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The insincere call for calmer rhetoric
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 by Erik Rush
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 The 'Voter Fraud Doesn't Exist' Claim Is on  
 Shaky Ground 
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In January, our Thomas Gallatin explored a deeply troubling question that threatens the integrity of this nation's electoral system: "Just how much voting fraud does exist?" Nobody can say for certain. As Gallatin pointed out, "If no comprehensive investigations are done, then the argument merely continues to be the spitting contest it currently has become." That's what prompted Donald Trump to form the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity. The commission is evaluating both voter fraud and voter suppression.
          Democrats clamor a lot over the latter, with liar-Hillary Clinton even going so far as to blame voter suppression for November's humiliating defeat. (That and the Russians, of course.) But leftists don't share the same concern when it comes to voter fraud. No wonder then there was an uproar when Trump suggested that somewhere between three and five million illegal votes were potentially cast during the 2016 election. There's no immediately available proof, of course, but that's a claim the commission can and should examine. After all, independent evidence suggests Trump's assertion is not rooted in hyperbole.
          According to The Washington Times, "The research organization Just Facts ... revealed its number-crunching in a report on national immigration. Just Facts President James D. Agresti and his team looked at data from an extensive Harvard/YouGov study that every two years questions a sample size of tens of thousands of voters. ... He estimated that as many as 7.9 million noncitizens were illegally registered [in 2008] and 594,000 to 5.7 million voted. ... For 2012, Just Facts said, 3.2 million to 5.6 million noncitizens were registered to vote and 1.2 million to 3.6 million of them voted."
          Assuming these statistics are anywhere near accurate, it's not a stretch at all to suggest, as Trump did, that up to five million illegal immigrants voted for liar-Hillary Clinton. It's possible it was even higher. This is the kind of information the Left wants kept in the dark. There's no telling what the Presidential Commission on Election Integrity will conclude. But based on what a growing number of studies are discovering, don't be surprised if it finds that significant voter fraud exists to the extent Just Facts suspects. 
~The Patriot Post
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Judge acts quickly on claim Comey
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has acted quickly in a case alleging fired FBI chief James Comey obstructed justice by burying an investigation into the mass surveillance of Americans by their government... As WND reported, whistleblower Dennis Montgomery – who worked as a contractor for the National Security Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency and the director of national intelligence – and his lawyer, Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch, filed a request for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction late Monday. By late Tuesday, U.S. District Judge Richard Leon scheduled a status conference for Friday afternoon in his Washington courtroom... http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/judges-acts-quickly-on-claim-comey-obstructed-justice/
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North Korea conducts another
rocket engine test for ICBM, US officials say
by Lucas Tomlinson
{foxnews.com} ~ North Korea conducted another rocket engine test Wednesday which could potentially be used on a future intercontinental ballistic missile or ICBM, two US officials tell Fox News... It’s the first rocket engine test since the rogue communist regime conducted three in March, which, in addition to an ICBM could also be used for a future new rocket capable of putting a satellite into orbit, according to both officials who are concerned that the technology used for putting satellites into space are the same ones used for an ICBM capable of reaching the west coast of the United States. The rocket test was conducted in the city of Yun Song, where previous rocket tests have taken place, according to one official... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/06/22/north-korea-conducts-another-rocket-engine-test-for-icbm-us-officials-say.html
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Investigation LAUNCHED Into liar-nObama Officials
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by Mr. Conservative
{themrcblog.com} ~ Democrats were hoping to use former FBI Director James Comey to attack Donald Trump’s administration. Unfortunately for them, this has now backfired in a big way, as it has resulted in damaging Barack liar-nObama’s team instead... The New York Post reported that the Senate has launched an investigation into liar-nObama’s team for obstructing justice. The Senate Judiciary Committee will be holding hearings to “examine then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s involvement in the liar-Clinton email server investigation.” Depending on what the panel finds, this could lead to a separate criminal investigation and the naming of another special counsel... https://www.themrcblog.com/2017/06/breaking-investigation-launched-obama-officials/
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Congressional Democrats Want
To Restrict First Amendment Rights
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by Onan Coca
{lidblog.com} ~ If you  listen carefully to the Democrat leaders on Capitol Hill you can hear the whispers of fascism creeping in to their normal everyday conversation... The ease in which Democrats discuss the idea of restricting the First Amendment rights of their constituents should drive fear into the hearts of all Americans, but that simply doesn’t seem to be happening. Granted there has been too much hate speech in America lately but that isn’t because of free speech, but because what has been coming out of the mouths of Democratic leaders. On Tuesday, the Senate held hearings on Free Speech and how the current campus climate is stifling the First Amendment rights of many students, teachers, and citizens. During the hearings the Senate heard from some prominent professors who argued that the attacks on free speech that we’re seeing across the country can have a deadly serious affect on other areas of civil life...http://lidblog.com/democratics-restrict-first-amendment/
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FSM VIDEO
 
CBS Skips Over Russian Fighter Harassing U.S. Reconnaissance Jet
VIDEO:  https://www.mrctv.org/videos/cbs-skips-over-russian-fighter-harassing-us-reconnaissance-jet
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TUCKER: Debates NY Dem Who Called Ossoff Loss "A Tie"
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President Trump at Iowa rally talks on immigration, border wall, economy
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National security analyst Ryan Mauro provides insight into Flint airport terrorist stabbing
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5479057858001
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Attorney for President Trump Jay Sekulow: Investigation should include Comey's leak
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5479540066001
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Trey Gowdy on former DHS secretary, Jeh Johnson testimony and former AG Loretta Lynch controversy
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5479435868001
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The insincere call for calmer rhetoric
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 by Erik Rush
{wnd.com} ~ There is a subtle dynamic in play of which Americans need to be aware, and which I believe will be singularly enlightening with regard to the machinations of two of our most potent enemies: The political left and Islamism. This pertains to calls for an attenuation of harsh political rhetoric in the wake of the recent shooting rampage that left Rep. Steve Scalise, R-L.A., and four others wounded, and the actions of Muslims following a spate of what are being called terrorist attacks in the United Kingdom and Europe, though not all of these actually qualify as terrorism.

The tension was almost palpable on the part of liberal and conservative politicos and pundits in the hours prior to James Hodgkinson being named as the perpetrator of the June 14 shootings in Virginia. Had Hodgkinson turned out to be a creature of the political right, of course we would have been treated to gleeful, self-satisfied oratory from leftists affirming that private ownership of firearms should be outlawed, right-wingers possess innate homicidal tendencies, and that such violence could only have been catalyzed by the political ascendency of that horrible scoundrel in the White House, Donald Trump.

Once it had been determined that Hodgkinson was in fact a rabid leftist, the cry went up for both Democrats and Republicans to tone down their rhetoric. Although this is being articulated primarily by those on the left, even some like conservative firebrand rocker Ted Nugent stated late last week that he would moderate his public message.

This made me wonder: When Democrat and liberal leaders state that we need to employ less incendiary rhetoric, to whom are they speaking? Is this “we” to whom they refer the “royal ‘we,'” or are they speaking to the ultra-liberal base of the Democratic Party? Certainly they aren’t addressing liberals and conservatives alike, because it hasn’t been conservatives and Republicans advocating for the beating, maiming and killing of President Trump and others among their political opponents – it is only prominent liberals and Democrats who have done so, and with great relish.

In Britain, we’ve seen several terrorist attacks perpetrated by Islamists since the beginning of the year. Then, early this week, 47-year-old Briton Darren Osborne allegedly drove a truck into a crowd of Muslims leaving Ramadan prayers at a London mosque. The attack left at least one person dead and 10 injured. Days earlier in the Swedish city of Malmö, an alleged neo-Nazi drove a vehicle into a group of Iraqi refugees protesting that nation’s asylum laws.

In the latter two incidents, authorities were quick to designate these as acts of terrorism, employing such terms as “Islamophobia” and “right-wing extremism.” The communities of Muslim emigrés in these nations took on the mantle of victimhood with equal alacrity, decrying the perils of their lot and the “racism” actually anti-Muslim sentiment, since Islam is not a racial designation of the West. They found a great deal of sympathy in the Western press, which provided them with an abundance of forums in which to air their grievances.

I believe that Republicans and conservatives taking the left’s faux chagrin at face value and validating their counterfeit idiomatic peace offerings are the height of folly. It is also quite curious that the alleged peaceful majority of Muslims residing in the West who so seldom condemn terrorist acts carried out in the name of Islam never seem to be quite as scarce when it comes to condemning such deeds as those of Darren Osborne, which could easily have been the frustrated, desperate actions of a citizen who simply got fed up with his countrymen being targeted by an insidious invading force and political leaders enabling same.

In a fistfight or in war, one does not submit to the entreaties of an opponent who executes a successful attack and then falls back to regroup. If one is able, one executes a counterattack. While I am not advocating an in-kind response to the June 14 shooting or violent acts perpetrated by Islamists, our enemies do need to be put on notice that their actions will not be tolerated in the long term.

It bears mentioning that despite the bogus regret being expressed by those on the left, high-profile liberals have not ceased their provocative rhetoric since the Virginia shooting. This speaks to the lack of restraint many liberals possess, as well as underscoring the deep hatred they have for Republicans and conservatives.

Actor and homosexual activist George Takei – who has become a really creepy old guy regardless of sexual orientation – claimed that Rep. Scalise owed his rescue to an heroic lesbian D.C. police officer. On Saturday, MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid condemned the House Majority whip’s political positions on liar-nObamacare, gay rights and race, then went on to mischaracterize Scalise’s stance on those very issues.

The subversive antics of the liar-nObama administration and its Eurozone and Islamist allies gave rise to a great deal of discussion amongst conservative pundits regarding collusion between the political left and Islamists. “The enemy of my enemy is my friend” encapsulates the dynamic in play here; leftists and Islamists are indeed working in tandem to bring down Western republics and democracies, each believing that they will be able to control or subjugate the other after this is accomplished. Thus, it is no surprise that the two groups are engaging in the same passive-aggressive behavior.
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Fri/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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 The Supreme Court to Vote on Gerrymandering
by Louis DeBroux
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 Georgia 'Deplorables' Tossoff Ossoff 
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Republican Karen Handel defeated Democrat Jon Ossoff in Tuesday's special election for Georgia's Sixth Congressional District, in what was both the most expensive and most watched congressional campaign in history. The victory is astounding given the "pollaganda effect" — the heavy media coverage in the last two weeks giving Ossoff the lead. It's a replay of how wrong the DemoMSM propagandists were in 2016.
          Astoundingly, there was more than $50 million spent in this election by the candidates and special interest groups — $20 million more than the previous congressional record. Ossoff, who collected most of his funding from rich liberals in California and Massachusetts, outspent Handel 7-1 — and still couldn't pull it off.
          Democrats insisted, right up until Handel's victory, that this election was a referendum on Donald Trump, but it is more a referendum on the Democrats' failure to understand Americans outside the Beltway and their elitist East Coast urban centers. Yes, this was Dr. Tom Price's district (now Trump's HHS Secretary), but if this was just about Trump, his low approval rating should have opened the door wide for a Democrat win — especially given that Trump only won the district by a narrow 1.5% margin last year. But Handel defeated Ossoff with a 5% margin — so much for the Democrats' blustering about "narrowing victory margins."
          Political commentator Tucker Carlson nailed it: "Democrats still have no idea why they keep losing elections. If they did, they would have run a real candidate, with a real job who understands the constituents he is attempting to represent."
          Meanwhile, in a little watched House election in South Carolina, Republican Ralph Normal defeated Democrat Archie Parnell. Demos are now 0 for 4 in special elections since 2016.  ~The Patriot Post
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Schiff Questioning Of Johnson Results
In Endorsement Of Prosecuting liar-Clinton
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s not yet clear what the objective was for trotting out Jihadi Jeh Johnson, after Hussein liar-nObama the man most responsible for opening up our borders and infiltrating America with dangerous foreigners... before the House Intelligence Committee. It’s a safe bet it had something to do with shoring up the rapidly disintegrating claim that Russia and the Trump campaign colluded in the 2016 election but beyond that things are still a little murky. They reintroduced into the narrative via Johnson the old news that the liar-Clinton campaign had refused to allow the FBI to inspect their supposedly hacked hard drives. Perhaps now they’ve been sufficiently bleachbitted or hit with a hammer enough times that the Dems feel more comfortable with the FBI possibly getting access. Is there a reason they need to reinforce the credibility of the FBI at the expense of the DNC? Whatever the actual purpose of Johnson’s visit, we can be certain it was not for the benefit of the administration or the American people. It’s a political exercise for the Democrats and establishment deep state in some way...http://rickwells.us/schiff-questioning-johnson-results-endorsement-prosecuting-clinton/
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Foreign Soros-Backed Media Outlet
Bashes Conservatives With US Taxpayer Dollars
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by Mike Gonzalez
{dailysignal.com} ~ For additional proof that the State Department has no business teaming up overseas with the vast network funded by the billionaire George Soros... look no further than the portentously named Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project. The OCCRP calls itself “an investigative reporting platform formed by 24 nonprofit investigative centers … spread across Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.” In words that could have come from John Lennon’s “Imagine,” its website further states: “Our organization doesn’t belong to any country, political philosophy or set of beliefs.” It is, however, almost fully funded by Soros, a financier with a penchant for subsidizing radical causes around the world—with assistance from our own State Department...This got to stop, AG Session. http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/21/foreign-soros-backed-media-outlet-bashes-conservatives-us-taxpayer-dollars/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdZM01EZzVOelF6TnpobSIsInQiOiJoNUVkU2NSWHNUMXoyYXpBQ1N0QU1oTmh6d3cxTGlEV3pqVTJFMTRqSzE1WHhkTTMrbVRLNzQ4dWhkczkrUGp4Z3dDcHRtdTZlNlQyNCsxclwvMXpHKzZOck9yb1MwdldwTUNZWmFQaTlNSDdaQmpJdmZIRVJpd3BCaGtHWHJHZ28ifQ%3D%3D
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Homeland Security: Russia Targeted
21 States in 2016, Changed No Votes
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by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ Russians hacked or attempted to hack into election systems in 21 states, Department of Homeland Security officials confirmed to a Senate panel Wednesday, but stressed this didn’t affect any election outcomes... However, federal officials would not disclose which states were victims of hacking attempts, other than Arizona and Illinois, which were revealed last year to have been attacked. State election officials, later testifying to the same panel, wanted more information from the federal government. Also, a top FBI official told the panel Russia has interfered in U.S. elections since the Cold War. “We determined that internet-connected election-related networks in 21 states were potentially targeted by Russian government cyber actors. It is important to note that none of these systems were involved in vote tallying,” Samuel Liles, acting director of the cyber division for the DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis, told the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence... http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/21/dhs-russia-targeted-21-states-2016-changed-no-votes?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTUdZM01EZzVOelF6TnpobSIsInQiOiJoNUVkU2NSWHNUMXoyYXpBQ1N0QU1oTmh6d3cxTGlEV3pqVTJFMTRqSzE1WHhkTTMrbVRLNzQ4dWhkczkrUGp4Z3dDcHRtdTZlNlQyNCsxclwvMXpHKzZOck9yb1MwdldwTUNZWmFQaTlNSDdaQmpJdmZIRVJpd3BCaGtHWHJHZ28ifQ%3D%3D
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Iran Threatens to ‘Depose’ Trump as
Military Readies Missile Strikes on U.S. Forces
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by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ A senior Iranian leader and confidant of the Islamic Republic's president is threatening to "depose" President Donald Trump if he continues his policy of confronting Iran and its terror proxy groups in the Middle East... according to recent comments that come as Iranian military leaders threaten missile strikes on U.S. forces and bases in the region. Mostafa Tajzadeh, a leading Iranian politician and ally to President Hassan Rouhani, claimed this week that the Trump administration is too "fragile" to confront Iran and that if U.S. officials do "anything unwise against Iran," the Islamic Republic will see that Trump is "deposed," according to Farsi-language comments independently translated for the Washington Free Beacon... Their in for a rude awaking.  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-threatens-depose-trump-military-readies-missile-strikes-u-s-forces/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=7b23285368-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-7b23285368-45611665
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Proof – CNN, Tapper, Dems LIE About
FBI, DNC Server – BUSTED By Trump, Others
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ CNN Fake News is at it again, now enlisting a corrupt Democrat Congresswoman, Jackie Speier, to provide some semblance of legitimacy to the lie they’re about to tell... It’s a fake news story that their “crack anchor” and “expert” on all things political, Jake Tapper, never knew about until today’s testimony from former DHS Secretary Jihadi Jeh Johnson. This lie is that they never knew the DNC had refused to allow the FBI to investigate their supposedly hacked server. That was common knowledge as the story unfolded, with this writer having written a piece on it on January 6th of this year, somehow managing to learn of the refusal despite not having the connections of the forgetful Mr. Tapper and company. He certainly was aware of it and for some reason they’re now trying to paint a different picture. Rep Jackie Speier offers the lamest of opposing arguments, claiming that she talked to Debbie Wasserman Schultz after the Johnson pony show and she told her that nobody within the FBI ever offered to look at the server...http://rickwells.us/proof-cnn-tapper-dems-lie-fbi-dnc-server-busted-trump-others/
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 The Supreme Court to Vote on Gerrymandering 
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By Louis DeBroux:  In somewhat of a surprise announcement, the Supreme Court agreed Monday to review a Wisconsin case to determine whether gerrymandered congressional district maps violate the Constitution's 1st and 14th Amendments. The Court has traditionally avoided such cases, deeming them the purview of the political branches. The outcome could have a tremendous impact on the American electoral process.
          Those who are not political or history wonks may be unfamiliar with the term "gerrymandering." The term was first used in the March 26, 1812, edition of the Boston Gazette. A portmanteau of "Gerry" and "salamander," it was used to describe the Massachusetts state Senate districts that were drawn by the Democratic-Republicans under Governor Elbridge Gerry, in which his party successfully created election districts that stayed in his party's hands despite losing the state House and governorship. One of these districts resembled the shape of the mythical salamander.
          In the Wisconsin case, a dozen plaintiffs from across the state claimed "Republican legislative leaders authorized a secretive and exclusionary mapmaking process aimed at securing for their party a large advantage that would persist no matter what happened in future elections." A three-judge panel ruled last year in the plaintiffs' favor, declaring the Republican redistricting plan was partisan enough to effectively disenfranchise some voters. The state of Wisconsin has appealed this ruling to the Supreme Court.
          Notably, this case was not brought before the federal courts until July 2015, after Republicans had taken control of state government from the Democrats. Wisconsin has long been a Democrat stronghold which, until Donald Trump narrowly won in 2016, had not voted for a Republican for president since Ronald Reagan won the state. Wisconsin's state-level gains for the GOP are a microcosm of America generally, where Republicans made tremendous advances. During Barack liar-nObama's disastrous tenure, the GOP picked up nearly a thousand state legislative seats, control of two-thirds of state legislative chambers, 63 House seats, and 10 U.S. Senate seats. The Democrat Party is at its weakest electoral position in nearly a century, and is desperate for a way to reverse these losses.
          The courts have largely refused to intervene in gerrymandering disputes in the past, primarily because the drawing of such districts is an inherently political act. For the courts to intervene would be to substitute the opinion of the judiciary for the opinion of the elected branches. As Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter warned in Colegrove v. Green (1946), "Courts ought not to enter this political thicket. ... The fulfillment of this duty cannot be judicially enforced."
          When the Court has chosen to invalidate redistricting lines in the past, it has generally done so based on the claim that the lines in question disenfranchise minority voters — that was the case just last month with two North Carolina districts. However, these cases have been few and far between. In the other most recent case — 2004's Vieth v. Jubelirer — a 5-4 majority rejected plaintiffs' claims, unable to delineate where normal "to the victor goes the spoils" redistricting stopped and disenfranchisement began.
          Interestingly, members of the minority party often work with the majority in gerrymandering districts. While the minority party will stay in the minority, its members are drawn into increasingly safe districts, protecting them from general election challenges.
          It should also be noted that both parties have engaged in such gerrymandering for more than two centuries. Even now, in addition to the Wisconsin case, a challenge to the congressional districts drawn by Maryland's Democrats is being heard by the lower courts.
          Gerrymandering doesn't always work out for the victors though. Following the 2000 census, Georgia Democrats — with absolute control of state government since Reconstruction — gerrymandered congressional districts so "nakedly partisan" a three-judge panel modified them. In 2002, voters, furious at Democrats, elected Republican Sonny Perdue as governor, and awarded the state Senate to Republicans. The next election saw Republicans win the House. Republicans now hold supermajorities in the state House and Senate, and control every constitutional office in the state.
          In these gerrymandering challenges, a move is being made to have the courts strip the power to draw districts from the elected branches and hand it to an independent panel, such as a board of retired judges equally representing both parties. Both sides have valid arguments.
          On the one hand, gerrymandering has led to safely partisan but politically polarized districts where both parties tend to cater to their base. This has made it increasingly difficult for parties to find common ground on any issues. While the Republican Party has its share of moderates, it is generally a conservative party. The Democrat Party is even more partisan, and virtually no politician supporting tax or spending cuts, or declaring themselves pro-life, can expect to survive long in that party.
          On the other hand, the Constitution grants power to draw district lines exclusively to the elected branches, and to change the foundational structure of our government is not to be taken lightly. 
~The Patriot Post
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Painful Reality of 'Love Trumps Hate’
by Susan Stamper Brown
 
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 SCOTUS Rules in Favor of Free Speech 
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The Supreme Court ruled in an unanimous 8-0 decision Monday to strike down the Patent and Trademark Office's denial of trademark for an offensive band name. The case in question was brought by the Asian-American band The Slants, who had been denied a trademark on the basis that their name was deemed disparaging and offensive. The government argued that trademarks did not fall under First Amendment protections of free speech because they weren't private speech — in fact, that a trademark is government sanctioned speech. Therefore, the government argued, when the government reviews trademark applications it is free to deny granting them based on what it deems offensive or disparaging.
          Thankfully, the Supreme Court correctly saw the government's contorted rationale for what it was — a justification to deny freedom of speech. Justice Samuel Alito stated, "We have said time and again that 'the public expression of ideas may not be prohibited merely because the ideas are themselves offensive to some of their hearers.'" He continued, "We now hold that this provision violates the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment. It offends a bedrock First Amendment principle: Speech may not be banned on the ground that it expresses ideas that offend."
          Not only is the Supreme Court's ruling good news for The Slants, but it holds positive implications for the National Football League's Washington Redskins. In 2014, the Patent and Trademark Office canceled the trademark on the team's name because it deemed "Redskins" to be "disparaging" to Native Americans. Lost on the social justice warrior yahoos is that no one names their team something they find disparaging. The Redskins' appeal is currently stuck in the Fourth Circuit Court, but this ruling should inform the lower court's decision.
          Americans should rejoice over the fact that freedom of speech has been protected from those who would seek to prevent it, no matter how "noble" their cause may have been. And this should be a reminder that there will always be those who will seek through the power of government to silence the speech of those with whom they find offense or disagreement. 
~The Patriot Post
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DHS Still Continuing liar-nObama Catch
And Release – Surrender And Stay In USA Policy
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The word is getting out south of the border, catch and release is alive and well despite claims to the contrary... Crash our border, surrender and you’ll be released into an American neighborhood of your choosing. Pay no attention to the claims of tougher border enforcement, it’s a joke, played on the American people. Unfortunately, for whatever reason, one that escapes most patriots who believe in American sovereignty including most Trump supporters, rather than the promised end to catch and release and DACA, both are continuing as if we never had an election or as if liar-Hillary Clinton had won. The illegals thought the border was being enforced. Now they’ve discovered that it isn’t and they’ve responded accordingly...If this is true then Trump is failing. http://rickwells.us/dhs-still-continuing-obama-catch-release-surrender-stay-usa-policy/
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Israel and Palestinian
Authority Plunge Gaza into Darkness
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by Luis Miranda
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Since last April, the only power plant in the Gaza Strip has been shut down for lack of fuel, so the two million inhabitants of the Palestinian Mediterranean enclave have been provide only four hours of energy per day... If the decision taken by the Israeli Government on Sunday at the behest of the Palestinian Authority is confirmed, the Gazans will remain in the dark. When it comes to ten years of the seizure of power in Gaza by the Islamist Hamas movement – in which three wars have been waged against Israel – the Palestinian territory has been plunged into darkness. The escalation of tension threatens to blow up the fuses of a new armed conflict... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/israel-palestine-plunge-gaza-darkness/
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China Not Yet Ready Militarily,
Economically to Take on America’s Global Role
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by John Grady
{news.usni.org} ~ Because Beijing lacks the hard power of global military strength and the soft power to shape other nation’s attitudes through its economic diversity, one of China’s leading diplomatic scholars said it is not now in China’s interest... as a rising power to try and take over the United States’ role in the world in maintaining international order. Speaking Tuesday as part of a panel at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank, Jia Qingguo, dean of the department of diplomacy at Peking University, said in answer to a question, “China should expect the United States to live up its responsibilities” in maintaining the international order and where it can “China should help the United States.” Jia acknowledged “maintaining the international order is a very costly business,” but the United States through its creation of a network of alliances, such as it has with Japan and Korea, use of U.N. organizations and development of various types of partnerships, such as it has India and others, has defrayed some of that expense... https://news.usni.org/2017/06/21/panel-china-not-yet-ready-militarily-economically-take-americas-global-role?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=12ac6d81b7-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-12ac6d81b7-231491269&mc_cid=12ac6d81b7&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Profiling Project Issues Bombshell
Report on Seth Rich Murder Investigation
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by Rachel Alexander
{stream.org} ~ The Profiling Project on Thursday morning filed an emergency petition against the District of Columbia. They are seeking an injunction that would require the Metropolitan Police Department to “preserve, protect and properly organize” all the online information of Seth Rich... The research group notes that several of Rich’s social media accounts including on Facebook, Twitter and Reddit have already been deleted or altered. They assert the information may be critical to determining a motive for Rich’s murder and the “MPD must now be forced by this Court to act swiftly and decisively to preserve evidence.” The Profiling Project also accuses the MPD of unlawfully causing “spoliation of evidence” by failing to preserve Rich’s social media accounts in the first place. The Profiling Project, an independent, nonpartisan group, has released a lengthy report of its probe into the murder of former DNC staffer Seth Rich...https://stream.org/profiling-project-issues/?utm_source=The+Stream&utm_campaign=71a4abcea9-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_22&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8da00e4cb4-71a4abcea9-371883569
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Tapes Of Lynch, Bill liar-Clinton Tarmac
Conversation May Be Subpoenaed For Testimony
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Last week Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley (R-IA) and ranking member Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) agreed to have former Attorney General Loretta Lynch come before their committee to do some explaining... She’s been exposed by former FBI Director James Comey as having colluded with the liar-Clintons and the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign in the decision not to prosecute her for her espionage and other crimes. The committee worded the appearance as them being to “examine then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch’s involvement in the liar-Clinton email server investigation.” Maybe they meant to call it a matter. liar-nObama, Lynch, Comey, liar-Clinton, her criminal cadre and their deep state cronies are smart cookies. They know they got away with a big one and are smart enough to count their blessings, leaving well enough alone, right? Nope. Democrats never stop, that is their strength and it is also their weakness. Possibly it’s a weakness that will, in this instance, land them all before a judge and jury. The first consequences of their power lust and greed getting the better of them may become evident, not in the DOJ prosecution of liar-Clinton we expected, but in the information revealed or withheld by Loretta Lynch before the Judiciary Committee... http://rickwells.us/tapes-lynch-bill-clinton-tarmac-conversation-may-subpoenaed-testimony/
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The Painful Reality of 'Love Trumps Hate’
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by Susan Stamper Brown
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townhall.com} ~ Although longtime Democrat voter and Bernie Sanders supporter James Hodgkinson is the one who pulled the trigger at the GOP batting practice in Alexandria, Va. on June 14, the Democratic Party and its leftist media sidekicks should take a long look in the mirror.

They are not without fault, given their relentless spewing of hate-filled propaganda framing President Trump as a Russian Hitler, his supporters as racists and Nazis and Republican lawmakers as evil villains who want people to die.

Garbage in, garbage out. No wonder Hodgkinson went postal.

Those calling for unity should understand unity is impossible unless those smarmy swamp dwellers slither their way out of the sludge and cap off the sewage they have been gushing since Trump’s inauguration.

Until they do, leftists will do what leftists do, communicating their opinions and demonstrating their frustrations by breaking and burning things…or going on Hodgkinson-style shooting sprees…or stabbing police horses with nail-embedded flagpoles like one did in Harrisburg, Pa.

Every time the swamp princess herself, Nancy Pulosi, opens her mouth, she inspires normal Americans to donate campaign dollars and dash to the polls to support anyone but Democrats. Pulosi’s latest tasteless word salad came barely 24 hours after the Alexandria shooting when she said Republicans are “sanctimonious” for blaming the left for inciting violence.

Leftists inciting violence? Let me un-sanctimoniously count the ways.

Art Institute of Washington’s Professor John Griffin commented on a since-deleted Facebook post that Republicans in the House of Representatives “should be lined up and shot” for passing the American Heath Care Act to fix liar-nObamacare. Griffin stressed, “That’s not hyperbole; blood is on their hands.”

The Washington Times reports a California State University lecturer, Lars Maischak, tweeted: “To save American democracy, Trump must hang. The sooner and the higher, the better.” He also tweeted: “Has anyone started soliciting money and design drafts for a monument honoring the Trump assassin, yet?”

If this kind of hate-filled vitriol falls on the wrong ears, it could be interpreted as a dog whistle to people like Hodgkinson or the crazy Bernie Sanders and Jill Stein supporter in Portland, Oregon who yelled at two Muslims then slit their defenders' throats.

Hodgkinson was reportedly a member of a Facebook group called “Terminate the Republican Party.” After the shooting, some fellow members celebrated a now-deleted post preserved in a screen catch by the Daily Caller which read, “And it’s one, two, three shots you’re out at the old ball game.”

Shortly after the shooting, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY) received a threatening email with the subject line reading “One down, 216 to go.” “Did you NOT expect this? When you take away ordinary peoples very lives in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit,” the sender wrote.

Meanwhile, in Virginia, police blanketed a town hall meeting for Rep. Tom Garrett (R-Va.) after he received threats targeting Garrett, his family and even his dog. “This is how we’re going to kill your wife,” read one threat.

Tuscson.com reports the FBI arrested a school employee for threatening to shoot U.S. Rep. Martha McSally and other voicemail messages warning her to “be careful” and telling her “her days were numbered.”

WSBC-2 reports the FBI was called to investigate that GOP candidate for the Georgia House special election, Karen Handel, received a threatening letter and a suspicious package June 15. Her neighbors also received envelopes containing a white powdery substance. I could go on, but I’m only allowed 650 words.

Love trumping hate sure requires an awful lot of visceral abhorrence toward those with whom leftists disagree.

If anyone is sanctimonious, it is Swamp Princess Pulosi, for blaming the right for blaming the left for inciting violence. Pulosi’s time would be better spent working to drain the Democratic Party swamp and culling the hate before another Hodgkinson-style atrocity occurs.
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
If a Trump Supporter Had
Shot a Democratic Congressman
by Dennis Prager
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 Impartial Investigators or Hit Squad? 
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Several weeks ago, we asked whether Robert Mueller's investigation into President Donald Trump and the whole Russia fiasco was legitimate or a witch hunt. It's enough that he's an old friend and virtual mentor for James Comey, but we're discovering much more about the investigation by virtue of the team Mueller is putting in place.
          Among that team are three individuals with troubling ties to the liar-Clintons and Democrats. Anthony Weismann is a prosecutor who's given a lot of money to Barack liar-nObama and Democrats. Aaron Zebley represented Justin Cooper, who was a liar-Hillary aide and one of two people with access to liar-Clinton's clandestine email server — Cooper helped set it up. Perhaps most questionable is Jeannie Rhee, who worked for Eric Holder, gave $16,000 to Democrats in the last nine years, and, the kicker, represented liar-Hillary Clinton in the lawsuit over her emails and defended the liar-Clinton Foundation in a racketeering lawsuit.
          Nevertheless, former independent counsel Ken Starr said of Mueller, "He has his head down, he's doing his job, he's assembled a fantastic team. That is a great, great team of complete professionals, so let's let him do his job." Mueller is indeed respected on both sides of the aisle. And yet...
          The appointments prompt questions about the team's objectives and impartiality. Can having liar-Clinton attack dogs on the case be a good sign for Trump? Newt Gingrich doesn't think so. "Republicans are delusional if they think the special counsel is going to be fair," he said. "The fix is in." Lefty Harvard legal scholar Alan Dershowitz warned the investigation was becoming "too political," saying, "In a partisan atmosphere like this, you have to be so careful not to give the other side the ability to claim prejudice. And I think they have given the other side the ability to claim prejudice." And former liar-Clinton advisor Dick Morris asserted, "This is not a special prosecutor's staff; this is a hit squad."
          Strategically, there are two possibilities. One, investigators are going to rabbit trail and find something, somewhere about Russia or something else, and then make a referral to the House to trip up the GOP ahead of the 2018 election. The question of impeachment will be hung around Republican necks, which will be especially troubling for Republicans in marginal districts.
          Two, contrary to Dershowitz, Mueller has diversified his team so that when they find nothing, they'll be immune from charges of partisanship. Let's hope it's the latter, but brace for the former.  ~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama’s Homeland Security Chief Says
DNC Rejected Help Following Email Hacks
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ The Democratic National Committee rejected help from the Department of Homeland Security following Russian hacks into its computer systems during the 2016 election cycle, according to former DHS chief Jeh Johnson... In testimony before the House Intelligence Committee on Wednesday, Johnson also said that the DNC, much to his “disappointment,” did not cooperate in any way with DHS to respond to the hacks. Johnson said that he first became aware of intrusions into DNC systems sometime last year, several months after the FBI had learned of the breach...http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/21/obamas-homeland-security-chief-says-dnc-rejected-help-following-email-hacks/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Evening
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UN Warns Trump – US Can
Be Replaced, Cough Up The Cash
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Warnings to the United States are being issued by the globalist leech in charge at the UN, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres... On Tuesday, the open borders communist operative cautioned President Trump that we could be replaced. We should be so fortunate and ought to, in fact, work to help guarantee that happens. There must be plenty of countries around the world ready to take on the “developing nations” as national dependents, though they may have to “sweeten the deal” with a little slave labor or territory, something that isn’t presently required. Guterres told reporters at his first press conference since taking over the UN on January 1st, that the new funding levels proposed by the United States would be disastrous and create, “an unsolvable problem to the management of the U.N.” Can it be possible there is a problem that the globalists can’t solve? How obvious has it become that their “problem solving” is based solely upon the model of throwing American money at a problem? If the cash flow is restricted they can’t function...Trump kick them out of the USA. We don't need them. http://rickwells.us/un-warns-trump-us-replaced-cough-cash/
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Trump supporter stabbed
9 times after political rally
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{wnd.com} ~ Trump supporter Tony Foreman is in intensive care after he was stabbed nine times following a “free speech rally” in Santa Monica, California, on Saturday... Now some are claiming the June 17 stabbing is a hate crime because they claim Foreman was targeted for his pro-Trump views. The stabbing reportedly came after he left a sanctuary-city protest. Foreman works as a bodyguard for Tim Gionet, an Internet personality known as “BakedAlaska,” his Twitter handle. He is also a member of Oathkeepers, a group of veterans who provide security at pro-Trump rallies... http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/trump-supporter-stabbed-9-times-after-political-rally/
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Antifa ‘Resistance’ Sends Out Call
for Violence Against Conservatives
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by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ An Antifa website dedicated to the anti-Trump “resistance” is peddling violent imagery against conservatives... According to Hannity.com, the site It’s Going Down, “a go-to resource for anti-Trump activists and anarchists in the aftermath of the 2016 US general election,” published a propaganda poster of a man in a MAGA hat, with a Nazi soldier as a shadow, submitting to a bayonet: In addition to calls for violence as a “necessary evil,” the website also calls for “mass insurrection” and urges “mass resistance” against the Trump administration, which it labels “Nazis” and “fascists.” Yes, the “anti” fascist group calling out “fascists” is a nice irony... http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/antifa-resistance-sends-out-call-violence-against-conservatives
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Drone Recovered In S Korea Verified From
North, Had Sensitive Photos, “Grave Provocation”
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ South Korea’s military confirmed on Wednesday that a drone recovered earlier this month on a mountain near the Demilitarized Zone border has been confirmed to be North Korean... They described the intrusion as a “grave provocation” and a violation of the Korean War truce. Reuters reports that the drone went down while on the final portion of a reconnaissance flight into the South and was equipped with a camera and contained aerial photographs of a US anti-missile defense system located in a southern region of South Korea. In their briefing, South Korea’s defense ministry and military officials stated that the origin and flight path of the drone were confirmed in an analysis of the onboard computer and camera...http://rickwells.us/drone-recovered-s-korea-verified-north-sensitive-photos-grave-provocation/
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If a Trump Supporter Had
Shot a Democratic Congressman
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by Dennis Prager
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townhall.com} ~ What would have happened if a Trump supporter had shot a Democratic congressman and other Democratic Washington officials?

The answer is obvious.

The New York Times, the rest of the left-wing media and the Democratic Party would have made the shootings the dominant issue in American life. It is not possible to understand the left -- and, therefore, the media and the current state of American life -- without understanding how the left uses and relies on hysteria. Hysteria is to the left as oxygen is to biological life.

From the moment Donald Trump was elected president, America has been drowning in left-wing hysteria, all fomented by the media and the Democratic Party.

The charge of Russian collusion with the Trump campaign is hysteria. The claim that the president engaged in obstruction of justice is hysteria. As I have pointed out, the charge of Trump's election unleashing hate and anti-Semitism, which dominated American media for months, was hysteria.

If Democrats had been shot by a Trump supporter, all you would be hearing and reading about is how much hate the Trump election has unleashed in America, how his election is threatening our democracy and how he is unleashing fascism.

But it was a not a Trump supporter who attempted to murder a Democratic congressman, Capitol Police officers, a House GOP aide and a lobbyist; it was a Trump-hating leftist who attempted to murder a Republican congressman and other Republican officials. And, for that reason, what would have been the dominant issue in America today is already a nonissue. The shooting took place on Wednesday. On Friday, the only article about it on The New York Times front page was about the "harmony" engulfing Democrats and Republicans in the wake of the shooting. By Saturday, there was nothing about the shooting on the front page.

The "harmony" issue is worth noting. As sure as the sun rises in the east, had a Trump-supporting fanatic shot Democratic officials, the Democrats would not have said a word about the need for "harmony," or the need to lower the temperature in American political discourse. On the contrary, they would have greatly raised the temperature of their already blistering rhetoric. They would have attributed the shooting entirely to Trump's "hateful" rhetoric having permeated conservative and Republican America.

But it was a leftist who attempted to slaughter Republicans, so it was Republicans who had to respond. And they did so by calling for harmony and lowering the temperature of political differences.

In other words, Republicans reacted with complete conciliation, whereas, the Democrats and their media would have gone ballistic against the right.

Now, why is that?

One reason is that Republicans have accepted the post-shooting narrative of there being some sort of moral equivalence between right-wing and left-wing hate. That they have reinforces my belief that the great majority of Republicans and conservatives, whether in politics or in the media, do not appreciate how rotten the left is (the left -- not traditional liberals). Many really believe that calls for "harmony" and "unity" with Democrats and the left are meaningful.

But the only reason Democrats talked about harmony for a few days after the shooting was one of theirs was the shooter.

Even during the three-day "harmony" period, the left was busy furthering the falsehood that there is quantitative and qualitative equivalence between right-wing and left-wing hate. As evidence, a New York Times editorial said: "Was this attack evidence of how vicious American politics has become? Probably. In 2011, Jared Lee Loughner opened fire in a supermarket parking lot, grievously wounding Representative Gabby Giffords and killing six people, including a 9-year-old girl. At the time, we and others were sharply critical of the heated political rhetoric on the right. Before the shooting, Sarah Palin's political action committee circulated a map that showed the targeted electoral districts of Ms. Giffords and 19 other Democrats under stylized cross hairs."

A Republican putting crosshairs on vulnerable Democrat districts is the worst the Times could come up with. And that is apparently equivalent to all the hate directed at President Trump: calling opposition to him "resistance," as if Democrats were the French resistance and Trump were a Nazi; Kathy Griffin holding President Trump's mock severed head with blood gushing out; Stephen Colbert saying on his TV show that Trump's mouth would make a good "c--- holster" for Russian President Vladimir Putin; and so much more unprecedented hate.

The difference between what has happened after these shootings and what would have happened had a right-winger shot Democratic officials is, in a nutshell, the moral difference between the left and the right; and between Democrats and Republicans.
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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Sean Spicer Is Reportedly
Leaving The Briefing Room
by Katie Pavlich
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 UN Targets 'Cultural Appropriation' 
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"Cultural appropriation" is a popular term used by social justice warriors (SJWs) to vilify those who adopt ideas, styles, dress, expressions, cuisine or social practices from cultures not their own. That used to be known here as the American melting pot, but SJWs claim this is a form of racial oppression. Well, the United Nations has decided that "cultural appropriation" has become a big issue — so much so that delegates from 189 countries are gathering for a specialized international committee meeting in Geneva in order to declare the practice illegal and work toward creating international laws to prevent it.
          The goal of the UN, says James Anaya, dean of law at the University of Colorado, should be to "obligate states to create effective criminal and civil enforcement procedures to recognize and prevent the non-consensual taking and illegitimate possession, sale and export of traditional cultural expressions." You heard that right — the UN should require governments of the world to create laws which prevent citizens from engaging in the traditions of other cultures. This is ironic given that the constant mantra from the UN and the Left has been calls for greater diversity and globalism. This is a call to tribalism.
          In reality, this UN special committee is working to prevent the cultural and economic development of some nations, and the U.S. in particular. Our entire history is one of engaging in the adoption and blending of a multitude of various cultural traditions and practices into one — e pluribus unum. The UN evidently views the concept of a melting pot as racist and oppressive. Just another issue for those disgruntled nations within the UN to use to demonize the U.S.
          And that really seems to be the point. Much of the world rejects those foundational values espoused in the U.S. Constitution. Whether it is the right to bear arms or the right to freedom of speech, those are values that many of the world's intellectual elites find repugnant, because those rights prevent them from controlling people. Liberty prevents them from being able to rule the world according to their own ideals. It allows for the common man to express his own opinions and values. To put it bluntly, this is an attempt to squelch that Liberty. 
~The Patriot Post
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Democrats Plotting and Scheming
to Save liar-nObamacare
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{fixthisnation.com} ~ Senate Republicans are determined to pass their version of a new healthcare bill by July 4th, and Democrats are preparing various ways to make sure that doesn’t happen... According to a new report from Politico and Fox News, Chuck clown-Schumer’s minions are plotting to stall the GOP through public statements, filibusters, and any other means necessary. Included in that is the narrative that Republicans are proceeding with the bill in a secretive, closed-door fashion that prevents the public from knowing what’s going into the law before it comes up for a vote. That narrative was used against Democrats in 2009, when the original healthcare bill – the monster that ultimately came to be known as liar-nObamacare – was being deliberated. But now Democrats are telling the press that while the accusations against them were untrue, they really do have a case against Republicans. “Doing this behind closed doors is actually not what we did,” said Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn). No, of course not...http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-health-news/democrats-plotting-scheming-save-Obamacare/
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Can the GOP Pass a Healthcare
Bill in the Current Environment?
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by Roger Aronoff
{aim.org} ~ While the media are enjoying what they say is Republican hypocrisy over their process to pass a Senate version of a bill to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare, there is little attention being paid to the substance of the debate... President Donald Trump didn’t help matters when he muddied the waters, first saying that the House version of the bill, which he had enthusiastically supported, was too “mean,” and now saying he wants the Senate version to have “more heart.” Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has promised reporters a “discussion draft” of the bill later this week. In the meantime, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and many Democrats are blasting the bill as heartless and cruel. The toxic political atmosphere is not making matters any easier...http://www.aim.org/aim-column/can-the-gop-pass-a-healthcare-bill-in-the-current-environment/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jun-21-2017&utm_medium=email
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ISIS Losing the Battle but Winning the War
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by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The Islamic State is crumbling -- if too slowly. More than two years have passed since French President François Hollande promised, "We will bomb Raqqa". Sooner or later... ISIS will probably be reduced to a small enclave with no territorial continuity, and its chief, Abu Bakr al Baghdadi, will be eliminated. It would, nevertheless, be most dangerous to dismiss these three years as a short parenthesis: Nazism did not last as long: "just" 12 years in power and five at war with the rest of Europe. The physical and cultural consequences of the Nazi tyranny are, unfortunately, still visible in Europe. The same will be said of the Islamic State. Three years of terror and conquests are not bad in for a war between the Caliphate vs. everyone else. ISIS will leave behind an unprecedented terrorist infrastructure (277 Europeans killed on European soil in two years). If ISIS is retreating in Mosul, it is rapidly advancing in Manchester. The Caliphate is winning its war in Europe... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10535/isis-winning-war
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The Leftist News Media, Unmasked
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ If there's anything that the most recent presidential campaign and its aftermath have made crystal clear, it's that the major news media in America are teeming with leftists who overtly and covertly promote leftist worldviews and agendas... Andrea Mitchell, who has been the chief foreign-affairs correspondent at NBC News since 1994, is emblematic of the media's pitiful devolution into nothing more than a propaganda mill. Like a dutiful leftist, for instance, Mitchell has long viewed white Republicans and conservatives as being particularly inclined toward racism. During a June 2008 appearance on MSNBC, she referred to a heavily pro-Republican area of southwestern Virginia where then-presidential candidate Barack liar-nObama was campaigning, as “real redneck, sort of, bordering on Appalachia country.”... http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/267056/leftist-news-media-unmasked-discover-networks
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FSM VIDEO
 
Limbaugh: Democratic Party Has Become Largest Hate Group In This Country
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hpdznuP_ABI
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Liberal Professor Alan Dershowtiz: Worst case scenario in Russia probe not a crime (Sitting Presidents Can't Be Indicted)
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5478193901001
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Mark Levin: Mueller can't prosecute Trump, according to DOJ
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5478298856001
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Israel - Fighting for your Freedom
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TUCKER: "California's Not a Country": Tucker Spars With Undocumented Immigrant
VIDEO:  http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5478249262001
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Sean Spicer Is Reportedly
Leaving The Briefing Room
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by Katie Pavlich
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townhall.com} ~ Press Secretary Sean Spicer is taking a step back from his very public role at the podium to help manage the message coming out of the White House from the communications team. From POLITICO:

White House press secretary Sean Spicer is leading a search for his own replacement at the briefing room podium as part of a larger plan to shake up the White House communications operations, according to two people with knowledge of the effort.

Last week, Spicer and White House chief of staff Reince Priebus reached out to Fox News personality Laura Ingraham about the role of press secretary and Daily Mail editor David Martosko about the role of communications director, according to a White House official.

Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders, who has frequently filled in for Spicer, has told people that she doesn’t want the job of press secretary, according to a source close to her.

“We have sought input from many people as we look to expand our communications operation,” Sanders said. “As he did in the beginning, Sean Spicer is managing both the communications and press office.”

When President Trump was inaugurated in January, Spicer was running the communications team and serving as press secretary. In February Mike Dubke was hired as the Communications Director, but resigned in May, prompting Spicer to again take on the communications workload in addition to his press secretary duties. Dubke helped plan President Trump's first foreign trip.

Deputy Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders will brief reporters from now on as the White House looks for a replacement. Whether Spicer will stay at the White House in a different role is still unclear.
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Thurs/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Double Murder of Otto Warmbier
by Michelle Malkin
 
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 Two-Fold Trouble Filling Administration Posts 
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After President Donald Trump's inauguration, he set about appointing the most conservative administration since Ronald Reagan — more conservative, in fact. He's accomplished some important policy changes, not least of which is reining in the regulatory beast. And yet his administration, from even before Day 1, has been beset by distraction and phony scandal. Most of that — 95% of it — is fomented by leftists determined to undermine his agenda and delegitimize his very presidency. Still, that leaves 5%, and we have on occasion chalked that up to Trump's tendency to say dumb stuff, primarily on Twitter, that amounts to self-inflicted damage. For example, his trouble with James Comey really grew when he attacked his already fired FBI director on Twitter. In general, rather than accomplishing his agenda, he fuels DemoMSM fires of distraction, all because he still thinks he controls the realty-TV script. He doesn't, even as president.
          That's playing out in one particularly important way — his difficulty in filling administration posts. The Washington Post reports, "Republicans say they are turning down job offers to work for a chief executive whose volatile temperament makes them nervous. They are asking head-hunters if their reputations could suffer permanent damage, according to 27 people The Washington Post interviewed to assess what is becoming a debilitating factor in recruiting political appointees. The hiring challenge complicates the already slow pace at which Trump is filling senior leadership jobs across government."
          Two yuge caveats. First, as the administration disputes this, saying there are procedural delays in vetting applicants, and there are people, in the words of Press Secretary Sean Spicer, "knocking down my door" to apply for jobs. Second, the report comes from The Washington Post, which also today celebrates the 45th anniversary of the Watergate break-in. Think they're not itching to relive the glory days? So take what they report with a major grain of salt.
          That said, there are also two sides to this coin. Senate Democrats are delaying confirmations at a record pace, and leftists in general are raising such a stink as to block others entirely. Dr. Mark Green withdrew from consideration for Army secretary after the Rainbow Mafia went after him. It's all part of the derail-Trump's-agenda campaign. But Trump is also moving slowly and putting up red flags for potential recruits. When he's poorly running a realty-TV administration and publicly undermining his own officials, there's less incentive for qualified individuals to take the risk. ~The Patriot Post
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Klayman, Dennis Montgomery File for TRO Vs
Comey, FBI, NSA, CIA, Allege Obstruction
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Larry Klayman with his client, whistleblower Dennis Montgomery, moved on Tuesday for a temporary restraining order and preliminary injunction in their lawsuit against former FBI Director James Comey... the FBI, and the NSA and CIA, among other defendants. The case involves allegations that James Comey, in concert with the other defendants, buried an FBI investigation, caused by whistleblower Dennis Montgomery, a former NSA/CIA contractor, into mass illegal surveillance on not just President Trump, but the chief justice of the Supreme Court, other justices, 156 judges, and even Klayman. Montgomery came forward to Comey years ago with 47 hard drives containing classified information, under grant of immunity, and even was interviewed under oath by FBI agents Walter Giardina and William Barnett...http://rickwells.us/klayman-montgomery-file-tro-comey-fbi-nsa-cia-obstruction-justice/
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Dem Senator Connects the Dots From Russia
to Steve Scalise to liar-nObamaCare.
You Will Be Disgusted
by streiff
{redstate.com} ~ Sen. Chris Murphy (D-Conn.) said Tuesday that Senate Republicans are using the investigation into Russian election meddling and last week’s shooting at a congressional baseball practice as “cover” to try to move their healthcare bill... Somehow I really find in hard to believe that the GOP are using all of this stuff as cover for moving an liar-nObamaCare bill. In particular, I really find it extraordinary, given the way that the media have dropped any coverage of a deranged Bernie Sanders supporter (yes, I know, that is a redundancy) shooting Steve Scalise, that anyone could claim the Scalise shooting was cover for anything... http://www.redstate.com/streiff/2017/06/20/chris-murphy-scalise-cover-for-oba/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Democrats….The REAL Russian Connection
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by Joe Messina
{lidblog.com} ~ Democrats in DC are great at deflection. It’s amazing that mainstream media can only find “anonymous” reports of “alleged” illegal actions that can’t be corroborated by anyone or anything except other anonymous sources... Mainstream media can’t find anything wrong with any actions of any Democrats no matter how much proof is offered, but are looking for a conviction against any allegation made against a Republican. They still don’t get it! Let’s start with the leaked information about a Russian dossier that would bury President Trump! Many mainstream sources reported that the dossier had information that could be used to blackmail Mr. Trump. The dossier would prove that the Trump team and Mr. Trump colluded with the Russians to win the election...They seem to over look the fact that liar-nObama interfered in the Israeli election.  http://lidblog.com/real-russian-connection/
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6th District Defends the Wall,
Jon Ossoff Invasion Fails
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by Brent Scher
{freebeacon.com} ~ Democrat Jon Ossoff's expensive bid to flip Georgia's Sixth Congressional District fell short on Tuesday as he lost to Republican Karen Handel... who he had defeated by 28 percentage points in the election's first round of voting two months ago. The election was called by CNN shortly after 10:00 p.m., with Handel collecting 52.6 percent of the vote with just over 65 percent of precincts reporting, according to the network's vote count. NBC projected the race soon after. Georgia's sixth district was flooded with record levels of spending for the special election to fill Republican Tom Price's congressional seat... http://freebeacon.com/politics/6th-district-defends-wall-jon-ossoff-invasion-fails/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=8aa1af377e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-8aa1af377e-45611665
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44 Year DOJ Policy Prohibits Mueller
From Criminal Proceedings Against Trump
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Sean Hannity reveals an old DOJ that was recently uncovered by his guest, Mark Levin, “which suggests that a sitting president cannot be indicted in criminal cases.”... The memo reads in part, “In 1973 the Department concluded that the indictment or criminal prosecution of a sitting president would impermissibly undermine the capacity of the executive branch to perform its constitutionally assigned functions.” It continued, “We believe that the conclusion reached by the Department in 1973 still represents the best interpretation of the Constitution.” It states, “We believe that the Constitution requires recognition of a presidential immunity from indictment and criminal prosecution while the president is in office.” Mark Levin sets the topic of the discussion as the attempt by the left to create a perception that President Trump obstructed justice. Levin says, aside from the fact that President Trump didn’t and can’t obstruct justice, the questions of the frenzied media as to whether Muller will investigate President Trump or not is nothing more than media insanity... http://rickwells.us/levin-44-year-doj-policy-prohibits-mueller-criminal-proceedings-trump/
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The Double Murder of Otto Warmbier
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by Michelle Malkin
{wnd.com} ~ We may never know what brutal torture and malign neglect American student Otto Warmbier suffered at the hands of North Korea's dictatorship before losing his life this week at the age of 22.

But it wasn't the first time the free-spirited Ohio native died.

More than a year before succumbing to the unknown illness or injury that left him in a coma thousands of miles away from home, Otto Warmbier's own countrymen murdered his reputation. His character. His humanity.

Click-hungry media ghouls knew nothing about Warmbier's small-town upbringing, his family life, politics, personality, disappointments or dreams. But they gleefully savaged a young man who made a mistake on a doomed trip to a totalitarian hell.

Warmbier's thoughtless taunters instantly transformed him into a bigger, badder villain than the barbaric DPRK goons who beat, starve, rape and kill enemies of the state for such offenses as listening to foreign radio broadcasts, possessing Bibles and disrespecting Dear Leader -- in Warmbier's case, by attempting to steal a propaganda sign that read "Let's arm ourselves strongly with Kim Jong-il's patriotism!" as a souvenir.

The Huffington Post published an acid rant by "Blogging While Black" writer La Sha titled "North Korea Proves Your White Male Privilege Is Not Universal." She rejoiced at Warmbier's sentence because, she gloated, it taught him that "the shield his cis white male identity provides here in America is not teflon abroad."

Instead of faulting a repressive socialist regime, La Sha blamed Warmbier for "being socialized first as a white boy, and then as a white man in this country." The HuffPo's megalomaniac millennial had the gall to compare her daily plight of living and breathing freely in America to Warmbier's captivity:

"The hopeless fear Warmbier is now experiencing is my daily reality living in a country where white men like him are willfully oblivious to my suffering even as they are complicit in maintaining the power structures which ensure their supremacy at my expense."

But it wasn't just babbling diversity bloggers who exploited Warmbier's imprisonment.

For a few cheap yuks, liberal black comedian Larry Wilmore plowed ahead with smug disregard to how Warmbier's parents, family and friends must have suffered as photos and videos of their son and loved one were plastered all over media. To canned laughter, Wilmore mocked Warmbier on his Comedy Central show with a graphic labeling him an "ASS," which spelled out a fake frat name, "Alpha Sigma Sigma."

"It's just tough for me to have much sympathy for this guy and his crocodile tears," Wilmore snarked as he roasted the "Frat Boy."

Left-wing website Salon added another layer to the white male-bashing echo chamber:

"This might be America's biggest idiot frat boy: Meet the UVa student who thought he could pull a prank in North Korea."

Not to be outdone, Affinity Magazine a "social justice" online magazine for teens stomped on Warmbier's grave after his death was announced:

"Watch whiteness work," the publication tweeted. "He wasn't a 'kid' or 'innocent' you can't go to another country and try to steal from them. Respect their laws."

This from a rag that had deified Black Lives Matter icons Michael Brown and Trayvon Martin as downtrodden youth whose extensive rap sheets must remain unmentioned at all costs.

Otto's saboteurs engaged in the very same bigotry and stereotyping they recklessly accuse everyone else of at every turn. The far left learned nothing from leaping to conclusions about the Duke lacrosse players or the wrongfully accused members of Phi Kappa Psi at University of Virginia -- where Warmbier was a junior double-majoring in commerce and economics.

By all accounts, Warmbier was a charismatic and caring human being whom one high-school classmate called "Everyone's friend." He was a lover of cultures and intellectually open-minded -- "a warm, engaging, brilliant young man whose curiosity and enthusiasm for life knew no bounds," according to his family.

Utterly consumed by malignant identity politics, the left-wing intelligentsia have become the intolerantsia. They are bent on dehumanizing individuals, fomenting racial, ethnic and class division in the name of "progressivism," and never taking responsibility for the damage done.

Contrast the no-regrets policy of these "Frat Boy"-bashers, with a former North Korean prison guard, Lim Hye-jin, who escaped recently and recounted the horrors of life in the camps.

"We were manipulated not to feel any sympathy for prisoners," she said. The guards of the totalitarian state "do not see them as human beings, just as animals." After realizing she had been brainwashed by ideological monsters, she spoke out.

"Now I know they were normal people, so I feel very guilty."

Will the short, slandered life and double death of Otto Warmbier prompt the American left's cruel character assassins to admit the same?

Soul-searching, alas, requires a soul.
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 Trial by Media
by Paul Albaugh
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 Top Headlines 
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Otto Warmbier dead; former U.S. prisoner of North Korea, sent home in a coma, was 22. (Fox News)
 
Recalculation of illegal votes by non-citizens puts number closer to Trump's. (The Washington Times)
 
Republicans introduce new gun-carry legislation in wake of Alexandria attack. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Demos block witnesses from testifying in House intel probe. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Washington Post: Hey, maybe single-payer health care isn't such a great idea. (Hot Air)
 
Demos plan to halt Senate business over GOP health bill. (Hot Air)
 
Parties brace for outcome of Georgia election — most expensive House race ever. (The Hill)
 
EPA ends $1 million taxpayer-funded gym membership program. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
VA whistleblower who testified in Congress stripped of job duties in Atlanta. (Washington Examiner)
 
Canadians could be jailed or fined for using incorrect gender pronouns. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: Don't bail out failing states like Illinois. (Investor's Business Daily)
 
Policy: Wisconsin's remarkable job growth should be celebrated. (E21~The Patriot Post
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State Department probes liar-Clinton handling of government emails, could pull her security clearance
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by Malia Zimmerman
{foxnews.com} ~ The State Department has opened a formal inquiry into whether former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton and her aides mishandled classified information while she was the nation’s top diplomat... Fox News has learned. Despite being under investigation, liar-Clinton and her staffers still have security clearances to access sensitive government information. The department’s investigation aims to determine whether liar-Clinton and her closest aides violated government protocols by using her private server to receive, hold and transmit classified and top-secret government documents. The department declined to say when its inquiry began, but it follows the conclusion of the FBI’s probe into the matter, which did not result in any actions being taken against liar-Clinton or any of her aides. Depending on the outcome of the current State Department inquiry, liar-Clinton and her aides could have their access to sensitive government documents terminated... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/06/20/state-department-probes-clinton-handling-government-emails-could-pull-her-security-clearance.html?cmpid=NL_fntop
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Eric Holder Returning To Run
For President? – Bite Your Tongue
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ If the Sessions Justice Department ever needed a reason to direct the FBI to actually investigate the Fast and Furious gun running operation, it’s here... We remember Eric Holder and Hussein liar-nObama were never investigated for using that scheme to “accidentally” arm their cartel allies in their lucrative open border drug and human trafficking ventures. Now that same guy who was held in contempt of Congress for obstruction in the Fast and Furiouis investigation, and who, along with James Comey, refused to prosecute Lois Lerner, for abuse of power in targeting conservative Americans, wants to run for President. He’s the same guy who once described the defeat of his anti-Second Amendment gun grabbing efforts as his single greatest failure as Attorney General. He’ll certainly seek to rectify that shortfall if he should somehow be elected. More than two years after curiously stepping down from his position as the chief agitator for racial preference and anti-Americanism in the nation, Eric Holder is stepping back into politics and a likely run for President in 2020...This is one complete joke.  http://rickwells.us/eric-holder-returning-run-president-bite-tongue/
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"Corrupt Motive" as the
Criterion for Prosecuting a President
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by Alan M. Dershowitz
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ My academic and political colleagues who insist that President Trump has obstructed justice point to his allegedly "corrupt motive" in firing former FBI Director James Comey... after telling him that he "hoped" he would end his investigation of General Michael Flynn. They concede – as Comey himself did – that the President has the constitutional authority to fire the director and to order him to end or start any investigation, just as he has the authority to pardon anyone being investigated. But they argue that these constitutionally authorized innocent acts become criminal if the President was "corruptly motivated." This is a dangerous argument that no civil libertarian should be pressing. Nor would they be pressing it if the shoe were on the other foot. If liar-Hillary Clinton had been elected and Republicans were investigating her for asking the Attorney General to describe the investigation of her as a "matter" rather than a "case," my colleagues would be arguing against an expansive view of existing criminal statutes, as they did when Republicans were demanding that she be locked up for espionage. The same would be true if Bill liar-Clinton or former Attorney General Loretta Lynch were being investigated for his visit to her when she was investigating his wife's misuse of email servers... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10556/corrupt-motive-as-the-criterion-for-prosecuting
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20 Million US CITIZENS Illegally
Unmasked By liar-nOBAMA, COMEY, MUELLER
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ We’re still waiting for the outrage, feigned as it may be, from Republicans and the connection between the exposed surveillance of private individuals revealed by Dennis Montgomery... and the spying by the liar-nObama regime on their opponents. Why no call for an investigation on this by the same people who are beating the Russian dead horse? Mitch McConnell, Paul Ryan, where are you? This program aired June 7th but there’s been virtually nothing said about the revelations since. John Sololmon and Sara Carter of Circa News explained who Dennis Montgomery is and why he is such a key figure in exposing the corruption and illegality that is rampant in the deep state compromised FBI and intelligence agencies. In their June 7th interview with Sean Hannity, Solomon says, “We have a man tonight, that filed a lawsuit that walked out of the CIA, NSA and FBI with 47 hard drives, 600 million documents that were classified... http://rickwells.us/20-million-us-citizens-illegally-unmasked-obama-comey-mueller/
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New study bolsters
Trump's claim of rampant vote fraud
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by Art Moore
{wnd.com} ~ A new study has concluded that as many as 5.7 million noncitizens may have voted in the 2008 election won by Barack liar-nObama, giving credence to President Trump’s much-maligned claim... that more than 3 million illegal-alien voters cost him the nationwide popular vote last November. A research group in New Jersey, Just Facts, announced it found that after examining post-election polling data, the number of noncitizens voting illegally in U.S. elections is likely far greater than previous estimates, the Washington Times reported. As WND reported in March, many election experts agree with the president that widespread vote fraud exists, including illegal-alien voting. But they think it’s unwise to make any estimates of the number of illegal voters, because there is no hard data at the moment. Yet, that likely will change with access now to records that were kept under wraps by the liar-nObama administration... http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/new-study-bolsters-trumps-claim-of-rampant-vote-fraud/
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 Trial by Media 
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By Paul Albaugh:  Far too often when a crime occurs, people often tend to rush to judgment on who did it, what happened, why it happened and what the consequences should be for those involved. In today's age, with everyone having endless information at their fingertips, this has become commonplace.
          The mainstream media is guilty of rushing to judgment on most issues, and tragic events such as a death or murder are no exception. It can also be said that the mainstream media often pours gasoline on the fire — all to keep people tuned in to the disaster. More often than not, tragedies end up being glorified by continuous coverage and the speculations and opinions spewed forth by the "news experts" are designed more to get people talking than they are to carefully weigh the facts.
          It's as if the accused are going through trial by media before they get to their trial by jury. Two criminal cases decided on Friday serve as examples.
          The first case involved Minnesota police officer, Jeronimo Yanez, who shot to death Philando Castile during a traffic stop in July of last year. Yanez faced a trial by jury and was acquitted of manslaughter and all other charges related to the incident.
          Recall that the media had repeated the narrative that Officer Yanez had murdered an armed but law-abiding citizen who had done nothing wrong, and it was most likely, the story went, because of racism. The facts presented to the jury showed that Officer Yanez was following protocol. Castile lawfully informed Yanez that he was carrying a firearm, although he told the officer after being asked for his driver's license. Yanez told Castile "don't reach for it" once and "don't pull it out" twice before he opened fire on Castile, who was reaching for something.
          It really doesn't matter what Castile was reaching for — as Officer Yanez testified, he felt that his life was in danger. Castile's girlfriend, who was in the passenger seat at the time, insisted Castile was reaching for his driver's license, not his gun. What is undisputed is that Castile was reaching for something. Should Officer Yanez have been a bit clearer in his instructions? Absolutely. Should Castile have stopped reaching for whatever he was reaching for and placed his hands in view and asked for clearer instructions from officer Yanez? Absolutely.
          Tragically, Castile lost his life. Yanez, despite being acquitted, has been relieved of his duties as a law enforcement officer and will live the rest of his life with the decision he made that day. Yanez is certain to face more trial by media on the verdict, but, with the facts before them, the jury could not "beyond a reasonable doubt" charge Yanez with manslaughter.
          The second case involved Michelle Carter, a young woman who was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter — Massachusetts Judge Lawrence Moniz found her responsible for the death of her boyfriend, Conrad Roy III. (Carter waived her right to a trial by jury.) Carter had been sending her boyfriend text messages and calling him in the days and weeks ahead of his death, telling him repeatedly to kill himself.
          Some commentators condemned the decision. National Review's David French called it a "terrible verdict," arguing that Carter should not be held responsible for her boyfriend's death because Roy was the one who carried out the action in killing himself. Meanwhile, Hot Air's Jazz Shaw echoed similar sentiments and argued that Carter in essence has been charged with a thought crime. That is, she thought that her boyfriend should kill himself and she told him to do so. Do we really want the courts punishing people for their thoughts and words?
          Carter arguably had the right to say what she did to her boyfriend, but were her words consequence free? Was it right that she initiated a form of psychological bullying to the point that it prompted her boyfriend to take his own life? Words have meaning and words have consequences — ask Rep. Steve Scalise. Roy was mentally unstable and it seems that Carter may be as well.
          The point of briefly covering these two cases is this: We have a justice system in place to decide cases. We should not rush to judge other people based on a few newspaper headlines or breaking news stories that rarely ever present all of the facts and evidence. The American justice system features the concept of innocent until proven guilty, and that hasn't changed despite news stories that portray people as guilty until proven innocent. Americans have the right to a trial by jury for a reason — so that all of the evidence and facts can be presented and decided by our peers.
          Is our justice system perfect? Do all trials end up with justice being truly served? Sadly no, but the media would serve the public far better if it would do more reporting and less adjudicating, and leave the rest up to the jurors and the court system.  ~The Patriot Post
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 'Resisting' Democracy and Decency
by Arnold Ahlert
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 Pulosi's Pugnacious Preaching 
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Rep. Rodney Davis (R-IL) was in the batter's box when a deranged leftist opened fire at a ball field in Alexandria, Virginia, Wednesday. Davis reflected, "This could be the first political rhetorical terrorist attack." Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich put a finer point on it, saying, "You've had a series of things ... that tell people that it's OK to hate Trump. It's OK to think of Trump in violent terms. It's OK to consider assassinating Trump and then ... suddenly we're supposed to rise above it until the next time?"
          As Mark Alexander argued, violent leftist rhetoric is exactly why violent actions followed.
          Yet House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi was having none of it. Asked to respond to Republican comments, she was incredulous. "The comments made by my Republican colleagues are outrageous," Pulosi lectured. "Beneath the dignity of the job they hold, beneath the dignity of the respect we would like Congress to command. How dare they say such a thing? How dare they?"
          If anyone knows about operating beneath the dignity of the office, it's Pulosi. Typical of her ridiculous anti-GOP rhetoric is this regarding Neil Gorsuch's Supreme Court confirmation hearings: "The president ... has appointed someone who has come down on the side of corporate America ... against employees' rights. Clean air, clean water, food safety, safety in medicine and the rest if you care about that for your children, he's not your guy." There are other examples of Pulosi's slander too numerous to recount here.
          But yesterday, she leveled both rhetorical barrels at Republicans again. "Probably as we sit here, they're running caricatures of me ... of vitriolic things they say that resulted in calls to my home constantly, threats in front of my grandchildren really predicated on their comments and their paid ads." She continued, "So this sick individual does something despicable and it was horrible what he did, hateful but for them to all of a sudden be sanctimonious as if they've never seen such a thing before. And I don't even want to go into the president of the United States, in terms of some of the language that he has used."
          She wasn't done, relating a harrowing tale of having received "scores of horrible, disgusting, yucky messages a lot of them toward me, a lot of them toward liar-Hillary Clinton, a lot of them toward Barack liar-nObama. And using language that is from some of the messages that [Republicans] had put out."
          We're not defending hateful rhetoric directed to members of Congress, but is she seriously comparing some mean mail or phone calls with the bullets fired at her Republican colleagues? We've heard the saying, "The pen is mightier than the sword," but she might be taking that too literally.  ~The Patriot Post
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Democrats Using Soviet
Secret Police Tactics Against Trump
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ In an interview with Tucker Carlson, Harvard Law Professor Alan Dershowitz, who makes a point of declaring that he is a liberal who voted for liar-Hillary Clinton, defends President Trump... against the witch hunt that is underway by Democrats and the political establishment. He says, “What the Democrats are trying to do to President Trump is exactly what some Republicans and extremists tried to do to liar-Hillary Clinton.” Dershowitz may be a smart guy, but in that regard he’s delusional. liar-Hillary Clinton is a criminal who committed espionage and got off because of criminal malfeasance by James Comey, Loretta Lynch, Hussein liar-nObama and many more insiders, and the deep state influence. He is absolutely correct in his view that the supporters of action against President Trump would be on the other side of the issue if it were a question about whether or not to target a Democrat under the same circumstances. That’s the politicization of the criminal justice system, which is part of the danger that he’s warning against... http://rickwells.us/dershowitz-democrats-using-soviet-secret-police-tactics-trump/
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Iran missile strike a ‘flop,’ with most missing target
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{timesofisrael.com} ~ Iran’s much-vaunted missile strike on Islamic State targets in Syria late Sunday was a flop, with six of the seven medium-range missiles it fired failing to hit their target, Israeli sources said Monday... Iran’s powerful Revolutionary Guard, a paramilitary force in charge of the country’s missile program, said it launched six Zolfaghar ballistic missiles from the western provinces of Kermanshah and Kurdistan. The missiles flew over Iraq before striking what the Guard called an Islamic State command center and suicide car bomb operation in Deir el-Zour, according to Tehran. The Fars semi-state news agency quoted sources saying at least 360 terrorists were killed. But sources quoted in Hebrew media on Monday evening said three of what they said were the seven ballistic missiles didn’t even make it as far as Syria, falling to earth in Iraq, and only one of the seven landed in its intended target, an Islamic State base in Syria’s mostly IS-held Deir Ezzor province. Another of the seven landed hundreds of yards away, in the city of Mayadin... http://www.timesofisrael.com/israeli-sources-iran-missile-strike-a-flop-with-most-missing-target/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=a244a9c178-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-a244a9c178-54638825
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Democrats Block Witnesses
from Testifying in House Intel Probe
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by Bill Gertz
{freebeacon.com} ~ House Democrats are continuing to block testimony from about a dozen witnesses who sought to appear before the intelligence oversight panel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election... Congressional officials said one of the key witnesses, former informal adviser to the Trump campaign Carter Page, was scheduled to testify at a closed hearing of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. But Democrats on the committee blocked the testimony, asserting they needed more time to prepare. "He's the guy that many Democrats have been pointing to as the supposed mastermind and you would think they were interested hearing his story," said one Capitol Hill official...
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New Texas Legislation Bans Sharia Law in Courts
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by Alice Greene
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed "American Laws for American Courts" (ALAC) last week, a law that prohibits the use of Sharia law or any other foreign law by Texas judges in “family law cases.”... In a recent press release, state Rep. and ALAC author Dan Flynn (R-Canton) explained how foreign law is often used in cases concerning child support, divorce, and other family disputes. “My colleagues and I here at the Texas Legislature want to make sure Texas judges never apply foreign law in Texas courts in violation of constitutional rights and the public policy of our state,” said Flynn... All 50 states should follow suit.  http://punchingbagpost.com/new-texas-legislation-bans-sharia-law-in-courts
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MSNBC's Joy Ann Reid attacks Congressional Rep. Scalise as he recovers from Assination attempt
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Former U.S. Soldier, Now an Aid Worker, Rescues Little Girl From ISIS in Mosul
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Will NKorea be held accountable for Otto Warmbier's death?
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Fred Fleitz on London mosque van attack: we have to condemn this regardless of who did this
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DT5JaxsxQRQ
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NEWT: Blasts Russia (Special Counsel Mueller) investigation bias
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TUCKER: Spars with NJ Dem Who Tweeted '#HuntRepublicans' after the shooting of Rep. Scalise
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 'Resisting' Democracy and Decency 
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By Arnold Ahlert:  "Liberals protest; radicals rebel. Liberals become indignant; radicals become fighting mad and go into action. Liberals do not modify their personal lives and what they give to a cause is a small part of their lives; radicals give themselves to the cause. Liberals give and take oral arguments; radicals give and take the hard, dirty, bitter way of life." —from Saul Alinsky's "Reveille for Radicals," published in 1946
          Perhaps nothing has contributed to the toxic nature of today's political climate more than the disturbing reality that a once classically liberal Democrat Party has been hijacked by the radical Left. This is not the party of John F. Kennedy, Tip O'Neill or former DNC chair Henry "Scoop" Jackson, who simultaneously supported liberal causes while remaining staunchly anti-Communist. Today's DNC chair is Thomas Perez, whose contribution to "thoughtful" debate is to assert that Republicans "don't give a sh-t about people," and declare that Donald Trump "didn't win the election."
          But Donald Trump did win the election, despite the recounts, the death threats and petitions aimed at getting Electoral College voters to subvert the will of the people, and the felonious Inauguration Day riots, courtesy of leftist thugs who smashed property and threw rocks at police.
          And ever since, a Democrat Party, aided and abetted by a corrupt phalanx of leftist radicals in media, academia, Hollywood and vast swaths of the unelected federal bureaucracy, has made it clear Donald Trump must not be merely challenged or discredited. He must first be demonized and then impeached — by any means necessary.
          Hence, a severed presidential head is presented as comedy. A Shakespeare play featuring an orange-haired Caesar murdered by political rivals is presented as drama. A CNN host of a religious show tweets that Trump is a "piece of sh-t" who is "a stain on the presidency," and Huffington Post columnist Jason Fuller writes that everyone assisting Trump's agenda must be convicted of treason — and executed. "Anything less than capital punishment  —  or at least life imprisonment without parole in a maximum security detention facility  —  would send yet another message to the world that America has lost its moral compass," Fuller spews.
          America hasn't lost its moral compass. Democrats have urged their followers to trample on it. Last Wednesday, Bernie Sanders supporter and dedicated Trump-hater James T. Hodgkinson attempted to massacre Republican Congressmen, critically wounding Steve Scalise before being shot dead by two Capitol Police officers.
          Sanders was "sickened by this despicable act" and insisted that violence "is unacceptable in our society" — now. Yet the same Bernie Sanders told Rachel Maddow in March that "seeing members of Congress, Republicans, having to sneak out the back door or claim I'm worried about my safety, I can't even hold a town meeting" is "our goal."
          Blaming Democrats or the greater left for the motives of Hodgkinson, regardless of his politics, or his list of Republican targets, is the stuff of fools or agitators. Yet it is hard to ignore the reality that Democrat politicians have supported groups such as Occupy Wall Street, and Black Lives Matter, whose violent tactics have been propagandized as a fight for "social justice." They are virtually silent about, or tacitly supportive, of masked "antifa" (anti-fascist — irony alert) thugs who commit violence to oppress "hate" speech. And in May, liar-Hillary Clinton announced her intention to fund groups supporting the "Resistance™" movement.
          The Resistance™ movement highlights the divide between classic Democrat liberalism and the Party's current allegiance to radicalism. The Nation's Natasha Lennard illuminates why the former no longer satisfies the radicals. "Liberals cling to institutions: They begged to no avail for faithless electors, they see ‘evisceration' in a friendly late-night talk-show debate, they put faith in investigations and justice with regards to Russian interference and business conflicts of interest," she writes. "They grasp at hypotheticals about who could have won, were things not as they in fact are. For political subjects so tied to the mythos of Reason, it is liberals who now seem deranged."
          In short, faith in the Constitution and the Rule of Law is deranged. What's not? According to Lennard, "disruption, confrontation, doxxing [publishing personal information online] and altercation remain tactics anyone taking seriously a refusal to normalize Trump-era fascism should consider."
          No one has led the effort to de-normalize Donald Trump more than Democrats and their media allies. Absent a shred of proof, Americans have been fed a steady diet of media leaks regarding collusion between Trump and the Russians, while former FBI Director James Comey, who testified that investigation began almost a year ago, refused as late as May to confirm whether the FBI had even begun investigating the only known felonies perpetrated by that leaking.
          And media leaking about the Russian investigation has now morphed seamlessly into leaks of the investigation being conducted by Robert Mueller, and the revelation that the investigation into "Russian meddling" has now morphed into an investigation of Trump's "obstruction of justice."
          Loretta Lynch's efforts to obstruct justice as outlined by Comey himself? Mueller's conflict of interest with regard to his long friendship with Comey, in clear violation of a special counsel statute? His hiring of at least a dozen attorneys, including four who contributed several thousands of dollars to the Democrat Party, Barack liar-nObama and liar-Hillary Clinton, and one who once represented the liar-Clinton Foundation?
          The media portray Muller as a paragon of integrity, and Democrats threaten that any attempts to remove him will precipitate impeachment proceedings. The same impeachment theme Democrats have reiterated ad nauseam since the inauguration.
          The Wall Street Journal's Peggy Noonan takes on the media and their unstinting efforts in making "the whole political scene lower, grubbier," and "showing the young what otherwise estimable adults do under pressure, which is lose their equilibrium."
          The result? "By indulging their and their audience's rage, they spread the rage," Noonan adds.
          The Democrat Party? Dedicated leftist Camille Paglia excoriates their reaction to Trump's election as "one of the most disgraceful episodes in the history of the modern Democratic party," and describes Party leader Chuck clown-Schumer as someone who "asserted absolutely no moral authority as the party spun out of control in a nationwide orgy of rage and spite."
          Not quite. Rage and spite are integral parts of the Democrat Party platform. Promoting victimization, and the tribalism it inevitably produces, is now its stock in trade, based on an adage as timely as it's ever been: The right believes the left is wrong; the left believes the right is evil.
          Thus, a party once known for classic liberalism's "give and take," now embraces the radicals' "hard, dirty, bitter way of life." It is the party that champions the political correctness Paglia refers to as "repressively Stalinist, dependent on a labyrinthine, parasitic bureaucracy to enforce its empty dictates."
          What dictates? "Well-nigh the entire ruling class — government bureaucracies, the judiciary, academia, media, associated client groups, Democratic officials, and Democrat-controlled jurisdictions — have joined in 'Resistance' to the 2016 elections," writes Angelo Codevilla, who further characterizes that Resistance™ as "a cold civil war against a majority of the American people and their way of life." Will Democrats and their allies turn a cold war hot? ~The Patriot Post
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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Who Holds the DEA Accountable
When Its Missions Cost Lives?
by Ginger Thompson
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N KOREA Has Dangerous Levels Of NUCLEAR,
BIOLOGICAL and CHEMICAL WEAPONS
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The time for dealing with the North Korea problem may be sooner than many people realize, according to information from Joseph Bermudez Jr., writing in “38 North,”... a John Hopkins University website that deals specifically with issues related to North Korea. He believes they are secretly developing biological weapons in camouflaged facilities dispersed across their nation. Additionally, the construction activity at their Sohae Satellite Launching Station is still ongoing. Bermudez says the rogue nation either has or soon will have “operational nuclear weapons,” an “ongoing offensive biological weapons research program,” and a “longstanding chemical weapons program with a militarily significant inventory of these weapons.” He says the DPRK has constructed their nuclear, biological and chemical programs in “extreme secrecy,” using “camouflage, concealment and deception operations to mask the NBC infrastructure.” They also utilize “legitimate, defense or civilian industrial and research infrastructures” to build weapons that are “simply unknown” outside the North Korean government...http://rickwells.us/n-korea-dangerous-levels-nuclear-biological-chemical-weapons/
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Soros, liar-Clinton-Linked
Teneo Among Donors to McCain Institute
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by Richard Pollock
{dailycaller.com} ~ Arizona Republican Sen. John McCain in 2012 turned over nearly $9 million in unspent funds from his failed 2008 presidential campaign to a new foundation bearing his name, the McCain Institute for International Leadership... The institute is intended to serve as a “legacy” for McCain and “is dedicated to advancing human rights, dignity, democracy and freedom.” It is a tax-exempt non-profit foundation with assets valued at $8.1 million and associated with Arizona State University. Conservative and liberal critics, however, believe the institute constitutes a major conflict of interest for McCain, The Daily Caller News Foundation’s Investigative Group has learned... http://dailycaller.com/2017/06/19/exclusive-soros-clinton-linked-teneo-among-donors-to-mccain-institute/
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Cover Up? Susan Rice Unmasking Records
Moved To liar-nObama Library To Stay Classified
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by Andrew West
{lidblog.com} ~ While former President Barack liar-nObama has been out of office for well over 6 months, his influence on Washington D.C. remains reprehensibly intact... When it was announced that the liar-nObama family would be staying in the beltway area after their patriarch’s disastrous stint in the Oval Office, a great many republicans rolled their eyes, believing that liar-nObama was sticking around due to an anticipated job with the democrats’ inevitable liar-Hillary Clinton Presidency. Then, when that was ultimately foiled by the nation’s conservative uprising, the former President went about hiring a 12-man team of Washington insiders to “keep tabs” on the newly-minted President.  This further infuriated the right, who rightfully view liar-nObama as a meddling nuisance hoping to trip up the Trump machine... http://lidblog.com/cover-up-susan-rice-unmasking-records/
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NGO, students sue San Francisco
State University for anti-Semitism
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by Yonah Jeremy Bob
{jpost.com} ~ An NGO, a group of San Francisco State University students, and members of the local Jewish community late on Monday filed a lawsuit in a US federal court in California against San Francisco State University for antisemitism... The case alleges that “SFSU has a long and extensive history of cultivating anti-Semitism and overt discrimination against Jewish students” which has led to students being afraid to wear “Stars of David or yarmulkes on campus." According to the suit, "SFSU and its administrators have knowingly fostered this discrimination… which has been marked by violent threats to the safety of Jewish students on campus."  http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/NGO-students-sue-San-Francisco-State-University-for-antisemitism-497378
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CNN Hacks Cooper, Acosta
Mock Trump Team In 3rd Grader Skit
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ We’ve all had our moments where we wanted to reach through the screen and knock the daylights or something else out of a smug, arrogant, condescending elitist... This time there’s two of them, equally deserving and despicable. There’s more than one reason to not watch CNN, here’s two big ones, plus however many others are operating behind the scenes to produce garbage, who could surely use some correction as well. Anderson “Teabag” Cooper sets up their segment which is, like everything else they do, a scripted theatrical performance. They hate it that President Trump circumvents their fake news system by tweeting so it’s a priority to discourage him through mockery. It might work if our President cared what repugnant anti-American liberal trash thinks of him, but he doesn’t. The performance setup features four clips of White House Press Secretary Spicer saying that President Trump’s tweets speak for themselves. Somehow these morons, Cooper and the caustic Jim Acosta, think their stupidity is funny, good for ratings and bad for the President...http://rickwells.us/cnn-hacks-cooper-acosta-mock-trump-team-3rd-grader-skit/
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Who Holds the DEA Accountable
When Its Missions Cost Lives?
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by Ginger Thompson
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propublica.org} ~ In early 2011, the Drug Enforcement Administration obtained a rare and highly valuable piece of intelligence about the leaders of the Mexico-based Zetas cartel, one of the most powerful, and impenetrable, drug organizations in the world.

An agent in Dallas had persuaded the cartel’s leading cocaine distributor in East Texas to hand over trackable cellphone identification numbers for the group’s most wanted kingpins, in particular Miguel and Omar Treviño, a murderous pair of brothers whose viciousness had earned them top spots among the DEA’s most-wanted.

It was an intelligence coup, the kind of information that comes along once in a very lucky career. With those numbers, authorities could track the brothers’ movements and ultimately capture them. But the DEA made a decision with fatal consequences. Against the wishes of the lead agent on the case — whose informant specifically warned of the potential for bloodshed — the DEA told a Mexican federal police unit with a long history of leaking to traffickers that it had the information.

Within days, the Zetas were, in turn, told that the DEA was onto their leaders. The Treviño brothers guessed immediately which of the cells in their organization had betrayed them and began hunting for the snitches. When the suspected traitors couldn’t be found, the traffickers went after anyone connected to them.

Dozens, possibly hundreds, of people were killed and kidnapped in and around Allende, a quiet ranching town in the northern Mexican state of Coahuila, about 40 minutes from the U.S. border. Zetas gunmen grabbed a 15-year-old high school football player, who was hanging out with friends whose parents ran a health club where one of the suspected snitches lifted weights. They took an 81-year-old woman, as well as her 6-month-old great-grandson. One family lost nearly 20 members.

Black clouds spewed from a local ranch where the cartel turned one building into a makeshift crematorium to burn the bodies of those they had killed.

For years, Mexican authorities did next to nothing to investigate the massacre. Meanwhile people in Allende, understandably distrustful of the authorities sworn to protect them, kept their mouths shut.

Tragically, that outcome has become all too familiar in Mexico, where impunity is a national scourge. Homegrown corruption, greed and fear have bred an epidemic of virtually unchallenged violence. What makes this case different is that the DEA lit the fuse that triggered the slaughter, then stood mutely by — as if it had played no role. DEA officials knew almost immediately that innocent lives had been lost as a result of sharing the intelligence with Mexico. The agency’s response then — and in the years since — nothing.

It didn’t demand answers from its Mexican counterparts, or suspend cooperation with the Mexican police until it could determine how the information was leaked. It didn’t conduct an internal investigation into the decision to share the intelligence or reassess its own rules for giving sensitive information to Mexico. It didn’t report the violence to superiors at the Justice Department or to overseers on Capitol Hill.

And, perhaps underscoring the perception that the lives destroyed were in some way acceptable collateral damage in the war on drugs, it didn’t offer to provide any assistance to those victimized by the leak or resources to help identify and arrest the perpetrators.

I’ve spent most of the last year investigating and documenting the attack on Allende, recording detailed, often gut-wrenching, accounts from those who lived through it and those whose actions helped cause it for ProPublica and National Geographic. Dozens of people in Allende agreed to speak to me on the record, many of them talking publicly for the first time and at great personal risk. Even the former Zetas-turned-informants spoke at length about their roles and their devastating consequences. The assistant U.S. attorney on the case described himself as “devastated.” And eventually, the DEA agent who led the investigation discussed, at times emotionally, his part in the tragedy.

But when presented with this array of voices and evidence, DEA officials refused to explain what, if anything, the agency had done to respond to the massacre. Spokesman Russ Baer would only say that the agency placed blame squarely on the Treviño brothers: “They were killing people before that happened, and they killed people after the numbers were passed.” He told me I needed to be clear on one thing: “This is not a story where the DEA has blood on its hands.”

That’s technically true, and sadly seems by design. Because of the way Mexico’s drug war is fought, the United States plays a leading role — providing training, equipment and intelligence to security forces with reputations for collaborating with traffickers — without sharing responsibility for the fallout.

Some Mexican counternarcotics units or programs — including the one implicated in the Allende massacre — wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the United States. American taxpayers have pumped hundreds of millions of dollars into Mexico’s counternarcotics programs over the years. But other than vague lists of kingpins who have been arrested and the occasional made-for-TV photo op of seized drugs, there is almost no public accounting of what those efforts have accomplished, much less of the ways they’ve failed, or of any toll they’ve taken.

This carefully choreographed arrangement is convenient for Mexico, as well. It allows that country’s government to assert that its police and armed forces do not take orders from the gringos. Meanwhile, the United States can claim credit when it helps Mexico capture a kingpin, but profess innocence when things go wrong.

Sergio Aguayo is a prominent Mexican human rights investigator at the Colegio de Mexico, which last year launched an independent probe into the Allende massacre. He told me: “The United States and its role remains an enigma. But the one thing that seems clear is that the government has its policies against organized crime, and pursues them without taking into account the impacts on Mexican society.” Aguayo said that may not be the intent, “but the affects are clear and inhumane.”

Certainly, the United States does not intend for massacres to happen. The DEA’s goal upon obtaining intelligence on the Zetas, part of an operation called Too Legit to Quit, was a good one: to bring an end to the cartel’s reign of terror. The agency had trained and vetted the members of the Mexican federal police unit with which it shared information about the intelligence. But the so-called Sensitive Investigative Unit (SIU) operates with a fundamental flaw that neither Mexico nor the United States has had the political will to fix: The unit’s Mexican supervisors are exempt from scrutiny.

“The unit is only as strong as its weakest link,” said a former senior DEA official who spent much of his career in Mexico. “If the supervisor isn’t vetted, then what’s the point of vetting anybody?”

But DEA agents I’ve spoken to said that Mexico would shut down the program before submitting its leaders to U.S. inspection. And the DEA believes having the vetted unit, even with the possibility of corruption, is better than not having it at all. Despite its weaknesses, they say, the unit has aided in important arrests.

Law enforcement sources close to the Allende case in United States blamed a Mexican supervisor in the vetted unit for the leak that triggered the Zetas’ attack. It wouldn’t be the first time. Over the two decades that I have been writing from and about Mexico, the SIU has been remade numerous times, either as part of a complete overhaul of the federal police, or because the unit had been infiltrated by drug traffickers. Or in some cases, the two went hand-in-hand.

Earlier this year, one of the unit’s supervisors, Ivan Reyes Arzate, turned himself in to authorities in Chicago who had charged him with leaking information to drug traffickers. Two of his predecessors at the unit, according to current and former DEA officials, were assassinated.

Expanded vetting couldn’t hurt. But it’s not foolproof, as the DEA has learned in partnerships with other national police forces. A vetted supervisor in Colombia, one DEA agent told me, was passing information to traffickers. “That information led to several cooperators being executed,” he said, “along with some of their family members.”

What the DEA could easily do, however, is establish firm and formal protocols for exchanging information with Mexico. Current and former DEA officials describe the system as loose and somewhat random, with agents independently making decisions — based on experience and relationships — about who to share information with both inside the DEA and among foreign counterparts.

This looseness is driven, in part, by shifting networks of corruption, some veteran agents said: Certain Mexican security forces might leak to a specific cartel, but reliably pursue another. They learned accordingly what to share with whom.

Another thing the agency could do is create mandatory accounting procedures that track the results of its operations. And finally, it could and should thoroughly investigate leaks, especially those with disastrous consequences, and report their findings to the Justice Department and Congress.

Yes, that may slow down a process that by its very nature requires speed — drug traffickers change their cellphone numbers every few weeks, precisely to avoid detection. But it could also save lives. There’s still no firm count of how many people were killed and kidnapped in and around Allende. A Mexican colleague and I found some 60 people whose deaths or disappearances have been linked to the Zetas’ siege by relatives, friends, court records, victims’ support groups and news accounts.

The DEA has been criticized for its role in other high-profile foreign drug operations gone awry, most recently in Honduras. If American authorities are going to operate in Mexican communities we should be prepared to treat the people who live in them as we would our own.
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Wed/Mid-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
liar-nObama library snatches
Susan Rice unmasking docs – for 5 years!
by Garth Kant
 
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 NYT Recycles Fake News to Blame the Right 
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In an astonishingly tone-deaf article, the editorial board of the New York Times on Wednesday ran a story entitled "America's Lethal Politics." It can only be classified as leftist propaganda. The obvious goal of the screed was to absolve the Left of any blame for contributing to the mindset of the crazed leftist who attacked congressional Republicans, while at the same time blaming those on the Right for essentially causing the problem of politically motivated violence.
          To make their case, the Times' editors recycled their own fake news from six years ago — the infamous and thoroughly debunked assertion that the mentally ill Jared Lee Loughner, who attacked and severely wounded Rep. Gabby Gifford and killed six others, was motivated by "rhetoric on the right" and Sarah Palin in particular. "The link to political incitement was clear," the Times editorialized Wednesday. Honestly, the level of hypocrisy displayed by the Times' editorial board is quite frankly dumbfounding. Not only was it evident that Loughner suffered from mentally illness, it was also well established that what little political convictions he had were so muddled as to defy being classified, and that he was not motivated by politics.
          But that information was evidentially too nuanced for the Times. Its editorial board needed to blame Loughner's attack on conservative political rhetoric and specifically Palin so as to further their carefully constructed narrative that the Right and its defense of the Second Amendment is responsible for all this hatred and violence.
          The Times eventually "corrected" its editorial to delete the "link to political incitement was clear" verbiage, but the editors kept the reference to Palin and her map — and thus the implication that she was still to blame. When lies are trotted out as a means of furthering a political agenda, those peddling the lie can no longer be seen as trustworthy or legitimate. The Times' editors are not journalists but leftist activists who clearly care little for reporting the truth. Is it any wonder Americans no longer trust the mainstream news media?  ~The Patriot Post
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MUELLER Assembled A HIT SQUAD Of
liar-Clinton / liar-nObama Holder Retreads
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Dick Morris says, “Robert Mueller lll has chosen one hell of a staff to go after Donald Trump,” a statement that could be intended to be taken literally, as he goes on to explain who they are... “Three of his first six appointments are Democrats with ties to the liar-Clintons.” “One of the, the worst of them,” says Morris, “is Anthony Weismann, who gave liar-nObama $2,300 and $2,000 to the Democrat Party. He was the general counsel who prosecuted the Enron case, which was overturned 8-0 in the US Supreme Court. Morris says, “Another person is Jeannie Rhee, she worked under Eric Holder for two years, gave $16,000 to the Democrats since 2008, and she maxed out for liar-Hillary in ’15 and ’16. She represented liar-Hillary in the email lawsuit seeking access to her emails. She was liar-Hillary’s attorney and now she’s on the staff to go after Donald Trump and she represented the liar-Clinton Foundation in the racketeering lawsuit.”...http://rickwells.us/morris-mueller-assembled-hit-squad-clinton-obama-holder-retreads/
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There Have Been 296 Earthquakes In The Vicinity Of
The Yellowstone Supervolcano Within The Last 7 Days
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by Michael Snyder
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Is it possible that the Yellowstone supervolcano is gearing up for a major eruption?... If you follow my work on a regular basis, then you already know that I spend a lot of time documenting how the crust of our planet is becoming increasingly unstable. Most of this shaking is taking place far away from the continental United States, and so most Americans are not too concerned about it.  But we should be concerned about it, because a major seismic event could change all of our lives in a single instant. For instance, a full-blown eruption of the Yellowstone supervolcano would have the potential of being an E.L.E. (extinction level event). That is why it is so alarming that there have been 296 earthquakes in the vicinity of the Yellowstone supervolcano within the last 7 days. Scientists are trying to convince us that everything is going to be okay, but there are others that are not so sure. The biggest earthquake in this swarm occurred last Thursday evening. It was initially measured to be a magnitude 4.5 earthquake, but it was later downgraded to a 4.4...http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/296-earthquakes-yellowstone-supervolcano/
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Our Public School System
Isn’t Producing Education Equality
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by Kay Coles James
{dailysignal.com} ~ All across America, preparations are underway for high school graduation. It’s a glorious time, representing both a milestone and a gateway to adulthood... But missing from this year’s ceremonies are more than one million kids who dropped out and will not be attending graduation day. The future those high school dropouts face is chilling. They will have a much harder time getting a job and will earn much less than those who did graduate. They’re also more likely to commit a crime and more likely to be the victim of one. In short, many of them face a life that will be so much more difficult—all because they could not or chose not to finish high school...http://dailysignal.com/2017/06/16/its-graduation-day-inamericabutnotforeveryone/utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt
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Susan Rice’s great unmasking escape: National
Security Council records sent to liar-nObama Library
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by William A. Jacobson
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Mitchell’s questions allowed Rice to confuse the issue by mixing unmasking and leaking, and also framing questions as to intent rather than the facts of what happened... Rice did not deny unmasking names of Trump campaign and transition persons, but rather, refused to name names and went back into a defense of lack of bad intent. “I received those reports, and there were occasions I would receive a report in which a U.S. person” … “and sometimes it was necessary to find out who that U.S. official was.” Rice didn’t dispute that sometimes she requested identification. She said intelligence community made decision whether to disclose the name she had requested... http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/06/susan-rices-great-unmasking-escape-national-security-council-records-sent-to-obama-library/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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PRESIDENT REAGAN: Address to the Nation on Flag Day and Father's Day

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ab5EPd_cxBI
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liar-nObama library snatches
Susan Rice unmasking docs – for 5 years!
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by Garth Kant
{wnd.com} ~ Key evidence on whether the liar-nObama administration spied on the Trump team may be kept under lock and key for five years, at former President liar-nObama’s presidential library.
 
Perhaps just as surprising, the announcement came from President Trump’s own National Security Council, or NSC.
 
There are still a publicly unknown number of liar-nObama holdovers on the NSC, but there’s no word yet on how the decision was made.
 
The government-watchdog group Judicial Watch announced Monday the NSC had denied its Freedom of Information Act, or FOIA, request for documents related to President liar-nObama’s National Security Adviser Susan Rice’s alleged unmasking of the “identities of any U.S. citizens associated with the Trump presidential campaign or transition team.”
 
In a potentially bombshell development, the NSC said those documents have been transferred to the Barack liar-nObama Presidential Library, while pointedly adding, “you should be aware that under the Presidential Records Act, presidential records remain closed to the public for five years after an administration has left office.”
 
It’s not yet known if that would block congressional investigators, the FBI, or Special Counsel Robert Mueller from obtaining the documents.
 
Unmasking is the revealing of names within the intelligence community of U.S. citizens gathered in foreign surveillance.
 
President Trump has accused the liar-nObama administration of spying on him and his associates, partly through the use of unmaskings.
 
Numerous reports have alleged Rice unmasked the names of Trump associates swept up incidentally by the intelligence community during the liar-nObama administration, and then those names were leaked to the press in a damaging light.
 
For more than four months now, the president has been virtually pleading for investigators to look into the leaks and unmaskings to find evidence he believes would prove the liar-nObama administration spied on him and his team, and perhaps provide evidence that holdovers from that regime are still working to undermine him.
 
Some congressional investigators have been trying, but they’ve hit roadblocks. That is why WND raised the issue with White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer at Monday’s daily press briefing.
 
“At last word, the FBI and CIA were still not handing over to the House intelligence committee information they had requested on unmaskings and leaks,” WND began.
 
WND then asked, “Does the administration believe there should be a special counsel appointed to look into those issues separately, or do they have faith Special Counsel Robert Mueller will look at that fully?”
 
Spicer replied: “That’s a question that is best directed toward the special counsel that exists right now. I don’t know if that’s the case. I’m not … I don’t have an update on that.”
 
“The president has tweeted his desire to look into that,” WND noted.
 
“I understand that,” said Spicer. “I know what the president’s goal is. I don’t know the status between the House and Senate Intelligence Committees and what information they do or do not have with respect to those agencies.”
 
“They seem to feel they’ve been stonewalled,” WND pressed on.
 
“Again, I just don’t have an update as far as what information they do or don’t have,” Spicer said. “A lot of that’s classified, so I wouldn’t be able to share it if I could. But it’s obviously something that’s ongoing.”
 
Although unable to go into much detail, the telling part of Spicer’s answer may have been his comment, “I know what the president’s goal is.”
 
It has been a great source of frustration for the president that the media has not invested the same time and energy looking into leaks, unmaskings and political spying as it has on the still-unproven allegation the Trump team colluded with the Russians, for which no evidence has emerged, as even top Democrats have conceded.
 
Often with noticeable exasperation and a sense of urgency, Trump has tweeted about leaks, unmaskings and political spying 27 times since Feb. 14, not long after taking office.
 
Those tweets include:
June 1: The big story is the “unmasking and surveillance” of people that took place during the liar-nObama administration.
 
May 16: I have been asking Director Comey & others, from the beginning of my administration, to find the LEAKERS in the intelligence community.
 
May 4: Susan Rice, the former National Security Advisor to President liar-nObama, is refusing to testify before a Senate Subcommittee next week on allegations of unmasking Trump transition officials. Not good!
 
April 2: The real story turns out to be SURVEILLANCE and LEAKING! Find the leakers.
 
April 1: When will Sleepy Eyes Chuck Todd and @NBCNews start talking about the liar-nObama SURVEILLANCE SCANDAL and stop with the Fake Trump/Russia story?
 
March 20: The real story that Congress, the FBI and all others should be looking into is the leaking of Classified information. Must find leaker now!
 
March 4: Terrible! Just found out that liar-nObama had my “wires tapped” in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!
 
March 2: The real story … is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total “witch hunt!”
 
February 24: The FBI is totally unable to stop the national security “leakers” that have permeated our government for a long time. They can’t even find the leakers within the FBI itself. Classified information is being given to media that could have a devastating effect on U.S. FIND NOW
 
Feb. 15: The real scandal here is that classified information is illegally given out by “intelligence” like candy. Very un-American!
 
Feb 15: Information is being illegally given to the failing @nytimes & @washingtonpost by the intelligence community (NSA and FBI?).Just like Russia
 
Feb. 14: The real story here is why are there so many illegal leaks coming out of Washington? Will these leaks be happening as I deal on N.Korea etc?
Trump’s repeated insistence that the real story is the political surveillance, unmasking and leaking of damaging information by the liar-nObama administration has not gone unnoticed by investigators on the House Intelligence Committee. They may have hit roadblocks of their own but are pressing on.
 
As WND reported on May 31, the House Intelligence committee issued seven subpoenas.
 
Three of them, signed by chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., explicitly asked the FBI, CIA and NSA for information on unmasking requests involving three top officials of the liar-nObama administration: former national security adviser Rice, former CIA Director John Brennan, and, surprisingly, former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power.
 
Well before that, on March 15, Nunes and ranking member Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., sent a letter to the chiefs of the CIA, FBI and NSA, essentially asking for any evidence that the liar-nObama administration requested surveillance information on the Trump and/or liar-Clinton presidential campaigns.
 
WND has reported that the CIA and FBI have been effectively stonewalling Congress, and that the bureau has provided just a smattering of a response.
 
The letter asked the spy agencies who the liar-nObama administration was surveilling, who asked for and shared the information on those people, and why.
 
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Lacking Common Sense
by Tom McLaughlin
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 Top Headlines 
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U.S. Navy confirms seven missing sailors on USS Fitzgerald deceased. (Fox News)
 
15 days after Islamist terror attack, terror flags waved openly in streets of London. (CNS News)
 
Van hits Muslim worshippers near London’s Finsbury Park mosque. (NBC News)
 
198 million Americans hit by "largest ever" voter records leak. (ZDNet)
 
Trump administration keeps liar-nObama LGBT policies at the Pentagon and other agencies. (The Daily Signal)
 
Surprise! Sex offender shot by ICE in Denver had already been deported. (Hot Air)
 
U.S. shoots down Syrian fighter jet over Syria. (ABC News)
 
Oregon becomes first state to allow nonbinary gender on driver's license. (OregonLive)
 
World War II hero, Medal of Honor recipient Arthur Jackson dies at 92. (Idaho Statesman)
 
Policy: Free market health care reform. (Capital Research Center)
 
Policy: Ignore the critics. The Amazon/Whole Foods deal is good for consumers. (Investor’s Business Daily)
 
Humor: "Crooked Hill" Street sign altered to read "Crooked liar-Hillary" Street. (Fox News~The Patriot Post
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Massive Russian collusion
found, but not by Trump
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by David Kupelian
{wnd.com} ~ Is it just me, or is everyone missing the biggest, most mind-boggling part of the never-ending “Trump-Russia collusion” drama?... I’m talking about something more troubling than ex-FBI chief James Comey being one of the biggest leakers, or his refusing for months to inform Americans that Donald Trump was never under FBI investigation – while capitulating to liar-nObama AG Loretta Lynch’s demand that he hide the fact that liar-Hillary Clinton was under investigation. I’m talking about something more absurd than an investigation lasting almost a year – entirely without evidence of a crime!... http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/massive-russian-collusion-found-but-not-by-trump/
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The Russian US Election
Hacking Big Lie Got Bigger
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ According to  Bloomberg News, “Russian Cyber Hacks on the US electoral system are far greater than previously known.”... A Big Lie – utter rubbish! The CIA, and likely NSA and FBI, can cyberattack targets anywhere, making it appear to have originated elsewhere – outside America from any other designated country. Despite months of allegations, insinuations and accusations, not a shred of evidence suggests any Russian hacking of America’s November 2016 election or any other US target. Claims otherwise are Big Lies. Repeated enough gets most people to believe them...http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/russian-us-hacking-bigger-lie/
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30 Senate Democrats Met With Russian
AND Chinese Diplomats About The Iran Deal In 2015
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by Aaron Bandler
{dailywire.com} ~ The article, published in 2015, noted that the Russian and Chinese diplomats, as well as officials from countries like Britain and Germany, were meeting with these Democrats to ease their concerns about the Iran deal... Later on in the piece, Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY) is cited as having been swayed to support the Iran deal as a result of the meeting. "When I questioned the ambassadors of our P5+1 allies, it also became clear that if we reject this deal, going back to the negotiation table is not an option," Gillibrand said. The article also pointed out that "Sens. Al Franken and Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, Michael Bennet of Colorado, Chris Coons of Delaware, Tammy Baldwin of Wisconsin" were among the 30 Democratic Senators in that meeting...This dems are claiming for collusion in the Trump admin,  http://www.dailywire.com/news/14047/flashback-30-senate-democrats-met-russian-and-aaron-bandler
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Left Are Lockstep Radicals,
GOP Disorganized, Horrible Salesmen
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Newt Gingrich notes how the left has become progressively more and more militant over the past twenty-five years or so... He described speaking before of a group of over 300 students earlier in the week and asking them how many felt “intimidated on campus for being Republican or being pro-Trump,” with one out of every three hands going up. Gingrich talks about the radical differences in the politicized issues between Democrats and Republicans but Bartiromo wonders if that isn’t also the case among Republicans. She cites Congressman Mo Brooks who described the situation as “we pass legislation in the House and it goes to the Senate to die.” He references Ronald Reagan and how he understood that by “turning up the light for the American public that you can turn up the heat on Congress.” He says, “There are enough Democrats up for reelection next year in the Senate, in states that Trump carried...http://rickwells.us/gingrich-left-lockstep-radicals-gop-disorganized-horrible-salesmen/
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CNN Propagandist Throws A Fit
His Disruptive Antics Aren’t Being Recorded
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The CNN Fake News propagandist who found himself relegated to the back edge of the Rose Garden, what he called “Siberia” and not given a question last week, now has even more to be raging about... Jim Acosta, known to President Trump for his “very fake news,” and belligerence, is throwing a tantrum on-air over another action the Trump administration failed to get his approval of before enacting. This one also negatively impacts the media elitist.  Sean Spicer held a news conference in which there was no audio or video recording allowed. Acosta’s going to have to shut up and write, to actually be a reporter. The indignity and inhumanity is almost too much for him... http://rickwells.us/cnn-propagandist-throws-fit-disruptive-antics-recorded/
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Lacking Common Sense
by Tom McLaughlin
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ The young woman looked nervous as she knocked on the window of my classroom door. “Excuse me, class,” I said as I stepped out to speak. She was a former student and substituting in the next classroom.
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“A boy is throwing things at other students. He won’t stop, and he refuses to go to the principal’s office. Can you help me?”

“Sure,” I said. The boy wouldn’t make eye contact when I entered the room. Every other student did though, waiting to see what would happen
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“Bobby,” I said (not his real name). “Miss Fellows told you to go to the principal’s office and now I’m telling you.” He just sat there, still not making eye contact. “Bobby,” I repeated, “Maine law say that if a student is a danger to others and refuses to leave the classroom, the teacher can use the necessary force to remove him. Now I’m telling you again to go down to the principal’s office.”

That got no response either.

“I’m going to count to three. If you’re not moving at three, I’ll move you. One, two, th…”
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He got up, went out the door, and headed for the stairs. I picked up the wall phone and called down to say Bobby was on his way. “Thank you,” said Miss Fellows.

“You’re welcome,” I said, then returned to my classroom and forgot about it.

The following Monday, Jim Underwood, the principal, came into my room during my free period. I liked Jim. He was a very effective administrator. “Tell me what happened with Bobby,” he said, because he’d been out of town when I dealt with Bobby and appointed another teacher as acting principal. I filled him in.
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“If you had removed him,” Jim said, “I would not have backed you up.”

That surprised me. Like I said, Jim was a good principal, one of the best I ever worked with. “Jim,” I said. “That is state law. I have a copy in my briefcase.”
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“I know it is,” he said, “but the courts are interpreting it differently now.”

“So, if I wasn’t to remove him, what was I supposed to do?”

“Call the police.”
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“You’re kidding,” I said.

“Nope.”

“That’s crazy. I’m supposed to leave two classrooms full of students sitting on their hands and wait for the cops because of one disruptive student?”
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“Yup. That’s what they’re telling us now.”

Bobby went to the office on his own because he knew I wasn’t bluffing. Calling the police would ruin half a day for about fifty students and at least two teachers. Clearly, things were getting much too complicated and I wondered how much longer I could continue in it in the teaching profession.
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In July of last year a similar case came before our newest Supreme Court Justice, Neil Gorsuch, when he was on the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals. A middle school boy in New Mexico had disrupted class by generating fake burps. He wouldn’t stop and was sent into the hall, but he kept opening the door to “let out a giggling belch” as the Daily Signal described it. Then:

“a school resource police officer placed the student under arrest ‘for interfering with the educational process.’ The 13-year-old then spent approximately one hour locked in a juvenile detention facility before he was released to the custody of his mother. He was never charged for his misbehavior.”
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The boy’s mother filed suit claiming her son’s civil rights had been violated. This was an even less serious case than the one I dealt with because there was no danger from flying objects, yet the student had been arrested and incarcerated, however briefly. Ten years had passed and the teaching profession had continued its decline. A minor incident became a federal case and made it to a high court, which, in a 94-page ruling decided in the school’s favor.
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Gorsuch wrote only four pages in dissent. According to the Daily Signal again: “Gorsuch . . . explained that a reasonable police officer should have understood that arresting a ‘class clown for burping was going a step too far.’”
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Indeed.

Gorsuch concluded that: “the statutory language on which the officer relied for the arrest in this case does not criminalize ‘noises or diversions’ that merely ‘disturb the peace or good order’ of individual classes.”
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Referring to his colleagues on the 10th Circuit, he said: “Often enough the law can be ‘a ass—a idiot,’” quoting Charles Dickens, “and there is little we judges can do about it, for it is or should be emphatically our job to apply, not rewrite, the law enacted by the people’s representatives. In this particular case, I don’t believe the law happens to be quite as much of a ass as they do.”

Ouch.
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Common sense is often a misnomer when applied to educational and judicial practice these days, and it’s refreshing to have a Supreme Court justice willing to point that out. 
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
If The Left Wins Their Soft Coup,
Everyone Loses - But Mostly Them
by Kurt Schlichter
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Schiff Admits No Russia Evidence, Inadvertently 
Supports liar-Clinton, liar-nObama Probes
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Despite the words coming out of his lying trap to the contrary, Adam Schiff knows there is no case against President Trump... If there were, the Democrats and RINOs would be leaking it all over the place and someone other than Maxine Waters and this bobble-headed nothing would be leading the impeachment charge. Schiff talks so much that eventually he stumbles into an inadvertent truth, admitting not only that there is nothing to the Russia hoax, but that liar-Hillary Clinton should be investigated for her treason and espionage. It happened during an appearance on propagandist Martha Raddatz’ program where Schiff was focused on making the case to shift from the dry hole of Russia collusion to the more promising carte blanche of obstruction of justice. Russia served its purpose, getting Mueller’s “foot in the door,” now that it’s there and he’s in position, they’ll move on to the more fruitful fields of supposed obstruction... http://rickwells.us/schiff-admits-russia-evidence-inadvertently-supports-clinton-obama-probes/
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Conspiracy of Silence about Mueller
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by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ I am amazed by the conspiracy of silence, on the right and the left, about former FBI Director Robert Mueller’s bungling of the anthrax case... “In his years as FBI director and as a Justice Department official, Mueller gained a reputation for honesty, integrity, and being a ‘straight-shooter,’” writes Fred Barnes at The Weekly Standard. This is pure hogwash, to use a family-friendly term. Barnes, a veteran journalist, is not alone in offering such undeserved praise of Mueller. Commentators on the right and left have been repeating this garbage ever since Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein appointed Mueller as special counsel. Interestingly, Rosenstein also received high praise from various commentators. He, too, was seen as a straight shooter. With former FBI Director James Comey, they constitute an unholy alliance that is determined to take down President Donald Trump. With good reason, Trump calls it a witch hunt...http://www.aim.org/aim-column/conspiracy-of-silence-about-mueller/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jun-19-2017&utm_medium=email
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Downed Syria Jet Depicted As
Self Defense – A Convenient Stretch Perhaps
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ How badly do the neocons and deep state military industrial complex want their major war in the Middle East?... The Associated Press reported “The U.S. military on Sunday shot down a Syrian Air Force fighter jet that bombed local forces aligned with the Americans in the fight against Islamic State militants, an action that appeared to mark a new escalation of the conflict.” Is the “Russia threatened our democracy” mantra losing its steam to the point that they have to try to provoke a response or create anti-Russian sentiment in another way, militarily? Is a strike against a sovereign nation defending its own territory acceptable as long as the claim is made that it is part of an anti-terrorist operation? No Americans had been harmed, none of our “freedom fighter” allies in the SDF were targeted. A bomb strike occurred near them, but not striking them, we’re told. Still that is considered sufficient to potentially spark an escalation in the level of tensions... http://rickwells.us/downed-syria-jet-depicted-self-defense-convenient-stretch-perhaps/
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Can You Obstruct a Fraud?
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by Andrew McCarthy
{aim.org} ~ On March 30, 2017, by his own account, then-FBI director James Comey told President Donald Trump that Trump himself was not under investigation – the third time he had given him that assurance... In fact, Comey told Trump that he had just assured members of Congress that Trump was not a suspect under investigation. Think about that. This was fully six weeks after the then-director’s Oval Office meeting with the president, during which Comey alleges that Trump told him, “I hope you can see your way clear to letting this go, to letting Flynn go.” Flynn, of course, is Michael Flynn, the close Trump campaign adviser and original Trump national-security adviser, whom Trump, with pained reluctance, had fired just the day before... http://www.aim.org/guest-column/can-you-obstruct-a-fraud/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jun-19-2017&utm_medium=email
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Nunes Standing With Trump –
Russia An Investigation In Search Of A Crime
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ There is a short list of Republicans who are speaking out in support of the President. In addition to the most prominent, Georgia’s Newt Gingrich, three Californians have also come to the President’s defense... though they struggle to get exposure in this anti-Trump media. Rep Duncan Hunter, Rep Dana Rohrabacher, and House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes. Nunes, who was an early victim of fabricated ethics complaints by Soros-backed groups that got him booted from the Chairmanship of the ‘Russia investigation,” has run out of patience with the dishonest Democrats and their media promoters. He’s not playing their games anymore. He’s done and he made it clear on Saturday. Nunes told a group of Republican donors, there “was never any collusion between Donald Trump and the Russians,” calling on Washington to “stop chasing Russian ghosts around the closet.”... http://rickwells.us/nunes-standing-trump-russia-investigation-search-crime/
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If The Left Wins Their Soft Coup,
Everyone Loses - But Mostly Them
by Kurt Schlichter

{townhall.com} ~ You have to wonder how liberals think this works. So, a manifestly conflicted special counsel leading a pack of maxed-out Democrat donors decides Donald Trump has to be kicked out of office for “obstructing justice” regarding a cynical lie about him cavorting with the Kremlin and…then what? President Pence, until they do the same thing to him? Or do we just skip right to President Felonia von Pantsuit, shrug our shoulders, and give up on our foolish dream of having a say in our own governance?
 
Straightforward from here is…chaos.
 
Because normal Americans are woke to the scam. No, the affidavits of a zillion DC/NY establishment types attesting to Robert Mueller’s impeccable integrity – ever notice how the guy trying to hose us always has the establishment’s “impeccable integrity” merit badge – are not going to make us unsee the fact that he’s carrying water for an establishment that thinks we need to just shut up and obey.
 
Now, pulling off the soft coup is going to be harder than they think. The establishment has not thought this out. They sort of assume that if they squelch Trump then everything somehow just goes back to them being in unchallenged control. Wrong.
 
Mueller can’t indict Trump – that stupid Constitution, always getting in the way! No, the goal is for Mueller and his crack team of committed liberal activist lawyers to generate some head-shaking, tsk-tsk, more-in-sorrow-than-in-anger, report claiming Trump “obstructed” the probe into liar-Hillary’s Trump/Russia collusion lie that even the liberals reluctantly acknowledge never happened.
 
But their problem is that impeachment is a purely political act – this isn’t going to get tried before some leftist DC judge and a 96% Democrat DC jury. No, they have to convince the Republican members of the House of Representatives to impeach and, well, have you taken a look at a political map of the US lately? It’s as red as a baseball field full of conservatives after a Bernie Bro shows up with a rifle.
 
Now, in the circle of jerks that is DC, congressmen are bombarded with the Trump obstruction narrative. Many neutered professional conservatives, eager to return to the old status quo where they sort-of mattered, are helping our enemies. Some of these congressmen are themselves Fredocons, weak and stupid, and are listening. Some might be swayed – except in a couple weeks they have to go home and be around normal people, and they’re going to hear something completely different.
 
Normal people aren’t falling for it.
 
Has anyone out there actually met a Trump voter who said something like this?
 
I supported Trump, but now I don’t because his refusal to passively sit back and let a Washington insider with an obvious conflict of interest and his Democrat staff drive him out of office on the basis of a liar-Hillary-driven lie far outweighs Neil Gorsuch, pulling out of the climate scam, beating ISIS, and repealing liar-nObamacare.
 
Yeah, no. Not a thing.
 
Even I, trapped behind enemy lines in deep blue California, have yet to hear anyone talking about this transparent coup, much less actually saying, “Yeah, we have to climb up on the Democrats’ altar and commit ritual suicide to please them.”
 
Congressmen fear their voters, and their voters – not the bused-in corps of aspiring baseball diamond shooters Soros cash pays to show up at townhalls to complain that they might have to pay for their own doctor like you and I do – are not going to accept this. No matter what Mueller’s report says, Trump is not getting impeached. Oh, and please, Democrats, make 2018 about impeachment. We yearn for the chance to yet again demonstrate to you that America is not MSNBC.
 
Now, that’s assuming Trump doesn’t fire Mueller, something he has every right to do under the Constitution - and should do based on this hack’s obvious corruption. The furor the media has threatened would follow in order to keep Trump from doing so will turn out to be yet another nothingburger. But if Trump doesn’t can him, Mueller and his team of committed Never Trumpers will claim the President obstructed “justice” for not hanging his head in shame over the Democrat lies. And that will go nowhere. Trump will never be impeached. And Trump will pardon any of his associates Mueller and his pack of cynical leakers tries to indict on whatever puffed-up, bogus charges they invent in order to justify this exercise in investigatory onanism.
 
And we should hope that’s how it ends.
 
Because what happens if the voice of half of America is effectively silenced by the DC swamp and its media guardians? The Tea Party was the first manifestation of the anger out there at the establishment. It was polite – it even cleaned up its own messes after its peaceful protests. The media, and the same alleged conservatives who saw the Tea Party as a threat to their own position because it caused donors to start asking for results instead of simply writing checks, attacked the Tea Party. Well, then we got Trump, who was not nearly as polite, and who took the White House fair and square from the designated establishment candidate. And now they want to use non-ballot means to make sure the normals’ choice is again ignored.
 
What do they think comes after Trump? Someone nice?
 
Do they think we stop demanding we be heard? Do they think we give up on participating in governing the country that we normals built, that we normals paid for, and that we normals fought for?
Oh well, we should have known not to get all uppity and try to have a say in our own country. Let’s let our betters rule us. Let’s obey.
 
No, that’s not going to happen. If liberals like chaos and even violence – and their *wink wink* denunciations of their own creature’s attempted conservative murder spree and their squealing delight in a high-profile play where the President is butchered onstage show they think they do – then the way to get chaos and violence is for them to succeed in their campaign of fascist, anti-democratic scheming against the guy who beat the harpy they nominated.
If you want real political chaos and real political violence, then just keep going down this path. You can’t light the fuse and not get the explosion. I saw what happens when you toss away the rule of law – don’t do it.
 
The hatred out there is real and growing. This is not a good thing – it’s a terrible thing. People are buying my novels about the country splitting apart and the horrifying specter of actual civil warfare (Hint: it’s ugly) because that’s where the establishment’s desperate schemes to hold onto power despite the will of the people, as manifested at the ballot box, all lead.
 
And the left is not ready for what its stupidity and greed could unleash. The establishment hacks think they can undermine the foundations of this country and not have it collapse on top of them. What progressives forget is that the rules, norms, and customs they ignore are not there to protect the normals, but to protect the weak and vulnerable elites who can’t go to their gun safe and choose from a half-dozen long weapons when things get real.
 
Here’s how this goes: If you end the rule of law, you begin the rule of power, and the rule of power means the folks with the most guns rule. Do they think the predominantly red state soldiers of our military are going to murder other Americans and risk their own lives to secure the unearned power of a bunch of Chardonnay-swilling liberals and their fakecon lackeys?
 
If they knew any soldiers, they would know the answer.
 
Before it’s too late and before you’ve done damage that can’t be undone, give up this dream of some extra-constitutional dues ex Mueller to overturn the election you lost. Turn away from this insanity before it’s too late, because straightforward from here is chaos.
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Tuesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
"Trump Under Investigation Narrative"
Begins Falling Apart - ABC:
No Mueller-Trump investigation
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Dems Threaten – If Trump Tries To
Stop Impeachment Coup, They’ll Impeach Him
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Some of the more unseemly anti-Trump Democrats, including the bobble-head clown, Adam Schiff,  are almost laughably threatening the President with impeachment... if he should try to block their efforts to impeach him. That’s kind of an empty threat. So it’s just a question of when to have the fight rather than if he’s going to have to fight it. The sooner he does the less entrenched and armed his enemy, the America-hating left, will be, and the better his chances of winning. It’s a fair assumption that if the Democrats choose to take the impeachment route it will be an effort by all of them, as they don’t act independently in their “party before nation” approach to politics. It’s also clear that they are not in the leadership, and it would likely be too politically toxic for Paul Ryan and other RINOs to publicly go along with what is their shared objective of eliminating the President. We Americans wouldn’t stand for it and they know it. Mr. Balloonhead Schiff was joined in what has largely been his and Maxine Waters’ purview, by another California libtard trying to ride their subversion to national prominence... Trump go ahead and block it. http://rickwells.us/dems-threaten-trump-tries-stop-impeachment-coup-impeach/
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Germany: Police Powerless
Against Middle Eastern Crime Gangs
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by Soeren Kern
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ A court in Hanover has handed suspended sentences to six members of a Kurdish clan who seriously wounded two dozen police officers during a violent rampage in Hameln... The court's ruling was greeted with anger and derision by police who said it is yet another example of the laxity of Germany's politically correct judicial system. The case goes back to January 2014, when a 26-year-old clan member, arrested for robbery, tried to escape from the magistrate's office by jumping out of a seventh-floor courtroom window. The suspect was taken to the hospital, where he died. Members of his clan subsequently ransacked the hospital, as well as the court, and attacked police with rocks and other projectiles; 24 police officers and six paramedics were injured. The judge said he was lenient because the defendants witnessed the death of the 26-year-old and were traumatized. The judge also revealed that he had reached a deal with the clan, which among other effects prevented police from testifying in court... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10543/germany-crime-gangs
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State Dept, DOJ Obstruction Still Same
As Under liar-nObama, Deep State In Control
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Investigative Reporter Sharyl Attkisson interviews the former chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, Jason Chaffetz, who retires a frustrated man after over eight years in Congress... He’s resigning early, at the end of this month and Attkisson explores the reasons why. The problem apparently once again boils down to two words, “deep state,” and may be the first independent verification that the system is too broken to be fixed without a major shakeup, that even President Trump is unable to accomplish what he expected and that other, more drastic measures may be required. Attkisson points out in her questioning that the Republicans, in supposed control of the House, Senate and White House, should be free of stonewalling in “investigations of spending, waste, fraud and abuse.”...http://rickwells.us/chaffetz-state-dept-doj-obstruction-obama-deep-state-control/
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Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei
Blasts America’s Phony War on Terror
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ America wages war OF terror, not on it, supporting ISIS and other terrorist groups it claims to oppose... Hard evidence proves it, discussed in a previous article. Addressing high-ranking Iranian officials on Monday, Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Khamenei blamed Washington for destabilizing the Middle East, saying: The US “and its agents are the source of instability in the region. Who created the Islamic State (ISIS)? America…Its claim of fighting against the Islamic State is a lie.”...http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/irans-ayatollah-blasts-americas-phony-war-terror/
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Wallace Goes After Sekulow For
Saying Trump Not Under Investigation
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Jay Sekulow, an attorney who represents President Trump, joined Chris Wallace for an interview in the matter of the witch hunt... be it labeled of the Russia boogeymen, an obstruction type or some other variant. Wallace references a recent Trump tweet in which he wrote: “I am being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.” Wallace asks, “Has the special counsel, Robert Mueller, formally notified the President that he is under investigation?” That’s the same question that was asked and beaten to death by Chuck Todd on his Meet the Press program that same morning. As if President Trump has to be told that there is a leftist plot to drive him out of office for it to be true or for him to take defensive action in response?...I'm starting to dislike Wallace.  http://rickwells.us/wallace-goes-sekulow-saying-trump-not-investigation/
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“Trump Under Investigation Narrative”
Begins Falling Apart – ABC:
No Mueller-Trump Investigation
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Almost every intellectually honest political observer recognized the Washington Post report about President Trump being under investigation appeared manufactured on the thinnest of available anonymous precepts.
 
In the wake of the Post report, when Asst. AG Rod Rosenstein delivered an unanticipated press release stating not to trust media reports from “anonymous officials” all doubt was essentially confirmed. There is no ‘there’ there; and President Trump was not/is not under investigation. Just another failed media attempt by The Washington Post to undermine the administration, with a blend of partisanship designed to generate an ideological self-fulfilling prophecy.
 
Toward that end, and to put a final nail in that manufactured narrative coffin, ABC news correspondent Pierre Thomas reported today that Special Counsel Robert Mueller is NOT investigating President Trump:
WASHINGTON – Special counsel Robert Mueller hasn’t decided whether to investigate President Trump as part of the Russia probe, according to a report on Sunday.
 
“Now, my sources are telling me he’s begun some preliminary planning,” Pierre Thomas, the ABC News senior justice correspondent, said of Mueller on ABC’s “This Week.” “Plans to talk to some people in the administration. But he’s not yet made that momentous decision to go for a full-scale investigation.”
Yes, that means the prior Washington Post report was entirely false; which makes that the eleventh time CNN, The New York Times, or the Washington Post has run a report that was entirely false.  They know it, it’s not false by accident – it is false by design.
 
Just like the previous battle in the intelligence community, there is a battle between Black Hats and White Hats within the U.S. Justice Department’s (FBI and DOJ) unelected career bureaucracy; and the media is on the side of the opposition, the usurping black hat team.
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If you read the Washington Post report claiming President Trump was under investigation for Obstruction of Justice by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, you will immediately note the first paragraph was framed specifically around “Anonymous Officials“. Again, tonight those same “anonymous officials” are mentioned in a Washington Post report claiming Jared Kushner is being investigated.
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There is a great deal of false and misleading MSM information; in addition to the layers upon layers of hand-wringing, speculation, and professional financially driven anxiety banter surrounding Special Counsel Mueller and his appointment by Rod Rosenstein.
 
All of the above said; and with a full appreciation for how the deep swamp creatures operate; and having watched the minutiae of how each element interacts with each additional element over multiple years; well, I just ain’t buying any of the popular talking points.
 
None of the chattering class punditry are taking a full accounting of the entire bigger picture within any of their arguments. In short, they’re almost all getting it wrong, because: A.) their emphasis is on the wrong syllable; and, B.) they keep positioning the media narrative as accurate in part or in total.
 
The media lies in multiple ways. Plausible deniability is a necessary ingredient in almost every media report. Those who operate within the DC deep state; those who scheme and benefit utilizing the manipulative outcomes of media, know exactly what to leak, when to leak, where to leak and who to leak, in order to present situations for their own interests.
 
Plausible Deniability. EXAMPLE (notice the shift):
 
Now it becomes “May”?
 
The DC “Black Hats” are intensely skilled in the dark art of creating self-fulfilling prophecies. Specifically because of this truism, almost all of the downstream reactions end up being pushed based on false assumptions. It is challenging to inoculate yourself from the deceptions; but it is also necessary otherwise you are susceptible to their infection.
 
Former FBI Director James Comey and his entire former team is steeped in the dark arts of self-serving deception. It is a character trait necessary for life at the top of the food chain in the deep swamp.
 
As such, the fully developed Comey persona is necessarily devoid of any cognitive genetic composition which would frame compassion for anything, or anyone. Comey Inc. looks out for their own best interests. FIRST. FOREMOST. and ONLY.
 
As we previously discussed – The risk represented by Robert Mueller is not connected to or about anything surrounding the Russian Conspiracy Narrative; the legal risk is within ‘the leaking‘ of classified intelligence information to undermine the administration, the potentially illegal ‘unmasking‘.
 
If we avoid all the shiny things, ignore the shell game and reset our frame of reference to the only illegal activity currently known, the leaking; the main illegal activity visible is the illegal leaking of classified intelligence information.
 
Despite his earnest efforts, there is clear and mounting evidence that former FBI Director James Comey was the primary source of leaked information to the media. The latest Washington Post report is yet another example. The reporter for the Post article is one of a limited number (25) people whom James Comey follows on Twitter.
 
The risk to Comey Inc. from his media leaking continues to explain everything James Comey Inc. has recently done, said, advanced and CONTINUES TO ADVANCE.
 
If the evidence of James Comey being the source of multiple FBI leaks reaches the primary artery of investigative sunlight, who inside that investigative and prosecutorial decision making process becomes the risk? Answer that question and you discover the angle Comey is playing to cut off their ability to hold him accountable.
 
Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Asst AG Rod Rosenstein et al are the people Comey Inc. need to worry about, isolate and control.
 
It is not coincidental that Comey Inc. are setting up the future action of these participants to be politically motivated.
 
James Comey’s layer of innuendo against Jeff Sessions is an obvious strategy toward that end. If Comey can frame Sessions as retaliatory against him, he would position any legal action as retaliation.
 
Anyone who is buying into the story of James Comey leaking the memos to his friend, Daniel Richman, to get a special prosecutor appointed is falling for the shell game constructed entirely by James Comey. More than likely this is the explanation he has already given to Robert Mueller, hence his motive to state within his testimony.
 
It is important to remember that James Comey told congress he previously met with Robert Mueller to discuss his testimony prior to appearing before congress.
 
James Comey admitted to this specific “leaking”, because the justification to ‘get a special counsel appointed‘ is the explanatory storyline James Comey wants to present in public.
 
The alternate reason for leaking, the political motives, are much more damaging to him.
 
James Comey benefits two ways from his explanation. First, he justifies terrible behavior through a prism of his honor could find no other way his status remains. Secondly, he sets up special counsel Mueller as fruit of a poisoned tree leading to voices calling for Mueller’s removal. Win/Win.
 
Comey Inc. also benefits from calls by Comey’s political opposition to eliminate Robert Mueller who is investigating the leaking.
 
Don’t fall for it.
 
James Comey is no longer in control of the investigative inputs or investigative outcomes.
 
Those whom Comey has injured, namely Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump, are in positions where they can honestly and openly monitor the larger investigative inputs and follow the outcomes; they can also monitor the ongoing activity of Comey himself.
 
When someone of Comey’s inherent disposition is in a place like this, they initially seek to influence through direct contact Comey talks to Mueller before testimony. However, when a professional distance is asserted, absent of an ability to engage in direct contact, the fall-back position for the manipulator is to influence the surrounding landscape media an public opinion.
 
Never, ever, underestimate the severity or skill of a professional liar.
 
Never take anything Comey Inc. say at face value the way you would a disconnected observer. Liars lie, it’s what they do. Professional liars lie well, it’s what they’ve trained themselves to do.
 
If you accept the full hindsight of now identified FBI leaking, the greater likelihood is that Comey didn’t leak the memo to get Mueller appointed, he leaked the memo (May 16th) as an afterthought to cover for the leak mentioned by President Trump (May 12th), of a private conversation, that appeared in the New York Times on May 11th.
 
Remember, James Comey’s counter-intelligence investigation could have asked for a special counsel at any time. Asst. AG and Interim AG Sally Yates was part of that investigative leadership team. If Comey wanted a special counsel, Comey could have asked DOJ to appoint a special counsel any time he wanted.
 
He didn’t.
 
Comey didn’t request appointment of a special counsel because the special counsel would only prove there’s nothing there. However, fast forward to now and the real investigative risk is in being “a leaker”.
 
How quickly everyone forgets those admitted conversations by James Comey friend at Lawfare blog Benjamin Wittes:
“I did not know this particular fact, but it doesn’t surprise me at all. The principal source for the rest of this story is, well, me—specifically a long interview I gave to reporter Michael Schmidt on Friday about my conversations with FBI Director James Comey over the last few months, and particularly about one such conversation that took place on March 27 over lunch in Comey’s FBI office.”
Benjamin Wittes admits that FBI Director James Comey specifically discussed with him the overall content of private communications with President Trump.
 
When you take the Wittes outline in conjunction with Comey’s admitted leaks to his other friend Daniel Richman, Comey is transparently in a position of being fingered as the source of multiple media leaks to NYT reporter Michael Schmidt.
 
That is the current risk for James Comey. The discovery that Comey was the leaker is the risk now represented by Robert Mueller and is inherent in Comey’s need to control the framework of his leaking activity.
 
James Comey was part of the political apparatus that constructed the “muh, vast Russian conspiracy” narrative and carefully nurtured it for over 8 months – even keeping congress in the dark on the entire matter. From James Comey perspective, the problem, the illegality, is now the leaking – NOT the original issue of the Russian election hacking narrative.
 
Remember, it was in FEBRUARY when the FBI (McCabe) went to President Trump’s Chief of Staff privately and told Reince Priebus there was no truth to media reports, based on FBI leaks, of FBI evidence showing Trump campaign officials involved with Russian officials regarding the 2016 election. It was all a complete nothingburger.
 
Details – On February 15th while discussing another issue FBI Assistant Director Andrew McCabe asked Reince for 5 minutes alone after the meeting. At the one-on-one meeting McCabe told Priebus the New York Times Russia and Trump campaign story was a “bunch of BS”.
 
Priebus asked McCabe if McCabe would be able to say that publicly and get the media off his back about a ridiculously false narrative. Asst. Director McCabe said he would check with his boss, FBI Director James Comey. Later, McCabe called back and said he couldn’t issue a statement about it.
 
Reince Priebus was simply asking for the FBI to give truthful information about the false reports to the public. The White House was asking Comey to deliver transparency.
Quote from the FBI to Priebus: “We’d love to help, but we can’t get into the position of making statements on every story”…
In hindsight, from current appearances, those February leaks mentioned above that drove the New York Times February report were actually leaks coming from James Comey.
 
Stop and think about it. McCabe was telling chief-of-staff Reince Priebus not to worry about a NYT report based on leaks coming first, second or third-hand from James Comey himself. Priebus asks McCabe for help, James Comey then tells McCabe the FBI cannot publicly refute the story which is based on Comey’s leaking.
 
If everyone associated with this line of inquiry can stop themselves from following the shell game constructed by Comey, and avoid the distractions he is laying down Lynch, they’ll eventually find a way to point this out. 
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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 Looking for Trump's Supposed Obstruction
by Michael Swartz
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Comey Obstructed Justice – Congressman
Shows Fix Was In, liar-Clinton Would Walk
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Rep John Ratcliffe (R-TX), a former prosecutor, questioned FBI Director James Comey on September 28th, 2016 and proved, beyond a reasonable doubt to many, that the fix was already in on the liar-Clinton emails... prior to the interview and hurried declaration of a decision not to prosecute her. He showed Comey to be the dirty cop that he is and, if he had more time and the authority he needed, could certainly have twisted him into demonstrating his guilt. As it was he went beyond his time in making three points that exposed the Comey corruption. Ratcliffe opened by asking Comey, “Director, did you make the decision not to recommend criminal charges relating to classified information before or after liar-Hillary Clinton was interviewed by the FBI on July 2nd?” Comey replied, “After.” Ratcliffe responded, “Okay, well then I’m going to need your help in trying to understand how that’s possible. I think there’s a lot of prosecutors or former prosecutors that are shaking their heads on how that could be the case.” He explains, “Because if there was ever any real possibility that liar-Hillary Clinton might be charged for something that she admitted to on July the second, why would two of the central witnesses in the potential prosecution against her be allowed to sit in the same room to hear the testimony?...http://rickwells.us/comey-obstructed-justice-congressman-shows-fix-clinton-walk/
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Secret Service Agent Working Trump
Motorcade Run Down By Vehicle, Driver Arrested
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by breaking911.com
{breaking911.com} ~ A U.S. Secret Service officer was hospitalized Wednesday night after he was struck by a car while protecting the President, according to a new report... The incident happened as the agent was working motorcade detail for President Trump who was returning to the White House after visiting Rep. Steve Scalise in the hospital—Scalise was wounded in the attack on a GOP baseball practice earlier in the day. The unidentified male driver, who reportedly works for Uber, was hit with charges of failure to obey and assault with a dangerous weapon (vehicle)...http://breaking911.com/breaking-secret-service-agent-working-trump-motorcade-run-vehicle-driver-arrested/
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Lynch Obstructed Congress, Refused To
Answer – But Trump Has The Special Counsel
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s beyond insulting and hypocritical, rising to the level of criminal abuse of power, that President Trump is the target of a political whaling expedition by the corrupt Democrats, a situation that is wrong in so many ways... They have stained and compromised our government and our nation with a mountain of real crimes by the filthy hands of individuals such as Loretta Lynch and liar-Hillary Clinton, who face no consequences and the innocent are framed. Lynch put on a clinic in how to be evasive and obstructionist in hearings into her complicity in the conspiracy that allowed espionage criminal liar-Hillary Clinton to walk free without prosecution. Her offenses would have resulted in anyone not so well connected spending the rest of their life rotting away in Prison, but there are two sets of rules. It is a fact clearly illustrated by the refusal of this supposed chief law enforcement officer of the land to fulfill her duties and honor her oath. Instead she is acting as the chief law obstructer, serving the cabal by protecting the guilty liar-Clinton...http://rickwells.us/lynch-obstructed-congress-refused-answer-trump-special-counsel/
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Gowdy Endorsing Trump Nemesis Mueller,
His liar-Clinton Legal Team – A Huge Red Flag
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ We can look past the seemingly contrived “aw shucks, yes ma’am” shtick of Congressman Trey Gowdy (R-SC), his failure to interview many of the witnesses at Benghazi who were secreted away by Hussein liar-nObama... or produce any meaningful results, his letting liar-Hillary Clinton control her hearing appearance to the point she celebrated with champagne afterwards, or his endorsement of globalist puppet and open borders advocate Marco Rubio for President. Not everybody can be expected to have the foresight to see past the establishment safety net and recognize that Donald Trump actually had a chance to win and was the only candidate that represented the American people. Many made that same error in judgment. There’s one error that he’s in the process of making now that it truly troubling. He’s backing and attempting to salvage Robert Mueller in the position of Special Prosecutor, an endorsement that is an assault on President Trump and those of us who support and helped to get him elected. Effectively Gowdy has aligned himself with the Democrats and once again with the swamp establishment...Hope this isn't a mistake, Gowdy.  http://rickwells.us/gowdy-endorsing-trump-nemesis-mueller-clinton-legal-team-huge-red-flag/
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Likud minister: Why are we
approving construction for Arabs?
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Miri Regev
by Hezki Baruch
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ "In today's meeting, we discussed the issue with Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu," Regev said. "I think that when we see what we're seeing, that the Palestinians constantly build in Areas A and B... we see it in Shechem, Ramallah, and other areas - there's no reason for them to build in Area C. For sure, there is no reason to approve 14,000 housing units when Jews are not allowed to build at all." Regarding the rumor that Environmental Protection Minister Zeev Elkin's (Likud) voted to approve the plan, Regev said, "I don't really understand how Elkin, who claimed he was against the idea, voted for it in the end. I don't really understand what happened there, but I do understand that this issue will be discussed again by the Cabinet and then by the entire coalition." "There's no question that just like we limit Jewish building in Area C, there's no reason to approve 15,000 housing units for Arabs. Especially since they build nonstop and without limits in Areas A and B... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/231188?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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 Looking for Trump's Supposed Obstruction 
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By Michael Swartz:  Beginning with the surprise of Donald Trump's November election, the narrative woven by Democrats and the media was that his shocking triumph was illegitimate because he worked with the Russians to "hack" and otherwise rig the election. Thus, we've endured months of speculation about the likelihood of Trump's impeachment, a rumor that reached fever pitch when recently-fired FBI head James Comey testified before the Senate Intelligence Committee a week ago. The only problem? Comey had no smoking gun the Democrats could use to incriminate the president on the charges of Russian collusion — although there was plenty of ammunition from Comey that could be trained the Democrats' way.
          But Democrats have gotten additional mileage out of the collusion narrative over the last few months by crippling the Justice Department. It's rather unusual to have the attorney general recuse himself from an investigation or for a special prosecutor to be appointed so soon in an administration. Yet both are now the case under Trump as Jeff Sessions — perhaps unnecessarily — backed away from the Russia probe and former FBI head Robert Mueller was appointed by Sessions' underling, Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, to probe the entire Russian mess.
          As Comey admitted in his testimony, his intent in leaking his own memos was to bring about a special prosecutor. And there's little doubt he hoped his vindictive move would lead to an obstruction of justice investigation.
          Indeed, though Comey provided no evidence of actual wrongdoing by Trump, the focus of the Mueller probe is now shifting toward the more nefarious charge of obstruction of justice. The scummier-than-ever Washington Post reports, "Investigating Trump for possible crimes is a complicated affair, even if convincing evidence of a crime were found. The Justice Department has long held that it would not be appropriate to indict a sitting president. Instead, experts say, the onus would be on Congress to review any findings of criminal misconduct and then decide whether to initiate impeachment proceedings." Once again, they're bringing up the "I" word, and this time it has nothing to do with Russia. (Remember, Comey closed that door in his testimony by confirming that Trump was not under investigation in the Russian election probe.)
          The speculation on obstruction was further fueled by the revelation of who Mueller's investigators would be speaking to next: Dan Coats, director of national intelligence, Mike Rogers, head of the National Security Agency (NSA), and Rogers' former NSA deputy Richard Ledgett. Moreover, Mueller is certainly receiving assistance — and perhaps well-placed leaks — from leftist careerists in the Justice Department that seem to be playing the part of a "shadow government." Those leaks are one key reason some of President Trump's supporters are calling for Mueller to be fired, regardless of the political cost. Another reason is his longtime close friendship with the aggrieved (and now disgraced) Comey.
          While sacking Mueller may satisfy the "drain-the-swamp" crowd, it won't remove the black cloud from over Trump's head. A better idea may have come from former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, who believes Mueller's investigation can and should be limited in scope. Otherwise, if Mueller is given free rein, and if history is any indication of special investigators from both parties, we may see a fishing expedition.
          And the media would love nothing better than to relive its glory days of the early '70s, when they brought down a resoundingly re-elected Republican president.
          Finally, it's worth mentioning that the careerists in the Justice Department who are now leaking like a sieve apparently had no interest in policing themselves during the previous administration. One thing Barack liar-nObama never had in eight years of office, despite frequent calls for one, was a special prosecutor, and Jonathan Tobin explains why:
          Special prosecutors are rarely interested in giving the public the information that their efforts were supposed to produce. That's why the liar-nObama administration steadfastly refused to appoint a single such prosecutor during their eight years in office, even though there was no shortage of scandals: the IRS's misuse of its power to harm conservative groups; the Fast and Furious gun-walking affair involving the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives; the massive fraud and incompetence at Veterans Affairs hospitals; the spying on James Rosen and other journalists; and, of course, liar-Hillary Clinton's e-mails. liar-nObama knew that setting a prosecutor with unlimited power loose on his government would ultimately create, fairly or unfairly, some Democratic casualties, and he wanted no part of it.
          The whole point of a special prosecutor like Mueller isn't to find that everyone is as pure as the driven snow. Someone has to be found guilty, and someone has to pay for crimes they may have unwittingly committed — perhaps during the investigation. Chances are, though, it won't be one of the lawbreaking leakers (unless they can find another low-level dupe like Reality Winner), nor will it be anyone associated with the "Deep State" that continues to plague this administration.  ~The Patriot Post
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Tillerson Flip-Flops
on Palestinian Prisoner Payments
by Jack Moore
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 Further Reflections: DemoMSM Rhetoric and the 
 Attempted Murder of Republicans 
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By Mark Alexander:  House Majority Whip Steve Scalise and four others were shot Wednesday morning, while they practiced for the annual congressional Republican vs. Democrat baseball game scheduled for later this week — an event that raises a half million dollars for charity. The assault occurred in a "gun-free zone" in Alexandria, Virginia. The wounded are recovering, though Rep. Scalise remains in critical condition.
          According to Rep. Jeff Duncan (R-SC), he spoke with the man later identified as the assailant, just prior to the attack: "A guy approaches me when I'm right there at [my] car and says, 'Excuse me, sir, who's practicing today, Democrats or Republicans?' I said, 'This is a Republican team,' and he said 'K, thanks.'" In the assessment of Rep. Mike Walker (R-NC), the assailant was "there to kill as many Republican members as possible." My friend and district Rep. Chuck Fleischmann, who was also on the field, concurred.
          After almost six minutes, two Capitol Police officers, security detail for Rep. Scalise, were able to get into position and fatally shoot the assailant. Both officers were among the wounded. Had Rep. Scalise not been there, the security detail would not have been there, and this assault would have ended with many fatalities. Rep. Brad Wenstrup (R-OH), an Army Reserve combat physician who served in Iraq, provided immediate assistance to Rep. Scalise in the aftermath of the assault. "I'm glad I was there," said Wenstrup, "but it's a sad day in America, that's for
sure."
          The assailant has been identified as James Hodgkinson of Illinois. Hodgkinson
was an unhinged leftist — like a growing number of that ilk. His social media cover page features a photo of Sen. Bernie Sanders, and Hodgkinson was a campaign worker for Sanders and one of Barack liar-nObama's "99%"ers. His profile touts the "virtues" of Democratic Socialism.
          Sanders issued this statement: "[Hodgkinson] volunteered on my presidential campaign. I am sickened by this despicable act. Let me be as clear as I can be. Violence of any kind is unacceptable in our society and I condemn this action in the strongest possible terms."
          That's the appropriate response, but consider Sanders' words in a fundraising email immediately after Rep. Gabby Giffords was shot in Tucson in 2011 (12 others were also shot and six killed): "This horrendous act of violence is not some kind of strange aberration for this area where, it appears, threats and acts of violence are part of the political climate. Nobody can honestly express surprise that such a tragedy finally occurred. ... Congresswoman Giffords publicly expressed concerns when Sarah Palin, on her website, placed her district in the cross-hairs of a rifle — and identified her by name below the image — as an encouragement to Palin supporters to eliminate her from Congress."
          As a reminder, Jared Loughner, the schizophrenic murderer in that incident, was actually a left-winger, though uninvolved in and not motivated by politics. Yet the fake news New York Times editorialized just yesterday that "the link to political incitement was clear" in the Giffords shooting. "Though there's no sign of incitement as direct as in the Giffords attack," the Times continued, "liberals should of course hold themselves to the same standard of decency that they ask of the right." How magnanimous.
          Earlier this year, the assailant posted this social media message: "Trump is a Traitor. Trump Has Destroyed Our Democracy. It's Time to Destroy Trump & Co." The DemoMSM will dance around it, but Hodgkinson's motive was clear, and their incessant inflammatory rhetoric has already led to violence against Trump supporters nationwide. Call it "collusion" between the Leftmedia and the assailant, but Hodgkinson pulled the trigger, not Nancy Pulosi, Chuck clown-Schumer, Bernie Sanders or CNN. This was not "gun violence." It was inspired political violence.
          Soon after the first media reports of the assault, Rep. Claudia Tenney (R-NY), received an email threat parroting the same socialist rhetoric that inspired Hodgkinson: "One down, 216 [Republicans] to go. Did you NOT expect this? When you take away ordinary peoples [sic] very lives in order to pay off the wealthiest among us, your own lives are forfeit. Certainly, your souls and morality were lost long before. Good riddance."
          Typical of some of the East Coast media echo-chamber nonsense in the aftermath was this assertion from National Review's otherwise erudite blogger, Jim Geraghty: "Impassioned Political Speech Doesn't Turn Anyone Into a Killer." To that assumption I would respond that Geraghty and likeminded commentators who insist that words don't inspire violence don't know much about psychological indoctrination. I would refer them to Islamic radicalization via words and videos on the Internet, which have been directly linked to jihadi attacks in the U.S. and around the world.
          Of course, most "impassioned political speech" in the U.S. does not advocate murder. Most. But the increasing instance of political violence in the U.S., particularly on college campuses that were once bastions of free speech, is commensurate with the increasing tenor of hateful political rhetoric. I'm not advocating for a "commissar of commentary" to censor political speech — though many leftists are mastering such behavior — for any commentator to suggest people are not influenced by words leads me to question why such commentators continue writing.
          Finally and predictably, the Demo-gogues and their DemoMSM propagandists will attempt to blame-shift the inspiration for this attack from their rhetoric to the need for more "gun control," a key part of their perennial efforts to undermine the Second Amendment assurance of Liberty.
          Indeed, within an hour of the assault, Demo Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe declared, "There are too many guns on the street." Notably, McAuliffe repeatedly declared that 93 million people are murdered with guns every day. I'm not sure what data he's been reading...
          Our last question for leftists is this: Is it time to shut down that presidential assassination play~The Patriot Post
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Comey Obstructed – Mica Demanded
Collusion Emails Between Lynch And FBI Last Year
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ As it becomes more and more clear to America that James Comey is a dirty cop and a political tool that abused his office and authority... it’s interesting to look back at some of his House testimony after he announced liar-Clinton was being let off the hook. Rep John Mica (R-FL) questioned then-FBI Director James Comey on July 7th, 2016, just two days after he bestowed a pass around the federal prison system to liar-Hillary Clinton. Mica smells a rat and it’s the one sitting in front of him at the witness table. Clearly Comey, in a situation as major as this one, conducted himself in a totally inappropriate manner. His feigned outrage at the end can only be described as bizarre and suspect. Mica established that the fix was in for liar-Clinton and was suspicious that Lynch had played a significant role in it. He asked Comey if he personally interviewed liar-Clinton, which he did not... http://rickwells.us/comey-obstructed-mica-demanded-collusion-emails-lynch-fbi-last-year/
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Islamic jihadists murder female Border Police Officer
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by Robert Spencer
{jihadwatch.org} ~ Hadas Malka, a 23-year-old Border Police officer, was murdered in a combined shooting and stabbing attack in Jerusalem’s Old City on Friday evening... Four other people were wounded, among them two moderately and one lightly. The attack took place around 7:30 p.m. on Friday evening, when two terrorists armed with knives and rifles attacked people at Zedekiah’s Cave. They were neutralized by security forces. A third terrorist stabbed Malka, who was stationed at the Damascus Gate. He, too, was neutralized by security forces... https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/06/ramadan-in-israel-islamic-jihadists-murder-female-border-police-officer
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Russia's Terrorist Double Game
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by IPT News
{investigativeproject.org} ~ A Muslim Russian national from Kyrgyzstan detonated an explosive device in St. Petersburg's subway system in April, killing 14 people and injuring many others... The attack signaled a growing Islamist threat facing Russia, following several high profile terrorist attacks in recent years. More people have been killed in Russia from terrorism than any other European state since 1970. Yet Russia maintains a glaring double standard when it comes to terrorist violence and now sponsors some of the deadliest terrorist groups in history. For the Russian government, terrorists aren't "terrorists" if they avoid targeting Russian citizens or interests. In this light, Russian officials consistently avoid classifying groups like Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist organizations. The latest example came directly from Russia's ambassador to Israel, Alexander Shein, in an interview last Friday with Israel's Russian-language Channel 9 and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI)... https://www.investigativeproject.org/6308/russia-terrorist-double-game
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GOP Won’t Defend
President Trump, Part Of Plot Against Him
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine believes the biggest danger to our country is one that is not even being talked about. She’s going to talk about it, though... That threat is “a subtle plot by the GOP to help bring down the President of the United States and bring the establishment back into power. The belief, if done quickly enough, they’ll still be in power and there’ll be sufficient time to recover, to promote their favorite son as candidate for president in 2020.” She adds that “the Democrats, whether you like them or not, are doing their job. They’re fighting, resisting and they’re all on one page.” She asks who, other than Newt Gingrich, among the Republicans, particularly the GOP establishment, is outraged about what is going on with their president. She notes that the Democrats are in unison as the Republicans simply watch them railroad their president. She comes to the same conclusion she did over a year ago during the campaign, that the Republican leadership is in bed with the Democrats. It goes beyond that, Judge, they’re different factions of the same party, the globalists... http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-gop-defend-president-trump-part-plot/
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More Proof US Created and Supports ISIS
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ It’s one of the dirtiest of dirty open secrets. US Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) documents prove it – obtained by Judicial Watch through an FOIA lawsuit... They show ISIS, al-Qaeda and likeminded terrorist groups are the “major forces” used as US foot soldiers in Syria, Iraq and elsewhere. The myth of so-called “moderate rebels” was long ago discredited. Yet claiming they exist persists. The DIA documents show America, NATO, Saudi Arabia and other regional rogue states support an Islamic caliphate to challenge, topple and replace Bashar al-Assad with an imperial puppet... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/proof-us-created-supports-isis/
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Tillerson Flip-Flops
on Palestinian Prisoner Payments
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by Jack Moore
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jewishworldreview.com} ~ U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was forced to make a public U-turn Wednesday on his comments a day earlier that the Palestinian Authority had agreed to stop paying the families of those convicted of attacks against Israelis. He then appeared to make another reversal half an hour later, leaving observers confused.

The Palestinian Authority (PA), which governs in the West Bank, has been paying millions to thousands of Palestinian families for years, including the relatives of suicide bombers, through a scheme called the “Martyr’s Fund.” Israeli academics estimate that the fund pays out around $300 million a year in social security payments to relatives of attackers, seven percent of the Palestinian Authority's annual budget.

Addressing Senators on Tuesday, Tillerson said that the issue of payments — cited by Israelis as one of the obstacles to a future peace agreement — had been solved.

“The Palestinians have changed that policy and their intent is to cease the payments to the families of those who have committed murder or violence against others,” Tillerson said. “We have been very clear with them that this practice is simply not acceptable to us.”

Both Israeli and Palestinian officials denied that any agreement had been made on Tuesday. Tillerson later backtracked, telling the House Foreign Affairs Committee that Washington and Ramallah remained locked in an “active discussion” on the issue.

In response to a question from Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Tillerson said the policy change was part of wider discussions with the Palestinians concerning what Israelis refer to as ‘incitement.’

Half an hour later, according to Israeli newspaper Haaretz, Tillerson changed tack again, stating that the PA had agreed to end the payments, despite denials from West Bank officials.

The secretary of state said that assurances from the Palestinian leadership, led by Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas, “were given to me during the president’s visit to Bethlehem.” He said Trump told Abbas he had a “certain window of patience” and “he will become disinterested” if they do not act.

Issa Karaka, head of the PA’s prisoner affairs, said Tuesday that Tillerson was wrong: The PA would not end payments to prisoners’ and suicide bombers’ families, he said, because the policy would be vehemently unpopular with the Palestinian public , many of whom are already opposed to Abbas’ rule.

“Almost every other Palestinian household is the family of a prisoner or martyr,” Karaka said. “Anybody who thinks he can execute a decision like that is badly wrong,” he added.

Trump and Abbas’ meeting in Bethlehem was a tetchy affair, according to U.S. accounts, but a Palestinian source told Newsweek that reports of a fractious meeting were lies designed to slander the Palestinian leader. “Trump raised the issue of prisoner payments, but overall the meeting went very well,” the source said.
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Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Burying liar-nObama's legacy
by Caroline B. Glick
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DHS Ordered Border Patrol To Negotiate
With, Not Arrest, Illegals In Desert Camp
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The troubling inconsistencies in enforcement of President Trump’s stated policies continues, with Border Patrol agents complaining that Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly is too willing to stick with the lenient policies of the previous... illegal liar-nObama administration, rather than the no-nonsense enforcement of President Trump. Border Patrol agents in an area of Arizona adjacent to the Mexican state of Sonora, one of the nation’s busiest sectors for illegal drug and human trafficking, were this week ordered not to enter into an assistance camp to arrest illegals that had been observed entering the United States and subsequently the camp. The agents were instructed to instead negotiate with the illegals, to attempt to persuade them to come out and give themselves up. Judicial Watch Reported:...http://rickwells.us/dhs-ordered-border-patrol-to-negotiate-with-not-arrest-illegals-in-desert-camp/

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Steel Imports Do Not Threaten National Security

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by Tori Whiting and Rachel Zissimos
{heritage.org} ~ The Department of Commerce is conducting an investigation of steel imports under Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962... which gives the federal government the ability to investigate foreign trade practices to determine the effects of imports on U.S. national security. The White House, Office of the Press Secretary, “Steel Imports and Threats to National Security,” Presidential Memorandum for the Secretary of Commerce, April 20, 2017, https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/04/20/presidential-memorandum-secretary-commerce (accessed June 15, 2017). This investigation is purportedly intended to discover whether intervention, including tariffs, is needed to further insulate domestic steel producers from foreign competition. The inquiry is unnecessary and inappropriate... http://www.heritage.org/trade/report/steel-imports-do-not-threaten-national-security?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign
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Medicare can’t be ignored forever
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 by James C. Capretta
{aei.org} ~ For now, Medicare is not part of the national conversation on health care. While campaigning, Donald Trump promised not to touch Medicare, and, in his first budget, he basically kept that commitment to voters... In addition, Congress and the new administration are consumed with rolling back key elements of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and replacing them with different provisions. Medicare does not feature prominently in that debate. So, for now, reforming and improving Medicare is not on the agenda. That will need to change at some point because Medicare is simply too big and important, both in terms of its fiscal consequences and its effect on the overall health system, to leave on autopilot indefinitely... http://www.aei.org/publication/medicare-cant-be-ignored-forever/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURBd1lUUTROR1k1WVdFeCIsInQiOiJcLzRzdDUzVmNZNUlNSUpESHpLelNWSCtxN2tPdGRcL1RcL0gzVzlJb0lsYUs3dEFacFdaR1l4SzF0WUdTQWRTc2l5ZzROTWl4MVdJVVJEbjNneFFQQXVkRVwvemlIMURVMCtcL3RQS3BCc09hWVkzNVNseEFmZ210OUp6cGlMRU10UDkwIn0%3D
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Tucker Carlson Hospitalized With Appendicitis
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by Randy Desoto
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Fox News host Tucker Carlson missed his program Thursday night because he was in the hospital... “Tucker is now being treated for appendicitis. He is in good spirits and expects to back on the air soon,” a Fox News spokesperson said. Ed Henry filled in on Tucker Carlson Tonight on Thursday, and Dana Perino is slated to take the spot Friday...http://www.westernjournalism.com/carlson-hospitalized-with-appendicitis/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign
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MUELLER CONFLICT Of Interest –
Special Counsel Statute States MUST Step Down
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Gregg Jarrett is adamant that Robert Mueller, according to statute, must step down from his appointment as the special prosecutor targeting President Trump... He states, “Given the latest Washington Post story, if it’s true, there’s even a more compelling reason now that Robert Mueller cannot serve as special counsel. He has a glaring conflict of interest – his closeness to the star witness in the case, James Comey.” Jarrett continues, “And you look at the Special Counsel statute and it says, that if you have a ‘personal relationship with any person substantially involved in the investigation or prosecution,’ you cannot serve, it’s mandatory language, you shall disqualify yourself.” He says, “Well Comey is substantially involved, he’s the central witness in this case. It’s not fair to President Trump, it’s not fair to the American public who expect this proceeding to be fair and impartial and objective. It cannot be if these two guys have such a long track record together. Close friends, allies, partners, they handle cases together...http://rickwells.us/mueller-conflict-interest-special-counsel-statute-states-must-step/
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcGu
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Burying liar-nObama's legacy
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by Caroline B. Glick
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jewishworldreview.com} ~ liar-nObama and his failed policy paradigm were roundly rebuffed this week, leaving no doubt where the current administration stands

It may very well be that this week was the week that Israel and the US put to rest former president Barack liar-nObama’s policies and positions on Israel and the Palestinians.

If so, the move was made despite the best efforts of liar-nObama’s team to convince the Trump administration to maintain them.

The details of liar-nObama’s policies and positions have been revealed in recent weeks in a series of articles published in Haaretz regarding liar-nObama’s secretary of state John hanoi-Kerry’s failed peacemaking efforts, which ended in 2014.

The articles reported segments of two drafts of a US framework for a final peace treaty between the PLO and Israel. The drafts were created in February and March 2014.

The article series is predicated on the assumption that hanoi-Kerry and his team were on the precipice of a historic breakthrough between PLO chief Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu. But a close reading of the documents shows that the opposite was the case.

There are two reasons that hanoi-Kerry had no prospects for reaching a deal.

First, he, liar-nObama and their advisers were too hostile to Israel and its citizens to ever convince Netanyahu that Israel’s interests would be secured.

A February 2014 draft framework agreement, which was based on conversations hanoi-Kerry and his team held with Netanyahu and his advisers, makes this clear. The draft includes Netanyahu’s demand that Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria not annexed to Israel would remain “in place” after the implementation of a peace deal, and presumably, become towns in the future Palestinian state.

In other words, Netanyahu demanded that the Israelis in Judea and Samaria whose towns would be located in the territory of “Palestine” would enjoy the same rights and protections as Israel’s Arab citizens enjoy.

hanoi-Kerry and his team would have none of it. The February draft agreement notes, “US negotiators need to check with PM Netanyahu on whether he wants to maintain this position... They believe that if so, he will push strongly for ‘in place.’ ‘In place’ is inconsistent with US policy and therefore unacceptable to us as well as the Palestinians.”

In other words, the position of the liar-nObama administration was that all Israelis living in areas that would become part of the Palestinian state must be forcibly removed from their homes and communities.

Haaretz reporters Barak Ravid and Amir Tibon recalled that in previous rounds of negotiations, the Palestinians – unlike the liar-nObama administration – had not rejected this Israeli position out of hand. That is, in demanding the mass expulsion of Israeli Jews from their homes, the administration adopted a policy more extreme than the PLO.

Then there is the problem with the PLO.

Abbas rejected hanoi-Kerry’s February 2014 draft framework agreement, which was based on conversations with Netanyahu and his advisors. But he also rejected hanoi-Kerry’s March 2014 agreement, which was based on the US’s conversation with him and his advisors.

The March 2014 draft was presented to Abbas by liar-nObama himself during a meeting between the two in the White House. Not only did Abbas not accept liar-nObama’s offer, he refused to respond to it.

This should have surprised no one. Abbas did the same thing in 2008 after then-prime minister Ehud Olmert presented Abbas with his peace proposal. Abbas’s predecessor, Yasser Arafat, responded in the same way in July 2000 to then-prime minister Ehud Barak’s peace offer, and in December 2000, to then-president Bill liar-Clinton’s peace offer.

Given the consistent track record, it is beyond foolish to believe that anyone – even Trump – will fare differently from his American and Israeli predecessors.

Perhaps the most interesting aspect of the Haaretz series is what they tell us about Netanyahu.

Like him or hate him, the Netanyahu revealed in the articles is a brilliant statesman. In difficult diplomatic conditions, with the US openly siding with the PLO against him, Netanyahu managed to parry and duck. Although Haaretz tries to present Netanyahu as weak and compliant, the text shows that the opposite was the case.

In the face of massive pressure from liar-nObama, Netanyahu refused to commit to anything. His only recorded position was that all Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria remain in place in perpetuity.

Rather than confront hanoi-Kerry directly, Netanyahu stood aside and watched as the Americans drafted their anti-Israel proposals. He nodded. He smiled. He refused to commit to anything.

And he waited patiently for Abbas to walk away from the table.

Until this week, much to the dismay of many of his supporters, Netanyahu appeared unwilling to move beyond the defensive position he maintained throughout the liar-nObama presidency. This week he took three great big steps forward.

First, Netanyahu announced that he supports amending Israel’s NGO law to ban foreign governments from funding political nonprofits registered in Israel.

For the past 20 years, Israel has been subjected to ever-escalating subversive campaigns funded and often directed by foreign governments and carried out by Israeli-registered NGOs. The purpose of these campaigns is to legitimize political and economic warfare against the Jewish state by European and other Western governments. The campaigns legitimize political and economic warfare against Israel by demonizing the Jewish state, its citizens and its soldiers.

In recent years, lawmakers have tried repeatedly to block the funding. But due to US pressure, Netanyahu scuttled all their attempts. Proposed reform bills were watered down until they were limited to instituting weak reporting requirements. Foreign government funds continue streaming into the coffers of NGOs whose positions are supported by no significant domestic constituencies.

By announcing that he now supports passing legislation that will bar foreign government funding of nonprofits, Netanyahu is striking a strategic blow at the political and economic war being waged against Israel by the EU and by the international Left.

This war, waged in the name of the Palestinians, has harmed Israel’s relations with the Palestinians by discouraging them from living peacefully with their Israeli neighbors.

Then there is UNRWA. The UN’s refugee agency dedicated to the Palestinians is arguably one of the central reasons for the perpetuation of the Palestinian conflict with Israel. Indeed, UNRWA was formed by the Arab governments to specifically block all prospect of peace between Israel and its neighbors.

UNRWA prevents the permanent resettlement of the Arabs who left Israel in 1948 and 1949 as well as their descendants. It has doomed five generations of “refugees” to live in the squalor of its camps, blocked from receiving citizenship in the countries of their birth and prevented from being resettled in other countries.

After Hamas took over Gaza in 2007, then-secretary of state Condoleezza Rice and then-foreign minister Tzipi Livni decided that the best way to respond to the move was by massively increasing UNRWA’s budget. They were unmoved by the fact that UNRWA employs Hamas terrorists. They ignored the fact that UNRWA schools in Gaza and elsewhere indoctrinate their students to embrace jihad and the cause of Israel’s annihilation.

Under liar-nObama, the US increased its payments to UNRWA even as UNRWA schools, clinics and other facilities have been used as missile launching pads and storage depots in Hamas’s war against Israel.

This week, Netanyahu finally put to rest the dangerous folly that UNRWA is a foil to Hamas and a positive force in the region. He called for UNRWA to be dismantled and for the Palestinians and their descendants to be treated like every other refugee group in the world and be resettled by the UN’s high commissioner for refugees.

If Netanyahu’s move against UNRWA is translated into actual Israeli and US policy, it will mark the beginning of the end of one of the primary causes of the Palestinian conflict with Israel.

Finally, there is incitement. Palestinian terrorism would vastly diminish were it not for constant incitement that encourages terrorism and rewards and celebrates terrorists.

Since it was established by the Qatari regime in 1996, Al Jazeera has been a central engine of antisemitic and jihadist indoctrination of the Palestinians. And yet, Israel has never moved to close Al Jazeera’s bureau in Israel.

Israel has given the terrorist network a pass largely because it hasn’t wanted to deal with the Western outcry that such a move would provoke.

This week, for the first time, Netanyahu, along with Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman, announced they support Al Jazeera’s closure and have directed their staff to consider the best way to do so.

In so doing, Netanyahu and Liberman are making the most of the opportunity afforded Israel by the Arab states’ open cleavage with Qatar. Last week, Saudi Arabia and Jordan closed Al Jazeera’s bureaus in Riyadh and Amman. Egypt, which closed Al Jazeera’s offices in 2013, blocked its website.

Taken both separately and together, Netanyahu’s moves this week strike strategic blows at three central components of the Palestinian conflict with Israel. Incitement, political warfare and the eternalization of Palestinian refugee status all render the conflict intractable and prevent peaceful Palestinian leaders from emerging.

Notably, whereas the liar-nObama administration would have subjected Israel to hysterical condemnations if Netanyahu had dared to take the steps he took this week, the Trump administration has taken no position on Netanyahu’s announcements.

The real reason that Trump appears to be burying liar-nObama’s legacy is because unlike the ideologically- driven liar-nObama, Trump is willing to consider evidence and facts when determining his opinions.

In May, Abbas came to the White House and told Trump that he abjured terrorism. Israel then presented Trump with evidence that Abbas publicly incites terrorism and uses the Palestinian Authority budget to support terrorists and their families.

Trump took in the information and upbraided Abbas for lying to him.

True, this week Secretary of State Rex Tillerson falsely told Congress that Abbas had cut off the payments. And true, Tillerson doubled down on his assertion after both the Palestinians and Israel said the payments have not been cut off.

True as well that Trump continues to believe that he can make “the deal” that his predecessors failed to secure.

But the fact is that Trump has given Netanyahu support as he has walked away from the failed policy paradigm of the liar-nObama years.

In other words, Netanyahu’s moves this week, and the fact that the Trump administration has left him alone to make them without being second-guessed or condemned by Washington, indicates that we have finally moved past liar-nObama’s legacy.

Where we are going is still unknown. But what is certain is that by going after the sources of the continued malignancy of the conflict and pushing back against the lies that informed liar-nObama’s policies, both Israel and the US have abandoned them.
 
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We Found No Evidence Otto Warmbier's Coma
Was Caused By Botulism As North Korea Claims
by Katie Pavlich
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 The Medical Evolution of Gender 
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By Allyne Caan:  Well-known blogger Matt Walsh recently recounted a difficult conversation with his son after he caught the lad attempting to climb over the second-floor balcony railing. It seems little Walsh Jr. thought he could be Spider-Man. Walsh writes, "I knew it was time to explain that he doesn't really have super powers. He seemed pretty devastated by the news, but for his own health it was necessary to put an end to this particular fantasy. 'But I want to be Spider-Man,' he protested. 'I know, buddy,' I said. 'I wish I could be Spider-Man, too, but Spider-Man is just pretend. If you try to jump over the railing like Spider-Man, you'll get very hurt.'"
          This seems a logical parenting approach: Stop the kid from jumping off a balcony and address the incorrect belief that made him think a leap was a good idea in the first place. Hardly revolutionary. But apparently, it's radical when kids imagine themselves not a super-hero but a gender not their own.
          The American Medical Association (AMA) has this week adopted policies endorsing transgenderism — despite enormous evidence of the physical, emotional and psychological harm experienced by those who fantasize themselves the opposite sex.
          The Washington Free Beacon reports the AMA's policymaking group has embraced the belief that gender is "incompletely understood as a binary selection."
          According to the official AMA statement, "Acknowledging that individuals' gender and sexual identities do not always fit neatly into binary paradigms, delegates to the 2017 AMA Annual Meeting in Chicago took several actions that support broadening how gender identity is defined within medicine and how transgender patients are treated by society." The group went on to state that "gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, and genotypic and phenotypic sex are not always aligned."
          As Walsh pointed out, saving someone from harm often means telling them when their beliefs and feelings don't align with truth. But the AMA would rather gain political points than save lives.
          Indeed, the group also came out against so-called bathroom bills, claiming, "Laws and policies that restrict the use of public facilities based on biological gender can have immediate and lingering physical consequences, as well as severe mental health repercussions." Of course, they conveniently ignore the mental health repercussions of transgenderism. Transgender and gender non-conforming adults have a suicide attempt rate of more than 40%, compared with 4.6% for the overall U.S. population.
          But please, let's talk instead about how transgender individuals can now battle suicidal thoughts in any bathroom they choose.
          Sadly, this latest descent into madness shouldn't be too surprising. As Mark Alexander has recounted in detail, the spiral from recognition to acceptance and now endorsement of self-destructive sexually deviant behaviors by the medical community has been at play for decades.
          In the 1950s, the first edition of the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) recognized homosexuality as a sociopath personality disturbance. And the 1968 DSM II was updated to classify homosexuality as a sexual deviancy.
          This is significant because only by acknowledging that homosexuality and gender dysphoria are concerning and have negative consequences can people in the throes of sexual addictions and confusions be best helped. When we validate harmful behaviors, we close the door on help and hope and instead confine individuals to the statistics of higher suicide attempt rates as well as higher instances of sexually transmitted diseases, not to mention the psychological trauma of those who pursue sex changes and live to regret it.
          And that's to say nothing on the trauma suffered by family and friends of transgendered people.
          Yet, amid the sexual revolution, the AMA abandoned any pretense of caring for people and instead caved to political pressure and removed homosexuality as a mental disorder in DSM III in 1973. Now, they've gone a step further and rejected the reality of gender entirely by basically saying it's whatever someone fantasizes it to be.
          A doctor who incorrectly diagnoses patients just to keep them happy deserves not praise but rebuke. The AMA may be congratulating itself on its progressivist acceptance of transgenderism. But the result will be thousands of people who desperately need help and instead are prodded to jump off the second-story balcony, where the fantasies they embrace will not save them.  ~The Patriot Post
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Rosenstein Should Fire Mueller,
Then Resign As Deputy AG, Immediately
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts on “the swamp creatures working against the Trump administration. President Trump, today, took a swipe at the whole special counsel mess.”... Dobbs reads the President’s tweet in he points out the absurdity, saying ‘I’m being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director! Witch Hunt.'” Dobbs points out that “The President is of course exactly right in his characterization of the man who told him to fire Director Comey. That man is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. Rosenstein wrote a May 8th memo that enumerated the reasons cited for the Comey firing.” Dobbs quotes Rosenstein that memo as stating, “The way the Director handled the conclusion of the liar-Clinton email investigation was wrong. As a result the FBI is unlikely to regain public and congressional trust until it has a Director who understands the gravity of the mistakes and pledges never to repeat them. Having refused to admit his errors, the Director cannot be expected to implement the necessary corrective actions.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-rosenstein-fire-mueller-resign-deputy-ag-immediately/
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STOP Foolish And Partisan
“Investigations” Into Trump Admin. NOW!
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by Onan Coca
{lidblog.com} ~ Congressman Louie Gohmert (R-TX) is done with the foolish and partisan “investigations” into the Trump administration’s activities... In a recent appearance on Fox News the rambunctious Texas Congressman spent five minutes tearing apart the arguments for the investigations, and explaining why it’s James Comey who should be under investigation, not President Trump. Gohmert further argued that Robert Mueller was a terrible candidate to handle any investigation into this matter because he has multiple conflicts of interest with this case. However, Gohmert’s strongest arguments came when he outlined the truth that the real collusion happening in our government is actually being undertaken by Justice Department officials still loyal to the liar-nObama administration. He also reminded America that if President Trump is “guilty of obstruction” then President liar-nObama must also be guilty of “obstruction” because he partook in the same practice on many occasions...http://lidblog.com/gohmert-enough/
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ICE Director Thomas Homan
Brings Atomic Sledgehammer of Truth
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Immigration and Customs Enforcement Acting Director Thomas Homan said in an interview today that he has “zero regrets” about his remarks before Congress this week, expanding on them... “It needed to be said,” Homan told CNN on the sidelines of a Central American prosperity and security conference. “And by me saying you should be worried, you should be afraid — if you lie on your taxes, you’ve got to be worried, ‘Is the IRS going to audit me?’ … When you speed down the highway, you’ve got to worry, ‘Am I going to get a speeding ticket?’ You worry. It’s natural human behavior.” Ice Director Thomas Homan defended the arrest of student on the day of his prom. Director Homan told Congresswoman Nita Lowey that “if you’re violating the law, you should be uncomfortable... https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2017/06/16/ice-director-thomas-homan-brings-atomic-sledgehammer-of-truth/
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Mueller, FBI Are The Obstructionists – Hiding
Comey Memos Behind “Ongoing Investigation”
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Apparently those of us who thought that the President of the United States was the chief executive of the nation and that the Justice Department and under it the FBI reported to him were mistaken... The FBI and some individuals within the DOJ are, it is now being demonstrated, autonomous powers unto themselves and in some instances, where they still report to the White House, it’s effectively the liar-nObama White House. Those of us, including those in Congress who want to find out what kind of monkey business James Comey and by extension, Robert Mueller, Rod Rosenstein, Loretta Lynch and others are up to are out of luck. Whatever kind of subversion against the United States, President Trump and his administration, hostile actions taken in the pursuit of the administration’s demise, is being assisted by the deep state in the form of the FBI and elsewhere. James Comey’s memos, to the extent that they exist, aren’t going to be revealed, at least not without a fight. Comey’s best friend, the supposedly independent special counsel, Robert Mueller, is colluding with leftist Andrew McCabe, the acting FBI Director, to keep them hidden... http://rickwells.us/mueller-fbi-obstructionists-hiding-comey-memos-behind-ongoing-investigation/
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FSM VIDEO
 
Judicial Watch President on Whether Comey had Evidence that Loretta Lynch was Trying to Protect liar-Hillary Clinton
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LIMBAUGH: WaPo Wants To "Sweep this story under the rug" - This Whole GOP Baseball Shooting Story
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Hannity: Viciousness from the left isn't going to end
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TUCKER: Talks with Otto Warmbier's father: Thanks President Trump; North Korea crossed the line
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Injured Capitol Hill Police Officer Bailey throws first pitch at Congress' ball game
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Rep. Martha McSally speaks out after receiving threats
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We Found No Evidence Otto Warmbier's Coma
Was Caused By Botulism As North Korea Claims
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townhall.com} ~ Speaking from Cincinnati Medical Center Thursday afternoon doctors treating Otto Warmbier gave an update on his medical condition. Warmbier is the 22-year-old American who was held hostage in North Korea for more than a year before returning home to Ohio this week in a coma.

The North Korean government claims Warmbier slipped into a coma after taking a sleeping pill and suffering from botulism. Doctors said their tests do not reveal any evidence botulism was a factor.

"No evidence of botulism," Dr. Brandon Foreman said.

Doctors said they have very limited information about Warmbier's condition before his arrival in the United States and have not had any contact with North Korean medical officials. It is estimated he has been in a coma since April of 2016. They said there is evidence Warmbier suffered a respiratory arrest, which led to a lack of oxygen to the brain. This could have been caused by a traumatic injury or an overdose in medication.

"There is severe injury to all areas of the brain," Dr. Daniel Kanter said, adding Warmbier has lost a significant amount of brain tissue.

There were no broken bones or fractures found during scans and neither. Scarring of the skin due to physical injuries was also absent.

"We examined all the long bones of the body, the ribs, pelvis and the skull," Dr. Kanter said. "In those scans we see no evidence of an acute, or healing fracture of the skull."

Earlier today, Warmbier's father Fred said the North Koreans brutalized his son and implied the regime is lying about the cause of his son's coma.

"He fought to stay alive through the worst the North Koreans put him through,” Warmbier said.

"Throughout this ordeal the Warmbier family has shown remarkable strength and compassion," Dr. Kanter said. "It is our privilege to care for their son and brother."
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The Front Page Cover
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A Long History of Leftist Hatred
by Pat Buchanan
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Pentagon to send nearly 4,000 more troops to Afghanistan. (Associated Press)
 
Congressional staffers boo Trump at unity baseball game. (The Washington Times)
 
Powder-filled letters with threatening notes shut down Georgia Republican's neighborhood. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
HuffPo scrubs "Ultimate Punishment" Trump piece after Scalise, GOP shooting. (The Washington Times)
 
Media continues to push activists' inflated count of mass shootings. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Trump orders government to stop work on Y2K bug, 17 years later. Who says government programs last forever? (Bloomberg)
 
In near-unanimous vote, Senate passes Iran sanctions bill that hanoi-Kerry opposed. (CNS News)
 
Father of American freed by North Korea thanks Trump for ending 15-month ordeal. (CNS News)
 
Georgia fugitives captured after wild chase in Tennessee. They came to the wrong state. (The Tennessean)
 
Policy: Is the Fed making another epic mistake? (Investor's Business Daily)
 
Policy: Trump will reverse the damage done by liar-nObama's Cuba policy. (The Daily Signal
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Rosenstein May Recuse Himself – Pass Impeachment
Baton To Others To Finish Off Trump
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The frying pan is getting a little warm for Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein, who is presently in charge of the permissions for railroading President Trump... He’s now sending signals that he may be passing the baton, or bludgeon, to his subordinate, the third in command at DOJ, Rachel Brand. Rosenstein may recuse himself now that the initial damage has been done by enabling his good friend, Robert Mueller. The ultimate power over whether President Trump is prosecuted when they finish fabricating their best shot at a case against him is presently held not by Mueller, but by Rosenstein. As reported by ABC News, “Although Rosenstein appointed a special counsel to lead the federal probe, he still makes the final decisions about resources, personnel and — if necessary — any prosecutions.” By “if necessary” they mean “if there’s any conceivable way possible.” Rosenstein reportedly raised the recusal possibility with Brand in a recent meeting. President Trump noted on Twitter that, with Rosenstein overseeing the “witch hunt” he’s “being investigated for firing the FBI Director by the man who told me to fire the FBI Director!”... http://rickwells.us/rosenstein-may-recuse-pass-impeachment-baton-others-finish-trump/
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ISIS Continues to Lose Ground in Mosul
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by Douglas Burton
{freebeacon.com} ~ The final days of ISIS in Mosul are now in sight, as the remaining terrorists try to take as many civilian lives as they can... Only one small district in the Western part of the city remains under ISIS control, approximately 3 percent of the area of West Mosul. The fighting is now in the neighborhood of Al Shifa near the Tigris River, and next to it the so-called Old City, according to Major General Joseph Martin, the commander of the Combined Land Forces Component Command for Operation Inherent Resolve. Iraqi Federal Police units are fighting house-to-house and through narrow streets and alleys where thousands of hapless civilians are locked inside to protect ISIS fighters from air strikes, according to Ali Sada, who publishes Daesh Daily, an anti-ISIS war digest. Baghdadi has not been seen or heard from in more than a year, and some observers believe he is either dead or severely wounded...http://freebeacon.com/national-security/isis-continues-lose-ground-mosul/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=518ef0a9db-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-518ef0a9db-45611665
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Leaking Mueller Out For 
Blood, Plotting To Take Trump Down
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ “Robert Mueller, the new special prosecutor,” says Dick Morris, “is out for Trump’s head in the worst possible way.”... He comments on the relationship between Comey, the pretext upon their third wheel, Rod Rosenstein, appointed Mueller, as them being “quite an item.” Morris notes that Comey and Mueller are” best friends, they worked together, they were hand in glove partners at the Justice Department when Mueller was the head of the FBI and Comey was the Assistant Attorney General, and at one point the acting attorney general and they’ve worked together seamlessly throughout. They even worked together in the prosecution of the anthrax bomber, where they had the wrong man.” Morris says, “Mueller is clearly out for blood, he is determined to bring Trump down.” He points out that the very existence of two articles that frame the next steps of the witch hunt show the underhanded tactics that Mueller is using in order to get Trump’s head on a platter. “...http://rickwells.us/dick-morris-leaking-mueller-blood-plotting-take-trump/
A Former FBI Special Agent Has Just Exposed Robert Mueller and James Comey!
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Dershowitz on Probe Outcome:
Flynn Will 'Probably' Be Indicted
by Bill Hoffmann
 
{newsmax.com} ~ Renowned civil-rights lawyer Alan Dershowitz has issued a prediction as to how the federal probe into whether the Trump campaign colluded with Russia in influencing the 2016 presidential election will shake out... "I think it's going to end up probably with the indictment of [former national security adviser Michael] Flynn or possibly some others — and very well may end up the president pardoning them," Dershowitz said Friday to Newsmax TV's Miranda Khan on "Newsmax Now." "That's I think the most likely outcome. I do not think we will see the president indicted or charged or impeached unless more information of a very different kind emerges...http://www.newsmax.com/Newsmax-Tv/alan-dershowitz-probe-outcome-michael-flynn/2017/06/16/id/796539/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1737099_06162017&s=al&dkt_nbr=tv7jko6y
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Did Comey take other government records, too?
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ A key watchdog on government, Judicial Watch, is demanding the FBI reveal any other government records that fired FBI Director James Comey might have taken with him when he left office... in addition to the notes about his meetings with President Trump. Comey has testified to Congress that he took notes on a government computer of his meetings with President Trump and later leaked them to the New York Times through a friend. Now, the revelation that Comey, who last year famously declined to refer Hillary Clinton’s mishandling of classified information for prosecution, was able to take government records with him as he left office raised questions for Judicial Watch... http://www.wnd.com/2017/06/did-comey-take-other-government-records-too/
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A Long History of Leftist Hatred
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by Pat Buchanan
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townhall.com} ~ James T. Hodgkinson of Belleville, Illinois, who aspired to end his life as a mass murderer of Republican Congressmen, was a Donald Trump hater and a Bernie Sanders backer.

Like many before him, Hodgkinson was a malevolent man of the hating and hard left.

His planned atrocity failed because two Capitol Hill cops were at that Alexandria baseball field, providing security for House Whip Steve Scalise. Had those cops not been there, a massacre would have ensued with many more dead than the gunman.

Recall. There were no armed citizens at that Tucson grocery in 2011, when six were murdered and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was gravely wounded along with a dozen others. The nutcase doing the shooting was only wrestled to the ground when he dropped a clip trying to reload.

The Alexandria attack brings back memories of long ago.

A day before my 12th birthday, when I was in Children's Hospital with a broken leg, my parents brought me the news that Puerto Rican terrorists had just attempted to assassinate Harry Truman at Blair House. A heroic cop, Leslie Coffelt, died stopping them.

In my second year in high school, blocks from the Capitol, Puerto Rican nationalists entered the visitor's gallery of the House and began firing semiautomatic pistols. Five Congressmen were wounded.

Democratic politics has often proven a dangerous calling.

Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, William McKinley and JFK -- one in every 10 of all our presidents -- were assassinated.

Attending a service for a South Carolina Congressman in the Capitol in 1835, President Jackson survived twin misfires of two pistols. Old Hickory used his cane to attack his assailant, who was collared by Congressman Davy Crockett of Tennessee.

As a third-party candidate for president in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt was shot in the chest. "It takes more than that to kill a Bull Moose," Teddy scoffed, and finished his speech.

In February 1933, President-elect FDR, in Miami, was the target of would-be assassin Giuseppe Zangara, whose arm was jostled at the moment of firing. The bullet killed Chicago Mayor Anton Cermak.

Between the assassination of JFK in 1963 and near-mortal wounding of President Reagan by John Hinckley in 1981, Martin Luther King was murdered in Memphis in April 1968, and Sen. Robert Kennedy, two months later, in Los Angeles.

Presidential candidate George Wallace, campaigning in Laurel, Maryland, was shot five times in May 1972 by Arthur Bremer, who had spent weeks stalking President Nixon. President Ford was the target of two attempts on his life in 1975, the first by a Manson Family hanger-on Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, the second by radical leftist Sara Jane Moore.

What drove the assassins?

In the early 20th century, it was anarchism. McKinley was killed by anarchist Leon Czolgosz in Buffalo, New York.

In 1919, Carlo Valdinaci tried to assassinate Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer with a bomb on his porch at 2132 R Street. Valdinoci tripped on a wicket and his dynamite bomb exploded prematurely, blasting Carlo's body parts all over the neighborhood.

Palmer's neighbor across the street, Assistant Secretary of the Navy Franklin Roosevelt, rushed over to help.

Palmer ordered a roundup of anarchists in what came to be known as "Palmer Raids," and put in charge of field operations a 24-year-old lawyer and D.C. law-enforcement prodigy by the name of John Edgar Hoover.

Hoover's career flourished. But the career of America's most famous anarchist, Emma Goldman, faded. She and ex-lover Alexander Berkman, who had tried to kill Carnegie Steel's Henry Clay Frick during the violent Homestead Strike of 1892, were rounded up and deported in 1920 with hundreds of anarchists to the new Russia of Lenin and Trotsky in a ship the press dubbed "the Red Ark."

A. Mitchell Palmer did not get the 1920 presidential nomination he was seeking. But neighbor FDR did make it onto the ticket.

As radical anarchists were the principal terrorists of the first quarter of the 20th century, and Puerto Rican nationalist-terrorists dominated the 1950s, the 1960s and early 1970s were marked by the seemingly endless violence of the hard left, beginning with the Communist Oswald, who had tried to shoot Gen. Edwin Walker in Dallas before killing JFK.

The campus violence and urban riots of the decade, from Harlem to Watts to Newark and Detroit, to Washington, D.C., and 100 cities after Dr. King's death, were not the work of the Goldwater right.

Those were the days of the Black Panthers, Students for a Democratic Society, Weatherman and the Symbionese Liberation Army. It was America's radical left shooting cops and burning down ROTC buildings. Leftist violence propelled the political careers of Richard Nixon and Ronald Reagan.

As for James Hodgkinson, he was a Trump-hating left-wing terrorist.

And those who incite sick minds with images of a bloodstained decapitated head of the president, and cheer Central Park productions of "Julius Caesar" with the assassinated Roman Consul made up to look like the president, cannot evade moral culpability.
 
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 The Phony Collusion Sessions
by Lewis Morris
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Hezbollah in Latin America
is a threat the US cannot ignore
by Emanuele Ottolenghi
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The convergence of Iran-sponsored radical Islam with transnational organized crime in Latin America is a serious threat to the national security of the United States, especially in the tri-border area, or TBA, where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay converge... In this area, Hezbollah supporters and operatives engage in illicit activities that generate tens of millions of dollars for Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy, while laundering money for local organized crime. In some cases, their trade-based money laundering operations extend into the United States, posing a direct threat to the integrity of its financial system. Congress and the executive branch have a panoply of tools at their disposal to confront this menace. Yet since the last round of designations against the TBA-based Hezbollah financial activities in 2006, very little has been done to address the threat...This needs to change.  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/emanuele-ottolenghi-hezbollah-in-latin-america-is-a-threat-the-us-cannot-ignore/
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A New North Korea Sanctions Approach
by Anthony Ruggiero
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The United Nations Panel of Experts reported in February that Pyongyang uses non-North Korean facilitators and front companies to evade UN sanctions. Since China and Russia continue to block meaningful UN sanctions against these networks of facilitators... the United States should lead an effort of like-minded countries (South Korea, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany) to punish these networks, effectively taking a page from the Iran sanctions playbook. The new C4ADS report and others like it have made important contributions to exposing these illicit networks, an objective that the U.S. government should also pursue. Pyongyang’s accelerating missile program and mature nuclear weapons capability are action-forcing events that require an immediate response. This paper provides six specific and actionable recommendations the United States and its partners should take right away to increase pressure on North Korea to cease it activities that harm the national security interests of the United States and, indeed, the world community...http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/anthony-ruggiero-a-new-north-korea-sanctions-approach/
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Drawing a “Broader Conclusion”
on Iran’s Nuclear Program
by Olli Heinonen
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Under the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), key restrictions would expire if  the IAEA formally reaches a “broader conclusion” that Tehran’s nuclear program is entirely peaceful... Such a conclusion would result in the lifting of the UN’s remaining non-nuclear sanctions, including the ban on ballistic missile testing and the conventional arms embargo. Spurring the IAEA to reach a broader conclusion as quickly as possible appears to be Iran’s goal. In a televised speech in the middle of May, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani expressed his intention to engage in “lifting all the non-nuclear sanctions during the coming four years” – at least two years earlier than the JCPOA would otherwise allow...The minds of the Iranians, what terms.  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/olli-heinonen1-drawing-a-broader-conclusion-on-irans-nuclear-program/
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Congress Seeks Embargo on Iran Airline Linked to Terrorism as Tehran Targets U.S. Forces
by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ Congress is seeking new authorities that would enable it to expose and crack down on an Iranian state-controlled commercial airline known for transporting weapons and terrorist fighters to hotspots such as Syria... where Iranian-backed forces have begun launching direct attacks on U.S. forces in the country, according to new legislation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Congressional efforts to expose Iran's illicit terror networks more forcefully come as U.S. and European air carriers such as Boeing and AirBus move forward with multi-billion dollar deals to provide the Islamic Republic with a fleet of new airplanes, which lawmakers suspect Iran will use to amplify its terror operations...http://freebeacon.com/national-security/congress-seeks-embargo-iran-airline-linked-terrorism-tehran-targets-u-s-forces/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=20166f4e0b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-20166f4e0b-45611665
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Adam Schiff Threatens to Violate
Constitution – Twice – with Independent Counsel
by General Counsel Ken Klukowski
{theacru.org} ~ Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) threatened to have Congress appoint a special counsel, despite the Supreme Court’s decision that it is unconstitutional for Congress to appoint any federal official... This decision came from a case so famous that the lawmaker almost certainly learned it as a student at Harvard Law School. Schiff tweeted Monday, “If President fired Bob Mueller, Congress would immediately re-establish independent counsel and appoint Bob Mueller. Don’t waste our time”. The Harvard Law professors who taught the ranking member of the House Select Intelligence Committee are probably disappointed with their former student because the Supreme Court in 1976 unanimously said Congress would violate the Constitution by doing so... http://www.theacru.org/adam-schiff-threatens-to-violate-constitution-twice-with-independent-counsel/
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 The Phony Collusion Sessions 
By Lewis Morris: Democrats are always looking to stir up some drama in their ongoing witch hunt, er, investigation, into President Donald Trump and possible collusion with the Russians over election tampering. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was the latest target in Senate testimony Tuesday, but this one didn't have much in the way of substance.
          Sessions' three-hour appearance was peppered with some biting back and forth with Democrat Senators, who on several occasions tried to put words in the AG's mouth. He was having none of it. Sessions made it clear from his opening statement that he was not going to be pushed around so that Democrats could score political points. "The suggestion that I participated in any collusion ... is an appalling and detestable lie," he insisted.
          Democrats came at Sessions on a number of points, one big one being his dealings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. He admitted meeting with Kislyak during the 2016 Republican National Convention and once in his Senate office, which he did not disclose during his confirmation hearings. Democrats tried to make more of this, suggesting that he was ducking questions about possible inappropriate interactions with Russian officials.
          Sessions vigorously defended himself against the allegations, as well as suggestions in the media about meetings he may have had with Russian officials in 2016. "If any brief interaction occurred ... I do not remember it," Sessions said, adding that if there was a conversation with the Russian ambassador, it was "certainly nothing improper."
          Sessions recused himself from the investigation into Russian election tampering several weeks ago. He noted during his testimony, "I recused myself from any investigation into the campaign for president, but I did not recuse myself from defending my honor against scurrilous and false accusations."
          Sessions did not fall into the trap laid by questions about his private conversations with Trump regarding the investigation and the firing of FBI Director James Comey. He noted that those conversations were private and he was not comfortable going into detail. Sessions is absolutely right to avoid answering these questions, though Democrats clearly meant to get him on the record refusing to answer questions.
           Sessions also refuted former FBI Director James Comey's testimony last week suggesting that Trump pressured Comey to drop the investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. He noted that Comey could have approached him or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is now overseeing the Russian investigation in the wake of Sessions rescuing himself. Comey did not do so.
          Sessions told the Intelligence Committee that he agreed that the FBI and the Justice Department needed to follow department policies regarding its contacts with the White House in such sensitive matters.
          Democrats also tried to play a rather absurd game of what-if by speculating what role Sessions would have in an alleged attempt to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel who will be considering any possible improprieties by the White House regarding the Russian hacking investigation.
          Sessions reminded the Committee that Rosenstein would be the person with the power to make such a call. Rosenstein was forced to ponder the same question Tuesday in a separate appearance before the Senate Appropriations Committee. He responded that he would only comply with an order to fire the special counsel if it was "lawful and appropriate."
          Why speculate about such a matter? There has been no proof or even suggestion by the White House that Mueller could be fired. Indeed, he has barely begun his work. It's simple: Democrats are eager to raise the specter of Watergate and the 1973 "Saturday Night Massacre," when President Richard Nixon fired the attorney general and deputy attorney general when they refused to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
          It was a particularly tasteless and embarrassing line of questioning for both Sessions and Rosenstein to endure. Such speculation serves no purpose other than to stir up the Democrat donor base and keep the MSM churning out headlines equating Trump to Nixon, even though the only real connection between the two exists in the minds of the anti-Trump crowd.
          It's easy to see why Democrats were so aggressive with Sessions. Comey's testimony, much to leftist dismay, did not provide a smoking gun or a gotcha moment to nail Trump. In fact, Comey inadvertently reminded us of former Attorney General Loretta's Lynch's attempts to squelch the investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton's destruction of evidence and her own possible collusion with Russia and several other nations via the now-defunct liar-Clinton Foundation.
          Democrats, who once called for Comey's head on a pike, had hoped he would be their poster boy for yanking Trump out of the White House. Their MSM friends did their best to spin the former FBI Director's testimony into proof that Trump was playing fast and loose with the law. But they were only able to sell that lemon to those already committed to Trump's destruction.
          The problem with the Sessions testimony on Tuesday was that while he gave an honest and vigorous defense and laid out a logical argument, he may have only served to fuel the fires of the anti-Trump crowd. In a way, the heated exchanges between Sessions and Democrats may have played right into their hands. They'll push the idea in the media that the only reason Sessions got so testy is because he has something to hide. This will only prompt more questions and more calls for testimony and documents and anything at all that will give the public appearance that there is a crime somewhere. The whole point is to impede the Trump administration's ability to govern.
          And all the while special prosecutor Robert Mueller is waiting in the wings. The faux drama continues.  ~The Patriot Post
 
 
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 The Phony Collusion Sessions
by Lewis Morris
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Hezbollah in Latin America
is a threat the US cannot ignore
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by Emanuele Ottolenghi
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The convergence of Iran-sponsored radical Islam with transnational organized crime in Latin America is a serious threat to the national security of the United States, especially in the tri-border area, or TBA, where Argentina, Brazil, and Paraguay converge... In this area, Hezbollah supporters and operatives engage in illicit activities that generate tens of millions of dollars for Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy, while laundering money for local organized crime. In some cases, their trade-based money laundering operations extend into the United States, posing a direct threat to the integrity of its financial system. Congress and the executive branch have a panoply of tools at their disposal to confront this menace. Yet since the last round of designations against the TBA-based Hezbollah financial activities in 2006, very little has been done to address the threat...This needs to change.  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/emanuele-ottolenghi-hezbollah-in-latin-america-is-a-threat-the-us-cannot-ignore/
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A New North Korea Sanctions Approach
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by Anthony Ruggiero
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The United Nations Panel of Experts reported in February that Pyongyang uses non-North Korean facilitators and front companies to evade UN sanctions. Since China and Russia continue to block meaningful UN sanctions against these networks of facilitators... the United States should lead an effort of like-minded countries (South Korea, Japan, Australia, the United Kingdom, France, and Germany) to punish these networks, effectively taking a page from the Iran sanctions playbook. The new C4ADS report and others like it have made important contributions to exposing these illicit networks, an objective that the U.S. government should also pursue. Pyongyang’s accelerating missile program and mature nuclear weapons capability are action-forcing events that require an immediate response. This paper provides six specific and actionable recommendations the United States and its partners should take right away to increase pressure on North Korea to cease it activities that harm the national security interests of the United States and, indeed, the world community... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/anthony-ruggiero-a-new-north-korea-sanctions-approach/
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Drawing a “Broader Conclusion”
on Iran’s Nuclear Program
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by Olli Heinonen
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Under the terms of the nuclear deal with Iran, formally known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), key restrictions would expire if  the IAEA formally reaches a “broader conclusion” that Tehran’s nuclear program is entirely peaceful... Such a conclusion would result in the lifting of the UN’s remaining non-nuclear sanctions, including the ban on ballistic missile testing and the conventional arms embargo. Spurring the IAEA to reach a broader conclusion as quickly as possible appears to be Iran’s goal. In a televised speech in the middle of May, Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani expressed his intention to engage in “lifting all the non-nuclear sanctions during the coming four years” – at least two years earlier than the JCPOA would otherwise allow...The minds of the Iranians, what terms.  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/olli-heinonen1-drawing-a-broader-conclusion-on-irans-nuclear-program/
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Congress Seeks Embargo on Iran Airline
Linked to Terrorism as Tehran Targets U.S. Forces
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by Adam Kredo
{freebeacon.com} ~ Congress is seeking new authorities that would enable it to expose and crack down on an Iranian state-controlled commercial airline known for transporting weapons and terrorist fighters to hotspots such as Syria... where Iranian-backed forces have begun launching direct attacks on U.S. forces in the country, according to new legislation obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. Congressional efforts to expose Iran's illicit terror networks more forcefully come as U.S. and European air carriers such as Boeing and AirBus move forward with multi-billion dollar deals to provide the Islamic Republic with a fleet of new airplanes, which lawmakers suspect Iran will use to amplify its terror operations...http://freebeacon.com/national-security/congress-seeks-embargo-iran-airline-linked-terrorism-tehran-targets-u-s-forces/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=20166f4e0b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_06_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-20166f4e0b-45611665
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Adam Schiff Threatens to Violate
Constitution – Twice – with Independent Counsel
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by General Counsel Ken Klukowski
{theacru.org} ~ Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) threatened to have Congress appoint a special counsel, despite the Supreme Court’s decision that it is unconstitutional for Congress to appoint any federal official... This decision came from a case so famous that the lawmaker almost certainly learned it as a student at Harvard Law School. Schiff tweeted Monday, “If President fired Bob Mueller, Congress would immediately re-establish independent counsel and appoint Bob Mueller. Don’t waste our time”. The Harvard Law professors who taught the ranking member of the House Select Intelligence Committee are probably disappointed with their former student because the Supreme Court in 1976 unanimously said Congress would violate the Constitution by doing so... http://www.theacru.org/adam-schiff-threatens-to-violate-constitution-twice-with-independent-counsel/
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 The Phony Collusion Sessions 
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By Lewis Morris: Democrats are always looking to stir up some drama in their ongoing witch hunt, er, investigation, into President Donald Trump and possible collusion with the Russians over election tampering. Attorney General Jeff Sessions was the latest target in Senate testimony Tuesday, but this one didn't have much in the way of substance.
          Sessions' three-hour appearance was peppered with some biting back and forth with Democrat Senators, who on several occasions tried to put words in the AG's mouth. He was having none of it. Sessions made it clear from his opening statement that he was not going to be pushed around so that Democrats could score political points. "The suggestion that I participated in any collusion ... is an appalling and detestable lie," he insisted.
          Democrats came at Sessions on a number of points, one big one being his dealings with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. He admitted meeting with Kislyak during the 2016 Republican National Convention and once in his Senate office, which he did not disclose during his confirmation hearings. Democrats tried to make more of this, suggesting that he was ducking questions about possible inappropriate interactions with Russian officials.
          Sessions vigorously defended himself against the allegations, as well as suggestions in the media about meetings he may have had with Russian officials in 2016. "If any brief interaction occurred ... I do not remember it," Sessions said, adding that if there was a conversation with the Russian ambassador, it was "certainly nothing improper."
          Sessions recused himself from the investigation into Russian election tampering several weeks ago. He noted during his testimony, "I recused myself from any investigation into the campaign for president, but I did not recuse myself from defending my honor against scurrilous and false accusations."
          Sessions did not fall into the trap laid by questions about his private conversations with Trump regarding the investigation and the firing of FBI Director James Comey. He noted that those conversations were private and he was not comfortable going into detail. Sessions is absolutely right to avoid answering these questions, though Democrats clearly meant to get him on the record refusing to answer questions.
           Sessions also refuted former FBI Director James Comey's testimony last week suggesting that Trump pressured Comey to drop the investigation of former National Security Advisor Michael Flynn. He noted that Comey could have approached him or Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who is now overseeing the Russian investigation in the wake of Sessions rescuing himself. Comey did not do so.
          Sessions told the Intelligence Committee that he agreed that the FBI and the Justice Department needed to follow department policies regarding its contacts with the White House in such sensitive matters.
          Democrats also tried to play a rather absurd game of what-if by speculating what role Sessions would have in an alleged attempt to fire Robert Mueller, the special counsel who will be considering any possible improprieties by the White House regarding the Russian hacking investigation.
          Sessions reminded the Committee that Rosenstein would be the person with the power to make such a call. Rosenstein was forced to ponder the same question Tuesday in a separate appearance before the Senate Appropriations Committee. He responded that he would only comply with an order to fire the special counsel if it was "lawful and appropriate."
          Why speculate about such a matter? There has been no proof or even suggestion by the White House that Mueller could be fired. Indeed, he has barely begun his work. It's simple: Democrats are eager to raise the specter of Watergate and the 1973 "Saturday Night Massacre," when President Richard Nixon fired the attorney general and deputy attorney general when they refused to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.
          It was a particularly tasteless and embarrassing line of questioning for both Sessions and Rosenstein to endure. Such speculation serves no purpose other than to stir up the Democrat donor base and keep the MSM churning out headlines equating Trump to Nixon, even though the only real connection between the two exists in the minds of the anti-Trump crowd.
          It's easy to see why Democrats were so aggressive with Sessions. Comey's testimony, much to leftist dismay, did not provide a smoking gun or a gotcha moment to nail Trump. In fact, Comey inadvertently reminded us of former Attorney General Loretta's Lynch's attempts to squelch the investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton's destruction of evidence and her own possible collusion with Russia and several other nations via the now-defunct liar-Clinton Foundation.
          Democrats, who once called for Comey's head on a pike, had hoped he would be their poster boy for yanking Trump out of the White House. Their MSM friends did their best to spin the former FBI Director's testimony into proof that Trump was playing fast and loose with the law. But they were only able to sell that lemon to those already committed to Trump's destruction.
          The problem with the Sessions testimony on Tuesday was that while he gave an honest and vigorous defense and laid out a logical argument, he may have only served to fuel the fires of the anti-Trump crowd. In a way, the heated exchanges between Sessions and Democrats may have played right into their hands. They'll push the idea in the media that the only reason Sessions got so testy is because he has something to hide. This will only prompt more questions and more calls for testimony and documents and anything at all that will give the public appearance that there is a crime somewhere. The whole point is to impede the Trump administration's ability to govern.
          And all the while special prosecutor Robert Mueller is waiting in the wings. The faux drama continues.  ~The Patriot Post
 
 
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