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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Media Reports Hit to liar-nObamacare, 
Neglects Newly Announced Benefit
by Brian McNicol
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More Cops Killed in the Line of Duty — Why?
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          There is one caveat: The number of officers feloniously killed in each of the last 10 years has varied substantially. Beginning in 2007, the numbers are 58, 41, 48, 56, 72, 49, 27, 51, 41 and 66. There don’t seem to be any obvious conclusions to draw from that pattern. Nevertheless, we’ll make some observations.
          Police officers are human and thus have the same tendencies toward abusing power or misbehaving as anyone else. In the age of body cameras and ubiquitous cell phone videos, we’re going to see what seems like more of this from a few bad apples than in years past. Community distrust can then be expected to rise.
          But officers are by and large just trying to uphold the law while making it home to their families each night. They deserve our respect and support, not our disdain and protest.
          To the latter, Barack liar-nObama’s war on cops has been not only a factually wrong and reprehensible political charade leading to obnoxious public displays like the NFL protests, it has been violent and deadly as inner city thugs channel that hate into rioting and the murder of police officers. If cops aren’t killed, they’re assaulted. No matter what they do, it seems, they’re accused of racism. The result has been what’s dubbed the “Ferguson Effect” — a reduction in policing followed by a substantial rise in crime, particularly in Democrat-run major cities.
          While the statistics don’t reveal an indisputable conclusion, we do know that law-abiding citizens don’t kill cops. And the cop-killers do tend to be constituents of one particular political party.
          “Every law enforcement officer goes to work knowing that today might be his or her last,” Sessions said. “Our law enforcement deserves the support of the people they serve. Fortunately we have a President who understands this.”  ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/51891

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Dobbs, Fitton – Corruption Permeates FBI, 
DOJ – No Case Solved Since Fast and Furious
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs points out that Fusion GPS, the opposition research and creative writing company that Democrats hired to do compile dirt on President Trump... and which created the discredited Trump Russia dossier is fighting back against Congressional subpoenas. Dobbs describes the lawyers representing the Fusion scumbags sarcastically as “noble” in their arguments that, “The House Intelligence Committee is acting in bad faith,” and threatening to “plead the Fifth Amendment and refuse to testify.” Dobbs also references thirty documents related to the liar-Bill Clinton – Loretta Lynch tarmac meeting that the FBI had previously claimed didn’t exist but that a similar suit for information from the DOJ revealed, through their correspondence with the FBI, actually did exist...  https://rickwells.us/dobbs-corruption-permeates-fbi-doj-name-one-case-solved-since-fast-and-furious/
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CAlR Exec Given More Than He 
Can Handle At Indoctrination Session
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{rickwells.us} ~ Viewers of this video may recognize the patriot who gets into a heated debate with the speaker from other instances where they challenged anti-American officials... often regarding the corrupt officials promoting the illegal invasion or attacks against President Trump, such as those engaged in by Rep Mad-Maxine Waters. In this instance the villain he confronted on Tuesday, October 11th, is a guest speaker at Scripps College, an all-girls and of course that includes any men who want to pretend they’re a girl, in southern California. The speaker is Hussam Ayloush, Executive Director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council of American-Islamic Relations. It’s important to understand what Ayloush is saying and why. When he says “we” in his speech, he’s really meaning “you,” telling the audience how they need to change to accommodate him, CAlR, and other Muslims, regardless of whether they are radicals, violent or threatening...  https://rickwells.us/calr-exec-indoctrination-session/
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liar-Obama Puppet Judge Watson, For A
Third Time Usurps Trump On Travel Restrictions
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{rickwells.us} ~ Federal Judge Derrick Watson seems to think that he’s also the Secretary of DHS, Secretary of State and President of the United States... as well as a top Imam of the new global caliphate, with the new capitol located in ocean-protected, refugee-free Honolulu, Hawaii. The infamous liar-nObama appointee and operative disgracing a federal bench in Hawaii has once again usurped President Trump on the matter of foreigner entry into the United States and blocked the implementation of his latest executive order restricting travel from dangerous countries. In putting himself and the Democrats ahead of the authority of the President and security of the nation, Judge Watson wrote, “Although national security interests are legitimate objectives of the highest order, they cannot justify the public’s harms when the President has wielded his authority unlawfully.”...  https://rickwells.us/obama-puppet-watson-trump-travel/
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RINO-McCain Jumps All Over Reporter
For Asking If He’s Going To Be Cantankerous
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{rickwells.us} ~ In keeping with his image of the grumpy old man who puts on his steel toe shoes before going out to kick the neighborhood kids off of his lawn,,, Senator RINO-John McCain jumped all over a reporter for asking him a simple and reasonable question. It’s a question that, given the crotchety nature of the globalist agitator and his history is more than a fair one. The reporter asked, “Has your relationship with the President frayed to the point that you are not going to support anything that he comes to you and asks for?” The implication is that RINO-McCain hasn’t already been behaving in that manner and doing so since day one of the Trump Presidency. The exceptions are when President Trump essentially comes to RINO-McCain with a RINO-McCain proposal, something of the nature of cruise missiles into Syria... https://rickwells.us/mccain-jumps-reporter-cantankerous/
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Officer Brandon Tatum Blast NFL Players Who Took Knee During Cop’s Memorial
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U.S.-Backed Forces Reclaim Raqqa, ISIS Loses Its Capitol
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Tucker: Harvey Hypocrite Lisa Bloom Is A Feminist For Hire
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EPA Chief Pruitt: Obama Administration ‘Abused’ Rule Making Process
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Dr Gina Loudon On The Opioid Crisis
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FBI Warns Of New Virtual Kidnapping Scam
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Media Reports Hit to liar-nObamacare, 
Neglects Newly Announced Benefit
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by Brian McNicol
{aim.org} ~ President Trump announced a decision to halt subsidy payments to the insurance companies in liar-nObamacare exchanges.

Many of the media response centered on the damage that decision did to President liar-nObama’s signature legislative achievement.

“Trump dropped the ax with timing that could inflict maximal disruption on the Affordable Care Act enrollment season,” the Washington Post wrote.

The decision constituted a “failure to lead,” and a “spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer of New York was quoted as saying. “This is not how the architects of the Affordable Care Act had intended the program to work,” the Huffington Post reported.

But what the Washington Post did not mention and the Washington Times sidestepped is this: The subsidies are illegal.

“The Trump administration announced late Thursday that it has concluded it can no longer legally make critical liar-nObamacare “cost sharing” payments and will cut them off,” Washington Times reporter Stephen Dinan wrote.

The government paid insurance companies to help them absorb the losses from the liar-nObamacare exchanges’ sickest, most unprofitable customers. Congress wrote a provision allowing for this into the original liar-nObamacare law, but it left it up to the annual appropriations process to actually get the money approved.

Congress never appropriated the money, but the liar-nObama administration continued the payments, which amounted to about $7 billion this year, claiming it clearly was Congress’ intent the payments be made. Members of the U.S. House of Representatives, led by then-speaker John backstabber-Boehner, R.-Ohio, sued the administration for spending money without congressional approval.

A Republican-appointed federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled in favor of the members of Congress but allowed the payments to continue until the case could be heard in the U.S. Court of Appeals. In recent days, U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions issued a ruling the plaintiffs in the case likely would prevail, so the administration should eliminate the payments. Trump formalized that with his announcement last Thursday.

Mainstream media was not buying it. It will roil markets, they said. It will increase premiums, chase companies out of the market and perhaps create shortages.

The stories also noted that insurers and relevant government agencies had factored the subsidies into their rate plans for the coming year. Congress, which also knew the court case against the payments likely would prevail, had begun bipartisan efforts to address the issue as well. And, as was noted in the Huffington Post, “The Affordable Care Act has been a fragile program from the beginning.”

None took into account the positive impact of the other reforms Trump announced. Experts said that the plan to allow more association plans, in which organizations, such as churches and non-profits, can band together to purchase group insurance, could save consumers money by eliminating the bells and whistles the liar-nObama administration insisted the plans carry.

He also ordered changes to regulations governing short-term policies to lengthen the time they could be in effect from three months to a year and ordered regulations to be reformed so that these and the association plans can be sold across state lines – a change that could create larger risk pools, lower premiums and strengthen the industry considerably.

Trump got little public praise for what could be the most beneficial and momentous week in the history of U.S. health insurance policy. Practicality was restored with the announcement about the associated health plans, temporary health plans and, potentially most exciting, the ability to sell those plans across state lines.

And law and order were re-established on Capitol Hill.

“Under our Constitution, the power of the purse belongs to Congress, not the executive branch,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said. “Today’s decision by the Trump administration to tend the appeal of that ruling preserves a monumental affirmation of Congress’ authority and the separation of powers.”
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Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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NAFTA 2.0 Must Strengthen Intellectual Property Rights
by Stephen Moore
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Wednesday Short Cuts
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RINO-McCain endorses budget bill in win for GOP tax-reform effort (The Washington Post)
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Dow tops 23,000 for first time as stock market rally gains speed (USA Today)
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Military spokesman: ISIS “On the verge of devastating defeat” in Iraq and Syria (CNS News)
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Judge blocks Trump’s travel ban for third time (The Washington Times)
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George Soros transfers $18 billion to his “Open Society” Foundation, creating an instant giant (The Wall Street Journal)
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Delta passenger: The airline wouldn’t let me sing the national anthem for a fallen soldier on our flight (Hot Air)
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Mandalay Bay security guard Jesus Campos vanishes after Las Vegas massacre, only to show up to tell his story on “The Ellen DeGeneres Show” (NBC News)
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Washington Post “fact-checker” mostly agrees with Steve Scalise on Chicago gun violence — gives him flunking grade anyway (Washington Examiner)
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Jaguars apologize to military for kneeling for national anthem in London (The Daily Wire)
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After five cheerleaders take a knee during national anthem, college takes them off the football field (Conservative News Today)
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Policy: Untaxing the rich is a misguided Republican obsession (National Review)
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Policy: A modern leave policy both employers, employees could love (The Hill ~The Patriot Post
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Chaffetz – No Case Can Be Made 
For McConnell Remaining Majority Leader
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{rickwells.us} ~ Jason Chaffetz describes Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as being “a very nice man” as he struggles to come up with arguments in favor of him remaining in his position as Senate Majority Leader... as Republican leaders get together in the White House to try to map out a way forward. He says, “Look, when the team isn’t performing well and putting wins up on the board, a lot of people on that team want to see a change in the coach. And Donald Trump, all he wants are bills to sign.”  Chaffetz points out, “When it was left to just the President we got Neal Gorsuch. So he was able to perform, but I think people are looking at Congress and they just fundamentally don’t understand, why we don’t have repeal and replace for liar-nObamacare and where is the tax reform bill?”...  https://rickwells.us/chaffetz-mcconnell-remaining-leader/
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Over 100 National Leaders Send Message
to McConnell: Confirm Trump Nominees ‘Now’
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by Ken Klukowski
{theacru.org} ~ More than 100 national leaders urged Senate Republican leaders on Tuesday to use every means at their disposal to confirm more than 200 presidential nominations currently pending in the U.S. Senate... both for the executive branch and for the federal courts. Conservative leaders are telling Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and his colleagues that it is absolutely intolerable that hundreds of President Donald Trump’s nominees for his administration and to the federal judiciary are languishing in the Senate. They are calling for immediate action... http://www.theacru.org/over-100-national-leaders-send-message-to-mcconnell-confirm-trump-nominees-now/
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Russian Infiltration Scandal Breaks…
liar-Hillary, Holder Approved…FBI, DOJ Buried
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by KIM SMITH
{conservativetribune.com} ~ It turns out there may be some truth to the Russia collusion story, but it happened on former President Barack liar-nObama’s watch... and it has former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s fingerprints all over it. According to a report Tuesday in The Hill, a controversial liar-nObama administration decision in 2010 to approve a deal that gave a Russian company control of 20 percent of the United States’ uranium supply came through, despite an FBI investigation at the time that showed “substantial evidence that Russian nuclear industry officials were engaged in bribery, kickbacks, extortion and money laundering designed to grow Vladimir Putin’s atomic energy business inside the United States.” A confidential U.S. witness working inside the Russian nuclear industry made secret recordings and amassed emails going back as early as 2009 that showed Moscow bribed an American uranium trucking firm with kickbacks, violating the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, according to The Hill...  https://conservativetribune.com/russian-scandal-hillary-holder/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=2017-10-17
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Key senators reach deal 
on liar-nObamacare insurer subsidies
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by Robert King and Kimberly Leonard
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Sen. Lamar Alexander, chairman of a key committee that has been working on a bipartisan deal to stabilize liar-nObamacare... said Tuesday that he has arrived at an agreement with Sen. Patty Murray, the committee's top Democrat. The deal would fund liar-nObamacare's insurer funds, known as cost-sharing reduction payments, for two years, and includes what Alexander refers to as "meaningful flexibility" for states. Trump abruptly cut off the subsidies last week, and the bipartisan deal would reinstate them for the end of this year. It would allow insurers to sell "copper plans," to people who are older than 30, which tend to have higher deductibles and offer fewer benefits than more expensive options, but could be one way to attract individuals into the market who have fewer medical needs. States also would receive grants for outreach, paid for by user fees, to help people enroll in the plans...This is not a deal at all. Its the same issues, giving our tax dollars away.  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/key-senators-reach-a-deal-on-obamacare-insurer-subsidies/article/2637770?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2010/17/17&utm_medium=email
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RINO-McCain Speech Angrily Attacks Trump 
For Upsetting Globalist New World Order
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{rickwells.us} ~ Establishment RINO John McCain went on one of his many rants against President Trump, this time opting to do it from inside our own borders... at an event where he was awarded a meaningless award, the Liberty Medal, by the partner in crime of Hussein liar-nObama, Joe loose lips-Biden in Philadelphia. At the :45 second mark in the video, McCain makes some pro-globalism comments attacking President Trump that confirm, for anyone who may still have harbored a doubt, his alliance with the Soros-liar-nObama-liar-Clinton Democrats determined to destroy and take over this nation. RINO-McCain said, “To fear the world we’ve organized and led for three quarters of a century, to abandon the ideals we have advanced around the globe, to refuse the obligations of international leadership and our duty to remain the last best hope of earth for the sake of some half-baked spurious nationalism cooked up by people who would rather find scapegoats than solve problems.”...  https://rickwells.us/mccain-trump-upsetting-globalist-order/
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NAFTA 2.0 Must Strengthen Intellectual Property Rights
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by Stephen Moore
{townhall.com} ~ It now appears that Donald Trump's intention regarding the North American Free Trade Agreement is to mend it, not end it. That's good news, because the trade deal has been a stunning economic success for Canada, Mexico and the United States. Freer trade has meant steady increases in the volume of trade, greater competitiveness and lower prices.

But as Trump's negotiators craft a NAFTA 2.0 deal, some things need to be fixed to assure America's continued commanding heights in technology and innovation. Intellectual property rights -- patents, copyrights and so on -- need to be better safeguarded.
 
There have been abuses. In an unprecedented move, Canadian regulators recently ordered an American pharmaceutical company to lower the price of the company's breakthrough treatment for a rare blood disorder.

Canada is inventing new rules to avoid paying American pharmaceutical and technology companies for their innovations and inventions. This is also happening in Europe, where bureaucrats are trying to expropriate funds from American technology leaders, including Google, through bogus charges of monopoly activities.

The Trump administration should vigorously repel these economic attacks against American companies. This is a very big deal for the American economy. Intellectual property is increasingly the lifeblood of our economy. IP-intensive industries support 28 million American jobs -- or about 1 in 5 workers. About $6 trillion of our GDP now is in IP-related industries, including almost all of Silicon Valley.
 
Many of NAFTA's IP provisions do not prevent infringement of patent rights and, in some cases, outright theft as in the case of China. This costs American consumers and businesses an estimated $200 billion annually.

Consider our drug companies. American pharmaceuticals recorded $47 billion in exports in 2015. Yet despite this and the fact that the vast majority of drug breakthroughs come from America, the U.S. currently has a $700 million trade deficit with Canada and only a tiny trade surplus with Mexico in biopharmaceuticals.

Our trade partners do not want their citizens to pay for the costs of the research and development required to invent these breakthrough medicines in the first place. It typically requires $500 million to $1 billion to develop a new drug or vaccine, and American consumers shouldn't bear the entire burden of those costs.It drives up drug and health insurance costs in America, and it jeopardizes world health by delaying the development of future cures for cancer, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, Parkinson's and other terrible diseases.

Even worse, Mexico is producing "knockoff" drugs that are copycats of American pharmaceuticals. This is stealing, too, and negotiators should get tough on these practices south of our border.

The same abuses are happening with American trademarks and copyrighted materials. NAFTA doesn't sufficiently protect movies, music and games from theft and distribution online.

NAFTA should impose civil and criminal penalties for illicit access to cable and satellite signals and other preventable infringements in which American firms are not compensated for use of the product.

The future of free and fair trade depends on rigorous enforcement of America's multitrillion-dollar IP industries. This is about jobs -- millions of them -- and the rule of law. It is also about encouraging the very innovation that promotes prosperity and better health in America -- which we then export across the globe to the betterment of mankind. It will also help boost public and business support for trade as a driver of growth in the years to come.
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Is War With Iran Now Inevitable?
by Pat Buchanan
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Fusion GPS Defies Intel Committee Subpoena –
Will Sessions Finally Do Something?
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{rickwells.us} ~ The cover up continues, accentuated by a blatant middle finger to our weak, feckless Attorney General who increasingly appears to be compromised and serving interests... other than the President and the American people. Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm responsible for the creation of the infamous Russia Trump dossier, has once again refused to comply with subpoenas for documents and testimony issued earlier this month by the House Intelligence Committee. They had sought testimony from GPS co-founders Glenn Simpson, Tom Catan and Peter Fritsch. In a Monday letter to committee chairman Devin Nunes, Fusion attorneys stated that the subpoena seeking testimony from three of the company’s partners violates the corporation’s First Amendment privileges and would force it to break attorney-client privilege as well as other contractual obligations...Its time to act Session. https://rickwells.us/fusion-gps-defies-subpoena-sessions/
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Comey drafted letter on liar-Clinton
email investigation before completing interviews
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{foxnews.com} ~ The FBI released documents Monday proving former FBI Director James Comey began drafting a letter regarding liar-Hillary Clinton's email investigation months before conducting several key interviews, including speaking to liar-Clinton herself... The document release was titled “Drafts of Director Comeys July 5, 2016 Statement Regarding Email Server Investigation Part 01 of 01.” The contents of the email were largely unclear as nearly all of it was redacted. The now-public records show the email titled “Midyear Exam --- UNCLASSIFIED” was sent by Comey on May 2, 2016, to Deputy Director Andrew McCabe, general counsel James Baker and chief of staff and senior counselor James Rybicki...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/16/comey-drafted-letter-on-clinton-email-investigation-before-completing-interviews-fbi-confirms.html
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A slow death for the Iran deal
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by John R. Bolton
{aei.org} ~ As Abba Eban observed, “Men and nations behave wisely when they have exhausted all other resources.” So it goes with America and the Iran deal... President Trump announced Friday that the U.S. would stay in the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, even while he refused to certify under U.S. law that the deal is in the national interest. “Decertification,” a bright, shiny object for many, obscures the real issue—whether the agreement should survive. Mr. Trump has “scotch’d the snake, not kill’d it.” While Congress considers how to respond—or, more likely, not respond—we should focus on the grave threats inherent in the deal. Peripheral issues have often dominated the debate; forests have been felled arguing over whether Iran has complied with the deal’s terms. Proposed “fixes” now abound, such as a suggestion to eliminate the sunset provisions on the deal’s core provisions. The core provisions are the central danger. There are no real “fixes” to this intrinsically misconceived agreement. The Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, to which Iran is a party, has never included sunset clauses, but the mullahs have been violating it for decades...  http://www.aei.org/publication/a-slow-death-for-the-iran-deal/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpZMlpqUmtOVFJoT1RJeiIsInQiOiJiajRXdkVoV0ZuZ1hjZEpcL1NKOHNpVHc0K3Y1MjR6ZFwvQ0QyM3ZERkhzTVwvU25jazBEOWRwdFlSUnFaeGlFOGFXUTdYNWt6ZTdhdFhGZ3o3WE5ISEhKMWE2aWNGWm0rSU5WSStMMm1tXC84T1hDMEVmR1dpT2JSQkFiWXJ6XC9zbVdlIn0%3D
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New GOP-backed gun control bill may 
have DIRE consequences for gun owners
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by Allen West
{allenwest.com} ~ A new gun-control proposal in Congress that is being pitched as a bipartisan bump stock ban would actually ban all semi-automatic rifles in the United States, according to an analysis of the proposed bill... The legislation, which was drafted by Rep. Carlos Curbelo, a Florida Republican, never bans bump stocks by name. Instead, the proposal bans any person from possessing or making any part that could be used to increase the rate of fire in any semi-automatic rifle. The lead co-sponsor on the gun control bill is Rep. Seth Moulton, a Massachusetts Democrat and U.S. Marines veteran who completed four tours of duty in Iraq. “It shall be unlawful for any person … to manufacture, possess, or transfer any part or combination of parts that is designed to increase the rate of fire of a semi-automatic rifle,” the bill states. At no point does the proposed legislation specify a base rate of fire against which any illegal increases would be judged, a potentially fatal flaw in the bill’s drafting. As a result, the proposal arguably institutes a federal ban on any and all parts that would allow the gun to fire at all, since the mere ability to fire a semi-automatic weapon by definition increases its rate of fire from zero. I want to make myself absolutely clear: I don’t support the Curbelo-Moulton legislation...  https://www.allenwest.com/2017/10/16/gop-gun-control-bill-fatal-flaw-may-ban-rifles/
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Saving NATO from Turkey
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by Daniel Pipes
{danielpipes.org} ~ The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, known as NATO, faces an existential problem. No, it's not about getting member states to fulfill agreed-upon spending levels on defense... Or finding a role after the Soviet collapse. Or standing up to Russia's Vladimir Putin. Rather, it's about Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the Islamist, dictatorial ruler of Turkey whose policies threaten to undermine this unique alliance of 29 states that has lasted nearly 70 years. Created in 1949, NATO's founding principles ambitiously set out the alliance goal "to safeguard the freedom, common heritage and civilization of member states' peoples, founded on the principles of democracy, individual liberty and the rule of law." In other words, the alliance exists to defend Western civilization...  http://www.danielpipes.org/17971/saving-nato-from-turkey?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=93875a5c85-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-93875a5c85-33703665
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Is War With Iran Now Inevitable?
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by Pat Buchanan
{townhall.com} ~ With his declaration Friday that the Iran nuclear deal is not in the national interest, President Donald Trump may have put us on the road to war with Iran.

Indeed, it is easier to see the collisions that are coming than to see how we get off this road before the shooting starts.
 
After "de-certifying" the nuclear agreement, signed by all five permanent members of the Security Council, Trump gave Congress 60 days to reimpose the sanctions that it lifted when Teheran signed.

If Congress does not reimpose those sanctions and kill the deal, Trump threatens to kill it himself.

Why? Did Iran violate the terms of the agreement? Almost no one argues that -- not the UN nuclear inspectors, not our NATO allies, not even Trump's national security team.

Iran shipped all its 20 percent enriched uranium out of the country, shut down most of its centrifuges, and allowed intrusive inspections of all nuclear facilities. Even before the deal, 17 U.S. intelligence agencies said they could find no evidence of an Iranian nuclear bomb program.

Indeed, if Iran wanted a bomb, Iran would have had a bomb.

She remains a non-nuclear-weapons state for a simple reason: Iran's vital national interests dictate that she remain so.

As the largest Shiite nation with 80 million people, among the most advanced in the Mideast, Iran is predestined to become the preeminent power in the Persian Gulf. But on one condition: She avoid the great war with the United States that Saddam Hussein failed to avoid.
 
Iran shut down any bomb program it had because it does not want to share Iraq's fate of being smashed and broken apart into Persians, Azeris, Arabs, Kurds and Baluch, as Iraq was broken apart by the Americans into Sunni, Shiite, Turkmen, Yazidis and Kurds.

Tehran does not want war with us. It is the War Party in Washington and its Middle East allies -- Bibi Netanyahu and the Saudi royals -- who hunger to have the United States come over and smash Iran.

Thus, the Congressional battle to kill, or not to kill, the Iran nuclear deal shapes up as decisive in the Trump presidency.

Yet, even earlier collisions with Iran may be at hand.

In Syria's east, U.S.-backed and Kurd-led Syrian Democratic Forces are about to take Raqqa. But as we are annihilating ISIS in its capital, the Syrian army is driving to capture Deir Ezzor, capital of the province that sits astride the road from Baghdad to Damascus.

Its capture by Bashar Assad's army would ensure that the road from Baghdad to Damascus to Hezbollah in Lebanon remains open.

If the U.S. intends to use the SDF to seize the border area, we could find ourselves in a battle with the Syrian army, Shiite militia, the Iranians, and perhaps even the Russians.

Are we up for that?

In Iraq, the national army is moving on oil-rich Kirkuk province and its capital city. The Kurds captured Kirkuk after the Iraqi army fled from the ISIS invasion. Why is a U.S.-trained Iraqi army moving against a U.S.-trained Kurdish army?
 
The Kurdistan Regional Government voted last month to secede. This raised alarms in Turkey and Iran, as well as Baghdad. An independent Kurdistan could serve as a magnet to Kurds in both those countries.

Baghdad's army is moving on Kirkuk to prevent its amputation from Iraq in any civil war of secession by the Kurds.

Where does Iran stand in all of this?

In the war against ISIS, they were de facto allies. For ISIS, like al-Qaida, is Sunni and hates Shiites as much as it hates Christians. But if the U.S. intends to use the SDF to capture the Iraqi-Syrian border, Syria, Iran, Hezbollah and Russia could all be aligned against us.

Are we ready for such a clash?

We Americans are coming face to face with some new realities.

The people who are going to decide the future of the Middle East are the people who live there. And among these people, the future will be determined by those most willing to fight, bleed and die for years and in considerable numbers to realize that future.

We Americans, however, are not going to send another army to occupy another country, as we did Kuwait in 1991, Afghanistan in 2001, and Iraq in 2003.

Bashar Assad, his army and air force backed by Vladimir Putin's air power, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran, and Hezbollah won the Syrian civil war because they were more willing to fight and die to win it. And, truth be told, all had far larger stakes there than did we.

We do not live there. Few Americans are aware of what is going on there. Even fewer care.

Our erstwhile allies in the Middle East naturally want us to fight their 21st-century wars, as the Brits got us to help fight their 20th-century wars.

But Donald Trump was not elected to do that. Or so at least some of us thought.
(Buchanan failed to mention, Iran is not welling to let inspections be conducted at their nuclear sites.)
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Social Justice is an Oxymoron
by Susan Stamper Brown
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Kaepernick, liar-Clinton and the Anti-America Message
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          An example that exposes the lack of a cohesive message or understanding among the players themselves comes from former NFL wide receiver Donté Stallworth. The now CNN reporter explained the message confusion: “[Players are] telling me it’s also about the gender pay gap, it’s also about housing discrimination — they have so many things that they are interested in and advocating for.” If the supposed pay gap is an issue, it’s ironic that no NFL cheerleaders have seen fit to join the players in protesting the anthem.
          The trouble is that as the kneeling fad spread throughout the NFL, most fans and much of the country were rightly offended by this disrespectful display. Rather than any kind of specific and relatable social problem, it shouldn’t have been surprising that protesting the flag and anthem, no matter what the cause, was perceived as hating America.
          When Donald Trump, with his finger on the pulse of much of Middle America, publicly blasted players who were protesting the flag, NFL ratings, which were already down, took a nosedive. The NFL commissioner responded by issuing a memo pressing players to stand.
          But liar-Hillary Clinton, evidently still striving for relevancy, recently weighed in on the kneeling protests. On Monday, while at a literature festival in London, liar-Hillary said that people should resist “what are very clear dog-whistles” by Trump. She continued, “That’s what black athletes kneeling was all about. That’s not against our anthem or our flag.” She even opined, “Actually, kneeling is a reverent position. It was to demonstrate in a peaceful way against racism and injustice in our criminal system.
          Trump responded, “Well, that’s why she lost the election. I mean, honestly, it’s that thinking — that is the reason she lost the election. When you go down and take a knee … for our great national anthem, you’re disrespecting our flag and you’re disrespecting our country. … I think that her statement in itself is very disrespectful to our country.
          And that is exactly the point that liar-Clinton, Democrats and the Left don’t seem to understand. The political brand they are attempting to sell to Americans is one that is in essence anti-American. Telling Americans that they are the problem, that their freedoms amount to social “injustice” and need to be increasingly limited, that to be patriotic and proud of one’s country is to be bigoted and racist — that message just doesn’t ring true for much of America. It is not a sin to be an American.  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51890

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Menendez Tried To End His 
Corruption Trial - His Judge Wasn’t Buying It
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by KEVIN DALEY
{dailycaller.com} ~ The federal judge overseeing New Jersey Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez’s criminal trial declined to dismiss the charges against him Monday... after defense lawyers argued that the prosecution had failed to make its case. U.S. District Judge William Walls rejected Menendez’s claim that the prosecution’s arguments were too broad to meet the narrow definition of corruption in federal law. The U.S. Supreme Court established in a 2016 case that public officials only violate anti-corruption laws when they accept gifts, payments, or benefits in exchange for a specific and official act...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/16/menendez-tried-to-end-his-corruption-trial-his-judge-wasnt-buying-it/?utm_medium=email
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North Korea Has One Doomsday
Weapon That Is Seriously Bad News For Trump
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{americanpatriotdaily.com} ~ “Congress was warned Thursday that North Korea is capable of attacking the U.S. today with a nuclear EMP bomb that could indefinitely shut down the electric power grid... and kill 90 percent of “all Americans” within a year. At a House hearing, experts said that North Korea could easily employ the “doomsday scenario” to turn parts of the U.S. to ashes. In calling on the Pentagon and President Trump to move quickly to protect the grid, the experts testified that an explosion of a high-altitude nuclear bomb delivered by a missile or satellite “could be to shut down the U.S. electric power grid for an indefinite period, leading to the death within a year of up to 90 percent of all Americans.”...Hope we can find a solution to this.  http://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/featured/north-korea-doomsday-weapon-bad-news-for-trump/
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The Memo That A Russian Lawyer Took To
The Trump Tower Meeting Has Finally Released
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by CHUCK ROSS
{dailycaller.com} ~ A four-page memo that has been a central focus of the Trump Tower meeting last June between Donald Trump Jr. and a Russian attorney has finally been released... Foreign Policy magazine published the document, which Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya took into the June 9, 2016 meeting, which was arranged by Trump Jr. and attended by Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and then-campaign chairman Paul Manafort. The document, and the meeting, have become a focus for congressional and federal investigators looking into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian government...Why does it take so long for memos to be release. http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/16/the-memo-that-a-russian-lawyer-took-to-the-trump-tower-meeting-has-finally-been-released/?utm_medium=email
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Trump Threads the Needle on Iran
rt5ENOvzYXsJEwkVWGD1LZX1viq5G8uEIMYb20EuzARb1246D0HG0RacP1S9lMAwIhDCefe2LIQrKpDbiLachJaxfSF4-7nmhhLqRuieENEFg4dDbTlpyHz2NSLHuqc=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=?width=500by National Security Desk:  President Donald Trump announced Friday that he will not certify Iran’s compliance with the 2015 nuclear deal (known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan Of Action), something that is required every 90 days under the terms of the Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act of 2015. Having twice gritted his teeth and certified Iranian compliance while his administration was conducting a thorough review of its Iran policy options, the president appears finally to have had enough of people advising him that the United States is better off sticking with a flawed deal than no deal at all.

          His senior advisers are themselves split on the issue. Secretary of Defense James Mattis maintains the deal remains in the best interest of the United States. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson also reportedly favors keeping the deal even though he has acknowledged Iran’s material breach of its obligations. Meanwhile, National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster has called the JCPOA “fundamentally flawed” but has not gone as far as stating the United States should withdraw from it. UN Ambassador Nikki Haley, on the other hand, made the case for decertification. Yet even she said Sunday, “Right now, we’re in the deal to see how we can make it better. And that’s the goal. It’s not that we’re getting out of the deal. We’re just trying to make the situation better so that the American people feel safer.
          The Leftmedia punditocracy wasted no time shifting into maximum outrage mode, with some even offering their views on what Iran should do to out-fox the president. The New York Times opined that withdrawing “would be the rashest, most foolish act of the Trump administration to date.” Others claimed that there were no benefits to withdrawing from the JCPOA.
          The three European nations that have been indispensable in the ongoing 14-year effort to block Iran’s nuclear aspirations — France, the UK and Germany — all registered their displeasure, stating bluntly that they support maintaining the JCPOA. On the other side of the fence, Israel and Saudi Arabia both welcomed President Trump’s decision. Israel has long been wary of Iran’s nuclear and ballistic missile advances. Saudi Arabia meanwhile has been in a shooting war with Iranian proxies in Yemen for nearly three years, and understands better than most the malign influence of Iran in the Middle East.
          Trump unquestionably has sole authority in providing or withholding his certification to Congress. The Review Act calls upon the president to certify four specific issues: Iran’s full, transparent implementation of the deal’s terms; whether or not Iran has committed a material breach of the deal; that Iran is not acting in ways that would advance its nuclear weapons capability; and whether the suspension of U.S. sanctions called for in the JCPOA remains in the best interest of the United States. The last provision is the one most clearly immune to arguments about technicalities of Iranian compliance or what is known about their nuclear weapons program, and it is also the one that opens the door to considering Iran’s overall behavior since the JCPOA took force.
          Refusing to certify Iran’s compliance will not by itself take the United States out of the JCPOA. In a must-read examination of the possible outcomes, The Weekly Standard’s Reuel Marc Gerecht suggests that the best-case option could even be to de-certify the deal while continuing to waive sanctions, and then working to influence our European allies to ramp up economic pressure on Iran in an effort to get Tehran to accept modifications to the deal. He also makes a key point often left out of recent discussions of the Iran deal — namely the absolute need for a credible threat of military force as a last resort. Without that threat hovering in the background, Iran probably would think it could weather economic pain and wear down its western adversaries with endless go-nowhere talks. After all, the mullahs successfully ran out the clock on the Bush administration with that approach, and they know that President Trump, like George W. Bush before him, won’t be in office forever.
          We fully support the president’s effort either to rectify the JCPOA’s serious deficiencies or to begin the process of withdrawing from it. But no one should ignore the very difficult, focused effort that must be put forth over the coming months and even years to bring about rectification, and neither the president nor the Republican Congress have distinguished themselves of late in the focus department.
          Supporters of the JCPOA — and there are many of them — will deny its flaws and argue that it remains the best way to prevent Iran getting nuclear weapons. Our international relations with friends and allies may suffer in the short term. As we said at the time, Barack liar-nObama inflicted a double injury to the United States with the Iran deal, first with the deal itself and second with the need for some future president to undo it and damage our relation with European allies. But whatever the short-term fallout, the Unites States must begin the work of correcting the worst foreign policy blunder of the liar-nObama administration.
          North Korea has demonstrated what a determined adversary can achieve, in both nuclear and missile capability, if given enough time. Fourteen years have now elapsed since Iran’s nuclear program came to light. In less than that amount of time many of the JCPOA’s restrictions will come to an end, and Iran will be free to establish an industrial-scale nuclear fuel cycle. So we urge the president and like-minded members of Congress not to let up in their efforts to deal with this problem. Time is not on our side.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51865


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Social Justice is an Oxymoron
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by Susan Stamper Brown
{townhall.com} ~ From Washington, D.C. to the NFL and Hollywood, America's idols are tumbling down. This is not a bad thing. For too long, we have wasted precious time and money worshipping these so-called “social justice” warrior hypocrites who continue to disappoint.

Here’s to hoping all this disappointment will lead us back to what really matters, but don’t count on it.
 
Huge swaths of Americans still bow at the altar of social justice. They believe government-forced “charity” will advance us to an utopian paradise where everyone enjoys the same outcome, despite personal effort, upbringing, unique abilities and education.

Truth is, though, social justice is an oxymoron based on the false premise that the cure for injustice is leveling the playing field and redistributing wealth. As former Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden once said, “You may call it redistribution of wealth – I just call it being fair.”

Karl Marx would be so proud.

Marx hated religion, private property and Judeo-Christian values as much as leftists do today. That’s why you should bolt out of any place of worship that combines Jesus, social justice and the government in the same sentence.

In his book, “The Fatal Conceit: The Errors of Socialism,” economist Friedrich Hayek nails what’s really at stake: “The aim of socialism is no less than to affect a complete redesigning of our traditional morals, law and language – and on this basis to stamp out the old order and the supposedly inexorable, unjustifiable conditions that prevent the institution of reason, fulfillment, true freedom and justice.”
 
Yesteryears’ creepy social justice warriors are now out of the closet and no longer hide their agenda. Instead, they give it a pink boa and parade their intentions to destroy capitalism, silence free speech and scrub Judeo-Christian values from the public square.

They harp about injustice and claim only they can fix it, which is one of the most arrogant, egotistical piles of hogwash you’ll ever hear. 

All that, while they divide us into two groups, normal folks and them. They believe normal folks are about as smart as slugs, therefore incapable of coherent reasoning and self-care. To them, everyday Americans aren’t diamonds in the rough, they are pliable, moldable objects used to reshape America into a socialist nightmare like Venezuela.

As I’ve said before, Democrats’ sacrosanct belief that the government was created to control how fairness is spread around is nothing more than a modern-day effort to reinvent Robin Hood, without all the chivalry and green tights.

Those who romantically embrace the concept of social justice believe the misnomer that stealing from some and passing it on to those who should have had it in the first place will result in some sort of righteous leveling.

Leftists don’t own the market on charity. Normal folks leave government out of the mix and combine their compassion with common sense. They bring food in one hand and a rifle in the other, knowing if they teach someone how to hunt, they’ll eat for a lifetime.

In comparison, leftists bring Trader Joe’s bagels in one hand and a voter’s registration card in the other. Seizing the opportunity to convert their victims into non-thinking entitlement aficionados, they stop at nothing to meet an immediate need, then lead them by their noses to leftist-run metropolises where crime and government handouts abound.

I know, the devil is always in the details, but I’ll go ahead and say it anyhow. Forced “charity” doesn’t bring about justice. Instead, it creates injustice when it stirs up animosity between the less fortunate and those being penalized, taxed, for their hard work under penalty of prosecution.

In sharp contrast, there is a power in authentic generosity that no amount of government social-engineering could or will ever match. The social justice crowd should dust off the knees they protest with and try it sometime.
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Tues/Med PM ~ TheFrontPageCove

The Front Page Cover
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IS THERE AN EXPERT IN THE HOUSE?
by Burt Prelutsky
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U.S. Natural Gas Exports to Add 
500,000 Jobs, $73 Billion to Economy 
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by Bob Adelmann
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The latest estimate from API, the energy trade group, is that increased exports of LNG (liquefied natural gas) over the next 20 years will add nearly 500,000 jobs to the American economy... and $73 billion to the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Marty Durbin, API’s chief strategy officer, stated, “This report confirms that increasing U.S. LNG exports would bring great benefits to American workers and consumers and to the U.S. economy. Increasing the use of U.S. natural gas throughout the world means more production here at home, cleaner air, and increased energy security for our nation and our allies.” The revolution taking place in natural gas has been almost completely overlooked. Most of the focus is on crude oil — its drop from $100 a barrel in 2014 to under $60 today, and how that is threatening the very existence of the OPEC cartel. Indeed, lower gasoline prices get a lot of coverage, while cheaper natural gas shows up in lower utility bills, which is much less exciting. But the fracking revolution that has transformed the development of America’s crude-oil reserves is also revolutionizing the production of natural gas...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/27141-us-natural-gas-exports-to-add-500-000-jobs-73-billion-to-economy
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liar-Clinton Attacks America Overseas, Backs
NFL Thugs, Urges Resistance To President
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{rickwells.us} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton is continuing her “They were supposed to vote for the elitist criminal” book tour with a pass through the UK... She had a few words to say about the despicable misconduct of the NFL players, who have attacked their nation from London repeatedly by disrespecting our national anthem and in general. The comments came Monday morning, US east coast time, when liar-Clinton mimicked the disgusting conduct of Hussein liar-nObama as she trashed the United States from foreign soil. She told an audience of the British counterpart to America-hating libtards at the Southbank Centre’s London Literature Festival that disrespecting America is a wonderful thing. In delivering the indoctrination of how the act of blatant disrespect is “supposed” to be perceived, liar-Clinton said, “So you have to resist what are very clear, what we call dog whistles, to that base. That’s what the black athletes kneeling was about.”... https://rickwells.us/clinton-attacks-america-overseas/
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Sessions and DOJ Give Sanctuary 
Cities “Last Chance” to Comply
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by Warren Mass
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The Justice Department posted a press release on October 12 noting that the DOJ has provided a “last chance” for “sanctuary cities” to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373... “Communication between government agencies and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.” The first paragraph of the law reads: Notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law, a Federal, State, or local government entity or official may not prohibit, or in any way restrict, any government entity or official from sending to, or receiving from, the Immigration and Naturalization Service information regarding the citizenship or immigration status, lawful or unlawful, of any individual. The DOJ statement named five jurisdictions that have preliminarily been found to have laws, policies, or practices that may violate 8 U.S.C. 1373...Now, go get liar-Hillary.   https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/27138-sessions-and-doj-give-sanctuary-cities-last-chance-to-comply
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11 Year Olds Forced to Listen to Social 
Justice Activist Without Parental Consent
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by Amelia Hamilton
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Do you know who is speaking to your kids at school? Teachers, administrators, their friends; maybe an activist who is facing both felony and misdemeanor drug charges. Wait, what?... Indeed, one of these things is not like the others, but that was the case at Sky Vista Middle School in Denver recently. Parents were upset to find out after the fact that a social justice "peace activist" going by the name Queen Phoenix (real name Dezy Saint-Nolde) came to speak to sixth graders. The teacher of the class, Asia Lyons, is now on administrative leave while the district conducts "an investigation into a possible policy violation related to instructional materials." If they aren't sure this is a violation of the policy, the purpose of which is to engage students in real-world learning, they need to change the policy. People with charges pending should not be allowed into the classroom without parental consent. However, the school district told Denver 7 that there is no such rule in place regarding people with criminal records unless the speaker in question is a sex offender. “We feel like the district and school have let the families down,” said one parent...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/11-year-olds-forced-listen-social-justice-activist-without-parental-consent
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Promoting Sharia With Your Grocery Purchases
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by Truth Revolt
{truthrevolt.org} ~ On this new special edition of The Glazov Gang, we feature the Kirralie Smith Moment with Kirralie Smith, president of HalalChoices.com.au... Kirralie discusses Promoting Sharia With Your Grocery Purchases, unveiling how Islamic Supremacism is being funded with your shopping.  http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/kirralies-moment-promoting-sharia-your-grocery-purchases
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IS THERE AN EXPERT IN THE HOUSE?
by Burt Prelutsky


It might be my imagination, but I don’t believe we have ever had so many people in America pretending to be experts bloviating on so many topics at one time.

It would be bad enough if those passing themselves off as the last word when it comes to guns, climate and race relations, were simply mistaken. But they all have an agenda, and none of them seems even slightly concerned in the well-being of their fellow Americans.

Those who are claiming that the answer to violence in America is to have stricter gun laws have to pretend they’re unaware that the cities with the strictest gun laws (Chicago, Baltimore, Washington, D.C.) have the most murders. They must also pretend that the cause of the murders is somehow the National Rifle Association (NRA), even though none of the homicides has been committed by even one of its four million members.

When it comes to climate change, the ones shouting the loudest about the havoc caused by the recent hurricanes have to pretend that the world has never experienced such natural disasters, thus ignoring reports that Hurricane Maria, to take a handy example, was the most powerful storm to hit North America in 70 years. Inasmuch as our carbon footprint has presumably grown steadily over those seven decades, how do they explain we had to wait this long to experience a hurricane of near-equal strength? 

The answer is that they don’t explain it. They don’t need to because truth doesn’t matter to them or to those left-wing idiots eager to further disseminate the lies.  The amateur climatologists have various motives for enlisting in the adolescent, Al Gore-inspired, ecology movement, including a dislike of America’s industrial power, a distaste for modern life, a desire to turn the earth into an imaginary Eden and even, for geeky guys, a way to meet stupid girls.

As for race relations, black Americans have allowed themselves to be sold a bill of shoddy goods by both black and white race hustlers. They have eagerly glommed onto the notion that they have been victimized by white people as a way to rationalize their own failure to get an education, to avoid drugs both the use and sale, to learn a trade and get a job, to avoid having children out of wedlock, to get married and to raise their kids in two-parent families.

If they put their minds and hearts to it, they could raise their status, although probably not as quickly as Lyndon Johnson, Jimmy Carter, liar-Bill Clinton and Barack liar-nObama, managed to diminish it. Worst of all, the Democrats had been motivated solely by a desire to ensure that the darkies returned to the plantation and remained there, unshackled slaves who could be counted on to vote against their own best interests every election day.

● Although the entertainment industry is rife with left-wingers, uneducated ignoramuses and sexual predators like Harvey Weinstein, there is the occasional exception. Such a person is my friend, the star of “Wheel of Fortune,” Pat Sajak.

It is a shame that most people only know him as a TV game show host. If his TV talk show had not been victimized by a lousy time slot and a lack of promotion, everyone would realize how bright the guy is.

Although I don’t twitter, one of my subscribers, Patrick Miano of Phoenix, shared one of Sajak’s recent tweets: “OK, let me explain this again. We’re celebs. We’re wiser & more empathetic than you. We are famous. Please take our opinions more seriously.”

It takes a celebrity to properly put other celebrities in their place. Unfortunately, as I said, Sajak is one of the very few who has his head screwed on straight. That’s why I wasn’t surprised to read the eloquent commencement speech he delivered to the 11 members of the first graduating class of Founders Classical Academy in Leander, Texas, earlier this year. Not too surprisingly, the Academy is one of the 16 classical K-12 charter schools operating under the auspices of Hillsdale College.

Sajak opened by admitting there probably wasn’t much he could say to a group of youngsters who had spent years in such an ideal academic setting, but thought he might at least point out a potential pitfall, a pitfall not merely for them, “but for everyone in every corner of American society today. It has altered the way we talk to one another and perceive one another. It has perverted the notion of free speech and poisoned the academic environment. It has turned the American political system on its head, creating a situation where opposing views are not only unwelcome, but are deemed to be signs of evil intent. It has pitted friend against friend and has caused rifts among families.

“I’m talking about identity politics, the attempt to divide Americans and set us against each other. The attempt to classify and categorize us by all sorts of measurements and standards. To a great degree, those who are making these attempts are succeeding. And their efforts are changing our country in fundamental ways.”

After expanding on those thoughts, Sajak concluded with: “I urge you to resist those who would try to undo the basic truths you learned here and to say no to those who try to classify and divide you into opposing identities. You are not Generation Z or whatever they want to call you. You are Bianca and Colton and Chase and Ashton. You are Claire and Ari. You are Jasmine and Ray and Emma.  You are Basil. You are Natasha. You are the first graduating class of Founders Classical Academy. I congratulate you, and I thank you.”

● Going from the sublime to the ridiculous: the way that so many Hollywood figures have defended Harvey Weinstein reminds me of the scandal in the 1970s involving David Begelman, the head of MGM. If you’re not old enough to recall, actor Cliff Robertson blew the whistle on the movie executive when he discovered that Begelman had forged his name to a check.

In the aftermath, Hollywood treated Begelman as if he were a martyr. Robertson, on the other hand, was treated like a leper and found himself blacklisted.

Understand, this isn’t hearsay. A short time after the scandal broke, I was seated in a restaurant frequented by Hollywood types. When Begelman entered, nearly every other person in the place either rose and moved to greet him or reached out to shake his hand or pat his back as he passed by on the way to his table. The way the town went out of its way to console him, you would have thought he was the injured party.

If you didn’t know better, you would have thought the Pope had just entered a gathering of priests and nuns, all of them eager to kiss his ring. It was, instead, a case of a felon entering a gathering of toadies, all of them eager to give his rump a great big smooch.

● Speaking of disgusting public displays, on a recent “Tonight Show,” Miley Cyrus, together with all the female writers on Jimmy Fallon’s staff, were allowed several minutes on camera in which to express their love and admiration of that evening’s guest, liar-Hillary Clinton.

Which has led me to ask what is the difference between MSNBC’s politically partisan Rachel Maddow and the likes of late night talk show hosts Stephen Colbert, Jimmy Kimmel and Jimmy Fallon? Answer: She is far more masculine and, on occasion, is even amusing.

● As we all know, if liberals didn’t have double standards, the two-faced hypocrites would have no standards at all.

One such example of their hypocrisy is the way they will endlessly prattle on about free speech while at the same time destroy anyone who voices an opinion contrary to their own.

Years ago, I interviewed actor James Wood for one of my books.  When I suggested he was one of Hollywood’s few conservatives, he vehemently denied it. A few years later, he came out of the political closet. When I contacted him, he readily confessed he had lied to me. He elected to wait until he had made up his mind to retire, realizing that the industry would have retired him prematurely if he had dared to tell the truth.

● In a recent article about the role that money has or hasn’t played in my life, I mentioned that I had once passed on a network assignment to write a TV movie about a black man who had gone to jail and, upon his release, became a major league baseball player. I had explained to the network executive that I would prefer writing about a black man who hadn’t been a heroin addict and who hadn’t gone to prison for having committed armed robbery.

It was one thing to write an inspiring script about someone who had valiantly overcome a physical or mental handicap, as I had with a couple of sports-related docudramas, "Aunt Mary" and "A Winner Never Quits: The Pete Gray Story,"and one who had merely been lucky enough to have born with athletic ability.

At the time, I couldn’t recall his name, except that he was fast and had stolen a lot of bases for the Detroit Tigers, Montreal Expos and Chicago White Sox.

My friend, the eminent physician and baseball scholar, Harry Maller, reminded me in an email that the guy’s name was Ron LeFlore and that he had stolen 455 bases during his major league career, and, what’s more, that most of them were never found.
If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
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Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCove

The Front Page Cover
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MAD AS HELL
by Burt Prelutsky
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Tuesday Top Headlines
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FBI uncovered Russian bribery plot before liar-nObama administration approved controversial nuclear deal with Moscow (The Hill)
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Trump says drug czar nominee Tom Marino is withdrawing after opioid investigation (The Washington Post)
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New report: GOP tax reform could boost household income by $4,000 (The Daily Signal)
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Trump, McConnell pledge unity on tax reform, health care after feud (Fox News)
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FBI: 118 law enforcement officers died in line of duty in 2016 — up 37% from 2015 (CNS News)
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Feminists bash actress for saying she tries to “dress modestly,” doesn’t “act flirtatiously” (Fox News)
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Drag Queen Story Hour at the Michelle liar-nObama Neighborhood Library in LA (CBS Los Angeles)
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Toronto school district to remove “chief” from job titles because it’s a microaggression (National Review)
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Apple executive sorry for saying white people can bring diversity (The Washington Times)
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Undocumented pregnant teen seeking an abortion in Texas could set new legal precedents (Washington Examiner)
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Planned Parenthood is targeting baby girls in the womb (The Daily Signal)
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EPA head seeks to avoid settlements with green groups (Reuters)
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Iraqi forces retake oil-rich Kirkuk from Kurdish control after independence referendum (The Washington Times)
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Policy: Environmentalist policies are exacerbating wildfires (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: A stop to unconstitutional subsidy payments (E21)  ~The Patriot Post
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Pulosi, Dems Expect Trump To 
Cave – DACA Amnesty Without Border Wall
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{rickwells.us} ~ Nancy Pulosi is asked by George Stephanopoulos whether or not the Democrats are willing to shut down the government to keep the borders open... effectively asking whether their objective of changing the face and composition of America and adding to their base is that important. He says, “You say you don’t want to shut down the government but the White House has made it pretty clear, if the President doesn’t get his priorities, like the wall, with the government funding bill in December, that they are not going to have the votes to keep the government open.” Short-circuiting and sputtering a bit, Pulosi asks, “Why are you putting that on us? They have the majority in the House and the Senate and the President’s signature. They have the power to keep government open. Of course she’s being her usual deceptive, dishonest self...They're just dreaming.  https://rickwells.us/pelosi-trump-cave-daca-wall/
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Sen. Graham Predicts Republicans Will 
Pass Tax Reform: 'If We Don't, We're Dead'
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by Susan Jones
{cnsnews.com} ~ If Republicans don't get tax reform done, "We're dead," Sen. Lindsey Graham told CBS's "Face the Nation" on Sunday... "Are you going to get tax reform done?" host John Dickerson asked the senator. "Yes. If we don't, we're dead," Graham said. "If we don't cut tax and we don't eventually repeal and replace liar-nObamacare, then we're going to lose across the board in the House in 2018, and all of my colleagues running in primaries in 2018 will probably get beat. It will be the end of Mitch McConnell as we know it...   https://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/sen-graham-predicts-republicans-will-pass-tax-reform-if-we-dont-were-dead?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdWbE9EZ3dNalkzTUdFeSIsInQiOiJjOXZIWmY0aUJNTzJ3NmlVaUZKY1cxdnlwWlpLUzNCSUZoZnZMWFZQaWVtaG5kQ2dZRlFBNnJmdmI2ZUZ2b3VFMTBMaVVocVwvNjV5Q0EwTXB2ZFIyeDI5OENPZGFtNHJcL3BZSHN4NXRabUpPa2JHRTJsbitmYTRmeDU3aFFCNTBSIn0%3D
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liar-Clinton – Better Brainwashing, Distortions
and Lies Key To Taking Back White House
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{rickwells.us} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton made an appearance Sunday on CNN’s Fareed Zakaria GPS (Grotesque Physical Specimen). Zakaria is a CFR member born in Mumbai, India, to a Konkani Muslim family... His father was an Islamic theologian. They are both actively engaged in facilitating the globalist takeover of America. liar-Clinton laid out where the left, at least the left that she represents and takes her instructions from, is headed and exposes some of the real aims of what they’re doing behind the facade of an American political party. As she panders to every identity political group, she asks the Muslim  Zakaria at the 2:17 mark of the video, for those who can only take just so much liar-Clinton, “Why are we scapegoating Muslims?...   https://rickwells.us/clinton-brainwashing-distortions-lies/
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North Korea May Have Actually 
Nuked Itself Out Of A Nuclear Test Site
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by Jack Davi
{westernjournalism.com} ~ North Korea may be losing its war with the earth. After a powerful nuclear test on Sept. 3 that North Korea said was a hydrogen bomb... four earthquakes have now struck the region where the regime tests its weapons, leading some experts to say the site may no longer be functional. “The explosion from the Sept. 3 test had such power that the existing tunnels within the underground testing site might have caved in,” said Kim So-gu, head researcher at the Korea Seismological Institute...  https://www.westernjournalism.com/north-korea-may-actually-nuked-nuclear-test-site/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=western-journal
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liar-Clinton Booed In UK 
As She’s “Honored” With Fake Award
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{rickwells.us} ~ Often when the left wants to elevate their despicable operatives and to provide them with a platform from which to spew their effluent... they will offer them some kind of stupid, meaningless award that means nothing but has the appearance of attaching a certain undeserved dignity to them. That’s what former French President Hollande did when he gave Arnold Schwarzenegger some kind of dumb fake climate award right before he left office in April and it’s what the leftists at Swansea University in Wales did with the criminal liar-Hillary Clinton. The Saturday charade took the form of most damaging, vile espionage criminal of all time being given a boost to her hopelessly tarnished image and presented with an award, laughably, for her “commitment” to promoting the rights of families and children. Sure she’s made a career of profiting on and abusing women and children right along with the men of America and the world, but it is, after all, a phony award...  https://rickwells.us/clinton-booed-uk-law-school/
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MAD AS HELL
by Burt Prelutsky


Because I am always scribbling little notes to myself, half the time I don’t know where I’ve collected the grist for my little mill. Some information I gather on TV, some off the Internet, others in books and magazines or even in conversation.  That’s why it throws me when some of you ask me for a source. It’s not that I’m trying to be evasive when I claim not to recall, it’s that I usually don’t remember. I suppose I could take the time to keep track, but that would make it feel too much like a high school homework assignment.

So, here’s the deal. I’ll keep doing what I do, and if anyone discovers that I’m mistaken and lets me know about it, I’ll publish a retraction. What’s more, I won’t bury it among the classifieds, the way that your hometown newspaper does.

● One of my readers wrote to complain that if he watches Fox for even an hour, he seems cursed to come across Juan Williams, about whom he writes: “I’ve yet to hear him say a single thing that isn’t a regurgitation of Democratic propaganda.”

I replied: “I only watch three Fox shows: Bret Baier, Tucker Carlson and, on Sunday, ‘Media Buzz’ with Howard Kurtz, which may be why I haven’t had to put up with Mr. Williams in several months. On the other hand, perhaps the reason I limit myself to those three shows is because he doesn’t appear on any of them. 

When I used to see him on a regular basis, I found him to be so consistently moronic, I wondered if he wasn’t playing or, perhaps, over-playing, his designated role as Fox’s token black liberal, making white conservative viewers grateful that they were neither liberal nor black.”

● Another of my readers, Patrick Miano, let me know that “In the good old days when the United Kingdom hanged at least some murderers, there were ‘aggravated circumstances’ which were requirements for the death penalty. One of them was murder by shooting. Why the British considered using a gun to murder someone worse than using a knife or poison is beyond me.”

Because nothing, I like to think, is beyond me, I suggested the following: “My guess is that knives and poison are personal, and the Brits assumed if you wanted to kill a spouse or a rich relative, you were going to go ahead and do it, no matter the additional risk. A gun, on the other hand, is a weapon a career criminal would employ, and the fact it could lead to his being hanged might curtail its use.”

● Football players, who are rapidly replacing defense attorneys as the most despised group of people in America, were unanimous in denouncing V.P. Pence’s departure from a Colts-49er game as a stunt. Apparently, they would have us believe that kneeling during the National Anthem isn’t a stunt. Or perhaps they simply believe they have a patent when it comes to stunts.

● Dianne Feinstein has put all our minds to rest by announcing she will be running for re-election. Which means that we will soon have another person in their 90s serving in the U.S. Senate. If this keeps up, they are going to have to widen the aisles in the chamber in order to make room for all the walkers and oxygen tanks.

● I saw a cartoon of a big, angry-looking woman in a store yelling at a male customer: “I am a strong independent woman who doesn’t need a man. Now pay for my ridiculously inexpensive birth control!”

It makes me wonder how it is that all those young single women who keep insisting how strong they are don’t notice a certain contradiction when they keep insisting, one, that colleges provide them with safe spaces filled with blankets, teddy bears and endless cups of cocoa; and, two, that the rest of us provide them with health insurance up to the age of 26 and abortions until they reach menopause.

● Somewhere, I read that when sociopaths used a bomb to murder 168 people and injure 680 others in 1995, it wasn’t a “gun problem.” And when, on 9/11, sociopaths used airplanes to murder 2,977 people and injure 6,000 others, it wasn’t regarded as an “airplane problem.” Moreover, when a sociopath used a truck to murder 85 people and injure 458 others in 2016, it wasn’t a “truck problem.”

Yet, when sociopaths use a gun to murder people, Democrats always label it a “gun problem.”

What they don’t do is make it any easier to identify and institutionalize sociopaths.  It could lead a person to conclude that liberals are more concerned with confiscating guns than they are with preventing mass-killings.

● One of my readers, Elaine Pitts, reports that years ago, she and a male cousin exchanged comments about the enormous perks available to politicians. Whereas Elaine thought members of Congress should live in barracks, ride shuttle buses and eat in mess halls, her cousin countered that they should live in tents, ride bicycles and brown bag it.

Ms. Pitts felt that either of their plans “would rule out those seeking office for fame, fortune and power. Then maybe we would have politicians who are there to actually serve their constituents, do their job in D.C. and then return home to a real job.”

I replied: “I’d prefer them to stay home and never go to D.C. They could communicate through audio-visual devices the way that major corporations do when they have offices situated all over the globe. Otherwise, it’s asking too much that people serve in the House or Senate, and then go back home after a few years and pick up where they left off. Even I would have a tough time and I’m just a writer. But if I had a business or a law or medical practice, it would be too great a hardship.

“The solution I would really prefer is that we deflate the federal government, so that its only functions would be those spelled out in the Constitution.”

The truth is, the only reason that those 535 legislators congregate in Washington, D.C. is to provide lobbyists with the convenience of one-stop shopping.

● I came across something that explains the state of race relations in terms anyone can understand: “If a white person moves out of a neighborhood, it constitutes white flight. If he moves in, it’s gentrification.

“If a white person either notices the color or fails to notice the color of another human being’s skin, he’s either a racist or he’s choosing to ignore racism.

“If a white person engages in a different culture, he’s guilty of cultural appropriation. If he doesn’t engage, he’s being non-inclusive.”

In other words, whitey, whatever you do or don’t do, say or don’t say, you can’t escape being a racist.

● A couple of things I wouldn’t know if I only watched Fox, I discovered in the pages of The New American. It seems that I occasionally can recall where I learned something.

It seems that the cyberweapon used in the ransomware attack last May that led, among other things, to ambulances being rerouted, surgeries to be rescheduled, manufacturers to halt production and airlines to cancel flights, was developed by, and then lost control of, by the NSA.

The reason the attack was such a rousing success, though, was because Microsoft had left a vulnerability in their products that could only be prevented with a patch they only made available to those using selected versions of Windows or those who had purchased an extended security agreement plan.

Various Big Brothers are not only watching you these days, but allowing our enemies to join them.

As dangerous as Iran and North Korea are, we may in the long run have far more to fear from the snoops in the intelligence community and the titans of Silicon Valley. 

The other thing I found out is that the Mormons are pulling 180,000 older teens out of the Boy Scouts of America, moving them into a scouting program of their own.

As Matthew Bowman, a Mormon scholar and history professor, explains: “The church is wedded very much to traditional gender roles and they see the Boy Scouts increasingly moving away from that.”

Although Mormon officials deny it has anything to do with the Scout’s decisions to allow homosexuals to act as Scout leaders and to allow girls to join, one can’t help thinking the Mormons are fibbing. Especially when you discover that the Boy Scouts have also seen mass exoduses from other conservative Christian groups, such as the Southern Baptist Convention and the Assemblies of God.

Some years ago, when the BSA was being challenged to allow homosexuals to become Scout leaders, I wondered why gays didn’t simply save everyone a lot of trouble and start an alternate group of its own. But that would have been too simple and too logical in the madhouse that America has become.

Instead, just like those troublemaking couples who intentionally seek out religious bakers they know will refuse to make cakes for same-sex marriages, the Gay Mafia insists on destroying those groups and individuals who won’t pander to their repulsive life style.

When you look around and see all the mischief being caused by George Soros, Antifa, Black Lives Matter, campus Nazis, Barack liar-nObama’s resistance movement, dishonorable football players, a biased media, a non-functioning Senate and home-grown Islamists, I fear America is having a nervous breakdown.

Unless we come to our collective senses, which is growing increasingly unlikely, I’m afraid one creepy old man in a Vegas hotel room is just the beginning.

One can easily imagine Stephen Paddock parroting the words of Howard Beale in “Network,” as he busted out the window on the 32nd floor of the Mandalay Hotel: “I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore.”
If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCove

The Front Page Cover
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Trump Administration
Outlines Upcoming Health care Changes
by Kerry Lear
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About That 'Blacks Want New Gun Laws' Poll
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          So let’s start with the racist origins of gun control in the Jim Crow South. That’s right; the first laws to prohibit guns were meant to keep guns out of the hands of blacks, leaving them defenseless against the KKK. The worst massacres in American history weren’t Orlando and Las Vegas. As National Review’s Kevin Williamson recounts, “That happened in — depending on who is doing the counting — 1917 in East St. Louis, or in 1873 in Colfax, La., or in 1921 in Tulsa, Okla., or in 1919 in Arkansas. All of those were mob-violence episodes in which white terrorists, often working under the leadership of Democratic politicians, massacred African Americans, hundreds at a time. Some were shot, some were hanged, some were burned alive.” Unarmed and defenseless blacks.
          Second, we’d call this an example of pollaganda. The Leftmedia repeatedly and falsely tells blacks that the problem with inner cities is guns. Then the Leftmedia asks blacks if removing guns would fix the problem. Lo and behold, people are able to regurgitate the position fed them by the media.
          Third, among the Trump statements the Post takes issue with was his assertion that Democrats have “ruled the inner cities for 100 years. This is their rule.” He’s absolutely correct. As Mark Alexander noted Wednesday, “The 30 cities with the highest murder rates have been under Democrat control for decades.” Even the Post sort of concedes this by noting how successful New York was at reducing crime … under Republican Rudy Giuliani. Nevertheless, the black homicide rate is rising.
          Fourth, speaking of reducing crime, that brings us to law enforcement. Barack liar-nObama’s war on cops has been deadly before, and it turned so again this week. A 19-year-old college fanboy of liar-nObama and Bernie Sanders gunned down Texas Tech University campus police officer Floyd East Jr. on Monday.
          Fifth, who, pray tell, is going to enforce these new gun laws? We’ll give the erudite folks at the Post three guesses.
          Finally, a point about NFL celebrity athletes taking a knee to promote and popularize the fake “racist cop” assertion — a protest started by former San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who recently donated funds to honor a cop-killer. USA Today compiles an arrest database of NFL players that is 870 records long. (The NBA is no better.) These cop-hating “National Felons League” thugs are the heroes of many inner city blacks kids.
          So a memo to the Post and their “gun control” advocates: Guns aren’t the problem, Democrat constituencies and policy are the problem.  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51855

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RINO Collins Joins Tapper
Accusing Trump Of Hurting American Citizens
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{rickwells.us} ~ Maine Senator RINO-Susan Collins breathlessly told her leftist ally Jake Tapper on CNN how the “evil” Trump is taking insurance away from poor people... by forcing Congress to appropriate the money that they allowed liar-nObama to simply take. It’s a great scheme for the well connected establishment types, to structure a system where Americans are forced to buy your product and also forced to pay for others who don’t have the money to do so on their own through subsidies. Then, in the unlikely situation that a non-establishment, non-profiteering man of the people is elected and tries to put a stop to it, accuse him of being a heartless elite who hates people of less means and with darker skin. The dishonest RINO Collins is asked about President Trump’s executive order eliminating the illegal liar-nObamacare subsidies, asking her if he’s not “blowing up liar-nObamacare,” ignoring the fact that it is already imploding and is only surviving through the illegal wealth confiscation and redistribution to the insurance companies that Trump has now eliminated...  https://rickwells.us/rino-collins-trump-hurting-citizens/
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Jury Deliberating in 
Jessica Chambers Murder Case
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The closing arguments in the case against Quinton Tellis have concluded.  Tellis is accused of capital murder in the burning death of 19-year-old Jessica Lane Chambers... Prosecutors believe that Tellis had sex with Chambers before he set her and her car on fire and left her to die the night of Dec. 6, 2014, in Courtland Mississippi.  Chambers died hours later in a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. The jury is now in deliberations.  Local reporter Therese Apel shares the timeline from yesterday’s phone forensics as delivered to the jury by prosecutors...There's a update on this case  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/10/15/verdict-watch-jury-deliberating-in-jessica-chambers-murder-case/
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Massive section of Western Wall and 
Roman theater uncovered after 1,700 years
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{timesofisrael.com} ~ Archaeologists are one step closer to solving the riddle of what took place in Jerusalem following the destruction of the city by Romans in 70 CE... Israel Antiquity Authority archaeologists announced Monday that for the past two years they have been excavating and exposing a massive eight-meter deep section of Jerusalem’s Western Wall, unseen for 1,700 years. And in the course of their work, which has been quietly proceeding directly beneath Wilson’s Arch — the area immediately adjacent to the men’s section of the Western Wall — they unexpectedly discovered a small Roman theater. The dig has not encroached under the Temple Mount...   https://www.timesofisrael.com/massive-section-of-western-wall-and-roman-theater-uncovered-after-1700-years/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=ff28075129-New+Western+Wall+discovery&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-ff28075129-54638825
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Returning ISIS Jihadists 
Pose Long, Uncharted Challenge
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ For months now, Western counterterrorism experts have sounded the alarm: as ISIS loses ground, foreign fighters from America and Europe may try returning home. When they do, the experts cautioned... they will carry the terror threat with them, ready and willing to strike. Law enforcement needs to be prepared. Now, with the fall of the Iraqi city of Harija, the Islamic State's last major stronghold, and the impending collapse of its Syrian capital, Raqqa, the time has finally come. But is law enforcement prepared? Not really. An estimated 5,000 Europeans joined ISIS and other terrorist groups since fighting first broke out in Syria. While some surviving members may choose to remain in the region, or travel to other conflict areas like Afghanistan, a few thousand others are likely to try to make their way back home. In countries such as France, Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands, most of them are at the border, where they will be taken into custody and ultimately tried for terror-related offenses...  https://www.investigativeproject.org/6783/returning-isis-jihadists-pose-long-uncharted
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President Trump Considering 
Sen. Tom Cotton For CIA Director
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ According to reports, President Donald Trump is considering  replacing Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo... This means, of course, that Trump would need to find a new CIA head – and Sen. Tom Cotton is in the running. According to a report from Axios, Cotton is being considered because he is “one of the few senators with an easy relationship with Trump.” Cotton talks to Trump a few times a week, and he even planted the seed for Trump’s new Iran policy. And like Trump, Cotton is not a career politician: a double Harvard graduate, he served in the Army’s 101st Airborne, with combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, for which he earned a Bronze Star. He then worked as a consultant at McKinsey and Co. before embarking on a political career in 2012... Maybe this will happen.  http://thepoliticalinsider.com/tom-citton-cia-director-report-trump-considering/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_10_16_2017&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-10-16-17-morning&utm_medium=email
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Trump Administration
Outlines Upcoming Health care Changes
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by Kerry Lear
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Earlier in the week, The Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump Administration was going to make some big changes to the American healthcare system.  

The administration made an announcement late Thursday that one of those changes would be that key payments to insurers selling on the liar-nObamacare healthcare exchanges would officially end.

The cost-sharing reduction payments cost an estimated $7 billion and Trump has alluded to halting the payment program a few times before.

"Based on guidance from the Department of Justice, the Department of Health and Human Services has concluded that there is no appropriation for cost-sharing reduction payments to insurance companies under liar-nObamacare. In light of this analysis, the Government cannot lawfully make the cost-sharing reduction payments," write the White House in a statement on Thursday night. “Congress needs to repeal and replace the disastrous liar-nObamacare law and provide real relief to the American people.” 

liar-nObamacare, also known as the Affordable Care Act, relied heavily on these payments to keep insurers enrolled in health care exchanges.  

The payment system, in particular, was a point of contention between Democrats and Republicans. Republicans argued that tax-payer dollars shouldn’t be used to “bail-out” insurance companies and halted the subsidies with legal action. The liar-nObama Administration was attempting to appeal the subsidies in court. But Trump’s move takes the appeal off the table. 

"The bailout of insurance companies through these unlawful payments is yet another example of how the previous administration abused taxpayer dollars and skirted the law to prop up a broken system. Congress needs to repeal and replace the disastrous liar-nObamacare law and provide real relief to the American people," said Sarah Huckabee Sanders, White House press secretary.  

Trump is visually frustrated with the lack of progress when it comes to health care law and made the overnight decision in an effort to pressure the Democrats to compromise.  

“The Democrats liar-nObamaCare is imploding. Massive subsidy payments to their pet insurance companies has stopped. Dems should call me to fix!” tweeted Trump Friday morning. "liar-nObamaCare is a broken mess. Piece by piece we will now begin the process of giving America the great HealthCare it deserves!" 

On Thursday, Trump also signed an executive order to make health care premiums lower and predicts that “millions and millions of people” will benefit.

“With these actions,” said Trump at White House ceremony when signing the executive order. “We are moving toward lower costs and more options in the healthcare market, and taking crucial steps toward saving the American people from the nightmare of liar-nObamacare.”

“Mr. Trump’s order would also eventually make it easier for small businesses to band together and buy insurance through entities known as association health plans, which could be created by business and professional groups. A White House official said these health plans “could potentially allow American employers to form groups across state lines” — a goal championed by Mr. Trump and many other Republicans — allowing more options and the formation of larger risk pools,” writes the New York Times.

The federal agencies will need time to write and adopt the new regulations. The order won’t likely go into effect until sometime next year.  

Democrats are already expressing their disapproval of Trump’s recent move to stop the cost-sharing reduction payments.  

"If these reports are true,” said Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif in a joint statement. “The president is walking away from the good-faith, bipartisan Alexander-Murray negotiations and risking the health care of millions of Americans.” 

“It is a spiteful act of vast, pointless sabotage leveled at working families and the middle class in every corner of America. Make no mistake about it, Trump will try to blame the Affordable Care Act, but this will fall on his back and he will pay the price for it,” said clown-Schumer and Pulosi in the statement.

Democrats are expected to take legal action in response.  

On the other hand, Speaker Paul Ryan applauded Trump’s move to stop the appeal of the subsidies. 

"Today’s decision ... preserves a monumental affirmation of Congress’s authority and the separation of powers," said Ryan. "liar-nObamacare has proven itself to be a fatally flawed law, and the House will continue to work with the Trump administration to provide the American people a better system.”
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
THE U.N. & OTHER PLAGUES
by Burt Prelutsky
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Opinion in Brief

Peggy Noonan: “Why do Americans own so many guns? Because they don’t trust the protected elites to protect them. … I think a lot of Americans have guns because they’re fearful — and for damn good reason. They fear a coming chaos, and know that when it happens it will be coming to a nation that no longer coheres. They think it’s all collapsing — our society, our culture, the baseline competence of our leadership class. They see the cultural infrastructure giving way — illegitimacy, abused children, neglect, racial tensions, kids on opioids staring at screens — and, unlike their cultural superiors, they understand the implications. Nuts with nukes, terrorists bent on a mission. The grid will go down. One of our foes will hit us, suddenly and hard. In the end it could be hand to hand, door to door. I said some of this six years ago to a famously liberal journalist, who blinked in surprise. If that’s true, he said, they won’t have a chance! But they are Americans, I said. They won’t go down without a fight.”  ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51866

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Rep Jordan Stomps Blowhard Cuomo 
Blaming GOP For liar-nObamacare Implosion
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) agreed to an interview with the exceptionally rude propagandist Chris Cuomo, who talked over him throughout, in his customary manner... Not only is Cuomo the epitome of CNN Democrat partisanship, even the banner above his name is reflective of the network bias, reading “Trump ends healthcare subsidies for poor people.” Nowhere does it mention they’re another illegal act by the Kenyan usurper, just the implication that Trump is the Grinch and for him, everyday is Christmas. Why do Republicans ever go on CNN, but particularly legitimize this obnoxious piece of liberal trash by appearing on his program and further enabling and rewarding this type of conduct. After Jordan speaks in support of President Trump’s decision to end the illegal subsidies the imposter liar-nObama enacted, Cuomo can almost be seen engaging the propaganda machine between his ears. Always quick to call Republicans by their first name, the dishonest leftist asks, “Jim, why aren’t you saying that the President is acting like an emperor and that his job is to execute laws that are passed, not write his own?” Ya think it’s got anything to do with the fact that he isn’t,  Cuomo?...  https://rickwells.us/jordan-cuomo-obamacare-implosion/
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Sessions DOJ Good Old Boys Arguing Against
Releasing Evidence Of Comey Corruption
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{rickwells.us} ~ Why are Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ Department of Justice lawyers arguing in court on behalf of those attempting to railroad President Trump out of office?...  DOJ lawyers have asked a federal judge to block memos written by the corrupt former FBI Director, James Comey, from being released. Comey’s perspective on the issue makes sense, he’s guilty and he wants to limit his exposure to prosecution. The less we know and the less evidence that is available to support a case against him, the better his position. But why is Sessions also taking that same stance, particularly in light of the fact that Comey, Mueller, Rosenstein and the new FBI Director who replaced him, Christopher Wray, are all peas in the same pod of corruption? Did they make room in that pod for one more, the AG himself?... https://rickwells.us/sessions-doj-evidence-comey/
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Sen Rand Paul Explains Why Big Govt
Left Hates Trump liar-nObamacare EOs
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{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Rand Paul, who is also an ophthalmologist, knows from personal experience the details of what makes a good healthcare system work... and what makes a bad one like liar-nObamacare cumbersome, expensive and ineffective. Following the signing by President Trump of his two executive orders on Healthcare, Senator Paul spoke with a reporter and explained what it all means. The explanation he offers of what the reality will be under the new guidelines is nothing like the “end of civilization” hand-wringing of the mainstream media. To hear him explain it everything is an effort to make things better for the American people. Nobody is out to steal insurance from defenseless poor people for the pleasure of watching them suffer as CNN and the rest of the MSM have been reporting. Rather than being heartless ogres, the President’s effort will permit free market competition to lower prices drastically and improve care. Once again getting government out of the way improves function...  https://rickwells.us/rand-paul-trump-obamacare-eos/
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NAACP Attacking Jones 
Confirms Betrayal of Its People
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by Lloyd Marcus
{ipatriot.com} ~ As a black proud American, I was repulsed learning that the NAACP sent out a press release accusing Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones of violating his players free speech rights... In a nutshell, Jones told his employees, if you don’t stand for our national anthem, your derriere will ride the bench.  http://bit.ly/2yj2Bxj I say, “Right on bro, it’s about time!” The NAACP is scum, betrayers of its people. Their attack on Jerry Jones is another example of the far-left bitter hate group throwing absurd excrement against the wall, believing their fake news media homeys will make it stick. Sadly, the NAACP sold its soul to liberalism many moons ago, abandoning its mission of empowering blacks... http://ipatriot.com/naacp-attacking-jones-confirms-betrayal-people/
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James Rosen Calls Out CT Senator Murphy For Using Divisive Rhetoric
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Bill Tucker Interviews Bill O’Reilly About His New Book, President Trump, & The NFL Protests
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Nancy Pulosi Defends Role: ‘Self-Promotion Is A Terrible Thing But Clearly Somebody Has To Do It’
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Greg Gutfeld: Media Overlook Trump’s Week Of Accomplishments
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Steve Bannon Predicts Trump Will Win Reelection In A BLOWOUT
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Judge Jeanine ‘Crime, Money and Democrats Intersect AGAIN’
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THE U.N. & OTHER PLAGUES
by Burt Prelutsky


One of the areas in which President Trump has most disappointed me is his apparent reversal on the United Nations. Years before he even considered entering politics, he dismissed the world body as a wart on the New York landscape. He suggested the U.S. resign from the organization, evict it from these shores, and allow him to buy the property and transform it into a five-star hotel.

Even as recently as last year’s campaign, he called the UN useless and corrupt.  And yet he continues to fund it to the tune of several billion dollars-a-year, addresses its members and even calls upon the world body to act in concert with our interests. Even if he were far more naïve than he is, why on earth would Donald Trump imagine that an organization that represents the collective interests of dictators, Islamists and European socialists, would want to do us any favors?

This is a group, after all, that spends an inordinate amount of time passing resolutions not against North Korea, Iran, Cuba, Syria and Venezuela, but against Israel. Couple that with the fact that China and Russia have veto powers, and you have a recipe for disaster.

Under those circumstances, even our own deliberative body, the U.S. Senate, which, God knows, is filled to the rafters with fools, thieves and mountebanks, doesn’t look quite so bad by comparison.

● When I consider the hypocrisy of liberals, I am filled with despair for the future of this great nation. How can we survive, let alone prosper, when so many millions of us hold groups of thugs such as Antifa, Black Lives Matter and the DNC, in high esteem? 

What has become of the Founders’ noble aspirations when Democrats claim to hold the 1st Amendment sacred, but only support free speech when they’re the ones doing the talking; and are ever ready and eager to trample on the religious rights of Christians while promoting those of Muslims?

It doesn’t help that millions of so-called feminists are not so much pro-women as they are anti-male. Otherwise, they would not so fervently support liar-Hillary Clinton, who has spent most of her life aiding and abetting sexual predators, even going back to her early years when, as a young attorney, she crowed about getting a middle-aged client who had raped a child off with a light sentence.

And instead of demonstrating against Donald Trump while wearing silly pink hats that are supposed to represent vaginas, these alleged feminists should be picketing outside the embassies and consulates of Saudi Arabia, Iran, Syria and all the other Arab and Muslim nations, that promote the subjugation of women.

● Years ago, Carol, the wife of Walter Matthau and the former wife of William Saroyan, was asked to comment about her ex-husband. She said: “Bill loved humanity, but he hated people.”

I not only thought that was one of the pithiest and most profound descriptions of a hypocrite I had ever heard, but that it could serve equally well as an indictment of most liberals.

They pay lip service to Muslims, illegal aliens, so-called indigenous people, urban blacks, campus Nazis, football thugs, homosexuals, transgenders and single women, for no other reason than that they constitute the base of a demonic political party that hates, in no particular order, Christians, white gun owners, black and Hispanic conservatives, Israel, cops, the military, constitutionalists and patriots.

● The failure of Cyrus Vance, New York City’s D.A., to prosecute Harvey Weinstein may not be as bad as the NY Times and NBC spiking decades-old stories about Weinstein’s vile crimes, but it does remind me of something I would do if I somehow found myself in possession of a billion dollars.

As you may recall, in a recent article, I said that if such an enormous sum of money was dropped in my lap, I would dispose of it as quickly as I could, giving a few cash gifts to friends, financing a cure for Alzheimer’s and endowing a pediatric hospital. It slipped my mind, but one other use to which I’d put the money would be to fund the recall elections of those judges who give wrist slaps to rapists and child abusers. Just recently, some demented jurist in Michigan granted parental visitation rights to a twice-convicted rapist who had impregnated a 12-year-old victim.

When judges make those sorts of delusional decisions from the bench, they are telling us far more about their own dementia than they are about the various flaws and failings of the American legal system.

● Sometimes when I see a left-wing politician on Fox trying to debate with Tucker Carlson, I wonder if they go home and watch themselves on TV and wind up banging their head against the wall and wailing: “Why didn’t someone stop me? God, why didn’t you strike me dead or at least break my leg on my way to the studio?”

Just the other night, after Carlson had pointed out that when it comes to the number of murders committed by young black men, a glaring problem that politicians always avoid mentioning is the absence of black fathers in the homes of their children.

The alderman actually said the reason for their absence is that, although blacks only represent 14% of the state’s population, they represent 65% of the prison inmates, and “that’s why the kids don’t have fathers at home providing for their families.”

It sounded so ludicrous, I re-played the exchange a second time to make sure I had heard it right the first time. In other words, it’s all because white society insists on jailing criminals that black children are being deprived of their fathers!

In a way, it was reminiscent of the apocryphal tale of the man who murdered his parents and then threw himself on the mercy of the court because he was now (sniffle, sniffle) an orphan.

● If you recall, one of my readers had written to complain that congressmen could start receiving a pension even if they had only served a year in the House. I let him know I was pretty certain that the minimum requirement was five years.

I’m happy to report I was right. A second subscriber, Ralph Irish, a proud resident of Shelby Township, Michigan, sent me the following information:

“Members of Congress are eligible for a pension at the age of 62 if they have completed at least five years of service. Members are eligible for a pension at age 50 if they have completed 20 years of service, or at any age after completing 25 years of service. The amount of the pension depends on years of service and the average of the highest three years of salary. By law, the starting amount of a Member’s retirement annuity may not exceed 80% of his or her final salary.”

But as I remarked earlier, if after five years on the job, they haven’t gotten rich through cash bribes or insider trading on the stock market, they really haven’t been trying.

● I am all for a strong military and a Pentagon budget equal to its actual needs in a very dangerous world, but when I hear that we currently have 180,000 troops stationed in 140 nations, which works out to an average of 1,286 troops per country, I can’t help wondering what possible good they’re doing. I mean, aside from propping up 140 foreign economies with our tax dollars.

● Finally, I would like to take this opportunity to say farewell to a man who was a friend of mine for nearly 50 years. I refer to Merrill Heatter, who was the creator and co-producer of a score of TV game shows, including “Gambit,” “High Roller” and “Hollywood Squares.”

And just in case some of you old-timers are curious, Gabriel Heatter was Merrill’s uncle, not his father.

“Hollywood Squares” was so successful that for a long time, it not only ran five days a week, but was also a nighttime hit. It was essentially tic-tac-toe, but inside the nine boxes was a mix of different minor celebrities. While Paul Lynde, Cliff Arquette under the persona of the rustic Charley Weaver, Rose Marie and Wally Cox, were generally in attendance, they would be augmented by the likes of Jim Backus, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kaye Ballard, Morey Amsterdam, Abby Dalton, Marty Allen, Charo, Soupy Sales, Mike Connors and Judy Carne, while Peter Marshall, Joanne Dru’s brother in real life, held forth as the affable host.

What made the show the long-lasting hit it was were the funny, often risqué, lines the celebrities would ad lib. But as was the case with Groucho Marx’s quiz show, “You Bet Your Life,” those lines were ad-libbed only in the sense that Hamlet’s soliloquy was ad-libbed. In the one case, William Shakespeare was the source. In the case of “Hollywood Squares,” the lines were usually the work of my madcap friend, Merrill Heatter. 

One day, when I asked Merrill which of the Q's and A’s he had come up he thought were the funniest, he gave me the following three.

“Once, Marty Allen was asked what a person from Philadelphia was most likely to dip his pretzel in, and, instead of mustard, said: A girl from New Jersey.”

“Paul Lynde, when asked if anything could bring a monkey to tears, said: Learning that Tarzan swings both ways.”

“And once, in response to the line that, according to archaeologists, a pea can last 5,000 years, George Gobel said: Sometimes it sure seems that way.”

If up until now there have not been any game shows in Heaven, I have a feeling all of that is about to change.
If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
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SCIENCE VS. RELIGION
by Burt Prelutsky
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Monday Top Headlines
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Kirkuk: Iraqi forces capture key sites from Kurds (BBC)
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Judicial Watch says FBI has found liar-Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting documents (Fox News)
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Motion Picture Academy expels movie mogul Harvey Weinstein (Associated Press)
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President Trump subpoenaed over sexual misconduct allegations (NBC News)
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18 states sue over halted liar-nObamaCare payments (The Hill)
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Taxpayer funded PBS airs anti-Pruitt documentary funded by environmentalist group Backer (The Washington Free Beacon)
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NFL won’t force players to stand for Anthem, focuses on social justice (The Daily Wire)
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Bergdahl doubts fair trial because of Trump’s comments (ABC News)
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Wyoming school district apologizes for “shooting at Trump” answer on quiz (KOTA)
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Student magazine warns against “racist” Halloween costumes (Campus Reform)
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Policy: Social Security’s raw deal for the poor (Investor’s Business Daily)
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Policy: President Trump makes right call on Iran strategy (The Heritage Foundation ~The Patriot Post
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19 Congressmen Request Judicial 
Committees Hearings Into Mueller Witch Hunt
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{rickwells.us} ~ As time goes by President Trump is learning who his friends are and so are the American people. Undoubtedly there are more... but nineteen of them have acted in his interest and that of America in attempting to rein in the rogue “investigation of everything based upon evidence of nothing,” the Mueller Russia witch hunt. On Friday, nineteen members of the House of Representatives sent a letter to the chairmen of both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees asking for hearings into the Mueller probe. They cited its lack of oversight, ever-expanding scope and conflicts of interest as just some of the serious problems that justify such an action. The letter, sent to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Rep Bob Goodlatte (R-VA), seeks congressional hearings to keep special counsel Robert Mueller and his team of ravenous anti-Trump, political hack lawyers accountable. Some might argue to make them accountable or remind them of and restricting them to their supposed mission would be a more accurate, albeit less politically friendly way of putting it...  https://rickwells.us/19-congressmen-hearings-mueller/
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What is Really Uniting the Palestinians?
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In the new "reconciliation" agreement between Hamas and Fatah, 
all that Hamas is being asked to do is to allow the Palestinian 
Authority government to manage civilian affairs in the Gaza Strip
by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Buoyed by the "reconciliation" agreement reached with President Mahmoud Abbas's Palestinian Authority (PA), Hamas has announced that it seeks to unite all Palestinians in the fight against the "Zionist enterprise."... In other words, Hamas views the agreement as a vehicle for rallying Palestinians behind it toward achieving its longtime goal of destroying Israel. When Hamas talks about the "Zionist enterprise," it is referring to the establishment of Israel as the homeland of the Jewish people. Hamas is not only opposed to the existence of Israel on what it and most Muslims perceive as "Muslim-owned" land; it reiterates, at every opportunity, its desire to annihilate Israel. Those who think that the new "reconciliation" accord will have a moderating effect of Hamas are both blind and deaf to what Hamas itself has been stating both before and after the agreement. One has to give Hamas credit for being clear, honest and consistent about its goal of destroying Israel...   https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11169/palestinians-unity
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Ted Cruz warns Republicans: Lack of
accomplishments could cause a 'bloodbath'
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by Katie Leach
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, warned that Republicans could face a "bloodbath" in the upcoming midterm elections if they don't follow through on promises with tax reform and healthcare... "If tax reform crashes and burns, if liar-nObamacare, nothing happens, we could face a bloodbath," Cruz said Friday to a crowd at a Koch brothers-aligned donor summit in New York. The senator said a lack of legislative accomplishments by the GOP-controlled Congress on these key issues could create a "Watergate-level blowout" in the 2018 midterm elections...  Cruz is so right.  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/ted-cruz-warns-republicans-lack-of-accomplishments-could-cause-a-bloodbath/article/2637488
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Trump made 'very brave decision' 
to disavow Iran nuclear deal
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by Josh Siegel
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday credited President Trump with making a "very brave decision" by decertifying the Iran nuclear deal... "Right now the deal as it stands guarantees that Iran will have not a single nuclear bomb, but an entire nuclear arsenal within ten years," Netanyahu said on CBS' "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson. "The president was very courageous in saying, I'm not going to kick this can down the road, I'm not going to say, ‘well it's going to be on somebody else's watch. I'm going to stop this from happening.' It's a very brave decision. It's the right decision for the world."...  http://www.{/benjamin-netanyahu-trump-made-very-brave-decision-to-disavow-iran-nuclear-deal/article/2637574?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2010/15/17&utm_medium=email
VIDEO:  http://studio.ndnmediaservices.com/washingtonexaminer?ndn.trackingGroup=91212&ndn.siteSection=91212_pp&ndn.videoId=33113733
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liar-nObama Was Devastated 
When Trump Pulled Off One Shocking Move
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{americanpatriotdaily.com} ~ Barack liar-nObama and his henchmen in the media were gloating after RINO-John McCain killed the liar-nObamacare repeal bills. They figured the crown jewel of liar-nObama’s socialist agenda was safe... But they never expected Donald Trump to pull off one of the most shocking moves of his Presidency. Trump will sign an executive order that allows individuals to purchase insurance plans across states lines, as well as pool together to buy cheaper plans that aren’t burdened by liar-nObamacare’s mandates and regulations...  http://www.americanpatriotdaily.com/featured/obama-devastated-trump/
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SCIENCE VS. RELIGION
by Burt Prelutsky


In a speech delivered by Michael Ward, a professor at Houston Baptist University, he made some salient points in the ongoing feud between science and religion.

He said: “Religion tends to get a bad rap these days, and from two directions. On the one hand, we hear people say that they’re spiritual, not religious; meaning they’re not interested in religiosity, by which they mean ritualism, the externals of faith. On the other hand, some people take ‘religion’ to mean superstition, even fanaticism, as when Richard Dawkins said that ‘religion flies planes into buildings, but science flies rockets to the moon.’

“That is one of the most fatuous things I’ve ever heard said by an Oxford professor,” Professor Ward reported. “Why is it fatuous? Firstly, because religion and science -- being abstract nouns, not people -- don’t actually do anything, good or bad; they’re not agents. And secondly because, if we’re going to play that game of assigning agency to abstract nouns, one might just as well say ‘Religion gives us Mother Teresa, but science gives us mustard gas.’”

● On a similar note, it has been said that Heaven has a gate, a wall and very extreme vetting. Does that make God a racist?

● I have often suggested that college is America’s biggest con game. Partly that’s because it is terribly expensive, although there’s no reason for it to be. After all, the only essential elements are rooms with chairs, textbooks, notebooks and teachers. All are relatively cheap items; it’s only the absurd markup done solely at the discretion of interested parties that prices the four years beyond the means of the middleclass.

It is the college, itself, that adds the unnecessary costs, rather like politicians determining their own salaries. For openers, there are the sports programs.  Although it is argued that football and basketball not only pay for themselves and the enormous salaries doled out to coaches, but also cover, at least in some cases, the other athletic activities. The question is why such activities need to be subsidized by the college.

Young people have plenty of public parks and swimming pools accessible to those who wish to play golf, volleyball, baseball, etc., when they’re not in class or doing homework. 

There is also no reason for the colleges to keep an army of gardeners on hand to maintain the landscape. These same young people have attended grade schools, middle schools and high schools for a dozen years, and never complained about their surroundings. Suddenly, at the age of 18, they require expansive lawns, shade trees and picnic areas? What’s that all about?

Also, why do professors require six-figure salaries. Most of them only teach a few classes for a few hours a week, spending the rest of their time working on research and writing books that will augment their income. Why are they being paid three or four or five times what middle school teachers are making. At least in middle school, the students are learning something that, ideally, provides a stepping stone to the next level of education.

That brings me to the biggest con of all. Colleges force parents and students to go into debt, but they offer a plethora of classes that will not prepare the graduates to make a living, which, in turn, would allow them to repay their debts.

Academics pretend that college is an end in itself, and that a college degree provides an Open Sesame to the wonders and riches of the world. What it actually provides is a bunch of brainless, gutless, college administrators, and professors who are better suited to be crossing guards than educators, with large salaries and fat pensions.

If you graduate from college and go on to become a lawyer, a doctor, an accountant, a physicist, an engineer or a computer programmer, there is a good chance, you will be able to find a job. However, if after four years and a mountain of debt, you majored in Black Studies, Hispanic Studies, Lesbian Studies, Sociology, Sexology or Literature, you are no more employable than you were when you left grammar school.

There’s no law that says you can’t study all that other stuff on your own. That’s why there are libraries and computers.

But, if nothing else is learned during those pricey four years, if the young graduate hasn’t grasped that the only diversity that really matters isn’t that of race, religion, class or gender, but ideas, he is even more ignorant than he used to be; and if he doesn’t understand that with equal rights come equal responsibilities, it’s safe to say his career opportunities are limited to politics, social work and show biz.

You may have noticed I didn’t mention that after four years, the youngster would not only be unemployable, but will have been propagandized in leftwing ideology to such a degree he will almost certainly despise America, the Founding Fathers, Christianity, Judaism, capitalism, Israel, his conservative parents and relatives, and will have had his critical judgment, along with his sense of humor, surgically removed. 

The reason I didn’t mention any of that stuff was because I didn’t wish to appear to be piling on. But, as you see, I changed my mind.

● Why do I still have to keep remembering various passwords in order to use my computer? If the State Department, the Pentagon, YouTube and Equifax, can’t protect their data, what chance do I have with my silly six-letter two-number code?

● Because my wife and I have done it, I fully understand the desire to donate money to hurricane victims to help them rebuild their homes and their lives.  However, I’m a little vague on the motivation to send money to the victims of major massacres.

I mean, why were millions of dollars sent to the survivors of 9/11 and the recent rampage in Vegas? Every day, your local newspaper reports that one or more families in your own town has lost a loved one to a murderer, but nobody, I’m willing to wager, sits down and writes a check to the family of strangers.

It’s not that I objected to people sending money to the survivors of 9/11, even though most of them collected on life insurance policies, it’s just that it struck me as odd. Particularly as there hadn’t been a similar outpouring of money to the survivors of Timothy McVeigh’s Oklahoma City bombing.

On the other hand, I think that it behooves those of us who spent eight years resenting Barack liar-nObama, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch, for, among many other things, showing such obvious contempt for law enforcement, to send a letter or card to the local police department, expressing our gratitude for the job they do.

We all know cops don’t get paid nearly as much as those generally useless academic twerps residing in their well-furnished ivory towers, but it would help if they at least understood that most of us who are not affiliated with the Black Lives Matter movement, Antifa and the Democratic Party, appreciate them.

● Frankly, I hope Homeland Security is doing a better job of vetting the immigrants than Trump has done vetting the members of his administration.

Speaking of which, I recently expressed the wish that Donald Trump would replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions with Rudy Giuliani. Just in case, the President is paying attention, I would also like to see him replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with Newt Gingrich, John Bolton, Steve Bannon or possibly even a coatrack.

● An editor named George Lorimer once wisely observed: “It’s good to have money and the things that money can buy; but it’s good, too, to check up once in a while and make sure you haven’t lost the things that money can’t buy.”

● I have no doubt that some of you have noticed that I will often refer in articles to thoughts I’ve shared with you in our email exchanges. In a way, you all served as collaborators because it was something you brought up that triggered a response in me. If I decide that particular something might be of general interest, I’ll generally find a place for it in a future article. I just wanted to express my thanks for your contribution to my content.

● As you’re well aware, thanks to the little notices that have lately been appearing at the bottom of my articles, I am due to give a talk on the 19th of October. The one thing I can predict is that my favorite part of the evening will be the Q & A session that will conclude the event. For one thing, once a question is asked, I know that at least one person in the room is interested in what I have to say. For another, it’s the one time all evening I’m likely to surprise myself by saying something I hadn’t anticipated.

Unfortunately, I can also predict that most people won’t ask their question during the allotted time. Instead, no matter how much I coax them to ask me anything that might be preying on their minds, the majority will just sit there, staring blankly as if waiting for a bus, just waiting for me to descend from the podium. At which point, a dozen or more will get between me and the exit, eager to ply me with questions, the answers to which they believe only they will be privy.

Little do they realize that if I come up with anything even slightly interesting, I will be sharing it with the world.

Waste not, want not, is more than an expression for a writer.  It’s a way of life.
If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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The Culture of Death—and of Disdain
by Peggy Noonan
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Trump's EO Injects Competition Into liar-nObamaCare
by Political Editors:  On Thursday, President Donald Trump bypassed a weak-kneed Republican Congress and began rolling back liar-nObamaCare with an executive order that injects free market measures into the law. As he signed the order, Trump said, “So this is promoting health care, choice and competition all across the United States. This is going to be something that millions and millions of people will be signing up for and they’re going to be very happy. This will be great health care.” Trump declared that this was the first step in “providing millions of Americans with liar-nObamaCare relief.”

          So what does Trump’s executive order accomplish? Primarily, it directs the secretary of labor to consider expanding access to Association Health Plans. This would allow employers the freedom to form groups which offer coverage across state lines. “Insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up,” Trump stated, adding, “And you will hopefully be negotiating, negotiating, negotiating. And you’ll get such low prices for such great care.
          Another impact of this order would be that those “association health plans” could be immune from some state and federal insurance requirements. At the same time employers would not be free to exclude employees from their plans based on preexisting conditions, nor charge more to those employees with long-term health issues.
          Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a leading critic of the “Affordable” Care Act, called Trump’s order “the biggest free market reform of health care in a generation.” Paul also stated, “This reform, if it works and goes as planned, will allow millions of people to get insurance across state lines at an inexpensive price.” Indeed, as news continues to come out of more and more insurance companies pulling out of various state-backed liar-nObamaCare exchanges, this is welcome news.
          A final note: Trump tweeted yesterday, “Since Congress can’t get its act together on HealthCare, I will be using the power of the pen to give great HealthCare to many people — FAST.” That “pen” part sounds eerily like Barack liar-nObama, but Trump’s action is substantially different. While Democrats, who controlled Congress at the time liar-nObamaCare passed, deliberately left a lot of the law’s details to be worked out by the administration, Trump is now wielding that same power to undo some of the damage. Live by the pen, die by the pen.  

~The Patriot Post
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Mad-Maxine Waters Compares Ben Carson To Trump – Supposed To Have A Commie At HUD
{rickwells.us} ~ Dr. Ben Carson received a backhanded, completely unintentional acknowledgment of a job well done from communist Democrat Mad-Maxine Waters... who is upset that he’s not giving away enough of other people’s tax dollars to provide for the lazy who have their butts cemented to a particular neighborhood. They are unwilling to relocate to go to work and that will remain the case as long as HUD provides them with a home that someone else is paying for, which is precisely what she’s demanding more of. They grew up in this Democrat neighborhood, they get free stuff and have plenty of time on their hands. It’s the new American dream. Mad-Waters read the statement someone else surely wrote for her, saying, “In the face of the immense housing needs in our country, President Trump chose Dr. Ben Carson to serve as the head of the Department of Housing and Urban Development.”...  https://rickwells.us/maxine-waters-carson-trump-hud/

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Rep Meadows – Eject Duds In 
Congress Who Don’t Stand With Trump
{rickwells.us} ~ House Freedom Caucus chairman Rep Mark Meadows (R-NC) knows a thing or two about sending someone packing... It was his motion to “vacate the chair” that eventually led to the retirement of former Speaker John backstabber-Boehner. Meadows spoke at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. and had some similar advice for those in attendance and across America. He may or may not have been speaking of the current enemy within who fills that position, Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI), but he, like the rest of Trump supporters, probably wouldn’t be opposed to the idea. But his message of replacing those who are not functioning properly applied to the entire Congress, House and Senate. He points out how under President Trump, “More regulations have been rolled back, substantial regulations have been rolled back in the first nine months of his Presidency than any in modern times.” He asks, “But we need to help him, don’t you think? Don’t you think it’s time Congress quits talking and they start doing? Isn’t it time?”...  https://rickwells.us/meadows-eject-duds-congress-trump/
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Writer of Trump’s Russia dossier 
slapped with congressional subpoena
by Dan Boylan
{washingtontimes.com} ~ The Republican chairman of the House intelligence committee has subpoenaed the head of the Washington firm that commissioned the sensational anti-Trump campaign research dossier... adding fresh intensity to the behind-the-scenes scramble among lawmakers to grasp how the infamous document fits into the Russian election meddling investigation. The subpoena issued for Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson comes as special counsel Robert Mueller’s separate investigation interviewed the former British spy, Christopher Steele, who worked with Mr. Simpson in compiling the dossier of negative intelligence on Mr. Trump. The CIA and FBI saw the dossier’s allegations as so sensational and sensitive last year that they excluded any mention of it from the intelligence community’s highly publicized accusations back in January about Russian meddling in the 2016 election...  http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/oct/11/trump-dossier-leads-to-subpoena-of-firm-that-put-i/
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Journo grills liar-Clinton for 
‘still blaming others more than yourself’
by Chris Enloe
{theblaze.com} ~ While on a tour promoting her new book about her failed presidential campaign, liar-Hillary Clinton was grilled by British journalist Matt Frei... for continuing to lay blame on others for her loss to Donald Trump last November. Frei also debunked liar-Clinton’s claim that her gender played a role in her loss, telling liar-Clinton that voters more weighed who she is versus which genitals she was born with. “Your dynastic appeal or perhaps it was the opposite: The fact that you were called liar-Clinton, the fact that you were first lady basically trumped any novelty — if you forgive the term — of being the first female president of the United States. People looked at your name and your legacy more than they looked at your gender,” Frei said...  http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/10/14/journo-grills-clinton-for-still-blaming-others-more-than-yourself-her-response-speaks-volumes
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President Trump’s Speech Announcing Iran Strategy
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Israeli PM Netanyahu Praises Pres. Trump’s Iran Speech
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FBI Hid liar-Clinton/Lynch Tarmac Meeting Records
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How Iran Tried To Circumvent liar-nObama’s Nuclear Deal
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Nearing Defeat, ISIS Fighters Trying To Make Deal To Safely Move Out Of Raqqa
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State Dept. Defends Decision To Leave UNESCO
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The Culture of Death—and of Disdain
by Peggy Noonan

{peggynoonan.com} ~ When news broke at Christmastime five years ago of what had happened at Newtown a friend, a news anchor, called and said with a broken voice: “What is the word for what we feel?” I thought for a moment. “Shattered,” I said. “We are shattered, all of us.” When people in ensuing days spoke of what had been done to the little children in the classrooms, I’d put up my hands and say no, we can’t keep putting those words in the air, we can’t afford it. When terrible images enter our heads and settle in, they become too real, and what is real is soon, by the unstable, imitated, repeated.

When Columbine happened in the spring of 1999, it hit me like a wave of sickness. I wrote a piece about the culture of death that produced the teenage shooters: “Think of it this way. Your child is an intelligent little fish. He swims in deep water. Waves of sound and sight, of thought and fact, come invisibly through that water, like radar. . . . The sound from the television is a wave, and the sound from the radio; the headlines on the newsstand, on the magazines, on the ad on the bus as it whizzes by—all are waves. The fish—your child—is bombarded and barely knows it. But the waves contain words like this, which I’ll limit to only one source, the news:

“. . . was found strangled and is believed to have been sexually molested . . . had her breast implants removed . . . took the stand to say the killer was smiling the day the show aired . . . said the procedure is, in fact, legal infanticide . . . is thought to be connected to earlier sexual activity among teens . . . court battle over who owns the frozen sperm . . . contains songs that call for dominating and even imprisoning women . . . died of lethal injection . . . had threatened to kill her children . . . had asked Kevorkian for help in killing himself . . . protested the game, which they said has gone beyond violence to sadism . . . showed no remorse . . . which is about a wager over whether he could sleep with another student . . .

“This is the ocean in which our children swim. This is the sound of our culture. It comes from all parts of our culture and reaches all parts of our culture, and all the people in it, which is everybody.”

We were bringing up our children in an unwell atmosphere. It would enter and distort them. Could we turn this around?

And here is the horror for me of Las Vegas: I was not shattered. That shatters me.

It was just another terrible story. It is not the new normal it is the new abnormal and deep down we know it’s not going to stop. There is too much instability in our country, too much rage and lovelessness, too many weapons.

On television, the terrible sameness. We all know the postmassacre drill now. The shocked witness knows exactly what the anchor needs and speaks in rounded, 20-second bursts. Activists have their bullet-point arguments ready because they used them last time and then saved them in a file called “Aurora,” “Virginia Tech” or “Giffords, Gabby.”

We are stuck, the debate frozen. The right honestly doesn’t understand why the left keeps insisting on reforms that won’t help. The left honestly doesn’t understand how much yearning there is among so many conservatives to do something, try something, make it better. They don’t want their kids growing up in a world where madmen have guns that shoot nine rounds a second. Many this week at least agreed bump stocks can be banned. It probably won’t help much. But if it helps just a little, for God’s sake, do it.

But: Why do so many Americans have guns? I don’t mean those who like to hunt and shoot or live far out and need protection. I don’t mean those who’ve been handed down the guns of their grandfather or father. Why do a significant number of Americans have so many guns?

Wouldn’t it help if we thought about that?

I think a lot of Americans have guns because they’re fearful—and for damn good reason. They fear a coming chaos, and know that when it happens it will be coming to a nation that no longer coheres. They think it’s all collapsing—our society, our culture, the baseline competence of our leadership class. They see the cultural infrastructure giving way—illegitimacy, abused children, neglect, racial tensions, kids on opioids staring at screens—and, unlike their cultural superiors, they understand the implications.

Nuts with nukes, terrorists bent on a mission. The grid will go down. One of our foes will hit us, suddenly and hard. In the end it could be hand to hand, door to door. I said some of this six years ago to a famously liberal journalist, who blinked in surprise. If that’s true, he said, they won’t have a chance! But they are Americans, I said. They won’t go down without a fight.

Americans have so many guns because drug gangs roam the streets, because they have less trust in their neighbors, because they read Cormac McCarthy’s “The Road.” Because all of their personal and financial information got hacked in the latest breach, because our country’s real overlords are in Silicon Valley and appear to be moral Martians who operate on some weird new postmodern ethical wavelength. And they’ll be the ones programming the robots that’ll soon take all the jobs! Maybe the robots will all look like Mark Zuckerberg, like those eyeless busts of Roman Emperors. Our leaders don’t even think about this technological revolution. They’re too busy with transgender rights.

Americans have so many guns because they know the water their children swim in hasn’t gotten cleaner since Columbine, but more polluted and lethal.

The establishments and elites that create our political and entertainment culture have no idea how fragile it all is—how fragile it seems to people living normal, less privileged lives. That is because nothing is fragile for them. They’re barricaded behind the things the influential have, from good neighborhoods to security alarms, doormen and gates. They’re not dark in their imagining of the future because history has never been dark for them; it’s been sunshine, which they expect to continue. They sail on, oblivious to the legitimate anxieties of their countrymen who live near the edge.

Those who create our culture feel free to lecture normal Americans—on news shows, on late night comedy shows. Why do they have such a propensity for violence? What is their love for guns? Why do they join the National Rifle Association? The influential grind away with their disdain for their fellow Americans, whom they seem less to want to help than to dominate: Give up your gun, bake my cake, free speech isn’t free if what you’re saying triggers us.

Would it help if we tried less censure and more cultural affiliation? Might it help if we started working on problems that are real? Sure. But why lower the temperature when there’s such easy pleasure to be had in ridiculing your mindless and benighted countrymen?
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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Left Just Isn't Right
by David Limbaugh
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liar-Hillary Clinton Attacks Trump, 
Downplays Real Predators She’s Intimate With
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{rickwells.us} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton just can’t help but draw attention to her own family’s transgressions, although when you’ve got as much baggage as they do, discussing any criminal activity likely has a liar-Clinton connection... Still, she does seem to spend a lot of time with one or two of her feet stuffed inside her cackle hole. In an interview with BBC’s Andrew Marr on Friday, liar-Clinton was asked about her good friend Harvey Weinstein and his alleged predatory sexual acts. As liar-Clinton attempted to diminish the sexual assaults and other transgressions she attempted to falsely equate them with President Trump’s Access Hollywood locker room talk. Clinton repeated the terminology used in her written statement, saying that she was “Shocked and appalled” by the charges against Weinstein. She was neither shocked or appalled by the decades of sexual harassment, as it was an open secret she was surely, at a minimum, aware of. Her response is merely one of self defense, to provide the illusion that she might not condone or be indifferent to his actions, as the “champion of women.”...  https://rickwells.us/clinton-trump-predators-intimate/
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Why There Is No Peace in the Middle East
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Bedouin men in Abu Dhabi
by Philip Carl Salzman
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Living as an anthropologist in a herding camp of the Yarahmadzai tribe of nomadic pastoralists in the deserts of Iranian Baluchistan clarified some of the inhibitions to peace in the Middle East... What one sees is strong, kin-based, group loyalty defense and solidarity, and the political opposition of lineages, whether large or small. This raised the question how unity and peace could arrive in a system based on opposition. Peace is not possible in the Middle East because values and goals other than peace are more important to Middle Easterners. Most important to Middle Easterners are loyalty to kin, clan, and cult, and the honour which is won by such loyalty. These are the cultural imperatives, the primary values, held and celebrated. When conflict arises and conflict-parties form based on loyal allegiance, the conflict is regarded as appropriate and proper...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11117/middle-east-tribal-culture
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British IS recruiter 
Sally-Anne Jones 'killed by drone'
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{bbc.com} ~ The BBC's security correspondent Frank Gardner said Jones had been a useful propaganda agent for IS on social media and her  death would be "significant"... Whitehall officials have declined to comment publicly. However, they have not denied the story, and US sources are confident she was killed in an unmanned drone strike in June, our correspondent added. The 48-year-old was reportedly killed close to the border between Syria and Iraq by a US Air Force strike... http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-41593659
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New liar-Clinton Tarmac Evidence FBI Good 
Old Boys Were Hiding – Judicial Watch Again
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{rickwells.us} ~Tom Fitton, President of Judicial Watch reports that some documents the corrupt FBI under James Comey had originally said didn’t exist actually do exist... The FBI was apparently hiding them and were caught in a lie. These aren’t some unimportant files like car wash receipts that might have been overlooked somewhere, these are documents relating to the infamous and hugely inappropriate meeting between Loretta Lynch and liar-Bill liar-Clinton on the Phoenix Sky Harbor airport tarmac.  The pressure will now be on Loretta Lynch to either tell the truth, something she does on rare occasions, refuse to answer, something she has been known to do with great frequency, or be a really good guesser and liar in her upcoming testimonies next week before Congress...  https://rickwells.us/clinton-tarmac-evidence-fbi-hiding/
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Democrats Are Two-Faced on Immigration
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          We hear it all the time from politicians of both parties. But does anyone ask what it really means? To Democrats, the term means little more than the appeasement of immigrant groups in the hope of a payback in the voting booth.
          Testablishment Republicans like RINO-John McCain, RINO-Susan Collins, Lindsay Graham and others, reform means parroting Democrat talking points in order to appear friendly to illegal immigrants.
          For years, talk of reforming immigration policy seemed to be just that: talk. But when Donald Trump came to town with a promise to build a wall along our southern border, real reform seemed possible for the first time in years.
          But then President Trump had that meeting with Nancy Pulosi and Chuck clown-Schumer.
          While some conservatives were despondent over President Trump’s apparent cave-in on DACA, it appears that Trump used his “art of the deal” strategy to place Democrats in a tough spot. Any worry about Trump giving into the other side was cast aside recently when he unveiled a 70-point strategy to end our nation’s loopholes in immigration policy.
          Moving forward, Democrats basically have three options – and none works out well for their electoral ambitions.
          First, they can fight Trump’s push for stricter enforcement and a border wall by passing DACA legislation. This would entail some serious risks. After all, more than 60 million Americans just elected a president on his promise to build a wall, an election that left the Democrat Party as powerless as it has been in nearly a century. So don’t expect Democrats to put forth a DACA bill anytime soon.
          The second option entails Democrats working with Trump to get some aspects of DACA into law. But this would necessitate giving in to some of the president’s demands and would infuriate the Democrats’ raging #Resist constituency, which lives to oppose Trump at every turn.
          Third, the other path that Democrats can take is to pander to immigrant groups on the surface while doing little to actually aid their cause. As Mark Alexander has argued for years, this is their preferred and incredibly cynical strategy — perhaps more so now that Democrats have little political clout with which to work.
          Jonathan Tobin writes in National Review, “Though clown-Schumer and Pulosi may think widespread public support for relief for the Dreamers gives their party the whip hand in talks with Trump, the Democrats actually have little leverage over the president on this issue. If they want a legislative fix that keeps DACA alive, they are going to have to make substantial concessions to the White House and the Republican congressional leadership — both of which need to show the GOP base that they are serious about curbing illegal immigration.
          Tobin goes on to characterize the current Democrat predicament as one in which they have to choose between fighting for their constituency and fighting against Trump. Right now, they’re opting for taking down Trump, but even this has eased up in recent weeks as Democrats realize two things: Trump’s base of support is fiercely loyal, and working-class voters in blue states are growing increasingly frustrated with a party that bends over backwards for illegal immigrants but doesn’t seem to give a lick about jobs or wages for American citizens.
          Indeed, a huge problem for Democrats is that working-class voters are moving away in droves over fear that immigrants are taking their jobs and hampering the growth of their wages.
          These “Dreamers” are, in effect, killing the American Dream, and Americans know it.
          So while the Leftmedia continuously pontificates about the rupture in the Republican Party between its establishment and its “Steve Bannon” wing, a real divide exists in the Democrat Party, too — and any negotiation with Trump will be met with fury.
          Seriously. If you want to see the Left truly lose its collective mind, just wait until “clown-Chuck and Nancy” announce that in exchange for leniency regarding the Dreamers, they’ve agreed to build Donald Trump’s big, beautiful wall. (They’ve come a long way in the 10 years since they all supported the wall.) In the end, they may not go that far in negotiating with Trump, but they’re not going to push too hard for DACA. And here’s why:
          Writing for The New York Times, Thomas B. Edsall opines, “The problem for those calling for the enactment of liberal policies, however, is that immigration is a voting issue for a minority of the electorate. And among those who say immigration is their top issue, opponents outnumber supporters by nearly two to one. In this respect, immigration is similar to gun control — both mobilize opponents more than supporters.” Edsall adds, “Among the 13 percent of voters who identified immigration as the most important issue, Trump won, 64-33. This data demonstrates a key element in the politics of immigration.
          So what’s the endgame for Democrats? Were they to regain majorities in the House and Senate, one might assume that they would open the floodgates and usher in a new wave of illegals. But the political landscape has changed, and Democrats know it. They’re hemorrhaging working-class voters and simply can’t bring themselves to actually vote for DACA despite their public defense of the program.
          Democrats are thus likely to continue to pander to the Latino community and other constituencies in the hope that it translates into more political power down the road. So much for caring about the fate of the Dreamers.
          President Trump now has the upper hand in the art of the immigration deal, and he just called the Democrats’ bluff.  ~The Patriot Pos
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The Left Just Isn't Right
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by David Limbaugh
{wnd.com} ~ Please join me on a whirlwind superficial but revealing tour of liberal la-la land as we peek at recent headlines. Meanwhile, liberals call conservatives wingnuts.

Singer Nancy Sinatra tweeted, "The murderous members of the NRA should face a firing squad." One wonders whether in her rendering, "murderous" is redundant. One might also wonder whether she thinks other murderous people should be exempt from or perhaps face a less humiliating form of execution.

Responding to Michelle liar-nObama's claim that people are distrustful of politics because the GOP is "all men, all white," Rep. Mia Love, R-Utah, said, "I don't know if she noticed, but I am not white and I am not a male." To clarify, in case you are wondering, in this example, Michelle liar-nObama is the inhabitant of la-la land.

Republican Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee, who is running for the Senate seat currently held by Bob Corker, encountered Twitter's speech police when trying to place an ad saying, "I fought Planned Parenthood, and we stopped the sale of baby body parts." Twitter's thought cops said the claim was "deemed an inflammatory statement that is likely to evoke a strong negative reaction." They magnanimously assured her that they'd run the ad if she removed the offending statement. If Twitter brass were truly concerned about tweets evoking "a strong negative reaction," the executives would save themselves time and just shut the whole operation down. If you use Twitter much, you know that evoking such reactions is virtually guaranteed in cultural and political tweets, which populate Twitter by the millions every day. It would be much easier to interact with leftists if they could at least be honest with themselves and others about what they are doing in these situations. They have no problem with tweets evoking strong negative reactions from conservatives. But you knew that.
 
ESPN anchor Jemele Hill last month faced no consequences for calling President Trump a white supremacist but was suspended for two weeks when she urged fans to boycott NFL advertisers because Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones had threatened to bench players who refuse to stand during the national anthem. "Change happens when advertisers are impacted," she tweeted. "If you strongly reject what Jerry Jones said, the key is his advertisers. Don't place the burden squarely on the players." Twitter moguls apparently didn't deem Hill's tweets as likely to evoke a strong negative reaction. I wonder whether Hill would agree that her employer's reaction was neither strong nor negative. One person who doubtlessly wouldn't regard Hill's tweet as negative is ESPN's Michael Wilbon, who compared Jones to a slave owner because of his action.

The Daily Wire reported that activists of Abolish Human Abortion were booted from Bedlam Coffee in Seattle because the gay owner couldn't tolerate their presence. After asking members of the group whether they would tolerate his bringing his boyfriend in the shop and performing sex acts with him in front of them, he told them, "Well, then I don't have to f---ing tolerate this! Then leave -- all of you! Tell all your f---ing friends, 'Don't f---ing come here'!" I have no real problem with owners serving whom they choose in a free market, but I'll note that it's unlikely that we'll hear outcries from the left complaining about this discriminatory treatment because here those being denied service were not asking for a wedding cake for a same-sex marriage ceremony.
 
In case you haven't heard of the concept of "cultural appropriation," it is the use of certain aspects of a certain culture by another culture, which, to those who use the term, is a bad thing. Who thinks this way? But I digress. University of Texas cultural studies professor Luis Urrieta has taken the concept to a new level. Urrieta noted that these appropriations have "many economic, social and symbolic repercussions. The first is obviously the theft of intellectual property, the theft of communal knowledge. ... Socially, it reduces native and indigenous peoples to 'artifacts' that can be worn, used, consumed and displayed." A few examples of what they mean by "appropriation" will suffice to illustrate. The University of California, Merced told fraternities and sororities they should avoid using the terms "Greek," "rush" and "pledge" because they are appropriations of Greek culture. And at San Francisco State University, an African-American student reportedly attacked a white student because his hair was in dreadlocks. No, you really can't make this stuff up. "Appropriation is a form of theft," said Urrieta. "It is a nice way of saying that someone is taking someone else's idea and making it their own." In my humble view, the burden of defending such Twilight Zonery is on any who would defend it, but maybe I'm just old-fashioned. In case you think Urrieta is merely an outlier, another professor, Rachel V. Gonzalez-Martin, described cultural appropriation as "cultural poaching." If you're still thinking "outliers," the University of Michigan advertised to recruit a person -- at an annual salary of $50,000 -- to handle "cultural appropriation prevention activities." Don't laugh; this isn't satire.
 
Finally, California Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed legislation lowering from a felony to a misdemeanor the act of knowingly exposing a sexual partner to HIV without disclosing the infection to the person. Also protected by this outrageously reckless nod to political correctness are those who give blood without revealing their infection. Here I can't say "there are no words," because there are plenty, but I've run out of space.

For the same reason, I must omit tons of other examples, but in mitigation for this inadequacy, I think it is only fair that I get props for not opining on the Harvey Weinstein scandal, trusting that the news saturation on this story has reached your homes.
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Is Trump the Heir to Reagan?
by Pat Buchanan
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Trump Pulls Plug on Illegal 
liar-nObamacare Life Support – The End Is Near
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{rickwells.us} ~ The White House may be delivering the final knockout blow to an adversary of the American people that is already disoriented, staggering, swollen and bleeding profusely... The announcement has been made, it’s being taken off of artificial life support. The end can’t be far off.  Sarah Huckabee Sanders issued a statement late Thursday saying that the administration has completed its evaluation of “cost sharing” wealth redistribution payments the liar-nObama regime had been making to insurance exchanges and which the Trump administration had continued as they were being evaluated, to this point. With the determination that they are illegal, once discontinued, the system will die on its own. Congress had specifically denied the liar-nObamacare subsidy payments but in his customary dictatorial manner, the communist wealth redistributor liar-nObama ordered them to me made without any legal authority, simply by virtue of his decree. A court rebuked him for doing so, stating that he had overstepped his authority, something which probably evoked a schoolgirl giggle from the former squatter in the White House...  https://rickwells.us/trump-pulls-plug-illegal-obamacare/
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NFL Players Have Not Been Told 
To Stand, Goodell Has “A Better Idea”
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{rickwells.us} ~ Despite President Trump tweeting to the contrary and other mixed messaging coming out of the rudderless, drifting NFL... the organization announced on Friday that it has no plans to require its pampered prima donna employees to stand for the national anthem. Goodell will, for the time being, continue to permit them to insult the fans and disrespect the flag. Essentially, the owners are joining their hired thugs in attacks on America and Americans and our national symbols, as it is their representatives, while being paid and in their uniforms, who are engaged in the vile conduct. The NFL said on Friday it has no plans to mandate that players stand for our national anthem, but is looking for a way out that will allow them to attack the American people as being privileged racists without actually using the flag or anthem of America in the manner they are now enabling them to do. Somehow we’re supposed to see that as a solution... https://rickwells.us/nfl-players-stand-goodell-idea/
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Robert Mueller's team interviews Reince Priebus
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by Diana Stancy Correll
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Special counsel Robert Mueller's team, which is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and possible collusion between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin... interviewed former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus on Friday. Priebus' lawyer William Burck confirmed the interview had occurred, Politico reported. "Mr. Priebus was voluntarily interviewed by Special Counsel Mueller's team today. He was happy to answer all of their questions," Burck said. In September it was reported that Mueller was interested in interviewing White House aides including Priebus as part of his investigation...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/robert-muellers-team-interviews-reince-priebus/article/2637496?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From%20-%2010/13/17&utm_medium=email
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FBI Finds 30 Pages of
liar-Clinton-Lynch Tarmac Meeting Documents
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{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch was informed yesterday by the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) that the FBI has located 30 pages of documents related to the June 27, 2016... tarmac meeting between former Attorney General Loretta Lynch and former President liar-Bill Clinton, and proposes non-exempt material be produced no later than November 30, 2017. The FBI originally informed Judicial Watch they did not locate any records related to the tarmac meeting.  However, in a related case, the Justice Department located emails in which Justice Department officials communicated with the FBI and wrote that they had communicated with the FBI.  As a result, by letter dated August 10, 2017, from the FBI stated, “Upon further review, we subsequently determined potentially responsive documents may exist. As a result, your FOIA request has been reopened…”...  https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/fbi-finds-30-pages-clinton-lynch-tarmac-meeting-documents-wants-six-weeks-turn-docs/
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West Point Digs Deeper Hole on Cadet Communist
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          In his complaint LTC Heffington concluded, “I cannot reconcile the image of a first class cadet at West Point with the things he has posted online for the world to see. To me, these are red flags that cannot be ignored, and I fail to see how this individual can possibly graduate and become a commissioned officer in six months.” But they did ignore it.
          More recently, Rapone, now assigned to the 10th Mountain Division in Fort Drum, has boldly posted his hatred for his commander in chief, SecDef James Mattis, and other senior military leadership on public social media accounts. That constitutes a clear and overt UCMJ Article 88 violation: “Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense … shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
          West Point command responded to the exposure of Rapone’s insubordination and UCMJ violations with an official statement asserting, “Rapone’s actions in no way reflect the values of the U.S. Military Academy or the U.S. Army,” and that “Rapone’s chain of command is aware of his actions and is looking into the matter.
          Responding to that lame assertion, LTC Heffington sent a letter to his USMA class of 1997, noting his “intense devotion and loyalty to West Point,” but detailing the inaction over Rapone and how that reflected the degraded “leadership” culture at West Point.
          Heffington wrote, “I firmly believe West Point is a national treasure and that it can and should remain a vitally important source of well trained, disciplined, highly educated Army officers and civilian leaders. However, during my time on the West Point faculty … I personally witnessed a series of fundamental changes at West Point that have eroded it to the point where I question whether the institution should even remain open. The recent coverage of 2LT Spenser Rapone — an avowed Communist and sworn enemy of the United States — dramatically highlighted this disturbing trend. Given my recent tenure on the West Point faculty and my direct interactions with Rapone, his ‘mentors,’ and with the Academy’s leadership, I believe I can shed light on how someone like Rapone could possibly graduate.
          However, Rapone’s case is just the latest indicator of military academy degradation under Barack liar-nObama’s regime. Recall that The Patriot Post took on the command staff at the Air Force Academy in 2012, when liar-nObama’s appointees there quietly endeavored to remove “So Help Me God” from oaths in the cadet handbook “to Support and Defend” our Constitution.
          Responding to LTC Heffington, USMA Superintendent, LTG Robert Caslen, appointed by liar-nObama in 2013, issued a formal statement, noting that he had been inundated with protests by USMA alumni, but could not say anything while investigations were being conducted. According to Caslen, “Responding to concerns raised about the quality of JSMA graduates takes time, which includes gathering all the facts and taking a hard look at whether USMA is doing everything it can to develop leaders of character…
          Caslen appealed, “Help me prevent the negativity associated with the alleged behavior of one graduate,” and insisted the actions of one don’t reflect the culture at USMA and code of “Honor, Duty and Country.”
          On this point, I would agree with Caslen, but the issue is not 2LT Rapone. He came to USMA from the enlisted ranks, having previously deployed to Afghanistan as an Army Ranger with the 1st Battalion, 75th Ranger Regiment. Notably, he was “released for standards” from his regiment, meaning there were performance or conduct issues. He gained acceptance to USMA with the endorsement of Rep. Jason Altmire (D-PA), who has since attempted to distance himself from Rapone. I believe Rapone is likely suffering some pathology.
          Again, LTG Robert Caslen’s assertions notwithstanding, Rapone is NOT the problem, and in the words of a wise old mentor, “When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
          Bottom line: The investigation that needed to be done was two years ago, based on LTC Heffington’s original affidavit concerning Rapone. The investigation that really needs to be conducted now is why that didn’t happen — and of much greater significance, determining how deep liar-nObama’s deep-state socialists have been imbedded in the ranks of American military leadership.  ~The Patriot Pos
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/51824


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Is Trump the Heir to Reagan?
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by Pat Buchanan
{townhall.com} ~ Three decades ago, as communications director in the White House, I set up an interview for Bill Rusher of National Review.

Among his first questions to President Reagan was to ask him to assess the political importance of Barry Goldwater. Said Reagan, "I guess you could call him the John the Baptist of our movement."

I resisted the temptation to lean in and ask, "Sir, if Barry Goldwater is John the Baptist, who would that make you?"

What brings the moment back is Laura Ingraham's new book: "Billionaire at the Barricades: The Populist Revolution from Reagan to Trump." Thesis: Donald Trump is a conservative populist and direct descendant and rightful heir to Ronald Reagan.

To never-Trumpers this is pure blasphemy. Yet the similarities are there.

Both men were outsiders, and neither a career politician. Raised Democratic, Reagan had been a Hollywood actor, union leader and voice of GE, before running for governor of California.

Trump is out of Queens, a builder-businessman in a Democratic city whose Republican credentials were suspect at best when he rode down that elevator at Trump Tower. Both took on the Republican establishment of their day, and humiliated it.

Among the signature issues of Trumpian populism is economic nationalism, a new trade policy designed to prosper Americans first.

Reagan preached free trade, but when Harley-Davidson was in danger of going under because of Japanese dumping of big bikes, he slammed a 50 percent tariff on Japanese motorcycles. Though a free trader by philosophy, Reagan was at heart an economic patriot.
 
He accepted an amnesty written by Congress for 3 million people in the country illegally, but Reagan also warned prophetically that a country that can't control its borders isn't really a country any more.

Reagan and Trump both embraced the Eisenhower doctrine of "peace through strength." And, like Ike, both built up the military.

Both also believed in cutting tax rates to stimulate the economy and balance the federal budget through rising revenues rather than cutting programs like Medicare and Social Security.

Both believed in engaging with the superpower rival of the day -- the Soviet Union in Reagan's day, Russia and China in Trump's time.

And both were regarded in this capital city with a cosmopolitan condescension bordering on contempt. "An amiable dunce" said a Great Society Democrat of Reagan.

The awesome victories Reagan rolled up, a 44-state landslide in 1980 and a 49-state landslide in 1984, induced some second thoughts among Beltway elites about whether they truly spoke for America. Trump's sweep of the primaries and startling triumph in the Electoral College caused the same consternation.

However, as the Great Depression, New Deal and World War II represented a continental divide in history between what came before and what came after, so, too, did the end of the Cold War and the Reagan era.
 
As Ingraham writes, Trumpism is rooted as much in the populist-nationalist campaigns of the 1990s, and post-Cold War issues as economic patriotism, border security, immigration control and "America First," as it is in the Reaganite issues of the 1980s.

Which bring us to the present, with our billionaire president, indeed, at the barricades.

The differences between Trump in his first year and Reagan in 1981 are stark. Reagan had won a landslide. The attempt on his life in April and the grace with which he conducted himself had earned him a place in the hearts of his countrymen. He not only showed spine in giving the air traffic controllers 48 hours to get back to work, and then discharging them when they defied him, he enacted the largest tax cut in U.S. history with the aid of boll weevil Democrats in the House.

Coming up on one year since his election, Trump is besieged by a hostile press and united Democratic Party. This city hates him. While his executive actions are impressive, his legislative accomplishments are not. His approval ratings have lingered in the mid-30s. He has lost half a dozen senior members of his original White House staff, clashed openly with his own Cabinet and is at war with GOP leaders on the Hill.
 
Moreover, we seem close to war with North Korea that would be no cakewalk. And the president appears determined to tear up the liar-nObama nuclear deal with Iran that his own national security team believes is in the national interest.

Reagan was, as Trump claimed to be, an anti-interventionist. Reagan had no wish to be a war president. His dream was to rid the world of nuclear weapons. This does not sound like Trump in October 2017.

Steve Bannon may see the 25th Amendment, where a Cabinet majority may depose a president, as the great threat to Trump.

But it is far more likely that a major war would do for the Trump presidency and his place in history what it did for Presidents Wilson, Truman, LBJ and George W. Bush.
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Sat/Med - AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Unreported, Unsuspected, Undetected
by Elizabeth Yore
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Sen Commie-la Harris Calls For 
“Clean” DACA Bill Founding Fathers Demand
{rickwells.us} ~ The prospective Democrat candidate for president in 2020, who will, if elected, wreak the kind of devastation upon this nation that is the equivalent of ten Hussein liar-nObamas... Kamala Harris, weighed in on the issue of DACA on  Thursday, calling for Congress to pass a clean DACA amnesty bill. Speaking at the University of California-Irvine, the anti-white, anti-American communist agitator and Senator said, “This is about a fight for the future of this country, believing in the values upon which this country was founded.” Harris is a former Attorney General for the State of California so she must understand that this country was founded upon a respect for the rule of law, a contradiction to her lying drivel. Mimicking the inane, flowery nonsense of liar-nObama, she said, “The path right now is rocky. It is difficult. It is hard.” That’s because it is also wrong and against the Constitution... https://rickwells.us/sen-commiela-harris-daca-founding/
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The "Anti-Hate" Group That is a Hate Group
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Prager U's new video on how the SPLC is the "anti-hate" group that is actually the real hate group. To learn more about the SPLC's fomenting of hatred and lies, see DiscovertheNetwork.org's SPLC profile. Also join the Freedom Center's new campaign to oppose the SPLC's and BloodMoney.org's totalitarian blacklists of hate.  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/268117/prager-u-video-anti-hate-group-hate-group-frontpagemagcom
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California Recall Over Gas-Tax Hike Faces Crucial Test
by Susan Crabtree
{freebeacon.com} ~ California Republicans leading a recall effort against Democratic State Sen. Josh Newman for his vote to support the latest state gas-tax increase... say they are confident the petition will succeed despite multiple Democratic efforts to derail it. A Tuesday deadline passed for those who signed the recall petition to rescind their signatures. The Newman camp, which argues that those gathering signatures for the recall misled voters into thinking it was a push to repeal the gas tax, this week said thousands of people planned to withdraw their names...  http://freebeacon.com/politics/california-recall-gas-tax-hike-faces-crucial-test/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=3672e8d8e4-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_10_12&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-3672e8d8e4-45611665
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FBI Director Wray Won’t Prosecute
Crony Comey, Hiding Evidence From Congress
{rickwells.us} ~ Back in July of this year Christopher Wray was required by Democrat Senator Dianne Feinstein to commit to informing the Judiciary Committee... if he witnessed or learned of any efforts to interfere with the “work” of special counsel Mueller in order to receive confirmation for the position of FBI Director. We ran an article at the time with the headline ” FBI Placed Back Under Mueller – Wray ‘Loyalty Pledge’ Demanded By Feinstein,” as in essence he subordinated himself to that former director at the time. Wray told Feinstein in response, “Assuming that I can do it legally and appropriately, absolutely. I am very committed to supporting Director Mueller in the special counsel investigation in whatever way is appropriate for me to do that.”... https://rickwells.us/fbi-wray-prosecute-crony-comey/
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TUCKER: Vegas massacre conspiracy theories fill the void

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5607831213001

HUD Secretary Carson Spars With Rep. Mad-Maxine Waters Over Puerto Rico

http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5607550988001

White House Daily Briefing: Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders (10-12-2017) with Chief of Staff Kelly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3shoZkktNgQ
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Van Jones: Liberals Are "Mad at Every Single Person Who Voted for Trump"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8VPahLr1K1I
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Kellyanne Conway details WH's 70-point immigration plan

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5602509904001

President Trump vows largest tax cut in the history of this country

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5606452902001

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Unreported, Unsuspected, Undetected 
by Elizabeth Yore

{townhall.com} ~ The hidden trafficking of the practice of underground female genital mutilation in the United States often goes unreported, unsuspected and undetected. The first federal prosecution of female genital mutilation (18 USC § 116) is occurring in Detroit, Michigan, with the indictment of Dr. Jumana Nagarwala, the alleged mutilator, along with eight other conspirators, aiders, and abetters.

These defendants are members of the Muslim sect Dawoodi Bohra and mandate this practice of FGM on their little daughters.

Incredibly, a federal statute outlawing FGM was passed in 1996, and it has taken 21 years to bring a federal criminal prosecution. While this is a first important step, it signals the depth and extent of the covert conspiracy of silence to protect this hideous and barbaric practice on unsuspecting little girls. The public should be aware that it is also a federal crime to take a child out of the U.S. for the purposes of FGM.

The Centers for Disease Control estimates that 513,000 women and girls in the U.S. are at risk for this brutal procedure. And the number of potential FGM victims is likely vastly unreported. Despite the fact that the World Health Organization and the United Nations declared FGM a violation of human rights, more than 100 million women and girls are subjected to this torture around the world.
 
Faced with a growing refugee population originating from FGM-practicing countries—such as Somalia, where 98 percent of girls are cut, and Egypt, where 97 percent of girls are subjected to FGM—resources and the public are needed to expose this barbaric practice, which goes unreported, unsuspected and undetected.

EndFGMToday is spearheading a national campaign to publicize the FBI confidential hotline and tipline, and exposing FGM practices in the U.S. We must start now to break down this FGM code of silence, which subjects innocent, unsuspecting little girls to a lifetime of physical and emotional pain.

EndFGMToday urges the public, mandated reporters in schools and health facilities, and FGM victims to speak up and call the FBI hotline at (800) CALL-FBI or visit www.FBI.gov/FGM. Post this FBI hotline in offices, schools, transportation hubs, stores, hospitals and public spaces. Defend girls from the vicious assault of FGM.

Americans must demand that FGM no longer be imported and practiced in our country. It’s against the law. It violates the human rights of little girls, and its barbarism will not be tolerated here. The potential victims of female genital mutilation deserve and need the protection of law enforcement so that no girl will be subjected to this brutal sexual assault.
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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Is Taking a Knee Protected Speech?
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Feinstein's Orwellian Anti-Gun Hypocrisy
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          Sen. Dianna Feinstein (D-CA) provided the latest display of this political elitism in the wake of the Las Vegas atrocity. Feinstein is no friend of the Second Amendment, and she has long actively sought to limit public access to a right she herself exercises. Recently Feinstein was asked about proposed national concealed carry reciprocity legislation. She stated, “We want every American to feel comfortable packing a concealed weapon? Around the country? I represent 40 million Californians, and I can say without hesitation, Californians do not want concealed carry.
          Feinstein then further opined, “I don’t believe [conceal carry] is protected by the Constitution. To conceal it, without a permit. … I am saying that the state I represent would not want any part of [national reciprocity], nor should any American. You just make the situation worse. You let somebody with a weapon who may do you harm get close to you. Why would you want that?
          As bad as Feinstein’s flawed interpretation of the Constitution and specifically the Second Amendment is, it is her blatant display of hypocrisy on the issue of concealed carry which may be more egregious. California, with its severely restrictive gun laws, has just over 70,000 concealed carry permit holders. It would be more if the state was “shall issue.” And one of those privileged few is Feinstein herself.
          The assertion Feinstein makes — that concealed carry would allow someone with a weapon to get close to you and do you harm — displays again an attitude of entitlement and elitism, as well as being profoundly ignorant and judgmental. Does Feinstein view the vast majority of Americans as nothing more than a mass of psychopathic murders just itching to get their hands on a gun so as to kill anyone they get close to? She speaks as if she were the warden overseeing a prison population. How dare she claim the right for herself while actively seeking to prevent her constituents from enjoying the same right to self-protection.
          This elitist entitlement attitude was displayed last year by then-Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) who, when questioned on gun rights, stated, while standing next to armed Capitol Police, “Law-abiding citizens just shouldn’t have to carry a gun.” When the obvious presence of armed security protecting him was pointed out, Rangel insisted, “Well that’s a little different. I think we deserve — I think we need to be protected down here.
          Once again we see that Orwellian display of the entitled ruling class preaching that leftist dogma of everyone being equal, but some being more equal than others.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51822

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FBI Checking Reports Of Local 
Officials Profiteering With Puerto Rican Aid
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{rickwells.us} ~ Just like with the liar-Clintons and the Haiti relief, Democrats just can’t seem to subordinate their own greed to the common good, even in a humanitarian crisis... Is it any wonder they put themselves before the good of the nation in matters of their political ambition, ideology and the associated anti-American subversion.  The FBI has confirmed they are looking into multiple allegations from residents across the island accusing local officials of withholding badly needed FEMA relief supplies. FBI Special Agent Carlos Osorio told the Daily Caller on Wednesday, “People call us and tell us some misappropriation of some goods and supplies by supposedly politicians, not necessarily mayors, but people that work for the mayors in certain towns.”...  https://rickwells.us/fbi-profiteering-puerto-rico-aid/
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Judge Jeanine Defies 
Liberal Gun Logic with One Sentence
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by KEELY SHARP
{godfatherpolitics.com} ~ She’s got grace, a pretty face, and destroys snowflakes in their safe space! (Wow. That was better than Eminem’s weak attempt at bashing Trump! HA!)... Judge Jeanine has brains and beauty. No wonder liberals hate her! She is back, defying liberal gun logic once again, and it only took her one sentence to do so. You ready for it? Here it is: Jeanine said, “Just as we cannot blame all Muslims for the actions of a few, how about you not blame all gun owners for the actions of Paddock.”...  http://godfatherpolitics.com/video-judge-jeanine-defies-liberal-gun-logic-with-one-sentence/
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Paul Ryan at the Center of the
Greatest Political Scandal of the 21st Century
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by George Rasley
{conservativehq.com} ~ Wednesday, one of the most remarkable political events of the 21st Century played out in an obscure Capitol Hill hearing room, and no one in the establishment media paid the least bit of attention to it... Two months have passed since the August 17 indictment of Pakistani national Imran Awan and his wife Hina Alvi, who were technology staffers for Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (FL-23), former Chair of the Democratic National Committee. The greatest political scandal of the 21st Century isn’t that the Democrats allowed, or perhaps even facilitated the penetration of the House IT network by a ring of operatives with known ties to hostile Islamist interests, it is that once the penetration became known, Speaker Paul Ryan and his leadership team have done nothing to expose it and to pursue the facts to their conclusion...  http://www.conservativehq.com/node/26638
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Trump designates Iran Revolutionary Guard Corps
as a terrorist group, calls for more sanctions
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Trump administration on Friday designated Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps as a terrorist organization... a move that President Trump followed up with by calling for tougher sanctions against the organization. "I am authorizing the Treasury Department to further sanction the entire Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps for its support for terrorism and to apply sanctions to its officials, agents, and affiliates," Trump said in a White House speech. "The IRGC has played a central role to Iran becoming the world's foremost state sponsor of terror," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said Friday. "We urge the private sector to recognize that the IRGC permeates much of the Iranian economy, and those who transact with IRGC-controlled companies do so at great risk."...   http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-designates-iran-revolutionary-guard-corps-as-a-terrorist-group-calls-for-more-sanctions/article/2637445?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20From%20-%2010/13/17&utm_medium=email
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Is Taking a Knee Protected Speech?
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~ "The constitutionally guaranteed 'freedom to be intellectually ... diverse or even contrary,' and the 'right to differ as to things that touch the heart of the existing order,' encompass the freedom to express publicly one's opinions about our flag, including those opinions which are defiant or contemptuous."

-- Supreme Court of the United States in Street v. New York (1969)

Sometimes the public expression of unwanted ideas reaches directly into our living rooms. When President Donald Trump attacked a half-dozen or so professional football players who, instead of standing during the traditional playing of the national anthem prior to football games, "took a knee" by kneeling on one or both of their knees during the anthem, hundreds of more players on national television took a knee in defiance of the president.

Here is the back story.

Last year, a quarterback for the San Francisco 49ers, Colin Kaepernick, began quietly taking a knee at NFL games to protest what he said was the excessive use of force by police. He was the subject of mild but largely below-the-radar criticism by those who thought sincerely that taking a knee publicly during the playing of the national anthem was a sign of disrespect for the flag and the anthem and thus for this country.

When a few of his buddies and former colleagues -- he is no longer a member of an NFL team -- followed suit for a variety of reasons, all of which centered around the right to protest the policies of the government, Trump saw a political opening.
 
At a rally in Alabama last month, Trump aggressively attacked the practice of taking a knee. He argued that it was so disrespectful to the American flag and the national anthem that those who had taken a knee should be fired from their jobs.

This pronouncement focused a spotlight on the six or so scattered players who had followed Kaepernick's lead, and soon hundreds were doing so. The president took their behavior as an affront to him and the nation, and he persisted in his attacks on the players. Soon, some team owners joined their players in various means of expressing solidarity with those who had taken a knee.

When the players union backed up these silent expressions of political opinions, it argued that all of its members have a constitutional right to express themselves in uniform in their workplace. Do they? The short answer is that it depends on where the players are when they take a knee.

Some jurisdictions -- such as California, the District of Columbia, New Jersey and New York -- give more protection to employees for expressive conduct in the workplace than others do. When the expressive conduct -- taking a knee, bowing one's head, locking arms with colleagues -- occurs in the workplace, the issue is not necessarily one of free speech, because the First Amendment only comes into play when the government itself is accused of infringing upon or compelling speech. In the NFL, the alleged infringers of speech or compellers of speech are team management, not the government.
 
Expressive conduct -- lawful behavior that offers a political opinion -- is the constitutional equivalent of free speech. So interfering with expressive conduct or commanding its cessation in conformity to management's political or patriotic views constitutes interfering with speech. May employers do that?

In states where expressive conduct in the workplace is protected, employees may express themselves as long as they do not materially interfere with the business of the workplace. In states without that employee protection, they may not do so.

So in states such as Texas, an employee who refuses to comply with an instruction from management to conform to certain behavior in public -- e.g., standing during the playing of the national anthem -- can be disciplined, as Texas lacks the added protections for individual workplace expressions that a few states provide.

However, even in the states that lack the employee expression protection, if management's instructions to conform require conformance on property that the government owns, such as a publicly owned stadium, then management is treated constitutionally as if it were the government. Just as the government cannot interfere with speech to suppress its content or to compel conformity, neither may team management when teams play on government-owned land.
 
Thus, in states where the government owns the stadiums or where expressive conduct in the workplace is protected, employees may engage in expressive conduct in defiance of management, as long as their conduct does not interfere with the workplace. Just as the government may interfere with speech for non-content-related reasons -- for example, noise at night or safety in a crowd -- management may interfere with speech when the speech itself interferes with the business of the workplace.

If team management could show that taking a knee materially interferes with the workplace product -- money for the owners resulting from players winning football games -- because it chases away ticket buyers or reduces advertising or media revenue or impairs team morale and thus produces poor play, it would have a strong case, even in the states with employee protection laws and even in venues owned by the government.

In the famous flag burning cases a few years ago, the Supreme Court made clear that in America, we have no revered symbols that command orthodox respect. The flag itself represents the right to treat it as one wishes. We are free to respect the flag and to shun those who do not, but we may not harm a hair on their heads.

I am with the French philosopher Voltaire, who, regarding folks who had literally lost their heads, is reputed to have said, "I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Censorship in Seattle
by Cal Thomas
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Drug Deaths Nearly 6X Gun Murders
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          What is even more concerning is the precipitous increase in overdose deaths, especially over the last couple years. Not only have overdose deaths increased, but it can be argued that they have increased due to the government’s 2010 creation of stricter regulations of pharmaceutical companies. Call it the law of unintended consequences. It could be argued that government over-regulation exacerbated and destabilized what had been a relatively controlled problem. The opioid crisis is out of control.
          Returning to the heated topic of gun control, the Left loves to suggest that more, and always more, “common sense” gun control laws will somehow limit the number of people killed by guns. What is conveniently ignored by these same leftists is the fact that since the early 1990s, gun-related crimes and deaths have significantly decreased while the number of guns owned has increased by over 50%. In fact, as Mark Alexander  highlighted yesterday, it is Democrat-controlled cities where gun laws are strictest where one will see the highest number of gun-related violence and death. The law of unintended consequences, or rather the real human toll of anti-gun crusaders?
          But hey, at least YouTube has changed its rules for firearms videos…  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51811

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“Hero” Mandalay Security Officer 
Not State Licensed As Jesus Campos
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{rickwells.us} ~ The State of Nevada requires all security guards to be registered with and licensed by the state, under the jurisdiction of the Nevada Private Investigator’s Licensing Board... They must meet eligibility requirements such as no felony, moral turpitude convictions or record of illegal possession or use of dangerous weapons. They also must meet character and citizenship/ residency  requirements. Those all seem like reasonable requirements as the basis for the state granting permits to work in that type of field. Curiously, the security officer at Mandalay Bay who we have been told stumbled upon Paddock as he was about to begin his murderous rampage and was shot as a result, Jesus Campos, isn’t registered. Unless it’s under a different name, he has not been granted permission to work in that field in the State of Nevada... https://rickwells.us/hero-mandalay-licensed-campos/
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Trump, Paul Forge Alliance on ‘Biggest
Free-Market Reform of Health Care in Generation’
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by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ Unable so far to achieve even a partial rollback of liar-nObamacare from Congress, President Donald Trump signed an executive order Thursday that could make it easier for some consumers to buy insurance across state lines... potentially increasing competition. “The competition will be staggering,” Trump said before signing the order. “Insurance companies will be fighting to get every single person signed up, and you will be hopefully negotiating, negotiating, negotiating, and you’ll get such low prices for such great care.” “Should have been done a long time ago, and it could have been done a long time ago,” he said...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/12/trump-paul-forge-alliance-on-biggest-free-market-reform-of-health-care-in-a-generation/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTWpnd1pUUmxZbVl6TURnMyIsInQiOiJSQng5dFp5eHBXYWZnT1ZCbkpTenBMbFZsVUZaY0NZYWNrT3FnNXBhZWdScXNBRG1idDJObytrZUdxZTc4Smk0Y21WZVYrdlBNd3NQTllkNlI2bFJMclVQXC9XcTBjWnpcL1NocW5GYnFlRXdyTGM3cXlIR1kyVEptSkNaaE9DbXhvIn0%3D
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Congressman warns Dems 
handed U.S. secrets to Pakistanis
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by ALICIA POWE
{wnd.com} ~ Multiple reports have detailed the equipment and nearly $6 million a Pakistani family of IT specialists allegedly took from the U.S. government while running computer networks for numerous congressional Democrats... But that’s only money and equipment, says a U.S. congressman who contends that the biggest problem is the classified information to which the Awan family had access. The taxpayers’ dollars confiscated from Congress is “not the highest of our concerns,” Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, told WND in an interview about the case of IT staffer Imran Awan, his brothers Abid and Jamal, and their wives Natalia Sova and Hina Alvi...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/10/congressman-warns-dems-handed-u-s-secrets-to-pakistanis/
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Beijing sends frigate & jets to warn off US
destroyer near disputed South China Sea islands 
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{msn.com} ~ China sent a guided-missile frigate, two fighter jets and a helicopter to warn off the USS ‘Chafee’ near disputed islands in the South China Sea... accusing the US of damaging the country’s sovereignty and security interests in the region. Beijing condemned the mission of the guided-missile destroyer USS ‘Chafee,’ which on Tuesday sailed within 16 nautical miles of the disputed Paracel Islands in the South China Sea, within the framework of a so-called “freedom of navigation” operation. “In the face of repeated provocation by the US forces, the Chinese military will further strengthen preparation for combat at sea and in the air and improve the defenses to resolutely defend national sovereignty and security interests,” China’s Defense Ministry said in a statement, quoted by the South China Morning Post newspaper... http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/beijing-sends-frigate-26-jets-to-warn-off-us-destroyer-near-disputed-south-china-sea-islands/ar-AAtiRXl
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Trump will stay in Iran nuclear deal, but won't certify
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by Sarah Westwood
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump will decline to certify the Iran nuclear deal on Friday through a process that will leave the agreement intact while inviting Congress to weigh in on new restrictions against Tehran... The White House hopes the resulting U.S. policy toward Iran will expand beyond its current dependence on the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action, as the Iran deal is formally known, and involve a broader look at Iranian aggression. But the approach Trump will lay out on Friday could allow the debate over how best to counter Iran to languish in a divided Congress, which could force Trump to continue observing a deal he described last month as an "embarrassment" to the U.S...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-will-stay-in-iran-nuclear-deal-but-wont-certify-compliance/article/2637394?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2010/13/17&utm_medium=email
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Censorship in Seattle
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by Cal Thomas
{townhall.com} ~ If it were a plague, the government would rush to quarantine the infected, as occurred during Europe's Black Death in the 14th century.

An immigration debate at Seattle University School of Law is a plague of a different sort, but deadly in a different way. The victim here is the right to free speech.

The Washington Free Beacon reports that Annette Clark, the dean of Seattle University's Law School, has revoked the school's sponsorship of a Federalist Society event. The reason? The proposed debate on immigration, hosted by the school's Access to Justice Institute, might be "harmful" to minority students and "undocumented immigrants," aka people who broke the law to get to America, though we are not supposed to talk like that these days.

At first, I thought it was a joke. It is. But a joke played on those elites who claim to believe in tolerance, academic freedom, and inclusion. Dean Clark's edict reflects her and the school's intolerance, academic propaganda and exclusion of any view that does not conform to the university's imposed ideology. Isn't this the stuff of re-education camps and gulags?

Many college campuses claim devotion to diversity while practicing and imposing conformity. To them, diversity has to do with skin color, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. It is secular liberalism dressed up in different garb. Real diversity would include people of different opinions.

At Seattle U's Law School, the Federalist Society, a conservative organization that believes in an originalist view of the Constitution, was preparing for an immigration debate. The last I checked a debate is supposed to include opposing points of view. The purpose of a debate is to inform people so they can decide which view is superior to the other. In the '80s, these were the kinds of debates in which I participated on many college campuses. With only a few exceptions I was granted a respectful hearing, as was my debate opponent. Often we would attend a dinner before the debate, or a reception afterward, where students and faculty could observe us interacting with decorum, humor and mutual respect.
 
Invitations to college campuses began disappearing in the '90s, and I haven't had any since. The stories of high-profile speakers being denied the right to speak or shouted down and demonstrated against should they actually make it onto a campus are legion.

The kind of censorship practiced in Seattle is not unique to that school either. It is trending across the country. Increasingly, campuses have become "safe spaces" so that "snowflakes" will not be troubled by ideas that rattle their still-developing brains, which should, instead of stagnating, constantly evolve. If they think they already know everything, why spend time and money going to college?

The greater question is this: Why do so many parents, especially conservative parents, send their children to schools that undermine their faith and values, distort history and promote causes that will not help them get a job once they graduate? A corollary question: Why do students take on so much debt to attend universities where their "consciences" might be raised on the liberal side, but where they are shielded from what real life looks like?

Nat Hentoff, the late liberal journalist and social critic, said the answer to speech you don't like is not less speech, but more speech. The students at Seattle Law School are being denied a well-rounded education by the speech and thought police. Students should demand that a portion of their tuition be refunded, and the federal government should consider denying tax subsidies to institutions of "higher learning" that practice censorship.
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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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NSA needed Israel to warn them that its tools had
been breached by a Russian cybersecurity firm
by Ellen Nakashima
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Friday Top Headlines
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Sessions targets four sanctuary cities (NBC News)
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Two “Dreamers” caught smuggling illegal immigrants into U.S. (The Washington Times)
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At least 31 dead in horrific California wildfires, hundreds missing (ABC News)
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Pulosi urges new law to limit president’s use of nuclear weapons (The Hill)
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Trump dumps UNESCO over anti-Israel bent (Washington Examiner)
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NYC, London police taking fresh look at Weinstein claims (Associated Press)
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Police-focused NFL protests overlooking rising, disproportionate black homicide rate (The Washington Times)
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New Orleans cop shot to death while on routine patrol (CBS News)
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Gay coffee shop owner kicks out pro-life customers (The Daily Signal)
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Humor: Boy Scouts to allow old men into Cub Scouts program (The Babylon Bee)
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Policy: America won’t win the War on Terror until it understands the enemy (American Enterprise Institute)  ~The Patriot Post
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FBI Names “Black Identity 
Extremists” as Potent Domestic Threat
 
{restoreamericanglory.com} ~ According to a new report out of the FBI’s counterterrorism division, the Bureau has been quietly and systematically documenting a new domestic threat to homeland security... a threat they identify as “black identity extremists.” This threat emerged in the wake of the Michael Brown shooting in Ferguson and spawned a series of plots and active violent incidents against law enforcement officials and other symbols of civic government. According to the report, which was first revealed by Foreign Policy magazine, “it is very likely BIEs proactively target police and openly identify and justify their actions with social-political agendas commensurate with their perceived injustices against African Americans.” While black identity extremism had been on the FBI’s radar prior to the Ferguson controversy, the Bureau only gave it a name and stepped up its agency-wide warnings in the aftermath of the riots and marches that followed Brown’s shooting... http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/breaking-news/fbi-names-black-identity-extremists-as-potent-domestic-threat/
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FBI Begins Investigating Corrupt Municipal
Mayors Withholding FEMA Aid in Puerto Rico
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ FBI agents in Puerto Rico have been receiving calls from “across the island” with residents complaining local officials are “withholding” or “mishandling” critical FEMA supplies... with one island official even accused of stuffing his own car full of goods meant for the suffering populace. The accusations come in the aftermath of deadly Hurricane Maria, which devastated the U.S. territory last month. “The complaints we’re hearing is that mayors of local municipalities, or people associated with their offices, are giving their political supporters special treatment, goods they’re not giving to other people who need them,” FBI Special Agent Carlos Osorio told Fox News...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/10/12/fbi-begins-investigating-corrupt-municipal-mayors-withholding-fema-aid-in-puerto-rico/
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Conservatives Demand Ouster of Senate GOP Leaders
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by Michael Tennant
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Charging Senate Republican leaders with failure and betrayal, a group of conservative leaders is demanding the resignation or removal of Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) and his deputies from their leadership posts... “We call on all five members of the GOP leadership to step down or for their caucus to remove them as soon as possible,” Senate Conservatives Fund President Ken Cuccinelli said at a press conference Tuesday. Those members consist of McConnell, Assistant Republican Leader John Cornyn (R-Texas), Republican Conference Chairman John Thune (R-S.D.), Republican Conference Vice Chairman Roy Blunt (R-Mo.), and Republican Policy Committee Chairman John Barrasso (R-Wy.). All are middle-of-the-road legislators; their cumulative Freedom Index scores range from Blunt’s 55 percent to Barrasso’s 72 percent...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/27123-conservatives-demand-ouster-of-senate-gop-leaders
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After GOP Failure: President 
Trump Takes an Axe to liar-nObamacare
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by Onan Coca
{constitution.com} ~ Earlier today, President Trump signed a new Executive Order aimed at weakening the most draconian elements of liar-nObamacare... and aiming to make it easier for Americans to purchase the affordable healthcare coverage they need. Some conservatives worry that using an executive order for such an action is hypocritical, considering that it uses a method that the right spurned during the liar-nObama era, but the orders effect could massively ease the healthcare burdens of middle class Americans. The order loosens “some liar-nObamacare requirements so that people can buy less comprehensive, but also less expensive, healthcare coverage, in the wake of the Senate’s failure this year to move any legislation to change the law.”... https://constitution.com/gop-failure-president-trump-takes-axe-obamacare/
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Trump’s Immigration List 
Reminds Dems Who is in Charge

{fixthisnation.com} ~ From the way the Democratic Party leadership has been acting with respect to Obama’s 800,000 or so “Dreamers,” you would think they had recently won an election or something... 
From the moment President Trump signaled that he would be willing to sign legislation giving these illegal immigrants a way to stay in the United States, Democrats like Nancy Pulosi and Chuck clown-Schumer went on the offensive, insisting on a clean DACA bill that didn’t include any money for border security or a wall across the Mexican border line. Since the majority party usually gets to dictate terms to the minority party, many observers wondered just how serious “clown-Chuck and Nancy” were about protecting the Dreamers in the first place. Well, with a 70-point list the White House sent to Capitol Hill this week, President Trump has decided to find out the answer to that question. And in the meantime, he’s sending a message to Democrats: You didn’t win the election, I did. And this is exactly what I campaigned on. You want to protect the Dreamers? Here’s what we want in return...
  http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/chew-on-that-trumps-immigration-list-reminds-dems-who-is-in-charge/
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NSA needed Israel to warn them that its tools had
been breached by a Russian cybersecurity firm
by Ellen Nakashima
 
 
{Ijewishworldreview.com} ~ In 2015, Israeli government hackers saw something suspicious in the computers of a Moscow-based cybersecurity firm: hacking tools that could only have come from the National Security Agency.

Israel notified the NSA, where alarmed officials immediately began a hunt for the breach, according to individuals familiar with the matter, who said an investigation by the agency revealed that the tools were in the possession of the Russian government.

Israelis spies had found the hacking material on the network of Kaspersky Lab, the global antivirus firm, now under a spotlight in the United States because of suspicions its products facilitate Russian espionage.

Last month, the Department of Homeland Security instructed federal civilian agencies to identify Kaspersky Lab software on their networks and remove it, on the grounds that "the Russian government, whether acting on its own or in collaboration with Kaspersky, could capitalize on access provided by Kaspersky products to compromise federal information and information systems directly implicates U.S. national security." The directive followed a decision by the General Services Administration to remove Kaspersky from its list of approved vendors. And lawmakers on Capitol Hill are considering a government-wide ban.

The NSA declined to comment on the Israeli discovery, which was first reported by The New York Times.

Kaspersky spokeswoman Sarah Kitsos said that "as a private company, Kaspersky Lab does not have inappropriate ties to any government, including Russia, and the only conclusion seems to be that Kaspersky Lab is caught in the middle of a geopolitical fight." She said the company "does not possess any knowledge" of Israel's hack.

The firm's founder, Eugene Kaspersky, said in a blog post last week that his antivirus software is supposed to find malware from all quarters.

"We absolutely and aggressively detect and clean malware infections no matter the source," he wrote, suggesting that the NSA hacking tools could have been picked up as malware by the antivirus program.

In the 2015 case, investigators at the NSA examining how the Russians obtained the material eventually narrowed their search to an employee in the agency's elite Tailored Access Operations division - hackers that collect intelligence about foreign targets. The employee was using Kaspersky antivirus software on his home computer, according to the individuals familiar with the matter.

The employee, whose name has not been made public and who is still under investigation by federal prosecutors, did not intend to pass the material to a foreign adversary. "There wasn't any malice," said one individual familiar with the case, who like others interviewed, requested anonymity to discuss an ongoing case. "It's just that he was trying to complete the mission, and he needed the tools to do it."

Concerns about Kaspersky have also emerged in the cyber security industry, where some officials say that the firm's software has been used not just to protect its customers' computers but also as a platform for espionage.

Over the last several years, the firm has on occasion used a standard industry technique that detects computer viruses, but can also be employed to identify information and other data not related to malware, according to two industry officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive information.

The tool is called "silent signatures" - strings of digital code that operate in stealth mode to find malware but which could also be written to search computers for potential classified documents, using key words or acronyms.

"Silent detection is a widely-adopted cybersecurity industry practice, used to verify malware detections and minimize false positives," said Kitsos. "It enables cybersecurity vendors to offer the most up-to-date protection without bothering users with constant on-screen alerts."

Kaspersky is also the only major antivirus firm whose data is routed through Russian Internet service providers subject to Russian surveillance. That surveillance system is known as the SORM, or the System of Operative Investigative Measures.

Kitsos said that customer data flowing through its Russian servers is encrypted. She said that the firm does not decrypt it for the government.

Andrei Soldatov, a Russian surveillance expert and author of "The Red Web," said, "I would be very, very skeptical" of the claim that the government cannot read the firm's data. As an entity that deals with encrypted information, Kaspersky must obtain a license from the FSB, the country's powerful security service, he noted, which "means your company is completely transparent" to the FSB.

It is not publicly known how the Russians obtained the NSA hacking tools in 2015. Some information security analysts have speculated that the Russians exploited a flaw in Kaspersky software to filch the material.

But other experts say the Russians would not need to hack's Kaspersky's systems. They say that the material could be picked up through the country's surveillance regime.

The firm itself is likely to be beholden to the Kremlin, said Steven Hall, who ran the CIA's Russia operations for 30 years. He said Kaspersky's line of work is of particular interest to Russian President Vladimir Putin and because of the way things work in Russia, Eugene Kaspersky, "knows he's at the mercy of Putin."

"The case against Kaspersky Lab is overwhelming," said Sen. Jeanne Shaheen, D-N.H., a vocal critic of Kaspersky who has pushed to remove the company's software from federal networks. "The strong ties between Kaspersky Lab and the Kremlin are very alarming."

The federal government increasingly has been conveying its concerns about Kaspersky to the private sector. Over at least the past two years, the FBI has notified major companies, including in the energy and financial sectors, about the risks of using Kaspersky software. The briefings have elaborated on the risks of espionage, sabotage and supply chain attacks that could be enabled through use of the software. They also explained the surveillance law that enables the Russian government to see data coursing through its domestic pipes.

"That's the crux of the matter," said one industry official who received the briefing. "Whether Kaspersky is working directly for the Russian government or not doesn't matter - their Internet service providers are subject to monitoring. So virtually anything shared with Kaspersky could become the property of the Russian government."

Late last month, the National Intelligence Council completed a classified report that it shared with NATO allies concluding that the FSB, had "probable access" to Kaspersky customer databases and source code. That access, it concluded, could help enable cyber attacks against U.S. government, commercial and industrial control networks.
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The Front Page Cover
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT
by Burt Prelutsky
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Hollywood Hypocrisy on Weinstein Is Off the Charts
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          Aside from the actual alleged crimes committed by Weinstein, a sick man whose wife has left him and who’s now in Europe for sex addiction therapy, the primary theme here is hypocrisy.
          Hypocrisy from those in Hollywood who knew about Weinstein’s behavior without speaking up (or, worse, who aided him), all while advancing the Left’s “war on women” nonsense as if Republicans are the real villains. And hypocrisy from Democrats who happily lined their own pockets with donations from Weinstein while politically advancing that same phony narrative.
          liar-Hillary Clinton and Barack liar-nObama stand out, though we do note that, nearly a week after the story broke, both were finally shamed into speaking out against Weinstein. liar-nObama’s daughter Malia interned for Weinstein, and the movie mogul raised millions of dollars for Democrats and liar-nObama specifically. No wonder it took him a week to say anything about being “disgusted by the recent reports.”
          As for liar-Clinton, who made the bizarre assertion that Trump was a creep in the second presidential debate, she was “shocked and appalled” by the allegations. She did not — on record, anyway — fault Weinstein’s accusers for “bimbo eruptions” as with the women who accused her husband of rape. Maybe she’s too busy coping with Chardonnay.
          A final note: Rather than simply return Weinstein’s money and wash their hands of the affair, Democrats are essentially laundering the money to leftist organizations like Emily’s List that work to elect Democrats

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/51794

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Second Employee Radioed 
In Attack, LV Cops On Property Weren’t Told
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{rickwells.us} ~ Retired Las Vegas Police Lieutenant Randy Sutton discusses some new revelations regarding the interactions between the Las Vegas Police Department and the Mandalay Bay security department... and a failure to get information to officers who were on Mandalay Bay property prior to the shooting into the concert. He says he finds the discrepancies between the original police version of what happened and stating that it is “the first time we’ve heard about this maintenance worker.” It’s not the first time he was mentioned, he was referred to in passing in the original timeline of what security officer Campos encountered, but to a much less detailed degree. He also references the change in the story to Campos being shot before the shooting into the event began and the six minute delay between firing at Campos and firing into the crowd at the event. He says, “Now keep in mind, what’s really important here is that there were two Metro officers in the security office at the time of the shooting.”...  https://rickwells.us/second-employee-radioed-cops-werent-told/
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Hey Liberals, If Trump Decertifies 
JCPOA Iran Deal…It’s liar-nObama’s Fault
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Here’s a little secret the liberals won’t admit to, If as expected President Trump doesn’t certify the JCPOA the blame should go to former President liar-nObama... liar-nObama doesn’t get the blame because he made a lousy deal with Iran (although that’s true), nor does he get the blame because he lied to the American public about the deal (also true). liar-nObama gets the blame because of his hubris. Just as he did with illegal aliens and elements of liar-nObamacare, the former POTUS knew he didn’t have the votes needed in the Senate to approve a treaty, because the JCPOA didn’t have the necessary support of the American people. But most progressives do, President liar-nObama believed he knew better than the American people so he did not submit the deal in a constitutional manner as a treaty which would have tied future leaders’ hands, instead, he skirted the constitution and treated it as an Executive Agreement which doesn’t even tie President Trumps shoes... http://lidblog.com/trump-decertifies-jcpoa-deal-its-obamas-fault/
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US to withdraw from
UNESCO due to 'anti-Israel bias'
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by Melissa Quinn
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The United States is withdrawing from UNESCO because of what the Trump administration said is a "continuing anti-Israel bias" from the education and science organization... State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement Thursday the U.S. would be pulling out of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization by the end of the year. "This decision was not taken lightly, and reflects U.S. concerns with mounting arrears at UNESCO, the need for fundamental reform in the organization, and continuing anti-Israel bias at UNESCO," Nauert said. The State Department said it plans to "remain engaged" with the organization as a non-member...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/us-to-withdraw-from-unesco-due-to-anti-israel-bias/article/2637275?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20News%20Alert%20-%2010/12/17&utm_medium=email
VIDEO:  http://studio.ndnmediaservices.com/washingtonexaminer?ndn.trackingGroup=91212&ndn.siteSection=91212_pp&ndn.videoId=33107880
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Should Trump Nix the Iran Deal?
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by James Phillips 
{dailysignal.com} ~ President Donald Trump has made it clear that he does not like the flawed and risky 2015 Iran nuclear agreement that he inherited from the liar-nObama administration... He called it one of the worst deals ever negotiated during the presidential campaign and declared it to be an “embarrassment” in his speech to the United Nations General Assembly last month. When asked what he will do about it, he said, “I’ll let you know.” The White House has tentatively scheduled a major speech for Thursday that is expected to outline its official policy on the nuclear deal. Decertification would not automatically abolish the nuclear deal, but would set the stage for Congress to review the agreement. Congress would then have 60 days to debate whether to restore nuclear-related sanctions lifted by the nuclear deal... http://dailysignal.com/2017/10/11/trump-nix-iran-deal/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpKbE1qWmpPRFU1TWpobSIsInQiOiJ1THRkbURNRkFzYjA2YXZaQkNzaWxBa3FMY2doREFpakxlV1wvdFlyWHcwUWVzRVhiRW5mQXl2TFZBSEF0RDFIcTdUWjcyeDNVaWtlZGZvU3BpaWZKTGFJMXM1RFJMazg2cjZ0bkY5TGI5WitrTWp3N2F4RFRJdHRrUStKN1dMVk0ifQ%3D%3D
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liar-nObama Library Won’t Have Books Or 
Paper Records – Fitting For A Pretend President
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s pretty much what we would expect from a pretend ‘president,’ a pretend library as a monument to his eight years squatting in the White House... Normally libraries have books and reference materials, that’s part of what make them a library. For liar-nObama the most important component of being a library is the funding and being able to secret away government documents inside it for five years, beyond even the reach of Congress. Always anxious ignore or abuse the spirit and intent of laws and regulations to their benefit, Obama Foundation Officials plan to circumvent “onerous federal standards” by creating an online archive for what they are calling the Barack liar-nObama Presidential Center, rather than real paper books... https://rickwells.us/obama-library-books-pretend-president/
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SEXUAL HARASSMENT
by Burt Prelutsky


According to the Left, there is even a political angle to be considered when it comes to sexual harassment. So, it was never regarded as such a big deal when it was liar-Bill Clinton who was doing the harassing. In his case, it was just a case of boys being boys. There was even the unspoken subtext that it was understandable, considering he was married to liar-Hillary.

If I recall correctly, Barbra Streisand even let it be known that she wouldn’t object to being sexually harassed by President liar-Clinton.

However, when it was a couple of conservatives named Roger Ailes and Bill O’Reilly, who stood accused of these moral transgressions, it suddenly became a hanging offense. How dare these two guys behave as if Fox News were their own private harems!

Now that it’s Harvey Weinstein, the CEO of Miramax, who, we learn, has been demanding sexual favors from a number of actresses, the media are back once again to either ignoring or playing down the scandal. That’s because Weinstein has long been one of the major donors to the Democrats, and was well-known to be a bigtime bundler for Mrs. liar-Clinton, using his clout to make sure that his show biz associates kicked in handsomely to ensure the liar-Clintons got back into the White House.

In some cases, it all comes down to whose ox is being gored. At other times, it’s more a matter of which ox is doing the goring.

The question in my mind is how Hollywood will treat Ashley Judd, thus far the biggest name among Weinstein’s accusers. Surely, her fellow celebrities must be conflicted, recalling that Judd joined Madonna on stage in Washington, D.C., denouncing Trump in the most vulgar terms the day after his inauguration.

● It was inevitable that the Senate would begin even before the blood was dry in Vegas to call for additional gun control legislation, legislation which, as usual, would have done nothing to prevent Stephen Paddock’s murderous rampage.

U.S. Senators, as you may have noticed, don’t object to doing nothing; they merely resent being seen doing nothing, especially if a white person has used a gun to commit homicide.

● What nobody -- neither those who object to the Iran nuclear deal nor those who support it -- has explained is how anyone knows if Iran is complying with the agreement. No impartial agency, assuming there is such a thing, has access to their nuclear plants, just as they had no access to Iraq’s. What’s more, the deal, which Trump justifiably described as the worst one America ever made, was only meant to delay Iran’s nuclear development for 10 years, and that point would be reached prior to the end of Trump’s second term.

It's bad enough to kick the can down the road when it involves something like our federal budget, but far worse when the can has a nuclear warhead.

It’s a shame that the world has such a short memory. Had the U.S., France and Britain, intervened early on, Nazi Germany would never have been able to storm through Europe, killing millions along the way. But it’s not just memory that is lacking; it’s will. And so, the West dithers around, presumably waiting for Iran and North Korea to be fully locked and loaded, fearful, it appears, of waging wars they might actually be in a position to win.

● Question: What do you call 13,000 people sneaking into Canada? Answer: A good start. 

Apparently, that’s how many American citizens and illegal aliens have recently crossed our northern border, seeking sanctuary, fearful of what might transpire, what we can only hope might transpire, under a Trump administration.

● Because I am a baseball fan, I recently boasted that, unlike football, no baseball player had taken a knee at the playing of the National Anthem.

It turns out I was mistaken. It seems that a 26-year-old black rookie catcher for the Oakland A’s, Bruce Maxwell, not only took a knee, but sent out a bunch of tweets, packed with f-bombs targeting President Trump. The good news is that Maxwell only batted .237, with three home runs and 22 rbis in 76 games, so it’s possible that his rookie season will also be his final season.

● While liberals have often taken to the courts to complain about congressional districts that appear to have been drawn to favor conservatives, nobody has seen fit to point out the pains that the Illinois legislature took in order to ensure that race-baiter Luis Gutierrez would have even less trouble being re-elected than Mad-Maxine Waters.

His district is composed of two separate parts that are attached at only one spot at the far west end, a spot that appears to be no more than a single block long. 

In the bottom portion of the district is a small island entirely surrounded by Gutierrez’s turf. It looks like Guam in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. It must be filled with sensible people who think that illegal aliens should stay home.

Perhaps it would serve the Republicans well to occasionally be the ones in court fighting over gerrymandered districts. Defense plays an essential role in waging political wars, but, as with actual warfare, you don’t win without an equally adept offense.

● I recently addressed the fact that although it has always been the Democrats who took the lead in oppressing black Americans -- whether it was the creation of the KKK, the passage and enforcement of Jim Crow laws or the opposition to the Civil Rights Act -- 95% of blacks continue to vote for them. One of my subscribers wrote to say that even the most prosperous blacks seem to believe that white society owes them, and that the Democrats can always be counted on to pay extortion in exchange for votes.

That happens to be the way I see it, too. Although blacks have been complicit in their own decline, both morally and materialistically, it’s also true that the Democrats have been only too happy to provide them with the shovels so they can further bury themselves in the depths of society.

It’s merely anecdotal, but I think it’s telling, so I will share my experience. When I’m standing in a checkout line at the supermarket and there are little kids in the cart in front of me, I’ll wave or wink at them. At which point, they either wave back or they try to duck behind their mom and peek shyly back at me.

In my neighborhood, the kids are generally white, Hispanic and, occasionally, Asian. The one time I went into my shtick with a little black three or four-year-old, he scowled back at me, like a miniature Sonny Liston. It struck me that he had already been informed by his parents that white people were out to get him. I was overwhelmed with a feeling of hopelessness. And I still am, all these months later.

● Someone sent me a picture of a young woman wearing an atypical t-shirt.  It read: Support LGBT (Liberty, Guns, Bible, Trump). I imagine that in certain quarters, the item is flying off the shelves.

● Another subscriber complained that a member of Congress can retire after a single term and receive a pension equal to 100% of his salary. I wrote back to say that I understood that a pension only kicked in after five years, and that it was for 50% of their salary. But I added: “But after five years, they’ve gotten so rich, thanks to insider trading, they don’t really need a pension.”

● A subscriber, Russ Mothershed, he of the Knoxville, Tennessee, Mothersheds, sent me a list of things titled “Ramblings of An Old Mind.” For the life of me, I can’t imagine why he’d send me such a list. But, knowing that I have some older readers, I’m happy to pass along a few of the items. 

“I decided that old age is when you still have something on the ball, but are just too tired to bounce it.”

“When people see a cat’s litter box, they always say, ‘Oh, have you got a cat?’ Just once, I’d like to say, ‘No, it’s just for company.’”

“Employment applications always ask who to call in case of an emergency. I suggest: ‘An ambulance.’”

“The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight because by then your body and your fat have gotten to be really good friends.”

“The easiest way to find something lost around the house is to buy a replacement.”

“The sole purpose of a child’s middle name is so he can tell when he’s really in trouble.”

“Have you ever noticed that when you put the two words ‘The’ and ‘IRS’ together, it spells ‘Theirs’?”

“Eventually, you will reach a point when you stop lying about your age and start bragging about it.”

“You know you are getting old when everything either dries up or leaks.”

Whoops! I think I may have figured out why Mothershed sent me the list, after all.


If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Wrongly Fired Government Reformer
Considering Running Against Arizona Governor
by Rachel Alexander
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Thursday Top Headlines
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Boy Scouts of America to accept girls throughout ranks (Fox News)
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With threat on NBC’s “license,” Trump serves up another steaming pile of culture war (Washington Examiner)
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Trump warns Puerto Rico: “We cannot keep FEMA, the Military & the First Responders … forever!” (The Hill)
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Trump plans to nominate Kirstjen Nielsen for Homeland Security secretary (USA Today)
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New study finds Democrats moving left, driving growing partisan gap (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Iran on pathway to fully restart nuclear weapons program (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Bump stock ban would retroactively criminalize possession of legally acquired products (Reason)
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Twitter: On second thought, we’ll allow Blackburn’s pro-life ad (Hot Air)
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Texas Tech student, drug user, Bernie/liar-nObama fan, assassinates cop (Truth Revolt)
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Old video: Jimmy “Moral Compass” Kimmel has a series of women grope his crotch (The Daily Wire)
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New college student survey: Yes, speech can be violence (National Review)  ~The Patriot Post
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Carlson – FBI Names BLM, Black
Identity Extremists As Deadly Domestic Threat
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{rickwells.us} ~ The FBI has identified and issued a warning against a new terror threat in America... As Tucker Carlson reports, he reminds us of the number of police officers assassinated in the past couple of years, indicating that there is a direct correlation. Carlson says, “In a new report by the FBI’s anti terror division, agents warn that America faces a new domestic terror threat from ‘black identity extremists’ who have become violently radicalized against the police since the death of Michael Brown in Ferguson three years ago.” He points out that was “an event that was relentlessly politicized by the liar-nObama administration.” He continues, “The report says those extremists ‘proactively target police and openly identify and justify their actions with social – political agendas commensurate with their perceived injustices against African Americans.'”... https://rickwells.us/carlson-fbi-blm-extremists-threat/
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NAACP Attacks Cowboys Owner Jerry Jones
For Stopping Anti-America Agitation
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{rickwells.us} ~ The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), probably the most high profile racial supremacy organization in the world... is firing back at Cowboys owner Jerry Jones for setting workplace rules about conduct at the workplace by his hired employees, NFL players. The conduct that he is restricting, the race-baiting kneeling, sitting and other black supremacy gestures such as a raised fist, is damaging his business and alienating fans. The skin-color agitators of the NAACP may not like it, but he has every right to demand that they meet conduct standards that he sets. He also has a responsibility to himself and his business to try to stop its tanking popularity. In utilizing their typical extortion-tinged, threatening, intimidation tactics, the NAACP-remicist interim president and CEO, Derrick Johnson offered up their unfounded faux-position. He said, “This is not an issue about our flag, this is an issue about police brutality, racism, and the ability of members of the NFL whose communities are disproportionately impacted by police misconduct to peacefully say enough.”... https://rickwells.us/naacp-attacks-cowboys-jones-agitation/
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Weinstein High-Tails It Out of the US, 
Hiding Out In Foreign “Rehab” Center
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{rickwells.us} ~ What do you do if you’re a rich and powerful film producer and movie studio executive who happens to also be a sexual predator and probable rapist... and things are getting a little too hot in your Los Angeles kitchen? What do you do when the potential for criminal prosecution starts to be a little too great for comfort? Do you stick around like the commoners would, waiting for investigators to get their hooks into you and take your passport? Probably not. And while you’re escaping to the relative safety of foreign shores, why not do it under the guise of seeking treatment for an addiction? Since they don’t have treatment centers for “rape addiction” or “forcing yourself upon unwilling women addiction,” a sex addiction clinic overseas is likely the best option... https://rickwells.us/weinstein-hiding-foreign-rehab/
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Palestinian Normalization -- With Hamas, Not Israel
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Palestinian and Israeli women from 
the "Women Wage Peace" group
by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ When Palestinian women took part in a march with Israeli women for peace this week, they were condemned in the harshest terms by many other Palestinians, who called for their punishment... The Palestinian women who participated in the October 8 event, organized by a group called Women Wage Peace, have been denounced by many of their own people as and "traitors" and "whores." Conversely, when Palestinian Authority (PA) officials held "reconciliation" talks with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip and Egypt during the same period, many Palestinians praised them as "heroes" and "brave." Judging from the reactions of many Palestinians, especially on social media, they prefer peace with Hamas rather than with Israel...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11144/palestinian-normalization-hamas
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House Intel Committee Ramps 
Up Probe On liar-nObama ‘Unmasking’
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{dailycaller.com} ~ The House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence is ramping up investigation into former President Barack liar-nObama administration’s campaign to “unmask” President Donald Trump aides... who were incidentally surveilled in meetings with foreign officials, The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. The committee is also intensifying a probe into Fusion GPS, a private “opposition research” company that distributed a salacious memo on Trump, called the “Trump Dossier.” Over the next two weeks the House committee is expected to privately interview former U.N. Ambassador Samantha Power, who reportedly asked to unmask or identify Americans on as many as 260 occasions, primarily Trump campaign or transition officials...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/10/11/exclusive-house-intel-committee-ramps-up-probe-on-obama-unmasking/?utm_medium=email
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Wrongly Fired Government Reformer
Considering Running Against Arizona Governor
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{townhall.com} ~ Tim Jeffries was a popular director of the Arizona Department of Economic Security, the state welfare agency, from 2015 to 2016. He became a colorful icon in Arizona government, with his smiley faces and practice of referring to employees as “colleagues.” He was likely the only state agency head to cut the size of his agency by 2 percent as instructed by Arizona Republican Governor Doug Ducey. He turned morale around at DES, making it a fun place to work — no easy feat at a welfare agency. The devout Catholic has a heart and passion for the poor and sick, coming from a poor upbringing himself. When the governor asked him if he wanted to be an agency head, Jeffries deliberately chose DES.

But this star reformer was pushed out in a highly publicized coup, spearheaded by the left-wing Arizona Republic which made him a target. After Jeffries fired 475 employees who were “bullies, racists, sexual harassers and slackers,” the newspaper featured some of the employees and wrongly made them out to be victims — even though some had actually been stealing from DES. The newspaper extensively covered Jeffries’ efforts to bring security in house, instead of paying for private contractors which were less accountable and not cost effective. The biased articles referred to it as “building an arsenal” and “stockpiling ammunition.”
 
With so much negative coverage, Governor Ducey caved to pressure, firing Jeffries in November 2016.

The firing was so unjust that one of the local left-leaning papers actually took Jeffries’ side. The Phoenix New Times expressed skepticism about the accusations brought against Jeffries. “Just before his ouster in late 2016, Jeffries reportedly bought alcohol for employees on state time, but the accusation was never proven.” As for the private security force, the paper said “much of the criticism was overblown.”

Jeffries observes, "I had the passion and courage to ‘run government at the speed of business’ as the Governor directed me. Unfortunately, it proved to be merely a campaign slogan for the Governor. Consequently, calcified bureaucracy and special vendor deals remain to the profound detriment of hard-working taxpayers that deserve good government."

Jeffries filed a $5.1 million libel claim against the state over the private security allegations. His former chief of security, Charles Loftus, filed a $2.6 million claim. Jeffries is represented by former Arizona Attorney General Tom Horne. Some of the bizarre, false accusations in the audit performed by the state Department of Public Safety are that Jeffries carried a gun on state property and wanted to arm every state employee.
 
Ducey is vulnerable to a challenge from the right. He is ingratiated with Senators RINO-John McCain and RINO-Jeff Flake who are disliked by the conservative base, in part due to their repeated undermining of President Trump. Ducey endorsed RINO-Flake. Ducey's lack of leadership was foundational to RINO-McCain's vote stopping the liar-nObamacare repeal. Ducey himself failed to stand with other Arizona leaders behind Trump at his August rally in Phoenix.

Ducey is also vulnerable with teachers’ associations. Prop. 123, which he championed, only provided a 2 percent raise for teachers over five years.

Jeffries explains the difference between Ducey as governor and how he would run the state, "I entered the public sector to do big things, not small things with big press releases." Jeffries describes Ducey as a “poll-driven politician.” Jeffries is fearless and unrelenting. He went after a corrupt Democratic legislator who fraudulently obtained food stamps — something his predecessor was too afraid to take on. He had another corrupt member in the sights of his Inspector General — which sadly will now be swept under the rug. He boldly called for the termination of the corrupt vendor of the State’s liar-nObamacare Medicaid Eligibility System.
 
"If I run and I win, I will not play small ball like the Governor. I will massively reorganize and restructure state government,” Jeffries said. “Partnering with thousands of true public servants, I will free up approximately 200 million dollars a year to invest in classrooms, foster kids, senior citizens and the developmentally disabled. These great folks need us to be audacious in vision and fearless in execution." Jeffries says he does not have aspirations for higher office afterward; he is not seeking a political career.

Jeffries is the type of candidate the conservative Breitbart powerhouse Steve Bannon might get behind. Support like that — which might lead to support from Trump — could tip a race. Breitbart reports that a “broad anti-establishment coalition” has been formed nationally to replace establishment Republicans in Congress and in key gubernatorial races. Additionally, after a successful career in business, Jeffries is independently wealthy and has a network of wealthy friends. Add to that fair press coverage from Phoenix New Times and Jeffries has a real chance of defeating Ducey. Arizonans are in an anti-incumbent mood due to RINO-McCain and RINO-Flake, and Ducey is too closely associated with the pair
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Thurs/Med AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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DEFINING “INEVITABLE”
by Burt Preluysky
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YouTube Restricts... Mike Rowe?
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by Thomas Gallatin:  Last Thursday, Mike Rowe, the immensely likable host of “Dirty Jobs,” announced via a Facebook post that his YouTube channel had been restricted. Now anyone who has ever watched a Mike Rowe video would be shocked to hear this news, as his videos are often some of the most carefully worded, timely and poignant thoughts on a great variety of issues — hence his overall popularity. And one thing Rowe trumpets is respect for the value of hard work, no matter the job.

          In this vein, a few months back conservative commentator Dennis Prager invited Rowe to give the commencement speech for his virtual university, Prager University. Rowe gladly obliged with a video entitled “Don’t Follow Your Passion,” which has been viewed over six million times. Suddenly, without prior warning, Rowe received a message from YouTube notifying him that his video for Prager U was “determined” to be “inappropriate.” Rowe explains that he was shocked at the news as he had not run afoul of YouTube’s appropriate content policies, or so he thought. Rowe said that he then reread YouTube’s policy fine print and found the following sentence: “Some videos don’t violate our policies, but may not be appropriate for all audiences. In these cases, our review team may place an age restriction when we’re notified of the content.” In other words, YouTube’s censors are essentially saying they will restrict you if they don’t like your message.
          After Rowe posted his message to Facebook it didn’t take long for YouTube to reverse course and lift the restriction imposed upon his content. Fortunately for Rowe he has a big enough audience that he was able to effectively call out YouTube for hypocrisy, but what about the lesser-known user who finds himself victim of a similar prejudice?  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/51752

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Acoustic Analysis Of Bullet Strikes Vs Rifle Report Prove Second Vegas Shooter Location
{rickwells.us} ~ Health Ranger Mike Adams changes hats to make a scientific acoustic analysis of the shots fired during the Mandalay Bay massacre... and he came up with what he offers as strong evidence that a second shooter was present and engaged in the attack. He presents his evidence and his method for arriving at that determination and invites law enforcement, particularly the FBI to use what he developed or contact him for more information. Adams is an avid shooter himself, who happens to be armed during the presentation, so he’s familiar with the behavior and function of firearms. He calculated the difference between the sound of the .223 rounds hitting the pavement and the subsequent report to determine the distance from which they were fired... https://rickwells.us/acoustic-analysis-prove-second-shooter/
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Palestinian Normalization -- 
With Hamas, Not Israel
Palestinian and Israeli women from 
the "Women Wage Peace" group
by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ When Palestinian women took part in a march with Israeli women for peace this week, they were condemned in the harshest terms by many other Palestinians, who called for their punishment... The Palestinian women who participated in the October 8 event, organized by a group called Women Wage Peace, have been denounced by many of their own people as and "traitors" and "whores." Conversely, when Palestinian Authority (PA) officials held "reconciliation" talks with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip and Egypt during the same period, many Palestinians praised them as "heroes" and "brave." Judging from the reactions of many Palestinians, especially on social media, they prefer peace with Hamas rather than with Israel...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11144/palestinian-normalization-hamas
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McConnell Changes Rule to Overcome Obstruction of Trump's Judicial Picks
by Guy Benson
{townhall.com} ~This may seem like an abstruse parliamentary maneuver -- and it is -- but Mitch McConnell just escalated the judicial wars in a minor but meaningful way... If frustrated conservatives want the GOP Senate majority to "start acting like one," McConnell's decision eliminates a lever Democrats have been using to stymie some of President Trump's judicial picks. In that sense, he's very much acting like a majority leader; a Democratic  one. Try not to let your eyes glaze over as you read the details of this move, which involves dramatically reducing the power of so-called "blue slips" on judges, with which Senators from the home state of a presidential selection have been able to withhold their consent in order to prevent that nomination from moving forward.  Not anymore. McConnell warned Democrats that he was leaning this direction last month, hoping they'd abandon this form of partisan blockade. They didn't. So he's followed through on his threat -- via the Weekly Standard...  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/10/11/mcdonnell-blue-slips-n2393579?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad
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Trump nominates Kirstjen Nielsen 
to be DHS Secretary
{foxnews.com} ~ President Trump Wednesday nominated White House Deputy Chief of Staff Kirstjen Nielsen to be the new Secretary of Homeland Security... If confirmed, Nielsen would replace White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. Kelly served as Trump's DHS chief for just over six months before replacing Reince Priebus as chief of staff July 31. Elaine Duke has been filling in as acting secretary in the meantime. Nielsen would be the first former DHS staffer to lead the department, which was created by former President George W. Bush in 2003...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/11/trump-nominates-kirstjen-nielsen-to-be-dhs-secretary.html
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Dana Loesch Calling Out The ROT In Washington DC
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Hey liar-Hillary & liar-nBarack, Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is
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Rep Peter King (R-NY) Trump Is Doing Right Thing In N. Korea
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Will The Boy Scouts Have To Change Their Name?
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OMG!!! Frozen Discoveries You Won’t Believe
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DEFINING “INEVITABLE”
by Burt Preluysky


Clearly, the old slogan “What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas” is going to have to be replaced. If there’s anything the media enjoys more than a particularly destructive natural disaster or a Donald Trump mole they can inflate into a mountain, it’s a mass killing.

You can hardly blame them with all that blood and all those individual tragedies to dwell on, ad nauseum. Unfortunately, it follows as the night the day that Democrats will begin once again calling for the usual laws; you know, the ones that even had they already been in effect would have done nothing to prevent the tragedy.

The sad fact is that there are about 330 million people in America. At any given time, some percentage of them are strung out on heroin, cocaine or prescription drugs. Then there is some unknown and unknowable number of people who are simply evil or clearly out of their gourd. Until someone comes up with a way to control hearts and minds, it’s hard to imagine a law that would prevent any of those people from acting out their sickest fantasies or their most demented psychoses.

When Democrats call for more gun control laws, even they know that Chicago and Washington, D.C., have the most draconian laws in America, and also happen to have the highest homicide rates.

Those who most vehemently defend the 2nd Amendment accuse the Democrats of wanting to confiscate their guns. They’re right, of course. That is what the Democrats want. But it would be an extremely selective confiscation. They would never think of upsetting their base by confiscating the guns currently in the hands of black and Hispanic gangbangers.

On the subject of deaths by gunshot, Mark Levin shared some interesting statistics the other day. Apparently, there are, on average, 33,000 such deaths every year in the U.S. In 22,000 cases, they’re suicides, 85% of the time the victims are male.  Of the remaining 11,000, a certain number are accidental, but a huge number are black-on-black homicides.

If any of these 11,000 murders are committed by members of the NRA or any of the other 2nd Amendment groups, the number must be so negligible that even Democrats, who would have loved to have heard that the Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, was a dues-paying member of the organization, haven’t been able to come up with any.

Unfortunately, just as hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves and earthquakes, can’t be avoided, neither can most man-made disasters.

What is so very bizarre is that liberals are now terribly worried about kits that allow people to turn rifles into automatic weapons, even though nobody before Paddock had used the technique to kill hordes of other people in France, England, Spain, Belgium, New York, Orlando or San Bernardino.  

The libs insist the kits be outlawed. And yet, they are vehemently opposed to cutting off immigration from nations where jihadism is as prevalent as illiteracy and female mutilation. So, apparently, it’s not senseless murders that people like clown-Schumer and Pulosi actually object to, or they wouldn’t be opposed to profiling those most likely to commit them.

At this point, Paddock’s motive is still unknown. Personally, I hope the authorities discover that he was acting under the influence of ISIS, as the group claims. I would prefer having Islamists to blame to discovering that the horrific massacre was brought on because Paddock had let a brain tumor go untreated.

What liberals never seem to consider is that there are already federal, state and municipal, laws on the books making murder illegal. And most normal people don’t make the same fine distinction as Democrats between murders by guns and those that involve, knives, fertilizer, pressure cookers and vehicles.

Passing a law may give certain undistinguished people (aka politicians) something to brag about, but until we put on our big boy pants and acknowledge that some crimes are inevitable, we’ll continue to stumble blindly from one tragedy to another, all the while insisting that "Something must be done."

That isn’t to say that we can’t prevent a certain number of crimes, but that would mean institutionalizing the psychotic; dealing with Muslims in an adult fashion, which would include monitoring their mosques; and making every crime committed with a gun, whether or not it was even fired, a capital offense.

Otherwise, I’m afraid inevitable means inevitable.

● I missed it, but my wife saw Jane Fonda being interviewed by Megyn Kelly.  Apparently, at one point, Kelly asked Fonda, two months shy of 80, about her plastic surgery, and Fonda threw a hissy fit. Apparently, she thought the question was off-limits. It strikes me as odd that someone who has spent a fortune trying in vain to pass for 50 or 60 wouldn’t want to discuss it.

I mean, usually, when people fork over a lot of money for a house, a car, a boat, an exotic vacation or some diamond doodad, they're anxious to talk about it. I can’t imagine why it would be any different with a facelift or a tummy tuck.

Besides, would Ms. Fonda have preferred it if Megyn Kelly had asked her how it feels to be a has-been, a traitor and an unindicted war criminal?

Come to think of it, I suspect because my TV is smaller than my wife’s, that even if I’d wanted to, I wouldn’t have been able to watch the interview because  those two egos would have been too large for my screen.

● Speaking of people who belong in jail, liar-Hillary Clinton’s latest brainstorm is to prevent mass-killings by banning silencers. Apparently, she thought that Paddock was using a silencer on his weapons. He wasn’t. Even if he’d tried, it would have been impossible to mute those particular weapons. You might as well try to mute, well, liar-Hillary Clinton.

Speaking of which, that’s one silencer that would make some smart cookie a bloody fortune.

● In case you’re one of the lucky ones who didn’t catch it, I saw Barack liar-nObama paying homage to his wife of 25 years.

There he was, all smarm and no charm as usual, smirking into the camera and cooing: “The fact that you would put up with me for a quarter of a century is a testament to what a wonderful, patient, saintly person you are.”

As usual, when he talks, I talk back. This time I said: “Hey, mister, what about the rest of us? What are we -- chopped liver? At least Michelle got to live in the White House and take all those expensive vacations. We had to put up with you for eight interminable years, and we’re still being forced to put up with you and your un-American resistance movement, which is wholly or in large part financed by that unrepentant Nazi, George “The Prince of Darkness” Soros.”

● Frank Capozzi, the pride of Ephraim, Wisconsin, couldn’t overcome the urge to send me a list of inanimate objects that have been given gender identities. And who am I to stand between a man and his passion?

So, Freezer Bags are male because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.

Sponges are female because they are soft, squeezable and retain water.

Tires are male because they go bald easily and are often over-inflated.

Web Pages are female because they’re constantly being looked at and frequently getting hit on.

Trains are definitely male because they always use the same old lines for picking up people.

Egg Timers are female because, over time, all the weight shifts to the bottom.

Remote Controls are male because they give a man pleasure; he’d be lost without one, and while he doesn’t always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.


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DEFINING “INEVITABLE”
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YouTube Restricts... Mike Rowe?
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          In this vein, a few months back conservative commentator Dennis Prager invited Rowe to give the commencement speech for his virtual university, Prager University. Rowe gladly obliged with a video entitled “Don’t Follow Your Passion,” which has been viewed over six million times. Suddenly, without prior warning, Rowe received a message from YouTube notifying him that his video for Prager U was “determined” to be “inappropriate.” Rowe explains that he was shocked at the news as he had not run afoul of YouTube’s appropriate content policies, or so he thought. Rowe said that he then reread YouTube’s policy fine print and found the following sentence: “Some videos don’t violate our policies, but may not be appropriate for all audiences. In these cases, our review team may place an age restriction when we’re notified of the content.” In other words, YouTube’s censors are essentially saying they will restrict you if they don’t like your message.
          After Rowe posted his message to Facebook it didn’t take long for YouTube to reverse course and lift the restriction imposed upon his content. Fortunately for Rowe he has a big enough audience that he was able to effectively call out YouTube for hypocrisy, but what about the lesser-known user who finds himself victim of a similar prejudice?  
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https://patriotpost.us/articles/51752

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Acoustic Analysis Of Bullet Strikes Vs Rifle
Report Prove Second Vegas Shooter Location
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{rickwells.us} ~ Health Ranger Mike Adams changes hats to make a scientific acoustic analysis of the shots fired during the Mandalay Bay massacre... and he came up with what he offers as strong evidence that a second shooter was present and engaged in the attack. He presents his evidence and his method for arriving at that determination and invites law enforcement, particularly the FBI to use what he developed or contact him for more information. Adams is an avid shooter himself, who happens to be armed during the presentation, so he’s familiar with the behavior and function of firearms. He calculated the difference between the sound of the .223 rounds hitting the pavement and the subsequent report to determine the distance from which they were fired... https://rickwells.us/acoustic-analysis-prove-second-shooter/
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Palestinian Normalization -- With Hamas, Not Israel
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Palestinian and Israeli women from 
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ When Palestinian women took part in a march with Israeli women for peace this week, they were condemned in the harshest terms by many other Palestinians, who called for their punishment... The Palestinian women who participated in the October 8 event, organized by a group called Women Wage Peace, have been denounced by many of their own people as and "traitors" and "whores." Conversely, when Palestinian Authority (PA) officials held "reconciliation" talks with Hamas leaders in the Gaza Strip and Egypt during the same period, many Palestinians praised them as "heroes" and "brave." Judging from the reactions of many Palestinians, especially on social media, they prefer peace with Hamas rather than with Israel...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/11144/palestinian-normalization-hamas
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McConnell Changes Rule to
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by Guy Benson
{townhall.com} ~This may seem like an abstruse parliamentary maneuver -- and it is -- but Mitch McConnell just escalated the judicial wars in a minor but meaningful way... If frustrated conservatives want the GOP Senate majority to "start acting like one," McConnell's decision eliminates a lever Democrats have been using to stymie some of President Trump's judicial picks. In that sense, he's very much acting like a majority leader; a Democratic  one. Try not to let your eyes glaze over as you read the details of this move, which involves dramatically reducing the power of so-called "blue slips" on judges, with which Senators from the home state of a presidential selection have been able to withhold their consent in order to prevent that nomination from moving forward.  Not anymore. McConnell warned Democrats that he was leaning this direction last month, hoping they'd abandon this form of partisan blockade. They didn't. So he's followed through on his threat -- via the Weekly Standard...  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2017/10/11/mcdonnell-blue-slips-n2393579?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad
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Trump nominates
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{foxnews.com} ~ President Trump Wednesday nominated White House Deputy Chief of Staff Kirstjen Nielsen to be the new Secretary of Homeland Security... If confirmed, Nielsen would replace White House Chief of Staff John Kelly. Kelly served as Trump's DHS chief for just over six months before replacing Reince Priebus as chief of staff July 31. Elaine Duke has been filling in as acting secretary in the meantime. Nielsen would be the first former DHS staffer to lead the department, which was created by former President George W. Bush in 2003...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/10/11/trump-nominates-kirstjen-nielsen-to-be-dhs-secretary.html
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DEFINING “INEVITABLE”
by Burt Preluysky


Clearly, the old slogan “What Happens in Vegas Stays in Vegas” is going to have to be replaced. If there’s anything the media enjoys more than a particularly destructive natural disaster or a Donald Trump mole they can inflate into a mountain, it’s a mass killing.

You can hardly blame them with all that blood and all those individual tragedies to dwell on, ad nauseum. Unfortunately, it follows as the night the day that Democrats will begin once again calling for the usual laws; you know, the ones that even had they already been in effect would have done nothing to prevent the tragedy.

The sad fact is that there are about 330 million people in America. At any given time, some percentage of them are strung out on heroin, cocaine or prescription drugs. Then there is some unknown and unknowable number of people who are simply evil or clearly out of their gourd. Until someone comes up with a way to control hearts and minds, it’s hard to imagine a law that would prevent any of those people from acting out their sickest fantasies or their most demented psychoses.

When Democrats call for more gun control laws, even they know that Chicago and Washington, D.C., have the most draconian laws in America, and also happen to have the highest homicide rates.

Those who most vehemently defend the 2nd Amendment accuse the Democrats of wanting to confiscate their guns. They’re right, of course. That is what the Democrats want. But it would be an extremely selective confiscation. They would never think of upsetting their base by confiscating the guns currently in the hands of black and Hispanic gangbangers.

On the subject of deaths by gunshot, Mark Levin shared some interesting statistics the other day. Apparently, there are, on average, 33,000 such deaths every year in the U.S. In 22,000 cases, they’re suicides, 85% of the time the victims are male.  Of the remaining 11,000, a certain number are accidental, but a huge number are black-on-black homicides.

If any of these 11,000 murders are committed by members of the NRA or any of the other 2nd Amendment groups, the number must be so negligible that even Democrats, who would have loved to have heard that the Vegas shooter, Stephen Paddock, was a dues-paying member of the organization, haven’t been able to come up with any.

Unfortunately, just as hurricanes, tornadoes, tidal waves and earthquakes, can’t be avoided, neither can most man-made disasters.

What is so very bizarre is that liberals are now terribly worried about kits that allow people to turn rifles into automatic weapons, even though nobody before Paddock had used the technique to kill hordes of other people in France, England, Spain, Belgium, New York, Orlando or San Bernardino.  

The libs insist the kits be outlawed. And yet, they are vehemently opposed to cutting off immigration from nations where jihadism is as prevalent as illiteracy and female mutilation. So, apparently, it’s not senseless murders that people like clown-Schumer and Pulosi actually object to, or they wouldn’t be opposed to profiling those most likely to commit them.

At this point, Paddock’s motive is still unknown. Personally, I hope the authorities discover that he was acting under the influence of ISIS, as the group claims. I would prefer having Islamists to blame to discovering that the horrific massacre was brought on because Paddock had let a brain tumor go untreated.

What liberals never seem to consider is that there are already federal, state and municipal, laws on the books making murder illegal. And most normal people don’t make the same fine distinction as Democrats between murders by guns and those that involve, knives, fertilizer, pressure cookers and vehicles.

Passing a law may give certain undistinguished people (aka politicians) something to brag about, but until we put on our big boy pants and acknowledge that some crimes are inevitable, we’ll continue to stumble blindly from one tragedy to another, all the while insisting that "Something must be done."

That isn’t to say that we can’t prevent a certain number of crimes, but that would mean institutionalizing the psychotic; dealing with Muslims in an adult fashion, which would include monitoring their mosques; and making every crime committed with a gun, whether or not it was even fired, a capital offense.

Otherwise, I’m afraid inevitable means inevitable.

● I missed it, but my wife saw Jane Fonda being interviewed by Megyn Kelly.  Apparently, at one point, Kelly asked Fonda, two months shy of 80, about her plastic surgery, and Fonda threw a hissy fit. Apparently, she thought the question was off-limits. It strikes me as odd that someone who has spent a fortune trying in vain to pass for 50 or 60 wouldn’t want to discuss it.

I mean, usually, when people fork over a lot of money for a house, a car, a boat, an exotic vacation or some diamond doodad, they're anxious to talk about it. I can’t imagine why it would be any different with a facelift or a tummy tuck.

Besides, would Ms. Fonda have preferred it if Megyn Kelly had asked her how it feels to be a has-been, a traitor and an unindicted war criminal?

Come to think of it, I suspect because my TV is smaller than my wife’s, that even if I’d wanted to, I wouldn’t have been able to watch the interview because  those two egos would have been too large for my screen.

● Speaking of people who belong in jail, liar-Hillary Clinton’s latest brainstorm is to prevent mass-killings by banning silencers. Apparently, she thought that Paddock was using a silencer on his weapons. He wasn’t. Even if he’d tried, it would have been impossible to mute those particular weapons. You might as well try to mute, well, liar-Hillary Clinton.

Speaking of which, that’s one silencer that would make some smart cookie a bloody fortune.

● In case you’re one of the lucky ones who didn’t catch it, I saw Barack liar-nObama paying homage to his wife of 25 years.

There he was, all smarm and no charm as usual, smirking into the camera and cooing: “The fact that you would put up with me for a quarter of a century is a testament to what a wonderful, patient, saintly person you are.”

As usual, when he talks, I talk back. This time I said: “Hey, mister, what about the rest of us? What are we -- chopped liver? At least Michelle got to live in the White House and take all those expensive vacations. We had to put up with you for eight interminable years, and we’re still being forced to put up with you and your un-American resistance movement, which is wholly or in large part financed by that unrepentant Nazi, George “The Prince of Darkness” Soros.”

● Frank Capozzi, the pride of Ephraim, Wisconsin, couldn’t overcome the urge to send me a list of inanimate objects that have been given gender identities. And who am I to stand between a man and his passion?

So, Freezer Bags are male because they hold everything in, but you can see right through them.

Sponges are female because they are soft, squeezable and retain water.

Tires are male because they go bald easily and are often over-inflated.

Web Pages are female because they’re constantly being looked at and frequently getting hit on.

Trains are definitely male because they always use the same old lines for picking up people.

Egg Timers are female because, over time, all the weight shifts to the bottom.

Remote Controls are male because they give a man pleasure; he’d be lost without one, and while he doesn’t always know which buttons to push, he just keeps trying.


If you want to Comment directly to Burt Prelutsky, please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
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