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liar-Hillary’s ‘Future Is Female’
Femme-A-Goguery
by Michelle Malkin
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Dodd-Frank Is Too Big and It Has Failed
By Louis DeBroux: With President Donald Trump's recent executive order directing the Treasury Department to conduct a review of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, Democrats have, unsurprisingly, reacted with feigned horror and outrage. They claim Trump is turning Wall Street loose to do as it pleases; an odd claim considering Dodd-Frank was signed into law by Barack liar-nObama, who raked in more Wall Street cash than any politician in American history.
Initially, Trump's call is only for a review of the law, and it makes few, if any, systemic changes. But it does establish a set of principles upon which Trump administration policy shall rest. Namely:
- Empower Americans to make independent financial decisions and informed choices in the marketplace, save for retirement, and build individual wealth;
- Prevent taxpayer-funded bailouts;
- Foster economic growth and vibrant financial markets through more rigorous regulatory impact analysis;
- Enable American companies to be competitive with foreign firms in domestic and foreign markets;
- Advance American interests in international financial regulatory negotiations and meetings;
- Make regulation efficient, effective and appropriately tailored; and
- Restore public accountability within federal financial regulatory agencies and rationalize the federal financial regulatory framework.
The Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act was signed into law in July 2010 following one of the worst economic meltdowns in U.S. history. The goal of the law was ostensibly to put tighter regulations on U.S. financial markets in order to discourage risk and avoid another meltdown.
Yet this was a classic case of the fox guarding the henhouse. The law was named after Democrats Senator Chris Dodd (D-CT) and Congressman Barney Frank (D-MA), who were among the primary catalysts behind the Wall Street bailouts, shoveling hundreds of billions of taxpayer dollars to financial institutions deemed "too big to fail."
During George W. Bush's administration, Republicans repeatedly warned that government-run Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the country's largest mortgage-backers, were extremely overleveraged and at risk of causing a financial catastrophe. Frank dismissed those concerns before the House in 2005, going so far as to say that, even if a housing bubble did exist, he was willing to "roll the dice."
Dodd and Frank rolled the dice, alright, and tens of millions of Americans paid the price with the near collapse of the American banking system. In October 2008, Bill liar-Clinton admitted some Democrat culpability in the meltdown, stating, "I think the responsibility that the Democrats have may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress ... to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac."
Sadly, Democrats were largely successful in blaming Bush for a failure of their own making, even though none other than The New York Times warned of dire consequences as far back as 1999.
The end result of Dodd-Frank was the exact opposite of what its architects claimed. Rather than ending "too big to fail," it gave the federal government power to take control of financial institutions deemed to be "systemically important," signaling to investors and financial institutions that they could take greater risks with the tacit guarantee of another taxpayer bailout. The law furthermore created an agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, with massive powers to interfere in the financial industry, but completely detached from any oversight or control by Congress.
One of the most damaging aspects of Dodd-Frank was that not only did it make the biggest banks even bigger, but it destroyed thousands of community banks and credit unions, drying up credit lines for small businesses. Without the lifeblood of credit from the community banks that knew them, and unable to get the time of day from the mega-banks, these small businesses withered and died, and killed millions of jobs.
It is high time this law is repealed. As the Cato Institute's Mark Calabria recently wrote, "We are almost a decade past the last financial crisis. Despite much scurrying around and endless amounts of paper produced, Washington has actually done little to avoid future bailouts and improve the stability of our financial system. Unfortunately, what has been done has come at great economic cost. We can have both a strong economy and a more stable financial system. Reforming Dodd-Frank is a critical step along that path."
House Financial Services Committee Chairman Jeb Hensarling (R-TX) has already proposed a bill, the Financial CHOICE Act, which would replace the most damaging provisions of Dodd-Frank.
This will not be an easy fix, though. Dodd-Frank has been law for nearly seven years, with thousands and thousands of pages of regulations birthed from it. Democrats will fight repeal or revision tooth and nail because it takes power away from the federal government, and from some of Democrats' biggest donors. They will use every tactic at their disposal to block changes to the law, and will use the media to paint it as Republicans getting in bed with Wall Street to the detriment of the little guy — when, of course, the exact opposite is the case.
Congressional Republicans and Trump should work together, and take a page out of the Democrat playbook by telling the stories of some of the millions of Americans hurt by this atrocious law.
Along with the repeal of liar-nObamaCare and true tax reform, repeal of Dodd-Frank will go a long way toward improving the lives of everyday Americans, jumpstarting the economy, and furthering us on the road to making America great again.
~The Patriot Post
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Trojan Horses in Women's Movement
by Khadija Khan
by Khadija Khan
Muslim activist Linda Sarsour
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Why do women who believe in equal rights for women, pick as their spokesperson someone who one minute boasts of her supposed dissent as "patriotism,"... while the next minute advocating chopping off other womens' genitals? It is like choosing a hangman to campaign against the death penalty, or the head of ISIS to campaign for same sex marriages. The principles of "dissent," of which they claim to be so proud, and to have borrowed from religious sources, are actually the modern world's liberal values and human rights -- just those rights values they seem to be trying to destroy. From the other side of their mouths, however, they are trying to impose Islamic sharia law on the West. Unfortunately, sharia is openly antagonistic to Western values and human rights. How can cults that believe in dominating others call themselves progressive, when their entire message runs counter to the spirit of tolerance and social coexistence?... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9913/islamists-womens-movement
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Trump’s Executive Order on Immigration
Is Both Legal and Constitutional
by Hans von Spakovsky
{insideronline.org} ~ If you want to see the difference between a federal judge who follows the rule of law and a federal judge who ignores laws he doesn’t like in order to reach a preferred public policy outcome... just compare the two district court decisions issued in Washington state and Massachusetts over President Donald Trump’s immigration executive order. Contrary to the “travel ban” label, the executive order temporarily suspended the granting of visas from seven failed and failing countries that are supplying many of the terrorists plaguing the world. Despite what Judge James Robart of the Western District of Washington says, Trump acted fully within the statutory authority granted to him by Congress. The temporary restraining order issued by Robart on February 3 is unjustified and has no basis in the law or the Constitution...That also goes directly to the Ninth Circuit Court. http://www.insideronline.org/2017/02/trumps-executive-order-on-immigration-is-both-legal-and-constitutional/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=theinsider&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT1RJM05EWmlNamN4TXprMSIsInQiOiI0MFk3ZHZ6dmRTMjd1MDEyN0NxSVlOSXo0Wnhoa0lIMmFBeDBhYVdWN3NkNHNcL0tOc3dRR0k1ZllzcTZwSUVUVDFGUmpJOU9nYnpBelBIR0JoenZyYktUSStzc3VaTzcyOWs3bXd4cklTRWZibExNK1FpeGhTM085Tmt4QkloMGEifQ%3D%3D
.Senate Contradicts Democrat Claims...
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ Jerrold Nadler was reveling in the attention at JFK airport on January 28th as he stood grandstanding and turning what was a legitimate decision on national security made by the President of the United States into a cause celeb for the left... The decision to protect the United States from terrorist infiltration from these nations was immediately proclaimed to be an act of racism by the administration, falsely labeled a Muslim ban and an avalanche of attacks unleashed upon our President. Nadler was quoted in a CNN interview at the time as saying, “The various people who have, in fact, committed terrorist acts in this country, from 9/11 on, none of them came from any of the seven countries that are the subject of the president’s executive order.” On Friday the Democrat sanitizing of their preferred class of radicals and rewriting of history continued with Maryland Democrat Senator Chris Van Hollen saying in an MSNBC interview that we are, in his opinion, safer by allowing terrorist nations to send their people into the United States...Why are they lying. http://rickwells.us/senate-contradicts-democrat-claims-72-terrorists-convicted-inside-us-ban-countries/
.No evidence? How about 72 terror convictions
by wnd.com
Somali refugee Abdul Ali Artan
{wnd.com} ~ As WND reported more than a week ago, the federal judge from Seattle who issued a halt to President Trump’s executive order temporarily barring entry to the U.S. by travelers from seven nations... because of concerns over potential terror threats erred badly when he said there had been no arrest of foreign nationals from those countries since 9/11. A new report shows that at least 72 such individuals have indeed been convicted of terrorism-related offenses. Later, a review by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeal upheld the order by federal Judge James Robart saying there was “no evidence” any of those nations had produced a terror threat to the U.S. ...
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North Korea reportedly
test fires missile, challenging US
by FoxNews.com
{foxnews.com} ~ North Korea launched a missile into its eastern sea on Sunday, according to the South Korean military. The U.S. military detected the test and is assessing the launch, a U.S. defense official told Reuters on Saturday... U.S. President Donald Trump has been briefed on the missile launched by North Korea, and the White House is continuing to monitor the situation, a White House official said on Saturday according to Reuters. A spokesperson for the Ukrainian mission to the United Nations, Oleg Nikolenko, told Fox News the following:...
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Will Trump Have to Invade California?
by Dave Hodges
{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ California is out of control. Gov. Jerry Brown is an absolute trator to the Republic. Between CALEXIT and California declaring itself to be a sancturary state, the entire political organization in the state looks more like a mafia than a state in good standing with the country. http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/02/11/will-trump-have-to-invade-california/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-trump-have-to-invade-California
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liar-Hillary’s ‘Future Is Female’
Femme-A-Goguery
by Michelle Malkin
{freedomsback.com} ~ All that was missing from liar-Hillary Clinton’s video address to a left-wing women’s group this week was a pink pussyhat and a “BOYS SUCK” T-shirt.
Feminists at the MAKERS conference in Southern California gushed over the twice-failed presidential candidate’s remarks, which exhorted her ideological sisters-in-arms to “be bold,” “step up and speak out,” and “set an example for every woman and girl out there who’s worried about what the future holds and wonders whether our rights, opportunities and values will endure.”
(The alleged sexual assault victims of Bill liar-Clinton who have stepped up and spoken boldly, however, did not get a shoutout.)
On its face, liar-Hillary’s statement seems like standard-issue, gender-centric cheerleading. But her declaration that “The Future is Female” is a dog whistle to the most extreme wing of the progressive feminist movement — where an explicitly anti-male, grievance-wallowing, lady parts-obsessed culture prevails. A “female future,” after all, necessitates that inherently bad boys take a political backseat and yield all their authority to Grrrrl Power.
“The Future is Female” became a popular T-shirt motto in the 1970s, when a “queer feminist” bookstore owner in New York City snapped a photo of her girlfriend donning the slogan. Another feminist retailer, Otherwild, started marketing the apparel recently in a “call for the end of patriarchal ideology, domination, oppression and violence.” A quarter of the proceeds from sales of Otherwild’s “Future is Female” wear goes to Planned Parenthood.
Yes, the “Future is Female” propagandists are funding an abortion giant that has exterminated the futures of millions of unborn females in the U.S. and around the world.
Among the new femme-a-gogues fortunate enough to have avoided Planned Parenthood’s fatal forceps is patriarchy-smasher Kiran Gandhi. The Georgetown University and Harvard University School of Business grad is a musician who wears the T-shirt and whose companion song, “The Future is Female,” is an ear-warping anthem for the fist-clenchers.
“Toxic masculinity has to end,” she sing-raps. Feminist Superfund to the rescue!
“The system must make room for all that we do,” Gandhi demands. “We’ve been bleeding each month till we gave birth to you!”
Egad. What is it with these women and their fixation on menstrual cycles? Gandhi found fame while running the London Marathon in 2015 as she let her period flow down her athletic pants for 26 miles. As she and her stained self crossed the finish line, feminists praised her “courage” and “resilience” for running without a tampon. Get her a Nobel Prize.
Admirers at People magazine dubbed her the “Period Runner.” One feminist blog called her a “menstrual hero.” Gandhi later explained her role as an “ambassador” raising awareness of “menstrual health and hygiene” so that “instead of seeing it as a taboo, we should seek ways to design systems that make it easier for women to be comfortable during our cycles.”
Pushback against “period shaming” has become such a thing among privileged feminist elites that these gender justice warriors vandalized buildings during the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., by slapping sanitary napkins all over the walls. They donned tampon earrings and uterus costumes. They swooned while Ashley Judd shrieked on stage about being “nasty, like the blood stains on my bed sheets.”
This is not self-empowerment. It’s just gross self-indulgence and exhibitionism.
As the mother of a teenage daughter and teenage son, I don’t want liar-Hillary’s female future for either of my kids. liar-HillaryWorld is a bleak, identity politics cesspool hijacked by nutty man-haters running around with crocheted sexual organs on their heads and babbling about the human rights crime of their “flow.”
Keep up with this bloody mess, liar-Hillary and friends, and you’ll be paving a smooth path to Trump 2020.
Feminists at the MAKERS conference in Southern California gushed over the twice-failed presidential candidate’s remarks, which exhorted her ideological sisters-in-arms to “be bold,” “step up and speak out,” and “set an example for every woman and girl out there who’s worried about what the future holds and wonders whether our rights, opportunities and values will endure.”
(The alleged sexual assault victims of Bill liar-Clinton who have stepped up and spoken boldly, however, did not get a shoutout.)
On its face, liar-Hillary’s statement seems like standard-issue, gender-centric cheerleading. But her declaration that “The Future is Female” is a dog whistle to the most extreme wing of the progressive feminist movement — where an explicitly anti-male, grievance-wallowing, lady parts-obsessed culture prevails. A “female future,” after all, necessitates that inherently bad boys take a political backseat and yield all their authority to Grrrrl Power.
“The Future is Female” became a popular T-shirt motto in the 1970s, when a “queer feminist” bookstore owner in New York City snapped a photo of her girlfriend donning the slogan. Another feminist retailer, Otherwild, started marketing the apparel recently in a “call for the end of patriarchal ideology, domination, oppression and violence.” A quarter of the proceeds from sales of Otherwild’s “Future is Female” wear goes to Planned Parenthood.
Yes, the “Future is Female” propagandists are funding an abortion giant that has exterminated the futures of millions of unborn females in the U.S. and around the world.
Among the new femme-a-gogues fortunate enough to have avoided Planned Parenthood’s fatal forceps is patriarchy-smasher Kiran Gandhi. The Georgetown University and Harvard University School of Business grad is a musician who wears the T-shirt and whose companion song, “The Future is Female,” is an ear-warping anthem for the fist-clenchers.
“Toxic masculinity has to end,” she sing-raps. Feminist Superfund to the rescue!
“The system must make room for all that we do,” Gandhi demands. “We’ve been bleeding each month till we gave birth to you!”
Egad. What is it with these women and their fixation on menstrual cycles? Gandhi found fame while running the London Marathon in 2015 as she let her period flow down her athletic pants for 26 miles. As she and her stained self crossed the finish line, feminists praised her “courage” and “resilience” for running without a tampon. Get her a Nobel Prize.
Admirers at People magazine dubbed her the “Period Runner.” One feminist blog called her a “menstrual hero.” Gandhi later explained her role as an “ambassador” raising awareness of “menstrual health and hygiene” so that “instead of seeing it as a taboo, we should seek ways to design systems that make it easier for women to be comfortable during our cycles.”
Pushback against “period shaming” has become such a thing among privileged feminist elites that these gender justice warriors vandalized buildings during the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., by slapping sanitary napkins all over the walls. They donned tampon earrings and uterus costumes. They swooned while Ashley Judd shrieked on stage about being “nasty, like the blood stains on my bed sheets.”
This is not self-empowerment. It’s just gross self-indulgence and exhibitionism.
As the mother of a teenage daughter and teenage son, I don’t want liar-Hillary’s female future for either of my kids. liar-HillaryWorld is a bleak, identity politics cesspool hijacked by nutty man-haters running around with crocheted sexual organs on their heads and babbling about the human rights crime of their “flow.”
Keep up with this bloody mess, liar-Hillary and friends, and you’ll be paving a smooth path to Trump 2020.
http://www.freedomsback.com/michelle-malkin/hillarys-future-is-female-femme-a-goguery
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