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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 7, 2017 at 6:30am
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Why Democrats Voted
Against Bills to Protect Americans
by Susan Stamper Brown
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 Liberal vs Leftist 
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What is a liberal? Or maybe a better question is, what does the term liberal mean today? Well, according to Jacques Berlinerblau, a professor from Georgetown University who recently wrote an article for the Washington Post, there are liberals and then there are "radical leftists." Berlinerblau admits that American academia is mostly composed of liberal professors and that professors who identify as politically conservative are utterly underrepresented in America's halls of higher learning, with humanities departments in particular being the least politically diverse. In other words, leftist ideology is controlling most of the nation's colleges and universities.
          But while Berlinerblau rightly concludes that conservatives are not to blame for the recent havoc wreaked in places like Middlebury, UC Berkeley and Evergreen College, he also attempts to shift the blame away from liberals. According to Berlinerblau, three groups exist in academia: a small conservative minority, a sizable liberal contingent and the dominant radical left he blames for the current campus intolerance. The question remains, what is the difference between a liberal and a leftist?
          Berlinerblau's answer to that question ends up sounding more like a disagreement over the manner of application rather than over opposing ideologies. He cites as examples liberals' reactions to certain events, such as "liberals didn't exult over Iran's 1979 Islamic revolution," or that liberals didn't "refer to the victims of 9/11 as 'little Eichmanns.'" He also notes that "liberals are generally made highly uncomfortable by censorship, speaker boycotts, trigger warnings, safe spaces and the like." Berlinerblau's argument sounds eerily similar to the one made by Muslims who may reject the methods of Islamic terrorists, yet refuse to disavow radical Islamists.
          The truth is that modern liberalism stands in stark contrast to the classical liberal values expressed by our nation's Founding Fathers. It is today's conservatives who hold most closely to those classical liberal principles. Today's radical leftist social justice warrior is merely the logical manifestation of modern liberal ideology. Liberal and leftist is a distinction without a difference. It is modern liberalism that can be credited with teaching the ideology of socialism that glories in the utopian ideals of Karl Marx. It is modern liberalism that sees little value in Christianity and has long mocked Christians as backward fools. It is modern liberalism that has questioned the very nature of truth itself, opening a Pandora's box of relativism. No, Professor Berlinerblau, liberals may not like it, but the radical left is their creation.  ~The Patriot Post
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Dems Obstruction Above All Else
Policies Costing Them With Voters
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has “a few thoughts for Democrats who can no longer control their venomous rhetoric and their outright lies, even though they must surely now realize that they are only further damaging their party... and all but eliminating the Dems’ remote chances of being competitive in the midterm elections.” Dobbs observes, “The Dems have been carrying out a campaign of ignorance and scorched earth mindlessness since President Trump was elected.” He reminds us of their schemes and claims of Russian collusion, the George Soros-Jill Stein recounts for liar-Clinton, and the vitriol of racist John Lewis who claimed that President Trump was not a legitimate president before he had even been inaugurated. Cabinet confirmations that took an average of 25 days to be approved, with the last not happening until April 27th are further evidence that the Democrats’ job one is obstruction. He notes their calls for impeachment since day one, without any basis of illegality, or Russian collusion...http://rickwells.us/dobbs-dems-obstruction-policies-costing-voters/  
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The Tragic Case of Charlie Gard
Highlights the Importance of Parental Rights
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by Paul Diamond
{dailysignal.com} ~ The tragic case of Charlie Gard, the British infant who will soon be taken off life support, has exposed the scale of the malfunction in the British family court system... This is a court system driven by ideological professionals and overseen by compliant judges who have lost their moorings in Judeo-Christian values. Charlie is a 10-month-old infant who suffers from an extremely rare and debilitating genetic disease and has already suffered significant brain damage. He cannot move his arms or legs and cannot breathe without the assistance of a ventilator. On June 8, the United Kingdom Supreme Court permitted the hospital to withdraw such support to enable Charlie to die with “dignity,” in its own words... http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/04/tragic-case-charlie-gard-highlights-importance-parental-rights/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpsaVlqSm1NMkkxWm1NMCIsInQiOiJyUlJ3SmtESkhCc1pZWUt0c1p6NWM3TEswQmwzN2xoUGlaRnluS3dRTlVvWTV1YWJ6ZGpXaHVXZTdGeURrTkNURm5jcDZ4NDJoVzJlZ014UmJxaWV5Q1pOdzFRUGpkSnA0UjFzM2xwS1ZZcndIK0V2akI1elJNd1kxdzZZaHR6SCJ9
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It's a Start - Congress to
Repeal the ACA Individual Mandate
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by Kerry Lear
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Although Congress did not repeal the Affordable Care Act this summer like many Republicans had hope for, lawmakers are making a push to repeal the individual mandate of liar-nObamacare... which forces individuals without health insurance to pay high penalty fees. "The plan is separate from Republican efforts to repeal the health care law, and appears more likely to be adopted because it would be written into the annual spending bill for the Treasury and the I.R.S., writes the New York Times. "But it has a similar purpose: to weaken the health law that President Trump and Republicans in Congress want to dismantle." “None of the funds made available by this act may be used by the Internal Revenue Service to implement or enforce section 5000A of the Internal Revenue Code,” states the bill. Section 5000A imposes the penalty on individuals without insurance...http://punchingbagpost.com/it-a-start---congress-to-repeal-the-aca-individual-mandate
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Korean Nuclear Misperceptions
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by PETER HUESSY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The President of the Republic of Korea met with President Donald Trump last week. Very high on the agenda of the two President's was the threat posed by North Korea's increasingly aggressive and bellicose actions in the region... including the testing of nuclear weapons and the extensive test launch of dozens of ballistic missiles off all ranges including a most recent test of ICBM caliber. China, North Korea, the New York Time, the Wilson Center and a number of former high ranking US government officials, are pushing very hard for a freeze on North Korean missile testing and nuclear weapons tests as a prelude to unconditional "negotiations" with the United States. Such a "deal" would probably also include an end to "reciprocal" military exercises between the United States and the Republic of Korea and an end to our missile defense deployments. Such calls for diplomacy and negotiation are almost universally put forward but relying on a series of common assumptions that make such an approach-diplomacy-seem the only available means to "resolve" the "tensions" in the region... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/korean-nuclear-misperceptions?f=must_reads
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FSM VIDEO
 
Trump: CNN Took Wrestling GIF "Too Seriously," They Hurt Themselves "Very Badly"
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CNN: Voter Fraud Allegations Are "BS", GOP Just Trying to Suppress Vote
VIDEO:  https://www.mrctv.org/videos/cnn-voter-fraud-allegations-are-bs-gop-just-trying-suppress-vote
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How did Maxine Waters afford a 6,000 sq ft, $4.3 million mansion after working 40 years in government?
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5493622538001
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Fleitz on Russia intelligence: "I think this assessment was rigged"
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Z4UhE0_98
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113th Wing commander talks defending America
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President Trump Honors Veterans and Participates in the Celebrate Freedom Rally
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ke8vsgPfFGo
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CNN Has Secured Its Place as "America's Fake News Leader"
VIDEO:  http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5486966386001
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Why Democrats Voted 
Against Bills to Protect Americans
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by Susan Stamper Brown
{townhall.com} ~ Only in Washington, D.C. will you find politicians so wrapped up in themselves, their party, crazed ideology, or something -- that they will not come together to pass legislation for the sake and safety of the American people.

Even though the House managed to pass two common sense, safety-focused bills on June 29, it is beyond comprehension that most Democrats voted against Kate’s Law and the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act. The GOP did have a handful of rogue nays, but very few in comparison.

What were they thinking?

Whatever they were thinking, it had little to do with safety and security of Americans. Leftists do their best to hoodwink normal Americans into accepting their San Francisco-style values like the absurd presumption that it is moral to break federal immigration law and shelter those who illegally cross our borders instead of following the rule of law to protect U.S. citizens.

A little background on the two bills. Lawmakers introduced Kate’s Law after an illegal immigrant killed a beautiful, young San Francisco woman named Kate Steinle. Although her killer, Juan Francisco Lopez-Sanchez, had a lengthy list of felony convictions and multiple deportations, sanctuary city policies meant the San Francisco Sheriff’s Department would not honor a detainer issued by U.S. Immigration and Customs [ICE]. Sheriff officials said they found no active warrant for his arrest, so rather than contacting ICE to pick him up, they released him and the rest is history.

The San Francisco which Lopez-Sanchez found sanctuary in, Miss Steinle did not. Kate’s Law serves to enforce immigration laws already on the books, imposing mandatory minimum prison sentences for lawbreakers like Lopez-Sanchez should they reenter the U.S. post-deportation.

The No Sanctuary for Criminals Act cuts off federal grant money to safe harbor cities and forces sanctuary city leadership to take responsibility for their actions, opening the way for victims of illegal immigrant crimes to sue.

You would never know it from the uproar by the left, but we are only talking about illegal immigration, not legal immigration, albeit Washington Democrats and their corporate media sidekicks have an astonishingly tough time differentiating between the two.

The left’s obsession with protecting lawbreakers at taxpayers’ expense is baffling.  Taxpayers in San Francisco are set to foot the bill for a $190,000 lawsuit brought by an illegal immigrant who sued because a police officer had the audacity to obey federal immigration laws and report his whereabouts to ICE, reports CBS’s KPIX-TV.

It comes as no surprise that a Harvard-Harris Poll survey taken earlier this year found that 80 percent of voters surveyed reject sanctuary cities because they believe “local authorities should have to comply with the law by reporting to federal agents the illegal immigrants they come into contact with.”

Regardless of surveys or polls or public opinion, Senate Democrats will try to defeat these two bills using the lame excuse they have already raised that supporting this legislation might somehow ramp up fear in the immigrant community.

Apparently, there is nothing more petrifying than obeying the law.

Democrats’ fear of ramping up fear in the immigrant community is misdirected. They should instead focus on the fact that besides the Almighty, the only thing Democrats should fear is themselves. They alone are responsible for the mess they are in and the chaos they have created.

It would be nice to believe Senate Democrats will set aside their partisanship and emotions long enough to do what’s right by the American people to vote “yes” on this legislation.  But, if history is a prognosticator, don’t hold your breath.

So, with countenances drawn and somber defeat on their faces, Democrats will march lockstep into the 2018 midterm elections as weak on crime and weedy on principles as ever.
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 6, 2017 at 4:00pm
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 Trump's Nuclear Energy Ambitions
by Paul Albaugh
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 Democrat-Controlled States Face Debt Crisis 
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Longtime Democrat-controlled state governments are running out of other people's money. Three states in particular are in varying degrees of budgetary crisis. Illinois, Connecticut and New Jersey are swimming in debt and yet Democrats' only solution is to call for tax increases, not spending cuts. Illinois is especially bad, finding itself staring at a growing debt crisis owing primarily to the cost of public pensions. It recently passed a massive tax hike, though Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner vetoed the bill over its failure to deal with the root cause of the problem — the public employment system. But the state senate's Democrat majority overrode Rauner's veto, displaying once again that Democrats dance to the tune of big unions over and against the interests of citizens. Is it any wonder that Illinois has seen its population decrease by over 500,000 since 2010?
          Both Connecticut and New Jersey find themselves in similar predicaments. They're trying to find the funds to pay for ever-increasing public pensions and retirement health care costs without actually working to reform these programs that have precipitated the problem in the first place. And their solution is always increased taxes.
          By contrast, look at a longtime Republican-controlled state. Tennessee is a state where high taxes are essentially non-existent. With no regular income tax, the Volunteer State has become a magnet for businesses and Americans seeking greater freedom from oppression of government excess. The Brookings Institute ranks the state as number one in the nation for advanced industry job growth. The state government also finds itself on the opposite side of the debt crisis and sitting on a revenue surplus, as Tennessee's constitution requires lawmakers pass a balanced budget plan each year. As a right-to-work state, it has helped to prevent the development of political culture adhering to the demands of unions. When individual freedom is prized over collectivist sympathies, the result is a government with fiscal restraints rather than unchecked excesses.  ~The Patriot Post
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Trump Supporters Roast
Maxine Waters at Town Hall Event
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by Ben Marquis
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Liberal Democrat California Rep. Maxine Waters has become one of the more loud and outspoken opponents of President Donald Trump... repeatedly insistent upon beginning impeachment proceedings against him while failing to provide any sort of legitimate reason why. But all is not entirely well in Waters’ world, as she was confronted by numerous equally loud and outspoken protesters outside of a town hall event she held in Gardena, California, in June, according to the Los Angeles Times. The crowd of protesters made up of men and women of all races were forced to remain outside while Waters spoke with mostly supportive constituents inside the venue, but they didn’t let that stop them from haranguing the congresswoman with chants alternating between “Let us in!” and “Kick her out!”... http://conservativetribune.com/waters-shut-down-town-hall-event/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=conservativebyte&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Trump Needs Zero Tolerance For
Insubordination – Start With Voter Fraud Probe
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It makes no sense that President Trump is allowing the deep state to obstruct his initiatives, agenda and policies through what is outright insubordination and defiance... The solution is simple. It starts with identifying a directive that has not been implemented and then going to the person in charge or calling them into the White House and demanding that it happen immediately. Consistent and constant follow up is then initiated with immediately consequences for defiance or failure. The process is then repeated in agency after agency until his agenda is moving. It might take a while but once the word gets out that those who fail to do as they’re told can expect a visit and some unpleasant consequences, the number of dissidents will begin to fall off rapidly. As things are now, there are no consequences for insubordination, there’s barely any acknowledgment of it. There are many examples but one that is both striking and emblematic is the current resistance by the US Citizenship and Immigration Services to efforts by the Commission on Election Integrity to obtain the identifications of noncitizens living as permanent residents with green cards... http://rickwells.us/trump-needs-zero-tolerance-insubordination-start-voter-fraud-probe/
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Carlson – Waters Bought A $4.3 Million
Mansion In Segregated Neighborhood, HOW?
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Bigmouth Bully Maxine Waters (D-CA) has made what are the modern day interpretation of threats against HUD Secretary Ben Carson. Tucker Carlson points to her recent statement by the old, mean, hag the she was going... to “Take his ass apart” when he came before her committee for appropriations. In her Saturday speech in New Orleans, Waters also berated Secretary Carson, stating he “knows nothing about the mission of HUD” and “doesn’t care about people in public housing.” Carlson quotes Waters as saying of Carson, “‘He believes that if you are poor it is your fault’ and ‘,he doesn’t know the difference between an immigrant and a slave,’  whatever that means.” Carlson continues, “Now we’ve mocked Maxine Waters before on the show, but we should take her seriously on this subject.” He says, “Congresswoman Waters is a confirmed expert on the question of housing, especially her own housing. Consider where she lives – in a 6,000 square foot, $4.3 million mansion in one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in Los Angeles...http://rickwells.us/carlson-waters-bought-4-3-million-mansion-segregated-neighborhood/
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European Parliament to host terrorists' relatives
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Seventeen European Parliament members from all across the political spectrum are opposing their leftist colleagues' initiative, which would invite family members of convicted terrorists to the Parliament building... In a letter to the European Parliament President Antonio Tajani, the signatories wrote, "We are utterly appalled at the understanding that our colleagues from the Delegation for Relations with Palestine (DPAL), under the pretext of discussing 'the situation of the Palestinian prisoners in Israeli jails after the hunger-strike,' are in fact offering a public platform to relatives of convicted terrorists." "We, Members of the European Parliament, are seriously concerned with the message this forum sends to our constituencies amidst such turbulent times in Europe... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/232092?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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North Korean Missile Threat Proves 
Need for More Investment in Missile Defense
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by Jordan Bernstein
{dailysignal.com} ~ Policymakers writing the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act are responsible for crafting new defense policies to deal with an increasingly turbulent and dangerous world... Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, and a bipartisan coalition of cosponsors are working to mitigate North Korea’s nuclear threat by passing the Advancing American Missile Defense Act. While critics argue the ground-based system is weak and flawed, they are wrong. It is the only U.S. system capable of eliminating an intercontinental ballistic missile during its midcourse phase of flight... http://dailysignal.com/2017/07/05/north-korean-missile-threat-proves-need-investment-missile-defense/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWXpsaVlqSm1NMkkxWm1NMCIsInQiOiJyUlJ3SmtESkhCc1pZWUt0c1p6NWM3TEswQmwzN2xoUGlaRnluS3dRTlVvWTV1YWJ6ZGpXaHVXZTdGeURrTkNURm5jcDZ4NDJoVzJlZ014UmJxaWV5Q1pOdzFRUGpkSnA0UjFzM2xwS1ZZcndIK0V2akI1elJNd1kxdzZZaHR6SCJ9
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 Trump's Nuclear Energy Ambitions 
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By Paul Albaugh:  President Donald Trump has made some significant policy promises regarding America's energy sector. For most Americans, his policies are extremely welcome news because the days of excessive government regulation and oversight of our nation's ability to tap into and produce vast amounts of energy will be ending soon.
          During a speech last Thursday on energy policy, Trump offered a stark contrast with his predecessor on not just pursuing energy independence for America, but "American energy dominance." He outlined a six-pronged approach to doing so.
          Put simply, unlike Barack liar-nObama, who implemented onerous regulations on coal, off-shore drilling and other fossil fuel production methods — while demanding unrealistic increases in unreliable and expensive wind and solar power — Trump is taking an all-of-the-above approach to unleash American innovation to produce more energy than ever before.
          Notably, the first part of his six-pronged approach is to "revive and expand our nuclear energy sector," which will begin with a study on the issue. The study will analyze regulatory challenges that need to be addressed and offer possible solutions for fixing them. Furthermore, the study will take stock of costs associated with nuclear energy production and building additional nuclear reactors — much of which is regulatory burden. There weren't a lot of details given in advance of this study, but recognizing a problem is the first step in coming up with a solution.
          During a White House Press briefing, Energy Secretary Rick Perry stated without reservation that America needs to regain a "leadership role" in developing nuclear energy. "We really need to have a conversation with our country about making sure that America stays technologically and economically engaged on the nuclear side," he said, "because if we do not then China and Russia will fill that void."
          Perry also noted that the Trump administration will "end the current blockade that has hindered American energy creation," and he gave a passionate defense of nuclear power that is sure to irritate leftists. Perry pledged to make nuclear energy "cool again" and added that "no clean-energy portfolio is truly complete without nuclear power."
          Perry, Trump and other administration officials believe that nuclear energy development is important for America and that it can be a "game changer." They're absolutely right, but there are numerous obstacles that will need to be overcome if nuclear energy is truly going to be part of Trump's plan for American energy dominance.
          The nuclear industry is currently ailing with many construction projects being costlier than anticipated. One of the major nuclear reactor builders, Westinghouse, filed for bankruptcy this year after losing money on construction projects in South Carolina and Georgia. The projects were three years past due and cost between $1 to $1.3 billion more than expected. But the costs and timeframe were primarily due to — surprise — government regulation. Perry and the Trump administration intend to address these burdensome regulations and will push for incentives aimed at giving our younger generation a renewed interest in studying nuclear energy production.
          You can bet that the push for American energy dominance and independence, with nuclear energy being at the forefront, will outrage ecofascists. As usual, they'll cry that Trump is trying to destroy the planet. For years, the Left has ignored nuclear power because words like "weapon" and "waste" come to mind whenever the word nuclear is mentioned. But nuclear power is clean energy just like wind and solar, and leftists have been making a terrible mistake by ignoring the benefits that come with nuclear power.
          Approximately 20% of America's electricity comes from nuclear power. The nuclear reactors currently in operation produce four times the amount of energy that wind power can and 21 times the amount that solar power does. By the way, it's also cheaper to produce than wind and solar, and because of research and innovation it is a safe means of producing energy.
          If Trump can follow through with his energy plans, we may very well see another example of American greatness through the harnessing and use of the vast energy resources with which our nation has been so richly blessed. ~The Patriot Post
 
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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 6, 2017 at 11:00am
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Rights: Health even for the dying?
Or immortality, perhaps?
by Theodore Dalrymple

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 Pulosi Progressives — The Winning Formula 
 for Republicans 
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By Robin Smith:  Political parties once had the power to stand on their own platforms of ideas and policies. Voters would ideologically or practically align with Democrats or Republicans based on values and issues. As money and the power of incumbency have grown, along with the now-24/7 cable news cycle and the rise of social media platforms, individuals in leadership, particularly those of significant tenure and position, have become the face of their respective partisan groups.
          It's true that some conservatives and Republicans cringe at that fact. Now that President Donald Trump is moving his agenda, complete with his, er, extraordinary mannerisms, as the face of the Grand Old Party, angst is on display among the Republican ranks. Democrats are buoyed by this fracture and perpetuating the fairytale of Russia/Trump collusion to derail any agenda.
          But there's a chink in the Left's political battle armor that's proving to be an existential threat to their work to regain the House majority in the 2018 mid-term elections: The face of the Democrat Party and the political Left is House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi.
          In the special congressional elections that have occurred following Trump Cabinet appointments, Democrats intentionally declared each one served as a referendum on Trump's unpopularity. Yet all four special elections were lost by well-funded Democrats. So much for the all-out rejection that is supposedly brewing among the American electorate against Trump's agenda.
          Two of these congressional races must be noted. First, in Montana, the GOP candidate to replace Ryan Zinke was charged with misdemeanor assault of a reporter the evening before voters went to the polls. Despite his popular folksy Democrat rival looking to benefit from a nationwide flurry of horrible press for manhandling a member of the "fake media," Greg Gianforte won — maybe because he manhandled the media. Not only did Trump not cost Republicans a seat, but the accepted belief that media is the problem worked in favor of a fed-up Gianforte, who was pressed with a hail of questions about the GOP health care proposal. Montanans chose that over the whole state being represented by Nancy Pulosi's values.
          In Georgia's 6th congressional district, a peach of a race shaped up with historic fundraising. Democrat nominee Jon Ossoff, who hadn't found it necessary to yet live in the district he sought to represent, couldn't vote for himself, nor could most of his California donors and big money coming from Planned Parenthood. When records show that of the almost $24 million raised by the Democrat, nine times more contributions came from California than within Georgia, Karen Handel, the GOP candidate was accurately able to state, "He's raised millions outside of Georgia from Nancy Pulosi and outsiders who just don't share our priorities. My opponent doesn't live here [and] doesn't share our values." Ossoff and Pulosi lost to Handel.
          In short, Pulosi's unabashed hard-left stances based on sensationalized information are rejected, as were Barack liar-nObama's. But Nancy gets a little extra help in her public disapproval due to some of her antics. Let's walk down memory lane.
          Who can forget the oldie but goodie during the cram-down-our-throats passage of the insultingly name "Affordable" Care Act? Then-House Speaker Pulosi declared, "We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it." Or what about her later declaration that "I believe the [Republican-controlled] House of Representatives, at this time, is an unsafe place for children and other living things"? In December 2016, the California congresswoman whose worth is estimated at $100 million avowed, "I don't think people want a new direction. Our values unify us and our values are about supporting America's working families."
          Another favorite videoed moment of Pulosi was in January 2017, just days after Trump's inauguration. Democrats marched in protest of Trump's so-called "Muslim ban," which merely called for a temporary pause in travel from nations Barack liar-nObama identified as being of risk. Oh, the theatrics as the anti-Trump crowd watched Rep. Andre Carson of Indiana trotted out to the microphone to challenge Trump's move. The hot mic picked up Pulosi feeding lines to him: "Tell them you're a Muslim. Tell them you're a Muslim."
          So, as Pulosi provides reliable ammunition for Republicans — and no, the use of this metaphor is not a call to arms or violence — why does she remain as the face of the Democrats?
          It's simple, really. The 77-year-old, first elected to Congress in 1993, is a fundraising powerhouse on the Left. Since rising to House leadership for Democrats in 2002, she is credited with raising almost $568 million for leftist candidates. Perhaps it's no wonder the Democrat Caucus has moved so hard-left. Furthermore, as noted in the June 27 CNN analysis declaring "Nancy Pulosi Can't Be Beaten," you can't beat anybody with nobody. The shallow pool of candidates who might oppose Pulosi's leadership are not viewed as credible — there are no young guns in the wings who pose a threat.
          Pulosi's unpopularity is no recent development. Back in 2013, Gallup showed she earned the distinction of being the most unpopular congressional leader. Just over the last eight weeks in 11 House districts that are targeted by Democrats for 2018, Pulosi's job favorability didn't surpass 37.2%.
          Democrats may want a new face of their party, but their blindness to the authentic issues facing working Americans has been exposed. Republicans have much work to do in the House (and Senate) to capitalize on what's become a gaping hole in Democrat armor — the obstinacy of the hard-Left. Thank you, Madame Pulosi. 
~The Patriot Post
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Is Radical Islam
Horrifying the West into Paralysis?
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by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ September 2015. Thousands of Syrian migrants crossing the Balkan route were heading toward Germany. Chancellor Angela Merkel was on the phone with Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière, talking about a number of measures to protect the borders... where thousands of policemen were secretly located along with buses and helicopters. De Maizière turned for advice to Dieter Romann, then head of the police. "Can we live with the images that will come out?" de Mazière asked. "What happens if 500 refugees with children in their arms run toward the border guards?" De Maiziére was told that the appropriate use of the measures to be taken would have be decided by the police on the field. When de Maizière relayed Romann's response to the Chancellor, Merkel reversed her original commitment. And the borders were opened for 180 days. "For historical reasons, the Chancellor feared images of armed German police confronting civilians on our borders."...Germany is no longer our friends.  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10603/radical-islam-west
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China Reports They’ve Perfected
New “Invisible” Hypersonic Missiles
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by Benjamin Arie
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Technology often changes the face of war. Developments such as the airplane and the machine gun dramatically affected how World War I was fought... while aircraft carriers played a key role in World War II, and the helicopter came of age in Korea and Vietnam. Chillingly, a new “invisible” Chinese weapon could potentially change warfare again… and the United States may be falling behind. A report by News Corp. Australia indicates that China has perfected an ultra-fast propulsion system that could send missiles at speeds so fast, they would be extremely difficult to detect and defeat — virtually invisible to current missile defense systems... http://conservativetribune.com/invisible-chinese-weapon/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTConservativeBrief&utm_content=2017-07-05
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China Issues Dire Warning On North Korea:
“Sooner Or Later It Will Get Out Of Control...
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 by Mac Slavo
{shtfplan.com} ~ While the world watches in jest as Japanese residents prepare for the possibility of a confrontation with North Korea by panic buying nuclear shelters and air purifiers... we may soon realize that their efforts to desperately acquire protective gear and equipment for nuclear disaster were quite prescient. Yesterday, North Korea successfully tested what is reportedly an ICBM Inter-Continental Ballistic Missile capable of striking Alaska from the Korean peninsula. Coupled with their purported advancements in nuclear technology, North Korea may now have the ability to launch devastating attacks on their southern neighbor, Japan and even the United States. And if they have not yet achieved the ability to fit a nuclear warhead on an ICBM and deliver it effectively to its target, they are inching closer by the day. So close, in fact, that Chinese Ambassador Liu Jieyi’s recent remarks on the matter suggest that we are nearing a dangerous breaking point...http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/chinese-envoy-issues-dire-warning-on-north-korea-sooner-or-later-it-will-get-out-of-control-and-the-consequences-would-be-disastrous_07042017
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Newly Discovered Photo May
Solve Mystery Of Amelia Earhart
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by Ted Goodman
{dailycaller.com} ~ A newly discovered photograph of legendary American aviator Amelia Earhart suggests that she may have actually survived her final flight in 1937 before being captured by the Japanese... NBC’s Today Show previewed an upcoming History Channel documentary on Earhart’s disappearance Wednesday. The network said that the new evidence “could rewrite history.” Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, took off from Oakland, Calif. in May 1937 for an attempt at the longest around-the-world flight in history. Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, vanished somewhere over the Pacific Ocean during the final leg of their record setting attempt...Preview this Sunday.   http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/05/newly-discovered-photo-may-solve-mystery-of-amelia-earhart/
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 U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley Delivers
Economic MOAB With Trade Warning to China
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Exactly as predicted. President Trump is aboard AF1 headed to the EU. After discussions with the President this morning, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley delivers prepared remarks... at the United Nations on the topic of North Korea’s continued military escalation. Her full remarks are below. Note she discusses speaking with President Trump this morning about trade with China. Specifically note her comments about trade: In the final analysis, China will either take action to remove the North Korean threat, or the United States will collapse the economy of China with the biggest set of economic actions against China in the history of economic sanctions... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/07/05/boom-u-n-ambassador-nikki-haley-delivers-economic-moab-with-trade-warning-to-china/
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Rights: Health even for the dying?
Or immortality, perhaps?
by Theodore Dalrymple
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Standing at a bus stop in Paris recently, I noticed an advertisement for Medecins du Monde, Doctors of the World, a charity similar to the more famous Medecins Sans Frontieres. "Liberty, equality, health," it proclaimed: in other words, health replaced fraternity in the trio of French republican virtues or aspirations.

At the bottom of the ad were two additional slogans:

Health for all

Rights for everyone

But what could health for all possibly mean? Health even for the dying? Or immortality, perhaps?

No doubt there has always been high-sounding verbiage in the world, but it is never entirely innocent, in as much as it implicitly demands consent without thought, much less contestation.

No one bothers to argue with a slogan, especially when it is so obviously virtuous, for what kind of monster would wish illness on anyone? Health for all is obviously desirable: as are many other impossible things.

The slogans do not explicitly say that health is a right, but the proximity of "health for all" with "rights for everyone" certainly encourages their conflation.

And indeed, it is not difficult nowadays to find not only health care but also health itself propounded as a human right.

The absurdity of this is obvious. If I discover tomorrow that I have a fatal tumor, my rights have not been denied me, any more than they were when I was born less handsome than I should like to have been.

Even health care is not a right, though it is obviously desirable that everyone should have access to it, for the simple reason that it is better to prevent or relieve suffering than not to do so.

But how can an idea as absurd as a right to health have become current? Actually, it fits in well with a certain kind of thinking about freedom and equality under the law.

Critics of the classical liberal concepts of freedom and equality point out that the opportunities of the rich to exercise their freedom of choice, and also to influence or escape the rigors of the law, are much greater than those of the poor.

As the jibe has it, the rich man and the poor have equally the right to sleep under the arches of a bridge. And, incontestably, this argument has had an effect on social policy in most countries.

What goes for money, however, also goes for health. The healthy man and the paralyzed have equally the right to play tennis: but in order for them both to have equal rights in practice, it is necessary either to cure the paralyzed of his paralysis or prohibit the healthy man from taking up his racquet.

Again, in practice, the second is far easier than the first.

In other words, those who demand of freedom and equality under the law that everyone should in actuality be placed in the same condition or position will soon destroy freedom without having achieved equality.

But to explain why requires more than six words on an advertisement at a bus stop.
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 6, 2017 at 6:30am
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
America, 'racist'? How liar-nObama
duped U.S. with 1 dangerous 'lie'
by Chelsea Schilling
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 Top Headlines 
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North Korea's missile was a "real ICBM" — and a grave milestone. (The Washington Post)
 
Some GOP states are raising taxes. (Hot Air)
 
Food stamp rolls plummet in states that restore work requirements. (Fox News)
 
Smaller government? At least at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. (National Review)
 
Court rejects Trump's delay of EPA drilling pollution rule. (The Hill)
 
Still no collusion evidence. (National Review)
 
Immigration agency won't commit to giving noncitizen data to voter fraud commission. (The Washington Times)
 
New Army training tells female soldiers to "accept" naked men in their showers. (The Federalist)
 
Miami judge rules Florida's new Stand-Your-Ground law is unconstitutional. (The Miami Herald)
 
Canada to pay former Gitmo prisoner convicted of killing American soldier. His widow objects. (Associated Press)
 
Policy: Has Medicaid made the opioid epidemic worse? (National Review)
 
Policy: The appalling delusion of 100 percent renewables. (Manhattan Institute)  ~The Patriot Post
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Was USS Fitzgerald Collision N Korean
Attack On US Anti-Ballistic Missile Defense?
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ There has been a lot of speculation about what happened to create the collision between the freighter ACX Crystal, which was constructed in South Korea in 2008, and the USS Fitzgerald... Florida Maquis has been active in that research and investigation of the many oddities that took place prior to, immediately after between the ships, the crews, statements of the military and others, and speculation as to why there are the discrepancies that exist. Now, with the launch of a ballistic missile by North Korea on the July 4th holiday, there is a new possibility that is sticking out like a sore thumb that he documents, one which could be the real reason for the collision, an attack orchestrated by North Korea to take out the US Naval asset. He notes that the trajectory of the missile launch was such that it only flew 600 miles but shows where a flatter trajectory could expand upon that range greatly, to a distance estimate by one expert of 4,160 miles...http://rickwells.us/uss-fitzgerald-collision-n-korean-attack-us-anti-ballistic-missile-defense/
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Growing Pile of Data Shows That
Voter Fraud Is a Real and Vast Problem
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by Jason Snead
{dailysignal.com} ~ This week, The Heritage Foundation is updating its Voter Fraud Database with 89 new entries, including 75 convictions and a slew of overturned elections and civil fines targeting vote fraudsters... With these latest additions, the database now documents 581 cases of proven voter fraud and 848 criminal convictions. Heritage’s database proves not only that voter fraud is real and ongoing, but also that it is not isolated to any particular state or region. With the addition of cases from Nebraska and Oklahoma—two states previously unaccounted for in the database—Heritage now has documented proof of electoral fraud in 47 states. This truly is a problem that spans the nation... http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/30/growing-pile-data-shows-voter-fraud-real-vast-problem/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWVRKak9UQTFORFZqTkRGbCIsInQiOiJIbHRLN1BhYmczT3hhU2x1UGVtUEVTRXZEd3Y2Nmtid2xqdm9CRk5vTm9EdkZFK1JYTHNWbkVZQlk4RHVcL1hqNWUxaDNBczJFY1hPQjZqbWVmRlJOcWZyOHhVQmJWdlVKZzlGV3B4ckVTaHQ0K3FVNVVHZHVTaElmZE9zY2xwZ3MifQ%3D%3D
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Tariq Nasheed Makes A
Race-Baiting Game For Kids
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by Ian MIles Cheong
{dailycaller.com} ~ Race hustler Tariq Nasheed has been making the waves on social media over the past few weeks for arguing with YouTubers who called him out for constantly harping about “white supremacists,”... which caused one of his detractors, popular Sikh YouTuber Bunty King, to be banned from Twitter. Nasheed is attempting to leverage his newfound infamy to sell a mobile game called “Crispy’s Biscuits,” from his company MoorUs INC, which he calls an “addictive and exciting game where you have to help Crispy reach his Struggle Mansion while he collects biscuits along the way.” Nasheed cultivates outrage towards white people and anyone who disagrees with his extremist views on race by accusing them of being “coons,” “white supremacists” and “hapas” depending on their race. “Hapa” is a racist slur for half-Asian people... http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/04/tariq-nasheed-makes-a-race-baiting-game-for-kids/
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Reporter Blows the Lid on
John Podesta and Democrats Ties to Russia
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{patrioticviralnews.comIs it pretended ignorance, or is it the real thing? A lot of “uh”s come out of former liar-Hillary Clinton campaign Chairman John Podesta’s mouth in this clip that would be comical if they didn’t carry so much political weight... While it’s not surprising that Podesta would stonewall Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo when she tries to pin him down on inquiries of Russian collusion on the Democratic side of the aisle, the fact of the matter is that the Democrats have more questions to answer regarding their Russian connections than the Trump administration does. Not only is “Pass the Buck” Podesta directly attached to an energy company that was Kremlin-backed, the liar-nObama administration has a lot of queries to field as to why it did nothing when it knew Russians were trying to meddle in the 2016 election. The fact that they weren’t successful isn’t the point...http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/reporter-blows-the-lid-on-john-podesta-and-democrats-ties-to-russia/
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Corporate Media Continues Blackout
of DNC Lawsuit Even as 2 More Witnesses Die
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by Jack Burns
{activistpost.com} ~ The fiancée of Chris Stevens, the U.S. ambassador to Libya who was murdered in the 2012 Benghazi attack, is speaking out about his death—and the cover-up that followed... Lydie Denier appeared on Rick Amato’s “Amato Talk” with Will Craddick, founder of DisobedientMedia.com, to discuss the controversial lawsuit against the Democratic National Committee, in which “one witness has died and another potential witness was murdered.” As The Free Thought Project has extensively reported, influential donors to the DNC are suing their political party for fraud in the 2016 presidential election where they say their candidate, Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, was discriminated against. High-ranking members of the DNC, by way of WikiLeaks’ DNC email publications, were caught favoring liar-Hillary Clinton over Sanders and actively working to subvert his chances at winning the party’s nomination... http://www.activistpost.com/2017/07/corporate-media-continues-blackout-dnc-lawsuit-even-2-witnesses-die.html
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America, 'racist'? How liar-nObama
duped U.S. with 1 dangerous 'lie'
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by Chelsea Schilling
{wnd.com} ~ Think America is growing more racist than ever?
 
That’s because you’ve been duped by the left – and especially by Barack liar-nObama, who used the “lie” of racial grievances for his own personal gain and ultimately divided America.
 
“Black Americans got worse under Barack liar-nObama than any other time in the history of America,” said WND exclusive columnist Rev. Jesse Lee Peterson, author of “The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood,” during a July 3 appearance on Fox News’ “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”
 
“If it was a race issue, why didn’t it get better? We had a black president,” Peterson said. “The races were more divided as a result of Barack liar-nObama because he used them for his own personal gain and didn’t care about them.”
 
A recent Reuters/Ipsos poll found 36 percent of Americans say racism and bigotry pose an “imminent threat” to the nation. Another 23 percent said racism is a “serious threat,” and 19 percent called it a “moderate threat.” Just 7 percent of respondents said racism is a “minimal threat,” and another 7 percent said it’s “no threat.”
 
But those growing perceptions of racism as a threat to America are just part of a manipulative strategy employed by most of the left and the Democratic Party, Rev. Peterson said.
 
Now they’re using alleged “racism” in their latest efforts to “destroy” President Trump by turning his own supporters against him.
 
“We have a president who is going to keep his word. He’s keeping his word by putting America first. He doesn’t care what color you are, whether you’re male or female. He loves us, he loves the country,” Peterson told Carlson Monday evening.
 
“The liberals – people like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson, the far left liberals, the Democratic Party – and the RINO Republicans do not want that. And so, what they’re doing is they’re using this phony idea of racism in order to keep the people angry and keep them divided.”
 
Peterson said Democrats have “pretty much been in control” for the last 50 years, and “they haven’t done anything good for the country.”
 
“They have nothing to offer. They have nothing to stand on. So they’re desperate. They’re angry, and they’re desperate,” he said. “They’re really going after the president’s supporters. If they can turn the president’s supporters away from him, then they can destroy the president. So they’re using this phony idea of racism.
 
“Racism doesn’t exist. It has never existed. And it has always been a lie. Our issues in life are good or bad, right or wrong, good versus evil; it has nothing to do with color at all, and they know that.”
 
Carlson asked Peterson: “Let’s say you were running a city. Your party ran it for like 100 years and you had high crime and very few job opportunities, and you said to the people in your city, ‘You know what? Don’t be mad at me. Be mad at that Confederate monument or pick some symbolic issue’ to make them upset at people who weren’t running the city, that would be the kind of tactic you’re describing?”
 
Peterson’s reply:
Yes, sir, because you cannot control a free people. You can’t control a moral people. You have to demoralize them in order to control them.
 
And as I write in “The Antidote: Healing America from the Poison of Hate, Blame and Victimhood,” not all, but most black Americans are suffering not due to racism but the destruction of the family and a lack of moral character. It’s about that. And if we dealt with the family issue and the lack of character, black Americans’ lives would change overnight, and they Democrats and the left don’t want that.
 
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 5, 2017 at 4:00pm
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Modi and Israel's Coming of Age
by Caroline Glick
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Forget Lost Sovereignty – Focus
On The Shiny Object, The Sock Puppets
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The liberal children now running Canada and Ireland are being allowed to sit at the grownup table and are, predictably, making a mess of things... It’s no accident, they’re doing it on behalf of their globalist masters, which include, in the US, Hussein liar-nObama, liar-Hillary Clinton and George Soros. If they have their way, we’ll all soon be eating scraps off of the floor beneath them, fighting over whatever they might drop or toss to us for sport or out of pity. They distract their victims with their silly boy routine intended to portray them as regular guys that can be trusted. Nothing could be further from the truth. Canada’s open border, pro-Islamic caliphate Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, observed on Tuesday that Britain and the United States are “turning inward.” That was his description of defending ourselves against the Islamic invasion in comments he made during a G20 warm-up propaganda visit to Dublin. Trudeau stated that there are “clear disagreements” with the United States ahead of the G20 summit this week. He’s right about the disagreements and they exist because Trudeau is wrong about everything else...http://rickwells.us/forget-lost-sovereignty-focus-shiny-object-sock-puppets/
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Was America Founded to Be Secular?
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by Truth Revolt
{truthrevolt.org} ~ What role should religion play in a free society? More and more people today would answer: none... That would not have been the answer of the Founders of the United States,– the men who fought the American Revolution and wrote the country'’s Constitution. To them the issue of religion and freedom were inextricably linked. You couldn'’t have freedom without religion. In fact, the political philosophy of the Founders necessitated a divine foundation. Thomas Jefferson makes this clear in the Declaration of Independence when he writes that “all men… are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights.” The purpose of government, Jefferson and his compatriots believed, was not to bestow rights; rather, it was to protect those rights already endowed upon human beings by God.. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/prager-u-was-america-founded-be-secular
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Senator Corker Blocks Arms
Sales to Gulf States Over Qatar Row
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ During his May visit to the Riyadh, Trump and the Saudi family dictatorship agreed to at least a $300 billion US arms sales deal with the kingdom over the next decade... Because of the row between Riyadh, the UAE, Bahrain and Egypt and Qatar, Senator Bob Corker (R. TN) blocked it until things are resolved, in a letter to Rex Tillerson, saying: Saudi-led Gulf states “did not take advantage of the summit (with Trump) and instead chose to devolve into conflict…hurting” America’s regional agenda. “Before we provide any further clearances during the informal review period on sales of lethal military equipment to the GCC states, we need a better understanding of the path to resolve the current dispute and reunify the GCC.”... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/senator-blocks-arms-sales-gulf-states/
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A new low for Democrats - trying
to declare the president mentally incompetent
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by Dr. Gina Loudon
{foxnews.com} ~ About 25 Democratic lawmakers have signed on to a bill that would create an Oversight Commission on Presidential Capacity... Their goal: declare the President of the United States mentally incompetent under Section IV of the 25th Amendment and remove him from office. This is a distraction on so many levels, but it is disingenuous of those lawmakers – in part, because they know they can’t get bi-partisan agreement, and also because they would need the vice president to sign off on it, too. That won’t happen... http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2017/07/03/new-low-for-democrats-trying-to-declare-president-mentally-incompetent.html
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Lacking White Privilege Ruins
July 4th For “Not Their Country” Cry Babies
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The brainwashed parasites that think everyone else owes them something, including a living and that whether they get their free stuff or not... they’re victims by virtue of the color of their skin don’t consider themselves to be Americans. That’s ok, we don’t either and they don’t deserve to be. But we also don’t accept their pathetic pity party arguments. We particularly recommend they stuff their accusations of white privilege into one of the many holes of theirs, either natural or unnatural. Maybe alongside the nose rings, those favored tools of the slave traders they claim to be so opposed to. The liar-nObamaite that opens the black power piece says that the United States was founded on oppression, murder, colonization and rape and therefore we’re rotten at our core. The overwhelming majority of Americans have never done any of those things. Maybe she has and she’s probably right about being rotten at her own core. The external indicators all lean in that direction. Every war has those elements in them as does every conquest. There is no nation she could point or move to which would be free of that heritage, including those of Africa...http://rickwells.us/lacking-white-privilege-ruins-july-4th-not-country-cry-babies/
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Modi and Israel's Coming of Age
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Israel this week marks more than the 25th anniversary of diplomatic ties between the two nations.

It marks as well Israel’s coming of age as a nation.

When in 1992, India and Israel forged full diplomatic relations, the Indian government was reacting to a transformation in the international arena, rather than to changes that were specifically related to the Jewish state.

In 1991 and 1992, in response to the US victory over the Soviet Union in the Cold War, a large group of countries restored or inaugurated full diplomatic relations with Israel. These states – including the Russian Federation and China – had by and large been either on the Soviet side of the war, or leaned toward Moscow. Their refusal to forge full ties with Israel, a key US Cold War ally, became a liability in the US-dominated post-Cold War global order. Hence, they abandoned their Cold War rejection of Israel and instead embraced it.

Although ingratiating themselves with Washington loomed large in the considerations of most governments involved, they also took the step due to Israel’s independent power. If Israel had been a strategic basket case facing an uncertain future, then even in the face of the demise of the Soviet Union, Moscow and its allies could well have had second and third thoughts. Why anger the Arab world by recognizing a soon-to-be gone Jewish state?

Had Israel recognized and built on the sources of its power and attraction for other governments, it would have spent the rest of the 1990s strengthening itself still further – defeating Hezbollah in Lebanon, weakening the Iranian regime and working with the Americans to end its ballistic weapon program. It would have moved quickly to liberalize its economy to enable the million new Israelis from the former Soviet Union to immediately transform Israel into the global innovator rather than waiting for this to gradually occur over decades.

Instead, in 1993, then prime minister and defense minister Yitzhak Rabin and then foreign minister Shimon Peres decided to go off on a strategic tangent.

Ignoring or failing to understand the implications of the US Cold War victory and the economic and national security implications of the aliya wave from the former Soviet Union, Rabin and Peres decided the key to everything was appeasing the PLO – a terrorist organization whose declared intention was to annihilate Israel through a mix of terrorism and political warfare.

As far as they were concerned, nothing that had just happened in the world had strategic implications for Israel. Rather, Israel’s diplomatic, military and economic power were all contingent on making peace by appeasing the PLO.

To implement that strategy, Rabin and Peres and their government lobbied foreign governments to support the PLO militarily, financially and politically not that anyone needed much convincing.

And they transformed the IDF. Rabin and Peres instructed the IDF General Staff to “change its diskette” in relation to the PLO and to fighting terrorism.

No longer were Israel’s generals to aspire to defeating terrorists. They were instead ordered to facilitate appeasement – through the transfer of land and military power to the PLO. The PLO, Rabin told them, could defeat terrorism more effectively than the IDF could. And all Israel needed to do to induce Yasser Arafat to defeat the forces he built, paid and commanded was shower him with money, territory, firepower and international legitimacy. The PLO was not Israel’s enemy. It was Israel’s peace partner.

Not surprisingly, this didn’t work out at all.

Israel’s diplomatic position collapsed. The international community effectively sided with the PLO against Israel when it rejected peace and initiated its terror war against Israel in 2000. Since then Israel has found itself targeted by political and economic warfare from the EU, its second largest trading partner and its previously fairly supportive strategic ally. Following Europe’s lead, the American Left has incrementally abandoned its pre-1993 embrace of Israel.

As for security, in the seven years of the peace process that ended with the PLO’s rejection of peace and instigation of its terror war against Israel, the number of Israelis killed by Palestinian terrorists was twice what it had been in the previous 15 years. More than 1,500 Israelis have been killed by Palestinian terrorists since 1993. More than 10,000 have been wounded.

Buffeted by the utter and complete failure of the appeasement strategy, since Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu returned to power in 2009, he has gradually restored Israel to the classic notions of national development.

Building on the market reforms he initiated in his first tenure as prime minister from 1996 to 1999 and his stint as finance minister from 2003 to 2006, Netanyahu has overseen the continued liberalization of the economy and expansion of Israel’s international markets to ensure the continued expansion of the economy and increase Israel’s attractiveness as a trading partner and investment hub.

Abandoning the PLO appeasement strategy, which made Israel’s diplomatic standing contingent on PLO approval, Netanyahu has based his diplomatic strategy on Israel’s economic and attractiveness and stability. He has emphasized the aspects of Israel’s economy – technological and agriculture prowess – among other things, where Israel has a comparative advantage to draw international actors to its shores.

While decoupling Israel’s diplomacy from the PLO, he has also gradually rolled back the legitimacy Israel unwisely conferred on the terrorist group 24 years ago.

The fact that Modi has opted not to visit the PLO-controlled Palestinian Authority in Ramallah demonstrates the wisdom and success of the strategy. Modi may or may not be interested in establishing a PLO state, but he is very interested in developing his own economy. Modi recognizes the synergies between Israel’s comparative advantages in military and economic technologies and India’s needs.

As the leader of a democracy, his first interest is advancing his country’s needs. Whether or not there will be peace between Israel and the Palestinians has no impact on India’s security and prosperity.

Modi’s historic visit is a good opportunity for Israel to understand where it now stands and what it must do to maintain and expand its current success into the future. We must never again be seduced into believing that our nation’s fate will be determined by eternal factors. Whether Israel continues to prosper in security in the company of friendly trading partners and strategic allies is largely in our hands.

If we continue the hard work of growing our economy and defeating rather than appeasing our enemies while basing our diplomacy on what we have to offer the nations of the world we will ensure our prosperity and build a peaceful future for ourselves and all of our neighbors.
 
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Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 5, 2017 at 11:30am
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Still No Collusion Evidence 
by Andrew C. McCarthy
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Jihadi Jackpot – Gitmo Confessed
Murderer Awarded $8 Million Damages
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ How is it possible to wrongfully imprison a terrorist who admitted to killing one American in Afghanistan and blinding another with a grenade?... It helps their case immensely if they are a citizen of the liberal cesspool that is overflowing across our northern border under Justin Trudeau. Not only is an al-Qaeda affiliated former Guantanamo inmate going to remain free, he’s getting an apology from the Canadian government and $8 million USD in cash. The lucky terrorist is Omar Khadr, whose jackpot was announced on Tuesday. The anonymous official making the announcement was not authorized to discuss the deal publicly, which was negotiated with Khadr’s lawyers. Although Khadr is Canadian-born, he was 15 when he was captured by U.S. troops after a firefight at an al-Qaeda compound in Afghanistan. In that gun battle one American special forces medic, U.S. Army Sgt. First Class Christopher Speer, was killed by a grenade and another soldier lost his eyesight. Khadr was suspected of throwing the grenade and was taken to Guantanamo where he was charged with war crimes by a military commission... This is wrong in rewarding these terrors.  http://rickwells.us/jihadi-jackpot-gitmo-confessed-murderer-awarded-8-million-damages/
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Antifa Terrorists Snip Fiber Optic 
Cables in Bay Area – Then Brag About It Online
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by Jim Hoft
{thegatewaypundit.com} ~ Saboteurs have snipped another fibre optic cable line in the San Francisco Bay area this week, the 12th incident of its kind in the region over the past year... The latest attack occurred in the San Joaquin Valley town of Stockton, disrupting Internet, mobile phone, and 911 service for tens of thousands of AT&T and Verizon customers in three counties east of San Francisco. Service was restored about a day after the Tuesday incident. The FBI, which is investigating the attacks, has not stated a motive, but it said the attacks usually occur in remote areas where there are no surveillance cameras. The initial attacks on California telecommunications lines began in July 2014. As of yet the campaign of attacks have continued with no one being arrested... http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2017/07/antifa-terrorists-snip-fiber-optic-cables-bay-area-brag-online/
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US vows it will 'never accept
a nuclear North Korea' after new missile test
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{foxnews.com} ~ Secretary of State Rex Tillerson vowed Tuesday that the U.S. would "never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea" while U.S. and South Korean forces held joint ballistic missile drills... after the Communist nation successfully tested an intercontinental ballistic missile. Tillerson also called for all nations to fully implement United Nations sanctions against North Korea, saying "global action is required to stop a global threat." Meanwhile, the U.S. military said it had conducted a "precision firing" demonstration off the coast of the Korean Peninsula in response to what it called North Korea's "destabilizing and unlawful actions."... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/07/04/us-vows-it-will-never-accept-nuclear-north-korea-after-new-missile-test.html
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Massive Weapons Stockpile Found in Storage
Locker of New York Muslim Going to "Islamberg"
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by Tim Brown
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ I am one who is completely for the rights protected under the Second Amendment, including all arms guns, knives, bazookas, ships, tanks, etc...  However, when one is holding to the ideology of Islam and practices it in the open, I believe it is a violation of the law. The religion referenced in the First Amendment is Christianity and Islam should not be protected in any way shape or form. With that said, a Muslim in New York Muslim was arrested in Johnson City, New York after a massive weapons cache was discovered in a storage locker that was intended to go to Muslims of America's (MOA) Islamberg headquarters in Hancock. Ramadan Abdullah, 64, a long-time associate of the MOA terrorist group was arrested for shoplifting at Gander Mountain. Following the arrest, his storage locker was searched and the weapons cache discovered... http://freedomoutpost.com/massive-weapons-stockpile-found-in-storage-locker-of-new-york-muslim-going-to-islamberg/
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US, S Korea Fire Warning Missiles
As Trump, Allies, UN Consider Response
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ South Korea and the United States staged a massive combined ballistic missile exercise Wednesday aimed at sending a warning message to North Korea... the South’s military said a day after the communist country claimed a successful long-range missile test. The allies fired a barrage of missiles, including the Hyunmoo-2 and the ATACMS, into the East Sea, according to the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Korea Herald reports it came in response to the North’s nearly 600 mile test flight of an intercontinental ballistic missile, one capable of reaching Alaska. The North also claimed and celebrated their supposed mastery of the atmospheric re-entry technology for intercontinental ballistic missiles. North Korea declared Tuesday that it had finally achieved its dream of building an intercontinental ballistic missile, saying it would ‘fundamentally put an end to the US nuclear war threat and blackmail’. The Korean Central News Agency also said the country’s ICBM is capable of carrying a large-sized warhead... http://rickwells.us/us-s-korea-fire-warning-missiles-trump-allies-un-consider-response/
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Still No Collusion Evidence 
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by Andrew C. McCarthy
{nationalreview.com} ~ About ten days before he died in mid-May, an 81-year-old man who did not work for the Trump campaign told the Journal he had speculated that, but did not know whether, 33,000 of liar-Hillary Clinton’s e-mails had been hacked from her homebrew server. The now-deceased man, “a longtime Republican opposition researcher” named Peter W. Smith, had theorized that the e-mails must have been stolen, “likely by Russian hackers.” But he had no idea if this was actually so, and he himself certainly had nothing to do with stealing them.

Smith’s desire to obtain the hacked emails, if there were any, peaked around Labor Day 2016 — i.e., during the last weeks of the campaign. This was many months after the FBI had taken physical custody of liar-Clinton’s homebrew server and other devices containing her e-mails. It was also two months after the Bureau’s then-director, James Comey, had told the country that the FBI had found no evidence that liar-Clinton had been hacked . . . but that her carelessness about communications security, coupled with the proficiency of hackers in avoiding detection, meant her e-mails could well have been compromised throughout her years as secretary of state.

In other words, Peter W. Smith was one of about 320 million people in the United States who figured that liar-Clinton’s e-mails had been hacked — by Russia, China, Iran, ISIS, the NSA, the latest iteration of “Guccifer,” and maybe even that nerdy kid down at Starbucks with “Feel the Bern” stickers on his laptop.

Besides having no relationship with Trump, Smith also had no relationship with the Russian regime. Besides not knowing whether the liar-Clinton e-mails were actually hacked, he also had no idea whether the Kremlin or anyone close to Vladimir Putin had obtained the e-mails. In short, he wouldn’t have been able to tell you whether Trump and Putin were colluding with each other because he wasn’t colluding with either one of them.

But — here comes the blockbuster info — Smith was colluding with Michael Flynn. Or at least he kinda, sorta was . . . except for, you know, the Journal’s grudging acknowledgement that, well, okay, Smith never actually told the paper that Flynn was involved in what the report calls “Smith’s operation.”

Huh?

If you’re confused, I’d ordinarily suggest that you go back and read the report a time or two. But life is short and rereading would not much clarify this spaghetti bowl hurled against the wall, in the hope that some of the Flynn sauce might stick.
 
Flynn, of course, is the retired army general who became a top Trump campaign surrogate, and who, later and fleetingly, was President Trump’s national security adviser. As the press likes to say, Flynn was sacked over his contacts with Russia, which were the subject of an FBI investigation. What they unfailingly fail to add is that (a) Flynn was fired not because he had contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak but because he misled Vice President Mike Pence about the substance of them; (b) there was nothing inappropriate about Flynn’s having discussions with foreign counterparts during the Trump transition; (c) the FBI investigation targeted not Flynn but Kislyak, who, as an agent of a foreign power, was under FBI surveillance when he spoke with Flynn; and (d) therefore, the FBI recorded the Flynn-Kislyak communications and knew that Flynn had made no commitment to address Russian objections to sanctions imposed by President liar-nObama (i.e., there was no quid pro quo for Russia’s purported contribution to Trump’s election).

General Flynn is loathed by liar-nObama, who fired him as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency; by the liar-nObama-era intelligence-agency chiefs, whom Flynn called out for politicizing intelligence reporting; and by the FBI, against whom Flynn supported an agent who was claiming sexual discrimination. The liar-nObama Justice Department was giddy over the prospect of making a criminal case against Flynn: dispatching the FBI to interrogate him over the Kislyak conversations, and even weighing an indictment of Flynn under the Logan Act, an unconstitutional 18th-century law that bars Americans from free-lancing in foreign policy — a law that is never invoked, has never been successfully prosecuted, and would be especially ludicrous to apply to a transition official.

Flynn, whose judgment leaves much to be desired, has made himself an easy target. Putting aside whether the FBI had a good reason to interrogate him as if he were a criminal suspect, he was reportedly no more candid with the agents than he was with Pence in recounting his Kislyak conversations. He also got grubby after leaving the military in 2014, starting a private intelligence agency that cashed in paydays from outfits tied to the unsavory regimes of Russia and Turkey. There are legal issues stemming from his apparent failures to register as a foreign agent and to disclose what he was paid. In addition, Flynn’s son became so notorious for trading in conspiracy theories that the Trump transition cut ties with him — imagine how out there you’d have to be to get booted from Trump World for incendiary tweeting!

Thus, Flynn has provided Democrats and their media friends with plenty of help advancing the Trump-Russia narrative. The strategy has been transparent for months: Make Flynn radioactive, turn Flynn’s name into a synonym for “collusion,” and, presto, anyone Flynn touches becomes evidence that Trump “coordinated” with Putin to steal the election from liar-Hillary — regardless of whether the anyone in question has anything to do with Trump or Russia.

This week’s Journal report is the latest in this genre. In the interview ten days before his death, Smith claimed to know Flynn but did not implicate Flynn in his “operation.” And what exactly was this “operation”? Like many other people during the campaign stretch-run, Smith convinced himself that someone out there in the cyber-verse must have hacked liar-Clinton’s e-mails. This calculation was based not on a belief that Trump was colluding with Russia, but on liar-Clinton’s own recklessness in using a non-secure server system.

The Journal does not see fit to remind readers that the 33,000 e-mails Smith was trying to dig up were the ones liar-Clinton had tried to destroy, even though they contained records of government business which it is a felony to destroy, contained at least some classified information which it is a felony to mishandle, and had been requested by congressional committees whose proceedings it is a felony to obstruct by destroying evidence.

These penal inconveniences aside, there were also explosive political implications. liar-Clinton had insisted that the e-mails in question were strictly of a personal nature, involving yoga routines, daughter Chelsea’s wedding, and the like. She maintained that she had turned over any and all government-related e-mails to the State Department. She had also laughably claimed that her homebrew server system was adequately secure. And there is every reason to believe many of these destroyed e-mails related to liar-Clinton Foundation business — the Bill and liar-Hill scheme to monetize their “public service” — which was liberally commingled with government business during Mrs. liar-Clinton’s State Department tenure. Public disclosure of these e-mails, then, would have been very damaging, concretely demonstrating her dishonesty and unfitness.
 
Understand: None of that is Russia’s fault, or Trump’s, or Flynn’s, or Flynn Jr.’s, or Smith’s. It was solely the fault of liar-Hillary Clinton. She was a five-alarm disaster of a candidate. That’s why she lost.

Starting around Labor Day, Smith undertook to locate these e-mails. The team he assembled included technology experts, lawyers, and — because he suspected Russian hackers as did everyone else on the planet — a Europe-based investigator fluent in Russian. Scouring the hacker community, Smith said he located five groups that claimed to possess the e-mails, including two that “he determined were Russians.” I know you’ll shocked to hear this, but Smith apparently identified none of these hacker groups in his Journal interview.
 
And it all came to . . . what?

Nothing.

Smith claimed that he was offered sample e-mail batches by the five hacker groups. The e-mails, however, did not appear to be authentic, so he didn’t dare leak them. Indeed, assuming these samples really existed, nobody has leaked them — not Smith, not WikiLeaks, and not the five hacker groups themselves.

To summarize: Smith had no proof of Trump–Russia collusion, no proof the liar-Clinton e-mails were hacked, no proof that any e-mails any hackers claimed to possess were the real thing, and no proof that the hackers — assuming they really were hackers — were tied to the Kremlin.

So why is this a story? Because, while Smith did not tell the Journal that Flynn was involved in his “project,” he apparently told other people that he was “talking to Flynn.” He “implied” to other people that Flynn, Flynn’s son, and Flynn’s private intel firm were interested in liar-Hillary’s e-mails.
 
And why wouldn’t Flynn have been interested?

Other than the media, who wasn’t interested? Trump himself certainly was. The Journal reminds readers of the late July 2016 press conference at which the then-candidate stated, “Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 e-mails that are missing.” That quip, we all remember, ignited media hysteria about how Trump was encouraging foreign interference in American presidential politics in a way that the tens of millions of foreign dollars that poured into liar-Clinton Foundation coffers somehow did not.

All this sound and fury turns out to be throat-clearing. The juicy news in the Journal’s report is not about Smith; it stems from yet another leak of classified information. According to “U.S. investigators” involved in the Russia probe (i.e., the Mueller investigation), there are intelligence reports that “describe Russian hackers discussing how to obtain e-mails from Mrs. liar-Clinton’s server and then transmit them to Mr. Flynn via an intermediary.”

Who are these investigators? The Journal doesn’t tell us — the actual crime of leaking classified intelligence being of less interest than the non-crime of “collusion.” The purported Russian hackers are not identified either. Nor is Flynn’s “intermediary” — the Journal cannot say whether the leak is accurate, whether there really was an intermediary, or whether Smith could have been the intermediary. There is, moreover, no indication that any supposed Russian hacker actually made any effort to obtain the liar-Clinton e-mails, much less that Flynn — let alone Trump — had any knowledge of or involvement in such an effort.
 
Quick: somebody start writing up the articles of impeachment!

As the press strains to keep the collusion narrative alive, three things emerge.

First, there plainly was no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian regime to meddle in the election. If there had been, it would be unnecessary to trace attenuated, unconsummated arrangements between obscure partisans, anonymous hackers, and nameless intermediaries. There would have been no need for Trump to use a press conference to express hope that Putin would find the missing e-mails. There would have been no need for Flynn and Jared Kushner Trump’s son-in-law and adviser to try to set up a back channel to the Kremlin weeks after the November election. If there were anything to the “collusion” tale, the Trump and Putin circles would have had all this covered during the campaign.

Second, there are crimes in these media reports, but the media seems decidedly indifferent about them: Mrs. liar-Clinton’s e-mail follies and the leaking of classified information by government officials.

Finally, there is a quite astonishing variance in the standards of proof applied by Democrats and their media allies. On the one hand, we have damning evidence that liar-Clinton destroyed government files and mishandled classified information. On the other, there is a dearth of evidence that Trump colluded with Russia. Now riddle me this: Who got a complete pass, and who is the earth being scorched to nail?

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/449161/trump-russia-collusion-nonsense
 
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 5, 2017 at 6:30am
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Watch out, 'fake news' media!
Here Trump's next big move
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 by Gina Loudon
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 Top Headlines 
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Capitol police have investigated more threats against members of Congress so far this year than in all of 2016. (Hot Air)
 
Report: Attacks on religious liberty increased 76% in three years. (The Federalist)
 
More than 1,370 counties may only have one health insurer serving them. (USA Today)
 
Google to give $2 million to campaign involving leading gun control groups. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Carl Bernstein: The media needs to do a "different kind of reporting" during this "malignant presidency." (Hot Air)
 
Trump literally slams CNN on Twitter, calls network "fraud news." (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Defense Department delays costly transgender policy, for now. (The Daily Signal)
 
No rise in hate-crime rate since 2004. (Reason)
 
The U.S. fertility rate just hit a historic low. Why some demographers are freaking out. (The Washington Post)
 
"How many hot dogs do Americans eat on the 4th of July?" and other Independence Day numbers. (Washington Examiner)
 
Policy: Why America celebrates the Fourth of July. (The Heritage Foundation)
 
Policy: A warning sign for Democrats attempting the Full Bernie. (The Week)  ~The Patriot Post
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Meddling liar-nOBAMA In Seoul –
LIBERAL Int’l Order “RULE Of LAW” Only Choice?
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ liar-nObama pretended he was an actual US president for so long that he just can’t seem to kick the habit... Since slithering out of his brief retirement in French Polynesia, liar-nObama’s phoned France’s Macron and met with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, and most recently, the new South Korean President, Moon Jae-in. Moon reportedly renewed his resolve to pursue sanctions and dialogue to tackle North Korea’s nuclear program during a meeting with former US pretend “president” liar-nObama on Monday, saying now is the “last chance” for the regime to return to the negotiating table. Why would he be stating this ultimatum to this private citizen of an unknown country and communist agitator? Why did he meet with liar-nObama at all?...liar-nObama needs to stay in retirement.  http://rickwells.us/meddling-obama-seoul-liberal-intl-order-rule-law-choice/
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Trump Tweets About Saving
Terminal Euro Baby, Charlie Gard
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by K. Campbell
{conservativetribune.com} ~ One of the most endearing instances that showed President Donald Trump’s true character was when he provided his private jet to a family whose child needed to be transported across the country... but for medical reasons was unable to fly on a commercial flight. On Monday morning, Trump again showed how much he truly cares for people in need, particularly children, when he reached out to the family of another sick child on Twitter. The president tweeted that the U.S. would be “delighted” to help Charlie Gard, a baby from the United Kingdom suffering from a fatal genetic condition and whose parents have been desperately trying to keep alive... http://conservativetribune.com/remember-sick-child-trump/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=braverafreedomforce&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2017-07-04
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Maxine Waters Unhinged: I’m
Going to Take Ben Carson’s ‘A** Apart’
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by Tony Lee
{breitbart.com} ~ On Saturday, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) vowed to take Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson’s “ass apart” while speaking at the Essence Festival in New Orleans... “Ben Carson was appointed to be the HUD secretary,” she reportedly said. “He knows nothing about the mission of HUD. He doesn’t care about people in public housing. He believes that if you are poor, it is your own fault. And he doesn’t know the difference between an immigrant and a slave.” Waters then promised: “And if he thinks when he comes before my committee where I am the ranking member [of the Financial Services Committee that I am going to give him a pass… I am going to take his a** apart.”... Waters is a idiot and doesn't know the facts.  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/07/03/maxine-waters-unhinged-im-going-take-ben-carsons-apart/
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Merkel Elevates EU Globalist Frenchy
Macron, Drops America First Trump
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ German Chancellor Merkel surely understands that the deteriorating relationship between the United States and Germany is nothing personal, at least it’s nothing against what we can still refer to in the classic sense as the German people... Those are people of German heritage, who speak German and didn’t just arrive as exploitative locusts from the Middle East or North Africa, at Chancellor Merkel’s behest. It’s a matter of incompatibility with the globalist takeover of Germany, her leading role in the destruction of Europe and our President being a man of principles who won’t be a party to it. It’s a matter of Merkel being a puppet of the EU and acting on their behalf to cripple her nation. We Americans and President Trump don’t really approve of her actions and we don’t see much in her to like. We’re too honest to pretend we do. Chancellor Merkel has noticed that since January nobody is planting the sloppy wet ones on the way liar-nObama used to and she’s responded by changing the way she addresses the relationship between what’s left of Germany and the United States...http://rickwells.us/merkel-elevates-eu-globalist-frenchy-macron-drops-america-first-trump/
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North Korean missile flies higher,
farther than any previous test
 
{foxnews.com} ~ The ballistic missile launched by North Korea on Tuesday flew longer than any missile test conducted by the rogue regime to date, U.S. Pacific Command said... meaning Kim Jong Un's dictatorship may now possess the ability to strike Alaska. North Korea launched a missile on Mother's Day that flew for 30 minutes and reached an altitude 1,000 miles higher than the international space station. But Tuesday's missile flew for 37 minutes and reached a height of 1,500 miles, leading missile experts to conclude it could have reached a target 4,000 miles away, putting Alaska in its cross-hairs. "The threat is much more immediate now," National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster told reporters prior to the launch. "So it's clear we can't repeat the same failed approach of the past."... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/07/04/north-korea-claims-to-have-test-launched-its-first-icbm.html
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Watch out, 'fake news' media!
Here Trump's next big move
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 by Gina Loudon
{wnd.com} ~ You feel so badly for them, don’t you? It’s like when you fake throwing your dog’s tennis ball high in the air, but you actually stuck it in your closet because you are tired of him obsessing over it.
 
He spends hours looking at the sky for his ball to fall, agonizing, pining, panting, obsessing. But you sit back with your coffee and paper in your favorite chair, because you know your dog is no match for you. Ahhhhhh. Now you can get some things done without Scruffy distractions.
 
Trump is outwitting the media and the deep state at every turn, just like you do your dog. He puts up a dog-and-pony show to grab the attention of the dog-and-pony show! And they latch on for dear life every time. It’s political poetry!
 
When they thought they had him on Russia, he tweeted about it so he could continue opening pipelines and deregulating the energy business while they were too fascinated with Russia conspiracy theories to even pay attention to all he was accomplishing. The Chicken-Little-style screeching caused Middle America to get bored of the alt-left’s “sky is falling” mentality and deadened its attention span and trust in lamestream media news.
 
While the media continued their obsession over the Comey hearings, the president was busy being successful in overhauling the Supreme Court, the Veterans Administration, the EPA and more.
 
Ordinarily, the climate conspiracy theorists would have had wall-to-wall coverage of Trump’s total overhaul of their fake science when he pulled out of the Paris climate agreement and opened America’s pipelines, but CNN’s own Jeff Zucker told them to go back to talking Russia instead. Trump knows how to throw them off their game.
 
Trump was winning.
 
While members of Congress, who had years to think about how to fix the broken liar-nObamacare, opined about how they were going to replace it with some watered-down version of socialized medicine, Trump waited.
 
When Congress couldn’t do it, the Senate stepped center stage, only to fall flat-footed. Again. And Trump stood patiently by while the noise mounted.
 
Conservatives wanted mandates gone and price transparency. Leftists controlling the Dems will have none of it. Thus, all the indignation and pontification culminated in a big, fat nothing-burger.
 
Trump was waiting for that.
 
Last week, while the media were in a small-brained feeding frenzy over a tweet about a little known show host, President Trump quietly executed his most winning week yet.
 
And the best part of all? Now he gets to reasonably ask for a full repeal of liar-nObamacare – the true free-market answer to the death spiral of insurance right now! Winning again.
 
Don’t let the media distract you into missing this great “Art of the Deal”-style strategy to achieve a repeal of liar-nObamacare.
 
The president has patiently sat back and allowed the House and the Senate to work on their health-care bills and has been praising their efforts from afar every step of the way. As it becomes clear that the GOP leadership can’t pull off passing a replacement bill, the president gets to say, “Oh well, you gave it your best effort, guys. But, it’s time for you to pass a straight repeal.”
 
The president placed himself in a winning position no matter what happened in the House and Senate.
 
As this strategy played out last week, the media were focused on one tweet.
 
I tried to explain on CNN that the American people see the president’s tweeting very differently than the elite living in the D.C. and NYC bubble.
 
This week alone, President Trump had some of his biggest wins since becoming president.
 
Most of his executive order restricting travel from terror-prone countries went into effect after the Supreme Court unanimously gave it the green light.
 
The House passed Kate’s Law, which will increase penalties for deported illegal immigrants who return to the U.S. The president talked about that every day during the campaign, and this was a big win for Trump and his agenda.
 
The House also passed another Trump campaign promise with the “No Sanctuary for Criminal Aliens Act.” The law blocks federal grants to jurisdictions that refuse to comply with federal immigration detainers and also requires state and local law-enforcement officials to cooperate with federal efforts to enforce immigration laws.
 
President Trump also hosted the South Korean president at the White House this week to discuss the strategy to deal with the North Korean threat, but you wouldn’t know that if you have been watching the mainstream media.
 
Also this week, the president was again vindicated. Just when some thought the president was overusing his “fake news” label of the media, James O’Keefe came through with damaging videos from inside CNN and Sarah Palin launched a lawsuit against the New York Times for their fake reporting.
 
The media seem to have learned nothing over the past two years.
 
While they laughed at him, he won an election. While they obsessed over a Russian conspiracy, he flipped their fake climate agenda on its head. They didn’t make a peep. While they were postal over a tweet or two, he had one of the most productive weeks of his presidency.
 
He plays 4-D chess, as my friend, Bill Mitchell coined. They are no mental match.
 
That explains why, predictably, this week, they will obsess over his mental health. All of their other frenzies fizzled. They have nowhere else to go.
 
So far, this president, whom the media would like to paint as crazy or undermined, has accomplished the following:
*The U.S. stock market has grown a whopping 16 percent just since his election.
*Illegal immigration has dropped to a 17-year low.
*Unemployment has dropped to a 17-year low.
*NATO allies have boosted defense spending by more than $10 billion after President Trump pressured them to pay their fair share.
*Constitutionalist Judge Neil Gorsuch was confirmed and sworn in to the Supreme Court.
*President Trump restarted the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipeline construction projects.
*ISIS is on the run as Mosul is about to be retaken.
*President Trump has signed several executive orders lifting regulations on U.S. businesses.
*He pulled out of the Paris climate deal.
*He signed a VA reform bill to make it easier to fire bad VA employees and protect whistleblowers.
*And he’s done much more …
If someone said you could accomplish all your goals but the journey might be a little dirty, would you do it? When was politics ever a pretty proposition?
 
I wish he could do it without the tweets, too. But the bottom line is: If the president is crazy, he is crazy like a fox, and it’s winning for the American people.
 
The president has angered the left again with another tweet, and it is one of his most popular tweets of all time.
 
While Middle America chuckles at this funny tweet, the left and media are feigning outrage that this is somehow provoking violence.
 
My prediction: They are walking right into his next 4-D chess match. This time, he wants to eliminate fake news media. Checkmate.

http://www.wnd.com/2017/07/watch-out-fake-news-media-here-trumps-next-big-move/

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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 4, 2017 at 4:00pm
Happy 4th of July
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
ISIS Leader Killed?
by Stephen Lendman
 
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 Republican Gridlock Over Repealing 
 liar-nObamaCare 
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Republicans hold majorities in both houses of Congress and a Republican sits in the White House. Yet there is still delay and gridlock in the attempt to repeal and replace liar-nObamaCare. Part of the problem is that, once again, Republicans are far too easily manipulated by Democrats' class warfare mantra of "benefit cuts for the poor to pay for tax cuts for the rich." Democrats and their Leftmedia colluders continuously conflate welfare with rights, and Republicans are seemingly unable to expose the inherit fallacy of that argument. Even more frustrating is that Democrats aren't doing anything new, and still Republicans can't seem to get past it.
          Liberty, the foundational principle upon which this nation was founded, recognizes innate, God-given human rights. Rights as opposed to welfare. Liberty both offers and requires the individual to make choices — the consequences of which, whether good or bad, the individual is responsible for. Welfare seeks to protect individuals from the consequences of their poor and foolish choices. Essentially, welfare demands that the responsible pay for the irresponsible, which robs both individuals of their right of Liberty.
          Democrats created the concept of welfare equaling "rights" by conditioning people to believe that they are helpless to help themselves and therefore the government must provide welfare programs as a means of protecting human "rights." Nothing could be further from the truth. And yet it seems no Republican since Ronald Reagan has been able to effectively expose and combat this leftist myth with the positive message of Liberty lifting all boats.
          Now Republicans in the Senate are waffling again over the fallacy of health care being a "right." One would have to be blind not to see that liar-nObamaCare is collapsing and untenable. It is costing taxpayers trillions all while increasing health care costs for families. Democrats scream about how Republicans "will kill people" if they repeal the "Affordable" Care Act. Republicans need to respond with the fact that liar-nObamaCare is the government stealing money and Liberty from the American people. Republicans need work toward restoring the Liberty Barack liar-nObama and his Democrats stole. This what the GOP message should be; this is what their mission should be about — not acquiescence to Democrats' leftist conflation of government-provided welfare being a human right. Republicans need to stop being scared of their own shadows, and do the right thing.  ~The Patriot Post
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Physicist Hawkings Uses
Climate Science Fiction To Bash Trump
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Considering how hideous reality is for Stephen Hawking’ it’s hard to fault the guy for wanting to be detached from it... But when what he’s spewing out is more toxic than the volcanic vents he references on Venus and he does so in the furtherance of a lie intended to mislead our nation into global communism, his pity pass has to be canceled.  He’s a liar, one trapped in an unfortunate situation and container, but a liar nonetheless. It’s worth remembering that the Paris climate agreement only came into being in December of 2015 and was only falsely claimed to have been ratified by liar-nObama’s unconstitutional dictate in September of last year, ten months ago. It never went into effect so it’s a stretch to say there are apocalyptic repercussions to withdrawing. Hawkings used his scientific credentials in a most dishonest manner, claiming that the decision to exit the global welfare agreement somehow doomed the world. Even its proponents are forced to acknowledge “a Massachusetts Institute of Technology finding that indicates the Paris climate treaty would lower global warming by less than four-tenths of a degree by year 2100.”... http://rickwells.us/physicist-hawkings-uses-climate-science-fiction-bash-trump/
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GOP Quislings Side With Dem, Vote
To Revoke Trump’s Power To Fight ISIS
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The dunderhead Republican chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rodney Frelinghuysen (R-NJ), looks and sounds like he’s in over his head... like he’s just there to make friends, to let the Democrats have whatever they want with his focus on being “one of the popular kids in school.” Take whatever you want, Democrats, just don’t include him in your mean comments about President Trump. With this as the kind of weak quislings our President has to depend upon to support him in doing his job, it’s not surprising that he’s struggled to get anything done that can’t be done on his own. The House Appropriations Committee approved an amendment to the defense spending bill on Thursday which revokes a 2001 law giving the president authority to wage war against al Qaeda and its affiliates unless a replacement provision is created. The current Authorization for the Use of Military Force (AUMF), was initially approved as a response to the 9/11 attacks. It has since formed the basis for the Iraq War and fighting ISIS and Syria. The Republicans have once again sold out Americans, handing over to the Democrats, without any justification or reciprocity, a weapon with which to obtain concessions, possibly huge ones, in order for President Trump to protect us in the manner he can presently do without Democrat approval...http://rickwells.us/gop-quislings-side-dem-vote-revoke-trumps-power-fight-isis/
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European Court Rules to
Euthanize 10-month-old Charlie Gard
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by Lisa Shaw
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The life of 10-month-old Charlie Gard hangs in the balance as doctors determine when he will die. On Tuesday, the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) refused a London couple the right to seek a possible life-saving treatment... in the United States for their son, ruling instead for the termination of life-support. Charlie was born with Mitochondrial DNA Depletion Syndrome, a rare genetic condition causing progressive muscle weakness and brain damage. After discovering a possible treatment and an American doctor willing to perform a trial therapy for their son, Chris Gard and Connie Yates raised over $1.6 million in donations from around the world in the hope of saving their son. However, specialists at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children in London, where Charlie was being treated, felt the experimental therapy would not be beneficial and refused his parents their natural right to have him treated elsewhere...What kind of humans are they not to try anything that will save their son.  https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/26381-european-court-rules-to-euthanize-10-month-old-charlie-gard
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Lee and Cruz Offer Repeal of liar-nObamaCare
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by Steve Byas
{thenewamerican.com} ~ “It’ll make it much easier for conservatives in the House,” asserted Representative Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, of the effort by Senators Mike Lee (R-Utah) and Ted Cruz (R-Texas) to develop a compromise piece of legislation... on repealing liar-nObamaCare in the Senate. “Really, the greatest flux you have with getting 218 in the House is probably more with conservatives than it is moderates,” Meadows explained. Cruz made enemies of several of his fellow congressional Republicans four years ago when he engineered a 16-day government shutdown, in an effort to defund the Affordable Care Act, better known as liar-nObamaCare. But now, Cruz has joined with his good friend Mike Lee in a behind-the-scenes effort to develop legislation that will fulfill Republican campaign promises to repeal the controversial health care law...I really hope they will success.  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/26388-lee-and-cruz-offer-repeal-of-obamacare
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85,000 Italians Applied For Just 30 Jobs,
As Thousands Of Refugees Keep Pouring In
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ What bizarre, self-destructed idiocy this globalism is that has co-opted the governments of this planet. As Italy reels from 13,500 African invaders showing up in just two days last week... and overwhelmed local officials demand that the ports of other nations be opened to the same ruinous invading hordes, the people continue to suffer, the Africans continue to come. The question is for how long this will continue, will the Italian people reach a point where the finally stand against the EU generated destruction? Will they force their government officials to act in their interests rather than those of a destructive foreign population transfusion? Many of those positions, particularly the manual labor jobs, will be taken by foreigners willing to work for very little, exacerbating the problem. Their government, in cooperation with the elites, is killing the middle class by importing a slave class to work in its place... http://rickwells.us/85000-italians-applied-just-30-jobs-thousands-refugees-keep-pouring/
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ISIS Leader Killed?
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ In 2005, US forces captured Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Iraq, holding him for several years at Camp Bucca.

Little is publicly known about his capture, detention, or how he became ISIS leader. In 2008, the Bush administration transferred authority of all detainees in US custody to Iraqi forces, including Baghdadi.

In 2010, he was freed, assuming leadership of ISIS the same year. He first became known publicly in summer 2014 when its fighters began capturing territory in Iraq and Syria.

Was the liar-nObama administration behind his release? Was he chosen to head the little known terrorist group at that time, serving as imperial foot soldiers?

On May 28, Russian warplanes struck an ISIS command post in northern Syria where Baghdadi and others in his chain of command were discussing exit routes for its fighters from Raqqa through a southern corridor.

At the time, Russia’s Defense Ministry said it’s believed he was “killed in the airstrike” along with other high-ranking ISIS commanders and hundreds of its fighters.

Emir of Raqqa Abu al-Haji al-Masri, Emir Ibrahim al-Naef al-Hajj, “who controlled the district from the city of Raqqa to the settlement of es-Sohne,” and ISIS head of security Suleiman al-Sawah were reported killed by Russia’s Defense Ministry.

Last Thursday, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Ole Syromolotov said “according to the Russian Defense Ministry, it is highly likely that Daesh leader al-Baghdadi was eliminated as a result of a Russian Aerospace Forces strike on the terrorists’ command post in the southern suburb of the city of Raqqa in late May this year,” adding:

This “information is now verified through various channels.” In mid-June, Sergey Lavrov said he was unable to confirm al-Baghdadi’s death.

He was reported killed several times before, only to turn up alive. Is the latest report of his death premature?

Russia’s Defense Ministry believes he’s dead. Satellite images of four buildings where he and his chain of command were meeting show they were obliterated – making it appear no one inside could have survived.

How his death along with other ISIS commanders, if true, affects the terrorist group remains to be seen.

Syrian and allied forces, greatly aided by Russian airpower, continue making steady gains against ISIS and other terrorist groups.

At the same time, US imperial designs on Syria haven’t changed – wanting pro-Western puppet governance replacing Assad.

As long as this objective remains unchanged, ending Syria’s long nightmare remains elusive.
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Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 4, 2017 at 11:00am
Happy 4th everyone!
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Who Cares About Jewish Unity?
by Caroline Glick
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Google Donates Millions To
Fight Gun Rights And “White Privilege”
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Google is trying to disguise the nature of the $2 million grant they announced on Friday as being for reducing gun violence... They don’t want to come right out and say that it’s money that’s going for gun control, that might be damaging for their business. What they can do is say they’re doing the humanitarian thing, trying to stop inner city “gun violence,” and then give the lion’s share or all of the money to disarmament groups. The grant will be established by Google.org, the arm of the search engine behemoth that doles out money and resources to nonprofits, particularly to the PICO Live Free Campaign. As painful as it was to the psyche to read their liberal propaganda checklist that is the PICO website, a thorough search provided no explanation for the name PICO or if it’s an acronym for something too communist or unconstitutional to admit to just yet. They present themselves as being against gun violence, but what they really are is a leftist agitation and Constitution subverting cell as a look at their top two officials helps to reveal...http://rickwells.us/google-donates-millions-fight-gun-rights-white-privilege/
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Palestinians: Mohammad Dahlan,
the New Mayor of the Gaza Strip?
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by Khaled Abu Toameh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Mohammed Dahlan is an aspiring Palestinian with huge political ambitions. Specifically, he hopes to succeed Mahmoud Abbas as president of the Palestinian Authority (PA)... Knowing this, Abbas expelled him from the ruling Fatah faction in 2011. Since then, Dahlan has been living in the United Arab Emirates. Hamas, the Islamist movement that has controlled the Gaza Strip for the past decade, used to consider Dahlan one of its fiercest enemies. As commander of the notorious Preventive Security Service (PSS) in the Gaza Strip in the 1990s, Dahlan was personally responsible for the PA's security crackdown on Hamas. On his instructions, hundreds of Hamas activists were routinely targeted and detained. The enmity was mutual; Dahlan too considered Hamas a major threat to him and the PA regime in the Gaza Strip... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10614/mohammad-dahlan-gaza
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New Jersey Governor Issues A
State Of Emergency Executive Order
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by Mac Slavo
{activistpost.com} ~ In an attempt to shield those living in the Garden State from the problems their government created, the governor, Chris Christie, has now signed an executive order issuing a “state of emergency.”... As speculation grows that New Jersey will soon follow in Illinois’ footsteps, the government is proving forecasters correct by their inability to pass a constitutionally mandated budget. Not only did New Jersey’s inability to pass a budget shut down the government but not really, don’t worry, you’ll still be taxed and welfare checks will still go out but it scared Christie enough to sign a state of emergency executive order... http://www.activistpost.com/2017/07/new-jersey-governor-issues-state-emergency-executive-order.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4e65420039-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-4e65420039-387888649
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California Democrat 
Faces Death Threats from the Left
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by Lloyd Billingsley
{frontpagemag.com} ~ The online post offered a prayer that “someone checks his schedule for a baseball practice.” That could have been taken as a threat to Republicans now trying to replace liar-nObamacare, but it wasn’t... The target was Democrat Anthony Rendon, speaker of the California Assembly. As the Sacramento Bee reported, on June 28 outside Rendon’s office a protester carried a fake knife emblazoned with “Rendon” and pretended to stab in the back another protester dressed up as a bear. The demonstrators chanted, “Rendon, Rendon, shame on you. Action now on 562” and hoisted signs reading “Inaction Equals Death.” Rendon’s crime was to pull Senate Bill 562, a measure to establish “universal health care” in California. The speaker, who earned a PhD in political science from UC Riverside, had good reason to halt the bill, authored by Democrats Ricardo Lara and Toni Adkins... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267163/california-democrat-faces-death-threats-left-lloyd-billingsley
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Trump Supporters Confront
Soros Anti-Trump Marchers In Los Angeles
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ All those signs, renting the truck and paying the agitators can’t be cheap but when you’ve got the deep pockets of the evil one himself, George Soros, backing you... no amount of anti-American activity is beyond reach. This event, the “Impeach Trump March,” took place on Sunday, July 2nd in Los Angeles, although Soros was buying chaos across the country. Why he’s not in prison yet is a great mystery, but hopefully Attorney General Sessions is working on it. As Grindall61 recorded, a vocal and dedicated contingent of Trump supporters was in attendance despite not having an evil sugar daddy bankrolling them or providing any illicit motivation. Love of country and anger at the attempt to take us over by this corrupt and vile organization, the Soros network of anti-American agitators, was all they needed. They do this type of thing regularly, taking personal risks to make a difference in protecting our nation’s future... http://rickwells.us/trump-supporters-confront-soros-anti-trump-marchers-los-angeles/
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Who Cares About Jewish Unity?
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ There are four important aspects to the government’s decisions on Sunday relating to egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall and the conversion bill. The first is that by and large, the headlines of the stories distort rather than explain what the government decided.

The second is the nature of the American Jewish community’s response to the government’s moves.

The third important aspect of the story is what the government’s decisions tell us about how the government perceive Israel’s relations with the American Jewish community.

Finally, the aftershocks of the decisions tell us something important about the prospects for Jewish unity today.

To the first issue. From the headlines in the newspapers, it is easy to assume that the government just struck a blow at egalitarian prayer at the Western Wall plaza and changed for the worse the status of non-Orthodox conversions in Israel. But neither is the case.

As far as the Western Wall is concerned, the government decision doesn’t harm the egalitarian prayers at the holy site. For the past several years, egalitarian prayer services have been taking place regularly at Robinson’s Arch along the southern wall of the Temple Mount Plaza, just outside the archeological park.

The area, easily accessible from the Dung Gate, is easier to reach by car and foot than the regular Western Wall complex.

In January 2016, after protracted negotiations with progressive American Jewish groups, the government agreed to connect the Robinson’s Arch complex to the Western Wall complex. The government also agreed that management responsibility for the egalitarian prayer area would be transferred from the ultra-Orthodox-controlled Western Wall Foundation, to a new body that would include representatives of Reform and Conservative Judaism as well.

On Sunday, the government reversed that decision.

People have every right to be angry about the government’s move. It just reneged on its agreement, and that isn’t right.

Substantively, though, the government didn’t change the status quo. It just chose not to change it.

While wrong, it doesn’t justify the vitriol being leveled at the government by American Jewish leaders threatening to rethink their support for Israel.

As for the conversion law, the government’s decision on Sunday should make the members of the American Jewish community angry, but not for the reasons they claim. The draft conversion law the government just approved doesn’t change the status of converts who were converted by non-Orthodox religious courts outside of Israel.

Twenty years ago, the Neeman Commission decided, with the agreement of the Reform and Conservative movements, that people who converted in Reform or Conservative conversions outside of Israel would receive citizenship if they chose to make aliya under the Law of Return. They would not, however, be registered as Jews for the purpose of marriage, divorce or burial by the state rabbinate.

This would remain the case under the proposed law.

The people who are harmed by the conversion law are the more than half a million Israeli citizens from the former Soviet Union who made aliya under the Law of Return because they have Jewish lineage, but are not halachicly Jewish because their mothers are not halachically Jewish.

As Rabbi Shlomo Riskin, the chief rabbi of Efrat and noted conversion expert, explains, “According to great halachic authorities like the former chief rabbi of Israel Rav Ben-Tzion Uziel, although these Israeli citizens are not formally Jewish and must undergo a formal conversion, ‘it is incumbent upon the Religious Court to convert them because they have Jewish seed (zera Yisrael).’” Riskin adds, “Of course, we must always encourage observance of the commandments, but the bottom line must be to love and embrace them; they are living in Israel and their children will be going to the IDF.”

Uziel’s ruling informs the conversion policies of religious-Zionist rabbis and conversion courts, but it is rejected by the ultra-Orthodox religious authorities who today exercise absolute control over state conversions.

When the Neeman Commission reached its accord with the Conservative, Reform and Orthodox Jewish authorities in 1997, the Orthodox authorities included both ultra-Orthodox and religious-Zionist, or Modern Orthodox, rabbinic authorities.

As a result, the assumption of the commission members was that the state conversions would be conducted in an atmosphere that reflected a plurality of views represented in the Orthodox Jewish world, including the view of Rav Uziel, which informs the judgment of religious-Zionist rabbinic authorities.

This assumption ceased to be correct however in 2004.

That year, then-prime minister Ariel Sharon’s coalition began unraveling. Sharon’s decision to adopt the policy of the Left and unilaterally withdraw from Gaza while destroying the Israeli communities in Gaza and northern Samaria and forcibly expelling their 10,000 residents tore his party and government apart. Sharon fired the ministers from the National Religious Party and the National Union.

To survive in office, Sharon had to retain the support of the ultra-Orthodox parties. To this end, he acceded to their demand to kick religious-Zionist rabbis out of the state rabbinate and replace them with ultra-Orthodox rabbis. Sharon’s move gave the ultra-Orthodox total control over all state conversions.

Since then, the ultra-Orthodox rabbis have used their absolute to cancel the conversions performed by the most senior rabbis in the religious-Zionist community. Some of the converts affected have been Jews for decades and raised Jewish children.

Their Judaism and that of their children was retroactively denied by the rabbinate.

The ultra-Orthodox rabbinic courts subject half a million Israeli citizens who made aliya under the Law of Return to humiliating and drawn-out conversion processes even though many of them have lived their entire lives as Jews in Israel.

Rather than be given consideration as Rav Uziel and the national-religious religious authorities prescribe, they are treated as though they never had any relationship with the Jewish people of which they have always considered themselves members.

Due to the progressive American Jewish groups’ enthusiastic support for the withdrawal from Gaza and the destruction of the Israeli communities in Gaza and northern Samaria, they did not object to Sharon’s move.

And now, by mischaracterizing the government- backed conversion bill as a slap in the face to Reform and Conservative converts, they miss the real reason they should be fighting the legislation.

They should be fighting the bill because a large majority of the members of their communities are intermarrying. The children of many of those marriages who want to make aliya will be subjected to the same humiliating conversion processes undertaken by the ultra-Orthodox state rabbinic courts as the half a million Israelis who are not registered as Jews with the Chief Rabbinate face.

The fact that this doesn’t seem to be a concern for them indicates two things. First, their anger over the proposed law is not substantive. The contents of the bill – from their perspective – do not change the status of their converts. They have been living at peace with that status, which they agreed to, for 20 years.

At the same time, the American Jewish leaders who threaten not to speak to or host Israeli politicians who support the bill, ignore the fact that the current law would doom the children of their intermarried community members to second-class status in Israel if they try to convert halachically in the framework of aliya, rather than ensuring that they are treated with the love and respect their deserve.

Along these lines, and in relation to the Israeli citizens from the former Soviet Union, Rabbi Riskin notes, “The entire fabric of Israeli society would be torn as under if a division were made between Israelis and halachic Jews. The religious courts must do their utmost to expose them to basic Shabbat, festivals and kashrut observance, but the most important goal must be to bring them into the Covenant with the Jewish people. After all they have gone through because of their ‘Jewishness’ under the Communist regime, it behooves us to incorporate them within our Jewish collective as part of the miracle of the ingathering of the exiles.”

So both in the case of the government’s decision regarding the Western Wall and in relation to its decision regarding the draft conversion law, American Jewish leaders are reacting with fury unhinged from the substance of the decisions themselves.

They cry foul to perceived, but largely imaginary, slights while ignoring the real problem with the conversions bill.

This then brings us to the government, and what apparently motivated it to take action that so provoked the American Jewish leadership.

In an interview with The Jerusalem Post, Rabbi Julie Schonfeld, vice president of the Conservative Rabbinic Assembly, accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of preferring momentary political advantage to the interests of the Jewish people. In her words, “The prime minister will do what he sees as beneficial for the next five minutes of his political life... There’s no possible way that the prime minister and his officials can argue they’re acting in the best interests of the State of Israel. They are betraying the citizens of the State of Israel in order to keep themselves in power for the next five minutes.”

While nasty, her criticism is not without foundation.

But what was Netanyahu’s alternative? If the American Jewish community flies off the handle and declares war against the government, threatening to blackball the elected leaders of the Jewish state when they adopt measures that while impolite have little substantive effect on their positions, then why should Israel take their views into account? If everything that the government does is terrible, then dialogue is reduced to recrimination. Sitting with progressive Jewish leaders from America means being subjected to a lecture about how terrible Israel is by people who do not live here and are not interested in having a serious discussion about what is actually on the table.

The fact that they are not interested in having that sort of discussion, and that they have no interest in making Israel their home, is demonstrated by their indifference to the real implications of the draft conversion law. Leaders truly invested in the future of both their communities and of their communities’ ties with Israel would be appalled by the retention of monopoly control over conversions by rabbinic authorities who refuse to recognize the difference between children of intermarriage and non-Jews with no relation to Judaism and the Jewish people.

They would insist that religious-Zionist rabbis be reinstated in the state rabbinate, and work avidly to ensure that conversions once approved cannot be overturned.

The real problem here is that while everyone involved speaks of the need for Jewish unity, no one involved in the conversation seems to be motivated to work toward that goal.

Jewish unity isn’t achieved by mutual recrimination.

And it isn’t achieved by one-upmanship. It is achieved through compromise based on mutual respect and love for fellow Jews. Absent that, nothing good will come from negotiations or laws or agreements. Absent that, nothing good will come at all.
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Tues/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 4, 2017 at 9:30am
Happy 4th
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
America Shouts While Europe Shrugs
by Peggy Noonan
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Mueller Hires Ally Of Fired US
Attorney Bharara For Witch Hunt Dream Team
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Is Special Witch Hunt Prosecutor Robert Mueller trying to bait President Trump into firing him by making it impossible for him to not do so... or merely just not care who knows that this is the Trump railroading and he’s the engineer Despite his obvious conflict of interest due to his friendship with star witness James Comey, Mueller has refused to step down from his high profile and powerful position and has effectively doubled down by hiring all liar-Clinton supporters and Democrat donors to his staff. Now he’s become so brazen as to hire a close colleague of the defiant and fired former US Attorney, Preet Bharara. Ever since he was fired after refusing to resign in March, early in the Trump administration, Bharara has been a vocal critic of President Trump. Now it appears that the Chuck clown-Schumer ally get’s to exact some revenge by proxy...The hunt is on. Firer Mueller Trump. http://rickwells.us/mueller-hires-ally-fired-us-attorney-bharara-witch-hunt-dream-team/
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OH LOOK! Another Democrat
Congressman Is Under An Ethics Investigation
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{americanlookout.com} ~ While the media continues to obsess about the fake Russia scandal or President Trump’s latest tweet, there is real news unfolding in other parts of the county... U.S. Rep. John Conyers of Detroit is under investigation for possible ethics violations, according to a Monday disclosure by the House Committee on Ethics that his office downplayed. The nature of the allegations against the 88-year-old Democrat are unknown, but the committee acknowledged it is reviewing a May 11 referral from the independent Office of Congressional Ethics, which investigates potential misconduct and forwards findings if board members believe there is “substantial reason to believe” a violation may have occurred... http://americanlookout.com/oh-look-another-democrat-congressman-is-under-an-ethics-investigation/
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White House Signals Cruz-Lee May
Save Healthcare Proposal This Summer
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by Steve Berman
{theresurgent.com} ~ The best path for getting liar-nObamacare repealed may lie with Sens. Ted Cruz and Mike Lee, two conservative leaders whose plan gained key White House backing Sunday... President Trump’s director of legislative affairs, Marc Short, appeared on Fox News Sunday, offering an olive branch to potentially remove liar-nObamacare’s protections for pre-existing conditions. “We hope it’s part of the process of bringing everybody together,” Short said, alluding to Cruz’s “Consumer Choice” proposal. “We support Senator Cruz and Senator Lee’s efforts,” Short said. “This is similar to efforts that transpired in the House, and we think it’s perfectly appropriate, his amendment.”...http://theresurgent.com/white-house-signals-cruz-lee-may-save-healthcare-proposal-this-summer/
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Ambassador Friedman
meets with J Street president
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by David Rosenberg
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman met Monday morning with representatives of a left-wing NGO he once claimed are “worse than kapos”, Haaretz has reported... The left-wing J Street organization, which promotes the establishment of a Palestinian state in Judea and Samaria, the labelling of Jewish goods from the region and opposes Jewish rights in those areas, lobbied strenuously against Friedman’s appointment by President Trump, urging the Senate to reject him as ambassador. Despite their efforts to derail his nomination, and Friedman’s criticism of the group, a J Street delegation led by founder Jeremy Ben-Ami met with the ambassador in Tel Aviv, along with seven Democratic lawmakers who have expressed support for J Street... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/231923?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign
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CNN’s Navarro Attacks
Trump Over Wrestling Video
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It might have been even worse if President Trump had eaten his Pop-Tart into the shape of a pistol and tried to walk into CNN or ABC headquarters... but the hand-wringing over nothing in the wrestling video of President Trump defeating CNN is hysterical, in more ways than one. The fake media organization being defeated in what is recognized as a fake media sporting event, professional wrestling, seems entirely appropriate and is undoubtedly well deserved. But now the Fake News strategists are shifting their well-honed alarmist skills and impulses from the climate hoax to “Trump’s going to get someone killed.” It’s not a problem when they’re reporting and endorsing the vilification of Republicans or glamorizing and legitimizing the assaults by their leftist comrades at Trump rallies, BLM marches, campuses, city streets and elsewhere. Leftists can do as they please, they’ve got a pass. The slightest response to their provocations by the President is a carte blanch for them to lose what’s left of their little minds... http://rickwells.us/another-rosie-odonnell-cnns-navarro-attacks-trump-wrestling-video/
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America Shouts While Europe Shrugs
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by Peggy Noonan
{peggynoonan.com} ~ Here is a column on two very different topics. If my editor is clever he will find a common theme.

The first has to do with the national media climate at this time of political uncertainty, anxiety and division. I suspect at least half the country those who support President Trump, have reserved judgment about him, or just want the news straight feel they can no longer trust, or feel actively excluded by, mainstream entertainment and news.

What we need from media folk is a kind of heroic fairness. What we have instead is endless calculation.

Last week the subject was the divisive nature of so much of our entertainment culture, especially late-night talk shows.

We are living in a time of the politicization of everything. You cannot, at the end of a long day, relax with a talk show because it will take a highly political point of view, in a dominant and aggressive manner, as if politics were not part of life but life. It is obnoxious and assaultive. It effectively tells the audience: ‘We only want you here if you agree with us. If you like Donald Trump, get lost.” Some news shows take a similar approach.

Dislike of Mr. Trump within the mainstream media is unalterable. It permeates every network, from intern to executive producer and CEO.

Here is a theory on what they’re thinking: They’re thinking attempts at fairness and balance in this charged atmosphere get them nowhere. They’re attacked by both sides. And anyway they think Mr. Trump is insane.

They live on ratings, which determine advertising rates. liar-Hillary Clinton got 2.9 million more votes than Mr. Trump, so the anti-Trump audience is larger. Moreover, people who oppose Mr. Trump tend to be more affluent, more educated, more urban. They’re more liberal, of course, and they’re younger. They’re a desirable demographic. The pro-Trump audience is more rural, more working- and middle-class, older. A particularly heartless media professional might sum them up this way: “Their next big lifestyle choice will be death.”

So, if you are a person who programs or sets the tone of network fare and you want to take a side—you shouldn’t, but you want to!—you throw your lot with the anti-Trump demo, serving them the kind of journalistic approaches and showbiz attitudes they’re likely to enjoy.

Mr. Trump, you are certain, won’t last: He’ll bring himself down or be brought down. You want to be with the winning side. So play to those who hate him, exclude others, call it integrity and reap the profits.

That is my theory: media bias now is in part a financial decision, instead of what it used to be, a good old-fashioned human and institutional flaw.

This contributes to public division—to the great estrangement we see in America. I talk to media folk a lot, being one, and haven’t found anyone who’s said, “Why yes, that’s exactly what we’re doing, deepening our national divisions for profit!” Although I shared my theory this week with a senior manager of a news organization who quickly mentioned another major news organization and said: “I think that’s what they’re doing.”

But I do think it’s part of what is going on. I add only that it’s not only cynical and destructive, as a business strategy it’s stupid. Bias is boring. It’s predictable, rote, is an audience-limiter. What has value at a time like this is playing it straight and presenting the facts. That’s what they ought to do instead of taking a side.

*   *   *

I was traveling this week for work, in Europe.

When we arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, passport control was closed down. Many hundreds of people milled about confusedly. An airline worker said two unattended bags had been found and security personnel were on the scene. Officials might have to explode the bags where they are. Will there be any warning? Yes, I was told, they’ll tell us before and we’ll hear it. Does this sort of thing happen often? “A few times a day,” an attendant said.

There was no air of alarm, and everyone around us was pleasant. After 35 minutes passport control opened, without an explosion. The attitude was that this was par for the course, just another day at the office.

Two hours after I got to my hotel, word came of a terror attack three blocks away, on the Champs Élysées. I asked the woman at the desk for directions and she said, in low and measured terms, “I’m sorry madame, there has been a terrorist occurrence. You should not go there.” I said “Yes, I’d like to go see it.” She brightened: “In that case, go left, left, then final left!”

Soon I was in a small crowd being held back by a handful of police. They protested: My work is there. I must go there. I walked for a few blocks, to a small park off the Champs. Police had put up police tape, but as soon as they turned away people ducked under it and continued on their way.

No one in the crowd—workers in the shops, mothers with children, tourists—seemed the least put out or concerned, never mind scared, which they were not.

The next morning the story of what had happened on the Champs Élysées was not even the top story on the international news. Which is a wonder, since this is what happened:

A man had crashed his Renault into the front car of a police convoy. The assailant was later killed. Officers searched his car and found weapons and explosives, reportedly including gas canisters, handguns and a Kalashnikov. The assailant was said to be in his early 30s, from a Parisian suburb, and known to police.

A few hours later at an outdoor cafe I watched as people rode by on scooters and motorcycles. The sidewalks were busy, bright, sun-dappled at dusk. Young people were strolling by and staring down at their phones. Strolling and scrolling, all as carefree and relaxed as any other day.

As I lingered over dessert. A colleague emailed an alert from a private security firm: Continue to avoid the vicinity of Champs Élysées and Avenue Montaigne. I replied: “I am literally on Avenue Montaigne and nothing is happening here but bitchy gossip in the cafe.”

“At least you’re having a very French experience then,” my colleague replied.

I was. Forty-eight hours later, en route to England, I saw the front page of the Times of London: A suspected terrorist had been shot and killed by soldiers in a Brussels railway station. He had attempted to detonate an explosive vest or belt. The story was illustrated with a photo of a handsome young passerby who’d been staring at his phone and suddenly turned toward a flash of light behind him: the late terrorist.

Nothing feels different, all looks the same, no one is letting the discomfort get in their way, but in Europe, terrorism is the new normal.

And much is made of what remains of British stoicism, but something should be said for French sang-froid.

My editor discerns this theme: Perhaps there is a happy medium somewhere between bitter division and blasé complacency. 
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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 4, 2017 at 6:30am
Happy 4th of July
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
An America First Korea policy
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 by Patrick J. Buchanan
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 What Do Americans Think of Patriotism and 
 Liberty? 
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Tomorrow, we'll celebrate the 241st anniversary of our Declaration of Independence. Our nation boasts a rich history and myriad reasons for that celebration. But there are some troubling things worth pondering.
          For example, a recent YouGov poll holds some disturbing numbers about patriotism. Four in 10 say they are very patriotic, and eight in ten are at least somewhat so — but nearly half the country thinks other people are losing patriotic fervor. Perhaps that's because of the unbelievably rancorous political rhetoric these days. Indeed, the partisan split is stark — almost two-thirds of Republicans call themselves very patriotic, as opposed to just one-third of Democrats.
          Another group of Americans is also troublingly unpatriotic — Millennials. More than a third of them aren't patriotic. Hot Air's Allahpundit elucidates, "They've grown up in a bad economy, saddled with skyrocketing education debt, reminded daily that their standard of living may well be worse than their parents', and forced to live with the reality that federal entitlements won't be there for them when they're 65." And yet Millennials are evidently blaming the country instead of bad, leftist policy.
          In another interesting Fox News poll, while the majority (51%) of Americans are proud of the U.S., a whopping 79% of voters don't believe George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and our other Founders would be all that impressed.
          The question is worth asking: Are we honoring the sacrifice made by those who pledged their lives, their fortunes and their sacred honor to secure our independence and Liberty? Are we stewarding what was bequeathed to us at great cost?
          In 1776, after the signing of the Declaration, John Adams wrote to his wife, Abigail: "I am apt to believe that [the signing of the Declaration] will be celebrated, by succeeding generations, as the great anniversary Festival. It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shews, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires and illuminations from one End of this Continent to the other from this time forward forever more."
          Let's work to secure our Liberty, and to make sure that all Americans have reason to celebrate. 
~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama Warns Evil Nationalists
 Out To Undo His Globalist Invasion
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Let’s put aside the false liar-nObama aggrandizement, most of the people who voted for him did so either because he’s black, or at least non-white, and he gives away other people’s money to them... He also is a good speaker, able to lie to their faces and be completely forgiven or met with disinterest when exposed. His support has nothing to do with policy beyond giving preference, especially illegally, and communist wealth redistribution for the lazy and for those who, by design, he failed to create a positive economic environment. Speaking to the Fourth Congress of the Indonesian Diaspora, the latest installment of his never-ending vacation, Hussein liar-nObama gave us a peek at the next phase of his globalist attack on a free America. He’s vilifying our President and our people for wanting to be the best we can and for choosing to do so as a nation. It’s what made us great but now, in the eyes of the new global communist leader, it’s called the “dangers of nationalism.” The hypocrite could argue that Indonesia financially contribute to the support all of southeast Asia in the phony climate hoax and see how well they’d like wearing that other American shoe, but he’s not there to be honest. He’s doing what he’s always done, criticizing and demeaning America. It’s unlikely anyone outside of their gathering or more than one percent of Hussein liar-nObama supporters would know the definition of diaspora or sectarian, but that’s part of the plan...http://rickwells.us/obama-warns-evil-nationalists-undo-globalist-invasion-minority-privilege/
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Nancy Pulosi Makes Russia Accusation
and Quickly Forgets What She Said
by Martin Lioll
 
{conservativetribune.com} ~ House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi has never been known for any significant degree of verbal felicity... This is a woman whose career will likely be remembered for a cataclysmic turn of phrase that came to define the entire liar-nObamacare debacle: “We have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it.” However, it’s become clear in recent months that Rep. Pulosi’s condition has degraded from an unfortunate inarticulateness into a genuinely problematic inability to express herself coherently. Nowhere was that more evident than a Thursday news conference that ended up sounding about as coherent as a Pete Doherty interview. “It’s afternoon. It is afternoon. Good afternoon everyone,” she began by muttering... http://conservativetribune.com/how-far-gone-pelosi/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=braverafreedomforce&utm_campaign=can&utm_content=2017-07-02
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Leftist Anti-Trump MEDIA
Committing LIBEL, VOTER FRAUD
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Bill Whittle takes on the topic of media bias, which he notes has been a complaint for half a century. It’s been a problem for much longer, at since at least the 1800s... but he’s dealing with the current mess we’re in. He notes that a 2013 survey showed the percentage of journalists identifying as Republican was a mere 7 percent. We could approach it from another angle, that the actual figure was 100 percent, since those identifying as Democrats or other liberals, the 93%, were propagandists by definition, not journalists. In further exposing the left-wing stranglehold, he cites the result of a poll in April of last year of those in the White House Press Corps, which reflected a more dismal 0% of GOP members, or 100% leftist propagandists. Whittle isn’t buying the argument that there’s no fake news coming out of such an obviously biased group and utilizes the work of Project Veritas’ James O’Keefe to enhance his arguments... http://rickwells.us/bill-whittle-leftist-anti-trump-media-committing-libel-voter-fraud/
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Two dozen Democrats get behind bill
to lay foundation for removing Trump...
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by David Martosko
{dailymail.co.uk} ~ A Democratic congressman has proposed convening a special committee of psychiatrists and other doctors whose job would be to determine if President Donald Trump is fit to serve in the Oval Office... Maryland Rep. Jamie Raskin, who also teaches constitutional law at American University, has predictably failed to attract any Republicans to his banner. But the U.S. Constitution's 25th Amendment does allow for a majority of the president's cabinet, or 'such other body as Congress may by law provide,' to decide if an Oval Office occupant is unable to carry out his duties – and then to put it to a full congressional vote... http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4655964/Democrats-lay-foundation-remove-Trump-mental-grounds.htm
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White House Signals Support For Ted Cruz
“Consumer Choice” Healthcare Amendment
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ The vast majority of the most severely impacted people within the discussion, middle-class workers/taxpayers who do not qualify for Medicaid... have been essentially locked out of the legislative consideration. It is refreshing to see middle America finally being part of the equation. Within the Senate bill, Ted Cruz and Mike Lee have finally advanced something of value. The “Consumer Choice Amendment” would allow insurance companies to sell plans that do not follow regulations created under liar-nObamacare, with the caveat that those insurers have to sell at least one plan that adheres to liar-nObamacare’s mandates. The proposal would allow insurers to sell plans with tailored benefits. The Cruz amendment doesn’t impact those on medicare or medicaid (mandated types of coverage by government), and follows the basic premise we previously outlined in the parallel approach seemingly structured within the Trump Team’s overall outlook... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/07/02/sunday-talks-white-house-signals-support-for-ted-cruz-consumer-choice-healthcare-amendment/
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An America First Korea policy
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 by Patrick J. Buchanan
{wnd.com} ~ “The North Korean regime is causing tremendous problems and is something that has to be dealt with, and probably dealt with rapidly.”

So President Trump told reporters in the Rose Garden this week.

But how this is to be done “rapidly” is not so easy to see.

North Korea has just returned to us Otto Warmbier, a student sentenced to 15 years hard labor for stealing a propaganda poster. Otto came home comatose and died within days.

Trump’s conundrum: How to keep such a regime from acquiring an ICBM with a nuclear warhead, which Kim Jong-un is determined to do.

Having seen us attack Iraq and Libya, which had no nukes, Kim believes that only nuclear weapons that can hit America can deter America. He appears willing to risk war to achieve his goal.

Trump’s options as he meets South Korean President Moon Jae-in?

First, the decapitation of the Kim dynasty. But the U.S. has been unable to accomplish regime change for the 64 years following the Korean War. And killing Kim could ignite a war.

Then there is a U.S. pre-emptive strike on North Korea’s nuclear sites and missile arsenals. But this would surely mean a war in which Americans on the DMZ would be among the first to die, as thousands of North Korean artillery and mortar tubes fired into the suburbs and city of Seoul, which is as close as Dulles Airport is to the White House.

Asked by Rep. Tim Ryan why we don’t launch a war to end this threat, Defense Secretary James Mattis replied that, while we might “win … at great cost,” such a war would “involve the massive shelling of an ally’s capital … one of the most densely packed cities on earth.”

Seoul has a metro-area population of 25 million.

We are thus approaching a point where we accept North Korea having a nuclear weapon that can reach Seattle, or we attack its strategic arsenal and bring on a war in which millions could die.

What about sanctions?

The only nation that could impose sufficient hardships on North Korea to imperil the regime is China. But China refuses to impose the Draconian sanctions that might destabilize the regime and might bring Korean refugees flooding into China. And Beijing has no desire to see Kim fall and Korea united under a regime aligned with the United States.

What FDR said of one Caribbean dictator, the Chinese are probably saying of Kim Jong-un, “He may be an SOB, but he’s our SOB.”

Early in his presidency, Trump gave the franchise for dealing with the North Korean threat to Beijing. But his friend Xi Jinping has either failed Trump or declined to deliver.

As for President Moon, he wants to negotiate, to engage the North economically, to invite its athletes to join South Koreans on joint teams for the Winter Olympics in 2018. Moreover, Moon is said to be willing to cut back on joint military exercises with the U.S. and regards the THAAD missile defense we introduced into South Korea as a negotiable item.

China, whose missile launches can be detected by THAAD radar, wants it removed and has so informed South Korea.

Where does this leave us?

We are committed to go to war to defend the South and have 28,000 troops there. But South Korea wants to negotiate with North Korea and is prepared to make concessions to buy peace.

As the nation that would suffer most in any second Korean War, South Korea has the sovereign right to play the hand. But what Seoul considers best for South Korea is not necessarily best for us.

What would be an America First Korea policy?

The U.S. would give Seoul notice that we will, by a date certain, be dissolving our mutual security treaty and restoring our full freedom to decide whether or not to fight in a new Korean War. Given the present risk of war, possibly involving nuclear weapons, it is absurd that we should be obligated to fight what Mattis says would be a “catastrophic” war, because of a treaty negotiated six decades ago by Eisenhower and Dulles.

“The commonest error in politics,” Lord Salisbury reminded us, “is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.”

But we should also tell South Korea that if she desires a nuclear deterrent against an attack by the North, she should build it. Americans should not risk a nuclear war, 8,000 miles away, to defend a South Korea that has 40 times the economy of the North and twice the population.

No vital U.S. interest requires us, in perpetuity, to be willing to go to war to defend South Korea, especially if that war entails the risk of a nuclear attack on U.S. troops or the American homeland.

If the United States did not have a mutual security pact that obligates us to defend South Korea against a nuclear-armed North, would President Trump be seeking to negotiate such a treaty?

The question answers itself.

 http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/an-america-first-korea-policy/
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 3, 2017 at 4:00pm
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 Southern Poverty Law Center Got Rich on 'Hate'
by Michael Swartz
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 High-Energy Trump 
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President Donald Trump is at his best when he's pushing for American greatness. Thursday, it was on energy policy. While the Leftmedia was distracted by his Twitter account, Trump was making a big speech announcing big energy initiatives. "My administration will seek not only American energy independence that we've been looking for so long," he promised, "but American energy dominance." How? With a six-pronged approach.
          Trump listed the steps: "First, we will begin to revive and expand our nuclear nergy sector. ...Second, the Department of the Treasury will address barriers to the financing of highly efficient, overseas coal energy plants. ... Third, my administration has just approved the construction of a new petroleum pipeline to Mexico. ... Fourth, just today, a major U.S. company, Sempra Energy, signed an agreement to begin negotiations for the sale of more American natural gas to South Korea. ... Fifth, the United States Department of Energy is announcing today that it will approve two long-term applications to export additional natural gas from the Lake Charles [liquefied natural gas] terminal in Louisiana. ... Finally, in order to unlock more energy from the 94% of offshore [area] closed to development ... we're creating a new offshore oil and gas leasing program."
          After eight years of obstruction and regulation of energy production, these changes are welcome indeed. It's not that solar and wind energy aren't worth pursuing, but they haven't lived up to the hype and shouldn't be chased to the exclusion of proven energy sources. And Trump's attitude is especially welcome: "This vast energy wealth does not belong to the government," he said. "It belongs to the people of the United States of America."
          Now there's something you'd never hear from the previous "You Didn't Build That" administration.
          Earlier this week, Trump's EPA rolled back liar-nObama's clean water power grab. At the beginning of June, he withdrew from the Paris climate accords. And in March, he approved the long-obstructed Keystone pipeline. America is already experiencing an oil boom, and Trump's market-driven energy policies are only going to expand it. 
~The Patriot Post
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Useless Senate Won’t Approve
Immigration Bills – Time To Change The Rules
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ People are talking about the House’s Thursday passage of two immigration-related bills, “Kate’s Law” and the “No Sanctuary For Criminals Act” as if they now simply need the President’s signature to become law... The unfortunate truth is that they’re now headed off to the Senate and the chances are that’s where they’ll die a quiet, lonely death. It would be a great thing if there were enough patriotic, responsible Senators and a capable Majority Leader that could or would get the Senate to approve the Senate versions. Instead we’ve got a razor thin majority of 52 when 60 yes votes are needed and a feckless jellyfish, Mitch McConnell as Majority Leader. Nothing that takes any backbone will fail to slip through his fingers, no opportunities for failure will go unanswered. “Kate’s Law,” named in honor of American Kate Steinle, who was murdered by a multi-time deported illegal, increases the penalties for illegals who re-enter the United States after being deported, including progressively longer incarceration periods...http://rickwells.us/useless-senate-approve-immigration-bills-time-change-rules/
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First Muslim Governor About
To Take Over This State...
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by Prissy Holly
{freedomdaily.com} ~ Muslims understand fully that to take over America, they must first infest every facet of our society to include our schools, our law enforcement agencies, and the highest levels of government... Meet Dr. Abdul el-Sayed. A 32-year-old Muslim medical doctor who has recently thrown his hat in the race for governor of Michigan. Just like liar-nObama, he speaks without an accent and is charismatic; attributes that divert everyone’s attention away from the fact that he’s a Muslim with the full backing of the Muslim Brotherhood terror organization. With Michigan already transforming into a Muslim cesspool in recent years, Sayed’s win as the governor would put the finishing touches on the state whose citizens are already being threatened by the complete takeover of Sharia Law. Dick Manasseri, who heads a group called Secure Michigan, made a chilling prediction about what’s in store for Michigan should Sayed win, a state he labels a “Sharia swamp.”... http://freedomdaily.com/first-muslim-governor-take-state-heres-terrifying-changes-plans-make-immediately/
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Trump’s New Suggestion for Healthcare is Genius
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by Keely Sharp
{eaglerising.com} ~ This country is divided on many issues. Perhaps on of our biggest disagreements is healthcare! Liberals honestly believe that the debacle of liar-nObamacare is actually a good thing, while the rest of us see it for the catastrophe that it truly is... However, even though we know it is a disaster, the GOP can’t seem to find a replacement for it. President Trump issued a blunt challenge to Republican senators on Friday to repeal liar-nObamaCare now and replace it “at a later date” if they are unable to strike a deal on more comprehensive legislation. Healthcare is not a constitutional right. With that being said, I think that they should explore opening healthcare insurance across state lines. With that, there would be more competition and therefore lower prices... http://eaglerising.com/45228/trumps-new-suggestion-healthcare-genius/
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MIKA Brzezinski Admits PLANTED Dina Habib
Powell In WH – Deep State Agent, LEAKER
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ We really don’t need another reason not to like the liar-Clinton sycophant and globalist propagandist Mika Brzezinski, but since she’s handing them out like Halloween candy, there is one worth comment... She’s claiming “credit,” the wrong word, for bringing Valerie Jarrett and Huma Abedin’s fellow Islamist, Dina Habib Powell into the inner circle of the White House. Powell and HR McMaster had been identified as the source of leaks to “someone” in the media. It now appears Brzezinski is that someone. In that regard she’s already gotten the last laugh on President Trump. According to the New York Times:  They left out the part about her dad being a globalist, early CFR member and one of the first members of the global government Trilateral Commission, along with Jimmy Carter. She’s the proverbial fruit that hasn’t fallen far from the tree ideologically, though lacking her father’s intellect. By her saying that it was a deliberate attempt to influence policy, “hoping for the best,” there’s no doubt of what both her and Powell’s objectives are. Their mission, along with others inside the White House, is to shift the maverick Trump into the “appropriate” role for a president in the elite establishment view. He’s supposed to be their puppet, a mere tool of the deep state, military industrial complex, neocon machinery...http://rickwells.us/mika-brzezinski-admits-planted-dina-habib-powell-wh-deep-state-agent-leaker/
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Meet The American Woman
Helping North Korea’s Defectors
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by Ginni Thomas
{dailycaller.com} ~ One woman in Virginia has made it her mission to find people who have escaped North Korea’s totalitarian regime and can tell their story to inspire and liberate others... Suzanne Scholte is president of Defense Forum Foundation. In a “labor of love,” she has been reaching out to North Korea defectors for over a decade, helping fund a small radio station run by these people in South Korea to broadcast news, truth, information and messages of hope to those living under the North Korean brutal dictator, Kim Jung Un...http://dailycaller.com/2017/07/01/meet-the-american-woman-helping-north-koreas-defectors-video/
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 Southern Poverty Law Center Got Rich on 'Hate' 
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By Michael Swartz:  Back in 1971, a marketer and attorney co-founded a crusading legal organization that cut its teeth with a series of civil lawsuits that eventually all but dismantled the Ku Klux Klan. Had the organization rested on its laurels with that achievement, as well as other early work in the civil rights arena, perhaps the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) would continue to maintain a modest but solid reputation in the legal advocacy community for its impact on that movement.
          But co-founder Morris Dees has always had bigger things in mind. So as the SPLC continued to move beyond its original focus on civil rights and issues common in the Southern U.S. to include a plethora of other leftist causes on a national scale, its ambition (and fundraising appetite) became larger as well. Dees once promised to stop the constant appeals for money when the group's endowment reached $55 million, but as that marker drew closer the bar was raised to $100 million, and now the SPLC sits on a $302.8 million pile of cash. Clearly, the "Poverty" is in name only.
          Dees and company haven't stopped looking for money either: a guitar that belonged to the late Grateful Dead founder Jerry Garcia was sold at auction last month for $1.9 million. After expenses, and with a matching donation from the sponsor, the SPLC netted a cool $3.2 million from the event. "[I could] indulge two passions of mine at the same time," said winning bidder Brian Halligan, chief executive of HubSpot: "social justice and the Grateful Dead."
          Meanwhile, since there isn't much need to sue the KKK out of existence these days, the SPLC has turned its attention to advocacy, as in trying to define itself as the sole arbiter of what defines a "hate group." One recent case in point: The GuideStar directory of charities ran into controversy when it adopted the SPLC's definition of "hate group" and applied it to legitimate organizations such as those opposing same-sex "marriage" or otherwise promoting Bible-based Christian beliefs. "The 'hate group' list is nothing more than a political weapon targeting people it deems to be its political enemies," states a letter to GuideStar that was signed by more than 40 people, many affiliated with these organizations or otherwise sympathetic to their views.
          In fact, the conservative Liberty Counsel is suing. Its founder and chairman, Mat Staver, said, "We want to stop the lies because this kind of reporting is defamatory, it's reckless, and it's dangerous."
          One of the supposed "hate groups" is the Family Research Council, which has its own history with the SPLC. In 2012, a deranged man, Floyd Corkins, walked into the lobby of the FRC offices and began shooting, wounding a security guard before being subdued. (A year later, Corkins was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the shooting.) Corkins later told police his attack was a protest against the FRC's pro-traditional marriage stance, and he was inspired in part by the SPLC's labeling of the Family Research Council as a "hate group."
          Behind the imposing, nearly prison-like façade of its six-story headquarters in Montgomery, Alabama, the SPLC has more than 200 employees tasked mainly with a relentless study and definition of right-of-center organizations as purveyors of hatred merely for their stance on issues like immigration, religious freedom, social issues, and the welfare state. In its "Extremist Files," the SPLC does have a handful of fringe leftist exceptions such as the Nation of Islam and a few black nationalists to provide a fig leaf of cover for themselves, but the SPLC seems to believe the hate comes almost exclusively from the intolerant Right — so much so that even the liar-nObama administration backed away from using it as a resource.
          Yet that mindset has moved into overdrive since the election of Donald Trump. It was made even worse when Trump appointed Alabama's own Jeff Sessions as attorney general, a move Dees called "probably the worst mistake Trump could have made for the United States of America."
          There's no question leftists are reeling from the 2016 election: The SPLC board was so confident liar-Hillary Clinton had it in the bag that they were game-planning their next four years shilling for her when they met on the eve of the November election. They couldn't envision a Trump administration, even if 63 million Americans could.
          What the SPLC board lacked in vision, though, will more than likely be made up for with ruthless ambition. Once again, with the Right currently controlling all three branches of government, the SPLC will make Donald Trump a fundraising bogeyman. Maybe that wasn't in the original plan 46 years ago, but the SPLC must now feed the beast of the intolerant Left. Indeed, it's much more lucrative to build up those feelings of hatred before asking for that donation.  ~The Patriot Post
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Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 3, 2017 at 11:30am
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 Senate GOP Health Bill Triggers
Typical Leftist Hysteria
by Louis DeBroux
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 San Fran Rewards Illegals; GOP Protects Americans 
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On Thursday, House Republicans along with 24 Democrats passed what has been popularly referred to as Kate's Law, in memory of Kate Steinle, the young woman who was murdered in San Francisco by a five-time deported illegal alien with a criminal record. The law increases penalties on illegal aliens who illegally re-enter the country, including mandatory prison sentences.
          Meanwhile, the taxpayers in San Francisco will be paying out a
$190,000 legal settlement to an illegal alien. The illegal's lawyer successfully argued that based on San Francisco's official sanctuary city policy, the police violated the man's rights by alerting Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to his whereabouts. Documentation showed that the man had served two days in jail for a DUI in 2012 and had received a deportation order back in 2005.
          Back in DC, House Speaker Paul Ryan touted the importance of passing Kate's Law. He highlighted the obvious hypocrisy of Left and their twisted notion of justice, stating, "San Francisco is a so-called sanctuary city. But this sanctuary city was not a sanctuary at all — not for Kate it wasn't."
          Also on Thursday the House passed a bill that denies federal funds to any municipality that enacts sanctuary city policies. The bill also includes a provision that requires ICE to take custody of any illegal alien who commits a crime resulting in the death or serious injury of a victim.
          Hours before the House voted on these two bills, Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly spoke to members of Congress and expressed his frustration with certain unnamed lawmakers. Kelly said that he was "offended" at certain members who had "often threatened me and my officers" for simply doing their jobs enforcing the laws of the land. He bluntly asserted that these lawmakers needed to "shut up" instead of criticizing him had his staff for enforcing laws that lawmakers themselves had written.
          Finally, in a creative twist, Sen. Luther Strange (R-AL) proposed tackling the problem of funding the border wall by transferring federal funds from sanctuary cities to the border wall budget. This way, sanctuary cities can still contribute to controlling the problem of illegal immigration. Sounds like a winning proposition.  ~The Patriot Post
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Rubio’s Pro-Sharia, Extra Rights Bill
Passed Senate – Stop HR 257 In The House
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by Rick Wells

{rickwells.us} ~ It’s becoming glaringly evident that we dodged a major bullet when Marco Rubio (R-FL) was not selected to be the GOP nominee for president... Not only does he wear his establishment credentials on his sleeve, but he’s got new caliphate enabling ones he’s displaying with equal prominence. Rubio has successfully slipped a Sharia enabling, Muslim privilege and empowering act through the Senate; it passed on April 4th of this year and is now in the House. As hard as it is to believe, some legislation, particularly that which is un-American, pro-Marxist, global takeover enabling does make it through. This one was disguised as more “equal rights for minorities,” the kind of stuff that if the politically correct cowards in government vote against it, they are forced to defend their actions. Most of the swamp creatures immediately knuckle under when faced with a fight. Right or wrong is rarely a serious consideration. This bill that Rubio, along with staunch anti-American Senator Kamala Harris (D-CA), Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) and RINO Susan Collins (R-ME) sponsored as Senate Resolution 118, was written by a Muslim organization, EmgageUSA (formerly EmergeUSA) and the Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC)...http://rickwells.us/rubios-pro-sharia-extra-rights-bill-passed-senate-stop-hr-257-house/

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Democrat Philadelphia D.A.
Pleads Guilty in Federal Corruption Trial
by M.J. Randolph

{truthrevolt.org} ~ When Democrat Seth Williams ran for district attorney in 2009, his campaign slogan “A new day, a new DA.” Though the voters hoped he’d be a fresh new talent full of integrity... Philly.com reports that his “personal financial struggles, staffing decisions in his office and gifts he received and failed to report from wealthy benefactors.” Federal prosecutors accused Williams of “repeatedly misusing campaign cash and government property to live well beyond his means and selling the influence of his office to two wealthy benefactors who showered him with gifts including trips abroad, a $3,000 custom-built sofa and a used Jaguar convertible.” All in all, he had 29 corruption-related counts. At first, he denied any wrongdoing. Then, he disparaged the FBI and the IRS. Finally, he pled guilty to accepting a bribe from a Philly-area businessman. As part of his deal, Williams resigned and will face up to 5 years in prison... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/democrat-philadelphia-da-pleads-guilty-federal-corruption-trial 

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It is Time for Michel
Temerto Answers for His Crimes
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by Luis Miranda
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Michel Temer has become the first president in Brazilian history to be formally charged with committing corruption crimes... Not even the two presidents of the country who in the last 25 years underwent dismissal proceedings, Fernando Collor de Melo in 1992 and Dilma Rousseff in 2016, had gone through an equal situation. The Attorney General of the Republic, Rodrigo Janot, has formally filed the complaint against the president, which will force the nation’s Congress to vote for Temer’s dismissal from office for six months. The prosecution opened by Janot is not exactly an impeachment, but in practice puts Temer in a very similar situation... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/time-michel-temer-answers-crimes/
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Insane San Francisco Pays Illegal
190K Damages For Being Turned Over To ICE
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ There are a lot of stories these days that make you just shake your head, many of them having to do with the inexplicable lunacy of the left... An illegal alien squatting in the free squat zone of San Francisco has just been awarded $190,000 because he was arrested on an outstanding warrant. The San Francisco Examiner reported that Pedro Figueroa-Zarceno, 33, had sued the city on January 17th “for violating its sanctuary city ‘laws’ when officers at Southern Station allegedly cooperated with immigration officials.”  Figueroa-Zarceno is an illegal border crasher from El Salvador who had gone to the police station to report his car being stolen. Officers detained Figueroa-Zarceno after they ran his name and found an outstanding warrant for his arrest. They were unable to determine any details of the warrant, so they released Figueroa-Zarceno through a side door where ICE officers had been alerted he’d be passing. He was then arrested and spent two months fighting his deportation. We move too slowly and allow too much room for litigation...http://rickwells.us/insane-san-francisco-pays-illegal-190k-damages-turned-ice/
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The Cruel Hopelessness Of “Single Payer”
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by Darrick Johnson
{theresurgent.com} ~ In the current debate over the Affordable Care Act, we really are in the midst of a great proxy war over single payer health care... Sure, its not on the table with this Congress, and liar-nObamacare, while a bureaucratic monstrosity, isn’t single payer. But the debate surrounding GOP efforts to repeal, or at least reform the law is really a precursor to a national debate over single payer. Regardless of the fate of the GOP pseudo-repeal bill, we are at a crossroads. liar-nObamacare is collapsing. It was never intended to be permanent. It was always a compromise, a bridge to complete, government sponsored, single payer health care. We will soon have to decide if we want a market oriented health care system, or a government dominated system. Every left-wing opinion piece on health care starts with the premise that medicine shouldn’t cost anything, and anytime it does, it’s a evidence of a failed system. They point to Canada, the UK, and European states where the socialist dreams of medicine are, we are told, coming true. liar-nObamacare’s failures, they say, should drive us closer to “single payer”, not farther away...http://theresurgent.com/the-cruel-hopelessness-of-single-payer/
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 Senate GOP Health Bill Triggers Typical 
 Leftist Hysteria 
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By Louis DeBroux:  Senate Republicans released their version of the liar-nObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill last week, and of course, before anyone had time to read it, Democrats and their Leftmedia attack dogs ran to the nearest microphone, hysterically declaring millions would lose health insurance and literally left to die because of the bill. It was all so predictable.
          Democrats pointed to the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) scoring of the bill, which claimed 22 million Americans would lose coverage if the Senate bill was passed. This is a ridiculous claim for two reasons.
          First, "losing" is not the same thing as "choosing." While the headlines blare that 22 million will "lose coverage," the fine print of the CBO report tells a different story: "CBO and JCT estimate that, in 2018, 15 million more people would be uninsured under this legislation than under current law — primarily because the penalty for not having insurance would be eliminated."
          Get that? Without the penalty from the individual mandate, millions would choose not to buy coverage. In that way liar-nObamaCare is much like membership in a labor union. Democrats shout from the rooftops how wonderful it is, but when the people are given a choice, they overwhelmingly reject it.
          Second, the CBO has a long and inglorious history of being wrong. Not just a little wrong either, but more off target than a one-eyed, near-sighted drunkard trying to shoot a Coke can off a tree stump from 50-yards with a snub-nosed .38 revolver.
          As The Wall Street Journal pointed out in March regarding the CBO's previous flawed liar-nObamaCare projections, "In February 2013, CBO predicted that liar-nObamaCare enrollment in the individual market would be 13 million in 2015, 24 million in 2016 and 26 million in 2017. The actual enrollment for those years was, respectively, 11 million, 12 million and 10 million. As recently as March 2016, CBO was projecting an enrollment boom of 15 million for this year." Enrollment in 2016 was just over 10 million.
          Less than three years after it went into effect, the CBO's liar-nObamaCare cost projections doubled, from $900 billion to $1.8 trillion, despite the fact that premiums, deductibles and co-pays were skyrocketing. liar-nObamaCare left tens of millions of Americans without coverage, and tens of millions more with an insurance card saying they had coverage with their doctors no longer willing to take them.
          Regardless, the claim that anyone in America will die without insurance is an unmitigated lie. President Ronald Reagan signed The Emergency Medical Treatment and Labor Act (EMTALA) into law in 1986, requiring hospitals to treat anyone and everyone who comes into the Emergency Room, regardless of insurance status or ability to pay.
          America has the best health care system in the world. What is a disaster is how we pay for it, and it is a disaster precisely because of government meddling in the market, creating problems, and then devising "solutions" that create more problems than they solve.
          The problem is rooted in Franklin D. Roosevelt's decision during World War II to institute a wage freeze. Unable to attract top talent with higher wages, businesses looked for other forms of incentives, leading many businesses to pay employees' health insurance in lieu of higher wages. By the time the war ended, this compensation tool had taken root, and never ended.
          This created a market distortion, with the recipient of the service no longer paying for the service, and therefore not seeking lower prices. Compounding the problem is decades of government regulations and mandates that further distorted the market, squeezing doctors and hospitals from both ends.
          On the one side, government mandated hundreds of treatments and services included in all policies, then layered on tens of thousands of pages of regulations that health care providers are required to comply with or face financial penalties and even jail time. On the other side, government became the 800-lb gorilla, accounting for half of all health care spending while steadily reducing reimbursement rates for providers, making it extremely difficult just to break even. This is a huge reason why more and more doctors decide to no longer treat Medicare or Medicaid patients.
          liar-nObamaCare is a socialist, government-run health care system, and it's failing as miserably as all such systems do.
          The GOP health care bills, though at least trending in the right direction, try too hard to split the baby. The key to successful health care reform is controlling costs, and this is best achieved by reintroducing free market reforms.
          Insurance is about spreading and mitigating risk. It is about covering unforeseen and unlikely events. What we have today is a health payment system, not a health insurance system. Forcing health insurers to cover anything and everything means it is no longer insurance. It would be like requiring auto insurers to cover not just collisions, but oil changes, new tires, wiper blades, and basic maintenance and repairs, and expecting rates not to skyrocket.
          While the GOP offering is far better than liar-nObamaCare, it can't stop there. Republicans need to push for a true free market in health care, where insurers and providers compete for our business. Only then will we see both a rapid drop in price and a rapid increase in quality of care.  ~The Patriot Post
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Mon/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 3, 2017 at 9:30am
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Why do they even play the game?
by Charles Krauthammer
 
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 Top Headlines 
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Why Trump's vengeful tweeting matters. (National Review)
 
GOP senator proposes Transferring Sanctuary Cities’ Federal Funds to Border Wall Budget (The Daily Signal)
 
CBO: Treasury to run out of cash in next three months, leading to default or delay of payments. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
California's gun control efforts suffer two legal setbacks. (ABC News)
 
"liar-nObamaphone" program stashes $9 billion in private bank accounts. (The Washington Times)
 
Low-income families spend 40% of their money on luxuries. (Market Watch)
 
Iraq declares end of caliphate after capture of Grand Al-Nuri Mosque in Mosul. (Reuters)
 
Twitter considering addition of a "fake news" button. (Hot Air)
 
More fake news: CNN trots out Elmo to spout leftist talking points about Syrian refugees. (Pajamas Media)
 
Policy: Making high-quality career training central to American schooling. (City Journal)
 
Policy: Government monopoly money vs. personal choice in currency. (Heartland Institute)
 
Humor: Trump takes to Twitter to viciously attack White House step he stumbled over. (The Babylon Bee)  ~The Patriot Post
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Should Anyone Care
about the Iranian Missile Strikes?
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by Behnam Ben Taleblu
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Although there is no precise open-source tally of every single Iranian ballistic missile, according to the former Director of National Intelligence, Iran has “the largest inventory of ballistic missiles in the Middle East.”... Iran’s experiences during the 1980–1988 Iran-Iraq War pushed the country to procure and produce this arsenal, underscoring the importance of these weapons for purposes of deterrence, intimidation and retaliation. Fast forward almost three decades and ballistic missiles have become a central part of Iran’s security strategy and a highly valued regime asset. In addition to retaliating against ISIS, Iranian officials implied that the missile strike sent a message to the United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel. While Iran may have sought to intimidate its adversaries and attempt to signal resolve via a highly public move, the most important target audience for Tehran was likely its domestic constituency. Make no mistake, the twin terrorist attacks that rocked the Iranian capital on June 7 terminated the fiction that Iran could act with impunity in the region and not face repercussions at home... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/behnam-ben-taleblu-should-anyone-care-about-the-iranian-missile-strikes/
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LaVoy Finicum shooting:
FBI agent faces 5-count indictment
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by Maxine Bernstein
{oregonlive.com} ~ An FBI agent accused of lying about firing two shots at Oregon standoff spokesman Robert "LaVoy" Finicum faces a five-count indictment, charging him with three counts of making a false statement and two counts of obstruction of justice... W. Joseph Astarita, 40, dressed in a dark pinstriped suit, white dress shirt and red-and-blue striped tie, made his first appearance on the indictment Wednesday in a packed federal courtroom, with heightened security inside and in the corridors of the Mark O. Hatfield Courthouse. A lawyer standing beside Astarita entered not guilty pleas on his behalf to all charges. Astarita will remain out of custody pending trial... http://www.oregonlive.com/oregonstandoff/2017/06/fbi_agent_indicted_in_connecti.html 
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Mystery Solved of What
Happened to Oil from Deepwater Horizon Spill
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by Steve Byas
{thenewamerican.com} ~ “This provides the most complete account yet of what was happening in the hydrocarbon plumes in the deep ocean during the event,” observed Gary Anderson, a microbial ecologist at the National Laboratory of the Department of Energy, located in Berkeley... The “event” was the largest oil spill in history — the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. It is estimated that the total discharge of oil into the Gulf was 4.9 million barrels. British Petroleum (BP) eventually agreed to pay $18.7 billion in fines, the largest corporate settlement in American history. At the time, there was great concern about how so much oil was going to ever be cleaned up, using the available technology. But amazingly, the oil virtually disappeared on its own, leading to various explanations. One explanation was that natural causes — oil-eating microbes had done the trick... https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/26369-mystery-solved-of-what-happened-to-oil-from-deepwater-horizon-spill
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John Podesta - A Question of Patriotism
 
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ We hear that Congress is calling John Podesta for a hearing about liar-Hillary Clinton. However, many do not even know who John Podesta is or what his ideology is, which is something that goes against the Constitution among other ideas... So, let's disclose who this man is and what his ideas are to show the evil man that liar-Hillary Clinton and Barack liar-nObama both had working for them. John Podesta was the White House Chief of Staff for liar-nObama and that gave him a lot of power, which he seemingly abused. John Podesta is linked to Center for American Progress (CAP), which perhaps is a Socialistic group determined to undermine and eventually destroy the United States Constitution. But the first thing we learn about CAP is that it is also funded by the one person linked to liar-Hillary Clinton, Barack liar-nObama, John Podesta, Harold Ickes, and a number of others. That person is none other than George Soros, but we will dig a bit deeper into Mr. Podesta’s background. John Podesta engaged in the smearing and filibustering of any and all Republican judicial nominees. Podesta helped his first Democrat to begin his attempt to “circumvent” the Constitution...So you thing he will tell the truth or lie? http://freedomoutpost.com/john-podesta-a-question-of-patriotism/
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FSM VIDEO
 
Nets Dedicate 28X More Cover to Trump Tweet than Kate’s Law Passing
VIDEO:  https://www.mrctv.org/videos/nets-dedicate-28x-more-cover-trump-tweet-kates-law-passing
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Podesta (chairman for liar-Hillary's campaign) Clashes with Maria Bartiromo over Russia Ties: "Go Back and Get Your Facts Straight"
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TUCKER: takes on Kate's Law opponent
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Mark Levin to the Media: Want Trump to Act Presidential? Then Have Respect for the Office of the President
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Why do they even play the game?
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by Charles Krauthammer
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ In mathematics, when you're convinced of some eternal truth but can't quite prove it, you offer it as a hypothesis with a portentous capital H and invite the world, future generations if need be, to prove you right or wrong. Often, a cash prize is attached.

In that spirit, but without the cash, I offer the Krauthammer Conjecture: In sports, the pleasure of winning is less than the pain of losing. By any Benthamite pleasure/pain calculation, the sum is less than zero. A net negative of suffering. Which makes you wonder why anybody plays at all.

Winning is great. You get to hoot and holler, hoist the trophy, shower in champagne, ride the open parade car and boycott the White House victory ceremony (choose your cause).

But, as most who have engaged in competitive sports know, there's nothing to match the amplitude of emotion brought by losing. When the Cleveland Cavaliers lost the 2015 NBA Finals to Golden State, LeBron James sat motionless in the locker room, staring straight ahead, still wearing his game jersey, for 45 minutes after the final buzzer.

Here was a guy immensely wealthy, widely admired, at the peak of his powers -- yet stricken, inconsolable. So it was for Ralph Branca, who gave up Bobby Thomson's shot heard 'round the world in 1951. So too for Royals shortstop Freddie Patek, a literal picture of dejection sitting alone in the dugout with his head down after his team lost the 1977 pennant to the New York Yankees.

In 1986, the "Today Show" commemorated the 30th anniversary of Don Larsen pitching the only perfect game in World Series history. They invited Larsen and his battery mate, Yogi Berra. And Dale Mitchell, the man who made the last out. Mitchell was not amused. "I ain't flying 2,000 miles to talk about striking out," he fumed. And anyway, the called third strike was high and outside. It had been 30 years and Mitchell was still mad. Justly so. Even the Yankee fielders acknowledged that the final pitch was outside the strike zone.

For every moment of triumph, there is an unequal and opposite feeling of despair. Take that iconic photograph of Muhammad Ali standing triumphantly over the prostrate, semiconscious wreckage of Sonny Liston. Great photo. Now think of Liston. Do the pleasure/pain calculus.

And we are talking here about professional athletes -- not even the legions of Little Leaguers, freshly eliminated from the playoffs, sobbing and sniffling their way home, assuaged only by gallons of Baskin-Robbins.

Any parent can attest to the Krauthammer Conjecture. What surprises is how often it applies to battle-hardened professionals making millions.

I don't feel sorry for them. They can drown their sorrows in the Olympic-sized infinity pool that graces their Florida estate. No state income tax. I am merely fascinated that, despite their other substantial compensations, some of them really do care. Most interestingly, often the very best.

Max Scherzer, ace pitcher for the Washington Nationals, makes $30 million a year. On the mound, forget the money. His will to win is scary. Every time he registers a strikeout, he stalks off the mound, circling, head down, as if he's just brought down a mastodon.

On June 6, tiring as he approached victory, he began growling -- yes, like a hungry tiger -- at Chase Utley as he came to the plate. "It was beautiful," was the headline of the blog entry by The Washington Post's Scott Allen.

When Scherzer gets like that, managers are actually afraid to go out and tell him he's done. He goes Mad Max. In one such instance last year, as Scherzer labored, manager Dusty Baker came out to the mound. Scherzer glared.

"He asked me how I was feeling," Scherzer recounted, "and I said I still feel strong ... I still got one more hitter in me."

Asked Baker, demanding visual confirmation: "Which eye should I look at?"

Scherzer, who famously has one blue and one brown eye, shot back: "Look in the expletive brown eye!"

"That's the pitching one," he jokingly told reporters after the game.

Baker left him in.

After losing her first ever UFC match, mixed martial artist Ronda Rousey confessed that she was in the corner of the medical room, "literally sitting there thinking about killing myself. In that exact second, I'm like, 'I'm nothing.'" It doesn't get lower than that.

Said Vince Lombardi, "Winning isn't everything. It's the only thing." To which I add -- conjecture -- yes, but losing is worse.
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 3, 2017 at 6:30am
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Mark Levin's 'Rediscovering Americanism'
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 by David Limbaugh
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Hate-Monger Maxine Waters Warns
President Trump – “I’m Coming For You”
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ If it weren’t for tired cliché’s Maxine Waters would be forced to campaign by standing in front of her audience and allowing them to simply admire her beauty and her shiny orange hair, not necessarily a winning strategy... But with cliché’s she can remember her lines and her feeble minded attendees can follow along and whip themselves up into a frenzy. Waters tells the assembled geniuses, “I’ve decided to take the gloves off, to put my career on the line.” Please don’t take anything else off, Maxine, your “hair” especially, we don’t want to know what’s under that James Brown special. She makes the announcement that would terrify any man, saying, “Donald Trump, I’m coming for you.” That desperate freak’s not going to try to grab him, is she?...Big mouth Water is a idiot.  http://rickwells.us/hate-monger-maxine-waters-warns-president-trump-coming/
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The Difference Between Being Wrong and a Liar
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by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ As the Supreme Court noted in the landmark libel case Times v. Sullivan, the First Amendment is of little use unless we provide “breathing space” for controversial reports that end up containing unintentional mistakes—like the CNN story... as long as they’re made without malice. As I’ve written before, journalistic errors aren’t a modern thing caused by the 24-hour news cycle or stimulated by Twitter’s itchy trigger-fingers. Show me a famous set of historical stories—the Lindbergh baby kidnapping, the Normandy invasion, the Cold War, the civil rights struggle, the 9/11 attacks or the day-to-day coverage of past presidents, and I’ll show you grievous errors in the reporting. From Tucson to Abbottabad to Mumbai, breaking news routinely tosses off condemnable errors of fact, usually made by conscientious reporters doing their best under intense pressure. Malice is the key word. Everyone makes mistakes. No one is perfect. But there's a big difference between mistakes and motivated lying. The difference is good faith. It's ethics and integrity... http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/267153/difference-between-being-wrong-and-liar-daniel-greenfield
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The Freedom Center Beats
the Southern Poverty Law Center
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by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ The left has a problem. Americans are doing all the wrong things. They’re voting for Republicans, reading conservative sites and donating to conservative organizations... Something needs to be done about it. Something is being done. Post a conservative story on Facebook or search for it on Google and out pops Snopes, a partisan site, to warn you of wrong thinking. And, until recently, when you searched for a conservative organization on Guidestar, out popped the Southern Poverty Law Center to accuse you and it of being deplorable bigots. The Southern Poverty Law Center and Snopes are left-wing partisan groups with no qualifications to do anything except hate conservatives. The SPLC’s list of hate groups includes numerous individuals, including me, also listed until recently as a hate group was a sign outside a Pennsylvania bar... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267147/freedom-center-beats-southern-poverty-law-center-daniel-greenfield
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Does Fewer Insured Lead to Early Deaths?
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{americanlibertyreport.com} ~ You’ve seen the reports. The liberal media is full of claims that the GOP’s new healthcare plan will leave millions uninsured. This plan is so bad that it will literally kill Americans... While you already know that this is hyperbole at its worst, we should still take a minute to really think about the consequences of a new healthcare plan. The failure to do so last time left us with the current liar-nObamacare mess, and we should hold ourselves to a higher standard. So, let’s assume the worst and that the GOP plan really will slash insurance rates. Does that hold the deadly consequences we’re being told to expect? You won’t be surprised to see that the left is wrong again, but you might be surprised about why... http://www.americanlibertyreport.com/articles/does-fewer-insured-lead-to-early-deaths/
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With Iran’s Profile Rising,
Saudi Arabia Must Unite with U.S. on Terror
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by Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC (Ret.)
{aim.org} ~ In a Middle East country where terrorist attacks by suicide bombers are rare, Saudi Arabia suffered such an attack on June 23rd. Both target and timing were significant... The target was Islam’s holiest site – the Grand Mosque in Makkah; the timing was the last day of Ramadan, when attendance was unusually high as hundreds of thousands of worshipers gathered for afternoon prayers. The good news was Saudi security, learning in advance of the planned attack, arrested five suspects. Closing in on the bomber forced him to detonate his explosives prematurely. The bad news was six foreign pilgrims were wounded... http://www.aim.org/guest-column/with-irans-profile-rising-saudi-arabia-must-unite-with-u-s-on-terror/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jun-30-2017&utm_medium=email
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Mark Levin's 'Rediscovering Americanism'
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 by David Limbaugh
{wnd.com} ~ My friend Mark Levin is nothing if not a patriot of the first order. He loves the United States and its founding principles – and his latest book, “Rediscovering Americanism,” explains his passion and encourages ours.

Levin believes that America’s greatness lies in its unique founding ideals and correctly observes – and documents – how far we’ve strayed from those principles and the structure of government they inspired.

In his other books, Levin has outlined the problems confronting us and proposed solutions, but in this book, he takes a deeper look into the framers’ vision and examines the anatomy and historical development of the pernicious progressive mindset that has systematically chipped away at our governmental structure and our liberties.

This book is remarkable in its simultaneous succinctness and thoroughness. It’s hard to fathom how Levin could have adeptly covered so much important, relevant material in a relatively short book. But he did.

Why would Levin take us on this historical tour of our nation’s competing political and philosophical ideas? Haven’t we moved beyond such considerations in the modern age, with the federal government micromanaging so many aspects of our lives? Do these lofty notions even matter anymore in our modern era of short attention spans, sound bites and our endless obsession with daily polling? Why contemplate the proper role of government when our ruling class rarely concerns itself with preserving our liberties, when the Washington establishment rarely focuses on whether government has the authority to act but fights instead over the most efficient way it should act?

The answer is that Levin understands that our belief and confidence in our founding principles and our steadfast commitment to them are essential to preserving our individual liberties, our prosperity and our national uniqueness and greatness. In Levin’s words, “philosophy and practical politics are linked and, therefore, have a real effect on the life of the individual.” As our history has increasingly demonstrated, we cannot preserve our constitutional structure – and thus our liberties and the rest – if we do not understand and embrace its necessity. For our failure to grasp that truth has resulted in the steady erosion of the system built on it.

Levin is convinced that unless we have a national reawakening of the indispensability of our first principles, we will continue our march toward statism and squander the blessings bestowed on us by our visionary ancestors. “What will (future generations) say about us?” he asks. “Will they say that we were a wise and conscientious people who understood and appreciated the blessings of our existence and surroundings and prudentially and conscientiously cared for them; or will they say we were a self-indulgent and inattentive people, easily shepherded in one direction or another, who stole the future from our own children and generations yet born, and squandered an irreplaceable heritage?”

In other words, our remarkable system of government, despite its brilliance, is not self-sustaining. An intellectually lazy and spiritually negligent body politic will not nurture and care for this gift, and it will continue to descend by incremental steps into tyranny beyond the point of redemption.

By reintroducing us to our founding ideas and their importance, Levin is both sounding an alarm over the threats that imperil us and calling on us to man our battle stations by first understanding the gravity of our predicament and then arming ourselves with a true understanding of our national uniqueness.

In Chapter 1, Levin unpacks the concept of natural law (and natural rights) – “the foundational principle at the core of American society.” This principle “permeated American thought from the beginning of our republic and well before.”

As clearly and firmly reflected in the Declaration of Independence, all men are created equal by God and have certain unalienable rights. These rights are universal to all men and are divine and spiritual in origin – not government constructs – and thus no government has the right to deny them. Levin shows further the importance of the rule of law, the mutual dependence between private property and freedom, and the interrelationship between economic liberty and political liberty.

The framers designed our system to preserve these rights (and liberties), thus crafting a constitution that empowered and limited government – with those powers and limitations each designed to achieve the overarching goal of establishing and preserving our individual liberties. The framers understood that mankind is imperfect and that a government led by imperfect people would, unless checked, tyrannize citizens and swallow their liberties.

Progressives, on the other hand, believe that mankind is perfectible and that centralized government is the means to achieving this social engineering, and they have been working steadily toward that goal in America for more than a century.

Whereas our framers ardently believed that mankind’s natural rights are transcendent and that the principles they enshrined in the Constitution are also timeless, progressives have always been convinced that our founding principles and documents were applicable only to their unique historical setting and that our system must constantly evolve to accommodate the changing times.

The tragic irony is that our short national history has vindicated the framers and exposed the folly of the progressives, who are still in denial that their arrogant attempts to engineer human perfection through expansive government – particularly the runaway administrative state – have resulted in a stunning erosion of our liberties.

Unless we dismantle the federal leviathan and its suffocating bureaucracy, we’ll slide ever further – and irreversibly – into tyranny. Unless we “rediscover” our “Americanism,” we can’t conceivably resurrect and sustain our liberties.
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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 1, 2017 at 3:30pm
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Turn Off North Korea’s Juice?
by Jeff Dunetz
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 Surprise! Seattle's Minimum Wage Charade 
 Is Making People Poorer 
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As the old expression states, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. In 2014, Seattle decided to lead the way "forward" in the attempt to impose the leftist utopian dream of creating a "livable" minimum wage for all. Largely ignoring sound warnings from seasoned economists, Seattle pressed on with its crusade, passing a progressive increase to the minimum wage with the goal of eventually reaching $15 per hour by 2017 and 2019 respectively for large and small businesses. So has Seattle been able to defy all conventional economic wisdom and raise a greater number of individuals out of poverty with its mandatory minimum wage hike?
          A recently released study from the University of Washington appears to be throwing a well-deserved bucket of cold water on Seattle's pipe dream. Researchers found that low-income workers saw their overall pay decrease, as companies either cut hours or cut the number of employees. The report states, "The lost income associated with the hours reductions exceeds the gain [in hourly rates]. The average low-wage employee was paid $1,897 per month. The reduction in hours cost the average employee $179 per month, while the wage increase would recoup only $54 of this loss, leaving a net loss of $125 per month (6.6%), which is sizable for a low-wage worker."
          Seattle is the first city to pass the mandatory $15 minimum wage, but certainly not the last as the cities of Los Angeles, New York, DC and Boston have passed similar legislation. Hopefully, Seattle acts as the canary in the coal mine, warning other municipalities away from a disastrous policy. As America Rising Squared spokesman Jeremy Adler states, "This important study ought to be a big wake-up call that the 'Fight for $15' minimum wage effort is actually hurting those they say they want to help — reducing incomes and eliminating economic opportunities for low-income Americans who need them most."
          Unfortunately, too many Democrats have so invested themselves in the belief that it is the role of government to provide for people's needs that even studies like this, which clearly demonstrate the ill effects of leftist economic policy, will not promote a change of direction or ideology. As a result, the unemployment lines in leftist controlled cities like Seattle will only grow longer.  ~The Patriot Post
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Is McConnell Up To The Job
Of Majority Leader Or Just Another Hack?
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has “a few thoughts on what has been a top priority for President Trump: cracking down on illegal immigration, criminal illegal immigrants, and sanctuary cities that harbor them... Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly offered some strong words today for opponents of the President’s policies and priorities.” Dobbs says, “General Kelly slammed lawmakers for choosing politics over public safety.” He plays a clip of Kelly speaking, saying, “DHS does not make the laws, Congress does. And we will enforce the laws that are passed by Congress and I am offended when members of this institution exert pressure and often threaten me and my officers to ignore the laws they make and I am sworn to uphold.” Noting Speaker Ryan’s presence behind Kelly in the clip, Dobbs addresses the fact that “House Republicans have been slow to act on immigration reform not in the open borders sense. Despite passing both Kate’s law and the No Sanctuary for Criminals Act today,  there is zero chance they’ll be passed in the Senate... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-mcconnell-job-majority-leader-just-another-hack/
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Treasury to Run Out of Cash in Next 3 Months,
Leading to Default or Delay of Payments
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by Ali Meyer
{freebeacon.com} ~ The Treasury is set to run out of cash in October, which may lead to a default on debt obligations or payment delays for government programs, according to a report from the Congressional Budget Office... On March 15, 2017, the suspension of the debt limit expired and since then the Treasury has been able to borrow additional funds without violating the debt ceiling. "The Congressional Budget Office projects that if the debt limit remains unchanged, those measures will be exhausted and the Treasury will most likely run out of cash in early to mid-October," the report states. "The government would then be unable to pay its obligations fully, so it would have to delay making payments for its programs and activities, default on its debt obligations, or both."...http://freebeacon.com/issues/cbo-treasury-run-cash-next-3-months-leading-default-delay-payments/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=955494330d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-955494330d-45611665
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Grassley Hits Acting FBI Director
McCabe on ‘Potential Conflicts of Interest’
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by Charles Fain Lehman
{freebeacon.com} ~ Sen. Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, has told Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein that he is worried about acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe's independence... Grassley sent a letter to Rosenstein on Thursday about McCabe's potential conflicts of interest, Politico reports. Grassley expressed concerns about whether McCabe should have recused himself from the investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton's private email server. McCabe's wife, Jill, received substantial donations from Gov. Terry McAuliffe (D., Va.), when she ran for a seat in the Virginia state senate. McAuliffe was also a top bundler for liar-Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. The Justice Department's inspector general is investigating whether McCabe should have recused himself, a fact Grassley brought up in his letter... http://freebeacon.com/politics/sen-grassley-hits-mccabe-on-conflicts-of-interest/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=955494330d-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_29&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-955494330d-45611665
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Abbas's Lies and Palestinian Child Victims
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by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Palestinian children are the latest victims of the power struggle between the two rival Palestinian factions, the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas... PA President Mahmoud Abbas has declared war on the Gaza Strip as part of his effort to prompt Palestinians living there to revolt against the ruling Hamas administration. It appears that Abbas and Hamas are determined to fight to the last ill Palestinian child. Abbas is hoping that a series of punitive measures he has taken, which include reducing electricity and medical supplies and cutting off salaries to many Palestinians, will lead to the collapse of Hamas, paving the way for the return of his PA to the Gaza Strip. Abbas has had a grudge against Hamas ever since the Islamist movement expelled his PA and loyalists from the Gaza Strip ten years ago...https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10598/palestinian-child-victims
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Did Trump Get China To
Turn Off North Korea’s Juice?
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Reuters is reporting that China National Petroleum Corp (CNPC) has suspended sales of fuel to North Korea giving as a reason their concerned they won’t get paid. CNPC is a Chinese state-owned oil and gas corporation, the largest integrated energy company in China and based on revenue is the third largest company in the world.
 
The publicly given rationale may or may not be the actual reason. After all, CNPC is owned by the Chinese government, and the Chinese government has been basically funding North Korea for years. Perhaps the real reason is China wanted to send a message to the North Korean government and especially their despotic leader, the diminutive and chunky, Kim Jong Un, who is more cuckoo than a clock, but wanted to do it without publicly shaming the kooky Korean with a bad haircut, which is why they blamed it on economics.
 
As a dictator, Kim Jong Un puts the whack in whack job. He kills girlfriends and family members at a moment’s notice. In fact the only one in the country who seems to be safe is the barber who makes his hair look as if it was raped by a lawnmower.
 
Unless you’ve been living in the Get Smart cone of silence, you know that North Korea has been threatening the United States and her allies with its nuclear weapons program and its ballistic missile development.  President Trump has been appealing to his new friend Chinese President Xi Jinping, to pressure Kim Jung Un to stop with the Freddy Kruger imitation as it is driving the world toward war.
It’s unclear how long the suspension will last. A prolonged cut would threaten critical supplies of fuel and force North Korea to find alternatives to its main supplier of diesel and gasoline, as scrutiny of China’s close commercial ties with its increasingly isolated neighbour intensifies.
 
Chinese foreign ministry spokesman Lu Kang, asked about the sale suspension and whether the Chinese government put pressure on CNPC to make this decision, said: “I do not understand this situation you are talking about” and declined to elaborate.
Note: “I do not understand this situation you are talking about,” is Chinese Government talk for “I could tell you but I would have to kill you.”
A source with direct knowledge of the matter said CNPC decided to put fuel sales on hold “over the last month or two” and described it as a “commercial decision”.
 
“It’s no longer worth the risks,” said the source. Chinese and international banks are stepping up compliance checks on companies dealing with countries on the U.S. sanctions list, such as North Korea, he said.
The North Korean agents who mostly buy the diesel and gasoline have been unable recently to pay for the supplies — CNPC normally requires upfront payments, the source said. Did China cut of the juice because of a lack of payment or is Chinese President Xi Jinping heeding the request of American President Donald Trump? This will be an interesting story to follow.

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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 1, 2017 at 12:00pm
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 A Supreme Second Amendment Disgrace
by Paul Albaugh
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 Democrats Demand Ideological Purity 
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 By Arnold Ahlert:  "While engaging in marches, meetings, and frenzied propagandizing, Red Guard units attacked and persecuted local party leaders as well as schoolteachers and school officials, other intellectuals, and persons of traditional views. Several hundred thousand people died in the course of these persecutions. ... These units soon began fighting among themselves, however, as various factions vied for power amidst each one's claims that it was the true representative of Maoist thought." —Encyclopedia Britannica
          "I don't think people in the Beltway are realizing just how toxic the Democratic Party brand is in so many parts of the country." —Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH)
          Ryan is on to something. But like many of his fellow Democrats, he can't see the proverbial forest for the trees. What ails Democrats is the same thing that ultimately animated the Communist Chinese government to force its most ardent supporters into exile: an increasingly fanatical demand for ideological "purity" that
ultimately eats its own.
          Last weekend, Chicago held an LGBT parade called the Dyke March, described by organizers as a "more inclusive, more social justice-oriented" march
than the city's main Gay Pride parade.
          How inclusive? Organizers banned the Jewish Star of David flag and removed
several people who were carrying it, because the flags "made people feel unsafe," and the march was "anti-Zionist" and "pro-Palestinian" — rejected marcher and Wider Bridge manager Laurel Grauer told the Windy City Times.
          Parade organizers insisted Grauer's organization, Wider Bridge, was responsible for "provocative actions at other LGBTQ events [and] for using Israel's supposed 'LGBTQ tolerance' to pinkwash the violent occupation of Palestine."
          March participant Ruthie Steiner was perplexed. "With all the people that so hate the LGBTQ community, for it to tear itself apart in self-hatred makes no sense at all," she said.
          The LGBT community is hardly an anti-Semitic outlier. "The Black Lives Matter movement blindsided its Jewish supporters with the recent unveiling of its social and political policy agenda, a far-left manifesto that strays well beyond police brutality and accuses Israel of 'genocide' and 'apartheid,'" the Washington Times reported last August.
          Perhaps progressive Jewish Americans can take heart in the fact they're not the only group of leftists who lack sufficient purity. "Every Democrat, like every American, should support a woman's right to make her own choices about her body and her health. That is not negotiable and should not change city by city or state by state," declared DNC chief Tom Perez in April. Pro-life Democrat and Louisiana Gov. John Bel Edwards criticized the assertion, insisting, "It's hard to remain a big-tent party if you have a very small platform."
          It's even harder when a party's instincts are inclined toward tyranny. In New York City, the Commission on Human Rights declared the "refusal to use a transgender employee's preferred name, pronoun, or title may constitute unlawful gender-based harassment." Or, as UCLA School of Law professor Eugene Volokh aptly explains, "People can basically force us — on pain of massive legal liability — to say what they want us to say, whether or not we want to endorse the political message associated with that term, and whether or not we think it's a lie."
          Thus in the Big Apple, those who fail to employ pronouns such as "ze" or "hir" can be fined as much as $250,000.
          Snopes assures us that assertion is an effort by conservative news organizations to "mislead" the public, because only one "who intentionally and repeatedly refuses to use an individual's preferred pronoun would be subject to fines." In other words, as long as one eventually gets one's "mind right," all will be well.
          Or will it? On June 15, the Canadian Senate passed Bill C-16 by a vote of 67-11, making the refusal to use transgender pronouns a prosecutable hate crime. No doubt many American leftists who target Christian bakeries refusing to embrace same-sex marriage would like similar legislation passed in America.
          Nor are such demands for purity confined to transgenderism. In Britain, Nigel Pelham was sentenced to 20 months in prison, forced to pay a £100 "victim surcharge," and had two hard drives and a computer confiscated for making disparaging comments about Muslims. Sussex Police Hate Crime Sergeant Peter Allan praised the decision, and encouraged his fellow citizens to turn in anyone else using social media "to spread messages of fear and hate." Thus, Britain has criminalized anything government defines as "Islamophobic."
          America? "Now obviously this is a country that is based on free speech, but when it edges towards violence, when we see the potential for someone lifting that mantle of anti-Muslim rhetoric — or, as we saw after 9/11, violence directed at individuals who may not even be Muslims but perceived to be Muslims, and they will suffer just as much — when we see that we will take action," declared former Attorney General Loretta Lynch —the day after 14 people were slaughtered by Islamists in San Bernardino.
          In 1949, a prescient George Orwell foresaw the ethos far too many Democrats currently embrace. "Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing," he wrote.
          It's not working on everyone. Millions of decent Americans reject a progressive movement determined to use government, academia, popular culture and the media to "re-shape" their thinking.
          That is the essence of toxicity, courtesy of those also determined to make Donald Trump the second coming of Emmanuel Goldstein, with the requisite "Two Minutes Hate" that passes for news at media outlets "setting a new standard for unfavorable press coverage of a president," according to a Harvard study.
          As historian Victor Davis Hanson explains, "Bill liar-Clinton's formerly competitive Democratic party aged and then evaporated. It was replaced by a hard-left coastal coalition, a pyramidal party — ethnic-identity groups at the base and wealthy elites on top, all united by a mutual disdain for the half of the population that covers 85 percent of the geography."
          That's exactly what unreasonable demands for ideological purity ultimately engender. And how a party of warring tribes united only by contempt for "the other" survives is anyone's guess. 
~The Patriot Post
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Susan Rice Will Testify On UnMasking –
clown-Schumer Can’t Shield Her In The House
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ In the wake of the outrage and condemnation following Senator Chuck clown-Schumer’s meddling in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s calendar and blocking the testimony of Susan Rice... another arrangement has been worked out and she will testify before an intelligence committee. This time the questioning about her potential domestic spying on political opponents and the excessive unwarranted unmasking has been set for the House. It will be a private hearing, which removes the excuse of not being able to respond in a non-classified setting. According to CNN, Rice will appear before the August Congressional recess. In April, Bloomberg’s Eli Lake reported that lawyers for the White House had discovered dozens of requests for the names of Trump transition team members and others affiliated with the campaign which had been redacted in raw intelligence reports. That is an exceptionally high number for the names to have appeared randomly and suggests they were being specifically targeted. The concerns, which seem to be well-founded, are that the liar-nObama regime was abusing the power of the office of the President to engage in spying and other political dirty tricks upon their political opponents... http://rickwells.us/susan-rice-testify-unmasking-schumer-cant-shield-house/
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Sen. Dick Durbin REFUSES to Release His
Emails With Gunman Who Shot Congressman Scalise
by Justin Caruso
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ Democratic Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin’s office will not release reported email correspondence with anti-GOP shooter James Hodgkinson... An Associated Press report says, “Hodgkinson also visited the office of Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whose campaign he had worked on as a volunteer, and was in email contact with the two Democratic senators from his home state.” The “two Democratic senators from his home state” of Illinois would presumably be Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth...http://freedomoutpost.com/sen-dick-durbin-refuses-to-release-his-emails-with-gunman-who-shot-congressman-scalise/
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Greta Van Susteren Is OUT At MSNBC
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by Betsy Rothstein
{dailycaller.com} ~ After six short months, Greta Van Susteren is out at MSNBC. The network is replacing her 6 p.m. time slot with attorney Ari Melber... “So sad,” a media insider told The Mirror. “The poor woman is addicted to being on television. Won’t be long before she joins Larry King at RT.” Van Susteren left Fox News abruptly in September after working at the network for 14 years. She defended Roger Ailes against Gretchen Carlson‘s sexual harassment accusations, saying nothing like that had ever happened between her and Ailes, who is now deceased. She has also previously worked for CNN... http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/29/shocker-greta-van-susteren-is-out-at-msnbc/
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GOP Operative Who Claimed Links To
Michael Flynn Sought ‘Stolen’ liar-Clinton Emails
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ A Republican opposition researcher who claimed to be linked to former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn was in communication with Russian hackers... who he believed had stolen emails from liar-Hillary Clinton’s private email server. And according to The Wall Street Journal, which broke the story, the project could be the same one that U.S. officials have reviewed as part of the investigation into whether Trump campaign officials colluded with the Russian government. U.S. officials told the Journal that intelligence agencies have compiled reports “that describe Russian hackers discussing how to obtain emails from Mrs. liar-Clinton’s server and then transmit them to Mr. Flynn via an intermediary.”... http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/29/report-gop-operative-who-claimed-links-to-michael-flynn-sought-stolen-clinton-emails/
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NYT Issues Correction- 17 Intel
Agencies Really Just 3 As Russia Hoax Falls Apart
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The statement that seventeen intelligence agencies agreed the Russians interfered on President Trump’s behalf was ludicrous and obviously false at the time it was made, and more so in the days since... After all, what did the coast guard have to do with the DNC computers? How would 17 intelligence agencies make an evaluation on a supposed breach when access to the scene of the crime, the server, was forbidden by the DNC, Democrats, liar-nObama and liar-Clinton? They were so desperate to keep prying eyes out they even refused the FBI access and any possibility of apprehending the “perpetrators.” This entire international hoax was built largely on the determination of CrowdStrike, a third party security outfit. The so-called assessment, the report that all 17 agencies were supposed to have agreed upon, was the creation of John Brennan, James Clapper and James Comey. In defining its scope, on page six, it stated, “This report includes an analytic assessment drafted and coordinated among The Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and The National Security Agency (NSA), which draws on intelligence information collected and disseminated by those three agencies. It was this manufactured report to liar-nObama that, in its unclassified form, looked like one of Jihadi Jeh Johnson’s see something say something presentations in coloring book format. It was enough, though. All liar-nObama needed was the ability to make the claim, almost nobody reads those things...http://rickwells.us/nyt-issues-correction-17-intel-agencies-really-just-3-russia-hoax-falls-apart/
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 A Supreme Second Amendment Disgrace 
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By Paul Albaugh:  The appointment several months ago of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court was a huge victory for conservatives. But after SCOTUS declined to hear an important case from the Ninth Circuit regarding Second Amendment rights, it's clear that it will take several more conservative appointments to the High Court for right decisions to be made that protect individual freedom.
          Yesterday, the Court declined to hear the appeal of the case Peruta v. California. The Ninth Circuit last year declared that for a person to lawfully conceal carry a firearm, they must show "good cause" to obtain a permit to do so. (Notably, that was a self-reversal — an en banc court reversed the ruling of a three-judge panel that had decided in favor of the Second Amendment.)
          Good cause? How about the natural right to defend oneself and the fact that the Second Amendment to the Constitution clearly states that "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." Apparently in California, that right doesn't exist, unless of course there is "good cause." But what exactly is defined as a good enough cause to carry?
          San Diego County Sheriff William Gore defended California's egregious gun law last year and in an LA Times op-ed defined "good cause" as "a set of circumstances that distinguishes the applicant from other members of the general public and causes him or her to be placed in harm's way." Quite a flawed definition.
          Who decides what circumstances distinguish one applicant from another? And what might those circumstances be? Where one lives? What profession an individual has? Would being robbed, raped, assaulted, shot at, or threatened previously be good cause to be able to apply for a conceal carry permit? Why on earth do the Ninth Circuit, Sheriff Gore and others think someone must prove that they have "good cause" to lawfully exercise a right found in the plain language of the United States Constitution?
          Hence why we have the Supreme Court to step in when such violations of Liberty arise. Except that the High Court declined to step in and hear the case — which means that, for now, the Ninth Circuit ruling stands, infringing on the constitutional rights of Californians and others.
          Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch were the only two justices who voted to hear the case, and the pair blasted their fellow justices for refusing to do so. In fact, they took the unusual step of writing a dissenting opinion despite no hearing.
          Justice Thomas had this to say: "The Framers made a clear choice: They reserved to all Americans the right to bear arms for self-defense. I do not think we should stand by idly while a State denies its citizens that right, particularly when their very lives may depend on it." Thomas continued, "Even if other Members of the Court do not agree that the Second Amendment likely protects a right to public carry, the time has come for the Court to answer this important question definitively."
          Indeed, it has, especially since so many lower federal courts have reached different conclusions on the Second Amendment and where and to whom it applies.
          Thomas added to his dissent, "This Court has already suggested that the Second Amendment protects the right to carry firearms in public in some fashion. As we explained in Heller, to 'bear arms' means to 'wear, bear, or carry upon the person or in the clothing or in a pocket, for the purpose of being armed and ready for offensive or defensive action in a case of conflict with another person." He further noted, "I find it extremely improbable that the Framers understood the Second Amendment to protect little more than carrying a gun from the bedroom to the kitchen."
          Worse, Thomas argued, is that the Court has declined numerous Second Amendment cases in recent years. "The Court's decision to deny certiorari in this case reflects a distressing trend: the treatment of the Second Amendment as a disfavored right," Thomas wrote. "The Court has not heard argument in a Second Amendment case in over seven years — since March 2, 2010, in McDonald v. Chicago, 561 U. S. 742. Since that time, we have heard argument in, for example, roughly 35 cases where the question presented turned on the meaning of the First Amendment and 25 cases that turned on the meaning of the Fourth Amendment."
          Gun grabbers of all stripes are ecstatic that SCOTUS did not hear this case. However, yesterday's decision should be a stark reminder that Liberty is still under attack by those who wish to control every aspect of citizens' lives. This battle in California has been lost, at least for now. But there are numerous victories being won for gun rights around the country, and it could be that the Court revisits this case or another like it at some point. Keep your powder dry. ~The Patriot Post
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Fri/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 1, 2017 at 9:00am
The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Low-Intensity Cyber War Just Got Worse
by David Grantham
 
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 liar-nObama's SecDef Panetta Now: We Need 
 to Be in Iraq Long-Term? 
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By Mark Alexander:  This week, Barack liar-nObama's former secretary of defense, Leon Panetta, offered a rare and candid reassessment of liar-nObama's disastrous 2012 election charade — declaring "victory in Iraq" and withdrawing our forces, all in order to keep a 2008 campaign promise.
          In 2008, as we have noted, liar-nObama skewered his opponent, John McCain, for asserting we needed to maintain a presence in Iraq "for 100 years." McCain was implying that our presence in the region, establishing forward operating bases, would ensure stability and be in the best interest of our national security. McCain was correct.
          This week, five years too late, Panetta, who quietly expressed his concerns about liar-nObama's 2012 election-motivated declaration of victory in Iraq, offered this 20/20 hindsight: "I think the United States is going to have to have a long-term presence both in Iraq and Afghanistan, if we are to maintain stability there." To paraphrase, we need to be in the region "for 100 years."
          In the 2016 presidential campaign, Donald Trump asserted that liar-nObama and liar-Hillary Clinton were responsible for the rise of the Islamic State. When prompted to backtrack that statement, Trump reaffirmed, "I meant he's the founder of ISIS. ... I give him the Most Valuable Player award. I give it [to liar-Hillary] too." Trump was absolutely correct. (Recall liar-nObama's 2015 claim regarding ISIL — "We've contained them.")
          liar-nObama and liar-Clinton, in effect, did create the Islamic State. Between 2009 and 2012, the liar-nObama/liar-Clinton policies in the Middle East, ending Operation Iraqi Freedom and retreating, indisputably gave rise to the Islamic Caliphate, which resulted in the Middle East meltdown. They unleashed an epic humanitarian crisis across the region, and an epidemic of terrorism metastasizing west. That blood and suffering is on the hands of liar-nObama and liar-Clinton — and Panetta for not resigning in protest over the 2012 withdrawal from Iraq. 
~The Patriot Post
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RINO JOE, Commie
MIKA Deserved Trump Retaliation
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Morning Commies, Mika “Bolshevik” Brzezinski and RINO Joe, setup their hit piece that would later prompt a response by President Trump... and further swirl them into even greater feigned “unrighteous indignation.” They would also interview the obnoxious clown who popped off to Sanders during the program, further providing incentives for the Presidential response that they got. Commie Mika, who actively campaigned for liar-Hillary Clinton on their show during the entire election, pretends to be puzzled in referring to Sarah Huckabee Sanders’ comments regarding “the Trump Russia hoax.” Clearly, dumb as she is, she still knows quite well what Sanders is talking about – she’s following the script. That fact is emphasized as she had to wait for the page to change on her Teleprompter and there was obvious dead air on the program. She hurriedly filled it when the rest of “her own words” showed up. They then go on and play the exchange between Sarah Sanders and the agitator planted to take the heat off of Fake News CNN. That continued to the 1:50 mark of the video where Commie Mika opens up her trap again, saying, “Yeah, No,” identifies the planted agitator incorrectly, and then gives everyone a turn at their favorite pastime, Trump administration bashing... http://rickwells.us/said-rino-joe-commie-mika-deserved-trump-retaliation/
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Susan Rice to testify under oath about 'unmasking' 
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{foxnews.com} ~ Former national security adviser Susan Rice will testify before the House intelligence committee about Russian actions during the 2016 presidential campaign and allegations... that she 'unmasked' the names of Americans in contact with Russian officials, a high-ranking committee source told Fox News Thursday. It was not immediately clear when Rice would testify, with one congressional source telling Fox News the committee had issued a list of dates when they would hear from witnesses, but not names. Rice spokesman Eric Pelton told Fox News that Rice was "cooperating with the bipartisan Russia investigations conducted by the Intelligence committees, as she said she would."... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/29/rice-to-testify-ex-national-security-adviser-to-go-under-oath-about-unmasking.html
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The biggest scandal you've never heard of
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by Garth Kant
{wnd.com} ~ One of the most bizarre spectacles in Washington is flying almost completely under the radar, even though much of it is playing out in public. And, it begs one simple question... Is someone blackmailing one of the top members of Congress in plain sight? It’s a question that demands to be asked, given the basic known facts. Democratic bigwig Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., has become the central figure in two major computer hacking scandals, but she has responded to the incidents in completely opposite ways. When WikiLeaks published 19,252 emails and 8,034 attachments from the Democratic National Committee, or DNC, on July 22, 2016, Wasserman Schultz resigned as the group’s chair two days later, the day before the start of the Democratic National Convention... http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/the-biggest-scandal-youve-never-heard-of/
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Sheriff backs claims of
FBI-lawbreaking in Oregon standoff
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ In a stunning development a year after the standoff at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon, where two-dozen armed supporters gathered to protest the courts’ extension of sentences for two ranchers... a sheriff has backed claims of FBI misbehavior. The declaration came from Deschutes County Sheriff Shane Nelson just as FBI agent W. Joseph Astarita was pleading not guilty to three counts of making false statements and two counts of obstruction of justice in federal court in Portland, Oregon. The FBI agent was accused of firing at the protesters, then picking up shell casings to conceal that fact and lying to investigators... http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/sheriff-backs-claims-of-fbi-lawbreaking-in-oregon-standoff/
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Trump Treated Woman Brzezinski As
His Equal – Jackson Lee Demands He Resign
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Sheila Jackson Lee begins her video by saying “I don’t know what to say.” “Absolutely nothing” would have been the best option in that case, but she instead chose to continue reading from the script... She knew what to say, whatever’s written down in front of her. She’s got “a sense of hurt feelings” and since that’s not grounds for impeachment, she wants President Trump to quit for her. She uses the predictable gender defense as a reason the witch on MSNBC should not have to be accountable for what she says. She wants equality, as long as it includes a gender preference. It’s understandable that Jackson Lee would be offended at President Trump “calling someone a psycho, with all of the individuals fighting for their lives, suffering from mental health needs.”...I have idea, Jackson Lee should resign.  http://rickwells.us/trump-treated-woman-brzezinski-equal-jackson-lee-demands-resign
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The Low-Intensity Cyber War Just Got Worse
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by David Grantham
{townhall.com} ~ The international barrage of cyber attacks should be recognized for what it is – a global, low-intensity conflict. The evidence points to a convoluted web of state operators, associates and opportunists who share, steal and develop malware within an increasingly integrated dark web. The current state of information warfare is not just juvenile delinquents joyriding the Internet. The risk is as great as our imagination, making the consequences hard to fathom. The law cannot keep pace with the developing threat, making it hard to formulate a response.  

Then someone leaked highly sophisticated malware developed by the NSA and CIA.  

WannaCry got the world’s attention as it shut down systems across the globe in a rapid, seemingly coordinated fashion. Victims from China to England were forced to pay ransom to unlock their systems. The danger that comes from such an operation is obvious – especially for hospitals. Lacking even temporary access to patient records could cost lives, often forcing administrators to fork over the money immediately.

Much attention was paid to this angle as health services throughout England found their systems compromised by the ransomware. And realize that user error remains the single greatest threat to computer systems – just ask John Podesta. But the world is facing an overwhelming and repeated cyber offensive.

The WannaCry malware took advantage of vulnerabilities in Microsoft systems. Unfortunately, much of the world employs old, sometimes pirated software. The company did not patch some flaws for out of date operating systems. Meanwhile, users could not or would not update their systems accordingly. And when the malware took root in one location, it quickly spread to connected systems. Many pin the responsibility on North Korea for the spread of WannaCry.

The NSA discovered the Microsoft flaw some time ago, but didn’t disclose that information to the company, and then someone leaked it. The president and chief legal officer Brad Smith demanded new requirements for governments to report vulnerabilities to vendors, “rather than stockpile, sell, or exploit them."  The NSA would likely argue that it capitalizes on such exploitation to go after U.S. adversaries using those products. This piece is not intended to resolve the question of whether national security use should come before disclosure or vice versa. It’s the lack of attention given to these leaks and the government response that is of main concern.  

Digital capabilities from two of the nation’s foremost spy agencies were leaked and are now in use by bad actors against targets across the globe. That’s frightening. The Wikileaks publications of CIA malware from Vault 7 series laid bare U.S. capabilities for all our adversaries to see. Intelligence tradecraft is so protected because it provides an advantage over adversaries. Once bad guys know your tactics and capabilities, they adjust and you lose access.

The leaking of NSA malware is more immediately problematic because someone has and is using our own expensive research against us and others. A group known as the Shadow Brokers –? believed to be Russia-backed cybercriminals, an NSA mole, or some hybrid ?? has distributed or auctioned off leaked malware.

Now, a second more deadly malware known as EternalBlue is also wreaking havoc. This other NSA tool is more sophisticated and already hit telecommunications giant IDT Corporation in New Jersey. The global chief information officer at IDT, Golan Ben-Oni characterized it as something that far surpasses current protections. More worrisome, he learned while notifying authorities that “no one was running point” on the response.  

Two days ago, security firms began reporting yet another round of attacks. Danish shipping company Maersk, U.S. pharmaceuticals Merck and others all reported compromised systems. Couple this with the June discovery of a malware designed specifically to take down power grids, known as Crash Override, and one can see how the world is in the grips of a major cyber battle.

To borrow from Golan Ben-Oni, we like to work on known problems. Indeed, the unknown tends to handicap decision makers.

But industry and government must fight the battle in front of them – leakers and all.

https://townhall.com/columnists/davidgrantham/2017/06/28/the-lowintensity-cyber-war-just-got-worse-n2347995?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on July 1, 2017 at 6:30am
The Front Page Cover
  ~ Featuring ~
Trump, Immigration and the Supreme Court
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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 EPA Rolling Back liar-nObama's 'Clean Water Act' 
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On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency began acting on Donald Trump's campaign promise to repeal the 2015 "Waters of the United States" regulation. The controversial and onerous regulation created by Barack liar-nObama's EPA commissars essentially stretched the definition of "water way" to encompass almost any and every source of surface water, no matter how small. The draconian regulation enacted one of the largest governmental power grabs in the nation's history, severely infringing the private property rights of Americans all across the country.
          The first step in what the EPA says will be a two-step processes will be a rollback of the liar-nObama regulations and a return to 2008 standards. The second step will be to create new waterway regulations designed to preserve the property rights of Americans, as well as protect business interests and the environment. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt stated, "We are taking significant action to return power to the states and provide regulatory certainty to our nation's farmers and businesses." He continued, "This is the first step in the two-step process to redefine 'waters of the U.S.' and we are committed to moving through this re-evaluation to quickly provide regulatory certainty, in a way that is thoughtful, transparent and collaborative with other agencies and the public."
          Predictably, ecofascist groups shouted their outrage at the EPA's announcement, suggesting that Trump was primarily interested in promoting business at the expense of the environment. "It goes without saying that the Trump administration doesn't care about the environment, public health, or its duty to protect our most precious natural resources — and that is why it's up to us, the American people, to hold them accountable," pontificated Sierra Club executive director Michael Brune. "We will fight this and every other attempt by polluters and the Trump administration to destroy our water resources."
          Supporters, however, praised the news. Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) said, "Today marks the beginning of restoring private property rights while protecting our environment. Out-of-state DC bureaucrats shouldn't impose regulations that hurt Montana farmers, ranchers and landowners." The EPA plans to publish the new regulation proposals within days. Finally, a government agency is concerned primarily about preserving Americans' rights, not simply engaging in its own acquisition of power. 
~The Patriot Post
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Evidence liar-nObama, FBI Arranged, Financed
liar-Clinton Anti-Trump Research During Election
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Dick Morris addresses what appears to be a likely occurrence in which the FBI paid for the smears that liar-Hillary Clinton used against President Trump during the campaign, and then expanded upon them, in concert with James Comey... Those later became this whole Russia collusion fabrication and obsession. He describes how liar-Clinton, unable to take then candidate Trump down with a barrage of dirty tricks, became desperate and realized she was going to need something different. He says, “She turned to trying to make something of the Russian meddling in the campaign which she thought happened when they hacked the DNC computers. We’re not clear that they did yet but let’s assume that they did. So her supporters hired a group called Fusion GPS, who hired an ex-spy named Christopher Steele, from, British spy, to dig up dirt and to establish that there was collusion between Trump and Putin to fix the election.” Morris says, “But when you look at some of the evidence, it looks like the FBI may have actually paid for the development of negative research on Donald Trump, during the election; that they may have actually used tax money to pay for liar-Hillary’s negative research... http://rickwells.us/morris-evidence-obama-fbi-arranged-financed-clinton-anti-trump-research-election/
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The Relevance of the “Collusion
with Russia Isn’t a Crime” Argument
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by Andrew McCarthy
{aim.org} ~ Jonah, I imagine I was one of the first commentators to posit the argument that “collusion with Russia” without further defining what ‘collusion’ means isn’t a crime... There are two reasons why the argument remains relevant. Although it could be argued that one is moot, I don’t think it is, for reasons I’ll get to. It’s interesting that we are seeing the argument pop up more often now. When I first advanced it, there was a very specific purpose. The federal regulations governing when (a) a “special counsel” should be appointed, and (b) a Justice Department lawyer including the attorney general is disqualified from participation in a matter, do not apply unless conduct occurs that warrants a criminal investigation — i.e., there needs to be a crime. Because special counsels or their precursors, special prosecutors and independent counsels can so undermine an administration’s capacity to govern, I was arguing that, in the absence of some solid evidence that a crime had been committed, there was no basis in law to appoint one...http://www.aim.org/guest-column/the-relevance-of-the-collusion-with-russia-isnt-a-crime-argument/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jun-29-2017&utm_medium=email
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Russia probe pile-on: No fewer than
9 teams investigating collusion, meddling
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by Cody Derespina
{foxnews.com} ~ The expansive investigation into Russian meddling and possible collusion with Trump associates has grown so vast that no fewer than nine congressional committees and federal agencies are now examining some offshoot of the controversy... And despite the inquiries to date having produced no indictments or hard evidence of collusion between the president's men and a foreign power, even more officials and entities are looking to bite off a piece of the probe.  “The main problem is that after months and months of multiple investigations, no one has found any evidence of collusion,” a congressional source told Fox News. “So the Democrats are trying to shift the focus from collusion to obstruction, and since it doesn’t look like that will pan out for them either, they surely have some new accusation ready to put out there. It’s in their political interest to drag out these investigations as long as possible.”... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/29/russia-probe-pile-on-no-fewer-than-9-teams-investigating-collusion-meddling.html?cmpid=NL_fntop
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House passes Kate’s Law, as
part of illegal immigrant crackdown
{foxnews.com} ~ House Republicans took action Thursday to crack down on illegal immigrants and the cities that shelter them... One bill passed by the House would deny federal grants to sanctuary cities and another, Kate’s Law, would increase the penalties for deported aliens who try to return to the United States. Kate's Law, which would increase the penalties for deported aliens who try to return to the United States and caught, passed with a vote of 257 to 157, with one Republican voting no and 24 Democrats voting yes... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/29/house-to-vote-on-kate-s-law-as-part-illegal-immigrant-crackdown.html
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PODESTA LIES About Own
Shady RUSSIA Energy Schemes
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ liar-Hillary Clinton’s former campaign chairman, John Podesta, testified Tuesday before the House Intelligence Committee behind closed doors... They were supposedly doing so in the never-ending investigation of the concocted issue of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign. That was the easy part. On Thursday he made an appearance on Maria Bartiromo’s program where some real questions were asked. Bartiromo asks Podesta to describe in general terms the substance of his testimony, which he described as “what had happened to me and what the effect of, uh, was on the campaign, the Russian interference in our democratic process. And they’re probing what actually happened, whether there was collusion and what are we going to do about it.” After he completes his rambling little narrative about the history of the witch hunt, Bartiromo gets right to it, asking... http://rickwells.us/bartiromo-grills-podesta-lies-shady-russia-energy-schemes/
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Trump, Immigration and the Supreme Court
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~ Earlier this week, after nearly uniform rejections by judges all across the country, President Donald Trump achieved a court victory in the persistent challenges to his most recent executive order restricting the immigration of people into the United States from six predominately Muslim countries. Lower federal courts had consistently ruled that the president's behavior was animated by an anti-Muslim bias -- a bias he forcefully articulated during the presidential election campaign -- concluding that what appeared to be, on its face, a travel ban based rationally on national security needs was in reality a "Muslim ban" based on religious fear, prejudice or hatred.

The Supreme Court unanimously saw it differently. Here is the back story.

I have argued for months that both the first travel ban executive order, signed Jan. 27, and the second one, signed March 6, were lawful and constitutional because the courts have ruled that the Constitution gives the president exclusively the final say on foreign policy and because they have ruled that immigration is one of the tools he can use to effectuate that policy. Moreover, Congress has expressly authorized the president to suspend immigration from stated countries for finite periods of time to enhance national security.

In order to do this and pass judicial muster, the president's lawyers in the Department of Justice need only show that the president has a rational basis for his order. Trump argued that his rational basis was a determination by the State Department under former President Barack liar-nObama, reinforced by his own State Department, that immigrants who would cause harm once here in the U.S. are more likely than not to come from the six designated countries in the second order -- Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen.

The traditional Judeo-Christian view of governmental decisions that limit the liberties or opportunities of many because of the anticipated behavior of a few is that those decisions are unjust and need not be obeyed. Indeed, in America -- in our post-Civil War and post-civil rights eras -- we have come to the political and legal consensus that individual worthiness is personal and is not a characteristic of a group, and we have condemned other countries' governments for punishing the many because of the fear or behavior of a few. Yet the issue before the high court regarding the president's executive order is not its wisdom or morality or justness. The issue is its lawfulness and its constitutionality.

If an executive order is based on a denial of a fundamental liberty other than travel -- speech or religion, for example -- then the DOJ has a much higher bar to meet, called strict scrutiny. Those of us who monitor these things have fairly well concluded that it cannot meet that high bar. Stated differently, if the high court concludes that the travel ban is really a Muslim ban, the court will invalidate the ban -- which every court to review it before the Supreme Court did.

In the first challenge to the president's first order, a federal district court in Seattle ruled that it was based on religion, and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld that ruling. Rather than appeal that to the Supreme Court, the president signed the second executive order -- which imposed the same restrictions as the first, but in more thoughtful, cautious and lawyerlike language.

The second executive order was challenged in federal district courts in Honolulu and Annapolis, both of which ruled that it, too, was based on religion, and therefore they invalidated it. The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond upheld the Annapolis decision, and the 9th Circuit in San Francisco upheld the Honolulu decision. The DOJ appealed both circuit court rulings to the Supreme Court, and the Supreme Court intervened.

Bear in mind that there has been no trial in any of these cases. The rulings appealed from were all preliminary in nature, based not on cross-examined evidence but on the judges' feel for the cases and their understanding of the law. The same is the case with the Supreme Court ruling. It did not say what the law is and what burdens the government must meet for the court to uphold the second executive order. But it did invalidate all injunctions imposed by the lower courts against the enforcement of the second order.

In so doing, it carved out exceptions to the executive order. These judicially created exceptions provide that immigrants from the six countries are exempt from the travel ban if they can show that they have a "relationship" with a person or entity in the U.S. Though the word "relationship" is ambiguous, it can range from a job offer to a university admissions offer to a business opportunity to an anxious family member awaiting the immigrant in the United States.

This judge-made exception to the president's foreign policy was probably a compromise crafted by Chief Justice John Roberts intended to bring the liberal and conservative wings of the court to agreement on the limited issue of whether the second executive order can be in place and enforced by the government during the time that the court needs to examine it.

Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch dissented on the exemptions. They argued that the court has no business or right interfering with the president's foreign policy and that the "relationship" standard is so vague that it will spawn thousands of litigations. Nevertheless, the Supreme Court will hear oral argument on the power of the president to use immigration travel bans as an instrument of foreign policy in October and will probably rule before Christmas.

And then those who want to challenge the president in court will be able to contest the law as the Supreme Court will articulate it. And this troublesome business of banning people from coming here because of their place of origin will be with us for a long time.
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 30, 2017 at 4:00pm
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The cross beats the stolen rainbow
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 by Linda Harvey
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First-quarter economic growth revised up to 1.4 percent. (Washington Examiner)
 
Study: TV news is obsessed with Trump-Russia probe. (MRC NewsBusters)
 
More fake news. Vice retracts articles about Donald Trump's animatronic robot at Disney World. (Variety)
 
Facebook adding 3,000 "hate speech" experts for policing attacks on "protected characteristics." (The Washington Times)
 
Twitter attempts to silence pro-life group. (National Review)
 
Vatican cardinal hit with sex assault offenses takes leave, will fight charges. (Fox News)
 
White House backs two bills targeting illegal immigration. (The Daily Signal)
 
Sec. State testifies: "Criminal cartels exporting drugs and violence" across border into U.S. (CNS News)
 
Report: Area in Mexico dedicated to poppy cultivation bigger than DC; U.S. heroin fatalities set record. (CNS News)
 
Mental health problems rising among college students — and not just intolerant leftism. (NBC News)
 
Policy: EPA poised to undo liar-nObama's federal power grab. (The Daily Signal)

 
Policy: Justice Neil Gorsuch's good start. (City Journal) 
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No Bailout For Bankrupt Illinois –
Statehood For Broke Puerto Rico?
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts “on the State of Illinois, in crisis. Illinois just days away from entering a financial death spiral... The state’s credit has been downgraded more than 20 times since 2009. Personal income in Illinois has risen less than 1% since the recession of 2008.” Dobbs says, “And people are fleeing the State of Illinois in droves. Illinois losing more residents last year than any other state in the union, and that’s been true for three straight years. There is no doubt who is to blame, which political party is to blame; all of this the result of Democrat policies. Dems have controlled the Illinois state legislature for fourteen straight years.” Dobbs points out that “22 unions represent nearly all of the public employees in Illinois. And given the unconscionable mess that Democrats have made of Illinois, perhaps President Trump should just simply say, ‘no, no bailout, no more nonsense to be tolerated by the US government.’... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-no-bailout-bankrupt-illinois-statehood-broke-puerto-rico/
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A Senator Tried to Throw Jeff Sessions
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{fixthisnation.com} ~ The Democrat senator from the great state of Missouri, Claire McCaskill, is struggling to explain why she lied about meeting Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in 2015... McCaskill, who made the unsolicited denial in March as an attempt to throw Jeff Sessions under the bus, is now blaming Twitter’s word-limit for her baldfaced lie. After Sessions explained that he may have had contact with Kislyak as part of his ordinary duties as part of the Senate Armed Services Committee, his former colleague McCaskill – desperate to get her name in the paper, apparently – tweeted out that she was on that committee and SHE never had such meetings. “I’ve been on the Armed Services Com for 10 years,” she wrote haughtily. “No call or meeting w/Russian ambassador. Ever. Ambassadors call members of Foreign Rel Com.” So pious. So certain. So false... http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/senator-tried-throw-jeff-sessions-bus-backfired-badly/
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Schiff Scared, Cancels Witch Hunt Testimony –
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{rickwells.us} ~ A month and a half ago, on May 17th, following the offer by Russian officials to make their notes of a White House meeting available to the House Intelligence Committee if they needed them... Ranking Member Adam Schiff (D-CA) was all beside himself, claiming to be at a loss for words. He said, “I’m running out of adjectives and expletives for the situation that the Russians are offering to provide the evidence of what went on in the White House. Schiff followed that comment up by saying, regarding potential subpoenas, “If the documents are provided voluntarily, then absolutely. I have to think that the FBI is going to provide these documents willingly and I have to think that former Director Comey will come before the Congress willingly and I think we need to do both as soon as possible. So there he is, just one of countless times that Schiff talked about upcoming witnesses before the intelligence committee or potential witnesses, including the three that are currently now being blocked by Schiff from testifying...http://rickwells.us/schiff-scared-cancels-witch-hunt-testimony-page-stone-manafort-defy-democrat-mafia/
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Maria Bartiromo Interviews John Podesta
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ John Podesta is a long time liar-Clinton political operative and all around political ‘fixer’ for both Bill and liar-Hillary... After liar-Hillary left the role of Secretary of State (2013), there was an agreement between liar-Hillary and President liar-nObama that John Podesta would join the liar-nObama White House team as a Senior Advisor to represent liar-Clinton’s ongoing political interests. What Valerie Jarrett is to Barack liar-nObama, so John Podesta is to Bill and liar-Hillary Clinton. In his role Podesta sat in on every meeting held by Senior White House officials, and had unlimited access to every aspect of the liar-nObama administration until his exit in 2015 to work on the campaign... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/06/29/maria-bartiromo-interviews-john-podesta-about-house-intel-committee-testimony/
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MUST WATCH: President Trump Meets with Families that had Loved Ones Murdered by Illegal Aliens
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TUCKER: Guest Mark Steyn: "I'm In Favor of Replacing Jim Acosta With Elmo" on CNN
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NBC's Chuck Todd Defends CNN — Calls Trump Admin's War on the Press "a War on the Truth"
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RUSH: Trump Has Totally Blown Every Pretense That Journalism Lived By To SMITHEROONS!
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Hannity: CNN leading the collapse of liberal media
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The cross beats the stolen rainbow
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{wnd.com} ~ Two recent court cases remind us of the power of symbols, both inspirational and commercial.

Take, for instance, the magnificent rainbow. Its celebration overtones convey simple joy, innocence and purity of heart.

But the sweet rainbow image has been violated, raped by the deluded and fraudulent, and it now serves too often as a garish signpost for slavery to grave homosexual sin.

It’s clear God did not intend for the rainbow to represent rebellion, iniquity and division. So how did this precious symbol become the banner, with few objections, for human depravity, lust, defiance and heresy?

Rainbow flags are flown in America from some government buildings, at some of our embassies, and these colors on several occasions even lit up our White House under the former regime, thank God. From shameful pride parades to hats, T-shirts, wristbands and buttons sold at Target or Walmart, sexual deviance is being colorfully and arrogantly proclaimed from America’s rooftops.

We can all agree that some logos and trademarks carry enormous meaning. The mightiest logo of all time is the cross, where Christ shed His blood for the world’s sin and God transformed the tool of torturous execution – what Satan intended for destruction and permanent humiliation – into eternal hope for all who would believe in Jesus.

Atheists want crosses removed wherever visible, of course, believing they deserve veto power over what they ironically find offensive – God’s salvation offer to humankind. In Pensacola, a judge just ruled that a prominent public park cross must be removed, because it violates the First Amendment for some.

No, it doesn’t, because Congress is not involved in this local issue, as AFA’s Bryan Fischer astutely pointed out. How long will Americans tolerate juris misprudence by black-robed fascists? U.S. district judge Roger Vinson issued his ruling reluctantly, but still bowed before court precedents that already defy the clear meaning of “Congress shall make no law…”. Carrying forward the judicial sins of the past, Judge Vinson trampled on this inspiring monument to truth and grace.

He had a choice – and made the wrong one.

Well, I’m offended by the rainbows hung all over Columbus, Ohio, every June for “pride” month, as this beautiful image morphs into a brand identity for perversion. I feel excluded because the depraved have taken the Lord’s glorious sign of hope and corrupted it. Why shouldn’t I sue?

As Christians, we have that option, of course, but believers in Jesus Christ don’t always go this route because we are more secure than that, knowing that in this life or the next, every person’s knee will bow before Him and every tongue will confess that He is Lord.

Yet millions are being misled by this wicked movement, and it’s especially heartbreaking that so many are children and teens. I wonder if perhaps it’s time for believers to claim the rainbow again, by legal means if we could.

Can we trademark the rainbow? Of course, it’s probably impossible and perhaps even inappropriate.

The rainbow stands as God’s covenant with all mankind – not just those who believe in Him now, because some of these flagrant sinners will repent, which is our constant prayer.

The Supreme Court recently ruled that even highly distasteful names and trademarks constitute protected speech.

So maybe the rainbow couldn’t be trademarked by believers, but why wouldn’t offensive speech/symbol protection extend to crosses in public parks? If some spiritually blinded people can’t see the beauty of the cross, but instead fear it, that is indeed their problem.

There’s no valid argument that makes such displays an “establishment” of religion. It’s a cross – not forced church attendance, not blasphemy laws, where one religion’s paranoia can enslave people for years based on a casual comment, as in Pakistan, where Christian mom Asia Bibi has been jailed for almost eight years for making a comment about Muhammad while trying to share water with Muslim women co-workers.

And leftists in this country, exemplified by the violence-inspiring Southern Poverty Law Center and Right Wing Watch, believe that any critique or accountability of a repressive, intolerant faith – Islam – is a horrendous act of “phobia.” But tearing down crosses for the Lord who would forgive them all and show them His bountiful mercy – now that’s a cause worth fighting for.

Is Satan clever or what? He has countless people in this country doing his bidding, failing to understand they are preppers for the pit of hell.

Their Savior – if they would recognize Him – is the real author of the rainbow for His original life-affirming, godly purposes.

Its current misuse needs to end. Rainbows should accompany what God would smile on. God is not smiling on homosexual conduct, gender defiance or the corruption of children, and He never will.

An appropriate rainbow for the “LGBTQ” sin identity front would look very different, featuring colors like brown, puce, mauve, gray and black – lots and lots of black.

Depressing, uninspiring, empty, leading nowhere. Satan’s banner.

The rainbow’s current use by sexual anarchists turns hope into a license for sin. Rainbow-adorned clergy? You are in for some hot eternal times, unless repentance comes along soon.

Gyrating, Speedo-wearing sado-masochists on rainbow-decorated “pride” floats? Look out for what’s coming, unless you bow before the King of Kings.

McDonald’s selling French fries in rainbow containers, and Amazon peddling an array of rainbow “pride month” apparel? There will be an accounting, do not doubt this.

Little children understand the goodness of the rainbow. The rest of us should follow suit.
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