroads into the U.S. aircraft supply chain by buying aviation support companies and those involved in commercial aviation...
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dummycrats-Democrats Endorse Judicial Tyranny
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by Tom Trinko
{ americanthinker.com } ~ It's very clear that dummycrats-Democrats -- the politicians, not all the people who vote for them -- hate democracy...  dummycrats-Democrats don't believe that power is from the people; rather dummycrats-Democrats believe that the elites, which in the minds of dummycrats-Democrats is made up solely of dummycrats-Democrats, should rule the rest of us. We can see this in the dummycrats-Democrats refusing to accept the results of the 2016 election. We can see it in the dummycrats-Democrats enthusiasm for the administrative state where unelected, unaccountable, unfireable bureaucrats can create thousands of pages of rules and regulations which average Americans have to follow. But we see it most clearly in the panic that dummycrats-Democrats are experiencing over the idea that Trump will be nominating someone to the Supreme Court who will decide cases based on what the law says rather than what they think the law should say....
The 2018 Medicare Trustees Report: Fiscal and Policy Challenges
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{ aei.org } ~ Medicare’s financial outlook has deteriorated in the past year... according to the latest annual report by the program’s trustees. The Medicare Hospital Insurance trust fund is projected to be depleted in 2026, three years earlier than estimated in last year’s report. That understates the policy challenge. Every year, the program relies more on general revenues to cover its costs. In total, Medicare will receive $324 billion in general revenues this year. That will more than double by 2026. Prompt action is needed to put Medicare on a sound financial footing...
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Entire Thai soccer team, coach 
freed from cave after daring rescue, Navy says 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ The dramatic three-day rescue of a Thai youth soccer team that had been stuck in a flooded cave came to an end Tuesday... when the last boy and the team's coach were plucked from the underground cavern -- more than two weeks after they became trapped, Navy officials said. The Thai Navy SEALS said on Facebook all 12 boys from the team and the team's coach were out of the cave. Four rescuers, a doctor and three Navy SEALS remained inside until coming out of the cave two hours later. "All 12 Wild Boars and coach have been extracted from the cave. Hooyah!" the post said. The Navy SEALS later wrote: "We are not sure if this is a miracle, a science, or what. All the thirteen Wild Boars are now out of the cave."...
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We Should Be Very Skeptical of This Jim Jordan Witch Hunt

{ patriotnewsdaily.com } ~ Other than perhaps Devin Nunes and Mark Meadows, we can think of very few Capitol Hill Republicans that dummycrats-Democrats would love to take down more than Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan... Jordan, a card-carrying member of the conservative Freedom Caucus, has been an ardent supporter of the president and a fierce critic of the Robert Mueller investigation. Together with Nunes and other patriots in the House, Jordan has been instrumental in shedding a light on the many misdeeds of the liar-nObama-era Justice Department, thus making it ever more difficult to the dummycrats-Democrats to pull off their legal coup against Donald J. Trump. We’re apparently supposed to take it as coincidence that he just happens to suddenly be facing multiple accusations that he stood by and allowed student wrestlers to be sexually assaulted while working as an assistant coach at Ohio State University. Hmm. For the record, we’re not saying that we flat-out don’t believe the accusations to be true. Perhaps they are. And if they are, then Jordan will have to face the political and, perhaps, legal consequences for whatever his role was in allowing this abuse to go on. We have no problem with that; we’re not in the business of protecting those who protect molesters – not by a long shot. But we are skeptical. Damn skeptical....
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Framing Creation
by Tom McLaughlin
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{ tommclaughlin.blogspot.com } ~ It bothers me some that I’ve become attached to an inanimate object: my new camera. Realizing I had left it at our Lovell house and had to do without it a few days, I became mildly depressed. We were heading to Connecticut for my nephew’s wedding and I had to take along my backup camera, a Nikon D7100, which I leave in our South Portland house for just such an emergency. Only last April it had been my main camera and constant companion and my older D60 was the backup. When the new D850 finally arrived after months of waiting, I was infatuated and the D7100 felt like an old girlfriend.
 
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The older camera had rendered me thousands of great images over five years. It was always within reach, and with its 24.1 megapixel capability I could enlarge images with little blurring if I didn’t crop them too much. Colors were good, automatic focus worked well, and I have several lenses for it. When Nikon introduced the D850 last September — a full-frame DSLR for half the price of Nikon’s flagship D5, and with equivalent capabilities, I had to have it. It’s biggest advantage is that it shoots at a remarkable 45 megapixels. It’s also very fast, has great dynamic range, and enormous versatility in low light.
 
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There are drawbacks though. Because it’s a full-frame camera, I can’t use my older Nikon DX lenses. Well, I could actually, but they would diminish the D850’s capabilities so what would be the point? I had to invest in a new 28-300 millimeter FX zoom lens for another $1000. However, 28 millimeters isn’t quite wide enough for many shots I want to get. I miss the wide-angle function on the 18-270 I used for nearly ten years with my two earlier cameras.
 
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My very first camera was a red plastic box I got for Christmas around 1960. It used 620 film and flashbulbs. I can still remember how they smelled after going off — a scent I’ll never detect again I don’t think flashbulbs are manufactured anymore. I shot off several rolls but they sat in a kitchen cabinet for a long time before being developed, because I didn’t have the money. Processing was expensive. There wasn’t much I could do to frame a shot with that old box, either. I could walk around my subject. I could get up high or down low, but those were the only options.
 
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In the late sixties I worked after school in the camera department of an old King’s Department Store in Tewksbury, Massachusetts where a Demoulas Supermarket now exists. When it wasn’t too busy I would take a 35 mm Minolta SRT-101 out of the display case and admire its workmanship. It was a top-of-the-line camera in those days but at $199.99 it was way out of my reach. For our first Christmas in 1971 however, my wife, Roseann, gifted me with one. That was forty-six years ago and I still have it. Although I haven’t shot with it for perhaps fifteen years and may never again, I do take it out once in a while just to admire its fine tolerances.
 
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In the 5th verse in the Gospel of John he says: “God is light.” The late psychiatrist Scott Peck said once: “Sometimes I think God really IS light,” and I believe he was correct. That’s not all God is of course, but He does illuminate His creation. Without light we see nothing. Some say a camera is a tool for capturing light, but I see it as a way of capturing the play of light on the things He willed into existence, including my loved ones and the world in which we live. Everywhere I go, I’m thinking of how to frame some portion of what I’m seeing around me through a lens. My imagined frame might be a few inches across, a few feet, a few yards, or several miles.
 
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That manner of seeing is especially acute just before and after sunrise, then again just before and after sunset. If there are clouds or mist to filter and reflect light at those times, I feel like I’m in heaven. Living on the side of a west-facing hill in Lovell gives me more opportunities at twilight, especially after a summer thunderstorm. In South Portland, there are several places within a five or ten-minute drive where I can watch the sun before and after it clears the Atlantic horizon before breakfast.
 
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Other mornings I’m at Kezar Lake in Lovell when it’s mirror-like and misty. While checking the properties I care for and it’s not unusual for loons to surface only a few yards from where I’m standing. Perhaps they sense the veneration lake dwellers hold for them because they’re unafraid as I snap frame after frame.
 
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Perhaps I’m so attached to that camera because it encourages me to notice beauty all around me I might otherwise miss.

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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Trump Supporters Compared To Cultists 
by Cal Thomas
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Former FBI Lawyer Lisa Page 
to Face Questioning About Anti-Trump Texts 
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{ newsmax.com } ~ Former FBI lawyer Lisa Page will be questioned in private by congressional investigators Wednesday... a day before bureau agent Peter Strzok is to testify publicly about the beginnings of the government’s Russia collusion investigation, according to two congressional officials. Anti-Trump messages between Page and Strzok during the 2016 presidential campaign, when they were involved romantically, have fueled accusations from President Donald Trump and Republican lawmakers that the Russia probe was tainted early on by bias among some members of the FBI assigned to it. On Monday morning, Trump tweeted one of his frequent jibes on the matter, denouncing the probe that’s now run by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a Republican, as the “Rigged Witch Hunt, originally headed by FBI lover boy Peter S for one year & now, 13 Angry dummycrats-Democrats.”...   https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/lisa-page-fbi-trump-texts/2018/07/09/id/870721/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1801629_07092018&s=al&dkt_nbr=010102zz6pr9
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Bombshell: Hunt for Seth Rich's murderer turns up 'witness'
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{ wnd.com } ~ The convoluted case of the murder in Washington, D.C., of dummycrats-Democrat operative Seth Rich has taken another turn... with a lobbyist who has been investigating the case claiming that there has been found a “credible” witness. The announcement from Jack Burkman, a Washington-based lawyer and lobbyist, was revealed by the Gateway Pundit blog, which posted a disclaimer that the “shocking information” was given to the blog and it will report after Burkman’s event on Tuesday. Burkman told the Pundit, “We believe that we have reached the beginning of the end of the Seth Rich murder investigation. After two long hard years of work, we have a witness who is prepared to identify the two killers of Seth Rich.” The Pundit reported Burkman gave an exclusive interview on Sunday, where he said, “One is reportedly a current DEA agent, the other is reportedly a current ATF agent.”...   http://www.wnd.com/2018/07/bombshell-hunt-for-seth-richs-murderer-turns-up-witness/.
How the EPA and the Pentagon 
Downplayed a Growing Toxic Threat
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{ propublica.org } ~ The chemicals once seemed near magical, able to repel water, oil and stains... By the 1970s, DuPont and 3M had used them to develop Teflon and Scotchgard, and they slipped into an array of everyday products, from gum wrappers to sofas to frying pans to carpets. Known as perfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS, they were a boon to the military, too, which used them in foam that snuffed out explosive oil and fuel fires. It’s long been known that, in certain concentrations, the compounds could be dangerous if they got into water or if people breathed dust or ate food that contained them. Tests showed they accumulated in the blood of chemical factory workers and residents living nearby, and studies linked some of the chemicals to cancers and birth defects. Now two new analyses of drinking water data and the science used to analyze it make clear the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Defense have downplayed the public threat posed by these chemicals. Far more people have likely been exposed to dangerous levels of them than has previously been reported because contamination from them is more widespread than has ever been officially acknowledged...   https://www.propublica.org/article/how-the-epa-and-the-pentagon-downplayed-toxic-pfas-chemicals?utm_source=pardot&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter
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Robert Mueller Lead Attorney Coordinated 
Investigative Strategy With Four AP “Reporters”
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Justice Department documents released on Friday confirm that the DOJ attorney known as Robert Mueller’s “pit bull” arranged a meeting with journalists... in April 2017 to discuss an investigation into Paul Manafort. The documents show that Andrew Weissmann arranged a meeting with DOJ and FBI officials and four Associated Press reporters on April 11, 2017, just over a month before Mueller was appointed special counsel. Manafort’s lawyers obtained the documents on June 29 and revealed them in a briefing filed in federal court in Virginia. The attorneys are pushing for a hearing into what they say are possible leaks of secret grand jury information, false information and potentially classified materials from the meeting. “The meeting raises serious concerns about whether a violation of grand jury secrecy occurred,” a lawyer for Manafort, Kevin Downing, wrote in a motion requesting a hearing. “Based on the FBI’s own notes of the meeting, it is beyond question that a hearing is warranted.”...
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Amy Coney Barrett vs. Ruth Bader Ginsburg…
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{ spectator.org } ~ Frankly,” said Ruth Bader Ginsburg in July 2009, “I had thought that at the time Roe was decided... there was concern about population growth and particularly growth in populations that we don’t want to have too many of. So that Roe was going to be then set up for Medicaid funding for abortion.” The great added blessing of Roe: Not only could it give women the “right” to abortion, but it could open the way for the federal government, via Medicaid, to fund abortions of children in undesired populations. That assessment by Ginsburg was provided in a July 7, 2009 piece in the New York Times Magazine, titled, “The Place of Women on the Court.” And for 25 years, succeeding a pro-life justice named Byron White, Ruth Bader Ginsburg has held the Planned Parenthood seat on the nation’s high court, where she has fought for the hopes and dreams of Margaret Sanger’s organization. In fact, she has done so in ways more in keeping with Sanger than liberals would care to admit. Sanger wanted Planned Parenthood, whose clinics are disproportionately located near African-American neighborhoods, to achieve precisely what Ginsburg alluded to. There were certain populations that Sanger badly didn’t want too many of...
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Trump Supporters Compared To Cultists 
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by Cal Thomas

{ townhall.com } ~ Bob Corker, the outgoing Republican senator from Tennessee, recently compared supporters of President Trump to members of a cult. The Washington Post quoted Corker as saying: "It's becoming a cultish thing, isn't it? It's not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be of -- purportedly -- of the same party."

Purportedly? It would be nice to know what the Republican Party stands for these days, especially when it comes to spending and debt, but I will leave that for another day.

The Post story says "...the Republican Party appears united now not by fealty to ideas or policies but to a man, who defied the odds to win the presidency and who has magnetically drawn the party's power base to himself."

Doesn't that reasoning also describe the rise to power of Barack liar-nObama and liar-Bill Clinton -- the former this country's first African-American president, the latter the former governor of a Southern state with a great gift of gab, though personally flawed in ways similar to President Trump? Why did the media not label liar-Clinton followers cultists? Why weren't people who appeared to worship President liar-nObama regarded as blind followers of a cult-like leader? Answer: because they are dummycrats-Democrats, and the standards are different fordummycrats- Democrats.

Corker is right about how the GOP focused less on ideas and more on winning, but that could describe both parties at varying points in history.

What Corker and the Post fail to grasp is the level of anger directed at both parties. Too often, dummycrats-Democrats and Republicans appear to care more about their own political careers than the careers and lives of voters. Trump supporters transcend party loyalty, as does Trump. But -- and this is key -- they believe he cares about them and so they are willing to forgive his past personal indiscretions and current lies because they think his policies and the more positive direction of the country benefit them more than it does the political and media class.

Cultists reject any evidence that proves their faith is wrong. Trump supporters believe he is taking the country away from elitist snobs who care little about Middle America, except at election time. He is channeling their anger and frustration about broken government and dysfunctional Washington. They are glad he has an opportunity with his Supreme Court appointments to undo some of the judicial activism the Founders never intended for the court to practice and to again make the Constitution central to the nation's governing life.

They have grown tired of being stereotyped as yahoo hillbillies and uneducated Bible-thumpers who, according to Barack liar-nObama, "get bitter" and "cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them..." Trump is their revenge and they are enjoying it. Look at the crowds the president continues to draw from his base as he travels. Their level of enthusiasm for him is at the level of a presidential campaign.

The support the president is receiving isn't just about him. It appears to stem from a sense of gratitude from people who have been ignored by many politicians and now believe they have a champion who listens to and speaks for them. Is he a perfect champion? Of course not. What politician, what human, is perfect? But Trump supporters believe his policies are far better than those advocated by liar-Hillary Clinton and the dummycrats-Democratic Party, which seems to be trending more socialist every day.

People who embrace socialism after its demonstrated failures all over the world --Venezuela and Cuba are two examples -- are more like cultists than Trump supporters. And labeling them as cultists will only serve to drive more of them to the polls in the next two elections.

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Tues/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
The Values Underlying Independence Day 
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Patriot Prayer Rally Interrupted by Antifa 
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{ patrioticviralnews.com } ~ Here’s one for you. The left is now trying to deny that Antifa even exists... Seriously. First, they tried to condone the group by emphasizing their anti-fascist ideology and by saying it’s ok to punch Nazis. That stance emboldened Antifa, and now there’s countless video evidence of these thugs starting violence where there otherwise would be none. The group’s true colors have long since been revealed. Since the left largely endorsed them, their only choice now is to pretend like the group itself is a hoax. So, never mind what you’ve seen. All of those videos of riots and violence are faked. Steven Crowder didn’t really infiltrate the group and receive illegal weapons from them. And, he and his staff definitely aren’t helping the FBI investigate the group. It’s all false. Like the moon landing. Move along. There’s nothing to see here. The sweet irony of it all is that the left is right — sort of. They do need to distance themselves from Antifa or else risk getting slaughtered in November. This video talks about how Americans view Antifa and other radicals. It covers the stakes and makes it clear why this is an extremely important issue for the left...
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Qatar: End Gaza riots by letting Gazans work in Israel 
{ israelnationalnews.com } ~ The Gulf Arab state of Qatar has called on Israel to issue thousands of entry permits to Gazans living in the Hamas-ruled Strip... allowing them to work in Israel, arguing that such a move would reduce tensions and end the ongoing wave of “kite terrorism” and balloon bomb attacks. Since March 30th, tens of thousands of Gaza rioters have gathered on the Israel border, clashing with IDF forces and attempting to breach the security fence. In recent weeks, however, the rioters have shifted from direct attacks on the border to the use of improvised explosive or incendiary devices, attached to balloons and kites, then flown over the border into Israeli territory. The resulting fires have caused millions of dollars in property damage. Israeli forces have responded by targeting the terrorist cells responsible for launching the ‘balloon bombs’ and terror kites...This offer will not work for they hate Israelis.
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Top Iranian general: Forces in Syria 
‘awaiting orders’ to destroy Israel 
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ In a recent speech, the deputy commander of Iran’s Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) boasted that the “Islamic army in Syria” in the Golan Heights... was awaiting orders to eradicate the “evil regime” of Israel. He also said the Tehran-backed Hezbollah terror group had 100,000 missiles aimed at Israel. “We are creating might in Lebanon because we want to fight our enemy from there with all our strength,” he stated. “Hezbollah today has tremendous might on the ground that can on its own break the Zionist regime. The Zionist regime has no strategic-defensive depth.” “Today an international Islamic army has been formed in Syria, and the voices of the Muslims are heard near the Golan,” he said. “Orders are awaited, so that… the eradication of the evil regime Israel will land and the life of this regime will be ended for good. The life of the Zionist regime was never in danger as it is now.”...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/top-iranian-general-forces-in-syria-lebanon-awaiting-orders-to-destroy-israel/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=ba7bedf2e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_09_11_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-ba7bedf2e4-54638825
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McConnell Destroys dummycrats-Democratic Opposition
To Potential SCOTUS Nominee: ‘The Apocalypse Hasn’t Come Yet’
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke on the Senate floor Monday attacking... dummycrats-Democratic opposition to President Donald Trump’s future Supreme Court nominee, citing dummycrats- Democrats’ historical panic at conservative SCOTUS nominees. “Back in 1975, they assailed the  nomination of John Paul Stephens. They said he lacked impartiality and opposed women’s rights … So these far left groups have been at the same scare tactics for over 40 years,” McConnell said. “This far left rhetoric comes out every single time. The apocalypse never comes.” “No matter their qualifications, no matter their record, no matter their reputation, it’s the same hyperbole, the same accusations, the same old story,” McConnell said. McConnell also cited the nomination of David Souter, who turned out to be a fairly liberal justice under former President George H. W. Bush...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/09/mcconnell-democratic-opposition-scotus/?utm_medium=email
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So, You Think You're Tolerant?
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{ prageru.com } ~ Are you tolerant? You probably think so... But who is tolerant in America today? Is it those on the left, or those on the right? In this video, Dave Rubin of The Rubin Report analyzes this question and shares his experience.
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The Values Underlying Independence Day 
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano

{ townhall.com } ~ The Declaration of Independence - which was signed on July 3, 1776, for public release on July 4 - was Thomas Jefferson's masterpiece. Jefferson himself wrote much about the declaration in the 50 years that followed.

Not the least of what he wrote offered his view that the declaration and the values that it articulated were truly radical - meaning they reflected 180-degree changes at the very core of societal attitudes in America. The idea that farmers and merchants and lawyers could secede from a kingdom and fight and win a war against the king's army was the end result of the multigenerational movement that was articulated in the declaration.

The two central values of the declaration are the origins of human liberty and the legitimacy of popular government.

When Jefferson wrote that we are endowed by our Creator with certain inalienable rights, he was referring to the natural law. The natural law teaches that right and wrong can be discerned and truth discovered by the exercise of human reason, independent of any commands from the government. The natural law also teaches that our rights come from our humanity -- not from the government -- and our humanity is a gift from our Creator.

Even those who question or reject the existence of the Creator -- was Jefferson himself among them? -- can embrace natural rights, because they can accept that our exercise of human reason leads us all to make similar claims. These claims -- free speech, free association, free exercise or non-exercise of religion, self-defense, privacy, and fairness, to name a few -- are rights that we all exercise without giving a second thought to the fact that they are natural and come from within us.

The view of the individual as the repository of natural rights was not accepted by any governments in 1776. In fact, all rejected it and used violence to suppress it. To the minds of those in government in the mid-18th century, the king was divine and could do no wrong, and parliament existed not as the people's representatives but to help the king raise money and to give him a read on the pulse of landowners and nobility.

Jefferson and his colleagues had no difficulty breaking from this type of ancient regime. Unlike the French, who destroyed their monarchy, the American colonists seceded from theirs -- and they did so embracing natural rights. Regrettably, they did not recognize natural rights for African slaves or for women. We all know and profoundly lament the sorry history of those errors.

The idea that each human being possesses inherent natural rights by virtue of one's humanity is not just an academic argument. It has real-life consequences, which Jefferson recognized. Those consequences are implicated when government seeks to curtail rights for what it claims is the protection of another's individual rights, the common good or the good of the government itself.

Jefferson recognized that you can consent to the curtailment of your rights but you cannot consent to the curtailment of mine. To Jefferson, government can take away your rights without your consent only if you have violated someone else's rights.

Surrendering rights is also implicated in the second radical idea that underscores the Declaration of Independence. It is the concept that no government is valid unless it enjoys the consent of the governed. This, too, was unheard of in 1776, because British kings did not claim consent of the governed as the basis for legitimacy.

Yet consent of the governed is perfectly consistent with natural law. Under natural law, what is yours is yours and what is mine is mine. If I attempt to take your land or car or cellphone, you can stop me, either directly or through the government we have both consented to. If one of us has not consented to the government's existence, it can still enforce natural rights as the agent of the person whose rights are being violated -- just as it does for bank depositors when it captures a bank robber.

This idea of consent of the governed was a serious issue in the days and years following July 4, 1776, because about one-third of the adults living in the United States in the last quarter of the 18th century remained loyal to the king of England after the Revolution, and they did not consent to the new popular form of government that took the British government's place. The new government was thrust upon them without their consent.

The last letter Jefferson wrote was to his enemy-turned-friend John Adams, in anticipation of the 50th anniversary of the declaration - a day on which both Jefferson and Adams would die. In that letter, Jefferson argued that the greatest achievement of the declaration was its arousing men to burst free from the chains imposed upon them by superstition and myth by bringing about a recognition of their individual rights and an embrace of self-government.

Today the Jeffersonian ideals of individual natural rights and government's legitimacy's being conditioned upon the individual consent of the governed have themselves become myths.

In Jefferson's day, the voters knew all that the government did, and it knew nothing about them. Today government operates largely in secrecy, and it knows our every move and captures our every communication.

In Jefferson's day, the government needed the people's permission to tax and regulate them. Today the people need the government's permission to do nearly everything.

Do you know anyone who has consented to the government? Do you know anyone who could avoid the government by not giving consent? Do you consent to the government by voting? Do you consent to the government if it is run by those you voted against? Did you consent to a government that steals liberty and property and prosperity and gives them away?

Happy Fourth of July.

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Leftists Ramping Up 
Administration Confrontations 
by Thomas Gallatin
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Trump nominates Brett Kavanaugh to Supreme Court 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump nominated appeals court judge Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court Monday night to replace retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy... ending a days-long guessing game that began the moment Kennedy announced his retirement and setting the stage for a grueling confirmation fight. In televised remarks from the East Room of the White House, the president praised what he called Kavanaugh's "impeccable credentials, unsurpassed qualifications and a proven commitment to equal justice under the law." "There is no one in America more qualified for this position, and no one more deserving," Trump said...
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Corrupt FBI and DOJ Not Only Caught Redacting Their Criminal Acts –
They’re Now Caught CREATING Fraudulent Documents 
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{ thegatewaypundit.com } ~ Over the past few years the DOJ and FBI redacted documents in the name of national security but their real reason was later uncovered as an effort to hide their crimes... They also will not allow Congress to obtain copies of records and instead only allow Congress to review documents maintained at an FBI or DOJ location. Now this too is catching up to them as their efforts to swap documents or create two versions of documents are being uncovered. During the recent Hearing in front of Congress some excellent questions were asked of corrupt Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein by Representative Matt Gaetz from Florida – Here’s a transcript of the Gaetz/Rosenstein Exchange. First the buildup: Rep. Gaetz: Did you read the FISA application before you signed it? Deputy AG Rosenstein: I won’t comment about any FISA application. Rep. Gaetz: You won’t say to the committee whether or not you read the document you signed that authorized spying on people associated with the Trump campaign. Deputy AG Rosenstein: I dispute your characterization of what that FISA is about, sir. Rosenstein’s statement “I dispute your characterization of what that FISA is about” is tantalizing – but not necessarily inconsistent. Page had left the Trump Campaign prior to the FISA Issuance. Nevertheless, the Page FISA Warrant allowed for two-step surveillance. People associated with Page – like those still involved in the Trump Campaign – could also be surveilled. Now we get the payoff...   https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/07/corrupt-fbi-and-doj-not-only-caught-redacting-their-criminal-acts-theyre-now-caught-creating-fraudulent-documents/
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CALIFORNIA SCHEMIN’: City Becomes First 
in the Nation to Test UNIVERSAL INCOME
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foxnews.com } ~ A California city is poised to become the first in the nation to issue its residents a free universal income... doling out $500 a month with the hopes if boosting a stagnant economy and failing housing market. According to Fox News, Stockton, California is set to issue the payments to any of its 300,000 residents living below the poverty line; allowing its citizens to spend the free income on anything they wish to purchase. The test program is set to launch in 2019 with at least 100 residents enrolled for 18 months. After the pilot program, city officials will decide whether or not to make the policy open to all households...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/10/californias-foreclosure-capital-to-give-away-500-month-to-residents-in-experimental-welfare-program.html
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Judge rejects Trump request to 
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{ politico.com } ~ A federal judge has turned down President Donald Trump's request to alter a decades-old legal settlement to allow long-term detention of children who entered the U.S. illegally with their parents... Los Angeles-based U.S. District Court Judge Dolly Gee dismissed as "tortured" the Trump administration's legal argument to get out from under the so-called Flores consent decree agreed to in 1997, dictating that children in immigration detention not be held more than 20 days. "Defendants seek to light a match to the Flores Agreement and ask this Court to upend the parties’ agreement by judicial fiat," wrote Gee, an appointee of President Barack liar-nObama. "It is apparent that Defendants’ Application is a cynical attempt...to shift responsibility to the Judiciary for over 20 years of Congressional inaction and ill-considered Executive action that have led to the current stalemate."...This Federal Judge is an idiot. Where was she when liar-nObama was in office.
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Daily Beast Uncovers Devious Papist Plot
to Destroy America: The Federalist Society
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{ freebeacon.com } ~ Kudos to The Daily Beast and reporter Jay Michaelson for uncovering a deep conspiracy to change America into a theocracy... by placing Catholic extremists into the Supreme Court. Yes, that's actually the gist of "The Secrets of Leonard Leo, the Man Behind Trump’s Supreme Court Pick." The alternate headline is even more laughably overwrought: "The Secretive Puppetmaster Behind Trump's Supreme Court." This is not a story filed under "Opinion," by the way, so it's evidently a verifiable fact that a shadowy puppetmaster controls Trump's Supreme Court. The facts are this: Leonard Leo is the vice-president of the Federalist Society and a staunch conservative and originalist. Leo played a key role in crafting the list of judges that then-candidate Donald Trump promised to stick to if elected president. He then served on the transition team and the White House advising Trump on the Neil Gorsuch nomination, the same role he played during the Bush administration...   http://freebeacon.com/blog/daily-beast-uncovers-devious-papist-plot-destroy-america-federalist-society/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=874de0de40-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_10_01_44_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-874de0de40-45611665
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Leftists Ramping Up Administration Confrontations 

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by Thomas Gallatin:  Who are the real fascists? “If you see anybody from [Trump’s] Cabinet in a restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out and you create a crowd! And you push back on them! And you tell them they’re not welcome anymore, anywhere!” stated Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters (D-CA) last month in her call to harass and bully anyone associated with President Donald Trump and, more broadly, the Republican Party. In the weeks since, it has become increasingly clear that leftists have taken scumbag/mad-Waters’ directive to heart. This past weekend saw two more episodes to add to the growing list of leftist harassment.

             In Richmond, Virginia, former Trump advisor Steve Bannon was confronted in a book store by a woman who called him a “piece of trash.” Upon witnessing the harassing behavior, the store owner told the woman to leave, which she initially refused to do until he called the police. The store owner explained, “Steve Bannon was simply standing, looking at books, minding his own business. I asked [the antagonist] to leave, and she wouldn’t. And I said, ‘I’m going to call the police if you don’t,’ and I went to call the police and she left. And that’s the end of the story.” The owner then noted, “We are a bookshop. Bookshops are all about ideas and tolerating different opinions and not about verbally assaulting somebody, which is what was happening.”
               But, as it turns out, the story didn’t end there. Upon learning of the incident, former liar-Hillary Clinton aide Philippe Reines  exposed the name and address of the bookstore along with the name of the owner, writing that the woman “took the opportunity to call [Bannon] a ‘piece of trash.’” When Reines was called out for seeking “a public beatdown” of the store, he disingenuously responded, “I’m providing a service to the public by providing the contact information the bookstore posted on their website — presumably with the hope of being contacted. I present facts [without] encouraging any behavior.” But he absurdly added, “I’d point out through [sic] it’s possible this woman stopped a book burning.”
               Meanwhile, on Saturday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) was exiting a restaurant in Louisville, Kentucky, when he and a colleague were surrounded by several people and harangued with shouts of “Abolish ICE” and “No justice, no peace.” At one point an individual is heard shouting, “We know where you live, Mitch. We know where you live.” Eventually, as McConnell enters his car and drives off, someone says, “We did good, fellow citizens.
               It should come as little surprise that dummycrats-Democrats have increasingly approved of the tactics of fascism as their party has increasingly embraced the agenda of the extreme Left. Rather than attempting to defend the “merits” of this bankrupt ideology (which is understandable, given the fact that leftist ideology is opposed to the whole concept of merit), they instead have supported the tactics of intimidation via verbal assault and shaming in seeking to pressure Republicans and conservatives to kowtow to their political demands. Are any elected dummycrats- Democrats willing and bold enough to definitively break with their party and call out this dangerous and deeply divisive behavior of the unhinged Left?

~The Patriot Post
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