Fired Trump Aide Nunberg Refuses to 

Comply With Mueller’s “Ridiculous” 

Grand Jury Subpoena 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Robert Mueller and his merry band of inquisitors have been bankrupting and making absurd demands on people since Rod Rosenstein’s final key stroke on his witch hunt creation memo... One of those who they have been harassing, former Trump adviser Sam Nunberg has had enough. He’s not cooperating, he’s not going to comply with a grand jury subpoena. That’s chum in the water for the libtards at MSNBC. Katy Tur was almost hopping into the camera in her desperation to be the one who gets to take Trump down. Nunberg tells the smug anti-Trump propagandist Tur that his decision is based upon the ridiculous nature of the amount and content of information that has been requested. He said, “They wanted every email I had with Roger Stone and with Steve Bannon. Why should I hand them emails from November 1st, 2015?” He said, “I was thinking about this today, I was preparing it. Should I spend 50 hours going over all of my emails with Roger and with Steve Bannon. And then they wanted emails I had with Hope Hicks, with Corey Lewandowski – are you giving me a break? It’s ridiculous.”... This gets my blood to boil, Mueller you are going after the wrong people. You should be after the liar-nObama administration and liar-Hillary if you want answers.  https://rickwells.us/nunberg-mueller-grand-jury/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtOuh3yuCm0

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The Deep State Is in Deep Cover-up Mode 

by TOM FITTON

{ breitbart.com } ~ The coup attempt against President Trump is rapidly collapsing... but the deep state is still in cover-up mode. In this article for The Hill, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton discussed the FBI’s continuing protection of former Director James Comey and Judicial Watch’s efforts to penetrate the truth. As the James Comey saga continues to unfold, the James Comey legend continues to unravel. The more that is learned about Comey’s involvement in the deep state’s illicit targeting of President Trump, the more reason the American people must question both Comey’s motives and his management as director of the FBI, the now-disgraced agency he headed before Trump fired him. Comey left a trail of suspicious activities in his wake.  Comey now looms large over a burgeoning constitutional crisis that could soon overshadow Watergate at its worst. To deepen the crisis even further, it now appears some of Comey’s former FBI and Justice Department colleagues continue to protect him from accountability...  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2018/03/01/the-deep-state-is-in-deep-cover-up-mode/?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=tipsheet&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180306164142

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NRA, Loesch Unleash "Time's Up" 

Ad on Guns and Media Bias 

by Brian Lilley 

{ truthrevolt.org } ~ The NRA and their spokesperson Dana Loesch used the occasion of the Oscars broadcast to launch a "Time's Up"... inspired ad calling out the mainstream media for their anti-gun bias. The ad opens with Loesch against a black backdrop with an hourglass sitting on a table next to her as she says that America is fed up with the lies, the sanctimony, and the fake news before calling out those she says are trying to undermine America's freedom. "So to every lying member of the media, to every Hollywood phony, to the role-model athletes who use their free speech to alter and undermine what our flag represents." Loesch goes on to call out politicians and specific media outlets and personalities including CNN, The Washington Post, The New York Times, Joy-Ann Reid, Morning Joe and Mika... https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/nra-loesch-unleash-times-ad-guns-and-media-bias

VIDEO:  https://www.nratv.com/home/video/dana-loesch-has-a-new-show-coming-to-nratv?linkback

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Farrell – Judicial Watch Suing DOJ For Bruce

And Nellie Ohr Records – Who Will Prosecute? 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Judicial Watch has filed lawsuits against the Department of Justice that will... if they are answered completely and truthfully, surely expose more of the criminal activities of their leadership. Getting them to investigate or ultimately to prosecute any of their own criminals afterwards simply is not happening. It’s an exercise in futility unless a second, legitimate special counsel is appointed. Before he gets into the details of their lawsuit, Chris Farrell, Judicial Watch’s Director of Research and Investigations, is asked about the breaking story of the Sam Nunberg grand jury subpoena and his refusal to comply. David Asman asks if it seems like the subpoena is part of a fishing expedition, as the net they’re throwing out is quite wide. Farrell replies, “It does and it’s literally a laundry list of the who’s who. It’s the wildest dreams of the liar-Hillary Clinton – DNC funded smear campaign that ironically they ended up indirectly paying the Russian Intelligence Service for.”... https://rickwells.us/farrell-suing-doj-ohr-records/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WNRmvUfCQQg1

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Ex-Trump Aide Sam Nunberg Defies Mueller: I Won’t Testify (Subpoenas Are Optional?)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMsT1Igpl6E

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Prager U: Dear Celebrities-No One Cares What You Think 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQQQNx3qthE

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President Trump Meets With Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3FMDmDv3cI

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CNN’s Acosta Whines to Huckabee Sanders: ‘That’s the Third Briefing You’ve Not Taken a Question From CNN’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfVMB6IJuc8

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CNN’s Jake Tapper Hits Democrats For Refusing To Condemn Farrakhan, “People Want The Association”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJeLqvVk1mw

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Parkland Shooting Victim’s Dad Leading The Charge On School Safety (Not Gun Control)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6x6ttyUZL8

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US Projected To Be Worlds Largest Oil Producer By 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJF4Qb5lAf4

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by Debra J. Saunders
{ townhall.com } ~ Behind the front-page indictments issued by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, there have been quiet movements in the courts on another front.

These developments have led supporters of former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn to call on President Donald Trump to pardon Flynn, or on Flynn to withdraw his guilty plea for making "materially false statements and omissions" to the FBI in 2017.

The developments are:

--Rudolph Contreras, the federal judge who accepted Flynn's guilty plea on Dec. 1, took himself off or was taken off the case for undisclosed reasons.

--His replacement is Emmet Sullivan, a crusading federal jurist who in 2009 famously lambasted federal prosecutors who had won a conviction against U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, for repeatedly withholding exculpatory evidence from Stevens' legal team.

Later, newly installed Attorney General scum-Eric Holder asked that all charges against Stevens, who was convicted in October 2008, be dismissed. Stevens' conviction was overturned, but only after the scandal-soiled senator narrowly lost his bid for re-election.

Ever since then, Sullivan has made it a practice to order prosecutors to share information favorable to a defendant with the defense team. As Flynn awaits his sentencing, Sullivan issued one such order in December. He did so again on Feb. 16, with the important instruction -- that if prosecutors aren't sure if favorable evidence is material, they should hand it over to the judge so that he can decide.

Another straw in the haystack: Relying on anonymous sources, the Washington Examiner's Byron York recently reported that former FBI Director James Comey told Capitol Hill lawmakers in March that FBI agents who interviewed Flynn did not believe he had lied to them about his December discussions with then-Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. If withheld, that information might have kept Flynn from cutting a deal.

According to York, then-Acting Attorney General Sally Yates "reportedly believed Flynn might have violated the Logan Act," a 218-year-old law that is supposed to keep private citizens from conducting diplomacy on their own. Yates sent two FBI agents to talk to Flynn a second time.

Without a lawyer present, Flynn spoke with the agents on Jan. 24, 2017.

Two days later, Yates warned the White House that Flynn could be in danger of blackmail because he had lied to Vice President Mike Pence about the content of his December conversations with Kislyak, which the intelligence community had tapped.

Trump fired Flynn for lying to Pence.

Trump also fired Yates for refusing to enforce his first travel ban. And he fired Comey in May.

Sullivan's instructions and past history have led sympathizers to wonder if federal prosecutors withheld important evidence from Flynn's legal team.

"Of course, the point is moot now because Flynn has admitted his guilt," former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy wrote in National Review in December. "Still, I wonder whether Mueller's team informed Flynn and his counsel, prior to Flynn's guilty plea to lying to the FBI, that the interviewing agents believed he had not lied to the FBI."

Michael Ledeen, a Flynn friend who has written multiple books on national security, said, "I want the whole case thrown out. I do not believe for a minute that he lied to the FBI."

Tom Fitton of the conservative gadfly group Judicial Watch had the same reaction. Mueller's investigation, Fitton charged, is "out of control" -- and as far as Fitton is concerned, Flynn would not lie.

Ledeen thinks Flynn cut the deal with Mueller to protect his family, perhaps to shield his son from prosecution.

Here's the problem, countered Max Bergmann senior fellow at the left-leaning Center for American Progress. In the plea deal, Flynn admitted he's a liar. "I think if you plead guilty to lying," that's a hard admission to walk back.

Bergmann added that in March, Flynn offered to talk to House and Senate investigators if they granted him immunity from prosecution. "That's not the action of someone who feels like they're innocent," he said.

Trump would agree. During the 2016 campaign, when aides to liar-Hillary Clinton invoked the Fifth Amendment, Trump told an Iowa rally, "If you're innocent, why are you taking the Fifth Amendment?"

Then there's the matter of Flynn's failure to register as a foreign agent when he represented repressive Turkey during the 2016 campaign. Bergmann said he believes that Mueller went easy on Flynn by not pressing more serious charges against him. If Flynn takes back his guilty plea, Mueller would be free to throw a heavier book at Flynn.

Will Mueller produce a case that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, as some Democrats contend? Or will a federal judge produce a case for prosecutorial overreach, as some Republicans suggest? Stay tuned.

Opinion in Brief

Burt Prelutsky: “Everybody agrees it’s tragic when innocent people are killed. But why must we pretend that it’s worse when it takes place at a school? How is it better if youngsters are killed at the local mall or at a movie theater or a rock concert? All of them constitute soft targets. Heck, as we saw at Fort Hood, when Major Nidal Hasan murdered a dozen of his fellow soldiers, we, as a society, have become so deranged that even Army bases have become gun-free zones. … My point isn’t to diminish what happened in Parkland but to point out that those on the Left seem to view all murders through a prism of their propaganda value. If they thought they could get more mileage out of church shootings, the endless homicides in Baltimore or the attack on the Republican congressmen at the baseball field in Virginia, they would focus on those crimes. But they realize they can better utilize school shootings emotionally because of the age of the victims, even though those crimes should be the easiest to avoid, simply by using metal detectors at the school entrance, arming and training teachers and coaches, and turning over students showing homicidal tendencies to the cops. … The sad truth is that those calling for commonsense limitations on gun ownership are lying with every breath they take. What they really want is for the federal government to confiscate firearms, the Second Amendment be damned!”   
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54531-monday-opinion

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mad-Maxine Waters Promises Reparations

To Black Supremacy Parasites – Her Constituents 

by rickwells.us  

{ rickwells.us } ~ There isn’t anything that’s more divisive than someone taking something from another person by force... Democrats are all about doing exactly that, through the power of an authoritarian government. Hussein liar-nObama and scum-Eric Holder fomented racial tensions in the final two years of that sham administration and, unless Jeff Sessions gets off his good for nothing behind, they’re coming in back in a few short months. As mad-Maxine Waters has demonstrated over the past months and declares in this event, that looks more like an occupy sit-in than a rally, she’ll do anything to take what others have in the name of social justice communism, with her race-based black supremacist society as the goal.  Clearly in search of a basis for support, mad-Waters accuses President Trump of being a bully looking for the biggest gun and of fueling an arms race. Repairing our military after 8 years of liar-nObama and sequestration is not an act of aggression but one of necessity for survival...  https://rickwells.us/maxine-waters-reparations-black/
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MflTiiNASHM

Iran's Supreme Leader Becomes Latest 

'Expert' To Weigh In On Gun Control 

by EMILY ZANOTT

{ dailywire.com } ~ Iran's supreme leader, the Ayatollah Khamenei, became the latest weapons expert to weigh in on the current debate over U.S. gun policy... Unsurprisingly, the Middle Eastern dictator, who boasts a stranglehold over his own people, suggested that American leaders immediately disarm American citizens. Khamenei’s "hard line" on guns is nothing new. One of the Ayatollah's first orders of business when he came to power was to disarm his own citizens — a technique regularly used by "supreme leaders" to extend their tenures. Ultimately, Khamenei makes a unique case that the Second Amendment is, in fact, an insurance policy against tyranny...Forget you Khamenei.   https://www.dailywire.com/news/27815/irans-supreme-leader-becomes-latest-expert-weigh-emily-zanotti?utm_campaign=olympicmedia&utm_medium=olympicmedia&utm_source=olympicmedia 

University OKs Guns on Campus… 

6 Months Later the Results Are Breathtaking 

by Randy DeSoto  

{ westernjournal.com } ~ Six months after adopting concealed carry of firearms on campus... the University of Kansas found that the crime rate dropped and there have been zero weapons violations.  The Lawrence Journal-World reported that “crime decreased 13 percent, with 671 criminal offenses reported to KU police in 2017 compared to 770 incidents in 2016, according to a news release from the KU Office of Public Safety.” The newspaper added there have been no weapons’ violations on campus in 2017, while there had been 14 reported since 2008 up to that point...

https://www.westernjournal.com/university-oks-guns-campus-6-months-later-results-breathtaking/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter-WJ&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal

VIIDEO:   https://www.westernjournal.com/university-oks-guns-campus-6-months-later-results-breathtaking/

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ISIS supporter tried to recruit 

55 children for attacks in London

by THOMAS JOSCELYN

{ longwarjournal.org } ~ The UK Metropolitan Police announced today that three men have been convicted on terrorism-related charges... after it was learned they planned to use up to 55 children in attacks throughout London. The thwarted plot was conceived by Umar Ahmed Haque, a 25-year-old from east London who worked as an administrator at “an after-school madrasa at Ripple Road Mosque in Barking.” Two other men were also convicted of playing supporting roles in Haque’s scheme, which targeted “up to 30 groups, businesses and establishments in London.”  UK counterterrorism officials first became suspicious of Haque in Apr. 2016, when “police officers stopped him at Heathrow Airport as he attempted to fly to Istanbul, Turkey.” Istanbul has been a common transit point for jihadists seeking to join the Islamic State or other groups in Syria. The officers discovered that Haque’s phone has been used to perform “detailed searches for terrorist attacks and executions.” Although he couldn’t be charged at the time under existing laws, Haque’s “passport was revoked by the Home Office under Royal Prerogative.”...

https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/03/isis-supporter-tried-to-recruit-55-children-for-attacks-in-london.php

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Facebook's Fake Fact-Checkers Bust The Babylon Bee 

by Thomas Gallatin:  One of our favorite satire sites, The Babylon Bee, recently ran a humorous story entitled “CNN purchases industrial-sized washing machine to spin news before publication.” Hours later, Adam Ford, the Bee’s founder, received a notice from Facebook warning that his story had been flagged as false content by its “independent fact-checker” Snopes. Furthermore, the social media giant threatened, “Repeat offenders will see their distribution reduced and their ability to monetize and advertised removed.”                                             To say the least, Ford was surprised — not over being “fact-checked,” as this was not the first time that Snopes has “fact-checked” The Babylon Bee, but rather by the action taken by Facebook. Ford stated, “This is the first time Facebook has used that to threaten us with reduced reach and demonetization.” He added, “Also it seems that anyone who clicked on the article got a notice that it was ‘disputed.’”
          Hours later, after suffering a fully deserved barrage of blowback and mockery, Facebook later admitted its action was a mistake: “There’s a difference between false news and satire. This was a mistake and should not have been rated false in our system. It’s since been corrected and won’t count against the domain in any way.”
          Like Google’s YouTube, Facebook has sought to censor and limit what it calls “fake news” and has increased its efforts since Donald Trump’s election. As part of its anti-fake news efforts, Facebook has teamed up with several leftist “fact-checking” groups. One of these organizations, PolitiFact, explained its work with Facebook, stating, “Our partnership with Facebook is part of a push by the social media company to clean up its news feed and become a more trustworthy platform.” PolitiFact's Aaron Sharackman added, “Facebook introduced a new tool after the 2016 campaign that allows users to mark a post as a ‘false news story,’ and if enough do, the post is sent to fact-checkers like PolitiFact, Snopes and Factcheck.org.”
          Following his recent experience with Facebook, Ford opined, “There is no question in my mind that Snopes and Facebook are biased against conservative-leaning content. It’s clear that this is the case. There are always going to be some people who misinterpret satire, but we were intentional from the get-go about not blurring the line between satire and misinformation.” He then astutely observed, “When this exact thing happens to smaller sites, or to people who are unable to make sufficient noise about it when it happens, what can they do? The answer is nothing. They’re out of luck.”
          Undeterred, on Friday the Bee published a satirical follow-up entitled “Facebook sends warm reminder to publishers that it is in complete control of their livelihood,” although this may be an instance of reality reflecting satire. Finally, a parting question: Who’s fact-checking the “fact-checkers”?  ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54534-facebo oks-fake-fact-checkers-bust-the-babylon-bee

Gowdy Sure IG Horowitz Can Do 

Sessions’ Job – Nothing To See Here 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ More than once over the past few months, and as recently as the end of January this year, Rep Trey Gowdy... urged Republicans to leave Robert Mueller “the hell alone.” He’s consistent, now stating in a national television interview that he’s got a lot of confidence in the DOJ Inspector General to hold Andrew McCabe accountable for leaks. Leaks are bad enough, but they are hardly the most egregious offense by Andrew McCabe, who led an attempted coup against President Trump. Is this some attempt to minimize the offenses, setting the table for a future plea deal of some sort and the continued obstruction of justice? Gowdy sounds great sometimes but there are more than a few instances where what he’s saying just doesn’t sound right. And it’s also worth noting that the IG has no prosecutorial powers. Why delay, bring in a special counsel and lets really get to the bottom of the whole liar-nObama/liar-Clinton/scum-Soros Mafia Septic Tank. After stating his confidence in Michael Horowitz, the Inspector General, Bartiromo asks, at the 2:46 mark of the video, if AG Sessions should be looking into the matters. It should be a simple matter, since the integrity of the Justice Department hangs in the balance and it has nothing to do with the very broad recusal Sessions has been hiding behind... https://rickwells.us/gowdy-ig-horowitz-sessions/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhXNyMa6pxo

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Sessions greenlights police to seize cash,

property from people suspected of 

crimes but not charged

by Sari Horwitz 

{ washingtonpost.com } ~ The Justice Department announced a new federal policy Wednesday to help state and local police take cash and property from people suspected of a crime... even without a criminal charge, reversing an liar-nObama administration rule prompted by past abuse by police. Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein said the Justice Department will include more safeguards to prevent the kind of problems that have been documented in the past. Police departments will be required to provide details to the Justice Department about probable cause for seizures, and federal officials will have to more quickly inform property owners about their rights and the status of the seizures. “The goal here is to empower our police and prosecutors with this important tool that can be used to combat crime, particularly drug abuse,” Rosenstein said at a news briefing. “This is going to enable us to work with local police and our prosecutors to make sure that when assets are lawfully seized that they’re not returned to criminals when there’s a valid basis for them to be forfeited.”...   https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/sessions-greenlights-police-to-increase-seizures-of-cash-and-property-from-suspected-criminals/2017/07/19/3522a9ba-6c99-11e7-96ab-5f38140b38cc_story.html?utm_term=.6d7cc21c7581 

Has The Deep State Weaponized 

The Security Clearance Process?

by Jeff Dunetz

{ lidblog.com } ~ Something strange is going on, executive branch personnel whose security clearance should have been granted months ago are still waiting for their clearance... The most public of these delays is the case of President Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner. Sean M. Bigley, a federal security clearance lawyer who represents several senior administration officials told the  Washington Times a “small group of career bureaucrats holed up in the Old Executive Office Building”  “turned security reviews into quicksand to ensnare President Trump’s team” “The security clearance process is being weaponized by anti-Trump bureaucrats who are using it as a tool to not only thwart the president’s agenda but to prevent him from installing appointees who will execute it,”...  https://lidblog.com/deep-state-weaponized-security-clearance/ 

Putin Says He Will ‘Never’ 

Extradite Russians Charged By Mueller 

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Russian President Vladimir Putin says he will “never” extradite a group of Russian nationals indicted... in February by special counsel Robert Mueller for interfering in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. Putin also denied that the Russian government was involved in election meddling, in an interview with NBC’s Megyn Kelly that aired Sunday, Kelly asked Putin about Mueller’s indictments of 13 Russian nationals who are accused of using fake personas to plant political ads and promote political rallies on American social media sites. Mueller issued indictments for the operatives as well as three companies involved in the effort. “I know that they do not represent the Russian state, the Russian authorities,” Putin told Kelly...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/04/putin-extradite-russians-mueller/?utm_medium=email

VIDEO at the site.

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How A Pathetic Republican Party Is Allowing ‘The Resistance’ To Run The Score — 

And The Government

by CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD

{ dailycaller.com } ~ Senate Republicans are heading toward midterm elections with control of their chamber and the biggest advantage any majority party has had since 1790... Yet every week, the Democrats are allowed to work just 2.5 days before returning home to duke it out with their Republican challengers. That is, Mitch McConnell is allowing Democrats to hit the campaign trail hard while obstructing 139 of the president’s nominees. In eight months, eight Republican seats and 26 Democratic seats are up for grabs. That’s less than one sixth of GOP seats, and more than half of Democrats’ seats, including 10 in states President Donald Trump won in 2016 — half of which by 10 or more points. While three Republicans’ seats will be open elections, every one of the Democrats’ seats is defended by a working senator, or at least should be. Instead of working, however, these senators are clocking into the office late on Monday, generally starting the work week Tuesday morning, and heading back to the trail Thursday, often before lunchtime... http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/04/mitch-mcconnell-senate-resistance-obstruction/?utm_medium=email
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by Derek Hunter 
{ townhall.com } ~ Democrats, in a feat of political exploitation unrivaled in the 21st century, are now using the kids from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School to sign fundraising emails. Part of me had hoped the party of grave-dancing would find using children in this way would be a bridge too far, but the rest of me knew they didn’t have it in them to be tactful, decent people. After all, every left-wing activist group had, one day after the shooting,  started sweeping into town to organize what they and their fellow travelers in the media all claimed was an “organic, grassroots” response to the tragedy. If they couldn’t wait 24 hours before attaching the marionette strings to those kids, the fact that they waited 2 weeks before attempting to use them to line their own pockets is as close to decency as they’re going to get.

With that in mind, and as liberals line up behind a shield made of children to march on the Second Amendment, it’s important to remember what happens when you attempt to compromise with people whose ultimate goal is your obliteration and why no amount of compromise will ever be enough.

There is an example from our recent past that shows how compromise works when it comes to big government liberals. It may not be perfect, and it isn’t pretty, but it is what happens when you accept the concept of diminishing the rights of innocent people over the actions of the guilty.

You have to dig in your heels and make clear you will never, ever acquiesce to their demands. This has been the tactic of the National Rifle Association when it comes to the Second Amendment, and it is the correct choice. But it hasn’t been the choice made by others in the past. 

One particular group that has seen “compromise” used as a way to strip them of their rights is smokers. Now smokers aren’t exactly a group of people who are going to elicit a lot of sympathy or concern from people (junkies, sure, but people who use a legal product are fair game when it comes to attack, which is weird). But what happened to smokers is a useful tool for illustrating why the American people should not compromise with liberals when it comes to one of our fundamental freedoms. 

Comedian and podcaster Adam Carolla has made this point many times on his show, so I can’t take credit for it. But it certainly exemplifies how a slope quickly becomes slippery and, if your interest is simply compromise, you can compromise your rights away.

To paraphrase Carolla, there was a time when you could smoke in restaurants. They are private property, and if the owner wanted to allow smoking, smoking was allowed. Then the government (liberals) decided smokers should be herded into their own area of a restaurant, the “smoking section.” So they went so smokers in the main dining room and said, “We’re going to need you to sit over here, in this side room You can smoke all you want, we just don’t want other people to smell it while they’re eating. You understand, right?”

Smokers, not wanting to cause a scene and knowing some non-smokers could be annoyed, happily complied. 

Then the government comes back and says, “We’re going to need you to move to the bar area when you smoke. People are drinking there, and eating here, so it’d just be better if you moved over there.”

Smokers picked up their ashtrays, “Sure thing,” they said, and moved to the bar.

The government comes back and says they need smokers to step out front. “If you could just stand out front and smoke, that would be much better for everyone, OK? Don’t worry, there’s an awning and a heater, so you’ll be protected from the weather.”

Smokers picked up and moved outside.

“If you could move 50 feet from the door, that would be very helpful,” the government said next. “People smell smoke as they walk in the door and we don’t want that. Thanks.”

And now smokers are stuck down the block, wet and wondering how this happened. If someone had come up to them at first and said, “Hey, get down the street if you want to smoke,” it never would have happened, they wouldn’t have stood for it. But little by little, inch by inch, they moved because each move was small and seemed like a compromise. 

Now smokers are never getting back inside, even if the owners of a bar or restaurant want them to. Their rights are gone, the private property rights of the owners are gone, and it was all done in the name of compromise.

There is no compromise with someone who doesn’t want you to exist, there is only incrementally losing ground until you no longer exist. A right diminished will never return, government does not cede back power once seized. 

The NRA is right to hold its ground, it’s why the organization exists in the first place. Liberals are not honest brokers when it comes to the issue of guns, and neither is the media. Trying to appease leftists never works because nothing short of everything they want is ever enough for them.

If people who support the Second Amendment start to compromise with liberals whose ultimate goal is to strip everyone of their right to defend themselves, it won’t be too long before they’re out on the street in the rain with the smokers. Never give them an inch.

Trade Director Expects Establishment Tools 

to Slither Out Of Swamp To Oppose Tariffs 

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by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Maria Bartiromo should know better than to use Orrin Hatch, who was the point man in the Senate... for the establishment sellout of America in every regard that was TPP, under Hussein liar-nObama, as an example of the opposition to the tariffs on steel and aluminum President Trump will put in place. She also should know that Senator Ben Sasse is a never-Trumper who is, like Hatch, also an establishment US Chamber of Commerce tool and one who has opposed virtually every action taken by President Trump. Hatch, who was marshaling under TPP an effort to surrender US sovereignty and establish a separate, un-appealable and secret legal system to benefit corporations, most of whom would be foreign and who also supported turning over our immigration law writing to the majority vote of other TPP member nations, has the nerve to say that President Trump “is getting some bad advice.”...  https://rickwells.us/establishment-swamp-tariffs/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hwVnbygjHw

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Comparing America to Israel on gun 

laws is dishonest – and revealing

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by HAVIV RETTIG GUR

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Israelis are well-armed, of course, but any similarity to conservative Americans masks a fundamental difference... In Israel, guns are tightly controlled and carefully tracked by the state. Israelis must meet a detailed list of criteria (Hebrew link)  to be allowed to own a firearm. They must ask the state for a license, are permitted only one gun at a time, and must even ask for permission to sell their gun. And the Firearms Licensing Department is no rubber stamp: Roughly 40 percent of requests are rejected. Indeed, before even requesting a license, Israelis must meet minimum age requirements, be in good health and of sound mind, and have no criminal record, among other preconditions...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/comparing-america-to-israel-on-gun-laws-is-dishonest-and-revealing/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=e45bcd9737-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_WEEKEND_2018_03_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-e45bcd9737-54638825 

Trump the Deal-maker and the Middle East

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by Amir Taheri

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Casting himself as the best friend Israel could hope for, President Donald Trump is promising... some may say threatening, to unveil his grand plan for a peace "deal" to end the so-called "Middle East problem". Trump has always fancied himself as a deal-maker; he has even written a book on the subject. It is, therefore, no surprise that he might want to put his skill to use on an issue which has defied numerous deal-makers for six decades. What are the chances of him succeeding? The short answer is: nil! This is no reflection on Trump's talent for deal-making. The problem with the "Middle East problem" is that those who tried to solve it never managed to define it and, as a result, sacrificed the existential reality on the ground to the essential abstraction of elusive ideals...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11981/trump-middle-east-deal 

Colorado Democrat expelled over sexual misconduct allegations in historic 52-9 vote

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by Jeffrey M. Frank 

{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ For the first time in more than a century, Colorado lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to expel one of their colleagues... a Democrat, from office. Colorado state Rep. Steve Lebsock became the latest victim of the #MeToo movement when fellow Democrats led the effort to have him removed over at least five sexual harassment allegations...  https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/sex-scandals/colorado-lawmaker-expelled-office.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=ci1&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=ci1

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8QWY-Hunjo

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Just Because liar-nObama Wasn’t 

Embarrassed Doesn’t Mean His Scandals 

Aren’t Many and Huge 

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by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Hussein liar-nObama opened up his big lie dispenser recently... when he told an audience of libtards that he hadn’t been embarrassed by any scandals during his administration. Not being embarrassed by scandals is quite a different thing from not having any. liar-nObama is shameless and beyond his ability to manipulate us for his and his cronies’ advantage, couldn’t care less what we think. A video detailing all of the scandals of the liar-n Obama regime would require several days of uninterrupted viewing to take it all in. They did a good job of hitting some of the more egregious instances. It refreshes Hussein liar-nObama’s choom-fogged and propaganda distorted memory, starting off with Fast and Furious. They incorrectly label it as a gun-walking project intended to track where the weapons end up and how they got there rather than the actual arming of their cartel business partners that it was. We weren’t supposed to find out it happened and we still haven’t gotten verification of what scum-Holder and liar-nObama were doing, but hopefully, once Sessions and Rosenstein are out of the way, we will... 

https://rickwells.us/obama-embarrassed-scandals/

VIDEO:  https://www.facebook.com/whitehousebrief/videos/1562988943778246/

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{ wnd.com } ~ President Trump is standing up for the forgotten men and women Washington has ignored, insulted and immiserated.

President Trump announced he will impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to save thousands of good paying Americans jobs and prevent the extinction of vital American industries.

This comes after President Trump began renegotiating NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. The elites in Washington and academia told us this deal would remake Mexico into a middle class society, end illegal immigration and boost exports of American products to our neighbor to the south.

They were wrong on all counts: Since NAFTA was adopted 25 years ago, Mexico is on its way to becoming a failed narco-state, illegal immigration has soared and so has our trade deficit with that country.

The same no-think experts who were wrong about NAFTA also told us trade with China would create 1 and a half billion new capitalists. As China grew more prosperous, it would become a democratic and reliable ally of the U.S.

Instead, China has stolen technology, jobs and entire industries from the U.S. It has dumped basic commodities such as steel on world markets to drive competitors into bankruptcy. Beijing’s communist regime used its growing wealth to build a totalitarian surveillance system and a mighty military machine.

President Trump is the first leader to discard failed fantasies and recognize reality: China is not our friend – it is determined to become the world’s No. 2 industrial and military power on earth.

His action on aluminum and steel imports recognizes another reality: America’s national security flows from our economic strength – and our economic strength requires healthy manufacturing industries.

The president’s critics say the steel tariffs will lead to an imminent collapse of world trade. Just as they were wrong about NAFTA and wrong about China, they are wrong again.

The “Section 232” law giving the president the power to impose tariffs also gives him the power to grant exemptions to companies that have a legitimate need to import steel or aluminum for any reason.

Trump’s tough stance also gives him more bargaining power in the NAFTA renegotiation. Mexico has asked Washington to exclude it from any steel tariffs. Mexico could cooperate with Washington in the NAFTA talks, and American companies in the southwest using Mexican steel could be granted waivers.

President Trump has yet another opportunity to save good paying industrial jobs in the U.S. by reforming a well-intentioned but poorly designed renewable fuel program that is driving independent refineries into bankruptcy.

The EPA mandates burning increasing amounts of ethanol, a biofuel made from corn. Washington wants to boost ethanol use, but it doesn’t count ethanol exports toward the goal.

An honest accounting system that includes American ethanol exported onto the world market would save jobs in the industrial heartland, support commodity prices in the corn belt and reduce the trade deficit.

That’s a trifecta.

Trade Director Expects Establishment Tools 

to Slither Out Of Swamp To Oppose Tariffs 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Maria Bartiromo should know better than to use Orrin Hatch, who was the point man in the Senate... for the establishment sellout of America in every regard that was TPP, under Hussein liar-nObama, as an example of the opposition to the tariffs on steel and aluminum President Trump will put in place. She also should know that Senator Ben Sasse is a never-Trumper who is, like Hatch, also an establishment US Chamber of Commerce tool and one who has opposed virtually every action taken by President Trump. Hatch, who was marshaling under TPP an effort to surrender US sovereignty and establish a separate, un-appealable and secret legal system to benefit corporations, most of whom would be foreign and who also supported turning over our immigration law writing to the majority vote of other TPP member nations, has the nerve to say that President Trump “is getting some bad advice.”...  https://rickwells.us/establishment-swamp-tariffs/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hwVnbygjHw

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Comparing America to Israel on gun 

laws is dishonest – and revealing

by HAVIV RETTIG GUR

{ timesofisrael.com } ~ Israelis are well-armed, of course, but any similarity to conservative Americans masks a fundamental difference... In Israel, guns are tightly controlled and carefully tracked by the state. Israelis must meet a detailed list of criteria (Hebrew link)  to be allowed to own a firearm. They must ask the state for a license, are permitted only one gun at a time, and must even ask for permission to sell their gun. And the Firearms Licensing Department is no rubber stamp: Roughly 40 percent of requests are rejected. Indeed, before even requesting a license, Israelis must meet minimum age requirements, be in good health and of sound mind, and have no criminal record, among other preconditions...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/comparing-america-to-israel-on-gun-laws-is-dishonest-and-revealing/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=e45bcd9737-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_WEEKEND_2018_03_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-e45bcd9737-54638825 

Trump the Deal-maker and the Middle East

by Amir Taheri

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Casting himself as the best friend Israel could hope for, President Donald Trump is promising... some may say threatening, to unveil his grand plan for a peace "deal" to end the so-called "Middle East problem". Trump has always fancied himself as a deal-maker; he has even written a book on the subject. It is, therefore, no surprise that he might want to put his skill to use on an issue which has defied numerous deal-makers for six decades. What are the chances of him succeeding? The short answer is: nil! This is no reflection on Trump's talent for deal-making. The problem with the "Middle East problem" is that those who tried to solve it never managed to define it and, as a result, sacrificed the existential reality on the ground to the essential abstraction of elusive ideals...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11981/trump-middle-east-deal 

Colorado Democrat expelled over sexual

misconduct allegations in historic 52-9 vote

by Jeffrey M. Frank 

{ conservativeinstitute.org } ~ For the first time in more than a century, Colorado lawmakers voted overwhelmingly to expel one of their colleagues... a Democrat, from office. Colorado state Rep. Steve Lebsock became the latest victim of the #MeToo movement when fellow Democrats led the effort to have him removed over at least five sexual harassment allegations...   https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/sex-scandals/colorado-lawmaker-expelled-office.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=ci1&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=ci1

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8QWY-Hunjo

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Just Because liar-nObama Wasn’t 

Embarrassed Doesn’t Mean His Scandals 

Aren’t Many and Huge 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Hussein liar-nObama opened up his big lie dispenser recently... when he told an audience of libtards that he hadn’t been embarrassed by any scandals during his administration. Not being embarrassed by scandals is quite a different thing from not having any. liar-nObama is shameless and beyond his ability to manipulate us for his and his cronies’ advantage, couldn’t care less what we think. A video detailing all of the scandals of the liar-n Obama regime would require several days of uninterrupted viewing to take it all in. They did a good job of hitting some of the more egregious instances. It refreshes Hussein liar-nObama’s choom-fogged and propaganda distorted memory, starting off with Fast and Furious. They incorrectly label it as a gun-walking project intended to track where the weapons end up and how they got there rather than the actual arming of their cartel business partners that it was. We weren’t supposed to find out it happened and we still haven’t gotten verification of what scum-Holder and liar-nObama were doing, but hopefully, once Sessions and Rosenstein are out of the way, we will... 

https://rickwells.us/obama-embarrassed-scandals/

VIDEO:  https://www.facebook.com/whitehousebrief/videos/1562988943778246/

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{ wnd.com } ~ President Trump is standing up for the forgotten men and women Washington has ignored, insulted and immiserated.

President Trump announced he will impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to save thousands of good paying Americans jobs and prevent the extinction of vital American industries.

This comes after President Trump began renegotiating NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement. The elites in Washington and academia told us this deal would remake Mexico into a middle class society, end illegal immigration and boost exports of American products to our neighbor to the south.

They were wrong on all counts: Since NAFTA was adopted 25 years ago, Mexico is on its way to becoming a failed narco-state, illegal immigration has soared and so has our trade deficit with that country.

The same no-think experts who were wrong about NAFTA also told us trade with China would create 1 and a half billion new capitalists. As China grew more prosperous, it would become a democratic and reliable ally of the U.S.

Instead, China has stolen technology, jobs and entire industries from the U.S. It has dumped basic commodities such as steel on world markets to drive competitors into bankruptcy. Beijing’s communist regime used its growing wealth to build a totalitarian surveillance system and a mighty military machine.

President Trump is the first leader to discard failed fantasies and recognize reality: China is not our friend – it is determined to become the world’s No. 2 industrial and military power on earth.

His action on aluminum and steel imports recognizes another reality: America’s national security flows from our economic strength – and our economic strength requires healthy manufacturing industries.

The president’s critics say the steel tariffs will lead to an imminent collapse of world trade. Just as they were wrong about NAFTA and wrong about China, they are wrong again.

The “Section 232” law giving the president the power to impose tariffs also gives him the power to grant exemptions to companies that have a legitimate need to import steel or aluminum for any reason.

Trump’s tough stance also gives him more bargaining power in the NAFTA renegotiation. Mexico has asked Washington to exclude it from any steel tariffs. Mexico could cooperate with Washington in the NAFTA talks, and American companies in the southwest using Mexican steel could be granted waivers.

President Trump has yet another opportunity to save good paying industrial jobs in the U.S. by reforming a well-intentioned but poorly designed renewable fuel program that is driving independent refineries into bankruptcy.

The EPA mandates burning increasing amounts of ethanol, a biofuel made from corn. Washington wants to boost ethanol use, but it doesn’t count ethanol exports toward the goal.

An honest accounting system that includes American ethanol exported onto the world market would save jobs in the industrial heartland, support commodity prices in the corn belt and reduce the trade deficit.

That’s a trifecta.

Trump Announces Tough-on-Crime 

Nominees to Sentencing Commission 

by Charles Fain Lehman

President Donald Trump on Thursday announced four new nominees to the United States Sentencing Commission (USSC), at least two of whom... if confirmed, would bring a tough-on-crime attitude to the federal government's sentencing advisory body. Established in 1984, the USSC is responsible for promulgating non-binding guidelines for the sentencing of federal offenders, with an eye toward reducing disparities in sentences under the previously more-discretionary system. Commissioners are responsible for defining the guidelines. One nominee is Judge Henry E. Hudson, a U.S. district judge for the Eastern District of Virginia, a position he has held since his 2002 appointment by President George W. Bush. Nicknamed "Hang ‘Em High" Henry, Hudson is an infamously tough-on-crime judge who comes equipped with conservative bona fides such as his chairmanship of President Ronald Reagan's national commission on pornography, which connected porn to violence...  http://freebeacon.com/issues/trump-announces-tough-crime-nominees-sentencing-commission/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=22242d4d3d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-22242d4d3d-45611665

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School Districts Contemplate Allowing

Teachers to Carry Concealed Guns 

by Haris Alic

In the wake of the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, earlier this month... Democratic lawmakers and gun-control advocates have argued that a full ban on "assault-style" weapons and high-capacity magazines is the only way to ensure the safety of children in educational institutions, but school administrators across the country have other ideas in mind. Some school districts have already implemented, and more are now considering, giving teachers and other employees the option to carry a concealed weapon on school grounds. The Federal Gun-Free School Zones Act, passed in 1990 and signed by then-President George H.W. Bush, made it unlawful for individuals to knowingly carry loaded or unsecured firearms within 1,000 feet of a school zone. The law—which applies to public, private, and parochial institutions—included a provision to allow firearms on school premises if they are used in a program approved by the school board or are in accordance with a contract entered into between a school and an individual or an employer of the individual. That section of the bill has sparked the interest of school administrators in finding innovative alternatives to ensuring the safety of students and employees, while not undermining the budgetary commitments their institutions have to provide a quality education...   http://freebeacon.com/issues/school-districts-contemplate-allowing-teachers-carry-concealed-guns/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=22242d4d3d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-22242d4d3d-45611665 

The Powerful Global Spy 

Alliance You Never Knew Existed

by Ryan Gallagher

IT IS ONE of the world’s most powerful alliances. And yet most people have probably never heard of it... because its existence is a closely guarded government secret. The “SIGINT Seniors” is a spy agency coalition that meets annually to collaborate on global security issues. It has two divisions, each focusing on different parts of the world: SIGINT Seniors Europe and SIGINT Seniors Pacific. Both are led by the U.S. National Security Agency, and together they include representatives from at least 17 other countries. Members of the group are from spy agencies that eavesdrop on communications – a practice known as “signals intelligence,” or SIGINT. Details about the meetings of the SIGINT Seniors are disclosed in a batch of classified documents from the NSA’s internal newsletter SIDToday, provided by whistleblower Edward Snowden and published today by The Intercept. The documents shine light on the secret history of the coalition, the issues that the participating agencies have focused on in recent years, and the systems that allow allied countries to share sensitive surveillance data with each other...  https://theintercept.com/2018/03/01/nsa-global-surveillance-sigint-seniors/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=26982098db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_03_03&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-26982098db-131896129 

by DAVID LIMBAUGH

{ wnd.com } ~ Upon hearing that former President Barack liar-nObama recently boasted that he had a scandal-free administration, my first thought after regaining my faculties was: How can I possibly cram all the evidence refuting this in a little bitty column?

Then I read that what he actually said was, “We didn’t have a scandal that embarrassed us.” At first blush, that sounds better, right? Because I assume he doesn’t mean he’s incapable of being embarrassed. After a little more thought, though, it occurred to me that this construction just highlights the real reason he has apparently deluded himself into thinking he served eight honorable years: The liberal media had his back the entire time, even when he treated them like dirt.

In fact, liar-nObama was a perpetual power-abusing machine. He was so routinely high-handed and selectively contemptuous of the rule of law that people were beginning to think presidential authoritarianism was the new normal. How ironic that so many of liar-nObama’s enablers are now projecting these sins onto President Trump, who – to this point, at least – hasn’t actually crossed the line into flouting the Constitution. The left believes – and acts on the belief – that the ends justify the means, and so, it naturally assumes we will do the same. liar-nObama was hell-bent on fundamentally transforming America as founded, and he was willing to scratch, bite, kick, steal and flush the rule of law to accomplish it – and he did, like no president before him. In other words, liar-nObama’s lies were OK because lies are sometimes necessary for the greater good.

For your review, let me just give you a list of examples, many of them snatched from my two liar-nObama books, which chronicled his two disgraceful terms. Not all technically qualify as scandals, but enough do.

Benghazi: In addition to the scandalous betrayal and death of our people, liar-nObama and his cohorts concocted and disseminated the lie that the attack on our mission was caused by an anti-Muslim video. Later, Judicial Watch obtained a smoking-gun email from top-level liar-nObama aid Ben Rhodes, sent to a dozen members of 

Dobbs, Gaetz – Sessions Incapacitated,

Disengaged Front Man For Rosenstein 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Lou Dobbs built upon information about Attorney General Jeff Sessions provided by Rep Matt Gaetz (R-FL)... who revealed he has met with the figurehead AG and that his conduct and level of awareness were consistent with President Trump’s description of Sessions as Mr. Magoo. Gaetz described the meeting, saying, “I did sit down with the Attorney General along with Judiciary chair Bob Goodlatte [R-Va.] and many others and I was disappointed that the Attorney General didn’t seem to be very engaged on any of these issues regarding existential threats to the Trump administration. He was deferring to a team that answered to Rod Rosenstein, for goodness sakes.” Of course Rod Rosenstein is the last guy who should be running the Department of Justice, given the evidence that he is severely compromised and heavily involved in the Mueller effort to evict President Trump from the White House. Yet Sessions seemed clueless and was leaving policy and prosecution decisions to the enemy...  https://rickwells.us/dobbs-gaetz-sessions-rosenstein/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BADtYton1gk

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A Judge Just Exposed Secret About 

Russia The FBI Wanted To Keep Buried 

by greatamericandaily.com 

{ greatamericandaily.com } ~ 18 months of federal investigations have produced zero evidence of collusion with Russia... But there are piles of evidence that the FBI’s conduct is the real scandal. The FBI was so consumed with trying to tip the election to liar-Clinton and then ruining Trump’s Presidency that they let the alleged Russian meddling slip right under their noses. Fox News Legal analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano blamed former Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director James Comey for failing to stop Russian election interference and said it all occurred on former President Barack liar-nObama's watch. The NSA is so thorough in it's listening to conversations and capturing emails. Why didn't they capture this, Napolitano asked. Why didn't they FBI know about what was going on? If you know, Jim Comey, that this is happening - why did't you stop it?! This happened on liar-nObama's watch, he said...  http://greatamericandaily.com/secret-about-russia-fbi-wanted-to-keep-buried/ 

West Los Angeles VA finally 

returning to homeless mission

by Ken Olsen

{ legion.org } ~ Veterans will have access to permanent supportive housing, free legal assistance, family counseling and innovative mental health treatment... under a new plan for the West Los Angeles VA Medical Center campus announced Thursday. Many of the new services will be funded or staffed by UCLA under an agreement that allows its baseball stadium to remain on VA property but allows veterans to use the facility. VA Secretary Robert McDonald and attorney Ron Olson announced the plan, which is part of last year’s legal settlement between veterans and the VA, at the West Los Angeles campus. “It’s with the strength of our partnerships and the momentum from the last year that allows me to announce today that we have finalized the master plan for the future use of VA’s 388 acres here in LA,” McDonald said. “Veterans of Los Angeles deserve a VA campus that can be a home for those who need one or a home away from home for those who come here for their medical care.”...   https://www.legion.org/homelessveterans/230977/west-los-angeles-va-finally-returning-homeless-mission?utm_source=deployer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=corruption+chronicles&utm_term=members&utm_content=20180303212918 

Chairman Devin Nunes 

Interview With Neil Cavuto

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes interview with Fox News Host Neil Cavuto to discuss the ongoing FISA abuse investigation... Chairman Nunes highlights two key issues:  #1) The risk to the Democrats in having their use of a politically weaponized FBI and DOJ exposed; and #2) It is against the interests of the U.S. media to highlight the alarming investigative discoveries, because the media participated in pushing the narrative which aided the weaponization.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/03/chairman-devin-nunes-interview-with-neil-cavuto/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSPmr4FqaMo

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Gregg Jarrett Rips AWOL Jeff Sessions: Did 

He Approve His Announcement with

Rod Rosenstein First? 

by Jim Hoft

{ thegatewaypundit.com } ~ On Tuesday Attorney General Jeff Sessions shocked the world when he told reporters the Department of Justice will open an investigation into FISA abuses... after liar-nObama’s FBI, DOJ used liar-Hillary’s phony dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to spy on the Trump campaign. On Tuesday night Gregg Jarrett asked if Sessions OK’ed the announcement with his boss Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.  http://thegatewaypundit.com/2018/02/gregg-jarrett-rips-awol-jeff-sessions-approve-announcement-rod-rosenstein-first-video/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5zBYpEyiIM

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by Pat Buchanan 
{ townhall.com } ~ "We got China wrong. Now what?" ran the headline over the column in The Washington Post.

"Remember how American engagement with China was going to make that communist backwater more like the democratic, capitalist West?" asked Charles Lane in his opening sentence.

America's elites believed that economic engagement and the opening of U.S. markets would cause the People's Republic to coexist benignly with its neighbors and the West.

We deluded ourselves. It did not happen.

Xi Jinping just changed China's constitution to allow him to be dictator for life. He continues to thieve intellectual property from U.S. companies and to occupy and fortify islets in the South China Sea, which Beijing now claims as entirely its own.

Meanwhile, China sustains North Korea as Chinese warplanes and warships circumnavigate Taiwan threatening its independence.

We today confront a Chinese Communist dictatorship and superpower that seeks to displace America as first power on earth, and to drive the U.S. military back across the Pacific.

Who is responsible for this epochal blunder?

The elites of both parties. Bush Republicans from the 1990s granted China most-favored-nation status and threw open America's market.

Result: China has run up $4 trillion in trade surpluses with the United States. Her $375 billion trade surplus with us in 2017 far exceeded the entire Chinese defense budget.

We fed the tiger, and created a monster.

Why? What is in the mind of Western man that our leaders continue to adopt policies rooted in hopes unjustified by reality?

Recall. Stalin was a murderous tyrant unrivaled in history whose victims in 1939 were 1,000 times those of Adolf Hitler, with whom he eagerly partnered in return for the freedom to rape the Baltic States and bite off half of Poland.

When Hitler turned on Stalin, the Bolshevik butcher rushed to the West for aid. Churchill and FDR hailed him in encomiums that would have made Pericles blush. At Yalta, Churchill rose to toast the butcher:

"I walk through this world with greater courage and hope when I find myself in a relation of friendship and intimacy with this great man, whose fame has gone out not only over all Russia, but the world. ... We regard Marshal Stalin's life as most precious to the hopes and hearts of all of us."

Returning home, Churchill assured a skeptical Parliament, "I know of no Government which stands to its obligations, even in its own despite, more solidly than the Russian Soviet Government."

George W. Bush, with the U.S. establishment united behind him, invaded Iraq with the goal of creating a Vermont in the Middle East that would be a beacon of democracy to the Arab and Islamic world.

Ex-Director of the NSA Gen. William Odom correctly called the U.S. invasion the greatest strategic blunder in American history. But Bush, un-chastened, went on to preach a crusade for democracy with the goal of "ending tyranny in our world."

What is the root of these astounding beliefs -- that Stalin would be a partner for peace, that if we built up Mao's China she would become benign and benevolent, that we could reshape Islamic nations into replicas of Western democracies, that we could eradicate tyranny?

Today, we are replicating these historic follies.

After our victory in the Cold War, we not only plunged into the Middle East to remake it in our image, we issued war guarantees to every ex-member state of the Warsaw Pact, and threatened Russia with war if she ever intervened again in the Baltic Republics.

No Cold War president would have dreamed of issuing such an in-your-face challenge to a great nuclear power like Russia.

If Putin's Russia does not become the pacifist nation it has never been, these guarantees will one day be called. And America will either back down -- or face a nuclear confrontation.

Why would we risk something like this?

Consider this crazed ideology of free trade globalism with its roots in the scribblings of 19th-century idiot savants, not one of whom ever built a great nation.

Adhering religiously to free trade dogma, we have run up $12 trillion in trade deficits since Bush I. Our cities have been gutted by the loss of plants and factories. Workers' wages have stagnated. The economic independence Hamilton sought and Republican presidents from Lincoln to McKinley achieved is history.

But the greatest risk we are taking, based on utopianism, is the annual importation of well over a million legal and illegal immigrants, many from the failed states of the Third World, in the belief we can create a united, peaceful and harmonious land of 400 million, composed of every race, religion, ethnicity, tribe, creed, culture and language on earth.

Where is the historic evidence for the success of this experiment, the failure of which could mean the end of America as one nation and one people?

Farrell – Sessions, Crooked FBI and DOJ Rapidly

Pushing America To Constitutional Crisis 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Lou Dobbs can barely hide his fury at the arrogant statement by the FBI... in their defense of covering up information that would further expose their seemingly boundless corruption. The documents involve secret meetings between James Comey and Hussein liar-nObama, meetings that Comey has already lied about to Congress. Dobbs quotes a portion of the FBI statement which says, “Such information is not a matter of widespread and exceptional media interest in which there exists possible questions about the government’s integrity which affects public confidence.” “If you had any doubt about the corruption of the FBI,” says Dobbs, “that statement alone should answer all of your questions.” In greeting his guest, Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch, Dobbs says, “Let’s start with just the idea that the FBI would have the guts to put out such a statement and there isn’t a reaction from Congress.”... https://rickwells.us/farrell-fbi-doj-dems-crisis/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGbd7ketEM0

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NRA Boycotting Companies 

Are Crashing and Burning

by Onan Coca

{ lidblog.com } ~ In the wake of the horrible mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas... the left quickly moved to blame the National Rifle Association (NRA) for the violence, and have been pushing for a  NRA boycott. Why? The NRA is among the most famous conservative organizations in America, and they specifically defend every Americans’ 2nd Amendment right to keep and bear arms. For this reason, the NRA has always been a target of the left, and will likely continue to be a target for as long as they continue to fight for our liberty. However, the reality is that the NRA has nothing to do with such terrible crimes as the shooting we saw at Douglas High School. The NRA is actually a collection of some 5 – 14 million American citizens who spend their money and their time defending every Americans’ liberty. This truth hasn’t done anything to slow the hatred and vitriol being spewed by the left... https://lidblog.com/nra-boycott-companies-crashing-burning/ 

Why Does the Advocacy 

Fund Hide Its Tides Funding? 

by Hayden Ludwig 

{ capitalresearch.org } ~ The Tides Foundation is an undeniable heavyweight in so-called “dark money”... an expert in giving away donors’ money causes without revealing the source of its grants. It’s also the philanthropoid Left’s best-kept secret. Tides was founded in the mid-1970s by San Francisco antiwar activist Drummond Pike, who also founded a number of social justice-tinged organizations across the Bay Area. Since its inception, Tides has moved billions of dollars through its various finely-tuned charity machines known as “donor-advised funds,” or DAFs. DAFs operate like a savings account for donors; donors deposit funds, then choose the leftist groups the Tides Foundations supports with those funds. There are similar giving vehicles, like Vanguard Charitable or Fidelity Charitable, that do not have any ideological leanings, and others, like DonorsTrust, that are commonly used by right-of-center funders. One of Tides’ more successful ventures is the Advocacy Fund formerly the Tides Advocacy Fund. Unlike its 501(c)(3) cousin, the Advocacy Fund is classified by the IRS as a 501(c)(4) social welfare organization, freeing it to lobby for “high impact legislative and political campaigns,” according to its website. And it’s very successful—as of 2015, federal filings reveal $10.2 million in functional expenses and $9.6 in annual revenues, with grants going to organizations such as the Sierra Club and the League of Conservation Voters... https://capitalresearch.org/article/why-does-the-advocacy-fund-hide-its-tides-funding/?blm_aid=73364
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Will This Woman Be the Next White 

House Communications Director? 

by Katie Pavlich

{ townhall.com } ~ Now that Hope Hicks has officially announced she will be leaving her position as White House Communications Director... rumors are swirling in Washington D.C. about who will replace her. The name at the top of the list? White House Director of Strategic Communications Mercedes Schlapp. "She loves her job. She's challenged by her job. The president is respectful to her. She loves the environment in which she works. She's having a blast even though it is awfully tough. And when she comes home at night, I give her a cocktail. That's my job," Schlapp told MSNBC's Hallie Jackson. "She's going to be very open to anything the president wants her to do."...  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2018/03/02/will-this-woman-be-the-next-white-house-communications-director-n2456160?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad= 

Secretary Wilbur Ross Talks Trade 

and Tariffs With Lou Dobbs…

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross appeared on Fox Business with Lou Dobbs earlier tonight for a discussion of Steel and Aluminum tariffs and ongoing U.S. trade initiatives.   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/02/secretary-wilbur-ross-talks-trade-and-tariffs-with-lou-dobbs/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4WROUGiAgn8

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Big Mama Globalist Condoleezza Rice

Spanks Baby Bobble-Head scum-Adam Schiff

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ There’s a pecking order in the globalist, establishment uniparty, and Condoleezza Rice demonstrated on Thursday’s edition of “The View,”... that she and Robert Mueller are on the top and that scum-Adam Schiff is an ankle biter. She’s encouraging him to find a different tree to bark up. She turned the always smug Bobble-Head’s smirk into a picture of humiliation in a matter of seconds. But it’s much more than a simple matter of Rice’s superior intellect and testosterone levels. Perhaps she’s paving the way for scum-Schiff and his inquisitors to head off in another direction with the Russia, Russia, Russia now obviously going nowhere. It’s pointing back at the deep state and swamp creatures so it’s time to move elsewhere. Maybe she’s helping to set the stage for Mueller to enter the next phase, having used the false premise of Russia as a foot in the door, a means to get into the Trump business activity, the original plan of attack, and is now, with her strong endorsement of Mueller, giving them room to make that transition... https://rickwells.us/globalist-rice-schiff-place/ 

Russians Bragged About 10 Spies Assigned 

to liar-Clinton; Mueller, McCabe, and 

Rosenstein Helped Cover It Up 

by C. Mitchell Shaw 

{ thenewamerican.com } ~ The Uranium One scandal is the gift that keeps on giving: Each new revelation continues to show more and more just how deep the rabbit hole of liar-Clinton corruption goes... An FBI informant has informed several congressional committees that during liar-Hillary Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state and leading up to her approval of the deal that handed over control of at least 20 percent of U.S. uranium reserves to Russia, Moscow assigned 10 spies in the United States to cozy up to liar-Clinton to guarantee the deal. And when it came to the attention of the FBI, liar-Clinton had some big names help keep it under wraps. Coming in the midst of the Battle of the Memos — with the House Intelligence Committee releasing both a Republican memo detailing FISA abuses by the DOJ and FBI as part of those agencies’ spying on the Trump campaign and a Democratic memo attempting to dispute those claims — this revelation shines a new light on the question of just who was “Putin’s puppet.” liar-Clinton claimed during her failed presidential campaign that Trump was beholden to Moscow and she received the gleeful help of the liberal mainstream media and the intelligence establishment in spreading that claim. It now seems clear — because of both the lack of anything resembling evidence that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia and the fact that the Russian spies assigned to liar-Hillarly Clinton appear to have succeeded in their task — that it was liar-Hillary Clinton and not Donald Trump who was beholden to Moscow...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28395-russians-bragged-about-10-spies-assigned-to-clinton-mueller-mccabe-and-rosenstein-helped-cover-it-up 

Insider Ed Butowsky: Seth Rich’s Father

Confirmed His Son Was the Wikileaks Leaker

by Cassandra Fairbanks 

{ thegatewaypundit.com } ~ Ed Butowsky, the man who offered to assist the family of Seth Rich with the cost of hiring a private investigator... has told the Gateway Pundit that during a December 2016 conversation with the father of the slain staffer he confirmed that he “knew what his sons did.” Butowsky further stated that the family was deeply concerned with their son being remembered for helping to get President Donald Trump elected. Speaking to Butowsky by phone on Thursday evening, he told the Gateway Pundit that during a conversation with Joel Rich on December 17, 2016 at 3:17 p.m., the father stated “we know what our sons did, but we just want to find Seth’s killer.”...   http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/03/insider-ed-butowsky-seth-richs-father-told-knew-sons/
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Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross

Discusses Steel Tariffs: “People Are

Exaggerating Considerably”

Lidblog@optonline.net

 

DOJ Inspector General Report Expected To Sanction Andrew McCabe 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9nXGxvYL3V8

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Is Trump’s Plan For Tariffs Just A Bargaining Chip

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Rep. Nunes Makes Demands From AG Jeff Sessions On Dossier, FISA Warrants

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXZBpbJ5x64

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Eric Bolling Shares The Story Of His Son’s Death From An Accidental Overdose

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYcQ6mF1dZc

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by Cal Thomas 
{ townhall.com } ~ Of all the promises candidate Donald Trump made during the 2016 presidential campaign, none will be more difficult to fulfill than cutting the size and cost of the federal government. That's because Congress, which must decide whether to keep a federal agency, has the final word in such matters and spending, especially spending in one's home state or district, is what keeps so many of them in office. Who doubts that self-preservation is the primary objective of most members of Congress?

Ronald Reagan made similar promises about reducing the size of the bloated federal government, but was unable to fulfill them because of congressional intransigence. Perhaps his most notable failure was attempting to eliminate the Department of Education, an unnecessary Cabinet-level agency created by Jimmy Carter, reportedly as the fulfillment of a campaign promise to the National Education Association (NEA), the largest labor union in the United States, which backed him in the 1976 and 1980 elections. This pithy statement by Reagan got to the heart of the issue: "No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

President Trump has asked every federal agency to submit a reorganization plan to the White House. Some programs, like the U.S. Geological Survey's (USGS) Biological Survey Unit (BSU), are decades old. The BSU was established in 1885, and among its tasks is the preservation of the whooping crane. Last I checked those birds seemed to be doing OK, but why is this, along with so many other things, a responsibility of the federal government?

Reorganization of these outmoded and unnecessary programs and agencies should not be the goal. Elimination should be the goal. Unless they are killed off, the risk of their return is likely.

What's needed is a strategy that shames Congress, which sometimes seems beyond shame, for misspending the people's money. What will help in that shaming is for the president to establish an independent commission made up of retired Republicans, Democrats and average citizens. This commission would conduct a top-to-bottom audit of the federal government and present its findings to Congress, while simultaneously releasing them to the public, which would then apply pressure on Congress to adopt them.

The commission would be modeled after the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) of the '80s, which eliminated military bases that were no longer needed for the defense of the country. Some members of Congress complained about BRAC, but in the end they could not justify maintaining the bases.

The president might want to start with some of these ridiculous programs recently highlighted by Thomas A. Schatz, president of Citizens Against Government Waste, a private, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization whose mission it is "to eliminate waste, fraud, abuse and mismanagement in government."

"Without authorization," notes Schatz, "the feds spent $19.6 million annually on the International Fund for Ireland. Sounds like a noble cause, but the money went for projects like pony-trekking centers and golf videos.

"Congressional budget-cutters spared the $440,000 spent annually to have attendants push buttons on the fully automated Capitol Hill elevators used by representatives and senators.

"Last year, the National Endowment for the Humanities spent $4.2 million to conduct a nebulous 'National Conversation on Pluralism and Identity.' Obviously, talk radio wasn't considered good enough.

"The Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency channeled some $11 million to psychics who might provide special insights about various foreign threats. This was the disappointing 'Stargate' program."

The list goes on and on. Go to cagw.org, read all about it and remember it's our money paying for these boondoggles definition: "a project funded by the federal government out of political favoritism that is of no real value to the community or the nation" that helps keep our free-spending career politicians in office where they get benefits the rest of us can only dream about.

Yes, entitlements are the main drivers of debt and they, too, need reform. But starting with programs most people would find outrageous and worthy of elimination is a good way to build confidence and make the tackling of entitlements more palatable.

Former French Presidential Candidate 

Le Pen Charged With Crime For Exposing ISIS 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Marine Le Pen, who lost the election for President of France last year to Emmanuel Macron... is facing potential jail time for exposing the truth about terrorists. She posted three photographs depicting ISIS murdering innocent people. Telling the truth about terrorists is mean and could hurt their feelings. In conducting the elaborate and deliberate political hit, the French national assembly first voted in November to strip Le Pen of her parliamentary immunity. Now they’re mimicking the terrorists they admire and going in for the kill. On Thursday a judge in Nanterre charged Le Pen with circulating “violent messages that incite terrorism or pornography or seriously harm human dignity”, and that can be viewed by a minor. So in France, under the libtard regime, exposing terrorism is considered inciting it and revealing publicly the serious, deadly harm being done by terrorists is committing the worse crime of harming their dignity...  This is so unbelievable. https://rickwells.us/le-pen-crime-exposing-isis/ 

Devin Nunes Questions Legality of FBI FISA

Application to Attorney General Jeff Sessions

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ This evening House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes sends a letter to Attorney General Jeff Sessions... questioning the protocol and legality of a fraudulent FISA application submitted by the FBI.  This approach sets up AG Sessions to defer the legal framework to OIG Michael Horowitz, and establishes the public basis for parallel prosecutors within the DOJ. However, keep in mind, it’s extremely likely, almost certain, these prosecutors already exist – they are already working with Horowitz.  Evidence of this is found in the memo quotes from Bill Priestap, but those not following the granular details are unaware. In the letter to AG Jeff Sessions, Nunes is requesting the DOJ provide answers to what his committee calls “clear violations of FBI protocols” in obtaining the FISA Title-1 warrant against Carter Page on October 26th, 2016...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/03/01/devin-nunes-questions-legality-of-fbi-fisa-application-to-attorney-general-jeff-sessions/

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Senator seeks answers on why FBI waited

weeks to act on Weiner laptop 

in liar-Clinton case

by Brooke Singman

{ foxnews.com } ~ A Republican senator is pressing for answers on why the FBI waited weeks to act after the 2016 discovery of thousands of emails... on ex-Rep. Anthony Weiner's laptop that potentially were relevant to the liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation. Senate Homeland Security Committee Chairman Ron Johnson, R-Wis., fired off a letter Thursday to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein asking about the timeline, citing texts between two key FBI investigators. The messages, first reported by The Wall Street Journal in late January, indicate that top bureau officials were aware of the discovery of thousands of emails from Weiner well before the FBI sought a search warrant in late October, and effectively revived the liar-Clinton probe right before the election...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/02/senator-seeks-answers-on-why-fbi-waited-weeks-to-act-on-weiner-laptop-in-clinton-case.html

VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5702627829001/

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Satellite Surveillance Finds 

Iranian Missile Base in Syria 

by israeltoday.co.il 

{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ Iran's presence in Syria can no longer be dismissed as involvement in its ally's ongoing civil war... Fox News reported this week that satellite imagery had revealed a new Iranian military facility near Damascus. The size and position of two large hangars indicate that the base is hosting short and medium range missiles. A similar base constructed by Iran last year was bombed and destroyed by Israel...   http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/33496/Default.aspx
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Somali pirates attacks navy destroyer and gets blown to bits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIJe7HL1suY

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Russia has developed a nuclear missile that can’t be shot down by any country’s defence system

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhZbWkkbQlA

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Target in Putin's nuke video looks like Florida

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iQ3CyX1U04

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Exposed: The Civilization Jihad Against America's Popular Culture

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRC4VIOgJs8

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North Korean athletes face FIRING SQUAD on Winter Olympics return - DAILY NEWS

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z9-Tx8pmy0o

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Dow plummets after Trump announces tariffs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK-rFEZF_-8

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Why the media stopped reporting on Russia collusion

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Azk4yfeIN3M

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Ingraham: New Russia indictments have White House cheering

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MMuWpXzNqTc

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by Ann Coulter 
{ freedomsback.com } ~ Nikolas Cruz's psychosis ended in a bloody massacre not only because of the stunning incompetence of the Broward County Sheriff's Department. It was also the result of liberal insanity working exactly as it was intended to.

School and law enforcement officials knew Cruz was a ticking time bomb. They did nothing because of a deliberate, willful, bragged-about policy to end the "school-to-prison pipeline." This is the feature part of the story, not the bug part.

If Cruz had taken out full-page ads in the local newspapers, he could not have demonstrated more clearly that he was a dangerous psychotic. He assaulted students, cursed out teachers, kicked in classroom doors, started fist fights, threw chairs, threatened to kill other students, mutilated small animals, pulled a rifle on his mother, drank gasoline and cut himself, among other "red flags."

Over and over again, students at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School reported Cruz's terrifying behavior to school administrators, including Kelvin Greenleaf, "security specialist," and Peter Mahmood, head of JROTC.

At least three students showed school administrators Cruz's near-constant messages threatening to kill them -- e.g., "I am going to enjoy seeing you down on the grass," "Im going to watch ypu bleed," "iam going to shoot you dead” — including one that came with a photo of Cruz’s guns. They warned school authorities that he was bringing weapons to school. They filed written reports.

Threatening to kill someone is a felony. In addition to locking Cruz away for a while, having a felony record would have prevented him from purchasing a gun.

All the school had to do was risk Cruz not going to college, and depriving Yale University of a Latino class member, by reporting a few of his felonies -- and there would have been no mass shooting.

But Cruz was never arrested. He wasn't referred to law enforcement. He wasn't even expelled.

Instead, Cruz was just moved around from school to school -- six transfers in three years. But he was always sent back to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in order to mainstream him, so that he could get a good job someday!

The moronic idea behind the "school-to-prison pipeline" is that the only reason so many "black and brown bodies" are in prison is because they were disciplined in high school, diminishing their opportunities. End the discipline and ... problem solved!

It's like "The Wizard of Oz" in reverse. The Wizard told the Scarecrow: You don't need an education, you just need a diploma! The school-to-prison pipeline idiocy tells students: You don't need to behave in high school, you just need to leave with no criminal record!

Of course, killjoys will say that removing the consequences of bad behavior only encourages more bad behavior. But that's not the view of Learned Professionals, who took summer courses at Michigan State Ed School.

In a stroke of genius, they realized that the only problem criminals have is that people keep lists of their criminal activities. It's the list that prevents them from getting into M.I.T. and designing space stations on Mars. Where they will cure cancer.

This primitive, stone-age thinking was made official Broward County policy in a Nov. 5, 2013, agreement titled "Collaborative Agreement on School Discipline."

The first "whereas" clause of the agreement states that "the use of arrests and referrals to the criminal justice system may decrease a student's chance of graduation, entering higher education, joining the military and getting a job."

Get it? It's the arrest -- not the behavior that led to the arrest -- that reduces a student's chance at a successful life. (For example, just look at how much the district's refusal to arrest Nikolas Cruz helped him!

The agreement's third "whereas” clause specifically cites "students of color" as victims of the old, racist policy of treating criminal behavior criminally.

Say, in the middle of a drive to cut back on the arrest or expulsion of "students of color," how do you suppose the school dealt with a kid named "Nikolas Cruz"? Might there be some connection between his Hispanic last name and the school's abject refusal to do anything about Cruz's repeated criminal behavior?

Just a few months ago, the superintendent of Broward County Public Schools, Robert W. Runcie, was actually bragging about how student arrests had plummeted under his bold leadership.

When he took over in 2011, the district had "the highest number of school-related arrests in the state." But today, he boasted, Broward has "one of the lowest rates of arrest in the state." By the simple expedient of ignoring criminal behavior, student arrests had declined by a whopping 78 percent.

FOOTBALL COACH: "When I took over this team a year ago, we were last in the league in pass defense. Today, we no longer keep that statistic!"

When it comes to spectacular crimes, it's usually hard to say how it could have been prevented. But in this case, we have a paper trail. In the pursuit of a demented ideology, specific people agreed not to report, arrest or prosecute dangerous students like Nikolas Cruz.

These were the parties to the Nov. 5, 2013, agreement that ensured Cruz would be out on the street with full access to firearms:

Robert W. Runcie, Superintendent of Schools

Peter M. Weinstein, Chief Judge of the 17th Judicial Circuit

Michael J. Satz, State Attorney

Howard Finkelstein, Public Defender

Scott Israel, Broward County Sheriff

Franklin Adderley, Chief of the Fort Lauderdale Police Department

Wansley Walters, Secretary of the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice

Marsha Ellison, President of the Fort Lauderdale Branch of the NAACP and Chair of the Juvenile Justice Advisory Board

Nikolas Cruz may be crazy, but the parties to that agreement are crazy, too. They decided to make high school students their guinea pigs for an experiment based on a noxious ideology. The blood of 17 people is on their hands.

Sanctuary Officials Obstructing Justice – 

Lucky For Them, So Is Jeff Sessions 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Tucker Carlson calls upon the expertise of John Yoo, a professor at UC Berkley and former deputy assistant attorney general under George W. Bush... regarding the abuses of power of Oakland Mayor Libby “the libtard” Shaaf in warning illegal aliens that ICE raids were imminent. After first playing a clip of acting ICE Director Tom Homan equating Schaaf with a gang lookout warning that a police cruiser had just entered the neighborhood, Carlson asks if there was anything illegal about what Schaaf did, asking if states are allowed to subvert federal law. Yoo replies that they are not, that the Constitution and Supreme Court are quite clear on the matter. “Immigration law is the sole preserve of the federal government and so the federal government has the right to enforce its laws. The federal government can’t commandeer or compel state officers to help them but state officers cannot impede or obstruct federal law.”... https://rickwells.us/sanctuary-obstructing-justice-sessions/

VIDEO:  https://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5742724758001

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Constitution put 'in the 

shredding machine' by state supremes

by GREG COROMBOS 

{ wnd.com } ~ Pennsylvania’s 2018 congressional primary season is now in limbo after the left-leaning state supreme court ordered a new congressional map... far more favorable to Democrats and Republicans take the issue to court, arguing the decision is in clear violation of the U.S. Constitution. Earlier this year, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled the congressional district map was excessively partisan and, therefore, unconstitutional. The court gave the GOP-led legislature just days to present a new map. If Democratic Gov. Tom Wolf rejected the map, the court said it would draw the new map, which is exactly what happened.  Republicans are now taking the issue to court. Time is of the essence, with the 2018 primaries scheduled for May 15...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/03/constitution-put-in-the-shredding-machine-by-state-supremes/ 

Report: Andrew McCabe Authorized 

Media Leaks, Misled Investigators

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Department of Justice’s internal watchdog will criticize former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe... for authorizing leaks to the media and giving misleading statements to investigators about doing so, according to two new reports. McCabe, 49, authorized FBI officials to speak to the media for articles prior to the 2016 election, including one about an ongoing investigation into the liar-Clinton Foundation, according to a report being prepared by Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz. The FBI No. 2 also misled watchdog investigators when they initially asked about the media disclosures, according to The Washington Post... http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/02/andrew-mccabe-leaks/?utm_medium=email 

EXCLUSIVE: FBI Denies Secret 

Comey/liar-nObama Meeting Raises 

Integrity and Public Trust Issues

by RICHARD POLLOCK

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The FBI states it will not expedite the release of documents about secret meetings between FBI Director James Comey and former President Barack liar-nObama... according to a letter the bureau sent to The Daily Caller News Foundation.  Such information is not “a matter of widespread and exceptional media interest in which there exists possible questions about the government’s integrity which affects public confidence,” David Hardy, the section chief for the bureau’s Record/Information Dissemination Section, told TheDCNF in a Feb. 26 letter. TheDCNF, under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), requested records of all meetings between Comey and liar-nObama and sought an “expedited process” as provided under the act when issues are of great interest to the media and the records address issues pertaining to government integrity. TheDCNF FOIA request was filed Feb. 16, 2018...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/01/fbi-denies-secret-comey-obama-meeting/?utm_medium=email 

Internal FBI Documents Raise Questions 

About Use Of Unverified Steele Dossier

by CHUCK ROSS

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence... is accusing the FBI of a “clear violation” of its internal rules and procedures over its applications for spy warrants against former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page. In a letter sent Thursday to Attorney General Jeff Sessions and obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation, California Rep. Devin Nunes wrote that using the unverified Steele dossier violates the bureau’s requirements that only “documented and verified” information may be used in applications to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Court. Nunes also asserted that someone at the bureau may have broken the law by violating the procedures. The Republican’s letter cited the most recent version of the FBI’s Domestic Investigations and Operations Guide to make the case...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/03/01/internal-fbi-documents-steele-dossier/?utm_medium=email
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Trump Shoots From the Hip on Gun Policy 

by Nate Jackson:  President Donald Trump held a televised meeting with lawmakers Wednesday to discuss gun measures. Don’t panic, but there’s plenty to criticize, so we’ll quote him and then get to that criticism.

          The statement Trump made that’s rightly getting the most attention is this: “Take the guns first, go through due process second.”
          It was a retort to Vice President Mike Pence, who addressed the concept of gun violence restraining orders, which provide an avenue for law enforcement to take away guns from potentially violent individuals after proper court proceedings. “Allow due process, so that no one’s rights are trampled,” Pence said. Trump interrupted by seeming to chuck the Fourth Amendment, too. “Or, Mike, take the firearms first and then go to court,” he said. “Because a lot of times, by the time you go to court, it takes so long to go to court, to get the due process procedures. I like taking the guns early, like in this crazy man’s case that just took place in Florida. … To go to court would have taken a long time.”
          Trump wasn’t done. “It would be so beautiful to have one bill that everybody could support as opposed to, you know, 15 bills,” he said. What did he mean? He was referring to previously defeated background check measures and mental health provisions, for starters. But he even encouraged Sen. Dianne Fein-stein to throw in her ban on semi-automatic rifles: “Dianne, if you could add what you have also — and I think you can — into the bill…” She was utterly giddy at the prospect.
          Evidently, however, that “so beautiful … one bill” has its limits. Trump rejected Rep. Steve Scalise’s proposal to include national concealed carry reciprocity (which the House has already passed) in the bill, saying, “If you add concealed carry to this, you’ll never get it passed. We want to get something done.”
          “What surprises me more than anything else is that nothing’s been done for all of these years,” Trump marveled. “Because I really see a lot of common ground. … It’s time that a president stepped up.”
          Trump still wasn’t done. His next target was the NRA. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), who sponsored some of the aforementioned background check legislation, did not include a provision raising the age for rifle buyers, which the NRA opposes. Trump told him, “You know why? Because you’re afraid of the NRA.” Trump continued, “They have great power over you people. They have less power over me. … Some of you people are petrified of the NRA. You can’t be petrified.”
          Whew — that was quite a barrage of rhetoric that should upset even the most ardent Trumpist. So, a few observations.
          Regarding Trump’s dismissal of due process, Reason’s Nick Gillespie notes, “This comes from a president who only a few weeks ago wondered aloud on Twitter, ‘Is there no such thing any longer as Due Process?’” That was when White House aide Rob Porter was under fire for domestic abuse. So there’s that.
          Now? Due process is subject to his visceral and emotional response to a truly horrific school attack. Anybody who feels anything wants to prevent any such attack from ever happening again. Trump, with his ill-considered musings, wanted to show he cares that a guy who was known by law enforcement to be a threat was still able to obtain firearms and attack a school.
          That said, even if we’re to take Trump “seriously but not literally,” and even if he merely expressed an idea poorly, authoritarian pronouncements are inexcusable.
          The same goes for his nonsense about the NRA. Trump was elected in part with some heavy lifting by the NRA, but he rejects being seen as anyone’s tool. That he threw his fellow Republicans under the bus for standing for their own Second Amendment beliefs, however, is petty and pathetic.
          As for the “get something done” line, Trump is a big-picture guy, and he’s looking at the November election thinking that it will be bad if Republicans once again “do nothing” on guns. He wants a deal, and the details matter less than the perception of a political “victory” for him.
          For some parting thoughts, Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) said in a statement: “Strong leaders don’t automatically agree with the last thing that was said to them. We have the Second Amendment and due process of law for a reason. We’re not ditching any Constitutional protections simply because the last person the President talked to today doesn’t like them.”
          David Thornton writes, “It would be an unhappy irony for gun owners if Donald Trump, endorsed by the NRA even though he was a former Democrat who had supported gun control in the past, became the Republican president who overcame the gun lobby to enact the first significant gun control legislation since the 1990s. Stranger things have happened.”
          Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-TX) referred to Trump’s reality TV background when he said of the meeting, “I thought it was fascinating television.”
          “Many ideas, some good & some not so good, emerged from our bipartisan meeting on school safety yesterday at the White House,” Trump tweeted this morning. “Background Checks a big part of conversation. Gun free zones are proven targets of killers. After many years, a Bill should emerge. Respect 2nd Amendment!” Let’s hope he listens to his own advice.   
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54479-trump-shoots-from-the-hip-on-gun-policy

Same DOJ Deep State IG Covering For 

Sessions Hid Benghazi Computer 

Hacks on Sharyl Attkisson 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Just yesterday AG Jeff Sessions, sounding like a prima-donna ballerina whose toes had just been stepped on... told President Trump and America that he had turned yet another critical case over to the DOJ Inspector General, the FISA Court DOJ and FBI corruption probe. It is noteworthy that that same Inspector General, Michael Horowitz, was involved in hiding government misconduct in the illegal intrusion and manipulation of data on the personal and work computers of former CBS correspondent Sharyl Attkisson while she was investigating the liar-nObama/liar-Clinton/scum-Soros Mafia actions in Benghazi. That is also the same IG who is supposedly also doing the “fair and objective” investigation into the sham liar-Clinton probe by Former FBI Director James Comey and the one that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein assured the members of the House Judiciary Committee that, while he couldn’t talk about it directly, they needed only to wait for the IG report and all of their questions would be answered. Rosenstein was questioned at the time as to why their own agents weren’t conducting an investigation... https://rickwells.us/ig-sessions-benghazi-attkisson/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0Mza8HkpaA
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White House preparing for McMaster 

exit as early as next month

by NICOLLE WALLACE

{ nbcnews.com } ~ The White House is preparing to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser as early as next month... in a move orchestrated by chief of staff John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis, according to five people familiar with the discussions. The move would be the latest in a long string of staff shakeups at the White House over the past year and comes after months of strained relations between the president and McMaster. A leading candidate to become President Donald Trump’s third national security adviser is the auto industry executive Stephen Biegun, according to the officials...  https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/white-house-preparing-mcmaster-exit-early-next-month-n852371

VIDEO:  https://www.msnbc.com/deadline-white-house/watch/breaking-amid-disarray-in-white-house-sources-confirm-mcmaster-may-soon-depart-1174417475928 via @nbcnews

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Meghan McCain Asks scum-Schiff To 

Back Up His Collusion Claims, He Can't

by Alex Parker 

{ truthrevolt.org } ~ On Thursday's edition of The View, the hosts welcomed Democratic California Representative scum-Adam Schiff... A longtime, outspoken believer in the conspiracy theory of Russia-Trump election collusion, scum-Schiff was taken to task about his commitment to the idea -- despite a complete lack of evidence -- by the show's token conservative, Meghan McCain. The host couldn't have been clearer with her question: "I think, at this time, it's difficult for me and many Americans to differentiate between what is overhype and what isn't. You've said on more than one occasion that you've seen ample evidence of the Trump campaign's Russia collusion. Last March, you said you had more than circumstantial evidence of treasonous collusion with Russia. What specifically were you referring to? And please be specific, because if it's true, I do believe Americans have the right to know a year later what that is." scum-Schiff was wordy with his answer, yet he provided no reason to believe President Donald Trump colluded with Russia in order to rig the 2016 presidential election...   https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/meghan-mccain-asks-schiff-back-his-collusion-claims-he-cant 

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POTUS Announces US To Impose Tariffs On Steel, Aluminum Imports 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYeCWrpxHJQ

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Russian President Vladimir Putin Touts “Invincible” Nuclear Arsenal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnPtIXvvtts

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Judge Nap: Trump’s Comments On Due Process Represent What Gun Owners & The NRA Fear Most

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQyRv_iHjRw

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Chris Wallace: ‘The Long Knives Are Out for Jared Kushner’

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhL8IuzwV3A

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Marco Rubio Announces His Plan to Address Gun Violence

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvKBG8hbxAI

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Sebastian Gorka Slams liar-Hillary Clinton’s Comments on Russia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLRnXHaWBwg

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Arming Teachers Has a Lot of Merit

by Louis DeBroux:  In the wake of the mass murder at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, proposals have come in from all quarters regarding how to stop another such atrocity.

          The response from the Left has been as expected — calls for banning many or all firearms in common use, stricter background checks, raising the legal age to purchase a firearm, boycotting the NRA, etc. Of course, it is hard to imagine how any of that would have stopped the perpetrator, a mentally unbalanced and homicidal young man.
          After all, over the last two years, the killer had been disciplined in school 25 times, local police were summoned to his house 39 times, friends and neighbors had reported to police multiple times that he was collecting guns and had a desire to kill people, and the FBI had been warned twice about him — once after posting on social media that he wanted to become a “professional school shooter,” and once when a girl close to him warned that he was talking about killing people. In both instances the FBI failed to follow up. And that’s not to mention the failures of law enforcement at the scene.
          To the shock and outrage of many on the Left, President Donald Trump proposed training and arming teachers and school staff. Their reaction was as immediate as it was predictable. Washington’s Democrat Governor Jay Inslee cried, “I have listened to the first-grade teachers that don’t want to be pistol-packing first-grade teachers. I’ve listened to law enforcement who have said they don’t want to have to train teachers. … Educators should educate and they should not be foisted upon this responsibility of packing heat in first-grade classes.”
          Gun control advocates call the idea of arming teachers “crazy,” arguing, “We need fewer guns, not more guns.” A New York Times editorial pointed to an analysis of shooting accuracy by NYPD officers — which claims they put only one-third of their shots on target under stress — as to why teachers should not be armed. But if that is the argument, wonders columnist Dennis Prager, isn’t that also an argument for disarming police?
          Prager also points to an LA Times editorial that asked, “If a pistol-strapping chemistry teacher had grabbed her .45 and unloaded on today’s gunman after he killed, what, one student? Three? Five? That would be good news?” But isn’t one or three or five dead better than 17 dead?
          MSDHS Coach Aaron Feis died a hero, bullets ripping through his body while shielding students from the attacker. Yet many who call him a hero also do not think he should have been armed. How many fewer would have died had Feis been able to return fire?
          The root question is why leftists seem intent on protecting or appeasing evil while making it more difficult for the innocent to defend themselves. Leftists rage against micro-aggressions and mis-gendering while seeking to appease murderous Islamist radicals and totalitarian dictators. They tear down statues of Robert E. Lee but wear T-shirts celebrating Che Guevara.
          Despite the hand-wringing and lamentations of the anti-Second Amendment Left, President Trump has not called for arming any teacher or school employee who does not want to be armed, nor has he called for any federal mandate, instead rightly noting that it’s a state issue. He has simply suggested we effectively train teachers and employees who do wish to carry in states and districts that allow it. Texas has more than 100 school districts that have done this already.
          Some still argue that this would not be a deterrent, but is that true?Consider this: Is it coincidence, for example, that the theater chosen by the psychopath who killed 12 and wounded 58 in Aurora, Colorado, was the only one of seven theaters in a 20-minute drive from his house (and it was not the closest theater) that was a declared “gun free” zone?
          No, it is no coincidence. According to the Crime Prevention Research Center, over 98% of all mass shootings since 1950 have occurred in designated “gun free” zones. That is also true even of military recruiting centers like the one attacked by a jihadi in Chattanooga in 2015.
          These murderers want to kill as many people as possible before they are stopped. The disparity is so glaring that such places should instead be called “victim-rich zones.” If you have a friend who still disagrees, perhaps you could illustrate by buying them a “gun free household” sticker.
          President Trump’s proposal has considerable merit, so long as the decision is left up to the states and the individual teachers who are trained and certified. For those so inclined, we should consider a salary bonus for those who are certified through a law-enforcement training course.
          Even if only a few of the teachers and staff in a school signed up and qualified, it would be a deterrent. Any potential murderer with designs to kill our children would know that the response would be swift and deadly.
          Armed, trained citizens protecting our innocent children. How could that possibly be a bad thing?   
~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/54444-arming-teachers-has-a-lot-of-merit

Do-Nothing Sessions Could Lead To

Dem Majority, Impeachment –

Trump Right To Be Angry 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ President Trump has grown weary of Jeff Sessions screwing off while he’s being paid to do a job... He’s no pit bull at a time we really need one – nobody is intimidated by a boot-licking puppy. That’s especially true when the boots the puppy is licking are those of the very people he’s supposed to be prosecuting. Rep Peter King says opening an investigation is “totally the right thing to do.” As usual, the devil is in the details and this is a half measure by Sessions, an apparent means by which he can drag this thing out past the midterms and provide cover for the Democrats until they’re able to pick up seats and quash it altogether. Inspector General investigations and reports do not move quickly and there’s still that matter of liar-Hillary Clinton, Comey and countless other investigations that Sessions is ignoring. It’s understandable that President Trump would be angry at his rogue AG refusing to do his job...   https://rickwells.us/sessions-dem-impeachment-trump/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtZ7xg0Ie50

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State Department designates 7 ISIS-affiliated

groups as terrorist organizations

by THOMAS JOSCELYN

{ longwarjournal.org } ~ The State Department announced today that seven ISIS-affiliated groups have been designated as terrorist organizations... Underscoring the so-called caliphate’s growth outside of Iraq and Syria, the move targets ISIS affiliates in Bangladesh, Egypt, the Philippines, Somalia, Tunisia and West Africa. In addition, two of Abu Bakr al Baghdadi’s loyalists in Africa were named specially designated global terrorists. One of the jihadists, Mahad Moalim, is the deputy leader of the upstart ISIS group in Somalia. The other, Abu Musab al-Barnawi, leads Baghdadi’s representatives in West Africa...   https://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2018/02/state-department-designates-7-isis-affiliated-groups-as-terrorist-organizations.php 

Hope Hicks Leaving White House

by sundance

{ theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ The New York Times is reporting Ms. Hope Hicks is resigning from her role as White House Communications Director... to seek opportunities in the private sector. This doesn’t come as a surprise considering 29-year-old Ms. Hicks was/is romantically involved with Rob Porter, the embattled White House Staff Secretary who was swamped in a controversy of accusations of abuse against him by former spouses earlier this month. Hope Hicks was initially candidate Donald Trump’s personal aide, and one of a very small group organized within the initial presidential campaign headed by Cory Lewandowski. Together with Lewandowski, Hope Hicks, Dan Scavino Jr., Michael Cohen, Michael Glassner, Brad Parscale and Jared Kushner were the team who powered through the political machine to win the GOP nomination and later the presidency...   https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/02/28/hope-hicks-leaving-white-house/ 

Research Shows Russians 

Firmly Behind MSM Stories on GMOs 

by Brian McNicoll 

{ aim.org } ~ That “Right to Know” business can be a two-edged sword. Carey Gillam, a veteran anti-Monsanto activist... heads an organization called “Right to Know” that seeks to force governments to declare that glyphosate, a key ingredient in the world’s most popular plant pesticides, causes cancer and thus should be removed from food — a move that would take down the entire genetically modified organism food movement. Typical of her work is a piece on Environmental Health News in which Gillam claimed Rep. Lamar Smith (Texas), chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology, held a hearing on Feb. 6 “aimed squarely at attacking some of the world’s top career scientists.” Echoing the sentiments of her hero, Rachel Carson, whose fearmongering on DDT led to the deaths of millions of people from malaria, Gillam urged governments to support virtually any claim, no matter how frivolous, that glyphosate causes cancer... https://www.aim.org/aim-column/research-shows-russians-firmly-behind-msm-stories-on-gmos/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Feb-28-2018&utm_medium=email

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by Rachel Marsden 
{ townhall.com } ~ Nine months into his mandate to investigate possible Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, special counsel Robert Mueller has finally found some actual Russians to indict. Unfortunately, by pointing the finger at these Russians, he has exposed hypocrisy within the U.S. system.

Last year, Mueller's investigation produced indictments against four former Trump campaign advisors who had dealings with Russians during their international business careers before joining the campaign. Most of what those indictments covered could have fallen under the purview of the Internal Revenue Service and seemed out of place in a multimillion-dollar investigation into alleged electoral subversion.

But now, we actually have some indicted Russians -- 13 individuals who supposedly had a hand in the 2016 electoral outcome. How so? Primarily by screwing around on social media.

The U.S. Justice Department has charged these 13 Russian nationals with conspiracy to defraud the United States. Supposedly, the accused tried to pollute the sacred electronic institutions of truth that recently brought us fascinating but false political information such as "President Trump orders the execution of five turkeys pardoned by Obama" a story that provoked 914,429 social media interactions, according to a 2017 year-end analysis by Buzzfeed News.

Former FBI director Mueller's long arm of the law has reached into that pristine electronic river of democracy, which was also home to this viral Facebook post about his own former bureau: "FBI seizes over 3,000 penises during raid at morgue employee's home" 1,145,470 interactions. How lucky we are that Mueller and the Justice Department are saving us from any disinformation that those Russians might be spreading.

The 13 Russians are accused of creating "hundreds of social media accounts" under fake identities. They then allegedly pretended to be U.S.-based activists on social media, posting election-related opinions in an effort to influence the outcome in favor of Donald Trump and, during the primary elections, Democratic candidate commie-Bernie Sanders.

The indictment implies that the operation was linked to the Russian government, and that a St. Petersburg-based company called the Internet Research Agency failed to register as a foreign agent before purchasing paid advertisements on social media. Silly Russians -- you're supposed to pay a lobbying firm in Washington to do all that for you on the down-low.

There are obviously some slippery slopes here.

Does Mueller wish to set the precedent that foreigners can't exercise freedom of speech about another country's elections without it being considered a criminal act? If this standard were to be adopted by other countries, then U.S. government-funded media, State Department-funded NGOs or virtually any private contractor with a U.S. government contract could be subjected to prosecution by foreign governments. Such organizations wouldn't even necessarily have to operate on foreign soil, since the indictment makes it clear that periodic travel, a banking transaction or data passing through a server within the prosecuting country would justify a criminal charge.

James Woolsey, a former director of the CIA, was recently asked by Fox News host Laura Ingraham whether the U.S. interferes in other countries' elections, as the indictment accuses these Russians of doing.

"Well, only for a very good cause in the interests of democracy," Woolsey answered.

He added that such interference would be anti-communist in nature. That would be a valid excuse if it were 1980 and not 2018. Does this latest indictment mean that the U.S. will now butt out of the domestic politics of all foreign countries?

The indictment also sets a precedent with its attack on astroturfing -- that is, the use of fronts to promote a political cause by making it look like a grassroots movement when it's really not. The indictment accuses the Russians of organizing both pro- and anti-Trump rallies after the November 2016 election. It's a drop in the bucket when you consider the foreign lobbying cash paid to Washington lobbyists to organize activism within the U.S. on behalf of their clients. It means that billionaire U.S. investors are colluding against America's economic interests if they engage with oil producers in countries such as Saudi Arabia, where private enterprise and the foreign government are one in the same.

According to a 2014 report by Republican members of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, a "Billionaires Club" of wealthy individuals "directs the far-left environmental movement. The members of this elite liberal club funnel their fortunes through private foundations to execute their personal political agenda."

The report also accuses the billionaires of "collaborating with offshore funders to maximize support for the far-left environmental movement."

By indicting these 13 Russians, whose contribution to the alleged usurpation of American democracy is downright comical, Mueller has inadvertently exposed a treasure trove of hypocrisy.

Trump says he will order tariffs on 

steel, aluminum imports next week

by Alex Pappas

{ foxnews.com } ~ President Trump announced Thursday he plans to institute tariffs on imports of steel and aluminum next week... arguing it will level the playing field for American companies and help them expand after plant closings in recent years. The president said he decided on tariffs of 25 percent for steel and 10 percent for aluminum. “So steel and aluminum will see a lot of good things happen,” Trump told reporters at the White House. “We're going to have new jobs popping up." He made the dramatic announcement after participating in a listening session with 15 representatives from the steel and aluminum industry...   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/03/01/trump-says-will-order-tariffs-on-steel-aluminum-imports-next-week.html

VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5743194444001/

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Trump Admin Preparing to Kill Iran Nuclear Deal

If Europeans Refuse to Fix Agreement 

by Adam Kredo

{ freebeacon.com } ~ The Trump administration is laying the groundwork to abandon the landmark nuclear deal with Iran... if European allies fail to fix the agreement and close key loopholes that have allowed the Islamic Republic to continue sensitive nuclear research and develop advanced ballistic missiles, according to senior administration officials and top lawmakers who spoke to the Washington Free Beacon about sensitive ongoing diplomatic talks. Senior Trump administration officials have been pressuring European allies to agree to a range of fixes to the nuclear deal that would address Iran's military intervention across the Middle East, as well as its ongoing efforts to develop advanced ballistic missile technology that could be used to carry a nuclear weapon. Key European governments in recent days have expressed opposition to Trump administration efforts to impose new sanctions on Iran, instead pushing the United States to go along with weaker, cosmetic changes that insiders view as appeasing Iran...   http://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-admin-preparing-kill-iran-nuclear-deal-europeans-refuse-fix-agreement/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=0f0a1941e3-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_02_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-0f0a1941e3-45611665 

The Russia Collusion Suspect Nobody’s Talking

About: CrowdStrike’s Dmitri Alperovitch

by William F. Jasper 

{ thenewamerican.com } ~ Dmitri Alperovitch has played a key role in diverting attention from liar-Hillary Clinton's documented unethical... illegal, and treasonous activities with Putin to allegations of ties between Donald Trump and Putin, for which no evidence has been forthcoming. Is Alperovitch, in reality, one of Putin's best deep-cover agents?Before the WikiLeaks announcement in 2016 that it would be releasing thousands of e-mails from the Democratic National Committee, few Americans had heard of the cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike or Dmitri Alperovitch, its Russian-Ukranian cofounder and chief technology officer. He is still far from being a household name, but he remains a central figure in the ongoing “Trump-Russia collusion” investigations by Senate and House committees and Special Counsel Robert Mueller... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/28387-the-russia-collusion-suspect-nobodys-talking-about-crowdstrikes-dmitri-alperovitch 

Israel Prepares for War in the North 

by israeltoday.co.il 

{ israeltoday.co.il } ~ A top Israeli general and member of Knesset says that recent clashes with Iranian and other forces in Syria indicate that war in Israel's north is only a matter of time... In an interview with Arutz Sheva radio, Maj.-Gen. (res.) Eyal Ben-Reuven, who is also a member of Knesset with the Zionist Union Labor party and sits on the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, said: "The people who were supposed to be the 'brakes' in this situation were the Russians, whose planes are currently massacring Syrian civilians in Damascus. The Russians aren't doing their job, and the Americans, unfortunately, aren't in the area and hardly say anything. So if the situation continues the way it is, we're on our way to another wide-scale war in Israel's north. I pray that I'm wrong...   http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/33488/Default.aspx 

President Trump Fires One Of liar-nObama’s

Most Powerful Swamp Slugs 

by Steve Edwards

{ americanconservativeherald.org } ~ By this point in time, we all know that President Donald Trump’s assertion that the swamp runs deep... in the nation’s capital is much more than campaign rhetoric.  The President is right on the money about the problems afoot in Washington D.C., and he’s been doing his best to clean them up. For far too long, an inordinate amount of balls have been dropped by those that are incapable of performing their jobs as intended. And that is exactly how the former administration and former president wanted it to be. Election Assistance Commission chairman Matthew Masterson is being removed from his post by the White House and House Speaker Paul Ryan, according to a report from Reuters. Appointed to the commission in 2014 and serving as chairman since February, Masterson was expected to be appointed to a second four-year term...  http://americanconservativeherald.org/president-trump-fires-one/?utm_campaign=OlympicMedia&utm_medium=exchange&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_term=OM 

by Judge Andrew Napolitano 
{ townhall.com } ~ The Ash Wednesday massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, seems to have broken more hearts than similar tragedies that preceded it. It was no more senseless than other American school shootings, but there is something about the innocence and bravery and eloquence of the youthful survivors that has touched the souls of Americans deeply.

After burying their dead, the survivors have mobilized into a mighty political force that loosely seeks more laws to regulate the right to keep and bear arms. The young people, traumatized and terrified with memories of unspeakable horror that will not fade, somehow think that a person bent on murder will obey gun laws.

Every time I watch these beautiful young people, I wince, because in their understandable sadness is the potential for madness -- "madness" being defined as the passionate and stubborn refusal to accept reason. This often happens after tragedy. After watching the government railroad Abraham Lincoln's killer's conspirators -- and even some folks who had nothing to do with the assassination -- the poet Herman Melville wrote: "Beware the People weeping. When they bare the iron hand."

It is nearly impossible to argue rationally with tears and pain, which is why we all need to take a step back from this tragedy before legally addressing its causes.

If you believe in an all-knowing, all-loving God as I do, then you accept the concept of natural rights. These are the claims and privileges that are attached to humanity as God's gifts. If you do not accept the existence of a Supreme Being, you can still accept the concept of natural rights, as it is obvious that humans are the superior rational beings on earth. Our exercise of reason draws us all to the exercise of freedoms, and we can do this independent of the government. Stated differently, both the theist and the atheist can accept the concept of natural human rights.

Thomas Jefferson, who claimed to be neither theist nor atheist, wrote in the Declaration of Independence that all men are created equal and are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." Such rights cannot be separated from us, as they are integral to our humanity. Foremost among our unalienable rights is the right to life -- the right to be and to remain alive.

And that right implies the right to defend life -- the right to self-defense. If I am about to assault you in the nose, you can duck, run away or punch me first. If I am about to strike your children, you can strike me first. If I am about to do either of those things with a gun, you can shoot me first, and no reasonable jury will convict you. In fact, no reasonable prosecutor will charge you.

The reason for all this is natural. It is natural to defend yourself -- your life -- and your children. The Framers recognized this right when they ratified the Second Amendment. They wrote it to ensure that all governments would respect the right to keep and bear arms as a natural extension of the right to self-defense.

In its two most recent interpretations of the right to self-defense, the Supreme Court characterized that right as "pre-political." That means the right pre-existed the government. If it pre-existed the government, it must come from our human nature. I once asked Justice Antonin Scalia, the author of the majority's opinion in the first of those cases, called the District of Columbia v. Heller, why he used the term "pre-political" instead of "natural." He replied, "You and I know they mean the same thing, but 'natural' sounds too Catholic, and I am interpreting the Constitution, not Aquinas."

With the Heller case, the court went on to characterize this pre-political right as an individual and personal one. It also recognized that the people who wrote the Second Amendment had just fought a war against a king and his army -- a war that they surely would have lost had they not kept and carried arms that were equal to or better than what the British army had.

They didn't write the Second Amendment to protect the right to shoot deer; they wrote it to protect the right to self-defense -- whether against bad guys, crazy people or a tyrannical government bent on destroying personal liberty.

In Heller, the court also articulated that the right to use guns means the right to use guns that are at the same level of sophistication as the guns your potential adversary might have, whether that adversary be a bad guy, a crazy person or a soldier of a tyrannical government.

But even after Heller, governments have found ways to infringe on the right to self-defense. Government does not like competition. Essentially, government is the entity among us that monopolizes force. The more force it monopolizes the more power it has. So it has enacted, in the name of safety, the least safe places on earth -- gun-free zones. The nightclub in Orlando, the government offices in San Bernardino, the schools in Columbine, Newtown and Parkland were all killing zones because the government prohibited guns there and the killers knew this.

We all need to face a painful fact of life: The police make mistakes like the rest of us and simply cannot be everywhere when we need them. When government fails to recognize this and it disarms us in selected zones, we become helpless before our enemies.

But it could be worse. One of my Fox News colleagues asked me on-air the other day: Suppose we confiscated all guns; wouldn't that keep us safe? I replied that we'd need to start with the government's guns. Oh, no, he said. He just meant confiscation among the civilian population. I replied that then we wouldn't be a civilian population any longer. We'd be a nation of sheep.

Rep Jordan – Sessions Can’t Be Trusted, 

2nd Second Special Counsel Only 

Way Out of This Mess 

by rickwells.us 

{ rickwells.us } ~ Lou Dobbs and Rep Jim Jordan sat down for a discussion of the exchange between President Trump and his rogue Attorney General, Jeff Sessions... Dobbs started off by quoting a tweet Trump wrote blasting Sessions for hiding behind the charade of an Inspector General’s investigation and then showed the text of the miffed, feckless AG’s response. A defiant Sessions issued a statement saying, “As long as I am the attorney general, I will continue to discharge my duties with integrity and honor, and this department will continue to do its work in a fair and impartial manner according to the law and Constitution.” Of course he’s not discharging his duties, he’s shirking them and letting the criminals in the liar-nObama regime, the deep state bureaucracy and liar-Hillary Clinton walk without any accountability. There is no honor in that and conversely, as President Trump stated, Sessions is a disgrace...  https://rickwells.us/jordan-sessions-second-counsel/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51Dk_cI78NU

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commie-Bernie Sanders Fined For Illegally

Coordinating With Australian Labor Party

by ANDREW KERR

{ dailycaller.com } ~ The Federal Election Commission (FEC) fined commie-Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign $14,500 for accepting illegal in-kind foreign contributions... from the Australian Labor Party (ALP) during the 2016 elections. The ruling stems from a February 2016, conservative activist group Project Veritas video showing Australian nationals working for the commie-Sanders campaign on the dime of the Australian taxpayer funded ALP. Republican and former New Hampshire House speaker William O’Brien filed a complaint with the FEC shortly after Project Veritas made the footage public, alleging the ALP had made “prohibited foreign contributions” to the commie-Sanders campaign, according to WMUR... http://dailycaller.com/2018/02/28/bernie-sanders-australia-federal-election-commission/?utm_medium=email 

What James Comey Told Trump Behind 

Closed Doors Is Bad News For Robert Mueller 

by americanpatriotdaily.com 

{ americanpatriotdaily.com } ~ The Democrats released their memo in an attempt knock down Devin Nunes’ allegations of the FBI’s abuse of power... in spying on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page. It was their attempt to take the heat off special counsel Robert Mueller and the Russia probe. But what James Comey told Trump behind closed doors was bad news for Mueller. Nunes’ memo exposed the massive scandal surrounding the FBI obtaining a FISA warrant against Page. The FBI used the fake news Fusion GPS Russia dossier as their central evidence to obtain a warrant to spy on Page. Democrats – led by ranking Intelligence Committee member scum-Adam Schiff – tried to knock that down. Their memo claimed the dossier was corroborated by multiple sources, but that just isn’t true...  http://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/featured/what-james-comey-told-trump-behind-closed-doors/

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NRA on Trump's Gun Meeting: 

'Great TV,' But 'Bad Policy' 

by Cathy Burke 

{ newsmax.com } ~ The National Rifle Association Wednesday pounced on a bipartisan meeting on gun safety between President Donald Trump and lawmakers... saying it illustrated "great TV" but "bad policy," The Hill reported. During the bipartisan meeting, Trump bucked GOP orthodoxy on guns multiple times. "Take the guns first, go through due process second," he said. The president also suggested raising the age for buying an assault rifle, which the NRA opposes. Additionally, Trump urged lawmakers not to include concealed-carry language in their legislation — something the NRA views as one of its top priorities, The Hill reported... https://www.newsmax.com/politics/nra-school-safety-bump-stocks-ban-florida-shooting/2018/02/28/id/846072/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1781303_03012018&s=al&dkt_nbr=010504ajsc0u
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Palestinians: The "Ugly Crime" 

of a School Curriculum

by Bassam Tawil

{ gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ The Palestinian Authority (PA) Minister of Education, Sabri Saidam, is worried these days... He is not worried, he says, because Palestinian schoolchildren are being taught to hate Israel. He is not worried because Palestinian schoolchildren are being goaded by their leaders to carry out terror attacks against Jews, from stone-throwing to stabbings to ramming cars. The PA minister of Education is worried, he says, about a "crime" that is about to be committed against Arab children in Jerusalem schools. The "crime," in his view, is that the children will be taught according to an Israeli, and not a Palestinian, curriculum. Saidam sees the decision to apply the Israeli curriculum to Arab schools in Jerusalem as an "ugly crime of counterfeit." These are the exact words he used to denounce the decision to introduce the Israeli curriculum into Arab schools...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11972/palestinians-israel-school-curriculum 

by Michelle Malkin 
{ townhall.com } ~ In Florida, the Broward County Sheriff's office and Broward County school district are fighting to keep exterior surveillance video from the day of the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School hidden from view. As journalists and citizens who've waged uphill battles against secrecy well know, government agencies too often invoke broad disclosure exemptions in the name of protecting public safety when they're really just trying to protect their own jobs.

Feckless Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel and media-luvin' school Superintendent Robert Runcie are defendants in an open records lawsuit filed Tuesday by the South Florida Sun Sentinel, the Miami Herald and CNN. The local officials claim that surveillance videos from cameras outside the school are completely exempt from sunshine laws because they would expose the district's security system plan; are part of an active criminal investigation; and involve an active internal affairs investigation of school resource officer/BSO Deputy Scot Peterson, whom Israel notoriously threw under the bus last week.

Let's break down these specious excuses for keeping information vital to the public interest locked in a black box.

First, disclosure of the videos would pose no danger to students because Building 12, where the shooting took place, will be demolished.

Second, key investigative records, transcripts and logs in the active criminal probe against the Parkland school shooter have already been released to the public. Israel himself coughed up call logs documenting 23 times the shooter's family or neighbors called deputies to the house. Additional dispatch records obtained by local and national media outlets revealed 22 more calls to law enforcement dating back to 2008 that had not been initially communicated by the selectively disclosing sheriff.

Moreover, the open records lawsuit notes that Israel has already publicly described in detail what the video shows about Peterson's actions: He arrived at the west side of Building 12, took position, got on his radio, had a view of the western entry of Building 12 but never went in for "upwards of four minutes" while the shooter slaughtered 17 innocent students and teachers.

In addition, government sources have leaked FBI transcripts of caller tips reporting Nikolas Cruz's violent threats and tendencies that went unheeded. Unidentified sources leaked school disciplinary records documenting the shooter's troubles dating back to elementary and middle school. And a Broward Circuit Court judge ordered the release last week of a State Department of Children and Families investigation into allegations of abuse and neglect in the shooter's home.

"If there were shortcomings," Broward Circuit Court Judge Charles Greene concluded, "the public has the right to know." Any right to privacy that the shooter may have claimed was effectively waived by his own bloody actions and outweighed by the public interest.

The Broward County school district is hiding behind the sheriff's skirt, claiming that since law enforcement took possession of the videos, its hands are tied. But that school property is the public's property, subject to the state's public records act. As Fort Lauderdale lawyers Dana McElroy and James McGuire, who filed the petition on behalf of the media outlets, point out in the "good cause" petition for disclosure that I obtained this week: "The District should be required to demand, and the Sheriff's Office should be required to deliver, a copy of the video back to the District" in order to comply with the "legal requirement that it maintain and disclose its own public records."

Third, Deputy Scot Peterson has already resigned, so the sheriff's office should not be able to hide behind the confidential personnel records shield. Peterson publicly disputes Israel's version of events and released his own detailed account of his actions after his former boss blabbed about the surveillance tape at a backside-saving press conference last week. This is "information the public needed to know," Israel pontificated last week, yet he is denying the public's right to see and judge the surveillance videos for themselves.

Israel is a grandstanding publicity hound, enabled by gun control extremists in the media, whose "just trust us" arrogance is an obstacle to the truth. He's a dime a dozen. Across the country, government control freaks in local, state and federal agencies -- both civilian and law enforcement -- routinely block public disclosure of information that destroys their carefully spun, job-preserving narratives.

Release the videos. Let the public, especially competent security experts, see them. Without transparency, there can be no accountability. Without accountability, "Never Again" is yet another empty, expedient cable TV sound bite in an ocean of self-serving rhetoric.