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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
Democrats, Psychological
Projection and Russia
by Susan Stamper Brown
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 Pruitt's Right: The Science Isn't Settled 
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New EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is being lampooned for downplaying the extent of carbon dioxide's alleged effects on the climate. According to Pruitt, "I think that measuring with precision human activity on the climate is something very challenging to do and there's tremendous disagreement about the degree of impact, so no, I would not agree that [CO2 is] a primary contributor to the global warming that we see." You can imagine the uproar that ensued.
          Critics responded with a slew of scientific information on the greenhouse gas effect and how scientists collectively agree that human-induced fossil fuels are most assuredly to blame for our warming climate. On the EPA's own website it stipulates that "the primary human activity affecting the amount and rate of climate change is greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels." And Forbes's Alex Knapp says, "We can get one thing clear — climate change is complicated," but he goes on to confidently argue "the amount of carbon dioxide being emitted every year by humans is ... happening faster than nature can take care of it."
          This ridicule, of course, is an effort to smear Pruitt and portray him as an anti-science rube. But pay close attention to what Pruitt also said in the same interview: "But we don't know that yet. We need to continue the debate and continue the review and the analysis." What he's trying to say is that the climate debate is not etched in stone, which is what the ecofascist lobby is desperately trying to do. Yes, we know that the greenhouse effect is real, but scientists are gravely mistaken if they think they've discovered all there is to know about how the climate operates. The same ones who told us that the California and Texas droughts were permanent and that the Arctic sea ice would be gone by now want to lecture us on "what the science says." Pruitt has a different approach: Let's see what the facts say, which takes time. And that's exactly why he's the right man to lead the EPA. 
~The Patriot Post
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$53M Fines for
Politically Incorrect Social Media Posts?
by Selwyn Duke
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ In a move designed to chill free speech, a German “justice” official has proposed fining social-media sites up to $53 million for not swiftly deleting “hateful” posts... Welcome to the new Germany — same as the old Germany. Justice Minister Heiko Maas, a member of the leftist Social Democratic Party, acknowledged that social-media sites had already taken steps to voluntarily suppress speech. But in issuing his Orwellian proposal, he stated, “‘This isn't sufficient yet’ … citing research that he said showed Twitter deletes just 1 percent of illegal content flagged by users, while Facebook deletes 39 percent,” reports the Associated Press. While German Ministry of Justice spokesman Piotr Malachowski had in January cited entries such as “gas the Jews” as an example of the kind of repugnant postings justifying government action, that’s just a selling point. The extreme concern over politically incorrect online speech arose only after Germany invited an influx of unassimilable Muslim migrants, who are generally impossible to vet and sometimes criminally inclined, prompting some Germans to complain online. The current crackdown is aimed at anti-Muslim sentiment — not anti-Jewish sentiment...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/item/25591-53m-fines-for-politically-incorrect-social-media-posts?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm
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Crowd Funding Site Shuts Down
Iranian-backed Militia's Solicitation
by John Rossomando
 
{investigativeproject.org} ~ Hashd al-Shaabi, an Iranian-backed Iraqi Shiite militia coalition previously accused of war crimes, is trying to take advantage of global sympathy for ISIS victims in Mosul... Iraq's government officially recognized Hashd al-Shaabi as an arm of its armed forces in November. This happened even though the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) Quds Force – listed by the U.S. Treasury Department as a specially designated terrorist – closely coordinates Hashd al-Shaabi's activities. The U.S. State Department lists Kitaib Hizballah, a component of the coalition, as a foreign terrorist organization. A Hashd al-Shaabi unit called the "Brigades of Imam Ali" burned a Sunni civilian alive, ISIS style, in a 2015 video. In January, Amnesty International accused Hasd al-Shaabi of using American weapons to commit war crimes. Money raised on YouCaring could end up in Kitaib Hizballah's hands, worries University of Maryland researcher Phillip Smyth... http://www.investigativeproject.org/5852/crowd-funding-site-shuts-down-iranian-backed#
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U.S. Losing Global Information War
by Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Foreign nations including China and Russia along with the Islamic State are conducting information warfare against the United States and the federal government is ill prepared to counter it... information warfare experts told Congress on Wednesday. "To date, there is not a single individual in the U.S. government below the president of the United States who is responsible and capable of managing U.S. information dissemination and how we address our adversaries in the information environment," said Michael Lumpkin, until recently the director of the State Department's Global Engagement Center that seeks to counter online terrorist propaganda. Lumpkin, a former Navy SEAL and former Pentagon special operations policymaker, said bureaucracy, conflicting and unclear legal authorities, and lack of resources are major impediments to U.S. information warfare programs...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-losing-global-information-war/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=87530fb1da-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-87530fb1da-45611665
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Don’t Try to Fix liar-nObamacare... Abolish It
by Erick Erickson
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{nytimes.com} ~ As Republicans in Washington grapple with altering the Affordable Care Act, they have proceeded in a direction that will do little to curb the cost of health care in America... Instead, they are pushing a bill that, according to the Congressional Budget Office, might save the government money, but will end coverage for 24 million people, though several million of those would be willingly giving up coverage the law now requires them to have. If it passes, Republicans will not only own the nation’s health care problems for years, but they will also have violated more than six years of promises. Since 2010, Republicans have pledged to repeal — not fix, not tinker with, but abolish — liar-nObamacare. In 2016, that was a centerpiece of Donald Trump’s campaign. Republicans ran advertisements noting they had voted 70 or more times to repeal the Affordable Care Act, and they would do it as soon as they had control of Congress and the White House...Will they keep their promise? I hope so. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/15/opinion/erick-erickson-dont-try-to-fix-obamacare-abolish-it.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region&_r=1
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Senate Democrats Are Delaying ‘Drain the Swamp’
Sen. Mike Lee
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The federal government employs well over 2 million people. One man cannot lead an organization that large by himself... Not only do you need a full Cabinet, but you need hundreds of undersecretaries and deputies as well. Being president without the aid of your Cabinet and agency leaders makes the job almost impossible. But this is exactly the position Senate Democrats have chosen for the new Trump administration. Of the last seven administrations, three had a full Cabinet confirmed and in place within three weeks of the president’s inauguration...Schumer should be replaced.  http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/14/senate-democrats-are-delaying-drain-the-swamp/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RsaE56RmlZbVJtWmpJeiIsInQiOiJodVJDa2FlSloyeGwwaHZYcW5uR205aW9kZmdtbGtJUGN0MzZiTlZJY0dsWGxEcklXRGhZOVE3elhlQktieG55cGxBKzVpMUU1bW82OHV5MkxlYThkRVJUMkliWEpNaHhPbnZLcDI1WmNxSHUxNEwzXC84cXVkc2dOOTRLZE1IWnUifQ%3D%3D
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Democrats, Psychological
Projection and Russia
by Susan Stamper Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ Have you ever been around someone who has a bad case of gas, but always finds ways to blame the noxious fumes on those around them?

Democrats are masters of the “whoever smelt it, dealt it” game which is really nothing more than psychological projection.

Psychologists define psychological projection as a protective defense mechanism whereby someone dishonestly attributes his or her bad behavior to someone else by inventing false accusations to divert attention away from themselves to avoid blame and punishment.

Undeniably, the liar-nObama administration and Democrats are obsessed with Russia. Their Russia musings were amusing -- until it became almost a daily…weird…sociopathic, psychological projection…kind of thing. It’s uncanny that it didn’t let up until Trump made it known he suspected liar-nObama might have listened to his private conversations.

Until then, Democrats’ Russian ramblings were baseless, so the more they talked about Trump and Russia, the more curious their intentions became. After all, there are plenty of dots to connect to make the case for why Russia would’ve wanted liar-Hillary to win in 2016.

Uranium One would be a good place to start. Uranium One is a Russian-owned uranium mining company that lobbied the liar-nObama State Department through a firm co-founded by liar-Hillary Clinton’s 2016 presidential campaign chairman, John Podesta.

The Daily Caller reports “Uranium One is significant because it fell under the corporate control of Rosatom, Russia’s atomic energy agency, through a series of transactions approved by liar-Hillary Clinton’s State Department.”

The acquisition “effectively gave Russia control of 20 percent of the uranium in the U.S,” the Daily Caller reported.

Furthermore, the same report says, “Uranium One paid The Podesta Group $40,000 to lobby the State Department, the Senate” and other groups.

And it didn’t end there. The New York Times reports: “As the Russians gradually assumed control of Uranium One in three separate transactions…a flow of cash made its way to the liar-Clinton Foundation…totaling $2.35 million” and “shortly after the Russians announced their intention to acquire a majority stake in Uranium One, Mr. liar-Clinton received $500,000 for a Moscow speech from a Russian investment bank with links to the Kremlin that was promoting Uranium One stock.”

Additionally, in 2009, then-President liar-nObama altered U.S. missile defense policy, stopping plans for a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, which Mitt Romney called “a gift to Russia.”

In 2012, liar-nObama was caught in a friendly open mic conversation to then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev about missile defense promising: “This is my last election, after my election, I have more flexibility.”

During the 2012 presidential race liar-nObama mocked Mitt Romney for saying Russia was America’s “number one geopolitical foe.” “The 1980s are now calling,” liar-nObama wisecracked, “to ask for their foreign policy back because the Cold War’s been over for 20 years.”

Fast-forward to NBC’s “Meet the Press” show with NBC’s Chuck Todd, March 5, when former CIA director James Clapper claimed he didn’t know of any evidence that points toward a Trump-Russia collusion. When questioned by Todd, Clapper responded, “Not to my knowledge.”

Something is up with Democrats and Russia.

Trump administration officials should not rest until they have investigated any ties because all this Russia-bashing suggests they are hiding something. Additionally, believers should pray that Democrats’ eyes would be opened to the truth that until they return to God and destroy the Progressivism which now controls their party, they’ll remain delusional and in a state of perpetual chaos.

In the meantime, it stinks to be a Democrat.

Democrats are crying out for help, so would someone please call a shrink to help them deal with their post-election grief issues and psychological projection problem?
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
Is the U.S. Considering a
Military Attack on North Korea?
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 Top Headlines 
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Schumer, who voted for the border wall in 2006, now threatens a government shutdown over funding it. (The Daily Signal)
 
GOP senators say House health bill won't pass without changes. (The Wall Street Journal)
 
White House seeks to cut billions in funding for United Nations. (Foreign Policy)
 
Trump to ease liar-nObama-era rule on auto fuel economy standards. (The Washington Times)
 
Congress demands investigation into liar-nObama administration meddling in foreign elections. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Senate Judiciary Committee demands all records on FBI plan to pay British ex-spy who made "Russia dossier" on Trump. (CNS News)
 
Study debunks oft-cited research alleging voter ID laws are racist. (LifeZette)
 
Tennessee sues federal government over "refugee" resettlement, citing violation of the Tenth Amendment. (CNS News)
 
Student loan defaults are surging, study finds. (Associated Press)
 
Congress passes legislation to undo liar-nObama restrictions on drug tests for unemployed. (Washington Examiner)
 
Humpday Humor: Disrespect our flag? Here's a challenge for you! (Video)
 
Policy: How the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals is trying to kill the Second Amendment. (America's 1st Freedom)
 
Policy: America's way ahead in Syria. (Critical Threats)
~The Patriot Post
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US ‘Outraged’ by UN Report That Accuses Israel
of Establishing ‘Apartheid Regime’...
by Barney Breen-Portnoy
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US Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley
{algemeiner.com} ~ The United States expressed outrage on Wednesday over a report published by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) that accused Israel of establishing an “apartheid regime”... that “dominates the Palestinian people as a whole.” “That such anti-Israel propaganda would come from a body whose membership nearly universally does not recognize Israel is unsurprising,” American UN Envoy Nikki Haley said in a statement. “That it was drafted by Richard Falk, a man who has repeatedly made biased and deeply offensive comments about Israel and espoused ridiculous conspiracy theories, including about the 9/11 terrorist attacks, is equally unsurprising.” “The United Nations Secretariat was right to distance itself from this report, but it must go further and withdraw the report altogether,” Haley went on to say. “The United States stands with our ally Israel and will continue to oppose biased and anti-Israel actions across the UN system and around the world.”...  https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/03/15/us-outraged-by-un-report-that-accuses-israel-of-establishing-apartheid-regime-that-dominates-the-palestinian-people/
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Michael Savage left bloodied,
shaken in public assault
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{wnd.com} ~ On the day he launched his new book about the fierce, sometimes violent, opposition to Donald Trump, radio talk-show host Michael Savage was assaulted by a stranger at a San Francisco Bay Area restaurant... Savage, with his dog, Teddy, was finishing up dinner Tuesday night at Servino Restaurant in Tiburon, California, north of San Francisco, when the unnamed assailant charged up to Savage and began yelling, reported local media blogger Rich Lieberman. The attacker kicked the poodle out of the way, grabbed Savage and threw him to the ground, according to an eyewitness. Savage was not seriously hurt, but the incident left him bloodied and shaken, Lieberman said...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/talk-radio-superstar-left-bloodied-shaken-in-public-assault/
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Mark Levin Furious At Judicial Tyranny Of Soros,
ACLU Black Robe Subversives
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin is furious as are many of the rest of us. President Trump modified his Terrorist Travel Ban Executive Order in order to accommodate the anti-American activists in black robes... Still, after meeting the conditions they established, another criminal bench activist defied the Constitution and ruled that he doesn’t have the authority. That “so-called” judge is one piece of excrement versus the Constitution, but the intent on the left appears to be to lure Trump into defying the ACLU “so-called” judge’s ruling, baiting him into an excuse to argue for impeachment. First, President Trump needs to lower the refugee cap to whatever number has been imported as of today, that will stop any more terrorists from coming in through that route and the judges can hardly argue that he doesn’t have that authority since liar-nObama was steadily increasing it throughout his tenure and Trump has already dropped it once. But back to Levin, he declares, “We have, ladies and gentlemen, rogue District Court judges now, rogue courts, rogue, r-o-g-u-e, rogue.  We have judicial anarchy taking place right now, ladies and gentlemen. Where judges are seizing plenary authority from the President of the United States to keep this nation safe, to control our borders and to determine the nature of our immigration into this country.”...  http://rickwells.us/mark-levin-furious-judicial-tyranny-soros-aclu-black-robe-subversives/
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liar-nObama Used British Spy to Watch Donald Trump
by Thomas N | Featured Commentator
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ On Fox News’ Fox & Friends, we have a bombshell claim into President Donald J. Trump’s reports that former president Barack liar-nObama wiretapped and monitored the Republican’s presidential campaign... The House Intelligence Committee has been tasked to look into the matter, but now we’re learning that liar-nObama may have found a shocking way to cover his tracks: use a British spy!  As Judge Andrew Napolitano explains, even if liar- nObama really did spy on Trump, there may be no actual way to prove it. He explained that there are laws which give the president sweeping authority to conduct surveillance in the United States even without warrant or suspicion...  http://thepoliticalinsider.com/fox-and-friends-bombshell-barack-obama-spy-on-trump-used-british-agent/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=Fox-News-Drops-BOMBSHELL-This-is-Who-Obama-Used-to&utm_campaign=TPI_031617_Newsletter&source=CI
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Congress Considers Bill to “Stop Arming Terrorists”
by Alex Newman
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ A bipartisan bill to prohibit U.S. taxpayer funding and arming of terrorist groups and their associates is making progress in Congress, most recently having a companion bill introduced in the Senate by popular liberty-minded U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-Ky.)... The legislation, originally sponsored in the House by Democrat Representative Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii, takes aim at lawless U.S. government “regime change” schemes overseas that often involve providing money, weapons, training, and other support to savage terror organizations. High-profile voices on both sides of the aisle have joined forces to get the bill passed into law. Of course, aiding designated terror groups is already a serious crime, but for whatever reasons, the laws have not been enforced against federal officials. In particular, the new legislation, known as H.R. 608 in the House, bans the provision of any assistance by the federal government to al-Qaeda, Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, and the Islamic State, sometimes known as ISIS, ISIL, or Daesh...This should of been done years ago. https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/25588-stop-arming-terrorists-act-would-end-u-s-funding-for-terror?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm_content=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines+Mar+15+17
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Is the U.S. Considering a
Military Attack on North Korea?
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{libertyplanet.com} ~ For years, the Hermit Kingdom of North Korea has been a thorn in the side of the United States, South Korea, Japan and even to an extent North Korea’s main enabler, China. The highly unpredictable and rash actions by North Korea’s enigmatic dynasty of authoritarian dictators have at times rattled, distressed, and shocked the leadership of Western powers for decades.

But with its latest moves, the world’s most possibly isolated and extreme regime may have pushed a bit too far and angered President Trump, South Korea or both enough to make the case for military action.

Although it’s acknowledged that North Korea has an active nuclear weapons program and has had several successful nuclear weapons tests, it’s estimated that the country possesses a dozen or so working nuclear warheads.

North Korea has bragged that it’s working on long-range missiles that will one day be able to carry a nuclear warhead to the East Coast of the United States. This is not the case at the current moment, and there’s even some debate about whether North Korea’s nuclear bombs will fit into the nose cone of its existing missiles, despite photos that the Kingdom has claimed show North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un posing with a nuclear weapon small enough to do just that.

Besides its nuclear tests and its medium-range missile tests, four of which landed unarmed missiles in the sea uncomfortably close to the main island of Japan recently, the Hermit Kingdom in 2016 managed the launch of a satellite. This, Western analysts say, was a cover for the development and testing of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technology, a violation of UN Security Council resolutions that President Trump has said he will not allow.

“It won’t happen!” tweeted the president recently in reference to North Korea’s pronouncements that the country is in the final stage of development of such weapons. Trump, who considers North Korea the U.S.’s “greatest immediate threat,” has had limited conversations with China’s leaders, in which he reportedly told them, “You gotta work on North Korea.”

For some time, China has been the key to getting North Korea to ease up on its provocative rhetoric and actions. China has long been a buyer of North Korean coal and other exports from the rogue nation, as well as providing it food and energy aid.

China has traditionally always feared the collapse of its smaller neighbor, which could lead to a disastrous tide of Korean refugees fleeing into the Chinese state and even worse, a unified Korea that would be allied with the United States.

China has protested the upcoming deployment of an American Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile defense system in South Korea which could potentially shoot down North Korean ICBMs.

But on the other hand, China has been getting the sharp end of the stick from the Kim Jong-Un government via North Korea’s recent missile tests, which took place during the Chinese government’s annual People’s Congress and angered Chinese leaders.

Making matters worse all around is the recent assassination, almost assuredly attributable to North Korea of Kim Jong-Un’s half-brother Kim Jong Nam in Malaysia. Security camera footage shows two women at Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur International Airport smearing a poisonous substance on Nam’s face, causing him to collapse and die just hours later.

This seemingly unprovoked attack comes on the heels of reported executions of a number of North Korea’s top government officials including other relatives of Kim Jong-Un in what some veteran North Korea watchers have termed a “consolidation of power.”

Allegedly, many of the execution methods in these cases were brutal, including the use of wild dogs and anti-aircraft weapons to murder the offenders, some of whom were accused only of falling asleep at meetings led by Kim or embarrassing him for his lack of intimate knowledge about military affairs.

For countries such as China and the U.S., the Malaysian assassination may be the last straw as far as patience with the North Korea’s international antics. Some sources have speculated that Kim Jong Nam may have been a potential new “leader-in-waiting” to assure a smooth continuation of government for North Korea if a “decapitation strike” were to be launched.

It’s been reported in the Wall Street Journal that several weeks ago Deputy National Security Advisor K.T. McFarland called a meeting of U.S. defense officials to ask for new proposals to present to President Trump regarding what should be done about the world’s most unpredictable nation.

McFarland reportedly asked for plans and concepts that were significantly “outside the mainstream,” which could indicate that active plans for a military strike may be being drawn up. Said the Journal, “U.S. officials have underscored the possible military dimensions of their emerging strategy in recent discussions with allies, according to people familiar with the talks.”

Whether the U.S. is merely rattling its saber or is serious about dealing with Kim Jong-Un in a way that is final and irrevocable is an open question. But as always, the capacity for North Korea to commit national suicide — say, via an atomic strike on Seoul — should not be underestimated.

For the U.S., China, Japan and other Asian nations, this is the “between-a-rock-and-a-hard-
place” quandary that has always made the use of military force too risky to actually consider.

Of course, just one nuclear bomb would not destroy all of Seoul, no more than it would New York City. But surely, it would change the world in ways that we probably cannot anticipate and could create the risk of military confrontation or escalation elsewhere in the world that we would not wish to invite.

At the end of the day, diplomacy is surely the more favored option; fortunately, Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is due to visit Japan, China and South Korea in the coming days. But the tortured history of diplomacy with two-faced North Korea has proven that up until now, U.S. leaders have been taken for a ride by North Korea’s three successive Kims time and time again.

We can only hope that without taking too much risk, President Trump can end this streak of mediative weakness once and for all.

http://www.libertyplanet.com/articles/is-the-u-s-considering-a-military-attack-on-north-korea/

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Thurs/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
Why Are the Millennials Protesting?
by Minister Michael Brown
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 The Leftmedia's Turf War 
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Mainstream media outlets such as the Washington Post have an established track record for covering the news. Over the years they have secured their status in the eyes of much of the public as legitimate journalists. But for years they have stubbornly stuck with a crumbling façade — that they're reporting from a non-agenda driven, non-biased perspective. The MSM's claim to objectivity in its reporting is time and again exposed as a farce.
          The latest example comes from a complaint voiced by the Washington Post over the list of pool reporters chosen to cover Vice President Mike Pence. All the major mainstream media outlets were represented in the pool, as well as several Leftmedia organizations such as BuzzFeed and the Huffington Post, who share the Washington Post's anti-conservative bias. But the inclusion of Fred Lucas, a reporter for the Heritage Foundation-owned Daily Signal, sparked howls of outrage. Oh, the humanity. The Post, which became practically unhinged in its anti-Trump coverage in the last year, essentially lumped the Signal in with what it said were "extremist or racist organizations." Clearly, someone at the Post hasn't actually been reading the Signal.
          The growth of alternative news organizations, many openly holding unabashedly conservative perspectives, has long been eroding the monopoly the MSM used to hold. The MSM's continued attempts to promote the lie of its "objective" reporting only serves to further reinforce Americans' distrust in the media — trust is at historic lows.
          This latest incident exposes the Post as little more than a roaring paper tiger. The MSM is in a turf war that they're losing, because they've embraced an agenda of journalistic activism rather than objectivity. Instead of engaging honestly with the fact that every organization expresses a particular bias to one degree or other, they have sought only to promote the notion that they are the only legitimate purveyors of truth. Through the use of strawman tactics and labeling prejudice the MSM seeks to discredit alternate news organizations' reporting rather than deal with the facts of the reporting.
          Speaking of labeling, Harvard University has been circulating a list entitled "False, Misleading, Clickbait-y, and Satirical 'News' Sources". This list is made up of mostly conservative news and commentary sites, such as the Washington Examiner and the Washington Free Beacon. We at The Patriot Post have the distinguished "honor" of making the list as well. Maybe somebody missed the endorsement we received several years ago from Harvard Political Review.  ~The Patriot Post
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Trump embraces conservatives
as their interests align on healthcare
by Sarah Westwood
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ President Trump's desire to see the American Health Care Act survive in the House has, for now, aligned his interests with the conservatives who say they won't support the bill until it does more to roll back liar-nObamacare... But the White House's alliance with congressional conservatives may not extend to upcoming legislative battles, when Trump's preference for ends over means may redirect his focus on any given issue. An increasingly bitter debate among Republicans in the House and Senate over healthcare reform has pitted members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus and a handful of senators — including Sens. Rand Paul, Tom Cotton and Mike Lee — against House leadership, which initially fought for the AHCA as written. After conservatives quickly labeled the legislation "liar-nObamacare-lite" and "liar-nObamacare 2.0," the White House launched an aggressive effort to collect input from the conservative lawmakers and organizers who were prepared to sink Trump's liar-nObamacare reform plan. Many of those who have spoken privately with Trump say he indicated he was open to changing the AHCA...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trump-embraces-conservatives-as-their-interests-align-on-healthcare/article/2617397#.WMi0pTnkW_o.twitter/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Examiner%20Today&utm_source=StructureCMS
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Republicans to introduce war
authorization for ISIS fight
by Jacqueline Klimas
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The Real Hamas: Sorry, Folks!
by Bassam Tawil
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Armed Hamas militiamen on parade with a
vehicle-mounted rocket launcher in Gaza
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ What does Hamas mean when it says that it "accepts" an independent Palestinian state in the West Bank, Gaza Strip and East Jerusalem without recognizing Israel's right to exist?... Is this a sign of moderation and pragmatism on the part of the extremist Islamic terror movement? Or is it just another ploy intended to deceive everyone, especially gullible Westerners, into believing that Hamas has abandoned its strategy of destroying Israel in favor of a two-state solution? According to the reports, Hamas is also contemplating changing its charter so that it would no longer include anti-Semitic references. The charter, which was drafted in August 1988, contains anti-Semitic passages and characterizations of Israeli society as Nazi-like in its cruelty. The same reports also claimed that Hamas's revised charter will also state that the terror movement is not part of the Muslim Brotherhood...
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New Massive Oil Find in Alaska -
Will This Spell the Collapse of OPEC?
by Alice Greene
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ A massive amount of oil has been discovered in Alaska’s North Slope - in an area previously thought to be drying up. The news was announced last Thursday by Spanish oil giant Repsol... The oil field, which is believed to contain over 1 billion barrels of light crude, marks the biggest onshore find in the US in 30 years. The discovery is bad news for oil-producing nations like Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, and Russia, which have been fighting to bring the price of oil back up after the recent drop in prices that led to Venezuela's economic collapse. The discovery is great news for the state of Alaska, and it might bring some relief to budget pains brought on by flagging production and the crash in prices. Last year, Alaska was forced to freeze hiring and restrict state employee travel. The Trans-Alaska Pipeline System was hardly being used...I'm sure that was done by liar-nObama.  http://punchingbagpost.com/new-massive-oil-find-in-alaska---will-this-spell-the-collapse-of-opec
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The Middle East's Most Surprising Country
by Daniel Pipes
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The nineteenth-century Omani sultan's palace in Zanzibar
{danielpipes.org} ~ Islam has three main branches: Sunni (about 90 percent of all Muslims), Shiite (about 9 percent) and Ibadi (about 0.2 percent). Oman has the only Ibadi-majority population in the world... Being a tiny minority in the larger Muslim context, rulers of Oman have historically kept away from Middle Eastern issues. Part of the country was isolated mountainous desert terrain, part was focused on the seas, especially on India and on East Africa. For two centuries, the Omani empire competed with the Europeans for control of the Indian Ocean; indeed, Oman ruled the African island of Zanzibar until 1964, making it the only non-European state to control African territory.
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This unique remoteness from Middle Eastern problems, whether it be the Arab-Israeli conflict or Iranian expansionism, remains in place. At present, with a civil war raging in next-door Yemen and Iran making trouble right by Oman's Musandam Peninsula, which juts out into the super-strategic Straits of Hormuz, Oman is an oasis of calm. Jihadism has so far been non-existent, with no acts of violence in Oman and no Omanis joining ISIS...  http://www.danielpipes.org/17348/oman-a-middle-east-surprise?utm_source=Middle+East+Forum&utm_campaign=b22629571c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_086cfd423c-b22629571c-33703665&goal=0_086cfd423c-b22629571c-33703665
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Why Are the Millennials Protesting?
by Minister Michael Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ The millennial generation has famously been described as Generation Me – or, to cite the title of a 2013 Time article, the Me, Me, Me Generation – and there is certainly some truth to that description. On the other hand, millennials have demonstrated many outstanding qualities, which is why the Time article contained these two subtitles: “Millennials are lazy, entitled narcissists who still live with their parents” and “Why they’ll save us all.”

As for the self-evident, self-centeredness of many millennials, this is partly the result of their upbringing and environment, as they have grown up in a culture of indulgence, a culture of narcissism, a culture of radical, leftist, campus ideology which often revolves around “my feelings”, a culture of me-focused social media, which finds its ultimate expression in the selfie.

Do those of us who are older (I turn 62 next week) really think that we would have been much different had we been raised in this same environment?

As for the very clear strengths of many millennials, they do have a strong social conscience, they do want to change the world around them, they do want to get involved, and they have transcended some of the racial and ethnic boundaries that plagued us in the past.

I’m speaking, of course, in general terms, and there are endless exceptions to each of these two categories (weaknesses and strengths).

Still, the overall patterns seem clear, which leads me to the question posed in the title of this article: Why are the millennials protesting?

One obvious answer is that they’re upset with the way the world is going, and this is their way of expressing their anger and frustration.

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to deduce that, and I’m sure that’s part of the answer. But is it the entire answer? Perhaps not.

An article by Ewan Morrison on PJMedia.com carries the provocative heading: “Social Justice Syndrome: ‘Rising Tide of Personality Disorders Among Millennials’.”

He points to something called High Conflict Personality Disorder and notes that, “A 2016 UK survey found that, since 1990, rates of depression and anxiety among the young have increased by 70%, while the American Counseling Association has reported a ‘rising tide of personality disorders among millennials.’ That such disorders appear to be an acute problem with this generation may be an unintended outcome of the unprecedented experiment conducted in the 1990s and 2000s by progressive parents.”

This begs the question: Is something else going on in these millennial protests? Could there be more than a cry for social justice at stake? Morrison says the answer is yes.

A 2012 article on Healthline.com noted that, “Depression is an epidemic among college students,” citing statistics that indicated that “1 out of every 4 college students suffers from some form of mental illness, including depression,” that “44 percent of American college students report having symptoms of depression,” that “75 percent of college students do not seek help for mental health problems,” and that “suicide is the third leading cause of death among college students.”

Is it that far-fetched, then, to ask if there are several factors driving today’s social justice, protest movement among millennials? And is there a gospel-based solution to the cry of their heart?

I answer those questions on this video, and I’d love to hear your response – especially if you’re a millennial yourself.
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
Republican Health Plan Is Worth a Closer Look
by David Thornton
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 Will More American Troops Finally Finish ISIL? 
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By Michael Swartz: In 2014, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi stood at Mosul's Great Mosque and declared himself the "caliph," the ruler of all Muslims. His bold assertion came at a time when the Islamic State had taken the city as part of an offensive that expanded its reach from the center of Syria to the outskirts of Baghdad, with the Syrian city of Raqqa acting as its capital. While it had no set borders, at the time the Islamic State caliphate controlled much of the desert frontier that composes the eastern sections of Syria and northern region of Iraq, with Mosul being its largest population center.
          After a long run-up to battle, late last year Iraqi forces — with American logistical assistance — began to retake Mosul, and they now control the eastern half of the city. As the Iraqi regulars work their way westward, American observers are beginning to feel optimistic that Mosul will soon fall. "The game is up," said Air Force Brig. Gen. Matthew Isler. "They have lost this fight and what you're seeing now is a delaying action." Mosul's capture would effectively wipe out the Iraqi portion of the Islamic State, leaving Raqqa as their last, most heavily fortified stronghold.
          That battle for Raqqa may be joined by a limited number of American troops. In a drastic departure from Barack liar-nObama's methods of political agenda first, last and always, Donald Trump is deferring more to his military experts in the field. They've already made one key strategic decision in preparation for taking the Syrian city and are weighing the benefits of a second.
          Currently underway is the introduction of a "couple hundred" Marines to the region surrounding Raqqa, in order to pre-position heavy artillery assets. Those Marines don't count against the liar-nObama administration's limit of 503 total troops in Syria, because they're only there on a temporary basis. That arbitrary limit may be the reason for considering the second strategic move: placing about 1,000 troops in Kuwait as a reserve force that can rotate in and out of the region as needed.
          A strategic move that's not being considered is a hunt for al-Baghdadi, who has left his Islamic State fighters in the field and is reportedly on the run in northern Iraq, hiding out among Sunni tribal sympathizers in a widespread region of desert along the Iraqi-Syrian frontier. His last public communication, urging the Islamic State irregulars fighting for Mosul not to surrender but to fight to the death, was released in early November, before the election. Yet al-Baghdadi seems somewhat more hesitant to meet his 72 virgins in paradise, apparently preferring to lead from behind.
          One thing President Trump may find regarding his vow to defeat the Islamic State, though, is that few of his strategic decisions will escape the notice of the press. For example, the Marines' entry to Syria was first reported (with great detail) by the Washington Post, an outlet that will certainly make sure all interested parties are aware of any American strategy they learn about. The old admonition that "loose lips sink ships" doesn't seem to hold any water with the media these days, and apparently there are plenty of unnamed "defense officials" who don't mind sharing this information.
          Also of newfound interest to the press, now that we have a Republican commander in chief, will be the re-introduction of body counts, particularly as the fighting moves from the remoteness of rearward air support and logistics to house-to-house fighting like that in Iraq and Afghanistan a decade ago. Despite our best efforts to minimize casualties, and despite President Trump's moving tribute to the widow of Navy SEAL Ryan Owens during his address to a joint session of Congress last week, our jihadist enemies can now count on the American media to exploit our nation's weak stomach for a bloody and extended asymmetrical fight.
          Still, as an entity, the so-called Islamic State will be lucky to make it much beyond the third anniversary of al-Baghdadi's pronouncement of its establishment. But the impact of the fight to suppress it — as the latest phase of a generation-long foray into the Middle East that began with Desert Storm a quarter-century ago and has continued nearly unabated since the 9/11 attack — will surely affect our foreign policy for decades.  ~The Patriot Post
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Time For Disloyal Establishment Turncoat
Ryan To Vacate Speaker’s Office
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs reminds us that back in October of last year he described Speaker Paul Ryan as seemingly “hellbound on destroying the Republican Party and that he had no concept of unity or his responsibility as Speaker.”... Dobbs says, “It was actually worse than that. He was determined to destroy Donald Trump. And now, five months later, I believe the Speaker is in the exact same place, as he faces opposition from dozens of conservatives in the House and other conservative groups as well on his plan to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare.” “A new PPP poll conducted in Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin,” Dobbs points out, “in that district finding more voters oppose Ryancare than favor the legislation, that’s in his home district. That same poll also showing more voters in Ryan’s hometown have a favorable opinion of President Trump than they do of Speaker Ryan.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-time-disloyal-establishment-turncoat-ryan-vacate-speakers-office/
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Kim Jong-un’s Next Nuclear Weapons Test Might
Be His Last, Says High-Ranking Defector
by Ryan Pickrell
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{dailycaller.com} ~ North Korea is suspected to be building a nuclear bomb much larger and dangerous than anything it has ever tested... Commercial satellite imagery of the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site shows extensive tunneling for a test of a nuclear weapon with extremely high explosive yields, reports 38 North, a research site run by the U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies. While there is the possibility North Korea is simply taking extra safety precautions, the North could also be preparing to test a 282-kiloton nuclear bomb. “The nuclear test which the North is trying to conduct at the Punggye-ri test site will break the country into two pieces,” Thae Yong-ho, a former North Korean diplomat who defected last year, explained to Voice of America...
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Tomi Lahren DROPS THE HAMMER
On George Soros
 
{angrypatriotmovement.com} ~ “Nothing scares rats like Soros more than American patriotism!” Lahren exclaimed. George Soros is the embodiment of evil who seeks to tear our country apart, as he has done to other countries in the past... He is the opposite of President Trump, who has sacrificed greatly to make our country great again. This is the strategy of “divide and conquer,” which is, according to Lahren, the “strategy of maintaining control over one’s subordinates by encouraging dissent among them.” This is why Soros funds anti-American groups like Occupy Wall Street and Black Lives Matter. Soros pretends to care through his philanthropy, but it is clear by the hate groups he decides to fund that he does not care about the plight of black people or ensuring justice is brought against Wall Street. If Soros wanted to help the black community, he would help the brave law enforcement officials who work every day making the streets safer — instead, he funds a group that calls for “dead cops.”...  http://www.angrypatriotmovement.com/tomi-lahren-on-george-soros/
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Saudi Offer Money, Troops To Fight ISIS –
Were Turned Down By liar-nObama
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Bret Baier points to the meeting today between President Trump and Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince, Mohammad Bin Salman Al Saud, at the White House... Baier is joined by Prince Faisal Bin Farhan Al Saud, an advisor to Deputy Crown Prince Al Saud and a member of their royal family. He reports that it is his understanding that the meeting went well and that the two men got along quite fine with one another. He said they discussed many important issues and found agreement on most of them. He said that the Prince “was very keen to come and meet President Trump as early as possible to emphasize the importance of the relationship between the two countries and to reinvigorate their strategic, longstanding partnership that we’ve had.” He points out, “We’ve been partners and allies for fifty years, we’ve worked very well together, Saudi Arabia has been a stable and reliable partner for the United States for that time. And I think Prince Mohammad was keen to make sure that we can move into the 21st century together in a very positive and mutually beneficial way.”...  http://rickwells.us/saudi-offer-money-troops-fight-isis-turned-obama/
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Iran vows to 'liberate' Golan Heights
by Chana Roberts
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ A new Iran-funded Iraqi Hezbollah "brigade" aims to "liberate" the Golan Heights from Israel, spokesman Seyed Hashem Moussavi last week said last week at a news conference in Iran... According to Iranian news agency Tasnim, Moussavi, who heads the Harakat Hezbollah al-Nujaba terror sub-group, said, "After the latest victories in Syria and Iraq, we established the ‘Golan Liberation Brigade’. "This is a trained army with specific plans. If the government of Syria requests, we and our allies are ready to take action to liberate Golan. We will not permit Arab and Islamic countries in the region to remain in the grasps of the occupiers."... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/226732
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Republican Health Plan Is Worth a Closer Look
by David Thornton
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{theresurgent.com} ~ There has been a firestorm of conservative opposition to TrumpCare, as the American Health Care Act is already becoming known. The Republican health care plan has been widely panned and even viewed as a betrayal by many on the right.
 
To find out more about what the bill contains, I sat down and read it. Unlike liar-nObamacare, the Republican health care bill is posted on the internet in its entirety. The bill took less than two hours to read. References to sections of other laws such as the ACA make it difficult to get the full grasp of some parts of the bill, but it’s easy to get a general overview of most of the proposals.
 
The first two sections deal with “Patient Access to Public Health Programs” and “Medicaid Program Enhancement.” These sections dealt with reforms to Medicaid. Some of the items included, listed in order with their section number were:
*Banning Medicaid money for abortion providers such as Planned Parenthood (103)
*Repealing the Medicaid expansion effective January 1, 2020 (112) – The Medicaid expansion was the largest expansion of coverage under liar-nObamacare.
*Limits the eligibility for Medicaid (114)
*Creates incentives for states to qualify Medicare recipients more often and penalizes those that carry ineligible people on the rolls (116)
The next section, “Per Capita Allotment for Medical Assistance,” also deals with Medicaid reform.
*Caps Medicaid spending on a per person basis (1903A)
Subpart D is entitled “Patient Relief and Health Market Stability.”
*Repeals liar-bObamacare’s cost-sharing subsidy with insurance companies (131)
*Creates a Patient and State Stability Fund that empowers states to create risk pools for high risk individuals, promote preventive care, reduce costs and reduce out-of-pocket costs for insureds (2202)
*This section also describes the Continuous Health Coverage Incentive for people who drop their health insurance and sign up again. This is a 30 percent penalty for people who do not have 63 days of continuous coverage in the previous 12 months. This is not a popular provision, but liar-nObamacare’s clause guaranteeing insurability for previous conditions is something most Americans want to keep. If this provision is to be kept, some sort of mechanism is necessary to prevent people from waiting until they get sick to buy insurance. (133, 2711)
*Amends liar-nObamacare to increase insurance policy options (134)
There are many individual sections of the bill that repeal liar-nObamacare taxes as well. One section of the bill is titled “Repeal and Replace of Health-Related Tax Policy.”
*Repeals the tanning tax
*Repeals the tax on prescription medications
*Repeals the Health Insurance Tax
*Repeals the Net Investment Income Tax
*Prohibits tax credits for abortion coverage (02-04)
*Repeals individual mandate (05)
*Repeals tax on employee insurance premiums and benefits (07)
*Repeals tax on over-the-counter medications (08)
*Repeals tax increase on Health Savings Accounts (09)
*Repeal of limits on Flexible Savings Account contributions (10)
*Repeal of medical device tax (11)
*Repeals the increase in the threshold of the medical income tax deduction. The threshold would return to 7.5 percent of adjusted gross income from the current 10 percent. (12)
*Repeal of the Medicare tax increase (14)
*Section 15 deals with the refundable tax credits for insurance premiums. Section 7529 allows advance payment of the credit. This is a problematic section.
*Increases the HSA contribution limit to equal the amount of the policy’s deductible and out-of-pocket limits (16)
*Permits catch-up contributions to HSAs (17)
*Treats medical expenses within 60 days of the establishment of an HSA as occurring on the first day the account was opened. This would allow HSA funds to be used for a condition that occurred shortly before opening the account. (18)
*The AHCA is not a perfect bill. It is also not a betrayal of the Republican promise to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare. In fact, many of the provisions in the bill have been on the wish list for conservatives long before liar-nObamacare became law.
Republicans are in a weaker position than Democrats were when they passed liar-nObamacare. As Jamie Dupree of the Atlanta Journal points out, Democrats had 60 votes, enough to break a Republican filibuster, when the Senate originally passed the bill on Christmas Eve 2009. They subsequently lost a vote when Scott Brown (R-Mass.) was elected to the Senate and used the reconciliation process for the second bill of the liar-nObamacare package. Both bills ultimately became law in March 2010.
 
Republicans have only 52 Senate votes, which is not enough to end a Democrat filibuster. At least four of the Republican votes would not be reliable for a clean repeal bill. A perfect bill is simply not possible.
 
The current Republican plan is three-pronged. First, the reconciliation process will repeal as much of liar-nObamacare as possible with the AHCA. Second, President’s Trump’s appointees will kill as much liar-nObamacare regulation as possible through administrative rulemaking. Finally, the remainder of liar-nObamacare will be repealed and replaced through a traditional bill. This bill would ideally enact other reforms that cannot be part of the budget reconciliation such as allowing health insurance to be sold across state lines. The third phase will be the most difficult since that bill would be subject to a Democrat filibuster.
 
Since an outright repeal is impossible and since the AHCA does contain many good conservative reforms, the best solution is to improve the current bill. The American Enterprise Institute has identified several changes that could be incorporated into the AHCA to lower costs and help stabilize the insurance market. Other conservative think tanks and members of Congress could probably improve the bill even more.
 
Now that the Republican plan is in the open, party leaders should slow down and allow time for a national debate on the merits of the legislation. By rushing forward with an unpopular and flawed bill, Republicans may well repeat the experience of the Democrats who pushed through a bill that only became less popular as its cobbled together provisions made the problem worse. The Democrats ultimately lost control of both houses of Congress and the presidency because of liar-nObamacare. Republicans should learn from these Democrat mistakes.
 
Conversely, killing the Republican health care reform would be a major victory for the Democrats and may well scuttle efforts to repeal liar-nObamacare permanently. A better solution is to work to improve the current House bill.
 
Republicans could just say no when Barack liar-nObama was president, but with a Republican in the White House, they have to be realistic. They have to have a plan… a realistic one that can pass the House and Senate. Right now, improving the AHCA seems to be the best option.
 
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featruring: 
The Rise of the Networked Left
by Caroline Glick
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 Gender-Swapping the Presidential Debates 
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liar-Hillary Clinton failed to break the "glass ceiling" in November, and as the leftist women protesting today would have you believe, it's partly because she's a woman. Well, two New York professors decided to test this theory by re-enacting the presidential debates while switching the genders of the competitors — liar-Clinton was played by a man called "Jonathan Gordon," while Donald Trump was represented by a woman named "Brenda King." Real actors portrayed the two, doing their best to copy inflection, body language and behavior, all while quoting actual debate dialogue verbatim.
          Naturally, Salvatore explains, "We both thought that the inversion would confirm our liberal assumption — that no one would have accepted Trump's behavior from a woman, and that the male liar-Clinton would seem like the much stronger candidate." They were quite surprised that the exact opposite happened.
          Salvatore reflected, "The majority of my extended family voted for Trump. In some ways, I developed empathy for people who voted for him by doing this project, which is not what I was expecting. I expected it to make me more angry at them, but it gave me an understanding of what they might have heard or experienced when he spoke."
          Most of the audience felt the same way, gravitating to "King" and away from "Gordon." In fact, Salvatore said, "We heard a lot of 'now I understand how this happened' — meaning how Trump won the election." So maybe the whole election wasn't some misogynist rebellion after all. Maybe there really was something to the perception that liar-Clinton just isn't likable. Who knew? 
~The Patriot Post
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Palestinian Ex-Muslim Sandra Solomon Warns
Canada Against Sharia Law Women Abuse
 
{answeringmuslims.com} ~ I had the pleasure of joining with my friend Pastor Sule Prince in interviewing Sandra Solomon who is a former Muslim and now a Christian. We did a series of videos. This one deals with Sandra's experience living under sharia in Saudi Arabia and her challenges in leaving Islam http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2017/03/palestinian-ex-muslim-sandra-solomon.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+answeringmuslims%2FynNl+%28Answering+Muslims%29
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Home Caregivers, Alleging Fraud, Push
to Decertify Union That Deducts Dues
by Kevin Mooney
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{dailysignal.com} ~ When the union representative came to her door last month, Mary Barton invited the cheerful young woman in because she seemed friendly, and it was raining... But about two weeks ago, that visit to her home somehow led to $27.90 in union dues being deducted from Barton’s benefit check as a home caregiver to her disabled daughter. “She never said anything about union membership, and she just said we would like your support,” Barton told The Daily Signal, describing the visit by the union rep who gave her name as Yuliya. Now, Barton and her husband Mike are warning other caregivers in Minnesota’s Twin Cities region not to fall for the same tactics...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/14/home-caregivers-alleging-fraud-push-to-decertify-union-that-represents-them/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRnMk1ERXdOVFJoWWpVNCIsInQiOiJ6UitJT1ZjRUZFUXhIZGZiS2JPXC9XUDdhVVczdDZUcmY4NEVYRGtSa0VGSzRCRmFkTzF5Q0Q0KytZMGE3emplTHJSMDdRUnFRa0t2SkVONDJsNDY4bWtvVk9VTXFWcFJCbm5NSk1GSE1jbEo5V3duUUNBR3NYTVFEYU1LYzBxYk8ifQ%3D%3D
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Colorado ‘Selfie’ Bill Opens the Door
    to Vote-Buying and Election Fraud     
by Hans von Spakovsky
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The secret ballot is a fundamental tenet of American democracy. It was implemented in the United States in the late 1800s to counter widespread instances of bribery and intimidation of voters... Both houses of the Colorado Legislature recently passed a bill that is now sitting on Gov. John Hickenlooper’s desk that would allow voters to take “selfies” of their marked ballots. This is a very bad idea that would void the secrecy of our ballots and represents a dangerous and unjustified step backward. By allowing voters to show how they voted, the bill would, in essence, provide a “receipt” that the voter could use to collect an illegal payment for voting for specific candidates, and would open the door to intimidation and threats against voters for not voting a particular way...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/14/colorado-selfie-bill-opens-the-door-to-vote-buying-and-election-fraud/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTVRnMk1ERXdOVFJoWWpVNCIsInQiOiJ6UitJT1ZjRUZFUXhIZGZiS2JPXC9XUDdhVVczdDZUcmY4NEVYRGtSa0VGSzRCRmFkTzF5Q0Q0KytZMGE3emplTHJSMDdRUnFRa0t2SkVONDJsNDY4bWtvVk9VTXFWcFJCbm5NSk1GSE1jbEo5V3duUUNBR3NYTVFEYU1LYzBxYk8ifQ%3D%3D
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liar-nObama Sent Tax Money To
Soros Leftists Agitating In Foreign Elections
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Finally it appears that there may be some accountability coming to the Democrats and their recently departed by not allowing himself to be forgotten dictator... Some old-fashioned justice may be coming to the politicians who live in glass houses that mirrors their own false accusations of Russian meddling in the US. liar-nObama and his regime attempted to tilt elections around the world towards the left, much of it at taxpayer expense. A group of Senators sent a letter to Secretary of State Rex Tillerson asking that he immediately begin an investigation into the meddling of liar-nObama into foreign elections and his sending American tax dollars to support leftist “extreme and sometimes violent political activists.” They revealed multiple conversations with foreign diplomats who detailed blatant meddling by liar-nObama’s State Department, including sending American taxpayer funds to support leftist political groups in Macedonia, Albania, Latin America, and Africa...  http://rickwells.us/senators-obama-sent-tax-money-soros-leftists-agitating-foreign-elections/
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Fmr Attorney Kimberly Guilfoyle Says There Are
Serious Legal Questions Surrounding Maddow Report
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{conservativevideos.com} ~ As seen first on Fox News ‘Tucker Carlston Tonight. MSNBC host Rachel Maddow apparently obtained President Trump’s tax records. Fox News co-host tells Tucker there could be serious legal questions surrounding how the records were obtained. Former Attorney Kimberly Guilfoyle Says There Are Serious Legal Questions Surrounding Maddow Report.
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The Rise of the Networked Left
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ An acrid stench of repression is spreading through America.

Last Thursday, conservative political scientist Charles Murray from the American Enterprise Institute was attacked by a leftist mob at Middlebury College.

Murray was invited to Middlebury by the college’s AEI club. He was to discuss his new book, Coming Apart, which discusses the plight of white working class Americans. Middlebury’s liberal political science professor Allison Stanger was set to ask him questions about his work.

As has been widely reported, a mob of leftist students prevented Murray from speaking. They shouted him down with a stream of epithets that went on without interruption, until Murray and Stanger were spirited out of the lecture hall.

They were brought to another location where they carried out their conversation in front of a camera that was livestreaming to students blocked by the mob from hearing them in person. The mob followed them to the new location and rioted outside the room as they spoke.

The rioters assaulted them as they made their way from the second location to their car. They hurt Stanger in the neck.

The assault continued after the professors entered their getaway car and at the restaurant where they tried to dine at with students.

In the end Murray and his companions were forced to leave town in order to have dinner away from the rioters. Stanger was later treated for her wounds at a local hospital.

The riot against Murray at Middlebury occurred barely a month after right-wing provocateur Milo Yiannopoulis was blocked from speaking at the University of California at Berkeley by a similarly violent mob. The Berkeley rioters caused more than $100,000 in property damage. They beat up students who came to hear Yiannopoulis speak.

The riots against Murray and Yiannopoulis both received wide media coverage. The basic narrative of the stories regarding both is that the shouting down of speakers and mob assaults by leftist students and professors is a new phenomenon.

To Jewish ears, this storyline is deeply unsettling.

Jewish speakers and students have been subjected to identical, and often worse, campaigns of repressions for nearly 20 years at universities and colleges throughout the US.

What is new about the riots against Murray and Yiannopoulis is that they were shouted down despite the fact that they weren’t talking about Israel.

Since the PLO rejected statehood and peace with Israel in 2000 and launched a multipronged political and terrorist war against Israel instead, the climate on US campuses has become progressively worse for pro-Israel students, faculty and visiting speakers.

Perhaps the moment that signaled open season for Jews on campuses occurred on May 7, 2002, at San Francisco State University. That day, Muslim students and their leftist supporters launched a mini-pogrom against pro-Israel Jewish students.

As Laurie Zoloth, who served at the time as the director of SFSU’s Jewish Studies Department, and was present on the scene, wrote in a letter published shortly after the events, that day some 400 Jewish students participated in a pro-Israel, pro-peace rally on the campus’s central thoroughfare.

After the rally ended, several dozen Jewish students remained on hand to clean up the area. As they gathered up their posters, they were beset by an antisemitic mob.

“They screamed at us to ‘go back to Russia,’ and they screamed... ‘Get out or we’ll kill you,’ and ‘Hitler didn’t finish the job,’” Zoloth wrote.

When Zoloth asked the police at the scene to arrest the rioters, they refused, explaining they had been ordered to take no action. Arrests, they explained, “would cause a riot.”

After a week of silence, SFSU’s then-president Robert Corrigan posted a statement condemning the incident and referring it to the district attorney to assign to his hate crimes unit.

The pogrom at SFSU and the administration’s belated condemnation of the crime set in motion what became a pattern of ever-escalating violence and intimidation of pro-Israel voices on college campuses accompanied by half-hearted and short-lived denunciations of the assaults by campus authorities.

Today, the situation is even worse. If SFSU felt the need to condemn the Muslim students who called for their Jewish counterparts to be killed 15 years ago, today they stand openly with those calling for Jews to be killed against those who protest the calls.

In 2014, SFSU signed a memorandum of understanding with An-Najah University in Nablus. The MoU was organized by the leaders of the BDS campaign on campus and the General Union of Palestine Students on campus. An-Najah is a hotbed of terrorism in the PA. Its alumni include terrorism masters and terrorist murderers.

In 2013, then-president of the GUPS Mohammad Hammad posted a video of himself holding a machete and expressing his desire to murder IDF soldiers.

In 2015, SFSU president Leslie Wong praised the GUPS saying, “GUPS is the very purpose of this great university.”

In May 2016, GUPS members led protesters in silencing Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat when he tried to address students during a visit to campus.

When the David Horowitz Freedom Center launched a campaign to expose the Jew-hatred at SFSU which involved putting up posters on campus decrying antisemitism, school authorities and the local media were quick to condemn the Freedom Center and accuse it of repressing free speech and fomenting racism. Wong called the posters an act of “vandalism.”

SFSU is not unique. The often violent repression of pro-Israel voices is now the rule rather than exception at campuses around the US.

Two factors account for the fact that the same means that have been used for years to repress pro-Israel voices on campuses are now being used against non-leftists who speak on subjects unrelated to Israel.

First, the tactics are being used more broadly because they have been successful. Pro-Israel voices have been largely silenced on campus. Indeed, Jews themselves now join those who repress them.

For instance, last year SFSU’s Hillel and its Jewish Studies Department condemned the Horowitz Center’s campaign to highlight the antisemitism and support for terrorism endemic on their campus.

The second reason that the Left has expanded its assault on freedom of speech and inquiry beyond Israel and the Jews is that the Left today is no longer a collection of issue specific organizations and causes. Today the Left is a network of interlinked organizations, largely funded from the same sources and run by the same people.

It might have been hoped that once antisemites merged into a larger network, their voices and power would be diminished. But the opposite has happened. The antisemites who pioneered the intimidation tactics now being employed against non-leftists who speak on issues unrelated to Israel, are now the leaders of the leftist network. The network includes African-Americans, Latinos, LGBTQs, feminists and Communists.

The move by antisemitic organizers into the center of the newly networked Left was first exposed with the rise of the Black Lives Matter group. Although BLM arose to protest what its members claim is excessive police violence against African-Americans, from the outset, antisemitic groups pounced on the movement as a means to take over the rising network of leftist groups. In cities across the US, BLM protesters’ signs opposing law enforcement authorities were accompanied by signs calling for Israel to be destroyed.

When BLM published a platform last year, the group explicitly linked the movement with the cause of Israel’s destruction. BLM’s platform accused Israel of committing “genocide” against Palestinians and claimed that Israel is an “apartheid” state.

In their work with the BLM activists, anti-Jewish operatives exploited a campaign that was launched independently of their anti-Jewish efforts. Today, the anti-Jewish operatives are themselves initiating and organizing the actions of other groups and so directing the course of the political Left in the US in general.

Case in point is the new group organizing women’s marches throughout the US. The “International Women’s Strike” group organized the women’s protests against President Donald Trump on January 21, the day after his inauguration. The group also organized this week’s protests which took place on International Women’s Day. Among the organizers of January’s protests was Linda Sarsour, an anti-Israel, antisemitic operative who has repeatedly praised Hamas terrorists and condemned “Zionism,” in her public statements.

This week, Sarsour was joined by the convicted terrorist Rasmeah Odeh. In 1970, Odeh, a member of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, participated in a terrorist attack at a Jerusalem supermarket in which two Israeli college students were murdered.

With Hamas supporting operatives and actual Palestinian terrorist murderers serving as leaders of the organization behind the women’s marches, it is no surprise that the International Women’s Strike group is anti-Israel. The group’s published platform makes destroying Israel, or the “decolonization of Palestine,” its goal no less than free abortions on demand.

In other words, the feminist movement in the US is run by antisemites who use the feminists to advance their anti-Jewish agenda.

The core justification that the networked Left uses to defend its actions – first and foremost its goon squads on campuses – is that its actions are protected speech.

The claim of course, is ridiculous. There is a world of difference between freedom of expression and freedom of action. When students harass and shout down speakers with whom they disagree, they are not exercising freedom of speech. They are denying the freedom of speech of others.

When BDS operatives coerce university administrations and corporations to divest from Israel and ban Israelis from campuses, they are not exercising free speech. They are engaging in economic and cultural warfare against Israel.

Rather than recognize the distinction, major Jewish groups have embraced the antisemites’ false defense, internalizing the notion that opposing the onslaught against the community is tantamount to opposing freedom of speech.

So for instance, two major American Jewish groups harshly criticized the Knesset’s recently passed law banning BDS operatives from entering Israel. The American Jewish Committee and the Anti-Defamation League issued statements claiming the move is a blow to free speech.

The riots against Murray and Yiannopoulis alerted non-Jewish Americans to the intellectual and moral decay of their campuses. It is possible that in moving beyond the safe confines of antisemitism – now largely accepted on campuses – the Left has gone too far. Perhaps its wings will be clipped.

But given the Jewish community’s inability to understand, let alone defend against, the campaign being waged against it, it is likely that even if the networked Left curbs its assaults on non-Jewish non-leftists, it will continue and escalate its campaign against Jews and the Jewish state.
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Wed/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 

 Is a Korean Missile Crisis Ahead?
by Patrick Buchan
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 Top Headlines 
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Trump faces challenge of visa overstays, the largest source of illegal immigration. (The Daily Signal)
 
Democrats hint they'll shut down the government to stop funding for Trump's border wall. (McClatchy)
 
Spicer: Trump plans to donate his presidential salary and "let the press corps determine where it should go." (CNS News)
 
Trump's skeletal crew — The administration needs to pick up the pace of hiring. (National Review)
 
liar-nObama lawyers move fast to join fight against Trump. (Reuters)
 
Putin spokesman contradicts liar-Clinton team's claim they didn't meet any Russian officials during campaign. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Keen Sense of the Obvious: CBO says defunding Planned Parenthood would lead to thousands more births. (The Washington Post)
 
Ferguson protests after latest Michael Brown video: Shots fired, one officer with a broken nose, attempted arson of a police car. (St. Louis Post-Dispatch)
 
Foes of government excess to pick "Champion of Waste" in March Madness parody. (The Daily Signal)
 
Legal gun ownership surges in Chicago. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Policy: Four common-sense Medicaid solutions House Republicans should put in their liar-nObamacare replacement. (Washington Examiner)
 
Policy: Don't trust those CBO health care numbers. (Investor's Business Daily~The Patriot Post
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Trump Budget Expected To Include Major
Cuts To Wasteful UN Spending
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The world’s free ride on the backs of the American taxpayers may be slowly coming to an end. The Trump administration is seeking significant cuts in spending in areas of waste... where the spending is excessive, minimally effective or of no benefit to the American people. Some might say that is a definition of the UN itself, that there’s no bigger waste of our money on the planet and that all we get in return is hatred, derisive accusations and most importantly, an effort to take over our nation and subjugate us to their international government. President Trump understands it’s a bad deal for America and he’ taking corrective action. He’s started by instructing the State Department to seek funding cuts in excess of 50% for UN programs. The White House is scheduled to release its 2018 budget proposal on Thursday, which is expected to include cuts of up to 37 percent the State Department, U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), and other foreign giveaways. The money saved is expected to be redirected to the reconstruction of America’s military...
http://rickwells.us/trump-budget-expected-include-major-cuts-wasteful-un-spending/
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The Trojan Horse of Terrorism
by PAUL HOLLRAH
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In a March 7, 2017 story by Dan Bilefsky, headlined "Hungary Approves Detention of Asylum Seekers in Guarded Camps," the New York Times reported that "Europe's simmering backlash against immigration... came into sharp relief on Tuesday when the Hungarian Parliament approved the detention of asylum seekers in guarded and enclosed camps on the country's southern border, in what human rights advocates called a reckless breach of international law." According to the Times, "Prime Minister Viktor Orban justified the measure on the grounds that it would secure the European Union's borders from migrants and act as a powerful deterrent against migration, which he called the ‘Trojan horse of terrorism.' " The Prime Minister is quoted as saying, "We are under siege. The flood of migration has slowed down but has not stopped.  Laws apply to everyone. This includes those migrants who want to cross Hungary's border illegally. This is the reality, which cannot be overruled by charming human rights nonsense."...
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Schumer Threatens Government
Shutdown Over Border Wall
by Mathew Vaduim
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ After Democratic lawmakers’ years of shrieking and televised temper tantrums over how shutting down the federal government somehow approximates treason... Democrats have suddenly embraced the tactic in their quest to keep the nation’s borders wide open for Muslim terrorists and illegal aliens. Outnumbered in both houses of Congress, and facing a Republican in the White House for the first time in eight years, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and other Democrats say they will oppose efforts to finance President Trump’s planned border wall in spending legislation needed to keep the government open for business. Adding favored projects to must-pass spending bills, instead of dealing with the projects as freestanding legislation outside the budget process, is a time-honored way of getting things done in Congress. Both parties do it when in the majority. But Schumer is now a professional obstructionist committed to undermining the Trump administration so at long last he sees things differently...I say, let him try.  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266097/schumer-threatens-government-shutdown-over-border-matthew-vadum
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ACLU Leading Resistance
Movement Against Trump...
by Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ According to the Associated Press, the American Civil Liberties Union recently launched a nationwide training event to “urge organized, public resistance by those opposed to policies of President Donald Trump.”... The first one happened over the weekend at a University of Miami sports arena and was streamed to all 50 states. The executive director of the ACLU, Anthony Romero, said 200,000 people attended across 2,000 local events. Romero said the seminar focused on protesters knowing their rights and encouraged them to march for “priority issues” such as immigration, LGBT, free speech, religious freedom, and civil and reproductive rights. Focus was placed on rules for demonstrating in various public locations and what to do after an arrest...AG should investigate the ACLU and shout the business down.
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9 More Indicted in ‘Fat Leonard’ Investigation;
Retired Admiral Arrested at Home
by Sam LaGrone
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Retired Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless
{news.usni.org} ~ A federal court has indicted nine more officers – including a retired admiral — in the ongoing bribery and corruption probe into the operations of the Glenn Defense Marine Asia husbanding operation... the so-called “Fat Leonard” case. On Tuesday, the nine were arrested, “in California, Texas, Florida, Colorado and Virginia. The United States will seek their removal to face charges in San Diego,” read a Tuesday statement from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of California. “All are charged as conspirators in working with GDMA’s Leonard Francis to commit, “a colossal fraud that ultimately cost the Navy – and U.S. taxpayers – tens of millions of dollars.” The highest ranking of those charged is retired Rear Adm. Bruce Loveless, 53, who was arrested at his home in Coronado, Calif. Loveless was the former Navy director of intelligence operations and had retired from the service in October... https://news.usni.org/2017/03/14/9-indicted-fat-leonard-investigation-retired-admiral-arrested-home?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=e98ce7b1bd-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-e98ce7b1bd-231491269&mc_cid=e98ce7b1bd&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Is a Korean Missile Crisis Ahead?
by Patrick Buchanan
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{freedomsback.com} ~ To back up Defense Secretary “Mad Dog” Mattis’ warning last month, that the U.S. “remains steadfast in its commitment” to its allies, President Donald Trump is sending B-1 and B-52 bombers to Korea.

Some 300,000 South Korean and 15,000 U.S. troops have begun their annual Foal Eagle joint war exercises that run through April.

“The two sides are like two accelerating trains coming toward each other with neither side willing to give way,” says Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, “Are they really ready for a head-on collision?”

So it would seem.

It is Kim Jong Un, 33-year-old grandson of that Stalinist state’s founding father, who launched the first Korean War, who brought on this confrontation.

In February, Kim’s half-brother was assassinated in Malaysia in a VX nerve agent attack and five of Kim’s security officials were executed with anti-aircraft guns. Monday, Kim launched four missiles toward U.S. bases, with three landing in the Sea of Japan.

U.S. response: Begin immediate deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile shield in Korea.

This set off alarms in China. For while THAAD cannot shoot down Scuds on the DMZ, its radar can detect missile launches inside China, thereby, says Beijing, imperiling her deterrent.

For accepting THAAD, China has imposed sanctions on Seoul, and promised the U.S. a commensurate strategic response.

Minister Wang’s proposal for resolving the crisis: The U.S. and Seoul cancel the exercises and North Korea suspends the nuclear and missile tests.

How did we reach this crisis point?

In his 2002 “axis of evil” address, George W. Bush declared, “The United States … will not permit the world’s most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world’s most destructive weapons.”

He then launched a war on Iraq, which had no such weapons. But North Korea, hearing Bush’s threat, built and tested five atom bombs and scores of missiles, a few of intercontinental range.

Pyongyang has tested new presidents before.

In April 1969, North Korea shot down a U.S. EC-121 over the Sea of Japan, killing its entire crew. President Nixon, a war in Vietnam on his hands, let it pass, which he regretted ever after.

But this crisis raises larger questions about U.S. foreign policy.

Why, a quarter of a century after the Cold War, do we still have 28,000 troops in Korea? Not only does South Korea have twice the population of the North, but an economy 40 times as large, and access to U.S. weapons far superior to any in the North.

Why should Americans on the DMZ be among the first to die in a second Korean War? Should the North attack the South, could we not honor our treaty obligations with air and naval power offshore?

Gen. James Mattis’ warning last month was unambiguous:

“Any attack on the United States or our allies will be defeated and any use of nuclear weapons would be met with a response that would be effective and overwhelming.”

JFK’s phrase in the Cuban crisis, “full retaliatory response,” comes to mind.

Hence the next move is up to Kim.

New tests by North Korea of missiles or atom bombs for an ICBM could bring U.S. strikes on its nuclear facilities and missile sites, igniting an attack on the South.

For China, this crisis, whether it leads to war, a U.S. buildup in the South, or a U.S. withdrawal from Korea, is problematic.

Beijing cannot sit by and let her North Korean ally be bombed, nor can it allow U.S. and South Korean forces to defeat the North, bring down the regime, and unite the peninsula, with U.S. and South Korean soldiers sitting on the Yalu, as they did in 1950 before Mao ordered his Chinese army into Korea.

However, should U.S. forces withdraw from the South, Seoul might build her own nuclear arsenal, followed by Japan. For Tokyo could not live with two Koreas possessing nukes, while she had none.

This could leave China contained by nuclear neighbors: to the north, Russia, to the south, India, to the east, South Korea and Japan. And America offshore.

What this crisis reveals is that China has as great an interest in restraining North Korea as do we.

While the United States cannot back down, it is difficult to reconcile a second Korean war with our America first policy. Which is why some of us have argued for decades that the United States should moves its forces out of South Korea and off the Asian continent.

Events in Asia — Chinese claims to reefs and rocks in the South and East China Seas and North Korea’s menacing her neighbors — are pushing us toward a version of the Nixon Doctrine declared in Guam in 1969 that is consistent with America first:

While we will provide the arms for friends and allies to fight in their own defense in any future wars, henceforth, they will provide the troops.
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Just Trying To Keep Up
by Tom McLaughlin
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 liar-nObamaCare Replacement Gets Cold Reception 
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By Louis DeBroux: Republicans spent six years passing legislation that repealed liar-nObamaCare in total or in part, including a full repeal last year that passed the House and the Senate, only to be vetoed by Barack liar-nObama. Now in control of both ends of Pennsylvania Avenue, Republicans have released the broad framework of an liar-nObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill.
          The result has been, shall we say ... underwhelming, as evidenced by the hostile reception it has received from the House Freedom Caucus and conservative advocacy groups.
          For years, Republicans have railed against liar-nObamaCare and its pro-socialized medicine, anti-free market provisions, promising to replace liar-nObamaCare at the first opportunity with a patient-centered bill that would take advantage of free-market dynamics to lower costs and expand choice. That is not what this bill does.
          To be sure, there are some good provisions of the GOP bill. As outlined in an Investor's Business daily editorial, "It repeals liar-nObamaCare's multitude of largely hidden but no less destructive taxes on health insurance plans, medical devices, flexible spending accounts and so on. It gets rid of liar-nObamaCare's individual mandate and the job-killing employer mandate. It expands the amount of money that can be contributed to Health Savings Accounts, the one health reform that has actually worked to lower costs. It's age-based, refundable tax credit for individual insurance is an improvement over liar-nObamaCare's unpredictable, Rube Goldberg subsidy scheme."
          "But the biggest problem with the GOP plan," IBD points out, "is that it preserves the beating heart of liar-nObamaCare — the 'guaranteed issue' mandate. Under liar-nObamaCare, insurance companies can't deny coverage in the individual market to anyone who is sick, or charge them more. Premiums can only vary based on age."
          To be fair, we must acknowledge that as a practical matter, liar-nObamaCare can't be repealed and replaced in a single act. Certain provisions can be repealed through the procedure called reconciliation, which prevents a filibuster and requires only a simple majority to pass, but only provisions related to budgetary matters can be included in a bill under reconciliation. That means liar-nObamaCare is like legislative kudzu; you can chop off the vine that is visible aboveground, but in order to truly eradicate it you have to dig up the roots, which have grown far and wide below the surface.
          So while we should not be overly concerned that it may take some time to eradicate every vestige of liar-nObamaCare, we should be very concerned over whether the Republican Congress has the political willpower to do what needs to be done in the face of a unified Democrat Party and Leftmedia that will flood the airwaves with sob stories of every American who benefited from liar-nObamaCare and opposes its repeal. Republicans need to be bold in their defense of free-market reforms, and they need to trot out, one after another after another, people who were hurt by liar-nObamaCare but who will benefit from a true free-market health care system.
          Upon announcement of the bill, President Donald Trump tweeted, "Our wonderful new Healthcare Bill is now out for review and negotiation. liar-nObamaCare is a complete and total disaster — is imploding fast!"
          The most important phrase in that tweet is "out for review and negotiation." This framework can't be the final product. It is essentially liar-nObamaCare Lite. As Philip Klein at the Washington Examiner pointed out, this bill, if kept in its current form, would be a signal that liberalism has "won the central philosophical argument, and Republicans are reduced to fighting over the mechanics." That's because, he says, "[I]t is not a free market plan. It still rests on the premise that the federal government should play a significant role in subsidizing and regulating insurance markets in an attempt to ensure broad coverage."
          The fact is that there are roughly 11 million Americans who have come to depend on liar-nObamaCare, and it would be cruel to take away liar-nObamaCare and throw them into the proverbial street. A transition period and temporary subsidies will be needed to make sure they don't fall through the cracks.
          At the same time, Republicans must be relentless in their pursuit of a free-market system that uses market dynamics to reduce costs and expand access. You can't get there by having the federal government being the biggest spender in the health care space, nor can you get there by continuing a policy that allows people to go without insurance until they get sick before buying a policy without penalty (liar-nObamaCare) or a small, one-time penalty (GOP-care). At some point we have to tell Americans that they are responsible for their own health and health care, and the federal nanny state will no longer save them if they act irresponsibly.
          Republicans have a rare opportunity. liar-nObamaCare was passed exclusively by Democrats on a party-line vote, and it has been an unmitigated disaster by any and every measure. But hey, we passed it "to find out what's in it," as Nancy Pulosi then admonished. Now she demands the opposite. But we digress...
          Republicans were able to use its failure as a sledge hammer to bludgeon Democrats in the midterms, making historic gains in 2010 and 2014. But if, after seven years of promising to repeal and replace liar-nObamaCare, they replace the carpet and the drapes and slap a new coat of paint on it, while leaving the crumbling, dilapidated structure in place, then they will own it, and the American people will not forgive them.
          But a word of caution: One of the strategic errors that conservative Republicans consistently fall into is that we eat our own with an all-or-nothing approach where we usually end up with nothing. Or as Congressman Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) has put it, "We throw three Hail Marys and punt."
          Conservatives will have to be patient and realize that repealing and replacing liar-nObamaCare will not be a quick process, and that we can't eat our own as we go down this road. At the same time, elected Republicans need to understand that the American people have given them more elected seats at all levels of government than they've had in nearly a century, and that we expect to be rewarded with bold colors, no pale pastels. liar-nObamaCare Lite is not bold.  ~The Patriot Post
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 UK Helped liar-nObama WIRETAP Trump?
Insider Explains FBI, NSA Coup
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{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Did the UK help liar-nObama wiretap Trump Tower? Larry Johnson (former CIA) explains HOW liar-nObama used FBI and NSA to illegally bug Trump... WHY that is Sedition — and WHICH criminals helped liar-nObama commit this Treasonous crime. Larry Johnson (former CIA): “All of this was part of a coordinated planned campaign by people that are linked to Barack liar-nObama.” “Both Jim Clapper and John Brennan (at CIA) were intimately involved in trying to derail the candidacy of Donald Trump. There was some collusion overseas with Britain’s own GCHQ. That information gathered from GCHQ was actually passed to John Brennan, and it was disseminated within the US Government. This dissemination was illegal………”...  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/uk-helped-obama-wiretap-trump-insider-fbi-nsa-coup/
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liar-nObama DOJ Stonewalled Atkisson
On Govt Spying On Her...
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ In an interview with journalist Sharyl Attkisson, Steve Malzberg references a statement made by former Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich, a Democrat, that he was spied upon by the government... Kucinich has that targeting in common with Attkisson, as a lead into their discussion of when her was being remotely controlled right before her eyes. She provides us a status report on her story and her hopes of how things have the potential for improvement under the Trump administration. She notes that she had no suspicion that she was being surveilled, it took place before “pre-Edward Snowden, pre-Associated Press, pre-Fox and we didn’t know what the government was doing with reporters yet.” She reveals, “I had sources approach me and tell me, government connected sources, that I was likely being monitored, that the administration was doing things that were unheard of in previous administrations involving journalists...  http://rickwells.us/obama-doj-stonewalled-atkisson-govt-spying-hopes-sessions-help/
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China, Puppet N Korea Make Huge
Mistake Thinking Trump Is Like liar-nObama
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou  Dobbs has a few thoughts as tensions are rising in Asia to the breakpoint. “Secretary of State Rex Tillerson will this week attend meetings in Japan, South Korea and China... Tillerson’s meetings motivated by those rising tensions. North Korea is now preparing for a nuclear test, after firing four ballistic missiles over the past week.”  “And China,” Dobbs points out, “not restraining its client state but rather seemingly supporting Kim Jong-un’s irrational conduct and threats. China warning that the United States must pay the price for deployment of ground to air defenses in South Korea. The United States began the positioning of the THAAD missile defense system in South Korea last week, which has a 100% success rate, by the way, in the interception of and destruction of ballistic missiles.” “The Trump administration also stepping up its response,” says Dobbs, “by supplying armed drones to South Korea, stationing Gray Eagle attack drones about fifty miles south of Seoul. And US Special Forces, including SEAL Team 6, reportedly participating in joint military drills with South Korea.”... http://rickwells.us/dobbs-china-puppet-n-korea-make-huge-mistake-thinking-trump-like-obama/
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Trump Was CORRECT, liar-nObama Admin Was Spying on Trump Tower During Election
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{clashdaily.com} ~ Will the Media (D) be offering Trump an apology now that his claims check out? Probably not. Becuase… #VeryFakeNews STILL no evidence of any nefarious connections between Russia and Trump… despite the servers at Trump Tower being investigated. And now we know that liar-HILLARY’s people met with those same Russians that everyone got worked up about so far. Hannity brought in Sara Carter to shed some light on the story. Well… HOW did Dems know about these investigations? And who initiated this? That, and of course, who broke the law by leaking those recorded conversations?  http://clashdaily.com/2017/03/yo-cnn-trump-correct-obama-admin-spying-trump-tower-election-video/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1438&utm_keyword=major1&utm_content=394883&utm_source=Email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=subscriber_id:394883&utm_campaign=YO,%20CNN:%20Trump%20Was%20CORRECT,%20Obama%20Admin%20Was%20Spying%20on%20Trump%20Tower%20During%20Election%20(VIDEO)
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liar-nObama/Iran Nuke Deal Secrets
Are NOT Classified, Just Kept From You
by DR. MICHAEL LEDEEN
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The leaders of the Islamic Republic are frightened. They face an American national security team that knows a lot about them, and, unlike the liar-nObama administration, strongly dislikes them... General Michael Flynn's book was an underground hit in Farsi, and the quadrumvirate of Pompeo, Mattis, McMaster, and Kelly show no signs of wanting to pursue the shameful strategic alliance that liar-nObama forged with Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei. On the contrary, all four stress Iran's role as chief sponsor of international terror. All four know the ayatollahs are deadly serious when they lead chants of "Death to America." The Iranian leaders knew that they could get away with murder as long as liar-nObama was in charge, and that liar-nObama's administration would protect large parts of the agreements between the two countries. Yet of late, we have heard Iranian officials warning us not to make public the secret elements of the nuclear "deal." Listen to the words of Adam Kredo:...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/release-them-obamairan-nuke-deal-secrets-are-not-classified-just-kept-from-you?f=must_reads
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Just Trying To Keep Up
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ In regard to my understanding of the world — what is going on and why — the best I can do is maintain a “working hypothesis.” The “what” is easier. The “why” to explain the “what” is more daunting because as new information emerges, I have to modify.
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My biggest challenge is understanding developments in what we broadly call the Middle East. When I taught 20th century US History and current events, I’d start the school year with the essential question: “Why do radical Muslims want to kill us?” Teachers back then were required to formulate “essential questions,” then plan lessons around them. We were at war and some former students were fighting it. Others would be. I wanted them to know what they were fighting.
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That involved lessons going back almost four millennia to Abraham’s time, then relating those lessons to current events. I had to teach about Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. There was so much information to take in that, without some kind of mental framework within which to arrange that information, it wouldn’t stick. So, I drilled them on regional geography as today’s national borders are drawn. I wanted them to be able to call up a Middle East map in their mind’s eye and know where Iraq was, Iran was, Syria was, Israel was, and so on. As they absorbed both historical and current events, they could mentally pin each onto their mental maps in its appropriate place. Babylon was in today’s Iraq and Persia is today’s Iran, and so on. Borders between land and sea were static, but national borders changed constantly.
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Religion is only one dynamic. In my early teaching years, most students came with a basic understanding of Christianity. At the end, only a minority did and I’d have to start from scratch. I’d compare and contrast beliefs of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, then historical conflicts between them going back to 600 AD with the establishment of Islam. I’d explain that radical Muslims take Muhammed’s writings literally, especially those in the Medina Koran, which advocated converting Jews, Christians, and others at the point of a sword. Muhammed’s earlier writings in what is often called the Mecca Koran offered a reasoned approach. When some call Islam a “religion of peace,” they’re referring to the Mecca Koran.
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ISIS, al Qaida, Hamas, and the Muslim Brotherhood follow teachings from the Medina Koran.Judging from his actions, so, also, did Muhammed himself. Radical Muslims today more closely follow what Muhammed actually did when he conquered the Arabian Peninsula and imposed Islam. It’s also what his followers did for the next thirteen centuries. Only after the last caliphate — the Ottoman Empire — was defeated in World War I did forced conversion end, and then only temporarily. What remained of the Empire became modern Turkey and nation-states created by the winners: France and Great Britain. Turkish leader Kemal Ataturk abolished the caliphate, separating church and state. Violent Islamic expansionism went into remission, one could say, from about 1920 to about the 1970s or so — a half century. Now ISIS calls itself the new caliphate — which carries the mantle of Islamic leadership — and Muslims from around the world are flocking to it.
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Then there’s conflict between the two main branches of Islam: Sunni and Shia which have been fighting each other for centuries, not unlike the way Christian Catholics and Protestants in Europe did. Four out of five Muslims are Sunni while Islam edges Christianity as the world’s largest religion. Both sides support radical groups. Iran is the largest Shiite country with its Revolutionary Guard, its proxy armies Hezbollah and the Houthis, and sometimes Hamas. Sunni radicals include ISIS, al Qaida, Boko Haram, Al Shebaab, sometimes Hamas, and others.
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Then come the economics of the region — especially oil. Whatever was going on before oil was discovered in vast quantities, that all changed as petrodollars flooded the region and powered an Islamic resurgence.
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Another dynamic is the reestablishment of Israel as a Jewish nation-state in 1948. It’s right in the middle of what had been almost exclusively the Muslim World for centuries. Many Muslims, Iran especially, pledge to wipe it off the map.
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And there are ethnic conflicts within Islam. Sunni Kurds, for example, are a minority in the border areas of Iran, Iraq, Syria, and Turkey — all of which, along with Russia now, are fighting ISIS, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. Kurds want to be a nation-state too, but none of the aforementioned countries will cede them their ancestral territory which overlaps all. The US is arming Kurds. Last week, President Trump put US Marines on the ground in Syria. US soldiers must now fight alongside all these groups — some of which are still fighting each other — against ISIS. What could possibly go wrong? Last week I also learned that erstwhile National Security Advisor Michael Flynn was being paid by Turkey while he advised President Trump.
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I may be modifying that hypothesis again soon.
 

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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Washington Still Reels From the Quake of 2016
by Peggy Noonan
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How Trump is performing on his promises halfway through first 100 days. (The Daily Signal)
 
Trump will travel country to sell revised health care bill. (The Washington Times)
 
Oil touches three-month lows, as U.S. supply swells. (Reuters)
 
Sessions's firing of 46 liar-nObama-appointed U.S. attorneys typical of new AG transitions. liar-Clinton/Reno fired 93. (National Review)
 
liar-nObama AG Lynch, involved in wiretapping Trump, to receive Jefferson Medal in Law from University of Virginia. (UVA School of Law)
 
Conservative college club accuses administration of intolerance, and is promptly banned. (Truth Revolt)
 
Almost 100 California entities are interested in building Trump's border wall. (Los Angeles Times)
 
Suspect in House IT security probe also had access to DNC emails. (The Daily Signal)
 
Brave New World? Historic ruling grants "tri-custody" to trio who had threesome. (New York Post)
 
Media Humor: Children interrupt a BBC News interview. (YouTube)
 
Policy: Veterans' bill deserves bipartisan support. (Washington Examiner)
 
Policy: A fair and legal replacement for DACA. (National Review
~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama Should Be Facing 20 Years
Behind Bars; Trump Does Absolutely Nothing
by The Voice of Reason
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{thesleuthjournal.com} ~ Is President Trump being too patient with his predecessor? While liar-nObama hardly deserves any respect, it could be argued that President Trump does not want to be viewed as being too combative... against someone who held the Oval Office before him. But when your predecessor is openly advocating for your resignation or impeachment by any means necessary, perhaps it is time to take action. In the following video, Right Wing News looks at how liar-nObama’s actions with regards to the OFA and wiretapping could meet the legal definition of seditious activities. liar-nObama, in his arrogance, has barely attempted to hide it, with Eric Holder openly saying “He’s coming,” about liar-nObama’s return. Of course, under the law, such seditious activities can land someone in jail for 20 years, however liar-nObama hardly seems worried. Perhaps it’s time that President Trump took decisive action against the head of the fifth column before he destroys this country even further...  http://www.thesleuthjournal.com/obama-facing-20-years-behind-bars-trump-absolutely-nothing/
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US Delta Force, SEAL Team 6
Prepare To Take Out Kim Jong-In
by Tyler Durden
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{shtfplan.com} ~ On March 1, the WSJ reported that the options contemplated by the White House in response to recent North Korean acts, include “the possibility of both military force and regime change... to counter the country’s nuclear-weapons threat.” The review came amid recent events have strained regional stability including last month’s launch by North Korea of a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan, and the assassination of the estranged half brother of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Malaysia. And, according to a report in Yonhap, said “regime change” may come far sooner than expected: the South Korean website writes that U.S. special operations forces, including the unit that killed Osama Bin Laden, will take part in joint military drills in South Korea “to practice incapacitating North Korean leadership in the case of conflict”, a military official said Monday. The U.S. Navy’s Special Warfare Development Group, better known as the SEAL Team 6, will arrive in South Korea for joint military drills and take part in an exercise simulating a precision North Korean incurion and “the removal of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un”, according to the Ministry of National Defense Monday...  http://www.shtfplan.com/headline-news/us-delta-force-seal-team-6-prepare-to-take-out-kim-jong-un-practice-tactical-north-korea-infiltration_03132017
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2nd Lib liar-nObama Usurper
“So-Called” Judge Blocks Trump EO...
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ As was expected, a second libtard “bench warming commander-in-chief” has been secured by the anti-American left to block the second Trump executive order banning travel from terrorist nations and the forced importation of people with a high terrorist probability... This time the globalist puppet resides and operates in Paul Ryan’s home state of Wisconsin. He’s a “so-called” judge named William Conley, mud for short. As expected, Conley was appointed by Hussein liar-nObama to his current position in 2009. Nothing says thank you like overstepping your authority and advancing the shadow government. On Friday Conley issued a Temporary Restraining Order on the new Trump executive order, EO 13780, on behalf of a man with a family member in Syria who has applied for asylum and unhappy that their demands to be let into the US for a slice of the free pie and caliphate creation have been delayed. No mention is made as to whether or not that plaintiff is an American citizen, but it’s a safe assumption that this is a case of chain migration via refugee system abuse. If they don’t state it’s an American, it’s usually because it’s not an American. Still, somehow, according to these liberal screwballs, the President of the United States has less rights to protect the nation than one foreigner on foreign soil has to demand he be allowed entry into our country...  http://rickwells.us/2nd-lib-obama-usurper-called-judge-blocks-trump-eo-solution/
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White House's Own Words Admit
Validity of CIA Leaks
by C. Mitchell Shaw
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Recent statements by the CIA and White House, coupled with the FBI's investigation into the source of the leaked CIA documents published by WikiLeaks, serve as admissions that the disclosures are genuine... In the wake of the WikiLeaks revelations about the CIA’s secret and possibly illegal hacking operation, the agency is scrambling for cover and damage control. And even as the CIA and many in the mainstream media give the impression that the documents and files released by WikiLeaks may not be genuine, the FBI has launched an investigation into the source of the leak. Moreover, at least one current and one former intelligence official have indicated that the documents either came from a server operated by a CIA contractor or from a CIA employee. And an official statement by the CIA also indictaes that the information is valid. “Investigators say that the leak was the work not of a hostile foreign power like Russia but of a disaffected insider, as WikiLeaks suggested when it released the documents Tuesday.”...

Trump’s Unique Opportunity
to Reform Social Security
by Jonathan Iwaskiw
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{dailysignal.com} ~ As President Donald Trump is preparing his first budget submission to the Congress, he should consider making Social Security reform a priority... The future of the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance and disability programs, and their impact on American families, the federal budget, and the economy, are issues too big to ignore. Social Security reform is needed, and ever more urgently. Social Security is fiscally unsustainable. The primary program under Social Security—the Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Program—has been running cash-flow deficits for the past six years, meaning it has to cash in IOUs from the federal treasury and thereby increase the national debt...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/13/trumps-unique-opportunity-to-reform-social-security/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTXprMll6VTVNbVl6TTJVeSIsInQiOiJGbUNLTGRCaHJ5ejhOQXUwYTRaY2ZodEs3eE5YR2o3NjRQbFBsVVcwMlhFaUhPZyszcmllbnFTbjE0XC95SDc3ZXIwUjJoM2hNZkFjZ3JacUh1WFNBQU1vakhEWUZQNFpnTDdkeUd0QkRmMHVRbXBWNElFenozQWVYUTc1Y0hFR1oifQ%3D%3D
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Washington Still Reels From the Quake of 2016
by Peggy Noonan
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{peggynoonan.com} ~ If Democrats have a brain in their head, they’ll let Supreme Court nominee Neil Gorsuch sail through the Senate. He’s too attractive. He has been frank and respectful in his meetings with them. He’s been candid about the man who nominated him, Donald Trump, to the reported irritation of the president. He is a thinker of clear conservative leanings who cannot be painted as radical because he’s radical as warm milk. His decisions tend to be plain, direct yet highly literate; in one he diagramed a sentence. He’s a friendly persuader with a serious intellectual background (Marshall Scholar at Oxford) and personal dignity.

Sharp and uniform opposition to him would look radical.

Democrats should make critical or reserved speeches at the confirmation hearings next month and then softly vote yes. They should make a show of their desire to be fair, impartial, Constitution-minded. Then they should try to kill the next nomination as a bridge too far, while hiding behind the good faith they showed in accepting Judge Gorsuch.

Do Senate Democrats have a brain in their heads? They do.

It’s good to be Judge Gorsuch. It’s going to be bad to be the man or woman who follows him.


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Everyone in journalism has tried to sum up the first month of Donald Trump. The problem for all of us is that the act of defining tends to impose form on what is by nature formless. New administrations always are. This one is different only in the difficulty of getting its nominees through, and getting others to join them. Two weeks ago, walking around the Old Executive Office Building, all I could think was how empty and quiet the place seemed. My old office was shut with a big weird lock. The office across the hall had the door open and was brightly lit but was also apparently unoccupied. My impression after an afternoon in the White House complex: The lights are on but nobody’s home.

It can be said of many if not most in Washington that they still have a concussed look. They’re like people after an earthquake. At some point you go out looking for water and provisions and you wind up getting lost because the ground around you has been torn up and old markers flattened.

Among the lost: the American Conservative Union, whose annual Conservative Political Action Conference used to be too sober and now is too giddy.

Hapless congressmen and senators being yelled at in town halls.

And Speaker Paul Ryan, who Wednesday rode a horse along the Rio Grande. He meant to show skeptical conservatives he means it about border security, but he looked like someone on his way to club the serfs.

CPAC, in its famous Milo invitation, was trying to be inclusive and trying to be cool. Inclusive is good, especially toward those who’ve been told, or concluded on their own, that they’re not all that welcome. But you can’t include those who speak sweetly of child sexual abuse. You don’t want them in your tent. As for trying to be cool, conservatives are not cool, that’s what’s cool about them. It’s their job to be serious, thoughtful, mature in their judgment—mature, period. It was excellent, however, on Thursday to see Dan Schneider, the ACU’s executive director, do what the president should have done long ago and go after the so-called alt-right, scoring them as racist, anti-Semitic whack-jobs: “This group,” he said, “they are not us. The alt-right ain’t right at all.”

Well done, mature grown-up. That was cool.


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An odd thing about the president—and this has contributed to the general lostness of Washington—is that he doesn’t perform a primary and obvious function of presidents, which is to argue for things. You make a decision, unveil a program, and make a case for its excellence. The other side then argues back. In the ensuing back-and-forth, voters get the contours of what’s being proposed.

This president doesn’t argue, he only announces. He asserts. Previous presidents in their early speeches were always making the case for a certain advancement. Not to do so is a waste of the biggest mic in the world.

The populists or economic nationalists of the Trump administration have, on some level and at the moment, swept the party. Now they’re trying to own it. But you don’t hear from them much about the meaning and content of their endeavor. And the symbolism that keeps cropping up around the White House, or rather Mar-a-Lago, is odd. In Palm Beach, Fla., cabinet members and top administration officials swept into the birthday party of Steve Schwarzman, chairman of the president’s Strategic and Policy Forum. It was black tie, lavish, with trapeze artists and “a massive fireworks display on the Intracoastal Waterway,” as Town & Country reported. Mr. Schwarzman has been admired in this space for his great generosity to Catholic education. And it’s his money, as they say. But it is odd to see such un-self-conscious excess when you’re thinking Populist New Wave.

Early word on the president’s budgetary framework is also startling, and adds to the confusion. He’ll cut waste, he says. Good. Beyond that, his plans sound pretty standard Republican. But Mr. Trump didn’t campaign as a standard Republican. He didn’t stress slashing funding or forcing down the debt. It is legitimate to wonder if Republicans in Congress are trying to tug the White House more toward what used to be called green-eyeshade Republicanism—“we’re just a bunch of accountants and bean-counters”—and away from more Trumpian campaign vows such as infrastructure spending.

This week Mike Allen, in his morning Axios newsletter, reported Capitol Hill is currently overstuffed with legislation, and GOP strategists say there’s a new plan to roll out a big program to rebuild roads and airports. They’ll push it off until next year. The thinking is that Democrats are likelier to back such a costly scheme closer to the midterm elections.

That struck me as exactly wrong. The first year’s legislative agenda defines a new administration. Early programs stand out before everything, in the following three years, becomes a blur. Infrastructure is part of why Donald Trump was hired—he’s the builder, the magnate. It was for his supporters not a secondary but a primary issue—build something, do something. The unions and trade organizations back it, as would Americans who are nervous now whenever they go through a tunnel. Big endeavors can be promising in ways that aren’t always calculable. You can add a mentoring program to get teenagers, especially boys, off their couches and into the world of workers, especially men, who know how to do something and can teach it. That would be valuable to our culture.

The Democrats will have a hard time opposing such a bill in 2018? They’ll have a hard time opposing it now. And constituents aren’t stupid. They’ll remember in ’18 what a congressman didn’t do in ’17.

Anyway, one wonders if the White House is getting snookered by longtime Hill urchins, or snookering itself.

Twenty-sixteen was an earthquake. The ground beneath Washington’s feet shifted. People here need to get over their shock and start recognizing the new lay of the land.

http://www.peggynoonan.com/washington-still-reels-from-the-quake-of-2016/

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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Prosecute liar-nObama and his
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 Wiretapping Trump: Did liar-nObama Lie 
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By Paul Albaugh: The state of politics in the Washington Swamp is in absolute disarray. The deceit, cover-ups, scandals and illegal activity amongst government officials both former and current really seem to be the norm these days. And while the Leftmedia scramble to find new stories to discredit President Donald Trump, the American public is becoming more disgusted by the actions of the people who are supposed to be serving us.
          On Saturday, Trump tweeted out several statements accusing Barack liar-nObama of wiretapping Trump and his associates at some point during his presidential campaign. Of course, as we noted yesterday the Leftmedia were quick to jump all over Trump for presenting no evidence to support his wiretapping claim and for accusing a former president of doing something so egregious.
          "Unsubstantiated," "baseless" and "no evidence" are the Leftmedia buzzwords to try and convince the American public that the liar-nObama administration did no wrong. Except he was citing that same Leftmedia. For instance, in January, The New York Times reported about an intelligence investigation into Trump. Was he wiretapped? We don't know.
          Interestingly, the media slap these labels upon Trump with regard to wiretapping, yet the same media across a multitude of networks have no qualms about telling everyone that the Russians hacked the 2016 election, helped Trump get elected and that Trump welcomed their support. Without evidence.
          Conveniently, it seems that every time Trump does something positive — such as give an impressive speech or hold to one of his campaign promises — the Leftmedia attempt to halt his momentum by bringing up Russian involvement with the election.
          It's not only the media. Shortly after Trump's wiretapping tweets, FBI director James Comey on Sunday requested that the Justice Department publicly rebuke Trump's surveillance claims. It's strange that the head of the FBI would make such an extraordinary request to discredit the president — unless the wiretapping did occur and there were many people within the liar-nObama administration who knew about it.
          Then again, with all Comey did to help liar-Hillary Clinton, maybe it's not so strange after all.
          Former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper was asked during an interview about any wiretapping. Clapper stated, "To my knowledge" there was no wiretapping activity mounted against Trump or his campaign and that if the FBI had sought a FISA court order to wiretap the Trump campaign he would have known about it.
          Then again, Clapper also initially falsely claimed the NSA had no program conducting widespread surveillance of all Americans.
          liar-nObama denied through a spokesman any wiretapping against Trump. Nothing unusual with that, though — liar-nObama always denied any allegations of unlawful actions during his presidency.
          Sens. Marco Rubio of Florida and Susan Collins of Maine, both of whom serve on the Intelligence Committee, were also asked if they had any knowledge of wiretapping being conducted on Trump. Both were unaware, and Collins noted that the Intelligence Committee would be looking into the issue as part of the investigation into Russian influence on the election.
          Given liar-nObama's involvement with other numerous scandals and cover-ups during his presidency — the IRS scandal, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, to name a few — why should anyone, especially the media, immediately dismiss Trump's claims against liar-nObama? Even if he didn't "order the code red," as with the IRS targeting scandal, liar-nObama's minions knew the objective and didn't need direct orders.
          University of Tennessee law professor Glenn Reynolds also points out that liar-nObama's administration was involved with wiretapping journalists and spying on Congress. Given that information, along with liar-nObama's blatant disregard for the Rule of Law, it's reasonable to surmise that he might not have taken "no" for an answer from the FISA court.
          Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, writing for National Review, explains:
          First, as liar-nObama officials well know, under the FISA process, it is technically the FISA court that "orders" surveillance. And by statute, it is the Justice Department, not the White House, that represents the government in proceedings before the FISA court. So, the issue is not whether liar-nObama or some member of his White House staff "ordered" surveillance of Trump and his associates. The issues are (a) whether the liar-nObama Justice Department sought such surveillance authorization from the FISA court, and (b) whether, if the Justice Department did that, the White House was aware of or complicit in the decision to do so. Personally, given the explosive and controversial nature of the surveillance request we are talking about — an application to wiretap the presidential candidate of the opposition party, and some of his associates, during the heat of the presidential campaign, based on the allegation that the candidate and his associates were acting as Russian agents — it seems to me that there is less than zero chance that could have happened without consultation between the Justice Department and the White House.
          And as talk radio host Mark Levin, a constitutional attorney and former chief of staff to Attorney General Edwin Meese III in the Ronald Reagan administration, put it, "The issue isn't whether the liar-nObama administration spied on the Trump campaign or transition of surrogates; the issue is the extent of it."
          At this point, the two congressional Intelligence Committees need to conduct a thorough investigation and the entire intelligence community needs to get work and get to the bottom of all of this. Doing anything else would be a disservice to America. The trouble with both courses of action is that partisanship will steer things awry. Are there enough honest people in the Swamp to sort this out? We hate to be pessimistic, but don't count on it. 
~The Patriot Post
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Iranian sleeper cells operating in U.S.
by Leo Hohmann
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{wnd.com} ~ American intelligence agencies have growing evidence that the Iranian-backed Hezbollah terrorist group maintains a network of sleeper cells in the United States, according to a new report... Though Hezbollah has not conducted a major attack on U.S. soil, the group could decide to strike key American sites should U.S.-Iran relations deteriorate substantially, according to the Investigative Project on Terrorism. “Preparations to combat Islamist terrorism broadly should strongly consider the nuanced and growing Hezbollah threat to U.S. national security,” the report concludes. Hezbollah or “the Party of God” is based in southern Lebanon and has long served as Iran’s way of Islamizing a formerly Christian country while also stoking the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and periodically launching rockets into northern Israel...
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The Outrage is Bull
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ The last four Presidential administrations have engaged in mass firings of United States Attorneys. The Bush Administration did it twice. In the five times that U.S. Attorneys have been removed... only twice did the media freak out and both times it was a coordinated freakout with leftwing activists. The first media freakout was when George W. Bush did it in his second term. He was not even removing Democrat appointees, but his own. The reason, contrary to the claims of leftwing hysterics, was that the administration was trying to let lower level political appointees build up some political resume experience toward the end of the Bush Administration. The administration freed up positions so other lawyers could move up the chain of command. But the media, led by leftwing talking points, was convinced the Bush Administration must have been doing something illegal and engaging in a cover up. Now, again, the left is freaking out and leading the media to freak out over Donald Trump demanding resignations of liar-nObama appointed US Attorneys. In fact, if we look back at the liar-Clinton, Bush, and liar-nObama Administrations, the media both expected and largely ignored the mass resignations because it happens with every administration...
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The GOP “Repeal and Replace” Healthcare
Bloodbath Is Just Heating Up
by Onan Coca
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{lidblog.com} ~ Two new interviews with GOP leaders show the dangerous position that Republicans find themselves in with the mess that is liar-nObamacare... Speaker of the House Paul Ryan (R-WI) and Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) essentially offered the opposite answer to the very same question when asked about the possibility of passing the recently announced healthcare bill. Representative Ryan believes that if the GOP does not pass their bill to “fix” liar-nObamacare, they risk losing the House majority to Democrats in 2018. Senator Cotton is of a different opinion, arguing that if the GOP passes what he believes to be a terrible healthcare bill, they risk losing the House in 2018. Pass a simple, clean REPEAL bill that returns the healthcare industry to where it was before liar-nObamacare was enacted. Then pass a series of smaller bills speaking to the various problems that the healthcare industry was suffering back then. For example, once liar-nObamacare is repealed, the GOP should pass a bill allowing people to buy insurance across state lines...
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New DNA technology aids in fighting crime
and thwarting terrorism
by SHERIFF LEON LOTT
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Last week, the Richland County Sheriff's Dept.'s (RCSD) Cold Case Unit solved a murder case that had baffled investigators here in South Carolina for 30 years, and it might never have been solved had it not been for DNA... In 1987, Patricia Ann Green - a 34-year-old woman - was shot to death and left in a roadside ditch in Sumter County near the main gate of Shaw Air Force Base. She was shot in the face at pointblank range. The motive for Green's gruesome killing? She was in the wrong place at the wrong time, and she had encountered the wrong man, a cold-blooded killer Phillip Johnson - today a 53-year-old inmate serving life-terms for four other murders - who was then on a killing spree. The Green murder is one of eleven out of 81 unsolved cases since 1960 that have been solved since 2000 by the RCSD's Cold Case Unit; a team of retired police investigators formed in 1997, a decade after Green was killed. Like many others, the key to solving this crime was the introduction of DNA evidence...
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The ACLU’s Radical Roots
by Robert Knight
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{theacru.org} ~ Examining the pedigree of groups helps us understand why they act the way they do today... The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) purports to uphold First Amendment freedoms for all Americans, but its seminal doctrines and selective choice of cases reveal something else altogether. The ACLU was founded in 1920 by leftwing activists, including socialists Norman Thomas and Crystal Eastman, lesbian social and peace activist, and Nobel Peace Prize winner Jane Addams, then-radical jurist Felix Frankfurter and communist Roger Baldwin. Frontpagemag.com, founded by former leftist David Horowitz, often strips bare the liberal front groups and exposes their radical nature. Here are some excerpts from a March 6, 2017 article by Daniel Greenfield that shed some light on the ACLU’s lineage:...  http://www.theacru.org/the-aclus-radical-roots/ 
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Prosecute liar-nObama and his
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 by Erik Rush
{wnd.com} ~ There once was a convention among American presidents wherein chief executives refrained from disparaging their predecessors, even if there was known enmity between them; this pertained to immediate predecessors in particular. This sort of criticism was considered gauche, if nothing else, and it just wasn’t done.

That convention was retired the moment Barack Hussein liar-nObama took office in 2009. The first few years of his dismal excuse for a presidency consisted of innumerable instances of liar-nObama deflecting every challenge, cynical query, or deficiency on his part with blame for the administration of George W. Bush. liar-nObama’s “socialist mop” comment of October 2009 was one of his more notable complaints in this area.

Historically, former American presidents also refrained from establishing political infrastructures dedicated to sabotaging their successors and illicitly maintaining power.

Last week, President Donald Trump accused former President liar-nObama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the 2016 election season. Whether or not this actually occurred, it is certainly in keeping with the sort of machinations we’ve seen on the part of the liar-nObama cabal. During the 2016 campaign season, we saw operatives from both the liar-nObama camp and liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign engage in all manner of disruptive activities aimed at delegitimizing Donald Trump, including tactics mirroring those used by German fascists and communists in the 1930s. In recent weeks, a “shadow government” consisting of liar-nObama surrogates who have worked to the detriment of the Trump administration has come to dominate discussions in alternative media venues.

In a sense, it has been almost amusing to hear Democratic lawmakers and prominent liberals flood press venues over the last month with calls for Trump’s impeachment and cries against totalitarianism considering their lack of concern for the abject criminality, serial treason and war crimes committed by the president they sustained for eight years. In context however, their histrionics and those of the establishment press in its support of this propaganda ought not be a complete surprise given the manifest evil of the players involved and the fact that progressives have been at this game for 100 years.

Yet the stark contrast between the hard-nosed businessman who played fair and won and those pampered socialist elites who caused the damage the businessman received a mandate to fix remains.

There once was another convention among American presidents wherein chief executives refrained from prosecuting the actions taken by their predecessors whilst in office, whether minor misfeasance or suspected high crimes and misdemeanors. Arguably, there have been outgoing administrations worthy of having their actions and policies scrutinized and perhaps even criminally prosecuted, but between the arduous work involved, the appearance of pettiness and the specter of all outgoing administrations potentially facing the intense legal inquiry of incoming administrations, it’s something that just wasn’t done.

Perhaps it is time for the Trump administration to re-evaluate this convention. If the aforementioned criminality, treason and other crimes committed by the liar-nObama administration aren’t enough, one could argue that the direct orchestrated hostilities against the Trump administration – for which there are prosecutable statutes – is more than sufficient justification for a strong response, if not outright retaliation.

In getting to the bottom of this unfortunate wiretapping issue as well as the program of contrived hostilities against his administration, President Trump might appoint a Special Prosecutor to look into these as well as other activities in which liar-nObama, his surrogates and support organizations were engaged since he took office in 2009. Such an individual would certainly have his hands full for the balance of Trump’s presidency, particularly if his mandate was to investigate issues like the Fast and Furious gun-running scandal and former Attorney General Eric Holder’s associated contempt of Congress charge; the trillion-dollar stimulus scam and money laundering to the benefit of unions, far-left and Islamist organizations; the militarization of government agencies such as the Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative nonprofits at the same time liar-nObama’s own terrorist-connected brother had his nonprofit application personally fast-tracked for approval by none other than IRS official Lois Lerner; the unconstitutional aspects of liar-nObamacare and the shady political machinations attendant to passing the health-care law; the harassment of and domestic spying on journalists and private citizens for which there is documented evidence; the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound at Benghazi, Libya, for which the liar-nObama administration spun a wholly fictitious cover-up when evidence suggested that the entire event may have been either orchestrated or sanctioned by the liar-nObama White House; clandestine U.S. involvement in the civil war in Ukraine; U.S. involvement in the rise of the terrorist group ISIS and the facilitation of Islamist aggression in the Middle East theater; NSA spying on American citizens and our allies; the VA scandal; the super-shady Iran nuclear deal and ransom payment; the GSA scandal; taxpayer billions gifted to Solyndra and other green energy failures; and finally, the issue of Barack liar-nObama’s identity and eligibility to serve as president, and measures that were taken to obscure related facts from the American people.

Yes, I know that this would be unprecedented, as well as opening that nasty can of worms called Attempting to Destroy the Legacy of America’s Historic First Black President, but I think that Trump is tough enough and clever enough to pull it off. Given his administrative character to date, I believe the ensuing revelations of the scope of liar-nObama’s crimes would provide sufficient justification to the American people for pursuing this course of action.
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Was Franklin Graham Right
to Call for a Disney Boycott?
by Minister Michael Brown
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 Top Headlines 
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Unlike liar-nObamaCare, you don't have to pass the GOP replacement plan to see what's in it. (CNS News)
 
Senate rescinds liar-nObama's blacklist rule — Trump plans to sign the bill overturning rule that gave unions "unprecedented new leverage." (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Trump taps Bush administration lawyer and Cruz friend as Solicitor General. (Reuters)
 
If men went on strike, what would America look like? (Washington Examiner)
 
Judge refuses to block Dakota Access pipeline with project days from completion. (The Washington Times)
 
Looking for racism in America? Look left, on campus. (Washington Examiner)
 
New evidence on school-choice successes in Wisconsin. (National Review)
 
Hate crime hoax: Michigan snowflake scratched own face with "safe space" safety pin. (PJ Media)
 
In the Age of Trump, unlikely customers — blacks and homosexuals — exercise Second Amendment rights. (National Review)
 
The Pyongyang-Beijing Axis. U.S. and South Korean forces begin deploying new missile defenses. (The Wall Street Journal)
 
Policy: The GOP's forced march on health care begins. (RealClearHealth)
 
Policy: Entitlement reform key to fixing America's fiscal future. (E21~The Patriot Post
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 European Parliament Censors Its Own Free Speech
by Judith Bergman
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President Mahmoud Abbas, falsely claiming in his speech that
Israeli rabbis were calling to poison Palestinian water
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The European Parliament has introduced a new procedural rule, which allows for the chair of a debate to interrupt the live broadcasting of a speaking MEP "in the case of defamatory, racist or xenophobic language or behavior by a Member"... Furthermore, the President of the European Parliament may even "decide to delete from the audiovisual record of the proceedings those parts of a speech by a Member that contain defamatory, racist or xenophobic language". No one, however, has bothered to define what constitutes "defamatory, racist or xenophobic language or behavior". This omission means that the chair of any debate in the European Parliament is free to decide, without any guidelines or objective criteria, whether the statements of MEPs are "defamatory, racist or xenophobic". The penalty for offenders can apparently reach up to around 9,000 euros. "There have been a growing number of cases of politicians saying things that are beyond the pale of normal parliamentary discussion and debate."...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10023/european-parliament-free-speech
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Liberal GOES OFF During Debate With Tucker...
by 100% FED Up

{100percentfedup.com} ~ Tucker Carlson rips Jehmu Greene with facts and reason during a debate on abortion. Tucker calls her out on the lie that Planned Parenthood does mammograms. She uses old arguments and really goes there towards the end of the  video with references to genitalia:  http://100percentfedup.com/tucker-carlson-leftist-goes-off-the-rails-during-debate-lets-legislate-your-penis-video/
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Trump Wins One Round In
Legal Battle Over Immigration Order
by Jack Davis
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ The same federal judge who first blocked the implementation of President Donald Trump’s initial executive order on refugees and immigration has rejected an attempt to block his revised order from taking effect... U.S. District Court Judge James Robart, based in Seattle, was asked to place an emergency restraining order on Trump’s new order. The states challenging the order sought to have Robart’s initial injunction issued last month also apply to Trump’s new order. However, Robart refused to agree to their request. The action does not end the legal challenges facing Trump’s new order. The states of Washington, New York and Hawaii have all signaled their intention to take the federal government to court over the order...
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Next refugees for America: White South Africans?
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{wnd.com} ~ South Africa was supposed to be a powerful example to the world of how a country could move past racial divisions and become a “rainbow nation.”... But with Nelson Mandela long dead and a worsening economy, it looks more likely South Africa is on the way to becoming another Zimbabwe. One author says it’s time for the United States to start admitting white South Africans as refugees to the United States – before things escalate to genocide. International journalist Alex Newman, a onetime resident of South Africa and the author of “Crimes of the Educators,” says South Africa has reached a critical turning point in recent weeks...Their not restricted to come here.
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ACLU Launches New Phase Of Agitation
In Advance Of liar-nObama Return
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ On Saturday the Associated Press did their part in promoting the subversive efforts of their comrades in the leftist opposition, publishing what amounts to an advertisement for the latest campaign of the anti-Americans at the ACLU... They describe it as a “nationwide training event to make people aware of their rights as protesters.” That’s not exactly right, it’s a recruiting event for open borders pro-invasion agitators that they claim will be live streamed to all fifty states. In the propaganda piece that introduces the prospective agitator recruit to their organization and their latest  campaign against the President and white Americans, the ACLU’s website has a decidedly BLM-Moveon.org feel and look. The raised commie fists at the top left have a vintage commie Castro-Hitler-Lenin look to them, complete with the fingerprints of George Soros. Their lies and distortions begin immediately, with the first sentence repeating the falsehood that the anti-terrorism based halt to the Muslim invasion component of the repopulation of America with non-Christians and non-whites is a Muslim ban. While many would have no problem with an actual Muslim ban, in view of how corrosive their intrusion into Western societies has proven, that is not what the executive order is. Muslims still come into the country from other places every day, just not the ones most likely to kill us and our families...The ACLU and theses people need to be removed.  http://rickwells.us/aclu-launches-new-phase-agitation-advance-obama-return/
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Was Franklin Graham Right
to Call for a Disney Boycott?
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{townhall.com} ~ As soon as the news broke last week that Disney’s new Beauty and the Beast movie would feature an “exclusively gay moment,” Franklin Graham called for a boycott of Disney in a Facebook post that has since been shared almost 100,000 times.

The next day, a drive-in theater in Alabama announced that it would not show the movie, while, even before Franklin Graham’s comment was posted, the conservative group One Million Moms called for a Disney boycott, with a clear warning: “Alerting all parents! In a first for the Disney Channel, a Disney XD show subtly displayed several gay kisses in an episode that aired a couple of days ago.”

Over at LifeSiteNews, a petition to boycott Disney has already amassed over 100,000 signatures in just 5 days, carrying this headline: “SIGN THE BOYCOTT: Tell Disney 'NO' to LGBT agenda in Beauty and the Beast - #BoycottDisney.”

Should we applaud Graham and the movie theater and One Million Moms and LifeSiteNews? More specifically, should we join the boycott?

Writing an opinion piece for USA Today, Jonathan Merritt, known as a more moderate conservative and himself admittedly same-sex attracted, addressed what he described as the “Flaming hypocrisy” in evangelical calls for a Disney boycott, also arguing that, “Avoiding the subject of homosexuality will not prepare kids for the real world.”

He wrote: “Conservative Christian outrage over any positive portrayals of LGBT people in film and television is a tale as old as time, but this effort seems particularly misguided. It risks making Christians look like antiquated bigots, and it reeks of moral hypocrisy. And worse, it diverts energy from a more worthwhile effort: teaching Christian children to co-exist in a pluralistic society.”

John Pavlovitz, a left-leaning pastor who often confronts the “white evangelical church,” rebuked the boycotters in very harsh terms, speaking of “the naked hypocrisy of a Christian Disney boycott.”

In his words, “Conservative Christians have crawled out of the church pew woodwork to rend their garments and beat their breasts, at word that Disney’s live action adaptation of Beauty and the Beast will feature an openly gay character.”

He speaks of us as “opportunistic, self-righteous Bible-thumpers” who are guilty of “unprovoked jerkery,” stating that this “is what we now expect from the American Religious Right, who have long since jettisoned the loving, compassionate, redemptive justice work of a poor-loving Jesus—and gone all in with the glossy, homophobic pulpit bullies who arouse their passions.”

Over at the Huffington Post, Brittany Mancuso states that, “Boycotting ‘Beauty and the Beast’ Is Not What Jesus Would Do,” explaining that, “I’m all for freedom of religion.... What I’m not for is freedom to hate and that is exactly what you are doing by feeding your children some expletive lines that our law tolerates the ‘gays’ but God’s law does not. Gay people are people.”

How should we respond?

For me, the issue is not whether a boycott will “work” or not which some of these writers also discuss. Instead, the issue is whether a boycott is right and fitting and proper. As Martin Luther King once remarked, “Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular?

“But, conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when we must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.” In quoting King here, I am not claiming that the decision about boycotting this movie is on a par with the challenge of injustice during the Civil Rights movement; I’m simply evoking the principle of doing what is right because it is right.

That is the question we need to ask ourselves: As followers of Jesus, it is right for us to boycott Disney in general or Beauty and the Beast in particular?

Before answering that question, let me address the question of hypocrisy. Are we, as professing Christians, being hypocritical in calling for a boycott of this film or of Disney in general? My answer is absolutely yes, but not for the reasons that Merritt and Pavlovitz and Mancuso allege.

Merritt questions how anyone who voted for Trump could turn around and boycott this movie, but he fails to realize that: 1) many of us who voted for him were primarily voting against liar-Hillary; 2) we believed that he was becoming more conservative than he had been in his prior, hedonistic days of which he is not proud; and 3) we were voting for someone who would be tough-nosed enough to take on the Washington establishment and other major strongholds, meaning that this human wrecking ball might also have some serious shortcomings.

That being said, there’s nothing hypocritical in people voting for Trump as president while not wanting their impressionable kids and grandkids to be exposed to an “exclusively gay moment” in a Disney movie. Regarding Merritt’s argument that we need to expose our kids to gay relationships because they’re all around us today, so also are things like polygamy and polyamory, not to mention fornication, adultery, drug use, rape, racism, and so on. Do we expose our kids to all those things at the most tender ages possible, since they’ll inevitably encounter some of them later in life? The question answers itself.

As for Pavlovitz’s charges, I find them reeking of the very sanctimonious, broad-bushed, overstated hypocrisy of which he accuses others, something for which some of his readers have strongly and rightly taken him to task. For the record, he has never responded to my invitations to discuss his positions with me on the air, but John, if you’re reading this, let’s have a civil but candid discussion on my radio show.

As for Mancuso’s statement that she’s for “freedom of religion” but against “freedom to hate,” it is not hate to say, “I don’t want my kids to witness a gay kiss or a gay romance,” any more than it is hate for a Jewish atheist to say, “I don’t want my kids to listen to a rabbi’s sermon,” or for a gay parent to say, “I don’t want my kids to be exposed to Bible verses that speak against homosexuality.”

Why must all moral or spiritual differences be attributed to hatred? This is one of the most glaring and self-disqualifying aspects of LGBT activism: It is so blinded by the alleged rightness of its own position that it cannot see any rational reason for anyone to oppose it.

Why, then, do I believe that many of those calling for a Disney boycott are being hypocritical?

It is because so many of us are morally compromised in other ways, watching all types of foul entertainment with lots of gratuitous violence and sex, allowing the TV or internet to babysit our kids, practicing no-fault divorce in the church, and not lifting a finger to address other, pressing social ills like abortion, for one. But when it comes to one gay scene which some involved with the film are claiming has been overhyped and overstated, we are up in arms.

That being said, I don’t believe the boycott is wrong.

After all, we’re talking about impressionable kids, and we’re all too aware of a very intentional, hardly covert, LGBT agenda in Hollywood. As Elizabeth Taylor famously remarked, “If it weren’t for gays, honey, there wouldn’t be a Hollywood.”

Just consider how much Hollywood has already influenced our culture in terms of acceptance of LGBT activism and then ask yourself if we’re not overreacting when a children’s movie will subtly or openly promote homosexuality?

Two influential gay strategists writing in the late 1980’s called for the “conversion of the average American’s emotions, mind, and will, through a planned psychological attack, in the form of propaganda fed to the nation via the media,” and their strategy, which reflected wider gay strategies of the day, worked with stunning success. I document this in detail in A Queer Thing Happened to America.

Disney has already introduced gay couples into their TV programming, and when the producer of Beauty and the Beast announces that “there will be a surprise for same-sex couples,” how should we respond? It’s quite natural that many parents and grandparents will say, “Let’s sit this one out.” My only critique would be to say: Don’t stop here. Be consistent in your convictions across the board, and be sure to have teachable moments with your kids when it comes to LGBT issues and people.

I’m quite aware that boycotting companies that support gay causes would basically mean that you can’t drive a car, fly on a plane, use a credit card, or own a cell phone – just to give a few examples – and the goal is not to put Disney out of business. But when a company loudly announces its immoral or amoral stance – for example, let’s say your cell phone provider makes a big announcement that it will now give 1% of its profits to support Planned Parenthood – that’s the time you say, “In conscience, I’m going to take my business elsewhere.” For a related principle, see 1 Corinthians 10:27-30.

Other Christian voices, representing the older generation like Tom Gilson) and the younger generation like Liberty McArtor have suggested different ways to respond to Beauty and the Beast, with Gilson writing that “in our public conversations we have to keep pointing back to the better way, meaning the way of Jesus. We need to learn to paint the picture better, to show the truly beautiful way, the way of strong and lasting marriages that unite in godly love to build the next generation.” And McArtor reminds us that, “The only way to really change culture is by fulfilling the Great Commission and introducing sinners to Jesus, which must be a neighbor-out, not corporation-down initiative.”

I absolutely affirm these words and this approach. At the same time, I support those who say, “I’d rather pay money for my kids to be exposed to something else right now.”

Whatever we do, though, let’s do it with consistency. Otherwise our critics will have every right to call us hypocrites.

Surely, in Jesus, that is not who we are.
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Congress Created a Monster
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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 Top Headlines 
Hmmm: Comey meets with top members of Congress to discuss the alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower. (Hot Air)
 
Report: FBI monitored server in Trump Tower, but "no intercepts of Trump's phones or emails." (CNS News)
 
U.S. government websites "fail to meet basic standards," new report says. (Reason)
 
Pentagon: Russia, China able to launch catastrophic cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure for next 10 years. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Former Trump aide Flynn consulted with Turkish business — nothing illegal. (Associated Press)
 
Poll: Americans rank dissatisfaction with government as country's top problem. (Gallup)
 
U.S. household net worth reaches record $92.8 trillion. (The Wall Street Journal)
 
American diplomats' comfort with Tillerson gives way to unease. Good! Let 'em shake in their boots. (Bloomberg)
 
Billionaire George Soros fuels Democrats' push to lower voting age to 17. (The Washington Times)
 
South Korean President Park Geun-hye ousted from office amid corruption. (The Wall Street Journal)
 
Policy: Five reasons the GOP's liar-nObamaCare plan isn't real repeal. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: Why nobody has a right to health care. (The Federalist~The Patriot Post
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Muslim Reform Leader
Supports Trump Travel Ban...
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Raheel Raza, author of the book “Their Jihad, Not My Jihad,” visits Stuart Varney to explain that there are some Muslims who support the travel ban from terrorist nations and President Trump’s right to declare it... Raza is a founding member of the Muslim Reform Movement. Varney notes that there are six states which have adopted the position that this newest revised executive order is a Muslim ban, asking her for her opinion. She says, “It’s neither Muslim nor is it a ban. I look upon it as a temporary moratorium and it is not a Muslim ban. I am a Pakistani born practicing observant Sunni Muslim. I don’t find it offensive, I think one would have to be ill-informed or very ignorant to call it a Muslim ban.” She says, “It’s not about religion, it’s about a region. It is for the safety and security of Americans. It is for the safety and security of Americans. It is about the future of national security in this country and I don’t see why Americans have their knickers in a knot about it.”...
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liar-nObama blocked us from vote-fraud data
by Art Moore
{wnd.com} ~ With his call for Vice President Mike Pence to lead an investigation of vote fraud, President Trump has not given up on documenting his much-maligned claim that more than 3 million illegal-alien voters cost him the nationwide popular vote last November... Amid vehement objection and ridicule from the left, there are many election experts who agree with the president that widespread vote fraud exists, including illegal-alien voting. But they think it’s unwise to make any estimates of the number of illegal voters, because there is no hard data at the moment. Yet, that likely will change with access now to records that were kept under wraps by the liar-nObama administration...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/experts-obama-blocked-us-from-vote-fraud-data/
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Comey Hiding Behind DOJ To Claim FBI
Didn’t Spy On Trump Is Laughable
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro used to be one of those who was consistently most complimentary of FBI Director Comey, but that was before he became the weasel that many perceive him to now be... She’s asked for her take on the current state of event surrounding the accusations by President Trump that Hussein liar-nObama tapped his phones and more at Trump Tower during the campaign and afterwards. She says, “You know, I think it’s fascinating that these politicians, and you’re kind of looking that there are two sides to me, you know, there’s a prosecution side and then there’s the other side. As a prosecutor I say look, this guy is the head of the FBI. He doesn’t have to tell any politician anything about any investigation that he’s doing.” She adds, “And for all of you that think that, ‘look, we’ll keep it secret and we won’t tell anyone,’ that’s absurd. Five minutes later this thing is going to be on every television station. So there’s very little that he can tell you, you know, that he can share with you if he’s in the middle of a real investigation.”...
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Dem Kucinich: Extracurricular
Wiretapping Does Occur
by Alice Greene
{punchingbagpost.com} ~ President Donald Trump’s claim that liar-nObama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower has been treated with derision. This week, a former congressman suggested that Trump’s claim isn’t so far-fetched... “I can vouch for the fact that extracurricular surveillance does occur, regardless of whether it is officially approved,” said former congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), explaining that the phone in his congressional office was tapped in 2011. He found out about the incident two years later when the Washington Times let him listen to a recording of a conversation he had with a high-ranking member of the Libyan government. “There are people who are saying, about President Trump’s claim, 'oh it could never happen.' Well, frankly it happened to me," he said...  http://punchingbagpost.com/democrat-kucinich-extracurricular-wiretapping-does-occur
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CIA Left America Vulnerable To Known Weaknesses, Russia Claims Now Proven Hoax
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Noting that the whole CIA revelations are “horrific,” computer security expert John McAfee wants to first than Julian Assange for his efforts, saying that contrary to what the CIA and FBI would like to do to him, he’d like to give him a medal... He says of all the things that trouble him about the hack, what bothers him most is that the CIA knew of zero day exploits years in advance of the manufacturers of the software finding out. He says he understands they don’t want the zero day exploits to fall into the hands of the enemy because then they’ll take advantage of them, but they and did nothing, comparing it to sitting on a boatload of vaccine during an epidemic. They discuss the CIA Umbrage group, which can mimic other actors, taking on the appearance of and falsely pointing to another entity, such as Russia in a political party hacking hoax. He says all hackers have the ability to place into their malware indicators that make it look as if someone else is responsible. He notes that if it really was Russia, “they are far more clever than to leave those traces in the program...  http://rickwells.us/mcafee-cia-left-america-vulnerable-known-weaknesses-russia-claims-now-proven-hoax/
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Congress Created a Monster
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
{townhall.com} ~ Those of us who believe that the Constitution means what it says have been arguing since the late 1970s that congressional efforts to strengthen national security by weakening personal liberty are unconstitutional, un-American and ineffective. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which Congress passed in the aftermath of President Richard Nixon's use of the CIA and the FBI to spy on his political opponents, has unleashed demons that now seem beyond the government's control and are more pervasive than anything Nixon could have dreamed of.

This realization came to a boiling point last weekend when President Donald Trump accused former President Barack liar-nObama of monitoring his telephone calls during the 2016 presidential election campaign. Can a U.S. president legally spy on a political opponent or any other person in America without any suspicion, probable cause or warrant from a judge? In a word, yes.

Here is the back story.

The president can order the National Security Agency to spy on anyone at any time for any reason, without a warrant. This is profoundly unconstitutional but absolutely lawful because it is expressly authorized by the FISA statute.

All electronic surveillance today, whether ordered by the president or authorized by a court, is done remotely by accessing the computers of every telephone and computer service provider in the United States. The NSA has 24/7/365 access to all the mainframe computers of all the telephone and computer service providers in America.

The service providers are required by law to permit this access and are prohibited by law from complaining about it publicly, challenging it in court or revealing any of its details. In passing these prohibitions, Congress violated the First Amendment, which prohibits it from infringing upon the freedom of speech.

The fruits of electronic surveillance cannot be used in criminal prosecutions but can be shared with the president. If they are revealed publicly, the revelation constitutes computer hacking, a federal crime. Nevertheless, some of what was overheard from telephone conversations between the Russian ambassador to the U.S. and former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, was revealed to the public -- a revelation that profoundly disturbed the White House and many in the intelligence community and constituted a crime.

The original purpose of FISA was to place the judiciary as an intermediary between the nation's spies and the foreign agents we all know are among us. The theory was that the NSA would first need to demonstrate to a secret court probable cause that the target of the spying is an agent of a foreign power and this would restrain the NSA from spying on ordinary Americans. This probable cause of foreign agency was a dramatic congressional rejection of the constitutional standard -- namely, probable cause of crime -- for the issuance of warrants. Foreign agency is not a crime.

This congressional rejection of constitutional norms began the slippery slope in which the foreign agency standard has morphed by legislation and by secret interpretations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to probable cause of foreign personhood to probable cause of talking to a foreign person to probable cause of being able to talk to a foreign person to -- dropping the probable cause standard altogether -- anyone who speaks to anyone else who could speak to a foreign person.

This Orwellian and absurd expansion was developed by spies and approved by judges on the FISA court. The NSA argued that it would be more efficient to spy on everyone in the United States than to isolate bad people, and the court bought that argument.

Hence, FISA warrants do not name particular people or places as their targets as the Constitution requires. Rather, they merely continue in place the previous warrants, which encompass everyone in the country. FISA warrants are general warrants, allowing intelligence agents to listen to whomever they wish and retain whatever they hear. General warrants are expressly prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, which requires that all warrants for all purposes be based on probable cause of crime and particularly describe the person or thing to be seized -- e.g., a conversation -- or the place to be searched.

Even though the NSA already has the legal, though unconstitutional, authority to capture any phone conversation or computer keystroke it wishes, its 60,000 agents lack the resources to listen to all conversations or read all electronic communications in real time. But it does capture the digital versions of all computer keystrokes made in or to the U.S. and all conversations had within the U.S. or involving someone in the U.S.; it has been doing so since 2005. And it can download any conversation or text or email at will.

That's why the recent argument that liar-nObama ordered the NSA to obtain a FISA warrant for Trump's telephone calls and a judge issued a warrant for them is nonsense. The NSA already has a digital version of every call Trump has made or received since 2005. Because the NSA -- which now works for Trump -- is a part of the Defense Department, it is subject to the orders of the president in his capacity as commander in chief. So if the commander in chief wants something that a military custodian already has or can create -- such as a transcript of an opponent's conversations with political strategists during a presidential campaign -- why would he bother getting a warrant? He wouldn't.

All of this leads to information overload -- so much material that the communications of evil people are safely hidden in with the mountain of data from the rest of us. The NSA captures the digital equivalent -- if printed -- of 27 times the contents of the Library of Congress every year.

All of this also leads to the monstrous power of the NSA to manipulate, torment and control the president by selectively concealing and selectively revealing data to him. The Constitution does not entrust such power to anyone in government. But Congress has given it.

All of this also substantially impairs a fundamental personal liberty, the right to be left alone -- a right for which we seceded from Great Britain, a right guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment and a right for which we fought wars against tyrants who we feared would take it from us.

Yet after we won those wars, we permitted our elected representatives to crush that right. Those faithless representatives have created a monster that has now turned on us.
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Congress Created a Monster
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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 Top Headlines 
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Hmmm: Comey meets with top members of Congress to discuss the alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower. (Hot Air)
 
Report: FBI monitored server in Trump Tower, but "no intercepts of Trump's phones or emails." (CNS News)
 
U.S. government websites "fail to meet basic standards," new report says. (Reason)
 
Pentagon: Russia, China able to launch catastrophic cyberattacks on U.S. infrastructure for next 10 years. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Former Trump aide Flynn consulted with Turkish business — nothing illegal. (Associated Press)
 
Poll: Americans rank dissatisfaction with government as country's top problem. (Gallup)
 
U.S. household net worth reaches record $92.8 trillion. (The Wall Street Journal)
 
American diplomats' comfort with Tillerson gives way to unease. Good! Let 'em shake in their boots. (Bloomberg)
 
Billionaire George Soros fuels Democrats' push to lower voting age to 17. (The Washington Times)
 
South Korean President Park Geun-hye ousted from office amid corruption. (The Wall Street Journal)
 
Policy: Five reasons the GOP's liar-nObamaCare plan isn't real repeal. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: Why nobody has a right to health care. (The Federalist
~The Patriot Post
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Muslim Reform Leader
Supports Trump Travel Ban...
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Raheel Raza, author of the book “Their Jihad, Not My Jihad,” visits Stuart Varney to explain that there are some Muslims who support the travel ban from terrorist nations and President Trump’s right to declare it... Raza is a founding member of the Muslim Reform Movement. Varney notes that there are six states which have adopted the position that this newest revised executive order is a Muslim ban, asking her for her opinion. She says, “It’s neither Muslim nor is it a ban. I look upon it as a temporary moratorium and it is not a Muslim ban. I am a Pakistani born practicing observant Sunni Muslim. I don’t find it offensive, I think one would have to be ill-informed or very ignorant to call it a Muslim ban.” She says, “It’s not about religion, it’s about a region. It is for the safety and security of Americans. It is for the safety and security of Americans. It is about the future of national security in this country and I don’t see why Americans have their knickers in a knot about it.”...
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liar-nObama blocked us from vote-fraud data
by Art Moore
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{wnd.com} ~ With his call for Vice President Mike Pence to lead an investigation of vote fraud, President Trump has not given up on documenting his much-maligned claim that more than 3 million illegal-alien voters cost him the nationwide popular vote last November... Amid vehement objection and ridicule from the left, there are many election experts who agree with the president that widespread vote fraud exists, including illegal-alien voting. But they think it’s unwise to make any estimates of the number of illegal voters, because there is no hard data at the moment. Yet, that likely will change with access now to records that were kept under wraps by the liar-nObama administration...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/experts-obama-blocked-us-from-vote-fraud-data/
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Comey Hiding Behind DOJ To Claim FBI
Didn’t Spy On Trump Is Laughable
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro used to be one of those who was consistently most complimentary of FBI Director Comey, but that was before he became the weasel that many perceive him to now be... She’s asked for her take on the current state of event surrounding the accusations by President Trump that Hussein liar-nObama tapped his phones and more at Trump Tower during the campaign and afterwards. She says, “You know, I think it’s fascinating that these politicians, and you’re kind of looking that there are two sides to me, you know, there’s a prosecution side and then there’s the other side. As a prosecutor I say look, this guy is the head of the FBI. He doesn’t have to tell any politician anything about any investigation that he’s doing.” She adds, “And for all of you that think that, ‘look, we’ll keep it secret and we won’t tell anyone,’ that’s absurd. Five minutes later this thing is going to be on every television station. So there’s very little that he can tell you, you know, that he can share with you if he’s in the middle of a real investigation.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-comey-hiding-behind-doj-claim-fbi-didnt-spy-trump-laughable/
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Dem Kucinich: Extracurricular
Wiretapping Does Occur
by Alice Greene
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ President Donald Trump’s claim that liar-nObama wiretapped his phones in Trump Tower has been treated with derision. This week, a former congressman suggested that Trump’s claim isn’t so far-fetched... “I can vouch for the fact that extracurricular surveillance does occur, regardless of whether it is officially approved,” said former congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH), explaining that the phone in his congressional office was tapped in 2011. He found out about the incident two years later when the Washington Times let him listen to a recording of a conversation he had with a high-ranking member of the Libyan government. “There are people who are saying, about President Trump’s claim, 'oh it could never happen.' Well, frankly it happened to me," he said...  http://punchingbagpost.com/democrat-kucinich-extracurricular-wiretapping-does-occur
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CIA Left America Vulnerable To Known Weaknesses, Russia Claims Now Proven Hoax
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Noting that the whole CIA revelations are “horrific,” computer security expert John McAfee wants to first than Julian Assange for his efforts, saying that contrary to what the CIA and FBI would like to do to him, he’d like to give him a medal... He says of all the things that trouble him about the hack, what bothers him most is that the CIA knew of zero day exploits years in advance of the manufacturers of the software finding out. He says he understands they don’t want the zero day exploits to fall into the hands of the enemy because then they’ll take advantage of them, but they and did nothing, comparing it to sitting on a boatload of vaccine during an epidemic. They discuss the CIA Umbrage group, which can mimic other actors, taking on the appearance of and falsely pointing to another entity, such as Russia in a political party hacking hoax. He says all hackers have the ability to place into their malware indicators that make it look as if someone else is responsible. He notes that if it really was Russia, “they are far more clever than to leave those traces in the program...  http://rickwells.us/mcafee-cia-left-america-vulnerable-known-weaknesses-russia-claims-now-proven-hoax/
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Congress Created a Monster
by Judge Andrew Napolitano
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{townhall.com} ~ Those of us who believe that the Constitution means what it says have been arguing since the late 1970s that congressional efforts to strengthen national security by weakening personal liberty are unconstitutional, un-American and ineffective. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which Congress passed in the aftermath of President Richard Nixon's use of the CIA and the FBI to spy on his political opponents, has unleashed demons that now seem beyond the government's control and are more pervasive than anything Nixon could have dreamed of.

This realization came to a boiling point last weekend when President Donald Trump accused former President Barack liar-nObama of monitoring his telephone calls during the 2016 presidential election campaign. Can a U.S. president legally spy on a political opponent or any other person in America without any suspicion, probable cause or warrant from a judge? In a word, yes.

Here is the back story.

The president can order the National Security Agency to spy on anyone at any time for any reason, without a warrant. This is profoundly unconstitutional but absolutely lawful because it is expressly authorized by the FISA statute.

All electronic surveillance today, whether ordered by the president or authorized by a court, is done remotely by accessing the computers of every telephone and computer service provider in the United States. The NSA has 24/7/365 access to all the mainframe computers of all the telephone and computer service providers in America.

The service providers are required by law to permit this access and are prohibited by law from complaining about it publicly, challenging it in court or revealing any of its details. In passing these prohibitions, Congress violated the First Amendment, which prohibits it from infringing upon the freedom of speech.

The fruits of electronic surveillance cannot be used in criminal prosecutions but can be shared with the president. If they are revealed publicly, the revelation constitutes computer hacking, a federal crime. Nevertheless, some of what was overheard from telephone conversations between the Russian ambassador to the U.S. and former Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, Trump's former national security adviser, was revealed to the public -- a revelation that profoundly disturbed the White House and many in the intelligence community and constituted a crime.

The original purpose of FISA was to place the judiciary as an intermediary between the nation's spies and the foreign agents we all know are among us. The theory was that the NSA would first need to demonstrate to a secret court probable cause that the target of the spying is an agent of a foreign power and this would restrain the NSA from spying on ordinary Americans. This probable cause of foreign agency was a dramatic congressional rejection of the constitutional standard -- namely, probable cause of crime -- for the issuance of warrants. Foreign agency is not a crime.

This congressional rejection of constitutional norms began the slippery slope in which the foreign agency standard has morphed by legislation and by secret interpretations of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court to probable cause of foreign personhood to probable cause of talking to a foreign person to probable cause of being able to talk to a foreign person to -- dropping the probable cause standard altogether -- anyone who speaks to anyone else who could speak to a foreign person.

This Orwellian and absurd expansion was developed by spies and approved by judges on the FISA court. The NSA argued that it would be more efficient to spy on everyone in the United States than to isolate bad people, and the court bought that argument.

Hence, FISA warrants do not name particular people or places as their targets as the Constitution requires. Rather, they merely continue in place the previous warrants, which encompass everyone in the country. FISA warrants are general warrants, allowing intelligence agents to listen to whomever they wish and retain whatever they hear. General warrants are expressly prohibited by the Fourth Amendment, which requires that all warrants for all purposes be based on probable cause of crime and particularly describe the person or thing to be seized -- e.g., a conversation -- or the place to be searched.

Even though the NSA already has the legal, though unconstitutional, authority to capture any phone conversation or computer keystroke it wishes, its 60,000 agents lack the resources to listen to all conversations or read all electronic communications in real time. But it does capture the digital versions of all computer keystrokes made in or to the U.S. and all conversations had within the U.S. or involving someone in the U.S.; it has been doing so since 2005. And it can download any conversation or text or email at will.

That's why the recent argument that liar-nObama ordered the NSA to obtain a FISA warrant for Trump's telephone calls and a judge issued a warrant for them is nonsense. The NSA already has a digital version of every call Trump has made or received since 2005. Because the NSA -- which now works for Trump -- is a part of the Defense Department, it is subject to the orders of the president in his capacity as commander in chief. So if the commander in chief wants something that a military custodian already has or can create -- such as a transcript of an opponent's conversations with political strategists during a presidential campaign -- why would he bother getting a warrant? He wouldn't.

All of this leads to information overload -- so much material that the communications of evil people are safely hidden in with the mountain of data from the rest of us. The NSA captures the digital equivalent -- if printed -- of 27 times the contents of the Library of Congress every year.

All of this also leads to the monstrous power of the NSA to manipulate, torment and control the president by selectively concealing and selectively revealing data to him. The Constitution does not entrust such power to anyone in government. But Congress has given it.

All of this also substantially impairs a fundamental personal liberty, the right to be left alone -- a right for which we seceded from Great Britain, a right guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment and a right for which we fought wars against tyrants who we feared would take it from us.

Yet after we won those wars, we permitted our elected representatives to crush that right. Those faithless representatives have created a monster that has now turned on us.
Read more…

Mon/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Sessions May Appoint Outside Counsel
to Investigate liar-nObama's DOJ
by Cortney O'Brien
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 Diffusing the liar-nObamaCare Time Bomb 
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On Monday, House Republicans released an liar-nObamaCare repeal and replacement bill. The legislation would end the most objectionable aspect of Barack liar-nObama's law, the insurance mandate and accompanying tax penalties, and replace it with a new tax credit program designed to incentivize individuals to purchase health insurance. Essentially, it removes the stick approach in favor of the carrot. The bill is by no means a comprehensive replacement of liar-nObamaCare, nor is it everything conservatives ever hoped for, but it is a first step. Donald Trump tweeted Tuesday morning, "Our wonderful new Healthcare Bill is now out for review and negotiation. liar-nObamaCare is a complete and total disaster — is imploding fast!"
          The GOP has been wrestling for weeks now over how to repeal and replace liar-nObamaCare. The truth is that it is incredibly difficult to reverse entitlements and subsidies once they have been established. Like it or not, liar-nObamaCare was the beachhead successfully establishing a new entitlement, even though in the short term it was costly for Democrats. The precedent is now set, and a sizable portion of Americans now expect federal government involvement in supporting their health care needs. As Phil Klein of the Washington Examiner writes, "Liberals ... have won the central philosophical argument, and Republicans are reduced to fighting over the mechanics."
          For Trump and the Republicans to be successful in reversing liar-nObamaCare, they will need to be willing to work toward dismantling it via a piecemeal approach versus a completely comprehensive and decisive new law. Conservatives are right to object that the new GOP bill essentially leaves much of liar-nObamaCare in place, but in order to be successful in the long run, short gains need to be embraced. A war is not won in one battle, and the all-or-nothing approach more often than not amounts to nothing. Republicans will need to compromise to get this done — not with Democrats dug into their anti-Trump obstructionist battle trenches, but with each other. ~The Patriot Post
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Lou Dobbs Wants Honesty And Promises Kept –
Not Ryan’s RINOcare, liar-nObamacare-lite
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts “on Speaker Ryan’s so-called RINOcare,” noting that, ‘Speaker Ryan today decided to lecture on the leadership plan to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare... complete with his half-hour long PowerPoint presentation urging the GOP to support his plan.” Ryan said, “This is the closest we will ever get to repealing and replacing liar-nObamacare. The time is here, the time is now, this is the moment and this is the closest this will ever happen. It really comes down to a binary choice.” Dobbs chuckles at that statement, saying, “A binary choice, uh, his way – the highway, in or you’re out.  The Speaker blaming what he called growing pains for opposition to the plan. Yet for all of Ryan’s claims of a binary choice, the legislation resembles, fairly said, liar-nObamacare-lite. The individual mandate still exists under a different name, a late enrollment penalty and money going instead to insurance companies rather than the government...  http://rickwells.us/lou-dobbs-wants-honesty-promises-kept-not-ryans-rinocare-obamacare-lite/
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David Horowitz on Hannity: 'Purging the Deep State'
by Frontpagemag.com
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Thursday, March 9, Freedom Center founder David Horowitz joined Laura Ingraham and Sean Hannity on the Fox News Channel to discuss "Purging the Deep State" and to weigh in on Saul Alinsky apprentice Barack liar-nObama's wiretapping of Trump Tower.  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266070/david-horowitz-hannity-purging-deep-state-frontpagemagcom
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AG Sessions asks remaining
46 US attorneys to resign
by FoxNews.com
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{foxnews.com} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked the remaining 46 U.S. attorneys to resign, the Justice Department announced Friday, describing the move as part of an effort to ensure a "uniform transition."... The department said some U.S. attorneys, as in prior transitions, already had left the department. Now, "the Attorney General has now asked the remaining 46 presidentially appointed U.S. Attorneys to tender their resignations," a spokeswoman said. “Until the new U.S. Attorneys are confirmed, the dedicated career prosecutors in our U.S. Attorney’s Offices will continue the great work of the Department in investigating, prosecuting, and deterring the most violent offenders,” the statement added...  http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/03/10/ag-sessions-asks-remaining-46-us-attorneys-to-resign.html?cmpid=NL_fntop
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liar-nObama, Organizing for Action,
and the Death Throes of the Democratic Party
by Truth Revolt
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ If you think you’re going crazy from non-stop news coverage of unruly, hateful and disruptive behavior and protests across the country since Donald Trump was elected President, rest assured there are veiled reasons for the current madness... Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Michael Goodwin asserts the ‘Trump Derangement Syndrome’ is no temporarily insane reaction, but rather “a calculated plan to wreck the presidency, whatever the cost to the country.” Just one week before Trump was inaugurated, then President liar-nObama issued an extraordinary executive order, a reckless departure to longstanding policy, to allow the NSA to share with the FBI, CIA and 14 other intelligence agencies which continue to employ numerous liar-nObama holdovers, the raw data and communications intercepts of private American citizens—collected without warrants, court orders or congressional authorizations. A plausible reason for liar-nObama to issue this executive order at the end of his office was to set the stage for sabotaging the new government. liar-nObama’s executive order effectively created and formalized a “conveyer belt” leak mechanism, setting the stage for a “rolling coup” against the Trump administration. The first head to roll was Lieutenant General Michael Flynn who was taken down within two weeks of taking office as Director of National Security...    
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House Dems’ Pakistani IT Spies
Kidnapped Relative To Steal Inheritance
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ If this were anyone other than Democrat leaders creating these huge security concerns the investigation and the refusal by individuals at the top to prevent further compromises of national security would be front page, lead stories... As it is, the mainstream propagandists are ignoring the story and the many emerging aspects of it. Many Americans have seen the initial reports of the investigation of three Pakistani brothers and two of their wives being paid $160,000 per year each as part-time providers of IT services, contracted work for which some of them never showed up. In association with that supposed service being provided, access to classified secret information that was stored on House Democrats’ computer systems was gained and therefore compromised. The brothers, Abid, Imran, and Jamal Awan continued to travel to Pakistan from time to time during their period of employment, which began for the first brother, Imran, in the early 2000s. He has individually earned, in the period since 2010, $1.2 million in salary, excluding outside ventures and his brothers were paid similarly, with one beginning in 2005 and the other and the wives following later...That's our tax dollars folks.  http://rickwells.us/house-dems-pakistani-spies-kidnapped-relative-steal-inheritance/
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Sessions May Appoint Outside Counsel
to Investigate liar-nObama's DOJ
by Cortney O'Brien
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{townhall.com} ~ Attorney General Jeff Sessions is not opposed to appointing an outside counsel to investigate the many scandals of President liar-nObama's Department of Justice and IRS.

To jog your memory, recall two major, yet underreported stories - "Fast and Furious" and the IRS targeting of conservative groups. Attorney General Eric Holder was held in contempt of Congress for covering up the former scandal, in which the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) unfathomably allowed illegal gun sales to and from Mexico to track drug cartels. As for liar-nObama's IRS, they unfairly withheld tax-exempt status from groups who dared to oppose the president's agenda, and subjected them to extra scrutiny. Matt had interesting news on that just this morning.

In a conversation with radio host Hugh Hewitt on Thursday, Sessions left the door open for a special counsel to take the lead on the investigation into these liar-nObama-era scandals.

“Well I’m going to do everything I possibly can to restore the independence and professionalism of the Department of Justice,” Sessions said. “So we’ll have to consider whether or not some outside counsel is needed. Generally, a good review of that internally is the first step before any such decision is made.”

If the counsel finds wrongdoing, it will have the authority to bring charges, Sessions noted. He insisted it will only come to this if he concludes it will be necessary to restore the "independence and professionalism" of the department.

Sessions recently had to overcome his own controversy for not disclosing his meeting with Russian leadership last year, eventually recusing himself from any investigation into Russia's supposed interference in the 2016 election.
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Trump, NATO, and the Burden of the Past
by ALEXANDER G. MARKOVSKY

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 Good News: Another liar-nObama Power Grab 
 Shot Down 
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As we've noted previously, if Donald Trump wants to become Hitler as the Left claims, he's doing a poor job of it. Why? He's doing little so far besides rolling back Barack liar-nObama's executive power grabs. The latest example is liar-nObama's final day parting shot, in which he banned lead ammunition on federal lands. Trump's newly sworn-in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke wasted no time reversing that order. "It's time to put ammunition back where it belongs; in the hands of hunters," Zinke said.
          The previous administration based its actions on "science" — naturally. "Exposure to lead ammunition and fishing tackle has resulted in harmful effects to fish and wildlife species," claimed former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director Dan Ashe. And the Humane Society complained, "There's just no excuse not to make the transition, except for knee-jerk opposition from a segment of society that simply thinks it's acceptable collateral damage for upwards of 15 million animals from more than 130 species to die of lead poisoning every year."
          As the Leftmedia likes to say about anything Trump says, these claims were made without evidence. That's right, the science behind the ban is dubious at best, despite the caterwauling of rabidly anti-gun leftists.
          Big picture, liar-nObama is simply one of those anti-gun leftists who would in one breath offer lip service to our "traditions" of hunting and sport shooting and in the next talk about why steps were needed to restrict the gun rights of law-abiding Americans. Ironically, liar-nObama's words and deeds made him the gun salesman of the decade. Liberty lovers can rest easier knowing that Trump's administration is so quickly taking a better approach.  ~The Patriot Post
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Huckabee Calls For Comey To Resign –
Truth Will Vindicate Trump, Vilify liar-nObama
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ General Michael Hayden, who used to head both the CIA and the NSA is not an objective third party commentator. He’s providing deep state cover and still pushing what is increasingly being exposed as the lie that Donald Trump and the Russians colluded... or that the Russians acted independently against liar-Hillary Clinton in the elections. It’s becoming increasingly harder for him to do so, given the growing evidence pile that leads to the CIA. As he speaks, there are no facts included in what he says, only opinion and vague, broad assertions. He states that he doesn’t “know that the Russians actually committed the theft,” as he’s about to accuse them of doing precisely that. Hayden says, “With regard to the timing, I mean look, I’m now pretty close to the position that WikiLeaks is acting as an arm, as an agent of the Russian Federation.” So if he’s not able to state the most basic premise for such a claim, that the Russians were involved with any certainty, how is he then able to make the leap that someone leaking information about the CIA wrongdoing is acting on their behalf. Hayden is flailing, attempting to throw blame in any direction other than at the two agencies he headed and his successor at the CIA, John Brennan...  http://rickwells.us/huckabee-calls-comey-resign-truth-indicate-trump-vilify-obama/
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Jihadis Living on Support Payments
from the Europe They Vowed to Destroy
by Giulio Meotti
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Muhammad Shamsuddin, a 39-year-old London-based Islamist,
was featured in a documentary called "The Jihadis Next Door."
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Four years ago, the British liberal newspaper, The Guardian, ran a story about the "survivors of Guantanamo", the "victims of America's 'icon of lawlessness'"... "Britain's survivors of the detention centre that has been called the 'gulag of our times'". The article featured a photograph of Jamal al Harith. Al Harith, born Ronald Fiddler, a Christian convert to Islam, returned to Manchester from detention at Guantanamo Bay thanks to activism of David Blunkett, Home Secretary of then-Prime Minister Tony Blair. Al Harith was immediately welcomed in England as a hero, the innocent victim of the unjust "war on terror" after September 11. The Mirror and ITV gave him £60,000 ($73,000) for an exclusive interview about his experience at Guantanamo. Al Harith was also compensated with one million pounds by the British authorities. The victim of the "gulag of our times" bought a very nice house with the taxpayers' cash. A few weeks ago, al Harith made his last "journey": he was blown up in Mosul, Iraq, on behalf of the Islamic State. Al Harith had also been recruited by the non-governmental organization "CAGE" (formerly known as "Cageprisoners") as part of its testimony advocating the closure of the Guantanamo Bay detention facility...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10022/jihadi-welfare
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Sanctuary Cities
by EDWARD CLINE
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ A “sanctuary city” is no more than a haven for criminals and illegals. I don’t think we need to flaunt the definition of “criminal.” An illegal, however, is a person living in the U.S. who entered it illegally, and collects government benefits... may or may not hold a job, and may even “vote” because of chiefly democratic election rigging. If he’s found out, he can retreat to a “sanctuary city” where, presumably, the authorities cannot arrest him or detain him for deportation back to the pest hole he came from. He can be a murderer, but the authorities’ hands would be tied. He can commit the most horrendous crime, yet still be “untouchable.” Coming across the border are countless illegals, many of them dangerous, many of them jihadists posing as Mexicans or South Americans. Aaron Bandler of the Daily Wire, in an undated report, outlines the essentials of a “sanctuary city”:... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/sanctuary-cities?f=must_reads
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Don’t Blame CIA Deep State For Disaster,
It Was Disposable Contractors
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Andrea Mitchell invited Dianne Feinstein for an interview to do a little damage control to their campaign against the President and their Russia did everything story, protect the CIA that made it all possible and throw a few barbs at President Trump... because he hasn’t yet produced the evidence that liar-nObama was spying on him. The evidence is coming fast and furious (sorry Barry and Eric) from other sources, including the FISA court and from within the experts associated with the intelligence community, but that isn’t enough for Feinstein and Mitchell. They start off their little get together with a clip of Julian Assange in an audio presentation of some of the same information that was contained in the press release for his Vault7 CIA document dump. He describes how the CIA had accumulated what was probably the largest cyber warfare arsenal in the world and then allowed it, through lax and sloppy security measures, to be compromised. He notes how, having lost control of their cyber weapons, the CIA then engaged in a cover up. Once again it’s proven that Democrats and their agencies do have a real problem with both security and honesty and seem incapable of development in either area. In a vague and non-committal response reminiscent of the Hussein liar-nObama spying denial, the CIA issued a statement on the matter...We know who she is covering up for.
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Trump, NATO, and the Burden of the Past
by ALEXANDER G. MARKOVSKY
 
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In his first speech to members of NATO, American Secretary of Defense Mattis said, "Americans cannot care more for your children's future security than you do."  This echoes his boss Donald Trump's campaign statement, "Number one it (NATO) was obsolete, because it was designed many, many years ago." Normally, a new president can count on the backing of his own party, but on this issue there is a rare consensus on both sides of the aisle in support of the existing policies.

 The core divergence of geopolitical views is this:
  • Supporters of NATO see American commitments as implicitly limitless and irreversible. They insist that the arrangements have worked well for the United States, and any attempt to challenge them is not in America's national interests. Ideologically, adherence to existing commitments defines our national interests.
  • Driven by effectiveness, not ideology, Trump believes the existing commitments are not eternal and are limited by resources. Therefore, we must define our national interests in order to shape our commitments - not allow existing commitments to define our interests.
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization, NATO, is a case in point. Established in April 1949, NATO was designed to serve three objectives:
  1. Deter Soviet expansionism.
  2. Prevent the revival of militarism in Europe.
  3. Encourage European political and economic integration.
At that moment in time Europe was in ruins and facing a formidable threat from the Red Army, and later from the combined forces of the Warsaw Pact. Given strategic and political realities, the United States emerged as the principal guarantor of peace. With the demise of the Soviet Union, the Warsaw Pact disintegrated as well.  So, if you are Vladimir Putin, you would ask the United States about NATO, "Against whom are you maintaining this beautiful friendship?"

And if you are Donald Trump, you realize that seventy years later the kids have grown up and the geostrategic reality is fundamentally different. Today, the European Union is a massive economic power, with a population of 500 million and a combined GDP akin to the United States.  Russia's GDP is comparable to South Korea or Australia. The EU is sufficiently strong to maintain the regional order.

However, despite economic strength and manpower, Western democracies, having downgraded their military capabilities, continue to rely on the United States for maintaining their security. The absurdity is that while Europeans are enjoying a 35-hour work week, generous benefits and extended vacations, American workers have to put in 40 to 50 hours per week to support Europe's defense.

And it gets better! With the collapse of the Soviet Union and the disintegration of the Warsaw Pact, NATO found itself without a mission. "Mission accomplished" is not good news for a military alliance - it needs enemies for self-preservation.

Hence, the concept of an alliance was quietly converted into a doctrine of collective security. The significance is that while alliances identify potential adversaries and serve clearly defined objectives, the doctrine of collective security carries much broader implications. It may oppose any aggressive conduct anywhere in the world that may be interpreted as a threat to the peaceful international order. In this spirit NATO, paraphrasing John Quincy Adams, has gone around the world "in search of monsters to destroy" -- often pursuing not strategic but moral goals in an attempt to promote Western values.

But the most troublesome aspect of this conversion is that in a violation of the verbal agreement between Secretary of State James Baker and Russian Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze. After the fall of the Berlin Wall, NATO launched a massive expansion to the east, growing from 16 countries before the reunification of Germany to 28 today. This expansion can be seen from Moscow only as a strategy to encircle Russia and turn its neighbors into hostile countries. It provokes Russia's paranoia and could lead to a direct confrontation with the United States reminiscent of the Cuban Missile Crisis.

As George Kennan, American diplomat and author of the concepts of "Cold War" and "containment," prophetically wrote in the New York Times on February 5, 1997:

"..... expanding NATO would be the most fateful error of American policy in the entire post-cold war era.... Such a decision may be expected to inflame the nationalistic, anti-Western and militaristic tendencies in Russian opinion; to have an adverse effect on the development of Russian democracy; to restore the atmosphere of the cold war to East-West relations, and to impel Russian foreign policy in directions decidedly not to our liking."

President liar-Clinton, who was an architect of the expansion, ignored George Kennan's warning and subsequently created a destabilizing environment in Europe, which was further exacerbated by the liar-nObama administration.  Idealism and affinity have led to the over-extension of American commitments and resulted in financial burdens that, according to Trump, America can no longer afford.

As Lord Salisbury observed, "The commonest error in politics is sticking to the carcass of dead policies.
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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
How about 'A day
without American tech workers'?
by Michelle Malkin
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 Top Headlines 
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Blank book called "Reasons to vote for Democrats" is a top seller on Amazon. (The Washington Times)
 
Two years later, IRS locates 6,924 documents related to Tea Party targeting. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
Answers to questions no one is asking: After "soul searching," liar-Hillary Clinton reemerging on national stage. (CBS News)
 
Crackdown working? Report: Illegal border crossings down 40%. (Fox News)
 
DREAMer decapitated his mother in front of siblings. (LifeZette)
 
Official: Couple hundred U.S. Marines go into Syria. (Associated Press)
 
More than 21 million women miss work for "A Day Without a Woman" — aborted women, that is. (NewsBusters)
 
Satire: Nation's liberals announce "Day Without A Protest" protest. (The Babylon Bee)
 
Nine teens arrested after assault in downtown Baltimore caught on tape. (CBS Baltimore)
 
U.S. Soccer's new policy requires players 'stand respectfully' during national anthems. (Fox Sports)
 
Policy: How President Trump can improve U.S. Syria policy. (The Heritage Foundation)
 
Policy: Suggestions for improving the American Health Care Act. (New York Daily News~The Patriot Post
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Palestinians:
Fake News and "Alternative Facts"
by Bassam Tawil
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ One after another, young Palestinians continue to carry out terrorist attacks against Jews. Why? We might start at the beginning... the campaign of incitement, indoctrination and lies that Palestinian media outlets wage against Israel. This campaign has poisoned the hearts and minds of millions of Arabs and Muslims. It ought to be no surprise, then, when the poisoned Palestinian youths grab a weapon and set out to do the death-work they are taught to cherish. The anti-Israel incitement can even be quite subtle. Those injecting the venom do not always issue a direct call for Palestinians to go out and kill Jews. It is enough, for example, to tell Palestinians that Jews are "defiling with their filthy feet" Islamic holy sites, to drive a Palestinian to go out and stab a Jew. Or when a Palestinian leaders repeatedly accuse Israel of seeking to "Judaize" Jerusalem and change its "Arab and Islamic character." This is like urging Palestinians to "defend" their city against Israel's "evil conspiracies."...This has been going on for over 2000 years.  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9962/palestinians-fake-news
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Elijah Cummings Brags About The Lies...
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD) came out of a meeting with President Trump beaming about two points that he claims he was supposedly able to convince President Trump to change his positions or delivery... Cummings describes a portion of their conversation in which he said, “Mr. President, maybe no one has said this to you so I’m going to tell you today, that it seems that when you talk about the African-American community, you seem to want to judge our community be our weakest link.” That’s the same weakest link they are always harping on for special privileges and programs themselves, so it’s a natural impression he might get. So just to be clear, Representatives, things are great and the special programs can be done away with, that money spent on the military or building the border fence. Cummings continued, “I said there are vibrant and many, many vibrant African-American communities throughout this country, people are doing extremely well, and I said I’ve lived in the same house for thirty-five years, in the inner, inner city of Baltimore. I don’t feel threatened, I feel very good about it.”...Cummings is a liar and should be removed from Congress.  http://rickwells.us/elijah-cummings-brags-lies-convinced-president-trump-believe/
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Mayor booted from office over support
for liar-nObama's refugees
by Leo Hohmann
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{wnd.com} ~ The people of Rutland, Vermont, have gained a measure of revenge against former President liar-nObama’s forced influx of Syrian refugees, voting out the five-term mayor who helped negotiate the controversial resettlements with a federal contractor... Rutland is Vermont’s third-largest city but still very small, with a population of 16,500. The candidacy of Mayor Christopher Louras went down in flames in Tuesday’s election as he was defeated by the refugee program’s most ardent opponent on the board of aldermen. David Allaire won with 52 percent of the vote to 34 percent for Louras. “That’s not just a win, that’s a drubbing,” said Don Chioffi, an activist who supported the upstart candidate Allaire...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/u-s-mayor-booted-from-office-over-support-for-obamas-refugees/
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“Russia” Hack A CIA Op Targeting liar-Clinton,
Rampant liar-nObama Spying On Citizens
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Former senior official and systems developer with the NSA, William Binney and Lt Col Tony Shaffer join Sean Hannity for a discussion of the WikiLeaks Vault7 CIA document dump and the implications it has on some of the many related stories it impacts... Hannity begins with reports of the ability of the CIA to mimic Russian hacking. He notes that the implication in the report is that the CIA would deliberately mimic hacking protocols of Russia to obfuscate their own works. Do you believe that’s true?” Binney replies, without hesitation, “Yeah, sure, I think that that’s true as well as I think that a lot of the software they’ve gotten to do the penetrations came from NSA, GCHQ” and other cooperating agencies and countries.” Col Shaffer refers to the digital conversion of many various televisions and phones into surveillance equipment in his comments as if it’s a known fact, supporting the claims of WikiLeaks. He also throws in the issue that the “bad guys,” however that is defined these days, have the capabilities as well, so we’re not only vulnerable to rogue US intelligence agency employees. He notes the potential for abuse and the temptation to use these technological capabilities improperly must be controlled. The control that was not properly exercised when it was used to take down General Flynn...  http://rickwells.us/experts-russia-hack-cia-op-targeting-clinton-rampant-obama-spying-citizens/
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liar-nObama's 'Watergate': Ex-prez
caught in 'biggest scandal in U.S. history'?
by Garth Kant
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{wnd.com} ~ The script has flipped big time. Thanks to the media’s investigation into the Trump campaign, speculation is growing that it is the liar-nObama administration that could end up investigated for accusations one of its targets called “worse than Watergate.”... Democrats are suddenly worried their “Russia hacked the election” narrative may boomerang into a catastrophe of their own making. Perhaps the first sign came Saturday when, as WND reported, former liar nObama speechwriter Jon Favreau responded cautiously to President Trump’s tweeted accusation that the liar-nObama administration had spied on his campaign and wiretapped him...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/obamas-watergate-ex-prez-caught-in-biggest-scandal-in-u-s-history/
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How about 'A day
without American tech workers'?
by Michelle Malkin
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{wnd.com} ~ Last month, there was a national “Day Without a Latino.” This week, the demonstration du jour shutting down schools and shops is a “Day Without a Woman.” Here’s my question for all the virtue-signaling protesters who pay lip service to better jobs and wages:

Where’s your awareness-raising event for untold thousands of our country’s high-skilled men and women victimized by H-1B visa havoc? Thanks to cheap labor-hungry big businesses and money-grubbing politicians in both parties, every day has become a “Day Without American Tech Workers.”

Our own best and brightest are vanishing in plain sight. It has been going on for decades – and it’s all legal. Several court challenges to the corporate abuse of the program have failed.

So last week, the same workplace nightmare that befell American tech employees at Disney, New York Life, Southern California Edison and countless other U.S. companies struck the University of California, San Francisco.

That’s right: H-1B hell has engulfed a taxpayer-subsidized institution smack dab in the middle of the West Coast’s liberal paradise. Forty-nine information technology workers at the UC system’s health care and research nerve center officially got the boot last week.

I interviewed a group of those workers last fall at a protest organized by American workers’ advocate and lawyer Sara Blackwell after they got wind of the impending pink slips. Like the Disney workers and thousands of others before them, UCSF’s loyal employees were coerced to dig their own graves: no severance packages unless and until they trained their inexperienced, cheap foreign replacements from India-based HCL Technologies Ltd. by Feb. 28.

Raymond Dy, a UCSF systems administrator, called the severance arrangement a “a big slap in the face.” Married with two young kids, and the family’s sole breadwinner, he felt he had no choice but to comply.

Assisting the offshore outsourcing of his own job was, Dy put it, “insulting.”

It’s also a privacy and security threat. Kurt Ho, a 57-year-old systems administrator and lifelong Democrat who voted for Donald Trump, recounted his dealings with “very young” H-1B foreign workers who had trouble comprehending basic instructions on how to operate a premiere university’s “mission critical systems.” Dedicated to his job and country, Ho voiced concern about giving away the keys to Americans’ health data to unsupervised foreign visa holders and their counterparts overseas.

“This troubles me a lot when I train them. We have to comply with the HIPAA (federal health privacy regulations). As foreigners, they don’t have those requirements.”

Oh, and you know that precious, left-wing San Francisco value of “diversity”? It got thrown out the window at UCSF thanks to the H-1B visa replacement racket. Diversity doesn’t mean jack if a bleeding heart liberal, Trump-bashing university can avoid paying high-skilled American workers’ pensions and benefits.

Audrey Hatten-Milholin, a 53-year-old senior systems architect at UCSF who is black, pierced the university progressives’ hypocrisy. “After the election” last November, she told me, the school sent out emails to employees “reassuring people that the university would remain diverse” and committed to “inclusion” as an anti-Trump statement.

Yet, Hatten-Milholin who served 17 years at UCSF and many of her female colleagues lost their jobs despite “excellent performance reviews” as part of the school system’s short-sighted attempt to “cut costs.” She appreciated the post-election political gesture of supporting diversity, “but on the other hand, it was like, but what are you doing to us? There are not that many women in IT and they’re getting rid of them, the few that are there. Half of them are going to be gone.”

She recounted walking into an office suite to train the HCL foreigners to absorb her knowledge and eliminate her job, “and it seemed like everyone at their desk had a young male Indian worker there. I didn’t see any women.”

President Trump vowed to stop the sabotage of American tech workers and has already put a halt to “fast-tracking” of the visa that an Indian commerce official once dubbed “the outsourcing visa.” But you know the high-dollar H-1B lobbies both here and abroad aren’t going to down without a fight.

If only Bay Area liberals and Beltway Democrats weren’t so acutely addled by Trump Derangement Syndrome, they might actually do something to help the American women and workers they pretend to champion – instead of enabling their sellout.
 

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Sat/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Avigdor Liberman Versus Israeli Democracy
by Caroline Glick
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Schweizer – Deep State Hates Trump
And American People, Enemy Within
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs invited “liar-Clinton Cash” author Peter Schweizer to a discussion of the “deep state” problem that has been exposed by the election of Donald Trump as President... Dobbs sets the topic, saying, “The deep state conspiracy, the campaign that’s at work, we have never seen in this country anything like what we behold today, as it is clear a highly organized and powerful group of people are trying to subvert the presidency of Mr. Trump.” Schweizer recommends that people pick up an academic book titled, “What Washington Gets Wrong,” which is the work of two scholars who interviewed the federal government deep state members, the entrenched bureaucrats in DC. Their work revealed what Schweizer describes as “contemptuous attitudes towards the average American. They think they are far less educated than they actually are, they think they are far more dependent on government than they are, they’re arrogant. They believe and they say in these surveys that if the American people want one thing and they think it’s wrong, they’re going to push something else. There is a massive disconnect and the deep state is real and it’s a threat to our Republic form of government.”...Who are they? Do they have names?  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-schweizer-deep-state-hates-trump-american-people-enemy-within/
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How Taxpayers Fund Anti-Trump Protests
by Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ On “Fox & Friends,” President Donald Trump declared, in regard to the protests against him, “I think that President liar-nObama’s behind it because his people are certainly behind it.” Once again, Trump has struck gold... It’s “gold” in the form of taxpayer money. In addition to funding from billionaire hedge fund operator George Soros, we find a federal financial connection to some of the anti-Trump protests. The good news for Trump in this case is that his administration, supported by Republicans in Congress, can cut off the federal money. One anti-Trump organizer, Dan Nejfelt of the George Soros-funded faux Catholic group, Faith in Public Life (FPL), serves as a case study of how a modern-day “community organizer” is made and paid. As the training director of FPL, he previously served as the “policy and messaging adviser” to the chair of President liar-nObama’s Advisory Council on Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/how-taxpayers-fund-anti-trump-protests/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Mar-08-2017&utm_medium=email
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Left Wants Trump In Prison, Swamp
Predators Hit Her, Coming For Blood
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Monica Crowley had been offered a position with the Trump administration as Senior Director of Strategic Communications at the National Security Council... After she was attacked by the leftist hit machinery with phony plagiarism allegations over her 2012 book she bowed out, fought to clear her name and decided to focus on other pursuits. She didn’t need the headache, which, as was demonstrated with General Flynn, whom she would have been serving under, can be substantial. Crowley joined Sean Hannity as she reemerges having fended of those difficulties and dealt with the passing of her brother-in-law, Alan Colmes. She has some words of warning for the Trump administration. They’re words expressing what many of us have seen going on, and what those inside the Trump administration are living intensely, on a daily basis. As one who has just been put through the liberal wringer, Conway is uniquely qualified to speak to the issue. She addresses her situation first, saying, “What happened to me was a despicable, straight up political hit job, okay? It’s been debunked, my editor has completely supported me and backed me up...  http://rickwells.us/crowley-left-wants-trump-prison-swamp-predators-hit-coming-blood/
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President Trump Sends Democrats
into Full Panic Mode
by Thomas Lifson
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{americanthinker.com} ~ The liar-nObama camp and the alt-left media have witnessed the collapse of the Trump-Russia collusion story. They are now caught between a rock and a hard place... To be real clear, there has yet to be any evidence presented and now President Trump has turned the spotlight on the liar-nObama camp. They now find themselves in a no win situation. Make no mistake: the Saturday-morning tweet sent out by President Trump alleging tapping of phones in Trump Tower has changed the political calculus on both sides. The mainstream media obsessively call his charge “unsupported” by evidence and denigrate it as imprecise and incomplete. Yet, as Andrew McCarthy – a former assistant U.S. attorney – explains in National Review, “While You Weren’t Looking, the Democrat-Media Election-Hacking Narrative Just Collapsed.”... http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2017/03/behind_the_collapse_of_the_russia_hacking
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Behind Closed Doors, President Trump
Has Had an Excellent Idea
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ According to people who attended a meeting with President Trump at the White House, the President says if the GOP healthcare plan dies, he intends to let liar-nObamacare fail and blame the Democrats... That is an excellent idea and it should be encouraged. The Republicans, if they pass their liar-nObamacare-lite swampcare plan, will own the healthcare issue and all its failures in the coming years. If they let liar-nObamacare fail on its own, they will put pressure on Democrats and intransigent Republicans to come to the table and support real reforms. The present swampcare plan the GOP is proposing will do little to improve liar-nObamacare and will, in many areas, make things worse. That includes expanding Medicaid, an already unstable, costly system...
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Avigdor Liberman Versus Israeli Democracy
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman is in over his head. Few had high hopes for Liberman when he was appointed to his post, but most observers on the political Right were willing to swallow the pill of having a man with an understanding of military and strategic affairs that began and ended with applause lines because his appointment solved two pressing political problems.

Liberman’s appointment to serve as defense minister brought his Yisrael Beitenu party into the government, which increased the size of the coalition from its razor-thin 61-seat majority to a more healthy 66 seats. Moreover, by appointing him, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was able to remove Moshe Ya’alon from the Defense Ministry. Ya’alon had become unacceptable to Likud voters due to his rush to convict IDF Sgt. Elor Azaria as guilty of criminal wrongdoing last March when Azaria killed a downed terrorist who had stabbed a fellow soldier in Hebron.

Monday morning Liberman showed that concerns about his suitability for his position were spot on.

Speaking to reporters at the Knesset, Liberman said that growing discussion among leading members of the coalition about applying Israeli law to parts of Judea and Samaria must stop.

“Anyone who wants to apply Israeli sovereignty to Judea and Samaria needs to understand that such a step will bring immediate repercussions from the new US government,” Liberman alleged.

He added, “We received a direct – not indirect – message: ‘Apply sovereignty and you will be cutting ties with the new administration.”

Liberman’s statement was both ignorant and damaging.

It was ignorant because it critically misrepresented how decisions are made in US administrations.

It isn’t hard to guess which Trump administration official is threatening Israel and trying to force the government to abide by the failed and damaging policy of surrendering Jude and Samaria to Palestinian terrorists.

As defense minister, he speaks to his counterpart, US Defense Secretary James Mattis. Mattis is no friend of Israel’s.

During his confirmation hearings in the Senate, when Senator Lindsay Graham asked him what the capital of Israel is, Mattis replied “Tel Aviv.”

Mattis also said that solving the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a “vital US interest.”

After being fired from his command of Central Command in 2013, Mattis claimed that the US alliance with Israel harms the US. In his words, “I paid a military security price every day as the commander of CentCom because the Americans were seen as biased in support of Israel, and... moderate Arabs who want to be with us... can’t come out publicly in support of people who don’t show respect for the Arab Palestinians.”

In the same address, Mattis argued that if Israel continues to allow Jews to assert their property rights in Judea and Samaria, it will risk becoming an “apartheid” state.

When President Donald Trump appointed Mattis, supporters of Israel in the US were willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and hope that his statements were the product of his service in the anti-Israel liar-nObama administration and that once liberated from its intellectual straitjacket, he would abandon his preposterous positions on Israel. Concern over Mattis was abated by the fact that he opposed president liar-nObama’s Iran policy.

But last week Mattis made clear that he actually shares liar-nObama’s worldview when he decided to appoint Anne Patterson to serve as his undersecretary of defense for policy. Patterson, who served as assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs under liar-nObama, is a harsh critic of Israel and an apologist for the Palestinian Authority’s support for terrorism.

In testimony before Congress in April 2014 for instance, Patterson defended the PA’s practice of paying salaries to Palestinian terrorists and their families. The payments are legitimate, she told lawmakers, because “they need to provide for the families.”

Last year, when Mahmoud Shalan, a Palestinian terrorist with US citizenship was shot by soldiers at a checkpoint after he tried to kill them, and later died of his wounds, Patterson demanded an explanation from Israel for his death.

As Steven Flatow, father of Alisa Flatow, who was murdered by Palestinian terrorists in Gaza in 1995, noted in an article at JNS news service, Patterson did not demand that the PA provide an explanation for why Shalan, who was a resident of the PA, was engaged in terrorism against Israelis.

Before being appointed to head the State Department’s Near East bureau, Patterson served as liar-nObama’s ambassador to Egypt from 2011 to 2013, during tumult that saw two leaders outed in so many years.

Patterson supported the overthrow of longtime US ally then-president Hosni Mubarak.

She supported the Muslim Brotherhood regime that replaced him.

She urged Christians and others who were being persecuted by the Muslim Brotherhood regime not to demonstrate against it. She supported Morsi’s moves to seize tyrannical power and transform Egypt into an Iranian-allied Islamic state.

After the military overthrew Morsi and his regime, Patterson supported cutting off US military assistance to the regime of President Abdel Fattah Sisi.

For her pro-Muslim Brotherhood positions, Patterson became one of the most hated people in Egypt and a symbol of the liar-nObama administration’s abandonment of Egypt.

Mattis’s decision to appoint Patterson was rejected by the White House, on the basis of Patterson’s record in Egypt and at the State Department.

The Patterson episode shows that Mattis continues to embrace liar-nObama’s policy of supporting Islamists and opposing US allies. The White House’s rejection of Patterson shows that Mattis is not in charge of policymaking, the White House is.

The fact that Liberman has represented Mattis’s threats to Israel as the official policy of the Trump administration indicates that he doesn’t understand either who Mattis is, or how decisions are made in US administrations generally or how they are made in the Trump administration in particular.

Moreover, by claiming that Mattis’s positions are US policy, Liberman insulted Trump, attributing policymaking powers to Trump’s appointed adviser that belong to the president alone.

Trump, for his part, has clearly not made a determination of where he stands on the disposition of Judea and Samaria. But he has made clear that he has no intention of striking out at Israel. He similarly made clear that he has no intention of maintaining liar-nObama’s position, which Patterson communicated to Congress, of supporting payoffs to Palestinian terrorists.

If this weren’t reason enough to be appalled by Liberman’s deeply destructive statement, the fact is that this isn’t the main problem with it.

Liberman’s argument that Israel must maintain allegiance to the failed and destructive policy of empowering the PLO lest it wreck its ties to America is most destructive because it undermines Israeli democracy and Israel’s international position. Liberman’s statement invites – indeed begs for – a foreign government to threaten Israel in order to cow elected officials and the public into accepting a policy they rightly reject and abandoning discussion of an alternative path that advances Israel’s strategic interests.

In behaving in this manner, Liberman is adopting the anti-democratic practice of Israel’s political Left. Incapable of winning the public’s support for their obsessive agenda of giving land to Palestinian terrorists, for years, leftist politicians like former justice minister Tzipi Livni have threatened the public and her fellow elected officials that if they dare step away from the disastrous policy, Israeli officials and citizens will face war crimes indictments in international courts.

To his great discredit, Prime Minister Netanyahu began engaging in this sort of behavior recently as he warned that passage of the Settlements Regulation Law would expose Israel to war crimes charges at the International Criminal Court.

Netanyahu was substantively ridiculous. There is no international legal basis for such charges. On its own, the ICC would be unlikely to initiate such proceedings, given their legal weakness. But by arguing that action by the ICC would be a reasonable response to the law, Netanyahu created the political opening for anti-Israel lawfare by the ICC.

After all, if the prime minister himself is saying such charges will ensue, far be it for ICC prosecutors to disagree with him.

This practice of alleging foreign opposition – and so inviting foreigners to attack Israel – in order to prevent Israel’s elected officials from loyally performing their duties in accordance with the wishes of their constituents has always been harmful to the country.

Liberman’s false statement regarding the purported policies of the Trump administration brings this practice to a new low.

Liberman should issue an immediate clarification.

Prime Minister Netanyahu should reject Liberman’s statement. And both men should affirm their commitment to Israeli democracy and the power of elected officials to determine the course of the nation in accordance with Israel law and on basis of their assessments of Israel’s national interests.
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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Trump's "Wiretapping" Allegations Based in Fact
by C. Mitchell Shaw
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 Hypocritically Demanding Evidence 
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On Saturday, Donald Trump released a series of tweets in which he alleged that Barack liar-nObama had ordered "wiretapping" at his New York Trump Tower campaign headquarters. Trump's allegation was met with a litany of Leftmedia finger wagging because he didn't provide any evidence to back up his claims. The Washington Post news alert read, "Trump, citing no evidence, accuses liar-nObama of 'Nixon/Watergate' plot to wiretap Trump Tower before the election," and the New York Times headline likewise stated, "Trump, Offering No Evidence, Says liar-nObama Tapped His Phones." CNN did the least to hide its bias, running the headline, "Trump's baseless wiretap claim."
          For months now Democrats and the Leftmedia have continuously promoted allegations of supposed collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia, and to date no actual evidence of any collaboration has ever been presented. Yet the mainstream media has the gall to call out Trump for making an accusation without evidence. Kettle meet pot.
          For the MSM to declare Trump's claims as being "baseless" is a disingenuously dismissive statement, for there does appear to be some merit to his accusation. Andrew McCarthy of National Review notes that the liar-nObama Justice Department in June 2016 sought to convert an FBI investigation into Trump associates, which had turned up nothing criminal, into a national-security investigation under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). While an initial request was turned down by the FISA court, it appears that other requests were made and eventually in October some surveillance was granted. The extent of surveillance is unknown, as that information is classified.
          The point here is that Trump's accusation merits investigation, and the media's blatant hypocrisy in demanding evidence from Trump while at the same time willingly pushing unverifiable allegations of its own smacks of partisan bias. Objectivity is fast becoming a distant memory.  ~The Patriot Post
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Some Quick Thoughts on the Leak
of CIA Hacking Documents
by FRED FLEITZ
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ According to press reports, Wikileaks today released thousands of highly classified CIA documents on methods the CIA allegedly is using to conduct cyber warfare... If these documents are legitimate, this illegal release will ruin cyber programs worth billions of dollars that CIA was using to do battle with America's enemies, especially terrorist groups. The CIA officer who took the law into his or her hands to release this material justified this release by claiming this data "urgently need to be debated in public, including whether the CIA's hacking capabilities exceed its mandated powers and the problem of public oversight of the agency." The source also said he or she "wishes to initiate a public debate about the security, creation, use, proliferation and democratic control of cyberweapons." What nonsense. If the leaker truly believed this program violated U.S. law or endangered the privacy rights of America, there are numerous legal avenues he or she could have used, including the CIA Inspector General and the House and Senate intelligence committees. CIA officers take an oath to protect classified national security information. Such a massive illegal disclosure in violation of the CIA secrecy oath is not an act of courage or whistleblowing, it was "a Snowden" - an act of cowardice by a disgruntled individual who never should have been hired by the CIA...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/some-quick-thoughts-on-the-leak-of-cia-hacking-documents?f=must_reads
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New Yorkers To liar-Hillary Clinton: No, Thanks
by Phillip Stucky
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Former Secretary of State liar-Hillary Clinton didn’t perform well in the latest poll in the New York City mayor’s race, according to a new Rasmussen poll released Tuesday... Fifty-eight percent of likely voters in the city don’t want liar-Clinton to run again, compared to just 23 percent of voters who wanted the former presidential candidate to run. Nineteen percent of voters hadn’t yet made up their mind. Current Mayor Bill de Blasio is set to run for reelection, but trails Republican challenger Paul Massey, Jr. in terms of fundraising. Massey raised $1.6 million in the race so far, compared to de Blasio’s $1 million.  http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/07/new-yorkers-to-hillary-clinton-no-thanks/
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Canada's New Blasphemy Laws
by Khadija Khan
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ A resolution, M-103, seeking to condemn so-called "Islamophobia," was introduced a few weeks ago in the peaceful country of Canada by Liberal Party MP Iqra Khalid in the House of Commons, sparking a controversy... A similar motion, labelled M-37, was later tabled in the Ontario provincial legislature by MPP Nathalie Des Rosiers on February 23, 2017, and was passed by the provincial parliament. Hardliners who support this form of censorship, and presumably other restrictions required by Islamic sharia law, aim to blur the line between genuine bigotry and criticism of core problems across the Muslim world, such as the murder of apostates and homosexuals, communal hatred, anti-Semitism, violence against women and minors, female genital mutilation (FGM), child marriage, unequal legal and inheritance rights for women, stoning, flogging and amputation, and social taboos such as honour killings or right to choose a husband for girls or restrict girls' education...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/10015/canada-blasphemy-laws
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Swedish Defense Ministry Warns Muslim Brotherhood Building Parallel Swedish Society
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Sweden and it’s problem with Muslim refugees has been in the news ever since President Trump mentioned the country at a rally about a month ago. Of course the liberal American media has been covering the story by bashing the President for making the comment... An interesting/frightening news item is being covered in the British press which is being ignored in the U.S. According to the Swedish Defense Ministry the Muslim Brotherhood, parent organization of many world-wide Islamist terrorist organizations is creating a parallel society in their country. Per the UK Daily Mail, the government document claims that the with the help of a PC political elite, the Muslim Brotherhood is building a “parallel society” within the country so it can organize Swedish Muslims into a strong political voting bloc as a step in helping it get closer to its goal, a global Sunni Islamic Caliphate...  http://lidblog.com/swedish-govt-muslim-brotherhood/
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Paul Ryan Betrays President Trump On
liar-nObamacare Repeal And Replace
by CHQ Staff
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{conservativehq.com} ~ It was inevitable that this would happen, but we figured it would take a little longer. Speaker Paul Ryan’s so-called liar-nObamacare “repeal and replace” bill is a complete sellout of President Trump’s campaign promise... to rid the country and the economy of the disaster of liar-nObamacare, but the President is already being suckered into endorsing it. Indeed, President Trump’s White House spokesman, Sean Spicer, falsely stated yesterday that the healthcare bill from House Speaker Paul Ryan represents what will eventually be a full repeal of liar-nObamacare. As our friend Matthew Boyle writing for Breitbart pointed-out, the bill is more like liar-nObamacare 2.0 because the bill keeps in place the liar-nObamacare requirements that insurers allow for coverage of pre-existing conditions and allows children to stay on their parents’ health care until they’re 26-years-old. It shifts the individual mandate from being a tax paid to the government to a penalty paid to insurance companies, does not even address the Medicaid issue in states effectively, helps illegal aliens access healthcare in the system, and it does not allow for purchasing of insurance across state lines as Republicans have promised for years—among many, many other problems...  http://www.conservativehq.com/node/25234 
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Trump's "Wiretapping" Allegations Based in Fact
by C. Mitchell Shaw
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ President Trump is sticking to his claims that President liar-nObama — in a move that would make Watergate look small by comparison — wiretapped Trump Tower in the weeks leading up to the election. liar-nObama, the intelligence community, and the liberal mainstream media all say the president’s claims are false. But the evidence is on Trump’s side in this continuation of his battle with his enemies in politics, the intelligence community, and media.

As part of the investigation into alleged — and unproven — connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, the liar-nObama administration appears to have wired Trump tower for sound. The New American previously covered the intelligence community’s attacks on Trump — first as a candidate, then as President-elect — including the release of a “dossier” purported to show that Trump was both under the control of and the beneficiary of Russian intelligence services. Claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted Trump in the White House, Trump’s enemies in politics and the intelligence community — with an assist from the liberal mainstream media — pushed forward with an “investigation” to prove those claims, while ignoring clear evidence that the liar-Clinton campaign had direct ties to Russia.

As The New American previously reported, President Trump took to Twitter on Saturday, accusing the liar-nObama administration of “wiretapping” Trump Tower during the election. As we said in that article:

Reporting yesterday on Levin’s recommendation, Breitbart provided an expanded version of the case against liar-nObama. Attempting to combat the WikiLeaks e-mails damaging the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign, the site informed, the liar-nObama administration submitted a new Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISA) request last October.

Using the present tense, Breitbart writes that this request is “focused on a computer server in Trump Tower suspected of links to Russian banks. No evidence is found — but the wiretaps continue, ostensibly for national security reasons, Andrew McCarthy at National Review later notes. The liar-nObama administration is now monitoring an opposing presidential campaign using the high-tech surveillance powers of the federal intelligence services.”

In a follow-up article, The New American reported:

Almost as soon as President Trump accused former President liar-nObama of wiretapping Trump Tower during the elections, liar-nObama not only denied it, but also denied that he had ever “ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen.” The statement — issued by liar-nObama spokesman Kevin Lewis — is, of course, false.

And:

Team liar-nObama and the liberal mainstream media pounced on Trump’s accusations, calling them “sensational” and “false.” Lewis’ statement — released Saturday afternoon — is typical of the form:

A cardinal rule of the liar-nObama administration was that no White House official ever interfered with any independent investigation led by the Department of Justice. As part of that practice, neither President liar-nObama nor any White House official ever ordered surveillance on any U.S. citizen. Any suggestion otherwise is simply false.”

The backlash did not end there, though. Others expressed their outrage that Trump would dare accuse liar-nObama of overstepping his authority by authorizing surveillance on a presidential candidate from the other party. But, Trump is not backing down. He has called for a Congressional investigation. On Sunday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer said, "President Trump is requesting that as part of their investigation into Russian activity, the Congressional intelligence committees exercise their oversight authority to determine whether executive branch investigative powers were abused in 2016."

The intelligence community chimed in from the shadows, denying that Trump’s claims have any credibility whatsoever and asking the Justice Department to publicly repudiate those claims. FBI Director James Comey — who twice refused to recommend indictment against liar-Hillary Clinton for her many (and obvious) crimes — “has been working to get the Justice Department to knock down the claim because it falsely insinuates that the F.B.I. broke the law, the officials said,” according to the New York Times.

And former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper — who resigned effective with Trump’s inauguration — has now joined the fray. When asked on Sunday’s Meet The Press to confirm or deny the existence of a FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court Act) order for surveillance of Trump Tower, Clapper flatly stated, "I can deny it." Of course, this is the same James Clapper who is known for lying under oath and on camera to Congress. Twice.

Setting aside Clapper’s utter lack of credibility, is it possible he is telling the truth this time? Perhaps he only lies under oath. Did FISA issue an order to allow surveillance of Trump Tower to ferret out connections to Russia?

The evidence says FISA did issue the order, and Clapper is keeping to his old ways.

Retired U.S. Army Intelligence Officer Lt. Colonel Tony Shaffer, told FOX News that President Trump has the “paper-trail” to prove his claims. Speaking from his experience in intelligence, Shaffer said, “I don’t doubt for a minute that Mr. Trump has got sufficient — I would say critical mass — of evidence.” He also said that the FISA court did indeed issue the order and that is “one piece of evidence” that Trump’s claims are true.

That FISA order is a foregone conclusion. Earlier in the same video segment of FOX News linked above, Speaker of the House Paul Ryan danced all around the issue without ever actually answering the question. But one thing is clear: The liar-nObama administration first made a FISA request on June 16, 2016 to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and other campaign officials. That request was turned down. The administration reworked the request and renewed it in October. That request — to wiretap Trump Tower — was approved, according to FOX News. Of course, the “investigation” of which this surveillance was a part did not turn up any connection between the Trump campaign and Russia.

FOX News also interviewed Mark Levin, who had reported this on his radio program. Levin explains that public records show the existence of the FISA order, and that the order makes mention of “a computer server possibly related to the Trump campaign and its alleged links to two Russian banks.” The New American reported on this at the time. In that article, this writer said:

Slate published an article claiming that a server belonging to Donald Trump was “communicating in a secretive fashion” with servers in Russia. By the next day, the Washington Post had debunked the Slate article, saying, “That secret Trump-Russia email server link is likely neither secret nor a Trump-Russia link.” Based in part on an interview with Naadir Jeewa, who “does consulting work on precisely the sorts of systems involved in” the scenario involving the server Slate claims was acting as a conduit between Trump and Russia, the article by the Post explains:

To understand what's likely happening, we need to establish a few basics. First of all, the Trump server wasn't really a Trump server. It was much less of a Trump email server, for example, than liar-Hillary Clinton's email server was hers. liar-Clinton had a physical server that hosted her email. The trump-email.com domain that Alfa was connecting to was hosted by a company called Cendyn. Cendyn runs marketing systems for the hospitality industry, meaning that it offers an out-of-the-box solution for a company that owns a bunch of hotels to push out sales pitch emails to its customers. In other words, trump-email.com isn't the email server Trump used to send emails from his closet. It was a domain name that linked back to a Cendyn server.

This is important for a few reasons. The first, Jeewa said, was that the trump-email.com was configured to reject a certain type of query from another server. Since its job was simply to push out thousands of enticements to come stay at Trump Soho (or whatever) it didn't need to receive many incoming requests (like incoming email). The second is that the conspiracy theory hinges on Trump's team using an offsite server hosted by someone else for its quiet communications with its Russian allies. Instead of, say, their own server, under their own control. Or an encrypted chat app. Or a phone call.

This writer has to admit to being amused to see the shoe on the other foot or the tinfoil hat on the other head, in this instance as the Left trots out wild conspiracy theories to create a Trump-Putin connection to make liar-Clinton retroactively correct. In point of fact, liar-Clinton might be better off trying to implicate Trump in the Kennedy assassination.

So, the allegation on which the FISA order was based was that a server “belonging” to Trump was “communicating” with Russian banks. It appears that Trump’s enemies will swallow anything that fits into their hatred of the man who is now president.

Considering the lack of honesty and lack of judgment which is par-for-the-course in the intelligence community and the lack of scruples which seems to have been a mark of the liar-nObama administration, the investigation Trump is asking for could cause more than a few heads to roll.
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Is gender anarchy God's judgment for abortion?
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 by Linda Harvey
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 Coddling Communications With Russia 
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By Mark Alexander: If you want to contain rather than coddle Russia, you certainly would not do what Barack liar-nObama did ahead of his 2012 presidential election. Recall if you will, liar-nObama told then-Russian President Dmitry Medvedev that incoming President Vladimir Putin needed to "give me space" on missile defense and other major policy and security matters ahead of the 2012 presidential election, and that after the election liar-nObama would have "more flexibility." Medvedev said he would "transmit" the message to Putin.
          So as opposed to liar-nObama's weak and subservient sop to Moscow, let's examine if Donald Trump's policy is promoting or containing Russian power. There are a couple of key elements:
          First, Russia's anemic economy is totally dependent on oil and gas prices, so what has Trump done — opened the gate on oil exploration to keep the price down. And in general, to ensure dominance over totalitarian and dictator states, Trump is taking action to rekindle America's economic might.
          Second, Trump is following Ronald Reagan's playbook to rebuild our military to contain threats like Russian expansion into Ukraine, which got a yawn from liar-nObama.
          Make no mistake, liar-nObama and his secretary of state, liar-Hillary "Reset Button" Clinton, were soft on Russia. Trump, on the other hand, is restoring America's standing in the world.
          And as for the Demo claims that Jeff Sessions perjured himself in confirmation testimony, that's all political theater designed to derail Trump's momentum after his congressional address Tuesday night. ~The Patriot Post
 
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Trey Gowdy With A Bill To Stop
liar-nObama’s “Slush Find” Policy
by A D
 
{uconservative.com} ~ Trey Gowdy is one of the good guys, dedicated to DESTROYING the corruption in Washington. And we all know who is at the top of the corrupt ladder – Barrack liar-nObama - one of the most corrupt presidents EVER... liar-nObama’s destructive policies harmed the American people more than any other president. He promoted racial division, ruined the economy, neglected our military, and let thousands of undocumented migrants into our country that are killing and raping people each day. But President Trump has some strong allies and advisers on his side, and Trey Gowdy is one of them. He is doing everything in his power to shut down the liar-nObama regime’s policies. Under Gowdy, the House Judiciary Committee passed a bill to stop an liar-nObama “slush find” policy, reports Freedom’s Final Stand. The bill, called H.R. 732, was co-sponsored by Trey Gowdy, who worked overtime to get it passed...
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Whiny White House Press Corps Can’t
Keep Up With President Trump
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs offers a “few thoughts on the ‘news’ organizations that President Trump has dubbed as ‘fake news’ and ‘the enemy of the people.’ He’s referring of course specifically to five members of the left-wing national media in particular, the... as he puts it ‘failing New York Times,’ CBS, ABC, NBC  ‘news’ and CNN.” Dobbs notes, “The Washington Post, today, an organization that some argue should also be in that group, posing this question, ‘Can President Trump outlast the White House press corps?’ Now that, is a laugher. Do you have any doubt about that? Talk about the left-wing bias and fake news. That is the wrong headline altogether, it is the wrong question altogether. It should have been, ‘Can the White House press corps even remotely keep up with President Trump?'” “Reporters are already grumbling,” says Dobbs, “about President Trump’s work ethic. It’s too strong and it is too demanding. And they’re furious about the fact he keeps a furious pace, every single day...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-whiny-white-house-press-corps-cant-keep-president-trump/
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Andrea Mitchell Physically Forced To Leave Like
The Nobody She Is At State Dept
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Andrea Mitchell gets her beak all bent out of shape when she isn’t “properly acknowledged” as she rudely shouts questions to Secretary of State Tillerson who was hosting the Ukraine Foreign Minister... She conducts herself as if she believes she’s some sort of media royalty, entitled to behave like a BLM agitator in the office of the Secretary. As the two men are shaking hands, Mitchell blurts out loudly and rudely, “Mr. Secretary, China has said there will be consequences for the deployment now of anti-missile defenses in South Korea. Can you, can you respond.” Of course he can, and it appears he’s chosen not to. The staffers can already be heard attempting to nicely shuffle the old bird out the door. They announce ‘thank you,’ the code words for “it’s time to leave,” and position themselves between the obstinate reporter and the Secretary. As the staffers continue to herd the reporters out, Mitchell turns to the Ukrainian with a question that was clearly intended to provide ammunition for the leftists attacks along the fake Trump Russia collusion hoax. She shouts, “Mr. Minister are you sure the Trump administration will be strong against Vladimir Putin?” He ignores her as well...
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How Close-Minded Liberals
Have Ruined Higher Education
by Walter E. Williams
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{dailysignal.com} ~ While college administrators and professors accept disgraceful behavior, we as taxpayers, donors, and parents should not foot the bill. Let’s look at some of that behavior... A University of Washington Tacoma Writing Center press release told students that expecting Americans to use proper grammar perpetuates racism. The University of Nebraska Omaha will host a workshop for “anti-racist allies” to develop “action plans” that confront America’s “foundation of systemic oppression” in the context of “the current political climate.” The workshop was inspired by professor Tammie Kennedy’s recent book, titled “Rhetorics of Whiteness.” She will lead a discussion on “taking action against white supremacy.”...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/03/08/how-closed-minded-liberals-have-ruined-higher-education/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1VNVpUVTNOR0ZrWWpZMSIsInQiOiJkZU9xZU5NTmRiekQ3QzRYNXQyajlZZ2V0bXgxMVA0WHJHYnVGbmRMTFdxVEtmYjcxTFY0UWhcL3dITFB1eWtWdzFOTmpnTThxZXgxYTBoYmtvNHhod2RJeXhNVHZJMTdITmxzRHUya255QkpqMUZadU1BZk9vNnU1XC9mZ004V1hLIn0%3D
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Now We Know WHO Signed Off on Wiretapping Trump...TREASON
 
{angrypatriotmovement.com} ~ That trail reveals that then Attorney General Loretta Lynch must have signed off on the warrant allowing the liar-nObama Administration to wiretap Donald Trump, via ABC News... Two separate applications for the warrant were made, and Lynch had to put her name on both of them. The first was denied. In and of itself, the denial of the first application means that Lynch must have some exceptionally bad judgment. She was the ONLY person that signed off on FISA warrants over the last year or so of liar-nObama’s terms, so now we know who the rat is. And you know what happens to rats…liar-nObama also knew.
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Is gender anarchy God's judgment for abortion?
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 by Linda Harvey
{wnd.com} ~ When certain families raise their children in today’s culture to be God-honoring, productive, respectful young adults, it’s an astounding accomplishment.

It still happens, praise God, and many of you are still trying to do this.

But the forces allied against such happy outcomes are growing, metastasizing through the disease of secular American culture.

To keep protecting our children, we must recognize honestly what’s going on, even if it is a deeply sobering, heartbreaking picture.

It’s all-out war, one that God is possibly allowing for a time as part of judgment on America.

The left calls the transformation of America “progress.”

But no, it is instead an insane race toward the crumbling temples of ancient barbarism, leading our children by the hand as the sacrificial victims brought willingly to the pagan feast.

Can God “turn the hearts of the fathers back to the children”? (Malachi 4:6)

It may be a divine consequence, if not judgment, of America’s callous slaughter of 60 million unborn lives. God has a habit of giving us what we want.

We are reaping the fruit of abortion: marriage abolition via the homosexual and gender confusion agendas. “Don’t want the blessing of faithful husband/wife love – new human life? OK, take the emptiness of fruitless pleasure instead.”

Sexual promiscuity and cohabitation before marriage were just the beginning. The severe spiritual disorientation that results in the disintegration of male and female norms is being visited on the next generation as we fail to guard their hearts, their eyes, their bodies.

Corruption is “cool”; protectiveness is stifling. The bar of “education” in sexual matters is moved ever lower until Ph.D.s in anti-Christ mythology are dragging youth through a gutter of horrific abominations in grade school. Students are tutored in masturbation as a child, then mutual masturbation as a pre-teen, then experimentation in all directions as a teen. Abortion is always a “health care” option.

And sometimes, adults break a sacred trust and violate children themselves.

The result? More children who exhibit the classic signs of demonic oppression.

Many are behaviorally unhinged, some unaccountably anxious. Others are perennially dissatisfied, proudly rebellious, even self-destructive through cutting, drug use, eating disorders. And then there are those with violent impulses – teen rapists, looters, vandals.

Gender anarchy is one of the last stops on this nightmare trail, a natural outcome of rejecting the sanity and beauty of male and female God-designed identities. Homosexuality was the stop before. And while homosexual desires arise from some level of gender confusion, many stop short of a complete repudiation of the anatomical reality of masculinity and femininity. Or at least, they used to.

Satan is not done with our precious sons and daughters yet. He wants us to hand our children over willingly, believing it’s for their own good, and scream in outrage at any who try to issue warnings.

It’s now “cruel” not to let boys dress in skirts and eyeliner and disrobe in the female locker rooms at school.

Watching this descent into the hell of child corruption for four decades, it’s difficult to understand why more people who call themselves Christian are not radically upset. Some are – that’s our hope and promise.

But for instance, America’s most fervent pro-life activists often avoid any stand on this issue. It may be fear, or it may be that they resist connecting the dots about where decades of sowing disrespect for the fruit of marriage takes us.

After killing millions of our own offspring, Americans are jaded and desensitized to the sexual corruption of our children. Many believers now contend, unbiblically, that it’s un-Christian not to cooperate with these diabolical delusions.

This blindness may also be God’s judgment.

We are more afraid of the worldly label of “hate” than the divine label of “unfaithful.”

Parents allow schools to teach children detailed elements of sexual perversion in sex education. Should 11-year-olds learn, inaccurately, that anal sex is a manageable “genital” activity? Do we not weep in despair at the smashed innocence in a sensitive child?

Friendly librarians hand our children “young adult” literature selections that include pornographic passages. Parents trust that what a school recommends will have no negative effect. This category of literature has exploded in the last 15 years – complete with rape scenes, homosexual sex, masturbation, oral sex, gender fluidity – only because parents are not the watchdogs they used to be. The healthy skepticism that once accompanied parental oversight is quickly vanishing.

So we have porn-obsessed boys who crave sex with other boys – but are willing to accept sex with a predatory adult male.

We see teen lesbians who hate males flirt with witchcraft and think abortion is a sacrament.

And highly disturbed middle schoolers are exploited by social media and radical teachers and threaten suicide unless parents support them in identifying as the opposite sex and beginning hormone “treatment.”

Does any parent bring a baby home from the hospital and proclaim, “Oh, I can’t wait until he is a 17-year-old drag queen who begs to have castration surgery!”

Do any parents pray that their adorable baby girl grows into a foul-mouthed, tattooed “gender-queer” who damages her breasts permanently through chest-binding?

Of course not. America is drowning in parental tears. “I never thought this would happen!” “What did I do wrong?”

Sometimes parents do bear some responsibility. But sometimes it’s the corrupt world that is increasingly impossible to screen out.

We must change it.

What can America do to turn this around? First, we must face the war that is being waged and search our own hearts, with repentance and conviction.

Read and study Scripture about the nation that turns from the Lord:

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge.
Because you have rejected knowledge,
I will also reject you from being priest for Me.
Because you have forgotten the law of your God,
I also will forget your children. ( Hosea 4: 6, NKJV)

Can we save our children? Yes. But first, we must save ourselves.
 
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Why Do American Jews Want Thousands
of Jew Haters in America?
by Dennis Prager
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 Democrats Hypocritical on Recusal 
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Newly installed Attorney General Jeff Sessions is being harshly castigated over conflict of interest allegations that link him to last year's non-scandal Russia scandal. Unsurprisingly, those Democrats who aren't calling for his immediate removal from office are urging Sessions to recuse himself from any investigations into Donald Trump's links to Russia. And, to his credit, that's just what Sessions did late yesterday. As the National Review editors write, "Government officials ought to avoid even the appearance of impropriety. Given that that standard has been honored mainly in the breach over the past eight years — especially in the Justice Department — Sessions's decision is a marked improvement on the conduct of his most recent predecessors."
          On that note, let's step back and evaluate several conflicts of interest the Leftmedia sidestepped when Barack liar-nObama was in power. Let's start with Justice Elena Kagan. Before her promotion to the Supreme Court, Kagan served as liar-nObama's solicitor general. Her job was to convince the High Court on the legality of liar-nObama's agenda. After her ascension to the Supreme Court, however, Kagan refused to recuse herself from NFIB v. Sebelius, the contentious liar-nObamaCare case. This is critical because, despite the administration's assurances, she was clearly involved in defending the health care overhaul
as solicitor general. That ruling, you'll recall, was 5-4, and it had a far bigger impact than any meetings Sessions had with Russian officials.

Then there's Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Despite being, as Daniel Horowitz wrote last year, "a long-time activist in open borders activism," she ignored her own prejudice and voted in United States v. Texas. This case pertained to liar-nObama's Deferred Action for Parents of Americans (DAPA) program, more accurately described as executive amnesty. The only good thing that can be said of this case is that the 4-4 tie (Justice Antonin Scalia died before the vote) didn't change a lower court's ruling. Regardless, if Democrats were truly concerned about impartiality, Sotomayor would have stepped aside.

And finally, recall the utter malfeasance of former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who masqueraded last summer's private meeting with Bill liar-Clinton as a happenstance that included friendly small talk and nothing more. Democrats actually expected Americans to believe the exchange had nothing to do with the investigation of liar-Hillary Clinton's email. Yesterday, Nancy Pulosi even called the meeting "serendipitous." Despite the obvious conflict of interest, Lynch ultimately refused to recuse herself.
          These are just a few examples of non-recusals. Democrat shenanigans go far beyond this. Remember that Eric Holder's DOJ targeted media outlets and trafficked guns to Mexico as part of an elaborate gun control agenda. Where was the Democrat opposition then? The most embarrassing of hypocrisy came from Sen. Claire McCaskill, who this week claimed on Twitter: "I've been on the Armed Services Com for 10 years. No call or meeting w/Russian ambassador. Ever." Yet that very same Twitter feed reveals that in 2013 and 2015, respectively, she tweeted "Off to meeting w/Russian Ambassador," and, "Today calls with British, Russian, and German Ambassadors re: Iran deal." Moreover, some 30 Democrat senators met with the Russian ambassador in 2015 as liar-nObama was hawking his nuclear deal with Iran.
          But now, there's blood in the water, and the Left is doing its best to exploit it. The reality is that the Sessions uproar is a political witch hunt. One that Democrats embark on while ignoring their own hypocrisy. ~The Patriot Post
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Featuring Pulosi, Waters, dinky-Warren,
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{youtube.com} ~ Pulosi Thinks “BUSH” Is President? Waters Thinks “Putin invaded Korea. dinky-Warren reprimanded, kicked off of Senate floor. All These Happened in The Same Day.
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So True! The DEMs party has turned into the looney bin Party!.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U68tHvs95Y8&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
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Feinstein Fears Justice Department
Might Become Political...
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ As painful as it is to have the camera zoomed in on Senator Dianne Feinstein as she’s speaking, they are left with little choice. A wide shot would likely have revealed the rest of the Senate, Republicans anyway, rolling on the floor laughing at her idiotic comments... In the interest of preserving what remains of the dignity of the Senate, close ups were what we got. As was expected, Feinstein and her fellow anti-America Democrats themselves diminished the legislative body in their antics, continuing their grandstanding and stall tactics with the President’s nominees. For the two they are considering on this day, Rod Rosenstein and Rachel Brand, for the number two and three positions at the Justice Department, the pretext of any actual confirmation hearing activity has been completely abandoned. Feinstein and her comrades want a special prosecutor to pursue their non-existent Russia hoax and they are doing their best to elicit some type of commitment to do so...
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CNN drops congressman's feed
as he spills the beans
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{wnd.com} ~ A U.S. congressman was abruptly disconnected from his CNN interview Monday just as he began citing statistics revealing 300 refugees admitted to the U.S. are being investigated by the FBI in domestic terrorism cases... CNN correspondent Dana Bash was interviewing Rep. Scott Taylor, R-Va., on the issue of President Trump’s revised travel ban, which bars entry of individuals from a list of six terror hotbeds (Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen, Syrian and Libya) for 90 days as the administration examines the vetting process. Bash asked Taylor if he believes Trump’s ban is necessary for America’s security. Just today, the FBI comes out and says that 30 percent, 30 percent, of their domestic terrorism cases that they’re investigating are from folks who are refugees,” Taylor replied. “It’s important not to label all refugees bad people, that’s not why I’m here, but …”  http://www.wnd.com/2017/03/cnn-cuts-congressmans-feed-as-he-spills-the-beans/
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Tucker, Rep. Jim Himes Spar Over Alleged NSA Surveillance — Spying Or Law Enforcement?
by Christian Datoc
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Rep. Jim Himes stopped by Fox News’ Monday broadcast of “Tucker Carlson Tonight” to discuss surveillance of Trump Tower, which President Trump claimed was carried out by the liar-nObama administration during the 2016 election... Only minutes into the interview, the Connecticut Democrat accused Carlson of mis-categorizing any surveillance performed on private citizens as “spying,” when it’s really “law enforcement.” “You used the word ‘spying,’ and I don’t know what that means,” Himes, who sits on the House Intelligence Community, told Carlson. “Is that what police do when they’re listening in on drug dealers and child molesters?”...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/03/07/tucker-rep-jim-himes-spar-over-alleged-nsa-surveillance-spying-or-law-enforcement-video/?utm_source=WhatCountsEmail&utm_medium=TheDC%20Morning&utm_campaign=TheDC%20Evening
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Trump's "Wiretapping" Allegations Based in Fact
by C. Mitchell Shaw
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ President Trump is sticking to his claims that President liar-nObama — in a move that would make Watergate look small by comparison — wiretapped Trump Tower in the weeks leading up to the election... liar-nObama, the intelligence community, and the liberal mainstream media all say the president’s claims are false. But the evidence is on Trump’s side in this continuation of his battle with his enemies in politics, the intelligence community, and media. As part of the investigation into alleged — and unproven — connections between the Trump campaign and Russia, the liar-nObama administration appears to have wired Trump tower for sound. The New American previously covered the intelligence community’s attacks on Trump — first as a candidate, then as President-elect — including the release of a “dossier” purported to show that Trump was both under the control of and the beneficiary of Russian intelligence services. Claiming that Russian President Vladimir Putin wanted Trump in the White House, Trump’s enemies in politics and the intelligence community — with an assist from the liberal mainstream media — pushed forward with an “investigation” to prove those claims, while ignoring clear evidence that the liar-Clinton campaign had direct ties to Russia. That FISA order is a foregone conclusion. But one thing is clear: The liar-nObama administration first made a FISA request on June 16, 2016 to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and other campaign officials. That request was turned down. The administration reworked the request and renewed it in October. That request — to wiretap Trump Tower — was approved. Of course, the “investigation” of which this surveillance was a part did not turn up any connection between the Trump campaign and Russia...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/25538-trumps-wiretapping-allegations-based-in-fact?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm
 
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Why Do American Jews Want Thousands
of Jew Haters in America?
by Dennis Prager
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Last week, the Jerusalem Post and other news agencies reported that in a Paris suburb, two Jewish brothers wearing kippot (Jewish skullcaps) were attacked while driving their car by Middle Easterners driving another car.

According to a case report: "While the vehicle was in motion, the driver and a passenger shouted anti-Semitic slogans at the brothers that included 'Dirty Jews, You're going to die!' ... The vehicle forced the brothers to stop their car, and they were surrounded by several men ... The men came out of a hookah cafe on to the side street ... The alleged attackers surrounded the brothers, then kicked and punched them repeatedly while threatening that they would be murdered if they moved. One of the alleged attackers then sawed off the finger of one of the brothers."

Attacks on Jews in France and elsewhere in Europe by Muslim immigrants from the Middle East and North Africa, or MENA, are so common that for the first time since World War II, Jews in France fear wearing a kippah or a Star of David in public. So many French Jews are leaving France that two years ago, then-Prime Minister Manuel Valls gave an impassioned speech pleading with French Jews to stay in France.

It has gotten so bad for Jews in Europe that The Atlantic, a liberal magazine, recently featured an article titled "Is It Time for the Jews to Leave Europe?"

In Sweden, attacks on Jews in Malmo, the country's third largest city, are so common that Jews are leaving the city and the country.

Last year, the Jerusalem Post published an article about a Jewish couple that had lived in Sweden since the middle of World War II. Dan and Karla (not their real names) are Danish Jews who were smuggled into Sweden as children. Their gratitude for Sweden has been immense.

But they have now left their homeland, the country that saved their lives, to live in Spain. They lived in Malmo. In Dan's words, the immense saturation of Jew hatred in the city was caused by "the adverse effects of accepting half-a-million immigrants from the Middle East, who plainly weren't interesting in adopting Sweden's values and Swedish culture. ... The politicians, the media, the intellectuals ... they all played their parts in pandering to this dangerous ideology and, sadly, it's changing the fabric of Swedish society irreversibly."

The Post continued, saying, "Karla, who'd sat passively, occasionally nodding in agreement at Dan's analysis, then interrupted, saying, 'If you disagree with the establishment, you're immediately called a racist or fascist.'" (Sound familiar?)

The British newspaper The Telegraph recently reported: "Jewish people in Malmo have long complained of growing harassment in the city, where 43 per cent of the population have a non-Swedish background, with Iraqis, Lebanese and stateless Palestinians some of the largest groups. The Jewish community centre in the city is heavily fortified, with security doors and bollards on the outside pavement to prevent car bombs."

An article in the left-wing HuffingtonPost reached a now-familiar conclusion, saying: "Migrants streaming into Europe from the Middle East are bringing with them virulent anti-Semitism which is erupting from Scandinavia to France to Germany. ... While all of the incoming refugees and migrants, fleeing Syria, Iraq, Afghanistan and other Muslim lands, may not hold anti-Jewish views, an extremely large number do -- simply as a result to being raised in places where anti-Jewish vitriol is poured out in TV, newspapers, schools and mosques. ... 'There is no future for Jews in Europe' said the chief Rabbi of Brussels."

Yet, despite all this Muslim-immigrant Jew hatred, more than a thousand rabbis have signed a petition to bring large numbers of MENA Muslims into America, and virtually all Jewish organizations outside of orthodoxy and the Zionist Organization of America have condemned President Trump's administration for enacting even a temporary travel ban (one due entirely to security concerns) on immigrants and refugees from seven (of the world's more than 50) Muslim-majority countries.

How is one to explain the widespread American Jewish support for bringing in a massive number of people, many of whom will bring in anti-Jew, anti-Israel and anti-West values?

First, they are staggeringly naive believing, for example, that marching at airports with signs that read "We love Muslims" will change those Muslims who hate Jews into Muslims who love Jews.

Second, never underestimate the power of feeling good about yourself that exists on the left (the self-esteem movement originated on the left). And it feels very good for these Jews to say: "Look, world. You abandoned us in the 1930s, but we're better than you."

And third, when American Jews abandoned traditional liberal and traditional Jewish values for leftist values, they became less Jewish, less American and more foolish.

Just ask the Jews of Europe.

http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/266028/why-do-american-jews-want-thousands-jew-haters-dennis-prager

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The Beltway Conspiracy to Break Trump
by Patrick Buchanan
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300 refugees subject of FBI terror investigations. (Fox News)
 
Police chief to illegal aliens: "Your immigration status is completely irrelevant." (CNS News)
 
District of Columbia councilwoman holds meeting teaching illegal immigrants how to resist ICE. (The Daily Signal)
 
WikiLeaks publishes thousands of purported CIA documents. (Associated Press)
 
CIA, DOJ sued over leaks of classified wiretaps on former NSA Flynn. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
"A Day Without a Woman" ignites backlash over left-wing agenda, school closures. (The Washington Times)
 
University language guide deems "homosexual" and "housewife" to be offensive terms. (National Review)
 
Noted social sciences expert blocked from speaking by leftists mob. (The Washington Post)
 
Women's studies has changed over the years — and it's more popular than ever. (USA Today College)
 
Humor: Protesting the Protesters — the brutal truth! (Chad Prather Video)
 
Policy: Stop proof-texting refugee policy with misapplied Bible verses. (The Federalist)
 
Policy: The Feds have transformed Title IX into an enemy of common sense. (The Heartland Institute
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Judge Napolitano: liar-nObama
Wiretapping ‘Legal’ But ‘Unconstitutional’
by James Oleen
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano discussed the legality of then President Barack liar-nObama’s alleged eavesdropping of Trump Tower and concluded it is “legal,” but “profoundly unconstitutional.”... The Fox News senior judicial analyst said that the NSA could have legally communicated recorded conversations of Trump’s campaign staff to the liar-nObama White House without obtaining a traditional warrant. But, in order to explain how this could occur, Napolitano first had to clear up the details of an argument which he called a “mixing of apples and oranges.”...  http://www.westernjournalism.com/judge-napolitano-obama-wiretapping-legal-unconstitutional/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=C50ConservativeBrief&utm_content=2017-03-07
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Trump Has Probably Already Seen
The FISA Warrant, Requests
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ It is likely that President Trump has already seen the FISA requests and subsequent warrants and that was what set him off on Saturday morning... The liberal talking heads would have us believe that it was the unhinged and unfounded over-reactions of an increasingly mentally compromised madman that they will eventually need to save us from. Baloney; the most likely scenario is that there are hideous abuses of power taking place and President Trump discovered just how pervasive and offensive of an assault they are on our free, self-governing principles. Trump had suspicions, based upon whatever reasons he may have been able to glean and when they were confirmed by the supporting documents, he became outraged at the duplicity and level of anti-American subversion not only at the liar-nObama White House, but the Justice Department, probably the Intelligence agencies and perhaps the FBI as well. Jay Sekulow says, “The President would have knowledge of a FISA warrant, who it was issued to and against, and what information was received. Now we know from media reports that there were multiple attempts at a FISA. The first time was deemed to broad, the second time maybe not so broad, the third time they finally got it.”...  http://rickwells.us/sekulow-president-trump-has-probably-already-seen-the-fisa-warrant-requests/
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CIA, DOJ Sued Over Leaks of Classified
Info About Former NSA Flynn
by Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The CIA and Departments of Justice and Treasury are being sued by a prominent legal organization for their role in leaking highly classified material as part of an effort to undermine the credibility of former Trump administration national security adviser Michael Flynn... according to an announcement. Judicial Watch, known for its role in exposing former secretary of state liar-Hillary Clinton's use of a private email server, announced on Monday that it has sued several federal agencies for information related to Flynn's discussions with Russian officials before he officially entered the White House. Flynn was forced to resign from the White House for apparently misleading President Donald Trump and Vice President Mike Pence about the substance of these conversations...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cia-doj-sued-leaks-classified-info-former-nsa-flynn/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6a9ea085e2-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_03_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6a9ea085e2-45611665
 
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Clapper/liar-nObama Police State Cover Up –
6 Agencies After Trump With No Crime
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin joined Sean Hannity for more exploration into the twisted tale of the liar-nObama regime’s spying activities which appear to have directly involved not only the pretend ‘president’ liar-nObama himself... but his Attorney General Loretta Lynch, FBI Director James Comey, DNI James Clapper and CIA Director John Brennan, at a minimum. Levin lays the case out in a manner that highlights the falsehoods and gaping holes in the stories of the liar-nObama regime when contrasted and compared to the accounts of their comrades within the liberal mainstream propaganda machinery. He begins by pointing out that only conservatives or those who are not part of the globalist movement are concerned with their own reports which now cast a bright light on their leaders. Levin says, “the media is very confounded right now, they’re very confused. They don’t know whether to trash themselves, trash their colleagues or what.”...  http://rickwells.us/levin-clapper-obama-police-state-cover-6-agencies-trump-no-crime/
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Investigate This: Russia, liar-nObama,
Trump and liar-Hillary
by Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ Once again the dominant media narrative has shifted overnight. Last week the media exploded with stories about Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ admitted contacts with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.... the latest attempt to somehow derail and delegitimize the Donald Trump presidency. It is part of the narrative concocted by the Democrats and their allies in the media to claim that Trump won the election thanks in part to help from Russia. Collusion has been the word of choice, though no evidence has surfaced to support it. It turns out that the liar-nObama administration, according to reports, did go to the FISA (Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act) court to gain permission to spy, or electronically eavesdrop, or wiretap some members or elements of Trump’s campaign. Former federal prosecutor and journalist for National Review Andy McCarthy examined how disingenuous the denial coming from an liar-nObama spokesman was. In essence, it comes down to, “It depends on what the definition of ‘surveillance’ is,” and who is a “White House official.”...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/investigate-this-russia-obama-trump-and-hillary/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Mar-07-2017&utm_medium=email
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The Beltway Conspiracy to Break Trump
by Patrick Buchanan
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{freedomsback.com} ~ At Mar-a-Lago this weekend President Donald Trump was filled “with fury” says The Washington Post, “mad — steaming, raging, mad.”

Early Saturday the fuming president exploded with this tweet: “Terrible! Just found out that liar-nObama had my ‘wires tapped’ in Trump Tower just before the victory. Nothing found. This is McCarthyism!”

The president has reason to be enraged. For what is afoot is a loose but broad conspiracy to break and bring him down, abort his populist agenda, and overturn the results of the 2016 election.

At its heart is the “deep state” — agents of the intel community, their media collaborators, and their amen corner in a Democratic party whose control of our permanent government is all but total.

At the heart of the case against Trump is what appears to be a Big Lie.

It is that Vladimir Putin and Russian intelligence hacked the DNC and John Podesta’s email account, then colluded with Trump’s friends or associates to systematically sabotage liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign. Therefore, Trump stole the election and is an illegitimate president. In this city, Trump is looked upon as a border-jumper, an illegal alien.

Yet let us consider the constituent components of the charge.

For months, we have heard that U.S. intel agencies agree that the Russians hacked the DNC and liar-Clinton campaign, and gave the fruits of their cybertheft to WikiLeaks, because Putin wanted Trump to win.

For months, this storyline has been investigated by the FBI and the intelligence committees of both houses of Congress.

Yet where is the body of evidence that the Russians did this?

More critically, where is the evidence Trump’s people played an active role in the operation? Why is it taking the FBI the better part of a year to come up with a single indictment in this Trump-Putin plot?

Is this all smoke and mirrors?

In late February, The New York Times reported that Trump officials had been in regular touch with Russian intelligence officers.

The smoking gun had been found!

Yet, almost immediately after that report, White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus told Fox News “the top levels of the intelligence community” had assured him that the allegations of campaign contacts with Russia were “not only grossly overstated, but also wrong.”

If what Reince says is true, the real crime here is U.S. security officials enlisting their Fourth Estate collaborators, who enjoy First Amendment privileges against having to testify under oath or being prosecuted, to undermine the elected commander in chief.

Now we expect Russia to seek to steal our secrets as we steal theirs. After all, our NSA wiretapped Angela Merkel and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. Our National Endowment for Democracy pushes “color revolutions” to bring about regime change in the near abroad of Putin’s Russian Federation.

Our NGOs are being restricted, shut down, expelled from Russia, China, Israel and Egypt, because they have been caught interfering in the internal affairs of those countries.

There is talk that Putin use the pilfered emails as payback for liar-Clinton’s urging demonstrators to take to the streets of Moscow to protest a narrow victory by his United Russia party in 2011.

As for the alleged wiretapping of Trump Tower, President liar-nObama has denied ordering any such thing and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper assures us nothing of the sort was ever done.

Yet, there are other reports that intelligence officials got a warrant to surveil Trump campaign officials or the Trump Tower, and, though failing to succeed in the FISA court that authorizes such surveillance in June, they did succeed in October.

If true, this is a far more explosive matter than whether a Trump aide may have told the Russians, “You’re doing a great job!” when WikiLeaks blew DNC chairwoman Debbie Wasserman Schultz out of her job for tilting the playing field against Bernie Sanders in the primaries.

What needs to be done now?

The White House should tell the Justice Department to tell the FBI to expedite its investigation and file a report on what was done by the Russians. And if any Trump campaign official criminally colluded with the Russians, send the recommendation to indict to Justice.

The acting attorney general should instruct Director James Comey to run down, remove and recommend for prosecution any FBI or intel agent who has leaked the fruits of their investigation, or fake news, to the media. If Comey cannot find the source of the leaks, or lies, coming out of this investigation, a housecleaning may be needed at the bureau.

While President liar-nObama may not have ordered any surveillance of Trump or his advisors, the real question is whether he or Attorney General Loretta Lynch were aware of or approved of any surveillance of Trump and his staff during the campaign.

Russian hacking of the DNC is a problem, not a scandal. The scandal is this: Who inside the government of the United States is trying to discredit, damage or destroy the President of the United States?

For these are the real subversives.
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