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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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This is Not a Dare, The U.S. Will
Respond If North Korea Goes After Guam
by Katie Pavlich
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 Fusion GPS Thumbs Its Nose at Congress 
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As the Russian election meddling investigation continues to roll on, a central player has begun to emerge that may turn the entire investigation on its head. That player is research firm Fusion GPS, the organization responsible for creating the debunked, fallacious and salacious Trump/Russia dossier that got the whole ball rolling.
          In July, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley subpoenaed Glenn Simpson, co-founder of Fusion GPS, seeking to glean more information about the infamous dossier and related interactions with the FBI. Initially Simpson refused to testify, pleading the Fifth Amendment, but a deal was later reached in which the subpoena was withdrawn in exchange for Simpson's agreement to disclose "his involvement in creating the Trump dossier and interactions with the FBI" and "his alleged work with the unregistered foreign agents who met with the Trump family and campaign officials."
          Fast-forward to Thursday, when Fusion GPS turned over documents related to the Trump dossier. What was actually received by Senate Judiciary Committee, however, was described by spokesman George Hartmann as "mostly news clippings," not a record of Fusion GPS's substantive communications. In other words, this is what political strategist Dick Morris calls "a brazen disregard for a Congressional inquiry."
          Now the questions are mounting. What are Simpson and Fusion GPS seeking to hide? Who funded their work? After all the smoke being blown around about a supposed Trump/Russia collusion conspiracy, it now looks as if the embers from that fire are resting on the Democrat side of the fence.  ~The Patriot Post
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Dobbs, JW Farrell – Benghazi Not Going Away,
liar-Clinton Will Answer For Crimes
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{rickwells.us} ~ Chris Farrell of Judicial Watch joins Lou Dobbs to discuss their recent victory over the deep state, delivered at the hand of a federal judge appointed by Hussein liar-nObama... ordering the State Department to search the email accounts of top liar-Clinton aides regarding the Benghazi crimes. The deliberate act of not checking the State Department’s .gov email server as a method of covering up the liar-Clinton cabal’s criminal actions is the first topic up for Dobbs and Farrell. Dobbs sets up the interview by commenting to his audience, “I know, you’re thinking, why would you not look first in the State Department server?” After congratulating Farrell on his major legal victory, Dobbs asks rhetorically, “Are we to infer that the liar-nObama administration did not go through the State Department servers for their email?” Farrell responded, “You are correct. They conducted a less-than-adequate search and that’s why the judge has ordered them to go back and do it the right way.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-jw-farrell-benghazi-not-going-clinton-answer-crimes/
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Save Preemption for Imminent North Korean Attack
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by Bruce Klingner
{heritage.org} ~ North Korea’s growing nuclear and missile capabilities are an existential threat to South Korea and Japan and will soon be a direct threat to the continental United States... Washington should make unambiguously clear that it will deter, defend, and if necessary defeat the North Korean military threat to ourselves and our allies. If it is determined that a North Korean missile flight might be directed at U.S. territory, the U.S. Administration should take all necessary actions to defend U.S. sovereignty and the American people. However, preemptive allied attacks should be reserved for convincing signs of imminent North Korean attack, not launched to fulfill pundits’ oft-spoken vows to shoot down North Korean missiles during test flights or while on launch gantries. The U.S. should be steadfast in its defense of South Korea, but preemptive attacks on test flights that do not clearly pose a security threat could trigger a war with a nuclear-armed state that also has a large conventional military force poised along the border with South Korea...  http://www.heritage.org/missile-defense/report/save-preemption-imminent-north-korean-attack?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpNeE5EQTVNRFJqWXpSaSIsInQiOiJEM1wvRWRiRXpidmF2WVJ2R3kzQjVLZVFvR25uNjY4ZlU1T3l6K3VSaVRMQWhsTkZuaUduMTJBY3U5bmluMlpvVWhTK2VFYXI5aTJEdjdLUktUdmZ4T0ZRT2NcL01ZT2hGTUNubVpOelJnZDB4SGNHS2NpZUcydnNQZ3hxQUZ1QVlwIn0
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Generation X Needs to Save America from Millennials
by Matthew Hennessey
{manhattan-institute.org} ~ Though one of its own sits yet again in the White House, the baby-boom generation, 78 million strong, is finally preparing to depart the scene. Theirs is a 40-year legacy of war, debt and cultural conflagration... The boomers won’t leave a vacuum when they go, however. The young and hungry millennials — roughly speaking, those between 18 and 35 — are licking their lips. Numbering 80 million, these tech-savvy kids are the largest generational cohort in American history, and they’re preparing to seize the commanding heights of the economy and culture. Given their size and cultural clout, the millennials could conceivably jump the queue, crowding out the more traditional priorities and preferences of the intervening Generation X, those roughly between ages 37 and 52 — and setting the terms of the national debate on everything from the economy to the future of free speech. Gen-Xers have often been described as reticent, certainly compared with the generations before and after them. It might be time to shed this habitual reluctance, however: If they don’t assert themselves soon, they risk losing their ability to influence the direction of the country...  https://www.manhattan-institute.org/html/generation-x-needs-save-america-millennials-10527.html?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXpNeE5EQTVNRFJqWXpSaSIsInQiOiJEM1wvRWRiRXpidmF2WVJ2R3kzQjVLZVFvR25uNjY4ZlU1T3l6K3VSaVRMQWhsTkZuaUduMTJBY3U5bmluMlpvVWhTK2VFYXI5aTJEdjdLUktUdmZ4T0ZRT2NcL01ZT2hGTUNubVpOelJnZDB4SGNHS2NpZUcydnNQZ3hxQUZ1QVlwIn0%3D
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Fired NSC Aide Reveals Political
Warfare Operation Targeting Trump
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by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ A White House National Security Council official has charged that leftist opponents of President Trump are engaged in political warfare operations designed to subvert his presidency and drive him from office... Rich Higgins, until recently director of strategic planning at the NSC, revealed the program in a seven-page memorandum produced in May that warns of a concerted information warfare campaign by the Marxist left, Islamists, and political leaders and government officials opposed to the populist president. "The Trump administration is suffering under withering information campaigns designed to first undermine, then delegitimize and ultimately remove the president," Higgins states...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/fired-nsc-aide-reveals-political-warfare-operation-targeting-trump/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7c4e40d3fe-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_08_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7c4e40d3fe-45611665
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Congressman’s Letter Seeks Mueller
Testimony on Conflicts of Interest, Partisan Staff
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{rickwells.us} ~ There are a few honorable men left in Congress who have the courage to do what should be automatic and support their President. One of them is Republican Rep Brian Babin of Texas... Babin is circulating a letter among his colleagues seeking support for his request that special counsel Robert Mueller appear publicly in one or more congressional hearings. Among issues that may be addressed are the many conflicts of interest of Mueller in the “investigation” as well as his methods of selecting his Inquisitors, who somehow just happened to be overwhelmingly anti-Trump, pro liar-Clinton and politically active. Babin’s letter was sent to every congressman on Thursday and invites them to cosign a letter that he will send to House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte and Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley...  http://rickwells.us/congressman-letter-seeks-mueller-testimony-conflicts-interest-partisan-staff/
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This is Not a Dare, The U.S. Will
Respond If North Korea Goes After Guam
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by Katie Pavlich
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townhall.com} ~ Speaking from New Jersey Thursday afternoon while seated next to National Security Advisor H.R. McMaster and Vice President Mike Pence, President Trump told reporters North Korea will face consequences should they follow through with threats to attack Guam.

“Kim Jong Un has disrespected our country greatly. He has said things that are horrific. And with me he’s not getting away with it. He got away with it for a long time, between him and his family. He’s not getting away with it. This is a whole new ballgame. He’s not going to be saying those things and he’s certainly not going to be doing those things. I read about we’re in Guam by Aug. 15. Let’s see what he does with Guam. He does something in Guam, it will be an event the likes of which nobody’s seen before, what will happen in North Korea," Trump said.

“It’s not a dare. It’s a statement. It has nothing to do with dare. That’s a statement. He’s not going to go around threatening Guam and he’s not going to threaten the United States and he’s not going to threaten Japan and he’s not going to threaten South Korea. That’s not a dare, as you say. That is a statement of fact,” he continued.

The comments came after Trump held a national security briefing on a variety of issues ranging from Afghanistan to Venezuela.

"A lot of decisions were made, it was a very important day actually," Trump said.

The president addressed Russia's expulsion of U.S. diplomats from Moscow, the FBI's raid on former campaign director Paul Manafort's home, Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and more.
 
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Sat/Med-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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 Asian-Americans Complicate
the Affirmative Action Narrative
by Arnold Ahlert
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GW Law Professor Calls
Manafort Warrant Excessive, ‘Very Troubling’
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by Nick Givas
{dailycaller.com} ~ George Washington University Law Professor Jonathan Turley said Friday that the no-knock FBI warrant executed on former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s home was “excessive” and “very troubling.”... “I actually think people are a little bit too thrilled to see [a] Trump associate subject to a no-knock warrant. I’ve been a critic of no-knock warrants for years,” Turley said on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe.” “It’s very troubling. I think it was gratuitous, I think it was excessive.” Turley added that no-knock warrants are usually reserved for violent offenders or drug traffickers. “It is not the norm to have a no-knock warrant in a white collar crime case. No-knock warrants were designed primarily for dangerous drug dealers,” he said...   http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/11/gw-law-professor-calls-manafort-warrant-excessive-very-troubling/
VIDEO at the site.
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President Donald Trump Cuts Planned Parenthood-Run
Sex-Ed Programs, May Prepare for Abstinence Funding
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by Micaiah Bilger
{lifenews.com} ~ President Donald Trump recently cut funding to a questionable teen pregnancy prevention program that has given millions of dollars to the abortion business Planned Parenthood... The Hill reports pro-abortion President Barack liar-nObama created the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program in 2010 to teach vulnerable populations of students about preventing pregnancy. Participants in the program recently learned that their grant funding will end next year, two years sooner than expected, according to the report. Trump’s administration notified the 81 grant recipients that funding for the program is being cut by about $200 million and their grants will end on June 30, 2018, the report states....  http://www.lifenews.com/2017/08/11/president-donald-trump-cuts-planned-parenthood-run-sex-ed-programs-may-prepare-for-abstinence-funding/
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Is China Using North Korea To Test Trump?
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by David Thornton
{theresurgent.com} ~ China figures strongly into the current North Korea crisis, but exactly how is a matter of dispute. President Trump seems to believe that China is the key to resolving the matter of North Korea’s nuclear weapons... but it is far from certain that China’s interests in the region align with our own. Beyond the fact that Trump was overtly hostile and, at times, insulting to China during the presidential campaign, China is in the midst of a long campaign to expand its power in Asia and beyond. Chinese island-building in the South China Sea is common knowledge. Less known is how Chinese influence is growing in the Middle East, Africa and even the Americas. As Chinese military and economic influence grows around the world, the inescapable conclusion is that China has dreams of replacing the US as the world’s dominant superpower. That being the case, it would be in China’s interest to make the US look bad in the confrontation with North Korea...  http://theresurgent.com/is-china-using-north-korea-to-test-trump/
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Israel Going Underground For Protection Against Hamas
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Israel’s Gaza wall is going underground. There is already a barrier along its border with Hamas controlled Gaza, now they are expanding their protection with an underground wall to prevent terrorist incursions via tunnels Hamas builds under the border... Before and during the last war between Israel and Hamas, the terrorist fighters used tunnels to attack civilians and blindside IDF troops. The underground barrier was announced three years ago but now the IDF says it will accelerate the construction of the underground wall and it will be done within two years: The Israeli army will spend $800 million on building a massive underground barrier along its border with Gaza. The wall will stretch along the entire 40-mile frontier and will be 40m deep...  http://lidblog.com/israel-building-wall-underground-gaza-border/
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CNN Anchor Calls Out Hypocrisy of Anti-Trump Pro/liar-Hillary Lemming
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Judicial Watch Attorney: Benghazi is Not Going Away
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POTUS: Military Options Against North Korea Are “Locked and Loaded”
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China To North Korea, You Strike First, You’re On Your Own
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Florida Democrat Wants Debbie Wasserman Schultz OUT!
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Sean Hannity Threatens To Hire Best Lawyers, Sue liar-nObama For The Most Money Possible, If He’s Been Unmasked
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Dana Loesch Reacts To Congresswoman Rice Calling Her a Domestic Security Threat
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 Asian-Americans Complicate the Affirmative Action 
 Narrative 
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By Arnold Ahlert:  "The purpose of affirmative action is to promote social equality through the preferential treatment of socioeconomically disadvantaged people. Often, these people are disadvantaged for historical reasons like years of oppression or slavery." —HG.org, a legal resource website
          In 1961, President John F. Kennedy issued Executive Order 10925. It included a provision instructing government contractors to "take affirmative action to ensure that applicants are employed, and employees are treated during employment, without regard to their race, creed, color, or national origin." In 1965, President Lyndon Johnson issued Executive Order 11246 adding sex to the list, and again requiring federal contractors to promote the full realization of equal opportunity for women and minorities via affirmative action.
          Since then, the concept has been bastardized to promote a spoils system that makes a complete mockery of the word "equal" — as in the "equal protection of the laws" ostensibly guaranteed by the 14th Amendment.
          Thus, progressive heads are exploding with regard to an internal memo obtained by The New York Times. It reveals the Justice Department is seeking attorneys willing to explore "investigations and possible litigation related to intentional race-based discrimination in college and university admissions." The Times initially insisted this project is aimed at "suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants."
          Wrong. As DOJ spokeswoman Sarah Isgur Flores put it, the DOJ is pursuing a complaint filed in May 2015 by a coalition of 64 Asian-American groups against an unnamed university. Since such a coalition filed a federal complaint against Harvard in 2015 alleging racial discrimination, it's safe to say the Ivy League school is in the DOJ's crosshairs.
          The most problematic aspect of the case for the nation's progressive quota-mongers? One minority group is challenging allegedly preferential treatment given to other minority groups. It doesn't get more disruptive of the affirmative action narrative than that.
          One might be forgiven for noticing that in virtually all leftist diatribes about the victimization of minorities — diatribes that inevitably include excoriating America for its legacy of slavery, Jim Crow and numerous other race-based evils — Asian-Americans are rarely part of the mix. Perhaps it's because the culture of victimhood the American Left has successfully inculcated in many black and Hispanic communities is largely rejected by Asian-Americans, who do not view government's thumb on the scale as a prerequisite for their success. Even more problematic, they are unencumbered by America's slave-owning legacy progressives use to induce guilt and justify their quota schemes.
          Thus, in an effort to keep the narrative alive, CNN insists the Trump administration's real motive is to "play to a conservative base that has long abhorred practices that offer a boost to racial minorities, potentially at the expense of whites."
          In the last 30 years, the Supreme Court has wrestled with the issue on several occasions, ruling three times that race can be used as a "factor" with regard to admissions. In the most recent case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, the Court ruled 4-3 in favor of such programs, provided universities present strong evidence they are narrowly tailored to achieve the goal of diversity by "ensuring that race plays no greater role than is necessary to meet its compelling interest," Kennedy wrote for a majority.
          What, exactly, constitutes compelling interest? As dissenting Justice Samuel Alito noted, UT didn't offer any evidence about how much race factors into admission decisions, whether its plan placed more minority students in classrooms that ostensibly lacked diversity, or why its plan favors black American and Latino students, even as it appears to damage the prospects of Asian-Americans. Alito wrote, "By accepting UT's rationales as sufficient to meet its burden, the majority licenses UT's perverse assumptions about different groups of minority students — the precise assumptions strict scrutiny is supposed to stamp out."
          Two University of Michigan cases from 2003 also highlight the institutional acrobatics used to justify quotas. In Gratz v. Bollinger, the Court struck down the use of a mathematical-based admissions system that awarded extra points to minority candidates — simply for being minorities. But in Grutter v. Bollinger, it upheld the law school's supposedly more individualized review, because it served "a compelling interest in obtaining the educational benefits that flow from a diverse student body."
          Yet what, exactly, are those benefits, and how are they quantified? Several studies have asserted that diversity provokes more innovative thinking and better group performance in a variety of settings. Yet how such conclusions are reached in the absence of a "control group" suggests politics trumps science.
          Thus we are left with the dubious proposition that diversity is beneficial ... because to assert otherwise constitutes bigotry.
          Yet the cases SCOTUS and other courts have adjudicated revolved around minorities versus whites. By focusing on Asian-American complaints against Harvard, the DOJ is taking a sledgehammer to the presumption that racial quotas are a reasoned response to "white privilege."
          As The Wall Street Journal explains, the percentage of Asian students admitted to Harvard has remained around 20% since 1993, despite the fact that the Asian share of the U.S. population "has increased rapidly." The paper further notes Asian representation is much higher at University of California campuses — where the use of race as an admissions factor was banned in the 1990s.
          Yet the real discrimination is found in the race-based approach to Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT) scores. "All else being equal," the paper reveals, "an Asian-American must score 140 points higher on the SAT than a white counterpart, 270 points higher than a Hispanic student, and 450 points higher than a black applicant, according to 2009 research from Princeton sociologist Thomas Espenshade and co-author Alexandria Walton Radford."
          Harvard insists its "holistic" approach negates that disparity. Yet if that's the case, how does it explain that legacy students — children of former students — are two to three times more likely to be admitted than students whose parents didn't attend Harvard?
          "There is a version of affirmative action — legal, generally popular and arguably more meritocratic — that higher education has not yet even tried," wrote columnist Dave Leonhardt in 2012. Leonhardt revealed economically disadvantaged students "receive either no preference or a modest one, depending on which study you believe."
          It shouldn't take a study to figure out what merits genuine consideration in college admissions. The same public that despises race-based admissions heartily favors giving a break to low-income students and those whose parents didn't attend college.
          Would economics-based affirmative action mollify the bean-counters? In a column for Diverse Issues in Education, Emil Guillermo asserts Asian students are being used as proxies for whites in the battle to dismantle affirmative action. Like so many progressives, he recognizes the mortal threat of affirmative action litigation that doesn't include a Caucasian component.
          It will be fascinating to see how people whose power depends on the continued cultivation of minority group grievances against an "endemically" racist white majority manage to cope.
          Right now, "holistic," in all its intentionally ambiguous glory, appears to be the linguistic tool progressives will use to maintain race-based quotas in college admissions.
          If that fails? Perhaps "Asian privilege" will become part of the progressive lexicon.  ~The Patriot Post
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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 Regardless of Poverty's Cause,
Christians Most Generous to Poor
by Louis DeBroux
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 The Manafort 'Raid'? 
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On July 26, FBI agents under instruction from special counsel Robert Mueller raided the Alexandria, Virginia, home of Donald Trump's former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. The raid was a non-violent affair — no doors were broken down nor machine guns drawn nor flash grenades used. It was a raid in that it was before dawn and an unannounced enforcement of a search warrant as part of the investigation into Russian election meddling, and Manafort was reportedly fully cooperative. According to The Washington Post, the FBI warrant covered "documents related to tax, banking and other matters."
          The day before the FBI searched his house, Manafort voluntarily met with Senate Intelligence Committee staff members, and he was scheduled to meet with the Senate Judiciary Committee two days later. And he also willingly turned over requested files and documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee. In other words, it seems rather strange that the FBI deemed it necessary to execute an unannounced search warrant in such a manner — unless Manafort wasn't nearly so cooperative as he seems.
          Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy muses, "There are two possible rationales for a search warrant under the circumstances. First, the legitimate rationale: Investigators in good faith believed Manafort, who is either a subject of or witness in their investigation, was likely to destroy rather than surrender relevant evidence. Second, the brass-knuckles rationale: The prosecutor is attempting to intimidate the witness or subject — to say nothing of others who are similarly situated — into volunteering everything he may know of an incriminating nature about people the prosecutor is targeting." McCarthy also notes, "A search warrant is issued in a criminal investigation only if a judge finds probable cause that a crime has been committed and that evidence of this crime will be found in the place to be searched."
          Recall back in August 2016, Trump removed Manafort as his campaign manager. The reasons suggested for this change were that Trump felt "boxed in" and "controlled" by Manafort. Trump needed to be Trump. It was also reported that the Trump team was uncomfortable with news of Manafort's involvement with Russia. As Politico reported at the time, Trump family members "felt [Manafort] hadn't been entirely forthright about his activities overseas. ... Family members were also unhappy about changes made to the GOP platform that were seen as beneficial to Russia, which they felt Manafort played a role in."
          Back to the current investigation. Is there an investigative competition between Mueller's squad and the Senate Judiciary Committee, as both are looking into Russian election meddling? Could this explain the motive behind the FBI's pre-dawn search warrant? Did Mueller's team want to get its hands on documents and files before the Senate Judiciary Committee? Certainly don't forget that there are essentially no limits on Mueller's investigation. What we have are a lot of questions, but few answers. 
~The Patriot Post
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Rice Defends McMaster For Giving
liar-nObama Operatives Security Clearances
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{rickwells.us} ~ There’s that old adage that you judge people by the company they keep and another one about who their friends are... There should be a particular DC Swamp variety that declares you can judge people by the type of lying globalist trash they enable, particularly if they later feel compelled to help them justify their actions. Judging from the remarks made by notorious liar, deep state globalist and liar-nObama lackey, Susan Rice, McMaster is everything she’s desperately trying to claim he isn’t. In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, Rice defended HR McMaster, essentially an liar-nObama /Soros operative himself, from attacks by President Trump’s unhappy patriot base...  http://rickwells.us/rice-defends-mcmaster-giving-obama-operatives-security-clearances/
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DNC Hack Was 'Inside Job,' Not by Russia
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by Todd Beamon
{newsmax.com} ~ "There was no hack of the Democratic National Committee's system on July 5 last year — not by the Russians, not by anyone else," according to the Nation's report, referencing conclusions by a group of former NSA computer experts... "Hard science now demonstrates it was a leak — a download executed locally with a memory key or a similarly portable data-storage device. "In short, it was an inside job by someone with access to the DNC's system," the experts concluded, since a remote hack of the committee's servers — with the volume of data stolen — would have been technologically impossible...  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/hack-dnc-wikileaks-julian-assange/2017/08/10/id/807016/
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The Threat is no Longer the Russians But
Our Own Hypocritical Establishment on the Left
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by Miguel A. Faria
{aim.org} ~ One thing is clear – regardless what the left-wing media would have you believe, the threat is no longer the Russians but our own hypocritical establishment on the Left... beginning with the media and Hollywood, and ending with academia and the liberal establishment. We hear much about Vladimir Putin’s alleged influence on the 2016 elections, offered with so little in the way of proof that this must be considered fake news. In fact, we hear much more negative things about Russia because the liberal establishment, which still can’t accept the results of this election, have decided they will do anything to delegitimize and derail the Trump presidency. And they are getting more and more desperate as prosperity, optimism and confidence return – reflected not only in the stock markets’ historic climb but in the turning of the wheels of the American economy. Their polls have been exposed as fake, their hit jobs are regarded as partisan attacks, and the notion that better times are ahead seems to be supported by the eye test – all of which means we’re coming to the end of the days when they can use alleged Russian interference in the election as a diversionary weapon...  http://www.aim.org/guest-column/the-threat-is-no-longer-the-russians-but-our-own-hypocritical-establishment-on-the-left/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Aug-11-2017&utm_medium=email
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Big Liar
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by Dinesh D'Souza
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Fascism and Nazism are both phenomena of the left. This makes ideological sense, because at their core they represent ideologies of the centralized, all-powerful state... Moreover, fascism grew out of Marxism, and fascism’s founder Benito Mussolini, was a Marxist and lifelong socialist. Hitler, too, was a socialist who headed the National Socialist Party and in fact changed the name of the German Workers Party to make it the National Socialist German Workers Party. The man most responsible for the progressive redefinition of fascism is Theodor Adorno, a German Marxist intellectual and a member of the influential Institute for Social Research, otherwise known as the Frankfurt School. The Frankfurt School scholars were leftists and most of them were refugees from Nazi Germany.  Some settled in Europe; others like Adorno and Herbert Marcuse came to the United States...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267543/big-liar-dinesh-dsouza
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House Conservatives Move
to Revive liar-nObamacare Repeal
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by Thomas Phippen
{dailysignal.com} ~ The House’s most conservative caucus hopes to force a vote on a clean liar-nObamacare repeal bill in coming weeks through a rare congressional procedure... The House Freedom Caucus, chaired by Rep. Mark Meadows, R-N.C., will encourage members to sign a “discharge petition” allowing a bill similar to the December 2015 repeal of liar-nObamacare—which passed both the House and Senate but was vetoed by then-President Barack liar-nObama—to proceed to a floor vote. If the petition receives 218 signatures, it will pull a March bill identical to the 2015 repeal of the Affordable Care Act out of committee and straight to a floor vote, a spokeswoman for Meadows said...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/11/house-conservatives-move-to-revive-obamacare-repeal/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTldVNFpqWmxOVGt5T0RObSIsInQiOiJvREEweWR2WFwvdWhocFRUZEhlR250dFhod2lMb0FZdGV3N2RTcFlWaEhFU09XRkczZTQzK3lWekU1NkdJeXU2ZzAwQXhIVXNHcGlmdXRsSTVqN1R4bllZbFA2SHFtOExPUERKTk1ibDFUbTVMbDBcL1ZhTWk3NitBVWRHSWR0SjI5In0%3D
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 Regardless of Poverty's Cause, Christians Most 
 Generous to Poor 
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By Louis DeBroux:  Progressive Democrats and the media love to paint conservative Christians as mean-spirited Bible-thumpers, and a recent poll from The Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation is the latest tool to justify such slanderous claims. According to the poll, which gauged opinions on the root causes of poverty, 46% of Christians (and 53% of white evangelical Protestants) blame poverty on a lack of effort, compared to 29% of non-Christians who feel this way. Conversely, of the atheist/agnostic/non-religious polled, 65% blamed circumstances for poverty.
          The poll was the impetus for "journalists" like Newsweek's Jason Le Miere to take Christians to task for allegedly being un-Christian. Le Miere quotes the Bible, where Christ commands His followers to care for the poor — though, one wonders, if he would have quoted the Bible in an article on, say, abortion or marriage.
          Le Miere makes but a single reference to the biblical commandment to labor before going on to cite the passages about caring for the poor. However, therein lies the critical distinction. In Genesis 3:19, the Lord declared to Adam, "By the sweat of your face you shall eat bread," and in Exodus 20, the Lord commands us to labor for six days before resting on the Sabbath. The Apostle Paul instructed, "If anyone is not willing to work, let him not eat" (2 Thessalonians 3:6-13).
          Because leftists generally use the Bible only to criticize Christians, they don't grasp that the two commandments — that a man labor for his daily bread, and give to the poor — are not exclusive but rather work in conjunction with one another. Yes, we must help the poor, but the poor also have an obligation to first labor in their own behalf.
          Furthermore, charity is an individual, voluntary act. If we see a person in need and give to him of the fruits of our labor, of our own free will, that is charity. If we see someone in need and hire a government agent to put a gun to someone else's head and force them to give, that's not charity but legalized extortion. When the rich young ruler asked Christ how to obtain heaven, beyond keeping the commandments, he was told to sell all he possessed and give to the poor. When the ruler left discouraged, desiring heaven but unwilling to part with his riches, we can note that Christ did not send his apostles, or Roman centurions, to attack the young prince, rob him, and give his treasure to the poor.
          The poll sets up a false dichotomy, as The Federalist's Jessica Burke points out: "Poverty is too complex to easily isolate one cause. There are some decisions and behaviors that can lead to a person being poor, and there are some circumstances that lead to it as well. When it comes to poverty, there is no one-size-fits-all answer to what is causing it and what will alleviate it."
          It is undeniable that behavior plays an enormous role in avoiding or escaping poverty. Certain behaviors almost guarantee a life of poverty. As even the left-leaning Brookings Institute notes, the vast majority of Americans can avoid poverty by finishing high school, getting a job, and waiting until age 21 to get married and have children — in that order.
          To those in poverty, and especially those working to escape poverty, Christians have a religious and moral imperative to be charitable, and all accounts show they do just that.
          Despite the portrayal by Le Miere and other leftists of Christians as judgmental and miserly, the truth is conservative Christians are the most charitable people to be found.
          Faith aside, nationally speaking, Americans in general are the most generous people on Earth, giving, as a percentage of income, more than twice as much as Canadians and Britons, and 20 times more than Germans or Italians. Additionally, with the exception of the lowest income bracket, more than half of all Americans of every single income bracket give to charity. This goes for the oft-vilified Top 1%, who account for more than a third of all charitable donations.
          Further undermining the narrative of the heartless Christian is the fact that, according to the well-respected Philanthropy Chronicle, conservative and religious states are the most generous givers. Using data from 2012 and that year's election map, 17 of the most generous states voted for Mitt Romney, while 15 of the least charitable 17 went for Barack liar-nObama. Conservatives tend to be generous with their own money, while leftists are "generous" with other people's money. From a religious standpoint, heavily Mormon Utah, with a giving rate of 6.56%, was the most charitable, while New Hampshire, where less than a third of residents even believe there is a God, gave away just 1.74% of income.
          So what does it all mean? It means that poverty can be caused by laziness, circumstances or oppression (Venezuelan socialism, anyone?). It means Christians believe that hard work and making good choices will keep most people out of poverty. It also means that Christians are far more generous than their secular counterparts when it comes to personally sacrificing to meet the needs of the poor and downtrodden.
          And despite leftists deliberately distorting biblical teachings, that is exactly what Christ taught.  ~The Patriot Post
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The Front Page Cover
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Sanctuary cities vs. hideouts
by Cal Thomas
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 More NY Times Fake Climate News 
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The Leftmedia has one objective: To vilify the Trump administration whenever the opportunity arises. Of course, this opens the door to gross bias and stories that are just flat-out wrong. The coinage for this is the now-ubiquitous term "fake news." The New York Times was caught once again spreading propaganda in its report on the latest Climate Science Special Report (CSSR). The final draft contains the typical anxiety-laden language of how man-made global warming will be significantly detrimental to humanity. But the Times' politicking of the CSSR's plight is even worse.
          Initially, Fox News points out, "The [NYT] story ... said the draft report 'has not yet been made public' but 'a copy of it was obtained by The New York Times.'" Only that erroneous claim didn't fly for very long. And it wasn't whistleblowers who exposed the Times' duplicity.
          Rutgers professor Bob Kopp, who contributed to CSSR, tweeted, "It's not clear what the news is in this story; posted draft is public review draft from Dec, and WH review hasn't yet missed Aug 18 deadline" to officially endorse the CSSR. A few moments later he added, "The Times' leaked draft has been on the Internet Archive since January, during the public comment period." Kopp's colleague Katharine Hayhoe likewise tweeted, "Important to point out that this report was already accessible to anyone who cared to read it during public review & comment time. Few did."
          Translation: Nothing was really leaked at all. The Times' story now contains this correction: "While it was not widely publicized, the report was uploaded by the nonprofit Internet Archive in January; it was not first made public by The New York Times." Oops. What the Times saw was a chance to exploit an obscure report to further its agenda of portraying Donald Trump as a Neanderthal who "could change or suppress the report" without the public's knowledge. It also attempted to paint ecofascists as good Samaritans who had no choice but to "leak" a report to save humanity. Instead, the public now has even more proof that the Times continues to lack journalistic integrity.  ~The Patriot Post
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{rickwells.us} ~ The wagons are circling around HR McMaster, filled with globalists, establishment uniparty operatives, deep state tools, liar-nObama loyalists and holdovers, never-Trumpers, Democrats and special interest, identity politics leeches... They’re protecting him, attempting to come between McMaster and the Trump base of American patriots who want him gone. Why is it that this is the type of support he garners? Why is it that George Soros foot soldiers and UN, global government types rush to offer their support? Why is it that it’s obvious to most observers but the one person who most needs to be aware of it, President Trump, can’t seem to see it? Despite President Trump’s declaration that McMaster is his friend and one of us, he’s not his friend and he’s in no way one of us. He’s one of the enemy, an liar-nObama/Soros tool supported by leftists of every stripe. Yesterday it was Susan Rice in a CNN interview with Wolf Blitzer, defending and expressing her support for McMaster, who had extended her security clearance and arbitrarily declared her innocent in the unmasking of President Trump and other Americans...  http://rickwells.us/obamas-cair-defending-mcmaster-trump-patriot-base/
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UK: Still Welcoming Jihadis
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While his fellow Pakistani cleric, Hassan Haseeb ur Rehman, delivered a hysterical speech
supporting the murder of Salman Taseer, governor of Punjab province
by Douglas Murray
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The British Prime Minister's June declaration, that when it came to terrorism in the UK, "enough is enough", already looks like little more than rhetoric.... If members of the British government want to move on from rhetoric to action, however, they need to do more than just work out what new things are going wrong in British counter-extremism policy. They will need to identify the mistakes they keep on making, and perhaps try to avoid making them yet again. Bewilderingly, a remarkable opportunity to learn a lesson appears to have been missed yet again...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10790/britain-welcoming-jihadis
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Illegal Voting: What Do States and USCIS Have to Hide?
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by Kenric Ward
{immigrationreform.com} ~ Allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, have raised concerns about the integrity of our election process, including voting by non-citizens... Examining Virginia’s state records, the nonpartisan Public Interest Legal Foundation and Virginia Voters Alliance uncovered 5,556 non-citizens registered to vote in the state. Of those 5,556 individuals, state Department of Elections records, cross-checked with DMV files, revealed 1,852 had voted 7,474 times over multiple years. If the presidential Commission on Election Integrity follows suit and vets voter records in the other 49 states, the 5,556 non-citizen voters in Virginia could prove to be a drop in the bucket for the rest of the country...  http://immigrationreform.com/2017/08/07/illegal-voting-states-uscis-hide/?utm_source=ET&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Top507282017
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Sanctuary Cities Betray America,
Americans and Immigrants
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by Michael Cutler
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Threats to Americans posed by international terrorists and violent transnational gangs have increased in recent years... In addition, recent congressional hearings have highlighted the extreme levels of violence faced by members of America's ethnic immigrant communities at the hands of gangs, such as MS-13, due to border security and immigration law enforcement failures. Nevertheless, mayors of “Sanctuary Cities” continue to shield illegal aliens -- and the foreign criminals and terrorists among them -- from detection, with some now filing lawsuits against the Trump administration in response to Attorney General Session’s intentions to cut funding to those cities. Those mayors want federal funds but blithely refuse to assist the federal government in enforcing immigration laws that are key elements of national security and public safety...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267534/sanctuary-cities-betray-america-americans-and-michael-cutler
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Possible “SPECIAL ENVOY” To N Korea,
Maxine WATERS, Explains What Needs To Be Done
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{rickwells.us} ~ We get an insight into the way a “President Maxine Waters” would respond to the current situation in North Korea, a path not too far removed from the one that Hussein liar-nObama pursued... and which Susan Rice and DNI Clapper are currently advocating. She says, “The United States State Department must be staffed up to deal in diplomacy. We cannot afford to be in a war and I want us to be very careful, very alert to what is happening and to avoid war. And so I think we can do this with some diplomacy.” Of course she’s an advocate of more talking regardless of the circumstances...She has no cure on what is happening.  http://rickwells.us/possible-special-envoy-n-korea-maxine-waters-explains-needs/
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Sanctuary cities vs. hideouts
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by Cal Thomas
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jewishworldreview.com} ~ In biblical times, a sanctuary city was a place where someone who had committed unintentional manslaughter could find refuge from "the avenger of blood."

If the offender left the sanctuary city, he could be set upon by a relative of the dead person and killed. No sanctuary was available to anyone who committed murder with malice aforethought.

Modern sanctuary cities are less reflective of their ancient namesakes and more like the hideouts established by train robbers and cattle rustlers during the days of the Wild West, as the current sanctuary city movement shields men and women who have broken federal law to reach the United States.

Threats by the Trump administration to hold back federal money from cities that harbor illegal immigrants show some promise. In July, Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced new immigration compliance requirements for federal grant programs, including mandates that state and local entities must allow federal immigration access to detention facilities and provide 48 hours' notice before authorities release an illegal immigrant wanted by federal authorities. If states comply, they get the grants. If they do not, they get nothing.

Miami-Dade County in Florida and Clark County in Nevada have changed their minds about harboring lawbreakers. The Department of Justice has sent letters to both counties certifying that they are now in compliance with the law and are now cleared for federal grants.

Other sanctuary cities are not so cooperative. Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice for threatening to withhold federal funds earmarked for local law enforcement. Given the shooting gallery Chicago has become, it's difficult to see how more money will improve safety, especially on the city's South Side, where an average weekend of violence often produces more casualties than in Afghanistan.

In Washington, where today's "principled stand" can quickly be forgotten, Democrats have changed their view about an immigration plan they consistently supported for a decade. Democrats in Congress previously favored a policy that would have established a points system for selecting legal immigrants. Now that President Trump favors such a system, based on merit, Democrats suddenly oppose it. For such a U-turn the word "hypocrisy" was invented, but the left doesn't care. They are about votes and winning elections, not actually fixing an immigration system everyone agrees is broken and needs repair.

Under regulations concerning cities of refuge established in the Book of Numbers (35:25) and the code of the Levitical priesthood, once an individual had claimed asylum, he had to be taken from the city to stand trial. If he was found innocent, he was returned under guard to the city in which he had claimed asylum. When the High Priest died, the person could return to his property.

That is a far cry from what modern mayors and governors want for their illegal immigrants. For them there is to be no arrest, no charge and no trial. Some Maryland jurisdictions are talking about adding more localities to those that already allow undocumented immigrants to vote in local elections.

It won't be long before there are demands that they be allowed to vote in federal elections, which appears to be the objective of many Democrats who want and need the votes. They'd likely get them too, once undocumented immigrants become dependent on government programs.

Name a federal law you could get away with breaking. Could you find "sanctuary" away from the government's long arm?

The lawsuit by Chicago's mayor will likely reach the Supreme Court. That is what makes the elevation of Neil Gorsuch to that high bench so critical.
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The Front Page Cover
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Who’s in Charge Here…Ain’t You?
by Allen West
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Trump appoints more judges in 200 days than liar-nObama, Bush, liar-Clinton. (The Daily Signal)
 
Trump takes action: 9,000 federal employees slashed in first six months. (The Washington Times)
 
China warns North Korea: You're on your own if you go after the United States. (The Washington Post)
 
Army short $7 to $9 billion needed to modernize force. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Judge orders State Department to search state.gov accounts for liar-Clinton aides' Benghazi emails. (The Hill)
 
President Trump says he won't fire special counsel Robert Mueller. (USA Today)
 
Castro huddles with Russia as U.S.-Cuba relationship crumbles. (Washington Examiner)
 
Government employees arrested for allegedly selling false IDs to illegal aliens for voter fraud. (CNS News)
 
College student gets 100 days in slammer for registering dead voters for Dems. (Fox News)
 
NY Times editorial writer will proclaim ignorance in response to Palin's defamation lawsuit. (Hot Air)
 
Policy: The war on free speech turns further left. (Capital Research Center)
 
Policy: Suggestions for a bipartisan approach on health care. (Health Affairs Blog~The Patriot Post
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Dobbs, Jarrett – MUELLER CHEAP SHOT,
State Dept Angers Judge, Still No CLINTON COUNSEL
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs and Gregg Jarrett discuss President Trump’s response to the predawn raid at Paul Manafort’s home and the juvenile nature of the obvious tactic and what message it was intended to send... Trump was asked if the raid was appropriate, to which he responded, “I thought it was a very, very strong signal or whatever,” adding, “they do that very seldom, so I was surprised to see it.” Dobbs points out that President Trump was clearly being very careful with his words, but that this was “sort of a tin-horn, two-bit move on the part of the not so special counsel.” Jarrett agrees, saying, “It was exactly that. It was an effort to try to instill fear and intimidate Paul Manafort.” Jarrett says, “I wouldn’t be surprised if his defense attorneys really went after the FBI and the special counsel for this raid. They allegedly seized some documents that are completely privileged and protected. The attorney-client privilege and work product communications. So, the FBI and special counsel could get spanked over this thing but clearly a federal judge signed off on it. I really wonder why since he was cooperating and providing them with information.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-jarrett-fbi-cheap-shot-state-dept-angers-judge-still-no-2nd-counsel/
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Mauro on Fox: If North Korea
Has Mini Nukes, So Does Iran
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by Clarion Project
{clarionproject.org} ~ Clarion Project's national security analyst, Prof. Ryan Mauro, explains that if North Korea has miniaturized nuclear warheads to fit onto ICBMs, then we should assume Iran does, as well. He also advocates a strategy aimed at empowering the North Korean people as the best way of pressuring Kim Jong-Un and ultimately ending the threat.  https://clarionproject.org/mauro-fox-north-korea-mini-nukes-iran/
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The liar-nObama Unmaskers:
Why Trump Doesn’t Just Expose Them?
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by J.E. Dyer
{lidblog.com} ~ Andrew McCarthy asked a good question last Thursday: why hasn’t Trump publicized results of the investigation of the unmasking of his campaign/ transition teams by liar-nObama officials?... As McCarthy points out that Trump has the ultimate authority to do just that: The president is in charge of the executive branch, including its intelligence agencies. He has the authority to decide what intelligence information, and intelligence abuses, can be declassified and made public. Because Trump hasn’t done this, when surely he would be motivated to, McCarthy feels compelled to at least consider the possibility that the “unmaskings” probe may be a way for Republicans to dangle Democrats, just as the “Russia” theme is a way for Democrats to dangle Trump...  http://lidblog.com/the-obama-unmasking/
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Eric Bolling Fights Back!
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Fox News host Eric Bolling filed a $50 million defamation lawsuit Wednesday against Yashar Ali, a freelance writer who wrote a story in the Huffington Post that Bolling had sent lewd texts to female colleagues at the network... Bolling is the latest in a long line of Fox news hosts/anchors accused of sexually harassing women, but the first to fight back. The Huffington Post reporter Ali’s article was published  on August 4th and claimed that more than a dozen sources told him Bolling sent “an unsolicited photo of male genitalia via text message to at least two colleagues at Fox Business and one colleague at Fox News.” The day after the story was published Fox News suspended Bolling...  http://lidblog.com/eric-bolling-fights-back/
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Judge Orders Tillerson To Stop Covering
For liar-Clinton – Give Up The Emails
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{rickwells.us} ~ The deep state fortress that is the US State Department got a bit of a smack down with the decision by DC District Court Judge Amit Mehta... He instructed the agency to search in the one place it hasn’t for liar-Hillary Clinton and her co-conspirators’ Benghazi emails. The logical location where there likely are incriminating documents. In their apparently deliberate attempt to be able to say they’ve searched Benghazi related emails and found nothing, State Department officials searched the 30,000 emails that liar-Clinton turned over to them in December of 2014, as well as personal email accounts of her fellow criminals, Huma Abedin, Cheryl Mills and Jake Sullivan. They thoroughly searched the most unlikely places, where they knew for a fact that nothing of any substance would be found. The crooked liar-Clinton associates surely made certain there were no records of interest in any of those locations, nothing that could implicate them. Judge Mehta was not fooled by the diversion. Despite being an liar-nObama appointee, he ordered that the State Department search their own system, something that should have been the first place checked and would have been, if John hanoi-Kerry and company weren’t engaged in a deliberate, full scale cover up...  http://rickwells.us/judge-orders-tillerson-stop-covering-clinton-give-emails/#prettyPhoto
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Who’s in Charge Here…Ain’t You?
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by Allen West
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townhall.com} ~ The movie “Apocalypse Now” came out in August 1979, it was Francis Ford Coppola’s film on the Vietnam War centered on the mission of Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) to assassinate a US Army Colonel gone rogue, played by Marlon Brando. I was beginning my freshman year of college at the University of Tennessee, and as a student enrolled in ROTC, I went to see the movie. Of course, it took me three viewings to really come to grips with the film and understand it. However, everyone remembers the memorable character, and lines, of Robert Duvall who played an eccentric Air Calvary Squadron Commander who said, “Charlie don’t surf” and “I love the smell of napalm in the morning, it smells like victory”. And yes, that scene with the air cavalry attack against the Viet Cong village coming in over the water while Richard Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries was unforgettable.

But there is a different scene, vignette, from that movie that is the subject of this missive. It was when Captain Willard and his Navy riverine boat escort him to the frontlines on the river, the last American outpost at night. It was there Captain Willard was supposed to link up with an Army officer for an intelligence update. Willard walks into the fighting position and asks a black Soldier manning an M60 machine gun the question, “Who’s in charge here?”, to which the Soldier responds, “ain’t you?”

Imagine if you were to walk into Washington, D.C. right now and ask the same rhetorical question, “Who’s in charge here”? It is the month of August and the US House of Representatives, the US Senate, and the president are all on vacation…or as they refer to it, recess. When I was a kid at Our Lady of Lourdes School in Atlanta, recess was a reward. If you had finished your work and were good in class, then you were able to take a recess after lunch. You could not be denied lunch, but doggone Sister Judith had a policy that teachers could deny recess. You did not get playtime unless you had met the requirements, a lesson that needs to be taught in Washington, D.C.

For those of you who do not know, here is the history of August recess. Washington is literally built on a swamp, no joke. The month of August is notorious for being the most unbearable with searing heat and high humidity, with little flowing breeze. Back in the day when there was not any air conditioning, Congress would recess for the month of August. However, recess also meant that these citizen legislators went back to their normal occupations, since it was never the intent of our Founding Fathers to have “career politicians”, but true representatives, servant leaders. Now, recess has come to mean something completely different, and we do have career politicians.

We are told how important it is for these legislators to be in their districts for the entire month of August. The need to meet with their constituents, I would love to see the town hall meeting schedule for every member of the House and Senate for this month. But, ask yourself, is this recess a reward, a time to decompress from a hard and productive legislative session, or just a taxpayer funded 30 day plus vacation? Only someone suffering from massive delusion would believe the former. That is what frustrated me in my term as a U.S. congressman coming from a career in the military. We did not leave until the job, the mission, was done, and we met the expected standard, if not surpassed it.

I learned in my time in uniform that leadership is the ability of one to take a diverse group of individuals and focus them towards the accomplishment of a singular goal. And so I ask again, “who’s in charge?”

There is no reform of our healthcare system, which we must all admit is collapsing. There is no tax reform plan that will ensure the incredible economic growth we have seen in the past six months will be sustained.  We do not have a budget. Show me an everyday citizen and business owner that has the luxury of abdicating the responsibility of having a budget.

Over the past seven to eight years we have had a Republican party that asked to be put in charge. And mind you, I do not ever want the progressive socialists of the Democratic Party to hold the leadership position in the House, Senate, or White House. The left in America fails to grasp a simple maxim, “a free people are not equal, and an equal people are not free”.

What concerns me is that the GOP has achieved that which they asked to attain, via the hard work and efforts of the American people who supported them. Yet, where are they, who’s in charge? Yes, I acknowledge the economic success, growth, we have seen, but we need those two major legislative policy agenda items that were promised by the GOP to their support base. Amazingly, the GOP has members who have betrayed their commitment, promise. Now we learn that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will seek a bipartisan measure to ensure the insurance companies receive a “bailout” in order to reduce the pain of a rate increase. This is nothing more than the implementation of the liar-nObamacare risk corridor, part of that we were told would be repealed.

This means that the GOP failed, and they went home, so the resolution is to just continue with the status quo, business as usual. We were told that the Senate would not recess in August unless they got their work done. Maybe we need to resurrect Sister Judith and her policy when I was in elementary school. There was no doubt in any of our minds who was in charge, it was Sister Judith.

Do I want to see a Chuck clown-Schumer leading the Senate, Nancy Pulosi as House Speaker again, or worse, Maxine Waters, of course not? What I want to see is someone accepting the mantle of leadership and being in charge, fulfilling the commitment made to the American people, and willing to work to that end. I freely admit, if I were still in Congress I would be embarrassed. I also admit that what I am witnessing inspires me to consider a return, the American people deserve better.

Who’s in charge…right now it ain’t the liberty loving American people.
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Sanctuary Cities and the Rule of Law
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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Napolitano: FBI Tactics On Manafort
‘Much More Aggressive’ Than On liar-Hillary
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by Nick Givas
{dailycaller.com} ~ Fox News analyst Judge Napolitano said Thursday the FBI raid on Paul Manafort’s home was “much more aggressive” than tactics used in the liar-Hillary Clinton investigation... “This is so much more aggressive than the investigation of Mrs. liar-Clinton,” Napolitano said on “Fox and Friends.” “The investigation of Mrs. liar-Clinton didn’t even use a grand Jury.” Napolitano said there is most likely evidence of wrongdoing due to the rare nature of the pre-dawn raid. “They had to use this extraordinary tool of a pre-dawn raid, the most forceful thing the FBI can do to you, short of an arrest in the middle of the night,” he said. “Which they can only use when all other means of acquiring information have failed.”...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/10/napolitano-fbi-tactics-on-manafort-much-more-aggressive-than-on-hillary-video/
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North Korea Threatens to Target 'Areas
Around Guam' With Ballistic Missiles – 'To Neutralize It'
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by PATRICK GOODENOUGH
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ North Korea on Tuesday threatened to target "areas around Guam" with ballistic missiles, in response to the deployment of Guam-based supersonic U.S. Air Force bombers for combined exercises with South Korean warplanes... The threat from a spokesman for the Strategic Force of the Korean People's Army (KPA) came on the same day President Trump warned that Pyongyang's threats "will be met with fire and fury, like the world has never seen." The spokesman cited two U.S. actions - the test-firing last week of an unarmed Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, and the appearance of B1-B Lancer bombers - or what the spokesman called "the air pirates of Guam" - in the skies over South Korea...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/north-korea-threatens-to-target-areas-around-guam-with-ballistic-missiles-to-neutralize-it?f=must_reads
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Democratic Senators Concerned About
Extremist Summer Camp for Palestinian Americans
by Rafael Medoff
{algemeiner.com} ~ Two prominent US senators are raising questions about an American-funded school in Ramallah, which is running an extremist summer camp for Palestinian teens from around the world — many of them Americans... The controversial summer program, called “Go Palestine,” is run by the Ramallah Friends School, a 148-year-old Quaker institution in the Palestinian Authority’s de facto capital. Its stated mission is to provide Palestinian teens from abroad with “introductions to Palestinian culture, cuisine, life and work, and the Arabic language.” But in addition to traditional summer camp fare, Go Palestine participants are immersed in anti-Israel films, and lectures by militants — some with terrorist connections...  https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/08/10/democratic-senators-concerned-about-extremist-summer-camp-for-palestinian-americans/
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Mass-rape of white girls by Muslim gang
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by Liam Clancy
{wnd.com} ~ Seventeen men and one woman were found guilty of a host of sexual crimes against young women – many of them children – after a massive “grooming gang” was uncovered in Newcastle, England... The gang, made up of mostly Muslim Middle Easterners and South Asians commonly referred to as just “Asian” in the U.K. preyed upon white British girls, plying them with alcohol, marijuana, mephedrone and other drugs. The victims of sexual abuse were between the ages of 13 and 25. They were drugged unconscious and then raped or pressured into sex through physical or emotional abuse...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/08/easy-meat-mass-rape-of-white-girls-by-muslim-gang/
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liar-nObama Tools RICE, CLAPPER Urge Trump
“Do Nothing”, ACCEPT N Korea NUKES
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{rickwells.us} ~ liar-nObama successes are measured in the degree of negative impact they hold. They were quite successful in the outcome of their hell-bent determined revival of Iran and in providing them a money-lined pathway to nuclear weapons... They were also successful in allowing North Korea enough time to nearly complete their nuclear weapons program through the continuation of the policies of their fellow globalists, liar-Bill Clinton and GW Bush, to ignore the North Korea problem and just wait for it to go away on its own. liar-Clinton dubbed it strategic patience, but burying your head in the sand and waiting while someone takes aim at your exposed rear end really isn’t much of a strategy. In an August 9th interview former DNI and globalist James Clapper completely ignored the passivity that brought us to this point under his watch as well as the other anti-Americans in the government, boasting regarding the threatening rhetoric from North Korea, ‘typically we ignore it,” chiding President Trump for threatening to take action in response. He also called for us to, in the future, just “accept the fact that they are a nuclear power.”...  http://rickwells.us/obama-tools-rice-clapper-urge-trump-nothing-accept-n-korea-nukes/
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Sanctuary Cities and the Rule of Law
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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townhall.com} ~ Earlier this week, the Trump Department of Justice told the mayor of Chicago that it would cease funding grants to the Chicago Police Department that had been approved in the liar-nObama administration because Chicago city officials were not cooperating with federal immigration officials.

The DOJ contended that Chicago officials were contributing to lawlessness by refusing to inform the feds of the whereabouts of undocumented foreign-born people, thereby creating what the feds derisively call a "sanctuary city," and Chicago officials have argued that their police officers and clerical folks are not obligated to work for the feds.

Who is correct?

The concept of a sanctuary city does not mean it is a place where federal law is unenforced by the feds. Rather, it is a place where local authorities have elected not to spend their tax dollars helping the feds to enforce federal law. The term "sanctuary city" is not a legal term but a political one. The Trump administration has used the term to characterize the governments of towns and cities that have created safe havens for those who have overstayed their visas by refusing to tell the feds who these folks are and where they can be found.

Can local authorities refuse to help the feds enforce federal law? In a word, yes. There is no legal obligation on the part of local authorities to help the feds with manpower or resources or data to enforce federal law within the jurisdiction of those local authorities.

During the liar-Clinton administration, when Congress passed legislation that directed local law enforcement to enforce a federal gun registration scheme, the Supreme Court invalidated the statute. It ruled that the feds cannot commandeer local and state officials and compel them to enforce federal laws; the feds can enforce their own laws.

The federal compulsion, the court held, violated the Guarantee Clause of the Constitution, which guarantees a representative form of government in every state. If the feds could enter a state and nullify the will of elected state officials not to spend state tax dollars, that would unconstitutionally impair representative government in those states.

Can the feds withhold federal funds from cities that refuse to cooperate in the enforcement of federal law? Yes and no. In the post-World War II era, Congress began purchasing state compliance with its wishes in areas that the Constitution did not permit it to regulate. Stated differently, since Congress can spend money on any matter it wishes, as long as it is arguably for the general welfare, but it cannot regulate for the general welfare, it has used its power of the purse as a way around the constitutional limitations on its regulatory powers.

This is legalized bribery of the states.

In the Reagan administration, Congress offered hundreds of millions of dollars to the states to repave federal highways if the states lowered their maximum speed limits to 55 miles per hour. South Dakota objected. Its government wanted the federal cash for the highway repaving but did not want to lower its speed limits.

The Supreme Court ruled in favor of the feds. It held that South Dakota is free to reject federal dollars, but if it accepts them, it must accept the strings that accompany them, as long as those strings are clearly spelled out before the cash flows and rationally related to the expenditure of the federal funds. Because repaving highways and the maximum speeds that vehicles would travel on them were rationally related, South Dakota had to choose between its cherished liberal speed limits and federal cash. No surprise, it chose the cash.

Now back to sanctuary cities. When the liar-nObama administration offered Chicago and other cities cash to purchase new police communication equipment, it attached strings to those offers -- but compliance with federal immigration authorities was not among them. Chicago's complaints about DOJ threats are constitutionally sound because federal strings can be imposed only by Congress and they cannot be imposed retroactively.

Thus, federal funds awarded in the liar-nObama administration without the string of cooperation with immigration authorities attached may not be interfered with by the Trump administration. If the feds do withhold committed funds that lack a cooperation condition attached, a court will invalidate that withholding.

Is the refusal to cooperate with the feds a form of nullification? In a word, yes. Federal law is superior to local law in areas that are primarily or exclusively federal, and immigration is unambiguously federal. Yet having pockets throughout the country without local cooperation with the feds fosters what the courts have called "laboratories of democracy."

Stated differently, if the local government in Manhattan or Chicago or Seattle aggressively protects undocumented immigrants who live there in return for the purchasing power and cultural diversity that immigrants bring, that may relieve social and legal pressure on governments elsewhere and will be a social experiment -- a laboratory of democracy -- worthy of cultural and political scrutiny and perhaps even indifference when it comes to the feds.

Many Trump supporters see in the president a champion who will rid the country of those they see as unlawfully here, and they also see in liberal big-city mayors politicians pandering to interest groups. But there is a rich history to federalism, and there are two sides to its coin. The rich history is that of state and local resistance to the tyranny of the majority in Washington -- a resistance as old as the country itself. The refusal of Massachusetts authorities to cooperate with the feds in the enforcement of the federal Fugitive Slave Act comes to mind.

The other side of the coin is unthinkable to my conservative brethren. If liar-Hillary Clinton had been elected president along with a Democratic Congress and it had offered state and local governments federal funds with strings attached requiring cities to make abortions available on demand, they all would be whistling a very different and very federalism-based tune.
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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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McMaster Worked at Think Tank Backed by Soro-Funded Group that Helped liar-nObama Sell Iran Nuclear Deal
by Aaron Klein

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Tillerson, Mattis back up Trump's stark warning to North Korea. (The Washington Times)
 
Personal income in majority of states grew in first quarter of 2017. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Justice officials sent talking points to FBI on Lynch tarmac meeting with liar-Bill Clinton. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Grassley seeks immigration files for House IT probe suspects. (The Daily Signal)
 
Transgender military members sue over Trump military ban. (CBS News)
 
Government has no clue how much land it bought with $815 million. (The Daily Signal)
 
Google board gave six times more money to Democrats than Republicans. (NewsBusters)
 
Poland: New evidence suggests Russia may have killed the country's former president. (Washington Examiner)
 
SSA gave $1.3 million in benefits to criminals. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Transgender graduates get $20,000 each after restroom dispute. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: Ending the EPA's billion-dollar green energy rip-off. (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
 
Policy: The political motives behind sanctuary city "generosity." (Capital Research Center~The Patriot Post
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Judicial Watch Discovers Million
More Voters Than Citizens – Just In LA
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump has taken the predictable abuse from the left over his attempts to document and put an end their institutional voter fraud... The Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity, headed up by Vice President Pence and Kris Kobach has been leading that effort. They’ve faced legal challenges from Democrats who like having more voters and their fraudulent votes regardless of where they come from. Non-citizens, to hear them tell it, are the equal of citizens although they strongly dispel the need for a review, objecting on the usual grounds of racism. Democrats are shamelessly stealing our votes by canceling them out and demeaning American citizens for challenging them on it. Of course the so-called American mainstream media, which is actually anti-American, won’t report on the situation. Russia Today did, though, reporting on the work of Judicial Watch, which found eleven counties in California that had significantly more registered voters than citizens. Los Angeles County alone showed a million more registered voters than citizens. liar-Hillary Clinton claims she won by three million in the popular vote – now that figure’s down to two million, and counting...  http://rickwells.us/judicial-watch-discovers-million-voters-citizens-just-la/
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liar-nObama, liar-Clinton and
Fertilizing a Nuclear North Korea
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by Matthew Vadum
{frontpagemag.com} ~ After Barack liar-nObama’s eight long years of gutting America’s missile-defense capabilities, our nation has awakened to the nightmare of a North Korea armed with nuclear missiles capable of reaching U.S. territory... Fortunately, Donald Trump, who, unlike his predecessor, takes his responsibility to defend the nation seriously, now resides in the White House, and liar-nObama, one in a series of Democrat presidents who cleared the way for the nuclear adventurism of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), is on the outside looking in. "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States," President Trump told reporters yesterday after applauding the unanimous weekend approval of the toughest U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution against North Korea to date. "They will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power the likes of which this world has never seen before."...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267539/obama-clinton-and-fertilizing-nuclear-north-korea-matthew-vadum
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liar-nObama's Cuba Deal Led
to Cuban Attacks on US Diplomats
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by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ This is a bizarre story. The only reason I give it any credibility is that the diplomats and the media have absolutely no reason to lie about it... If anything they have every reason in the world to claim that everything is going well with Cuba. In the fall of 2016, a series of U.S. diplomats began suffering unexplained losses of hearing, according to officials with knowledge of the investigation into the case. Several of the diplomats were recent arrivals at the U.S. Embassy, which reopened in 2015 as part of former President Barack Obama's re-establishment of diplomatic relations with Cuba. Some of the diplomats' symptoms were so severe that they were forced to cancel their tours early and return to the United States, officials said. After months of investigation, U.S. officials concluded that the diplomats had been exposed to an advanced device that operated outside the range of audible sound and had been deployed either inside or outside their residences. ..  http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267535/obamas-cuba-deal-led-cuban-attacks-us-diplomats-daniel-greenfield
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Judge orders new searches
for liar-Clinton Benghazi emails
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by JOSH GERSTEIN
{politico.com} ~ Nine months after the presidential election was decided, a federal judge is ordering the State Department to try again to find emails liar-Hillary Clinton wrote about the Benghazi attack... U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta ruled that the State Department had not done enough to try to track down messages liar-Clinton may have sent about the assault on the U.S. diplomatic compound on Sept. 11, 2012 — an attack that killed four Americans, including the U.S. ambassador to Libya. In response to Freedom of Information Act requests, State searched the roughly 30,000 messages liar-Clinton turned over to her former agency at its request in December 2014 after officials searching for Benghazi-related records realized she had used a personal email account during her four-year tenure as secretary...  http://www.politico.com/blogs/under-the-radar/2017/08/09/judge-orders-searches-for-clinton-benghazi-emails-241470?cmpid=sf
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How the Latest GOP Health Care Bill Stacks Up
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by Edmund Haislmaier
{dailysignal.com} ~ After last month’s disappointing failure to roll back liar-nObamacare’s damage, senators are now reflecting on how best to proceed... One approach reportedly under consideration is a bill put together by Sens. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C.; Bill Cassidy, R-La.; and Dean Heller, R-Nev. Relief from liar-nObamacare includes three major elements: regulatory relief, financing reform through tax cuts, and Medicaid reform. It is critical that Congress act on these issues—every day that goes by that Congress does not repeal liar-nObamacare hurts Americans and further damages our health system. However, many needed reforms are outside the scope of the current legislative effort, which is limited by the constraints of the congressional budget reconciliation process...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/09/latest-gop-health-care-bill-stacks/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkdSaFptVTNPVGxpWkRCaCIsInQiOiI3T01mTXljN0psMTdMRE1VcGd2S3pWMm1iblduYTFyUEMzYjdLVWFDejlRS1wvd2prMTArUWNKRmZDNkl3ZUVrK0txaERlSmUxUXJKS0NOQysxNituWnh1eHFqVkJnK3QrMXdUakJYUEdDMDFjMzhBcExySFBraUt1NlFLT3lxXC93In0%3D
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McMaster Worked at Think Tank Backed by Soro-Funded Group that Helped liar-nObama Sell Iran Nuclear Deal
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by Aaron Klein
{breitbart.com} ~ White House National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster served at a UK-based think tank financed by a controversial, George Soros-funded group identified by the liar-nObama White House as central in helping to sell the Iran nuclear deal to the public and news media.

From September 2006 to February 2017, McMaster is listed as a member of International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), where he served as consulting senior fellow.  The IISS describes itself as a “world-leading authority on global security, political risk and military conflict.”

The IISS has been supportive of the liar-nObama administration-brokered 2015 nuclear accord with Iran, and the group has repeatedly hit back against charges that Tehran has violated the agreement.

McMaster himself has been accused of purging the National Security Council of hardliners on Iran, and he is seen as a leading proponent of the Iran nuclear accord within the Trump administration. He has reportedly urged the White House to recertify Iran’s compliance with the Iran nuclear deal.

IISS’s website contains a list of groups, corporations and government entities that provide funding to the think tank, including during the period of McMaster’s work there. Curiously missing from the page of donors, however, is the controversial Ploughshares Fund, a grantmaking group identified last year by the loar-nObama White House as central in helping to market the Iran nuclear deal to the news media.

An archived version of IISS’s donors page lists Ploughshares as a donor.

Breitbart News has found that IISS is listed as a grantee for Iran issues in Ploughshares Fund’s budget report for 2016.

That report spotlights IISS as a grantee for Iran work done by Michael Elleman, IISS senior fellow for missile defense.

In a recent IISS analysis, Elleman cast doubt on charges that Iran and North Korea are working together on ballistic-missile development, claiming “there is little evidence to indicate the two regimes are engaged in deep missile-related collaboration, or pursuing joint-development programs.”

Joseph Cirincione, president of Ploughshares Fund, is listed as a member of IISS in his Georgetown University bio.

IISS has not returned Breitbart News requests seeking clarification on the Ploughshares funding and inquiring about McMaster’s work at IISS, including any salary that he may have received.

Soros-Funded Ploughshares Part of ‘Echo Chamber’ to Sell liar-nObama’s Iran Deal

Ploughshares Fund is financed by Soros’ Open Society Institute.

The involvement of Ploughshares in selling the Iran agreement to the public was revealed in an extensive New York Times Magazine profile of liar-nObama’s former deputy national security adviser, Ben Rhodes, titled, “The Aspiring Novelist Who Became liar-nObama’s Foreign-Policy Guru.” The article contains interviews with Rhodes and scores of top liar-nObama administration officials.

Robert Malley, then a senior director at the National Security Council, expounded on the genesis and execution of the marketing plan to sell the Iran deal.

Malley explained to the Times that “experts” were utilized to create an “echo chamber” that disseminated administration claims about Iran to “hundreds of often-clueless reporters” in the news media.
 
Times author David Samuels wrote:

In the spring of last year, legions of arms-control experts began popping up at think tanks and on social media, and then became key sources for hundreds of often-clueless reporters. “We created an echo chamber,” he admitted, when I asked him to explain the onslaught of freshly minted experts cheerleading for the deal. “They were saying things that validated what we had given them to say.”

Rhodes told Samuels that the marketing strategy took advantage of the “absence of rational discourse” and utilized outside groups, including Ploughshares.

When I suggested that all this dark metafictional play seemed a bit removed from rational debate over America’s future role in the world, Rhodes nodded. “In the absence of rational discourse, we are going to discourse the expletive out of this,” he said. “We had test drives to know who was going to be able to carry our message effectively, and how to use outside groups like Ploughshares, the Iran Project and whomever else. So we knew the tactics that worked.” He is proud of the way he sold the Iran deal. “We drove them crazy,” he said of the deal’s opponents.

Ploughshares says it has awarded hundreds of grants “whose aggregate value exceeded $60 million.”

A previous investigation by this reporter showed Ploughshares has partnered with a who’s-who of the radical left, including Code Pink, the pro-Palestinian J Street, United for Peace & Justice, the U.S. Campaign to End the Israeli Occupation and Demos, a progressive economic advisory group where liar-nObama’s controversial former green jobs czar, Van Jones, has served on the board.

The group says its mission is to support the “smartest minds and most effective organizations to reduce nuclear stockpiles, prevent new nuclear states, and increase global security.”

Ploughshares is in turn financed by Soros’s Open Society Institute, the Buffett Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation of New York, the Ford Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Another Ploughshares donor is the Tides Foundation, which is one of the largest funders of the radical left. Tides is funded by Soros.

Ploughshares has donated to the Institute for Policy Studies, which calls for massive slashes in the U.S. defense budget.

It has also financed the International Crisis Group, a small organization that boasts George Soros and his son, Alexander, on its board and where Malley now works as vice president for public policy.

Ploughshares, McMaster and John hanoi-Kerry

Last week, McMaster removed Ezra Cohen-Watnick, a Trump aide and Iran deal opponent, from the National Security Council in what the Jerusalem Post reported was a possible “sweep of Iran hard-liners.”

The Post reported on two other McMaster purges of Iran hardliners:

Cohen-Watnick’s removal comes after the revelation by The Atlantic on Wednesday of the dismissal of Rich Higgins, another Iran hawk who was the NSC’s director of strategic planning. Higgins was sacked for circulating a memo in which he alleged that there was a “Maoist” insurgency within and without the government of “globalists and Islamists.”

Also gone is Derek Harvey, who held the Middle East portfolio at the NSC, and who also was an Iran hawk, and who may assume another role in the administration. McMaster tapped Michael Bell, a retired army colonel who has a conventional career portfolio, to replace Harvey.

Speaking at a recent event held by Ploughshares Fund, former Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry implied that McMaster is the best bet at keeping the nuclear agreement alive, according to a Ploughshares Fund description of the June 5, 2017 event.

IISS, meanwhile, has supported the Iran nuclear agreement and has defended Tehran against reports it has violated tenets of the deal.

Last month, IISS featured a piece by Mark Fitzpatrick, chief of the think tank’s non-proliferation and nuclear policy program, titled, “Three strikes against claims that Iran is violating the nuclear accord.”

The IISS piece argued that “criticism of Iran’s conduct in relation to the 2015 nuclear deal does not withstand scrutiny,” and that the Trump administration’s withdrawal from the agreement “would not convince other parties to re-impose sanctions, but could trigger a global crisis.”

In June, the IISS’s Fitzpatrick opined that “Critics are wrong: Iran remains in compliance with nuclear accord.”

An IISS strategic comment paper, titled, “Trump’s erratic Middle East policy,” argued that Trump’s confrontational approach toward Iran is “unlikely to lend needed stability to the region.”
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Fri/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
State Department Divided on Mission
by Byron York
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liar-Hillary Clinton Plea Bargain
Discussions Between DOJ Officials And Her Lawyers
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{rickwells.us} ~ Author Ed Klein, has some potentially disheartening news if it’s true. He’s quite familiar with the liar-Clintons and has excellent sources, having written multiple books about them... He’s been told a plea deal is in the works with the Sessions DOJ to let her completely off on multiple offenses. Most of us would ask why the worst criminal in the history of American politics would be offered such a deal when her crimes are so egregious and we’ve already gathered a mountain of evidence against her, obtained by expending great amounts of man hours and a huge expense to the American taxpayers. That question isn’t answered. According to Klein, the DOJ has reopened the investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified material on her bootleg bathroom email server while serving herself as Secretary of State. One liar-Clinton lawyer told Klein the discussion of a plea bargain occurred in July, with the offer made by an unnamed high-ranking DOJ official to the liar-Clinton Lawyer...Should be no deal at all, period.  http://rickwells.us/hillary-clinton-plea-bargain-discussions-doj-officials-lawyers/
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IDF to Hamas: Don't test us
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Tunnel shaft underneath a mosque
by Kobi Finkler
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ The IDF and the Israel Security Agency (ISA or Shin Bet) on Thursday exposed significant infrastructures belonging to the Hamas terrorist organization in Gaza, including terrorist tunnels intended to be used as hideouts for terrorists and for the transfer of weapons... In a significant part of the infrastructure, as shown by aerial photographs, Hamas takes advantage of Gazans and hides the entry shafts of the tunnels underneath houses and public buildings, such as schools and mosques. Choosing to place the shafts in these buildings is intended to disguise the tunnels and make it difficult to attack them. During combat, these objectives become legitimate military targets under international law...  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/233698?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Jew-Hating Imams Need to be Removed
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Imam Mahmoud Harmoush of the Islamic Center of Temecula Valley, in Riverside, California
by Shireen Qudosi
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ From Lebanon to Norway -- now most recently in California -- pulpits at mosques are ripe with raw Jew-hate. This hate is not denounced by the immediate community... When news broke recently that Imam Ammar Shahin of the Islamic Center in Davis, California, delivered a one- hour war-drum sermon against Jews concerning the Al Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, the imam and the members of mosque stood shamelessly behind his bidding to "Liberate the Al Aqsa mosque from the filth of the Jews. Annihilate them down to the very last one." That is a call for genocide. On the same day, in front of a congregation of Friday worshippers, another imam, Mahmoud Harmoush, in Riverside, California, also gave a Jew-hating sermon. Harmoush openly said: "Oh, Allah, liberate the Al Aqsa Mosque and all the Muslim lands from the unjust tyrants and the occupiers... Oh, Allah, destroy them, they are no match for you. Oh, Allah, disperse them and rend them asunder. Turn them into booty in the hands of the Muslims."...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10811/imams-antisemitism
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Sinaloa Cartel Cell Leader Self-Surrenders
by Department of Justice
{justice.gov} ~ A cell leader of the Sinaloa drug cartel was arraigned in federal court today following his self-surrender to U.S. law enforcement authorities at the Calexico West Port of Entry in California, on July 27... Damaso Lopez-Serrano, aka Mini Lic, 29, is believed to be the highest-ranking Mexican cartel leader ever to self-surrender in the U.S.  Lopez-Serrano was arraigned on an indictment returned by a federal grand jury in San Diego on Aug. 19, 2016, charging him and five of his close associates, including Nahum Sicairos-Montalvo, aka Kinceanero, with Conspiracy to Distribute Controlled Substances Intended for Importation and Conspiracy to Import Controlled Substances.  U.S. District Court Judge Dana M. Sabraw arraigned Lopez-Serrano on these charges and unsealed the indictment against these two defendants. The announcement was made by Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Acting Assistant Attorney General Kenneth A. Blanco of the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, Acting U.S. Attorney Alana Robinson for the Southern District of California and Special Agent in Charge William R. Sherman of the Drug Enforcement Administration’s San Diego Field Office...  https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/sinaloa-cartel-cell-leader-self-surrenders
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McConnell Groveled Trump Endorsement
For Swamp Lackey – Brooks Vote Is Anti-McConnell
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Mo Brooks, an Alabama conservative, was doing everything he could to get President Trump to recognize him as the preferred true conservative and in doing so win his endorsement for next Tuesday’s Senate race... He may have been successful in one regard, in establishing himself as the true Trump candidate, and that may be exactly what cost him the support of the President. While most of his Cabinet picks have been outstanding, President Trump has made some puzzling decisions in some personnel matters, such as with General HR McMaster, Dina Habib Powell, and Gary Cohn, all known globalists and their ilk that are now packing the NSC. Rod Rosenstein as Deputy AG was no gem either and Christopher Wray at the FBI is a problem waiting to happen. He’s refused to purge the liar-nObama holdovers, somehow accepting their betrayal as preferable to draining them from the swamp. Now he’s showing that same puzzling behavior in endorsing a Mitch McConnell lackey in the race for the Alabama Senate seat once held by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The only possible explanation for President Trump endorsing the current acting Senator, Luther Strange, would be as a  favor to or part of a deal with Senate Majority Leader Mitch “White Flag” McConnell...  http://rickwells.us/mcconnell-groveled-trump-endorsement-swamp-lackey-brooks-vote-anti-mcconnell/
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State Department Divided on Mission
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by Byron York
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townhall.com} ~ As part of what he calls a "redesign" of the State Department, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has surveyed more than 35,000 State employees on the most fundamental questions facing the organization. And Tillerson -- or, more accurately, a consulting firm hired by the secretary -- has found that large blocs of State workers do not agree on what the department's mission should be.

"For an organization with a very significant role in the world, too many in the Department of State were not clear on the exact mission of the agency," consultants from Insigniam wrote in a "Listening Report" completed in June.

Some said the mission is, or should be, "installing democracy" around the world. Others said it is "spreading American values." The one mission that the largest number of employees could agree on was "protecting Americans and the interests of America throughout the world."

Beyond that, no single phrase united the department's employees. So now, Tillerson and his top aides are trying to craft the material gathered from those 35,000-plus questionnaires into a new mission statement. Changing the department's mission statement is pretty much standard procedure when a new president and party take over. Working with Insigniam, a group of leaders from State and the U.S. Agency for International Development came up with three draft sentences, one to describe the department's purpose, the next to describe its mission, and the next to describe its ambition.

The purpose statement: "We promote the security, prosperity, and interests of the American people globally."

The mission statement: "Lead America's foreign policy through global advocacy, action, and assistance to shape a safer, more prosperous world."

The ambition statement: "The American people thrive in a peaceful and interconnected world that is free, resilient, and prosperous."

The consultants asked State employees for reaction to each keyword. Does "advocacy" accurately describe what the department does? What about a "free" world? And "resilient"? The consultants also asked employees to offer any other words they felt better described State's mission.

In a cloud made from responses to the question of which words best describe State's current mission, the standouts were "diplomacy," "security," "peace," "prosperity," "democracy," and "development."

One thing that is likely to come out in the final product is that the Donald Trump State Department mission statement will be more assertively American than the statement under Barack liar-nObama. The consultants noted that a State document from May of this year wrote that "ABOVE ALL, the mission of the U.S. Department of State is to advance the national interests of the United States and its people."

From 2013 to 2016, the consultants added by contrast, the State mission statement was "to shape and sustain a peaceful, prosperous, just, and democratic world and foster conditions for stability and progress for the benefit of the American people and people everywhere."

It's a we-are-USA vibe versus a we're-citizens-of-the-world vibe. When I asked Tillerson spokesman, R.C. Hammond, whether he would agree that the proposed new statement is in fact more assertively American than the old, he answered, "I would. We will not apologize for being American."

On the campaign trail, candidate Trump expressed contempt for America's disastrous effort to install democracy in Iraq."We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone," Trump said in his inaugural address. "But rather to let it shine as an example for everyone to follow."

Now, some Trump critics, Republican and Democrat, are unhappy that the proposed mission statement does not include the word "democracy."

Tom Malinowski, an liar-nObama State Department official, told the Washington Post that the proposed mission statement -- "Lead America's foreign policy through global advocacy, action, and assistance to shape a safer, more prosperous world" -- reflects "a worldview similar to that of Putin."

It is hard to take such commentary seriously -- after all, the three-part purpose/mission/ambition statement includes the goal of a world that is not only "peaceful" but "free" -- but that is what Malinowski said. It just shows there's plenty of Trump Resistance in the State Department world as well as the rest of Washington.

Tillerson's consultants found that in the absence of a single idea of mission, many in the State Department tend to define their job by the area of the Department in which they work. The foreign service sees the mission as one thing. Washington-based administrators see another. Economics-oriented specialists see yet another, and so on.

"Without a unified mission, people in the State Department speak from their place in the organization, not as one organization," the contractors noted.

Tillerson's job is to find some sort of unity. With a big part of the permanent bureaucracy opposed to him, and especially opposed to the president who appointed him, that might be impossible. So Tillerson might want to choose the proposed mission statement that brought the closest thing to a consensus: "Protecting Americans and the interests of America throughout the world." Let others argue about democracy and various causes, while the secretary sticks to the main thing.
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Preparing for the post-Abbas era
by Caroline B. Click

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LYNCH Aide Now At Judiciary Committee
PROBING Lynch – Was PART OF Initial COVER UP
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{rickwells.us} ~ One of the attorneys that is working for Senate Democrats on the Judiciary Committee, a group trying to cover up Loretta Lynch’s conspiracy and criminal actions in concert with James Comey and others... was also involved in attempting to conceal her crimes at DOJ. She was working directly for Lynch at the time everything came to a head around the liar-Clinton sham investigation and the tarmac rendezvous with liar-Bill Clinton. Her firsthand knowledge of everything that needs to be obstructed and hidden from the American people must be very useful in their efforts. Paige Herwig was then Counselor to the Attorney General and is now the Deputy General Counsel for Senate Judiciary Committee Democrats. That committee is currently investigating, or, more accurately, from the Democrat perspective, engaged in covering up, the effort to quash the prosecution of liar-Hillary Clinton by then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and then-FBI Director James Comey...  http://rickwells.us/lynch-aide-now-judiciary-committee-probing-lynch-part-initial-cover/
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Trump Backs ‘Right to Try’
Experimental Drugs, Already Law in 37 States
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by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ Laura McLinn’s son Jordan was diagnosed at age 4 with muscular dystrophy, a terminal illness with no cure. But, McLinn says, matters could be much worse... That’s because after the family tried for years, Jordan, now 8, qualifies for clinical trials for an experimental drug manufactured by NS Pharma. However, that uncertainty led Jordan’s mom to become a public advocate for others with a terminal illness who are unable to try experimental drugs that haven’t won final approval from the Food and Drug Administration...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/08/07/trump-backs-federal-right-to-try-law-already-enacted-in-37-states/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RVeVpHTXlNamRpTm1VNCIsInQiOiJsclFaa09FMXl2c1dWUm1oNjY4VkcwRTZxNTZxejM0S0h5eHJFQUlMZUtZZ1NMekhQdkVMSmRTRW4wU3UrVVwvQ3lPaXIzSVFyNVQ1SGU0dHp3azk1N2srZlVabE1MVkkzcEwxK3B1T3hVcTlHMlVneXF5V2lKdXVEckFLTWdPQWUifQ%3D%3D
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Trump Dossier Firm Turns Over Documents
To Senate Panel, But There’s Just One Problem
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ Fusion GPS, the opposition research firm behind the Trump dossier, turned over thousands of pages of documents to the Senate Judiciary Committee late Wednesday, The Daily Caller is told... But the documents do not appear to be what the committee was hoping that Fusion GPS and its founder, Glenn Simpson, would provide. “The committee is reviewing the production received late this afternoon from Mr. Simpson, but virtually all of the documents appear to be merely news clippings rather than records of Fusion’s substantive communications,” George Hartmann, a spokesman for the Senate Judiciary Committee, told TheDC. The paltry document production escalates the standoff between Fusion GPS and the Judiciary Committee, which is chaired by Iowa Sen. Chuck Grassley...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/09/trump-dossier-firm-turns-over-documents-to-senate-panel-but-theres-just-one-problem/
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‘Fire And Fury’: The Most Powerful
Military Weapons Trump Has At His Disposal
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by Ryan Saavedra
{dailycaller.com} ~ President Trump gave a stern warning to North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un on Tuesday when he said, “they will be met with fire and fury and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before.”... The United States boasts one of the largest militaries in the world – a military that is also widely considered to be the most powerful without any close competitors. From nuclear weapons to stealth bombers, below are the top five military assets and top five military ordnance currently used by the U.S. military...F-22 Raptor...Arleigh Burkeclass (DDG 51) destroyers...B-2 Spirit Bomber...Ohio Class Nuclear Submarines (SSBN only)...Nimitz Class Nuclear Aircraft Carriers...GBU-57A/B Massive Ordnance Penetrator...Tomahawk Cruise Missile...Trident II (D5) Missile...LGM-30 Minuteman Missile...B83 Nuclear Bomb...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/09/fire-and-fury-the-most-powerful-military-weapons-trump-has-at-his-disposal/
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Preparing for the post-Abbas era
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by Caroline B. Glick
{jewishworldreview.com} ~
PLO chief and Palestinian Authority chairman Mahmoud Abbas scored a victory against Israel at the Temple Mount. But it was a Pyrrhic one.

Days after the government bowed to his demand and voted to remove the metal detectors from the Temple Mount, Abbas checked into the hospital for tests. The 82-year-old dictator has heart disease and a series of other serious health issues. And he has refused to appoint a successor.

It is widely assumed that once he exits the stage, the situation in the PA-ruled areas in Judea and Samaria – otherwise known as Areas A and B – will change in fundamental ways.

This week, two prominent Palestinian advocates, Hussein Agha and Ahmad Samih Khalidi, published an article in The New Yorker entitled “The end of this road: The decline of the Palestinian national movement.”

Among other things, they explained that Abbas’s death will mark the dissolution of the Palestinian national identity. That identity has already been supplanted in Judea and Samaria by local, tribal identities. In their words, “The powerful local ties made it impossible for a Hebronite to have a genuine popular base in Ramallah, or for a Gazan to have a credible say in the West Bank.”

It will also be the end of the PLO and its largest faction, Fatah, founded by Yasser Arafat in 1958 and led by Abbas since Arafat’s death in 2004.

Fatah, they explain, has “no new leaders, no convincing evidence of validation, no marked success in government, no progress toward peace, fragile links to its original setting abroad and a local environment buffeted by the crosswinds of petty quarrels and regional antagonisms.”

One of the reasons the Palestinians have lost interest in being Palestinians is because they have lost their traditional political and financial supporters in the Arab world and the developing world. The Sunni Arab world, led by Saudi Arabia and Egypt, is now willing to publicly extol Israel as a vital ally in its struggle against Iran and the Muslim Brotherhood. The so-called Arab street is increasingly incensed at the Palestinians for monopolizing the world’s attention with their never ending list of grievances against Israel even as millions in the Arab world suffer from war, genocide, starvation and other forms of oppression and millions more have been forced to flee their homes.

As for the developing world, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s refusal to visit with Abbas during his recent visit to Israel marked the official end of the Third World’s alliance with the PLO.

After Abbas departs, Agha and Khalidi identify three key actors that will seek to fill the military and political void. First and foremost, the Palestinian security services (PSF) will raise its head. The PSF is heavily armed and has been trained by the US military. Agha and Khalidi argue reasonably that as the best armed and best organized group in the area aside from the IDF, the PSF will likely seize power in one form or another.

The Palestinian forces pose a major threat to Israel. It isn’t simply that their members have often participated in murderous terrorist attacks against Israel. With their US military training they are capable of launching large-scale assaults on Israeli civilian communities and on IDF forces.

To understand the nature of the threat, consider that last month, a lone terrorist armed with a knife sufficed to massacre the Salomon family in their home in Halamish before he was stopped by an off-duty soldier. Contemplate what a well-armed and trained platoon of Palestinian soldiers with no clear political constraints could do.

The second force Agha and Khalidi identify as likely to step into the leadership vacuum is the Israeli Arab political leadership. As Agha and Khalidi note, since the PLO-controlled PA was established in 1994, the Israeli Arab community and the Palestinians of Judea and Samaria have become more familiar with one another.

Due in large part to subversion by the PLO and Hamas and lavish funding of radical Israeli Arab groups and politicians by foreign governments and leftist donors, a generation of radical, anti-Israel Arab politicians has risen to power.

At the same time, since the Arab Spring destabilized all of Israel’s neighbors, a cross current of Arab Zionism has captivated the Israeli Arab majority. Recognizing that Israel is their safe port in the storm, Israeli Arabs in increasing numbers are choosing to embrace their Israeli identity, learn Hebrew and join mainstream Israeli society.

Agha and Khalidi signal clearly their hope that the integration of the Palestinians and Israel’s Arab minority will enable them to worth together to take over the Jewish state from within.

Finally, Agha and Khalidi note that as support for the Palestinians has waned in the Arab world and the developing world, the West has emerged in recent years as their most stable and enthusiastic political support base. Ethnic Palestinians in the West are more committed to destroying Israel than Palestinians in Syria and Jordan. Western politicians and political activists who support the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement are much more committed to the political war against Israel than their counterparts in Asia and Africa.

The Western forces now aligned against Israel in the name of the Palestinians will certainly seek to play a role in shaping events in a post-Abbas world.

This then brings us to Israel and what it must do now and in the immediate aftermath of Abbas’s exit from the scene.

The most important thing that Israel can and must do is send a clear message that it will not be walking away from Judea and Samaria. To do so, Israel should end the military government in Area C, where all the Israeli communities and border zones are located, and replace it with its legal code.

Militarily, it is imperative that the IDF be ordered to disarm the PSF as quickly and quietly as possible.

Since 2007, Abbas’s fear of Hamas has exceeded his hatred for Israel. As a consequence, during this time, the Palestinian security forces have cooperated with the IDF in anti-Hamas operations.

There is every likelihood that the forces’ calculations in a post-Abbas world will be quite different.

Israel cannot afford to have a well-armed force, steeped in antisemitic ideology, deployed footsteps from major Israeli population centers.

As for the Israeli Arabs, Israel can empower moderate, integrationist forces to rise to power. To do so, it must enforce its laws against terrorism-sponsoring groups like the Islamic movement and enforce its land and welfare laws toward Arabs with the same vigor it enforces them toward Jews. It must provide support for integrationists to enter the political fray against their anti-Israel rivals.

If Israel fails to take these actions, Agha and Khalidi’s dream that the Palestinian war against Israel is taken over by Israeli Arabs supported by the West will become a realistic prospect.

This then brings us to the West.

Economically, Israel has already begun to limit the capacity of anti-Israel forces in the West to wage economic war against it by deepening its economic ties with Asia.

Politically, Israel must reform its legal system to limit the subversive power of the West in its Arab community and more generally in its political system. Foreign governments must be barred from funding political NGOs. Israel should wage a public campaign in the US to discredit foundations and other non-profits in the US that work through Israeli-registered NGOs to undermine its rule of law.

By applying its laws in full to Area C, and by asserting sole security control throughout the areas, while empowering the Israeli Arab majority that wishes to embrace its Israeli identity, Israel will empower the Palestinians in Areas A and B to govern themselves autonomously in a manner that advances the interests of their constituents.

As Agha and Khalidi note, the Palestinians have been in charge of their own governance since 1994. But under the corrupt authoritarianism of the PLO, their governance has been poor and unaccountable. As local identities have superseded the PLO’s brand of nationalism borne of terrorism and eternal war against Israel, the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria well positioned to embrace an opportunity to govern themselves under a liberal rule of law without fear of the PLO jackboot.

The post-Abbas era will pose new threats and opportunities for Israel. It is up to Israel to ensure that the opportunities are maximized and the threats are neutralized as quickly as possible. Failing that, Israel can expect to contend with military threats in Judea and Samaria several orders of magnitude greater than what it has dealt with in the past. It can similarly expect to find itself under political assault from a combination of radicalized Israeli Arabs and Western governments that will challenge it in ways it has never been challenged before.


http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0817/glick080917.php3
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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 Mueller's Charge: A Search for Justice,
or a Fishing Excursion?
by James Shott
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Mitchell Taken Apart As She
Attacks President For “Mean Man” Language
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{rickwells.us} ~ State Department Spokesperson Heather Nauert smiles as she calls on the reporter and it just drops off her face at the :03 second mark... exposing how she really feels about having to interact with such a dishonest fake news charlatan. Nauert does a very effective job putting CFR globalist Andrea Mitchell Greenspan in her place in the Wednesday briefing. The MSNBC propagandist attempted to portray President Trump as another Kim Jong-un in his “fire and fury” warning to North Korea regarding their hostilities. Quoting their usual stable of anti-American leftists and establishment RINOs, Mitchell said President Trump’s comments were “‘bombastic,’ in Senator Feinstein’s view, ‘not helpful,’ said Senator RINO-McCain, ‘that no other president, not Eisenhower, not Reagan, no other President that he knew of, would have used such language'” about the dictator hypocrite RINO-McCain called, in his legendary diplomatic style, the “crazy fat kid.”...  http://rickwells.us/mitchell-taken-apart-attacks-president-mean-man-language/

This is Not How You Drain the Swamp, Mr. President
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by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ President Trump is engaged in a mild war of words with Mitch McConnell on Twitter. McConnell thinks the President has expectations way too high, but as the President rightly points out... the GOP has promised to repeal liar-nObamacare for seven years. McConnell was just lying. Do we really think he wants to repeal liar-nObamacare? His state expanded liar-nObamacare a few years ago. He has a political interest in ensuring it stays. Meanwhile, the President is endorsing Luther Strange for the Senate in Alabama. This is not how one drains the swamp. Lest anyone forget, Strange got his appointment to the Senate after convincing the Alabama state legislature not to impeach Governor Bentley. Only after getting into the Senate did the legislature proceed... http://theresurgent.com/this-is-not-how-you-drain-the-swamp-mr-president/
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 Mueller's Charge: A Search for Justice, or a Fishing 
 Excursion? 
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By James Shott:  Back in May, the Department of Justice announced that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein had appointed a special counsel "to oversee the previously-confirmed FBI investigation of Russian government efforts to influence the 2016 presidential election and related matters." That investigation is the source of much consternation.
          Rosenstein said he had "determined that it is in the public interest for me to exercise my authority and appoint a special counsel to assume responsibility for this matter," adding that his decision "is not a finding that crimes have been committed or that any prosecution is warranted." Instead, he insisted, "What I have determined is that based upon the unique circumstances, the public interest requires me to place this investigation under the authority of a person who exercises a degree of independence from the normal chain of command."
          Rosenstein chose former Department of Justice official and former FBI Director Robert S. Mueller III, a man roundly praised by Democrats and Republicans alike for his impeccable credentials and the knowledge and ability to do the right thing. However, some inconvenient truths have arisen over recent months.
          By statute a special counsel's or special prosecutor's job is to investigate known crimes. As Rosenstein even admitted, no actual crime has been identified. In fact, the Russian involvement in the election that has commanded the attention of the media and Democrats for more than a year did not begin as a criminal case but rather a counterintelligence case.
          As Mueller began recruiting his team of lawyers to assist in the investigation, it was noted that some of the early ones were donors to Democrat candidates. And to date, as reported by The Washington Post, of the 14 names confirmed by the special counsel's office, seven of them have "donated a total of $60,787.77 to [liar-Hillary] Clinton and other party candidates."
          William Barr, attorney general in the George H.W. Bush administration, told the Post, "In my view, prosecutors who make political contributions are identifying fairly strongly with a political party." Can this investigation possibly be objective when such operatives are doing the investigating?
           The order creating the special counsel ostensibly is for investigating Russian election involvement. However, it effectively has no limits. Having found nothing pursuable in the Russian intrigue, which was the reason for appointing a special counsel, Mueller has moved on to other topics. He is now looking into matters involving Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn. If/when that one runs its course, another empty space awaits, like President Donald Trump's business dealings over the years.
          It is not unlike bringing a construction company executive to an empty field without a plan to follow, and saying, "Build something." There is no definite end to this process, unless someone somewhere
can be indicted, or be persuaded to confess to something.
          Critics say that Mueller's job, and that of prosecutors generally, is to find a crime, and then to find a perpetrator, and it apparently is of little importance what the crime is, or who is responsible for it. Remember the investigation of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the Whitewater matter? It ended up being the Monica Lewinski matter.
The two were barely related, if at all.
          Prosecutors are known for "flipping" witnesses, pressuring them with prosecution for something anything to persuade them to tattle on someone anyone in order to avoid prosecution. A prosecutor's job is, after all, to prosecute. No indictment in this matter indicates a failed investigation. Who wants that on their record?

          Recently, Mueller impaneled a grand jury in Washington, DC, of allplaces. That's significant because it's an indication that Mueller is hot on the trail of criminal activity, not counterintelligence, but it also might indicate partisan motives. Of the location, Newt Gingrich noted, "President Trump got 68.63% in West Virginia, 4.8% in Washington DC. Guess where Mueller has a grand jury? Guess how biased it will be?"
          It's not just conservatives catching on to this element. Leftist law professor Alan Dershowitz wrote, "The District of Columbia jury pool will be overwhelmingly Democratic, by a ratio of close to 10 to 1. ... There is no guarantee, of course, that a Democratic juror would vote to convict an indicated member of the Trump administration... But in selecting jurors from among the pool, most prosecutors would favor Democrats."
          Conservative talk-show host Mark Levin, a lawyer and president of the Landmark Legal Foundation, has a more threatening scenario. Calling it a "coup," Levin said, "Let me tell you what's going on here: they want to drag Donald Jr. in front of a grand jury and everybody else who was in that meeting all eight of them and see if they can find any contradictions in their testimony." Since there was no crime involved, Levin said the purpose is to "see if they can get somebody on a 'lie.' Perjury."
          Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy warns of another possible angle: impeachment. "Instead of returning an indictment, a grand jury may issue a report that recommends an official's removal from office," he says. "Thus, the question arises: Is Special Counsel Robert Mueller's impaneling of a new grand jury in Washington step one in the impeachment of President Donald Trump?" Some suggest that Mueller is in breach of the rules and should resign.
          Rep. Trent Franks (R-AZ) said, "Bob Mueller is in clear violation of federal code and must resign to maintain the integrity of the investigation into alleged Russian ties. Those who worked under them have attested he and Jim Comey possess a close friendship, and they have delivered on-the-record statements effusing praise of one another." He added, "No one knows Mr. Mueller's true intentions, but neither can anyone dispute that he now clearly appears to be a partisan arbiter of justice. Accordingly, the law is also explicitly clear: he must step down based on this conflict of interest."
          Franks, a senior member of the House Judiciary Committee, noted that former FBI Director Comey, who first worked under Mueller, leaked information to the press to encourage the appointment of a special counsel. That presents a clear conflict of interest, defined by federal law as "a personal relationship with any person substantially involved in the conduct that is the subject of the investigation or prosecution."
          But Deputy AG Rosenstein insisted, "Bob Mueller understands and I understand the specific scope of the investigation, and so no, it's not a fishing expedition." Rosenstein promised to rein it in if necessary.
          So to sum it all up, at best we have a bunch of Republicans being investigated by a bunch of Democrats, with a grand jury pool that is 10-1 Democrat. What could possibly go wrong?  ~The Patriot Post
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How Did the Dems' IT Scandal Suspects Get Here?
by Michelle Malkin
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Miami-Dade complied with Trump to change its "sanctuary" status. It worked. (Miami Herald)
 
Grassley seeks immigration files for House IT probe suspects. (The Daily Signal)
 
Army shoots down demands to scrub Confederate names from Fort Hamilton. (The Washington Times)
 
The ACLU is suing two CIA contractors for saving American lives. (Washington Examiner)
 
Life expectancy indicates U.S. health care outcomes actually outpace international peers. (The Federalist)
 
$15 minimum wage would wreak havoc on one of America's richest counties. (The Daily Signal)
 
Study finds that charter schools boost performance of nearby schools. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Rise in concealed-carry permits biggest among black women. (CNS News)
 
K-12 school agrees to gender inclusion policy with no notice or "opt out" for parents. (The Daily Signal)
 
Humor: New Google technology autocorrects users' thoughts. (The Babylon Bee)
 
Policy: Did Google just choke on its woke? (Investor's Business Daily)
 
Policy: The free market is the greatest force for conservation. (Capital Research Center~The Patriot Post
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FBI Raids Former Trump Campaign Chairman's Home
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{trumptrainnews.com} ~ FBI agents raided the Alexandria home of President Trump’s former campaign chairman late last month, using a search warrant to seize documents and other materials... according to people familiar with the special counsel investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Federal agents appeared at Paul Manafort’s home without advance warning in the predawn hours of July 26, the day after he met voluntarily with the staff for the Senate Intelligence Committee. The search warrant was wide-ranging and FBI agents working with special counsel Robert S. Mueller III departed the home with various records...  http://http://trumptrainnews.com/articles/fbi-raids-trump-campaign-chairman-s-home/articles/fbi-raids-trump-campaign-chairman-s-home
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An Uprising Not an Upset
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by Jerry Cave
{aim.org} ~ The leftist media gleefully have informed us that the failure to repeal liar-nObamacare represents a generational change in Americans’ thinking on health care... The Senate’s failure, by one vote, to repeal liar-nObamacare means Americans have decided they want everyone covered, eventually by single-payer, government-sponsored health care, the argument goes. Nonsense. It’s more like we have met the enemy and he is us. If John RINO-McCain, R-Ariz., had not stopped the repeal of liar-nObamacare, another GOP sacrificial scam would have stepped up to maintain the elected elite’s Status No to the wishes of the people who voted to put Republicans in charge of the House, Senate, White House and two-thirds of the states. We still want our country back – not only from the liberals but from the elected elites whose only victories seem to come after Election Day...  http://www.aim.org/guest-column/an-uprising-not-an-upset/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Aug-09-2017&utm_medium=email
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liar-Hillary Clinton Email
Investigation Has Been Reopened!
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by Thomas
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton lost two presidential elections. Now, she’s allegedly been offered a pea bargain by President Trump’s Department of Justice... How fast will CNN be to cover this story? I wouldn’t hold your breath. This is an early report, but quite a big deal if true: The Justice Department has reopened the investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified material on her private email system while she was secretary of state, and is considering offering her a plea bargain if she will agree to plead guilty to charges of breaking the law, according to a liar-Clinton attorney. During the exploratory talks with the prosecutor, the liar-Clinton attorney was told that despite former FBI Director James Comey’s decision last July not to prosecute liar-Hillary, the Justice Department has reexamined the email case and believes there are ample grounds for prosecuting liar-Hillary on a number of counts... http://thepoliticalinsider.com/hillary-clinton-plea-deal/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Afternoon_Newsletter_8_9_2017&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-8-9-2017-afternoon&utm_medium=email
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Official Says North Korean Missile Has “.00001
Percent Chance” of Getting Through Defenses
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by Warren Mass
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Guam’s Homeland Security Adviser George Charfauros told reporters on August 9 that Guam is protected by the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile system that is permanently stationed at Andersen Air Force Base on the island... Charfauros assured Guam residents that the system is thoroughly capable of protecting them from the long-range ballistic missiles that North Korea has threatened to fire at the U.S. island territory. “There’s .00001 percent chance of that missile getting through that layer,” Charfauros told reporters at a news conference, according to Guam-based Pacific Daily News. As of this morning, we have not changed our stance in confidence that the U.S. Department of Defense is monitoring this situation very closely and is maintaining a condition of readiness, daily. We will continue to keep the public updated on any changes or requests for action. For now, we advise the community to remain calm, remember that there are defenses in place for threats such as North Korea and to continue to remain prepared for all hazards...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/26668-official-says-north-korean-missile-has-00001-percent-chance-of-getting-through-defenses
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Sen. McConnell Starting To Soften On Tax Plan Needing To Be Revenue-Neutral
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Dershowitz To Trump Opponents: Stop Calling Everyone A Racist
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The Tiny Little Island in NYC That No One Is Allowed To Visit
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The core of the Holy Land conflict
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Being a Christian in the Middle East
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The diversity I found in Israel
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How Did the Dems' IT Scandal Suspects Get Here?
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by Michelle Malkin
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townhall.com} ~ Here is a radical proposition: The public has a right to know the immigration status and history of foreign criminal suspects. Their entrance and employment sponsorship records should not be treated like classified government secrets -- especially if the public's tax dollars subsidized their salaries.

In March, I contacted the D.C. offices of House Congressional Democrats Joaquin Castro of Texas, Sander Levin of Michigan, Marcia Fudge of Ohio, Greg Meeks of New York and Ted Deutch of Florida. These public officials have at one time or another employed one of three Pakistani Muslim brothers or their family and friends caught up in a criminal theft and hacking probe of the House Democrats' information security systems. In all, IT worker Imran Awan and his family and friends hoovered up an estimated $4 million in government funds over a period of 13 years.

For months, the D.C. Capitol Police have probed allegations that the Awan ring stole equipment from more than 20 congressional offices and accessed the House IT system without members' knowledge. Investigative reporter Luke Rosiak at The Daily Caller News Foundation has done excellent work on the case -- most recently breaking the news of Imran Awan's arrest in late July at the airport for alleged bank fraud, mortgage scams and shady wire transfers of nearly $300,000.

Awan was headed to Pakistan to join his wife, Hina Alvi, and three children, who had hastily fled America in March after Alvi was fired by Rep. Meeks. This reeks.

My question to the House Democrats was simple: Were the Awans and their family and friends H-1B tech workers -- like so many of the 650,000 "temporary" foreign guest workers imported into America under that program over the past quarter-century and predominantly working in IT?

And if they're not H-1Bs, how exactly did Awan and company get here, when did they get here, and who brought them over here and why?

These are simple questions. Given that these foreign IT workers now under investigation were paid for with our tax dollars, Americans deserve to know their path to the public trough. This is especially true when so many members of Congress in both parties continue to clamor for expanding foreign guest-worker programs like H-1B and refuse to enact freezes on corrupted visa programs exploited by foreign tourists (B visas), students (F-1 visas) and workers (H visas) acting in bad faith.

Moreover, U.S. tech workers have grown increasingly vocal about being forced to train underqualified, shoddily vetted foreign replacements before getting pink-slipped -- and increasingly alarmed at their access to sensitive personal, financial and health data.

Awan first landed a job with former Democrat Rep. Robert Wexler as an "information technology director" in 2004 at the ripe age of 24 or 25. His younger brother, Jamal, is reportedly only 23 years old, yet has pulled in a salary of nearly $160,000 a year since 2014 (when he was 20!) as an information technology worker for Democrat Rep. Julia Brownley. That's 3.1 times greater than the median salary for a House IT worker, according to InsideGov.

Who sponsored these young foreign techies and chose them to do work in our nation's capital doing a job that countless young Americans are qualified to do? If not H-1B, did they arrive first as students on foreign visas who are supposed to return home after their course of study, then game the system to work through the cheap-labor loopholes, such as the Optional Practical Training program? Or did they switch visa categories? Did they pull strings through their well-connected Democratic employers?

The communications official in Rep. Castro's office, which employed Imran's brother, Jamal, responded that she would "touch base with some colleagues" and keep me posted. No word since. The others didn't bother to answer at all, nor did they respond when I followed up last week.

As for defiant Democrat Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, who only fired Awan after his arrest two weeks ago, it's apparently un-American to question how foreign criminal suspects got to America and stayed here. Schultz last week cited "racial and ethnic profiling concerns that I had" to deflect from her eyebrow-raising handling of the matter, which now involves smashed hard drives seized from Awan's home by the FBI.

The good news is that Sen. Charles Grassley on Tuesday asked DHS for all immigration summaries and detainers for Imran Awan, wife Hina Alvi, brothers Jamal and Abid Awan, and friends/associates Natalia Sova and Rao Abbas. But it shouldn't take a Senate demand letter to penetrate the Dems' partisan protectionism. We paid the salaries of their suspect foreign IT minions. They answer to us.
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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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After the Coup, What Then?
by Pat Buchanan
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 Real News About a Fake Name 
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We're shocked — shocked — to report that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used an alias to send official email. This was a common practice in Barack liar-nObama's administration .Lois Lerner, Eric Holder and even liar-nObama himself used pseudonyms in official emails. Lynch's attorney, Robert Raben, swears her practice was totally innocuous — to avoid "inundation of mailboxes" with spam and such — and that Justice Department staffers processing Freedom of Information Act requests were aware of Lynch's alias. Of course we all know that the Most Transparent Administration in History™ wasn't, as its members insist, "scandal free," but used aliases and other obstruction tactics to hide all sorts of unsavory and politically inconvenient things from the public. The most guilty of all was liar-Hillary Clinton and her infamous private email server.
          In Lynch's case, the alias was revealed after Judicial Watch and the American Center for Law and Justice, two conservative watchdogs, obtained 413 pages of DOJ documents. Those documents revealed Lynch's Elizabeth Carlisle's coordination with other DOJ officials about how to spin her clandestine tarmac meeting with Bill liar-Clinton in June 2016 — at the height of the FBI's investigation into liar-Hillary's emails. Just days after the meeting in which liar-Clinton and Lynch insisted they discussed their grandchildren, Lynch's subordinate, FBI Director James Comey, announced that the agency had plenty of evidence to pursue liar-Hillary Clinton but would not do so. One of the main reasons was that pseudonymous liar-nObama was guilty too. Shortly thereafter, Lynch also announced the DOJ wouldn't pursue the liar-Clinton Foundation for its shady relationship with the liar-Clinton State Department, despite FBI recommendations.
          Another part of the story here is the Leftmedia. Reporters for The New York Times, The Washington Post and ABC News all emailed Lynch to explain that tarmac meeting. In the words of Post reporter Matt Zapotosky, he was "hoping to put it to rest." It's not a stretch to read that as an offer to assist in the cover-up. What was that about the Post's new motto,  "
Democracy Dies in Darkness"? And can anyone imagine the media ever putting the phony Trump/Russia collusion "to rest"?  ~The Patriot Post
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Red Dragon Plays Panda: China States
It Will Enforce U.N. Resolutions Against North Korea
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ We’ll see.  The red dragon has a tendency to say one thing publicly and manipulate another thing privately. However, the baseline for China to take the role of Big Panda is the reception of Secretary Rex Tillerson’s “Four No” remarks on North Korea during his State Department briefing... TILLERSON”S FOUR NO’S: The United States does not seek •regime change, •the collapse of the regime, •an accelerated reunification of the peninsula or •an excuse to send the U.S. military into North Korea. So long as the ‘four-no’s’ remain visible and discussed in the international dialogue, the options for China are to comply or to be called out as a deceiving enabler. The economic consequences for China to break the sanctions are looming and severely consequential...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/08/07/red-dragon-plays-panda-china-states-it-will-enforce-u-n-resolutions-against-north-korea/
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka Discusses
North Korea and President Trump Administration
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Dr. Sebastian Gorka appears on Sean Hannity TV show to discuss the ongoing issues with North Korea and the latest developments with U.N. sanctions.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/08/08/dr-sebastian-gorka-discusses-north-korea-and-president-trump-administration/
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Emails Prove Liberal Media
Buried Details of Lynch/liar-Clinton Meeting
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by Brian McNicoll
{aim.org} ~ Immerse yourself in any political argument on the Internet, and eventually, someone will say, “Well, at least we didn’t elect the criminal liar-Hillary Clinton.” And the other side will say, “You investigated her for 25 years and got nothing … isn’t that perhaps because she’s not a criminal?” But take a look at a batch of emails made public last week by the American Center for Law and Justice, and it’s easy to see how liar-Clinton could have engaged in considerable criminal activity and still escaped prosecution. The emails were part of a Freedom of Information Act request for records related to the meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill liar-Clinton on the tarmac at the Phoenix airport. The American Center for Law and Justice sent requests to both the FBI and Department of Justice requesting records, and the Justice Department said at first that it had no records responsive to the request...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/emails-prove-liberal-media-buried-details-of-lynch-clinton-meeting/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Aug-08-2017&utm_medium=email
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Laura Ingraham Smacks Down Mark Green
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by Amber Athey
{dailycaller.com} ~ Laura Ingraham went head-to-head with Mark Green in a Monday night debate about President Donald Trump’s first 200 days... “Great adjectives, we’ve got a list of all your adjectives,” Ingraham said, mocking Green, a New York City public advocate. “Trump is Hitler, Mussolini … ” “The intellectuals on the coast, they know better than millions of people in the electoral states that ended up mattering in the end,” she continued.  “Do they have any right to be upset with what’s happened to this country?”...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/08/laura-ingraham-smacks-down-mark-green-video/
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The Palestinians' "Creativity for Hate"
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Mu'ath Al-Hims' remarks on Facebook, criticizing the parents of Palestinian girls
who allowed their daughters to socialize with Israeli girls
by Khaled Abu Toameh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Palestinian teenage girls are facing ridicule and hate for attending a summer camp for coexistence in the US. The camp, which brings Palestinian and Israeli girls together, is organized by Creativity for Peace, an organization in Santa Fe, New Mexico... Since 2003, up to 20 Israeli and Palestinian girls, aged 15 to 17, each year have participated in the Creativity for Peace camp. Photos of the Israeli and Palestinian girls enjoying their time together have enraged many Palestinians and other Arabs, who took to social media to express their disgust and outrage over the event and hurl abuse at the Palestinian participants.  The angry reactions to the joint Palestinian-Israeli camp in the US should be seen in the context of the Palestinians' strong opposition to all forms of "normalization" with Israel...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10783/palestinians-creativity-hate#continued
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After the Coup, What Then?
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by Pat Buchanan
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townhall.com} ~ That the Trump presidency is bedeviled is undeniable.

As President Donald Trump flew off for August at his Jersey club, there came word that Special Counsel Robert Mueller III had impaneled a grand jury and subpoenas were going out to Trump family and campaign associates.

The jurors will be drawn from a pool of citizens in a city liar-Hillary Clinton swept with 91 percent of the vote. Trump got 4 percent.

Whatever indictments Mueller wants, Mueller gets.

Thanks to a media that savages him ceaselessly, Trump is down to 33 percent approval in a Quinnipiac University poll and below 40 percent in most of the rest.

Before Trump departed D.C., The Washington Post ran transcripts of his phone conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia.

Even liar-nObama administration veterans were stunned.

So, it is time to ask: If this city brings Trump down, will the rest of America rejoice?

What will be the reaction out there in fly-over country, that land where the "deplorables" dwell who produce the soldiers to fight our wars? Will they toast the "free press" that brought down the president they elected, and in whom they had placed so much hope?

My guess: The reaction will be one of bitterness, cynicism, despair, a sense that the fix is in, that no matter what we do, they will not let us win. If Trump is brought down, American democracy will take a pasting. It will be seen as a fraud. And the backlash will poison our politics to where only an attack from abroad, like 9/11, will reunite us.

Our media preen and posture as the defenders of democracy, devoted to truth, who provide us round-the-clock protection from tyranny. But half the nation already sees the media as a propaganda arm of a liberal establishment that the people have rejected time and again.

Consider the Post's publication of the transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexico's president and Australia's prime minister.

When reporter Greg Miller got these transcripts, his editors, knowing they would damage Trump, plastered them on Page 1.

The Post was letting itself be used by a leaker engaged in disloyal and possibly criminal misconduct. Yet the Post agreed to provide confidentiality and to hide the Trump-hater's identity.

This is what we do, says the Post. People have a right to know if President Trump says one thing at rallies about Mexico paying for the wall and another to the president of Mexico. This is a story.

But there is a far larger story here, of which this Post piece is but an exhibit. It is the story of a concerted campaign, in which the anti-Trump media publish leaks, even criminal leaks, out of the FBI, CIA, NSA and NSC, to bring down a president whom the Beltway media and their deep-state collaborators both despise and wish to destroy.

Did Trump collude with Putin to defeat liar-Clinton, the Beltway media demand to know, even as they daily collude with deep-state criminals to bring down the president of the United States.

And if there is an unfolding silent coup by the regime Americans repudiated in 2016 -- to use security leaks and the lethal weapon of a special counsel to overturn the election results -- is that not a story worth covering as much as what Trump said to Pena Nieto?

Do the people not have a right to know who are the snakes collaborating with the Never-Trump press to bring down their head of state? Is not discovering the identities of deep-state felons a story that investigative reporters should be all over?

If Greg Miller is obligated to protect his source, fine. But why are other journalists not exposing his identity?

The answer suggests itself. This is a collaborative enterprise, where everyone protects everyone else's sources, because all have the same goal: the dumping of Trump. If that requires collusion with criminals, so be it.

The Justice Department is now running down the leaks, and the ACLU's Ben Wizner is apoplectic: "Every American should be concerned about the Trump administration's threat to step up its efforts against whistleblowers and journalists. A crackdown on leaks is a crackdown on the free press and on democracy."

That's one way to put it. Another is that some of these "whistleblowers" are political criminals who reject the verdict of the American electorate in 2016 and are out to overturn it. And the aforementioned "journalists" are their enablers and collaborators.

And if, as Wizner asserts, protecting secrets is tantamount to a "crackdown on the free press and democracy," no wonder the free press and democracy are falling into disrepute all over the world.

By colluding, the mainstream media, deep state, and the special prosecutor's button men, with a license to roam, may bring down yet another president. So doing, they will validate John Adams's insight:

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Social Engineering By Census
by Tom McLaughlin
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 Trump Regulatory Cuts Saving Consumers Billions, 
 Tax Cuts Next 
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A new study released on Tuesday shows that Donald Trump's aggressive rollback of federal regulations will save businesses nearly $4 billion per year — which means he's saving you, the consumer, $4 billion. Regulations are a massive hidden tax on the American people because businesses pass on those expenses in the price of goods and services. The good news is that we're only eight months into Trump's presidency. Trump campaigned on cutting 70% of Washington's regulatory state, and he is on pace to keep that commitment. Dan Goldbeck, an analyst at the American Action Forum, said, "Both the volume and impact of new regulatory burdens have slowed dramatically. Beyond these first six months, the administration's ambition is clearly to go even farther and deeper."
          The impact of Trump's regulation-cutting crusade has been most clearly evidenced by the positive growth of the U.S. economy. Since January businesses have added more than one million new jobs and the stock market has witnessed a dramatic rise. Americans' favorable view on the state of the economy has risen to 69%. Juanita Duggan, president of the National Federation of Independent Business, stated, "Strong consumer demand is boosting small business optimism. Small business owners are feeling better about the economy because their customers are feeling better about the economy."
          Trump's aggressive regulatory cuts have also encouraged Republican lawmakers to get in on the act as well. Congress has used the Congressional Review Act to overturn 14 significant liar-nObama-era regulations. This law was seldom used prior to Trump's inauguration, but it's starting to get a badly needed workout.
          Trump deserves credit for calling out Washington on its regulation addiction and for sticking with his plans to drain the swamp. Americans can now enjoy watching the economy continue to grow as more regulations and taxes are cut. The result will be more economic opportunity for more Americans as well as more money in the pockets of Americans. It's simple economics.  ~The Patriot Post
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Trump OUTREACH To Mueller
Shorter Leash, DEAL MADE Or Being PLAYED?
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{rickwells.us} ~ Could it be that a deal has been worked out behind the scenes to call off Mueller and his swamp dogs or to keep them on a shorter, more appropriate leash?... If so, to whose benefit and at what price? Were President Trump’s attorneys given assurances that the overstepping of his authority by Mueller is going to stop, perhaps under the threat of legal action? There seems to be almost a spirit of cooperation, a comfort level that Mueller may have been restrained, on the part of his intended victims. Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein slithered out of hiding to answer questions for Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday this weekend. Wallace asked whether there were any red lines that Mueller could not cross. Rosenstein said he and Mueller both understand the specific scope of the investigation, stating twice that it is not a fishing exhibition...  http://rickwells.us/trump-outreach-mueller-shorter-leash-deal-made-played/
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What the Crisis Means:
North Korea, Nukes and Islamists
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by Ryan Mauro
{clarionproject.org} ~ North Korea is officially a communist, Stalinist dictatorship, but that hasn’t stopped it from crossing the ideological divide to embrace Islamist regimes and, reportedly, even jihadist groups... The latest crisis between North Korea and the U.S. appears separate from the war with Islamism, but there are 10 ways it overlaps. The U.S. and allied intelligence services now believe North Korea has miniaturized its nuclear warheads to fit onto its intercontinental ballistic missiles and has the potentially up to 60 nuclear weapons. This was seen as an undeclared “red line” and prompted President Trump to threaten to bring “fire and fury like the world has never seen” if North Korea’s verbal threats continue; a benchmark North Korea immediately crossed by announcing it was considering a nuclear strike on the U.S. territory of Guam, where 6,000 U.S. troops are stationed. Another 28,000 U.S. troops are in South Korea and 49,000 in Japan...  https://clarionproject.org/10-ways-north-korea-impacts-jihad-threat/
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Top liar-nObama Official Caught Trolling
and Unmasking for Purely Political Reasons
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{patrioticviralnews.com} ~ Remember liar-nObama aide and former Deputy National Security Advisor Ben Rhodes? The former president’s young speechwriter and policy-crafter, who devised much of the disastrous Iranian nuclear deal despite having no formal foreign relations education... may have been responsible or knows who is responsible for the “unmasking” of Americans’ names in a quest to inflict political damage on the Trump campaign last year. Both Rhodes’ and former National Security Advisor Susan Rice’s names have surfaced as prime candidates for people who ordered this unmasking the revealing of citizens’ names whose conversations or other records were recorded by the National Security Agency for political purposes to benefit the Democrats in the election of 2016. Under liar-nObama-era programs, much archiving of American emails, phone conversations, text messages and Internet chats was done in the name of “keeping our country safe” from terrorism and other defense threats under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) and other spy programs...  http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/top-obama-official-caught-trolling-and-unmasking-for-purely-political-reasons/
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US Spy Satellites Just
Caught NK Arming Anti-Ship Superweapon
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by Benjamin Arie
{conservativetribune.com} ~ The rogue country of North Korea is continuing to rattle the saber in the face of Western nations — and the regime was just caught preparing for a possible strike against the U.S. Navy... American spy satellites have reportedly spotted the North Korean military loading anti-ship cruise missiles onto a patrol boat. U.S. officials stated that Stormpetrel naval missiles have not been placed on a similar craft since 2014. The move could be a signal that North Korea is stepping up its military posturing, and is ignoring diplomatic pressure from the United States and other countries...  http://conservativetribune.com/north-korea-anti-navy-weapon/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTConservativeBrief&utm_content=2017-08-09
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Social Engineering By Census
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Does racial discrimination still exist in the United States? If so, how does it show? One manifestation, perhaps the biggest, is in the US Government. As it prepares to fulfill its constitutional responsibility under Article I, Section 2 to count how many people live here, let’s ponder what the Census has become. Its original purpose was to figure out how many seats in the US House of Representatives each state gets as our population grows and shifts, but America’s obsession with race has expanded the function of this basic count. Right now, there’s a political struggle to add even more racial categories to the 2020 census. Why? Well, the Census Bureau itself brags that the data it collects determines how and where $400 billion of federal money is spent, much of it according to race.
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Article I Section 2 originally mandated that Congress count: “the whole Number of free Persons, including those bound to Service for a Term of Years, and excluding Indians not taxed, three fifths of all other Persons… within every subsequent Term of ten Years, in such Manner as they shall by Law direct.”
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Linda Sarsour
The “Manner” Congress has subsequently directed leads us to look at ourselves not as Americans, but as members of some oppressed minority competing for taxpayer funds. Left-wing activist Linda Sarsour is lobbying the Office of Management and Budget to include another racial category President liar-nObama wanted: “MENA” for “Middle East and North Africa.” Sarsour calls herself a Palestinian American. She wants Persians, Arabs, Turks, Lebanese, and Somalis and Sudanese to be categorized under that label too. Why? She explains:
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“When we look at accessing federal, you know, any types of federal support, for example, we lose out dramatically because we don’t have a separated category … because we are quote ‘white,’ we are not seen as a priority area for city or state or federal funding.”
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At least she’s honest about it. According to the Heritage Foundation, Sarsour wants: “Another ‘oppressed’ group that will be eligible for racial preferences (‘affirmative action,’ ‘disparate impact,’ ‘underrepresentation,’ etc.) in employment, college admissions, federal contracts, and congressional redistricting.” She wants a bigger slice of the $400 billion pie.
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Under the first census conducted in 1790, the head of household was listed as well as number of “free white males” over and under sixteen, the number of “free white females,” the number of “free persons” (boarding in household) and the number of slaves. That was all. No questions about race, but we can assume the slaves were black. Ten years later more questions about the ages of both free white males and free white females were asked. Twenty years later, data on the number of factories in a given district were gathered. In 1820, the census takers asked the ages and sexes of slaves, as well as whether people worked as farmers, factory workers, or other commerce, and counted “foreigners not naturalized.” In 1830, more specific data on ages of white males and females, slaves, as well as the number of all who were deaf, dumb, or blind was determined.
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In 1850 came the first questions on race. There were two broad categories: “Free Inhabitants” and “Slave Inhabitants,” but free non-white inhabitants were differentiated between “black” and “mulatto.” Also gathered were values of real estate owned, data on occupation, place of birth, marital status, schooling, literacy, and if person was "deaf, dumb, blind, insane, idiotic, pauper, or convict.” Slaves were given numbers, not names, and classified black or mulatto. Listed under “Owner” were “uncaught escaped slaves in the past year”; “the number of slaves freed from bondage in the past year” and, “is the slave deaf and dumb, blind, insane, or idiotic?”
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More race questions came in 1870 with categories for Chinese and [American] Indian. In 1890: “Enumerators were instructed to write ‘White,’ ‘black,’ ‘Mulatto,’ ‘Quadroon,’ ‘Octoroon,’ ‘Chinese,’ ‘Japanese,’ or ‘Indian.’”
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More questions about Indians came in 1900, including tribal affiliation, “Fraction of person's lineage that is white”; “Is this person living in polygamy?”; “Is this person taxed?” A note on the Census site explained: “An American Indian was considered "taxed" if he or she was detached from his or her tribe and was living in the White community and subject to general taxation.
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“Mulatto” was dropped in 1930 and “Mexican” added, but only that year. “Hindu” was called a race. Mixed black and white was marked as Black. Mixed Indian and white was marked as “Indian.” Ethnic questions were increased in 1970, asking about Cuban, Puerto Rican, Mexican, Central American, or “Other Spanish” descent. Now those groups also want to be classified as a “race” separate from white in 2020. If you’re not white, you're eligible for a piece of the pie.
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Whenever I’m asked to describe my race, I write in “human,” and refuse to go any further. How soon before government substitutes the subjective term “gender” for the scientific term “sex” and how many categories will there be? Five? Ten? Thirty? How long before questions about sexual preference are included? They were drafted under the liar-nObama Administration but dropped by the Trump Administration last March. Had liar-Hillary won, they’d have been on there for 2020.
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Napolitano Infuriated – Dirty Little
SECRET Why SESSIONS DOJ Protecting LYNCH
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 'Fire and Fury' Over North Korean Threats 
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North Korea ramped up its saber-rattling in the wake of the UN's significant sanctions move over the weekend. Kim Jong Un's regime threatened "thousands-fold" vengeance and a "severe lesson" for the U.S., in addition to vowing that "under no circumstances" will the North negotiate its nuclear weapons program. North Korea insists its nuclear program is for self-defense "in the face of a clear and real nuclear threat posed by the U.S." Only the U.S., at this point, faces a nuclear strike, the hermit kingdom warned. And, apparently, self-defense includes threatening the U.S. territory of Guam.
          The U.S. is indeed at risk — not only Guam or West Coast cities like Los Angeles, but interior cities such as Denver and Chicago are in range of intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) tested by the North in recent weeks. And now U.S. intelligence concludes that North Korea has already produced a miniaturized nuclear warhead to fit inside those ICBMs. And if North Korea can do it, so can Iran, another member of what George W. Bush accurately called the Axis of Evil. Some estimate that Kim has up to 60 nuclear weapons at his disposal, though others say it's closer to 20 or 30.
          As for North Korean threats, President Donald Trump had one of his own: "North Korea best not make any more threats to the United States. They will be met with fire and fury like the world has never seen." It's important to remember that everything Trump says and everything we're doing strategically is aimed at China. North Korea is China's pawn and Beijing's play to divert attention from trade battles with the Trump administration. It's also worth reiterating that Trump is faced with cleaning up Barack liar-nObama's mess worldwide, and Bill liar-Clinton's in North Korea. The destructive approach both administrations took to foreign policy is still yielding consequences.  ~The Patriot Post
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Trey Gowdy Exposes Loretta Lynch
Under Oath- She Used Her Personal Email
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by Thomas
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ A bombshell report broke yesterday that President Barack liar-nObama’s Attorney General – Loretta Lynch- used her personal email under pseudonyms... She used her grandmother’s name on a personal address to send emails about Department of Justice business, including details of the secret meeting with former President Bill liar-Clinton on an airport tarmac.  We now know Lynch put sensitive information in a private email account. Apparently, she was following in liar-Hillary Clinton’s footsteps! Watch as conservative hero Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) questions Lynch. If you watch closely, you will notice something interesting: Did you spot it? She told Gowdy, while under oath, she never used personal email for DOJ communications. That is a total lie, and a criminal offense.  http://thepoliticalinsider.com/trey-gowdy-lynch/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_8_8_2017&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-8-8-2017-afternoon&utm_medium=email
VIDEO at the site
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liar-nObama Activist Group Fighting Budget Cuts
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by Matthew Vadum
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Former President Barack liar-nObama’s well-funded army of community organizers is gearing up to protect liar-nObama’s legacy by fighting the Trump administration’s proposed cuts to the federal budget for fiscal 2018... Organizing for Action (OfA), a 501(c)(4) nonprofit that functions as a kind of shadow government, is well on its way to becoming the dominant force in Democratic Party politics. OfA is spearheading the “resistance” movement attacking President Trump in order to defend the liar-nObama administration’s awful record. Both OfA and George Soros-funded MoveOn.org have been leading the way in packing town hall meetings with unruly protesters. Many protests OfA has organized have turned into riots. OfA members are “a generation of militant jerks” who “continue to proliferate protests and militate against everything and nothing,” investigative journalist Paul Sperry has written in the New York Post...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267510/obama-activist-group-fighting-budget-cuts-matthew-vadum
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Mueller needs to come to me if he wants to
chase any crime outside scope of Russia probe
by Daniel Chaitin
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ If special counsel Robert Mueller finds any crime outside the scope of the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, then he'll have to seek permission... Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein said Sunday. "Bob Mueller understands and I understand the specific scope of the investigation, and so no, it's not a fishing expedition," he told host Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." Rosenstein appointed Mueller to oversee the federal Russia probe, which includes a search for possible collusion with the Trump campaign, back in May after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. Because Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself from the case, Rosenstein ultimately was given the power to hire, and fire if he has good reason, Mueller...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/rod-rosenstein-mueller-needs-to-come-to-me-if-he-wants-to-chase-any-crime-outside-scope-of-russia-probe/article/2630745
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US Military Show Of Military Power Flying A-10
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Meet Secretary Tom Price
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President Trump Reacts To News N. Korea Has Miniaturized Nukes To Fit on Missile
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Wash. Post Announcement: North Korea Has Missile-Ready Nuclear Warhead
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ACU Chairman Matt Schlapp Destroys #nevertrump Ana Navarro
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Former NSA Director Hayden: Trump Deserves Credit For Acting On N. Korea After liar-nObama Did Not
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Gen MCINERNEY – Tell N Korea:
One Artillery Round, They’re NUKED In 15 MINS
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{rickwells.us} ~ In view of the recent vote by the UN Security Council to impose sanctions on North Korea but prior to the release of reports that they have likely developed a warhead capable nuclear device... the point is raised that the last time the UN imposed sanctions, against Iran in 2010, it took 90 days for them to determine if the sanctions were “necessary.” Essentially, with that record of dawdling in the face of an urgent problem, North Korea has more time to manipulate and develop, and a potential temporary amnesty of sorts, as their adversaries might be reluctant to engage in the use of military force when sanctions were already being “put into motion.” General Tom McInerney offers his views, having spent much of his career in the Pacific, in the heart of the very area where the tensions are escalating.  He’s asked if he believes North Korea has the ability to strike American cities and if Kim Jong-un is serious in his threats...  http://rickwells.us/gen-mcinerney-tell-n-korea-one-artillery-round-nuked-15-mins/
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Napolitano Infuriated – Dirty Little
SECRET Why SESSIONS DOJ Protecting LYNCH
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by rickwells.us
Judge Andrew Napolitano is furious about a Justice Department cover up that has taken place under the Trump administration. Stuart Varney begins the discussion by noting that the former attorney general in the Hussein liar-nObama administration, Loretta Lynch, used an alias to disguise her identity in a sort of cloak and dagger, James Bond style of hiding who she was on communications.

Eric Holder, her predecessor, initiated the deceptive practice. He went by the name of Lew Alcindor, the birth name of Muslim NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, to hide who was behind his correspondence. Lynch also chose an actual name of an real person for her secret identity, not a code name such as “ham hocks” that would be easily recognizable as a pseudonym.

She used the name of her grandmother, Elizabeth Carlisle, a name that would not trigger anyone’s curiosity, to shield her identity. We know Hussein liar-nObama also used an email pseudonym when he was communicating with liar-Hillary Clinton on her illegal server, though his entire persona is a series of fabrications, creating a huge false identity and deception.

Varney notes that Lynch corresponded using her false identity during the period of time in which she and others inside the DOJ and liar-nObama regime were scrambling after she was discovered meeting with Bill liar-Clinton on the Phoenix tarmac. He asks Judge Andrew Napolitano, “Why would she use an alias if she’s got nothing to hide?”

Nobody said she’s got nothing to hide, although the question is a rhetorical one, with Napolitano replying, “I really don’t know. You’d really have to ask her. I doubt we’re going to get the opportunity to do so.”

He says, “There is nothing illegal or nothing unethical about using the alias, but it is odd and it does raise the intent. Now she did tell the Freedom of Information Act people that she used the alias.” He then shows what was turned over. When those emails from “Elizabeth Carlisle” were produced, they were in the form of worthless, completely redacted, white sheets of paper with large black squares blocking out the text.

Napolitano asks, “Who did the blacking out?” He answers his own question, saying, “the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. That’s what has me infuriated. I would have expected the liar-nObama Justice Department trying to protect its attorney general. But if she did something untoward with Bill liar-Clinton and she apparently did, we have the right to know about it.”

Varney says, “No wonder the President is angry at Jeff Sessions.” Judge Napolitano responds, “I don’t know if the President is aware of this kind of blacking out but this is a violation of the public policy that requires transparency.”

The miffed Napolitano asks, “Why is it that the present administration wants to protect its predecessor? So it’s successor, the Justice Department of president whoever, fill in the blank, won’t come after it. That’s the dirty little secret of the Justice Department and it’s condemnable. We have the right to know what’s going on and people that break the law should be prosecuted no matter whether they’re the predecessor or the present Justice Department.”

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvycTwWHz1I

http://rickwells.us/napolitano-infuriated-dirty-little-secret-sessions-doj-protecting-lynch/

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Wed/Mid-PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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After the Coup, What Then?
by Pat Buchanan
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 Real News About a Fake Name 
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We're shocked — shocked — to report that former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used an alias to send official email. This was a common practice in Barack liar-nObama's administration .Lois Lerner, Eric Holder and even liar-nObama himself used pseudonyms in official emails. Lynch's attorney, Robert Raben, swears her practice was totally innocuous — to avoid "inundation of mailboxes" with spam and such — and that Justice Department staffers processing Freedom of Information Act requests were aware of Lynch's alias. Of course we all know that the Most Transparent Administration in History™ wasn't, as its members insist, "scandal free," but used aliases and other obstruction tactics to hide all sorts of unsavory and politically inconvenient things from the public. The most guilty of all was liar-Hillary Clinton and her infamous private email server.
          In Lynch's case, the alias was revealed after Judicial Watch and the American Center for Law and Justice, two conservative watchdogs, obtained 413 pages of DOJ documents. Those documents revealed Lynch's Elizabeth Carlisle's coordination with other DOJ officials about how to spin her clandestine tarmac meeting with Bill liar-Clinton in June 2016 — at the height of the FBI's investigation into liar-Hillary's emails. Just days after the meeting in which liar-Clinton and Lynch insisted they discussed their grandchildren, Lynch's subordinate, FBI Director James Comey, announced that the agency had plenty of evidence to pursue liar-Hillary Clinton but would not do so. One of the main reasons was that pseudonymous liar-nObama was guilty too. Shortly thereafter, Lynch also announced the DOJ wouldn't pursue the liar-Clinton Foundation for its shady relationship with the liar-Clinton State Department, despite FBI recommendations.
          Another part of the story here is the Leftmedia. Reporters for The New York Times, The Washington Post and ABC News all emailed Lynch to explain that tarmac meeting. In the words of Post reporter Matt Zapotosky, he was "hoping to put it to rest." It's not a stretch to read that as an offer to assist in the cover-up. What was that about the Post's new motto,  "
Democracy Dies in Darkness"? And can anyone imagine the media ever putting the phony Trump/Russia collusion "to rest"?  ~The Patriot Post
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Red Dragon Plays Panda: China States
It Will Enforce U.N. Resolutions Against North Korea
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ We’ll see.  The red dragon has a tendency to say one thing publicly and manipulate another thing privately. However, the baseline for China to take the role of Big Panda is the reception of Secretary Rex Tillerson’s “Four No” remarks on North Korea during his State Department briefing... TILLERSON”S FOUR NO’S: The United States does not seek •regime change, •the collapse of the regime, •an accelerated reunification of the peninsula or •an excuse to send the U.S. military into North Korea. So long as the ‘four-no’s’ remain visible and discussed in the international dialogue, the options for China are to comply or to be called out as a deceiving enabler. The economic consequences for China to break the sanctions are looming and severely consequential...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/08/07/red-dragon-plays-panda-china-states-it-will-enforce-u-n-resolutions-against-north-korea/
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Dr. Sebastian Gorka Discusses
North Korea and President Trump Administration
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Dr. Sebastian Gorka appears on Sean Hannity TV show to discuss the ongoing issues with North Korea and the latest developments with U.N. sanctions.  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/08/08/dr-sebastian-gorka-discusses-north-korea-and-president-trump-administration/
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Emails Prove Liberal Media
Buried Details of Lynch/liar-Clinton Meeting
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by Brian McNicoll
{aim.org} ~ Immerse yourself in any political argument on the Internet, and eventually, someone will say, “Well, at least we didn’t elect the criminal liar-Hillary Clinton.” And the other side will say, “You investigated her for 25 years and got nothing … isn’t that perhaps because she’s not a criminal?” But take a look at a batch of emails made public last week by the American Center for Law and Justice, and it’s easy to see how liar-Clinton could have engaged in considerable criminal activity and still escaped prosecution. The emails were part of a Freedom of Information Act request for records related to the meeting between then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch and Bill liar-Clinton on the tarmac at the Phoenix airport. The American Center for Law and Justice sent requests to both the FBI and Department of Justice requesting records, and the Justice Department said at first that it had no records responsive to the request...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/emails-prove-liberal-media-buried-details-of-lynch-clinton-meeting/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Aug-08-2017&utm_medium=email
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Laura Ingraham Smacks Down Mark Green
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by Amber Athey
{dailycaller.com} ~ Laura Ingraham went head-to-head with Mark Green in a Monday night debate about President Donald Trump’s first 200 days... “Great adjectives, we’ve got a list of all your adjectives,” Ingraham said, mocking Green, a New York City public advocate. “Trump is Hitler, Mussolini … ” “The intellectuals on the coast, they know better than millions of people in the electoral states that ended up mattering in the end,” she continued.  “Do they have any right to be upset with what’s happened to this country?”...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/08/laura-ingraham-smacks-down-mark-green-video/
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The Palestinians' "Creativity for Hate"
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Mu'ath Al-Hims' remarks on Facebook, criticizing the parents of Palestinian girls
who allowed their daughters to socialize with Israeli girls
by Khaled Abu Toameh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Palestinian teenage girls are facing ridicule and hate for attending a summer camp for coexistence in the US. The camp, which brings Palestinian and Israeli girls together, is organized by Creativity for Peace, an organization in Santa Fe, New Mexico... Since 2003, up to 20 Israeli and Palestinian girls, aged 15 to 17, each year have participated in the Creativity for Peace camp. Photos of the Israeli and Palestinian girls enjoying their time together have enraged many Palestinians and other Arabs, who took to social media to express their disgust and outrage over the event and hurl abuse at the Palestinian participants.  The angry reactions to the joint Palestinian-Israeli camp in the US should be seen in the context of the Palestinians' strong opposition to all forms of "normalization" with Israel...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10783/palestinians-creativity-hate#continued
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After the Coup, What Then?
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by Pat Buchanan
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townhall.com} ~ That the Trump presidency is bedeviled is undeniable.

As President Donald Trump flew off for August at his Jersey club, there came word that Special Counsel Robert Mueller III had impaneled a grand jury and subpoenas were going out to Trump family and campaign associates.

The jurors will be drawn from a pool of citizens in a city liar-Hillary Clinton swept with 91 percent of the vote. Trump got 4 percent.

Whatever indictments Mueller wants, Mueller gets.

Thanks to a media that savages him ceaselessly, Trump is down to 33 percent approval in a Quinnipiac University poll and below 40 percent in most of the rest.

Before Trump departed D.C., The Washington Post ran transcripts of his phone conversations with the leaders of Mexico and Australia.

Even liar-nObama administration veterans were stunned.

So, it is time to ask: If this city brings Trump down, will the rest of America rejoice?

What will be the reaction out there in fly-over country, that land where the "deplorables" dwell who produce the soldiers to fight our wars? Will they toast the "free press" that brought down the president they elected, and in whom they had placed so much hope?

My guess: The reaction will be one of bitterness, cynicism, despair, a sense that the fix is in, that no matter what we do, they will not let us win. If Trump is brought down, American democracy will take a pasting. It will be seen as a fraud. And the backlash will poison our politics to where only an attack from abroad, like 9/11, will reunite us.

Our media preen and posture as the defenders of democracy, devoted to truth, who provide us round-the-clock protection from tyranny. But half the nation already sees the media as a propaganda arm of a liberal establishment that the people have rejected time and again.

Consider the Post's publication of the transcripts of Trump's calls with Mexico's president and Australia's prime minister.

When reporter Greg Miller got these transcripts, his editors, knowing they would damage Trump, plastered them on Page 1.

The Post was letting itself be used by a leaker engaged in disloyal and possibly criminal misconduct. Yet the Post agreed to provide confidentiality and to hide the Trump-hater's identity.

This is what we do, says the Post. People have a right to know if President Trump says one thing at rallies about Mexico paying for the wall and another to the president of Mexico. This is a story.

But there is a far larger story here, of which this Post piece is but an exhibit. It is the story of a concerted campaign, in which the anti-Trump media publish leaks, even criminal leaks, out of the FBI, CIA, NSA and NSC, to bring down a president whom the Beltway media and their deep-state collaborators both despise and wish to destroy.

Did Trump collude with Putin to defeat liar-Clinton, the Beltway media demand to know, even as they daily collude with deep-state criminals to bring down the president of the United States.

And if there is an unfolding silent coup by the regime Americans repudiated in 2016 -- to use security leaks and the lethal weapon of a special counsel to overturn the election results -- is that not a story worth covering as much as what Trump said to Pena Nieto?

Do the people not have a right to know who are the snakes collaborating with the Never-Trump press to bring down their head of state? Is not discovering the identities of deep-state felons a story that investigative reporters should be all over?

If Greg Miller is obligated to protect his source, fine. But why are other journalists not exposing his identity?

The answer suggests itself. This is a collaborative enterprise, where everyone protects everyone else's sources, because all have the same goal: the dumping of Trump. If that requires collusion with criminals, so be it.

The Justice Department is now running down the leaks, and the ACLU's Ben Wizner is apoplectic: "Every American should be concerned about the Trump administration's threat to step up its efforts against whistleblowers and journalists. A crackdown on leaks is a crackdown on the free press and on democracy."

That's one way to put it. Another is that some of these "whistleblowers" are political criminals who reject the verdict of the American electorate in 2016 and are out to overturn it. And the aforementioned "journalists" are their enablers and collaborators.

And if, as Wizner asserts, protecting secrets is tantamount to a "crackdown on the free press and democracy," no wonder the free press and democracy are falling into disrepute all over the world.

By colluding, the mainstream media, deep state, and the special prosecutor's button men, with a license to roam, may bring down yet another president. So doing, they will validate John Adams's insight:

"Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide."
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Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The real Russia-gate scandal  
 by Cliff Kincaid
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After Trump Warns To Stop
The Provocations, N Korea Threatens Guam
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{rickwells.us} ~ North Korea warned on Wednesday that it is “carefully examining” a plan to launch a missile strike against the American Pacific territory of Guam... just hours after President Trump warned them the threats of this nature must stop or they would be met with “fire and fury”. A North Korean spokesman issued a statement which was broadcast by the state-run KCNA propaganda agency that the strike plan would be “put into practice in a multi-current and consecutive way any moment” once leader Kim Jong-un makes a decision. Another, different military spokesperson issued a separate threat, stating that North Korea could conduct a pre-emptive operation if the US showed signs of provocation. Since North Korea is the one engaging in hostilities, we must interpret their definition of provocation to be a defensive response...  http://rickwells.us/after-trump-warns-to-stop-the-provocations-n-korea-threatens-guam/
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Toobin To CNN: ‘Dial Back’
The Fearmongering Over North Korea Threat
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by Amber Athey
{dailycaller.com} ~ CNN’s Jeffrey Toobin chided his own network Tuesday night for scaring its viewers with talks of underground bunkers in response to reports that North Korea is threatening to attack Guam... After sharing reports of the North Korean threat, CNN decided to take its viewers into an underground bunker in Hawaii to describe what would happen if the state were hit with a nuclear attack. The segment, which aired on “Erin Burnett Outfront,” explained that a nuclear missile could reach Hawaii in 20 minutes, giving residents only 15 minutes with which to brace themselves underground...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/08/toobin-to-cnn-dial-back-the-fearmongering-over-north-korea-threat-video/
VIDEO at they site
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McMasters Is a Member
of a Soros Globalist Organization
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by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ NSA Director, McMaster, is CFR. McMasters is involved with Soros in an international think tank. the NSA Director gets to do decide from the surveillance that he controls if you end up on the naughty of nice list.  http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/08/09/mcmasters-is-a-member-of-a-soros-globalist-organization/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mcmasters-is-a-member-of-a-soros-globalist-organization
McMasters Caught Red Handed Briefing Soros
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Unidentified Plane Circled
US City for 2 Weeks… Gov Silent
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by Benjamin Arie
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Step aside, UFOs. A different type of unidentified flying object has puzzled aviation experts over the last several days… and it’s been circling over one of the largest cities in the United States... A mysterious aircraft has been drilling holes in the sky over Seattle for close to two weeks. While the plane is almost certainly military in origin, the Department of Defense has been almost completely silent about its purpose or mission. According to The Drive, the transport aircraft is a uniform grey with no markings except for its cryptic tail number. Observers in the Seattle area have repeatedly spotted and reported the plane in public airspace, and believe that it is operating out of Boeing Field...  http://conservativetribune.com/unidentified-plane-circled-city/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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McConnell – Trump To Blame
For Do-Nothing Congress – Just Wait Two Years
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{rickwells.us} ~ If only Mitch McConnell were as creative in dragging obstructionist Democrats and his fellow never-Trump establishment GOP along in the pursuit of legislative successes as he is in rationalizing his failures... we’d be applauding his greatness and there’d be no need for excuses. McConnell isn’t asking for a show of hands, possibly because a large number of them might have a single finger extended, but acknowledges to his audience that “everybody is saying we’ve been there and haven’t done anything.” He then says he finds that “extremely irritating.”  Really? This little do nothing sellout to bribery by donors is irritated and getting pissy with Americans because we recognize he’s worthless and he’s serving himself instead of the people? Apparently his name is Mitch Kentucky and that Senate seat is his property...  http://rickwells.us/mcconnell-trump-blame-congress-just-wait-two-years/
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The real Russia-gate scandal
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by Cliff Kincaid
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renewamerica.com} ~ In the time period of 2007-2008, two journalists – Trevor Loudon, a blogger from New Zealand, and America's Survival President Cliff Kincaid – tried to interest the public and the media in what they considered the story of their lifetimes. It was how a first-term, largely unknown Senator from Illinois was a covert communist with backing from Russia who was poised to win the presidency of the United States. But the "fake news media" were not interested in the facts about then-Senator liar-nObama, or the security risk he posed that would polarize and destabilize a nation – and they covered up the story of liar-nObama's communist mentor, suspected Soviet espionage agent Frank Marshall Davis. Here, for the first time in print, is how Loudon and Kincaid unraveled the story of America's first Marxist President. Kincaid says, "The smoking gun evidence of Barack Hussein liar-nObama's deep personal relationship with suspected Soviet espionage agent and Communist Party member Frank Marshall Davis is the real Russia-gate scandal."

The book Comrade liar-nObama Unmasked: Marxist Mole in the White House is available through Amazon.com. It's the inside story of how Barack Hussein liar-nObama's Marxist revolution came to America.

But the story of liar-nObama's Marxist revolution – the "fundamental transformation" of the United States – does not end there. Kincaid, Loudon, and their co-authors, including a former Intelligence Community insider, also examine liar-nObama's ongoing effort to organize "resistance" on a national and global level to President Donald J. Trump. This important book looks at liar-nObama's financial master George Soros, liar-nObama's Catholic training and links to the Vatican and Colombian narco-terrorists, and even how the liar-nObama Administration has created a marijuana counter-culture within U.S. borders.

One explosive chapter looks at liar-nObama's inspiration, South African President Nelson Mandela, who was exposed as a secret member of the South African Communist Party after his death. The book examines liar-nObama's relationship with the international communist network.

America's intelligence community, Kincaid argues in the book, must be retrained in the art of detecting subversion and preventing communist-inspired and radical Islamist violence. He says they failed to warn America in 2008 that liar-nObama was a Marxist who couldn't pass a basic background security check.

The contributors are Trevor Loudon, Cliff Kincaid, Michael Hichborn, Alex Newman, Joel Gilbert, Arne Steinberg, Martin Arostegui, James Simpson, and a former Intelligence Community insider whose true identity shall remain anonymous. A video with Kincaid and Newman is available on America's Survival's YouTube and Roku channels.

Trevor Loudon's foreword to the book says, "How a covert communist was able to gain the presidency of the United States of America, hiding his true nature from more than 300 million Americans, will occupy scholars for years. This valuable book will give context and structure to that debate."

Loudon is one of the speakers at an upcoming America's Survival conference, "The Real Russia-gate Conspiracy of Barack Hussein liar-nObama," scheduled for November 10 in Washington, D.C., noon to 5:00 pm, in the Zenger Room of the National Press Club.
 
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Wed/Mid-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
An America First Immigration Policy
by Arnold Ahlert

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 Google's Diversity Purge 
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At Google, it appears that diversity doesn't actually mean diversity. Recently, James Damore, a senior software engineer at the Internet giant, sent an internal 10-page memo in which he expressed his opinions of the company's leftist slant on the gender gap among software engineers. Damore blamed "a politically correct monoculture" at Google for "shaming dissenters into silence" on those topics it has determined to be off limits for diversity of opinion.
          As if to prove his point, Google fired Damore for "advancing harmful gender stereotypes." In other words, Damore was guilty of stating the obvious and scientifically verifiable truth that men and women are different. Being different, they tend to make different choices. Indeed, the primary motivating factor behind the disparity in gender choices happens to be rooted in biology. You know, the "controversial" notion that men and women in general manifest their gender via differing goals, desires, ambitions, commitments, physical abilities and career objectives.
          The imbalance between men and women working in software engineering is primarily due to America's value for freedom of choice, not the myth of societal oppression via the patriarchy. Yet the execs at Google seem blind to their own ideological hypocrisy with self-contradicting statements like the following made by Danielle Brown, Google's new vice president for diversity, integrity and governance: "We are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company. We'll continue to stand for that and be committed to it for the long haul." Well, except for that misogynist loon, Damore.
          His firing exposes Google's problem with intolerance. Only politically correct leftist opinions will be tolerated at Google; all others will be declared "intolerant" and therefore will be excluded, because at Google they're all about espousing the virtues of inclusion and diversity.  ~The Patriot Post
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Chaffetz – DOJ Has Enough Now To
Prosecute liar-Clinton Gang If Rosenstein Wants
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{rickwells.us} ~ Former Utah Congressman Jason Chaffetz was not impressed by the Sunday performance of Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein and his supposed assurance that he was going to crack down on leakers... saying “he comes with absolutely zero credibility on this. Remember last year when we had director Comey come before the Oversight Committee? I was the chairman, I asked him if he looked at liar-Hillary Clinton, whether or not she told the truth under oath?” Chaffetz continues, “He said he needed a request from Congress so myself and Bob Goodlatte, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, sent that request to the Department of Justice. It’s never been answered. So if they want to start, let’s start with liar-Hillary Clinton and whether or not she lied under oath.” And let’s also go back to the State Department, who had an open investigation, they reopened it July 7th of 2016, they never closed it. Nearly 300 people who were dealing in classified information in a non-secure setting, why didn’t they ever close that investigation? They need to answer those questions. So start with that. They come with zero credibility on this issue.”...  http://rickwells.us/chaffetz-doj-enough-now-prosecute-clinton-gang-rosenstein/
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'Iranian empire is being
established and the US does nothing'
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Education Minister Naftali Bennett at the Western Wall
by David Rosenberg
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) warned that the West is ignoring the greatest threat to global security in its fight against ISIS, trading away long-term strategic security for short-term tactical gains... In an opinion piece published by The Wall Street Journal on Monday, Bennett argued that while ISIS had captured the West’s attention, the Tehran regime has been quietly expanding its influence across the region, working to establish radical Shi’ite hegemony over large portions of the Middle East. “Since its 1979 revolution, Iran has sought to become a dominant world power capable of instilling Islamic rule on as many people as possible. The Iranian regime finances and supports armed militias in other countries and is the world’s top exporter of terror.”...  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/233607?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Kim Jung Un Vows To Make
U.S. Pay Price For New Sanctions
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by Andrew West and Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Kim Jong Un, the chubby, crazy dictator with the lousy haircut who has long worked to threaten the United States and her allies, has continued to push forward with their nuclear weapons program and ICBM testing... even in the face of a massive backlash from the international community.  Not only has the United States threatened the DPRK with action, but China has worked to reduce their trade involvement with the hermit kingdom after being dealt harsh criticism by U.S. President Donald Trump. Now, as more U.N. sanctions have been announced in an effort to curb the desperate despot’s march toward a nuclear weapon capable of reaching the U.S. advancements,  Kim Jong Un has, predictably, fired back at the U.S. with his signature violent threats and rantings. This despite a public warning from the Chinese Foreign minister. Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, met with North Korea’s top diplomat during the ASEAN Manila meetings on Sunday and urged the North Koreans to “maintain calm” despite the security council vote, and then he warned Kim Jung Un’s representative, “Do not violate the U.N.’s decision or provoke international society’s goodwill by conducting missile launching or nuclear tests,”...  http://lidblog.com/kim-jung-un-vows-severe-action/
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Mueller and the U.S. "Corruptocracy"
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by SHER ZIEVE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ There are no longer any doubts that the D.C. Swamp and its attendant muddied creatures are working their hardest to take down legally-elected by the citizens of the United States of America President Donald J. Trump and throw him out of his position as President... Now, even the Republican Swamp Things in the Senate have joined their Democrat critters in working to pass a bill that will remove President Trump's Executive Branch powers to fire those who serve at the pleasure of the POTUS. The Republicans-who have been secret Marxists for a very long time-are now working to damage duly-elected President Trump. We are on the brink of beginning an extremely perilous journey down the path of Venezuela and other autocratic totalitarian governments and are on our way towards losing our Constitution. We have, apparently, already lost our Republic...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/mueller-and-the-us-corruptocracy?f=must_reads
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Mark Levin: "Greatest Participant in Undermining Our National Security Are the Media"
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Talking points redacted in liar-Clinton-Lynch tarmac meeting docs: Jay Sekulow sounds off
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Newsweek? More Like "News Weak" Cavuto Calls Out Mag's Blatant Double-Standard
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TUCKER: Diary of an ex-Planned Parenthood director
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Kellyanne Conway vs. Chris Cuomo On Trump Jr., Russiagate, and CNN
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TUCKER: Wasserman Schultz defends not immediately firing IT staffer
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President Trump reportedly growing frustrated with national security adviser McMaster
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Gutfeld: There are two hunts going on right now
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 An America First Immigration Policy 
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By Arnold Ahlert:  Last Wednesday, something truly remarkable happened: A Republican actually framed an agenda and forced Democrats and their media allies — along with weak-kneed fellow Republicans — to defend their resistance to it.
          An updated version of the Reforming American Immigration for a Strong Economy Act (RAISE) was introduced at the White House by Republican Senators Tom Cotton and David Perdue. The bill would give America a skills-based immigration system similar to those of Canada and Australia.
          In other words, this is an effort to admit people who are a benefit to America, not people who merely benefit from America.
          Thus, "Diversity Lottery Visas" that give 50,000 green cards to immigrants completely at random — for diversity's sake — would be eliminated. RAISE would also scale back chain migration. Currently, when an immigrant and his or her spouse become a citizen, they can petition to bring in their parents, their adult children, those children's spouses and children, and their adult siblings.
          Chain migration precipitated an increase in immigration from 250,000 per year during the '50s and '60s to more than one million annually since 1990.
          RAISE "would take a sledgehammer to this system, dramatically reducing low-skilled immigration and revamping our system for skilled immigration," explains columnist Robert VerBruggen. "It would cut immigration by more than 40 percent immediately, and by half in a decade."
          The best part of RAISE is the points system it uses to determine who should be admitted. The scale goes from one to 100, but practically speaking, no one other than Nobel Prize winners, Olympic athletes or wealthy investors would score higher than 45. Those who score lower than 30 would not be admitted. An immigrant's level of education, English fluency, age and the salary he's been offered would be decisive factors.
          The salary provision is critical. Applicants would be awarded 13 points for compensation at least triple the median salary of the state where a job is located, and zero points for a salary offer less than 50 percent above the median. This provision is aimed at undercutting employers looking to drive down wage scales by hiring foreign workers who will work for far less than their American counterparts.
          More important, RAISE challenges the collective presumptions of the American Left and its Republican allies in place since 1965, when Congress passed the Immigration and Nationality Act. "The bill will not flood our cities with immigrants," insisted Ted Kennedy at the time. "It will not upset the ethnic mix of our society. It will not relax the standards of admission. It will not cause American workers to lose their jobs."
          Kennedy was not the only one advancing such "idealistic" (read: duplicitous) nonsense. An avalanche of false assurances regarding the "minimal" effect the bill would have on our nation makes the lies used to sell liar-nObamaCare pale by comparison. As Fortune Magazine pointed out in 1988, the "family reunification" category alone completely belied minimalism. "Within a dozen years, one immigrant entering as a skilled worker could easily generate 25 visas for in-laws, nieces, and nephews," it reported.
          The two most catastrophic realities arising from that bill? First, the notion that America must accept one million immigrants per year, irrespective of need. Second, the increasingly popular but completely erroneous perception that emigrating to America is a right, not a privilege.
          Regardless, leftists and their allies are "all in" for maintaining the status quo, and no one exemplified it better than CNN reporter Jim Acosta. As far as he's concerned, America's entire immigration policy should be based on Emma Lazarus' poem on the Statue of Liberty. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free," she wrote. In other words, no restrictions whatsoever.
          Anything less? "Lazarus has long been a target of white nationalists," the Democracy Now! website asserts, implying anyone who disagrees with Acosta and his fellow travelers is racist.
          That all of the net gain in the number of working-age people (16 to 65) holding a job has gone to immigrants since 2000? Or that immigrants access various welfare programs at far higher rates than native born Americans? Or that immigrants remain completely removed from any conversation regarding wage stagnation? Or that only 6.5% of immigrants are admitted based on labor and skill? Or that immigrants compose 22% of federal prison population, despite being just 13.5% of the U.S. population as a whole?
          All irrelevant, along with anything resembling journalistic integrity on Acosta's part. As columnist George Neumayr aptly describes it, his hectoring of presidential advisor Stephen Miller was "indistinguishable from a La Raza activist at a Trump rally."
          As for many Republicans, they remain wedded to their cheap labor campaign donors who insist a shortage of low-skill American workers, largely in agriculture, and high-skill workers, largely in the nation's science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) fields, requires stratospheric levels of legal immigration and illegal "reform."
          The former assertion is an insult in a nation with millions of able-bodied Americans collecting welfare. The latter assertion is an outright lie, one rationalized by people like Marco Rubio, who insisted in 2015 that foreign STEM workers are necessary because American workers "for lack of a better term can't cut it."
          If that's true, better to fix America's education system than sell out its workforce. Unfortunately our ruling class, globalist-minded corporations and a plethora of special interests are far more invested in expanding opportunities for immigrants than their fellow Americans, claiming it's a gain for the overall economy — while conspicuously omitting an individual American's share of that economy is reduced as a result.
          Thus, cynicism about the bill's passage remains rampant, and Alex Nowrasteh, an immigration policy analyst with the libertarian Cato Institute, advances the argument likely to be the central strategy used to intimidate weak-willed legislators. "For years, we've heard people say they are only against illegal immigration, not legal immigration," he told The Daily Signal. "This shows there are a significant number in Congress who are against legal immigration."
          Legal immigration and massive levels of unvetted legal immigration are interchangeable concepts? A nation that is home to 20% of the world's entire immigrant population says otherwise. And the notion that it's "draconian" to reduce immigration levels from a number that exceeds the population of Austin to one around the population of Atlanta — every year — is laughable.
          Yet Americans are supposed to believe that reduction constitutes xenophobia or isolationism?
          Trump has promised to enact an America first agenda. The negotiations surrounding this bill will reveal — perhaps more than any other piece of legislation — which lawmakers stand by that proposition, and which ones are more beholden to special interests.
          Globalist, wage-undercutting special interests, for whom the distinction between "patriotism" and "profiteering" is conspicuously blurred.  ~The Patriot Post
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Trump Should Drain the EPA Swamp
by Susan Stamper Brown

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 Top Headlines 
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Amid Trump's immigration crackdown, more Mexicans get visas to legally work in U.S. (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
Democrats turn against immigration point system when Trump gives support. (The Washington Times)
Asian immigrants buy the most expensive street in San Francisco for $90,000 — liberal natives are furious. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Union files federal complaints after Nissan worke
So much for "pro-choice" — Democrats divided over whether party should welcome pro-life candidates. (Fox News)
Gender re-confusion? Top London lawyer alters sex three times. (Daily Mail)
Maxine Waters: Ditto Head — Pence should be impeached after Trump. (The Hill)
Al Gore's "Inconvenient Sequel" meets with cool reception, placing 15th at box office. (The Washington Times)
New York confiscates innocent veteran's firearms. (The Washington Free Beacon)
Student fakes being black to get into medical school. (WJLA)
Policy: A conservative plan to rein in the administrative state. (National Review)
Policy: Workers score big in Canton, Mississippi. (Capital Research Center~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/50659
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Vietnam Stolen Valor Lie From
Sen Blumenthal – Trump Reminder
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{rickwells.us} ~ /As Senator Richard Blumenthal assumes a leading role in the Democrat/ establishment coup underway against President Trump... it seems like a good time to look at the controversial claims he made about having served in Vietnam. He claimed he had been in combat when he was actually a “toys for tots” specialist. Back when MSNBC was much more like a real news network, in 2010, Chuck Todd interviews two experts, Tom Davis and Martin Frost, on the situation in that Senate race involving Democrat and establishment henchman, Richard “Stolen Valor” Blumenthal. He plays a clip of Blumenthal deliberately lying about his not having served in Vietnam. Blumenthal says, “We have learned something very important since the days that I served in Vietnam.” He has never been to Vietnam, as most Americans are learning, yet he has the nerve and lack of integrity to accuse President Trump of misdeeds that there is absolutely no indication of, let alone any evidence....  http://rickwells.us/vietnam-stolen-valor-lie-sen-blumenthal-trump-reminder/
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Jeff Sessions Hammers
Rahm Emanuel Over Sanctuary City Lawsuit
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions had harsh words for Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel on Monday after he and other city leaders announced a lawsuit against the Justice Department over its policy regarding so-called sanctuary cities... “They have demonstrated an open hostility to enforcing laws designed to protect law enforcement — Federal, state, and local — and reduce crime, and instead have adopted an official policy of protecting criminal aliens who prey on their own residents,” Sessions said in a surprisingly combative statement. “No amount of federal taxpayer dollars will help a city that refuses to help its own residents,” he added...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/07/jeff-sessions-hammers-rahm-emanuel-over-sanctuary-city-lawsuit/
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Researcher Claims To Have Evidence One Of EPA’s Most Successful Clean Air Rules Is Based On Fabricated Data
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by Michael Bastasch
{dailycaller.com} ~ One of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) longest and most successful air pollution standards is based on a taxpayer-funded study plagued by “data fabrication and falsification,” according to a veteran toxicologist... Toxicologist Albert Donnay says he’s found evidence a 1989 study commissioned by EPA on the health effects of carbon monoxide, which, if true, could call into question 25 years of regulations and billions of dollars on catalytic converters for automobiles. “They claimed to find an effect when there wasn’t one,” Donnay told The Daily Caller News Foundation. “They even fabricated the methods they used to get their results.”...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/07/exclusive-researcher-claims-to-have-evidence-one-of-epas-most-successful-clean-air-rules-is-based-on-fabricated-data/
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Anthem pulling out of liar-nObamacare Market
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by Nathaniel Weixel
{thehill.com} ~ Anthem BlueCross BlueShield will completely exit Nevada’s liar-nObamaCare exchange next year, the state’s insurance commissioner said Monday... The company had previously said it would only offer plans in three urban counties in the state, leaving people in 14 counties without an insurer for 2018. “We … remain optimistic that there will be coverage for consumers on the exchange throughout the state,” Nevada Insurance Commissioner Barbara Richardson said in a statement...  http://thehill.com/policy/healthcare/state-issues/345617-anthem-to-exit-obamacare-markets-in-nevada
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Maxine WATERS Supports BLACKS ONLY
Political Party – To Exercise Their POWER
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{rickwells.us} ~ Racist Congesshag Maxine Waters made an appearance on “The Breakfast Club” radio show on Monday, where their “values” menu includes only black coffee... The host asks Waters an obvious question for someone with her overt hatred of white folks, “Do you think black people should start their own political party?” She answers with a less-than-forthright sounding, “No, not at this point.” Which effectively means she thinks it’s a great idea once they have ridden the white Democrat train as far as it will take them. She explains, “You’ve got to show that you’re willing and you’re able to put the numbers together and exercise your influence. We [sic] still not voting our influence yet. I think what we should do is organize our power, exercise our power, particularly in the Democrat Party, because that’s where most of us are.”...Who is racist now, Waters?  http://rickwells.us/maxine-waters-supports-blacks-political-party-exercise-power/
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Trump Should Drain the EPA Swamp
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by Susan Stamper Brown
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townhall.com} ~ Like the road to Hell, liberal ideas are usually paved with good intentions. But, as Ronald Reagan once said, "The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn't so." And all that vast “unknowledge” births monster government agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency.

Today’s EPA is an agency gone-wild, filled with environmental extremists and deep state holdovers who have little accountability for their actions. They arrogantly create rules like the “Clean Power Plan” which the Institute for Energy Research [IER] said was filled with about as much junk as the EPA and its contractors pumped into Colorado’s Animas River in 2015.

EPA’s new administrator, Scott Pruitt, visited the Animas River site August 4 saying the agency “should be held to the same standard as those we regulate.” Pruitt said the liar-nObama administration “failed those who counted on them to protect the environment.” They also refused to pay claims to many of those they harmed due to “sovereign immunity.”

President Trump’s promise to “drain the swamp” is happening organically with employees resigning over Trump’s withdrawal from the Paris Agreement as well as his March 28 executive order mandating review of the Clean Power Plan which effectually triggers the skyrocketing electricity prices liar-nObama promised.

The EPA claimed the plan would “save” thousands of lives, probably as effectively as liar-nObama’s stimulus plan “saved” jobs. It was also supposed to improve the climate and our health, that is, barring more EPA-caused environmental disasters like the Animas River spill.

Environmentalists have gone bonkers over Trump mandating a review of this costly and burdensome plan, but were mysteriously silent when the Animas spill caused $400 million in economic damage when it sent 3 million gallons of tainted wastewater into rivers in Colorado, New Mexico and Utah.

We are expected to ignore that the Clean Power Plan will, at best, reduce global temperatures by a negligible one hundredth of a degree, Celsius, according to the liar-nObama administration’s former Assistant Secretary of Energy, Charles McConnell.

The plan offers little mercy to millions of Americans burning wood to stay warm, imposing a ban on the sale and production of 80 percent of America's wood burning stoves. Forbes.com says, "Most wood stoves that warm cabins and homes from coast-to-coast can't meet that standard. Older stoves that don't, cannot be traded in for updated types, but instead must be rendered inoperable, destroyed, or recycled as scrap metal."

Or, maybe the EPA could just throw scrapped stoves down the Animas River.

In the aftermath of the toxic spill, and with infinitesimal accountability for its actions, this agency marches forward in an unrelenting mission to control our lives, one unlegislated regulation at a time.

A Wyoming man had to sue the EPA to get it off his back for building a stock pond on his property. He was threatened with $37,500 per day fines because “material” from his pond flows into other waterways. It mattered not that the “other waterways” is a manmade irrigation ditch where the water is used for agriculture. Nor did it matter that the Wyoming State Engineer's Office permitted the pond.

Certainly, the "material" from his pristine pond, fit for fish and waterfowl to flourish and cattle to drink, did not turn waterways a toxic Animas River orange.

We know by watching all those lousy pharmaceutical ads the cure is often worse than the disease. And so it goes with the EPA. Back in the 1970s, it banned mosquito-killing DDT after an overreaction to an unsubstantiated book. Scientists today credit tens of millions of needless malaria related deaths to the ban.

Seemingly, for every benefit derived from EPA meddling, there's a list of damaging side effects as long as the Animas River. If Trump wants to prove he really cares about the environment, he could start with this heavy-handed bureaucracy swamp in dire need of draining.
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Blame for Illegal Human Smuggling Racket
by Michelle Malkin
 
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 The Real Trading Behind North Korean Sanctions 
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In a significant move Saturday, the United Nations Security Council unanimously leveled new sanctions on North Korea after the hermit kingdom's game-changing tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles last month. These ICBMs can reach the continental U.S., meaning many American cities are in range of a nuclear attack by unhinged North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un. The sanctions on North Korean exports of coal, iron, lead and seafood are worth about $1 billion, which is roughly a third of its annual export revenue.
          "This resolution is the single largest economic sanctions package ever leveled against the North Korean regime," said UN Ambassador Nikki Haley. "This is the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation. And this time, the council has matched its words and actions." Yet Haley appropriately warned, "We should not fool ourselves into thinking we have solved the problem. Not even close. The North Korean threat has not left us."
          The sanctions are important because Russia and especially China agreed to them. China is not only North Korea's primary communist backer but its biggest trading partner, accounting for at least 85% of the North's trade.
          To succeed in countering the North Korean threat, the U.S. must have assistance from China. But China has its own interests, particularly in the amount of trade it depends on with the U.S. Thus, the Chinese are using North Korean saber rattling as a bargaining chip to counter Donald Trump's rhetoric about trade with China. It's leverage to talk Trump down from starting a trade war, which was itself partly a bargaining position to get the Chinese to rein in North Korea. So perhaps the Art of the Deal is working for both sides — if the Chinese uphold their end of the bargain rather than skirting sanctions as they have in the past. Oh, and if anything will work on a lunatic like Kim, who promised "thousands-fold" vengeance and a "severe lesson" for the U.S., as well as reiterating that "under no circumstances" will the North negotiate on its nuclear weapons.  ~The Patriot Post
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GOP Congress Silent On HIT
MAN MUELLER To Gain RESPECTABILITY
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs notes that his guest, Rep Trent Franks (R-AZ), has called on Robert Mueller to resign as special prosecutor, and asks him if it is still possible, politically, for President Trump to fire Mueller... Franks says that while it’s still possible it might not be in President Trump’s best interest to do so. He continues, “But you know I absolutely believe this counsel should never have been appointed and I said early on that even though Mueller has cultivated a pretty good reputation, that most of these special counsels go off the rails and certainly this one has. And I think Mr. Mueller is hurting his reputation, because of the partisan way he’s gone forward with this, he’s not been a real arbiter of justice here at all, Lou.” Franks points out, “Just the fact that he is looking at the statute that requires him to disqualify himself and ignores it undermines his very credibility as someone ostensibly upholding the law.” He adds that...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-rep-franks-gop-congress-silent-hit-man-mueller-gain-respectability/
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Kim Jong Un Plots Revenge
as UN Drops Hammer on North Korea
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{libertyheadlines.com} ~ North Korea condemned the latest round of U.N. sanctions Monday, promising revenge against those who seek to constrain the country’s growing military might... The U.N. Security Council passed a U.S.-drafted resolution Saturday approving the “the single largest economic sanctions package ever leveled against the North Korean regime” and “the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation,” according to U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Nikki Haley. North Korea, which has developed an intercontinental ballistic missile some expert observers assess is capable of delivering a nuclear payload to cities across America, is livid and threatening to retaliate...  http://www.libertyheadlines.com/kim-jong-un-plots-revenge-un-drops-hammer-north-korea/?AID=7236
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Palestinian Propaganda Is Infiltrating US Public Schools
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by Miriam F. Elman
{algemeiner.com} ~ Six years ago, a teenager in Newton, Massachusetts — Shiri Pagliuso — asked her father if it was true that Israel tortures and murders women activists in the Palestinian resistance movement... Then a high school freshman, Shiri had learned the information from her textbook — the Arab World Studies Notebook, a 540-page volume so riddled with unabashed bias that it had garnered a scathing 30-page report from the American Jewish Committee (AJC). He contacted his daughter’s teacher, the head of the high school’s history department, the principal, and eventually the superintendents — who all defended the Arab World Studies Notebook as essential for sharpening critical thinking skills. They also praised the book for providing a “balanced perspective” and an “Arab point of view.”...This is really sad to think this is happening.  https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/08/07/palestinian-propaganda-is-infiltrating-us-public-schools/
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Does Rod Rosenstein also need to recuse himself?
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by William A. Jacobson
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Jeff Sessions, in what so far is the defining event of the Trump administration, recused himself from involvement in the investigation of Russian meddling in the election because of a potential conflict... When people look back upon the history of the Trump administration, I think Jeff Sessions recusing himself is going to be, at least as of this point in time, the single biggest influencer of how the administration went. Now obviously we still got time, other things could happen. But as of now, that has probably been the single most significant event of the administration because it put into motion this seemingly endless, wide-ranging attempt to find a crime by the Mueller team. And that, I think, is the defining moment in the administration. But Sessions was not the only person with a conflict. I previously have expressed the position that Robert Mueller should not be involved investigation into Russian meddling in the election if any part of the investigation involves communications between Trump and James Comey...  http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/08/does-rod-rosenstein-also-need-to-recuse-himself/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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GARGOYLE Attacks Trump – Lies To
“Justify” MUELLER Bill To SEIZE WH in COUP
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{rickwells.us} ~ Senator, Stolen Valor liar and corrupt political operative Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) knew what to expect when he attacked President Trump, he’s been doing it non-stop since Trump announced his candidacy... The news that the people of Connecticut allowed this scumbag to be elected despite having falsely claimed on many occasions that he served in Vietnam is not new but he insists on making it relevant by opening his septic face hole. Blumberg never left the states, serving his country in the Marine Reserves engaged in the always perilous “toys for tots” duty. The kids were the brave ones in those exchanges, understandably traumatized after catching a glimpse of his hideous mug. For many Christmas would never be the same again. Blumenthal is engaged in an attempt to insulate the Democrat Inquisitor, Robert Mueller, from accountability by sponsoring a bill with his fellow establishment call boy, Thom Tillis (RINO-NC)  removing executive branch authority over a portion of the Justice Department. It’s unconstitutional, but he couldn’t care less nor could Tillis. This is about the success of their coup against the President...  http://rickwells.us/gargoyle-attacks-trump-lies-justify-mueller-bill-seize-wh-coup/
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Corrupt Mexican Officials Are to
Blame for Illegal Human Smuggling Racket
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by Michelle Malkin
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dailysignal.com} ~ Florida truck driver James Matthew Bradley isn’t the mastermind of the human smuggling ring that led to the grisly deaths of 10 illegal immigrants in his rig, which authorities found at a San Antonio Walmart over the weekend.

He’s just a cog in the machine.

Bradley may now face the death penalty for transporting up to 100 people crammed in the trailer of his 18-wheeler. But what about the open-borders overlords making a real killing off this insatiable racket?

I’m looking at you, America-bashing corruptocrats in Mexico.

For years, our nation has been subjected to endless complaints, race-baiting insults, and vicious attacks by politicians south of the border.

Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon trashed our immigration laws on U.S. soil before the California state Legislature.

Former Mexican President Vicente Fox dropped F-bombs at President Donald Trump and millions of law-abiding Americans who support construction of an effective border wall.

Current Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto took to CNN’s airwaves to bash U.S. citizens who support strong borders as “exclusionary and discriminatory.”

Last year, Nieto defiantly proclaimed at the United Nations that “there are no barriers that can stop either the movement of people or the fusion of cultures.”

Meddling Mexican consular officials in the U.S. have lobbied aggressively from New York to Texas to California for mass amnesty, driver’s licenses for illegal immigrants, discounted tuition for illegal immigrant students, and systematic sabotage of interior enforcement and deportation policies.

Armed incursions by the Mexican military have targeted our immigration enforcement agents for years.

After vehemently denying a Mexican government helicopter fired on Border Patrol personnel in 2014, our “friends” were forced to admit the incident happened when Judicial Watch obtained homeland security documents detailing the attack near Sells, Arizona, on the Tohono O’Odham Indian Reservation.

In fact, Department of Homeland Security records have tracked at least “300 documented incursions by Mexican military and law enforcement authorities onto U.S. soil since 2004″—with few consequences for the foreign invaders.

When they’re not busy trash-talking our laws, shooting at our first-line protectors, or actively undermining our sovereignty, Mexican government bureaucrats are up to their eyeballs in narco-state corruption.

Please note that the federal criminal complaint in the San Antonio border death truck tragedy included the statement of one Mexican trafficking victim from Aguascalientes who told authorities he met a “smuggler linked to the Zetas” cartel at the Rio Grande, where they charged “11,000 Mexican pesos for protection and 1,500 Mexican pesos to cross by raft” before loading into Bradley’s big rig of death.

At the Walmart parking lot, a phalanx of six SUVs operated by the reputed Zetas-associated smugglers whisked away several groups of human chattel, who were marked with color-coded tape.

Yes, that would be the same Zetas cartel that has bought and paid for top Mexican politicians for years.

Last summer, a former top financial operative for the gang testified at the federal trial of Marciano Millan Vasquez that “Millan and other Zetas leaders were able to smuggle drugs, kill with impunity and launder money through real estate and government contracts because they had bribed the personal aide of former Coahuila governor Humberto Moreira,” according to the San Antonio Express-News.

Human rights watchdogs and border reporters left, right, and center—from The Huffington Post to Breitbart Texas—have exposed callous Mexican government officials selling out their own people while turning a blind eye to massacres, kidnappings, extortion, and racketeering across the Mexican border states.

These usually mouthy Mexican leaders are now quiet as church mice about the latest casualties of open borders. Why? Because illegal immigration is the country’s budgetary bonanza.

This spring, cash transfers to Mexico spiked 15 percent in March compared with the same period last year. Remittances, the majority of which are sent by immigrants working illegally in the U.S. to their Mexican relatives, topped $2.5 billion.

That’s the “third largest in U.S.-Mexico remittance history, after October 2008 ($2.6 billion) and May 2006 ($2.5 billion),” according to The Hill.

It’s not just what’s illicit, but what’s licit, that explains Mexico’s countenance of the mass abuse and enslavement of its own people.

“No borders, no walls” means a Mexico that will never work hard enough to improve itself so that desperate people would rather pursue their dreams at home instead of stuffing themselves into sweltering death ovens on wheels.

And yet we’re the ones accused of human rights violations and lack of compassion.

How do you say “chutzpah” in Spanish?

http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/26/corrupt-mexican-officials-blame-illegal-human-smuggling-racket/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell"&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1Nd09UVXhPVFUzTlRjMiIsInQiOiJWTG9DOWdsSDFHSmhxOUN6TkdzVmVZZ3REVk9sVVR1TEZXQkUrXC9cL2VCY1BVNmd5VVNwaHRtanRuMW4rXC8yWUg3U0JpTzJnM0RUQUIrRUNSQkVVNWdPUDFMVnBOMmpWSHhja1lia1ltXC92aExKS2hDVVRSdWVNNnZvaEtDUXFGdDgifQ%3D%3D

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The bitter end of Dem:
Why left shows 0 signs of winning
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 by Gina Loudon
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 Trump's First 200 Days: The Good, the Bad and 
 the Ugly 
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As Donald Trump arrives at his 200th day in office, it provides an opportunity for a brief look at where things stand in DC, the nation and the world — the good, the bad and the ugly. First, the good: Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch. Trump's choice for the Supreme Court was a home run. Senate Republicans' decision to hold the line on refusing to consider Barack liar-nObama's nominee proved to be well played — at least for this pick. Also a win for Trump has been his decisive actions on deregulation, and Congress has followed suit, passing several measures pulling back on the regulatory state. Trump has also proven himself surprisingly adept in his foreign trips, in both pressing his America First agenda while reassuring allies of our commitment to stand with them.
          Second, the bad. Republican senators' failure on health care reform leaves liar-nObamaCare hanging as an albatross around Republicans' necks, weighing down their prospects of actually enacting significant reforms to the tax code. Meanwhile, Trump lags well behind his predecessors in filling executive branch vacancies. Thus far Trump has nominated 279 people, of which only 124 have been confirmed — 78 of whom just last Thursday. While Democrats have been responsible for much of the obstruction, Trump is guilty of being slow in presenting nominees. While part of this may be designed to shrink the size of government via attrition, it has proven mostly to slow his swamp-draining agenda.
          Finally, the ugly. The Russia/Trump collusion conspiracy promoted by the Democrats and their cohorts in the mainstream media has proven to be the biggest distraction and most effective cloud over Trump's presidency thus far. It precipitated Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, followed by the subsequent call for and naming of Robert Mueller as independent counsel to investigate Russian interference.
          Perhaps the key lesson here is for Trump and the GOP to focus on what they can control — confirming appointments to get the government running more smoothly. Small successes often lead to greater ones and help ease the toll of petulant distractions.  ~The Patriot Post
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Tucker Carlson Nails the Intolerance of the Left!
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{patrioticviralnews.com} ~ LGBT rights is not divided down party lines. It is not a Republican issue or a Democratic issue but a human rights issue. As humans and members of our communities, everyone deserves the same rights as the next person... It is what makes America great. It is not stripping their rights and freedoms simply because they may live a lifestyle or do things differently. People of varying faiths deserve the same human rights and to be treated the same, regardless of their beliefs, because deep down, we’re all Americans. And beyond that we are all humans. The great thing about being a human in America is we have the rights to freedom of speech and expressions. Others who have been deemed as “different” have faced uphill battles throughout history, and this is no different with the LGBT community today. Yet, despite this, members of the intolerant left went on to attack LGBT Trump supporters...  http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/tucker-carlson-nails-the-intolerance-of-the-left/
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liar-nObama Admin Took Profits from
Freddie Mac and Frannie Mae to Pay for liar-nObamacare
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{americanlibertyreport.com} ~ The liar-nObama Administration is under fire again. In a new slew of unsealed documents, they were caught red-handed stealing funds from citizens to pay for social programs... In this case, the Net Worth Sweep cases surrounding Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are the center of attention, and they show that liar-nObama largely operated his government through illicit means. When you see just how far the administration went to hide and steal funds and circumvent the federal process, you will be enraged. Worst of all, the actions were taken deliberately, as evidenced by the newly released documents... Why isn't he being charged?  http://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/obama-admin-took-profits-from-freddie-mac-and-frannie-mae-to-pay-for-Obamacare/
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Liberal Media and Useful Pawns Unite
To Remove Steve Bannon From White House
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The useful pawns continue their efforts to take out President Trump’s National Security Adviser HR McMaster... But what they don’t realize, and the professional liberal activists do, is that ultimately the only person they are going to remove is strategist Steve Bannon. The same Battered Conservatives that stood for an ovation to House Speaker Paul Ryan (CPAC 2015) two months after passing Omnibus; the same Battered Conservatives who failed to see the inherent risk created by General Mike Flynn in November 2016; are now rushing to create a binary choice between Steve Bannon and HR McMaster in the White House. The person the professional-political-left really want to target is Steve Bannon. Bannon represents everything the left-wing activists hate.  They’ve already tried a few different approaches to take him down and isolate him from the presidency, with no measurable success...  https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/08/07/liberal-media-and-useful-pawns-unite-to-remove-steve-bannon-from-white-house/
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Here Is The Alias Email Account
Loretta Lynch Used As Attorney General
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ Like her predecessor, Eric Holder, former Attorney General Loretta Lynch used an email alias to conduct government business, The Daily Caller has confirmed... Several of Lynch’s emails were included in 413 pages of DOJ documents provided to the conservative groups Judicial Watch and the American Center for Law and Justice. Both groups had filed lawsuits for records regarding Lynch’s controversial meeting with President Bill liar-Clinton at the Phoenix airport last June 27. Using the pseudonym “Elizabeth Carlisle,” Lynch corresponded with DOJ press officials to hammer out talking points in response to media requests about the meeting. The tarmac encounter drew criticism from conservatives because Lynch was overseeing the federal investigation into whether liar-Hillary Clinton mishandled classified information on her private email system...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/08/07/here-is-the-alias-email-account-loretta-lynch-used-as-attorney-general/
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Chicago Sues For The Right To Break The Law
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Kim Jung Un Threatens Revenge Against US For New UN Sanctions
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CNN’s Bolduan: Dems Have No Clear Leader & No Clear Message
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WaPo & NYT Tried To Bury Loretta Lynch/Bubba liar-Clinton Tarmac Meeting
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That Mid-July Florida Sinkhole is Still GrowinG
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The bitter end of Dem:
Why left shows 0 signs of winning
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 by Gina Loudon
{wnd.com} ~ Democrats are choosing to be losers, perhaps in perpetuity.
 
Democrats are at their weakest in almost a century. Now that West Virginia Gov. “Big Jim” Justice flipped from Democrat to Republican, the GOP holds governorships in 34 states. In 26 of those, Republicans also hold a legislative majority. That sounds impressive, even before learning that Democrats can only claim total power in six states. The other 18 are split between the two parties
 
On the federal level, we know Republicans hold the executive and legislative branch, although I could name a few GOP senators who shouldn’t be affiliated with the Republican Party. But, that is for another column.
 
In short, Democrats show zero signs of winning again, and it’s wearing on them mentally.
 
People handle losing in different ways.
 
When Republicans lost and gave Barack liar-nObama huge majorities in the House and Senate, they calmly regrouped, rebuilt, organized this little thing called a tea party, and they waited until the coming elections. They became a party with a leader and a message that represented the changes their base was demanding.
 
Democrats aren’t operating that way. They have become the quintessential sore losers.
 
They are so bad at losing that they would rather seek revenge on the winner than recoil and win the next time. As Eric Trump put it, they would rather see his father fail than see America win – that’s the tell-tale mantra of a loser that won’t quit losing any time soon.
 
But they have lost a lot:
*They’ve lost more than 1,000 state and local seats during the tenure of liar-nObama.
 
*There are 26 states under full Republican control to their six.
 
*They have lost all five special elections since the president was elected, including the most expensive one in history, where they spent more than $30 million they could have spent in 2018 or 2020. Throwing money in desperation is classic loser behavior.
 
*There’s only one vulnerable Republican Senate seat in 2018, while Democrats are defending nine seats in red states. Republicans will keep the majority and could even win a filibuster-proof majority in the Senate.
 
*Democrats have had their worst few months of fundraising in 14 years. Traditionally, the party out of power rakes in the cash. This year, the GOP continues to take in record donations.
 
*Additionally, the party of “the little guy” is getting big checks from big donors, but not many of them. Republicans have a record number of small donors, suggesting real grassroots support for this president, and the GOP platform.
But losing happens, and all that really matters is that parties handle it well.
 
The surest sign that Democrats have not integrated their massive losses into their psyche is their immature name calling. Democrats look like petulant children on the playground when they call the president names like “Hitler” and call Republicans “Nazis” and “fascists,” especially when you consider that each of those groups were of the left, not aligned with the right.
 
Democrats are such sore losers that they do the equivalent of turning over the table and watching the game pieces scatter when they’re losing.
 
They are intent on making sure the American economy loses under President Trump. There isn’t one pro-American piece of legislation that will get a single Democrat vote because the worst nightmare for a Democrat is that Americans will get good jobs and prosper. They don’t get their votes from the middle class or the successful. They get their votes by creating a victim mentality and creating dependent, divided tribal groups they can manipulate.
 
Democrats are no longer about democracy at all.
 
I spoke to Deputy Assistant to the President Dr. Sebastian Gorka, this week about what Democrats stand for these days:
 
Democrats lost a democratic election, but since they don’t like the results, they’re using their cronies they have placed in bureaucracies and in our intelligence agencies to undermine our president at every turn.
 
Democrats are so obsessed with their loss that they don’t care that leakers are currently risking our national security and releasing information that puts Americans in danger. Even though it’s bad for America, it’s good for them!
 
Democrats are so lost in their loser mire that they are undermining our democracy because they didn’t like how the people voted. Democrats hate democracy! What irony!
 
And for you Democrats who are unfamiliar with what that really means: When people in positions of power subvert the will of the voters, that is called a coup. It is the definition of undemocratic.
 
Remember the good ole days when we thought President liar-nObama was trying to destroy America as we knew it? That seems like nothing compared to the Democrat-led coup happening now. At least liar-nObama was elected!
 
What is hope if you’re a Dem?
For a Democrat, hope is that Robert Mueller can twist the law enough that our duly elected president can be overthrown.
 
Hope is that the American economy will flounder and Democrats can block any sort of tax relief for Americans so suffering voters will abandon the GOP.
 
Hope is that America’s allies will turn their backs on us out of fear that any cooperation with the U.S. will be leaked to the press.
 
Hope for a Democrat is that the media will collude with the Democrats in D.C. to convince voters that they made a bad choice last November.
Congratulations, Democrats! You have placed yourself is such a terrible position that anything that is good for America is bad for you as a party!
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