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TheFrontPageCover
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Left vs. right: Are both sides equally vitriolic?
by ERIK RUSH
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Tuesday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  President Trump nominates Judge Brett M. Kavanaugh to Supreme Court (The White House)
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George W. Bush praises Trump for “outstanding” Supreme Court pick (Washington Examiner)
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Chuck clown-Schumer to oppose Kavanaugh nomination: “Now is the time to fight” (Washington Examiner)
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2020 White House contenders race to oppose Trump’s judicial pick (The Hill)
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Oops: Women’s March denounces “XX” in statement on Kavanaugh nomination (Washington Examiner)
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House Judiciary Committee subpoenas anti-Trump FBI lawyer Lisa Page (The Washington Times)
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Judge refuses Trump request to change court order on family detention (Fox News)
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Mexico reportedly will create its own border force (The Washington Times)
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Twenty-four alleged MS-13 members indicted in Maryland — drugs, murder, bodies dismembered (CNS News)
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Older immigrants “crowding out” U.S. teens for summer jobs (Washington Examiner)
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California university works to reduce number of white people on campus (The College Fix)
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RNC: We’ve made 20 million voter contacts already in the midterms (Hot Air)
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Humor: Mexican restaurant under fire for racially profiling white girl, offering her mild hot sauce (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Time for Secretary DeVos to rescind liar-nObama-era school discipline policies (Manhattan Institute)
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Policy: How we enabled the Chinese opioid supply chain (American Enterprise Institute)   
 
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Manafort filing unmasks DOJ meeting with 
AP reporters, questions if 'grand jury secrecy' violated 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ Lawyers for ex-Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort are raising concerns about a 2017 meeting between top law enforcement figures and Associated Press reporters... questioning whether “grand jury secrecy” was violated and revealing memos that say the reporters even offered investigators a “code” pertaining to their client’s storage facility. The details emerged in a series of recent filings, including an effort by Manafort's attorneys to get his criminal trial moved from Northern Virginia, citing pretrial publicity. “Mr. Manafort's legal issues and the attendant daily media coverage have become a theater in the continuing controversy surrounding President Trump and his election," Manafort's lawyers wrote Judge T.S. Ellis, who is overseeing the bank and tax fraud case in Northern Virginia. A second prosecution, involving similar charges, is underway in Washington, D.C. Arguing for a trial in Roanoke, Va., Manafort's legal team said an “inside-the-beltway jury” would be biased against their client...
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UK Parliament: Little Interest in Grooming Gangs
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In response to Britain's ongoing sexual grooming scandal... a group of 20 MPs signed an open letter to recently appointed Home Secretary, Sajid Javid, urging coordinated action. As the UK Parliament has 650 MPs, the 20 signatories constitute a mere 3% willing to support the protection of children subjected to gang-rape, trafficking and torture, and at times murder. Such a paltry number of politicians willing to speak out against child sexual slavery seems yet more evidence of the moral bankruptcy of Britain's political elite and how low the country appears to have sunk. Britain's media elite have ignored the letter. Reporting has been limited to the local press in Oxford  and Rochdale -- areas afflicted by grooming -- as well as a few alternative media outlets such as Breitbart London, and indirect reference on Sky News...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12662/britain-parliament-grooming-gangs 
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Will #Resistance summer dampen 
the dunnycrats-Democrats' big autumn?
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ On Wednesday afternoon during the height of the Fourth of July festivities at the Statue of Liberty... Therese Patricia Okoumou began scaling Lady Liberty and held a T-shirt up with “Trumpcare Makes us Sick” on one side and “Rise and Resist” on the other. Despite telling authorities she would not come down until “all the children are released," she eventually descended after a team of over a dozen highly skilled New York City police officers with the department’s emergency service unit cajoled her down from the skirts of the statue's base. Her protest evacuated Liberty Island, turning away over 4,000 people who had planned to make a visit to arguably America’s most iconic symbol of liberty as part of their family’s celebration of the signing of the Declaration of Independence...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/will-resistance-summer-dampen-the-democrats-big-autumn?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_07/08/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief
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No More Illegal Immigration – INTRUDER ALERT!
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by Dustin Koellhoffer
{ ipatriot.com } ~ Finding the right words is often difficult when dealing with the ignorance of liberalism... They constantly corrupt the language, deliberately make words ambiguous, and use the confusion they create to impose their subterfuge of making lawbreaking righteous. Even the term ‘liberal,’ which used to refer to Christian Americans who wanted to advance their culture and technology while worshipping God has been corrupted by the Left. Now ‘liberal’ refers to atheist socialists who want to tear down everything that Christians have built to establish dictatorships. Language changes over time because the culture changes, but not always for the better as socialists prove in their desire to progress backwards and regress America back into totalitarianism of government rule. The reason they want this is because leftists are control freaks who want to impose their ideology on others for their own benefit. Two Americas: Americanism or Socialism, Right vs. Left “Illegal aliens” was fine in describing foreigners who came into America illegally, but liberals are so stoopid they thought it sounded too much like saying we were being invaded by criminals from another planet. Then they altered the term to “illegal immigrant.” Now they say that sounds like we are saying immigrants are illegal people and “no person is illegal” because they are so stoopid they can’t figure out that people committing crimes by breaking the law makes their actions illegal.  Then they came up with “undocumented workers” as if this is Nazi Germany where you are required to have your papers on you at all times and it’s legal for them to work without citizenship papers.  So, let’s use a term that is unambiguous, so the limited liberal mind cannot be so easily confused...
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Instances of Voter Fraud Continue to Mount, 
Further Compromising Our Elections
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ Recent voter fraud cases show the growing importance of upholding election integrity... Last year, Cassandra Amber Marie Ritter was convicted of heroin distribution in Winchester, Virginia. Two weeks later, Ritter voted at a local fire department even though she knew she had lost her right to vote as a consequence of her conviction. She received a two-year suspended sentence. In Texas, Crystal Mason recently received a five-year sentence for illegally voting in the 2016 presidential election. Mason showed up at the polls to vote, only to discover her name had been removed from the rolls. This was no accident; Mason was on probation following a 60-month sentence for felony tax fraud and lost her right to vote as a result...
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Left vs. right: Are both sides equally vitriolic?
by ERIK RUSH


{ wnd.com ~ Two weeks ago, a bit of a controversy erupted over a billboard on Interstate 40 in Texas that suggested liberals keep driving until they leave the state. The billboard was subsequently removed after the party who had paid for the sign asked for it to be taken down, not having anticipated how controversial it would become.

Last week, a new billboard was erected in Amarillo, Texas, by another party in response to the earlier sign. The new sign reads: “Texas is for everyone, not for bigotry. Welcome, y’all.”

It’s a nice sentiment, but it got me to thinking: I don’t necessarily see a desire to encourage liberals to leave a particular locale as bigotry at all.

I see it as prudence.

After all, excepting those who self-identify as liberals but who often demonstrate a preponderance of conservative core values simply because they’ve bought into the idea that liberals are nice and conservatives are big fat meanies, haven’t liberals pretty much established that they’re subversive, dishonorable, foul-mouthed, duplicitous swine? I can’t see why any thinking person with a healthy sense of self-interest or self-preservation would want too many dedicated, politically active liberals around them at all.

I belong to a few non-political organizations, which have many liberals amongst their membership. I take great care never to engage these folks in discussions around culture or politics due to liberals’ proclivity for summarily denying fundamental truths and for their summary acceptance of harmful, abject falsehoods. I do this because to do otherwise would only invite disharmony within these organizations.

It is worth mentioning that I’ve also found liberals to be far more likely than non-liberals to attempt to politicize affairs within such organizations if given the slightest opportunity. Further, as with anyone else, it is inescapable that liberals’ beliefs necessarily bleed over into their general deportment and the way they interact with others, whether in relationships, the workplace, or in casual settings.

Recently in this space, I addressed dummycrats-Democratic Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters’ advocacy of mob violence against officials in the administration of President Donald Trump. This was only one of many recent instances of outrageous and incendiary behavior on the part of liberals since Trump’s election.

Last week, Fox News’ Brit Hume penned a column admonishing people like Rep. scumbag/mad-Waters to refrain from such incendiary rhetoric, but added that we all need to do so as well. This is sound advice, but Hume’s piece overlooks one salient fact: “We all” aren’t the ones advocating mob violence, nor do we need anyone to inform us that such action is antisocial.

Additionally, there is simply no comparison between the sheer volume and vitriol vis-à-vis the rhetoric of the left versus that of their counterparts. When conservatives hear President Trump deliver a coarse retort following an attacker’s bombardment, they squirm a little but tend to keep quiet because they’re glad to see someone defending himself against these scum. Conversely, as far as the left is concerned, calumnies, expletives and expressed wishes for death and dismemberment are the norm; they’re encouraged, and anyone they don’t like is fair game.

Hume pointed out that one of the chief offenders of late has been President Trump himself, who “has certainly contributed heavily to the current poisonous atmosphere, speaking of his opponents in the crudest language and finding no slight too minor to merit a bruising response.”

While it’s true that President Trump does give as good as he gets with regard to scathing attacks, the truth is that the tone of political discourse became exponentially more volatile during the liar-nObama administration. While liar-nObama may not have used expletives, he was very calculated in his rhetoric and quite adept at pushing just the right buttons, as it were, of the right demographics to bring about the maximum emotional response in his target audience.

Case in point: There is simply no denying that race relations deteriorated significantly during the liar-nObama years, and that was primarily due to his use of the bully pulpit in this regard.

Speaking further to the aforementioned low character of liberals in this vein, in addition to the caustic language being proffered, there have been other, even more untoward and dangerous behaviors in which those on the left have engaged. The utterly baseless investigation into the Trump campaign’s alleged collusion with Russian operatives in order to gain an advantage in the 2016 general election not only revealed that it was the camp of liar-Hillary Clinton and other Democrats who engaged in such collusion, but that parties in the FBI at various levels conspired to protect liar-Hillary Clinton during the investigation into her illegal email server, as well as conspiring to keep Trump from getting elected.

Following the decline in civility catalyzed by liar-nObama and his surrogates, it was the election of Donald Trump that caused the left to go completely off the rails, but nothing can excuse their marked descent into rhetorical depravity and criminality over the last couple of years. The advent of the #Walkaway movement, in which some liberals have advocated abandoning liberalism and the dummycrats-Democratic Party, certainly evidences how bad affairs have become.

All things considered, while some might argue that rank-and-file voting liberals ought not be ostracized, marginalized, or politely asked to leave the state of Texas, until they start widely condemning leftist orthodoxy or change their voting habits, I will continue to avoid them and advocate for their political disenfranchisement.

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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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We Must Improve Our Trust 
by Peggy Noonan
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Kay Bailey Hutchinson Discusses Upcoming NATO Summit
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ President Trump heads to Europe on Tuesday for a series of meetings in several EU nations... On Wednesday and Thursday 11th/12th the NATO summit. On Thursday and Friday 12th/13th a U.K. Visit. Saturday and Sunday 14th/15th a visit to Scotland; and Monday the 16th a summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin in Helsinki Finland. The EU and U.S. media are one-upping themselves every few hours with apoplectic proclamations about horrible Trump and the high-minded need to save the angelic NATO mission of unbridled altruism; a liberally canonized Saint Merkel of Deutschland; as well as Londonistan’s Queen Elizabeth and Prime Minister Theresa May, from the horrors of a swaggering U.S. vulgarian…  .
Media Silent As US Agrees To ‘Full Implementation’
of United Nations Gun Control Pact 
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{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ While the United States is typically set apart from other countries when it comes to gun laws... a recent conference with the United Nations has raised major red flags, as the U.S. agreed to enact “full implementation” of an international agreement on gun control that will violate Americans’ constitutional rights by adding their personal information to a global database. The Third Review Conference (RevCon) of the United Nations’ Program of Action (PoA) on Small Arms and Light Weapons was held in New York last week with a 2018 agreement, which states that its purpose is to serve as “a renewed commitment to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects.” “We, the States participating in the third United Nations Conference to review progress made in the implementation of the Program of Action to prevent, combat and eradicate the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons in all its aspects, convened at United Nations Headquarters in New York from 18 to 29 June 2018 to review progress made in implementation and identify priorities for strengthened implementation, reaffirm our commitment to the full and effective implementation of all of the provisions of the Program of Action and the International Tracing Instrument, with a view to ending the human suffering caused by the illicit trade in small arms and light weapons.”...This so wrong. Without the people knowing about it.   https://freedomoutpost.com/media-silent-as-us-agrees-to-full-implementation-of-united-nations-gun-control-pact/
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Two U.S. Destroyers Sail Through Taiwan Strait
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{ news.usni.org } ~ Two U.S. guided missile destroyers transited the Taiwan Strait this weekend, a U.S. defense official confirmed to USNI News on Saturday... The Japan-based destroyers, USS Mustin (DDG-89) and USS Benfold (DDG-65), entered the 110-mile wide strait between mainland China and Taiwan on Saturday local time. “Two U.S. Navy ships conducted a routine transit through the international waters of the Taiwan Strait on July 7-8,” U.S. Pacific Fleet spokesman Capt. Charlie Brown told USNI News on Saturday. “U.S. Navy ships transit between the South China Sea and East China Sea via the Taiwan Strait and have done so for many years.” Brown wouldn’t confirm any additional details of the transit. The Taiwan Ministry of Defense identified the destroyers in a statement to local press. The government in Taipei stated they monitored the transit, in the statement...   https://news.usni.org/2018/07/07/two-u-s-destroyers-sail-taiwan-strait?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=59d140a8bf-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-59d140a8bf-231491269&mc_cid=59d140a8bf&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Egypt's Islamist Televangelists Lose Clout
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{ investigativeproject.org } ~ They once captured the hearts and minds of millions of Egyptians, but Islamist televangelists are losing popularity... They started to lose credibility during the June 2013 revolution that drove the Muslim Brotherhood from power and in the subsequent terrorist attacks after Islamist President Mohamed Morsi's ouster. "The state of abandonment of the Salafi preachers and the Muslim Brotherhood ... is very good and serves the interests of the Egyptian, Arab and Islamic societies," said former Muslim Brotherhood member Sameh Eid. "The exposure of the ideas of these preachers and their great dependence on a heritage that is no longer suitable for the present time and place make them a rare and ridiculous material on the pages of the media." Fewer people are watching the Islamist televangelists shows, Islamist groups researcher and former Brotherhood member Tarek Abou Saad, so they now resort to using historical tales of Islam's grandeur to try to draw an audience. Despite those efforts, televangelist ratings during Ramadan were the lowest since 2011...
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Israel’s Gaza Policy
by MAJ. GEN. (RES.) GERSHON HACOHEN

{ meforum.org } ~ Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, senior research associate at the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies (BESA), served in the IDF for 42 years... commanding troops in battle on the Egyptian and Syrian fronts. Formerly a Corps commander, he was also a commander of the IDF Military Colleges. Gen. Hacohen briefed the Middle East Forum in a conference call on June 28, 2018. The transformation of the Gaza Strip into an ineradicable terror entity poses a formidable security threat to Israel by placing its population centers and strategic infrastructure within the range of Hamas’s rockets and missiles all the way to Tel Aviv, and by allowing the group to breach the border fence and infiltrate Israel via its extensive network of underground tunnels. Should the IDF need to enter Gaza in a future war, Hamas has the ability to exact a heavy toll through its well-organized defensive positions in the cities and refugee camps. This casts a serious doubt on the viability of the Oslo paradigm of a unified Palestinian entity in the West Bank and Gaza. For one thing, should such an entity come into being with its likely transformation into a terror stronghold near Israel’s heartland, the Jewish state will face an existential threat. For another thing, as vividly illustrated by the 25 years since the launch of the Oslo process, there is a deep, perhaps unbridgeable schism between the West Bank and the Gaza populations stemming from their fundamentally divergent historical, sociocultural, and political backgrounds. Hence Mahmoud Abbas’s total indifference to the humanitarian suffering wrought by his suspension of financial aid to Gaza as a means of weakening Hamas....
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We Must Improve Our Trust 
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by Peggy Noonan

{ peggynoonan.com } ~ I have been thinking about trust. All the polls show and have for some time what you already know: America’s trust in its leaders and institutions has been falling for four decades. Trust in the federal government has never been lower. In 1958 Pew Research found 73% trusted the government to do what is right “always” or “most of the time.” That sounds healthy. As of 2017 that number was 18%. That’s not.

Other institutions have suffered, too—the church, the press, the professions. That’s disturbing because those institutions often bolster our national life in highly personal ways. When government or law turns bad, they provide a place, a platform from which to stand, to make a case, to correct.

A problem that has so many parts and so much history—from Vietnam to Twitter bots—will not easily be solved. But there are things we can do individually to help America be more at peace with itself.

First, realize this isn’t merely a problem but a crisis. When you say you believe in and trust democratic institutions, you are saying you believe in and trust democracy itself. When you don’t, you don’t. When a nation tells pollsters it’s unable to trust its constituent parts it’s telling pollsters it doesn’t trust itself.

It’s time to see our mighty institutions with their noble facades—the grand marble court houses, the soaring cathedral—for what they are: secretly frail and in constant need of saving.

When you’re young and starting out you imagine institutions are monoliths—big, impervious to your presence. Later, having spent time within, you know how human and flawed it all is, and how it’s saved each day by the wisdom and patience—the quiet heroism—of a few. Be one of the few.

If you’re young it would be good at this point to enter your profession with a premature sense of the frailty of everything.

Six years ago I was invited to speak to a small West Point class. Polls had come out showing that the U.S. military still retained the trust of the people, and this was much on my mind. I wondered if the cadets knew how much was riding on them.

I told them the institution they’re about to enter was among the last standing, and one of their great jobs will be to keep it trustworthy.

Naturally maintaining their institution’s moral stature was not the main focus of their minds. So I told them a story of a great army of the West, admired by all, that did something wrong, and then a series of things, and by the end, when it came out, as such things do, it broke that army’s reputation in a way from which it never quite recovered. I was speaking of France and the Dreyfus affair. They had not heard of it.

There should be a course in it.

I urged them to conduct themselves so that such a thing could never happen in the U.S. Army. I don’t think I left them rushing to download Émile Zola on their iPads. I do think they were hearing for the first time how much America depends on them not only for military expertise but to keep up the national morale.

In many ways we’re too national in our thinking. Don’t always be thinking up there. Be thinking here, where life takes place. In building trust think close to home. If your teenager judges an institution called Business in America by the billionaire hedge funder spouting inane thoughts on cable TV with a look on his face that says “See how original I am!” then capitalism is doomed. You can’t make your teenager admire slippery, rapacious tech gods in Silicon Valley. But if your children understand business in America as modeled by you—as honorable men and women engaged in an honorable pursuit—then they will have respect for the institution of business. If for no other reason be honest in your dealings, be compassionate, and provide excellence.

Realize there’s a difference between skepticism and cynicism, that one is constructive and the other childish.

Skepticism involves an intellectual exercise: You look at the grand surface knowing it may not reflect the inner reality. It implies action: If it doesn’t, try to make it better. Cynicism is a dodge: Everything’s crud, you’d be a fool to try and make it better, it’s all irredeemable and unchangeable.

Be skeptical of our institutions, not cynical toward them.

For those who operate on any level of our public life, hear this: Some of our problems can be resolved or made less dramatic and assaultive by an old-fashioned concept that used to exist in American public life. It is called tact. We are in an epidemic of tactlessness, which is an absence of respect for the other side, for whoever is on that side. It is an utter lack of generosity and sensitivity.

“Bake my cake” is, among other things, a stunning example of lack of tact. You’re supposed to win graciously, not rub the loser’s face in it.

If you are, say, in the U.S. Congress, where both parties failed for a quarter-century to regulate our borders effectively, and those forced to live with the results of that derogation rise up and demand action, the correct response is not to imply they are nativist racist bigots.

You listen to people, you don’t label them insultingly.

A tactful response? “We take your point—we haven’t succeeded and we’ll try to get it right. In the meantime, since we’re all imperfect human beings, please don’t let your anger turn into something small, biased and narrow. While you investigate your heart, we will get to work.”

You lose nothing when you hear and respect criticism. You gain trust.

Finally, we ask so much of government, which is not, we know, the most competent of institutions. When we ask too much and multiply its tasks, it’s likely to fail, and when it does we become angry—and trust goes down again.

Our founders were skeptical of concentrated power. The power of government, arrayed against the individual, could crush him. They devised checks, balances, enumerated rights. Those who believe in their wisdom should speak of it more persuasively.

To this day many Republicans speak of what they call “limited government.” This is an unfortunate and unpersuasive phrase. Usage changes. To most people “limited” means insufficient, not up to the task. “He had the heart of a quarterback but was limited by his small stature.” Americans know they have limited government. They’ve been to the DMV. What they’d like is a government that acknowledges its limits and understands itself as one of many players in the democratic drama—not the central player but a present and competent one. A realistic government, a humble government, at the very least a more collegial one.

President Trump cannot help. Increasing public trust is not his declared mission, and what it would take is not in his toolbox. He tends in his statements to undermine trust: His own government is embarked on a deep-state witch-hunt conspiracy, his agencies are incompetent, the press is fake-news liars.

What can be handled by us, should be. We can’t go forward this way.

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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Jahi's Life Mattered 
by Michelle Malkin
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Supreme Court Not Yet Safe from Radical dummycrats-Democrats
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{ fedup.org } ~ Elections still matter if you want a Supreme Court that faithfully follows the Constitution... Don’t believe the hype claiming that Justice Kennedy’s resignation guarantees that a conservative majority is guaranteed for years to come regardless of the outcome of the 2018 and 2020 elections. The truth is that a conservative Supreme Court depends on holding a Republican majority in the Senate, and probably also reelecting President Trump in 2020. There is no guarantee that Trump’s nominee will be confirmed this year. Just one GOP defector could bring rejection and leave the seat open into next year – when dummycrats-Democrats hope to hold a Senate majority. That would allow them to vote down all Trump nominees unless he agrees to nominate someone chosen by the dummycrats- Democrats themselves. They would be happy to keep the seat open for the dummycrats-Democratic president they expect in 2021...
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scumbag-Dick Durbin: Blocking Trump's Supreme Court pick more
important than red state dummycrats-Dems getting re-elected
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ A top dummycrats-Democrat in the Senate said his vulnerable colleagues from red states "understand" that fighting to stop President Trump's Supreme Court pick... is more important than getting re-elected in 2018. Senate Minority Whip scumbag-Dick Durbin, D-Ill., was pressed on this "dilemma" that dummycrats-Democrats face as the 2018 midterms approach during an interview on NBC's "Meet the Press." "Staying united to stop the Supreme Court pick could cost you red state senators. Not fighting it as hard might allow the red state senators to get re-elected and get dummycrats-Democrats in control of the Senate. That's your dilemma," host Chuck Todd posited on Sunday. scumbag-Durbin conceded that it is a dilemma "in one respect," but made that case for how it is a trade off dummycrats-Democrats are willing to make...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/dick-durbin-blocking-trumps-supreme-court-pick-more-important-than-red-state-dems-getting-re-elected?utm_source=WEX_News%20Brief_07/08/2018&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=WEX_News%20Brief
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Socialist Protesters Confront Mitch McConnell Leaving Restaurant
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell was confronted on Saturday by a small group of chanting protesters... as he left a Kentucky restaurant. A video posted by the Louisville dummycrats-Democratic Socialists of America shows McConnell and his group leaving Louisville’s Bristol Bar & Grille and walking to his vehicle, followed by protesters shouting various slogans, including, “Vote you out,” “Abolish ICE,” and “No justice, no peace.” “A group of Louisville residents, including several @ dummycrats-DemSocialists members, had a message for Mitch McConnell as he left a local restaurant today,” Louisville DSA tweeted. “Powerful people like Mitch deserve no peace while they enable the imprisonment of babies in concentration camps. #AbolishICE”...When are these people going to grow up?   http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/08/protesters-mitch-mcconnell-restaurant/?utm_medium=email
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Bizarre diplomatic 'sonic attacks' reaching epidemic proportions
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{ wnd.com } ~ It started in the fall of 2016. Diplomats reported hearing loss and mild brain damage after hearing unusual and puzzling sounds at the U.S. Embassy in Cuba... But now it’s spreading to embassies in our countries, with nearly 200 people affected. The State Department is virtually mum, other than to characterize their suspicion as unknown “sonic attacks” targeted U.S. diplomats. Some of the strange sounds have been recorded and released to the public. The victims’ symptoms include “hearing loss, dizziness, tinnitus, balance problems, visual difficulties, headaches, fatigue, cognitive issues and sleeping problems. Recently, the Associated Press reported 26 Americans have been “medically confirmed” to have been injured in the wave of attacks. Diplomats who have served in at least seven cities in four countries have sought testing...
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Mueller WILL NOT Present Collusion Evidence At Manafort Trial
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Special counsel Robert Mueller said in a court filing Friday that his prosecutors will not present evidence regarding Trump campaign collusion with Russia... at an upcoming trial for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort. “The government does not intend to present at trial evidence or argument concerning collusion with the Russian government,” reads a filing submitted by Mueller’s team in federal court in Virginia on Friday. The filing sheds light on one of the largest questions looming over the Manafort case. Mueller’s prosecutors have indicted Manafort in federal court in Virginia and Washington, D.C., on a slew of charges related to his consulting work for former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. Manafort ended the work in 2014, and it has been unclear whether Mueller’s team planned to reveal evidence about President Donald Trump or the campaign...
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Jahi's Life Mattered 
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by Michelle Malkin

{ townhall.com } ~Amid all the raging political headlines and hyperventilating tweets of the Summer of Resistance, a searing ember of news stopped me in my tracks this week.

Jahi McMath has passed away.

I never had a chance to meet the young California teen, but her fight for life gripped me three years ago and was never far from my mind or heart -- especially as my own daughter, the same age as Jahi, battled her own health crisis.

Do you remember Jahi? Medical experts declared her "brain dead" after a routine tonsillectomy gone wrong. Children's Hospital Oakland pushed to have all life-sustaining medical treatment terminated; the professionals predicted quick deterioration. California declared Jahi legally "brain dead."

But Jahi's mother, professional nurse Latasha "Nailah" Winkfield, refused to accept their verdict. As a parent, caregiver and believer in Christ, Winkfield was compelled to protect her child. With the help of the pro-life Schiavo Foundation, Winkfield moved with her daughter to a long-term care facility in New Jersey.

Medical ethics scholar Wesley Smith visited Jahi with the Schiavo Foundation's Bobby Schindler 10 months ago and reported: "At the time of the tragedy, I believed ... that Jahi was, indeed, dead. But I now have strong doubts. It's nearly four years later, and Jahi's body still has not broken down...She has experienced no visible bodily decline ... Disabled is not dead."

Dr. Alan Shewmon, professor emeritus of pediatrics and neurology at the University of California, Los Angeles, reviewed nearly 50 videos of Jahi moving her fingers on command last year and wrote in a court declaration that Jahi was "a living, severely disabled young lady, who currently fulfills neither the standard diagnostic guidelines for brain death nor California's statutory definition of death."

And a team of Harvard researchers recently reported that over the past five years, Jahi was indeed growing, digested food, had menstrual cycles, healed wounds and fought off infections. "We would say that Jahi's parents were far from crazy in believing their daughter to still be biologically alive," Dr. Robert Truog, director of the Harvard Center for Bioethics, concluded.

The changed tune of many "experts" came too late for Jahi's family, which had been fighting in court to bring her back to California. After undergoing several surgeries for intestinal problems, Jahi succumbed to excessive bleeding and liver failure after an operation. Jahi will finally head home to Oakland this week, where the family's lawyer says her brain will be preserved for further study.

With all the roar these days of keeping families together, why is there so little media attention to the plight of American families of brain-injured children who've been forced to separate by medical elites making bright-line mortality judgments based on murky diagnostic criteria for what constitutes life?

Also suffering out of the selective media spotlight: Children with rare illnesses ripped from their homes in medical kidnappings by arrogant medical professionals and child welfare bureaucrats who scoff at parental sovereignty and autonomy.

Jahi's life and death inspired other families of disabled children to fight back.

Jahi's life and death raised awareness of patients' rights, living wills, durable powers of attorney, "do not resuscitate" orders, revocable trusts and advance directives.

Jahi's life and death resonated beyond ideology, race and class. I'll not forget the Instagram image of Jahi's mom clasping her daughter's hand at her hospital bedside -- an enduring symbol of hope, suffering, resilience and abiding love.

Jahi McMath mattered. She defied her California death certificate. She humbled the experts. She brought joy to her loved ones. Her heart and brain may have stopped, but the light she brought in her short time on earth will not be extinguished.
 
https://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2018/07/04/jahis-life-mattered-n2497146?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Mon/Med-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
The Iranian Spy Who Created 
Two Terror States in Israel
by Daniel Greenfield 
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New Evidence of FBI Anti-Trump Bias Bared 
As Trey Gowdy Eviscerates scumbag-Adam Schiff
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{ lidblog.com } ~ At some point, some rational journalist is going to have to start openly wondering if they’ve been wrong about the FBI/DOJ/Mueller stuff all along, won’t they?... The overwhelming majority of agents working for the FBI/DOJ are great, hard-working professionals, which begs the question, how did so many agents with an anti-Trump bias get in on the liar-Clinton investigation, the Russia investigation, and the Mueller investigation? The material that has leaked out over the last few months has proven that at least 4-5 of the agents had a particular anti-Trump animus and that animus was severe enough that Mueller canned them from his investigation. Now, we’re learning that there is even more evidence of the intelligence community working against Trump for partisan reasons...
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International Community Ignores Genocide of Christians in Nigeria
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ In what the Christian Association of Nigeria is calling a "pure genocide," 238 more Christians were killed and churches desecrated by Muslims last week in the west African nation... This brings the death toll of Christians to more than 6,000 since the start of 2018. According to a joint statement by the Christian Association, an umbrella group of various Christian denominations, "There is no doubt that the sole purpose of these attacks is aimed at ethnic cleansing, land grabbing and forceful ejection of the Christian natives from their ancestral land and heritage." The statement condemned the recent attacks, "where over 200 persons were brutally killed and our churches destroyed without any intervention from security agencies in spite of several distress calls made to them." The statement adds that the majority of those 6,000 Christians massacred this year were "mostly children, women and the aged... What is happening in ... Nigeria is pure genocide and must be stopped immediately."...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12645/christians-genocide-nigeria
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Congress Promised a Border Fence in 2006 – Where Is It?
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by JEFF DUNETZ
godfatherpolitics.com } ~ TheSecure Fence Act was introduced on Sept. 13, 2006, by Rep Peter King (R-NY) and passed Congress on a bi-partisan basis... In the House of Representatives, the Fence Act passed 283 -138 on September 14, 2006. Out of the eighty senators in total who voted in favor of the secure fence act, twenty-six out of the forty-four dummycrats-Democrats voted in favor of the bill one, Ted Kennedy did not vote. A dozen years later some of those dummycrats- Democratic Senators are still serving in the upper body Sherrod Brown was in the house, but is now in the Senate they include; Sherrod Brown (OH), Thomas Carper (DE), Diane Fein-stein (CA), Bill Nelson (FL), Chuck clown-Schumer (NY), Debbie Stabenow (MI) and Ron Wyden (OR). Other notable dummycrats- Democrats who supported the bill in the Senate were Senator loose lips-Joe Biden, Senator liar-Hillary Clinton, Senator Harry dinky-Reid, and Senator Barack liar-nObama...
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Senator Lindsey Graham Discusses 
North Korea, NATO and SCOTUS
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ With rino-McCain dying, and scumbag-Corker and rino-Flake retiring... the Decepticon side of the deep swamp is being purged.  President Trump’s direct America-First policies and pragmatic common sense has severed one head from Cerberus, the three headed hound protecting Hades, DC. In the geopolitical realm President Trump is using the U.S. atomic sledgehammer to reset decades of insufferable economic policy constructed specifically to the financial benefit of ideological ‘allies’; who have elevated their financial standing on the backs of U.S. deficits. With Decepticons weakened, and many in DC realizing President Trump isn’t going to stop swinging the battle axe until the last one is crushed, politicians like Lindsey Graham have begun talking more truthfully about issues. Watch in this interview as Graham is questioned about North Korea, and he immediately -and somewhat surprisingly- accurately identifies the core issue…. it ain’t North Korea.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/07/08/sunday-talks-senator-lindsey-graham-discusses-north-korea-nato-and-scotus/.
MEF Organizes 25,000 Strong Protest in Support 
of Tommy Robinson; Plans Additional Rallies 
{ meforum.org } ~ Tommy Robinson, the imprisoned English counter-Islamist activist, journalist, and book author... justifiably titled his autobiography Enemy of the State, for he has long been a target of the U.K. authorities impatient with his criticism of Islamism. The Middle East Forum (MEF) is helping Robinson in his moment of danger. It does so in the context of its Legal Project which since 2007 has defended activists, journalists, politicians, et al. who face harassment, fines, or imprisonment because of their views concerning Islamism and related topics. MEF is sponsoring and organizing the second “Free Tommy Robinson” gathering in London on July 14. MEF previously provided all the funding and helped organized the first “Free Tommy Robinson” event held June 9 in London.  MEF, along with a coalition of UK advocacy groups and international figures will assemble to advocate for Mr. Robinson’s release and demand greater protections for freedom of speech and freedom of the press in the United Kingdom. MEF is arranging for U.S. Congressman Paul Gosar (Republican of Arizona) to travel to London to speak alongside the Dutch political leader Geert Wilders, and others...
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The Iranian Spy Who Created 
Two Terror States in Israel
by Daniel Greenfield 


{ sultanknish.blogspot.com } ~ When the Oslo deal that would create two Islamic terror states inside Israel came up for a vote in the Knesset, the legislator whose vote helped it pass is the same man now accused of spying for Iran.

The strange story of Gonen Segev, doctor, Minister of Energy, drug smuggler, Nigerian exile and now accused Iranian spy, is also that of the dirty politics behind the peace process. It wasn’t idealism that made the deal with the PLO. It was dirty backroom deals with dangerously unprincipled politicians. 

Segev's cousin had testified in court that he was "a pathological liar who makes excuses and evades responsibilities for his actions." But the same is true of the Israeli left which brought Segev on board. 

The alleged Iranian spy began his political career on the right. But 3 years after he became one of the youngest members of Israel’s legislature, he aligned with the left and helped pass an agreement with the PLO that is the second biggest threat to Israel’s existence after Iran’s nuclear weapons. 

It’s only fitting that Gonen Segev, whose political life hit its terrible peak with the PLO deal, should climax his post-political criminal career by standing accused of spying for Israel’s worst enemy. 

And the former politician and defrocked doctor has the same excuse for the latter crime as for the former one. He wanted to be a hero. But Gonen Segev doesn’t have a history of being a hero. 

What he does have is a history of being willing to do anything for money. 

No matter what the Iranians offered him, the biggest bribe that Israelis will remember Segev for was the time that he became the Minister of Energy in a left-wing government. Segev had no qualifications for the job. Except one. He had a crucial seat in the Israeli Knesset as the deal with the PLO was up for a vote. The idea of giving Arafat and his band of murderous killers a state was so politically toxic that even some members of the ruling Labor Party couldn’t bring themselves to vote for it. But he could and did. 

Gonen Segev was a nobody. He was a doctor in a country full of them. But he happened to be living in the community of Tel Adashim. Aside from its history, Tel Adashim or Lentil Hill, wasn’t very interesting. But it was the home of Rafael Eitan, an irascible former general and fierce critic of appeasing terrorists. Eitan was right about fighting terrorists, but his ability to run a political movement was minimal. 

As the Israeli casualties of Islamic terrorism mounted, the former general’s political movement grew popular. But it was peopled with opportunists. When Tzomet, his political party, stormed the Knesset, it was filled with legislators who, like Gonen Segev, had been the former general’s own neighbors. 

Israeli voters had sent Gonen Segev and other Tzomet members to the Knesset to fight terrorism. Instead some defected to the other side. When the crucial vote on the deal with the PLO came up, it was the candidates elected by anti-terror voters who, perversely, were the ones to vote for terror. 

The political faction that split off from Tzomet was known as Yiud or Mission. Its mission was obvious. 

Of the three Knesset members who joined the left and took their votes along, Gonen Segev became Minister of Energy and Alex Goldfarb was appointed the Deputy Minister of Housing. Goldfarb, a Romanian immigrant, had been an electrician and a union activist. 

The terror sellout passed 61-59. 

Yiud fractured. Segev became its only remaining member. There was no long term career for the only member of an imaginary political party that had betrayed its original voters. As the PLO deal continued to take Israeli lives, the left lost power. And Netanyahu’s victory all but ended the rule of the left. 

But Gonen Segev didn’t give up easily. He was accused and seemingly cleared of corruption. He allegedly developed contacts in China. Most Israelis forgot about him, but then he was suddenly back in the news. 

The man who helped give Arafat a state had been caught in Amsterdam with thousands of ecstasy tablets in boxes of M&Ms. The former Minister of Energy tried to claim diplomatic immunity by showing airport security a diplomatic passport from 2000 which he had clumsily tried to change from a ‘0’ to a ‘6’. Then he insisted that he really thought they were candy and was just doing a favor for a friend. 

The bizarre case finally ended with Segev pleading guilty to trying to smuggle 32,000 ecstasy tablets into Israel. That came after he was convicted of credit card fraud for having his ex-wife claim that his credit card had been stolen in Hong Kong even as he withdrew over 20,000 shekels. 

Segev’s downfall attracted the attention of the Israeli right which saw it as a clear case of poetic justice. But it also put the former politician on Iran’s radar. The Islamic terror state claims to be a shining example of morals, but funds its international terror network through drug trafficking. Hezbollah, the Shiite Lebanese terror group that is its greatest stalking horse, grows rich drug crops of Lebanese Gold in the Bekaa Valley, moves heroin to Australia and smuggles cigarettes around the United States. 

It’s also deeply involved in the West African drug trade. And that was Segev’s next stop. 

The former doctor had lost his medical license in Israel. So he set up shop in Nigeria. And Nigeria has long been a home for Hezbollah drug and terror operations. Just as in the United States, Lebanese businessmen serve as Hezbollah’s agents, moving money, weapons and drugs around the country. 

Few Israelis have been corrupted into spying for Islamic terrorists. But those who have were usually reached through the drug trade. People corrupt enough to turn to drug dealing and smuggling are the type willing to do anything for money. And that certainly described Gonen Segev’s debauched career. 

As the worst sort of exile, Gonen Segev was working as a doctor in Nigeria. In 2016, he asked Israel to reinstate his medical license. “I’ve decided I’m not coming back to Israel unless I can return with my head held high as ‘Dr. Gonen Segev’,” he insisted. 

By that point he was already allegedly working for Islamic Republic of Iran. 

The lurid tale now unfolding has Segev traveling to Iran, secretly receiving orders from Iranian officials and passing along Israeli contacts to Iran’s intelligence network. And his excuse is the same. 

The thrice disgraced politico wanted to be a hero. 

And Gonen Segev is a hero. He was a hero to the left, to the PLO and a hero to the Iranians. But never to Israelis. Former members of the conservative political party he betrayed want to see him rot in jail. 

Former Tzomet MK Pini Badash described him as a "paranoid megalomaniac who went from being the party’s most right-wing MK to selling out Israel for the bribe of a seat in Rabin’s cabinet.” 

“It’s amazing that Oslo passed because of bribing him. This shows how illegitimate Oslo was." 

But the Oslo deal that created two Islamic terror states inside Israel was the work of men like Segev, opportunistic megalomaniacs driven by ego and unwilling to consider the consequences. Uncaring of the catastrophes they unleashed, they stumbled from one treason to another leaving the dead and wounded, shattered homes, blown out buses and growing cemeteries in their wake. 

There is no counting the lives that Segev’s actions cost. Countless children lost their fathers and mothers. And parents lost their sons and daughters. Even long before the former doctor had allegedly gone to work for the Iranians, entire hospitals could have been filled with the casualties of his vote. 

Many speeches have been given about the price of peace. In Israel, there were two prices of peace. One was paid by the thousands of wounded and the dead. The other was paid out to Gonen Segev. 

The price of peace is terror and treason.

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Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Roe v. Wade and the Confusion 
of Sen. rino-Collins 
by Bill Murchison 
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Secretary Pompeo Arrives in Japan 
To Brief Prime Minister Shinzo Abe
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ One of the strongest geopolitical alliances exists between the U.S. and Japan... President Trump and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe are not only good friends, but also work well together toward regional goals for a denuclearized Korean peninsula. Additionally, the U.S-Japan alliance is bolstered by a respectful economic partnership; and the appearance of Secretary Pompeo arriving in Japan to brief Prime Minister Abe on his discussions with the DPRK also highlights the importance of the relationship.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/07/07/secretary-pompeo-arrives-in-japan-to-brief-prime-minister-shinzo-abe/.
No, President Trump Is Not Purging The Military Of Immigrants
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{ taskandpurpose.com } ~ The Department of Defense is strongly disputing a recent article by the Associated Press that suggests the United States Army has begun purging its ranks of non-U.S. citizens... as the Trump administration ramps up efforts to crack down on illegal immigration. The July 5 article centers on the plight of immigrant recruits attempting to enter the military through the Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest (MAVNI) program, which was launched in 2008 to attract more recruits with critical skills such as doctors, nurses, and those who speak strategically valuable languages like Chinese, Dari, Farsi, and Russian by offering them an expedited path to citizenship. Service members who’ve enlisted through the MAVNI program represent only a small percentage of immigrants in the military, the vast majority of whom joined through the same channels as their U.S.-born counterparts. Titled “US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits,” the AP story reports that “some immigrant U.S. Army reservists and recruits who enlisted in the military with a promised path to citizenship are being abruptly discharged.” The story implies that institutionalized xenophobia might be behind the a recent spike in the number of MAVNI recruits being “booted” from the program...
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Devin Nunes: Evidence Underlying Carter Page FISA 
Warrant Was “Fraudulent"
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ HPSCI Chairman Devin Nunes appeared on Fox News with Jeanine Pirro to discuss the ongoing investigations into the DOJ, FBI and State Department.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/07/07/devin-nunes-evidence-underlying-carter-page-fisa-warrant-was-fraudulent/.
100 Days of Fire 
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by Tsvi Sadan
{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ For the last 100 days not a single day has passed in which fields and forests were not set ablaze by Hamas kites and balloons... During these 100 days, Israel did next to nothing to stop Hamas from burning Israel's southern Negev region. Justifying Israel's policy of containment and appeasement is possible only by trying really hard. Containment and appeasement, the legal daughters of defeatism, have accompanied Jews in exile for a very long time. In exile, where they were a defenseless, persecuted minority, containment and appeasement were entirely understandable, a necessary evil that allowed Jews to survive. This approach to conflict resolution is recited three times a day at the conclusion of the Amidah prayer – "let my soul be mute to those who curse me and let my soul be as dust before all." Two thousand years of recitation have done their job, and made this approach second nature, a habit difficult to abandon. And it is not as if we haven't tried. From the 1920s to the 1940s, the Jewish society in Israel was deeply divided between those who opposed appeasement (revisionists) and those who supported it (labor parties). Back then, those supporting appeasement feared that retaliation would endanger the small and vulnerable Jewish population in mandatory Palestine. Containment, then, was believed to be an effective way to appease the Arabs and the British, but it never really worked out that way...
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Exalted Righteousness, Tawdry Methods Lead to Walk Away
by Clarice Feldman

{ americanthinker.com } ~ Victor Davis Hanson, writing in American Greatness, surveys how history’s bad ideas inspire the “progressives.”... He focuses on the plans for court packing, the resegregation of students in universities, the growing movements to censor speech, restaurants’ decision to refuse service to those whose views they disagree with and local governments’ nullification of laws sanctuary cities. The common themes in all these schemes are innate to progressivism. To survive and spread, exalted righteousness always excuses tawdry methods, given the supposed ignorance and gullibility of the unenlightened. Short-term expediency is well worth the goal of regaining power. Any smell from low tactics later can be perfumed away -- once power is back in the correct hands. Unfortunately for them, it seems not to be working so well this time. The growing #WalkAway movement, in which lifelong dummycrats-Democrats publicly announce they are walking away from the party, shows they supposed wrong about “the ignorance and gullibility of the unenlightened.”...
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JW Videos of the Week
DOJ is Thumbing its Nose at Congress, Trump
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Tom Fitton’s Video Weekly Update – July 6, 2018
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Attorney of Strozk’s Claims are a Publicity Stunt
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Call Your Congressman and Demand Action on scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters
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Mueller should testify on Capitol Hill
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NSA deletes over 685 million phone, text records
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Roe v. Wade and the Confusion 
of Sen. rino-Collins 
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by Bill Murchison

{ townhall.com } ~ Neat! We know what the Supreme Court debate is all about -- the debate, that is to say, over who shall take retiring Justice Anthony Kennedy's seat.

The debate is about abortion.

Or so declares Sen. rino-Susan Collins, the Republican moderate from Maine, whose vote could prove essential to confirmation of whatever nominee the White House puts forward: "A candidate for this important post who would overturn Roe v. Wade would not be acceptable to me. That would indicate an activist agenda that I don't want to see a judge have. And that would indicate to me a failure to respect precedent."

Where to begin? Almost anywhere, I warrant.

Let's start with the right to abortion, a piece of Supreme Court craftsmanship from 1973. No authority, prior to the Roe decision, had believed, or asserted, that the right to terminate an unwanted pregnancy lay draped, undiscovered, in the folds of the 14th Amendment to the Constitution. Aha, said seven justices, speaking for the court. Here it is! We had to search, but we found it: No law can take from any woman the basic if previously undiscovered right to an abortion.

And that was that. Supposedly. Except that the country soon learned that perhaps half our fellow citizens either thought the high court was out of its mind, or else accepted that abortion might be permissible under circumstances less sweeping than laid out in Roe. A likely never-to-be-finished controversy began almost the minute the justices went to lunch.

But a Supreme Court nominee unpledged to last-ditch defense of the Supreme Court's 1973 job of judicial engineering wouldn't get Sen. rino-Collins' vote.

You don't say. I duly note that this is the nature of things when law and the divergent art of politics collide. Don't look for the logic in these occasions.

The second thing to notice here is Sen. rino-Collins' adamancy as to what she calls precedent. If the court said it -- by golly -- that's it! Dissenters, be off!

Sure would have been fun in the 1950s and '60s watching the future Sen. rino-Collins, or her intellectual avatars, attack Brown v. Board of Education -- the school desegregation case -- for its disregard of precedent. Precedent cf Plessy vs. Ferguson, 1896, and Lum v. Rice, 1927 was squarely on the side of the states' claimed right to segregate the races. In Brown, the court said dismissively, "Plessy v. Ferguson is overruled." Minds change; the world moves on. The higher truths endure; not so, in every case, the interpretations we fallible folk put on things.

I do hope Sen. rino-Collins is not downing one dry martini after another, hoping to blot out the dire prospect of a Brown-like overrule of Roe. As a piece of judicial mischief -- unanchored, that is to say, in precedent or moral reasoning, Roe deserves to fall on its face in the mud. However, I don't think that's likely to happen. Not in our own time, anyway.

Roe, by now, due to the love it inspires in feminist activists and their well-wishers -- due as well to the culture's acclimation to the idea of detaching sex and its consequences from childbirth -- enjoys enormous support. That it doesn't deserve such support is beside the point, politically speaking. Were the Supreme Court suddenly to sweep Roe down the back steps, with the household dust and dead insects, there would occur such tumult as the political process is not well fitted for. A likelier near-term prospect than reversal is gradual acceptance by the court of state laws making abortion harder and more expensive to achieve. This, while -- maybe -- the moral environment becomes friendlier to the idea that bringing new humans into the world is not the bad or oppressive thing it is often said to be.

In any case, how useful to note Sen. rino-Collins' confusion between the abiding principles of law and the politics of the moment. It is a very modern kind of confusion, making the stakes in Supreme Court confirmation hard to discern. It is enough to know the present stakes are altitudinous: far, far less about Roe v. Wade than about prospects for the survival of American freedoms.

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Leftmedia Exploits Child for 
Homosexual Agenda 
by Culture Beat
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Monday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  Trump’s NATO progress (The Wall Street Journal)
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Trump administration freezes billions of dollars in payments to liar-nObamaCare insurers (Los Angeles Times)
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532 days later, all charges against Trump inauguration protesters are officially dropped (The Daily Caller)
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Longtime dummycrats-Democrat New York assemblyman vows support for GOP until top dummycrats-Dems knock off the insanity (BizPac Review)
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Big Labor hit with another class action suit (The Washington Free Beacon)
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U.S. embassy in Haiti tells Americans to shelter in place due to protests (Washington Examiner)
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Zero-tolerance policy fails to stop surge of illegal alien families (The Washington Times)
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Ex-aide says he’ll take credit for Scott Pruitt’s downfall (The Hill)
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Leandra English finally leaving CFPB (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Pentagon disputes report of “abrupt discharge” of immigrant recruits (Washington Examiner)
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California town official faces calls for resignation after proclaiming July “straight pride” month (The Washington Times)
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U.S. ambassador says Russia trying to destabilize NATO, “flip” Turkey (CNS News)
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Montreal jazz festival bans musical for allowing white woman to sing slave songs (The Federalist)
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UK’s top Brexit official David Davis quits in blow to Prime Minister Theresa May (USA Today)
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Episcopal Church considers a gender-neutral God (The Daily Wire)
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Chick-fil-A ranked top fast-food restaurant in customer satisfaction (Fox Business)
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Policy: Three simple rules for Trump’s meeting with Putin (Washington Examiner)
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Policy: All-renewable energy is a prescription for disaster (Manhattan Institute)   
 
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North Korea: Latest round of denuclearization talks are 'regrettable'
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The North Korean Foreign Ministry is accusing the U.S. of “unilateral” demands... by expecting denuclearization of the peninsula without providing North Korea with anything in return. According to the Associated Press, a North Korean Foreign Ministry spokesperson said on Saturday that the Ministry called the latest round of talks with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo “regrettable.” The spokesperson said the outcome of follow up talks after President Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un spoke last month was “very concerning” and could lead to a “dangerous phase that might rattle our willingness for denuclearization that had been firm.” In a statement, the spokesperson said the U.S betrayed the spirit of the historic summit between the two leaders in Singapore by making unilateral demands for the nation to surrender its nuclear abilities...
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The Abuse of Egypt's Coptic Christians
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ We have seen and recoiled from the horrific footage of Coptic Christians beheaded by ISIS in 2015 in Libya... and the repeated bombings over the past two decades of Coptic churches in Egypt. We read about the Maspero massacre in 2011, when Egyptian military tanks, deployed to protect peaceful Christian demonstrators, instead rolled over them, crushing many to death. And we continue to receive reports of Coptic girls abducted, compelled to convert to Islam and forced into marriages with Muslims. Each time there is news of another act of hate-filled violence against the Copts, or other religious minorities, we shudder. When there are attacks against Yazidis in the Fertile Crescent, the Baha'is in Iran and Christians and Ahmadis in Pakistan, we ask how Muslims can affirm these crimes against humanity perpetrated under the banner of Islam. Apart from condemning the visible/demonstrable bigotry and violence -- and from appealing to Western governments for assistance -- Muslims opposed to Islamist extremism are at a loss about what needs to be done to hold the governments of Egypt and other Muslim-majority states accountable for their failure to protect their religious minorities from the sectarian violence that is regularly directed at them...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12661/egypt-christians-abuse 
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UN roughs up, ejects, bans reporter 
from headquarters: Caught on tape 
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{ foxnews.com } ~ United Nations security allegedly roughed up, tossed out and temporarily banned a reporter from its New York headquarters this week... the latest incident in what a watchdog has described as a "long history of harassment" against him. Matthew Lee, who runs the online Inner City Press blog, has long been a thorn in the side of many U.N. officials with his combative and relentless style of reporting. “ICP” puts out several lengthy stories a day about U.N. proceedings, with a particular emphasis on corruption, incompetence and lack of accountability at the international body. The content is often deeply in the weeds of U.N. activity with no hearing, speech or photo op too small or dry for Lee’s coverage, and he is regularly seen zipping through the building and typing on his laptop in any nook or cranny he can find. He uses Periscope to livestream events and offers running commentaries of the day’s proceedings as he walks home through New York City at night. And so on Tuesday, Lee hovered outside a late-night, closed-door hearing on the U.N. peacekeeping budget. Other outlets had reported that the budget had been agreed on over the weekend, suggesting a looming stalemate had been broken. But Lee’s reporting suggested things might not be so clear cut...We need to ban the UN from the USA.   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/07/05/un-roughs-up-ejects-bans-reporter-from-headquarters-caught-on-tape.html
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Candace Owens Chastises scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters,
Predicts ‘Major Black Exit’ From the dummycrats-Democratic Party 
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ Candace Owens said that Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters, D-Calif., was “patently wrong”... to call for harassment of Trump administration officials, and predicted a “major black exit” from the dummycrats-Democrat Party in the 2020 presidential election. Last month during a political rally in Los Angeles, scumbag/mad- Waters said, “Let’s make sure we show up wherever we have to show up. And if you see anybody from that Trump 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.” Appearing on “Fox & Friends” on Thursday, Owens, who serves as the communications director for Turning Point USA, was asked to respond to a letter by “Black Woman Leaders and Allies” sent to Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer and House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi calling on them to support scumbag/mad-Waters...
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Head of Likud South Africa gunned down in Johannesburg 
{ timesofisrael.com } ~ An outspoken Jewish advocate of Israel was gunned down at his workplace in South Africa by unidentified assailants... who left behind his car, wallet and cellular phone. Sergio Kowensky, the chairman of the Likud South Africa Jewish group, was killed Tuesday in a southern suburb of Johannesburg at his air-conditioning firm, according to the South African Jewish Report. The shots, fired at around noon, alerted workers in his factory and others in surrounding businesses. “The initial fears were that this could have been the work of anti-Israel fanatics, given that Kowensky spent his entire life dedicated to Zionist ideals, with an intense passion for the well-being of the State of Israel,” the newspaper article’s author wrote. But with the investigation into Kowensky’s death only in its initial phases, his slaying could be “just another senseless act of urban violence on the crime-ridden streets of Johannesburg,” the author also wrote...
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Leftmedia Exploits Child for Homosexual Agenda 

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by Culture Beat:  Dogmatic commitment to an ideology will ensure that both truth and individuals are sacrificed in support of furthering the greater cause. The reality of this scenario has been repeatedly demonstrated in particular by those committed to the leftist agenda of “social justice.” Ironically, details and facts of specific cases of injustice, abuse or crime are often ignored or misapplied in order to support the desired ideological narrative. Likewise, the exploitation of various vulnerable individuals is accepted and even celebrated if it serves to further the broader cause.

             Such is the case with a 10-year-old boy named Desmond. He is clearly struggling with gender dysphoria, though he — with his parents’ encouragement — claims otherwise. You see, Desmond dresses in drag. He says he was inspired to do so at the age of two when he first watched an episode of “RuPaul’s Drag Race.” He also claims to have come “out of the closet” as a homosexual at age of three. So a 10-year-old prepubescent boy is able to experience a sexual desire that his hormones have yet to express? What kind of parents would allow their child to live in such a delusion, and not only allow but exploit it? According to Desmond, his parents “didn’t think it sounded like a good idea to force a child to do something they didn’t want to do.
                Forcing kids to do what they don’t want to do is called “parenting.”
               The Washington Examiner’s Nicole Russell writes, “That’s nonsense. Parents can and should do this all the time. My children would likely eat Little Debbie Cakes and watch movies all day long without intervention. School, chores, homework, reading — those are all things kids would often rather not do. Do we indulge that fantasy? Heck, kids would rather run out in the middle of the street, go eight days without bathing, and eat Pop Rocks all day long — do we indulge them in that too? There are no perfect parents, myself included, but the fine line between boundaries and freedom is one that every parent must navigate with their children.”
               And yet, for that Leftmedia rag called The Huffington Post, Desmond served as the perfect “poster child” for promoting the pro-LGBTQ agenda. The Post tweeted out its celebration of the end of “Pride Month” by featuring Desmond along with this tripe: “As Pride month comes to a close, Desmond Is Amazing, the ten-year-old drag kid from New York, is proof that the future is queer.” No, this is actually proof that The Huffington Post condones exploitation and child abuse. Renowned University of Toronto professor of psychology and clinical psychologist Jordan Peterson responded, “In what moral universe is it acceptable to encourage a 10 yr old boy to dress like an adult male mimicking a sexualized adult female, use that as a ticket to fame and then claim it as virtue? If you don’t see that this child is being exploited then ideology has possessed you to the core.”

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56957?mailing_id=3613&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3613&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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TheFrontPageCover
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Huff and Puff and Blow 
the Housing Market Down? 
by Brian Mark Weber
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Congressman affirms: Unaware of abuse at OSU
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{ wnd.com } ~ Responding to accusations from former student athletes that he ignored allegations of rampant sexual abuse by a team doctor at Ohio State University... Rep. Jim Jordan, R-Ind., affirmed Friday evening his insistence that the accusations are “false.” “I never saw, never heard of, I never was told about any type of abuse,” Jordan said in a live interview with the Fox News Channel’s Bret Baier. “If I had been, I would have dealt with it. Our coaching staff – we would have dealt with it – these were our student athletes,” said Jordan, who served as an assistant wrestling coach at the university from 1987 to 1995. “A good coach puts the interest of student athletes first. We would have dealt with it if we had known about anything that happened.”...   http://www.wnd.com/2018/07/congressman-affirms-unaware-of-abuse-at-osu/.
Sane dummycrats-Democrats And Liberals 
Should #Walkaway From The Regressive Left
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{ lidblog.com } ~ There is a new grassroots campaign called #Walkaway that is working to remind liberal Americans of the values that they USED to stand for... Across America, sane dummycrats-Democrats and liberals are waking up to a political reality that they didn’t see coming. The dummycrats- Democrat Party and the “progressive” movement have gone off the rails, embracing an ideology that is even to the left of mainstream socialism. Progressives are now openly advocating violence against their political opponents. Progressives are now calling for the destruction of every traditional American value that has guided our nation over the last 250+ years. Progressives demonize anything and anyone that has ever been viewed as “normative” in American culture. Progressives have come to hate white people, straight people, religion, and men...   https://lidblog.com/walkaway-from-the-regressive-left/
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Memos show Strzok accelerating Russia probe before election
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{ wnd.com ~ Newly revealed FBI memos show that FBI agent Peter Strzok and his counterintelligence team stepped up their effort to find “derogatory” information regarding alleged Trump-Russia collusion... so they could expand their investigation prior to the 2016 presidential election. The investigators were looking for a “pretext” to accelerate the probe and get a surveillance warrant on figures tied to the future president, reported John Solomon in The Hill, citing documents turned over by the Justice Department to the inspector general and multiple Senate and House committees. Solomon said the documents provided what sources involved in their production, review or investigation describe as “damning” or “troubling” evidence. Strzok is scheduled to testify at an open congressional hearing next week...
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A Year Later, the Fascists of Charlottesville Are Back for More —
This Time Outside the White House 
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{ theintercept.com } ~ THE “UNITE THE RIGHT” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year ripped away the last shred of plausible deniability about the white supremacist fascism of the so-called alt-right... A neo-Nazi plowed his Dodge Charger into a crowd of anti-fascist counterprotesters, killing 32-year-old Heather Heyer and injuring others. A young black man was beaten bloody by racists with metal poles in a parking lot near a police station. White supremacists marched Klan-like, with burning torches and Nazi salutes, around a Confederate statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee while chanting, “Jews will not replace us!” It was a gruesome pastiche of 19th-century American and 20th-century European race hate, newly emboldened under Donald Trump. The president later declared that there were some “very fine people on both sides” — a remark that winked at the side with swastikas and “Sieg Heils.” The tragic events of that day make it all the more vile that the white nationalist organizer of “Unite the Right,” Jason Kessler, is planning an event to mark the deadly demonstration. The approval for the “anniversary” rally outside the White House was granted by the National Park Service. The application offered plans for an estimated 400 demonstrators in Washington’s Lafayette Park who would be “protesting civil rights abuse in Charlottesville, Va / white civil rights.” Kessler initially applied to hold “Unite the Right 2” in Charlottesville, and is now suing the city because it denied him a permit due to safety concerns. The lawsuit seeks to allow the demonstration to go ahead in Charlottesville, as well as in Washington, D.C., on August 12 — exactly a year after Heyer’s brutal death. The false victimhood of Kessler’s aims were on full display as news of approval for him to both assemble and speak in Washington came in: He told a local CBS affiliate, “We’re not able to peacefully assemble. We’re not able to speak.”...   https://theintercept.com/2018/07/02/charlottesville-neo-nazi-washington-kessler/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=68820eda06-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_07&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-68820eda06-131896129
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The Jones Act: A Burden America Can No Longer Bear
by Colin Grabow, Inu Manak, and Daniel J. Ikenson

{ cato.org } ~ For nearly 100 years, a federal law known as the Jones Act has restricted water transportation of cargo between U.S. ports to ships that are U.S.-owned, U.S.-crewed, U.S.-registered, and U.S.-built... Justified on national security grounds as a means to bolster the U.S. maritime industry, the unsurprising result of this law has been to impose significant costs on the U.S. economy while providing few of the promised benefits. This paper provides an overview of the Jones Act by examining its history and the various burdens it imposes on consumers and businesses alike. While the law’s most direct consequence is to raise transportation costs, which are passed down through supply chains and ultimately reflected in higher retail prices, it generates enormous collateral damage through excessive wear and tear on the country’s infrastructure, time wasted in traffic congestion, and the accumulated health and environmental toll caused by unnecessary carbon emissions and hazardous material spills from trucks and trains. Meanwhile, closer scrutiny finds the law’s national security justification to be unmoored from modern military and technological realities. This paper examines how such an archaic, burdensome law has been able to withstand scrutiny and persist for almost a century. It turns out that, as in so many other cases of rent seeking, there is an asymmetry of motivations among those who benefit from the Jones Act’s protections and the vastly greater number who bear its costs...
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Huff and Puff and Blow the Housing Market Down? 

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by Brian Mark Weber:  The 2007 housing market crash seems like a distant memory.

             Home prices are rising today, and there’s a general feeling that there’s never been a better time to own a home or purchase a new one. Throw a strong U.S. economy into the mix, and it’s no wonder we’re having trouble seeing the dark clouds on the horizon.
               The Investor’s Business Daily editorial board writes, “Right now, housing suffers from an affordability crisis. Despite median household income rising strongly since President Trump took office, the average price for a new home today is just under $330,000, vs. about $248,000 in 2006, before the last housing crisis. Higher Fed rates followed by a downturn in housing prices would devastate the U.S. economy.”
               Higher interest rates are a near certainty as the Fed responds to rising incomes and low unemployment. This would not only keep some new buyers from qualifying for mortgages but ensure those who did buy would see higher payments. Moreover, the demand for homes would dwindle if such a scenario played out.
               A greater threat is that the very government meddling that caused the bubble to burst in 2007 is setting us up for another potential crash in the market.
               But didn’t we learn anything from the recession? Didn’t the government put safeguards into place to prevent it from happening again?
               Not a chance. We are talking about politicians after all, and many of them will do anything to maintain the status quo if it benefits them politically.
               Remember Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? They’re the two federally backed mortgage behemoths that contributed to the housing crash in 2007. In response to mainly leftist politicians pushing for greater homeownership for low-income citizens, and under orders from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, these government-sponsored enterprises offered loans to millions of applicants who simply couldn’t afford them. And both organizations failed to disclose the number of subprime loans they held.
               As with just about any government solution, this one mainly benefitted politicians claiming to be looking out for the little guy. Except in this case, too many little guys couldn’t afford to keep their homes, and the bursting of the resulting housing bubble led to the Great Recession of 2008. Thanks, dummycrats-Democrats.
               The election of Donald Trump offered a glimmer of hope. Last fall, the Trump administration highlighted problems with Fannie and Freddie in a meeting designed to prevent another housing crash. The objectives of the meeting included ending government control and doing away with the federal loan guarantees that cost American taxpayers billions when those loans fail. But in the end, there weren’t enough points of agreement to move to the next step, and we’re back to square one.
               Bloomberg’s Joe Light writes, “Trump’s administration effectively acknowledged that it’s no closer to figuring out what to do with Fannie and Freddie. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said there’ll likely be no end to federal control during this Congress. In the meantime, the duo has only become more crucial to America’s booming-again housing market, standing behind about $5 trillion of loans.
               Light adds, “Trump’s team hasn’t decided how to restructure the companies — or even who should do it, the White House or Congress. It’s still in the earliest stages of figuring out what a new housing-finance system should look like, according to interviews with officials inside and outside the administration.
               For now, there’s plenty of good news on the housing front — including a sharp uptick in home purchases due to low interest rates and a growing economy, especially among first-time buyers who are fueling a surge in home building. Housing starts for single-family homes are the strongest in a decade, and home builder  confidence remains strong after reaching an 18-year high last December.
               But with the Federal Reserve expected to increase interest rates as many as three times this year, and with the government encouraging lenders to engage in the same risky practices that led to the last crash, we could be facing a wake-up call that collapses the housing market and takes Trump’s surging economy with it.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56974?mailing_id=3613&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3613&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Rolling Back liar-nObama's 
Legacy With 24 Rescissions 
by Michael Swartz
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Trump Keeps His Promises to Veterans
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ When President Donald Trump was running for office, he made countless claims that he would care for the veterans of this country... and do something about the neglect previous administrations have shown for their well-being. As of now, he seems to be living up to his promises. Candidates for this country's highest office make lots of promises during campaign seasons and election cycles. In fact, they make so many that it's often hard to keep track of what they say and hold them accountable once they take the helm of the White House. But it would take an awful lot of amnesia to erase Donald Trump's promises to reform the Department of Veterans' Affairs (V.A.) from our collective memories. Trump didn't just make vague promises – he outlined a 10-point plan for how he would reform the V.A. and bring dignity back to the lives of veterans all over the country. It was an integral component of his campaign to Make America Great Again. Among other goals, the plan touched on issues like...
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Legal complaint filed against 
scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters for ethics violations
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{ patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ Finally, some common sense has landed on the table in the scumbag/mad- Maxine Waters case... After she encouraged her supporters to create a crowd and harass Trump Cabinet members, it was continuously passed off as protests. Creating a crowd and harassing people is rioting. And, that is exactly what scumbag/mad-Waters was trying to provoke. Even though Republicans have the numbers in both Congress and the Senate, nothing has been done to scumbag/mad-Waters over her comments. That changed when Judicial Watch filed its complaint...
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Islamic State senior commander: “Oil and gas obtained
by the Islamic State sold to Turkey and the Syrian regime” 
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by ROBERT SPENCER
{ jihadwatch.org } ~ The Islamic State (ISIS/ISIL) sold illegally obtained gas and oil to the Russian- and Iranian-backed Syrian regime as well as to Turkey... while it ruled Iraq and Syria, Kurdistan 24 learned from a jailed senior commander from the jihadist group. “Oil and gas obtained by the Islamic State were sold to Turkey and the Syrian regime,” Razeek Radeek Maksimo, an Azerbaijani ISIS senior commander, asserted while speaking from a Syrian Kurdistan jail. “Oil was sold to Turkey through the Free Syrian Army (FSA).” The FSA, which once received U.S. assistance, is now fighting Assad in Syria with the support of Turkey. At the peak of ISIS’s power, oil was the group’s top source of income. A Top U.S. Treasury official described the jihadi group in 2014 as “probably the best-funded terrorist organization we have confronted,” citing oil as its primary source of revenue...
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Defense contractor detained migrant kids 
in vacant Phoenix office building
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{ revealnews.org } ~ A major U.S. defense contractor quietly detained dozens of immigrant children inside a vacant Phoenix office building with dark windows... no kitchen and only a few toilets during three weeks of the Trump administration’s family separation effort, Reveal from The Center for Investigative Reporting has learned. Videos shot by an alarmed neighbor show children dressed in sweatsuits being led – one so young she was carried – into the 3,200-square-foot building in early June. The building is not licensed by Arizona to hold children, and the contractor, MVM Inc., has claimed publicly that it does not operate “shelters or any other type of housing” for children. Defending the administration’s policy to separate families at the border in a May interview with NPR, White House chief of staff John Kelly promised: “The children will be taken care of – put into foster care or whatever.” Whether or not these children were taken from their parents, that “whatever” for them was the vacant building tucked away in a midtown Phoenix neighborhood. It is not listed among shelters operating through the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement or on the state child care licensing website...   https://www.revealnews.org/article/defense-contractor-detained-migrant-kids-in-vacant-phoenix-office-building/?utm_source=Reveal%20Newsletters%20Master%20List&utm_campaign=18540c056b-&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e35efe0ab1-18540c056b-230094505&mc_cid=18540c056b&mc_eid=74ebbbf037.
scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters Incited ‘Very Definition of Mob Violence,’
Says Group Filing Ethics Complaint with House
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{ pjmedia.com } ~ Conservative watchdog and activism group Judicial Watch has filed an ethics complaint against Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters (D-Calif.)... said Tom Fitton, the organization's president, on Fox News on Thursday. "The number one House ethics rule is you've got to act in a way that reflects credibly on the House at all times, and when you’re out there… inciting mob violence against sitting Trump cabinet members, that doesn’t obviously reflect credibly on the House,” said Fitton on Fox & Friends. “And the House has to decide whether they’re going to allow its members to use the House as a platform and its power and position to attack and incite violence against Trump cabinet members.” scumbag/mad-Waters infamously told a crowd of liberal protestors to "create a crowd" and "push back" any time they see a member of the Trump cabinet...
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Rolling Back liar-nObama's Legacy With 24 Rescissions 

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by Michael Swartz:  Live by the pen and phone, die by the pen and phone. This week, President Donald Trump’s administration undid yet more malfeasance perpetrated under the previous regime’s rule-by-fiat. And leftists are losing their minds. Again.

             We start with education admissions practices. One of the most exciting days in a parent’s life is that day a letter comes from the college of their child’s choice — a letter stating that, yes, that child has been accepted into the next incoming freshman class. Unfortunately, some students don’t make this cut due to insufficient grades, test scores, extracurricular activities or other less objective factors.
               But when the students in question are academically superior and natural leaders and yet are denied admission when more ordinary students are being accepted because of their race or economic status, that clear-cut discrimination is cause for action. In some cases, aggrieved students — with the aid of an advocacy group — have filed suit. One of these, a lawsuit by a group of Asian-American students, targets Harvard University with a discrimination claim that even the school found to be true through its own investigation. Even so, Harvard continued to downgrade Asian-American applicants anyway — ironically, in the name of “diversity.” Documents unsealed as part of the Harvard suit revealed that the school used a subjective, personality-based rating system to artificially lower the number of Asian-Americans admitted.
               That case could eventually be heard by the Supreme Court, but in the meantime it’s prompted the Trump administration, led by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, to act. This impetus accompanied an earlier executive order from President Trump directing government agencies to scrap wherever possible such guidance as spelled out in the infamous “Dear Colleague” letters administered during Barack liar-nObama’s administration. These executive end-runs were little more than edicts and coercions aimed at institutions of higher learning and lacking legislative input. Their goal? To create a more “diverse” student population solely based on race and economic status.
               The rescission of liar-nObama’s direction that diversity is “a compelling state interest” generally means a return to George W. Bush-era policy, which held that the factors of race and economic status should be a last resort in promoting a diverse student body. As Robby Soave at Reason opined, the Bush approach “was consistent with Supreme Court precedent that has permitted affirmative action but narrowly limited its use.”
               These admissions regulations were among the biggest changes made by the rescission of 24 previous guidance documents, a decision Sessions announced Tuesday. “The American people deserve to have their voices heard and a government that is accountable to them,” he said. “When issuing regulations, federal agencies must abide by constitutional principles and follow the rules set forth by Congress and the President.
               “In previous administrations, however, agencies often tried to impose new rules on the American people without any public notice or comment period, simply by sending a letter or posting a guidance document on a website. That’s wrong, and it’s not good government,” explained Sessions as part of a release  accompanying the list of rescissions. “In the Trump administration, we are restoring the rule of law. That’s why in November I banned this practice at the Department and we began rescinding guidance documents that were issued improperly or that were simply inconsistent with current law,” the AG concluded.
               In all, the count of liar-nObama-era guidance documents rescinded is now 49, and Sessions and Co. aren’t through yet. “The [DOJ Regulatory Reform] Task Force is continuing its review of existing guidance documents to repeal, replace, or modify,” Sessions added.
               Since the Sessions announcement had the effect of a classic Friday afternoon document dump (coming as it did on the day before a holiday), the caterwauling from the Left wasn’t quite as pronounced — but it was there. Leading the charge was the ACLU, with its Racial Justice Program director Dennis Parker using the occasion to take a gratuitous swipe at Education Secretary Betsy DeVos — who was nowhere to be found in the Sessions release.
               Meanwhile, ACLU National Political Director Faiz Shakir  played the good old-fashioned race card: “This move from Attorney General Sessions is a concrete signal that there is a war being waged on civil liberties from the highest levels of government,” Shakir whined. “This is another attack by Sessions and President Trump on people of color.” Ironically, Shakir is the son of Pakistani immigrants and attended … Harvard.
               Clearly, the greatest lack of diversity on college campuses is the dearth of conservative thought. If these institutions of higher learning are genuinely interested in diversity, they should strive to include among their faculty and staff viewpoints that aren’t strictly held by the Left.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56975?mailing_id=3613&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3613&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Sat/Med - PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
The Left's Contempt Is Going to Reelect Trump 
by Marc A. Thiessen
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Gut Wrenching Jim Jordan Interview
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ “Gut wrenching” when you watch the entire interview and reach the final minute where Ohio Republican Jim Jordan explains the past 24 hrs... Jim Jordan appears on Brett Baier to push back against accusations he was aware of alleged sexual abuse by Ohio State University’s former wrestling team doctor when he was an assistant coach. *Note*, before this story hit the major headlines, CTH received an email about this story surfacing and how it likely was constructed to target Jim Jordan for political damage. That email is below. CTH is not revealing the name of the sender....
Russia targeted US-backed media 
while GOP senators visited Moscow
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Russian lawmakers cracked down on Voice of America and other U.S.-funded media outlets while U.S. lawmakers visited Moscow... which drew a rebuke from the State Department. “The Russian government continues to stifle press freedom and media independence,” spokeswoman Heather Nauert said Friday evening. “This bill could provide the Russian government a new tool to target independent journalists and bloggers in retaliation for their work.” A committee of lawmakers in the State Duma, the lower chamber of Russia’s legislature, advanced legislation that would force reporters who work for Voice of America and other U.S.-backed outlets to register individually as foreign agents. The move is seen as retaliation for the Justice Department’s decision to brand Kremlin-backed outlets as foreign agents for spreading disinformation during the 2016 elections...
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Yes, It’s True: Peter Strzok Failed His Polygraph Yet Retained
Security Clearance and Position on Two Investigations
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Validating Paul Sperry’s tweet. Yes, FBI Agent Peter Strzok failed his polygraph and his supervisors were notified on January 16th, 2016... his results were “out of scope“. Meaning he failed his polygraph test. Yet he was never removed from any responsibilities; and against dept policy, he did not have his clearance revoked until he could clear. This was discussed during the Rosenstein testimony and overlooked by most. After Strzok was recently removed from official responsibility within the FBI, his security clearances were retroactively revoked. That revocation was due to OPR review and was a retroactive revocation action initiated by career officials within the FBI to cover-up ie. CYA the two-and-a-half years he was allowed to work when he should not have been. Current FBI officials, including Trump appointed FBI Director Christopher Wray, are covering up the scandal within the FBI in a misguided effort to save the institution....
More of scumbag/mad-Maxine’s People – Another 
dummycrats-Democrat Arrested For Death Threats 
Against Republican Congressman
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by sundance
{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Another dummycrats-democrat was arrested earlier today after following the advice of scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters and threatening political violence against a member of congress...  The target was the campaign staff and office of republican lawmaker Lee Zeldin.  Martin Astrof was arrested after he threatened to kill supporters of Congressman Lee Zeldin and President Donald Trump. Astrof went to the campaign headquarters of Congressman Zeldin and became irate with a campaign worker at approximately 11:15 a.m. After threatening to kill the campaign worker and other supporters, Astrof backed his car up in an aggressive manner nearly striking the worker. Astrof fled the scene and was arrested a short time later in front of his home in Nesconset. Astrof, 75, of 7 Meryl Lane, was charged with Making a Terroristic Threat, a felony, and Reckless Endangerment 2nd Degree....
Judicial Watch Sues for Documents 
on Mueller’s Abusive Raid on Trump’s Lawyers

{ judicialwatch.org } ~ In April, Special Counsel Mueller and the DOJ crossed yet another bridge too far... when Mueller recommended, and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein approved, a raid on President Trump’s then-personal attorney’s home and office. At the time of the raid, I tweeted: “The raid is just one more reason to shut the Mueller operation down – it’s constitutionally suspect, ethically compromised, & frankly has no reason for being – given the fact that there’s no evidence of @RealDonaldTrump-Russia collusion.” Judicial Watch began an investigation that has resulted in another JW “Mueller oversight project” lawsuit...   https://www.judicialwatch.org/video-update/tom-fittons-video-weekly-update-july-6-2018/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=weekly+update&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180707152801.
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The Left's Contempt Is Going to Reelect Trump 

by Marc A. Thiessen:

 

dummycrats-Democrats have a new theory for how they can win back Congress and the White House. Just like “soccer moms” helped put liar-Bill Clinton in the Oval Office in 1996, and “NASCAR dads” helped George W. Bush win in 2004, Donald Trump, the theory goes, was elected because of “#Neverliar-Hillary” voters who didn’t particularly like him but despised her. Axios reports thatdummycrats-Democrats are targeting the “20% of Trump’s voters [who] told exit pollsters they didn’t like him” hoping these reluctant Trump voters will help power a “blue wave” in the 2018 midterms and defeat President Trump in 2020.                                 One problem with that theory: The Left’s nonstop, over-the-top attacks on Trump are not peeling those voters away from him; they are pushing them further into the president’s camp.              
               In recent weeks, Trump Derangement Syndrome on the Left has reached critical mass. First, there was Robert De Niro’s “f—k Trump” tirade at the Tony awards, followed by Samantha Bee’s calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless c— t” on her TV show. Then the owners of the Red Hen restaurant threw out White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders because she works for the president, while chanting protesters heckled Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen at a Mexican restaurant. Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters (D-CA) added fuel to the fire by openly calling on mobs of left-wing activists to “absolutely harass” Trump officials. Then, there were the countless Trump opponents in the media, Congress and on Twitter who compared family separations at the southern border with Nazi Germany, and the Time magazine cover depicting Trump staring down heartlessly at a crying migrant girl and implying she was separated from her mother (until it emerged that she had not in fact been separated from her mother). And now come the threats to block Trump’s Supreme Court nominee before he has even nominated one.               
               How do liberals think that 20% of reluctant Trump voters respond to these displays of unbridled contempt? They are outraged not at Trump but at his critics. The unhinged hatred for the president makes these voters almost reflexively defend him.
               Don’t take my word for it. The New York Times recently interviewed dozens of tepid Trump voters who explained how the incessant attacks are causing them to rally around the president. “Gina Anders knows the feeling well by now,” the Times reports. “President Trump says or does something that triggers a spasm of outrage. She doesn’t necessarily agree with how he handled the situation. She gets why people are upset.”
               But Anders, who the Times says has “not a stitch of ‘Make America Great Again’ gear in her wardrobe, is moved to defend him anyway.” When she hears the “overblown” attacks on Trump, she says, “It makes me angry at them, which causes me to want to defend him to them more.” Another reluctant Trump voter, Tony Schrantz, agrees. “He’s not a perfect guy; he does some stupid stuff,” he tells the Times. “But when they’re hounding him all the time it just gets old.
               These are exactly the voters dummycrats-Democrats are hoping to win back. Instead, they are doing the opposite. Polls bear this out.
               Two weeks ago, Trump’s Gallup approval rating hit 45% — the highest it has been since his inauguration. (It slipped slightly to 41% last week). Trump’s approval among Republicans is at a near-record 87%, comparable to the levels of support for George W. Bush in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. Think about that: The Left’s attacks on Trump have had the same rallying effect for GOP voters as the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
               So, if appeals to civility, decency and conscience won’t work, then perhaps an appeal to base political pragmatism will. dummycrats-Democrats are deluding themselves if they think they lost because of “#Neverliar-Hillary” voters who will come home when she is not on the ballot. They lost because they have become a party of coastal liberal elites who have lost touch with millions of ordinary citizens in Middle America — working-class voters who are struggling with factories closing, jobs leaving and an opioid epidemic that is destroying their families. These voters concluded in 2016 that dummycrats-Democrats no longer care about their problems and that Trump does.
               Spasms of anti-Trump outrage are not going to win them back. If anything, they are confirming these voters’ conclusions that dummycrats-Democrats still don’t get it — and don’t get them. The Left’s miasma of contempt may feel cathartic, but it is the best thing that ever happened to Trump. Indeed, it may very well get him reelected.

~The Patriot Post 

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Facebook Blocks Declaration 
of Independence as "Hate Speech" 
by Thomas Gallatin
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Gowdy - Strzok Attorney and scumbag-Schiff 
are Wrong - He Will Testify, Like it or Not
{ rickwells.us } ~ California Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff has “had a terrible last couple of years,” Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said... in a scathing interview about his dummycrats-Democratic counterpart Thursday night. “He wanted to be the attorney general under liar-Hillary Clinton, and nobody in the country worked harder to protect her than scumbag-Adam Schiff. He wanted to run for the Senate in the People’s Republic of California, but he couldn’t win either of those seats. So now, he wants to be the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,” Gowdy told Fox News’ Jason Chaffetz. Gowdy was responding to remarks that scumbag-Schiff made in an interview with CNN on June 28 about House Republicans’ efforts to obtain information about the FBI and Justice Department’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government...   https://rickwells.us/gowdy-strzok-schiff-testify/
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Apparently the FBI Withheld Strzok and Page 
Memos/Emails From Inspector General and Congress – Until Now
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Well, this is interesting.  The substance of the latest information is better read by reviewing the presentation of John Solomon... (  http://thehill.com/hilltv/rising/395776-memos-detail-fbis-hurry-the-f-up-pressure-to-probe-trump-campaign  ) The dynamic that catches my interest is how some unknown and unnamed officials inside the FBI apparently kept memos and emails between Lisa Page and Peter Strzok hidden while Inspector General Michael Horowitz was conducting his prior investigation into their conduct during the liar-Clinton email investigation: […]  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..
Beware the Red Wave
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{ spectator.org } ~ Yes, Rasmussen Reports offers polling which is often of an optimistic character for those of us who lean more to the conservative side of the political fence... and because of this fact, Rasmussen’s work product is sometimes ignored by the legacy media when it discusses the current political reality. But recently Rasmussen released a poll result which shouldn’t be ignored. Namely…A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone and online survey finds that 74% of Likely U.S. Voters prefer a free market economic system over a socialist system. Only 13% think socialism is a better economic system, and just as many 13% are undecided. You’ll see evidence to the contrary of Rasmussen’s findings, of course. There are those polls saying that millennials are as interested in communism as in capitalism, and there is the more anecdotal evidence within the dummycrats-Democrat Party that commie-Bernie Sanders-style socialism is ascendant. The dummycrats-Democrat primary victory by avowed socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez over New York congressman Joe Crowley is being lauded as an example of the country’s lurch leftward; the party’s chairman Tom Perez even called Ocasio-Cortez its “future” last week. But however skewed Rasmussen’s poll sample might be, that 74 percent number indicates the dummycrats-Democrats are in serious trouble if they actually believe a far-left push is the key to winning those mid-term elections...   https://spectator.org/beware-the-red-wave/?utm_source=American+Spectator+Emails&utm_campaign=e17680ea19-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_06_07_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-e17680ea19-104608113
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Judges slap down university for fake academic freedom
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{ wnd.com } ~ Officials at Marquette University in Milwaukee were rebuked Friday by the state Supreme Court for trying to install a politically correct code of conduct... for their tenured professors that succumbs “to the dominant academic culture of micro-aggressions, trigger warnings and safe spaces.” The dispute centered on professor John McAdams, who criticized a graduate teaching assistant in a blog post for telling a student that the concept of “gay rights” is undisputed and anyone who thinks otherwise is “homophobic.” The university suspended  McAdams for his criticism, and he never was reinstated because he refused to write an apology. The university insisted the courts should have nothing to do with the dispute. Officials at the private Roman Catholic institution learned otherwise Friday...
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Trade War: America Fights Back! 
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{ finance.townhall.com } ~ With the trade skirmish shifting from saber-rattling to actual policy, the market handled it very well on Thursday... A part of the reason was an overture from the Chancellor of Germany, Angela Merkel, with respect to possibly reducing European Union (EU) tariffs on American car exports to the continent. Meanwhile, $34 billion in tariffs on Chinese imports became official last night, but Chinese trade proxies were generally higher except soybean prices, which are now down more than 18% in the last three months. Technology led the way powered by a rebound in chip makers, but value-hunters are still looking at consumer staples. Market breadth was the best in a long time as there were overwhelmingly more advancers on advancing volume than decliners. On the NYSE, new 52-week highs edged up to 78, against only 37 new lows. On the NASDAQ, 85 names hit new 52-week highs against 37 new lows...
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Facebook Blocks Declaration of Independence as "Hate Speech" 

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by Thomas Gallatin:  In its ongoing attempts to crack down on “fake news,” Facebook has only proved what many conservatives have repeatedly warned: It’s catering to leftist bias in order to limit conservative content. Some recent incidents expose this reality.

             In a buildup to our nation’s annual celebration of Independence Day, a community newspaper, The Liberty County Vindicator, had been posting on Facebook portions of the Declaration of Independence for eight straight days. On the ninth day, the Vindicator’s scheduled excerpt was not posted by the social media site because it had been flagged as “racist” “hate speech.” The Vindicator received an automated notice stating that the scheduled post “goes against our standards on hate speech.
               The excerpt in question from the Declaration’s “Bill of Particulars” against King George III reads, “He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.” It was Thomas Jefferson’s reference to “Indian Savages” that triggered the “hate speech” designation.
               Casey Stinnett, the Vindicator’s managing editor, responded to the absurd censorship in a subsequent post and noted that his newspaper wanted “a means of contacting Facebook for an explanation or an opportunity to appeal the post’s removal, but it does not appear the folks at Facebook want anyone contacting them. Or, at least, they do not make it easy.” Fortunately, following his post, Facebook apologized to the Vindicator and posted the Declaration’s excerpt.
               But Facebook’s facepalm-worthy behavior on patriotism didn’t end with the Vindicator fiasco. On Monday, the Wes Cook band released a video for its song “I Stand for the Flag.” The band planned to use Facebook’s paid promotion tools to promote its video, which was initially accepted by Facebook only to later be rejected with the excuse given that the video was “political content.” But late Tuesday, Facebook changed its decision again, stating, “We recently announced anyone running ads about political or other major national issues must include a ‘paid for’ label. After looking again, we determined that this ad doesn’t need that label. While this is a new policy, and while we won’t ever be perfect, we think knowing who is behind an ad is important, and we’ll continue to work on improving as we roll it out.” Another “oops” statement from Facebook that once again smacks of leftist bias.
               Finally, PJ Media’s Paula Bolyard relays her recent experience of having a piece designated as “fake news” by Facebook’s “fact-checkers.” Bolyard notes a particular problem with Facebook’s self-promoted commitment to fighting “fake news.” Not only has Facebook tabbed leftist groups to “fact-check” content, it has sought to isolate itself from any direct responsibility by taking a hands-off approach to flagged content:
               First, that content’s distribution is reduced. It will appear lower in News Feed, and will be accompanied by Related Articles from fact-checkers. If people try to share the content, they will be notified of the additional reporting. They will also be notified if content they have shared in the past has since been rated by a fact-checker.
               Second, in order to more effectively fight false news, we also take action against Pages that share, and domains that publish, content which is rated “False.” Such Pages and domains will see their distribution reduced as the number of offenses increases. Their ability to monetize and advertise will be removed after repeated offenses. Over time, Pages and domains can restore their distribution and ability to monetize and advertise if they stop sharing false news.
               Publishers who issue a correction or dispute a rating may contact the fact-checker. If their correction or dispute is successful, the strike against them will be eliminated. Note that simply deleting a post or removing a URL is not sufficient to eliminate the strike against the domain or Page.
               In short, if one’s post is flagged, one can’t appeal directly to Facebook but rather to the very “fact-checkers” whose biased assessment resulted in censoring the content in the first place. It’s the foxes guarding the hen house, and that’s exactly the way Facebook wants it. That’s because it’s a means for Mark Zuckerberg and company to indirectly limit conservative content on Facebook while avoiding having to answer for it.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56950?mailing_id=3611&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3611&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Freedom Is, Once Again, on the March 
in the United States of America 
by Rebecca Hagelin 
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Gowdy Cuts scumbag-Adam Schiff Down To Size 
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ California Rep. scumbag-Adam Schiff has “had a terrible last couple of years,”... Republican South Carolina Rep. Trey Gowdy said in a scathing interview about his dummycrats-Democratic counterpart Thursday night. “He wanted to be the attorney general under liar-Hillary Clinton, and nobody in the country worked harder to protect her than scumbag-Adam Schiff. He wanted to run for the Senate in the People’s Republic of California, but he couldn’t win either of those seats. So now, he wants to be the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee,” Gowdy told Fox News’ Jason Chaffetz...
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Feds ask for more time to reunite 
tricky cases from border separations 
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by Stephen Dinan
{ washingtontimes.com } ~ The Trump administration asked a judge Friday to extend the deadline for reunifying families separated at the border... in cases where the government suspects the adults may not really be parents of the children they’re claiming. The request came in court papers filed in advance of an afternoon conference call among the lawyers. “My opinion is that some relaxing of the Court’s deadlines is needed to allow HHS, on a case-by-case basis, to complete processes that HHS determines are necessary to make informed class membership determinations and to protect the welfare of the children presently in ORR custody,” Jonathan White, a senior official at the federal Health and Human Services Department, said in the filing. ORR is the Office of Refugee Resettlement, the division of HHS that, under the law, cares for illegal immigrant children deemed to be unaccompanied, at least until they can be placed with sponsors in the U.S. The judge had set a deadline of next Tuesday for the government to reunite all children under age 5 who were separated from their parents after they crossed the U.S.-Mexico border...  https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2018/jul/6/feds-time-reunite-tricky-cases-border-separations/
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How Congress Can Reduce liar-nObamacare Premiums
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ In 2019, liar-nObamacare premiums are poised to become even more expensive... New York, Washington state, and Maryland are requesting to raise their rates for the individual market by an average of 24 percent, 19 percent, and 30 percent respectively. Nationwide, the Congressional Budget Office predicts premiums will increase an average of 15 percent for the liar-nObamacare benchmark plan. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Earlier this year, we co-authored a study examining how liar-nObamacare regulations raised premiums. We reviewed dozens of prospective and retrospective actuarial analyses of liar-nObamacare’s premium effects on both the state and national levels. We found that premium increases for liar-nObamacare policies were attributable to a maze of new federal insurance mandates, combined with a flawed subsidy design. That unhappy concoction produced disproportionately older and less healthy insurance pools, requiring insurers to price policies beyond the reach of many families and small businesses...   https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/05/how-congress-can-reduce-obamacare-premiums/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdZNU5EUTVNR1EwWWpGbSIsInQiOiIwek5hbnl6RHNZelU4aW9xT3FkVVNpdTN0ZGtud0M0RnZtSDBicHE4SHJpdTlxRHhRNVcrYW8zTkNyVjd3bjc2TXpTQXcxbjVPXC9KdFJ0eGxXbVRQSzJoOUJONVhTU01mdDNZQndHS0hiZHFQNkNCN2Q0SmtrSnI2ckRES3Bua2wifQ%3D%3D 
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Poll Shows Palestinians Want 
Convicted Terrorist to Succeed Abbas
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{ jewishjournal.com } ~ Those hoping that the Palestinians’ eroding support for Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas... could be a stepping stone will be disappointed in a new poll showing that Palestinians support a convicted terrorist to succeed Abbas. A July 4 poll conducted by the Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research Center (PCPSR) found that a plurality of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip support Marwan Barghouti, who is currently serving five life sentences in an Israeli prison over terrorism charges, at 30 percent. The runner-up is Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh at 23 percent. Sixty-one percent of respondents also believed that Abbas needs to step down from his position as PA president, while 33 percent don’t...
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White Millennials Are Leaving the dummycrats-Democratic 
Party as 'Walk Away' Campaign Picks Up Steam 
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{ pjmedia.com } ~ White millennials are equally divided between supporting Republicans and dummycrats-Democrats in this year's critical midterm elections... as a campaign urging people to "Walk Away" from the dummycrats-Democratic Party has picked up steam online. Young people do not like President Donald Trump, but whites between the ages of 18 and 34 said they are equally likely to vote for a Republican as for a dummycrats-Democrat in the elections for Congress this November. A full 39 percent said that "if the election for U.S. Congress were held today," they would vote for the Republican in the district where they live. Another 39 percent said they would vote for the dummycrats-Democrat. This represented a nine-point shift away from dummycrats-Democrats since 2016. That year, only 33 percent of young white voters said they would elect a Republican to Congress, while 47 percent said they would choose a dummycrats-Democrat...  https://pjmedia.com/election/white-millennials-are-leaving-the-democratic-party-as-walk-away-campaign-picks-up-steam/
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‘Army Discharging Immigrants’ Story May 
Not Be The Outrage It’s Cracked Up To Be
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ On Thursday, The Associated Press published a story with a headline that read, “US Army quietly discharging immigrant recruits.”... That headline was quickly met with outrage — but the story itself isn’t anything new. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush called the move “disappointing.” Film producer Adam Best claimed that the recruits were being discharged because they were immigrants. But as retired Army Col. Kurt Schlicter predicted, there was more to the story. NPR’s Tim Mak offered a little more context, pointing out the fact that the real question — whether or not recruits are being discharged because they are immigrants — is never answered in the article...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/07/06/army-discharging-immigrants-outrage/?utm_medium=email
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Freedom Is, Once Again, on the March in the United States of America 

by Rebecca Hagelin:  This time around, the procession is led by a brazen, no-nonsense man not unlike the bold leaders who signed the Declaration of Independence 242 years ago.

             Although he has retaken much ground lost to liberal tyranny in recent decades, President Trump cannot restore all of our freedoms alone.
               America’s Founders may as well have signed their own death warrants when they declared independence from the most powerful nation on the face of the earth. The risk was so great that they understood they must stand together in spite of their differences, or else they would hang together. Worse still, their failure to unify would cause the dream of freedom, shared by the people they represented, to be obliterated by a tyrannical government that viewed them as subjects instead of individuals with inherent rights. This understanding compelled these men to mutually pledge to each other “our Lives, our Fortunes, and our Sacred Honor.
               To those early great leaders who risked everything for the sentiments they expressed in the Declaration, freedom of speech and freedom of religion were paramount. So they enshrined them in the very first of the Bill of Rights of the United States Constitution.
               The Founders knew that when people do not have the freedom to speak openly, and the freedom to allow our faith to be reflected in our activities, we eventually become enslaved in every other area of our lives too. The radical “progressive” liberals understand this fully too — way more so than the average American who doesn’t care much for politics.
               The liberal activists know that when you have the power to suppress the speech and faith-based actions of those you disagree with, then your power is absolute. That is why modern liberals so viciously attack cake bakers and florists who do not bend to the demands of others. It’s why they insist that pro-life crisis pregnancy services advertise abortion. It’s why they compel workers to pay unions for representation the workers do not want. And it’s why the lovers of tyranny will not sit idly by and watch the president appoint, and the Senate confirm, another strict constructionist as the newest Supreme Court justice.
               In recent decades, this great land of liberty has become less so because judicial activism and runaway government have caused freedom to stumble.
               I wonder: Are the United States senators who lean toward liberty willing to put their differences aside in order to champion freedom’s continued march?
               They proved that they can rise to such an occasion when they pulled together to confirm Neil Gorsuch to the High Court. Conservatives and “establishment” Republicans stopped squabbling long enough to support our very independent-thinking, brash president in a shared commitment to liberty. They understood that Neil Gorsuch would be a stalwart promoter of the one thing that is required for men and women in these United States to live freely: the restoration of fundamental constitutional rights. So they made it happen.
               And Justice Gorsuch has delivered in spades with the several 5-4 decisions handed down in recent days, which reestablish First Amendment rights. When the Court restored the religious and speech rights of the cake baker, the pro-life ministries and the union workers, every American and the Constitution emerged victorious.
               Perhaps it is an act of Divine Providence that, just as we celebrate Independence Day, the Republican Party has the opportunity to add rocket fuel to freedom’s march. If the High Court welcomes another jurist committed to original intent and the liberties guaranteed to all Americans by the Constitution, then freedom will win the day for years to come.
               In the midst of the current upheaval, bickering and nonsense rampant throughout the Republican Party, a rare opportunity to unify and change the course of history has emerged. Senate Republicans must seize this moment, and in so doing, restore liberty for every American. May they resolve to emulate the commitment of those who brought us our first Independence Day.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/opinion/56908?mailing_id=3605&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3605&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Contra 'Fact-Checkers,' 
Illegals Are a Crime Problem 
by Thomas Gallatin
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What is Devin Nunes up to? House Trump-Russia 
probe expands as Intel chair focuses on informants
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Devin Nunes is up to something. The House Intelligence Committee chairman has been writing letters lately, asking that two other House chairman... Bob Goodlatte of the Judiciary Committee and Trey Gowdy of the Oversight Committee — pick up parts of the Trump-Russia investigation that Nunes started. It's as if Nunes, who shook loose some of the key publicly-known facts in the probe, is having a grand going-out-of-business sale. But that's clearly not the case. So what, in fact, is going on? The short version is that the investigation is expanding to the two additional committees, even as Nunes devotes his own committee's resources to learning whether the FBI used informants against the 2016 Trump campaign and, if so, how many, when, and how much money was spent on the project. Both Judiciary and Oversight have more staff than Intelligence, and thus more capacity to handle multiple witnesses. They also have more direct oversight responsibility for parts of the Justice Department and other arms of the federal government under examination by House investigators. Last fall Goodlatte and Gowdy announced the formation of a joint Judiciary-Oversight task force to investigate "decisions made by the Department of Justice in 2016." At the time of the announcement, on Oct. 24, 2017, the focus was mostly on various aspects of the liar-Clinton email investigation. But it has since broadened to include the Trump-Russia probe, which involved many of the same key players at the Justice Department. Now, it is the vehicle to continue parts of the original House Intel investigation...   https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/byron-york-house-trump-russia-investigation-expands-devin-nunes-focuses-on-informants
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Trump Says the dummycrats-DNC 
Just Lost a Russia Lawsuit Filed Against Him
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{ townhall.com } ~ Earlier this year the dummycrats-Democratic National Committee filed a lawsuit against the Trump administration, Russia and Wikileaks... In it, senior dummycrats-DNC officials alleged Donald Trump colluded with the Russian government to win the White House in November 2016. As a reminder:  The dummycrats-Democratic National Committee named the Russian government, the Trump campaign, Trump family members, WikiLeaks and others Friday in a sweeping lawsuit making a detailed case for collusion between the Russians and Trump campaign operatives. “No one is above the law and the perpetrators of this attack must be held accountable,” Tom Perez, the dummycrats-DNC chairman said in a statement. “They successfully hacked the dummycrats-Democratic Party in 2016 and they will be back. We must prevent future attacks on our democracy, and that’s exactly what we’re doing today. This is not partisan, it’s patriotic.” According to President Trump, the dummycrats-DNC lost that lawsuit this week...
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Leftist Malice
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ There is a never ending blitzkrieg from the media to topple President Trump... Based on what we’ve observed during the last two years, there’s no doubt that the “Separation of Families” barrage that began a couple of weeks ago was an effort orchestrated by the media. It brought together the Four Horsemen for a Trump Apocalypse: the dummycrats-Democrat Party; the Deep State; the Never-Trumpers; and leftwing organizations, especially those purporting to speak in the name of religion. One: Nancy Pulosi, the face of the dummycrats-Democrat party, accused Jeff Sessions and other conservatives of being “religious hypocrites” for not allowing open borders and easy and swift entry for all families and children wishing to reside in America. I have no doubt that Mr. Sessions and Mr. Trump do care about families. Indeed, as conservatives they are far less inclined than liberals to take children from parents and place them in the custody of the “enlightened” state, as those on the Left often propose. What about families? Even Nancy Pulosi should know that government’s first duty is to protect and defend America’s existing families. And today that means seriously checking, at the borders, all who may possibly be a member of MS-13, a jihadi terrorist, a criminal or drug dealer, or carrier of infectious diseases, all of which have already threatened American families. We rely on the government to do this for us. Mr. Trump and Sessions are not “religious hypocrites”, but men living up to their oath and doing their duty of keeping Americans safe. They are acting as those who take their responsibility seriously...  https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/270617/leftist-malice-rabbi-aryeh-spero 
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'Republicans Have My Support': NY Dem Slams
 clown-Schumer, Says Party 'Betraying' American Values 
{ foxnews.com } ~ A longtime dummycrats-Democratic New York State lawmaker ripped Senate Minority Leader Charles clown-Schumer (D-N.Y.)... declaring that he will support the GOP until clown-Schumer can "restore sanity and honesty" to the party. State Assemblyman Dov Hikind of Brooklyn slammed clown-Schumer's attacks on President Trump, which were sent as part of a fundraising call. Hikind, who is not running for re-election, wrote on Facebook that clown-Schumer, who is also from Brooklyn, "omitted vital information" about the economy, potential peace with North Korea and low unemployment. "Senator clown-Schumer, in your letter you promise to fight for dummycrats- Democratic values and go on at great length to fully villainize the current administration," Hikind wrote. "You forgot to tell us about the economy. As good as it’s been, economists expect even more growth through the end of the year."...
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Kino Jimenez Arrested: Charged 
With Felony Theft – No Assault Charges
by TIM BROWN

{ sonsoflibertymedia.com } ~ This is what I’ve been talking about. Felony theft is the only charge in this matter?... He stole a hat!  Where are the assault charges? Yet, 30-year-old Kino Jimenez, the man who, unprovoked, went up to a teenager, threw a drink in his face and grabbed his hat, yanking out hair with it and walked off with it uttering profanity, was arrested and charged with… felony theft of a hat. Kino Jimenez was arrested on Thursday after he assaulted teen Hunter Richard at a San Antonio Whataburger and stole his hat. According to records, Jimenez is charged with felony theft, and has a bond set at $5,000. Jimenez has already been kicked out of the Communist Green Party and been fired from his job. That’s a good start, but this criminal deserves justice...   https://sonsoflibertymedia.com/kino-jimenez-arrested-charged-with-felony-theft-no-assault-charges/ 
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Contra 'Fact-Checkers,' Illegals Are a Crime Problem 

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by Thomas Gallatin:  Despite what the mainstream media “fact-checkers” claim, the most concrete data on violent crime rates show that illegal aliens are far more likely to commit serious crime than are American citizens. The trouble is sorting it out. Just Facts Daily explains, “Data on illegal immigration and crime is often clouded, precisely because these are unlawful activities where perpetrators seek to hide their actions. Also, governments sometimes fail to record or release information that could be or has been obtained. The liar-nObama administration, in particular, refused to release the names of convicted immigrant sex offenders and hid other details about crimes committed by immigrants.”

             For example, U.S. Census data from 2011 to 2015 reveals that noncitizens are 7% more likely than citizens to be incarcerated. The Justice Department data shows that from 2005 to 2015 the U.S. deported at least 1.5 million noncitizens for having committed crimes. That number is 10 times the number of noncitizens in U.S. prisons in 2015. And it is important to note here that the vast majority of noncitizens here in the U.S. legally rarely commit crimes, therefore the vast majority of incarcerated noncitizens are in fact illegal aliens. If the number of legal noncitizens were removed from the incarnation rate of noncitizens, then the number of illegal aliens convicted of crimes doubles.
               dummycrats-Democrats and the MSM regularly misuse data presumably in an attempt to convince the public that the criminal problems associated with illegal immigration are not as serious as many conservatives have been claiming for years. However, irrespective of the higher crime rate of illegal aliens, the real issue is one of legality, period. dummycrats-Democrats and the MSM have worked tirelessly to diminish the criminal aspect of illegal immigration and conflate the issue with legal immigration, then claiming that those opposed to illegal immigration are motivated by racism. The reality couldn’t be further from the truth. What is really at stake is not immigration but the constitutional concept of the Rule of Law.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56915?mailing_id=3605&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3605&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Don't Conform to the Millennial Label 
by Caroline C. Lewis
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Why Are Elected Politicians Legitimizing Terrorist Front Group?
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{ investigativeproject.org } ~ In jumping to appear before cameras and rallies to condemn this week's Supreme Court ruling on President Trump's travel ban... several elected dummycrats-Democrats empowered and legitimized an Islamist group whose leaders continue to engage in radical, incendiary speech. At a rally Tuesday that was well covered by national news outlets, at least seven dummycrats-Democrats from the House and Senate spoke and shared the dais with Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) Executive Director Nihad Awad. CAIR also was among the rally's 50 sponsors. As we have repeatedly reported since 2009, the FBI has a formal policy prohibiting "outreach" – or communication outside of investigations – with CAIR due to its documented roots in a Hamas-support network created by the Muslim Brotherhood...And why isn't the FBI acting on those dummycrats-Dems.
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liar-nObama Traded U.S. Passports for Nuclear Deal with Iran 
{ patrioticviralnews.com } ~ liar-nObama’s Iran nuclear deal was a terrible deal from the very beginning... It was also one of the stupidest foreign policy deals that any presidential administration has ever entered into with a hostile nation. liar-nObama gave away the farm, as if America had somehow lost a war with Iran and had to surrender everything on the table. Here’s how the deal went. Iran gets billions of dollars in seized funds back from the United States — money which was seized in response to the 1980 act of terror that Iran committed against us by holding Americans hostages in captivity for more than a year. In addition, liar-nObama and former Secretary of State hanoi-John Kerry sent the mullahs pallets of untraceable cash, because apparently the State Department keeps pallets of cash lying around in case it needs to bribe anyone. Plus, Iran gets to keep running nuclear plants which would eventually lead to the creation of nuclear weapons. That was Iran’s side of the deal. On the American side of the deal, we got… hmmm… must be here somewhere. What did we get again? Oh, right, liar-nObama negotiated a deal in which Iran got everything it asked for and America got NOTHING in return. Stupidest. Deal. Ever...
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Iran Promises to Choke Hormuz Strait if US Blocks Oil Exports 
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{ punchingbagpost.com } ~ An Iranian official on Wednesday threatened to block all oil exports from the Strait of Hormuz... if the United States succeeds in its promise to halt crude sales from Tehran. The Strait of Hormuz, which is located at the mouth of the Persian Gulf between Iran to the north and the UAE to the south, is often cited as the most important oil chokepoint in the world. Up to 30% of all seaborne-traded crude oil moves through the Strait of Hormuz each year. “Any hostile attempt by the US will be followed by an exorbitant cost for them,” said Esmail Kowsari, deputy commander of the Sarollah Revolutionary Guards. The US military responded to Iran's threats by confirming that American sailors and their allies are standing by to “ensure freedom of navigation.”...   http://punchingbagpost.com/iran-promises-to-choke-hormuz-strait-if-us-blocks-oil-exports/?pb_list=pb_list
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Pruitt Has Been Gone For Less Than 
A Day And His Replacement Is Already Getting Attacked
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) acting administrator Andrew Wheeler has not finished a day as head of the agency before getting attacked... for his stance on climate change and history as a coal lobbyist. Former EPA head Scott Pruitt resigned Thursday and President Donald Trump installed Wheeler as the EPA’s acting administrator for the interim. Trump announced the news on Twitter. The preliminary attacks have come chiefly from environmental organizations, liberal news outlets and journalists. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) tweeted a blog post written after the Senate confirmed Wheeler in April on why Americans should be “afraid of him.” “Make no mistake: we’ll fight Wheeler’s pollution agenda with the same vigor as we did Pruitt’s,” NRDC tweeted...
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Expose the Palestinian ‘Refugee’ Scam 
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{ defenddemocracy.org } ~ If President Trump wants to promote peace in the Middle East, his first step should be to declassify a key State Department report... that would end the myth of Palestinian “refugees.” The United Nations Relief and Works Agency is singularly devoted to the Palestinian refugee issue. Unrwa labels more than five million Palestinians “refugees”—an impossible figure. The first Arab-Israeli war, in 1948, yielded roughly 800,000 Palestinian Arab refugees. Perhaps 30,000 remain alive today, but Unrwa has kept the refugee issue alive by labeling their descendants—in some cases great-great-grandchildren—as “refugees,” who insist on the “right of return” to their ancestors’ homes. Israel categorically rejects this demand. Unrwa’s operations run counter to the broader mission of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, which is to resettle those displaced by war. Unrwa’s mission, on the other hand, keeps the conflict’s embers glowing by refusing to resettle Palestinians in neighboring countries or even in the Palestinian territories...
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Don't Conform to the Millennial Label 
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by Caroline C. Lewis:  Whether it’s avocado toast, selfies or socialism, Millennials always seem to be in the news. But what exactly is a Millennial? While the media tend to portray Millennials as a fixed age group, not all researchers agree on exact parameters. Pew Research, for example, defines Millennials as those born between 1982 and 1996, while researchers William Strauss and Neil Howe define them as those born between 1982 and 2004. Different still, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation defines Millennials as those born between 1980 and 1999. But it’s not just years of birth that distinguish these individuals.

             A generation’s unique coming-of-age experiences certainly shed light on certain trends. For example, members of the “GI” or “Greatest Generation” all grew up during the Great Depression and then fought World War II, which shaped their perspectives and gave them (for the most part) common cause, common patriotism and shared values of duty, honor and country.
               However, tracing generational patterns differs significantly from the current exploitation of the Millennial generation, which ascribes to Millennials specific political values, moral (or lack of moral) priorities and a narcissistic philosophy of life. As if just because you happened to be born in the 1980s and 90s, you must have certain beliefs and values. As if the stars aligned for your birth and, according to your generational horoscope, you must be a socialist. Such assumptions about Millennials deny a person’s individual ability to think for himself or herself.
               Consider the many articles that instruct employers on how to “help” their Millennial employees, whose generation-specific perspectives purportedly clash with their own. Ponder the policy consultants who teach candidates how to “reach the Millennials.” Or branding specialists who design marketing schemes “for Millennials.” No equivalent exists for members of Gen X, Boomers or the Silent Generation. No one says, “I can help you sell a vacuum cleaner to a Gen Xer” or “I can win the Silent Generation voting bloc for you.” Why?
               The answer lies in the numbers. According to Pew Research, in 2019, the number of Millennials will surpass the number of Baby Boomers. This means that they will comprise the largest number of product-purchasing adults. It also means that they will comprise the largest number of voting adults.
               Creating (and marketing) a specific value-system would be a useful tool to control a group of people, would it not? After all, it’s worked for dummycrats-Democrats with minorities and women.
               Having a specific (albeit dictated) value system feeds a person’s natural desire for community and acceptance. So Millennials who do not participate in the “Millennial values” scheme are made to feel different and unaccepted by their age group. The use of social pressure reinforces the value-system, preordained by the media and popular culture.
               Consider a recent internet ad: “Best Places to Live for Millennials.” Implication: If you don’t like living in these types of places, you’re a loser. Marketing this way causes a person to rethink his or her own thoughts and opinions to conform with what “everybody my age” is doing.
               On a lifestyle level, consider a church-attending male who doesn’t sleep with his girlfriend. Rather than being praised by his peers for having standards, he is made to feel odd. Consider the conservative female who has traditional values of family and femininity. She is made to feel old-fashioned, out-of-touch and an traitor to her sex and her generation. Thus, promoting the Millennial label as a value-system creates ideological conformity through social pressure. This is a genius strategy if you want to win elections, raise money or sell products because it controls how members of an entire generation think of themselves and their place in the world.
               Because of this perceived “value system,” Millennials have been transformed into both a grievance group and a voting bloc. Re-enforced by the public narrative, many Millennials believe themselves to be victims of student loan debt, victims of parents who didn’t teach them proper “adulting” or victims of a society that doesn’t understand how to meet their self-esteem needs. Additionally, public opinion expects Millennials, as a voting bloc, to support big government, social programs, massive debt and wealth redistribution.
               However, the expected Millennial value system denies one basic thing: People have the freedom to think for themselves. Pushing a generational ideological agenda strips people of being able to have their own thoughts and opinions. In short, the Millennial value system stands as an oppressive form of thought conformity that leverages social pressure to achieve generational groupthink. As such, the fabricated Millennial value system could actually qualify as a social construct.
               This fabricated social construct seeks to deny independent thinking and to exploit both the buying and voting choices of an entire generation. It’s time for Millennials to think for themselves, to reject labels and to oppose generational groupthink. Rather than be a grievance group defined by socialist leanings, student debt and narcissism, Millennials need to have the courage to think independently, to pursue honest dialogue and to reject the bankrupt ideas the purveyors of identity politics expect them to believe.
               This article does not necessarily reflect the generational groupthink widely considered as “Millennial values.” Rather, it was written by a non-conforming, independent thinker who happens to have been born in the 1980s.

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56947?mailing_id=3611&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3611&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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Fri/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Contrasting Party Visions — Hope vs. Despair 
by Nate Jackson
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Trump Admin Expands Deportation Policies, Role of USCIS
{ rickwells.us } ~ The Trump administration has expanded the government’s deportation powers, issuing guidelines urging officers at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services... the agency that oversees legal immigration and naturalization — to begin the removal process for people who use fraudulent documents or who illegally took government benefits. USCIS officers have always had powers, but in the past had usually referred cases to other parts of Homeland Security for decisions on deportation. But new guidance memos reviewed by The Washington Times show USCIS is now pushing to advance its own role in policing illegal immigration. “For too long, USCIS officers uncovering instances of fraudulent or criminal activity have been limited in their ability to help ensure U.S. immigration laws are faithfully executed,” L. Francis Cissna, the agency’s director, said in announcing the changes publicly. “This updated policy equips USCIS officers with clear guidance they need and deserve to support the enforcement priorities established by the president, keep our communities safe, and protect the integrity of our immigration system from those seeking to exploit it.” ...   https://rickwells.us/trump-expands-deportation-uscis/
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Devin Nunes refers liar-Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal, 
others tied to Trump dossier for testimony
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., sent another letter Thursday — his third in a week... to two fellow GOP chairmen, referring to them 15 people connected to the Russia investigation for testimony in an "open setting." Many of the individuals on the list, sent to House Oversight Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., and House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., are tied to liar-Hillary Clinton and the infamous Trump dossier, which contains compromising, yet unverified claims about President Trump's ties to Russia. Compiled in 2016, the research effort was conducted by ex-British spy Christopher Steele and was funded in part by liar-Clinton's presidential campaign and the dummycrats-Democratic National Committee. Glenn Simpson and Thomas Catan, co-founders of Fusion GPS, the opposition research company that commissioned Steele, are included on the list. Also mentioned is Nellie Ohr, wife of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr, whom Republicans in the House Intelligence Committee alleged in a February memo "was employed by Fusion GPS to assist in the cultivation of opposition research on Trump." Ohr, who according to the GOP memo delivered his wife's research to the FBI, was demoted from his role as associate deputy attorney general late last year after it was discovered he had secret meetings with Simpson and Steele...
Mueller Calls on More Prosecutors 
to Help with Expanding Russia Probe
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{ nationalreview.com } ~ Special Counsel Robert Mueller is reportedly calling for more manpower to assist him with the probe of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election...  Bloomberg reported Thursday that Mueller is asking veteran prosecutors from the Justice Department and U.S. attorneys’s offices, as well as FBI agents, for help with new legal battles that have cropped up as a result of his investigation. Though he is not adding to his team of 17 federal prosecutors, he has called on investigators in New York, Alexandria, Va., Pittsburgh, and other cities to help him. Permanent Justice Department units have actually spent more money $9 million on the Russia probe than Mueller’s team $2.3 million. Mueller was tasked by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein with investigating ties between the Trump campaign and Russia, Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election, and “any matters that arose or may arise directly from the investigation.”...All he has to do is investigate liar-Clintons involvement in the Russian connection.   https://www.nationalreview.com/news/report-robert-mueller-asks-doj-fbi-for-assistance-in-russia-probe/ 
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Is Tariq Ramadan a Victim of French Justice?
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ French-bashing is one of the few pleasures still allowed in Europe nowadays, and it seems a bit unkind to deprive you of it... Sadly, a recent piece, by Peter Oborne, accuses the entire French justice system of treating Tariq Ramadan, the sometime academic, stealth Islamist, serial liar and alleged rapist, like a latter-day hero from Les Misérables, supposedly "rotting" in a French jail as a victim of the complete "abandonment of due process". Not quite. Ramadan, the grandson of Muslim Brotherhood founder Hassan Al-Banna, pretends to be "moderate". Yet he has recently argued that FGM, for instance, is a cultural tradition of Muslims, or that corporal punishments including stoning of adulterous women in Islam ought to be the object of a "moratorium" to examine their implications rather than banned. British Prime Minister Tony Blair apparently bought into the fiction that here was the kind of westernised Muslim he needed on an advisory board to his government; and Ramadan got a Qatar-financed chair of sorts at Oxford. Early in 2018, Ramadan got caught in a #MeToo tsunami, with woman after woman coming forward to explain in strikingly similar terms how he used them for rough sex and threatened them afterwards should they dare to talk about it. He denies the rough part; he has admitted to having sex with at least five of these women; and he has also admitted in judicial hearings that he has forked out €27,000 in hush money to his Belgian accuser...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12647/tariq-ramadan-french-justice 
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Here's Why liar-Hillary Is Running Again in 2020
by Joel Gilbert

{ americanthinker.com } ~ That's right: liar-Hillary Clinton is running for president again in 2020... She has actually ramped up her campaign since her defeat in 2016! From her Twitter feed to university speeches to appearances abroad – from Ireland to Australia to India – the "I'm with her" campaign continues. The message remains the same: Donald Trump is racist and sexist, and his supporters are deplorable. liar-Hillary also continues to preach that she won the 2016 popular vote by 3,000,000 votes, but because of the electoral college hat damn Constitution thing and RussiaRussia Russia, she was robbed of her rightful prize and place in history. liar-Hillary has a highly plausible path to the dummycrats-Democratic Party nomination, something no other potential dummycrats-Democrat candidate for president can say. In the primaries, liar-Hillary Clinton's name recognition and loyal voters would earn her an easy 25% of the vote, while the anti/ liar-Hillary vote would split among as many as ten other candidates at about 5-10% each. This is not dissimilar to what Trump accomplished on the Republican side in 2016. With a solid base of supporters, Trump was able to win primary after primary while the others split the vote. Each time someone dropped out, Trump picked up about half of his supporters, with the other half disbursed among the other candidates. This is a realistic path for liar-Hillary to gain the dummycrats-Democrat nomination, and it is no doubt irresistible to her...Boy is she badly mistaken.  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/heres_why_hillary_is_running_again_in_2020.html 
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Contrasting Party Visions — Hope vs. Despair 

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by Nate Jackson:  Just ahead of Independence Day, we noted a Gallup poll revealing the chasm between dummycrats-Democrats and Republicans in terms of patriotism. Then the two political parties’ leaders proceeded to vividly illustrate the point.

              dummycrats-Democratic National Committee Chair Tom Perez marked Independence Day with a dour statement painting a dismal picture of America. “As we celebrate our nation’s independence, we recognize that America’s founding promise remains out of reach for too many families,” he complained. “Too many members of our society are still struggling to find a good-paying job or get the health care they need. Too many women, LGBTQ Americans, people of color, and people with disabilities still face inequality and injustice across our society. Everywhere we look, our most fundamental values are under attack.”
               On that last count, he focused on the Supreme Court, which, after Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement, President Donald Trump has the chance to shape. Because of recent Court decisions, Perez implies, workers’ rights, Muslims’ rights and women’s rights are all “under threat like never before.” And, he says, don’t forget all those children at the border.
               For patriotic Americans, on the other hand, we’re encouraged by the Supreme Court upholding the Constitution and Rule of Law, however narrowly. We’re heartened by soaring consumer confidence, rising small business optimism and record wage increases to go along with record-low unemployment. We anticipate another good jobs report tomorrow.
               In the Left’s alternate reality, Perez is busy whining that jobs aren’t “good-paying,” and leftists like Bill Maher are explicitly  hoping for recession just to spite Trump.
               As for Trump? He hosted the White House’s annual Independence Day picnic for military families. “Thank you for keeping America safe, strong, proud, mighty and free,” he said. “Our freedom only exists because there are brave Americans willing to give their lives to defend it and defend our great country,” he continued. “American Liberty has been earned through the blood, sweat and sacrifice of American patriots.
               Indeed, it isn’t the people who divide us, tear down our traditions and usurp our Liberty who make this nation great; it is Patriots who love our country enough to sacrifice for it. Quite a contrast.

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/56948?mailing_id=3611&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.3611&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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No Party for Old White Men 
by Pat Buchanan
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Judge Tosses Lawsuit Alleging Trump-Russia Conspiracy
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ A federal judge tossed out a lawsuit alleging that President Donald Trump’s campaign and former adviser Roger Stone worked with WikiLeaks... “Plaintiffs assert that defendants engaged in a conspiracy with unidentified Russian agents and WikiLeaks to publish hacked emails,” the judge wrote Tuesday. “The Court will grant defendants’ motions to dismiss, deny plaintiffs’ motion, and dismiss plaintiffs’ suit without prejudice.” The suit was brought by former dummycrats-Democratic National Committee finance chief of staff and former LGBT finance chair Scott Comer and two donors, Roy Cockrum and Eric Schoenberg. Comer’s claimed damages included that the Trump campaign caused his grandmother to “deduce that he was gay” because of “innuendo and suggestive language” in work emails...
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Lawsuit Against liar-nObama Officials Proceeding
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{ frontpagemag.com } ~ New proof the FBI slow-walked and undermined its own investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton’s email abuses... has given a former Navy sailor pardoned by President Trump new determination to press on with a malicious prosecution lawsuit against senior members of the liar-nObama administration. “You know, these people aren't above the law,” said Kristian Saucier, a former submariner. “But apparently, they are. And I'm going to fight that until -- and you know, as long as there's a breath in me, I'm going to fight that.” He added: Any of us that have been watching this case as it’s unfolding now we see that in fact, the fix was in. They were making sure that no matter what happened, liar-Hillary Clinton wasn't going to get prosecuted and nobody around her was because they would have folded on her and it's shameful. Saucier’s comments came after newly unsealed documents from federal court show that the FBI put little energy into investigating liar-Hillary Clinton, senior aide Huma Abedin, and others...
Mexican Border Patrol Officer Impersonates 
Police Officer Harasses Mexican U.S. Doctor 
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{ activistpost.com } ~ A Mexican Border Patrol officer, Joel Lopez, impersonated a police officer and pulled over a Mexican Doctor, Christian Hernandez... an hour within the border without a radar detector present in his vehicle, claiming the man was speeding during what he claimed was an “immigration inspection.” Subsequently, Hernandez claims that he just passed him on the highway when the federal agent followed him and he started recording. “Border Patrol following me after I pass them..,” the video opens up. The abhorrent and shocking video of power abuse was published July 2nd, which shows Lopez pull over Hernandez, claiming he was speeding doing 100 MPH and was “endangering the public” with his “reckless driving.”...
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SP1y0uU5vw
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The Next American Revolution: #WalkAway
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{ spectator.org } ~ My first inkling that Donald Trump might actually become President came about mid-evening on election night, 2016... when I switched to MSNBC to look at that infallible barometer of Republican success at the ballot box, the expressions of the “journalists” reporting the returns. The first face I saw was that of Chuck Todd, who was frowning at a map of Wisconsin and maundering about Milwaukee. He was worried about low turnout in precincts where the African-American vote was crucial to liar-Hillary Clinton’s success in the Badger State. Having long been skeptical of Trump’s chances, I was surprised. Todd was trembling. His fear was well-founded. Those Milwaukee precincts were emblematic of a nationwide phenomenon that contributed in no small part to Trump’s victory — African-American enthusiasm for liar-Hillary Clinton was tepid at best. Both the dummycrats-Democrats and the “news” media have ignored this reality. Their willful ignorance allows them to claim, as the brainiacs at Vox put it, “Trump won because of racial resentment.” Never mind that liar-Hillary Clinton is conspicuously caucasian and that white turnout has remained relatively stable since 2004. As the Pew Research Center reports, this cannot be said for African-American turnout: The black voter turnout rate declined for the first time in 20 years in a presidential election, falling to 59.6% in 2016 after reaching a record-high 66.6% in 2012. The 7-percentage-point decline from the previous presidential election is the largest on record for blacks...
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Former Firebrand MSNBC Host Ed Schultz Has Died
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{ dailycaller.com } ~ Cable news and radio personality Ed Schultz died Thursday at the age of 64... his employer RT America announced. Schultz started his broadcast career in Fargo, North Dakota in the 1980s and eventually took his radio and TV personality national. Schultz was an opinionated MSNBC personality who hosted a daily progressive and populist show on the network called “The Ed Show” from 2009 to 2015. After the show was canceled, he began hosting “News with Ed” in 2016 on RT America, which is funded by the Russian government. Schultz was an advocate for unions and organized labor causes under President liar-nObama. His views on President Trump softened at the Kremlin-funded network...
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No Party for Old White Men 
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by Pat Buchanan

{ townhall.com } ~ For Nancy Pulosi, 78, Steny Hoyer, 79, and loose lips-Joe Biden, 75, the primary results from New York's 14th congressional district are a fire bell in the night.

All may be swept away in the coming revolution. That is the message of the crushing defeat of 10-term incumbent Joe Crowley, who had aspired to succeed Pulosi and become speaker of the House.

The No. 4 House dummycrats-Democrat, Crowley, 56, had not faced primary opposition since 2004. He outspent his opponent, 28-year-old Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who was tending bar a year ago, by 10 to one.

The son of an Irish immigrant, Crowley was leader of the Queens dummycrats-Democratic Club. He had the unions' support. So confident was he that he skipped a debate and sent a Latina politician to stand in for him.

First comes Hubris, the god of arrogance. Then comes Nemesis, the goddess of retribution.

Tossing Crowley's credentials back in his face, Ocasio-Cortez ran as a Latina, a person of color, a millennial and militant socialist who lived in her district, and painted Crowley as a white male with lots of PAC money who had moved to D.C. and sent his kids to school in Virginia.

"The dummycrats-Democratic Party takes working-class communities for granted; they take people of color for granted," railed Ocasio-Cortez. The party assumes "that we're going to turn out no matter how bland or half-stepping their proposals are."

"Bland or half-stepping" are not words her agenda calls to mind.

A dummycrats-Democratic Socialist, endorsed by MoveOn, Black Lives Matter and People for Bernie, Ocasio-Cortez favors Medicare for all, a $15 minimum wage, 100 percent renewable energy by 2035, free tuition at public colleges, federal jobs for all who want them, and abolishing an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency that runs "black sites" on the Mexican border where "human rights abuses are happening."

When tear gas was used in Puerto Rico, whence her family came, Ocasio-Cortez laid it at Crowley's feet: "You are responsible for this."

Crowley tried gamely to keep up, declaring that ICE, for which thousands of Americans work to protect our borders, is a "fascist" organization, presumably something like Ernst Rohm's Brown Shirts.

While the victory of Ocasio-Cortez is bad news for Pulosi and Hoyer, it may also be a harbinger of what is to come. For the dummycrats-Democratic Party appears about to unleash its radical left, its mad-Maxine Waters wing, and give its ideology another run in the yard.

When the party has done this before, however, it did not end well.

After Hubert Humphrey lost narrowly in 1968, an enraged left seized the nomination for George McGovern, who went on to lose 49 states to Richard Nixon.

After liar-Hillary Clinton's defeat, the left, whose champion, commie-Bernie Sanders, they believe, was robbed by the establishment, seems to be looking to settle scores and seize the nomination for one of its own.

But if an apertura a sinistra, an opening to the left, is what lies ahead for the dummycrats-Democratic Party, then that is better news for the party of Trump than for the party of Pulosi.

Just as Crowley's congressional district had changed, so, too, has his party in Congress. Columnist Dana Milbank, who sees it as progress, writes, "A majority of Housedummycrats-Democrats are ... women, people of color or gay."

These rising forces in the dummycrats-Democratic coalition are looking to bury the dummycrats-Democratic Party of yesterday, where white males and older ethnic groups -- Irish, Italians, Poles and Jews -- were dominant.

It seems certain now that the summer of 2020 will see a woman, a person of color, or both, on the dummycrats-Democratic ticket. Two whites would likely offend the rising base. liar-Hillary Clinton and Sen. Tim Kaine may have been the last of the all-white dummycrats-Democratic tickets.

However, inside this emerging dummycrats-Democratic majority of peoples of color, fractures and fissures are already visible.

In New York City, the Asian community, which votesdummycrats-Democratic in presidential elections, is in an uproar over efforts by leftist Mayor Bill de Blasio to eliminate the entrance exams that have enabled Asian kids to capture most of the seats in the city's elite public schools.

De Blasio and his allies want the Asian numbers in these select schools reduced, so the schools mirror the city's demography, no matter how well the Asian kids are doing on the competitive admissions tests. Also, the hard left in the dummycrats-Democratic Party, oriented more toward the Third World than the West, is increasingly anti-Israel. And while the Jewish vote is small and largely concentrated in blue states, among donors to the dummycrats-Democratic Party the Jewish contingent looms large.

The new demography of the dummycrats-Democratic Party brought about the defeat of Crowley. A majority white district when he first ran, the Bronx-Queens district he now represents is only one-sixth white.

The Irish and Italians have moved out or passed on. And Archie Bunker? He rests in peace in Calvary Cemetery. Like his party.

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Back to the Constitution 
by Cal Thomas
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Friday Top Headlines 
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by Media Editors:  Scott Pruitt quits as EPA chief amid ethics controversies (New York Post)
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213,000 jobs added in June but headline unemployment rate back up to 4% as more enter workforce (CNBC)
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Trump says U.S. tariffs could be applied to Chinese goods worth $500 billion (Reuters)
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No joke: Chuck clown-Schumer pushed Trump to nominate Merrick Garland to Supreme Court (Washington Examiner)
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Judge gives green light to California’s sanctuary laws (The Washington Times)
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Trump administration expands government’s deportation powers (The Washington Times)
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Protesters blast ICE as agents disrupt child sex-trafficking ring (National Review)
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Trump: ‘I would offer dinky-Warren $1M to prove her Native American heritage’ (The Hill)
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Mom shoots man who took her car with kids inside (KDFW)
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Massachusetts governor signs gun seizure bill (The Daily Signal)
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Al Sharpton, Donna Brazile and other black leaders send letter criticizing clown-Schumer, Pulosi for denunciations of scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters’s call for harassment (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Rap sheet: 70 acts of media-approved violence and harassment against Trump supporters (Breitbart)
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Teenager says man threw drink at him then stole his “Make America Great Again” hat (The Hill)
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Humor: “Love Trumps Hate!” screams protester while beating Republican to death with a shovel (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: Don’t abolish ICE (National Review)
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Policy: We must reform liar-nObama’s school discipline policies (The Heritage Foundation)   
 
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Rod Rosenstein Blackmailing Members of Congress
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{ freedomoutpost.com } ~ It did not take long for Heinrich Himmler lookalike, Rod Rosenstein to get even with Rep. Jim Jordan's hard-line questioning... during the House Judiciary Committee hearing recently, where Jordan and Rosenstein got into a heated discussion over Rosenstein's refusal to turn over political  sensitive documents on Robert Mueller's investigation. Just days later, Rep. Jim Jordan was named by Ohio State wrestler Mike DiSabato as having known about the alleged abuse of athletes by Dr. Richard Strauss, who was the team physician from the mid-1970s to the late 1990s, an accusation Jordan quickly denied. Jordan, who was the assistant wrestling coach at Ohio State from 1986 to 1994, says he had no knowledge of abuses during that time. Anyone with an IQ above moron can see that this accusation involving Jordan in this 20-year-old incident is payback from Rosenstein over Rep. Jordan's hard-line demand for evidence. Even something that should be more alarming to the American people is the distinct probability that Rosenstein is digging up dirt on every Representative who is demanding proof from him...
Catholics could be criminals for teaching Catholicism
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{ wnd.com } ~ Concerns have been raised about a California bill that effectively could ban the sale of the Bible... Critics argue it would designate as “consumer fraud” any seminar, counseling or publication that condemns homosexuality or transgenderism. The bill is supported by the activists who already have passed laws that ban helping children overcome same-sex attractions and require public schools to celebrate homosexual behavior. Now a report in the Federalist warns that “consumer fraud” law could ban the catechism of the Roman Catholic church, which is taught to children. The report explains the proposed law would make religious education programs the target of “death by litigation.”...But its ok to teach Islam in the public schools - why?   http://www.wnd.com/2018/07/catholics-could-be-criminals-for-teaching-catholicism/
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Nunes Targets 10 liar-nObama Administration 
Cronies for Surveillance Abuse on Trump
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{ westernjournal.com } ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes has called for open hearings for ten former State Department and liar-nObama White House officials... for alleged surveillance abuses against Donald Trump’s presidential campaign in a Monday letter to the chairmen of the House Oversight and House Judiciary Committees. “During this investigation, the Committee discovered matters that likely fall within the purview of the joint task force of the Committees on Oversight & Government Reform and the Judiciary,” Nunes wrote in the letter to Rep. Bob Goodlatte and Rep. Trey Gowdy. “For the sake of transparency and to keep the American people as fully informed as possible about these matters, the task force should consider  interviewing these people in an open setting.”...   https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/nunes-targets-10-obama-administration-cronies-surveillance-abuse-trump/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Muller Probe Accused of Secretly Accessing NRA's Tax Records
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{ punchingbagpost.com } ~ Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing Russia investigation has been accused of secretly accessing the National Rifle Association’s tax records... Legal experts say the move would be “routine” in this sort of investigation.  Prosecutors’ requests for tax information are usually made “entirely in the background, with no notice to the subject of the investigation,” explains lawyer David Axelrod. If Mueller is already poking into the NRA’s tax records, it would explain why the NRA has heard nothing from the FBI or any other law enforcement agency regarding its donations to Trump. Obtaining access to the NRA’s donor list is key in determining whether Russia “used shell companies as a part of a scheme to influence the 2016 election,” said dummycrats-Democratic Senator Ron Wyden (OR). “Investigators must follow the money wherever it leads to understand the full story of Russia’s attack on our democracy."...
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Yad Vashem slams ‘highly problematic’ 
Israeli-Polish Holocaust statement
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{ timesofisrael.com } ~ The Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial center on Thursday slammed an agreement between the governments of Israel and Poland... regarding the latter’s record during the Holocaust, saying it would stifle free research on the subject. A joint declaration issued by Warsaw and Jerusalem “contains highly problematic wording that contradicts existing and accepted historical knowledge in this field,” the institution said in a press release. The statement is an embarrassing blow to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who last week hailed the agreement and the joint statement that was issued on the occasion as safeguarding “the historic truth about the Holocaust.”...
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Back to the Constitution 
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by Cal Thomas

{ townhall.com } ~ The retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy from the U.S. Supreme Court is about to bring a 60-year battle to a head.

For decades the country has witnessed a fight between those who believe the Constitution speaks for itself and others who believe it says whatever the judges think it says, or even should say.

Already, the left is apoplectic. Fundraising letters are going out. Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA) sent one within minutes of Kennedy's retirement announcement and Chris Matthews went ballistic on MSNBC, all but forecasting the end of the world as we know it.

A few examples will suffice to preview coming distractions from the central issue. Among the printable ones is this over-the-top comment by the Rev. Al Sharpton: "All civil and human rights are at stake."

Journalist/author Molly Knight fired off this incendiary tweet: "How very cool of Justice Kennedy to pour kerosene on the current dumpster fire that is America. The Roe v Wade riots should provide fine entertainment for him in his retirement." Riots?

There's more, including abundant use of the left's favorite "F-word," but you get the idea. Legal Armageddon is about to arrive.

Since the Warren Court decided praying to an authority higher than the state was unconstitutional and Bible reading in public schools was not what the Founders had in mind when writing the First Amendment, there has been a pitched battle for control of the Supreme Court. The left has used federal judges to engineer society in ways it could not have done, and probably would not have tried, through the legislative process while Conservatives have fought to prevent the court from exceeding its constitutional role by making law.

Abraham Lincoln said it well when he noted: "We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution." The belief that government and the courts have become our masters has propelled conservative opposition to both legislating courts and big government.

The late Justice Antonin Scalia summed up the conservative view of the Constitution when he said, "It means, today, not what current society, much less the court, thinks it ought to mean, but what it meant when it was adopted."

Two former justices gave the liberal view of the Constitution. Oliver Wendell Holmes said: "The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth."

From this came the notion of a "living Constitution," which leads to the assertion by the late Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes that "...the Constitution is what the judges say it is."

President Trump and the Republican Senate have an opportunity to reverse decades of wrongful constitutional decision-making. From his list of 25 conservative candidates for Kennedy's seat, he must choose a nominee quickly so the Senate can take it up before dummycrats-Democrats and their media allies can become fully mobilized.

If the president selects someone with Judge Neil Gorsuch's credentials, the left will have a difficult time opposing the candidate, though they will certainly try and make accusations that have no merit.

In 2009, President liar-nObama delivered a blunt message to Republicans, in essence telling them, I won, you lost. Get over it. Well, we also had an election in 2016. President Trump won. dummycrats-Democrats and the left should get over it.
 
https://townhall.com/columnists/calthomas/2018/06/29/back-to-the-constitution-n2495580?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Trump's Clarifying Effect 
by David Limbaugh
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IG Report Follow Up: DOJ and FBI Investigation of 
liar-Clinton Highlights Two Systems of Justice 
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Inspector General Michael Horowitz is currently investigating how the FISA processes and FISA Court was used by the DOJ and FBI to conduct surveillance on Trump campaign... Additionally, congress is requesting several witnesses appear before hearings to discuss their involvement in the events around the 2016 presidential election and the use of the intelligence apparatus of the U.S. government to influence the outcome. However, to gain an idea of how the FISA inquiry is likely to end; perhaps it is worthwhile to look at how the IG viewed, and constructed, the last report. Within the content of the released report it becomes obvious the liar-nObama DOJ and FBI constructed a dual system of justice. Political ideology determines which process to follow. This is the second in a four part series of reports on the Department of Justice Inspector General’s report on the investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton by the FBI and Justice Department.  
Mueller Taps More Prosecutors to Help With Growing Trump Probe
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by Chris Strohm
{ bloomberg.com } ~ Special Counsel Robert Mueller is tapping additional Justice Department resources for help with new legal battles... as his year-old investigation of Russian interference with the 2016 election continues to expand. As Mueller pursues his probe, he’s making more use of career prosecutors from the offices of U.S. attorneys and from Justice Department headquarters, as well as FBI agents -- a sign that he may be laying the groundwork to hand off parts of his investigation eventually, several current and former U.S. officials said. Mueller and his team of 17 federal prosecutors are coping with a higher-than-expected volume of court challenges that has added complexity in recent months, but there’s no political appetite at this time to increase the size of his staff, the officials said...
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Israel carries out mystery missile test
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by ANNA AHRONHEIM
{ jpost.com } ~ The IDF deployed several Iron Dome batteries in southern Israel Thursday following a situational assessment... the military told The Jerusalem Post. “The IDF is prepared for several scenarios and ready to defend the citizens of the State of Israel and its sovereignty,” the IDF Spokesperson’s Unit said. On Thursday, an IDF drone fired “a missile at a motorcycle” east of Deir al-Balah in the central Gaza Strip, official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, adding that while there were no injuries the motorcycle was destroyed. The IDF has been carrying out strikes in the Gaza Strip against vehicles used by terrorist cells who launch incendiary aerial devices into Israel. The Hamas terrorist group in turn has launched mortar shells towards southern Israeli communities...
VIDEO at the site.
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Scott Pruitt out at EPA
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{ washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Scott Pruitt stepped down as head of the Environmental Protection Agency... after a series of controversies that overshadowed his year of leading President Trump's anti-regulation, pro-growth agenda. "I have accepted the resignation of Scott Pruitt as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency," Trump tweeted Thursday. "Within the Agency Scott has done an outstanding job, and I will always be thankful to him for this. The Senate confirmed Deputy at EPA, Andrew Wheeler, will on Monday assume duties as the acting Administrator of the EPA. I have no doubt that Andy will continue on with our great and lasting EPA agenda. We have made tremendous progress and the future of the EPA is very bright!" Pruitt had been under the microscope for months after a number of allegations. He was the subject of at least a dozen federal investigations, over issues including his $50-per-night condo rental deal with the wife of an energy lobbyist who had business before the EPA, spending more than $3 million on his 24-hour security detail, frequent first-class travel, reports he retaliated against employees who questioned his judgment, sending his staff on personal errands, and using them to try to find a job for his wife...
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Patriotic FOX Business host blows minds when 
she belts out national anthem like a boss
by Frieda Powers 
 
bizpacreview.com } ~ Viewers of Fox Business Network were treated to a side of host Trish Regan that they may not have known about... The host of “The Intelligence Report” shared with viewers that she studied classical music and opera before pursuing her career in economics. And while she admitted she “used to sing the national anthem quite a bit,” she said her three children had never heard her sing it. Viewers of Fox Business Network were treated to a side of host Trish Regan that they may not have known about. The host of “The Intelligence Report” shared with viewers that she studied classical music and opera before pursuing her career in economics. And while she admitted she “used to sing the national anthem quite a bit,” she said her three children had never heard her sing it. “I made this recording for them. And I made it for you,” Regan told viewers before sharing a video of her beautiful rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner.”...
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Trump's Clarifying Effect 
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by David Limbaugh

{ townhall.com } ~ Witnessing the political left's increasing irrationality and aggressiveness is, in the obvious sense, discouraging, but on the bright side, it's immensely clarifying.

People with selective memories may be unaware, but the left's extremism and fascism are nothing new. Donald Trump is not the root cause of its angst, nor is he the first Republican president on the receiving end of such unhinged hatred.

Never forget the dummycrats-Democrats' character assassination of such honorable judicial appointees as Robert Bork and Clarence Thomas. Go back and watch some of Ted Kennedy's and loose lips-Joe Biden's outrageous speeches condemning such nominees.

Concerning the left's attitude toward GOP presidents, let's not begin with Richard Nixon, because given his Watergate-related behavior, few will remember or acknowledge the left's preceding viciousness toward him. But how can anyone forget the epithets and derision routinely hurled at President Reagan -- that "amiable dunce" and warmongering cowboy who was determined to provoke nuclear war with the Soviet Union? Instead of giving Reagan a deserved Nobel Peace Prize for his dominant role in bringing down that evil empire, liberals chose instead to idolize and credit Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, endlessly slobbering over his unfolding of glasnost and perestroika. To hear liberals tell the tale, if it weren't for Reagan, the benevolent Gorby would have torn down that wall years before.

But that was then, and this is now, you might say. Fine. Then how about we fast-forward to the presidency of George W. Bush? Lest we forget, it was dummycrats-Democrats who corrupted the 2000 election process with hanging chads and bespectacled election thieves, attempting election larceny right before our eyes. When the Supreme Court shut down their chicanery, projectingdummycrats-Democrats lost their collective mind, screaming that the Republicans had stolen the election from popular vote winner and certifiable environmental lunatic scumbag-Al Gore. 

Please don't forget just how bad things were fordummycrats-Democrats -- many of whom sought grief counseling and threatened to leave the country. Suffice it to say, they were fire-breathing mad. The liberal media's orchestrated propaganda campaign worked to convince rank-and-file dummycrats-Democrats and assorted leftists that George and Jeb Bush conspired to purloin the Florida election -- almost with the same sophistication that Trump employed in "colluding" with Russians.

Fast-forward again to the dummycrats-Democrats' support of the Iraq War resolution when it was politically necessary and their about-face when it became expedient to oppose it. But their reversal wasn't just prospective; they straight-facedly proclaimed that the man they'd dubbed a simpleton -- George W. Bush -- had duped them into voting for the resolution. Duped by a dope? You'd think that would have been laughable on its face. Bush must have been pretty good, because he also had to have persuaded all of our major intelligence agencies and those of our allies to believe that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. Never would these sagacious Democratic leaders have voted to attack Iraq had they not been deceived. And so they began their chant, "Bush lied; people died." Pretty soon, they not only had everydummycrats-Democrat in America buying into their fraud but also began to believe it themselves. Liberals are nothing if not consummate history revisionists. From this time forward, the Democrats grew wilder with outrage and indignation. Republicans were simply evil personified, and they had to be stopped -- at all costs.

Even liar-nObama's two presidential terms didn't quell the left's ever-growing instability -- though liberals were able to channel some of it into abuses of executive power during that time. But the election of Trump sparked a new level of leftist antipathy and psychosis. The liberal media even quit pretending to be unbiased and just became overt propaganda factories for the dummycrats-Democratic Party and against Trump. And it has gotten worse with each passing day. The leftist, liberal media and dummycrats-Democratic Party establishment are utterly beside themselves today with Trump derangement syndrome, and it grows exponentially with each Trump policy success and each dummycrats-Democratic setback in liberals' Sisyphean effort to impeach Trump.

Now we are seeing almost daily violence or threats of violence from these characters, who are openly, even proudly, displaying their fascism for the world to see. Recent examples, from Trump officials being driven from public restaurants to a dummycrats-Democratic congresswoman calling for violence against Trump officials, are too numerous to deny that there is a pattern. The left's inability to conceal its hatred and fascism is a glorious collateral benefit of Trump's electoral and policy victories. Thank the Lord that a majority of the American people still remain uncomfortable with such behavior, which means that dummycrats-Democrats are seriously damaging themselves.

The recent Supreme Court decisions on Trump's travel ban, public unions and a California law requiring pro-lifers to push abortion have sent the left into hysteria. Justice Anthony Kennedy's announced retirement will force many more into therapy. The dummycrats-Democratic Party has been leftist for some time, but leftist extremists are now the mainstream of the party -- and the victory of young socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez in New York against incumbentdummycrats-Democratic Rep. Joe Crowley is but one illustration.

For years, dummycrats-Democrats really haven't had an answer to successful conservative policies, so they've been increasingly reduced to identity politics. Their essential message is that many of Trump's policies may be working, but he and his supporters are racists, sexists and homophobes. Their shtick is growing tired, and people, including some minorities, are getting wise to it.

It would be nice if the left would quit acting out in some kind of uncontrolled rage, but don't hold your breath. If it must be, it must be, but let's just be grateful liberals are showing us who they are and exhibiting their version of "tolerance" and "compassion." The more they keep it up the less likely we'll see a blue wave -- and the likelier we'll see a red one -- in November.

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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
How to Humanely Reduce Unlawful 
Immigration and Shut Down Open-
Borders dummycrats-Democrats
by Gene Schwimmer
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Another Hail Mary Attempt from 
the Left to Deny Trump His SCOTUS Pick
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{ americanthinker.com } ~ June was a tough month for the left. It began with a successful North Korean summit, followed by news that the economy is hotter than even the current heat wave embracing much of the country... The Supreme Court handed President Trump a win on the travel ban on nationals from terrorist-heavy countries, along with a handful of other decisions which are displeasing, to say the least, to dummycrats-Democrats. The month culminated with Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy’s imminent retirement, providing the president with his second SCOTUS nomination in as many years. Liberal heads are exploding on cable news shows and on the sets of unfunny late night comedy shows. Last week Trump was a Nazi, this week he is overturning Roe v. Wade and Brown v. Board of Education, sending America back into the dark ages. The left is now trying to disqualify any of Trump’s potential court nominees. Senator Elizabeth dinky-Warren is front and center in the resistance saying the president’s “short list of Supreme Court nominees was hand-picked by right-wing extremists who want to criminalize abortions and punish women who have them.” Hey, at least it wasn’t a bunch of Nazis left-wing extremists, by the way suggesting nominees, just “right-wing extremists.” Not yet, at least...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2018/07/another_hail_mary_attempt_from_the_left_to_deny_trump_his_scotus_pick.html 
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Israeli Lawmakers Still Can't Freely Visit Israel's Holiest Site 
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{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ Israel is a country that prides itself on the level of religious freedom enjoyed by all citizens, regardless of race or creed... Especially given the religious oppression and suppression prevalent in the nations surrounding her. But there's still one group in the Jewish state that suffers under a severe restriction on its religious expression - the Jewish people. In its exaggerated efforts to be sensitive to the whims of every other group, Israel still forbids Jews to freely visit their most sacred site, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This can be most readily seen in the absurd restrictions placed on Members of Knesset who wish to ascend Judaism's holiest site...   http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/34352/Default.aspx
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Hezbollah's Indefinite Presence in Syria
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{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ After weeks of shuttle diplomacy allegedly carried out by Russia and Israel, Iranian forces and allied militias... including the so-called "military wing" of the Lebanon-based organization Hezbollah, all of which has been designated as a terrorist group by the US -- reportedly began to withdraw from parts of southern Syria, near Israel's border. According to other reports, however, many Hezbollah fighters, disguised as members of the Syrian army, have simply remained on their bases to escape being targeted by the Israel Air Force. Since the start of the Syrian civil war in 2011, Israel's air force has carried out sporadic strikes against Iranian and Hezbollah bases and convoys across its neighbor on the north. After more than seven years of fighting alongside the Assad regime in Syria, the Iran-backed terrorist group Hezbollah is highly unlikely to make an easy exit from the war-torn territory, no matter what supposed agreements are reached or promises made. In a televised speech on "Quds Day" -- which Iran has marked every year since the Islamic Revolution in 1979 -- Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah addressed his supporters as follows...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/12608/hezbollah-syria
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Canada is Funding and Supporting 
Terrorism Front Groups with Taxpayers' Money
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by Tom Quiggin
{ investigativeproject.org } ~ The government of Canada plans to funnel $23 million to combat "Islamophobia," Member of Parliament Iqra Khalid announced last week... The money is an outgrowth of Canada's M-103 "Systemic racism and religious discrimination" bill that called on the government to "condemn Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination." It is not clear how the money will be divided, but Islamic Relief Canada and the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM), formerly known as CAIR-CAN, are poised to receive significant amounts. That's a problem because both groups have been accused of supporting terrorists...   https://www.investigativeproject.org/7514/canada-is-funding-and-supporting-terrorism-front
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Harvard-Harris Poll: 76% of Registered Voters 
Do Not Support ‘Open Borders’
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{ cnsnews.com } ~ A recent Harvard-Harris poll found that 76% of registered American voters do not believe the United States should have “open borders,”... and 61% said current U.S. border security is “inadequate.” In the June 24-25 online survey of 1,448 registered voters, Harvard-Harris asked, “Do you think we should have basically open borders or do you think we need secure borders?” Seventy-six percent of the respondents 1,093 people said “we need secure borders.” Twenty-four percent of respondents 354 people said “we should have basically open borders.” In another question, Harvard-Harris asked, “Do you think current border security is adequate or inadequate?” Sixty-one percent said border security is “inadequate,” and 39% said border security is “adequate.”...
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How to Humanely Reduce Unlawful 
Immigration and Shut Down Open-
Borders dummycrats-Democrats
by Gene Schwimmer


{ americanthinker.com } ~ Today's lesson on morality and human rights comes from the probable according to polls next president of our crime-infested and corrupt neighbor to the south (emphases added):

Mexican presidential candidate Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) called for mass immigration to the United States, ...declaring it a "human right" for all North Americans.


"We will defend all the migrants in the American continent and all the migrants in the world," Obrador said, adding that immigrants "must leave their towns and find a life in the United States."

Apparently, the U.S. must welcome an unlimited number of these unwanted, by their own president, Mexicans, because the U.S. is morally obligated to serve as Mexico's social-dysfunction safety valve and ATM.

Did you know that "chutzpah" is the same in Hebrew and Spanish? On the other hand, everyone knows that Obrador can count on a large cohort of dummycrats-Democrats, who share his view:

Lest anyone misunderstand, when dummycrats-Democrats say "the," they mean "all."  Today, it's "family separations"; tomorrow, who knows? But whatever the dummycrats-Dems' démagogie du jour, most Americans want illegal immigration greatly reduced and, ideally, eliminated. The latter, most likely, is a pipe dream. But not only can the former be done.  It can be done using methods already tried and proven.


First, yes, we need a wall.  If the tooth-and-nail opposition of our open-border dummycrats-Democratic friends is insufficient evidence that a wall would work, consider, as President Trump has, Israel's wall. Israel had an illegal alien problem, too – or she did, until she built a wall, as a February 2017 Senate report confirmed:

The number of illegal crossers on the Israel-Egypt border dropped after the construction of the fence, from more than 16,000 in 2011 to less than 20 in 2016 – a 99 percent decrease.


One can argue, as some do, that other Israeli measures contributed to the decrease. But there can be no doubt that the wall was the primary, and a major, factor.

So a wall – and ending chain migration, and ending the visa lottery, and mandatory E‑Verify – will greatly reduce unlawful immigration. But there is one more thing government can do.

Allow the writer, whose father immigrated to America as a refugee, in 1948, to elucidate:

When the writer's dad got off the boat, he did not simply disembark in Manhattan, casually stroll streets paved with gold and buy the Brooklyn Bridge. First, he had to stop here:

In the first half of the 19th century, most immigrants arriving in New York City landed at docks on the east side of the tip of Manhattan, around South Street.  On August 1, 1855, Castle liar-Clinton became the Emigrant Landing Depot. ...When the U.S. government assumed control of immigration processing, it moved the center to the larger, more isolated Ellis Island facility on January 2, 1892 ... because immigrants were known to carry diseases, which led to epidemics of cholera and smallpox.


The key word in the above quote is "isolated," as in no physical route for unlawful aliens on to the mainland.

Then, the dangers were cholera and smallpox. Today, the dangers are MS-13 violence, lack of education and marketable skills, and the threat of someday becoming citizens and voting for dummycrats-Democrats. In both cases, the problem was a threat to the population from foreign immigration. And in both cases, the solution was to isolate new arrivals until they could be properly vetted and admitted into the mainland U.S. lawfully.

The writer lives in New York City, and last time he checked, Ellis Island was still there, repurposed as a museum. So how about making so-called catch-and-release unnecessary by returning Ellis Island to its original use and supplementing or replacing the current buildings with one or more new, modern dormitories, where illegals seized at the border could be housed comfortably, for as long as required, and with no need to separate families?

On the other hand, Ellis Island is on the opposite side of the country from the Mexican border, where the main problem is. Alcatraz Island is not. What about the Virgin Islands, Guam, or any number of U.S. island possessions, where the climate is both comfortable and similar to that of Mexico and Central America? The specific location is less important than that there be no physical access to the mainland, nor would the housing need to be overly expensive – Quonset huts if space allows, or easily convertible, and stackable, cargo containers.

Or even tents, as the Navy is already planning:

The U.S. Navy drafting plans to house up to 25,000 immigrants on its bases and other facilities, at an estimated cost of about $233 million over six months, as the Trump administration seeks to ease a mounting crisis on the Mexican border. ...


The draft document ... also says that a Navy base in California could house up to a further 47,000 people.

Problem solved...almost. It's a good plan, but with one major flaw: perhaps the writer is mistaken, but it seems that all of the proposed military bases are on the mainland U.S. Again, the locations should be isolated, with no physical connection to the mainland. There is also the issue of cost and not just the $233 million for six months (so $466 million per year); one company has a $162-million contract "to fly immigrant children to shelters across the United States."

There is a better, and possibly cheaper, solution. It's staring the Navy right in the face.

Surely, most readers know that the Navy maintains a reserve, or "mothball," fleet of decommissioned ships anchored in various parts of the country, including California.

Your typical aircraft carrier houses about 6,000 sailors. But think of all that extra space on the (unused) flight deck. Aircraft carriers also have kitchens specifically designed to feed thousands of people.

America is not suffering from a shortage of decommissioned ships. Why pay hundreds of millions of dollars to fly apprehended illegals to multiple locations around the continental U.S. when the Navy can move the ships to the immigrants, anchoring as close to the problem as possible but far enough from shore to keep illegals from accessing the mainland? Other mothballed ships could ferry large numbers of illegals to and from the offshore ships far more cheaply than flying them all over the country.

Additional ships could even return rejected aliens to their home countries – preferably, as Eisenhower did, on the side of the home country farthest from the U.S.

Should any liberal open-borders dummycrats-Democrat complain, just casually mention, preferably publicly, that American sailors lived on those same ships, for much longer, and make popcorn while dummycrats-Democrats explain why what was good enough for American sailors is not good enough for foreigners, who have done nothing for America and who have no legal right even to be here.

Let all potential trespassers know that should they manage to violate our border, the only part of America they will ever see is the part of America they can see from the deck of a ship before being transported on a slow boat back to their home countries, and unlawful immigration will drop. Like a rock.

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Thurs/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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California’s Climate Extremism
by Joel Kotkin
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Black Female Agitators Demand clown-Schumer, 
Pulosi Apologize to scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters
{ rickwells.us ~ A group of black women sent a letter this week to the two top dummycrats-Democrats in Congress demanding that they apologize... for their veiled criticisms of Rep. scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters and threatening repercussions at the ballot box in November if they do not. “For Black women, who are the most loyal base of the dummycrats- Democratic Party and the Progressive Movement, Congresswoman scumbag/mad-Waters is our shero [sic],” declared the letter signed by nearly 200 people, mostly black female academics, activists, local elected officials, political consultants, and religious leaders, along with a few male allies. The letter, a copy of which was posted by Politico, accused House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer, both of whom are white, of racial insensitivity and expressed “our profound indignation and deep disappointment over your recent failure to protect Congresswoman scumbag/mad- Waters from unwarranted attacks from the Trump Administration and others in the GOP.”...This shows us how stupid some back people are.   https://rickwells.us/black-schumer-pelosi-waters/
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dummycrats-Dems Are Using Shallow Arguments to Hold Up the
Next Supreme Court Nominee. Here’s Why They Won’t Work.
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{ dailysignal.com } ~ Three signs suggest thatdummycrats-Democrats already believe they won’t have the votes to defeat President Donald Trump’s nominee to replace Justice Anthony Kennedy... First,dummycrats-Democrats no longer have the filibuster to prevent confirmation votes. They abolished filibusters for all but Supreme Court nominations in 2013 and Republicans took Supreme Court nominations off the filibuster table last year. Second, dummycrats-Democratic leaders are saying they will oppose Trump’s nominee even before he announces his choice. Third, dummycrats-Democrats are making increasingly bizarre arguments that the Senate should delay the confirmation process until next year...   https://www.dailysignal.com/2018/07/03/democrats-are-using-shallow-arguments-to-hold-up-the-next-supreme-court-nominee-heres-why-they-wont-work/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0dJeE9EY3hNekF5Tm1VNCIsInQiOiJQUDgwOUllbHo3Q2YrbHFadEcyOEhmcGZrcFZCT1Vha1BZUjJUU2FsdFNtOXZDbFgwV1NUa0x3bmlCUXpFWGZRVjY3bmNtWjJ1T1hVNzZYbk9kdUJZMHhiRFZOOXdIaG5TYnkrTUc2cDl3NUtpcGNaa1RQTmw2d2hseDRmTXIweCJ9 
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scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters is done with 'nice guy politics'
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{ thehill.com } ~ From the perspective of some House dummycrats-Democrats, Rep.  scumbag/mad-Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) has the right message... She’s just not always the best messenger. The Los Angeles lawmaker’s early calls for President Trump’s impeachment and viral showdowns with administration officials have endeared scumbag/mad-Waters to the party’s young, liberal base. And those stances have also garnered the respect of many House dummycrats- Democrats, who admire how scumbag/mad-Waters, 79, sticks to her political convictions. "She is up-to-date, she is smart, she is authentic and she is not scared to express herself,” Rep. Gwen Moore (D-Wis.) told The Hill, adding that her constituents in Milwaukee often ask her if she knows scumbag/mad-Waters. "She is transformative in terms of appealing to different generations of people.”...
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New rules for MKs on Temple Mount 
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{ israelnationalnews.com } ~ Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein met with Knesset Guard chief Yosef Grif and instructed him to draft a detailed instructional document for MKs seeking to visit the Temple Mount... Among the conditions in the document is that an MK who wants to ascend the mount must send a letter to the Knesset officer 24 hours before the visit, specifying the date and time of the requested visit. The Knesset officer will coordinate MK visits with police, and the commissioner or the Jerusalem district commander will approve each visit specifically according to assessments of the situation.  Jewish MKs who wish to visit will be limited to visitation hours of Jews to the Temple Mount and the rules applicable to non-Muslim visitors visiting the Temple Mount. Muslim MKs will be permitted to ascend the mountain only through the Gate of the Tribes, and only starting from half an hour after the end of Jewish visiting hours...
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Demonstrator scales Statue of Liberty 
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{ israelnationalnews.com } ~ A 44-year-old woman climbed the Statue of Liberty in New York yesterday afternoon and stayed there for about four hours... until she was taken down by the police. The woman, Therese Okumu, 44, sought to protest authorities' treatment of illegal migrants entering the United States from Mexico. The Statue of Liberty and its park were closed - and visitors evacuated - hours before the usual closing time due to the incident, which ended only around 18:15. Brian Glucken of the NYPD said the woman was sitting on the statue base and spoke about children separated from their parents who brought them at Texas border crossings. "She only mentioned the kids in Texas," he said...These people don't get it. If they enter illegally they will be separated but will be reunited once they are deported back to their country.
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Yemen’s Houthis highlight new underground missile launchers
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{ longwarjournal.org } ~ In a new video highlighting a recent ballistic missile launch directed at an airport in southern Saudi Arabia... Yemen’s Houthi rebels also unveiled to the world its underground missile launchers. The video showcased a Badr-1 ballistic missile reportedly fired at an airport in Khamis Mushayt from an underground launcher. Saba, a website linked to the Houthis, reported that the underground launchers“cannot be targeted by Saudi-led coalition’s warplanes.” Additionally, the video was released just after the militant group announced on its main website that its ballistic missile program “will see more robust and efficient development in the coming period.” The Houthis have launched dozens of ballistic missile into Saudi Arabia since 2015. Most have been fired at the southern Saudi provinces of Najran, Jizan, and ‘Asir. However, several have also been fired at the capital Riyadh, as well as Yanbu and Mecca. Just last week, Saudi officials claimed their air defense forces shot down two Houthi missiles over Riyadh...
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California’s Climate Extremism
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by Joel Kotkin

{ city-journal.org } ~ Environmental extremism increasingly dominates California. The state is making a concerted attack on energy companies in the courts; a bill is pending in the legislature to fine waiters $1,000—or jail them—if they offer people plastic straws; and UCLA issued a report describing pets as a climate threat. The state has taken upon itself the mission of limiting the flatulence of cows and other farm animals. As the self-described capital of the anti-Trump resistance, California presents itself as the herald of a green, more socially and racially just society. That view has been utterly devastated by a new report from Chapman University, in which coauthors David Friedman and Jennifer Hernandez demonstrate that California’s draconian anti-climate-change regime has exacerbated economic, geographic, and racial inequality. And to make things worse, California’s efforts to save the planet have actually done little more than divert greenhouse-gas emissions (GHG) to other states and countries.

Jerry Brown’s return to Sacramento in 2011 brought back to power one of the first American politicians to embrace the “limits of growth.” Brown has long worried about resource depletion including such debunked notions as “peak oil”, taken a Malthusian approach to population growth, and opposed middle-class suburban development. Like many climate-change activists, he has limitless confidence in the possibility for engineering a green socially just society through “the coercive power of the state,” but little faith that humans can find ways to address the challenge of  climate change. If Brown’s “era of limits” message in the 1970s failed to catch on with the state’s voters, who promptly elected two Republican governors in his wake, he has found in climate change a more effective rallying cry, albeit one that often teeters at the edge of hysteria. Few politicians can outdo Brown for alarmism; recently, he predicted that climate change will cause 3 to 4 billion deaths, leading eventually to human extinction. To save the planet, he openly endorses a campaign to brainwash the masses.

The result: relentless ratcheting-up of climate-change policies. In 2016, the state committed to reduce greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions 40 percent below 1990 levels by 2030. In response, the California Air Resource Board (CARB), tasked with making the rules required to achieve the state’s legislated goals, took the opportunity to set policies for an unlegislated target of an 80 percent reduction below 1990 levels by 2050.

Brown and his supporters often tout their policies as in line with the 2015 Paris Agreement, note Friedman and Hernandez, but California’s reductions under the agreement require it to make cutbacks double those pledged by Germany and other stalwart climate-committed countries, many of which have actually increased their emissions in recent years, despite their Paris pledges.

Governor Brown has preened in Paris, at the Vatican, in China, in newspapers, and on national television. But few have considered how his policies have worked out in practice. California is unlikely to achieve even its modest 2020 goals; nor is it cutting emissions faster than other states lacking such dramatic legislative mandates. Since 2007, when the Golden State’s “landmark” global-warming legislation was passed, California has accounted for barely 5 percent of the nation’s GHG reductions. The combined total reductions achieved over the past decade by Ohio, Georgia, Pennsylvania, and Indiana are about 5 times greater than California’s. Even Texas, that bogeyman of fossil-fuel excess, has been reducing its per-capita emissions more rapidly.

In fact, virtually nothing that California does will have an impact on global climate. California per-capita emissions have always been relatively low, due to the mild climate along the coast, which reduces the need for much energy consumption on heating and cooling. In 2010, the state accounted for less than 1 percent of global GHG emissions; the disproportionately large reductions sought by state activists and bureaucrats would have no discernible effect on global emissions under the Paris Agreement. “If California ceased to exist in 2030,” Friedman and Hernandez note, “global GHG emissions would be still be 99.54 percent of the Paris Agreement total.”

Many of California’s “green” policies may make matters worse. California, for example, does not encourage biomass energy use, though the state’s vast forested areas—some 33 million acres— could provide renewable energy and reduce the excessive emissions from wildfires caused by years of forest mismanagement. Similarly, California greens have been adamant in shutting down nuclear power plants, which continue to reduce emissions in France, and they refuse to count hydro-electricity as renewable energy. As a result, California now imports roughly one-third of its electricity from other states, the highest percentage of any state, up from 25 percent in 2010. This is part of what Hernandez and Friedman show to be California’s increasing propensity to export energy production and GHG emissions, while maintaining the fiction that the state has reduced its total carbon output.

Overall, California tends to send its “dirty work”—whether for making goods or in the form of fossil fuels—elsewhere. Unwanted middle- and working-class people, driven out by the high cost of California’s green policies, leave, taking their carbon footprints to other places, many of which have much higher per-capita emission rates. Net migration to other, less temperate states and countries has been large enough to offset the annual emissions cuts within the state. Similarly, the state’s regulatory policies make it difficult for industrial firms to expand or even to remain in California. Green-signaling firms like Apple produce most of their tangible products abroad, mainly in high-GHG emitting China, while other companies, like Facebook and Google, tend to place energy-intensive data centers in other, higher GHG emission states. The study estimates that GHG emissions just from California’s international imports in 2015, and not even counting imports from the rest of the U.S., amounted to about 35 percent of the state’s total emissions.   

California’s green regulators predict that the implementation of ever-stricter rules related to climate will have a “small” impact on the economy. They point to strong economic and job growth in recent years as evidence that strict regulations are no barrier to prosperity. Though the state’s economic growth is slowing, and now approaches the national average, a superficial look at aggregate performance makes a seemingly plausible case for even the most draconian legislation. California, as the headquarters for three of the nation’s five largest companies by market capitalization—Alphabet, Apple, and Facebook— has enjoyed healthy GDP growth since 2010. But in past recoveries, the state’s job and income growth was widely distributed by region and economic class; since 2007, growth has been uniquely concentrated in one region—the San Francisco Bay Area, where employment has grown by nearly 17 percent, almost three times that of the rest of the state, with  growth rates tumbling compared with past decades.  

Some of these inequities are tied directly to policies associated with climate change. High electricity prices, and the war on carbon emissions generally, have undermined the state’s blue-collar sectors, traditionally concentrated in Los Angeles and the interior counties. These sectors have all lost jobs since 2007. Manufacturing employment, highly sensitive to energy-related and other regulations, has declined by 160,000 jobs since 2007. California has benefited far less from the national industrial resurgence, particularly this past year. Manufacturing jobs—along with those in construction and logistics, also hurt by high energy prices—have long been key to upward mobility for non-college-educated Californians.

As climate-change policies have become more stringent, California has witnessed an unprecedented level of bifurcation between a growing cadre of high-income earners and a vast, rapidly expanding poor population. Meantime, the state’s percentage of middle-income earners— people making between $75,000 and $125,000—has fallen well below the national average. This decline of the middle class even occurs in the Bay Area, notes a recent report from the California Budget and Policy Center, where in 1989 the middle class accounted for 56 percent of all households in Silicon Valley, but by 2013, only 45.7 percent. Lower-income residents accounted for 30.3 percent of Silicon Valley’s households in 1989, and that number grew to 34.8 percent in 2013.

Perhaps the most egregious impact on middle and working-class residents can be seen in housing, where environmental regulations, often tied directly to climate policies, have discouraged construction, particularly in the suburbs and exurbs. The state’s determination to undo the primarily suburban, single-family development model in order to “save the planet” has succeeded both in raising prices well beyond national norms and creating a shortfall of some 3 million homes.

As shown in a recent UC Berkeley study, even if fully realized, the state’s proposals to force denser housing would only reach about 1 percent of its 2030 emissions goals. Brown and his acolytes ignore the often-unpredictable consequences of their actions, insisting that density will reduce carbon emissions while improving affordability and boosting transit use. Yet, as Los Angeles has densified under its last two mayors, transit ridership has continued to drop, in part, notes a another UC Berkeley report, because incentives for real-estate speculation have driven the area’s predominantly poor transit riders further from trains and buses, forcing many to purchase cars.   

Undaunted, California plans to impose even stricter regulations, including the mandatory installation of solar panels on new houses, which could raise pricesby roughly $20,000 per home. This is only the latest in a series of actions that undermines the aspirations of people who still seek “the California dream;” since 2007, California homeownership rates have dropped far more than the national average. By 2016, the overall homeownership rate in the state was just under 54 percent, compared with 64 percent in the rest of the country.

The groups most affected by these policies, ironically, are those on whom the ruling progressives rely for electoral majorities. Millennials have seen a more rapid decline in homeownership rates compared with their cohort elsewhere. But the biggest declines have been among historically disadvantaged minorities—Latinos and African-Americans. Latino homeownership rates in California are well below the national average. In 2016, only 31 percent of African-Americans in the Bay Area owned homes, well below the already low rate of 41 percent black homeownership in the rest of nation. Worse yet, the state takes no accountof the impact of these policies on poorer Californians. Overall poverty rates in California declined in the decade before 2007, but the state’s poverty numbers have risen during the current boom. Today, 8 million Californians live in poverty, including 2 million children, by far the most of any state. The state’s largest city, Los Angeles, is also now by some measurements America’s poorest big city.  

To allay concerns about housing affordability, the state has allocated about $300 million from its cap-and-trade funds for housing, a meager amount given that the cost of building affordable housing in urban areas can exceed $700,000 per unit. These benefits are dwarfed by those that wealthy Californians enjoy for the purchase of electric cars and home solar: Tesla car buyers with average incomes of $320,000 per year got more than $300 million in federal and state subsidies by early 2015 alone. By contrast, in early 2018, state electricity prices were 58 percent higher, and gasoline over 90 cents per gallon higher, than the national average, disproportionately hurting ethnic minorities, the working class, and the poor. Based on cost-of-living estimation tools from the Census Bureau, 28 percent of African-Americans in the state live in poverty, compared with 22 percent nationally. Fully one-third of Latinos, now the state’s largest ethnic group, live in poverty, compared with 21 percent outside the state.

In a normal political environment, such disparities would spark debate, not only among conservatives, but also traditional dummycrats-Democrats. Some, like failed independent candidate and longtime environmentalist Michael Shellenberger, have expressed the view that California’s policies have made it not “the most progressive state” but “the most racist one.” Recently, some 200 veteran civil rights leaders sued CARB, on the basis that state policies are skewed against the poor and minorities. So far, their voices have been largely ignored. The state’s prospective next governor, Gavin Newsom, seems eager to embrace and expand Brown’s policies, and few in the legislature seem likely to challenge them. The Republicans, for now, look incapable of mounting a challenge.        

This leaves California on a perilous path toward greater class and racial divides, increasing poverty, and ever-more strenuous regulation. Other ways to reduce greenhouse gases—such as planting trees, more efficient transportation, and making suburbs more sustainable—should be on the table. The Hernandez-Friedman report could be a first step toward addressing these issues, but however it happens, a return to rationality is needed in the Golden State.

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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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The Supreme Fallout for Public Unions 
by Lewis Morris
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 Jordan Smeared Like Trump by 
Uniparty Swamp Establishment Guarding Their Power
{ rickwells.us } ~ The leftist, anti-American dummycrats-Democrats are rolling out another incarnation of the same “late-breaking sex scandal fabrication” dirty tricks... they have used in attempts to torpedo and remove President Trump from office, this time attacking Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) for allegedly not reporting inappropriate sexual misconduct of a team doctor decades ago. Why is this fabricated issue coming to the forefront now, we might ask. Jordan has been fierce in his pursuit of establishment COUP kingpin Rod Rosenstein, something that has displeased both the dummycrats-Democrat and RINO uniparty swamp creatures. Following a heated exchange in which Jordan pointed out that Rod Rosenstein has been obstructing justice and abusing his position as the de facto Attorney General for political purposes, a story suddenly emerges of alleged incidences of homosexual groping by a wrestling team doctor at Ohio State twenty years ago. That doctor, Richard Strauss, died in 2005, making it impossible for him to defend himself or Rep Jordan from the convenient allegations. Clearly this is another episode of the left smearing the reputation and name of a good, Christian man in the pursuit of their dark political objectives. Whether it’s the Access Hollywood tapes, “Storm Drain” Daniels crawling out of the sewer at a most opportune time, or Summer Zervos and the rest of Gloria Allred’s lying gold-diggers and their contrived crocodile tear-filled public statements, it’s a blatant attempt to discredit and remove a political opponent that the left can’t defeat on the issues and nothing more...  https://rickwells.us/jordan-trump-smeared-swamp/
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Unfortunately Every Investigative Trail 
Comes Back to the Dead End of FISA Abuse
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Way back when CTH first began the deep dive into the systems and processes that were deployed in the 2015/2016 election cycle... we eventually came to the conclusion that everything of substance, within the larger intelligence abuses, revolved around DOJ and FBI abuses of the FISA process. As an outcome of multiple research deep-dives we then focused on a specific foundational block of that usurpation, the fraudulent application presented to the FISA Court by officials within the FBI and DOJ-NSD (National Security Division).  The October 21st, 2016, application to the FISA Court for surveillance authority upon U.S. person Carter Page; and by extension the Donald Trump campaign. Throughout all further inquiries this central component remains at the center of the issue. Unlawful surveillance is the originating principal behind Operation Crossfire Hurricane; it is also the originating issue within the Peter Strzok “insurance policy”; additionally, it is the originating aspect to the liar-Clinton/Steele dossier; etc. etc. the list is long. Chase any of the corrupt threads back to their source of origin and you eventually come back to the surveillance authority within the FISA processes....
clown-Schumer Celebrates dummycrats-Democrat 
Destruction of America on July 4th
{ rickwells.us } ~ Leader of the communists deceptively referred to as the dummycrats- Democratic Party in the Senate, Chuck clown-Schumer, celebrated Independence Day in predictable fashion... extolling the demise of our nation that he and his fellow leftists have been engineering for several decades and which President Trump is working to undo. The swamp scumbag tweeted out messages regarding two particular items, the preservation of the legalized infanticide they describe as a woman’s right to choose death for her child, abortion, and for the degradation of marriage between a man and woman and the foundation for their assault on gender identity as a whole, homosexual marriage. Gone are the days when perversion was something that participants were ashamed of. Now dummycrats- Democrats hold it up as some sort of idealistic model and many of the young and vulnerable have been their victims, buying into it as being the cool new America, the “millennial way” of serving their new gods of diversity and anything goes...   https://rickwells.us/schumer-celebrates-democrat-destruction/
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WH Trade and Manufacturing Policy Director Peter Navarro
Discusses U.S. -vs- China Trade Confrontation
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{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Last month the White House presented a 36-page outline of the U.S. position toward trade with China.  White House National Trade Council and Office of Trade and Manufacturing Policy Director Peter Navarro delivers a presentation to discuss that report.  Very well worth watching:.
Socialist Candidates the ‘Future Of Our Party,’ 
Says dummycrats-DNC Chairman Tom Perez 
{ gellerreport.com } ~ dummycrats-Democratic National Committee chairman Tom Perez said candidates like Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez... the socialist who just won her New York primary, are the future of the dummycrats- Democrats’ party. In other words: Socialism is the dummycrats- Democratic Party’s future. At least they’re finally coming out of the shadows and admitting what they are — a group of victim card-throwing, entitlement-minded, lazy and angry dredges and drains of society, living only to take from others and profit from the hard work of their neighbors. Or: socialists.   https://gellerreport.com/2018/07/democrats-socialism-tom-perez.html/
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The Supreme Fallout for Public Unions 

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by Lewis Morris:  Last week’s Supreme Court ruling shooting down public-sector unions’ power to charge fees to nonmembers has Democrats and unions wondering what the future has in store for them.

             For years, public-sector employees in several states were compelled to pay fees to unions even if they were not members. The unions claimed that these so-called nonmember “agency fees” were used for collective bargaining and administrative purposes that benefited all workers regardless of membership status. While true to a point, the reality was that public-sector unions were putting this money to work for their own political ends and forcing nonmembers to go along.
               That came to an end in the 5-4 decision in Janus v. AFSCME. Justice Samuel Alito, writing for the majority, stated, “This procedure violates the First Amendment and cannot continue. Neither an agency fee nor any other payment to the union may be deducted from a non-member’s wages, nor may any other attempt be made to collect such a payment, unless the employee affirmatively consents to pay.”
               The majority’s support of employees’ First Amendment rights did not sit well with the Supreme Court’s judicial despots. Justice Elena Kagan, choosing to read her dissent from the bench, said, “The majority has overruled Abood for no exceptional or special reason, but because it never liked the decision. It has overruled Abood because it wanted to.”
               It’s actually more complicated than that. The 1977 Abood v. Detroit Board of Education decision to which she referred infringed on employees’ First Amendment rights by compelling them to financially support union political stances that they didn’t actually support. Kagan’s dissent seemed less like a reasoned legal counterargument and more like sour grapes.
               During oral arguments in the Janus case on Feb. 26, the Court’s left wing seemed less concerned about whether an employee’s constitutional rights were being infringed and more concerned about how a potential reversal of Abood would impact public-sector unions’ membership and ability to collect fees.
               Their concern is not surprising. Virtually all political contributions by public-sector unions go to dummycrats-Democrat candidates and causes. Janus will directly impact five million public-sector employees in 22 states and the District of Columbia. This may lead to reduced membership when employees are freed from the yolk placed on them by the unions. It will most assuredly lead to unions’ diminished capacity to support leftist political candidates and causes.
               Unions are predicting the end of the world, but all that has really happened is that they can no longer play such a rigged game. For decades, the twisted partnership between dummycrats- Democrats and unions was forged on the unions’ ability to coerce support from their membership and to then use that as leverage sodummycrats-Democrats could craft laws favoring union leadership but not necessarily its members. In return, unions provided financial support and votes todummycrats-Democrats. All Janus  has done is remind unions that they must now work for the support of all their members or face a reduced membership and reduced political power.
               Workers have not been silenced by this decision. On the contrary, they have been freed from being forced to support causes with which they do not agree. There will not be widespread abuse of employees by unscrupulous employers. This ruling only impacts public-sector unions, which even a statist like Franklin Delano Roosevelt viewed as dangerous to the smooth operation of government.
               The most obvious and realistic change that will come from this ruling is that public-sector unions must work harder to focus on the needs of employees rather than just spending their time rubbing shoulders with dummycrats-Democrat politicians. And that’s what unions were supposed to be about in the first place.

~The Patriot Post
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