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End the Income Tax
by Katie Kieffer
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 Comey Knew Lynch Couldn't Be Trusted 
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A Saturday exposé in The New York Times contains some interesting claims and insight on the extent to which FBI Director James Comey felt that then-Attorney General Loretta Lynch was duplicitous in the investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton's email. The article speaks of Comey's "distrust of senior officials at the Justice Department, who he and other F.B.I. officials felt had provided Mrs. liar-Clinton with political cover. The distrust extended to his boss, Loretta E. Lynch, the attorney general, who Mr. Comey believed had subtly helped play down the liar-Clinton investigation." Come now, it's not like she secretly met with Bill liar-Clinton on the airport tarmac during the investigation. Oh, right...
          Two revelations in particular aptly demonstrate Comey's dilemma. First, the Times relays the events of a 2015 meeting in which "everyone agreed that Mr. Comey should not reveal details about the liar-Clinton investigation. But Ms. Lynch told him to be even more circumspect: Do not even call it an investigation, she said, according to three people who attended the meeting. Call it a 'matter.' Ms. Lynch reasoned that the word 'investigation' would raise other questions: What charges were being investigated? Who was the target?" Many words come to mind, but "impartiality" isn't one of them.
          Second, the Times continues, "Early last year, F.B.I. agents received a batch of hacked documents, and one caught their attention. The document, which has been described as both a memo and an email, was written by a Democratic operative who expressed confidence that Ms. Lynch would keep the liar-Clinton investigation from going too far, according to several former officials familiar with the document." This document, which was intercepted by Russian hackers, appears to be yet another self-inflicted wound for the liar-Clinton campaign.
          What's interesting is how the Times early on appears to takes a shot at Comey because, in conjunction with last fall's pre-election lay-up for liar-Clinton, "[H]e did not say ... that the F.B.I. was also investigating the campaign of Donald J. Trump. Just weeks before, Mr. Comey had declined to answer a question from Congress about whether there was such an investigation. Only in March, long after the election, did Mr. Comey confirm that there was one." There's just one glaring issue with this line of reasoning: Evidence. The evidence is overwhelming regarding liar-Clinton and Co.'s coverup and corruption, while nearly a year later the facts have failed to establish a grand Trump-Russia scheme.
          On Saturday, the March for Science was held in Washington, DC, where demonstrators lambasted conservatives for ostensibly ignoring facts and science. Yet everywhere you look it's increasingly obvious that leftists conjure up narratives where no proof exists and ignore overwhelming evidence when it's an inconvenient stumbling block to their crusade. Case in point: The 2016 election. Whatever their goal is, it's based on twisting facts and evidence.  ~The Patriot Post
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“French liar-nObama” Macron Aided
By Soros AntiFa Riots Against Le Pen
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The events in France are vivid evidence that what happens in US politics is, in many ways, also being played out on the international stage and that it often is literally that, just a stage... Hussein liar-nObama phoned Macron on Thursday of last week to give his official unofficial endorsement as he ended his secret vacation in “French Polynesia.” Was liar-nObama representing the globalists in planning with Macron’s team as part of his “Vacation” activities? Macron, the globalist candidate of Soros and the oligarchs, proceeded to the next round as the establishment representative. He now will face off against the people’s candidate, Marine Le Pen. The fact that Macron is being referred to as the next liar-nObama or Trudeau is no accident; that’s exactly what he is. As a former investment banker at Rothschild & Cie Banque, he is a globalist puppet. The same tactics of rioting in the streets in opposition to political realities that they don’t like and are trying to change is taking place in France in response to Ms. Le Pen advancing...http://rickwells.us/globalist-puppet-french-obama-macron-aided-soros-antifa-riots-le-pen/
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Human Trafficker Confesses on Camera
to Murdering Between 4-500 Little Girls
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by Tim Brown
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ How does a man live with himself doing such things?  Ross Kemp, a British investigative journalist, interviewed a self-professed child trafficker from India in 2013... If confessing to child trafficking were not enough, the man in the interview claims to have killed somewhere between 4-500 little girls. The man in the interview is referred to as "Mr. Kahn."  Most child traffickers are embarrassed or will not confess to such depravity, but not Kahn. He is on record confessing to selling thousands of children into sex slavery and killing hundreds that he was not able to sell... http://freedomoutpost.com/human-trafficker-confesses-on-camera-murdering-4-500-little-girls/
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Soros Globalist Tool Kushner Portrayed
As “Miracle Worker,”  – Why?
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The video starts out noting that Jared Kushner was a virtual nobody until the victory of President Trump put him into an increasingly powerful position... An article in Forbes magazine is indicative of the level of promotion, that they credited him with President Trump’s victory. Really, a guy with no political experience takes a candidate with no political experience against the Democrat political machinery, the incumbent pretend president, the liar-Clintons, 16 or so other GOP candidates as well as Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan? Sure he did. We’re being sold a bill of goods after the fact with Kushner, the question that needs to be sorted out is why. They note the address of Kushner’s building, which his globalist contacts, friends and family helped him acquire, is 666 5th Avenue. Yes that is the Mark of the Beast and Soros is an atheist who’s bringing this guy to power with President Trump’s help, perhaps in collaboration, perhaps not. The video then turns its attention to Kushner’s relationship with that global pirate and enemy of all free men, George Soros... http://rickwells.us/soros-globalist-tool-kushner-portrayed-miracle-worker-inserted-admin/
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104 Men Arrested in Child Sex Sting
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by Muriel Draaisma
{cbc.ca} ~ York Regional Police say 104 men were arrested "for purchasing prostituted children" in a child sex trafficking investigation that lasted four years... Det.-Sgt. Thai Truong, spokesperson for York Regional Police, said undercover officers put ads online to find men looking for escorts. The sting was part of what police call Project Raphael. When men responded to the ads, they were told that they were talking to children, aged 13 to 16. Most of the men stopped communicating at that point. The officers involved were undercover agents...http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/york-human-trafficking-investigation-arrests-1.4078982
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Stop Listening To Brainwashed
NY Libtard Ivanka...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Climate expert Dr. Duane Thresher has written an open letter to President Trump urging him to ignore the pleadings of his liberal, brainwashed daughter, Ivanka, and reject her insistence that the US remain in the UN Climate Hoax agreement... It’s never been ratified and is in no way legally binding. It is the Senate, not a pretend ‘president’ in a meeting with the communist leader of China and the UN globalist Secretary General, that must ratify all treaties and that never happened. It’s not worth the paper it’s written on. Yet, Trump, for some reason, is playing along with the scam and so are the nearly 535 snakes in Congress who know it’s never been ratified but have opted to sit on their hands with their mouths shut. That political reality was not part of Dr. Thresher’s message to the President. He made other worthwhile points, writing, “Climate treaties like the Paris Agreement have little to do with climate. They are about economic competition. As the greatest economy in the history of the world, other countries will do anything to cripple the United States.”...http://rickwells.us/stop-listening-brainwashed-ny-libtard-ivanka-climate-scientists-urgent-plea-trump/
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End the Income Tax
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by Katie Kieffer
{townhall.com} ~ Tell President Trump to ask Congress to end the federal income tax so that you and I can reach our full potential for wealth.

This weekend, President Trump tweeted that a: “Big TAX REFORM AND TAX REDUCTION will be announced on Wednesday.” This is great news. However, as we go through the process of improving the tax code, we must encourage our politicians to do two things:

1.) Eliminate the unconstitutional federal income tax.

2.) Reduce hidden taxes that politicians eternally use to offset tax “cuts”—namely increases in federal spending.

America turns 241 years old in July. We’re still a “baby” nation in contrast to Rome, which recently celebrated its 2,770th birthday. Now, consider that for the first 126 years of our country’s existence—which is longer than the second half of its existence—there was no such thing as a federal income tax.

How did our country thrive without income taxes for 126 years? Answer: federal spending was significantly lower than it is today. In the early 1900s, government spending accounted for roughly 7% of our GDP; today, federal spending accounts for around 35% of our GDP.

Tom Hanks and Kim Kardashian are more familiar to the average American than tax facts. One in two Americans believes that the federal government relies on personal income taxes to fund at least three quarters of its operating costs, according to a new survey by Ipsos. In reality, income taxes only fund about a third of total government spending.

Most Americans, in other words, greatly overestimate the importance of income taxes. And the only reason there currently is a “need” for income taxes is because our country has dramatically increased overall spending. Solution: eliminate both income taxes and excessive spending.

Not Who We Are

Politicians love to slam policies that they disapprove of as: “Not who we are.” Well, the current tax setup in the United States is certainly not rooted in the foundation of freedom that our Founding Fathers established.

The federal income tax was implemented via the 16th Amendment to the Constitution in 1913—over 100 years after our Founders wrote the Constitution.

“A heavy progressive or graduated income tax.” Sounds like a simple description of the U.S. tax code, right? Yes, and it’s also a direct quote from Karl Marx’s Communist Manifesto. Marx wrote that a progressive income tax was the second-most notable requirement for implementing the “Communist revolution.” Great.

Our founders understood that your first piece of private property is your body and the fruits of any labor completed through the toil of your mind and/or body are exclusively yours. All just human law is rooted in natural law (reason) and there is no natural law indicating that the government has a right to the fruits of your labor. Taxing labor is a form of extortion.

Young People: Get Involved Now

A new Census report finds that the majority of Millennials desire full-time employment by the age of 22, however, only 37% find full-time work by age 22.

Thanks to meager economic prospects and high student debt—one in three Millennials is living at home with their parents. Twelve years ago, in 2005, the majority of young people in the majority of states (35 states) “lived independently in their own household,” reports the New York Daily News. Today, the majority of young people live independently in only five states.

34-year-olds with master’s degrees living in their parents’ basement and 28-year-olds with law degrees working as coffee baristas are becoming startlingly common in what should be the Land of Opportunity.

I realize that only 19% of my generation voted in the 2016 presidential election, but I entreat them to get involved in tax reform now—and demand the elimination of the federal income tax. Otherwise, even when young people do land steady employment, they will struggle to buy a home, start a family, or build a retirement fund if Uncle Sam skims increasingly higher amounts off their income in the form of taxes every year.

Congress has the ultimate power to alter our tax code, but President Trump—like presidents before him—can aim Congress in the right direction by proffering specific tax reform legislation.

Tweet at President Trump and let him know that you support his efforts at tax reform, and particularly wish to see the elimination of income taxes combined with a corresponding decrease in total government spending.
 
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Tues/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Damage in the Wake of ‘No Drama liar-nObama’
by Susan Stamper Brown
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 Top Headlines 
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Poll: Two-thirds of Americans think that the Democratic Party is out of touch with the country. (The Washington Post)
 
Poll: Trump would beat liar-Clinton in a rematch among 2016 voters. (The Washington Post)
 
Marine Le Pen and Emmanuel Macron head to runoff in French election — a blow to the establishment. (The Daily Signal)
 
Barack liar-nObama to give first speech since leaving office. (Chicago Tribune)
 
Chicago adopts ID program for undocumented immigrants. (CBS Chicago)
 
loose lips-Biden used false data to smear Marine Corps over armored vehicle request from Iraq. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
We're apparently stuck with that Australian refugee deal after all. (Hot Air)
 
North Korea threatens Australia with nuclear strike over "toeing the line" with U.S. (NBC News)
 
Settled science? 107 cancer papers retracted due to peer review fraud. (Ars Technica)
 
New Orleans starts tearing down Confederate monuments, sparking protest. (Associated Press)
 
Policy: Shunning the shutdown. (Heritage Foundation)
 
Policy: Inconvenient truths the "March for Science" protesters ignore. (Investor's Business Daily~The Patriot Post
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China Deploys Floating Nuclear
Power Plant to South China Sea
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A scale-model of a Russian floating nuclear power plant
by Debalina Ghoshal
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In April 2016, reports began coming in that China has plans to build floating nuclear power plants in the South China Sea. A floating nuclear power plant consists of one or more nuclear reactors, located on a platform at sea... China apparently plans to "speed up the commercial development" of the South China Sea and views the nuclear power plants as part of that plan. Final assembly of the reactor is reported to start in coastal city of Huludao, in Liaoning province, and will be built by Bohai Shipbuilding Heavy Industry Co Ltd, a unit of China Shipbuilding Industry Corp (CSIC). China's 2016 nuclear plan, a component of the China's 13th five-year plan, is evidently to complete 58 nuclear reactors by 2020 and build another 100 gigawatt-sized reactors by 2030. These would make China the largest nuclear power producer in the world. China's floating nuclear reactor initiative seems to be a component of this nuclear plan...https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10253/china-floating-nuclear-reactor
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Pakistani government sheltering
al-Qaeda top dog Zawahiri
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by Robert Spencer
{jihadwatch.org} ~ Not a friend, not an ally. The Pakistani government is aiding and abetting the global jihad. The learned analysts in Washington, however, since they don’t acknowledge that there is a jihad, refuse to see the obvious... Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency (ISI) has been protecting the Egyptian-born al-Zawahiri, a trained surgeon, since U.S. forces evicted Al-Qaeda from Afghanistan in late 2001, several authoritative sources tell Newsweek. His most likely location today, they say: Karachi, the teeming port city of 26 million people on the Arabian Sea. “Like everything about his location, there’s no positive proof,” says Bruce Riedel, a 30-year CIA veteran who was the top adviser on South Asia and the Middle East for the past four U.S. presidents. “There are pretty good indications, including some of the material found in Abbottabad,” where bin Laden was slain, “that point in that direction,” he adds. “This would be a logical place to hide out, where he would feel pretty comfortable that the Americans can’t come and get him.”... https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/04/pakistani-government-sheltering-al-qaeda-top-dog-zawahiri
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Announcing the "Congressional
Israel Victory Caucus"
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Reps. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Bill Johnson (R-OH)
{meforum.org} ~ April 24, 2017 – Reps. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Bill Johnson (R-OH) will launch the Congressional Israel Victory Caucus (CIVC) on April 27 at 9 a.m. The caucus' goal... to introduce a new U.S. approach to Israel-Palestinian relations. Cong. Johnson notes that "Israel is America's closest ally in the Middle East, and the community of nations must accept that Israel has a right to exist – period. This is not negotiable now, nor ever. The Congressional Israel Victory Caucus aims to focus on this precept, and to better inform our colleagues in Congress about daily life in Israel and the present-day conflict. I look forward to co-chairing this very important caucus with Cong. DeSantis." Cong. DeSantis adds: "Israel is our strongest ally in the Middle East, as we share common national interests and possess similar national values...http://www.meforum.org/6652/congressional-israel-victory-caucus-to-launch?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=07ea5598cf-CIVC_press_2017_04_24&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-07ea5598cf-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-07ea5598cf-33703665
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The Moral Obscenity of Kim’s North Korea
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by Claudia Rosett    
{aim.org} ~ North Korea’s menace has been all over the news, including its missiles tests, visible preparations for a sixth nuclear test and its threats to attack a U.S. aircraft carrier and to reduce the U.S. to ashes... with a “super-mighty preemptive strike.” Assorted experts, debating how to handle the rogue regime of Kim Jong Un, have been weighing the pros and cons of trying yet more sanctions, new negotiations, tough talk, pressure on China, displays of military might, actual use of military force to take out North Korean missiles or even nuclear facilities, or assorted permutations of all these options and then some. Amid all the strategizing — much of which envisions somehow continuing to “manage” the North Korea problem — it’s easy to sideline a basic and profoundly important element of the Pyongyang regime, a quality we should take into account quite thoroughly, front and center, before considering any course that might leave the Kim regime in power. The feature I’m talking about is the raw moral obscenity of Kim’s North Korea...http://www.aim.org/guest-column/the-moral-obscenity-of-kims-north-korea/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Apr-24-2017&utm_medium=email
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Trump discusses North Korea
tensions with Asian leaders
{foxnews.com} ~ President Trump talked to leaders of both China and Japan on Monday as tensions on the Korean Peninsula have boiled over and North Korea appears ready for an ICBM launch... Trump spoke by phone with Chinese President Xi Jinping and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe. Japan's military claimed it sent destroyers to join the USS Carl Vinson carrier group on its way to North Korea's doorstep -- and South Korea was in talks to take part as well, Reuters reported. North Korea called the carrier group's approach "an extremely dangerous act by those who plan a nuclear war to invade," according to a commentary in the ruling Workers' Party newspaper Rodong Sinmun. "What's only laid for aggressors is dead bodies."...http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/04/24/trump-discusses-north-korea-tensions-with-asian-leaders.html
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Damage in the Wake of ‘No Drama liar-nObama’
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by Susan Stamper Brown
{townhall.com
Every time a picture of America’s Coolest Prez Ever gets posted on social media, the internet lights up like a Christmas tree. Of late, His Excellency, Barack liar-nObama, was caught on camera photographing Michelle while they cruised the South Pacific on a carbon footprint-hogging 450-foot super yacht.

One Instagram click later and, who cares about global warming, or ISIS, or Russia? The picture goes viral...followers gasp…tears flow…and leftists of the world over fawn over their American idol.

One guy on social media went so far as to describe liar-nObama as “our step dad who broke up with our mom America, who still loves us.” Seriously? No wonder people think they need safe spaces these days.

Conveniently, leftists neglect the fact that their idol who trashed the rich for eight years now lives a lifestyle of the rich and famous.

If he isn’t tucked away on a private island in the South Pacific once owned by Marlon Brando or kite surfing in the Virgin Islands with billionaire bud Richard Branson, he’s hanging out with fellow Hollywood BFFs Tom Hanks, Oprah Winfrey and Bruce Springsteen.

Not too bad for a community organizer from Chicago.

How did that happen?

His followers don’t care how it happened nor do they care that this adulated man they worship like royalty left in his wake a royal mess, spending more money and creating more debt than all his predecessors combined. Making income redistribution over economic growth his top priority, the economy sputtered his entire presidency. Americans suffered while he played golf.

Add to that, the world is on fire, thanks to poor choices, feeble leadership, and awkward appeasements. The worst of which were stashed away like time bombs, set to go off after his exit and upon the next president’s arrival.

Last year, the man whose decisions in Syria helped to create ISIS told us “the world has never been less violent” and “we are living in the most peaceful, prosperous, and progressive era in human history.”

On his watch, the Afghanistan war dragged on and Iraq was in shambles as ISIS expanded. But “the world has never been less violent” said he whose red line helped to stain the ground in Syria with the blood of a half million people while ISIS burned Christians in cages. Meanwhile, a million young Muslim men who should be defending their own countries deluged the West as “refugees” wherein terror attacks now abound.

That he believes “this is the most peaceful, prosperous, and progressive era in human history” is the reason why Democrats lost over 1000 seats under his watch. It’s also why America painted the electoral college map red last November.

But he still has his devoted followers.

Those who live to watch the world burn are forever grateful for the liar-nObama era…that eight-year vacuum of leadership when the inmates began to run the asylum and bad people were emboldened to act out evil.

Fast forward to today. News breaks that Russian bombers have been spotted off the Alaska coast twice this week, and it likely isn’t to see if our snow is melting. Russia just unveiled another new Arctic military base. The first one, Northern Clover, was completed in 2015, probably while liar-nObama was playing golf on Martha’s Vineyard, yucking it up with his rich pals while reminiscing about his 2012 debate zinger to Romney about the non-threat Russia posed.

Now North Korea is threatening to launch a “super-mighty preemptive strike” that will reduce the United States “to ashes.” China just put its bombers on alert and moved troops and equipment to the North Korean border along with Russia in anticipation that President Trump will keep his promise to keep America safe.

Spineless leadership, fake red lines, and pompous arrogance all have one thing in common: Barack liar-nObama. If only liar-nObama had pursued a career in Hollywood rather than Washington, he’d still have his feckless followers, but the world would be safer.
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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Trump's 2 biggest wins in his 1st 100 days
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 by Gina Loudon
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 On Sunday, Americans Will Be Free 
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By Michael Swartz: For many years the Tax Foundation has performed a fairly complex set of calculations to find a simple and sobering result: the calendar date that American taxpayers finally pay off their total annual toll to the government — that is, their individual local, state and federal tax bills as an aggregate. The lone spot of good news is that we're close. On average, Americans will pay off that onerous debt on Sunday, April 23 — one day earlier than last year. Still, it's hardly cause for celebration.
          The results are even more telling when the data are distilled to a state level. Taxpayers fortunate enough to live in Mississippi were freed from their overall tax burden back on April 5 — a full 47 days sooner than those who live in the lowest-ranked state, Connecticut. Those of us in our humble shop in Tennessee could celebrate back on April 7, as we have the nation's second-lightest burden. And if you happen to be reading this in Utah today, allow us to wish you a happy Tax Freedom Day.
          All of this is a relatively light-hearted way of comparing the burdens we all pay. Given the government spends an average of $31,154 per household, it's more sobering to realize just where that money will go. By far the largest individual portion ($12,141) goes to the combination of Social Security and Medicare. The second-largest amount goes to programs lumped together under the "anti-poverty" banner ($6,143), with defense coming in third ($4,696). Per-household defense spending, however, barely outstrips the $4,393 deficit added to the national debt on each household's behalf.
          Over the last three decades, the Tax Freedom date has fluctuated with the general mood of the government in power at the time. Tax cuts under Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush have moved the date forward on the calendar, with George H.W. Bush, Bill liar-Clinton and Barack liar-nObama increasing rates, thus lengthening the time needed to get to Tax Freedom Day.
          Like some of his GOP predecessors, revising and simplifying the individual tax code was a point on Donald Trump's agenda as well, but his main thrust was a desire to cut the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world. It's a point that scores well with four supply-side economics gurus. Writing in The New York Times, Steve Forbes, Larry Kudlow, Art Laffer and Stephen Moore argue that Trump needs to score a tax victory this summer, and the best place to begin is to cut corporate tax rates and allow for immediate, full deduction of the cost of their capital purchases. Add to that a modest repatriation fee on bringing foreign profits back to the United States, and the quartet believes these changes will help the economy. "The additional increase in real wages could be nearly 10 percent over the next decade, which would reverse 15 years of income stagnation for the working class in America," they write. "And, if we are right that tax cuts will spur the economy, then the faster economic growth as a result of the bill will bring down the deficit."
          Somewhat more controversial about the approach that Forbes and his colleagues take is the idea that, as a sweetener to attract Democrat votes, a dedicated infrastructure fund should be created from the repatriated foreign profits. Regarded as a "good move politically," if nothing else, it would kill two of Trump's birds with one stone: corporate tax reform would be combined with investment in infrastructure.
          In the short term, this free-market quartet concedes that tax cuts would enlarge the deficit, which was the case initially under both Reagan and Bush (43) when they reduced tax rates. But that would create a boon to the economy and lead to an increase in federal revenue, thus shrinking the deficit in years to come. This, of course, assumes that adults take charge of the purse strings and refrain from spending the new revenue before it comes in.
          To bring this full circle, it's worth going beyond the Tax Foundation's report abstract to a chart that tracks Tax Freedom Day over time. A century ago, on the eve of World War I (and just after the passage of the Sixteenth Amendment) Tax Freedom Day occurred in late January. Although there's been a little bit of relief since 2000, the year Tax Freedom Day fell on May 1 — "May Day" was perhaps appropriate, as this was during the last year of Comrade liar-nClinton's term of office — the fact that we spend well past a quarter of each year rendering unto Caesar should give everyone pause and make us question how we came to this point.  ~The Patriot Post
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Heh! North Korea Threatens China
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ If there were any doubts about the sanity of Kim Jong Un, North Korea’s chubby little despot, this should eliminate any doubt that the guy’s crayon box is missing a few colors… Un is a nut job who’s now threatening his country’s only remaining ally and one of the strongest nations in the world–>China. The North Koreans made the threat via an op-ed written by a person named Jong Phil in the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA),apparently as a reaction to China’s threats of sanctions should crazy Un test a nuclear device. In a related story President of China Xi Jinping came close to peeing his pants when he heard the North Korean threat…not out of fear but because he couldn’t stop laughing...
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Calif Senator Smears Trump, Sessions, Shaw...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Pro-invasion anti-American scumbag and California State Senate Leader Kevin De Leon is attacking Attorney General Jeff Sessions and President Trump in what has now become their disgusting default argument of white supremacy and racism... Not rolling over to invading conquerors, squatters and thieves is racist, according to the bigoted anti-white, anti-American trash making the assertions. Jamiel Shaw, whose son Jamiel Jr. was killed in 2008 by an illegal immigrant released from jail that same day, who ICE had issued a detainer for that was not honored, says he feels disrespected by the statements of De Leon. He says, “It’s always like he wants to demean the victims by calling us racists or like I’m a skinhead or a white supremacist, you know, instead of just saying we’re pissed off parents. You know, we miss our kids, we loved our kids, and they want to act like our kids were never born, they just never existed. It’s not fair.” Abby Huntsman clarifies, “So it’s not about white supremacy,” an obviously ridiculous question to which Shaw replies, “Of course not, he knows it’s not...  http://rickwells.us/calif-senator-smears-trump-sessions-shaw-whose-son-was-killed-by-calif-policies/
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AG Sessions Too Much, Too Positive
For Stephanopolous And His Liberal Agenda
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions made an appearance on the program of Democrat operative George Stephanopoulos, ABC this Weak on Sunday. Sessions and the administration are finding ways to get things done in spite of the Democrats best efforts... and that seems to have George a little on edge. Little George’s job is to attack and diminish, find fault and in general just make President Trump, his administration and Cabinet officials look bad. He does his best. AG  Sessions didn’t make it easy on the boy, though, saying, “I know one thing, we need that wall, it’ll help us complete the promise that the President has made to the American people. That’s what they want, the American people have a right to expect it, and I believe Congress will eventually deliver.” Stephanopoulos asked one of his prepared, specially crafted gotcha questions, “As you know it’s not just the Democrats who are opposed to the wall, the Wall Street Journal reports that not a single member of the House or the Senate from the border states would commit to funding the wall...  http://rickwells.us/ag-sessions-much-positive-george-stephanopolous-liberal-agenda/
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The Air, Ground, and Sub-Surface Threats
in a War with North Korea
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by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC (RET)
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ With tensions mounting on the Korean Peninsula, the US focusing on force multipliers in the region, and President Donald Trump showing a resolve to confront tyrants as his missile strike against in Syria demonstrated... we hear North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's bravado. Pyongyang's "Incredible Bulk" claims he is "not frightened" by Trump and that "full-scale war" will result from any US action. Such comments are unsurprising from one whose sole military experience involved occasionally wearing a uniform, once as a child and later while being groomed for a leadership role by his father. Doubtful too is that Kim has been briefed by his military concerning its abysmal performance against the U.S. years earlier in the only known US-North Korean air combat encounters to occur after the Korean War...
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How New is the New Hamas Charter?
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 Armed Hamas militiamen on parade with a mock rocket in Gaza
by Denis MacEoin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Anyone with a serious interest in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians will be familiar with the oft-cited Charter or Covenant [mithaq] of the terrorist group currently ruling the Gaza Strip, Hamas... The Charter in Arabic was published on 18 August 1988. Its proper title is "The Charter/Covenant of the Islamic Resistance Movement 'Hamas' Palestine", Hamas being an acronym for "the Islamic Resistance Movement".This April, the Lebanese news site al-Mayadeen leaked a draft version of a much-revised version of the 1988 Charter, due to be released "in the coming days"...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10229/new-hamas-charter
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Trump's 2 biggest wins in his 1st 100 days
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 by Gina Loudon
{wnd.com} ~ The D.C. establishment is doing its best to obstruct President Trump at every turn, but as the 100-day mark approaches, it doesn’t look like it has been very successful, despite the narrative the media will try to inject into bot brains this week.

President liar-nObama set President Trump up very well for early success in the White House. That was so nice of him.

When Obama enacted his agenda by executive order, he didn’t predict an outsider would take the Oval Office and undo it all, literally, with the swipe of a pen. He probably expected a Bush or a Marco Rubio type who would leave in place what was, um, “established.” Oops.

You can quantify a lot of great things this president has done in a very short amount of time, despite the petulance of partisan, obstructionist Democrats and zero help from Congress. But perhaps Trump’s biggest achievements in his first 100 days are not as quantifiable as number of jobs created or increased stock-market value.

The overriding big-league wins thus far:
  • He has knocked evil in the world back on its heels.
  • He has driven the liberal left into the loony bin.
Dictators around the world have no idea what to do with Donald Trump, and neither does the American left.

Putin and Assad did not predict the Syrian missile strike, and they have no idea what President Trump may do next.

North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un thought it would be fun to test President Trump with a nuclear missile test, and now the kindergarten dictator sees China refusing coal shipments and placing troops on the border.

ISIS, which has had free reign and even support from the liar-nObama administration for the past eight years, got a surprise when President Trump got a MOAB out of mothballs and bombed the $#!% out of ISIS.

Here at home, President Trump has driven the left absolutely mad.

His popularity is twice that of Congress, and a startling 98 percent of those who voted to elect this president would do it again. Only 2 percent say they would vote differently today.

Democrats have decided that the best way to oppose Trump is to wear hats and costumes depicting genitalia, yell and scream any time they disagree with someone, destroy property and burn businesses and appear more radical than ever before.

The quantifiable achievements of the Trump administration are quite remarkable, too:
  • The Dow Jones Industrial Average is up 11 percent since Election Day.
  • Border crossings are at a 17-year low.
  • Consumer confidence has reached its highest level in 16 years.
  • More than 660,000 jobs have been created.
  • One new Constitution-loving justice now sits on the U.S. Supreme Court.
Gazing into my crystal ball, I can assure you that the lamestream media narrative this week will be that President Trump has accomplished nothing at all within his first 100 days, because they simply don’t know success if it isn’t growing government. He accomplished everything so far without Congress and without the establishment. And perhaps that is his greatest accomplishment of all.
 
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Did Extortion 17 cover-up sink Rep. Chaffetz?
by Larry Klayman
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 liar-Hillary's Shattered Campaign 
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The latest tell-all book on liar-Hillary Clinton's failed campaign, "Shattered: Inside liar-Hillary Clinton's Doomed Campaign," hit bookstore shelves this week. The book, written by lefty reporters Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes, reveals the inner workings of what may be best described as a dysfunctional and disjointed campaign. Allen and Parnes, who penned a far more flattering book, "HRC," in 2014, expose a number of early missteps that were never truly addressed and therefore doomed liar-Clinton's election hopes — or so the story goes. One wonders how Allen and Parnes would have described the liar-Clinton campaign had she managed to attract a few more votes in Pennsylvania, Michigan and Wisconsin... But we digress.
          The book is filled with juicy tales of infighting among leading staff and advisers, an amazing lack of clear communication, and the mind-boggling failure to build a comprehensive and cohesive campaign message. Why was liar-Hillary running, other than because she thought it was her turn to be president? Moreover, like Mitt Romney in 2012, she assumed she had the race won, and thus didn't do the work to actually win it.
          What may be the book's most valuable insight is its exposure of just how awful and petulant a leader liar-Hillary is. In early 2016, for example, she became severely frustrated with her campaign manager, Robby Mook, over his continued second-guessing of her decisions. Instead of firing him or working to come to a clearer understanding of the role he played, she simply stopped speaking to him. And so, from the end of February 2016 to the election, liar-Hillary never spoke directly to her campaign manager. That's astounding.
          While interesting insights and new revelations may be gleaned from the book, it still doesn't change the fact that the Democrat Party nominated a miserable and deeply flawed candidate, and that liar-Hillary lost because of liar-Hillary. And America is better off because of it. 
~The Patriot Post
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ISIS Unleashes Chemical Attack
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by Ben Marquis
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Though the campaign to liberate the Iraqi city of Mosul from the clutches of the radical Islamic State group began months ago, the barbaric jihadists have stubbornly refused to abandon western portions of the city... and have taken their desperate counterattacks to a new and incredibly dangerous level. According to The Washington Times, it was confirmed on Wednesday that Islamic State group fighters in western Mosul had launched a chemical weapons attack earlier in the week on advancing coalition forces, reportedly injuring several local Iraqi troops but causing no harm to any U.S. personnel, as per the senior U.S ground commander, Gen. Joseph Martin. The sadistic radicals have launched upwards of 52 chemical strikes of one form or another against coalition forces in both Iraq and Syria, with some 19 attacks being launched in Mosul alone...  http://conservativetribune.com/isis-chemical-attack-troops-Iraq/

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Tillerson Accuses Iran of
“Alarming Ongoing Provocations
by shawn

{totalconservative.com} ~ In remarks on Wednesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Iran was guilty of “alarming ongoing provocations” that aimed to destabilize the Middle East and threaten U.S. allies... “An unchecked Iran has the potential to travel the same path as North Korea and to take the world along with it,” Tillerson said. “A comprehensive Iran policy requires we address all of the threats posed by Iran, and it is clear there are many.” The State Department announced this week that they would be reviewing U.S. policy in regards to Iran and the nuclear deal entered into by the liar-nObama administration. And while the diplomatic agency has confirmed to Congress that Iran is still living up to their end of the nuclear bargain, Tillerson said the deal itself was not enough to keep Iran from building the bomb. In a Twitter response, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif‏ said the two situations could not be true simultaneously. Either Iran was following the deal or they weren’t...  http://totalconservative.com/tillerson-accuses-iran-alarming-ongoing-provocations/

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Syria: Israeli retaliation proof it supports rebels
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by Elad Benari
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Syria claimed on Friday that Israel’s retaliation for the explosion of mortar shells in the Golan Heights was proof that Israel provides assistance to rebels trying to topple Bashar Al-Assad’s regime... In a statement quoted by the official Syrian news agency SANA, a Syrian military source confirmed that Israel struck a military position in the Quneitra region. The strike caused “material damage”, according to the statement. The source said that the Israeli “aggression” came after an attempt by “terrorists” to infiltrate military positions in Quneitra was foiled. This, claimed the source, proves that Israel provides direct support to “terrorist organizations”...  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/228410
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103,000 Entitled Muslims In Michigan
Just Woke Up to Nasty Surprise
from Pissed Off Citizens
{theamericanbacon.com} ~ During his sham of a presidency, Barack liar-nObama sent an unprecedented number of Muslim refugees to the state of Michigan. As a result, these Muslims now think they can enforce Shariah law in the state... One Republican lawmaker, however, wasn’t having any of it. Representative Michele Hoitenga just introduced a law that will prevent Michigan courts from considering foreign laws when rendering their decisions. Though the law does not specifically mention Muslims, it will prevent them from enforcing Sharia Law in Michigan. Michigan has systematically been forced to bow down to Islam under the pressure of our previous president who herded thousands of refugees into their state and allowed one town, in particular, to become unrecognizable as an American city — Dearborn — which looks more like the Middle East with its predominately Muslim population of approximately 103,000...  http://theamericanbacon.com/103000-entitled-muslims-michigan-just-woke-nasty-surprise-pissed-off-citizens/
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Trump Better “Back Off Wall” Or He’ll Be...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s worth noting in the beginning how the topic is defined by Fake News CNN at the bottom of the screen, with the banner, “Will Trump Shut Down Government Over Wall Funding?”... Why does it not say will Democrats Shut Down Government Over Wall Funding? At least there is an attempt to send a subliminal message. Is nothing safe from their left wing bias? Dana Bash asks Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) , “Are Senate Democrats prepared to shut down the government over this issue?” When the positions were reversed, Democrats controlled the Senate and Ted Cruz engaged in a 21-hour filibuster that led to a 16 day “shutdown,” Cruz was called every name in the book and blamed, along with his fellow Republicans, for “shutting down the government” over liar-nObamacare. Durbin and his Democrat comrades give the situation today a decidedly different spin, while still adhering to the Democrat “principle” of not answering a question they don’t like...  http://rickwells.us/durbin-trump-better-back-off-wall-next-ted-cruz-shutdowns-majority/
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Did Extortion 17 cover-up sink Rep. Chaffetz?
by Larry Klayman
{wnd.com} ~ This week we learned that the ever “media friendly” smiling publicity hound of the House of Representatives, Republican Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, would not run again for his seat next year. Ironically, as Chaffetz announced that he would step down from his seemingly powerful role as chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Committee – a body that is the investigative “scandal arm” of the House – it was revealed by Circa News that an investigation he had conducted over the tragic shoot down of Extortion 17 was part of an elaborate government cover-up, itself criminal in nature. Had Chaffetz remained as chairman, ironically, his own committee would have had to investigate and likely take action against him. Let me explain.

Extortion 17 was a hastily arranged mission in Afghanistan in 2011 whereby 30 American servicemen, 22 of them special ops, were sent into battle allegedly to kill terrorists and then shot down by the Taliban, with the financial and other assistance of the Islamic Republic of Iran and the complicity of then Afghan President Hamid Karzai, one of the most corrupt politicians in world history. This occurred just three months after Osama bin Laden was allegedly killed. A picture of bin Laden’s body has never been disclosed publicly. Some have speculated that he died before of natural causes and that President liar-nObama claimed credit to further his 2012 election effort. Several brave heroes died tragically on that fateful day, Aug. 6, 2011.

The shoot down of the Extortion 17 mission was payback for America’s having “killed” bin Laden. Karzai’s involvement – whereby it is believed he disclosed the coordinates of this secret mission, allowing the Taliban to shoot down the Chinook helicopter that was carrying our servicemen – was undoubtedly intended to offer up the dead bodies of our heroes in exchange for cash and an agreement by the Taliban not to bring down his corrupt Afghan administration and/or assassinate him.

There remained many mysteries about the Extortion 17 shoot down. First, the liar-nObama administration’s Defense Department’s crash report stated that there were no eyes in the sky over the Chinook helicopter, which generally are intended as a safety measure to warn mission commanders and their troops of danger from the air and on the ground. Next, the crash report stated that a black box that would have revealed the cause or causes of the crash was never found, and instead it washed away in a flood. I have quipped sarcastically that there has not been a flood in this part of the Middle East since Noah’s Ark. To add even more suspicion, the liar-nObama Defense Department revealed that seven Afghan commandos – who were to go on that tragic mission – were substituted out for seven unknown other Afghan commandos at the last minute before taking off. The manifest of the flight, which must be kept under our military’s protocols, never listed who these new commandos were. Last, but hardly least in the anomalies of the crash report, the old and slow Chinook helicopter, of 1960s vintage hovered over the crash site for about 13 minutes, sitting there like a “dead duck” before being shot down by an “RPG” or “MANPADS.”

As a final insult, the bodies of some our heroes were cremated, without the permission or informed consent of their parents, by the liar-nObama Defense Department to cover up the evidence of the causes of their death.

The secretary of defense at the time was one Leon Panetta, a soft-spoken and seemingly likeable man who in reality is a corrupt political hack. I had obtained and uncovered in court during the 1990s, when Panetta was President liar-Clinton’s White House chief of staff, that he had effectively obstructed justice in the Chinagate scandal when he instructed staff to “slow roll” production of incriminating documents to Judicial Watch in my successful case against the Commerce Department over the illegal sale of seats on trade missions in exchange for political contributions.

How can one explain that 30 servicemen, including members of SEAL Team VI, were sent into battle on an old, out-of-date and hellishly slow helicopter and allowed to so easily die at the hands of the Taliban? And, how can it be explained that when many of the victims’ families asked Chairman Chaffetz to conduct a real investigation concerning the causes of the tragedy and who is responsible for it, that the hearing he and his congressional minions eventually held offered no new information. Instead, they refused to allow our clients, Charles Strange, the father of dead NSA cryptologist and support personnel for SEAL Team VI Michael Strange, to testify, as well as prevented the father of National Guardsman Patrick Hamburger, Doug Hamburger, to say his piece.

This week, insight into this cover-up was disclosed by Circa News in an interview with a highly decorated Air Force pilot/targeter, Joni Marquez, who indeed, along with her co-pilot, was flying above the Chinook, as an eye in the sky, that fateful night. Embedded below is that interview of this brave whistleblower who, after years of emotional distress, is risking her career to come forward to tell the truth about the cover-up.

As you can see and hear, Marquez chronicles that Extortion 17 was unnecessarily sacrificed by a corrupt or recklessly incompetent military establishment that did not heed her and her co-pilot’s warnings to have our brave heroes quickly evacuate the eventual crash site when it appeared that the Taliban fighters were regrouping and ready to attack the Chinook. And, because of the liar-nObama Defense Department’s “Rules of Engagement,” the servicemen were not permitted to fire first on the terrorists, but instead had to wait to be fired upon. By then it was too late!

And, this is not just about the Panetta-liar-nObama Defense Department cover-up, but also the cover-up of Chairman Chaffetz in conducting a sham investigation and hearing about the causes of the crash.

Heads will now roll over this deadly outrage, and Rep. Chaffetz was wise to get “out of Dodge” before the “after-blast” from the Taliban’s Extortion 17 fatal attack politically and perhaps criminally takes him and his co-conspirators out as well.
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Mon/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
My recollections of the late, great Bill O'Reilly
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 by Joseph Farah
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 Leftists Detest Patriotism 
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By Lewis Morris: NBC Sports writer Craig Calcaterra stirred a hornet's nest this past weekend when he took to Twitter to complain about the injection of politics in sports. "Will you keep politics out of sports, please. We like sports to be politics-free." By which he meant the American flag and national anthem, because he tweeted it with a picture of the Atlanta Braves' new stadium during the national anthem.
          Calcaterra followed up his tweet with an essay on the NBC Sports website in which he claimed that the presence of American flags and patriotic imagery in sports is part of a post-9/11 "conspicuous patriotism" meant to evoke specific feelings in sports fans.
          Maybe Calcaterra would like to file his complaint with the Marine who carried a flag all the way through the Boston Marathon — on a prosthetic leg.
          Of course, American Patriots realize that it's Calcaterra who's guilty of mixing politics and sports. The display at the Braves game, and many like it at ballparks across the country, are patriotic displays meant to show support for our country and our military. This sort of thing has been going on at sporting events for generations. Despite what Calcaterra thinks, there is no Orwellian propaganda machine at work.
          Sports fans are generally a patriotic lot. Calcaterra discovered this in the responses his tweet generated in the hours and days after he posted it. Many challenged his thinking, wondering what was so political about displaying the American flag and being patriotic. One of Calcaterra's snarky replies was that "People often wrap themselves in the flag in order to achieve political ends."
          People often burn the flag for the same reason, but when flags are displayed in sports, there is no political end to achieve. America-hating leftists can't seem to grasp that. For them, everything is political. And their inherently thin skin leads them to believe that there is some hidden agenda behind anything they can't understand. No wonder they're so bitter.
          Take a look at the farce that was Colin Kaepernick's protest last football season. Kaepernick claimed that he refused to stand during the playing of the National Anthem to show his solidarity for the mistreatment of black people by police. One could argue that Kaepernick's sentiment to protest such abuse was well-intentioned, but he showed extremely poor judgment by directing his anger at America as a whole and not simply at those responsible for real abuse.
          Kaepernick's error quickly and roundly drew the ire of football fans, and he now sits jobless on the sidelines waiting to see if he will even be picked up by a team for next season. Rumor has it that no NFL team will touch him after the whole debacle.
          Leftists are finding themselves increasingly marginalized in America either because they cannot grasp the true meaning of patriotism or because they are terrible at hiding their outright loathing for America. Perhaps it's a combination of the two. Either way, they seem to want the flexibility to embrace patriotism and the American ideal when it suits them, mainly so they have something to hide behind when they show their contempt for this country and many of its time-honored institutions.
          The difference between what is patriotic and what is anti-American should be easy to see, so it's puzzling that there is such a vigorous debate over the issue. But leftists will keep that argument going because it's in their nature.
          It would just be nice if they can keep that debate out of sports. We Americans like baseball, football, basketball, and all the other contests because we admire physical skill and athletic prowess. We're not looking for more social justice warriors. Hollywood, Washington and the mass media have given us more than enough of them to go around. Sports is one of the few things in American life that is inherently politics-free. That's why we like sports. Let's keep it that way. 
~The Patriot Post
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Comey Claims He Didn’t Trust Lynch To Not Cover
For liar-Clinton – So He Let Her Off
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ FBI Director Comey is pointing the finger of blame and distrust at his superior in DOJ, former Attorney General Loretta “tarmac” Lynch...  He’s describing how he was the good cop, taking the burden upon himself of single-handedly, making sure that the truth came out about liar-Hillary Clinton. He may have done that in his strange and baffling press conference of July 5th when he announced liar-Clinton was officially off the hook, but nothing came of it from prosecutorial standpoint. Basically all he did was confirm that she was a crook, and announce that once again she was getting away with her crimes. He told the New York Times that, Lynch wasn’t the only one he didn’t trust not to provide cover for liar-Hillary Clinton. He says he also didn’t trust senior officials at the Justice Department. It’s almost humorous but Comey claims he feared Lynch and her subordinates would do exactly what he and she accomplished in combination, provide her cover. It’s difficult to imagine how any greater level of insulation from prosecution could have been provided by Lynch or anyone else than what she received from Comey and Lynch...
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Student mobs killing speech
acting like 'terrorists'
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by Alicia Powe
{wnd.com} ~ Angry student mobs shutting down free speech on U.S. college campuses are behaving like “terrorists,” charges war hero Lt. Col. Allen West... “I think the American people are repulsed by what they are seeing on these college campuses,” West told WND in an interview this week. “When you have these young people that are wearing masks and things of this nature, there’s no difference between the terrorists we see operating in these other countries and them being terrorists in our country.” Rioters and anarchists, West said, go against everything America represents. “Hiding their faces burning, property, attacking people – why? Because they are saying things that they don’t want to hear? I’m sorry, everyone in America has a right to free speech,” he said...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/allen-west-student-mobs-killing-speech-acting-like-terrorists/
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Islam in the Heart of England and France
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Omar Bakri Muhammed, who co-founded the British Islamist organization al-Muhajiroun
by Denis MacEoin
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The city of Birmingham in the West Midlands, the heart of England, the place where the Industrial Revolution began, the second city of the UK and the eighth-largest in Europe, today is Britain's most dangerous city... With a large and growing Muslim population, five of its electoral wards have the highest levels of radicalization and terrorism in the country. In February, French journalist Rachida Samouri published an article in the Parisian daily Le Figaro, in which she recounted her experiences during a visit there. In "Birmingham à l'heure islamiste" ("Birmingham in the Time of Islam") she describes her unease with the growing dislocation between normative British values and those of the several Islamic enclaves. She mentions the Small Heath quarter, where nearly 95% of the population is Muslim, where little girls wear veils; most of the men wear beards, and women wear jilbabs and niqabs to cover their bodies and faces...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10190/islam-england-france
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Trump asks liar-nObama surgeon general to resign, replaces him with a black nurse...
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by Samantha Chang
{bizpacreview.com} ~ For President Trump, no good deed goes unpunished. Trump asked Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy, an liar-nObama holdover, to step down... In his place, the president promoted Deputy Surgeon General Sylvia Trent-Adams as acting surgeon general. Instead of applauding President Trump for elevating a black, female nurse to the post, leftists attacked Dr. Trent-Adams’ credentials, saying she’s “just a nurse.” Obviously, Trump’s promotion of a black woman doesn’t fit the liberal media narrative that he’s a “racist misogynist.”... http://www.bizpacreview.com/2017/04/22/trump-asks-obama-surgeon-general-resign-replaces-black-nurse-libs-slam-credentials-477556?utm_source=BizPac+Review+Email+Newsletter&utm_campaign=ab125e840a-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_04_23&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fbf9323fb3-ab125e840a-31515453
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Fire IRS chief John Koskinen
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump needs a win. The public would benefit from reassurance about the institutions of government. Luckily, both can be achieved with a single action. Trump should dismiss IRS Commissioner John Koskinen... By telling the taxman he's fired, the president would re-energize his young administration. More importantly, he would also significantly reform the most loathed agency in Washington. Tax Day provides a perfect chance for this sort of principled populism. This Tuesday the tax man cometh. Members of the public will dutifully cut the IRS a check. No sane person enjoys this April ritual, but most people understand they should pay their fair share. It's one of the costs of civil society. But as we drop a check in the mail, we should know that the IRS is playing by the rules...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/fire-irs-chief-john-koskinen/article/2620438
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My recollections of the late, great Bill O'Reilly
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 by Joseph Farah
{wnd.com} ~ Everybody in the media business has a Bill O’Reilly story.

I have a few, but here’s my favorite.

In 2000, O’Reilly began making waves on Fox News. I didn’t know him, but I cold-called him for a meeting in New York to see if I could figure out what made him tick.

He welcomed me and a small delegation from WND into his office, showing some curiosity about WND.

“How would you describe WorldNetDaily?” he asked.

I responded: “Fearless, credible, independent.” (It was our slogan.)

“Independent!” he said. “That’s me. That’s how I describe myself.”

And that’s how we hit it off.

At one point in the hours-long conversation, I asked Bill what he was hoping to accomplish in his career. What were his top goals?

Without missing a beat, he rattled off the following:
  • “I want to have the No. 1 show on cable.”
  • “I want to have the No. 1 best-selling book in the nation.”
  • “I want the fastest -growing syndicated column in America.”
In short order, I explained how WND could help achieve all three of those objectives.

The plan was for him to begin writing an exclusive weekly column for WND, which I would arrange to get syndicated nationally. We would use the column and WND’s marketing resources to promote his first non-fiction book, “The O’Reilly Factor.” He would sign copies, which we would sell exclusively in WND’s online store, and he would promote the autographed copies on his TV show.

“Synergy,” I explained. “We will introduce you to WND’s audience of 8 million unique visitors – independent people who would love your show, books and column.”

The experiment was mind-bogglingly successful, if I do say so myself.

But, more interesting than what I thought was what Bill told me only 90 days after we started the program.

One day he called me unannounced. By the way, we talked regularly throughout the book campaigns. And he was incredibly generous with the promotions of WND’s autographed copies. In one day, we sold more than $40,000 worth of books, and we sold directly 60,000 copies of the first book and 55,000 of the second.

“Farah, I just wanted to tell you that you accomplished everything you said you would accomplish that day in my office,” he said. “The show is No. 1. The book is No. 1. And the column is No. 1. I remember conversations like that. I want you to know that.”

Those were words I never expected to hear from Bill, even if they were true. But that really happened.

He suggested we work together even more closely.

What did Bill have in mind?

You have probably heard of “Factor gear,” the hats and shirts and other items he promoted on his Fox News show.

Bill’s idea was to make WND the place to buy all of it – exclusively!

I was honest with Bill.

I said, “Bill, Fox is never going to allow you to sell that stuff on WND. They’re going to want to own all that. You belong to them.”

“Don’t worry,” he said. “I want you to be on a call with me when I pitch it to the top Fox execs. I have a lot of clout.”

So I got on the conference call. It was just as I expected. Bill did the pitching, introducing them all to me. There was almost dead silence on the part of the top-tier management team. I knew that idea was going nowhere.

A few months later, Fox introduced “Factor gear” – available one place and one place only: Fox.

Bill and I remained friends for some years. We had another huge success peddling his second non-fiction book. It also went to No. 1.

But, a few years later, I was told WND would no longer have a small ownership stake in his column.

Then, later, he called to tell me he was starting his own website and the column would appear there first.

I told Bill that didn’t sound like much of a partnership anymore. I bid him farewell.

And this week, we all bid him farewell – some of us fondly, others not so fondly.

For myself, I wish him well.
 
 
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover

~ Featuring ~
Turkey and Trump's Unpredictability
by Caroline Glick
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Gun-waving 'Angry Muslim' arrested
for terroristic threats
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by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ After a week of growing controversy and public pressure, authorities in South Dakota on Friday arrested a Muslim man who livestreamed a Facebook video in which he made threats against Christians while showing off an arsenal of weapons... It was a complete turn-around from earlier statements by police and prosecutors, who maintained that the Muslim man was just exercising his First and Second Amendment rights and had “broken no laws.” The original threats by Ehab Jaber were made April 9 during the Worldview Weekend Rally in Sioux Falls, and Jaber followed up with more threatening posts on his Facebook page, including one on April 19 where he challenged his fellow Americans who oppose him to a “shoot out.”...Wow! They did arrest him after all.
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Bill O'Reilly: 'No spin news returns'
Monday with new podcast
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by Daniel Chaitin
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Less than a week after Fox News announced it would be parting ways with Bill O'Reilly following a sexual harassment controversy, the former host plans to return with a podcast starting Monday... Front and center on O'Reilly's website Saturday was a banner promoting the podcast, set for 7 p.m. ET: "Monday. The no spin news returns." During O'Reilly's highly successful run as host of "The O'Reilly Factor," he typically would begin each episode telling viewers: "You are about to enter the No Spin Zone."...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bill-oreilly-no-spin-news-returns-monday-with-new-podcast/article/2620992
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North Korea, China And Iran Are Menacing Problems
That Demand Serious Action
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Paul Gigot asks former Ambassador to the UN John Bolton if he agrees that there is what appears to be an effort on the part of the Trump administration to focus on the foreign bad actors... who have demonstrated a desire to acquire or a willingness to use weapons of mass destruction. He identified Syria, North Korea and Iran as examples. Bolton replied, “I think that’s accurate and I think that reflects where the President himself is deeply concerned about the proliferation of nuclear weapons and is, as you mentioned in the case of the Syrian regime’s use of chemical weapons, to actually use military force in response. So I think if you put it all together it’s a very anti-proliferation administration.” He believes that, “coupled with the obvious priority of destroying ISIS ” it’s reflective of the widely held belief that nuclear proliferation and terrorism are the two greatest threats we face around the world.”...  http://rickwells.us/bolton-north-korea-china-iran-menacing-problems-demand-serious-action/
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Gaza’s Sole Power Plant Shut Down
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Last Saturday, the plant shut down for lack of fuel. Funds donated by Qatar and Turkey were exhausted... Gaza’s Energy Authority said it won’t buy more unless hostile PA authorities exempt it from fuel excise taxes it can’t afford to pay. Under less dire conditions, electricity is severely limited. It’s been reduced from eight to six hours, followed by 12-hour blackouts. Maintenance problems on Monday reduced power intervals to every four hours on, 12 hours off...  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/gaza-sole-power-plant-shut/
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Congress Weighing New Sanctions
on Russia, Iran and Syria
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ US imperial strategy includes endless aggression and illegal sanctions, among other deplorable actions... When returning from spring recess next week, Congress reportedly is considering legislation to impose new sanctions on Russia, Iran and Syria – punitive measures if passed by both houses, aggravating things rather than alleviating them. According to House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Ed Royce (R. CA), proposed “legislation will give the administration much-needed diplomatic and financial leverage to help stop Assad’s slaughter of innocent Syrians” – a despicable Big Lie...  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/congress-new-sanctions-russia-iran-syria/
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Turkey and Trump's Unpredictability
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ According to Michael Anton, one of President Donald Trump’s top foreign policy aides, the chief characteristic of Trump’s foreign policy is unpredictability.

On the surface, unpredictability is a great advantage.

Keeping US enemies guessing, at least to some degree, about how the US will respond to hostile acts expands Washington’s maneuver room.

But one of the consequences of Trump’s desire not to be locked into one pattern of behavior is that it is unclear how he thinks about the world, and the many threats facing the US and its allies. As a result, it is difficult to know whether he can be trusted to take the actions necessary to protect American interests and to stand by America’s allies.

Take for instance the administration’s actions this week in relation to the nuclear deal with Iran. On the one hand, on Tuesday the State Department notified Congress that Iran is in compliance with its obligations under the nuclear deal.

On the other hand, on Wednesday Secretary of State Rex Tillerson stood before the cameras and read Iran the riot act. Tillerson set out in detail all of the ways that Iran threatens the US and its allies and many of the reasons that the nuclear deal is a disaster.

He announced that the Trump administration was revisiting US policy on Iran and pledged that Trump will not leave the Iranian threat to his successors.

It is almost impossible to square this circle.

So what is the administration’s policy? Can it be trusted to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons when it certifies that Iran is complying with an agreement it is manifestly breaching, by among other things, blocking inspections of its key nuclear sites and storing uranium in quantities that exceed those permitted under the deal? Then there is Turkey.

After 15 years in power, on Sunday Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan destroyed Turkey’s democracy once and for all. On April 16, 51.4% of Turkish voters voted to accord Erdogan all but absolute power.

Given that this means that Turkey is now effectively indistinguishable from Erdogan, the central question that people should answer before determining whether they are pleased or displeased by the results of Sunday’s referendum is who is Erdogan and what does he want.

Erdogan would say that he is a Muslim. He has made very clear, repeatedly, that he sees no distinction between moderate Islam and radical Islam. Islam is Islam, he says.

Maybe he is right. But in the West, distinctions are made. So it is important to set out what Erdogan means by Islam.

 As George Friedman wrote at Real Clear World earlier this week, for Erdogan, Islam is an all-encompassing worldview. Its precepts dictate human behavior on every level. And it rejects secularism. In Erdogan’s Islam, the secularist belief that there is a distinction between the private and public spheres and that religion is a private matter is inconceivable.

Erdogan’s view is the reason that for nearly a century, Islam – as Erdogan views it – was banned from public life in Turkey.

As Friedman explained, when Mustafa Kemal Atatürk founded modern Turkey after World War I on the ruins of the Ottoman Empire and its caliphate, he recognized that he couldn’t change the way that his people viewed the world.

Rather than reform Islam, Atatürk repressed it. The secular democratic regime he created rested on the coercive power of the military, not on the consent of the governed.

Erdogan’s rise to power, in contrast was predicated on popular support for his anti-secular, Islamic worldview.

To secure that support, Erdogan periodically signaled his intentions.

For instance, as mayor of Istanbul, in 1997 Erdogan recited a poem at a political rally that included the lines, “The mosques are our barracks, the domes our helmets, the minarets our bayonets and the faithful our soldiers.”

For doing so, Erdogan was arrested, tried and convicted of inciting religious hatred. He was imprisoned for four months. His party was outlawed and he was banned from politics for life.

For Westerners, the regime’s treatment of the mayor of a major city was inconceivable. All he did was read a poem, after all.

But for the Turkish secularists, the move against Erdogan made perfect sense. The lines he recited were an encapsulation of a plan to undermine the secular regime and replace it with a totalitarian Islamic one.

Due in part to the West’s response to his arrest and conviction, Erdogan has used the US and Europe as allies in his bid to win and consolidate power.

Erdogan’s AK Party first won power in the 2002 parliamentary elections. At the time, the administration of then-president George W. Bush was guided by the neoconservative worldview. Neoconservatives asserted that the yearning for individual freedom is a universal yearning. If given the opportunity to determine their path in life, people worldwide who live under authoritarian regimes, would opt for liberal democracy.

The Bush administration’s belief that liberal democracy is the default aspiration of humanity informed Bush’s demand that Egypt allow Muslim Brotherhood candidates to participate in the 2005 parliamentary elections, and that Israel permit Hamas to participate in the 2006 Palestinian elections.

The view also informed the administration’s decision not to interfere in the Iraqi elections in 2005.

The Bush administration devoutly retained its faith in the universal attraction of liberal democracy even after the Muslim Brotherhood scored extraordinary victories in Egypt, after Hamas won the Palestinian elections, and after the Iraqi government, whose leaders were supported by Iran, began colluding with Tehran.

Bush and his advisers insisted that Hamas would become domesticated once it was forced to contend with constituents demanding that their potholes be filled.

Bush’s notion was that Islamic extremism, jihad and terrorism were reactions to subjugation and repression. If authoritarian regimes would stand back, then the Islamists would eschew violence.

The AKP’s first action after winning in 2002 was to bar US forces from invading Iraq from Turkish territory.

Despite this, the Bush administration embraced Erdogan. For Bush, the AKP government was proof that he was right to view liberal values as universal.

Erdogan and his colleagues proved there is no contradiction between Islam and democracy.

Erdogan used the Bush administration’s support to undermine the secular state. He insisted that all he was doing was promoting pluralism when he undid the military’s control of his government, and brought Islamists into the military, judiciary and governing bureaucracy.

When Turkish military leaders tried to explain to the Americans the dangers to Turkish secular democracy that each of Erdogan’s pro-Islamic reforms constituted, they found that no one would listen. True, Erdogan overdid it. But the Islamists had to be given their day in the sun after all the years they were repressed by the secularists.

Under Barack liar-nObama, the situation changed, slightly. Like Bush, liar-nObama supported Erdogan and the notion that his consolidation of power – and his popularity – was proof that there was no contradiction between Islam and democracy. But whereas Bush believed that Islamic radicalism and jihad were a reaction to domestic repression that would be resolved by democratization, liar-nObama believed that Islamic jihad and radicalism are reactions to Western imperialism.

For liar-nObama, the likes of the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and Erdogan were more legitimate than their secular opponents, specifically because they opposed the West. As he saw it, their opposition was justified because the West, through colonialism and Cold War geopolitics, repressed them.

In his view, the way to end Islamic jihad and terrorism was to convince the Islamists that the US and the West supported them. liar-nObama believed that Western empowerment of Erdogan, the Muslim Brotherhood, Iran and others would quell their anger and appease their ambitions.

This then brings us to Trump, and his policy toward Turkey. During the campaign, then-candidate Trump congratulated Erdogan after he successfully defeated the military coup before it had the chance to get off the ground. That attempted coup was a last ditch effort to prevent Erdogan from consolidating the dictatorial powers he consolidated on Sunday.

On Monday, Trump again stood with Erdogan.

Trump phoned Erdogan and congratulated him on his victory. Erdogan is expected to pay a state visit to Washington in the coming weeks.

If we understood better how Trump feels about the totalitarian Islam that Erdogan adheres to, we would know better what to make of Trump’s repeated statements of support for the Turkish leader.

Does Trump realize that the more powerful Erdogan has become, the less concerned he has become about how the West perceives him? Does Trump recognize that in recent years Turkey has turned its back on Europe and become a major state sponsor of terrorism? Turkey is Hamas’s most outspoken supporter. Until recently, Turkey served as Islamic State’s mobilization center for foreign recruits and its logistical base. ISIS oil exports went through Turkey. ISIS forces received medical treatment in Turkey. And Turkey became Iran’s conduit to the global economy while it was subjected to UN sanctions for its nuclear program.

Does Trump realize that Turkey opposes the US’s support for the Kurds – the most effective fighting force in the war against ISIS? Does Trump realize that to secure his victory in the referendum, Erdogan has repressed his opponents? Today more than 100,000 regime opponents, including journalists, businessmen, judges, generals and teachers, are imprisoned in Erdogan’s Turkey.

Does Trump know that among those languishing in jail are some of the strongest proponents of the Turkish- US alliance? Was Trump made aware of the fact that Erdogan’s media supporters have called for him to develop nuclear weapons and stop Turkey’s anti-ISIS operations in Syria?

It is possible that Trump knows all of these things and that he recognizes that in the long run and perhaps in the short run as well, US interests are likely irreconcilable with the direction Erdogan is moving Turkey.

Perhaps his congratulatory phone call was simply his only option.

Turkey is still officially a US ally and a member of NATO. Air bases that are key to US operations in Syria are located in Turkey. And Erdogan is the dictator.

Trump may be biding his time until he has the opportunity to weaken Erdogan. Or he may believe that Erdogan is an ally worth having.

Just so, he may have certified Iranian compliance with the nuclear deal to buy time, or he may have certified compliance because he doesn’t feel like stopping Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.

The question of how Trump views these issues is one that needs to be answered. So long as his basic positions are unknown, it is hard to give him the benefit of the doubt that an unpredictable foreign policy requires.
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Does Steve Bannon Have Something to Offer?
by Peggy Noonan
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Study: Trump has eliminated $86B in regulations. (The Hill)
 
Trump demands border wall funds as part of spending bill. (The Washington Times)
 
Deported Dreamer lawyers vague on details. (Washington Examiner)
 
ISIS-claimed attack in Paris mars final days of campaigning ahead of Sunday's election. (CNS News)
 
CIA, FBI launch manhunt for leaker who gave top-secret documents to WikiLeaks. (CBS News)
 
While Bill O'Reilly was crashing and burning, the stock of O'Reilly Automotive was soaring. (Washington Examiner)
 
Nobody works in one in five U.S. families. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
EPA begins Trump's process of cutting down size of government workforce. (Washington Examiner)
 
The insane punishment a school gave a teen over a water gun. (The Daily Signal)
 
Berkeley reverses decision to cancel speech by conservative pundit Ann Coulter. (The Washington Post)
 
Policy: Ignorance of U.S. tax policy fuels leftward sentiments. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: Earth Day and the divestment campaign against humanity. (American Enterprise Institute~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama’s Rules of Engagement
Killed 17 Navy Seals
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{ipatriot.com} ~ The catastrophe at the compound in Benghazi, Libya has been well documented – books, movies, etc. Needless to say, there aren’t too many Americans who aren’t familiar with attack that killed four Americans, and the subsequent cover-up... To this day, no one has been held to account. Not liar-nObama, liar-Hillary, Susan Rice, etc. Yet recently we were reminded of another entirely preventable event which took the lives of 38 fighters, 30 of which were American and 17 were U.S. Navy SEALs. The 17 included one officer and 9 senior enlisted – 7 Chiefs, 1 Senior and 1 Master Chief Petty Officer. Trust me when I say these gentlemen have been missed – not only to their loved ones, but operationally as well. Sara Carter at Circa.com recounts the attack on Extortion 17, the August, 2011 downing of a Chinook helicopter gunship, and the greatest single day loss of Special Operations lives in American history. Mark Levin also highlighted this on his radio show the other evening...  http://ipatriot.com/eye-witness-2011-afghan-massacre-killed-17-navy-seals-obamas-rules-engaged-killed-american-heroes/
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liar-nObama entangled in brand-new
'political espionage' scandal
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ While the claims of collusion between Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign and Russia seem to have dropped abruptly off the media radar, there is a new report of collaboration between a U.S. political campaign and foreign powers... But the campaign was that of liar-Hillary Clinton, and the chief architect was Barack liar-nObama’s CIA director, John Brennan, the report says. “One side did collude with foreign powers to tip the election – liar-Hillary’s,” writes George Neumayr in the American Spectator. “Seeking to retain his position as CIA director under liar-Hillary, Brennan teamed up with British spies and Estonian spies to cripple Trump’s candidacy,” Newmayr wrote...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/obama-entangled-in-brand-new-political-espionage-scandal/
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NYPD Boss Alberto Randazzo Jailed For
28 Years In Elite Pedophile Ring Sting
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by MIchael DePinto
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ The federal investigation into the elite pedophile ring is moving full steam ahead and heavy hitters have been employed to lead prosecutions... Randazzo was caught in February 2013, when a witness found disturbing text messages on Randazzo’s phone and uncovered emails from women sending Randazzo pictures of them molesting their children.  When the witness confronted him, Randazzo admitted his sexual interest in mothers having sex with their children. At sentencing the government presented evidence that at least five women complied with Randazzo’s solicitations and sexually abused children in order to satisfy his sexual desires...
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Afghan official: Gunmen attacked
army base, 100 casualties
{foxnews.com} ~ An Afghan official says more than 100 army personnel have been killed or wounded after gunmen wearing army uniforms stormed a military compound in Balkh province... Daulat Waziri, spokesman for the Afghanistan Ministry of Defense, said Saturday that the attack a day earlier on a compound of the 209th Corps of the Afghan National Army killed or wounded dozens of soldiers and other personnel. He says there were 10 attackers. Two carried out suicide attacks and eight other attackers were killed in the battle, Waziri said...  http://www.foxnews.com/world/2017/04/22/afghan-official-gunmen-attacked-army-base-100-casualties.html
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Left, Dems Attacking Free Speech
Is Only The Beginning
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro offers her insights into the latest hand-wringing by the left over an illegal who was deported... First they view a clip of DHS Secretary Kelly defending the actions of his Customs and Border Protection agents in the case, which has now gone into the realm of the ridiculous in the nature of the claims made by the Mexican who is now where he belongs, in his country. Kelly says, “You would expect someone that was here under the DACA rules to be extra-specially cautious in terms of getting crosswise with our laws. He didn’t, so he’s gone.” Judge Jeanine explains that DACA is not an absolute protection, that if you violate those rules, you can be deported.” It’s kind of like the deal for violating the immigration laws, that have been nullified. Geraldo apparently was advocating for another chance – a DACA – as in what a nation of saps we’ve become. As a DACA illegal who is still breaking our laws, he should have kept more up to date with the policies of the CBP. They no longer do catch and release, they do catch and process for deportation, as Judge Jeanine points out. He’s clearly lying...  http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-left-dems-attacking-free-speech-is-only-the-beginning/
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Does Steve Bannon Have Something to Offer?
by Peggy Noonan
 
{peggynoonan.com} ~ My late friend Bill Safire, the tough and joyous New York Times columnist, once gave me good advice. I was not then a newspaper columnist, but he’d apparently decided I would be. This is what he said: Never join a pile-on, always hit ’em when they’re up. Don’t criticize the person who’s already being attacked. What’s the fun in that, where’s the valor? Hit them when they’re flying high and it takes some guts.

So, in the matter of Steve Bannon:

I think we can agree he brings a certain amount of disorder. They say he’s rough and tough, and there’s no reason to doubt it. They say he leaks like a sieve and disparages his rivals, and this can be assumed to be correct: They all do that in this White House. He is accused of saying incendiary things and that is true. A week into the administration he told Michael Grynbaum of the Times the media should “keep its mouth shut and just listen for a while.” “I love a gunfight,” he reportedly said in the middle of his latest difficulties. When he tried to muscle members of the Freedom Caucus to vote for the liar-nObamaCare replacement bill, a congressman blandly replied, “You know, the last time someone ordered me to do something I was 18 years old, and it was my daddy, and I didn’t listen to him, either.” When I said a while back that some of the president’s aides are outlandish, and confuse strength with aggression, he was in mind.

But there’s something low, unseemly and ugly in the efforts to take him out so publicly and humiliatingly, to turn him into a human oil spot on the tarmac—this not only from his putative colleagues but now even the president. “I like Steve, but you have to remember he was not involved in my campaign until very late,” Mr. Trump purred to the New York Post’s Michael Goodwin.

So let’s take a look at something impressive Mr. Bannon has done. I’ve been meaning to write of it for a while. In 2014 he did a live Skype interview for a conference on poverty at the Vatican. BuzzFeed ran it during the campaign under the headline “This Is How Steve Bannon Sees the Entire World.”

It shows an interesting mind at work.

The West is currently facing a “crisis of capitalism,” he said. The world was able to recover after the world wars in part thanks to “an enlightened form of capitalism” that generated “tremendous wealth” broadly distributed among all classes. This capitalism was shaped by “the underlying spiritual and moral foundations . . . of Judeo-Christian belief.” Successful capitalists were often either “active participants in the Jewish faith” or “active participants in the Christian faith.” They operated on a kind of moral patrimony, part tradition, part religious teaching. But now the West has become more secular. Capitalism as a result has grown “unmoored” and is going “partly off track.”

He speaks of two “disturbing” strands. “One is state-sponsored capitalism,” as in China and Russia. We also, to a degree, see it in America. This is “a brutal form of capitalism” in which wealth and value are distributed to “a very small subset of people.” It is connected to crony capitalism. He criticizes the Republican Party as “really a collection of crony capitalists that feel they have a different set of rules of how they’re going to comport themselves.”

The other disturbing strand is “libertarian capitalism,” which “really looks to make people commodities, and to objectify people, and to use them almost.” He saw this strand up close when he was on Wall Street, at Goldman Sachs . There he saw “the securitization of everything” and an attitude in which “people are looked at as commodities.”


Capitalists, he said, now must ask: “What is the purpose of whatever I’m doing with this wealth? What is the purpose of what I’m doing with the ability that God has given us . . . to actually be a creator of jobs and a creator of wealth?”

With both these strands, he says, the middle class loses ground. This has contributed to the “global revolt” of populism and nationalism. That revolt was fueled, too, by the financial crisis of 2008. None of those responsible on Wall Street were called to account: “No bonuses and none of their equity was taken.” The taxes of the middle class were used to bail them out.

There’s more in the conversation, which lasted 50 minutes and included the problem of racist and anti-Semitic overtones in populist movements. But it’s a thoughtful, serious talk, and its themes would reverberate in the 2016 election.

You can see Mr. Bannon’s basic or developing political and economic philosophy as half-baked, fully baked, or likely to explode in the oven. And it is fair to note his views haven’t seemed to gel or produce very much in the first dozen weeks of the Trump era.

But what Mr. Bannon offered in the interview was a point of view that was publicly declared and could be debated.

What will take its place if he leaves the White House or recedes as a figure? What worldview will prevail, to the extent Mr. Trump does worldviews? Policy changes accompanying Mr. Bannon’s diminishment this week included the president’s speaking approvingly of the Export-Import Bank and NATO, declaring that China isn’t a currency manipulator after all, suggesting the dollar may be too strong, and hitting Syria and Afghanistan.

None of that sounds like Candidate Trump.

It is possible what we are seeing is simply the rise of a more moderate or conciliatory or establishment Trump White House. But it also looks like the rise of the Wall Street Mr. Bannon painted as tending to see people as commodities. Gary Cohn, director of the National Economic Council, is said to be Mr. Bannon’s most effective internal foe. He is the new rising figure. There are many Wall Street folk—some from Messrs. Bannon and Cohn’s old stomping ground, Goldman Sachs—in influential administration posts. They don’t come across as the kind of people who exhaust themselves pondering the meaning of the historical moment or tracing societal stresses and potential responses.

Will all these changes, in policy and perhaps personnel, hurt Mr. Trump? Probably a little. But nothing dramatic right now, because his supporters knew they were making an unusual choice in making him president, and they will give him time.

But if the Trump White House is itself changing dramatically, we’ll look back on this week as the moment the change became apparent.

I end with Safire, who’s been gone eight years. I still miss him, and I thought of him this week when I received good news. He’d received the same news 39 years before. I think he’d be happy, clap me on the back, call me kid. And I’m telling you the first chance he got to take a deserved shot, he’d take it. And if instead I’d endured some personal or professional loss, he’d be first one on the phone.

He had style. Style is good.

Beautiful Easter and Passover to my readers, who wrote in this week and reminded me how beautiful they are. I know that’s corny, but sometimes life is corny.

http://www.peggynoonan.com/does-steve-bannon-have-something-to-offer/

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Haley, in rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, is fighting hard to dissipate 'conventional wisdom'
by Kambiz Foroohar
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 Patriots' Day 2017 
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"Don't fire unless fired upon. But if they want a war let it begin here." —Captain John Parker, commander of the militiamen at Lexington, Massachusetts, on sighting British troops
          On this day in 1775, American militiamen at Lexington and Concord confronted 700 British Red Coats — firing the opening volley for American Liberty. The British governor had ordered his troops to seize weapons in Concord. It is no small irony that the first shots of the Revolution were fired in response to a gun confiscation order.
          Please join us in honoring their sacrifice, and that of generations of Patriots since, including those Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines who continue to shoulder the burden of Liberty. Read a full account of the battle in Mark Alexander's Patriots' Day column.
          Please also consider supporting our Patriots' Day Campaign. Your support fuels our vital mission to arm grassroots Patriots with the right perspective on the most important issues of the day. Our mission and operations are funded entirely by the voluntary financial support of Patriots like you!  ~The Patriot Post
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The Liberal Order Is Rigged
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by Jeff D. Colgan and Robert O. Keohane
{foreignaffairs.com} ~ Prior to 2016, debates about the global order mostly revolved around its structure and the question of whether the United States should actively lead it or should retrench, pulling back from its alliances and other commitments... But during the past year or two, it became clear that those debates had missed a key point: today’s crucial foreign policy challenges arise less from problems between countries than from domestic politics within them. That is one lesson of the sudden and surprising return of populism to Western countries, a trend that found its most powerful expression last year in the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the EU, or Brexit, and the election of Donald Trump as U.S. president. It can be hard to pin down the meaning of “populism,” but its crucial identifying mark is the belief that each country has an authentic “people” who are held back by the collusion of foreign forces and self-serving elites at home...  https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/world/2017-04-17/liberal-order-rigged?cid=int-now&pgtype=hpg&region=br1
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China Still Playing a Double Game in Korea
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by WILLIAM R. HAWKINS
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ There is still time for a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis. Pyongyang has not yet conducted another nuclear test, as was feared might happen during the birthday celebration of Kim Il Sung last weekend... And the failed missile test that was conducted was not of an ICBM that could reach America. The development of a nuclear weapon that can strike the United States is an absolute red line that would justify pre-emptive military action by Washington. The best route to a peaceful settlement runs through the People's Republic of China (PRC). There were high hopes movement along that path had started in the wake of the summit between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping on April 7. Yet, reports that Beijing was ready to act with determination to corral its client state were overly optimistic. Though much has been made of China halting imports of coal from North Korea since mid-February, overall trade between the two countries has actually increased in 2017. This is a disingenuous posture given China's ability to water down such resolutions and perhaps even conspire with Russia to veto resolutions; letting Beijing off the hook even if it took an anti-DRPK stand in terms of rhetoric... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/china-still-playing-a-double-game-in-korea?f=must_reads
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Time for the US to stop Qatar’s
support for terror
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by Jonathan Schanzer
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Secretary of Defense James Mattis is on a Mideast tour to “continue efforts to strengthen regional security architectures.” While his meetings in Saudi Arabia, Egypt and Israel are likely to attract most of the press coverage... his discussions in Qatar Saturday could be the most consequential. Since August 2014, US-backed coalition aircraft have flown tens of thousands of sorties to bomb ISIS. Almost all of them are commanded out of the sprawling, high-tech al-Udeid air base in Qatar. In other words, the base is crucial to our war efforts. But it comes with serious baggage. The Treasury Department’s top terrorism-finance official, Adam Szubin, stated last year that Qatar has demonstrated “a lack of political will . . . to effectively enforce their combating terrorist financing laws.”...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-time-for-the-us-to-stop-qatars-support-for-terror/
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Trump’s Syria strategy must target
Assad’s chief protector: Iran
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by Emanuele Ottolenghi
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The strikes ordered on April 6 by President Trump to respond to Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad’s chemical weapons attack helped restore America’s credibility in the region after years of retreat... But if the president wants to really hurt Assad, he should push back against Iran, the strongman’s chief protector. Disrupting Iran’s airlifts to Syria by re-sanctioning its civil aviation sector would be a good place to start. Even after the Iran nuclear deal reached in 2015, the United States can still use non-nuclear sanctions to counter Iran’s regional ambitions and ongoing support for terrorism. In practice, however, this measure has been rarely used, especially with regards to Iran’s ongoing airlifts to the Assad regime and Hezbollah. Regrettably, the deal lifted U.S. aviation sanctions against Iran exactly at a time when the sector became vital to Tehran’s war efforts in Syria. Put simply: the deal has made it legal to sell aircraft to airlines that are accessories to Assad’s war crimes and keep Hezbollah armed to the teeth. The president should reverse this and bar any new aircraft from reaching Tehran until Iran stops fueling Syria’s civil war with its commercial airliners...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/emanuele-ottolenghi-trumps-syria-strategy-must-target-assads-chief-protector-iran/
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No More Kicking the Can
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by Anthony Ruggiero
{usnews.com} ~ Visiting the demilitarized zone that separates North and South Korea on Monday, Vice President Mike Pence reiterated that the liar-nObama administration's policy of "strategic patience" towards Pyongyang had ended... Three days earlier, the Trump administration released its review of North Korea policy, one it says will be based on "maximum pressure and engagement." If implemented correctly, the new policy could mark a welcome shift in Washington's long-sputtering North Korea policy. The new policy is distinct from that of the past 12 years, as Presidents George W. Bush and Barack liar-nObama held back from applying significant pressure on the Kim regime. In 2007, Bush authorized the return of money to North Korea that had been held for two years in Banco Delta Asia, a bank in the Chinese tax haven of Macau that the U.S. had sanctioned in 2005 for providing financial services to Pyongyang. Those sanctions represented the apex of Washington's North Korea sanctions, and their rollback marked the beginning of those sanctions' decline...  https://www.usnews.com/opinion/debate-club/articles/2017-04-20/donald-trumps-new-north-korea-policy-sets-the-right-tone
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Haley, in rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, is fighting hard to dissipate 'conventional wisdom'
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by Kambiz Foroohar
{jewishworldreview.com} ~In her first session holding the rotating presidency of the United Nations Security Council, U.S. Ambassador Nikki Haley tried to turn the spotlight from Israel to Iran, the latest target of the Trump administration's tough talk. It wasn't easy.

"If we are speaking honestly about conflict in the Middle East, we need to start with the chief culprit, Iran, and its partner militia, Hezbollah," Haley told the Security Council Thursday. "For decades they have conducted terrorist acts across the region."

For the past two weeks, Haley had encouraged nations attending the quarterly open meeting on "the situation in the Middle East, including the Palestinian question" to tackle Tehran's role in Yemen and Syria and its support for Hezbollah, topics she sees as more central to the theme of Middle East peace.

Few nations appeared to go along with Haley's attempt to shift the discussion. In the early hours of the debate, Iran was seldom raised.

We need "to achieve justice based on the two-state solution in accordance with Security Council resolutions," said Egypt's Ambassador Amr Abdellatif Aboulatta, referring to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The current situation has become a "regressive status quo," he added.

The envoy from Bolivia -- which has a rotating position on the Security Council -- said without naming the U.S. that unrest in the Middle East stemmed in part from policies of "regime change" and "preemptive war" by global powers. He, too, then turned to the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

Haley's effort comes in a week in which the Trump administration has aimed sharp criticism at Iran, after earlier warnings to Syria and North Korea. On Wednesday, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson tore into the Islamic Republic's 2015 agreement with world powers that curbed its nuclear program, saying it only delayed the day when Iran will get a nuclear weapon and "completely ignored" the Islamic Republic's other actions.

Iran joined the U.S. and five other world powers in signing the 2015 deal, and Tillerson acknowledged in a message to Congress April 18 that Iran has delivered so far on its end of the deal. Nonetheless, he said, the U.S. will review whether to reimpose economic sanctions that were eased under the accord.

The Security Council has kept an often critical focus on Israel for years, and Arab nations -- including U.S. allies in the region -- resisted shifting that emphasis. Israel's settlement policies were roundly criticized at the Security Council.

The council has been receiving monthly reports highlighting the "Palestinian question" since 2000 and holding a debate on the topic each quarter since 2010. Plus, quarterly reports on Israel's expansion of housing settlements are now required under a resolution critical of the U.S. ally. Former President Barack liar-nObama allowed the council to pass that measure in the closing weeks of his administration by having the U.S. abstain rather than exercise its veto power.

Nickolay Mladenov of Bulgaria, the U.N.'s special coordinator for the Middle East peace process, touched on conflicts and instability in Syria and Lebanon but focused primarily on the Israel-Palestine conflict in his report to the council. He urged that Israel's settlement construction, which is illegal under international law, be halted.

"The question of Palestine remains a potent symbol and rallying cry that is easily misappropriated and exploited by extremist groups," Mladenov said. "Ending the occupation and realizing a two-state solution will not solve all the region's problems, but as long as the conflict persists, it will continue to feed them."

While Haley, 45, echoed Tillerson in hinting at a tougher line on Iran regardless of whether the country is complying with the nuclear accord, questions about the broader U.S. policy toward the Islamic Republic remain.

"The Trump administration needs a grand plan on how to curb Iran's influence, and right now I don't see a plan," said Alex Vatanka, a senior fellow at the Middle East Institute in Washington.

U.S. decided to breach the nuclear accord, it would come in conflict with global powers, including European allies, China and Russia, that continue to support it. Iran's ballistic missile tests were a violation of Security Council resolutions, Haley told the Council, a view which isn't uniformly shared.

The 2015 Iran deal also angered traditional U.S. allies in the Middle East, including Saudi Arabia, which says it's battling Iranian proxies in a war in neighboring Yemen. Iranian troops and Hezbollah allies also have backed Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, whose regime Trump targeted with cruise missiles this month following a chemical attack.

The U.S. seeks "to portray Iran as a criminal enterprise, not just as another bad country but as a rogue state that is engaged in horrible crimes across the region," said Suzanne Maloney, a senior fellow at Brookings Institute in Washington. "We are moving from a position of accommodation to one of confrontation across multiple fronts."

Defense Secretary James Mattis, on a tour of the Middle East, said Wednesday in Riyadh that the U.S. will "reinforce Saudi Arabia's resistance to Iran's mischief and make you more effective with your military."

But even with Haley's leadership role this month, Tehran's alliance with Russia, which holds veto power in the Security Council, means any resolution condemning Iran's regional influence is unlikely to pass.


"Building a broad consensus is tough," Maloney said. 

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0417/haley_UN_Israel_Iran.php3

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~

We Few, We Miserable Few
by Heather Mac Donald

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 Top Headlines 
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Report: Trump rolls back $60 billion more in regulatory savings. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
War on cops? U.S. murder rate expected to rise 8% in 2016. (Washington Examiner)
 
Iowa becomes the 35th state to adopt "stand your ground" legislation. (National Review)
 
AG Sessions: MS-13 gang could be designated as terrorist organization. (The Hill)
 
How did New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo make $783,000 on memoir that sold 3,200 copies? (The Buffalo News)
 
UC Berkeley rewards liberal violence by not allowing Ann Coulter speech. (The Daily Signal)
 
Modern college yields results: Census says more Americans 18-to-34 now live with parents than with spouse. (CNS News)
 
Trump signs bill giving vets more choices for health care. (CNS News)
 
U.S. considers re-imposing all sanctions on Iran, dismantling nuke deal. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Assad repositions Syrian planes near Russian base, expecting Trump won't dare to bomb there. (Hot Air)
 
Policy: The economy is rushing toward a fiscal reckoning. (American Enterprise Institute)
 
Policy: Renewable energy myths abound. (Heartland Institute~The Patriot Post
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Mariachi band interrupts meeting
with Colorado Sen. Cory Gardner
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by Sean Langille
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A Mariachi band interrupted a meeting on Wednesday between Colorado GOP Sen. Cory Gardner and local business leaders... Gardner was hosting a meeting with the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce when the band began playing at the back of the room as the senator was answering questions. Local outlet KOAA reported that the band paid $250 to become members of the Colorado Springs Chamber of Commerce so they could attend the meeting. The Colorado Republican has come under fire for not hosting town hall meetings and meeting with Latino constituents...
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CIA and FBI in Joint Investigation to Find Mole
who Leaked Classified Info to WikiLeaks
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by Philip Hodges
{eaglerising.com} ~ The CIA and the FBI are working together in a joint investigation to expose the moles responsible for leaking classified information to Wikileaks... Described as one of the worst security breaches sustained by the CIA, Wikileaks released information in March related to classified spying programs used on electronic devices, and other tools such as ‘weaponized malware’ and the ability to frame a foreign country for hacking. Sources familiar with the investigation say it is looking for an insider — either a CIA employee or contractor — who had physical access to the material. The agency has not said publicly when the material was taken or how it was stolen...  http://eaglerising.com/42924/cia-and-fbi-in-joint-investigation-to-find-mole-who-leaked-classified-info-to-wikileaks/
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DNC Chair Perez Demonstrates
Why He Is And Should Be Loathed
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ DNC Chairman Tom Perez is a despicable individual, foul-mouthed, seemingly just for the sake of it, one of those skinny little guys in high school that used it and smoking cigarettes to look grown up, who still hasn’t quite achieved that milestone... He’s been cursing a lot lately, whenever he’s behind a lectern and with an audience of people, in front of him. He’s apparently confident that there are no Sunday school teachers left in the Democrat Party or if there are, he’s sending them a message that they need to get with the times. This is the new, profane Democrat Party, raising their foul mouths and voices as one, including everybody in a diverse hatred of America and our historic decencies. Accept the Dems as they are, just as they claim to accept everyone else. That’s a brilliant strategy, Perez. He shows why he had to resort to a debate in order to be anointed, another instance of liar-Clinton debate tampering, with zero charisma and decision making skills, having opted to drag commie Bernie Sanders around with him on his “unity tour.”...
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Europe: Making Itself into the New Afghanistan?
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The brave work of the artist Mimsy, "ISIS Threaten Sylvania",
which satirized the brutality of ISIS
by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Maastricht, in the Netherlands, is the picturesque city that gave its name to the famous treaty signed in 1992 by the twelve nations of the European Community at the time... and which paved the way for the foundation of today's European Union and the single currency, the euro. Maastricht, however, is also the home of "Tefaf", the most important art and antiques fair in the world. The art work "Persepolis" by the Italian artist Luca Pignatelli was already scheduled when the commission ordered it removed. The work, built in 2016, combined a Persian Islamic rug and a female head. "We are all humbled and speechless", Pignatelli declared, pointing out that his work had initially aroused the enthusiasm of the commission. The fair's explanation was that Pignatelli's work was "provocative". The officials of fair presumably did not want to offend Islam and possible Muslim buyers with Pignatelli's combination of the mat (used by Muslims for prayer) with the woman's face. "We are shocked, this is the first time this has happened and I think it is legitimate to talk about it", Pignatelli said...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10208/europe-afghanistan
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Trump Must Stop Allowing liar-nObama Holdovers
to Set His Iran – and Other – Policies
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by SECURE FREEDOM MINUTE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ President Trump was reportedly furious when he learned that the State Department had issued a statement on Tuesday declaring Iran in compliance with the so-called nuclear "deal."... Mr. Trump has repeatedly reviled that accord as the worst ever negotiated because Iran can comply with it and still get the Bomb. Consequently, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was directed to hold a press conference yesterday describing the many ways in which the threat posed by Iran - non-nuclear and nuclear - continues to intensify. He stressed that all aspects of U.S. policy, including the future of the deal, are under review. If that review is influenced by the same liar-nObama administration holdovers who claim Iran is complying with its obligations, however, it will be no more accurate, objective or acceptable than the misleading statement the State Department issued on Tuesday. Clean house, Mr. President.  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/trump-must-stop-allowing-obama-holdovers-to-set-his-iran-and-other-policies?f=must_reads
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We Few, We Miserable Few
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by Heather Mac Donald
{city-journal.org} ~
Black students at Pomona College and neighboring schools in Claremont, California, have published an open letter declaring their hostility to free speech—other people’s free speech, that is. The letter shows that the faculty of the Claremont colleges are failing in their most basic educational duties.

The manifesto, written by “We, few of the Black students here at Pomona College and the Claremont Colleges,” was triggered by a statement on academic freedom by outgoing Pomona College President David Oxtoby. Oxtoby’s statement in turn responded to a student blockade that tried to shut down a talk on policing I was supposed to give at Claremont McKenna College on April 6. Leave aside for a moment the signatories’ unblemished ignorance regarding free speech and the role of unfettered discourse in creating their own liberties. Viewed purely formally, the letter is a major embarrassment to the faculty of Pomona and the Claremont colleges.

It is filled with excruciating solecisms “Though this institution as well as many others including this entire country, have been founded upon the oppression and degradation of marginalized bodies, it has a liability to protect the students that it serves” garbled regurgitations of High Theory. “The notion of discourse, when it comes to discussions about experiences and identities, deters the ‘Columbusing’ of established realities and truths coded as ‘intellectual inquiry’ that the institution promotes”; and sheer head-scratchers of incomprehensibility “To conclude our statement, we invite you to respond to this email by Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 4:07 pm since we have more energy to expend on the frivolity of this institution and not Black lives.”  Gnawing question: Why not a 4:08 pm deadline?

Does this student writing demonstrate the value of a Pomona education? Several of the co-signatories are graduating this year or the next. Are their professors satisfied with their command of the English language? What grade would this incoherent tract receive if turned in as a term paper—a D?  Or, more likely, an A?   Faculty undoubtedly fear correcting the writing of “marginalized students,” lest they suffer the same scourging as UCLA Education Professor Val Rust did when he tried to induct some of his Critical Race Theory students into the protocols of academic prose.

The content of the letter, such as it is, should alarm the faculty as well at least those faculty who have not inspired “We, few's’” tortured efforts at Foucauldian post-modernism. The students appear to argue that the ideal of free speech is based on a mystifying and oppressive concept of unitary truth, and that such a concept solidifies white supremacy: “The idea that there is a single truth—‘the Truth’—is a construct of the Euro-West that is deeply rooted in the Enlightenment . . . This construction is a myth and white supremacy, imperialism, colonization, capitalism, and the United States of America are all of its progeny. The idea that the truth is an entity for which we must search, in matters that endanger our abilities to exist in open spaces, is an attempt to silence oppressed peoples.”

“We, few of the Black students here at Pomona, etc.” have it exactly backward.  Free speech is the best tool for challenging hegemonic power.  Absolute rulers seek to crush non-conforming opinion; the censor is the essential bulwark of tyrants.  Without the Enlightenment and its challenge to unquestioned authority, “We, few of the Black students” would not even be at the Claremont colleges, because those secular, independent colleges might not even exist. It would be interesting to know how many Enlightenment philosophers “We, few” can even name; it is of course virtually certain that they have read none. Freedom of the press and of speech was essential in the fight against slavery and Jim Crow; how do “We, few of the Black students here at Pomona, etc.” think that those battles could have been waged without the First Amendment rights that the “We, few” now think they despise?

Moreover, “We, few of the Black students” only pretend to be postmodern relativists. They are fully confident that they possess the truth about me and about their oppressed plight at the Claremont schools. An alternative construction of their reality—one, say, that pointed out that as members of fantastically rich, tolerant, and welcoming American colleges, they are among the most privileged human beings in history—would be immediately rejected as contrary to the truth and not worth debating. “We, few” would also reject the alternative truth that far from devaluing Black students, the administrations of the Claremont colleges have undoubtedly admitted many with levels of academic preparation far below that of their white and Asian peers, simply to fulfill the administrators’ own self-righteous desire for “diversity.”

Typical of all such censors and petty tyrants, “We, few of the Black students” now want to crush dissent. They ask the Claremont University Consortium to take action, both disciplinary and legal, against the editors of the conservative student paper, the Claremont Independent, for the open-ended sins of “continual perpetuation of hate speech, anti-Blackness, and intimidation toward students of marginalized backgrounds.” These are the demands not of relativists but of absolutists determined to solidify their power.

As for “We, few’s” gross misreading of my work, it shows that reading skills are in as short supply at the Claremont colleges as writing skills. My entire argument about the necessity of lawful, proactive policing is based on the value of black lives. I have decried the loss of black life to drive-by shootings and other forms of street violence. I have argued that the fact that blacks die of homicide at six times the rate of whites and Hispanics combined is a civil rights abomination. And I have tried to give voice to the thousands of law-abiding residents of high-crime areas who are desperate for more police protection so that they can enjoy the same freedom from fear that people in more wealthy areas take for granted.

The ungrammatical list of attributes that “We, few of the Black students” say disqualify me from speaking—“Heather Mac Donald is a fascist, a white supremacist, a warhawk, a transphobe, a queerphobe, a classist, and ignorant of interlocking systems of domination that produce the lethal conditions under which oppressed peoples are forced to live”—unsurprisingly displays the ignorance already familiar from the rest of their letter, since I was an early and documented opponent of the Iraq war and all such efforts at regime change. The other epithets are not worth responding to.
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
What next with North Korea?
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 by Cal Thomas
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 Trump Tackles Visas 
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Donald Trump signed another executive order Tuesday — this one aimed at overhauling the H-1B visa program used by American tech companies to hire high-skilled foreign workers and bring them into the U.S. Trump has been critical of the program, claiming that it disadvantages American workers. His point is made more real when companies hire foreigners to replace American workers and make those Americans train their replacements. Trump's action may make it more difficult for domestic companies to hire foreign workers.
          By Trump's estimation, the visa program has become too permissive, allowing in low-skilled, lower-paid foreign workers who have displaced American workers. As one administration official said, the "abuse" of the visa program that "brings in a worker not because you need their skill or talent, but for the purpose of undercutting the American worker" needs to be addressed. Trump's aim is to ensure that the original intent of the H-1B visa program is honored — namely that it is used only to bring in highly skilled foreign workers for highly specialized positions and needs.
          His "Buy American, Hire American" order directs the Departments of State, Justice, Homeland Security and Labor to draft "new rules to prevent immigration fraud and abuse," and to initiate a thorough review of the program in order to provide recommended legislative changes to Congress. It also instructs federal agencies to use American-made goods.
          Trump's policies are already changing things, even in some cases if only by perception. The Washington Free Beacon reports, "U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced Monday that the number of H-1B visa applications dropped about 16 percent over the past year, marking the first such decline since 2012."
          In related news, the Washington Post attempted to call out Trump for targeting "non-criminal" illegal aliens with a story headlined, "ICE immigration arrests of noncriminals double under Trump." However, when the statistics are more closely examined and compared against Barack liar-nObama's record, the story becomes markedly different. It is true that under Trump immigration officials have cracked down on illegal immigration to a greater extent than during liar-nObama's tenure. But the percentage of illegal aliens with criminal records arrested by ICE since Trump took office is 75%; under liar-nObama it was 60%. That means immigration officials under liar-nObama were less discriminating in who they targeted for arrest. Once again, The Washington Post has published an article that is grossly misleading.  ~The Patriot Post
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US military considers shooting down
North Korea missile tests, sources say
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{theguardian.com} ~ The US military is considering shooting down North Korean missile tests as a show of strength to Pyongyang, two sources briefed on the planning have told the Guardian... Amid heightened tensions over North Korea’s nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs, the Pentagon is looking for ways short of war to pressure the country into denuclearization, particularly if Pyongyang goes forward with a sixth nuclear test. The defense secretary, James Mattis, has briefed Congress on the option, but the military has not yet decided to intercept a test missile... https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/18/us-military-shoot-down-north-korea-missile-tests

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Another Supreme Court Vacancy On The Horizon –
Senator Grassley Lets It Slip
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ There is speculation sparked by a comment made by Senator Chuck Grassley to a local Iowa paper in which he stated his belief that there will be a vacancy on the Supreme Court this summer... Grassley is the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee. The reporters believe that likely vacancy will occur as the result of the retirement of Justice Anthony Kennedy, a Reagan appointee who is often the swing vote on the court. Jonathan Karl note the comment made by Grassley in the Muscatine Journal, in which he stated on April 18th, “I would expect a Supreme Court]resignation this summer. Karl notes that Grassley’s chairmanship of the Judiciary Committee is significant because that is the body where hearings would be held for President Trump’s next nominee. He says, “If there is anybody in Congress who would know about such things, it is Chuck Grassley.” Karl also adds that it is consistent with what he has been hearing “in conservative legal circles for weeks, that Justice Kennedy has been telling friends and colleagues that he intends to retire this year, possibly after the current term of the Supreme Court is up on June 30th.”...

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What’s in the New liar-nObamacare Deal That
Could Unite Conservatives, Centrists
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by Melissa Quinn
{dailysignal.com} ~ Conservative and centrist Republicans in the House are working on a deal that some say could unite the two factions and attract enough votes to pass the stalled bill to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare... But amid increased pressure from the White House to move forward with the plan to unravel the 2010 health care law, some conservatives have questions about the changes. News of the deal comes as President Donald Trump nears his 100th day in office, and just days before lawmakers return to Washington, D.C., to hash out the details of a bill funding the government...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/04/20/whats-in-the-new-obamacare-deal-that-could-unite-conservatives-centrists/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpRMVptWXdZMkU0WWpFdyIsInQiOiIrTXRYd0RKbEVSUlwvQUkrbzNvc0dTZnB4aFlMaGd1KzBrUEFSZDBmMDA4UlBqYm5BejFQczdDY0hENG9ZUXhLNW1QQTRxSmZ1am9MRmdYaUxxT3NYZEpSMFZjNlVmS3p0XC8zN2x0NFpyaEpRdlFOOFwvQ1RXTUtFRXF4aGNcL1VcL1h3In0%3D

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What North Korea Should Teach Us about Iran
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by Alan M. Dershowitz
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ We failed to prevent North Korea from developing nuclear weapons. As a result, our options to stop them from developing a delivery system capable of reaching our shores are severely limited... The hard lesson from our failure to stop North Korea before they became a nuclear power is that we MUST stop Iran from ever developing or acquiring a nuclear arsenal. A nuclear Iran would be far more dangerous to American interests than a nuclear North Korea. Iran already has missiles capable of reaching numerous American allies. They are in the process of upgrading them and making them capable of delivering a nuclear payload to our shores. Its fundamentalist religious leaders would be willing to sacrifice millions of Iranians to destroy the "Big Satan" (United States) or the "Little Satan" (Israel). The late "moderate" leader Hashemi Rafsanjani once told an American journalist that if Iran attacked Israel with nuclear weapons, they "would kill as many as five million Jews," and that if Israel retaliated, they would kill fifteen million Iranians, which would be "a small sacrifice from among the billion Muslims in the world." He concluded that "it is not irrational to contemplate such an eventuality." Recall that the Iranian mullahs were willing to sacrifice thousands of "child-soldiers" in their futile war with Iraq. There is nothing more dangerous than a "suicide regime" armed with nuclear weapons...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10233/north-korea-iran

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“Ghost Soldiers” –funded by your tax dollars
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by Sharyl Attkisson

{sharylattkisson.com} ~ Hundreds of millions of U.S. tax dollars have been wasted funding soldiers and police in Afghanistan that don’t exist... Lisa Fletcher digs into the problem of sex trafficking of minors in the U.S. and finds predators using tactics to recruit children that are similar to tactics used by Islamic extremists to radicalize fighters...  https://sharylattkisson.com/ghost-soldiers-funded-by-your-tax-dollars/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29

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What next with North Korea?
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 by Cal Thomas

{jewishworldreview.com} ~There was a moment at Press Secretary Sean Spicer's White House briefing Monday that was significant. Asked by a reporter about North Korea's missile launch last weekend, Spicer said the administration was aware of the launch and that "it failed." End of story. Next question, please.

Sir Malcolm Rifkind, the former Conservative foreign secretary in Britain, might provide an explanation for Spicer's tight-lipped response. Rifkind told the BBC Sunday that "...there is a very strong belief that the U.S. -- through cyber methods -- has been successful on several occasions in interrupting these sorts of tests and making them fail."

At present, there are no direct links to a cyberattack on North Korea from the U.S., but that hasn't stopped media outlets from reporting the possibility of one.

Last month, the U.S. began sending the first elements of its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system to South Korea, though China opposed the move. When it becomes operational will it, along with cyberattacks, be enough to deter North Korean dictator Kim Jong-Un from conducting new missile tests capable of hitting the U.S. with a nuclear warhead, which he has repeatedly threatened to do? Kim has said he will conduct missile tests "weekly" in response to U.S. threats.

On a recent visit to South Korea, Vice President Mike Pence vowed that "the era of strategic patience is over," a strategy adopted by the liar-nObama administration to explain its long-term view on global conflict resolution. Pence added, "North Korea would do well not to test President Trump's resolve -- or the strength of the armed forces of the United States in this region."

How much of this is bluster on both sides no one can say for sure. After President Trump's meeting with Chinese president Xi Jinping, there is some optimism that China might be able to exert sufficient pressure on its unpredictable ally to pull back from a direct confrontation with the U.S. Of greatest concern for the Trump administration, in addition to South Korean civilians who would likely suffer massive casualties should there be a North Korean invasion, are the more than 28,000 U.S. troops stationed in South Korea. Kim has threatened to attack them and flood South Korea with his ground forces.

What is our goal with North Korea? Is it regime change? If so, who and what would follow if Kim is ousted? Kim, his father and grandfather have established such an atmosphere of complete control and cult-like obedience with North Koreans who have been cut off from all outside information that it is hard to predict how the people would react. It's a good bet political prisoners in North Korea's prison camps would be overjoyed if the regime fell and they were set free.

Humanrights.gov estimates between "80,000 and 120,000 political prisoners and family members are detained in these camps, where starvation, forced labor, executions, torture, rape, forced abortion and infanticide are commonplace."

Those who wish to hold off on further challenges to North Korea must ask themselves a question. Given the erratic behavior of Kim Jong-Un and his bellicose promises to strike the U.S. with a nuclear missile, is it better to take him seriously and stop him now, or wait until he has the capability to carry out his threat?

Last week, Hawaii's House public safety committee passed a resolution calling for the state's defense agency to repair hundreds of fallout shelters that have not been updated since the 1980s and restock them with medical supplies, food and water.

We haven't yet reached the tension level of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which put the United States in direct confrontation with the Soviet Union and brought the world to the brink of nuclear war, but the current tension between the U.S. and North Korea could quickly spiral downward.

Will the "peace through strength" doctrine of the Reagan administration, which suggested that military power could help preserve peace, work today? During the Reagan years, Soviet leaders were not unstable, as Kim Jong-Un appears to be, and a nuclear confrontation was avoided. Perhaps a demonstration of what the U.S can do with cyberwarfare, a missile defense system and help from China will be enough.

One can only hope.
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Fri/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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 No Spin: Killing Bill O'Reilly 
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After 21 years at Fox News, Bill O'Reilly, who entered the national media market as an infotainer with CBS's tabloid-gossip nightly, "Inside Edition," is out. According to Fox, "After a thorough and careful review of the [sexual harassment] allegations, the company and Bill O'Reilly have agreed that Bill O'Reilly will not be returning to the Fox News Channel." In other words, after paying more than $13 million to hush sexual harassment suits in recent years, once the complaints became public, advertisers pressured Fox to can O'Reilly.
         Though we have criticized O'Reilly in the past, particularly over his libelous "biography" of Ronald Reagan, he was an effective promoter of some conservative ideas, mostly by over-talking his guest victims. That effectiveness is precisely why The New York Times exposed his transgressions.
          Regardless of what you think about O'Reilly, the real story here is the calculation by the Times that exposing O'Reilly would result in advertisers boycotting the show — and the network. Thus, Fox News, which is first and foremost devoted to maintaining market share (a.k.a. advertising revenues), had to fold its hand. Fox already has to blast now-ubiquitous "Fox News Alert" banners, ad nauseum, in order to keep its viewers interested through their 24/7 news cycle. As that tactic wears thin, so will ad revenue, and the network could not afford to keep O'Reilly on.
          While this episode publicly exposes the power and influence that advertisers have in regard to who is delivering the news, the question every consumer of news from any commercial outlet should ask is this: How often do editors make decisions about what news to cover, and how, based on their concern for how advertisers will respond? The answer: Every day, all day.
          At The Patriot Post, we made a commitment from day one to decline advertising. You will note that our website and email publications are free from annoying ads, pop-up screens, or any other sponsored content. When asked on occasion by our supporters why we do not supplement our revenues with advertising, I refer them to our mission and operations statement, which notes plainly: "We are not sustained by any political, special interest or parent organization, and we do not accept advertising to ensure our advocacy is not restrained by commercial influence."
          It is for that reason that The Patriot Post is funded entirely by the generous support of fellow Patriots. We're accountable only to you — not the plethora of advertisers who shape the editorial content of commercial print and television outlets. 
~The Patriot Post
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Putin Mobilizes Troops and Equipment
To North Korean Border
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by Mac Slavo
{shtfplan.com} ~ We can all pretend like there is nothing going on around the Korean Peninsula and hope that cooler heads will prevail, but if history is any guide, when the militaries of multiple nations begin to mass troops at borders... it takes only a single, often seemingly inconsequential, catalyst to plunge the situation into all-out war. That’s exactly what’s happening in North Korea today. Two weeks ago China deployed some 150,000 troops to the North Korean border and put their entire military on high alert in anticipation of a U.S. military strike on Kim Jong Un. Now we learn that Russia is rapidly deploying troop and equipment to their border with North Korea, as well...  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/tension-builds-vladimir-putin-mobilizes-troops-and-equipment-to-north-korean-border-fears-u-s-is-preparing-to-attack-the-united-states1_04202017

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Soros Accused Of Racketeering, Extortion, Fraud, International Manipulation In New Lawsuit
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Many American patriots have wondered why George Soros is allowed by those in power in our country, the ones who we want to believe he still doesn’t control, to engage in blatant social destruction and subversion... against our nation without suffering any consequences. It’s been particularly obvious since Donald Trump came on the scene, that Soros and his lackey liar-nObama are pursuing their anti-America plot for world domination at the expense of the United States and all nations of the world. President Trump would seem to be the major benefactor of a crackdown on the global puppet master and racketeer, yet nothing happens. He just continues to manipulate our political, judicial and economic systems and those of virtually every nation in the world with impunity. Soros has made plenty of enemies around the globe and one of them has decided to take action. It’s an Israeli company that has suffered at the hands of “the evil one,” filing a lawsuit on Friday which identifies Soros as everything we know him to be, including an extortionist and a “racketeer billionaire” who “puppeteered” governments...  http://rickwells.us/soros-accused-racketeering-extortion-fraud-international-manipulation-new-lawsuit/

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Sen Lee Wonders Why America Is Funding
George Soros’ Leftist Subversion Of Europe
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It's almost as if Senator Mike Lee hit himself in the side of the head after realizing he could have had a V8. Suddenly he’s concerned about American “aid” money going to line the pockets of George Soros and his anti-American causes across the globe... If he’s really worried now, just wait until the UN climate reparations money tap gets turned on, a real possibility now that the neocons have taken root in the White House. That infamous sucking sound will once again return in a deafening manner to the DC swamp, but it won’t be the swamp that’s being drained, just our treasury, the Soros slush fund. The information  was readily available and known to everyday Americans, but Congress is apparently only now catching on, and asking questions, about the siphoning of our money into the coffers of the number one enemy of our Republic. Based upon this “new” information, Senator Mike Lee (R-UT) wrote a letter to the State Department... http://rickwells.us/sen-lee-wonders-america-funding-george-soros-leftist-subversion-europe/
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Christianity Being Snuffed Out
Across the Middle East
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by Larry Estavan
{pamelageller.com} ~ Prospects of Christianity surviving in its birthplace, the Middle East, appear as grim this Holy Week as they have at any time in the last two millennia... Persecution of the world’s largest religion has intensified throughout the 20th century and that trajectory has only intensified in recent years, especially in Muslim-dominated countries. Jihadists appear to have repeatedly carried out one of their oft-stated goals of erasing any trace of Christianity in some regions, while in others persecution against Christians and other religious minorities are being held at bay — for now. The actual prospects facing Christianity in three of its longest-standing strongholds, Syria, Egypt and Iraq, vary significantly. But a blind eye is often turned by the mainstream media and others when it comes to anti-Christian atrocities, which have become an all-too-common way of life for many in the Mideast...  http://pamelageller.com/2017/04/christianity-snuffed-out.html/
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Life insurance for terrorists? America's
1st Somali legislator says 'yes'
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by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ She burst on the scene last August when she upset a 44-year incumbent Democrat in the Minnesota state primary elections to become the nation’s first female Muslim state legislator... Ilhan Omar, the 34-year-old community organizer who came to America as a refugee from Somalia, was touted by Democrats as a model success story. “From a refugee camp to the State Capitol with intelligence and insight,” beamed former Minneapolis Mayor R.T. Rybak, who endorsed Omar. “This is a wonderful story to tell as Americans, and a great source of pride for the state of Minnesota’s open arms.” She was one of only two members of the Minnesota State House to vote against a bill that would allow life insurance companies to deny payouts to the beneficiaries of terrorists who die in violent attacks on Americans. The House voted 127-2 to pass the bill, which now moves on to a vote in the State Senate...This is whats happening in America?
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Gen. Mattis and the Fatah Tautology
by Caroline Glick
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 The Democrat Went Down in Georgia 
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Democrats failed to pull off a win in a special House election in Kansas' 4th District last week, so surely they'd do better in Georgia's 6th District. They poured in more than $8 million on a single candidate to face a divided Republican field of 11 candidates. This was their chance to Send Trump a Message™ Or not.
          Instead, it was reminiscent of that great Charlie Daniels song — "The Devil went down to Georgia, He was looking for a soul to steal, He was in a bind, 'cause he was way behind, He was willing to make a deal." That didn't end well for the devil, and it didn't work out for Democrats either.
          Democrat Jon Ossoff's 48.1% bested liar-Hillary Clinton's 46.8%, but he failed to reach the requisite 50% of the vote to avoid a runoff. The Leftmedia was so convinced Ossoff had it in the bag they had live, breathless coverage of the results. Today, they're spinning that "Republicans avoided an embarrassing defeat."
          Republican Karen Handel, former Georgia secretary of state and county commissioner of Fulton County, will face Ossoff in a runoff on June 20. Handel led the GOP field with just 20%, but should have no trouble in a one-on-one matchup for the seat formerly held by Newt Gingrich, Johnny Isakson and Tom Price.
          The humorous irony of the race was that Ossoff, the Democrats' great Millennial hope, doesn't live in the district and couldn't even vote for himself. The truly important factor was that Democrats chose to nationalize the election and turn it into a referendum on Donald Trump. An astounding 95% of Ossoff's money came from outside the district. Even Samuel L. Jackson cut an ad for Ossoff, declaring, "We have to channel the great vengeance and furious anger we have for this administration into votes at the ballot box."
          But Trump weighed in too, and House Speaker Paul Ryan's super PAC was instrumental in holding off Ossoff. Voters know that Ossoff would align with an increasingly leftist party driven by coastal elites. And whether they like Trump or not, that's not what most suburban Atlanta voters want.  ~The Patriot Post
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Venezuela seizes General Motors plant
as property of the state
by Jazz Shaw
{hotair.com} ~ This news broke overnight and it undoubtedly comes as a shock to anyone who hasn’t been paying to socialism in general and the regime of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in particular... The government of Venezuela came in and seized control of the General Motors plant in the city of Valencia, taking over the property, assets and accounts. The automotive giant responded by saying that they were immediately halting operations. GM’s Venezuelan operation was already pretty much at the point of stagnation. Productivity was approaching zero because their currency had collapsed and they couldn’t order parts to keep the lines running. Also, the domestic market for cars wasn’t exactly booming because their potential customers have money which is basically worthless and they’re mostly too busy looking for scraps of food to worry about a new set of wheels. If nothing else, this incident will provide an enlightening, educational moment for the rest of the world. It’s a given that this is bad news for General Motors, for the workers there… let’s just say it. This is bad news for everyone except Maduro and his cronies. But it also serves to further pull away the mask, allowing the rest of the world to see what’s actually going on. So gather around, kids, because we’re not only seeing how socialism ends and it always ends this way, but also how the socialist machinery operates through the various phases of its life cycle...  http://hotair.com/archives/2017/04/20/venezuela-seizes-general-motors-plant-property-state/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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“Queer Communism” Finds its Voice
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by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ Since MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow is still preoccupied with the supposed influence of Russia on President Donald Trump and the American political process... we suggest that the publication of a new book called Communism for Kids by MIT Press is worthy of her attention. On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the 1917 Russian revolution, this book offers a glimpse into an uprising that was global in scope and which has not only destroyed the moral fiber of Russia, but has also done enormous damage to America. The author of Communism for Kids, Bini Adamczak, writes that “the Russian revolution instilled new hope, particularly in women and people who did not identify themselves within the hetero-normative paradigm.” The “destruction of the family,” she writes, was the goal. “With the revolution, the right to legal abortion, both sexes’ right to divorce, the decriminalization of adultery, and the annulment of the sodomy law which had previously prohibited homosexuality were implemented and enforced,” she explains. “In Moscow, one could find international communes led by gay communists,” she says. “Drag kings could become legitimate members of the Red Army. Participants of the revolutionary debates decided upon the destruction of the family, demanded the legalization of incest, and advertised the practice of polygamy.”...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/queer-communism-finds-its-voice/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Apr-20-2017&utm_medium=email
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Time To Reveal liar-nObama’s
Secret Side Deals With Iran
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by George Rasley
{conservativehq.com} ~ Yesterday, President Trump’s Administration gave its first assessment of Iran’s compliance with liar-nObama’s Iran Nuclear Weapons deal. It was a sober, honest assessment – as far as it went – and no doubt pleased the CFR crowd immensely... Tillerson said at a brief press conference that the Iran deal “fails to achieve the objective of a non-nuclear Iran,” and only delays it becoming a nuclear state. As Fox News noted, he faulted the agreement for “buying off” a foreign power with nuclear ambitions, saying: “We just don’t see that that’s a prudent way to be dealing with Iran.” The statement comes after he said in a letter to House Speaker Paul Ryan that the administration has undertaken a full review of the agreement to evaluate whether continued sanctions relief is in the best interest of the U.S...  http://www.conservativehq.com/node/25509
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President Trump Faces
North Korea’s Nuclear Threat
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by Joseph Klein
{frontpagemag.com} ~ North Korea has conducted five nuclear weapons tests, including two last year, and is reported to be preparing for another nuclear test in the near future. The rogue regime has also conducted dozens of ballistic missile tests... The liar-nObama administration managed to push fairly tough sanctions resolutions through the United Nations Security Council, but North Korea has ignored them. During the last years of his term, liar-nObama also reportedly ordered cyberattacks against the regime to sabotage its missile launches. The cyberattacks may have slowed down North Korea’s progress, but have far from eliminated the threat. Otherwise, liar-nObama’s policy amounted to what became known as “strategic patience.” That is where things stood when Donald Trump took over as president. Since the Trump administration has taken office, the rhetoric between North Korea and the United States over North Korea's accelerating nuclear weapons and ballistic missile program has ratcheted up to unprecedented levels. Every day brings new threats and counter-threats. Alarms have been sounded that misunderstandings of each other's intentions can lead to dangerous miscalculations, allowing perceived provocations by each side to potentially spin out of control...
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James Comey Just Got Terrible News
That Has Him Hiding His Face In Shame
{angrypatriotmovement.com} ~ We finally have evidence that the FBI, operating under the liar-nObama administration, used cheap tactics to spy on Trump... The FBI relied on the fake Trump dossier to obtain a FISA warrant to monitor Trump and his associate Carter Page. Patriots, this is either an egregious mistake made by the FBI, or something more sinister. If the FBI really used this Trump dossier to obtain a FISA warrant, then someone needs to get fired, because that is a shameful mistake. We have the brightest law enforcement of any modern country, so the truth is probably that the liar-nObama administration planted this phony dossier just to obtain a FISA warrant...  http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/james-comey-got-terrible-news/
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Gen. Mattis and the Fatah Tautology
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ On Friday, US Secretary of Defense James Mattis will visit Israel as part of a tour of the region that will bring him to Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Djibouti. The declared purpose of Mattis’s trip is to “reaffirm key US military alliances, engage with strategic partners in the Middle East and Africa, and discuss cooperative efforts to counter destabilizing activities and defeat extremist terror organizations.”

Ahead of his visit, Mattis should spend some time considering the hunger strike being carried out by the Palestinian terrorists imprisoned by Israel. A serious consideration of the strike will tell him more about the nature of the Palestinian conflict with Israel than a hundred “expert” briefings.

There are several important things for Mattis to consider in relation to the strike.

The first thing he needs to note is that all of the terrorists on strike are members of the Fatah terrorist group.

This fact should signal to General Mattis that Fatah is not a normal political party. In fact, it is a terrorist organization that has a political party.

The second thing Mattis needs to consider about the strike is that it is supported by the international Left.

To understand why, Mattis needs to recognize the Fatah tautology.

But first, a bit of background.

The terrorists’ strike is the brainchild of convicted mass murderer, Fatah leader and darling of the international Left, Marwan Barghouti.

Barghouti is serving five life sentences in prison for murdering five Israelis. Israeli authorities believe Barghouti was directly responsible for 37 murders, but were only able to convict him on five counts.

Barghouti’s role in the killings goes far beyond the terrorist attacks he directly ordered.

From 2000 until his arrest in 2002, Barghouti was the commander and mastermind of the Palestinian terror war that began in September 2000 after Fatah leader Yasser Arafat rejected Palestinian statehood at Camp David.

In other words, hundreds of Israelis are dead today because of Barghouti.

But for the Left, none of this matters. For the Left, Barghouti is a hero.

The Left insists Barghouti is a moderate and a peacemaker and that Israel should release him and let him take over Fatah and the PLO from octogenarian Mahmoud Abbas.

They insist this because of the Fatah tautology.

According to the tautology, Fatah is “moderate” and “pro-peace.” Barghouti is a leader of Fatah. Therefore Barghouti is moderate and pro-peace.

Since Fatah is “moderate” and “pro-peace,” it isn’t a terrorist organization. And since it isn’t a terrorist organization, its terrorists are moderate peace-activists.

So despite the protests of irritating Israeli terrorism victims, and the verdict of the court, Barghouti isn’t a terrorist and none of the terrorists he commanded are terrorists.

None of them are terrorists because they are members of Fatah. And Fatah is a moderate, pro-peace party. So they are moderate peace activists.

Under this tautological reasoning, it makes sense for the US to give nearly a billion dollars a year in aid to the Fatah-controlled Palestinian Authority. It makes sense for the Pentagon to train Palestinian “security forces” who double as Fatah terrorists. It makes sense for the US to turn a blind eye to the fact that the PA spends more than $300 million, or more than 7% of its donor-financed budget, to pay salaries to terrorists in Israeli prisons and their families.

After all, the Palestinians can’t be incentivizing terrorism.

They’re from Fatah and Fatah is a moderate peace party.

The Fatah tautology is what informed The New York Times’ decision to publish an op-ed by Barghouti in its Sunday edition in support of the prisoners’ strike.

Not surprisingly, Barghouti slandered Israel repeatedly in his essay.

Also not surprisingly, in its tagline the Times described Barghouti as a “Palestinian leader and parliamentarian.”

It would be bad enough if this circular reasoning was relegated to the fever swamps of the Left.

But it isn’t.

Numbered among Fatah’s most fervent supporters are Mattis and his fellow generals at the US Military’s Central Command.

Mattis arrives in Israel with a public record replete with anti-Israel statements that indicate he swallowed the Fatah tautology hook, line and sinker.

In 2013, shortly after retiring from his post as Centcom commander, General Mattis resonated Barghouti and his leftist supporters when he blamed Israel for the absence of peace.

Speaking at the Aspen Institute Mattis said that the US must make the establishment of a state run by Fatah terrorists – on land Israel controls, that it requires for its national security and that it has sovereign rights to – a key US goal.

In his words, “We’ve got to find a way to make the twostate solution that Democrat and Republican administrations have supported. We’ve got to get there, and the chances for its starting are starting to ebb because of the settlements and where they’re at, they’re going to make it impossible to maintain the two-state option.”

Also echoing Barghouti’s libels, Mattis said that if Israel continues to allow Jews to live where they have rights to live and property rights to build then it will become an “apartheid” state.

Mattis is reputedly a very smart, well-read man. And yet, his claims show that despite his intelligence, he has a stunning lack of intellectual curiosity about Israel and the Palestinians and their positions in the wider Middle East.

Lest we give in to the temptation to believe that Mattis’s ignorant, tautological thinking was simply a function of his service in the liar-nObama administration, during his Senate confirmation hearings as President Donald Trump’s nominee to serve as Defense Secretary, Mattis doubled down.

When asked point blank to name Israel’s capital, Mattis refused to acknowledge that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel. Instead, he stunned lawmakers when he proclaimed that Tel Aviv is the capital of the Jewish state.

Mattis’s hostile view of Israel and the Palestinians isn’t surprising. And the reason it isn’t surprising isn’t because Mattis is a member in good standing of the lunatic Left. He’s not.

Mattis’s ignorance is understandable because he hails from the US Military’s Central Command. The Pentagon’s area command responsible for the Middle East has one debilitating problem. It is a problem that guarantees that Centcom officers will fail to understand the Middle East and fail to win America’s wars in the region.

Centcom’s problem is that it deliberately does not include Israel.

As far as Centcom is concerned, Israel is not part of the Middle East. Israel is in Europe.

Centcom officers speak only to Arabs. And their Arab counterparts insist that Israel is the problem.

Rather than critically analyze this claim, Centcom officers internalize it.

Rather than notice and get irritated by the fact that due to their Arab colleagues’ antisemitism the US is forced to pretend that Israel is located on a completely different continent, Mattis and his underlings adopted their reason-bereft prejudice.

Rather than rebel against their inability to communicate directly with their Israeli counterparts and insist that they be permitted to bring the US’s closest ally in the Middle East into their regional plans and analyses, Centcom officers have embraced the irrational and strategically catastrophic view that the main source of instability in the Middle East are the Israeli communities located beyond the 1949 armistice lines.

Mattis’s visit will take him to Jerusalem, rather than Tel Aviv. No doubt Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will mention that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and express his enthusiastic support for moving the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

But as far as Israel’s relations with the US generally and the Pentagon specifically are concerned, moving the US embassy to Jerusalem is of secondary importance.

The most important contribution Israel can make to the US war against “extremist terrorism” and to the Trump administration’s efforts to “reaffirm key military alliances,” is for Netanyahu to insist that the Trump administration stop accepting the bigoted dictates of the Arabs. He must insist that Israel be integrated into Centcom. Only when the American officers responsible for determining US policies in the Middle East recognize that Israel is part of the Middle East will they have the cognitive capacity to understand the realities of the region. And the first reality that will become clear to them is that despite the Fatah tautology, Fatah is a terrorist organization, and an extremist one at that.
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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The danger of declaring health care a 'right'
by Rita Dunaway
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 For the 100th Time, It Wasn't Racism 
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By Paul Albaugh: It's been three months since Donald Trump was inaugurated, and many Democrats and Leftmedia political analysts are still looking for reasons for why he actually won. How could America's electorate choose Donald Trump, a man with no political experience, over liar-Hillary Clinton, a woman — a woman! — who'd been around the levers of power her entire adult life?
          According to a Washington Post "Monkey Cage" blog, written by Ohio State Professor Thomas Wood, the biggest motivator for Trump voters was, you guessed it, racism. Seriously, this was Wood's conclusion after conducting "research" on the Annual National Election Study (ANES).
          Wood's analysis took three popular narratives or motivators to determine people's reasons to vote for Trump and compared them with previous elections. The three motivators were being low income, desiring authoritarianism, and racism. To test these motivators against the ANES data, Wood's used white voters as his sample population and on the issue of racism he used a "symbolic racism scale."
          Without belaboring the details, the result of Wood's study supposedly reveals that racial attitudes made a bigger difference in electing Trump than authoritarianism or being low income.
          National Review's Ian Tuttle highlights three flaws with Wood's analysis: (1) a symbolic racism scale that is not "airtight," (2) the failure to mention that there was a greater shift in Democrat voters than Republican ones, and (3) an extremely narrow conclusion.
          Put another way, this "analysis" from the Washington Post is a steaming pile of garbage.
          Consider that in 2008 the American electorate put the first (half) black president in office and then re-elected him again in 2012. For eight years, we had a black president and now all of a sudden because Trump defeated liar-Clinton it was because of racism? Wood's analysis and the eye-catching headline are not only flawed, but downright ridiculous.
          What Wood's and many other Leftmedia talking heads have completely dismissed is that Americans overall did not want more of the same policies that we experienced under eight years of Barack liar-nObama. Americans were not happy with liar-nObamaCare or with liar-nObama's immigration policies, and they were very much concerned about the direction of the Supreme Court and an activist judiciary in general.
          Further, Americans weren't happy with the U.S. military being weakened for the previous eight years, we were sick of the excessive regulations from the EPA and other bureaucracies, and we had experienced a socialist agenda that ran up the nation's debt. These reasons barely scratch the surface for why Trump won the election.
          Americans knew who liar-Hillary Clinton was and that we would be getting more of the same — or worse.
          Let's look at Wood's analysis another way. If liar-Hillary Clinton had won, would it have been because of racism?
          After all, it was liar-Clinton who used the race card repeatedly during her campaign in order to make sure blacks didn't leave the Democrat plantation. According to Democrats, blacks can only think a certain way without being traitors to their race. That's racist.
          liar-Clinton's effort to smear Trump as a racist clearly didn't work. And neither did the policies she wanted to enact or continue. Here are some examples: liar-Hillary's policies would have pushed more blacks into welfare programs and increased the amount of people in urban poverty plantations. liar-Clinton was also a huge advocate of Planned Parenthood, which sells a vastly disproportionate number of abortions to black women and which was founded by the eugenicist Margaret Sanger, who wanted to use Planned Parenthood to eradicate black babies.
          Recall that Democrat Lyndon Johnson boasted following the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, "I'll have those n—ers voting Democrat for the next 200 years." Yet we hardly ever hear any leftists condemning his remarks, or the attitude about blacks reflected by Democrats from Johnson to liar-Clinton.
          The Washington Post and Professor Woods should be ashamed of themselves for publishing such mendacious drivel. But being the shameless "progressives" they are, they'll pat themselves on the back for their incredible depth of insight while smugly continuing to think they're better than the rest of us. 
~The Patriot Post
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Communism Next For Left Shifting
Democrats – Almost There Now
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou  Dobbs has a few thoughts on a “demoralized Democrat Party in crisis, the left yet again forced to recognize that “Resist Trump” is something of a lousy, loser’s strategy... A headline in Politico today succinctly described what passes for introspection on the part of the left, saying, ‘Democrats being  to wonder: When do we win?’ Dems last week failed to capture the Kansas House seat left vacant by now CIA Director Mike Pompeo.” “The Democrats also face uphill battles,” says Dobbs, “in special elections in Montana and South Carolina, they’re not expected to win either, those states Trump won by double digits. In 2018 Democrats need to net 24 seats to regain the majority in the House, uphill work. Democrats unseated only four of the 15 freshman Republican representatives they targeted in 2016.” Dobbs observes, “Dem obstructionism is proving to be a destructive strategy in the Senate as well. New polling shows seven Democrat Senators up for reelection next year all with approval ratings under fifty percent.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-communism-left-shifting-democrats/
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Conspiracy of the Day:
Chaffetz Blackmailed by Russia!
by Sarah Lee
{redstate.com} ~ Despite our very own Neil Stevens’ highly rational and reasonable suggestions about why House Oversight Chair Jason Chaffetz is leaving his post (possibly eyeing another, potentially retiring Utah Senator’s seat for example…)... the liberal left knows it’s much more diabolical: Russia. Of course. National Journal Politics Editor Josh Kraushaar shared their musings on Twitter this morning: The tweet eventually links to a piece at the Palmer Report alleging a source has information that, “the FBI has learned that Russia has ‘kompromat’ blackmail material on Chaffetz and has been using it to keep him in line with regard to Trump’s Russia scandal.” Well that’s huge news. Why isn’t it being reported in every major newspaper and from behind every cable news desk in the country? Because the “source” with this bombshell accusation is none other than “conservative” conspiracy theorist and one-time respected journalist Louise Mensch. Don’t know Mensch? Well she’s most known for being a once-respected journalist who turned into a “conservative” embraced by the left because anything and everything having to do with President Donald Trump’s administration — or really the GOP in particular — is somehow tainted by Russia’s back room scheming and meddling in the last election. Don’t believe me? Here’s her take on Georgia’s special election outcome yesterday:...  http://www.redstate.com/slee/2017/04/19/conspiracy-day-chaffetz-blackmailed-russia/
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Cancer patient stopped at Gaza-Israel
crossing with explosive material
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by Anna Ahronheim
{jpost.com} ~ Israeli authorities on Wednesday morning intercepted material used to manufacture explosive devices hidden inside spools of medical material at the Erez Crossing, the Shin Bet announced in a statement... According to the statement, the material was located during the security check at the crossing in the luggage of two sisters who are residents of the Gaza Strip. The two women had been approved to enter Israel for the purpose of receiving medical treatment for cancer, which one of the two sisters suffers from. An initial Shin Bet investigation indicated that the explosives were sent by Hamas and that the group was planning to carry out terror attacks in Israel in the near future, the statement read, adding that the material was destroyed by a sapper of the Southern District police force...  http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Cancer-patient-stopped-at-Gaza-Israel-crossing-with-explosive-material-488351
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Palestinians: Hunger Strike or Smokescreen?
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The hunger strike declared by jailed Palestinian terrorist Marwan Barghouti (left) is
aimed at Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right)
by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Palestinians have an old habit of settling internal scores by diverting their grievances and violence towards Israel. This practice is clear to those who have been monitoring developments in the Palestinian arena for the past decades... It is an integral part of the Palestinian strategy to undermine, isolate, delegitimize and destroy Israel. Those less familiar with Palestinian culture and tactics, however, have difficulty understanding the Palestinian mindset. Officials in Washington, London, Paris and other Western capitals rarely meet the ordinary Palestinian, the "man on the street" who represents the authentic voice of the Palestinians. Instead, these officials meet Palestinian politicians and academics from Ramallah -- the "experts" who are actually accomplished con artists. Such Palestinians grasp the Western mindset very well, and use their understanding to twist Western officials any which way they want...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10245/palestinians-hunger-strike
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Judicial Watch Sues for Records about Funding and Political Activities of George Soros'
Open Society Foundation
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by JUDICIAL WATCH
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID)... for records and communications relating to the funding and political activities of the Open Society Foundation - Macedonia. The Macedonia organization, part of George Soros' Open Society Foundations, received nearly $5 million from USAID from 2012 to 2016. The lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State and the U.S. Agency for International Development (No. 1:17-cv-00729)). The suit was filed after both the U.S. Department of State and USAID failed to respond to a February 16, 2017, FOIA request seeking:...
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The danger of declaring health care a 'right'
by Rita Dunaway
{wnd.com} ~ As the nation dithers over the Affordable Care Act and its ill-fated replacement proposals, the question of whether people have a “right” to health care begs consideration. We know that Sen. Bernie Sanders believes the answer is “yes,” and that House Speaker Paul Ryan believes the answer is “no.”

To determine who is correct, we first must understand what a “right” is.

Black’s Law Dictionary defines it as “a power, privilege, faculty, or demand, inherent in one person and incident upon another.” So any discussion of rights must begin with the acknowledgment that they correlate with duties on the part of others. They are “inherent in one person and incident upon another.” My right to own property correlates with your duty to avoid trespassing upon it. My right to free speech triggers the government’s duty to refrain from restricting it.

Generally speaking, the more basic or fundamental the right, the less onerous the corresponding duty upon others. Thus we observe that the fundamental rights bestowed upon every human being by the Creator – natural rights – are in the nature of liberties, imposing upon others only the duty of non-interference. My freedom to worship, for instance, requires nothing of others but that they allow me to exercise it.

This is one reason we know that health care is not a natural right. Health care is not a form of liberty, but rather a service that requires the labor of another person. I have no natural right to demand that service from those who can provide it, because they are free people with their own natural rights.

Of course, natural rights are not the only rights we enjoy in a civilized society. Other rights, often referred to as “civil rights,” are vested in us by our Constitution. These include the right to a criminal trial by jury and the right to equal protection of the law. These civil rights impose duties upon the government that we collectively agree to sustain and support in the interest of maintaining a just and humane society. Obviously, our Constitution does not provide anyone with a right to health care.

Now when sufficient portions of society agree, we can create or recognize additional rights by statute, or even by constitutional amendment. (Note that under our Constitution, courts were never empowered to create or recognize new rights, but rather to apply those that are codified). But the creation of new “rights” must never be undertaken lightly, because, again, all rights correspond with duties. We must always consider who will bear those duties – and whether it is just to impose them.

This is the context in which we find the current debate over a “right” to health care. The question is not so much whether there is a right to health care, but rather whether we should create one. Careful consideration of the colossal duty that such a right would impose upon others should give us great pause in designating health care as a “right.”

It is one thing for the government to collect a modest tax from all citizens to fund legitimate government functions. At the state or local level, these may include providing a safety net for those who are genuinely unable to work to provide for their own basic needs. But to classify health care as a “right” is to imply that none of us needs to earn it, that it is something we are all owed.

This is problematic because government doesn’t generate its own money – and doctors are not slaves. So who should bear the duty of funding health care for able-bodied adults? We must recognize that any scheme of redistributing the fruit of some citizens’ labor to others involves an erosion of the fundamental right of productive citizens to enjoy the fruits of their own labor – a far more basic, natural right than the “right” to health care.

And here is one final aspect of this issue to consider. Every day, people receive lots of things without having a right to them. Some of us earn goods and services, but others receive them as gifts. This also means that every day, many Americans give of their own bounty not because they have a legal duty to do so, but because they are generous and kind.

In our desire to see basic human needs met, we must not ignore the proper role of simple charity – and its merits over the legal coercion that corresponds with the problematic conferral of “rights” to complex services like health care.
 
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Thurs/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Why don't we care about the
slaughter of Christians?
by Minister Michael Brown
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 Top Headlines 
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Despite record collections, 52,062,499 filers paid no income taxes in 2014. (CNS News)
 
Islamist murders three in Fresno while yelling "Allahu Akbar," says he "hates white people." (Fox News)
 
FBI investigating radical terrorists in all 50 states as threats hit peak. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
liar-nObama political spying scandal: Trump associates were not the first targets. (National Review)
 
A month after dismissing federal prosecutors, Justice Department does not have any U.S. attorneys in place. (The Washington Post)
 
Trump administration orders review of Iran nuclear deal sanctions. (NBC News)
 
California again leads list with 6 of the top 10 most polluted U.S. cities. (USA Today)
 
UCLA conservative professor may be fired from job for refusing to cave in to political correctness. (Heat Street)
 
College activists: Searching for truth makes you a racist. (The Federalist)
 
Hump Day Humor: SJWs clip of the week, compliments of the Simpsons. (YouTube)
 
Policy: Time to say "au revoir" to Paris climate deal. (The Heritage Foundation)
 
Policy: Address Medicaid spending before trying to reform health care. (The Hill~The Patriot Post
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Maximum Mouth Maxine Lies – Claims
She’s Never Called For Trump Impeachment
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Maxine Waters is a caricature of what a dishonest, lying, hypocritical Democrat is, and would be so extreme as to be humorous if the situation weren’t what it is... She’s got power in her elected office, misplaced as it might be, so her lack of credibility or principles is a concern. In her interview she illustrates that point, after being introduced as “one of the President’s most vocal critics these days,” which brings a contrived smile to her hideous mug. The host reads her most recent tweet from earlier that morning which stated, “The President is a liar, his actions are contemptible, and I’m going to fight every day until he’s impeached.” He asks her point blank, “What are the impeachable offenses, Congresswoman?” She then engages in a fleet-footed shuffle that would make the guy who previously owner her hat, James Brown envious. She starts reciting the false Democrat talking points that are nothing more than assertions with no basis of fact to hold them up. Because she claims the Russians hacked into the DNC the question then becomes one of whether or not there was collusion...  http://rickwells.us/maximum-mouth-maxine-lies-claims-never-called-trump-impeachment/
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Trump Keeps his Promise to Support Veterans
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by Alice Greene
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Amid much confusion regarding the state of America’s healthcare system, President Trump plans to sign a bill that will temporarily extend a program that gives military vets access to private-sector healthcare... The bill, which Trump will sign on Wednesday, is designed to provide temporary services while Veterans’ Affairs (VA) Sec. David Shulkin develops a long-term plan that will enable vets to easily secure healthcare outside the VA medical system. The legislation allows the VA to operate its Choice program until funding runs out. The Choice program has about $1 billion in its account; it would have expired in August without the bill...  http://punchingbagpost.com/trump-keeps-his-promise-to-support-veterans
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Communist China Opens
“Global Governance” School
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by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ At a newly established “School of Global Governance,” one of the most brutal and murderous dictatorships on the planet is training what it hopes will be the managers and leadership of the emerging “global governance” system... That dictatorship is the one enslaving Communist China, responsible for murdering more people than any other government in human history. But as the regime proudly celebrates its growing role in what it openly touts as the “New World Order,” humanity must resist before it is too late, or freedom may be extinguished worldwide. The Chinese regime is shouting about its new “School of Global Governance” from the rooftops. In an article published this month by Beijing's propaganda and espionage apparatus Xinhua headlined "China opens new college to train professionals of global governance," the regime said the school would train “more multilingual professionals with global vision and cross-cultural communication proficiency.” The school for indoctrinating and training future globalist-communist leaders was inaugurated this month at the Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU), known as the “cradle of diplomats” for Communist China and international communism more broadly...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/25838-communist-china-opens-global-governance-school?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm_content=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines+April+19+2017
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'All lies!' Furious Coulter goes public
on war with U.C. Berkeley
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by Garth Kant
{wnd.com} ~ A defiant and furious Ann Coulter explained to WND in detail why she is vowing to show up and give a scheduled speech at the University of California at Berkeley... even though the university had canceled her appearance just hours earlier. “I AM speaking,” she proclaimed in an email to WND. Coulter made clear she is livid about the cancellation and the university’s apparent disregard for creating a safe environment for her scheduled speech. That was evidenced by her use of all capital letters to make the point that she has not agreed to the cancellation. “THEY’VE CANCELED — ALTHOUGH I MET EVERY ONE OF THEIR SILLY DEMANDS. I’M STILL SPEAKING,” she vowed...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/all-lies-furious-coulter-goes-public-on-war-with-u-c-berkeley/
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Confirmed: John Brennan Colluded With
Foreign Spies to Defeat Trump
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by George Neumayr
{spectator.org} ~ An article in the Guardian last week provides more confirmation that John Brennan was the American progenitor of political espionage aimed at defeating Donald Trump... One side did collude with foreign powers to tip the election — liar-Hillary’s. Seeking to retain his position as CIA director under liar-Hillary, Brennan teamed up with British spies and Estonian spies to cripple Trump’s candidacy. He used their phony intelligence as a pretext for a multi-agency investigation into Trump, which led the FBI to probe a computer server connected to Trump Tower and gave cover to Susan Rice, among other liar-Hillary supporters, to spy on Trump and his people. John Brennan’s CIA operated like a branch office of the liar-Hillary campaign, leaking out mentions of this bogus investigation to the press in the hopes of inflicting maximum political damage on Trump. An official in the intelligence community tells TAS that Brennan’s retinue of political radicals didn’t even bother to hide their activism, decorating offices with “liar-Hillary for president cups” and other campaign paraphernalia...  https://spectator.org/confirmed-john-brennan-colluded-with-foreign-spies-to-defeat-trump/
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Why don't we care about the
slaughter of Christians?
by Minister Michael Brown
{wnd.com} ~ A United Airlines passenger is violently hauled off a plane, and there is national outrage, rightly so. Press Secretary Sean Spicer says that Assad is worse than Hitler, and again, there is national outrage, rightly so. Forty-five Egyptian Christians are slaughtered by ISIS while attending church services on Palm Sunday and scores of others are wounded, and there is barely a national yawn. How can this be?

You might say, “That’s easy. The first two events took place right in front of our eyes, here in America. The third event took place in Egypt, and as tragic as it was, it’s a matter of out of sight, out of mind.”

I understand that. But what about the Islamic terror attack on the Brussels airport last year, killing more than 30 people? That was covered by our media day and night, with footage from the blast shown over and over by the hour.

And what about the Islamic terror attack in France, when a driver plowed his truck into hundreds of people in Nice, killing more than 80? That, too, received day and night coverage, with the bloody footage, including dead children lying in the streets, put before us by the hour.

But when it’s Christians being slaughtered by Islamic terrorists while worshiping the Lord in the safety of their church buildings, it only receives passing mention on our networks. Why?

We have the video footage of the attacks, which took place in two different locations in Egypt. We see the bomber being directed to walk through the metal detector, and then we see the massive explosion. And we see the carnage within one of the church buildings – blood all over the floor; corpses scattered in the debris; wooden pews torn apart; the sound of people moaning and crying.

The video footage is compelling and agonizing, just as much as any of the footage from Brussels or Nice. Yet most of us have not seen this footage on major TV networks, or if it has been aired on these networks, it has received a fraction of the coverage that the other attacks have received. Why?

I’m not the only one asking this question, nor is this a new question. For the last decade, a Christian genocide has been taking place in the Middle East, representing one of the ugliest chapters in recent human history, yet most Americans remain sadly uninformed. The secular media are complicit.

As expressed by none other than Piers Morgan, “Unfortunately, if it happens in the Middle East, this kind of atrocity, it just does not seem to attract the kind of media attention in America that it would if it happened, as we’ve seen in attacks in Sweden the last few days, in London two weeks ago. I was there for that. Huge attention in the American media. In Paris and Nice. These get huge attention. Yet what happened in Egypt was unbelievably significant.

“If you look at what ISIS really stands for, what they are carrying out now in the Middle East and the East in particular, is that it (sic) kind of genocidal attack on Christians and Christianity. They want Christianity eradicated, and they want to convert all Muslims to their crusade. They want it to be a holy war. They want Christians gone. And I don’t think that narrative is getting the attention it should get in the American media and, I have to say, I think in other media around the world.”

These are strong words: What happened in Egypt is a “genocidal attack on Christians and Christianity.” These Islamic terrorists “want Christianity eradicated. … They want Christians gone.”

Morgan added, “I think this is a huge story. This is the kind of story that ought to be dominating cable news in America. It should be dominating headlines around the world. ISIS have declared war on Christianity. I’m not seeing that being covered enough.”

He is absolutely right, and somehow, the secular media are barely covering one of the most important humanitarian stories of the age. Again I ask: Why?

We’re talking about multiplied hundreds of thousands of Christians being displaced, exiled, attacked, maimed, tortured, starved and killed. We’re talking about a crisis of epic proportions, yet the news coverage of this ongoing tragedy receives is negligible. Why?

Whatever the reason, there is a solution to the media’s relative silence.

All of us can raise our voices and draw attention to the suffering of our brothers and sisters in the Middle East and elsewhere. And all of us can pray for their protection, their courage and their comfort. In the words of the letter to the Hebrews, “Remember those in prison, as if you were there yourself. Remember also those being mistreated, as if you felt their pain in your own bodies” (Heb. 13:3 NLT).
 
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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War cries drown out 'America First'
by Patrick J. Buchanan
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 Chinese Chess 
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Yesterday, we noted North Korea's weekend saber rattling and Mike Pence's warning shot in return. And last week, we explained why Donald Trump's apparent flip-flop on labeling China a currency manipulator was a strategic calculation to ensure China's cooperation on North Korea. Indeed, over the weekend, Trump tweeted, "Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem? We will see what happens!"
          But what if China is pulling some strings of its own? As political strategist Dick Morris wonders, "Is China using the threat of North Korea to derail Trump's trade agenda?" He says, "You can never tell with North Korea how much of the threat is legitimate and how much of it is ginned up by the Chinese for their own purposes."
          The theory, of course, is that China has undervalued the yuan and overvalued the dollar, creating hundreds of billions of dollars of trade surplus with the U.S. Losing that surplus would be a huge blow to the Chinese economy, leaving them plenty of motivation for what Morris speculates — they're using the North Koreans to get Trump off their backs.
          Rest assured, Trump and his advisers are all over this, but the American media is not. The Trump administration was surely considering these countermeasures as soon as he mentioned China after the election. And the chess match bears watching. ~The Patriot Post 
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Snowflakes Would Melt At “Insensitive” Armour Today
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The other day I was channel surfing a little bit, trying in vain to find something worth spending time looking at on my television, when I passed by a Sylvester Stallone, Sandra Bullock movie, Demolition Man... The back of the box summary on the movie says, “A police officer is brought out of suspended animation in prison to pursue an old ultra-violent nemesis who is loose in a non-violent future society.” In that bit of time traveling that is done through the magic of suspended animation and to create the realism of the period from which the Sylvester Stallone character originated, they played a clip of an old black and white Armour hot dog commercial. Upon hearing it I was reminded of just how far our nation has come in advancing the protected snowflake, overly sensitive, safe-zone, social justice warrior mentality. To put it bluntly, there’s no way a commercial like that could get made today. They’d stand a better chance if they were promoting cigarettes and drinking to underage kids than what is in that classic commercial from 1967...  http://rickwells.us/americas-decline-snowflakes-melt-insensitive-armour-today/

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USA Today Got Its Big Scoop
On Deported ‘DREAMer’ Totally Wrong
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by Alex Pfeiffer
{dailycaller.com} ~ USA Today reported Tuesday that an illegal immigrant protected by Barack liar-nObama’s amnesty was deported in February after spending an evening with his girlfriend... However, a Department of Homeland Security spokesman told The Daily Caller that they have no record of this incident and that Juan Manuel Montes-Bojorquez’s amnesty status was terminated. The USA Today story said that Montes-Bojorquez, 23, was apprehended by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents while he was waiting for a car ride to pick him up. According to the article, he told the officers he left his wallet in his friend’s car and because he didn’t have his ID or proof of his Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) status, he was deported...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/18/usa-today-gets-it-wrong-dhs-did-not-deport-dreamer/
 
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What is the IDF trying to hide about the
interception of the Syrian missile?
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by Yossi Melman    
{jpost.com} ~ In the wee morning hours of March 17, a Friday, a strange incident marred the skies over the area of the Jordan Valley in Israel. According to an official statement released by IDF Spokesman... the country's Air Defense Command intercepted a Syrian, Russia-manufactured anti-aircraft missile at 2:40 a.m. It had later been clarified that an Arrow 2 missile was aimed at a Syrian missile that was fired in the direction of the West Bank and Israel north of Jerusalem, in the area of the Jordan Valley. But it seems that the short and laconic announcement by the IDF doesn't really tell the full story. Or in other words- the IDF isn't revealing the whole truth about the incident. So what really happened that Friday morning? On that night, several Israel Air Force jets had returned from a mission in Syria, where they operated like they have in the past according to foreign reports to stop weapons convoys –mostly advanced missiles - on their way to Shi’ite terror organization Hezbollah. When the jets were already en route back to Israel, they came under fire of Russian-manufactured surface to air missiles SAM-5 (Vega) that were launched from Syria...
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The Screams of Little Girls in Little Palestine
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by DANIEL GREENFIELD
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Livonia, Michigan is known as Little Palestine. The Detroit suburb is famous for its anti-Israel meetings. You could go hear Mustafa Barghouthi, Omar Barghouti and Ali Abunimah without taking a long drive... It's also known for its shady doctors. Dr. Murtaza Hussain was busted for letting unlicensed employees diagnose patients and write prescriptions. Dr. Waseem Alam and Dr. Hatem Ataya pleaded guilty in the nation's largest Medicare fraud case totaling $712 million in false billings centering on Shahid Tahir, Muhammad Tariq and Manavar Javed's Livonia medical firms. But what was going on at one Livonia clinic was far worse than the theft of millions. Anyone passing by at the right time could hear the screams of little girls. We think of horrors like female genital mutilation as a terrible thing that happens over "there." But as the implacable tide of Muslim immigration swept across Europe, "there" became the United Kingdom... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-screams-of-little-girls-in-little-palestine?f=must_reads
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UK: War on Free Speech at
the National Union of Students
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Malia Bouattia, the president of the UK National Union of Students
by Douglas Murray
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The great effort of the present-day censors on campuses across the West is to make speech synonymous with action. Campaigners against free expression claim that words not only "wound" people but actually "kill"... They claim that people associated with any group being criticized are not only suffering a verbal "assault" but an actual "physical" assault. Those who campaign against any and all criticism of Islamists, for instance, not only claim that the attacks are "Islamophobic" and target "all Muslims". They also claim that such words cause violence -- including violence against any and all Muslims. One of the notable things about their objection is that the people who make such claims rarely if ever exercise the same civic hygiene they demand of everybody else. It is interesting to consider what would happen were anyone to demand the same standards of these campaigners as they demand of others. Consider the case of one Malia Bouattia. This is the young woman who is currently president of the National Union of Students (NUS) in Britain... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10235/nus-bouattia-free-speech
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War cries drown out 'America First'
by Patrick J. Buchanan
{wnd.com} ~ “Why would I call China a currency manipulator when they are working with us on the North Korean problem?” tweeted President Donald Trump on Easter Sunday.

Earlier, after discovering “great chemistry” with Chinese President Xi Jinping over “the most beautiful piece of chocolate cake” at Mar-a-Lago, Trump had confided, “I explained … that a trade deal with the U.S. will be far better for them if they solve the North Korean problem!”

“America First” thus takes a back seat to big-power diplomacy with Beijing. One wonders: How much will Xi end up bilking us for his squeezing of Kim Jong-un?

Trump once seemed to understand how America had been taken to the cleaners during and after the Cold War. While allies supported us diplomatically, they piled up huge trade surpluses at our expense and became virtual free-riders off the U.S. defense effort.

No nations were more successful at this than South Korea and Japan. Now Xi is playing the game – and perhaps playing Trump.

What is the “North Korean problem” Beijing will help solve in return for more indulgent consideration on future U.S.-China trade deals?

North Korea’s nuclear arsenal. As 80 percent of Pyongyang’s trade comes through China, Trump believes that Beijing can force Kim to stop testing missiles and atomic bombs before he produces an intercontinental ballistic missile that could hit the U.S.

But what is to prevent Xi from pocketing Trump’s concessions and continuing on the strategic course China has long pursued?

For in many ways, Pyongyang’s goals parallel China’s.

Neither could want an all-out war on the Korean Peninsula. For Kim, this would devastate his country, bring down his regime and cost him his life. For China, war could mean millions of Koreans crossing the Yalu into Manchuria and a disruption of Beijing’s march to Asian hegemony.

A continuing crisis on the peninsula, however, with Trump and the U.S. relying on Beijing’s help, could leave Xi in the catbird seat.

And now that North Korea has declared its goal to be building missiles with nuclear warheads that could hit all U.S. bases in Asia – and even California – the clock is running for the White House.

“It won’t happen,” Trump has said of North Korea’s developing an ICBM that could hit the United States. “If China is not going to solve North Korea, we will.”

“The threat is upon us,” says outgoing deputy national security adviser K.T. McFarland. “This is something President Trump is going to deal with in the first year.”

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Vice President Mike Pence have declared that our policy of “strategic patience” with Pyonyang is at an end.

National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster said Sunday the U.S. has “to take action, short of armed conflict, so we can avoid the worst” in dealing with “this unpredictable regime.”

With a stunning parade of missiles in Pyongyang on Saturday, the North’s failed firing of a solid-fueled missile that same day and the promise of new missile tests weekly, Kim is forcing our hand.

Either he backs away from building atomic bombs and long-range missiles, or Trump and his generals must make good on their warnings.

How did we get to this point?

Why, 64 years after the Korean War, a quarter-century after the Cold War, are we still obliged to go to war to defend South Korea from a North with one-half the South’s population and 3 percent of its gross domestic product?

Why are we, on the far side of the Pacific, still responsible for containing North Korea when two of its neighbors – Russia and China – are nuclear powers and South Korea and Japan could field nuclear and conventional forces far superior to Kim’s?

How long into the future will containing militarist dictators in Pyongyang with nuclear missiles be America’s primary responsibility?

Another issue arises. Before the U.S. launches any pre-emptive strike on North Korea, Congress should be called back into session to authorize any act of war against the North.

Perhaps this time, Congress would follow the Constitution.

Though Korea is the crisis of the moment, it is not the only one.

Not since 9/11 have the Afghan Taliban been stronger or controlled more territory. The United States’ commanding general there is calling for thousands more U.S. troops. Russia and Iran are reportedly negotiating with the Taliban. Pakistan is said to be aiding them.

To counter Vladimir Putin’s Russia, we have moved U.S. and NATO troops into Poland, the Baltic States, Romania and Bulgaria. We have fired missiles into Syria. We are reportedly preparing to back the Saudis in the latest escalation of their war on the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

Twenty-four years after “Black Hawk Down,” the weekend brought reports of U.S. troops returning to Somalia.

The promise of a Trump presidency – that we would start looking out for our own country and own national interests first and let the rest of the world solve, or fail to solve, its own problems – appears, not 100 days in, to have been a mirage.

Will more wars make America great again?
 
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
The Destruction of the West
by Left-wing Globalists
by Susan Stamper Brown
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 The Bucks Don't Stop With the Debt Ceiling 
By Brian Mark Weber: Congress is on vacation. Again. And while getting politicians out of Washington has its benefits, this year's break is ill-timed. When members of Congress reconvene on April 25, they'll have just four days to keep the government from shutting down as last year's continuing resolution expires.
          The importance of tackling budget issues has even more symbolic power this time around: Were the government to shut down, it would come on President Donald Trump's 100th day in office. And we know the Leftmedia will jump at the chance to use that against the president and Republicans in Congress.
          Now, once Congress comes back to town, don't expect either party to panic over an impending government shutdown. In particular, Democrats have the most to gain from a shutdown — they'll get credit with their base for the Great Resistance Against Trump, all while their accomplices in the press make sure Republicans get the blame.
          But what about Republicans? After all, they control the White House, Senate and House. Surely we can rely on the GOP leadership to address this critical issue, right? Not so fast. Remember, this is the same Republican Congress that failed to agree on a bill to replace liar-nObamaCare after seven years of promises, which now jeopardizes tax reform or anything else of substance.
          Thanks to the ineptitude of last year's Congress to reach an actual budget agreement, we're on the precipice of yet another government shutdown. In order to keep the government operating beyond April 29, Congress must vote on a budget or pass another continuing resolution in order to raise the debt ceiling. In laymen's terms, our elected officials are about to kick the can down the road once again. It's what they do best, and, frankly, it's what most voters want them to do. Everybody wants cuts until their favorite program is on the chopping block. And every program is somebody's favorite.
          Republicans are simply too divided to agree on the budget. Some members are refusing to back any measure that defunds Planned Parenthood. Others won't compromise on defense and security spending. And President Trump wants billions for the border security and the wall. Democrats, with everything to gain from a shutdown, oppose just about anything the Republicans might want in a budget bill or a continuing resolution. Suddenly, Democrats have become the party of "no."
          Even if Republicans can muster the courage to come up with a bill, they'll need 60 votes in the Senate. That's right. Senate Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer is licking his chops. Last month, clown-Schumer said, "If Republicans insist on inserting poison pill riders such as defunding Planned Parenthood, building a border wall, or starting a deportation force, they will be shutting down the government and delivering a severe blow to our economy." As far as the Democrats are concerned, it's their way or the highway.
          House Speaker Paul Ryan sees the writing on the wall, and he's already signaling that health care, the border wall and tax reform will have to wait. Imagine that. Republicans, who now hold all the reins of power, still have to yield to Democrats in Congress to get something done.
          There's a simple reason for this. When it comes time to get things done (or to stop them), Democrats march in lockstep. Republicans, by contrast, are a herd of cats scattering in a hundred directions.
          What should worry Americans more than a temporary government shutdown is the long-term impact of our country's ever-growing debt. The overall share of the national budget needed just to service the debt will grow significantly in the coming years, leaving less funding for the military, infrastructure and other projects.
          As the Cato Institute's Michael Tanner writes for National Review, "All of this budget maneuvering comes shortly after the Congressional Budget Office released an alarming new report warning that the national debt will double as a share of the national economy by mid-century. Interest payments on the debt will rise from $270 billion in 2017 to $768 billion in 2027, with catastrophic consequences for President Trump's agenda of economic and job growth."
          The irony is that government shutdowns, which are usually short-lived and really have very little impact on the country, are characterized as the fall of the Roman Empire. Meanwhile, the long-term federal debt, which has the potential to seriously impact the economy, infrastructure, national defense and other major initiatives, isn't even a priority.
          The situation is akin to losing sleep over how to make the minimum credit card payment without even thinking about the bank that's about to foreclose on your home.
          Chances are, Republicans will go for minimum damage to their brand and work with Democrats to pass a continuing resolution before April 29. Gabrielle Levy writes in U.S. News and World Report that "Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky and Minority Leader Chuck clown-Schumer of New York have been negotiating for months on a deal to fund the government and have told reporters the talks have made significant progress ahead of the deadline." While that may seem to be a positive development, a short-term deal this month will only set the stage for a real budget battle later this year. 
~The Patriot Post
Once Again, CAIR Shows That Islamism
and Civil Rights Don't Mix
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by Gregg Roman and Sam Westrop
{meforum.org} ~ The Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has been claiming for years to be not merely the nation's preeminent Muslim civil rights group, but a defender of the civil rights of all Americans... In addition to denouncing alleged acts of "Islamophobia," representatives of the organization have been quick to condemn acts of antisemitism, police shootings of African Americans, anti-LGBTQ violence, and so forth, while expressing solidarity with every "progressive" cause under the sun. But peer beneath CAIR's carefully-crafted press releases and publicity stunts and it's clear that the group's reactionary Islamist roots are as strong as ever...  http://www.meforum.org/6646/cair-shows-islamism-and-civil-rights-dont-mix?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=82d05353d2-roman%2FWestrop_2017_04_18&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-82d05353d2-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-82d05353d2-33703665
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How Erdogan's Victory Might
Be Europe's Defeat
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by Abigail R. Esman
{investigativeproject.org} ~ Over lunch in Istanbul last week, a friend and I spoke about the upcoming Turkish referendum. "Many European Turks are likely to vote 'yes,'" I cautioned my friend, whom I knew was planning to vote 'no,'... or against the measure to grant President Recep Tayyip Erdogan unlimited powers. A "yes" vote, by contrast, would end the democratic parliamentary government established by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of the republic, and in the eyes of most Western leaders, establish Erdogan as the Muslim world's newest dictator. My friend was visibly angered. "Then let them, with all their rights and freedoms, come here to live," she retorted. "How dare they think that they can take these rights from us when we are the ones who have to live with the result?" The outcome of Sunday's referendum showed a Turkey split almost exactly in half, with 51 percent "yes" and just under 49 percent voting "no." Or did it?...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/6020/how-erdogan-victory-might-be-europe-defeat#
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Kansas Secretary of State Obtains First Conviction for Noncitizen Voting
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by Warren Mass
{thenewamerican.com} ~ On April 12, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach announced that he has obtained his first conviction of a non-U.S. citizen who illegally voted in a Kansas election... A press release posted by Kobach’s office on his departmental web page noted that he had secured a guilty plea on April 7 in the voter fraud case of Victor David Garcia Bebek, a noncitizen who pleaded guilty to three counts of voting without being qualified, a class A misdemeanor. The case was brought in Sedgwick County District Court. Bebek voted on three separate occasions, including a 2012 special election, the 2012 general election, and the 2014 general election. Under the plea agreement, Bebek was placed on unsupervised probation for a period of up to three years and must pay a $5,000 fine. Probation will terminate upon payment of the fine...
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NYT Gives Opinion Page Space
to Bonafide Terrorist
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by M.J. Randolph
{truthrevolt.org} ~ The New York Times opened up valuable space in its opinion section this weekend for Palestinian Marwan Barghouti. His opinion piece, titled, "Why We Are On Hunger Strike in Israel's Prisons,"... Wow -- he's a regular Martin Luther King, Jr, isn't he? What selfless pacifism! Not so fast. The fifty-seven-year-old Barghouti is currently serving five consecutive life sentences after having been found responsible in 2004 for several murders and organizing an attempted car bombing at the Malcha Mall in Jerusalem. How did the New York Times describe this terrorist in his bio? "Marwan Barghouti is a Palestinian leader and parliamentarian," they wrote. As The Washington Examiner's Becket Adams wrote, "Well, that's one way to put it." Perhaps after being shamed by Adams -- and being linked to via Instapundit -- the New York Times decided to elaborate on the terrorist's bio:..  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/nyt-gives-opinion-page-space-bonafide-terrorist
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Palestinians Aren't Ready
to Make Peace with Israel...
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by Ghaith al-Omari
{mosaicmagazine.com} ~ In his Mosaic essay, “Do Palestinians Want a Two-State Solution?” Daniel Polisar concludes that the Palestinian public does not, in fact, want such a solution... Instead, by large and consistent majorities, Palestinians support the maximalist solution of a Palestinian state “from the Jordan River to the Mediterranean Sea.” Whether Israelis want a two-state solution, and if so under what conditions, is of course a separate matter. If we accept Polisar’s conclusion, what are the policy implications for those who still hope to reach a two-state solution? First: is achieving that goal dependent, as Polisar indicates, on “policies that seek to reduce decisively popular Palestinian support for a maximalist state,” or can the goal be achieved despite negative public views? Second, if the latter is the case, would a strictly transactional peace deal between the parties suffice, or should any such deal provide for the transformation of existing public perceptions?... https://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2017/04/palestinians-arent-ready-to-make-peace-with-israel-that-doesnt-rule-out-a-peace-deal
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The Destruction of the West
by Left-wing Globalists
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by Susan Stamper Brown
[townhall.com} ~ Ultra-liberal Sweden is becoming a shell of its former self because liberalism has turned this once peaceful country into a chaotic, multicultural cesspool of violence and unrest.

Swedes have always taken pride in their open-mindedness, believing their good intentions and big hearts would overcome a collision of cultures when it comes to immigration without assimilation. Swayed by purely emotional thinking, they assumed their kindness and generosity would be reciprocated, believing their sophistication and universal outlook would elevate them above the consequences of what happens when Third World mindsets reside at First World addresses.

Now crime is on the rise and Swedish police officer Peter Springare has had enough. In a Facebook post that he openly admitted wasn’t politically correct, Springare said his “suspected perpetrators” for crimes that week came from: “Iraq, Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, Somalia, Syria again, Somalia, unknown country, unknown country, Sweden.”

Of course, Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven challenged Officer Springare’s claims, which quickly went viral.

Apparently, Prime Minister Lofven had a change of heart after the April 7 terrorist truck attack when an immigrant expressed his appreciation for Sweden’s generosity by hijacking a beer truck and mowing down a crowd on a bustling Stockholm shopping street. After the attack, reports emerged that police searching for clues in the Stockholm suburb of Tensta were “pelted with stones by hostile gangs” of immigrant youth.

Lofven now promises Sweden “will never go back to the mass immigration we had in autumn 2015, never.” According to the UK Daily Mail, 80 percent of the asylum seekers admitted in 2015 did not have identification papers, making it “impossible to find out who they were or whether they had terror links.” Another 40,000 were let in without seeking asylum and “simply disappeared and have not been traced by the authorities.”

Sweden may never go back to 2015 levels, but what’s done is done. They flushed their safety, security and national identity down the loo and will forevermore reap the consequences of their nonsensical choices.

Like former President liar-nObama and Germany’s Angela Merkel, Lofven is a megalomaniacal leftwing globalist ideologue that proudly promotes policies normal people hate. They live in a world defined by childlike assumptions of multiculturalism, but multiculturalism has worked for the West about as well as socialism worked for Venezuela.

During a CNN interview with Brooke Baldwin, a Syrian man, Kassam Eid, praised and thanked President Trump for his recent Tomahawk missile response to the sarin attack in Syria. Eid told Baldwin he didn’t see the media or all the people protesting Trump’s travel ban “raising your voice against President liar-nObama’s inaction in Syria that made us refugees get kicked out of Syria.”

“If you really care about refugees,” Eid said, “if you really care about helping us, please help us stay in our country.” His country. Not America. Not Germany. Not Sweden.

Left-wing globalists wrongly assume their open-mindedness, worldview, inclusiveness, and commitment to unity guarantees everyone a happily-ever-after ending. Frankly, their ideology might make them feel good, but it’s killing the rest of us.
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Wed/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Iran’s Next Supreme Leader
by Sanam Vakil and Hossein Rassam
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 Income Redistribution Day 
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Income Redistribution Day has arrived. It's a day reminding all Americans that too much of our hard-earned money is collected by a behemoth government known for fiscal carelessness and irresponsibility. Just take a look at the ever-ballooning national debt. And yet here we are again, feeding the beast whose appetite seemingly knows no limit.
          It is indeed ironic that one of the biggest sparks igniting the fires of the American Revolution was the contentious subject of taxation. While most celebrate the spirit of those Bostonians who famously protested the British crown's Tea Act of 1773, many Americans today seem content to merely utter a few grumbles over our tax burden. And this is done while also wondering if everyone else has paid their "fair share" rather than challenging the government's plunder for the express purpose of wealth redistribution.
          In fact, the question of taxes has historically been one of the largest distinctions between the two major political parties. Democrats always demand more, believing that the government is entitled to as much money as it can get — in fact, they treat Americans' income as government's money in the first place, with any tax cuts being something they simply can't afford. On the other hand, Republicans continuously work to varying degrees of tax reductions. And with the election of Donald Trump, the fundamental party distinction has held true. Trump has called for tax cuts across the board, particularly lowering the world's highest corporate tax rate. Unfortunately, the House Republicans' fumble on repealing and replacing liar-nObamaCare has hindered Trump's tax reform effort.
          Taxes are not merely a means of paying for the government's many obligations and programs, they are a means of control. Leftists view taxes as a sort of punishment on the wealthy and successful for the crime of being wealthy and successful. The Left's goal is not equal opportunity but equal outcome. Those who excel are deemed to have excelled by exploiting others, and therefore they should suffer by being forced to "contribute" more to all the government does to make things right. What an utterly distorted view.
          In reality, we need a simple tax system that fairly extracts taxes without showing favoritism or deference to class distinctions, and constitutional restraints on the spending of that revenue. Anything less only creates opportunity for those in government to exploit various socio-economic groups for their own aims. 
~The Patriot Post
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Push to rebuild Jerusalem Temple
has earth-shaking implications
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{wnd.com} ~ There is probably not a more disputed parcel of real estate than the Temple Mount in Jerusalem... A portion of the land there is occupied by an Islamic mosque, yet there are developing plans to rebuild the prophesied third Jewish Temple. That leaves the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a political situation that offers no easy way out. One American pastor now is telling Christians they need to pay careful attention to what happens next...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/push-to-rebuild-jerusalem-temple-has-earth-shaking-implications/
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Something Must Be Done About Violent
Left-Wing Groups
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by fixthisnation.com
{fixthisnation.com} ~ Dozens of people were
arrested in Berkeley, California this weekend after pro-Trump and anti-Trump protesters clashed in the city’s MLK Civic Center Park... Approximately 200 people converged on the park Saturday, and competing chants quickly gave way to various forms of assault as the groups threw bottles, debris, and, ultimately, punches and kicks at each other. The event was originally scheduled to be a pro-Trump “Patriots Day” featuring several conservative speakers, including Lauren Southern, a Canadian alt-right journalist. But as soon as Berkeley antifa groups like Defend the Bay heard about the scheduled rally, they began planning a counter-protest for the same park on the same day. Police tried to control the chaos with orange barriers, but those were torn down when the dueling demonstrators began trading fists. Members of the Oath Keepers and others who wanted to protect the Trump supporters were on hand, according to the Los Angeles Times:...
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ICE Captures “Most Wanted” Illegal Alien:
Convicted Sex Offender
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by Keely Sharp and Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ A  public tip helped officials capture Jose Victor Bonilla-Melendez, who was on ICE’s ‘Most Wanted’ list. He is a convicted sex offender, as well as his brother, who is a convicted child sex offender and has been previously deported... One question brought up by the arrest is, “Would this have happened when Barak liar-nObama was president? Based on his eight years as president–I doubt it Melendez was located after ICE received a tip about his whereabouts. The tipper saw his photo posted by the local Denver ABC Facebook page, as being one of ICE’s most wanted fugitives. This all happened Friday morning in Aurora, Colorado...  http://lidblog.com/ice-captures-wanted-illegal-alien-convicted-sex-offender/
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A Month of Islam and Multiculturalism
in France and Belgium
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Up to a thousand Muslims prayed on the streets of Clichy, a suburb of Paris
by Soeren Kern
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In a landmark trial at the Paris Children's Court, a 17-year-old Turkish jihadist, identifiedonly as Yussuf K., was sentenced to seven years in prison for attacking Benjamin Amsellem, a Jewish teacher in Marseille, with a machete... Yussuf K. said he carried out the January 2016 attack "in the name of Allah and the Islamic State." He added that he chose his victim because "he was Jewish." Yussuf K. was charged with "an individual terrorist attempt and attempted assassination in connection with a terrorist enterprise," with the aggravating circumstance of anti-Semitism. He was tried as a minor because he was 15 when he carried out the attack. The criminal trial of a minor on terror charges was the first of its kind in France, where some fifty children are currently being investigated for jihadist offenses. The European Parliament voted to lift the immunity from prosecution for National Front leader Marine Le Pen for tweeting images of Islamic State violence. Under French law, publishing violent images can be punished by up to three years in prison and a fine of €75,000 euros ($79,000)...
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If 'Terror Knows No Religion' Where Is All
The Christian/Jewish Terrorism?
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by Benny Huang
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Two horrific suicide bombings, in two different cities, two hours apart—this is how Egyptian Christians began Holy Week... In the cities of Tawra and Alexandria, Muslim terrorists stormed Coptic churches where they proceeded to blow themselves to a fine pink mist while taking 44 worshippers with them. These two attacks followed last December’s horrific suicide bombing at St. Peter’s Cathedral in Cairo that killed 29. Does Egypt have a problem with Islamic violence? Not according to Egypt’s most prominent clergyman, Dr. Ahmed al-Tayeb, who holds the prestigious title of Grand Imam of al-Azhar. At a conference in Cairo last month, al-Tayeb said that the incidence of Muslim violence around the world is rather unremarkable: “There is an obvious double standard in the world’s judgment of Islam on the one hand, and its judgment of Christianity and Judaism on the other, despite the fact that all are guilty of one and the same thing, that is, religious violence and terrorism.”...al-Tayeb needs to get his head out of his rear. http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266436/if-terror-knows-no-religion-where-all-benny-huang
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Iran’s Next Supreme Leader
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by Sanam Vakil and Hossein Rassam
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foreignaffairs.com} ~ On July 17, 2016, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran’s supreme leader, turned 77. Rumors that he suffers from cancer have circulated for over a decade, and in 2014, the state-run news agency published photos of him recovering from prostate surgery. Although Khamenei’s prognosis remains closely guarded, the Iranian government is evidently treating his succession with urgency. In December 2015, Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani, a former president and a kingmaker, broached the usually taboo subject when he publicly admitted that a council within the Assembly of Experts, the body that selects the supreme leader, was already vetting potential successors. And last March, after new members of the assembly were elected to an eight-year term, Khamenei himself called the probability that they would have to select his replacement “not low.”

The death of Khamenei will mark the biggest political change in the Islamic Republic since the death of the last supreme leader—Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the revolutionary founding father—in 1989. The supreme leader is the most powerful person in Iran, with absolute authority over all parts of the state. A new person in that position could dramatically alter the direction and tenor of Iran’s foreign and domestic policies.

But those hoping for a kinder, gentler Iran are likely to be disappointed. Since he took power in 1989, Khamenei has steadily built an intricate security, intelligence, and economic superstructure composed of underlings who are fiercely loyal to him and his definition of the Islamic Republic, a network that can be called Iran’s “deep state.” When Khamenei dies, the deep state will ensure that whoever replaces him shares its hard-line views and is committed to protecting its interests.

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PAST IS PROLOGUE

When Khomeini died, observers considered Khamenei just one of a handful of possible replacements—and not even the likeliest. A 50-year-old midranking cleric at the time, Khamenei lacked Khomeini’s towering stature. But at a meeting on June 4, 1989, the day after Khomeini’s death, Rafsanjani, a close confidant of Khomeini, told the assembly that Khomeini had considered Khamenei qualified for the job. The group elected Khamenei by a vote of 60 to 14.

Khamenei pledged to maintain stability as supreme leader, saying in a speech the year he took over, “I assure you, Iran continues on the path of the Islamic Revolution and has not diverged from its principles.” In fact, however, he immediately began ushering in dramatic changes to Iran’s political system. Given Khamenei’s middling clerical rank—he was only an ayatollah and not a grand ayatollah, or marja—his election technically violated the Iranian constitution. So the political establishment quickly put to a referendum a series of constitutional revisions that Khomeini had already approved in an effort to reduce factional tensions after his death. Not only did these downgrade the required clerical qualifications for supreme leader; they also increased the position’s authority.

The changes eliminated the possibility of a three- or five-person leadership council should the Assembly of Experts fail to elect a supreme leader. The word “absolute” was added before a description of the supreme leader’s authority in the article specifying the separation of powers, thereby maximizing his control over Iran’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches. Another article was rewritten to give the supreme leader extensive new powers, including the authority to resolve “issues in the system that cannot be settled by ordinary means” through a new constitutional body called the Expediency Council. These modifications put an unprecedented amount of power in the hands of the new supreme leader. And in the ensuing years, Khamenei proved determined to use it.

THE RISE OF THE DEEP STATE

Under Khomeini, the Islamic Republic had been divided. On the left were those who sought to preserve state control over the economy and impose moderate cultural policies. On the right were those who frowned at government intervention in the economy but favored a sharia-inspired domestic policy. Khomeini had held the system together at the top with the backing of the clerical establishment—the original power brokers behind the revolution—while giving each side influence. A shared sense of struggle during the Iran-Iraq War, along with Khomeini’s enormous personal influence and charisma, kept these tensions from breaking into the open during his reign. But beneath the surface, the divisions ran deep.

With the war over and Khomeini gone, factional infighting entered a new stage, and Khamenei began to gradually consolidate his power. During Rafsanjani’s first term as president, from 1989 to 1993, the two men coexisted peacefully, with Khamenei cautiously supporting Rafsanjani’s postwar plans for economic liberalization and regional integration and tolerating his efforts to promote cultural liberalization. But opposition to Rafsanjani’s liberal agenda began to mount among his hard-line allies, who in 1992 won a majority in parliament. Two years later, Khamenei openly sided against Rafsanjani over the budget, criticizing him for the country’s growing economic malaise and widespread corruption. Rafsanjani backtracked from his cultural liberalization agenda and appeased conservatives by offering them more seats in his cabinet and greater access to economic privileges. Competition between Khamenei and Rafsanjani would continue up until the latter’s death, earlier this year, with Khamenei repeatedly emerging on top.

Khamenei’s next problem was gaining authority within the religious establishment. Khamenei had enjoyed its near-unanimous backing when he became supreme leader, and in 1994, the Society of Qom Seminary Teachers, an important clerical and political institution, proclaimed Khamenei a marja. Still, a number of clerics strongly questioned Khamenei’s theological credentials. To counter his perceived weakness, Khamenei embarked on a decadelong journey to build religious support. He imposed a state-controlled bureaucracy on top of the clerical structure of Qom that stripped the ayatollahs of their once cherished financial independence and put them under his implicit control. And he rewarded his supporters with political positions and financial privileges that he denied to his critics. In the process, Khamenei managed to subjugate the Assembly of Experts, the one and only body with the constitutional authority to supervise him.

Over the years, Khamenei has also steadily diminished the role of Iran’s elected government, concentrating power in his own office and in state entities that fall outside government oversight. In 2011, he established a body charged with resolving conflicts among various branches of government and appointed its chair. He also created the Strategic Council on Foreign Relations, his personal advisory board on foreign policy, and set up a parallel intelligence apparatus that has grown more powerful than the elected government’s. Whereas Khomeini relied on a small coterie of officials to run his office, Khamenei has placed thousands of his direct and indirect representatives in government ministries, universities, the armed forces, and religious institutions throughout the country, all of whom report to him or his office.
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
~ Featuring ~
Calloused Americans
by Tom McLaughlin
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 Top Headlines 
Tax Day comparison of property taxes for all 50 states and DC. (USA Today)
 
SCOTUS rejects new liar-nObamaCare case. (Washington Examiner)
 
SCOTUS halts execution of Arkansas death row inmate. (ABC News)
 
Trump will use executive order to push his "hire American" platform. (The Washington Times)
 
DHS Secretary: Number of illegals crossing southern border down by almost 70%. (CNS News)
 
Unions spent $1.7 billion on politics in 2016, mostly for Dems. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
UK Prime Minister Theresa May calls for surprise June elections to affirm Brexit. (BBC)
 
Syrian defector: Yep, Assad kept his chemical weapons stockpile. (The Telegraph)
 
Georgia election promoted as Trump political barometer. (USA Today)
 
Victims of Communism Memorial Foundation blasts "Communism for Kids" book. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Policy: Tax Day facts: IRS paperwork generates 8.1 billion hours of paperwork, 1,000 forms. (American Action Forum)
 
Policy: Three steps to lower spending and taxes. (Economics21
~The Patriot Post
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2 More Aircraft Carriers Join
US Expedition to NK
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by Ben Marquis
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Everyone has been talking for the past week about the aircraft carrier strike group President Donald Trump dispatched toward the Korean peninsula as a warning to North Korean dictator Kim Jong In... but Kim seems not to have gotten the message thus far, considering his grand military parade and continued provocative missile launches. But according to a report from South Korean media outlet Yonhap, there are rumors circulating that Trump just upped the ante by ordering two more carrier strike groups deployed to the tense region, placing a tremendous amount of air and naval firepower at the disposal of the military’s regional commander. A roughly translated version of the article, which cites South Korean government officials who claimed knowledge of the deployment orders, stated that in addition to the USS Carl Vinson, already steaming toward Korea from Singapore, the carrier strike groups of the USS Ronald Reagan and USS Nimitz were also ordered to head for the region...
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We’ve Lost A Generation That Hates America...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Tucker Carlson takes on the issue of rampant education system failures that is being evidenced by a wide range of social aberrations... starting of with the refusal to honor and to claim being offended by the American flag. He had originally booked representatives of the Student Senate at the University of California at Davis, who had just voted to stop requiring the flag at their meetings, to come onto his show and attempt to defend their position. They got cold feet, apparently aware that they had no legitimate basis for their stance, and stopped returning his phone calls. Instead Tammy Bruce was more than willing to join him for an analysis of what’s going on with these lame brains. It just so happened that this was also the topic of a column she is writing for the Washington Times, so the information is readily available and fresh. Bruce says, “There are now so many strange issues, that it’s not just about being snowflakes and wanting safe spaces, it now has turned into violence, like what we saw at Berkeley” and shutting down speakers they don’t agree with...  http://rickwells.us/carlson-bruce-lost-generation-hates-america-flag/
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Entire Western World Helped
liar-nObama WIRETAP Trump
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by John Nolte
{dailywire.com} ~ If you are wondering why our national media has pretty much dropped the whole Trump-Is-A-Russian-Manchurian-Candidate thing, it is because the naked truth about the liar-nObama administration's chilling spying... something the media has covered up for months -- is finally coming to light. Last week, both The Washington Post and The New York Times quietly reported that the liar-nObama administration had "wiretapped" (their word, not mine) a Trump staffer. In other words, the whole world was spying on Trump, not just the liar-nObama administration, and even with all of these resources the Democrats and their media got exactly squat. There is no evidence of any wrongdoing between Team Trump and Russia. There is, however, a growing pile of evidence that Team Barry needs to be investigated by Congress and the Justice Department. Hinderaker's second point is that everyone in the world was so sure liar-Hillary Clinton was going to beat Trump that all of these countries believed it was safe to "curry favor with the new administration" by spying on her opponent, by offering her intelligence-oppo during the campaign that was then leaked to a MSM that was 100% complicit in this illegal behavior -- because leaking intelligence is a felony...  http://www.dailywire.com/news/15469/bombshell-report-entire-western-world-helped-obama-john-nolte
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Democratic Senator Says His Own Party’s Fundraising Emails Are ‘Bumming People Out’
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by Chuck Ross
{dailycaller.com} ~ A Democratic senator blasted his own party’s fundraising apparatus on Monday, saying that the party’s congressional campaign committee is “bumming people out” with fundraising emails full of hopelessness and despair... “Who writes these? They really need to stop bumming people out. In order to win we must communicate that we BELIEVE,” Hawaii Sen. Brian Schatz wrote on Twitter. Schatz was responding to a Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee email asking for financial support ahead of Tuesday’s special election in Georgia’s 6th Congressional District. “Kiss all hope goodbye,” is the subject of the email. “Georgia Democrats’ early vote lead PLUNGES,” the headline reads.  http://dailycaller.com/2017/04/17/democratic-says-his-own-partys-fundraising-emails-are-bumming-people-out/
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This might be how Trump
approaches picking a new Fed chair
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by James Pethokoukis
{aei.org} ~ As I wrote yesterday, Donald Trump used to talk about the “highly political” Fed boss Janet Yellen. He has suggested Yellen probably wouldn’t get a second term heading the central bank. No more inflating the “false economy.”... It really might not be a whole lot more complicated than that. Potential center-right Fed picks — the folks President Jeb Bush might have considered — tend to be more hawkish than Yellen. Here is what John Taylor told a congressional panel last month: ” … the Fed should normalize policy and get back to the kind of policy that worked well in the past.” And Martin Feldstein in the WSJ last October: “All of this suggests a willingness to continue the current dangerous policy of low interest rates—regardless of its effect on asset prices, inflation and financial stability. It is past time for the Fed to shift gears and normalize interest rates more rapidly.” And Kevin Warsh, also in the WSJ, last summer: “The conduct of monetary policy in recent years has been deeply flawed.” Finally, Arthur Laffer, in the FT last December: “Markets really know how to give you prices and Janet Yellen doesn’t. She’s never been forced to bear the consequences of her own actions.”...
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Calloused Americans
by Tom McLaughlin
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Look! A working class white guy!
 
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ After a few hours of writing on my laptop, I need to get up, change my clothes, and do another kind of work that involves more than my brain and my fingers on a keyboard. I have to use tools invented and manufactured in previous centuries — tools like saws, hammers, drills, chainsaws, tape measures, rulers, squares, scrapers, and the like. I have to think and work in three dimensions. I have to feel my tools and materials, and smell things like earth, sawn wood, or paint. I have to move my body, lift things, climb ladders, set up saw horses — either fix something or build it.
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There are callouses on my hands and I own a pickup truck. That makes me different from most Americans on the east or west coast. That I’m also a heterosexual, white guy (HWG) makes it very likely that I voted for Trump. When the uncalloused try to analyze what happened last November 8th, they refer to us as “non-college-educated white men.” It’s ill-concealed condescension, but if called out on it, the uncalloused hastily add a Seinfeldesque: “…not that there’s anything wrong with that” as a further effort to camouflage contempt.
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They were the ones laughing last September 9th in New York City when a smug liar-Hillary Clinton put half of Trump supporters into a “basket of deplorables.” We’re not nearly as sophisticated as she and her audience. We’re calloused, deplorable, HWGs. We’re “irredeemable” because we can never be as smart as they are — even though we’re the ones they call when something doesn’t work and they cannot figure out why, or something breaks and they don’t know how to fix it. They think our intelligence is limited, but we know it’s the other way around. We know more about their world than they know about ours, but they never suspect that.
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NBC Pajama Boy in shock
 
We were the ones laughing on November 9th — at the shocked faces of the uncalloused sophisticates on NBC, MSNBC, CNN, ABC, as well as the tearful faces on college campuses. We’re still chuckling at pussyhat marches and the rest of the protests.
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Non-college-educated white men didn't borrow against their future to spend years being inculcated with progressive pap. They don’t have to spend still more years learning that what they purchased with those tens of thousands of dollars was worthless, or that it could all have been picked it all up just be reading a few books here and there. We respect the college-educated who studied the hard sciences: physics, engineering, biology, chemistry, nursing, IT, and so forth. That kind of college is worth something. It’s grounded in the real world, unlike: sociology, education, art history, journalism, or any of the “studies” — like “ethnic studies”; “queer studies”; “women’s studies”; “gender studies”; and so forth.
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In the interest of full disclosure, I had to get some degrees because they were necessary for a teaching certificate, thought they shouldn’t have been. They didn’t teach me to teach. To do that, one must know the subject matter, and then be able to impart it to others. There’s no need for college “education departments.” I endured dozens of worthless courses before I could get into a classroom, but I wasn’t brainwashed by them: I worked full-time in the real world throughout the process and stayed grounded. I knew academic baloney when I heard it, and that was more than forty years ago. It’s exponentially worse now. There was a gulf between academia and reality back then, but it’s an ocean today. The 21st century college campus is La-La Land, and you won’t find anyTrump voters there. You might be escorted off campus if you even utter his name without first issuing a trigger warning. Trump voters exist only in the real world.
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"Black Bloc" leftist thugs
 
Leftists dressed in black and wearing masks are attacking people pro-Trump rallies and conservatives on college campuses with fists, clubs, and pepper spray. Last Saturday, however, they got their butts kicked in Berkeley, California. Videos indicate the butt-kickers belong to a demographic that might be described as non-college-educated, white men with callouses. Will the left escalate beyond fists and clubs next time? Let’s hope not, but as David French writes in National Review:
We are now teetering on the edge of a truly terrifying incident, one trigger-pull away from a slaughter. Campus and urban progressives have a choice to make. Is this a nation of laws? If it is, then it’s time to grow a backbone, protect free speech, punish rioters, and expel those who disrupt the educational environment regardless of ideology.
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Okay, enough of writing. Time to go outside and move my body — do something in three dimensions, stay grounded.
 
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Part 2
 
British Role Confirmed in
Trump Spying Scandal
by Accuracy In Media
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Moment Russian FSB Captures Armed
Suspect In St. Petersburg Attack
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ One of the perpetrators of the bombing of the Russian subway system in St. Petersburg on April 3rd is now believed to have been captured, and the moment of the apprehension was captured on video tape... That blast, in addition to the property damage and disruption to the services, killed ten innocent people and injured fifty more. Take down was made in a remote area, where the likelihood of encountering or injuring civilians in the process was minimal. It took place on a pathway leading up to a set of train tracks, upon which a train was passing at the same time. That made their running approach virtually silent to the unsuspecting fugitive terrorist. Surely the FSB agents appreciated the opportunity to reciprocate with their own sneak attack on the bad guys who planted bombs in the middle of unaware citizens. Additionally, the first two FSB agents to engage the suspect were approaching from the opposite direction of those who were accompanied by the cameraman, giving them the advantage of having his escape route cut off and being able to attack from two directions simultaneously. They had him smothered before he ever knew what hit him...  http://rickwells.us/moment-russian-fsb-captures-armed-suspect-st-petersburg-attack/

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liar-nObama Lied, People Died
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by M.J. Randolph
{observer.com} ~ Howard Dean did something different. In the midst of a very difficult war Dean rhetorically energized and exploited a corrosive lie that provided propaganda cover for America’s mass murdering enemies... That lie would eventually metastasize into a propaganda ditty yoking 9-11 conspiracy theories with the failure to find weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq. Everyone’s heard the brutal bumper sticker jingle that undermined the American war effort: “Bush Lied, People Died.” Glenn Reynolds points out that Johnson "also said British scientists had confirmed that 'sarin or a sarin-like substance' was used in the April 4 attack. Sarin is a nerve agent. liar-nObama didn’t get rid of Assad’s chemical arsenal" as his administration had claimed. liar-nObama lied, people are dying...  http://observer.com/2017/04/obama-bashar-al-assad-syria-chemical-weapons/

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Brit Hume scorches NPR for 1 blatant lie
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ Longtime journalist and commentator Brit Hume has gone to social media to scorch National Public Radio for falsely reporting that Planned Parenthood provides mammograms... He cited a report from the Media Research Center’s NewsBusters that said, “NPR spreads old lie that Planned Parenthood offers mammograms.” “On Friday’s ‘All Things Considered,’ NPR health policy correspondent Alison Kodjak was the offender as she reported on President Trump’s reversal of Barack liar-nObama’s attempt to preserve Planned Parenthood subsidies in GOP states that moved to defund them,” the report said...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/brit-hume-scorches-npr-for-1-blatant-lie/

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Republicans Better Throw Paul Ryan
Out Of Speaker’s Office
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts on “the role of Speaker Paul Ryan in derailing President Trump’s agenda, at least to this point... President Trump’s set to travel to Ryan’s home district in Wisconsin tomorrow and visit the headquarters of tool-maker Snap-On.“ “But not to worry,” Dobbs reassures us, “Speaker Ryan won’t be there as the President focuses on his hire American, buy American, America first agenda – jobs, jobs, jobs. No, Speaker Ryan will be off in Europe, where he becomes the first Speaker in American history to have his own foreign policy.” Dobbs reminds us, “This is the same Speaker who worked against President Trump in the presidential campaign, who’s worked against him every step of the way, as Mr. Trump became President. And as you know, Ryan not only has his own foreign policy, he has an important domestic policy too. And it’s collided with the President’s agenda. It’s a dreadful mess that Ryan calls, insufferably, “A Better Way.” Get it? Better way.”...  http://rickwells.us/lou-dobbs-republicans-better-throw-paul-ryan-speakers-office/

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Heavily armed Muslim warns U.S. public:
'Be terrified'
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by Leo Hohmann
{wnd.com} ~ A Muslim man entered a private gathering of Christians in a hotel ballroom in South Dakota, started cursing and livestreaming video on Facebook of the event and then, after he was ushered out... displayed multiple firearms and issued statements the speakers say were a direct threat to their safety. The man, wearing a t-shirt that said, “I’m American, I’m a Muslim, I open carry, I conceal carry, and I’m dangerous only if you’re stupid,” was approached by a security guard and told to leave. Once back in his car, he brandished an arsenal of weapons, including two military-style rifles with loaded magazines and three handguns, and made several threats of “Be scared, be F—ing scared. Be terrified.” Again, it was all livestreamed on Facebook while parked in the conference-center parking lot...He should of been arrested. Why wasn't he?  http://www.wnd.com/2017/04/heavily-armed-muslim-warns-u-s-public-be-terrified/
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Part 2
 
British Role Confirmed in Trump Spying Scandal
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by Accuracy In Media
 
British Wiretapping
 
{www.aim.} ~Past British Prime Ministers have been implicated in various scandals involving wiretaps.  Some have involved the “Echelon” global surveillance system set up by the NSA with its counterparts in the other “Five Eyes” nations—UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.  Any one of these countries is able to circumvent domestic laws against spying on their own citizens by asking another Echelon member country to do it for them. This is precisely the “wiretap shell game” used by the liar-nObama administration to have British GCHQ spy on Trump, as outlined by Judge Napolitano and his sources.
 
To avoid unraveling the longstanding Five Eyes spying “wiretap shell game,” the GCHQ had to pretend they “routinely” came across this Trump-Russia wiretap data “by chance,” unprompted by requests from U.S. agencies (such as the NSA or CIA) or by liar-nObama officials, working outside normal NSA chain of command on Signals Intelligence or SIGINT (as Judge Napolitano reported on March 14).
 
So the heroic British GCHQ comes to the rescue with conveniently “accidental” captures of wiretap communications between Trump people and sinister-sounding “Russian intelligence agents,” with the wiretaps sent here to help out the U.S. agencies. We are supposed to believe the U.S. agencies and the liar-nObama White House just passively received this bombshell wiretap data from GCHQ, no questions asked, for over a year from late 2015 to early 2017. (The Guardian has no end date for the surveillance, such as the November 8 election, and indicates continued surveillance into the Trump transition, with the FBI “throwing more resources” into the investigation then.)
 
Did liar-nObama officials ever say, “Wait! Stop sending us this material, it may be illegal!” It does not appear so. Hence, the questions that have to be asked by the House and Senate Intelligence Committees are:
*Were there requests for more wiretap data on Trump and his team?
*Were there requests for more complete transcripts, or even voice recordings?
This “alerting” of the U.S. on Trump-Russia communications was needed, according to the Guardian and its U.S. and U.K. intelligence sources, because the U.S. agencies were “asleep” or “untrained,” or were legally prohibited from “examining the private communications of American citizens without warrants.” But to the GCHQ, America is a “foreign” nation and evidently they think they are free to spy on Americans “without warrants.”
 
liar-nObama’s CIA and the Anti-Trump Task Force
 
Previous reporting has said that an interagency task force of six U.S. intelligence agencies was set up to investigate the alleged Trump-connected names supposedly discovered in “incidental collection” of digital wiretap surveillance of Russian communications. The six agencies are said to consist of the CIA, NSA, FBI, the Justice Department’s National Security Division, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Treasury Department financial crimes unit.
 
Until now, no one has known who in the liar-nObama administration set up the task force, who directs it, what its operating directives state, what its activities have entailed, and who it is really accountable to.
 
But the Guardian is now reporting that it was CIA Director John Brennan who initiated, in about August 2016, what clearly seems to be an illegal domestic investigation of the Trump political campaign, which would be prohibited by the CIA charter.
 
Reportedly “Brennan used British GCHQ information and intelligence from other partners to launch a major interagency investigation.” The infamous fake “Trump dossier” is apparently dragged in too.
 
Brennan then proceeded to give highly classified “urgent” briefings to individual members of the Congressional “Gang of Eight.” Beginning on about August 25, with then-Sen. Harry dinky-Reid (D-NV) on that date, CIA chief Brennan claimed that the Russian email hackings of the Democratic National Committee were designed to help Trump win the election, according to The New York Times. These partisan briefings represent the politicization of the CIA under liar-nObama, and are of dubious legality.
 
In September 2016, this anti-Trump intelligence task force changed the previous “incidental” collection to outright direct targeting of Trump people so that their communications with Russia were “actively monitored,” not merely retrieved retroactively in digital archives with names having to be laboriously “unmasked.”
 
Unmasking is unnecessary if one starts with the specific names of Trump personnel first, and then flags them for future surveillance, going forward in time. In that case, the “actively monitored” and flagged Trump names automatically trigger alerts in the NSA-GCHQ computers whenever the names turn up. These wiretap reports would then have been submitted to liar-nObama officials at the level of national security adviser Susan Rice and CIA director Brennan, and perhaps to liar-nObama himself.
 
Interestingly, the Guardian’s sources carefully try to avoid implicating or involving the NSA in GCHQ’s allegedly unprompted reporting on intercepted wiretap data on Trump associates. It’s the “shell game” again with the NSA and GCHQ covering for each other.
 
British GCHQ Director Implicated
 
Instead, the Guardian’s anonymous intelligence sources say that then-director of GCHQ Robert Hannigan passed on a top secret “director level” report on Trump-Russia in “summer 2016” to CIA Director John Brennan, rather than to the NSA. However, if GCHQ was using NSA’s digital wiretap facilities to “routinely” spy on Trump people, then the NSA would be implicated by the very arrangement used.
 
As we predicted at AIM, the unexpected sudden resignation of GCHQ director Hannigan, announced on January 23, makes him the potential villain and scapegoat. Hannigan stayed on his job until his replacement took office on April 7.
 
In an unprecedented BBC interview on April 5, Hannigan fired a parting shot at the Judge Napolitano and White House reports of his GCHQ’s spying on Trump. Hannigan snidely dismissed the reports, saying, “We get crazy conspiracy theories thrown at us every day. We ignore most of them. On this occasion it was so crazy that we felt we should say so and we have said it’s a ridiculous suggestion.”
 
The Guardian’s report refutes Hannigan, barely a week after he left office, possibly with official connivance or approval. But why is Hannigan getting being thrown under the bus so soon? Is it fear of the impending findings of U.S. Congressional and official investigations exposing GCHQ?
 
Such reports in the British press on highly sensitive intelligence matters surely must have been quietly cleared by the British government as a first fallback position on GCHQ spying on Trump. Otherwise the Guardian would be in deep trouble under the UK’s Official Secrets Act and its D-Notice procedure to suppress or censor news stories on secret intelligence matters.
 
Finally, the British also seem to be trying to spread the blame around to a laundry list of other countries allegedly passing on intelligence about Trump-Russia contacts—Germany, Estonia, Poland, Australia, the Dutch and the French DGSE.
 
Still, no “smoking gun” has ever been found in any of this wiretap material, for it would already have been leaked like Lt. Gen. Flynn’s fairly benign conversations with the Russian ambassador that got him fired.
 
Despite the sensational news from The Washington Post that the FBI obtained a FISA warrant to wiretap ex-Trump adviser Carter Page, which may even still be in effect, his “Russian contacts” also seem to be completely ordinary and routine. Page is so confident of his innocence that he has been going on various television news programs to talk openly about his work on Russia, supplying Russian contacts with some of his New York University classroom materials.
 
To be sure, a certain large percentage of these kinds of business meetings with Russians will turn out to be with undercover Russian intelligence officers—unbeknownst to the Western business and academic people meeting them. The media portray them as suspicious. But this kind of Russian spy game has always been going on since the Cold War and is nothing new.
 
The FISA warrant, rather than proving any malfeasance by Carter Page—again no “smoking gun”—only adds to the evidence that what President Trump said from the start was true: that Trump and his associates were under electronic surveillance.
 
Unasked Questions
 
What do the wiretaps on Trump actually say? The media don’t want to know if the NSA-GCHQ wiretaps actually exonerate President Trump.
 
One of the advantages of the adversarial system in the courts is that advocates on the opposing side ideally get a fair chance—unlike the one-sided media with journalists who, at the rate of more than 90 percent, contributed to the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign.
 
Questions not asked of Rice or other sources by the media include whether she or other liar-nObama officials “flagged” the unmasked Trump team names for future NSA or British GCHQ automatic unmasking and delivery of transcripts and summary reports.
 
Did the liar-nObama people regularize the “unmasking” so that routinely a new retroactive search was automatically ordered with automatic unmaskings? That would be another way to turn “incidental collection” into an effectively ongoing wiretap order. Did President liar-nObama or Rice or others request actual sound recordings of Trump and others to review?
 
Did the liar-nObama team “unmask” other presidential candidates and associates besides Trump, such as Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who visited Moscow in December 2015 and dined with Putin? Fox is reporting that Congressional investigators are now looking into whether other presidential candidates and Members of Congress were surveilled too. In 2014, CIA director Brennan was caught red-handed lying to the Senate about the CIA’s criminal hacking of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s computer system.
 
We are told that many, if not most, of these wiretaps and unmaskings of Trump people were not even wiretaps about Russia or “incidental collection” on legitimate foreign intelligence subjects, though they may have begun that way.
 
The evidence now indicates that the information was procured for partisan political purposes—to spy on the Trump opposition to liar-Hillary Clinton using the full weight of the U.S. government’s NSA spying apparatus or NSA facilities used by British GCHQ.
 
Pompeo Must Clean Out the CIA
 
Trump’s CIA Director Mike Pompeo is in a position to get to the bottom of this scandal. Yet, on April 13, 2017, in his first public speech as director, he seemed to indicate that the evidence being developed in connection with the CIA’s role in the illegal surveillance of President Trump was going to be ignored or brushed aside. It was a forceful, even strident, defense of the Agency.
 
“I inherited an Agency that has a real appreciation for the law and for the Constitution,” he claimed. “Despite fictional depictions meant to sell books or box-office tickets, we are not an untethered or rogue agency. So yes, while we have some truly awesome capabilities at our disposal, our officers do not operate in areas or against targets that are rightfully and legally off-limits to us.”
 
The evidence suggests the opposite. The CIA under liar-nObama’s CIA Director Brennan was involved in illegal surveillance, using those “truly awesome capabilities,” against political targets that should have been off-limits.
 
One of those targets was the President who appointed Pompeo as CIA director.
 
 
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British Role Confirmed in
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 North Korea's Failure to Launch 
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North Korea has become increasingly belligerent over the years, as pathetic attempts at diplomacy — begun with Bill liar-Clinton's special emissary Jimmy Carter — failed to yield the desired results. In Saturday's celebration of "the Day of the Sun," the birthday of North Korea's founder, Kim Il Sung, the communist nation held a massive parade to show off its military prowess. This included numerous missiles on display (or at least on faux display), some of which are intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of reaching the U.S. mainland. Though it did not launch a ballistic missile or conduct a nuclear test, on Sunday morning, the North Koreans attempted a missile launch — it exploded almost immediately.
          That failed launch was timed to coincide with Vice President Mike Pence's departure for South Korea. "The era of strategic patience is over," Pence warned North Korea from the demilitarized zone Monday. "President Trump has made it clear that the patience of the United States and our allies in this region has run out and we want to see change. We want to see North Korea abandon its reckless path of the development of nuclear weapons, and also its continual use and testing of ballistic missiles is unacceptable."
          The Trump administration is hoping for — and starting to receive — cooperation from China. Over the weekend, Air China suspended its Beijing-Pyongyang route, which is a small bit clear signal of disapproval. China said the decision was "market-based," but coming from a Communist nation that's obviously a smokescreen. Still, the question is whether North Korea will listen. Kim Jong Un is a bit of a loose cannon, and his government isn't responding to Chinese requests for diplomatic meetings.
          If Kim doesn't settle down, however, Pence offered this warning: "Just in the past two weeks, the world witnessed the strength and resolve of our new president in actions taken in Syria and Afghanistan. North Korea would do well not to test his resolve or the strength of the Armed Forces of the United States in this region."  ~The Patriot Post
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North Korea Vows Weekly Missile Launch
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{bbc.com} ~ North Korea will continue to test missiles, a senior official has told the BBC in Pyongyang, despite international condemnation and growing military tensions with the US... "We'll be conducting more missile tests on a weekly, monthly and yearly basis," Vice Foreign Minister Han Song-Ryol told the BBC's John Sudworth. He said that an "all-out war" would result if the US took military action. Earlier, US Vice-President Mike Pence warned North Korea not to test the US. He said his country's "era of strategic patience" with North Korea was over...  http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39623882
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Chinese And Russian Subs Reportedly
Following USS Carl Vinson
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by Wilmot Proviso
{conservativetribune.com} ~ Now that the USS Carl Vinson is getting near the coast of the Korean peninsula, it’s picked up some very undesirable followers... The Japan News reported Sunday that two intelligence-gathering vessels from both Russia and China have been dispatched to follow the Carl Vinson’s carrier strike group. A Japanese official told The Japan News’ parent publication, The Yomiuri Shimbun, that it appears the two nations are looking to probe the actions of the carrier strike group as it arrives off the coast of troubled North Korea...  http://conservativetribune.com/carl-vinson-undesirable-followers/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=C50ConservativeBrief&utm_content=2017-04-17
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Brainwashing Shocker: MIT Press
Releases “Communism for Kids” Book
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by Selwyn Duke
{thenewamerican.com} ~ With due respect to Santayana, perhaps we can say that those who love the mistakes of the past will condemn others to repeat them... A case in point is a new book published by MIT Press that’s actually titled Communism for Kids — I kid you not. The Washington Free Beacon reports that the book, “written by a German author who specializes in political theory and ‘queer politics,’ was released last month. The thesis of the children's book is that communism is ‘not that hard,’ but has not been implemented in the right way.” Wow, I’ve never heard that one before. You mean, if I try touching the hot stove just one more time, it may not burn my hand?...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/25827-brainwashing-shocker-mit-press-releases-communism-for-kids-book?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm_content=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines+April+17+2017
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Jihad in South Dakota – Muslims Threaten,
Officials Do Nothing
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by John Guandolo
{counterjihadreport.com} ~ Last Sunday evening, April 9, 2017, over 500 people gathered for the Worldview Weekend Rally in Sioux Falls, South Dakota... The Muslim Brotherhood threatened, a Muslim showed up in what was a possible thwarted attack, and local officials did nothing. This is how America will lose this war if it does not change course immediately at the local level. The Sioux Falls Police Department notified the speakers, radio personality Brannon House and Shahram Hadian, a former Iranian muslim who is now a Christian pastor, that the Islamic Center of Sioux Falls filed a permit to protest the Worldview Weekend Rally event because they viewed the event as bigoted and Islamophobic. The property for the Islamic Center of Sioux Falls is owned by the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT), meaning it is a part of the Muslim Brotherhood’s jihadi network in America waging “Civilization Jihad.”...  https://counterjihadreport.com/2017/04/17/jihad-in-south-dakota-muslims-threaten-officials-do-nothing/
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Turkey President Erdogan Suspected Referendum Fraud Brings Calls For Annulment
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Erdogan of Turkey “survived” a suspicious coup and poorly conducted coup in July of last year, which exposed his opposition and provided the pretext for inserting “his people” into key mid and upper level positions in government and the judiciary... Now he’s claiming victory in a referendum which will strengthen his ever-tightening grip on power, abolishing much of the power sharing by eliminating the Prime Minister and curtailing the powers of Parliament. BBC stated Turkey’s “judicial independence has plummeted,” and their press freedom ranks 151 of 180 countries. They cite Reporters Without Borders, as saying, “an all-powerful president would spell the death knell of democracy.” Erdogan’s opponents have denounced the nation’s slide towards authoritarianism under his rule, which now includes the distinction of being the world’s largest jailer of journalists, with more than 140,000 people having been arrested, dismissed or suspended since the failed coup of last year...  http://rickwells.us/turkey-president-erdogan-suspected-referendum-fraud-brings-calls-annulment/
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Part 1
British Role Confirmed in
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The British Guardian posted a report on April 13 claiming that its sources now admit that the British spy agency GCHQ was digitally wiretapping Trump associates, going back to late 2015. This was presumably when the December 2015 Moscow meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Lt. General Michael Flynn took place.
 
This runs contrary to the blanket nature of the denial insinuated in GCHQ’s carefully-crafted statement of March 17 claiming it was all “nonsense” and “utterly ridiculous” that they conducted surveillance of “then president-elect” Donald Trump. The surveillance went back a year before he became “president-elect.”
 
President Trump’s claim of being “wire tapped” has been vindicated. Indeed, the surveillance is far more extensive than even he suspected at the time.
 
Based on the new disclosures, we can safely conclude that the world’s most advanced and extensive system of computerized espionage was indeed used against him and people he worked with, for political purposes, with the knowledge and approval of top liar-nObama officials such as CIA Director John Brennan, one major name implicated by the Guardian.
 
Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst, Judge Andrew Napolitano, who said GCHQ was involved in wiretapping Trump, has also vindicated. Fox News owes Napolitano an apology for yanking him off the air for a week for making that “controversial” and now-verified assertion.
 
Trump Was Right
 
President Trump stressed the pervasive “extent” of this liar-nObama political “wiretapping” to Maria Bartiromo of Fox Business in an Oval Office interview on April 11 (aired April 12).  “Me and so many other people” surveilled, Trump said. He explained again that he had picked up the “wire tapped” terminology straight from the headline of The New York Times (of January 20) as he has explained before.
 
Now we’re learning that GCHQ did wiretap Trump for a year before the election. “Trump” is, of course, shorthand for Trump associates and possibly Trump himself directly, depending on context. But GCHQ is trying to put a positive spin on what it admits would be illegal spying on U.S. citizens if done by U.S. agencies.
 
The Guardian’s sources claim a heroic role for the British GCHQ as a courageous “whistleblower” in warning U.S. agencies to “Watch out” about Trump and Russia—but carefully avoiding mention of the U.S.’s NSA, which must be protected at all costs as part of the NSA-GCHQ spy-on-each-other’s-citizens “wiretap shell game.”
 
These sources virtually admit the mutual “wiretap shell game” by inadvertently mentioning the Trump-Russia data was originally passed on to the U.S. by GCHQ as part of a “routine exchange” of intelligence. The use of this term, “exchange,” suggests what we had previously reported—the shell-game “exchange” between the NSA and GCHQ where they can spy on each other’s citizens and deny it all...
 
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