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The clown-Schumer Shutdown
by Thomas Gallatin
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Hypocrisy Rich As liar-Clapper Attacks
Rep Nunes For Exposing Treasonous Democrats
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{rickwells.us} ~ liar-nObama’s Director of National Intelligence, who likely had quite a bit of involvement in the abuses detailed... in Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ memo, made an appearance on CNN to dismiss the uncovering of evidence and its potential release as mere partisan attacks. liar-Clapper should remember that it is now extremely likely that the evidence will come out and he’ll probably, at a minimum, be further exposed as the lying Democrat hack that he is and possibly as a suspect in espionage and criminal wrongdoing. At the same time he wants to try to mitigate the damage the release will unleash on the subversive Democrats as a whole.  Sounding almost desperate, Cuomo starts their propaganda session by asking, “What is the chance that this memo, in your opinion, can be accurate, that he has proof that you all, when you were in there before and after, that there were widespread abuses of surveillance to play to political gain for Democrats?” Of course he doesn’t expect a confession from this liar; it’s rhetorical to set up the discussion...  https://rickwells.us/hypocrisy-clapper-attacks-nunes/
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Robert Mueller questions 
Jeff Sessions as part of Russia probe
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by Kelly Cohen
Attorney General Jeff Sessions was questioned by special counsel Robert Mueller last week... as part of his investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election. Sessions was accompanied by longtime Washington lawyer Chuck Cooper to the interview, which reportedly lasted several hours. Department of Justice spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores confirmed the interview occurred in response to questions from the New York Times. Sessions announced in March 2017 he recused himself from all matters related to the 2016 election — including the Justice Department’s investigation into the 2016 election — after it was revealed he failed to tell Congress during his confirmation hearing he met twice with the Russian ambassador to the United States twice during the presidential campaign when he was an adviser to the Trump campaign...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/robert-mueller-questions-jeff-sessions-as-part-of-russia-probe/article/2646792?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/23/18&utm_medium=email
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The Right Side of History: The Media Continues to Whitewash the Legacy of Communism
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by Jarrett Stepman &  Fred Lucas 
{dailysignal.com} ~ “The Right Side of History” is a podcast dedicated to exploring current events through a historical lens... and busting left-wing myths about figures and events of America’s past. On this week’s episode, hosts Jarrett Stepman, a contributor to The Daily Signal, and Fred Lucas, The Daily Signal’s White House correspondent, discuss the history of communism in the 20th century and the media’s whitewashing of its legacy. With the surge in millennial support for communism and socialism, it is important to note the impact these doctrines had on the countries that implemented them. Stepman and Lucas discuss the origins of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia as well as the egregious cover-up of the Soviet Union’s crimes by New York Times Moscow correspondent Walter Duranty...  http://dailysignal.com/2018/01/19/right-side-history-media-continues-whitewash-legacy-communism/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWWpGa056QTRaR0UwWVRVMiIsInQiOiJmaENSUmFOQTNvZHZuZU5zV3NOcGFRWFcrSldFcTJEV2pGNXhYOTZ5Uk0xQSt3YnY1eks4UlplMG1NUmRDQkluVk04VDlWWkJuejRCMHBkUXRHTHhUanVCVTJ6dGtMcVVUVkQ3MDlGME5INlBKXC8zbTFpR2NDT29MZ1hKRnF6alAifQ%3D%3D
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Feds quietly relocating illegals 
across U.S. on commercial flights
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{wnd.com} ~ Federal escorts dressed in civilian clothing are quietly putting illegal immigrants who cross the U.S.-Mexico border on taxpayer-funded flights... and secretly taking them to unsuspecting communities across the U.S., according to a government-watchdog agency. “In the last few days alone, groups of illegal aliens boarded planes at airports in Texas and Arizona accompanied by a taxpayer-funded government escort in civilian clothes to avoid drawing attention,” Judicial Watch reported Friday. “The first flight originated at Valley International Airport in Harlingen, Texas, and was bound for Minneapolis. The second left from Tucson International Airport and arrived in Salt Lake City, Utah, federal sources said.” In both cases, illegal immigrants, who appeared to be in their teens, were reportedly escorted by Health and Human Services chaperones. Judicial Watch said Friday that “high-ranking Homeland Security officials” confirmed its report...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/feds-quietly-relocating-illegals-across-u-s-on-commercial-flights/
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Wasserman Schultz – clown-Schumer
Now In Position for Next Round of Amnesty Push
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz is an inviting target, even for the globalist Democrat propagandists at CNN... They brought her in to reassure their libtard audience that Democrats didn’t cave on the government shutdown and to be patient. For once she might be worth listening to. She’s got a point, one that we detailed earlier, that what was once just sitting atop the Democrat wish list, DACA squatter amnesty, is now guaranteed a week of debate in the Senate and House. That’s hardly a surrender  and the despicable clown-Schumer has demonstrated to Republicans and the nation that he doesn’t care who gets hurt in the process. Dems want their votes and RINOs want their cheap labor. American citizens are merely a complication, an afterthought for many of the sleazebags in the Senate...  https://rickwells.us/wasserman-schultz-schumer-amnesty/ 
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The clown-Schumer Shutdown
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          Democrats saw to that by leaking and making a spectacle of Trump’s alleged vulgar remarks, all to paint him as a racist and undermine any deal. Now they’ve shut the government down, too.
          Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) pointedly questioned Democrats’ motives for resisting working out a necessary budget deal. “Are Democrats going to shut the government … because we want basic reforms and enforcement measures that are going to prevent further flows of illegal immigrants and unskilled immigrants?” he asked rhetorically. “Seems to me like a tough position to win in light of the 2016 election.”
          Furthermore, recall Barack liar-nObama’s words during the 16-day shutdown in 2013, when he smugly lectured, “You don’t like a particular policy or a particular president? Then argue for your position. Go out there and win an election. Push to change it. But don’t break it. Don’t break what our predecessors spent over two centuries building. That’s not being faithful to what this country’s about. Now, there’s been a lot of discussion lately of the politics of this shutdown. But let’s be clear. There are no winners here. These last few weeks have inflicted completely unnecessary damage on our economy.” Oh how times change.
          Genevieve Wood of The Heritage Foundation hit the nail on the head, noting that the government shutdown was Democrats’ political objective. She writes, “The reality is [Democrats] don’t really want a deal on immigration. They talk about addressing the needs of the DACA population, but they have no time to address the other side of the immigration issue, border security and enforcement.” Wood continues, “Here’s the deal. Democrats are fearful that President Trump and Republicans could go into the midterm elections with both victories on tax cuts and immigration reform. So at the end of the day, that’s what all of this is about. It’s an election year, and that means politics, not people, are their priority.
          That’s Democrat deceit and duplicity in a nutshell.  ~The Patriot Pos
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scum-Schiff Says We’re Too Ignorant To Understand Nunes Memo – He’ll Tell 
Us What To Think
by rickwells.us
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Cal Thomas: “If we don’t like what is happening in Washington — and few do — the blame must be placed squarely where it belongs. It is ‘we the people’ who send these people here. We send people of different and often opposing viewpoints to Washington and expect them to get along. Many quickly turn opportunities to represent us into opportunities to represent themselves. They become careerists, statists and hypocrites, first supporting one cause or policy when it suits them and then with whiplash intensity turning around and supporting its opposite when it is politically expedient. It is why my favorite lecture circuit laugh line is ‘I’m happy to be here tonight from Washington, DC, where the only politicians with convictions are in prison.’ Is that too cynical? Perhaps. There are a few good men and women in Washington, but they are often overtaken by the swamp, which is more like quicksand, dragging everyone down. If re-election and fundraising become primary goals rather than promotion of the general welfare, everything else becomes secondary.”  
~The Patriot Post
clown-Schumer Didn’t Blink On Shutdown
Squatter Amnesty Pressure Shifted To GOP
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{rickwells.us} ~ American patriots shouldn’t be engaging in the full-throated celebration of the end of the “government shutdown”... that the theatrical directors in the mainstream media are herding us towards, touting what took place as a cave by Democrats.  It’s true they agreed to end their shutdown over funding and to “drop the gun” they had held to the heads of our military and others they supposedly “care about.” But the end result of all of this nonsense and that which has preceded it is that squatter amnesty is now the highest priority in Washington outside of the releasing the Nunes memo. Squatter amnesty should not even be being debated, in the opinion of many who support President Trump. The border wall should be constructed, legal immigration reformed and reduced, and our economy allowed to recover from the 16 years of abuse under Bush, liar-nObama as well as their predecessors..https://rickwells.us/schumer-shutdown-squatter-gop/
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On Iran’s protests, Europe must find its voice
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by TZVI KAHN
{thehill.com} ~ As protests recently began to consume Iran, European capitals were at a seeming loss for words... After several days of silence, Europe’s leaders issued curt statements of sympathy for the protestors — but with a notable tinge of moral equivocation. A European Union statement and Britain’s foreign secretary separately called on “all concerned to refrain from violence.” Germany’s foreign minister urged “all sides” to abstain from bloodshed. What accounts for Europe’s apparent conflation of victim and oppressor? Previously, European leaders have expressed their determination to raise difficult issues with Iran, including human rights. After concluding the 2015 nuclear deal, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), European leaders hailed the beginning of a new era in EU-Iran relations. A 2016 resolution passed by the European Parliament voiced the hope that a “substantial improvement in EU-Iran relations” would spur a “comprehensive” dialogue that is “critical, open and frank in areas where Iran and the EU disagree.”... http://thehill.com/opinion/international/369855-on-irans-protests-europe-must-find-its-voice
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Bill Becker of Freedom X with 
Katrina Redelsheimer FIGHT BACK
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by Renee Nal
{trevorloudon.com} ~ Bill Becker, founder, president and chief counsel of the pro-liberty law firm Freedom X will be featured Monday, January 22 on Fox & Friends... on the Fox News Channel with Katrina Redelsheimer, one of the innocent victims assaulted by vile Antifa thugs for daring to support Milo Yiannopoulos in February 2017 during the so-called “Battle of Berkeley.” Freedom X has “filed a federal civil rights lawsuit in United States District Court in San Francisco against the university, the City of Berkeley and other defendants, including two individuals believed to have been members of radical leftwing anarchist groups,” according to a press release. The lawsuit, Jennings vs. The Regents of the University of California, Case No. 18-0268 (USDC-CA ND), alleges the Plaintiffs were attacked by demonstrators the evening of February 1, 2017, after campus police left them trapped inside Sproul Plaza outside the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Center. The Plaintiffs, who were not students at the time, had purchased tickets to attend an appearance by controversial political commentator Milo Yiannopolous at UC Berkeley’s Pauley Ballroom. Two of the Plaintiffs were beaten unconscious by black-clad, masked anarchists. One of them was beaten as he tried to flee a melee that broke out along Bancroft Way adjacent to the campus.  http://www.trevorloudon.com/2018/01/watch-vile-antifa-thugs-meet-their-match-bill-becker-of-freedom-x-with-katrina-redelsheimer-fight-back-graphic-video/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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Was Lynch coordinating with Comey 
in the liar-Clinton investigation?
by SHARYL ATTKISSON

{thehill.com} ~ Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch knew well in advance of FBI Director James Comey's 2016 press conference... 
that he would recommend against charging liar-Hillary Clinton, according to information turned over to the Senate Homeland Security Committee on Friday. The revelation was included in 384 pages of text messages exchanged between FBI officials Peter Strzok and Lisa Page, and it significantly diminishes the credibility of Lynch's earlier commitment to accept Comey's recommendation — a commitment she made under the pretense that the two were not coordinating with each other. And it gets worse. Comey and Lynch reportedly knew that liar-Clinton would never face charges even before the FBI conducted its three-hour interview with liar-Clinton, which was supposedly meant to gather more information into her mishandling of classified information...
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VP Pence Speech To Israeli Knesset
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Politico’s Rachael Bade: Democrats Lost Shutdown Fight
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Rep Jordan Blasts FBI Excuses For Missing Strzok, Page Messages
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US Special Forces Spent Weeks Testing Border Wall Prototypes
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California Trying To Drive More Businesses Out Of State
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Will Shutdown Impact 2018 Midterms For Democrats?
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scum-Schiff Says We’re Too Ignorant To Understand Nunes Memo – He’ll Tell 
Us What To Think
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{rickwells.us} ~ CNN’s Ana Cabrera sounds almost apologetic as she asks scum-Shifty the Bobble-Head, Rep 
scum-Adam Schiff (D-CA) about the movement of the Russia, Russia, Russia to the other foot and the Devin Nunes memo exposing their corruption.

She sheepishly says, “Let me ask you about the Russia investigation. I can’t have you here and not, especially given how much we talked about it in the first year of the Presidency.”

Cabrera continues, “And now if you turn on any conservative media, they keep talking about this Nunes memo, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, that he’s put out there and many Republicans have taken a look at it and they want it made public. Can you tell us about this memo? What exactly is it?”

He can tell you, Ana, but like anything else on CNN’s airwaves, it’s not going to be anything remotely resembling the truth. 
scum-Schiff dismisses the memo and the information contained within it. He says, “It is essentially a set of talking points that the Republican Intel staff drafted, based on the highly classified materials which most of the Republican members were forced to acknowledge they’ve not even read, so they don’t know how distorted these talking points are.”

Really, 
scum-Schiff? Was a poll taken among the Republican representatives as to whether or not they had seen any of this intelligence and if so by whom? Was there someone forcing them to make an admission after the question was asked? The Intelligence Committee always has access to more information than other House members, so what? The only distortion is what’s coming out of your lying mouth in your pathetic efforts to protect your criminal comrades.

scum-Schiff then goes on to claim that Russian bots and Republicans have “teamed up again,” just like during the election, in order to push this story out. These are American fingers typing this story, scum-Bobble-Head, and I wouldn’t know how to find a Russian bot or even where to look. But I can spot a lying Democrat subversive in an instant.  

Cabrera asks the obvious question that Democrats have no easy response to, “Why not allow the American people to look at it and let Americans make the decision for themselves about whether it’s useful information or not?”

We Americans are just too ignorant, the elitist 
scum-Schiff replies, saying, “The American people, unfortunately, don’t have the underlying materials and therefore they can’t see how distorted and misleading this document is.” Of course those underlying materials are classified so we’ll never have access to them and through scum-Shifty’s logic, never see the crimes committed by the liar-nObama regime against us.

scum-Schiff is saying that it’s his view that we should never know what liar-nObama and his criminal minion Democrats were doing. He offers the ignorant statement that Republicans are not saying that the underlying materials should be made public, a difficult process due to their classifications. It’s a stupid thing to say that exposes his basic belief that we’re all a bunch of idiots and won’t see the complete absence of logic or transparency in his arguments.

He claims we just want to see the spin, which he derides as an attack on the FBI and “Saint Mueller.” We get enough spin, 
scum-Bobble-Head, just from trying to focus on your bugged out eyes while you’re spewing your crap. What we want, for a change, is the truth, and that is what is likely contained in this memo. Otherwise Democrats wouldn’t be so opposed to its release.

For once an anchor on CNN said something that made sense. Cabrera is right; we can decide for ourselves and we insist that we be given that opportunity. We don’t need leftist trash like 
scum-Schiff to filter our information or translate English into leftist double speak for our consumption.
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Tues/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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A US-Turkish Clash in Syria?
by Pat Buchanan
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Tuesday Top Headlines
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IMF: Tax reform projected to push GDP growth higher, now expected to rise to 2.7% in 2018 (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Claim: Page and Strzok referenced FBI “secret society” that met the day after the election (PJ Media)
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Sessions announces DOJ probe of missing FBI text messages (The Hill)
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Republicans hope to release “jaw-dropping” memo on surveillance abuses (Fox News)
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Four in five Americans want less immigration (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Early 2018 Democrat win: Pennsylvania court orders new congressional map due to gerrymandering (Reuters)
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NFL rejects Super Bowl ad from veterans group that asks players to stand during anthem (Stars and Stripes)
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Hawaii governor slow to correct missile alert because he forgot Twitter username, password (Fox News)
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Michigan man allegedly threatened to gun down CNN employees for fake news (NBC News)
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Trump applies tariffs to solar panels, washing machines (Associated Press)
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Vermont becomes first state to legalize marijuana through state legislature (The Washington Free Beacon)
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liar-nObamaCare is fueling the nation’s opioid epidemic? Sure looks like it (Investor’s Business Daily)
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Policy: Get rid of government shutdowns forever (Bloomberg View)
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Policy: Babe in the woods: Journalism in the age of clickbait (National Review)  ~The Patriot Post
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scum-Durbin Cornered By 2013 Immigration
clown-Schumer Rant, Dem Hypocrisy
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{rickwells.us} ~ Once again, scum-Dick Durbin is presented with evidence that he and his partner in crime, Chuck clown-Schumer... are liars solely intent on political gain at any cost, who couldn’t care less about the future of this nation other than facilitating its rapid destruction from within.  scum-Durbin chooses, in typical Democrat fashion, to ignore a difficult question nailing them and their duplicity and to simply talk around the unpleasant truth. liar-Clinton supporter and host George Stephanopoulos asks scum-Durbin, “But is it right to hold the government hostage? You heard Marc Short cite Senator clown-Schumer, here’s what Senator clown-Schumer said back in 2013 during the last government shutdown.” Stephanopoulos then plays a clip of clown-Schumer who made an inane comparison between a shutdown and a home invasion in which someone wants to negotiate the purchase price of the home. clown-Schumer said, “We could do the same thing on immigration. We believe strongly in immigration reform.  We could say ‘we’re shutting down the government, we’re not going to raise the debt ceiling until you pass immigration reform,’ it would be governmental chaos.” It also would be pretty much exactly what they are now doing... https://rickwells.us/durbin-schumer-rant-hypocrisy/
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dinky-Pocahontas’ Refusal To Admit
Cherokee Lie May Be Hurting Her Dem Support
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Democrats are beginning to feel uncomfortable about the future of Elizabeth dinky-Warren... as both a senatorial and a possible 2020 presidential candidate because of her continued insistence that she has Native American ancestry. During her first run for the Senate Elizabeth dinky-Warren was exposed for lying about her background. According to The Boston Globe, back in 1984, dinky-Warren and members her family contributed recipes to a Native American cookbook, where she signed her name Elizabeth dinky-Warren, Cherokee. Then in 1986, dinky-Warren listed herself as a “minority” in the American Association of Law Schools’ directory of faculty, which is commonly used by recruiters. In the early 1990s, she was hired by Harvard as a law professor, and the university actually touted dinky-Warren’s phony ancestry.  By 1995, once she had achieved tenure, dinky-Warren stopped listing herself as a minority...  https://lidblog.com/dems-worried-elizabeth-warren-refusal-admit-lie-background/
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Senate leaders agree on plan to reopen gov't
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{onenewsnow.com} ~ Congress sped toward reopening the government Monday, as Senate Democrats dropped their objections to a temporary funding bill... in return for assurances from Republicans leaders that they will soon take up immigration and other contentious issues. Senate Republican leader McConnell’s commitment to quickly tackle the issue of immigrant “Dreamers” was contingent on Democrats providing enough votes now for a stopgap spending measure lasting a little less than three weeks. The measure needed 60 votes, and Democrats provided 33 of the 81 it got. Eighteen senators, including members of both parties, were opposed. Before the government can reopen the Senate must vote on final passage, the House must approve in turn, and President Donald Trump must sign the measure...  https://www.onenewsnow.com/ap/politics/senate-leaders-agree-on-plan-to-reopen-govt?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16789304&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=32552
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Trump Just Gave The Democrats A 
Big Ultimatum On Any New Budget Deal…
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by Jonathan Pincus
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Congressional Democrats need to go back to the drawing board if they want to the Trump administration to budge... on the Deferred Actions for Childhood Arrivals program, according to recently surfaced information regarding the recent government shutdown provided by the White House Sunday. A White House aide told Breitbart News that Democrats proposed a federal budget measure, however, attached was a clause regarding DACA. The move didn’t impress the Trump administration, as it doesn’t want the DACA budget attached to government funding... https://www.westernjournalism.com/trump-wh-just-told-the-democrats-any-budget-deal-with-daca-attached-is-dead-on-arrival/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal
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NSA Destroys Evidence 
in Lawsuit Against Surveillance
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by Michael Tennant
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The National Security Agency (NSA), whose warrantless surveillance program was just reauthorized by Congress and President Donald Trump... recently confessed to having destroyed data it had been ordered to retain — and said it was retaining — in connection with lawsuits against the program, reported Politico. On Thursday, the NSA filed a request with U.S. District Court Judge Jeffrey White for an extension of its deadline to comply with discovery requests in the longstanding lawsuits. Its reason: Despite the fact that the agency has been under court order to preserve records related to the program since 2007, much of the requested data can no longer be located. The agency first admitted deleting the data in October, when its deputy director of capabilities, “Elizabeth B.,” filed a declaration with White, whose court is in Oakland, California. “The NSA sincerely regrets its failure to prevent the deletion of this data,” she wrote. “NSA senior management is fully aware of this failure, and the Agency is committed to taking swift action to respond to the loss of this data.”...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/28087-nsa-destroys-evidence-in-lawsuit-against-surveillance
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A US-Turkish Clash in Syria?
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by Pat Buchanan
{townhall.com} ~ The war for dominance in the Middle East, following the crushing of ISIS, appears about to commence in Syria -- with NATO allies America and Turkey on opposing sides.

Turkey is moving armor and troops south to Syria's border enclave of Afrin, occupied by Kurds, to drive them out, and then drive the Syrian Kurds out of Manbij further south as well.

Says President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, "We will destroy all terror nests, one by one, in Syria, starting from Afrin and Manbij."

For Erdogan, the Kurdish YPG, the major U.S. ally in Syria, is an arm of the Kurdish PKK in Turkey, which we and the Turks have designated as a terrorist organization.

While the Kurds were our most effective allies against ISIS in Syria, Turkey views them as a mortal peril and intends to deal with that threat.

If Erdogan is serious, a clash with the U.S. is coming, as our Kurdish allies occupy most of Syria's border with Turkey.

Moreover, the U.S. has announced plans to create a 30,000-man Border Security Force of Kurds and Arabs to keep ISIS out of Syria.

Erdogan has branded this BSF a "terror army," and President Bashar Assad of Syria has called BSF members "traitors."

This U.S. plan to create a BSF inside Syria, Damascus declared, "represents a blatant attack on the sovereignty and territorial integrity and unity of Syria, and a flagrant violation of international law."

Does not the Syrian government have a point?

Now that ISIS has been driven out of Raqqa and Syria, by what authority do U.S. forces remain to arm troops to keep the Damascus government from reimposing its authority on its own territory?

Secretary of State Tillerson gave Syria the news Wednesday.

The U.S. troop commitment to Syria, he said, is now open-ended.

Our goals: Guarantee al-Qaida and ISIS do not return and set up sanctuary; cope with rising Iranian influence in Damascus; and pursue the removal of Bashar Assad's ruthless regime.

But who authorized this strategic commitment, of indefinite duration, in Syria, when near two decades in Afghanistan have failed to secure that nation against the return of al-Qaida and ISIS?

Again and again, the American people have said they do not want to be dragged into Syria's civil war. Donald Trump won the presidency on a promise of no more unnecessary wars.

Have the American people been had again?

Will they support a clash with NATO ally Turkey, to keep armed Kurds on Turkey's border, when the Turks regard them as terrorists?

Are we prepared for a shooting war with a Syrian army, backed by Russia, Iran, Hezbollah and Shiite militias from Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan, to hold onto a fourth of Syria's territory in alliance with Kurds?

The U.S. coalition in Syria said this week the BSF will be built up "over the next several years" and "be stationed along the borders ... to include portions of the Euphrates river valley and international borders to the east and north."

Remarkable: A U.S.-created border army is going to occupy and control long stretches of Syria's borders with Turkey and Iraq, over Syria's objections. And the U.S. military will stand behind the BSF.

Are the 2,000 U.S. troops in Syria really up to that task, should the Turks decide to cleanse the Syrian border of Kurds, or should the Syrian regime decide to take back territory occupied by the Kurds?

Who sanctioned this commitment to a new army, which, if Syria and its Russian and Iranian allies, and the Turks, do not all back down, risks a major U.S. war with no allies but the Kurds?

As for Syria's Kurds casting their lot with the Americans, one wonders: Did they not observe what happened when their Iraqi cousins, after helping us drive ISIS out of Mosul, were themselves driven out of Kirkuk by the Iraqi army, as their U.S. allies watched?

In the six-year Syrian civil war, which may be about to enter a new phase, America faces a familiar situation.

While our "allies" and adversaries have vital interests there, we do not. The Assads have been in power for the lifetime of most Americans. And we Americans have never shown a desire to fight there.

Assad has a vital interest: preservation of his family regime and the reunification of his country. The Turks have a vital interest in keeping armed Kurds out of their border regions adjacent to their own Kurdish minority, which seeks greater independence.

The Israelis and Saudi royals want the U.S. to keep Iran from securing a land bridge from Tehran to Damascus to Lebanon.

The U.S. War Party wants us to smash Iran and remain in the Middle East forever to assure the hegemony of its favorites.

Have the generals taking us into Syria told the president how and when, if ever, they plan to get us out?
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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Will The #clown-SchumerShutdown 
Shut Down Democratic Hopes For 2018?
by Arthur Schaper
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Strzok-Page Text Messages Show 
Lynch Knew Comey Would Let liar-Clinton Off
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{rickwells.us} ~ Nobody outside of the Democrat Party and their mentally deficient devotees believed Loretta Lynch... as she was carefully choosing her words in the false claim that she would blindly accept the recommendation of James Comey as to whether or not to prosecute liar-Hillary Clinton, regardless of what it was. The stench of setup was everywhere, and the tarmac meeting could even have been a political false flag intended to create a demand for her to recuse herself, which she never did, but did produce an environment that allowed her to shift some of the responsibility to her trusted partner in crime, James Comey. Whatever the machinations within the corrupt DOJ, it is obvious that all of those in charge were committed to protecting liar-Hillary Clinton and understood that she would not stand for her crimes. The criminal liar-nObama DOJ mobsters would not prosecute one of their own for the corruption they all were engaged in...  https://rickwells.us/strzok-text-lynch-comey/
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clown-Schumer Shutdown Makes 
Clear Democrats’ Real Priorities
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by Genevieve Wood 
{dailysignal.com} ~ As you may have heard, a government shutdown is looming here in D.C. Many of you out there watching probably think, “So what?... That can be a good thing. Less of Washington, fewer bureaucrats telling us what to do and how to spend our money.”  Those are all good points. But that is not why Democrats are threatening to shut down the government. Let’s keep in mind this is the same party that is always telling us if we shut down the government, this will be a travesty for millions of Americans, so many government programs and services will be unmet...  http://dailysignal.com/2018/01/21/schumer-shutdown-makes-clear-democrats-real-priorities/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell%22&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWTJWaVl6WTFZalZqTURjeiIsInQiOiI0QThLWVFOQVhYSUZ6VDNJYkx0M1BXWW5mVjRORnVPMG9ISk9ka0xHRmhHUjJLWndnbHhqK1hLSFhTaG0rdVhhY3hEZmpDU3N6NVVTVERxYk81MkRZMmxEcjNvMDc0VDQzQlBETmJ6Rnl2dXBKbnlJdGF6TERkeFN1VTdJSVFBTCJ9
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scum-Adam Schiff: Keep the #Releasethememo
secret because Americans wouldn't understand
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by Thomas Lifson
{americanthinker.com} ~ scum-Adam Schiff, reputedly a champion leaker from the House Intelligence Committee when it came to Russiagate material... suddenly thinks Ignorance is Bliss when it comes to the FISA warrant used to spy on the Trump campaign. Appearing on CNN, he tried to justify keep the 4 page memo that reportedly exposes the individuals who acted as part of a cabal to undermine the Trump campaign with help from NSA spying, and then pushed the “Russia collusion” conspiracy theory as part of the “insurance policy.” Americans are too ignorant, you see. Do you think Democrats are starting to panic?...  http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2018/01/adam_schiff_keep_the_releasethememo_secret_because_americans_wouldnt_understand.html
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DOJ Claims Five Months Of Subversive Peter
STRZOK’S TEXT MESSAGES Just DISAPPEARED
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{rickwells.us} ~ It seems to be standard operating procedure that whenever there is information requested that implicates individual officials... who are part of the deep state bureaucracy in criminal activities, there is suddenly a problem with a system, a “glitch” that makes them irretrievable. Obvious examples are the “crashed hard drive and ‘lost’ backup” of the IRS Lois Lerner case, which also involved Administrator John Koskinen, a particularly glaring affront to our intelligence. Similar hard drive malfunctions seem to occur everywhere data “needs to be destroyed” to save someone important’s hide. Even the supposed safeguards of all federal digital information, who we have been led to believe have copies of everything ever sent except for anything related to liar-Hillary Clinton, her corruption and her emails, the NSA, claim to have convenient glitches that save various corrupt Democrats and globalist Republicans’ bacon. That news was reported by The Hill just two days ago...  https://rickwells.us/doj-strzoks-text-disappeared/
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Palestinians: No Difference 
Between Fatah and Hamas
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by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Is there any difference between the "moderate" Fatah faction headed by Mahmoud Abbas and Hamas?... In recent weeks, Fatah, which is often described by Westerners as the "moderate" and "pragmatic" Palestinian faction, has escalated its rhetorical attacks against Israel and the US to a point where one can no longer distinguish between its rhetoric and that of Hamas. Like Hamas, Abbas's Fatah regularly glorifies terrorists and encourages Palestinians to take them as role models. This is the very Fatah that is supposed to be Israel's peace partner and whose leader, Abbas, claims that he is still committed to the "two-state solution."..https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11776/palestinians-fatah-ham
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Will The #clown-SchumerShutdown 
Shut Down Democratic Hopes For 2018?
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by Arthur Schaper
{townhall.com} ~ Election 2018 is going to be just as turbulent an election season as 2016. An enlightened or enraged electorate will be rushing to the polls this year, elated or outraged with Washington, DC and President Trump’s agenda.

I am confident that Republicans will retain the United States Senate. Republicans will gain seats even in the face of “The Blue Wave” since Democrats nationally have gone so far left, and the progressive grassroots want liar-nObama policies on steroids from the Democratic Party. Red-state Democratic incumbents face pressure from their constituents, but Democratic base will fire back at these DINOs (Democrats-In-Name-Only) and launch primary challenges.

The House of Representatives, however, may turned into a blue-wall shellacking. Republicans have held power in the People’s Chamber for the last 8 years. The caucus is more conservative, and has ditched one Speaker. Paul Ryan is listening to the conservatives and the grassroots, but with the latest shutdown, Republicans risk appearing more dysfunctional than ever. Even though in 2016 Trump won in 12 House Districts currently represented by Democrats, his populist platform might not buoy Republican contenders for 2018.

Worse yet, Real Clear Politics has registered a 10-point to 16-points advantage for the Democratic ticket going into November. The overwhelming turnout for the Year 2018 Women’s March all over the country should also concern Republicans. Liberals are investing time, energy, resources to flip seats in fly-over states, too. At the Women’s March in Downtown Los Angeles, I saw so many posters featuring profanities, vulgar attacks against President Trump and the Republican majority, but I also saw frequent references to vote, vote, vote. “The Blue wave” stood out clearly.

But will the latest shutdown turn into a brick wall for Democrats or Republicans? The federal government needed a continuing resolution by January 19th to ensure payment for federal employees, then military, and it provided a long-term solution for the CHIP program plus a delay of onerous 
liar-nObamacare taxes. Republican leadership included programs that Democrats wanted, yet only six House Democrats voted for the CR, including California Congressmen Jim Costa because he wanted the CHIP funding; and Salud Carbajal because Santa Barbara County needed the emergency funding.

Despite five US Senate Democrats voting with the GOP majority, the CR didn’t pass the Senate’s 60-vote cloture threshold. Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer deserves the public’s blame. He cried to the press that his caucus refused to fund the government for another month unless amendments were added to grant legal status to illegals. There it is: Democrats have shut down the government over illegal immigration. Surprisingly, this talking point came from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a get-along type if there ever was one. Not only that, House Speaker Paul Ryan informed his Leadership to go home for the weekend. These GOP leaders are calling the Democrats’ bluff. I don’t give them full credit, however. Real leadership under President Trump in the White House has stiffened the spine of Congressional leaders, at least somewhat.

According to the latest polls, Democratic recalcitrance is not helping them, and it’s only going to get worse, judging by what happened to the Republicans during the Shutdown Showdown from 2013. That year, Republicans only controlled the House, and they passed a CR which included defunding mechanisms for 
liar-nObamacare. Speaker John backstabber-Boehner didn’t want to go along with the plan at first, but the caucus pushed him to follow through. Yes, the government was shut down, but for the same reason as now: Senate Democrats would not pass the CR. Majority Leader Harry dinky-Reid was confident that he could marshal public opinion against the Republicans. His targets included conservative colleague Ted Cruz, who led a 22-hour non-filibuster filibuster outlining to the public how devastating liar-nObamacare had become to working Texans. Eventually, a resolution was reached, and Republicans ended up wounded a little by the press. Then came the liar-nObamacare rollout, a devastating Democratic failure. Coupled with the upcoming six-year itch against Barack liar-nObama’s party, and Republicans were riding a wave into victory for Election 2014.

So, can Democrats expect a lingering backlash in their favor later this year? I strongly doubt it. First of all, President Trump was elected specifically for his opposition to illegal immigration. Democrats are on the losing side of this debate by shutting down the government over DACA. Even Democratic voters in California have voiced their opposition to clown-Schumer’s shutdown, regardless of their views on the illegals. What’s worse for Democrats is that Trump’s signature legislative achievement unlike 
liar-nObama’s in 2013 is gaining in popularity. The Tax Reforms are working out for businesses large and small. Individuals are enjoying the benefits, and they are seeing past the lies pushed by the press and the Democratic Party.

The Democrats not only shut down the government, but Chuck clown-Schumer, with signature tone-deafness, pitifully reports to website visitors this message: “Sorry, can’t help you right now”. Even worse, House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi just took her dwindling caucus out for dinner to celebrate, all while our military doesn’t get paid. Three weeks later, Americans will continue to appreciate Trump’s signature successes, and Democrats will suffer lower approval ratings going into November.

I sense that Democrats are going to be kicking themselves for going along with their radical, progressive base on immigration, suffer a national blowback, and lose further credibility in the eyes of the voters. Democrats who voted for Trump will remember why they rejected their party’s presidential nominee in 2016 and vote against them again in 2018.

If Republicans stand strong against amnesty and hold the #clown-SchumerShutdown meme over the minority caucus, then Republicans can look forward to holding the House as well as gaining seats in the Senate.  The GOP leaders should be kissing President Trump’s feet because he has put his foot down, willing to fight for the American people’s priorities on immigration. Prediction: The #clown-SchumerShutdown will shut down Democratic chances for Election 2018. Republicans will lose at most ten House seats, but retain power in the House of Representatives.
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
~ Featuring ~
Senator Chelsea Manning? 
Democrats Should Be Proud
by Susan Stamper Brown
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Plan Worked Out To Release Nunes 
Memo, Expose liar-nObama DOJ Treason
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{rickwells.us} ~ A method for the production of the Devin Nunes Intelligence Committee memo to the general public... by the House of Representatives is being worked out that would set parameters and a timetable, along with White House approval input is in the works. More than 180 out of 241 GOP members of the House have read the document, but Democrats aren’t interested. It seems they’re already fully aware of the high levels of corruption that were standard operating procedure for DOJ and the FBI under Hussein liar-nObama. Revelations regarding FISA court abuses, the falsification of evidence, abuses of office and corruption by officials of the DOJ, FBI as well as conspiracy with the liar-Clinton campaign and the liar-nObama regime are believed to be the “tip of the iceberg” contained in the memo. There’s also proof of an attempt to overthrow President Trump by top Democrat officials...  https://rickwells.us/plan-nunes-memo-obama/
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California Begins Registering Illegal 
Aliens To Vote In Federal Elections
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{rickwells.us} ~ The Democrats are about to pull the trigger. They’ve laid the foundation of wide-open voter rolls... civil rights legal entanglements and motor voter registration for the purpose of using illegals to distort elections in their favor in the past. Now they’re going for the big enchilada.  Starting April first, the joke will be on the American people as the corrupt anti-American Democrats who have seized California comply with the ruling of one of their planted agitator judges and begin automatically  registering people to vote as citizens simply by virtue of their possession of a drivers license. The obvious problem with that system is that California no longer requires that one prove they are a citizen of the United States in order to obtain a license to drive a vehicle, so effectively, they are doing the same thing for voting, opening it up to illegal aliens squatting in our country...Its going to be very hard to undo this mess. https://rickwells.us/california-registering-illegal-vote/
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liar-Clinton Had Detailed Knowledge of 
Email Server Security Risks, Emails Show
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by Susan Crabtree
{freebeacon.com} ~ Then-Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton had detailed knowledge about the security vulnerabilities involved in continuing... to use her personal email despite claims that she didn’t really "stop and think" about the email system she was planning to use, newly released State Department emails show. The new batch of emails also show three more exchanges containing classified information, according to Judicial Watch, a watchdog group that obtained the emails through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. Justin Cooper, an aide to former President liar-Bill Clinton, warned in 2011 about "overseas" use and other security issues concerning her emails and her personal BlackBerrys...  http://freebeacon.com/issues/clinton-detailed-knowledge-email-server-security-risks-emails-show/
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Hamas-linked CAIR sues 
to quash U.S. terrorist screening
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by ART MOORE
{wnd.com} ~ A group established as a front for the Muslim Brotherhood in the U.S. is suing the federal government’s Terrorist Screening Database... contending it stigmatizes its targets without due process. The Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Associated Press reported, filed the lawsuit Wednesday in federal court in Dallas on behalf of five Muslim American citizens. CAIR said the Muslims face consequences for being on the watch list, “including the inability to fly on airplanes, intrusive screenings at airports, and the denial of applications for credit cards and bank loans.” The database, charged CAIR’s senior litigation attorney, Gadeir Abbas, is “nothing more than a list of innocent Muslim citizens who have not been arrested, charged or convicted of a crime.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/look-whos-suing-to-quash-u-s-terrorist-screening/
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Wolf Blitzer Fact Checks Sen. Stolen Valor On False Statement About Dem’s Responsibility For The Shutdown
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CNN’s Maeve Reston: All We Talk About At CNN Is Russia And Voters Don’t Care About The Issue
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Dems Complicit?
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Jorge, Let’s Just Call Them Criminally Trespassing Aliens
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Ryan Zinke Works at Memorials During Shutdown
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Americans Understand Shutdown Isn’t Trump’s Fault
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They Say It’s As Bad As Watergate
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Senator Chelsea Manning? 
Democrats Should Be Proud
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by Susan Stamper Brown
{townhall.com} ~ Democrats have outdone themselves this time. Chelsea Manning, (D-Fort Leavenworth), the former U.S. Army soldier-turned-traitor, who was a male named Bradley until he betrayed America and swiped on some lipstick, is running for the United States Senate in Maryland on the Democratic Party ticket.

Manning is the perfect Democratic Party candidate: Anti everything that’s quintessentially America in stilettos and a skirt.

Manning’s campaign video features a defiant Chelsea proclaiming, “We don’t need them anymore,” with clips of police clashing with protesters. It is about as ludicrous as Democrat Dana Nessel’s campaign ad for Michigan attorney general where she says: “When you’re choosing Michigan’s next attorney general, ask yourself this: Who can you trust most not to show you their penis in a professional setting? Is it the candidate who doesn’t have a penis?”

Maybe Nessel should ask Chelsea. 

Manning is a darling of the radical left, whose super-duper ginormous tent includes everyone except those who don’t live in New York and California, love America, the Rule of Law, the U.S. Military, law enforcement, guns, freedom of speech, conservatism, Judeo-Christian values, the unborn, and God -- to name a few. 

Manning wants U.S. borders open, prisons closed, inmates freed and all hospital services free. In a tweet January 16, the defiant traitor said, “the reign of terror must end,” calling for the abolishment of the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agencies. On Law Enforcement Appreciation Day, January 9, Manning tweeted: “F**k the police.” What a sweetie.

Responsible for what authorities describe as the largest leak of classified documents in American history, Manning would have been the perfect running mate for the illegal private email server pantsuit queen, liar-Hillary Clinton. This traitor endangered U.S. soldiers’ lives, compromised military operations and put Iraqi and Afghani partners at risk. 

Manning was ultimately charged with 22 offenses, including aiding the enemy. Rather than death by military firing squad, the coward received a 35-year prison sentence. Former President 
liar-nObama showed us how much he loves America, our military and law enforcement when he commuted Manning’s sentence during his last days in office. 

Apparently, Manning wants to pay 
liar-nObama’s bigheartedness forward by challenging Maryland Democrat Sen. Ben Cardin, who happens to be the ranking member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Manning’s espionage conviction will apparently mean nothing. 

It’s already questionable that Congress members are given access to classified government secrets without the normal requirement of a security clearance. And we all know how seriously Manning takes oaths of office.

The Democrats’ latest mantra is that President Trump is unfit for office, despite the president’s recent perfect score on a voluntary mental aptitude test. But we’re supposed to believe Manning is fit? As I’ve written before, this goes against the sensibilities of those like former Johns Hopkins Hospital psychiatrist-in-chief Dr. Paul R. McHugh who wrote a piece in the Wall Street Journal explaining that transgenderism is a “mental disorder” which warrants medical treatment. He said, “policy makers and the media are doing no favors either to the public or the transgendered by treating their confusions as a right in need of defending than a mental disorder that deserves understanding, treatment and prevention.”

And don’t forget, no one can question Manning, post-Chelsea conversion: Express mental state concerns, and you are transphobic. Mention lack of skills, and you are anti-feminist. Talk about treason, and you are a Dick Cheney war hawk. 

Just when you think they’ve hit rock-bottom, Democrats do something to remind us there is no pit so deep that they cannot sink deeper still.
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Mon/Med-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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The undoing of limited government
by Andrew P. Napolitano
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Judge Napolitano WARNS President TRUMP 
IT’S A TRAP- Don’t Talk To MUELLER
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{rickwells.us} ~ There are those who have questioned the quality of the legal advice that Ty Cobb has been providing to President Trump... and as this video shows there does seem to be some validity to those concerns. Cobb is speaking with CBS reporter Major Garrett regarding the possibility of President Trump being interviewed under oath by the grand inquisitor, witch hunter Robert Mueller. Garrett asks, “Is it, from your vantage point right now, Ty Cobb, a virtual certainty that the President will have some Q and A with the special counsel, Robert Mueller?” Cobb replied, “That’s my belief.” Garrett asked, “And do you think there is any danger for the President in that encounter?” The obvious response for anyone would be “yes,” no matter the location or the reason for being questioned, there’s always the chance that things are not as they appear or that they could go wrong. For some reason Cobb had to take a brief moment to think it over.”...   https://rickwells.us/napolitano-warns-trump-trap/
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Democrats Literally Hold American Kids’
Medical Care Hostage to Help Illegals Instead
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by BEN MARQUIS
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Funding for regular government functions ran out at midnight eastern time Friday night... and the federal government entered a partial shutdown after the Senate was unable to pass a continuing resolution that would have extended necessary funding for a short period of time. The reason the CR failed is because Democrats refused to vote for it unless it provided a fix for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program which is set to expire in March. This, despite the fact there was no viable DACA legislation that could be attached to the CR to earn Democrat votes and the immigration issue has nothing whatsoever to do with government funding. Senate Democrats led by Chuck clown-Schumer have now created quite the public relations predicament for themselves in that their immovable stance on demanding a DACA fix for illegal immigrants right now has essentially placed them in opposition to providing necessary funding for the military and one of their own favorite pet programs, the state Children’s Health Insurance Program...  https://conservativetribune.com/democrats-hold-hostage-illegals/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=conservative-50
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Jason Chaffetz With Maria Bartiromo
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Former congressman Jason Chaffetz (Roosterhead’s brother) appears on Sunday Morning Futures with Maria Bartiromo... to discuss the government shutdown, and the release of the House Intelligence Committee memo revealing DOJ/FBI corruption - Sara Carter also appeared on Fox News to discuss the same.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/21/sunday-talks-jason-chaffetz-with-maria-bartiromo/
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FBI Mysteriously “Loses” Five Months of Text
Messages Between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The Daily Caller journalist Chuck Ross has some extremely   interesting information released today... surrounding former top FBI Counterintelligence Agent Peter Strzok and DOJ/FBI liaison attorney Lisa Page which includes a disclosure by top FBI officials that text messages between Strzok and Page have gone missing. Peter Strzok was the head FBI Agent in charge of the ‘liar-Clinton Operation’ (exoneration), and ‘Trump Operation’ (political surveillance).  Strzok reported to the FBI Director of Counterintelligence, Bill Priestap.  Lisa Page was the DOJ attorney assigned to the FBI and key legal aide for FBI Asst. Director Andrew “Andy” McCabe. According to information relayed to Senator Ron Johnson, the period of time the FBI has “lost” is from December 14th, 2016 to May 17th, 2017, the exact day that Special Counsel Robert Mueller was assigned to lead the Russia collusion probe...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/21/fbi-mysteriously-loses-five-months-of-text-messages-between-peter-strzok-and-lisa-page/
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Democrats vote to hide 
‘FISA memo’ in flagrant coverup
by Jonathon Colman
{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ President liar-nObama promised that his administration would be “the most transparent administration in American history.”... This, of course, would become one of the many promises broken by during his administration. As President Trump continues to dismantle liar-nObama’s legacy piece-by-piece, Democrats are scrambling to save the last vestige of liar-nObama’s presidential legacy: his popularity among the American people. On Thursday, Democrats in the House Intelligence Committee unanimously voted against a motion to allow members of Congress to see a classified memo that allegedly contains proof of the U.S. government’s abuses of FISA surveillance under the liar-nObama administration...People with half a brain would vote you dems out of office.   https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/political-corruption/democrat-congressmen-caught-coverup.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=afternoon&utm_campaign=CNA_20180121-2
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The undoing of limited government
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by Andrew P. Napolitano
{washingtontimes.com} ~ Late last week, Rep. Devin Nunes, California Republican, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, repeated his public observations that members of the intelligence community — particularly the CIA, the NSA and the intelligence division of the FBI — are not trustworthy with the nation’s intelligence secrets. Because he has a security clearance at the “top secret” level and knows how others who have access to secrets have used and abused them, his allegations are extraordinary.

He pointed to the high-ranking members of the liar-nObama administration who engaged in unmasking the names of some people whose communications had been captured by the country’s domestic spies and the revelation of those names for political purposes. The most notable victim of this lawlessness is retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, a transcript of whose surveilled conversation with Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak found its way into print in The Washington Post.

During the George W. Bush and Barack 
liar-nObama years, captured communications — digital recordings of telephone conversations and copies of emails and text messages — did not bear the names of those who sent or received them. Those names were stored in a secret file. The revelation of those names is called unmasking.

Mr. Nunes also condemned the overt pro-
liar-Hillary Clinton bias and anti-Trump prejudice manifested by former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey and their agents in the field, some of whose texts and emails we have seen. The secrets that he argued were used for political purposes had been obtained by the National Security Agency pursuant to warrants issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Yet Mr. Nunes voted to enhance federal bulk surveillance powers.

Bulk surveillance — which is prohibited by the Constitution — is the acquisition of digital versions of telephone, email and text communications based not on suspicion or probable cause but rather on geography or customer status. As I have written before, one publicly available bulk surveillance warrant was for all Verizon customers in the United States; that’s 115 million people, many of whom have more than one phone and at least one computer. And it is surveillance of Americans, not foreigners as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act contemplates.

How did this happen?

It happened in the dark. The NSA has persuaded the FISC, which meets in secret and only hears the government’s arguments, to permit it to spy on any American it wishes on the theory that all Americans know someone who knows someone else who knows someone who could have spoken to a foreign person working for a foreign government that could wish us ill.

This is the so-called judicial logic used to justify the search warrant on all of Verizon’s customers. This is what happens when judges hear only one side of a dispute and do so in secret.

The FISA amendments for which Mr. Nunes and other House members voted, which are likely to pass in the Senate, would purport to make bulk surveillance on all Americans lawful. At present, it is lawful only because the FISC has authorized it. The FISA amendments would write this into federal legislation for the next six years.

And these amendments would permit the FBI and any American prosecutor or law enforcement agency — federal, state or local — to sweep into the NSA’s databases, ostensibly looking for evidence of crime. If this were to become law, there would no longer be any unmasking scandals, because the stored data contains the names of the participants in the communications and would be readily available for harassment, blackmail or political use.

It would also mean that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution — which guarantees privacy in our persons, houses, papers and effects — would have been gutted by the very office holders who swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend it.

Does the American public know this? Does the president?

Last week, I made an impassioned plea on Fox News Channel directly to the president. I reminded him that he personally has been victimized by unlawful surveillance and the political use of sensitive surveillance-captured data; that the Constitution requires warrants for surveillance and they must specifically describe the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized; that warrants must be based on probable cause of individual behavior, not an area code or customer list; that the purpose of these requirements is to preserve personal privacy and prohibit bulk surveillance; and that he took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.

About an hour later, the president issued a tweet blasting bulk surveillance and unmasking. Two hours after that, he issued another tweet supporting the enactment of the FISA amendments.

What’s going on here?

I suspect that leaders in the intelligence community hurriedly convinced the president that if he sets aside his personal unhappy experiences with them and any constitutional qualms, they will use the carte blanche in the FISA amendments to keep us safe. This is a sad state of affairs. It means that Donald Trump changed his mind 180 degrees on the primacy of personal liberty in our once-free society.

The elites in the federal government and the deep state — the parts of the government that are unauthorized by the Constitution and that operate in the dark, what candidate Trump called “the swamp” — have formed a consensus that marches the might of the government toward total Orwellian surveillance.

This is a march that will be nearly impossible to stop. This is the permanent destruction of the right to privacy. This is the exaltation of safety over liberty, and it will lead to neither. This is the undoing of limited government, right before our eyes.
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Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

TheFrontPageCover
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Palestinian Leader’s Anti-American 
Rant Gives Trump Cause to Cut Funding
by Caroline Glick
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Watters, Dobbs – Memo Confirms 
liar-nOBAMA/liar-CLINTON Plotted With 
FBI, DOJ to OVERTHROW Trump
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs switched chairs to become the invited guest on Watters’ World... with the topic of the Devin Nunes memo and its earth-shattering implications front and center. Watters says, “All hell is breaking loose in Washington DC after a memo was shown to members of Congress. The memo reportedly details widespread abuse in our domestic surveillance programs. Sources say it involves the targeting of the Trump campaign.” He then plays clips of members of Congress expressing their outrage, that it is comparable to something we would associate with the KGB, and that there will likely be jail involved for some of the perpetrators. Watters tells viewers that sources are telling them the report is so explosive it will end the Mueller investigation political witch hunt...  https://rickwells.us/watters-obama-clinton-fbi-trump/
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Why Monica Lewinsky Mattered
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by JAMES ROGAN
{wnd.com} ~ Twenty years ago today, Jan. 21, 1998, I was a freshman congressman sitting at my kitchen table pouring a cup of coffee and preparing to leave for the airport... An article on the front page of the Washington Post caught my eye: “liar-Clinton Accused of Urging Aide to Lie.” It wasn’t until I got to the bottom of the lead paragraph that I learned the supposed lie involved a White House intern named Monica Lewinsky with whom the president might have had an affair. I shrugged off the revelation. During liar-Clinton’s presidential campaign, cabaret singer Gennifer Flowers disclosed her 12-year affair with him. After he denied it vehemently, she produced audiotapes of their phone conversations confirming the relationship. In later years other women came forward with claims against him ranging from adulterous liaisons to sexual assault. These stories were a small part of the liar-Clinton scandal mosaic that disrupted his administration almost from his first day in office: Whitewater, cattle futures and the unending “gates” – Chinagate, Travelgate, Filegate, Pardongate, Troopergate, Donorgate, Hubbellgate and so forth. “No big deal,” I thought when I read of this new allegation. If America didn’t care about liar-Clinton’s private life before they twice elected him president, why would one more girlfriend matter? Thinking this story rated no special notice, I finished my coffee and headed out the door without bothering to read the article...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/why-monica-lewinsky-mattered/
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Pat Caddell on Shutdown: Democrats 
Have ‘Lost Control of Their Base’
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by ROBERT KRAYCHIK
{breitbart.com} ~ Democrats “have lost control” of their base and membership... said veteran pollster Pat Caddell while commenting on the day’s “government shutdown. ”Caddell’s remarks came in a Friday interview with Breitbart News’s Senior Editor-at-Large Rebecca Mansour on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Tonight. “They have got themselves locked in on this question about DACA,” said Caddell, pointing to broad Democrat prioritization of pursuing legislative amnesty for illegal immigrants styled after the liar-nObama administration’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy. Democrats will politically damage themselves by prioritizing pursuit of a DACA-style amnesty bill while neglecting border security, said Caddell. Widespread Democrat support for “sanctuary cities,” he added, is an unpopular position across the broader public...  http://www.breitbart.com/radio/2018/01/20/pat-caddell-on-shutdown-democrats-have-lost-control-of-their-base/
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Sanctuary Cities: Time for a Showdown
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by Gary Fouse
{lidblog.com} ~ I give President Trump much credit for helping elevate the sanctuary cities issue to national attention... The problem is especially acute in my home state of California. San Francisco, arguably the worst example of a sanctuary city, is up in arms and tensions are high now that Trump and ICE have signaled their intentions   to target the Bay Area in an effort to remove criminal illegal aliens and those who have ignored deportation orders. Yet, the city leaders and the plethora of advocacy groups are calling for resistance. They were not shaken by the Kate Steinle killing by an illegal alien criminal who had been deported multiple times. On the contrary, a San Francisco jury acquitted the killer. This week, the University of California at Berkeley is in turmoil as usual because one of its students, Luis Mora, an illegal alien from Colombia who overstayed his visa, was picked up and is being held by ICE near San Diego. Not only the usual students are raising hell, but the chancellor of the university, Carol Christ, has personally put the taxpayer-funded resources and time of the university to work in trying to get Mora released. Need I remind the reader that the current president of the UC system is none other than Janet Napolitano, former head of DHS...  https://lidblog.com/sanctuary-cities-time-for-a-showdown/
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Palestinian Leader’s Anti-American 
Rant Gives Trump Cause to Cut Funding
by Caroline Glick

{truthrevolt.org} ~ For decades, Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas has been touted by American leaders as a moderate man of peace.

U.S. leaders from George W. Bush to Barack liar-nObama, and from Condoleezza Rice to hanoi-John Kerry, all insisted that Abbas is the Palestinian leader who will make an historic deal with Israel.

President Donald Trump has met three times with Abbas since taking office.

On Sunday night, Abbas showed them what he really thinks.

He cursed Trump saying that the U.S. President’s “house should be destroyed.”

He attacked U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman in lurid, antisemitic language:

“U.S. Ambassador to Israel David Friedman is a settler who is opposed to the term ‘occupation.’ He is an offensive human being, and I will not agree to meet him anywhere. They requested that I meet him and I refused, not in Jerusalem, not in Amman, not in Washington.”

Abbas then threatened U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley.

“She [Haley] threatens to hit people who hurt Israel with the heel of her shoe, and we’ll respond the same way.”

He called Trump’s anticipated Middle East peace plan “a slap in the face,” and said, “we will slap back.”

Abbas declared “dead” the peace agreements he and his colleagues in the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) signed with Israel for the Palestinians since 1993. He pledged to block any future U.S. involvement in peace talks between the Palestinians and Israel: “We will not accept American leadership of a political process involving negotiations.”

Abbas then turned his attention to Israel and the Jews.

“Israel,” he said “is a colonial project that has nothing to do with Jews.”

“Europeans wanted to bring the Jews here to preserve their interests in the region. They asked Holland, which had the world’s largest fleet, to move the Jews,” he said.

Israeli President Reuven Rivlin said that Abbas’s remarks harken back to “things that led him to be accused years ago of anti-Semitism and Holocaust denial.”

Abbas’s Ph.D. thesis, which he wrote for a Soviet university controlled by the KGB in the 1960s denied the Holocaust.

Over the past 25 years, the Western and Israeli leaders that have hailed Abbas as a moderate dismissed the significance of his doctorate – which he later published in Jordan as a best-selling book – saying it was a relic of the PLO’s former rejection of Israel’s right to exist.

The problem with Rivlin’s statement is that it ignores Abbas’s record.

Contrary to Rivlin’s view of Abbas’s racist assault on Jews as a throwback to an earlier time, antisemitic diatribes have been a consistent feature of Abbas’s public statements, whether he is speaking to Arab or Western audiences.

In a speech before the European Parliament in 2016, for instance, Abbas recycled the medieval blood libel that Jews poison the wells of Christians. That blood libel incited the death of thousands of Jews through the ages.

Speaking to European lawmakers, Abbas said, “Certain rabbis in Israel have said very clearly to their government that our water should be poisoned in order to have Palestinians killed.”

As for his Holocaust denial being a thing of the past, Abbas posted his doctoral thesis on his official website. His lies are taught as fact in Holocaust education in the Palestinian school system – which he controls.

Then there is his anti-Americanism.

Abbas controls every aspect of the Palestinian Authority (PA), including the rent-a-mobs.

Over the years, protesters have greeted every senior U.S. policymaker who has visited Abbas in Ramallah.

In 2013, 150 protesters demonstrated against then-president Barack 
liar-nObama when he met with Abbas. In 2007, protesters who worked for Abbas’s government greeted then-Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice with signs calling for Hezbollah to bomb America.

So in stark contrast to Rivlin’s statement, Abbas’s speech was not a throwback to a long ago time. It was a throwback to what he said yesterday, and the day before yesterday and the day before that, and what the Palestinian newspapers and television – which he controls — reported the day and week and month and year before that.

Another explanation of Abbas’s scorched-earth speech Sunday is that he scorched the earth in preparation for his resignation from office. Abbas, Israel’s commentators were quick to note, is 82 years old. So it seems reasonable to conclude that his decision to launch a frontal assault against Jews and Americans was a sort of valedictory address.

But here too, the assessment is contradicted by Abbas’s record.

It is true that Abbas is approaching his 83rd birthday. But he is also approaching the 14th year of his four-year term of office. Abbas has repeatedly refused to stand for reelection since his four-year term ended in 2009.

Not only has Abas rejected repeated calls from his Palestinian colleagues and from successive U.S. administrations to designate a successor, he has sidelined and exiled all of his political rivals in the PLO.

Then there are the steps he has taken to coopt Hamas and so minimize the threat Hamas poses to his maintenance of power.

The Hamas terror group ousted Abbas and his U.S.-trained PLO forces from Gaza in 2007. Rather than launch a U.S.-backed counterstrike against Hamas, Abbas chose to collaborate with Hamas. He has funded Hamas’s government. That funding has enabled the jihadist group to launch a series of missile wars against Israel.

Moreover, Abbas has used the PLO’s position at the UN and in Europe to protect Hamas from criticism and wage a political war against Israel. The goal of this war is to end Western support for Israel’s right to exist by delegitimizing Israel as a colonialist implant of European imperialists.

A man interested in retiring would not have eliminated all of his potential heirs to cling to power, or agreed to a power-sharing deal with Hamas to keep everyone at bay.

So if Abbas isn’t planning to retire, why is he cursing Trump and his senior advisors? Why is he recycling anti-Jewish blood libels from the 12th century and announcing that the deals he signed with Israel and the peace process as a whole are dead?

The simple answer is that Abbas is acting as he is because he is certain that he can. This is how he has always acted. There is nothing new in his speech. And he doesn’t think that he will suffer any consequences for behavior.

Abbas expects President Trump to disregard his statements and continue to bankroll his terror-supporting regime in the name of “the peace process,” or “humanitarian assistance” just as Bush and 
liar-n Obama did.

Abbas gave his speech at start of a two-day conference of the PLO’s Central Committee, which he convened to determine a response to President Trump’s announcement on December 6 that for the first time in nearly seventy years, the U.S. recognizes that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.

Trump’s Jerusalem declaration placed Abbas and his colleagues in a conundrum. On the one hand, his declaration had no practical implications. Trump signed a waiver delaying the transfer of the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem. No immediate plans have made to move the embassy.

Moreover, the State Department insists that there is no practical significance to Trump’s statement. Acting Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs David Satterfield told reporters the day after Trump’s announcement that his statement does not change U.S. policy barring American citizens born in Jerusalem from listing Israel as their country of birth on their official documents. Indeed, Satterfield refused to answer a question regarding whether Jerusalem is even in Israel.

On the other hand, simply by recognizing the basic fact that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and has been Israel’s capital for nearly 70 years, Trump broke with the longstanding U.S. policy of denying observable reality in relation to Israel in order to advance “peace” between Israel and its Arab neighbors.

Only by denying reality can anyone pin hopes on the PLO as a peace partner. Since its inception in 1964, the PLO has rejected Israel’s right to exist. It has rejected that the Jews are a people. It has denied the history of continuous Jewish habitation of the land of Israel for 3,500 years. And it has denied the fact that the Jews built two temples in Jerusalem.

When Abbas said on Sunday that Israel is the creation of European imperialists, he was merely echoing the PLO’s charter.

By recognizing the truth, Trump took a red-hot poker to the PLO’s false, antisemitic founding narrative.

As Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu said in response to Abbas’s remarks, “For too long, the Palestinian Authority has been pampered by the international community which didn’t dare tell them the truth – not about Jerusalem and not about recognizing Israel. That has changed. I think Abu Mazen Abbas was reacting to that. This is the first time somebody’s told him the truth to his face.”

Trump and his top advisers have made several statements in recent weeks that indicate that his Jerusalem declaration last month was not a one-off.

The President threatened to cut off U.S. aid to Abbas’s regime.

Haley threatened to cut off aid UNRWA, a UN Palestinian refugee agency that works hand and glove with Hamas in Gaza.

Tuesday, the Trump administration informed UNRWA that it is withholding “for further consideration” $65 million of its $370 million annual contribution to UNRWA’s budget.

Statements by Trump’s senior negotiator Jason Greenblatt and Friedman condemning Palestinian Authority finance of terrorism and incitement to murder Israelis have also been groundbreaking.

So far, Tuesday’s hold on a fraction of U.S. funding to UNRWA is the only substantive policy step the Trump administration has taken. Its other moves have been declaratory. They have signaled the beginnings of a new U.S. policy towards Abbas, the PLO and the Palestinian Authority, but the new policy has not yet been articulated, let alone felt on the ground.

By attacking Trump, his advisers, Israel and the Jewish people on Sunday, Abbas was effectively daring Trump to act on his words.

Abbas is betting that Trump is bluffing so the White House’s next moves will be determinative.

The partial funding postponement to UNRWA is notable, but not significant enough to make clear that the U.S. is serious in its policy shift. If no further practical, indisputable steps are taken to translate Trump’s stated positions into a clear move away from the past 25 years of unconditional American support for the Palestinians, Abbas will be empowered to continue to treat him and his administration with the same contempt he exhibited towards 
liar-nObama and Bush.
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TheFrontPageCover
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The Press Is Not Above Reproach
by David Limbaugh
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Monday Top Headlines
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CNN panics, suggests government shutdown will leave Earth vulnerable to asteroids (The Daily Wire)
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GOP bouncing back in 2018 polls after tax cuts (Axios)
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House rejects Democrat effort to impeach Trump in, er, excruciatingly close 355-66 vote (The Hill)
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Texts between Peter Strzok and Lisa Page: AG Lynch knew how the liar-Clinton email case would end (Hot Air)
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Justice Department says it will retry Sen. Robert Menendez following mistrial on bribery charges (The Washington Post)
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Facebook will let users rank news organizations they trust (USA Today)
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How to avoid fake news: Stop getting your news from Facebook (Washington Examiner)
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Google removes fact-check feature targeting conservative media (The Daily Signal)
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Terror concerns prompt stricter TSA scrutiny of air cargo from five mostly-Muslim countries (CBS News)
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Two improvised explosive devices go off at Florida mall (ABC Tampa)
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Policy: The shutdown will further weaken our military (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: Why pro-lifers have cause for hope (The Daily Signal)  ~The Patriot Post
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Judge Jeanine, Gaetz – Pressure Building – 
64 Reps Sent Letter To Nunes To Release 
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro wants to see the memo that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes wrote to... the other members of the House detailing the extent and nature of the criminal activities and sedition engaged in by the liar-nObama administration in concert with the DOJ and FBI. To get input, in as much as he can, given the restrictions in place, Rep Matt Gaetz joins her to discuss the information contained and the potential ramifications as well as the timeline and mechanisms for releasing the information to the American people. Gaetz says not only were there horrific abuses during the liar-nObama regime but that he believes they continue to pose a threat to Donald Trump’s Presidency today. It’s a simple process to have the information released. Gaetz says, “At any moment in time, the Intelligence Chairman, who has done an excellent job, Devin Nunes, can schedule a vote in the Intelligence Committee.”...   https://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-gaetz-memo/
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215,000,000 Christians Persecuted, 
Mostly by Muslims
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by Raymond Ibrahim
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ "215 million Christians experience high levels of persecution" around the world, according to Open Doors... a human rights organization. On its recently released World Watch List 2018, which ranks the world's 50 worst nations wherein to be Christian, 3,066 Christians were killed, 1,252 abducted, and 1,020 raped or sexually harassed on account of their faith; and 793 churches were attacked or destroyed. The Islamic world had the lion's share of this persecution; 38 of the 50 worst nations are Muslim-majority. The report further cites "Islamic oppression" behind the "extreme persecution" that prevails in eight of the 10 worst nations. In short, the overwhelming majority of persecution that these 215 million Christians experience around the world — especially the worst forms, such as rape and murder — occurs at the hands of Muslims...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11775/persecuted-christians-open-doors
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Democrats Just Put 800,000 Illegal Immigrants
Ahead Of America’s Active Duty Military
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by Robert Donachie 
Democrats are threatening to hold national security hostage, potentially costing the economy billions... and forcing hundreds of thousands of federal government employees to go without pay in exchange for securing legal protections for 800,000 illegal immigrants. Congress has several days to strike a deal to keep the government funded through October. If members fail to come to an agreement by Jan. 19, all “non-essential” government employees and active U.S. military personnel will be working with out pay including troops currently deployed. Funding for agencies like federal museums or national parks will also be cut off. Congressional Democrats are apparently content with allowing military and law enforcement personnel to go without pay to secure protections and benefits for illegal immigrants and members of their extended families...   https://www.westernjournalism.com/democrats-rather-protect-800000-illegal-immigrants-pay-americas-active-duty-military/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=weeklyam&utm_content=western-journal
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Report: Bombshell memo could finally 
end Robert Mueller’s investigation
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{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ A bombshell is set to be unleashed on Washington DC. And the greatest casualty... will be the investigation of special counsel Robert Mueller and his effort to prove that President Donald Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia in the 2016 presidential election. On Thursday Republican legislators set DC on fire when they announced that there was an “explosive” and “absolutely shocking” memo that exposed massive abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). The memo is said to be damaging enough to stop the Mueller “witch hunt” and could place former liar-nObama administration officials on the hot seat instead. https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/government-corruption/memo-end-mueller-investigation.htm?utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=morning&utm_campaign=CNA_20180121-1
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California to register illegal 
aliens to vote – automatically
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{wnd.com} ~ California will take the next step in blurring the lines between citizens and non-citizens beginning April Fool’s Day... when the state complies with a court order to begin automatically registering to vote all those who are granted driver’s licenses.  The state has long provided driver’s licenses to all who simply claimed, without proof, that they were citizens of in the country legally. There were no checks made or documentation required. “We are very pleased that Californians will have easier access to voter registration,” said Jeremiah Levine, an attorney with Morrison Foerster who represented the voting-rights groups. “We are especially satisfied that changes will be made before California’s statewide and federal primary elections.”...What California is doing is illegal and is against our Constitution. Where is Session?  http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/major-state-to-register-illegal-aliens-to-vote-automatically/
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The Press Is Not Above Reproach
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by David Limbaugh
{townhall.com} ~ At the risk of sending the left into a state of apoplexy, a monolithic, biased, renegade, politicized press is a far greater threat to liberty than a president criticizing the media.

Like their First Amendment counterparts -- the freedom of religion, the freedom of assembly and the right to petition the government -- the freedoms of speech and the press are an important part of what has made the United States the freest and greatest nation in world history. It is fitting, then, that we elevate them to such venerated status in this country.

But it's important that we distinguish these constitutionally guaranteed liberties from the press itself, which theoretically serves as a watchdog against governmental excesses and abuses. There's no question that a free press acting in that capacity can function as a vital check on government.

We must remember, however, that the institution of the press is not itself sacrosanct like the liberties that undergird it. It is made up of individuals and entities subject to the flaws that inhere in all human beings.

Just being a news network and journalists doesn't make them sacred or above criticism and accountability. Just as the Framers separated governmental powers among the legislative, executive and judicial branches of government and pitted them against one another to deter encroachments and usurpations by one branch against the others or against individuals, the Framers also conferred the freedom of expression on individuals and non-journalistic entities, as well. One does not have to be a journalist or a member of the media to possess the freedom of expression. Individuals, other entities and even officeholders have just as much a right to hold the press accountable as the press has to hold the government and government officials accountable. Let's not lose sight of that as we examine this ongoing clash between the media and President Trump.

The insular echo chamber that is the mainstream liberal press has a very high opinion of itself. Many journalists seem to believe that merely being a member of that group invests them with unique moral authority and entitles them to condescend and treat rudely people and especially politicians and government officials with whom they disagree ideologically.

Have you watched, for example, how insolently CNN's smug Jim Acosta treats White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and, when he gets a chance, President Trump himself? I suppose he has a right to be as insulting and annoying as he wants, but Trump, Sanders and the rest of us have an equal right to call him out for behaving this way.

The constitutional guarantees under which Acosta and media institutions operate do not contain a corollary that prohibits others from critiquing and criticizing them and holding them accountable. And they often need to be held accountable, especially considering how much power and influence they have and how egregiously biased they are.

If you have any doubt as to the collective misbehavior and excesses of the liberal media, just review their hysterical witch hunt against President Trump's medical condition. In questioning Trump's physician, these people acted like 5-year-olds. I don't know about you, but I'm going to exercise my right to lampoon them for their ludicrousness.

President Trump not only has every bit as much a right to criticize the media as they do to criticize him but also does not represent a threat to their liberty or to anyone's individual liberty by issuing such criticism. Those, like Sen. RINO-Jeff Flake, who compare Trump to Josef Stalin for criticizing the press or for calling for tougher libel laws are in danger of oxygen deprivation and mental confusion from such hyperventilation.

I don't happen to agree with President Trump that we need stricter libel laws, but that doesn't mean I believe he's flirting with tyranny for advocating them. That he is recommending a legislative solution to the problem demonstrates, by definition, that he is operating constitutionally, not autocratically. He is suggesting that the law be changed through proper democratic processes.

If the whining Sen. Snow-RINO-Flake is so distressed over Trump that he would grossly compare him to the mass-murdering Stalin, then maybe he should either have the courage to run for re-election so he could continue to try to be a thorn in the president's side or start a blog when he retires, where he could continue to exercise his First Amendment right to bellyache about President Trump and nauseate his former constituencies.

For decades, conservatives have had it with the incorrigibly biased liberal media's cherry-picking and distorting the news to serve their political aims, and you can be sure that many of us are happy that we now have an alternative media to counter their excesses. Nor are most of us troubled by President Trump's exercising his freedom to take them to task.

If you don't like that Trump criticizes the media, whose main reason for existence seems to have been reduced to destroying him and his presidency, then criticize Trump -- which you will anyway. But please, let's not hear any more nonsense about how he's abusing or exceeding his constitutional authority by challenging them. When you continue down that road, you just make my case stronger. No one in this nation, no matter how big his megaphone or how prestigious her journalistic credentials, is above criticism. So, liberal media, please get over yourselves -- and in the meantime, why don't you try to be a bit fairer, more objective, less biased, truly journalistic and, not least, less rude?
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Left’s Dirty Little Secret –
Cleaned By Rosa!
by Ann Coulter
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Chaffetz Says MEMO Must Be Released, 
Asks What AG JEFF SESSIONS Is DOING
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs and former House Oversight Committee Chairman and Congressman Jason Chaffetz discuss... the Devin Nunes memo that is still classified but is reported to contain horrendous revelations of misconduct at DOJ and the FBI. Dobbs plays a clip of Rep Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), who as a member of the Intelligence Committee, has seen the memo, describing it by quoting Abraham Lincoln, saying “We’re testing whether this nation or any nation so conceived can long endure.” He says, “If we don’t correct our wrongs, if we  the people don’t have oversight and the people don’t get to have oversight with us as members of Congress, then that’s a problem.” He asks, “How are we ever going to develop trust if we can’t be frank with the American people?”...  https://rickwells.us/chaffetz-memo-released-sessions/
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Gosar – Ryan Must Release Memo, Play “You’re
Busted” Card In Response To clown-Schumer
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Paul Gosar (R-AZ) correctly predicted that there would be a clown-Schumer shutdown over the weekend... in order to give its namesake New York Democrat an means by which to save face for his failed DACA bluff. He also points out that the true problem behind our ineffective government is the 60 vote threshold in the Senate that allows the minority to block the majority and prevents most worthwhile legislation from passing, creating obstructionist legislative terrorism. Gosar has even attempted to debate his GOP Senators on the issue in his home state, efforts they ignored. He points out that the House has done their job, sending bill to the Senate where they die due to the unworkable rules. He says, “We haven’t seen a single vote or a single appropriation bill out of the Senate.”...  https://rickwells.us/gosar-release-memo-busted-card/
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Border Wall Tested by Tactical Teams 
But Basic Design Concerns Still Exist
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{rickwells.us} ~ The reports are that military tactical teams have been testinthe border wall prototypes constructed in the California Desert... over the past three weeks and have determined which characteristics of the designs provided them with the  most difficulty in defeating. That type of testing is a great idea and it is said to have involved the use of jackhammers, saws, torches, and other tools and climbing devices. The report indicates that, while no particular prototype was endorsed, the most effective features were. The Los Angeles times reports that on only one occasion was a tester able to successfully land a hook on top of the wall without help. They don’t say whether there were other instances where they were successful with help and there’s no shortage of bad guys willing to work together to ply their trades, so that is an important distinction that needs to be considered...  https://rickwells.us/border-wall-tactical-teams/
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Congress to stay in session all weekend 
as parties trade blame for shutdown
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by Susan Ferrechio and Al Weaver
The House and Senate are expected to convene for another rare weekend session Sunday... to try to work out a spending deal that will fully restore government funding before Monday. The two parties on Saturday appeared no closer to an accord and spent much of the day using press conferences and floor speeches to blame each other for a partial government closure that kicked in Friday at midnight after Democrats and a handful of Republicans voted to block a bill to fund the government until Feb. 16. The Senate is now debating a second funding measure that would last till Feb. 8, but Democrats are expected to vote against this funding bill as well, raising the likelihood that the workweek will begin under a partial government closure for the first time since 2013...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/congress-to-stay-in-session-all-weekend-as-parties-trade-blame-for-shutdown/article/2646594?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From%20-%2001/20/18&utm_medium=email
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clown-Schumer Thug Tactics Not Working 
TrumpRefuses To Negotiate During 
Democrat Stunt
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{rickwells.us} ~ While Chuck clown-Schumer and his fellow globalist Democrats have shut down non-essential operations of the federal government... President Trump is going one better, shutting the Democrats down. Democrats, with scumbag clown-Schumer in the lead, probably thought they’d hold the a gun to Republican heads as their mainstream media propagandists built pressure to surrender on the part of the misinformed and malleable public. Of course for that tactic to work, there have to be negotiations ongoing during the extortion phase. President Trump has cut the legs out from under the corrupt Democrats by refusing to negotiate with them on immigration until their shutdown stunt is called off and the government is again fully operational... https://rickwells.us/schumer-trump-negotiate-stunt/
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The Left’s Dirty Little Secret – Cleaned By Rosa!
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by Ann Coulter
{freedomsback.com} ~ One thing no liberal will ever turn down is the opportunity to get a standing ovation for accusing someone else of racism.

Democrats have placed their opening bid in the immigration talks on Trump’s 10-yard line — a hilariously unbalanced “compromise” that is worse than their original proposal. Now, they are battering him with accusations of racism to force him into an amnesty deal that he was specifically elected to prevent.

Forced to choose, soccer moms are going with MSNBC — and, hey, if that means we’ll still have Rosa to clean the house, well, that’s OK, too!

Liberals have gotten a free ride for too long on using phony claims of “racism” to promote policies that hurt black people but help themselves. It’s like spoiling a kid; by the time he’s 15, it’s impossible to get him to clean his room.

The virtue signalers have been out in force lately, putting in museum-quality performances ever since receiving an unsubstantiated report about Trump’s alleged “s—hole countries” comment in a private meeting.

At least all the raging sanctimony is based on a solid source: the claims of one guy with a track record of making up things said in private meetings.

Sen. scum-Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) is the only person accusing Trump of referring to Haiti and African nations as “s—hole countries.” Four people at the meeting deny it.

Headline on Politico: “scum-Durbin Confirms Trump’s “S—hole Remarks During Meeting”

Wow, so he not only leaked the remarks — he confirmed them!

Just a few years ago, both the liar-nObama White House and Republican House leaders denied scum-Durbin’s claim that a Republican congressman had said to President 
liar-nObama, “I cannot even stand to look at you.”

The four people who deny that Trump used the word “s—hole” are Trump himself, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, and Sens. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.) and David Perdue (R-Ga.). They have been required to retract nothing about the meeting. None of them have a history of being contradicted by both Republicans and Democrats over claims they made about a private conversation.

Media: WHY ARE SENS. COTTON AND PERDUE LYING ABOUT WHAT WAS SAID AT THE MEETING?

When it comes to Trump, our media have thrown the rulebook out the window. They make it up as they go along.

The virtue signalers are so proud of their anger, tears and profanity over Trump’s alleged remark, they’ve taken to complimenting one another about their own performances:

You were awesome!

No, YOU were awesome!

Meanwhile, I can’t help but notice that there are some great openings for their kids at Haitian public schools in Brooklyn. We’d love to — really — but we’ve already made other arrangements after pulling strings, waiting four years and paying tens of thousands of dollars to make sure their kids never go to school with blacks or immigrants.

I also can’t help but notice that just as black Americans had won their full civil rights and were about to burst into the American economy … Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) helped pass the 1965 immigration act that began dumping millions and millions of low-wage workers on the country to compete with them.

Obviously, the people hurt most by the mass immigration of low-skilled workers are black Americans, aka, The Only Reason We Care So Much About Racism. I refer you to the Jordan Report — overseen by actual civil rights icon Barbara Jordan.

Far from making up for the legacy of slavery, our immigration policies solve the exact same problem that slavery solved: rich people’s eternal need for cheap labor.

We don’t owe immigrants anything. They aren’t black Americans. We didn’t do anything to the Mexicans streaming across our border. Or, for that matter, to the Haitians, Ecuadorians, Pakistanis and so on. No slavery, no Jim Crow laws, no redlining — just billions and billions of dollars in foreign aid. (Hey, does anyone know if billions of dollars would be enough to pay for a wall?)

We certainly don’t owe them more than we owe our own fellow citizens, especially our black fellow citizens, who could use our help.

But foreigners who showed up yesterday act like they’re the descendants of American slaves, helping themselves to the jobs, affirmative action, government assistance and racial sensitivity meant for the likes of John Lewis and Chris Rock, not illegal alien Jose Antonio Vargas.

Our country is hypersensitive about race because of specific injustices done to black Americans, not because we wanted to shower favors on anyone in need of a handout who manages to sneak into our country.

The Democrats treat black people like the wife who will iron your shirt for a date with your mistress. They know they don’t have to do anything to keep winning 90 percent of the black vote, so they’ve dedicated themselves to bringing in millions of Latin Americans who will vote for them — and also do their gardening.
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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Al Capone Lives!
by Cal Thomas
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Rusky Lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya 
Dumps on Phony Trump Dossier, Fusion GPS
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{rickwells.us} ~ Catherine Herridge reports on the developments since House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes sent a memo to all members... although only Republicans have chosen to read it, which outlines the abuses of power engage in the attempt by Democrats to subvert the Trump Presidency. She also has an interview with Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian Attorney who was intimately involved with Fusion GPS and attended a meeting with Trump campaign principals, including Don Jr., in Trump Tower that has gotten quite a lot of attention in the feverish effort to somehow tie Russia to the Trump campaign. In addressing the memo, Herridge plays a clip of Rep Ron DeSantis calling for it to be released to all Americans and notes that it grew out of the Democrat led Trump-Russia witch hunt. She says, “It focuses on the FBI, Justice Department, surveillance warrants for Americans, as well as the Trump dossier.”... https://rickwells.us/herridge-lawyer-trump-dossier/
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scum-Dick Durbin Literally Says 
He Doesn’t Work for the American People
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by BEN MARQUIS
{conservativetribune.com} ~ When men and women are elected to serve in either branch of Congress, they are supposed to be working on behalf of American citizens... focused on the issues that matter most to them, specifically for the residents and voters of the state and/or district that sent them to Washington. But according to The Daily Wire, it would appear that Democrat Illinois Senator scum-Dick Durbin is “focused” and “working” on behalf of an entirely different constituency than would be presumed by most people — namely illegal immigrants, and not American citizens or the voters within his own state. The Senate Minority Whip, a top leader in the Democrat Party, was recently asked by a reporter to respond to allegations that he had lied about President Donald Trump making the now-infamous “s***hole” remark during a recent closed-door discussion in the White House about immigration reform efforts...  https://conservativetribune.com/durbin-doesnt-work-american-people/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativebyte&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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#ReleaseTheMemo: 
Stop Robert Mueller’s Mission Creep
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by SIDNEY POWELL
{dailycaller.com} ~ Weeks ago, it became apparent that we were dealing with not only “mission creep” by Robert Mueller... but with “a case of creeps on a mission—to destabilize and destroy this President.” Now our Republican congressmen who have seen “the memo” about what was really going on in President Barack liar-nObama’s Department of Justice and Federal Bureau of Investigation to damage Donald Trump are seeing more evidence it was indeed a case of “creeps on a mission.” While we are waiting for what should be a no-brainer release of the facts, please recognize that a federal court last year already found egregious and lawless deliberate abuse of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) by the FBI specifically, and certainly implicating DOJ.  The court’s decision reveals that the upper echelon of the FBI (such as James Comey, Andrew McCabe, Peter Strzok and others deliberately gave unlimited and unsupervised access to the most private raw FISA data to a private contractor. Can you say Fusion GPS?...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/19/releasethememo-stop-robert-muellers-mission-creep/
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It wasn't Just Republican-Democrats also 
Voted to Shut Down Debate on Trump 
Admin Surveillance Power
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by Alex Emmons
A CRITICAL MASS of Senate Democrats voted with Republicans on Tuesday to shut down any further debate on a bill... that strengthens the government’s spying powers. The bill would renew a key surveillance authority for the National Security Agency until 2023 and consolidate the FBI’s power to search Americans’ digital communications without a warrant. The motion, which passed 60-38, virtually guarantees that the final bill will pass likely later this week and quashes any opportunity to debate whether protections should be added. Eighteen Democrats — including Sen. Dianne Fein-stein, who had previously proposed an amendment to restrict the FBI’s surveillance authority — voted in support of the motion. They were joined by 41 Republicans and one independent, Angus King, giving the pro-surveillance bloc the supermajority needed to push the bill forward. Sens. RINO-John McCain, R-Ariz., and Dan Sullivan, R-Ala., did not vote. Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, lobbied for the bill’s passage on the Senate floor alongside his Republican counterpart from North Carolina, Richard Burr, and Republican leader Mitch McConnell. Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats stood outside the Senate chamber; he had come in person to convince any skeptics of the bill’s merits, Burr said...  https://theintercept.com/2018/01/17/fisa-section-702-nsa-internet-surveillance-senate/?utm_source=The+Intercept+Newsletter&utm_campaign=d5b1983aa9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_01_19&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_e00a5122d3-d5b1983aa9-131896129
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scum-Dick Durbin's 
DACA buddies support N. Korea
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by TREVOR LOUDON
{wnd.com} ~ On June 15, 2012, then-President Barack liar-nObama delivered a speech in the Rose Garden announcing his intention to unilaterally grant... “temporary relief from deportation proceedings” for young people who met certain criteria. The executive order, referred to as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, or DACA, was “not amnesty,” according to liar-nObama. “… This is not immunity. This is not a path to citizenship. It’s not a permanent fix.” One month after the president’s speech, a young woman named Tereza Lee met with about 40 young illegal immigration organizers-in-training to tell them the story about how she was the inspiration for scum-Dick Durbin’s original 2001 DREAM Act, which consistently failed to get the votes it needed to pass, even while Democrats had the majorities in the House and Senate. Tereza’s presentation was a part of a three-day “Social Justice Camp,” which was organized by the HANA Center, an affiliate of the radical organization NAKASEC. scum-Durbin has deep ties to the Chicago group formed by leaders of a nationwide North Korea support network. He has worked with the NAKASEC-affiliated HANA Center for several years, mainly to promote its pro-illegal alien amnesty/pro-DACA agenda...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/dick-durbins-daca-buddies-support-n-korea/
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Al Capone Lives!
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by Cal Thomas
{townhall.com} ~ "You can get a lot farther with a smile and a gun than you can with just a smile."

This quote has often been attributed to the late Chicago mobster Al Capone, who with his fellow organized crime buddies used extortion as one of their tactics to get what they wanted. Today's modern congressional Democrats have clearly benefited from Capone's example.

As has occurred many times before, congressional Democrats are threatening a government shutdown on Friday, if President Trump and Republicans don't cave on DACA, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, an American immigration policy that allows eligible immigrant youth, who entered the country as minors, protection from deportation and a work permit, which is valid for two years and subject to re-approval.

As you might expect, familiar lines are being used in print and broadcast media. "The government will run out of money," they say. No, it won't. The government never runs out of money. The government can't control its spending habit and that is where the real problem lies.

Once again, Democrats see an opportunity to damage the president and the Republican brand through fear and intimidation, tactics effectively used by Capone and his gang. Their media accomplices will visit familiar places to demonstrate the "harm" caused by closing the government and they will round up the usual suspects. Expect to see crying mothers with small babies complaining about whatever they want to complain about, closed parks and stories about how only "essential" government employees must report to work. Now there's a way to shrink the size and cost of government: keep the essentials and let go of the nonessentials.

It will likely not be noted by the media that anyone who is denied a paycheck during the "shutdown" will get it all back.

Republicans have always had a terrible defense against political extortion. Instead of standing and fighting for principles when did that last happen? they run like cowards in warfare, afraid of the battle.

Maybe this time will be different. Maybe. One hopes the strategy has been developed and is ready to implement.

One option would be a televised address by President Trump, who should be joined by Speaker Paul Ryan. They might appeal to the nation's past when personal debt was a stain on one's character and national debt was a stain on the country. They might remind people of their ancestors, many of whom believed doing for one's self was to be preferred over dependence on government, unless one was truly needy, through no fault of their own. If the narrative is to be changed, the public's thinking must change first.

The government must not be seen as our keeper. The recent tax cut should be used to encourage Americans to invest and save for their future and to build wealth that will allow them to take care of themselves. Wealth, or at least the wealthy, is regarded as evil, while spending -- even deficit spending -- is thought of as good. How did that transformation occur?

We've gone from the days of our 30th president, Calvin Coolidge, whose wisdom remains for anyone wishing to consider it, to the notion that everything government does is good, noble and righteous and the individual is to be the servant of the state.

Coolidge said "no" to new spending and to government programs that did not directly serve the people and would not undermine personal initiative. Like President Trump, he cut taxes significantly and left office with a surplus.

If the government "shuts down" on Friday, it will not only be the Democrats' fault. Republicans must also share part of the blame for their past failures to inform the public about the dangers posed by big government and big spending, not only financially, but in robbing the nation and its people of their character.
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Democrats Seek a Government Shutdown
by Political Editors
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CNN Cur ACOSTA Asks STUPID Attack Question,
Is Completely TAKEN APART By Mulvaney
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{rickwells.us} ~ Unfortunately, after CNN’s cur dog Jim Acosta was told to “Git” by President Trump... for the journalistic equivalent of hiking his leg on the Oval Office couch, rudely disrespecting the President, they still allowed him to return. This time the anti-Trump blowhard was seated in his usual position on the front row of the press briefing room, and once again exhibited his extremely bad judgment, this time by asking one of his customary stupid, attack questions of Budget Director Mick Mulvaney. Mulvaney was giving an update on the wrestling over funding the government and Democrats continuing the use of their ability to block passage of a bill in the Senate as a cudgel for attempting to force capitulation-prone Republicans to give in to their demands for squatter amnesty. Mulvaney referred to the threatened government shutdown in his remarks as the “clown-Schumer shutdown.”...  https://rickwells.us/cnn-acosta-destroyed-mulvaney/
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President Trump Signs 2018 
FISA Authorization With Changes
 
{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ President Trump announced that he has reauthorized FISA-702 with changes in the law provided by Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes... President Trump notes: “This is not the same FISA law that was so wrongly abused during the election”. “This bill reauthorizes a crucial anti-terrorism tool—with increased privacy protections—that helps track foreign terrorists and thwart attacks on Americans. Additionally, the President had already ordered a fix to problems in unmasking procedures, which should give Americans confidence that the Intelligence Community will use this authority to defend Americans’ safety and security while fully respecting their privacy rights.”  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/19/president-trump-signs-2018-fisa-authorization-with-changes/
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By Democrats' Standard for Trump, 
Why Wasn't liar-nObama Impeached?
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by Alex Parker
{truthrevolt.org} ~ In Larry Elder's new Townhall editorial, he asks: "Under the New Trump Standard, Why Wasn't liar-nObama Impeached?"... Elder states in the opening: "In the era of President Donald Trump, Democrats think presidents should be impeached over policy differences." The best-selling author then describes the Left's obsession with Trump's supposed collusion with Russia, and their inability to accept the result of endless investigation. Despite a complete lack of any evidence to support the notion, many Blue State representatives still call for the President's impeachment. But Elder points out the Left's staunch hypocrisy...  https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/larry-elder-democrats-standard-trump-why-wasnt-obama-impeached
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U.S. withholds additional 
$45 million from terror-linked U.N. agency
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by ART MOORE
{wnd.com} ~ Days after announcing it was withholding $65 million from a U.N. agency supporting Palestinian refugees... the United States announced it will not provide a separate $45 million it had pledged to the agency, according to the State Department.  As WND reported, the State Department announced Tuesday it is withholding $65 million the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, UNWRA, warning any additional U.S. donations would depend on changes in how the agency operates and is funded. In 2016, the U.S. donated $355 million to UNWRA. The $45 million allotment was meant for food aid as part of the UNRWA’s West Bank/Gaza Emergency Appeal...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/u-s-withholds-additional-45-million-from-terror-linked-u-n-agency/
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Government shutdown begins 
after most Democrats block spending bill
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by Susan Ferrechio
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The federal government appeared to be headed toward a partial shutdown late Friday after most Senate Democrats and a few Republicans... voted to block a bill that would have authorized funding for another four weeks. Authorization for federal spending expires at midnight, but after a day of last-ditch negotiations, there was no deal between Republicans and Democrats on how to proceed. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., called up the bill that would have funded the government through Feb. 16 shortly after 10 p.m. Friday, but most Democrats voted against it. Democrats are holding out for a deal to protect the so-called "Dreamers" from deportation, one that hasn't materialized yet...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/government-heads-toward-shutdown-after-spending-bill-fizzles-in-the-senate/article/2646544?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/19/18&utm_medium=email
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Democrats Seek a Government Shutdown
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          Last week, Sen. scum-Dick Durbin (D-IL) sought to sabotage any potential progress toward a budget deal when he ran to reporters after a closed-door meeting to blast Donald Trump for allegedly using crass language. The stunt proved successful, giving the Leftmedia another faux controversy to exploit while continuing to aid Democrats in their anti-Trump resistance. Democrat duplicity and deceit knows no bounds.
          The Democrats are angling for a government shutdown for purely political reasons, even while claiming to be seeking to keep programs such as the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) funded — even after Republicans have been more than willing to reauthorize funding.
          As The Wall Street Journal editorial board explains, “Democrats think a shutdown will improve their chances of retaking the House and Senate in November. Everything they do, every decision they make, is a political calculation with that in mind. Thus supposedly grave moral choices like children’s health care and legal status for immigrants are more important as political battering rams than as policy accomplishments. Dysfunction is desirable because Republicans are nominally in charge and will get the blame.
          So, if this standoff results in yet another government shutdown, the party to blame will be the Democrats, even as their cohorts in the mainstream media are already seeking to convince Americans otherwise. Talk about fake news.  ~The Patriot Pos
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Sat/Med - AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Did Donald Trump Change 
His Mind on Domestic Spying?
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Trump Calls clown-Schumer’s Bluff in
WH Meeting Over Govt Funding, Squatter Amnesty
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{rickwells.us} ~ You almost have to laugh at the transparent politics and its supporting propaganda spewing out of the mainstream media... although our military men and women and their families certainly won’t find being Chuck clown-Schumer’s bargaining chip humorous. Leftist online rag Roll Call reported, “Minority Leader Charles E. clown-Schumer left the Capitol for 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Friday afternoon with a chance to broker a government shutdown-averting deal with President Donald Trump — and without Republican lawmakers in the room.” One of the functions of the Congress is to fund the government. It’s not to hold funding hostage as a means of gaining concessions from the opposition party but to allocate funds so that the rest of the government can operate... https://rickwells.us/trump-schumer-bluff-amnesty/
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Congress seeks release of secret doc 
revealing liar-nObama as 'vengeful narcissist
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by BOB UNRUH
{wnd.com} ~ A top-secret memo that has been released to members of Congress, but still is being withheld from the American public... characterizes Barack liar-nObama as “the vengeful narcissist” and alleges surveillance abuses by his administration that one representative likened to the work of Russia’s KGB. The document, released to members by the House Intelligence Committee, centers on the the controversy over unmasking and FISA surveillance, reported FoxNews.com. The House Intelligence Committee Thursday approved a motion by Rep. Pete King, R-N.Y., to release it to all House members, with Democrats opposing the move. Lawmakers said they could not yet discuss the contents, but now there’s an effort to make the memo available to the public...  http://www.wnd.com/2018/01/congress-seeks-release-of-secret-doc-revealing-obama-as-vengeful-narcissist/
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Media Smother Indictment in liar-Clinton/
liar-nObama Uranium One Russia Deal
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by William F. Jasper
{thenewamerican.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton, Barack liar-nObama, Robert Mueller, and other top “Deep State” operatives are undoubtedly very nervous about a federal grand jury indictment... that was handed down recently. On Friday, January 12, the U.S. Department of Justice unsealed an indictment that has the potential to start a chain reaction regarding the long-simmering Uranium One case, which we have been reporting on for several years. The new indictment could lead to the investigation and prosecution of former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton, former FBI Director Robert Mueller now a special prosecutor, and former President Barack liar-nObama — all of whom were involved in a deal that transferred 20 percent or more of U.S. uranium production to Russia. Unlike the empty conspiracy theory in the “Russia collusion” fishing expedition led by Mueller against President Trump, the Uranium One case involves real conspiracy fact and is of utmost concern to our national security. According to a Department of Justice statement issued on January 12,  the 11-count indictment charges Maryland resident Mark Lambert with “one count of conspiracy to violate the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and to commit wire fraud, seven counts of violating the FCPA, two counts of wire fraud and one count of international promotion money laundering.”... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/28073-media-smother-indictment-in-clinton-obama-uranium-one-russia-deal
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Sheriff: FBI Has Ongoing Case 
Against Individual Other Than Paddock
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by JUSTIN CARUSO
{dailycaller.com} ~ Las Vegas sheriff Joe Lombardo revealed that there is an ongoing FBI case against an “individual of federal interest”... other than Stephen Paddock or his girlfriend Marilou Danley.  “We do not anticipate charges being brought forward against Marilou Danley,” Lombardo said in his first press conference on the shooting since October 2017. “As to any other people, the FBI has an ongoing case against an individual of federal interest,” he continued. “I will not be able to elaborate on that statement as because it’s a pending investigation. Any further information in reference to that individual can be provided by the FBI.”...  http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/19/sheriff-fbi-ongoing-case-against-individual-other-than-paddock-video/?utm_medium=email
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President Trump Addresses March for Life Participants and Pro-Life Leaders
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Jim Acosta Doing What He Does Best, Looking Stupid
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Gen. Mattis: Shutdown Would Harm Military Operations
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Malkin on Kimmel Pushing Dem Talking Points With Advice From clown-Schumer
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Is commie-Bernie Sanders Getting Dementia?
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Leftist NY Gov. Cuomo Would Rather Raise Taxes Than Allow Fracking
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Did Donald Trump Change 
His Mind on Domestic Spying?
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~ Late last week, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, repeated his public observations that members of the intelligence community -- particularly the CIA, the NSA and the intelligence division of the FBI -- are not trustworthy with the nation's intelligence secrets. Because he has a security clearance at the "top secret" level and knows how others who have access to secrets have used and abused them, his allegations are extraordinary.

He pointed to the high-ranking members of the liar-nObama administration who engaged in unmasking the names of some people whose communications had been captured by the country's domestic spies and the revelation of those names for political purposes. The most notable victim of this lawlessness is retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, President Donald Trump's former national security adviser, a transcript of whose surveilled conversation with then-Russian Ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak found its way into print in The Washington Post.

During the George W. Bush and Barack 
liar-nObama years, captured communications -- digital recordings of telephone conversations and copies of emails and text messages -- did not bear the names of those who sent or received them. Those names were stored in a secret file. The revelation of those names is called unmasking.

Nunes also condemned the overt pro-
liar-Hillary Clinton bias and anti-Trump prejudice manifested by former CIA Director John Brennan, former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI Director James Comey and their agents in the field, some of whose texts and emails we have seen. The secrets that he argued were used for political purposes had been obtained by the National Security Agency pursuant to warrants issued by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court.

Yet Nunes voted to enhance federal bulk surveillance powers.

Bulk surveillance -- which is prohibited by the Constitution -- is the acquisition of digital versions of telephone, email and text communications based not on suspicion or probable cause but rather on geography or customer status. As I have written before, one publicly available bulk surveillance warrant was for all Verizon customers in the United States; that's 115 million people, many of whom have more than one phone and at least one computer. And it is surveillance of Americans, not foreigners as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act contemplates.

How did this happen?

It happened in the dark. The NSA has persuaded the FISC, which meets in secret and only hears the government's arguments, to permit it to spy on any American it wishes on the theory that all Americans know someone who knows someone else who knows someone who could have spoken to a foreign person working for a foreign government that could wish us ill.

This is the so-called judicial logic used to justify the search warrant on all of Verizon's customers. This is what happens when judges hear only one side of a dispute and do so in secret.

The FISA amendments for which Nunes and other House members voted, which are likely to pass in the Senate, would purport to make bulk surveillance on all Americans lawful. At present, it is lawful only because the FISC has authorized it. The FISA amendments would write this into federal legislation for the next six years.

And these amendments would permit the FBI and any American prosecutor or law enforcement agency -- federal, state or local -- to sweep into the NSA's databases, ostensibly looking for evidence of crime. If this were to become law, there would no longer be any unmasking scandals, because the stored data contains the names of the participants in the communications and would be readily available for harassment, blackmail or political use.

It would also mean that the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution -- which guarantees privacy in our persons, houses, papers and effects -- would have been gutted by the very officeholders who swore an oath to preserve, protect and defend it.

Does the American public know this? Does the president?

Last week, I made an impassioned plea on Fox News Channel directly to the president. I reminded him that he personally has been victimized by unlawful surveillance and the political use of sensitive surveillance-captured data; that the Constitution requires warrants for surveillance and they must specifically describe the place to be searched and the person or thing to be seized; that warrants must be based on probable cause of individual behavior, not an area code or customer list; that the purpose of these requirements is to preserve personal privacy and prohibit bulk surveillance; and that he took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution.

About an hour later, the president issued a tweet blasting bulk surveillance and unmasking. Two hours after that, he issued another tweet supporting the enactment of the FISA amendments.

What's going on here?

I suspect that leaders in the intelligence community hurriedly convinced the president that if he sets aside his personal unhappy experiences with them and any constitutional qualms, they will use the carte blanche in the FISA amendments to keep us safe. This is a sad state of affairs. It means that Donald Trump changed his mind 180 degrees on the primacy of personal liberty in our once-free society.

The elites in the federal government and the deep state -- the parts of the government that are unauthorized by the Constitution and that operate in the dark, what candidate Trump called "the swamp" -- have formed a consensus that marches the might of the government toward total Orwellian surveillance.

This is a march that will be nearly impossible to stop. This is the permanent destruction of the right to privacy. This is the exaltation of safety over liberty, and it will lead to neither. This is the undoing of limited government, right before our eyes.
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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Big Brother on America's Fishing Boats
by Michelle Malkin
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Dobbs, Farrell – Release Intel Memo, Americans
Must See Systemic Corruption at DOJ, FBI
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{rickwells.us} ~ Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch joins Lou Dobbs to discuss the Intelligence Committee memo... that names names and offenses in instances of  corruption and abuse of power targeting candidate and President Trump in an effort to overthrow our President through the abuse of the FISA surveillance program. He plays a clip of Rep Matt Gaetz (R-FL), who, along with a handful of his colleagues, is calling for the memo to be made public so that the American people can see what the corrupt Democrats under Hussein liar-nObama were doing to subvert our government by the people. Farrell points to gross over classification that is preventing the American people from seeing the memo detailing what the corrupt officials, who are still at work, were and are doing. He says that if Americans knew what was going on “heads would roll,” as Rep Gaetz indicated...  https://rickwells.us/dobbs-farrell-corruption-doj-fbi/
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Trump Shoots Down 
Senate Liberals’ Amnesty Bill
Trump tweet wall

{Iconservativehq.com} ~ f you read or watch the establishment news media, you might have read that President Trump rejected the “bipartisan immigration compromise”...
 proposed by Senators RINO-Flake (R-AZ) and scum-Durbin (D-IL). The reality is that what President Trump rejected was “bipartisan” only in that it was negotiated between a liberal Democrat scum-Durbin and a liberal Republican RINO-Flake and it in no way represented a “compromise” between opposing viewpoints on how to solve America’s illegal immigration crisis. RINO-Flake and scum-Durbin group also includes Democratic Sens. Michael Bennet (CO) and Bob Menendez (N.J.) and Republican Sens. Cory Gardner (CO) and Lindsey Graham (S.C.). The group has been discussing for months an amnesty deal, but we wouldn’t really call that a “negotiation,” since they all agree on granting amnesty to millions of illegal aliens and doing as little immigration enforcement as possible...   http://www.conservativehq.com/node/27232

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BREAKING DOJ 
To Re-Try This Corrupt Democrat
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by Matt Friedman

{trumptrainnews.com} ~ Two months after a jury failed to come to a verdict in the corruption case against Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez... and co-defendant Salomon Melgen, the Justice Department on Friday said they want to retry him.  The department filed a one paragraph notice of intent in federal to retry the case. “The United States files this notice of intent to retry the defendants and requests that the Court set the case for retrial at the earliest possible date,” reads the notice, signed by Annalou Tirol, acting chief of the public integrity section. “Defendants Robert Menendez and Salomon Melgen have been indicted for bribery and corruption by two separate grand juries properly empaneled in the District of New Jersey. The first trial ended in a mistrial with a deadlocked jury. An early retrial date is in the best interests of the public, and the United States is available to schedule a retrial at the Court’s earliest convenience.”... http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/breaking-doj-to-re-try-this-corrupt-democrat

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President Trump Calls Out Russia for
Helping North Korean Sanctions Evasion

by Mathew Ha, Boris Zilberman

{defenddemocracy.org} ~ “Russia is not helping us at all with North Korea,” President Trump said yesterday in an Oval Office interview with Reuters... “What China is helping us with, Russia is denting,” the president added. Trump is correct when he accuses Moscow of being complicit in the Kim regime’s efforts to evade sanctions. Although Moscow voted for the latest round of UN sanctions restricting North Korea’s access to petroleum, coal, and other key revenue sources, recent reports suggest there has been a noticeable increase in shipping traffic between North Korean ports and the Russian city of Vladivostok, located roughly 80 miles from the North Korean border. In September 2017, Treasury’s assistant secretary for terrorist financing, Marshall Billingslea, shared in a congressional hearing that both Russian and Chinese ports are allowing North Korean ships to off load coal in clear violation of UN sanctions. Reuters also revealed that Russian-flagged vessels directly engaged in ship-to-ship transfers as recently as October 2017. As President Trump insinuated, ongoing trade between North Korea and Russia is providing a lifeline to the Kim regime...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/mathew-ha-president-trump-calls-out-russia-for-helping-north-korean-sanctions-evasion/
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Sen. Chuck clown-Schumer meets with
President Trump amid budget logjam
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{foxnews.com} ~ Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer, D-NY, met with President Trump at the White House Friday... as part of efforts to avert an imminent government shutdown, just hours after the White House coined a decidedly Trumpian phrase in the battle to assign blame for the standoff, branding it the "clown-Schumer Shutdown." Trump summoned clown-Schumer to the White House shortly after Office of Management and Budget Director Mick Mulvaney, speaking to reporters at a press conference, pointed the finger at clown-Schumer for Democrats refusing to back a short-term spending bill unless it includes protections for illegal immigrants brought to the country as children. The nickname echoed President Trump’s well-documented penchant for hanging nicknames on political adversaries, and the invite appeared to complete a carrot-and-stick approach to negotiations. The move comes as Republicans and Democrats scramble to assign blame to their opponents, knowing that whoever is seen to be behind the shutdown is also under pressure to return to the bargaining table...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/01/19/government-shutdown-looms-as-democrats-stand-firm-on-daca-demands.html
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Big Brother on America's Fishing Boats
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by Michelle Malkin
{townhall.com} ~ Salt water. Seagulls. Striped bass.

My fondest childhood memories come from fishing with my dad on the creaky piers and slick jetties of the Jersey shore. The Atlantic Ocean is in my blood. So when fishing families in New England reached out to me for help spreading word about their economic and regulatory struggles, I immediately heeded their call.

Now, these "forgotten men and women" of America hope the Trump administration will listen. And act.

The plague on the commercial fishing industry isn't "overfishing," as environmental extremists and government officials claim. The real threats to Northeastern groundfishermen are self-perpetuating bureaucrats, armed with outdated junk science, who've manufactured a crisis that endangers a way of life older than the colonies themselves.

Hardworking crews and captains have the deepest stake in responsible fisheries management -- it's their past, present, and future -- but federal paper-pushers monitor them ruthlessly like registered sex offenders.

Generations of schoolchildren have been brainwashed into believing that our seas have been depleted by greedy commercial fishermen. In the 1960s and 1970s, it is true, foreign factory trawlers from Russia and Japan pillaged coastal groundfish stocks. But after the domestic fishing industry regained control of our waters, stocks rebounded.

Reality, however, did not fit the agenda of scare-mongering environmentalists and regulators who need a perpetual crisis to justify their existence. To cure a manufactured "shortage" of bottom-dwelling groundfish, Washington micromanagers created a permanent thicket of regional fishery management councils, designated fishing zones, annual catch limits, individual catch limits and "observers" mandated by the Magnuson-Stevens Act.

Even more frustrating for the fishing families who know the habitat best, the federal scientists' trawler surveys for assessing stocks use faulty nets that vastly underestimate stock abundance.

Meghan Lapp, a lifelong fisherwoman and conservation biologist, points out that government surveyors use a "net that's not the right size for the vessel," which produces "a stock assessment that shows artificially low numbers. The fishing does not match what the fishermen see on the water."

Instead of fixing the science, top-down bureaucrats have cracked down on groundfishermen who fail to comply with impossible and unreasonable rules and regulations. The observer program, which was intended to provide biological data and research, was expanded administratively not by Congress to create "At Sea Monitors" who act solely as enforcement agents.

Yes, Big Brother dispatches a fleet of spies to track and ticket commercial fishing families while they work. And the biggest slap in the face? New England groundfishermen have to pay for it. A study done by the National Marine Fisheries Service estimates the program costs about $710 per day or $2.64 million per year.

Last fall, I visited the Williams family, which owns two fishing vessels based in Point Judith, Rhode Island, and Stonington, Connecticut, to see the crushing impact of this ever-intrusive bureaucracy for myself. Patriarch and small-business owner Tom Williams Sr. began fishing with his father-in-law in the 1960s. Son Tom Jr. captains the Heritage, which harvests cod, flounder and haddock. Son Aaron operates the Tradition, which harvests scup, whiting, squid and sea bass. Grandson Andrew, 20, is the fourth-generation fisherman in the family.

"What we do is feed America," soft-spoken Tom Sr. told me. "We're not just indiscriminately raping the ocean, we're trying to feed people -- feed them good, healthy, quality fish."

Long before he departs from the dock, Tom Jr. must seek permission to do his job.

"Before we sail, we have to do declarations on our boat tracks, which is a vessel monitoring system," Tom Jr. explained. "We have to declare what areas we're going to be fishing in. We also have to submit a sector-trip start hail and operator's permit number. ... Then you have to submit a daily task report, what area you were in, and all the species that you caught."

On top of all that, an at-sea observer boards the Williams' boats and bunks in tight quarters with the crew, looking over their shoulders at every turn. Over the years, the expanding reach of regulators has become overbearing and, as brother Aaron described it, "humiliating."

David Goethel, a boat captain and research biologist who served on the New England fishery management council, sued to overturn the unfunded at-sea monitoring mandate. But he was rebuffed by the U.S. Supreme Court last fall because he filed the suit too late.

He worries not only about his survival and the fate of the New England groundfishing industry, but about the precedent this power and money grab has set.

"There's nothing to stop other government agencies from doing an end-run on Congress to get a budget increase by passing off their regulatory cost to the regulated public," Goethel warned.

For his part, 20-year-old Andrew Williams hopes someone in Washington will ignore the environmental propaganda he has been taught in the classroom and get the facts.

Working on the seas "is all I ever known," he told me. "It started when I was 8 years old, and I never thought about doing anything else."

Like his family, neighbors and crewmates, he is hoping President Donald Trump can help make commercial fishing great again by getting government out of the way.
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Extreme California Poverty Is 
Tied to Unbounded Welfare
by Jordan Candler
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A Literal Border Wall?
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          Thursday morning, Trump responded with a series of tweets in which he re-emphasized his commitment to building the border wall and having Mexico pay for it. Uh oh, is Trump clashing with Kelly? Is Trump changing his stance on immigration and securing the border? While the MSM would love for this to be the case, it’s far from it.
          There is no doubt that Kelly has brought much-needed order to the White House, specifically regarding messaging consistency. What Kelly is doing here is clearing up misperceptions rather than suggesting any policy changes. Regarding the wall, Trump has been pretty consistent in saying he is not looking for a literal 2,000 mile physical barrier. Trump’s wall is the promise of a serious lasting commitment to finally secure America’s southern border, via a physical wall where needed, as well as increased Border Patrol and other measures where geography prohibits an actual wall. Trump has not backed off this campaign commitment, even though the MSM would love to convince his base that he has. As columnist Salena Zito observed during the 2016 campaign, “The press takes him literally, but not seriously; his supporters take him seriously, but not literally.”  ~The Patriot Pos
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Actual DOJ, FBI PLOT to OVERTHROW 
TRUMP Revealed By Intel Committee
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{rickwells.us} ~ Thanks to the efforts of Rep Devin Nunes, House Intelligence Committee Chairman and a few of his House colleagues... bombshell information is now very close to being released to the American people. A memo from the Intelligence Committee to the members of Congress was released today highlighting what they have learned from documents Nunes forced the obstructionists at DOJ and FBI, specifically Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray after a deadline for following through with contempt of Congress charges passed. The memo, according to Rep Jim Jordan and Rep Matt Gaetz, who have long been calling for the release of this information and accountability at DOJ and the FBI, is going to lead to firings and the criminal prosecution of high-ranking government officials. The release of this information to the public will mark the beginning of the end but the investigation by the Intel Committee is nowhere near complete... https://rickwells.us/jordan-gaetz-obama-doj-fbi/
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Canada: "Islamophobia Day"? Are You Kidding?
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by Tom Quiggin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The Prime Minister of Canada, Justin Trudeau, is being asked by the National Council of Canadian Muslims (NCCM, formerly known as CAIR CAN)... to designate January 29 as a "National Day of Remembrance and Action on Islamophobia." If he does, it is an indicator that the Islamists in Canada have succeeded in their program of political expansion and influence to the point of now being able publicly to manipulate the Prime Minister's Office. In fact, in Canada, "Islamophobia" comes in only fourth behind crimes against Blacks, Gays and Jews. Hate crimes against Muslims have dropped, even as the overall number of hate crimes increase, according to the last Statistics Canada reporting... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11767/canada-islamophobia-day
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Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen Slams Federal Judge’s ‘Offensive’ Comments, Declares 
DACA Unconstitutional
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by Ken Klukowski
{theacru.org} ~ Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen on Sunday criticized a federal judge’s order reinstating DACA as offensive... for suggesting that ending DACA is racist. She went on to declare DACA unconstitutional, and unapologetically asserted that her oath of office is to follow the U.S. Constitution. Nielsen appeared on Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace, discussing various issues the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is dealing with. A large part of the interview concerned the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), which is an amnesty program for 800,000 illegal aliens announced by President Barack liar-nObama and developed by former Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. DACA was the predecessor of DAPA, a larger amnesty program based on the same legal argument which covered four million illegal aliens. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit held that DAPA was illegal, and once President Donald Trump was inaugurated and Attorney General Jeff Sessions confirmed, the federal government dropped the remaining legal appeals and let the larger program lapse...  http://www.theacru.org/secretary-kirstjen-nielsen-slams-federal-judges-offensive-comments-declares-daca-unconstitutional/
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Democrats Insist on DACA Amnesty
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by Matthew Vadum
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Democrats’ insistence on an immediate immigration amnesty for potentially millions of young illegal aliens... may shut down the federal government at midnight tonight for the first time in the Trump era. The House vote to fund the government whose funds run out later today, came as the Trump administration sent out confusing mixed messages about its commitment to build a wall on the nation’s southern border and about the constitutionally dubious liar-nObama-era Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that Trump said in September he planned to end. At that time Trump gave Congress six months to put some kind of a legislative fix in place. At a recent televised meeting with lawmakers at the White House Trump seemed to soften his position on DACA and border security but yesterday on Twitter he reaffirmed his previous hardline positions. Democrats want any funding legislation passed by Congress to provide legal certainty for the illegal aliens they intend to count on as future voters. Protecting DACA recipients is so important to the Left that Democrats have to “refuse to offer any votes for Republican spending bills that do not offer a fix for Dreamers and instead appropriate funds to deport them,” stated a secret strategy memo dated Jan. 8 revealed a few days ago... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269077/democrats-insist-daca-amnesty-matthew-vadum
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For Real Collusion, Look at 
liar-nObama's Dirty Dealings with Iran
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by Ari Lieberman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ By now it should be readily apparent to all, even those afflicted with Trump Derangement Syndrome... that the Trump-Russia collusion narrative is a spent force or as leftist political commentator Van Jones put it, “a big nothingburger.” Nearly a year has passed since the appointment of special counsel Robert Mueller and not a scintilla of evidence demonstrating collusion has been forthcoming. Moreover, the investigation itself has been plagued by scandal and partisanship placing a cloud of taint over the entire inquiry. Nevertheless, Mueller’s Russia probe will continue to putter along and after wasting millions of taxpayer dollars as of December 2017, the cost has reportedly reached a staggering $7 million the former G-Man will get a trickle of indictments and plea bargains on peripheral figures for matters wholly unrelated to the original investigation. Democrats will then pat themselves on the back and Mueller will go back to obscurity. Democrats and their allies in the establishment media have cleverly succeeded in temporarily deflecting America’s attention away from the real collusion story, one with real substance and far greater ramifications. A persuasive case can be made that former president Barack liar-nObama colluded with a sworn enemy of the United States, the Islamic Republic of Iran... https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/269072/real-collusion-look-obamas-dirty-dealings-iran-ari-lieberman
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Extreme California Poverty Is Tied to Unbounded Welfare
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          This is truly baffling, particularly when you consider, as Pacific Research Institute’s Kerry Jackson writes, that “the state’s per-capita GDP increased roughly twice as much as the U.S. average over the five years ending in 2016 (12.5 percent, compared with 6.27 percent).” Yet in the 23-year period leading up to 2015, state and local municipalities oversaw the allocation of almost $1 trillion in welfare.
          If mitigating poverty was simply about doling out financial assistance for the needy, California should top the list. But it’s doesn’t. In fact, it sits on the very bottom of the list. This cause and effect stems from the fact that any kind of welfare program that lacks accountability inevitably results in dependence on the state. As Jackson explains:
          In the late 1980s and early 1990s, some states … initiated welfare reform, as did the federal government under President liar-Bill Clinton and the Republican Congress. The common thread of the reformed welfare programs was strong work requirements placed on aid recipients. These overhauls were widely recognized as a big success, as welfare rolls plummeted and millions of former aid recipients entered the workforce. The state and local bureaucracies that implement California’s antipoverty programs, however, have resisted pro-work reforms. In fact, California recipients of state aid receive a disproportionately large share of it in no-strings-attached cash disbursements.
          This is not how other states operate. Especially in Republican-led states, welfare is affixed with conditions, which necessitate pursuing a job. California’s plight resulted from leaders refusing to implement constraints and stipulations. There are some 883,000 public employees in California. And as Jackson explains, “A welfare bureaucracy has an incentive to expand its ‘customer’ base — to ensure that the welfare rolls remain full and, ideally, growing. … California has an enormous bureaucracy — a unionized, public-sector workforce that exercises tremendous power through voting and lobbying. Many work in social services.”
          And this is to say nothing of the state’s housing, environmental and minimum wage boondoggles that unhelpfully ballooned welfare rolls. But at least Californians will have a bullet train! (Well, maybe, if the state can ever drum up the money.) When taking into account the madness of it all, it’s no wonder the state’s more conservative-minded — or “outcasts” — are working to mobilize support for a “New California.” As for the region’s metropolises, their model is unsustainable. A reckoning is coming eventually.  ~The Patriot Pos
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Fri/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
In Immigration Debate, Race Matters
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
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Libtard Oakland Mayor Claims She’d Go 
To Jail To Defend Her Precious Illegals
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{rickwells.us} ~ The angry libtard mayor of sanctuary city Oakland, CA, supports violating federal law through... the protection of criminals wanted by the federal government. Asked what she thought of ICE raids that are expected in a California crackdown, the appropriately named mayor, Libby Schaaf, demonstrated her severe, inoperable case of liberalism by immediately attacking President Trump for enforcing the law. Libtard Libby replied, “It’s no surprise that the bully-in-chief is continuing to try to intimidate our most vulnerable residents.” Those are her city’s residents who are vulnerable because they are breaking the law by their presence and need to be removed. President Trump is merely enforcing the laws passed by Congress during a more sane time, when globalist commie Democrats weren’t holding America hostage...  https://rickwells.us/oakland-mayor-jail-defend-illegals/
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Israel, India Building ‘Anti-Islam 
Nexus,’ Pakistan Complains
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by Vijeta Uniyal
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Pakistan’s Foreign Minister accused Israel and India of building an ‘anti-Islam nexus,’ Pakistani newspapers report... Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Khawaja Asif made that statement on a local TV network while commenting on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to India. Netanyahu is on a week-long visit to India, making him the second Israeli head of government to visit the Hindu-majority country. Much like the Jewish State, India too has paid a huge price for being at the forefront of worldwide jihad. In the past decade, India lost an estimated 5500 civilians and 2700 army personnel to terrorism...   https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/israel-india-building-anti-islam-nexus-pakistan-complains
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Undocumented Lawyer Tries Defending
Illegal Immigrants, Wasn’t Ready for Tucker’s 
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by BENJAMIN ARIE
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Tucker Carlson has a major following among conservatives, and with good reason... He has a strong ability to get to the core of an issue without seeming snarky or hostile, and often makes well-reasoned points that leave his opponents sputtering. That’s exactly what he did on Monday, during an interview with illegal immigrant attorney Cesar Vargas. In case you’re wondering, yes, Vargas is both an attorney for immigrants, and an admitted illegal alien himself. To nobody’s surprise, the topic of the day was immigration policy, and Carlson asked an epic question — one that brought a fresh angle to the debate... https://conservativetribune.com/illegal-immigrant-tucker-carlson/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Shocking Irregularities 
in Screening Aliens for Terror Ties
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{clarionproject.org} ~ An audit on the screening practices of known or suspected terrorists made by Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE) showed... non-compliance with proper protocol in every file that was checked, The Washington Free Beacon reported. The audit was made by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) as a follow-up to 2011 recommendations made by the department for screening aliens who maybe terrorists. Of the 40 case files surveyed, DHS auditors found that all 40 cases had at least one instance of noncompliance with the Known or Suspected Terrorist Encounter Protocol (KSTEP). The cases sampled occurred during the liar-nObama years, between 2013-2015...  https://clarionproject.org/shocking-irregularities-found-screening-aliens-terrorist-ties/
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House GOP Has Access 
to Classified 'FISA Abuse' Report
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by Cathy Burke 
{newsmax.com} ~ House Intelligence Committee Republicans are reportedly letting lawmakers in the lower chamber see a highly classified report... outlining concerns about the conduct of top FBI and Justice Department officials, and their handling of a surveillance program. "We have concerns — Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act concerns — that all members of the body should know," said Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas,  Politico reported. GOP lawmakers argue FISA was inappropriately used to snoop on a foreign policy aide to the Trump campaign. But some conservative House Republicans want it released to the public too, including Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., who said its release is necessary to "preserve our democracy," and Rep. Lee Zeldin, R-N.Y., who contends the report would reveal "FISA abuse,"... https://www.newsmax.com/politics/fisa-house-intelligence-committee/2018/01/18/id/838077/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1774507_01192018&s=al&dkt_nbr=0101029zo390
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In Immigration Debate, Race Matters
by PATRICK J. BUCHANAN
{wnd.com} ~ President Trump “said things which were hate-filled, vile and racist. … I cannot believe … any president has ever spoken the words that I … heard our president speak yesterday.”

So wailed Sen. scum-Dick Durbin after departing the White House.

And what caused the Democratic whip to almost faint dead away?

Trump called Haiti a “s–-hole country,” said scum-Durbin, and then asked why we don’t have more immigrants from neat places “like Norway.”

With that, there erupted one of the great media firestorms of the Trump era. On Martin Luther King Day, it was still blazing.

Trump concedes he may have disparaged Haiti, which, at last check, was not listed among “Best Places to Live” in the Western Hemisphere. Yet Trump insists he did not demean the Haitian people.

Still, by contrasting Norway as a desirable source of immigrants, as opposed to Haiti, El Salvador and Africa, Trump tabled a question that is roiling the West, the answer to which will decide its fate.

Trump is saying with words, as he has with policies, that in taking in a million people a year, race, religion and national origin matter, if we are to preserve our national unity and national character.

Moreover, on deciding who comes, and who does not, Americans have the sovereign right to discriminate in favor of some continents, countries and cultures, and against others.

Moreover, in stating his own preferences, Trump is in a tradition as old as the republic.

The original colonies did not want Catholics here. Ben Franklin feared Pennsylvania was being overrun by stupid Germans:

“Why should Pennsylvania, founded by the English, become a Colony of Aliens, who will shortly be so numerous as to Germanize us instead of our Anglifying them, and will never adopt our Language or Customs, any more than they can acquire our Complexion.”

Just as anti-immigrant parties have arisen in Europe to stem the flood of refugees from the Mideast and Africa, an American Party “Know-Nothings” was formed to halt the surge of Irish immigrants during the Potato Famine of 1845-1849.

Lincoln wanted slaves repatriated to Africa. In the 19th and 20th centuries, we had Chinese and Japanese exclusion acts.

“Californians have properly objected” to Japanese migrants, said V.P. nominee FDR “on the sound basic ground that … the mingling of Asiatic blood with European or American blood produces, in nine cases out of ten, the most unfortunate results.

After the Great Migration of Italians, Poles, Jews and East Europeans, from 1890 to 1920, the Immigration Act of 1925 established quotas based on the national origins of the American people in 1890, thus favoring Brits, Scots-Irish, Irish and Germans.

Civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph, a major figure in Dr. King’s March on Washington, said of the Harding-Coolidge restrictive quotas:

“We favor reducing immigration to nothing … shutting out the Germans … Italians … Hindus … Chinese and even the Negroes from the West Indies. The country is suffering from immigration indigestion.”

The Senate floor leader of the 1965 Immigration Act addressed what were then regarded as valid concerns about the future racial and ethnic composition of the country. Sen. Edward Kennedy pledged:

“Our cities win not be flooded with a million immigrants annually … the ethnic mix of this country will not be upset. … S. 500 will not inundate America with immigrants from … the most populated and economically deprived nations of Africa and Asia.”

What Kennedy assured America would not happen, did happen.

Today, issues of immigration and race are tearing countries and continents apart. There are anti-immigrant parties in every nation in Europe. Turkey is being bribed to keep Syrian refugees out of Europe.

Boatloads of Africans from Libya are being turned back in the Med. After building a wall to keep them out, Bibi Netanyahu has told “illegal aliens” from Africa: Get out of Israel by March, or go to jail.

Angela Merkel’s party may have suffered irreparable damage when she let a million Mideast refugees in. The larger concentrations of Arabs, Africans and Turks in Britain, France and Germany are not assimilating. Central European nations are sealing borders.

Europe fears a future in which the continent, with its shrinking numbers of native-born, is swamped by peoples from the Third World.

Yet the future alarmed Europeans are resisting is a future U.S. elites have embraced. Among the reasons, endless mass migration here means the demographic death of the GOP.

In U.S. presidential elections, persons of color whose roots are in Asia, Africa and Latin America vote 4-1 Democratic and against the candidates favored by American’s vanishing white majority. Not for the first time, liberal ideology comports precisely with liberal interests.

Mass immigration means an America in 2050 with no core majority, made up of minorities of every race, color, religion and culture on earth, a continent-wide replica of the wonderful diversity we see today in the U.N. General Assembly.

Such a country has never existed before. Are we on the Yellow Brick Road to the new Utopia – or on the path to national suicide?
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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Turning the Tables on Coastal Ecofascists
by Arnold Ahlert
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Judge Agrees To Private Review of
Comey Memos – Judicial Watch Does It Again
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{rickwells.us} ~ Once again it is Judicial Watch taking on the Sessions Justice Department that is covering up for and fighting in court... to protect the criminal former FBI Director James Comey. This time, Judicial Watch got the upper hand. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg has ruled that the FBI must provide Comey’s memos to his court for his own in camera, private review. The memos allegedly detail Comey’s conversations with President Trump, according to the lying exposed espionage criminal, Jim Comey. Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wrote, “We hope now that Americans are one step closer to knowing the facts about these memos, which were written and leaked for pernicious purposes to target a sitting president with a criminal investigation. It’s high time they begin to see the light of day. We’re glad the court followed up on our specific suggestion that it review the documents directly.”... https:///judge-comey-judicial-watch/
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Aussie Complaints Headed to FBI on
liar-Clinton Foundation’s Dealings Down Under
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{lifezette.com} ~ An Australian investigative journalist who is a retired police detective said Tuesday he has been asked to provide the FBI with details... about multiple allegations of mishandling millions of dollars contributed to the liar-Clinton Foundation by the Aussie government. “I have been asked to provide the FBI with further and better particulars about allegations regarding improper donations to the CF funded by Australian taxpayers,” Michael Smith told LifeZette. At the center of Smith’s complaints are former President liar-Bill Clinton, former Secretary of State and 2016 Democratic presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton, and multiple Australian government officials, including senior diplomat Alexander Downer, that government’s high commissioner to the United Kingdom...   https://www.lifezette.com/polizette/aussie-complaints-to-be-filed-with-fbi-on-clinton-foundations-dealing-down-under/
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House GOP close to spending 
deal after talking to Trump
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by Susan Ferrechio and Al Weaver
House Republicans on Thursday appeared to have a deal that will ensure a short-term spending bill passes later tonight... after conservative lawmakers talked with President Trump, lawmakers said Thursday. "I think we are in very good shape," Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., said after the meeting. According to lawmakers, Republican leaders promised to determine whether they had the vote to pass a border security bill authored by Reps. Bob Goodlatte, R-Va., and Raul Labrador, R-Idaho. The bill would call for a southern border wall and other immigration changes, including an end to chain migration. It would also protect so-called Dreamers who came here illegally as children. It is the most conservative of immigration reform proposals and would probably not pass in the Senate. The Freedom Caucus members said GOP leaders also promised legislation that would benefit the military, which has suffered from years of budget cuts...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house-gop-close-to-spending-deal-after-talking-to-trump/article/2646379?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/18/18&utm_medium=email
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Conservative Lobbyist Who Offered Reward
For Info On Seth Rich Murder Violently Attacked
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by JACK CROWE
{dailycaller.com} ~ A well-known conservative lobbyist was sprayed with a “caustic substance” by a masked attacker... outside his Arlington home Tuesday, according to local police. Jack Burkman, who made headlines in 2016 by offering a $130,000 reward for information on the mysterious murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich, was reportedly attacked Tuesday. Local police told The Washington Post they have not yet determined the perpetrator’s identity. Burkman told WaPo he was returning from the grocery store when a man wearing a ski mask jumped out of a black SUV, sprayed him in the face with what appeared to be pepper spray, and hit him the head before speeding away. He added that he thought “the end is coming,” when he spotted the man coming up his driveway, and said the attack “seemed professional,” though he had trouble pinning down who exactly might have cause to attack him...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/18/lobbyist-who-offered-seth-rich-reward-attacked/?utm_medium=email
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House passes monthlong spending bill, 
sends shutdown drama to the Senate
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by Susan Ferrechio
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ House Republicans on Thursday passed a bill to keep the federal government funded until Feb. 16... sending the legislation to a possible defeat in the Senate later tonight. Republicans passed the bill after an internal fight over military spending and immigration reform that they resolved about an hour before the vote. The bill also delays several liar-nObamacare taxes, and includes a six-year reauthorization of the Children’s Health Insurance Program, language that the GOP hoped would attract some Democrats. But House Democrats called the bill “a farce” and “a partisan approach” and tried to shift the blame for a government shutdown to the GOP...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house-passes-month-long-spending-bill-sends-shutdown-drama-to-the-senate/article/2646389?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/18/18&utm_medium=email
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Turning the Tables on Coastal Ecofascists
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In New York City, Bill de Blasio’s administration has filed a federal suit against a number of fossil fuel companies based on their alleged role in precipitating climate change. According to the suit, “The city seeks to shift the costs of protecting the city from climate change impacts back onto the companies that have done nearly all they could to create this existential threat.”
          BP, Chevron, ConocoPhillips, ExxonMobil and Royal Dutch Shell are the defendants in this case, and the lawsuit alleges these companies have produced more than 11% of the entire world’s industry-based methane and carbon pollution — “since the dawn of the industrial revolution,” the suit adds.
          The plaintiffs further allege that Hurricane Sandy, which hit New York in 2012, killing 53 people statewide and costing more than $19 billion in damages, was precipitated by global warming and that these companies should not only pay for that damage, but the city’s future resiliency upgrades. In a further burst of fiscal insanity given New York city’s looming  pension disaster, de Blasio, along with pension fund board members Public Advocate Letitia James and Comptroller Scott Stringer, are calling on those funds to divest from fossil fuel companies over the next five years.
          A New York Post editorial takes this effort to task, calling the suit a “ridiculous assault on the fossil-fuel industry that powers our city and whose earnings support retired city workers.” It further illuminates the depths of de Blasio’s hypocrisy, noting that while he’s suing to recoup the costs of building up the city’s defenses in areas most prone to flooding during hurricanes, he is also “encouraging more residential development all along the city’s waterfront.”
          “Then, too, it would be nice to see the mayor practicing what he preaches,” the paper adds. “Will he ever stop taking his caravan of gas-guzzling SUVs to his Park Slope gym? How about canceling his flights around the country in support of his progressive agenda?”
          As it is with most “do as I say, not as I do” progressives, the answers are no and no.
          In California, the cities of Oakland, San Francisco, Santa Cruz and Imperial Beach, along with San Mateo, Santa Cruz and Marin Counties, are attempting the same gambit, based on the same ideologically driven pseudo-science. Yet New Yorkers should take note: as Wall Street Journal columnist Andrew Scurria explains, Exxon is flipping the script on this political hackery, “highlighting past bond disclosures in which its government critics suggested they couldn’t predict whether and when sea levels would rise.” In fact, “The company filed court papers in Texas on Monday seeking to force government officials to answer questions under oath about those statements.”
          Columnist Katy Grimes illuminates the implications, writing, “These greedy municipal cheaters are now caught between two significant, self-imposed frauds: Either their lawsuits are fraudulent, or their bond offerings are.
          Scurria cites San Francisco as an example of a city trying to have it both ways, noting that the lawsuit it filed spoke to “imminent risk of catastrophic storm surge flooding,” while a general obligation bond offering made last year stated the city “is unable to predict whether sea-level or rise or other impacts of climate change … will occur.
          Santa Cruz County was equally hypocritical. In its lawsuit it insisted it has been experiencing more frequent and severe droughts, heat waves and wildfires, while facing a 98% chance of a “devastating three-foot flood — by 2050. Yet last year’s bond offering cited as risk factors "unpredictable climatic conditions, such as flood, droughts and destructive storms.”
          Exxon believes these contradictions constitute fraud. “Each of the municipalities warned that imminent sea level rise presented a substantial threat to its jurisdiction and laid blame for this purported injury at the feet of energy companies,” Exxon stated. “Notwithstanding their claims of imminent, allegedly near-certain harm, none of the municipalities disclosed to investors such risks in their respective bond offerings.”
          Nonetheless, these progressive fraudsters have their advocates. CNN columnist Jeffrey Sachs embraces the typically tiresome “evil corporation” stance, insisting these companies “have known for decades that their product is dangerous for the planet, but they relentlessly hid the evidence, stoking confusion rather than solutions,” he writes with regard to New York’s “bold” bid for “climate safety and justice.” “Through individual company efforts to support climate denialism and confusion, and through relentless and reckless lobbying by the US Chamber of Commerce and the American Petroleum Institute, the companies launched a full-blown assault on climate science to stop or delay the shift to renewable energy.”
          Sachs also insists fossil fuels are entirely unnecessary: “New York can go green and electric by mid-century through electric vehicles, electricity-powered public transit, and electric heat pumps for buildings, powered by electricity from wind, solar and hydroelectric power.”
          In a better world, these fossil fuel companies would call Sachs’ and his ecofascist allies’ bluff. Instead of abiding by New York City’s “road map” of reducing global warming emissions as much as 80% by 2050, or California’s 2006 legislation calling for the same reduction (a target one study concluded the state would “badly miss” only seven years later), perhaps these “climate destroyers” might voluntarily agree to stop selling their products in both places far earlier. Perhaps as early as five years from now, or sooner. After all, if global warming is as critical an issue as these leftist politicians make it out to be, it only seems right to combat it as quickly as possible. Make it incumbent on those same politicians, many of whom use “shakedown lawsuits against certain politically incorrect industries and businesses, designed to force acquiescence to leftist political policies” as Grimes puts it, to explain to the public why ruining a state’s economy in California, or undermining New York City’s pension funding, is a small price to pay for “settled science” that is anything but.
          One might hazard a guess that even the most progressive New Yorkers, already reeling from a subway system in a state of emergency, or their equally progressive Californian counterparts, facing the financial collapse of Gov. Jerry Brown’s beloved “bullet train,” might be less than enthused by the consequences of such zealotry, such as skyrocketing gas prices — while gas still remains available. They might even decide it’s time for the progressive political class to “walk the global warming walk” — literally — as opposed to riding around in large carbon-spewing vehicles, or living in energy-consuming residences far larger than those of their constituents.
          “The idea that oil companies might sue public servants personally in an attempt to intimidate them from protecting their communities and environment is abhorrent but consistent with their prior behavior,” San Mateo County counsel John Beiers said. “We will not be intimidated.”
          One suspects that the companies who still provide Americans with the overwhelming majority of their energy needs won’t be intimidated either.  ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/53518

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Fri/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Booker: Mentally Fit for Office?
by Political Editors
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Friday Top Headlines
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Tax bill windfall: As 65 companies award bonuses networks air just two stories (NewsBusters)
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Jobless claims drop to lowest level in nearly 45 years (Washington Examiner)
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Stock market’s value under Trump has grown by $6.9 trillion to $30.6 trillion (CNBC)
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Republicans call for releasing “shocking” classified memo showing “FISA abuses” in Russian collusion investigation (The Daily Wire)
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House panel releases Glenn Simpson testimony transcript (Fox News)
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57.9% of illegals caught at U.S.-Mexico border in FY17 not Mexican; from 111 other countries (CNS News)
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Senate votes to extend key FISA provision, sending bill to Trump’s desk (CBS News)
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Global warming: Half of U.S. soil covered in snow at the same time (New York Post)
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Six Chinese ships covertly aided North Korea. U.S. was watching. (The Wall Street Journal)
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Humor but true: Comey to teach course on ethical leadership for College of William & Mary (The Washington Post)
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Policy: Democrats don’t actually want a DACA compromise (The Federalist)
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Policy: Americans need health reform to be a priority issue in 2018 (The Heritage Foundation)  ~The Patriot Post
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ICE Mega-Raid Planned For California
Has Corrupt Dems Outraged, Illegals Nervous
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{rickwells.us} ~ The targets are identified and a warning has been issued in San Francisco and other Northern California cities... ICE is coming and they seek to arrest more than 1,500 illegals. As acting ICE Director Tom Homan said, if the sanctuary state of California won’t protect its own citizens, ICE will do it for them. It’s going to happen but like any other strike, the exact timing and other details are being kept secret in the interest of the success of the mission. The San Francisco Bay Area will be the focus of what is expected to be the largest enforcement action under President Trump to date. They must be sure to check Nancy Pulosi’s gardener and maid while they’re in the neighborhood. Individuals already designated for deportation are the primary focus, although there will be a complete willingness to arrest those who are in the area of the targeted individual who are also in the country illegally... https://rickwells.us/ice-raid-california-illegals/
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It's Time to Bring the
 Southern Poverty Law Center to Justice
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by TOM DEWEESE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ There are many powerful forces operating today across the nation to divide the American people and silence opposing views... One of the most active of these efforts is the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). There are two very serious reasons why the SPLC is in many ways more dangerous than other organizations that are fueling the flames of the far left radicals who use violence and lies to stop honest political debate. First, the SPLC has contracts with the federal government, specifically the Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), serving as advisors to help define what a domestic terrorist or hate group is, even helping to write official policy for this agency of our government. The second reason the SPLC is a dangerous threat to American freedom is its so-called "Hate List." Each year, the SPLC updates its list of "extremist" groups and individuals it declares to be dangerous. Does the list include Black Lives Matter, ICIS, ANTIFA, or any of the forces that have taken credit for opening fire on crowds attending public events? Nope...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/its-time-to-bring-the-southern-poverty-law-center-to-justice?f=must_reads
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Legal Analyst Gregg Jarrett: People From
 liar-Hillary’s Team and DNC Need
 to ‘Be Put Behind Bars’
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by Rusty
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Legal analyst and Fox News attorney Gregg Jarrett believes that people involved with liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the DNC... by paying for the bogus anti-Trump dossier, have committed a crime. Jarrett appeared on Lou Dobbs Tonight to discuss recent revelations that former White House official Steve Bannon had been subpoenaed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. But the attorney pivoted to the dossier, saying officials within liar-Clinton’s circle need to be prosecuted for funding the debunked Russian document. This is the real Russian collusion story the media has been after for what seems like an eternity...  https://thepoliticalinsider.com/gregg-jarrett-clinton-jail/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=criticalimpact&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_1_18_2018&utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI
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House committee takes step toward
 making Trump dossier findings public
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by Byron York
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ One of the most vexing problems of the Trump dossier probe has been that much of the evidence involved is classified and thus hidden from public view... House and Senate investigators are tightly constrained from revealing key aspects of the dossier affair. There is, for example, the question of whether the FBI and Justice Department used the unverified allegations in the dossier as evidence to win a secret court warrant to spy on Americans. Members and staff in both House and Senate know the answer. But it is classified, and they can't talk. Now, the House Intelligence Committee has taken a first step toward what might become public disclosure of key facts in the dossier investigation. It is a halfway step, and will not immediately reveal anything to the public, but it is a beginning. At the committee's meeting Thursday morning, Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., offered a motion to allow all House members to review a brief report prepared by the Republican majority summarizing the panel's investigation into what GOP members call "FISA abuse." That is a reference to the secret court set up by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act. The motion passed the committee on a party-line vote... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-house-committee-takes-step-toward-making-trump-dossier-findings-public/article/2646313?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2001/18/18&utm_medium=email
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TUCKER: Rep. Martha McSally Dems are holding our troops hostage over DACA
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5713953850001
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John Stossel Takes On The Southern Poverty Law Center's 'Hate Map'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k41PI54ExFc
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President Trump Delivers Remarks at A Conversation with The Women in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fwbllyJtBQ
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liar-Clinton Funded Dossier Was Used By FBI To Obtain FISA Warrants On Trump Campaign
Greyhound bus chased by police after illegal immigrant (who was deported 5 times) threatens passengers
http://video.foxnews.com/v/5711792987001
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Booker: Mentally Fit for Office?
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          Pounding his fists, Booker yelled, “When scum-Dick Durbin called me, I had tears of rage when I heard about this experience in that meeting. And for you not to feel that hurt and that pain and to dismiss some of the questions of my colleagues … when tens of millions of Americans are hurting right now because they’re worried about what happened in the White House. That’s unacceptable to me.” Wow, hello snowflake-ville.
          First off, it is flat out ridiculous to suggest that millions of Americans are hurting because of Trump’s alleged words. While Trump’s alleged words were crass, his point is valid. And if Booker is indeed “hurting,” then he needs to visit a mental health professional, pronto.
          Secondly, and more significantly, where is the outrage from that party of outrage — those “women’s rights” feminists — over the fact that Booker, a man in a position of power, just publicly dressed down and belittled a woman? Where are the charges of sexism? Where are condemnations and demands for apologies from fellow 2020 presidential contenders Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren (D-MA) or Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA)? Recall how mere months ago Democrats blasted Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) for telling Warren to “sit down and shut up,” after she refused to end a speech after her allotted time had passed.
          The truth is Democrats are the party of Hollywood. They play on emotions rather than truth and principles.  ~The Patriot Post
          Watch the spectacle below:

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzH64iwMxpk
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53497

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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Democrats’ Contribution
 to Haiti’s ‘Craphole’ Status
by Susan Stamper Brown
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Napolitano Warns Bannon He’s
 Walking Into a Mueller Perjury Trap
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano warns that grand inquisitor Robert Mueller and his shadow government masters may be ushering Steve Bannon... into a perjury situation similar to those that entrapped George Papadopoulos and General Michael Flynn. Bannon has agreed to meet with Mueller in what the host John Scott erroneously refers to as “the Russia investigation.” Their witch hunt has nothing to do with Russia is simply a “Get Trump and his circle” abuse of power. Bannon is able to avoid appearing before a grand jury by meeting with Mueller’s anti-Trump jihadists. Scott asks, “We’re dealing with hearsay and leaks, right?” Napolitano replies, “We are, and I’m very frustrated, as are most of us that watch this for a living because democracy dies in darkness and when we don’t know what happened, we have leaks from Democrats who say this happened and leaks from Republicans who say that happened, it’s tough to piecemeal exactly what did occur.”...  https://rickwells.us/napolitano-bannon-mueller-trap/
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CNN Idiot: Trump Has to
 Pass DACA to Prove He Isn’t Racist
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by Andrew
{conservativefreepress.com} ~ When is CNN commentator Ana Navarro going to give up her pretensions of Republican loyalty and just join the other side already?... Hell, Joe Scarborough had the decency to leave the party, why not you, Ana? Because while Scarborough has said enough about Trump to earn him a slap across the face with a small stick, he hasn’t completely lost his ideological principles. He may be firmly NeverTrump (after, of course, a long campaign season in which he couldn’t bring himself to denounce the ratings-monster that was the billionaire candidate), but he isn’t on Morning Joe every day actively trying to help the Democrats pass their agenda. Which is more than we can say for Navarro. This week, the leftist-in-thin-disguise managed to find a new low in her war against the president. “Offended” by Trump’s characterization of Haiti and other economically-devastated countries as shitholes, Navarro took to Twitter to implore the president to pass DACA as a way of proving that he’s not a racist. Seriously, has any “conservative” fallen so idiotically for the mainstream media’s phony storyline has this idiot?...  http://www.conservativefreepress.com/politics/cnn-idiot-trump-pass-daca-prove-isnt-racist/
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Senate Votes to Shut Down Rand Paul
 Filibuster Against Surveillance Act Renewal
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by Scott Shackford
{reason.com} ~ The Senate joined the House today in rejecting reforms to federal surveillance laws... to make sure that the private communications of Americans are not snooped on by officials without warrants. The Senate voted 60-38 this afternoon in favor of cloture to end debate and to prevent any amendments prior to a formal up-down vote on the FISA Amendments Reauthorization Act of 2017. Small clarification: Debate will be limited to 30 hours prior to the vote. So Paul and Wyden and others will be able to speak at length, but they won't be able to stop the vote. This bill, should it pass, will renew and expand the snooping powers of Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) Amendments for another six years. Though the law has the world "foreign" in its name, the reality is that it has been used to collect and access communications from Americans, often without warrants and without our knowledge...   http://reason.com/blog/2018/01/16/senate-votes-to-shut-down-rand-paul-fili
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Palestinians: Abbas's Big Bluff - Again
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by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ PLO leaders who met in Ramallah on January 15 recommended that the Palestinians revoke their recognition of Israel...The recommendation came in response to US President Donald Trump's announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel's capital. The PLO leaders also advised their leadership to suspend security coordination with Israel. They also called for revising all agreements signed with Israel, including the Oslo Accords. The meeting of the PLO Central Council was chaired by President Mahmoud Abbas, who in the past few weeks has chosen to embark on an open collision course with the US administration, possibly in the hope that US Department of State will back down as it always previously has...They have always been against Israel and will always be no matter what happens.   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11764/palestinians-abbas-bluff
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The Democrats Proving Again
 They’re The ‘Anti-Semitic’ Party
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Over thirty years ago Secretary of State James Baker said: “F**k the Jews they won’t vote for us anyway.”... But because most American Jews’ Blind Democratic Party Loyalty no matter what, today, the Democratic Party attitude is “F**k the Jews they will vote for us whatever we do!” Nothing proved that attitude more than the anti-Semitic presidency of Barack liar-nObama and the installation of scum-Keith Ellison as the Deputy Chairman of the party. Perhaps to keep making anti-Semites happy, a senior policy adviser to Democratic Senator Patty Murray said her office in the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) does “not care about anti-Semitism,” according to two people who attended the meeting. The comment was in reference to anti-Semitic slanders against a presidential nominee. The HELP committee is evaluating the nomination of Ken Marcus for the position assistant secretary for civil rights at the Department of Education. Mr. Marcus has been subject to an aggressive slander campaign by leading anti-Israel groups seeking to kill his nomination because he has worked to combat the anti-Semitic boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement on college campuses and is the founder of the Louis D. Brandeis Center for Human Rights Under Law, a pro-Israel group... https://lidblog.com/democrats-proving-theyre-anti-semitic-party/
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Democrats’ Contribution
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{townhall.com} ~ Good folks aren’t buying Democrats’ sleazy virtue signaling over unsavory language President Trump supposedly used during a private meeting with lawmakers.

They accuse Trump of making derogatory statements about Haiti and calling some nations “sh*thole countries” while rejecting a bipartisan immigration deal; a term he later denied using. On January 12, Senators Tom Cotton (R-AR) and David Perdue (R-GA) issued a statement which said in part they “do not recall the President saying these comments specifically, but what he did call out was the imbalance of our current immigration system.”

If these self-righteous gasbags really cared about unsavory language, they would have found some righteous indignation when former President liar-nObama went on one of his profanity-laced rants that news correspondent Ann Compton talked about on C-SPAN in 2014, and when Vice President loose lips-Biden hurled the F-bomb after 
liar-nObamacare passed.

Even if Trump did say what some allege, it is not hate-filled, vile or racist to speak truth.

Sadly, Haiti the country -- not the people -- is a banana republic craphole thanks to natural disasters, poor leadership and Democrats.

Enter: The 
liar-Clintons.

According to the Haiti Sentinel, when he was president,  
liar-Bill Clinton negotiated deals with former Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide that “effectively rendered Haiti incapable of feeding itself.” liar-Clinton later admitted, “It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. I have to live every day with the lost capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did,” BBC News reports.

Paradoxically, after the 2010 Haiti earthquake, 
liar-Clinton was asked to lead the UN’s Haiti Reconstruction Fund while liar-Hillary oversaw U.S. aid to Haiti. WikiLeaks later revealed emails between liar-Hillary’s State Department and the liar-Clinton Foundation which appeared to show that those earmarked as “FOB” (friend of liar-Bill) and “Wjc/hrc friends” received special attention. 

ABC News reports contributors to the foundation and friends of the 
liar-Clintons benefited from the reconstruction. In addition, a garment factory run by a Korean firm in an industrial park which cost $400 million of global aid, including almost $175 million in U.S. taxpayer money, underdelivered in promised jobs. ABC discovered “the Korean firm became a liar-Clinton Foundation donor and its owner invested in a startup company owned by liar-Hillary Clinton’s former chief of staff.”

Six years after the earthquake, people remain homeless, with fewer than 1500 homes rebuilt, and many rebuilt again because of poor workmanship. The ABC investigation found that at the same time, the 
liar-Clinton Foundation said it ‘facilitated’ the construction of a luxury hotel in Port-au-Prince, owned by a man who donated $10 million to $25 million to the liar-Clinton Foundation.

Moreover, Newsmax reports 
liar-Hillary’s brother, Tony Rodham, “was on the board of one of only two companies that received a ‘gold exploitation permit’ in 2012 from the Haitian government – a first in over 50 years,” which caused an uproar in the Haitian Senate when leaders discovered “the royalties to be paid to the Haitian government were at least half the standard rate at 2.5 percent.”

And Democrats are “concerned” about what Trump allegedly said? 

If they are going to condemn Trump for speaking the unvarnished truth about craphole countries, then maybe it’s time to talk about how Democrats, by way of the 
liar-Clintons they worship, helped Haiti remain one.
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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RINO-Flake and RINO-McCain
Utterly Miss the Point
by Political Editors
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House Intel Releases Transcript
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The House Intelligence Committee, chaired by Representative Devin Nunes... released the 165 page transcript of Fusion-GPS founder Glenn Simpson’s November testimony to the committee. Glenn Simpson (Fusion GPS) was hired by the liar-Clinton campaign to conduct opposition research against candidate Donald Trump. Simpson then contracted with Nellie Ohr to facilitate the project. Nellie Ohr is the spouse of a DOJ Deputy Attorney, Bruce Ohr, who was demoted for having secret meetings with Glenn Simpson and Fusion GPS. Exhaustive research, and forthcoming evidence collected by various congressional committees, is highlighting a 2016 scheme where FBI and DOJ officials aligned with liar-Hillary Clinton conducted a wide-scale surveillance effort against the Trump campaign partly by using unauthorized FISA-702 “search queries”.  The National Security Division within the DOJ and Counterintelligence units within FBI were weaponized against the campaign of Donald Trump...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2018/01/18/house-intel-releases-transcript-from-glenn-simpson-testimony/
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Fake News Acosta Defends Himself and CNN
 By Attacking Trump With More Fake News
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{rickwells.us} ~ CNN propagandist Jim Acosta was a logical selection to issue a rebuttal to the network being “honored” individually... with four fake news awards as well as sharing in the overall recognition for hyping the false Trump-Russia hoax to take down this President. One of the audience members asked about the fact that CNN had been heavily represented as a recipient in the President’s Fake News Awards. Fellow CNN racist April “Road Toad” Ryan, characteristically, interrupting in her Hoodlish, saying that she hadn’t been able to get the info because that “GOP” site is down. Once again the bridge troll demonstrates her bias and lack of basic investigative ability. Arrogant Acosta switched to his innocent little boy persona as he claimed it is actually “mean old” President Trump who is the “King of Fake News.” He waited for an expected audience cheer in “Tonight Show” fashion that was a mere spattering here and there of random hand clapping... https://rickwells.us/acosta-cnn-trump-fake-news/
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 26 States Just Asked Trump To Rip
 Up A Major Piece Of Obama’s Legacy
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by Michael Bastasch
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Twenty-six states and state agencies signed onto a letter asking the Environmental Protection Agency to repeal... former President Barack liar-nObama’s global warming regulation for power plants. The coalition, led by West Virginia Attorney General Patrick Morrisey, filed comments in support of the EPA repealing the Clean Power Plan on the grounds it’s an “unlawful” federal power grab and violates the Clean Air Act. “The Power Plan’s binding emission limits require States to shift electricity generation from coal-fired plants to natural gas-fired plants and renewable sources,” Morrisey’s coalition wrote in comments submitted to the EPA Wednesday...  https://www.westernjournalism.com/26-states-just-asked-trump-rip-major-obama-era-rule/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=conservative-50
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Graham: Trump Is ‘Absolutely Not’ A Racist 
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham baited a CNN reporter into asking him if Trump is a racist... only to soundly reject the notion. During an exclusive interview, CNN’s Dana Bash asked Graham if he could confirm that the president referred to Haiti and African countries as “shithole countries.” “You can keep asking me all day long and I’ll say the same thing,” Graham responded. “Why don’t you ask me, ‘is he a racist?'” Bash followed Graham’s instructions and asked if the president is racist, only for Graham to respond, “absolutely not.”...   http://dailycaller.com/2018/01/18/graham-trump-not-a-racist-video/?utm_medium=email
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CNN’s Chris Cuomo ‘It’s YOUR FAULT!’
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“RINO-Jeff Flake Has Always Been a Sell Out”
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Yes, They’re Being Racist
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It’s Good We Have A White House That Fights Back
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Mark Fuhrman: Why Aren’t We Being Told About Las Vegas Shooting?
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Liberals Are Killing California: Antonio Sabato Jr.
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10 Things You Didn’t Know About The FBI
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RINO-Flake and RINO-McCain Utterly Miss the Point
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          Following the Democrat and MSM narrative, RINO-Flake and RINO-McCain worry that Trump is endangering the freedom of the press with his combative rhetoric and “fake news” awards. But Trump, who the Leftmedia regularly and repeatedly label as everything from a racist to mentally unstable, is clearly not the one responsible for “discrediting” the free press. Journalists have only themselves to blame for that.
          As for the senators’ idea that Trump is echoing Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin, or providing justification for despots around the world to persecute journalists, we’d counter, as we did Tuesday, that it wasn’t Trump who ordered the Justice Department to go after journalists and their sources. That was Barack liar-nObama’s M.O. Where is RINO-Flake’s speech or RINO-McCain’s op-ed blasting liar-nObama for his real threat to a free press?
          Moreover, a news flash: This “fake news” phenomenon among tyrants has been around for a lot longer than Trump, as both senators well know. It used to go by the term “propaganda.” The truth is, if Trump had never uttered the phrase “fake news,” it would not change the long-running practice of totalitarian regimes suppressing journalistic freedom.
          Both senators should be ashamed of doing nothing more than ingratiating themselves to the Democrat/Media Complex. Yet they seem to view the MSM as having the authority to dictate how Americans are supposed to think on culture, politics and government. Theirs is not a plea for freedom or truthfulness, but rather a call for Trump to surrender to the dictates of the PC police. No wonder RINO-McCain lost in 2008 and RINO-Flake is headed for the exit this year.
          It would serve both senators well to ask why things like talk radio, Fox News and conservative websites like ours are so popular. It would do them some good to go around and talk to everyday working-class Americans and find out why they voted for a guy like Trump. Because, clearly, like most of the Beltway elites, these two still don’t get it. Americans simply got tired of being lied to and abused by Washington elites. They got tired of listening to mainstream news media outlets acting more often than not as cheerleaders for leftist social causes rather than defenders of Americans’ constitutional freedoms and rights. Americans got tired of hearing how they were the world’s biggest problem and that to be a proud American was wrong or immoral.
          And Trump, warts and all, gets one yuge thing right: He doesn’t hide his immense pride in and love for his country and countrymen. He really believes that America and Americans are the best. It doesn’t play well with the Left, the MSM and Washington elites, but it does with Americans all across this great nation.
          It’s not that we necessarily disagree with RINO-Flake or RINO-McCain that Trump’s sometimes reckless approach presents some problems, but it’s what they don’t say that is the most egregious error. It is the media’s collusion with the Democrat Party, not Trump’s rhetoric, that presents the greatest threat to Liberty.  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53510

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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Administration Seeks 
Quick SCOTUS Ruling on DACA
by Thomas Gallatin
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Trump: Working Is Good for Your Health
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          Citing research on the overall health benefits of working, the CMS said, “A growing body of evidence suggests that targeting certain health determinants, including productive work and community engagement, may improve health outcomes.” The Foundation for Government Accountability noted that since 2000 the number of individuals receiving Medicaid benefits has more than doubled to 75 million enrolled — including 28 million able-bodied adults. Over 50% of Medicaid beneficiaries who are able-bodied adults do not work.
          Since the passage of liar-nObamaCare the number of individuals enrolled in Medicaid has increased significantly, greatly adding cost to the program. Unfortunately, there are those who reject the notion that able-bodied adults benefiting from the Medicaid program should be required to perform at least 80 hours of work a month via a job, community engagement activity, education, job skills training or volunteering. Fundamentally, working is a good and rewarding aspect of life. It produces less dependency, greater personal accountability, and purpose in life. It is the primary means by which an individual positively contributes to their community and society at large. Work is empowering, and should never be vilified for political gain

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53477

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Don’t fall for Operation Demoralize 2018
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by William A. Jacobson
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Things look glum for Republicans in 2018, if you listen to the left and right punditry... The generic ballot sways heavily towards Democrats, Democrats did well in Virginia, and the Alabama Democrat win is claimed to be a precursor of things to come despite the unique circumstances of Republican Roy Moore’s downfall. The key thing driving Democrats, where they have been successful, is greater enthusiasm. Which is why it is so important for Democrats, and Republican who want Republicans to lose out of Trump hatred, to demoralize Republican voters. I would not be surprised to see that strategy used more generally against Trump supporting Republicans in the House. And it could be effective. Someone who normally would vote Republican but stays home is as good as a vote for Democrats...  https://legalinsurrection.com/2018/01/dont-fall-for-operation-demoralize-2018/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Ex-CIA officer suspected of betraying
 the United States is arrested
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{conservativeinstitute.org} ~ In a scene that could have come straight out of a James Bond movie or Tom Clancy novel... a former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officer was arrested this week for allegedly compromising U.S. informants in China. The Department of Justice said on Tuesday that Jerry Chun Shing Lee, 53, was arrested at a U.S. airport and is being charged with illegally retaining highly classified information. There are concerns that Lee, a naturalized U.S. citizen, may have cooperated with the Chinese government, especially as up to 20 CIA sources in China were systematically killed or imprisoned between 2010 and 2012...  https://www.conservativeinstitute.org/crime-criminal-justice/ex-cia-officer-arrested.htm?bt_alias=eyJ1c2VySWQiOiAiYzM2M2U0NGMtNjcxZS00YzJlLWJkYjktYzRiZjI3OGZmOGFkIn0%3D&utm_source=boomtrain&utm_medium=automated&utm_campaign=ci2
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Roach Dementia – Gutierrez Sounds Worse
 Than Pulosi, Time He Took a Cognitive Exam
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{rickwells.us} ~ It seems that Luis “The Roach” Gutierrez may be spending too much of his time in Puerto Rico... and he’s lost touch with the basics of the American political scene. Either that or the beginning stages of dementia are setting in, perhaps making him Democrat leadership material. It’s evident he needs to spend less time acting as the representative of illegal squatters from Central America and Mexico. For one thing, like scum-Dick Durbin, he is failing to represent Americans so that he can devote all of his time to foreigners. That’s also, aside from mental deterioration, the only explanation for forgetting the name of the Democrat Minority Leader of the US Senate. In two different interviews, Gutierrez drew a blank and couldn’t remember sleazy Chuck clown-Schumer’s name when discussing politics. He sets himself up perfectly in the first instance, as he’s ready to deliver a sarcastic comment about President Trump and his positions...  https://rickwells.us/roach-dementia-gutierrez-cognitive/
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The View’s Meghan McCain Confronts
 scum-Durbin Over Past Lies, He Ignores Her
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by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ On Wednesday’s The View, co-host Meghan McCain did what her leftist friends around the table would never do... call out a Democrat for lying. In the video above at around 3:55, she does just that. When it was McCain’s time to speak, she didn’t hold back: “You have a history of misrepresenting statements from private White House meetings. And some say that you’ve actually done more harm than good to the DACA deal by revealing what Trump said in his private meeting. Do you think that’s true?”... https://www.truthrevolt.org/news/views-meghan-mccain-confronts-durbin-over-past-lies-he-ignores-her
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“Tsunami of Information” Set To Expose
“liar-nObama/liar-Clinton/Deep State Scandals”
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by Joshua Caplan
{thegatewaypundit.com} ~ “I think there’s going to be, as Sara’s indicating, a tsunami of information coming out on all of these scandals... We have the court ruling that the liar-Clinton emails need to be released more quickly. So, we’re going to get all these liar-Clinton emails that she tried to hide or delete […..] Or as we found on the Weiner laptop, classified information and pay-to-play, which I guarantee is going to be coming out. And then we had the court just yesterday talk about how he wants the Comey memos, because he wants to review the Comey memos, which are the genesis of the Mueller operation […] It’s all building. There are text messages they are talking about. Now we are going to find out more details about the FISA, the intelligence surveillance abuses.” Judicial Watch recently announced a federal judge ordered the State Department to speed up the release liar-Hillary Clinton’s 72,000 pages of email records. The records will be released September 28th, 2018 — not in 2020...   http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2018/01/tom-fitton-warns-tsunami-information-set-expose-obama-clinton-deep-state-scandals/
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Administration Seeks Quick SCOTUS Ruling on DACA
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          Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended the unusual move, stating, “It defies both law and common sense for DACA — an entirely discretionary non-enforcement policy that was implemented unilaterally by the last administration after Congress rejected similar legislative proposals and courts invalidating the similar DAPA policy — to somehow be mandated nationwide by a single district court in San Francisco.” Tom Goldstein, publisher of SCOTUS Blog, noted, “It’s an extremely unusual request, one that is granted once in a blue moon. It’s a signal by the Trump administration that they take this issue incredibly seriously and think the justices should, too.”
          While this is indeed an unusual action, it is fully warranted given the fact that DACA is not law but an executive order, which a president is free to rescind. Meanwhile, Democrats aren’t actually interested in coming up with a legislative solution to DACA, though they do want to force Trump into keeping liar-nObama’s lawless executive order. Reflecting on the real leftist agenda with the “s—thole” episode, Mollie Hemingway correctly observes, “The out-of-context leak was designed to dampen the prospects of an immigration compromise. You may want to sit down for this, but sometimes people care more about profiting from a problem than solving a problem. What if Democrats are using DACA recipients as human shields for their own electoral plans in November, and to get increased voter intensity, higher political donations, and greater turnout in upcoming elections?
          Why ask, though, when you can just state the fact: Democrats want to drag out DACA as long as possible, especially during an election year, all in a cynical ploy for votes. Trump is looking to end the stalemate.  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/53496

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