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The Events of the Week -- Featuring:
The Left's All-Out War on Trump
by David Limbaugh
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Mattis Warns NATO
America is losing its patience — that was the message Defense Secretary Jim Mattis communicated Wednesday at a meeting of defense ministers from NATO countries. Mattis warned, "America will meet its responsibilities, but if your nations do not want to see America moderate its commitment to the alliance, each of your capitals needs to show its support for our common defense." Mattis statements echo those of Donald Trump when he warned during his campaign that NATO countries needed to pull their weight because doing otherwise is "very unfair to the United States."
Currently only five of the 28 NATO countries pay the agreed upon 2% of each respective member nation's GDP on defense. This isn't a new problem either. Barack liar-nObama also pushed for NATO members to increase their spending on defense (while cutting our own, we might add). What is new are the comments from Trump and Mattis that imply the U.S. might alter its commitment to NATO should those nations not meet their spending obligations.
Historically, NATO is the U.S.'s most important and significant alliance. The U.S. benefits just as much from NATO as do the other member nations. It proved to be highly beneficial both during the Cold War and since 9/11 with the resulting war on terror. Mattis's statements couldn't come at better time given Russia's steadily increasing aggression. News just this week of Moscow violating a treaty by moving intermediate range missiles testifies to this reality.
Mattis is seeking to once again assert U.S. leadership in NATO, which has been sorely lacking under the liar-nObama administration. He has pulled out the proverbial stick in seeking to prod NATO members into meeting their agreed upon obligations. If those member nations continue to shirk responsibility, then there should be consequences. This is the tricky balance Trump is having to strike. ~The Patriot Post
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Bizarre Twist In Murder Of North Korean
Dictator Kim Jong-un’s Half-Brother
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ We’ve all heard the warnings on the overhead public address system in airports about not carrying a bag for someone else, a safeguard against being an unwitting mule for drug smugglers or terrorists... There’s another warning for airports that some people evidently lack the common sense to arrive at on their own. It’s a caution not to throw liquids into the faces of unknown persons just because someone hands it to you and tells you it’s a practical joke. It could be a lethal poison, you could be killing someone, and it could be the older half-brother of a communist dictator. That’s the story the assailants of North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un’s brother are telling. And there are indications that they may be telling the truth. Kim Jong-nam, the older half-brother of Kim Jong-un, was murdered Monday at Kuala Lumpur International Airport in Malaysia. Two women, one of which was wearing the now infamous “LOL” shirt, were seen in surveillance videos, with their photographs then distributed around the globe the day following the attack... http://rickwells.us/bizarre-twist-murder-north-korean-dictator-kim-jong-uns-half-brother/
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Look who's on SPLC's
'anti-government hate group' list
by wnd.com
{wnd.com} ~ Known for labeling mainstream conservatives such as Dr. Ben Carson as “extremists,” the Southern Poverty Law Center is out with its latest list, this time putting WND... WND Books, Phyllis Schlafly’s Eagle Forum and others who espouse constitutional principles and traditional views of family among its 623 “extreme antigovernment groups” that should apparently be monitored because of their danger to society. Reason magazine, the libertarian publication, noting SPLC is “counting extremists again,” pointed out the list includes WND and WND Books and asked: “What on earth could justify that?” On its list of “ACTIVE PATRIOT GROUPS IN THE US IN 2016” are 165 militia groups, SPLC said... http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/look-whos-on-splcs-anti-government-hate-group-list/
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Reports Source Of White House
Leaks Discovered, A Priebus NeverTrumper
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ It appears that the first shoe has dropped in the search for the source of the White House leaks and the implications are significant... Gotnews.com reports that White House Deputy Chief of Staff Katie Walsh, a former #NeverTrump Republican has implicated herself and been discovered through some Trump insider detective work to be at least one source of the leaks. Walsh was Republican National Committee chief of staff under Reince Priebus, acting as his second-in-command. She was loyal to Priebus but was an avowed #NeverTrump Republican to the bitter end. How was it that she was able to obtain such a critical role in the White House? Was it because of her loyalty to Reince Priebus and the GOP establishment that he is entrenched with that she was selected? Was it a matter of her being more loyal to the Chief of Staff than the President, a quality a subversive would look for in maintaining a loyal second in command underneath him? She’s reportedly been feeding the damaging information to the New York Times as well as other mainstream propaganda outlets, a report that has been confirmed by Gotnews.com through multiple sources including inside the Trump White House, media, donors and a pro-Trump 501(c)4 group...We can expect there to be another position at the White House in need of being filled. http://rickwells.us/reports-source-white-house-leaks-discovered-priebus-nevertrumper/
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Refugees in US to cost taxpayers billions in 2017
by David Rosenberg
{israelnationalnews.com} ~ While much of the controversy surrounding America’s refugee resettlement program has focused on the security threat some refugees from terror hotspots may pose... little attention has been paid to the financial burden, borne by the taxpayer, of allowing in hundreds of thousands of migrants who are supported for years by the federal government. According to data from a September, 2016 study by the National Academy of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, and a November, 2015 study by the Center for Immigration Studies, the roughly 519,000 refugees allowed into the United States since October 2009 will cost the federal government some $4.1 billion in 2017 alone, Breitbart News reported. This figure does not include secondary costs borne by state and local governments, which, according to the National Academy of Sciences study totaled some $57.4 billion annually from 2011 to 2013...
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Internet-Regulating FEC Commissioner to Resign
by Joe Schoffstall
{freebeacon.com} ~ A Democratic Federal Election Commission official who pushed to regulate the internet and has been absent from public meetings for months is resigning, according to an announcement... Ann Ravel, who wanted to regulate political speech on the internet from websites such as the Drudge Report, announced Sunday that she is stepping down from her post. “It’s been an honor to serve the FEC. I’m committed to transparency – here’s my resignation letter to Donald Trump,” Ravel tweeted on Sunday morning... http://freebeacon.com/issues/internet-regulating-fec-commissioner-resign/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d0b1b3d239-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_20&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d0b1b3d239-45611665
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The Left's All-Out War on Trump
by David Limbaugh
{townhall.com} ~ Please don't tell us conservatives that we need to find common ground with the left during this era of Trump. That would only advance liberals' cause, because they have no intention of working with President Trump. They are conducting an all-out war against him and his administration, and appeasement efforts wouldn't change that.
What the naive among us need to understand is that the left plays hardball. Liberals subscribe to an end-justifies-the-means philosophy. They are not fair. They don't intend to be fair. They believe they are entitled to advance their America-transforming agenda whether in or out of power, and no amount of wishful thinking can alter that reality.
They will say and do practically anything to further their vision for America, and it doesn't matter if they did the opposite yesterday. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little conservative minds.
The leftist machine purports to be opposed to Trump for his allegedly dastardly actions, but he has barely had time to get started though he deserves great credit for what he has done so far. Truth be told, liberals' opposition springs not from what he's done -- other than the travel ban -- but from who he is and the threat he represents to their agenda.
They told us he would be a tyrannical autocrat, and just four weeks into his term, they claim to have him dead to rights on the charge. Yet Trump has not engaged in any illegal conduct or committed any lawless overreaches. President liar-nObama, on the other hand, was habitually lawless, and the left, far from being concerned, reveled in it. Ends and means.
Understand this: The left has no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to affect our election. It is absurd that we are even forced to talk about this. Smear with innuendo and slander -- that's liberals' MO.
In case you haven't noticed, these professional malcontents have organized throughout the nation, with more than a little help from the community organizer in ex-chief, Barack liar-nObama. They have placed themselves throughout the nation to make mischief -- not the kind you smile at but the kind designed to bring down a duly elected president.
With remarkable foresight and patience, progressives have conspired for decades to plant themselves in America's important institutions, from the universities to the halls of government in secure civil service jobs. Many of these people are working overtime inside and outside government to undermine, scandalize, sabotage and ultimately bring down the Trump administration in its incipiency. That tactic is a lot easier than trying to block his desperately needed reform agenda on the merits.
I strongly suspect that leftists within our intelligence agencies criminally leaked classified information to corroborate their claim that Trump colluded with Russia to interfere with the presidential election. They thought they'd hit pay dirt with reports that before Trump took office, his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak allegedly about reviewing the recent sanctions liar-nObama had imposed on Russia.
Can you imagine the salivating? Here's the smoking gun. Flynn talked to Russia. Trump likes Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia hacked the United States. Trump won the election. Therefore, Trump colluded with Putin to engineer his election victory over liar-Hillary Clinton. That is one convoluted syllogism, isn't it?
The left doesn't care about the truth of the matter. Once liberals obtained what they considered a colorable morsel of damning evidence, they insisted their fears about Trump were already vindicated. He was guilty as charged. Except that he wasn't.
Flynn has stated that his conversation didn't touch on sanctions. The New York Times, in its story reporting that Trump campaign aides had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence agents, admitted it had seen no evidence of cooperation or collusion between the Trump team and the Russians regarding the election. That little tidbit has not found its way into any headline in the mainstream media.
Liberals hate Trump, and they hate that they lost the election, and they are not going to tolerate it. I hope the rest of America understands that.
They are not only disgracefully pretending they have hard evidence of misconduct leading directly to Trump but also ignoring the egregious misconduct of the leakers and the real threat that poses to national security.
Trump got off to an incredibly impressive start, but liberals have now delivered a blow to his momentum, and they are poised to finish the job. They are strategically placed in our cultural institutions and throughout our vast bureaucracy and are coordinating in every state to stage planned protests that look spontaneous. Richly funded by George Soros and other like-minded America haters, they are inspired by the shadow leadership of former President liar-nObama and his activist organization formed for this very purpose.
I will not defend misconduct on the part of elected officials and their appointees -- if it actually occurs -- just because they are Republicans. But I am not going to sit by silently as the left continues to smear and sabotage this newly inaugurated president based on shards of facts that don't prove their allegations.
I realize that nothing we do will stop the left or dampen its single-minded determination to destroy Trump and preserve liar-nObama's radical agenda, but we can prevent the left from succeeding if we fight back with equal energy and commitment. But that will be impossible unless we fully recognize what's going on -- the tactics of the left and liberals' ruthlessness. We are, in effect, in a war that we didn't start.
So please keep your eyes open and prepare to fight back.
In the meantime, let's pray that President Trump will not be unduly distracted by these efforts and can focus on advancing an agenda that will restore economic growth and shore up America's national security. His news conference on Thursday gives me great confidence that President Trump fully understands what the left is doing. He is undeterred and undistracted -- and pressing forward with his agenda. The left, in turn, probably now understands that it has unleashed a tiger.
What the naive among us need to understand is that the left plays hardball. Liberals subscribe to an end-justifies-the-means philosophy. They are not fair. They don't intend to be fair. They believe they are entitled to advance their America-transforming agenda whether in or out of power, and no amount of wishful thinking can alter that reality.
They will say and do practically anything to further their vision for America, and it doesn't matter if they did the opposite yesterday. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little conservative minds.
The leftist machine purports to be opposed to Trump for his allegedly dastardly actions, but he has barely had time to get started though he deserves great credit for what he has done so far. Truth be told, liberals' opposition springs not from what he's done -- other than the travel ban -- but from who he is and the threat he represents to their agenda.
They told us he would be a tyrannical autocrat, and just four weeks into his term, they claim to have him dead to rights on the charge. Yet Trump has not engaged in any illegal conduct or committed any lawless overreaches. President liar-nObama, on the other hand, was habitually lawless, and the left, far from being concerned, reveled in it. Ends and means.
Understand this: The left has no evidence that Trump colluded with Russia to affect our election. It is absurd that we are even forced to talk about this. Smear with innuendo and slander -- that's liberals' MO.
In case you haven't noticed, these professional malcontents have organized throughout the nation, with more than a little help from the community organizer in ex-chief, Barack liar-nObama. They have placed themselves throughout the nation to make mischief -- not the kind you smile at but the kind designed to bring down a duly elected president.
With remarkable foresight and patience, progressives have conspired for decades to plant themselves in America's important institutions, from the universities to the halls of government in secure civil service jobs. Many of these people are working overtime inside and outside government to undermine, scandalize, sabotage and ultimately bring down the Trump administration in its incipiency. That tactic is a lot easier than trying to block his desperately needed reform agenda on the merits.
I strongly suspect that leftists within our intelligence agencies criminally leaked classified information to corroborate their claim that Trump colluded with Russia to interfere with the presidential election. They thought they'd hit pay dirt with reports that before Trump took office, his national security adviser, Michael Flynn, had conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak allegedly about reviewing the recent sanctions liar-nObama had imposed on Russia.
Can you imagine the salivating? Here's the smoking gun. Flynn talked to Russia. Trump likes Russian President Vladimir Putin. Russia hacked the United States. Trump won the election. Therefore, Trump colluded with Putin to engineer his election victory over liar-Hillary Clinton. That is one convoluted syllogism, isn't it?
The left doesn't care about the truth of the matter. Once liberals obtained what they considered a colorable morsel of damning evidence, they insisted their fears about Trump were already vindicated. He was guilty as charged. Except that he wasn't.
Flynn has stated that his conversation didn't touch on sanctions. The New York Times, in its story reporting that Trump campaign aides had repeated contacts with Russian intelligence agents, admitted it had seen no evidence of cooperation or collusion between the Trump team and the Russians regarding the election. That little tidbit has not found its way into any headline in the mainstream media.
Liberals hate Trump, and they hate that they lost the election, and they are not going to tolerate it. I hope the rest of America understands that.
They are not only disgracefully pretending they have hard evidence of misconduct leading directly to Trump but also ignoring the egregious misconduct of the leakers and the real threat that poses to national security.
Trump got off to an incredibly impressive start, but liberals have now delivered a blow to his momentum, and they are poised to finish the job. They are strategically placed in our cultural institutions and throughout our vast bureaucracy and are coordinating in every state to stage planned protests that look spontaneous. Richly funded by George Soros and other like-minded America haters, they are inspired by the shadow leadership of former President liar-nObama and his activist organization formed for this very purpose.
I will not defend misconduct on the part of elected officials and their appointees -- if it actually occurs -- just because they are Republicans. But I am not going to sit by silently as the left continues to smear and sabotage this newly inaugurated president based on shards of facts that don't prove their allegations.
I realize that nothing we do will stop the left or dampen its single-minded determination to destroy Trump and preserve liar-nObama's radical agenda, but we can prevent the left from succeeding if we fight back with equal energy and commitment. But that will be impossible unless we fully recognize what's going on -- the tactics of the left and liberals' ruthlessness. We are, in effect, in a war that we didn't start.
So please keep your eyes open and prepare to fight back.
In the meantime, let's pray that President Trump will not be unduly distracted by these efforts and can focus on advancing an agenda that will restore economic growth and shore up America's national security. His news conference on Thursday gives me great confidence that President Trump fully understands what the left is doing. He is undeterred and undistracted -- and pressing forward with his agenda. The left, in turn, probably now understands that it has unleashed a tiger.
