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Falling for the Lies
by Susan Stamper Brown
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 Top Headlines 
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Trump weighs shake-up of press team, including replacing Spicer. (The Wall Street Journal)
 
Why GOP senators are pushing Merrick Garland for FBI director. (PoliZette)
 
James Clapper: U.S. democracy "under assault" by Trump — hyperbole much? (Washington Examiner)
 
Bradley Manning to remain on active duty, receive health care after prison release. (USA Today)
 
Trump urges Liberty graduates to find courage to challenge critics, assails Washington leaders as "failed voices." (Fox News)
 
Majority of businesses say liar-nObamaCare mandate, minimum wage hikes, regulations threaten expansion. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Scott Pruitt signals new post/liar-nObama era at EPA with Alaska's Pebble Mine decision. (Washington Examiner)
 
Pence says Christians are the most victimized religion, Leftists go nuts. He's right. (The Daily Wire)
 
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards stumps for abortion rights ... on Mother's Day. (The Washington Times)
 
High school takes back yearbooks with "Build that wall," other inappropriate quotes. (Charlotte Observer)
 
Policy: Big wind gets spanked in Michigan. (National Review)
 
Policy: A modern framework for Internet freedom. (U.S. News & World Report~The Patriot Post
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CLAPPER Spreads Disinfo – ACCUSES TRUMP
Of ASSAULTING AMERICAN Institutions
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Former DNI James Clapper, who has a history that includes lying in testimony to the Senate, went on the Jake Tapper program to similarly declare that he didn’t say what he said by contorting the record... into a nonsensical bunch of blather that only he and Tapper could understand. Naturally, they took it to mean that Clapper never said there was no evidence of improper contacts between President Trump and Russian officials. Just a week ago Clapper testified that that was still accurate. Today he’s engaging in some typical Democrat misdirection and rewriting of the record. Clapper did so in a manner that was so convoluted, contradictory and lacking in substance and cohesive thought that no sense could be made out of what he said. There was only the predetermined agreement that now the record is straight, Clapper suddenly never said what he has maintained for close to six months, and President Trump is somehow wrong to have quoted him and taken Clapper at his word...They continue to lie don't they.  http://rickwells.us/clapper-spreads-disinfo-accuses-trump-assaulting-american-institutions/
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Jihad in Denmark
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Copenhagen, Denmark
by Judith Bergman
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In 2015, Omar El-Hussein listened to the imam Hajj Saeed, at the Hizb-ut-Tahrir- linked Al-Faruq-mosque in Copenhagen, decry interfaith dialogue as a "malignant" idea and explain that the right way, according to Mohammed... is to wage war on the Jews. The next day, El-Hussein went out and murdered Dan Uzan, the volunteer Jewish guard of the Jewish community, as he was standing in front of the Copenhagen synagogue. El-Hussein had also just murdered Finn Nørgaard, a film director, outside a meeting about freedom of speech. Two years later, nothing has changed. A visiting imam from Lebanon at the Al-Faruq mosque, Mundhir Abdallah, is preaching to murder Jews: "Soon there will be a Caliphate, which will instate the shari'a of Allah and revive the Sunna of His Prophet, which will wage Jihad for the sake of Allah, which will unite the Islamic nation after it disintegrated, and which will liberate the Al-Aqsa Mosque from the filth of the Zionists, so that the words of the Prophet Muhammad will be fulfilled:... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10363/jihad-in-denmark
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Morning RINOs Viciously Disrespect,
Attack Trump Spox Sanders, Call Her A Liar
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The RINO program and being in the White House briefing room is that in the latter there is decorum, the Press Secretary is in charge, questions are fielded one at a time.. and just like on Jeopardy, the accusatory statements must be phrased in the form of a question. On Morning Joe The RINO the gang does what gangs do, attack from all sides at once, including the libtard swamp creature, Joe Scarborough, hosting as a see-through fake Republican. Sanders probably won’t make the mistake of booking this show again, they’re scumbags who are out for one thing, to discredit her and the president. On Wednesday’s show, smart aleck Willie Geist asked Sanders if she knows something that the rest of us don’t know, about there being nothing there in the Russia investigation?” No weasel, she knows exactly the same thing as what you know, that is, in fact, there’s nothing there in the Russia investigation. She’ll point that out to you if you can tell the rooster head RINO to shut his trap long enough to allow his guest to speak... http://http://rickwells.us/morning-rinos-viciously-disrespect-attack-trump-spox-sanders-call-liar//morning-rinos-viciously-disrespect-attack-trump-spox-sanders-call-liar/
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Comey Dropped Rice Unmasking Investigation
Because It Implicated Himself
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 by Darby Crash

{patdollard.com} ~ Former FBI Director James Comey landed himself in hot water and was fired by President Trump earlier last week. Comey acted out of concern for himself rather than that of the American people... But it’s much worse. A source stated that Comey dropped the Susan Rice “unmasking” investigation because it would have implicated himself. The source told this statement to Jack Posobiec. Posobiec is a Washington-based writer and a conservative activist. He is mostly known for sharing Emmanuel Macron’s hacked emails on Twitter during the French election. Posobiec received temporary credentials to access the White House last month. He is currently in the process of obtaining his permanent pass. His previous admittance to the White House was publicized because he was transparent as to what was going on...http://www.patdollard.com/rebel-media-fbi-source-comey-dropped-rice-unmasking-investigation-because-it-implicated-himself/#sLVFaGiurvo8qsRB.99
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History Indicates Comey Just As Honest As
liar-Hillary Clinton Or Loretta Lynch
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The background of James Comey, a corrupt politician appointed by another corrupt politician, Hussein liar-nObama to work for two other corrupt politicians, Eric Holder and Loretta Lynch... was, like liar-nObama’s never fully revealed to the public during the times that he was going through the confirmation process. Some of us might have expected the vetting procedure would have exposed his criminal background and ties to organized crime, disqualifying him from consideration. Apparently in liar-nObamaworld, his criminality is what made him a “must have” for the position of FBI Director. It seems quite obvious in retrospect that liar-nObama needed a dirty FBI Director to cover for the mess he and liar-Hillary Clinton had made in Benghazi. The timetable fits a deliberate attempt to not be obvious in what they were doing, but the events are awfully conveniently spaced out, if they were, in fact, coincidental... http://rickwells.us/history-indicates-comey-just-honest-hillary-clinton-loretta-lynch/
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Falling for the Lies
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by Susan Stamper Brown
{townhall.com} ~ Since Adam’s fall in Eden, we humans find it easy to fall for lies. Especially in the absence of a moral filter which helps us differentiate between and navigate around what is right and wrong.

Apparently, moral filters were in short supply in Germany in the 1930s when Nazism was on the rise. Adolf Hitler and his minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels, launched an insidious campaign against the Jews. They spread their evil telling despicable lies blaming Jews for every malady on the planet.

Hitler said, “If you tell a big enough lie and tell it frequently enough, it will be believed.”

Concentration camps, gas chambers and mass graves across Germany spoke to how effectively their “big lie” propaganda technique worked. That presumably preventable and disturbingly dark stain etched on the annals of history should give all thoughtful humans reason for pause.

America, it seems, has recently become home for, as Rush Limbaugh puts it, “a special kind of stupid.” Democrats and their media cohorts understand their lies will eventually be considered “truth” if they hammer away at it long enough.

Their goal is to normalize abnormality to the point our brains begin convincing us that the Star Wars Cantina scene is as regular and ordinary as a Mayberry R.F.D. soda shop. Switch on your flat screen to hear the cacophony of wild accusations, zany insinuations, and hare-brained inferences of untruth- tellers, thrashing in the throes of post-election temper tantrums.

Donald Trump is an illegitimate president, just like George W. Bush who “stole the election” they incessantly regurgitate. The only difference in their rhetoric now is that hanging chads have become Russian hackers.

In 2000, recounts reflected Bush won, even in the four Florida counties Al Gore cherry-picked for recount because they leaned heavily Democrat. Gore was such a pathetic loser, he couldn’t win his home state of Tennessee. Even so, Bush stole the election. In its majority opinion, the U.S. Supreme Court described the cheating by Democrat Party counters who continuously changed the counting rules during recounts to rig the election in favor of Al Gore.

The one thing I know with certainty: There is a God…and he rescued us from what would have been sure and certain disaster if Gore was president on September 11, 2001.

Nevertheless, Bush was illegitimate…illegitimate…illegitimate…just like Donald Trump, they ceaselessly reiterate.

Although the fresh air of truth floats just above their noses, they remain content hog-scratching through the mud piles of innuendoes, overtones and implications in search of a mouthwatering morsel of mistruth they can twist into something else. The Devil deals in counterfeits, you know.

On May 11 during a meeting of the Judiciary Committee which had nothing to do with Russia, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley [R-IOWA] and Ranking Member Democrat Dianne Feinstein addressed the subject of Russia. Grassley said both he and Feinstein were briefed by former FBI director Comey regarding the individuals the current FBI investigation targeted.

Grassley said, “Mr. Comey testified before the Judiciary Committee last week… Shortly after Director Comey briefed us, I tweeted that he should be transparent. I said he should tell the public what he told Sen. Feinstein and me about whether the FBI is or is not investigating the president. On Tuesday, the president’s letter said that Director Comey told him he was not under investigation. Sen. Feinstein and I heard nothing that contradicted the president’s statement.”

Grassley also said the FBI should “confirm to the public whether it is or is not investigating the president. Because it has failed to make this clear, speculation has run rampant” tempering “some of the unsubstantiated statements that have been made.”

Later, Grassley told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto: “There’s no evidence whatsoever now that they Russia changed one vote, but that suspicion is out there.” Sure is. Ask the hog-scratchers. 
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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The Man Who Was Beheaded
the Day He Became a Believer
by Minister Michael Brown
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 Mexico Second Deadliest in 2016—Build the Wall! 
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Unsurprisingly, Syria is once again the number one global hotspot for armed conflict, the International Institute for Strategic Studies reveals. But the second worst hotspot is located nowhere close to the Middle East, where one would normally expect it. In fact, it couldn't be closer to home. The IISS says that 23,000 Mexicans were victims of mostly drug-related guerrilla warfare last year, which is just under half of the 50,000 lives taken in Syria.
          IISS director general John Chipman points out that "Mexico is a conflict marked by the absence of artillery, tanks or combat aviation," which only adds shock value to the alarming toll. In Syria, the opposite is true. The report also proves just how effective Donald Trump's immigration clampdown has been. According to The Washington Times, "Illegal immigration across the southwestern border is down a stunning 76 percent since President Trump was elected, with the flow of children and families dropping even faster as analysts say the administration's commitment to enforcing the law has changed the reality along the border."
          That's a remarkable drop, yet it's nary enough, given the threat. The degree to which violence is devastating Mexico is more evidence of our need for a border wall. Gangs and drug runners have found numerous ways to exploit border security (or lack thereof), and the statistics demonstrate both how serious the threat truly is and what they are capable of. Meanwhile, here's a question for "compassionate" Democrats that will leave them looking like a deer staring in the headlights: Why do leftists support open borders to the world's second most deadly country?  ~The Patriot Post
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EPA Removes liar-nObama-Era Roadblock
Stopping Proposed Alaskan Mine
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by Jack Davis
{westernjournalism.com} ~ A proposed copper and gold mine in Alaska that the liar-nObama administration would not even allow to begin the permitting process can now go forward... in the wake of a settlement between the Trump-era Environmental Protection Agency and the company hoping to develop the mine. The EPA and the Pebble Limited Partnership are now asking that a lawsuit against the proposed Bristol Bay project be dropped so the company can follow normal channels to get the permits it needs for the mine. “The agreement will not guarantee or prejudge a particular outcome,” EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said in a statement, “but will provide Pebble a fair process for their permit application and help steer EPA away from costly and time-consuming litigation.”... http://www.westernjournalism.com/epa-removes-obama-era-roadblock-stopping-proposed-alaskan-mine/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=libertyalliance&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Snake clown-Schumer Pushes Plot To
Steal White House From President Trump
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s simultaneously nauseating, outrageous and laughable to hear the words “patriotism” and “the needs of this country” come out of the mouth of the vile Chuck clown-Schumer... He’s the last person who should be directing anyone as to their patriotic duty and is only concerned with the needs of the Democrat Party. He’s more than willing, in fact is actively seeking, the destruction of our Republic in the pursuit of his Party’s agenda. clown-Schumer gets the assistance of his Fake News CNN accomplice as they continue the progressive effort to wrestle the presidency away from President Trump through the phony Russia scandal...All they do is attack and never do what they are elected to do.  http://rickwells.us/snake-schumer-pushes-plot-steal-white-house-president-trump/
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North Korea says it launched missile
that can carry nuclear warhead
{foxnews.com} ~ North Korea said Monday that the medium-range strategic missile it tested over the weekend was "capable of carrying a large-size heavy nuclear warhead."... Dictator Kim Jong Un was said to have witnessed the test early Sunday and "hugged officials in the field of rocket research, saying that they worked hard to achieve a great thing," according to the communist dictatorship's official Korean Central News Agency. The claim, if confirmed, would mark another big step forward in the country's escalating efforts to field a nuclear-tipped missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland. Outside experts have said they do not believe the rogue nation can do that yet, but each new test may push them closer to that goal... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/14/north-korea-says-it-launched-missile-that-can-carry-nuclear-warhead.html
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Californians Are Revolting Against Dems
Who Voted For Gas Tax Hike
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by Chris White
{dailycaller.com} ~ Californians are pushing back against the Democratic lawmakers who passed the largest gas tax in the state’s history last month... Citizens have signed signatures for a recall effort against Democratic state Sen. Josh Newman for his vote in favor for the Road Repair and Accountability Act, and another lawmaker is moving forward on an initiative to repeal the unpopular gas tax. The law, passed April 6, imposes a 12 cents a gallon hike on citizens and raises the tax on diesel fuel by 20 cents a gallon. It also implements an additional charge to annual vehicle license fees ranging from $25 to $175 depending on the car’s value... http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/14/californians-are-revolting-against-dems-who-voted-for-gas-tax-hike/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Weekend
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Scholar Unravels ‘The Big Lie’ Surrounding
The Tump Campaign And Russian Collusion
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by Ginni Thomas
{dailycaller.com} ~ Scholar Victor Davis Hanson says there’s a “big lie” surrounding the “boogeyman of Russian collusion” that Democrats and the media rally around, according to an exclusive interview with The Daily Caller News Foundation... Hanson’s analysis begins by reminding us of the recent massive Democratic losses, which he places at the feet of President Barack liar-nObama’s policies and identity politics gone awry. “The blue wall crumbled,” he says, turning working people against the Democrats in droves. The party then scrambled for any alternative to explain the electoral defeats... http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/13/scholar-unravels-the-big-lie-surrounding-the-tump-campaign-and-russian-collusion-video/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Weekend
VIDEO:  at the site
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The Man Who Was Beheaded
the Day He Became a Believer
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by Minister Michael Brown
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Most of us are familiar with the story of the 21 Coptic Christians from Egypt who held fast to their faith and were beheaded by ISIS in February, 2015. But did you know that only 20 of them were actually Copts from Egypt? Did you know that one of the martyrs was from Chad, and he had not been a Christian prior to the day of his beheading?

Although this story was previously reported, I had not heard it before this week. But at this week’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians hosted by the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, which I had the privilege of attending, a Coptic leader shared the account. It is a remarkable story and yet another tribute to the faith of these martyred Copts.

All 21 men had been working in Libya when they were kidnapped by ISIS. But as can be seen in pictures where they are lined up on the beach to be killed, one of them had darker skin and different facial features. This was the man from Chad.

The Coptic Christians were given a choice to deny Jesus or die. They refused to deny Him, knowing it would cost them their heads.

When the terrorists ordered the man from Chad to deny Jesus or die, he answered, “Their God is my God,” thereby sealing his fate.

That’s how moved he was by the faith of these Christians. Their refusal to deny their Savior, even at the point of death – literally, at the point of a knife to their throats – moved him to make a profession of faith, one that would cost him his head as well. Can we grasp the intensity of this story?

The man had not been a believer. All he had to say was, “I don’t believe in Jesus” or, “Jesus is not the Son of God,” and he could walk away a free man.

He would be with his family again. He would not die a brutal death. He would live to see another day.

How many Christians would be sorely tempted under such circumstances? How many would waver and, for that moment, deny their Lord, just to avoid beheading?

Yet this man, who had not been a follower of Jesus before then, was so moved by the dedication of these Christians that he became a believer on the spot.

“Go ahead and behead me,” he was saying. “Your god is not my God. Their God is my God.”

That is the power of the gospel, and that is how we overcome Satan, by not loving our lives to the point of death (Revelation 12:11).

That is why this story needs to be told and retold until the faith of those martyrs becomes our faith, until people look at our lives and say, “Your God is my God, whatever may come my way.”

And here’s something striking. As I have listened this week to the stories of persecuted Christians, even hearing from family members of martyrs, I have not heard a word of self-pity. Not a word.

I have heard words of courage and dedication. I have heard words of great love for Jesus. I have heard requests for prayer and help. But I have not heard any self-pity.

The daughter of an Iranian pastor martyred 20 years ago spoke of her own life experience and of her father’s refusal to back down. Now, 20 years after her father was buried in an unmarked grave, she could speak of multiplied hundreds of thousands of Iranian Muslims coming to faith in Jesus. Her father’s blood was not shed in vain.

That is how a seed planted in the ground first dies and then produces much fruit (John 12:24-25).

A Syrian Christian leader shared how a radical Islamic group offered to arm them to fight against another radical Islamic faction. He replied, “We already have two arms, love and forgiveness. We don’t want to become another militia.”

That is how we overcome evil with good (Romans 12:21). Some Christians even said to ISIS, “Thank you for helping to unite us!”

Yet it would be wrong to think of these suffering believers as super saints, which is another lesson for us all.

Most of them are just ordinary Christians, not preachers or pastors, and certainly not big-name evangelists. They are mothers and fathers, young people and old people, laborers and housewives, educated and uneducated. Yet they have remained faithful under hellish pressure, enduring unspeaking suffering.

Yet rather than curse God, they bless Him, and rather than retaliate against their enemies with hatred and vengeance, they offer forgiveness and love.

Earlier this year, a couple told me about their trip to Ethiopia where they met with family members of the Ethiopian Christians beheaded by ISIS. They spoke with the widow of one of the martyrs who was pregnant when he was killed, making his death even more painful.

But when they talked with this young woman, rather than bemoan her terrible loss, she said to them, “How is it that I had the privilege of being married to a martyr for Jesus?” She was an uneducated woman with no social status, and she was humbled beyond words that she was chosen to be the wife of a martyr.

This is why radical Islam will ultimately fall before the name of Jesus and why every other force that seeks to wipe out the Church will fail in the end. It’s also why we should stop feeling sorry for ourselves when things get a little rough. Are we not also more than conquerors through Him who loved us? (See Romans 8:37)
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Monday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Past time to end Democratic witch hunt
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by David Limbaugh

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 Trump's Statements Add Fuel to Controversy 
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The fallout over Donald Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey is beginning to resemble a daytime soap opera. Democrats have strategically boxed Trump in so no matter what he does, it's further "evidence" supporting their collusion-with-Russia narrative. With the mainstream media presuming the validity of that conspiracy theory, any action or non-action by Trump suddenly becomes evidence of covering up a "crime." What crime exactly? Well, it would seem the best answer is the fact that Trump won the election. Evidently, that's criminal enough for the Leftmedia and Democrats to demand investigations into unsubstantiated allegations.
          The trouble is, Trump isn't helping himself. Thursday evening, in an interview with NBC News, Trump flat out contradicted his White House staff's and Vice President Mike Pence's explanation of the reasoning behind the decision to dismiss Comey.
          According to statements from the White House immediately following the firing, the reason the FBI director had been let go was primarily due to recommendations from the Justice Department, particularly based on Comey's handling of the liar-Clinton email probe. Pence corroborated that account, stating earlier Thursday: "Let me be very clear that the President's decision to accept the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general to remove Director Comey as the head of the FBI was based solely and exclusively on his commitment to the best interests of the American people and to ensuring that the FBI has the trust and confidence of the people of this nation."
          Then came Trump's Thursday evening interview. In typical Trump style, he ineloquently expressed a totally different story behind his decision to remove Comey. He stated, "I was going to fire Comey. Oh, I was going to fire regardless of recommendation." The obvious question then arises: Why now? What transpired to bring him to make the decision?
          Here's where Trump's explanation just really doesn't add up. He says, "In fact, when I decided to just do it, I said to myself, I said, 'You know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made-up story, it's an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.'" He's entirely accurate in his assessment of the Democrat narrative being utter nonsense, but that still doesn't explain his motivation for canning Comey or the timing of it. Nor does it explain why he's playing right into Democrat hands by saying the Russia angle prompted him to do it.
          Another comment by Trump may come closest to answering the question. In evaluating Comey, Trump said, "Look, he's a showboat. He's a grandstander. The FBI has been in turmoil. You know that. I know that. Everybody knows that. You take a look at the FBI a year ago — it was in virtual turmoil. Less than a year ago. It hasn't recovered from that." Maybe Trump witnessed Comey's testimony last week, in which he explained his decisions for not recommending prosecution of liar-Hillary Clinton. Perhaps that rubbed Trump the wrong way and he decided it was time.
          Unfortunately, the lack of a cohesive and consistent statement from Trump and his staff has served to add fuel to a controversy he wanted to dispel. If it seemed bad after Comey’s firing, it will only get worse with the Trump White House failing to keep its story straight.  ~The Patriot Post
North Korea Still Provoking The West –
Launches Another Missile Test
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ There has been another missile launch from North Korea, this latest one occurring in the early morning hours Sunday, local time... The distance traveled before crashing into the sea was reportedly approximately 430 miles. This launch comes roughly two weeks after what is believed to have been a failed ballistic missile launch. CNN reporter Alexandra Field notes that South Korea, Japan and the United States are all engaged in trying to determine the type of missile and other things about the North Korean missile program that might be learned from the trail of evidence. She points out that there have already been  nine ballistic missile test launches over the course of this year alone... http://rickwells.us/north-korea-still-poking-the-west-launches-another-missile-test-early-sunday/
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Germany Confiscating Homes to Use for Migrants
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Hamburg, Germany
by Soeren Kern
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Authorities in Hamburg, the second-largest city in Germany, have begun confiscating private dwellings to ease a housing shortage — one that has been acutely exacerbated by Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision... to allow more than two million migrants into the country in recent years. City officials have been seizing commercial properties and converting them into migrant shelters since late 2015, when Merkel opened German borders to hundreds of thousands of migrants from Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Now, however, the city is expropriating residential property units owned by private citizens. In an unprecedented move, Hamburg authorities recently confiscated six residential units in the Hamm district near the city center... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10352/germany-migrants-property-rights
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CIA Opens New North Korean Mission Center
in Secret Location

{fixthisnation.com} ~ CIA Director Mike Pompeo announced Wednesday that the U.S. intelligence agency had opened a new mission center whose sole purpose would be to keep constant tabs on North Korea... “Creating the Korea Mission Center allows us to more purposefully integrate and direct CIA efforts against the serious threats to the United States and its allies emanating from North Korea,” said Pompeo in a statement. “It also reflects the dynamism and agility that CIA brings to evolving national security challenges.” The statement went on to say that the new mission center – the 11th such outpost the CIA has constructed around the world – was developed to meet the “nuclear and ballistic threat posed by” the Kim Jong Un regime, allowing the U.S. to “harness the full resources, capabilities, and authorities of the Agency.”...
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Eight Lies the MSM Told About Comey Firing
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by Onan Coca
{lidblog.com} ~ John Nolte who was one of my former editors at Breitbart and as Onan points out he should be profusely thanked for his constant efforts at unmasking the real progenitors of “fake news” in the mainstream media... This week he has laid bare their lies by focusing his time on one story in particular – the sad saga of former FBI Director James Comey. Over the last week or so the media has breathlessly reported on every little whisper that has escaped from Washington, D.C. and for the most part – much of what they’ve told us has been wrong. Sadly, this is a common refrain from today’s media who can’t seem to get out of their own way and constantly seem to be tripping over their own failures and falsehoods. It’s almost as if the media has an agenda that they are trying to promote and they are willing to sacrifice their reputation if it means pushing that agenda forward...http://lidblog.com/msm-lies-comey-firing/
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Hold FBI director vote hostage?
Chuck clown-Schumer says count me in
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by Daniel Chaitin
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Sen. Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer, D-N.Y., says he supports an effort to stonewall the Trump administration's not-yet-announced FBI director nominee... by refusing a confirmation vote until a special prosecutor has been appointed to investigate potential ties between the Trump campaign and Russia. Sen. Mark Warner, the top Democrat on the intelligence committee, has led the charge. When asked about it on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday, clown-Schumer said there are "a lot of Democrats" who support Warner's effort. clown-Schumer said "I would support that move" but Democrats will have to discuss it as a group... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/hold-fbi-director-vote-hostage-chuck-schumer-says-count-me-in/article/2623059
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Past time to end Democratic witch hunt
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by David Limbaugh
{wnd.com} ~ I don’t deny that President Trump’s firing of FBI Director James Comey was handled poorly, but it pales in comparison with the Democrats’ ongoing partisan witch hunt against President Trump concerning Russia. That should be the story.

Shortly after Trump’s dismissal of Comey, Trump defenders had plenty of ammunition. Widely respected and nonpartisan Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had reportedly recommended that Trump fire Comey.

But then the communications from Team Trump on the matter seemed to muddy the waters. Though maintaining that Rosenstein’s recommendation was pivotal, Trump spokespeople added other reasons. They claimed that Trump had fired Comey based on his handling of the liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation and because numerous FBI agents and employees were dispirited by Comey’s actions.

Then acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe testified, “The vast majority of FBI employees enjoyed a deep, positive connection to Director Comey.” A number of retired FBI officials also apparently showed solidarity with Comey by using his face for their Facebook profile photos. And though Rosenstein has contradicted mainstream media reports that he was contemplating resigning over the narrative that he had recommended Comey’s dismissal, he reportedly claims that he did not expressly recommend the firing. Oh, boy.

Trump added more to the mix when he told Lester Holt in an interview that he had decided to fire Comey irrespective of the reported Rosenstein recommendation. Media outlets are having a field day with this alleged contradiction. Trump has thrown his communications team under the bus, they say, because his spokespeople clearly said that Trump’s firing was a response to the recommendation. Trump’s tweets concerning possible recorded conversations between him and Comey didn’t help, either.

What a mess.

Though it doesn’t look good that Trump’s version arguably varies from that of his spokespeople, I don’t see any major inconsistency here. I suspect that Trump was increasingly frustrated with Comey and wanted to fire him and that the recommendation helped justify it. Either way, Trump had the constitutional authority to fire Comey, and it would be scandalous only if he did so to impede a legitimate investigation into his alleged collusion with Russia, which is not the case.

Trump is obviously exasperated that the Democrats are impeding his policy agenda with their obsessive hammering of the bogus charge that he and his team conspired with Russia to interfere with the presidential election.

Despite the incessant media reports and congressional investigations, not a shred of evidence has emerged to substantiate the charge of collusion. We keep saying this, but the media and Democrats keep pretending otherwise. It’s unconscionable. Even James Clapper, former President Barack liar-nObama’s director of national intelligence, has admitted that there is no evidence of collusion and that he has no reason to suspect it.

The real scandal is not Trump’s firing Comey – even if Trump’s supporters are unhappy with the timing and the way it was handled and communicated. The scandal is the liberal establishment’s coordinated conspiracy to falsely allege that Trump stole the presidency by colluding with Russia. Liberals absolutely know that it’s not true, but they will not quit bearing false witness. How dare they posture indignantly about Trump’s supposed dishonesty?

The Democrats know they are fabricating this whole thing, but they figure this is the best way they can thwart Trump’s efforts to move the country forward and out of the multiple quagmires liar-nObama landed this country in. Their constant laments about the democratic process are laughably belied by their refusal to accept the results of the presidential election.

It is the Democrats’ prerogative to act as the opposition party and to try to impede Trump’s agenda. But it is reprehensible that they are doing so through fraudulent means and further dividing the country with their lies about Team Trump and Russia.

Their counterfeit hysteria knows no bounds. Not long ago, Democrats were demanding Comey’s head, alleging that his public announcements had sabotaged liar-Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign. Now they are claiming the firing is a “constitutional crisis” and a “coup.” Not only did Trump have the authority to fire Comey, but also the termination does not end the investigation.

Author Jon Meacham claimed on “Morning Joe” that Trump had removed someone “in charge of an investigation that could lead to treason.” Sen. Richard Blumenthal said the firing may well lead to impeachment hearings. Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer called on the Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor to oversee the FBI’s investigation into the Trump campaign.

liar-Hillary Clinton’s 2016 running mate, Sen. Tim Kaine, said: “We have a deeply insecure president who understands that the noose is tightening because of this Russia investigation. And that’s why I believe he has let Jim Comey go.”

Kaine knows better. There is no evidence that there is any noose, much less that it’s tightening, and the media’s claim that Trump fired Comey because he was seeking more funds to investigate him has been expressly denied by Acting Director McCabe. CNN’s Van Jones said that the only people who are happy about the firing “are sitting in the Kremlin.” MSNBC’s Chris Matthews claimed that the firing was “a little whiff of fascism.” Countless liberal media and political figures are comparing the Comey firing to the Saturday Night Massacre, in which Richard Nixon fired Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox.

The way this firing transpired is unfortunate, but we wouldn’t be talking about this if Democrats and the media weren’t lying every hour of every day about a nonexistent scandal. This bogus investigation should end forthwith, no matter who is heading it, because it is based on nothing but innuendo and partisanship. You conduct an investigation not because you want something to be true but because you have some evidence suggesting it may be. There is no such evidence here, and they’ve admitted it. Let’s move on.
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The PLO's most powerful lobbyists ... are Jews
by Caroline B. Glick
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New FBI Director ‘Soiled’ by liar-Clinton
Conflict of Interest and Should Resign
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by Daniel J. Flynn
{breitbart.com} ~ The former assistant director of the FBI tells Breitbart News that James Comey’s replacement should resign because of a conflict of interest over the liar-Hillary Clinton emails investigation... Acting FBI Director McCabe failed to report donations from Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe to his wife. McAuliffe recruited Dr. Jill McCabe, a political novice, to run for state senate in Virginia in 2015. She narrowly lost. McAuliffe, perhaps the closest political ally of the liar-Clintons, donated $467,500 from his Common Good Virginia political action committee to McCabe’s state senate campaign. McAuliffe also helped steer several hundred thousand additional dollars to McCabe’s state senate run as well... http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/05/10/new-fbi-director-soiled-clinton-conflict-interest-resign-says-bureaus-former-assistant-director/
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North Korea fires unidentified
projectile off its coast
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{foxnews.com} ~ North Korea fired on Sunday an unidentified projectile from a region near its west coast, South Korea's military told Reuters... The launch took place at a region named Kusong located northwest of the capital, Pyongyang, where the North previously test-launched its intermediate-range missile it is believed to be developing. The launch, if it is confirmed to be test-firing of a ballistic missile, is the first in two weeks since the last attempt to fire a missile ended in a failure just minutes into flight... http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/05/13/north-korea-fires-unidentified-projectile-off-its-coast-south-koreas-military-reports.html
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Sen Wyden Makes Up His Own Fake “Facts,” Accuses Trump Of Things He Never Did, Said
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ As the prelude and a means of enabling himself to take a position that in many ways contradicts many of his various previous ones... Senator Ron “Thuffering Thuckatash” Wyden (D-OR) told the Senate Intelligence Committee on Thursday that it was fair to say that he disagreed with Director Comey “as much as anyone in this room.” That’s all he had to say, he’d given himself the hypocrisy green light. He was then free to criticize others, namely President Trump, for doing what needed to be done in eliminating the Democrat operative and obstructionist, James Comey. He duplicitously said, “The timing of this firing is wrong to anyone with a semblance of ethics eliminates Wyden. Director Comey should be here this morning testifying to the American people about where the investigation he’s been running stands.”... Wyden is one sick person. http://rickwells.us/sen-wyden-makes-fake-facts-accuses-trump-things-never-said/
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FBI raids offices of Republican fundraising group
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by Tré Goins-Phillips
{theblaze.com} ~ The FBI confirmed Thursday that agents are executing a search warrant at the office of a Republican fundraising and consulting firm in Annapolis, Maryland... Federal agents were seen using trash bags to cover the windows of the Strategic Campaign Group, presumably to block their activity from view, according to WBAL-TV’s David Collins. The purpose of the FBI’s raid Thursday of the Strategic Campaign Group’s office was not immediately clear... http://www.theblaze.com/news/2017/05/11/fbi-raids-offices-of-republican-fundraising-group/
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Sham Congressional Testimony on Alleged
Russian US Election Meddling
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Since US intelligence community accusations surfaced last year, not a shred of evidence was provided corroborating baseless claims. None exists. No Russian US election hacking occurred... America’s intelligence community lied claiming otherwise – part of longstanding Russia bashing, along with an attempt to delegitimize Trump’s electoral triumph. Monday’s Senate subcommittee testimony focused on bashing Russia irresponsibly, along with denigrating short-lived Trump national security advisor Michael Flynn over contacts with Russia – During Monday congressional testimony, neither Yates or former  director of national intelligence James Clapper offered any evidence of Russian interference with America’s 2016 presidential election.... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/sham-congressional-testimony-russian-us-election-hacking/
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by Caroline B. Glick
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jewishworldreview.com} ~ In private conversations over the past week, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has complained bitterly about American Jewish billionaire Ronald Lauder. According to media reports, Lauder played a key role in convincing US President Donald Trump that he can reach “the ultimate deal” with the PLO and Israel.

Netanyahu is surely right that Lauder shouldn’t have been lobbying Trump on behalf of the PLO .

But he is wrong about Lauder’s responsibility for the president’s sudden decision to start singing from Barack liar-nObama’s hymnal on everything related to Israel and the PLO .

Lauder is far from the only member of the PLO ’s booster club.

First of all, there is the American foreign policy establishment.

After 23 years of successive administrations upholding the fantasy that all the Middle East’s problems will be resolved the minute Israel hands over Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria to the PLO , it’s hard to find any establishment types who aren’t completely committed to the delusion that the PLO is the answer to America’s prayers.

Then there is the Israeli establishment. To understand its power, we need to consider the status of the Taylor Force Act.

The Taylor Force Act is a popular pro-Israel bill now being deliberated in Congress. If it passes, the US will be barred from transferring funds to the PLO -controlled Palestinian Authority so long as the PA pays salaries to convicted terrorists sitting in Israeli prisons and pays pensions to the families of terrorists killed while committing terrorist acts.

The bill, named for Taylor Force, a former US military officer murdered by a Palestinian terrorists in Tel Aviv in 2015, enjoys majority support in both houses. Nonetheless, it has hit an iceberg.

On Wednesday The Jerusalem Post reported that neither AIPAC nor the Israeli government support it.

AIPAC reportedly won’t lobby for the bill because it lacks support from Democratic lawmakers. This claim is ridiculous on its face.

If AIPAC can’t get Democrats to support a bill ending US funding of terrorism, then AIPAC might as well close its doors right now.

As for the government, it is far from clear how the government could be more supportive. Netanyahu has spoken publicly in favor of the bill.

So if Netanyahu supports it, which Israeli government opposes it? The report didn’t say but the answer is obvious to anyone who has spent time on Capitol Hill over the past 17 years.

Since the PLO initiated its terrorist war against Israel in 2000, US lawmakers have made repeated attempts to end US financial support for the PA . But every time they came close to defunding it, some member of the IDF General Staff appeared in their chambers and asked them to keep the dollars flowing.

The claim is always the same. If Congress cuts off the funds to the PA , the PA security services will stop cooperating with the IDF. That cooperation, the generals tell them, is critical to Israel’s counterterrorism efforts. So cutting off US funds to the terrorism-supporting PA is tantamount to supporting terrorism.

This claim has become so routine that no one ever bothers to think it through. But it needs to be scrutinized.

Let’s begin with the following question: If the PA weren’t funding terrorism, to say nothing of inciting terrorism and glorifying terrorists, would the level of Palestinian terrorism rise or fall? The answer, of course, is obvious. The level of terrorism would fall if the PA weren’t funding, glorifying and inciting terrorism.

And if the levels of Palestinian terrorism drop then IDF’s need for security cooperation with the PA ’s security services would also diminish.

The fact that the IDF’s General Staff has failed to draw the obvious conclusion that less money for terrorism means less terrorism indicates that something is preventing our generals from drawing rational conclusions from their institutional experience.

Two recent stories explain the source of this cognitive blockage.

The first story involves Lt. (res.) Dean Issacharoff.

Issacharoff completed his IDF service in 2015 and went to work for Breaking the Silence where he serves as the anti-IDF group’s spokesman.

Breaking the Silence is a foreign government-funded organization that works to blacken the IDF’s reputation by publishing generally anonymous war crimes allegations against Israeli soldiers.

At a Breaking the Silence conference in Kiryat Ono on April 4, Issacharoff was filmed telling his audience that he himself is a war criminal.

Issacharoff said that during his military service as a combat officer in Hebron, he violently assaulted a Palestinian who posed no threat to himself or his soldiers.

Issacharoff said that he committed this crime in front of his soldiers and his company commander.

On April 25, Ad Kan, a volunteer organization that counters radical political NGOs, sent a letter to Attorney- General Avichai Mandelblit asking him to open a criminal probe against Issacharoff. Ad Kan attached a video of Issacharoff’s remarks to its letter.

Given the severity of the crimes Issacharoff claims to have committed, Mandelblit could have been expected to immediately order the State Prosecution’s Criminal Division to launch a probe. But as it happened, for two weeks, Mandelblit sat on his hands.

Then, on May 7, Issacharoff’s claims came to the public’s attention when another volunteer organization, Reservists on Duty, which defends IDF soldiers from slander, exposed it in an online film. Issacharoff’s company commander and his soldiers stood before the camera and one after another they rejected his claims saying, “Dean Issacharoff, you’re a liar.”

Two days later Mandelblit forwarded Ad Kan’s letter to his criminal division.

The reason that Ad Kan and Reservists on Duty were compelled to act is that the IDF’s legal authorities have been amazingly passive about Issacharoff’s claims. The Military Advocate-General’s Office rejected Reservists on Duty’s request to open a criminal probe into Issacharoff’s claims.

The MAG claimed that since Issacharoff’s alleged crimes were committed more than a year ago, the State Prosecution rather than the IDF is responsible for investigating and prosecuting him.

But in truth, if the IDF wanted jurisdiction over its reserve officer who is publicly slandering its soldiers and officers, all it needed to do was call him to duty and send him to the Military Police for investigation.

The fact that the IDF has refused to take action, and that Mandelblit only transferred Ad Kan’s letter to his criminal division after the story hit the news, indicates that Israel’s military and legal establishment would have let Issacharoff get away with either committing a war crime or slandering his fellow soldiers and officers if Ad Kan and Reservists on Duty hadn’t alerted the public.

This then brings us to the second story. It revolves around Breaking the Silence’s comrades in B’Tselem.

Over the past decade, B’Tselem has spent millions of shekels on a campaign to slander the IDF and its soldiers.

The foreign-government financed group’s Camera Project uses video production to blacken the IDF’s good name and impede its operations. Participants in B’Tselem’s Camera Project enter closed military zones in Judea and Samaria with video cameras. The selectively edited videos they produce uniformly portray IDF soldiers and officers as cruel and callous.

Over the years, B’Tselem’s snuff film project has damaged the IDF’s international reputation, its operational capacity and the morale of its soldiers. But despite the fact that it has numerous legal means to fight B’Tselem, the General Staff has taken no action against the group.

This week, emboldened by the IDF’s passivity, B’Tselem escalated its campaign against the IDF.

On Sunday B’Tselem posted a menacing message on its Facebook page addressed to the parents of a young active duty IDF officer.

It read, “To the parents of the officer with a beauty mark over his upper lip, that in February of this year served by the Yitzhar settlement: If you want to bask in the glory of your son the hero in the course of his operational activities, go to the Cinematheque in Tel Aviv. Your son will be starring in a film there – cocking his weapon against civilians... barking orders in broken Arabic...”

A photo of the officer and two of his soldiers was posted below the message.

B’Tselem’s action was prominently covered in the media. Its video of the officer and his soldiers was played and replayed.

This was no mere snuff film.

B’Tselem’s post, publicly shaming a serving officer, was a steep escalation of its political war against the IDF and its soldiers and officers. Now all IDF soldiers and officers are on notice. The next B’Tselem post may be a defamatory post against them addressed to their parents.

Given the demoralizing effect B’Tselem’s assault on the officer and his family had on their soldiers, the generals might have been expected to open criminal proceedings against B’Tselem.

But that didn’t happen.

Instead, the IDF Spokesman, Maj.-Gen. Moti Almoz, wrote a post on his Facebook page.

“Greetings to all of our slanderers,” he began.

Rather than pledge to take necessary legal action to defend IDF soldiers and officers from abuse and harassment at the hands of B’Tselem, Almoz treated B’Tselem’s hostile act as an adolescent prank.

Almoz concluded his post, which never even mentioned B’Tselem by name, “You will continue to make movies as if in the name of freedom of expression, despite the fact that your expression is unconnected to reality. And we will continue to protect the people of the State of Israel and ensure the security of its citizens, without inserting the IDF into political disputes.”

Almoz’s conclusion is particularly problematic because the fact is that his statement that the IDF’s position is apolitical is misleading.

It is true that there is nothing political about soldiers lawfully carrying out their missions. But, the General Staff’s decision not to defend its soldiers and officers from the likes of B’Tselem and Breaking the Silence is a political decision.

In choosing to treat anti-Israel groups like Breaking the Silence and B’Tselem with kid gloves, the General Staff is inserting itself directly into Israeli politics.

Likewise, when IDF generals lobby Congress to maintain US funding of the PA , and when “military sources” express their opposition to Trump’s plan to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, they are behaving as political activists.

This returns us to Netanyahu and his frustration at Trump’s sudden embrace of the PLO , which places the most pro-Israel president in history on a collision course with Israel.

Netanyahu is right to be angry. But his rage at Lauder is misdirected. The real culprit is the General Staff.

Since no prime minister can dispute the holy grail of “security concerns,” Lauder got blamed.

This situation is insufferable. Our generals cannot continue to receive a pass for their political activism.

When they lobby for the PLO and against moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem they cross the line into gross insubordination. When they protect Breaking the Silence and B’Tselem rather than their soldiers, they commit a grave dereliction of duty.
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Democrats Keep Getting Caught
Telling Big Lies About AHCA
by Jay Caruso
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 Trump's Excellent Judicial Nominations Continue 
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By Paul Albaugh: Many conservatives may not be happy with President Donald Trump signing the $1.1 trillion spending bill last week, and they may not be satisfied that we still have a long way to go toward repealing liar-nObamaCare. Trump's record for the first 100 days is mixed.
          Conservatives can, however, be extremely pleased with at least one dimension of Trump's presidency thus far, and that is his commitment to appoint originalist justices and judges at all levels. During his campaign, he promised that he would select conservative individuals to fill vacancies in the courts. That gave many voters leaning Trump the affirmation they needed. With his excellent selection of Neil Gorsuch to fill the seat vacated by Justice Antonin Scalia, that faith paid off.
          By all indications, tapping a conservative justice like Neil Gorsuch was just the beginning of more to come.
          To the dismay of some, Trump has not placed too much emphasis on rushing to fill executive branch openings, but he isn't plodding along with judicial nominations. In fact, the White House announced Monday that there would be 10 nominations to fill openings in several of the appellate and district courts. This is great news, but even better is that Trump plans to make his nominations to the lower courts a "near monthly event."
          His slate of nominations to the appellate courts in this round is excellent and will no doubt have lefties cringing at the prospect of the appellate courts shifting dramatically toward the Constitution.
          Fox News has the list: "Two of the nominees originally were on the list of 21 candidates that the Trump transition team considered for the Supreme Court vacancy left by Antonin Scalia's death, and ultimately filled by Gorsuch. They are Justice Joan Larsen of the Michigan Supreme Court, nominated to the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati; and Justice David Stras of the Minnesota Supreme Court, nominated to the 8th Circuit Court of Appeals in St. Louis. The other nominees are Amy Coney Barrett, a Notre Dame law professor nominated to the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals in Chicago; John Bush, a Louisville lawyer nominated to the 6th Circuit; Kevin C. Newsom, a former Alabama Solicitor General nominated to the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta; Judge David C. Nye, nominated to the U.S. District Court for Idaho; Scott L. Palk, a former federal prosecutor nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Oklahoma; Damien Schiff, nominated to federal claims court; Dabney L. Friedrich, nominated to U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; and Judge Terry Moorer, nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Alabama."
          These nominees are highly qualified and principled individuals who are similar to Gorsuch. They're likely to influence the lower courts decisions in favor of Rule of Law.
          Court nominations have lasting impact on policy, too. Trump's travel ban is one of the policies that should have been carried out, yet due to activist judges, it was halted. It's a prime example of how important it is to select judges who uphold Rule of Law. President Trump understands this and he anticipates many more legal battles ahead from leftists who want nothing more than to derail his presidential agenda.
          During Barack liar-nObama's eight years, he made 331 federal judgeship appointments. Russell Wheeler, a fellow at the Brookings Institution Governance Studies Program, notes that when Trump was sworn into office in January, Democrat appointees held 51% of the 673 District Court judgeships, while Republican appointees held only 34%. In addition, there were 96 vacant seats when Trump was sworn in. When liar-nObama took office, there were just 39 vacancies on the lower courts and Republican-appointed judges held 60% of the court posts, or 371 seats.
          Trump's greatest obstacle to his nominees will be Senate Democrats, who appear poised to drag their feet and then vote "no" on every single one, just out of spite. So it's almost certain that his judicial nominations won't be confirmed nearly as expediently as Trump would like. But Republicans in the Senate need not compromise on conservative appointees just to appease their Democrat counterparts. That happens far too often with Republicans in Congress, but rarely ever the other way around.
          Appointing judges to the courts who are principled and who interpret the law in accordance with the Constitution is of the utmost importance. If there is one area where can Trump can make a huge difference and put America back on track, it's the courts. He's well on his way.  ~The Patriot Post
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Trump Orders Review, Preparations,
Contingencies For Cyber Attack On Power Grid
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump has issued an executive order mandating the federal government to prepare for a possible cyber attack against the nation’s electric grid... The order, signed on Thursday, instructed the Energy Department, Homeland Security Department, DNI and state and local governments to assess their readiness, including any deficiencies as well as the means available for restoration in the event of such an attack and submit their findings in report form. Two days earlier Cyber command chief Admiral Mike Rogers said that several nations, including Iran, have been linked to disruptions and intrusions into our critical infrastructures, including the electric grid and financial network. Rogers said destructive cyber attacks on critical infrastructure are one of his two worst case scenarios. The second involves the threat of cyber intrusions aimed at manipulating data within networks...http://rickwells.us/trump-orders-review-preparations-contingencies-cyber-attack-power-grid/
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SESSIONS Backing Off of RECUSAL –
No Time For Dem Nonsense
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Many of us were shouting at the screen when Attorney General Sessions gave in to the demands of the leftists and recused himself from what he described at the time... as “any existing or future investigations of any matter relating in any way to the campaigns for president of the United States. Maybe he didn’t expect the Russia thing to go on forever, to be dragged out like everything else Jim Comey got his corrupt hands on, including the production of evidence, or a failure thereof for the Senate and  House intelligence committees in their simultaneous investigation of the same phantom incident. He couldn’t very well have them discover things that he was himself trying to keep hidden. Sessions probably didn’t expect it to be used as a tool for the Democrats to neuter him, to broadly interpret his recusal to mean the most incidental applications to the narrow criteria he attempted to layout...http://rickwells.us/sessions-backing-recusal-no-time-dem-nonsense-got-real-work/
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Uh-Oh liar-Hillary: FBI could reopen emailgate
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by Alicia Powe
{wnd.com} ~ While Democrats and the mainstream media claim President Donald Trump terminated FBI Director James Comey because of what he might have found in an Russia meddling probe... the fact there will be a new leader at the bureau may have unintended consequences for scandal-plagued and twice-failed candidate liar-Hillary Clinton. The investigation into her emails and the immunity deals granted to liar-Clinton and her aides may be revisited, Brian Weidner, a veteran former FBI agent warns. “I would be surprised if they did not review all the investigations regarding HRC and come up with a conclusion regarding prosecution. The statute of limitations hasn’t come into play yet,” Weidner said in an email to Fox News...http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/uh-oh-hillary-fbi-could-reopen-emailgate/
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Sens Grassley & Feinstein Destroy
clown-Schumer’s Comey Firing Conspiracy Theory
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by Onan Coca And Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Hey Senator clown-Schumer…push up your glasses and read this. Chuck Grassley (R-IA) and Diane Feinstein (D-CA) both agree that there is nothing to contradict what the president said about Comey telling him was not under investigation... In other words Trump did not fire Comey because the president was under investigation–he fired Comey because in his opinion Comey was doing a lousy job. Feinstein’s agreement that Trump wasn’t being investigated proves once again the conspiracy theories you keep spewing are nothing but an attempt to divide the country Shame On You... http://lidblog.com/sens-grassley-feinstein-destroy-schumer-comey-firing-conspiracy-theory/
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The UN's Obsession against Israel
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Under Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim, a former Nazi, the United Nations in 1975
passed the infamous Resolution 3379, "Zionism is a form of Racism".
by Pierre Rehov
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) met once again on March 20 to debate "Agenda Item 7"... a mandatory subject of debate since June 2006, the only one whose goal is systematically to condemn the Israeli democracy for crimes the existence of which remain to be proven. The agenda, officially designed to assess the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian territories, in the light of the reports submitted by Fatah, the PLO and various NGOs, is part of a wider campaign, carried out by countries such as Libya, Algeria, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Sudan and Yemen. Israel is thus the only country on the planet to benefit from the doubtful privilege of being scrutinized on the least of its actions, through an agenda decided by its enemies...https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10334/un-obsession-israel
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Democrats Keep Getting Caught
Telling Big Lies About AHCA
by Jay Caruso

{redstate.com} ~ The media world is focused heavily on Donald Trump and James Comey, but it doesn’t mean other things aren’t going on.
 
With the passage of the AHCA in the House of Representatives, the Democrats are ramping up on the scare tactics as well as the lies to make their case for the bill to fail. They are hoping their histrionics will scare Senate Republicans into cutting the bill back to the point it has no teeth.
 
They’re not just scaring people. The Democrats are doing it with lies, and they’re not white lies but flat-out whoppers that don’t pass the sniff test at the Washington Post and Politifact.
 
Here are some:
Kamala D. Harris’s claim that 129 million people with preexisting conditions ‘could be denied coverage’
Washington Post Fact-Checker: Four Pinocchios
Despite critics’ claims, the GOP health bill doesn’t classify rape or sexual assault as a preexisting condition
Washington Post Fact-Checker: Four Pinocchios
clown-Schumer…wrong to say ‘the bill goes back to the day when insurance companies could deny coverage to those with preexisting conditions.’
Factcheck.org: clown-Schumer lied
Representative Nancy Pulosi, Democrat of California, said the Affordable Care Act insured 17 million children with pre-existing conditions. “This is misleading. Ms. Pulosi’s office cited a 2011 Department of Health and Human Services report, but the 17 million figure is the upper limit of the department’s estimates. The report’s lower figure, four million, is a fraction of that, and most of those children already had coverage before the Affordable Care Act.”
NY Times: Pulosi lied.

These lies will continue to repeat. It is up to these organizations and the alternative media to push back against the lies. The lies will ramp up as will the hysteria.

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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Grassley discusses Comey and Russia Investigation
at Executive Business Meeting
by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa

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 Top Headlines 
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Biggest ICE gang raid ever: 1,378 arrested, 21 murder charges, 3 "Dreamers." (Washington Examiner)
 
Trump has vowed to eradicate MS-13. What you need to know about the gang. (The Daily Signal)
 
Trump establishes panel to probe voter fraud. (The Daily Signal)
 
Full-time jobs are finally easier to get. (USA Today)
 
U.S. government posts $182 billion surplus in April. (Reuters)
 
Mormon church takes steps away from Boy Scouts of America; does total exodus loom? (The Salt Lake Tribune)
 
Did the National Park Service reject a Grand Canyon project because the researcher is a creationist? (Phoenix News Times)
 
Texas A&M won't fire professor who called for killing white people. (Washington Examiner)
 
Poll: Americans hold record liberal views on social issues. (Gallup)
 
Largest U.S. solar panel maker files for bankruptcy after receiving $206 million in subsidies. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: The legal and economic case against the Paris climate treaty. (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
 
Policy: Fact versus fear: The AHCA and pre-existing conditions. (American Action Forum~The Patriot Post
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TOP MILITARY COMMANDER JUST GAVE
TRUMP DARK WARNING
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{rightwingvideos.com} ~ The U.S. Coast Guard warned President Donald Trump on Wednesday that Russia is gaining significant control of the Arctic Ocean. According to a report from Foreign Policy, receding Arctic waters are opening space for U.S. rivals to fill in the gap. http://rightwingvideos.com/top-military-commander-just-gave-trump-dark-warning-this-is-one-aspect-i-lose-sleep-over/
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Texas Legislators Lead the
Nation on Grid Security
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by CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ This week, the state legislature of Texas took monumental steps to secure its own part of the U.S. electric grid known officially as the Texas Interconnection... On May 9th, the Texas Senate passed SB83 by a 28-3 vote. Authored by Texas State Senator Bob Hall, SB83 addresses the Texas electric grid's vulnerability to electromagnetic pulse, extreme space weather, physical, and cyber-attack threats. On May 10th, the Texas House unanimously passed Rep. Tan Parker's HB787, which is a similar, but separate grid security bill that creates a grid advisory committee to study the Texas electric grid and its vulnerability to electromagnetic pulse and cybersecurity threats... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/texas-legislators-lead-the-nation-on-grid-security?f=must_reads
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Acting FBI Chief: "There Has Been No Effort to Impede Our Investigation"
VIDEO:  http://www.mrctv.org/videos/acting-fbi-chief-there-has-been-no-effort-impede-our-investigation
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TUCKER: "Totally Fake, Totally Disingenuous": Tucker Takes on Dem Strategist
VIDEO:  http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5430991720001
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Insurance Giant Aetna to Obamacare: We're outta here! Massive Financial Loses
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5430856472001
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President Trump creates new commission that will investigate voter fraud and other election irregularities
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5431042696001
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Former FBI Asst. Director: Trump and the FBI Are Not 'At War'
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Cyber attack spreads across 74 countries;
some UK hospitals crippled
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{foxnews.com} ~ Cyber attacks that hit 74 countries across Europe and Asia Friday, impacting the public health system in Britain, apparently involved a leaked hacking tool from the National Security Agency... The attack used ransomware, which is malware that encrypts data and locks a user from their data until they pay a ransom. The tool, which was leaked by a group known as Shadow Brokers, had been stolen from the N.S.A. as part of a wide swath of tools illegally released in 2016. Microsoft said that they had rolled out a patch to fix the issue, but certain targets, including the hospitals in Britain, had not yet updated their systems...http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2017/05/12/cyber-attack-spreads-across-12-countries-some-uk-hospitals-crippled.html
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Lawsuit Targets American Muslims for Palestine
by IPT News
{investigativeproject.org} ~ A national anti-Israel group and several of its activists are "alter egos and/or successors" of a Hamas-support network that was found liable for an American teen's death in a 1996 terrorist attack... litigation filed in Chicago federal court Friday claims. After Stanley and Joyce Boim won $156 million in damages, defendants including the Islamic Association for Palestine (IAP) and the American Muslim Society (AMS) shut down and claimed to be unable to pay. It was a ruse, the Boims' attorneys claim, as many of the same people opened up American Muslims for Palestine (AMP) at a nearby address. A subsequent criminal prosecution found that other defendants in the original lawsuit, like the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF) and the United Association for Studies and Research, were part of a Muslim Brotherhood-created Hamas-support network in the United States called the Palestine Committee...https://www.investigativeproject.org/6123/lawsuit-targets-american-muslims-for-palestine
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Grassley discusses Comey and Russia Investigation
at Executive Business Meeting
by Senator Chuck Grassley of Iowa
{grassley.senate.gov} ~ Today we have one nomination and four bills on the Committee’s agenda.        

First, I’d note that the nomination of Amul Thapar to be United States Circuit Judge for the Sixth Circuit is on the agenda for the first time.  I understand the Minority would like to hold the nomination over, and we’ll take up his nomination next week.

Turning to legislation, the first bill is S.139, the Rapid DNA Act of 2017.  It is sponsored by Senator Hatch.  The Committee reported this bill and the Senate passed it in the last Congress.  The bill would establish standards for a new category of DNA samples that can be taken more quickly and then uploaded to our national DNA index.

The second bill is S. 534, the Protecting Young Victims from Sexual Abuse Act of 2017.  Senators Feinstein, Collins, and I introduced this bill in March, in response to media reports about sexual abuse of child athletes.  It imposes mandatory reporting requirements for the staff at amateur sports facilities across the country.  It also extends the statutory period in which victims can file lawsuits against the perpetrators of sex crimes.

The next bill is S. 583, the American Law Enforcement Heroes Act of 2017.  This bill is sponsored by Senator Cornyn.  The bill would specify that in the COPS program, an allowable use of funds would be to prioritize the hiring and training of veterans.

The final bill is S. 867, the Law Enforcement Mental Health and Wellness Act, which is appearing on the agenda for the first time.  The bill will be held over, and we will take the matter up at our next exec, which will be held during Police Week.

On a different topic, Mr. Comey testified before the Judiciary Committee last week.  Senator Blumenthal asked him whether the FBI had ruled anyone out as a potential target of the investigation of allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and the Russians.  In response, Mr. Comey stated: “Well, I haven’t said anything publicly about who we’ve opened investigations on.  I briefed the Chair and Ranking on who those people are.”

Mr. Comey was asked if the FBI is investigating the President.  He refused to answer.  Mr. Comey said he didn’t want people to over-interpret his refusal, but that he wasn’t going to comment on anyone in particular.  He thought it would put him on a slippery slope of having to answer who else is or is not under investigation.  That could reveal who is being investigated.

I understand why he took that position, but I don’t agree – at least not when it comes to the President and senior government officials.  The American people deserve to know if senior government officials are under active criminal or intelligence investigation.

Mr. Comey did brief Ranking Member Feinstein and me on who the targets of the various investigations are.  It would not be appropriate for me to reveal those details before the professionals conducting the investigations are ready.  So, I will not answer any questions about who are targets of the ongoing Russia investigations.  But I will say this: Shortly after Director Comey briefed us, I tweeted that he should be transparent.  I said he should tell the public what he told Senator Feinstein and me about whether the FBI is or is not investigating the President.

On Tuesday, the President’s letter said that Director Comey told him he was not under investigation.  Senator Feinstein and I heard nothing that contradicted the President’s statement.  Now Mr. Comey is no longer the FBI director.  But the FBI should still follow my advice.  It should confirm to the public whether it is or is not investigating the President.  Because it has failed to make this clear, speculation has run rampant.

The intelligence community said that one of the Russians’ goals is to undermine the American public’s faith in our democratic institutions.  Wild speculation that the FBI is targeting the President in a criminal or intelligence inquiry is not just irresponsible and unfounded.  It provides aid and comfort to the Russians and their goal of undermining faith in our democracy.

So, what I suggest is that before this Committee does anything more on this matter, that all the Members get briefed by the FBI on what is actually going on.

Hopefully, that will help temper some of the unsubstantiated statements that have been made.
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Saturday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~

12 times Dems, Repubs said no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion; 10 times people claimed there was
by Sharyl Attkisson
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Dems Say Trump Must Meet Demands
Or Face Senate Slowdown
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by Kerry Picket
{dailycaller.com} ~ Democrats continued their efforts to slow down business in the Senate Thursday in order to pressure the Trump Justice Department to appoint a special prosecutor for the Russia investigation and to give into other demands... Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer went to the floor and demanded that Attorney General Jeff Sessions not be involved in the search for former FBI Director James Comey’s replacement. “Attorney General Sessions, who had to recuse himself from the Russia investigation, played a significant role in firing the man who was leading it. Not only that, the Attorney General is now reportedly leading the search to replace Mr. Comey,” clown-Schumer said. “He’s helping select the next FBI Director who will be in charge of an investigation that he cannot oversee. What an irony.”. The hell with clown-Schumer and the dems.  http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/11/dems-say-trump-must-meet-demands-or-face-senate-shutdown/
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Bangladesh PM Says liar-Hillary Pressured Her
To Help liar-Clinton Foundation Donor
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ The Office of Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina claims that in 2011 the PM got a call from Secretary of State liar-Hillary to pressure her to give Dr. Muhammed Yunus back his job as the head of Grameen Bank... At the same time the PM’s son who lives in the U.S. was threatened with IRS audit or worse if he didn’t try to convince his mother to give Yunus his job back. Circa News is reporting: While secretary of state, liar-Hillary Clinton made a personal call to pressure Bangladesh’s prime minister to aid a donor to the liar-Clinton Foundation, her husband’s charitable foundation:...http://lidblog.com/pm-says-hillary-pressured-help-clinton-foundation-donor/
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Democrats Get Their Comey Words
Thrown Back In Their Faces
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by Onan Coca and Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ President Trump has been dealing with the fallout of his firing of FBI Director James Comey almost nonstop since Tuesday and you can tell that he’s getting tired of the attacks... The president released a series of tweets damning the Democrat hypocrisy and reminding them that they’ve been calling for Comey’s ouster for MONTHS. On Wednesday evening the President issued his sternest and funniest condemnation yet. He tweeted out a video showing various Democrat leaders ON VIDEO all calling for an end to Comey’s time at the FBI. The video showcases more than a dozen different liberal leaders including the Senate and House minority leaders demanding a change in leadership at the FBI... http://lidblog.com/democrats-get-comey-words-thrown-back/
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North Korea Threatens China;
CIA Increases Monitoring
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by Alice Greene
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ China is inarguably North Korea’s most important trade partner and most powerful ally... Earlier this year, China suspended coal imports from North Korea in response to growing pressure from President Trump to help the US quell Kim Jong-un’s aggression and resolve the nuclear standoff. China has also used state media to increase the pressure on Pyongyang to halt its missile tests. “China will not allow its northeastern region to be contaminated by North Korea’s nuclear activities,” announced the nationalist tabloid Global Times. In recent days, the publication has also warned that China would strike back “at any side that crosses the red line” and would enact an oil embargo if North Korea conducts another missile test...http://punchingbagpost.com/north-korea-threatens-china-cia-increases-monitoring
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Are Islamists Conducting a
New Jihad against the West?
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The skyline of Dubai.
by William DiPuccio
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ About four decades have passed since Sheikh 'Abdullah bin Muhammad bin Humaid (1908-1981), ex-Chief Justice of Saudi Arabia, published his lengthy, impassioned, essay on jihad... This essay, still available on the Internet, is the only one that Saudi religious scholars chose to include with the Noble Quran -- a modern, nine volume, English translation of the Quran, which includes ancient commentary. A cursory reading of Sheikh bin Humaid's essay should forever silence any fantasies regarding traditional Islam's peaceful disposition toward the non-Muslim world. As the Saudi publisher says in his prefatory note: "But, as regards the reward and blessing, there is one deed which is very great in comparison to all the acts of worship and all the good deed­s -- and that is Jihad!"... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10335/jihad-against-west
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12 times Dems, Repubs said no evidence of Trump-Russia collusion; 10 times people claimed there was
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by Sharyl Attkisson
{sharylattkisson.com} ~
Ten months after questions were first raised, there’s no evidence that Donald Trump “colluded” with Russia, according to prominent Democrats and Republicans who have reviewed information or received briefings.
 
It’s too early to call it a closed case, because various investigations into Russian influence in the 2016 campaign and links to Trump associates continue. That reportedly includes probes by the FBI, Republican-led congressional committees, and the military. The FBI has largely stayed mum on its work. But yesterday, President Trump claimed James Comey, as FBI Director, personally told him he was not under investigation.
 
It’s significant that no evidence of wrongdoing by Trump has publicly surfaced long after multiple players in politics and media began insisting there was collusion. Among the allegations of treasonous behavior was a “dossier” peddled to the media and published in January. It made lurid claims about Trump ties to Russia, involving bribery and prostitution. But it turns out the dossier wasn’t an intelligence report; it was campaign opposition research compiled by Trump political opponents.
 
This week, Former Defense Intelligence Agency chief James Clapper told Congress that the sourcing trail of the dossier was so poor, that the entire file was excluded from in an intelligence community assessment in January.
 
Yet despite the persistent dearth of evidence, there’s been no widespread backtracking by those who have made claims against President Trump to date.
 
The Flynn Question
 
Whether President Trump conspired with Russia in some way is separate from questions about some of his associates, including former national security adviser, Lt. Col. Michael Flynn.
 
Among other matters, Flynn is under fire for:
*Having discussions with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. that he didn’t disclose to President Trump or Vice President Mike Pence (not inherently against the law, but an ethics question and the reason he was let go from the Trump administration, according to experts); and
*Allegedly failing to seek permission from or disclosing to the U.S. government his $67,000 in payments from Russian organizations (a possible violation of federal law, according to members of Congress).
A Flynn spokesman has said he informed the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) before and after giving a paid speech in Moscow. DIA spokesman Jim Kudla confirmed that Flynn reported prior to his trip “in accordance with standard security clearance procedures.”
 
The problem with the media, politicians, commentators and pundits getting ahead of the evidence or contradicting it entirely, is that it erodes trust in the accuracy of information. If and when real evidence emerges, the public may mistrust what they read and hear.
 
Here are 12 public statements about lack of evidence by those who have reviewed evidence or been briefed, followed by a sampling of 10 claims against Trump. What were the claims based on if there was no evidence yet?
 
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Sat/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
President Trump Did Not Obstruct Justice
by Alan M. Dershowitz

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 Buffett's Cogent, but Shortsighted, Point on Health 
 Care 
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The New York Times this week published an article on billionaire Warren Buffett's sentiments regarding corporate roadblocks. According to Buffett, Republican lawmakers and company officials are too fixated on corporate tax rates, the lowering of which he contends would do little to propel economic growth. (We strongly disagree, but that's another topic.) Buffett's justification is this: "If you go back to 1960 or thereabouts, corporate taxes were about 4 percent of GDP. ... And now, they're about 2 percent of GDP." Meanwhile, a half-century ago, "[H]ealth care was 5 percent of GDP, and now it's about 17 percent." His statement is comprehensive, meaning he's referring to the health care system in its entirety. Consequently, he surmises, "Medical costs are the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness."
          Someone should ask him why he helped finance Burger King's corporate inversion to lower its tax bill if corporate taxes don't matter so much.
          Buffett is right to pinpoint how ridiculous health care costs are today. In fact, it would be laughable if it weren't so absurd. Providing these benefits is a huge financial burden for most businesses, particularly small ones. And yet an excerpt from the Times underscores the shortcomings of Buffett's solution: "Mr. Buffett is a Democrat, but his business partner, Charles T. Munger, is a Republican — and a rare one who has advocated a single-payer health care system. Under his plan, which Mr. Buffett agrees with, the United States would enact a sort of universal type of coverage for all citizens — perhaps along the lines of the Medicaid system — with an opt-out provision that would allow the wealthy to still get concierge medicine."
          Simply stated, Buffett would rather the government take on most of the cost of health care. Well guess what may be needed to help pay for it? Even higher taxes on corporations. And even then, a single-payer system would set us up for even worse national debt problems in the future (as if the outlook isn't bad enough). Health care costs need to be reduced significantly. As Star Parker put it, "Health care markets are distorted from top to bottom by government, regulations and bureaucrats. Nothing is more personal than health care; sadly, in no marketplace are individuals less in control of their own selves." The whole system needs to be revamped. If done properly, businesses can be saved from drowning in health care costs. As for tax reform? Well, that would just be icing on the cake. Regardless of Buffett's point on GDP, you can't reasonably argue that reducing the current 35% rate won't result in far-reaching, very positive changes.  ~The Patriot Post
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Acting FBI Director Linked To Podesta, liar-Clintons, McAuliffe – Hid $700K Campaign Donations
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts on “James Comey, Andrew McCabe and the liar-Hillary and Bill liar-Clinton case... Andrew McCabe, good friend of John Podesta, married to a Democrat candidate, an unsuccessful Democrat Candidate, testifying about the FBI’s decision, or at least James Comey’s decision, not to prosecute liar-Hillary Clinton and the reaction within the agency.” The same guy who gushed to Senator Heinrich (D-NM) that most FBI employees “enjoyed a deep, positive connection with Comey” was forced to admit, in the interest of appearing objective and remotely truthful, the other side of that argument. He said, “There were folks within our agency who were frustrated with the outcome of the liar-Hillary Clinton case and some of those folks were very vocal about that, uh, those concerns.” The highly placed deep state Democrat operative McCabe should be aware that it wasn’t just folks inside the agency who were frustrated. Most believe the fix was in and would have remained that way as long as Comey and McCabe were a team. AG Sessions might want to position round the clock guards on the evidence...http://rickwells.us/dobbs-acting-fbi-director-linked-podesta-clintons-mcauliffe-hid-700k-campaign-donations/
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Trump Has Vowed to Eradicate MS-13.
What You Need to Know About the Gang
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by Josh Siegel
{dailysignal.com} ~ In describing its effort to enforce immigration laws aggressively, the Trump administration repeatedly has invoked the threat of MS-13, a violent international gang with ties to Central America... Responding to a recent surge of violence linked to MS-13 on Long Island, New York—punctuated by the April 13 discovery of four men killed near a public park—U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions visited with local law enforcement late last month, and vowed to eradicate the gang by cracking down on illegal immigration. “The MS-13 motto is kill, rape, and control,” Sessions said at the U.S. Courthouse on Long Island. “Our motto is justice for victims and consequences for criminals. That’s how simple it is...http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/11/trump-vowed-eradicate-ms-13-need-know-gang/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRWaE16STVPR1F4TnpJeSIsInQiOiJSeFpTemhQdXdQaE5ZR2ZyakttMUFZaW1oc0IyZ2VaTURwbnd3RENvM2hYd2VCQ3REMmloN3RVNDBTOUptWVhwSGtFSlNSYzBJRTJYdVBjelBKVkgyVUltQkU1aW8xTkthXC85Y1JYakNyK1JieFRLMlo5ais3WTFaNTZKOWkzY3MifQ%3D%3D
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Here Are 12 Possible Comey
Replacements at FBI
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by Fred Lucas
{dailysignal.com} ~ There’s no shortage of familiar names floating to be the next FBI director, after President Donald Trump’s controversial firing of James Comey earlier this week... But it appears former Republican Rep. Mike Rogers of Michigan could be an early favorite among current and former agents. Other names in the mix are Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C.; Judge Merrick Garland; former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie; and former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly... http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/11/12-possible-comey-replacements-fbi/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRWaE16STVPR1F4TnpJeSIsInQiOiJSeFpTemhQdXdQaE5ZR2ZyakttMUFZaW1oc0IyZ2VaTURwbnd3RENvM2hYd2VCQ3REMmloN3RVNDBTOUptWVhwSGtFSlNSYzBJRTJYdVBjelBKVkgyVUltQkU1aW8xTkthXC85Y1JYakNyK1JieFRLMlo5ais3WTFaNTZKOWkzY3MifQ%3D%3D
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Friedman to Trump: Not much
chance for Israel-PA peace deal
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David Friedman
by David Rosenberg
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ While President Donald Trump has expressed his “personal commitment” to help reach a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority... senior advisors are less than optimistic such a deal can be brokered, and have made their skepticism clear to the president. President Trump is scheduled to arrive in Israel in 10 days, a trip that will likely kick off his much-anticipated effort to bring Israel and the Palestinian Authority back to the negotiating table. A week before Trump arrives, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman will land in Israel and present his credentials to Israeli President Reuven Rivlin... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/229550?utm_source=activetrail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Rebellion grows against Muslim
indoctrination in schools
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by Art Moore
{wnd.com} ~ From coast to coast, parents are rebelling against what they describe as Islamic indoctrination of their children in public schools... In Florida, for example, parents are protesting a newly approved textbook they say whitewashes Islam’s violent history of conquest and subjugation, while in San Diego, an angry father confronted the city’s school board about its partnership with the controversial Council on American-Islamic Relations in an “anti-bullying” program. The Brevard County School Board in Florida has revised a history textbook that had been condemned by some parents for its selective treatment of Islam, but the new edition still has its critics...http://www.wnd.com/2017/05/rebellion-grows-against-muslim-indoctrination-in-schools/
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President Trump Did Not Obstruct Justice
by Alan M. Dershowitz
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ A dangerous argument is now being put forward by some Democratic ideologues: namely that President Trump should be indicted for the crime of obstructing justice because he fired FBI Director James Comey. Whatever one may think of the President's decision to fire Trump as a matter of policy, there is no legitimate basis for concluding that the President engaged in a crime by exercising his statutory and constitutional authority to fire director Comey. As Comey himself wrote in his letter to the FBI, no one should doubt the authority of the President to fire the Director for any reason or no reason.

It should not be a crime for a public official, whether the President or anyone else, to exercise his or her statutory and constitutional authority to hire or fire another public official. For something to be a crime there must be both an actus reus and mens rea – that is, a criminal act accompanied by a criminal state of mind. Even assuming that President Trump was improperly motivated in firing Comey, motive alone should never constitute a crime. There should have to be an unlawful act. And exercising constitutional and statutory power should not constitute the actus reus of a crime. Otherwise the crime would place the defendant's thoughts on trial, rather than his actions.

Civil libertarians, and all who care about due process and justice, should be concerned about the broad scope of the statute that criminalizes "obstruction of justice." Some courts have wrongly interpreted this accordion-like law so broadly as to encompass a mixture of lawful and unlawful acts. It is dangerous and wrong to criminalize lawful behavior because it may have been motivated by evil thoughts. People who care about the rule of law, regardless of how they feel about President Trump, should not be advocating a broadening of obstruction of justice to include the lawful Presidential act of firing the FBI Director. Such an open ended precedent could be used in the future to curtail the liberties of all Americans.

So let's put this nonsense behind us and not criminalize policy differences, as extremists in both parties have tried to do. Republican and Democratic partisans often resort to the criminal law as a way of demonizing their political enemies. "Lock her up," was the cry of Republican partisans against liar-Hillary Clinton regarding her misuse of her email server. Now "obstruction of justice" is the "lock him up" cry of partisan Democrats who disagree with President Trump's decision to fire Comey. I opposed the criminalization of policy differences when Texas Governor Rick Perry, Congressman Tom Delay and Senator Bob Menendez were indicted, and I strongly oppose the investigation now being conducted against Prime Minister Netanyahu. The criminal law should be used as the last resort against elected officials, not as the opening salvo in a political knife-fight. There is no place in a democracy for elastic statutes that can be stretched to fit lawful conduct with which political opponents disagree. If they are allowed to be stretched today to cover your political enemies, they could be stretched tomorrow to go after your political friends.

The debate over the proprietary of the President's actions, about which I have opined repeatedly, should continue but let's take the allegations of criminal obstruction of justice out of this important debate. There is more than enough fodder for a debate over the merits and demerits of the President's actions without muddying the waters with politically motivated charges of criminality.

Partisanship seems to have no limits these days. Both parties are equally at fault, as are extremists among the public and within the media. It is getting harder and harder to have a nuanced debate about complex political issues. Everything is either evil or good. Nothing has elements of both. Actions either deserve criminal indictment or the Nobel Prize. Nobody benefits from this kind of ideological shouting match. So let's agree to disagree about important issues, but let's not distort the debate with extremist slogans like "lock her up" or "obstruction of justice." We are better than that.
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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Are Liberals on a Death March?
by Jean Coulard
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 Five Observations on Comey's Firing 
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As the dust settles on Donald Trump's not-so-shocking firing of FBI Director James Comey, here are a few things of note.
          First, what remains the most controversial and questionable aspect of Comey's canning is the timing. Why now? Many see Trump's explanation of being motivated by the recommendation from the Justice Department as dubious. And not surprisingly, Democrats and the Leftmedia have latched onto this issue as supportive evidence of a supposed cover-up as they continue to beat the drum on still unsubstantiated Russia-Trump collusion narrative. Trump hasn't helped his case by thanking Comey in his termination letter for alerting him to the investigation.
          Second, there are contradictory reports on whether Comey had recently requested more funding and staff for the Russia probe. If he did, that fuels Democrats' torches.
          Third, contrary to the MSM's suggestion that Trump may be attempting a cover-up, firing the FBI director does nothing to end the continuing investigation. And if rumors are to be believed that staff within the FBI were caught off guard and dismayed by Trump's firing of Comey, it would seem highly improbable that they would simply sit on damning evidence, should such evidence exist. Not while the intelligence community is leaking like a sieve.
          Fourth, the MSM's meltdown and over-the-top sensationalized reporting over the firing speaks more to the media's commitment to opposing anything Trump than it does to any genuine concern or obligation to objective journalism. Leftmedia descriptions of Trump's actions ranged from it being a "coup" and "Nixonian" to even being a "dictator's stand against inquiry." Talk about hyperbole.
          Finally, it's almost universally undeniable that Comey had to go, because he had become too political. The irony in the whole saga is that Comey was attempting to rise above the fray and remain impartial to avoid becoming a political football. Like the referee who refuses to make the "controversial" penalty call to avoid accusations of having unfairly impacted the outcome of the game, Comey sought to wiggle around liar-Hillary Clinton's obvious violations of the law. While pointing out the fact that she did violate the law, he then let her off the hook by asserting that she didn't mean to.
          Now all that's left are the months of recriminations and investigations. It should be fun.  ~The Patriot Post
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Tillerson Endorses Arctic Climate Welfare...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ By now we Americans have become accustomed to being looked upon and exploited, particularly by what used to be our own government as the financiers of the world welfare systems... The fleecing is being implemented largely under the banner of the UN as humanitarian aid and lately, as reparations for the sins of “climate abuse.” We’re being herded towards the day that we were warned of by Thomas Jefferson, when he said Americans may “wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered.” Tillerson is speaking to other nations, not to Americans, as he made these remarks, although he knew some of us would be listening. He’s talking to a subset of the same entities that comprise the UN and are signatories to both the Paris climate fraud and Agenda 2030 global governance mechanisms...http://rickwells.us/tillerson-endorses-arctic-climate-welfare-rethinking-trump-position-paris-agreement/
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Trump Admin to Increase Atmospheric Geoengineering Efforts, Spray Chemtrails for Next 100 Years Straight
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by Shepard Ambellas
{intellihub.com} ~ High-level Trump Administration officials are planning on conducting a multi-pronged operation to study and test stratospheric-geoengineering... within the next 18 months before deploying full-scale chemtrailing operations that could continue for the next 100-years non-stop in an effort to thwart alleged “global warming.” So what is geoengineering? According to a 2009 Royal Society publication geoengineering is defined as: “the deliberate large-scale manipulation of the planetary environment to counteract anthropogenic climate change.”... https://www.intellihub.com/trump-administration-to-increase-atmospheric-geoengineering-efforts-spray-chemtrails-for-next-100-years-straight/
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Senate Committee Subpoenas Former
Trump Adviser Flynn Over Russia
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{newsmax.com} ~ The U.S. Senate Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena on Wednesday demanding documents related to Russia from President Donald Trump's former national security adviser Michael Flynn... ramping up its months long investigation of Moscow's alleged meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. In a joint statement, Senators Richard Burr, the committee's Republican chairman, and Mark Warner, its top Democrat, said the committee had first requested the documents from Flynn in a April 28 letter, but the retired lieutenant general had declined, through counsel, to cooperate with the committee's request. It was the first subpoena announced by the committee in its investigation...Where's Susan Rice?http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/senate-subpoenas-michael-flynn/2017/05/10/id/789389/
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President Trump Target Of PSYOP – Largest,
Most Venomous In US History
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Sarah Carter of Circa News joins Lou Dobbs to discuss the vicious disinformation campaign that is being waged against President Donald Trump by the establishment... the left-wing media and the deep state, as well as others. Dobbs describes her information as “exculpatory as far as these fake news charges keep springing up, saying that it’s just improper that Comey would have said such a thing to the president that he’s not a target, trying to cast doubt that he actually did say that to  the President, you have validation for those statements he made.”...http://rickwells.us/dobbs-carter-president-trump-target-psyop-largest-most-venomous-us-history/
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Largest US Solar Panel Maker Files
for Bankruptcy After Receiving
$206 Million in Subsidies
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by Michael Bastasch
{dailysignal.com} ~ The company once hailed as Europe’s largest solar panel producer filed for bankruptcy Wednesday, blaming cheap Chinese panels for flooding the market.... “The ongoing price erosion and the development of the business” has left the company “over-indebted and thus obliged to file for insolvency proceedings,” SolarWorld, which is also the largest U.S. solar panel maker, said in a statement.  The filing comes after SolarWorld was forced to lay off employees earlier this year. The company employs around 3,000 people, including 800 in Hillsboro, Oregon, and was one of the few German-based solar companies to survive a recent market downturn...http://dailysignal.com/2017/05/11/largest-us-solar-panel-maker-files-bankruptcy-receiving-206-million-subsidies/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRWaE16STVPR1F4TnpJeSIsInQiOiJSeFpTemhQdXdQaE5ZR2ZyakttMUFZaW1oc0IyZ2VaTURwbnd3RENvM2hYd2VCQ3REMmloN3RVNDBTOUptWVhwSGtFSlNSYzBJRTJYdVBjelBKVkgyVUltQkU1aW8xTkthXC85Y1JYakNyK1JieFRLMlo5ais3WTFaNTZKOWkzY3MifQ%3D%3D
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Are Liberals on a Death March?
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by Jean Coulard
{ipatriot.com} ~ Will the Liberal Democrats ever come back to reality? I think not; they seem to have frozen themselves in November 2017. The constant changing of opinions has shown a very pathologically hypocritical problem within their ranks. I refer specifically to Sen’s. clown-Schumer, Pulosi, et al.  Just prior to the Election of 2016, they were calling for the firing of Mr. Comey, and on Nov. 9, 2016, they were far more adamant in their complaints, blaming him for liar-Hillary’s loss. Now, today, on May 10, 2017, they are crucifying Pres. Trump for firing Mr. Comey!!  “.. GO FIGURE …”!!!!

I believe President Trump is actually “… draining the swamp …” as he promised. But such an immense endeavor cannot be done ‘overnight’. He must cross the “i’s” and dot the “t’s”, and cover all bases before he takes on this tremendous responsibility. Especially considering the Antifas and others trying so desperately to get rid of him.

I am glad now that I decided to support him. I had my fingers crossed during the transition time, and hoping against hope I had made the right decision. But I reminded myself that I would have taken anyone over liar-Hillary Clinton. I was even thinking of Bernie Sanders for a while. But when I saw that he caved to liar-Clinton, I said ” no way” .  I also reminded myself how Mr. Comey played a role as the Chief Prosecutor in Arkansas when the liar-Clinton’s were being charged with wrongdoing in the “Whitewater” case. You will remember, I hope, that the liar-Clinton’s were not imprisoned by the Prosecutors office, although many of the others in the case were. I have always felt his rise to FBI Director was a result of that little fiasco.

But these are all just my opinions. I have followed the liar-Clinton’s as they started their rise in the Governor’s Office in the State of Arkansas. I did not support Mr. liar-Clinton in his bid for the Presidency. I was disappointed that the Republican Party and Mr. Bush Sr. did not press harder to defeat him.

But that is all water under the bridge, is it not? While it is good to remember these things, we shall not dwell on them.

However, I did notice that some Media publications are reminding Americans of the hypocritical actions and words of some of the prominent Liberal Democrats; they are bringing forth previously publicized articles where-in Pulosi, clown-Schumer, dinky-Warren, et al, were calling for Director Comey’s firing as I mentioned at the top of this writing. Maybe there is hope alive that these folks (our Media) we depend on to report to us, the American public, the events and actions within our Government, will begin to honor their unspoken oath of honesty and integrity in their daily writings.

It is time for the Democratic Party to look into their own history, prior to the liar-Clintons. Look at the terms of Presidents like Kennedy and Roosevelt; and such others whose decisions were for the Country, not for the Party. Learn from them.

Perhaps we should be more concerned about the depth of our History taught in schools. The more future generations are appraised of our Founders, of those who fought for maintaining our Republic and our Democratic life, the better they will understand our inherent values and principles. The liar-nObama influence on the education of our children was completely out of line, and should be reversed!

http://ipatriot.com/liberals-death-march/

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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein
Threatened Resignation
by Doug Groff
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 Top Headlines 
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Aetna completely exits liar-nObamaCare exchanges, cites massive losses. (Washington Examiner)
 
Republican senators won't back Trump's trade nominee Robert Lighthizer. (Washington Examiner)
 
Soros-funded groups behind anti-Trump corporate targeting campaign. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
A 2016 election battleground state is investigating potential voter fraud. (The Daily Signal)
 
New Jersey man's confessed bombing plan is 95th terror plot in U.S. since 9/11. (The Daily Signal)
 
IG: "IRS overpaid more than 600 employees approximately $4.2 million." (CNS News)
 
Shocking new DNA study reveals that human beings are divided into two genders! (Hot Air)
 
Homosexual Never Trumper becomes latest victim of campus attacks on free speech. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
26% of Millennials in college say they plan on moving back home once they earn their degree. (USA Today)
 
Vermont legislature becomes first in nation to legalize recreational marijuana. (Reason)
 
Policy: Where democracy really does die in darkness. (City Journal)
 
Policy: A fool's errand: Al Gore's $15 trillion carbon tax. (Washington Examiner~The Patriot Post
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LORETTA LYNCH BUSTED!
 
{rightwingvideos.com} ~ Paris Swade for Liberty Writers reports, Leaked emails show that Loretta Lynch did everything that she could to protect Hillary Clinton from Criminal charges. Catherine Herridge dropped this bombshell on Loretta Lynch on Friday afternoon. http://rightwingvideos.com/bombhshell-loretta-lynch-busted-look-what-nasty-thing-leaked-about-her-and-hillary-clinton-2/
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Democrat Rep. Corrine Brown Found GUILTY:
18 Counts of Fraud, Conspiracy and Obstruction…
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{apnews.com} ~ Former U.S. Rep. Corrine Brown has been found guilty of taking money from a charity that was purported to be giving scholarships to poor students... The jury’s verdict on Thursday came after prosecutors accused the 70-year-old Brown of using hundreds of thousands of dollars from the One Door for Education Foundation for lavish parties, trips and shopping excursions. She was found guilty on 18 of the 22 counts against her, including lying on tax and financial disclosure forms... https://apnews.com/dca8f8e38c1248fdaa20fadbf2190400?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
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Americans Are Fleeing Major Cities...
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by Michael Snyder
{shtfplan.com} ~ Did you know that the number of murders increased by almost 60 percent in the city of Chicago last year? And as you will see below, this year gang violence in the Windy City has risen to a new level of viciousness... A staggering 9.5 million people live in the Chicago metropolitan area, and it was once known primarily for great pizza, bitter cold and some of the best sports fans on the entire planet. But now the number one thing that comes to mind for many when they think about the city of Chicago is gang violence. As it becomes clear that things are not going to turn around any time soon, thousands of residents are leaving the city for safer areas of the nation. In fact, Cook County lost more people than any other county in America last year by a very wide margin...http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/thousands-flee-chicago-for-safer-areas-of-the-country-as-americas-third-largest-city-becomes-a-gang-infested-wasteland_05102017
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Working With Swamp’s “Man Of Integrity”
McCabe’s Greatest Privilege
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The husband of former Democrat Virginia State Senate candidate Jill McCabe, the recipient of over half a million dollars in liar-Hillary Clinton / Terry McAuliffe PAC money... is a Swamp Creature that fate has elevated to the position of Acting Director of the FBI. In much the same way as Sally Yates was a subversive political hack as acting Attorney General, who was insubordinate and proudly admitted to second-guessing and overruling the Commander-in-Chief, Democrat Andrew McCabe began his tenure as acting director on the wrong foot. McCabe testified in hearings before the Republicans and jackal Democrats on the Senate Intelligence Committee on Wednesday. All of them were Comey critics until it became politically beneficial to switch to a position supporting his canonization...http://rickwells.us/comey-best-working-swamps-man-integrity-mccabes-greatest-privilege/
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Condoleezza Disgraces 'The View'
Over Russia Collusion Allegations
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by Tiffany Gabbay
{truthrevolt.org} ~ For those who missed it, the following exchange between former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and the cackling horde that comprises the cast of The View was a thing to behold... During her appearance on Tuesday, Rice held her own as she was assailed doggedly to cede that liar-Hillary Clinton should have won the 2016 presidential election and that Russia interfered with that ultimate outcome. Newsbusters provides a partial transcript and video...http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/condoleezza-disgraces-view-over-russia-collusion-allegations
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Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein
Threatened Resignation
by Doug Groff

{westernjournalism.com} ~ According to unnamed source close to the White House, Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to resign in the wake of reports that cast him as a primary player behind the firing of former FBI Director James Comey.

Trump stated that he dismissed Comey after recommendations from Rosenstein and Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Rosenstein had written a three-page memorandum for Trump that detailed his take on Comey’s sub-par performance as head of the FBI. In it, Rosenstein said the FBI would “unlikely to regain public and congressional trust” as long as Comey was the director.

A report from the Washington Post claimed Rosenstien was taken aback by the narrative from the White House, wherein he was characterized as the “hatchet man” behind Comey’s termination.

According to a report from CNN, Rosenstein was also unhappy with the way the Trump administration handled the firing.

The Justice Department on Thursday denied any threat of resignation from Rosenstein.

White House deputy press secretary Sarah Sanders was questioned on Good Morning America on Thursday about Rosenstein’s alleged threat of resignation

“I’m not aware of his threatening to resign, that’s a question you’d have to ask the Department Of Justice,” Huckabee Sanders told ABC’s George Stephanopoulos.

Stephanopoulos accused Huckabee Sanders, along with White House press secretary Sean Spicer and White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, of putting the blame on Rosenstein.

Huckabee Sanders said that the president based his decision in part from Rosenstein’s memo, but had also been considering terminating Comey since he took office.

White House counselor Kellyanne Conway made similar comments on CNN Tuesday. “This is a president who saw that the FBI director had lost the public confidence, the confidence of Republicans and Democrats.”

As criticism from Democrats about Comey’s firing has mounted, Trump tweeted a video that shows several politicians from the left recommending Comey step down from his position.

FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe is now the acting director since Comey’s firing.

Comey has released a statement asking his colleagues not to dwell on his firing, saying he believes the president is within his right to fire an FBI director “for any reason, or no reason at all.”

http://www.westernjournalism.com/report-deputy-attorney-general-rosenstein-may-resign/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=WJDailyEmail&utm_content=2017-05-11

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Friday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The House of Representatives
Endorses liar-nObamacare
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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 America's Growing 'Gun Gap' 
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A new study out of the University of Kansas confirms what many have anecdotally known — a majority of gun owners vote Republican. What may be news, however, is the growing "gun gap." That term is a reference to the disparity in the percentage of gun owners who identify with either Democrat or Republican parties. The study found that while the percentage of gun owners who vote Republican since 1973 has remained relatively constant, the number of gun owners voting Democrat has dropped significantly.
          Over the last three presidential elections the gap has grown, with the highest disparity seen in 2012 — a 30 percentage-point difference. And for three consecutive presidential elections the Republican candidate has seen the percentage of gun owner votes garnered steadily increase, with 62% of gun owners voting for Donald Trump.
          Meanwhile, gun ownership among Democrats and Independents has been steadily dropping, primarily due to leftists' campaign to negatively stigmatize gun ownership, as well as their outright demonization of those, such as the NRA, who fight to protect Americans' Second Amendment rights.
          However, as lawlessness and crime increase, especially in large Democrat-run urban poverty plantations, more individuals will appreciate the wisdom of the Founding Fathers in recognizing the right of every citizen to have the power to arm and protect themselves against threats, whether it be from criminals or tyrants. In fact, firearms instructors around the country are reporting an increase in the number of black women seeking firearms training for self-defense. That notwithstanding, so long as Democrats continue to fight against Second Amendment rights, one can expect to see the gun gap only increase. ~The Patriot Post 
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Spain: "Pacifist" Imam Arrested
on Terror Charges
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Jijona, in Alicante Province, Spain
by Soeren Kern
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Spanish authorities have arrested a Muslim cleric — whom the New York Times once praised for his efforts to fight radicalization within Germany's Islamic community — for alleged ties to the Islamic State... Hesham Shashaa (aka Abu Adam), a 46-year-old Egyptian-Palestinian, was detained near Alicante in southeastern Spain on April 26 on charges of aiding the Islamic State, extolling terrorism and promoting Salafi-jihadism. The Spanish Interior Ministry said that Shashaa had facilitated the travel to Spain of Islamic State jihadists from Syria and Iraq by providing them with money, refuge and fake documents... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10332/hesham-shashaa
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Emory University Is Paying 100% of School
Costs For ‘Needy’ Illegal Aliens
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by Howard Portnoy
{lidblog.com} ~ Universities throughout America are continuing to play Truth or Dare when it comes to how far they are willing to go to pamper students who are in the U.S. illegally... Last month, Duke approved a resolution to create a “safe space” on campus for illegals that supposedly makes them impervious to immigration law and its enforcers. Now Emory in Atlanta has taken the lunacy a step further, announcing a program to be rolled out this fall that pledges to pay “100% of demonstrated financial need for undergraduate Undocumented Students (with or without DACA) who are admitted as first-year, first-degree-seeking students.” That’s “one hundred percent,” as in all. I would say it’s the whole enchilada, but then I would be accused of cultural appropriation!...http://lidblog.com/emory-university-illegal-immigrant/
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Democrats: Still Trying To Sell
The Same Old Sh…er…Stuff!
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by Joe Messina
{lidblog.com} ~ The Democrats keep telling us how wrong the Right is. How wrong Republicans are for America. And how Republicans hate illegals, clean air, clean water, and so much more... I say, it’s the Democrats that have lost their way. It’s the Democrats who hate America. “Elitism” is not only owned by Democrats, but is actually being perfected by them and is shining brighter in their outrages since the election. Americans as a whole rejected Democrat policies and foundations. Now the first thing my Dem friends will say is that liar-Clinton won the popular vote. I know so what! She won the majority of votes in the very Liberal inner city areas. Large, densely populated, Democrat cities (NYC, Chicago, LA, etc) don’t and shouldn’t speak for the rest of our country...http://lidblog.com/democrats-still-trying-to-sell-same-old/
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Failing Those Who Served Us
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 by JANET LEVY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Three years after the 2014 Veterans Health Administration scandal erupted in headlines, outrage, investigations, and the resignation of then-secretary of veterans' affairs Eric Shinseki... veterans still must contend with an agency that provides less than stellar service. A government report issued in February found that the VA's shift to using more private-sector care for veterans has its own problems. They include cumbersome authorization and scheduling procedures, inadequate provider networks, and the potential for veterans having to pay their own treatment costs. Plus wait times for care, the heart of the 2014 scandal, are still long: an average of 45 days for 53% of veterans. Problematic health care, as well as the descent into homelessness for a growing number of our nation's veterans, belies our posture of national pride in our troops.  We label them heroes, and then we fail to properly provide for them... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/failing-those-who-served-us?f=must_reads
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Mark Levin On Comey: "A Lot Of Legal And Historical Illiterates Posing As TV Hosts And Commentators"
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TUCKER: "Totally Irresponsible" to Link Comey Firing & Russia Investigation
VIDEO:  http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5429517100001
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Former FBI Assistant Director on James Comey Firing
VIDEO:  http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5429211915001
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The Strongest Media Reactions to President Trump's Firing of James Comey
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYG0VsyfhuA
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Colbert audience cheers wildly after learning Trump fired Comey (Before MSM slants their views)
VIDEO:  http://www.mrctv.org/videos/colbert-audience-cheers-wildly-after-learning-trump-fired-comey
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White House Daily Briefing: Deputy press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders (05-10-2017)
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvkLKF07-vQ
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The House of Representatives
Endorses liar-nObamacare
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~
Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives crafted a partisan compromise bill that endorsed and reinforced the Affordable Care Act, or liar-nObamacare. This was done notwithstanding claims to the contrary by President Donald Trump and the House Republican leadership, who want us to believe that this bill, if it becomes law, will effectively repeal and replace liar-nObamacare.

liar-nObamacare is a stool with four problematic legs. The constitutional leg is the premise that the federal government has the lawful power to regulate the delivery of health care. The legal leg is the premise that the federal government is obliged to provide health insurance to everyone in America. The economic leg commands that everyone in the U.S. purchase and maintain health insurance. And the Orwellian leg says that every physician in the U.S. shall retain all patient records digitally and that federal bureaucrats shall have access to all those records.

None of that is changed in the House-passed bill. Here is the back story.

The original liar-nObamacare proposal had the taxpayers foot everyone's medical bills through a series of taxes, regulations and controls. That is the so-called single-payer system that former President Barack liar-nObama dreamed of. It would have been much like the systems in place today in Great Britain, Canada and Australia, where one waits for months to see government-employed physicians who are stingy with government-owned medications and mired in red tape and long lines over government-financed medical procedures.

Even many of the Democrats who controlled both houses of Congress during liar-nObama's first two years in office were unable to accept that idea. In its place, they produced a 2,700-page piece of legislation, which candidate Trump vowed to dismantle -- saying he favored a market-based, state-regulated system with no federal involvement, the kind we knew in the pre-liar-nObamacare era.

None of those goals is reached by the House-passed bill.

liar-nObamacare's imposition of the federal government between all patients and their physicians was a radical departure from the traditional delivery of medical services in America. This was done with utter disregard to the constitutional constraints imposed upon Congress -- whereby the regulation of health, safety and welfare was retained by the states -- and by radically expanding federal power derived from the Constitution.

Congress' favorite constitutional hook upon which to hang its regulatory hat has been the commerce clause. After more than a half-century of letting Congress characterize nearly any human activity as commerce -- and thus regulable federally -- the Supreme Court in 1995 required that only those behaviors that constitute or support a truly commercial transaction can be reached by the feds. The professions -- medicine, law, architecture, engineering, university teaching, for example -- though one pays for them, had never been considered to be commercial in the sense that they could be federally regulable, until liar-nObamacare came along.

None of this is changed in the House-passed bill.

Under liar-nObamacare, the federal government took over the regulation of health care from the states with a one-size-fits-all metric administered by faceless bureaucrats. I say faceless because when you go to your doctor today, she or he may need the approval of a federal bureaucrat to perform a procedure for you -- a bureaucrat the doctor will never see, only read via a laptop.

None of this is changed in the House-passed bill.

liar-nObamacare also established the duty of the federal government to provide health insurance for every American. No law before liar-nObamacare ever attempted that ambitious unconstitutional improbability. When the Supreme Court accepted a constitutional challenge to the Social Security system, it ruled that the system consisted of taxing and spending -- but created no legally binding obligation on the part of the federal government to spend in the future. Stated differently, under liar-nObamacare, the feds can take your money that they have promised you they will spend on your health care and spend it as they see fit.

None of this is changed in the House-passed bill.

The individual mandate in liar-nObamacare requires that every person in America have health insurance. It also requires employers of more than 50 people to provide health insurance for all employees who work for those employers for more than 30 hours a week. The failure to provide or maintain a health insurance policy by employers or individuals triggers the imposition of a tax by the IRS.

Under the House-passed bill, your employer no longer has to provide you with health insurance, but you must still maintain your own health insurance. Instead of paying the IRS if you let your coverage lapse, you have to pay a $3,000 annual penalty to your insurance carrier -- once you do sign up -- for every year you lacked coverage.

What kind of a repeal is that?

And the faceless bureaucrats still reign. The House-passed bill permits the feds to decide whether your doctor is treating you in a manner consistent with the availability of government resources and to administer liar-nObamacare's thousands of minute politically driven regulations.

By definition, liar-nObamacare will soon be a failure because it causes the expenditure of more money than it takes in. Eventually, it will have no cash. But Barack liar-nObama may have subtly succeeded in changing the landscape of thinking about federal involvement in health care. For those who believe that the Constitution means what it says, it was disheartening to see President Trump and so many Republicans in Congress who once defended the free market now assume that all Americans want the feds to care for them and that somehow the Constitution permits it.

Thomas Jefferson and Alexander Hamilton rarely agreed on principles of government. But they did agree that when the public treasury becomes a public trough and the people recognize that, the people will send to the federal government only those who will bring home the biggest piece of the federal pie. The House-passed bill was produced by federal government representatives who manifest that.

That's the same federal government that can't deliver the mail.


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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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Can Cops Get a Fair Trial in America?
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Trump set to meet with Russia's top diplomat at White House. (Fox News)
 
ACLU lawyer: Trump's travel ban might be constitutional if ordered by liar-Hillary Clinton. (Hot Air)
 
Trump's immigration enforcement helps slow illegal border crossings by 76%. (The Washington Times)
 
Los Angeles resolution makes public schools sanctuaries from ICE. (Fox News)
 
Mexico now world's deadliest conflict zone after Syria. (Bloomberg)
 
Chicago logs its 200th homicide of the year. (Chicago Tribune)
 
Black professor at Texas A&M University: When is it OK to kill whites? (The American Conservative)
 
Connecticut health insurance request average premium rate hikes as high as 52%. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Vet says he nearly operated on himself when VA wouldn't pay medical bill. (Fox Boston)
 
Satire: ISIS flag added to "coexist" stickers. (The Babylon Bee)
 
Policy: Liberals pining for (single-payer) universal Medicaid-for-all. (Townhall)
 
Policy: The feminization of everything fails our boys. (National Review~The Patriot Post
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Grand Jury Subpoenas Have Been Issued
For Associates Of Michael Flynn
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ Federal grand jury subpoenas have been issued for associates of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, CNN is reporting... The news is breaking just after President Trump fired FBI Director James Comey. According to CNN, the subpoenas were issued within the past several weeks by the U.S. Attorneys Office in the Eastern District of Virginia. Dana Boente oversees that office. He is also acting as head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division... http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/09/breaking-grand-jury-subpoenas-have-been-issued-for-associates-of-michael-flynn/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Evening
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Krauthammer On Comey’s Firing
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by Henry Kronk
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Following FBI Director James Comey’s sudden and unexpected firing by President Donald Trump on Tuesday, Fox News’ Charles Krauthammer asked the question that everyone was wondering... “Why was it done with malice?” Krauthammer asked on Special Report with Bret Baier. “There would have been so many ways of having Comey … step aside.” Trump sent a letter to Comey on Tuesday that read, “I have received the attached letters from the Attorney General and Deputy Attorney General of the United States recommending your dismissal as the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation...http://www.westernjournalism.com/krauthammer-comeys-firing-done-malice/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=dailypm&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Firing Of FBI Director Comey Couldn’t
Have Come Soon Enough
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Rand Paul is not shedding any of the fake, “Chuckodile” tears that Senator clown-Schumer is notorious for following the firing of FBI Director Comey... Paul told Charles Payne, “Well, you know, I think the firing of Comey couldn’t have come soon enough. I think all Americans thought he botched the liar-Clinton email investigation.” Paul explains, “If you’re a Democrat you thought he did too much to insinuate that she was guilty and then if you’re a Republican you thought, ‘If he insinuated she was guilty why didn’t they prosecute her?’ So I think both sides were unhappy and if virtually every American thinks you botched an investigation, maybe we need somebody else that can bring more confidence to the FBI.” Charles Payne notes some Senate “Republican colleagues” who are questioning the timing of the firing, to which Senator Paul replies, “Well, there’s a lot of hypocrisy going around...http://rickwells.us/sen-rand-paul-firing-fbi-director-comey-couldnt-come-soon-enough/
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You Like Special Prosecutors? How About
For liar-Clinton, liar-nObama, And Iran Deal?
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin addresses the leftist hysteria surrounding the firing of James Comey, pointing out that “First of all, the President didn’t order an end to the ‘Russia’ investigation, now did he?... Now we have a lot of legal and historical illiterates posing as TV hosts and commentators, like Jeffrey Toobin, among others. Let me be very specific. Richard Nixon, during Watergate, ordered the Attorney General to fire the Special Prosecutor, he refused. Then he ordered the Deputy Attorney General to fire the Special Prosecutor and he refused.” “Here,” says Levin, “the Deputy Attorney General writes a memorandum urging the Attorney General and the President to fire the FBI Director. The Attorney General attaches it to a letter, endorses it, and the President of the United States fires him. It has nothing to do with Watergate, but of course the media and the Democrats, one in the same, want it to deal with Watergate. The President did not order, in any respect, an end to the Russian investigation.” Levin says, “But I have a couple of questions, if I might, for Chuck clown-Schumer, who is the leading demagogue in all of this. Tell me something, Mr. clown-Schumer, can you name a single Russian, just one, who colluded with Donald Trump in his campaign? Just give us one, one. You’ve got intelligence committees who’ve been investigating,” the federal investigation, “Let’s have it.”... http://rickwells.us/levin-asks-schumer-you-like-special-prosecutors-clinton-obama-iran-deal/
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Obsolete Left-Right Paradigm
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by Bernie Suarez
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ We’re seeing it all the time now. Every day we see and hear well meaning people who sound educated, they’re trying to figure out what is happening politically here in the U.S. as well as abroad... Some of these people study history, they sound smart, they speak intelligently about things and even sound convincing. There seems to be something missing however, or perhaps something is present in their speech them that prevents you from taking in the fullness of what they are saying. You search for what it is and if you are fully awakened you are soon able to quantify what is wrong with these people. These people who seem dead-on minus that one element that prevents you from thinking they truly get it are stung by a malady that many millions of Americans suffer from. It’s something most of us suffered from for many years before we became “awakened”. It’s that one single thing that when you recognized it, you were never the same again... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/obsolete-left-right-paradigm-stifling-mass-awakening/
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Can Cops Get a Fair Trial in America?
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by Michelle Malkin
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Lock your doors. Hide your children. Police officers, be on alert:

Al Sharpton's cop-bashing circus is back in full swing.

Harlem's godfather of racial hoax crimes is in Oklahoma this week to stir up trouble as jury selection begins in the manslaughter trial of Tulsa police officer Betty Shelby.

Shelby is white. Terence Crutcher, the man she shot and killed during a tense traffic standoff last fall, was black. That's all the demagogue demolition team needs to know. Damn the facts. Screw due process. Powder up Showbiz Al and hustle over to the media tent.

Lights, cameras, agitate!

Sharpton's "prayer vigil" isn't about expressing faith in God. It's about stoking the fires of identity politics at the altar of social justice. Sharpton's no man of peace. He's the fetid pile of human manure who ruined New York prosecutor Steven Pagones' life with the incendiary Tawana Brawley rape hoax. He stoked anti-Semitic hatred in Crown Heights after a tragic car accident -- leading to the frenzied mob murder of rabbinical student Yankel Rosenbaum. He has inveighed against "crackers" and cracked jokes about "offing the pigs."

Also headlining the self-serving service in Tulsa this week: Sharpton's rabble-rousing heir and fellow race fabulist, Benjamin Crump. He's the Florida-based celebrity lawyer for the Trayvon Martin and Michael Brown families who gained international notoriety perpetuating the "Hands Up, Don't Shoot" lie. Crump first parachuted into town last fall to snatch up the Crutcher family as new clients and to instigate protests outside Tulsa police headquarters demanding Officer Shelby's scalp.

Nearly 200 marchers wielded "Black Lives Matter" signs and screamed "Fire Betty!" before a police investigation was complete. Others waved "white silence is violence" posters or a photo of a police badge labeled "License to Kill." One protester took to the microphone to declare that "a good white man is a dead white man."

The agitation worked. Tulsa District Attorney Steve Kunzweiler rushed to file charges before the lead homicide detective in the case had finished his work -- an obvious attempt to appease the unappeasables and avoid the next Ferguson.

Make no mistake: When the social justice warriors crusade for "immediate justice," they're not asking for proper adjudication in the courts. They're demanding an immediate guilty verdict, retribution, and a big, fat civil rights lawsuit settlement.

Until the Shelby case, police under fire remained silent as the social justice mob hijacked the courts of law and public opinion. But Shelby and her lawyers fought back. She sat down with "60 Minutes" correspondent Bill Whitaker last month to describe her state of mind during the encounter with a noncompliant Crutcher, who had the hallucinogenic drug PCP in his system at the time of his death. She adamantly insisted race was not a factor in the shooting and described the "lynch mob" atmosphere in the days since she was charged and put on administrative leave.

Crump and Sharpton faced no admonitions for their pre-trial antics. But after Shelby's TV appearance defending herself, the judge in the case issued the police officer and her legal team a reprimand. This is maddening.

Cops are damned if they do speak up and damned if they don't.

Two years ago, former Oklahoma City police officer Daniel Holtzclaw was advised by his trial lawyer to stay quiet before and during his chaotic trial on trumped-up sexual assault charges by a parade of shady women who are now clients of Benjamin Crump's seeking high-dollar civil rights awards. Several of these convicted felons gave interviews or testified while high, couldn't identify Holtzclaw or his patrol car from photo line-ups, misidentified his race, hair color, height, and weight, and changed key details of their stories after being approached and coached by confirmation bias-driven detectives.

Holtzclaw, against his every instinct to defend his character and reputation, was told to keep quiet while accusers lied, prosecutors smeared, and disrupters shouted "Give him life!" and "Racist cop!" and "Racist jury!" Seven phones were confiscated from people taking photos in the courtroom, including images of jury members.

The judge in the case, Timothy Henderson, knew for weeks before trial that the city had granted a permit for protesters to occupy the steps and streets outside the courtroom. He lamely confessed that he didn't "know really what can be done other than to admonish the jury to disregard" the commotion. He and city officials claimed to be powerless to stop the sabotage of Holtzclaw's right to a fair trial -- sabotage that they enabled.

This week, the Oklahoma Court of Criminal Appeals rejected a motion by lawyers Randy Coyne and J. Christian Adams to submit an amicus brief in the Holtzclaw case on the dangerous hijacking of the courts by the social justice mob. Their message deserves to be heard.

"There is a First Amendment right of free speech. There also is a First Amendment right to petition the government for a redress of grievances. But for outsiders at a criminal trial, there is no First Amendment right to petition the jury and browbeat it into delivering one's preferred verdict," the lawyers from opposite sides of the political aisle argued.

If real justice surrenders to social justice in the courtroom, we all lose.
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The Front Page Cover
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Will we ever learn?
by Cal Thomas
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 Oregon and Speech Control 
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An interesting story comes out of Oregon that highlights yet again the importance of protecting our First Amendment rights. Mats Jarlstrom immigrated to the U.S. from Sweden in 1992, where he had worked as an electronics engineer. Fast-forward to April 2013, when his wife received a ticket for having run a red light — an infraction caught by a traffic camera. While the Jarlstroms paid the fine, Mats had a question sparked by both curiosity and concerns over safety.
          Jarlstrom decided to look into the formula created in 1959 used to calculate the length of time traffic lights lit up yellow before switching to red. Through his research he determined that the timeframe for yellow to red did not rightly account for the length of time needed for a car to slow down enough to safely navigate a right-hand turn at an intersection. Jarlstrom said, "Currently, people are getting tickets for running red lights because they're slowing down when they're making turns. It's a safety issue because any time we run a red light, we're in the intersection for the wrong reason, and there is cross traffic, and especially pedestrians are in danger."
          Jarlstrom decided to make his findings public. He shared them with local media, the sheriff's department, policymakers and the Oregon State Board of Examiners for Engineering and Land Surveying. What happened next was not anything Jarlstrom expected. The state board alerted him that they were opening up an investigation for his having used the title "electronics engineer" and his statement "I'm an engineer." After two years, the board concluded its investigation and fined him $500. The reason given was that he was not a licensed engineer in the state of Oregon.
          This episode exposes one of the dangers of government cronyism. Fining an individual for expressing an opinion on a subject merely because he does not have a state-authorized license violates freedom of speech. Moreover, Jarlstrom does indeed have an engineering degree, so it's not as if he's unfamiliar with the science. But even if he didn't have that degree, what right does the government have to essentially punish someone for speaking their mind?
          Sam Gedge, a lawyer from the Institute for Justice, has taken Jarlstrom's case and is challenging the state board's ruling. Gedge called the case a "classic First Amendment issue," stating, "The government can't punish people for expressing their concerns. The government can't take words and redefine them and then punish people for using them in a way the government doesn't like."
          Then again, Oregon is the state that fined the bakers who declined to cater a same-sex wedding. That bakery closed — silenced by the power of the state. In that context, a little red light dispute isn't all that surprising. ~The Patriot Post
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Feinstein Forced to Admit There is No Evidence
Trump and Russia Colluded to Win Election
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{patrioticviralnews.com} ~ Yes, it’s all hot air! That’s the open admission of warhorse California Senator Dianne Feinstein in this CNN clip.. which just goes to show that the Democrats can make a mountain out of a molehill out of an ant farm. The fact of the matter is that four years from now, there STILL will likely be no evidence of Russian collusion in the election of Donald Trump to the presidency, and Feinstein knows it. The Democrats have only themselves to blame for their loss in the 2016 election, and the mainstream media can keep fanning the flames of this story all they want, but the more they do, the more their perennial charge of “Fake News!” is going to come back to bite them... http://patrioticviralnews.com/articles/senator-feinstein-forced-to-admit-there-is-no-evidence-trump-and-russia-colluded-to-win-election/
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Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation
Act of 2017 for a House Vote
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by Renee Nal
{trevorloudon.com} ~ A brand new petition calling on Speaker Paul Ryan to bring  H.R. 377  Muslim Brotherhood Terrorist Designation Act has just been added to the White House website... The legislation is sponsored by Rep. Mario Diaz-Balart, and has 46 co-sponsors. Watch Trevor Loudon’s Enemies Within and his latest mini-documentary America Under Siege: Soviet Islam to get more background on the history of the Muslim Brotherhood and their influence in America today. http://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/05/calling-on-speaker-paul-ryan-to-bring-h-r-377-muslim-brotherhood-terrorist-designation-act-of-2017-for-a-house-vote/
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Special Investigation Into Russia Would
Only 'Delay' Senate Intel Work
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by Bridget Johnson
{pjmedia.com} ~ Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) slammed "our Democratic colleagues complaining about the removal of an FBI director whom they themselves repeatedly and sharply criticized... that removal being done by a man, Rod Rosenstein, whom they repeatedly and effusively praised." "Two investigations are currently ongoing: the Senate Intelligence Committee's review of Russian active measures and intelligence activities and the FBI investigation disclosed by Director Comey," McConnell noted. "Today, we'll no doubt hear calls for a new investigation, which could only serve to impede the current work being done to not only discover what the Russians may have done -- also to let this body and the national security community develop countermeasures and warfighting doctrine to see that it doesn't occur again."... https://pjmedia.com/news-and-politics/2017/05/10/mcconnell-special-investigation-into-russia-would-only-delay-senate-intel-work/
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White House Confirms Trey Gowdy “Certainly
In The Mix” For FBI Director
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Maria Bartiromo asks Congressman John Ratcliffe (R-TX) about a replacement for James Comey, saying, “Who do you want to see in the job, Congressman?” Ratcliffe replies... “Well, I know that the White House is being inundated with both solicited and unsolicited recommendations. You know, folks that have a background like me as former prosecutors, jurists, law enforcement officials, sheriffs, chiefs of police, I think there is one candidate that will ultimately rise head and shoulders above the rest of us and that would be Trey Gowdy.” Bartiromo asks, “So you want to see Trey Gowdy in the job because he’s trusted, you think.” Ratcliffe replies, “Well, here’s what we need in an FBI Director, we need someone who’s familiar with the FBI and as a former federal prosecutor he certainly has that. We need someone who’s incredibly capable and skilled, and anyone that has watched Trey Gowdy question a witness on Capitol Hill or previously in his career knows that he has that in spades.”...http://rickwells.us/white-house-confirms-trey-gowdy-certainly-mix-fbi-director-says-congressman/
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Aetna completely exits liar-nObamacare
exchanges, cites massive losses
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by Kimberly Leonard
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Health insurance giant Aetna said Wednesday that it will not be participating in any liar-nObamacare exchanges in 2018... "Our individual commercial products lost nearly $700 million between 2014 and 2016, and are projected to lose more than $200 million in 2017 despite a significant reduction in membership," T.J. Crawford, Aetna spokesman, said in an email. The reason for the losses, he said, came from structural issues within the exchanges "that have led to co-op failures and carrier exits, and subsequent risk pool deterioration." He did not cite uncertainty over the future of liae-nObamacare, as the company had done when it announced last week that it would be exiting the exchange in Virginia... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/aetna-completely-exits-obamacare-exchanges-cites-massive-losses/article/2622734
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Will we ever learn?
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by Cal Thomas
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ President Trump is about to score a religious trifecta, visiting Saudi Arabia, Israel and Rome, the "home" of three monotheistic religions. The president has said he wants to make the ultimate deal and achieve peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

While the goal is similar to a high school kid attempting to hit a curve ball from an all-star pitcher, the scenario cannot end well for Israel. How do I know this? One has only to look at history. There has never -- never -- been a time when an American president has sought to lessen tensions in the region that Israel has not been smeared as the main impediment and required to "do more" to make peace happen. Israel is not an impediment to peace. Her enemies are.

Here's the danger for President Trump. The Koran allows Muslims to lie to "nonbelievers" in pursuit of Islam's goal of an earthly kingdom ruled by their religion. An example occurred last week when Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met at the White House with President Trump. Abbas said, "Mr. President, I affirm to you that we are raising our youth, our children and grandchildren, in a culture of peace."


That is a flat-out lie, as even a cursory Google search or visit to the Palestinian Media Watch website proves. President Trump correctly saw the problem in a campaign speech to the American Israel Public Affairs Committee: "In Palestinian textbooks and mosques, you've got a culture of hatred that has been fomenting there for years. And if we want to achieve peace, they've got to go out and they've got to start this educational process. They have to end education of hatred."

Which country promotes the most extreme form of Islam in children's textbooks, mosques and their media?

It is Saudi Arabia.

If a person, or nation, believes they have a mandate from their "god" to lie to achieve their goals, how likely is it that even a president is not regarded as an "infidel" whose desire for peace can be used to damage Israel's best interests?

As Jerusalem Post columnist Caroline Glick, who's column appears on JWR, correctly noted last week: "Israel is the most immediate casualty of Trump's decision to embrace Abbas and the PLO, because the PLO is Israel's enemy. Abbas is an anti-Semite. His doctoral dissertation, which he later published as a book, is a Holocaust denying screed.

"Abbas engages in anti-Semitic incitement on a daily basis, both directly and indirectly. It was Abbas who called for his people to kill Jews claiming that we pollute Judaism's most sacred site, the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, with our 'filthy feet.' The Palestinian media and school system which he controls with an iron fist both regularly portray Jews as evil monsters, deserving of physical annihilation."

This is not the attitude of one with whom a president or prime minister of Israel can make peace.

A virus of hatred toward Israel and Jews is epidemic throughout the region. One is as likely to change the minds of such people as persuade a serious Christian to deny the resurrection of Jesus, or an Orthodox Jew to accept Him as Messiah.

The difference is that Christians and Jews do not have world domination as their goal and violence as their method.

President Trump should re-read his AIPAC speech, because he was right to say what he said then.

Abbas lied to the president during his visit. Mr. Trump can expect more lies on his trip to Saudi Arabia, whose leaders may promise all sorts of things and tell the president what he wants to hear, but won't mean it.

The proof is in their interpretation of their religion. As always, the West must pay less attention to what the enemies of Israel say and more attention to what they do.
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Thursday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
By standards of a century ago,
we’re better off than John D. Rockefeller
by George Will
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 The Trump Administration's Conflicting Climate 
 Signals 
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The changes the Trump administration is expected to make on environmental issues are ambiguous, to say the least. And that's worrisome. In one sense, we're seeing welcome results. According to The Washington Post, "EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt decided to replace half of the members on one of its key scientific review boards, while Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is 'reviewing the charter and charge' of more than 200 advisory boards, committees and other entities both within and outside his department."
          Contrary to what's being reported, these moves are neither nefarious nor unforeseen. At the EPA, specifically, "All of the people being dismissed were at the end of serving at least one three-year term, although these terms are often renewed instead of terminated," the Post explains, later adding, "Members of EPA's Board of Scientific Counselors had been informed twice — in January, before President Barack liar-nObama left office, and then more recently by EPA career staff members — that they would be kept on for another term, adding to their confusion." Talk about having unrealistic expectations!
          Pruitt is shaking things up at the EPA — and that's good. Moreover, the administration's revisiting statist mandates like the Clean Power Plan is another promising sign that more needed relief is on the way. That being said, there are serious questions being raised about Barack liar-nObama's Paris climate accord.
          For the record, last year Trump vowed, "We're going to cancel the Paris climate agreement." He also stated: "President liar-nObama entered the United States into the Paris climate accords [sic] unilaterally and without the permission of Congress. This agreement gives foreign bureaucrats control over how much our energy and how much we use right here in America. So foreign bureaucrats are going to be controlling what we're using and what we're doing on our land in our country. No way."
          He's right. But whether a formal dismissal actually happens remains speculative. ABC News reports, "The White House has postponed a Tuesday meeting to discuss whether the United States should withdraw from the landmark international climate deal struck in Paris under the liar-nObama administration. The White House said late Monday that the meeting would be rescheduled. This is the second time a meeting of top aides on the issue has been delayed." Previous reports have indicated that a climate change rift exists between Trump officials, which help explain the delays. Ivanka Trump, anyone?
          Numerous groups are imploring Trump to take the U.S. out of participation. They understand that the Paris accord isn't just an economic bludgeon; it's also a gross infringement on the Constitution. If the U.S. were to properly enter such an accord, it's the Senate's, not the president's, duty to make it happen. If Trump backtracks on this issue, not only will the economy and Constitution suffer, but his voters won't be very accepting of it, either. ~The Patriot Post
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There Are Only Two Theories
Why Trump Fired Comey..
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 by BEN SHAPIRO
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ With President Trump's firing of FBI Director James Comey, the political world has exploded into wild accusations and counter-accusations of corruption and bias... Amidst all the hubbub, the "why" behind Comey's firing boils down to two theories. Only one can be correct. If it's the first theory, Trump did the right thing and Democrats are using the firing to make political hay in scurrilous fashion. If it's the second, Trump may be on his way to impeachment. Theory #1: Trump Fired Comey For Incompetence. This is the most obvious answer as to why Comey was fired. Multiple letters from administration members suggest that Trump was told over and over again that Comey needed to go. That's for a variety of reasons (less than a week ago, I called for Comey's firing myself)... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/there-are-only-two-theories-why-trump-fired-comey-one-means-trumps-right-the-other-means-hell-be-impeached?f=must_reads
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Kellyanne Conway defends Comey firing in tense Anderson Cooper interview: "This is not a coverup!"
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Huckabee-Sanders: "President liar-Hillary" Would've Fired Comey Too
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Statement by FBI Director Comey on the Investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton's Use of a Personal E-Mail System
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TUCKER: Former US Attorney: "James Comey Is a Danger to the Country" (May 3)
VIDEO:  http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5420988831001
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Dr. Peter Pry on North Korea allegedly preparing to attack the U.S. power grid
VIDEO:  http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/5426573806001
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N Korea Nuclear Armed Satellites, EMP Attack
A Serious, Imminent Threat
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs warns that North Korea could be in the process of preparing to hit the United States with an Electro-Magnetic Pulse attack... which would have devastating effects on the United States power grid and virtually all computers, including chips inside devices, cars and appliances. He notes that there are “two satellites already orbiting above America, according to Dr. Peter Vincent Pry,” his guest and the Executive Director of the Task Force on National and Homeland Security.” Noting that Pry is also the Chief of Staff for a Congressional EMP Commission, Dobbs welcomes him to the program. He remarks that it will probably come as a surprise to most Americans that not only does North Korea have the capability to launch satellites but they also could configure them with nuclear weapons capable of striking the United States with an EMP...http://rickwells.us/dobbs-n-korea-nuclear-armed-satellites-emp-attack-serious-imminent-threat/
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Thousands of Bodies Found Buried on University of Mississippi Medical Center Campus
by Tim Brown
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ The Mississippi Lunatic Asylum was Mississippi's first mental institution.  Dorothea Dix of Boston pushed Mississippi representatives to fund $175,000 to complete the asylum... Prior to the asylum, those who were claimed to be suffering from mental illness were chained in jails or attics, according to Dr. Luke Lampton, chairman of the state Board of Health. The long line of bodies discovered began in 2013, when UMMc officials discovered 66 coffins as a road was being constructed.  Later, in 2014, a parking garage project uncovered another 1,000 coffins, which led to radar being brought in that assessed there were at least 2,000 coffins in total...http://freedomoutpost.com/thousands-of-bodies-found-buried-on-university-of-mississippi-medical-center-campus/
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Senate GOP fails to repeal
liar-nObama's methane rule
by John Siciliano
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Senate on Wednesday failed to repeal President liar-nObama's methane rules for oil and gas drillers on federal lands with a 49-51 vote... The resolution of disapproval will now have one day to be reconsidered for repeal and get it to the president's desk for signature. The House passed a similar resolution using its authority under the Congressional Review Act back in February. Under the review act, the Senate only has until Thursday to pass the rule... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/senate-gop-fails-to-repeal-obamas-methane-rule/article/2622658
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By standards of a century ago,
we’re better off than John D. Rockefeller
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Times Square in New York City in the 1920s
 
by George Will
{newsobserver.com} ~ Having bestowed the presidency on a candidate who described their country as a “hellhole” besieged by multitudes trying to get into it, Americans need an antidote for social hypochondria. Fortunately, one has arrived from Don Boudreaux, an economist at George Mason University’s Mercatus Center and proprietor of the indispensable blog Cafe Hayek.

He has good news: You are as rich as John D. Rockefeller. Richer, actually.

Some historians estimate that Sept. 29, 1916, a surge in the price of Rockefeller’s shares of the Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey made him America’s first billionaire. Others say he never reached this milestone and that Henry Ford was the first. Never mind. If Rockefeller was the first, his billion was worth $23 billion in today’s dollars. Boudreaux asks if you would accept this bargain: You can be as rich as Rockefeller was in 1916 if you consent to live in 1916.

Boudreaux says that if you had Rockefeller’s riches back then, you could have had a palatial home on Fifth Avenue, another overlooking the Pacific, and a private island if you wished. Of course, going to and from the coasts in your private but unairconditioned railroad car would be time-consuming and less than pleasant. And communicating with someone on the other coast would be a time-consuming chore.

Commercial radio did not arrive until 1920, and 1916 phonographs would lacerate 2017 sensibilities, as would 1916’s silent movies. If in 1916 you wanted Thai curry, chicken vindaloo or Vietnamese pho, you could go to the phone hanging on your wall and ask the operator (direct dialing began in the 1920s) to connect you to restaurants serving those dishes. The fact that there were no such restaurants would not bother you because in 1916 you had never heard of those dishes, so you would not know what you were missing.

If in 1916 you suffered from depression, bipolar disorder, a sexually transmitted disease or innumerable other ailments treatable in 2017, you also would not know that you were missing antibiotics and the rest of modern pharmacology. And don’t even think about getting a 1916 toothache. You can afford state-of-the-art 1916 dentures, and probably will need them. Your arthritic hips and knees? Hobble along until you cannot hobble any more, then buy a wheelchair. Birth control in 1916 will be primitive, unreliable and not conducive to pleasure.

You could enjoy a smattering of early jazz, but rock ’n’ roll is decades distant, and Netflix and Google even more so. Your pastimes would be limited, but you could measure the passage of time on the finest Swiss watch. It, however, would be less accurate than today’s Timex or smartphone.

As a 1916 billionaire, you would be materially worse off than a 2017 middle- class American; an unhealthy 1916 billionaire would be much worse off than an unhealthy 2017 American of any means. Intellectually, your 1916 range of cultural choices would be paltry compared with today’s. And your moral tranquility might be disturbed by the contrast between your billionaire’s life and that of the normal American.

In 2015, a Bureau of Labor Statistics paper described the life of workers in 1915. More than half (52.4 percent) of the 100 million Americans were younger than 25, life expectancy at birth was 54.5 years (today, 78.8) and fewer than 5 percent of Americans were 65 or older. One in 10 babies died in the first year of life (today, one in 168). A large majority of births were not in hospitals (today, fewer than 1 percent).

In 1915, only about 14 percent of people ages 14-17 were in high school, an estimated 18 percent ages 25 and older had completed high school, and nearly 75 percent of women working in factories had left school before eighth grade. There were four renters for every homeowner, partly because mortgages (usually for just five to seven years) required down payments of 40 to 50 percent of the purchase price.

Fewer than one-third of homes had electric lights. Small electric motors – the first Hoover vacuum cleaner appeared in 1915 – were not yet lightening housework. Iceboxes, which were the norm until after World War II, were all that 1915 had: General Motors’ Frigidaire debuted in 1918.

So, thank Boudreaux for making you think about this: How large would your net worth have to be to get you to swap the life you are living in “hellhole” America for what that money could buy in 1916?
 
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Thurs/Med-AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 liar-Clinton Cans Comey — Finally 
by Mark Alexander
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 Top Headlines 
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Aetna CEO: liar-nObamaCare will continue to deteriorate if nothing happens. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
liar-nObamaCare is dying in Maryland too, and it isn't Trump's or Republicans' fault. (Washington Examiner)
 
Comey: 15% of terror cases came as refugees. (National Review)
 
Texas concealed carry holder thwarts potential mass shooting. (The Daily Signal)
 
RIP Bob Owens, Second Amendment champion. (Townhall)
 
Hispanic Phoenix serial killer suspect arrested. (Fox News)
 
Trump military advisers want 3,000 more troops to fight Taliban. (Daily Beast)
 
Constituent graft runs deep: Trump's agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, declares that "ethanol is here to stay." (Washington Examiner)
 
Why DeVos should rescind liar-nObama's ban on disciplining black kids in school. (The Federalist)
 
Theology professor pressured out of Duke after protesting liberal racism "training" program. (The Washington Times)
 
Policy: A guide to tax reform in the 115th Congress. (Heritage Foundation)
 
Policy: The debt-bubble landmine liar-nObama left for Trump. (New York Post~The Patriot Post
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The Events, Discussions And Failures
That Led To Comey Being Fired
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Catherine Herridge provides the details on some of the behind the scenes activities and calculations surrounding the Comey firing as well as what to expect next... She says, “A half dozen FBI agents told Fox News that “the bureau was blindsided by the decision, including the FBI Director, who was traveling in Los Angeles.” They told her “Comey had become a deeply polarizing figure within the bureau, and his recent testimony before the Senate did not help his case.” The report states that the unmasking scandal was part of the calculus that led to his firing, “as well as his slow-walking of records requested by Congress about American swept up in foreign intelligence reports and later identified.” The report also indicates Comey’s arrogance and refusal to acknowledge any mistakes made in the liar-Clinton email case as well as his public statements, “where critics say he took on the role of prosecutor, insisting investigators must find intent, which is not in the criminal statute.”... http://rickwells.us/herridge-events-discussions-failures-led-comey-fired/
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Trump Slams Democrats
for Hypocrisy on Comey Firing
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by Hannity.com Staff
{hannity.com} ~ Hours after firing FBI Director James Comey, the President set his sights on hypocrite democrats who have been calling for Comey’s removal for months... His primary target: ‘Cryin’ Chuck clown-Schumer. In a round of late night tweets, the President blasted liberal democrats who have been complaining about FBI Director Comey since injecting himself throughout the 2016 general election. The President went on social media Tuesday evening to set the record straight, saying that "The Democrats have said some of the worst things about James Comey, including the fact that he should be fired, but now they play so sad!"... http://www.hannity.com/articles/election-493995/trump-slams-democrats-for-hypocrisy-on-15817591/
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Powerful Podesta Firm Withheld Key Details
Of Russia, Trump Aide Links
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by Mark Tipscott
{dailycaller.com} ~ A powerhouse Washington lobbying firm linked to influential Democrats failed to disclose lucrative work it did for Ukrainian political figures closely tied to Russia and former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort... according to CNN. “The firm, the Podesta Group, said nothing in a 2012 lobbying report to Congress about at least 32 meetings, emails and other communications it had with the State Department, at a time when Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton was scrutinizing Ukraine’s upcoming election, records show,” CNN reported Tuesday. “The new disclosures shed light on the web of contacts between Russian-leaning Ukrainians, Washington lobbyists and U.S. policymakers during the liar-nObama administration...http://dailycaller.com/2017/05/09/powerful-podesta-firm-withheld-key-details-of-russia-trump-aide-links/
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The Candy Bar that Blew Barghouti's Cover
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Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who is leading a "hunger strike,"
secretly eating a candy bar in the bathroom of his prison cell
by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate (PJS), a body dominated by loyalists to Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas, has resumed its incitement against Israeli media outlets and journalists... On May 7, Israeli authorities released a video showing imprisoned Fatah leader Marwan Barghouti, who is leading a "hunger strike" of more than 1,000 inmates held in Israeli prisons, secretly eating a candy bar in the bathroom of his prison cell. Israeli media outlets and journalists, like many of their Western colleagues, reported on the video, which has seriously embarrassed Barghouti and many other Palestinians...
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John McCain Seizes On Comey Firing
To Monger War On Russia
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ John McCain backed off a little bit on his attacks on President Trump when he was getting the aggression in the Middle East against Syria that he was so desperate for... Now that the Syria action appears to have been a one-time shot, he’s back on the anti-Trump bandwagon, banging his drum against Russia and joining his Democrat comrades in calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the phantom Russia-Trump collusion. The establishment RINO McCain wouldn’t recognize integrity if he had a mouthful of it but that doesn’t prevent him from assigning it to “Mr. Intent,” now-former FBI Director Comey. Somehow Comey managed to include an intent requirement in a statute that had none in order to bail liar-Hillary Clinton out of her legal jeopardy. McCain described Comey as a “man of honor and integrity,” who led “well in extraordinary circumstances.”... http://rickwells.us/john-mccain-seizes-comey-firing-monger-war-russia-president-trump/
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 liar-Clinton Cans Comey — Finally 
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By Mark Alexander: At long last, liar-Hillary Clinton and her Democrat legions got what they pleaded for last year — FBI Director James Comey, fired! Remember when they wanted Comey out — before they didn't...
          Just prior to the 2016 election, Senate Minority Leader-in-waiting Chuck clown-Schumer (D-NY) declared, "I do not have confidence in him any longer," and he labeled Comey's letter about liar-Hillary Clinton to Congress "appalling." House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi (D-CA) declared, "Maybe he's not in the right job."
          Recall after liar-Clinton lost, then-Senate Minority Leader Harry dinky-Reid (D-NV) protested, "This is not fake news. Intelligence officials are hiding connections to the Russian government. There is no question. Comey knew and deliberately kept this info a secret."
          Most of the Demo rank-and-file followed in lock step. "The FBI director has no credibility," insisted Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA). Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) lamented, "My confidence in the FBI director's ability to lead this agency has been shaken." Fact is, it was liar-Clinton who, by proxy, finally fired Comey. Here's how:
          Firing Comey has certainly been in the works since Donald Trump was elected. However, once the Democrats launched their post-election tin-hat diversionary assertions that Trump and Vladimir Putin conspired to steal the election from liar-Clinton, and their mainstream media public relations outlets propagated that mind-numbing nonsense, if Trump had asked for Comey's resignation in January, that would have affirmed the Trump-Putin connection in the small Demo-constituency minds.
          Of course, there is not even a puff of smoke regarding the "Trump-Putin connection" in the alleged Russian interference with the 2016 election — unless by "interference" they mean that Russian operatives may have hacked liar-Clinton's illegal and insecure email server, where she was unlawfully maintaining official and classified communications to hide them from the public record — and they made some of those emails part of the public record...
          For the record, if the Russians hacked liar-Clinton's insecure communications, and those of the Democrat National Committee, it would have been with the objective of giving a hand up to her Socialist opponent Bernie Sanders, their preferred candidate. The fact that those communications were exposed would be retribution for the liar-Clinton and DNC hacking and bushwacking of Sander's campaign. But two things happened last week that opened Comey's exit door.
          First would be liar-Hillary Clinton's very public remarks, once again blaming Comey for her election loss: "If the election had been on October 27, I would be your president. It wasn't a perfect campaign, but I was on the way to winning until a combination of Comey's letter and Russian WikiLeaks. The reason why I believe we lost were the intervening events in the last 10 days."
          Second would be that Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein, to whom Comey directly reported, was just installed at the Department of Justice.
          Tuesday, bolstered by liar-Clinton's blame game, Attorney General Jeff Sessions endorsed a memorandum from Rosenstein that Comey should be fired based on his handling of the liar-Clinton investigation last July and then again just before the election.
          According to Andrew McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor and longtime friend of Jim Comey, "The memorandum issued by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to explain Comey's dismissal Tuesday is well crafted and will make it very difficult for Democrats to attack President Trump's decision. Rosenstein bases the decision not merely on Comey's much discussed missteps in the liar-Clinton e-mails investigation — viz., usurping the authority of the attorney general to close the case without prosecution; failing to avail himself of the normal procedures for raising concerns about Attorney General Lynch's conflict of interest. He goes on specifically to rebuke Comey's 'gratuitous' release of 'derogatory information about the subject of a declined criminal prosecution.' That 'subject,' of course, would be Mrs. liar-Clinton."
          McCarthy notes, "This is exactly the line of attack Democrats have adopted since liar-Clinton lost the election: Conveniently forget how ecstatic they were over Comey's confident public assessment that the case was not worth charging, and remember only his scathing public description of the evidence — even though both were improper. Significantly, Rosenstein avoids any suggestion that Comey was wrong in concluding liar-Clinton should not be indicted; nor does he in any way imply that Comey's errors made it impossible to bring a wrongdoer to justice. ... Instead, liar-Clinton is portrayed as a victim. This will appeal to Democrats — especially since it will keep alive the fiction that Comey, rather than liar-Clinton herself, is responsible for the Democrats' stunning electoral defeat."
          McCarthy is correct in his assessment of why Comey should have been fired — and indeed, by his then-boss Barack liar-nObama, though that would have appeared like liar-nObama was covering for liar-Clinton (not that the mainstream media would have noticed). But the Demo/MSM alliance will have a field day insisting the firing was to subvert investigations into the alleged Trump-Putin connection.
          Notably, in Trump's letter of dismissal to Comey, he wrote: "While I greatly appreciate you informing me, on three separate occasions, that I am not under investigation, I nevertheless concur with the judgment of the Department of Justice that you are not able to effectively lead the Bureau. It is essential that we find new leadership for the FBI that restores public trust and confidence in its vital law enforcement mission."
          Despite tying Comey's dismissal to liar-Clinton's claims, the DemoDrama "Nixonian memo" protests were instant. "This is Nixonian!” protested Sen. Bob Casey (D-PA).
          Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) declared that Trump fired Comey "in the midst of one of the most critical national security investigations in the history of our country — one that implicates senior officials in the Trump campaign and administration. This is nothing less than Nixonian." Oh the horrors! Thus begins a massive spin cycle to try and keep the Russian narrative alive.
          But any Democrat or MSM talkinghead who mentions Trump and Russia in the same sentence is nothing more than a pandering dezinformatsiya propagandist. Clearly and demonstrably, while their socialist icon Barack liar-nObama had a long history of ties to radical communist mentors and Marxist benefactors, Trump does not.
          And a final note: There have been 11 FBI directors in its history. Only one other was fired — its fourth director, former federal judge William Sessions. He was fired by Bill liar-Clinton in 1993, and it is no small irony that Comey's firing now is in part directly related to Bill liar-Clinton's nefarious meeting with liar-nObama's former AG, Loretta Lynch at the height of the Department of Justice investigation into liar-Hillary Clinton.  ~The Patriot Post 
 
 
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Cleaning Up Democrats’ Healthcare Mess
by Susan Stamper Brown
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 The Existing Lies About Pre-Existing Conditions 
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By Allyne Caan: Say "pre-existing condition" lately and leftists will launch into their predetermined narrative that conservatives want to throw sick Americans to the curb. Sadly, too many Americans are predisposed to believe unfounded rhetoric, so they prejudge the issue and end up with a preponderance of baseless opinions.
          In the interest of truth (not to mention as a service to the sanity of anyone who has to answer accusations of wishing uninsured purgatory on infirm people), here is the reality.
          While the guarantee of coverage for those with pre-existing conditions was central to liar-nObamaCare's promises, liar-nObama and his allies duped Americans by greatly exaggerating the "crisis" — an oft-used tactic of the Left. As Forbes writer Avik Roy explains, before liar-nObamaCare (ah, remember those days?), 90% of Americans with health insurance were already enrolled in plans that required coverage regardless of pre-existing conditions. These included employer-based plans and government plans like Medicare, Medicaid and the VA. The rest — those buying insurance on the individual market — could technically be denied coverage because of pre-existing conditions.
          However, only a fraction of these individual market customers actually were denied coverage because of a pre-existing condition. "We know this," Roy writes, "because of an liar-nObamacare program called the Pre-Existing Condition Insurance Plan, or PCIP. PCIP was designed ... as a bridge until liar-nObamacare's insurance regulations took effect. ... Americans could sign up for heavily subsidized coverage under PCIP if they had documented proof that they had been denied coverage by an insurance company and had a pre-existing condition. ... Enrollment in PCIP peaked in February 2013 at 114,959."
          In short, claims that without liar-nObamaCare over 120 million could be denied insurance because of pre-existing conditions were flat-out lies. It wasn't even 120 thousand. But this is liar-nObamacare we're talking about, so lies were par for the course.
          Still, even these 115,000 wouldn't be forgotten in the GOP House bill. Here's why:
          Assertions that the health care bill being debated in the House would allow states to get a waiver from liar-nObamaCare's pre-existing coverage mandate — and as a result let insurance companies send sick customers out to sea with no lifeboat — are (not surprisingly) hyperbolic. More accurately, as Ramesh Ponnuru explains, the proposed waiver would let states avoid liar-nObamaCare's regulations on pre-existing conditions "only for people who do not maintain insurance coverage." In other words, those with pre-existing conditions who have coverage under liar-nObamaCare or elsewhere would be protected from being denied coverage.
          Additionally, the House bill makes maintaining coverage easier through tax credits for those purchasing insurance on the individual market. (While liar-nObamaCare offered tax credits based on income, the House bill bases the credits on age.)
          That's not all. As the Wall Street Journal notes, "States can only receive a waiver if they avail themselves of the bill's $100 billion fund to set up high-risk pools. These state-based programs, which were run in 35 states until they were pre-empted by liar-nObamaCare, subsidize coverage for older and sicker patients. This helps these individuals and keeps coverage cheaper for everyone else."
          In other words, in states that get a waiver, if individuals with pre-existing conditions for some reason did not maintain continuous coverage under liar-nObamacare or do not use tax credits to purchase insurance on the individual market, they would still have access to high-risk pools. This is hardly tossing sick Americans to the curb.
          Still, so emotionally rich and fact-depleted is the debate over pre-existing conditions that moderate Republicans threatened to reject the House bill over the issue. One of those moderates, Fred Upton of Michigan, proposed an amendment as a bargaining tool for his support — and that of other moderates. His plan would give $8 billion over five years to help individuals with pre-existing conditions pay insurance premiums. It's window dressing that could end up increasing prices, but at least the moderates "care."
          Without a doubt, rhetoric, not realty, is driving this proposed funding boost — particularly given the protections already offered those with pre-existing conditions. Unfortunately, as we've seen all too often, facts are simply nuisances to those who would rather tax, spend and regulate based on lies than create the free-market environment proven throughout history to benefit more people the world over than any other government system. 
~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama Take His Own Advice, Be Quiet –
Disappear Like A Real President
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts on “a man working full time against President Trump, a man who has worked against, many would say, the interests of the United States for years... ‘President’ liar-nObama left the Oval Office some three and a half months ago and since then his intervention, his interference in the Trump administration’s agenda only worsens by the day.” Dobbs says, “This former ‘president’s’ actions are now utterly outside the tradition of former presidents, who have historically always given way to the newly elected president. And the liar-nObama actions are conscious, willfully insulting and subversive.” He addresses liar-nObama’s mendacity and that of the left, noting that liar-nObama had on the night prior called on Congress to act on his behalf. He said, “Mr. loiar-nObama urged Congress to save his disastrous and rapidly deteriorating signature law, even though the former ‘president’ and the Dems never had either the ‘courage,’ as he put it, or the integrity to fix the flawed ACA over a period of about 7 years.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-recommends-obama-take-advice-quiet-disappear-like-real-president/
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“NATO ally” Turkey threatens to strike U.S.
forces partnered with Kurds
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by Robert Spencer
{jihadwatch.org} ~ The war of words between Washington and Ankara over the U.S. military’s partnership with Kurdish paramilitaries in Syria escalated Wednesday, when a senior aide to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan... suggested American troops could be targeted alongside their Kurdish allies in the country’s ongoing air war against the militias. Senior presidential aide Ilnur Cevik said U.S. forces who are teamed up with members of the Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or YPG, were in danger of being hit by Turkish fighters patrolling the volatile border region with Syria. If YPG units and their American military advisers “go too far, our forces would not care if American armor is there, whether armored carriers are there,” Mr. Cevik said during an interview on Turkish radio station CRI TURK Wednesday. “All of a sudden, by accident, a few rockets can hit them,” he added, referring to partnered U.S. forces... https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/05/nato-ally-turkey-threatens-to-strike-u-s-forces-partnered-with-kurds
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Kushner Visa Scandal Is President Trump’s
Chance To Remove Family Swamp Creatures
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Emily Rauhala, a reporter for the Trump nemesis Washington Post, provides some insight into what is likely going to become a significant self-inflicted wound for the Trump administration... one that came about not because of his work to make America great again on behalf of the American people, but because his liberal Democrat son-in-law under the cover of his sister, is out capitalize on his relationship with the President and his own position. Whether he was actually attempting to make some major quick bucks selling actual influence, selling the claimed appearance of influence or somehow innocently using the image of the President in his promotion material, it’s a headache the President and we the American people neither need or want... http://rickwells.us/kushner-visa-scandal-president-trumps-chance-remove-family-swamp-creatures/
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Trump fires FBI Director James Comey
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by Anna Giaritelli
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump has fired FBI Director James Comey, the White House announced Tuesday... Trump acted based on the recommendations of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, according to a White House statement. "The FBI is one of our nation's most cherished and respected institutions and today will mark a new beginning for our crown jewel of law enforcement," Trump said. The Trump administration will immediately commence a search for Comey's successor... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-fires-fbi-director-james-comey/article/2622593
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liar-nObama’s Ambassador To Russia Says
It’s ‘Unlikely’ That Flynn Was Blackmailed
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by Andrew Kerr
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Former Acting Attorney General Sally Yates said she warned the White House in January that former national security adviser Michael Flynn “essentially could be blackmailed” by the Russians... after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about conversations he had with the Russian ambassador to the United States. Michael McFaul, President liar-nObama’s ambassador to Russia, is casting doubt on Yates’ claims. McFaul tweeted Tuesday it was “unlikely” that Flynn was blackmailed by the Russians... http://www.westernjournalism.com/obama-ambassador-russia-unlikely-flynn-was-blackmailed/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=minutemennews&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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Cleaning Up Democrats’ Healthcare Mess
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by Susan Stamper Brown
{townhall.com} ~Last time they were in charge, Democrats created the dumpster fire we know as liar-nObamacare, the Affordable Care Act, which is nothing more than a failed wealth redistribution experiment.

Historians will look back at the liar-nObama years and note the rise of Democrat Party lemmings who threw themselves off the liar-nObamacare Cliff in a fit of melodramatic sanctimoniousness. They will question why Democrats passed a bill they knew from the beginning was a pile of excrement and then left it for someone else to clean up.

And that cleanup is upon us, given some people are asked to pay premiums the equivalent of small house payments to pay for policies requiring $10,000 or more in out-of-pocket costs. Ironically, Democrats promised liar-nObamacare would lower costs.

Historians will also ask how leading Democrats like Nancy Pulosi, Harry dinky-Reid and Barack liar-nObama never second-guessed their decisions even while watching liar-nObamacare collapse from within.

Rather than joining with Republicans to rescue Americans from this dying legislative monstrosity that made healthcare less accessible and increasingly unaffordable, Democrats chose to take the low road, propagating fear and lies about the House bill known as the American Health Care Act [AHCA].

Now that the bill has reached the Senate, Democrats will either participate in the legislative process or they will answer to their constituents back home about why they failed to help fix the mess they created.

Stop listening to the naysayers. Like any bill, the AHCA is a work in progress and will not become law as it currently stands. But, you would never know that, listening to scaremongers’ cock-and-bull stories about the Republicans’ nefarious plan to kill people with preexisting conditions by obliterating access to healthcare coverage.

It is quite the opposite.

It is a boldfaced lie to say the AHCA ditches people with preexisting conditions. As Townhall editor Guy Benson recently pointed out, “people with preexisting conditions are offered several layers of protection” including: Insurers are mandated to sell plans to everyone, period. Those with preexisting conditions who live in “a state that does not seek an optional waiver from the AHCA’s (and liar-nObamacare’s) ‘community rating’ regulation cannot be charged more than other people for a new plan when they seek to purchase one.” Moreover, those who are “insured and remain continuously insured cannot be dropped from their plan due to a preexisting condition, and cannot be charged more after developing one” even if they change jobs or switch plans. Furthermore, if someone is uninsured and has a preexisting condition and lives in a state with a community rating waiver, the state must grant that person access to the $130 billion high risk pool fund provided under the AHCA.

liar-nObamacare failed for many reasons. It lacked choice and flexibility. It also failed to consider human nature and what happens when government dictates what it wants rather than the other way around. Such as the assumption that healthy young people, many of whom are baristas still residing in their parents’ basement, would miraculously bankroll the costs of the sick and elderly. Surely, an economics course would have helped Democrats understand that in the real world, nothing is free, so mandating “free” preventive care means people will use it, ergo costs spike.

The Democrats who created this crisis see it as a campaign opportunity. They care nothing about the plight of everyday Americans now suffering thanks to their poor decisions and should pay the price for their arrogance and dismissiveness in upcoming elections.
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Who broke the Democrats?
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 by Gina Loudon
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 Yates Blows Smoke ... Still No Fire 
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On Monday, former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who was fired by Donald Trump for refusing to defend his original travel ban executive order, gave her testimony before the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee. What was of most interest to the senators was information regarding Trump's former national security advisor Gen. Michael Flynn, and what Yates knew of Russian election interference.
          Yates testified that she had been so concerned over Flynn being "compromised" and open to "blackmail" that she had two meetings with Trump's White House lawyer, Don McGahn, to whom she expressed her fears. Yet when she was pressed as to whether there was evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with Russia, she refused to answer, citing classification protocol. When former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, who was also testifying, was asked whether he had seen evidence of collusion, he said no. And, for the record, even Democrat Sen. Dianne Feinstein likewise said last week there is no evidence of that collusion.
          Prior to the Senate committee's hearing, questions were raised by Trump's press secretary, Sean Spicer, as to Barack liar-nObama's handling of Flynn. Spicer asked, "If President liar-nObama was truly concerned about General Flynn, why didn't he suspend General Flynn's security clearance, which they had just re-approved months earlier?" Recall that Gen. Flynn had formally worked for liar-nObama as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency, a position from which he was fired in 2014 over his disagreements with liar-nObama on foreign policy. However, even after Flynn was fired he was granted permission to give a paid speech in Moscow, and his security clearance was subsequently reauthorized by the liar-nObama administration following that Russia visit in late 2015. If Flynn was such a threat to national security, then why was his clearance reauthorized by Team liar-nObama?
          So, what was learned? Well, Trump may have summed it up best when he tweeted after the hearing, "Sally Yates made the fake media extremely unhappy today — she said nothing but old news!" What is clear is that Democrats are still convinced of a Trump-Russia collusion scandal and are committed to continuing to fuel that narrative, regardless of the lack of any supporting evidence. What has yet to be uncovered is who was responsible for leaking the names of individuals associated with Trump after liar-nObama adviser Susan Rice unmasked them
~The Patriot Post
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Hanford Nuclear Reservation tunnel
collapse triggers alert
{foxnews.com} ~ Hundreds of workers took cover after a tunnel in a shuttered Washington plutonium finishing plant collapsed Tuesday morning... The tunnel at the Hanford plant near Richland was full of contaminated particles, including radioactive trains that transport fuel rods, KING5 reported. The U.S. Department of Energy Richland Operations Office activated the Hanford Emergency Operations Center at 8:26 a.m. local time, after an alert was declared, according to the official Hanford site. The Hanford Fire Department was at the plant, though photos from the scene showed firefighters waiting for the official word to move closer to the site of the accident... http://www.foxnews.com/us/2017/05/09/hanford-plutonium-finishing-plant-tunnel-collapse-triggers-alert.html
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Former DNI Clapper Admits To Unmasking Trump,
Trump Associates, Or Congressmen
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Chuck Grassley asked a question of both former DNI James Clapper and former Acting AG Sally Yates that, upon receiving a response in the affirmative... should have been broken down into specifics, at least as to the targeting that was admitted to. Grassley asked, “Did either of you ever request the unmasking of Mr. Trump, his associates or any member of Congress?” Clapper adopted the infamous “not wittingly” appearance as he hesitated, took off his glasses, stared blankly and uttered a painfully long ummmh, responding, “Yes, in one case I did, that I can specifically recall but I can’t discuss it any further than that.”... http://rickwells.us/former-dni-clapper-admits-unmasking-trump-trump-associates-congressmen/
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Ted Cruz Gets Last Laugh In Debate With
Smug Partisan Former Acting AG Trump Fired
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ With the sting of the campaign now fading away and the conservative Trump agenda one that Senator Cruz favors, he’s steadily becoming one of the President’s strongest and most important voices of support inside Washington DC... In this questioning of former acting Attorney General Sally Yates, Senator Ted Cruz, an excellent debater, came armed with the facts and although Yates held her own in professing her position that she had a right to second guess and defy the direct orders given to her by the President of the United States, she fails to make the case. Senator Cruz gets the last laugh, with the last word, coming after Yates was clearly quite pleased with herself, thinking she had gotten the better of the exchange...http://rickwells.us/ted-cruz-gets-last-laugh-debate-smug-partisan-former-acting-ag/
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TUCKER: "The Race Part is Grotesque": Tucker Battles Dem on GOP Leadership "Lack of Diversity"
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Senator Ted Cruz Presses Sally Yates on Trump immigration EO
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T-wufNYSNk
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Condoleezza Rice: Every American should respect decision of democracy
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5426694473001
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Texas Gov. Abbott on signing law banning sanctuary cities
VIDEO:  http://video.foxnews.com/v/5426557110001
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"Who Appointed You to the Supreme Court?": Senator Grills acting Attorney General Sally Yates For Defying Trump Travel Ban
VIDEO:  http://video.insider.foxnews.com/v/5426354997001
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The Rising McCarthyism from the Left
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by BILL CONNOR
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Dr. Mark Green - a West Point graduate, retired Army flight surgeon, combat veteran, and Tennessee State Senator... has withdrawn his nomination by President Trump to become the next Secretary of the Army. Though a perfect candidate for the post, Dr. Green was forced to "withdraw from consideration Friday amid mounting opposition to past comments he made about Islam, evolution and gender issues," according to the Washington Post. Further explaining the reason for the withdrawal, the Post claimed, "Advocacy groups for lesbian gay, bisexual and transgender people immediately launched an effort on Capitol Hill to block his nomination after it was announced April 7."   Though this story has been relatively ignored by the mainstream press, it is important for Americans to understand what happened, and the growing McCarthyism of the Left... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-rising-mccarthyism-from-the-left?f=must_reads
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Who broke the Democrats?
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 by Gina Loudon
{wnd.com} ~ The Democrats are angry. Many are insanely so. They are like the onerous wife who nags and bitches incessantly at her husband and then gets angry when she finally kills him. Her anger has become her countenance. The widowed left is bitter, and she has nowhere to go because she has driven everyone away in her rage.
 
Kennedy and Camelot were once the face of the Democrat Party. She was “pretty” then – sane, even calming. Later, she went a little nutty with the Carters, but she fell completely off the deep end when the liar-Clinton family became her face. The Democratic Party does not realize it is the very oligarchical elite that it allowed to become its face, and it has destroyed the party from within.
 
Now no one trusts them – the Kennedy Democrats, or even the nutty Carter Dems who hung with them through the “Misery Index” years. Some have gone on to greener pastures. Some have retreated, realizing anything is better than a crazy party only getting crazier.
 
How is a sensible Democrat in the heartland supposed to relate to the highlight reel of Democrat drama this year, alone?
 
Pink hats representing genitalia dazed the confused streets of a once grand Capitol.
 
Leftist snowflakes burned and destroyed college campuses to keep conservatives from speaking.
 
America has also witnessed:
*a rainbow flagged White House,
*gender-confused restrooms,
*sanctuary cities to protect criminals and terrorists, instead of Americans,
*liar-Hillary Clinton’s classified email server scandal, which won’t go away,
*and Clinton operatives one-by-one proving to be corrupt (Loretta Lynch, Huma Abedin, John Podesta …).
Also, the liar-Clinton Body Count increases as more mysterious deaths occur surrounding the liar-Clintons. And all the while, they take zero responsibility for the disaster they have created out of the trust and money their constituents gave them to fix things.
 
The once-loyal Democrat rank-and-file has watched as the liar-Clinton Crime Cartel has gone from lying, to cheating, to stealing, to killing to get people out of the way of their intoxicating power.
 
The “resistance” movement wanted to be the tea party, but in its despair and violence, it failed. Ultimately, it only established hard evidence that the party was undeniably, irrevocably insane.
 
The amazing part is that the party doesn’t even realize what is killing it.
 
Just when you thought the Democratic Party might take a look in the mirror and discover what led to its bloody fall in the last election, and save itself from certain death, liar-Hillary Clinton re-emerged like the prom scene from “Carrie.” She was baaaaack, and it sent chills through the handful of remaining sensibles watching the whole sinking ship.
 
The Democratic Party cannot recover until the liar-Clinton dynasty is wiped from the face of the failing party. Chelsea cannot emerge, because if she does, she will serve as a reminder of an oligarchical, imperial, embarrassing and un-American era in their party’s history that will never win again.
 
The liar-Clintons broke the Democratic Party, and until the DNC admits that’s the problem, it will lose. Its only hope at this point is to extricate the liar-Clintons, and their cronies and associates. The liar-Clintons can take full credit for the accomplishments of the Trump administration, and re-election in 2020, because without them their party might be relevant, have a leader or be gaining credibility.
 
With the liar-Clintons, the Democrats can only sink deeper into a self-entranced belief that one day they will start winning again, even if they keep repeating the same, old, worn-out tricks:
*Class, race and gender warfare
*Blatant hypocrisy
*Lawlessness for votes and power
*Oligarchical power of the elite
*Groupthink with no tolerance for dissent
*Whining and complaining
*Dressing like genitalia
*Creating new victims for Dems to save
*Taxpayer money funneled to elections (Planned Parenthood, Union dues)
*Committing violence to shut down opponents (Berkeley)
*Destruction of their own communities
*Tolerating terror for votes and power
*Promoting illegal immigration for votes and power
They can’t win. But how can they not see it?
 
Let’s see if they will keep helping the Trump Train into 2020, and beyond.
 
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Wednesday Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Cracked Foundation
by John McCormack
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 liar-nObamaCare's Failure Is Trump's Fault? 
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In an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace on Sunday, Jonathan Gruber, one of the primary architects of liar-nObamaCare, was questioned as to who was at fault for the law's failure. Gruber responded, "Before President Trump was elected there were no counties in America that did not have an insurer. ... Then you have a president who comes in, undercuts open enrollment, doesn't honor the obligations this law makes to insurers and as a result premiums are going up and insurers are exiting." In other words, liar-nObamaCare is failing because of Donald Trump. What a conveniently deceitful excuse. The reality is that insurance companies have been swallowing losses for years, prompting many to leave the government exchanges well before Trump even became a candidate for president. And while Trump has talked about cutting funding to liar-nObamaCare, to date none of those threats have been enacted. Once again, Gruber is simply peddling a lie.
          Meanwhile, Barack liar-nObama was given the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award over the weekend. In his speech he touted his and Democrat brave efforts in forcing liar-nObamaCare onto the American public, all the while ignoring the skyrocketing costs and general wreckage to Americans' freedom his law created. He declared, "These [Democrat] men and women did the right thing. They did the hard thing ... and most of them did lose their seats." Yes, many Democrats did lose their seats, but Republicans are proving that their "sacrifice" was worth it by their own unwillingness to potentially suffer a similar fate in repealing the disastrous law for the good of the country.
          Finally, while Trump is not to blame for liar-nObamaCare's imminent collapse, he has hampered Republicans' efforts at repealing and replacing the law. The fact of the matter is that Trump likes too many things about liar-nObamaCare. His demand that the replacement law retain some of the more costly elements of the "Affordable" Care Act has only proven to deepen divisions within the Republican Party, weakening their ability to comprehensively repeal and replace. We're discovering he and many moderates simply don't want true repeal. Just this past weekend Trump tweeted, "Of course the Australians have better healthcare than we do — everybody does. liar-nObamaCare is Dead! But our healthcare will soon be great." It's strange to offer praise of a single-payer system, which is what Republicans are trying to avoid.
          So, while Democrats continue to spin the fiction of the "successes" of liar-nObamaCare, Trump and Republicans are saddled with a disunified effort to fix the mess they were given.  ~The Patriot Post
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Does Anyone In Washington Even Care
That We Are 20 Trillion Dollars In Debt?
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by Michael Snyder
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ There has been a tremendous amount of talk about the spending deal that was just reached in Congress. Most of the focus has been on who “won” and who “lost” politically... and if you have been keeping up with my articles you definitely know my opinion on the matter. But what nobody is really talking about is that this deal actually increases spending at a time when our debt has been absolutely exploding. We added more than a trillion dollars a year to the U.S. national debt during liar-nObama’s eight years in the White House, and our debt binge actually accelerated toward the end of his second term. In fact, the national debt increased by more than 1.4 trillion dollars during fiscal 2016…http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/debt-insanity-20-trillion-dollars/

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A Slap in the Face to Democracy:
Canada's "Anti-Islamophobia" Motion
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Canada's top Muslim cleric, Iqbal Al-Nadvi,has openly quoted the Islamic
Prophet Muhammed asserting, "Jihad will continue till the Day of Judgment."
by Ruthie Blum
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Growing concern in Canada over liberal policies benefitting Muslim extremists sheds light on why an "anti-Islamophobia" bill -- proposed in the wake of the deadly January 17 Quebec City mosque attack and approved by parliament... on March 23 -- spurred such heated controversy there. Motion 103, tabled by Liberal Party MP Iqra Khalid, a Muslim representing Mississauga-Erin Mills, calls on the Canadian government to "develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination including Islamophobia."...https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10313/canada-anti-islamophobia-motion

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Happy About French Election Outcome,
But Worried About Rise Of Populism
by Charles Campbell
{westernjournalism.com} ~ Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice thinks it’s a net positive that Emmanuel Macron won France’s presidential race on Sunday... However, the former secretary of state expressed concern about the rise of populism in Europe and its impact on politics. “I really do believe that these populists are changing the character of the politics just by being there, so even mainstream candidates are having to respond to their agenda,” Rice said in an interview with Capital Download... http://www.westernjournalism.com/condoleezza-rice-happy-french-election-outcome-worried-rise-populism/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=patriotupdate&utm_campaign=dailyam&utm_content=libertyalliance
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North Korea Wants To Reduce
White House “to Ashes”
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by jon Lockett
{thesun.co.uk} ~ In the latest bizarre threat to the United States to come from Kim Jong Un’s regime, an editorial by North Korea’s state news agency warned that the White House would be “reduced to ashes.”... According to the U.K. Sunday Express, the 2,000-word editorial condemned the Trump administration for its deployment of naval vessels to the region and promised forced reunification with South Korea. “This is a stern warning to the U.S. imperialists and their stooges running amuck for aggression and war moves,” the editorial read. “The world will clearly witness how the crime-woven history of the U.S. imperialists will be over, how the despicable remaining days of the South Korean puppet forces will come to an end and how national reunification, the cherished desire of the Korean nation, will be achieved.”... https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/3501422/now-north-korea-threatens-to-nuke-the-white-house-as-it-brands-american-troops-murderous-ogres/
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California Dems Vote for Communists in Government Jobs
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by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ It seems a little late now that all the elected branches of government are dominated by them, but might as well make it nice and legal... Being a communist would no longer be a fireable offense for California government employees under a bill passed Monday by the state Assembly. But voting for Trump still is. It would eliminate part of the law that allows public employees to be fired for being a member of the Communist Party. Employees could still be fired for being members of organizations they know advocate for overthrowing the government by force or violence. Except the two are one and the same. But the left has different standards for groups advocating the overthrow of the government... that they agree with... http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266656/california-dems-vote-communists-%C2%A0government-jobs-daniel-greenfield
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Cracked Foundation
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by John McCormack
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weeklystandard.com} ~ When news broke that Jim DeMint, the former South Carolina senator and president of the Heritage Foundation, was being removed from his role at the prominent conservative think tank, activists and political insiders wondered: Had the Founding Father of the Tea Party finally been defeated by his longtime foes in the GOP establishment? "If Heritage pushes Jim DeMint out, it was because a few board members, who are close to the Republican establishment, never wanted him to be president and have been working to push him out ever since," one operative who had worked with Heritage told Politico, which broke the news of DeMint's imminent departure on April 28.

The speculation made a certain amount of sense: This was Jim DeMint, after all, the man who had clashed with Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell and bucked the GOP establishment in order to help elect conservatives Marco Rubio, Pat Toomey, Mike Lee, Rand Paul, and Ben Sasse to the Senate.

But in the following days, both DeMint's allies and critics close to Heritage painted a different picture. Both sides agreed that the departure had little to do with ideological disputes. But they sharply disagreed about why DeMint was axed.

In reports in the Atlantic, Politico, and the Washington Examiner, DeMint's allies said he had simply lost an internal power struggle with Michael Needham, the 35-year-old CEO of Heritage Action, the think tank's legally distinct activist and lobbying wing. Needham also has a reputation for having an antagonistic relationship with the Republican establishment. DeMint supporters accused Needham of using any argument he could—pro-Trump or anti-Trump—to turn board members against DeMint, with the ultimate goal of becoming the foundation's president.

That characterization was disputed by DeMint's critics, including Bill Walton, a member of the Heritage Foundation's board of trustees, which unanimously requested and received DeMint's resignation on May 2. "This is not a Needham-versus-DeMint power struggle, and it was not about having different views about conservative policy," Walton told me. Walton expects Heritage will find a new president in a matter of months and it won't be Needham. "Mike's brilliant," Walton said, but the Heritage president needs to be "somebody with a track record of running a significant institution, and that's not his background as of yet."

"When the board of trustees announced DeMint's departure on May 2, a statement from chairman Thomas Saunders accused DeMint of "significant and worsening management issues that led to a breakdown of internal communications and cooperation." DeMint responded with a statement listing a number of achievements—including Heritage's key role in the Trump transition—and pointing out that the University of Pennsylvania had named Heritage one of the best-managed think tanks in the country.

The board didn't name any specific problems with DeMint's management style, but Bill Walton came up with a few in his interview with TWS. The top layer of management beneath DeMint, known as group vice presidents, was filled by his former Senate staffers, and "they set up a system where you couldn't get anything out of research until the group vice presidents read it. And they were busy doing their own jobs," Walton said. "So we had some instances where people would write things, and we couldn't get them out in a timely fashion." Walton also said that some sound research was rejected on ideological grounds, but he declined to provide specific examples.

Paul Winfree, a former Heritage analyst who now works at the White House, took to social media to defend the research department. "I worked in two different research departments at Heritage under the helm of both Feulner & DeMint," Winfree wrote on Twitter. "The research shops were always protected by management from politicization" DeMint's defenders said this criticism of the research department was simply an attack on Heritage's longstanding policy to speak with one voice. "Literally the entire story of Heritage from its founding is that it's not an ivory tower think tank," said one DeMint ally. "Heritage is a do-tank that works to be relevant to the conversation, to lead the conservative movement, speak with one voice. You can't speak with one voice if you have multiple researchers who write on their own without any review, without any conversation, without any collaboration." Such vetting, the DeMint ally said, is what made Heritage different from think tanks like the American Enterprise Institute and Brookings, and without it, that's how Heritage ended up with "an individual mandate to buy health insurance, and supporting the bailout, and Romneycare"—all policies different Heritage scholars had endorsed before DeMint's arrival.

But the board's criticism of DeMint's management style wasn't limited to the research department. Another instance of DeMint's poor management, Walton said, was when "we had somebody who was invited to the White House and wanted to bring along one of our health care experts and had to get approval from the management committee, and that was slow in coming, so we missed the opportunity to take our own health care expert to join in the debate on the health care plan. It was things like that."

Walton declined to discuss the White House meeting in greater detail, but according to sources familiar with the situation, this dispute underscores the fact that DeMint's ouster was at least in part a power struggle with Heritage Action. Needham had been invited to discuss the GOP's liar-nObamacare repeal-and-replace efforts with Vice President Mike Pence at the White House on April 3. The topic of discussion was an amendment that would provide waivers for liar-nObamacare's regulations to states under certain conditions, and Needham had requested the day before that a foundation scholar join him.

The foundation's leadership rejected this request, according to a source, not because they were angling for a specific legislative outcome on the American Health Care Act, but to give their scholars the opportunity to analyze a proposal that hadn't yet been put into legislative text. With the congressional recess fast approaching, there was intense pressure to hold a vote, and Heritage Foundation leadership didn't want to get boxed in at a White House meeting, coaxed into supporting a plan that hadn't been vetted.

It's easy to see how this incident could be interpreted or spun in different ways: Was DeMint's team ruling with a heavy hand, or was Needham making a power play against DeMint? Was the foundation protecting its scholars from political pressure or protecting its turf? Whatever the truth, that story—and others like it—made their way back to Heritage's governing board and played a prime role in the ouster of one of America's most prominent conservative figures from one of the country's most powerful conservative institutions.
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
 
Is Paris Safe For Our High School Students?
by Tom McLaughlin 
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liar-nObama funded terror group
with hundreds of millions
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by Pamela Geller
{pamelageller.com} ~ The liar-nObama administration quietly shipped $400 million stacked on wooden pallets in an unmarked plane to the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, Iran, in January 2016... Those pallets of cash were secreted out of the US by then-President liar-nObama as part of his nuclear pact with Iran. No one knew about that cash or what Iran did with it. It was all done under cover of night and in total secrecy. The running dogs in the liar-nObama media were never remotely curious about doing any digging into this explosive story...
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Paxton Says Democratic Attorneys General
Are Abusing Their Power
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by Bill McMorris
{freebeacon.com} ~ Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton says that Democrats are abusing the strategy that some Republican officeholders used to restrain the liar-nObama administration... Texas filed 48 lawsuits against the liar-nObama administration from 2009 to 2016 on issues ranging from immigration to the environment and healthcare. Paxton filed 17 suits against the federal government since taking office in 2015—an increase from the 31 filed by his predecessor, Gov. Greg Abbott. Paxton has filed five additional suits against the federal government since President Trump took office in January and has a major suit pending against the Department of Energy led by Rick Perry... http://freebeacon.com/issues/paxton-says-democratic-attorneys-general-abusing-power/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=f723f542b7-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_05_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-f723f542b7-45611665
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Still no evidence of any Russian collusion
with Trump campaign
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by Todd Shepherd
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ James Clapper, the former Director of National Intelligence, told a Senate Judiciary subcommittee on Monday that he still has not seen any evidence of any kind of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian foreign nationals... Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-N.C., asked if Clapper's prior statement was correct, when he said on NBC that there was "no evidence' of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials. When asked if that is still accurate, Clapper said Monday, "it is."... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/james-clapper-still-no-evidence-of-any-russian-collusion-with-trump-campaign/article/2622452
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Trump to Nominate 10 Federal Judges
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by Michael Warren
{weeklystandard.com} ~
President Donald Trump will nominate 10 people to federal judgeships on Monday, the New York Times reported Sunday evening... The nominations include five appeals court seats, four district court seats, and a federal clams court seat. Among those expected to be nominated for vacancies on an appeals court are Joan Larsen and David Stras, state supreme court judges in Michigan and Minnesota, respectively. Both Larsen and Stras were also on the list of 21 potential nominees to fill the Supreme Court seat occupied by the late Antonin Scalia, which Trump released during his campaign. The list was compiled with the help of two conservative groups, the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. One of the judges on the list was Neil Gorsuch, who Trump successfully nominated to the Supreme Court. Another on the list is Amul Thapar, whom Trump has already nominated to an appeals court vacancy on the Sixth Circuit...http://www.weeklystandard.com/trump-to-nominate-10-federal-judges/article/2007957?utm_campaign=Weekly%20Standard:%20Daily%20Standard&utm_source=Weekly%20Standard:%20Daily%20Standard%20-%2005/08/17&utm_medium=email
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Palestinians Use Deception for
Greater Acceptance
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by Noah Beck
{investigativeproject.org} ~ The two main political groups that claim to represent Palestinians – the Islamist terror group Hamas and the Palestinian Authority (PA) – have embarked on new campaigns of deception in order to gain greater international acceptance... PA President Mahmoud Abbas met with President Donald Trump last week to discuss the peace process. He blatantly lied throughout his public remarks. Speaking before Abbas, Trump said that "there cannot be lasting peace unless the Palestinian leaders speak in a unified voice against incitement to...violence and hate...All children of God must be taught to value and respect human life, and condemn all of those who target the innocent."... https://www.investigativeproject.org/6100/palestinians-use-deception-for-greater-acceptance
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Is Paris Safe For Our High School Students?
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Has radical Muslim terrorism made Paris too dangerous? That question was debated by the school board in Conway, New Hampshire a few weeks ago. The local Kennett High School French club went to Paris during an April terrorist attack. Two jihadis opened fire with assault rifles, killing a policeman and a tourist, and wounding another policeman.
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“Kennett students were heading down the famed Champs-Elysee toward the Arc de Triomphe (pictured) when shots rang out,” reported the Conway Daily Sun. “Kennett High School senior Will Synnott planned on having an exciting April vacation during a student trip to France, but he didn't expect to be running for his life from a gun-toting terrorist.”
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Mr. Synnott is a senior and, in spite of his exposure to terrorist murders, wants the student trips to continue. The Sun said he also wants “to discourage people from becoming bigoted against Muslims because of last Thursday's attack.” In that, he sounds like the European media or a European Union official. After every attack in every European country, they warn against “Islamophobia,” as if that were a bigger problem than jihadis raping and murdering Europeans nearly every day somewhere on the continent.
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France has been in a national state of emergency for two-and-a-half years since January, 2015 when Muslim terrorists murdered twelve people for publishing pictures of Muhammed. Months later Muslim terrorists murdered 128 people in a series of Paris attacks with guns and bombs, and wounded many more. In Nice last summer, a Muslim terrorist drove a truck into a crowd killing eighty-six. There have been rapes, stabbings, and shootings too numerous to mention before the latest attack on the Champs-Elysee. There are “no-go zones” in Paris and across the country into which even the police don’t dare to go lest Muslim residents riot. In recent presidential debates, the liberal Macron said to the conservative Le Pen, “You are giving into their [Muslims’] trap of civil war.” As I write this on Tuesday, The UK Telegraph is reporting: “Paris' Gare du Nord train station was evacuated last night as armed police reportedly searched for three "dangerous" terror suspects.”
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Such is the new Europe under multiculturalism — the word to which liberals ascribe their notion that all cultures are equal. It became an official EU policy when that multinational body came into being. Conservative European leaders like Holland’s Geert Wilders and France’s Marine Le Pen who dare criticize passages in the Koran advocating the killing of Jews? They are prosecuted, but they continue to garner support nonetheless. In spite of European mainstream media’s constant drumbeat for multiculturalism, in spite of all the wonderful falafel restaurants that have opened across Europe, a growing percentage of ordinary Europeans are observing that millions of Muslim immigrants are not assimilating.
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A critical mass of Muslim immigrants in Europe have no intention of becoming French, German, British, Dutch, or Swedish. What they want is to establish Sharia Law in their adopted countries. They want to make Europe Muslim. After centuries of trying by military invasion, they’ve changed tactics. Now they’re doing it through hijrah, or jihad by migration. In the late 20th and 21st centuries, this is coincident with a drastic decline in native European birthrates. The French, Germans, British, Swedish, Italians, Greeks, Spanish, etc. are simply not reproducing. Muslim immigrants are, however, and profusely. Demography is destiny and native Europe has essentially stopped reproducing, while Muslim immigrants multiply rapidly. Muslims are 7.5% of France’s population now. What will France and the rest of Europe be like in the next generation? The one after that?
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Sexual assaults against European women skyrocket across Europe while governments forbid identification of perpetrators as Muslim immigrants. Media cooperates in the coverup. When for years young Muslims set hundreds of cars on fire in France during almost any given weekend, they’re called, simply, “youths,” not Muslims. Ordinary French are not fooled, but they fear being called racist or being prosecuted for speaking up. There’s no First Amendment in the EU Constitution. It is still in force in the USA though — except on college campuses.
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Those pesky French "youths"at it again
Unlimited immigration was the biggest reason for the Brexit vote in the UK. British citizens wanted out of the EU and that sentiment is spreading across Europe. On Sunday, French voters elected a left-center president who promises to stimulate the moribund French economy. In spite of France’s never-ending state of emergency, he defeated the conservative candidate who promised to restrict Muslim immigration. Economics has trumped demographics for now. Meanwhile, France is being transformed.
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If the purpose of sending American high school students to France is to provide them a taste of French culture as the “Religion of Peace” changes it, then yes, send them. But first, teach them to duck and cover.
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