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Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
'liar-nObama holdovers' in D.C.
scrubbing 'ISIS genocide against Christians'
by Bob Unruh
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Democrats and Trump: Both behaving irrationally
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by Michael Barone
{aei.org} ~ What is it about Russia — some vestige of all those Cold War spy films, perhaps — that mentioning it makes so many people, on all political sides, behave so irrationally?... Consider the behavior of Democrats who are seeking to prove that Donald Trump or his campaign “colluded” with Russia, with the implication that this “collusion” somehow determined the outcome of the 2016 election. The mainstream media feeds this narrative with breathless multiple-bylined stories about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’s casual encounter with the Russian ambassador in the Mayflower Hotel or Donald Trump Jr.’s ludicrous meeting with the Russian lady lawyer... http://www.aei.org/publication/democrats-and-trump-both-behaving-irrationally/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=080117
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Tisha B'Av - Remembering
the destruction of the Temples
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Israel Police and Border Police are being deployed in large numbers in the Old City of Jerusalem to protect worshippers at the Western Wall for the fast of Tisha B'Av, which began tonight (Monday)... The fast, which takes place annually on the ninth day of the Hebrew month of Av, commemorates the destruction of the two Holy Temples by the Babylonian and Roman empires in 586 BCE and 70 CE, respectively. Religious Jews refrain from eating and drinking for a 25 hour period of mourning. They also refrain from wearing leather shoes and bathing and do not sit on anything higher than a 1-foot high stool until midday. They do not greet one another on the eve of the fast and there is no Torah study because it gladdens the heart... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/233227?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Mr. President, End The
Congressional liar-nObamacare Scam
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{conservativehq.com} ~ Our friend Rep. Ron Desantis (FL-6) got it right when he said yesterday that President Trump should follow through on his weekend threat and cancel all subsidies that federal lawmakers get to buy insurance under liar-nObamacare... "I think if he moves swiftly on it, I think you'd see a lot of these members and senators, they would want to work to repeal liar-nObamacare very quickly," DeSantis said on Fox News according to Pete Kasperowicz of the Washington Examiner. By the way, Ron DeSantis also said, "I decline the subsidy. It's not right and I don't take it because I don't think it's lawful. I think the president would be absolutely within his rights to cancel the liar-nObama rule that conferred this subsidy on Congress," he added... http://www.conservativehq.com/node/26160
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Supreme Court Justice Anthony
Kennedy Could Retire...
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by Jim E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Ever since President Trump took the oath of office, there have been rumors that another Supreme Court vacancy will soon arise... The most common assumption is that Justice Anthony Kennedy, the socially libertarian, Reagan-appointed justice, will announce his retirement. Kennedy is 81-years-old, and while he’s not the oldest justice on the Court, he likely feels most comfortable vacating his seat under a Republican president. Last month, just before the Court recessed for the summer, there was an increase in speculation that Kennedy was going to announce his retirement. But the Court’s last day came and went with no such announcement. Even so, some observers think Kennedy could throw in the towel any day now...http://thepoliticalinsider.com/anthony-kennedy-retire-2/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_8_1_2017&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-8-1-2017-morning&utm_medium=email
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The Federal Program Funding
Hamas Supporters on College Campuses
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by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ When President Trump presented his budget, he defunded Title VI from $72 million to zero. But it’s up to Congress to make it happen... Title VI of the Higher Education Act set out to fund international studies that would promote our national security. But on many campuses, Title VI centers undermine our national security by supporting Islamic terrorists. The Higher Education Opportunity Act mandated that Title VI centers reflect a “wide range of views”. Instead when it comes to the Middle East, Title VI centers have only one point of view...This needs to change. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267420/federal-program-funding-hamas-supporters-college-daniel-greenfield
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'liar-nObama holdovers' in D.C.
scrubbing 'ISIS genocide against Christians'
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by Bob Unruh
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wnd.com} ~ The liar-nObama administration repeatedly fudged on the issue of Islam.

Barack liar-nObama himself said Muslims were a key to the founding of the nation and after all, the U.S. wasn’t a Christian nation.

Muslim advocates, including some fairly radical, were installed in influential positions in Washington.

Never were the words “Muslim” and “terrorist” to be used together, it seemed.

Now, a report is confirming that those left in the government, and there are many, from liar-nObama’s tenure are busy trying to erase the references to ISIS’ “genocide” of Christians in the Middle East.

It is the American Center for Law and Justice that is, well, a little upset.

“In a startling revelation, news is breaking this week that liar-nObama holdovers within the State Department are actively attempting to scrub its records to remove any mention of the ISIS genocide against Christians,” the organization reported.

“This is outrageous and the ACLJ has had enough, so we are preparing a new set of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests to find out why – and to expose deep state operatives who would use the delay of confirming new State Department officials as cover to strip legal protections from Christians facing genocide.”

The activist team quoted from the Washington Free Beacon that, “The State Department’s top lawyers are systematically removing the word ‘genocide’ to describe the Islamic State’s mass slaughter of Christians, Yazidis, and other ethnic minorities in Iraq and Syria from speeches before they are delivered and other official documents, according to human rights activists and attorneys familiar with the policies.’

“This is absolutely unacceptable and cannot be tolerated. And it begs the question, ‘Why?'” the ACLJ said.

It has been documented that Muslims running amok across the Middle East have burned Christians, crucified them, beheaded them, stabbed them, drowned them and more.

And not just adults, or fighting forces – the victims have repeatedly included children and women.

The ACLJ reported, “Unelected deep state holdovers are quietly trying to undo everything we have accomplished in our campaign, which began years ago, to pressure the U.S. government and the international community to recognize the ISIS atrocities against Christians and other religious minorities and to take meaningful action to protect the victims.

“We worked tirelessly making the case to the liar-nObama State Department that the legal threshold for genocide was satisfied, and that ISIS specifically targeted Christians as victims. And finally, in March of 2016, after embarrassing resistance and delay, then-Secretary of State John Kerry relented and announced his judgment that ISIS was in fact committing genocide and that Christians were victims.”

That created a new level of obligation, because of the Genocide Convention, the group said.

But instead of a federal bureaucracy that would recognize the atrocities inflicted by Muslims on Christians, and work to reduce those, something else happened.

“What became eminently clear is that the liar-nObama administration never intended for that legal determination to matter. In fact, we filed a FOIA request and subsequent lawsuit against the State Department to determine what, if anything, the liar-nObama administration did to protect Christians or end the genocide itself,” the report said.

“After more than a year of delays and stonewalling from the State Department bureaucracy, it has become crystal clear from the limited documents the State Department has finally turned over to us – under court order – that the liar-nObama administration took no discernable action to protect Christians or end the genocide. Our FOIA case continues and we hope to uncover more information, but so far what we feared appears to be reality. The liar-nObama administration was all talk and no action on genocide.”

Now, the group said, that “holdovers” from liar-nObama’s years “are actually attempting to reverse course shows that the liar-nObama administration NEVER intended its genocide recognition to carry any weight whatsoever.”

The ACLU called it “some kind of Orwellian propaganda machine” in which bureaucrats who first ignored the ISIS genocide of Christians now are working hard “censoring words that acknowledge the genocide.”

The report cites a claim from a human rights lawyer that Richard Visek, of the State Department’s Office of Legal Adviser, “is behind the decision to remove the word ‘genocide’ from official documents.”
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Wed/Mid-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
For Conservatives, Health-Care
Reform Is Not Optional
by Avik Roy
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 'What Happened' — liar-Clinton's Still in Denial 
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liar-Hillary Clinton's latest book, entitled "What Happened," is due to hit bookstores in September. Word is that liar-Clinton will explain why she lost the election, as if we haven't already heard that load of garbage from her every other month since the election. Has liar-Hillary finally come to grips with the fact that she lost because most Americans didn't trust her and her crime syndicate? Will she finally concede that she was selling something Americans weren't buy? No, from the sound of it, liar-Hillary has yet to get off the blame train. The Hill describes liar-Clinton's upcoming book as follows:
          liar-Hillary Clinton's upcoming book will double down on Russia's interference and James Comey's involvement in her stunning election defeat, according to sources familiar with the memoir.
          Privately, liar-Clinton has told friends and longtime associates that she "wants the whole story out there" as she rushes to tweak and put the finishing touches on the book due out in September.
          "She really believes that's why she lost, and she wants to explain why in no uncertain terms," one longtime ally said, "She wants the whole story out there from her own perspective. I think a lot of people are going to be really surprised by how much she reveals."
          Surprised that she would shift blame anywhere and everywhere but her own severe likability deficit, criminal behavior and bad campaign decisions? Don't be. Indeed, the only real question remaining is whether the sales of this book will improve upon her previous flop, "Hard Choices." If not, one wonders if liar-Clinton will again lay the blame on Comey and the Russians.  ~The Patriot Post
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Finally, House Judiciary Committee
Member Calls For Mueller To Step Down
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{rickwells.us} ~ A member of the House Judiciary Committee has had enough of the willful blindness of the left and the complicit and cowardly enablers in the mainstream establishment... and on the right have displayed when it comes to the illegal activities of nothing-special special counsel Robert Mueller. Congressman Trent Franks (R-AZ) has issued a statement demanding things change. Rep Franks is calling on Special Counsel Robert Mueller to resign from his position, one that he never should have accepted in the first place, considering his close personal relationship with James Comey. Clearly it wasn’t dumb luck that led Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to select Comey’s buddy so there is cause to investigate that relationship as well. Rep Franks points out that the law government the special counsel prohibits him from serving if he has a “conflict of interest,” which includes “a personal relationship with any person substantially involved in the conduct that is the subject of the investigation or prosecution.” Comey is a central witness in the witch hunt and there is a long history of friendship between him and Mueller... http://rickwells.us/finally-house-judiciary-committee-member-calls-for-mueller-to-step-down/
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Relying on Russian Help, Iran Lays
the Groundwork for a Post-IS Iraq
{mosaicmagazine.com} ~ Now that Islamic State (IS) has lost the battle for Mosul, Iraq is preparing for a national election—which the Islamic Republic of Iran hopes will put a friendly government in power... To this end, Tehran is encouraging the Shiite political parties it has long backed to start billing themselves as liberal, non-sectarian, and wedded to a sense of Iraqi identity that transcends religious and ethnic divisions. Amir Taheri explains: The apparent de-sectarianization of pro-Iran Shiite parties will make it difficult for Ayyad Allawi and other genuinely non-sectarian Shiite politicians, who are hostile to Iranian influence in Baghdad, to appeal to the Shiite majority on the basis of citizenship and uruqah [or “Iraqiness”]. The new de-sectarianization gambit will also put pressure on Kurdish parties at a time when some of them are campaigning for a referendum on whether to declare independence... https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/2017/08/relying-on-russian-help-iran-lays-the-groundwork-for-a-post-is-Iraq/
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liar-nObamacare Death Spiral Continues
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ The liar-nObamacare death spiral continues. According to CMS not only will over thirteen hundred counties only have one insurer, fifty won’t have any insurer... In those 50 counties, there will be 27,660 people required by law to buy insurance but there won’t be any way for them to make the purchase. Those people are most damaged by the Congressional Republicans’ failure to keep their promise and repeal the oppressive health care plan “According to recent data released by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), in 2018, 1,332 counties in the United States will have only one health insurer operating on the liar-nObamacare exchanges and 49 will have none...http://lidblog.com/obamacare-death-spiral/
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Top Palestinian official looks
to Israel for life-saving transplant
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{jpost.com} ~ After a career as Israel's chief adversary at the negotiating table, Erekat may now rely on Israel for life-saving treatment... Pulmonary fibrosis is a form of lung disease that can result in lung scarring. As the lung tissue becomes scarred, the sufferer will find it increasingly difficult to breathe. In most cases, there is no known cause for the disease. Given his declining health, Erekat is said to have greatly reduced his public duties and sometimes requires oxygen to assist his breathing, Ynet reported...http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Top-Palestinian-official-looks-to-Israel-for-life-saving-transplant-501318
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Senate Passes Measure That
 Permanently Repeals 'Cadillac' Tax
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{newsmax.com} ~ Senate Republicans passed a measure on Thursday that would permanently repeal liar-nObamacare's so-called Cadillac tax on high-cost employer-provided insurance without a single Democratic vote amid a broader debate to repeal the healthcare law. The measure passed along party lines by a 52-48 vote. To become law, it will need to be passed by the U.S. House of Representatives. http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/senate-passes-repeal-cadillac/2017/07/27/id/804290/
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For Conservatives, Health-Care
Reform Is Not Optional
by Avik Roy

{nationalreview.com} ~ The proximate reason, of course, for the failure of the GOP effort to repeal and replace liat-r-nObamacare is that moderate Republican senators voted against it: in the most recent instance, Susan Collins, Lisa Murkowski, and John RINO-McCain. But Republicans’ health-care struggles stem from a solvable, but more fundamental problem: uniting both moderate and conservative Republicans around a single bill.

Moderate Republican senators, often representing purple or blue states, were reluctant both philosophically and politically to endorse legislation that increased the number of Americans without health insurance. Conservative Republican senators focused on the commitment they and most of the moderates had made to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare, and more broadly, their commitment to limited government.

How Democrats passed liar-nObamacare

When Democrats passed liar-nObamacare — after many failed attempts in the 20th century to do something similar — they did so by uniting their ideological and pragmatic wings. The ideological wing hated the idea of paying private companies to cover the uninsured, strongly preferring single-payer. The pragmatists, looking to maintain their cred in purple-to-red states, sought to borrow ideas, however imperfectly, from Mitt Romney et al.

Democrats recognized the central importance of the Congressional Budget Office in bringing their two wings together. When Democrats retook Congress in 2006, they appointed Peter Orszag to head the CBO, as part of a deliberate strategy to stack the CBO in favor of their health-care agenda. Orszag proceeded to build out the entire health policy wing of the CBO — representing dozens of staffers — with like-minded individuals. After liar-nObama won the 2008 election, Orszag captained the health-reform effort at the White House’s Office of Management and Budget.

It would be more fair to call liar-nObamacare “CBOcare” given how much the Affordable Care Act reflects the CBO’s worldview. While Senator liar-nObama opposed the individual mandate, the CBO believed it would add 16 million covered lives to the ACA’s ledger. While the Romneycare model involved covering the uninsured solely with private coverage, the CBO believed that expanding coverage through Medicaid would be cheaper.

Republicans failed to reform the CBO

Compare and contrast that to the GOP’s effort. When Republicans had the opportunity to appoint a CBO director in 2015, they chose not to hire someone with deep health-care expertise, such as the University of Minnesota’s Stephen Parente, and instead hired Keith Hall, a labor economist. There was no comparable strategy, either by Hall or by Congress, to rebalance the CBO’s center-left tilt with individuals more knowledgeable about how health insurance markets actually work.

Hence, because any GOP bill would need to repeal liar-nObamacare’s individual mandate, the CBO was poised to make any GOP bill look bad. The CBO compounded this, at critical points, by refusing to disclose key aspects of its estimates. The CBO refused to break out the proportion of GOP Medicaid savings that were driven by long-term entitlement reform (per capita caps) vs. the repeal of liar-nObamacare’s Medicaid expansion.

The CBO’s deliberate opacity allowed journalists at the New York Times, the Washington Post, and every Democrat to dishonestly claim that per capita caps would “cut $800 billion from Medicaid,” even though nearly all of the Medicaid savings were from repealing and replacing the liar-nObamacare expansion.

Similarly, the CBO refused to break out — until the very end, after it had leaked — the fact that nearly three-fourths of the “coverage losses” under the GOP bill would come from people voluntarily choosing to forgo coverage due to the repeal of the individual mandate.

Uniting moderate and conservative Republicans

The failure to reform the CBO put Republicans at a huge disadvantage when it came to uniting moderate and conservative senators. Moderates wanted a bill that preserved coverage for the uninsured. On the flip side, many conservatives wanted a bill that repealed liar-nObamacare, full stop, with relatively less interest in the replacement part.

These poles were always going to be difficult to reconcile, but there was and still is a policy path forward.

It involves uniting moderates and conservatives around Ronald Reagan’s principle that “no one in this country should be denied medical care for lack of funds.” There are ways to substantially reduce the government’s role in health care while expanding the number of people with health insurance.

Key to achieving this synthesis is a combination of reforming the CBO and repealing liar-nObamacare’s individual mandate. So long as the individual mandate is on the books, and the CBO has the point of view it has, no Republican bill will be scored by the CBO as competitive with liar-nObamacare on coverage. Repealing the mandate would reset the CBO’s baseline such that the broader GOP repeal-and-replace effort could fare much better. That’s why the failure of the so-called “skinny bill” was such a huge strategic defeat for conservative health reform.

But it also requires a reorientation of conservative rhetoric. Conservatives must morally and rhetorically embrace the cause, as Reagan did, of ensuring that no American is denied medical care for lack of funds. The emergency room only encompasses a narrow range of medical care.

While conservatives and Republicans often said the right things in public, too many of them believe deep down that the only way to cover the uninsured is through more government. That’s not true. Government intervention is the reason that American health care is uniquely expensive, and a full-throated agenda to make health care more affordable could win much broader public support.

Democrats failed many times before they passed liar-nObamacare. In that context, this initial Republican failure is not surprising — indeed, it’s actually impressive that they came within one vote of conservative progress.

But the GOP cannot simply “move on” and give up on health care. Health care is the biggest driver of our debt and deficit, the biggest driver of growth in government, and one of the biggest drivers of economic insecurity for those in the middle class and below.

Take some time to reflect, yes. Come up with a better strategy, yes. But to give up on health-care reform is to give up on everything conservatives stand for.
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Politics of Fatigue
by Tom McLaughlin
 
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 Trump Rinses Himself of Priebus 
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A whirlwind of change occurred over the last 10 days at the White House, starting with the hiring of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director and the immediate departure of Press Secretary Sean Spicer. Scaramucci's hiring — and profane tirade to the media — now appears to have precipitated the resignation of Reince Priebus as chief of staff. Donald Trump quickly named the current director of Homeland Security, Gen. John Kelly, as Priebus' replacement. After months of an administration troubled with staff infighting and the seemingly unending problem of West Wing leaks to the press, Trump's frustration reached the breaking point. And heads rolled.
          The ouster of Priebus was more a question of "when" than "if" for Trump. It's now all the more clear what Trump's longtime friend Christopher Ruddy observed back in early February: "I think there's a lot of weakness coming out of the chief of staff. I think Reince Priebus [is a] good guy, well-intentioned, but he clearly doesn't know how the federal agencies work. He doesn't have a really good system. He doesn't know how the communications flow."
          Priebus may have been in over his head. He was clearly never able to rein in all the competing factions or bring any discipline to the administration's messaging. Too often the White House appeared more like a three-ring circus than a tightly run ship. This was made all the more challenging with the hostile media taking every leak as an opportunity to spin the narrative against Trump and his agenda. In fact, Trump himself often made things all the more difficult with his propensity to go off message himself.
          So why did Trump choose Priebus for his chief of staff in the first place? Two words: loyalty and establishment. Once Trump had secured the Republican presidential nomination, Priebus, as head of the Republican National Committee, stepped up and resisted the cavalcade from many establishment Republicans to work to remove Trump. Thus, after Trump's surprise election victory, he chose Priebus because of loyalty. Second, Trump may have calculated that he needed a Beltway guy to help sway establishment Republicans into getting on board with his agenda.
          For his part, Priebus maintained his support for Trump after his firing and gave no hint of bitterness, stating, "It has been one of the greatest honors of my life to serve this president and our country. I want to thank the president for giving me this very special opportunity. I will continue to serve as a strong supporter of the president's agenda and polices. I can't think of a better person than General John Kelly to succeed me and I wish him God's blessings and great success."
          On a final note, it may say a great deal about the calamitous state of the leaky White House that Trump thinks the guy to fix it is a military man who heads the Department of Homeland Security.  ~The Patriot Post
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Sessions Criminal Leak Indictments,
Wasserman Schultz Spy Case Exploding
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{rickwells.us} ~ Attorney General Sessions seems more motivated lately, probably for reasons having something to do with the Presidential teeth marks he’s now sporting... He’s promising action, saying, “I have not been happy with the past prosecutions and investigations of criminal leaks.” Sessions says, “We’ve already taken a number of steps, we’ll have multiple, we’ll have a press conference next week about it, but we already have multiples numbers of prosecutions compared to last year at this time. We’re stepping up those cases, it cannot continue. Some people need to go to jail. If we can make cases they are going to jail.” Judge Napolitano noted the use of “a term of art” when AG Sessions said “criminal leaks,” explaining that a West Wing leak of non-classified information is not a criminal leak. “But if someone unmasks from raw intelligence data, the identity of a person participating in a communication, whether it’s telephone, email or text messaging, and that is done for political purposes and not for national security purposes, that is a criminal leak...http://rickwells.us/napolitano-sessions-criminal-indictments-wasserman-schultz-spy-case/
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The Nature Of American Denial
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by James Hall
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ At the core of self delusion is the inability and/or the unwillingness of facing reality... While psychological disorders can often explain abnormal behavior in individuals, the exegesis for deviant social attitudes and accompanying conduct is reserved for society. Or so we are told! But does this make sense to you? As long as you accept that reality does exist and that it can be understood, it follows that we have the right, the ability and the obligation to comprehend it and adjust our actions accordingly. Most Americans view, of their own personal identity, is inculcated by the political culture. Delmar England, in his provocative work – Mind and Matters, The World in a Mirror – offers this valuable insights into our mutual and shared condition: “In human affairs, as surely as effect is preceded by action, action is preceded by belief, and belief is preceded by thought and conclusions.”...http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/nature-american-denial/
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Sen. James Lankford Chides ABC News
for Careless Use of ‘Hate Group’ Label
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by Rachel del Guidice
{dailysignal.com} ~ In a letter to the head of ABC News, a U.S. senator criticizes the news organization for carelessly editorializing by using the term “hate group” in a report about a prominent Christian legal organization... Sen. James Lankford, R-Okla., suggests to ABC News President James Goldston that an account by two of his reporters in fact unfairly maligned a “peaceful group,” whose recent conference was the venue for a speech on religious freedom by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. In his letter, dated Monday, Lankford asks Goldston: “Why would ABC News label a peaceful group as a ‘hate group’ simply because of a difference of opinion?”... http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/31/sen-james-lankford-slams-abc-news-for-careless-use-of-hate-group-label/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRrME5EZG1OVEprWm1SaiIsInQiOiI5cEt4Zm9lbWI5M05xV1hwaXI3M1VOWmsyc0VCYThcL2J3aGF3YTNkWXBCVGJsOUsrRUZTT2YrNmRxaU1HdEtVUHhtTmVsY3VIdXdwMTBzaXdBMm1yZ1NhOHllZ1wvQ2NpWFpoZHljaEpBVXJlTGRjVFZvdDVjSVA5MmdtdTA4QVlRIn0%3D
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How Trump Could Force Congress and
Its Staff to Live Under liar-nObamacare
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by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ President Donald Trump could have Congress in an uncomfortable corner over the lawmakers’ exemption, and that of their staff, from liar-nObamacare... “This is one more instance of Congress passing an unpleasant, expensive, onerous law on citizens and then conferring a valuable benefit on itself,” Joe Morris, former general counsel for the Office of Personnel Management, told The Daily Signal. The provision provides what critics say is tantamount to an unconstitutional waiver for members of Congress and their staff from rules mandated by the Affordable Care Act, popularly known as liar-nObamacare...http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/31/how-trump-could-force-congress-and-its-staff-to-live-under-obamacare/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRrME5EZG1OVEprWm1SaiIsInQiOiI5cEt4Zm9lbWI5M05xV1hwaXI3M1VOWmsyc0VCYThcL2J3aGF3YTNkWXBCVGJsOUsrRUZTT2YrNmRxaU1HdEtVUHhtTmVsY3VIdXdwMTBzaXdBMm1yZ1NhOHllZ1wvQ2NpWFpoZHljaEpBVXJlTGRjVFZvdDVjSVA5MmdtdTA4QVlRIn0%3D
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Vile Procter and Gamble Video Attacks
ALL WHITES As RACIST BULLIES Victimizing Blacks
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{rickwells.us} ~ All of you “racist white folks” out there using Procter and Gamble products like Bounty, Crest, Cascade, Gain, Febreze, Mr. Clean, Charmin, Tide, Downy, Gillette and more need to get “your filthy hands” off of their pure creations... And if you’re holding their stock, put in a sell order right away. You’re not good enough, with your inbred hatred and bigotry, to be a part of their wholesome, diverse, victimized company. They’ve made it clear, by stereotyping all whites as insensitive, hate-filled racists in their current advertising campaign, that they don’t want our business. The least we can do is oblige them, take our privileged money somewhere else, to a company that doesn’t choose to prejudge us based upon the color of our skin. The video from the billion dollar company shows a surprising lack of awareness of who their customers are. Or maybe they, like Target, with their unisex perversion push and Kellogg’s or Starbucks with their unbridled liberal assaults on regular Americans, simply don’t care. The politics is more important than their business...What garbages. http://rickwells.us/vile-proctor-gamble-video-attacks-whites-racist-bullies-victimizing-blacks/
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The Politics of Fatigue
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Summer is half over and I haven’t played enough — almost not at all, but I’ve begun to make some changes to allow it. Yes, I have to finish a book proposal and send it out, but I hate doing it and have to force myself to work at it every day for a little while at least. I have to get outside more and clear my head between sessions. I also have to stop reading obsessively about political goings-on. I’m staying away even though it's especially hard to do when so much is happening. It's been a nice break to avoid politics and write about other things, but here are some political “reflections on the passing scene” as the great columnist Thomas Sowell used to pen occasionally before he retired.
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*After seven years of promising to repeal liar-nObama care and passing countless bills to do so knowing they’d be vetoed by liar-nObama, Republicans in Congress can’t do it with a Republican president who would sign it. Meanwhile, liar-nObamacare is collapsing as predicted. Thanks Democrats. Thanks Republicans. You’re both pathetic. If members of Congress and everyone else who works for our way-too-big federal government were forced to be under liar-nObamacare along with the rest of us, it would never have passed in the first place, or would surely be fixed now.
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*Seventy years ago, Congress passed Amendment 22 which limited a president to two terms. It’s time for Amendment 28 to limit senators and congressmen to a total of twelve years each, after which they must be banned from lobbying for an additional ten years. Think of all the obnoxious senators and congressmen we wouldn’t have to listen to if Congress’s terms had been limited seventy years ago too? Think of where we’d be today instead of where we are.
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*Finally, finally, we have some actual evidence of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia. It’s very thin — not evidence of actual collusion, but only an email indicating that Donald Trump, Jr. was open to hearing about possible help from a Russian back in June, 2016. Over a year of investigation, and that’s all we’ve got. Will another year of even more investigation yield anything else? Don’t hold your breath. The investigation is having the desired effect however. It’s driving Donald Trump crazy, much crazier than he otherwise might be.
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*Meanwhile, I’m kicking myself for not working harder against Donald Trump during the primaries. I should have trusted my first instinct that any guy in his seventies who would pay that much attention to his hair has personality problems. When I think that we had sixteen alternatives, any of which would have been so much better, including Scott Walker, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, or anyone else except John Kasich. Okay, maybe even him.
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*President Trump’s antics are so embarrassing I can hardly stand it, but liar-Hillary Clinton? I could never have brought myself to put a check next to that name. If I could go back to that voting booth last November, I believe I’d do the same thing. In the meantime, I’d like the president’s sterling cabinet to get together and prepare an ultimatum for their boss: Fire the Mooch, stop tweeting, do what General Kelly tells you, use the speechwriters you had for the Middle East and Poland speeches, and use the teleprompter exclusively when speaking in public — or we resign, en masse, right now. Maybe that would smarten him up.
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The Mooch was fired the day after I wrote this on Sunday. Hooray for General Kelly!
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*Yeah, Trump’s approval ratings are very low, but guess whose ratings are even lower — the media’s. Trump deserves his ratings and media have certainly earned theirs as well. Can there be any more doubt about left-wing mainstream media bias? Yeah, Fox is biased right, but nearly every other television media outlet is biased left — and most newspapers too. I’ve spent years on both sides of the spectrum and it’s patently obvious to me. Are we all ready to admit this now?
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*Trump’s worst mistake would be to fire Attorney General Jeff Sessions. It would be worse than firing Mueller, which would only make the left — in media and in government — go even more crazy than they are now. But how much crazier can they get? They’re already cutting Trump’s head off in effigy and one leftist wing-nut opened fire on Republicans at a baseball practice, nearly killing Congressman Scalise and wounding several others. But to fire Jeff Sessions would sink Trump with conservatives who are already annoyed with his tweets. His support would dry up almost entirely.
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*Maybe a third party will emerge of disaffected Democrats and Republicans who would shrink the federal government and return power to the states. We could call it the Tenth Amendment Party.

The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people. (Amendment 10)
 
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Democrats Recycle Dilapidated Message
by Susan Stamper Brown
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 Top Headlines 
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This should fix it: Democrats pivot to offering liar-nObamaCare "improvements." (The Hill)
 
Republicans reject Trump's call to let liar-nObamaCare implode. (Washington Examiner)
 
Trump warns of ending health care "bailouts" for Congress, pushes Senate for majority rule. (The Washington Times)
 
10 states ready legal action to undo liar-nObama amnesty for "Dreamers." (The Daily Signal)
 
State Department slams Venezuela's "sham" elections. (Fox News)
 
More collusion — NOT: Putin says U.S. will have to cut 755 from diplomatic staff in Russia. (CBS News)
 
OPEC has a crippling problem: Its members can't stop pumping. (Paywall — The Wall Street Journal)
 
U.S. coal floods Europe despite continent's fear about climate change. (Washington Examiner)
 
Elizabeth dinky-Warren again calls for "equal pay," but she ignores the pay gap in her own office. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Apple is set to remove apps that allow Chinese customers to communicate without being supervised by censors. (Newsweek)
 
Policy: Transforming the science used for climate regulations. (The Heartland Institute)
 
Policy: Generic drug competition equals consumer price relief. (Real Clear Policy~The Patriot Post
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FOIA Suits Filed – $700K Cash liar-CLINTON
Allies GAVE FBI Dir McCabe’s Wife
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{rickwells.us} ~ It seems that the good folks at Judicial Watch have some concerns or questions regarding the possibility that some of that infamous liar-Clinton pay for play spilled over... into potential bribery of the current acting FBI Director, who was at the time the Deputy Director, Andrew McCabe. Judicial Watch announced, on July 28th, the filing of three FOIA lawsuits against the US Department of Justice, requesting documents related to McCabe’s political activities, travel vouchers, and employment status. The first two involve his activities related to his wife’s unsuccessful campaign for a Virginia state office and his interactions with Virginia Governor, and liar-Clinton ally Terry McAuliffe. Judicial Watch states: The first FOIA lawsuit, filed on July 24 Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:17-cv-01494)), seeks the following:...http://rickwells.us/foia-suits-filed-700k-cash-clinton-allies-gave-fbi-dir-mccabes-wife/
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Scaramucci Follows Priebus
Out The White House Door
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{rickwells.us} ~ The abrasive White House communications director who promised to stop the leaks apparently did just that. Nobody knew ahead of time that he was getting fired after just ten short days on the job... Is that a job well done, leaker Priebus exposed and gone, time to move on? Apparently so, at least in the mind of General John Kelly. It’s ironic that the man who replaced the leaker that the ousted Anthony Scaramucci had exposed and forced out, the new White House Chief of Staff, General Kelly, was the one who urged President Trump that Scaramucci get the boot. Press Secretary Sarah Sanders issued a statement saying, “Mr. Scaramucci felt it was best to give Chief of Staff John Kelly a clean slate and the ability to build his own team.”...http://rickwells.us/scaramucci-follows-priebus-white-house-door/
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   VIDEO of the day  
Former Reagan Economist Art Laffer Says We Are At Beginning of Economic Boom
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Debbie Wasserman-Schultz IT Scandal Growing
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Finally A Flying Car (I Want One For My Birthday)
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The Mooch Has Been Cut Loose, Scaramucci OUT As Comms Director
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U.S. Sends B-1 Bombers Over N. Korea
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Sanders – Firing Scaramucci CLEANED
Slate, EVERYONE Reports To KELLY
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{rickwells.us} ~ In the post-Scaramucci press briefing, Sarah Huckabee Sanders is asked by Fox News’ John Roberts, “Was it something about the chain of command or did it have anything to do with that interview that Scaramucci did last week?”... She replied, “Look, the President certainly felt that Anthony’s comments were inappropriate for a person in that position and he didn’t want to burden General Kelly also with that line of succession. As I think we’ve made clear a few times over the course of the last couple of days to several of you individually, General Kelly has the full authority to operate within the White House and all staff will report to him.” Roberts clarifies that the line of succession she was referring to was the direct reporting by Scaramucci to the President. He notes comments by the Kushners that they “look forward to following General Kelly’s lead,” asking “When it comes to the people who have access to the President, will that conduit be narrowed down now, will everything flow through Kelly or will some things still flow around the chief of staff’s office?”... http://rickwells.us/sanders-firing-scaramucci-cleaned-slate-everyone-reports-kelly/
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CNN Fake News About Russia
Sending Weapons to Taliban
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ The fabricated accusation surfaced earlier. In April, US Forces Afghanistan (USFOR-A) head General John Nicholson Jr lied, claiming “we continue to get reports of” Russia supplying Taliban fighters with weapons... An anonymous senior US military official repeated the phony accusation, saying “the Russians have increased their supply of equipment and small arms to the Taliban over the past 18 months…including medium and heavy machine guns…under the guise of fighting ISIS…” At the time, Sergey Lavrov called US accusations a smokescreen, aimed at diverting attention from “regime change” rhetoric on Syria, debunking statements as “unprofessional and groundless,” adding:... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/cnn-fake-news-russia-weapons-taliban/
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Democrats Recycle Dilapidated Message
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townhall.com} ~ It is going to take more than recycling a worn-out message with shiny new paper and presenting it wearing wrinkly, dress-down clothes to attract the folks in flyover country.

Nevertheless, that’s what they did, when three has-beens, Senate Majority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer, House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi and Elizabeth dinky-Warren arrived in rolled-up sleeves and wrinkled pants in Berryville, VA July 24, to introduce their party’s new slogan, “A Better Deal.”

They were about as convincing as the Three Amigos.

Democrats’ “Better Deal” is about as new and exciting as the beautifully wrapped inflatable unicorn-horn hat you received during the white elephant gift exchange last year that you promptly put in the Salvation Army donation box.

Offering government handouts without regard for what happens in the future is not a good or better deal. It is a bad deal…a foolish deal…a failed deal, and more of the same kind of awful deal they have offered the American people since the Democrat Party succumbed to Progressivism. Their antics the past six months show they are not progressive. They are reactionary, conspiratorial and backwards.

Rather than take a long look in the mirror at who they have become, Democrats decided to re-wrap more of the same, hoping to hoodwink hardworking Americans into believing government freebies and socialism are good things.

That’s how Venezuelans were tricked. Everything was just dandy until the government ran out of food, medicine and toilet paper. In the U.K., poor little Charlie Gard’s parents discovered that government controlled “free” healthcare meant they lost the freedom of choice for their sweet baby’s life. The government made him die in hospice, not his home.

Even if Democrats had a better deal, it would never work while holding on to old behaviors. As Jesus said, you can’t pour new wine into old wineskins because “…the wine will burst the skins, and both the wine and the wineskins will be ruined.”

Marketing campaigns intended to rebrand a dying party won’t work in this anti-establishment era of Trump. Democrats and establishment Republicans alike need a new heart, not a new slogan.

“Too many Americans don’t know what we stand for,” said clown-Schumer at the Democrats’ rollout. He’s wrong. Too many Americans know what Democrats stand for, and that’s the problem. Their problem.

Look at their leaders and you know for what they stand. Democrats chose Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) to help lead the party as the DNC Deputy Chair. Ellison recently argued on NPR’s “Morning Edition” that Twitter should block President Trump. Apparently, Ellison has an issue with the First Amendment. And the Second Amendment. Back in 2012 on Real Time with Bill Maher, Maher said the Democrat Party should come out against the Second Amendment and Ellison responded, “I sure wish they would. I sure wish they would.”

And corruption. Former DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) is currently entwined in a big IT scandal investigation which RNC Chair Ronna Romney McDaniel says involves obstruction “at every level, on something that affects, potentially our national security.” All this, after having to resign for rigging the 2016 presidential campaign against Bernie Sanders in favor of liar-Hillary Clinton.

Way to go, Democrats!

In a nutshell, the Democrat Party stands against just about everything Americans in flyover country are for -- and it stands for just about everything they are against.

During the “Better Deal” rollout, clown-Schumer said, “You look in the mirror and ask, what did we do wrong?”

It’s not what they did wrong. It’s who they have become. New slogans can’t fix that.

That’s why regular folks laughed at the new Democrat Party slogan that sounds an awful lot like a plagiarized Papa John’s pizza slogan: “A Better Deal: Better Jobs, Better Wages, Better Future.”

Will “A Better Deal” help Democrats?

Better Try Again.
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Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Al Gore's deep dive into crazy
by Gina Loudon

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Stuttering Pulosi Can’t Answer What’s
New Or Better In “New Better Deal”
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{rickwells.us} ~ Empty skull Nancy Pulosi was a guest on Fox News Sunday in which she proudly displayed the Democrat’s latest regurgitation of an old plan for winning the hearts and minds of Americans... or at least of generic voters in American elections of unknown origin, and lie their way back into power. Labeled “A Better Deal,” the plan calls for a lot of things they are actually working against, most obviously, the first bullet item, “raise wages and incomes.” Since they are the chief proponents and agitators in pursuit of lower wages and incomes, largely through the importation of cheap foreign labor, facilitated by high legal immigration rates, virtually no interior enforcement and bare bones border enforcement, it’s difficult to see their agenda accomplishing a wage increase. We had eight years to learn the lessons of what it means to have Democrats in power and only six months thus far to forget. We haven’t forgotten...http://rickwells.us/stuttering-pelosi-answer-whats-new-better-new-better-deal/
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Clarion Takes to Congress
to Challenge Radical Islam
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Raheel Raza
by Clarion Project
{clarionproject.org} ~ Challenging radical Islam in the United States was center stage when Clarion Project’s Raheel Raza testified before the House Subcommittee on National Security... “It’s not about political correctness. There are people here in the West who are afraid to use the words ‘Islamist Ideology’ because they think that it is anti-Muslim. It is actually very pro-Muslim, because it makes the ordinary masses of people understand the difference between the faith of Islam and an ideology which is political in nature – and which is evil.”... https://clarionproject.org/clarion-takes-congress-challenge-radical-islam/
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liar-nObama took One Look at these
Newly Declassified Documents and Fainted
by rightwingvideos.com

{rightwingvideos.com} ~ Alex America for Liberty Writers reports, Obama has had many a cover up during his tenure as President and one of his last ones is coming back to bite him big time. Obama not only did not stop the spying on Americans by the NSA but actually ramped up the surveillance efforts.  http://rightwingvideos.com/obamagate-returns-obama-took-one-look-at-these-newly-declassified-documents-and-fainted/
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The Root Cause of the Disasters in the Middle East
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by David Horowitz
{frontpagemag.com} ~ During the eight years of the liar-nObama administration, half a million Christians, Yazidis and Muslims were slaughtered in the Middle East by ISIS and other Islamic jihadists... in a genocidal campaign waged in the name of Islam and its God. Twenty million others were driven into exile by these same jihadist forces. Libya and Yemen became terrorist states. America - once the dominant foreign power and anti-jihadist presence in the region – was replaced by Russia, an ally of the monster regimes in Syria and Iran, and their terrorist proxies. Under the patronage of the liar-nObama administration, Iran - the largest and most dangerous terrorist state, with the blood of thousands of Americans on its hands - emerged from its isolation as a pariah state to re-enter the community of nations and become the region’s dominant power, arming and directing its terrorist proxies in Lebanon, Syria, Gaza and Yemen.These disasters are a direct consequence of the policies of  appeasement and retreat of the liar-nObama administration... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267429/root-cause-disasters-middle-east-david-horowitz
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Which Senator Said: "Our Founding Fathers Intended" for Congress to "Improve Our Healthcare System"
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Save The Snowflakes - Greatest Hits!
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OMD Director Mick Mulvaney on Health Care: You Can't Promise Something for Seven Years and Then Not Do It
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TUCKER: White House hopes to return stability, appoints General Kelly as chief of staff
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President Trump Gives Remarks on MS-13 to Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcement
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Kellyanne Conway talks White House shakeup, 'pecking order'
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Al Gore's deep dive into crazy
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by Gina Loudon
{wnd.com} ~ If you can get beyond the irony of the title of Al Gore’s new film, “An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power,” you start to see the meager remnants of a man who once held some power and hoped to hold more.

Every morning, the shadow of a man named Al Gore has to wake up to Donald J. Trump as president. President Trump is even richer than Al Gore; he didn’t make it off the backs of lies and sheeple. And Trump is the most effective president, perhaps in U.S. history.

In a short six months, with little to no help from Congress, this president has managed to cut illegal immigration by 70 percent by the force of sheer will, catapult the stock market to all-time highs, open pipelines and create more than 1 million private-sector jobs, set virtually every economic indicator at an all-time high, change the Supreme Court back to reason for generations, and more.

President Trump is working to dismantle not only every policy lie that Al Gore ever helped to put in place, but this administration is single-handedly dismantling Gore’s lying mechanism and dissemination apparatus.

The failing New York Times will print any amount of crazy that Gore drools on it. What happens when it’s gone?

The fake news media will repeat Gore’s lies, make him look sane and logical and, most importantly, sell his baseless movies and books, which no one would see or read otherwise. How will Al Gore maintain his millions without them?

There is little more insulting to a man who has shrunk from relevance and power than being a smaller man in every way than your worst enemy. There is little more insulting and enraging than having someone like Donald Trump, who didn’t even need politics to have money, power and relevance that Al Gore so deeply desired, dismantle his entire house of cards without ever laying a hand on Gore. That is the worst kind of defeat. No wonder Al Gore is desperate.

He bashes rich people while making a fortune off of people too dumb to critically examine bodies of evidence and make rational decisions based upon reality.

He bashes climate “deniers” while the only one in denial is Al Gore himself, and his sheeple he has given the cult name “climate reality leaders.”

He talks about corruption and big business while his side takes many times the money from Wall Street and corporate America than his victorious enemies do.

He talks about facts when he has none. It’s pathetic really.

“Brexit, Trump, climate change, oil producers, dark money, Russian influence, it’s all connected,” he says.

In the minds of moonbat conspiracy theorists, desperately clutching at their power and money while President Trump dismantles the deep state, yes.

I find that with leftist regressives, we always need to start with the basics.

While they call you a religious zealot for denying evolution could be true, have them produce one – just one – animal in transition. Where is their pig evolving into a goat? Where is the horn bud? Where is one single species currently in transition and evolving?

Maybe Al Gore is the missing link. But other than that, they have zero proof of their conspiracies.

You’re not crazy. You simply exist in reality.

Take their climate-change conspiracy theory. Let’s not forget it used to be called “global warming.” That didn’t work because it turned out that the Earth’s natural heating and cooling propensity is cyclical.

So then, they decided to name it climate change.

They blame evil carbon polluters for all their problems. They blame you for driving your car not Al Gore for taking his jet around the world to talk about it and, oh by the way, make a lot of money off the backs of the gullible and rejected.

But riddle me this, jokers …

If carbon is emitted by cars, and trees need carbon to live, and thrive, explain to me why more carbon doesn’t equal more trees? And if we have more trees and vegetation, can’t we feed more people?

I know. Logic is so Trumpian.

The Guardian, clutching its pearls as it sings the praises of Al Gore’s everything, desperately groping for that last dying breath now that they have all been exposed, wrote this about Gore’s latest gasp of a film:

“The film runs through a host of facts – that 14 of the 15 hottest years on record have occurred since 2001 is just one. And the accompanying footage is biblical, terrifying: tornadoes, floods, ‘rain bombs,’ exploding glaciers. We see roads falling into rivers and fish swimming through the streets of Miami.”

Um … tornadoes, floods and rain have happened since the beginning of time.

They eat up lies – like that the Koch brothers are to blame for Trump’s election. Only one problem: Everyone knows the Kochs didn’t support Trump. He didn’t need their money. He is a billionaire, remember?

And if they were going to mention Kochs, why don’t they mention billionaire George Soros, who, in fact, has astroturfed every “Resist” action to date? Why not mention the real Russian collusion between the Democrats and Russian President Vladimir Putin? How about the uranium sales that benefited the liar-Clinton Foundation? What about the promise then-President liar-nObama made in a hot-mic moment to Putin to work with him “after his re-election”?

They depend on the D.C. machine to pass legislation to do ridiculous things like forcing American taxpayers to fund the killing of babies to the tune of $1.5 million every day. Then Planned Parenthood uses that profit to elect Democrats.

If their little system is dismantled, the elite will be forever disabled. It has taken the imperialists decades to build their pay-to-play scheme on the backs of middle Americans. They will do anything to save the Titanic now. So creating yet another film of pure lies and scare tactics about a Chicken Little “sky is falling” falsehood is right in keeping.

The lies are so thinly veiled these days that even the sheeple are waking up.

On Aug. 18, an angry, defeated mob – composed of former journalist wannabes and people who just want to belong but aren’t smart enough to know how to be in demand – will rush to dutifully take in Gore’s film and pay for his jet fuel to emit more carbon in one trip than they will in their Priuses in a lifetime.

So at least Al isn’t alone in his last stand. He will go down with others.

Perhaps the biggest threat Trump presents is that he used to believe a lot of their lies. He believed in global warming until he followed the money to the fake science and saw their deception. He believed in evolution, probably until someone asked him about the transitional species. He believed in abortion, until his friend faced the horrible choice and chose life.

That must be very threatening to Al Gore.

No wonder his conspiracy theories are entirely off the deep end. He really has nowhere else to go. It’s a shame his theories aren’t true because it would be much more heroic to go out in a blaze of global warming than a thud of defeat.
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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 
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Feinstein – Threatens Trump With
“The End” If He Fires Their Hit Man Mueller
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{rickwells.us} ~ There may be no nice way to say it. While many people just tune out Feinstein when she starts running her mouth, if you are among those that pay attention to the words... it impossible to keep a puzzled expression from coming over your face and the a grunted “huh?” from passing your lips. This woman is a moron. She begins by informing us that North Korea is a “clear and present danger to the United States” and she’s convinced that North Korea has never moved at the speed that this leader has to develop an ICBM. Her reading left her without the expertise to finish her thoughts, describing how the North Koreans can now “put” solid fuel, “have an interesting” launch device and are able “to have” a trajectory, to hit Chicago.” The liar-nObama – Alinsky Museum is still under construction. Can’t they wait?... http://rickwells.us/feinstein-threatens-trump-end-fires-hit-man-mueller/
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Congress Wants to Start a War
with Russia Using Senate Bill 722
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by Daisy Luther
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Would the new bill that the Senate has quietly passed actually remove executive powers from the President and start a war with Russia?... Our US Congress is filled with criminals, liars, people with serious health problems that could impair their judgment, and lifers with all the signs of advancing dementia, and yet these people are making decisions that could mean the difference between life and death for the rest of us while completely circumventing the checks and balances put in place by the Constitution. A bill called “Countering Iran’s Destabilizing Activities Act of 2017” is, unsurprisingly, inaccurately named. Aren’t all of the most powerful bills? I mean, the Patriot Act was anything but patriotic.... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/congress-wants-war-russia-bill-722/
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Border Wall Contracts Delayed
By Pro-Migration CEO
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by Neil Munro
{breitbart.com} ~ The contract awards for the construction of new border wall have been delayed until October by a contractor who has publicly opposed President Donald Trump’s immigration reforms... Planned contract awards to build six to eight sets of prototype walls were protested by a losing bidder, the Texas-based Penna Group company. The protest is being adjudicated by the Government Accountability Office, with a resolution deadline of October 4. “Such protests are common in Federal contracting processes and no contracts may be awarded until the protests are resolved,” the DHS’s United States Customs and Border Protection agency told Breitbart News. The agency continued:...http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/29/border-wall-contracts-delayed-pro-migration-ceo/
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Congress Needs to Go Right
Back to Work on Health Care Reform
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by Robert Moffit
{dailysignal.com} ~ The Senate needs to get back to work and deliver a health care reform bill... Meanwhile, President Donald Trump needs to shut off the flow of illegal health insurance subsidies to members of the House and Senate and congressional staff, and force them to live under liar-nObamacare’s damage just like other Americans. With the collapse of the Senate effort to advance a health care reform bill, Americans witnessed a monumental failure of governance...http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/28/congress-needs-go-right-back-work-health-care-reform/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1VNE9XTTROek00TWpNdyIsInQiOiIzY2tTWXQzM2tFSWU0K1NPYlwvTGJsZGFYamMzMWFFeWRXa0ExcUlSMXVORHVuOU5PR1JaOW5HZ3VnZGhQMDY2RFF4WUszbGNqOUg1bE5vSVpmMmgwWGJuK29UQjZlMkNpcmp4am5TSjk0RjdZUmVGdHJNTkVWYTRZTEtqT0RsTGgifQ%3D%3D
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Pulosi – Dems Winning House Not
Important As Lockstep, “Diverse” Party-Think
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{rickwells.us} ~ Chris Wallace wraps up his Sunday Interview with Nancy Pulosi with what should be an easy question for her to answer, one that returns a surprise response... As Pulosi sits there, mouth-open, like a snapping turtle eyeing a meandering bream, Wallace says, “I’ve got thirty seconds and the question is: What are the chances Democrats win back the House in 2018 and if so, will you run for Speaker? She replies, “That is so unimportant. What is important is that we have a lively debate on a better deal.” We get the picture, she’s not there to predict her own victory, it’s about rolling out their Party’s new slogan. The last one, “You will obey, comrade,” wasn’t received very well, particularly by a percentage of their membership who still exercised free will, voting for Donald Trump. If only they could have gotten them the re-education they needed in time... http://rickwells.us/pelosi-dems-winning-house-not-important-lockstep-diverse-party-think/
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PA demands: Recognize Palestine -
then we'll consider land swaps
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by Tzvi Lev
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Nabil Shaath, considered to be a close confidant of PA President Mahmoud Abbas (Abu Mazen) ruled out the idea of land swaps, saying that the idea can be considered only after Israel recognizes a Palestinian state with pre-1967 borders... Shaath was likely responding to recent reports stating that Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu expressed his readiness to transfer the Wadi Ara region to the Palestinian Authority. "Practically speaking, land swaps can take place only after Israel recognizes Palestine, in 1967 borders, and not land swaps in Jerusalem or other places in the green line" Shaath was quoted as saying by the Ma'an News Agency. The senior PA official also said that any potential swaps could not include more then 1.8 percent of Judea and Samaria... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/233197?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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IRS Rehired Employees That Falsified Documents,
Had Unauthorized Access to Taxpayer Information
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by Ali Meyer
{freebeacon.com} ~ The Internal Revenue Service rehired employees who were previously involved in agency misconduct such as falsifying documents or having unauthorized access to sensitive taxpayer information... according to an audit from the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration. Considering that identify theft is a major concern, auditors wanted to inspect the agency to ensure the individuals they hire are of high integrity in safeguarding sensitive taxpayer information. The auditors found there were 200 employees who were rehired between January 2015 and March 2016 that were terminated or separated from the agency that were either under investigation or had some misconduct that caused them to leave...http://freebeacon.com/issues/irs-rehired-employees-falsified-documents-unauthorized-access-taxpayer-information/
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A New Job for AG Jeff Sessions!
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by Thomas
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Could Attorney General Jeff Sessions end up at the Department of Homeland Security?... It’s an idea some political observers have been debating after President Trump announced Friday that John Kelly, who leads the department, would replace Reince Priebus as White House chief of staff. Here’s how the theory goes: The president has been lashing out at Sessions for recusing himself from the Russia meddling investigation. Sessions would be able to continue his work against illegal immigration as secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. And then the president would appoint someone else to the Department of Justice who would then fire Robert Mueller as special counsel in the Russia probe... http://thepoliticalinsider.com/sessions-dhs/
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Watchdog Gave Grassley
False Info, Omitted Crucial Details
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by Ethan Barton
{dailycaller.com} ~ Former Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Inspector General (IG) David Montoya gave false information and omitted key facts in a letter to Senate Committee on the Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley... The Daily Caller News Foundation Investigative Group has learned. Montoya erroneously attributed an inaccurate article in another publication to The Daily Caller and compared it to an entirely unrelated TheDC story. He also claimed his office cooperated with the media while neglecting to say his spokesmen ignored multiple requests for comment and omitted other crucial details included in TheDCNF’s news story. The now-former IG presented the misinformation in a June 9, 2017, letter to the Iowa Republican in an attempt to discredit and dispute TheDCNF...http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/30/exclusive-watchdog-gave-grassley-false-info-omitted-crucial-details/
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Putin Interview Announcing Russian
Response To Attack From US Congress
{rickwells.us} ~ Russian President Vladimir Putin doesn’t have to deal with an ongoing coup attempt in his own country, but he and Russia are being impacted by the one Democrats... RINOs and the establishment bureaucracy are engaging in in the United States. In their unending efforts to utilize Russia as a cudgel to illegally force President Trump from office,  the Democrats and establishment Republicans in Congress have bullied even the most fair-minded of their colleagues into accepting the premise that Russia is actively engaged in hostile activities against America and deserves to be grouped in with North Korea and Iran and sanctioned. It’s naked political gamesmanship but none of the testosterone-challenged members of Congress want to be labeled by their political opponents as weak on Russia. “Hero” John RINO-McCain and his domestic partner Lindsey say Putin’s actually the devil, and we can’t disappoint RINO-McCain, not with all he’s dealing with these days. Better to just give the RINOs what they want, they’ll deal with the consequences later...http://rickwells.us/putin-interview-announcing-russian-response-attack-us-congress/
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Israel's caving to Muslim resistance over
Temple Mount results in Arab
emboldening; clashes begin anew
by Ruth Eglash

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Kellyanne Conway -vs- Chris Wallace
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Senior Advisor to The President Kellyanne Conway appears on Fox News with swamp guardian and deep state front-man Chris Wallace... Wallace wanted primarily to discuss the palace intrigue with the change in White House Chief-of-Staff. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/07/30/sunday-talks-kellyanne-conway-vs-chris-wallace-2/
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Man Who Allegedly Raped Oregon Woman
Had Previous ICE Detainer, 13 Deportations
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by Will Racke
{dailycaller.com} ~ The man accused of a brutal sexual assault of an Oregon woman is a “serial immigration violator” who was previously released from the Multnomah County Jail despite a formal detention request, federal officials confirmed Friday... Sergio Jose Martinez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, had been deported at least 13 times since 2008, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) spokesperson Virginia Kice confirmed to Portland’s KATU2. Martinez, 31, was also the subject of an ICE detainer request placed Dec. 7, 2016 with the Multnomah County Jail, where he was being held on local charges. Because Oregon law prohibits police from using agency resources to enforce immigration law, jail officials released Martinez the following day without notifying ICE... Oregon justice won't protect you ladies. http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/29/man-who-allegedly-raped-oregon-woman-had-previous-ice-detainer-13-deportations/
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Secret Islamic networks in U.S.
doing the unspeakable to young girls
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by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ Female genital mutilation is a form of human trafficking that Maine legislators are currently choosing to allow in their state, say child advocates... Maine will try again on Aug. 2 to become the 25th state to ban the barbaric Third World practice that involves cutting the genitals of young girls. Liz Yore is an attorney who has served as general counsel to child welfare agencies and a former member of the National Center for Missing and Exploited children. As an international child advocate, she said she never thought she would see such a gruesome practice taking root in America, preying on its defenseless little girls. Yet, it’s been a struggle to get some lawmakers to see the necessity of passing state bans on the FGM...Wake up lawmakers.  http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/the-slicing-child-abuse-101-carried-out-by-secret-islamic-networks-in-u-s/
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REP JORDAN Sounds Serious On SPECIAL
COUNSEL For liar-CLINTON/liar-nOBAMA Syndicate
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Jim Jordan encouraged his colleagues to vote in the affirmative on an amendment calling for the Justice Department to appoint a second Special Counsel to investigate the criminal syndicate... that was the liar-nObama regime, a vote which was passed out of committee along party lines. He starts off by noting the effort of Loretta Lynch to provide cover for liar-Hillary Clinton by instructing FBI Director Comey to call the investigation a “matter.” He asks, “Why would the Attorney General meet with the subject of the investigation’s husband three days before the subject of the investigation is to be interviewed by the FBI?” He asks, “Why would that happen? Maybe because they wanted liar-Clinton to win the election.” He asks why there isn’t an investigation into the liar-nObama administration’s influence on our election to go along with the manufactured ones about Russia... http://rickwells.us/rep-jordan-sounds-serious-on-special-counsel-for-clinton-obama-syndicate/
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Israel's caving to Muslim resistance over
Temple Mount results in Arab
emboldening;clashes begin anew
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by Ruth Eglash
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Palestinians declared a hard-won victory Thursday against what they saw as an attempt by Israel to limit access at their holiest site, the al-Aqsa Mosque compound.

Nearly two weeks after Israel installed metal detectors at the gates to the sensitive shrine -- a response to the killing of two Israeli police offices there by three Israeli Arab gunmen -- Israel dismantled all of the new metal detectors, cameras, scaffolding and infrastructure erected after the deadly July 14 attack.

Jerusalem's grand mufti, Mohammed Hussein, a spiritual leader and custodian of the mosque in Jerusalem, urged Muslims on Thursday to return to their shrine for worship, declaring the crisis over.

Worshippers had refrained from entering the compound for past 12 days, praying on the streets outside instead.

With news of the victory, hundreds of thousands of Muslim flooded the 37-acre holy complex singing victory songs and chanting "Allah is great." A group of youths scaled the mosque's stone wall and planted a Palestinian flag on the top.

Within minutes, Israeli police officers followed in their path and tore the flag down. Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld said that worshippers started to pelt rocks at security forces, as well as at Jewish worshippers praying at the adjacent Western Wall.

The cheers of joy were quickly replaced with the crack of stun grenades and the air filled with smoke as Israeli police shot tear gas canisters inside the mosque compound. At least 40 worshippers and 10 Israeli police officers were reported injured.

Clashes continued at the site throughout the evening.

"The police will respond with a tough hand to any disturbances," said the spokesman in a statement.

Israeli security officials said they are bracing for huge crowds on Friday at week's end prayers at al-Aqsa, the scene for frequent clashes -- not only today, but over the decades.

Jerusalem police chief Yoram Halevi warned Palestinian protesters that his officers will respond to provocations with force.

"No one should try to test us tomorrow," Halevi told reporters, urging calm but adding, "if there are people who try to disturb the peace, to harm police or citizens, they should not be surprised. There will be casualties and people injured."

"This was a big miscalculation by the Israelis, who underestimated the power of the Jerusalem street, which has surprised everybody, even the Palestinian leadership," said Abu Abad al Qaq, 49, a building contractor from Silwan in east Jerusalem, who attended the protests at the Lion's Gate.

Ibrahim Awad Allah, a top official in the Islamic Waqf, which serves as custodian of the holy site, under the control and patronage of the king of Jordan, said the victory at the site was a "message to the Israeli occupation that their arrogance failed them."

"Everything that has been imposed by the Israelis, all of it, has been removed," he said, calling such a withdrawal both rare and sweet. "This is a victory."

Beginning with the Palestinian attack that left the Israeli police officers dead on July 14, the turmoil over access to the mosque has left 15 people dead, including three Israelis fatally stabbed in their home in a West Bank settlement and two Jordanians, one an alleged assailant and the other a bystander, shot by a security guard at the Israeli embassy in Amman, Jordan.

The decision by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government to back down over the increased security measures, after days of vowing the metal detectors would stay for security reasons, was seen by both Israelis and Palestinians as a capitulation.

Some said Netanyahu did the right and smart thing by de-escalating the tension, but members of his own government criticized him for what they saw as weakness in the face of Palestinian opposition and violence.

"Israel comes out weakened from this crisis," hard-line minister Naftali Bennett said on Israel Army Radio Thursday morning. "Instead of sending a message about Israel's sovereignty on the Temple Mount, it sent a message that Israel's sovereignty can be questioned."

Other ministers, too, spoke often over the past 12 days about Israel's control at the sensitive site.

At the outbreak of the crisis, Israel's Public Security Minister Gilad Erdan said it was up to Israel to decide security protocol for the site.

Israel's minister for national security and foreign affairs, Tzachi Hanegbi, said earlier this week in a radio interview that Israel would not give into threats at Temple Mount.

"If you are threatening us that you won't enter the Mount, then don't enter the Mount. Put down prayer mats and pray wherever you want. If you want to pray on the Mount, pass through the checkpoints just as I had to do at the Vatican a few weeks ago, just as we all have to at the Western Wall," he said.

He said that Israel was the sovereign power in Jerusalem and on the Temple Mount.

But the ongoing protests, some peaceful and some violent, have challenged that.

Over the past week and a half, Palestinian Muslim worshipers have laid their prayer mats down on the street outside the mosque compound, stirring emotions in the wider Arab world and causing tensions between Israel and one of its closest Muslim allies, Jordan.

In a Facebook post Wednesday, Netanyahu vowed to shut down the Jerusalem bureau of Al Jazeera, the Qatar-based news network, for broadcasting inciting images from Jerusalem.

"The Al Jazeera network continues to incite to violence over the Temple Mount," Netanyahu wrote on social media. "I've appealed several times to law enforcement demanding to close Al Jazeera's office in Jerusalem. If this does not happen due to legal interpretation, I will work to enact the required legislation to expel Al Jazeera from Israel."

Netanyahu's office declined to give any specific examples of the Al Jazeera content that might have stoked tensions.

Asked for a specific example of Al Jazeera incitement, a communications adviser in Netanyahu's office suggested reporters just scroll Google.

Last week, the channel published a short video clip showing an Israeli police officer kicking a Palestinian kneeling on a prayer mat for worship. Netanyahu's office did not dispute the veracity of the clip.

It was this image and others that spurred Omar al-Abed, a 19-year-old Palestinian to stab to death three Israelis in the settlement of Halamish on Friday night, his father told The Washington Post this week.

Netanyahu called the teen a "beast," and said he was "incited by Jew hatred."

The gruesome attack, which left a 70-year-old Israeli grandfather and his two adult children lying in a pool of blood in the family's kitchen, drew angry reactions from Israeli leaders, with several calling for Israel to use the death penalty. The attacker was shot but only lightly wounded.

Palestinians say the Israelis are also guilty of inciting violence.

They point to statements by Israeli parliament Oren Hazan, who posted a video on his Facebook account saying that he wanted to demolish the home of Palestinian assailant Omar al-Abed and "execute" his family.

"I want to be honest without sounding too extreme, but if it was up to me, I would've gone to the terrorist's house yesterday, grabbed him and his whole family and executed them all together," said Hazan, who is a member of Netanyahu's Likud party.
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Mon/Med- PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
State Department report blames
anti-Israel terrorism on . . . Israel
by Eric Cortellessa
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 Leftists Suddenly Worry About Politicizing 
 Boy Scouts 
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By Brian Mark Weber:  What could be less controversial than the president of the United States addressing the Boy Scouts of America jamboree in West Virginia? Of all the public addresses given by President Donald Trump in the first seven months of his presidency, surely this one would keep Democrats and their media attack dogs from going into hysterics.
          Think again. Leftists managed to characterize the speech with their typical vitriol, exaggeration and animosity. Some even compared the event to a Hitler Youth rally. But it doesn't take long to figure out that much of the criticism has less to do with Trump talking politics at the jamboree than it does with Trump talking about the "wrong" politics.
          Case in point: New York Magazine's headline reads, "The 14 Most Inappropriate Moments From Trump's Speech at the Boy Scout Jamboree." The headline suggests that Trump invited the Scouts to join him for beer and poker after the event. Yet many of the 14 points are based on Trump criticizing Barack liar-nObama, liar-Hillary Clinton and the press. Trump's speech was indeed political, and we could have done without his reference to a party in New York, but it was hardly inappropriate.
          Opining in The Washington Post, Stephen Stromberg took issue with the ideological content and erratic nature of Trump's address. He remarked, "Sure, scout membership skews right. But those of us who did not fit that stereotype know that the organization is and should be open to all. I spent middle and high school in a small troop that met in a Mormon church but contained Jews, agnostics, a Seventh-day Adventist and various others." But Trump didn't say anything about religion. Talk about erratic.
          Scroll down a few paragraphs and the real reason for the outrage over Trump's remarks comes to the surface. Stromberg adds: "When one of our fellow scouts came out of the closet, he left the troop. But the BSA has since revised its membership policies to better reflect its mission of offering guidance to all young men."
          There you go. Stromberg and other leftists aren't as upset over Trump's partisan remarks as they are about his failure to touch on the issues that Democrats want the boys to hear. We doubt Trump would have been criticized had he stated that the Scouts need to be more diverse and inclusive. Had he called for more transgender Scouts, Democrats would be lauding his remarks.
          Some of the criticism of Trump's speech is understandable. He should have focused more on the Scouts' history and core principles, or on American patriotism and civics more generally. But the most critical remarks have come from Democrats and Republicans who already have issues with the president.
          While the content of Trump's address has been the focus, far less reporting has been done on the fact that the Scouts cheered just about everything he had to say, despite the fact that the president of the Scouts discouraged them from showing partisan support for Trump. But they couldn't resist. Despite his flaws, the Scouts know that Trump will defend and fight for their values.
          Apparently, however, the organization's leadership wasn't pleased. On Thursday, Chief Scout Executive Michael Surbaugh stated, "I want to extend my sincere apologies to those in our Scouting family who were offended by the political rhetoric that was inserted into the jamboree."
          But Surbaugh didn't mind getting political when transgender Scouts were admitted earlier this year. At the time, Surbaugh exclaimed, "Communities and state laws are now interpreting gender identity differently than society did in the past. And these new laws vary widely from state to state." It was no different when they accepted homosexual Scouts four years ago and homosexual leaders two years ago. In other words, some in the BSA are perfectly willing to change according to the shifting political winds, as long as those winds are blowing in a certain direction.
          Surbaugh's apology seems hypocritical and one-sided. After all, where were the apologies to the Scouts offended by the Left's political and cultural ideology over the past generation? And did anyone apologize when delegates to the 2000 Democrat National Convention actually booed Boy Scouts when they walked on the stage?
          There were no apologies then, just political attacks against the Scouts. Philip Wegmann writes in the Washington Examiner, "The Boy Scouts have come under fire in the last two decades because of their membership standards concerning gay boys and leaders. They were regularly attacked as bigots in the editorial pages of the New York Times. They were mocked by the likes of Madonna (the elderly Queen of Pop creepily proclaimed she knew 'how to scout for boys.') And they were assaulted in the courts again and again and again."
          As for the media, it's beyond hypocritical that they're suddenly worried about the Boy Scouts of America. The Left has successfully forced the BSA to change core principles and beliefs for many years, but suddenly media types are worried that Donald Trump criticizing Barack liar-nObama is somehow going to tarnish a century's worth of Boy Scout values. All this damage had been done long before Trump took the stage at this year's jamboree.
          The Rules and Regulations of the Boy Scouts of America state that the organization "must not, through its governing body or through any of its officers, chartered councils, Scouters, or members, involve Scouting in political matters." The handbook should have been revised years ago, because the BSA is very much a political organization these days. All President Trump did was provide a different political view. And that's the real reason why his speech has been condemned.  ~The Patriot Post
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 No Better Person Or Leader
To Help President Trump Than Kelly
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro describes President Trump’s replacing of White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus with DHS Secretary General John Kelly... as “putting a general in charge to crack the whip and plug the leaks.” She calls it “the right move at the right time.” Judge Jeanine says, “As President Trump stops the treasonous leaking and bleeding in the White House, yet another stellar, left-wing progressive California Democrat has flipped her lid. She then posts up a tweet from the anti-American libtard in which she stated, “By putting Gen John Kelly in charge, President Trump is militarizing the White House and putting our executive branch in the hands of an extremist.” Judge Pirro asks, “Will someone please tell me why it is that ever since Donald Trump became president, you Democrats have lost your minds and are in a constant state of psychotic rage. Militarizing the White House? Are you crazy?... http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-no-better-person-or-leader-to-help-president-trump-than-kelly/
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The Islamization of History
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Mehmet Görmez, President of Turkey's Religious Affairs Directorate (Diyanet),
announced in June that Islam was brought to the world by Allah to correct
the "distortions" of Judaism and Christianity
by Uzay Bulut
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The debate over whether Islam has been hijacked by fundamentalists -- or whether the religion itself preaches the kind of hatred that leads to terrorism -- has been raging since the 9/11/2001 attacks on the United States... Although this issue has not been resolved, one thing is clear: in the Muslim world, the demonization of Jews and Christians is commonplace. Take Turkey, for example, where anti-Semitism has been exhibited publicly for decades by prominent members of government, the religious establishment and the media. In June this year, the head of the government's Religious Affairs Directorate -- the "Diyanet" -- joined the chorus. In a speech he delivered in Gaziantep -- a transcript of which was posted on the Diyanet's official Twitter account -- Prof. Dr. Mehmet Görmez announced that Islam was brought to the world by Allah to correct the "distortions" of Judaism and Christianity... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10641/history-islamization
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The week Israel won Jerusalem
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by David Suissa
{jewishjournal.com} ~ It’s easy to see the latest brouhaha over the Temple Mount in Jerusalem as a defeat for Israel. After all, Israel had to cave to Arab and Muslim pressure and take down the metal detectors it had installed after Arab terrorists... had smuggled weapons into the compound and killed two Israeli security guards. Israel takes action, Arabs protest, Israel caves, Arabs win, right? Wrong. The Middle East is a complex jungle where what counts, above all, is power. Israel’s enemies know this. They know that yelling and getting angry doesn’t confer real power. It’s like the power of a kid throwing a hissy fit. The real power belongs to the party that has ultimate control—to the party, in other words, that has the power to install and take down metal detectors... http://jewishjournal.com/opinion/david_suissa/222247/week-israel-won-jerusalem/
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MASSIVE Anti-Israel Protest in CANADA
Calls for New Genocide of the Jews
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by Pamela Geller
{pamelageller.com} ~ “From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.” That means Israel will be completely destroyed, and millions of Jews will be killed... And that is what these savages want. They also chanted, “Khaybar, Khaybar, O Jews, the army of Muhammad will return.” This is refers to Muhammad’s massacre at the Khaybar oasis in Arabia of Jewish farmers who were simply going about their business and completely blindsided by the appearance of Muhammad and his armies. These are calls for a genocide of the Jews right in Mississauga, Ontario. Will Canadian authorities charge these people with “hate speech”? Or is that something only non-Muslims can commit? http://pamelageller.com/2017/07/anti-israel-genocide.html/
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Rep Steve King Wants liar-nOBAMA
INCLUDED In 2nd Special COUNSEL Probe
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{rickwells.us} ~ In the debate over the House Judiciary Committee’s amendment to call for a second special counsel to address the crimes of top Democrats... Congressman Steve King (R-IA) notes that there have been several things left out of the discussion, some guilty individuals and areas of illegal conduct. He starts off with a reminder that Hussein liar-nObama sent a contingent of partisans to Israel in the heat of their 2015 election in an attempt to unseat Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, an operation that was known as V15 and which involved the misappropriation of $350,000 of US taxpayer money. He then notes that he just returned not long ago from the Balkans, from Macedonia, where he learned that the US Govt was giving money borrowed from China and Saudi Arabia, at least $5 million dollars to George Soros groups intended to destabilize the pro-Western government there. They even translated Saul Alinsky’s “Rules for Radicals” into Macedonian, for the purpose of sowing dissent, with their techniques later on display, noting that the liar-nObama regime “is a long ways from clean on this.”...About time someone is taking notice.  http://rickwells.us/rep-steve-king-obama-included-2nd-special-counsel-probe/
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State Department report blames
anti-Israel terrorism on . . . Israel
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by Eric Cortellessa
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ US State Department Spokeswoman Heather Nauert speaks to reporters during a press conference in Washington, DC on June 8, 2017

The US State Department on Wednesday defended an annual report on terrorism under fire from pro-Israel groups for saying that a lack of hope drives Palestinian violence.

Meanwhile, the umbrella foreign policy group for Jewish organizations expressed its “deep concerns” about the report, saying it shifts responsibility for terrorism from the Palestinians to Israel.

“In that report we consistently highlight terror attacks perpetuated against Israelis – and I’m just talking about the Israel portion – because this is a worldwide report,” Heather Nauert, the State Department spokeswoman, said Tuesday in a briefing when asked about a call from the Zionist Organization of America for Secretary of State Rex Tillerson’s resignation because of the report.

“Those terror attacks that are perpetuated against Israelis by Hamas and others, there is no justification – and we will say that time and time again – there is no justification for any acts of terrorism,” she said, adding that Tillerson had no plans to resign.

The Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations on Wednesday said it wrote Tillerson to express “deep concern” about the report.

“We hope that Secretary Tillerson will rescind this report and see to an amended version that properly puts the responsibility for the terrorism and incitement that has taken such a heavy toll where it belongs on Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and the PA,” a Presidents’ Conference statement said. “This report cannot be allowed to stand because other countries and terrorist groups may use it to justify their anti-Israel actions.”

In the report released last week, the State Department listed as “continued drivers of violence” a “lack of hope in achieving Palestinian statehood, Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank, settler violence against Palestinians in the West Bank, the perception that the Israeli government was changing the status quo on the Haram Al Sharif/Temple Mount, and IDF tactics that the Palestinians considered overly aggressive.”

That kind of diagnosis is unusual for US President Donald Trump’s administration, which has been reluctant to criticize Israel, let alone suggest it is partly responsible for Palestinian terror.
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Monday-Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Executive Orders That End
liar-nObamacare - Once and For All
by Wayne Allyn Root
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Trump Threatens To End liar-nObamacare
Subsidies Paid To Swamp Rats In Congress
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump is threatening the sweet deal healthcare subsidies that Hussein liar-nObama gave lawmakers and their staffs... in order to entice them into complicit approval of the assault on the American health care system that fittingly bore his despicable name.  On Saturday Trump tweeted, “If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!” While President Trump has been, for the past few months, threatening to cut off insurance company reimbursements, liar-nObamacare federal subsidies, he has ultimately provided the funds every time. Those impacted by such an action would be the poorest enrollees, with the funds covering much of their expenses by lowering deductibles and paying other out-of-pocket costs. There is a political price associated with such an action...http://rickwells.us/trump-threatens-end-obamacare-subsidies-paid-swamp-rats-congress/
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New Report Exposes Thousands
of Illegal Votes from 2016 Election
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by Hans von Spakovsky
{cnsnews.com} ~ A new bombshell study released by the Government Accountability Institute shows why President Donald Trump’s Advisory Commission on Election Integrity has such an important job ahead of it... The Institute concluded in its report that thousands of votes in the 2016 election were illegal duplicate votes from people who registered and voted in more than one state. The Government Accountability Institute, founded by Peter Schweizer, author of “liar-Clinton Cash,” seeks to “investigate and expose crony capitalism, misuse of taxpayer monies, and other governmental corruption or malfeasance.”...http://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/hans-von-spakovsky/
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Claim Seth Rich Gave Russian Lawyer
Veselnitskaya Clinton WikiLeaks Emails
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{rickwells.us} ~ Washington, DC lobbyist and attorney Jack Burkman has had a prominent role with the family of murdered former DNC employee Seth Rich... which includes acting at times as the family spokesperson. He’s also suing the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) and Democratic Mayor Muriel Bowser for information connected to the murder investigation. Burkman is offering a $105,000 reward in the case and demanding that the DC Police Department release video footage of the murder. It’s a common practice for them to release such video footage, even while there is an open investigation. He’s also seeking the medical examiner’s report and ballistic reports related to the weapon used to shoot Rich. Now things seem to be taking a bizarre and revealing turn in what is widely suspected of being a political hit that in one way or another involves the liar-Clinton campaign.  According to a report on Radaronline, Burkman has told them that Russian lawyer, Natalia Veselnitskaya, at the center of the Donald Trump Jr. meeting in June of 2016, also met with Seth Rich at about the same time...http://rickwells.us/claim-seth-rich-gave-russian-lawyer-veselnitskaya-clinton-wikileaks-emails/
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liar-nObama IRS Abuse Should
Unite Trump and Sessions
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Many readers may remember the story of Z Street.  Perhaps the smallest and least funded organization involved in the IRS Scandal Z Street, a Zionist rather than a Teaparty group... which sued the IRS before Lois Lerner admitted the bias, may turn out to be the group that blows the cover off the entire scandal.The pro-Israel organization Z Street has been in court to redress the violation of its Constitutional rights by the Internal Revenue Service since August 2010. While not a Teaparty organization, Z Street’s 501(c)(3) application was held up for the same reason, that they disagreed with President liar-nObama’s policy. Z Street was created as a non-profit organization with the purpose of “educating the public about Zionism; about the facts relating to the Middle East and to the existence of Israel as a Jewish State; and about Israel’s right to refuse to negotiate with, make concessions to, or appease terrorists.”...http://lidblog.com/obama-irs-abuse-unite-trump-sessions/
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Two-Pronged House Effort To Get A 2ND
Special COUNSEL For Top DEM CRIMINALS
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s likely a direct reflection of the failure of the Senate to do anything other than attempt to railroad President Trump through their Intelligence Committee... They haven’t passed any of the bills that the House has sent to them and likely won’t. They’re primarily a debating and name calling institution, and not much more. The House members appear anxious to, at a minimum, distinguish themselves from their do-nothing counterparts, to be able to point in a “don’t blame me” manner at the Senate when they face their constituents next month, during the August recess. The House Judiciary Committee is doing what they can to be on the record, finally, as against the criminal Democrats, or at a minimum to give the appearance that they are attempting to take action against them, with two actions having taken place over the past few days worth noting...http://rickwells.us/two-pronged-house-effort-get-special-counsel-top-dem-criminals/
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The Executive Orders That End
liar-nObamacare - Once and For All
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by Wayne Allyn Root
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townhall.com} ~ Republican Senator John RINO-McCain just singlehandedly killed the repeal of liar-nObamacare. Now it’s time for President Trump to act. It’s time for President Trump to expose RINO-McCain and the rest of Congress for the frauds and hypocrites they are. It’s time for two Executive Orders that have the power to change everything.

This is how President Trump makes "The House of Cards" collapse. This is how President Trump ends liar-nObamacare once and for all.

Executive Order #1: President Trump should issue an immediate Executive Order forcing every member of Congress to use the same healthcare plan as the rest of us. Let Senator RINO-McCain come off his high horse and live under the rules of liar-nObamacare. Make every member of Congress live by same rules as the rest of us.

I wonder if John RINO-McCain would have voted against the liar-nObamacare repeal, if he had to live under the rules of liar-nObamacare? I wonder how quick and successful his brain cancer surgery would have been, if he had to use the liar-nObamacare plan. Or the VA system.

Would he have waited 6 months in line, like rest of us? Maybe a year. Of course, he’d probably be dead by then. That’s how the VA solved their money shortage a few years back. They put vets on waiting lists until they died. Problem solved. Why not make Senators wait on those same waiting lists?

Or would RINO-McCain have had a gigantic deductible just like the rest of us? Would he have had a $30,000 bill after surgery that insurance would not cover just like the rest of us?

Would RINO-McCain have even been allowed to have a surgery, or would a "Death Panel" advise no surgery for a 80 year old with advanced brain cancer? Let's find out.

President Trump should immediately use Executive Order to put every member of Congress in the exact same boat as rest of us. Let them pay for their own healthcare- just like the rest of us. Let’s see each member of Congress pay $2000 per month for health insurance that covers virtually nothing. That was what I was forced to pay after liar-nObamacare passed. That’s what my insurance covered- nothing.

I don’t even have health insurance anymore. I was forced to switch to a Christian Health Sharing plan. Because $2000 per month was completely unaffordable. I’m betting Democrats would call me “rich.” And I could not pay the bill anymore, because of liar-nObamacare. So, I left traditional insurance as of January 1st.

My predicament means no middle-class family in America that buys their own insurance can afford the bill. It’s no wonder an upscale couple jumped to their death in Manhattan on Friday. The 53-yr old husband was a chiropractor. They left behind two children. Their suicide note said they were in a financial death spiral. Thanks to liar-nObamacare, so is every middle-class couple in America.

It’s time for Congress to feel our pain.

Executive Order #2. My gut instinct is usually on the money. I feel it in my bones. The Senators who voted against the repeal are corrupted, bribed, on the take. Senators and Congressmen are making an unimaginable fortune off of liar-nObamacare. That’s why they are against the repeal. They don’t want to end the gravy train.

They want the system complex and expensive. They want government involved. They want taxpayer money wasted by the billions. That's how they milk the system. They all own stocks of medical companies, health insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies. I'm betting many actually own companies with government contracts that benefit from liar-nObamacare. They put them in the names of their spouses, children, parents, siblings, childhood buddies. They own them in offshore accounts. The conflicts of interest are the size of Texas.

liar-nObamacare is the best thing to ever happen to Senator clown-Schumer, Senator RINO-McCain, Senator Collins, Senator Murkowski, Nevada Senator Heller. They’re all bums. They’re all thieves. They are all getting rich at our expense.

Wanna bet?

President Trump should issue an immediate Executive Order demanding disclosure of all financial interests and ownership in healthcare related companies or stock by every member of Congress- including all family members and offshore accounts. Failure to disclose will result in a long prison term.

Then we’ll find out why they voted against repeal. They are all on the gravy train.

Issue these two Presidential Executive Orders and the “House of Cards” will collapse. The scam will be revealed.

We’ve been robbed.

P.S. Throw in a third plank. Term Limits. Limit each member of Congress to two terms. One term in office and one term in prison.
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Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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 Advances Despite Obstruction:
The Real Story of the Past Six Months
by Caroline Camden Lewis
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Blasphemous clown-Schumer To GOP, Join
Dems, Founding Fathers On liar-nObamacare
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{rickwells.us} ~ Democrat Senator Chuck clown-Schumer, the unconscionable hypocrite who preys upon the ignorant with the help of the greedy and lazy... had a few noteworthy seconds of comment as he orchestrated from the minority position the defeat of any liar-nObamacare repeal and replace. clown-Schumer said, “Let us vote against skinny repeal and let’s work together to improve our healthcare system in the way our Founding Fathers intended us to improve it.” Because a right to government mandated socialized medicine is such a consistent theme throughout the Constitution, right clown-Chuck? Let’s put his blather into perspective. The liar-nObamacare law was passed only by Democrats who stuffed it down the throats of Americans and Republicans who knew it was a disaster. As it crashes and burns, just as it was predicted and probably intended to do, it does so up to this point having never received a single Republican vote in favor of it... http://rickwells.us/blasphemous-schumer-gop-join-dems-founding-fathers-obamacare/
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One-and-a-Half Cheers for Claremont McKenna
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by Rachelle Peterson
{realcleareducation.com} ~ Free speech requires regular enforcement. That’s why Claremont McKenna College’s decision to punish seven speech obstructers is—for the most part—worth celebrating... On April 6, 170 people marched to Claremont McKenna’s Athenaeum, disassembled a fence newly built to restrain protests and blocked the entrances. Claremont’s security officers failed to control the crowd. Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow Heather Mac Donald, scheduled to address a live audience regarding her book, “The War on Cops,” was forced to speak to a camera. Months later, Claremont announced it has identified twelve students as protest participants, of which it formally charged ten and punished seven. The college will suspend three students for one year, suspend two for one semester and place another two on “conduct probation.” A three-member panel determined the severity of discipline “based on the nature and degree of leadership in the blockade... http://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2017/07/25/one-and-a-half_cheers_for_claremont_mckenna_110179.html?/utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1dRM05tSTBZbUV3TUdOayIsInQiOiJPc2owZU0rcVJXWTBIZjRKOXVqNU5PQkJwcVhnSVM2b0JiVm5zcUh4RW9QTHBUS3dQXC9BXC84Z1RqXC9aYkx2VmM2blwvNTF3eHZpdlBKaFg3MjBBa3RaTXNSck9WbmJUT3JtU2NnZFlBaGlheU5WKzQ0MEZCXC9BN2lGZmZhYWhOWE1tIn0%3D
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Assassination Fantasies
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by Seth Barron
{city-journal.org} ~ Following President Trump’s declaration on Twitter Wednesday that transgender people would not be permitted to serve in the armed forces, protesters converged on Times Square... Assembling in front of the Armed Services Recruiting Station, several hundred people cheered as local elected officials and LGBT activists denounced both the decision and President Trump generally. Most of the crowd held small printed signs reading, “Resist”; others waved the familiar “NO!” signs from the Revolutionary Communist Party-backed Refuse Fascism movement. A few handmade signs stood out in the relatively compact crowd, in particular one that read, in black against a red background,
Lincoln
Garfield
McKinley
Kennedy
Trump
The first four names on this list, of course, are the presidents murdered in office, in chronological order; the last embodies the seeming wish of many on the American Left that someone put him on it for real. As seen in the picture accompanying this article...These people are sick. https://www.city-journal.org/html/assassination-fantasies-15372.html
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Nearly All Of U.S. Drinking Water
Contaminated With Cancer Causing Chemicals
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by Aaron Kesel
{activistpost.com} ~ The Environmental Working Group, a non-profit research organization environmental watchdog, released a searchable database Thursday that shows almost 50,000 public water systems in the U.S. are contaminated with dozens of harmful chemicals... Some of the chemicals found in your drinking water include – arsenic, hexavalent chromium, radiation, chloroform, perfluorooctanoic acid,  Bromodichloromethane, Dichloroacetic acid, Barium, and Uranium; and that’s just scratching the surface of the 250-plus contaminants the group discovered. EWG researchers spent the last two years collecting data from independent state agencies and the EPA for drinking water tests conducted from 2010 to 2015 by 48,712 water utilities in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Researchers tested the utilities for approximately 500 different contaminants, finding a whopping 267 contaminations of Americans’ water supplies... http://www.activistpost.com/2017/07/report-us-drinking-water-contaminated-cancer-causing-chemicals.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=0e2d06906e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-0e2d06906e-387888649
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No More 'Bailouts' for Insurers,
Lawmakers Over 'Imploding' liar-nObamacare
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by Wanda Carruthers
{newsmax.com} ~ President Donald Trump on Saturday warned Republicans that if they did not pass healthcare reform soon, he could end the employer contribution for their healthcare coverage... He went further to suggest the end result would be an end to insurance bailouts as well as "bailouts for Congress" come election day. "After seven years of 'talking' Repeal & Replace, the people of our great country are still being forced to live with imploding liar-nObamaCare!" Trump tweeted. "If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!"... http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Obamacare-healthcare-legislation-President-Donald-Trump-Congress/2017/07/29/id/804572/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1744433_07292017&s=al&dkt_nbr=010124wt5w7l
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 Advances Despite Obstruction: The Real Story 
 of the Past Six Months 
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By Caroline Camden Lewis:  Russia. Twitter. Impeachment. These are the words that USA Today, CNN, The New York Times and the rest of the Leftmedia want you to believe describes the first six months of Donald Trump's presidency. While they choose to dwell on dead-end stories from eight months ago, President Trump has been putting the American people, jobs and safety first. And in spite of Democrat obstructions to his political appointments, he has still accomplished good things for America.
          Trump's pro-growth policies have strengthened the economy and created jobs. The Dow Jones Industrial Average has increased 17% since Election Day last year. In this year alone, it has already hit new highs 25 times. In addition, since January, the American economy added 863,000 new jobs, 821,000 of which are non-government jobs, including 79,000 construction jobs, 42,000 mining and logging jobs, and 41,000 manufacturing jobs.
          Trump takes regulation as a barrier to growth seriously. He has signed 14 Congressional Review Act resolutions to end Barack liar-nObama's growth-choking regulations. He signed an executive order that requires two old regulations to be eliminated for every new regulation implemented. According to the American Action Forum, these regulation reductions have cut costs by $70 billion.
          Trump withdrew from the Paris Climate Accord, participation in which could have cost the American economy $3 trillion dollars, 6.5 million industrial sector jobs and 3.1 million manufacturing jobs, according to NERA Consulting.
          On trade, Trump withdrew from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and is renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). He has sped-up the permitting and approval process of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) export terminals, including the Lake Charles LNG terminal in Louisiana. He has also increased U.S. oil exploration by approving the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, which has created 42,000 jobs and $2 billion in earnings. That success is despite ecofascist collusion with Russia to stop fracking.
          Trump is restoring the Rule of Law to immigration. He ordered the hiring of 10,000 new Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers, including 5,000 border patrol agents. Compared to this time last year, illegal border crossings have been reduced by 53%, Enforcement and Removal Operations conducted by ICE increased by nearly 40%, and arrests of criminal aliens have increased by 20%.
          Under Trump's leadership, the Department of Veterans Affairs has restored integrity by firing more than 500 employees, suspending 200, and demoting 33. Trump also signed legislation that allows our veterans to seek medical care outside of the VA system.
          Rather than leading an apology tour, President Trump supported the opening of the Global Center for Combating Extremist Ideology in Saudi Arabia, which helps Muslim-majority countries counter radicalized minorities. He understands that extremist ideology, not lack of "understanding," is the root cause of radical Islamic terrorism.
          President Trump has worked with our partners and allies in the Middle East to combat the Islamic State and Iraqi forces have recaptured Mosul, a huge victory. In addition, the U.S. recently sanctioned 16 entities and individuals who have supported Iran's military in the development of military equipment.
          The president has supported the dignity of human life. On the third day of his presidency, Trump reinstated the Mexico City policy, which prohibits non-governmental organizations (NGOs) that receive federal funds from advocating or providing abortions.
          Meanwhile, he's draining the swamp of government lobbyists through an executive order that bans executive branch political appointees from becoming lobbyists for at least five years after they leave their post.
          Finally, the biggest win of all: President Trump fulfilled his promise to the American people by nominating Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court.
          Despite — or, rather, because of — these great accomplishments, President Trump has faced needless obstructions to his appointments and nominations. Consider this: The Senate has confirmed just four of 135 judicial vacancies, seven of 24 nominations for the Department of Defense, three of 29 nominations for the Department of Justice, three of 13 for Health and Human Services and less than half of his nominations for the Department of Homeland Security. In total, the Senate has confirmed 23% of Trump's nominations. At about the same time in liar-nObama's first term, the Senate had confirmed 69% of his nominations.
          This not only highlights the aggressive obstructionism of the Democrats but also gives context for why the Trump administration appears to be running with less fuel. It has less fuel — by Democrat design. Democrats have purposefully attempted to slow the confirmation process so that the Trump presidency will be understaffed and thus unable to achieve his policy goals.
          And yet... Despite these obstructions and the resulting understaffed administration, President Trump has been able to strengthen the economy, increase jobs, reduce crime and illegal immigration, protect human life abroad and achieve a victory over the Islamic State in the recapturing of Mosul. All of this without taking a salary, but rather donating his first six months' salary to the National Park Service and the Department of Education. These accomplishments, in spite of the purposeful obstructions by Senate Democrats, reveal a president who has done more to achieve safety, prosperity and human flourishing than anything we saw in the previous eight years. For this, he deserves our gratitude and support. ~The Patriot Post 
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Mon/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Trump, liar-nObamaCare and the Art of the Fail
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 A Big, Fat Lie on 'Skinny' liar-nObamaCare Repeal 
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The Senate GOP's last-gasp attempt at repealing any part of liar-nObamaCare failed late Thursday night as three Republicans — Susan Collins (R-ME), Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) and John McCain (R-AZ) — voted with Democrats against so-called "skinny" repeal. And while it is another political failure for Republicans, the reality is that the "skinny" repeal would have barely repealed anything. The effort would have left 411 of the "Affordable" Care Act's 419 sections in place. It was so bad that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), in his effort to get Republican senators on board, had worked to make sure House Republicans would agree to not pass this skinny repeal. In other words, Senate Republicans voted for a bill they didn't even want to make it to President Donald Trump's desk. It was a chess move to get the bill into conference.
          It may be tempting to fault the Republicans for failure on this latest attempt at liar-nObamaCare repeal, but the truth is that skinny repeal was such a watered-down mess that it's a good thing it didn't pass.
          Meanwhile, in the wake of the failure, The Washington Post chose to run a classic "fake news" story highlighting the supposed real reason for Republican division. The article is titled, "Female Senators Are Increasingly on Receiving End of Insults from Male Officials," and it paints the picture of a Republican Party full of misogynists. So, rather than report on the actual issues that have caused disagreements between Republicans, the Post chose instead to insert the baseless claim of sexism, all in a transparent move to divide Republican women from the party over a phony "war on women."
          There's an irony here that seems to be completely lost on these leftist social justice warriors. Feminists demand to be treated by men as if they were men but then turn and cry foul when ... men treat women the same as other men. They call for equal treatment but demand special treatment.
          But aside from the contradictory demands of feminists, the greater issue is the Leftmedia's continued production of fallacious articles like this that seek to inject identity politics into issues where none exist. The reason Senate Republicans have become frustrated with Collins and Murkowski is not because they are women — there are six female Republican senators, a majority of whom have sided with the majority of male Republican senators on the issue of liar-nObamaCare repeal. The real issue causing division within the Republican ranks is disagreement over ideological and political perspectives, not sexism. But leave it to The Washington Post to trot out another factually vacuous article designed not to inform but to denigrate.  ~The Patriot Post
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Graham Proposes Senate Bill To Block
Trump From Firing Special Counsel
by Jack Davis
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Graham has said that any effort by Trump to remove Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, “could be the beginning of the end of the Trump presidency.”... Graham said his bill has the support of “all” the Senate’s Democrats and some Republicans. Republicans hold a 52-48 majority in the Senate, but the Senate Democrats have been uniform in their opposition to Trump. However, Senate passage would not guarantee that the bill becomes law. It would also require passage in the House, where the GOP has a majority. Graham’s proposal would require “judicial review” if a special counsel is fired while investigating the president or his staff...Graham your are an idiot and this bill will not pass for sure. http://www.westernjournalism.com/graham-proposes-senate-bill-to-block-trump-from-firing-special-counsel/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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GOP-Led House Just Voted $1.6 Billion
Down Payment for Border Wall
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by M.J. Randolph
{truthrevolt.org} ~ The vote was 230-196. Republican leaders avoided voting directly on the divisive issue Thursday. Instead, they tucked the wall provision into a broader procedural vote... Trump promised at nearly every rally and campaign event that Mexico would pay for the wall. Mexico said no, and U.S. taxpayers will have to provide the money. Democrats said they might have defeated the wall if they’d been given a chance. It’s unpopular with more moderate Republicans and those representing districts with large immigrant communities. Money for the wall is part of a broader $788 billion spending bill funding defense and veterans programs... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/gop-led-house-just-voted-16-billion-down-payment-border-wall
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DREAMer Protest Fails Spectacularly:
Few Showed Up, 15 Arrested
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by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Advocates for liar-nObama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program took an intersection hostage near the Texas capitol this week which ended in 15 of them being arrested... for obstructing a highway and being charged with a Class B misdemeanor. Legal Insurrection reports that the protest was initially scheduled to be a crowded sit-in targeting Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, but the few protesters that did show up instead chose to make the commute a little harder  for the people of Austin. In charge of the protest was radical leftist advocacy group Cosecha, which has a large presence across at least 20 states. However, maybe two dozen protesters were on hand... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/dreamer-protest-fails-spectacularly-few-showed-15-arrested
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Tapper Says Scaramucci 100% Right,
People Trying to Bring Down Trump from Within
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by Hannah Mayer
{truthrevolt.org} ~ There's been a great deal of pearl clutching going on since Thursday evening, when The New Yorker published an article detailing White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci's hard-hitting words about leakers inside the administration...  Yet, while most of the chattering class are having a laugh at Scaramucci's expense, or are flat-out condemning him for his use of profanity and take-no-prisoners demeanor, CNN's Jake Tapper offered a more reasoned observation: "There are people inside the administration that think it is their job to save America from this president," Scaramucci said on earlier Thursday. "It is not their job from the establishment through calcification to sit there and try to withhold the president, to rein him in, or do things to him that will slow down his agenda.”... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/tapper-says-scaramucci-100-right-people-trying-bring-down-trump-within
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Progressive Rep Labels Gen Kelly
Extremist, Trump Militarizing White House
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{rickwells.us} ~ California Democrat Barbara Lee complained when Speaker Ryan stripped out her amendment repealing the 2001 Authorization for the Use of Military Force from a House appropriations bill back in mid July... She whined by way of Twitter, “Ryan stripped my 01 AUMF repeal amdt from DOD Approps in the dead of night. This is underhanded & undemocratic. The people deserve a debate!” She added, “Ryan should be ashamed of himself for forcing Republicans to strip out my bipartisan AUMF amdt in the dead of night. What is he afraid of?” Maybe it’s not so much his own fear as it is a healthy awareness of commie legislators abusing their authority and attacking our country. The kind of person who is a traitor, who would label an American patriot as a terrorist and deliberate harm our nation simply to advance her agenda. As Ryan said, “There’s a right way to deal with this, and an appropriations bill I don’t think is the right way to deal with this.” Lee was also the only member out of 435 in the House to vote against the original AUMF in 2001. She’s clearly not a big fan of the military...http://rickwells.us/globalist-progressive-rep-labels-gen-kelly-extremist-militarizing-white-house/
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Trump, liar-nObamaCare and the Art of the Fail
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by peggynoonan.com
{peggynoonan.com} ~ It was a political drubbing of the first order. A new Republican president and a Republican Senate and House put everything they had into a bill to repeal and replace liar-nObamaCare, and couldn’t do it. The leadership is rocked. The president looks confused and hapless, while publicly enacting determination and a scolding tone toward those who’d let him down. He rarely showed signs of fully understanding the details or even the essentials of the plan he backed. His public remarks were all over the place: He’ll let liar-nObamaCare collapse of its own weight; he’ll replace it with something big and beautiful; just repeal it; no, let it collapse. He criticized Hill Republicans: They “never discuss how good their healthcare bill is.” But neither did he, not in a persuasive way.

Republicans on the Hill need a popular president with the quasi-mystical clout presidential popularity brings. Mr. Trump does not have it. They need someone who has a serious understanding of his own policies and can gently knock heads together. I remember the story of a GOP senator whose vote President Reagan badly needed. Reagan met with him privately, pressed hard, the senator squirmed: I just can’t do it, Mr. President. You know I’d jump out of a plane if you asked me, but—

Reagan leaned in and said: “Jump.” The senator laughed and gave up. I’m going to tell anecdotes like this until I feel better.

It is true that a central dynamic of the failure was the truism that once people are given an entitlement, they aren’t keen to see it taken away. But another reason some senators voted to repeal liar-nObamaCare in the past and refused now is they believe the ground has shifted. Back in their home states, in the almost-decade since the economic crash of 2008, and since the liar-nObama era, what they’ve seen is more need, not less, more anxiety and dysfunction, and more public skepticism that change will constitute improvement. In politics you have to know how to read the ground, the real topography. You can’t just go by the work of past mapmakers, you have to see clearly what’s there now. It’s unconservative not to.

As for Mr. Trump, the first six months of his presidency suggest many things, including that what made him is thwarting him. He is a man alone, independent and ungoverned. He freelances not because circumstances dictate it but because he is by nature a freelancer. He doesn’t want to be enmeshed in an institution, he doesn’t want to have to bolster and defend it and see to its life. He wants to preserve his freedom—to tweet, to pop off, to play it this way or that. One of the interesting things about his New York Times interview this week was that he met with the reporters alone save for his aide Hope Hicks. Afterward members of his own White House reportedly had to scramble to get tapes so they’d know what the boss said.

But presidential leadership involves being to some degree an institution man, upholding not only a presidency but a government, even its other branches. He doesn’t understand this. In any case he doesn’t do it. It is all a personal drama. This aspect of his nature will probably make further legislative failures inevitable. In time, though no one in the White House seems to fear this, it will lead to his diminished support. His supporters will likely never hate him, and won’t be severely disillusioned because they weren’t all that illusioned. They’ll probably always appreciate him for blasting open the system and saving them from normality—i.e., the dumb, going-through-the-motions cynicism of Washington. They are sympathetic because of everything he is up against—every established power center in Washington—with no one behind him but his original supporters.

But at some point baseline political competence is going to become part of the story. If the president continues to show he doesn’t have the toolbox for this job, he’s going to go from not gaining support, which is where he is now, to losing support. He’s not magic and they’re not stupid.

As for health care, Sen. John RINO-McCain, recovering from surgery, had it right: “One of the major problems with liar-nObamacare was that it was written on a strict party-line basis and driven through Congress without a single Republican vote,” Mr. RINO-McCain said in a statement. “As this law continues to crumble in Arizona and states across the country, we must not repeat the original mistakes that led to liar-nObamacare’s failure.” Congress, he said, must return to regular order, hold hearings, work across party lines, “and heed the recommendations of our nation’s governors.”

Mr. Trump should have done this from the beginning.

Is there any legitimate hope of a bipartisan solution? It can be fairly argued, as Jim Geraghty does in National Review, that a Democratic Party that relentlessly lied to pass liar-nObamaCare—you can keep your plan, you can keep your doctor, premiums will go down—is unlikely to consider conservative reform ideas in good faith. Democrats will press to keep individual and employer mandates and the status quo on Medicaid; they’ll want billions in higher subsidies to get insurers back into failing exchanges. Some will want more money to offset larger-than-expected claims for insurance companies in the state and federal marketplaces, some will want single-payer. Mr. Geraghty: “Conservatives who oppose government mandates, subsidies, bailout and state-run health care won’t like any of that.”

They won’t.

And yet no fix or improvement in health care is going to be broadly accepted unless it comes from both parties. No reform will be accepted unless it’s produced in a way that includes public hearings in which representatives make the case and explain it all. And any fix, because of America’s current political nature, will be temporary. Democratic presidential hopefuls will be campaigning two years from now on single-payer, whatever happens with this bill.

And health care in battered, anxious America will continue to play against Republicans.

Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, beats the drum for the bipartisan approach. His logic: The ACA is wobbly; if nothing is done “prices will get outrageous and people will revolt and rebel.”

“Why inflict this much pain?” he says in a telephone interview. “The elderly, the vulnerable—you’re scaring the bejesus out of them.” The Republicans, he says, have tried everything else. “Why don’t you sit down and work with us?” He too asks for regular order.

Yes, he says, some Democrats see this as an opportunity to go for single-payer, but that would be “a big change”: “If you want to talk about that, do a working group.” For now, Mr. Manchin says, both parties should focus on Medicare, Medicaid, the private market, pre-existing conditions—issues on which quick or clear progress can be made. He notes that the Senate has 11 members who are former governors. As executive branch veterans with on-the-ground experience, they’ve learned what works and what doesn’t. They’re mostly moderate, not extreme. Get them in on this, he urges. “We still have some reasonable people here,” he says. “Some are just a little too quiet.”
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Don't Be Shocked (Shocked!) by Alaska Threats
by Jonah Goldberg
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 Top Headlines 
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Firm behind anti-Trump dossier also worked for Russia, Senate witness says. (Fox News)
 
Ted Cruz: Voters will feel "sense of betrayal" over liar-nObamaCare failure. (Washington Examiner)
 
Not so hot: Al Gore's "Inconvenient Sequel" meets with skepticism even from the Left. (The Washington Times)
 
Feds spends millions on failed program to combat extremism in America. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
U.S., El Salvador team up to target MS-13 gang members. (CNS News)
 
Venezuela's socialist government bans all protests starting Friday. (Hot Air)
 
Marxist group disbands because members were too rich, white. (Campus Reform)
 
African-American women are increasingly buying guns, statistics show. (The New York Times)
 
Trump awards officers Medals of Valor for actions in Scalise shooting. (Fox News)
 
Humor: Jeff Sessions wakes up next to severed horse head. (The Babylon Bee)
 
Policy: Yes, we should block-grant Medicaid. (National Review)
 
Policy: The Democrats' unprecedented nominations blockade. (Senate Republican Policy Committee~The Patriot Post
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DHS Secretary Gen John Kelly
Replaces Priebus As Trump Chief Of Staff
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{rickwells.us} ~ On Friday President Donald Trump announced the inevitable was taking place, that he was making a move at the Chief of Staff position... the leak infested position, and bringing in his Homeland Security Secretary to fill the spot. The selection indicates that Kelly is someone President Trump trusts as a capable leader who knows how to keep his mouth shut and whose respect for the office of the President is unquestioned. He must certainly feel that Kelly is a loyal American who will put country and the success of his administration ahead of personal recognition and career considerations. President Trump made the announcement via tweet, saying, “I am pleased to inform you that I have just named General/ Secretary John F Kelly as White House Chief of Staff. He is a Great American…. John has also done a spectacular job at Homeland Security. He has been a true star of my Administration.”...http://rickwells.us/dhs-secretary-gen-john-kelly-replaces-priebus-trump-chief-staff/
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'A 'For Sale' Sign at City Hall': FBI Indicts
2 PA Dem Mayors in Pay-to-Play Probe
 
{insider.foxnews.com} ~ Two Democratic Pennsylvania mayors were indicted Wednesday as part of a wide-ranging FBI corruption probe... The mayors of Reading and Allentown - the state's third-largest city - were named among the defendants in the five-person indictment. Acting U.S. Attorney for Eastern Pennsylvania Louis Lappen said Allentown Mayor Ed Pawlowski (D) was charged with 14 counts relating to running a pay-to-play scheme, and other offenses. Lappen said Pawlowski and former Reading Mayor Vaughn Spencer (D) "essentially put up a 'for sale' sign in front of their city halls to sell city work to the highest bidder," Lappen said, according to WFMZ-69 News... http://insider.foxnews.com/2017/07/26/fbi-pay-play-probe-pennsylvania-allentown-pawlowski-reading-spencer-indicted
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Watch RINO John McCain Path of Betrayal –
Grim GOP, Jubilant Democrats
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{rickwells.us} ~ John RINO-McCain is going out with a bang and unfortunately it wasn’t the sound of him putting himself and the rest of America out of his misery... Many Americans are optimistic that this will be the last we’ll see of him in the Senate. Whether it is or isn’t, he certainly made himself the center of attention as he once again reinforced his RINO credentials. RINO-McCain seemingly went out of his way to drag things out, keeping the Senate, Vice-President Pence and President Trump hanging for over two hours, past midnight, doing whatever they could think of to bring him into the Republican fold he so willingly shuns. RINO_McCain didn’t disappoint his Democrat allies, he saved liar-nObamacare. He can now go to wherever he wants for his cancer treatment, as his non-liar-nObamacare Senate Cadillac health care coverage allows him to do. He really did get to keep his doctor. He can bask reflectively at the irony of his betrayal, that what may be his last act before getting the best care on the planet was to stick Americans with what is arguably the worst, and a socialism bill to go along with it...He was not allow on this betrayal. 6 others where involved. http://rickwells.us/watch-rino-john-mccain-path-betrayal-grim-gop-jubilant-democrats/
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Massive RINO DEFENSE Force Called
On TRUMP Supporters Questioning Gas Tax
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rancho Cucamonga was the scene of a pathetic display of the police state in action as Trump supporters ventured into RINO country, the offices of California Republican Marc Steinorth... As the plaque hanging on his wall from the SEIU indicates, he’s a sellout. Steinorth’s latest affront to the people of California is his siding with the cap and trade globalists to impose a $.71 cent per gallon gasoline tax. After navigating past the locked door into the extremely relaxed workplace where not a lot of actual work seems to be being done, the patriot Trump supporters, including the Grindall61 contingent, voice their complaints. An aide for the RINO Steinorth attempts, unsuccessfully, to apply the same brainwashing techniques that work on many of the mindless idiots who finance their own demise. They supported his treachery and will soon be paying through the nose for the “privilege” of driving as a result. The price of anything that is transported by truck as well as services which involve fuel will rise as well. Nice job of understanding the issues before you vote, idiot citizens. Now you’re stuck with liberal trash sticking the knives of globalism in your backs. Unfortunately, the aware Californians pay the price right along with you... http://rickwells.us/massive-rino-defense-force-called-trump-supporters-questioning-gas-tax/
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  Videos of the week  
Planned Parenthood Medical Director: “Dismemberment” Abortion “Checkbox” Skirts Partial-Birth Law
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John McCain Kills ‘Skinny’ Repeal of liar-nObamacare
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Grant Stinchfield Tells liar-Hillary Clinton ‘What Happened’
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Criminal Probe Of Wasserman Schultz IT Staffer May Impact Dozens Of Democrats
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UCLA Fires Conservative Professor Who Defended Free Speech
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Why Are Democrats Blocking Testimony of Fusion GPS?
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Don't Be Shocked (Shocked!) by Alaska Threats
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by Jonah Goldberg
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townhall.com} ~ It's a bit of a cliche to quote "Casablanca" when it comes to Washington's gift for manufactured outrage, but the classics are classics for a reason. When Captain Louis Renault orders Rick's saloon shut down, Rick played by Humphrey Bogart protests: "How can you close me up? On what grounds?"

Renault played by Claude Rains replies, "I am shocked -- shocked -- to find that gambling is going on in here!"

Then, a croupier walks up to Renault and hands him some money: "Your winnings, sir."

"Oh, thank you very much," Renault says. "Everybody out at once!"

The scene came immediately to mind amidst the instant outrage over reports that the Trump administration was threatening Alaska's senators. On Tuesday, Sen. Lisa Murkowski voted not to move to debate on the Senate health care bill. That angered the president. She "really let the Republicans, and our country, down yesterday. Too bad!" the president complained on Twitter Wednesday morning.

That afternoon, Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke called both Murkowski and Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan, according to a story first reported by the Alaska Dispatch News. "I'm not going to go into the details," Sullivan told the paper, "but I fear that the strong economic growth, pro-energy, pro-mining, pro-jobs [policies] and personnel from Alaska who are part of those policies are going to stop."

The story sent "shocked -- shocked!" shockwaves across Washington. How dare the Trump administration threaten the state of Alaska!

Come now.

Let me say up front that what Zinke did may be politically unwise. It may be unethical. It may be crude.

But it's not illegal. It's normal.

Every administration in American history, and every regime since the first city-states formed in Mesopotamia, has played some version of this game, not merely from time to time, but every single day. Rewarding your friends and punishing your enemies isn't some breach of the established rules of politics; those are the established rules of politics.

Every White House has a political operation that reminds policymakers that this state should get better treatment than that state for one political reason or another. It's the job of the policymakers to know when to listen to that guidance and when to ignore it.

The proper symbol of FDR's imperial presidency wouldn't be a ball and scepter but a carrot and a stick. Roosevelt held his coalition together by awarding massive defense contracts to Southern states whose senators were the barons of the defense and appropriations committees. His freshly minted Social Security Board threatened to withhold funds from states that resisted compliance with the Aid to Families with Dependent Children welfare program. LBJ's Health, Education and Welfare Department threatened to terminate funds for states that didn't enforce civil rights.

Congress is no better. It has used the Highway Trust Fund time and again to force states to comply with its will. In 1974, Congress declared that any state that didn't set its speed limit to 55 mph would see the money spigot turn off. In 1975, Congress did the same to force motorcyclists to wear helmets. In 1984, the same technique was used to raise the legal drinking age.

And now let's discuss the great state of Alaska, a place I love and have spent much time in. My wife is from Fairbanks, and much of her family is still there. Alaska fancies itself a land of rugged individualists. Its nickname, emblazoned on its license plates, is "The Last Frontier." A more accurate nickname might be "The New West Virginia" for its addiction to pork. At the height of the earmark era in Congress, Alaska ranked No. 1 on the list of recipients, thanks largely to former Rep. Ted Stevens, the self-styled "Emperor of Earmarks."

No one runs for federal office in Alaska without promising to bring home the bacon from Washington. In fairness to Alaskans, one reason that's seen as necessary is the federal government controls so much of the state about 60 percent of its land is controlled by Washington.

Murkowski herself lobbied for months for a special Alaska-only carve-out under the Better Care Reconciliation Act -- the nearly $2 billion "Kodiak Kickback." It proved to be not enough, but the "for sale" sign had gone up.

Zinke's heavy-handedness will probably backfire because standing up to threats is one of the only things that plays better in Alaska than accepting porcine bribes.

But the outrage is all part of the show. As Hyman Roth says in "The Godfather Part II," "This is the business we've chosen."
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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Is Trump Entering a Kill Box?
by Pat Buchanan
 
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 Scaramucci Spouts Off About Leaks 
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"Who leaked that to you?" White House Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci demanded to know of Ryan Lizza, a reporter for The New Yorker. Scaramucci was immediately concerned with information about a certain dinner, but his broader concern is about the leaks plaguing Donald Trump's White House. Lizza refused to disclose his source, as just about any reporter would, and he recorded the ensuing phone conversation this way:
          [Scaramucci] responded by threatening to fire the entire White House communications staff. "What I'm going to do is, I will eliminate everyone in the comms team and we'll start over," he said. I laughed, not sure if he really believed that such a threat would convince a journalist to reveal a source. He continued to press me and complain about the staff he's inherited in his new job. "I ask these guys not to leak anything and they can't help themselves," he said. "You're an American citizen, this is a major catastrophe for the American country. So I'm asking you as an American patriot to give me a sense of who leaked it."
          Scaramucci appears to be particularly aiming for Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, who he suspects of the leaks and of "c— blocking" Scaramucci's appointment sooner. That's where his remarks got extremely, er, "colorful" as he later explained. "Reince is a f—king paranoid schizophrenic, a paranoiac," cried Scaramucci. In fact, he continued, "What I want to do is I want to f—king kill all the leakers and I want to get the president's agenda on track so we can succeed for the American people."
          Pleasant fellow. Leakers aren't the only target of his ire, though. Lizza records, "Scaramucci also told me that, unlike other senior officials, he had no interest in media attention." He then quoted Scaramucci saying, "I'm not Steve Bannon, I'm not trying to suck my own c—." Bannon is Trump's chief strategist and comes from Breitbart News. "I'm not trying to build my own brand off the f—king strength of the president. I'm here to serve the country."
          Maybe this kind of language still plays well among some of Trump's base — drain the swamp at all costs! — but it is pathetically uncouth and degrading for the White House. It's disgraceful. And from the communications director no less. Let's get one thing straight, though. Scaramucci was hired to be Trump's "heavy" — the muscle who will knock some heads together. That may be necessary, and Scaramucci may be gone in a month or two when the job is done.
          The smart guy in this debacle is former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer, who had the good sense to resign upon Scaramucci's hiring. When asked how he felt after departing, Spicer said, "How do I look like I'm feeling? Relieved." The upside: Scaramucci may actually upstage Trump's stupid remarks.
          Finally, after the interview was published, Scaramucci tweeted, "I made a mistake in trusting in a reporter. It won't happen again." That would imply he trusted reporters to begin with. What planet is he from?  ~The Patriot Post
Top FBI LAWYER Under COMEY MUELLER
Investigated As Deep State CLASSIFIED Leaker
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{rickwells.us} ~ Sara Carter of Circa News dropped a bombshell in an interview on the Sean Hannity program. She’s learned and verified through three different sources that have direct knowledge of the facts that James A. Baker... the current General Counsel for the FBI, is alleged to be under investigation for leaking national security classified information to the media. She says she hasn’t yet been able to learn the specific as to the information leaked, but notes that if the allegations are true, it will be devastating for the FBI. She notes that currently within the FBI they’re scouring through everything in search of leakers, that they really want to clean house, a high profile rat inside would be a crippling blow. They’ve got a lot of high profile rats, in a series of dirty cops, from Mueller to Comey to McCabe and surely many less notorious other deep state operatives filling out their ranks under their corrupt direction. He worked closely with both Robert Mueller and James Comey for the entirety of their tenures at the FBI...http://rickwells.us/top-fbi-lawyer-comey-mueller-investigated-deep-state-classified-leaker/
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Lebanon Is Another Name for Hezbollah
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by Tony Badran
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ During his joint press conference with Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri on Tuesday, President Trump gave expression to the inherent paradox in America’s Lebanon policy... On the one hand, the president voiced appreciation and support for Lebanon and its Armed Forces (LAF) for their supposed “impressive” role in the fight against ISIS and Al-Qaeda. On the other hand, he had strong words for Hezbollah, calling it a menace to the Lebanese state and the entire region and noting its role in fueling the catastrophe in Syria. Specifically, the president added, the group threatens to start a conflict with Israel, as it continues to increase its arsenal in violation of UN Security Council resolutions. At the same time Hariri is visiting Washington, however, the LAF is taking part in a joint military operation with Hezbollah in northeastern Lebanon, targeting a pocket of Syrian armed groups — Including the group formerly known as the Nusra Front—on the Syrian border...http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/lebanon-is-another-name-for-hezbollah/
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How Trump should handle Iran
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by Eric S. Edelman
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Last week, the Trump administration recertified that Iran is complying the nuclear agreement, setting off predictable debate between who those want to exit the deal immediately... and those who see it as his predecessor’s signature foreign policy achievement. But for all the will-he-or-won’t-he attention on Trump’s decision, the focus on the nuclear deal is missing the point: The administration’s real agenda on Iran doesn’t hinge on the nuclear agreement—a dangerous deal that puts the U.S. in a impossible situation. Instead, the Trump administration’s priority should be restoring leverage against Tehran, so that we can dissuade Iran from sprinting toward a bomb and create far more favorable circumstances to negotiate an agreement that—unlike liar-nObama’s deal—actually prevents a nuclear Iran. Abiding by the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), as the agreement is known, will only enable a nuclear and hegemonic Iran. It provides Tehran significant financial, military and geopolitical benefits, both upfront and over time, in exchange for minimal, reversible and temporary concessions on its nuclear program... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/eric-s-edelman-how-trump-should-handle-iran/
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Reince Priebus Out, John Kelly
In as Trump’s Chief of Staff
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by Charles Fain Lehman
{freebeacon.com} ~ President Donald Trump changed his White House chief of staff on Friday, replacing embattled Reince Priebus with Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly... Priebus left the White House in the latest of a series of high profile resignations or departures, as Trump had judged him "not strong enough" to continue to hold the role, the New York Times reports. Trump tweeted out the announcement of Kelly, a retired four-star Marine general, as Priebus' replacement on Friday afternoon...http://freebeacon.com/politics/priebus-kelly-chief-staff/
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liar-Hillary Clinton Calls at Private Fundraiser for Infrastructure Bank to Resemble
liar-Clinton Global Initiative
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by Alana Goodman and Lachlan Markay
{freebeacon.com} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton told donors at a private fundraiser in New York last Thursday that she plans as president to create a "national infrastructure bank" modeled on the Clinton Global Initiative... according to a recording of her remarks obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. This was the first time that liar-Clinton, who has long supported the formation of a government-controlled bank to invest in national infrastructure projects, cited the liar-Clinton Global Initiative—the flagship arm of her family’s controversial foundation—as an investment model for her proposed bank. liar-Clinton said CGI’s "public-private" partnership with labor unions has created tens of thousands of jobs, and argued that a federal infrastructure bank could take on this type of project...She will never be a president of the USA. http://freebeacon.com/politics/leaked-audio-hillary-clinton-calls-at-private-fundraiser-for-infrastructure-bank-to-resemble-clinton-global-initiative/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=ee1789189f-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_28&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-ee1789189f-45611665
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Is Trump Entering a Kill Box?
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by Pat Buchanan
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townhall.com} ~ Given the bravery he showed in stepping out front as the first senator to endorse Donald Trump, Jeff Sessions deserves better from his boss than the Twitter-trashing he has lately received.

The attorney general has not only been loyal to Trump and his agenda, he has the respect and affection of ex-colleagues in Congress and, more broadly, of populists and conservatives nationally.

Trump's tweets about Sessions are only demoralizing his base.

Yet the president is not wrong to be exasperated and enraged.

A yearlong FBI investigation into Russian hacking has failed to produce a single indictment. Yet the president watches impotently as a special counsel pulls together a lethal force, inside his own administration, whose undeclared ambition is to bring him down.

Trump's behavior suggests that he sees the Mueller threat as potentially mortal.

How did we get to this peril point when there is no evidence that Trump or any senior aide colluded in the hacking?

As for the June 2016 meeting with the Russians, called by Donald Trump Jr. when told by a friend that Moscow had dirt on liar-Hillary Clinton, even that was no crime.

Foolish, yes; criminal, no. So, again, how did we get to where talk of impeachment and presidential pardons fills the air?

First, Attorney General Sessions, as a campaign adviser and surrogate for Trump who had met with the Russian ambassador, had to recuse himself from the investigation. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein then assumed oversight authority.

Trump then fired FBI Director James Comey and boasted to Russia's foreign minister about having gotten the "crazy nut job" off his case. His Oval Office comments leaked. Comey then leaked notes of his meeting with Trump. Rosenstein then washed his hands of the mess by naming a special counsel.

And he chose a bulldog, ex-FBI Director Robert Mueller.

Hence, where are we? Despite zero evidence of Trump or his aides colluding in the hacking, a counterintelligence investigation is evolving into a criminal investigation. Mueller is now hiring veteran investigators and prosecutors specializing in white-collar crime.

This is not a witch hunt. It is an Easter egg hunt on the White House lawn, where the most colorful eggs are likely to be the tax returns and the financial records of Trump, who built a real estate empire in a town where winners brag about how they gutted the losers.

Every enemy of Trump is going to be dropping the dime on him to Mueller. Moreover, there is no history of special counsels being appointed and applauded by the press, who went home without taking scalps.

Trump understands this. Reports of his frustration and rage suggest that he knows he has been maneuvered, partly by his own mistakes, into a kill box from which there may be no bloodless exit.

What Trump needs is a leader at Justice who will confine the Mueller investigation to the Russian hacking, and keep Mueller's men from roaming until they hit prosecutorial pay dirt.

Consider now Trump's narrowing options.

He can fire Jeff Sessions. But that will enrage Trump's base to whom the senator is a loyal soldier. And anyone Trump nominates as AG would not be confirmed unless he or she pledged not to interfere with Mueller.

He could direct Rosenstein to fire Mueller. But Rosenstein would assume the Elliot Richardson role in the Saturday Night Massacre, when that AG refused to fire Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox, resigned, and was canonized as a martyr by the Never-Nixon media.

Even if Trump finds a Justice Department loyalist to play the role of Solicitor General Robert Bork, who carried out Nixon's orders and fired Cox, this would only mean Mueller's departure. Mueller's staff of prosecutors and investigators would still be there, beavering away.

When Archibald Cox was fired, Nixon ordered his entire office shut down. Yet, within days of the firestorm, it was up and running again with a new special prosecutor. And impeachment resolutions were blossoming in the House.

Another Trump option would be to leave Mueller alone and hope for a benign outcome. But from reports of his rage at the recusal of Sessions and unwillingness of Rosenstein to restrict Mueller to the Russian hacking scandal, Trump seems to sense that an unrestricted investigation represents a mortal threat to his presidency.

And all the talk of impeachment and pardons suggests that this city can also see what lies over the next hill. After all, we have been here before.

From his history, Mueller is not a man to be intimidated by charges of bias. These will only steel his resolve to pursue with his subpoena power every document he wants, including tax returns, until he has satisfied himself.

The president is unlikely to view this process with indulgence, and patience does not appear to rank high among his virtues.

We are headed for a collision between President Trump and Director Mueller.
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Trump's Baffling Attacks on
His Own Attorney General
by Lewis Morris

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3 Republicans Join Democrats
to Defeat liar-nObamacare Repeal
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by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ Republican Sens. John McCain, Lisa Murkowski, and Susan Collins joined Democrats to keep liar-nObamacare, at least for now... The “skinny repeal” bill managed to get only 49 votes, with every Democrat and the three Republicans voting against the scaled-down version of the repeal and replace bill.  Just before 2 a.m. Friday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., noted that for seven years, Republicans have promised to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare. “We told our constituents we would vote that way and when the moment came, most of us did,” McConnell said on the Senate floor. “Our friends on the other side decided early on they didn’t want to engage with us in a serious way to help those suffering under liar-nObamacare.”... http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/28/3-republicans-join-democrats-to-defeat-obamacare-repeal/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdZMU16aGlOelEwT1RBeCIsInQiOiJ6ejZOWUZYXC92Rk1VRG4rRThmcW1iUnFZOE1teURCUDd1ekxQdmRnU0RDWWxQMEZwRzcxWXh5dVhKNTJlaWVPa21KMGRaV1wvaWxNUm5CK1NzOVJBVnlPOHB1dENSalBnN09TR25FcjVvSGlyVzhYVVFpVzZ6bFFwTGgzTGhMU3pSIn0%3D
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4 House Republicans Seek Answers
on FBI Probe of liar-Clinton Emails
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by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ As President Donald Trump calls for the Justice Department to probe the actions of his vanquished opponent, liar-Hillary Clinton, four Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee want another look at the FBI’s investigation of the liar-Clinton email scandal... The four Republican lawmakers—Florida’s Matt Gaetz, Arizona’s Andy Biggs, Ohio’s Jim Jordan, and Louisiana’s Mike Johnson—filed an amendment Wednesday directing an investigation into how then-FBI Director James Comey’s managed the case. The lawmakers’ interest comes after Comey, ousted May 9 by Trump, told a Senate panel in June that, during the liar-nObama administration, Attorney General Loretta Lynch had directed Comey to call the FBI’s probe of liar-Clinton’s private email server a “matter” instead of an “investigation.”...http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/27/4-house-republicans-seek-answers-on-fbi-probe-of-clinton-email/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdZMU16aGlOelEwT1RBeCIsInQiOiJ6ejZOWUZYXC92Rk1VRG4rRThmcW1iUnFZOE1teURCUDd1ekxQdmRnU0RDWWxQMEZwRzcxWXh5dVhKNTJlaWVPa21KMGRaV1wvaWxNUm5CK1NzOVJBVnlPOHB1dENSalBnN09TR25FcjVvSGlyVzhYVVFpVzZ6bFFwTGgzTGhMU3pSIn0%3D
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Democrat-Backed Creators of the
“Trump Dossier” were Paid Russian Agents
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by Onan Coca
{constitution.com} ~ The saga surrounding the Democrat supporting, leftwing Fusion GPS, just took another major turn... At a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing earlier this week the nation learned that the Democrat-linked opposition research firm, FusionGPS, was also linked to someone else. The Russians. We realized this several weeks ago, and we reported it to you, when we learned that the Russian lawyer who met with Donald Trump Jr. was actually an employee of FusionGPS and that she had entered the country under a special dispensation from the liar-nObama administration and that she was seemingly connected to liar-nObama’s top Russia official, Michael McFaul... http://constitution.com/democrat-backed-creators-trump-dossier-paid-russian-agents/
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'Watching the watchers':
Lawsuits target FBI's McCabe
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ The FBI, of course, is the federal agency that carries out some of the nation’s most important investigations. But of late, there have been raised questions about the agency’s chiefs... After all, fired director James Comey was the lead player in the FBI’s announcement not to prosecute liar-Hillary Clinton, even though he explained her national security-related actions exhibited extremely poor judgment. Then there has been the ongoing investigation into claims that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia during the 2016 presidential race, a rumor-filled nest that has yet to produce anything more than some decisions political insiders would describe as unwise. And of course after Comey was fired, he released government documents to a friend to give to the media in his desire to manipulate the Washington bureaucracy to trigger an outside counsel’s investigation of “Russia,” which he got... http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/investigating-the-investigator-lawsuits-seek-records-on-fbis-McCabe/
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Senator Ted Cruz: Americans Betrayed By Republicans That Failed To Honor Promise To Repeal liar-nObamacare
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AG Sessions: I'm confident I made the right decision to recuse
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5523997115001
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Maxine Waters Refuses to Stop Interrupting Treasury Secretary Mnuchin During Finance Hearing
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LicqzQlZlSQ
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White House Daily Briefing: Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders (07-27-2017)
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8QBYX3zLq0
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CBS, NBC Ignore Trump Event Honoring Heroic Alexandria Shooting Officers
VIDEO:  https://www.mrctv.org/videos/cbs-nbc-ignore-white-house-event-honoring-alexandria-police-shooting-heroes
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White House Daily Briefing: Spokesperson Sarah Huckabee Sanders (07-26-2017)
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnDLlytZ8Yw
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Congress: Who voted no on liar-nObamaCare repeal, Debbie Wasserman Schultz Aide Arrested
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/552282848100.
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TUCKER: Debates Military Ban on Transgender and claim USA will now be LESS safe
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5522764392001
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 Trump's Baffling Attacks on His Own Attorney 
 General 
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By Lewis Morris:  The White House shakeup that began last week with the departure of Press Secretary Sean Spicer and key members of the communications team is not over. In fact, more names are potentially being added to the hit list, chief among them Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
          Sessions has been one of Donald Trump's staunchest supporters going all the way back to the crazy days of the 2016 campaign. The two men share similar views on immigration enforcement, being tough on crime, and connecting directly with working class voters. Sessions is arguably the administration's foremost conservative, giving Trump bona fides with a voting bloc that has provided steadfast support while many other Americans either scratch their heads about the president or downright loathe him.
          So why is Trump hinting so strongly that Sessions' days are numbered? His new communications director, Anthony Scaramucci, and his new press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, have both suggested publicly that Sessions is on the way out.
          But far more pointed are Trump's own barbs. Trump told The New York Times that if he'd known Sessions would recuse himself from the Russia probe, he never would have nominated him. He said in a press conference that he's "disappointed in the attorney general." In an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Trump scoffed that Sessions only supported him because he had "massive numbers" show up at rallies in Sessions' home state of Alabama (as if Sessions was in any danger of losing his seat in deep-red Alabama). Trump's also gone on a Twitter rant calling Sessions "beleaguered" and accusing him of being soft on White House leaks and of taking "a VERY weak position on liar-Hillary Clinton crimes."
          Of course, after the election, Trump himself said he didn't want to pursue the liar-Clintons. "I don't want to hurt the liar-Clintons, I really don't," Trump said. "She went through a lot and suffered greatly in many different ways." Oh, and by the way, the liar-Clinton Foundation has done "good work," he said. But never mind that now.
          Is it possible that the Russian probe recusal got so far under Trump's skin that he's willing to cut one of his most loyal soldiers loose? Trump professes to be big on loyalty, but he is also no fan of weakness and he doesn't suffer fools gladly. In his view, Sessions' perceived weakness in the face of the opposition is a bigger disadvantage than his loyalty is an asset.
          It was not a legal necessity that Sessions recuse himself from the Russia probe. It was merely an attempt to quell the Democrat attack against the administration in its early days. As Trump suspected, and most of us know by experience, Sessions' recusal had no effect whatsoever on the anti-Trump forces. Democrat sharks only smelled fresh blood in the water and pushed their attack with renewed vigor. Now Trump has to face Robert Mueller and his biased investigative team without Sessions in his corner. It would seem that an old Washington hand like Sessions would have realized this. Trump knew it, and he didn't have any Beltway experience at all.
          Sessions is, or at least was, a Trump ally. But don't forget that Trump was elected by a populist wave that is absolutely fed up with Washington politics and its career politicians. For better or worse, that includes Jeff Sessions. People had no choice but to take Trump's promise to drain the swamp seriously after the firing of James Comey. He's still holding the plug in his hand, and now Sessions and several other Beltway members of the White House team are circling the drain.
          Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price found himself on the receiving end of a none-too-subtle warning from Trump at a speech to the Boy Scouts of America. Trump warned Price that he would be fired if health care reform doesn't pass the Senate. It was almost certainly a joke, but with Trump, who can be sure?
          Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and much of what remains of the White House communications team are in Scaramucci's crosshairs. The new communications director has sworn he'll shut down the leaks that have plagued the White House — even if it means wiping out the whole team and starting from scratch.
          Opponents of Trump's brash political style will say good luck finding replacements. As the reasoning goes, who would want to join this chaotic White House? Don't kid yourselves. There are countless people who would take a job in the West Wing in a heartbeat. Whether they are qualified or not is another matter.
          Staffing issues aside, Trump's thoughts may be hard to read, and his actions may be nearly impossible to predict. But his brand of politics shouldn't be a mystery anymore. He's no fan of the city in which he works. He doesn't like the bureaucracy that everyone around him is comfortable navigating. And in this, he embodies the mindset of the voters who elected him.
          There is plenty to cheer in his efforts to drain the swamp, and there's nothing wrong with firing people who aren't on board with the team. But Trump still has to govern for at least three and a half more years. He's going to need a friend or two on the inside to help him out. We've strongly disagreed with Sessions' expansion of civil asset forfeiture, which we consider constitutionally dubious at best, yet Sessions' crackdown on sanctuary cities is welcome and he's far better than some of the alternatives being floated for the post. Trump should lay off the insults and keep Sessions on board. And Sessions should call Trump's bluff and stay.  ~The Patriot Post
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Sat/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Hey GOP, just kill the
liar-nObamacare 'monstrosity'
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by David Limbaugh
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 The 'Science' of Population Control 
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A new BBC report warns, "Humans could become extinct if sperm counts in men continue to fall at current rates." The report elaborates, "Researchers assessing the results of nearly 200 studies say sperm counts among men from North America, Europe, Australia, and New Zealand, seem to have halved in less than 40 years." Dr. Hagai Levine opines, "If we will not change the ways that we are living and the environment and the chemicals that we are exposed to, I am very worried about what will happen in the future."
          The study is undoubtedly an affirming one to former vice president and ecofascist Al Gore, albeit for completely different reasons. At a recent climate confab, he remarked, "Here is the good news: The effort to stabilize population growth in the world is actually a success story unfolding in slow motion. And a lot of progress has been made." Translation: Population control is working.
          He expounds on this view in his new book, "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power," where he states, "Population growth is slowly stabilizing as girls are educated, women are empowered, fertility management is made widely available and child mortality continues to decline. This aspect of our relationship to the Earth is, in spite of the great challenges growing populations will pose in some regions, a success story unfolding in slow motion."
          No matter which direction we go — population growth or decline — science suggests we're doomed. On the one hand, people like Dr. Levine worry that human extinction will occur because of low sperm counts and the ensuing lack of babies. (An aside: If we assume Dr. Levine's synopsis is true, how much of this can be attributed to the transgenderism fad and de-masculinity efforts of recent generations? We can't know for sure, but it's not zilch. And nothing is less scientifically literate than gender disorientation.)
          On the other hand, Gore believes that population control is the only way to avoid human extinction. If you're wondering why so many people have a tough time believing the "experts," it's because it's impossible for all of them to be right. The fact of the matter is that science can be manipulated by anyone who has an agenda. That's why skepticism isn't just justified, but essential. And as far as Gore's semantics are concerned, basic economics proves that population control is a self-defeating proposition. 
~The Patriot Post
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Military Supports Trump Transgender
Policy For Sensible Military Reasons
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{rickwells.us} ~ John Burk addresses the decision by DoD Secretary Mattis and President Trump to ban transgenders from serving in the military... He looks at it from the perspective of a military man, not that of a hysterical Democrat out to score political points or someone attempting to serve their own personal needs and agenda. He supports President Trump in his decision, not seeing the LGBT discrimination that the leftists are trying to paint it as at all. He notes that military service is a very stressful environment, particularly a combat situation. He cites a 2017 article published by the American Psychiatric Association as listing gender dysphoria as a psychological disorder. He points out, “A psychological disorder bans you from any type of military service, depression, anxiety, things such as that, a whole slew of things are involved in this. In the transgender community there’s a 61% suicide rate.”...http://rickwells.us/military-supports-trump-transgender-policy-sensible-military-reasons/
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FBI General Counsel James A. Baker under
investigation for leaking classified information
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{pamelageller.com} ~ FBI General Counsel James A. Baker is purportedly under a Department of Justice criminal investigation for allegedly leaking classified national security information to the media... according to multiple government officials close to the probe who spoke with Circa on the condition of anonymity. FBI spokeswoman Carol Cratty said the bureau would not comment on Baker and would not confirm or deny any investigation. Baker did not return comment when Circa attempted to reach him through the FBI. This comes as Department of Justice Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he would soon be making an announcement regarding the progress of leak investigations. A DOJ official declined to comment on Circa’s inquiry into Baker but did say, the planned announcement by Sessions is part of the overall “stepped up efforts on leak investigations.”...http://pamelageller.com/2017/07/top-fbi-lawyer-classified-leaks-media.html/
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Senate rejects 'skinny repeal' of
liar-nObamaCare as 3 Republicans vote no
by Benjamin Brown
 
{foxnews.com} ~ Senate Republicans failed to pass Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s proposed “skinny repeal” amendment in a vote Friday morning, signaling what could be the end to any hopes of repealing and replacing liar-nObamaCare... As the clock neared 2 a.m. ET, the amendment proposal failed, 51-49, with Republican Sens. John McCain of Arizona, Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska joining Democrats in voting no. “It is time to move on,” McConnell said after the vote. Added Senate Minority Leader Charles clown-Schumer, D-N.Y.: "We are not celebrating. We are relieved."... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/28/skinny-repeal-obamacare-fails-in-senate-as-3-republicans-vote-no.html
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Kimberly Guilfoyle of Fox News
Confirms Priebus Is Leaker to President Trump
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by Jim E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ President Trump is starting to stamp down on leakers hard in the White House. His hiring of Anthony Scaramucci as Communications Director is part of this new effort to control leaks from the Oval Office... Scaramucci has wasted no time turning over every stone trying to out the leaker. He has identified White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus as a major source for the anti-Trump press. The Five co-host was invited, along with her colleague Sean Hannity and former Fox News Executive Bill Shine, to the White House Wednesday night to dine with the president. And a report from The New York Times alleges that Guilfoyle told Trump that his Chief of Staff was ‘a problem’ and ‘a leaker’ during that dinner. According to an anonymous source who was briefed on their conversation, Guilfoyle also told the president that Priebus was “someone who was not serving his agenda.”... http://thepoliticalinsider.com/kimberly-guilfoyle-priebus-leaks/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Afternoon_Newsletter_7_28_17&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-07-28-17-afternoon&utm_medium=email
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MSNBC’s Deutsch: Trump will “throw
every toy out of the crib” to fire Mueller
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by Mark Finkelstein
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ MSNBC’s kibitzer-in-chief, Donny Deutsch, has emphatically predicted that at some point, President Trump will fire special counsel Robert Mueller... Deutsch said that Trump will “throw every toy out of the crib” to achieve his goal, “and that’s when impeachment proceedings start. That’s the way this ends.” Appearing on Nicolle Wallace’s MSNBC show this afternoon, Deutsch claimed that Trump’s motivation in firing Mueller will be to prevent an investigation into his financial dealings, which would reveal him to be a “fraud . . . dishonest, and he could wind up going to jail.”...That a lie.  http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/07/msnbcs-deutsch-trump-will-throw-every-toy-out-of-the-crib-to-fire-mueller/?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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Hey GOP, just kill the
liar-nObamacare 'monstrosity'
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by David Limbaugh
{wnd.com} ~ It is enormously frustrating that conservatives can’t capture the moral high ground from the phony virtue-signaling factory that is the modern Democratic Party. Conservative policies not only work better but also are morally superior.

Democrats depend on clichés and false narratives to obstruct true reform – which includes shaming many Republicans from believing enough in their own agenda to pursue it with conviction. This is nowhere more apparent than in the endless debate over the fate of liar-nObamacare and the future of American health care.

It is unconscionable that Republicans are unable to muster a simple majority to end the liar-nObamacare monstrosity – a freakish beast that does everything it promised not to do and does little it promised to do, a gargantuan scam that is destroying our health care, eroding our liberty and punishing our economy. It’s a camel with its entire body already inside the tent of the American idea – hellbent on completing liar-nObama’s plan to fundamentally demolish it.

It’s almost a waste of space to reiterate the obvious truth that the Democratic Party is bankrupt. It is wholly out of ideas except for concocting ever more creative ways to demonize conservatives as bigots, thwart policies that could bring relief to the people it professes to champion, and advance an agenda whose inevitable result is socialism – all while pretending to believe in free-market competition.

Democrats mouth such banalities as offering a “better deal,” as if they weren’t the ones who have given us this horrendous deal that is rotting the American system from the inside out.

They are incapable of offering new ideas because they are ideologically and politically enslaved. Their worldview weds them to the historically discredited notion that great results flow from allegedly good intentions. And their lust for power impels them to exploit identity politics and perpetuate victimhood for the constituencies whose overwhelming support is essential to their political lifeblood.

For example, they can’t support decentralization and competition in education, no matter how much that could improve the lives of minorities trapped in inferior schools, or support across-the-board tax cuts – even though cuts for higher-income earners help stimulate economic growth, which redounds to the benefit of middle- and lower-income earners – because they cannot abandon their class-warfare strategy.

Now back to today’s more pressing issue – health-care reform. Their policies have wrought untold disaster across the board, yet they will acknowledge no responsibility for these failures, much less join, in any way, those seeking solutions.

Democrats tell us they would be happy to work with Republicans to repair the glitches in liar-nObamacare. The problem is that we are not dealing with mere glitches. The entire legislative debacle is a galloping cancer on our system.

Further exposing the Democrats’ fraud, almost all of the Republicans’ so-called “repeal and replace” proposals have not actually contemplated repeal at all; they’ve just proposed revisions. Yet Democrats, in lockstep, will not even come to the table to discuss them. In other words, except for their failed efforts to fully repeal the bill, all Republican proposals have been efforts not to completely end liar-nObamacare sad to say but to partially repair it.

Democrats don’t want the system improved. They know it’s a barely disguised wealth redistribution scheme that if left alone will necessarily eventuate in a single-payer system – a euphemism for socialized medicine.

So for now, let’s forget Democrats, who have no intention of working with Republicans on this.


What about the couple of handfuls of pseudo-Republicans who don’t have the decency to end this nightmare – the ones who campaigned on the promise to repeal this law but won’t now pull the trigger?

I don’t want to hear that their consciences are involved or that they are from liberal states. How about their intellectual honesty and dignity?

Why do they enable Democratic propaganda that millions would be hurt by repealing a law that forces those millions to buy insurance against their will? Why aren’t they held accountable for giving life-support to a law that is already harming people and would result in socializing one-sixth of our economy?

Don’t you just love hearing the self-serving protestations of these squishes, pretending to care so much about people while they are single-handedly as Democratic intransigence is an irremediable reality decimating world history’s greatest health-care system?

There is nothing compassionate about what Democrats and their sanctimonious foxhole-sharing Republican frauds are doing here.

It’s time for freedom-loving, people-loving Americans to turn the tables on these charlatans and recapture the moral high ground through aggressive and intelligent messaging. We’ll never save this republic if we can’t make the case that government largesse is fundamentally destructive and incompetent and that the invisible hand of the market yields results across the board that are more beneficial for more people than those of any other system known to man.

Socialism kills, impoverishes and enslaves and only masquerades as compassion while facilitating the compassion merchants’ consolidation of power. Freedom brings prosperity and, if you insist on using compassion as the be-all-end-all yardstick, is abundantly compassionate.
 
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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Chuck Grassley Wants to Know More About
Ukraine's Influence During the Election
on Behalf of liar-Hillary Clinton
by Katie Pavlich
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 Trump: Military Must Prepare for Real War, Not 
 Culture War 
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump reversed one of Barack liar-nObama's most odious military policy decisions. Trump tweeted, "After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military. Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail. Thank you."
          This is welcome news and a return to some vestige of sanity for much of America and specifically military personnel, whose morale suffered for years as liar-nObama treated the Armed Forces as his political social engineering project. Once again the military can go back to focusing on its primary objective of training, developing and preparing for what it does best — killing the enemy and winning wars, not crusading as social justice warriors for a corrupt, politically correct ideology.
          According to a recent RAND study commissioned by the Pentagon, the military's estimated annual medical cost to accommodate transgenders would have been at least $8.4 million. That's not a huge hit to the military's overall budget, but it's still an egregious waste of funds on elective surgeries and hormone treatments for a "special" class of military personnel. And the expense would in no way benefit the primary objective of the military. Greater than the cost of accommodating transgender medical bills, however, is the cultural degradation the military would have suffered while forcing compliance to the politically correct policy. Required leftist diversity acceptance training programs, adherence to self-defining identity pronouns, sensitivity training, demanded recognition and acceptance of an individual's gender disorientation over and against another individual soldier's religious convictions ... and the list goes on.
          With the continued promotion of these leftist social engineering policies, the U.S. military was on a slow path of self-destruction. liar-nObama's transgender policy essentially prevented those who object to such practices from enlisting. In other words, residents of middle America, where patriotism and love for country runs deepest, would find themselves faced with having to compromise their morals and beliefs if they chose to join the military. While the Rainbow Mafia wails that the military is weaker for having not accommodated transgenders, the real question is just how much military capital has been lost already as liar-nObama's social engineering drove highly qualified individuals to choose not to compromise their morals. ~The Patriot Post
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Arkansas Bar Lets liar-Clinton Skate On
Corruption, Espionage, Threats To Nat’l Security
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The Arkansas bar association has effectively announced to the world that they are corrupt and a political tool of the even more corrupt liar-Clintons and their criminal... anti-American organization, the Democrat Party. The good old boys at the Arkansas bar gave a liar-Hillary Clinton yet another in her endless series of exceptions to the rule of law and the consequences of her espionage against the United States, deciding that it will not permanently strip liar-Hillary Clinton of her ability to practice law in the state. In doing so, they rejected requests to punish her for risking national security with her home email server, on which she stored stolen government documents prior to sale and made them available to the governments of the world for hacking. They had also sought redress for her lying to congress, what they diplomatically sanitized as “misleading Congress.”... http://rickwells.us/arkansas-bar-lets-clinton-skate-corruption-espionage-threats-natl-security/
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More Intel Leaks: Nunes Letter To
FBI Outlines “Hundreds of Unmasking Requests
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ According to a report from The Hill, structured around the leaking of a letter sent by House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes to the FBI... “The letter was provided to The Hill from a source in the intelligence community“, outlines a massive amount of unmasking done by liar-nObama officials in 2016. “We have found evidence that current and former government officials had easy access to U.S. person information and that it is possible that they used this information to achieve partisan political purposes, including the selective, anonymous leaking of such information,” Nunes wrote in the letter to Coats. […]  In Thursday’s letter, Nunes said the total requests for Americans’ names by liar-nObama political aides numbered in the hundreds during liar-nObama’s last year in office and often lacked a specific intelligence community justification. He called the lack of proper justifications a “serious deficiency.”... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/07/27/more-intel-leaks-nunes-letter-to-fbi-outlines-hundreds-of-unmasking-requests/
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FBI General Counsel James A Baker
Under DOJ Investigation for Leaking
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Consider this report with a measured amount of cynicism.  Based on all historic references this could easily be just another example of well presented flak and countermeasures meant to protect the swamp... protect the Deep State, and feed a **distracting narrative. FBI General Counsel James A. Baker is purportedly under a Department of Justice criminal investigation for allegedly leaking classified national security information to the media, according to multiple government officials close to the probe who spoke with Circa on the condition of anonymity. […] Three sources, with knowledge of the apparent investigation, told Circa that Baker is the top suspect in an ongoing leak investigation, but Circa has not been able to confirm the details of what national security information or material was allegedly leaked... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/07/27/report-fbi-general-counsel-james-a-baker-under-doj-investigation-for-leaking
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North Korea launches ballistic missile,
Pentagon confirms
{foxnews.com} ~ North Korea launched a ballistic missile on Friday, the Pentagon confirmed. It was not immediately known if the missile, which was expected to land in the Sea of Japan... was an intercontinental ballistic missile or another type of rocket. “I can confirm that we detected a launch of a ballistic missile from North Korea," Pentagon spokesman Capt. Jeff Davis said. "We are assessing and will have more information soon." The launch, which occurred shortly before 11 a.m. Eastern time, had been expected by U.S. analysts who initially believed the launch date would be Thursday -- the 64th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended fighting in the Korean war. But bad weather apparently scuttled the launch and it was moved back one day... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/07/28/north-korea-launch-north-korea-launches-ballistic-missile-friday-pentagon-confirms.html
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Brennan, Rice, Power, liar-nObama –
Political Unmasking, More Coup Evidence
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The slime trail leading from the Russia, Russia, Russia framing of President Trump and his administration by the liar-nObama regime and with the involvement of some Russians who now appear to possibly be connected to the Kremlin is becoming more defined...The extent of the level of penetration by the covert, anti-American operation designed to manipulate and control the transfer of power by the previous administration, their shadow deep state government and perhaps the Russian spy agencies is breathtaking. Catherine Herridge quotes a letter from Republican Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Devin Nunes, in which he updated Trump DNI Dan Coats on the status of the unmasking investigation. Herridge reports, “Three of the nation’s intelligence agencies received subpoenas in May, explicitly naming three top officials of the liar-nObama administration.”...http://rickwells.us/brennan-rice-power-obama-political-unmasking-coup-evidence/
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Chuck Grassley Wants to Know More About
Ukraine's Influence During the Election
on Behalf of liar-Hillary Clinton
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by Katie Pavlich
{townhall.com} ~ Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley wants to know more about Ukrainian government efforts to work with the Democrat National Committee during the 2016 presidential election.
 
In a letter to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, Grassley is raising concerns about the potential failure of at least one DNC operative to register as a foreign agent before working on behalf of Ukraine to benefit Democrat liar-Hillary Clinton.
 
From the letter:
According to news reports, during the 2016 presidential election, “Ukrainian government officials tried to help liar-Hillary Clinton and undermine Trump” and did so by “disseminating documents implicating a top Trump aide in corruption and suggested they were investigating the matter…”[1]  Ukrainian officials also reportedly “helped liar-Clinton’s allies research damaging information on Trump and his advisers.”[2]  At the center of this plan was Alexandra Chalupa, described by reports as a Ukrainian-American operative “who was consulting for the Democratic National Committee” and reportedly met with Ukrainian officials during the presidential election for the express purpose of exposing alleged ties between then-candidate Donald Trump, Paul Manafort, and Russia.[3]  Politico also reported on a Financial Times story that quoted a Ukrainian legislator, Serhiy Leschenko, saying that Trump’s candidacy caused “Kiev’s wider political leadership to do something they would never have attempted before: intervene, however indirectly, in a U.S. election.”[4]
  
Reporting indicates that the Democratic National Committee encouraged Chalupa to interface with Ukrainian embassy staff to “arrange an interview in which Poroshenko the president of Ukraine might discuss Manafort’s ties to Yanukovych.”[5]  Chalupa also met with Valeriy Chaly, Ukraine’s ambassador to the U.S., and Oksana Shulyar, a top aid to the Ukrainian ambassador in March 2016 and shared her alleged concerns about Manafort.  Reports state that the purpose of their initial meeting was to “organize a June reception at the embassy to promote Ukraine.”  However, another Ukrainian embassy official, Andrii Telizhenko, told Politico that Shulyar instructed him to assist Chalupa with research to connect Trump, Manafort, and the Russians.  He reportedly said, “they were coordinating an investigation with the liar-Hillary team on Paul Manafort with Alexandra Chalupa” and that “Oksana Shulyar was keeping it all quiet…the embassy worked very closely with” Chalupa.[6]
 
Chalupa’s actions appear to show that she was simultaneously working on behalf of a foreign government, Ukraine, and on behalf of the DNC and liar-Clinton campaign, in an effort to influence not only the U.S voting population but U.S. government officials.
The White House has also been asking questions about Ukraine's involvement in recent weeks and wants the Department of Justice to investigate.
 
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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North Korea: To nuke or not to nuke
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by Erik Rush
 
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Repealing liar-nObamaCare without replacement fails in Senate with 45-55 vote. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Here are the six Republican senators who flip-flopped on liar-nObamaCare repeal. (Washington Examiner)
 
Texas booms (+3.9%) as California flatlines (0.1%); Mining, manufacturing drive growth. (CNS News)
 
Apple supplier Foxconn announces $10 billion investment in Wisconsin and up to 13,000 jobs. (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
 
Rep. Steve Scalise discharged from the hospital; enters rehab. (Townhall)
 
ICE chief considers smuggling charges against leaders of illegal immigrant "sanctuaries." (The Washington Times)
 
Trump administration files brief claiming discrimination law does not protect LGBT workers from bias. (Washington Examiner)
 
Trump picks Sam Brownback as international religious freedom ambassador. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
State actors are likely behind recent ransomware attacks. (The Daily Signal)
 
General: North Korean ICBM test was "game changer." (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Policy: Republicans can't afford to blow health care reform. (Washington Examiner)
 
Policy: Infrastructure spending must justify itself. (Real Clear Policy~The Patriot Post
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This American Town is Now
FULLY Under Sharia Law
by William Smith
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ As we witness the demise of many European nations under waves of Muslim immigration, it would be a mistake to think that could never happen in America... The following video shows that, thanks to the policies of Barack liar-nObama, at least one American town is already completely under Sharia Law. And it won’t be the last if we don’t start supporting President Trump’s immigration policies. It’s not about ending immigration. It’s about making sure those we do let in are prepared to integrate with American society and culture, NOT TRY TO OVERTHROW IT.  https://gopthedailydose.com/2017/07/27/this-american-town-is-now-fully-under-sharia-law-everyone-needs-to-see-this/
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Is Turkey Becoming Another Iran?
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by Uzay Bulut
{meforum.org} ~ Turkey has recently been in the news for various developments that include, among other matters, its record number of jailed journalists, the destruction of Kurdish towns and forced displacement of thousands of Kurds... the dismissal or suspension of thousands of government employees for political reasons, the arrest of thousands of citizens for allegedly "organizing" last year's failed coup, the creeping conversion of the Hagia Sophia Basilica-museum into a mosque, and the seizure of Assyrian Christian lands, churches and cemeteries by the government. One additional trend begging the media's attention is the determined Islamization of the Turkish educational system. Here is a short list of some of the latest developments in Turkish schools and their curricula:... http://www.meforum.org/6837/is-turkey-becoming-another-iran?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=22f85a51f5-bulut_uzay_2017_07_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-22f85a51f5-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-22f85a51f5-33703665
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UN Ambassador Nikki Haley Says U.S.
Talking With China About Sanctions on North Korea
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by Warren Mass
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The U.S. ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley said on July 25 that talks between the United States and the government of China aimed at gaining China’s support for UN Security Council sanctions against North Korea are progressing... The United States ratcheted up its call for sanctions following the Pyongyang regime’s July 4 missile launch and gave China a draft resolution to consider. However, some Americans — including former U.S. Representative Ron Paul (R-Texas) — believe that imposing sanctions on our adversaries does not work. “We’re constantly in touch with China.... Things are moving but it's still too early to tell how far they’ll move,” Reuters quoted Haley’s comments. The ambassador added that she was pleased with China's initial response to the U.S. proposal because it showed "seriousness."... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/26573-un-ambassador-nikki-haley-says-u-s-talking-with-china-about-sanctions-on-north-korea
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Steve Bannon has a shadow press
office It may violate federal law
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by Christina Wilkie
{publicintegrity.org} ~ In an arrangement prominent ethics experts say is without precedent and potentially illegal, the White House is referring questions for senior presidential adviser Stephen K. Bannon to an outside public relations agent... whose firm says she is working for free. Alexandra Preate, a 46-year-old New Yorker and veteran Republican media strategist, describes herself as Bannon's "personal spokesperson." But she also collaborates with other White House officials on public messaging and responses to press inquiries. It was Preate who responded when the Center for Public Integrity recently asked the White House Press Office questions about Bannon. The unorthodox setup means Bannon, Trump's chief strategist, is potentially violating the Antideficiency Act, which provides that federal employees "may not accept voluntary services for the government or employ personal services exceeding that authorized by law."... https://www.publicintegrity.org/2017/07/27/21014/steve-bannon-has-shadow-press-office-it-may-violate-federal-law?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=watchdog&utm_medium=publici-email&utm_source=Watchdog&utm_campaign=fa27806193-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_11&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffd1d0160d-fa27806193-100318285&mc_cid=fa27806193&mc_eid=19f9d76dda
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Conway Hints Priebus Leaker
“Using Press As Shiv To The Ribs”
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Kellyanne Conway joined the Fox and Friends cast to discuss the situation with Anthony Scaramucci’s financial disclosure forms... who might be responsible, the leak problem in general and tensions between Scaramucci and Reince Priebus in particular. They recap a tweet sent out by Scaramucci in which he stated, “In light of the lead of my financial disclosure information, which is a felony, I will be contacting the FBI and the DOJ #swamp @Reince45.” Ainsley Earhardt asks why the last reference to Priebus was included in the tweet. Conway says she’s has discussions with both Scaramucci and President Trump that morning on the matter, saying, “We just have to cut down on people thinking it’s cute and it makes them popular and it somehow enhances their resume and their portfolio for later on, to curry favor with folks who are more interested in covering the style and not the substance here.”... http://rickwells.us/conway-hints-priebus-leaker-using-press-shiv-ribs/
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North Korea: To nuke or not to nuke
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by Erik Rush


{wnd.com} ~ Obviously, one of the most pressing foreign-policy issues facing President Trump’s administration concerns North Korea. Questions of how far the fat, hedonistic little hamster who currently runs that nation will go toward the acquisition of strategic nuclear weapons and what he might do with them are certainly of grave import and must be addressed in the soberest and most judicious manner.

Those who are either old enough to recall or well-read enough are aware that the issue of nuclear proliferation in North Korea is not particular to Kim Jong-un the fat, hedonistic little hamster; it has been an ongoing concern of every American president since the Reagan era. This week, a noted expert on North Korea said the regime of Kim Jong-un is a scant year and a half away from development of a nuclear missile that would be capable of reaching the continental United States.

So what’s the United States to do?

As I have previously stated, tactical nuclear strikes by the U.S. against North Korea would decisively mitigate any nuclear threat posed by that nation. While this would obviously result in an inordinately large loss of life, the employment of nuclear weapons by the U.S. against Japan resulted in an inordinately large loss of life – but this had been weighed against grim casualty projections based on information available at the time.

In the face of the above argument, some would counter that in the case of America’s only other nuclear deployments, we were officially at war with Japan at the time, and the rationale of using nuclear weapons had been examined in the soberest and most prudent manner. We are not at war with North Korea, which would effectively negate any such comparison.

Conversely, and based on information we have available now, there are experts who have gone on record indicating that times have changed sufficiently to cancel out the above counter argument, and that future historians will see little difference between the actions taken against the aggressors of our age and officially designated combatants of, say, World War II. The dynamic of the West’s efforts against Islamic militants, which involves a less structured concept of aggressors and combatants, quite handily supports this practical change in the paradigm of modern warfare, and tangentially, the ethics employed in conducting warfare.

In considering such severe measures as tactical nuclear strikes against North Korea in order to neutralize the potential threat of that nation executing nuclear strikes against the United States, the Trump administration would of course have to consider the public perception attendant to that. The specter of hundreds of thousands or millions of North Koreans suffering the aftermath of a nuclear attack would certainly be cited and probably embellished by the establishment press and domestic subversives as reason for avoiding such action at all cost. Then, there would be the ensuing outcry from those at home who consider any action that the U.S. takes to preserve an upper hand in foreign policy as imperialistic.

One must also realize that many in the U.S. did consider the attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki as barbaric in 1945; in fact, it wound up being fodder for American communist propaganda for decades afterward. Unfortunately, the influence of such narrow thinking has vastly proliferated since the Cold War era, thus imparting misplaced sympathies upon the American populace. In reality, we may be weighing hundreds of thousands or millions of North Koreans suffering the aftermath of a U.S. nuclear strike against hundreds of thousands or millions of Americans suffering the aftermath of a North Korean nuclear strike.

The question then arises: Are tactical nuclear strikes truly the only options open to the most powerful nation on Earth which the U.S. still remains? Obviously not, but our diplomatic and even our military options have been stultified by the influence of leftist and globalist politics; even targeted conventional military strikes against North Korea with the objective of neutralizing her ability to project nuclear weapons would be met with outrage at home, and would have to be circumspectly considered and deftly justified to our citizens and the world.

– North Korean Foreign Ministry, July 25, 2017

In weighing these factors, one must certainly consider moral imperatives. In so doing, it is important to pragmatically consider our morality versus that of the North Korean regime. Those who have followed the progress of North Korea’s nuclear pursuits will no doubt be familiar with the belligerent, tribalist invective and bluster typically employed by Kim and his surrogates. There are also the bizarre and chilling state-sponsored media productions North Korea has released, which dramatize their annihilation of America with nuclear weapons. One would be monumentally foolish not to presume that these are indicative of their potential for rash action and barbarism.

In the end, of course, it will be the wisdom and prudence of those in the Trump administration that determine the outcome of this crisis in the short term, regardless of the methods employed. Given the lack of wisdom and prudence employed by previous administrations, however, long-term outcomes will remain equally uncertain for some time to come.
 
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What Charlie Gard Has Taught Us
by Minister Michael Brown

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 Senate GOP Votes to Debate, Not to Do Anything 
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Senate Republicans moved Tuesday to begin debate on various measures to repeal, replace or at least modify liar-nObamaCare. Barely. It took Vice President Mike Pence's tie-breaking vote to do so. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) could afford just two defectors, and Susan Collins (R-ME) and Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) obliged. Collins has been a de facto liar-nObamaCare supporter all along. Though she voted "no" on the original law, she has routinely rejected appeal and reform attempts ever since. Murkowski is another matter. She reversed course from her vote for repeal while Barack liar-nObama held the veto pen. The Senate should "repeal and fix this unworkable law," Murkowski declared in May 2016, adding that "a full repeal of the law would be the best course of action." Well, never mind then.
          The first bill that came for a vote was the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the Senate's version of repeal-and-replace. Predictably, it went down in defeat, 43-57. For those keeping score at home, nine Republicans broke ranks and voted with Democrats. Moderates Collins and Murkowski opposed it, while conservatives Mike Lee (R-UT) and Rand Paul (R-KY) stubbornly insisted the bill was insufficient. And then there were Bob Corker (R-TN), Tom Cotton (R-AR), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), Dean Heller (R-NV) and Jerry Moran (R-KS), who each voted no for various reasons.
          The Wall Street Journal nailed weak-kneed Republican moderates, saying, "Members have been debating among themselves for weeks, they know or should know the bill's essential policy choices, and the bill isn't getting prettier with age. That's especially true on Medicaid reform and spending, which is the chief gripe of the so-called moderates. ... They keep demanding more money. They keep getting it, but it's never enough."
          On this count, President Donald Trump got it exactly right: "It's a very, very difficult situation, because you move a little to the left, and you lose four guys. You move a little bit to the right, and all of a sudden you have a bloc of people who are gone. You have a one-inch road and it wheels through the middle of the valley." To use another metaphor, some Republicans are willing to sink a "good" bill with a torpedo named "perfect." Others are happy to stay aboard the Democrats' Titanic listening to the band play as the ship goes down.
          Next is an up-or-down vote on complete repeal with replace coming later. That too is sure to fail, but at least liar-nObamaCare's Republican defenders will be on record for voters to judge. Two years ago, every Republican but Collins voted for straight repeal. This time, it could be a dozen who oppose it. 
~The Patriot Post
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Gowdy Twists Schiff’s Snarky Comments
Back Into A Criticism Of Himself, Dems
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ While discussing the upcoming witnesses in the Russia, Russia, Russia investigation, Rep Trey Gowdy, who is a member of the House Intelligence Committee... is asked about comments made by the Democrat who hijacked that committee, Rep Adam Schiff (D-CA). Schiff, who has conducted himself as the investigative panel chairman since his George Soros funded allies filed ethics complaints against Rep Devin Nunes, had some snarky comments about Mr. Gowdy. He doesn’t like it when anyone introduces objectivity into his witch hunt. CNN’s Erin Burnett quotes the congressional bobble-head Schiff, saying, “Mr. Gowdy took the role as a  second attorney for Mr. Kushner.” Schiff had intended to beat Kushner up with a series of inane questions in hopes of somehow tripping him into making a mistake that could then be distorted, misquoted or otherwise manipulated into something of value to the snipe hunt. Apparently there were times when Rep Gowdy intervened and Shifty didn’t appreciate it... http://rickwells.us/gowdy-twists-schiffs-snarky-comments-back-criticism-dems/
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Firing Mueller Could Precipitate A Crisis At DOJ
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by Kevin Daley
{dailycaller.com} ~ The prospect of Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ dismissal seems especially high, as President Trump disparages his longtime loyalist in daily tweets and refuses to say whether he has confidence in his leadership... The most dangerous scenario attending this unprecedented situation, however, would be if Trump fired Sessions as part of a broader push to oust special counsel Robert Mueller, who is leading the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. Such a scheme could precipitate a wave of departures at the highest levels of the Justice Department, where Trump’s repeated knocks have leveled morale. If Trump dismisses Sessions, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will likely become acting AG, though BuzzFeed News’ Chris Geidner notes, Trump could install any Senate confirmed official in the post on a temporary basis...I doubt that he will fire Session. He will fire Mueller thou.  http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/26/firing-mueller-could-precipitate-a-crisis-at-doj/
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Jordan sets conditions
for return of Israeli Embassy staff
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Jordan has decided not to allow the return to Jordan of the Israeli Ambassador to Amman and her staff until the security official who shot and killed an attacking terrorist at the Embassy compound is tried in Israeli court... according to the Jordanian paper al-Rad. On Monday night, the Israeli Ambassador to Amman returned to Israel with the rest of her staff, including the security official in question, within the framework of agreements between the King of Jordan and Prime Minister Netanyahu. On Wednesday, Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely told Arutz Sheva that there was “no doubt” that the security official would be returned to his position at the Embassy... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/233067?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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North Korean ICBM Test Was ‘Game Changer’
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by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ North Korea's recent test of an intercontinental ballistic missile has increased the danger the country's leader Kim Jong Un will be able to strike the United States sooner than expected... the commander of U.S. Forces Korea said on Wednesday. Commenting on reports that the July 4 test of what the military is calling a KN-20 missile moved up estimates of the timeline for fielding a reliable long-range nuclear missile, Army Gen. Vincent Brooks, the commander, said in a brief interview, "We believe they have." "It is a bit of a game changer for us," the four-star general said of the missile test that flew 1,700 miles into space and flew for 37 minutes—longer than any previous North Korean missile flight test... http://freebeacon.com/national-security/general-north-korean-icbm-test-game-changer/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8a5e547bee-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_07_26&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8a5e547bee-45611665
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Liberal German Immigration Courts
Overwhelmed, Facing 5 Year Backlog
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Just as liar-nObama deliberately overloaded the immigration courts with “refugee” cases by entitling those from neighboring countries other than Mexico to a hearing to determine whether they could be deported back to where they belong... German courts are now critically backlogged. Once again the similarities between the Merkel destruction in Europe and liar-nObama in the United States are striking. Hundreds of thousands of Islamic invaders are clogging the German judicial system as the word has spread that the ticket to extending your free ride on the German citizens is to appeal your ruling denying refugee status. Invaders who were initially granted “subsidiary protection” status by the German authorities, are now suing in an effort to obtain full refugee status. According to a report in the Amazon Washington Post, “Those with subsidiary protection status can stay in Germany for up to three years, but do not have the right to reunify with family.”...http://rickwells.us/liberal-german-immigration-courts-overwhelmed-facing-5-year-backlog/
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What Charlie Gard Has Taught Us
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townhall.com} ~ Isn’t it remarkable that a tiny little baby who cannot utter a word has spoken to the world? Isn’t it remarkable that a handicapped child who, under normal circumstances, might have lived and died in obscurity, has become the focal point of a debate affecting millions? God has His ways of using the weak and the vulnerable, and He has done it again through Charlie Gard.

By now, most all of us have heard that his parents gave up the fight for his life, stating that the window of opportunity for special treatment was closed. This must be an extraordinarily bitter pill for them to swallow, since it is their country’s health care system that refused to allow him to receive him any experimental treatment, thereby sealing his fate.

In the words of Charlie’s mother Connie, “We are so sorry we couldn't save you. We had the chance but we weren't allowed. Sweet dreams baby. Sleep tight our beautiful little boy.”

What is Charlie saying to us?

First, Charlie reminds us that all human life is valuable, whether strong or weak, young or old, healthy or sick. As expressed in the mantra of the children’s story Horton Hears a Who, “A person’s a person, no matter how small.” How true.

As we looked at the pictures and videos of Charlie, so helpless and dependent, we saw a person, a special person, a person worthy of love, a person created in the image of God. And we saw this despite the fact that he could do nothing and say nothing.

His worth was not found in his great riches or his many accomplishments. His worth was simply found in being a person, a fellow-human being. And that is enough.

Ironically, Dr. Seuss, who wrote Horton Hears a Who, was reportedly not a pro-life advocate. It appears he failed to grasp the implications of his own story.

Second, Charlie reminds us of the tenacity of a parent’s love. While we prayed and petitioned and cried from a distance, Charlie was his parents’ jewel, their own flesh and blood, their little champion.

In these days when children are often an afterthought if not an inconvenience, when leftists fight vigorously for the “right” to abort their babies, and while ethicists argue that infants suffering outside the womb should be euthanized, the devotion of Charlie’s mom and dad reminds us of the depth of a parent’s love.

No one can hold out hope like a mom and dad. No one can nurture like a mom and dad. No one can persevere like a mom and dad. There is no higher calling than being a mom and dad. God has placed a human life into our care.

Third, Charlie reminds us that the state cannot be the ultimate caregiver and the ultimate arbiter of life and death. I’m not talking here about the court sentencing criminals to their appropriate fate, whatever that may be. I’m talking about health care.

To be perfectly clear, I’m the last person to offer in-depth analyses of the current healthcare debate or to enter into a detailed critique of liar-nObamacare. And I’m certainly not the one to offer a better alternative to President liar-nObama’s Affordable Care Act.

I’m also aware of some positive sides to the socialized medicine found in Europe, as related to me by friends and colleagues over the years.

But what Charlie’s case says to us – no, shouts to us – is that the courts and government cannot stand in the way of parents urgently seeking to provide treatment for their child or individuals seeking to get treatment for themselves.

It’s one thing if the system refuses to pay the costs of a particular treatment. We can understand that, and we’ve gladly lived with it for years. On a regular basis, Americans seek out alternative treatments not recognized by the medical industry, and we’re willing to pay for this out of pocket.

But it’s another thing entirely when the system says, “We will not allow you to take your child for alternative treatment.”

That’s where we must respectfully say to the government, “I’m sorry, but you are not God.”

Unfortunately, Charlie’s parents had no choice but to comply with the courts, since they were powerless to remove him from the hospital and transport him to a place where he could be treated.

This, then, is an urgent lesson to all of us here on the other side of the pond: Whatever our lawmakers decide regarding healthcare, it can never come to something like this. The government must not play God.

Finally, one last thought about the value of Charlie Gard’s life.

It’s possible that by the time you read these words, he will have left this world without uttering a syllable. Yet his legacy will last for years, perhaps making an impact on nations, probably an impact far greater than if he had lived a normal, healthy life.

Here too we are reminded not to measure things as the world does but to measure things from God’s perspective. In His sight, what is insignificant to people can be of massive, eternal importance. And so Charlie, being dead, will speak for years to come.

May we honor his legacy in word and deed.
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Fri/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Who Owns Border Death Truck Tragedy? Mexico!
by Michelle Malkin
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 Another Court Shoots Down DC's Anti-Gun 
 Regulation 
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In a 2-1 decision, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit ruled against a District regulation that severely limited the ability of an individual to obtain a concealed carry permit. Judge Thomas Griffith wrote for the majority, "The good-reason law is necessarily a total ban on most D.C. residents' right to carry a gun in the face of ordinary self-defense needs. Bans on the ability of most citizens to exercise an enumerated right would have to flunk any judicial test."
          John R. Lott of the Crime Prevention Research Center noted that just 124 DC residents currently have concealed carry permits. He said, "If DC were like the 42 right-to-carry states, they would have about 48,000 permits. Right now DC prevents the most vulnerable people, particularly poor blacks who live in high crime areas of DC, from having any hope of getting a permit for protection."
          This is a definite win for Americans' Second Amendment rights, but it may be short-lived. The District could appeal to the full DC Circuit Court of 11 judges, seven of whom are Democrat appointees. If the full court were to take on the appeal, it would most likely signal the other judges' desire to reverse the three-judge panel's ruling. With the Ninth Circuit Court's decision to uphold San Diego's limit on concealed carry permits and the Supreme Court's refusal hear that appeal, a reversal by the full DC circuit might mean that SCOTUS would again refuse to entertain an appeal. However, if the decision holds, it would provide the circuit court split necessary for SCOTUS to take up the issue of concealed carry limits. Of course, there are a lot of assumptions here.
          But not to get lost in possible future scenarios, this ruling is good news. It restores gun rights to residents of our nation's capital, which is common sense especially in light of the targeted attack by a crazed leftist on congressional Republicans. Those living within the District have just as much of a right to self-defense as those who live in Texas. 
~The Patriot Post
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Smear Merchants FUSION GPS Now
Linked To CORRUPT Venezuelan Politicians
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ More reasons why Fusion GPS founder Glenn Simpson declared he’d be pleading the 5th Amendment rather than testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday... It does seem the more that is exposed about his dirty little business the more potential legal jeopardy he finds himself in. Not only did corrupt American politicians such as liar-Hilly Clinton and Jeb Bush utilize their services to collect dirt on President Trump as a candidate, they engage in the production of their crooked compilations internationally as well. We know that they were behind the fabricated and completely debunked Moscow dossier alleging perverse sexual encounters by Mr. Trump in 2013. Their fingerprints were also all over infamous Trump Tower meeting with Donald Trump Jr. and campaign staffers, a likely setup with Natalia Veselnitskaya and others. Now we learn there is more Fusion impropriety, involving corrupt Venezuelan officials...http://rickwells.us/smear-merchants-fusion-gps-linked-corrupt-venezuelan-politicians/
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ISIS in Oakland: ‘Redefine Terror,’
Kill 10,000, ‘Whole Bay Area Up in Flames’
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by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ An Oakland man who wanted to “redefine terror” in the United States by killing 10,000 people was indicted on charges last Friday for providing material and personnel services to the Islamic State... The Department of Justice announced that Amer Sinan Alhaggagi, 22, “is alleged to have knowingly attempted to provide services and personnel to the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS), between July and November of 2016, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2339B. ISIS is a designated foreign terrorist organization. The indictment alleges that the services Alhaggagi attempted to provide included opening social media accounts for the use, benefit and promotion of ISIS, and that the personnel he provided was himself.” Besides expressing his willingness to blow himself up in a suicide mission, Alhaggagi planned to sell cocaine laced with rat poison at gay clubs in and around the Bay Area... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/isis-oakland-redefine-terror-kill-10000-whole-bay-area-flames
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What’s at Stake in the Senate’s
Last-Ditch Effort to Repeal liar-nObamacare
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by Jarrett Stepman
{dailysignal.com} ~ The Senate narrowly voted in favor of a motion to proceed to debate the health care bill Tuesday, giving Republicans one chance to get something done before Congress likely goes on recess in mid-August... The Senate will continue to participate in what’s called a “vote-a-rama.” The vote-a-rama  process was described at length by health care expert Christopher Jacobs at The Federalist, but in short, it is a grueling, head-spinning series of speeches and votes on amendments that may or may not make it into the final bill. Much can still change as the vote-a-rama unfolds... http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/26/whats-stake-senates-last-ditch-effort-repeal-obamacare?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRkaVl6STVOV015T0dZeSIsInQiOiI4M0NFM2RLT1BKcjFVUFRmWituK25WbjREemRxYVV0UUlKSGVHWDVURmhidk9UZUFlcEtoR0pyYmc0cytDNWdPY2pkaWZpOFFzb0E5VUY4THVFa1hpdU9KMWQzOU02N20wM0ZPdmFHelhxZTUzR1wvZytkRllwMzVSTDdLcTIya0cifQ%3D%3D
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Liberals’ Allegations of Treason
Against Don Jr. Fall Short
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by Jarrett Stepman
{dailysignal.com} ~ Is it treason? This is the accusation some liberals and even legislators are throwing around regarding Donald Trump Jr.’s contact with a Russian lawyer who has a connection to the Kremlin... When a reporter recently asked about whether Trump Jr.’s attempt to obtain compromising information about the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign from the pro-Russian lawyer, The big question is whether Trump Jr. actually did anything illegal. Treason would, of course, be the most serious charge, but as a matter of law, it is extremely unlikely that anything he did would rise to the level of high treason against the United States... http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/26/liberals-allegations-treason-don-jr-fall-short/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRkaVl6STVOV015T0dZeSIsInQiOiI4M0NFM2RLT1BKcjFVUFRmWituK25WbjREemRxYVV0UUlKSGVHWDVURmhidk9UZUFlcEtoR0pyYmc0cytDNWdPY2pkaWZpOFFzb0E5VUY4THVFa1hpdU9KMWQzOU02N20wM0ZPdmFHelhxZTUzR1wvZytkRllwMzVSTDdLcTIya0cifQ%3D%3D
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Scaramucci Financial Data
Leaked To Politico – Calling FBI, DOJ
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci promised when he took his new position to make stopping leaks one of his first priorities... He’s fired one White House staffer so far, but now he’s got even more motivation than simply doing his job in service to President Trump and the nation. Somebody just made it personal. On Wednesday even Scaramucci announced that he will involve both the FBI and the Department of Justice in investigating the leaking of his financial disclosure statement filed with the Office of Government Ethics, something he described as a felony. He tweeted, “In light of the leak of my financial disclosure info, which is a felony, I will be contacting @FBI and the @TheJusticeDept.” He also tagged White House chief of staff Reince Priebus and added the hashtag #swamp... http://rickwells.us/scaramucci-financial-data-leaked-politico-calling-fbi-doj/
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Who Owns Border Death Truck Tragedy? Mexico!
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by Michelle Malkin
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townhall.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 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, DHS 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?
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Death of a White Woman
by Katie Kieffer

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 Top Headlines 
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Senate testimony: Fusion GPS helped Russians by spreading phony Trump dossier. (The Federalist)
 
The House has accomplished a lot this year. The Senate, not so much. (National Review)
 
How bad has Trump Derangement Syndrome gotten? MSNBC just reached #1 in prime time. (Hot Air)
 
Trump bans transgender confusion in military. (USA Today)
 
CIA gives more power to spies to bolster intelligence operations. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Feds arrest Wasserman Schultz's Islamic IT staffer trying to leave the country. (Fox News)
 
IRS finally agrees to clear last Tea Party case — not a minute too soon! (The Washington Times)
 
Taxpayers are subsidizing housing for "nonexistent tenants." (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Liberal professor files $3.8M claim against Evergreen State College over racism. (The Washington Times)
 
Humor: The Venezuela Diet! (YouTube — Reason)
 
Policy: Government unions after Wisconsin. (Capital Research Center)
 
Policy: Free market thinking is key for states to avoid financial disaster. (Inside Sources~The Patriot Post
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Trump Announces Military
Will No Longer Allow Transgenders
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by James Barrett
{dailywire.com} ~ On Wednesday, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. Military "will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity," citing the "tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgenders... in the military would entail." The decision reverses the "pro-transgender" policy implemented by President liar-nObama in his final year in office.  "After consultation with my Generals and military experts, please be advised that the United States Government will not accept or allow transgender individuals to serve in any capacity in the U.S. Military," Trump wrote in a series of tweets. "Our military must be focused on decisive and overwhelming victory and cannot be burdened with the tremendous medical costs and disruption that transgender in the military would entail." The announcement signals the end of the liar-nObama administration's new policy implemented on July 1, 2016, which reversed the longstanding policy of excluding for psychological and medical reasons those who suffer from gender dysphoria, the desire to be of the opposite sex... http://www.dailywire.com/news/19005/breaking-trump-announces-military-will-no-longer-james-barrett?utm_source=shapironewsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_content=072617-news-title&utm_campaign=lead
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Will Congress Stop Paying Terrorists?
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by Meira Svirsky
{clarionproject.org} ~ The terrorist who stabbed to death three members of a Jewish family in Israel as they sat down to eat their Sabbath meal last Friday night will be paid  a monthly salary of $3,000 by the Palestinian Authority (PA)... The PA passed a formal government resolution in 2011 awarding all Palestinian prisoners in Israel jails monthly salaries for security and terror-related offenses. Aid money given yearly to the PA from the United States, Europe and other countries contributes to these salaries. Currently pending in Congress is the Taylor Force bill, which would limit American aid money to the Palestinians unless it ends these payments as well as its rampant incitement...What are you waiting for, pass the bill congress. https://clarionproject.org/monthly-salary-palestinian-terrorist-3000/
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Secretary of State Shills
for Muslim Brotherhood, Qatar
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by Ryan Mauro
{clarionproject.org} ~ The Trump Administration still hasn’t designated the Muslim Brotherhood as a Foreign Terrorist Organization as it was expected to do... Designation falls under the purview of Secretary of State Tillerson, who has chosen the Muslim Brotherhood and its backers in Qatar and Turkey over their Arab rivals. His main point is that the Brotherhood’s political parties have representatives in governments like those in Bahrain and Turkey. That is irrelevant. If it was such a problem, Bahrain itself wouldn’t have banned the Brotherhood and the U.S. wouldn’t be dealing with the Lebanese government that has Hezbollah in it, which is designated as a Foreign Terrorist Organization. Tillerson also repeated the “non-violent” and “moderate” Muslim Brotherhood propaganda. He claimed that the Brotherhood’s political parties in governments “have become so by renouncing violence and terrorism.” That was false when the liar-nObama Administration said it, and it is false now... https://clarionproject.org/secretary-state-disappoints-muslim-brotherhood-qatar/
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Senator Chuck clown-Schumer Attacks
Republicans Just Before Health Care Vote
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By Jim E
{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Just before Senate Republicans took up a crucial vote on a bill or set of bills to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare, Cryin’ Chuck clown-Schumer took to the Senate floor to do what he does best: whine, and moan, and cry... about how mean Republicans are for trashing the disaster of a law known as liar-nObamacare. clown-Schumer spends three minutes rambling and gesticulating about the impending doom an liae-r-nObamacare repeal would bring. The Senate is a place designed for finely-worded debate, but clown-Schumer’s delivery is more grating than listening to Gilbert Gottfried sing the National Anthem... http://thepoliticalinsider.com/senator-chuck-schumer-attacks-republicans-just-before-health-care-vote/?utm_content=4b4ea4948726422aa6473c7b9fa19141&source=CI&utm_campaign=TPI_Morning_Newsletter_7_26_17&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-07-26-17-morning&utm_medium=email
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T-Rex: “I’m Not Going Anywhere”…
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The insufferable State Department correspondents, known throughout the world for their globalist banner-carrying tender sensibilities, shout divisive questions to Secretary of State Tillerson during a customary diplomatic photo-op... with Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrachman Al Thani. The U.S. media are embarrassing. Seriously, just for context – consider the snark and ridiculous media questions against the substantive accomplishments of Secretary Tillerson, Secretary Mattis, Secretary Kelly, Secretary Mnuchin, Secretary Ross, and President Donald Trump. https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/07/26/t-rex-im-not-going-anywhere/
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Death of a White Woman
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by Katie Kieffer
{
townhall.com} ~ “I can hear someone out back and I, I’m not sure if she’s having sex or being raped,” Justine Damond told a Minneapolis, MN police dispatcher at 11:27 p.m. on July 15. Eight minutes passed. No squad car. She re-dialed 911.

Minutes earlier, Damond had been awakened from sleep by a female’s chilling scream. The sound was particularly startling in a neighborhood known for low crime and peaceful streets. After calling the police, Damond called her fiancé and said the sound seemed to be coming from a neighbor’s garage.

Damond’s heart was too big to crawl back in bed when she sensed another woman hurting nearby. Her first instinct was always to help. A few weeks earlier, she had jumped—barefoot—into a drain to rescue a flock of eight ducklings. A personal coach, she spent her days trying to uplift others. So it probably didn’t occur to her that she could be in more danger than the owner of the scream.

When two officers eventually pulled into the alleyway behind her home, Damond walked toward the squad car window to greet them—still wearing her pajamas.

A bullet tore through her abdomen. The cop she had called for help had shot her.

Officer Mohamed Noor had reached across his partner, Officer Matthew Harrity, from the passenger seat to fire the shot. Noor’s aim was true. By 12:45 a.m., the 40-year-old Australian-American woman with blond hair, green eyes and a megawatt smile was dead.

The Sound of Silence

One year ago in Minnesota, a Hispanic police officer named Jeronimo Yanez shot an African American man named Philando Castile in self-defense. “I thought I was going to die. I had no choice,” Yanez testified at his trial for second-degree manslaughter.

A jury found Yanez not guilty on all counts.

But Yanez’ foremost crime for which no jury could ever clear him was that he was not black and he had killed a black man. Despite research showing that black suspects are killed more often by a black officer than a white officer, the Minneapolis community—and national Black Lives Matter movement—erupted in rage.

“I think he was just black in the wrong place,” Castile’s mother Valerie said after her son’s death. Anger is understandable after a loved one dies. But it’s wrong to let one’s anger blind the facts and conclude that every black who dies at the hands of a non-black cop is killed out of racism and that whites never experience racism.

Unfortunately, Minnesota Governor Mark Dayton made those presumptions. Following Castile’s death, Gov. Dayton declared: “Would this have happened if … the driver and passenger would have been white? I don’t think it would.”

Black Lives Matter took a cue from Gov. Dayton’s words. At 10:30 p.m. on the night of Yanez’ acquittal, some 2,000 people took to the streets of Minneapolis. They shut down a major highway, Interstate I-94, and wouldn’t budge for hours. Violence and destruction—not peace—was the hallmark of the protest. At least 21 Minnesota police officers were injured by protesters and hundreds of arrests were made at similar protests nationwide.

But when a black officer shot a white woman—an officer with three separate open investigations into his behavior who violated police rules by shutting off his body camera; by shooting across his partner; and by shooting in the absence of a reasonable threat—you could practically hear crickets chirping.

That is, until Gov. Dayton broke the silence by prematurely siding with Noor and stating that his behavior is not indicative of a “trigger-happy” police force.

Perhaps Gov. Dayton was emulating President liar-nObama, who did the same thing in 2012. Before anyone knew the facts, President liar-nObama rushed to a public microphone and declared an African American teenager named Trayvon Martin “my son.”

We soon learned from eyewitness accounts and expert forensic testimony that Martin was not as innocent as liar-nObama’s I Am Your Father speech made him sound. On the evening of February 28, 2012, Martin had pummeled a Hispanic man named George Zimmerman in an MMA-style “ground and pound” mount and reached for Zimmerman’s gun while shouting “You’re going to die tonight!” before Zimmerman shot Martin in self-defense.

The selective silence of Black Lives Matter a group that purports to fight police violence—and the ridiculous comments of Gov. Dayton—in the wake of Damond’s death are alarming. Because, rather than promoting peace, Black Lives Matter and Gov. Dayton appear to be fostering racism.

Justice for Justine

We still need to hear all the facts of this case. But the key fact is that an innocent woman died while she was trying to help another woman. And next to no one seems to care. Because she happened to be white and her killer happened to be black.

The Minneapolis Police Department and Minneapolis Mayor Betsy Hodges fast-tracked Noor as part of the City’s “diversity” efforts and goals. But no city in America should have to accept ill-qualified persons into its police force in order to fulfill diversity goals.

May Justine Damond’s tragic death ultimately be a tribute to her life by reminding us that political correctness can be fatally destructive. To save lives, we must seek the truth in every story.
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