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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Not All Refugees Are Welcome
by Michelle Malkin
 
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 Where's the Outcry Against liarn Obama's 
 Deportation Order?
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While leftists struggle to come to terms with President Donald Trump's temporary moratorium on refugees and decry his coming crackdown on illegal immigrants, you won't hear a peep from those same people regarding Barack liar-nObama's little-discussed deportation order that he enacted on his way out the door.
          Thousands of oppressed Cubans continue to seek refuge elsewhere to escape the Castro regime's iron fist. Nevertheless, liar-nObama, who extended unbefitting olive branches to the Cuban government, broke longstanding protocol by making a sly, last-minute decision to ban and ultimately deport defectors who land on American soil. Those who were hoping to be protected under the U.S. "wet foot-dry foot" policy suddenly aren't.
          As liar-nObama explained it, "Effective immediately, Cuban nationals who attempt to enter the United States illegally and do not qualify for humanitarian relief will be subject to removal. By taking this step, we are treating Cuban migrants the same way we treat migrants from other countries." Chances are, most leftists who see that quote without any attribution could mistake it for a Trump directive. The Left has a serious problem with selective outcry, which depends entirely on who is in office and the political circumstances.  ~The Patriot Post
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 Phony Feinstein Fabricates
Lame Excuses For Sessions No Vote
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ If anyone could possibly have not figured out by this point in her anti-American career and life that Dianne Feinstein is a political prostitute, the only kind that she’d be able to earn a living as, this video is for them... Interviewed by her fellow liar-Hillary Clinton sycophant and establishment liberal, Andrea Mitchell, Feinstein has to construct a false reason for why she opposed Senator Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. She can’t say, “I’m convinced he’s going to put my secret-selling, influence-peddling, espionage-enabling, traitorous comrade liar-Clinton in prison,” or acknowledge that Democrat gun-grabbing and social justice engineering are finished if he’s confirmed. She can’t say that in order to keep Democrats elected they need the illegal alien vote and he’s going to enforce the law, including cleaning up fraudulent voter rolls. She has to come up with other reasons, typical vague ones that Democrats frequently utilize when they’re hiding the truth, which is quite often...
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Hispanic Ethno-Nationalists Try to Cover Their Tracks
by Alex Mayfield
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Most Americans can see the blatant hypocrisy when left-wing ethno-centric groups, such as La Raza, attempt to smear President Trump and his 61 million supporters as racists... while they themselves claim to put "Latino people first" and are closely tied to anti-white racists. Of course, these groups wouldn’t get away with their race-based policy agenda if our media and political elites applied scrutiny properly and equally. But independent and patriotic watchdogs like FPM may be having an effect. La Raza, for example, was recently forced to create a "myths-busting" page on their website, "settling" a number concerns raised about the group over the years. The gesture suggests the group is feeling pressure. Unfortunately for La Raza, its attempts are fairly feeble. Take the "myth" about their name. "Raza," the group claims, doesn’t actually mean "race." To say its name implies it is somehow ethno-centric is therefore baseless...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265642/hispanic-ethno-nationalists-try-cover-their-tracks-alex-mayfield
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CIA Veteran: Europe a ‘Launching Pad’
for ISIS to Attack the U.S.
by Natalie Johnson
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Europe serves as a "launching pad" for ISIS jihadists to initiate attacks against the United States due to the absence of a cohesive information-sharing strategy among Western nations... former acting CIA director John McLaughlin said Wednesday. McLaughlin, a 30-year CIA employee who served as acting director under the George W. Bush administration, warned that the absence of effective coordination between European intelligence agencies exposes the United States to greater risk of attack. Testifying before the House Armed Services Committee, McLaughlin said the Trump administration must work with European allies to establish an intelligence-sharing platform that coordinates Europe's extensive network of security services...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cia-veteran-europe-launching-pad-isis-attack-u-s/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=0b49474f55-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_02_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-0b49474f55-45611665
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Romanians riot against pro-EU government
for ‘decriminalising corruption’
by Willem Cornax
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{gatestone.eu} ~ The pro-EU Romanian government released a new ordinance to ease and roll back current anti-corruption measures. This caused Romanian citizens to take to the streets in numbers that haven’t been seen since 1989... The ordinance was pushed through parliament where the Socialist Party (PSD) has an absolute majority. It was adopted on January 31st at 10 pm and will come into effect 10 days after its proclamation. As a consequence, corruption cases against PSD members will be dropped. Both in and outside of parliament protesters and representatives called for the resignation of the government. People are suspicious of this development for several reasons. PSD Prime Minister Victor Ponta withdrew from political life in 2015, after being blamed for the death of 60 people in a Bucharest nightclub. Party leader of the PSD Liviu Dragnea could not become Prime-Minister because of a previous conviction of voting fraud. Kalus Iohannis, President of Romania had vowed not to swear in anyone as Prime-Minister who already had been convicted. The PSD then proposed and appointed Sorin Grindeanu as Prime-Minister, who is seen as a puppet...  https://gatestone.eu/romania-corruption-riots/
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Switzerland: Chocolate, Watches and Jihad
by Judith Bergman
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The an'Nur Islamic Cultural Center in Winterthur, Switzerland
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In November 2016, Swiss police arrested the imam of the an'Nur mosque in Winterthur, in the canton of Zürich, for calling for the murder of Muslims who refuse to participate in communal prayer... The young imam, who had come from Ethiopia, had been in Switzerland for only a short time. The Zurich Federation of Islamic Organizations (Vioz) declared it was "shocked", and suspended the an'Nur mosque from the federation until further notice: "We are shocked that an imam in one of our houses of prayer called for violence." There is little cause for "shock". Already in 2015, Winterthur made headlines in Switzerland as an emerging center for young Muslims with jihadi ambitions. Four people from Winterthur managed to travel to Syria to join ISIS and a fifth was stopped at the airport in Zürich. In November 2015, Swiss journalist and Syria expert, Kurt Pelda said, "The IS has a cell in Winterthur in the vicinity of the An'Nur Mosque in Hegi, there is no longer any doubt." He also said that in addition to the five known cases, another man from Winterthur had travelled to Syria as well... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9827/switzerland-jihad
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Not All Refugees Are Welcome
by Michelle Malkin
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{freedomsback.com} ~ For years, left-wingers would contest my use of the term “open borders lobby” because, they sternly rebuked me, nooooobody in America seriously believes in open borders.

Whelp.

This weekend, thousands of anti-Trump liberals took to the streets, airports and college campuses chanting “all are welcome” and shrieking “let them in” to protest White House executive orders enforcing our borders. In case their position wasn’t clear enough, the mobs bellowed:

“No borders, no nations, f—- deportations!”

“No walls, no borders, f—- executive orders!”

Militant mayors in Seattle, Denver and New York City re-declared themselves open-borders sanctuaries — or as I call them, outlaw cities. All of California will now consider declaring itself a “sanctuary state.” Radical progressive companies vowed to hire 10,000 refugees (Starbucks), provide free housing to refugees (Airbnb) and subsidize left-wing legal efforts to fight President Trump’s refugee moratorium and enhanced visa-holder vetting (Lyft).

Reasonable people can argue about the details and implementation of Trump’s policies. But the John Lennon-addled “Imagine there’s no country” crowd is post-reason. Their treacle is treacherous.

No, nitwits, not all refugees are welcome here.

Muslim extremist refugees seeking to wage jihad on our soil and kill all infidels are not welcome here.

Anti-American refugees seeking to transform our society and culture into a Balkanized hell are not welcome here.

Misogynist refugees who treat their multiple wives as second-class citizens and subjugate their daughters who are vulnerable to “honor killings” for the slightest transgressions are not welcome here.

Jobless refugees seeking to soak up our tax dollars while griping about our lack of generosity are not welcome here.

In 2014, New England mayors from both parties pleaded with the liar-nObama administration to enact a refugee resettlement freeze as the flood of unassimilated newcomers strained their schools and municipal resources. “I have enough urban issues to deal with. Enough is enough,” Springfield, Massachusetts mayor Domenic Sarno, a Democrat, declared at the time. “You can’t keep concentrating poverty on top of poverty.”

President Trump understands what the Pollyanna protesters of his immigration enforcement reforms simply cannot or will not comprehend: America needs a break.

We cannot be responsible hosts when our immigration and entrance system is in shambles. Homeland security officials and inspectors general have warned for decades that our consular offices are filled with corrupt and incompetent clerks; our computer systems are outdated; criminal background checks have been abandoned wholesale; the deportation and removal apparatus has been sabotaged by pro-illegal immigration ideologues; and our southern border is overrun by drug cartel violence, human trafficking and misery.

We already grant 1 million legal permanent residencies to people from around the world every year. That’s expected to increase to 10.5 million green cards by 2025. Add in between 11 million and 30 million aliens here illegally, along with an estimated annual influx of 70,000 asylees; 500,000 foreign students; nearly 700,000 total foreign guest workers skilled and unskilled, plus their spouses, many of whom are allowed to work here as well; plus more than 350,000 foreign high school and university students, researchers, physicians, and summer work travelers on J-1 exchange visitor visas; 66,000 visas for nonagricultural temporary foreign workers; and 117,000 slots for seasonal agricultural workers.

Section 7 of President Trump’s executive order calls for full construction of the long-delayed biometric entry-exit tracking system — which Congress and both parties have promised to do since the 1990s, but have failed to complete since the 9/11 National Commission on Terrorist Attacks on the United States recommended it 13 years ago. The tourism industry, foreign governments, the ACLU, universities and the immigration lawyers’ lobby have all conspired to prevent this meaningful tracking system from coming online. An estimated 40 percent of all aliens here illegally are visa overstayers.

It is not “fascist,” “racist” or “xenophobic” to close our front door to tens of thousands more while we get our own house in order. It is self-preservationist
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
The First Firestorm
by Patrick Buchanan
 
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 Which Is the Party of Obstructionists? 
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Democrat obstructionists are exploiting a rarely used strategy to delay as long as possible some of President Donald Trump's nominees. According to The Hill, "Senate Democrats on Tuesday refused to attend a committee vote on two of President Trump's more controversial nominees, effectively delaying their consideration. Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee boycotted votes to advance Rep. Tom Price (R-Ga.), Trump's pick to head the Department of Health and Human Services, and Steven Mnuchin, his selection to head the Treasury Department."
          They amusingly insist the boycott revolves around ethics. We're (ahem) enlightened that the righteous Left is suddenly worried about principles, but Hatch, for his part, rebutted, "I can't understand why senators who know we're going to have these two people go through can't support the committee." We can. Both nominees are despised by Democrats. And as far as Price is concerned, the Left may be trying to change liar-nObamaCare's fate. As The Wall Street Journal notes, "In addition to slowing action on key Trump administration jobs, the move also throws a wrench — at least temporarily — into Republican efforts to speed up repeal of the Affordable Care Act." Who's playing politics with Americans' health again?
          For the record, boycotting a nominee isn't unheard of, though not necessarily to this degree. It happened in 2003 and again in 2013, both involving EPA nominees (Mike Leavitt and Gina McCarthy, respectively). This time, however, Democrats are boycotting two nominees simultaneously. It has less to do with genuine concern about their policy ideas and ethics than it does ultimately derailing the GOP's momentum.
          In a Feb. 2016 op-ed for The Washington Post, now-retired Sen. Harry dinky-Reid warned that the GOP risked being "remembered as the most nakedly partisan, obstructionist and irresponsible majority in history." Fast forward to today, and the Senate hasn't even gotten to Trump's Supreme Court and EPA picks. By the time all is said and done, dinky-Reid's words will most accurately reflect his own party. Fortunately, the only difference is that, thanks to dinky-Reid's failed leadership, the Democrat Party is an irresponsible minority.  ~The Patriot Post
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 Dr. Gorka – America’s Message To Iran,
Enemies Is Deadly Clear
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Dr. Sebastian Gorka gives his take on a speech by National Security Adviser General Michael Flynn that was intended largely for Iranian consumption but also for other nations in the region and elsewhere, as well as the American people... In it Flynn said, “President Trump has severely criticized the various agreements reached between Iran and the liar-nObama administration as well as the United Nations as being weak and ineffective. Instead of being thankful to the United States in these agreements, Iran is now feeling emboldened. As of today we are officially putting Iran on notice.” Gorka adopts a very somber, almost menacing tone as he says, “Sean, I think the message is deadly clear to our enemies and our adversaries. We don’t have a national security team made out of 28-year-old grad school students who have degrees in fictional writing. We have a very serious national security team. We have a National Security Advisor who was the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, who almost single-handedly revolutionized the way we exploit intelligence in the battlefield.”...  http://rickwells.us/dr-gorka-americas-message-iran-enemies-deadly-clear/
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Trump Should Shred Iran Deal
During Netanyahu’s Visit
by FRED FLEITZ
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ One of President Trump's many achievements this week was repairing our relationship with Israel... The president told Sean Hannity during an exclusive interview on Jan. 26 that he has already repaired these relations that were seriously damaged by the anti-Israel policies of Barack liar-nObama. Trump and Prime Minister Netanyahu spoke on Jan. 22. During the call, the president invited Netanyahu to visit the White House in early February. The Israeli leader said after the call that President Trump understands the danger of the Iran nuclear deal. Here's a way President Trump can best celebrate his mending of U.S.-Israel relations: Trump and Netanyahu should jointly tear up the nuclear deal with Iran when the Israeli leader visits the White House... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/trump-should-shred-iran-deal-during-netanyahus-visit?f=must_reads
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Violent riots at UC Berkeley
shut down Milo Yiannopoulos event
by Leslie Eastman
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ The Breitbart News editor Milo Yiannopoulos was set to deliver a speech inside a UC Berkeley campus building but hundreds of protesters began throwing fireworks and pulling down the metal barricades police set up to keep people from rushing into the building... Windows were smashed and fires were set outside the building as masked protesters stormed it. The Berkeley Police Department said people threw bricks, smoking objects, and fireworks at police officers. University police locked down all buildings and ordered a shelter in place. “This is what tolerance looks like at UC Berkeley,” said Mike Wright, a Berkeley College Republican member said as smoke bombs went off around him. Someone threw red paint on him...
Government, And Support Jihad
by ABIGAIL R. ESMAN
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Since the rise of ISIS as an Islamic extremist group, and certainly since its leader, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, declared the official creation of the caliphate, researchers and intelligence groups worldwide have noted its popularity with Muslim women, even in the West... Unlike other terrorist groups, ISIS has pointedly recruited women. And many women have, on their own, found the promise of life in the Islamic State particularly appealing. Along the way, researchers and intelligence agencies have argued that the Muslim women who join ISIS, especially those who travel to Syria from the West, take active roles in ISIS's jihad. While they are largely barred from fighting on the battlefield, women have enrolled in the al-Khansaa brigade, the women's moral police force which enforces strict codes of dress and public behavior...
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The Question the Left Won’t Answer on Abortion
by Katrina Trinko
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{dailysignal.com} ~ If there weren’t, well, lives at stake, Democrat Rep. Eric Swalwell’s dodging of Fox News’ Tucker Carlson’s questions about whether abortion was the taking of a human life would be comical... Just check out how often Swalwell who is, of course, from California dodged it in an appearance Tuesday night (transcript omits some cross chatter)...
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The First Firestorm
by Patrick Buchanan
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{freedomsback.com} ~ That hysterical reaction to the travel ban announced Friday is a portent of what is to come if President Donald Trump carries out the mandate given to him by those who elected him.

The travel ban bars refugees for 120 days. From Syria, refugees are banned indefinitely. And a 90-day ban has been imposed on travel here from Iraq, Syria, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen.

Was that weekend-long primal scream really justified?

As of Monday, no one was being detained at a U.S. airport.

Yet the shrieking had not stopped. All five stories on page one of Monday’s Washington Post were about the abomination. The New York Times’ editorial, “Trashing American Ideals and Security,” called it bigoted, cowardly, xenophobic, Islamophobic, un-American, unrighteous.

This ban, went the weekend wail, is the “Muslim ban” of the Trump campaign. But how so, when not one of the six largest Muslim countries — Indonesia, India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Egypt, Turkey — was on the list? Missing also were three-dozen other Muslim countries.

Of the seven countries facing a 90-day ban, three are U.S.-designated state sponsors of terror, and the other four are war zones. Clearly, this is about homeland security, not religious discrimination.

The criterion for being included in the travel ban appears to be that these places are the more likely breeding grounds for terrorists.

Yet there are lessons for the Trump White House in the media-stoked panic and outrage at the end of his first week in office.

First, Steve Bannon’s observation that the media are “the opposition party,” is obviously on target. While Sen. Chuck Schumer was crying on camera that the ban was “un-American,” the media were into the more serious business of stampeding and driving the protesters.

A second lesson is one every White House learns. Before a major decision is announced, if possible, get everyone’s input and everyone on board to provide what Pat Moynihan called the “second and third echelons of advocacy.” Those left out tend to leak.

A third lesson Trump should learn is that the establishment he routed and the city he humiliated are out to break him as they broke LBJ on Vietnam, Nixon on Watergate, and almost broke Reagan on the Iran-Contra affair.

While the establishment may no longer be capable of inspiring and leading the nation, so detested is it, it has not lost its appetite or its ability to break and bring down presidents.

And Trump is vulnerable, not only because he is an envied outsider who seized the highest prize politics has on offer, but because his agenda would cancel out that of the elites.

They believe in open borders, free trade, globalization. Trump believes in securing the Southern border, bringing U.S. industry home, economic nationalism, “America First.”

They want endless immigration from the Third World to remake America into the polyglot “universal nation” of Ben Wattenberg’s utopian vision. Trump’s followers want back the America they knew.

Our foreign policy elites see democratization as a vocation and an autocratic Russia as an implacable enemy. Trump instead sees Moscow as a potential ally against real enemies like al-Qaida and ISIS.

There is another reason for the reflexive howl at Trump’s travel ban. The establishment views it, probably correctly, as the first move toward a new immigration policy, built on pre-1965 foundations, and rooted in a preference for Western-Christian immigrants first.

When the Times rages that “American ideals” or “traditional American values” are under attack by Trump, what they really mean is that their ideology and agenda are threatened by Trump.

We are headed for a series of collisions and crises, and what has happened in Europe will likely happen here. As the Third World invasion and growing Islamization of the Old Continent — which the EU has proven unable to stop — has discredited centrist parties and continuously fed a populist-nationalist uprising there, so may it here also.

And Trump not only appears to have no desire to yield to his enemies in politics and the media, he has no choice, as he is now the personification of a surging Middle American counterrevolution.

Undeniably, there are great numbers of Americans who agree with the libels the Times showered on Trump and, by extension, his backers whom liar-Hillary Clinton designated “the racist, sexist, homophobic, xenophobic, Islamophobic … deplorables.”

But by whatever slurs they are called, Middle Americans seem prepared to fight. And history shows that such people do not calmly accept the loss of what is most precious to them — the country they grew up in, the country they love.

They have turned to Trump to lead them. Why should he not, having been raised up by them, and knowing in his own heart what the establishment and the media think of him and would do to him?

Ten days in, and already it is “Game On!”
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Fri/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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

The Lessons of Roosevelt's Failures
by Caroline Glick
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What Napolitano Thinks Of Gorsuch
And Critical Votes Coming Up
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano admits he’s ecstatic over the selection of Judge Neil Gorsuch as the successor to fill Justice Scalia’s vacancy on the Supreme Court... He tells Tucker Carlson, “He is probably the most worthy jurist in the country to fill the shoes of Antonin Scalia, for a couple of reasons.” He says, “One is a healthy skepticism about the ability of the government to regulate the economy and to regulate our personal lives.” He also “embraces the idea of originalism, which simply means the meaning of the Constitution was fixed at the time it was ratified  and it’s only been changed each time it was amended 27 times. And if it’s going to be changed again, the states have to amend it. The court can’t amend it. So it’s not what Justice Ginsberg thinks it is, a living breathing document that changes when the politicians need the change.” Carlson notes that originalists generally take a dim view of executive orders, noting the prominence and frequency of use they have found in recent presidential administrations, including the initial stages of the current one. Napolitano says, “There would be implications in that if the executive orders are tantamount to making the law...  http://rickwells.us/napolitano-thinks-gorsuch-critical-votes-coming/
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Ignorant Schumer Voted
Against McConnell’s Wife – Lesson Time
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts on Senate Republicans “letting the obstructionist Dems know they’ve had a bellyful of the Senator that President Trump calls the head clown and his nasty Dem disciples... Senate Finance Republicans today changed their committee rules on the boycotting Dems and then advanced the nominations of both Steve Mnuchin and Tom Price to the full Senate for a vote.” “Dems on the Senate Environment Committee also boycotting a planned vote on EPA nominee Scott Pruitt, they too will soon learn,” says Dobbs. “The Dems are done and Majority Leader Mitch McConnell will confirm every single one of President Trump’s nominees, mark my words, one way or the other.” Dobbs points out, “The Dems originally were simply the opposition, as they should be. Then they became defiant. Now they’ve crossed the line, in my opinion, to complete, at least attempted subversion of our government and our Constitution. Because of the Dem delaying tactics only six of the President’s appointees have been confirmed. That’s only half the number historically confirmed at this point in recent presidencies.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-ignorant-schumer-voted-against-mcconnells-wife-lessons-coming/
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GOP Defectors On Betsy Devos Are
Recipients of Donations From Teachers Unions
by Jay Caruso
{redstate.com} ~ One has to wonder why two Republican Senators, without any warning, would suddenly announce they’d oppose Betsy Devo’s nomination to be the Secretary of Education... Susan Collins of Maine and Lisa Murkowski of Alaska both said they’d vote against Devos because she lacked the necessary experience to “strengthen public schools.” Whatever that means. I for one would like to see the Department of Education wind up in a dumpster where it belongs. It was created as a payoff to the teacher’s unions by Jimmy Carter and since its birth has done little to improve public education. Therefore, it seems to oppose Devos on her lack of work in public schools. What exactly has that done for the public school system over the last 37 years? Nothing...Speaking of teachers unions, guess which two Senators have been getting donations from them.  http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2017/02/01/gop-defectors-betsy-devos-recipients-donations-teachers-unions/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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BLM Thugette Wants To Kill White People,
Threatens White House
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ If you’ve got a low tolerance for stupidity, the “F” word, racism, greed or lazy entitlement, be forewarned, the video by a Black Lives Matter skank might make you uncomfortable... it will likely make you more than a little angry to boot. The black racists in BLM, the NAACP and the Congressional Black Caucus might deny this is really how BLM operates. What’s more likely is this is exactly how they operate and exactly their feelings. They don’t know what possessed this Democrat to actually tell the truth. but surely they’ll get to the bottom of it. Unfortunately the video doesn’t divulge the location or identity associated with the extra-large, foul mouth behind the bullhorn. Her first premise might need some qualification as do many other things this supposed school teacher says. She asks, “You know what America thrives off of?” Certainly she’s proof it’s not quality education, but she leaves the impression that we’re thriving or that any of those in the audience have ever seen America thriving. I’m 61 years old and it’s been stagnant for all but about ten years that I recall, during the eighties, early nineties...  http://rickwells.us/blm-thugette-kill-white-people-threatens-white-house/
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Lila Rose: GOP preparing
to defund Democrats' 'holy grail'
by Greg Corombos
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{wnd.com} ~ The woman behind recent videos that decimate Planned Parenthood’s claim that it needs to receive taxpayer dollars to meet vital prenatal needs says congressional Republicans are poised to remove funding... from the nation’s largest abortion provider and Democrats will be powerless to stop it. On Tuesday, Live Action released a video showing activists calling Planned Parenthood clinics all around the U.S. seeking an ultrasound to ensure the health of their unborn children. Time after time, the Planned Parenthood workers explain that the clinics only use ultrasounds in preparation for abortions and not to confirm a pregnancy or evaluate the health of a baby. The video follows on the heels of others that undermine Planned Parenthood’s contention that it needs more than half-a-billion dollars a year in taxpayer money because of the vital services it provides outside of abortions...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/02/lila-rose-gop-preparing-to-defund-democrats-holy-grail/
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The Lessons of Roosevelt's Failures
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ Is US President Donald Trump the new Franklin Delano Roosevelt? Does his immigration policy mimic Roosevelt’s by adopting a callous, bigoted position on would-be asylum seekers from the Muslim world? At a press conference on June 5, 1940, Roosevelt gave an unspeakably cynical justification for his administration’s refusal to permit the desperate Jews of Nazi Germany to enter the US.

In Roosevelt’s words, “Among the refugees from Germany, there are some spies... And not all of them are voluntary spies – it is rather a horrible story but in some of the other countries that refugees out of Germany have gone to, especially Jewish refugees, they found a number of definitely proven spies.”

The current media and left-wing uproar over the executive order US President Donald Trump signed on Saturday which enacts a temporary ban on entry to the US of nationals from seven Muslim majority countries is extraordinary on many levels. But one that stands out is the fact that opponents of Trump’s move insist that Trump is reenacting the bigoted immigration policies the US maintained throughout the Holocaust.

The first thing that is important to understand about Trump’s order is that it did not come out of nowhere. It is based on the policies of his predecessor Barack liar-nObama. Trump’s move is an attempt to correct the strategic and moral deficiencies of liar-nObama’s policies – deficiencies that empower bigots and fascists while disenfranchising and imperiling their victims.

Trump’s order is based on the 2015 Terrorist Travel Prevention Act. As White House spokesman Sean Spicer noted in an interview with ABC News’ Martha Raddatz Sunday, the seven states targeted by Trump’s temporary ban – Syria, Iraq, Sudan, Iran, Libya, Yemen and Somalia – were not chosen by Trump.

They were identified as uniquely problematic and in need of specific, harsher vetting policies for refugee applications by former US president Barack liar-nObama.

In Iraq, Syria, Libya and Yemen, the recognized governments lack control over large swaths of territory.

As a consequence, they are unable to conclude immigration vetting protocols with the US. As others have noted, unlike these governments, Turkish, Saudi Arabian and Egyptian officials have concluded and implement severe and detailed visa vetting protocols with US immigration officials.

Immigrants from Somalia have carried out terrorist attacks in the US. Clearly there is a problem with vetting procedures in relation to that jihad-plagued failed state.

Finally, the regimes in Sudan and Iran are state sponsors of terrorism. As such, the regimes clearly cannot be trusted to properly report the status of visa applicants.

In other words, the one thing that the seven states have in common is that the US has no official counterpart in any of them as it seeks to vet nationals from those states seeking to enter its territory. So the US must adopt specific, unilateral vetting policies for each of them.

Now that we know the reason the liar-nObama administration concluded that visa applicants from these seven states require specific vetting, we arrive at the question of whether Trump’s order will improve the outcome of that vetting from both a strategic and moral perspective.

The new executive order requires the relevant federal agencies and departments to review the current immigration practices in order to ensure two things.

First, that immigrants from these and other states are not enemies of the US. And second, to ensure that those that do enter the US are people who need protection.

Trump’s order requires the secretary of state and the secretary of homeland security to ensure that the new vetting processes “prioritize refugee claims made by individuals on the basis of religious-based persecution, provided that the religion of the individual is a minority in the individual’s country of nationality.”

Under the liar-nObama administration, the opposite occurred. Christians and Yazidis in Syria for instance, have been targeted specifically for annihilation by Islamic State and related groups. And yet, they have made up a tiny minority of visa recipients. According to Christian News Service, during 2016, the number of refugees from Syria to the US increased by 675%. But among the 13,210 Syrian refugees admitted to the US, only 77, or 0.5% were Christians and only 24, or 0.18%, were Yazidis.

Similar percentages held in previous years.

On the second issue, of blocking potential terrorists from entering the US, Trump’s order calls for measures to be taken to ensure that those who ascribe to creeds that would endanger the lives of US citizens are barred from entering.

Specifically, the order states, “The United States cannot, and should not, admit those who do not support the Constitution, or those who would place violent ideologies over American law. In addition, the United States should not admit those who engage in acts of bigotry or hatred including ‘honor’ killings, other forms of violence against women, or the persecution of those who practice religions different from their own or those who would oppress Americans of any race, gender, or sexual orientation.”

Whether or not the liar-nObama administration’s failure to give top priority to Christian and Yazidi refugees being targeted for genocide, enslavement and rape was driven by political considerations, the fact is that the current US refugee system makes it all but impossible for US officials to give priority to vulnerable minorities.

As Nina Shea, director of the Hudson Institute’s Center for Religious Freedom pointed out in an article in National Review in November 2015, the US has relied on the UN High Commissioner on Refugees to vet potential immigrants from these countries. The UNHCR accepts applications for resettlement primarily from people who reside in its refugee camps. Members of the Christian and Yazidi avoid UN camps because UN officials do not protect them.

As Shea noted, human rights groups and media reports have shown that at UN camps, “ISIS, militias and gangs traffic in women and threaten men who refuse to swear allegiance to the caliphate.”

The situation repeats itself in European refugee centers. Shea noted that in Germany, for instance, due to Muslim persecution of non-Muslim refugees at refugee centers, “the German police union recommended separate shelters for Christian and Muslim groups.”

The UNHCR itself has not been an innocent bystander in all of this. To the contrary. It appears that the institution colludes with jihadists to keep persecuted Christians and other minorities out of the UN refugee system, thus dooming them to remain in areas were they are subjected to forms of persecution unseen since the Holocaust.

Questioned by Shea, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres said that he opposes the resettlement of persecuted Christians from Syria. Despite the fact that in 2011 Pope Francis acknowledged that Syrian Christians were being targeted for genocide, Guterres told Shea that he doesn’t want Christians to leave Syria, because they are part of the “DNA of the Middle East.” He added that Lebanon’s former president asked him not to resettle the Christians.

Invoking the Holocaust, in recent days US Jews have been among the most outspoken critics of Trump’s executive order. Speaking to Britain’s Independent, for instance, Mark Hetfield, the executive director of HIAS, the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society, slammed Trump’s executive order as the “lowest point we’ve seen since the 1920s.”

Forward editor Jane Eisner wrote that Trump’s move is immoral and un-American and that all Jewish organizations are morally required to stand up to his “anti-Muslim” policies.

Writing at Vox.com, Dara Lind drew a direct connection between Trump’s executive order and the Roosevelt administration’s refusal to permit the Jews of Europe to flee to the US to escape annihilation in the Holocaust.

This then brings us back to Roosevelt’s immoral policies toward the Jews of Europe and to the question of who has learned the lessons of his bigotry.

The American Jewish uproar at Trump’s actions shows first and foremost the cynicism of the leftist Jewish leadership.

It isn’t simply that left-wing activists like Hetfield and Eisner cynically ignore that Trump’s order is based on liar-nObama’s policies, which they didn’t oppose.

It is that in their expressed concerned for would-be Muslim refugees to the US they refuse to recognize that the plight of Muslims as Muslims in places like Syria and Iraq is not the same as the plight of Christians and Yazidis as Christians and Yazidis in these lands.

The “Jews” in the present circumstances are not the Muslims, who are nowhere targeted for genocide.

The “Jews” in the present circumstances are the Christians and Yazidis and other religious minorities, whom Trump’s impassioned Jewish opponents and liar-nObama’s impassioned Jewish champions fail to defend.

Trump’s executive order is far from perfect. But in making the distinction between the hunters and the hunted and siding with the latter against the former, Trump is showing that he is not a bigot.

Unlike his critics, he has learned the lessons of Roosevelt’s moral failure and is working to ensure that the US acts differently today.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-lessons-roosevelts-failures

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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
The nature of power in the networked age
by Niall Ferguson
 
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 Top Headlines 
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Senate confirms Elaine Chao for Transportation secretary. (USA Today)
 
Betsy DeVos clears committee with zero Democrat votes. Full Senate vote next. (Washington Free Beacon)
 
DHS Sec. John Kelly defends travel suspension, personnel helped draft the EO. (Military.com)
 
More Americans than not support Trump's immigration order. (Washington Examiner)
 
Trump names Ronald Vitiello to head Border Patrol. (Washington Times)
 
Oops: Pentagon believes Iran-backed attack on Saudi frigate meant for U.S. warship. (Fox News)
 
The problem is... 48.9% of union members worked for government in 2016. (CNS News)
 
Videos prove Planned Parenthood's ultrasounds used for killing, not care. (Live Action)
 
Leftists seek to honor fired Acting AG Sally Yates with JFK Profile in Courage Award. (RedState)
 
Vox: Cancel the Oscars broadcast to protest Trump immigration policy. Yes, please do! (Vox)
 
Policy: A federalist Rx for liar-nObamaCare ills. (Manhattan Institute)
 
Policy: Is it a "Muslim ban"? (National Review
~The Patriot Post
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Secretary of State Rex Tillerson Confirmed
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{theconservativetreehouse.com} ~ President Trump’s nominee for Secretary of State, Rex Tillerson, has been confirmed by the full Senate Vote... Democrats Mark Warner (VA), Heidi Heitkamp (ND) and Joe Manchin (WVA) joined with all senate republicans for the 56-43 vote. Suffice to say, anyone who has followed DC politics for any substantive amount of time is aware of the inherent ideological issues within The U.S. State Department. Filled with bureaucrats whose career has been at the epicenter of left-wing globalist advocacy. If you go back to rethinking the larger State Dept. challenge, Rex Tillerson will essentially be in charge of a U.S. Department that is comprised almost exclusively of hanoi-Kerry/liar-Clinton/liar-nObama/Bush/ UniParty/GOPe big “G” Globalists...
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Corporate Elites Challenge Trump
For Rule Of America – That’s Fascism
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts as the establishment fascists, the “corporatists, are broadening their against President Trump and in particular his policies to secure our borders and our ports... and to control the flow of immigration and refugees into this country.” “Interestingly,” notes Dobbs, “the two principle lobbyists for US multinationals are the Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable. And they’ve been uncharacteristically quiet and out of sight as the corporate broadsides become more frequent and louder.” Dobbs says, “Traditionally few CEOs have gone public with their politics, that’s changing. Those CEOs for years have feared they might alienate their customers but for some reason that tradition is being shattered, almost daily. One of the wealthiest men in this country is Jeff Bezos, he is the founder of Amazon and the owner of the Washington Post.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-corporate-elites-challenge-trump-rule-america-fascism/
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Coach Pulosi From The Sidelines –
Tell Them You’re A Muslim, Be Cool
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Democrat politics are special interest, identity, fad politics. It’s cool to be anything other than a white heterosexual Christian male and the further one is away from that “loathsome, inherently oppressive... and privileged” creature the higher esteem they are held in by the gutter rat Democrats. While the Senate doesn’t have caucuses, the House is full of them. They’re associations of representatives working together to advance agendas favorable to their subset. The racist organizations, the Congressional Black Caucus or Congressional Hispanic Congress work to advance causes based upon skin color. The Congressional LGBT Equality Caucus works to promote the Democrat homosexual and anything goes agendas. The  Congressional Progressive Caucus is composed of communists, progressives, Marxists and both closeted and out of the closet commies. It’s chaired jointly by Raul Grijalva, a communist Mexican supremacist and Keith Ellison, a Muslim black supremacist...  http://rickwells.us/coach-pelosi-sidelines-muslim-cool/
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Germany: Angela Merkel
Faces Challenge for Chancellorship
by Soeren Kern
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Martin Schulz, the former president of the European Parliament, has been chosen to challenge Chancellor Angela Merkel in Germany's general election on September 24... The policy positions of Schulz and Merkel on key issues are virtually identical: Both candidates are committed to strengthening the European Union, maintaining open-door immigration policies, pursuing multiculturalism and quashing dissent from the so-called far right. Polls show Merkel, who heads the center-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU), slightly ahead of Schulz, the new leader of the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD). Regardless of who wins, Germany is unlikely to undergo many course corrections during the next four years... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9870/martin-schulz-angela-merkel
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Waning intelligence as the leftist mean
kiddies still fight to control the USA
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 by Sher Zieve
{renewamerica.com} ~ The Democrat Party and RINOs are placing all of us in jeopardy due to their lack of intelligence...or lack of any care for humanity other than themselves. No...not security, top-secret or cyber intelligence... It's simply basic human intelligence to which I'm referring. Over the last eight years, it seems to have completely vanished off the face of the Earth. Since the election of US President Donald J. Trump in November, the Left in our country appear to be suffering from some malady that has sapped what had still remained of their fragile intellects. In fact, these folks began blaming P.E. Trump for all manner of committed horrors before he had even taken office. The horrors had actually been effected by their leftist icon liar-nObama. Oopsie...! Note to the Left: Before a POTUS can be blamed for anything relating to US policies, he or she has to have actually assumed office. Apparently, that bit of 'trivial' information is no longer being taught in US public (aka government) schools. Sigh... http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/170201
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The nature of power in the networked age
by Niall Ferguson
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The United States is living through a kind of Trumpian Genesis: seven days of high-speed political creation.

In the beginning Trump created heaven (for his supporters) and hell (for the mainstream media).

And Washington was without form, and void; and darkness was upon the face of CNN.

And Trump said, let liar-nObamacare be repealed.

And Trump saw the reports of his inauguration, that they were bad: and Trump divided the press from the administration.

This is about our values and who we think we are as a people and as a nation.

And Trump called the first day a National Day of Patriotic Devotion.

Day Two was dominated by the women's marches against Trump. On Day 3 Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership and froze new hiring by the federal government.

Day Four saw five new executive orders, two of which reversed the liar-nObama administration's halt to the Keystone XL and Dakota Access oil pipelines. Trump also signed a bill requiring that the pipelines use American steel.

On the fifth day Trump ordered the Department of Homeland Security to begin building a wall on the US-Mexican border.

And on the sixth, his press secretary said that the wall would be paid for by a 20 percent tax on imports from Mexico.

Technically, Trump was entitled to a day of rest on Friday. He didn't take it.

On it goes. Each day brings news of fresh executive orders, interviews, tweets. Each day the media shoot back at Trump. To read some of the press coverage of Trump's first week, you would think the Apocalypse was imminent.

Indeed, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists last week moved its famous Dooomsday Clock forward to two and a half minutes to midnight. Yet in issuing executive orders, Trump is merely following the precedent set by the previous occupant of the White House.

The hysterical over-reaction of the media is fresh proof that Trump is a self-publicist of prodigious instinctive talent.

Trump became the president essentially by doing to the Republican Party what Uber did to the taxi companies: he disintermediated it. In essence, he exploited his appeal as a television "ratings machine" to communicate his message to the electorate. Then his campaign strategists used social media to craft targeted online campaigns that moved voters away from liar-Hillary Clinton in the key swing states.

Trump is not wrong to refer to the people who elected him as a movement. But I would prefer to call it a network. This was not a top-down command-and-control operation like the liar-Clinton campaign. It was self-organizing, spontaneous, horizontal. Trump didn't campaign in the traditional sense. He went viral.

The key question is how far he is now going to be able to disintermediate the federal government, too.

Right now, there is a striking bifurcation between his performance in the role of president, which - as when he played the part of Republican nominee - is still directed at his network, and the actual process of government, which in practice will be carried out by legislators, bureaucrats, and public employees.

I have to confess I enjoy the entertainment for no other reason than that it drives the most tedious people in America to distraction. But the real point is not what Trump says. It is what his administration does.

No one yet knows what precisely that will be. It may be that the net result of the Republican corporate tax reform will be economically disruptive, increasing the deficit and inflation. On the other hand, it may be that the repatriation of corporate capital will generate more revenue than anyone expects.

It may be that all the regulations introduced since the 1980s are all that stands between us and environmental and financial disaster. On the other hand, it may be that most of this regulation was merely a bureaucratic scam and a leaden weight on small and medium-sized businesses.

It may be that a trade war will break out between the United States and China, one that will hurt us almost as much as them. On the other hand, it may be that the Chinese will end up rolling over in the face of Trump's aggressive negotiating tactics because their economic and political position is much weaker than most people appreciate.

And it may be that challenging the globalized economic order is a fool's errand that will end up hurting everybody, including ordinary Americans, by raising consumer prices. On the other hand, it may be that globalization had overshot, and it was high time we dialed back the volume of migration, off-shoring of jobs and cross-border investment.

The question we need to ask is not: Can Trump keep enraging the media and thereby signal to his network that he is delivering change? He can do that all day long. That's not rule by decree; it's rule by reality TV.

The real question is: Can his administration - using the usual cumbersome channels - enact and implement reforms that will fundamentally improve the lives of ordinary Americans?

The answer to that question will not be found in Trump's Book of Genesis. But I doubt very much it is in the liberals' Book of Revelation either.

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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
The special relationship is on again
by Wesley Pruden
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Army Corps to Grant Easement Needed
to Complete Dakota Access Pipeline
by Kemberlee Kaye
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Senator John Hoeven issued the following statement after speaking today with Vice President Pence and Acting Secretary of the Army Robert Speer... “Today, the Acting Secretary of the Army Robert Speer informed us that he has directed the Army Corps of Engineers to proceed with the easement needed to complete the Dakota Access Pipeline. This will enable the company to complete the project, which can and will be built with the necessary safety features to protect the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe and others downstream. “Building new energy infrastructure with the latest safeguards and technology is the safest and most environmentally sound way to move energy from where it is produced to where people need it...  http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/01/army-corps-to-grant-easement-needed-to-complete-dakota-access-pipeline/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Red-Green Axis Takes to the Streets of Chicago
by CENTER FOR SECURITY POLICY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Violent demonstrations protesting Donald J. Trump's 20 January 2017 inauguration as 45th President of the United States erupted in Washington, DC and continued throughout the country over the subsequent weekend... Cities became staging grounds for a ‘Red-Green Axis' of groups, including the Muslim Brotherhood in America, Black Lives Matter movement, and a motley collection of anarchists, communists, and progressives whose sole unifying objective is to bring down the U.S. government. This assembly of forces coalesced on the 2016 campaign trail but now vows to continue disruptive actions. A weekend of lawless destruction, looting, and attempts to block transportation routes and deny access to emergency facilities provided a look ahead at the groups' real agenda, which is societal chaos aimed at tearing down the U.S. system of law and order. It's unlikely that most of those who took to the streets for the "Women's March on Chicago" even vaguely understood the combined threat of the Red-Green Axis... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/red-green-axis-takes-to-the-streets-of-chicago?f=must_reads
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It’s Naive To Think Illegal Aliens
Aren’t Voting – By The Millions
by Tom Fitton
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Leftists and their media outlets have been all too eager to dismiss President Donald Trump’s charge that as many as 5 million illegal aliens voted in the 2016 presidential election, enough to easily swing the popular vote to liar-Hillary Clinton... Many of these pundits, backed by an army of so-called “fact-checkers,” would have you believe that the number of illegals who are registering to vote and voting is insignificant. Oh, there may be the occasional, misguided “undocumented worker” who inadvertently wanders into the election booth, they seem to suggest. But, surely, not enough to make any difference. Anyone who thinks that needs to think again...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/30/its-naive-to-think-illegal-aliens-arent-voting-by-the-millions/
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U.S. Equips Kurdish
Forces With Armored Vehicles
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{clarionproject.org} ~ A shipment of armored vehicles has been sent to the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) by the U.S. government to help the fight against ISIS... The SDF is a coalition of militia groups led by the YPG which fights against ISIS in northern Syria. The vehicles called “Guardians” are manufactured by a Canadian firm. “American armored vehicles have arrived for the Syrian Democratic Forces for the first time," SDF spokesman Talal Sello told media. "This happened after the new U.S. administration came to power. He credited the change in support with the arrival of the new administration, saying “previously we didn't get support in this form; we would get light weapons and ammunition. There are signs of full support from the new American leadership - more than before - for our forces.”...
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ISIS Advancing Fast in
Trojan Horse Use of Low-Tech Drones
by Bridget Johnson
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Iraqi special forces Counter Terrorism Service member
shoots at a drone flown by Islamic State
{observer.com} ~ An air force is not something we tend to associate with terrorist groups, but innovations being tested by ISIS against forces encroaching on Islamic State strongholds could foretell flying IEDs at the global terror level... These aren’t high-tech warfare, but popular hobby drones that can be purchased anywhere and operated without arousing suspicion. And that’s a huge concern. ISIS has released videos in which they’ve used drone photography to capture sweeping vistas of their attack convoys and training areas. They’ve used drones to conduct surveillance and assessments. And it’s not limited to the Islamic State. In Afghanistan, the Taliban recently revealed their own unmanned capability in a drone-filmed video of a suicide bombing...  http://observer.com/2017/01/isis-increasing-use-low-tech-drones/?utm_campaign=Observer_National_Politics&utm_content=National%20N%2BP%202017-02-01&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Observer%20News%20%26%20Politics
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The special relationship is on again
by Wesley Pruden
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Once more, with feeling. There's a president again with the proper appreciation of "the special relationship" between the United States and Great Britain. Winston Churchill is back in the Oval Of­fice, even if it's only his head on a pedestal.

Donald Trump and Theresa May struck it off better than expected. The Donald even took her for a stroll, holding her hand. A British journalist reminded the president not to try that with the queen when he goes to London in for a state visit in the spring. The queen is look, don't touch.

The special rela­tionship dates from early in the 19th century. It was sometimes not as warm as at other times, particularly after the Civil War when Britain, eager for Southern cotton, flirted with recogniz­ing the Confederacy. The relationship became the pivot of U.S.-British foreign policy during World War II, when Churchill and President Franklin D. Roosevelt enjoyed a friendship that was at first testy when FDR resisted Churchill's pressure to join the war in Europe, where Britain stood almost alone against Hitler and the Nazis.

It became warm with even a touch of schmaltz after Pearl Harbor and Hitler's inexplicable declaration of war against the United States two days later. Churchill promptly came to Washington for a visit, and charmed senators and representatives alike with a memorable speech to a joint session of Congress.

"As some of you know," he told the assembly, "my mother was born in America, and my father in Britain. I like to think that if it were the other way around, I might have made it to this chamber on my own."

The special relationship flowers when president and prime minister grow close. Maggie Thatcher was particularly close to both Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush. When Mr. Bush seemed to be wavering in pursuit of Saddam Hussein in the run-up to the first Gulf war, she famously told him, "now don't go wobbly on us, George." He didn't, and they became fast friends. "The Anglo- American relationship," Mrs. Thatcher later said, "has done more for the defense and future of freedom than any other alliance in the world."

Theresa May could similarly nudge Donald Trump, a novice in the complicated ways nations deal with each other, to do the right thing. She made a point last week to say, as they basked in the warmth of the visit, how important NATO is to the defense of the United States, Britain and the West. The next day Mr. Trump, who had gone a little bit wobbly himself during the presidential campaign on the long-standing American dedication to the alliance, said warm and positive things about it.

Guns and diplomacy have been important elements of the practical value of the special relationship, but the common language, literature, law and religious faith made such a relationship inevitable, and assured its survival. Personal relationships between president and prime minister oiled the machinery and made it hum.

As warm as that personal relationship was during World War II, frost was not only on the pumpkin during World War I, but on the relationship between Woodrow Wilson and David Lloyd George. They were first president and prime minister who met face-to-face, and not happily.

No one cultivated the relationship with greater skill than Churchill, who liked nearly all things American, and often cited the fact that his mother, Jenny Jerome, born in Brooklyn, was an American. She was a celebrated beauty in London, where she became a titled socialite. An admirer said there was "more of the panther than the woman in her look." Perhaps Churchill, with a tenacity of a wild animal stalking prey, inherited more than maternal devotion from his American mother.

Other presidents became friends with prime ministers, too, strengthening the special relationship. John F. Kennedy and Harold Macmillan became close; so did Jimmy Carter and James Callaghan, and both Bill liar-Clinton and George W. Bush worked closely with Tony Blair.

But the relationship was not always a happy one. Senti­ment is not for statesmen. JFK entertained Mr. Macmillan at Key West shortly after he was inaugurated, and they got on well. The prime minister said, with his tongue not necessarily in his cheek, that "it is Britain's historical duty to guide the power of the United States as the ancient Greeks guided the Romans."

The special relationship has always been the envy of the allies. Charles de Gaulle and certain of his successors chafed under the dominance of what de Gaulle called, with a contemptuous curl of the lip, "the Anglo-Saxons." He would have liked Barack liar-nObama, who, perhaps influ­enced by his Kenyan father, never quite hid his disdain for the English.

But blood will out. The Donald and Theresa look like cousins, even if once removed.
 
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Stop Muslim Terror by
Stopping Muslim Immigration
by Daniel Greenfield
 
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 Showdown in Bloody Chicago 
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By James Shott: Unless you live on another planet, you have heard of the dangerous conditions in Chicago, where the level of violence is and has been at a crisis level for years. Chicago, like other major cities, has rampant crime and one of the higher murder and shooting rates, despite (or is it because of?) having some of the strictest gun laws in the country.
          On a per capita basis, Chicago does not attract much attention because of its large population. Based on the U.S. Census Bureau's last count in 2010, the estimated population in 2016 was 2.7 million, so its murder rate per 100,000 residents isn't that large. But Chicago still wins a dubious prize for its total number of homicides and shootings.
          Data compiled by the Chicago Tribune staff shows that in 2016 there were 4,368 shooting victims in the city and 762 homicides. Things don't look much better for 2017: As of Jan. 28, there were already 268 shooting victims, which is a little lower than Jan. 2016. But last January was the third-lowest month for shootings in 2016, so things could easily worsen.
          At least 39 people were shot across Chicago over the Martin Luther King Jr. Day holiday weekend, leaving 10 dead. Six people were shot while attending a memorial service for a shooting victim last week.
          Greg Zanis, a retired carpenter, creates wooden crosses for each person killed by gang violence in Chicago and places them in a grassy lot in the city's Englewood neighborhood. Last year was the deadliest year in 20 years — 762 homicides, up from 496 in 2015 — so Zanis was busy.
          Some shooting deaths result from action by police officers, but most shootings do not involve police and are attributed primarily to gang violence. Yet the deaths involving police officers attract much more attention than the far greater number of shootings and murders that do not involve the police. Data taken from the Independent Police Review Authority shows that in 2016 police were involved in only 11 of the 762 total shooting deaths. Police also wounded 14 people. The chance of being killed by a Chicago police officer is only 1.4%.
          However, in the high-crime minority communities, there is an almost automatic reaction to blame the police in shooting deaths when they are involved, despite the fact that in the vast majority of cases the victim either initiated the incident or resisted or fought against a proper action by police.
          These knee-jerk reactions arise before details are known and are based upon emotions and prejudice, ginned up by people whose political agenda is to blame police rather than face up to the reality that the victims have brought their fate on themselves through criminal behavior.
          This false narrative continues even after police are exonerated and is responsible for protest demonstrations and hatred and mistrust of police. The effect too often makes police reluctant to patrol in neighborhoods where these confrontations have occurred and are most likely to recur, but where police presence is most needed, which, of course, makes matters worse.
          Street violence has increased in the administration of Democrat Mayor Rahm Emanuel, who served as the previous president's chief of staff from 2008 to 2010 and was elected mayor in 2011. In addition to failing to control the crime-ridden city, Emanuel opened Chicago to illegal aliens, proclaiming, "Chicago has in the past been a sanctuary city. ... It always will be a sanctuary city." He also celebrated when liar-nObama scapegoated Chicago's police as he exited the White House earlier this month.
          President Donald Trump, a vocal critic of urban violence, threatens to "send in the feds." With rampant speculation as to what exactly will occur, he has many constitutional options available, the first being Senate confirmation of his attorney general nominee, Sen. Jeff Sessions.
          Citing former New York Mayor Rudy Gulliani's actions while in office, National Review's Andrew McCarthy suggests that approach would also work in Chicago, noting that the "U.S. penal code is better equipped to deal with street crime today than three decades ago." McCarthy, however, acknowledges that the feds cannot totally solve Chicago's problems.
          "In Chicago, federal law enforcement could make a difference by using and building on task-force arrangements with the CPD and state police," he wrote. "High-crime areas could be targeted over a sustained period for investigations of narcotics trafficking, firearms offenses, violent crimes in aid of racketeering (racketeering can include street-gang violence and drug conspiracies), and extortionate interference with commerce by violence or threats. A healthy percentage of the cases developed … could then be indicted in federal court, where the penalties are stiffer and surer."
          Emanuel has failed to reduce crime in his city but is amenable to receiving assistance. Let's pray that Trump's focus on big city crime pays off.  ~The Patriot Post
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Trump Should Rescind liar-nObama’s
Transgender Agenda and Protect Religious Liberty
by Ryan T. Anderson  
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The media was abuzz yesterday with rumors that President Donald Trump was preparing an executive order that would protect religious liberty in the aftermath of the redefinition of marriage... Trump should issue such an executive order, and he should rescind former President Barack liar-nObama’s executive actions on sexual orientation and gender identity that created many of these problems in the first place. While a candidate, Trump promised to sign the First Amendment Defense Act into law. He needn’t simply wait for Congress. While legislation provides the best long-term protections, Trump can lawfully enact many of those protections through an executive order right now...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/31/trump-should-rescind-obamas-transgender-agenda-and-protect-religious-liberty/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=CapitolBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRVM04ySmtaV1JsTmpFeCIsInQiOiI3bXBLWUtZMnJad3BMY1dZS05RTVFLNGR4TjZ1UTRmWEtOaGRRbzRkQUtqRzZNY045eUR1TGxJaXBFS3dCeUM5Q1JvZEFzUCtMQVdQd0xYMHQrRmpLZmxRSnh2UFwvNnNoalRwMURBaWR1SGowZ1gxUG9YdTdjWlA2MEFpN0dKbEUifQ%3D%3D
 
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Important Muslims Come Out
in Support of Trump’s Immigration Order
by Onan Coca
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{constitution.com} ~ I wonder if this will get the liberal wingnuts to shut their yappers and stop complaining about President Trump’s immigration orders? Probably not… On Monday’s episode of Fox & Friends co-founder of “The Muslim Reform Movement,” Asra Nomani, spoke out in defense of President Donald Trump and his recent executive order pressing pause on immigration from certain Muslim majority countries. “I’ve been a journalist for 30 years and I’m really disappointed that the media has unfortunately gone along with this meme #MuslimBan. It’s a propaganda campaign. In communications there is a term called agitprop, it means agitation propaganda. What we see right now is agitation propaganda from a very partisan political movement that lost the election. What I am really disturbed by is when I did a search last night of how many outlets have #MuslimBan in their headlines, they go everywhere from the New York Times to Slate magazine. It’s a disturbing trend where we are inciting fear and doing it very irresponsibly…  http://constitution.com/important-muslims-come-support-trumps-immigration-order/
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Judge Napolitano On Yates Defiance –
Reprehensible That DOJ Could Be Rogue
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano describes his feelings regarding the firing of Acting Attorney General Sally Yates, saying, “It is reprehensible that the Justice Department could be rogue... Because, who is the chief federal law enforcement officer of the land? The President of the United States, not the Attorney General. For the Justice Department to be run by a rogue Attorney General, who won’t take direction from the President is simply unacceptable.” Napolitano says, “Donald Trump is 100% correct. Chuck Schumer’s delaying tactics, along with the other Democrats in the Senate, have deprived him of the tools that the Constitution gives him to enforce the federal law and that is an Attorney General who will run the Justice Department consistent with the President.” “I’m beginning to think,” says Napolitano, “that all of these orders that were obtained over the weekend, staying various parts of the President’s executive order, orders obtained by judges who sat on Saturday night and Sunday morning, we done with nobody in the courtroom representing the government.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-napolitano-yates-defiance-reprehensible-doj-rogue/
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Congressman Trey Gowdy Issues Support
for Trump’s Migrant Restrictions
by Walter White
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Over the weekend, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order temporarily limiting immigration and travel from terror-prone nations... Predictably, Democrats and their allies in the media have called the Executive Order a “Muslim ban,” but The Political Insider has exposed this liberal lie and helped to explain what the president’s Executive Order actually covers. Now, conservative hero Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina has just released a statement voicing his support for President Trump’s Executive Order. Liberals are going to hate this! Here’s a copy of Gowdy’s statement courtesy of the Congressman’s office: “Our nation has a long and rich history of welcoming those fleeing persecution. We also have a long and rich history of liberating those suffering under oppression. We are the most welcoming and generous country in the world, and we are a country of immigrants...  http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/trey-gowdy-trump-executive-order-immigrant-restrictions/?utm_medium=email&utm_source=TPI-Newsletter-2-1-17&utm_campaign=TPI_020117_Newsletter&source=CI
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How Senate Republicans Can
Break a Supreme Court Filibuster
by James Wallner
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{dailysignal.com} ~ President Donald Trump’s nominee to fill the open seat on the Supreme Court—whoever it may be—can expect rough treatment from Senate Democrats... Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer, D-N.Y., has pledged to filibuster any nominee he disapproves of, even if it means leaving the nation’s highest court short-handed for years. Doubtless, some Republicans will call for Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., to exercise the “nuclear option”: eliminating the filibuster so the nominee can be confirmed by a simple majority. After all, Senate Democrats went nuclear in 2013 to thwart Republican plans to filibuster some of President Barack liar-nObama’s nominations...We all know who the nominee is.  http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/31/how-senate-republicans-can-break-a-supreme-court-filibuster/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTURBMVpXTTRNV0ZoTVdSbCIsInQiOiJ5MW1nNlI2bDBzaGZVVk56SVJpakZoRjdzb2VISEtxSEptRlwvV2tRajBYelVBSVdta0NPamlmdUZcL0FIUjFZNVlSbzZ0clRaMjRwY0VTRG9EMzhNRVh5S2N4UzRqRjVkcDBvcFowWUMwR0QwRXZtWjdodW5QRCtqYnQ5a2p6UVpvIn0%3D
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Stop Muslim Terror by
Stopping Muslim Immigration
by Daniel Greenfield
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{aim.org} ~ Lone wolf terrorism is the biggest trend in Islamic terrorism. Unlike classic Islamic terrorism, it requires no cells stretching across countries the way that 9/11 did. The perpetrators don’t even need to enter the country under false pretenses the way that the World Trade Center bombers did.

In many cases, they are already citizens. Some were even born in their target country.

Classic counterterrorism is directed at organizations. It’s inadequate for stopping individual Muslim terrorists like Omar Mateen who was able to murder 49 people at a nightclub in Orlando or closely related duos like the Tsarnaev brothers in Boston or the husband and wife team who carried out the San Bernardino terrorist attack which took the lives of 14 people.

Even the standard technique of planting informants into mosques, deeply opposed by the Islamic lobby in the United States, fails when individuals decide to act alone or only trust their wives or brothers to be in on the plot with them. If an individual Islamic terrorist fails to let his plans slip, either online or to an FBI informant, stopping him can be extremely difficult if not entirely impossible without a stroke of luck.

And Islamic terrorists only need to be lucky once. We have to be lucky every time.

Every absurd Islamic terror plot broken up by law enforcement, the type of thing dismissed by the media and ridiculed by commentators, launching rockets at planes, underwear bombs and blowing up trains, contained the seed of a horrific terrorist attack just like Orlando, Boston or Nice.

When you turn on the evening news and see a running death toll, it’s because one of those absurd and ridiculous terror plots actually succeeded. And it’s happening more and more often.

The reason is simple. Unlike classic Islamic terrorism which required organization and infrastructure, the new brand of Islamic terror only needs one thing… Muslims.

Lone wolf terrorism operates entirely off the existing Muslim population in a particular country. The bigger the Muslim population, the bigger the risk. Any Muslim or Muslims who have settled in a particular non-Muslim country can answer the call of Jihad at any given time without warning.

There is no way that the FBI or other law enforcement agencies could begin to monitor even a fraction of the Islamic settler population sympathetic to terror. The FBI alone has almost 1,000 active ISIS cases it was investigating last year in all 50 states. It does not have nearly the resources it needs to handle them.

As the Muslim settler population in the country increases, the number of cases will grow. No matter how much law enforcement expands the scope of its operations, it will not be able to keep up with the high natural birth rates of the Muslim settler population whose terrorists don’t need a fraction of the training or skills that trained law enforcement figures do. The more the Muslim population grows, the more terror attacks like Orlando, Boston and Nice will get past law enforcement.

Any technological or logistical solutions to this crisis on the law enforcement end will only be band aids.

The source of the problem is Islamic immigration. That is the only possible solution. The only way to reduce the growth of the lone wolf Islamic terrorism problem is to reduce or end Muslim migration.

If this is how bad it is when Muslims are only 1% of the population, what happens when the Muslim settler population doubles and then doubles again? Accompanying these rising population numbers will be rising influence by the Islamic lobby. Islamic groups such as CAIR with a history of terror ties and opposition to counterterrorism will have even more power to stymie law enforcement investigations. The end result will be far more successful Muslim terrorist massacres taking place on a constant basis.

Muslim immigrants are already inherently privileged when it comes to their ability to enter this country ahead of far more peaceful and far more deserving groups. For example, the vast majority of Syrian refugees admitted to this country are the Muslims who perpetrated and are perpetuating their religious war in the region rather than their Christian and Yazidi victims who face slavery and genocide at their hands.

This Islamic immigration privilege must be withdrawn. Muslim immigration must at the very least be scaled back to a level that law enforcement can cope with. At best it must end entirely until the Muslim world manages to stabilize its way of life to the extent that it can peacefully co-exist with non-Muslims.

There will be endless arguments over what percentage of Muslims support terrorism, but our own experience of recent attacks shows that many of them came from attackers who overtly appeared to be “moderate” and “ordinary”. For every Islamist activist dressed in Salafist fashion and tweeting praise of ISIS, there is at least one, if not many more, whom you would pass on the street without a second look.

Before the Boston Marathon bombing, the Tsarnaevs did not seem like Jihadists. They would have been classed with the general category of “moderate” Muslims. And then they struck.

That is how it is.

The internet has decentralized terrorist training camps. Any Muslim can acquire the skills and equipment he needs to kill a few or a dozen or even a hundred if he chooses to follow his religion.

Not every Muslim will shoot up a nightclub or bomb a marathon, but we have no foolproof way of telling them apart. And even many Muslims who would not shoot up an office party in San Bernardino will still sympathize with the perpetrators. And even those Muslims who don’t will often continue supporting the Muslim lobby of organizations like CAIR that stymie law enforcement investigations of Islamic terrorism.

Muslim immigration makes Muslim terrorism worse.

Once we understand this inconvenient truth, then everything else naturally flows from it. The type of terrorism that we are dealing now won’t be beaten by breaking up organizations or droning terrorist leaders in training camps in Yemen or Pakistan. The enemy is right here. He speaks our language. He walks down our streets. He looks at us with hate in his Halal heart and he plots to kill us.

He may pledge allegiance to ISIS or Al Qaeda, but he is part of the larger organization of Islam. It is this organization, more than any of its Jihadist factional subdivisions, that represents the true threat.

Lone wolf terrorism is a viral threat that is spread by Islamic migration. We can only end it by closing the door. As long as the door to the Muslim migrant stays open, we will live under the threat that our neighbor or co-worker will be the one to kill us tomorrow or the day after that.
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Supporters Unfazed By Big League Ego
by Tom McLaughlin
 
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 Trump Tackles the Regulatory Tidal Wave 
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Business owners have been gifted a much-needed reprieve thanks to Donald Trump's swift action to reduce red tape. The rollback began immediately, on day one, when a regulatory moratorium "effectively halted nearly $200 billion worth of regulations" by one estimate, as reported by The Washington Free Beacon. On Monday, Trump went even further with a Presidential Executive Order on Reducing Regulation and Controlling Regulatory Costs. The order states, "[I]t is important that for every one new regulation issued, at least two prior regulations be identified for elimination, and that the cost of planned regulations be prudently managed and controlled through a budgeting process."
          Similar to the Left's rancorous and theatrical uproar over Trump's travel ban, Democrats are hyperventilating once again, slamming the move to reduce regulations as uncanny. But as The Wall Street Journal reports, "[M]any civilized countries use such budgets to manage the regulatory state and stay competitive. Canada requires every rule that creates another hour of paperwork for business compliance to be offset one for one. The United Kingdom and Australia have harder versions that require the costs of new rules to be offset by deregulation of comparable net value."
          Just consider how convoluted the system is. The Washington Times says, "The liar-nObama administration issued 3,853 final rules in 2016, the most in 11 years. Another 2,391 proposed rules were in the regulatory pipeline when Mr. Trump was inaugurated on Jan. 20." Moreover, "Federal agencies last year issued 18 rules and regulations for every law approved by Congress." That's absurd. No wonder the economy remains sluggish.
          As welcome and refreshing as Trump's attack on regulations is, the best appears yet to come. The Times also notes that Trump "promised to set his sights next on rolling back the massive Dodd-Frank financial regulatory law. 'Dodd-Frank is a disaster,' the president told reporters in the Oval Office after a meeting with small business owners. 'We're going to be doing a big number on Dodd-Frank. The American dream is back.'" In 2008, Barack liar-nObama said "this was the moment when the rise of the oceans began to slow." He was referring to "climate change," of course, but there's another ocean that actually is rising at unprecedented levels: the regulatory state. And Trump is ensuring that it truly, not just rhetorically, begins to recede.  ~The Patriot Post
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 He's Back! liar-nObama's Silence Lasted Just 10 Days 
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As predicted, that didn't take long. Just a few weeks ago we warned that Barack liar-nObama was laying the groundwork for his post-presidential activism. While out of the Oval Office for just 10 days, he already can't resist expressing his complete and utter displeasure with President Donald Trump's policy decisions. Through his spokesman, Kevin Lewis, liar-nObama let his cohorts know he "is heartened by the level of engagement taking place in communities around the country."
          Lewis continued: "In his final official speech as President, [liar-nObama] spoke about the important role of citizen and how all Americans have a responsibility to be the guardian of our democracy — not just during an election but every day. Citizens exercising their Constitutional right to assemble, organize and have their voices heard by their elected officials is exactly what we expect to see when American values are at stake." That's funny — he didn't' seem to care about "American values" when those protests were coming from members of the Tea Party.
          Lewis concluded, "With regard to comparisons to President liar-nObama's foreign policy decisions, as we've heard before, the President fundamentally disagrees with the notion of discriminating against individuals because of their faith or religion." Yet, as we've stated, Trump's travel ban is not unprecedented. According to a 2013 ABC News report, "Several dozen suspected terrorist bombmakers, including some believed to have targeted American troops, may have mistakenly been allowed to move to the United States as war refugees." This prompted "the State Department [to terminate] processing Iraq refugees for six months in 2011 ... even for many who had heroically helped U.S. forces as interpreters and intelligence assets." Ironically, Trump's newly enacted travel ban can even be considered somewhat of a bipartisan agreement. It was the previous administration, after all, that crafted the blacklist.
          Americans have every right to (peacefully) protest. And liar-nObama, who is now a private citizen, has a right to express his personal views. But less than two weeks ago America observed the peaceful transfer of power, which didn't happen to be the kind of transfer Democrats predicted. In short: Americans voted against what leftists are selling. That should send a message to liar-nObama that he should sit back, be quiet and let things unfold. Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. His narcissism won't allow it. That's why we're in for years of more lecturing from the former community activist who is mostly to blame for today's disarray.  ~The Patriot Post
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McCain, Graham Side With Head Clown Schumer, Obstructing, Criticizing Trump
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has “A few thoughts now on Congressional obstruction. The Democrat kind is annoying enough, but I’m talking tonight about two Senators who’ve lost their way, again, and are obnoxiously obstructionist... Senators McCain and Graham attacking President Trump’s executive order pausing refugee admission and immigration from seven mostly Muslim countries.” “Never shy about using hyperbole in their caustic rhetoric,” Dobbs notes, “the two make the spurious claim that the President’s order to protect Americans ‘may do more to help terrorist recruitment than to improve our security.’ The motivation of McCain and Graham to play curmudgeon on seemingly every issue is beyond me, particularly because they gain nothing but mockery of those who disagree with them.” Mr. Dobbs points out, “It puts them in company with head clown Senator Chuck Schumer as well as they work against President Trump and the national interest. McCain has only begrudgingly supported Rex Tillerson to be Secretary of State...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-mccain-graham-side-head-clown-schumer-obstructing-criticizing-trump/
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Greta, Miller – Dems Opportunistic
Hypocrites Lying About Executive Order
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The segment opens with some of the most despicable people in this country spewing into a bullhorn and on camera, Chuck Schumer, Elizabeth dinky-Warren, Bernie Sanders, Nancy Pulosi, Al Franken and the rest of the usual anti-American misfits... Democrat hypocrites are reveling in the attention and their opportunity to criticize President Trump for doing what is right and best for the America they hate and are preying upon. The most extreme of hypocrites, Elizabeth dinky-Warren, is wearing a Planned Parenthood scarf as she says, “We are here to defend our moral foundation, we are here to live our values, to fight for our values, today and tomorrow and for as long as it takes to restore the basic decency and vision of this country.” She has no moral foundation, no baby murderers do. Restoring basic decency will involve eliminating her and most of her Democrat comrades from the scene, an appealing prospect. It cannot be achieved with them remaining in the mix. She notes that establishment puppets and RINOs, including John McCain, Lindsey Graham, Lamar Alexander, Bob Corker, Marco Rubio and Tim Scott were voicing opposition and saying provocative things, although not bothering to mention that their loyalties lie with some Democrat and corporate establishment sponsors, everyone of them with the possible exception of Scott having demonstrated on multiple occasions the reasons why we need term limits for Congress...  http://rickwells.us/miller-dems-opportunistic-hypocrites-lying-executive-order/
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Americans Approve Of Trump
Travel Ban 3:1 – Lying Media Hides Truth
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Dr. Sebastian Gorka will be joining the Trump administration soon, probably as a member of the National Security Council but before he does he stopped by the Sean Hannity program to discuss the need for extreme vetting... After naming off a list of attacks on American interests by terrorists which Hannity characterized as them being at war with us and us not being similarly at war with them, he asks, “What’s wrong with a little inconvenience to protect the American people?” Gorka replies, “Absolutely nothing, Sean. The President was elected to protect this nation, whether it’s the wall or whether it’s extreme vetting. The average American that represents the backbone of our great nation elected him to be the Commander-in-Chief to do primarily his first duty, to protect them and to win this war. The idea that we allow anybody into this country is an act of political suicide.”...  http://rickwells.us/gorka-americans-approve-trump-travel-ban-31-lying-media-hides-truth/
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China Tests Missile With 10 Warheads
by Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ China flight tested a new variant of a long-range missile with 10 warheads in what defense officials say represents a dramatic shift in Beijing's strategic nuclear posture... The flight test of the DF-5C missile was carried out earlier this month using 10 multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs. The test of the inert warheads was monitored closely by U.S. intelligence agencies, said two officials familiar with reports of the missile test. The missile was fired from the Taiyuan Space Launch Center in central China and flew to an impact range in the western Chinese desert...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/china-tests-missile-10-warheads/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=a6ef6a17fc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-a6ef6a17fc-45611665
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Rep. John Lewis and Top Aide
Hit With Ethics Complaint
by Lachlan Markay
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{freebeacon.com} ~ A watchdog group is asking congressional ethics officials to investigate Rep. John Lewis (D., Ga.) and his chief of staff over apparent violations of House ethics rules, according to a letter released on Monday... The Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust's letter is asking the Office of Congressional Ethics to probe Lewis chief of staff Michael Collins' dual roles in the congressman's Washington office and as the treasurer for his 2016 reelection campaign. Ethics rules bar senior House staff from serving in any fiduciary role for a political organization, and specifically mentioned campaign treasurers as a prohibited position for such staffers. FACT's complaint doesn't just target Collins; it claims that Lewis himself is culpable for ethics violations by his top staffer...  http://freebeacon.com/politics/rep-john-lewis-top-aide-hit-ethics-complaint/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=a6ef6a17fc-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_30&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-a6ef6a17fc-45611665
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Supporters Unfazed By Big League Ego
by Tom McLaughlin
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{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Trump has a huge ego. But let’s think back and try to come up with a name of someone who has ever run for president during our lifetimes who didn’t. I can’t think of any. Is Trump’s the biggest of them all? Perhaps. Most have been artful at camouflaging theirs, and the biggest difference between President Trump and the rest is that he has never tried to hide it. After Trump was elected, for example, his predecessor declared that if he were allowed to run a third time, he would have won. Uh-oh. Huge ego showing.
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Who else but someone who thinks a lot of him/herself would be willing to put their life on hold for two years of rallies, speeches, interviews, plane trips, and strategy meetings? Most candidates declare they’re only running because others urged them, but our BS alarm should go off every time we hear that.
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Not Trump. He came down a golden escalator at Trump Tower. At the bottom he said, about himself: “Now, our country needs— our country needs a truly great leader, and we need a truly great leader now. We need a leader that wrote ‘The Art of the Deal.’” Talk about uncamouflaged ego. Then he explained what he would do, why he would do it, and how.
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Mainstream media pummeled him from the start. They continued to pummel him throughout the primaries, predicting he would never win the nomination even after he was winning one primary after another. When he did get the nomination, they said he would never win the general election against liar-Hillary Clinton. But he did, of course.
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Before taking office, he started pressuring companies who were planning to move factories overseas — in exactly the way he said he would in his announcement back in June, 2015. Here’s what he said then: “I would call up the head of Ford, who I know. If I was president, I'd say, ‘Congratulations. I understand that you're building a nice $2.5 billion car factory in Mexico and that you're going to take your cars and sell them to the United States zero tax, just flow them across the border.’ …So I would say, ‘Congratulations. That's the good news. Let me give you the bad news. Every car and every truck and every part manufactured in this plant that comes across the border, we're going to charge you a 35-percent tax, and that tax is going to be paid simultaneously with the transaction,’ and that's it.”
A year and a half later, he did exactly that — before he was even inaugurated.
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Throughout the campaign, he said he would build a wall and get Mexico to pay for it. During his first week as president, he started that ball rolling. The media hammered him. Throughout the campaign, he said he would limit “refugees” from terrorist-exporting countries. During his first week, he did. The media hammered him. Throughout the campaign, he said he would withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership. During his first week, he did. There isn’t space to list all of what he’s doing — so much, the media is having trouble keeping up with their criticism of him. Meanwhile, Trump’s favorability rating — the lowest of any new president — is climbing according to realclearpolitics.com. Trump and mainstream media dislike each other, but one side is winning and the other is losing. Media favorability polls are much lower than Trump’s.
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Leftist bias in mainstream media isn’t new. What’s new is they no longer attempt to disguise it. Sometimes it manifests as fake news, but more often it is evinced by what stories they choose to report and which ones they ignore — which stories they play up on the front page and which ones they report in one paragraph on page 43. Perhaps the best example of the past few years is the Kermit Gosnell story. You’d be forgiven if you’re thinking, “Kermit Who?” because mainstream media gave Gosnell a good leaving alone.
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That notorious abortionist is serving a life sentence as the most prolific serial killer in American history, but mainstream media said they didn’t cover him because his was just a local crime story in Philadelphia. Abortion is sacred to the left, and the leftist media won’t publish anything that puts it in a bad light. If you don’t believe it, watch they trumpet Democrat reaction to Trump’s nominee for the US Supreme Court. You’ll hear a lot about “women’s rights” their newest euphemism for abortion.
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Trump’s ego is enormous, yes, rivaled only by those of other presidents and of leading figures in mainstream media. They don’t know it yet, but their power is diminishing — rapidly. They still think they can bring Trump down, but middle American voters who elected him will remain unfazed — they’ll support him as long as he keeps doing what he said he would do.
 
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
The Looming Judicial Confirmation Fight
by Myron Magnet
 
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Top Headlines 
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liar-nObama's "Iran nuke deal"? Mullahs test another ballistic missile. (Fox News)
 
Former aide says U.S. will pull out of Paris climate deal within days. (Fox News)
 
Trump adding CIA back to National Security Council. (Reuters)
 
California considers enacting statewide sanctuary for illegals. (CBS LA)
 
Texas governor to Austin sheriff: Reverse reckless sanctuary policy or forfeit state funds. (CNS News)
 
Bill de Blasio: Yes, we shield undocumented drunk drivers from immigration enforcement. (Hot Air)
 
Rep. John Lewis and top aide hit with ethics complaint. (Washington Free Beacon)
 
North Dakota demands paid pipeline protesters pay state income taxes. (The Washington Times)
 
British doctors can no longer call women "mothers" because it's not "inclusive." (Washington Free Beacon)
 
Boy Scouts invite transgender "boys" into programs. (CBS News)
 
Policy: Now is the time to defund Planned Parenthood. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: America's national debt isn't just a future problem. (Conservative Review~The Patriot Post
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How dare UN Chief speak
of Jewish Temple in J'lem?
by Hillel Fendel
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said on Saturday night that it is "clear" to him the Holy Temple destroyed by the Romans over 19 centuries ago was a Jewish Temple... He made the remarks in an interview with a reporter from Reshet Bet, a Voice of Israel radio channel. Fatah did not tarry in responding with fury. The Deputy Secretary of the Fatah Revolutionary Council, Faiz Abu Ita, appeared on Palestinian Authority Television shortly afterwards and said that this declaration is "infuriating" and "unjustified" from "ethical, humanitarian, and political" standpoints. Abu Ita went further and said that such remarks are a "direct attack on the Palestinian nation in Jerusalem" and are a "display of admiration for the occupying power."...
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The North Korean Security Challenge
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by PETER HUESSY
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Former Secretary of Defense William Perry says North Korea's nuclear weapons are a serious threat to America, a point on which most American security analysts would certainly agree... In the Washington Post of January 6, 2017 he says the DPRK may have-but in a few years-- an operational capability to launch a nuclear warhead aboard an ICBM missile that could hit the United States. That "window" apparently is enough to persuade Dr. Perry that diplomacy is the proper means of dealing with North Korea. But as Keith Payne wrote January 22 in the Washington Times, that may be optimistic. As Dr. Payne explained, in "April 2016, Adm. William Gortney, commander of the United States Northern Command, reported to Congress that while the prospective North Korean ICBM, the KN08, ‘remains untested, modeling suggests it could deliver a nuclear payload to much of the Continental United States.'" And more ominously, writes Payne, in September 2016, James Clapper, the director of National Intelligence stated that the U.S. must assume that North Korea can reach the United States with a nuclear missile... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-north-korean-security-challenge?f=must_reads
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Iran Ignores UN Resolution;
Conducts Second Missile Test
by Alice Greene
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ This Sunday marked the second ballistic missile test conducted by Iran since the signing of UN Resolution 2231 – a rule that bans such tests for eight years... Resolution 2231 went into effect on July 20th, 2015, just days after the controversial nuclear deal with Iran (JCPOA) was signed. As reported by Fox News, the launch is a potential violation of the UN resolution. Iran is “called upon not to undertake any activity related to ballistic missiles designed to be capable of delivering nuclear weapons, including launches using such ballistic missile technology,” reads the resolution...  http://punchingbagpost.com/iran-ignores-un-resolution-conducts-second-missile-test
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On Boycotting Radical Islamic Nations
by Nonie Darwish
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Early this morning an Arabic radio station in the Middle East called asking my opinion about President Trump's ban on refugees and citizens of seven Muslim nations... The radio host, who sounded angry over the ban, was a Christian Arab. She was surprised to hear that I supported the ban and think that it should have taken place the day after 9/11. She then asked me if I knew any Arab American activist who was against the ban because she wanted to interview someone against the ban. She seemed shocked to hear that I do not have any Arab or Muslim friends who are protesting the ban, and that many immigrants of Islamic and Middle East origin support the ban and are fed up and embarrassed by what jihadists are doing. She said that all she sees on CNN and other channels are riots that portray almost all Americans supporting Muslims and against Trump. I am upset over the success of the leftist propaganda all over the Middle East. It brings back memories of the life of the hate indoctrination and misinformation I lived under for most of my life...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9869/immigration-ban-radical-islam
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President Trump Crushes State Department
Officials Who Covered Up Benghazi
by Harry Hibbs
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ President Donald Trump promised to “drain the swamp,” and now, news agencies are reporting shocking information coming out of the Department of State, proving that he’s keeping his word... Four high-level officials just received a crushing blow from Trump, and they all have one thing in common — they all were involved in helping liar-Hillary Clinton cover up Benghazi. Original reports from the lame-stream media alleged of a mass exodus from the State Department as several top officials tendered their resignation. However, it is very clear now that they have once again spun the facts to make Trump look bad. Four top management officials were fired from the US State Department earlier this week by the Trump administration as part of an effort to “clean house” according to CNN Chief National Security Correspondent Jim Sciutto, who tweeted the breaking news on Thursday...
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The Looming Judicial Confirmation Fight
by Myron Magnet
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{city-journal.org} ~ Senate Judiciary Committee member Ben Sasse recently wrote in the Wall Street Journal that the Constitution “doesn’t talk about Democratic or Republican judges,” and that “viewing the Supreme Court through a partisan lens undermines the nature of the institution.” While the Nebraska Republican’s heart is in the right place, his argument misses the crux of the fight over the Supreme Court nomination that will soon roil his committee. At the core of our political disagreement today is whether Americans are to be governed by the Constitution written by the Founding Fathers or by a Supreme Court acting as a permanent constitutional convention, making up the law as it goes along. Choosing a justice who subscribes to one or the other of these views is thus as intensely political a decision as we can make.

Woodrow Wilson most clearly articulated this choice. He dismissed the Constitution as a relic of a bygone age of wigs and knee-breeches, suitable enough for the uncomplicated eighteenth century, but now, with its clunky checks and balances, an intolerable impediment to efficient government. The modern era is too complex for self-government by ordinary citizens, as the Founders supposed possible. It requires a much bigger, more active, more powerful government than they conceived—government by highly educated, specially skilled experts, scientifically and disinterestedly administering public matters in the public interest. And the changed times that call for so changed a government also call for “living political constitutions that must be Darwinian in structure and practice,” allowing modern government to adapt promptly to changing twentieth-century conditions by means of “more liberal, not to say more lax” Supreme Court decisions, made with “boldness and a touch of audacity,”  the professor-president declared. After all, wasn’t it right, both practically and morally, to be “progressive?”

It was only when Franklin Roosevelt entered the White House that Americans saw just what kind of audacity Wilson had in mind. When FDR kept trying to create executive-branch agencies that would control vast swaths of U.S. economic activity, the Supreme Court kept blocking him, ruling that the Constitution’s Commerce Clause gave the federal government power to regulate interstate commerce, but not commerce within a single state. Every time FDR’s lawyers trotted out a new, sophistical argument as to why, for instance, a strike at a single plant in a single state would jeopardize an entire national industry and perhaps the whole U.S. economy, as the flap of a butterfly’s wings in Japan is said to affect the weather in America, the justices swatted them down. But when FDR threatened to circumscribe the Court’s power and to pack it with left-wing judges, the nine justices folded, allowing the president to set up the vast panoply of New Deal agencies with authority to make rules like a legislature, adjudicate supposed infractions of them like a judge, get private papers and inspect private premises without a judicial warrant, and assess penalties without either a grand or a petit jury to protect the citizen. And the self-gelded Supreme Court allowed this trampling of the Bill of Rights’s protection of the individual and the Constitution’s separation of powers—powers that could not legally be delegated to any gimcrack “agency”—without a peep.

FDR recognized, with characteristic insouciance, that he had erected “a ‘fourth branch’ of Government for which there is no sanction in the Constitution.” From that day to this, the unconstitutional Administrative State has swollen in size and power. It is only recently, when such bodies as the Environmental Protection Agency or the Securities and Exchange Commission or the Federal Communications Commission have made rules that glaringly have no basis in the consent of the governed and look like raw tyranny, that conservatives and civil libertarians have cried foul.

The burning political question of our day is whether we are to return to something like the limited government of enumerated powers, circumscribed by checks and balances, that the Founders created—as conservatives and civil libertarians want—or whether we will continue to be governed by administrative agencies legitimized by Woodrow Wilson’s “living” Constitution, which is continually made and remade by unelected judges guided by their own prejudices, as our “wise Latina” Supreme Court justice Sonia Sotomayor essentially admitted.

“Progressives”—as those on the left like to call themselves by way of self-congratulation—worship the Administrative State. They cling to it by citing decades’ worth of Supreme Court decisions upholding it. They cite the doctrine of stare decisis: that justices must respect earlier Supreme Court rulings, which have the status of settled law, just like Griswold v. Connecticut, a 1965 decision claiming a right to privacy derived from “emanations, formed by penumbras” from the Bill of Rights. The stare decisis doctrine is the reason why the justices in the 1954 Brown v. Board school-desegregation case didn’t rule that the Fourteenth Amendment prohibits discrimination by race, period. To have ruled thus would have overturned the Court’s 1896 Plessy v. Ferguson decision, which declared that separate accommodation of the races was legal, so long as those separate accommodations were equal. So the Brown Court twisted itself like a pretzel, using far-fetched psychological testimony that, in the specific case of education, separate could never be equal.

In truth, however, America really has no constitutional law in the sense that England has, with its unwritten constitution made up of nothing but the accumulated rulings of its judges from Lords Coke and Camden on down. All we have, as Justice Clarence Thomas rightly likes to say, is the Constitution itself, trailing two centuries of Supreme Court interpretations that deserve respectful consideration, but that might be wrong. And just as it would be perfectly reasonable for a Supreme Court to say, “Our late honorable brethren were wrong in their interpretation of the Constitution in Plessy v. Ferguson,” so it would be reasonable to overturn decisions on which the Administrative State rests, such as the wacky 1942 Wickard v. Filburn decision, which held that a farmer’s production of grain to feed to his own cows was subject to federal regulation under the Commerce Clause.

What’s at stake in the confirmation of new Supreme Court justices is therefore as momentously political as the 1787 Constitutional Convention: are we to be a self-governing republic, or are we to be ruled by arbitrary, unelected bureaucrats, who think themselves wiser than we, the people of the United States?

https://www.city-journal.org/html/looming-judicial-confirmation-fight-14989.html

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Wed/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Israel's Netanyahu applauds Trump's
plan for wall; Mexico not pleased
by William Booth
 
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 Behind the Immigration Ban Hysteria 
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By Thomas Gallatin: From references made by Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi (D-CA) to the Statue of Liberty crying to CNN running the headline, "Trump bans 134,000,000 from the U.S.," the Left and the mainstream media are jumping up and down in hysteria over Donald Trump's Friday executive orders on vetting refugees. Adding fuel to the controversy were stories of green card holders being prevented entry, forcing the administration to offer a clarification, with Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly stating, "In applying the provisions of the President's executive order, I hereby deem the entry of lawful permanent residents to be in the national interest. Accordingly, absent the receipt of significant derogatory information indicating a serious threat to public safety and welfare, lawful permanent resident status will be a dispositive factor in our case-by-case determinations." Even The Wall Street Journal headlined a story that read, "Donald Trump's Immigration Ban Sows Chaos."
          So what's the deal here? Are Trump's actions as "extreme" as the mainstream media insists? Has the White House been taken over by a nativist? Is Trump Hitler 2.0? The facts reveal quite a different story from the hysteria currently being peddled by the Leftmedia.
          First, motive. Trump maintained during his entire campaign that the safety of Americans would be a top priority. His actions on Friday are yet another example of him following through on his promises. Trump has correctly assessed that Washington's politically correct attitude toward immigration has created a climate ripe for a Trojan horse-like infiltration taking advantage of the nation's lax controls. His order is not an attack on a religion, ethnic group or region of the world.
          Trump's concerns or actions are not new or unprecedented, as both Jimmy Carter and Bill liar-Clinton enacted similar temporary bans, and justified those bans out of concern for the safety of Americans.
          Second, the "extreme" adjective that has been bandied about by media pundits from all sides is quite simply absurd. A quick look at history and numbers confirms this. Trump's capping of refugees at 50,000 per year is nothing new. Both George W. Bush and Barack liar-nObama averaged the same number until 2016, when liar-nObama expanded the number significantly. In reality, Trump is simply bringing the numbers back down to previously established levels. If anyone is to be faulted for extreme actions on refugees, it's liar-nObama.
          Third, the order will seek to revamp the refugee processing in order to prioritize those of minority religious groups fleeing the persecution of radical Islamists. This will specifically help Christians but also other minorities who have suffered from rising persecution over the last few years. This is a significant change from liar-nObama's policy that did not favor minority religions in the refugee processing.
          Fourth, the ban is temporary — 120 days — as DHS determines the "information needed from any country to adjudicate any visa, admission, or other benefit under the INA (adjudications) in order to determine that the individual seeking the benefit is who the individual claims to be and is not a security or public-safety threat." And the ban has an exemption clause: "Secretaries of State and Homeland Security may, on a case-by-case basis, and when in the national interest, issue visas or other immigration benefits to nationals of countries for which visas and benefits are otherwise blocked."
          In reality, the Leftmedia's exasperation over Trump's actions is a strategy aimed at delegitimizing Trump in a effort to subvert his unapologetic "America First" policy. The Left is committed to its globalist vision and will do everything it can to derail Trump.
          In hindsight, Trump may have acted too quick, especially if he failed to fully vet the plan internally. This has allowed the Leftmedia to unleash a barrage of misinformation that is proving to sow confusion and creating the false perception of the order being extreme.
          Mark Alexander's perspective: "This and other Trump initiatives will come down to who wins the battle for perception, not the facts, and indeed, if the Leftmedia prevails in portraying the Trump administration as a 'clown show,' then the Trump experiment is not going to end well. Cabinet members of the caliber of Gen. Kelley at DHS and Gen. Mattis at DOD will not hang around indefinitely if they are repeatedly being bypassed on major issues like this. If Trump continues to formulate tweets and executive orders in a vacuum, as if he can control the media script as tightly as he did the script for his successful reality show, then he could do more damage to Republicans in four years than liar-nObama did to Democrats in eight. Trump and company should not be burning capital on EOs that they're going to need for much more critical issues — like the Supreme Court." 
~The Patriot Post
 
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CAIR Frivolous Lawsuit Over Terrorist
Ban Likely To Be Tossed Out
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The Muslim Brotherhood front group CAIR has filed a lawsuit challenging the executive order travel and immigration ban signed into effect by President Trump... As Gregg Jarrett explains, that seems to be little more than a frivolous harassment suit, one that will have no relevant impact for a variety of reasons. Jarrett first points out that virtually all of the plaintiffs in the CAIR lawsuit are already ungrateful residents of the United States, the nation they are now attempting to force into actions to benefit them. He says, “I don’t think they have standing to sue and on that basis they could be kicked out. Remember, only if you have been actually harmed do you have standing to file a lawsuit.” He says, “Here they’re just sort of speculating that, ‘Gee, we might in the future have difficulty renewing our immigration status.’ Again, that’s purely conjecture, no actual harm, so a judge who, by the way, is a political appointee by former President George W. Bush by the name of John Trenga, he may just decide to throw the case out for lack of standing.”...  http://rickwells.us/cair-frivolous-lawsuit-terrorist-ban-likely-tossed/
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Despite Higher Bonds, Chicago
Gun Violence Suspects Are Bonding Out Faster
by Bob Adelmann
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The Chicago Tribune, in examining more than 67,000 criminal charges between 2012 and 2016, discovered that although bonds demanded by judges in Cook County have doubled for violent crime... the suspects are being freed twice as fast. Wrote the Tribune on Friday: But over the same time period, the average number of days a defendant spends in jail before posting bond for a gun charge has fallen by more than half, from 42 to 18 days, according to the Tribune analysis. This is counterintuitive. Higher bonds should keep suspected criminals in jail longer, keeping them off the streets longer, which should reduce crime. But as nearly every observer knows, last year violent crime in Chicago set ghastly records in the number of people being shot and killed...
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Trump Petitioned to Reinstate
Army Officer Who was Court Martialed...
by Tim Brown
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{sonsoflibertymedia.com} ~ The petition was listed at the petitions section of WhiteHouse.gov on January 21, 2017.  It reads... The former Lt. Col. Terrence Lakin was a highly-decorated Army flight surgeon who questioned whether or not the orders he received from Obama were legitimate. Court-martialed, imprisoned, expelled from the Army and denied pay, pension and benefits, Terry was merely following his officer’s oath and constitutional duty. It is an outrage that this was allowed to happen. liar-nObama refused to answer Terry’s letter and ended up producing a forged birth certificate. Terry who was a medical doctor is a valuable asset to the American military and the fact that his military chain of command and his congressional representatives allowed him to be court-martialed and run out of the army is an outrage for all Americans. This grave injustice needs to be addressed and corrected ASAP...  http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/trump-petitioned-reinstate-army-officer-court-martialed-following-questioning-obama-birth-certificate/
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Congress Set to Overturn
liar-nObama Gun Control Rule
by Fred Lucas
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Congress is poised to unravel one of the liar-nObama administration’s midnight regulations that could prevent certain Social Security disability beneficiaries from buying guns... The Social Security Administration finalized a rule just before Christmas 2016 in which it would send information of recipients of disability insurance and Supplemental Security Income to the Justice Department’s National Instant Criminal Background Check System, or NICS. “Allowing bureaucrats at the Social Security Administration to determine whether or not beneficiaries are fit to exercise their Second Amendment rights is a clear violation of due process, and I’m pleased the Congressional Review Act will give us the opportunity to right this wrong with passage of this joint resolution,” Abraham added...   http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/26/congress-set-to-overturn-obama-gun-control-rule/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok
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Stephen Miller Defends Firing Of Acting AG:
‘She Betrayed Her Office’
by Kailan Collins
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Stephen Miller defended the administration’s decision to fire the acting attorney general after she refused to defend President Trump’s executive order on immigration... Just minutes after the White House issued a statement that Sally Yates had been fired — and Dana Boente named as her replacement — the president’s senior adviser explained why she was let go on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.” “Tonight we found out that an liar-nObama appointee who was confirmed in 2015 was refusing to defend the president’s immigration order, and that’s refusing to defend the Constitution, and the country,” Miller said. “She’s being replaced by someone who will enforce the laws in the United States.”...
VIDEO:  at the site
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Israel's Netanyahu applauds Trump's
plan for wall; Mexico not pleased
by William Booth
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ On Saturday evening, Israel's prime minister tweeted his praise of President Donald Trump's decision to build a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico.

"President Trump is right," Netanyahu wrote. "I built a wall along Israel's southern border. It stopped all illegal immigration. Great success. Great idea." He accompanied the tweet with emoji flags of Israel and the United States.

A few hours later, Trump retweeted Netanyahu's praise.

Mexico wasn't pleased.

In Israel, the opposition pounced.

Yair Lapid, the leader of the Yesh Atid "There is a Future" party, wondered aloud, "Don't we have enough troubles of our own?"

In his electronic missive, Netanyahu was referring to the three-year-old fence Israel constructed along the entire length of its once-porous land border with Egypt in the Sinai Peninsula. Before the fence was erected, tens of thousands of economic migrants and war refugees from Africa -- mostly from Eritrea and Sudan, dubbed "infiltrators" here -- poured into the Jewish state. (Israeli is currently trying to kick them out).

The sensor-packed steel barrier, completed in 2013, stopped illegal entry cold. It was a success. More than 10,000 Africans arrived in 2012 at the peak of the wave; today almost no one attempts the trip.

The fence also shut down human traffickers in Egypt's Sinai who had become increasingly sadistic, with desperate wayfarers describing how they were imprisoned in "torture camps" where the Bedouin smugglers raped women and burned captives with molten plastic to extort relatives to send more money to free them.

Today some of those same smugglers belong to armed groups who have pledged allegiance to the Islamic State.

In an interview with Fox News on Thursday, Trump called a beefed-up barrier on the United States' southern border "good for the heart of the nation in a certain way, because people want protection, and a wall protects. All you've got to do is ask Israel. They were having a total disaster coming across, and they had a wall. It's 99.9 percent stoppage."

It was not clear which wall Trump was referring to. In addition to border fences facing Lebanon, Syria, Jordan and Egypt, Israel also has an internal security fence -- with remote-controlled machine guns -- along the periphery of the Gaza Strip, as well as separation barriers in the West Bank to keep Palestinians, and Palestinian terrorists, out of Israel.

Hours after Netanyahu's tweet, his office issued a clarification: "The prime minister was addressing Israel's unique circumstances and the important experience we have and which we are willing to share with other nations. There was no attempt to voice an opinion regarding U.S.-Mexico ties."

Israeli Foreign Ministry spokesmen followed up with more tweets:

"@IsraeliPM referred to our specific security experience which we are willing to share. We do not express a position on US- Mexico relations"

As we said, Mexico wasn't happy with what it saw as Israel's clear endorsement of the wall:

"Mexico expresses its grave concern, rejection and disappointment to Israel over PM @netanyahu's message about construction of a border wall"

Mexico's Foreign Ministry "expressed to the government of Israel, via its ambassador in Mexico, its profound astonishment, rejection and disappointment over Prime Minister Netanyahu's message on Twitter about the construction of a border wall."

"Mexico is a friend of Israel and should be treated as such by its prime minister," Mexico City cautioned, adding that Foreign Minister Luis Videgaray had expressed "his deep affection for Israel in an event marking Holocaust Memorial Day on Friday."
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Leftists’ Heads Explode in Response
To Keeping America Safe
by Susan Stamper Brown
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 liar-nObama's Failed Economic Policies 
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GDP numbers are in for the final quarter of 2016 — Barack liar-nObama's last quarter — and they are unsurprisingly dismal. "The U.S. economy's expansion slowed [to 1.9% growth] in the fourth quarter, and annual growth failed to reach 3% for an 11th straight year," reports Market Watch. "For the full year, the U.S. grew just 1.6%, compared with its 2.6% clip in 2015. It was the weakest performance since 2011. The last time the U.S. topped 3% growth — the historical average is 3.3% — was in 2005." It turns out that drastically increasing federal spending and taxes, and putting massive regulations on the economy, primarily in the forms of liar-nObamaCare, Dodd-Frank and climate standards, don't translate into a booming economy. Who knew?
          The good news, of course, is that liar-nObama isn't in office any longer, and Republicans control the White House and Congress once again. That means free market policies, including lower regulations and taxes, as well as liar-nObamaCare repeal all have a chance. So it's no wonder that, despite the anemic state of the economy right now, there are good signs. The Dow Jones Industrial average last week topped 20,000 for the first time ever, and according to Gallup, "Americans have viewed the economy more positively since President Donald Trump's election in November than they did in the nine years prior." It's not quite true that there's nowhere to go but up since we're not technically in recession, but we fully expect to end that streak of sub-3% growth in the next couple of years if the right policies are implemented. And that's a refreshing place to be.  ~The Patriot Post
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 That Time liar-Clinton Got Tough on Illegal 
 Immigration 
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If Trump is a reprobate, what does that make former president Bill liar-Clinton?
          "All Americans, not only in the states most heavily affected, but in every place in this country are rightly disturbed by the large numbers of illegal aliens entering our country. The jobs they hold might otherwise be held by citizens or legal immigrants. The public services they use impose burdens on our taxpayers. That's why our administration has moved aggressively to secure our borders more, by hiring a record number of new border guards, by deporting twice as many criminal aliens as ever before, by cracking down on illegal hiring, by barring welfare benefits to illegal aliens. In the budget I will present to you, we will try to do more to speed the deportation of illegal aliens who are arrested for crimes, to better identify illegal aliens in the workplace as recommended by the commission headed by former Congresswoman Barbara Jordan. We are a nation of immigrants. But we are also a nation of laws. It is wrong and ultimately self-defeating for a nation of immigrants to permit the kind of abuse of our immigration laws we have seen in recent years, and we must do more to stop it." —Bill liar-Clinton, 1995 State of the Union
          Compare Bill's remarks to liar-Hillary's immigration platform. Contrary to the Left's narrative that accuses today's Republicans of being hostile and unsympathetic, it's liberals whose worldview is now unrealistic and, as Bill put it, ultimately self-defeating.
          For the record, The Wall Street Journal's Kimberley Strassel points out: "Barack liar-nObama put a pause for six months on refugees coming from Iraq back in 2011. I don't remember protestors and I don't remember lawsuits." There's hypocrisy alright — on the Left.  ~The Patriot Post
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ICE, Border Patrol Joint Statement –
Applaud Trump, Now They Can Defend US
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The  screeching left can’t rely upon facts to fight against the actions of President Trump because the facts are all in his favor. All they have as a counter are their customary alarmism, false humanitarianism and cries of bigotry and discrimination, played at an extraordinarily high volume... Like other situations, they’re dependent upon the malleability and  ignorance of a large segment of the American people as their only chance of success. President Trump has promised all along, since his announcement as a candidate, that he was going to build a wall on the border and that Mexico would pay for it. Just as he has now demonstrated with it and other promises made on the campaign, he’s a man of his word. The invasion of illegals and terrorists as well as the trafficking drugs and guns across our southern border will stop, and the wall is only one ingredient in the recipe. He’s also relying upon the experience, training and expertise of America’s border defenders at Customs and Border Protection as well as Immigration and Customs Enforcement to play an increased role...  http://rickwells.us/ice-border-patrol-joint-statement-applaud-trump-defend-us/
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Judge Jeanine, Walid Phares –
Travel Ban About Terror Threat, Not Religion
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine opens the segment with a reference to the fact that she had Rudy Giuliani on her program the night before and that he had laid out the methodology for the Middle East travel ban as being one based upon nation of origin, not religion... She addresses the propaganda being spewed by the fake news mainstream outlets, as did Tony Carbonetti, the former Chief of Staff for Giuliani when he was mayor of New York. They couldn’t have been any clearer, yet still the fake news networks want to fabricate a particularl narrative, so they do. Dr. Walid Phares joins Judge Jeanine to try to get the cakes of wax out of the collective ears of the mainstream propagandists regarding the nature of the ban. He says, “Indeed it is nothing about religion, I have read nothing in the executive order or any statement, any tweet, that this was about any aspect of religion, not even ideology, I would say.”...
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Sanctuary Cities Stand to Lose Billions
in Federal Funding
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{fixthisnation.com} ~ According to an analysis of federal grants performed by Reuters, the 10 largest cities in America are in danger of losing up to $2.27 billion in funds if they do not comply with President Donald Trump’s policies on illegal immigration... The president signed an executive order this week directing the Department of Homeland Security to look at the money flowing to the nation’s sanctuary cities and report on any funding streams that could be cut off in the event of non-compliance. “The American people are no longer going to have to be forced to subsidize this disregard for our laws,” said White House press secretary Sean Spicer... http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/sanctuary-cities-stand-to-lose-billions-in-federal-funding/
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Of Nationalism and Nazis
by TOM MCCAFFREY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ ‘‘There is no core identity, no mainstream in Canada" said Premier Justin Trudeau two years ago. "Countries with a strong national identity - linguistic, religious or cultural - are finding it a challenge to effectively integrate people from different backgrounds," he said... Mr. Trudeau celebrated Canada as the "first postnational state." A national identity, or culture, is the sum total of the values and practices that are common to a people. It includes their ideas and behaviors as relate to morality, family, religion, economic affairs, technology, language, and countless other matters that make up an advanced culture. A national culture is the totality of the shared ways a people have developed to deal with the challenges of living in this world. There are good cultures and bad cultures. There are cultures capable of giving rise to penicillin, the smart phone, and freedom of speech, and there are cultures that stone women who commit adultery and throw homosexuals from rooftops. Good cultures, like that of the United States, enable people to live in freedom, peace, and prosperity. Bad ones, like those of many Muslim countries, condemn people to tyranny, violence, and poverty...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/of-nationalism-and-nazis?f=must_reads
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“More Votes Than Voters”, Lou Dobbs
Exposes Massive Voter Fraud!...
by Harry Hibbs
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ The truth is that illegal voting affects all of us — Democrat, Republican, independent or otherwise — because it compromises the integrity of our political process. It is real, and it is a problem. A big problem.  http://gopthedailydose.com/2017/01/30/votes-voters-lou-dobbs-exposes-massive-voter-fraud-18-million-invalid-voters-2-million-dead/
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Leftists’ Heads Explode in Response
To Keeping America Safe
by Susan Stamper Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ Given the daily liberal head explosions occurring because of President Trump’s immigration policies, one might think Trump demolished the Statue of Liberty, or worse, reintroduced school prayer, when all he did is take executive action on January 27 to protect Americans.

The White House owes no apology for wanting to keep America safe. At most, the administration could consider special circumstances where the threat to the country is negligible, a step they have already committed to doing. The executive order temporarily bans immigration for those coming from jihadi-infested countries like Yemen, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, Iran and Iraq until better security screening is in place.

The order also puts an indefinite ban on those coming from Syria because ISIS is extremely active there. We didn’t hear a peep from leftists when former President liar-nObama did something similar regarding immigration from Iraq in 2011. No one should be surprised, though, given Democrats’ standards have nothing to do with safety and security and everything to do with politics and appeasement.

Leftists might be thanking Trump for his actions if they weren’t so drunk with hatred for anyone or anything that even hints of American values. If they lock their doors at night to keep bad people out, they are hypocrites to suggest it is not okay for Trump to protect Americans.

Fact is, the same ISIS who vowed to import terrorists disguised as refugees doesn’t care about which side of the political aisle a person sits. America experienced an unprecedented number of domestic terrorist attacks committed by Muslim immigrants or children of immigrants during liar-nObama’s tenure.

We are a nation governed by the rule of law, but you’d never know it from leaders standing in defiance over Trump’s stance on immigration and sanctuary cities. Sanctuary cities are illegal and in a civil society, those who break the law are punished. Leaders who break federal immigration laws already on the books should be removed from office, fined, and criminally charged. They should be held personally liable for lives lost and havoc wreaked by illegals living within their jurisdictions.

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott leads the way, promising to pursue legislation to remove sheriffs and mayors breaking immigration laws.  Miami-Dade Mayor Carlos Gimenez also denounced Miami-Dade’s previous stance as a sanctuary county on January 27.

In my home, my father’s word was law. When Dad said “no” he meant no. Throwing temper tantrums didn’t help. In fact, it made things worse. It’s obvious to me that America has suffered from a significant shortage of alpha male leadership in families, based on the number of people losing their minds over a true leader occupying the White House.

Leftists can chuck bricks, throw rocks, and start fires all they want, but Trump will still be president when they wake the next morning.

Their actions hurt their cause because it helps normal people see Democrats don’t really care about anyone but themselves. They claim they are pro-immigrant, but on Inauguration Day in D.C., anti-Trump anarchists set fire to a limousine owned by a Muslim immigrant. The rocks they pelt sent his employee to the hospital. That makes them about as pro-immigrant as they are pro-Christian.

As you might expect, a couple of liar-Hillary’s "Deplorables" came to the poor guy’s rescue, raising more than $20,000 to assist him after leftists destroyed his livelihood.

But, be of good cheer, there’s a new sheriff in town who likes law and order. Sorry, snowflakes, all those “free spaces” to destroy other people’s stuff are no longer available. That’s why 230 Inauguration Day anarchists were charged with felony rioting and face fines of up to $25,000 and 10 years in prison which should be time enough to keep them off the streets while Trump cleans up America.

All the fit-throwing reminds me this is going to be a long eight years, but then I smile because I know liberals are thinking the same thing.
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Saturday ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Trump’s Foreign Policy Revolution
by Charles Krauthammer
 
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 Trump Puts Sanctuary Cities on Notice 
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As we've noted already this week, President Donald Trump has taken the issue of immigration head on. First it was the border wall. Then came Trump's executive order on interior enforcement, which includes pulling funding from so-called sanctuary cities. According to The Washington Times, the order "calls on Homeland Security Secretary John F. Kelly and the new attorney general to cut off all federal funding they control under existing federal laws." Anything further will require congressional action. Trump also ordered DHS to create a "name and shame" list of sanctuary cities, including publicizing the names of aliens who've been released and the crimes they've committed.
          "Cities" is an understatement. California, Colorado, Connecticut and New Mexico do not cooperate with federal immigration authorities, as is the case with cities and counties in 25 other states and DC. Yes, that's right, the seat of the federal government is a "sanctuary city." Leftists in these jurisdictions like to frame their actions as simply not cooperating — as in police not checking immigration status when making arrests or traffic stops. But it's far more insidious. These cities often actively resist when federal authorities come looking for specific illegal aliens.
          The horrific results are clear, as illustrated by the widely reported murder of Kate Steinle by a five-time-deported illegal alien felon two years ago in San Francisco. But that's just one case. The liar-nObama administration released thousands upon thousands of illegal alien criminals. Over a two-year period, more than 66,000 illegal alien criminals were set free — and there were 166,000 convictions among them, including 11,000 rapes and 395 homicides. Thousands of them were rearrested after committing further crimes.
          Yet leftists insist they're the compassionate ones. It's important to note that Trump isn't making law here. Everything he's called for is already the law — the wall, deportation, all of it. Enforce the law and you solve most of the problem. He's off to a good start.  ~The Patriot Post
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 Just How Much Voting Fraud Does Exist? 
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Early this week Donald Trump leveled the claim that three to five million illegal votes were cast during this past election, and he has called for an investigation into voter fraud. That stunning accusation — stunning only for the high numbers claimed — predictably brought howls of outrage from the Leftmedia, which lambasted Trump for yet more fake news and baseless claims. Hypocritically, the Leftmedia offered no evidence to prove that Trump's accusation was "baseless."
          And it's not as if there are no facts supporting at least the need for a greater investigation into voter fraud, as several recent lawsuits brought by the Public Interest Legal Foundation demonstrate. In fact, why did the government see fit to pass the National Voting Registration Act of 1993 if it wasn't intended to combat potential voting fraud? In other words, it would be ridiculous to assert that voter fraud didn't happen. The real question is just how bad of a problem it is. If no comprehensive investigations are done, then the argument merely continues to be the spitting contest it currently has become.
          It's rather dubious for the Leftmedia to call out Trump as a liar and yet argue against investigating his claims. The truth is, the Leftmedia isn't interested in knowing the actual number of illegal immigrants who voted or how many votes dead people cast or how many individuals voted multiply times. So long as official data is unavailable, leftists can continue to claim voter fraud is really not a problem — that it's simply the boogie man conservatives like to drag up as a political scare tactic designed to disenfranchise minority voters. The Leftmedia's stance essentially cheapens the unique privilege of American citizenship.  ~The Patriot Post
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'An Enemy Within' – Keith Ellison exposed
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Ellison as pictured in a communist publication in 1989
{wnd.com} ~ He was put into office by dedicated communists. He supported the dissolution of the United States to create an ethnostate only for blacks. He’s been the biggest defender of the Muslim Brotherhood in Congress... And, now, he’s poised to take over one of America’s two major political parties. He’s Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota. And he’s one of “The Enemies Within” profiled in Trevor Loudon’s explosive new documentary of that name. Loudon, who has researched communism and leftist movements for decades, says Ellison has a long partnership with anti-American movements, dating back to when he was as student...
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Triggering: A Sharia State of Mind
by EDWARD CLINE
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ This column can be deemed Trigger Warning-worthy because it t mocks trigger warning addicts and others dependent on post-adolescence pacifiers... Short of declaring reality off-limits, the number of things being declared persona non grata by college students seems to be multiplying. However, is it my imagination or are today's college students establishing a kind of secular Sharia, sans a mystical deity, without possessing an inkling of knowledge of Islamic law? It could go under another name most college students would be horrified by but unable to refute: Fascism. Historically, Fascism as a collectivist movement, relied on physical force to propagate and impose its various statist agendas, from Hitler's racist supremacism, to the Perons' class warfare against the upper and middle classes...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/triggering-a-sharia-state-of-mind?f=must_reads
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CAIR's MUBARAK &
SHIBLY - What Are You Trying To Hide?
by ALAN KORNMAN
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Council  on American Islamic Relations (CAIR-FL), a  self proclaimed civil rights  group,  is discriminating against non-Muslims at one of their advertised "open to the public" events at the Rosen Center Hotel, Orlando, FL 407-996-9840... The CAIR January 28, 2017 event is titled, "Media Training-How to Interact & Engage with the Media."  The problem is many people who had RSVP'd and were approved for tickets, later had their ticket registrations denied without cause or reason. My question to you Ms. Rahaman, Rasha Mubarak, and  Hassan Shibly - What are you trying to hide from the public? The Council on American Islamic relations should welcome non-Muslims from the community with open arms of friendship and coexistence, not rejection, secrecy, and intimidation... http://www.http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/cairs-mubarak-shibly-what-are-you-trying-to-hide?f=must_reads/publications/detail/cairs-mubarak-shibly-what-are-you-trying-to-hide?f=must_reads
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California Voter Fraud System
Guarantees Rampant Illegal Voting
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Since California government is largely enemy territory for patriotic Americans and those who believe in the Constitution and the rule of law, it can be extremely difficult to get meaningful action against voter fraud, regardless of the amount of proof one has... The very people to whom it would be reported and the supposed enforcement responsibility falls to are the perpetrators – Democrats. Tim Donnelly, a California freedom fighter and former State Assemblyman knows their scheme and it’s players. He’s locked horns with them repeatedly over their successful attempts to install the mechanisms of abuse and fraud into the system. His predictions, like the revelations of voter fraud by Mr. Trump, were dismissed as absurd, an overreaction and racism. The ingredients of the leftist aggression against our nation rarely change, although the mixture is often tweaked “to taste.” The fact that California has been morphed into a “law-free” and liberty endangered zone by the Marxist Democrats makes it an ideal location for the implementation and testing of the methods by which to defeat the will of the people nationally and impose that of our enemies with a minimum of interference...
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Feds Reinvestigating Syrian Refugees
Not Thoroughly Vetted
by Warren Mass
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Federal agents are reinvestigating dozens of Syrian refuges who were admitted into the United States without being thoroughly vetted. Some of these refugees had potentially negative information in their files... that was not discovered prior to their admission, two unnamed U.S. law-enforcement officials told the Los Angeles Times. Immigration authorities are reviewing the cases of some refugees, including one who failed a polygraph test when he applied for employment at an overseas U.S. military installation. Another refugee being reinvestigated may have been in communication with an Islamic State (ISIS) leader, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to discuss the matter. The Times reported that immigration agents have not concluded that any of the refugees being reinvestigated should have been rejected for entry, but the flaw in the vetting process — which was discovered in late 2015 and corrected last year — prevented U.S. officials who conducted background checks on the refugees from learning possible “derogatory” information about them... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/25246-feds-reinvestigating-syrian-refugees-not-thoroughly-vetted?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines
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Trump’s Foreign Policy Revolution
by Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ The flurry of bold executive orders and of highly provocative Cabinet nominations such as a secretary of education who actually believes in school choice has been encouraging to conservative skeptics of Donald Trump. But it shouldn’t erase the troubling memory of one major element of Trump’s inaugural address.

The foreign policy section has received far less attention than so revolutionary a declaration deserved. It radically redefined the American national interest as understood since World War II.

Trump outlined a world in which foreign relations are collapsed into a zero-sum game. They gain, we lose. As in: “For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries” while depleting our own.

And most provocatively this: “The wealth of our middle class has been ripped from their homes and then redistributed all across the world.” Bernie Sanders believes that a corrupt establishment has ripped off the middle class to give to the rich. Trump believes those miscreants have given away our patrimony to undeserving, ungrateful foreigners as well.

JFK’s inaugural pledged to support any friend and oppose any foe to assure the success of liberty. Note that Trump makes no distinction between friend and foe and no reference to liberty. They’re all out to use, exploit and surpass us.

No more, declared Trump: “From this day forward, it’s going to be only America First.”

Imagine how this resonates abroad. “America First” was the name of the organization led by Charles Lindbergh that bitterly fought FDR before U.S. entry into World War II — right through the Battle of Britain — to keep America neutral between Churchill’s Britain and Hitler’s Reich. Then came Pearl Harbor. Within a week, America First dissolved itself in shame.

Not that Trump was consciously imitating Lindbergh. I doubt he was even aware of the reference. He just liked the phrase. But I can assure you that in London and in every world capital they are aware of the antecedent and the intimations of a new American isolationism. Trump gave them good reason to think so, going on to note “the right of all nations to put their own interests first.” America included.

Some claim that putting America first is a reassertion of American exceptionalism. On the contrary, it is the antithesis. It makes America no different from all the other countries that define themselves by a particularist blood-and-soil nationalism. What made America exceptional, unique in the world, was defining its own national interest beyond its narrow economic and security needs to encompass the safety and prosperity of a vast array of allies. A free world marked by open trade and mutual defense was President Truman’s vision, shared by every president since.

Until now.

Some have argued that Trump is just dangling a bargaining chip to negotiate better terms of trade or alliance. Or that Trump’s views are so changeable and unstable — telling European newspapers two weeks ago that NATO is obsolete and then saying “NATO is very important to me” — that this is just another unmoored entry on a ledger of confusion.

But both claims are demonstrably wrong. An inaugural address is no off-the-cuff riff. These words are the product of at least three weeks of deliberate crafting for an address that Trump’s spokesman said was intended to express his philosophy. Moreover, to remove any ambiguity, Trump prefaced his “America First” proclamation with: “From this day forward, a new vision will govern our land.”

Trump’s vision misunderstands the logic underlying the far larger, far-reaching view of Truman. The Marshall Plan surely took wealth away from the American middle class and distributed it abroad. But for a reason. Altruism, in part. But mostly to stabilize Western Europe as a bulwark against an existential global enemy.

We carried many free riders throughout the Cold War. The burden was heavy. But this was not a mindless act of charity; it was an exercise in enlightened self-interest. After all, it was indeed better to subsidize foreign armies — German, South Korean, Turkish and dozens of others — and have them stand with us, rather than stationing even more American troops everywhere around the world at greater risk of both blood and treasure.

We are embarking upon insularity and smallness. Nor is this just theory. Trump’s long-promised but nonetheless abrupt withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the momentous first fruit of his foreign policy doctrine. Last year the prime minister of Singapore told John McCain that if we pulled out of the TPP “you’ll be finished in Asia.” He knows the region.

For 70 years, we sustained an international system of open commerce and democratic alliances that has enabled America and the West to grow and thrive. Global leadership is what made America great. We abandon it at our peril.

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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
The latest pro-abortion science-denying
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 by Minister Michael Brown
 
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 Trade and Pipelines: Trump's First Economic Actions 
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By Lewis Morris: President Donald Trump signed two significant executive orders this week — one taking America out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, and the other removing the ban on construction of the Dakota Access and Keystone XL oil pipelines. Both orders reverse decrees issued by Barack liar-nObama and serve to show that Trump has set about fulfilling campaign promise to boost the American economy.
          The order to take America out of the TPP doesn't come as a surprise, given that Trump had promised repeatedly to do so before the election. Indeed, his opposition likely helped him win the Rust Belt.
          The TPP deal, which was negotiated behind closed doors by the liar-nObama White House and 11 other Pacific rim countries, would have created a trade block larger than the European Union. Democrats and their union constituents, however, generally oppose free trade. And Republicans didn't trust liar-nObama to negotiate in a way that would protect America's interests or workers.
          Now, in a rare moment of solidarity, many American union leaders voiced their support for the Republican president's actions. "With this decision, the president has taken the first step toward fixing 30 years of bad trade policies that have cost working Americans millions of good paying jobs," declared Teamsters president James Hoffa.
          Trump has promised to renegotiate bilateral trade deals and hold each country accountable. He has also suggested that he's looking to renegotiate NAFTA, though he hasn't quite pledged to scrap that deal altogether. In any event, NAFTA would be far more difficult for Trump to undo unilaterally as it's a long-standing treaty backed up by Congress.
          There is a lot of controversy surrounding Trump's move to scrap TPP. It can't be denied that the agreement had some shady underpinnings, like much of the work done during the liar-nObama years. It was never put before Congress for formal review and passage, and liar-nObama gave few details about what was in the deal, encouraging Americans to simply trust that he had our best interests at heart. We all know how that turned out.
          But by withdrawing from the TPP, Trump must guard against sliding into protectionism. Protectionist trade policies can be notoriously bad for American consumers because they tend to raise the price of goods. Such policies might keep jobs from drifting overseas, but the total cost of keeping those jobs in the U.S. rises significantly when you factor in the rise in consumer prices.
          This negative impact on the economy can be prevented if the U.S. pursues free trade policies with other countries — particularly if we enter bilateral trade deals that are beneficial to American jobs.
          Speaking of American jobs, Trump's executive order Tuesday to restart the Dakota Access and Keystone XL pipelines will certainly be beneficial and move us toward a sounder energy policy.
          liar-nObama waffled on Keystone for years, wanting to placate the unions who wanted it but finally giving in to his ecofascist base and shutting down the project. He did so citing the alleged detrimental impact that Keystone would have on the environment, even though State Department studies he asked for proved that the pipeline would be safe. He likewise ended the Dakota Access project after Native American groups engaged in a vocal and widely televised protest because the pipeline would have crossed their land.
          Trump says he wants the pipelines to be built with U.S. steel, so he will be looking to renegotiate terms with TransCanada, the Canadian group that is working on the Keystone project.
          Both pipelines will increase domestic oil production and move America toward a more independent and self-sustaining energy policy, something that was not of concern during the administration of Trump's predecessor.
          In both cases, though with mixed results likely to ensue, Trump is doing what he considers best to put America first.  ~The Patriot Post
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Women’s March Organizer Linda Sarsour
Under Fire for Radical Islamist-Terrorist Ties
by  William F. Jasper
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The day after President Donald Trump’s inauguration, Linda Sarsour ascended the global stage at the Women’s March on Washington. Although not as famous as other speakers — Madonna, Michael Moore, Gloria Steinem, Ashley Judd, Angela Davis, Van Jones — she is proving to be equally controversial... Sarsour a co-chair of the march, is a “Muslim feminist” and well-known Soros-funded activist in New York City, where she is executive director of the Arab American Association of New York (AAANY) and a director of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), a radical migrant-refugee “rights” organization. She is also, say critics, connected to jihadi terrorists, such as Hamas, Hezbollah, and ISIS, and she is a self-proclaimed advocate of Sharia law for America. Whereas Madonna talked about blowing up the Trump White House and Ashley Judd's vulgar rant charged Donald Trump with misogyny, violence, slavery and racism, Linda Sarsour is uncomfortably close to terrorists who actually blow things and people up, and an ideology that promotes misogyny, violence, slavery, and racism...
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Sanctuary Democrats Killed His Son, Daughter-In-Law Pandering For Fraudulent Votes
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The segment on Fox Business channel starts out with statements by two of the worst offenders, commie Bill de Blasio of New York and Rahm Emanuel of Chicago... Both claim they’re keeping their cities as havens of illegality for the benefit of their citizens, regardless of their “documentation.” Baloney mayors. Pandering Democrats created a flow of illegals into this country in order to steal elections. Their opposition to Mr. Trump’s war on sanctuary cities is not an issue of humanitarianism or keeping foreign families together to any extent beyond the degree to which they can be used to keep their lawless grip on power or to expand it. They destroyed the integrity of the voting booth by defeating voter ID laws and they will now fight intensely for the ability to use that corrupted system to commandeer more illicit power. If and when it results in the deaths of innocent Americans, as it did in this case, that’s just a price you’re willing for others to pay so that you can advance your agenda. Keeping families intact isn’t important if they’re Americans. It doesn’t matter to self-serving Democrat Party agitators that they’re destroying the lives of millions of Americans through illegal immigration, many through the death of a loved one. The self-centered, heartless bastards couldn’t care less...
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Congress to Block liar-nObama’s Secret Gun Ban?!
by AWR Hawkins
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{breitbart.com} ~ Congress plans to take up legislation next week that is designed to block Barack liar-nObama’s gun ban for Social Security recipients who require help with their finances... On July 18, 2015, Breitbart News reported the liar-nObama administration was fashioning what was then a secretive gun ban for Social Security recipients who needed help with their finances. The Los Angeles Times reported that the ban would be sweeping. They reported that it would cover those who are unable to manage their own affairs for a multitude of reasons — from “subnormal intelligence or mental illness” to “incompetency,” an unspecified “condition,” or “disease” — and would put the Second Amendment rights of such recipients in jeopardy. On January 5, 2016, liar-nObama  incorporated the ban into his executive gun controls. A White House preview of those controls explained that the Social Security Administration (SSA) was busy finalizing rules for how and when to enforce the ban:...  http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2017/01/25/congress-acting-block-obamas-social-security-gun-ban/
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1,960 refugees enter U.S. on Trump's watch
by Leo Hohmann
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{wnd.com} ~ Since Donald Trump’s first full day in the White House on Jan. 21, the U.S. has imported nearly 2,000 refugees from around the world, with about half coming from Muslim-dominated countries... The expected executive orders to halt all resettlements of refugees for four months while the administration searches for a better system of vetting was originally said to be coming Thursday, but it now appears that was premature. Friday may be the day. Some sources say it could be put off until Saturday. For every day the administration fails to act, hundreds more refugees arrive from the Third World...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/1960-refugees-enter-u-s-on-trumps-watch/
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'Germany dishonoring the memory
of the murdered Six Million'
by David Rosenberg
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ The government of Germany is providing financial backing to a radical anti-Israel non-governmental organization working to promote the view that the establishment of the Jewish state was a “disaster”... Ahead of International Holocaust Remembrance Day on Friday, activists from the Im Tirtzu organization released a new report documenting foreign aid for “Zochrot”, a far-left NGO working to “decolonize” Israel. A tireless promoter of anti-Zionism, Zochrot advocates for a “right of return” for descendants of Arabs who left Israel during the 1948 War of Independence...This is so sad that Jews are being attacked from the being of time and then into the future.
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The latest pro-abortion science-denying
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 by Minister Michael Brown
{wnd.com} ~ There is a reason why many women contemplating abortion decide not to abort when they see an ultrasound of their baby. There is no denying the humanity of this tiny creature, which is anything but a clump of cells.

As the baby grows in the womb and is seen by ultrasound imaging, it’s common to hear parents exclaim, “Look at those little hands! Look at that adorable nose, it looks like Grandpa’s nose, doesn’t it?! And look – it’s a girl! or, it’s a boy!)

How amazing it is to see the ultrasound of your baby, especially when it’s your first child. Not surprisingly, both of our daughters, now in their late 30s, had the identical reaction when they saw the ultrasounds of their first babies: How could anyone abort their child?

It is for good reason that pro-abortion legislators fight against laws that would require abortion clinics to show an ultrasound of the baby prior to the decision to abort. They know it would be bad for business plus, they argue, it adds to the inconvenience of the mother wanting to dispose of the contents of her womb.

It is hard to deny the personhood of the fetus when you see an ultrasound, which is why, during last year’s Super Bowl, Dorito’s incurred the wrath of NARAL, the National Abortion Rights Action League when it aired an innocent, lighthearted, commercial featuring a very pregnant woman, her husband and an ultrasound of their baby. According to NARAL, Dorito’s had committed the cardinal sin of “humanizing fetuses.” Oh, the very thought of it!

But there is something even worse than that Dorito’s ad. According to a bizarre article in The Atlantic, pro-life groups are being devious and deceptive when they use ultrasounds to convince women that their babies are human. How low will these pro-lifers go?

The article, written by Moira Weigel and posted Tuesday, was originally titled “How the Ultrasound Pushed the Idea That a Fetus Is a Person” with the subtitle, “The technology has been used to create sped-up videos that falsely depict a response to stimulus.” Its current title is, “How the Ultrasound Became Political.” The subtitle remains the same.

Weigel’s article, which was marred by embarrassing errors as pointed out by Alexandra DeSanctison the National Review, not to mention being marred by bizarre claims, denied the reality and significance of fetal heartbeats as early as five or six weeks old, downplayed the evidence of ultrasounds and claimed that – gasp! – the pro-life movement was yet another example of patriarchal overreach. Yes, the science of “ultrasound made it possible for the male doctor to evaluate the fetus without female interference.” Those dastardly, duplicitous males! They are at it once again.

For good reason Sean Davis of the Federalist wrote that, “Moira Weigel took a sledgehammer to basic science and then did her best to vacuum its brains out before anyone could figure out what just happened.” The title of his article was as accurate as it was snarky: “Abortion Science: Heartbeats Are Imaginary, Unborn Babies Aren’t Alive, And Ultrasounds Are Just Tools Of The Patriarchy.”

Further underscoring the absurdity of Weigel’s article was this tweet from Denise Russell, which Davis reproduced: “Before ultrasounds, a woman had to wait until delivery to find out if she was getting a puppy, a goat, or a human.” How did we forget that?

Responding to the Republican-led effort to pass the “Heartbeat Bill,” which would prohibit doctors from aborting a baby if a heartbeat was detected in the words of its sponsor, Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, “If a heartbeat is detected, the baby is protected”, Weigel asks, “What is a fetal heartbeat? And why does it matter?”

Her answer to these questions can be summed up, respectively, in three words, “Nothing” and “It doesn’t.”

Forget the fact that doctors check the baby’s heartbeat during each pre-natal visit, since this is an indicator of health, or the fact that they carefully monitor the baby’s heartbeat during delivery to be sure the child is OK. And forget the fact that doctors look for a pulse to see if someone is still living or the fact that a person is declared dead when his or her heart stops beating for good.

No. When it comes to abortion, all those facts conveniently disappear, and the heartbeat of that tiny pre-born child is of no significance at all. Indeed, Weigel opines, “Doctors do not even call this rapidly dividing cell mass a ‘fetus’ until nine weeks into pregnancy.” I must be getting old, but somehow, I don’t recall my wife, Nancy, saying to me decades ago, “Honey, I just got the test results back and I have a rapidly dividing cell mass inside of me!”

But it is not just fetal heartbeats that have no meaning for Weigel. Ultrasounds also have no meaning for her since … well, since she’s doesn’t believe they should. If you think I’m exaggerating, read her article. She notes that posting pictures of ultrasounds on social media has “heightened the social reality of the unborn,” as if this was somehow a bad, misleading thing.

And she points to an American couple who “posted a video of their sonogram fast-forwarded so that their fetus appeared to be clapping in time as they sang, ‘When You’re Happy and You Know It Clap Your Hands.'” The implication is that because the video was sped up, giving the false impression that the baby was clapping to the beat, that the more basic impression was also false, namely that there was a little human being in that mother’s womb who was putting its two little hands together. Pretty good for a clump of cells and a mass of tissue!

Although Weigel cites those who claim that pregnant women who see their ultrasounds are less likely to abort, she disputes these claims, pointing to a “2014 study published by the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, which drew on the medical records of nearly 16,000 women seeking abortions” and “found that viewing an ultrasound had a negligible impact on whether they decided to proceed.”

Other studies I have read have come to very different conclusions and a pro-life ministry that offers ultrasounds to women considering abortion has also seen tremendous results. But I doubt that all the studies in the world would convince Weigel right now, since her objections seem to be based on ideology more than science. As observed by Alexandra DeSanctis, “The reason that progressives such as Weigel denounce ultrasound technology is … because they want to continue denying the humanity of the unborn child, a humanity that is undeniable whether or not the mother wants the child.”

Yes, “Pro-life activists and parents who want to keep their unborn children will acknowledge this humanity. We all know it. Abortionists know it. Mothers aborting their babies know it. Planned Parenthood executives know it. Perhaps many are able to dull their consciences and convince themselves that it’s ‘just a clump of cells.’ But deep down, they must know. We all do. And that’s why the left has to work so hard to deny it.”

And the harder the left works to deny the humanity of the unborn child, the more it exposes its moral and scientific bankruptcy. In that regard, Weigel’s article does a great service to the pro-life cause, and for that, we should be glad. Truth is sweeping away the lies.
 
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Fri/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Reinstate Lt. Col. Terry Lakin!
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 by Jack Cashil
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 Top Headlines 
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Americans have viewed the economy more positively since President Donald Trump's election in November than they did in the nine years prior. (Gallup)
 
House Speaker Paul Ryan slates liar-nObamaCare repeal for spring. (The Daily Signal)
 
Felony charges for journalists arrested at inauguration protests make New York journalists afraid for press freedom. But a journalist is not above the law. (The New York Times)
 
Women's March national co-chair: Sharia law is "reasonable," "misunderstood." (CNS News)
 
Thousands of terrorists and foreign fighters tried to enter America, new data shows. (The Washington Free Beacon)
 
State Department reviewing liar-nObama administration's decision to send Palestinians $221M. (Fox News)
 
liar-nObama CDC study: Silencers are the best option for noise reduction at gun ranges. (The Truth About Guns)
 
New Planned Parenthood ad celebrates woman who... decided against having an abortion. They're now trying the honey approach. (Hot Air)
 
Waitress surprised with 625% tip, message of unity from Trump supporter after inauguration. (CBS News)
 
Tender snowflake college student reports seeing KKK hood in a classroom, but actually saw lab equipment cover. (The Washington Times)
 
Policy: Are for-profit colleges magical mobility machines? (American Enterprise Institute)
 
Policy: The Republicans' slippery slope on liar-nObamaCare. (Real Clear Policy~The Patriot Post
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Don’t Fall for China’s Global Baloney
by Matthew Continetti
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{freebeacon.com} ~ It’s rather sickening to watch self-described liberals embrace China as a responsible power. The headline on the cover of this week’s Economist, which I now read solely to find out what is not the case, is “China: the global grown-up.”... The Washington Post purports to explain “Why China will be able to sell itself as the last liberal great power.” These articles, besides being wrong, have the distinction of following the line set by Beijing itself: “China may lead globalization movement,” says propaganda outlet CCTV. How one can argue that a Communist oligarchy that practices mercantilism and industrial and diplomatic espionage, builds islands in contravention of international law, disappears lawyers and writers critical of the regime, feeds its people a steady diet of ethno-nationalist propaganda, threatens America’s allies, enables the North Korean psycho-state, recently sailed its aircraft carrier through the Taiwan Strait, massively censors the Internet, and has some of the worst air pollution in the world is “liberal” in any sense of the term is beyond me...
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Trump-Hating Protestors,
Deceit and Willful Blindness
by MICHAEL CUTLER
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On January 20, 2017, the very same day that President Donald J. Trump was inaugurated, protestors who opposed Trump's election and his campaign promises took to the streets in Washington, DC and elsewhere... They falsely equated securing America's borders and enforcing our immigration laws with bigotry and racism. The protestors carried signs with a variety of slogans including a slogan favored by liar- Hillary Clinton during her failed bid for the presidency, "Build bridges, not walls." Where were these protestors when liar-nObama violated the Constitution, released hundreds of thousands of criminal aliens, commuted the sentences of record numbers of drug dealers and ignored the findings of the 9/11 Commission and imported millions of foreign workers to take Americans' jobs?... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/trump-hating-protestors-deceit-and-willful-blindness?f=must_reads
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What These Burqa-Clad Muslims JUST DID In
Michigan Proves Trump Was Right All Along
by William Smith
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ The city of Dearborn, Michigan has completely been taken over by Muslim migrants in the last few years. Now, things have gotten to the point where Muslims are quickly becoming the majority in Dearborn... and they are reportedly trying to make the locals submit to Shariah law. The disturbing video below is pro-Islamic propaganda out of Dearborn. After watching it, you’ll be especially thankful that Donald Trump won this election, because he might just be the only person who can stop these Muslims from taking over all of America…This came after Dennis Michael Lynch released a video that shows an in depth look at Dearborn, and it’s downright disturbing. In the footage, a stunned Lynch comes to the conclusion that being in Dearborn doesn’t even feel like being in America anymore since there are so many foreign Muslims there...  http://gopthedailydose.com/2017/01/26/burqa-clad-muslims-just-michigan-proves-trump-right-along-video/
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U.S. Border Patrol: Trump’s
Border Wall Is EXACTLY What We Need
by Ildefonso Ortiz
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{breitbart.com} ~ The head of one of America’s largest Border Patrol union locals came out for President Trump’s proposed border wall in an interview with Breitbart, saying that it “will be effective.”... Hector Garza is president of National Border Patrol Council Local 2455 in Laredo, Texas, as well as a Border Patrol agent himself. He told Breitbart he welcomes a president who is willing to address problems with illegal immigration, even if the physical wall that the Trump administration erects does cover every foot of ground between the U.S. and Mexico. “During the previous administration, we had a president that failed to acknowledge the problems on the border. Now, we have a president that not only acknowledges the problems, but is willing to give us the tools needed to address them.” Perhaps more important than the wall is the Trump administration’s decision to end the “catch-and-release” policy of the liar-nObama administration, that sometimes put dangerous criminals free on the streets of America...
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Texas Officials Warn of ISIS
Threat to U.S.-Mexican Border
by John Rossomando
{investigativeproject.org} ~ A report by the Texas Department of Public Safety raises concerns about ISIS terrorists using the Mexican border both to enter and leave the country. It noted that at least 13 aspiring terrorists have tried to cross the Mexican border, or considered trying, since 2012... Most of the people who tried to sneak over the border knew they were on the federal no-fly list, the report said. Sneaking across the southern border "presents an opportunity for increasing numbers of aspiring foreign terrorist fighters to evade US interdiction efforts such as the No-Fly List." The most recent example happened in October. Texas authorities arrested two Milwaukee men near San Angelo, Texas on the way to the Mexican border. Jason Ludke, 35, and Yosvany Padilla-Conde, 30, wanted to go to Mexico, obtain fraudulent travel documents and travel to join ISIS in Syria or Iraq...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5764/texas-officials-warns-of-isis-threat-to-us
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Reinstate Lt. Col. Terry Lakin!
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 by Jack Cashil
{wnd.com} ~ A White House petition was launched the day after Donald Trump’s inauguration to “reinstate Lt. Col. Terry Lakin into the U.S. Army with full rank, pay, benefits and pension immediately.”

“Court-martialed, imprisoned, expelled from the Army and denied pay, pension and benefits,” declares the petition accurately, “Terry was merely following his officer’s oath and constitutional duty.”

For the record, Lakin spent five months in prison at Fort Leavenworth before his release in May of 2011. Lakin’s crime – his real crime, that is – was to challenge Barack liar-nObama’s constitutional eligibility to be president.

I believe it was his pending release as much as Trump’s raising of the eligibility issue that forced liar-nObama to produce something resembling a birth certificate.

Lakin never claimed to know where President liar-nObama was born or whether he was eligible. The problem, as Lakin saw it, was that no one knew.

As an Army officer, one sworn “to support and defend the Constitution,” he felt an obligation to pursue the truth.

I got to know Terry through helping him with his memoir, “Officer’s Oath.” If the U.S. Army has a more decent or dedicated officer than this 17-year veteran flight surgeon and father of three, I have yet to meet that person.

For more than a year, Lakin plied all regular channels to get at the facts. He had no intention of becoming a martyr to the cause, but in 2010 he received deployment orders to Afghanistan. Said the order: “Bring five (5) copies of your birth certificate.”

For Lakin, that did it. If he had to produce a birth certificate to deploy, liar-nObama needed one to send him.

By refusing deployment – he had already served in Afghanistan and Bosnia – Lakin hoped to take advantage of military due process to resolve the eligibility question.

He did not succeed. The media brought no pressure to bear on his behalf. To the degree the media noticed, they ridiculed him. Our progressive friends had finally found a military protester they could not embrace.

Of all his hardship deployments, Bosnia included, Lakin’s exile to Leavenworth was easily the hardest.

After he bid a tearful farewell to his wife and three young children, his military minders chained his hands together and attached those chains to a band around his waist.

They chained his legs and attached those, too. They then loaded him into a van and drove him to Reagan National.

There, Lakin endured his ultimate humiliation, a seemingly endless perp walk, a shuffle really, through a concourse filled with flags and patriotic bunting and the happy sight of returning soldiers.

None of the display had lost its appeal, but Lakin could not overlook the irony of his being chained and bound amidst it all.

Thanks to a deepening Christian faith and an abiding love for his country, Lakin manfully survived the ordeal and emerged a stronger person for it.

That he gave up $2 million in benefits and left his lovely family behind for prison should have further endeared him to our generally weepy progressive friends, but, of course, it did no such thing.

In 2011, when Lakin was released, they had a president to elect. All justice, all sympathy, all honesty be damned.

Upon his release, Lakin applied for a license to practice medicine in Kansas, but the Kansas Board of Healing Arts turned him down.

The Kansas Board may have indulged outlaw abortionist George Tiller for 30 years, but this timid crew was unnerved by the thought of this veteran flight surgeon practicing medicine in this doctor-short state, impeccable record notwithstanding.

For the last five years, Lakin has been serving as an ER doctor in Colorado. He has no regrets for the action he took, but his supporters, myself included, are eager to see justice done on his behalf.

To sign the petition to reinstate Lt. Col. Terry Lakin into the U.S. Army with full rank, pay, benefits and pension immediately,
please click here.
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Israel forges ahead on
new housing in disputed suburbs
by William Booth

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 Here Comes Trump's Great Wall 
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"After years of neglect, this administration has taken a strong stand to stiffen the protection of our borders." So said Bill liar-Clinton in his 1995 State of the Union Address. Now, after a 22-year wait, Donald Trump will see that plan through. Trump tweeted Tuesday, "Big day planned on NATIONAL SECURITY tomorrow. Among many other things, we will build the wall!" And so begins Trump's great wall project, which was mocked and derided by so many both in the mainstream media and the Washington establishment as merely a campaign slogan that would never actually see the light of day.
          Honestly, one can hardly fault people for holding this pessimistic view, as history shows that politicians talk a good game but rarely act on their words — as typified by liar-Clinton's SOTU speech. As Rush Limbaugh so often quipped, "symbolism over substance" is largely Washington's modus operandi. Thus far, Trump is deviating from that script.
          We cautioned yesterday to give Trump time on immigration. Less than 24 hours later, we were proved right.
          An interesting side note: While Trump is signing this latest executive order today, Mexican foreign minister Luis Videgaray will be arriving in Washington to prepare for the visit of Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto. Much of the visit will focus on trade issues, but it would be naïve to think that Trump's statements regarding Mexico paying for the wall don't factor into the conversation. One thing's for sure, Trump is proving that there is indeed a new sheriff in town.  ~The Patriot Post
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 Fake News: Vilifying Good Guy With Gun 
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The editors at USA Today were caught disseminating a pejorative headline that readers, assuming they actually clicked through for the story, could determine almost immediately was fake news. The story was about a weekend shooting at a Texas mall, including the actions of a good guy with a gun. But that's not the impression USA Today gave. Nor was it accidental.
          The front-page headline incredulously declared, "Shopper who shot suspect did not have carry permit." Once you clicked through for the details, the editors offered a slightly different, albeit still misleading, version: "Texas mall: Shopper who shot suspect not allowed to carry." All but a few "constitutional carry" states require gun owners to obtain a license to pack heat outside the home. And the USA Today headline gives the impression that said shopper was not legally sanctioned by the state to carry a firearm in public. Except that's not true at all.
          The very first paragraph states, "The shopper at a Texas mall who had a concealed carry license and shot a robbery suspect should not have been carrying a gun inside the mall, according to the mall's policy [emphasis added]." Suddenly, the narrative is flipped on its head. The story goes on to explain, "On Sunday, a man was shot and killed while trying to stop a jewelry store robber at Rolling Oaks Mall in San Antonio. Another man, with a concealed permit, shot one of the suspected robbers who police said stole from a Kay Jeweler's store. Four others were injured. The San Antonio Police Department said the same robbery suspect fatally shot 42-year-old Jonathan Murphy. Police describe the man who shot the robbery suspect and Murphy as 'Good Samaritans.'"
          What's really at issue here isn't the lack of a concealed carry permit but the mall, which proudly markets itself as a gun-free zone. According to mall manager Dustin Christensen, "Although we respect the laws of the state and individual rights, we do, however, maintain a separate code of conduct that we visibly post at our entrances that includes the prohibition of any weapons on the property. Our top priority continues to be the safety of our shoppers as we strive to provide the best possible shopping experience for all." First of all, the sign didn't stop armed robbers from entering the complex. Secondly, the only thing providing safety to the shoppers was a good guy with a gun. No wonder the police call him a Good Samaritan.
          With an intentionally distorted headline, the ignoramuses at USA Today gave thousands of people the impression that an armed citizen was just as felonious as the thugs he stopped. To say that he "did not have [a] carry permit," as stated in the headline, which is the only thing many people see, is an outright lie. It's true that he acted against the local mall's policies, but that's a constitutionally dubious thing to argue. Hopefully this will motivate Texas to stop allowing malls to pre-empt the carry law. Even San Antonio police spokesman Officer Doug Greene said, "We just ask people to use their best judgment when they get into situations like this." Thanks to good judgement from a guy with a gun, lives may have been saved.
          The Leftmedia has criticized the Trump administration for its ridiculous use of the term "alternative facts." Yet earlier this week journalists were all over an erroneous report suggesting Trump, after returning Winston Churchill's bust to the Oval Office, ousted MLK's. That was fake news. So is USA Today's misleading headline regarding a concealed carry permit holder. Those claiming to occupy the moral high ground in the press are clearly not interested in leading by example. ~The Patriot Post
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Freezes $221 Million liar-nObama
Gave 'Palestinians' as Parting Gift
by Mark Tapson
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ As a final destructive act before leaving the White House, former community organizer Barack liar-nObama and former Vietnam War protester John hanoi-Kerry sent a parting gift of $221 million to their cohorts in the terror organization Palestinian Authority on Friday... Now the Trump administration has frozen that gift. Israel National News reports that the new U.S. State Department reviewed the issue and decided to freeze the money until a new Secretary of State is appointed. If the transfer then fits with Trump’s policies, the money will be given to the PA. Texas Congresswoman Kay Granger said on Tuesday night, "I worked to make sure that no American taxpayer dollars would fund the Palestinian Authority unless very strict conditions were met...  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/trump-freezes-221-million-obama-gave-palestinians-parting-gift
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liar-nObama’s Real Identity And Legacy
by Cliff Kincaid
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ Cliff Kincaid and Joel Gilbert discuss Barack liar-nObama’s “real father,” communist Frank Marshall Davis, and the role played by his grandfather, Stanley Dunham... a reputed CIA operative, in selecting Davis as liar-nObama’s mentor. They also address liar-nObama’s cover-up of his links to Davis and why the CIA did not alert the American people to liar--nObama’s revolutionary agenda for the nation.  http://www.trevorloudon.com/2017/01/obamas-real-identity-and-legacy/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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How to prove rampant voter fraud in U.S.
by Garth Kant
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{wnd.com} ~ President Trump has called the establishment media’s bluff on voter fraud, and, judging by the evidence, as well as comments from a pair of the nation’s leading experts on the subject, he may just hold a winning hand... Reporters incessantly badgered White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer on Tuesday over the president’s comments in a private meeting that he believed 3 to 5 million illegal votes were cast in the election. liar-Hillary Clinton garnered 2.9 million more votes nationwide than Trump, while the Republican won the Electoral College vote, 304-227. Reporters repeatedly demanded Spicer tell them, if Trump was so sure about widespread voter fraud, why he didn’t order an investigation? So, on Wednesday, Trump announced he would do just that...
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The Two "Islamophobias"
by Denis MacEoin
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ If we had to choose one thing that has obstructed many Westerners from understanding modern Islam and undermined our ability to handle its excesses, it would be our perception of Islamophobia... How many times have fair and honest criticisms of one aspect or another of Islam, rebukes of behavior, or literary and artistic expressions of Muhammad or other figures been loudly shouted down or banned on the grounds that such criticism was "Islamophobia"? In Europe, individuals have been arrested, tried and sentenced for "Islamophobia" utterances. As Judith Bergman recently commented, in Europe it is becoming a criminal offence to criticize Islam. In 2011, Elisabeth Sabaditsch-Wolff, for example, a former Austrian diplomat and teacher, was put on trial for "denigration of religious beliefs of a legally recognized religion [Islam]," found guilty twice, and ordered to pay a fine or face 60 days in jail. Some of her comments may have seemed extreme, but the court's failure to engage with her historically accurate charge that Muhammad had sex with a nine-year-old girl and continued to have sex with her until she turned eighteen -- its regarding the historical record as somehow defamatory -- and the judge's decision to punish her for saying something that can be found in Islamic sources, illustrates the betrayal of Western values of free speech. A charge of "Islamophobia" was enough to confine the freedoms that most Westerners take for granted...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9588/two-islamophobias
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Same Excuses for This Stain
on the Constitution
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ “It is my property.” “It is not human.” “It is not even three-fifths of a person.” “I can do with my property whatever I want.” “You have no legal right to control my property.”... “Science says it is not an intelligent being.” “It cannot survive on its own. It is mine to do with as I please.” “It cannot feel anything.” Those were the excuses offered up by slave owners before the Civil War. They refused to see humanity in slaves. One hundred fifty-two years after our nation enacted the thirteenth amendment prohibiting slavery the same excuses used to justify slavery are now used by those who would defend abortion. “Property” has become “body,” but otherwise the same arguments are used to deny humanity to humans in order to treat them as less than human. Modern America has just graduated from the trading of bodies to the trading of body parts...  http://theresurgent.com/same-excuses-for-this-stain-on-the-constitution/
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Israel forges ahead on
new housing in disputed suburbs
by William Booth
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Israel announced a bold plan on Tuesday to construct 2,500 housing units in Jewish settlements in the West Bank, a decision made by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu just two days after he spoke with President Donald Trump.

The move appears to be a clear sign that the Israelis no longer fear American criticism of settlement construction, which is condemned by most of the world.

For eight years, Netanyahu and his right-wing allies bristled at the harsh condemnations of settlement growth by former President Barack liar-nObama's administration, which referred to the Israeli communities as "illegitimate" and "an obstacle to peace."

Trump, however, has signaled a more accommodating stance toward Israel. He has called for moving the U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem, a city claimed as the capital of both Israel and a potential future Palestinian state. Trump's pick for U.S. ambassador to Israel, David Friedman, is a hard-line opponent of the two-state solution and a supporter of the settlement enterprise in the West Bank.

"We're building --- and will continue to build," Netanyahu said Tuesday.

Netanyahu's promise to grow the settlements comes a little more than a week after diplomats from 70 countries met in Paris and criticized settlement building as a threat to a two-state solution. In December, the U.N. Security Council passed a resolution condemning the settlements, and Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry spoke out against them in a speech after the U.N. vote.

Asked at his daily briefing whether Trump supported the newly approved construction, White House press secretary Sean Spicer said that "Israel continues to be a huge ally of the United States" and that Trump "wants to grow closer with Israel to make sure it gets the full respect that it deserves in the Middle East."

Referring to a Monday announcement of a February meeting with Netanyahu, Spicer said, "We'll have a conversation with the prime minister."

But the potential sites could carry deep political resonance in the United States.

About 100 of the possible new units are in Beit El, a West Bank settlement supported by Friedman. The family of Trump's son-in-law and newly appointed White House adviser Jared Kushner has donated to the charities that support Beit El.

Palestinians called the Israeli move a possible sign of more-vigorous settlement construction.

"It is evident that Israel is exploiting the inauguration of the new American administration to escalate its violations and the prevention of any existence of a Palestinian state," said Hanan Ashrawi, a leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization.

A spokesman for Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas said the Israeli plans undermine efforts to bring peace to the Middle East and will promote extremism.

The spokesman, Nabil Abu Rudeineh, called on the international community to take a "real and serious position" against Israel's plans.

Jordan's information minister, Mohammed al-Momani, said the settlement plan "deals a tough blow to efforts to revive the peace process." The Europeans also expressed their concern. "It is regrettable that Israel is proceeding with this policy, despite the continuous serious international concern and objections, which have been constantly raised at all levels," the European Union's diplomatic service said Tuesday.

During the liar-nObama administration, settlement construction announcements came under increasingly bitter criticism, with the State Department suggesting that the moves undermined Middle East peace and raised questions about Netanyahu's true commitment to a two-state solution with the Palestinians.

"We are returning to normal life in Judea and Samaria," Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman said in a statement announcing the plans, using the biblical terms for the West Bank.

In the same announcement, Lieberman approved the construction of a Palestinian industrial park outside Hebron in the West Bank.

"It will be one of the largest industrial zones in the West Bank, in which we are planning to set up warehouse and fuel storage infrastructure, along with other elements," Lieberman said.

The announcement of 2,500 housing units comes just two days after a Jerusalem planning committee approved the construction of 560 housing units.

Israeli officials stressed that most of the 2,500 new units in the West Bank would be built in what they call "settlement blocs," densely populated lands that leaders here say will always remain in Israel, regardless of any future peace deal with the Palestinians.

"We hope that this is just the beginning of a wave of new building across our ancestral homeland after eight very difficult years," said Oded Revivi, foreign envoy for the Yesha Council, which represents Israeli settlers living in the West Bank. "We hope to continue building a peaceful future with the blessing of the new Trump administration."

The number of new units approved is large, but not unprecedented. During hanoi-Kerry's nine months of ultimately failed negotiations between Israel and Palestinians, Israel agreed to release Palestinian prisoners. After Israel freed 26 Palestinians in October 2013 - many of them convicted of murder - Israel announced plans to build and market 3,500 units in the West Bank as a way to quell fierce criticism from Netanyahu's hard-line right flank.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0117/israel_forges_ahead.php3

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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Ultrasound: The Anti-Science Left’s Bugaboo
by Michelle Malkin
 
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Rich Lowry: "The nation's foremost culture warrior is President Donald J. Trump. ... There is no way Trump could be a credible combatant in the culture war as it existed for the past 40 years. But he has reoriented the main lines of battle away from issues related to religion and sexual morality onto the grounds of populism and nationalism. Trump's culture war is fundamentally the people versus the elite, national sovereignty versus cosmopolitanism, and patriotism versus multiculturalism. It's the difference, in a nutshell, between fighting over gay rights or immigration, over the breakdown in marriage or Black Lives Matter. The new war is just as emotionally charged as the old one. It, too, involves fundamental questions about who we are as a people, which are always more fraught than the debate over the appropriate tax rate or whether or not we should have a defense sequester. ... His emphasis on borders, cultural coherence, law and order and national pride will engender a particular fear and loathing. It is an article of faith among the cultural elite that these priorities ... are the relics of a rapidly disappearing America that can't possibly represent the country's future. Trump and his supporters beg to differ."  ~The Patriot Post
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 SHORT CUTS 
Insight: "Destroy the family, you destroy the country." —Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924)
 
For the record: "Just as in Western Europe, the Left in America seeks to erase America's Judeo-Christian foundations. The melting pot is regarded as nothing more than an anti-black, anti-Muslim, anti-Hispanic meme. The Left suppresses free speech wherever possible for those who oppose it, labeling all non-Left speech 'hate speech.' To cite only one example, if you think Shakespeare is the greatest playwright or Bach is the greatest composer, you are a proponent of dead white European males and therefore racist." —Dennis Prager
 
Non Compos Mentis: "Say NO'Betsy Devos'.HER QUEST, 2 DEFUND PUBLIC SCHOOLS. UR CHILD DESERVES MORE." —Cher, opposing school choice and needing remedial grammar
 
A blind squirrel finds a nut: "[Trump's inaugural] speech was full of hope and inclusion and he reached out to cities in a way they've not been reached out to for a long time. ... I'm hopeful. ... I hope he'll have the grace and commitment to put all of us under one big tent." —Jesse Jackson
 
Braying Jenny: "My job is to shut other white people down when they want to interrupt." —DNC chairwoman candidate Sally Boynton Brown
 
And last... "I don't get what's so interesting or significant about a White House Press Secretary blatantly lying." —Frank Fleming   ~The Patriot Post
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Media Covers Fake Mike Flynn Story, Ignores
Bombshell on Secret liar-nObama/Iran Meetings
by David Steinberg
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{pjmedia.com} ~ If mainstream media truly wishes to repair its image with the general public, these outlets must recognize they do not merely suffer from a "bubble" reinforced by overwhelmingly liberal staffing... or from supposedly insufficient outreach to working class communities. The mainstream's issues are apparent in their content choices, suggesting an intractable problem. Following decades of allowing the Democratic Party to select the day's narrative, they possess no measure of professional competence for objectively judging the importance of information. The media's remarkably different responses to the following two stories offer a definitive example:...  https://pjmedia.com/trending/2017/01/25/media-covers-fake-mike-flynn-story-ignores-bombshell-on-secret-obamairan-meetings/
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Democracy Alliance: Soros Billionaires
Club for Revolution
by William F. Jasper
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Even as Democrats publicly and loudly decry corporatist political “dark money,” billionaire Democrats and other donors funnel hundreds of millions to radical and violent causes... Barely a week had passed after Donald Trump’s historic upset in the November 8 presidential election, but some of the world’s richest individuals were already launching a counteroffensive. George Soros and his fellow deep-pocket funders of the Democratic Party and left-wing causes gathered with a lineup of party activists and luminaries from Hollywood, K Street, and Wall Street for a three-day “investment conference” (November 15-17) at the luxurious Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, D.C. The conference was entitled “2016-2018-2020: Seizing Opportunity & Building Power.” These are folks who know a thing or two about seizing power — political, economic, and social. They are the “partners” of the Democracy Alliance, an elite invitation-only club of uber-rich donors who are credited with dumping hundreds of millions of dollars into political campaigns and radical movements in recent years...  http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/25200-democracy-alliance-soros-billionaires-club-for-revolution?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines&utm_content=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines+Jan+25+17
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Days Into Trump Admin, Corrupt Employees
Are Already Being Fired At The VA
by Luke Rosik
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Days into Donald Trump’s administration, heads are finally beginning to roll at the Department of Veterans Affairs. Two notoriously corrupt employees in Puerto Rico were fired this week, indicating that more may be on the way... One is the hospital’s CEO, DeWayne Hamlin, who offered an employee $305,000 to quit after she played a role in exposing his drug arrest. “Mr. DeWayne Hamlin was removed from federal service effective January 20, 2017,” the VA said. Jan. 20 was Inauguration Day. Under former Secretary of Veterans Affairs Bob McDonald, the agency ignored years of evidence about shoddy work ethic, theft and whistleblower retaliation. The VA finally began a months-long investigative proceeding last year, after an outside agency, the Office of Special Counsel, prodded VA leadership...
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Trump Investigation Of Voter Fraud
Legitimate, Despite Media Sniping
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The investigation into voter fraud is critical and it has to be done and voter security safeguards put into place prior to the mid-terms if possible but absolutely before the 2020 presidential elections... As President Trump knows the fraud he will face then will be even greater than what he just overcame in November. If the holes aren’t plugged in the system, most of them deliberately engineered into it by the crooked Democrats, and they are able to steal the next election, government by the citizens of this nation will be over. The establishment media propagandists dismiss President Trump as being crazy, believing a lie or, as in the instance with Bill Hemmer, obsessed with the idea. It’s amazing how the few honest members of that group can fail to recognize the scheme and how willingly the public buys the disingenuous arguments of the corrupt ones, such as ABC’s Jonathan Karl in the second video. Hemmer quotes President Trump, who appears to be aware that the whole “Russian hacking” nonsense was a red herring, a diversion away from the real voter fraud being conducted by the Democrats as has long been their plan, through the importation of illegals and providing them with the means of circumventing voter laws...  http://rickwells.us/gingrich-trump-investigation-voter-fraud-legitimate-despite-media-sniping/
VIDEO:  the second video is at the site
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Secret refugee network
'freaking out' over Trump reforms
by Leo Hohmann
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{wnd.com} ~ As early as Thursday, President Trump is expected to drop a bombshell on the refugee-resettlement industry, a network of church organizations, secular NGOs and United Nations-friendly groups... that are paid tens of millions of dollars every year to secretly plant Third World migrants into more than 300 U.S. cities and towns. Trump will block the entry of migrants from countries hosting Muslim jihadists, many of them looking to relocate to Western democracies in the wake of the Islamic State’s loss of territory in Syria and Iraq. Trump is planning a moratorium on immigration visas from seven countries of special interest – Syria, Iraq, Iran, Somalia, Sudan, Yemen and Libya. At the same time, Trump is expected to announce a pause in the resettlement of refugees from most countries for at least four months or until a better system of vetting can be developed...
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Ultrasound: The Anti-Science Left’s Bugaboo
by Michelle Malkin
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Abortion extremists are the new Luddites.

Remember Ned Ludd from your grade-school history lessons? He was the Occupy Wall Street agitator of his time — a phantom leader of early 19th-century British textile workers who vindictively smashed spinning jenny power looms to bits in a desperate bid to halt technological progress.

Now, it’s radical feminists hysterically stoking fear and loathing of machines. Revolutionary developments in sonography have endangered their agenda of unrestricted abortion on demand, at all times, no questions asked. The popular diagnostic tools that give parents and doctors around the world an increasingly vivid window to the womb fundamentally undermine Planned Parenthood’s dehumanizing propaganda.

With more and more pregnant women over the past three decades changing their minds about abortion after seeing and hearing the life growing inside of them, the peeved pussyhat brigade is on a mission:

Ultrasounds. Must. Be. Stopped.

The latest salvo in the wimmin’s war on sinister sonograms? It’s a doozy of a screed this week published by Moira Weigel, “writer and a doctoral candidate in comparative literature at Yale University,” in the Atlantic Monthly magazine originally titled, “How the Ultrasound Pushed the Idea that a Fetus is a Person.”

What a patriarchal jerk, that insidious Mr. Ultrasound is, pushing around such sexist lunacy as the idea that unborn babies are alive!

The original subheading of the article is even better (er, worse): “The technology has been used to create an imaginary ‘heartbeat’ and sped-up videos that falsely depict a response to stimulus.”

Weigel sneered that “there is no heart to speak of” in a six-week-old fetus and used “heartbeat” in scare quotes to assert her scientific authority. She similarly employed those scare quotes to deride “life,” “baby” and “baby bump.”

After actual medical experts and parents exposed Weigel’s Neanderthal ignorance of basic embryology, the ridiculous claim was removed and a sheepish noncorrection correction appeared at the end of the biology denier’s piece for the once-august Atlantic Monthly.

“This article originally stated that there is ‘no heart to speak of’ in a six-week-old fetus,” the editors’ note admitted. “By that point in a pregnancy, a heart has already begun to form. We regret the error.” Read it in smarty-pants “Saturday Night Live” character Emily Litella’s “Neeever mind” voice for full effect.

Next in the anti-science Atlantic’s investigative series: How X-rays pushed the idea that humans have skeletons! How microscopes pushed the idea that microorganisms exist! How electroencephalograms pushed the idea that human brains send electrical impulses! A deep dive by the intrepid Weigel into the world of “imaginary” bones, bacteria and beta waves will no doubt yield a Pulitzer nomination if not a Nobel Prize.

Curiously, Weigel raised no objection to the appalling use of ultrasound by Planned Parenthood operatives to harvest unborn baby parts. In 2015, the Center for Medical Progress exposed how Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the abortion giant’s senior director, boasted of using “ultrasound guidance” to improve the quality of coveted organs “a lot of people want liver”. Ultrasound machines helped their harvesters “know where they’re putting their forceps” to score better prices.

“We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver,” Dr. Nucatola chirped, “because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”

Ironically enough, we don’t need ultrasound to see quite clearly, through the ghoulish words and barbaric deeds of abortion zealots like Quack Doctor Wanna-be Weigel and Dr. Nucatola, that having a heart doesn’t always guarantee humanity.
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Thurs/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Trump: America For The Americans!
by Patrick Buchanan
 
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 Top Headlines 
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Dow tops record 20,000 — the Trump return for American pension plans! (Market Watch)
 
Trump Supreme Court justice pick narrows to two names, TBA next week. (CBS News)
 
U.S. Senate confirms Haley as UN ambassador. (Reuters)
 
Trump administration institutes media blackout for EPA, suspends social media activity. (Fox News)
 
Comey asked to stay on as FBI director. (ABC News)
 
Law Enforcement: Project Veritas infiltration may have stopped plans to shut down DC Metro. (Hot Air)
 
Senior Secret Service agent suggests she wouldn't take "a bullet" for Trump. (Washington Examiner)
 
Texas Christian University to send students to mosque for "religious experience." (The College Fix)
 
Contrary to CEO claims, Planned Parenthood caught denying women prenatal care. (Life News)
 
Athlete completes 3,000-mile run across America in honor of military veterans. (Fox News)
 
Policy: How Trump's regulatory reform could boost U.S. He wants to slash regulations by 75%. (The Daily Signal)
 
Policy: Trump clears the way for energy development. (National Review~The Patriot Post
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Information Warfare
by Cliff Kincaid
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{americasurvival.org} ~ Bill Gertz, author of iWar, discusses Donald J.Trump’s challenges in the field of information warfare; FBI Director Comey; liar-nObama CIA Director Brennan; and his replacement Mike Pompeo.  http://americasurvival.org/#axzz4Wj01tfW6
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For Those Scoffing at Russian
Penetration into American Democracy
by Denise Simon
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{founderscode.com} ~ This site has posted often on General Gerasimov and his doctrine. The games and propaganda that the Kremlin applies is still not taken seriously by the American people as they continue to scoff at Russian intrusions into our culture... Russia is playing a double game and it is time to set aside manufactured notions and seek the expertise of countless Russian scholars as well as what the Pentagon and intelligence communities are publishing. Using the sources that Russian officials use themselves is a valuable tool as noted here:..  http://founderscode.com/scoffing-russian-penetration-american-democracy/
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Trump’s Picture Put Up in GITMO Letting Prisoners
Know Major Changes Are Coming Their Way
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ President Donald Trump has only been in office for a few days, but you can already feel, and see, the changes that have taken place now that President Barack liar-nObama is out of office... Trump has met with business leaders and labor leaders. He has signed executive orders fulfilling campaign promises, and he has vowed to continue the war on the Islamic State terror group until it is eradicated. While this is a standard change, it also is something that should strike fear into the heart of every terrorist out there. Trump has promised to keep Gitmo open and to fill it with more terrorists...  http://conservativetribune.com/gitmo-gift-trump-middle-east/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=ConservativeBrief&utm_content=2017-01-25
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Dem Stalling, Wasteful Game
of Financial Dereliction And Security Risk
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts on “the head clown and the Dems who have eagerly put their petty politics and pique ahead of national security, putting our nation at risk by delaying confirmations for President Trump’s cabinet nominees... The dilatory Democrats today delayed another vote, this on Jeff Sessions for Attorney General. Another hearing set for the Senator a week from today.” Dobbs continues, “Committee votes also originally scheduled for Betsy Devos, Rick Perry, and Ryan Zinke today, all delayed, all victims of the Dems’ unprincipled campaign to hobble the Trump nominees. The full Senate did manage to confirm Nikki Haley as US Ambassador to the United Nations. Good going and thanks,” Dobbs said with a hint of sarcasm, “but Haley is only the fourth of Mr. Trump’s cabinet nominees to be confirmed over the first five days, compared to seven confirmations for ‘president’ liar-nObama on his first day.” “The Dems are delivering,” says Dobbs, “on their threats to obstruct the confirmation process for this President, but Senate Republicans aren’t helping themselves. Tomorrow Republicans set to leave for a scheduled retreat in Philadelphia, retreating not just from Capitol Hill but from work to confirm those Trump nominees.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-dem-stalling-wasteful-game-financial-dereliction-security-risk/
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Gutfeld Mercilessly Destroys
Chicago Dem Hypocrite Mayor Rahm Emanuel
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s always gratifying when a self-righteous, arrogant and corrupt blow hard gets annihilated. Greg Gutfeld had a few observations about the conduct of the hypocrite Democrat Mayor of Chicago, Rahm Emanuel... who has been quite vocal in his criticism of our new President. Maybe Emanuel subscribes to the line of thought that the best defense is a strong offense, but in this case in most, Rahm’s just offensive. Gutfeld notes how odd it was that Emanuel found time to knock President Trump over questions of the crowd size at his inauguration. He plays a clip of the dishonest Democrat speaking to Mr. Trump, who was not in attendance at the news conference, ‘saying, “You got elected to make sure that people have a job, the economy continues to grow, people have security as it relates to their kids’ education, etc, and it wasn’t about your crowd size. It was about their jobs and their lives.” He fails to note that all of those things were destroyed during the last eight years of liar-nObama for the nation as a whole, and for Chicago in particular under the tag team efforts of Emanuel and his former boss. The best way for the people of Chicago to secure those ideals for themselves is to move out of the city, maybe out of the state...  http://rickwells.us/gutfeld-mercilessly-destroys-chicago-dem-hypocrite-mayor-rahm-emanuel/
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Trump: America For The Americans!
by Patrick Buchanan
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{freedomsback.com} ~ As the patriotic pageantry of Inauguration Day gave way to the demonstrations of defiance Saturday, our new America came into view. We are two nations now, two peoples.

Though bracing, President Trump’s inaugural address was rooted in cold truths, as he dispensed with the customary idealism of inaugurals that are forgotten within a fortnight of the president being sworn in.

Trump’s inaugural was Jacksonian.

He was speaking to and for the forgotten Americans whose hopes he embodies, pledging to be their champion against those who abandon them in pursuit of higher, grander, nobler causes. Declared Trump:

“For too long, a small group in our nation’s capital has reaped the rewards of government while the people have borne the cost. Washington flourished, but the people did not share in its wealth. Politicians prospered, but the jobs left and the factories closed.”

Is this not true? American wages have stagnated as scores of thousands of factories were shut down or shipped abroad. Five of the six wealthiest counties in the U.S. today, measured by median household income, are the suburbs of Washington, D.C.

Inaugurals should lift us up, wailed the media, this was “dark.”

And Trump did paint a grim picture — of “mothers and children trapped in poverty in our inner cities; rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones across the landscape of our nation; an education system flush with cash but which leaves our … students deprived of all knowledge, and the crime and the gangs and the drugs…”

But is this not also a reality of America 2017?

Indeed, it carries echoes of FDR’s second inaugural: “I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill-nourished. … The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.”

Some of the recoil to Trump’s speech is surely traceable to an awareness by those covering and commenting upon it — that this was a searing indictment of them and their own ruling class.

With America’s political elite sitting behind him, Trump accused them of enriching “foreign industry,” not ours, of subsidizing other countries’ armies but neglecting our own, of defending other nation’s borders while leaving America’s borders unprotected.

Then, in the line that will give his address its name in history, he declared: “From this day forward it’s going to be only America First.”

Prediction: Trump’s “America First” inaugural will be recalled as the most controversial, but will be among the most remembered.

What did Trump mean by “America First”?

“Every decision on trade, on taxes, on immigration, on foreign affairs will be made to benefit American workers and American families.”

What does it mean for the world?

“We will seek friendship and goodwill with the nations of the world, but we do so with the understanding that it is the right of other nations to put their own interests first. We do not seek to impose our way of life on anyone, but rather to let it shine as an example. We will shine for everyone to follow.”

Denounced as isolationism, this is in an old and great tradition.

Ronald Reagan talked of America being a “shining city on a hill” for other nations to emulate.

John Quincy Adams declared:

“Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be unfurled there will America’s hearts, her benedictions, and her prayers be. But she goes not abroad in search of monsters to destroy. She is the well-wisher of the freedom and independence of all. She is the champion and vindicator only of her own.”

When the Hungarian patriot Louis Kossuth came to America seeking aid for the revolution of 1848, Henry Clay told him:

“Far better is it for ourselves, for Hungary, and for the cause of liberty, that … avoiding the distant wars of Europe, we should keep our lamp burning brightly on the western shore, as a light to all nations, than to hazard its utter extinction among the ruins of fallen or falling republics in Europe.”

The charge of “isolationist” was thrown in the face of Clay. But he prevailed, and America stayed out of Europe’s wars until 1917 when Woodrow Wilson, fatefully, plunged us in.

In 1936, FDR said, “We shun political commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars. … We are not isolationists except insofar as we seek to isolate ourselves completely from war. … I hate war.”

What Trump was saying in his inaugural is that we will offer our free and independent republic as an example to other nations, but it is not our providential mission to reshape the world in our own image.

“We will reinforce old alliances” that are in our interests, Trump declared. But we are approaching the end of an era where we fought other nations’ wars and paid other nations’ bills.

We will no longer bleed and bankrupt our country for the benefit of others. Henceforth, America will be of, by, and for Americans.

Is that not what the nation voted for?
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
When the Press Loses Credibility
by Susan Stamper Brown
 
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 Trump Yet to Act on Immigration 
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Concern has begun to mount among various conservatives over the fact that Donald Trump has not yet kept one of his more significant campaign promises. At a speech in late August last year, Trump vowed to "immediately terminate President liar-nObama's two illegal executive amnesties, in which he defied federal law and the constitution to give amnesty to approximately five million illegal immigrants." Trump was referring to DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) and DAPA (Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents), two of Barack liar-nObama's most lawless executive actions enacted in June 2012.
          When Trump spokesman Sean Spicer was asked about why the new president had not rescinded DACA and DAPA, he answered, "'First and foremost, the president's been very, very clear that we need to direct agencies to focus on those who are in this country illegally and have a criminal record or pose a threat to the American people. That's where the priorities are going to be and then we're going to continue to work through the entire number of folks that are here illegally. But right now the clear focus is on that." In other words, hang on and we'll get to it.
          Yesterday, Chris Wallace of Fox News asked White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus a similar question regarding liar-nObama's executive orders on amnesties. Priebus hinted at a long-term solution: "I think we're going to work with House and Senate leadership as well to get a long-term solution on that issue." Once again the answer was "wait."
          So, what's happening here? Has that infamous Beltway water begun to so infect the Trump administration that they're no longer concerned about the problem of illegal immigration? Not likely. For one thing, consider Trump's speaking style, which is typically hyperbolic. The mainstream media lampoon him for this and therefore can't take him seriously. However, the key to understanding Trump is listening to what he means while not getting hung up on the particulars of how he says it. Obviously, this is no simple task, nor is it an excuse to not hold him accountable for his campaign promises. Still, holding him to the "immediately" statement on timing a few days into his presidency and claiming he broke his promise fails to see the bigger picture.
          Trump can't do everything "immediately." Various issues require priority of focus and logistical considerations as well as both public and private dealing, all of which are part of the way both businesses and politics function. Give him a little time before declaring that he has failed to keep a campaign promise. 
~The Patriot Post
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Ex-Governor Chased By Hateful
Mob Of LGBT Thugs At DC March
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs and Sheriff David Clarke start off their discussion of the Saturday Women’s March on DC with the aging troll up Madonna and her statement about blowing up the White House now that the occupant has changed... Sheriff Clarke feels she’s resorting to political activism as the only means for her to get attention anymore. He says, “She wasn’t taken out of context, we all heard it, she did that for shock value. Now she’s trying to walk it back. I think she should at least get a visit from either FBI agents or the Secret Service for some questioning to at least send a message to her that that kind of stuff will not go on during the Donald Trump administration, not just his but any president’s administration.” Dobbs describes being at the event and roughly thirty LGBT agitators, thugettes and female thugettes who “were menacing, chasing, pursuing, whatever, Pat McCrory, the former governor of North Carolina.” He thanks two of the DC police who, after a few minutes stepped in and told them to move along. Dobbs hints around the hostilities that took place towards which were captured in the second video below by the proud perpetrators. He was being too generous in describing the nature of the attack...  http://rickwells.us/lou-dobbs-ex-governor-chased-hateful-mob-lgbt-thugs-dc-march/
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Report: U.S. Military Contractor
Persecuted for Not Bowing to Sharia
by Selwyn Duke
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ In perhaps another example of the U.S. government bowing to Sharia law, an American contractor in Afghanistan has been expelled by the U.S. military on an “insult to Islam” charge, according to a report... At issue is a letter anti-jihadism crusader Pamela Geller said she received from a military contractor named John Craig. Craig had been stationed in Afghanistan for five years and was working as a mechanical engineer at Bagram Air Field — that is, until he studied the Koran and rendered a politically incorrect opinion on it, he says. Craig states that he bought two copies of the Koran, one paperback and one hardback, because he was interested in studying Islam. He would highlight various parts of the books and write notes within them and, ultimately, “came to the conclusion that the Islamic doctrine itself is that of murder, rape, and extortion,” as he put it... http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/25213-report-us-military-contractor-persecuted-for-not-bowing-to-sharia?utm_source=iContactPro&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TNA+Top+Daily+Headlines
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Old U.S. enemy threatens 'war' if Trump moves embassy
by Art Moore
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{wnd.com} ~ A major nemesis during the Iraq War is warning that if the U.S. moves its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, as President Trump has vowed, it will be regarded as a declaration of war against Islam... Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, who led a militia against U.S.-led coalition forces in Iraq, called for the “formation of a special division to liberate Jerusalem were the decision to be implemented.” Commenting on Sader’s declaration, Islam expert Robert Spencer, the publisher of Jihad Watch, observed that while Western policy analysts routinely treat Israel’s conflict with the Arabs as a matter of a land dispute that can be settled by negotiations, Muslim spokesmen worldwide treat it as an Islamic matter...Don't back down Trump.  http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/old-u-s-foe-threatens-war-if-trump-moves-embassy/
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Liberals are DELUSIONAL...Here is Proof!
by Allen West
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{allenwestrepublic.com} ~ In 2009, the progressive left embarked on an ideological agenda evidencing a serious delusion and disconnection with America. Instead of focusing on two simple issues — economic growth and national security... Barack liar-nObama, Harry dinky-Reid, Nancy Pulosi, and their acolytes plotted a course for America that wasn’t rooted in sound policy, but, rather, their interpretation of “fairness.” The first delusion was trying to make the American people believe that Keynesian economic policy — tax and spend — was still viable. The first thing out of the gate was a massive $1 trillion stimulus package centered on “shovel ready jobs.” It was embarrassing when liar-nObama sat on a stage with his economic council stating, “I guess shovel ready was not exactly ready.” The fact that liar-nObama did so with a laugh and smirk was a slap in the face of the American taxpayer...  http://allenwestrepublic.com/allen-west-liberals-are-delusional-here-is-proof/
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Cruz and Poe Introduce Legislation
for States to Reject Refugees
by Denise Simon
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{founderscode.com} ~ There is some additional help coming from the Trump administration as President Trump is likely to issue and sign executive order on immigration that will impact visa holders from Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen... These are worn torn countries where hostilities continue with terror organizations. An issue that still remains however that Trump has not addressed is the asylum seekers. A bill to amend the Immigration and Nationality Act to permit the Governor of a State to reject the resettlement of a refugee in that State unless there is adequate assurance that the alien does not present a security risk and for other purposes. New bill from Cruz, Poe would let states reject refugees. Republicans in the House and Senate have introduced legislation that would give governors the power to reject federal efforts to resettle refugees in their states...  http://founderscode.com/cruz-poe-introduce-legislation-states-reject-refugees/
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When the Press Loses Credibility
by Susan Stamper Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ When is the press no longer the watchdog America’s founders intended to keep government accountable? When it reports and publishes unverified smears.

America’s founders believed that a free press was of such significance they granted it constitutional protection. Thomas Jefferson said, “Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.” The press was an integral ingredient to a free nation which Jefferson believed could be an unbiased watchdog to keep the government honest.

What happens, though, when the watchdog cannot be trusted?

On January 10, notably excited CNN journalists delivered “breaking news” that classified documents presented to the current and incoming presidents included allegations that Russians had compromising information about Donald Trump. Not long after, BuzzFeed apparently heard CNN’s dog whistle and published a 35-page dossier, which was really nothing more than a compilation of uncorroborated hogwash, obviously created to delegitimize Trump’s presidency.

The following day, NBC News reported a senior U.S. intelligence official disputed CNN’s claims. The official said Trump was not briefed on the dossier and claims “no investigations found any conclusive or direct link between Trump and the Russian government.” Later, Trump tweeted that National Intelligence director James Clapper “called me yesterday to denounce the false and fictitious report that was illegally circulated.”

Calling it a dossier is about as big of a stretch as BuzzFeed editor Ben Smith’s justification for publishing it. Smith wrote, “Publishing this document was not an easy or simple call, and people of good will may disagree with our choice. But publishing this dossier reflects how we see the job of reporters in 2017.” BuzzFeed’s irresponsible decision gave Americans one more reason to distrust the press and made it harder for the press at large to hold the new administration accountable.

WikiLeaks was ruthlessly attacked for publishing corroborated, authenticated information about liar-Hillary Clinton, but it is somehow OK for CNN to hold the door of innuendo open and for BuzzFeed to run through and publish uncorroborated rumors about Trump.

WikiLeaks laid bare the truth about what regular Americans already suspected. It exposed a sinister collusion between the press, CNN specifically, and the liar-Clinton campaign. Leaked emails revealed former CNN contributor Donna Brazile leaked debate questions to help liar-Clinton. The emails also exposed that the Democratic National Committee colluded with CNN about what kind of interview questions Wolf Blitzer should ask Donald Trump.

Twenty years after his original comments about the press, an obviously much wiser Thomas Jefferson wrote in 1807 to newspaper editor John Norvell: “To your request of my opinion of the manner in which a newspaper should be conducted, so as to be most useful, I should answer, ‘by restraining it to true facts and sound principles only.’ Yet I fear such a paper would find few subscribers. It is a melancholy truth, that a suppression of the press could not more completely deprive the nation of its benefits, than is done by its abandoned prostitution to falsehood. Nothing can now be believed which is seen in a newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.”

Apparently, some things never change.
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
John Lewis Disgraces Himself
by John Perazzo

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 Top Headlines 
Trump signs order to freeze federal hiring in order to reduce bureaucracies. (Government Executive)
 
Trump advancing Keystone, Dakota Oil pipelines today. (Bloomberg)
 
A look at four of the GOP's liar-nObamaCare replacement plans. (The Daily Signal)
 
Senate confirms Mike Pompeo as CIA director. (The Washington Post)
 
Senate committee approves Tillerson for State. Now to the full Senate... (Associated Press)
 
DNC Chair candidates bash white people in racially charged forum. (News Grabien)
 
liar-Hillary Clinton plots her next move. How about retirement? (Politico)
 
President Trump restores ban on international abortion funding. (Alliance Defending Freedom)
 
liar-nObama quietly sent $221M to Palestinians in final hours as exec. (Fox News)
 
Israel approves huge expansion of West Bank settlements. (The Washington Post)
 
Satire — or is it? Survey says 100% of the people marching on the nation's capital for abortion rights as part of the "Women's March on Washington" were found to have not been aborted. (The Babylon Bee)
 
Policy: Jeff Sessions can help stop the "American carnage." (Real Clear Policy)
 
Policy: What science really says about sodium and hypertension. (Competitive Enterprise Institute~The Patriot Post
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Judge Napolitano – What Trump Just
Did Never Been Done Before, Revolutionary
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Stuart Varney invited Judge Andrew Napolitano in to explain what is going on in the case of the first executive order of President Trump, one targeting the liar-nObamacare mandate... Napolitano says he has “one word to describe it, revolutionary. I have never seen anything like it.” He says, “It basically says to the Department of Justice, Treasury and Health and Human Services, the three departments that, in one way or another, administer the Affordable Care Act, please be advised this will soon no longer be the law. So I don’t want you to assess any fines, penalties, set offs against the states, or taxes on individuals who didn’t comply with the individual mandate.” Napolitano continues his explanation, saying, “I don’t want you to disobey the law, I want you to enforce it while it’s still the law. But here’s the revolutionary part, when there’s a dispute between the individual an individual and the government, you will exercise your discretion in favor of the individual. That statement there is unheard of in American legal history.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-napolitano-trump-just-never-revolutionary/
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Schumer Looks Like A Wanted Fugitive
With Nowhere To Hide From Trump
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs sets the stage for his guests with a recap of the day’s White House activity. It took a while because it was a very busy day. Ed Rollins jumps in first, saying he thinks “it was an absolutely fabulous day for the President... I thought he showed great leadership when he made his inaugural address, he was strong and powerful and reinforced the issues that he talked about in the campaign.” He said that Trump looked the part and sounded the part of President, that “This is a guy who’s basically tough and going to show his leadership real quick.” Dobbs notes how we’ve seen President Trump meet with business leaders before, one of his meetings in the White House from earlier in the day. We haven’t seen him meeting with labor leaders as he did later on. He noted that both groups were given “top drawer” treatment. Michael Goodwin gives Trump high marks for keeping his promises at the first available opportunity and notes that everything we’ve seen him do to this point is something that Hussein liar-nObama could have done but didn’t. “He could have jaw-boned these companies to try to keep them in America.” Dobb points to the many in the liberal media who are dismissing his “jaw-boning” as an improper “intervention.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-schumer-looks-like-wanted-fugitive-nowhere-hide-trump/
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Darwinism Still Corrupts Culture
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{crev.info} ~ The bad fruits of Social Darwinism are well known. Less well known are ongoing negative influences of modern Darwinian ideas on human behavior... How Do You Correct Behavior Based on Fake Science? Have you been led to believe that men are naturally more promiscuous because sperm cells are cheap? That women are more choosy because eggs are costly? It’s all bunk. Phys.org just published the following headline: “Data should smash the biological myth of promiscuous males and sexually coy females.” That’s strong wording: smash, myth. New findings are teaching the opposite: men can be coy, and women promiscuous. But both ideas, being based on Darwinian ideas that people are just animals, can have unspeakably horrible consequences for marriage, family, and civilization...
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Trump Freezes EPA – No Communications,
Contracts, Grants Pending Review
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump has taken actions to curb the activities at the predatory Environmental Protection Agency. They include a media blackout and a prohibition against the agency staff awarding any new contracts or grants... AP reports that press releases, blog updates and posts to the EPA’s social media accounts are also prohibited. There have been no new postings to any of the EPA websites or social media accounts since Friday, inauguration day. The Trump administration has put in place what it terms as a temporary suspension of all new business activities at the department. That suspension includes the issuance of task orders or work assignments to EPA contractors. The changes are expected to have a significant and immediate impact on EPA activities nationwide. Similar communication blackouts have been put in place in the last few days at the Departments of Agriculture and Interior as well. The EPA’s public affairs office has been instructed to forward all inquiries from reporters to the Office of Administration and Resources Management...  http://rickwells.us/trump-freezes-epa-communications-contracts-grants-pending-review/
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Do Conspiracies Exist?
by Charles Scaliger
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ To understand the workings of government, it is necessary to acknowledge the mostly unseen hand of conspiracy. Only seldom do historians mention it, and even less the majority of commentators on current events... the very word “conspiracy” has acquired overtones of hysteria and emotionalism. To be styled a “conspiracy theorist” is perhaps the ultimate reproach in media-driven discourse. Yet conspiracies, difficult to detect and even more difficult to prove, are as natural an element of politics as algae is of pond water. It is frequently assumed that political behavior and events are a manifestation of the laws of psychology and group behavior. This may sometimes be the case, but far more often than most of us suspect, politics is in fact a carefully orchestrated spectacle. Scandals that appear to erupt spontaneously into public view are often created at opportune moments. Acts of war and terrorism are sometimes encouraged and even concocted to serve cynical policy goals. Seemingly random swings in finance are timed to further political agendas. And most abominably, people of power and influence often work actively to subvert their own government and culture. Whenever men organize in secret to further any of these nefarious aims, they are acting conspiratorially...
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John Lewis Disgraces Himself
by John Perazzo
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ If a good man turns bad, are we required to pretend, for the rest of his life, that he is still good? Do such a man's earlier good deeds render him strictly off-limits from any and all subsequent criticism until the end of time? Is he entitled to be revered indefinitely as a hero, an icon, or a saint, even if he has spent the past half-century proving himself to be a vile race-baiter, an ally of America's enemies, and a liar who repeatedly bears false witness against his fellow man? 

We can answer all these questions by examining the track record of Democratic congressman John Lewis, who has vowed to boycott President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration on grounds that Trump is not “a legitimate president.” Incidentally, that was the same rationale Lewis used sixteen years ago, when he likewise boycotted the inauguration of George W. Bush.

Yes, we all know about Lewis's days as a good guy in the early Sixties, when he took part in the Freedom Rides that challenged segregation across the South, and when he was arrested and beaten for his participation in civil-rights actions in places like South Carolina and Alabama.

But in addition to that, are we, by any chance, allowed to also remember that from 1962-64 Lewis was a vice chairman of a Communist Party USA front group known as the National Committee to Abolish the House Un-American Activities Committee? Trevor Loudon's extraordinary research has laid bare this fact and many others about Lewis's past.

How about the fact that in 1964 Lewis praised Norman Thomas—a six-time U.S. presidential candidate on the Socialist Party of America ticket—as a man who “has symbolized to millions of Americans the ideals of peace, freedom and equality”? Are we permitted to be unsettled by that?

Is it okay if we find it curious that in 1965 Lewis became the first honoree to receive the annual Eugene Debs Award, named for the founder of the Socialist Party of America?


Are we allowed to raise an eyebrow over the fact that in '65 as well, Lewis penned an article for a Communist propaganda magazine in which he lauded Paul Robeson, a Communist Party member who had been a devoted admirer of the late Soviet dictator and mass murderer Joseph Stalin?

Or must we, as proof of our moral virtue and good manners, dutifully turn a blind eye to all these things?

Is it permissible to be unimpressed by the fact that in the late Sixties, Lewis was listed as a sponsor of the GI Civil Liberties Defense Committee, an anti-U.S.-military organization that served as a front for the Socialist Workers Party?

Are we allowed to wonder why, in May 1973, Lewis co-sponsored “A Call” for a founding conference of the National Alliance Against Racist and Political Repression, a Communist Party front group that grew out of the movement to free the incarcerated Marxist revolutionary and Black Panther ally Angela Davis?

Are we permitted to think it less-than-wonderful that in 1989 Lewis was a founding member of the Institute for Southern Studies—a North Carolina-based spinoff of the Institute for Policy Studies—in light of the fact that the IPS was described in 1983 by then-Secretary of State George Shultz as an organization “which has for 20 years consistently supported foreign policy objectives that serve the interests of the Soviet Union”?

Would it be okay for some of us to take offense at Lewis's assertion in March 1995—four months after the Republican Party had won House and Senate majorities on the strength of its “Contract With America”—that Republicans were akin to Nazis intent upon exploiting and abusing “the children,” “the poor,” “the sick,” “the elderly,” and “the disabled”?

Or must we forever bow our heads and genuflect whenever Lewis's name is mentioned?

Are we permitted to wonder why Lewis in 2003 contributed an article to the Communist newspaper People's Weekly World?

Are we allowed to question why Lewis in 2007 was a special guest at the annual conference of the Democratic Socialists of America, an organization whose explicit aim is to “radically transform” the American government and economy?

Are we permitted to find it disgraceful that when the House of Representatives in 2009 voted overwhelmingly to defund the notoriously corrupt, pro-socialist, community organization ACORN—which had elevated voter-registration fraud into a veritable art form—Lewis was one of the relatively few Democrats who voted to continue pouring rivers of taxpayer dollars into that moral cesspool?

Are we allowed to be outraged by the fact that in mid-July 2014, after scores of thousands of mostly unaccompanied Central American minors had crossed the southern U.S. border illegally since October of the previous year, Lewis called for open borders and proudly declared that “our doors are open”?

Or must we perpetually build shrines in Lewis's honor?

Are we permitted to be repulsed by the fact that in October 2008, Lewis likened Republican presidential candidate John McCain and and his running mate, Sarah Palin, to George Wallace, the former the segregationist former governor of Alabama who had “created the climate and the conditions that encouraged vicious attacks against innocent Americans”?

Are we allowed to think badly of Lewis for having lied in 2010 when he said that conservative Tea Party protesters on the steps of Capitol Hill had shouted the “N-word” at him as he walked past them?

Is it permissible to be disgusted by Lewis's claim—in a speech he gave at the Democratic National Convention in September 2012—that Republicans were eager to bring back the days of Jim Crow segregation and bloody violence against blacks?

And are we allowed to wonder why Gary Dotterman, a prominent Communist Party member in Massachusetts, described Lewis in 2015 as “my hero, my comrade, my inspiration and my friend”?

The great scholar and author Thomas Sowell, writing about the grotesque moral decline which the NAACP had undergone over a period of decades, once noted that “in time even monuments can become overgrown by weeds,” and “even a great crusade can degenerate into a hustle.”

Once-respectable individuals can likewise degenerate into malevolent hustlers. If you need proof, just look at John Lewis.
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Wed/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Trump speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu … and other foreign affairs goings-on
by Karen DeYoung
 
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 Memo to Trump: Don't Swap Spit With Jackasses! 
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By Mark Alexander: For the eight years Donald Trump hosted his successful reality TV show, he had complete control over the script. But in actual reality, as president, the Leftmedia talkingheads are well versed in promulgating their own narrative and it can be a lot louder than Trump Tweets. When these two competing forces meet, there is inevitable conflict. Unfortunately, these conflicts between Trump and the mainstream media continue to erupt over petty tussles, diverting political capital from much more important issues.
          The latest example of this tug of war was the contested claims about the size of the inaugural crowd. There is little doubt that the Leftmedia's intent in this debate was to belittle Trump and bait him into a response, which they received. And the Trump administration's "alternative facts" and suggestions that photographs of the inaugural crowd were intended to "lessen the enthusiasm" and were "shameful and wrong" only succeeded in turning a molehill into a mountain.
          Trump's White House spokesman Sean Spicer burned up half of his first press briefing Saturday defending attendance numbers, including this questionable assertion: "This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration — period — both in person and around the globe."
          Now, as it pertains to turnout for inaugurals, in 2012, Barack liar-nObama won 91% of the vote in Washington, DC, and mass majorities in surrounding government bureaucrat bedroom communities in Maryland and Virginia. Notably, liar-Hillary Clinton also won 91% in 2016. It was easy for millions of liar-nObamaphiles to commute to the national mall for his coronation, and just as easy for hundreds of thousands of local libs to converge on DC to protest the Trump inaugural.
          Meanwhile, most of Trump's voters are much more evenly spread across the nation. Of course, the mainstream media ignored this rather significant detail in their reporting.
          But the point is, Trump and his spokespeople must stop engaging in petulant and sophomoric molehill battles with media and celebrities. Throwing out "alternative facts" does not "win" the argument, nor does it expose the genuine media bias, like fake news claims that a bust of Martin Luther King had been removed from the Oval Office.
          Spicer would have won the day responding to the question of attendance with 15 words instead of 500: "There were far more people here for Donald Trump's inaugural events than for liar-Hillary Clinton's!" Or he could have taken the tack of Kellyanne Conway, who opined, "I don't think ultimately presidents are judged by crowd sizes at their inauguration. I think they are judged by their accomplishments."
          The ancient wisdom of Proverbs 26:4 warns, "Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you yourself will be just like him." Trump's eagerness to challenge Leftmedia bias and "fake news" resonates only when it does not propagate "alternative facts" that are demonstrably false. And, being that Trump is now president and no longer a candidate or a reality TV star, diverting from much more important issues by engaging in petty molehill battles is a costly unforced error.  ~The Patriot Post
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Sen. Schumer and Sen. Tom Cotton get
into ANGRY Confrontation
by Saagar Enjeti
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Sens. Tom Cotton and Chuck Schumer reportedly got into an angry confrontation on the Senate floor Friday over Senate Democrats delaying the confirmation of Rep. Mike Pompeo for CIA director... The Weekly Standard reports. Cotton was reportedly irate with Schumer’s delay of the confirmation vote and loudly accosted him on the Senate floor. Schumer retorted that the Senate had never confirmed a CIA director on Inauguration Day, adding that Senate Republicans did not do the same for former President Barack liar-nObama. He continued that Cotton would have known this if he had been in the Senate eight years ago. “Eight years ago, I was getting my ass shot at in Afghanistan,” Cotton reportedly shot back. He continued, “So don’t talk to me about where I was 8 years ago.” Cotton served two tours in Iraq and Afghanistan in the U.S. Army as a member of the 101st Airborne Division...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/23/chuck-schumer-probably-shouldnt-have-insulted-tom-cotton-about-where-he-was-eight-years-ago/
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hanoi-Kerry released $221 million to Palestinian
Authority just before Trump’s Inauguration
by William A. Jacobson  
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ We already have seen numerous moves by the former liar-nObama administration to extend its policy preferences into the Trump era, including $500 million sent just days before the inauguration to fund the Paris Climate Agreement... According to reports, a similar tactic was used to evade congressional opposition to transferring funds to the Palestinian Authority after complaints about its incitement efforts, including paying monthly salaries to convicted terrorist in Israeli jail. Officials say the liar-nObama administration in its waning hours defied Republican opposition and quietly released $221 million to the Palestinian Authority that GOP members of Congress had been blocking...hanoi-Kerry and liar-nObama should be tried on treason.
Courageous Christian and Jewish
clerics announce "Faith Leaders for America"
by FRANK J. GAFFNEY, JR.
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ I wanted to share with you a most extraordinary experience I had today. At the National Press Club in Washington, nine courageous Christian and Jewish clerics announced the formation of a new group, Faith Leaders for America...  The mission they have undertaken, together with more than sixty-five other influential clergy of different faiths and denominations, is to promote and protect our constitutional freedoms increasingly under assault - in this country, as well as overseas - from adherents to the totalitarian Islamic doctrine known as Sharia. You can see here the presentations and responses to questions by the following remarkable men: Rev. Jerry Johnson, Rev. Jim Garlow, Rev. David Barton, Rabbi Jonathan Hausman, Lt. Gen./Rev. William G. "Jerry" Boykin (Ret.), Bishop Aubrey Shines, Bishop E.W. Jackson, Hon. Sam Rohrer and Rev. Rick Scarborough.  I strongly encourage you to watch the press conference in its entirety if you can. Alternatively, click here if you want the highlights of these Faith Leaders' discussion of: the danger we face from Sharia supremacism; the role played in advancing that agenda by the Muslim Brotherhood; the insidious techniques used by the Brothers to pursue their goal of destroying Western civilization from within - including, notably, so-called "interfaith dialogue"; and the necessity of designating the Brotherhood as terrorists... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/courageous-christian-and-jewish-clerics-announce-faith-leaders-for-america?f=must_reads
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The Myth of The Tolerant Left
by Tony Oliva
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{lidblog.com} ~ The idea of a tolerant Left is a lie.  I use the term Left to encapsulate progressives, social justice warriors, anti-capitalists etc.  It is a great big lie that has been told over and over again with such vehemence that a lot of people accept it as being true... The Left is tolerant of peoples opinions…so long as those opinions agree with the agenda of the Left. If not they will try and intimidate you by harassment, bullying, violence or trying to shout you down when you try to make a point. They are the most intolerant of people. One need look only to when the Left gather and try and protest something. Rather than any type of exchange of ideas or simply the notion of a peaceful protest, the Left gets belligerent and violent...  http://lidblog.com/myth-of-the-tolerant-left/
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Germany's New 'Ministry of Truth'
by Stefan Frank
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The elites and intellectuals are apparently now counted among the German minorities in need of protection. Toward the end of last year, Germany experienced a previously unheard-of boycott campaign... funded by the German government, no less -- against several websites, such as the popular "Axis of Good" ("Achse des Guten"). The website, critical of the government, was suddenly accused of "right-wing populism". The German government's efforts at thought control seem to have begun with the victory of Donald J. Trump in the US presidential election -- that seems to set the "establishment" off. Germany's foreign minister and the probable future federal president, Frank-Walter Steinmeier -- one of the first to travel to Iran after the removal of sanctions there to kowtow to the Ayatollahs -- called America's future president a "hate preacher". Germany's newspapers were suddenly littered with apocalyptic predictions and anti-American fulminations...A mistake on their part. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9822/germany-ministry-of-truth
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Trump speaks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu … and other foreign affairs goings-on
by Karen DeYoung
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ President Donald Trump spoke Sunday with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, a brief conversation that Trump described as "very nice," and Netanyahu called "very warm."

Netanyahu, in a statement issued by his office, said Trump had invited him to visit the White House in February, although a final date was not yet set. They discussed the Iran nuclear deal, the "peace process with the Palestinians," and other issues," the Israeli leader said, adding that he had "expressed his desire to work closely . . . with no daylight between the United States and Israel."

The White House provided no initial details of the call, which was scheduled to last 30 minutes. Trump characterized it to reporters gathered to witnesses the swearing in of his new White House staff.

Speaking at that event, Trump said that he would meet soon with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, both of whom he spoke with by telephone on Saturday. A Mexico meeting may come as early as the end of this month, White House officials said.

"We're going to start renegotiating about NAFTA and immigration and security on the border," Trump said. "Mexico has been terrific. . .I think we're going to have a very good result." NAFTA is the North American Free Trade Agreement, which Trump has said is unfair to the United States; both Trudeau and Pena Nieto have said they are willing to discuss its terms.

Trump's first face-to-face meeting with a foreign leader, however, will come Friday, when he receives British Prime Minister Theresa May at the White House.

In a statement Sunday, May's government said the meeting would "primarily be an opportunity to get to know one another and to establish the basis for a productive working relationship." The statement said May would also address a weekend meeting of Republican lawmakers that Trump is also scheduled to attend.

May, who is struggling to implement her country's vote to leave the European Union - is seeking a strong bilateral trade relationship with the United States as she prepares for EU negotiations.

Earlier on Sunday, Netanyahu tweeted that "Stopping the Iranian threat, and the threat reflected in the bad nuclear agreement with Iran, continues to be a supreme goal of Israel."

Netanyahu also met with his security cabinet on Sunday, telling them that he would allow continued construction of Jewish settlements in East Jerusalem, according to Israeli media accounts.

Those settlements are considered illegal by most of the world. The liar-nObama administration called them "illegitimate" and "obstacles to peace." Israel disputed this.

On Sunday, Jerusalem's construction committee approved 566 housing units in east Jerusalem settlements.

Meanwhile, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat said that Trump was a "true friend" to Israel, referring to a reported statement by Trump press secretary Sean Spicer that the administration was at the "very beginning stages" of discussing a move of the U.S. embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

"We will offer them all the assistance necessary," Barkat said in a statement. "The U.S. has sent a message to the world that it recognizes Jerusalem as the united capital of Israel."

No country in the world has its Israel embassy in Jerusalem, which is also claimed by the Palestinians as their capital. While Congress long ago passed a resolution ordering the move, both Republican and Democratic presidents have repeatedly waived the order on national security grounds.

Trump pledged during his campaign to move the embassy, and his designated ambassador to Israel, New York bankruptcy lawyer David Friedman, has called the move was a "big priority" for the new administration.

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas met with Jordanian King Abdullah II on Sunday to discuss what to do if Trump makes good on the promised move. Jordan plays an important role in Jerusalem as a caretaker of the holy Muslim sites in the eastern side of the city.

Abbas said in a statement after his meeting with the king, "We wish two thing of the new American administration: First, to stop talks about moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem; and second, to get involved in conducting serious negotiations between Palestine and Israel to reach a political solution which is for the best interest of Palestinians, Israelis and the whole region."

In his confirmation hearing, secretary of state nominee Rex Tillerson called Israel "our most important ally in the region," and criticized former president Barack liar-nObama for undermining Israeli security, but did not directly address the embassy question.

Tillerson's confirmation was all but assured on Sunday, when a pair of Republican senators who had expressed concerns about him announced they will vote to confirm him. Sens. John McCain of Arizona and Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, two traditional GOP hawks who have voiced skepticism about Tillerson's ties to Russia, released a joint statement saying that after much thought, they have decided to back him.

The Senate Foreign Relations Committee plans to vote Monday afternoon on Tillerson. Regardless of the outcome, his nomination will move to the full Senate floor for a vote, Senate Foreign Relations Chairman Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said last week.

While much of the drama about Tillerson's fate has faded, there is still the question of how Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., will vote in the committee. Rubio grilled Tillerson about Russia during his confirmation hearing and seemed dissatisfied with some of his responses.

In appearances on Sunday talk shows, both McCain and Graham made clear that they remain uncertain about Trump's foreign policy intentions, and that they hope to work with those they approve of in the Cabinet, some of whose ideas have contrasted with those expressed by the new White House.

If Trump's promise to put "America first" is "a throwback to the '20s and '30s isolationism . . . the world will deteriorate even quicker, Graham said on CBS's "Face the Nation." "If it is a new way of Ronald Reagan peace through strength, I would like to work with you."

"I don't know what America first means," Graham said. On issues such as a new relationship with Russia, or possible cuts in foreign aid, he said, "I would tell him...talk to General Mattis," Trump's newly confirmed Defense Secretary, who has emphasized the use of "soft power" and working with allies.

Tillerson understands those same priorities, Graham said, adding that Trump should not "be weak on Russia."

McCain, speaking on ABC's "This Week," echoed concerns about Russia, and Trump's call for warmer relations, adding that Russian President Vladimir Putin was "a war criminal."

He said Mattis, Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, newly confirmed Secretary of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly, and Dan Coats, named as Director of National Security, shared his view that Russia is "our major challenge."

"I couldn't have picked a better team," McCain said. "And so I'm confident that Trump will listen to them and be guided by them."

Asked whether he had "utmost confidence" in Trump himself, McCain said "I do not know, because he has made so many comments that are contradictory.

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