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 Featruring:
 An Untrustworthy FBI Director
by The Patriot Post
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Schumer: Democrats will filibuster Gorsuch nomination. (The Washington Post)
 
Latest London Jihad: "Islamic State soldier" killed three. UK police arrest eight others in pre-dawn raids. (Fox News)
 
Nunes says Trump team conversations caught in surveillance, transition officials "unmasked" by intel community. (Bloomberg)
 
IRS policy that allowed Tea Party targeting is still in effect, watchdog finds. (The Daily Signal)
 
liar-nObama administration advocated for illegal alien criminal just arrested for murdering teenager. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Horrific: Criminal alien arrested for raping a three-year-old in "sanctuary city" of Stamford, Connecticut. (StamfordAdvocate)
 
Susan Rice warns White House not to put out "inaccurate if not deliberately false" information — like she did. (CNS News)
 
liar-nObamaCare co-op projects $39 million loss, citing problems with risk adjustment program. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
New Maine anti-discrimination bill would protect ... climate change skeptics. (Hot Air)
 
This law puts homeowners at risk of property rights violations. (The Daily Signal)
 
Arkansas expands gun-carry rights. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Policy: What Britain must ask itself after London attacks. (National Review)
 
Policy: Employment trends in states raising the minimum wage in 2017 (hint: it's not good). (American Action Forum
~The Patriot Post
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Nunes Reveals Serious Threat,
Critical We Find Out What’s Really Going On
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Sean Hannity told Newt Gingrich on Wednesday, “I look at this and I say ‘Wow,’ here it is, the media has been so wrong for so long... They’re trying to make a big deal ‘well, was he actually wiretapped or as there surveillance?’ For two weeks on this program we have been pointing out that in fact surveillance did take place. Now this is confirmed and Devin Nunes, the House Intelligence Committee chair is very disturbed. I think every American should feel the same way.” Gingrich agrees, saying, “Well, I hope that both the House and Senate Intelligence committees are going to dig into this and rip apart the bureaucracies and find out who did it, who authorized it, how did they make the changes that the liar-nObama ‘presidency’ made to make it easier to leak? This is really very, very sobering about American civil liberties. Here apparently you have a ‘president’ who’s party is defeated, who then uses the intelligence apparatus of the United States and then changes the rules knowing it will make it easier to leak, and this whole thing is sick.” “I also thing that it is astonishing,” says Gingrich, “to have had everybody pile on President Trump and now turn out that President Trump is right. I look forward to the New York Times and the Washington Post issuing editorials mea culpa admitting that Trump was right and they were wrong...  http://rickwells.us/gingrich-nunes-reveals-serious-threat-critical-find-whats-really-going/
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Vetting Trump’s Foreign Policy Team
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by Roger Aronoff
{aim.org} ~ President Donald Trump fared much better in the House Intelligence Committee hearing on Monday than the left-wing, establishment media would have you believe... The American Spectator’s George Neumayr captured the essence of the findings: “…the core claim underlying Trump’s tweets is true: people acting on the authority of liar-nObama opened an investigation into Trump’s campaign, then criminally leaked mention of it to friendly news outlets in an attempt to derail his election. When is liar-nObama going to apologize for that?” But for weeks now, CNN and MSNBC have been calling Trump a liar, saying that there is no evidence to support his tweets, and demanding that he back down and apologize for his accusations against former President Barack liar-nObama. But Trump is also taking hits from people who have generally supported him, but who feel he is failing to live up to his promises. One such example is a recent column by Ann Coulter, who criticizes Trump for supporting the Ryan-Trump American Health Care Act as the replacement for liar-nObamacare, and for his slow start on getting control of the illegal alien issue and border security. Coulter says that “This is starting to look like every other Republican administration.” Yes, his administration is just two months old, so maybe it’s too early to judge on those issues...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/vetting-trumps-foreign-policy-team/
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Tucker Goes Off on Defense Attorney
Blaming the Rockville High Rape Victim
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{conservativevideos.com} ~ Carlson interviewed the Attorney for the alleged rapists at a high school in Rockville Maryland. Things went from bad to worse for the attorney after he said the rape was consensual with the 14-year-old...  When 19-year-old has sex with a 14-year-old it’s still raping, right? The age of consent in Maryland is 16-years-old. A quick Google search; Like most states, there are some situations in Maryland where people under the age of consent may legally have sex, as long as there is only a small age difference between them. In Maryland, persons aged between 14 and 16 may consent to sex as long as the other partner is not more than 4 years older. He was more than four years older than the young lady. Watch the heated interview below. Mind blowing.
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Pulosi Protecting liar-nObama By Attacking Messenger Nunes, Demanding “Change Of Venue”
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It’s reflexive and standard operating procedure for Democrats to attack the messenger when the news is something they don’t like. Despite their claims to the contrary, they have zero interest in the truth, objectivity or benefiting the United States in any regard... They’re all about  political advantage, political expansion, accumulation and consolidation of power and, of course, getting rich –  all the time. Their response to Rep Devin Nunes letting the cat out of the bag as to their espionage activities on the President was to be expected. During the period from November of last year until the inauguration, after the election, some intense surveillance of the Trump team was engaged in by the exiting regime. They have been found out, their treachery discovered and have no way to hide. They’ll “run a liar-Clinton” and ignore their own wrongdoing, portraying the one who revealed it as the “true villain.” House Hag and Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi (D-CA) dismissed Rep Nunes , who chairs the House Intelligence Committee, on Thursday as a stooge for President Trump who can’t be trusted to conduct their Russia-Trump snipe hunt objectively...  http://rickwells.us/pelosi-protecting-obama-attacking-messenger-nunes-demanding-change-venue/
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Comey Dishonest In House Hearings –
Body Language Of A Liar
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Freedom Watch founder and former federal prosecutor Larry Klayman  was interviewed on Newsmax regarding the House testimony of FBI Director Comey, which Klayman feels was not truthful... Before getting into the Comey testimony, Klayman reminds the audience that they have a whistleblower, Dennis Montgomery, who is willing to testify and has been available for over two years. He’s already been granted immunity and, unbelievably, has over six hundred million pages of information about illegal surveillance on American citizens such as President Trump,” who Klayman states was included in the collection. He says that fact has been buried for two years. He urges the audience and host to take a look at the clip in which “Comey is asked by Congressman Trey Gowdy, ‘Did you discuss intercepts of Gen Michael Flynn with the President of the United States?’ And his eyes go in every different direction, he’s very uncomfortable, he won’t answer the question, he says ‘I can’t discuss it,’ yet he’s willing to discuss a criminal investigation with regard to collaboration with Russia, allegedly by the Trump campaign.”...
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 An Untrustworthy FBI Director 
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By Arnold Ahlert: "Where did Comey get the idea to investigate the Trump campaign?" —George Neumayr, American Spectator
          In testimony best described as a series of obfuscations, FBI Director James Comey never directly answered that essential question. But he confirmed to the House Select Intelligence Committee that his agency has been investigating Russian interference in the election since last July, including "the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government, and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia's efforts," Wired reported.
          What kind of interference? "Testifying before the House Intelligence Committee Monday morning, NSA Director Admiral Michael Rogers and FBI Director James Comey stated unequivocally that there was no evidence the Russians manipulated election machines to rig the vote," stated the Conservative Review.
          Yet if the vote itself wasn't rigged, then what — exactly — does such "coordination" consist of? If it amounts to some sort of quid pro quo, why didn't former President liar-nObama's open-mic promise to former Russian President Dmitri Medvedev he would "have more flexibility" following his re-election merit similar inquiries?
          Moreover, what quid pro quo? The sanctions remain in place, the U.S. troops liar-nObama sent to Poland are still there, and U.S. ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has strongly condemned the Russians for the occupation of Crimea that occurred on liar-nObama's watch.
          Freshman Rep. Elise M. Stefanik (R-NY) managed to cut through some of Comey's orchestrated fog, making him visibly uncomfortable in the process. She asked Comey what the typical protocols are for notifying the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), the White House and senior congressional leaders that an FBI investigation is taking place. "There is a practice of a quarterly briefing on sensitive cases," Comey replied, adding that his agency was making an effort to shorten it. Yet when Stefanik asked, "When did you notify the White House, the DNI and congressional leadership"? Comey revealed that timeline was an utter sham, stating the DOJ knew about the investigation "all along," and congressional leadership was notified "sometime recently."
          The DNI? "I don't know what the DNI's knowledge of it was because we did not have a DNI until Mr. Coates took office, and I briefed him his first morning," Comey insisted.
          Former Indiana legislator Dan Coates was confirmed by the Senate on March 15.
          What about former DNI James Clapper? As Reuters reported on Jan. 5, Clapper "publicly defended his analysts against attacks by Donald Trump following their conclusion that Russia interfered in the November election." If we believe Comey, he and Clapper were pursuing what amounted to parallel investigations without ever communicating with each other, even as "current and former American officials" were feloniously outing former national Security Director Michael Flynn, as the New York Times reported Feb. 9.
          Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) was the other Republican willing to focus the inquiry where it deserved to be focused. He wanted to know the status of the investigation into those actual crimes committed, including the number of people capable of doing so. Comey refused to confirm the FBI has even begun an investigation into the leaking of Flynn's name. And while he assured Gowdy he could provide the number, he insisted the "culture" of the FBI and NSA is a far more important consideration.
          Gowdy wasn't buying it. "NSA, FBI — what other government agencies have the authority to unmask a U.S. citizen's name?" he asked. Comey replied that "all agencies that collect information pursuant to FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) have what are called standard minimization procedures which are approved by the FISA court that govern how they will treat U.S person information. So I know the NSA does, the CIA does, obviously the FBI does. I don't know for sure beyond that."
          With Comey's agreement, Gowdy added "Main Justice" to the list. When asked about the White House and other entities, Comey called them "consumers" of such intel who were not allowed to legally disseminate it. Yet Gowdy forced Comey to admit that White House appointees such as Clapper, former CIA Director John Brennan, former National Security Advisor Susan Rice, former AG Loretta Lynch and former acting AG Sally Yates would all have access to an unmasked U.S. citizen's name.
          Gowdy then posed the critical question. "Did you brief President liar-nObama on any calls involving Michael Flynn?" Comey refused to answer. "I'm not going to get into either that particular case, that matter, or any conversations I had with the president."
          Why not? The Times and other media sources are excoriating Trump for tweets accusing liar-nObama of "wiretapping" him. But the same paper's Jan. 20 headline was, "Wiretapped Data Used in Inquiry of Trump Aides," and the article included the following sentence: "One official said intelligence reports based on some of the wiretapped communications had been provided to the White House."
          To the delight of Democrats, Comey testified there was no evidence of such wiretapping. Yet once again the question arises: Who ordered the investigation into Trump and his associates?
          Moreover, what about other types of surveillance, Mr. Comey? On Feb. 2, CNN reported they received a transcript of the private phone call between Trump and Mexican President Peña Nieto. Published transcripts infuriated Gowdy, who asked Comey if he could assure the public such felonies would be investigated. "I can't," Comey replied, "but I hope people watching know how seriously we take leaks of classified information. But I don't want to confirm it by saying we're investigating." Again, why not?
          "Comey is adept at using innuendo and leaks to remind the powerful that he cannot be ignored," NY Post columnist Michael Goodwin asserts. "The prerogative to investigate, and the willingness to feed a scandal-hungry media, is close to being God in politics, and Comey plays the role with relish."
          With an ample assist from the liar-nObama administration, it's a role Comey will likely play for a long time. "In its final days, the liar-nObama administration has expanded the power of the National Security Agency to share globally intercepted personal communications with the government's 16 other intelligence agencies before applying privacy protections," the Times reported on Jan 12. On March 1, the Times reported that White House officials "scrambled" to spread information about the possible Russian/Trump collusion "across the government."
          Who ordered the exponential increase in the number of people privy to such intel — which had the incredibly coincidental byproduct of exponentially increasing the number of suspects that need to be investigated, and the time it takes to investigate them — thereby keeping a cloud hanging over a Trump administration for as long as possible?
          This week it got even worse. House Intelligence Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) revealed that intelligence community members "incidentally collected" information on Trump transition team members that engendered "dozens" of reports that ultimately unmasked many individuals' identities. Moreover, those reports were "widely disseminated." None of this was mentioned by Comey at the hearings.
          There's a noxious odor arising from this investigation — and FBI Director James Comey is in the middle of the stench. As a result we are fast approaching the most perilous question of all for a democratic republic that cannot survive without a certain level of faith in those imbued with the power to protect the Rule of Law: Who investigates the investigators?  ~The Patriot Post
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The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Bring Assata Back ASAP
by Michele Malkin
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Democrat obstruction charade: Wait to vote on Judge Gorsuch until the FBI investigation is complete. (The Hill)
 
Gorsuch to Feinstein: Here are a lot of "little guy" rulings you seem to have overlooked. (Hot Air video)
 
Supreme Court reins in president's appointment powers. (Reuters)
 
More than 200 illegal immigrants set for deportation released from jail in one week. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Assailant mows down pedestrians outside UK Parliament. Wonder what his motives were... (USA Today)
 
Demo Convention's Khizr Khan lied about Trump's travel ban. (Washington Examiner)
 
Chelsea Clinton gets lifetime achievement award for doing nothing. (Heat Street)
 
Trump renews NASA mission for human space travel, deep space exploration. (The Washington Times)
 
Iranian opposition leader says U.S. "appeasement" has helped the regime. (CNS News)
 
San Francisco: Any company that bids on Trump's border wall won't get work here — sounds like discrimination. (Hot Air)
 
Hump Day Humor: Christian woman spends 10% of paycheck at Hobby Lobby in lieu of tithing. (The Babylon Bee)
 
Policy: Let's remember why Americans want liar-nObamaCare repeal. (The Heritage Foundation)
 
Policy: No time to go wobbly on Gorsuch. (The Washington Times~The Patriot Post
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Intel Chairman – Trump Team Definitely Spied Upon...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ House Intelligence committee chairman Devin Nunes said on Wednesday, reading from a prepared written statement, “While there was not a physical wiretap of Trump Tower... I was concerned that other surveillance activities were used against President Trump and his associates.” He continued, “So first, I recently confirmed that on numerous occasions the intelligence community incidentally collected information about US citizens involved in the Trump transition. Details about US persons associated with the incoming administration, details with little or no apparent foreign intelligence value, were widely disseminated in intelligence community reporting.” He said, “Third, I have learned that additional names of Trump transition team members were unmasked. And fourth and finally, I want to be clear, none of this surveillance was related to Russia or the investigation of Russian activities or of the Trump team.”...  http://rickwells.us/intel-chairman-trump-team-definitely-spied-names-unmasked-info-spread/
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DHS Issues Report Listing Jurisdictions
Failing to Cooperate With ICE Detainers
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by Warren Mass
{thenewamerican.com} ~ On March 20, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) issued its first weekly “Declined Detainer Outcome Report,” which fulfills a requirement in President Trump’s January 25 Executive Order... “Enhancing Public Safety in the Interior of the United States.” These reports are prepared to “highlight jurisdictions that choose not to cooperate with ICE detainers or requests for notification, therefore potentially endangering Americans.” When law enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release serious criminal offenders, it undermines ICE’s ability to protect the public safety and carry out its mission. Our goal is to build cooperative, respectful relationships with our law enforcement partners. We will continue collaborating with them to help ensure that illegal aliens who may pose a threat to our communities are not released onto the streets to potentially harm individuals living within our communities. The statement posted by ICE notes that The Declined Detainer Outcome Report, in addition to listing the uncooperative jurisdictions, also includes examples of criminal charges associated with the aliens that local jurisdictions have released... https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/25659-dhs-issues-report-listing-jurisdictions-failing-to-cooperate-with-ice-detainers?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines
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Schiff Shifting Democrats To Trump Spied
On By Accident liar-nObama Cover Up
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Adam “Shifty” Schiff (D-CA), the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence committee is speaking out. As expected, he has a problem with Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) sharing information that indicates President Trump was correct in his assertion that Hussein liar-nObama was wiretapping him... Nobody indicated a belief that liar-nObama himself had climbed a pole at least not an inanimate one of the telephone variety with headphones on or gone into an FBI or CIA bunker and directed the operation himself. Still, that is the position that Schiff took for his latest shift and denial in the cover up and obstructions he’s managing for the corrupt Democrats. After Nunes informed Speaker Ryan, the propaganda media and President Trump, he got together with the Democrat, which seems to have ruffled some of the bug-eyed peacock’s feathers. Shifty said on Wednesday that he has “grave concerns” over the way Chairman Nunes is handling the investigation. Of course he does; the truth is coming out, a situation Schiff was placed on the committee to prevent...  http://rickwells.us/schiff-shifting-democrats-trump-spied-accident-obama-cover/
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Republicans Are Freaking Out About Neil Gorsuch
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 by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ Republican activists are freaking out about Neil Gorsuch. You have to admit they have some reason to do so. Given the GOP’s propensity to appoint people to the Supreme Court who go wobbly... see e.g. Kennedy, Souter, and Roberts on liar-nObamacare, the base gets concerned when certain things are said. Yes, Neil Gorsuch said he would walk out of Trump’s office if Trump had asked him to overrule Roe v. Wade. The man is supposed to defend the independence of the third branch of government and you want him to agree to that? The headlines alone would give certain squishy Republicans the opportunity to oppose him. But Gorsuch has a history of rejecting stare decisis when he thinks the courts have gotten it wrong. Stare decisis is the concept that judges must give due deference to precedent. It is the argument that Democrats make about Roe v. Wade, but if a Republican asked Gorsuch about Plessy v. Ferguson, the Democrats would be appalled if Gorsuch defended stare decisis. Plessy, if you don’t know, is the case that established “separate but equal” between blacks and whites as the law of the land...  http://theresurgent.com/republicans-are-freaking-out-about-neil-gorsuch/
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Freedom Watch Notifies Congress of “Deep State” Intelligence Whistle-Blower
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ Freedom Watch notifies congress of a “Deep State” intelligence community whistle blower, Dennis Montgomery, with hundreds of millions of documents showing CIA and FBI and Intelligence Committees were spying on... and conducting surveillance on, American citizens for political purposes. Mr. Montgomery is trying to use a legal “whistle-blower” process and not follow the same approach as Edward Snowden...Check out the PDF file that follows.
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Bring Assata Back ASAP
by Michele Malkin
 
{truthrevolt.org} ~ If FBI agents have time to track down Tom Brady's stolen Super Bowl jerseys, why can't they bring back AWOL convicted cop-killer Assata Shakur?

It is time for one of the agency's most wanted women in the world to pay her dues. And President Trump is just the man to force this militant and unrepentant escapee to face justice.

Forty years ago this week, a New Jersey jury convicted Joanne D. Chesimard -- aka Assata Shakur -- on first-degree murder, assault and other charges in the 1973 traffic stop execution of state trooper Werner Foerster and wounding of trooper James Harper. She received a life plus 30 years sentence.

But instead of serving behind bars, Shakur has led the pampered life of a "political fugitive" in socialist Cuba after her radical Black Liberation Army buddies busted her out of prison. The late Fidel Castro's regime provided the fugitive murderer and social justice vigilante an apartment, stipends, books and funding for graduate school.

As she ages in comfort, the BLA's self-styled mother hen is now a campus icon among the Black Lives Matter generation. She's a T-shirt, a poster, an internet meme. Just last week at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, minority students convened an "Assata Shakur Reading Group" -- which the school newspaper described as a "biweekly book club for people of color that focuses on radical, black activism."

Activism? Try bloodstained domestic terrorism. At the time of Foerster's murder, the BLA had been tied to the murders of more than 10 police officers across the country. Before the turnpike shootout, the BLA had ambushed two pairs of NYPD officers in a 48-hour spree, killing two of them; murdered another cop in Atlanta; and executed another pair of NYPD officers in 1972.

Chesimard, her brother-in-law Zayd Shakur who died in the gunfight with Foerster and Harper and another BLA member were wanted for questioning in the murder of two of those cops when they were stopped.

BLA's "sole goal," domestic terrorism expert and author Bryan Burrough noted in an interview for my new CRTV.com investigative program on Shakur, "was assassinating policemen." When BLA thugs ambushed rookie NYPD officers Rocco Laurie who was white and Greg Foster who was black while they walked the beat in the East Village in 1972, they didn't just shoot them. They stood "over them and just continued to shoot into their bodies, into their heads" after they lay dead in the snow, Burrough recounted.

Retired FBI agent and Morris County, New Jersey, Sheriff James Gannon further schooled the ignorant: "This is not a soccer mom, this is a woman who was involved in very high-end, very violent crimes."

Joseph Connor, whose father, Frank, was murdered by the BLA-aligned Puerto Rican terrorist group FALN in 1975, added that these violent left-wing extremists were far from freedom-loving peaceful protesters: "They were looking to subjugate people beneath them. They weren't looking to free people, they were looking to murder people, they were looking to cause mayhem."

Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has vowed to use trade policy to pressure Cuba to extradite Shakur and scores of other convicted criminal fugitives back to the United States. President Trump, who ushered in a new era of respect for law enforcement after eight years of President liar-nObama coddling of the social justice mob, should get this deal done before yet another grim anniversary passes.

Every day they wait is another day the left's violent movement for "armed struggle" against our men and women in blue festers with impunity.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/malkin-bring-assata-back-asap

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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Christians, don't quit the game at halftime!
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 by Minister Michael Brown
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 This Just In: The FBI Is Investigating 
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By Paul Albaugh: FBI Director James Comey testified before Congress Monday. He discussed the allegations of Russian meddling with our recent presidential election, as well as Donald Trump's accusations of being wiretapped by Barack liar-nObama and the possibility of a foreign ally being involved with that alleged wiretapping during the presidential campaign.
          During his testimony before the House Intelligence Committee, Comey acknowledged that his agency is conducting an investigation into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin in a "counterintelligence probe that could reach all the way to the White House and last for months."
          This, of course, is not the "breaking news alert" the Leftmedia couldn't wait to trumpet. We've known for weeks that there is an investigation, and it began in July 2016. And, as Mark Alexander wrote two weeks ago, "Despite all the fake media hysterics, keeping the 'Trump and Putin rigged the election' myth alive has nothing to do with facts. But it has everything to do with delegitimizing Trump's stunning victory, keeping his administration off-balance and derailing his agenda."
          On that note, it's all well and good to investigate, but the most important objective for U.S. intelligence is stopping the leaks that have plagued Trump's first weeks in office. Intelligence leaks perpetrated by liar-nObama's deep state operatives are so far the only crime uncovered in any of this mess.
          During the hearing, Comey also dismissed Trump's foolish and distracting Twitter claims of wiretapping at Trump Towers. Comey stated that there is "no information that supports those tweets." Comey added, "We have looked carefully inside the FBI" and there are no agents who have found anything to support Trump's claim. On Friday, the Justice Department provided documents to Congress, which, according to several high-ranking members of the House Intelligence Committee, offered no proof that liar-nObama had ordered wiretaps of Trump Tower. As if liar-nObama would be so careless as to get caught ordering the Code Red.
          We still wonder if this isn't a case of innocence on a technicality — that Trump's wording was too specific and just wrong enough to provide an escape hatch.
          Unfortunately, despite providing no proof of his claims, Trump continued to make noise on Twitter and even added more fuel to the fire late last week when he accused the British of being involved with the alleged surveillance on his campaign. He even attempted to joke with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, saying, "As far as wiretapping, I guess by this past administration, at least we have something in common." Trump was referring to reports that liar-nObama's National Security Administration had tapped Merkel's phone in 2010. Merkel wasn't the least bit amused.
          Unfortunately, Trump's wiretapping claims served only to derail his own momentum after his well-received address to a joint session of Congress. That sort of self-inflicted wound is going to be a recurring theme with this president.
          But it's not all bad news for Trump. As National Review's David French points out, the confirmation by Comey that the FBI is conducting an investigation into possible links between Russia and the Trump campaign is good news for three reasons:
          "First, by making this announcement, the FBI has ended months of sometimes-irresponsible speculation about its activities. Second, the FBI is informing America that it is doing its job." We should want the FBI to investigate thoroughly into whether or not a foreign government interfered with a presidential election and we should want them to follow all of the evidence.
          "Third," French adds, "since the Trump administration's DOJ authorized this announcement, it is a sign to all Americans that the system is still working as intended."
          Whether it's Russian meddling or liar-nObama's hacking or deep state leaking, what most Americans want to know is the truth. Right now, many people don't know who to believe or trust, other than to view with intense skepticism the Leftmedia and career bureaucrats deep within the bowels of our own government. As it stands, we've got nothing but Trump and Democrats yelling "wolf!" at each other. Hopefully the FBI, DOJ and intelligence community will find out the truth, plug the leaks, and move forward.
          Oh, and by the way, instead of Trump focusing on promoting his nominee to the Supreme Court — the whole reason most people voted for him — he's fending off bad news about phony wiretapping claims and foreign election interference. The reality TV star has lost control of the script.  ~The Patriot Post
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Muslims Invade Texas Church, Force Christians
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{jewsnews.co.il} ~ First, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) demanded that Austin give the Muslims a big church in which to hold their event... Seriously. There are mosques in Austin. Why did they have to hold the event in a church unless their entire aim was to provoke Christians? Next, Infowars reporter Joe Biggs discovered that what the Muslims were being told inside that church was that Sharia Law is the same as the US Constitution, and will either be merged into it or replace it altogether...
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Vice President Mike Pence Rails
Against liar-nObamacare...
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by Onan Coca
{constitution.com} ~ Vice President Mike Pence made an appearance in Jacksonville, Florida to do a couple of things. First, he wanted to stump for President Trump and make sure that the administration is doing everything it can to keep its voters energized and ready for a fight... Secondly, he wanted to connect with the Governor of one of the most important GOP led states in the country. Finally, he was in Florida to rail against the travesty that is liar-nObamacare and to call for all Floridians, particularly the business owners, to support the GOP effort to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare. His speech was very well received and it’s easy to see why President Trump chose Mike Pence to be his closest ally during the presidential election process...  http://constitution.com/vice-president-mike-pence-rails-obamacare-calls-support-gop-repeal-effort/
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‘Yes’ — Nunes Confirms liar-nObama Admin.
Incidentally Collected Trump’s
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by Christian Datoc
{dailycaller.com} ~ Congressman Devin Nunes confirmed Wednesday afternoon that some of President Trump’s personal communications were in fact collected by the liar-nObama administration during the 2016 election... Earlier in the day, Nunes — the chairman of the House Intelligence Community — said POTUS’ communications might have been included in those reports, yet he adjusted his statement when asked during a media gaggle outside the White House. “Are you suggesting that Mr. Trump’s communications are in those reports?” a reporter directly asked Nunes. “Second, are you saying you’re concerned enough that this will trigger a different separate investigation, and third, why did you not discuss this with a ranking member before you came to the White House?”...
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Russia Responds to Comey’s Testimony
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{eaglerising.com} ~ Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters Tuesday that “the hearing participants are confused about the situation,” adding... “They are trying to find confirmation of their own conclusions but can’t find either proof or confirmation and are going round in circles.” Comey confirmed for the first time Monday to the House committee the existence of an ongoing counterintelligence probe into links between advisers to Trump and Russian officials. The Kremlin has dismissed claims from U.S. intelligence agencies that President Vladimir Putin authorized a campaign to influence the U.S. presidential election last year in favor of Trump...
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China issues warning to US bomber flying
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Christians, don't quit the game at halftime!
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 by Minister Michael Brown
{wnd.com} ~ Whenever I hear Christian leaders talk about the inevitable collapse of the church of America or elsewhere I ask myself, “But hasn’t Jesus risen from the dead? Didn’t He ascend to the right hand of the Father? Hasn’t all authority in heaven and earth been given to Him? And aren’t we commanded to go and make disciples in His name and by His authority?”

If so, how then we can speak of any inevitable collapse of the church or, specifically, of Christian society, regardless of how inevitable that collapse appears to human eyes?

I therefore differ strongly with conservative journalist Rod Dreher who has written that, “The culture war that began with the Sexual Revolution in the 1960s has now ended in defeat for Christian conservatives. … Don’t be fooled: the upset presidential victory of Donald Trump has at best given us a bit more time to prepare for the inevitable” (my emphasis; from his new book “The Benedict Option: A Strategy for Christians in a Post-Christian Nation”).

The culture war has hardly “ended,” and there is nothing “inevitable” about the collapse of Christian society in America, although, without question, the patient is mortally ill and in need of radical surgery and rehabilitation. But the heart is still beating, there are millions of committed believers throughout the land, prayers are ascending to heaven 24/7 for another great awakening, and it’s actually possible that America’s best days are still ahead, regardless of how bleak things look right now and without a doubt, they look very, very bleak. Are not all things possible to him or her who believes?

What makes today’s spiritual pessimism all the more galling is that, in my view, the biggest reason for America’s current moral and spiritual decline is the backslidden, unengaged, carnal state of much of the church. In other words, America is messed up because the church has been messed up, because we who profess faith in Jesus have all too often been superficial in our commitment, as a result of which the world has changed us rather than us changing the world.

When it comes to the mainline denominations, in many instances there has been a wholesale departure from the authority of Scripture and the lordship of Jesus, leading to the abandonment of our moral compass.

When it comes to evangelical Christians, we have often preached a narcissistic, “what’s in it for me” gospel, a self-centered message that bypasses the cross and calls for virtually no sacrifice or service, a message that empowers the sinner rather than transforms the sinner, leading to “Christian” rappers who talk about Jesus in the midst of profanity-laced rants all while still getting high, going to strip clubs and partying, and to “Christian” models and actresses who strip down in the most seductive poses, simply because it’s part of their job – and I assure you they can find big churches in America who will welcome them with open arms and celebrate their “liberty” in Jesus. It’s one thing to welcome the worst of sinners into our midst with open arms and without condemnation; it’s another thing to celebrate carnality and compromise.

Little wonder that the rest of the public is so confused. After all, the church is supposed to function as the conscience of the nation.

When it comes to social issues like abortion and homosexuality, the vast majority of Christian conservatives in our country have almost no regular engagement with women having abortions and engage in very little compassionate outreach to those who identify as LGBT. As for those of us who do get involved in social issues, we tend to do it politically, looking to the government (especially the Republican Party) to fix things, as if passing a law alone would “fix” the desecration of life or reverse the breakdown of the family.

In that regard, Dreher is quite right in urging us not to put our trust in the political system, and I wholeheartedly affirm his conclusion: “We are going to have to change our lives, and our approach to life, in radical ways. In short, we are going to have to be the church, without compromise, no matter what it costs” (his emphasis).

But being the church means heeding the words of Jesus, who calls us out of the world when it comes to participating in sin but into the world when it comes to fulfilling our mission, which is to shine like lights in dark places, to boldly proclaim the message of redemption, to reach out to hurting and suffering sinners, to make a difference in the communities in which we are planted, and to stand for truth and righteousness “without compromise, no matter what it costs.”

After all, we’re here as the Lord’s ambassadors, declaring the gospel to a dying world, and if we back down and retreat, who will reach this generation with the Good News?

But to say, “We’ve failed so far so let’s concede the war” is like a coach saying to his team at halftime, “We hardly played at all in that first half, which is why we’re way behind, so let’s quit now before it gets worse.” To the contrary, he sounds a loud wake-up call, urging his team to play like never before, since the rest of the game is still ahead.

As theologian Douglas Wilson said, “I am against surrendering in any case, but I am really against surrendering before the battle is really joined.”

The solution, then, is not to retreat into some kind of monastic refuge but rather to repent of our sins, to give ourselves afresh to the Lord, and to let our light shine before an onlooking, skeptical, and mocking world. That is the gospel way.

In the words of Jesus, “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do people light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a stand, and it gives light to all in the house. In the same way, let your light shine before others, so that they may see your good works and give glory to your Father who is in heaven” (Matt. 5:14-16; for further scriptural exhortations).

I’m all for separating ourselves from the pollution of the world as much as possible. At one point, 95 percent of the families in my home congregation homeschooled their children, and for many years of our marriage, Nancy and I chose not to have a TV in our house; I have other friends who live in shared community, while still others have left business and careers to serve and live among the poorest of the poor. At the same time, I am not for withdrawing from our calling to go into the world and touch the lost.

By all means, then, let us live with a sense of holy urgency after all, we’re here for a moment and then gone, with eternity ahead of us, and let us make a fresh, complete and uncompromising commitment to our Lord. But let us stand up, not shrink back, raising our voices for the world to hear and living our lives for the world to see. And if America is determined to go to hell, then let it go to hell over our dead bodies.

As Charles H. Spurgeon famously said, “If sinners be damned, at least let them leap to hell over our dead bodies. And if they perish, let them perish with our arms wrapped about their knees, imploring them to stay. If hell must be filled, let it be filled in the teeth of our exertions, and let not one go unwarned and unprayed for.”

To our knees, then, in holistic repentance, and to our feet, in wholehearted obedience. This generation desperately needs the message of new life in Jesus – the message you and I have. Don’t hide it under basket!
 
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Fri/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Will Russiagate Backfire on the Left?
by Pat Buchanan
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 Reassessing liar-nObama's CAFE Mandates 
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By Arnold Ahlert: Last week, President Donald Trump announced his administration will reassess the Corporate Average Fuel Efficiency (CAFE) mandates the liar-nObama administration's EPA tried to lock in before the Jan. 20 transition of power. "We're going to work on the CAFE standards so you can make cars in America again," Trump told a cheering crowd of auto workers in Ypsilanti, Michigan. "We're going to help companies so they are going to help you. We're going to be the car capital of the world again."
          New EPA chief Scott Pruitt promised his agency will coordinate with the Department of Transportation's (DOT) National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) to decide whether the liar-nObama administration mandates will remain in place. The deadline for making the decision is April 2018.
          Why the reassessment? "In 2012 the EPA set ambitious mileage standards that required auto makers to achieve an average of 54.5 miles per gallon by 2025, nearly twice the 2011 mandate," the Wall Street Journal explains. "The increases were backloaded such that manufacturers had to hit 36.6 miles a gallon by 2017 and 46.8 miles a gallon by 2022. In the last three years, car makers would need to squeeze an additional eight miles out of each gallon."
          In a letter sent to Pruitt in February, the Alliance of Auto Manufacturers (AAM) insisted no government agency "had ever set emissions standards so far into the future," and that the final determination engendered by liar-nObama's EPA was "riddled with indefensible assumptions, inadequate analysis, and failure to engage with contrary evidence."
          The AAM further explained meeting those standards would cost far more than the $200 billion originally estimated by liar-nObama's EPA because the "electrified technologies" needed to meet them would raise the price of vehicles and depress auto sales. As the Journal notes, the onerous standards might have been feasible when gas cost $3.60 per gallon and passenger cars comprised more than half of all vehicle sales. But when the price of gas dropped, sales of trucks and SUVs skyrocketed, with trucks gaining a 61% market share in 2016. Moreover, the decline in gas prices mitigated the benefits of customer fuel savings the EPA used to justify the increased CAFE standards.
          Those standards also increased vehicle production costs, driving vehicle manufacturers to Mexico in search of cheaper labor.
          The liar-nObama administration knew all of this and originally promised the incoming administration would get a "midterm review" of the CAFE standards to be completed by April 2018.
          Make that an incoming liar-Clinton administration. When Trump was elected, liar-nObama's EPA set the 2012 standards in stone, even though their own projections revealed fewer than 1% of gas-burning cars would comply with the 2022 mandate, and none would meet the standards set for 2025.
          Trump's having none of it. "We are going to restore the originally scheduled midterm review and we are going to ensure that any regulations we have protect and defend your jobs, your factories. We're going to be fair," Trump said. "That is why I'm proud to say I followed through on my promise."
          Predictably, Democrats and their eco-zealot allies are furious. Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) characterized the review as "all-out assault" to "dismantle important environmental protections." Kristin Igusky, Climate Program Associate at the World Resources, declared "the administration is creating more uncertainty and blocking progress toward cleaner, more efficient vehicles for America."
          Christian Science Monitor columnist Zack Coleman joins the chorus. "Transportation is now the leading sector for greenhouse gas emissions in the United States," he writes. "The lower the so-called Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standard, the smaller will be the reductions carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles."
          Not quite. The expansion of the aforementioned "electrified technologies" necessary to meet the liar-nObama EPA standards have environmental problems of their own as onerous, if not more so, than vehicles themselves. "So we're chasing the car that is fueled solely by the electricity that comes out of our walls," writes columnist Rich Cromwell. "That electricity is apparently generated by magic, never coal, so battery-powered options would reduce cars' carbon footprint and create a more sustainable future."
          While environmentalists and their Democrat allies in Congress are quick to tout the transparent benefits of electric cars or CAFE standards, they are rather myopic regarding the unforeseen — or is that conspicuously ignored — deleterious tradeoffs that accompany them.
          And not just environmental tradeoffs. As Robert Tracinski explains, one would have to drive a $90,000 electric-powered Tesla for 30 years to equalize the costs between it and a $45,000 gas-powered Lexus, based on the average number of miles most Americans drive, coupled with slightly higher gas costs than they're currently paying. Thus, many "green energy products" are a long way from being economically viable. On the other hand, Tracinski adds, they remain "very much a plaything or status symbol for the wealthy and upper middle class, the sort of people who uniformly believe in man-made global warming and who can afford to spend tens of thousands of extra dollars just to feel good about themselves."
          One suspects ordinary Americans who can't afford a Tesla or a Lexus and struggle to make ends meet are less "high-minded."
          And what if CAFE standards are solely about holier-than-thou self-aggrandizement? The benefits touted by the liar-nObama administration — a "decrease global temperatures by 0.007 degrees to 0.018 degrees Celsius in 2100" — would be more than offset by "massive losses" imposed on consumers who would increase the number of miles they drive with more fuel-efficient cars offsetting carbon reductions. Many would also eschew higher-priced new car purchases and "delay upgrades, leaving older vehicles on the road longer."
          Pruitt has assured the nation his review of CAFE standards will engender a program that is "good for consumers and good for the environment." Such balance is a refreshing change from the liar-nObama administration's "kill the economy to save the planet" mindset.
          Nonetheless, he will face resistance. As columnist Ned Barnett reveals, the EPA is still infested with careerists who "believe their own views on global warming and a host of other environmental issues are the only 'true' positions. The president, for his part, is clearly preparing to take the challenge directly to the EPA's permanent staff."
          Hopefully under a swamp-draining a Trump administration, there's no such thing as administrative permanence. 
~The Patriot Post
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Here's what we know about
the Russia investigation
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by Todd Shepherd
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ The first hearing by the House Oversight Committee investigating Russia's interference with the 2016 elections lasted about six hours on Monday... After all that time talking, even Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, R-Calif., had to admit he hadn't learned much by the conclusion. For all the fanfare given to Comey's appearance, at least one more public hearing is scheduled, and committee members have said more open hearings beyond that are possible as well. The ranking Democrat on the committee, Adam Schiff, D-Calif., is urging Nunes to compel testimony by subpoena, if necessary, further down the road. Here's where some major issues and questions stand at present...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/heres-what-we-know-about-the-russia-investigation/article/2618057#.WNHwZXiJMyo.twitter/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Examiner%20Today&utm_source=StructureCMS
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liar-nObama's Saboteurs/ or
Undermining Our Republic
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by JUSTIN O. SMITH
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ A dangerous precedent for the future of America, the New York Times, the Washington Post and other Leftist propaganda machines and an army of the liar-nObama administration's holdovers, nothing less than saboteurs... have waged a war of innuendo and speculation and felony leaks for months in an attempt to destroy President Donald Trump's administration and the government American voters demanded. They have turned their backs on the Constitution and the American people, their oath to protect and defend both, and they have sought to undermine our democratic process and the Republic of the United States of America. Classified information leaked to the media - a felony - set speculation in motion as the New York Times and the left-leaning Mother Jones alleged collusion between Donald Trump and his advisors and Russia for the past six months, even though their own reports show an initial Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) warrant targeting Trump and several associates was denied and nothing criminal was ever proven. Essentially, Donald Trump was not named in the second FISA warrant, but surveillance of him and his inner circle, private citizens such as Michael Flynn, Roger Stone and Paul Manafort, continued up to the general election. One can only surmise that liar-nObama and his leftist minions banked on finding information that would defeat Trump; and after Donald Trump won , they continued surveillance in hopes of eventually impeaching and unseating President Trump...  http://www./publications/detail/obamas-saboteurs-or-undermining-our-republic?f=must_reads
 
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Israel Intercepts Syrian Anti-Aircraft Missile
Amid Heightened Tensions
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by Ari Lieberman
{frontpagemag.com} ~ On Monday, Arab media reported that Israeli Air Force jets struck another Hezbollah weapons convoy snaking its way to Lebanon from Syria... Israel refused to comment on the report but if accurate, it would represent the third Israeli strike against targets in Syria in as many days. Less than 24 hours earlier, an Israeli drone liquidated Yasser al-Sayed, while he was driving along the Damascus- Quneitra road near the town of Khan Arnaba. Lebanese media reported that he was a Syrian air defense commander. Other Arab media reported that he was a pro-Assad militia commander who was coordinating planned attacks against Israel with the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps. Hezbollah of course, claimed he was a civilian. Israel remained silent on the circumstances of al-Sayed’s death but has in the past bluntly informed its enemies, including Assad, Iran and Hezbollah that it would not remain idle in the face of threats emanating from Syria and elsewhere and would act when necessary to preserve its security interests...   http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266183/israel-intercepts-syrian-anti-aircraft-missile-ari-Lieberman
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Iran is Doubling Down on Yemen
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by Daniel Greenfield
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Iran is sending advanced weapons and military advisers to Yemen's rebel Houthi movement, stepping up support for its Shi'ite ally in a civil war whose outcome could sway the balance of power in the Middle East... regional and Western sources say. Sources with knowledge of the military movements, who declined to be identified, say that in recent months Iran has taken a greater role in the two-year-old conflict by stepping up arms supplies and other support. This mirrors the strategy it has used to support its Lebanese ally Hezbollah in Syria. A senior Iranian official said Major General Qassem Soleimani, commander of the Qods Force - the external arm of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps - met top IRGC officials in Tehran last month to look at ways to "empower" the Houthis... http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/266187/iran-doubling-down-yemen-daniel-greenfield
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Israel's New Rules

 by A.J. Caschetta
{meforum.org} ~ Hugh Lanning, a British citizen and chairman of the Palestine Solidarity Campaign, was denied entry into Israel on March 12, the first militant anti-Zionist to fall "victim" to a new law banning entry to any foreigner... "who knowingly issues a public call for boycotting Israel." "Whoever acts against Israel should understand that the rules of the game have changed," Strategic Affairs Minister Gilad Erdan said afterwards. Prior to the new law, anyone from a "friendly country" who came to the Jewish state could stay on a three-month entry visa unless specifically singled out for non-entry by the Interior Ministry. As Miriam Elman notes, the new law places the onus on visitors connected to boycott movements to explain why they should be granted admission... http://www.meforum.org/6602/israel-new-rules?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=be5d27bf75-caschetta_aj_2017_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-be5d27bf75-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-be5d27bf75-33703665
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Will Russiagate Backfire on the Left?
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by Pat Buchanan
{freedomsback.com} ~ The big losers of the Russian hacking scandal may yet be those who invested all their capital in a script that turned out to based on a fairy tale.

In Monday's Intelligence Committee hearings, James Comey did confirm that his FBI has found nothing to support President Trump's tweet that President liar-nObama ordered him wiretapped. Not unexpected, but undeniably an embarrassment for the tweeter-in-chief.

Yet longer-term damage may have been done to the left. For Monday's hearing showed that its rendering of the campaign of 2016 may be a product of fiction and a fevered imagination.

After eight months investigating the hacking and leaking of the emails of liar-Clinton campaign chief John Podesta and the DNC, there is apparently no evidence yet of Trump collusion with Russia.

Former Director of National Intelligence Gen. James Clapper has said that, as of his departure day, Jan. 20, he had seen no evidence of a Russia-Trump collusion.

Former acting CIA Director Michael Morell also made that clear this month: "On the question of the Trump campaign conspiring with the Russians here, there is smoke, but there is no fire, at all. ... There's no little campfire, there's no little candle, there's no spark. And there's a lot of people looking for it." Morell was a surrogate for the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign.

But while the FBI is still searching for a Trump connection, real crimes have been unearthed -- committed by anti-Trump bureaucrats colluding with mainstream media -- to damage Trump's presidency.

There is hard evidence of collusion between the intel community and The New York Times and The Washington Post, both beneficiaries of illegal leaks -- felonies punishable by up to 10 years in prison.

While the howls have been endless that Trump accused liar-nObama of a "felony," the one provable felony here was the leak of a transcript of an intercepted conversation between Gen. Michael Flynn and the Russian ambassador.

That leak ended Flynn's career as national security adviser. And Director Comey would neither confirm nor deny that President liar-nObama was aware of the existence of the Flynn transcript.

So where do we stand after yesterday's hearing and eight-month FBI investigation? The Russians did hack Podesta's email account and the DNC, and while the FBI has found no evidence of Trump campaign collusion with the Russians, it is still looking.

However, the known unknowns seem more significant.

How could DNI Director Clapper and CIA Director Morell say that no connection had been established between Trump's campaign and the Russians, without there having been an investigation? And how could such an investigation be conclusive in exonerating Trump's associates -- without some use of electronic surveillance?

Did the FBI fly to Moscow and question Putin's cyberwarfare team?

More questions arise. If, in its investigation of the Russian hacking and a Trump connection, the FBI did receive the fruits of some electronic surveillance of the Trump campaign, were Attorney General Loretta Lynch, White House aides or President liar-nObama made aware of any such surveillance? Did any give a go-ahead to surveil the Trump associates? Comey would neither confirm nor deny that they did.

So, if liar-nObama were aware of an investigation into the Trump campaign, using intel sources and methods, Trump would not be entirely wrong in his claims, and liar-nObama would have some 'splainin' to do.

Is the FBI investigating the intelligence sources who committed felonies by illegally disclosing information about the Trump campaign?

Comey would not commit to investigate these leaks, though this could involve criminal misconduct within his own FBI.

Again, the only known crimes committed by Americans during and after the campaign are the leaks of security secrets by agents of the intel community, colluding with the Fourth Estate, which uses the First Amendment to provide cover for criminal sources, whom they hail as "whistleblowers."

Indeed, if there was no surveillance of Trump of any kind, where did all these stories come from, which their reporters attributed to "intelligence sources"?

Attorney General Jeff Sessions has recused himself from any role in the Russian hacking scandal. But the Justice Department should demand that the FBI put the highest priority on investigating the deep state and its journalistic collaborators in the sabotage of the Trump presidency.

If Comey refuses to do it, appoint a special counsel.

In the last analysis, as Glenn Greenwald, no Trumpite, writes for The Intercept, the real loser may well be the Democratic Party.

If the investigation of Russiagate turns up no link between Trump and the pilfered emails, Democrats will have egg all over their faces. And the Democratic base will have to face a painful truth.

Vladimir Putin did not steal this election. liar-Hillary Clinton and Barack liar-nObama lost it. Donald Trump won it fair and square. He is not an "illegitimate" president. There will be no impeachment. They were deceived and misled by their own leaders and media. They bought into a Big Lie.
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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The Real Face of Jordan
by Caroline Glick
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 The Humble Judge 
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When even those who disagree with Judge Neil Gorsuch's political views voice their praise of his character and record and offer support for his confirmation — as Barack liar-nObama's former solicitor general Neal Katyal did — it can be difficult to convince others that he is dangerous and unfit to server on the Supreme Court. But Democrats tried anyway.
          Gorsuch gave his opening statements on Monday, expressing both a humble recognition of the role a judge plays in society and his committed respect for the Rule of Law. He began by stating, "These days we sometimes hear judges cynically described as politicians in robes, seeking to enforce their own politics rather than striving to apply the law impartially. If I thought that were true, I'd hang up the robe. ... I saw judges and juries — while human and imperfect — striving hard every day to fairly decide the cases I put to them. As a judge now for more than a decade I've watched my colleagues spend long days worrying over cases. Sometimes the answers we reach aren't the ones we personally prefer. ... But the answers we reach are always the ones we believe the law requires. And for all its imperfections, I believe the Rule of Law in this nation truly is a wonder, and that it's no wonder that it's the envy of the world."
          He also gave a pointed and yet respectful refutation of Sen. Patrick Leahy's (D-VT) absurd comments. Leahy labelled originalism, the doctrine of interpreting the Constitution and the law according to what was originally meant, as "outside the mainstream of moderate constitutional jurisprudence." Gorsuch said, "If judges were just secret legislators, declaring not what the law is but what they would like to be, the very idea of a government by the people and for the people would be at risk. And those who came before the court would live in fear, never sure exactly what the law requires of them, except for the judge's will."
          Gorsuch made it clear that he believes the character of a judge should be "patient, impartial, and decisive," as he quoted from Increase Sumner, a colonial-era judge who he admires. In his closing comments, Gorsuch said, "When you become a judge, you fiercely defend only one client — the law."
          Proverbs 28:4 states, "Those who forsake the law praise the wicked, but those who keep the law strive against them." Judge Gorsuch is a man who embodies a commitment to this principle.  ~The Patriot Post
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Where the Fight Against ISIS Stands,
and How the US Can Win
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by James Phillips
{dailysignal.com} ~ The Trump administration has invited 68 countries and international organizations to attend a summit in Washington on Wednesday to coordinate policies to defeat the Islamic State, also known as ISIS... Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will lead the two-day gathering of foreign ministers in synchronizing coalition efforts to destroy ISIS on the battlefield, prevent it from staging a comeback, and deprive it of money, arms, and recruits. The military campaign launched by the anti-ISIS coalition has made considerable progress in recent months. The ongoing offensives to push ISIS out of Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, and seize Raqqa, the de facto ISIS capital city in Syria, will be key topics at the summit...
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Russia Collusion? – Podesta Intimately Involved
With Putin Company, Clinton In Circle
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Information is coming to light or at a minimum new attention is being given to a relationship between liar-Hillary Clinton’s 2016 campaign chairman John Podesta and Rusnano, a state-run company that was founded by Russian President Vladimir Putin... How is it that the House Intelligence Committee, FBI Director Comey, liar-Hillary Clinton’s close friend Dianne Feinstein and the Fake News charlatans like Mika Brzezinski and Andrea Mitchell missed it? Don’t they have pizza at the Podesta’s regularly? The Daily Caller reports that Podesta first crossed paths with the Russian company in 2011 as “a member of the boards and executive committee of three related entities: Boston-based Joule Unlimited; Rotterdam-based Joule Global Holdings; Joule Global Stichting, the company’s controlling interest.” They are all high-tech renewable energy enterprises, amazingly the same direction that liar-nObama, hanoi-Kerry, liar-Clinton and the other Democrat pillagers were driving our nation to use. They were clearly colluding with other globalists through the UN and elsewhere to get filthy rich, with or without the Putin connection. It was an insane move on their part for Clinton and her fellow crooks to beat the dead horse over the non-existent collusion between Russia and Trump...  http://rickwells.us/russia-collusion-podesta-intimately-involved-putin-company-clinton-circle/
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The little death spiral that couldn’t
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by Benedic N. Ippolito and Stan Veuger
{aei.org} ~ Following an exceedingly unfavorable report from the Congressional Budget Office, prospects of the House liar-nObamacare repeal-and-replace bill becoming law in its original form have become bleak... In its wake comes talk of significant changes to the bill, and even the renewal of an old strategy: letting the Affordable Care Act implode on its own accord, then picking up the pieces anew. There’s only one problem. The predicted “death spiral” hasn’t happened yet, and there’s a reason it won’t. As it does with all major legislation, the CBO recently estimated the impacts of House Republicans’ American Health Care Act. The report was something of a sopping wet blanket for Paul Ryan and Congressional leaders. The bill is estimated to generate some budgetary savings – $337 billion over ten years – but at the staggering cost of 24 million more uninsured Americans by 2026. While these numbers are estimates – which some criticize as too high – the CBO report fundamentally altered health care reform efforts in Washington...  http://www.aei.org/publication/the-little-death-spiral-that-couldnt/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=032217
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Urgent Messages to the Muslim World

 by Nonie Darwish
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The first reaction of the U.S. after 9/11 should have been to stop visas from all majority-Muslim countries, except for those of utmost importance. But our politicians' hands were tied... not by fear of a backlash from Islamic countries, which probably expected a U.S. boycott, but by fear of a backlash from the Western media and Western progressives. The decision to keep Muslims, refugees and others pouring into the US after 9/11 was wrong and has not done Islam and Muslim reformers a favor. Here is why: The chaos and bloodshed in the Muslim world, even in the most moderate of Muslim nations, such as Turkey, is between Muslims who want to enforce Islamic sharia law, totally and upon everyone by a theocratic government, and those who want less sharia by installing military rule... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10036/messages-to-muslim-world
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Chuck ‘The Obstructor’ Schumer’s Latest:
Delay Gorsuch Vote Till After FBI Russia Probe
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by Jeff Dunetz
{lidblog.com} ~ After making sure that President Trump spent the first two months of his presidency without a full cabinet Senate Minority Leader Chuck ‘The Obstructor’ Schumer (D-N.Y.) is looking for new ways to delay Judge Neil Gorsuch’s inevitable senate approval... on his way to become the next associate Justice of the Supreme Court. At least the senator’s latest is creative. He is urging Republicans to delay a vote on Gorsuch because of the ongoing investigation into potential ties between Trump officials and Russia. “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,” During his first full day of questioning on Tuesday Judge Gorsuch performed more than admirable, he hit a grand slam home run, as evidenced by the comments coming from the liberal cable news networks:...  http://lidblog.com/chuck-the-obstructor-schumer/
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The Real Face of Jordan
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Jordan is the country to Israel’s east with which Israel has had a formal peace for 23 years.

And its people hate Israel, and Jews, even more than the Iranians do.

Every once in a while, the Jordanian people are given a chance to express how they really feel about Israel. It’s ugly.

Twenty years ago, on March 13, 1997, 7th and 8th grade girls from the AMIT Fuerst junior high school for girls in Beit Shemesh packed box lunches and boarded a school bus that was to take them to the Jordan Valley for a class trip. The high point of the day was the scheduled visit to the so-called “Island of Peace.”

The area, adjacent to the Naharayim electricity station, encompasses lands Israel ceded to Jordan in the 1994 peace treaty and Jordan leased back to Israel for continued cultivation by the Jewish farmers from Ashdot Yaakov who had bought the lands and farmed them for decades.

Israel’s formal transfer of sovereignty – and Jordan’s recognition of Jewish land rights to the area – were emblematic of the notion that the peace treaty was more than a piece of paper. Here, officials boasted, at the Island of Peace, we saw on-the ground proof that Jordan and Israel were now peaceful neighbors.

Just as Americans in California can spend a night at the bars in Tijuana and then sleep it off in their beds in San Diego, so, the thinking went, after three years of formal peace, Israeli schoolgirls could eat their box lunches in Jordan, at the Island of Peace, and be home in time for dinner in Beit Shemesh.

Shortly after they alighted their buses, that illusion came to a brutal end.

The children were massacred.

A Jordanian policeman named of Ahmad Daqamseh, who was supposed to be protecting them, instead opened fire with his automatic rifle.

He murdered seven girls and wounded six more.

On Jordanian territory, the guests of the kingdom, the girls had no one to protect them. Daqamseh would have kept on killing and wounding, but his weapon jammed.

In the days that followed, Israel saw two faces of Jordan and with them, the true nature of the peace it had achieved.

On the one hand, in an extraordinary act of kindness and humility, King Hussein came to Israel and paid condolence calls at the homes of all seven girls. He bowed before their parents and asked for forgiveness.

On the other hand, Hussein’s subjects celebrated Daqamseh as a hero.

The Jordanian court system went out of its way not to treat him like a murderer. Instead of receiving the death penalty for his crime – as he would have received if his victims hadn’t been Jewish girls – the judges insisted he was crazy and sentenced him instead to life in prison. Under Jordanian law his sentence translated into 20 years in jail. In other words, Daqamseh received less than three years in jail for every little girl he murdered and no time for the six he wounded.

Not satisfied with his sentence, the Jordanian public repeatedly demanded his early release. The public’s adulation of Daqamseh was so widespread and deep-seated that in 2014, the majority of Jordan’s parliament members voted for his immediate release.

Three years earlier, in 2011, Jordan’s then-justice minister Hussein Majali extolled Daqamseh as a hero and called for his release.

Last week, sentence completed, Daqamseh was released. And within moments of his return, in the dead of night to his village, crowds of supporters emerged from their homes and celebrated their hero.

Daqamseh, the supposed madman, never expressed regret for his crime.

And now a free man, he was only too happy last week to use his release as a means of justifying, yet again, his crime.

“Normalization with Zionists is a lie!” he declared in an interview with Al Jazeera. He went on to call for the conquest of Israel and the destruction of the Jewish state.

Jordan owes its existence not to its population nor even to its silver- tongued monarch, Hussein’s son Abdullah. It owes its existence to its location. For Israel and the West the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan is a critical piece of real estate.

For Israel, the kingdom is a buffer against Iraq and Syria.

For the Americans it is a safe port in the storm in the midst of the Arab world now suffering from convulsions of jihadist revolutions, counterrevolutions, insurgencies and counterinsurgencies.

Jordan, which since 2003 has absorbed a million refugees from Iraq and another million from Syria, is viewed by Europeans as a great big refugee camp. It must be kept stable lest the Iraqis and Syrians move on to Europe.

If it weren’t for Israel and the Western powers, the Hashemite Kingdom would have been overthrown long ago.

Today, Jordan is an economic and social tinderbox. Its debt to GDP ratio skyrocketed from 57% to 90% between 2011 and 2016. Youth unemployment, while officially reported at 14%, actually stands at 38%.

Jordan, which is the second-poorest state in terms of its available water sources, relies on Israeli exports of water to survive. Its government is its largest employer. Its largest export is its people, whose remittances to their relatives back home keep 350,000 families afloat. And those remittances have fallen off dramatically in recent years due to the drop in oil prices on the world market.

The Muslim Brotherhood is the second largest political force in the country. Although Jordanians were revolted in 2015 when Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria burned alive a downed Jordanian pilot, ISIS has no shortage of sympathizers in wide swaths of Jordanian society. More than 2,000 Jordanians joined ISIS in Syria and several thousand more ISIS members and sympathizers are at large throughout the kingdom.

Whereas Palestinians used to make up an absolute majority of the population, leading many to observe over the years that the real Palestine is Jordan, since the Iraqi and Syria refugees swelled the ranks of the population, the Palestinian majority has been diminished.

Jordan is a reminder that nation building in the Arab world is a dangerous proposition. With each passing year, the US provides Jordan with more and more military and civilian aid to keep the regime afloat. And with each passing year, voices praising Daqamseh and his ilk continue to expand in numbers and volume.

Jordan shows that the concept of peace between Israel and its Arab neighbors is of limited value. So long as the hearts and the minds of the people of the Arab world are filled with conspiracy theories about Jews, and inspired by visions of jihad and destruction that render mass murderers of innocent schoolchildren heroes, the notion that genuine peace is possible is both irrational and irresponsible.

Recently it was reported that last October, Israel’s ambassador to Jordan Einat Schlein gave a pessimistic assessment of Jordan’s future prospects to IDF Chief of General Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkott. Eisenkott reportedly reacted to her briefing by suggesting that Israel needs to figure out a way to help the regime to survive.

Eisenkott was correct, of course.

Israel, which now faces a nightmare situation along its border with post-civil war Syria, does not want to face the prospect of a post-Hashemite Jordan, where the people will rule, on its doorstep.

But Israel can ill afford to assume that this will not happen one day, and plan accordingly.

Under the circumstances, the only way to safeguard against the day when Daqasmeh and his supporters rule Jordan is to apply Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and encourage tens of thousands of Israelis to settle down along the sparsely populated eastern border.

After the massacre, the parents of the dead children and the public as a whole demanded to know why the school hadn’t smuggled armed guards into the Island of Peace to protect them. Their question was a reasonable one.

Daqamseh was able to kill those girls because we let down our guard.

The only way to prevent that from happening again – writ large – is to reinforce that guard by reinforcing our control over eastern Israel.

23 years after the peace was signed, nothing has changed in the Kingdom of Jordan. No hearts and minds have been turned in our favor. The peace treaty has not protected us. The only thing that protects our children is our ability and willingness to use our weapons to protect them from our hate-drenched neighbors with whom we share treaties of peace.
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Quiet Voices Crushing “The Dictator’s Club”
by Katie Kieffer
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 North Korea: A Ticking Time Bomb 
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson was in Asia over the weekend. On Friday, he was in South Korea visiting the Demilitarized Zone that separates South Korea from its menacing neighbor to the North. Tillerson quickly made it clear that the time had come for a change from former U.S. policy with North Korea under Barack liar-nObama. "Efforts toward North Korea to achieve peaceful stability over the last two decades have failed to make us safer," the secretary of state declared. "Let me be very clear, the policy of strategic patience has ended. We're exploring a new range of diplomatic, security and economic measures. All options are on the table."
          North Korea's despot Kim Jong Un hasn't been doing himself any favors by continuing to inflame tensions with his perpetual violations regarding missile testing. While the North's saber rattling is nothing new, the reality is there have been no consequences. The U.S. and the rest of the world have watched the country become a nuclear power, and now we're watching the hermit kingdom work toward greater deliverability of its nuclear weapons.
          In the meantime, South Korea finds itself in a rough period of political upheaval after former President Park Geun-hye was impeached and forced from office. The election of a new president could significantly change the South's foreign policy and its geopolitical commitments. It's becoming apparent that the Far East has degraded into a foreign policy minefield for the U.S. — one that Trump will need to tread through carefully and yet forcefully.
          In diffusing North Korea's growing threat, Tillerson's words were primarily intended not for the North, but for China. The "People's Republic," North Korea's lifeline, has the power to significantly clamp down on the Kim regime. But with China's recent ignoring of international maritime law by expansion into the South China Sea, the task of confronting China over its aggression while simultaneously seeking its help with North Korea is a difficult balancing act. Given Kim Jong Un's undeterred developing of missiles with the capacity of reaching U.S. territory, it's no longer merely a regional concern with America's but, also, fast becoming a direct threat to the U.S. ~The Patriot Post
 
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Changes made to RINOCare
are Simply not Enough
 
by Tim Brown
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ House Republicans made changes to the American Health Care Act, aka RINOCare, on Monday evening, but I believe it is simply not enough to fulfill their promise to repeal liar-nObamacare... First, representatives put forth the manager's amendment.  While the amendment does escalate the relief from repeals of several sections of liar-nObamacare to 2017, it also "adds an additional year of relief from liar-nObamacare’s Cadillac tax, moving the implementation date from 2025 to 2026." It also establishes more bureaucracy. What is wrong with a simple repeal bill?  Why do we have to do this song and dance?  Republicans are in charge. In the same manner that Democrats forced liar-nObamacare down the throats of the American people, why are Republicans not simply standing up for the people and shoving a full repeal of liar-nObamacare back down the throats of the Democrats?  It's because they want to control it. There really is no other answer...   http://freedomoutpost.com/changes-made-to-rinocare-are-simply-not-enough/
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If Congress Wants To Make A Deal On
Health Care, Trump Is Listening
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts “as President Trump and conservative Republicans face off over the passage or defeat of Ryancare. President Trump looking to add to his hugely significant list of accomplishments already... His thirty executive actions fulfill promises to abandon the TPP, approve Keystone Dakota pipeline, break ground on the border wall, slash regulations and streamline the executive branch, yes, all of that in two months.” The President today in a full press to appeal and replace liar-nObamacare,” Dobbs notes, “going over to the capitol to meet with House Republicans and urge their support, marshal their votes for what is now derisively called Ryancare. This, by the way, was the President’s fourth trip to the Capitol in two months. His predecessor, ‘president’ liar-nObama made only 14 trips to Capitol Hill in his entire 8 years. Think about that, four already to liar-nObama’s 14 over eight years. It’s extraordinary.” Dobbs points out, “The last of the liar-nObama visits was in January when his signature law was in crisis, its future in doubt. At the time I said it was clear Mr. Trump would be an entirely different kind of President, with a very different relationship with Congress than liar-nObama...  http://rickwells.us/lou-dobbs-congress-wants-make-deal-health-care-trump-listening/
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Tillerson: Pre-emptive US Strike Against
North Korea Is an ‘Option’
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{newsmax.com} ~ Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said Friday it may be necessary to take pre-emptive military action against North Korea if the threat from their weapons program reaches a level "that we believe requires action."... Tillerson outlined a tougher strategy to confront North Korea's nuclear threat after visiting the world's most heavily armed border near the tense buffer zone between rivals North and South Korea. Asked about the possibility of using military force against the North, Tillerson told a news conference in the South Korean capital, "all of the options are on the table."...  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/AS-Tillerson-Asia-korea/2017/03/17/id/779236/
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North Korea Launch Fails – Provocation
Missile “Test” Directed Towards Japan
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ North Korea is once again engaging in taunting, provocative actions with its neighbors, launching a missile in the direction of Japan... American military reports state that the Wednesday launch was an immediate failure as the rocket exploded within seconds. South Korea reported what appears to have been a test launch involved a single missile from the city of Wonsan on the east coast. The South Korean defense ministry is investigating and analyzing further. A spokesman for US Pacific Command, Commander Dave Benham, issued a statement saying, “U.S. Pacific Command detected what we assess was a failed North Korean missile launch attempt … in the vicinity of Kalma. A missile appears to have exploded within seconds of launch.”...  http://rickwells.us/north-korea-launch-fails-provocation-missile-test-directed-towards-japan/
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President Trump Biggest Liar of
All Politicians… Ever
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by Trey Sanchez
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Of all politicians that have served in office in America since its founding, and subsequently lied, President Trump is the worst of the bunch, according to David Leonhardt of The New York Times.... “The current president of the United States lies,” Leonhardt writes. “He lies in ways that no American politician ever has before.” This includes Barack liar-nObama’s “if you like your doctor/plan, you can keep your doctor/plan” lie and George W. Bush’s infamous “weapons of mass destruction” declaration, which the left still deems a lie. Leonhardt excused these two instances with this defense:...How about the lie of Benghazi?   http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/nyt-president-trump-biggest-liar-all-politicians%E2%80%A6-ever
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Quiet Voices Crushing “The Dictator’s Club”
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by Katie Kieffer
 
{townhall.com} ~ “Quiet voices” that became an “earthquake” is how President Trump explains his populist win in America—and today similar voices in France threaten the world’s most potent globalist structure: the United Nations.

France is the world’s fifth most popular travel destination and sixth largest economy. Not too shabby for a country roughly the size of Texas. Despite these successes, the French people are growing increasingly unhappy with their political system.

In April and May, French voters will elect a new president. Marine Le Pen is the National Front party candidate gaining popularity for her fresh and daring policies.

“If anything, I’m to the left of liar-nObama,” Le Pen quips. If she’s liberal, it’s because she favors liberating France from the constrictions of outdated bureaucracies: “I do not have the slightest bit of confidence in the European Union (E.U.) to protect the borders of the European Union.”

Of course, the E.U. is a micro version of the world’s largest globalist construct: the United Nations (U.N.). So, Le Pen’s popularity in criticizing the E.U. also represents a growing preference for nationalism over globalism.

“Send A Shock Through Europe”

“I have four priorities,” Le Pen says. “Give back to the French their sovereignty over the French territory, their sovereignty over the currency, their sovereignty over the economy and the law.” Le Pen’s Frexit would follow the U.K.’s Brexit or exit from the E.U. and deal another blow to the globalist project, which first launched in 1951.

If Le Pen wins, her victory will in the words of TIME send a “shock through the rest of Europe.” And if she loses at the ballot box, she will still empower European voters—and spectators around the globe—to demand more transparency from government; to stop settling in silence.

Goodyear and Whirlpool are just two major companies that recently shuttered French factories and moved jobs elsewhere. Many French blame the “E.U.’s passport-free labor market” for relocating “thousands of French jobs to Eastern Europe.”

Le Pen gives voice to a growing group of people that are weary of manipulation and hungry for opportunity—much like candidate Trump gave voice to forgotten factory laborers in America’s Rust Belt. Just as Trump’s crowds chanted “America first!,”Le Pen’s crowds chant “Local against global!”

The Dictators Club

Over time, the U.N. has gained the nickname The Dictator’s Club for its membership inclusion of regimes and dictatorships and for ongoing scandals including child rape by official U.N. peacekeepers. Recently, the U.N. began pushing U.N. Agenda 2030 or “Declaration of Interdependence” to combine the countries of the world into one group controlled by a handful of potentates.

Thomson Reuters Foundation editor-in-chief Belinda Goldsmith puts the cost of implementing Agenda 2030 at $172.5 trillion. Turns out international coercion ain’t cheap. Agenda 2030 calls for replacing nationalism with globalism to the extent that: “All countries and all stakeholders, acting in collaborative partnership, will implement this plan,” adopt “shared” wealth; and require “all learners” to embrace common definitions of “cultural diversity,” “gender equality” and “global citizenship.”

Let’s think about how this would work...

Facebook recognizes 71 genders including “Neutrois,” “T* woman” and “Two-spirit,” yet less than one percent of American adults identify with the even the commonly understood term of “transgender.” South Korea has a history of open cultural bribery; most Western countries do not. Australia embraces merit-based citizenship; Sweden embraces open borders.

Even with $172.5 trillion, how do you force the world’s population to agree on gender equality, cultural diversity and global citizenship by 2030—without bloodshed?

Yes, we are a global community—especially in terms of technology. It does not follow, however, that every country should embrace identical priorities and principles. Ultimately, every country is distinctive due to its economic output, culture, and foreign affairs.

Remember Ron Paul’s Revolution

In 1997, then-Rep. Ron Paul introduced the American Sovereignty Restoration Act to extract the United States from the U.N. Like many visionary ideas, Paul’s proposal took years to gain popular momentum.

20 years later—in 2017—the President of the United States as well as presidential candidates in countries as far away as France are preaching nationalism to thousands of cheering voters. And U.S. lawmakers are revisiting the American Sovereignty Restoration Act (H.R. 193).

President Trump is proposing a temporary travel moratorium (not “ban”) on six countries that the United States does not currently properly vet—and judges in Hawaii and Maryland last week claimed he’s attacking the religious liberty of Muslims.

France has suffered the loss of 231 people due to Islamic terrorist attacks in the past two years alone and Le Pen is resonating with French voters when she calls for restrictions on headscarves in public and border controls.

We can’t easily amend the religious liberty clause in our Constitution—which treats Islam as equally valuable to society as other religions. We CAN stop using the term “religion” as an excuse to implement globalism. Ultimately, Le Pen and Trump are promoting policies that reform the national security and economies of their respective countries. Religion is not the target.

Ron Paul’s “revolution” posters highlighted the word “love”—a nice reminder that violence and coercion exacerbates most problems. The best way to achieve a productive, prosperous and peaceful world is to let each country be free to implement its own policies.

It’s time to crush The Dictator’s Club. May the quiet voices in France soon send the world the message that nationalism trumps globalism.

https://townhall.com/columnists/katiekieffer/2017/03/20/quiet-voices-crushing-the-dictators-club-n2301320?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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 Featruring:
Know Thine Enemy
by Caroline Glick
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Leahy instructs Judge Gorsuch, "Originalism ... remains outside the mainstream of moderate constitutional jurisprudence." (CNS News)
 
House Republicans unveil changes to their health-care bill. (The Washington Post)
 
VA Inspector General: Suicide hotline left some veterans on hold up to 30 minutes. (Hot Air)
 
Sanctuary city slip-ups as LA released arsonist, Philadelphia released murder suspect. (The Washington Times)
 
"Student" on "alien removal" list charged with raping 14-year-old girl in high school bathroom. (CNS News)
 
Malibu votes to be a sanctuary city because without illegals "no one's houses would be cleaned." (Washington Examiner)
 
While Trump talks tough, U.S. quietly cutting nuclear force. (Associated Press)
 
Tourism thriving, economy expanding in North Carolina despite bathroom bill desertions. (The Washington Times)
 
liar-nObama's IRS gave "Satan Club" creator fast tax-exempt status. (The Washington Times)
 
University of Arizona "safe space" guidelines for college cupcakes. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Policy: Why Trump's budget proposal for the State Department makes sense. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: The Meals on Wheels lie keeps rolling along. (Investor's Business Daily~The Patriot Post
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Napolitano Put On Ice By Fox...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ If you work for CNN, NBC, NYT or any of the mainstream media propagandists and base a story upon anonymous sources, three of them, which are credible, you’d be considered to have a reliable basis for reporting the story... If you’re a conservative or worse, a libertarian, and you work for Fox you get put in the doghouse with a full bowl and water with a instructions to listen for the whistle, they’ll call you some day. Andrew Napolitano has been too honest before, losing his own show on Fox after broadcasting his “What if you were silenced” video on his Freedom Watch program. Two other programs were cancelled at the same time, perhaps for cover, perhaps for ratings as the network claims. Now he’s been put out to pasture for his report that cited three intelligence sources as having confirmed that British Intelligence, GCHQ, had done the dirty work for liar-nObama. The report alleges they were spying on President Trump while he was still a candidate and after the election, secretly funneling liar-nObama the info in order to keep him out of the loop of blame and scrutiny...Fox you just made a big mistake.  http://rickwells.us/napolitano-put-ice-fox-reporting-british-intelligence-spied-trump-obama/
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Hamas stealing Gaza aid from Turkish charities
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by JUDAH ARI GROSS
{timesofisrael.com} ~ The Shin Bet security service accused two Palestinian men of funneling Gaza reconstruction funds from Turkish charities to the Hamas terrorist group... The manager of the Gaza branch of the Turkish International Cooperation and Development Agency (TIKA), Muhammad Murtaja, was arrested last month on suspicion that he was working on behalf of Hamas, the Shin Bet announced on Tuesday. Mehmet Kaya, the head of the Turkish Humanitarian Relief Foundation, known by its acronym IHH, was also implicated in the Shin Bet investigation. However, Kaya has not yet been arrested...  http://www.timesofisrael.com/shin-bet-hamas-stealing-gaza-aid-from-turkish-charities/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=ef593e56fc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_21&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-ef593e56fc-54638825
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Yes, The FBI Is Investigating the Trump Campaign
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by Mathew Vadum
{frontpagemag.com} ~ Embattled FBI Director James Comey finally acknowledged publicly in congressional testimony that his agency is indeed investigating President Trump’s campaign for alleged ties to the Russian government ... and collusion regarding the November election. The ongoing witch-hunt is probably a blessing in disguise for Trump. Democrats are putting all their eggs in one basket as they obsess over all these fuzzy and at times speculative connections between Trump and the Russians. They are feeding their crazed, Trump Derangement Syndrome-suffering base what nowadays passes for red meat. Normal people don’t care or they rightly intuit that the farfetched allegations that somehow some Russians hacked the election to favor Trump are nonsense. The absence of evidence of collusion between Team Trump and Russia is overwhelming, for lack of a better word, and unless actual evidence of electoral mischief surfaces the public backlash against those crying wolf at some point is likely to be fierce...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266172/yes-fbi-investigating-trump-campaign-matthew-vadum
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House GOP tweaks health care bill
with eye to helping seniors
{foxnews.com} ~ House Republican leaders announced proposed changes to their health care overhaul late Monday in an effort to shore up support from the GOP's rank-and-file ahead of an expected floor vote later this week... The bill's 43-page "manager's amendment" is aimed at placating Republicans unhappy that nonpartisan analysts said the legislation would drive up costs for older people. The amendment was unveiled hours after President Donald Trump told a rally in Louisville, Ky., that he wasn't wedded to the current version of the bill... http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/21/house-gop-tweaks-health-care-bill-with-eye-to-helping-seniors.html
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Iran Vows to 'Liberate' Golan Heights
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{israeltoday.co.il} ~ Many believe that it’s inevitable that the Syrian civil war will eventually spill over into northern Israel. Iran is doing everything in its power to prove them right... Iran’s Lebanese proxy, Hezbollah, is already heavily engaged in the war in Syria. But the group has suffered major losses, and is stretched thin trying to keep Syrian dictator Bashar Assad in power. So Iran has funneled money and resources to establish a new Hezbollah brigade focused on “liberating” the Golan Heights from Israeli control... http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/31326/Default.aspx
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Know Thine Enemy
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ There are iron rules of warfare. One of the most basic rules is that you have to know your enemy. If you do not know your enemy, or worse, if you refuse to act on your knowledge of him, you will lose your war against him.

This basic truth appears to have eluded Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

This week we have been beset by the bizarre and sudden appearance of Jason Greenblatt, President Donald Trump’s negotiations chief.

Greenblatt’s mission is apparently to reinstate the mordant peace process between Israel and the PLO.

The peace process that Greenblatt is here to reincarnate died 17 years ago.

In 2000, PLO chief and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat killed the peace process when he initiated a massive terrorist war against Israel, right after he rejected peace and Palestinian statehood at the Camp David peace conference.

In rejecting peace, the architect of modern terrorism made clear that his claim seven years earlier that he was willing to reach a compromise with Israel, based on partition of the Land of Israel between a Jewish and an Arab state, was a lie. As the nationalist camp had warned at the time and since, the PLO was not remotely interested either in statehood or in peace. Arafat’s willingness to engage Israel in negotiations that led to its transfer of security and civil control over Gaza and the Palestinian population centers in Judea and Samaria to the PLO was simply another means to the only end the PLO ever contemplated. It was a means of weakening Israel as a step toward achieving the PLO’s ultimate goal of destroying the Jewish state.

In 1993, when then-prime minister Yitzhak Rabin agreed to recognize the PLO, his implicit assumption was that if Arafat was lying, Israel would walk away from the peace process. It would retake control over the areas it had ceded to PLO control and things would go back to the way they were before he made the gamble, indeed they would be better. Whereas for years Israel had been under pressure from the Europeans and the Americans to recognize the PLO, if Israel recognized the terrorist group and the PLO responded by showing that it remained dedicated to Israel’s destruction, the world that had been pressuring Israel would end its pressure.

The Europeans and the Americans would rally to Israel’s side against the PLO.

In 2000, after Arafat blew up the negotiations table with his suicide bombers, then-prime minister Ehud Barak announced triumphantly that he had ripped the mask off of Arafat’s face.

Now everyone would recognize the truth about the PLO. Now the Europeans and the Americans would rally to Israel’s side.

Of course, things didn’t work out that way.

In the seven years between Rabin’s decision to gamble on Arafat, and Barak’s declaration that the truth had finally come out, the Europeans and the Americans and the Israeli Left had become addicted to the notion that the PLO was a peace movement and that Israel and its so-called settlers were the reason that peace hadn’t been reached.

That is, by the time the true nature of Israel’s enemy had become clear, it was too late. It didn’t matter. In recognizing the PLO, Israel had legitimized it. Refusing to recognize the nature of its enemy, Israel had empowered it, at its own expense.

By the time Arafat removed his mask, the legitimacy he had received from Israel seven years earlier had rendered him untouchable.

The West had become so invested in the myth of PLO moderation that rather than punish him for his terrorist war, the Europeans and the Americans punished Israel for complaining about it. Indeed, the more Israelis Arafat’s henchmen murdered, the more committed the Europeans and the American foreign policy establishment and political Left became to the PLO.

Israel, in the meantime, became a diplomatic outcast.

In the 17 years since Arafat showed his true colors, neither he nor his heir Mahmoud Abbas ever did anything to indicate that the PLO has changed its spots. To the contrary. The PLO’s leaders have made clear over and over and over again that Arafat’s decision to reject peace in favor of never-ending war against Israel was no fluke. It was the rule.

The PLO doesn’t want a state. If it did it would have accepted sovereignty in Gaza 12 years ago, when Israel withdrew and took its citizens with it. If it wanted a state, then Arafat and Abbas would have accepted Israel’s repeated offers of statehood over the years.

The PLO that is greeting Greenblatt in March 2017 is the same terrorist organization it was when Arafat announced its formation in December 1964.

Given this unchanging reality, it is deeply destructive for Israel to continue paying lip service to the fake peace process. And yet, that is precisely what Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is doing.

Trump’s election gave Israel an opportunity to finally get the Americans to recognize the reality they have spent the past 17 years refusing to accept. Unlike Barack liar-nObama, Trump was not wedded to the notion that Israel, and its religious Zionist community, is to blame for the absence of peace. He was not obsessed with appeasing the PLO as his predecessors have been for the past generation.

Trump was not interested in getting involved with the Palestinians at all. But rather than seize the opportunity he was handed, Netanyahu seems to have decided to throw it in the trash.

He only agreed to discuss his strategic goal for dealing with the Palestinians after his cabinet forced him to do so on the eve of his trip to Washington last month.

At that meeting, Netanyahu said that he supports establishing a “Palestinian state, minus” that would have formal sovereignty but would be demilitarized. Netanyahu also offered that he envisions Israeli sovereignty being extended to the Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria.

There are many problems with Netanyahu’s plan. But its most glaring deficiency is that it continues to treat the PLO as a legitimate organization rather than a terrorist organization.

By doing so, Netanyahu not only throws a lifeline to an organization that uses all the legitimacy Israel confers on it to weaken Israel strategically and diplomatically. He empowers Israel’s detractors in the US and Europe that have spent the past quarter-century blaming Israel for the absence of peace and acclaiming the PLO and its terrorist chiefs as moderates.

It is not surprising that Trump reinstated liar-nObama’s demand that Israel curtail Jewish property rights in Judea and Samaria after Netanyahu pronounced his support for Palestinian statehood. If Netanyahu won’t disavow the anti-Israel diplomatic unicorn, then why should Trump? And if Trump is maintaining allegiance to the myth of PLO legitimacy, then it only makes sense for him to also adopt the patently absurd, and virulently anti-Israel, assumption that Jewish home building is the reason there is no peace.

Similarly, with Netanyahu willing to accept the PLO, and the concomitant assumption of Jewish culpability for the absence of peace, why would Trump consider replacing liar-nObama’s anti-Israel advisers with advisers supportive of the US-Israel alliance? After Netanyahu left Washington last month, Trump decided to retain Yael Lempert as the National Security Council’s point person for the Israeli-Palestinian portfolio. According to a report in The Weekly Standard, Democrats in Washington long viewed Lempert as one of the most radical opponents of Israel in the liar-nObama administration.

Trump also decided to keep on Michael Ratney, the former US consul in Jerusalem, as the man in charge of the Israeli-Palestinian desk at the State Department. Ratney’s appointment brought shouts of joy from anti-Israel activists led by John hanoi-Kerry’s former negotiations chief Martin Indyk.

Perhaps these personnel decisions would have been made even if Netanyahu hadn’t maintained his allegiance to the lie of PLO legitimacy. But Netanyahu’s support for the PLO made it much easier for these opponents of Israel to keep their jobs.

By all accounts, Jason Greenblatt is a friend of Israel and a supporter of the US alliance with the Jewish state. Greenblatt studied at a yeshiva in Gush Etzion many years ago. On Thursday, he took the step that no US envoy has ever taken of meeting with the heads of the local councils in Judea and Samaria.

And yet, whatever his personal views may be, this week he came to Israel to discuss limiting the legal rights of Israelis in Judea and Samaria.

He was accompanied on his trip by Lempert.

Greenblatt visited with Abbas in Ramallah and delivered no ultimatum when he asked the Palestinian Authority “president” whose term of office ended in 2009 to scale back the murderous anti-Jewish propaganda that permeates all facets of Palestinian society under the PLO.

Greenblatt politely listened as Abbas demanded that Israel agree to withdraw to the 1949 armistice lines in a future peace, agree to release terrorist murderers from its prisons and end all construction for Jews in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem.

Greenblatt then discussed continued US economic subsidization of Abbas’s terrorism- steeped kleptocracy, in the name of economic development.

In other words, whatever Greenblatt’s personal views on the issues, as Trump’s envoy, he put us all back on the phony peace train.

Netanyahu argues that Israel has to give legitimacy to the PLO and support Palestinian statehood, because if it doesn’t, then the Sunni Arab states won’t work with Israel in its efforts to stymie Iran’s regional power grab and stall its nuclear weapons program. This claim, however, is untrue.

The Saudis, Egyptians and Jordanians are working with Israel on countering Iran because they need Israel to help them to weaken Iran.

They need Israel to help them to convince the Americans to abandon liar-nObama’s pro-Iranian Middle East policy.

In other words, Netanyahu is paying for Sunni support that he can get for free.

Rabin believed that Israel would emerge stronger from his decision to recognize the PLO, one way or another. Either Israel would achieve peace. Or Israel would get the Americans and the Europeans off its back once the PLO made clear that it was lying about wanting peace. Rabin was wrong.

Israel paid gravely for Rabin’s error in judgment.

It will pay a similarly high price, if not a higher one, if Netanyahu continues to repeat Rabin’s mistake of failing to know his enemy.
 
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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House Republicans Repeat an liar-nObama Error
by Peggy Noonan
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 Turkey Threatens European Invasion? 
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It's no secret — at least to those informed by anything other than Leftmedia propaganda — that jihadis infiltrate the ranks of "refugees" in order to carry out terrorist attacks. Even Barack liar-nObama's State Department quietly acknowledged that fact. While American judges bemoan Donald Trump's travel ban because it "targets Muslims," some Muslims certainly don't have any trouble making it all about religion.
          As Gary Bauer notes, "A diplomatic spat erupted recently when Turkey wanted to send diplomats to the Netherlands to campaign among the Turkish residents there for an upcoming constitutional referendum in Turkey. Dutch officials refused to allow the visit, which coincided with their own hotly contested election, and the Turkish government erupted in rage."
          "Shame on the EU," Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan thundered. "Down with your European principles, values and justice." He wasn't done, claiming, "They started a clash between the cross and the crescent. There is no other explanation."
          Worse, Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu threatened, "Soon wars of religion ... will start in Europe." This might happen because, he added, "We could open the way for 15,000 refugees ... each month and blow [Europe's] mind."
          Now, a brief history lesson. Less than 100 years after Mohammad's death, Muslims were invading Europe — first Spain and then France before Frankish King Charles Martel defeated them at the Battle of Tours in 732. Hundreds of years of subsequent Muslim aggression led to the Crusades. So no, Dutch politicians did not "start a clash between the cross and the crescent." Muslims did that 1,400 years ago and they've never stopped. The battle just looks different now, and the "army" is a horde of "refugees."
          Did we mention that Turkey is a member of NATO and ostensibly and ally of Western Europe? ~The Patriot Post
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A Watergate-style Threat to the Democratic Process
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by Accuracy In Media
{aim.org} ~ Former NSA/CIA contractor Dennis Montgomery has told Accuracy in Media through his attorney Larry Klayman that it is entirely possible that the British Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) was used as a back channel to collect and pass information... based on electronic surveillance of Trump associates and Donald J. Trump personally—to officials in the liar-nObama administration. Montgomery said the procedure known as shell-game eavesdropping, in which the NSA can deny they are wiretapping, and the GCHQ can also deny that they are wiretapping, could have been used in this case. In other words, the NSA, CIA or FBI would ask the British to conduct the surveillance on behalf of the U.S. government so that U.S. officials could deny their own involvement. Montgomery said that he has provided extensive evidence of illegal wiretapping by U.S. intelligence agencies to the FBI, but that the Bureau has failed to act on the evidence since he provided it almost two years ago. Judge Andrew Napolitano of Fox News had said, “The NSA has given GCHQ full 24/7 access to its computers, so GCHQ — a foreign intelligence agency that, like the NSA, operates outside our constitutional norms — has the digital versions of all electronic communications made in America in 2016, including Trump’s.”...
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Pyongyang Military Exports Directly Threaten Israel...
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by Ruthie Blum
{algemeiner.com} ~ North Korean exporting of missile and other military systems to countries and terrorist organizations around the world directly threatens the Jewish state... Israel’s Channel 2 reported on Monday. According to Channel 2, Arab media outlets reported over the weekend that an arms shipment on its way to Hezbollah was attacked by the IDF in Syria late Thursday night/early Friday morning. The shipment, according to these sources, included advanced North Korean missiles. Channel 2 added that the nuclear reactor in Syria, which Israel destroyed in September 2007, was built for President Bashar Assad with the aid of the regime in Pyongyang. As The Algemeiner reported last April, former US Vice President Dick Cheney’s national security adviser John Hannah, a senior counselor at the DC-based policy institute the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, penned a piece in the journal Foreign Affairs in which he said about the 2007 reactor-bombing — code-named “Operation Orchard” — that America “dodged a bullet in Syria…all courtesy of the Israelis.”...  https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/03/20/report-pyongyang-military-exports-directly-threaten-israel-latest-arms-convoy-to-hezbollah-struck-by-idf-in-syria-contained-north-korean-missiles/
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Trump Fight Or Surrender Time – Limbaugh Says
Hearings An Impeachment Threat To Back Off
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Have we now, after the nauseating partisan display of Comey being vacillating Comey, a tool of the deep state swamp targeting President Trump, reached the point where the gloves finally are tossed aside?... Will President Trump come out with his guns blazing and go after those who are attacking him. He’s got the tools and the evidence. Put liar-Clinton and liar-nObama before grand juries, and start an investigation into what’s motivating FBI Director James Comey. The collusion is not between Trump and Russia, it’s between the establishment and the shadow government elites. These political operatives, the high profile swamp vermin included, must be gotten rid of. Allowing them to remain in power allows them to continue to abuse it in ways that are detrimental to the President and to this nation. They will never do the right thing or use the power they have been given in the interest of the American people...
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Michael Savage was target of NSA spying
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{wnd.com} ~ Talk-radio host Michael Savage is among the public figures who were under surveillance by the National Security Agency as part of its “Project Dragnet,” according to a database revealed by an agency whistleblower... Jerome Corsi, an investigative reporter for Infowars.com, told Savage on “The Savage Nation” radio show Monday that one of Savage’s email addresses was discovered in the database. Infowars.com said the database has evidence of spying on U.S. citizens from 2004 to 2010, but Corsi told Savage there is no indication the surveillance has stopped. It shows Donald J. Trump and Infowars founder Alex Jones also were under illegal, unauthorized government monitoring during those years...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/michael-savage-was-target-of-nsa-spying/
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Gowdy Asks Comey To Pledge Investigation
Of NYT, WP Leaks – Nope, But It’s “Serious”
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Congressman Trey Gowdy questioned FBI Director Comey in Monday’s hearings, attempting to elicit a pledge that the leaked information which appeared in the leftist establishment publications, the New York Times and Washington Post, would not go uninvestigated and theoretically unpunished... Comey hid behind his familiar cover of integrity, something that Gowdy later notes in a less overt manner, is easily turned off and on at other times, dependent upon the situation and who benefits. He asks Comey if he’s aware of any carve-outs for media types to be able to disseminate classified information without legal consequences. He says there’s no carve-out that he’s aware of but that to his knowledge nobody has been prosecuted in his lifetime. Gowdy mentions that the Logan act has also never been prosecuted but that doesn’t mean it’s not worthy of discussion from time to time. Comey testifies that the only way a reporter would know about the existence of intercepted phone calls would be if they were declassified and revealed in an official setting such as a hearing or if they had been given to them by someone who wasn’t supposed to. The leaking of classified information, a felony...  http://rickwells.us/gowdy-asks-comey-pledge-investigation-nyt-wp-leaks-nope-serious/
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House Republicans Repeat an liar-nObama Error
by Peggy Noonan
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{peggynoonan.com} ~ It is challenging for important Republicans on Capitol Hill now. They are leading their party at a time when it is changing and the country has changed. There are fissures in terms of what they believe and what they want. There is no shared, overarching sense of the meaning and purpose of the Republican Party, no agreed-upon blueprint from which to operate.

Most of them know that something substantial happened in 2016, when half, and then considerably more than half, of the Republican base followed Donald Trump, along with a great many Democrats. But they are still uncertain of the meaning of the event. I suggested to a Capitol Hill figure last week that it was a populist wave and the future of the Republican Party is moderate populism. He answered that in fact the president, in his famous rallies, was often simply road-testing ideas and applause lines, adopting what got cheers and dropping what didn’t. He’d personally seen this. I thought: I’m sure you saw what you saw, but what you are noting is Mr. Trump’s cynicism when what matters is what the crowds agreed with—what they applauded. When he would say, seemingly in passing, that he won’t touch Medicare or Social Security, people are in enough trouble and a deal’s a deal, everyone—Republicans, Democrats—cheered. Because they are in financial trouble. And because they don’t trust Washington to be fair or wise in cutting or rejiggering essential programs.

But the Hill figure did not believe that 2016 marked a change in political direction, and I suppose that’s lucky for him, because if he followed the prompting of a Trumpian base, his donors would not like it.

Surely it is reasonable to conclude a big, burgeoning hunk of voters came forward in 2016 with a new definition of what popular, centrist GOP policies would look like—more economically nationalist and more socially and economically populist.

The GOP’s first big legislative endeavor, the repeal of liar-nObamaCare, has been understood as a classic fight between party leadership and the more conservative and libertarian wings, and there’s truth in that. I wonder if it will not also become a struggle between the leadership and the Trumpian core.

The new bill lacks an air of appropriate crisis, a sense that it is responsive to this moment. I criticize it not from the right but I suppose the left: Eight years ago, I argued liar-nObamaCare would be an unmitigated mess: “The system will be overwhelmed, the government won’t be able to execute, the costs will be huge.” I urged Mr. liar-nObama to focus instead on Medicare; attack waste, fraud and abuse; come up with far-sighted cost saving measures—and, once this was accomplished with bipartisan support, make one little change: open the program to the uninsured under 65. Expensive? Yes. But simpler, cleaner, and better than destroying the health insurance system. The 2008 crash had occurred less than a year before. That was the moment American insecurity began to surge and reasonable pessimism take hold.

Is it so different now?

The two great sociocultural documents of this moment are by the political economist Nicholas Eberstadt and the journalist Christopher Caldwell .

Mr. Eberstadt, in a Commentary piece titled “Our Miserable 21st Century,” writes that the year 2000 marked a grim milestone: “The Great American Escalator, which had lifted successive generations of Americans to ever higher standards of living and levels of social well-being, broke down around then—and broke down very badly.” He traces the economic factors, including dismal labor-force trends: “The plain fact is that 21st-century America has witnessed a dreadful collapse of work.” The top is doing fine but not the bottom: “21st-century America has somehow managed to produce markedly more wealth for its wealth-holders even as it provided markedly less work for its workers.”

Physical health has deteriorated for a significant swath of white America, “thanks in large part to drug and alcohol abuse. All this sounds a little too close for comfort to the story of modern Russia, with its devastating vodka- and drug-binging health setbacks. Yes: It can happen here, and it has. Welcome to our new America.”

He quotes a 2016 study reporting that nearly half of all prime-working-age male labor-force dropouts—some seven million men—take pain medication daily. That “adds a poignant and immensely sad detail to this portrait of daily life in 21st-century America: In our mind’s eye we can now picture many millions of un-working men in the prime of life, out of work and not looking for jobs, sitting in front of screens—stoned.”

Mr. Caldwell, in First Things, focuses on the narcotics epidemic: “The scale of the present wave of heroin and opioid abuse is unprecedented. Fifty-two thousand Americans died of overdoses in 2015—about four times as many as died from gun homicides and half again as many as died in car accidents.” Salisbury, Mass., population 8,000, lost one resident in the Vietnam War. “It has lost fifteen to heroin in the last two years.” In four hours last summer 28 people in Huntington, W.Va., population 49,000, overdosed.

The death toll “far eclipses” that of every previous drug crisis. Mr. Trump’s willingness at least to speak of the crisis surely helped him win, Mr. Caldwell observes: “In his inaugural address, President Trump referred to the drug epidemic, among other problems as ‘carnage.’ Those who call the word an irresponsible exaggeration are wrong.”

These two great pieces in great magazines deserve the deep, focused and alarmed attention of policy makers. We are in the midst of the kind of crises that can do nations in. It is pleasant to chirp, as Speaker Paul Ryan does, of “choice” and “competition” and an end to “paternalistic” thinking on health care. Is it responsive to the moment? Or does it sound like old lyrics from an old hymnal?

I close with Tucker Carlson’s Wednesday night Fox News interview with Mr. Ryan. It cut to the political heart of the matter.

Mr. Carlson questioned the new bill’s elimination of a tax on wealthy investors. “Looking at the last election, was the message of that election really, ‘We need to help investors?’ I mean, the Dow is over 20,000. Are they really the group that needs the help?”

Mr. Ryan answered that the tax had been imposed by liar-nObamaCare. “The trillion-dollar tax cut that this bill represents—that is part of the trillion-dollar tax increase that was in liar-nObamaCare to finance liar-nObamaCare.” It deserves repeal: “It’s bad for economic growth.”

Mr. Carlson: “But the overview here is that all the wealth, basically, in the last 10 years, has stuck to the top end. That’s one of the reasons we’ve had all the political turmoil, as you know. And so, kind of a hard sell to say ‘Yeah, we’re gonna repeal liar-nObamaCare, but we’re gonna send more money to the people who’ve already gotten the richest over the last 10 years.’ I mean, that’s what this does, no? I’m not a leftist, it’s just—that’s true.”

“I’m not that concerned about it,” Mr. Ryan replied. Republicans promised to repeal liar-nObamaCare, and they are.

Maybe he should be concerned.

http://www.peggynoonan.com/house-republicans-repeat-an-obama-error/

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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
The Fight For America Has Only Just Begun
by Susan Stamper Brown
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 Senate Hearings on Gorsuch Begin 
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Monday will see the start of the Senate's confirmation hearings for Donald Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Judge Neil Gorsuch. Democrats have promised to raise much resistance to Gorsuch, primarily to placate their leftist base. But with Gorsuch being such a squeaky cleaning nominee, the real drama will be in witnessing just how desperate Democrat leaders become as they seek to convince fellow Democrats — especially those up for election in red states come 2018 — to hold the line in opposition. The principled "textualist" versus the leftist obstructionists.
          For many conservatives, concern over the Supreme Court nominee was the primary reason they voted for Trump. And Trump, staying true to his campaign promise, validated their trust with his choice of Gorsuch.
          Democrat opposition has less to do with Gorsuch himself than with resentment over the fact that the Republican majority leadership refused to consider Barack liar-nObama's nominee, Merrick Garland, last year. Democrats are simply engaging in a little tit-for-tat sanctimony.
          Tom Goldstein, a Washington DC lawyer who regularly argues before the Supreme Court and publishes ScotusBlog, states, "It would be shocking if Neil Gorsuch wasn't confirmed to the Supreme Court in the coming weeks. The Democrats are committed to opposing him. Their base is insisting on it, because of what happened to President liar-nObama's nominee. But the reality is, they just don't have the votes and don't have the goods."
          It's certainly true that Democrats simply "don't have the goods." Instead, they'll seek to embellish a narrative that paints Gorsuch as a heartless judge who has consistently sided with the powerful over and against the weak. This narrative proves to be nonsense when the actual cases are examined, but when has that ever stopped Democrats? What will be interesting to see is just how cautious an approach Democrats take in their questioning. It has been well established that Gorsuch is highly intelligent and well-spoken, which may give his interrogators some pause in their attacking tactics out of fear of being made to look foolish. Where's Ted Kennedy and his viciously disgusting "Robert Bork's America" speech when you need him?
          Ultimately, the only win for Democrats would be to prevent Gorsuch from receiving the 60 votes needed to overcome a filibuster in an attempt to force Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) to engage the "nuclear option," thereby relegating the filibuster to the annals of history. Either way, it seems a pretty sure bet that Gorsuch will become the nation's next Supreme Court justice.  ~The Patriot Post
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Intel Chairman – No Collusion
Between Trump And Russia
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ House Intelligence Committee chairman Devin Nunes went on the Fox News Sunday program, answering a direct question from host Chris Wallace about the allegations of collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia that Democrats have been beating everyone over the head with for months... Wallace asked, “As you sit here today before the hearing on March 20th, have you seen any evidence of any collusion between what I’ll call Trump world, associates of campaign officials, Trump world and the Russians, to swing the 2016 Presidential election?” Nunes replies, “I’ll give you a very simple answer, no, no evidence.” Wallace asks, “No evidence of any collusion and this is after talking, getting this information from the FBI…” Nunes responds, “Up to speed on everything I have up to this morning. There’s no evidence of collusion.”...  http://rickwells.us/intel-chairman-no-collusion-trump-russia-leaks-attack-trump/
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The GOP Prepares to Break Its Promise

 by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ Republicans promised to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare, but all they are doing is tickling it with their American Health Care Act. The legislation does not get rid of liar-nObamacare, but ratifies it... It does not lower insurance and health care costs, but raises them. It does not repeal or replace liar-nObamacare. It is just another in a long line of broken Republican promises. The vote is supposed to happen tomorrow. Please use our action center and urge your member of congress to oppose the American Health Care Act. They promised to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare, not tickle it. Take action now.  http://theresurgent.com/the-gop-prepares-to-break-its-promise/
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FBI has no evidence liar-nObama
wiretapped Trump Tower
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by Al Weaver
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ FBI Director James Comey said Monday that the FBI has no evidence that former President Barack liar-nObama or the liar-nObama administration wiretapped Trump Tower... Comey made the remarks when pressed by Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., the ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. He was responding to Trump's tweets from March 4th, in which he claimed that liar-nObama "wiretapped" Trump Tower ahead of the November election and called liar-nObama a "sick" guy. "With respect to the president's tweets about alleged wiretapping directed at him by the prior administration, I have no information that supports those tweets, and we have looked carefully inside the FBI," Comey said...Why doesn't the FBI have info on the tap but Trump does?  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/james-comey-fbi-has-no-evidence-obama-wiretapped-trump-tower/article/2617861?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Breaking%20News%20-%2003/20/17&utm_medium=email
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Gowdy Presses Comey On Intelligence Community Leaks...
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by Christian Datco
{dailycaller.com} ~ Rep. Trey Gowdy pressed the FBI Director James Comey — during his Monday hearing before the House Intelligence Committee — on how media outlets, such as the New York Times... have encountered classified information relating to the intelligence community’s investigation into the 2016 election. The South Carolina Republican read a number of headlines, openly referring to leaks of classified information, before posing to Comey he “thought it was against the law to disseminate classified information information. Is it?” “Oh, yes, sure,” Comey answered. “It’s a serious crime.”  http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/20/gowdy-presses-comey-on-intelligence-community-leaks-i-thought-it-was-against-the-law-video/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Evening
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Top Democratic Lobbyist Bundlers
Tied to Russian Interests
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by Joe Schoffstall
{freebeacon.com} ~ A number of top Democratic lobbyist bundlers, who together pulled in millions of dollars for liar-Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and donated generously to Democratic leaders... personally represent or work at firms that have represented Russian interests in recent years, according to a review of foreign agent registration filings. Several powerful lobbyists who have pushed millions of dollars into Democratic coffers have ties to foreign banks and governments. Emanuel "Mike" Manatos, the senior vice president of Manatos & Manatos, a D.C.-based government relations firm, bundled tens of thousands for liar-Clinton's campaign...  http://freebeacon.com/politics/top-democratic-lobbyist-bundlers-tied-russian-interests/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=c20b1a3b00-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-c20b1a3b00-45611665
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The Fight For America Has Only Just Begun
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by Susan Stamper Brown

{townhall.com} ~ For conservatives, the election of Donald Trump, while not ideal, represents the first chance in a long time to take the country back from the infestation of liberal ideology, and especially one world government globalism.

If the first two months of the Trump administration has taught us anything, it is that until liberalism is completely eradicated, it matters little who sits in the White House. Leftists have succeeded in infiltrating America like a locust plague, through our education systems, media, Hollywood, politics, churches, and the judiciary.

On one hand, we see activist judges at every turn opposing Trump’s honest attempts to protect Americans. And on the other, we see unhinged liberals and their uncontrollable fits of rage, showing us what happens when a pro-America, pro-God, pro-U.S. Constitution president threatens to unseat their gods of globalism and secular humanism.

Liberals have gone bonkers but, annoyingly, think they are normal. They see Russian boogeymen around every corner with the occasional Hitler reference thrown in for good measure. Apparently, Ashley Judd believes Hitler is back, recently saying about Trump: “I didn’t know devils could be resurrected, but I feel Hitler in these streets, a mustache traded for a toupee, Nazis renamed the Cabinet Electoral Conversion Therapy, the new gas chambers shaming the gay out of America…”

No editorializing necessary.

What’s really crazy are the Nazi undertones coming from the left, as Anita Dittman, a born-again Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust pointed out in an interview with WND.com. Dittman said, “When they say Trump is another Hitler, they are crazy. If he was another Hitler, he’d be shooting people that riot and they wouldn’t have the freedom to riot…”

Of course, many leftists are also Holocaust deniers, so sweet Ms. Dittman’s personal experience with the real Hitler will have zero impact on those who deny the hell she, and millions like her, experienced.

Leftism is the antithesis of the Biblical worldview and pretty much the opposite of how Americans across Main Street America think. Main Street Americans understand globalism is liberty’s archenemy because a borderless America cannot protect traditions, religious beliefs, or American culture.

Main Street Americans watched former president liar-nObama choose globalism over their safety when he ignored the rule of law concerning illegal immigration. Now they notice the hypocrisy when the mainstream media, leftist judges, and Democrats-at-large incessantly rail on Trump, yet ignored liar-nObama’s lawlessness.

It’s one minute until midnight in America and we are standing at the crossroads between “Put Up” or “Shut Up.” America as we know it is at risk unless patriotic Americans join the fight between evil and good, wrong and right.

Taking back America won’t be easy, but it is possible if good people get involved by voting out globalists at the local, state and national levels and removing them from leadership positions in their churches. Parents should micromanage what their kids are taught in school, and everyone can boycott news organizations that promote fake news. Think of all the money you could bank not going to movies starring Hollywood liberals who trash American values and all the time you’ll save not watching television shows which seek to shove every abhorrent liberal idea down your throat.

Darkness calls and those who will must answer. As Welsh poet Dylan Thomas once wrote: “Do not go gentle into that good night…Rage, rage against the dying of the light.”

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Wed/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
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Judge Watson's Abominable Travel Ban Ruling
by David Limbaugh
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 Making Health Insurance Insurance Again 
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By Louis DeBroux: The release this week of the Congressional Budget Office's scoring of the GOP's liar-nObamaCare replacement bill brought on immediate condemnation, hyperventilation, and Chicken Little the-sky-is-falling theatrics from all the usual suspects in the Democrat Party and the Leftmedia (but we repeat ourselves).
          According to the CBO, the GOP plan would reduce the deficit by several hundred billion dollars, but add 14 million to the ranks of the uninsured in 2018. Pretty horrible, right?
          Not if we keep in mind the CBO's track record, which is not very good. By law, the CBO must score legislation statically (essentially net-zero formulations) rather than dynamically (factoring in human behavioral responses to economic changes). Unable to factor in human behavior, CBO projections are generally off by a wide margin.
          In 2009, the CBO predicted liar-nObamaCare would cost taxpayers $900 billion over 10 years, but just two years later the projected costs had more than doubled. Likewise, the number of Americans added to the insurance rolls was a fraction of projections, and a sizeable chunk of those added were lumped into Medicaid, which is a taxpayer-funded welfare program, not insurance.
          Lost in the discussion of premiums, enrollment rates, deductibles and so forth is the fact that liar-nObamaCare was never an insurance program. Rather, it was a quasi-socialist health payment program, a temporary bridge to what Democrats actually wanted — single-payer, government-run socialized health care. liar-nObamaCare was never intended to work; at least, not as it was sold to the stupid American people.
          As summarized brilliantly by Robert Tracinski at The Federalist, "The point of insurance is not that healthy people pay for sick people. ... The point of health insurance is not to provide health care. The point is to hedge against financial risk. ... You still set aside a certain amount every month, as you do with savings, but you control for the short-term risk of needing your benefits before you have fully paid for them. Some people will pay premiums for only a few months before they need the benefits. Others will pay for decades without needing them. You accept this because you don't know ahead of time which one of those people you are going to be."
          "But you can make calculations about which one of those people you are likely to be," Tracinski continues. "So you want your premiums to be correlated to your own level of risk and not just be a slush fund to be 'shared' with others, because that looks a whole lot like getting ripped off. If you find yourself required to pay extremely high premiums while you're still young and healthy and with a healthy lifestyle, and therefore with a very low risk of using much of your coverage, then you may well decide you're better off without insurance."
          By definition, liar-nObamaCare can't be called insurance because it prohibited insurers from basing premiums on risk factors such as age, race (certain races have higher likelihoods of contracting certain diseases than others), lifestyle (smoking, drinking alcohol, and promiscuous sexual behavior all significantly increase health risks), etc. So a chain-smoking 50-year-old man could not be charged much more than a 23-year-old female triathlete. Insurers were also not allowed to deny coverage, or charge higher premiums, for those with pre-existing conditions.
          This created a perverse incentive for both younger people who were unlikely to be sick and for people living an unhealthy lifestyle to go without insurance, knowing they could wait until they needed costly medical care before signing up. At worst they would have to pay a small penalty, which would be more than offset by the money saved from not paying monthly premiums for years.
          Without cost being tied to risk, there was little incentive for people to be responsible and to sign up for insurance. In the end, the insurance companies, who salivated at the thought of government forcing everyone to buy their product, lost billions of dollars as they saw primarily sicker and older people signing up, without the young and healthy paying premiums to offset the costs.
          That's why 18 of the 23 liar-nObamaCare co-ops have already gone bankrupt, and why major insurers are pulling out of markets left and right.
          Fixing the failures of the health insurance market will require a return to free market principles. It will require insurance to be insurance, not a slush fund shoveling money from the young and healthy to the older and infirm. It means returning to a model where we pay for routine care out of pocket, and use insurance as it is meant to be used — namely, to deal with unforeseen, catastrophic health problems. How much would auto insurance cost if government required it to cover new tires, oil changes, and windshield wipers?
          Real reform will require risk-based premiums, and addressing the issue of pre-existing conditions, which would be better addressed by moving those people into a high-risk pool subsidized by the states. That's welfare, not insurance, but it would make risk assessment more reality-based and lower overall costs.
          It will require a firm spine and some political capital, but our leaders need to have a frank discussion with the American people and disabuse them of the notion of an eternal, cost-free gravy train. We are at $20 trillion in debt, and rising. Major entitlements are the primary drivers. We can either responsibly address the crisis now, or wait until the house of cards collapses. Prudence and wisdom dictates that we act now.  ~The Patriot Post
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“One Of Smartest Guys” If Rogue Judges
Should Be Impeached
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ David Rifkin, a senior fellow with the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, who Lou Dobbs describes as “one of the smartest fellows in the country, joins him to discuss the two wildcat “so-called” judges who ruled against the second terrorist travel ban executive order... Mr. Rifkin is proof that being smart has nothing to do with your ability to coordinate your outfit for a television appearance. Rifkin is asked for his thoughts, replying, “They’ve gone rogue, they ruled in a way that’s contrary to the Constitution, which gives the two political branches, acting jointly as is case here, nearly absolute authority in this area, but more importantly than that, they also have actually gone rogue vis-a-vis the Supreme Court. They have completely ignored a body of precedent at the Supreme Court level that make it abundantly clear that this executive order should have been upheld, frankly, the first executive order should have been upheld. They didn’t even try to explain away those precedents, they just absolutely unbelievable behavior.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-asks-one-smartest-guys-rogue-judges-should-impeached/
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Rounding Up and Locking Down George Soros
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by Larry Usoff
{ipatriot.com} ~ Is there anything good that can be said about George Soros? Doing my research, it would appear that there isn’t. Not in my memory has there been a person so devoted to disruption, corruption, and perversion of the political kind as he is... Starting with his collaboration with the Nazis, aiding in the extermination of his fellow Jews and countrymen. Through his financial dealings, including “breaking the bank” of England, and manipulating the money of different countries, he has amassed a huge fortune and is one of the richest men in the world. Back in August of 2016, the business paper, Investors Business Daily, ran a piece about Soros and his non-profit organizations…groups that were actually front-men for liar-Hillary Clinton. The anti-Soros organization that investigated him dug up some interesting things too. In 2011, for example, Soros backed a group, “Extreme Polarization and Breakdown in Civil Discourse”, which was to conduct opposition reports translation: dig up dirt they could use on many conservative figures including Pamela Geller, David Horowitz and even the former Vice-President’s daughter Liz Cheney. This information or dirt was then given to another Soros group, the Center for American Progress(CAP) for action. Now, if that wasn’t enough, CAP was founded by…wait for it…John Podesta, who was at the time liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign manager! One last tidbit and then we’ll move along...  http://ipatriot.com/rounding-locking-george-soros/
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Rush Limbaugh Reveals Michelle
As A Liar And A Fraud
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by Boston Patriot
{conservativeworlddaily.com} ~ During the presidential campaign, Michelle liar-nObama had some harsh words for Donald Trump, and made her support for liar-Hillary Clinton quite clear. The Political Tribune reports that Rush Limbaugh has some choice words for the former First Lady... One of Michelle’s worst comments about Trump was that he was a man who “brags” and that she didn’t care for his “locker room talk.” Limbaugh says that Michelle is a liar. According to the Tribune, he reminds us that she failed to mention all the times she invited rappers to the White House. Rappers, who consistently degrade women in the most horrific ways possible with their dirty, violent, misogynistic lyrics...
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Unvetted “Refugee”
Sleeper Cells Imported At Night...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ The woman in the video is not introduced but that may have been by choice for her own protection, given the nature of the information she exposes regarding terrorist importation into America... She’s been sitting in on many of the required meetings held by the UN refugee resettlement invasion industry and is blasting the alarm sirens. This is the invasion that President Trump attempted to protect us from through his executive orders. It’s also because it is a blatant violation of our sovereignty and an effort to plant foreign forces within our borders that the enemy forces, those led by Hussein liar-nObama and George Soros, are so willing to violate the law through judicial activism in broad daylight. They want their foot soldiers for the jihad in place and this is how they’re doing it...  http://rickwells.us/unvetted-refugee-sleeper-cells-imported-night-given-social-security-us-passports/
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Trump Delivers Documented Evidence of
liar-nObama Wiretaps To House Panel
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by MIchael DePinto
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ At this point in time, the public does not yet know the contents of the documents delivered by President Trump’s DOJ to the House Intelligence Committee regarding the wiretapping incident... but presumably since the documents were sent by Trump’s team, it stands to reason that whatever was delivered to the House Intelligence Committee was in favor of Trump's claims, not the other way around. Throughout his time in office, Barack liar-nObama associated with many political operatives who were real lowlifes, and who often walked a tightrope between the world of what was considered legal behavior (however, unethical), and what was considered criminal behavior. There’s an old saying I'm sure you're familiar with that goes: Are we about to learn next week that liar-nObama got a haircut, and we’re all going to find out? In the video below, Right Wing News breaks down the recent report from Young Conservatives, and compares it with an earlier report from Doug Hagmann of the Canada Free Press. Did liar-nObama finally go to far this time? Let's hope so. It's long overdue!...  http://freedomoutpost.com/trump-delivers-documented-evidence-of-obama-wiretaps-to-house-panel/
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Judge Watson's Abominable Travel Ban Ruling
by David Limbaugh
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{townhall.com} ~ Anyone who understands the modern left could not be shocked by U.S. District Judge Derrick Watson's issuance of a temporary restraining order against President Donald Trump's executively invoked travel ban -- but that doesn't make the order any less outrageous.

The ruling was not just an exercise in judicial tyranny, as many have commented, but an act of jurisprudential nihilism and anarchy. Courts are not policymaking bodies but judicial tribunals that decide actual disputes on the basis of the facts and the law.

For decades, the courts have arrogated to themselves the power to act outside their constitutional authority by usurping the legislative function of writing and rewriting, rather than interpreting, laws and adjudicating their constitutionality.

Judicial activism overwhelmingly comes from left-wing judges, many of whom see their role as advancing a progressive policy agenda and exhibit little respect for the Constitution and rule of law when they might interfere with that agenda.

When President Trump issued his original travel ban, it was wholly predictable that some court would attempt to nullify it. In that case, its job was made easier by the arguable clumsiness of the rollout, even though most honest commentators believed that the underlying order passed constitutional muster.

Phony critics pretended the ban was stricken only because it was illegally crafted and opined that had Trump used greater care in composing the order, he would have faced no judicial obstacles. Others recognized this as a convenient excuse and said Trump would not be able to circumvent judicial obstruction merely by drafting a more precise order.

Alas, when the president issued a new order, it suffered the same fate as the first. Once a plaintiff was recruited for the cause, it wasn't hard to find a court to eradicate Trump Travel Ban 2.0.

What was less predictable, though, was the transparent speciousness of the court's reasoning in striking down Trump's lawful order. A self-respecting judge would be embarrassed by this sophistry, unless he derived his professional self-concept from his devotion to political causes through bastardization of his sworn judicial oath.

Chief Justice John Marshall, in establishing the judiciary's prerogative of judicial review in the 1803 case Marbury v. Madison, said, "It is emphatically the province and duty of the judicial department to say what the law is." He did not say, "The judiciary is superior to the legislative and executive branches, and accordingly, we have the right to just make stuff up."

Yet that's precisely what Judge Watson did. He issued the temporary restraining order mainly because the executive order purportedly violated the establishment clause, which Watson reduced to this formulation: "The clearest command of the Establishment Clause is that one religious denomination cannot be officially preferred over another." But even Watson admitted it is undisputed that the order "does not facially discriminate for or against any particular religion, or for or against religion versus non-religion." So it's not Trump's executive order that arguably violates the establishment clause; it's his alleged intent behind the order, which Trump supposedly revealed in his statements during the presidential campaign and otherwise concerning Muslims.

The judge says that to determine whether the order violates this clause, a court must apply the three-part "Lemon test." To show it has not run afoul of the clause, the government action must satisfy all three prongs of the test: 1) It must have a primary secular purpose. 2) It may not have the principal effect of advancing or inhibiting religion. 3) It may not foster excessive entanglement with religion.

Watson concluded that the order fails the first test -- the "secular purpose" prong -- so a court wouldn't even have to consider the other two tests. But it is painfully obvious that the primary purpose of Trump's executive order is secular; he has exercised his sovereign duty to protect Americans and America's national security interests. It is laughable and outrageous to suggest there was any other purpose -- much less a religiously discriminatory purpose -- to invoke the order.

On Page 32 of his 43-page screed, Watson cited the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals' ruling that "official action that targets religious conduct for distinctive treatment cannot be shielded by mere compliance with the requirement of facial neutrality."

But nothing in the order targets religious conduct for distinctive treatment! The order doesn't address any aspect of Muslim religious conduct, unless Watson was arguing that terrorism is protected religious conduct. The ban applies to just six nations whose entrants are believed to present a higher risk of harm to the United States. This is not about religion but about national security. The five pillars of Islam are wholly unthreatened by Trump's order.

Particularly disingenuous was Watson's statement, on Page 36, that "any reasonable, objective observer would conclude ... that the stated secular purpose of the Executive Order is, at the very least, 'secondary to a religious objective' of temporarily suspending the entry of Muslims." This is astonishing, even for a radical jurist. No reasonable person -- apart from a mixed-up, virtue-signaling leftist -- would conclude that the stated secular purpose is secondary. If you're going to consider Trump's statements, he is nothing if not a national security hawk. Moreover, Americans who voted for him based on national security concerns see this order as a national security imperative. They know, even if pointy-headed leftist judges do not, that presidents have a duty to protect the United States and that the greatest threat to its national security presently is from terrorists. I repeat: There is no religious objective to this order at all, much less a primary one. It doesn't apply just to Muslims, and it doesn't "target religious conduct" of Muslims.

On top of all this, Watson conceded that to issue the temporary restraining order, he had to determine that the plaintiffs had met their burden of establishing a strong likelihood of success on the merits of their claim, yet he never explained how there is a small likelihood, much less a strong likelihood, of success, especially considering that this would be, according to liberal Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz, a case of first impression.

The judge has written 43 pages of words -- just words -- designed to obfuscate the issue and justify the unjustifiable judicial usurpation of the sovereign power of the executive branch over national security.

This will not stand. Watson's order cannot stand.

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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Cognitive Dissonance in Europe
by Tom McLaughlin
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 Top Headlines 
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FBI Director Comey: Justice Dept. has no information that supports Trump's tweets alleging he was wiretapped by liar-nObama. (The Washington Post)
 
Justices on Ninth Circuit feuding over travel ban ruling. (The Hill)
 
Philadelphia cancels Cinco de Mayo parade over deportation fears. (The Hill)
 
Oh no! Illegal immigrants are cancelling SNAP benefits to avoid deportation. (Hot Air)
 
Maryland county's count suggests noncitizens voting across U.S. (The Washington Times)
 
Trump administration to boycott UN council over anti-Israel agenda. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Secret Service removes agent who didn't want to take "a bullet" for Trump (Washington Examiner)
 
Poll: Majority of 18-30 year olds see Trump as an illegitimate president — the American educational system is failing. (Hot Air)
 
Brexit will begin on March 29. (UK Telegraph)
 
Policy: Another federal court of appeals attacks the Second Amendment. (National Review)
 
Policy: Supreme Court needs judges like Gorsuch because America has leaders like Schumer. (Washington Examiner
~The Patriot Post
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Cruz Defends Trump On Spying Claims...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Ted Cruz appeared on Face The Nation with the discussion related to three topics. He’s first asked about President Trump’s reassertion on Friday that Hussein liar-nObama wiretapped him during the campaign and after...  Host John Dickerson says, “Intelligence officials, Republicans in the Senate and the House have said this didn’t happen. Should the President drop this?” Cruz replies that they are serious allegations that need to be looked into seriously. He says, “You’ve got open investigations in both the Senate Intelligence Committee and the House Intelligence Committee, you’ve got next week, FBI Director Comey is testifying, we need to find out what the facts are. We do know or at least it’s been publicly reported that there were two FISA applications for some form of surveillance or wiretaps, one of which was turned down by the FISA court of the liar-nObama administration, one of which was granted. I think it’s important to learn a little more detail as to what was contained in those FISA applications and I think the investigations will bring that out.”...
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Sheriff of Wall Street
Kept Hands Off Top Officials
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by Stephen Lendman
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Wall Street crooks make money the old-fashioned way – stealing it through fraud, grand theft, market manipulation, front-running them, pump-and-dump schemes, scamming investors, bribing politicians... and having its executives in top administration posts making policies facilitating chicanery. Compared to major Street firms, Bernie Madoff was small-time. So are most other financial swindlers. Key ones plot in Wall Street board rooms, operating unaccountably, making their own rules. When caught red-handed defrauding customers, at most wrist-slap fines are imposed. No top executives are prosecuted, none imprisoned, none touched by the so-called sheriff of Wall Street – US attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara, praised for fearlessly prosecuting financial wrongdoing, targeting smaller fish, not the biggest ones...  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/sheriff-wall-street-kept-hands-off-top-officials/
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The Left Inflames Racial Tensions Again
This Time to Attack Private Contractors
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by Erick Erickson
{theresurgent.com} ~ This is now Donald Trump’s America and instead of trying to understand why so many Americans rejected the status quo, the left has decided the nation is just full of racists, bigots, and idiots... Consequently, on a daily basis they are trying to find new grievances to keep alive the anger and rage on the left. They hope to mobilize the left and head into 2018, taking back Congress, and doing everything possible to stop President Trump. To do that, they have decided to inflame racial tensions as best the can. At SXSW in Austin, a Michael Moore affiliated film maker released a new video on Michael Brown that purports to show he was a drug dealer, not a thief, in order to raise doubts about the investigative findings. Now, in Florida, the left wants you to believe prison officials boiled alive a black inmate in the Dade Correctional Institute in Miami. The evidence shows it did not happen, but they are cherry picking the worst of the worst information to claim it is so...  http://theresurgent.com/the-left-inflames-racial-tensions-again-this-time-to-attack-private-contractors/
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Sen Grassley Tweets Trump To Join Him
In Stopping H-1B Visa Abuse Of US Workers
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) is reaching out to President Trump in a very public way, over one of the President’s favorite means of communication, Twitter... At least he can be fairly certain that his message will be passed on in some form rather than buried in the pile of emails and other documents that land on the President’s desk every day. Grassley had just finished watching a segment on “60 Minutes” about the injustices that American workers face in being forced to compete with low wage indentured servants categorized as foreign workers, who are brought into the United States for the express purpose of stealing jobs from American workers. Following the “60 Minutes” report highlighting situations of H-1B visa abuse and displaced Americans being forced to train their replacements, Grassley attempted to engage the President...  http://rickwells.us/sen-grassley-tweets-trump-join-stopping-h-1b-visa-abuse-us-workers/
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Nikki Haley for the win: UN withdraws
anti-Israel report and official resigns
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by David Gerstman
{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Last week the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA), a group comprised entirely of Arab countries, issued a report accusing Israel of practicing apartheid against the Palestinians... Having a U.N. group make such an accusation was considered a major propaganda win for the anti-Israel movement. As discussed below, the report was authored by people with longstanding anti-Israel records. The report was so disgraceful in content and so obviously political in motive that by Friday the Secretary General of the UN had first disassociated himself from the report and then asked that it removed from the ESCWA’s website. Also on Friday, Rima Khalaf, the Jordanian head of ESCWA resigned. Nikki Haley, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N., is credited by many as working to negate this anti-Israel move. This may be a sign of a new U.S. assertiveness at the U.N...  http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/03/nikki-haley-for-the-win-un-withdraws-anti-israel-report-and-official-resigns/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Cognitive Dissonance in Europe
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ It had to be galling. Geert Wilders, a member of Dutch Parliament, was found guilty three months ago of “inciting discrimination against Dutch Moroccans” — the very people who have been trying to kill him since at least 2003. Newsweek reported that he has to go around, “wearing a bulletproof vest and being shuttled between safe houses to avoid assassination. ‘I’m not in prison,’ he says. ‘But I’m not free, either. You don’t have to pity me, but I haven’t had personal freedom now for 10 years. I can’t set one foot out of my house or anywhere in the world without security.’”
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The Wilders trial perfectly illustrates Europe’s state of cognitive dissonance. In many European Union countries, one is charged with “hate speech” for criticizing Muslims who are terrorizing the entire continent. France’s Marine Le Pen has also been charged in France, along with Brigitte Bardot.
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Bardot and Le Pen
It was interesting to watch media spin last Wednesday’s Dutch election results as Geert Wilders’ PVV Party, which they always call “far right,” gained five seats (33%), yet he was “defeated.” Prime Minister Rutte’s VVD Party lost eight seats (-20%), but he won a “great victory.” Prime Minister Rutte’s governing partner in the ruling coalition, the Labour Party, lost nineteen seats (-75%). How is this a victory? Because Wilders didn’t thump him as badly as polls suggested he might.
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I met Geert Wilders seven years ago at CPAC, the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, DC. He was surrounded by large, shaven-headed, tough-looking, unsmiling, body guards with ear pieces who were constantly looking around at the rest of us in the hotel function room. He cannot go anywhere without them and it’ll be that way for the rest of his life. Why? Because he’s “far-right”? No, it’s because he has dared to criticize Islam, comparing the Koran to Hitler’s Mein Kampf as both advocate slaughtering Jews. For that, Muslims put a fatwa on his head. That means Muslims are obligated to kill him whenever they get the chance.
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Bodyguards check me out
He’s been living like this since he came to the defense of a fellow member of Parliament, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, who was a Somali immigrant. Hirsi Ali got off a plane in Holland rather than go on toward Canada where her family had arranged she be married to an aging relative. She was granted asylum and then got elected to Parliament. Hirsi Ali’s Muslim parents had forced her to undergo a genital mutilation procedure when she was a girl.
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Hirsi Ali and Wilders at The Hague
Together with filmmaker Theo Van Gogh (great-grandnephew of the famous painter) Hirsi Ali made a short film called “Submission” depicting Muslim treatment of women. For his effort, Van Gogh was shot and stabbed on the street in broad daylight by a Muslim immigrant. Pinned to his body with a knife was a note declaring that Hirsi Ali was next. In 2003, Muslims staged an hour-long grenade assault on a building in The Hague where Ali and Geert Wilders were working in an effort to kill both. In spite of all this, it’s still criminal to criticize the “Religion of Peace” in Europe.
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Angela Merkel and other European leaders said the Dutch election last week was a “good day for democracy” and for Europe because Wilders wants Holland to lead Holland out of the European Union. All across Europe, however, there’s a rising opposition to the EU’s open-borders policy of accepting millions Muslim “refugees” in spite of what millions of native-born citizens want. That’s one of the factors propelling the rise other conservative leaders in France, Austria, Germany, Italy, and other EU countries.
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Meanwhile, Turkey is threatening to release 15,000 more Muslim “refugees” a month to “blow the mind” of Europe. The Turkish foreign minister said, “Soon, religious wars will begin in Europe.” President liar-nObama’s good buddy, President Erdogan of Turkey urged Muslims living in Europe to have at least five children. It’s part of the Islamic concept of hijrah, which Islam historian Robert Spencer calls “jihad by emigration.”
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If you ask ordinary Dutch, French, German, and British people, they’d say the religious wars are already underway and have been for years. Every day there’s a stabbing, a rape, a bomb, a truck attack, or some other Muslim terrorist incident somewhere in Europe, yet Merkel alone let over a million Muslims into Germany just last year. She’s up for re-election in September.
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The left in Europe has for decades been pushing for ever more centralized government through the EU and the UN — and for open borders. To pave the way, they’ve attempted to indoctrinate the populace with the multicultural myth that all cultures are equal. Dutch, French, British, German, or any other European culture is no better than Muslim culture. All should be able to live together in harmony. Ordinary Europeans, however, aren’t buying it.
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The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Did liar-nObama Spy on Trump?
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
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 Trump's Budget Axe Falls on Discretionary Spending 
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By Michael Swartz: Beltway bureaucrats can't say they weren't warned about the number of cars that would be uncoupled from their taxpayer-funded gravy train. As President Donald Trump alluded to in his campaign and promised prior to his address to a joint session of Congress, there are a number of federal agencies that will be subjected to large-scale cuts and 19 that will be shuttered entirely if Trump has his way with the budget.
          On the chopping block: The favorite conservative targets of the National Endowment for the Arts, National Endowment for the Humanities, and Corporation for Public Broadcasting. As the Washington Post screamed, this budget is the "worst-case scenario for arts groups."
          Instead, the Trump proposal is a budget that's heavy on certain core government issues — you know, constitutionally enumerated powers such as defense and immigration. As previously noted, Trump calls for a $54 billion increase earmarked for defense spending and billions set aside for border security and combating illegal immigration. Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney was tasked with producing a budget "that emphasizes national security and public safety," and the OMB head has delivered.
          It goes without saying that major media outlets, which still buy ink by the barrel, have gone off the rails with angst regarding the Trump budget blueprint — in particular, the aforementioned Washington Post, which caters to the bureaucrats who may soon find themselves in the position of seeking an honest living in the private sector.
          But the Post and other media outlets aren't writing to deliver the facts about the budget; they're writing to warn Congress about derailing the gravy train that's in place. Why else would these relatively modest cuts in the grand scheme of a $4 trillion budget be compared to the plans Ronald Reagan had when he first took office? (All we're missing is Tip O'Neill and his fellow Democrats vowing the budget will be "dead on arrival" in Congress.)
          But when a candidate runs on a platform that puts America first, it should surprise no one that defense wins out over foreign aid. Thus, the State Department is subject to a 28% cut. Trump wants to put $1.5 billion into a down payment on a border wall as well, along with funding additional judges to deal with deportations. While the Department of Education as a whole will be leaner to the tune of $9 billion, Trump allocates an extra $1.4 billion to school choice programs.
          These are all things the voters who supported Trump demanded. As is the call to bring the Environmental Protection Agency to heel with a cut of almost one-third of its current budget. Addressing so-called "climate change" won't be a priority item for the Trump administration, and EPA apologists are already claiming Trump's reductions will make it "easier for polluters to get away with breaking the rules."
          Lefty columnist Eugene Robinson laments, "Trump budgets for a dumber, dirtier America." Trump probably even hates puppies.
          Yet since much of Congress will face the voters before President Trump does, members seem to have a cool reception to the budget proposal. "The administration's budget isn't going to be the budget," noted Senator Marco Rubio, adding that all any president can do is give a suggested blueprint to Congress.
          Rubio's reminder is made evident by the fact that over the last six years Republicans in Congress routinely ignored Barack liar-nObama's budget proposals. His 2012 offering won exactly zero congressional votes. That gridlock led to government by continuing resolution, with attempts to control spending such as the sequester eventually falling by the wayside along with the debt ceiling. A compromise continuing budget resolution passed last December spared us the prospect of a government shutdown just before Christmas, but that temporary fix will expire at the end of April. So this Trump budget proposal may simply be the opening point of negotiations to deal with that as well as an increase in the debt ceiling.
          The overarching question in all this talk about the budget, though, is similar to the one bedeviling congressional Republicans who campaigned for the last eight years on their opposition to liar-nObamaCare only to punt on full repeal after voters put the GOP fully in charge of government. Now that they have a president who's willing to eliminate many of the agencies the GOP vowed to dismantle if they were put back in power, will they stand up to the media and lobbyists to do so? The answer to that question may dictate whether Trump's presidency will be a difference-maker or simply the latest in our nation's drift from freedom and prosperity toward a European-style mediocrity.  ~The Patriot Post
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Trump Budget Eliminates
19 Federal Agencies...
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ In the past presidents and Congress would routinely expand government and rubber stamp financial expenditures year after year. That’s not how President Trump does things... That’s not how you drain a swamp. In addition to major cuts to the EPA, which routinely operates outside of its charter and in violation of its Congressional authority, the wasteful and sometimes opulent State Department, and other large money wasting bureaucracies, President Trump’s first budget proposal calls for the complete elimination of 19 federal agencies, totaling $3 billion in additional cuts. They’re all liberal favorites, including liberal political enabling and recruitment organizations and some that are arguably anti-American...
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'Israel will not hesitate
to destroy Syrian air defenses'
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 by Anna Ahronheim    
{jpost.com} ~ Israel “will not hesitate” to destroy Syria’s air defense systems if that country ever again targets IAF jet fighters, Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman threatened on Sunday... The air force’s Arrow anti-aircraft missile defense system intercepted a Syrian SA-5 missile fired at Israeli jets on Friday night. The jets had already returned to Israeli airspace when they were attacked, after striking targets in Syria. “You have to understand the context; if we strike there is a real reason for it,” the defense minister said during a visit to the Meitav IDF Induction Center at Tel Hashomer in Ramat Gan...  http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Israel-will-not-hesitate-to-destroy-Syrian-air-defenses-484583
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The Army Is About To Deploy One Of The Most
Powerful Laser Weapons In Existence
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by Russ Read
{dailycaller.com} ~ The U.S. Army is about to make a technological leap as it prepares to field a small, yet ultra-powerful laser weapon system... Lockheed Martin announced it had completed the design, development and demonstration of the Army’s new laser in a press release Thursday. The 60-kilowatt laser is one of the most powerful of its kind, and could be delivered to the Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command in Huntsville, Ala., in a matter of months. “Delivery of this laser represents an important milestone along the path to fielding a practical laser weapon system,” said Vice President Paula Hartley, head of Advanced Product Solutions within Lockheed’s cyber, ships, and advanced technologies line, in a statement. “This milestone could not have been achieved without close partnership between the U.S. Army and Lockheed Martin; we are pleased to be able to deliver this system for their further integration and evaluation.”...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/19/the-army-is-about-to-deploy-one-of-the-most-powerful-laser-weapons-in-existence-video/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Weekend
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Tomi Lahren Likely On Her Way Out At The Blaze
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by Peter Hasson
{dailycaller.com} ~ Political commentator Tomi Lahren will likely be leaving The Blaze in September if not sooner, The Daily Caller has learned... Lahren hosts her own show for The Blaze and has garnered national attention for her aggressive rants on politically-charged topics like Black Lives Matter, which frequently went viral on Facebook. Lahren’s inflammatory, oftentimes angry style has placed her increasingly at odds with coworkers at The Blaze, The Daily Caller has learned, a situation that’s worsened after she called pro-life conservatives hypocrites...Hire her FoxNews!  http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/18/tomi-lahren-likely-on-her-way-out-at-the-blaze/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Weekend
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Deep State Rogue Judges, Truth May Come
Out On liar-nObama Spying
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by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs invited former Prosecutor and Assistant District Attorney, Fox host Kimberly Guilfoyle onto his program for a discussion of the federal judiciary gone rogue... He points out that the Justice Department will be appealing the decision of the libtard in Maryland and has asked for clarification for what the hell he’s doing from the political tool in Hawaii prior to making a decision on appeal in that instance. Upon what basis do you appeal something that has no connection to the law, common sense or sanity to begin with? Before they get into the rogue judiciary, Dobbs describes the events coming out of the investigation by the House Intelligence Committee as “a terrific development,” noting that “apparently Devin Nunes has had some significant response on surveillance.” Guilfoyle recalls when Nunes said, “The mainstream media only put forward some of the language that he initially discussed in terms of this investigation. But they didn’t talk about incidental collection, where there could be larger wiretaps going where this was then captured and people were, in fact, recorded and information gathered in that area.”...
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Did liar-nObama Spy on Trump?
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The question of whether former President Barack liar-nObama actually spied on President Donald Trump during the 2016 presidential campaign and transition has been tantalizing Washington since President Trump first made the allegation nearly two weeks ago. Since then, three investigations have been launched — one by the FBI, one by the House of Representatives and one by the Senate. Are the investigators chasing a phantom, or did this actually happen?

Here is the back story.

liar-nObama would not have needed a warrant to authorize surveillance on Trump. liar-nObama was the president and as such enjoyed authority under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to order surveillance on any person in America, without suspicion, probable cause or a warrant.

FISA contemplates that the surveillance it authorizes will be for national security purposes, but this is an amorphous phrase and an ambiguous standard that has been the favorite excuse of most modern presidents for extraconstitutional behavior. In the early 1970s, President Richard Nixon used national security as a pretext to deploying the FBI and CIA to spy on students and even to break in to the office of the psychiatrist of Daniel Ellsberg, one of his tormentors.

FISA was enacted in the late 1970s to force the federal government to focus its surveillance activities — its domestic national security-based spying — on only those people who were more likely than not agents of a foreign government. Because FISA authorizes judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to make rules and establish procedures for surveillance — essentially lawmaking — in secret, the public and the media have been largely kept in the dark about the nature and extent of the statute and the legal and moral rationale for the federal government's spying on everyone in the U.S.

The mass spying that these judges have ruled FISA authorizes is directly counter to the wording, meaning and purpose of FISA itself, which was enacted to prevent just what it has in fact now unleashed.

We now know indisputably that this secret FISA court — whose judges cannot keep records of their own work and have their pockets and briefcases checked by guards as they enter and leave the courthouse — has permitted all spying on everyone all the time.

The FISA court only hears lawyers for the government, and they have convinced it that it is more efficient to capture the digital versions of everyone's phone calls, texts, emails and other digital traffic than it is to force the government — as the Constitution requires — to focus on only those who there is reason to believe are more likely than not engaging in unlawful acts.

When FISA was written, telephone surveillance was a matter of wiretapping — installing a wire onto the target's telephone line, either inside or outside the home or business, and listening to or recording in real time the conversations that were audible on the tapped line.

Today the National Security Agency has 24/7 access to the mainframe computers of all telecom providers and all computer service providers and to all digital traffic carried by fiber optics in the U.S. The NSA has had this access pursuant to FISA court orders issued in 2005 and renewed every 90 days. The FISA court has based its rulings on its own essentially secret convoluted logic, never subjected to public scrutiny. That has resulted in the universal surveillance state in which we in America now live. The NSA has never denied this.

Thus, in 2016, when Trump says the surveillance of him took place, liar-nObama needed only to ask the NSA for a transcript of Trump's telephone conversations to be prepared from the digital versions that the NSA already possessed. Because the NSA has the digital version of every telephone call made to, from and within the U.S. since 2005, if President liar-nObama last year wanted transcripts of Trump's calls made at any time, the NSA would have been duty-bound to provide them, just as it would be required to provide transcripts of liar-nObama's calls today if President Trump wanted them.

But if liar-nObama did order the NSA to prepare transcripts of Trump's conversations last fall under the pretext of national security — to find out whether Trump was communicating with the Russians would have been a good excuse — there would exist somewhere a record of such an order. For that reason, if liar-nObama did this, he no doubt used a source on which he'd leave no fingerprints.

Enter James Bond.

Sources have told Fox News that the British foreign surveillance service, the Government Communications Headquarters, known as GCHQ, most likely provided liar-nObama with transcripts of Trump's calls. The NSA has given GCHQ full 24/7 access to its computers, so GCHQ — a foreign intelligence agency that, like the NSA, operates outside our constitutional norms — has the digital versions of all electronic communications made in America in 2016, including Trump's. So by bypassing all American intelligence services, liar-nObama would have had access to what he wanted with no liar-nObama administration fingerprints.

Thus, when senior American intelligence officials denied that their agencies knew about this, they were probably being truthful. Adding to this ominous scenario is the fact that three days after Trump's inauguration, the head of GCHQ, Robert Hannigan, abruptly resigned, stating that he wished to spend more time with his family.

I hope the investigations of Trump's allegation discover and reveal the truth — whatever it is. But the lesson here is terribly serious. We face the gravest threat to personal liberty since the Alien and Sedition Acts of 1798 proscribed criticism of the government. We have an unelected, unnamed, unaccountable elite group in the intelligence community manipulating the president at will and possessing intimate, detailed knowledge about all of us that it can reveal. We have statutes that have given the president unconstitutional powers that have apparently been used. And we have judges on secret courts facilitating all this as if the Constitution didn't exist.

For how much longer will we have freedom?
 
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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 Featruring:
Professors who are child-porn monsters
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by Linda Harvey
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 Leftmedia Attempts Hit Piece on Gorsuch 
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The New York Times decided to help out its Democrat buddies by running a story clearly designed to be used as a hit piece against Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch. The Times article, entitled "Neil Gorsuch Has Web of Ties to Secretive Billionaire," attempted to paint Gorsuch as a puppet of the wealthy conservative business man Philip Anschutz, due to the fact that Gorsuch had previously worked for the man years ago when he was a lawyer. The story submits no compelling evidence supporting its insinuation of corruption and offers little anecdotal evidence besides. It'd be laughable if it weren't so outrageous. The best they could come up with is that Gorsuch and some executives at Anschutz's companies decided to go in together on buying a vacation house. Shocking, no?
          This story contains about as much news as Rachel Maddow's silly reveal of Trump's 2005 tax return. There's no there, there. Gorsuch had already disclosed all his prior business ties, including his having worked for Anschutz. He has also recused himself from hearing any cases involving his former clients. The fact that Gorsuch is friends with former clients is only natural. Besides, it's not as if Anschutz is some nefarious fellow. His business assets are well known and are all above board.
          The problem for the Leftmedia and Democrats like Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is their belief that a judge should base his rulings primarily upon social activists' concerns, not upon the Constitution and the letter of the law. Gorsuch has a sound and proven track record of ruling appropriately, even if he thinks that a given statute may need changes. In his rulings, he has repeatedly recognized and emphasized that a judge is bound and limited by the law, and that it's the role of legislators, not judges, to create laws. That's why Gorsuch presents such a threat to leftists and their disregard for the Rule of Law.
          With activist justices such as Sonia Sotomayor and Ruth Bader Ginsburg already on the bench, it's indeed refreshing to hear a judge speak so clearly about the limits set upon the judicial branch by the Constitution. The more Democrats and the Leftmedia attempt to smear Gorsuch, the more he's proving to be an excellent choice for the Supreme Court.  ~The Patriot Post
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U.S. Army Creates World’s First
3D Printed Grenade Launcher
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by Daniel Lang
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ The last thing you would expect is for the US military to create a 3D printed gun. After all, you’d think that an organization as large and well-funded as our military wouldn’t need plastic guns... 3D printers are for people who don’t have massive factories at their disposal, but the Army has the military-industrial complex. Nonetheless, the US Army recently revealed that they have created a 3D printed grenade launcher, which they have appropriately dubbed RAMBO or Rapid Additively Manufactured Ballistics Ordnance. It was designed by the Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command and the U.S. Army Manufacturing Technology Program. RAMBO contains only 50 parts, and with the exception of a few springs and fasteners, is all 3D printed. However, not all of these pieces are plastic. The barrel and receiver are aluminum, and were printed by a metal sintering machine. The Army is also working on printing the 40mm ammunition that goes with the weapon. Early tests show that the weapon functions, and now the Army is testing its reliability under long-term use...  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/u-s-army-creates-worlds-first-3d-printed-grenade-launcher/
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Our Choice: Government Medical Care vs. Freedom
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by Scott Lazarowitz
{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ It should be of no surprise that establishment Republicans in Congress are rearranging the deck chairs from liar-nObamaCare to “liar-nObamaCare Lite,” in their saving the Affordable Care Act (ACA) from being fully repealed... But conservative opponents, such as Senators Rand Paul and Mike Lee, who want liar-nObamaCare fully repealed, are still not going far enough. The problem is that other government entitlement schemes are interconnected with liar-nObamaCare, and avoiding the “pain” of change would require repealing the other schemes. After all, the reason why medical care has gotten so expensive is because of government interventions, which distort decision-making by medical care providers, drug makers and patients, and drives up the prices, as Hunter Lewis writes at the Mises Institute...  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/choice-government-medical-care-vs-freedom
 
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Abortionists' meddling
causes prolifers to lose lease
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by Bob Unruh
{wnd.com} ~ Everyone knows about the scandal Planned Parenthood is facing over its sale of unborn baby body parts. And the fight it is waging in Congress to try to keep that half a billion dollars in your tax money each year... And there are the ordinary fights over dismemberment abortions, restrictions on those and more. Now, however, Planned Parenthood in Vacaville, California, has found itself at the defendants’ table for another reason: Interfering in the contract of the Solano Alpha Crisis Pregnancy Center. It seems the pregnancy center was looking for a new location, a realtor showed officials an office suite that was across the hall from Planned Parenthood’s operations in the same building, they signed the lease and sent a check...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/abortionists-meddling-causes-prolifers-to-lose-lease/
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Half of kids in top 700 school systems
from immigrant homes, 30% illegally
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by Paul Bedard
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Children of immigrants, many in the United States illegally, make up the bulk of students in 700 of the biggest school areas, a huge and unexpected wave that is changing education and society in America... according to a groundbreaking new report. Using Census Bureau statistics and Google Maps, the Center for Immigration Studies found that in areas including northern Virginia, New York City and Houston, children of immigrants made up to 93 percent of all students. "The number of children from immigrant households in schools is now so high in some areas that it raises profound questions about assimilation," said the report provided to Secrets... http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/census-half-of-kids-in-top-700-school-systems-from-immigrant-homes-30-illegally/article/2617539?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Top%205&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Top%205%20-%2003/17/17&utm_medium=email
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Will the Dutch Protect their 'Decadence'
from Islamic 'Redeemers'?
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Two political assassinations related to Islam: the politician
Pim Fortuyn (left), and Theo van Gogh (right), a filmmaker

by Giulio Meotti
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ General elections in the Netherlands are over, but now begins a much bigger campaign: who will defend the famous Dutch freedoms?... Only in the Netherlands is it conceivable that a politician such as Geert Wilders, a brave maverick who for 13 years, 24 hours a day, has lived under police protection; held rallies while wearing a bulletproof vest; moved from one secret location to another one and was guarded as if he were an Asian potentate. The country has already had two political assassinations related to Islam: the politician Pim Fortuyn, and the filmmaker, Theo van Gogh. Another Dutch MP at the time, Ayaan Hirsi Ali -- whose name, with Wilders's, was next on the hit-list pinned with a knife to van Gogh's corpse -- ended up fleeing to the United States. Only Wilders's protection, generously provided by the Dutch government, has so far avoided a third political murder...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10075/netherlands-decadence-islam
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 Professors who are child-porn monsters
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by Linda Harvey

{wnd.com} ~ What in the world goes through the mind and heart of a child abuser? A child rapist? Or the person who collects images of children being raped and tortured and exchanges them with other viewers, mostly middle-aged white males?

Dr. Lori Handrahan has done extensive research on this subject, and what she has discovered is horrifying.

Child pornography use is rapidly escalating, and the subject matter often involves younger children and more sadistic violence.

And the media are largely ignoring it. They are too busy examining President Trump's every hangnail.

The good news is that in recent years numerous indictments have been brought against prominent men in academia, medicine, and federal and state agencies. These men, incredibly, were able to conceal their addictions to watching innocent children be raped and tortured, hiding behind cloaks of respectability.

These were and are people at the top of their professions. Some have not yet been caught and locked away forever. I am hoping that changes very soon.

And think about this. If we are mystified by the seeds of radical revolution being encouraged on college campuses, this may explain some of it. Students favorite professors may be viewing, in their spare time, online streaming images of toddlers being raped.

It's an epidemic of cleverly disguised monsters consorting with demons, with America's children as their victims.

And the perpetrator list includes numerous doctors, some with Ivy League pedigrees, who have access to children. Here are just a few examples from Dr. Handrahan's research, where she links to local media coverage where arrests are often reported, and then media interest disappears.

Dr. Richard Keller was a pediatric endocrinologist at Boston Children's Hospital who also taught at Harvard Medical School. He was arrested for possession of child pornography, including videos of boys in explicit sexual scenarios, material he received while medical director of the prestigious Phillips Academy, a position he had held for 19 years.

A doctor in Connecticut who was also a Boy Scout leader, Carl Koplin, was arrested with one of the largest collections of child-abuse images ever uncovered in Connecticut. He was sentenced in 2013.

Then there's Rocco Martino, a New Jersey internist and sports medicine specialist, whose violent images of sexually abused children included a bound-and-gagged 3-year-old girl.

Never forget this was and is someone's child.

Martino, a graduate of Columbia and Princeton who did his residency training at Brown University, was sentenced to seven years in prison.

Who will join me in saying that's not long enough?

Then there are the college faculty. Why are college campuses so infused with fascist and inhumane ideology? Why are students at Berkeley, Middlebury and elsewhere being encouraged in harassment, bullying, sedition, revolution and violence?

Could it be that students are sometimes being taught by the worst of psychopathic deviants criminal child abusers?

Think about what kind of human even watches child pornography: a psychopathic narcissist who has no heart  because every child pornography image out there involves a human child.

And Amnesty International should be eager to proclaim this abuse of children as acts of torture.

A child is horrifically abused once during the act that is photographed or filmed or sometimes, live-streamed. That child is abused again when the image is distributed for perverted strangers to view.

But some of those strangers are top faculty at American universities. Praise the Lord a few have been arrested. But the sentences often seem pitifully light, and some abusers are now free again.

Dr. Handrahan's online site provides details about 90 professors and staff arrested, with links to the local news articles and court documents. This needs to be forwarded to every university-based conservative we know faculty, staff and students.

And it should be a BOLO (be on the look-out) warning: Let's find out if there are more of these monsters we can identify for law enforcement.

Here are a few of the stars  of this rogu's gallery.

Justin Carroll was dean of students at Washington University in St. Louis. He was indicted this past January. Among his collection were images of boys as young as 3 subjected to anal rape. He had been at the university for 36 years.

An associate dean of the law school at University of Florida, John Patrick Shannon, was found to be part of a child-abuse and trafficking ring. He received no prison sentence in 2007 but simply house arrest followed by probation.

In the Buckeye state, where I live, a University of Cincinnati classics professor with a Ph.D. from Yale, Holt Parker, was arrested in March 2016 for possession of child pornography. He taught gender studies and published articles on sexuality, slavery and sadism.

A retired University of Cincinnati professor, Brian Meadows, was arrested last November after filming minors from a camera he set up in a Cincinnati gym.

And Dr. Christopher Pelloski, a pediatric radiation oncologist at Ohio State University and the father of 5-year-old twins, was arrested on charges of possession of child porn involving the rape of very young children. He received just a year in federal prison.

Two Wright State University faculty members, Gary Farlow, a long-time physics professor, and James Uphoff, a retired professor of early childhood education, were both recently convicted for possession of child pornography. Uphoff is a past president of far-left teachers union the Ohio Education Association, which is an affiliate of the National Education Association.

What can we do? Consider a donation to Dr. Lori Handrahan's excellent work. Send the links on this research to every parent and conservative you know.

Hold your children close and carefully monitor their friends, teachers and contacts. And please email the Department of Justice to demand more attention to tracking, arrests and convictions of child sex offenders of all types.

Let's report what we see and pray for more of these evil people to be caught.

http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/professors-who-are-child-porn-monsters/

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 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
Trump Embraces the PLO Fantasy
by Caroline Glick
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 The Dems' Tax Deception Problem 
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Democrats like chiding Republicans on the tax issue, particularly when it comes to "the wealthy" who "don't pay their fair share." It's a convenient talking point geared toward constituents because it conjures up feelings of anger, jealousy and resentment. And the Democrat Party has exploited it to the fullest extent possible in an effort to sway elections.
          In August 2012, during the height of the pivotal election between Barack liar-nObama and Mitt Romney, then-Senate Majority Leader Harry dinky-Reid erroneously charged, "The word's out that [Romney] hasn't paid any taxes for 10 years." It was a blatant lie that even The Washington Post flatly condemned. Even in the ensuing years dinky-Reid remained stubborn, haughtily saying things like, "Romney didn't win, did he?" and, "It's one of the best things I've ever done."
          Then there's liar-Hillary Clinton. At a presidential debate last fall, she stated, "[Y]ou've gotta ask yourself, why won't [Trump] release his tax returns? And I think there may be a couple of reasons. ... [M]aybe he doesn't want the American people, all of you watching tonight, to know that he's paid nothing in federal taxes." Of course, we now know that Trump's 2005 tax rate of 25% dwarfed that of liar-nObama and, yes, even Bernie Sanders. Especially Bernie Sanders, whose income was taxed at just 13% in 2014. And as for liar-Clinton, at least half the reason for the liar-Clinton Foundation's existence was to provide a tax shelter for liar-Bill and liar-Hillary's exorbitant speaking fee income.
          Republicans are constantly bombarded with accusations of tax evasion and exploitation, but the fact is that the real tax deception is coming from the Left, whose continued gamesmanship with faux accusations is hurting them mightily at the ballot box. 
~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama Judge Had No Standing,
Send All Refugees To Hawaii
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Steve Doocy asks Judge Jeanine Pirro what Hawaii has in their situation that gives them an interest in and legitimate claim of a right to dictate US immigration policy as was just done by liar-nObama’s classmate and friend, Judge Watson... Judge Jeanine cites their argument, saying, “Well what Hawaii said was, ‘Look, this is going to be terrible, it’s going to have an incredible impact on our economy, because we’re not going to have any students coming from these countries.’ Hello, you don’t have anyone coming from these countries anyway. I mean, this is the most hypocritical reaction to the President and  this executive order.” Look, the bottom line is you’ve got a judge here, who, bottom line, hates Donald Trump. He’s an liar-nObama appointee. But he is now saying, ‘What I am going to do is I’m not going to look at this executive order, and assess it on the four corners of the order itself, I will assess it based on things that Donald Trump said during the campaign.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-obama-hawaii-judge-standing-send-refugees-hawaii/
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Trump’s Proposed Budget Slashes
Funding For Sanctuary Cities
by Jeff Dunetz and Andrew West
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{lidblog.com} ~ Buried within President Trump’s budget proposal released Thursday contains another item designed to keep a campaign promise, cutting back funds granted to sanctuary cities... During his first week in office the President Issued an executive order that punished sanctuary cities by “Refusing federal funds to those jurisdictions that do not comply with Federal immigration law, except as mandated by law” The order defined sanctuary jurisdictions “as jurisdictions that “willfully refuse to comply with 8 U.S.C. 1373,” which prohibits Federal, State, and local officials from refusing to provide information on citizenship or immigration status requested by immigration authorities.”...  http://lidblog.com/budget-slashes-funding-for-sanctuary-cities/
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Congress Just Dropped The HAMMER…
liar-nObama, Soros Are SPEECHLESS!
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{patriotjournal.com} ~ Senators are calling on Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to investigate the liar-nObama administration’s efforts to influence foreign elections by sending taxpayer dollars to “extreme and sometimes violent political activists” that would promote liberal causes... Multiple foreign diplomats had conversations with lawmakers, who outlined the State Department’s meddling, including liberal causes in countries like Macedonia, Albania, Latin America, and Africa. And to make it even more suspicious, George Soros is allegedly involved, too. Some of the funding for these causes also appears to come from the liberal billionaire, and specifically his Open Society Foundation. It is also believed that the liar-nObama administration funded organizations that sought to kick Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu out of office. “Over the past few months, elected officials and political leaders of foreign nations have been coming to me with disappointing news and reports of U.S. activity in their respective countries,” Sen. Lee said in a statement...  http://patriotjournal.com/congress-awesome-obama-soros-speechless/
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What Do Jihadis Want? The Caliphate
by Daniel Pipes
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{danielpipes.org} ~ A question often asked is, "What do the jihadis [Mujahideen] want?" The answer is surprisingly obscure, as most of their attacks do not include clear demands... The horrific attacks on Mumbai in November 2008 and on Paris in November 2015 were carried out by suicide squads, with gunmen carrying out mass shootings. Elsewhere, they have resorted to machine gun assaults, beheadings, bombings, hijackings etc. After the attackers have been neutralised by the security forces, an assessment is carried out of the damage they caused and detectives attempt to trace the identities of the perpetrators, to look into possible motives. Shadowy websites then make post-hoc unauthenticated claims, which still belie the question, "What do the jihadis want?"...They're not going to get it.
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The Truth is Vault 7 is Empty! Government
is Totally Incompetent!
by Vin Armani
{activistpost.com} ~ In this video, Vin Armani takes a deep dive into Vault 7 and discovers that the CIA’s technology isn’t nearly as scary as media reports have made out... Most of their “hacking” tools require a tech-savvy agent to be physically in the same room as the target device in order to install malware. And most of their malware is wiped out by the next routine software update by the device maker.  http://www.activistpost.com/2017/03/truth-vault-7-empty-government-totally-incompetent.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dea82d2ea4-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-dea82d2ea4-387888649
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Trump Embraces the PLO Fantasy
by Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ US President Donald Trump is losing his focus. If he doesn’t get it back soon, he will fail to make America great again or safe again in the Middle East.

After holding out for a month, last week Trump indicated he is adopting his predecessors’ obsession with empowering the PLO.

This is a strategic error.

There are many actors and conflicts in the Middle East that challenge and threaten US national interests and US national security. Iran’s rise as a nuclear power and regional hegemon; the war in Syria; Turkey’s abandonment of the West; and Russia’s regional power play all pose major threats to US power, security and interests. The Muslim Brotherhood, Islamic State, Hamas and other Sunni jihadist movements all threaten the US, Europe and the US’s Sunni allies in the region in a manner that is strategically significant to America.

None of these issues, none of these actors and none of these threats are in any way related to or caused by the PLO and its interminable, European-supported hybrid terror and political war against Israel. None of these pressing concerns will be advanced by a US embrace of the PLO or a renewed obsession with empowering the PLO and its mafia-terrorist bosses.

To the contrary, all of these pressing concerns will be sidelined – and so made more pressing and dangerous – by a US reengagement with the PLO .

And yet, over the past week, Trump has indicated that the PLO is now his focus.

Last Friday, Trump spoke on the telephone with Mahmoud Abbas. Abbas is head of the PLO and the unelected dictator of the corrupt, terrorism-sponsoring, PLO -controlled Palestinian Authority in Judea and Samaria.

According to media reports, Trump told Abbas – whose legal term in office ended eight years ago – that he views him as a legitimate leader. According to the official White House report of the conversation, Trump also reportedly told Abbas that he supports reaching a deal between Israel and the Palestinians. Such a deal, to the extent it is ever reached, involves expanding PLO control over Judea and Samaria and parts of Jerusalem at Israel’s expense.

Trump also invited Abbas for an official visit to Washington. And the day after they spoke, the Trump administration moved $250 million in US taxpayer dollars to Abbas’s police state where for the past 25 years, Abbas and his cronies have enriched themselves while feeding a steady diet of antisemitic, anti-American jihadist bile to their impoverished subjects.

To build up his credibility with the PLO , Trump put his electoral pledge to move the US embassy to Jerusalem on ice. The real estate mogul ordered Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to deny Jews the right to their property and their legal right to use state lands in Judea and Samaria.

And swift on the heels of that conversation with Abbas, Trump’s chief negotiator Jason Greenblatt was dispatched to Jerusalem to begin empowering the PLO at Israel’s expense.

According to media reports, Greenblatt intended to use his meeting Monday with Netanyahu was to reject Netanyahu’s commitment to build a new Israeli town in Samaria. Greenblatt was also reportedly intending to dictate the parameters for yet another round of negotiations with the PLO.

After meeting with Netanyahu, Greenblatt continued on to Ramallah to embrace Abbas.

Also during his stay, Greenblatt is scheduled to meet with IDF generals who are responsible for giving money and providing services to the PLO.

And Greenblatt doesn’t have the Palestinians to himself.

Following Trump’s conversation with Abbas, plans were suddenly afloat for Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser Jared Kushner and Trump’s daughter Ivanka Trump to visit Israel and spend an afternoon with Abbas in Ramallah.

If things develop as reported, then Trump is serious about embracing the PLO and intends to have his top advisers devote themselves to Abbas and his henchmen. If that is the case, then Trump is setting himself, his advisers, his daughter and the US up to fail and be humiliated.

The PLO is the Siren that drowns US administrations. It is to the PLO that America’s top envoys have eagerly flown, gotten hooked on the attention of the demented, anti-Israel press corps, and forgotten their purpose: to advance US national interests.

If Trump is serious about repeating this practice, then rather than repair the massive damage done to the US and the Middle East by his two predecessors, the 45th president will repeat their mistakes. Like them, he will leave office in a blaze of failure.

To understand why this is the case, three things must be clear.

First, the PLO will never make peace with Israel. There will never be a Palestinian state.

There will never be a peace or a Palestinian state because the PLO wants neither. This is the lesson of the past 25 years. Both Abbas and his predecessor Arafat rejected peace and statehood multiple times and opted instead to expand their terrorist and political war against Israel.

Why did they do that? Because they are interested in two things: personal enrichment – which they achieve by stealing donor funds and emptying the pockets of their own people; and weakening, with the goal of destroying Israel – which they achieve through their hybrid war of terrorism and political warfare.

The second thing that needs to be clear is that the Palestinians are irrelevant to the rest of the problems – the real problems that impact US interests – in the region. If anything, the Palestinians are pawns on the larger chessboard. America’s enemies use them to distract the Americans from the larger realities so that the US will not pay attention to the real game.

Iran will not be appeased or defeated if Trump empowers the PLO in its war against Israel and continues feeding PLO leaders’ insatiable appetite for other people’s money.

The Sunni jihadists will not beat their swords into plowshares if the US coerces Israel to cough up land to the PLO . To the contrary, they will be emboldened.

Russian President Vladimir Putin will not move his forces out of Syria or stop giving nuclear technologies to Iran if the US turns the screws on Israel. Putin will come to the conclusion that Trump is either weak or stupid to damage Israel, the US’s most serious ally.

And of course, Israel will not be better off if Trump decides to push it back onto the peace train which has caused it nothing but harm for the past quarter century.

Trump’s election opened up the possibility, for the first time in decades, that the US would end its destructive obsession with the PLO. For three months, Israelis have been free for the first time to discuss seriously the possibilities of applying Israeli law to all or parts of Judea and Samaria. And a massive majority of Israelis support doing just that.

On the Palestinian side as well, Trump’s election empowered the people who have been living under the jackboot of Abbas and his cronies to think about the possibility of living at peace with Israel in a post-PLO era. Polling results indicate that they too are eager to move beyond the Palestinian statehood chimera.

But now, it appears that Trump has been convinced to embrace the PLO obsession. The same entrenched bureaucrats at the State Department and the same foreign policy establishment in Washington that brought the US nothing but failure in the Middle East for a generation appear to have captivated Trump’s foreign policy. They have convinced him it is better to devote his top advisers to repeating the mistakes of his predecessors than to devote his energies and theirs to fixing the mess that liar-nObama and George W. Bush left him with. They have gotten him to believe that it is better to empower the PLO than develop coherent strategies and plans for dealing with the problems of the region that actually endanger US interests and imperil the security and safety of the American people.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-trump-embraces-plo-fantasy

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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
White House looks for deep cuts to U.N. funding
by Karen DeYoung
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 Slush Holidays at Taxpayer Expense
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By Mark Alexander: Yesterday afternoon I received a call from one of our contributing authors after he left work and was driving north on I-95 just south of Washington, DC. He found it humorous that there was not a single vehicle in the southbound lanes — normally a parking lot of rush-hour traffic. Today, Weather.com and other "weather news" outlets are doing their best to excuse all the hype they stirred up over the great March blizzard. But the Daily Mail called winter storm Stella "The Blizzard that WASN'T," while the New York Post declared "NYC Blizzard is a Dud."
          Fortunately, the DC media posted a "Snow Survival Guide" ahead of the two inches of slush that besieged the nation's capital yesterday, so all food market shelves were denuded of milk and bread.
          Of course the 24-hour weather prognosticators face the same constraints as the rest of the 24-hour news recycling talkingheads — they are motivated, first and foremost, by market share and advertising revenues. In other words, they are driven by financial incentive, which is why they incessantly hype news — everything is a crisis, stay tuned 24/7! Of course there is rarely national news that rises to the level of the media's hyperbolic "ALERT" bulletins. But in all fairness, the weather prognosticators have the task of trying to predict something, while the rest of the MSM are constantly rehashing news about something past — ad nauseam.  ~The Patriot Post
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Rex Tillerson Not Ready to Rule
Out Military Action Against North Korea
by Andrew West
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{constitution.com} ~ North Korea and its despotic dictator Kim Jong Un have been pushing all of the wrong buttons in recent weeks with their illegal ballistic missile tests... This, of course, is on top of constant threats by the bizarre regime that included the possible detonation of a nuclear weapon on Donald Trump’s inauguration day.  Spoiler alert:  Didn’t happen. Now, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has had enough of the tyrannical leader’s nonsense, and is sending an extremely strong message to North Korea and to U.S. allies in the region. “’Nothing has been taken off the table,’ he said, when asked whether he would rule out nuclearization of the peninsula, during the interview with Fox News...  http://constitution.com/rex-tillerson-not-ready-rule-military-action-north-korea/
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How The Federal Reserve Is Setting Up
Trump For A Recession...
by Michael Snyder
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{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Most Americans do not understand this, but the truth is that the Federal Reserve has far more power over the U.S. economy than anyone else does, and that includes Donald Trump... Politicians tend to get the credit or the blame for how the economy is performing, but in reality it is an unelected, unaccountable panel of central bankers that is running the show, and until something is done about the Fed our long-term economic problems will never be fixed. For an extended analysis of this point, please see this article below.  In this piece, I am going to explain why the Federal Reserve is currently setting the stage for a recession, a new housing crisis and a stock market crash, and if those things happen unfortunately it will be Donald Trump that will primarily get the blame. On Wednesday, the Federal Reserve is expected to hike interest rates, and there is even the possibility that they will call for an acceleration of future rate hikes… http://theeconomiccollapseblog.com/archives/why-donald-trump-must-shut-down-the-federal-reserve-and-start-issuing-debt-free-money
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 What’s Going On With The Secret Service?
by Steve Berman
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{theresurgent.com} ~ This is what happens when the Secret Service invites people to try by not doing their job. Two embarrassing near back-to-back lapses have plagued the normally square-jawed U.S. Secret Service since President Trump took office... A laptop containing highly sensitive data including floor plans of Trump Tower and files on the pope was stolen from an agent’s vehicle in New York City. And it was revealed that last week, a man spent nearly 17 minutes roaming the White House grounds after jumping the fence before he was apprehended. This adds to the last embarrassment when the agent-in-charge of the agency’s Denver district wrote that she would endure “jail time” rather than “taking a bullet” for Trump–a clear violation of the Hatch Act. The Secret Service is not bullet-proof, of course. During the liar-nObama administration, agents were caught with their pants down, figuratively, soliciting both male and female prostitutes in places like Columbia and Puerto Rico...
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CBO Director – No Climate Change Funding –
It’s A Waste Of Your Money
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Office of Management and Budget director Mick Mulvaney held a press briefing in which he answered questions about the newly released budget proposal... The reporter’s question and the manner in which it was asked illustrates the depths to which the indoctrination and acceptance of  the climate hoax has been successfully ingrained into the psyche of the American public and those in the media propaganda corps. There is no question as to its validity or certainty in the way the question is worded. For the reporter or “glorified stenographer,” as the case may be in the propaganda media, the “science is settled,” the lying Hussein liar-nObama was telling the truth on this one issue. The weather is teamed up with, joined forces with its diabolical partner, Earth, and they are trying to kill us. Their scapegoat for the supposed harm is CO2, a beneficial, life-giving and life-sustaining gas, but that doesn’t matter. liar-nObama told them it’s true, therefore they believe. liar-nObama slithers on water...  http://rickwells.us/cbo-director-no-climate-change-funding-waste-money/
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Primary challenger: Ryan trying to 'undermine' Trump
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{wnd.com} ~ Whether it’s called “Ryancare,” “Trumpcare” or simply the American Health Care Act, the GOP’s replacement plan for liar-nObamacare is turning into a political debacle... And Paul Ryan’s primary challenger is pinning the blame for the disaster solely on the speaker of the U.S. House. Recent findings from Public Policy Polling suggest less than a quarter of voters support the AHCA. Several moderate Republicans are also running for cover after the Congressional Budget Office’s report showed 24 million Americans would lose their health insurance under the AHCA. Conservatives are also in revolt, with Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., a physician, calling for Republicans to “smash” what he terms “liar-nObamacare Lite” in an article on Breitbart. Paul seems to pin the blame more on Ryan than on Trump, suggesting Trump is being “taken for a ride through the swamp right now.” Political analyst Byron York argues the health care battle is distracting from Trump’s core policy proposals on trade and jobs and has made him “a prisoner to the House Republican leadership.”...
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White House looks for deep cuts to U.N. funding
by Karen DeYoung
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ White House instructions to the State Department to look for cuts totaling more than a third of its budget include orders for what potentially are even higher reductions in U.S. payments to the United Nations.

U.S. officials cautioned that the outline of President Donald Trump's preliminary budget, to be released Thursday, is unlikely to reveal much in the way of intentions for specific programs. "We're early in the process with respect to budget numbers . . . it may look very differently a couple weeks or a couple of months down the road," acting State Department spokesman Mark Toner said Tuesday.

But the outline could provide an indication of how the administration plans to deal with an international institution that Trump during his campaign said caused more problems than it solved, and was "just a club for people to get together and talk and have a good time."

The United States spends about $10 billion a year on and through the United Nations, a combination of assessed payments that run the secretariat, peacekeeping operations and programs ranging from the International Atomic Energy Agency to the World Health Organization, and "voluntary" contributions that include what is by far the largest amount of assistance to global humanitarian aid programs.

Assessments are based on an agreed formula according to national wealth, under which the United States pays between 22 and 28 percent of total costs. Most, but not all, of the assessed and voluntary payments come from the State Department budget.

Threats to decrease or withhold U.N. payments have been common in the past, particularly in Republican administrations, and the United States has often found itself in arrears on assessed funding.

But the Trump administration appears more serious than most in its threats to make deeper and more permanent cuts in payments that would significantly affect U.N. operations. At the same time, it has warned that it may withdraw altogether from U.N. agencies it considers particularly counterproductive.

Chief among them is the U.N. Human Rights Council, a 47-member, Geneva-based agency whose rotating membership has included widely agreed rights violators such as China, Cuba and Saudi Arabia. Although President George W. Bush refused to join, President Barack liar-nObama reasoned that it was better to be within the tent than outside.

The principal U.S. criticism of the UNHRC is that it has made Israel its favorite punching bag.

During Trump's first month in office, his administration considered vacating its seat at the council, but decided instead to simply warn it. In a letter to leading humanitarian nonprofits, first reported by Foreign Policy, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said that "the Human Rights Council requires considerable reform in order for us to continue to participate."

Foreign Policy also reported Monday that the State Department had been instructed to seek cuts of more than 50 percent in funding for U.N. programs, although U.S. officials, speaking about budget plans on the condition of anonymity, said that number was above what is being sought.

In her January confirmation hearing, the U. S. ambassador to the United Nations, former South Carolina governor Nikki Haley, said she would not "shy away" from using U.S. funding as leverage to change the organization.

At the same time, however, she said that "I do not think we need to pull money from the U.N. We don't believe in slash-and-burn."

"I haven't had anyone talk to me about cutting off the aid," Haley told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee of her conversations with the administration. But "we need to look at each and every mission, see what we're doing and see how we can make it more effective for people in the area . . . As I've said, you can never win with slash-and-burn techniques. That doesn't work. What is important is that we do strategic types of cutting if we're going to cut anything at all."

But there is little doubt that the administration is looking to significantly reduce U.S. spending, even as it has said it intends to increase American clout at the United Nations.

Many in Congress have reacted negatively to reports that the administration is looking to cut the overall State Department budget - which accounts for less than 1 percent of the budget - by up to 37 percent.

Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., said such a proposal would be "dead on arrival" on Capitol Hill, and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he was not in favor of such draconian cuts that "probably" couldn't pass in the Senate.

"The diplomatic portion of the federal budget is very important," McConnell told reporters last month.

But the United Nations traditionally has drawn less congressional support. Ire among lawmakers on both sides of the aisle remains particularly high over a U.S. abstention late last year under the liar-nObama administration on a Security Council resolution criticizing Israeli settlements in West Bank territory.

"I think that after what they have done," Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said of the Israel vote, "there should be a reduction in funding. I'd like to see it specified on some aspects of the U.N., but certainly what they did in their vote in Israel is something - I don't think they deserve American tax dollars."

Graham agreed. While describing himself as an "internationalist," he said in an interview that he had "suggested we suspend the U.N. funding until they deal with the Israeli issue."
 
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
A tide turns as Israelis pray for American Jews
by Daniel Gordis
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 Top Headlines 
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12.2 Million signed up for liar-nObamaCare in 2017, half of what CBO projected. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Trump on the House's health care bill: "We will take care of our people or I'm not signing it." (Hot Air)
 
Judge who froze first travel ban hands Trump a victory. (Washington Examiner)
 
Senate approves National Security Adviser McMaster, 86-10. (Defense News)
 
Rex Tillerson: Military action against North Korea is "on the table." (NBC News)
 
White House on climate change: "We're not spending money on that anymore. ... A waste of your money." (CNS News)
 
It's not fake news: Predators are taking advantage of Target's fitting room policy. (The Daily Signal)
 
Minimum wage effect: McDonald's tests mobile ordering before national rollout. (Associated Press)
 
Assisted suicide loses in New Mexico. (National Review)
 
What you didn't know about St. Patrick. (FaithZette)
 
Policy: Trump must drain the Iran appeasement swamp in the State Department. (Washington Examiner)
 
Policy: Regulatory implications of the American Health Care Act. (American Action Forum~The Patriot Post
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Intelligence Chief Says NO Evidence
of Trump-Russia Connection
by Onan Coca
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{minutemennews.com} ~ Former acting CIA Director and liar-Hillary Clinton supporter Michael Morrell told an audience at an event for the intelligence website Cipher Brief that there was simply no evidence whatsoever to connect President Trump to the Russian government... Morrell wrote an op-ed for the New York Times back in August where he both announced his support for liar-Hillary Clinton and argued that Trump was a puppet of Vladimir Putin, “In the intelligence business, we would say that Mr. Putin had recruited Mr. Trump as an unwitting agent of the Russian Federation.” However, he’s now changed his tune and believes that Mr. Trump is not only innocent of any collaboration with Russia but he further argued that the “Trump dossier” released a few months ago is likely a fraud...  http://minutemennews.com/intelligence-chief-says-no-evidence-trump-russia-connection/
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Seven Jewish protesters arrested
at AIPAC L.A. office
by Eitan Arom
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{jewishjournal.com} ~ Seven Jewish protesters were arrested March 17 in the lobby of the Century City office tower that houses the Los Angeles office of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC)... The protesters, who were affiliated with IfNotNow, a progressive network of millennial Jews opposed to Israeli policy, were chanting and stomping their feet when they were arrested for trespassing, according to Capt. Tina Nieto, area commanding officer for West L.A. for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD). “We are here to say that we’ll occupy this building until AIPAC is ready to stop supporting the endless occupation in Israel-Palestine,” said Michal David, 26, an organizer for IfNotNow, while a small group of protesters marched in a circle and chanted on the sidewalk behind her...They need to read the Bible to know the truth.  http://jewishjournal.com/news/nation/216778/watch-seven-jewish-protesters-arrested-aipac-l-office/
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Sanders Calls Democratic Party “A Sinking Ship”
by Sam Dorman
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) implied in a recent interview that the Democratic Party is like the ill-fated Titanic, adding that some Democrats want to go along with the "status quo" and sink with the ship... "Certainly there are some people in the Democratic Party who want to maintain the status quo," Sanders told the New York Times Magazine when asked "if he thought the Democratic Party knew what it stood for." "They would rather go down with the Titanic so long as they have first-class seats," Sanders continued...  http://freebeacon.com/politics/bernie-sanders-refers-to-democratic-party-as-sinking-ship/
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A Supporter of Israel Must Have a "Bias" on
Trump Travel Ban: The Newest Bigotry!
by Alan M. Dershowitz
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ A recent panel discussion regarding the Trump travel ban was infected by the bigotry of one of the participants. The host, Don Lemon, called on former prosecutor, John Flannery, to express his views on the decision of a federal judge to stay the order... This was Flannery's response: "...Here's Trump saying that we have to write rules. What have they been doing? They've been sitting on their hands doing nothing this entire time. And our dear colleague, Alan Dershowitz, I think, hopes that this may secure Israel and thinks that this is a bogus argument..." I asked him what he was talking about, since in my dozens of TV appearances discussing the travel ban, I have never once mentioned Israel, and certainly never made the argument that the ban – which I oppose as a matter of policy – would "secure Israel." He replied: "I think that's what you believe."...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10074/a-supporter-of-israel-must-have-a-bias-on-trump
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Secret Service Fails Again – Laptop And
Sensitive Documents Stolen From Agent
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The theft of sensitive information from a Secret Service agent’s vehicle again looks to have been an instance of someone exploiting the security vulnerabilities, in this case laxity, of the Secret Service... With the theft of an agent’s laptop, the perpetrator appears to have deliberately targeted her and her vehicle, seemingly aware that there would be valuable information left inside. President Trump might want to see if the Keystone Cops are available as a security upgrade from what he has now. A laptop computer containing floor plans for Trump Tower as well as information about the liar-Hillary Clinton email investigation, apparently still ongoing, and evacuation protocols was stolen on Thursday morning. Other national security information was reportedly on the stolen laptop as well. It had been carelessly and irresponsibly left in her vehicle, parked in her driveway, outside her Brooklyn home. The evacuation protocol information is particularly unsettling, as bad guys have a blueprint for how the Secret Service will react to a threat...  http://rickwells.us/secret-service-fails-laptop-sensitive-documents-stolen-agent/
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A tide turns as Israelis pray for American Jews
by Daniel Gordis
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The Jewish liturgy includes a category of prayers known as the mi she-beirach, which open with the words, "May G0D who blessed our ancestors, Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, also bless . . . ."

These brief prayers are recited on behalf of those who are ill, for women who have recently given birth and for newborn babies, for example.

In recent decades, new prayers have been added. Most common is the one for Israeli soldiers, recited in virtually every Israeli synagogue, usually along with the Prayer for the State of Israel.

Among the Diaspora Jews in U.S., the mi she-beirach for those who are ill is recited across denominational lines. Traditional synagogues also recite the Prayer for the State of Israel and the prayer on behalf of Israeli soldiers. More liberal synagogues, uncomfortable with the militarism of the former and the politics of the latter, often omit those.

It was thus with a degree of astonishment that, in Jerusalem last Friday evening, we listened as the rabbi noted that we would be adding a newly written mi she-beirach.

"For years," the rabbi said, "communities across the globe have been praying for us, for our safety, for our children serving in the army and defending this country. But now, we are the ones who are secure, and they are the ones facing danger. It is time that we began to pray on their behalf."

The prayer was concluded in a minute or two, but a sense that something profound had just transpired lingered.

Something is shifting in Israeli discourse about American Jews. In Israel's early years, the classic Zionist position was that American Jews had proved deaf to the call of history when the vast majority chose to remain in the U.S. and not move to the newly founded state. David Ben-Gurion, Israel's founding prime minister, once remarked with sadness, "For hundreds of years, a question-prayer hovered in the mouths of the Jewish people: Would a country be found for this people? No one imagined the frightening question: Would a people be found for the country when it would be created?"

Israelis have watched recent threats against Jews and attacks on Jewish property in the U.S. which some American analysts believe have been drastically overstated after the election of President Donald Trump not with the triumphalism that one might have expected from the country Ben-Gurion founded, but with sadness and concern.

Two longstanding international Jewish tropes are shifting.

Israelis are looking at the world's largest Diaspora community with concern. And no longer are Israelis looking across the ocean with the expectation that American Jews will provide them with support. Today, Israeli leaders clearly wish there was something they could do something to help protect their American counterparts.

The radical changes in the Jewish world were clearly evident in this year's Purim, celebrated Sunday throughout the world and on Monday in Jerusalem. Purim, after all, is the quintessential Diaspora holiday. The biblical Book of Esther tells the story of a Jewish community situated seemingly comfortably in Persia. But the Bible warns that Diaspora comfort is always ephemeral. Hatred of the Jew can spring seemingly from nowhere, when least expected.

In the Book of Esther it emerges simply because Mordecai, the Jewish protagonist, refuses to bow down to Haman, the archetypal representation of evil and Jew-hatred. For virtually no reason, Haman decides to destroy the Jews.

Haman tells the king, "There is a certain people scattered and dispersed among the peoples in all the provinces of Your kingdom; and their laws differ from those of every people; and they do not keep king's laws; there is no reason for the King to let them be." (3:8) The king acquiesces and issues a decree ordering the murder of the Jews.

When Esther refuses Mordecai's entreaties that she intervene with the king, Mordecai admonishes her for not using her access to power, asking "Who knows? Perhaps it was precisely for this moment that you have become royalty?" (4:14) Some have called on Ivanka Trump, a Jewish woman in a non-Jewish "court," to intervene. Others have thrown her husband, Jared Kushner, into the mix, as well.

What made Purim so sobering on both sides of the Atlantic this year was the resonance of Purim's central message that even a combination of assimilation into Persian society and access to power cannot save the Jews. Somehow, everything the Jews do seems to backfire. Assimilation provides no protection from hatred. Joining the royalty seems not to be enough.

Some American Jewish leaders worry that today, too, almost every strategy can backfire. Some warn that focusing on Ivanka Trump or her husband's Jewishness risks leading others to "blame the Jews for what goes on in the White House," in the words of Abe Foxman, the Anti-Defamation League's recently retired chief executive.

Toward the conclusion of the biblical story, the world is turned upside down. The victims are saved, the would-be murderers are hanged, and the Jews create a holiday to remember the occasion.

But the celebration is accompanied by the knowledge that Jews cannot count on such reversals each time. Thus, the holiday is also one of masquerading, of Jews hiding who they are, because they fear that nothing else will save them.

Purim is also celebrated by consuming copious amounts of alcohol, as if to say that the only way to avoid worry is to escape reality altogether.

Israeli Jews do not usually offer prayers on behalf of their American counterparts, and American Jews do not typically write about parallels between the Book of Esther and the White House's cast of characters. But this has turned into a year in which nothing is "as usual," in which fears long subsided have once again become acute.

Often, Jewish leaders search desperately for ways to make the holidays relevant once again. The tragedy of this year's Purim was that it was no challenge at all.
 
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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
The Dirty Dem Dogs of Disruption
by Michele Malkin
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 The Real Story on Trump's Tax Return 
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Tuesday evening, with much ballyhoo, MSNBC's Rachel Maddow revealed two pages of Donald Trump's 2005 tax return, which she claimed to have obtained under what can only be described as dubious circumstances. Maddow declared, "For some reason that we cannot discern, this document has been made available. It has surfaced. It has been handed to a reporter." And what does the return show? Trump earned a lot of money — $150 million — and paid a lot in federal taxes — $38 million, or what amounts to about 25% of his income. Stop the presses!
          Catching wind of the story, the White House preempted MSNBC by releasing a statement that included Trump's earnings and taxes paid. The statement concluded, "Despite his substantial income figure and tax paid, it is totally illegal to steal and publish tax returns. The dishonest media can continue to make this part of their agenda, while the President will focus on his, which includes tax reform that will benefit all Americans."
          During the primaries, we called for Trump to release his tax records for reasons of learning who and what he has supported, not to know how much he's worth or for whether he paid his "fair share" in taxes. We also noted then and will reiterate now that Trump is under no legal obligation to share his tax returns, irrespective of what previous presidential candidates have traditionally practiced. What is truly disconcerting is the growing notion that it's totally acceptable for the mainstream media to obtain and disseminate illegally leaked confidential information in an effort to harm Trump.
          This latest Leftmedia witch-hunt exposes yet again just how anti-Trump they are. Recall the MSM collective yawn over Barack liar-nObama's numerous nefarious connections, such as Jeremiah Wright or Bill Ayers. Where was the dogged reporting by the MSM exposing liar-nObama's truly scandalous past associations? It was conveniently absent. In fact, great energy and effort was put into defending liar-nObama against legitimate questions, often by dismissing them as merely the kooky concerns of the tinfoil hat club.
          Now the Leftmedia is invested in the narrative of Trump being illegitimate, and no matter what the facts reveal, they have committed themselves to discrediting Trump at every conceivable opportunity. That's what's truly behind this tax story. And yet as has happened repeatedly, it's proving only to blow up in their faces. ~The Patriot Post
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IAF ‘Arrow’ battery intercepts Syrian missile,
in first reported use of the system
by Judah Ari Gross
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The Arrow 3 missile is launched from Palmachim
air base in central Israel
{timesofisrael.com} ~ Israel shot down an incoming Syrian anti-aircraft missile with the Arrow defense battery early Friday morning, military officials said, in the first reported use of the advanced system... At approximately 2:30 a.m., Israeli “aircrafts targeted several targets in Syria,” the Israel Defense Forces said, prompting a Syrian attempt to down the Israeli jets. According to Arab media, the target of the IAF strikes was a Hezbollah weapons convoy...  http://www.timesofisrael.com/iaf-arrow-battery-intercepts-syrian-missile-in-first-reported-use-of-the-system/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=c05aaf30b8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_17&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-c05aaf30b8-54638825
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Chinese Party Officials Say Radical Islam
is Gaining Momentum in China
by Kerry Lear
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Europe and the U.S. aren’t the only areas being targeted by radical Islamic terrorists, China’s Communist Party just warned citizens that Islamic extremism in China is a very real problem... Ningxia Communist Party Secretary Li mentioned that President Donald Trump’s recent travel ban is an example of how to prevent “religious extremism from seeping into all of American culture.” "What the Islamic State and extremists push is jihad, terror, violence. This is why we see Trump targeting Muslims in a travel ban," said Jianguo referring to Trump’s executive order banning citizens from six nations with a large Muslim population from entering the U.S. "It doesn't matter whether the anti-Muslim policy is in the interests of the U.S. or it promotes stability; it's about preventing religious extremism from seeping into all of American culture."...  http://punchingbagpost.com/chinese-party-officials-say-radical-islam-is-gaining-momentum-in-china
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Dawn of the Jihadi Drone Wars
by Patrick Megahan, John Cappello
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) reported February 23 that it had downed an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) over the Mediterranean after it was launched from the Gaza Strip... According to IDF sources, an Israeli F-16 shot down the UAV, which it said belonged to Hamas, before it was able to cross into the country’s airspace. Details of the type of drone and its mission remain sparse, but the flight demonstrates Hamas’s determined pursuit for UAV capability even after the death of its chief drone engineer last month in Tunisia. While Hamas’s nascent drone program has yet to produce any tactical or strategic advantage, the use of drones by terrorist organizations elsewhere in the region underscores the challenges they can pose. Hamas reportedly tested its first drone in 2012, after which the IDF quickly targeted the site believed to house the program. A year later, Palestinian security forces foiled Hamas operatives in the West Bank plotting to launch UAVs packed with explosives that would strike targets in Israel. It was not until summer 2014, however, that Hamas launched a UAV that breached Israeli airspace, reaching the seaside city of Ashdod before being quickly downed by a Patriot surface-to-air missile...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/patrick-megahan-dawn-of-the-jihadi-drone-wars/
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Why some Muslim Syrian refugees
are converting to Christianity
by Rebecca Collard
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{pri.org} ~ Abu Radwan enters a church on the outskirts of Beirut with his wife and two kids. His wife removes the black headscarf covering her hair. It was here, a year and a half ago, that they converted to Christianity... “Of course it was a difficult decision,” Abu Radwan says. “I was born into a Muslim family.” The family is from the city of Homs in Syria. They sought refuge in Lebanon at the beginning of the war. Then two years ago, Abu Radwan says Jesus appeared to him in a dream. “I started going to the church,” he says. “I believed that Jesus was coming to help us, to save us.”...  https://www.pri.org/stories/2017-03-02/why-some-muslim-syrian-refugees-are-converting-christianity
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Obnoxious Liberal “Journalists” Caught on Tape
by Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ It’s no secret that the Trump administration has established a “new paradigm” in dealing with the press. It’s something we have advocated from the start of the new administration... One major aspect of the new approach is accepting the conservative media as legitimate members of the press. After this produced changes in how the press covers the State Department, the gnashing of teeth really began. Liberal reporters weren’t interested in the anniversary of the conflict in Syria that has taken 500,000 lives. They wanted to know why a reporter from a conservative outlet was allowed on a State Department plane to Asia. They saw it as a challenge to their power and authority, and peppered the State Department spokesman with hostile questions. The liberal media were in meltdown mode over the decision to bring Erin McPike of the Independent Journal Review (IJR) on the official plane carrying Secretary of State Rex Tillerson to Asia...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obnoxious-liberal-journalists-caught-on-tape/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Mar-17-2017&utm_medium=email
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The Dirty Dem Dogs of Disruption
by Michele Malkin
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Here come the hyper-partisan hounds.

A new nonprofit called American Oversight launched this week to combat President Trump's "culture of impunity." The outfit declared itself "nonpartisan" and claims its crusaders will fight for a "transparent and ethical government."

But like Waylon Jennings once crooned, "Baby, that dog won't hunt."

These Democrat operatives aren't interested in accountability. Their mission is to attack, obstruct and destroy their political opponents at all costs.

Executive Director and liar-nObama donor Austin Evers is certainly familiar with the "culture of impunity." He worked as a lawyer at Williams and Connolly -- the firm representing liar-Hillary Clinton and the same firm that boasts longtime liar-Clinton consigliere David Kendall, who shepherded scandal-ridden liar-Bill and liar-Hill through Whitewater, Lewinsky-gate and Email-gate. Evers had zero experience handling public records and classified document requests before he was hired by the State Department in 2015 to be liar-Hillary's information blocker. But the ethical olfactory nerves of the Democrats suddenly shut down over the clear conflict of interest.

"At the very least, this suspect arrangement raises questions about the State Department hiring process," GOP Rep. Bob Goodlatte complained to the agency's inspector general. "At worst, it suggests willful obstruction by handpicked liar-Clinton associates at the State Department on behalf of former Secretary liar-Clinton, to ensure damaging or incriminating documents never saw the light of day."

American Oversight also employs liar-nObama donor John Bies, who served as counselor to former corruptocrat liar-nObama Attorney General Eric Holder. Bies and Holder worked together at white-shoe law firm Covington and Burling. That's the same law firm that represented 17 Yemeni terror suspects held at Gitmo -- including at least a dozen who rejoined al-Qaida after being freed.

Among Holder's countless subversions of transparency was his refusal to cough up the names of appointees who had been involved in legal work on behalf of Gitmo detainees.

In February 2010, after 9/11 families raised hell, GOP Sen. Charles Grassley finally forced Holder to acknowledge that at least nine DOJ attorneys officially represented or served as advocates for Gitmo detainees before joining the liar-nObama administration. But he still refused to reveal their identities. Bies was one of the suspected nameless abettors.

That kind of backside-covering secrecy and conflict of interest cover-up are government failings that American Oversight senior advisor Melanie Sloan might have once protested. But the ethics watchdog who formerly helmed Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington abandoned nonpartisanship eons ago. Under her leadership, CREW occasionally targeted corrupt Democrats, including Maxine Waters and William "Cold Cash" Jefferson. But in the end, her radical funders -- George Soros, the Tides Foundation and the Democracy Alliance -- traded her in for rabid attack dog David Brock.

Sloan then got mired in her own apparent pay-for-play scandal. After forming a consulting business, she reportedly solicited a $40,000 donation from one of her clients, Herbalife, to CREW, which published a website attacking an investor who called the company a pyramid scheme.

Sloan now heads a crisis management outfit called Triumph Strategy with Michael Huttner, a far-left operative and founder of ProgressNow. That's the Democrat group of nonprofit satellites funded with startup money from billionaire George Soros and the Democracy Alliance, whose board members include former SEIU International Secretary-Treasurer Anna Burger and ACORN embezzlement cover-upper Drummond Pike.

American Oversight ain't about cleaning up corruption. It's about disruption for the sake of disruption.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/malkin-dirty-dem-dogs-disruption

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Sat/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
Don straitjackets! Trump makes
liberals go nuts
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 by Gina Loudon
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 Judicial Activist Denies Judicial Activism 
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Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor claims to be mourning the burgeoning sentiment that judicial activism is permeating American politics and undermining Rule of Law. While visiting the University of California, Berkeley, last week, the Associated Press reported that "Sotomayor said judges try to be fair and impartial and don't have rigid beliefs they apply to every case. She encouraged people to view judges as 'human beings who care deeply about what we're doing.'" This come 16 years after she told the same school something entirely different: "I would hope that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experiences would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn't lived that life."
          In truth, "there is much in the body of American law which was never specifically spelled out in the Constitution," Hot Air's Jazz Shaw retorts. "That requires the exercise of individual judgment and the application of instincts when interpreting the law." That being said, "[T]hese are human beings we're talking about and it's a group of people who have spent their professional careers steeped in a study of subjects which are permanently interwoven with politics. How are we to expect them to arrive at their positions without some baggage trailing behind them?"
          Take, for example, Justice Sotomayor in United States v. Texas (liar-nObama's executive amnesty). As we recently reported, she refused to recuse herself despite having long promoted open borders. That she ignored this conflict of interest and ruled on the case anyway reeks of judicial activism. What the Court needs is balance, which is obtained through jurists who have the strength, courage and goodwill to not let prejudices interfere. As her soon-to-be colleague, Neil Gorsuch, has observed: "A judge who likes every result he reaches is very likely a bad judge." That's something Justice Sotomayor has yet to understand. 
~The Patriot Post
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What 2 liar-nObama Judges Got Wrong in 
Striking Down Travel Executive Order   
by Hans von Spakovsky
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Two federal judges, both nominated by President Barack liar-nObama, have issued injunctions against President Donald Trump’s revised executive order temporarily restricting travel from six terrorist safe havens in the Middle East and Africa... The decisions by Derrick Kahala Watson in Hawaii and Theodore David Chuang in Maryland should shock no one—not because the judges are correct, but because their decisions follow the same pattern as prior decisions in Washington state and the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals over the first order. These rulings ignore or misinterpret federal immigration law that gives the president the clear authority to act and prior Supreme Court precedents that support the legality of the president’s actions...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/16/what-2-obama-judges-got-wrong-in-striking-down-travel-executive-order/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1JeU1Ea3pZak0zWVRKbCIsInQiOiI2RjVUT1hVRVppOGRJRENSenZ3NVRURmdwNlhSMGJ0SjRxVFRKZ1V5M3YyTTlWVmNsMDA4U1wvMzJoZzRaTzhja0E3TWxCR2xXSHdsVEdZb1NabGlDWnJqS2tQSExrV1ROTENpeU5CQTlUZHRFdXIyS1BHM1VpTTV6M1hjTEIzRTEifQ%3D%3D
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ICE Arrests 61 Aliens in Nevada Roundup
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{reviveusa.com} ~ U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement Removal Operations (ERO) officers carried out a 5-day operation in Nevada. The goal of the targeted operation is to round up aliens with criminal records... prior deportation orders, illegal re-entrants, and immigration fugitives, ICE officials said in a written statement obtained by Breitbart Texas. “ERO officers here in Nevada and around the country are focused first and foremost on using this agency’s unique tools and authorities to help keep our communities safe,” Nevada ERO Assistant Field Office Director Nikita Curry said in the statement. “Our enforcement efforts last week are representative of the work we’ve been doing and will continue to do.” Ninety percent of the arrested aliens had records of criminal convictions, officials stated. These records include convictions for various sex crimes, drug offenses, domestic violence, armed robbery, drunk driving, and identity theft. One of those arrested, an Iranian national living in Carson City, Nevada, has a record for illegal drug trafficking....  http://reviveusa.com/ice-arrests-61-aliens-in-nevada-roundup/
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Are the Hard Leftists Aligned with Radical Islamists?
by Najat AlSaied
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Linda Sarsour, a Hamas and Muslim Brotherhood sympathizer,
said that in the United States, Muslim children are being
executed [a lie], and Muslims are prohibited
from practicing their faith [a lie]
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Since the presidential campaign began, and then right up until the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on February 24, 2017, President Donald Trump has kept saying the same thing... that the United States is at war with radical Islam, mainly represented by the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS). Yet, the leftist media and other American liberals insist on portraying his position as a fight against Islam and Muslims. In fact, most moderate Muslims are not offended by the phrase "radical Islam," because they are very distressed by the fact that their religion has been commandeered by the radicals and transformed from a religion of peace into a more radical version. Unfortunately, instead of the leftists giving a voice to and supporting these moderate Muslims, a kind of leftist-Islamist alliance has emerged. "It is a certain fact that not all Muslims are terrorists, but it is equally certain, and exceptionally painful, that almost all terrorists are Muslims... The majority of those who were suicide bombers on buses, other vehicles, in schools and other places, all over the world, were Muslim". This statement from a well-known columnist and a former General Manager of the Al Arabiya news channel demonstrates how moderate Muslims are critical of their own culture and how they are saddened by how their religion has been hijacked by radicals. However, these appeals fall on deaf ears with leftists; they call moderate Muslims passive, which instead supports and furthers the radical Islamists' cause...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10065/leftists-islamists-aligned
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WH reportedly apologizes to Britain
for citing report that they spied on Trump
by Kyle Feldscher
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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
The Real Lessons of Middlebury College
by Thomas Sowell
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 The CBO: The Government's Favorite Psychic 
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On Monday, the Congressional Budget Office released its report on the projected impact of the House Republicans' American Health Care Act (AHCA). The CBO estimated the law would result in a reduction of budget deficits by some $337 billion over a 10-year period, as well as up to 24 million more uninsured Americans by 2026. House Speaker Paul Ryan predicted that the report would estimate an increased number of uninsured. He said Sunday, "The one thing I'm certain will happen is CBO will say, 'Well, gosh. Not as many people will get coverage.' You know why? Because this isn't a government mandate. This is not the government that makes you buy what we say you should buy, and therefore the government thinks you're all going to buy it." It's always easier to insure more people by forcing them to buy insurance.
          Barack liar-nObama's goal with the Affordable Care Act was not affordable health care, but socialized health care — the first step toward a single-payer system similar to those found in many European nations. Republicans are in the unenviable position of solving a difficult two-part problem. The first task is repealing and dismantling liar-nObamaCare, while the second is to find an effective solution to skyrocketing health care costs.
          The split within the GOP falls over determining which problem is the greater issue. For conservatives like Rand Paul, the primary issue is one of freedom and a principled fight against encroaching socialism. For more moderate Republicans like Paul Ryan, dealing with rising health care costs takes precedence. Both sides agree that liar-nObamaCare is a disaster.
          Predictably, the Leftmedia has taken the CBO report and used it as another brush by which to paint its favorite strawman caricature of heartless Republicans. Never mind that the average premiums under ObamaCare this year will increase by 25% with continued increases in subsequent years, whereas the projections for the Republicans' plan show an initial premium increase of between 15% and 20% followed by a steady decline over the next decade.
          And one more point of emphasis: Remember those past CBO projections for liar-nObamaCare enrollment and cost numbers? Prior to the Affordable Care Act's passage, the CBO predicted that the law would cut the deficit by upwards of $1 trillion in 20 years. Now, it's admitted that liar-nObamaCare will instead only add to the deficit. And those 30 million more Americans insured by 2017? The actual number is 14 million. So don't take CBO projections as gospel truth. Its estimates have been way off the mark with liar-nObamaCare. Why should its latest projections on the AHCA now be trusted?  ~The Patriot Post
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Rogue Judiciary Deep State Swamp
Must Be Drained Immediately
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts “on the deep state and its obvious and dangerous commitment to obstruct and subvert the Trump Presidency.”... He explains that “The deep state typically defined as a government within a government, most often members of the  bureaucracy, especially the intelligence community, all branches of government. And now it’s clear there exists an urgent need to drain the deep, deep judicial swamp in this country.” “Two federal court judges,” note Dobbs, “have now ruled against President Trump’s revised travel ban executive order. A federal judge in Hawaii, appointed by former ‘president’ liar-nObama and one of his classmates at Harvard Law to boot, issued the stay against the President’s executive order yesterday. President Trump blasted the flawed legal reasoning last night in his rally in Nashville,” calling it an unprecedented judicial overreach that makes America look weak. Dobbs notes how “It certainly makes the federal judge, Derrick Watson, the classmate of ‘mr’ liar-nObama’s at Harvard Law, appointed by ‘mr’ liar-nObama in 2012 look very weak and overtly political. Maryland judge Theodore Chuang, also nominated by ‘president’ liar-nObama in 2013. And in an interesting coincidence, ‘mr’ liar-nObama paid a surprise visit to Honolulu, where judge Watson resides Monday, preceding the ruling. Just coincidence, I assure you, I think.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-rogue-judiciary-deep-state-swamp-must-drained-immediately/
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Virginia Officials Arrested For
Violating Voter Protection Laws
by Phillip Stucky
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Two members of the Altavista, Va., town council were arrested for campaigning in a polling place on Election Day, according to a Wednesday report from a local ABC affiliate... Both Michele Brumfield and James Higginbotham were arrested earlier this week under the charge, “prohibited activity at the polls.” The Virginia statute forbids anyone to “loiter or congregate within 40 feet of a polling place,” and the law further forbids anyone to hand out campaign material during that time period...
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Email Connects FBI in Plot to
Spy on Trump, ‘We Paid for Info from…’
by Keith Jacobs
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{patriotpowerednews.com} ~ In the most recent WikiLeaks dump, there was an email sent from Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Ia.) to FBI Director James Comey. The MSM has so far side stepped this but it is not something you want to ignore... Check it out. By Virginia Kruta The March 6 email seems to lend credibility to claims that some officials within the liar-nObama administration were complicit in soliciting information about then-candidate Trump through means that were dubious, at best. From the email: On February 28, 2017, the Washington Post reported that the FBI reached an agreement a few weeks before the Presidential election to pay the author of the unsubstantiated dossier alleging a conspiracy between President Trump and the Russians, Christopher Steele, to continue investigating Mr. Trump. The article claimed that the FBI was aware Mr. Steele was creating these memos as part of work for an opposition research firm connected to liar-Hillary Clinton. The idea that the FBI and associates of the liar-Clinton campaign would pay Mr. Steele to investigate the Republican nominee for President in the run-up to the election raises further questions about the FBI’s independence from politics, as well as the liar-nObama administration’s use of law enforcement and intelligence agencies for political ends. It is additionally troubling that the FBI reportedly agreed to such an arrangement given that, in January of 2017, then-Director Clapper issued a statement stating that “the IC has not made any judgment that the information in this document is reliable, and we did not rely upon it in any way for our conclusions.” According to the Washington Post, the FBI’s arrangement with Mr. Steele fell through when the media published his dossier and revealed his identity.  http://patriotpowerednews.com/alert-email-connects-fbi-in-plot-to-spy-on-trump-we-paid-for-info-from/
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College Students Slam Betsy DeVos,
Then Agree With Her Views
by Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ This video is hilarious! But it’s also an insightful look into the void of the uneducated minds filling our nation’s campuses... Hypeline talked with a few students who had plenty to say about President Trump’s new Education Secretary Betsy DeVos. They chided her for being “grossly unqualified” for the task and described her as someone who will “destroy the education system of America.” One even thought she was “elected” and couldn’t understand why, proving they know absolutely nothing about her. But when they were asked to weigh in on the same views on education supported by DeVos— vouchers and school choice — those same haters suddenly LOVED those ideas… until they found out they were DeVos’s and tried to backstep their own hypocrisy.  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/watch-college-students-slam-betsy-devos-then-agree-her-views
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VAULT 7 – Real Leaker and Why Now
by thesleuthjournal.com
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{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Why now? Why is this the perfect time for the real leaker to expose Deep State spying to the general public? As America realizes NSA wiretapping is out of control and reels at the thought of illegal CIA surveillance... are we distracted from the shocking fact that liar-nObama wiretapped Trump Tower to help liar-Hillary win the 2016 election? Should we be happy or suspicious that Wikileaks (Julian Assange) supposedly leaked these Vault 7 documents exposing Deep State spying on every American citizen in violation of the 4th Amendment?  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/vault-7-real-leaker-now/
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The Real Lessons of Middlebury College
by Thomas Sowell
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{townhall.com} ~ Many people seem shocked at the recent savagery of a mob of students at Middlebury College, who rioted to prevent Charles Murray from addressing a student group who had invited him to speak. They also inflicted injuries requiring hospitalization on a woman from the faculty who was with him.

Where have all these shocked people been all these years? What happened at Middlebury College has been happening for decades, all across the country, from Berkeley to Harvard. Moreover, even critics of the Middlebury College rioters betray some of the same irresponsible mindset as that of the young rioters.

The moral dry rot in academia — and beyond — goes far deeper than student storm troopers at one college.

Frank Bruni of the New York Times, for example, while criticizing the rioters, lent credence to the claim that Charles Murray was "a white nationalist." Similar — and worse — things have been said, in supposedly reputable publications, by people who could not cite one statement from any of Dr. Murray's books that bears any resemblance to their smears.

Academia, however, is ground zero in the war against people whose ideas go against the current political correctness. The virtual monopoly of the political left, on campuses across the country, allows all sorts of things to be attributed to people the left disagrees with, irrespective of whether those people have ever said anything resembling what they are alleged to have said.

The professors don't usually riot against people whose ideas they disagree with, because they can just dismiss those ideas, with some characterization that there is no one on hand to challenge.

Professor William Julius Wilson of Harvard, for example, said of Justice Clarence Thomas, "He'll say he pulled himself up by his own bootstraps. I say I was in the right place at the right time."

Just where did Justice Thomas say that he pulled himself up by his own bootstraps? The central theme of his autobiography, titled "My Grandfather's Son," credits the wisdom of the grandfather who raised him as what saved him.

Nuns who taught him in school were brought to Washington, at his expense, to be present to see him sworn in as a Justice of the Supreme Court, to see that their dedicated efforts on his behalf had not been in vain.

But has anyone ever asked Professor Wilson on just what he based his claim about Justice Thomas? The central tragedy of academia today is that you don't have to have anything on which to base dismissals of people and ideas you disagree with.

This attitude is not unique to William Julius Wilson or to Harvard. On the west coast, Professor Lanny Ebenstein of the University of California at Santa Barbara has included economists Stephen Moore and Walter Williams, as well as television host John Stossel, among those "committed to the welfare of the top few."

Professor Ebenstein has every right to disagree with these individuals on economic or other issues. But that is very different from attributing to them a commitment to "the welfare of the top few."

It so happens that I have read books by all three, without finding any preoccupation with the welfare of the affluent or the rich. I have known Walter Williams for more than 40 years. When we both lived on the east coast, we and our wives often met socially.

In all that time, neither in public nor in private did I ever hear Walter Williams express the slightest concern for the welfare of the affluent or the rich. Innumerable times I heard him focus his concern on the well-being of people like himself, from a poverty background. That concern was also expressed in deeds as well as words.

But who is going to ask Professor Ebenstein to cite the basis for his claim?

Why should we expect students to welcome debate about differences of opinion, when so many of their professors seem to think cheap shot dismissals are all you need? Lacking their professors' verbal dexterity or aura of authority, students use cruder methods of dismissing things they disagree with.

So long as academia talks demographic "diversity" and practices groupthink when it comes to ideas, we have little reason to expect better of student mobs that riot with impunity.
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 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
liar-nObama Had British Intelligence Spy On
Trump To Avoid Leaving Evidence
by Rick Wells
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 Top Headlines 
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Trump budget: $1.5 billion for border wall, 28% slash to State Department. (The Daily Signal)
 
Feds hit debt limit — again; Debt now exceeds limit set in 2008 by $8,550,505,000,000. (CNS News)
 
EPA confirms it will reopen review of 2025 fuel rules. (Reuters)
 
Ryan: Health care plan must change to pass the House. (The Washington Post)
 
U.S. indicts Russian FSB agents in Yahoo hack targeting journalists, government officials. (The Washington Times)
 
Dan Coats confirmed as director of national intelligence. (USA Today)
 
Admiral, seven other Navy officers charged with corruption in new "Fat Leonard" indictment. (The Washington Post)
 
Fed raises benchmark rate as inflation approaches 2% target. (Bloomberg)
 
U.S. military likely to send as many as 1,000 more ground troops into Syria ahead of Raqqa offensive, officials say. (The Washington Post)
 
Students from immigrant households in U.S. public schools doubles since 1990. (The Washington Times)
 
Policy: Winners and losers under Trump's budget plan. (Washington Examiner)
 
Policy: Slow down and fix the GOP health care bill. (National Review~The Patriot Post
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The Right to Choose Includes
the Right to Choose Life
by Alan M. Dershowitz
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ There is no conflict between the "right to choose" and "the right to life" in the context of abortion, because the former includes the latter. If the state were ever to require a pregnant woman to undergo an abortion... as China in effect did with its "one child" policy -- there would be a conflict. But in the United States, the right to choose includes the right to choose life rather than abortion. It also includes the right of women to choose abortion for themselves. So, what are the anti-abortion right-to-life advocates complaining about? They do not want any woman to have the right to choose abortion for herself. They want to have the state chose for her -- to deny her the right to choose between giving birth to an unwanted child and having an abortion. They believe that abortion is infanticide -- murder -- not of their child but of the fetus of the woman who would choose abortion. But that woman does not regard the fetus as her child. So, the right to lifer responds: it doesn't matter what you think. It matters what the state thinks. The vast majority -- 70% -- of citizens the United States think a woman should have the right to control her own reproduction -- to choose whether the embryo or the fetus becomes her child, according to a Pew study this year...
https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10060/roe-wade-abortion
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FBI to Reveal Truth About
Trump’s Wiretapping Claims...
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ For the past two weeks, headlines have been largely dominated by President Donald Trump’s claims that President Barack liar-nObama wiretapped Trump Tower... in order to listen in on what Trump was saying during the campaign/transition period. While no actual evidence of such wiretapping has been revealed, the FBI sent a letter to South Carolina Sen. Lindsay Graham responding to his request for a briefing, the U.K. Daily Mail reported. “Apparently the FBI has contacted my staff (and said) that they will be at some date in the future providing us an answer to this in a classified manner,” Graham stated at a hearing on Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. election, according to the Daily Mail. If there was no wiretapping or at least no proof of wiretapping, why does the FBI need a classified briefing? Something smells somewhat fishy here....  http://conservativetribune.com/fbi-announcement-wiretapping/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTConservativeBrief&utm_content=2017-03-16
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Europe's Turkish Awakening
by Burak Bekdil
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Dutch police contain a riot that broke out in Rotterdam
{meforum.org} ~ Turkey, officially, is a candidate for full membership in the European Union. It is also negotiating with Brussels a deal that would allow millions of Turks to travel to Europe without visa... But Turkey is not like any other European country that joined or will join the EU: The Turks' choice of a leader, in office since 2002, too visibly makes this country the odd one out. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is now campaigning to broaden his constitutional powers, which would make him head of state, head of government and head of the ruling party -- all at the same time -- is inherently autocratic and anti-Western. He seems to view himself as a great Muslim leader fighting armies of infidel crusaders. This image with which he portrays himself finds powerful echoes among millions of conservative Turks and Sunni Islamists across the Middle East. That, among other excesses in the Turkish style, makes Turkey totally incompatible with Europe in political culture...  http://www.meforum.org/6594/europe-turkish-awakening?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=61755d9ee5-bekdil_burak_2017_03_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-61755d9ee5-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-61755d9ee5-33703665
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Tucker Carlson Reveals
the REAL Meddler in the Election...
by Philip Hodges
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{eaglerising.com} ~ Of course it’s not Russia. People will often accuse us of being Russia and Putin apologists simply because we point out that there is no reason to believe that Russia influenced the U.S. election in Trump’s favor... I’m certainly not a Sudan or Omar al-Bashir (Sudan’s president) apologist either, and I don’t think they had anything to do with influencing our election in Trump’s favor. But if someone were to choose Sudan as a random scapegoat as to why liar-Hillary Clinton lost, they’d probably accuse me of being a Sudan apologist. I promise you, I want nothing to do with Sudan. They are a role model for no one. But that doesn’t mean that they must be guilty of hacking our election, does it? They’re guilty of a lot of terrible things. But not messing with our election. The same goes for Russia. Just because we point out that there’s been no evidence  presented or reason to believe that Russia is behind liar-Hillary’s loss, doesn’t mean we must love Putin. We shouldn’t trust Putin. We shouldn’t trust Russia. Like most countries, they’re interested in what can be done to benefit them...  http://eaglerising.com/41745/tucker-carlson-reveals-the-real-meddler-in-the-election-and-its-not-russia-video/
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Trump Strikes Al-Qaeda More in One Month
Than liar-nObama Did in Any Year
by Edwin Mora
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{breitbart.com} ~ The number of U.S. military airstrikes against al-Qaeda in Yemen so far this month have surpassed those that occurred during any year under former President Barack liar-nObama’s presidency... In just the first days of March, the U.S. military under President Donald Trump’s watch struck 40 targets in Yemen linked to al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), reports Foreign Policy (FP), adding: The weeklong blitz in Yemen eclipsed the annual bombing total for any year during liar-nObama’s presidency. Under the previous administration, approval for strikes came only after slow-moving policy discussions, with senior officials required to sign off on any action. The Trump administration has proven much quicker at green-lighting attacks...  http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2017/03/16/yemen-trump-strikes-al-qaeda-more-one-month-obama-any-year/
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liar-nObama Had British Intelligence Spy On
Trump To Avoid Leaving Evidence
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Martha MacCallum reports that the House Intelligence committee has been in contact with the Justice Department regarding the production of documents related to the assertion by President Trump that the liar-nObama regime had been wiretapping him during the campaign.

Catherine Herridge confirms that the DOJ has requested more time in order “to review the request and determine if documents exist.” She says that the March 4th tweet about wiretapping was not meant literally, according to Press Secretary Spicer, that wiretapping as the President intended it is a general term for electronic surveillance.”

She plays a comment from Rep Adam “Shifty” Schiff, prefacing it with a claim that FBI Director Comey may be eager to testify. Shifty said, “If the press reports are accurate that he asked the Department of Justice to knock this down and they refused for whatever reason he may welcome the opportunity but he’ll certainly have that on March 20th.”

She also quotes a letter from a spokesman for Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) that states in part, “If the committee does not receive a response by then, the committee will ask for this information during the March 20 hearing and may resort to a compulsory process if our questions continue to go unanswered.” She says they were told that specifically issuing a subpoena for any records.

Judge Napolitano is asked for his take on the report, and replies, “I don’t know that the Justice Department has what the Intelligence Committee of the House is looking for, because sources have told Fox that if then-Mr. Donald Trump, the President-elect was surveilled as he says he was, both during the campaign ‘Mr’ and after he was elected ‘President-elect,’ it was done by a foreign intelligence entity from a foreign country, an ally of ours, the British Foreign Intelligence Service know as GCHQ.”

Napolitano says, “That entity was able to then to bypass the NSA, the CIA, The DNI and the DOJ, the entities in the United States that would have jurisdiction over it.” MacCallum clarifies, “So you’re suggesting that ‘president’ liar-nObama went beyond our own intelligence agencies, and through British surveillance received transcripts of phone conversations that the Trump campaign was having?”

Napolitano repeats, “This is what sources within the intelligence community have told Fox.” He goes on to point out that all of the content of every phone conversation is collected by the NSA and that the British spy agency has shared access to those files. He says, “So they could have obtained this information, sources tell us, translated the raw data into actual transcripts and shared it with someone in the west wing. It probably wouldn’t have been with the ‘president’ personally because he wouldn’t want anyone to be able to say ‘I met with a British spy in the White House but it would have gone through someone in the White House.”

Napolitano notes that the source is telling Fox that liar-nObama didn’t order the copy of the transcript directly from NSA because that would have left a paper trail. Instead it was laundered through foreign intelligence agencies, probably more than one, providing plausible deniability for the US intelligence and DOJ officials.

http://rickwells.us/napolitano-obama-british-intelligence-spy-trump-avoid-leaving-evidence/

VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7UpWDShCk8

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