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Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 3, 2017 at 11:00am
The Front Page Cover
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Homosexuality's health hazards:
Word is getting out
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 by Linda Harvey
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 liar-nObamaCare Repeal Failure Makes Tax 
 Reform Harder 
By Louis DeBroux: Less than a month after taking office, Barack liar-nObama signed the "stimulus" bill, an $800 billion pork-filled progressive goodie bag. Within a year he was bragging about the GM bailout and ironically named Affordable Care Act, better known by its pejorative moniker, "liar-nObamaCare."
          With time those accomplishments became an albatross. The massive stimulus bill stimulated nothing but the pockets of well-connected Democrat donors. GM and Chrysler went bankrupt anyway.
          More than anything else, it was the disaster of liar-nObamaCare that led Republicans to electoral victory, securing their strongest political position in nearly a century on promises of repealing liar-nObamaCare.
          That is why the optics of what happened last week — the failure of the GOP's liar-nObamaCare repeal bill to even get a vote in the Republican-controlled House — was such a disaster. For nearly a decade the GOP promised the full repeal of liar-nObamaCare if voters restored them to power. In 2010 the voters gave them the House, in 2014 the Senate, and in 2016 the White House. And with what to show for it?
          There are two significant concerns with what happened; the substance and the optics. As a matter of substance, what happened was in many ways as the Founders intended. They gave us co-equal branches, separation of powers, and checks and balances. The branches were intended to be in tension in order to negate usurpations of power. The House negotiated with the Senate, the Senate with the House, and both with the White House.
          But in the end, rather than agreeing to a compromise bill, congressional Republicans dealt their new president an embarrassing public relations blow. For a man known as the master dealmaker, this was the worst possible outcome, and it's likely to have repercussions.
          The brunt of the blame is being heaped upon the House Freedom Caucus, a group of the most conservative lawmakers. The Wall Street Journal dubbed the repeal failure the "Freedom Caucus's liar-nObamacare preservation act." This isn't entirely unfair. While caucus members expressed legitimate concerns as to whether the GOP's bill went far enough in fully repealing liar-nObamaCare, as a practical matter, blowing it up may damage their cause in the long run. President Donald Trump now says he will move on to tax reform.
          Unlike liar-nObama, Trump does not have the luxury of filibuster-proof majorities in Congress to start his presidency. Republicans have a comfortable margin in the House but only a two-vote majority in the Senate, which is why it was critical for the GOP to hand Trump an early legislative victory to build momentum, both for Trump and for the party. As the WSJ also notes, "The risk now is that the health failure will make the GOP Congress even less cohesive and less likely to follow its leaders. Freedom Caucus Members sit in safe seats and don't need achievements to win re-election." And Democrats, emboldened in their efforts to obstruct the Trump/GOP agenda, will feel less pressure to compromise.
          As Trump and the Republicans turn to tax reform, the same obstacles remain; conflicting visions between the conservative and moderate/liberal wings of the GOP. Do Republicans pursue steeper, front-loaded tax cuts in favor of a slower initial reduction of the national debt? Revenue-neutrality or spending reductions? Middle class tax cuts (as Trump promised), or tax cuts for the wealthy/business class to stimulate broader economic growth (as preferred by Speaker Paul Ryan)? And they still have to deal with obstructionist Democrats.
          And make no mistake; tax reform is desperately needed. The U.S. has the highest corporate tax rate in the industrialized world at 39.1%, and a tax code that clocks in at 2.4 million words, more than three times as many as the King James Bible. Compliance to that monstrosity costs Americans $234.4 billion per year. We routinely lose businesses to more favorable tax environments like Ireland and Canada, and the investment capital and jobs go with them.
          Likewise, high personal income tax rates mean less money for consumers to spend and invest, which leads to less personal savings, slower job creation, and less economic growth. Millions of small businesses file revenue under personal income taxes and face a top rate of 43.4%, reducing their ability to create jobs. As "red" states have proven, tax cuts boost the economy.
          Success is possible based on the record of state and local Republicans, but the national GOP has to get on board. Charles Cooke of National Review points out, "At the state level, the GOP has been remarkably effective at ushering in reform over the last seven years; at the federal level, by contrast, it has been able only to hold the line."
          As Republicans move to take on tax reform, there will be plenty of disagreements on policy that will need to be resolved, from top marginal rates to tax credits to the controversial "border adjustment" tax. In order to resolve these conflicts, Republicans have to avoid a purist approach and negotiate with one another. Better to get a half loaf today and come back for another bite tomorrow than go home hungry.
          The moderates need to understand that standing on principles — Rule of Law, individual liberty, limited government and personal responsibility — is important. Conservatives have to concede that a large number of elected Republicans don't hail from the solidly-conservative Deep South, and they will not keep their seats in places like Colorado and Maine and New York if they take a hardline approach. The perfect cannot be the enemy of the good. And as frustrating as it is for conservatives to not get provisions they want, they will be even more frustrated if President Trump decides to shun them and work with moderates and Democrats. Each group is needed to maintain a majority, and that majority is worthless if it can't work together to accomplish its larger goals.
          Republicans will either learn quickly from the recent debacle, or their time in power will be short-lived.  ~The Patriot Post
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Tea Party Leader – Trump Targeting His Base,
Freedom Caucus A Big Mistake
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Neil Cavuto sets up the interview with Tea Party leader Mark Meckler, warning that fears are the House Freedom Caucus “could lose its impact and power and even respect.”... He notes Meckler’s disgust with the way that President Trump has been characterizing members of the Freedom Caucus  who opposed the Ryancare liar-nObamacare-lite bill. Meckler describes the current state of relations between conservatives and President Trump as “an incredible transition,” saying, “He’s gone from the guy who said he’s going to DC to drain the swamp, Freedom Caucus are drain the swamp kind of guys, now it looks like we’ve got the Creature from the Black Lagoon in the White House, because now he’s talking about no repeal, breaking his promises.” Reminding the audience, Meckler says, “I mean his promise was repeal, repeal, repeal. It was not liar-nObamacare lite, so, yeah, I’m disgusted. He’s going against the wrong people. He should be going against the moderates and the leadership, not the Freedom Caucus.”...Sorry, but I have to agree with Mark.  http://rickwells.us/tea-party-trump-targeting-freedom-caucus-big-mistake/
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzoRCE9E3OA
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Trump Spied Upon By liar-nObama Admin
BEFORE He Got Nomination
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ On Friday afternoon Fox News’ Adam Housley provided a bombshell report that provided more evidence that President Trump’s March 4th tweet about being spied upon by the liar-nObama administration, was true... The Democratic Party attempt to delegitimize the Trump presidency by linking him to Russia may turn out to expose illegality by team liar-nObama instead of their goal– trying to sabotage the nascent Trump administration. The revelations in the report include; it was an intelligence big shot behind the unmasking of General Flynn and civilians; the unmasking was done as a blatant political act, none of it had anything to do with Russia, Nunes new about the documents since January but intelligence stone-walled his attempt to get the information from them, and the people who were named by the NY Times were not his source for learning about the documents, they just facilitated Nunes being able to see them...  http://lidblog.com/trump-spied-upon-by-obama-admin/
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Stop Calling Them Sanctuary Cities- Aiding
and Abetting Criminals is NOT Holy!
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Remember when words mattered? You know what I am talking about! When words had a meaning, before they are artificially softened. The days before taxes were called revenue enhancements... before government spending of our hard-earned money was called investments, or when there were terrorists instead of militants. Back then words mattered. Sure, at times they may have been harsh sounding like when this Oscar winner is instead of the Oscar goes to. That last one gives the impression that the best picture award is just another meaningless participation trophy; “the 10th place award goes to;” Of course, there is the recent silly transition from Illegal Alien to undocumented Alien. If they are simply undocumented for coming in to the country illegally, then a murderer is simply an undocumented executioner, a kidnapper an undocumented parent, someone who drive despite the fact their license was suspended an undocumented driver, a burglar an undocumented resident etc., etc. Another one of those new-fangled, softened-terms is sanctuary cities. That particular term didn’t replace another one like “undocumented alien.” It’s a relatively new term because municipalities used to act to keep criminals under lock and key, they would never consciously break the law. But cities such as Los Angeles, Chicago, NY, Seattle and others that call themselves “sanctuary cities” aren’t providing sanctuary, they are aiding and abetting criminals. In most cases violent criminals...Thats so true.
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Fed Law Nullification By “Belligerent Resister”
Sanctuary Cities – Make Em Pay
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Cavuto opens with a statement of the position of LA’s open borders, globalist mayor, London educated Eric Garcetti. He says, according to Cavuto, they’re “not changing a darn thing here... we’re going to continue doing what we’re doing.” Former Attorney General John Ashcroft is asked about the position of the current Attorney General, Jeff Sessions, regarding the Trump administration’s policy of enforcing the law, including immigration laws. Ashcroft says, “This is simply a demand or a policy of returning to the rule of law. If there’s an imperative to have cooperation between federal and local law enforcement authorities, it’s a national security imperative. And that relates to who we have in the country, especially, I’m keenly aware of that when I know who perpetrated the attacks of 9/11 and how many of them were illegal.”...  http://rickwells.us/ashcroft-fed-law-nullification-belligerent-resister-sanctuary-cities-make-em-pay/
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The Allegation That Congress Destroyed
Your Internet Privacy Is Fake News
by Tom Giovanetti
{ipi.org} ~ You have been lied to about “your browsing history being sold to the highest bidder.” That was fake news pushed by special interest groups taking advantage of easily duped social media... One clear message from the last election is that voters want a clean break from the heavy-handed regulatory overreach of the liar-nObama administration. Congress intends to overturn as much liar-nObama administration overreach as possible, and it’s in that context that Congress overturned the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) pending privacy regulation. But there’s been a lot of confusion, so let’s explain. Originally, consumer internet privacy was handled by the federal agency specifically designed and empowered to protect consumers: the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). The FTC has legislative authority and decades of agency expertise in consumer protection, including privacy protection...
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Homosexuality's health hazards:
Word is getting out
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 by Linda Harvey
{wnd.com} ~ Homosexuality is “exploding” among kids in the U.S., according to one expert. And it’s not good news, since this behavior has not suddenly become less risky.
 
Two new resources have just been published that parents, teachers, health-care professionals and pastors should keep handy as our communities deal with growing numbers of the misguided and sexually confused.
 
“The Health Hazards of Homosexuality: What the Medical and Psychological Research Reveals” is a 600-page reference book with over a thousand citations, written in a highly readable style for a general audience.
 
The medical evidence paints a dire picture that should become an urgent public health problem as these behaviors ironically grow in popularity among youth.
 
The second resource is Paul and Kirk Cameron’s important WND column in which they analyze recent stats from the Centers for Disease Control, with these startling findings: Homosexual behavior has increased 85 percent in recent years among America’s teens.
 
This is a shocking trend. But will public health officials take measures to protect our youth, now that the dire implications are evident for all to see?
 
It’s doubtful. Don’t expect anything but “LGBTQ” business as usual, with activism undiminished, even on the increase. Parents should be ever-watchful for homosexual indoctrination in their kids’ schools.
 
It’s spring, and that means schools allow, or in some cases promote, the victim-posturing “Day of Silence” as well as “Harvey Milk Day” in California schools and June “pride” month. Both elementary and secondary schools are replete with teacher, staff and student activists who believe the prevailing, high-risk propaganda.
 
And the election of Donald Trump has ignited a rage entitlement in the left that won’t respect the boundaries of innocence and tender youth.
 
This spring, radical teachers, homosexuals and “allies,” as well as outside activists are likely to ratchet up their sales pitch to kids, urging them to exercise their “rights” to fearlessly experiment with these deviant identities and behaviors.
 
The rise in homosexual expression has been predicted by many of us over the past two decades. If you promote sexual behavior to impressionable kids, more teens – especially those with fewer moral bearings – will say, “Why not?”
 
In same-sex circles, homosexual hook-ups can become a daring adventure at camp-outs and sleepovers. Opportunity is everywhere students of the same sex gather or socialize, and it’s one reason homosexuality has traditionally been taboo at schools, camps and youth organizations.
 
But the incessant “LGBTQ” agenda has changed all that, with adult advocates insisting on more access to youth.
 
“Health Hazards” is published by Mass Resistance and is a powerful, well-written book presenting a detailed analysis of the subject. Every person interested in homosexuality should have this book as a valuable resource – people struggling with same-sex attractions as well as relatives, parents, friends, pastors and public officials.
 
Mainstream medicine simply won’t go here, however, as compelling as the evidence is. So “we the people” need to guide our nation and communities back to sense about the perils of homosexuality and gender confusion, especially to our children.
 
Among the risks revealed and meticulously outlined in “Health Hazards” are:
+The real numbers of those involved in homosexuality /bisexuality/ transgenderism;
+Absence of medical evidence for a biological basis for homosexuality or gender confusion;
+The rise in reckless homosexual hook-ups in the age of Internet sites like Grindr and the new HIV-prevention PrEP medication;
+The hazardous mixed messages of HIV outreach campaigns funded with taxpayer money;
+Promiscuity of both homosexual men and lesbians as well as the typically short duration of relationships;
+Elevated substance abuse trends among those who identify as homosexual and transgendered;
+The increased rate of suicide attempts among the sexually confused, especially transgenders (41 percent) and how this does not change in communities with high acceptance, belying the “stigma” and “discrimination” rationale.
The authors pose the question, “Why don’t we hear more about ‘GLB’ health hazards?” The American Psychiatric Association in the 1970s, followed by the American Psychological Association, decided after radical activist pressure to no longer designate homosexuality a mental disorder. The book summarizes what happened next:
 
“Following the lead of the mental health groups, others fell into line:
+the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC),
+the federal Department of Health & Human Services, major medical associations, local public health agencies, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and assorted media.
+The unscientific opinion that homosexuality should no longer be considered a mental disorder became the accepted wisdom.
+Sodomitic practices were now to be considered normal and healthy expressions of human sexuality” (pp. 50-51).
This has dire implications for our children, especially as more adopt this identity, which Paul Cameron says is “learned,” not inborn. He notes, “Of the 16 million U.S. high-school students today, an extra million are either homosexual or heading in that direction!”
 
Thankfully, there are medical experts taking up the cause of telling the whole truth about these behaviors. Dr. Paul Church, Harvard Medical School assistant clinic professor of urology, wrote an endorsement for “The Health Hazards of Homosexuality”:
 
“As a practicing clinician for 35 years, I have seen and treated the serious consequences associated with promiscuity and high-risk sexual behaviors, including those common to the LGBT community. The ‘medical establishment’ has been all too silent on its duty to inform and alert the public to these dangers, as its ranks have become infiltrated by homosexual activists and its policy makers preoccupied with political correctness more than protecting the public welfare.”
 
We can thank Drs. Paul McHugh and Lawrence Mayer of Johns Hopkins for their stunning analysis published past fall, reiterating the lack of evidence for a biological origin for homosexual or transgendered attractions. We can also thank the growing American College of Pediatricians for brave warnings about transgenderism in children.
 
The truth-tellers are getting the word out. Will parents and politicians do their part?
 
Let’s propose and pass policies that protect our children from inaccurate and harmful propaganda. It used to be called “the corruption of children.”
 
It still is.
 
Read more…

Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 3, 2017 at 7:00am
The Front Page Cover
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Deliver us from Scripture-citers
by Jeff Jacoby
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 The GOP's Odd Move on Internet Privacy 
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While much attention was focused on the GOP's health care failure, the Republican majority in Congress did something else that deserves scrutiny. ArsTechnica reports, "The US House of Representatives voted Tuesday to eliminate [Internet Service Provider] ISP privacy rules, following the Senate vote to take the same action last week." What privacy rules? "The rules issued by the FCC last year would have required home Internet and mobile broadband providers to get consumers' opt-in consent before selling or sharing Web browsing history, app usage history, and other private information with advertisers and other companies. But lawmakers used their authority under the Congressional Review Act (CRA) to pass a joint resolution ensuring that the rules 'shall have no force or effect' and that the FCC cannot issue similar regulations in the future."
          Proponents argue that the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), not the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), is the proper regulatory vehicle. But there is no indication of any forthcoming protections from the FTC.
          Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) pushed the bill, saying the FCC rulemaking was "just another example of big government overreach."
          But is that true? Various websites, including giants like Facebook and Google, can already see a lot about users depending on what people do on those websites. People can choose not to use those websites. Now, ISPs have free reign over all the data coming through a user's browser. It's much harder to avoid particular ISPs, especially when most people live in areas with only one or two providers. And ISPs can sell data to the highest bidder without users' permission. That's browsing history, mobile app usage, content posted in emails, financial and medical information, etc. Can a hospital sell your medical information? No, but ISPs now can. It's also reasonable to assume this just made it easier for the government to use ISPs as data collection proxies. An ISP can't say they don't have data when they're actively selling it.
          We normally argue against regulation, and we don't want to overstate this case, but the GOP's move to deregulate here is baffling. Then again, it's not the first time Republicans have been wrong about the Internet. Exit question: Besides Big Business, who benefits?  ~The Patriot Post
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Include liar-Clinton/Podesta/liar-nObama
Russia Connection In 3 or 4 Investigations
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Newt Gingrich is asked if the criminality of what was happening at the liar-nObama White House in relation to the spying and revealing that was engaged in by the former regime is being overlooked... in all of the discussions of the process of the investigation. He raises the issue of the changes to executive order 13222 by liar-nObama and Lynch, which “would allow gossip and things that were not proven to be distributed very widely in the intelligence community, knowing that they were likely to leak.” Gingrich asks, “Where are the decision memos, why was that decided, who made the decision.” Pointing to how bizarre all of this is, beyond something he’d put into a novel, Gingrich suggests three or four parallel investigations are probably needed. He says, “There’s one into what happened in the White House, there’s one into the whole process of relationships with Russia. But if you’re going to start going into relationships with Russia, you also should be looking at the liar-Clintons and all of the different things that involve money, with people who happen to be Democrats. And it’s going to turn out to be, the more we learn the bigger the mess this is going to turn out to be.”...  http://rickwells.us/gingrich-include-clinton-podesta-obama-russia-connection-in-3-or-4-investigations/
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Europe: Combating Fake News
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by Fjordman
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In January 2015 The New York Times denied that there are "no-go-zones" -- areas that are not under the control of the state and are ruled according to sharia law... dominated by certain immigrant groups in some urban areas in Western Europe. The American newspaper mentioned this author, alongside writers such as Steven Emerson and Daniel Pipes, for spreading this alleged falsehood. The article was published shortly after Islamic terrorists had massacred the staff of the satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo in Paris on January 7, 2015. Other established media outlets such as the magazine The Atlantic also dismissed claims of no-go-zones. Fox News issued an unusual on-air apology for allowing its anchors and guests to repeat the suggestion that there are Muslim "no-go zones" in European countries such as Britain and France. Regarding the subject of "no-go-zones," this is largely a question of semantics. If you say that there are some areas where even the police are afraid to go, where the country's normal, secular laws barely apply, then it is indisputable that such areas now exist in several Western European countries. France is one of the hardest hit: it has a large population of Arab and African immigrants, including millions of Muslims... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10037/no-go-zones-Europe
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Russia Charade To Distract, Cover
liar-Clinton/liar-nObama Espionage Tracks
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lt General Thomas McInerney closes out his comments with a declaration of what is going on with the Democrat’s politically motivated obsessions over Russia... “This whole thing has been a charade,” says Lt Gen McInerney, “it is tactical deception. They do not want the Trump administration to start looking in at the violations of the espionage act by liar-Hillary Clinton with her rogue server and by the ‘president,’ who used a pseudonym on her rogue server and they both are in violation of the espionage act. They do not want this to come out, so they have brought up all of these other ‘facts’ about Russia and why they lost the election. They began the segment by reviewing the comments of Devin Nunes from the previous week in which he laid out the initial information about the liar-nObama spying that he had obtained and after his initial briefing of the President. McInerney says he’s not surprised by anything other than it took so long for the questions to be asked. He says he was tipped off “once Director Comey mentioned it, that there had been an investigation since last July, I automatically knew that they were using electronic means, if you will, to get further information...  http://rickwells.us/gen-mcinerney-russia-charade-distract-clinton-obama-espionage/
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Republicans still have work to
do to fix liar-nObamacare
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by Michael R. Strain
{washingtonpost.com} ~ It would be an error to conclude that the Affordable Care Act is working well because House Republicans failed to pass a bill to repeal and replace it... Although talk of a “death spiral” is overblown — we are not witnessing a situation in which coverage rates will drop precipitously — it is the case that insurers are pulling out of the exchanges. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, 21 percent of exchange enrollees have access to only one insurer in 2017, compared with 2 percent in 2016 — a huge and very concerning increase. And the share of enrollees with access to only two providers nearly doubled between 2016 and 2017, from 12 to 22 percent. At the same time, premiums on the ACA exchanges have increased significantly — 22 percent in 2017 alone, and more than double during the past four years...Oh, and there were still 29 million Americans without health insurance in 2015. https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/28/republicans-still-have-work-to-do-to-fix-obamacare/?utm_term=.5358b2e19ea4
 
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Trump Admin Appeal Hawaii “So-Called”
Judge Executive Order Ruling To 9th Circuit
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump’s administration has filed an appeal of the decision of liar-nObama’s Yale classmate, “so-called” Judge Derrick Watson of Honolulu... Watson has ruled, in a completely political decision that didn’t even include a legal basis for the decision, that he, not the President, determines how United States immigration policies are implemented and enforced and what type of national security protections we are entitled to as Americans. The Sessions DOJ is challenging his insane ruling that the commercial interests of his native state of Hawaii, the “rights” of a random Middle Eastern student who is not an American, and the “rights” of a terrorist supporting Imam to have his Syrian mother visit him from the terrorist nation took priority over the rights of innocent Americans not to be blasted to smithereens or shot dead by a foreign terrorist. On Thursday the Sessions Department of Justice filed an appeal to the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, arguing that the President was within his rights, authority and the responsibilities of his office when he issued the second terrorist travel ban executive order...  http://rickwells.us/trump-admin-appeal-hawaii-judge-executive-order-ruling-9th-circuit/
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Deliver us from Scripture-citers
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by Jeff Jacoby
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ "The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose," says the wealthy Antonio to his young friend Bassanio in Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice."

So can the politician, he might have added. And the party activist.

Full disclosure: I've never actually read "The Merchant of Venice." Though I'm familiar with the story, I have yet to actually study the text or even view a performance of the play. But that line about the devil citing Scripture suits the point I want to make, so I plucked it out of context to use in this column.

When the Trump administration released an outline recently of its forthcoming budget proposals, many on the left expressed dismay. The White House wants to reduce spending on the State Department, environmental programs, arts and broadcast subsidies, and housing initiatives, while significantly increasing outlays on defense, homeland security, and veterans' health care.

Cue the Scripture-citers.

Rachel Held Evans, a liberal Christian author, took to Twitter to decry proposed cuts to the Meals on Wheels program. "There are few things the Bible is unambiguously clear about," she tweeted, "but from Hebrew Scripture to Matt. 25, care for the poor & needy is one of them."

Nicholas Kristof used his New York Times column to craft a pastiche about Jesus and "Paul of Ryan," with the former speaking familiar lines from the New Testament - "Blessed are the poor, for theirs is the kingdom of God," "From everyone who has been given much, much will be required" - while the latter disdainfully swats those teachings away. "Oh, come on, Jesus," the Ryan character sneers, "don't go socialist on me again."

On Monday, a story from the Religious News Service was headlined: "Trump's Budget Slashes Aid To The Poor. Would Jesus Have A Problem With That?" The piece recounted the "scriptural smackdown" pitting conservative blogger Erick Erickson against liberals condemning Trump's budget scheme as religiously "immoral" and downright "evil."

On a different tack, liberal activist Jay Michaelson weighed in with a bizarre biblical defense of the National Endowment for the Arts - G0D's appeal to the Israelites in Exodus 35 to donate precious metals, jewels, fabrics, and spices for the construction of the Tabernacle and its vessels. "Public art projects like the Tabernacle of the Israelites," writes Michaelson, demonstrate "what our civilization stands for" and why taxes should fund it.

Debating government spending is standard fare in Washington. Sanctimony is, too. But the posturing grows a little too pious when pundits and politicos, brandishing a line from the Bible, declare that Jesus would never reduce spending on X or that God must be in favor of budget hikes for Y - and imagine that that settles the debate.

Some of these Biblical invocations are just silly. The Tabernacle described in Exodus was not a "public art project," it was religious infrastructure used for priestly sacrifices and to house the Ark of the Covenant.

More importantly, the Bible is a sacred text, not a Cliffs Notes for federal budgeteers. No one can deny that Scripture is replete with exhortations to feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and be compassionate to the downtrodden. But those injunctions are personal, not political. If they constitute a moral mandate, it is for the action of private individuals guided by conscience, not for government programs created by the state and collectively imposed through the pains and penalties of law.

I would never argue that American politics should be devoid of religious influence. This has always been a nation of Bible-readers and churchgoers. "In G0D We Trust" is the nation's motto. G0D appears four times in the Declaration of Independence. His blessing is entreated in every state constitution, and in countless presidential proclamations. It is altogether fitting and proper that religion has played so prominent a role in America's great social movements, from independence to abolition to equal rights.

But the nation's deep current of religious influence does not mean that public policy can be made by pointing to Bible verses. It is reasonable to read for example)Jesus' words in Matthew 25 - "Whatever you do to the least of these, you do unto me" - as a reminder that the ethical test of any society is how it treats its most vulnerable members, and a call to each of us to extend a hand to those in need. It is not reasonable to claim that every faithful Christian must therefore endorse Meals on Wheels or defend public housing vouchers from budget cuts.

The temptation to quote the Bible for political purposes is bipartisan: Republicans and Democrats do it; conservatives and liberals do it. The impulse may be sincere. But flaunting a verse from Scripture to promote a political purpose ends up tarnishing the one without elevating the other.

By all means, study the Bible. Take its lessons to heart. Let those lessons guide how you live your life. Just don't confuse the word of G0D with a partisan political agenda.

Now I really ought to buckle down to read "The Merchant of Venice."
 
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Sat/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 1, 2017 at 10:30am
The Front Page Cover
 Featuring:
The Holy Land: I'm finally here!
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 by David Limbaugh
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 California Shoots the Messengers 
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California has charged two pro-life journalists with 15 felonies — essentially for committing acts of journalism. Two years ago, David Daleidan and Sandra Merritt of the Center for Medical Progress made undercover videos to expose Planned Parenthood's practice of selling and profiting from the body parts of aborted babies. The videos shocked much of the American public and brought about renewed calls for a congressional investigation and government defunding of the nation's largest abortion mill. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra, a former Democrat member of Congress, leveled charges against the two journalists for secretly recording conversations with those involved in Planned Parenthood's aborted baby-parts selling scheme. "The right to privacy is a cornerstone of California's Constitution, and a right that is foundational in a free democratic society," Becerra declared. "We will not tolerate the criminal recording of confidential conversations."
          This story stinks of unabashed partisanship, cronyism and government tyranny. Former California AG Kamala Harris, a long-time supporter of Planned Parenthood, chose not to investigate the damning evidence found in the videos, but instead focused her investigation on the pro-life journalists. During the investigation Harris secretly worked with Planned Parenthood to craft legislation designed to protect the organization. Harris has since been elected to the U.S. Senate where she is a staunch advocate for Planned Parenthood, which just happened to help fund her campaign.
          California's case against Daleidan and Merrit is suspect at best. The undercover videos were recorded in public areas. Arguably it was done under false pretenses, but that was necessary for candid discussion. Even during one of the recorded discussions, top Planned Parenthood executive Deborah Nucatola says it's not a good idea to talk about the selling of aborted baby parts in a "non-confidential setting."
          If found guilty on all felony charges, the two Daleidan and Merrit could be looking at up to 15 years in prison. The abortion industry is clearly seeking to use the force of government to put fear into those who would dare to expose and endanger their vile business. The Left will stop at nothing to protect its most sacred cow — abortion. ~The Patriot Post
 
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Has Sessions Gone Soft As AG?...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions made an appearance on the O’Reilly factor, addressing the topic of Sanctuary Cities first, citing the statistic that 80% of the American people disagree with them... He says, “It clearly makes their own cities less safe,” pointing to the Kate Steinle murder by a multiple deportation illegal as an example. O’Reilly and Sessions reassure the illegals who are only violating immigration law or using an American’s stolen identity that they are a low priority for legal sanctions. If an American commits fraud it’s a felony, but they’re illegals, so it’s okay. The AG points out that illegal border crossings appear to be down approximately 60 percent, which he attributes to President Trump’s strong leadership on the issue. He says, “As we continue to build a wall and beef up our forces and bring in more judges, we’ll be even more successful there. That’s the way to solve this problem, and if we stay at it we can create a lawful system of immigration, one that admits 1.1 million people lawfully right now, every year, and one that we can be proud of as a nation...  http://rickwells.us/sessions-gone-soft-ag-masters-universe-can-relax-exploit-americans/
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Trainwreck Coming When Trump Realizes Ryan,
Priebus Are Lying To Him
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs and Laura Ingraham join Sean Hannity for a discussion of the situation between the conservative members of the House, those who are loyal to President Trump and are being shunned... the President, and the RINO establishment phonies who appear to now have his confidence and his ear. The segment starts with a sickening display by RINO Paul Ryan in which he’s “interviewed,” by an anti-Trump CBS mainstream propagandist who assumed that President Trump wasn’t involved, asking, “Do you think that it would have helped if the President were more involved in the policy itself?” Ryan is more than happy to share the blame for the fiasco that he wasn’t able to force upon the American people. Ryan replies, “Oh, he was deeply involved. That’s the thing that I was so pleased and impressed with. He really rolled up his sleeves. So actually, he’s up to speed on the issue, he knows the circumstances and the stances, what I worry about, Norah, is that, if we don’t do this then he’ll just go work with Democrats, to try and change liar-nObamacare and that’s not going to, that’s hardly a conservative thing.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-trainwreck-coming-trump-realizes-ryan-priebus-lying-him/
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Dobson: Christians need
mass exodus from public schools
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ Dr. James Dobson, who founded Focus on the Family and now delivers his Christian and pro-family advice through Family Talk, is once again encouraging parents to withdraw their children from public schools... At least partly because he’s “shocked” at the values, or lack thereof, exhibited by the millennial generation of young people, who are about ages 18-34. Trained as a teacher and psychologist, early in his career he was largely unaware of homeschooling, he explained on a recent series of  broadcasts featuring guest E. Ray Moore of the Exodus Mandate, which encourages Christian parents to homeschool their children or put them in church-run Christian schools...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/dobson-christians-need-mass-exodus-from-public-schools/
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Leftist Judges Everywhere, liar-nObama
Hawaii Buddy A Complete Political Hack
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Larry Klayman and Steve Malzberg discuss the desperate state of the American judiciary, among other topics... Malzberg points out that the libtard mayor of Seattle has the distinction of being the first to file a suit against the DOJ for “the violation of their right to violate federal law” as it pertains to their status as sanctuary zones, cities, jurisdictions, or sewers, as is the case with Seattle. They’re not challenging whether or not they are violating immigration law, only the aspect of whether the DOJ can withhold funding for law enforcement grants as a punitive action or to encourage compliance. Malzberg notes that some of the sanctuary city mayors are choosing to use other words to describe the same thing though not changing their practices, as if that somehow lets them off of the hook. He notes how Andy McCarthy said on his program on Tuesday that it was not a slam dunk that the government would win...  http://rickwells.us/klayman-leftist-judges-everywhere-obama-hawaii-buddy-complete-political-hack/
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Financial oversight board’s review
process cloaked in mystery
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by Paul H. Kupiec
{aei.org} ~ Since Babylonian times and King Hammurabi’s code of laws, two basic legal principles have guided lawmakers: (1) when you read a law, you should know what is required to obey the law; and, (2) a citizen accused of a crime should have the opportunity to prove his or her innocence... These principles were completely ignored by the authors of the Dodd-Frank Act when they created the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC) and gave it the power to designate nonbank financial firms as “systemically important institutions” (SIFIs), a designation that imposes additional regulation by the Federal Reserve Board. A recent report by the House Financial Services Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations on “The Arbitrary and Inconsistent FSOC Nonbank Designation Process,” followed by a subsequent discussion of the findings at a hearing on March 28, perfectly demonstrates what happens with an out-of-control government institution. It is also an excellent reminder of the wisdom of King Hammurabi’s principles...  http://www.aei.org/publication/financial-oversight-boards-review-process-cloaked-in-mystery/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=033117
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The Holy Land: I'm finally here!
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 by David Limbaugh
{wnd.com} ~ I have wanted to visit the Holy Land for years, and I am finally here. The experience is, as promised, exceeding my enormously high expectations. Finally, I can use the word “awesome” correctly and without exaggeration!

This is a 10-day tour organized by Living Passages and led by my friend, Christian apologetics author and speaker Frank Turek, of CrossExamined.org. We are visiting mostly Old Testament-related sites on the first part of the trip and those of the New Testament on the second part.

There are 35 of us in the group, and we are traveling from site to site on a bus with Israeli tour guide Eli Shukron, an accomplished archaeologist whose prominent Jerusalem discoveries include the pool of Siloam and tunnels under the City of David. Eli has a passion for making the Bible come alive by explaining the geography, history and biblical significance of the sites we are touring. Turek is complementing these teachings with his unique biblical and apologetic messages.

One thing that greatly distinguishes the Bible from other ancient religious texts is that the historical events and geographical locations it describes can often be verified. Let me just share a bit about the major locations we’ve visited in the first few days of our journey.

As we flew into Tel Aviv at midday, I was taken by the beauty of the land. We spent our first night in Ashdod, Israel’s largest port, located on the Mediterranean coast. Ashdod is where the Philistines took the ark of the covenant after they defeated the Israelites. The first book of Samuel relates that they placed the ark in the temple of their god Dagon and set it beside Dagon’s statute. The next morning, the statue fell face downward before the ark, evidencing God’s judgment on the Philistines for stealing the ark.

The Lord also afflicted the people of Ashdod with tumors, convincing them to return the ark to the Israelites after having it only seven months. They returned it by cart to the Israelite city of Beth-Shemesh, east of Ashdod. Our group traveled from Ashdod to Beth-Shemesh, where we visited the excavation of Khirbet Qeiyafa nearby. Here we walked through the impressive ruins of a well-planned, fortified urban city established during the time of King David (circa 1000 B.C.), which has been validated by carbon dating and pottery of that period.

Archaeologists also discovered miniature structures that looked like Solomon’s Temple and might have been models for the future temple. This city is believed to be the biblical city of Shaaraim (1 Sam. 17:52), which means “two gates.” Our guide, Eli, was animated in showing us both the eastern and western gates, which were clearly detectable even today. Large parts of the stone foundations of many houses within the city walls were still in place. From the high vantage point of the city we looked down on the valley of Elah, where David killed Goliath (1 Sam. 17). It is moving to stand in the very spot where these historical events occurred and it gives a richer significance to the biblical accounts.

We next visited the active archaeological site Tel Mareshah, where we were invited to participate in the dig. One member of our group discovered an oil lamp dated around 300 B.C.

From there we went to the site of the ancient city of Lachish, which was originally conquered by Joshua and later was second only to Jerusalem in strategic importance to Judah, whose king, Rehoboam, fortified the city for the defense of his kingdom (2 Chronicles 11:9).

The Assyrians had already conquered the northern kingdom of Israel in 722 B.C. and had their sights set on the southern kingdom of Judah. Accordingly, Assyrian King Sennacherib invaded Judah and conquered Lachish in 701 B.C. He memorialized this victory with a series of reliefs that he had carved on his palace walls in Nineveh, which depicted the siege and capture of Lachish (2 Kings 18:14, 17; 19:8; 2 Chronicles 32:9; Isaiah 36:2; 37; 37:8; Micah 1:13). Those reliefs are now in the British Museum.

When Sennacherib put siege to Jerusalem, as the Bible says, he couldn’t overtake the city. While not claiming victory, Sennacherib bragged that he had Judah’s King “Hezekiah caged like a bird” on the ancient Taylor Prism found in Iraq in 1830. This Prism is also in the British Museum and is verification of another event in the Bible.

It is difficult to express the majesty of these ancient areas and to adequately explain their profound impact. Though I have read and studied the Old Testament, I can’t begin to describe how much more meaningful its stories are after walking the grounds on which they unfolded. We have barely begun our journey and it is already the trip of my lifetime. Nothing else compares. In a later column, I’ll tell you about the New Testament sites we visit.
 
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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on April 1, 2017 at 6:30am
The Front Page Cover
 Featuring:
The False Compassion of Liberalism
by Stephen Moore
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 Top Headlines 
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Seattle files lawsuit over sanctuary cities funding threat. (NBC News)
 
Trump declares, "Freedom Caucus will hurt the entire Republican agenda if they don't get on the team," and "we must fight" them in 2018 midterm elections. (The Washington Post)
 
Report: liar-nObama officials blocked Comey from going public about Russian interference last summer. (Washington Examiner)
 
liar-Clinton-era State Department official supplied information to Chinese intelligence for cash. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Trump travel ban: Hawaii judge extends hold on implementing executive order. (Fox News)
 
VA tried to pay $10 million for 25 parking spaces, and 20-year official's excuse is that he's new. (The Daily Signal)
 
Trump administration is right: Open the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository. (Reason)
 
Interior secretary reopens federal coal mining. (The Hill)
 
U.S. oil producers continue to put pressure on OPEC. (CNBC)
 
Arizona college student fights for "mankind," penalized for refusing gender-neutral term — hello 1984. (The Washington Times)
 
Policy: California's moral atrocity. (National Review)
 
Policy: The truth about the economic impact of North Carolina's "bathroom bill." (Daily Signal) ~The Patriot Post
 
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That time China interfered with U.S. elections…
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by Sharyl Attkisson
{sharylattkisson.com} ~ Let me be clear: Do I think it’s possible Russia tried to influence the outcome of our elections? Absolutely. In fact, I consider it quite likely. Not because of the unsubstantiated conclusions made in the press... but because intelligence officials I trust tell me that Russia and other nations have attempted to influence our elections for decades, the same way we’ve often dabbled in influencing foreign elections. However, the disproportionate media and political attention paid to Russia’s alleged efforts in 2016—and to the Russia threat generally —smacks of politics and propaganda. For example, top former liar-nObama intel sources tell me they consider N. Korea, by far, the biggest foreign threat to the U.S. today. But N. Korea is barely mentioned in news reports. These intel officials put Iran and China next on the threat list—both, again, rarely discussed on the news, relative to Russia. The intel experts also mention ISIS and Islamist extremist terrorism as higher on the list than Russia. Further, when it comes to election-tampering, some intel sources consider China to be a more egregious, proven offender...  https://sharylattkisson.com/that-time-china-interfered-with-u-s-elections/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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Justice Department joins suit alleging
massive Medicare fraud by UnitedHealth
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by Fred Schulte
{publicintegrity.org} ~ The Justice Department has joined a California whistleblower’s lawsuit that accuses insurance giant UnitedHealth Group of fraud in its popular Medicare Advantage health plans... Justice officials filed legal papers to intervene in the suit, first brought by whistleblower James Swoben in 2009, on Friday in federal court in Los Angeles. On Monday, they sought a court order to combine Swoben’s case with that of another whistleblower. Swoben has accused the insurer of “gaming” the Medicare Advantage payment system by “making patients look sicker than they are,” said his attorney, William K. Hanagami. Hanagami said the combined cases could prove to be among the “larger frauds” ever against Medicare, with damages that he speculates could top $1 billion...
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Nunes’ Sources Are Inside The White House —
Here Are Their Names
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by Chuck Ross
The New York Times has revealed the two White House officials who helped provide House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes... with information showing that the liar-nObama administration incidentally collected intelligence on Donald Trump advisers. Ezra Cohen-Watnick, the senior director for intelligence at the National Security Council, and Michael Ellis, a lawyer in the office of the White House counsel, are the two officials, according to The Times. Nunes, a California Republican and member of the Trump transition team, has refused to disclose how he obtained information showing the liar-nObama administration’s incidental surveillance of the Trump team. Nunes announced the new details in a surprise press conference on Wednesday. During the briefing, Nunes suggested that his source was an intelligence community whistleblower.  http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/30/nyt-nunes-sources-are-inside-the-white-house-here-are-their-names/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Evening
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Putin Channels Bush – “Read My Lips,
No” Russian Meddling
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ CNN probably won’t want to follow the lead of RT and report on the latest statement by Russian President Putin regarding the claims made by the fake news propaganda establishment about his nation and the 2016 election... In a question and answer session at the Arctic Forum, President Putin was asked by a reporter, “I just want to be very clear about this, you and the Russian government didn’t, never tried to influence the outcome of the US Presidential election and there will be no evidence found.” Putin took off his headset, stared into the face of the questioning reporter and responded, in his native Russian as he pointed to his mouth, “Read my lips – NO.” Putin adopted a very animated expression to accentuate his comments. If only the Democrats would stop sabotaging our interactions to make political hay, or to save their access to crooked, underhanded deals, we might be able to normalize relations between our two countries...  http://rickwells.us/putin-channels-bush-read-lips-no-russian-meddling/
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Dr. Phil Interview Exposes Global Elite Pedophiles
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by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ In what may be the most explosive episode of his high-profile television career, psychologist and TV show host Dr. Phil exposed the little-known phenomenon of human trafficking of sex slaves among the elite echelons of society... According to Dr. Phil, the victim, and reliable sources who corroborated her story, the girl — now a young woman, perhaps in her mid-20s — was flown around the world on private jets and forced to have sexual relations and engage in unspeakable acts with wealthy businessmen, political leaders, and other establishment figures. Much of what was described on the Dr. Phil Show sounded satanic, analysts said. Experts who have studied the phenomenon, though, say this story is just the tip of a gigantic iceberg that stretches across the globe and is especially concentrated in power centers such as Washington, D.C., New York City, and London...
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The False Compassion of Liberalism
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by Stephen Moore
{townhall.com} Last week on CNN I debated a liberal commentator who complained that the problem with President Donald Trump's budget blueprint is that it lacks "compassion" for the poor, for children and for the disabled. This woman went on to ask me how I could defend a budget that would cut Meals on Wheels, after-school programs and special-education funding, because without the federal dollars, these vital services would go away.

This ideology -- that the government action is a sign of compassion -- is upside-down and contrary to the Christian notion of charity.

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so -- to "do unto others."

And we do fulfill that obligation more than the citizens of almost any other nation. International statistics show that Americans are the most charitable people in the world and the most likely to engage in volunteerism. Whenever there is an international crisis -- an earthquake, a flood, a war -- Americans provide more assistance than the people of any other nation.

But government, by its nature, is not compassionate. It can't be. It is nothing other than a force. Government can only spend a dollar to help someone when it forcibly takes a dollar from someone else. At its core, government welfare is predicated on a false compassion. This isn't to say that government should never take collective action to help people. But these actions are based on compulsion, not compassion.

If every so-called "patriotic millionaire" would simply donate half of their wealth to serving others we could solve so many of the social problems in this country without a penny of new debt or taxes. My friend Arthur Brooks, the president of American Enterprise Institute, has noted in his fabulous book "Who Really Cares: The Surprising Truth About Compassionate Conservatism" that conservatives donate more than the self-proclaimed compassionate liberals.

The liberal creed seems to be: "We care so much about poor people, climate change, income inequality and protecting the environment or whatever the cause of the day)that there is no limit to how much money should be taken out of other people's wallets to solve these problems."

Let's take Meals on Wheels. Is this a valuable program to get a nutritious lunch or dinner to infirmed senior citizens? Of course, yes. Do we need the government to fund it? Of course not. I have participated in Meals on Wheels and other such programs, making sandwiches or delivering hot lunches. And many tens of thousands of others donate their time and money every day for this worthy cause.

Why is there any need for government here? The program works fine on its own. Turning this sort of charitable task over to government only makes people act less charitably on their own. It leads to an "I gave at the office" mentality, which leads to less generosity. It also subjects these programs to federal rules and regulations that could cripple the programs. Why must the federal government be funding after-school programs -- or any school programs, for that matter?

One of my favorite stories of American history dates back to the 19th century when Col. Davy Crockett, who fought at the Alamo, served in Congress. In a famous incident, Congress wanted to appropriate $100,000 to the widow of a distinguished navel officer. Crockett took to the House floor and delivered his famous speech, relevant as ever: "We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to so appropriate a dollar of the public money. ... I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."

Crockett was the only member of Congress who donated personally to the widow, while the members of Congress who pretended to be so caring and compassionate closed their wallets.

It all goes to show that liberal do-gooders were as hypocritical then as they are today.
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 31, 2017 at 3:30pm
The Front Page Cover
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Want to erase yourself from the Internet?
Here's how to do it
by Abby Ohlheiser
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 The Generational Divide 
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By Robin Smith: In politics, demographics are key in messaging, for organizational platform development and for policy priorities.
          Demographics are pretty consistent with one fact: Age is a major factor in one's party affiliation. The younger the voter, the greater likelihood said voter is leftist or moderately Democrat in their worldview and philosophy. Logically, the inverse is also often a truism — the older the voter, the greater the likelihood of he or she leans center-Right or far-Right.
          An old adage, inaccurately attributed to Winston Churchill (and various others), states: "If you're not a liberal when you're young, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're old, you have no brain."
          While the fascination is usually on the monikers given for each generation and the corresponding traits, it's the traits found within these age groups that impact the usefulness of the tiered grouping of our adult population.
          Using classifications employed by the Pew Research Center, the Silent Generation would currently be 71-88 years of age. This group generally holds a worldview framed by the hardships of war and economic depression — sacrifice, personal responsibility, loyalty and the call to adulthood during crisis. Some 48% of Silents are politically center-Right. Baby Boomers range from 52-71 years old and are likewise largely defined as having a strong work ethic, and being goal-centric, self-assured and more disciplined. And 44% of the Boomers vote to the political Right. The next stratum is Generation X, Americans who are now 36 to 51 years old. This groups tends to be more "me" centric, hence their individualistic approach to social, civic, corporate and political engagement. This is the first generation to live to work, not work to live, and they vote to the Right of center 37% of the time. Finally, Millennials are 18- to 35-year-olds raised to seek constant communication, input and connection. This group is motivated by meaning, with their productivity linked to a purpose that is well communicated or marketed. Just 33% of Millennials vote Right. So what?
          As our cultural institutions — education, media, family, faith, government, entertainment and business — move to the left, the immersion of individuals into an environment defined by a "progressive" vision has changed American culture. Interestingly, as adults age with the vivid responsibilities of life, such as parenting, debt, investment, business expansion and countless other realities, a great deal of progressive failures are exposed. One's worldview becomes no longer framed by an academic exercise in social justice, love and tolerance, but by real life.
          As we've noted, the more recent one's birth year, the more one's political affiliations tend to be more to the left end of the spectrum. But that may soon change based on early research into Generation Z. These post-Millennials have never known life without the Internet, Islamic terrorism or the hyper-partisan climate at the local, state and federal levels of government. Again, so what?
          Some of the oldest of Generation Z voted in the 2016 elections. And the question is, will this be yet another group of youth with an entitled and emotion-based approach to life? Or will it be a generation guided by effective role models and adult leaders?
          Based on early unscientific data, these first-time voters, raised during times of recession and personal debt, are more fiscally conservative than their Millennial elders.
          A survey of 50,000 high school students aged 14 to 18 years old was shocking: Donald Trump won among participants by 46% to liar-Hillary Clinton's 31%. A majority identified as Republicans in this Presidential Pulse Study's entire polling audience.
          Further, those casting their ballots for the first time acknowledged the economy as the most important issue followed by education, gun rights and health care. Fifty-six percent declared the country is headed in the wrong direction. That's a stark departure from the "progressive" mantra that Barack liar-nObama was great and the answer was more of the same through liar-Hillary.
          An INC.com article notes that Generation Z identifies honesty as the most important trait of a leader. These kids have a greater respect for older generations, and seem to possess the trait of realism instead of excessive optimism.
          That presents an opportunity. Conservatives must not only include the soundness of small government and value of fiscal discipline for the older generations who are more conservative, but the "so what" of meaning and purpose to win the hearts and minds of Millennials and Generation Xers. And endeavoring to win over Generation Z will pay immense dividends.
          President Donald Trump spoke quite candidly on the campaign trail, absent the politically correct lexicon of the Left. He pulled no punches in his simple, yet direct, message. Perhaps his populist approach also appeals to Generation Z. Perhaps they've seen what leftism hath wrought and want no part of it.
          As always, time will tell, but time also has a way of making people more conservative. That's life experience for you. 
~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama Operative Admits To
Anti-Trump Deep State Spying
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judicial Watch’s Tom Fitton and Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice join Sean Hannity for a discussion of the bizarre revelations made by Evelyn Farkas on the MSNBC Morning Joe program... She was or is an liar-nObama deep state operative and political appointee who confirmed that an operation against President Trump existed and admitted to numerous related felonies in the process. Hannity asks Sekulow to “break this down legally for us, from the issue of surveillance, unmasking, leaking intelligence.” Hannity points out, “She’s not even in the administration anymore.” Sekulow agrees, noting that “At the time she said that she was aware of the information, the intelligence, she was no longer an employee of the State Defense Department. So the first question you have to ask, ‘How did a former defense secretary find out about this information when she was gone?’ So that brings up felony number one, who leaked her that information.” Number two, ‘We were concerned that the liar-Obama officials involved in this would be known by the Trump administration.’ Well guess what? The President of the United States is Donald Trump so of course he would know that. So then it brings up the third issue and the third issue is what in the world did they think that they had that they could justify doing this?”...Why isn't the networks and the media exposing this?  http://rickwells.us/sekulow-fitton-obama-operative-admits-anti-trump-deep-state-spying/
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Trump’s Budget Cuts Face Resistance
From Republican Lawmakers
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by Rachel del Guidice
{dailysignal.com} ~ Republican leaders are voicing disapproval of budget cuts proposed by President Donald Trump. “I doubt there’d be a lot of appetite for dramatic cuts this year,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn, R-Texas, told Roll Call... “I just look at it as a conversation. They’ve got their views, we’ve got our views, and we need to sit down and work that out.” According to CQ Roll Call’s Budget Tracker newsletter, Republican leaders such as Cornyn are openly disproving of Trump’s requested $18 billion in spending cuts for the current fiscal year budget, Politico reports...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/29/trumps-budget-cuts-face-resistance-from-republican-lawmakers/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpOaE1ETXlPRFF6TmpSaCIsInQiOiJNd3RTU2l0cjFDWHBKbEhiMnRaOW9UTkJHYm84RzkwWU9SekJxTzFWUUZ5TjNCc3VoY2hldUoxWVFcL2dsVStpRWpsNnliTE9XbFVhdmNSc2tIWlVudjk5V3JWYnNPdFBTclpCM3F2ZTBhWHZTcWhsTG5hQlJlTlg1TjdjYWpEeTgifQ%3D%3D
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The Muslim Brotherhood:
Peddling Sharia as Social Justice
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by Judith Bergman
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Gehad el-Haddad, official spokesman for the Muslim Brotherhood (MB), is on a mission to rewrite the terrorist and radical history of the MB. He seems to be doing this for the consumption of naïve Americans... These seem only too willing to believe -- in the name of tolerance, diversity and trying to be non-judgmental -- that an organization whose ultimate goal is the supreme reign of Islamic sharia law everywhere -- if necessary through violent jihad -- could possibly value anything even approximating equality and the rule of non-sharia law. "We are not terrorists," wrote el-Haddad in a recent article in the New York Times. The "faith", which el-Haddad avoids naming, is Islam. The very essence of Islam, as sanctioned in the Quran and the hadiths, however, seems to be the belief in a divine mandate to impose the single vision of Islam on the world -- if necessary, through violent jihad. Its motto is:...
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U.S. Commander in Iraq: "I'm Not
Targeting Civilians. ISIS Is."
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by SUSAN JONES
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ "The death of innocent civilians in war is a terrible tragedy that weighs heavily on all of us," Lieutenant General Stephen Townsend, commander of the U.S.-led coalition in Iraq, told a news conference on Tuesday... "But I know this -- I'm not targeting civilians. ISIS is. And so we will do the best job we absolutely can to prevent this unnecessary loss of life. The best way, though, to put an end to this human suffering is to win in Mosul and win in Raqqa and do it fast." Townsend said the coalition is investigating a March 17 explosion that leveled a building in western Mosul and killed an undetermined number of civilians. "Right now there are a lot of conflicting reports as to what brought down the building or buildings that caused civilian casualties," Townsend said. "What we know for sure is that we did conduct a strike in that area. What we don't know for certain is that that strike is responsible for the casualties in question...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/us-commander-in-iraq-im-not-targeting-civilians-isis-is?f=must_reads
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Democrats: Party of Obstruction
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by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Forget all the pages of the Democratic Party platform. The only real Democratic platform left is the one sung by Groucho Marx in Horse Feathers. “Whatever it is, I’m against it.”... The elected Democrats still surviving amid the trendy restaurants of Adams Morgan and the boutiques of Dupont Circle are convinced that the voters elected them and that taxpayers are paying them to get nothing done. Not one thing. The ordinary leftist wearing a pink hat and clutching a Resistance sign either has no job or a government job. At the pinnacle of this pathetic movement sits the Democratic member of Congress making $174,000 a year, with Nancy Pulosi and clown-Schumer taking home $193,000, and being paid to do nothing...They are not worth a penny.
http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266274/democrats-party-obstruction-daniel greenfield
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Want to erase yourself from the Internet?
Here's how to do it
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by Abby Ohlheiser
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ For those of us who spend a lot of time on the Internet, there will be the occasional urge to simply disappear - delete your accounts, roll back your Google results and become invisible.

At this particular moment in time, a lot of people seem to be interested in making that a reality - or at least in trying to completely cover up their tracks. Signal, a text and phone-call encryption app that comes with a recommendation from Edward Snowden, recorded a 400 percent jump in downloads after the election. And while landlords, colleges and potential employers have examined the social-media presence of applicants for years, there are signs that this kind of scrutiny is close to getting much more invasive.

A person's digital trail can also serve as the primary gateway to information used nefariously, opposition-research-style, in the online harassment of private individuals.

But what does "disappearing" online mean, anyway? Deleting all your social-media accounts or simply cleaning them up? Is it possible to totally disappear? Should you? Is there some real benefit to having an online presence? And what do you do if you still need to be on the Internet, just not quite as much as you currently are?

I asked Bradley Shear, a lawyer who specializes in social media and privacy, to walk me through a few different ways to try to become invisible. Before we get into the details, it must be said: If you really want to step away from the Internet and leave no digital trace, you're probably going to have to change a lot of things about the way you live day to day. And you're probably not going to like it.

To go the full off-the-grid route, "it's cash, barters," Shear said. "Do not use any electronic device that can lead back to your whereabouts."

But there are also advantages to having a robust digital life, ones that deleting everything will eliminate. So for those of us stuck in the middle, here are a few considerations:

DELETE YOUR ACCOUNTS (OR AT LEAST CLEAN THEM UP)

Having a social-media account is, more or less, ensuring your active participation in letting the Internet learn more about you. Facebook, in particular, knows a lot about you and is very good at tracking what you do across the rest of the Web. (Yes, even when you're not actively using Facebook.)

"You have to think about the digital accounts you currently have," Shear said. "You have a Facebook, LinkedIn, Amazon, old Myspace? Anything that has your name on it. You want to either delete content from them or delete the accounts altogether." Once that's done, many of the companies will still keep the data you previously gave them, but at least it won't be publicly shared.

No more social media, fine. But that's nothing compared with what Shear suggests next - getting rid of your Gmail account. "Every time you access it, they have your IP address," he said. For those who use an encrypted email service such as ProtonMail, a life disappeared would also mean you can't send emails to people using a Gmail or Yahoo account.

And if you want your activity not to be tracked across the Web, you would have to essentially use a virtual private network, or VPN, every time you access the Internet, unless you exclusively access the Internet from public machines (such as those at a public library). For search, you can use sites such as DuckDuckGo instead of Google or Yahoo, or any other search engine that tracks you.

If all of that's not going to happen, you could at the very least consider deleting unnecessary content from your social-media accounts. Twitter and Facebook let you download an archive of your data on the platform, in case you're worried about losing those great early tweets from college. And beyond the in-account settings for each service, third-party tools such as TweetDelete allow you to erase years of content automatically.

But even that, Shear noted, doesn't provide perfect results. "Using a service that deletes old tweets is helpful," he said. "However, the Library of Congress is cataloging every single tweet ever."

JustDelete.Me provides a good starting point for people who want straightforward links to the deletion pages of a ton of accounts you might have, along with a bit of guidance on how easy or hard it is to delete each one.

CREATE 'ALTERNATIVE FACTS'

For those who aren't going the full "off the grid" or the "delete all your accounts" routes - which would be most of us, let's be honest - Shear said that one of the most valuable things you can do is to litter the Internet with misinformation about yourself.

"Never have a real birthday," he said. "Always use a throwaway birthday" when signing up for social-media accounts or pretty much any other service online. Use a throwaway email. If a site or an app is asking for a bunch of information that you think it doesn't need from you to provide you with whatever service it is promising, don't do it. If that personal information is required to use that service, then make up some stuff. "You want to provide as many alternative facts as possible," Shear said.

If you've already given such information to a bunch of sites, try to change it. On Facebook, it's possible to change your birthday, for instance. But Facebook has a limit on how many times you can do this, so be careful.

Yes, Shear knows that this means he's essentially advising you to ignore the terms of service for these sites, and he's okay with that. "Feel free to protect your privacy and violate their terms of service," he said.

GO AFTER THE DATA BROKERS, AND DON'T BE LEAKY

Anyone who's ever self-Googled knows that there are a ton of "people search" sites out there that promise to host valuable information about individuals. Usually, this information - phone numbers, social-media profiles, addresses, anything else available from public records or through data collection on the Internet - is sold for a fee (but not always).

For instance, the Intersect looked at one particularly creepy site, FamilyTreeNow, a couple of weeks ago. That site takes all the information about you that can be gathered online and through public records, and presents it free, without requiring a log-in.

Welcome to the fun world of data brokers, the businesses that collect this information to sell it to other businesses. Trying to fully disappear from their databases, Shear warned, is like "whack-a-mole."

Here's how to start: "Look at the first five to 10 pages of your Google results and see who has your name," Shear said. Your information will probably be on sites such as Whitepages, Spokeo and Intelius, for instance. Each of these sites should have a way to opt out, but Shear warns that sometimes the opt-out process can be a scam. If the site requires you to verify your identity before opting out by giving more information about yourself or providing a government ID, don't do that.

If you want to start by requesting an opt-out from each of the major data brokers, this list is a good start. There are hundreds of sites like these, though, so be prepared to spend a significant amount of time on the opt-out process. And, you'll need to plan regular checkups for when your information eventually pops back up somewhere else.

The second part of keeping your information out of the hands of data brokers involves plugging any of your existing digital leaks and preventing the creation of new ones. Have you ever signed up for an account by linking it to your Facebook or Google accounts? That was not smart. Don't do that. Undo it if you can.

What permissions have you given each of the apps on your phone? "Most apps ask for way too much information," Shear warned. Does Yelp really need access to your contact list? For that matter, how much do you need that app that requires a ton of access to your phone and data? If you want to keep your phone, Shear recommended, go ahead and delete every single app you don't actually need. Be brutal.

DON'T GIVE UP

Even doing all of the above wouldn't completely disappear most of us from the Internet - particularly those of us who are older and have a longer digital trail. Should you even try to disappear from the Internet? That might be better rephrased as: Can you really disappear from the Internet?

Toward the end of our lengthy conversation, I used the word "futile," for reasons that might be obvious. But Shear doesn't like that word. It's better, he said, to try to do everything you can to erase your online presence as if it's going to work, because "you might not get perfect results, but it's always worth the effort to try."
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Fri/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 31, 2017 at 11:00am
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Is Health Care a Right or a Good?
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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 The Regulation Climate Is Changing 
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Over Barack liar-nObama's eight years, and particularly his last four, he governed by executive order. It wasn't so much the number of them that was galling, but the scope. Yet what can be done with a phone and pen can be undone with the same. Cue Donald Trump, with numerous executive orders already undoing some of the damage done by liar-nObama.
          One such order issued today take's aim at liar-nObama's climate policies. In 2015, liar-nObama introduced the Clean Power Plan, which had little to do with climate and everything to do with social justice and government power. It was a clean power grab, all to prevent warming of 0.01 degrees Celsius. It was also part of liar-nObama's war on coal, and it served to fulfill one of his inadvertent campaign promises: "Under my plan ... electricity rates would necessarily skyrocket." Fortunately, the U.S. Supreme Court put a stay on liar-nObama's plan.
          Better still, Trump is beginning to reverse that plan, though the process could take years. He has yet to address liar-nObama's Paris climate treaty, but this order signals that's possible. The Washington Times sums it up: "The Clean Power Plan, the first set of national limits on greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, is crucial to the U.S. meeting President liar-nObama's [Paris] pledge to cut emissions by at least 26 percent by 2025. While Mr. Trump has yet to formally pull out of the Paris deal — a nonbinding agreement with no enforcement mechanisms other than public shaming — his move Tuesday essentially guarantees the U.S. won't meet the ambitious target."
          NPR, which is appalled by Trump's changes, explains another facet: "The 'social cost of carbon' is another liar-nObama-era policy that directed government agencies to factor in the effects of climate change on their rule-making. It essentially put a price tag on carbon emissions and told agencies to factor that price tag in when making a regulation. The current cost is $36 per metric ton. Trump is expected to try to neuter the policy by directing the EPA to lower that cost to the point where it won't have much weight in policy-making."
          Along with lifting the burden from coal, Trump has already promised to revisit emissions standards and approved both the Dakota and Keystone pipelines. All signs point to energy policies that will help America lead the world.  ~The Patriot Post
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New JW liar-Clinton Email Espionage Evidence –
‘Bout Time It Was Put To Use?
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s a long shot, high odds bet that Attorney General Jeff Sessions will initiate an investigation into the criminal misconduct of liar-Hillary Clinton and perhaps her boss, Hussein liar-nObama... While most of us have come to believe that all of that equal justice stuff is just so much propaganda intended to keep the little people in line, there’s always a chance, slim as it is, that the biggest of offenders might someday have to answer for their crimes. If he needed more reasons to do so, Judicial Watch just provided Attorney General Sessions with additional evidence, piling it atop the mountain already accumulated, now stretching above the tree line, and begging for such actions to be taken. New liar-Clinton emails, some of them classified at the time they were exchanged over non-secured systems, have now come to light, thanks again to a Judicial Watch FOIA request. Their release stated in part:...This is great news.  http://rickwells.us/new-jw-clinton-email-espionage-evidence-bout-time-put-use/
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Maxine Waters’ Double Standard:
I Can Criticize Trump, But Don’t Criticize Me
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by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Since Donald Trump has become president, Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) has been on constant attack and calling for his impeachment. She hides behind her harsh criticism of the president by calling it “patriotic.”... But when the ridicule comes her way, she doesn’t like it one bit. On the House floor recently, Waters continued her anti-Trump crusade saying, “We fight against this president and we point out how dangerous he is. We're fighting for democracy. We're fighting for America.” “We're saying to those who say they're patriotic, but they turn a blind eye to the destruction he is about to cause to this country,” she added. “You are not nearly as patriotic as we are." A clip of this was played on Fox & Friends with Bill O’Reilly as a guest and he started a firestorm with his comments on Waters...
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The Upcoming Trade War Between The U.S. And China
Will Be The Biggest In The History Of The Planet
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by Michael Snyder
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ The United States and China are the two largest economies in the world by far, and the upcoming trade war that is about to erupt will be cataclysmic for both sides... The Trump administration and the Chinese government are both gearing up for a prolonged trade war, and this is going to have very severe implications for the entire global economy. During the campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly stated that we “can’t continue to allow China to rape our country”, and he was quite correct about that. Over the past ten years, the U.S. has run a trade deficit of over $2 trillion with China, and as a result of imbalanced trade we have lost tens of thousands of manufacturing businesses, millions of good paying jobs, and hundreds of billions of dollars of tax revenue. So clearly something needs to be done to balance our trade with China and other countries. But the situation must also be handled delicately, because trade disruptions could bring substantial short-term economic pain...
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House Bill Forbids EPA Use Of Secret
Voodoo “Science” In Crafting Regulations
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ On Wednesday the House voted to restrict the EPA from using made up or secret “science” in formulating and “justifying” regulatory actions.  The act, called the Honest and Open New EPA Science Treatment Act, or HONEST Act, passed 228-194... Any science used in the crafting of any future regulations would have to come from the public sphere. The EPA’s greatest enemy in the conduct of their takeover and the feeding of the “green monster” is the demand for specifics. Proof is much harder to come by than their previous anecdotal standard. The Honest Act is an effort to plan for the future, to corral what has been a rogue agency in the past and force them to accepted standards of transparency and legitimacy, two of their other primary nemeses. The bill must represent significant change because Democrats, and other control freaks disguised as environmentalists and health advocates are complaining that the HONEST Act is intended to handcuff the EPA. Why they would have a problem with the agency using real science instead of back room voodoo fabrications is difficult to explain other than that they know it’s all a hoax and a fraud and has been for decades, that the real goal is a means of controlling the peasant populations of America and the world and of crippling our great nation for conquest...
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Illegal Immigrant Charged With Voter Fraud
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by Alex Pfeiffer
{dailycaller.com} ~ A Nigerian citizen was indicted by a federal grand jury Wednesday for allegedly illegally reentering the U.S. after being deported and subsequently committing both tax and voter fraud... The federal indictment says that Kevin Kunlay Williams voted in both the 2012 and 2016 presidential elections. Williams was deported from the U.S. in 1995, and illegally returned in 1999. The Nigerian illegal immigrant allegedly became registered to vote in 2012 in local, state and federal elections by claiming he was a U.S. citizen. He allegedly stole public school employees’ identification information and used it to file more than 2000 false tax returns, seeking $12 million in refunds. The Nigerian illegal immigrant also allegedly stole Electronic Filing Identification Numbers (EFINs), which allowed him to print refund checks to send to the IRS...Its about time the government stepped forward on this issue.  http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/29/illegal-immigrant-charged-for-both-tax-and-voter-fraud/
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Is Health Care a Right or a Good?
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by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~The political fiasco that unfolded last week as President Donald Trump and the Republican House leadership failed to pass legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act, commonly called liar-nObamacare, is attributable as much to the failure of politics as it is to the failure of politicians to understand the constitutional role of the federal government.

Republicans could not muster a majority in the House, which they control, because a determined small group of them want to remove the federal government from the regulation of health care and believe that the replacement for liar-nObamacare that House leaders have offered would keep too much of it in place. The president and his allies have argued that their bill would invalidate enough of liar-nObamacare to return free choices to health care and to fulfill their campaign promises. Neither side has prevailed.

Here is the back story.

When Congress passed liar-nObamacare in 2010, it did so without a single Republican vote. The premise underlying the highly partisan 2,700-page legislation is that health care is a right belonging to everyone in America and the federal government has a constitutional duty to provide it.

The political structure of liar-nObamacare mandates that every person in America obtain health insurance, that every employer of more than 50 people in America pay for the health insurance of all employees who work more than 30 hours per week, that every policy of health insurance cover a large dimension of potential medical needs and that those earning under a certain annual income level receive health care at the expense of the rest of us. The failure to obtain and maintain health insurance triggers a tax burden -- equivalent to the annual premium on a health insurance policy -- for every year one goes without coverage.

The economic structure of liar-nObamacare requires 100 percent participation of everyone in America so as to ensure a large pool of insurance premiums -- whether paid by individuals, employers or taxpayers -- from which to pay health care providers. Still, premiums don't cover costs, which is why President Trump says liar-nObamacare is collapsing.

The regulatory structure of liar-nObamacare orders every primary care physician to keep all medical records on personal computers, to which the Department of Health and Human Services has access. Thus, the long-revered and uniquely American value of the patient-physician privilege -- the certain knowledge that your doctor will not reveal what you tell her or him -- has been obliterated. The statute also has given the secretary of HHS unreviewable powers to regulate intricacies of the delivery of health care in America.

Along with this expensive and bitter medicine -- which has caused hundreds of thousands of folks to downgrade to part-time work, reduced the wages of millions more and driven thousands of health care providers into retirement or new occupations -- liar-nObamacare also has provided some sugar. The statute orders insurance carriers to cover pre-existing conditions, children on their parents' policies up to the age of 26 and expensive elective procedures, such as abortions and sex reassignment.

After the Republicans acquired full control of Congress in 2015, they delivered numerous repeals of liar-nObamacare to President Barack liar-nObama, knowing that he'd veto them, which he did. These were complete repeals -- essentially removing the federal government from the regulation of health insurance and the delivery of health care.

Now that Republicans control Congress and the White House, you'd expect that they would do the same, as they have promised. No such thing has happened.
 
The legislation that Republican House leaders offered last week retained the basic premise of liar-nObamacare -- that health care is a right and the federal government has a duty to provide it -- and just nibbled a bit at the edges.

Under the House proposal, the obligation to have health insurance would remain, but you couldn't expect it from your employer; you might have to pay for it yourself. And the penalty for the failure to have coverage would not be a tax from the IRS; it would be a $3,000 annual surcharge from your insurance carrier when you sign up. You could buy insurance tailored to your needs, but nearly all remaining federal regulations would stay in place -- including a new Orwellian one that would permit your employer to require you to undergo genetic screening.

This liar-nObamacare lite has been resisted by about 30 House Republicans who reject the premise that health care is a right. Without their votes, it would not have passed last week, so the House leadership declined to hold a vote.

Is health care a right in America?

In a word, no. Rights are either natural immunities -- existing in areas of human behavior that, because of our nature, must be free from government regulation, such as life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as well as speech, the press, religion, travel, self-defense and what remains of privacy -- or legal claims that we qualify or bargain for, such as the right to vote, which the Constitution presumes, and the right to use your property to the exclusion of all others and the right to purchase a good that you can afford.

But the federal government cannot create a right that the Constitution does not authorize. It can't constitutionally transfer wealth from taxpayers or employers to others and then claim that the others have a right to the continued receipt of the transfers. The Supreme Court has ruled that even Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are government largesse that Congress could terminate because no one has a right to them.

Of course, the federal government has been creating expectations that it calls rights for centuries. To stay in office, members of Congress bribe the rich with bailouts, the middle class with tax cuts and the poor with made-up rights to all sorts of things.

Yet under the Constitution, health care is not a right; it is a good -- like an education or a gym membership. You work hard, you decide what goods to purchase. If government gives you the good, that does not magically transform it into a right.
 
Bravo to the courageous House Republicans who recognize this.
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 31, 2017 at 6:30am
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Trump's greatest deal
by Caroline B. Glick
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 Sanctuary City Crackdown Begins 
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Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the Department of Justice would begin fighting against lawless "sanctuary cities" — jurisdictions that refuse to cooperate with federal immigration law. Sessions called "sanctuary" policies "dangerous" and promised the DOJ would act against offending local governments by both withholding upwards of $4.1 billion in grants as well as "claw back" federal funds. Sessions warned, "The Department of Justice will require that jurisdictions seeking or applying for DOJ grants to certify compliance with [U.S. Code 1373] as a condition of receiving those awards."
          Sessions highlighted the glaring contradiction espoused by those who, under the guise of protecting immigrants, support these lawless sanctuary policies: "Failure to deport aliens who are convicted of criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk, especially immigrant communities in the very sanctuary jurisdictions that seek to protect the perpetrators." While all Americans suffer from the effects of unchecked illegal immigration, those communities most vulnerable to criminal aliens are legal immigrants. Sessions surmised that "countless Americans would be alive today ... and countless loved ones would not be grieving today ... if these polices of sanctuary cities were ended."
          Another important point Sessions made was the fact that his order is based upon the policies put in place by the liar-nObama administration last year — policies it subsequently failed to follow through on. Sessions is simply doing his job as attorney general in applying the Rule of Law.
          Predictably, leftist leaders from these sanctuary cities and immigrant groups voiced their consternation and intent to rebel. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio stated, "We won't back down from protecting New Yorkers from terror ... or from an overzealous administration fixated on xenophobia and needless division."
          Irrespective of the deluded sentiments expressed by these leftist leaders, the reality is that sanctuary cities provide no sanctuary from crime. Among numerous examples, the 2015 murder of Kate Steinle by a five-time deported criminal alien in San Francisco and the recent rape of a 14-year-old high schooler by illegal aliens in Maryland attest to that. Thankfully, for legal immigrants as well as native-born citizens, America now has an attorney general who believes in the Rule of Law and intends to apply it.  ~The Patriot Post
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Alabama Congressman Introduces
liar-nObamaCare Repeal Bill
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by Michael Tennant
{thenewamerican.com} ~ An Alabama congressman who opposed the Republican leadership’s flop liar-nObamaCare replacement bill has introduced legislation to do what he thinks the GOP should have done in the first place: repeal liar-nObamaCare outright... The liar-nObamaCare Repeal Act, introduced by Representative Mo Brooks (R-Ala.; shown), erases liar-nObamaCare from the books in the simplest way possible. It states that effective at the end of 2017, both the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act and the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010, the two laws signed by President Barack liar-nObama to enact the policies colloquially known as liar-nObamaCare, are “repealed, and the provisions of law amended or repealed by such Acts are restored or revived as if such Acts had not been enacted.” Brooks announced he would be introducing the bill in a Friday press release that also reiterated his intention to vote against the House leadership’s American Health Care Act (AHCA), which he called “liar-nObamaCare 2.0.” That bill ended up being withdrawn when it became clear that Brooks and likeminded colleagues had the votes to torpedo it...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/25704-alabama-congressman-introduces-obamacare-repeal-bill?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines
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Podesta Kremlin Cash – Russian Govt Funneled
Millions To liar-Clinton/liar-nObama Front Man
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The segment opens with a clip of liar-Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta making a hypocritical assertion from the liar-Clinton campaign plane, stating that the supposed Russian interference in our election “should be of utmost concern to all Americans.”... He didn’t mean to imply that his own shady dealings and influence peddling while working for liar-Clinton and liar-nObama should come under scrutiny. He’s supposed to have an exemption under the standard Democrat Hypocrisy clause but it may not be working out that way.  Peter Schweizer, author of liar-Clinton Cash, joins Steve Doocy to discuss the liar-Clinton Podesta liar-nObama corruption and their actual linkage to the Russians, contrasting it against the phony, contrived non-existent connections between Russia and the Trump campaign. Schweizer describes how in 2011, John Podesta joined the board of a very small energy company, Joule Energy. “About two months after he joins the board, a Russian entity called Rusnano puts a billion rubles, which is about $35 million into John Podesta’s company...The Dems won't mention this connection.  http://rickwells.us/podesta-kremlin-cash-russian-govt-funneled-millions-clinton-obama-front-man/
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Trump Takes Chainsaw to
liar-nObama's “Climate” Schemes
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by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ liar-nObama failed in his mission to make his "global-warming" schemes "Trump proof." Fulfilling some of his key campaign promises to voters, President Donald Trump moved Tuesday to dismantle huge swaths of the unconstitutional “climate” regime imposed on Americans by his predecessor... Among other important targets in Trump's latest executive order is liar-nObama's “Clean Power Plan” decree, which sought to regulate emissions of carbon dioxide, also known to scientists as the “gas of life.” The measure signed by Trump also takes aim at multiple other schemes adopted by liar-nObama that restricted energy production or killed jobs under the guise of stopping alleged man-made global warming. Trump's supporters and climate realists celebrated the news, though some warned that there was still important work left to do on the issue. Far-left Democrats, United Nations bureaucrats, and tax-funded climate alarmists, on the other hand, were left frothing at the mouth. In a sweeping executive order signed Tuesday, Trump ordered all federal agencies to begin reviewing regulations that unnecessarily burden energy production... https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/25705-trump-takes-chainsaw-to-obama-s-climate-schemes?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm_content=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines+Mar+29+17
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liar-nObama Operative Admits Regime Spied
On Trump, Spread, Leaked Info
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin plays a conversation between Mika Brzezinski and Evelyn Farkas, who was Deputy Assistant Secretary at the Pentagon for Hussein liar-nObama. Deep state, CFR member and liar-nObama operative Brzezinski says... “You actually knew about this attempt to get and preserve information and full transparency were doing some of this work yourself. Tell us about this.” Farkas says, “Well, I was urging my former colleagues and frankly speaking, the people on the hill, it was more actually aimed at telling the hill people, get as much information as you can, get as much intelligence as you can before ‘president’ liar-nObama leaves the administration because I had a fear that somehow that information would disappear with the senior people who left.” Farkas continues, “So it would be hidden away in the bureaucracy that the Trump folks, if they found out how we knew what we knew about their, about the Trump staff’s dealing with Russians, that they would try to compromise those sources and methods, meaning we would no longer have access to that intelligence...  http://rickwells.us/levin-obama-operative-admits-regime-spied-on-trump-spread-leaked-info/
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The Bigotry of "Intersectionality"
by Alan M. Dershowitz
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ What do the terrorist group Hamas and the anti-violence group Black Lives Matter have in common? What does the democracy of Israel have in common with the anti-Semitic Ku Klux Klan?... What does the Islamic Republic of Iran, which throws gays off rooftops, have in common with gay right activists? What do feminists have in common with radical Islamic sexists who support the honor killing and genital mutilation of women? Nothing of course. Unless you subscribe to the pseudo-academic concept of intersectionality. Intersectionality – the radical academic theory, which holds that all forms of social oppression are inexorably linked— has become a code word for anti-American, anti-Western, anti-Israel and anti-Semitic bigotry. Nowhere has adoption of this radical paradigm been more pronounced then on college campuses where, in the name of "identity politics" and "solidarity," intersectionality has forced artificial coalitions between causes that have nothing to do with each other except a hatred for their fellow students who are "privileged" because they are white, heterosexual, male and especially Jewish...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10131/the-bigotry-of-intersectionality
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Trump's greatest deal
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by Caroline B. Glick

{jewishworldreview.com} ~ What can be done about Iran? In Israel, a dispute is reportedly raging between the IDF and the Mossad about the greatest threat facing Israel. IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot thinks that Hezbollah is the greatest threat facing Israel. Mossad Director Yossi Cohen thinks Iran’s nuclear program is the greatest danger facing the Jewish state.

While the media highlight the two men’s disagreement, the underlying truth about their concerns has been ignored.

Hezbollah and Iran’s nuclear program are two aspects of the same threat: the regime in Tehran.

Hezbollah is a wholly owned subsidiary of the regime. If the regime disappeared, Hezbollah would fall apart. As for the nuclear installations, in the hands of less fanatical leaders, they would represent a far less acute danger to global security.

So if you undermine the Iranian regime, you defeat Hezbollah and defuse the nuclear threat.

If you fail to deal with the regime in Tehran, both threats will continue to grow no matter what you do, until they become all but insurmountable.

So what can be done about Tehran? With each passing day we discover new ways Iran endangers Israel and the rest of the region.

This week we learned Iran has built underground weapons factories in Lebanon. The facilities are reportedly capable of building missiles, drones, small arms and ammunition. Their underground location protects them from aerial bombardment.

Then there is Hezbollah’s relationship to the Lebanese Armed Forces (LAF).

For more than a decade, the Americans have been selling themselves the implausible claim that the LAF is a responsible fighting force capable and willing to rein in Hezbollah. Never an easy claim – the LAF provided targeting information to Hezbollah missile crews attacking Israel in 2006 – after Hezbollah domesticated the Lebanese government in 2008, the claim became downright silly. And yet, over the past decade, the US has provided the LAF with weapons worth in excess of $1 billion. In 2016 alone the US gave the LAF jets, helicopters, armored personnel carriers and missiles worth more than $220 million.

In recent months, showing that Iran no longer feels the need to hide its control over Lebanon, the LAF has openly stated that it is working hand in glove with Hezbollah.

Last November, Hezbollah showcased US M113 armored personnel carriers with roof-mounted Russian anti-aircraft guns, at a military parade in Syria. The next month the Americans gave the LAF a Hellfire missile-equipped Cessna aircraft with day and night targeting systems.

Lebanon’s President Michel Aoun is a Hezbollah ally. So is Defense Minister Yaacoub Sarraf and LAF commander Gen. Joseph Aoun.

Last month President Aoun told Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the US Senate Foreign Affairs Committee, that Hezbollah serves “a complementary role to the Lebanese army.”

And yet the Americans insist that it continues to make sense – and to be lawful – to arm the LAF.

You can hardly blame them. Denial is an attractive option, given the alternatives.

For the past eight years, the liar-nObama administration did everything in its power to empower Iran. To make Iran happy, liar-nObama did nothing as hundreds of thousands of Syrians were killed and millions more were forced to flee their homes by Iran and its puppet Bashar Assad.

liar-nObama allowed Iran to take over the Iraqi government and the Iraqi military. He sat back as Iran’s Houthi proxy overthrew the pro-US regime in Yemen.

And of course, the crowning achievement of liar-nObama’s foreign policy was his nuclear deal with the mullahs. liar-nObama’s deal gives Iran an open path to a nuclear arsenal in a bit more than a decade and enriches the regime beyond Ayatollah Khamenei’s wildest dreams.

liar-nObama empowered Iran at the expense of the US’s Sunni allies and Israel, and indeed, at the expense of the US’s own superpower status in the region, to enable the former president to withdraw the US from the Middle East.

Power of course, doesn’t suffer a vacuum, and the one that liar-nObama created was quickly filled.

For decades, Russia has been Iran’s major arms supplier. It has assisted Iran with its nuclear program and with its ballistic missile program. Russia serves as Iran’s loyal protector at the UN Security Council.

But for all the help it provided Tehran through the years, Moscow never presented itself as Iran’s military defender.

That all changed in September 2015. Two months after liar-nObama cut his nuclear deal with the ayatollahs, Russia deployed its forces to Syria on behalf of Iran and its Syrian and Lebanese proxies.

In so doing, Russia became the leading member and the protector of the Iranian axis.

Russia’s deployment of forces had an immediate impact not only on the war in Syria, but on the regional power balance as a whole. With Russia serving as the air force for Iran and its Syrian and Hezbollah proxies, the Assad regime’s chances of survival increased dramatically. So did Iran’s prospects for regional hegemony.

For liar-nObama, this situation was not without its advantages.

In his final year in office, liar-nObama’s greatest concern was ensuring that his nuclear deal with Iran would outlive his presidency. Russia’s deployment in Syria as the protector of Iran and its proxies was a means of achieving this end.

Russia’s alliance with Iran made attacking Iran’s nuclear program or its Hezbollah proxy a much more dangerous prospect than it had been before.

After all, in 2006, Russia supported Iran and Hezbollah in their war against Israel. But Russia’s support for Iran and its Lebanese legion didn’t diminish Israel’s operational freedom. Israel was able to wage war without any fear that its operations would place it in a direct confrontation with the Russian military.

This changed in September 2015.

The first person to grasp the strategic implications of the Russian move was Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Netanyahu recognized that with Russian forces on the ground in Syria, the only way for Israel to take even remedial measures to protect itself from Iran and its proxies was to drive a wedge between President Vladimir Putin and the ayatollahs wide enough to enable Israel to continue its raids against weapons convoys to Hezbollah and other targets without risking a confrontation with Russia. This is the reason that Netanyahu boarded a flight to Moscow to speak to Putin almost immediately after the Russian leader deployed his forces to Syria.

Israel’s ability to continue to strike targets in Syria, whether along the border on the Golan Heights or deep within Syrian territory, is a function of Netanyahu’s success in convincing Putin to limit his commitment to his Iranian allies.

Since President Donald Trump entered the White House, Iran has been his most urgent foreign policy challenge. Unlike liar-nObama, Trump recognizes that Iran’s nuclear program and its threats to US economic and strategic interests in the Persian Gulf and the Levant cannot be wished away.

And so he has decided to deal with Iran.

The question is, what is he supposed to do? Trump has three basic options.

He can cut a deal with Russia. He can act against Iran without cutting a deal with Russia. And he can do nothing, or anemically maintain liar-nObama’s pro-Iran policies.

The first option has the greatest potential strategic payoff. If Trump can convince Russia to ditch Iran, then he has a chance of dismantling the regime in Tehran and so defusing the Iranian nuclear program and destroying Hezbollah without having to fight a major war.

The payoff to Russia for agreeing to such a deal would be significant. But if Trump were to adopt this policy, the US has a lot of bargaining chips that it can use to convince Putin to walk away from the ayatollahs long enough for the US to defuse the threat they pose to its interests.

The problem with the Russia strategy is that since Trump defeated liar-Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, the Democrats, their allied media outlets and powerful forces in the US intelligence community have been beset by a Russia hysteria unseen since the Red scares in the 1920s and 1950s.

The fact that liar-nObama bent over backward to cater to Putin’s interests for eight years has been pushed down the memory hole.

Also ignored is the fact that during her tenure as secretary of state, liar-Clinton approved deals with the Russians that were arguably antithetical to US interests while the liar-Clinton Foundation received millions of dollars in contributions from Russian businessmen and companies closely allied with Putin.

Since November 8, the Democrats and their clapping seals in the media and allies in the US intelligence community have banged the war drums against Russia, accusing Trump and his advisers of serving as Russian patsies at best, and Russian agents at worst.

In this climate, it would be politically costly for Trump to implement a Russian-based strategy for dismantling the Iranian threat.

This brings us to the second option, which is to confront Iran and Russia. Under this option, US action against Iran could easily cause hostilities to break out between the US and Russia. It goes without saying that the political fallout from making a deal with Russia would be nothing compared to the political consequences if Trump were to take the US down a path that led to war with Russia.

Obviously, the economic and human costs of such a confrontation would be prohibitive regardless of the political consequences.

This leaves us with the final option of doing nothing, or anemically continuing to implement liar-nObama’s policies, as the Americans are doing today.

Although tempting, the hard truth is that this is the most dangerous policy of all.

You need only look to North Korea to understand why this is so.

Seemingly on a daily basis, Pyongyang threatens to nuke America. And the US has no good options for dealing with the threat.

As Secretary of State Rex Tillerson acknowledged during his recent trip to Asia, decades of US diplomacy regarding North Korea’s nuclear program did nothing to diminish or delay the threat.

North Korea has been able to develop nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missiles while threatening the US with destruction because North Korea enjoys the protection of China. If not for the Chinese, the US would long ago have dealt a death blow to the regime.

Israel has moved Russia as far away from Iran as it can on its own. It is enough to stop convoys of North Korean weapons from crossing into Lebanon.

But it isn’t enough to cause serious harm to Tehran or its clients.

The only government that can do that is the American government.

Trump built his career by mastering the art of deal making. And he recognized that liar-nObama’s deal with Iran is not the masterpiece liar-nObama and his allies claim but a catastrophe.

The Iran deal Trump needs to make with the Russians is clear. The only question is whether he is willing to pay the political price it requires.
 
http://jewishworldreview.com/0317/glick032317.php3
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 30, 2017 at 4:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Georgetown University and Radical Islamists:
It's a Family Affair
by Steven Emerson
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 Top Headlines 
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Senate Majority Leader McConnell affirms Gorsuch confirmation — Democrats can choose how. (CNS News)
 
Trump's executive order on energy has been sorely needed. (The Daily Signal)
 
President is reversing record number of government regulations. (Reason)
 
House Republicans revise plan to replace liar-nObamaCare. If at first you don't succeed... (The Daily Signal)
 
City leaders defy White House threat on sanctuary cities policies. (CBS New York)
 
For sale: Your "private" browsing history — Congress passes bill allowing ISPs to sell customer Web surfing data. (ArsTechnica)
 
Britain gives EU formal notice of Brexit break — prepares to restore sovereignty. (The Washington Post)
 
Oregon Democrats: OK sex mutilation at 15 but want to raise tobacco use age to 21. (Washington Examiner)
 
College suspends student who challenged Muslim prof's claim that Jesus' crucifixion a hoax. (The Washington Times)
 
Humor/satire: Man who constantly calls people "snowflakes" deeply offended by slightest criticism of President Trump. (The Babylon Bee)
 
Policy: Reining in sanctuary cities. (National Review)
 
Policy: How paid parental leave in the U.S. could work. (American Action Forum)  ~The Patriot Post
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Possibilities for reunifying the Korean Peninsula
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by John R. Bolton
{aei.org} ~ With North Korea threatening its sixth nuclear test, and the pace of its ballistic-missile tests quickening, Pyongyang’s global threat is ever more imminent... Twenty-five years of self-defeating American efforts to negotiate with the world’s only hereditary Communist dictatorship have, not surprisingly, proven fruitless. The North’s persistence and duplicity, U.S. naivete and diplomatic incompetence, and political and economic backing over the years from China, Russia and Iran have all contributed to the current crisis, where good options are scarce. After decades of rhetoric and failed diplomacy, Republican and Democratic alike, we have all but run out of time to prevent a nuclear North Korea by peaceful means. Accordingly, national-security strategists are now examining American military options to protect our innocent civilians, and those of regional allies South Korea (inconveniently enmeshed in a constitutional crisis) and Japan...  http://www.aei.org/publication/possibilities-for-reunifying-the-korean-peninsula/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=032
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Palestinians: We Have the Right to
Poison the Minds of our Children
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by Bassam Tawil
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In an ironic turnaround, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees (UNRWA) is now the object of intimidation and threats made by many Palestinians... UNRWA is reportedly planning to introduce some changes to the curriculum in its schools in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinians are rather unhappy about it. They claim that UNRWA has "succumbed" to Israeli pressure to make the changes. The proposed changes are based on leaks to Palestinians and have not been confirmed by UNRWA. Palestinians claim that they learned about the plans to introduce the changes during meetings with senior UNRWA officials. According to the Palestinians, the changes are intended to "eradicate" their "national identity" and "history" and distort their "struggle" against Israel...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10122/palestinians-poison-children
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Dhimmitude: Get to know what it is
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by VICTOR SHARPE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Ask people in the United States what a dhimmi is and perhaps a handful might know. In Europe, and as far as India and the far east, the number would be higher... because of latent memories of battles fought against invading Moslem armies across the span of centuries. For a while there was the specter of triumphant Islam building a giant mosque mere yards from Ground Zero in New York City where Islamic fanatics, in the name of Allah, destroyed the World Trade Center and brought the two magnificent towers down in a cascade of horror. If this outrage had been built, it would not have been a symbol of Muslim outreach to non-Moslems; it would have been a sickening insult to the victims of Islamic barbarism and a tangible rallying cry to millions more jihadists who would see it as Islam's victory over a vanquished United States of America... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/dhimmitude-get-to-know-what-it-is-2?f=must_reads
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Judge Napolitano is Back and He Stands by
liar-nObama Wiretapping Claims
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by Christian Datco
{dailycaller.com} ~ Fox News Channel legal analyst Andrew Napolitano returned to the air Wednesday, saying he stood by his claim about spying on President Donald Trump that got him benched by the network for more than a week... At his beginning of his latest appearance, host Bill Hemmer brought up the suspension, yet Napolitano said he still stands by claim. “Yes, I do” stand by the initial claim, Napolitano stated. “And the sources stand by it.” “The American public needs to know more about this rather than less because a lot of the government’s surveillance authorities will expire in the fall, and there will be a great debate about how much authority we want the government to have to surveil us.”...Excellent choice foxnews. http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/29/fox-news-brings-back-judge-napolitano-who-still-stands-by-obama-wiretapping-claim-video/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Evening
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State Dept Employee Arrested For Spying –
For Doing Much Less Than liar-Hillary Clinton
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{rickwells.us} ~ This could get interesting, as what this State Department employee did was nothing compared to what her former boss, liar-Hillary Clinton, did and got away with. It’s less corrupt than John hanoi-Kerry funneling millions in US Aid money to his daughter’s “charity,” yet neither of them sits behind bars... Just how motivated will she be to spill the beans about what has been going on under the last eight years of pillage and criminality? According to the Dept of Justice, “A federal complaint was unsealed today charging Candace Marie Claiborne, 60, of Washington, D.C., and an employee of the U.S. Department of State, with obstructing an official proceeding and making false statements to the FBI, both felony offenses, for allegedly concealing numerous contacts that she had over a period of years with foreign intelligence agents. Acting Assistant Attorney General McCord, stated the government’s position, saying, “Candace Marie Claiborne is a U.S. State Department employee who possesses a Top Secret security clearance and allegedly failed to report her contacts with Chinese foreign intelligence agents who provided her with thousands of dollars of gifts and benefits...
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Georgetown University and Radical Islamists:
It's a Family Affair
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by Steven Emerson
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Georgetown University's Qatar campus is set to host Sami Al-Arian for a lecture tonight in Doha. According to a news release from the school's Middle Eastern Studies Student Association, Al-Arian is a "civil rights activist" who hopes to challenge students to "make it a better, and more equitable and peaceful world."

Those are charitable descriptions for Al-Arian, a documented member of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Majlis Shura, or board of directors. According to the Islamic Jihad's bylaws, which law enforcement agents found during searches of Al-Arian's home and offices, there can be "No Peace without Islam." The group's objective is to create "a state of terror, instability and panic in the souls of Zionists and especially the groups of settlers, and force them to leave their houses."

It's an agenda Al-Arian took to heart. Following a double suicide bombing in 1995 that killed 19 Israelis, Al-Arian solicited money from a Kuwaiti legislator. "The latest operation, carried out by the two mujahideen who were martyred for the sake of God, is the best guide and witness to what they believing few can do in the face of Arab and Islamic collapse at the heels of the Zionist enemy..." he wrote.

"I call upon you to try to extend true support of the jihad effort in Palestine so that operations such as these can continue, so that the people do not lose faith in Islam and its representatives..." he wrote. Four years earlier, he spoke at a fundraiser in Cleveland, introduced as the head of the "active arm of the Islamic Jihad Movement in Palestine."

Why, then, is a Jesuit university, albeit at a campus in Qatar, hosting a leader of a designated terrorist group's "active arm"?

There's a family bond between Georgetown University and the Al-Arians. Son Abdullah is an assistant professor at Georgetown's Qatar campus, teaching history in its School of Foreign Service. He earned his Ph.D. at Georgetown, writing his dissertation about the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood during the 1970s, a time his father acknowledges being part of the global Islamist movement.

Jonathan Brown, Al-Arian's son-in-law, also works at Georgetown, as the Saudi Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization. Brown recently drew criticism for a lecture in which he argued that slavery isn't inherently "morally evil" if the slave is treated well. He also minimized sexual consent as a recent social more, arguing no one is really free enough to grant consent anyway.

Property records show Brown and his wife Laila Al-Arian bought a modest house just outside Tampa in 2015. Brown also owns a $1.1 million house in Mclean, Va.

Brown's boss, Georgetown University Professor John Esposito, has been a staunch Al-Arian defender. Al-Arian is "an extraordinarily bright, articulate scholar and intellectual-activist, a man of conscience with a strong commitment to peace and social justice," Esposito wrote in a letter to a federal judge.

Brown's slavery and sexual consent lecture was hosted by the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) in Herndon, Va. The IIIT was a prime financial supporter of a think tank Al-Arian founded in Tampa called the World and Islam Studies Enterprise (WISE). It provided cover for at least three other members of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad's Shura Council, including his brother-in-law Mazen Al-Najjar, an academic named Basheer Nafi and Ramadan Abdullah Shallah the Islamic Jihad's secretary general since late 1995.

Federal prosecutors wanted Al-Arian to tell a grand jury what he knew about the IIIT's financial support for terrorists. He refused. Al-Arian was charged with criminal contempt after maintaining that stance even after a judge granted him immunity for his truthful testimony.

The case never went to trial. Al-Arian was deported to Turkey in 2015, pursuant to terms in his 2006 guilty plea connected to his Palestinian Islamic Jihad support. He now works as "director of the Center for Regional Politics at Istanbul Sabahattin Zaim University," the Georgetown Middle East students group's news release said.

Al-Arian is a computer scientist.

Sabahattin Zaim opened in 2010 and claims to have about 1,100 undergraduate students.

While the Georgetown University program is organized by a student group, promotional material lists Mehran Kamrava as moderator. Kamrava directs the Georgetown School of Foreign Service's Center for International and Regional Studies.

His presence adds the university's imprimatur to the Al-Arian event. In addition, the School of Foreign Service posted the news release promoting Al-Arian's lecture.

Qatar has supported Hamas, the Islamic Jihad's rival Palestinian terrorist group, providing money and refuge for Hamas leaders. In that light, Al-Arian's invitation doesn't seem out of place. But it is still an event hosted by a Georgetown University campus, moderated by one of its prominent faculty.

While Al-Arian has tried to deny his Islamic Jihad activities, or at least minimize them, his work to advance the group's bloody ambitions is undeniable. He self-identified as the Shura Council's secretary. In his plea agreement, he admits lying about Shallah's prominent role in the Islamic Jihad.

During his 1991 remarks in Cleveland after his "active arm" introduction, Al-Arian urged donations for jihad. "Your brothers in Palestine are struggling with their beings," he said, "so let us struggle here with our money."

"This is the way of giving," he said earlier. "This is the way of struggle. This is the way of battle. This is the way of jihad. This is the way of martyrdom. Thus is the way of blood, because this is the path to heaven."

The student association's news release failed to mention this background as a convicted felon, describing the former University of South Florida professor as a "civil rights advocate." It fails to mention Al-Arian's guilty plea, and whitewashes his resulting deportation to Turkey by saying "Al-Arian relocated."

The federal judge who saw all the evidence against Al-Arian, who watched him lie about his true identity and violent ambitions, called him a "master manipulator." Old habits die hard, apparently. The question in this case is whether Georgetown and its student groups are being duped or are witting accomplices in whitewashing a terrorist into a "human rights advocate."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0317/georgetown_jihad.php3

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Thurs/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 30, 2017 at 11:00am
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Fight over FDA and 'right-to-try' laws
moves from states to Congress
by Laurie McGinley
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 Forcing 'Gender' Conformity 
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On Friday, the Associated Press further embraced the transgender revolution via an email released to subscribers in which it listed updates for its style manual. These included an official redefinition to its understanding of the term "gender." The AP has concluded that "gender" is not "synonymous with sex," stating, "Gender refers to a person's social identity while sex refers to biological characteristics." The AP continued, "Not all people fall under one of two categories for sex or gender, according to leading medical organizations, so avoid references to both, either or opposite sexes or genders as a way to encompass all people." This has continued a long trend of redefining terms. But it's not just style manuals. It's forced conformity in life.
          At a high school in Jasper, Indiana, a creative student produced and displayed copies of a flier entitled "Straight Pride." The flier humorously and pointedly stated, "Celebrate being straight at JHS by not annoying the heck out of everyone about your sexual orientation! It's easy! Just come to the JHS, then you go about your day without telling everyone about how 'different' and 'special' you are!" School officials quickly removed the fliers, and superintendent Tracy Lorey told parents that the fliers did not represent the majority of the students: "It is our intent to provide students opportunities to express themselves in a way that helps them to be understanding of the unique qualities of all individuals." In other words, they only allow expressions of "diverse" thought which they find acceptable.
          And of course, there is no room for freedom of speech or religion when it comes to the Left's sacred cow of sexual deviancy. They seek to get one fired for holding the wrong opinion, whether it's Mozilla's Brendan Eich or the celebrated firing of an old coworker who wouldn't bow to using the "right" pronoun. They pressure companies and sports leagues to boycott an entire state over a common-sense bathroom law as in North Carolina. They shut down a mom and pop bakery for refusing to bake a cake for a same-sex wedding. They demand language usage be changed to accommodate the delusions of "non-binary" sexuality. Conformity, not diversity, is what the Rainbow Mafia and the Left demand.  ~The Patriot Post
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Head Clown Schumer Quite Impressed
With Himself, Without Justification
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts “on the man President Trump has proclaimed as the head clown. Senate Minority Leader, Chuck clown-Schumer has caricatured himself with his over the top mendacity, his petty partisanship and just plain meanness... His powerful sense of self-importance was manifest in an interview with Politico today. How so, you ask, and clown-Schumer delivers.” Dobbs relates clown-Schumer’s story, how after the election “clown-Schumer was distraught and the divine, he says, interceded to lift his sagging spirit. He said it was like a thunderbolt hit me, almost a message from God.  I said to myself, if liar-Hillary won and you were majority leader job would be more fun and it would be a lot easier. But with Trump as President and you as Minority Leader, the job  is much more important.” Dobbs is impressed, noting, “Much more important, wow. The Minority Leader even going so far as to predict victory for Dems if there is a government shutdown, and in his resurgent mood and high-flying esteem he sees only good in the confirmation  battle over Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch.”...
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Dem lawmaker tips off illegals in MS-13 hotbed
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by Chelsea Schilling
{wnd.com} ~ A Democrat state lawmaker in Massachusetts has been caught tipping off illegals – many of whom are violent street gang members, child sex offenders and drug traffickers... to imminent Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids Tuesday, even telling criminal targets not to open their doors, to stay silent, to refuse to sign anything and to “fight back” with an attorney. An Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman suggested to WND that the lawmaker is “doing a disservice to the community” and “endangering public safety” with her statements. Massachusetts State Rep. Michelle DuBois, a Democrat representing the 10th Plymouth District, warned illegals about imminent federal immigration raids scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday in Brockton, a city just 25 miles outside of Boston. DuBois posted the warning on her Facebook page. She included a phone number illegal aliens may call if they’re caught in an immigration raid...This is Treason and should be charged.  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/dem-lawmaker-tips-off-illegals-to-imminent-ice-raids/
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Adam “Shifty” Schiff Should Recuse Himself
As Ranking Dem On Intel Committee
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin tells his audience, “It’s time to go on offense. Let me show you how to play. I’m calling for Adam Schiff to recuse himself as the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee... given the fact that he was such an avid supporter of liar-Hillary Clinton for President of the United States.” Levin continues, “Given the fact that he was a cover up artist during the Benghazi operation, given the fact that he’s demonstrated his unwillingness to be bi-partisan by his calls for Jeff Sessions to step aside. He’s called for a special prosecutor,” Levin notes, “now he’s called for an independent committee, which he’s actually called for some time.” He says, “Adam Schiff has shown himself to be a radical leftist partisan hack, who cannot be trusted in an independent investigation of any sort, on the intelligence committee, quite frankly or on any other committee...I agree with Levin and others should also.  http://rickwells.us/mark-levin-adam-shifty-schiff-recuse-ranking-dem-intel-committee/
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Lost Privacy Rights in America
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ America is a total surveillance society. Big Brother is no longer fiction. Sophisticated technologies make total monitoring possible, everyone vulnerable, including presidents... All our moves, transactions and communications can be recorded, compiled and stored for easy access. Anything we say or do can be used against us. Bill of Rights protections no longer apply. Collecting meta-data communications on Americans is unrelated to national security. Judicial oversight is absent. Congressional members are told little about what goes on. The CIA, NSA, FBI and other US spy agencies operate ad libitum, doing whatever they wish unaccountably...  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/lost-privacy-rights-america/
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Why Intel Committees Not Investigating
liar-Clinton Real Russia Collusion Corruption?
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Sean Hannity sets up the segment with questions that those of us in the masses that are the silent majority have been screaming to have answered for over a year... He references a single “donation” of $31 million to the liar-Clinton Foundation by a Canadian who accompanied Bill liar-Clinton on a suspicious trip to Kazakhstan. There’s the other millions that were donated in addition to the doubling of the already outrageous speaking fees for the sexual predator ex-president, and his wife, the Secretary of State, liar-Hillary Clinton “signed off on Russia getting 20% of America’s uranium.” Any of these individually would  be cause for concern. Taken in their totality they spell fraud, conspiracy, racketeering and treason. Gingrich notes that “it is very strange that both the House and Senate Intelligence committees are chaired by Republicans, and yet all of the noise is about phony charges involving Donald Trump.”...  http://rickwells.us/gingrich-intel-committees-not-investigating-clinton-real-russia-collusion-corruption/
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Fight over FDA and 'right-to-try' laws
moves from states to Congress
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by Laurie McGinley
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ "Where's Jordan?" asked Vice President Mike Pence as he walked into the White House meeting of terminally ill patients and their families. All eyes shifted, and Pence made a beeline for a 7-year-old boy from Indianapolis with a broad grin.

Back home, when Pence was Indiana's governor, Jordan McLinn and his battle with Duchenne muscular dystrophy had helped inspire passage of a state "right-to-try" law intended to give the desperately ill access to medications not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration. Fast forward to Washington, D.C., where Pence is now in a position to encourage national right-to-try legislation.

"We're going to get this done," he assured Jordan's mother, Laura McLinn, and the other families gathered last month.

Thirty-three states have passed such laws, which ostensibly allow patients to take experimental medicines outside of clinical trials and without FDA oversight as long as the therapies have undergone preliminary safety testing. Many of the remaining states are considering such bills or are expected to do so.

And now, for the first time, federal legislation is gaining traction.

Congressional supporters may try to attach a measure - drafted with a unique and highly controversial restriction on the FDA - to the agency's must-pass funding bill this year. The anti-regulatory mood dominating Washington is boosting these efforts.

President Donald Trump recently weighed in, accusing the agency of denying drugs to patients with terminal conditions: "The FDA says, 'We can't have this drug used on the patient' . . . but the patient is not going to live more than four weeks!"

The right-to-try campaign is the ultimate in patient empowerment, according to its champion, the Goldwater Institute, a libertarian nonprofit organization that wrote the model legislation that has become the foundation of most statutes. "It represents a unanimous voice from the states and the people saying that patients ought to be able to make these life-or-death decisions to save their own lives," said the institute's executive vice president, Christina Sandefur.

But the increased momentum is raising alarms, with opponents saying that such laws largely offer false hope. That's because many drug companies are reluctant to provide medications outside of clinical trials - and why critics insist that the FDA is not the problem. In 2016, they note, the agency revamped its "expanded access" program to speed unapproved drugs to patients who have no alternatives and can't get into clinical trials. The FDA approves almost all such requests, the data shows.

"A lot of this is smoke and mirrors for some other agenda," said Andrew McFadyen, executive director of the Toronto-based Isaac Foundation, which assists U.S. and Canadian patients seeking access to medications. "A weaker FDA is what they are after."

The legislation pushed by Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., and Rep. Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., would forbid the federal government from interfering with the state laws and would exempt doctors and drug companies from liability for prescribing or providing experimental drugs. It also would limit the FDA in an unprecedented way: If a patient were injured or killed by an unapproved treatment under a right-to-try law, agency officials would not be allowed to use the information to delay or block approval of the treatment.

Supporters say such a provision is crucial to spurring drug companies to make experimental drugs available to terminally ill patients, without worrying that an "adverse event" could prompt the agency to stop a trial conducted as part of the drug-approval process.

The notion that the FDA would be barred from considering all data has consumer advocates, ethicists and drug-safety experts in an uproar. If a person is harmed by an experimental drug, they say, that has implications for anybody who might eventually take the medicine.

"The idea that you blind the FDA to any negative side effects in using an investigational agent is just nonsensical," said Alison Bateman-House, a bioethicist at the New York University School of Medicine.

FDA Associate Commissioner Peter Lurie told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee at a hearing in September that the provision would "be detrimental and raise significant ethical issues." With 11,000 expanded-access requests over the past decade, he said, only twice did the agency temporarily halt clinical trials because of "adverse events." Both times, drug development resumed after the problems were resolved.

Right-to-try opponents are also skeptical that constraining the FDA would be enough to induce pharmaceutical companies to make unapproved drugs available. Manufacturers, they say, don't like to provide experimental therapies in part because they don't want to be besieged by desperate patients but also because of the potential cost involved.

The drug companies' main lobbying group, the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, is noticeably cool to right to try, saying that "any legislation should protect the integrity of clinical trials and the FDA oversight of expanded access to maintain the best interests of patients." Those interests, others say, include protecting terminally ill patients from spurious therapies.

Right-to-try supporters reject that latter point as paternalistic. Even if a federal law does not end up helping patients, it won't hurt them either, they insist. "We're asking for a very special carve-out for a very small exception that doesn't cost us any money," said Matt Bellina, a Navy veteran with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or Lou Gehrig's disease, who testified at last fall's hearing. "I'm not asking to build a wall. I'm asking you to make an exception for people who really need it."

He added, "At some point in the near future, I'm going to suffocate under the weight of my chest, so what difference does it make if we have a side effect?"

Traditionally, these patients have received unapproved treatments by enrolling in a clinical trial or, if that is not possible, by going through the FDA's expanded-access program. The program allows the agency to authorize use of an unapproved therapy if it determines that the drug's potential benefit justifies the treatment risk.

The FDA concedes that the program's requirements once were too complicated and time-consuming; its application form called for 26 types of information and seven attachments, Lurie wrote in a blog post. By contrast, officials say, the streamlined process takes doctors just 45 minutes. Last year, 99 percent of the almost 1,800 requests were approved, many in just hours or days.

Still, right-to-try supporters argue that the FDA should be getting far more requests and that the low numbers suggest many doctors still find the process too daunting.

Yet state right-to-try laws, with their minimal requirements, aren't being used much. There are almost no reports of doctors turning to the laws on patients' behalf. The one exception: Houston radiologist Ebrahim Delpassand, who treats patients who have lethal neuroendocrine tumors. The Goldwater Institute frequently points to him as an example of a physician utilizing right to try.

Delpassand said Friday that he turned to the Texas right-to-try law in 2015, not long after its passage, to increase the number of patients he was treating using an experimental radioisotope therapy. The FDA had earlier denied his request to add patients. Officials declined to comment, citing confidentiality rules.

In Indiana, Jordan McLinn was 3 years old when he was diagnosed with Duchenne muscular dystrophy. "We know what happens," his mother said recently. "You lose muscle function, and then you die."

A couple of years later, a friend pointed out a story in the local newspaper about a state legislative hearing on a right-to-try bill. Jordan testified and quickly became the public face of the legislation. When Pence signed the bill into law, the boy was at his side.

Laura McLinn initially hoped that the measure would help her son get an experimental therapy, but the manufacturer declined to make it available. Jordan is now participating in a clinical trial run by a different company.

Three infusions in, Jordan's mother thinks that he is much improved. On a family vacation, he was full of energy and raced past his parents to the beach. "That has not happened in two years," she said.

She plans to keep working on right to try, though it never benefited Jordan. "If even just one person finds the one doctor and one drug company to help," she said, "that's important to my son."
 
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 30, 2017 at 6:30am
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
U.K. tells WhatsApp to open
up to intelligence services
by Robert Hutton & Giles Turner
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 The Astronomical Cost of Higher Education 
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To demonstrate the outrageous nature of college education costs, consider a new study from the Institute for Higher Education Policy as reported in MarketWatch: "The study took 10 fictional students with incomes ranging from $2,706 for a student living independently from his parents to $162,995 for a student living with her family and calculated whether they could afford the net price — tuition minus any grant and scholarship aid — at more than 2,000 schools. What did they find? Even a student from a family earning more than $100,000 a year could only afford 41% of the schools. Students from poorer backgrounds couldn't afford more than 90% of the colleges."
          Unfortunately, leftists keep pushing the wrong prescriptions for addressing this. Even "free" enrollment doesn't cut it for some. In California, for example, lawmakers' solution to escalating debt is to expand aid coverage. According to Fox News, "California lawmakers are pushing what could be the most comprehensive college aid program in the country, pitching a bill that not only covers tuition payments but other expenses like books and transportation." That's a horrible way to make higher education more "affordable," because it just means taxpayers pick up even more of the tab. And once that happens, tuition inflation is free to run more wild than it already has.
          We could begin rectifying the problem by first recognizing that government involvement is the problem. Taxpayer dollars function as fuel for an out-of-control fire — that fire being escalating college fees. As economist Thomas Sowell has noted, "In a normal market situation, each competing enterprise has an incentive to lower prices if that would attract business away from competitors and increase its profits." Universities function quite differently, and the result is enormous tuition. Students will need to determine if their safe spaces are worth it. 
~The Patriot Post
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Fake News CNN Makes Up Trump,
Nunes Stories...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The Fake News specialists at CNN had an entire segment that was predicated upon the fact that they have no idea what they’re talking about. They admit that they don’t know what the information is that Rep Devin Nunes has uncovered about the liar-nObama spying on the Trump team... so they’re playing a new fabrication guessing game called “What if it’s this?” Erin Burnett, the condescending crone whose sole purpose for existence is the pursuit of and propagation of negative “news,” the more falsehood-ridden the better, against President Trump, coaches the fabricator in his efforts. She also offers up one supremely snide comment at the very end. Apparently there is a “working theory” among Evan Perez, the reporter’s sources, as to “what Nunes is talking about.” That might be described as just the creative gossip among the clucking hens in other circles, but on CNN, it’s top-drawer reporting...
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NSA and CIA Say Spy Agencies
Eavesdropped on Trump Team!
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by Jim Kouri
{ipatriot.com} ~ “I meet with foreign leaders all the time as a senator,” Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) told CNN’s Wolf Blitzer. “I wonder if my meetings are being surveilled by the intelligence community... If so, I think when I’m involved, that would be inappropriate, because I may be talking of things of policy that I don’t want the executive branch to know about.” In a previous Conservative Base news analysis, it was reported that at least 50 intelligence officers from the Defense Intelligence Agency blew their whistles about having been ordered to “re-edit” their intelligence reports in order to coincide with President Barack liar-nObama’s “talking points” and speeches. While the DIA’s inspector general condemned this activity at the DIA, the news media who are supposed to be the people’s watchdogs ignored the entire story, as was usual during the liar-nObama-era. In the midst of a week filled with accusations and allegations of suspicious intelligence-gathering related to the presidential race as well as statements made by the FBI director and others, a former NSA/CIA contract employee turned “whistleblower” added fuel to the intelligence agency wildfire...
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RINO Senators Plotting To Surrender Border Wall,
Caving To clown-Schumer’s Dictates
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Illegal aliens aren’t the only ones with an aversion to a border fence. Increasingly it appears that RINOs are on an expedition to track down pretexts to declare a fence as being too difficult for them to get “passed.”... They’ve got plenty of new excuses that preserve the “America last” policies that have become the status quo under the fascists liar-Clinton, Bushes and liar-nObama. The uppity citizens and our few actual representatives scuttled the efforts of RINOs Priebus and Ryan, despite their best Nancy Pulosi impersonations, and rejected their efforts to shove Ryancare down the throats of America. They had the President convinced that the pie in the sky that would never come, phases two and three, actually would. Misplaced trust in someone who has been attacking you since mid-2015 is a difficult thing to comprehend  and it’s both ugly and embarrassing to watch. Fortunately, more politically experienced heads prevailed. Trump will thank them later. Now it seems that Mitch McConnell may be joining RINO Ryan in returning to his “surrender first at any cost” roots...  http://rickwells.us/rino-senators-plotting-surrender-border-wall-caving-schumers-dictates/
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DNC Fires Entire Staff
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{reviveusa.com} ~ Party staff routinely see major turnover with a new boss and they had been alerted to expect such a move. However, the mass resignation letters will give Perez a chance to completely remake the DNC’s headquarters from scratch... Staffing had already reached unusual lows following a round of post-election layoffs in December. Immediately after Perez’s selection as party chairman in late February, an adviser to outgoing DNC Interim Chair Donna Brazile, Leah Daughtry, asked every employee to submit a letter of resignation dated April 15, according to multiple sources familiar with the party’s internal workings. A committee advising Perez on his transition is now interviewing staff and others as part of a top-to-bottom review process to decide not only who will stay and who will go, but how the party should be structured in the future...Where's the big to do media on this as it against President Trump?
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Russia Has Created A Devastating Zircon Hypersonic Missile That Will Rip Right Through U.S. Warships
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by Mac Slavo
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ Russia claims to have created a devastating hypersonic missile that travels five times faster than the speed of sound and could rip through navy warship defences because it’s too fast to stop... The Kremlin’s Zircon missile has been called “unstoppable”, “unbeatable” and “undefendable” with a 4,600mph speed that only one defence system in the world can destroy – that system is owned by Russia. The missile employs to reach its hypersonic speeds whereby propulsion is created by forcing air from the atmosphere into its combustor where it mixes with on-board fuel – rather than carry both fuel and oxidizer like traditional rockets. This makes it lighter, and therefore much faster...
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U.K. tells WhatsApp to open
up to intelligence services
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by Robert Hutton & Giles Turner
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ U.K. Home Secretary Amber Rudd said Facebook Inc.'s WhatsApp messaging system should open its encryption to security services and urged online companies to be more aggressive in shutting down sites exploited by terrorists.

After newspapers disclosed that Khalid Masood, who killed four people in London last week, had used WhatsApp shortly before he began his attack, Rudd identified the company as needing to do more to help fight terrorism.

"It's completely unacceptable" that messages can't be opened, Rudd told the BBC's "Andrew Marr Show" on Sunday. "We need to make sure that our intelligence services have the ability to get into encrypted services like WhatsApp."

Since the attack, government ministers have berated online companies for taking inadequate steps to stop the spread of hate messages. Writing in the Sunday Telegraph, Rudd said the internet is "serving as a conduit, inciting and inspiring violence, and spreading extremist ideology." Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson told the Sunday Times that "They need to stop just making money out of prurient violent material."

Rudd said she has asked executives from the internet companies to a meeting this week.

"They're going to get a lot more than a ticking off," Rudd said on Sky's "Sophy Ridge on Sunday" program.

Facebook bought WhatsApp for $22 billion in 2014. A spokesperson for Whatsapp said, "we are horrified by the attack carried out in London earlier this week and are cooperating with law enforcement as they continue their investigations."

Governments and security agencies are facing an uphill struggle to keep up with new technology, and while the FBI has managed to unlock iPhones in order to obtain data, messaging tools are harder to crack.

Encryption scrambles data using a proprietary code that can only be unlocked with a special key. In April 2016 WhatsApp gave its users encryption by default as well as complete control over the keys for all its messaging services, including photos, phone calls and group chats. Apple Inc.'s began offering full end-to-end encryption for its iMessage platform and FaceTime video service about five years ago.

"When you send a message, the only person who can read it is the person or group chat that you send that message to," WhatsApp co-founders Jan Koum and Brian Acton wrote in a blog post following the launch of its encryption service last year. "No one can see inside that message. Not cybercriminals. Not hackers. Not oppressive regimes. Not even us."

Some governments have taken overt measures in their attempts to obtain data. WhatsApp was temporarily blocked in Brazil in December 2015, after the company refused to allow the government to see communications between alleged drug dealers involved in a criminal case.

However, tech companies have presented a united front against attempts from governments to obtain data. WhatsApp publicly backed Apple in its argument with the FBI regarding the unlocking of an iPhone that belonged to one of the shooters in a December massacre in San Bernardino, California.

In her Telegraph commentary, Rudd wrote: "We need the help of social media companies, the Googles, the Twitters, the Facebooks of this world. And the smaller ones, too: platforms such as Telegram, Wordpress and Justpaste.it. We need them to take a more proactive and leading role in tackling the terrorist abuse of their platforms."
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 29, 2017 at 4:30pm
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
How Serious Is the Terrorist Threat?
by Theodore Dalrymple
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 Top Headlines 
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Trump signs four bills to reverse liar-nObama-era regulations. (Washington Examiner)
 
Leahy won't join Democrats' effort to filibuster Gorsuch. (The Washington Times)
 
Trump's five most endangered campaign promises. (LifeZette)
 
Taxpayers spend 6.1 billion hours, $234 billion per year on tax compliance. (Washington Free Beacon)
 
Taxpayers paid $162.5 million for government unions members doing union work. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
How the Fourth Circuit's support for "assault weapon" bans may end them. (The Federalist)
 
Lawyer pleads guilty to trying to bilk Social Security of $550 million. (Government Executive)
 
Trump demands intel panel probe liar-Clinton Foundation ties to Russian uranium deal. (Washington Examiner)
 
Race-based school budget cuts spark outrage in Hollywood with too many white kids. (ABC7 Los Angeles)
 
Policy: Trump is making American energy great again. (Investor's Business Daily)
 
Policy: The original mistake that distorted the health insurance system in America. (Los Angeles Times)  ~The Patriot Post
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Rep Nunes Reveals Where And How He Got
The Secret liar-nObama Spying Intel
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) has provided a little background information explaining how the events unfolded in his becoming aware of information that he later shared with President Trump last week... While he isn’t specific, a general flavor of the nature of the information and the means by which it was provided to him is offered. Last Tuesday evening, the day prior to his announcement to the nation that he had corroborating evidence that President Trump had been spied upon by the liar-nObama regime, Rep Nunes met with an anonymous source on the White House grounds to review dozens of documents and intelligence reports. Those included accounts of meetings involving President Trump’s advisers. Nunes chose the White House for the meeting as it was the most convenient secure location equipped with a computer which was connected to the system upon which the reports were housed, which are only distributed within the executive branch. Nunes reportedly said of the need to relocate, “We don’t have networked access to these kinds of reports in Congress.” He further stated that his source was not a White House staff person and was an intelligence official...  http://rickwells.us/rep-nunes-reveals-got-secret-obama-spying-intel/
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Flashback: Dems Supported Punishing Sanctuary
Cities When liar-nObama Ordered It
by Martin Walsh
{redstate.com} ~ While Democrats continue to claim that everything President Trump does is unethical and unconstitutional, they claim to be against things today that they used to support... Democrats are outraged following Attorney General Jeff Sessions statements Monday afternoon at the White House press briefing that called for “sanctuary cities” to comply with federal law or risk losing federal funding. DNC chief Tom Perez, as well as many other Democrats, failed to mention that former President liar-nObama administered similar policies in 2015 when he worked with House GOP members to pressure his Justice Department to announce that “some federal funding to the sanctuaries would be cut off” if those jurisdictions did not comply with Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials...Hmmm, interesting.  http://www.redstate.com/mwalsh8/2017/03/27/flashback-dems-supported-punishing-sanctuary-cities-obama-ordered/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Ryan, Priebus Serving Allies,
Not President Trump Or America
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts “on President Trump’s efforts to drain the swamp, as Republicans try to place and avoid blame for the Ryancare debacle... OMB Director and former Freedom Caucus member Mick Mulvaney, who has an enviable perspective, acknowledged that the swamp critters won Friday, when Speaker Ryan pulled the healthcare bill.” Dobbs reminds his audience it was “the very same bill that for weeks Ryan had breezily and brazenly, it turned out, assured everyone it would pass.” While Mulvaney recognized the rottenness of DC as the root cause, Reince Priebus chose a different path. He defended his close friend Paul Ryan and instead said “The President was 100% correct in blaming conservatives for Ryancare’s failure.” “Really,” says Dobbs, “even thought the bill had only 17% support in the final polling...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-ryan-priebus-serving-allies-president-trump-america/
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We’re Not Going To Let Chuck Schumer
Dictate Who Chairs Our Committees
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Congressman Trey Gowdy says, “I just love it when Senator Schumer gives Republicans advice on what we ought to do. Devin is doing exactly what the chairman ought to do... When you have a source who has information, you handle that information safely, securely, which is exactly what he did.” Gowdy continues, “I wish Senator Schumer and some of the other Democrats would be more interested in the authenticity and the reliability of the underlying data and not the means by which it was acquired. Whether it’s the White House or Waffle House, what difference does it make if the information is reliable and authentic?” “It just so happens,” he notes, “Devin had to do it this way. So we’re not going to take advice from Senator Schumer on who our chair people ought to be...
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Comey Hiding, Dems Obstructing,
After His Head – Crooks Are Scared
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Devin Nunes joined Bill O’Reilly on his program to discuss the events taking place with the House Intelligence Committee. O’Reilly opens with a question as to why FBI Director Comey and NSA Director Rogers are not appearing before the House Intelligence Committee as they were requested... O’Reilly notes that their refusal to cooperate, asking “Why are these guys not showing up?”  Nunes says, “We hope that they’ll show up in the future, we don’t know why exactly that they didn’t want to show up today.” The reason that Rep Nunes is fully aware of and that he’s not willing to state for political reasons is because the hearings were going to be conducted behind closed doors. Comey and Rogers lose their shield of not answering by virtue of the public setting. They’d really have to provide answers that could make them look bad an possibly even be incriminating...  http://rickwells.us/nunes-comey-hiding-dems-obstructing-head-crooks-scared/
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How Serious Is the Terrorist Threat?
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by Theodore Dalrymple
{city-journal.org} ~ Statistically speaking, I am much more at risk of being killed when I get into my car than when I walk in the streets of the capital cities that I visit. Yet this fact, no matter how often I repeat it, does not reassure me much; the truth is that one terrorist attack affects a society more deeply than a thousand road accidents.

The man responsible for the latest attack in London, the so-called Khaled Masood, lived in the area in which I worked for many years, and through which I walked daily. So did several of his presumed accomplices who have since been arrested. The area is high in crime and there does seems to be an elective affinity between Islamism and criminality.

The day after the attack in London I was interviewed by some Flemish journalists from Antwerp, or very near Antwerp, a city in which a terrorist attack was aborted while we talked. A Tunisian resident of French nationality was stopped before he could mow down shoppers in Antwerp’s main shopping street, an attack that was “unsuccessful,” apparently, only because the would-be victims had the previous day’s attack in mind and jumped out of the way of the car in a pedestrianized street.

Two days before I flew from Paris Orly Airport to Montpelier, a man of Tunisian descent was shot dead at the airport while attacking a female soldier with a knife. Earlier, he had opened fire on a policeman in the north of Paris and moved on to Orly.

That night after the Orly attack, I dined in 20th Arrondissement of Paris, and as I left the restaurant in a quiet street, three soldiers in full military gear passed me on patrol. I am not sure how much the presence of soldiers on the streets in peacetime actually adds to civilian security, and it occurred to me that had I been a terrorist, I might have produced a dramatic incident there and then, for there was little doubt that the soldiers would have been vulnerable to attack. If they had attracted such an attack, I would have been more endangered than protected by them.

My nephew was in the Stade de France the national stadium on the night of the ISIS terrorist attacks in November 2015. Three suicide bombers tried to enter the stadium in a coordinated assault during a football match between France and Germany, at which both the French president and the German chancellor were present, but were prevented by a security check; otherwise, there might have been many victims, including my nephew.

It’s difficult to assess the true meaning or real significance of this apparent closeness to terrorism at one, two, or more but not many removes. Statistics tell me that I am still safe from it, as are all my fellow citizens, individually considered. But it is precisely the object of terrorism to create fear, dismay, and reaction out of all proportion to its volume and frequency, to change everyone’s way of thinking and behavior. Little by little, it is succeeding.  
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Wed/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 29, 2017 at 11:00am
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
What’s Wrong With Intel Committee Chairman
Briefing Commander-In-Chief?
by Rick Wells
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 Who's to Blame for the GOP's Health Care Debacle? 
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By Todd Johnson: The Grand Old Party's failure Friday to even hold a vote on the American Health Care Act (AHCA) was a shock to veteran political observers and Republican voters alike. This weekend, many of the party faithful began to contemplate what went wrong and who should be held accountable. Blame is one thing; what to do next is another. To take that next step, though, we need to know how we got here.
          Considering the size of the mess, there is a lot of culpability to go around. Some point to President Donald Trump, saying that his low approval ratings, along with his neglect of any guiding framework about health care policy in general, caused the efforts to collapse. His cajoling, threats and ultimatum failed.
          Reason's Peter Suderman argues, "This is the danger of a president who is so disinterested in policy particulars, especially when, like Trump, he expects to maintain a central role in the process. Trump's character — his personal style and his habits of mind — prevent him from effectively negotiating complex legislation. And in this case, it meant that even with control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, Republicans couldn't put together an liar-nObamacare repeal bill that could pass, or was worth passing. It's a problem that is likely to continue to haunt conservative policy goals for as long as Trump is president."
          And just as we warned Friday, Trump blames conservatives. "Democrats are smiling in D.C. that the Freedom Caucus, with the help of Club For Growth and Heritage, have saved Planned Parenthood & liar-nOcare!" he tweeted.
          Others also blame the recalcitrant Freedom Caucus (which would gladly take credit for defeating a bad bill) and "moderate" Republicans, who often times have seemed more interested in starting an internecine war with one another than in passing comprehensive legislation.
          But let's take a look at the sizeable role House Speaker Paul Ryan played in this debacle. Ryan was not only the public face of the effort to pass the AHCA but also served as the primary architect of the plan and, in his role as speaker, he controlled the legislative calendar. Throughout key times in the process, Ryan made questionable judgments about his own caucus and the bill itself, and in the end, it was his failure to lead that brought about catastrophic results.
          The Federalist's Ben Domenech asserts, "Yes, AHCA failure is a failure for the president, but it's much more a failure for House leadership and Paul Ryan. They had seven years to prepare for this moment, and they failed to do so sufficiently." Not just that, he marvels, "How do you end up with, after seven years, a bill opposed by every major conservative, elderly, and doctors groups?" Indeed, the GOP bill had almost no public support.
          Now, some may feel this criticism of Speaker Ryan is unwarranted and that the seeds of dysfunction in the Republican Party were planted many years ago. It is true that the party of Lincoln has had its share of infighting over the last decade, most recently when Ryan's predecessor, Congressman John backstabber-Boehner, resigned from the speaker post in 2015. However, when the 45-year-old Ryan took the gavel becoming the youngest speaker since the 19th century, he was a 17-year veteran of Congress so he had full knowledge of the atmospherics on Capitol Hill and that he was going to be dealing with an unruly and divided House GOP conference.
          That's why it's surprising that Ryan didn't seem to take the concerns of the Freedom Caucus and the centrist portions of his party more seriously over the last year. His initial misstep was the release of "A Better Way" back in June 2016. He hoped that the document would serve as a uniting policy document for the Republican Party. While the portions focused on tax reform and national security were embraced by many conservatives, the same could not be said for the health care section. It wasn't clear on how liar-nObamaCare would be repealed or how the proposed solutions would be funded. It also seemed to be a continuation of the Republican message that liar-nObamaCare was so bad that any proposal would be better. It was a disappointing first step for a leader who had spent the previous six years criticizing the Affordable Care Act.
          Ryan's next major gaffe was the poorly constructed bill he showcased in early March. The initial legislation was panned for different reasons by members of his party and, of course, Democrats. It wasn't just politicians in the nation's capital who had real issues with his work. It was Republican governors, think tanks, and the Congressional Budget Office. All of these distinct groups had significant concerns over the proposed legislation, ranging from the number of people who would be without health insurance to cuts in Medicare spending.
          Ryan and Trump initially tried to stem criticism of the initial bill by saying that the criticisms were unwarranted but they soon realized that their antagonists' messaging was gaining traction and that they would have to react. On March 20, House Republicans modified their original bill but it did little to assuage the fears of their opponents. The new CBO numbers showed that Ryan's revised plan would only cut the federal deficit by $150 billion (instead of twice that much) and still not provide coverage to 24 million Americans. In the end, those changes didn't swing undecided Republican voters — at least not toward the bill.
          Still, while many critics are already starting to produce requiems for Paul Ryan and the Republican Party, those assessments are premature at best. However, going forward, Ryan must learn from his grievous miscalculations and do a better job of leading his fractured party.
          Ryan now says, "We're going to be living with liar-nObamaCare for the foreseeable future." And Trump has promised to just move onto issues he actually cares about, while dismissively saying, "[T]he best thing we can do politically speaking is let liar-nObamaCare explode."
          The effort to repeal and replace liar-nObamaCare cannot end with this defeat. Conservatives shouldn't lament this bill, but we also shouldn't let our elected representatives give up. Too much has been given over the last seven years to achieve this goal to let this be the end.  ~The Patriot Post
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“Incidental” Trump Data Mining Had
To Be “Accidentally On Purpose”
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lt Col Tony Shaffer marks the passing of two weeks since the Saturday morning tweets by President Trump stating his belief that the liar-nObama regime had wiretapped his communications... Shaffer cleans up what has transpired in that period of time and what we now know. Shaffer says, “We know now that the basic fundamental idea and claim is true. Something happened and we have to understand that when Mr. Trump tweet ‘wiretapping,’ it wasn’t two pair of cable being tapped in, it’s ‘data,’ phone numbers, data; and Trump Tower, I think is euphemistic like the whole campaign.” Shaffer continues, “So what we know now is there was some level of collection, not relating to the ‘Russia investigation’ or Russia issue,’ that has now come forward. And I think what we’re seeing now here, frankly, is a work of walking the razor’s edge. We have to be careful about giving up what we call tools, techniques and technology of how things were collected. At the same time, we know now that even if this collection was done legally, the unmasking of names and the dissemination are probably felony-level crimes, that break not only protocol but break the law.”...  http://rickwells.us/lt-col-shaffer-incidental-trump-data-mining-accidentally-purpose/
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How Many Arab Land Claims Are Real?
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{israeltoday.co.il} ~ A new housing project planned in the town of Efrat south of Jerusalem overcame the last major hurdle recently, when Arab claims to the land were exposed as false... The claim made by an Arab resident of the nearby village of Al-Khader delayed construction of the housing project by more than a year, blocking all work on the neighborhood, which is planned to include 50 homes. According to an Israel Radio report, a court proved that the Arab claimant had no basis of ownership, and that the claim on the land was entirely false... http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/31354/Default.aspx
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Dept. of Justice will cut off and
'claw back' funding for sanctuary cities
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by Sarah Westwood
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions announced Monday that the Trump administration would cut off all funding to sanctuary cities and work to "claw back" funds from jurisdictions that choose to ignore federal immigration requirements... "Failure to deport aliens who are convicted of criminal offenses puts whole communities at risk," Sessions said during a rare appearance in the White House briefing room. "The vast majority of the American people support this common sense requirement." Sessions said cities that knowingly refuse to detain undocumented immigrants who are "known felons under federal detainer requests" will face consequences from the Department of Justice moving forward...  http://www.http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/jeff-sessions-justice-department-will-cut-off-and-claw-back-funding-for-sanctuary-cities/article/2618553?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News%20-%2003/27/17&utm_medium=email/jeff-sessions-justice-department-will-cut-off-and-claw-back-funding-for-sanctuary-cities/article/2618553?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News%20-%2003/27/17&utm_medium=email
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liar-nObama's FBI 'wanted us dead'
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ Pamela Geller, a free-speech activist and harsh critic of Islamic supremacism, has charged that the FBI, under Barack liar-nObama, likely wanted her dead... Geller, the author of “Stop the Islamization of America,” said in a radio interview that she based her assessment on a new report that the FBI apparently knew of the planned terrorist attack on the conference she held in Garland, Texas, in 2015, but it did nothing to stop it. “This is egregious. I submit to you the FBI, under the liar-nObama administration, wanted us dead,” she said on WABC New York’s “Bernie and Sid Show.” “I want to know why there was not an FBI SWAT team there. I want to know why there was no one there, to repel this attack. It is shocking.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/pamela-geller-obamas-fbi-wanted-us-dead/
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U.S. Leads Nations In Boycott Of U.N.
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by Alicia
{patriottribune.com} ~ The United States joined around three dozen other nations in boycotting a conference at the U.N. on a treaty to ban nuclear weapons... Other nations boycotting the five-day talks included Russia, China, Great Britain, France, South Korea and Albania. U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley warns about the threat of nuclear weapons. “But in this day and time, we can’t honestly say that we can protect our people by allowing the bad actors to have them and those of us that are good trying to keep peace and safety not to have them.”  http://patriottribune.com/46405/u-s-leads-nations-boycott-u-n/
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What’s Wrong With Intel Committee Chairman
Briefing Commander-In-Chief?
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ John Dickerson interviewed Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) on Sunday, starting off with a question regarding the House Intelligence Committee, of which he is a member. He asked if Chairman Devin Nunes has “shown you any of what caused him to suggest that liar-nObama officials doing surveillance captured some Trump campaign associates and then unmasked them in the process of investigating?” Gowdy says he’s hasn’t had it shown to him, that he’s vaguely familiar with it, no more or less so than Adam Schiff.

Gowdy says, “I’ll just tell you this, Chairman Nunes briefed the Commander-in-Chief on matters unrelated to the Russia investigations, so if that’s a big deal in Washington then we’ve sunk to a new low.” Dickerson tries again, saying, “Well, I guess Congressman Schiff would say that the President is the one that’s a part of this investigation being done by the Committee so that the Chairman shouldn’t be talking to him.”

Gowdy replies, “Well then let me repeat what I said. The Chairman of House Intel briefed the Commander-in-Chief on something that has nothing to do with the Russia investigation. So if the Commander-in-Chief cannot be briefed by the Chairperson of the House Intel Committee on a matter that has nothing to do with the FBI investigation, then I don’t know what they can talk about, John. He’s the Commander-in-Chief.”

Dickerson moves on to the next Democrat goal, stripping the authority of Nunes, who is apparently getting too close to the truth for their comfort, and replacing it with a predetermined outcome commission modeled after the Warren or 9/11 Commissions – an elaborate cover up.

Dickerson asks, “So if this is an issue outside of the one that they’re investigating at the moment, in the committee and the one that you’re investigating, should it then be taken out of this investigation? Have a separate investigation on both what Chairman Nunes has discovered this week and then also one that you’re quite concerned about, which is the leaks that have been in the paper, some of them potentially illegal. Get that out of this question of Russia, to keep things from getting mixed the way they appear to have.”

Gowdy responds, “Well, they are separate and I heard my friend from California mention an independent commission, thank goodness we have one, it’s call the FBI. The FBI has counterintelligence jurisdiction and they have criminal jurisdiction. And what we learned on Monday and it’s about the only thing we learned on Monday, was that the FBI is investigating both.”

He says, “They are the world’s premier law enforcement agency, they are independent, you have women and men at the Department of Justice who have dedicated  their careers to the blind pursuit of justice, it doesn’t get any more independent than that. So we have an independent entity investigating counterintelligence and allegations of potential criminality, let Congress do its job, which is to provide oversight over the intelligence community.”

Dickerson asks as to the pace and results of the investigation into the masking component and being able to make a judgment as to the propriety of what took place. Gowdy says it’s just another reason to get Director Comey and Admiral Rogers back for hearings, this time behind closed doors on Tuesday, saying “it’s incredibly important.” He notes that Schiff is right that incidental collection of data does occur but says he wishes that those on the left would be “a little more outraged” about “the political use of that unmasking.” He also shares his frustration with the inherent shortcomings of attempting to conduct serious and discrete inquiries in a public setting.
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 29, 2017 at 4:30am
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Free Judge Napolitano!
by Cliff Kincaid
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 Top Headlines 
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Intelligence reports reveal improper political surveillance of Trump, transition team. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Kushner to lead new WH office focused on using business ideas to fix gov't bureaucracy. (Fox News)
 
We don't have to choose between Vladimir Putin and George Soros. (The Daily Signal)
 
Kentucky becomes second state to add police to hate crimes law. (Reason)
 
Democrat Louisiana Governor John Bel Edwards pays women $12,000 less than men. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
North Dakota legalizes constitutional carry. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Seattle gun tax fails to generate projected revenue, succeeds in burdening rights. (NRA-ILA)
 
Palestinian terrorist who led women's march will be stripped of citizenship. (Hot Air)
 
In 24 states, 50% or more of babies born on Medicaid; New Mexico leads nation with 72%. (CNS News)
 
College "diversity council" posts fake racist flyers. (Campus Reform)
 
Policy: The consequences of immigration for America's public schools. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: House GOP has three options on health care. (Bloomberg View)  ~The Patriot Post
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Stop Chairman Nunes Before He Discovers
What Dems Have Been Up To
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Congressman and pencil-necked partisan hack Adam “Shifty” Schiff made a propaganda presentation on “Face The Nation” Sunday, continuing his mission to beat the speculative smear drum and fabricate collusion where none exists in order to discredit and damage the President... The Democrat worm contends that there are perfectly appropriate instances to unmask the names of people. He says it’s done quite often, presenting it as much ado about nothing, provided it was done appropriately. He doesn’t bother delving into how appropriately is defined, the quantity of names unmasked or the widespread dissemination of those conversations by the liar-nObama regime. There are multiple indicators that significant portions of the surveillance was conducted in an inappropriate manner. Instead Schiff goes immediately into his whiny Democrat mode, saying none of us have seen what the Chairman is talking about...  http://rickwells.us/shifty-schiff-stop-chairman-nunes-discovers-dems/
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Intelligence Committee Democrats
Launch Civil War Against Trump
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by George Rasley
{conservativehq.com} ~ Last Monday the House Intelligence Committee (HPSCI) conducted a rare open Committee hearing and for those few Americans who were paying attention it opened a truly astonishing window into the Democrats’ war on President Trump... At the hearing, there were some useful exchanges between Republican members and FBI Director Comey on the seriousness of recent leaks of intelligence as well as the unmasking and illegal disclosure of General Michael Flynn’s name from NSA reports, noted our friend Fred Fleitz, a former CIA officer and HPSCI staff member. This is a big deal, says Fleitz, because the names of American citizens incidentally collected by U.S. intelligence agencies are supposed to be blacked out and are not supposed to be revealed unless there is a compelling national security reason. However, these discussions about the intersection of constitutional protections and intelligence collection were overshadowed by the Democrats who were much more aggressive in pushing their Trump-Russia conspiracy theories...  http://www.conservativehq.com/node/25351
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South Tel Aviv Overtaken by Illegal Immigrants
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by Gilad Zwick
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Last week, a 29 year old illegal immigrant from Eritrea was charged with the attempted rape of an 80 year old woman in South Tel Aviv. The victim, in describing the attack, said “he beat me and dragged me across the floor.”... Later in the week, a 40 year old woman was brutally raped near the Old Central Bus Station in Tel Aviv. The perpetrator is still on the loose. Over the past few years, urban neighborhoods throughout Europe have been overtaken by refugees and illegal immigrant populations. Crime has risen, local populations have lost their sense of security, and areas have become no-go zones for police. South Tel Aviv is on the precipice of becoming like these European cities. Yet the media remains silent, and the ruling class are oblivious to the situation. Last week’s violent acts in South Tel Aviv are not sporadic instances, but tragically have become the norm. Last week, during a protest involving illegal immigrant groups, residents of South Tel Aviv and local police were ridiculed and berated by illegal immigrants who screamed ‘the police are ISIS’, ‘this is not your country’, ‘your country is sh-t’, ‘you are not a Jew’...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266225/south-tel-aviv-overtaken-illegal-immigrants-gilad-zwick
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The Left's Shifting Overton Window
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by Benny Huang
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is prepared to go to the mat to prevent the construction of a wall on our southern border. The senator from New York is threatening to use all available options,... including a government shut-down, to forestall three key provisions in the new budget: a deportation force, a border wall, and the defunding of Planned Parenthood.  Well, it’s good to know where Schumer draws his line in the sand. Anything that impedes the endless flow of undocumented Democrats he considers to be an act of war. But I’m old enough to remember when Chuck Schumer supported at least one of these budget items. In 2006, he and 25 other Democratic senators voted for the Secure Fence Act which would have built a double-layered fence on the US-Mexico border. The bill passed, by the way, and President Bush signed it into law. It wasn’t a close vote because it wasn’t particularly controversial...This shows you Schumer is a liar and a hypocrite.   http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266234/lefts-shifting-overton-window-benny-huang
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On Muslims' agenda: Fight U.S.
proposals to ban Sharia law
 
{onenewsnow.com} ~ Muslims complain they're frivolous bills meant to spread fears and sow suspicion of their religion in a nation divided. But supporters of state proposals to prevent Islamic code from being used in American courts... argue they aren't overtly anti-Muslim and are needed to safeguard constitutional rights for average Americans. The bills, variations of which have been around for years, don't specifically seek to ban Islamic law, known as Sharia, even though some lawmakers concede that's their intent. Instead, the proposals broadly call for banning the application of any foreign law, legal code or legal system that doesn't grant the same rights and privileges as the state or U.S. constitutions...Sharia law has no business in our court system, period.  https://www.onenewsnow.com/ap/legal/on-muslims-agenda-fight-us-proposals-to-ban-sharia-law?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16786708&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=28818

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Free Judge Napolitano!
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by Cliff Kincaid
{aim.org} ~ BuzzFeed, described by Wikipedia as “a liberal American internet media company based in New York City,” is in the “donor spotlight” at the national news museum in Washington, D.C., known as the Newseum. The “honor” demonstrates how the media have changed and how low they have sunk.

A virtual property of Comcast Corp.’s NBCUniversal, BuzzFeed has been a cog in the anti-Trump media machine.

The “donor spotlight” designation is strangely appropriate, since BuzzFeed disclosed the so-called “Trump Dossier” used by the intelligence community to smear President Trump. “The allegations are unverified, and the report contains errors,” the social media site acknowledged while spreading the dubious claims.

By contrast, the John Peter Zenger exhibit located in the Newseum highlights a printer whose publication used the weapon of truth. The Newseum tells us, “German immigrant John Peter Zenger became a free-press hero before there was a First Amendment. On Nov. 17, 1734, the newspaper publisher was jailed for printing truthful articles in his New-York Weekly Journal accusing British Colonial governor William Cosby of being corrupt.”

The “Trump Dossier” released by BuzzFeed was concocted by a former British intelligence agent, and turned over to James Comey’s FBI. Around that time, in July of 2016, notes columnist Lawrence Sellin, the FBI launched its investigation of the unproven connections between the Trump campaign and the Russians. Comey told Congress that the Bureau has been actively investigating possible links between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin since “late July” of 2016.

“What a coincidence,” writes Sellin, a retired colonel with 29 years of service in the U.S. Army Reserve and a veteran of Afghanistan and Iraq. This means that “the FBI investigation was based on highly questionable evidence” for which former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele reportedly “paid intermediaries who in turn paid sources for the information he used in the report.” In other words, he says, they were third-hand rumors from unidentified individuals. Sellin adds, “Remarkably, along with Trump’s political opponents, the liar-nObama-Comey FBI planned to pay Steele to continue his work.”

The British link is significant. While Fox News commentator Judge Andrew Napolitano has been suspended for suggesting that the British NSA, known as GCHQ, had access to the surveillance information used against Trump, the two organizations do in fact have a history of working closely together.

This is shaping up as an example of how the Deep State operates, writes Sellin. In this case, intelligence arrangements are made “that open the possibility for government officials to skirt inconvenient national laws in order to surveil citizens and then use the products of that surveillance for political purposes.”

For raising necessary questions about this arrangement, Napolitano was reportedly banned from Fox News. He is the modern-day John Peter Zenger. However, his March 16 column, “Did liar-nObama Spy on Trump?” is still on his website and looks increasingly relevant every day that passes.

This has been a major black mark for Fox News. Still, Fox News personalities like Sean Hannity are trying to cover the deepening scandal involving liar-nObama administration surveillance of Trump and his associates.

The role that has been played by Comcast and its properties in the anti-Trump campaign is a teachable moment that allows us to reflect on the meaning of the First Amendment and how modern media have left behind the legacy of John Peter Zenger.

In contrast to Zenger, who used the weapon of truth against public officials, BuzzFeed used lies that were apparently devised for partisan political purposes by a foreign operative.

Referring to Comcast and others, Trump adviser Peter Navarro said during the campaign, “Donald Trump will break up the new media conglomerate oligopolies that have gained enormous control over our information, intrude into our personal lives, and in this election, are attempting to unduly influence America’s political process.”

BuzzFeed has been forced to apologize to one of those named in the Trump Dossier, in preparation for a suit filed against them.

By contrast, Zenger was found not guilty of seditious libel after his attorney, Alexander Hamilton, said, “It is not the cause of one poor printer, but the cause of liberty.”

Rather than being given a distinction as a valued donor, perhaps an exhibit in the Newseum should highlight BuzzFeed as an example of the politically-correct corporate media that today makes a mockery of First Amendment values.

At the same time, the Newseum should consider embracing the cause of freeing Judge Napolitano.

There’s no money in doing so. It would just be the right thing to do. It would be a reaffirmation of First Amendment values.
 
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 28, 2017 at 3:30pm
The Front Page Cover
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High Anxiety Over Health-Care Reform
by Peggy Noonan
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NSA/CIA Whistleblower Have
Hard Evidence liar-nObama Spied...
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by MIchael DePinto
 {freedomoutpost.com} ~ The dishonest media may be continuing to ignore and deride liar-nObamagate, but this is one scandal that they won’t be able to cover up with their 24/7 news cycle... More and more evidence continues to validate the wiretapping claim, and the latest revelation shows that Trump was far from the only prominent one being monitored; the latest list by a former NSA and CIA contractor shows that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, 156 judges, and other prominent individuals were also on the list. In the following video, Right Wing News looks at the Orwellian state that we have allowed our country to fall into, all in the name of national security. The Deep State’s co-opting of our national security apparatus has allowed them to exert illegal and unconstitutional influence over the executive, legislative, and judiciary.  http://freedomoutpost.com/nsacia-whistleblower-claims-to-have-hard-evidence-obama-spied-on-156-judges-businessmen/
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Washington’s Little Known Spy Agency
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ US spying is institutionalized – on anyone, anywhere for any reason or none at all. Invented national security threats, targeting dissent and whistleblowers, along with challenging press freedom undermine fundamental rights... In Palko v. Connecticut (1937), the Supreme Court called “freedom of thought the matrix, the indispensable condition, of nearly every other form of freedom.” In Texas v. Johnson (1989), Justice William Brennan, writing for the majority, said “if there is a bedrock principle underlying the First Amendment, it is that government may not prohibit the expression of an idea simply because society finds the idea offensive or disagreeable.”... Our people are guaranteed the right to express any thought, free from government censorship” – along with having all other constitutional protections... http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/washingtons-little-known-spy-agency/
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Freedom Caucus Members:
Health Care Debate ‘Isn’t Over’
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by Kelsey Harkness
{dailysignal.com} ~ In the aftermath of the House GOP’s health care bill being pulled from a vote Friday, conservatives vowed to continue working with the fractured Republican conference toward health care reform... “This is not the end of the debate,” Mark Meadows, a Republican from North Carolina and chairman of the House Freedom Caucus, said on ABC’s “This Week.” President Donald Trump, he added, “will deliver” on health care reform. Republicans had scheduled a long-awaited vote Friday on the American Health Care Act, a bill that would have partially repealed liar-nObamacare. But after failing to win the support of members of the Freedom Caucus, along with some centrist Republicans, House Speaker Paul Ryan pulled the bill...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/26/freedom-caucus-members-health-care-debate-isnt-over/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTlRVMk16bGxOekUyT1RoaiIsInQiOiJxUFJqV0NkVWlaZkw5WXpMXC94eXlwMWVhTkRHR2VkRktMNUYwVmM0eXN6enRQdXJcL3JqSUR6QnFFdlNqc0NyMDVkdVAyeXFvQVlhendyYW9teEZCNjhySmVVZHMyNTF4cVR2RWIzUnNZdlwvdFpLOFFiYjBEU1NHZVJcL2tSMkVsNjQifQ%3D%3D     
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When the Law Opposes
the Truth Rather Than Protects It
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by Douglas Murray
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The Canadian government suffers from many things. Among them is bad timing. On Thursday of last week, the Canadian Parliament voted through a blasphemy law specifically designed to protect Islam... As Al-Jazeera was happy to report on Friday, the previous day's vote condemned "Islamophobia and all forms of systemic racism and religious discrimination." The non-binding motion that the Parliament passed also requested that a Parliamentary committee should launch a study to look at how to "develop a whole-of-government approach to reducing or eliminating systemic racism and religious discrimination, including Islamophobia". The motion passed by 201 votes to 91. It is just as well for those 201 Canadian legislators that they were debating all this in their distinguished national Parliament rather than the mother of all Parliaments. For had these legislators been in the House of Commons in Westminster, their thoughts may have taken on a sharper focus...
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Nebraska Stacking Electoral Deck with Voter
Registration Forms in Refugee Welcome Kits
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by ANDREW WEST
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ While Europe continues to cope with an influx of violent and often sexual crimes, occurring proportionally higher in locales whose populations have been affected by massive refugee resettlements... former President Barack liar-nObama foolishly encouraged American cities to openly accept these dangerous immigrants during the last few months of his lame duck term. Now, with Donald Trump and the republicans working to curb the inflow of possibly nefarious characters during these resettlements, democratic operatives in Nebraska are fighting back with a sneaky plan to bolster their voting numbers... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/nebraska-stacking-electoral-deck-with-voter-registration-forms-in-refugee-welcome-kits?f=must_reads
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High Anxiety Over Health-Care Reform
by Peggy Noonan
{patriotpost.us} ~What politicians, those hardy folk, don’t understand about health care is how anxious it makes their constituents. Not suspicious, not obstinate, but anxious. Because unlike such policy questions as tax reform, health care can be an immediate life-or-death issue for you. It has to do with whether, when, and where you can get the chemo if you’re sick, and how long they’ll let you stay in the hospital when you have nobody, or nobody reliable and nearby, to care for you. To make it worse, the issue is all hopelessly complicated and complex and pits you as an individual against huge institutions — the insurance company that doesn’t answer the phone, the hospital that says “I’m afraid that’s not covered” — and you have to make the right decisions.

It’s all on you.

Politicians don’t understand all this, in part because they and their families are well-covered on a government insurance policy, and they have staff to put in the claim and argue with the insurance company, which, when it’s a congressman calling, answers the phone in one quick hurry. They don’t know it’s not easy for everyone else. Or rather they know on some abstract level but forget in the day-to-day, as one does with abstractions.

But I want to speak of how it’s all on you: You don’t want to be seen — by others, by yourself — as someone who couldn’t make the right decisions for yourself and your family. “She didn’t know she needed Part B.” “She got the supplement that says she can’t be treated in Jersey.” You don’t want to be humiliated. “What a dope.” “What fatal lack of sophistication.”

And then these jokers in Congress come along. Seven years ago it’s Democrats: “Wow, we’re so supercompetent, we’ll make it better!” And suddenly you lose your doctor or your coverage, or your premiums spike, and it’s a mess. They can’t even make the website work. And you’re anxious, and you have to renavigate an entire opaque empire of rules and passive-aggressive clerks. It’s a shadow on your life.

And then it settles down, as things do after seven years. You hate the system, but it is what it is and you’re used to it. And now these new jokers come along and say, “We’ll make it nice, trust us!” And it’s all big and complicated — so complicated the president negotiating it appears to have no idea what he’s saying yes or no to. But the effects and implications of his decisions will all be left on you. And you watch from the corner of your eye as you pass the TV, and suddenly your blood pressure’s spiking again. For you it’s all more anxiety and dishevelment and confusion, but in a new package, this time delivered by Republicans.

When all you want is the card in the wallet so when you’re strapped to the gurney in the emergency room, they’ll see it and they’ll say the word you want to hear: “Covered.” Then you can happily pass out.

People need simplicity and clarity. They deserve it. They’ll pay for it as best they can, a lot if they have to. But they need not to be jerked around anymore.

And that is what Congress doesn’t know.

We go now to the failure of the liar-nObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill.

Politically it’s all obvious. For the new administration it is a loss and a significant one. It has damaged the new president’s prestige. Every president until he fails has the aura of unused power. Boy, when I use it, you’re gonna see muscle. He used it. No muscle. Fatal? No. Damaging and diminishing? Yes. It is an embarrassment too for Speaker Paul Ryan. Together they could not get a win on the board after they threw everything they have into it. This does not speak well for everything they have.

They picked the wrong issue at the wrong time and pursued it in the wrong way. “Constituent, should we focus on a better tax system or on health care?” “Um, if you go with health care can it include suicide coverage?”

The failure of the bill demonstrated something no president, especially a new one, ever wants made public. That is that Republicans in the House do not really fear him.

When members of your party fear you, they are fearing one thing: your popularity. You can harness it to hurt them if they’re uncooperative. But Mr. Trump doesn’t have that much popularity, as they know. He’s at 40% or thereabouts in his approval numbers. And on this bill he couldn’t tell his supporters to go out and cream congressmen who would vote against him, because his own supporters don’t much like the bill.

The central dynamic behind the bill’s difficulties is that the Republican conference in the House is divided between institutionalists, who support the leadership; conservatives, who found the bill too soft; and moderates, who found it too hard. By putting forward the bill, they allowed this division — which was wholly predictable and may be irreconcilable — to play out as a public breakdown rather than an impasse.

The president made a political mistake in throwing his lot with the leadership, and then conservatives, not Republican moderates, and then Democrats.

A mere poll probably contributed to the collapse of support. That would be the Quinnipiac survey published Thursday, just hours before the delay in the vote. It found the repeal-and-replace bill highly unpopular. Only 17% of respondents approved of the bill, with 56% opposed and 26% undecided. Bloomberg’s Sahil Kapur, reading the cross tabs, noted on Twitter that the bill was 26 points underwater among noncollege whites, and an astounding 46 points underwater among voters 50 to 64. “This is Trump’s base,” Mr. Kapur noted.

When your own base doesn’t like the bill on which you’ve staked your early legislative prestige, you have made a political error of the first order.

Seven years ago, when liar-nObamaCare was on its way to passing with not a single Republican vote, I called it a catastrophic victory. It wouldn’t work; the government would not be able to execute; it was a Rube Goldberg machine. It was a bill created not by visionaries or political masters but by technocrats — and the worst kind of technocrat, the one who sees himself as a secret visionary. On top of that the Democrats would always own it, and when the program failed, Republicans would have no motivation to help them save it.

That is what RyanCare or TrumpCare would have been if it had passed: a catastrophic victory. No Democratic support, an opaque and impossible-to-understand bill, one that is complex and complicated, one that would be unpopular back home. And created by technocrats who think themselves visionaries.

Mr. Trump warned House Republicans they would lose their seats next year if they vote “no.” They judged they’d lose their seats in 2018 if they voted “yes.”

When Mr. Trump wins, he wins big, and when he flops, he flops big. He just did.

A proper White House reaction? Not anger, bluff and bluster, not finger-pointing or defensiveness but modesty and calm. And this: Offer to work with Democrats and moderate Republicans to create legislation that will help and can pass.
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Tues/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 28, 2017 at 11:00am
The Front Page Cover
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Two Modest Health-Insurance Suggestions . . .
by Myron Magnet
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 Let's Not Miss the Health Care Forest for the Trees 
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This week could mark a historic turning point for health care reform. Or maybe not. The outcome is contingent on how House conservatives decide to cast their votes on the American Health Care Act. For his part, President Donald Trump is rallying the troops. In Louisville, Trump declared, "This is our long-awaited chance to finally get rid of liar-nObamaCare." He reminded Americans that "the alternative is what you have, [and] what you have is nothing." Emphasizing the magnitude of this undertaking, he reportedly also told the bill's fiercest opponents, "I honestly think many of you will lose your seats in 2018 if you don't get this done."
          Earlier this week, House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows said support was meager at best: "Currently there are not enough votes to pass the legislation." Which is why House Speaker Paul Ryan and Trump are working so tirelessly to persuade naysayers like Sen. Rand Paul, whom Trump even offered an olive branch, saying, "I look forward to working with him so we can get this bill passed — in some form." Certainly it's a critical issue, and the reasons for apprehension are understandable. As Hot Air blogger Allahpundit argues, "Given how hugely unpopular the bill is across the political spectrum, it may also be true that House Republicans will lose seats if the bill does pass." Fair point.
          We should note that the bill likely has the necessary support, at least in the House, and that what's left before Thursday's vote is backroom dealing over who gets what in return for their vote.
          But the harsh reality is laid out in the words of a Wall Street Journal editorial: "If conservatives fumble this repeal and replace moment, they won't get another chance. And they'll have squandered their best opening in a generation to control the size and scope of the federal Leviathan." Columnist Cal Thomas adds, "Failure to at least take the first step in replacing a deeply flawed, government-mandated insurance program will leave a stain on the Republican Party that even the strongest and purest 'detergent' will not be able to remove." Though it can be extremely difficult, sometimes you have to take victories where you can find them, as underwhelming as they may be. That's the nature of compromise. Let's tackle what we can now and move forward with other things later. Otherwise, as Trump articulated, we're left with nothing.  ~The Patriot Post
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Fox News Reports The NSA Has “Smoking Gun”
Proving liar-nObama Spied on Trump
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by Onan Coca and Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ Fasten your seatbelt and get the big bag of popcorn–this is getting interesting.  According to Fox News’ James Rosen there is a  “potential smoking gun” coming soon that PROVES that liar-nObama spied on Trump... well actually the liar-nObama administration spied on the Trump team and perhaps even the President-elect himself. The information will supposedly prove that when the liar- nObama Administration spied on Trump they made it seem as it was an incidental collection. For those of you thinking, “Didn’t Fox News say that Britain was liar-nObama’s tool for spying on Trump and that was withdrawn?” The answer was yes, but that was Judge Napolitano, a good guy but a commentator, not a reporter.  James Rosen is an “old school” reporter, in that he relies on proof not conjecture. The possibility of a “smoking gun” should set the media ablaze tonight and into tomorrow. There is already enough circumstantial evidence for us to surmise that the government did at least monitor some of the communications going on inside the Trump team, but to finally have definitive proof that the liar-nObama administration misused our intelligence assets would be a game-changer...  http://lidblog.com/fox-news-smoking-gun-proving-obama-spied-on-trump/
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China Positions 1,500 Missiles
Aimed at US military Bases
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{endtimeheadlines.org} ~ Tensions are increasing and War Drums are pounding louder as now reports are indicating that China has positioned an arsenal of missiles within strike range of US army bases... as its war chiefs ready “military hard power” for total conflict. Sources indicate that Military leaders from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) are aiming these missiles at Taiwan as part of an escalating military threat to the island. This is of great concern considering, US military bases in Okinawa are within range of the DF-16 ballistic missiles – which can strike targets with “pinpoint precision” from 1,500km away. The Chinese defense minister Feng Shih-kuan reportedly has issued the shock announcement as tensions over the disputed South China Sea territory threaten to spill over into war. These comments follow Taiwan’s revealing of it having missiles capable of reaching Chinese shores last week.  http://endtimeheadlines.org/2017/03/war-drums-china-positions-1500-missiles-aimed-us-military-bases/
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liar-nObama Was Almost Certainly
Illegally Spying on Team Trump
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by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ Former President Barack Hussein liar-nObama and some of his top officials may be in serious trouble, analysts suggested, as it appears increasingly likely that they played a key role in illegal surveillance of Donald Trump and his team for the apparent purpose of sabotaging his presidency... But despite Democrat efforts to muddy the waters, the explosive scandal may be just getting started. Various players in the saga continuing to throw out fresh allegations, some of which, if true, could potentially land prominent current and former officials in hot water or even behind bars. And now, despite the FBI refusing to cooperate on the investigation, reports suggest there is “smoking gun” evidence proving that the liar-nObama administration illegally spied on team Trump...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/25685-obama-was-almost-certainly-illegally-spying-on-team-trump?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm
 
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Christians Urged to
Pull Children From Public Schools
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by Alex Newman
{thenewamerican.com} ~ The warning was clear: Christian parents should pull their children out of public schools, now, to protect them from spiritual damage, extreme indoctrination, and other serious problems... Pastors and churches should work to encourage that “exodus,” helping and encouraging families to put their kids in homeschools or private Christian schools as quickly as possible. The alternative will be the continued decline of the church in America and an acceleration of the nation's decline. That was the explosive message of an evangelical ministry leader speaking as a guest this week on one of America's top Christian radio programs.  Dr. James Dobson, one of the nation's most influential Christian leaders and a former public-school teacher, hosted the discussion on his national radio program focusing on the spiritual danger of allowing children to sit in secular or even anti-God public schools for over a dozen formative years...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/25675-christians-urged-to-pull-children-from-public-schools?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm
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Hawaii Jihadi Judge Derrick Watson
Receiving Death Threats...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The odds of it being anything more than an opportunity for some Federal Marshals to get out of the cold for a few weeks or however long it takes and into Hawaii are slim... If those making threats had been serious about carrying them out, they would likely have done so without running their mouths and providing warning ahead of time. Still, government criminals must be protected, and, as the official notes in the opening “It’s a federal crime to make a threat against a judicial officer.” The law allows for no distinction or deviation in the case of anti-American, usurping globalist tools acting at the behest of the shadow government of Hussein liar-nObama. The “so-called” judge is the scum of the earth, but he’s still going to be protected. liar-nObama still gets his Secret Service protection despite his laundry list of offenses against this nation. That’s how they get away with their crimes and offenses against the Constitution. The victims pay and provide the mechanisms and personnel which protect the perpetrators from justice...  http://rickwells.us/hawaii-jihadi-judge-derrick-watson-receiving-death-threats-targeting-americans/
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Two Modest Health-Insurance Suggestions . . .
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by Myron Magnet
{city-journal.org} ~ The unintended consequence of a World War II policy mistake distorted the U.S. health-insurance system, and reformers have been trying patchwork solutions to solve those unanticipated problems up until liar-nObamacare dumped yet another layer of misguided policy onto what was already a mess. The tangle is now so perplexing that perhaps, once Congress takes the necessary first step of passing the House health-insurance reform bill tomorrow, legislators might consider further reforms that erase the original error instead of merely papering it over.

As World War II raged and competition for scarce labor grew fierce, what with so many able-bodied men in the military, legislators, worried about possible runaway inflation, imposed wage controls in 1942. In response, employers began enticing workers by offering rich benefits in lieu of increased wages, and, as these benefits were not income, they were exempt from income and payroll taxes, a subsidy to workers and employers alike. Chief among these benefits was health insurance, whose cost was originally modest.

But as the cost of health care rose in the 1950s, retirees and the poor found insurance unaffordable, and President Lyndon Johnson, who never saw a problem he didn’t think big government could solve effortlessly, injected Medicare and Medicaid into the health-insurance business. Prices continued to rise, in part because of spectacular advances in medicine, such as the development of coronary bypass surgery in the late 1960s, and by 1980, corporations found their medical-insurance costs increasingly burdensome. They tried all sorts of schemes to bring those costs under control, from health-maintenance organizations, which added in layers of administrative costs, to employee wellness programs, which turned out to keep workers living long enough to develop the diseases of aging, with the result that employer costs went up instead of down. Corporate-financed gyms disappeared from the scene. It saved corporations money to have employees die before their health problems could become financially burdensome.

Aside from all this lay a great inequity. People with corporate jobs got relatively affordable group insurance, subsidized by the two tax exemptions. People without such jobs had to buy unsubsidized and therefore more expensive individual insurance. So future reforms ought to get employers out of the health-care business entirely, since they are there by accident and add nothing of value to the health of the nation. Either remove the tax-deductibility from employer-provided health insurance, or else give everybody who buys health insurance an equivalent tax deduction. Insurance companies will prove intelligent enough to promote the formation of groups of those who buy their own insurance, so as to give them the benefit of the group-insurance discount. And as every commentator has observed, the freedom to sell insurance across state lines and to design a multiplicity of plans would spur a cost-controlling competition.

A second worthwhile reform would be to encourage the rebirth of the mutual health-insurance company, such as Blue Cross-Blue Shield used to be. Like the Victorian Friendly Societies, early American health insurers were just vehicles for pooling risk, with people knowing that they were all subject to serious illness, but not knowing whether or not it would ever afflict them, so it made sense, behind this veil of ignorance of the future, to pool their money to pay the expenses of those among them unfortunate enough to contract one of the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to. In the forties and fifties, the owners of these insurance companies were the policyholders, and their employees were just administrators who calculated the risks, collected the premiums, and paid out the benefits. Blue Cross and Blue Shield were in the insurance business, not the investment business, and they needed no high-paid top executives to make investment decisions to enrich non-policy owning shareholders, because there were none. No insurance company presumed to tell a doctor how to treat his patient, because profit erosion through higher costs was not a baseline concern. The demutualizing of these companies was a huge policy mistake, vastly increasing the cost of health insurance in order to reward public shareholders and executives, not policyholders. Now the tail wags the dog.

I’ve said nothing about healthcare for the poor. I’d only point out that in mid-century America, nobody went untreated. There were always doctors who wouldn’t charge patients who couldn’t pay, always charity hospitals staffed by the same doctors who staffed the fancy hospitals, always union clinics and company doctors, always emergency rooms that would treat first and ask about ability to pay later. And all these delivery systems provided better care than Medicaid.

The ruling concept in America’s technology companies is continuous improvement. Health-insurance reformers, starting now, ought to make it their motto as well.
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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 28, 2017 at 6:30am
The Front Page Cover
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Banging It Out
by Tom McLaughlin
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As a Muslim, I am Shocked
by Liberals and Leftists
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by Majid Rafizadeh
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ If you had grown up, as I did, between two authoritarian governments -- the Islamic Republic of Iran and Syria -- under the leadership of people such as Hafez al Assad, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad... you would have seen your youth influenced by two major denominations of Islam in the Muslim world: the Shia and the Sunni. I studied both, and at one point was even a devout Muslim. My parents, who still live in Iran and Syria, come from two different ethnic Muslim groups: Arab and Persian. You also would have seen how the religion of Islam intertwines with politics, and how radical Islam rules a society through its religious laws, sharia. You would have witnessed how radical Islam can dominate and scrutinize people's day-to-day choices: in eating, clothing, socializing, entertainment, everything. You would have seen the tentacles of its control close over every aspect of your life. You would have seen the way, wielded by fundamentalists, radical Islam can be a powerful tool for unbridled violence. It is the fear of this violence, torture, and death, wielded by extremist Muslims, that keeps every person desperate to obey...This is not a free society.
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Trump Authorizes Keystone Pipeline
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by Kerry Lear
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ On Friday, the Trump administration officially gave TransCanada permission to build the Keystone XL Pipeline... The State Department said that Tom Shannon, the undersecretary for political affairs, issued the permit citing that building Keystone is in best interest of the U.S. The Secretary of State Rex Tillerson recused himself due to his previous experience with Exxon Mobil. “In making his determination that issuance of this permit would serve the national interest, the under-secretary considered a range of factors, including but not limited to foreign policy; energy security; environmental, cultural, and economic impacts; and compliance with applicable law and policy,” said the State Department...  http://punchingbagpost.com/trump-authorizes-keystone-pipeline
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The Democratic Party’s Derangement,
Subversion, Sedition, Treason...
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{ipatriot.com} ~ The decision to use the words, “derangement”, “subversion, “sedition”, and “treason” to describe Democrats’ and the Democratic Party’s actions in America today was not a decision I made easily... If you really look at the actions of the people who claim to be Democrats today and the people and groups who support them, it is inarguable that those four words are the exact description of their actions and objectives. The Democratic Party has “evolved” into a party that can best be described as a coalition of individuals and groups who are obsessed with destroying America and ultimately replacing it with a “One World Order” government. One of the most visible “groups” that is obsessively supporting the Democrat’s “final push” to “fundamentally change America” is the “Main Stream Media.” (MSM).  A brief, objective look at CNN, MSNBC, ABC, CBS, or NBC news, the front page and editorial page of the New York Times, and internet sites like Huffington Post or VOX will confirm this. Anytime I see anything from these, or dozens of other Liberal media, I cannot help but wonder how these people do what they do? You literally have to “suspend reality” to believe what they are saying...  http://ipatriot.com/democratic-partys-derangement-subversion-sedition-treason-media-love/
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Leftist Media Ignore Trump Vindication –
Big Revelations Ahead
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Christopher Farrell of Judicial Watch joined Lou Dobbs for a discussion of the critical and dynamic situation with the revelations by House  Intelligence Committee chairman Rep Devin Nunes... Dobbs opens the discussion saying, “To hear the House Intel Chair tell it, I mean these are blockbuster statements that are being made. He effectively vindicated President Trump with what he revealed to the President, to the press.” Dobbs says, “And it’s interesting, I watched the national left-wing media and they don’t even mention the fact that ‘President vindicated,’ that he was right, that, you know, because some had mocked him that, I mean it’s newspaper after newspaper, their editorial boards even weighing in on ‘what a foolish thought the President had.'” Farrell says, “I can tell you that when President Trump said that liar-nObama wiretapped me, that’s sort of Queens shorthand, right? The President is still a guy from Queens, New York. And when he said, ‘Look, liar-nObama wiretapped me,’ and what that means in Washington language is that ‘Administration officials out of the liar-nObama White House unlawfully obtained intelligence information and again unlawfully shared that with their allies in the media.’ That’s the long Washington answer to President Trump saying ‘liar-nObama wiretapped me.'”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-judicial-watch-leftist-media-ignore-trump-vindication-big-revelations-ahead/
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Carlson : Whistle blower says Trump
likely surveilled for some time
{youtube.com} ~ NSA whistle-blower Bill Binney worked at the NSA for more than 30 years. He was a highly regarded employee there but resigned in 2001 saying the agency was building illegal mass surveillance networks... He says President Trump almost certainly has been spied on by the government, was being spied on and probably for a long time. Bill Binney says President Trump's allegations are an indication of how easy it is for the government to spy on all Americans.
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Banging It Out
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ People occasionally ask how I’ve been able to come up with something to write about every week for twenty-five years. Actually there’s too much to choose from. Even if I were to write a column a day, there would still be too much. Listening to news while driving or working on the house, a column plays out in my head more than once a day. Sometimes it will stay in mind until I have my laptop open and I can bang out a few lines that will remind me of the rest. Then Saturday or Sunday I start to flesh it out. I edit it on Monday and send it to one venue, then edit some more Tuesday and send it to another. Wednesdays I post it online and send links to other websites, and to people who want them.
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About a hundred twenty have asked for links over the years, but the “contacts” application on my MacBook Pro lost that folder a few months ago. I had to reconstruct the list but couldn’t remember the names of about ninety people who were on it. We’d never met, and my only contact with them was online. They’d read the column somewhere and emailed me to say they liked it. I’d write back thanking them and ask if they’d like links each week. If they responded affirmatively I put them on the list. Going over the 1100+ people on my total contacts list didn’t jog my memory either. Not wanting to abandon my fan base, I included the emails of everyone whose name was unfamiliar and ended up with a new list of two hundred twenty — a hundred more than there were on the original.
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Some people started getting the link for the first time and thanked me for sending it along. Since they were obviously happy about it, I left them on. Three people emailed back and asked me to drop them, which I did immediately. One woman made the request with CAPITAL LETTERS and lots of exclamation points!!! I figured she was a leftist whose email address somehow made it into my contacts. For others, I got those kickback messages indicating email addresses were not longer operational. After a couple of weeks everything was back to normal.
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Stream of Consciousness
Sometimes I’ll start writing about something, but as paragraphs multiply and I approach the 800-word limit, I see that I’ve gone off in an entirely different direction and ask myself, “Where did that come from?” Other times, I’ll write an opening, then be unable to string together coherent sentences in anything like a logical sequence that will result in a paragraph. Frustrated at first, I’m forced to conclude the original thought was only a muse, more suited for poetry than an opinion column.
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Twenty-five years of weekly columns adds up to over 1200. Nearly half are archived on my blog which I started in January, 2006. The rest — about 650 — were clipped from newspapers and put in a briefcase along with some letters to the editor they generated. When I read over some of the old ones, it seems as if someone else wrote them. It was someone else in a sense, because I’m not the forty-year-old Tom anymore and sometimes I ask myself, “Who was that guy?”
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I’m not the twenty-year-old Tom either and I certainly don’t look like him. I should probably update whatever picture you see where you’re reading this because the newest one out there is eight years old. I have less hair now. I have few pictures of myself, however, since I'm the family photographer. I'm always looking out the lens and seldom into it.
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Speaking of the effects of aging, my social security checks start in May. However, I won’t get as much as the Social Security Administration said I would in those letters they’ve been sending me every year. It will be forty percent less than that because the school district where I taught didn’t take FICA (social security) out of my paychecks. They deducted Maine State Retirement only.
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I always worked other jobs while teaching, however, and paid into social security for all of them. I still pay into it every year in the form of self-employment tax. Will that be cut by forty percent now too? Heck, I’d be satisfied if they just gave me back what I’ve paid in since 1967 because those monthly checks won’t add up to what they took unless I live a lot longer than I expect to.
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Come to think of it, I’d be better off without most of the “help” government gives me. So would the rest of the working people in this country, but we’re all beholden to those who vote for a living rather than work for it. Think about that on tax day. It’s coming right up again you know. Are you going to write a check or get one?
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 27, 2017 at 4:30pm
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Princeton Seminary
Disses Pastor Timothy Keller
by David Limbaugh
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 Shutting Off Spigot Won't Clean Up liar-nObamaCare 
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As the House is set to vote Thursday on the GOP's American Health Care Act, its replacement for liar-nObamaCare, much attention has been focused on the options available for Senate Republicans to engage in repealing and replacing the law. Due to Senate reconciliation rules, full repeal of a law requires a 60-vote super majority, and with the Republicans majority sitting at 52 seats and Democrats united in their opposition to repeal, it may appear an impossible task. But that's not entirely accurate.
          Ironically, the Supreme Court's 2012 ruling upholding the Affordable Care Act mandate — in which John Roberts rewrote the law so as to make the mandate a tax — may also prove to be the Achilles heel which Republicans can exploit. Since the Supreme Court found all the regulations of the ACA to be an "intertwined," "interlocking" system designed to function together and not separately, and that these regulations "would not work" without each other, if one aspect of the mechanism were to be compromised the whole thing would essentially shut down. And one of the critical elements to the functionality of liar-nObamaCare is federal spending.
          In other words, Republicans could vote to end funding of federal subsidies for health insurance, thereby essentially turning off the "power switch." The vote being one on eliminating spending, and not repealing the law, would only require a simple majority to pass. It technically is not a repeal of liar-nObamaCare, but a shutting down of the program, thus avoiding any concerns over Senate reconciliation rules.
          However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, along with a majority of Senate Republicans, recognize that simply repealing ACA alone doesn't solve the problem. liar-nObamaCare created a Demo time bomb that isn't diffused easily. The big problem is that a free market health care system hasn't existed since 2009. liar-nObamaCare effectively killed it. And a new fair and properly regulated health insurance market won't simply pop into existence overnight. This is why Republicans have struggled so mightily in working toward a replacement plan.
          The House Republicans' AHCA wasn't hastily cobbled together in the dark of the night. In reality, it reflects the work Republicans have been engaged in for years as they have fought to both repeal and replace liar-nObamaCare. The aim of the legislation is to develop a federalist-based, free-market and patient-centered system as opposed to liar-nObamaCare's centralized, bureaucrat-oriented, authoritarian, free-market-killing, socialized program.
          Will the GOP plan be perfect? By no means, but it certainly stops and works to reverse the liar-nObamaCare-created death spiral into which America's health care system is collapsing. 
~The Patriot Post
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Trump Health Care Comments
Outstanding, Playing Long Ball
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin continues his apparently sincere transformation into a supporter of President Trump with some glowing comments after the House failed to pass Paul Ryan’s liar-nObamacare-lite... He described the President’s remarks as being “outstanding, and he showed enormous humility.” Noting that Trump doesn’t give up and understands that they live to fight another day, Levin said, “In essence he said, events are going to reach a point where this is going to have to be addressed and resolved. And when it reaches that point, I’m here.” Levin plays a clip in which President Trump notes he had no Democrat support and it was a very tight margin. Trump stated in the clip, “I’ve been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we could do, politically speaking, is let liar-nObamacare explode, it is exploding right now. Many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems.” Levin faults the point man, Gary Cohn for the bill being something that conservatives couldn’t support, as well as Reince Priebus, Ryan and the liberal Democrats teaming up in ways they shouldn’t. He says, “I think Trump handled himself, in this speech, exceptionally well.”...  http://rickwells.us/levin-president-trump-health-care-comments-outstanding-playing-long-ball/
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Feinstein caught in her own 'gotcha' question
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., a liberal Californian whose opposition to virtually everything President Trump is trying to accomplish is well known, was caught this week in her own “gotcha” question... to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Judge Neil Gorsuch. Gorsuch appeared this week before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which will decide whether to put his nomination before a full vote of the Senate. The details on Feinstein’s backfire come from the Second Amendment Foundation, or SAF, the oldest and largest tax-exempt education, research, publishing and legal action group focusing on the right to bear arms...
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Comey To The White House, Nunes Bringing
Comey, Rogers Back For Classified Intel Hearing
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The events are happening quickly as the scandalous spying by Hussein liar-nObama on the Trump campaign and nascent presidency become more apparent... undeniable and consequential to those involved. Martha MacCallum reports that three Trump insiders who have been smeared by the Democrats have now come forward in an attempt to clear their names and in support of the President. Paul Manafort, Roger Stone and Carter Page have all offered to testify before the House Intelligence Committee looking into matters of the phantom pretend Russia-Trump collusion and the very real liar-nObama spying on Trump and other American civilians. Catherine Herridge reports that there was a surprise mid-afternoon visit to the White House by FBI Director Comey that lasted for just over an hour. Herridge states that the official reason given for his visit was that Comey came in for a routine interagency meeting. She sounds skeptical, quoting a source that is a 25 year FBI veteran who said, ‘Only the highest profile issues would call for the Director to personally travel to the White House.”...
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Former Intel committee chief:
Comey needs to tell rest of story
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by Greg Corombos
{wnd.com} ~ The former chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence says it would be highly unusual for any raw intelligence transcripts to reach the White House... and he says if any “incidental” surveillance that did go to political operatives, then lawmakers should actively encourage and protect whistleblowers who may come forward. This week, the current chairman of the committee, Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told President Trump and the media that he has seen evidence suggesting Trump associates and possibly even Trump himself were picked up by U.S. surveillance. But former Chairman Pete Hoekstra, R-Mich., says the idea of transcripts from incidental surveillance ending up at the White House is stunning. “My sources and what I gleaned from what Chairman Nunes said on Wednesday, it appears there was raw intelligence, actual transcripts of this incidental collection at the White House,” said Hoekstra, who notes that more corroboration needs to come forward to back up the claims from Nunes...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/former-intel-committee-chief-comey-needs-to-tell-rest-of-story/
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Trump – Not Necessarily Bad That
liar-nObamacare Bill Failed, An Opportunity
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump responded to the House not being able to pass an liar-nObamacare replacement bill with a statement read from the Oval Office. The President said in part... Thank you very much. We were very close, it was a very, very tight margin. We had no Democrat support. We had no votes from the Democrats. They weren’t going to give us a single vote, so it’s a very difficult thing to do. I’ve been saying for the last year and a half that the best thing we can do politically speaking is let liar-nObamacare explode. It is exploding right now. It’s, many states have big problems, almost all states have big problems. I was in Tennessee the other day and they’ve lost half of their state in terms of an insurer. They have no insurer. And that’s happening to many other places. I was in Kentucky the other day and similar things are happening...Maybe it was a good thing it didn't pass. Now congress can work in improving it better.  http://rickwells.us/president-trump-not-necessarily-bad-obamacare-bill-failed-opportunity/
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Princeton Seminary
Disses Pastor Timothy Keller
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by David Limbaugh
{townhall.com} ~ Can we all agree that modern leftists tend to politicize everything they can get their hands on -- in every venue? Even the sacred isn't sacred.

Princeton Theological Seminary reversed its decision to bestow the annual Abraham Kuyper Prize to New York City pastor Timothy Keller -- for essentially political reasons.

Keller leads an enormously popular Reformed church in the heart of New York City. Before you challenge popularity as a meaningful yardstick for evaluating a pastor, know that his popularity is not based on straying from Scripture or Christian principles, but on being faithful to them.

Yes, even in New York City there is obviously a deep spiritual hunger for the truth and that is what Keller and his church provide, in spades.

I am familiar with Keller and his preaching, as I own several of his books and his entire sermon archive, which I purchased through Logos Bible Software -- an amazing resource that I've used to research my Christian-themed books. I have visited Keller's church, and though he wasn't preaching that day, the pastor who was delivered a biblical, Christ-centered message without a hint of politics.

Neither in Keller's writings nor his sermons have I detected the slightest inclination toward the political. He preaches the Gospel and the entire Bible with clarity and inspiration. His insights are invaluable and routinely profound. He is truly gifted and seems to practice the Christlike humility he preaches, not seeking to make himself a celebrity or otherwise leverage his talents to redirect the focus from Scripture to himself.

His disqualifying sin was not that he joined the now defunct Moral Majority or publicly endorsed some evil Republican politician. Nor was it that he rejected any of the church's doctrinal tenets. It was not that his teachings might lead people away from the church's mission to spread the Gospel. Rather, it was apparently his refusal to deviate from Scripture and conform his teachings to the current liberal political line on certain hot-button issues.

Certain people raised Cain about Keller's "conservative positions" and the seminary decided it better renege on offering the award. Keller is a leader in the Presbyterian Church in America, which, according to Princeton Theological Seminary President Craig Barnes, "prevents women and LGBTQ+ persons from full participation in the ordained Ministry of Word and Sacrament." The Seminary is part of a different denomination -- the Presbyterian Church (USA), whose position on this issue conflicts with Keller and the PCA.

"Many regard awarding the Kuyper Prize as affirmation of Reverend Keller's belief that women and LGBTQ+ persons should not be ordained. This conflicts with the stance of the Presbyterian Church (USA). And it is an important issue among the divided Reformed communions."

The Kuyper Prize is "awarded each year to a scholar or community leader whose outstanding contribution to their chosen sphere reflects the ideas and values characteristic of the Neo-Calvinist vision of religious engagement in matters of social, political and cultural significance in one or more of the spheres of society."

Keller apparently satisfied the criteria when he was chosen, but the ubiquitous forces of political correctness and social justice would have none of it. So Keller got the axe.

Keller won't get the award, but not to worry -- he'll still get the consolation prize of being allowed to speak at the school's annual conference in April.

Ah, liberal tolerance -- it's everywhere.

Keller is especially worthy of such an honor and the school's action is disgraceful. "If you can't give an Abraham Kuyper award to Tim Keller," asked Southern Baptist leader Daniel Darling, "who can you give it to?"

Even in the church and church-affiliated institutions, those who subscribe to biblical views on marriage, even universally respected Christian leaders, must be scorned. The Bible and those entrusted with teaching it must yield to the moral strictures of the culture.

People sometimes ask what Christians and conservatives can do to reverse the relentless advance of secularism, progressivism and moral relativism in our culture. Well, they can start by waking up to the reality of the ongoing attacks on biblical and traditional values and the vilification of those who openly embrace them. They can quit ignoring these assaults because they prefer to avoid controversy. The truth is often controversial and should not take a back seat to pseudo concerns for harmony articulated by those who daily sew seeds of discord unless you unquestionably submit to their views.

The Bible should be our guide, not the shifting currents of political correctness and the bullying demands of leftist malcontents. Pastor Timothy Keller will not be harmed by this rejection. This good and faithful servant has already received an infinitely higher award.
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Mon/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 27, 2017 at 11:00am
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
What House GOP Leadership Should Do
Now on liar-nObamacare Repeal
by Edmund Haislmaier
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 Dems to Filibuster Gorsuch 
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Despite Judge Neil Gorsuch's stellar performance at this week's confirmation hearings, anxious Democrat obstructionists are pulling out all the stops in a futile effort to spoil his confirmation. Part of the reason revolves around bitterness over Merrick Garland (Barack liar-nObama's flunked nominee). But the biggest reason has to do with Gorsuch's originalist jurisprudence, which is antithetical to the ideology espoused by "living constitutionalists" on the Left.
          No one has worked harder to politicize the hearings than Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a career judicial saboteur whom the Washington Examiner correctly opines is "the best reminder that we need more judges like Gorsuch." Schumer announced that he will lead a filibuster of Gorsuch, because he "was unable to sufficiently convince me that he'd be an independent check" on Donald Trump. That's after Schumer floated the idea of ensnaring Gorsuch in the Left's "Russia hacked the election" narrative. According to Schumer, "It is unseemly to be moving forward so fast on confirming a Supreme Court justice with a lifetime appointment while this big gray cloud of an FBI investigation hangs over the presidency."
          Sen. Elizabeth dinky-Warren is echoing this ploy: "Neil Gorsuch is up for a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court from a President whose campaign is under FBI investigation." Yet you have to wonder who's really calling the shots. Democrat leaders are taking orders — or at least taking cues — from radical organizations like NARAL Pro-Choice America, whose president, Ilyse Hogue, is urging that lawmakers "delay hearings on Neil Gorsuch's nomination while the president is under an active FBI investigation. Short of that, Senate Democrats must filibuster this nomination." The organization previously joined 54 others in cosigning a March 14 Senate letter that states, "We implore senators to do everything necessary to block this nomination."
          Memo to Republicans: Don't fall for it. Don't even think about delaying the confirmation vote. Democrats will play politics with whomever is nominated. Don't let abortion advocates dictate who will replace Justice Antonin Scalia. This week, Sen. Dianne Feinstein lectured Gorsuch by absurdly asserting Roe v. Wade established a "super precedent." The only super precedent is the Constitution. And as for Russia, Democrats are using that narrative to delegitimize Donald Trump. Meanwhile, perhaps most of those who voted for Trump did so because of the Supreme Court. So don't miss the irony of the two things converging here. 
~The Patriot Post
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Speaker Ryan Should Resign After
Healthcare Leadership Failure
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro adds her voice to the increasing chorus of those asking that the disloyal, dysfunctional and disruptive Paul Ryan step down from his position as Speaker of the House... None of us every really liked Ryan and most of us have been very critical of him much of the time. He has no accumulated good will among virtually any segment of the Conservative or Republican base that might help to counter his current vulnerability. His background of subterfuge and opportunistic assaults on the American people and our leaders in service to those who are working to destroy our nation and enslave is catching up with him. Hit the road, Ryan, and don’t cha come back no more. Judge Jeanine says it clear and straightforward, “Paul Ryan needs to step down as Speaker of the House. The reason? He failed to deliver the votes on his healthcare bill. The one trumpeted to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare. The one that he had seven years to work on. The one he hid under lock and key in the basement of Congress. The one that had to be pulled to prevent the embarrassment of not having enough votes to pass.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-speaker-ryan-resign-healthcare-leadership-failure/
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Susan Rice is the Wrong Person to
Attack Trump’s Credibility
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by Roger Aronoff
{aim.org} ~ In a recent opinion column for The Washington Post, former United Nations ambassador and national security advisor to Barack liar-nObama, Susan Rice, had the temerity to lecture President Donald Trump... about telling the truth. She writes that “our friends must be able to trust the word of the U.S. president.” This extends far beyond hypocrisy coming from a person who visited five Sunday talk shows to peddle administration falsehoods about the 2012 terror attacks in Benghazi, Libya. In addition, she served in those positions during a period of other disastrous foreign policy decisions—deceptively sold to the American people—such as the Iran nuclear deal and the entire Libyan debacle...
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Like Your liar-nObamacare, Keep Your liar-nObamacare Lewis Wasn’t Careful What He Wished For
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The most important component to bear in mind as the lying racially exploitative political hack, Rep John Lewis, engages in his hypocritical partisan political rant is that he’s railing against the existing bill, liar-nObamacare... that he and his commie comrades forced down America’s throats. He, along with Nancy Pulosi, Steny Hoyer, Harry dinky-Reid, Elijah Cummings, Chuck Schumer, Luis Gutierrez and all of the other “pass it first, read it later” partisan Democrat communists, inflicted upon us the very bill that he now demands the people be protected from. He does so as he represents the now failed Ryancare that would have bailed their sorry butts out as being insufficient. Thankfully, the Freedom Caucus and others stood strong against Ryancare and the Republicans slipped off the hook.  Okay, Mr. Civil Rights Icon, you got your wish, the GOP bill was pulled. You fix your own mess...  http://rickwells.us/like-obamacare-keep-obamacare-lewis-careful-wished/
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Freedom Caucus member Ted Poe leaves
group after healthcare bill debacle
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by Robert King
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ A member of the conservative House Freedom Caucus is leaving the group after it opposed a major bill to gut liar-nObamacare... Rep. Ted Poe, R-Texas, has left the group due to conflicts over the group's strategy on the American Health Care Act, which was pulled right before a scheduled vote on Friday because of opposition from caucus members and moderates. "I have resigned from the House Freedom Caucus," Poe said in a statement. "In order to deliver on the conservative agenda we have promised the American people for eight years, we must come together to find solutions to move this country forward. Saying no is easy, leading is hard, but that is what we were elected to do. Leaving this caucus will allow me to be a more effective Member of Congress and advocate for the people of Texas. It is time to lead."... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2618495/
VIDEO:  http://launch.newsinc.com/embed.html?trackingGroup=91212&siteSection=91212_pp&videoId=32163943
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Shaffer: Trump Wiretap Case
'Worse Than Watergate'
{foxnews.com} ~ Former CIA officer Col. Tony Shaffer said the basics of President Trump's claim to have been "wiretapped" are likely true, and that the incident is "worse than Watergate."... Noting it has been exactly two weeks since Trump tweeted that President liar-nObama wiretapped his namesake tower, Shaffer said the "basic fundamental idea and claim is true." He said that Trump was not physically wiretapped, with a wire into his phone, and it may not have physically been Trump Tower, but his campaign apparatus instead... http://insider.foxnews.com/amp/article/55045
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What House GOP Leadership Should Do
Now on liar-nObamacare Repeal
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by Edmund Haislmaier
{dailysignal.com} ~ This afternoon, the House canceled a scheduled vote on the American Health Care Act—the House leadership bill to partially repeal liar-nObamacare—once it became clear that there were not the votes for passage.

While the bill contained a number of provisions that were good conservative policies, a major reason it fell short was that too many members were concerned the bill did not go far enough in dismantling liar-nObamacare’s regulatory architecture.

Indeed, the key to the case for repealing liar-nObamacare is the need to undo the law’s regulatory takeover of private insurance and reverse its cost-increasing effects. That is not only a policy objective, but also a political imperative.

Voters elected candidates who pledged to repeal liar-nObamacare because they understood that pledge to mean, first and foremost, a commitment to undo the cost-increasing mandates and regulations that liar-nObamacare imposed on their private health insurance.

The best course now would be for House leadership to draft a new bill that takes as its starting point the repeal of those liar-nObamacare provisions that dictate the benefits and design of private insurance plans, and which have driven up coverage costs.

Doing that would be a case of good policymaking for good politics.

“liar-nObamacare caused premiums to rise for various reasons, chief among them being the vast new regulations the law imposed on insurance markets. A new analysis from Milliman backs this up. The study provided estimates of the average impact that various liar-nObamacare regulations had on premiums. These estimates are reflected in the chart below.”
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 27, 2017 at 7:00am
The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
When politicians judge jurists
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
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 The Misplaced Compassion of 'Sanctuary Cities' 
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Once again the Left's engagement in fantasy instead of fact leaves rationale people shaking their heads in utter disbelief. A mere four days after two illegal alien young men were arrested for brutally raping a 14-year-old girl in a high school bathroom in Rockville, Maryland, the state legislature passed a bill declaring Maryland to be a "sanctuary state" affording illegal aliens more protections from deportation. Maryland's Republican governor Larry Hogan, who promised to veto the bill, angrily responded to the crime and called for Montgomery County to "immediately and fully cooperate with all federal authorities" as they investigate the "heinous crime."
          To add insult to injury, it has been learned that one of the illegals had been previously detained in Texas for illegally entering the country, but was subsequently released by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Obviously he should never have been released.
          This past Monday, the Department of Homeland Security released a list, which is by no means exhaustive, of "jurisdictions that have enacted polices which limit cooperation with ICE." A majority of the jurisdictions were located in Texas, but not surprisingly Montgomery County, Maryland, was also included on the list. Donald Trump has been working to expose just how big the problem of lawless local governments aiding and abetting of illegal aliens has become.
          Denying the growing illegal alien crime epidemic will only create more suffering for law-abiding citizens. Lawlessness unchecked leads only to greater and more severe criminal acts, as the Rockville rape case attests. The great fallacy preached by many on the Left is the insistence that to be the truly compassionate one must ignore "lower-level" lawlessness. The assumption being that a nation committed to the Rule of Law is inherently socially unjust.
          Leftists continue to double down and ignore the genuine plight of the innocent victims who have been begging for protection and the enforcement of the law. Where is that great "compassion" from the Left for law-abiding American citizens? 
~The Patriot Post
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Democratic Lawmaker Wants to
Fine People For Not Voting
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by Jack Heretik  
{freebeacon.com} ~ Democratic assemblywoman Deborah Glick of the New York State Assembly has introduced legislation that would fine people who do not vote, and has been promptly criticized on the constitutionality of the measure... Glick's legislation proposes a $10 fine for those who fail to vote without providing a "valid excuse," but she does not specify what a valid excuse would be, the New York Daily News reports. Glick also wrote a memo claiming the bill's intention is to increase voter turnout and force elected officials to better represent their constituents...This is bull. How about finding voter fraud.  http://freebeacon.com/politics/democratic-state-senator-wants-to-fine-people-for-not-voting/
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The Delusion of the Iran Nuclear Deal
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by Mark Dubowitz
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ President Donald Trump promised to rigorously and radically enforce the Iran nuclear agreement, which he called “the worst deal ever negotiated.” It sounds tough, but it’s an approach that plays into the hands of the Iranian mullahs... The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action presents the Trump administration with a bedeviling paradox: The greater the focus on enforcement, the higher the likelihood Iran will emerge with nuclear weapons. The nuclear deal contains limited, temporary and reversible constraints that disappear over time. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), the United Nations nuclear watchdog tasked with monitoring the deal, may be able to detect Iranian violations. But Iran doesn’t need to cheat. In fact, it has every incentive not to do so... http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/dubowitz-mark-the-delusion-of-the-iran-nuclear-deal/
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In Venezuela’s Toxic Brew, Failed Narco-State
Meets Iran-Backed Terrorism
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by John Hannah and Emanuele Ottolenghi
{defenddemocracy.org} ~ As if the political and economic chaos wracking Venezuela wasn’t worrying enough, a couple of recent stories underscore the potential national security threat brewing there... First, last month’s designation of Venezuela’s vice president, Tareck El Aissami, as a drug kingpin by the U.S. Department of Treasury. Second, a CNN investigative report revealing that Venezuela’s embassy in Iraq was allegedly selling Venezuelan passports and identity documents to Middle Eastern nationals — raising the disturbing prospect that Caracas is facilitating the entry of Islamist militants to Latin America. Indeed, the CNN report echoed revelations from 2013 that the Venezuelan embassy in Syria was issuing passports to terrorists under the direction of Ghazi Atef Nassereddine, a Treasury-sanctioned, FBI-wanted Venezuelan diplomat who happens to be a key Hezbollah operative. Put all this together and what do you get? A rabidly anti-American failed state that appears to be incubating the convergence of narco-trafficking and jihadism in America’s own backyard...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/john-hannah-in-venezuelas-toxic-brew-failed-narco-state-meets-iran-backed-terrorism/
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Will the West Please Stop Siding with Criminals?
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 by Khadija Khan
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The growth in systematic abuse of women, especially by Islamists in the West, requires democratic governments to introduce strong measures to stop this abuse... before abusive mullahs start harassing women of all faiths, to force them to submit to their wishes. The recent threats and harassment of a British "Hijabi girl" by Islamists in Birmingham, England, merely for a video showing her dance, have re-exposed the ugly face of this autocratic mindset that owes its existence to extremist states such as Saudi Arabia and Iran. Enslaving women in general and inflicting repressive agendas -- such as domestic violence, sexual abuse, segregation, allowing no say in choosing a partner, education or profession, with abysmal living standards often part of the abuse -- is just a small measure of the jihad that the Islamists have managed to unleash across the globe...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10098/siding-with-criminals
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Is This What Nunes Uncovered...?
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ There’s been a lot of interest generated by the decision of Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep Devin Nunes, to pursue the path he did with information he was provided  about deep state surveillance of American citizens... The Congressman confirms that the liar-nObama regime spied on members of the Trump administration and transition team and revealed their names in violation of masking requirements. As Nunes pointed out in his news conference, it is important to remember that most of the illegal spying occurred, “from what I’ve seen, in November, December and January, during the transition.” That was after the election and at a time when Trump was the President-elect. He also notes, “I have learned that additional names of Trump transition team members were unmasked” and affirmed that “none of this surveillance was related to Russia or the investigation of Russian activities or activities of the Trump team.” Whatever Rep Nunes learned from his anonymous source was deeply disturbing. He said in his press briefing that he was “actually alarmed” because they “went through this about a year and a half ago as it related to members of Congress. Is it once again happening to members of Congress if they happen to be involved with the Trump camp or part of the Trump transition? Is history repeating itself with US intelligence agencies such as the CIA or the investigators of the FBI again abusing their authority?...  http://rickwells.us/nunes-uncovered-sentryan-president-trump/
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When politicians judge jurists
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by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
 
{jewishworldreview.com} ~ I have spent this past week watching the Senate Judiciary Committee interrogating U.S. Circuit Judge Neil Gorsuch. Judge Gorsuch is President Donald Trump's nominee to fill the vacancy on the U.S. Supreme Court. The vacancy was created by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia more than 13 months ago. The Supreme Court is currently generally divided between four liberals and four conservatives. As a justice, Gorsuch would probably break many ideological ties.

During the hearings, Republican senators are doing their best to associate Judge Gorsuch with the popular-in-death Justice Scalia, and Democratic senators are doing their best to try to pin down Gorsuch by making him commit publicly to positions on hot-button issues, such as abortion, gun rights and the use of unrestricted money in political campaigns. Gorsuch has accepted the Republican sobriquets and declined to answer Democratic inquiries with specificity. So, are the hearings of any real value?

Here is the back story.

Prior to the partisan efforts to block the nominations of the late Judge Robert Bork and now-Justice Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court, the Senate's "advice and consent" role was mainly limited to a cursory examination of a nominee's qualifications for office. The Bork hearings succeeded in derailing his nomination by portraying his philosophical views as outside the mainstream of legal thought. The Thomas hearings, which failed to block the nomination, centered on the nominee's alleged personal shortcomings, which were directly challenged and mainly refuted.

My point here is that since these two hearings in 1987 and 1991, the Senate Judiciary Committee has felt unleashed to probe and prod into any area it sees fit, and the nominees have become unleashed to answer only the questions that they think will advance their nominations.

In the Gorsuch hearings this week, the nominee has argued that should he commit to certain positions on issues, it would not be fair to litigants who might come before him as a circuit judge if his nomination were not to be confirmed or before him in the Supreme Court if it were, as those litigants would have a proper belief that he prejudged their cases. "It would be grossly improper," he argued, for him to commit in advance to how he'd vote on any issue. He's correct.

So, what questions could both Democrats and Republicans put to him and what questions could he answer that would inform their judgment and illuminate his thinking without committing his judgment?

It should come as no surprise that Gorsuch is a traditionalist. The folks who offered his candidacy to the president — and I played a small role in that process — spent weeks examining all his public writings, as well as his speeches and lectures, so as to enable them to conclude safely that his 10-year track record as an appellate judge could fairly be a barometer of his likely behavior as a Supreme Court justice. In the process of that examination, the researchers found many similarities in ideas, tone, attitudes and word choice to Justice Scalia.

The essence of that similarity is an idea called originalism. Though there are many variants of originalism, it generally advances the idea that the meaning of the Constitution was fixed at the time it was ratified and therefore its words mean the same today as they did to those who ratified it; and the same is the case for its 27 amendments.

This fidelity to original public understanding drives judges to the text of the Constitution and the laws — not the principles that underlie the text, not the politics that produced the text, not the social ills the text seeks to cure but the words chosen by the drafters of the Constitution or of a statute, as the case may be. This is not just an obscure academic argument. Originalism, if followed religiously, leaves judges and justices to the narrow role of interpreting the plain text of the Constitution or laws as they were understood when enacted, irrespective of the consequences.

Originalists believe that social progress and new legal structures should come about by the acts of Congress and the president, who are elected for that purpose, rather than by the rulings of unelected, unaccountable judges. If every judge were an originalist, the effect would be that much wonderful social progress in human affairs that could come about through the decisions of courageous jurists — such as public school desegregation and personal privacy and mobility in years past — might not come about.

Yet originalists argue that federal jurists are the least equipped to advance social progress; they are often old, are never elected and have no accountability to the public.

Thus, it is on this philosophical fulcrum, more than on any other, that senators should examine Judge Gorsuch's thinking. In this context, they can also ask him whether our rights come from the government or from our humanity. They can ask how he views fundamental liberties. Can the court pick and choose which rights are highly protected from government interference and thus are difficult for the government to regulate and which are not? If privacy and travel — neither of which is mentioned by name in the Constitution — are fundamental liberties, why isn't freedom of contract, which is mentioned by name?

On these issues alone — originalism and fundamental liberties — the senators could find from his answers a blueprint to his thinking, and Judge Gorsuch could reply in meaningful ways without prejudging any cases.

But the Senate is a political body, and its members are politicians. One of the reasons Justice Scalia gave for rejecting as an interpretive tool the statements made by members of Congress when they passed any legislation under scrutiny is the truism that politicians have only one goal in their work, no matter what they are saying — to get re-elected. The senators examining Judge Gorsuch are probably more concerned with that than with doing the right thing for the court. I hope that in this respect, I am wrong, as I have been before.
 
 
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 25, 2017 at 6:00pm
The Front Page Cover
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Matthew Shepard legacy: 'Fake news'
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 by Linda Harvey
 
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 As Religious Influence Ebbs in America,   Incivility Increases 
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By Louis DeBroux: Is a post-Christian America a kinder, more tolerant America? It would not seem so.
          For decades angry progressives have attacked religion as the source of most social ills and demanded every last vestige of Christian influence be purged from the public square.
          It seems progressives are seeing their wish realized. Though America has long been a religious nation, the level of religious observance has been declining. According to data from Pew Research, in recent years, while the overwhelming majority of Americans say they believe in God, the number of those with no religious affiliation has skyrocketed from 6% in 1992 to 22% in 2014. Among Millennials, 35% have no religious connection.
          While the political Left is more apt to shun religion in general and Christianity in particular, this disturbing trend is showing up among an unexpected demographic: white Republicans. According to the Public Religion Research Institute, the percentage of white Republicans with no religious affiliation has almost tripled since 1990.
          If one accepts the Left's premise that religion is a negative influence in public life (what, with its opposition to same-sex marriage, abortion, etc.) then one would think a waning influence of Christianity would make America a more tolerant society, correct? Quite the opposite.
          As religious observance on the right and the left has eroded, studies show Christianity has been replaced not by a benign, tolerant multiculturalism, but increasingly polarized forms of tribalism. The Right embraces populist nationalism, the Left embraces identity politics. Absent the tempering influence of Christianity, which preaches love for fellow man, forgiveness and charity, the non-religious on both sides take a darker view of America's future, and increasingly see each other as not decent people with differing opinions, but as fundamentally bad people. Why is this?
          As Peter Beinert writes this month in The Atlantic, "Establishing causation is difficult, but we know that culturally conservative white Americans who are disengaged from church experience less economic success and more family breakdown than those who remain connected, and they grow more pessimistic and resentful."
          Beinert notes the political Left is not exempt from such dystopian thoughts, noting, "White Democrats who are disconnected from organized religion are substantially more likely than other white Democrats to call the American dream a myth." Likewise, the Black Lives Matter movement shuns peaceful protests like those led by black Christian clergy such as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., which was so successful in changing the hearts and minds of Americans during the civil rights movement.
          While the causation of the ebbing of Christianity can be debated, the effects are quite clear. Politics is too often a zero-sum game — we win, you lose. And with politics infecting every aspect of American life, and religion on the decline, is it any wonder Americans have become more factional, more confrontational, and more polarized?
          The political Left sees the populist nationalism of Donald Trump as a scary, dangerous development, claiming his supporters seek to harm and subjugate all who don't share their views or pigmentation. Yet leftists don't seem to grasp that the Trump phenomenon is in many ways a push-back against the Left's hypocritical demonization of its opponents. The irony of insulting and assaulting people as you lecture them on how dangerous their views are is lost on the Left.
          In the wake of Donald Trump's shocking election upset, progressives around the nation poured into the streets, rioting, assaulting Trump supporters, breaking windows, looting, and setting cars and buildings on fire. On college campuses, the bastions of leftist orthodoxy and indoctrination, students and even faculty routinely give tacit approval, and outright encouragement, to the sentiment that physically harming those with whom they disagree is justified.
          George Washington called religion and morality the "indispensable supports" of the American republic. John Adams declared the Constitution "wholly inadequate" to govern any but a moral and religious people. And British statesman Edmund Burke warned, "Men are qualified for civil liberty in exact proportion to their disposition to put moral chains upon their appetites. ... Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there must be without. It is ordained in the eternal constitution of things, that men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters."
          Without the peaceful influence of religion, Americans gravitate toward a darker view of their country and their fellow man. Trust, civility and goodwill recede, replaced by a lust for power to secure to each the enforcement of his or her worldview.
          Beinert closes his analysis by saying, "Maybe it's the values of hierarchy, authority, and tradition that churches instill. Maybe religion builds habits and networks that help people better weather national traumas, and thus retain their faith that the system works. For whatever reason, secularization isn't easing political conflict. It's making American politics even more convulsive and zero-sum. For years, political commentators dreamed that the culture war over religious morality that began in the 1960s and '70s would fade. It has. And the more secular, more ferociously national and racial culture war that has followed is worse."
          Christianity in America is certainly not dead, but its influence has lessened and, as a result, the public discourse has become less civil. A restoration — a revival, if you will — of the Christian spirit is sorely needed.
          As Dennis Prager put it, "If you want a good world, the death of Judeo-Christian values should frighten you." 
~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama officials possibly facing
criminal charges for unmasking scheme
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by Daniel Chaitin       
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The Washington Post's Bob Woodward warned on Wednesday that there are people from the liar-nObama administration who could be facing criminal charges for unmasking the names of Trump transition team members... from surveillance of foreign officials. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., said earlier that he had briefed Trump on new information, unrelated to an investigation into Russian activities, that suggested that several members of Trump's transition team and perhaps Trump himself had their identities "unmasked" after their communications were intercepted by U.S. intelligence officials. The revelation is notable because identities of Americans are generally supposed to remain "masked" if American communications are swept up during surveillance of foreign individuals...
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/bob-woodward-obama-officials-possibly-facing-criminal-charges-for-unmasking-scheme/article/2618185
VIDEO:  http://launch.newsinc.com/embed.html?trackingGroup=91212&siteSection=91212_pp&videoId=32162382
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Subpoena liar-nObama, Impanel Grand Jury Tonight,
Spying And Unmasking Likely Criminal
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Sara Carter and Jay Sekulow join Sean Hannity as the anticipation for “smoking gun” revelations proving that liar-nObama spied on President Trump mounts. Hannity notes that every day, everything Carter said is coming true... He asks her what she thinks about what Devin Nunes has said and also about a James Rosen article just posted. She predicts it’s not going to be ” just one little piece of evidence but an accumulation of evidence that’s going to expose what’s been going on” with the liar-nObama regime spying on citizens. She recognizes that after the information is delivered to chairman Nunes tomorrow we’ll be much better informed. She notes the expansion by liar-nObama of the intelligence sharing under executive order 12333, wondering why and what changed. She asks, “If it was legal to collect all of this evidence, not the unmasking of all of these names, but if this was collected legally, was there something else that happened before this that we’re not aware of yet?” She felt Chairman Nunes was dancing around that question a little bit in his earlier interview with Hannity...  http://rickwells.us/sekulow-subpoena-obama-impanel-grand-jury-tonight-spying-unmasking-likely-criminal/
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Companies That Might Build Trump’s Wall
Threatened by California Politicians
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by Steve Byas
{thenewamerican.com} ~ “The state’s contracting and investment practices should reflect the values of our state,” California state Representative Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (D-San Diego) declared in explaining her co-authorship of Assembly Bill 946... designed to punish any construction company that participates in the building of a wall between Mexico and the United States, as envisioned by President Donald Trump. “It’s clear the people of California don’t want to invest in the hateful values that the Trump wall represents,” Fletcher added. Fletcher’s bill would dictate that the state’s two large pension systems — the California Public Employee Retirement System and the California State Teachers Retirement System — liquidate in companies that help build the wall. The total investment of the two retirement funds is $312 billion and $202 billion, respectively...The people of Calif don't all agree with Fletcher.
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Rasmieh Odeh Reportedly Accepts Plea Deal
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Palestinian terrorist Rasmieh Odeh, who faces a May 16 retrial for naturalization fraud, reportedly has agreed to plead guilty and leave the United States in exchange for avoiding any prison time... According to a statement from her supporters, Odeh "has made the difficult decision to accept a plea agreement." The statement hailed the decision as "a victory, considering that the government had earlier fought for a sentence of 5-7 years." No court papers have been filed to confirm the report...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5885/breaking-news-rasmieh-odeh-reportedly-accepts#
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Maryland Rape Indicates Americans
Waking Up To Sanctuary City Nightmare
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has “a few thoughts now on the President’s latest efforts to fight against devastating sanctuary city policies. Approximately 300 sanctuary jurisdictions are ignoring immigration law enforcement, protecting dangerous illegal immigrants from deportation... The Trump administrations’ Homeland Security Department has just released its first weekly report.” “This report,” says Dobbs, “details 118 localities currently that refuse to cooperate in enforcing our immigration laws, citing 206 cases in which illegal immigrants were arrested and consequently released from jail without charge, despite recommendations from immigration and customs enforcement to detain them.” “The Trump administration now blaming sanctuary policies and lax border security for the brutal rape of a fourteen-year-old girl at a Rockville, MD high school. The defendants, eighteen-year-old illegal immigrants from Central America, welcomed warmly into the Montgomery County Public School System.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-maryland-rape-indicates-americans-waking-sanctuary-city-nightmare/
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Matthew Shepard legacy: 'Fake news'
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 by Linda Harvey
{wnd.com} ~ Is the accepted legacy of Matthew Shepard “fake news”?

Recently, a radio listener contacted me, concerned about yet another high school performing “The Laramie Project,” a play/movie depicting the most popular version of the events surrounding the 1998 murder of homosexual HIV-positive Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard.

This listener was also concerned that Matthew’s mother, Judy, is still speaking to high school groups and conveying a highly misleading message.

The truth-challenged “Laramie” play perpetuates “LGBTQ” mythology at numerous schools, and we can expect more before the annual pro-homosexual “Day of Silence,” Friday, April 21. High schools this year presenting this propaganda play are in Lewisville, Texas, Kalispell, Montana, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Chattanooga, Tennesee, and Canton, Georgia.

“Laramie” paints Shepard’s murder as an example of violent bigotry. So did prosecutors, who maintained that Aaron McKinney pistol-whipped Shepard because of “homophobia” after a drug and alcohol binge. Accomplice Russell Henderson was largely a bystander. Both are serving life sentences.

Media and homosexual activist groups descended on Laramie and, along with intense pressure even from then-President Bill liar-Clinton, spun the murder into a tale of “anti-gay hate” to advance hate-crimes legislation.

But those looking closely into the Shepard case see a completely different picture. Shepard was a victim, but also a victimizer. Ditto for killer Aaron McKinney.

Milo Yiannopoulos recently confirmed that many homosexuals are molested as minors. One author maintains that Matthew Shepard as well as his murderer fell into that category.

Journalist Stephen Jimenez, himself a homosexual, wrote “The Book of Matt” in 2013 after years of research, concluding that McKinney’s attack most likely arose from rage over an unsuccessful drug deal.

McKinney, Jimenez believes, planned to steal methamphetamine from Shepard, luring Shepard away from the bar that fateful night to force Shepard to hand over whatever quantity he possessed. McKinney craved another “high” but also needed the drug sales to pay off pressing debts.

“The Book of Matt” contends that both Shepard and McKinney were dealing drugs, probably working for Denver-based drug rings.

Also revealed in Jimenez’s interviews is the likelihood that McKinney and Shepard knew each other socially, possibly even sexually. Both were reportedly present in a limousine during a group sex encounter, according to Doc O’Connor, the driver.

“The Laramie Project” refused to research the sordid social circle of Shepard/O’Connor/McKinney. O’Connor was not just a “limo driver,” but a self-confessed “hustler” and former porn movie actor who drove groups to Fort Collins and Denver bars on drug and alcohol-laden excursions. Both Shepard and McKinney road in his limo. McKinney even lived on Doc’s property for a time.

Whether Doc himself was a dealer was never confirmed, but many of Jimenez’s sources alluded to O’Connor’s “escort service” where McKinney reportedly had sex with other males for money. Doc called him a “bisexual.”

Did McKinney’s girlfriend at the time, Kristen Price, know this? Her testimony to police started the “gay panic” defense for McKinney, which she later told Jimenez had been concocted by McKinney and herself before he was apprehended. The defense revealed that McKinney was troubled about being homosexually molested as a youth and had also engaged in homosexual sex with his cousin as a teen, so he was repulsed by an alleged advance made by Shepard, erupting in rage.

McKinney’s widely reported sexual activities belie such a defense, however, even if Shepard made unwanted advances, a fact Jimenez came to doubt.

“The Book of Matt” is dismissed by the left, but their criticism flags in the face of Jimenez’s painstaking research and courage to tell some inconvenient truths.

Shepard struggled with alcohol and drugs himself, but was reportedly also dealing. Friends reported he, too, was heavily in debt, and although an affectionately remembered friend, was hardly the meek homosexual student portrayed as the victim of redneck “homophobia.”

Shepard’s and McKinney’s drug involvement was left unexamined during the murder trials. But details on this and their sexual histories began to emerge through research for an ABC “20/20” documentary.

Shepard was raped in Morocco while on a senior class trip. But prior to that, according to Jimenez, Shepard had been convicted at age 15 of molesting two 8-year-old neighborhood boys in Jasper, Wyoming. The sealed records were unavailable during the trials.

So Shepard the victim also became a troubled victimizer, selling harmful drugs as well as changing the lives of two boys forever, just as his had changed. Shepard underwent treatment at one point for serious depression.

Why can’t the truth be told about the damage of homosexual molestation and the tragedy when teens are barred from counseling for that abuse? Both Shepard and McKinney exhibited profound personal dysfunction, albeit in different ways, that may well have resulted from childhood assault.

And yet six states and several cities ban counseling for teens with these unwanted attractions, even if they are the product of homosexual molestation.

“The myth of Matthew Shepard has been destroyed, ironically by a homosexual reporter,” said Peter LaBarbera, president of Americans for Truth. “Tragically, Shepard himself reportedly sexually abused boys when he was a teenager. Of course, don’t expect the media and the ‘LGBTQ’ lobby, who used his death for political gain, to correct the record.”

Drinking, drugs, sexual depravity, depression, even violence emerge in this story. But the fake news narrative benefits the agenda of the Matthew Shepard Foundation.

What qualifies Matthew’s parents to present “hate-crimes” training and lectures to Kentucky law students? They also spoke to 500 public school students in Lexington, Kentucky, in 2015. Apparently, they coordinate with the U.S. Department of Justice on hate-crimes “training.”

Their time would be more logically spent uncovering child sex abusers and demanding prosecution for perpetrators along with stronger enforcement of drug laws.

Matthew and Aaron deserved better, but could have behaved better. Sadly, Matt was prevented from the chance to overcome his past.

The child sexual abuse epidemic, its scars, along with the hope of treatment, needs to be unveiled.

Will homosexual activists be truly compassionate and let the truth be told, for the sake of children?
 
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