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Harvey, the left and 'environmental racism'
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by Erik Rush
 
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 Putting an End to the Immigration Dream 
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by Michael Swartz:  Since it was unconstitutionally enacted under Barack liar-nObama in 2012 in the wake of Congress’s refusal to pass the DREAM Act — a measure that would have amounted to amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants — the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has served as the next best thing for nearly 800,000 people claiming they arrived here as children under the age of 16, even if they make this claim many years later. (A couple hours of paperwork and some nominal fees are a small price to pay for de facto legal status.)
          However, the courts have chipped away at the stone of liar-nObama’s open-borders fantasy, halting the related DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents) program in 2014 — a verdict the Supreme Court sustained last year thanks to a 4-4 deadlock. With the DACA program also facing its day in court thanks to an executive-overreach lawsuit filed by 10 state attorneys general, there are those who see this as an opportunity for President Donald Trump to rectify our issues with illegal immigration.
          This is because the Trump administration is likely to concede to the states in this legal matter, as his administration believes DACA crossed the boundary that separates executive and legislative powers. Notably, Attorney General Jeff Sessions agrees with the lawsuit’s intent, stating, “I like it that our states and localities are holding the federal government to account, expecting us to do what’s our responsibility to the state and locals and … enforce the law.”
          Yet for all the tough talk candidate Trump uttered about stopping the influx of illegal immigration by building a wall and making Mexico pay for it, along with tossing out thousands of illegal aliens who have committed further, more serious criminal acts, his record on immigration is rather weak to date. Not all of it is his fault, of course. He’s been confounded by a court system full of activist judges and a GOP divided on how to best address the issue. But on this particular issue President Trump himself stated early in his term that he wanted to “deal with DACA with heart.”
          With this pull from several different directions, there are reports that Trump will end DACA as soon as today. If not, it may be that he seeks to use the continuance of DACA as a bargaining chip in exchange for funding the border wall, or to elicit other concessions from Democrats on E-Verify or on passage of the RAISE Act, a measure sponsored by Republican Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue that would revamp the long-standing quota system which encourages entire extended families to make themselves right at home here by making immigration more merit-based.
          At this point, funding the border wall seems more of a non-starter because Democrats who voted for the wall 11 years ago are threatening a government shutdown over its inclusion in the budget now — a shutdown the mainstream media will naturally blame on Donald Trump and Republicans.
          Thus, given the real possibility of DACA being halted by the courts, a new political parlor game among analysts is figuring out the ramifications of such an occurrence. Like everything else in Washington, the question is how this will affect the 2018 midterms, but there’s also the question of Trump’s second term: How would a court battle that may keep him from delivering on this promise affect his supporters?
          A narrative driven by the media is that being a hardliner on immigration alienates the all-important (and growing) Latino vote, which both parties covet. Yet Donald Trump won over enough support from ordinary Americans with his hawkish border talk to secure electoral victory, and so far that image has discouraged would-be illegals from sneaking across the border. On the other hand, if the word on the street south of the border becomes that of possible permisos for newcomers because Trump is working to maintain DACA, we can expect a flood of illegal immigration while the border wall we were promised over a decade ago continues to languish.
          That’s why any announcement today or in the near future on eliminating DACA would be so important.
          It’s just another reminder of how five decades of misguided policy, broken vows and just plain unconstitutional governance can’t be fixed in a matter of months, no matter how strident the rhetoric.  ~The Patriot Post
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Southern Poverty Law Center
Transfers Millions in Cash to Offshore Entities
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The SPLC's chief trial counsel Morris Dees
by Joe Schoffstall
{freebeacon.com} ~ The Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), a liberal, Alabama-based 501(c)(3) tax-exempt charitable organization that has gained prominence on the left for its "hate group" designations... pushes millions of dollars to offshore entities as part of its business dealings, records show. Additionally, the nonprofit pays lucrative six-figure salaries to its top directors and key employees while spending little on legal services despite its stated intent of "fighting hate and bigotry" using litigation, education, and other forms of advocacy. The Southern Poverty Law Center is perhaps best known for its "hate map," a collection of organizations the nonprofit deems "domestic hate groups" that lists mainstream conservative organizations alongside racist groups such as the Ku Klux Klan and is often referenced in the media...  http://freebeacon.com/issues/southern-poverty-law-center-transfers-millions-in-cash-to-offshore-entities/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=4ae5ea65ee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-4ae5ea65ee-45611665
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The Russian Connection That
Has Come Back To Bite John Podesta
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{greatamericandaily.com} ~ Throughout virtually the entire 2016 presidential election, the left couldn’t get enough of the discredited Trump/Russia conspiracy theory... One of the lead architects of this theory was John Podesta, liar-Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chairman. And recently, information about John Podesta’s very own connection to Russia has come to light, and it is shocking proof of his hypocrisy. It would be no surprise to most Americans to hear that someone in liar-Hillary Clinton’s network did something hypocritical...  http://greatamericandaily.com/the-russian-connection-that-has-come-back-to-bite-john-podesta/
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Standoff brews between Senate, FBI over Trump dossier
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by Byron York
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Charles Grassley and the committee's ranking Democrat, Dianne Feinstein, want to interview two high-ranking FBI officials about some key aspects of the bureau's role in the Trump-Russia investigation... the Trump dossier, the firing of James Comey, and more. But the FBI doesn't want those officials to talk -- even though the Judiciary Committee has oversight responsibility for the FBI, and even though the request is bipartisan, and even though there appears to be no conflict with the ongoing Trump-Russia investigation conducted by special prosecutor Robert Mueller. A standoff could be developing...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/byron-york-standoff-brews-between-senate-fbi-over-trump-dossier/article/2633288
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The FBI Made A Shocking
Admission About Prosecuting liar-Hillary Clinton
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{greatamericandaily.com} ~ There are still mysteries surrounding the FBI’s investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton’s email server. Why wasn’t she prosecuted, and will she ever be? Now the FBI provided an answer that will shock you... Former FBI Director James Comey announced in early July 2016 that liar-Hillary Clinton would not face criminal charges. Many thought that decision was made after reviewing all the evidence. But it turns out that was not the case. New information released by the Senate Judiciary Committee reveals Comey made up his mind months in advance not to recommend charges against liar-Clinton...  http://greatamericandaily.com/the-fbi-made-a-shocking-admission-about-prosecuting-hillary-clinton/
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How Do You Feel About DEAD AMERICANS? –
Bolton On US Striking North Korea
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{rickwells.us} ~ Ambassador John Bolton is asked if, following the latest test of a nuclear device by North Korea, there are any diplomatic options left... The only diplomatic option in his view, is to end the regime in North Korea “by effectively having the south take it over.” He says, “Anybody who thinks that more diplomacy with North Korea or sanctions, whether against North Korea or an effort to apply sanctions against China, is just giving North Korea more time to increase its nuclear arsenal, increase its ballistic missile capability, increase the accuracy of its guidance systems, and put us, South Korea and Japan in more jeopardy.” The frustration is evident in his voice as Bolton says, “We have fooled around with North Korea for 25 years and fooling around some more is just going to make matters worse.” In describing the threat they pose, Bolton says, “They are very close, they’re not there yet, I don’t think, but they’re very close to being able to hit targets all across the United States with, if today’s test is a thermonuclear weapon, with thermonuclear weapons.”...  http://rickwells.us/feel-dead-americans-bolton-us-striking-north-korea/
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Harvey, the left and 'environmental racism'
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by Erik Rush


{wnd.com} ~ As surely as the thunderclap follows a flash of lightning, it was inevitable that the inescapable human misery brought about by Hurricane Harvey would result in further baseless accusations of racism on the part of those on the left against President Donald Trump, as well as allegations of institutional racism as a pervasive influence in America. At present, it may be too early to tell how far this could go, but there’s every indication that the option of a full-blown defamation campaign is still on the table.

Why might one anticipate such an outcome? As I articulated last week, leftists have demonstrated that they are determined to associate alleged racism with just about anything they can, particularly if it will aid them in characterizing President Trump as a racist. On Aug. 25, the Daily Kos suggested that the hurricane itself might be racist, since it was “poised to disproportionately impact blacks in Texas,” and that the story was somehow being covered up. Apparently, President Trump’s failure to expeditiously fill leadership vacancies at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) and the Department of Homeland Security which oversees FEMA and the Coast Guard is also part of this conspiracy.

Another conspiracy: Citing the catch phrase “environmental racism” several times, the Huffington Post claimed Tuesday that flooding in Houston typically “hits poor, nonwhite neighborhoods hardest” because nonwhite residents have been deliberately crowded into neighborhoods that are most likely to flood. Who knew?

Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee, D-Texas, who represents Texas’ predominantly black 18th Congressional District, is a caricature of the black Democratic politician and has seldom missed an opportunity to decry institutional racism where there’s been no indication of such a problem. In 2011, Lee claimed that Republican members of Congress were making it difficult for President liar-nObama to raise the debt ceiling because of his race. Earlier this year, she demanded that Congress to call for federal civil rights investigations into the hanging of bananas from nooses at American University in Washington, which civil rights activists associated with a black woman having ascended to the position of student body president for the first time in that school’s history.

As we know, several similar occurrences in the recent past were ultimately attributed to leftist agitators rather than white racists.

Early this week, as a downgraded Hurricane Harvey stalled off of the Texas coast after making landfall over the weekend, Rep. Lee urged Trump to declare a state of disaster ahead of the storm. This was admittedly somewhat alarmist at that point in time, but obviously doesn’t rise to the level of race-baiting. On Friday, Lee’s office said that it was “too early to draw conclusions on the president’s response” to the hurricane which had yet to make landfall at that time, suggesting that the congresswoman was anticipating Trump’s response to the storm with a jaded eye.

It may appear cynical on my part, but it would not take too much misfortune coming the way of black Houston dwellers or any blacks in the hurricane’s path for Rep. Lee or other prominent liberals to mobilize the activist community in the cause of blaming President Trump for said misfortune.

This very thing occurred in August of 2005 when Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans. In that instance, the state and the local government under black New Orleans Mayor Clarence Ray Nagin Jr. dismally failed that city’s residents, but the blame for black denizens’ suffering was placed squarely on the shoulders of President George W. Bush. Black activists, liberal politicians and celebrities came out in force to accuse Bush of everything from delaying aid to the city to having employed black ops technology to generate the killer hurricane in the first place.

Two days ago, eight members of President Donald Trump’s National Infrastructure Advisory Council (NIAC) resigned, ostensibly over his response to recent race-related incidents in Charlottesville, Virginia. This was a pretext, of course, in the ongoing drive on the part of Washington establishment types to characterize the president as a racist.

“When asked about the horrific violence in Charlottesville, you failed to denounce the intolerance and violence of hate groups, instead offering false equivalences and attacking the motives of the CEOs who had resigned from their advisory roles in protest,” the council members said in a resignation letter to Trump.

The quoted statement was an out-and-out falsehood – as have all statements been thus far in this calumnious campaign. Following the Charlottesville incidents, Trump did in fact denounce the actions of demonstrators in the strongest terms.

Last week, I also said that since white nationalists possess a miniscule amount of political clout in America compared to the political left, it is folly to consider them a serious threat, particularly since it is the latter who’ve been calculatedly compromising Americans’ liberties. From their proclivity to employ Orwellian levels of propaganda and social engineering, to rewriting history in their campaigns to remove Confederate monuments from public display, for example, to their penchant for violence, they are clearly the ones embracing deceit, terror and tyranny.

The dangerous irony here is that those on the left, from progressives to hard-line radicals, have been exploiting their First Amendment liberties in order to neutralize those very liberties as regards their fellow Americans. I have repeatedly cited this fact as justification for disregarding these liberties where it applies to the left – if not concerning policy, at least in principle.

So, how might a political party, an administration, or a voting bloc go about politically disenfranchising the left? That’s the question every right-of-center individual in America ought to be giving the deepest consideration at this juncture.
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Mon/Med-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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President Trump Must Take Charge on Tax Reform
by David Limbaugh
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 The Texas Model of Disaster Recovery 
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by Nate Jackson:  More than a week after Hurricane Harvey made landfall, there are still many storylines from Houston and the surrounding area. The enormous economic cost is certainly one of the most dominant, as is the human toll — 45 confirmed deaths, a number that will likely grow. And as we warned a week ago, the mainstream media has tried to politicize the hurricane to make Donald Trump look bad, though they’ve been largely unsuccessful. We also relayed early on the heartwarming stories of people helping people through the torrential rain and resulting catastrophic flooding.
          As the water recedes, that story hasn’t changed. Even Beltway media establishments like The Washington Post can’t help but take note. The Post reports about one woman who began using social media to coordinate response efforts, saying, “[She] was part of an unprecedented do-it-yourself relief effort that came to define Hurricane Harvey. After the storm blew into Houston, a remarkable network of boat owners with smartphones, worried neighbors with laptops and digital wizards with mapping software popped up to summon and support an army of Good Samaritans who motored, rowed and waded into dangerous waters to save family, friends and total strangers.” In fact, the Post notes, “The ‘We the People’ response seemed distinctly Texan, an outgrowth of the state’s almost genetic disinclination to rely on the government for anything — and in some cases, resolute willingness to defy it.”
          And then in a line almost guaranteed to make a reader spew coffee, the Post — The Washington Post — says “no government response could ever have been enough.”
          Now that’s not in any way to diminish the valiant rescue and recovery efforts of local law enforcement, National Guard, Coast Guard, FEMA or any other government agency, but it is to say government is government, and that means sometimes slow and bloated. Citizens working on their own behalf are always more agile, and helping your neighbor will always be more personal than processing applicant number 8,042 in a government wait line.
          Case in point: the argument in Washington about how to fund relief efforts. Funding anything at the federal level is always an exercise in partisan posturing, and this is no different. Should the billions in Harvey relief be a clean bill, or should it be tied to the upcoming debt ceiling hike? Republicans disagree on that question, never mind Democrats. There will be much theater on that subject in the coming days and weeks, but in the meantime, Texans are pulling up their own bootstraps.  ~The Patriot Post
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RINO Sen Flake Demands TRUMP
Break PROMISE To Americans On DACA
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{rickwells.us} ~ Open borders globalist RINO Senator Jeff Flake attempted to defend his surrender of American sovereignty and advocacy for DACA amnesty, the current slice of the amnesty pie the leftists are pushing... In response to a tweet of his that the United States needs to take immediate action to help DACA “kids,” many of whom are adults, CNN’s Dana Bash plays a clip of President Trump making a campaign promise we wish he had kept and which is still driving this conversation. Trump promises in the clip, “We will immediately terminate ‘president’ liar-nObama’s two illegal executive amnesties, in which he defied federal law and the Constitution to give amnesty to approximately 5 million illegal immigrants.” Bash asks why President Trump should go back on that popular promise...  http://rickwells.us/rino-sen-flake-demands-trump-break-promise-americans-daca/
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Tucker Carlson Spars With BLM Supporter Over
Op-Ed Asking White People To Give Up Their Property
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by Jonathan Pincus
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Black Lives Matter of Louisville organizer Chanelle Helm’s op-ed calling on white people to surrender their money and property and give it away to black people did not settle well with Fox News host Tucker Carlson... and he made his thoughts on the matter clear Thursday while debating a Black Lives Matter supporter. Helm’s August op-ed for Louisville newspaper Leo Weekly, titled “White people, here are 10 requests from a Black Lives Matter leader,” said white people “who can afford to downsize” should give up their homes “to a black or brown family.” The article also requested white people without descendants leave their property to black or brown families, and asked real estate developers to build “sustainable” complexes that black and brown people can live in for free...  https://www.westernjournalism.com/tucker-carlson-spars-blm-supporter-over-op-ed-asking-whites-give-up-property/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Trump News Censored By Nanny Kelly –
Only Allowed Pro-Globalist Establishment Reporting
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{rickwells.us} ~ Communicating the non-establishment message to President Trump is, as feared, becoming impossible under the watchful eye of his filter and censor, White House chief of staff General John Kelly... President Donald Trump has noticed the absence of non-leftist, non globalist oriented publications, the Daily Caller and Breitbart from his sanitized viewing material lists prepared daily by the news nanny. The New York Times reports that on Friday he asked about it. The Times reports, “Mr. Kelly cannot stop Mr. Trump from binge-watching Fox News, which aides describe as the president’s primary source of information gathering, but Mr. Trump does not have a web browser on his phone, and does not use a laptop, so he was dependent on aides like Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist, to hand-deliver printouts of articles from conservative media outlets.”...  http://rickwells.us/trump-news-censored-nanny-kelly-allowed-pro-globalist-establishment-reporting/
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General Mattis: Any Threat To US Or Its Allies Will Be Met With MASSIVE Military Reponse
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Treasury Sec. Mnuchin Talks Responding To N. Korea By Cutting It Off Economically
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Netanyahu, “Children To Be Taught To Love And Respect, Not To Hate And Kill”
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Guy Saves His House From Harvey Flood With Aqua-Dam, New Product Found On Internet
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Rick Santorum Holds His Own
In 3 on 1 With Open Borders DACA Pushers
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{rickwells.us} ~ Former Pennsylvania Republican Senator Rick Santorum goes up against a hostile panel of leftists and open borders advocates in a debate about DACA... He faces off against former Commerce Secretary under George Bush, the RINO, Cuban born servant to the US Chamber of Commerce, Carlos Guiterrez. Also part of the pro-DACA, pro-open borders panel are George Soros mouthpiece Neera Tanden and far-leftist congresswoman, Rep. Barbara Lee (D-CA). Santorum leads off by voicing an opinion that is contrary to the actions of the dictator Hussein liar-nObama, who created this whole DACA mess in the first place by violating the Constitution and writing his own law, saying, “I hope the President Trump abides by the rule of law, which is, the law does not allow him, any president to uniformly just stop enforcing the law.”...  http://rickwells.us/rick-santorum-holds-3-1-open-borders-daca-pushers/
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President Trump Must Take Charge on Tax Reform
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by David Limbaugh
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townhall.com} ~ If you thought the left weaponized class warfare rhetoric in the health care debate, just wait until tax reform is front and center. The fate of this reform will depend on President Trump's leadership and GOP conviction.

The importance of Republican conviction goes without saying, right? Perhaps, but that doesn't mean we need to just accept GOP fecklessness and incompetence and quit talking about it. Eventually, President Trump's success and future GOP congressional majorities depend on whether Republicans really stand for their core values and the positions nominally affirmed in their platform. Reducing the tax burden on corporations and businesses is on any conservative's shortlist.

Republicans need to think through this and decide what their goals are. Are they really about maximizing liberty, reducing government taxes and regulations and stimulating economic growth -- and not just paying lip service?

The positive business atmosphere Trump's victory ushered in and his market-friendly attitude have already yielded significantly positive results. We've just seen quarterly growth reach 3 percent. The stock market is thriving. Unemployment is down. Manufacturing is up. Overall, businesses are poised for growth.

Trump has done more than just champion business through his bully pulpit. He's reduced onerous regulations, taken steps to loosen the left's environmental straitjacket and issued orders to revive the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline projects as part of a comprehensive rejection of liar-nObama's war on conventional energy.

But these advancements and numerous others will represent a hollow victory if pro-growth tax reform legislation isn't passed in the near future.

Given guaranteed Democratic demagoguery and mainstream-media propaganda, President Trump and his rudderless Republican congressional majorities have their work cut out for them.

I believe that President Trump made a mistake in his handling of health care reform by not commandeering the leadership role. It wasn't enough for him to say he would sign whatever bill the Republicans passed. He needed to embrace and articulate concrete and detailed policy objectives. For whatever reason, he didn't clearly and forcefully present his policy goals, much less propose specific provisions to effectuate them. He can't make that mistake with tax reform.

It's true that bills originate and must be passed in Congress before they get to the president, but effective reforming presidents have historically led or co-led major pieces of legislation for which they have later been credited.

Just look at how instrumental President liar-nObama was in passing liar-nObamacare. Likewise, on major tax reform legislation, who can deny President John F. Kennedy's pivotal role in passing marginal income tax cuts?

To be sure, Rep. Jack Kemp helped inspire the Reagan tax cuts, but President Reagan personally invested himself and his legacy in passage of his first major tax bill, which reduced marginal income tax rates by 25 percent across the board.

Reagan went over the heads of the liberal media and took his case to the American people. He had been a fierce advocate for personal liberty and the free market long before he took office, so he was particularly equipped to argue his case to the American jury.

Reagan didn't approach the issue one-dimensionally. Yes, he explained that individual and corporate earnings were first the property of individuals and corporations and not the government -- rejecting the liberal notion that all property is the government's and the people are entitled to only what the leviathan, in its beneficence, allows them to retain. He also pleaded the tougher case that reductions in marginal rates spur economic growth by providing economic incentives and unleashing the power of the market.

President Reagan, certain congressional leaders and other thought leaders were intellectually grounded in every aspect of these issues and, just as importantly, truly believed in what they were selling. One of the most inspiring political books I've ever read was "An American Renaissance," by Jack Kemp, who eloquently laid out the rudimentary concept that a rising tide lifts all boats. Contrary to the then-universally accepted Keynesian notion, Kemp argued we could enjoy economic growth without inflation. The late William F. Buckley was a great admirer of Kemp's in those days and marveled at his contagious enthusiasm in presenting his ideas. Too bad we couldn't bottle that up and use it now.

History vindicated Reagan and Kemp. We experienced unprecedented economic growth without inflation, and the plight of all income groups, from the lowest 20 percent of earners to the highest 20 percent, improved. President liar-Clinton's revisionism notwithstanding, the Reagan tax record is powerful and irrefutable. I am not denying that monetary policy was important, as well, but the tax cuts were paramount.

I would respectfully urge President Trump to approach tax reform wholly differently than he did with health care reform. I'd love it if he would read Kemp's book, become a true believer -- even more than he is now -- and take the lead role in shaping and driving this legislation through Congress. If he doesn't stake out a firm policy position, he will have no credibility or leverage to push congressional foot-draggers.

It won't do for Trump to telegraph his flexibility -- telling GOP lawmakers he'll sign whatever they send him. He needs to be engaged and first send them a bold blueprint that evidences his confidence in the drive, ingenuity and sheer economic power of the American individual when unshackled from the chains of the federal government. He must not succumb to pressure to punish the so-called wealthy unless he wants to sabotage his own efforts.

We must remember that some 50 percent of Americans don't even pay income taxes, which is astonishing on multiple levels. The so-called wealthy already pay more than their fair share, so let's not go wobbly trying to defend lies to the contrary. Enough will never be enough for the demagogic left.

President Trump must be prepared to make the case that for tax cuts to work as intended -- to actually stimulate growth -- they must be across-the-board and substantial. This is the time for him to make a defining statement on economic policy and to take charge. My copy of "An American Renaissance" is available.
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Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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James Comey's corrupt 'Carnac' impersonation
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 by Larry Klayman
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RINO MCCAIN Attacks US and
TRUMP From FOREIGN SOIL As GLOBALIST Shill
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{rickwells.us} ~ Swamp rat RINO-John McCain can’t seem to stay put in the US, perhaps because of the extreme levels to which he despises both our nation and its citizens... Even with his cancer he’s compelled to jet around the world at our expense running off at the mouth, disparaging us, our country and our President. It seems his feelings about America and his foreign conduct haven’t changed much since the 1970s. As long as President Trump remains in office, Russia is still on the map, and the American people cling to the idea of self-governance, America is not the nation RINO-McCain feels it must be. He’s spreading that message to the world, badmouthing Trump’s America-first agenda to those who have gathered to plot the continuation of their worldwide pillaging rampage. They are not people America needs to explain itself to. That didn’t stop the little rat RINO-McCain from continuing on his own America apology tour in his role as the uniparty’s anti-America heir to Hussein liar-nObama. Songbird made his remarks on Saturday at the Ambrosetti Forum, which is described benignly as a major economic and policy conference...  http://rickwells.us/rino-mccain-attacks-us-trump-foreign-soil-globalist-shill/
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Earthquake detected in
North Korea feared to be result of nuclear test
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by Robert King and Daniel Chaitin
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ An earthquake near North Korea's nuclear test sight was detected Sunday, raising concerns that Kim Jong Un's regime had conducted its sixth nuclear weapons test... There are varying accounts of the strength of the quake. The U.S. Geological Survey initially detected a 5.2 magnitude tremor, and later upgraded it to a 6.3 magnitude earthquake. "Possible explosion, located near the site where North Korea has detonated nuclear explosions in the past. If this event was an explosion, the USGS National Earthquake Information Center cannot determine its type, whether nuclear or any other possible type," USGS said in a brief statement...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/earthquake-detected-in-north-korea-feared-to-be-result-of-nuclear-test/article/2633290?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News%20-%2009/03/17&utm_medium=email
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Republicans Seek Legislative Solution
To DACA As Carlson Warns Of Price To Be Paid
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by Jack Davis
{westernjournalism.com} ~ As President Donald Trump appears poised to phase out the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program that shelters the children of illegal immigrants... a vast political dance is taking place as Republicans at all levels of government prepare for the political ramifications of Trump’s expected action. Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, a Republican, announced Friday that Tennessee is dropping out of a 10-state coalition that has threatened a lawsuit to abolish DACA, which allows children of illegal immigrants to be safe from deportation, and provides them with work permits that are renewed every two years. “At this time, our office has decided not to challenge DACA in the litigation, because we believe there is a better approach,” Slatery said...  https://www.westernjournalism.com/republicans-seek-legislative-solution-to-daca-as-carlson-warns-of-price-to-be-paid/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Pro-Islam Indoctrination in Public Schools?
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by Meira Svirsky
{clarionproject.org} ~ Parents across the U.S. have objected to a Department of Education program called “Access Islam.” The federally-funded program is directed at children from grades 5-12 and is also featured on various websites, including PBS Learning Media... The Smithsonian also promotes the course as does the Indiana Department of Education and the United Nations. Parents charge that the course amounts to nothing less than proselytizing about Islam in public schools. In addition, they note that the Department of Education provides no comparable study or promotion of any other religion...  https://clarionproject.org/pro-islam-indoctrination-public-schools/
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Shots Fired: Leftists Declare
War on Harvey Rescue Efforts
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by Martin Walsh
{conservativetribune.com} ~ As the whole country watched, Hurricane Harvey wreaked havoc on Texas, leaving destruction and vulnerability in its wake... The impact is still being felt directly by thousands of people dealing with miserable conditions on the ground, but leftist groups have wasted no time firing the first shots in what is likely to be a  long-running battle over what is already a huge pot of money from charity donations for relief and recovery efforts. Self-proclaimed activists are discouraging generous Americans from donating to Harvey relief efforts to established organizations and instead asking them to donate to left-leaning causes...These people are sick.  http://conservativetribune.com/leftists-declare-war-for-harvey/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriottribune&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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James Comey's corrupt 'Carnac' impersonation
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 by Larry Klayman
{wnd.com} ~ The most famous late-night comedian of all time, Johnny Carson, used to have skit called “Carnac the Magnificent,” whereby, clad in a turban, the soothsayer would ordain the future by first giving the answer, and then the question. Embedded visually below, but only for comic amusement, is one of Johnny’s schticks. Unfortunately, however, while Carson was a genius, and funny to boot, our former director of the FBI, one James B. Comey, was neither smart, humorous nor honest during his tenure. In fact, we have now learned more about just how corrupt, dishonest and criminally minded he is.

As revealed Thursday by Sens. Charles Grassley and Lindsey Graham of the Senate Judiciary Committee and reported by Katie Pavlich of Townhall:

“According to new transcripts released by the Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday, former FBI Director James Comey made the decision not to refer then Democrat presidential candidate for prosecution long before ever interviewing key witnesses. Members of the Committee allege Comey made the decision months before FBI agents were finished with the criminal investigation into her criminal investigation into her mishandling of classified information during her time as secretary of state.

“The transcripts were revealed in a letter sent to current FBI Director Christopher Wray, in which lawmakers are demanding an explanation and more documents surrounding the case.

“‘According to unredacted portions of the transcripts, it appears that in April of May of 2016, Mr. Comey had already decided he would issue a statement exonerating Secretary liar-Clinton. That was long before FBI agents had finished their work. Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft statement to select members of senior FBI leadership. The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts,’ the letter, signed by Chairman Chuck Grassley and Committee member Lindsey Graham states. ‘Conclusion first, fact-gathering second – that’s no way to run an investigation. The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy.’

“According to the letter and an ongoing investigation into the matter, Comey started drafting a statement exonerating liar-Clinton in April or May of 2016. At this point, he had not interviewed liar-Clinton herself or her closest aides. This included Bryan Pagliano, who set up the personal server where liar-Clinton hosted and shared top secret information, and Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, who was granted immunity. On July 5, 2016, Comey made his public statement that the FBI would not be referring liar-Clinton to the Department of Justice for prosecution.”

Grassley and Graham are too polite! This cover-up by Comey, designed to save his own skin should the Wicked Witch of the Left, liar-Hillary Clinton, be, as was thought at the time, a “certainty” to be elected president, is criminal. Comey not only violated his oath of office, he obstructed justice. While President Trump did not obstruct justice by firing his FBI director, clearly and ironically the opposite is true.

Do not, however, expect the Senate Judiciary Committee to do anything about this. The Republican establishment blowhards on the committee play for show and not legal dough. Indeed, as I wrote about in an earlier column, when I approached Sen. Grassley about Comey’s equally felonious deep-sixing of the supposed FBI investigation of massive illegal and unconstitutional surveillance by the FBI and intelligence agencies of hundreds of millions of Americans, Supreme Court justices, 156 federal judges, The Donald and his family and associates, and yours truly, not to mention other prominent citizens, hard proof of which was given to Comey and his minions by Dennis Montgomery, a former NSA/CIA contractor, the senator took no action. Nor did the chairmen of the Senate Intelligence Committee, the House Intelligence Committee and the House Judiciary Committee, all of whom I also lobbied to investigate.

Why do these so-called public servants, like Grassley and Graham, sit by and write “love letters” to get them on Fox News and other media, but otherwise do not push for criminal prosecutions? The answer is simple: Comey and the intelligence agencies have “dirt” on them, so why rock the boat and risk upending their personal lives and careers?

That is the sad story of the swamp in Washington, D.C., and the government justice system in general. Its all for show; no real remedial actions ever result. How else can one explain how the Bonnie and Clyde of American politics, liar-Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton, continue on like the Energizer Bunny, racking up more and more cold cash that is literally stuffed into their pockets by persons and entities of all persuasions – foreign and domestic – while ordinary citizens who commit crimes get sent to the slammer?

There is a dual system of justice in this country, where the elites in the end protect each other, and that is why I conceived of and founded Judicial Watch and later Freedom Watch. See www.freedomwatchusa.org. And, it is why I continue to bring hard-hitting lawsuits, hoping that by the Grace of God I draw unbiased and uncompromised judges, such as the Honorable Richard J. Leon in the recent case I filed against Comey over his obstruction of justice, as well as our corrupt “Deep State” intelligence agencies and their heads, primarily under President liar-nObama.

The nation is in the midst of revolution in the streets, and its not just the likes of Antifa, Black Lives Matter, Al Sharpton, Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam, Neo-Nazis, white supremacists and other degenerates who are to blame. Its our own do-nothing politicians and federal judges in particular who flout the rule of law to further the corrupt objectives of those political hacks that got them their jobs.

Yes, James Comey is not funny like Johnny Carson’s Carnac the Magnificent! He is simply a two-bit dishonest political hack and crook. Besides the efforts of entities like Freedom Watch and its Gideon’s army of patriots and supporters, what are we going to do about Comey and the hordes of other swamp creatures of similar ilk to prevent the republic from going up in flames?! Please join our peaceful but powerful counter-revolution by going to www.freedomwatchusa.org.
 
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Mon/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Trump Warns Congress: Don't Blow a Once
in a Generation Chance to Pass Tax Reform
by Katie Pavlich
 
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 Monday Top Headlines 
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In latest test, North Korea detonates its most powerful nuclear device yet — a hydrogen bomb. (The Washington Post)
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South Korea simulates attack on North Korea’s nuclear site after test. (NBC News)
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Mnuchin: Congress must tie Harvey aid to raising debt limit. (CBS News)
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Left-wing outlets spread false story claiming GOP official turned down disaster aid. (The Washington Free Beacon)
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Trump to scrap protection for “Dreamers,” give Congress six months to fix. (Reuters)
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liar-nObama’s 2018 expenses will cost U.S. taxpayers $1.1M. (Fox News)
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Manufacturing jobs up 36,000 in August; 155,000 since Trump’s election. (CNS News)
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Federal gov’t jobs down 11,000 in 2017; State gov’t jobs down 2,000; Local gov’t jobs up 12,000. (CNS News)
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Trump administration to base liar-nObamaCare navigator funding on performance (The Washington Free Beacon)
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IRS won’t warn a half-million victims about undocumented workers stealing their Social Security numbers. (NBC WTHR)
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Democrat constituency fight: L'Oreal drops transgender model after “all white people” racism post. (NBC News)
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Civil rights activist argues to keep Confederate monuments. (NPR)
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Colleges struggle over defending or curbing free speech. (Fox News)
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Humor: Former conservative recalls belittling tirade from college student that brought him over to the Left. (The Onion)
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Policy: Union bosses have too much control. It’s time to protect the rights of American workers. (The Daily Signal)
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Policy: The Millennial success sequence. (American Enterprise Institute and the Institute for Family Studies~The Patriot Post
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Carlson – Sellout RINOs, Ryan Support
DACA Illegals – Ignore Citizens, Trump Agenda
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{rickwells.us} ~ Americans are being inundated with the messages from cowardly, pandering, corrupt and wholly purchased politicians on all sides of the political spectrum... most offensively, turncoat RINOs like Speaker Paul Ryan and Senator RINO-John McCain. They’re promoting the message of their masters, those who own them, their establishment financiers. That message lately includes being in favor of DACA, not of the policies upon which Republicans and other regular Americans voted President Trump into office, but one we oppose. Tucker Carlson offers some insight into why things are as messed up as they are and how much worse they can get if this dereliction of duty and responsibility to the nation continues unchecked. He notes that it is not something that we elected President Trump on that Republicans are able to rally around, it’s not something they promised voters, such as repealing liar-nObamacare. Instead it’s preserving the open border immigration policies that we oppose that our corrupt treasonous Congress cares about...  http://rickwells.us/carlson-sellout-rinos-ryan-support-daca-illegals-ignore-citizens-trump-agenda/
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New NGO Racket: Smuggling, Inc.
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MOAS's protocol of torching the smuggling boats after
debarkation prevents smugglers from reusing the vessel
by Douglas Murray
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Sometimes it is in the gap between things that the truth emerges. In recent years Europe has been on the receiving end of one of the most significant migrant crises in history... In 2015, in just a single year, countries such as Germany and Sweden found themselves adding 2% to their respective populations. Although much of the public continue to labour under the misapprehension that those still coming are fleeing the Syrian civil war; in fact, the majority of those now entering Europe are from Africa, particularly from sub-Saharan Africa. Although the European Union successfully bribed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last year -- inducing him to slow the flow of migrants heading through Turkey into Greece -- Italy has received almost 100,000 people so far this year...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10870/ngo-migrants-smuggling
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Looks Like Americans Are Taking A Stand - One
Republican Senator From Arizona In Deep Trouble
by Tim Brown
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ It looks like Republicans and Democrats who are opposed to President Donald Trump's stated agenda are now being targeted for removal from DC... The latest was Senator Claire McCaskill of Missouri, as Trump spoke about tax reform and told an audience of Missourians, "So we must, we have no choice, we must lower our taxes. And your Senator, Claire McCaskill, she must do this for you. And if she doesn’t do it for you, you have to vote her out of office." However, a particular Arizona senator is now feeling the effects of going against Trump. Sadly, it isn't RINO-John McCain. Senator RINO-Jeff Flake (R-AZ) is now facing serious opposition from Dr. Kelli Ward and potentially a third challenger, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio...  http://freedomoutpost.com/looks-like-americans-taking-stand-one-republican-senator-arizona-deep-trouble/
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Rep. Kinzinger Reacts To Putin Warning That US And N Korea Are On Brink Of War
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Terrorist’s In Somalia Have Found Raw Uranium, Want To Give To Iran
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Pizza Hut Delivers Free Pizza To Harvey Victims Stuck In Homes– Via Kayak
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Will Hurricane Irma Strike The U.S. Next? Maybe
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First Lady Has Been Very Affected By Harvey
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Have Archeologists Found The Home Of My Favorite Biblical Prophet?
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North Korea claims to
have hydrogen bomb for long-range missile
by Lucas Tomlinson
 
{foxnews.com} ~ North Korea claimed Sunday that it had developed a hydrogen bomb to use with a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)... The claim by North Korea's state media arm was first reported by South Korea's Yonhap News. There was no immediate comment from the Pentagon or other U.S. officials. However, Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats told Congress in March that North Korea had developed the ability to put a nuclear warhead on a missile... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/09/02/north-korea-claims-to-have-hydrogen-bomb-for-long-range-missile.html
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Trump Warns Congress: Don't Blow a Once
in a Generation Chance to Pass Tax Reform
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townhall.com} ~ Speaking from Springfield, Missouri Wednesday afternoon, President Trump kicked off a major tax reform tour and called on Congress to act accordingly when it comes to getting a bill passed.

"This is our once in a generation opportunity to deliver real tax reform for everyday, hardworking Americans," Trump said. "This is our opportunity to deliver real tax reform for Americans. I am fully committed to working with Congress to get this job done."

"I don't want to be disappointed by Congress," he continued.

The President called on Democrats to end their obstruction for the sake of the American taxpayer.

"Put the partisan posturing behind us and come together as Americans, to create the 21st century tax code that our people deserve," he said. "What could possibly be more bipartisan than helping people keep more of what they earn?"

While he didn't get into specific details about a plan, the President laid out a series of principles he believes should be considered as a tax reform bill is drafted: simplifying the code, lowering rates that promote job growth and offering a system that encourages investment at home.

"We will lower taxes on middle income Americans, so they can keep more of their hard-earned paychecks," he said. "Lower taxes on American business, means higher wages for American workers and it means more products made right here, in the USA."

"It's time to give American workers the pay raise that they've been looking for, for many, many years," the President continued. "We need a tax code that is simple, fair and easy to understand."

The President classified his ideas as "pro-American tax reform" that will allow companies to hire in the U.S. and expand at home, not overseas.

"I am asking every member of Congress, which we have many here today, to join me in unleashing America's potential," Trump said. "It's time to invest in our country, to rebuild our communities and to hire our great American workers."
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Dangers Are Coming to the Rule of Law
by Judge Andrew Napolitano

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 Comey Had liar-Hillary's Back the Whole Time 
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by Thomas Gallatin:  Well, well, well, it looks like James Comey decided to let liar-Hillary Clinton off the hook for her home-brew server months before the FBI had concluded its investigation. Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday revealed in a letter sent to current FBI Director Christopher Wray: “According to the unredacted portions of the transcripts, it appears that in April or early May of 2016, Mr. Comey had already decided he would issue a statement exonerating Secretary liar-Clinton. That was long before FBI agents finished their work. Mr. Comey even circulated an early draft statement to select members of senior FBI leadership. The outcome of an investigation should not be prejudged while FBI agents are still hard at work trying to gather the facts. Conclusion first, fact-gathering second — that’s no way to run an investigation. The FBI should be held to a higher standard than that, especially in a matter of such great public interest and controversy.” The letter was signed by Republican Senators Chuck Grassely and Lindsey Graham.
          As we long suspected, the fix was in before the investigation even got rolling. Continuing the investigation for months merely served to provide the façade of a non-biased effort. Meanwhile, on Tuesday, the FBI rejected an open-records request by lawyer Ty Clevenger on the liar-Clinton investigation, stating, “You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal interests of the subject.” This response from the FBI is flat-out ridiculous. One of the biggest stories of last year is not in the public’s interest? Please.
          In a related story, on Thursday, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the FBI to disclose the details on how it handled its investigation into liar-Clinton. Boasberg stated, “After reviewing the document in camera, the court concludes that it largely rehashes information already made public, thus obviating any need for secrecy.” Slowly but surely the truth behind what all went on in the FBI’s investigation into liar-Hillary’s server-gate is finally coming to light.  ~The Patriot Post
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Sens Grassley, Graham FBI / DOJ Destroyed
 Evidence, Immunity Deals, Cover Up Continues
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s been clear since before his July 2016 announcement that Dirty Cop Comey was not giving his all or using logic in the handling of what has now been exposed as a complete con job perpetrated upon the American people... The ultimate outcome of liar-Clinton investigation, her escaping justice, was never in doubt. It was only the means by which it would be accomplished and through which the efforts of the agents would be thwarted. According to heavily redacted transcripts the lawmakers obtained from the Office of the Special Counsel of their interviews with Comey’s staff, particularly his chief of staff, Jim Rybicki and principal deputy general counsel of national security and cyber law, Trisha Anderson, it is abundantly clear that the investigation was all theater put on to deceive the American people...  http://rickwells.us/sens-grassley-graham-fbi-doj-destroyed-evidence-immunity-deals-cover-continues/
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Mueller Enlists the IRS
for His Trump-Russia Investigation
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by Betsy Woodruff
{thedailybeast.com} ~ Special counsel Bob Mueller has teamed up with the IRS. According to sources familiar with his investigation into alleged Russian election interference... his probe has enlisted the help of agents from the IRS’ Criminal Investigations unit. This unit—known as CI—is one of the federal government’s most tight-knit, specialized, and secretive investigative entities. Its 2,500 agents focus exclusively on financial crime, including tax evasion and money laundering. A former colleague of Mueller’s said he always liked working with IRS’ special agents, especially when he was a U.S. Attorney. And it goes without saying that the IRS has access to Trump’s tax returns—documents that the president has long resisted releasing to the public...Its time to fire Mueller.  http://www.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-mueller-enlists-the-irs-for-his-trump-russia-investigation
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Iran Is Exploiting ISIS In Order
To Take Over Additional Syrian Territory
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by J.E. Dyer
{lidblog.com} ~ Since 2014, Iran has been taking advantage of the “fight against ISIS” to move Iranian and Iranian-backed forces into Iraq and Syria... The campaign, spearheaded by Qods force commander Qassem Soleimani, began with Diyala Province in eastern Iraq and has spread through central Iraq to Tikrit, Fallujah, and Ramadi. The campaign also involved a thrust into northern Iraq through As Sulaymaniyah to Mosul. In Syria, the Russian- and Iran-backed campaign to retake Syrian territory from anti-regime forces began in earnest about 11 months ago, with a concentrated initiative launched in late September and early October of 2016.  Little of the opposition in western Syria, where the campaign started, involved ISIS...  http://lidblog.com/iran-is-exploiting-isis/
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New Missile Designs
Revealed and Three Missiles Launched
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by Kerry Lear
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ The Trump administration was right to take a strict stance on North Korea because the country is showing no signs of halting its nuclear missile program... Last week, the North Korean regime showed-off new prototype designs for two new missile systems. This appears to have been a counter move after Washington and Seoul participated in joint military drills in the peninsula.   “Publication of the images by North Korea’s state-run Korean Central News Agency marked the latest provocation by Pyongyang since tensions with Washington reached new heights earlier this month,” writes The Washington Times...  http://punchingbagpost.com/update-on-north-korea-new-missile-designs-revealed-and-three-missiles-launched
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Dem’s Pakistani Spy’s liar-CLINTON LAWYER –
Tells Judge, “Awan Might Need To Flee US”
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{rickwells.us} ~ Is it just a coincidence that the Pakistani spy and thief, Imran Awan, who was enabled by Rep Debbie Wasserman Schultz and more than two dozen other Democrat Congressmen... has a close aide to and liar-Clinton insider as one of his three attorneys? Sure it is. The fact that he knows things he’s not supposed to know, particularly about the DNC computer system and the information contained on it when it was compromised as well as quite possibly doing “work” for liar-Hillary and liar-Bill on their home bootleg server, has nothing to do with their personal envoy’s involvement. His having been provided access by some top Democrats to classified information and knows many of their secrets is also of no importance. The liar-Clintons are some of the most trusting people on the planet and wouldn’t even consider putting their personal snoop, handler or monitor in place. The liar-Clintons are intimately involved and it’s big...  http://rickwells.us/dems-pakistani-spys-clinton-lawyer-tells-judge-awan-might-need-flee-us/
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Dangers Are Coming to the Rule of Law
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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townhall.com} ~ Amid the bad news this summer of racial tensions in Charlottesville and biblical-like floods in Houston and preening saber rattling between Pyongyang and Washington, a dangerous below-the-radar trend has been developing about which all who believe that the Constitution means what it says should be concerned. It is the reckless influence upon local law enforcement coming from the Trump administration.

Here is the back story.

When the states joined the union, they gave certain powers to the federal government, and they kept others to themselves.

The powers surrendered are articulated in the Constitution, and the 10th Amendment clarifies the truism that those powers not surrendered have been retained.

The traditional terminology for the powers retained is the "police power." The police power does not refer to police as in cops on the streets, but it does refer to states' powers to make laws and policies that are often enforced by cops on the streets.

In constitutional parlance, police power is the right and obligation of each state to legislate for the health, safety, welfare and morality of people in the state.

This is basically what state governments -- and local governments with the approval of their state governments -- do. And it is basically what the Constitution was written to prevent the federal government from doing.

Those who wrote, ratified and amended the Constitution all took pains to keep the police power out of the hands of the federal government for several reasons. One was federalism. The states are sovereign entities, 13 of which are older than the federal government. By retaining the police power in the states, the Constitution's drafters provided a check -- a limitation -- on the reach of the federal government.

A second reason for retention of the police power in the states is what President Ronald Reagan whimsically called voting with one's feet. He meant, of course, that since we all have the natural right to travel -- to leave a geographical area that has a government we reject -- we can go to a state more to our liking.

If you don't like the taxes in New Jersey, you can move to Pennsylvania. If you don't like the regulations in Massachusetts, you can move to New Hampshire. You can see the simplicity and constitutional beauty of his argument.

Yet the federal government -- notwithstanding which political party is in power -- has repeatedly found ways around these profound constitutional principles.

One way has been to use the commerce clause, which empowers Congress to regulate interstate commerce, to regulate anything that might affect interstate commerce -- from the wheat a farmer grows only for his family's own use to legal marijuana a pain-ridden patient grows only for her own use to countless items that never leave their state of origin or are not commercial in nature.

Another way for the federal government to reach into and control state and local behavior is by legalized bribery. For example, Congress cannot regulate highway speed limits or the minimum blood alcohol content sufficient to trigger DWI prosecutions, but it can offer the states cash to pave highways in return for the states imposing the congressional will on vehicle speeds and on DWI triggers.

And the courts have upheld this -- effectively telling the states that if they want the federal cash, they must accept the federal strings attached. Because the states are all cash-strapped -- and Congress knows that -- the states always take the cash and the strings.

Now back to the troubling trend this summer. The Department of Justice last month told local police in states that prohibit the seizure of a criminal defendant's assets before conviction that the police can just ignore these state prohibitions and follow the looser federal rule -- which does permit seizure of assets before trial, while the defendant is still innocent -- and the feds will share the seized assets with the local police who have seized them.

This is another example of federal bribery of state officials, although as yet untested in the courts.

This past week, the DOJ also announced it will be offering to local police vast amounts of surplus military equipment -- much of it new, fearful and lethal -- from body armor to listening devices to battle tanks.

If police begin to look like soldiers and carry soldiers' gear in soldiers' vehicles, will they begin to think like soldiers, whose goal is not to win hearts and minds and keep streets safe but to destroy the lives and property of the enemy in wartime?

Moreover, the strings attached to this federal hardware giveaway do not require congressional or even local government approval. They require only acceptance by the police and regular local use of the military equipment. Local police should not have this discretion and should not be subjected to this temptation.

Add to all this the recent DOJ threats to prosecute physicians and their patients who lawfully prescribe and use medicinal marijuana, President Donald Trump's personal advice to cops to hate and be rough with certain violent but untried suspects, and his pardoning of a former Arizona sheriff convicted of willfully disobeying a court order to stop arresting people on the basis of their skin color and we have a serious challenge to basic constitutional principles.

Those principles require adherence to the rule of law. And the rule of law mandates that police be local but subject to the Constitution and federal and state laws like everyone else. And it requires fidelity to the Constitution by those in whose hands the voters have reposed it for safekeeping.

The rule of law is the absolute condition for personal liberty in a free society. Without it, we will have the rule of tyrants.
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  Right to Die or Will to Live
by Caroline Camden Lewis
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 Christians Sign Statement of Christian Faith, Left 
 Goes Nuts 
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by Nate Jackson:  Christians aren’t supposed to believe what the Bible teaches; Christians are instead supposed to believe what 21st century social justice warriors allow them to believe. That’s essentially the message of progressives in the wake of the signing by many prominent Evangelical Christians of the Nashville Statement.
          National Review’s David French, who was among the signers, sums it up: “It’s a basic declaration of Christian orthodoxy on sexuality, sexual orientation, and sexual identity. Its 14 articles can be boiled down to a simple statement: We believe the Bible is the word of God, and the word of God declares that sexual intimacy is reserved for the lifelong union of a man and a woman in marriage. It acknowledges the reality of same-sex attraction as well as the reality of transgender self-conceptions, but denies that God sanctions same-sex sexual activity or a transgendered self-conception that is at odds with biological reality. In other words, it’s basic Christianity.”
          Naturally, that’s vile bigotry to many on the Left. In addition to the leftist Christians whose politics often trump their belief in the Bible’s teachings, Nashville’s Democrat Mayor Megan Barry weighed in, tweeting, “The @CBMWorg’s so-called ‘Nashville Statement’ is poorly named and does not represent the inclusive values of the city & people of Nashville.” But given the large conservative Evangelical presence in Nashville, we’d say that the statement is in fact a fair and accurate representation.
          But as French notes, Barry’s proclamation, as representative of Nashville’s government, is “a declaration of state against church.” It’s the mayor telling many of her own citizens that they do not represent their city. This line of totalitarian thinking is exactly what drove the Supreme Court’s decision on same-sex marriage, among other things. Americans are being told what to think by the Rainbow Mafia and its Big Media enablers. Or should we say feel? Because that’s what this is — emotion-driven, “love wins” policymaking that subjects those who disagree to disdain, mockery and even criminal penalty. Is that the kind of religious liberty the Pilgrims came here to establish? ~The Patriot Post
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DACA Backdoor Citizenship Loophole –
Go On Vacation, Become A US Citizen
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{rickwells.us} ~ The liar-nObama globalists are a devious bunch, deliberately drafting their unlawful DACA with a back door for citizenship included... and then refusing to respond to Congress when they feebly attempted to investigate. Top congressional Republicans revealed on Friday that information provided to them by the Trump administration shows over 45,000 DACA enrollees have used the loophole to apply for citizenship. It’s interesting to note that when   the Dems and RINOs are attempting to justify letting the DACA illegals stay in the US they claim they’ve got no relationship to their country of origin. They suddenly find a relationship when exploiting it is a means of sidestepping immigration law. The backdoor loophole is based upon an irrelevant requirement to return to their home country, which somehow magically transforms them into a new type of illegal, one that is able to claim “parole.” It’s take a vacation and then come back and apply for citizenship. Reason doesn’t have a place in illegal, deceptive, open borders policies. DACA is not a law – it’s just liar-nObama dictates that were illegal then and are still illegal today. Our corrupt government just treats it as law because liar-nObama said so and Trump hasn’t said stop...http://rickwells.us/daca-backdoor-citizenship-loophole-go-vacation-become-us-citizen/
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Texas Amasses Army of Wild Animals
 to Fight Deadliest Animal in Flooded Houston
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by Tiffani Grey
{conservativetribune.com} ~ In Texas, some local volunteers are rescuing bats from the flooded waters and the reason why may surprise you. This is a perfect example of why Texans are some of the most resourceful people in the country... After Hurricane Harvey devastated many parts of Texas, some volunteers gathered together to rescue bats that were stranded in the rising waters. You know what is really attracted to still waters? Mosquitoes. These Texas heroes understand that bats eat mosquitoes and so by rescuing them, they can deal with a major virus-carrying threat...  http://conservativetribune.com/texas-amasses-army-animals/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=conservative-tribune
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If You Hate Poverty, You Should Love Capitalism
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Did you know that since 1970, the percentage of humanity living in extreme poverty has fallen 80 percent? How did that happen?... Arthur Brooks, president of the American Enterprise Institute, explains. The next time you hear someone complain about capitalism, consider this: The percentage of people living at starvation level poverty has fallen 80% since 1970. Before then, more than one in four people around the world were living on a dollar a day or less. Today, it’s about one in twenty...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/prager-u-if-you-hate-poverty-you-should-love-capitalism
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Wasserman Schultz hangs with
lobbyist who threatened Assange's life
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by Alicia Powe
{wnd.com} ~ Democratic Party leader Debbie Wasserman Schultz, whose political career has been on a downward spiral ever since Wikileaks’ Julian Assange last year exposed DNC emails online... apparently jumped off a figurative cliff this week – consorting with a lobbyist who publicly threatened Assange with death. The Florida congresswoman was photographed this week at a meeting with Miami Democratic lobbyist Evan Ross, who made international headlines after he offered to kill the Wikileaks founder and whistleblower Edward Snowden. Ross, who served as the Miami Democratic Party’s district chairman from 2011-2012 and as president of the Miami-Dade Young Democrats, went on a Twitter rant on July 30 about Assange and Snowden...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/09/wasserman-schultz-hangs-with-lobbyist-who-threatened-assanges-life/
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Carlson, Fitton – Trump Must Order DOJ
Audit Of FBI / DOJ Sham Investigations, Corruption
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{rickwells.us} ~ Tucker Carlson and Tom Fitton discuss the revelations made by Senators Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Lindsey Graham (R-SC), that former FBI Director James Comey was running a sham investigation... Comey had already started drafting his announcement that he was not going to prosecute as early as April of 2016, while the “investigation” was still underway. Carlson asks Fitton, “Can this be true?” Fitton responds, “It’s incredible, it shows the investigation truly was a sham. You know Comey came out and said he made the decision in July, perjury before Congress?. Well, his deputies were interviewed by government officials and they said, ‘Well he began drafting the statement in early May, maybe even as early as April, before they had interviewed 17 key witnesses, including liar-Clinton.”...  http://rickwells.us/carlson-fitton-trump-must-order-doj-audit-fbi-doj-sham-investigations-corruption/
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 Right to Die or Will to Live 
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by Caroline Camden Lewis:  The “Right to Die” movement is a growing trend in the U.S. and around the world. It has been labeled as “compassionate,” but it poses great societal risks, namely the compromising of the doctor-patient relationship and endangering the rights of the disabled.
          Right to Die encompasses both physician-assisted suicide (PAS) and euthanasia. Euthanasia refers to a doctor performing a lethal injection and PAS refers to a doctor aiding the patient’s death by giving the means or information to enable the patient’s suicide. This, for example, may include providing drugs and information regarding the lethal dose. Currently, Oregon, Washington, Vermont, California, Montana, Colorado, DC and Canada have legalized (PAS).
          While proponents of “Right to Die” frame the issue as merely a medical “right,” akin to a “Do Not Resuscitate” order, the American Medical Association stands against it on ethical and philosophical grounds. AMA says, “Physician-assisted suicide is fundamentally incompatible with the physician’s role as healer, would be difficult or impossible to control, and would pose serious societal risks.”
          Liz Carr, a British actress, comedian, disability rights activist and writer of “Assisted Suicide: The Musical,” echoes these concerns about the difficulty to control PAS and its societal risks. She observes that while the law is initially intended for the terminally ill, other groups claim a “right” to it and “in the name of rights and equality [euthanasia] ends up being extended.” Carr also voices concerns for the disabled community, stating, “I fear we’ve so devalued certain groups of people — ill people, disabled people, older people — that I don’t think it’s in their best interests to enshrine in law the right of doctors to kill certain people.” The Right to Die quickly becomes the Right to Kill.
          Donald W. Landry, M.D., PhD and chief of medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, agrees: “A brave, new world in which physicians routinely take up the cause of death is a world of grave moral hazard. … Imagine that instead of leading you to choose a preferred treatment, [the doctor] is advancing another, more final solution as best for you. This is not the world in which you want to live.” In this brave new world, how do we discern the motives of the doctor? Does he or she want what is best for the patient, or what saves the government and insurance companies money?
          This is no longer an abstract scenario. A recent report from Canada mentioned that euthanasia could “save” the government $139 million per year. The insurance company of one 34-year-old Californian, a wife and mother of four, denied coverage for chemotherapy but covered suicide pills, which cost $1.20.
          Additionally, we don’t have to look beyond Charlie Gard to see that socialized medicine presents itself as “free” but in reality, strips freedom from the key decision makers in the life of the patient. Administrators, judges and government officials make the decisions rather than family of the patient. Socialism roots itself in atheistic philosophy whereby government (funded by the taxes), not God, provides for the needs of people. In this “efficient” system, the government “saves money” by destroying those who require the most care.
          But what about those suffering patients who really do want to die? Diane Severin, M.D., a radiation oncology physician practicing in Canada, states:
          “The first time a patient asked to be euthanized, which has increased since its legalization in Canada, my initial response was ‘I don’t believe in that.’ But that made for a difficult discussion. My patient wasn’t asking what I believed in. He was asking about himself. Going forward, I tried to find out what my patients were afraid of. … I discovered that they feared pain and suffering. After describing the resources of our palliative care team, who could provide pain and symptom help, not one patient pushed beyond that initial inquiry. People really do want to live.”
          Not only do people want to live, but they long for loyalty, self-sacrifice, purpose and meaning. Atul Gawande, M.D., surgeon and author of New York Times bestseller “Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End,” refers to the philosophy of loyalty espoused by early 20th century Harvard philosopher Josiah Royce. Gawande summarizes it thus: “The individualist puts self-interest first, seeing his own pain, pleasure and existence as his greatest concern.” However, the human being needs loyalty. Gawande notes, “The cause can be large (family, country, principle) or small (a building project, the care of a pet). The important thing is that, in ascribing value to the cause and seeing it as worth making sacrifices for, we give our lives meaning.”
          In addition to posing risks to medical ethics, conscience rights of doctors, and endangering the disabled and infirmed, the Right to Die movement conceals socialist government “efficiency” and insurance profits behind words like “dignity” and “compassion.” By trading the values of faith and courage for individualism and avoidance of pain, we have lost, as a culture, a sense of loyalty and self-sacrifice. While the “Right to Die” movement appears to be the choice for the liberated individualist, it only stands as a symptom of godless, socialist secularization that strips meaning from life and dignity from people. Euthanasia and assisted suicide will not cease to be an issue until we address not only our fear of death and lack of purpose, but the larger problem of the atheistic secularization of society. For, only in understanding from whence we have come will we know how to move forward. 
~The Patriot Post
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 Rediscovering Courage
by Arnold Ahlert
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 Impressive Economic Growth Steadily Continues 
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Business Review Board:   The Commerce Department released its revised figures for U.S. gross domestic product in the second quarter, and there’s good news — GDP grew not 2.7% but 3.0%. In other words, the U.S. economy is growing faster than was initially thought, and Donald Trump’s ambitious target of 3.0% annual growth for 2017 is closer than many had believed legitimately possible. Now some economists are estimating that third-quarter growth could be has high as 3.4%, based on early job numbers from August. There is a word of caution here, as Hurricane Harvey’s devastation of Houston, America’s fourth largest city, is bound to produce a negative hit to the U.S. economy. But even so, many experts believe it will be minimal and short-lived.
          Trump’s greatest contribution to the economy has been his focused Washington deregulation crusade. It has saved Americans billions of dollars and has freed businesses from mountains of over-reaching, economically stifling regulations. But is this growth sustainable? This is where congressional action is needed in the form of tax reform.
          Thus, on Wednesday, Trump kicked off his tax-reform push in a speech in Missouri by pressing Congress. Trump said, “This is our once-in-a-generation opportunity to deliver real tax reform for everyday, hard-working Americans. And I am fully committed to working with Congress to get this job done. And I don’t want to be disappointed by Congress. Do you understand me?” He pushed for Democrats and Republicans to work together, stating, “What could possibly be more bipartisan than allowing Americans to keep more of what they earn and creating an environment for real job and wage growth in the country that we love so much?” Well, it would counteract Democrats’ class warfare strategy, for one thing.
          On a final note, the good economic news was buried by The Washington Post on page 16 in “the digest” without even a headline. Evidently for the Post, good economic news in the era of Trump must die in darkness.  ~The Patriot Post
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Sekulow, Fleisher and Guilfoyle Discuss
Latest Revelations of Corruption Within FBI
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ In a letter from Senator Chuck Grassley to new FBI Director Christopher Wray the senator outlines some disturbing information discovered in documents reviewed by the judicial committee... Chief among the issues was a discovery that fired FBI Director James Comey had already drafted a preliminary conclusion that liar-Hillary Clinton was not going to be held responsible. The FBI Director’s 2016 position was created in April and May before sixteen key investigative witnesses, including Mrs. liar-Clinton herself, were even interviewed. Jay Sekulow, Ari Fleischer and Kimberly Guilfoyle discuss...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/09/01/sekulow-fleisher-and-guilfoyle-discuss-latest-revelations-of-corruption-within-fbi/
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Mueller Busted Colluding With Powerful Democrat
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by Brooke Singman
{foxnews.com} ~ Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly is working with a top Trump foe — New York's Democratic Attorney General Eric Schneiderman — in a development that could signal an attempt to get around the president's pardon powers... As reported by Politico, Mueller and Schneiderman have been in communication in recent weeks and have shared evidence with one another. The joint effort is significant for two reasons: Trump and Schneiderman are political enemies, and the prospect of a state-level probe creates a scenario where Trump's pardon power would be blunted.  New York's attorney general has long been fiercely critical of Trump. He has repeatedly sued or threatened to sue the current administration, and led the charge in the fraud case against Trump University...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/31/mueller-reportedly-working-with-top-trump-foe-could-end-run-presidential-pardon.html
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The Irrelevant Democrats
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by Matthew Continetti
{freebeacon.com} ~ Chuck clown-Schumer is in a spirited mood. "This is going to be one of the biggest fights of the next three, four months," the Senate minority leader said recently... of the coming debate over tax cuts. "And Democrats are ready for it." No doubt they are. But the relevant question is: Does their readiness even matter? Last month Mitch McConnell said he planned to bring taxes to the Senate floor under the budget reconciliation procedure. That would bypass the filibuster. The bill could pass by majority vote. No Democrats required. And Republicans are unlikely to experience the defections over taxes that doomed them on health care. The health bill was a mess, a product of Republican confusion and infighting. There is no such uncertainty toward cutting taxes...  http://freebeacon.com/columns/the-irrelevant-democrats/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=550e663d82-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_31&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-550e663d82-45611665
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Private sector to the rescue in Texas:
Never underestimate the power of the
privatesector to rise up to any challenge
by Mark J. Perry
{aei.org} ~ Because of a hurricane of claims of price gouging in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the private sector in Texas and Louisiana is getting slammed with lots of criticism for being greedy, uncompassionate, and focusing only on profits... For example, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton told CNBC that his office as of yesterday has received more than 500 complaints of price gouging, mostly against businesses accused of selling cases of bottled water for $99, gasoline for $10 a gallon, and hotels charging prices triple or quadruple the normal room rates. But there’s a flip side to that story that includes many counter-examples of private sector businesses and private voluntary organizations ignoring profits and demonstrating great compassion following Hurricane Harvey, as was the case after previous disasters like Hurricane Katrina in 2005...  http://www.aei.org/publication/private-sector-to-the-rescue-never-underestimate-the-power-of-the-private-sector-to-rise-up-to-face-any-challenge/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWmpjNU1HRmhNR1poTnpObCIsInQiOiJuSEZxcVhOcFcyTktXaHhtOWRxNDNpRnFNb1RXeFd6XC8wWGl5aFFIYktLK3R3Q3prNVR1eU1uMk5SUElCV0pDMzJJb3M1VmNEY0JOVEtySjY5Nysxd2JVeDZCczNUbGpydE13RER0VVRUd3Vnc0JMR2xEOEdiNVZrMVlCc1FFZDAifQ%3D%3D
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It's time to shoot down North Korean missiles
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Early Tuesday morning, North Korea fired an intermediate range ballistic missile over Japan's northern Hokkaido island. It broke up shortly afterwards over the western Pacific Ocean... With this provocation, North Korean tyrant Kim Jong Un has blunted American optimism that he might be willing to trim his ballistic saber rattling. It is clear that further U.S. action is required to force him into constructive diplomacy. The time has come for the Trump administration to take action. An invasion of North Korea would entail an immense loss of life and is clearly not on the cards. But there are measures a long way short of such hostilities that could prove effective and which President Trump should now employ. He should issue a clear statement of policy that the U.S. military will from now on shoot down North Korean intermediate or intercontinental ballistic missiles if Kim launches them in a way that poses a threat to America and its allies... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/its-time-to-shoot-down-north-korean-missiles/article/2632898
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 Rediscovering Courage 
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by Arnold Ahlert:   “When cowardice is made respectable, its followers are without number both from among the weak and the strong; it easily becomes a fashion.” —Eric Hoffer
          Today, there is little doubt that cowardice — more often than not couched as a “reasonable” response to the demands of hateful, hysterical leftists — is not only respectable but very much in fashion.
          In Memphis, the Orpheum Theater announced it will end a 34-year-old tradition of “Gone With the Wind” summertime screenings due to “specific inquiries from patrons.” In a statement, the theater company explained, “As an organization whose stated mission is to ‘entertain, educate and enlighten the communities it serves’, the Orpheum cannot show a film that is insensitive to a large segment of its local population.”
          The hyper-sensitive local population to which the theater refers are ostensibly black Americans, who comprise approximately 64% of Memphis’ total population. Yet like most things progressive, the narrative doesn’t align with reality: A 2014 YouGov survey taken on the 75th anniversary of the picture revealed that 73% of black Americans rated the movie as great, very good or good. Nonetheless, Orpheum Theatre Group president Brett Batterson insisted the move was “about the Orpheum wanting to be inclusive and welcoming to all of Memphis.”
          Both Batterson and a large majority of the theater’s board members are white, and all of them apparently miss the searing irony: Their insufferably paternalistic presumption that they know what’s best for black Americans resembles that of antebellum slave masters. Moreover their exhortations of inclusivity and welcomeness are nothing more than fashionable cowardice.
          They are joined — or is that topped — by the cowards at California’s San Domenico School, who have decided their 167-year-old existence as a Dominican Catholic institution needed an “update” requiring the removal of approximately 162 Catholic icons and statues. The head of San Domenico’s board of trustees, Amy Skewes-Cox, again issued boilerplate progressive bromides to justify censorship. “If you walk on the campus and the first thing you confront is three or four statues of St. Dominic or St. Francis, it could be alienating for that other religion, and we didn’t want to further that feeling.”
          She further stated the removals had nothing to do with the frenzy surrounding the removal of Confederate statues, or the rioting in Charlottesville, insisting the issues are “totally different” and have “absolutely no connection other than it is change, and people have a hard time with change.”
          Change? Capitulation to political correctness is more like it. “In our time here,” explains the mother of one of the school’s students, “the word ‘Catholic’ has been removed from the mission statement, sacraments were removed from the curriculum, the lower school curriculum was changed to world religions, the logo and colors were changed to be ‘less Catholic,’ and the uniform was changed to be less Catholic.”
          Instead, the progressive agenda reigns supreme. “We welcome and embrace students, families, and staff who both enrich and promote diversity,” the school’s Inclusivity and Non-Discrimination statement declares. “We value the representation and full engagement of individuals whose differences include, but are not limited to, age, ethnicity, family makeup, gender, learning style, physical ability, race, religion, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status.”
          The statues? “Pitched in the basement,” according to the parent of a former student. Catholic values clearly expressed in the Apostle’s Creed? Pitched into oblivion by people too cowardly to stand up for their own faith.
          Another group of cowards familiar to most Americans is the collection of self-aggrandizing Hollywood hacks who remained at last Sunday’s 2017 MTV Video Music Awards despite rapper YG’s song “FDT” (F—k Donald Trump) being played during the commercial breaks. One need only imagine the stampede that would have ensued had Barack Obama been subjected to anything remotely resembling the same treatment. Cowards are people who only respect the presidency — or the county itself — when “one of theirs” occupies the Oval Office.
          Sadly, there is also the cowardice best described by the adage often attributed to Irish statesman Edmund Burke: “All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.” Or perhaps when ordered to do nothing, as it appears police in Charlottesville and most recently in Berkeley again — allowed rioting thugs to attack each other and innocent bystanders.
          In Charlottesville, Police Chief Al Thomas insisted his force “had a very large footprint during this entire endeavor,” despite numerous assertions to the contrary, including one from New York Times reporter Sheryl Gay Stolberg, who ruined the progressive narrative of only one side engaging in violence.
          Berkeley Police Chief Andrew Greenwood was even more pathetic, insisting the “potential use of force became very problematic” — despite the reality that antifa thugs broke through police barricades and checkpoints and began beating and pepper-spraying people.
          Cowardly Berkeley Mayor Jesse Arreguin is equally willing to capitulate to the mob, asking UC Berkeley to cancel conservatives’ plans for a Free Speech Week to prevent his city from “being used as a punching bag.”
          “A government that cannot maintain order in the streets — that has lost the will to even try and do so — signals to extremists that it has rotted,” asserts the editor of the Fabius Maximus website.
          That goes double for a society so afraid it won’t even prevent its children from being indoctrinated. Thus when a teacher at Sacramento’s Rocklin Academy Gateway staged a “transition ceremony” for a student in her kindergarten class — one that consisted of initially introducing him to his fellow kindergarteners as a boy, and then having him change into a dress and calling him by his new female name — it becomes infuriating when parents who contacted Fox News “asked that their identities remain anonymous in fear of retribution by folks in the community who disagree with them,” Fox reported.
          “What’s happening at Rocklin Academy is an example of how schools have become indoctrination grounds for the LGBT agenda,” writes Todd Starnes. “And the only way to stop the indoctrination is for moms and dads to take a stand.”
          Not just moms and dads. Every American who’s sick and tired of having the progressive agenda rammed down their throats while they quietly acquiesce, ever fearful of consequences that only invite more boldness by those more than willing to destroy the nation itself, as long as they get to rule over what remains.
          Even some conservatives miss the point. “Maybe if we grasp that, instead of getting hysterical over it, we can see why the loss of Robert E. Lee shouldn’t threaten Thomas Jefferson,” asserts National Review’s Andrew McCarthy.
          But it does, and one is left to wonder how many outrages must be endured before such conservatives realize an incrementalist Left’s appetite for power and control is never satiated?
          It’s time for decent Americans to fight back, using that same kind of incrementalism. Skip a Hollywood movie or concert. Pass on an NFL game, or stop patronizing progressive corporations that consider themselves the nation’s moral arbiters. Cancel a newspaper or cable company subscription.
          No one has to do everything. But Americans should understand that small individual efforts make a collectively big difference. As progressives like to say, it’s time to live “woke.”
          Let’s make courage fashionable again.  ~The Patriot Post
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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Politics of Protesting Unelected Politicians
by Caroline Glick
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Trump Irritated With Anti-MAGA Globalists
Inside Administration, Tolerating Kelly’s Controls
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump shares some of the same concerns over members of his staff that many Americans in his base have long been voicing... Some of the globalists are wearing thin and even the gatekeeper of access, General Kelly, is reportedly seen as being too restrictive. The Washington Post reported on Thursday that President Trump “chafes at some of the retired Marine Corps general’s moves to restrict access to him.” Kelly’s strict and morally superior demeanor has earned him the nickname “the church lady” among White House staffers. They also report that insiders tell them President Trump is “simmering with displeasure over what he considers personal disloyalty” exhibited by Gary Cohn, the National Economic Council Director. It’s not just you, Mr. President, Democrat Cohn disagrees with every aspect of your MAGA agenda. Why is it he’s on your staff again?...  http://rickwells.us/trump-irritated-anti-maga-globalists-inside-administration-tolerating-kellys-controls/
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U.S. says Iran shows
‘true colors’ by restoring Hamas ties
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by Robert Spencer
{jihadwatch.org} ~ U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley said on Thursday Iran had shown its “true colors” by restoring ties with Palestinian militant group Hamas and must be held to account by the international community... The new leader of Hamas in Gaza said on Monday that Tehran was again its biggest provider of money and arms after years of tension over the civil war in Syria. Hamas had angered Iran by refusing to support its ally, Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, in the six-year-old civil war. Haley described the Hamas leader’s statement as a “stunning admission.” Iran is subject to an arms embargo – with exceptions granted only in cases when it has received U.N. Security Council approval for imports or exports...  https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/08/u-s-says-iran-shows-true-colors-by-restoring-hamas-ties
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BOMBSHELL DOC CLEARS TRUMP ON
RUSSIA… NO WONDER MEDIA’S COVERING C-VILLE
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{rightwingvideos.com} ~ Trump haters aren’t going to like this one bit. Martin Lioll for the Conservative Tribune reports, We’re just a few weeks short of autumn now, and the only collapse we’ve seen is of the Russian narrative. The media has, you may have noticed, moved on to Charlottesville.  http://rightwingvideos.com/breaking-bombshell-doc-clears-trump-on-russia-no-wonder-medias-covering-c-ville/
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Congressman Makes Genius Move
to Stop Mueller Once And for All
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by Martin Walsh
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Special counsel Robert Mueller has made several ominous moves in his investigation of President Donald Trump and his associates, and one congressman is tired of the witch hunt... Congressman Ron DeSantis, R-Fla., introduced an amendment earlier this week to restrict Mueller’s ambiguous and wide open investigation into Trump’s unproven connections to Russia. DeSantis’ bold provision would terminate funding for Mueller’s probe six months after the amendment was passed, forcing Mueller to show what he has rather than stalling for years...  http://conservativetribune.com/congressman-move-stop-mueller/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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U.S. And Allies Conduct Show of Force Against North Korea
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Judical Watch Shares What It Learned About Huma Abedin
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The Politics of Protesting Unelected Politicians
by Caroline Glick

{truthrevolt.org} ~ The big story in Israel over the past several weeks has been the protests outside the home of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, which have grown in size and bitterness over the past month.

For the past nine months, every Saturday night protesters have gathered outside Mandelblit’s apartment building in Petah Tikva to demand that he indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

The protesters have not been specific about the particular transgression Netanyahu should be indicted for. One memorable banner made the point succinctly, declaring, “Bibi is guilty until proven guilty!”

The anti-Mandelbit protests are led by the high-profile far-left political strategist Eldad Yaniv and by Meni Naftali. Naftali has been leading a well-funded public and legal campaign against Sara Netanyahu since he was fired as manager of the prime minister’s official residence in 2014. The protests are also the brainchild of Raviv Drucker who doubles as an “objective” journalist on Channel 10 and a New Israel Fund sponsored far-left political activist.

Mandelblit is overseeing two criminal investigations against Netanyahu. The first involves the question of whether or not Netanyahu received more gifts than he should have from his personal friends.

The other investigation concerns conversations Netanyahu had in 2014 with his nemesis, Yediot Aharonot publisher Arnon Mozes. Netanyahu recorded these discussions with Mozes of a hypothetical deal, never executed, whereby Mozes would attenuate his newspaper’s war against Netanyahu in exchange for reduced circulation of Yediot’s chief competitor, Israel Hayom.

If Mandelblit decides to indict Netanyahu in either of the probes, the leftist establishment, including the media, will demand that Netanyahu resign in keeping with a non-binding Supreme Court decision from 1993 which insists that indicted politicians must resign.

If Netanyahu resigns, his governing coalition will fall apart and early elections will be called.

This past Saturday night, while Yaniv and Naftali and their comrades protested outside of Mandelblit’s residence for the 40th time, in Jerusalem, another group of protesters set up shop outside the home of Supreme Court President Miriam Naor.

The protesters in Jerusalem demanded that Naor stop stalling the court’s hearings regarding a petition by residents of poverty-stricken south Tel Aviv.

Over the past decade and a half, the traditionally working-class southern quarter of the city has been flooded by illegal migrants from Africa. These illegal migrants have transformed the neighborhoods into areas wracked by violent crime, the likes of which Israel had never seen.

Media coverage of both the longstanding protests outside of Mandelblit’s home and the protest Saturday night outside Naor’s home has been dominated by three issues. First, there is the question of the protesters’ behavior.

For instance, since last Saturday night the discussion of the anti-Mandelblit protests has been dominated by a video of Avraham Porat, one of Naftali’s long-time fundraisers, verbally assaulting an ultra-Orthodox man who questioned the demonstrators’ decision to begin their event before the end of Shabbat. Porat was videoed hurling a full-blown antisemitic diatribe at the man. Porat demanded that he “take the rug off your head” (meaning his kippa) and shave off his beard.

The second issue is whether the protests outside of Mandelblit’s house, and to a lesser degree the protests outside of Naor’s home, are politically or ideologically motivated.

In the case of Mandelblit, the protesters insist that they are motivated simply by concern over corruption. They wish to unseat Netanyahu because in their opinion he is corrupt.

The fact that the same protesters, or similarly funded ones, were not manning the barricades outside of Mandelblit’s predecessors’ homes to demand the indictment of Netanyahu’s predecessors from Shimon Peres to Ehud Barak, Ariel Sharon and Ehud Olmert demonstrates fairly clearly that despite their protestations to the contrary, politics is the anti-Mandelblit protesters’ primary motivation.

As for Naor, the issue of ideology is cut-and-dried. Supreme Court justices, including Naor herself, have repeatedly made clear through both their public pronouncements and their rulings that the majority of justices are ideologically aligned with the far Left. And whereas residents of Tel Aviv are not organically tied to the political Right, activist Supreme Court justices have placed them firmly in the rightwing camp by operating hand in globe with far-left NGOs, supported by the US-based New Israel Fund and other groups, to prevent successive governments from removing the illegal migrants from south Tel Aviv specifically and from Israel more generally.

As to the specific protesters outside Naor’s home last Saturday, Naor’s court blocked discussion of their petition regarding the transfer of the illegals to willing third countries for nearly two years in response to a petition from a consortium of far-left NGOs. Monday, two days after the protest, the court suddenly rendered its decision. The court, which had issued an injunction barring the government from removing illegal migrants to third countries for the entire period the petition was sitting open on its docket, decided that the government has a right to deport them. On the other hand, the court said that the state can only deport illegals who agree to leave and that the state cannot incarcerate them for more than 60 days. In other words, the court effectively forced the state to allow illegal migrants to remain in Israel for as long as they wish with no consequences whatsoever.

This then brings us to the final question that has dominated discussion of the protests against Mandelblit, and since last Saturday night, against Naor, outside their private homes. Should protesters congregate outside the home of unelected officials in an attempt to influence their actions just as activists demonstrate outside the homes of politicians?

The answers commentators have provided to the question have predictably aligned with their own political sympathies. Commentators on the Left side with the protesters outside Mandelblit’s home and oppose the protest outside Naor’s home. Commentators on the Right adopt the opposite position. But both positions miss the basic reality that protesters have intuitively acted upon.

Today, Supreme Court justices and the state prosecutors led by the attorney general are the most powerful political actors in Israel. Indeed, to the extent that protests outside the homes of public officials have any impact on their behavior, it makes more sense for citizens to protest outside the homes of justices and the attorney general than it makes to protest outside the homes of politicians.

By conducting criminal probes against the sitting prime minister which revolve around issues of personal behavior that bear no connection to Israel’s national security or interests, Mandelblit has made himself the most powerful political force in the country. And he has also made himself a reasonable target for a political campaign. In other words, he brought it on himself.

If he wants the protesters to go away, he should stop seizing political power. He should announce that he is suspending the criminal probes against Netanyahu and any criminal probes against any other currently sitting elected officials that are now underway. He should also stipulate that he will not conduct any further criminal probes of sitting politicians for the duration of their tenure in office unless they are suspected of treason or other security-related offenses.

This then brings us to the Supreme Court.

In 1992 the Supreme Court seized the power of the Knesset to make laws by arrogating to itself the right to overturn them. It subsequently seized the power of the government to execute laws and determine Israel’s national policies by granting itself the power to arbitrarily decide that government decisions and policies are illegal.

In other words, for a generation the court has been acting as a judicial tyranny.

In response to the court’s decision Monday, the residents of South Tel Aviv announced that they would maintain and expand their demonstrations outside Naor’s home until the Supreme Court cancels its decision and allows the government to govern. Their decision was the most reasonable response to the verdict. Like Mandelblit with his political probes, Naor and her fellow radicals brought the public’s scrutiny and fury on themselves. Until they stop behaving like judicial dictators, they should expect for the public to demonstrate against them.

The reason then that the demonstrations against Mandelblit on the one hand and Naor on the other are reasonable and should be expected to continue is that due to the tyrannical power the legal system exerts over the government and Knesset, Israel’s viability as a representative democracy has been weakened. Until we restore our system of government and restore the balance of power between the branches of government, the public is right to treat our justices and prosecutors as politicians.
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Israel wants seat at table
as powers seek end to Syria war
by David Wainer

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 Friday Top Headlines 
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A photo essay of Americans helping each other — this is who we really are. (The Daily Signal)
 
U.S. adds 156,000 jobs in August; unemployment 4.4%. (MarketWatch)
 
So Comey decided not to prosecute liar-Hillary months before he told us. (Hot Air)
Judge orders feds to release details of liar-Clinton email probe after FBI refused request. (The Washington Times)
There is new fundraising fodder at the Southern Poverty Law Center — 1,503 “Confederate place names” now being targeted. (CNS News)
More than 70% of voters want lower taxes … no shocker here! (The Washington Free Beacon)
Trump rolls back liar-nObama’s costly and onerous diversity regulations. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Settled science? Yet another comprehensive study casting doubt on conventional wisdom about fat and carbs. (PBS)
Cornell encourages students to report peers for “negative reactions” to LGBT “Safe Place” project. (Washington Examiner)
Fraternity and sorority retreat canceled after banana peel found in tree — seriously, this happened. (Campus Reform)
Illinois’ Republican governor wins a choice program for poor students. (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
Policy: Trump’s reversal of liar-nObama pay gap rule is good news for women, minorities. (The Daily Signal
Policy: The cost of inaction on tax reform. (American Action Forum~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/5106
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US orders Russia to close three diplomatic
offices after Putin orders cuts to American staff
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by Joel Gehrke and Melissa Quinn
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~The State Department has ordered Russia to close three of its U.S. facilities by Saturday after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the U.S. to reduce its diplomatic staff in Russia by 755 employees... The Trump administration said the decision was made "in the spirit of parity invoked by the Russians," and gave the Kremlin until Sept. 2 to close its Consulate General in San Francisco, a chancery annex in Washington, D.C., and consular annex in New York City. With this action, both countries will remain with three consulates each," State Department spokeswoman Heather Nauert said in a statement. "While there will continue to be a disparity in the number of diplomatic and consular annexes, we have chosen to allow the Russian government to maintain some of its annexes in an effort to arrest the downward spiral of our relationship."...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/us-orders-russia-to-close-three-diplomatic-offices-after-putin-orders-cuts-to-american-staff/article/2633084?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News%20-%2008/31/17&utm_medium=email
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Mainstream media attack President Trump for visiting Texas

http://video.foxnews.com/v/5557020064001

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MSNBC vs. Ted Cruz: How Can You Support Harvey Relief When You Opposed Sandy Relief?

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2017/08/28/katy_tur_vs_ted_cruz_how_can_you_support_harvey_relief_when_you_opposed_sandy_relief.html

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott Grades Federal Government's Response to Hurricane Harvey
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White House Daily Briefing: Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders (08-25-2017)
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I Think Congressional Republicans Are
Setting Up President Trump to Fail on the Border Wall
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by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ News reports suggest that as Texas is grappling with Hurricane Harvey’s flooding, Republicans in Washington intend to cut upwards of a billion dollars from disaster relief funding and FEMA in order to pay for President Trump’s border wall... That sounds like political suicide given press coverage of Texas and congressional Republicans are not suicidal, they are survivalists. In fact, they are rather Lord of the Flies. Look at it this way. Republicans in Congress do not do anything that risks them looking bad on camera. They do their best to play to the press as Republicans in Washington are far more interested in being liked by the media than by their constituents. It is one of several reasons they had no interest in actually repealing Obamacare. Now they’re faced with a natural disaster of Biblical proportions and their response is to cut funding for disaster? That makes no sense...  http://theresurgent.com/i-think-congressional-republicans-are-setting-up-president-trump-to-fail-on-the-border-wall/
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Judge Orders FBI To Make
Details Of liar-Clinton Email Probe Public
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by Jack Crowe
{dailycaller.com} ~ A federal judge ordered the FBI Thursday to publicly release previously unseen documents related to the investigation into former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server... U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg ordered the FBI to produce uncensored court documents describing the grand jury subpoenas issued to force liar-Clinton’s internet service providers to turn over information related to her private server use, according to a statement released by Cause of Action Institute. The ruling was made in response to a motion filed in June as part of a suit brought by Cause of Action Institute and Judicial Watch. The organizations claim the Department of State violated the Federal Records Act by failing to maintain records related to liar-Clinton’s handling of classified information...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/31/judge-orders-fbi-to-make-details-of-clinton-email-probe-public/?utm_medium=email
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Judicial Watch – New Emails Show
Huma Abedin Key In Pay For Play, Influence Peddling
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{rickwells.us} ~ Bill Marshall, one of Judicial Watch’s senior investigators, with years of experience in both the public and private sectors sat down with Carter Clews for a discussion that included Huma Abedin and her role in the liar-Clinton Crime Syndicate... including its government wing, the US State Department. Marshall has reviewed approximately 25,000 pages of Abedin’s emails in twenty different productions from the State Department, emails that were from her non-State Department account, a liar-Hillary Clinton account. Marshall repeats the characterization we’ve heard used before that Abedin is much more than just an aide to liar-Clinton, she’s a daughter of sorts, “who caters to her every whim.” He says the latest production of emails, which they plan to release this week, “suggests that Huma was almost feeding information to liar-Hillary to repeat, to parrot and it will be obvious to the readers when they see what we’ll be releasing.”...  http://rickwells.us/judicial-watch-new-emails-show-huma-abedin-key-pay-play-influence-peddling/
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Israel wants seat at table
as powers seek end to Syria war
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by David Wainer
{jewishworldreview.com} ~
As world powers seek an endgame to Syria's six-year war, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants a seat at the table.

Israel says Iran and its Lebanese proxy Hezbollah are working to entrench themselves militarily in neighboring Syria, where they're backing Syrian government troops, and it's rattled that a recent truce deal brokered by Russia and the U.S. doesn't block that.

Israel's fear that Tehran is establishing launchpads in Syria for future attacks against the Jewish state dominated Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's talks Wednesday with President Vladimir Putin in Russia.

The strengthening of Iran's position in Syria represents a threat to Israel, the Middle East and the whole world, Netanyahu said after the three-hour meeting, and said he had made very clear to Putin that Israel considered this unacceptable.

Past such discussions with Putin had advanced Israel's security interests, Netanyahu said in comments posted to YouTube, adding, "I think I can say the same thing about this one."

Complicated alliances in the Syrian war make Netanyahu's mission a tough one. Israel could escalate the pinpoint strikes against Iran and Hezbollah it has already carried out during the war if it isn't satisfied that Putin and President Donald Trump are taking its security concerns into account. Moshe Ya'alon, who served as Israel's defense minister during part of the war, said Israel may be forced to act militarily if Iran isn't expelled.

"We had the expectation that a deal between Trump and Putin would deal with the Iranian threat on our border," Ya'alon said in an interview in Tel Aviv. "It's clear that if there is no solution, in the end we might have to take action ourselves."

Netanyahu set off for Russia with Mossad spy chief Yossi Cohen and internal security head Meir Ben-Shabbat after an Israeli delegation came back from Washington this month with no announcement of progress on Israel's demands. Russia, whose military intervention turned the tide in favor of Syrian President Bashar Assad, may not support the demand for a complete Iranian withdrawal: Iran is one of the co-sponsors of Moscow's peace efforts in Syria, and Russia is unlikely to antagonize it.

Israel -- which waged the loudest campaign against the Iran nuclear deal -- accuses the Shiite-led Islamic Republic of building military bases in Syria and carving out a land corridor to transfer arms and fighters from Tehran to Beirut. It also says Iran is building precise-munition factories in Lebanon, Hezbollah's base.

"There should be no arrangement that allows Iran and its proxies to base themselves militarily in Syria," said Chagai Tzuriel, director-general of Israel's Intelligence Ministry. "An Iranian military presence in Syria will be a constant source of friction and tension not only with Israel, but with the Sunni majority in Syria, with the Sunni countries in the region, and with Sunni minorities outside the region."

Russia probably will try to find some kind of compromise, analysts said.

"The dominant view is that Iran is still a partner in Syria and now is not the time to sow tensions," said Alexander Shumilin, head of the Middle East Conflict Analysis Center at the government-run Institute for U.S. and Canada in Moscow. What it might do is "let Iran strengthen its positions in western Syria," further from Israel, he said.

Zvi Magen, a former Israeli ambassador to Moscow and now a research fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies in Tel Aviv, expects Netanyahu and Putin "will try to find a solution in which the Iranians can stay in Syria under Russian control," with no military units and no military bases.

Israel never accepted Iran's assertion that its nuclear program -- temporarily curbed under the nuclear pact -- has no military component. It also has clashed over the decades with Hezbollah, which has significantly expanded its military arsenal since its last war with Israel 11 years ago.

While Israel has largely stayed out of the Syrian fighting, Netanyahu recently said the Israeli military struck Hezbollah in Syria dozens of times. Ya'alon hinted Israel also has targeted Iranian operatives, noting that when Iran tried to orchestrate terrorist attacks in the Israeli-held Golan Heights, "all those operatives are no longer alive."

Russia won't brush off Israeli concerns because it wants to prevent a direct Israeli-Iranian confrontation that would deepen the region's chaos, said Yossi Mekelberg, a senior consulting research fellow at the Chatham House research center in London.

"Unlike with the nuclear project, Israel actually has the capability to kill Iranian operatives in both Syria and Lebanon with quite some ease," Mekelberg said. "The fear then becomes that both sides miscalculate to the point of direct confrontation between Iran and Israel. This is a very delicate, explosive situation."
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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
This charming, diminutive woman
was also an intrepid WWII spy
by David Ignatius
 
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TRUMP Blew Away Reporter’s “Gotcha”
Attempt With HUGE DONATION To Harvey Victims
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{rickwells.us} ~ The reporter sets up her “gotcha you hypocrite” attempt fairly well, referencing “the huge outpouring of support from people all around the country” to the victims of Hurricane Harvey... She said, “You’ve seen people lining up to volunteer, you’ve seen tens of millions of dollars. Can you speak to what the President and his family have done regarding donations for Harvey relief, personally?” Sarah Huckabee Sanders is ready for this one, responding, “Yes, I can. I had a chance to speak directly with the President earlier and I’m happy to tell you that he is, uh, would like to join in the efforts that a lot of the people that we’ve seen across this country do, and he’s pledging a million dollars of personal money to the fund.”...  http://rickwells.us/trump-blew-away-reporters-gotcha-attempt-huge-donation-harvey-victims/
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The liar-nObamacare death
spiral is quietly getting much worse
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by Justin Haskins
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ If the current state of the health insurance market weren't so tragic, former President Barack liar-nObama's many promises and statements about liar-nObamacare would be laughable... liar-nObamacare could end up being remembered as one of the greatest policy failures in modern history. Premiums and deductibles have skyrocketed, millions of people have lost their insurance and been forced to purchase a new plan and sometimes get new healthcare providers as a result, and the policy's greatest "achievement," if you can even call it that, is getting tens of millions of people dependent on government via Medicaid...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/the-obamacare-death-spiral-is-quietly-getting-much-worse/article/2632860
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Mueller, New York AG Team
up on Manafort in Russia Probe
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by Solange Reyner
{newsmax.com} ~ FBI special counsel Robert Mueller, assigned to oversee the federal probe into potential collusion between members of Donald Trump's campaign team and Russian officials during the 2016 presidential campaign... has teamed up with New York attorney general Eric Schneiderman on the investigation into Paul Manafort and his financial transactions, Politico reported Wednesday. Manafort was Trump's campaign chairman and is under investigation for possible violations relating to his consultant work for Ukraine's former ruling party. The focus on Manafort has intensified as of late. FBI investigators raided his home in Virginia on July 26, seizing documents and other materials, and Mueller on Tuesday issued subpoenas to Manafort's former lawyer and his current spokesman...  http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/mueller-schneiderman-team-up-manafort/2017/08/30/id/810797/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1750953_08312017&s=al&dkt_nbr=010504qteqsd
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Has France Been Bought
by a State Sponsor of Islamic Terrorism?
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France's then-President Nicolas Sarkozy greets Qatar's
then-Prime Minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim bin Jabor al-Thani
by Drieu Godefridi
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The state of Qatar has been officially labelled as a "state sponsor of terrorism", and an active supporter of Islamic terrorist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood, al-Qaeda and the Islamic State... not by Western governments, but by Saudi Arabia, the cradle of Islamic faith, and the other Islamic regimes of the region. Knowing the facts of Qatar -- 11000km2, one-third the size of Belgium, population 2.5 million -- the question may seem far-fetched: How could France, the great France, possibly be bought by a tiny state such as Qatar? For the single reason that, thanks to its huge gas and oil reserves, Qatar has the highest per capita income in the world and huge reserves of cash to invest everywhere, whereas France, thanks to 40 years of socialism, is in dire need of cash and has a tradition of corruptible officials, to say nothing of a propensity for "collaboration"...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10911/france-qatar
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New ADL Hire Helped liar-nObama
Admin Forge Ties With Hamas-Linked Group
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by Ari Lieberman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ On August 28, The Anti-Defamation League announced that it had hired liar-nObama holdover, George Selim, as its “Senior Vice President of Programs.”... According to the ADL’s press release, Selim will be the ADL’s point man on programs connected to law enforcement, education and community security. This newly created position will ostensibly help the ADL better track, monitor and thwart all forms of xenophobia and prejudice. Selim will report directly to the ADL’s CEO, Jonathan Greenblatt. On paper, Selim, an Arab-American of Egyptian and Lebanese descent, appears qualified for the role. He served in the Bush and liar-nObama administrations in various capacities, principally in the areas of community outreach and countering violent extremism (CVE). But beneath the surface lies a more sinister side to Selim, one that renders him entirely unfit for his new position...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267745/new-adl-hire-helped-obama-admin-forge-ties-hamas-ari-lieberman
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This charming, diminutive woman
was also an intrepid WWII spy
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by David Ignatius
{jewishworldreview.com} ~
Jeannie Rousseau de Clarens, one of the remarkable spies of World War II, died last week in France at the age of 98. Like so many intelligence officers, she had a gift for getting people to talk. But she had something else: dauntless, unblinking courage in facing the enemy.

De Clarens stole one of the vital secrets of the war -- Germany's plans to build and test the V-1 and V-2 rocket bombs at Peenemunde. Her intelligence encouraged the British to bomb Peenemunde, delaying and disrupting the program, and "saving thousands of lives in the West," said James Woolsey, then CIA director, at a private ceremony at the agency in October 1993 honoring de Clarens.

How did this charming, diminutive woman accomplish her mission impossible? She listened. De Clarens was a fluent German-speaker, and in 1943, she teased the first threads of information about the rocket program out of some German officers she had befriended in Paris as a translator. And then she kept pulling on the string.

"I was such a little one, sitting with them, and I could not but hear what was said. And what they did not say, I prompted," she told me in 1998. "I teased them, taunted then, looked at them wide-eyed, insisted that they must be mad when they spoke of the astounding new weapon that flew over vast distances, much faster than any airplane. I kept saying: 'What you are telling me cannot be true!' I must have said that 100 times."

"I'll show you!" one of the Germans finally said, eager to convince the pretty young Frenchwoman. He displayed a document from Peenemunde; de Clarens, with her photographic memory, registered every word and transmitted the information through her case officer to London.

Her code name was "Amniarix," and she was part of a British spy ring in Paris known as the "Druids." She was recruited by a former mathematics professor in 1941 to what he called his "little outfit." She had been spying on the Germans informally since they conquered France in 1939, passing on bits of information to French contacts.

De Clarens made it all sound easy, no more than anyone would do, when I first interviewed her in 1998. "I just did it, that's all." She had never spoken to a journalist before, but when I showed up after an introduction from Woolsey, the story began to flow and continued into the early morning. I published her amazing tale, but she was happier living in the shadows, and I don't think she told the full story ever again.

She was a graceful woman, elegant as a French movie star, but she spoke in an incongruous deep voice. On one of many visits in later years, she frightened one of my daughters by demanding in that gravelly bass: "If you don't get me a whiskey right away, I will be very angry with you!"

What she didn't want to tell me, in that first conversation or ever, was how much she had suffered. After the British received her reports about the rocket bombs, they wanted to bring her to London to debrief her.

A boat evacuation was arranged from Brittany in the spring of 1944, but she was betrayed to the Germans on her way to the beach. She spent the last year of the war in three Nazi concentration camps, each harsher than the last. When she was finally rescued by the Swedish Red Cross, she was nearly dead of starvation and tuberculosis. She never revealed to the Germans a hint of the secrets she had stolen.

When I pushed her to talk about her time in the camps, her voice became distant and irregular, as if it was physically painful to remember, and to know that she had survived when so many others didn't. "After the war, the curtain came down on my memories," she said. And then, with a modesty born of deep suffering, she insisted: "What I did was so little. Others did so much more. I was one small stone."

The mystery of Jeannie's story for me was where her bravery came from. Why did she do what was right, when so many others were afraid to take action? She shook her head, as if I was missing the point. "It wasn't a choice. It was what you did. At the time, we all thought we would die. I don't understand the question. How could I not do it?"

She was an extraordinary woman. I'm glad she let me pull the story from her (http://wapo.st/2wi8acF), so that others can read and remember what courage is.
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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 Ivy League Profs to Students: 'Think for Yourself'
by Thomas Gallatin
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 The North Korean Conundrum 
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by Lewis Morris:  Kim Jung Un continues to stir up trouble in Asia and danger for the entire world. The attention-starved North Korean dictator fired off another missile, sending this one over northern Japan and warning that it was a “meaningful prelude to containing Guam.”
          Japanese were startled by the launch and were sent running for cover by air raid sirens. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and President Donald Trump both condemned the action. U.S. Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called upon the Security Council to take strong action. What that might look like is still unknown, though the UNSC did issue a condemnation of North Korea’s “outrageous” launch.
          The Security Council heaped sanctions on North Korea already for its missile launches earlier this month. Keeping China on board for tougher measures will be vital, as Kim’s fellow communists are pretty much the only friends he has — well, besides the Iranian mullahs.
          PJ Media’s Claudia Rosett recaps the history briefly: “North Korea launched a ballistic missile over Japan on Tuesday, an act that all by itself qualifies as a stunning provocation. This followed a bout of North Korean threats earlier this month to girdle Guam with missile strikes. Those threats followed North Korea’s successful tests last month of two intercontinental ballistic missiles. Those tests followed an 11-year span from 2006-2016 in which North Korea conducted five nuclear tests, prepared to conduct a sixth — which could come anytime now — and in 2010 unveiled a uranium-enrichment program to complement its production of plutonium for bomb fuel.”
          Some have speculated that Kim is trying to push the U.S. and its allies to sit down for negotiations, though he almost certainly won’t come to the table without first sufficiently demonstrating his capability of striking the U.S. mainland. It’s hard to see anything coming of negotiations, though — at least not anything better than has come out of a quarter century of such dialogue. Trump has vowed to keep North Korea from developing long-range nuclear capability. And Kim has sworn he won’t give up his nuclear program. Beyond that, what else is there left to discuss?
          We’ve been to this rodeo many times. The stakes are higher now, though, with North Korea’s growing nuclear capability. As The Wall Street Journal observes, “The intermediate-range missile test will further roil the politics of security in Northeast Asia and is another prod toward Japan acquiring its own nuclear deterrent.” Trump recognizes that, but what’s to be done about it?
          Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was short-sighted enough to say just days before this latest launch that we were actually making progress with North Korea. “I am pleased to see that the regime in Pyongyang has certainly demonstrated some level of restraint that we’ve not seen in the past,” he said last week. “We hope that this is the beginning of this signal that we’ve been looking for that they are ready to restrain their level of tensions, they’re ready to restrain their provocative acts, and that perhaps we are seeing our pathway to sometime in the near future having some dialogue.” His boss was little better. Trump declared last week that Kim was “starting to respect” the U.S.
          Former Trump adviser Steve Bannon went so far as to say there is no military solution to the problem in North Korea because of the inevitable damage to Seoul, South Korea, just 30 miles from the border. Bannon may be right that it’s at least a costly option, but it’s one of those things an administration shouldn’t say out loud.
          Trump has noted that “all options” remain on the table, and in order for that threat to deter Kim, he has to believe it. Force is the only language dictators understand. A display of power in Asia will let North Korea know that we will protect our allies. Trump standing side by side with South Korea and Japan will also demonstrate that we will protect our allies. After eight years of “leading from behind” and apologizing for American greatness, the international community needs to be reminded that we will not tolerate acts of aggression.  ~The Patriot Post
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TRUMP Tells Missouri – If SENATOR
Doesn’t Support TAX CUTS, Vote Her OUT
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump addressed the prospects of tax reform, what should be a no-brainer win for the American people and Congress were it not for the obstructionist bent of the anti-American Democrats... He was speaking in Missouri, and gave his comments a local flavor at the expense of their Democrat Senator. President Trump said, “We must, we have no choice. We must lower our taxes. And your Senator, Claire McCaskill, she must do this for you and if she doesn’t do it for you, you have to vote her out of office.” The crowd cheered, there probably weren’t a lot of Democrats or libtards in the room. As the applause dies down President Trump says, “She’s got to make that commitment, she’s got to make that commitment. If she doesn’t do it, we just can’t do this anymore with the obstruction and the obstructionists.”...  http://rickwells.us/trump-tells-missouri-senator-doesnt-support-tax-cuts-vote/
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USS Kearsarge, USS Oak Hill Leave Thursday
for Hurricane Harvey Relief Operation
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by Ben Werner
{news.usni.org} ~ Amphibious warships USS Kearsarge (LHD-3) and USS Oak Hill (LSD-51) are set to set sail on Thursday under orders Wednesday from Adm. Phil Davidson, commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command, to provide humanitarian aid in the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey... Both ships are sailing from Virginia to the Texas and Louisiana gulf coast tomorrow. Marines from the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit will depart aboard Kearsarge when it sails from Naval Station Norfolk and Oak Hill is departing from Joint Expeditionary Base Little Creek-Fort Story, according to a Navy statement. “State and local agencies are in the lead for this response effort. We recognize recovery from this catastrophic disaster will be a long-term effort,” the statement said. “We are leaning forward to fully support FEMA and Texas with DoD assistance as requested.”...  https://news.usni.org/2017/08/30/uss-kearsarge-uss-oak-hill-leave-thursday-hurricane-harvey-relief-operation?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=318dc9e82a-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-318dc9e82a-231491269&mc_cid=318dc9e82a&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke resigns
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{foxnews.com} ~ Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke resigned from his position on Thursday, local media reported. The County Clerk says he received a resignation letter at 3:16 p.m... In June Clarke announced that he had rescinded his acceptance of a Homeland Security post. That followed an initial acceptance of a job as assistant secretary in DHS’s Office of Public Engagement. Clarke was supposed to serve as a liaison between DHS and state and local law enforcement.  Clarke, a tough-on-crime conservative Democrat, had built a following among conservatives with his provocative social media presence and for his support of President Donald Trump during his 2016 campaign (he also spoke at the Republican National Convention last summer). But he was later accused of plagiarism in his master’s thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/08/31/milwaukee-sheriff-david-clarke-resigns.html
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Feds Quickly Release Trump Lawyer’s
Emails To Liberal Group, Bury Dem Records ForrOg5wxfGlPBatR3rLxTkoYoPVCEjyuhKi1bb0VFIXbkS2_5BgmWZ_UXJt-NmHRHRXrxJ4D8qSEzazYlW9eVP5B1OGRgv3tI-2nbfyEhxM7hbALBYbeC9dOy1frF16U2jBKd9ZngweZo=s0-d-e1-ft#%3Ca%20rel%3Dnofollow%20href=
by Ethan Barton
{dailycaller.com} ~ A liberal news outlet waited just four months before a federal agency gave it more than 1,000 pages of a Republican’s emails, while conservative groups’ requests have been ignored for years... according to documents obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group. Records show the Federal Election Commission (FEC) reviewed more than 4,400 pages of emails related to a Freedom Information Act (FOIA) request filed by Andy Kroll, a reporter with the liberal news outlet Mother Jones. Kroll sought all emails Don McGahn sent between July 2008 through September 2013 while he was an FEC commissioner. The FEC received Kroll’s request Jan. 30, 2017, and released more than 1,000 pages of McGahn’s emails in June. McGahn became White House counsel 10 days before the request was received...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/30/exclusive-feds-quickly-release-trump-lawyers-emails-to-liberal-group-bury-dems-records-for-years/?utm_medium=email
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COMEY SHAM – Never Intended To Prosecute
liar-CLINTON – Decision Made Before 17 KEY Interviews
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{rickwells.us} ~ If we Americans had an actual Department of Justice or an FBI that was impartial and prosecuted the big criminals who reside inside of our government... with the same zeal it does the lowly commoners, this revelation would result in some immediate action. As it is, with the DOJ still apparently in the hands of Loretta Lynch, Eric Holder and Hussein liar-nObama, with Jeff Sessions little more than a plantation worker dressed up in whiteface, nothing more than nods and affirmations of “see, I told you Comey was a dirty cop,” will be forthcoming. It turns out that former FBI director, James Comey had made his decision not to prosecute liar-Hillary Clinton long before she was “interviewed” on July 5th by the FBI and before that emergency grandkids and golf discussion was held between liar-Bill Clinton and AG Loretta Lynch on the Phoenix airport tarmac...  http://rickwells.us/comey-sham-intended-prosecute-clinton-april-decision-17-key-interviews/
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 Ivy League Profs to Students: 'Think for Yourself' 
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by Thomas Gallatin:  Several Ivy League professors from the universities of Harvard, Princeton and Yale sent out a letter of advice to all incoming college students this week. Their message: “Think for yourself.” In the letter they challenge students to avoid “the vice of conformism” and to avoid the trap of “what John Stuart Mill called ‘the tyranny of public opinion.’”
          Over the years, the once-high ideal of America’s institutions of higher learning being bastions of tolerance for the expression of freedom in thought and speech has eroded into them being little more than “safe space” echo chambers of leftist ideology and propaganda. In the past couple of years in particular Americans have witnessed various university and college campuses produce some of the most intolerant policies, voices and behaviors. The list includes the banning of various religious and social groups based on their supposed “bigoted” (non-leftist) ideology, the dis-invitation of various conservative speakers and the creation of “safe spaces” designed to prohibit and limit the freedom of speech in public places on campus. And finally, the growth of leftist social justice warriors who have advocated and engaged in violence in places like UC Berkeley and Middlebury, and most recently the takeover of Evergreen State College by a mob of these leftist SJW students.
          The sad thing is that only 15 professors signed the letter. This letter should have garnered near universal support from Ivy League faculty. When concerns over offending another individual’s feelings prohibit someone, specifically one whose career is based on educating and challenging others to learn about and engage new ideas or concepts, from honestly expressing their knowledge and thoughtful opinions without fear of reprisal, we have a problem. The concept that equates unpopular speech to literal violence against individuals with opposing views is a fallacy that has unfortunately gone unchallenged by many on the Left.
          Leftists’ argument for engaging in physical violence against others (like “punching a Nazi”) because they find their views repugnant or bigoted is the antithesis of tolerance and objective reasoning. Just yesterday a visiting assistant professor at the University of Tampa was fired for tweeting that he believed residents of Texas suffering from Hurricane Harvey were getting what they deserved because they voted for Donald Trump. His tweet read, “I don’t believe in instant karma but this kinda feels like it for Texas. Hopefully this will help them realize the GOP doesn’t care about them.” It is this type of what might be best described as anti-logic that elevates emotion over and against rational thought. It seeks to limit the freedom of speech because it simply cannot objectively justify the irrational over the rational. It cannot logically support the anti-scientific over the scientific and still refer to it as “science.”
          Popular opinion does not create or establish truth; it simply sets cultural precedent that should never be immune from challenge. Thankfully, at least 15 professors are brave enough to point out this reality to incoming college students. We hope many more embrace this truth.  ~The Patriot Post
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 The Need to Define 'Winning' in Afghanistan
by Todd Johnson
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 The Unhinged Left Still Can't Stomach Trump 
by James Shott:   “Poor Donald, he can’t help it. He was born to do things wrong!”
          A president’s true effect on his country can’t be fully and accurately assessed until some time after his term ends. But looking at Donald Trump’s record so far indicates his effect will be almost 100% negative — at least if you believe obnoxiously biased media coverage and the estimates of his Democrat and leftist enemies.
          Sure, he’s been in office for only seven months, but all that really means is that his negative record is ultimately going to be absolutely YUGE and unparalleled! Right? Right? How could so many American voters have been so wrong last November?
          Trump is a man who has become famous only because his father gave him money, right? Daddy, we are told, provided gifts of $1 million or maybe $100 million. Detractors say that’s why he’s now worth $3.5 billion, according to Forbes, only 35 times the highest reported level of help of $100 million. What’s special about that? Surely any or all of the rest of us could have done that well?
          Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) saw this coming and wisely wanted to save the country all this pain by impeaching Trump before he was even sworn in as president. Perhaps she was in such a hurry because she wanted get it done before her trial for ethics violations begins. And some of her patriotic Democrat comrades are still working toward that end. Bless their hearts!
          And CNN “reporter” Jim Acosta — who has benefitted from his own journalistic failures since Trump made him famous by noticing and publicizing them — acted on an assumption. Immediately upon hearing the dire predictions of catastrophe of Hurricane Harvey advancing on the Texas coast, Acosta apparently assumed Trump was watching baseball rather than acting in advance of the storm to deal with the developing crisis. He tweeted at Trump with the question, “What is your administration doing about the hurricane to keep Texans safe?” By then, Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had already talked by phone and the federal government was already acting, and Abbott has praised the federal response. Oops!
          No doubt Al Gore will soon publish another book or make another movie with withering criticism of Donald’s exit from the Paris Climate Accord, that “doctrine with no teeth,” which Gore will swear could have turned the storm to the south, sparing America altogether.
          Sure, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a hero to many Arizonans for his unwavering enforcement of federal immigration laws the federal government refused to enforce. The feds’ abdication meant great harm and discomfort to the people of Sen. RINO-John McCain’s home state. But how could Donald dare to pardon the man before he was even sentenced for the misdemeanor charges he was found guilty of — by a judge, not a jury — and robbing that judge of the pleasure of punishing a man she convicted during a witch hunt?
          Shouldn’t a president’s powers of pardon and commutation be reserved for people convicted of serious federal crimes, as Bill liar-Clinton did on his last day in office for 140 such criminals, some of whom were his relatives and friends? Or, for releasing 1,500 federal prisoners and Gitmo detainees, as Barack liar-nObama did over eight years?
          Even some so-called Republicans, like the aforementioned RINO-John McCain, are critical of Trump. RINO-McCain said the timing was bad and especially so because “Mr. Arpaio has shown no remorse for” doing the job the federal government refused to do to protect Sen. RINO-McCain’s Arizona constituents.
          With these acts Trump has joined the ranks of previous presidents, doing things their enemies dislike. Remember liar-nObama’s “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” bragging on the “Affordable” Care Act, or “The police acted stupidly” trying to protect personal property, or when he curtsied to Muslim leaders upon meeting them?
          Many people do not like Donald Trump, a condition he readily contributes to by some actions, but also because he doesn’t do things the way they expect a president to do them. However, being different isn’t necessarily being wrong. Remember, in 1532 it was a certainty that the Earth was the center of all things. But Nicholaus Copernicus revived an ancient theory saying the sun was actually the center and Earth revolved around it. According to the existing beliefs, he was wrong. But he wasn’t.
          Many in the media and the public take Trump’s words literally without thinking about what he was trying to communicate. Yes, that may be hard work, but reporting accurately is also hard work, and reporters and talkingheads need to step up their game. Of course, Trump should do a better job of ensuring his words convey their intended meaning; but the media must remember that their job is to convey the true message, the intended message, and leave their petty, adolescent feelings aside.
          Reporters and media outlets are charged with accurately, objectively and fairly informing the public. Report what happens, good, bad and ugly, and let the people decide how to respond. Americans don’t need reporters to tell them what to think.
          America’s future is far more important than the hurt feelings and emotional upheavals of Trump’s enemies.  ~The Patriot Post
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Pro-Illegal Democrat JUDGE Usurps Texans,
BLOCKS TEXAS Sanctuary City LAW

{rickwells.us} ~ Another Democrat appointed so-called judge has injected himself into and obstructed the orderly exercise of authority by the Chief Executive and the legislature, this time on the state level, in Texas... US District Court Judge Orlando Luis Garcia has temporarily blocked most of Texas’ tough new “sanctuary cities” law which passed the legislature elected by the people and was signed by the governor, also elected by the people. Even in Texas the authoritarian globalist Democrats usurp the will of the people and rule by fiat. Among other measures, the law allows police to inquire about a person’s citizenship status, and if they’re not, their immigration status and permission to be in the United States during routine traffic stops. That would provide a means to fight back against the invasion, so naturally the leftists activated their puppet to put a stop to it...With Harvey in Texas, this liberal Judges makes his move.  http://rickwells.us/pro-illegal-democrat-judge-usurps-texans-blocks-texas-sanctuary-city-law/

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Petition demands FBI release Hillary's email records
by Alicia Powe
{wnd.com} ~ The American public is being asked to tell the Trump administration it wants the details about liar-Hillary Clinton’s email scandal to be made public... The petition on the White House website is a response to the FBI’s rejection of an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury. The FBI claims it doesn’t need to release all of the details because of “a lack of public interest.” The petition states points out that FBI records section chief David M. Hardy told investigator Ty Clevenger that he did not sufficiently demonstrate that the public’s interest in disclosing liar-Clinton’s FBI records “outweighed her personal privacy interests.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/petition-demands-fbi-release-hillarys-email-records/
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Charlottesville false narrative crushed by DHS warning
by Mark J. Fitzgibbons
{americanthinker.com} ~ Governor Terry McAuliffe’s efforts to evade responsibility for the shocking violence at Charlottesville just got even more implausible. He and local authorities were warned, and yet allowed, if not forced... the two violence-prone parties into such close proximity that violence was a near certainty. The Department of Homeland Security issued a confidential warning to law enforcement authorities three days before the deadly Aug. 12 Charlottesville protest rally, saying that an escalating series of clashes had created a powder keg that would likely make the event “among the most violent to date” between white supremacists and anarchists...  http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/charlottesville_false_narrative_crushed_by_dhs_warning.html
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Linda Sarsour’s Hurricane Harvey Scam
by Pamela Geller
{pamelageller.com} ~ Another day, another Sarsour scam. This is but another in a long line of Sarsour scams to fleece the infidel... Not one cent of the money Linda Sarsour is raising will be donated to people who have lost their cars, possessions, and even their entire homes. “Instead it’ll be poured straight into the pockets of activists such as Sarsour as they continue their political posturing, dividing the country over race and ‘inequality.’” Sarsour recently requested donations for the Harvey Hurricane Relief Fund, which, on its face, sounds innocuous enough. But it turns out that this fund is, in fact, a thinly veiled front for leftist community organizing. From the fund’s website...  https://pamelageller.com/2017/08/sarsour-hurricane-harvey-scam.html/
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RINO-MCCAIN Returning To LECTURE,
 Berate TRUMP Over TRANSGENDERS On NDAA
{rickwells.us} ~ RINO-John McCain isn’t doing the American people or President Trump any favors by returning to the Senate immediately following his chemotherapy treatments for cancer... That’s probably what motivates him. He’s only got a limited amount of time to stick it to President Trump and “those racist, small-minded rednecks” who voted for him. His days of trading influence for money and power are drawing to a close – time is critical. Politico reports that RINO-McCain will return to Washington next week, providing the Senate GOP with its full complement of 52 votes. With RINO-McCain there’s no certainty that he’ll be voting Republican, as he proved with his vote against replacing liar-nObamacare. He’s just as much returning as the Democrats’ 49th vote...  http://rickwells.us/mccain-returning-lecture-berate-trump-transgenders-ndaa/
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 The Need to Define 'Winning' in Afghanistan 
by Todd Johnson:  Last week, in a packed Conmy Hall at Joint Base Myer-Henderson, President Donald Trump made his long-awaited announcement about the United States’ future role in Afghanistan.
          After hearing Trump’s remarks, we’re heartened by a few of his comments. First, it was good to finally hear Trump acknowledge that making life and death decisions about national security issues as president is a lot different than following his instincts as a private citizen. While some may see this as a low bar to clear, it is still significant to note because it shows Trump publicly acknowledging the gravity of the office he holds.
          Second, he made a clear distinction about separating his administration from his predecessor when he articulated that his national security team will be focused on implementing a conditions-based approach rather than a strict timeline. This significant deviation from the previous administration is a positive first step in sending a message to the Afghan government, as well as to the governments of Pakistan, Iran and Russia, that America is committed to fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida, now and in the future.
          However, after ruminating on his speech the next day and examining the transcripts, we recalled the lyrics to “We Won’t Get Fooled Again,” penned by Pete Townshend of The Who. The last two lines of that song, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss,” perfectly encapsulates Trump’s failure, much like Barack liar-nObama, to set the strategic context of America’s future involvement in Afghanistan.
          As we wrote a few weeks ago, the purpose of war is to serve national-interest objectives and Trump failed to articulate that in his speech. He said, “Our troops will fight to win. We will fight to win.” But what does that mean?
          Many years ago, the famed military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “We see, therefore, that war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means.” In other words, wars are meant to further political goals, not just kill bad guys.
          When President Trump says we aren’t nation-building, he is missing the point of our presence in the region. In order for any country to function, it must have institutions that cater to the needs of the populace. The reason why any state becomes a safe haven for terrorists, from Somalia to Yemen to Afghanistan, is because of the central government’s inability to serve the people. Like it or not, by committing more American troops to Afghanistan, Trump is implicitly nation-building.
          Which made Trump’s conspicuous omission in his speech about the role of his State Department in Afghanistan more troubling. While he did state, “A fundamental pillar of our new strategy is the integration of all instruments of American power: diplomatic, economic and military,” he never elaborated about how his administration will fuse these efforts into one cohesive strategy.
          And that is a major problem with Trump’s speech, and by extension, his policy for the region. There are no clear-cut objectives. That ambiguity may serve to keep jihadis off balance, but it doesn’t help our nation commit to win.
          While Trump talks about “winning,” his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is saying that U.S. efforts are “intended to put pressure on the Taliban to have the Taliban understand you will not win a battlefield victory.” Yet he added, “We may not win one, but neither will you.” Talk about mixed messages.
          If President Trump wants to be serious about American efforts in Afghanistan and South Asia, he needs to oversee a series of measures that should be a combination of pragmatism and resolve.
          He and his team need to make a case about why we need to stay involved in the region. They need to explain to the American people, and the rest of the world, why the United States is committed to this fight and why it’s in our best interests to continue pouring blood and treasure into this part of the world.
          As America begins its 16th year of war in Afghanistan this fall, it’s time to reflect upon what has been accomplished and what still needs to be achieved. President Trump has the chance to make a difference but only time will tell if he is serious about committing the vast resources and leadership needed to achieve success on the ground.  ~The Patriot Post
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 The Need to Define 'Winning' in Afghanistan
by Todd Johnson
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 The Unhinged Left Still Can't Stomach Trump 
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by James Shott:   “Poor Donald, he can’t help it. He was born to do things wrong!”
          A president’s true effect on his country can’t be fully and accurately assessed until some time after his term ends. But looking at Donald Trump’s record so far indicates his effect will be almost 100% negative — at least if you believe obnoxiously biased media coverage and the estimates of his Democrat and leftist enemies.
          Sure, he’s been in office for only seven months, but all that really means is that his negative record is ultimately going to be absolutely YUGE and unparalleled! Right? Right? How could so many American voters have been so wrong last November?
          Trump is a man who has become famous only because his father gave him money, right? Daddy, we are told, provided gifts of $1 million or maybe $100 million. Detractors say that’s why he’s now worth $3.5 billion, according to Forbes, only 35 times the highest reported level of help of $100 million. What’s special about that? Surely any or all of the rest of us could have done that well?
          Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) saw this coming and wisely wanted to save the country all this pain by impeaching Trump before he was even sworn in as president. Perhaps she was in such a hurry because she wanted get it done before her trial for ethics violations begins. And some of her patriotic Democrat comrades are still working toward that end. Bless their hearts!
          And CNN “reporter” Jim Acosta — who has benefitted from his own journalistic failures since Trump made him famous by noticing and publicizing them — acted on an assumption. Immediately upon hearing the dire predictions of catastrophe of Hurricane Harvey advancing on the Texas coast, Acosta apparently assumed Trump was watching baseball rather than acting in advance of the storm to deal with the developing crisis. He tweeted at Trump with the question, “What is your administration doing about the hurricane to keep Texans safe?” By then, Trump and Texas Gov. Greg Abbott had already talked by phone and the federal government was already acting, and Abbott has praised the federal response. Oops!
          No doubt Al Gore will soon publish another book or make another movie with withering criticism of Donald’s exit from the Paris Climate Accord, that “doctrine with no teeth,” which Gore will swear could have turned the storm to the south, sparing America altogether.
          Sure, former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a hero to many Arizonans for his unwavering enforcement of federal immigration laws the federal government refused to enforce. The feds’ abdication meant great harm and discomfort to the people of Sen. RINO-John McCain’s home state. But how could Donald dare to pardon the man before he was even sentenced for the misdemeanor charges he was found guilty of — by a judge, not a jury — and robbing that judge of the pleasure of punishing a man she convicted during a witch hunt?
          Shouldn’t a president’s powers of pardon and commutation be reserved for people convicted of serious federal crimes, as Bill liar-Clinton did on his last day in office for 140 such criminals, some of whom were his relatives and friends? Or, for releasing 1,500 federal prisoners and Gitmo detainees, as Barack liar-nObama did over eight years?
          Even some so-called Republicans, like the aforementioned RINO-John McCain, are critical of Trump. RINO-McCain said the timing was bad and especially so because “Mr. Arpaio has shown no remorse for” doing the job the federal government refused to do to protect Sen. RINO-McCain’s Arizona constituents.
          With these acts Trump has joined the ranks of previous presidents, doing things their enemies dislike. Remember liar-nObama’s “If you like your doctor, you can keep your doctor,” bragging on the “Affordable” Care Act, or “The police acted stupidly” trying to protect personal property, or when he curtsied to Muslim leaders upon meeting them?
          Many people do not like Donald Trump, a condition he readily contributes to by some actions, but also because he doesn’t do things the way they expect a president to do them. However, being different isn’t necessarily being wrong. Remember, in 1532 it was a certainty that the Earth was the center of all things. But Nicholaus Copernicus revived an ancient theory saying the sun was actually the center and Earth revolved around it. According to the existing beliefs, he was wrong. But he wasn’t.
          Many in the media and the public take Trump’s words literally without thinking about what he was trying to communicate. Yes, that may be hard work, but reporting accurately is also hard work, and reporters and talkingheads need to step up their game. Of course, Trump should do a better job of ensuring his words convey their intended meaning; but the media must remember that their job is to convey the true message, the intended message, and leave their petty, adolescent feelings aside.
          Reporters and media outlets are charged with accurately, objectively and fairly informing the public. Report what happens, good, bad and ugly, and let the people decide how to respond. Americans don’t need reporters to tell them what to think.
          America’s future is far more important than the hurt feelings and emotional upheavals of Trump’s enemies.  ~The Patriot Post
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Pro-Illegal Democrat JUDGE Usurps Texans,
BLOCKS TEXAS Sanctuary City LAW
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{rickwells.us} ~ Another Democrat appointed so-called judge has injected himself into and obstructed the orderly exercise of authority by the Chief Executive and the legislature, this time on the state level, in Texas... US District Court Judge Orlando Luis Garcia has temporarily blocked most of Texas’ tough new “sanctuary cities” law which passed the legislature elected by the people and was signed by the governor, also elected by the people. Even in Texas the authoritarian globalist Democrats usurp the will of the people and rule by fiat. Among other measures, the law allows police to inquire about a person’s citizenship status, and if they’re not, their immigration status and permission to be in the United States during routine traffic stops. That would provide a means to fight back against the invasion, so naturally the leftists activated their puppet to put a stop to it...With Harvey in Texas, this liberal Judges makes his move.  http://rickwells.us/pro-illegal-democrat-judge-usurps-texans-blocks-texas-sanctuary-city-law/

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Petition demands FBI release Hillary's email records
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by Alicia Powe
{wnd.com} ~ The American public is being asked to tell the Trump administration it wants the details about liar-Hillary Clinton’s email scandal to be made public... The petition on the White House website is a response to the FBI’s rejection of an open-records request by a lawyer seeking to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury. The FBI claims it doesn’t need to release all of the details because of “a lack of public interest.” The petition states points out that FBI records section chief David M. Hardy told investigator Ty Clevenger that he did not sufficiently demonstrate that the public’s interest in disclosing liar-Clinton’s FBI records “outweighed her personal privacy interests.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/petition-demands-fbi-release-hillarys-email-records/
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Charlottesville false narrative crushed by DHS warning
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by Mark J. Fitzgibbons
{americanthinker.com} ~ Governor Terry McAuliffe’s efforts to evade responsibility for the shocking violence at Charlottesville just got even more implausible. He and local authorities were warned, and yet allowed, if not forced... the two violence-prone parties into such close proximity that violence was a near certainty. The Department of Homeland Security issued a confidential warning to law enforcement authorities three days before the deadly Aug. 12 Charlottesville protest rally, saying that an escalating series of clashes had created a powder keg that would likely make the event “among the most violent to date” between white supremacists and anarchists...  http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/08/charlottesville_false_narrative_crushed_by_dhs_warning.html
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Linda Sarsour’s Hurricane Harvey Scam
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by Pamela Geller
{pamelageller.com} ~ Another day, another Sarsour scam. This is but another in a long line of Sarsour scams to fleece the infidel... Not one cent of the money Linda Sarsour is raising will be donated to people who have lost their cars, possessions, and even their entire homes. “Instead it’ll be poured straight into the pockets of activists such as Sarsour as they continue their political posturing, dividing the country over race and ‘inequality.’” Sarsour recently requested donations for the Harvey Hurricane Relief Fund, which, on its face, sounds innocuous enough. But it turns out that this fund is, in fact, a thinly veiled front for leftist community organizing. From the fund’s website...  https://pamelageller.com/2017/08/sarsour-hurricane-harvey-scam.html/
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RINO-MCCAIN Returning To LECTURE,
 Berate TRUMP Over TRANSGENDERS On NDAA
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{rickwells.us} ~ RINO-John McCain isn’t doing the American people or President Trump any favors by returning to the Senate immediately following his chemotherapy treatments for cancer... That’s probably what motivates him. He’s only got a limited amount of time to stick it to President Trump and “those racist, small-minded rednecks” who voted for him. His days of trading influence for money and power are drawing to a close – time is critical. Politico reports that RINO-McCain will return to Washington next week, providing the Senate GOP with its full complement of 52 votes. With RINO-McCain there’s no certainty that he’ll be voting Republican, as he proved with his vote against replacing liar-nObamacare. He’s just as much returning as the Democrats’ 49th vote...  http://rickwells.us/mccain-returning-lecture-berate-trump-transgenders-ndaa/
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 The Need to Define 'Winning' in Afghanistan 
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by Todd Johnson:  Last week, in a packed Conmy Hall at Joint Base Myer-Henderson, President Donald Trump made his long-awaited announcement about the United States’ future role in Afghanistan.
          After hearing Trump’s remarks, we’re heartened by a few of his comments. First, it was good to finally hear Trump acknowledge that making life and death decisions about national security issues as president is a lot different than following his instincts as a private citizen. While some may see this as a low bar to clear, it is still significant to note because it shows Trump publicly acknowledging the gravity of the office he holds.
          Second, he made a clear distinction about separating his administration from his predecessor when he articulated that his national security team will be focused on implementing a conditions-based approach rather than a strict timeline. This significant deviation from the previous administration is a positive first step in sending a message to the Afghan government, as well as to the governments of Pakistan, Iran and Russia, that America is committed to fighting the Taliban and al-Qaida, now and in the future.
          However, after ruminating on his speech the next day and examining the transcripts, we recalled the lyrics to “We Won’t Get Fooled Again,” penned by Pete Townshend of The Who. The last two lines of that song, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss,” perfectly encapsulates Trump’s failure, much like Barack liar-nObama, to set the strategic context of America’s future involvement in Afghanistan.
          As we wrote a few weeks ago, the purpose of war is to serve national-interest objectives and Trump failed to articulate that in his speech. He said, “Our troops will fight to win. We will fight to win.” But what does that mean?
          Many years ago, the famed military theorist Carl von Clausewitz wrote, “We see, therefore, that war is not merely an act of policy but a true political instrument, a continuation of political intercourse carried on with other means.” In other words, wars are meant to further political goals, not just kill bad guys.
          When President Trump says we aren’t nation-building, he is missing the point of our presence in the region. In order for any country to function, it must have institutions that cater to the needs of the populace. The reason why any state becomes a safe haven for terrorists, from Somalia to Yemen to Afghanistan, is because of the central government’s inability to serve the people. Like it or not, by committing more American troops to Afghanistan, Trump is implicitly nation-building.
          Which made Trump’s conspicuous omission in his speech about the role of his State Department in Afghanistan more troubling. While he did state, “A fundamental pillar of our new strategy is the integration of all instruments of American power: diplomatic, economic and military,” he never elaborated about how his administration will fuse these efforts into one cohesive strategy.
          And that is a major problem with Trump’s speech, and by extension, his policy for the region. There are no clear-cut objectives. That ambiguity may serve to keep jihadis off balance, but it doesn’t help our nation commit to win.
          While Trump talks about “winning,” his secretary of state, Rex Tillerson, is saying that U.S. efforts are “intended to put pressure on the Taliban to have the Taliban understand you will not win a battlefield victory.” Yet he added, “We may not win one, but neither will you.” Talk about mixed messages.
          If President Trump wants to be serious about American efforts in Afghanistan and South Asia, he needs to oversee a series of measures that should be a combination of pragmatism and resolve.
          He and his team need to make a case about why we need to stay involved in the region. They need to explain to the American people, and the rest of the world, why the United States is committed to this fight and why it’s in our best interests to continue pouring blood and treasure into this part of the world.
          As America begins its 16th year of war in Afghanistan this fall, it’s time to reflect upon what has been accomplished and what still needs to be achieved. President Trump has the chance to make a difference but only time will tell if he is serious about committing the vast resources and leadership needed to achieve success on the ground.  ~The Patriot Post
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Thurs/Med-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Hurricane Harvey Drowns
the Left’s Big Government God
by Susan Stamper Brown
 
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 Who Paid for That Dubious Trump/Russia Dossier? 
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Political Editors:  Last week, Fusion GPS founder Glen Simpson gave his written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee regarding the phony dossier about Donald Trump the company produced. The question that Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) has asked repeatedly and has yet to receive an answer to is simple: Who originally paid Fusion GPS to investigate Trump? When the story came out last year, it was reported that a “wealthy Republican donor” was Fusion GPS’s original client. It was not until later that liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign then hired the firm. Simpson, however, is still refusing to identify this client.
          So, who is this mysterious individual? It’s looking less likely than ever that one of Trump’s Republican primary opponents is responsible. In fact, the “wealthy Republican donor” description doesn’t necessitate that the individual in question was actually a card-carrying member of the GOP, as it is a well-established practice that those with various business interests often donate to both parties to build political favorability. Trump has admitted to doing so himself.
         A second curious angle to the dossier mystery regards the FBI’s involvement and use of
the discredited document. The Senate Judiciary Committee has sent repeated requests that the FBI make two of its top agents available for questioning on matters regarding the dossier. The FBI has so far refused. The question Grassley wants answered is whether the FBI used the dubious dossier as a pretext to gain FISA approval for surveillance of Trump campaign personnel.
          There are many questions remaining that need answering before the truth behind the whole Russian election interference is fully understood and known. But what is pretty clear is that there is still no evidence of collusion~The Patriot Post

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SESSIONS DOJ, FBI Obstruct Release Of liar-CLINTON
Docs Again – Claim Not Enough Public Interest
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{rickwells.us} ~ Three questions need to be asked in light of a recent outrageous determination made by the FBI. Is this or is it not the Trump administration? Is Jeff Sessions the Trump “law and order” Attorney General?... Why in the world is the FBI still covering up for liar-Hillary Clinton and helping her escape justice? Once again a request to for access to the notorious liar-Clinton emails has been denied and the obstruction machinery continues to roll on. How deep does the corruption run and to what extent has it compromised the current administration, particularly the AG? What happened to the promise to “Lock her up” for her crimes? It’s looking more and more like the incredible situation when the American people all knew that Hussein liar-nObama was lying about who he was and no one would investigate. We all know liar-Clinton is guilty hundreds of times over and not a peep out of Sessions and company. When they do act, it’s as if Hussein liar-Obama is still pulling the strings...  http://rickwells.us/sessions-doj-fbi-obstruct-release-clinton-docs-claim-not-enough-public-interest/

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California Democrat Maxine Waters
Charged on 3 Counts
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by Alice Greene
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ The House Ethics Committee has finally charged Maxine Waters (D-CA) with corruption. Here’s what she did... In 2008, Maxine arranged a meeting between the Treasury Department and representatives of OneUnited bank - where her husband was a notable shareholder.  As a member of the House Financial Committee, she was able to directly contact then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson to speak with him about meeting with minority-owned banks. Through her efforts, OneUnited bank was able to obtain $12 million in federal bailout funding to help cover expected losses from the collapse of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. If OneUnited had gone under, Maxine’s husband could have lost as much as $350,000. Oh, and she hired her own grandson Mikael Moore to work as her chief of staff...There's More.  http://punchingbagpost.com/california-democrat-maxine-waters-charged-on-3-counts
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Radical Antifa Group Targets the Police
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by Steve Byas
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Nationalization of the police is a longtime goal of the Left, and the targeting of local police by a violent Antifa group supports that goal... Since President Donald Trump responded to the recent violence in Charlottesville, Virginia, by condemning “hatred, bigotry, and violence on many sides,” it has become clear that the left-leaning media is going to cast the violent leftist Antifa movement as simply engaged in “resistance” to racist “hate groups,” such as the Ku Klux Klan and neo-Nazis. Then all persons opposed to the Marxist agenda of Antifa are falsely portrayed as the same as those two groups. The reality is that Nazi is short for “National Socialist,” the political party of Adolf Hitler — a party of the Left in Germany that favored social welfare programs and heavy-handed government control of the economy and the culture...You knew this was coming https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/26795-radical-antifa-group-targets-the-police
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Putin Issues Alarming Orders at NK Border…
Things Just Escalated
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by Martin Lioll
{conservativetribune.com} ~ The biggest sign from a world leader that trouble may be afoot on the Korean Peninsula after Kim Jong Un’s latest missile launch comes not from the crazy fat kid himself. Instead... Vladimir Putin made headlines when his Russian government quietly ordered 1,500 people out of a city close to the North Korean border. The U.K. Express reported that Russian media outlets announced the alarming evacuation shortly after the latest missile test by North Korea, which flew over the Japanese island of Hokkaido. A verbal order was given to relocate 1,500 people to safe areas,” Russian social media outlet Mash reported Tuesday afternoon. “The order came from the regional department of the Russian Ministry of Emergencies.”...  http://conservativetribune.com/developing-putin-issues-border/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=CTBreaking&utm_campaign=breaking&utm_content=2017-08-30
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Limbaugh – Trump Isolated By Dems And
Failure-First GOP Sellouts In Congress
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{rickwells.us} ~ Limbaugh takes a short but thorough trip back over the past eight-plus years since the liar-nObama nightmare first began and the ineptitudes and false promises of the Republicans began to come to the forefront... After gradually overtaking power from the Democrats and now holding both chambers of Congress as well as the White House, the Republicans have no more excuses and it is their worst nightmare come true. They have to govern, they have to fulfill their promises or be exposed for the frauds, legislative weaklings and do-nothing sellouts that used to hide behind the Democrats and make excuses. They’re still making excuses but it’s not helping their cause. It’s only continuing to expose them as the phonies they are. The clouds of misdirection and distraction have been lifted from their deception by the opportunity Americans have given them and their failure to make any moves towards capitalizing on it. They can’t govern, they can barely stand up on two legs...  http://rickwells.us/limbaugh-trump-isolated-dems-failure-first-gop-sellouts-congress/
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Hurricane Harvey Drowns
the Left’s Big Government God
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by Susan Stamper Brown
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townhall.com} ~Democrat mayors are making quite a name for themselves these days.

Vote for one, and there’s a good chance you’ll be extremely disappointed.  You might even find yourself floating your kids down the road in a refrigerator like a guy in Houston did back in 2016, one year before Hurricane Harvey.

Back then, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner found himself standing in hot water with residents in an area of Houston prone to flooding who expected more from their mayor. One resident said, “We’re just frustrated. There was no help for us,” KHOU-TV News reported.

What’s happening in Houston now feels like it’s 2005 all over again. Former Democrat mayor, Ray Nagin discouraged New Orleans residents from evacuating like Mayor Turner who also encouraged Houston residents to stay put. Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, offered other advice: “Even if an evacuation order hasn’t been issued by your local official, if you’re in an area between Corpus Christi and Houston, you need to strongly consider evacuating.”

So, who is to blame for people stranded on rooftops?

While everyone wants to blame it on President Trump, as I’ve written before, the government is not our savior, so people need to get over the blame game and take care of themselves if they are physically and mentally able.

Those who don’t, join the rank of perpetual victims when they refuse to acknowledge that they are able, with God’s help, to take control over the rising water of their circumstances. Instead, they choose to assume zero responsibility for their situation and sit on the rooftop of their despair waiting for their government “savior” to rescue them. But it rarely does.

It is a lie to believe every malady known to man has absolutely nothing to do with poor choices, bad judgment or weak character. We cannot control nature, but we can make wise choices in the face of nature’s onslaught.

Mark my words, the left-leaning media will do their best to blame everything on President Trump the same way they blamed Bush for Katrina. Bush cut his vacation short to do a flyover of New Orleans, yet was accused of being a racist by those seeking to paint a sitting Republican president in the worst possible light.

Of course, they looked the other way in 2016 when former President liar-nObama continued to play golf at Martha’s Vineyard as if nothing were happening during the Baton Rouge flooding.

Don’t be surprised if NBC News’ Brian Williams shows up in Houston like he did in New Orleans. Williams and NBC News were awarded the Peabody award for misreporting un-facts about un-events the Washington Post said Williams perhaps “misremembered” the same way he misremembered his helicopter misadventure in Iraq. Williams was eventually demoted for the kind of tale telling one would expect to hear while eating smores around a campfire at Lake Wobegon.

Surely, the media will go fishing in the floods for a million ways to blame Trump, it is heartwarming to know that during a devastating time such as this we have a president who cares.

liar-nObama found time to pull away from Martha’s Vineyard to attend a posh liar-Hillary fundraiser, but was too busy to be comforter-in-chief in Baton Rouge. liar-nObama was just smoke-and-mirrors. As a senator, he condemned Bush as the “president who only saw the people from the window of an airplane instead of down here on the ground to provide comfort and aid…”

At least Bush showed up. And Trump too, wisely planning to visit locations hit by Harvey, while judiciously avoiding areas where his presence could interrupt evacuations or emergency response.

Unlike the guy whom leftists believed walked on water and who promised on his watch the planet would heal and the waters would recede. Looking at Houston right now, it obviously didn’t.
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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Hurricanes, Solar Eclipses, and Divine Judgment
by Minister Michael Brown
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 Thursday Top Headlines 
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U.S. revised second-quarter GDP up 3.0% vs. 2.7% rise expected. (CNBC)
 
Neighbors helping neighbors in Texas — a snapshot of Americans united.
 
Harvey death toll surpasses 30; more fatalities expected. (Associated Press)
 
Two explosions rock flooded Houston-area chemical plant. (The Washington Times)
 
Of course, the Demo/MSM has already decided Harvey is the result of “climate change.” (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Trump’s tax reform plan can create millions of new jobs. (The Daily Signal)
 
Americans spend more on taxes than food and clothing combined. (CNS News)
 
Denmark lowers taxes to increase employment. (Bloomberg)
 
Southern Poverty Law Center transfers millions in cash to offshore entities (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Wasserman Schultz IT staffer banned from House network months ago still has active account. (The Daily Signal)
 
Federal judge temporarily blocks Texas law cracking down on sanctuary cities. (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
 
Dianne Feinstein calls for “patience” on Donald Trump. (The Washington Times)
 
Teachers resort to emojis, GIFs and memes to reach Generation Z. (New York Post)
 
Indiana teacher asks first-graders to stop talking about God in class. (The Washington Times)
 
Policy: The U.S. tax system needs fundamental reform. (Republican National Committee)
 
Policy: Disaster management has come a long way since Katrina. (City Journal~The Patriot Post
JACKSON LEE Fakes Staying At Houston Shelter,
Can’t Tell Super Storm SANDY From SANDY HOOK
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Sheila Jackson Lee is a resident of Houston who can’t get to her home as a result of Hurricane Harvey flooding... Unfortunately for the people at the Red Cross Shelter set up at the Houston Convention Center, she’s decided to pretend that she’s staying there. It’s too bad for the CNN Fake News anchors as well, as they’re forced to compete with the overhead loudspeakers during the interview. It wouldn’t look right being interviewed while relaxing at her friend’s house on the couch while others are suffering. She has to at least appear to be “one of the people.” While Harvey is surely an inconvenience and possibly more to Jackson Lee, she won’t be sleeping on the floor next to the common folk. They’ve got enough problems without having to be concerned about her wandering around at night while they’re sleeping. She’ll just stick around long enough to make it look good...  http://rickwells.us/jackson-lee-fakes-staying-houston-shelter-tell-super-storm-sandy-sandy-hook/
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Gorka: Bureaucrats, Policymakers
Opposing Trump Agenda
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by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ President Trump's agenda has been stymied by government bureaucrats and some of his political appointees opposed to tougher policies on terrorism and new approaches to countering Chinese economic warfare, former White House adviser Sebastian Gorka says... Gorka, until recently deputy assistant to the president and a counterterrorism expert, resigned on Monday following the departure of several senior national security officials who were forced out or sidelined as part of an effort to purge the White House of conservative hardliners. The most significant departure was the resignation of chief White House strategist Steve Bannon who Gorka directly worked for...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/gorka-bureaucrats-policymakers-opposing-trump-agenda/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7b7c884724-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7b7c884724-45611665
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liar-nObama Admin Hid Intel on
Iranian Militants in Syria to Push Nuclear Deal
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by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ The liar-nObama administration likely hid information about Iran illicitly ferrying militants into Syria on commercial aircraft in order to promote the landmark nuclear deal and foster multi-billion dollar business deals... with Tehran's state-controlled airline sector, according to lawmakers and other sources familiar with the matter. The Washington Free Beacon first disclosed last week that congressional leaders are calling for an investigation into Iran for using its state-controlled air carrier, Iran Air, to ferry militant fighters into Syria, where they are taking up arms in defense of embattled President Bashar al-Assad. Photographs provided to Congress show Iran using Iran Air to ferry these soldiers between 2016 and 2017, in part when the liar-nObama administration removed sanctions on Iran Air and promoted multi-billion dollars sales between the carrier and aircraft manufacturer Boeing...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-hid-intel-iranian-militants-syria-push-nuclear-deal/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7b7c884724-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7b7c884724-45611665
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US shoots down ballistic missile in
test amid recent North Korean provocations
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{foxnews.com} ~ The U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced Wednesday that it successfully shot down a medium-range ballistic missile off the coast of Hawaii in a new test of its missile defense system at sea... The USS John Paul Jones, a guided-missile destroyer successfully launched an SM-6 interceptor missile to shoot down the target. “We are working closely with the fleet to develop this important new capability, and this was a key milestone in giving our Aegis BMD ships an enhanced capability to defeat ballistic missiles in their terminal phase,” MDA Director Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves said in a statement. “We will continue developing ballistic missile defense technologies to stay ahead of the threat as it evolves.”...  http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/08/30/us-test-to-shoot-down-ballistic-missile-success-amid-recent-north-korean-provocations.html
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President Trump Gives Encouragement To People of Texas
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Professor Tweets Harvey Is Karma For Texas Voting Trump: Gets Fired
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Sgt. Steve Perez RIP; Killed By Flood While Trying To Save Houston Lives
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ACU’s Matt Schlapp Talks Trump & Hurricane Harvey
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Is North Korea Gearing Up For A 6th Nuclear Bomb Test?
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The All Volunteer-Cajun Navy To The Rescue
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Democrat Governor of Louisiana Praises POTUS & Govt Response To Hurricane
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Hurricanes, Solar Eclipses, and Divine Judgment
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by Minister Michael Brown
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townhall.com} ~ In the course of one short week, America witnessed an extremely unique solar eclipse and then watched the state of Texas get hit with a catastrophic hurricane. Is God trying to get our attention, or is it foolish and even dangerous to speculate like this?

On the one hand, we have not had a similar eclipse in America since 1776, as it’s the first total eclipse visible only in the USA since the year of our founding. That is certainly striking.

And, when the path of the next solar eclipse, which is expected in 2024, is charted on a map, it intersects with this year’s eclipse in the form of a giant X over the nation. That is also quite striking.

There are other, interesting facts connected to the August 21 eclipse, and an Orthodox rabbi in Israel has pointed out in rabbinic literature, eclipses were signs of judgment (see Sukkah 29a in the Babylonian Talmud).

Not only so, but the eclipse came at a dark time in our nation’s history, with deepening divisions on every front.

Could it be that God was speaking to us through this eclipse? Surely, if this took place in biblical times it would have been taken as a divine sign. Should we take it as one today?

Perhaps, but we need to tread carefully here, since it’s just as wrong to speak for God when He’s not speaking as it is to miss His voice when He does speak.

When it comes to the eclipse, those who witnessed it around the country had a sense of awe and wonder, not a sense of dread and fear. And, for the most part, those who believe that God created the universe sensed the majesty of the Creator in the eclipse more than a sign of impending judgment.

I’m not saying that the solar eclipse was not a divine warning sign. I’m simply saying that we need a lot more evidence, accompanied with a clear prophetic warning, before we make a solemn pronouncement.

When it comes to hurricanes, we need to be even more careful before making divine pronouncements, as tempting as it can be to do so.

For example, it was striking that Hurricane Katrina wiped out the Southern Decadence, gay pride event in New Orleans, a gay pride event worthy of its name. Many Christians felt it was a clearly an act of divine judgment.

And there were some who claimed that Katrina was a judgment on America for pressuring Israel to get out of Gaza, resulting in the forced and painful resettling of thousands of Jews. Similarly, Katrina displaced thousands of Americans who now became refugees in other states.

But are we prepared to look into the eyes of the families who lost loved ones in Katrina, some of whom were devout believers, and tell them their loved ones were struck down in an act of divine judgment because of our treatment of Israel?

Right now, the city of Houston is bearing much of the brunt of Hurricane Harvey. Yet, from a Christian perspective, Houston is one of the few cities that has stood bravely against the rising tide of LGBT activism. Why would God single out Houston for judgment?

Read the account of Christian apologist Jeremiah Johnston, a husband and father of five including 13-month-old triplets, as he describes what it’s like to be living in Houston right now. Are you willing to tell him along with the families of the bereaved that this hurricane is divine judgment?

Again, had we been living in biblical times, we would have recognized a hurricane like this as a sign of divine judgment, repenting of our sins and asking for mercy. And certainly, there’s no way that we could view something like Hurricane Harvey as a blessing from God. Also, events like this remind us of our fragility and of God’s power, which often lead us to prayer.

But we must be very careful before we make divine pronouncements about hurricanes and other natural disasters, as if they were specific acts of divine judgment against specific sets of sinners.

I once polled my radio audience about hurricanes, asking whether they were acts of divine judgment.

One caller asked, “If that’s the case, why don’t the hurricanes wipe out churches first, since there’s so much sin in our midst?”

Another caller said, “If God wanted to get our attention, why not send a hurricane to a part of the country that normally doesn’t get hurricanes? Or why not send it at a time of the year when hurricanes are rare?” This tornado would seem to fit the description of an unusual event, pointing to divine judgment.

I believe these are fair questions and observations, reminding us that we need to be careful before making divine pronouncements.

Are you 100 percent sure that the eclipse and hurricane are acts of divine judgment? If not, perhaps you should think and pray more before posting and speaking? On the other hand, are you 100 percent sure that they are not acts of judgment? If so, perhaps you should think and pray more before attacking those with whom you differ?

Either way, I hope we can we agree on this: America needs the Lord right now, and we should join together in asking God to have mercy on our nation, especially on those suffering effects of Hurricane Harvey today.
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Can the GOP's Shotgun Marriage Be Saved?
by Pat Buchanan
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 Scenes From Houston 
by Nate Jackson:  The devastation in Houston is astounding, and most Americans are riveted and appalled by the damage, chaos and death created by the storm that’s just parked over Texas and Louisiana. There are stories of failed leadership, of course — poor planning regarding developments and reservoirs and the like — but there are also stories of bravery, rescue and provision. It’s heartening to see some of the best of humanity exhibited by our fellow Americans at a time when divisiveness is the typical story of the day.
          Law enforcement has taken the lead in doing what’s necessary to help people reach safety from flood zones. Citizens are helping the officers too, providing food and water as they perform rescues. Additionally, FEMA, the Texas government and big organizations like Red Cross are playing a critical role. But one aspect that jumps out to us is how many residents are helping themselves and those around them, without waiting on the government and without regard for race or creed. One of the officers on duty, Jocelyn George, said, “These are residents taking action on their own. It is very typical of the area. I have been here for 13 years, and every time we have had an issue, the residents step up and they try to take care of themselves.”
     This was on display when a small group of men simply gathered trucks and boats to help
evacuate people. Another group exists almost solely for that purpose — the Cajun Navy, a
private Louisiana organization specializing in boat rescues of people trapped by floodwaters. Three of its members resuscitated a 73-year-old woman in the midst of the flood. “We’re all sportsmen around here,” said the Cajun Navy’s John Bridgers. “Pretty much every other person has a boat. So we got going.” That’s the American spirit at its best.
          A final note: Hurricane Harvey is “unprecedented” in its incredibly slow speed, but not necessarily in the rain it’s dropped. The storm’s intensity — it was Category 4 at landfall — isn’t unprecedented either. Dr. Roy Spencer, a former NASA scientist and climatologist, writes, “The U.S. has had only four Category 4 (or stronger) hurricane strikes since 1970, but in about the same number of years preceding 1970 there were 14 strikes. So we can’t say that we are experiencing more intense hurricanes in recent decades. Going back even earlier, a Category 4 hurricane struck Galveston in 1900, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people. That was the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history. And don’t forget, we just went through an unprecedented length of time — almost 12 years — without a major hurricane (Cat 3 or stronger) making landfall in the U.S.”
          In short, disasters are indeed horrible, and Harvey is a particularly bad one. But don’t buy the hype of those selling climate change alarmism via “nature hikes through the book of Revelation” and so forth. Mankind never has been able to tame nature entirely. But we can help each other cope.  ~The Patriot Post
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SURRENDER CAUCUS – MEADOWS
Advocating Another Sellout On Border WALL
{rickwells.us} ~ Anytime Congress needs to stand strong with President Trump and the American people we can rest assured we’ll see a cloud of dust, and a tsunami of blue suits surging out of sight... President Trump promised us a border wall and every effort he makes fulfilling that pledge is thwarted by the corrupt inhabitants of Capitol Hill. The latest bit of treachery to be unleashed upon us came from an unlikely source, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC). He’s played the role of the staunch conservative, the guy who got rid of backstabber-Boehner, originally welcomed as a blessing but which ultimately led to us being saddled with Paul Ryan. As the leader of the Freedom Caucus Meadows certainly talks a good and convincing game. But his actions don’t speak as loudly as his claims when it comes to the border wall. Republicans are experts at finding a way to back out of their commitments and to surrender to the Democrats... http://rickwells.us/surrender-caucus-meadows-advocating-another-sellout-border-wall/
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Keith Ogre-mann: Conde Nast-y's misogynist-in-chief
{wnd.com} ~ Once a woman-hating blowhard, always a woman-hating blowhard.

Keith Olbermann, the “new” face of the Democratic resistance on Conde Nast’s digital video platform, is the same old foul-mouthed beast he was on cable TV.

Over the weekend, the former MSNBC frother went berserk over Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s anodyne call for prayers “for all those in the path of #HurricaneHarvey” and her promise to “assist impacted schools.”

“The hurricane is going to do less damage to schools than you are, Motherf–-er,” Olbermann snarled in response and no, he did not use dashes in his unfiltered, uncensored tweet.

The Twitter Trust and Safety Council, established with much fanfare last year to promote tolerance, discourage bullies and ensure “people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter,” was nowhere to be found.

Neither were the rest of the civility police who’ve been lamenting the dangerous climate of hate against all females purportedly fomented by President Trump.

Here’s the thing. There are myriad reasons to criticize Betsy DeVos, whatever side of the political spectrum you occupy. Grass-roots education activists on the right, for example, wish the White House had chosen a proven warrior in the fight against Fed Ed instead of a well-heeled, establishment GOP donor who was for the Common Core racket in Michigan before she was against it. On the left, public education union bosses oppose DeVos’s push for expansion of public charter schools and vouchers.

And at the intersection of left and right, informed parents fear DeVos represents the corporate education cronyism of both the Bush and liar-nObama administrations that drove federal testing, technology, and curriculum programs.

But that’s not Olbermann’s beef. DeVos is a Republican. She’s a woman. Therefore, she’s subhuman and deserves his profane attacks.

History, like a one-trick Neanderthal egotist, repeats itself. Conde Nast-y’s chief Trump-basher is a serial verbal abuser of outspoken conservative women. What’s remarkable is how easily Olbermann cruised into his new role at Conde Nast as the progressive point person against Donald Trump, whom the resistance rage-bot calls “a man not in his right mind.”

Let’s talk about unhingedness.

Of TV commentator S.E. Cupp, Olbermann sniped: “She’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.”

Of lawyer and author Ann Coulter, he hurled this transphobic insult: “If this guy wants to live his life as a woman, I’m gonna back his choice up 100 percent.”

And of yours truly, he railed against my “total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”

Conde Nast, which has now sponsored two seasons of Olbermann’s internet diatribes, has nothing to say about his lunatic hang-up with conservative women. Yet, the New York-based publishing conglomerate, which owns left-wing politics, fashion and culture magazines including GQ, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Allure, Vogue and Teen Vogue, churns out endless, glossy pages assailing the Trump era’s “manifest misogyny” and “unconscious, unending sexism.”

And the company cashed in on inaugural protests with a “special edition” magazine titled, “Rise Up! The Women’s Marches Around the World.” One-sided narratives on the war on women sell.

So, who will be Olbermann’s next GOP target of sexist slander? What innocent comment from a female Trump supporter or Cabinet member will prompt his next f-bomb-laden tirade?

I know this for sure: Whoever this toddler-brained bully fumes at ad feminam and ad nauseam, smug elites in the New York publishing world will shrug their Burberry scarf-wrapped shoulders and look the other way.

Pussy-hat hypocrisy means never having to say you’re sorry for lifting up a worse ogre than the one you think you’re bringing down.
 
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Keith Ogre-mann: Conde Nast-y's misogynist-in-chief
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 by Michelle Malkin

 
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 Scenes From Houston 
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by Nate Jackson:  The devastation in Houston is astounding, and most Americans are riveted and appalled by the damage, chaos and death created by the storm that’s just parked over Texas and Louisiana. There are stories of failed leadership, of course — poor planning regarding developments and reservoirs and the like — but there are also stories of bravery, rescue and provision. It’s heartening to see some of the best of humanity exhibited by our fellow Americans at a time when divisiveness is the typical story of the day.
          Law enforcement has taken the lead in doing what’s necessary to help people reach safety from flood zones. Citizens are helping the officers too, providing food and water as they perform rescues. Additionally, FEMA, the Texas government and big organizations like Red Cross are playing a critical role. But one aspect that jumps out to us is how many residents are helping themselves and those around them, without waiting on the government and without regard for race or creed. One of the officers on duty, Jocelyn George, said, “These are residents taking action on their own. It is very typical of the area. I have been here for 13 years, and every time we have had an issue, the residents step up and they try to take care of themselves.”
     This was on display when a small group of men simply gathered trucks and boats to help
evacuate people. Another group exists almost solely for that purpose — the Cajun Navy, a
private Louisiana organization specializing in boat rescues of people trapped by floodwaters. Three of its members resuscitated a 73-year-old woman in the midst of the flood. “We’re all sportsmen around here,” said the Cajun Navy’s John Bridgers. “Pretty much every other person has a boat. So we got going.” That’s the American spirit at its best.
          A final note: Hurricane Harvey is “unprecedented” in its incredibly slow speed, but not necessarily in the rain it’s dropped. The storm’s intensity — it was Category 4 at landfall — isn’t unprecedented either. Dr. Roy Spencer, a former NASA scientist and climatologist, writes, “The U.S. has had only four Category 4 (or stronger) hurricane strikes since 1970, but in about the same number of years preceding 1970 there were 14 strikes. So we can’t say that we are experiencing more intense hurricanes in recent decades. Going back even earlier, a Category 4 hurricane struck Galveston in 1900, killing between 6,000 and 12,000 people. That was the greatest natural disaster in U.S. history. And don’t forget, we just went through an unprecedented length of time — almost 12 years — without a major hurricane (Cat 3 or stronger) making landfall in the U.S.”
          In short, disasters are indeed horrible, and Harvey is a particularly bad one. But don’t buy the hype of those selling climate change alarmism via “nature hikes through the book of Revelation” and so forth. Mankind never has been able to tame nature entirely. But we can help each other cope.  ~The Patriot Post
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SURRENDER CAUCUS – MEADOWS
Advocating Another Sellout On Border WALL
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{rickwells.us} ~ Anytime Congress needs to stand strong with President Trump and the American people we can rest assured we’ll see a cloud of dust, and a tsunami of blue suits surging out of sight... President Trump promised us a border wall and every effort he makes fulfilling that pledge is thwarted by the corrupt inhabitants of Capitol Hill. The latest bit of treachery to be unleashed upon us came from an unlikely source, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC). He’s played the role of the staunch conservative, the guy who got rid of backstabber-Boehner, originally welcomed as a blessing but which ultimately led to us being saddled with Paul Ryan. As the leader of the Freedom Caucus Meadows certainly talks a good and convincing game. But his actions don’t speak as loudly as his claims when it comes to the border wall. Republicans are experts at finding a way to back out of their commitments and to surrender to the Democrats... http://rickwells.us/surrender-caucus-meadows-advocating-another-sellout-border-wall/

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Keith Ogre-mann: Conde Nast-y's misogynist-in-chief
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 by Michelle Malkin
{wnd.com} ~ Once a woman-hating blowhard, always a woman-hating blowhard.

Keith Olbermann, the “new” face of the Democratic resistance on Conde Nast’s digital video platform, is the same old foul-mouthed beast he was on cable TV.

Over the weekend, the former MSNBC frother went berserk over Trump Education Secretary Betsy DeVos’s anodyne call for prayers “for all those in the path of #HurricaneHarvey” and her promise to “assist impacted schools.”

“The hurricane is going to do less damage to schools than you are, Motherf–-er,” Olbermann snarled in response and no, he did not use dashes in his unfiltered, uncensored tweet.

The Twitter Trust and Safety Council, established with much fanfare last year to promote tolerance, discourage bullies and ensure “people can continue to express themselves freely and safely on Twitter,” was nowhere to be found.

Neither were the rest of the civility police who’ve been lamenting the dangerous climate of hate against all females purportedly fomented by President Trump.

Here’s the thing. There are myriad reasons to criticize Betsy DeVos, whatever side of the political spectrum you occupy. Grass-roots education activists on the right, for example, wish the White House had chosen a proven warrior in the fight against Fed Ed instead of a well-heeled, establishment GOP donor who was for the Common Core racket in Michigan before she was against it. On the left, public education union bosses oppose DeVos’s push for expansion of public charter schools and vouchers.

And at the intersection of left and right, informed parents fear DeVos represents the corporate education cronyism of both the Bush and liar-nObama administrations that drove federal testing, technology, and curriculum programs.

But that’s not Olbermann’s beef. DeVos is a Republican. She’s a woman. Therefore, she’s subhuman and deserves his profane attacks.

History, like a one-trick Neanderthal egotist, repeats itself. Conde Nast-y’s chief Trump-basher is a serial verbal abuser of outspoken conservative women. What’s remarkable is how easily Olbermann cruised into his new role at Conde Nast as the progressive point person against Donald Trump, whom the resistance rage-bot calls “a man not in his right mind.”

Let’s talk about unhingedness.

Of TV commentator S.E. Cupp, Olbermann sniped: “She’s a perfect demonstration of the necessity of the work Planned Parenthood does.”

Of lawyer and author Ann Coulter, he hurled this transphobic insult: “If this guy wants to live his life as a woman, I’m gonna back his choice up 100 percent.”

And of yours truly, he railed against my “total mindless, morally bankrupt, knee-jerk, fascistic hatred, without which Michelle Malkin would just be a big mashed-up bag of meat with lipstick on it.”

Conde Nast, which has now sponsored two seasons of Olbermann’s internet diatribes, has nothing to say about his lunatic hang-up with conservative women. Yet, the New York-based publishing conglomerate, which owns left-wing politics, fashion and culture magazines including GQ, Vanity Fair, the New Yorker, Allure, Vogue and Teen Vogue, churns out endless, glossy pages assailing the Trump era’s “manifest misogyny” and “unconscious, unending sexism.”

And the company cashed in on inaugural protests with a “special edition” magazine titled, “Rise Up! The Women’s Marches Around the World.” One-sided narratives on the war on women sell.

So, who will be Olbermann’s next GOP target of sexist slander? What innocent comment from a female Trump supporter or Cabinet member will prompt his next f-bomb-laden tirade?

I know this for sure: Whoever this toddler-brained bully fumes at ad feminam and ad nauseam, smug elites in the New York publishing world will shrug their Burberry scarf-wrapped shoulders and look the other way.

Pussy-hat hypocrisy means never having to say you’re sorry for lifting up a worse ogre than the one you think you’re bringing down.
 
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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AND TONIGHT, IN THE ROLE OF HARRY TRUMAN…
by Burt Prelutsky
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 Wednesday Top Headlines
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Houston mayor imposes citywide curfew to curb looting. (The Hill)
 
UN condemns “outrageous” North Korea missile launch, Pyongyang says more to come. (Reuters)
 
U.S. Navy shoots down test ballistic missile amid rising tension with North Korea. (Washington Examiner)
 
FBI says lack of public interest in liar-Hillary emails justifies withholding documents. (The Washington Times)
 
Democrats’ Russia story hits another dead end. (Power Line)
 
We still have zero evidence that Trump colluded with Russia. (The Federalist)
 
Sarah Palin just lost her lawsuit against the New York Times. (Washington Examiner)
 
James Mattis freezes transgender military ban pending study; troops can still serve. (The Washington Times)
 
Asia Times: ship collisions raise specter of Chinese electronic warfare. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
White House won’t require firms to report pay by gender, race. (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
 
Freedom From Religion Foundation attacks Sen. Marco Rubio’s Bible verse tweets as unconstitutional. (Washington Examiner)
 
Griffin: “No longer sorry” for decapitated Trump head photo. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Berkeley mayor wants university of California to cancel “free speech week.” (CNS News)
 
liar-nObama admin hid intel on Iranian militants in Syria to push nuclear deal. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Policy: Taxes won’t eliminate federal deficits. (E21)
 
Policy: The coming politicalization of the 25th Amendment. (American Enterprise Institute)  ~The Patriot Post

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Rush LIMBAUGH Blasts Sanctimonious
Hypocrite CLAPPER TRUMP Hit Job
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rush Limbaugh had a few words to say about former DNI James “Not Wittingly” Clapper’s interview with CNN propagandist Little Donnie Lemon after the Phoenix Trump rally... Limbaugh says, “I’m sorry to be screechy here folks but this is just outrageous. This presumptuous ass, James Clapper.” He then goes into an impersonation of the comments made by the self-righteous phony political hack, saying how worried he is about President Trump’s mental state, that of his supporters and the fact that as President he has access to the nuclear codes. “Give me a break,” says Limbaugh. “You worked for a guy that was hell-bent on pandering to the enemies of the United States, enabling the Iranians, of all people, to ramp up their nuclear weapons arsenal on the basis that we don’t have the right to tell any nation what they can and can’t do.”...  http://rickwells.us/rush-limbaugh-blasts-sanctimonious-hypocrite-james-clappers-attack-trump/
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Congress Seeks to Cut U.S. Aid
to Islamic Charity Tied to Terror
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by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ A new congressional measure seeks to cut all U.S. funding for an Islamic charity that has been banned in some countries for providing assistance to Hamas and other terror-tied organizations, including the Muslim Brotherhood, the Washington Free Beacon has learned... The new measure, which was proposed as an amendment to Congress's yearly appropriations bill, which sets U.S. expenditures, would ban any taxpayer funds from being provided to Islamic Relief Worldwide, or IRW, a global charitable organization that has been linked to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. IRW is banned in some Middle Eastern countries for its alleged support of terror organizations, though the United States has continued to provide taxpayer funds to the organization under the liar-nObama administration, sparking outrage among some lawmakers and regional experts...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/congress-seeks-cut-u-s-aid-islamic-charity-tied-terror/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2fa4d2eca8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2fa4d2eca8-45611665
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FBI Refuses to Release Files on
liar-Clinton Investigation, Citing Public Disinterest
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by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ The FBI won’t release documents pertaining to the e-mail investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton, stating there’s not enough public interest surrounding the case... The bureau rejected an open-records request by lawyer Ty Clevenger who sought to have the former secretary of state punished for perjury, The Washington Times reports. He was sent a letter from the FBI on Monday which stated, “You have not sufficiently demonstrated that the public’s interest in disclosure outweighs personal privacy interests of the subject. It is incumbent upon the requester to provide documentation regarding the public’s interest in the operations and activities of the government before records can be processed pursuant to the FOIA [Freedom of Information Act]. The FBI says it will only release records from its files if a subject consents, is dead, or is of such public interest that it overrides privacy concerns...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/fbi-refuses-release-files-clinton-investigation-citing-public-disinterest
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Eric Trump Slams Russia Probe, Media:
'They Tried Really Hard'
by Todd Beamon
{newsmax.com} ~ Eric Trump on Tuesday slammed the Russia collusion investigation as "a total hoax" — telling Newsmax TV that the media was keeping it alive only because no matter what President Donald Trump does, "he's going to get hit."... "They tried really hard," Trump, 33, told "The Joe Pags Show" in an exclusive interview of the Russia probe. "They tried really hard, but it didn't fly. "And everybody realizes the whole thing was a total hoax and a spoof and that there was nothing there. "I'm proud of him," he continued. "Listen, no matter what we do, we're going to get hit."...  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/eric-trump-slams-russia-probe-media/2017/08/29/id/810554/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1750721_08302017&s=al&dkt_nbr=0101045ib6zz
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CONGRESS Is A Vile BORDELLO –
Shut It Down, Give Us Our Money Back
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{rickwells.us} ~ The US Capitol is a lot like one of those bordellos in western movies, although much larger and with arguably much less appealing workers... They’re both engaged in the providing the same type of “service,” the difference is largely just a question of how the transaction is conducted and the nature of what you get in return. In the Westerns the hookers wear garters and lingerie. The interaction consists of a few smiles, a hokey bumpkin-type reference to how beautiful the lady is, her telling the cowboy he stinks needs a bath and an escort upstairs. In the Capitol Hill Bordello the prostitutes wear business suits and pantsuits. They ignore or dismissively smile down at their supposed customers, the American taxpayers, as they laugh it up and joke with each other and the lobbyists who fund them. They’re Congress’ real clients, their true masters for whom they’ll perform any act...  http://rickwells.us/congress-vile-bordello-shut-give-us-money-back/
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AND TONIGHT, IN THE ROLE OF HARRY TRUMAN…
by Burt Prelutsky
I’m certainly not going to suggest they look anything alike or even that they’d agree about a lot of things, but the more I listen to Donald Trump, the more I find myself thinking about Harry Truman.

Even I would admit it would be a stretch to imagine that if Truman were to be reincarnated, the poor man from Missouri would be likely to come back as a billionaire from Manhattan married to a European super model, although I confess the image does amuse me.

Even though I was just a kid when Truman was in the White House, I still remember people insisting that Truman wasn’t presidential.  I recall they would get particularly annoyed when he went after the “do-nothing” Congress, as he referred to it. Other people never forgave him for bringing WWII to a rapid close by dropping atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, although those people, it’s worth mentioning, didn’t happen to be members of the U.S. military preparing to invade Japan at the time.

To his credit, Truman never spent a moment ruing what he had done to the Japanese, because, for one thing, they started it by bombing Pearl Harbor. For another, if we had been forced to invade Japan, the estimates of allied casualties ran to hundreds of thousands.

He explained that his job as president was to make decisions, and then not waste time second-guessing a decision he believed had been the right one to make.

But the thing that set off Truman’s critics the most is the one that most closely mirrors something Trump might do.

President Truman had a daughter, Margaret, who had musical aspirations as a singer. In December, 1950, she gave a concert in Washington, D.C.  She was 26 years old at the time.

The next day, Washington Post music critic Paul Hume wrote the following review: “Miss Truman is a unique American phenomenon with a pleasant voice of little size and fair quality.  She cannot sing very well and is flat a good deal of the time. She has not improved in the years we have heard her, and she still cannot sing with anything approaching professional finish.”

The same day, President Truman dashed off the following letter: “Mr. Hume: I’ve just read your lousy review of Margaret’s concert. I’ve come to the conclusion that you’re an eight-ulcer man on four-ulcer pay.

“It seems to me that you’re a frustrated old man who wishes he could have been successful.  When you write such poppy-cock as was in the back section of the paper you work for, it shows conclusively that you’re off the beam and at least four of your ulcers are at work.

“Someday, I hope to meet you. When that happens, you’ll need a new nose, a lot of beefsteak for black eyes, and perhaps a supporter below!

“Pegler, a guttersnipe, is a gentleman alongside you. I hope you’ll accept that statement as a worse insult than a reflection on your ancestry.”

By way of clarification, Paul Hume may have been frustrated, as a great many critics are, but he was hardly an old man. He was 34 years old at the time.

The Pegler referred to was Westbrook Pegler, a popular newspaper columnist who had spent the previous 18 years attacking the Roosevelts and Harry Truman.

When he was attacked for having threatened a music critic with bodily harm, Truman explained that he had written the letter as a loving father, not as the president. However, he had used official White House stationery.

For what it’s worth, Paul Hume never got punched in the nose or, so far as anyone knows, required a supporter, but he did manage to get the last laugh. The following year, he sold Truman’s letter for $3,500, which was probably more than his annual salary at the time.

Does anyone believe for even a second that if Ivanka Trump had chosen to pursue a career on the stage, and some critic, particularly one employed by the Washington Post, had panned her performance, President Trump would hesitate to come after him?

What the elitists in 1950 failed to realize is no different from what the elitists, both Democrats and Republicans, fail to grasp in 2017. Namely, after decades of people like Bill liar-Clinton, George W. Bush and Barack liar-nObama, coming off sounding presidential, which is to say robotic and insincere, it’s a relief to hear someone in the White House who sounds like a normal human being.

In other words, he sounds angry when people, including his fellow Republicans, lie about him and even occasionally when they tell the truth. He also sounds angry when the Never-Trump members of the media spin what he says or edit his remarks in order to make him sound racist or like a buffoon.

I have taken Trump to task for some of his tweets because there are times when the 140-character limit denies him sufficient nuance when something beyond calling out the NY Times or CNN for their fake news is required.

I understand that it is naïve to ask Chuck clown-Schumer, Nancy Pulosi and their hand maidens in Congress to stop trying to derail Trump’s agenda when it comes to reforming the tax code and cutting taxes, building up the military, erecting the wall and deporting criminal aliens, etc. Before they would go along with any of those sensible notions, they would have to kiss off their base, stop playing identity politics, kick the likes of Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth dinky-Warren and Maxine Waters, to the curb, and, well, change their party affiliation to Republican.

But it should not be too much to expect that 52 GOP senators would fully support the President’s agenda, and if, for whatever reason, they didn’t, that Mitch McConnell use his enormous power to discipline them. He could do so by kicking them off major committees; moving them from their lavish offices into broom closets; and threatening to use his influence with the RNC to not only deny them party funds the next time they seek re-election, but vowing to back their primary opponents.

I fully understand that there are some senators who have their own agendas and who like to think of themselves as independent and principled. My response is that they should have probably gotten into a different line of work. So long as the Democrats remain united, whether it means voting to pass liar-nObamaCare or to prevent its being replaced -- as the Republicans had promised to do for seven years if only we gave them control of the House, the Senate and the White House -- any Republican who breaks ranks should be treated as a traitor.

And that definitely includes the senior senator from Arizona. RINO-John McCain may or may not have been a hero in Vietnam, but he has been a complete washout as a senator, whether it was when he tried to burnish his credentials as a maverick by co-authoring lousy legislation with Ted Kennedy and Russ Feingold, or getting off a sick bed and returning to Washington, D.C., for no other reason than to prevent the repeal of liar-nObamaCare.

● I understand that some people hate Donald Trump. I understand that some people hate the Republican Party. The part I don’t get is when they report on Trump’s appearance in Phoenix and they take him to task for something he said or failed to say, but refuse to even utter a harsh word about the Never-Trumpers outside the arena who were wearing masks, wielding clubs and hurling bottles of urine and excrement at the cops.

● My friend Art Hershey has shared a few memorable quotes from notable sports figures with me, no doubt with the hope I would share them with you.  And so, I shall.

Professional hockey coach Harry Neale: “Last year, we couldn’t win at home and we lost on the road. My failure as a coach was that I couldn’t think of any other place to play.”

Professional golfer Doug Sanders: “I’m working as hard as I can to get my life and my money to run out at the same time. If I can just manage to die after lunch on Tuesday, everything will be perfect.”

Detroit Tigers pitcher Mickey Lolich: “All the fat guys watch me on the mound and say to their wives, ‘See, there’s a fat guy doing okay. Bring me another beer.’”

Kansas City Chiefs linebacker E.J. Holub, speaking about his 12 knee operations: “My knees look like they lost a knife fight with a midget.”

Dallas Cowboys fullback Walt Garrison, when asked if he had ever seen Coach Tom Landry smile: “I don’t know. I only played there for nine years.”

New Orleans coach Bum Phillips, after viewing a lopsided loss to the Atlanta Falcons: “The film looks suspiciously like the game itself.”

Green Bay Packers running back Paul Hornung, explaining why his wedding ceremony took place in the morning: “Because if the marriage didn’t work out, I didn’t want to blow the whole day.”

Legendary Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne, on why his team lost a game on Saturday: “I won’t know until my barber tells me on Monday.”

Portland Trail Blazers center Bill Walton: “I learned a long time ago that ‘minor surgery’ is when they operate on someone else.”

● Speaking of sports, in the wake of the phony outrage over Confederate statuary, ESPN has made itself a laughing stock by pulling an announcer out of the broadcast booth for an upcoming football game involving the University of Virginia.  The reason is that his name is Robert Lee. Not even Robert E. Lee. What’s more, he’s an Asian, not one of the Virginia Lees.

No word yet if he’s to be replaced by an announcer named Fidel Castro or Che Guevara.
 
If you need to contact Burt Prelutsky please mention my name Rudy. BurtPrelutsky@aol.com
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Wed/Mid-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
US vows to fund a UN agency for Palestinian
refugees GOP, Israeli leaders want shuttered
by Colum Lynch & Emily Tamkin
 
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Trump Ally John Bolton Latest Who Can’t
Get Past Kelly – Posted Article To Make Contact
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{rickwells.us} ~ With the access to President Trump now closely controlled by his official handler and gatekeeper, General John Kelly, the effective result is that he is increasingly being isolated... his information hand selected and basically becoming a sort of prisoner of the globalists he has surrounded himself with. Both Steve Bannon and Sebastian Gorka voiced concerns that they were no longer able to communicate with the President directly prior to their parting ways and now Ambassador John Bolton, a Trump ally and unofficial adviser admits he’s being screened out as well. He even went so far as to publish an article in the National Review on the chance that it might be read by the President, an act of desperation in the face of an impenetrable obstruction...  http://rickwells.us/trump-ally-john-bolton-latest-get-past-kelly-posted-article-make-contact/
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ACORN Sues California To Allow More Illegals To Vote
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by Matthew Vadum
{frontpagemag.com} ~ An ACORN offshoot and other left-wing pressure groups are suing California in federal court because the state hasn’t made it easy enough for Democrats to flood voter rolls with illegal aliens and foreign nationals who aren’t legally eligible to vote... Throughout the years Mickey Mouse, Mary Poppins, and celebrities living and dead were registered to vote because now-defunct ACORN and its allied groups were allowed to pollute the voter rolls. The ACORN successor group known as ACCE Institute, League of Women Voters of California, California Common Cause, and the National Council of La Raza want to compel the California Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to incorporate voter registration material into the forms needed to apply for or renew a driver’s license or state identification card, or submit a change of address...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267728/acorn-sues-california-allow-more-illegals-vote-matthew-vadum
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Laura Ingraham Recommends
Declaring Antifa A Terrorist Organization
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by Nick Givas
{dailycaller.com} ~ Conservative radio host Laura Ingraham said Tuesday that it’s time to start thinking about declaring the left wing radical group Antifa “a terrorist organization,” in light of its public violent outbursts... “We should also urge everyone to consider pressing this idea of declaring Antifa a terrorist organization,” Ingraham said during an interview on “Fox and Friends.” “This group is trying actively to intimidate, suppress free speech and violently attack people with whom they disagree.” Ingraham said she hopes the Trump administration is looking into Antifa, because people’s lives could be at stake...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/29/laura-ingraham-recommends-declaring-antifa-a-terrorist-organization/?utm_medium=email
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Berkeley Police Arrest 13
Protesters In Connection To Antifa Violence
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by Ian Miles Cheong
{dailycaller.com} ~ Police have arrested 13 people in connection to violence following this weekend’s protest in Berkeley. In the melee, several people — mainly peaceful, right-wing protesters — became targets of violence from black-clad members of the left-wing extremist movement Antifa... The Antifa protest was staged as a counter to a “No to Marxism” rally that never happened, but was slated to take place at the Martin Luther King Jr. Civic Center Park. Despite the cancellation of the anti-Marxist rally, over 4,000 people — mainly leftists and Antifa members — showed up to protest. Many of them chanted slogans like “No Trump, no wall, no USA at all.”...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/29/berkeley-police-arrest-13-protesters-in-connection-to-antifa-violence/?utm_medium=email
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The Ten Biggest Holes In The World

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US vows to fund a UN agency for Palestinian
refugees GOP, Israeli leaders want shuttered
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jewishworldreview.com} ~ The Trump administration has pledged full funding to an oft-maligned U.N. relief agency for Palestinian refugees, defying calls by Israel's Prime Minister and pro-Israel lawmakers to dismantle it, according to several diplomatic sources.

Nikki Haley, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, has privately assured the U.N. Relief and Works Agency, or UNRWA, that the United States, which provides more than $300 million to the agency each year, will maintain its current levels of funding to the organization. "America has long been committed to funding UNRWA's important mission, and that will continue," said one official at the U.S. mission to the United Nations.

Thomas Shannon, the Undersecretary of State for political affairs, meanwhile, wrote on Aug. 1 to several wealthy donors, including Canada and the Gulf states of Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, to cough up more than $100 million to meet a shortfall in funding for UNRWA, according to those diplomats.

The State Department did not immediately respond to request for comment.

The moves run contrary to the administration's push to rein in spending on U.N. relief programs elsewhere. It reflects growing concern that the imposition of sharp cuts to Palestinian relief programs could thwart the White House campaign to restart Middle East peace talks, and inject further political instability in a region that stands permanently perched on the brink of political upheaval.

It also highlights one of the curious realities of Washington politics: While Israel and its Congressional backers routinely bash UNRWA for what they view as its pro-Palestinian bias, U.S. officials find ways each year to raise hundreds of millions to fund the organization, which provides a range of services to 5 million Palestinian refugees in Gaza, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria.

"The Israelis are stuck in a position where the only thing worse than supporting UNRWA is not supporting UNRWA and having total chaos in the West Bank or Gaza," said Ilan Goldenberg, a former State Department official who served as a member of then Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry's Middle East negotiating team. "As with all issues involving the Palestinians there is a combination of public railing against UNRWA, with the public reality of continuing to fund it," he said.

The debate over funding comes at a time when the Palestinian refugee agency is confronting an aid gap of just over $126 million for 2017. With its cash set to run out in September, the agency may have to cut programs for vaccines, diabetes medicine, and sanitation. For the time being, UNRWA is pressing ahead with plans to open its schools for the new year, but they cannot keep them open without more funds.

"UNRWA faces a chronic funding shortfall and in 2015 we almost had to postpone the beginning of the school year for 500,000 students," Chris Gunness, UNRWA's chief spokesman., said in a statement "This year our shortfall stands at a $126 million US dollars and urgent action is required to avoid impacting our services."

Hady Amr, a former State Department official, said UNRWA faces budget shortfalls of $80 to $120 million each year, but that "the funds seemed to eventually arrive" after pressing Canada and the Gulf states to dig deeper in their pockets.

But a Congressional aide that works close with UNRWA said the agency's financial position is "more precarious than ever."

"We met with UNRWA and they are very, very worried, and they are seriously facing the prospect of shutting down," the aid added. "There is a real serious risk that UNRWA will not be able to continue to operate."

The Trump administration's embrace of the U.N. refugee program contrasts starkly with its typically tough stance towards the Palestinian Authority.

In one of its first acts on the Middle East, the Trump administration held up $221 million in aid to the Palestinian Authority that had been approved in the final days of the liar-nObama Administration.

Earlier this month, Republicans and Democrats in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee signed off on the Taylor Force Act, named after an American national stabbed to death in Israel last year, which would cut assistance to the Palestinian Authority if it continues to make payments to the families of terrorists. The law, however, would have no impact on funding for Palestinian refugees.

At the U.N., Haley has taken an unapologetically pro-Israel position across most fronts, vowing to oppose any action aimed at pressuring Israel to halt the construction of settlements. She also blocked U.N. Secretary General Antonio Guterres from hiring former Palestinian Prime Minister Salam Fayyad as his top Libya envoy, and later pledged to oppose the appointment of any Palestinian national to top U.N. jobs.

Last month, Haley derailed a push by the Palestinian U.N. ambassador, Riyad Mansour, to press for a vote on a General Assembly resolution that would have secured tens of millions in funding for Palestinian refugees. Shortly before the vote was scheduled to take place she privately threatened to cut some of the more than $300 million in funds the United States gives the Palestinians each year if they went ahead, according to three diplomatic sources. The White House, she argued, is committed to slashing funding, and the move would likely provoke Congress into retaliating against the Palestinians with even steeper cuts.

Mansour, the Palestinian envoy, promptly withdrew the resolution.

An official at the U.S. mission to the United Nations said that while the U.S. supports continued voluntary funding for UNRWA it opposes the adoption of a U.N. resolution that would legally require it to make contributions. Such a requirement, the official suggested, would undercut U.S. leverage that ensures the money is properly spent. "We will not stand for budget practices that discourage accountability in UNRWA or in any organization in the UN system," the official said.

But behind her tough talk, Haley has emerged as an unlikely champion of UNRWA. In early June, she paid a high-profile visit to the agency's Aida refugee camp in Bethlehem, where she posted a photo of herself with Palestinian refugees. on Twitter "Had a chance to talk with girls & women about their lives, their hopes, and their dreams," she wrote.

That same month, she parried attacks on the agency by House Republicans, including Ros-Lehtinen, who asserted the agency was using U.S. taxpayer dollars to incite terrorism. Haley said that, though the United States needed to continue to pressure the relief agency on certain issues, "there is also good that comes out of UNRWA: what they do with schools and healthcare. You do see value in it."

UNRWA was established nearly seventy years ago, after the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, to aid the more than 700,000 Palestinians displaced by the conflict. Today, it provides food, education and other services to for more than 5 million Palestinian refugees in the Gaza Strip, the West Bank, Jordan, Lebanon and Syria, including a corps of more than 30,000 school teachers who serve more than half a million children.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu views it as unacceptably cozy with Hamas, the Palestinian militant group that refuses to recognize Israel. "I told U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley that it's time to dismantle UNRWA," Netanyahu told Likud ministers.

UNRWA is also famously unpopular with Republican members of Congress, who believe that it's used to incite anti-Israeli violence. "I've introduced legislation over the years that exposes problems and offers solutions on UNRWA," Ros-Lehtinen said at the June hearing. "Particularly the incitement issues, the ties from Hamas to its employees, and the fact that U.S. taxpayer dollars are used to support this violence."

Still, every year, Republicans and Democrats alike agree to continue funding UNRWA. And Israel, which grants visas and permits to UNRWA workers, has taken no steps to shutter the agency's operations.

Netanyahu and his U.S. supporters - primarily Republican lawmakers - have floated the idea of having the U.N.'s main refugee organization, UNHCR, take over UNRWA's duties.

But the proposal, which would require approval by the U.N. General Assembly, has little chance of succeeding. It also faces stiff opposition from the PLO, which maintains that UNHCR is not empowered to help all needy refugees to the same extent. "The mission is quite different," the Palestinian delegate said. For instance, he added, "UNRWA provides people with jobs and education."

Despite its historical mistrust of UNRWA, Israel has grudgingly accepted its humanitarian role, which lessens Israel's burden for providing relief to Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza as well as Palestinians refugees spread across the Middle East.

A representative from the PLO Delegation in Washington, D.C. cautioned that sharp U.S. cuts in funding would "hinder" ongoing Middle East peace negotiations led by President Trump's son-in law, Jared Kushner, and the President's special envoy, Jason Greenblatt, who has himself visited an UNRWA office in March. So far, the Palestinian official noted, they haven't heard from the "very fluid and unpredictable" Trump administration one way or another about plans to reduce UNRWA funding.

Some observers suggested it is unlikely Israel would move to shutter UNRWA's operations.

Hady Amr, the former State Department official, said while he wouldn't dismiss the calls for the agency's closure as mere "bluster," Israel also needs UNRWA. "It provides critical services," he said, "without which the West Bank and Gaza would explode."  
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Truthgate
by Mordechai Schiller

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 Antifa Is Anti-America 
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by Thomas Gallatin:  On Sunday, violence erupted again in Berkeley, California, when around 100 masked, black-clad antifa members jumped a police barrier and attacked a small group of peacefully protesting Donald Trump supporters. The violence resulted in 13 arrests and injuries to six people. Joey Gibson, the Japanese-American leader of Patriot Prayer, one of the pro-Trump protest groups, called out Democrat leaders for their failure to speak against the violence perpetrated by leftist groups like antifa, even as they eagerly condemn the violence of white supremacists. Gibson said, “I’m asking Mayor [Ed] Lee and I’m asking Nancy Pulosi to speak against this violence and speak against this hatred, and be consistent with your message.”
          Even as Republicans and Trump spoke out against the violence perpetrated in Charlottesville, and condemned racism specifically, the reality is that many Democrat leaders have failed to disavow and reject the violence and violent rhetoric espoused by groups like antifa and Black Lives Matter. At the violent protest in Berkeley, antifa members were heard chanting, “No Trump! No Wall! No USA at all!”
          Frank Somerville, a news anchor in the San Francisco Bay area, witnessed the Berkeley
violence and wrote, “I have experienced hate firsthand today. It came from these people
dressed in all black at a protest in Berkeley. Ironically they were all chanting about no hate.” Somerville continued, “It’s one thing to read about hate. It’s another thing to be right next to it. In my opinion, these people dressed in black are just as hateful and intolerant as the people they are protesting.”
          The real threat to American freedom isn’t coming from small fringe racist groups like the KKK and neo-Nazis but from those who are actively seeking to silence the free speech rights of others through violence. It’s coming from the intolerance espoused by leftists who fail to guard — and in many cases flatly reject — America’s most foundational and cherished constitutional rights. Antifa does not seek to promote the U.S. and the freedoms Americans hold dear, rather these hoodlums seek to destroy our nation based on the false premise that the U.S. is an oppressive and racist nation. The irony is that the real oppressors are those masked, black-clad thugs who seek through violence to silence those with whom they disagree. ~The Patriot Post
Trump Holding His Ground On
Wall As Squishy RINOs Surround Him
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{rickwells.us} ~ Is anyone ready for a fight with the anti-American left? Millions of conservative Americans are... We’re so past being tired of the never-ending capitulation and surrendering by our supposed representatives in the DC Swamp. We elected President Trump to put an end to it and on many points, such as the fulfillment of the “lock her up” campaign promises, are still waiting. He’s been strong in spots and it’s looking like lately he’s finally remembered what he’s supposed to be doing, who his friends are and perhaps given up on the fantasy of pleasing liberals. President Trump stood strong on Monday on his vow that he would let the Democrats shut down the government before he would surrender on the border wall. Democrats have threatened to block funding for the wall and in the process, significant, non-critical portions of the federal government would shut down as well....  http://rickwells.us/trump-holding-ground-wall-squishy-rinos-surround/
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Abbas Tells Trump He Won't
Stop Giving American Money to Terrorists
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{israeltoday.co.il} ~ Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas has rejected American demands that he stop using foreign financial aid to pay stipends and salaries to the families of jailed Palestinian terrorists... Abbas met last week with US envoys Jared Kushner and Jason Greenblatt as part of President Donald Trump's efforts to restart Middle East peace talks. According to Israeli journalists present at the meeting, Kushner, who is Trump's son-in-law, reiterated the long-standing demand that the Palestinian Authority not reward terrorism with financial gain...Then why are we giving Palestinian leaders aid money? This needs to stop.  http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/32275/Default.aspx
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Former Trump Adviser Sebastian Gorka
Exposes liar-nObama Leftovers As Leakers
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Former White House deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka quit his job with the Trump Administration last Friday. And he’s wasting no time making waves outside the Oval Office... Known for his bombastic television appearances, Gorka went on Fox News this morning and broke some huge news. The question on everyone’s mind in the White House is: Who is leaking information to the press? Gorka has the answer. And while it’s not totally unexpected, you have to wonder when President Trump is finally going to shut these people up for good...  http://thepoliticalinsider.com/sebastian-gorka-obama-leakers/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_8_29_17&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-8-29-17-morning&utm_medium=email
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Rep. Ron DeSantis Presents
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ As the investigation into the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia heats up, and Mueller continues to dig into the president’s business history, one GOP lawmaker is taking steps to end this witch-hunt once and for all... Rep. Ron DeSantis is sick of the ongoing investigation. And he’s introducing an amendment to end funding of the Mueller investigation after 180 days. The amendment from Rep. Ron DeSantis (R-Fla.) would also prevent special counsel Robert Mueller from probing “matters occurring before June 2015,” which is the month Trump announced his presidential bid. The amendment was submitted as part of the upcoming spending package the lower chamber is expected to weigh after the congressional recess...  http://thepoliticalinsider.com/desantis-mueller-amendmnet/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_8_29_17&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-8-29-17-morning&utm_medium=email
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How do you say 'whoops' in Russian? Podesta
 Group retroactively files more DOJ
disclosures for pro-Putin work
by Emily Jashinsky

{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Podesta Group belatedly filed several new disclosures with the Justice Department on Aug. 17 related to work the firm completed between 2012 and 2014 on behalf of a pro-Russia Ukrainian think tank... Back in April, the powerful Washington lobbying firm run by liar-Clinton ally Tony Podesta filed a document admitting its work for the pro-Russia European Centre for a Modern Ukraine may have principally benefited a foreign government. New disclosures revealed dozens of previously unreported interactions the firm made with influential government offices, including liar-Hillary Clinton's State Department and the office of former Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden, while lobbying on behalf of the center. Embattled ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort failed to disclose his extensive lobbying efforts on behalf of the center at the time as well...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/how-do-you-say-whoops-in-russian-podesta-group-retroactively-files-more-doj-disclosures-for-pro-putin-work/article/2632538
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Truthgate
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jewishworldreview.com} ~ "Fake News" reminds me of a holy story . . . about an unholy act

“The Truth is Hard.”

So began a recent advertising campaign for The New York Times. In a self-righteous display of chest-thumping, The Times asserted:

“Our journalistic values are deeply held and unimpeachable. The principles by which our reporters work are steadfast and non-negotiable: consistently going the distance, uncovering truth with unmatched tenacity, telling the story in whatever form it demands — all to help our readers.”

Does the name Jayson Blair ring a bell? In 2003, trying to get ahead of the story in a journalistic fraud scandal, The Times published their own version, with a banner headline:

“CORRECTING THE RECORD; Times Reporter Who Resigned Leaves Long Trail of Deception”

I should explain that the phrase “get ahead of the story” is different from “get ahead of one’s self,” which means to act prematurely. “Get ahead of the story” is a tactical maneuver for managing a PR crisis. It means to give the impression of total transparency by coming out and telling your version of the story … before other media get a chance to report it. It’s damage control. Not true confessions.

As the Times disclosed:

“A staff reporter for The New York Times committed frequent acts of journalistic fraud while covering significant news events in recent months, an investigation by Times journalists has found. The widespread fabrication and plagiarism represent a profound betrayal of trust and a low point in the 152-year history of the newspaper.”

I can think of lower points in the history of The Times. But that’s not for here and now.

The fifth paragraph begins, “Mr. Blair, who has resigned from the paper, was a reporter at The Times for nearly four years, and he was prolific.”

Four years. … It took nearly four years for The Times to acknowledge that their readers and, ostensibly, their editors were being bamboozled. I have to wonder whether the copywriter who wrote the “Truth” ad did any fact checking. Let’s read this again: “The principles by which our reporters work are steadfast and non-negotiable: consistently going the distance, uncovering truth with unmatched tenacity.”

When misinformation becomes disinformation, the medium massages the truth.

George Orwell got it right. Welcome to the Ministry of Truth. Just substitute “paper” for “Party”:

“And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed — if all records told the same tale — then the lie passed into history and became truth. ‘Who controls the past,’ ran the Party slogan, ‘controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.’”

But why now? Why did The Times suddenly feel a need to rebuild their brand?

Could this truth-serum-flavored Kool-Aid fest have something to do with the man in the White House? And could it be that The Times — and other mainstream media — are desperately attempting to control the past and the future … so as to unelect him?

I am reminded of another story. A holy story … about an unholy act.

The Torah tells the story of Zimri — a righteous leader gone astray — who committed a heinous crime, setting off a plague. Pinchas, defending the honor of God, killed Zimri, thus ending the plague.

There is a fascinating expression in the Talmud (Sotah 22b) warning to beware of hypocrites who “sin like Zimri, and expect a reward like Pinchas.”

You have to wonder sometimes. Do the media believe their own lies? Or are they as cynical as Ben Rhodes, former President liar-nObama’s media hit man? Rhodes boasted to The Times that he put together a team of “experts” who “became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. … We created an echo chamber.”

“Echo chamber” refers to an environment where people hear and read only opinions that coincide with their own.

“We knew the tactics that worked.” Rhodes said about his selling the Iran deal to the American public. We were sold … down the river.

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Oxford Dictionaries’ word of the year for 2016 was “post-truth.” They defined it as: “Relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.”

But there’s nothing new under the sun. Pre-post-truth, there was doublespeak. As William Lutz, author of The New Doublespeak: Why No One Knows What Anyone’s Saying Anymore, put it, doublespeak is “language that pretends to communicate but really doesn’t. It is language that makes the bad seem good, the negative appear positive, the unpleasant appear attractive or at least tolerable.”

Doublespeak doesn’t stink. It merely “exceeds the odor threshold.” A cousin to doublespeak is spinglish, a spin on English meant to fleece the acluistic: the “clueless, and … extraordinarily clue-resistant” from Spinglish: The Definitive Dictionary of Deliberately Deceptive Language, by Henry Beard and Christopher Cerf.

Back in the ’50s before polyester became common, a character in a Pogo cartoon fended off a con artist:

“The wool you’re trying to pull over my eyes is fifty percent cotton.”
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