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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Democrats’ Post-Election
Temper-Tantrums Continue
by Susan Stamper Brown
 
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 America First — Trump's Inaugural Address 
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By Nate Jackson: "America First" pretty much sums up the message from Donald Trump's inaugural address. The speech was a profoundly bold and brash populist manifesto, and it was quintessential Trump. National Review's Rich Lowry called it a "slightly more subdued version of his stump speech." Trump lauded our country and promised, of course, to make it great again. He also set the bar high with promises, and many Americans are eager to see what he'll do as the 45th president of the United States.
          Trump began with confidence and promise. "We, the citizens of America, are now joined in a great national effort to rebuild our country and to restore its promise for all of our people," he said. "Together, we will determine the course of America and the world for years to come. We will face challenges. We will confront hardships. But we will get the job done."
          "We." That word showed up nearly 50 times in the speech, while "I" appeared just three times. That's a change from Barack liar-nObama's self-centered speeches.
          Then he set about painting a picture of the damage done to our great nation by eight years of Barack liar-nObama. And that began with a pointed rebuke of his predecessor sitting just behind him.

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. The establishment protected itself, but not the citizens of our country.

Their victories have not been your victories; their triumphs have not been your triumphs; and while they celebrated in our nation's capital, there was little to celebrate for struggling families all across our land.

That all changes — starting right here, and right now, because this moment is your moment. It belongs to you. It belongs to everyone gathered here today and everyone watching all across America. This is your day. This is your celebration. And this, the United States of America, is your country.

Trump spoke with righteous indignation — shared by millions of voters — of rampant inner city poverty, "rusted-out factories scattered like tombstones" around the nation, and an education system "flush with cash" but failing our children. He lamented how we've allowed our military to suffer depletion and lost our wealth to the rest of the world. He decried rising crime, which he called "American carnage" — a phrase that sent most Leftmedia talkingheads to the fainting couch.
          "But that is the past," he declared. "And now we are looking only to the future. From this day forward, it's going to be only America first."
           By that, he meant that we will make things and buy the things we make. We'll restore alliances and build new ones, all while eradicating the threat of radical Islamic terrorism — yes, he was bold enough to utter those words.
          Former Ronald Reagan speechwriter Peggy Noonan, who spent last year traveling the country to learn what makes Trump supporters tick, put it this way: "He presented himself not as a Republican or a conservative but as a populist independent. The essential message: Remember those things I said in the campaign? I meant them. I meant it all."
          Finally, he appealed to unity in a way that must have made liar-nObama cringe:

When you open your heart to patriotism, there is no room for prejudice. ...
 Whether we are black or brown or white, we all bleed the same red blood of Patriots, we all enjoy the same glorious freedoms, and we all salute the same great American flag.

And whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator.

Unity is tough to come by these days, and we aren't holding our breath for liar-nObama to lead his fellow leftists in any kind of display of it. But Trump hit some important notes in his speech and we hope his aspirations for a stronger and more prosperous America come to fruition.  ~The Patriot Post
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Trey Gowdy’s New Role In Trump’s White House
Has liar-nObama Very Pissed Off
by William Smith
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Dust off your Constitution, brush up on the Bill of Rights, and while you’re at it, take a look at the Declaration of Independence, Congressman Trey Gowdy has been given a new role within the Trump Administration... and although it hasn’t yet been officially announced, you can bet those progressive lawmakers who subscribe to playing fast and lose with our institutions might do well to rip up the liar-nObama/liar-Clinton progressive playbook in how to subvert our laws. Gowdy represents South Carolina’s 4th District, and gained national attention for his Constitutional powers, and his fidelity to the rule of law. He’s is one of the few members in congress who can define complex legal jargon, so that everyone can understand it, regardless, and he’s also respected as a fierce unrelenting adversary. However always far in his approach, and seldom grandstands for political expediency...
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Huge Victory For America As Trump,
Sessions Kill TPP...
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ President Trump demonstrated who he is and what his presidency is all about on Monday with the signing of an executive order that removes the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership... That agreement was highly coveted by the establishment globalists as were the other two that would have followed, including a similar arrangement with the globalist European Union, the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership, T-TIP. By killing TPP, President Trump has struck a huge blow for the American people and our independence, and our sovereignty. He removed from the globalist corporate elite a mechanism, years in the making, written largely by the 600 corporations it would benefit, that would have given them virtually unrestrained power, preference and protection in commerce and elsewhere, both from competition as well as in legal matters. The establishment elites and globalists hated Mr. Trump before he took this action. It’s safe to say they loathe him now. In June of 2015, Senator Jeff Sessions, a champion of the American citizen and worker, made the following statement regarding TPP. He said...  http://rickwells.us/huge-victory-america-trump-sessions-kill-tpp-elites-coup-defeated/
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Congressman Rogers Introduces "American
Sovereignty Restoration Act" to Leave UN
by Daniel Greenfield
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Think of the UN as the TPP of global governance organizations. It's big, it's poorly controlled and it's hurting America... Congressman Mike Rogers has an answer. Restore our sovereignty. And so he has sponsored the American Sovereignty Restoration Act of 2017. The act pulls us out of the UN, kills funding for anything involving the UN and evicts the UN from the US. The United Nations including any organ, specialized agency, commission or other formally affiliated body of the United Nations may not occupy or use any property or facility of the United States Government....This is very GOOD!  http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/265568/congressman-rogers-introduces-american-sovereignty-daniel-greenfield
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Drill, Baby Drill: Trump Exec Orders
Boost Dakota, Keystone Pipelines
by Daniel Greenfield
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ It's a good day for American workers and a bad day for the Big Green lobby in San Francisco. President Trump is putting American workers and our economy and energy security first. And he's putting Al Gore last... liar-nObama had done everything he could to sabotage Keystone. And his politicized administration kneecapped Dakota Access in response to leftist hysteria. Now all that is changing with Trump's latest executive orders. But this isn't just a pass. President Trump has said that he wants domestic materials used for the pipeline, one of the executive orders calls for Commerce to get American steel into projects, and for the government to get a share of the revenue. This is very different from Democrat "no'ism" or the "market will solve it all" approach of Republicans...This is also very GOOD!  http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/265573/drill-baby-drill-trump-exec-orders-boost-dakota-daniel-greenfield
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The Left Lost Its Logic On Israel
by Noah Beck
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Support for Israel among Democrats has plummeted in recent years, a new Pew poll shows, with about as many – 31 percent – saying they sympathize more with the Palestinians than with Israel, which garnered 33 percent support... By contrast, 74 percent of Republicans surveyed sympathize more with the Jewish state. That is the widest partisan gap since 1978. A similar poll last year found a deep divide within the party, with conservative and moderate Democrats favoring Israel over the Palestinians by 53-19 percent. This trend has accelerated during President Barack liar-nObama's tenure. During Israel's 2014 war with Hamas, 61 percent of Democrats sympathized with Hamas and hundreds of left-wing historians openly sided with the terrorist group...This is not-not GOOD.  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5759/the-left-lost-its-logic-on-israel#
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Democrats’ Post-Election
Temper-Tantrums Continue
by Susan Stamper Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ King Solomon once wrote in Proverbs 19:13 the most annoying sound on the planet was a nagging wife, but obviously, he’d never heard what leftists sound like after they lose elections.

Trump Derangement Syndrome will be around for years to come folks, so it might be wise to invest in a good set of earbuds to drown out the whining. Oh, and maybe consider carrying a fire extinguisher in case another anti-Trumper decides to light himself on fire like the guy in front of Trump Tower who said he did it “as an act of protest.”

Congressional Democrats showed who they really are by boycotting Trump’s inauguration while fellow Democrat anarchists chucked bricks, shattered glass, ignited fires and destroyed personal property. Funny thing is, more than 90 percent of D.C. went for liar-Clinton, so the destruction spree only served to injure their own.

The following day anti-Trump women’s marches also turned a little nasty. They began with what sounded like a menopausal outburst by Madonna who welcomed protesters to “the revolution of love” and then shot off a series of F-Bombs on live TV. Madonna also admitted, “Yes, I’m angry. Yes, I’m outraged. Yes, I have thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House, but I know it won’t change anything.”

Lovely.

Actress Ashley Judd partnered in the vulgarities which aren’t fit to print here, but one thing is for sure: Madonna’s and Judd’s clown show inspired lots of people to join the Democratic Party, said no normal person, ever.

I will admit, because of Trump’s colorful past, he brought some of this on himself, but that’s no excuse for this level of stupidity. Their candidate, liar-Hillary Clinton, defended a man charged with raping a 12-year-old-girl. liar-Clinton forced the exclusion of damning evidence which allowed the man to serve only one year for raping and injuring Kathy Shelton who was made infertile as a result. Ms. Shelton told The Daily Mail, “I don’t think she’s for women or girls. I think she’s lying. I think she said anything she can to get in the campaign and win.” liar-Clinton also publicly smeared multiple women while defending her own man.

Commentators on MSNBC bragged about the crowd size of the women’s marches but, as a fellow female, I couldn’t help noticing the size of some of the marchers. There is a big difference between crowd numbers and crowd size.

From the TV clips I watched, there’s not a lot of cutting back on salt intake and Big Gulps in New York City. Sure, TV cameras always add a few pounds, but not that many. Some of the footage of the women on bridges was concerning. I recall Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) lamenting in 2010 the whole island of Guam might tip over due to overpopulation. Someone might want to check the structural integrity of the bridges used during the marches.

I will compliment them for marching. At this point, any cardio will help, but they should also lay off the chocolate bars like I do when my size 2s get tight. In fact, they should consider marching every day rather than just when Democrats lose elections. MSNBC said protesters clogged the subways and bus systems. They could’ve burned a few extra calories hoofing it to the protest areas. Much of the time the women were immobile, which looked more like a cow auction at the Fort Worth Stockyards than a protest march. MSNBC said the goal of the marches and speeches was to inspire women “to get off the couch and run for office.” Just getting off the couch would be a good start. Grazing slowly on smaller portions also helps.

During the marches, MSNBC commentators suggested the outlandish displays were a hint of things to come as the Democratic Party pushes farther left. Obviously, they are clueless these antics are a YUGE! reason why voters handed Trump the presidency.
 
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Trump's victory and the birth certificate
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 by Joseph Farah
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 Trump Begins the Repeal of liar-nObamaCare 
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One of Donald Trump's first acts as president was to make good on one of his biggest campaign promises: the repeal of liar-nObamaCare. On Friday, Trump signed executive orders directing Health and Human Services and other federal agencies to "exercise all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement of the Act that would impose a fiscal burden on any State or a cost, fee, tax, penalty, or regulatory burden on individuals, families, healthcare providers, health insurers, patients, recipients of healthcare services, purchasers of health insurance, or makers of medical devices, products or medications."
          One may question whether Trump has the power to issue this directive. The short answer is yes, due to way the law was written and implemented, giving the HHS secretary broad authority in deciding on application of the law and in the granting of waivers. Recall how Barack liar-nObama early on slowed implementing some of the more controversial aspects of liar-nObamaCare in order to establish the more favorable aspects of the law before the general public experienced the negative aspects. It was a shrewd political move by the Democrats at the time, but now those "chickens have come home to roost."
          Trump directed an attacked on the very core of liar-nObamaCare — the most objectionable and offensive part of the entire law — the individual mandate. Does this mean that overnight every American is exempt? No, the law with its individual mandate is still in effect. What Trump has done is largely symbolic, with one major caveat — the contraception mandate. The law was not specific on this issue, which allowed liar-nObama to run roughshod in forcing his leftist views onto the American public, precipitating a slew of lawsuits currently working their way through the courts. Trump could rescind the mandate immediately, but it might behoove him to allow the courts to determine the legality of the mandate in hopes of ruling it unconstitutional, thereby preventing future attempts at a mandate.
          Trump's actions on Friday by no means end liar-nObamaCare, but he took a good first step, and effectively paved the way for Republicans in Congress to act quickly. 
~The Patriot Post
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For the first time: Belgium
returns terrorist immigrant to Iraq
by David Frankenhjuis
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{gatestone.eu} ~ This weekend an Iraqi migrant has involuntarily been sent back to his home country by the Belgian authorities, after the man was exposed as a sympathizer of Islamic State... The Sunni Islamic radical, who was not named, is also liaised with terror suspects in Germany. According to the Gazet van Antwerpen, the forced repatriation is a first for Belgium. Secretary of State for Asylum and Migration Theo Francken of the N-VA party, today even claimed it was “something unique for Europe”. Belgium has witnessed Iraqi immigrants return to their country of origin before, but they were never forced to do so. Negotiations on the expulsion of Muslim extremists have been dragging on for months. This September, the Belgian Prime Minister Charles Michel had a meeting with his Iraqi counterpart Haider al-Abadi in the wake of a United Nations conference in New York City, where they discussed the situation concerning terrorist migrants. An Iraqi government delegation visited the migration authorities of Belgium to deliberate on the issue last week...  https://gatestone.eu/byebye/
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The Anti-Semite Who Organized the
'Women's March on Washington'
by John Perazzo
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ It would be interesting to know how many of the useful idiots donning “pussy hats” at Saturday's massive “Women's March on Washington” had any idea—or even cared to know—who the principal organizers of the event were... The answer is undoubtedly close to zero, since the purpose of the entire charade—like all leftist charades—was merely to give the participants an opportunity to publicly signal their own moral superiority while smearing—as racists and fascists—anyone who doesn't accept socialism, identity politics, and perpetual grievance mongering as the ultimate expressions of the American Dream. But for those who actually have an aversion to mindless indoctrination, the facts will be rather disturbing. A leading organizer of the Women's March was the Palestinian-American activist Linda Sarsour, executive director of the Arab American Association of New York. This group was founded shortly after 9/11—not to condemn the attacks, of course, but rather, to lament “the heightened sense of fear and the acts of blatant discrimination aimed at the Muslim community” in the racist wasteland known as America. On the premise that all government efforts to forestall additional terrorism constituted Nazi-like fascism, Sarsour and her organization played a central role in pressuring the New York Police Department to terminate its secret surveillance of the many Muslim groups and mosques suspected of promoting jihadism...  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265552/anti-semite-who-organized-womens-march-washington-john-perazzo
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liar-nObama’s Nuclear Legacy Leaves
America and Allies Less Safe
by Michaela Dodge
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{dailysignal.com} ~ In his Jan. 11 remarks on nuclear weapons policy, the outgoing Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden praised former President Barack liar-nObama’s nuclear weapons policy... In reality, there are very few grounds for congratulations when it comes to liar-nObama’s legacy. Take, for example, the Iran deal. loose lips-Biden argued that the administration got the deal through a combination of international sanctions and hard-nosed diplomacy. In reality, the deal was sold to the American public by concealing the full extent of concessions the administration had to make to get the Iranians to agree to it. The deal does not prevent Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons and in fact rewards years of Iranian noncompliance with its International Atomic Energy Agency obligations... 
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Schumer Obstructing Cabinet
Appointments  Gingrich Calls Him Out
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ As the Democrats continue to be obstructionists on President Trump’s cabinet nominees, Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Mitch McConnell is starting to come under some pressure for his blatant partisanship in dragging out the confirmation process... Even the Democrat-friendly Chuck Todd of NBC questions why they are making things so difficult, asking, “Why hold up Mike Pompeo’s nomination for a weekend? He’s going to get confirmed tomorrow, why be that, it does look politically, petty?” Schumer won’t give the real answer that Todd alluded too, that he is in fact being petty, instead producing political cover for what is clearly obstructionism. He says, “Well, actually no CIA director has been confirmed the day of inauguration, the CIA is in very good hands, the number three guy is running it. In fact I suggested to the Vice President on Wednesday that have Brennan stay, he’d be willing to stay, he’s devoted to the agency.”...  http://rickwells.us/schumer-obstructing-cabinet-appointments-gingrich-calls/
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Saturday Was A Learning Day For ISIS
Trump, Mattis Taught Them A Lesson
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ In his first full day on the job General James Mattis introduced himself to ISIS in a very hostile, unfriendly manner, far different from the courteous leaflet dropping in advance of a strike or returning with armaments not deployed policies of liar-nObama and Ashton Carter... The new Trump administration has said throughout the campaign that a major offensive to eradicate the terrorist group would be among their first acts as president. Now that President Trump his man is in place at DoD, the eradication is underway. The Department of Defense reported the activity on their website, breaking it down into two areas, strikes in Syria and Iraq. They note the damage assessments are based upon initial reports. In Syria, they reported...While Hussein liar-nObama used the excuse of collateral civilian damage to avoid striking his terrorist allies, the war now appears to be on for real; no more pretending. We all know how liar-nObama dwelled on the laughable recruitment argument as a pretext for closing Gitmo and returning terrorists to the battlefield...  http://rickwells.us/saturday-learning-day-isis-trump-mattis-taught-lesson/
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Trump's victory and the birth certificate
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 by Joseph Farah
{wnd.com} ~ Now that Donald Trump is safely ensconced in the White House, it’s time for a review of how he got there.

Think back about his road to the White House and his first real political statements to elevate him on the national stage.

It was way back in early 2011 that Trump attracted attention by raising questions about Barack liar-nObama’s constitutional eligibility for the presidency. At the time, Trump also talked about the possibility of running for the highest office in the land in 2012, but what drew more press notice were his comments about liar-nObama.

“I have some real doubts,” Trump told the “Today” show. He said he sent his own investigators to Hawaii, where liar-nObama claimed to have been born. “I have people that actually have been studying it and they cannot believe what they’re finding.”

On “Good Morning America,” Trump suggested liar-nObama might be trying to conceal his religion by refusing to release his genuine birth certificate nearly three years into his first term.

“Maybe it says he’s a Muslim,” he speculated.

In the spring of 2011, after liar-nObama released what he purported to be his real long-form birth certificate, Trump boasted about forcing liar-nObama to release the document. He said he was “very proud” of himself and the birth certificate would have to be examined to ensure it was authentic.

He didn’t let go of the issue until September 2016.

He told ABC News’ John Karl in 2013 he knew what he was doing.

“I don’t think I went overboard,” he said. “Actually, I think it made me very popular. … I do think I know what I’m doing.”

In an interview with CNN’s Anderson Cooper in June 2015, Trump appeared to want to avoid the topic, but refused to say whether he believed liar-nObama was born in the U.S.

When asked the direct question, Trump responded, “I don’t know. I really don’t know. I mean, I don’t know why he wouldn’t release his records. But you know, honestly, I don’t want to get in it.”

Was that the end of it? Not by a long shot.

On Aug. 6, 2012, Trump was suggesting the birth certificate liar-nObama released was a fake.

Trump Tweeted: “An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that @Barackliar-nObama’s birth certificate is a fraud.”

By Oct. 1, 2012, he was encouraging Mitt Romney, the Republican presidential nominee, to press the issue during a debate. In his tweet, Trump cites a promotional booklet for liar-nObama’s autobiography that asserted liar-nObama was born in Kenya.

He Tweeted: “In debate, @MittRomney should ask liar-nObama why autobiography states ‘born in Kenya, raised in Indonesia.'”

And Trump did not let go after liar-nObama was re-elected.

On Dec. 12, 2013, he Tweeted: “How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of liar-nObama’s ‘birth certificate’ died in plane crash today. All others lived.”

Even in early 2016, when Trump was an announced candidate for the presidency, he spoke to ABC News at length about the issue with Jonathan Karl:

KARL: You said a lot of things over the years that people say just make you not serious. One of the big things is on the birth certificate –

TRUMP: Why does that make me not serious? I think that resonated with a lot of people.

KARL: But you don’t still question that he was born in the United States, do you?

TRUMP: I have no idea.

KARL: Even at this point?

TRUMP: Well I don’t know. Was it a birth certificate? You tell me. Some people say that was not his birth certificate. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn’t. I’m saying I don’t know. Nobody knows. And you don’t know either, Jonathan. You’re a smart guy. You don’t know either.

KARL: I’m pretty convinced he was born –

TRUMP: Pretty! Ah, pretty, pretty! You said pretty!

KARL: I’m convinced, I’m totally –

TRUMP: No, no you said pretty –

KARL: – totally without question that he was born in the United States.

TRUMP: Excuse me, Jonathan, you said you were pretty convinced. OK? So let’s just see what happens over time. But it’s not my issue, Jonathan.

KARL: OK, let me ask you something else –

TRUMP: My issue right now is much different, wait a minute. My issue is economic. Our country is being ripped apart by China and many other countries. That’s my issue.

KARL: But isn’t it going to be harder for people to take you seriously on those issues if you don’t acknowledge that you went overboard on this whole birther stuff?

TRUMP: Well, I don’t think I went overboard. Actually, I think it made me very popular, if you want to know the truth, OK? So I do think I know what I’m doing.

KARL: But on this issue, people think that you were just out to lunch.

TRUMP: Well, you just said you were pretty sure. And if you’re pretty sure, that’s not acceptable. Because you can’t be pretty sure, you have to be 100 percent.

KARL: I’m sure, I’m 100 percent sure, for the record.

TRUMP: I don’t think you are.

Note what Trump said. He said the issue resonated with people. He added that it made him very popular.

Later in 2016 he answered a question from CNN by changing the subject: “Who cares right now? We’re talking about something else, OK? I have my own theory on liar-nObama. Someday I will write a book.”

It was not until September 2016, two months before the election, that Trump said for the first time: “President Barack liar-nObama was born in the United States.”

Many assumed that was the end of the controversy.

But is it? Could there be more to the eligibility story than where liar-nObama was born?

What if liar-nObama, as president, cooked up a phony document 18 months before his re-election bid?

Just asking.

Keep in mind something Trump said in that interview with Jonathan Karl: “Let’s just see what happens over time.”
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Netanyahu's Shameless Opponents
by Caroline Glick
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Trump's nominees face "unprecedented" Democrat obstructionism. (The Daily Signal)
 
Gen. James Mattis, Gen. John Kelly confirmed for Trump Cabinet spots. (Fox News)
 
Manpower shortage threatens Donald Trump's hopes to rebuild military. (The Washington Times)
 
liar-nObama was first president to spend more on welfare than defense. (CNS News)
 
B/liar-nO's administration spent billions on failing schools, achieved nothing. (Hot Air)
 
liar-nObama's biggest whoppers — some of them anyway, considering the source... (The Washington Post) Yes, the Post discovered liar-nObama lied.
 
Trump at the CIA — he "couldn't resist turning the event into an extended and self-centered riff" about crowd size and dishonest media. (The Wall Street Journal)
 
Trump greets Comey: "He's become more famous than me." (The Hill)
 
Trump definitively forsakes his promise to release his tax returns. (Reason)
 
Supreme Court won't rescue Texas voter ID law. (USA Today)
 
Policy: Should we want a bipartisan FCC? (Tech Policy Daily)
 
Policy: Fixing health care the free-market way. (Washington Examiner~The Patriot Post
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Trump Inauguration Protesters
Will Receive Justice
by Kosar
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ President Donald J. Trump’s inauguration broke television records. And for the hundreds of thousands who watched in person, they were doing so at great personal expense and risk to their safety... There were many so-called “anti-fascist” thug protesters who rallied in the street, smashed windows, and set fires. It was all very ironic, considering that Washington, D.C. is so far left that only 4% of local residents actually voted for President Trump. I hope they think their criminal acts were worth it, because they are about to face the consequences! More than 230 rioters will now face massive fines and extended jail time, according to federal prosecutors. GOOD!...  http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/trump-protesters-inauguration-just-received-horrible-news/?utm_source=SailThru%26utm_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TPI%20Newsletter%2001-23-17%20Curated/Horizon%20Tier%201&utm_term=Tier%201%20Real
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New Front-Runner Emerges In SCOTUS Contest
by Kevin Daley
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Judge Neil Gorsuch of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals may be the leading candidate for President Donald Trump’s first appointment to the Supreme Court... Jan Crawford of CBS News, a veteran court-watcher, reports Trump may be close to settling on Gorsuch. At 49, he could conceivably serve on the Court for over 30 years if he is confirmed by the Senate. A Marshall scholar with degrees from Oxford and Harvard Law School, Gorsuch clerked for Justices Anthony Kennedy and Byron White on the high court before entering private practice in Washington at Kellogg, Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel PLLC. He served in the U.S. Department of Justice for two years prior to his nomination to the 10th Circuit in 2006 by President George W. Bush. He was approved by the Senate on a voice vote, as he was not considered a controversial nominee...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/22/new-front-runner-emerges-in-the-scotus-contest/
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McConnell: Dems Sabotaging
Trump’s Confirmations
{restoreamericanglory.com} ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell blamed Democrats on Wednesday for sandbagging Donald Trump and forcing him to take office with a skeleton crew... McConnell said only three of Trump’s Cabinet nominees would likely be confirmed by the time Trump is sworn in – a far cry from the seven nominees the Senate had in place for Barack liar-nObama in 2009. “It’s safe to say the Democrats are in a bad mood,” McConnell told USA Today. “You can see that in the way the confirmations process is going on in the Senate. We are getting off to kind of a rough start.” He said it was ridiculous for Democrats to expend so much political capital on what was sure to be a failed effort to block Trump’s picks. “I remember, frankly, being appalled at some of Barack liar-nObama’s appointments but my attitude was he won the election and that is what comes with winning the election,” McConnell said...
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US Taxpayer Supported Charities
Still Funding Terror...
by Alice Greene
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ As we explained in a previous article, numerous taxpayer-funded charities in the US have been allowed to continue operating even after alleged links to terrorism were discovered... This is a marked change from the years following 9/11, when scores of organizations were shut down after prosecutors discovered links to terrorism. The liar-nObama Administration has been more lenient towards this behavior, and the Charity Commission now reports that links between US charities and extremism have risen to an all-time high. The Charity Commission is a watchdog that guards US charities from terrorism, fights financial abuse/fraud, and protects susceptible beneficiaries...  http://punchingbagpost.com/us-taxpayer-supported-charities-still-funding-terror-can-we-please-shut-them-down
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hanoi-Kerry Secretly Lobbied to Get CAIR
Removed From UAE's Terrorist Organization List
by STEVE EMERSON
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ On Nov. 16, 2014, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) took the unusual step of designating the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), and the Muslim American Society (MAS) - as terrorist organizations... They were among 83 groups named for their connections to the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood. This outraged CAIR officials, who immediately began efforts to get their organization removed from the list. They found a powerful ally in Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry, who authorized State Department officials to meet regularly with UAE officials to lobbying on behalf of CAIR and MAS . CAIR already had a sympathetic ear in the liar-nObama administration, including the State Department, that had openly embraced and legitimized the entire spectrum of radical Islamist groups falsely posing as religious or civil rights groups, which both CAIR and MAS had done...Kick both of them out of America.  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-inside-story-of-how-john-kerry-secretly-lobbied-to-get-cair-removed-from-uaes-terrorist-organization-list?f=must_reads
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Netanyahu's Shameless Opponents
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} Over the past week, Israel was subjected to the diplomatic equivalent of a lynch mob in Paris. It received unexpected assistance from Britain, which twice in two days departed from its traditional anti-Israel stance and blocked the Paris conference’s anti-Israel declaration from being adopted as the official position of the European Union.

Also over the past week, outgoing US President Barack liar-nObama, outgoing Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry and outgoing UN Ambassador Samantha Power used their final appearances in office to blast Israel.

On the other hand, President-elect Donald Trump and his team played a key role in bringing about Britain’s change of heart toward Israel.

While these events have been widely covered by the foreign media, they have barely been mentioned in the Hebrew broadcast media, from which the majority of Israelis receive their news.

Instead, led by Channel 2 with its monopoly ratings share, the local media spent the past week covering almost nothing but the criminal probes being carried out against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Netanyahu is the subject of two probes. The first, which police investigators dubbed Affair 1000, involves allegations that Netanyahu improperly received gifts from his friends.

That probe seems to be withering on the vine. Consequently, over the past week, most of the media’s attention has been focused on what the police call Affair 2000.

Affair 2000 involves conversations Netanyahu conducted two years ago with Israel’s most powerful media mogul, and Netanyahu’s public nemesis, Yediot Aharonot chairman Arnon Mozes. Mozes is Netanyahu’s bitter foe because for the past 20 years, Yediot’s coverage of Netanyahu has been virulently hostile.

Affair 2000 itself, the media coverage it has garnered and the way the police are conducting their probe all raise deeply troubling questions about key institutions that are supposed to safeguard Israeli democracy and our rule of law.

To understand the affair and the concerns it raises, Affair 2000 must be placed in its proper context.

In November 2014, the government fell and the Knesset voted to go to elections barely a year after the previous elections were held.

Whereas generally a government falls because the opposition gains the votes to bring it down in a no-confidence vote, in 2014, Netanyahu caused his own government to fall and precipitated early elections.

Netanyahu took the drastic step, which placed his own future in jeopardy, because the heads of three parties that were members of his governing coalition colluded against him in a host of common actions that made governing impossible.

The straw that broke Netanyahu’s back was when the three rebellious ministers – then-justice minister Tzipi Livni, then-Treasury minister Yair Lapid and then-foreign minister Avigdor Liberman – decided to support the passage of the draft “Israel Hayom law.”

The bill, which was sponsored by Labor MK Eitan Cabel, would have outlawed the free distribution of national newspapers. It was dubbed the Israel Hayom law, because the paper founded in 2007 and owned by Netanyahu’s supporter US casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, is a free paper.

The goal of the draft legislation was to shut down Israel Hayom. Thanks to Livni, Lapid and Liberman, the bill passed its first reading in the Knesset with a vote of 43 in favor and 23 opposed.

Netanyahu vociferously opposed the bill. He and his Likud party voted against it.

With that context in mind, we can return to Affair 2000.

Netanyahu’s conversations with Mozes took place around the 2015 elections. Fearing Mozes intended to extort him, on the advice of his personal attorney, Netanyahu surreptitiously recorded the discussions.

The police discovered his recordings in the course of a separate probe of Netanyahu’s former adviser who had a copy of the recorded conversations on his mobile phone.

Channel 2 has opened its primetime news broadcasts nearly every night this past week with selected minutes from their recorded talks.

Netanyahu’s conversations with Mozes related to the Israel Hayom draft law. From Channel 2’s excerpts, we learned that Mozes offered Netanyahu to improve Yediot’s treatment of the premier if Netanyahu would convince Adelson to substantially curtail Israel Hayom’s distribution and if Netanyahu would agree to limit government advertisements that run in the daily paper.

Mozes told Netanyahu that if the premier accepted his offer, he would see to it that Netanyahu remained in power for as long as he wished.

The flipside, although unstated – at least in Channel 2’s excerpts – was clear. If Netanyahu rejected Mozes’s offer, Yediot would continue its campaign to bring down Netanyahu.

The end of their discussions is public knowledge.

Netanyahu brought down his own government and disbanded the Knesset rather than allow the legislative process to continue. His 2015 campaign centered on Netanyahu’s opposition to Mozes and Yediot.

The opposition’s campaign against Netanyahu on the other hand, was based largely on negative articles related to Netanyahu and his family that ran daily in Yediot.

In other words, Netanyahu rejected Mozes’s offers and the two went to war.

Although Yediot supports the Left and Israel Hayom supports Netanyahu, Mozes’s opposition to Israel Hayom wasn’t ideological.

His willingness to skew his paper’s coverage in favor of Netanyahu showed that Mozes’s attempt to destroy Israel Hayom stemmed solely from financial considerations.

In 2006, Yediot had a monopoly share of the print media market on weekends and dominated the weekday editions as well. Its closest competitor, Maariv, had half the sales that Yediot had.

Israel Hayom ended Yediot’s monopoly and lowered its advertising revenues. So if Israel Hayom were to close, the most direct and significant beneficiary would be Yediot Aharonot. And everyone knew this.

As justice minister, Livni chaired the Ministerial Committee on Legislation that controls in large part which bills will be brought before the Knesset. Ahead of the committee’s discussion of the Israel Hayom bill, then-attorney general Yehuda Weinstein issued a legal opinion which reasonably argued that the bill was unconstitutional because its aim was to specifically target one business for bankruptcy, because it harmed consumers and the economy, and because it sought to undermine the free press.

During the 2015 campaign, Livni acknowledged that she spoke with Mozes about the bill before it was discussed in her committee. Mozes, she said, also furnished her with a legal opinion authored by his private attorneys. Predictably, that opinion argued the bill was constitutional, was not prejudicial and would be great for the economy.

Livni rejected Weinstein’s opinion and enabled the bill to go forward. Yediot supported her lavishly during the election campaign.

AFFAIR 2000 is troubling first and foremost because of what is not being investigated.

Netanyahu, who refused to make a deal with Mozes, is being investigated as a criminal suspect for speaking to him.

Livni, who also spoke to Mozes, as well as Liberman, Lapid and 40 other members of Knesset who may have spoken with him, and who voted in favor of the bill that Mozes worked so hard to pass into law, are not being investigated.

How is it possible that police investigators aren’t interested in finding out if Mozes made any offers that were accepted? Why aren’t investigators checking whether there were changes in the volume of positive coverage that Livni, Lapid, Liberman and their colleagues received after they announced their support for his bill? This brings us back to the media. Night after night, television viewers have been subjected to saturation coverage of Affair 2000 that distorts more than it reveals. Netanyahu is presented as a corrupt politician willing to destroy a newspaper to advance his own career even though he did nothing of the sort.

The 43 MKs who actually did something to destroy the paper are given a pass.

The distorted reports have clearly had an impact.

In a poll conducted by Channel 2 to check the effectiveness of its reporting, a majority of Israelis said that they believe Netanyahu behaved dishonestly in relation to his conversations with Mozes.

At least as far as Channel 2 is concerned, the way to correct the problems Affair 2000 exposed is obvious.

Just as Israel Hayom broke Yediot's market monopoly so Channel 2’s broadcast monopoly must end.

The government must deregulate the broadcast media. It needs to sell broadcast licenses to anyone who has the funds to purchase one.

The problem with police investigators is unfortunately more difficult to contend with. According to independent investigative journalist Yoav Yitzhak, Netanyahu decided not to turn his recordings of Mozes over to the police despite the fact that they contained apparent evidence of extortion, or at a minimum the offer of a bribe, because he doesn’t trust police investigators.

Yitzhak reported on his website that Netanyahu told his close associates this week that he found out that the police’s senior investigators, Asst.-Chiefs Manny Yitzhaki and Ronny Ritman, had close relationships with hostile journalists from Channel 10, Haaretz and Yediot. He was concerned that if he brought them the evidence he had gathered against Mozes, the investigators would use the evidence as a means to open new criminal investigations against Netanyahu with the aim of destroying him politically.

The Prime Minister’s Office has not denied Yitzhak’s report. Assuming it accurately reflects Netanyahu’s thinking, it means that the prime minister believes the police are corrupt and politically motivated.

Certainly the police investigators’ selective investigation of Netanyahu since Affair 2000 broke seems to back up his feelings.

Police Commissioner Insp.-Gen. Roni Alsheich promised this week that the probes of Netanyahu will be concluded shortly. But even if Netanyahu is cleared of suspicion, the concerns raised by Affair 2000 will linger and grow if not dealt with.

Israel is on the precipice of a major shift in its international position. Trump’s rise, along with the weakening of the EU with Britain’s Brexit vote, means that Israel faces opportunities it hasn’t enjoyed in 50 years.

The concerted effort by the media with the apparent collusion of the police to undermine and overthrow Netanyahu at the dawn of this new era isn’t merely unjust. It is anti-Zionist, anti-democratic and dangerous for the future of the state.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-netanyahus-shameless-opponents

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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
The Chasm Widens
by Tom McLaughlin
 
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 Raucous Leftist Women Pitch a Fit 
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Our new favorite satire website, The Babylon Bee, headlined the weekend's women's march more appropriately than any (ahem) real news outlet did: "March Defends Women's Right To Choose Conformity With Only One Political Viewpoint." Of course, we noted a similar theme last week — that Some Women Are More Equal Than Others. So you get the point: Saturday's march wasn't about empowering all women, but rather about a bunch of aggrieved leftist loudmouths with nothing productive to do on a Saturday.
          The march wasn't confined to Washington either, but spread to cities around the world. Marches in the U.S. had a distinctly anti-Trump flavor, helped by the timing one day after the inauguration. Some estimated that more than one million people marched in Washington, with millions more in other cities. If you ventured onto social media this weekend, though, you already knew this, thanks to your obnoxious relatives and friends reveling in "speaking truth to power" or whatever.
          But how did women speak this truth and demand due respect? With posters about their body parts or sexual proclivities that are far too vulgar to reprint or even paraphrase in this family publication. And they did it with speeches from Hollywood celebrities — symbols of the rich, famous and powerful. Actress Ashley Judd boasted, "I'm a nasty woman — a loud, vulgar, proud woman." She elaborated on why, but we'll leave that detail for her unfortunate audience. She also warned of "Hitler in these streets" (meaning Trump and his supporters) and other explicit Nazi references. Don't leftists ever tire of comparing normal American conservatives to Nazi socialists? Maybe it's because the comparison makes no sense whatsoever that they continue to make it.
          Madonna, another poor, persecuted celebrity, declared that she had "thought an awful lot about blowing up the White House." How such terrorism advances the interest of women was left unsaid.
          Sympathetic media coverage could propel this ragtag band to movement status and make it a factor in 2018. The Washington Post thinks "the liberal tea party movement has begun." But whereas the Tea Party was unified around opposing the unconstitutional abuses of the liar-nObama administration, these women (and men) who marched weren't there to advance any particular cohesive idea. No, they were largely there to pitch a collective fit.  ~The Patriot Post
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EPA’s Top Priority Should Be to
Eliminate Bogus Global Warming Models
by Kevin Dayaratna
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt’s confirmation hearing to head up the Environmental Protection Agency provided a glimpse into how the agency would operate under new leadership... Critical reforms should rein in regulations that have little scientific backing and environmental benefit. A top priority for the EPA and the new administration should be eliminating the use of the social cost of greenhouse gas emissions. Over the last eight years, the liar-nObama administration has relied on a metric known as the social cost of carbon to justify many of its global warming regulations. In addition, the administration recently began to consider similar metrics regarding methane and nitrous oxide emissions...
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Relief Is on the Way: What Trump’s
liar-nObamacare Executive Order Will Do
by Edmund Haislmaier
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{dailysignal.com} ~ A newly inaugurated President Donald Trump rang the opening bell for what will be a multistep process to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act, or liar-nObamacare... as he signed an executive order on Friday directing his subordinates to: exercise all authority and discretion available to them to waive, defer, grant exemptions from, or delay the implementation of any provision or requirement of the Act that would impose a fiscal burden on any State or a cost, fee, tax, penalty, or regulatory burden on individuals, families, healthcare providers, health insurers, patients, recipients of healthcare services, purchasers of health insurance, or makers of medical devices, products, or medications. While it is true that Congress will need to enact legislation to address liar-nObamacare’s major components, the Trump administration can immediately begin to pare back and rework the law’s numerous and detailed regulations...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/22/relief-is-on-the-way-what-trumps-obamacare-executive-order-will-do/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RZMFpERmtObU16TldSaCIsInQiOiJiZERMY3NJeldrT1JoXC8xUUUwOHA3em80VjhCMHdCYk1JMnJaSUNDOUtcL0VSQnBMQVNFWEk1T1hMT2Q4cFdMVlwvM3c2aGFQSjlHbzIwKyszcmhDc0pJeUxpXC9zenNjZ2diTXQxbkkza0VLWHRpNUtOK0M0Z0VpMktia2hkY2E3cUwifQ%3D%3D
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Will Trump Arrest liar-Clinton and Soros?
by Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ This nation cannot heal without the rule of law being re-established. The liar-nObama administration made a mockery of the rule of law... For President Trump to restore legitimacy and trust to the government, liar-Clinton and Soros must be arrested and tried for their many crimes against the people of the United States. Justice needs to be swift and severe.  http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2017/01/22/will-trump-arrest-clinton-and-soros/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=will-trump-arrest-clinton-and-soros
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You’ve Got to be Freaking Kidding Me
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ Today, Donald Trump is going to withdraw the United States from the Trans Pacific Partnership and order a review of NAFTA. Yesterday, he signed an order reinstating the Mexico City policy that prohibits federal funds from funding overseas abortions... There were also some substantive, but secret meetings on the Supreme Court nominee and the list was narrowed. In Georgia, Florida, and Alabama dozens died and thousands were left homeless because of terrible storms. While all of this was happening the American press corps was focused on men and women wearing vagina hats marching in the streets and on the size of crowds. At least Donald Trump got more women exercising in one day than Michelle liar-nObama did in eight years. The only reason the press corps is fixated on the size of crowds is because it is a passive-aggressive way to insult Donald Trump. They view him as ratings obsessed and they think that by pointing out low turnout he will take it personally. They are focused on the Women’s March because it is “the resistance” to Trump that the media is part of, but pretends it is not part of...  http://theresurgent.com/youve-got-to-be-freaking-kidding-me/
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Palestinians of Syria:
A Year of Killings and Torture
by Khaled Abu Toameh
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ 2016 was a tough year for the Palestinians. It was tough not only for those Palestinians living in the West Bank under the Palestinian Authority (PA) regime, or the Gaza Strip under Hamas... When Westerners hear about the "plight" and "suffering" of Palestinians, they instantly assume that the talk is about those living in the West Bank or Gaza Strip. Rarely does the international community hear about what is happening to Palestinians in the Arab countries. This lapse doubtless exists because the misery of Palestinians in the Arab countries is difficult to pin on Israel. The international community and mainstream journalists only know of those Palestinians living in the West Bank or the Gaza Strip. Of course, life under the Palestinian Authority and Hamas is no box of dates, although this inconvenient fact might be rather unpleasant to the ears of Western journalists and human rights organizations. In any event, mainstream media outlets seem to prefer turning a blind eye to the plight of Palestinians living in Arab countries. This evasion harms first and foremost the Palestinians themselves and allows Arab governments to continue their policies of persecution and repression...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9805/palestinians-syria-killings
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The Chasm Widens
by Tom McLaughlin
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Bridge to Portland from South Portland. Maine
 
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ Not many people in the Portland, Maine area see the world as I do. It’s been five years since my wife and I bought a second home across the bridge in South Portland and I’ve kept a low profile. I do meet, however, with a group of writers every couple of months who know I’m a conservative columnist out in the hinterland. At last Wednesday’s gathering, everyone expressed dismay at the upcoming Trump inauguration and after listening for a while, I told them I voted for him. Instantly, the new person in the group who was sitting right next to me, said: “You’re an a**hole!” Everyone tightened up as I turned to look at my accuser, but no response was necessary. It was clear who the a**hole was.
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Portland Marchers with signs
 
Congress Street, the main thoroughfare in Portland, was blocked off Saturday when my wife and I were trying to get to the YMCA where our nine-year-old grandson, Alex, was competing in a swim meet. The local Women’s March was breaking up and as I searched side streets for a way through, women and girls were carrying their signs back to their cars. The Portland Press Herald said ten thousand turned out. That’s a lot for Maine, but I was in the heart of America’s northeast bastion of progressivism where Trump is the devil incarnate. Hardly any of the 30 million women who voted for Trump live in the Portland area.
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2016 electoral map by county
 
America is indeed divided. Mainstream media are in a frenzy about it, but our country has been divided for a long time. Barack liar-nObama lamented it in his first big speech to the Democrat national convention back in 2004: “There's not a liberal America and a conservative America; there's the United States of America… no black America and white America… The pundits… like to slice and dice our country into red states and blue states: red states for Republicans, blue states for Democrats.” He said it again in 2008, and again in 2012, promising to heal the divides, but did he?
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2008 electoral map by county
 
There was indeed a red America and blue America and the divide was getting wider. Many voted for him hoping he would transcend it, but it the divide had become a chasm by the time he left the White House last Friday. Rasmussen reported last summer that: “60% Say Race Relations Have Gotten Worse Since liar-nObama’s Election.”
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The right wasn’t thrilled when liar-nObama, then the most liberal member of the US Senate, was inaugurated in 2009 but pretty much accepted it. After trillion-dollar deficits, ramming through liar-nObamacare, a disastrous foreign policy, an anemic economy, lies about Benghazi, the Tea Party rose up, then was blocked by liar-nObama’s IRS.
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Mainstream media praised liar-nObama throughout but rural Americans elected a Republican House and Senate to block his policies. Republican congressional leaders sat on their hands and watched instead. Rural Americans did a slow burn when liar-nObama condescending called them “Bitter clingers” and liar-Hillary Clinton called them a “Basket of Deplorables.”
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By 2016, they were looking for someone who would go to Washington and really shake up the elites in both parties. They were ready for a bona fide butt-kicker when Donald Trump showed up. That he’d been married three times and talked about grabbing women didn’t faze them. When mainstream media attacked him and he gave it right back, they loved it. Maine’s rural Second Congressional District where I live went for Trump in 2016 while the coastal First District went overwhelmingly for liar-Clinton. The divide in all of America between the coastal elites and the rural heartland is stark and we can expect it to get broader and deeper for the foreseeable future.
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Maine's congressional districts
 
In last week’s column, I tried to poke fun at the “Pussyhat” preparations and the LGBTQIA+ meme of the Women’s March, but there’s little sense of humor among progressives. Their cause is sacred to them, a kind of surrogate religion. To laugh at them is heresy. Fifty of the organizations sponsoring the march nationwide are funded by left-wing billionaire George Soros and “Reproductive Rights,” a euphemism for abortion, was the strongest single theme. Pro-life women were banned.
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Nearly all marchers vilified Donald Trump directly or indirectly as someone who objectifies and mistreats women. It’s interesting to note that there were no marches against President liar-Clinton after he was formally charged with sexual harassment and paid $800,000 to his accuser, but liar-Clinton was pro-abortion. That absolved him from the wrath of feminists no matter what he did to women.
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Last week I was reminded again that progressives believe in tolerance, even of people like me who don’t agree with them, as long as we don’t speak up about it.
 
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Repealing the Rancor
by Laura Hollis
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Author Hamed Abdel-Samad:
‘Jihadist Terrorism Is Inherent Part of Islam’
by Vincent van den Born
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{gatestone.eu} ~ Although the video is almost two years old, it’s making its rounds again on social media thanks to Iraqi-born atheist Faisal Saeed Al Mutar (worth following!)... It is a subtitled part of a much longer program by German broadcaster ZDF. It features the Egyptian-born political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad, who’s a colourful figure, to say the least, confronts a female Islamist with the fact that Islamic State has everything to do with Islam. His arguments are as articulate as they are compelling. At the same time, it gives a stark insight into the ways these kinds of discussions are moderated and guided, by the choice of guests and their strategy of denying an alternative viewpoint. If it is less noticeable, it is because Abdel-Samad manages to get his point across regardless. For those able to understand German, the original, far longer broadcast, is available on YouTube.  https://gatestone.eu/is-is-islamic/
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Trump Fires Up Europe's
Anti-Establishment Movement
by Soeren Kern
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Inspired by the inauguration of U.S. President Donald J. Trump, the leaders of Europe's main anti-establishment parties have held a pan-European rally aimed at coordinating a political strategy to mobilize potentially millions... of disillusioned voters in upcoming elections in Germany, the Netherlands and France. Appearing together in public for the first time, Marine Le Pen, leader of the French National Front, Frauke Petry, leader of the Alternative for Germany (AfD), Geert Wilders, leader of the Dutch Party for Freedom (PVV), Matteo Salvini, leader of Italy's Northern League and Harald Vilimsky of Austria's Freedom Party gathered on January 21 at a rally in Koblenz, Germany, where they called on European voters to participate in a "patriotic spring" to topple the European Union, reassert national sovereignty and secure national borders...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9810/trump-europe-establishment
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Tucker Carlson Exposes, Mocks
“Demand Protest” Hoax Live On-Air
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Tucker Carlson completely broadsides the fraudster who is behind the “Demand Protest” scam, hanging him out to dry on national television... Demand Protest presented itself as a provider of actors posing as protesters for thuggish disruptions of the type that have become commonplace at Trump rallies during the campaign and at the inauguration. The same type of misconduct that they profess to organize and provide was also observed being committed by Black Lives Matter before they recently went dark. That may have been intentional, to advertise this group and allow them to become the face of agitation, removing that well-deserved recognition from the Democrats and George Soros and his Open Society front organizations, including Black Lives Matter. They were all recently exposed by Project Veritas so an effort to shift the blame would not unexpected...  http://rickwells.us/busted-tucker-carlson-exposes-mocks-demand-protest-hoax-live-air/
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Judge Jeanine Hammers Rachel Maddow
For Calling Trump “Dark And Militant”
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Judge Jeanine’s opening statement begins at the 2:05 point in the video. She says, “Now you know that the only way to make actual change in this country is not only to have the moxie and the guts to do it... but also to not care about what the drive-by media and the haters think of it. To make change will take someone who doesn’t obsess, put fingers to the wind, someone who doesn’t give a damn about what the naysayers or the chattering classes say.” She continues, “He is someone who is focused and understands what it takes to get the job done. And he understands because he’s been up and down and smart enough to get back up again. But there will be bumps in the road. He understands that changing the bureaucracy and the Washington machine is not for the faint of heart. He understands that in order to do what has to be done, he can have no fear.” Judge Jeanine says, “Because Donald Trump has been fearless in his campaign to become Commander-in-Chief, and because he fought outside all of the political boxes, because he was willing to do into a den of lions, with only one thing in mind, winning and indeed, came out winning, Donald Trump will be the biggest change agent in the history of the United States.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-hammers-rachel-maddow-calling-trump-dark-militant/
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liar-nObama Nat’l Community Organizing
Foundation Launch – Not Going Away
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Isn’t there some kind of penicillin or something that will clear up this liar-nObama infection that has attacked the American people? It seems that no matter what we try we just can’t get rid of them... It took them two months of endless goodbyes to go a half day and launch the latest scheme. All they did was change houses and the methods they use to get rich and control the people. Now they’re in Palm Springs or wherever, living large off of their connections and God knows what other money they managed through green energy, sustainable development, support from George Soros, skimming or whatever else they think they can and likely will get away with to acquire for their own personal use. They’re announcing, it’s official, the darker completed version of the liar-Clinton Foundation is here to continue their feeding parasitically upon the American people. As if we gave a rat’s butt, liar-nObama says, “we also want to tell you a little bit about what we’ll be up to next.” Of course they can only tell us a little bit, if they told us the whole story, the FBI would be forced to get involved...  http://rickwells.us/obama-natl-community-organizing-foundation-launch-not-going-away/
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Repealing the Rancor
by Laura Hollis
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The hostility being displayed between Americans today is at a level that is frankly shocking. President-elect Donald Trump's imminent inauguration has his opponents in a fit of pique. But in truth, the fury and hatred displayed toward Trump's supporters throughout his campaign was just about as bad.

Plenty of pundits say that Americans are more polarized than ever. But we seem to be uncertain about solutions. So, what could we do as a society to cool things down a bit? Quite a few things, I think.

1. Scrap the hypocrisy.

For starters, decide which standard of behavior matters, and then hold yourself and those you support politically to that same standard. A textbook example is Democrats' braying about the Republican Party's (nonexistent) war on women. But they have a history of supporting some of the greatest offenders. President John F. Kennedy was a philanderer. Sen. Ted Kennedy left a woman to drown in his car. President Bill liar-Clinton has been accused of rape. Hollywood professes to be shocked -- shocked -- by Trump's callous comments, but you can find far worse than that on cable TV or in rap music lyrics.

Until recently, Democrats could count on the double standard playing out in their favor: Conservative voters actually held their candidates' feet to the fire, while voters on the left shrugged at most of their candidates' moral shortcomings.

In 2016, the left was completely gobsmacked that voters on the right were willing to overlook Trump's multiple wives, crude language and inconsistencies. This time, conservative voters took a page out of the left's playbook. How do you like us now?

2. Stop lying about your opponents.

"Fake news" is just another version of "fake narrative." Democrats routinely come up with baseless accusations think Sen. Harry dinky-Reid's allegations that former Gov. Mitt Romney paid no taxes for 10 years and repeat them ad nauseam with ever-higher decibels of faux outrage. Thus, conservatives "want to push granny off a cliff" or are going to "put blacks back in chains." Conservative voters accuse liberals of being communists who want to destroy the country. If you assume -- accurately, in most cases -- that your political opponents also want to help people, you might actually get to discuss the merits of their arguments, to everyone's general benefit.

3. Stop being so emotionally invested in the methodology, and focus on the results.

The left wants to focus exclusively on its intentions: "We want to fight poverty"; "We want everyone to have health care." OK, but intentions are irrelevant. They don't excuse policy failures; they just enable another round of the "my opponent is evil" game (see number 2, above). If you really want to alleviate poverty, you should be less concerned with what you have proposed and more concerned with whether it works . If it doesn't, it's time to try something else, even if it's coming from the opposition.

4. Get the federal government out of our lives as much as possible.

This is a much-overlooked cause of public rancor. But think about it: Very few of us have much influence on or control over federal law, and it is extremely difficult to change a federal statute or regulation, or a Supreme Court decision once it's in place -- which is one reason why Democrats have been so focused on implementing their preferred policies that way. But this methodology has left millions of Americans feeling voiceless, powerless and resentful. Of course the left is completely freaking out now that Republicans are in control of every branch of the federal government. Well, it's sauce for the goose, as they say. By contrast, it is far easier to have a say -- and therefore, an impact -- on the law at the state, county or local level. And truthfully, it's harder to demonize your political opponents at those levels. Are you really going to spread lies about them when you're working with them every day on the school board or city council?

5. Be more entrepreneurial about problems.

The federal government is a very lousy place to try to solve most people's problems. It is bloated, ineffective and inefficient, even when circumstances call for radical change. Consider the Department of Veterans Affairs. The ability to pivot quickly in response to a problem is characteristic of small organizations, not large ones this is as true in the private sector as it is in government. When solutions are proposed at the level of state or local government, affected parties have an easier time responding to new information and changing course if need be. There are 242 million adults in the United States. Do you seriously think that the vast majority of them are not as capable of handling issues as some bureaucrat in Washington, D.C.?

6. Stop trying to perfect society.

I didn't say, "improve"; I said, "perfect." There's no such thing as utopia. You are never going to get everyone to agree with you, approve of you or live their lives as you think they should. And this is true notwithstanding the explosion of legislation or lawsuits. The pursuit of societal perfection (whatever that is) is smothering the "live and let live" sensibility that makes it possible for the 324 million people in the United States to live together amicably.

7. Use persuasion, not power.

Appeal to people's rational self-interest and compassion. Successful advertising, marketing and social media campaigns do this every day.

What do all of these things have in common? A belief in the basic goodness of others and a willingness to let them show it. They would be a good start.
 
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Mon/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
liar-nObama’s self-revealing final act
by Charles Krauthammer
 
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 Trump Is Sharpening the Axe 
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By Michael Swartz: Budget cuts are something incoming administrations generally promise but seldom deliver. However, the prospect of a Donald Trump administration has put enough fear into the bureaucracy that nearly three of ten federal employees don't plan on staying long enough to see what The Donald will be doing to government. We'll believe it when we see it. (Not surprisingly, that same survey of government employees revealed that 62% of respondents voted for liar-Hillary Clinton, compared to just 28% for Trump.)
          And it's no wonder that fiscal conservatives are salivating at this thought. Imagine the liberal horror at the thought of a federal government that no longer funds the often scatological and pornographic byproducts of the National Endowment for the Arts and its sister National Endowment for the Humanities. Imagine their angst at the prospect of privatizing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. (Hint: it's already started.)
          "Insiders" expect overall budget cuts of 10% and staff cuts to 20%, numbers they say would "rock Washington." Steep cuts are also expected in several departments, most specifically Energy and Commerce, but also in Justice, State and Transportation. Even the Defense Department could be affected in the area of procurement.
          Of course, these cuts would also curtail the boom times in the capital regions of Maryland and Virginia, where government-addled cities and counties surrounding the District — many of them boasting the highest median incomes in the country — will have to get by with fewer cars on their taxpayer-funded gravy train. What this means, of course, is that headlines about homelessness and unemployment and the stagnant economy will be back in style again after an eight-year absence. And the elite media won't have to stray too far to find those sob stories — which sure beats having to report from rural areas in the South or rundown parts of the Rust Belt.
          Seriously, though, a 10% budget cut would net a savings of about $400 billion, but that only brings us back to the spending levels of the leanest liar-nObama budget (or the most bloated one ever submitted by George W. Bush, in 2008). It's worth noting that so far in this century, through the years of Bush and liar-nObama, our federal budget has just about doubled from $2 trillion to $4 trillion — and there's no indication that Trump wants to make the sort of spending cuts that would require significant entitlement reform.
          Yet, to quote the old axiom, the only way to eat an elephant is one bite at a time. There's enough low-hanging budget fruit to satisfy those who wish to see spending cuts for years to come, so just getting the trend in the right direction will be a "yuuuge" accomplishment from the incoming president. Could it be that the era of Big Government is once again truly over? 
~The Patriot Post
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Donald Trump to Eliminate
72 Government Programs
by Norma Goss
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{citizen-action.com} ~ President Elect Donald Trump has taken on a herculean task of eliminating funding for 72 government programs, saving the government $10.5 trillion dollars and balancing the budget within 10 years... Given the 2017 Federal Budget is standing at $4.147 for 2017, with Trump’s proposed cuts, the government’s bloated budget would be reduced by a massive 25.3%. Government workers were previously shaking in their khakis at a thought of a 10% reduction in the budget. Cuts include the obvious, like defunding Planned Parenthood, and global warming offices and studies, but also eliminates spending on the following as an example:...  http://www.citizen-action.com/donald-trump-eliminate-72-government-programs/article4704
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Gotcha! Proof of State Department
lie in Iran deception
by Bob Unruh
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{wnd.com} ~ The American Center for Law and Justice, which alleges the liar-nObama State Department manipulated video to conceal a spokeswoman’s admission of lying to the public about the Iran deal... says it now has definitive evidence to back its claim. The deleted section contained a question from the Fox News Channel’s James Rosen during a daily press briefing Dec. 2, 2013: “Is it the policy of the State Department, where the preservation or the secrecy of secret negotiations is concerned, to lie in order to achieve that goal?” State Department spokeswoman Jen Psaki said, “James, I think there are times where diplomacy needs privacy in order to progress. This is a good example of that.” But that exchange was missing from video released by the State Department...
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Trey Gowdy Speech That Shocked America
{youtube.com} ~ Trey Gowdy Lays Down the Foundation of what this country was built upon and gets a standing ovation. Some say this speech is the Moment Trey Gowdy was Recognized as a Presidential Candidate.
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Again? Students arrested
for handing out Constitution
by Bob Unruh
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{wnd.com} ~ The fight was in the ring in 2011, 2013, 2014 and 2015, and now it’s back – and this time it’s in a courtroom... The Alliance Defending Freedom has filed a lawsuit against Kellogg Community College in Michigan for allegedly arresting three students for handing out copies of the U.S. Constitution. The college  alleges the students violated the First Amendment and the school’s solicitation policy, which “states that students and others must obtain permission from the school before they engage in any expressive activity anywhere on campus, including distribution of any written material.”...This is bull.  http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/again-students-arrested-for-handing-out-constitution/
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Reporter Wars: My Secrecy
Battles With Federal Government
by Sharyl Attkisson
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ I just filed my latest appeal to the FBI’s improper withholding of my FBI file. You may not know it, but every American citizen–even a lowly reporter–is entitled to see his FBI file, if one exists... Under Freedom of Information (FOI) law, the government is allowed to redact bits of information from the file if it affects national security or an ongoing investigation, but the government must provide reasons for any such redactions and disclose the rest of the file. The FBI has refused to do this in my case. The federal government routinely violates FOI law with impunity. I’m receiving assistance with this appeal from Charles Glasser, renowned media lawyer and adjunct professor of Media Ethics and Law at New York University’s Graduate School of Journalism. You can read the Appeal below...  https://sharylattkisson.com/reporter-wars-my-secrecy-battles-with-federal-government/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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liar-nObama’s self-revealing final act
by Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Barack liar-nObama did not go out quietly. His unquiet final acts were, in part, overshadowed by a successor who refused to come in quietly and, in part, by liar-nObama’s own endless, sentimental farewell tour. But there was nothing nostalgic or sentimental about liar-nObama’s last acts. Two of them were simply shocking.

Perhaps we should have known. At the 2015 White House correspondents’ dinner, he joked about whether he had a bucket list: “Well, I have something that rhymes with bucket list.”

Turns out, he wasn’t kidding. Commuting the sentence of Chelsea Manning, one of the great traitors of our time, is finger-in-the-eye willfulness. liar-nObama took 28 years off the sentence of a soldier who stole and then released through WikiLeaks almost half a million military reports plus a quarter-million State Department documents.

The cables were embarrassing; the military secrets were almost certainly deadly. They jeopardized the lives not just of American soldiers on two active fronts — Iraq and Afghanistan — but of locals who were, at great peril, secretly aiding and abetting us. After Manning’s documents release, the Taliban “went on a killing spree” according to intelligence sources quoted by Fox News of those who fit the description of individuals working with the United States.

Moreover, we will be involved in many shadowy conflicts throughout the world. Locals will have to choose between us and our enemies. Would you choose a side that is so forgiving of a leaker who betrays her country — and you?

Even the word “leaker” is misleading. “Leak” makes it sound like a piece of information a whistleblower gives Woodward and Bernstein to expose misdeeds in high office. This was nothing of the sort. It was the indiscriminate dumping of a mountain of national security secrets certain to bring harm to American troops, allies and interests.

liar-nObama considered Manning’s 35-year sentence excessive. On the contrary. It was lenient. Manning could have been — and in previous ages, might well have been — hanged for such treason. Now she walks after seven years.

What makes this commutation so spectacularly in-your-face is its hypocrisy. Here is a president who spent weeks banging the drums over the harm inflicted by WikiLeaks with its release of stolen materials and emails during the election campaign. He demanded a report immediately. He imposed sanctions on Russia. He preened about the sanctity of the American political process.

Over what? What exactly was released? A campaign chairman’s private emails and Democratic National Committee chatter, i.e., campaign gossip, backbiting, indiscretions and cynicism. The usual stuff, embarrassing but not dangerous. No national security secrets, no classified material, no exposure of anyone to harm, just to ridicule and opprobrium.

The other last-minute liar-nObama bombshell occurred four weeks earlier when, for the first time in nearly a half-century, the United States abandoned Israel on a crucial Security Council resolution, allowing the passage of a condemnation that will plague both Israel and its citizens for years to come. After eight years of reassurance, liar-nObama seized the chance — free of political accountability for himself and his potential Democratic successor — to do permanent damage to Israel. The U.S. has no power to reverse the Security Council resolution.

Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the U.S. ambassador to the U.N. who went on to be a great Democratic senator, once argued passionately that in the anti-American, anti-democratic swamp of the U.N., America should act unwaveringly in opposition and never give in to the jackals. liar-nObama joined the jackals.

Why? To curry favor with the international left? After all, liar-nObama leaves office as a relatively young man of 55. His next chapter could very well be as a leader on the international stage, perhaps at the U.N. (secretary-general?) or some transnational (ostensibly) human rights organization. What better demonstration of bona fides than a gratuitous attack on Israel? Or the about-face on Manning and WikiLeaks? Or the freeing of a still unrepentant Puerto Rican terrorist, Oscar Lopez Rivera, also pulled off with three days remaining in his presidency.

A more likely explanation, however, is that these are acts not of calculation but of authenticity. This is liar-nObama being liar-nObama. He leaves office as he came in: a man of the left, but possessing the intelligence and discipline to suppress his more radical instincts. As of Nov. 9, 2016, suppression was no longer necessary.

We’ve just gotten a glimpse of his real self. From now on, we shall see much more of it.
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
A Parting Shot at Personal Freedom
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
 
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 The Opportunity of Trump's Inauguration 
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Today marks the end of an error. As we go to press, Donald Trump is taking the oath of office to serve as the 45th president of the United States, and Barack liar-nObama will retire to a palatial home in DC from which he still plans to cause trouble. But at least he'll have no power, and change can really take hold.
          We've certainly expressed our differences with Trump over the last 18 months, and we stand ready to continue our undaunted advocacy for the Constitution and Rule of Law. But we're encouraged by Trump's cabinet picks and many of his early plans. As any American Patriot should do, we hope he'll succeed in undoing liar-nObama's disastrous legacy on his way to Making America Great Again.
          Unfortunately, Trump enters office with record low approval (i.e., virtually no political capital) and a hateful and vigorous opposition, entrenched and ready for battle. Yes, the Democrat base is made up of tender "snowflakes" who can do little except protest or play with Legos, but Democrats in Congress will give Trump no quarter. And as The Wall Street Journal put it, "No President since Nixon will face a more hostile resistance in the press and permanent bureaucracy." Indeed, Democrats and their Leftmedia accomplices have spent the last two months doing everything possible to delegitimize Trump — to undermine him before he's even inaugurated.
          The benefit of this starting point is that every small success will improve Trump's standing with the American people. As he moves to lower taxes and reduce regulation, Americans will begin to feel it — more jobs and more income. As one West Virginia resident put it, "If Trump can do half of what he says he's going to do and wants to do, the country will be better off." Emerging from liar-nObama's eight years of economic malaise should be more than enough to earn Trump some political capital. So as the Trump Era dawns, we see it as morning in America. 
~The Patriot Post
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 The Left's Sick Assassination Day Dream 
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If CNN desires to re-establish any semblance of credibility as a news organization after last week's fiasco on that fictitious dossier on Donald Trump, its recent report on the question of presidential succession doesn't help. CNN ran a story where it introduced the question, "What if an incoming president and his immediate successors were wiped out on day one?" CNN went way beyond the role of high school civics teacher with this despicable clap trap.
          Even during its report, CNN seemingly recognized the poor taste of the question, and attempted to justify the inquiry into the presidential succession process by stating that the government's plan is so unclear that it could lead to uncertainty and create "the potential for chaos." But if that's so, then CNN contradicted its own justification for airing the piece as it proceeded to delineate the exact plan the government has established should this worst-case scenario occur.
          First, in the history of the nation, there is no historical precedent for even raising this question beyond academic concerns or Hollywood movies. It's simply not a relevant question. Second, imagine if a major news media organization had raised this same question in 2009 upon the inauguration of Barack liar-nObama. The narrative would have been that those racist conservatives were calling for the assassination of the newly elected president because he was black.
          So what's CNN's angle here? It may be best to classify this story as CNN voicing its own leftist daydream of "how many Republicans would need to be knocked off before a Democrat would end up as president?" But those are some seriously sour grapes from the Leftmedia. 
~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama Shows His True Colors
as He Leaves Office
by Charles Krsuthammer
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{nationalreview.com} ~ With no reason to suppress his more radical instincts any longer, the president embraced them on his way out the door. Barack liar-nObama did not go out quietly... His unquiet final acts were overshadowed, in part by a successor who refused to come in quietly, and in part by liar-nObama’s own endless, sentimental farewell tour. But there was nothing nostalgic or sentimental about liar-nObama’s last acts. Two of them were simply shocking. Perhaps we should have known. At the 2015 White House Correspondents’ Dinner, he joked about whether he had a bucket list: “Well, I have something that rhymes with bucket list.”... http://www.nationalreview.com/article/444044/barack-obama-exit-reveals-true-colors?utm_source=sailthru&utm_campaign=colors&utm_medium=email&utm_content=krauthammer&utm_term=VDHM
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Border Enforcement Returns To America...
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ General John Kelly has a massive task in front of him now that he has been confirmed as the new Homeland Security Secretary... He’s taking over a department that in some areas has been, to varying degrees, virtually shut down for the last two or three years. That is particularly true in areas dealing with some of the most critical aspects of security, such as border enforcement. In other areas political activism has superseded the rule of law and the laws themselves under his predecessor, Jihadi Jeh Johnson. His task, along with that of Senator Jeff Sessions to rehabilitate the Department of Justice after eight years of politicization, have to be the greatest organizational challenges facing any cabinet members. General Kelly was confirmed by an 88-11 vote, with Senator Jeff Sessions abstaining due to his having been nominated for the Attorney General position. One of those voting against General Kelly was California Democrat Kamala Harris, an illegal alien advocate. She said, “I can’t look these kids in the face and offer them any guarantee that this guy won’t deport them, and without that guarantee I can’t support him.”...  http://rickwells.us/border-enforcement-returns-america-gen-kelly-confirmed-dhs-secretary/
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Krauthammer Still Doesn’t Get Trump –
Fears Foreign Govts Quaking In Their Boots
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Charles Krauthammer notes, “There are two audiences, obviously for inaugural addresses, the  domestic and the foreign... And I guarantee you that they are quaking in their boots in foreign capitals, particularly of our allies and trading partners.” “The way that Trump spoke about the outside world,” says Krauthammer, “was the most aggressive, the most sort of hyper-nationalist and in some ways most hostile of any inaugural address, I think, since the second World War.” Krauthammer says, “I mean, what Trump pointed out, what he drew was a picture of a zero-sum world, where what we have done for the world they have been stealing from us. He says for decades we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry, subsidized other armies at the expense of the weakening of our army. We made other countries rich while we have become poor.”...  http://rickwells.us/krauthammer-still-doesnt-get-trump-fears-foreign-govts-quaking-boots/
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Denmark clamps down on Refugee Child Marriages
by David Frankenhuis
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{gatestone.eu} ~ Denmark’s parliament yesterday passed a draft forbidding people to marry a person under the age of consent. In addition to this, Copenhagen decided it will no longer accept marriages that have previously been registered abroad... if one of the persons involved in such a union is under the age of 18 years old. Denmark initiated a similar law in February 2016, but unfortunately for the child brides, the Danish Immigration Service (DIS) decided to reunify them with their ‘husbands’ in September 2016, after the government had made a sudden U-turn on the issue. Copenhagen ‘justified‘ the reversal of its position by stating that preventing this type of child abuse might amount to an infringement of the fundamental refugees’ rights. But the Danish legal crusade against child marriage has been renewed, and is still based on reports from 2016 showing Danish asylum centres accommodate some 27 ‘married’ juveniles, writes The Danish Local. Previous accounts made mention of 14-year-old girls who entered Denmark as refugees and then became the brides of men that were more than ten years their senior...  https://gatestone.eu/denmark-marriage/
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Terror tied Linda Sarsour organizes
#WomensMarch against Trump
by Chuck Ross
{themuslimissue.wordpress.com} ~ Linda Sarsour, one of the organizers behind Saturday’s Women’s March, being held in Washington, D.C., was recently spotted at a large Muslim convention in Chicago... posing for pictures with an accused financier for Hamas, the terrorist group. Sarsour, the head of the Arab American Association of New York and an liar-nObama White House “Champion of Change,” was speaking at last month’s 15th annual convention of the Muslim American Society and Islamic Circle of North America. While there, she posed for a picture with Salah Sarsour, a member of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee and former Hamas operative who was jailed in Israel in the 1990s because of his alleged work for the terrorist group...  https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2017/01/21/terror-tied-linda-sarsour-organizes-womensmarch-against-trump/
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A Parting Shot at Personal Freedom
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ On Jan. 3, outgoing Attorney General Loretta Lynch secretly signed an order directing the National Security Agency — America's 60,000-person-strong domestic spying apparatus — to make available raw spying data to all other federal intelligence agencies, which then can pass it on to their counterparts in foreign countries and in the 50 states upon request. She did so, she claimed, for administrative convenience. Yet in doing this, she violated basic constitutional principles that were erected centuries ago to prevent just what she did.

Here is the back story.

In the aftermath of former President Richard Nixon's abusive utilization of the FBI and CIA to spy on his domestic political opponents in the 1960s and '70s — and after Nixon had resigned from office in the wake of all that — Congress passed the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which created a secret court that was charged with being the sole authority in America that can authorize domestic spying for non-law enforcement purposes.

The standard for a FISA court authorization was that the subject of the spying needed to be a foreign person in the United States who was an agent of a foreign power. It could be a foreign janitor in a foreign embassy, a foreign spy masquerading as a diplomat, even a foreign journalist working for a media outlet owned by a foreign government.

The American spies needed a search warrant from the FISA court. Contrary to the Constitution, the search warrant was given based not on probable cause of crime but rather on probable cause of the status of the person as an agent of a foreign power. This slight change from "probable cause of crime" to "probable cause of foreign agency" began the slippery slope that brought us to Lynch's terrible order of Jan. 3.

After the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, numerous other statutes were enacted that made spying easier and that continued to erode the right to be left alone guaranteed by the Fourth Amendment. The Patriot Act permitted FBI agents to write their own search warrants for business records including medical, legal, postal and banking records, and amendments to FISA itself changed the wording from probable cause "of foreign agency" to probable cause of being "a foreign person" to all Americans who may "communicate with a foreign person."

As if Americans were children, Congress made those sleight-of-hand changes with no hoopla and little serious debate. Our very elected representatives — who took an oath to preserve, protect and defend the Constitution — instead perverted it.

It gets worse.

The recent USA Freedom Act permits the NSA to ask the FISA court for a search warrant for any person — named or unnamed — based on the standard of "governmental need." One FISA court-issued warrant I saw authorized the surveillance of all 115 million domestic customers of Verizon. The governmental need standard is no standard at all, as the government will always claim that what it wants, it needs.

All these statutes and unauthorized spying practices have brought us to where we were on Jan. 2 — namely, with the NSA having a standard operating procedure of capturing every keystroke on every computer and mobile device, every telephone conversation on every landline and cellphone, and all domestic electronic traffic — including medical, legal and banking records — of every person in America 24/7, without knowing of or showing any wrongdoing on the part of those spied upon.

The NSA can use data from your cellphone to learn where you are, and it can utilize your cellphone as a listening device to hear your in-person conversations, even if you have turned it off — that is, if you still have one of the older phones that can be turned off.

Notwithstanding all of the above gross violations of personal liberty and constitutional norms, the NSA traditionally kept its data — if printed, enough to fill the Library of Congress every year — to itself. So if an agency such as the FBI or the DEA or the New Jersey State Police, for example, wanted any of the data acquired by the NSA for law enforcement purposes, it needed to get a search warrant from a federal judge based on the constitutional standard of "probable cause of crime."

Until now.

Now, because of the Lynch secret order, revealed by The New York Times late last week, the NSA may share any of its data with any other intelligence agency or law enforcement agency that has an intelligence arm based on — you guessed it — the non-standard of governmental need.

So President Barack liar-nObama, in the death throes of his time in the White House, has delivered perhaps his harshest blow to constitutional freedom by permitting his attorney general to circumvent the Fourth Amendment, thereby enabling people in law enforcement to get whatever they want about whomever they wish without a showing of probable cause of crime as the Fourth Amendment requires. That amendment expressly forbids the use of general warrants — search where you wish and seize what you find — and they had never been a lawful tool of law enforcement until Lynch's order.

Down the slope we have come, with the destruction of liberty in the name of safety by elected and appointed government officials. At a time when the constitutionally recognized right to privacy was in its infancy, Justice Louis Brandeis warned all who love freedom about its slow demise. He wrote: "Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well meaning but without understanding."

Someday we will learn why liar-nObama did this. I hope that when we do, it is at a time when we still have personal liberty in a free society.
 
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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Trump, the Pistol and Holy Branch
by Caroline Glick
 
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 Some Women Are More Equal Than Others 
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By Allyne Caan: On Saturday, gaggles of anti-Trump feminists will descend on Washington to protest The Donald's presidency. The Women's March on Washington claims to "stand together in solidarity with our partners and children for the protection of our rights, our safety, our health, and our families — recognizing that our vibrant and diverse communities are the strength of our country."
          How curious, then, that march organizers disqualified from sponsoring the event a feminist organization whose founder is on record calling Donald Trump "a greedy, narcissistic, misogynistic, adulterer; a corporate mogul (who brags about not being able to be bought, but conveniently leaves out that he's usually the one buying); a Godless, brainless reality TV star."
          Why the rejection? Turns out the organization in question — New Wave Feminists (NWF) — is pro-life, and we all know that's an unforgiveable sin on the Left. So when rabid pro-abortionists got wind that NWF was listed among event sponsors, they did what ultra-Leftist women do best: throw a fit. As one woman hysterically tweeted, "Intersectional feminism does not include a pro-life agenda. That's not how it works! [Insert pouty face and foot-stomping here.] The right to choose is a fundamental part of feminism." Unless you choose to be pro-life, that is.
          Apparently, solidarity applies only if you support dismembering live babies and selling their body parts for profit. And diversity can go no further than choosing between D&E or suction abortions.
          Quickly backtracking from any semblance of open-mindedness, the Women's March issued a statement apologizing for the "error" and confirming that unless you favor killing babies, your diverse feminism is simply not identical enough to Planned Parenthood's to be welcome. No free thinkers allowed. After all, the march takes place the day before the anniversary of Roe v. Wade.
          Responding to the rejection, NWF founder Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa stated, "It appears that the [Women's March on Washington] only wants to include a 'diverse' array of women who think exactly like them. That's unfortunate, but we will not be deterred." Despite being removed as a sponsor, the group will still march.
          As will And Then There Were None (ATTWN), another pro-life group that received a similar rejection after first being approved as an event sponsor. You may recognize ATTWN founder Abby Johnson as the former Planned Parenthood director who left the abortion industry in 2009. Johnson shares on Facebook that after ATTWN applied to be an event partner, she received a phone call from a woman informing her that the application was rejected because all partners "must be supportive of women's reproductive rights." Johnson explains: "I told her that wasn't a problem because we absolutely support reproductive rights, as long as they don't infringe on the rights of individual human beings in the womb. I guess she didn't like that, so she just repeated that we could not be a partner. ... I finally asked, 'So is this a pro-abortion March now?' She hung up."
          Oddly, later that day ATTWN was approved and listed as an event sponsor — only to be disqualified once again later.
          Of course, this hardly comes as a surprise. Groups like Planned Parenthood and NARAL have hijacked the word "feminism" — and are even trying to hijack the word "women" — to advance their infant-dismemberment business. As The Federalist's Joy Pullman notes, "[Feminist Susan B.] Anthony's legacy has become largely a cover for people who profit from killing other humans and selling their dissected body parts for profit. So much for human rights. ... [T]he decline in women identifying themselves as feminists has directly coincided with leading feminists' defenestration of pro-life women to obsess almost exclusively over abortion. Making abortion the core of the women's rights movement isn't helping."
          Indeed, nearly 40% of women believe abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, according to the Pew Research Center. With 40% of women unwelcome, Saturday's event can hardly be called a "Women's March."
          Turns out that to abortion-fixated females, equality looks good on paper. But when it comes to reality, they believe some women are more equal than others. ~The Patriot Post
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President Trump Will Sign Executive Order Sunday to Defund International Planned Parenthood
by Steven Ertelt
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{lifenews.com} ~ A new report out today indicates President Donald Trump will sign an executive order to defund International Planned Parenthood... Most pro-life Americans are anxiously awaiting Congress to pass a bill to defund the Planned Parenthood abortion business. While that defunding legislation concerns the domestic-based Planned Parenthood abortion corporation, president Trump has the ability to put in place an executive order that would revoke funding for its International affiliate. When pro-abortion former President Barack liar-nObama took office, liar-nObama overturned a policy that prevented funding of groups that promote or perform abortions overseas. The Mexico City Policy covered over $400 million in federal funds, part of which flowed to the abortion businesses International Planned Parenthood and Marie Stopes International for their foreign efforts...
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27 Jewish Centers Across the U.S.
Face Hit With Bomb Threats
by Mark Tapson
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ The JCC Association of North America reported that bomb threats Wednesday caused 27 Jewish community centers across 17 states to be evacuated and to "quickly engage in security protocols to ensure the safety of their participants and facilities."... Federal agents had already been investigating a series of threats last week that came via robocalls (and one live caller) to 16 Jewish centers across nine states, located in the South, mid-Atlantic region, and Northeast. David Posner, director of strategic performance for the JCC, said many leaders of community centers took part in a webinar including the Department of Homeland Security "to address concerns and procedures" after the first wave of threats:...This is America and this got to stop.  http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/27-jewish-centers-across-us-face-hit-bomb-threats
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Trump hits liar-nObamacare on 1st hours in office
by Bob Unruh
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{wnd.com} ~ President Trump on Friday, during his first hours in office, targeted liar-nObamacare with an executive order that instructs federal officials “shall” grant exemptions to any “fiscal burden” or “fee” pending under the federal health-care takeover law... Trump, during his campaign, had promised to repeal and replace the massive federal bureaucracy liar-nObama created with support only from Democrats, a system that dictates what insurance every individual American must buy, including what must be covered. Trump also promised to attack liar-nObamacare on his first day in office. He kept that promise, even though the entire law cannot removed by executive order...
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The "Fake News" Censorship Industry
by Robbie Travers
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Name a single person or organization you trust to control your speech. Whom would you trust to control what you can read, or make decisions on what is true and what is false for you?... Whom do you trust to police what you think? The German government thinks it knows exactly who should be the arbiter of truth and what articles you should be allowed to post. Itself! After a bill was proposed by German lawmakers, which threatened fines of up to 500,000 euros ($522,000) for publishing "fake news," Facebook decided to use an organization called Correctiv, described as a German fact-checking non-profit organization, to decide whether reported stories are "real" or "fake."...
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The Strange Anti-Trump Ignorance of PolitiFact
by Hans Bader
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{lidblog.com} ~ It would be difficult to think of any principle more basic than that criminal defendants can’t be convicted except by proof beyond a reasonable doubt... But left-leaning “fact-checker” PolitiFact doesn’t even know it. In an error-filled January 19 “fact-check,” PolitiFact’s Anna Orso writes about “the ‘clear and convincing’ standard used in criminal trials.”  The clear and convincing evidence standard is not used in criminal trials. Even my 9-year old daughter knows that the correct standard is “beyond a reasonable doubt.” The Supreme Court has made this clear many times. For example, in its decision in In re Winship (1970), the Supreme Court ruled that “the Due Process clause protects the accused against conviction except upon proof beyond a reasonable doubt.”...  http://{/ignorance-politifact/
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Trump, the Pistol and Holy Branch
by Caroline Glick
{truthrevolt.org} ~ With a gun on his hip, on November 13, 1974, PLO chief Yasser Arafat stood before the UN General Assembly and made the West an offer that it didn’t refuse.

At the end of a long speech in which he rewrote history to erase all connection between the Jewish people and the Land of Israel and criminalized the very notion of Jewish freedom, Arafat declared, “Today I have come bearing an olive branch and a freedom fighter’s gun. Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand. I repeat: Do not let the olive branch fall from my hand.”

Arafat’s offer has served since that time as the foundation of European relations with the Palestinians and the wider Islamic world. It has also been the basis of US-PLO relations for the better part of the past four decades.

His trade was simple and clear.

If you stand with the PLO in its war to annihilate Israel and deny Jewish freedom, then PLO terrorists and our Arab state supporters will leave you alone.

If you refuse to join our war against the Jewish state, we will kill you.

Today, Arafat’s successor, Mahmoud Abbas, is reiterating Arafat’s offer.

Speaking Saturday at the Vatican after the Holy See decided to recognize “Palestine,” Abbas said that if US President-elect Donald Trump goes ahead with his plan to move the US Embassy to Jerusalem, it will “fuel extremism in our region, as well as worldwide.”

Abbas’s spokesman was more explicit. Saturday night, Osama Qawasmeh, spokesman for Abbas’s Fatah PLO faction and member of Fatah’s Revolutionary Council, said that if the US moves its embassy to Israel’s capital city, “The gates of hell will be opened in the region and the world.”

Abbas and Qawasmeh also said that the PLO expects that members of the international community will make Trump see the light and abandon his plan.

French President Francois Hollande’s “peace conference” on Sunday was the international community’s way of fulfilling Abbas’s demand.

As multiple commentators have noted, the conference’s purpose wasn’t to promote the prospects for peace. It was to constrain Trump’s policy options for handling the Palestinian war against Israel.

By bringing together representatives of some 70 countries to insist that Israeli homeowners are the moral equivalent of Palestinian terrorists, Hollande and his comrades hoped to box Trump into their PLO-compliant policy.

Spelling out the demand Trump is required to accept, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc-Ayrault parroted the Palestinian threats.

Asked by the French media Sunday if moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem would provoke the Palestinians, Ayrault said, “Of course.”

He then demeaned Trump’s plan to move the embassy as nothing but the regular bluster of American politicians.

In his words, “I think he [Trump] would not be able to do it. It would have extremely serious consequences and it’s not the first time that it’s on the agenda of a US president, but none has let himself make that decision.”

Ayrault is correct about Trump’s predecessors.

To one degree or another, since the early 1970s, successive US administrations have joined the Europeans in selling Israel down the river to prevent Arafat’s minions from pointing their guns at the American people.

Like the Europeans, the Americans have upheld their side of this bargain even when the PLO failed to uphold its end. For instance, in 1973 Arafat ordered his terrorists to storm the Saudi Embassy in Khartoum and take US ambassador Cleo Noel, his deputy, George Curtis Moore, and Belgian diplomat Guy Eid hostage. Arafat then ordered his henchmen to murder the diplomats after then president Richard Nixon rejected his demand to release Robert F. Kennedy’s Palestinian murderer, Sirhan Sirhan, from prison.

Instead of responding to the execution of US diplomats by siding with Israel against the PLO, the US covered up and denied the PLO’s responsibility for the attack for the next 33 years.

The US is still covering up for the PLO’s murder of US embassy personnel in Gaza in 2003. At the same time, it is providing the PLO with nearly three quarters of a billion dollars in direct and indirect annual aid, including the training and provision of its security forces.

The Europeans for their part have egged the US along throughout the years. France has generally led European efforts to convince the Americans to side with Palestinian as well as Hezbollah terrorists in their war against Israel in the name of “peace.”

Sunday morning, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed the Paris conference as a “futile” relic of a period that is about to end.

Netanyahu said that the conference’s goal of boxing Israel into an untenable framework for dealing the Palestinians was nothing more than the “final palpitations of a yesterday’s world.”

“Tomorrow,” he intoned, “will look a lot different. And tomorrow is very close.”

Trump will take office on Friday. Since he was elected, he has given every reason to believe that Abbas and his deputies and their European and American enablers will have to either put up or shut up.

Speaking of the president-elect, Henry Kissinger said that Trump is the first man in recent memory who doesn’t owe anybody anything for his victory.

The only people he is answerable to are the voters who elected him.

Trump’s electoral victory owes to his success in tapping into the deep reservoir of popular disaffection with the elitist culture and policies that have governed post-Cold War West. He has used the mandate he received from American voters to revisit the basic assumptions that have driven US policies for the past generation.

His skepticism at NATO and the EU are examples of his refusal to simply accept the received wisdom of his predecessors. Just this weekend he told Germany’s Bild magazine that he continues to question the purpose of NATO, which is a drag on US taxpayers and doesn’t fight terrorism.

He similarly restated his ambivalence toward the EU and that its open border policy has been a “catastrophic failure,” and he expects more countries to follow Britain’s lead and exit the EU.

Trump’s position on the PLO and the Palestinian war on Israel is of a piece with his wider rejection of the common wisdom of Western elites. Just as he didn’t hesitate to say that the EU mainly serves as an instrument for Germany to dominate the European market, so he has made no mystery of his rejection of the moral equivalence between Israel and Palestinian terrorists which forms the basis of the twostate formula.

Not only won’t Trump join the liar-nObama administration and the French in criminalizing Israeli homeowners, Trump is celebrating them. He has invited the leaders of Israeli communities in Judea and Samaria – that is, the so-called “settlements” – to attend his inauguration.

And he appears dead serious about moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem.

Under these circumstances, Israel has the opportunity and the obligation to end the PLO’s ability to threaten the US, not to mention itself. It is Israel’s duty to ensure that the next time the PLO tries to exact a price in blood for America’s refusal to abide by the terms of Arafat’s blackmail, his terrorist group is finally destroyed.

Similarly, Israel is now obliged to take the lead and abandon the PLO-friendly two-state policy, which blames Israel for Palestinian terrorism, and adopt a strategy that works in its place.

Netanyahu has refused to consider any alternative until after Barack liar-nObama is out of office.

Consultations must be scheduled for Saturday night.

http://www.truthrevolt.org/commentary/glick-trump-pistol-and-holy-branch

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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
WHOA!!! liar-nObama receives letter
 from U.S. Army Major
by Matthew MAJ(R) Wadler
 
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 Top Headlines 
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Another inaugural tradition — prayer — under fire over Donald Trump. (The Washington Times)
 
Trump's inaugural address banned from classroom. (Lifezette)
 
Senate set to confirm two Trump Cabinet nominees Friday. (The Washington Post)
 
No kidding. Russia fears Trump won't be such a great deal after all. (Bloomberg)
 
liar-nObama leaves U.S. $9,335,000,000,000 deeper in debt. (CNS News)
 
liar-nObama commutes 330 drug sentences on last day as president — total was more than last 12 presidents combined. (Associated Press)
 
With midnight regulation, liar-nObama Energy Department just outlawed your three-way bulb. (Washington Examiner)
 
Anatomy of a hit job: The New York Times' disgraceful attack on Rick Perry. (National Review)
 
Student group sues after members arrested for handing out copies of Constitution. (The Daily Signal)
 
NY lawsuits blame social media in terror attacks. (Associated Press)
 
Policy: liar-nObama's tarnished environmental legacy. (American Action Forum)
 
Policy: Top 10 ways liar-nObama violated the Constitution during his presidency. (Cato Institute~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama’s ‘Scandal-Free Administration’ Is a Myth
by Hans von Spakovsky and John Fund
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{theacru.org} ~ You often hear that the liar-nObama administration, whatever its other failings, has been “scandal-free.”... Valerie Jarrett, the president’s closest adviser, has said he “prides himself on the fact that his administration hasn’t had a scandal and he hasn’t done something to embarrass himself.” Even Trump adviser Peter Thiel seems to agree. When the New York Times’s Maureen Dowd observed during an interview that Mr. liar-nObama’s administration was “without any ethical shadiness,” Mr. Thiel accepted the premise, saying: “But there’s a point where no corruption can be a bad thing. It can mean that things are too boring.” In reality, Mr. liar-nObama has presided over some of the worst scandals of any president in recent decades. Here’s a partial list:...  http://www.theacru.org/obamas-scandal-free-administration-is-a-myth/
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Robert Spencer Article Pulled After Pressure
From Leftists And Islamic Supremacists
by Robert Spencer
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ The Hill published my piece on Lindsay Lohan’s possible conversion to Islam yesterday; you can read it in its entirety... https://www.jihadwatch.org/2017/01/robert-spencer-in-the-hill-lindsay-lohan-may-have-made-her-worst-life-choice-yet , but you can’t read it at The Hill... It was a minor piece about a minor celebrity, but it caused the foes of freedom major agitation. All day today, Leftists and Islamic supremacists have been tweeting at The Hill, outraged that they published the “racist” “hatemonger” Robert Spencer. What was “racist” or “hateful” about the actual article they did not and could not say, because there wasn’t really anything racist or hateful about it. But The Hill has succumbed to the neo-fascist impulse, emulating the Nazi Brownshirts who shouted down and physically menaced anti-Nazi professors in Germany in the early 1930s, and has pulled the article. Leftists and Islamic supremacists cannot engage their foes intellectually any more than the Nazis could, and so they do what the Nazis did: demonize and stigmatize them until people are too intimidated and ashamed to hold their positions. Any opinion that violates Sharia blasphemy laws must be silenced. And there is no end of cowards in the West who willingly become mute as fish when thus challenged...This is really shameful of the Hill to back down.  http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265524/sharia-hill-robert-spencer-article-pulled-after-robert-spencer
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Judge Napolitano Puzzled By
Loretta Lynch Nullification Of 4th Amendment
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Attorney General Loretta Lynch, who has been engaged in a program to federalize local law enforcement during her tenure, has thrown a new twist into her bizarre and conflicted legacy at the Department of Justice... As Judge Andrew Napolitano reports, she’s created a mechanism by which the Fourth Amendment can be circumvented by law enforcement agencies of any type and description, foreign and domestic, in the area of digital information. Napolitano says, “We don’t know exactly what’s going on and if our friends at the New York Times did not have a source in the Justice Department we probably wouldn’t even know about this secret order.” He reminds us that the NSA spies on everybody all the time, every text message, every email, every phone call except they can’t produce liar-Hillary Clinton’s. All digital data that flows anywhere in the United States the NSA gathers. Ostensibly, for intelligence purposes, to see if there are plans or plots afoot to impair the national security of the United States, not for law enforcement purposes, they’re not looking for evidence of crimes.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-napolitano-puzzled-loretta-lynch-nullification-4th-amendment/
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George Soros: "The Spawn of Satan"
by EDWARD CLINE
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ To judge by the frequency with which Super Billionaire and Super Villain George Soros's name appears in non-MSM news, you would not be far off the mark in concluding that he would rather not be President of the United States... He definitely wants to be the power behind the Oval Office throne. There he would be able to exercise the same malevolent power by proxy, without having to submit to more public scrutiny than he does now. He would not need to take responsibility for his disastrous policies, but rely on a front man and patsy to take the heat. His appearance in the press or what is left of it that has not been compromised by bias and the fabrication of "news" is entirely involuntary; he certainly is not conducting a campaign to make his influence visible... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/george-soros-the-spawn-of-satan?f=must_reads
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Because Nothing Says ‘I CAIR’ Like a Pardon
by Andrew McCarthy
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{aim.org} ~ The Investigative Project on Terrorism reports that CAIR (the Council on America-Islamic Relations) is leading a furious lobbying campaign by Islamists in the U.S. to persuade President liar-nObama to free the five Hamas operatives convicted in the Holy Land Foundation case.... Isn’t that rich? The HLF prosecution is the most significant terrorism financing case the Justice Department has ever done. Hamas, a designated terrorist organization under federal law, is the Palestinian branch of the Muslim Brotherhood. In the HLF case, the government proved not only that leading Islamist organizations in America were helping the Brotherhood transmit millions of dollars overseas to Hamas; prosecutors further demonstrated – using the Brotherhood’s own internal memoranda – that the Brotherhood saw its mission in the United States as “a grand jihad to eliminate and destroy Western civilization from within.”...Kick them out of the United States.  http://www.aim.org/guest-column/because-nothing-says-i-cair-like-a-pardon/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Email%20Jan-20-2017&utm_medium=email
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WHOA!!! liar-nObama receives letter
 from U.S. Army Major
by Matthew MAJ(R) Wadler
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President Barack liar-nObama, in all his misguided glory, granted a commuting of sentence to PFC Manning, the soldier who released 750k classified documents to WikiLeaks. Instead of 35 years served, this miscreant will have only served 6 years. Major Mathew Wadler expresses his dipleasure with the betral and deaths of fellow soldiers in this well-written letter.
{opslens.com} ~ Dear President liar-nObama,

My name is MAJ(R) Matthew Wadler. I served honorably for just over 20 years. During that time, it was my distinct privilege to serve in a multitude of organizations and specialties. This included starting my career as a young paratrooper with the Military Police Corps at Fort Bragg and a deployment to Somalia. That was a unique and educational experience for me in ways that I would not come to understand for many years to come.

After six years of service to our nation, I applied for and received an Army ROTC scholarship. This was a momentous occasion for me, as I felt that I would be able to have much more of an impact as an officer in service to America. During the next 15 years, I was blessed to have served in many unique positions. This includes my time as a Field Artillery Officer at Fort Bragg where I had my first deployment to Afghanistan, then as a Recruiting Company Commander, followed by Assistant S1 for the 4th BCT (Currahee Brigade) out of Fort Campbell where I had my second Afghanistan deployment, the Brigade S1 for the 15th Sustainment BDE at Fort Bliss, and finally back to recruiting as a Battalion XO and S3.

During my time in the military, I have always held the highest regard for the office of president. I believe that anyone who ascends to the office of president is no longer really a person. They are the embodiment of all that America signifies. Who you are as a person no longer matters. From now until the end of time, you are the physical embodiment of the United States of America. Just based upon that alone, you are given respect and honor without the need to have brought honor upon yourself.

I may have disagreed with your decisions politically. In fact, I cannot honestly not think of a single decision that you have made in accordance with your official capacity that I have actually agreed with. For example, when you lowered yourself to not only campaigning for liar-Hillary Clinton but making snide comments to Trump (“At least I will go down as being a president”), I basically ignored it. Or when earlier in your presidency you called out the police for “acting stupidly,” and then later made the office of the president look moronic for completely misrepresenting the facts, I basically blew it off. I was even able to overlook how you stated that there was a red line with Syria that you ignored, allowing countless people to die a horrible death and doing nothing about it, making us look pathetically weak to our enemies and allies alike. Even with all of this, you were my president, and I respected the office you held. After all, with the oath I took, I swore to protect the Constitution against all enemies, and you were the gatekeeper of that oath.

However, I am no longer sure that I can look at the office in the same light. During my career, I would have sacrificed my life in order to save a brother or sister in arms. This is not something I would want to do, nor is it a price I would pay without regret. I would also have given my life to protect and uphold the Constitution, for I believe that this document has led to immense good in the world and has been a light to those in need since our inception. I would have done it then and would still to this day do so because of a belief in the honor and commitment all servicemen have to their oath. It is an oath that we are never relieved from, whether we are 20 or 85. It is an oath that we have seen paid in blood and tears and death, both by our brothers and sisters and to our enemy.

So hopefully you will understand the shock and horror I felt when my president—the man who is supposed to be the standard-bearer for the Constitution—commuted the sentence of a traitor. Someone who is solely without honor or virtue. You are our leader, the commander in chief. We follow your orders because we know at the end of the day you will hold true to the values we are supposed to emulate: loyalty, duty, respect, selfless service, honor, integrity, personal courage. How could you turn your back on the men and women who have bled and died on your command?

Let us look at Bradley Manning for a moment, Mr. President. PFC Manning took classified documents because he apparently wanted to stop the war by showing just how convoluted and horrible war can be. What he actually did was potentially cost the lives of his fellow soldiers. The democratic party wants to parade President Trump as a recruiting tool for the Islamic terrorists, yet how many killers did this turncoat help to recruit? How many men and women will never again return home due to him? Of course, this is not a concern of yours. After all, there will always be a round of golf to help take your mind off such things of inconsequential magnitude.

Again, Manning professes his desire to show the horror of war, yet we already know of this, or at least the warriors who are suffering from his cowardice do. Combat is horrible and awful. It leaves scars that run deep and permanent. But that is not your concern, Mr. President. You don’t need to understand the effect war has on those who engage in it. We volunteered to take on that badge for the rest of the nation. We don’t ask for you pity or remorse. What we ask is that you honor our sacrifice by ensuring our values are kept sacred and that when one of our own violates them, they are punished swiftly and with absolute justice.

How can you expect the men and women who are fighting your wars to keep faith when they know that you are not going to punish those who betray them? During my second tour in Afghanistan, my unit lost a soldier on a mission. I had never met this man, and to this day I could not identify him even if I saw a picture of him. However, his death haunts me often. See, he was killed by an insurgent who had become an Afghanistan police officer. He was actually shot in the head from behind, so he never even had a chance to defend himself. Why would this soldier’s death affect me so much? It was when I discovered from his platoon leader that he died on his young daughter’s birthday and that she was expecting a call from her daddy, who was deployed on your orders, Mr. President. This is the gift you give to her and all of those who lost parents, brothers, sisters, etc. Her life will always be missing something because of the sacrifice he was willing to make. And you honor that sacrifice by allowing a war criminal to go free. Not even just a war criminal, but a former brother in arms for whom any of us would have given our lives.

President liar-nObama, I cannot begin to express to you the outrage and betrayal I feel. My nation has turned on all of us who swore to protect it—remember you are not a man anymore but the embodiment of all that this great nation represents. I don’t expect any of this to affect you. I don’t believe you lower yourself to feel the pain of those who followed your orders into battle. Nor can I envision you actually concerning yourself with the opinion of one lowly veteran. However, with all of that said, I never believed you would so blatantly spit in our faces either. I guess the joke is on not just me, but all of us who have served under you.
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
Sponsors of Anarchy
by Michelle Malkin
 
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 Finally, the Final Press Conference 
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National Review's Jim Geraghty posted perhaps the best headline we've read all year: "Tonight, the Sun Sets on the liar-nObama Administration for the Last Time." Heck, that might be the best headline in eight years.
          But Barack liar-nObama isn't gone just yet. Wednesday afternoon, America endured one last press conference with him. It was every bit as tedious as the previous 164, so we'll simply counter two things: His defense of pardoning Bradley Manning and liar-nObama's future plans.
          "Chelsea Manning has served a tough prison sentence," liar-nObama said, referring to Manning's transgender "female" alter ego. "The notion that the average person who is thinking about disclosing vital classified information would think that it goes unpunished, I don't think would get that impression from the sentence that Chelsea Manning has served," liar-nObama argued. "It made sense to commute — and not pardon her sentence. ... I feel very comfortable that justice has been served, and a message has still been sent."
          A message has been sent, all right. As we explained yesterday, PFC Manning is the gender-dysphoric former Army intelligence analyst who was convicted by courts martial in 2013 for acts of espionage. Manning funneled almost 750,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks, endangering American and other lives. On conviction, he received a light 35-year sentence (serving just six of them) with a dishonorable discharge to follow. Manning's espionage, which at the time he intimated was to impress his "partner," ranks near the top of the most treacherous acts of treason in U.S. history.
          And his commutation is a middle finger in the face of an American constituency with whom liar-nObama has the lowest rating — American Patriots in uniform.
          As for liar-nObama's future plans, the sun may be setting on his administration, but he's not riding off into that sunset to live peaceably. He's laying the groundwork for post-presidential activism. At his final press conference, he pledged to speak out as private citizen at "certain moments where I think our core values may be at stake." Explaining what that means, he said, "I put in that category if I saw systematic discrimination being ratified in some fashion. I put in that category explicit or functional obstacles to people being able to vote, to exercise their franchise. I put in that category institutional efforts to silence dissent or the press. And for me at least I would put in that category efforts to round up kids who have grown up here and for all practical purposes are American kids and send them somewhere else, when they love this country."
          In other words, if anyone deviates from or tries to undo his legacy, he'll run to the nearest microphone. Is there any doubt the Leftmedia will happily provide him one?  ~The Patriot Post
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 liar-nObama Frees Terrorist Bomb Maker 
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Democrats have a long-running love affair with Marxist revolutionaries. Displaying the mentality of a starry-eyed high school girl whose infatuation with the bad boy blinds her to danger, Democrats seem to lose all semblance of objectivity when it comes to these leftist terrorists. Both Jimmy Carter and Bill liar-Clinton freed Marxist terrorists as they were leaving office and now Barack liar-nObama has followed suit in his freeing of Oscar Lopez-Rivera.
          Lopez-Rivera was convicted in 1981 for his actions in working to build bombs intended to destroy government property, seditious conspiracy, for the illegal transportation of firearms and armed robbery. He was sentence to 55 years in prison. Lopez-Rivera was a member of the Puerto Rican Marxist terrorist organization known as the Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), which was responsible for nearly 150 bombings and several armed robberies. The group was active from 1974 to 1983. One bombing in New York City in 1975 killed four and injured more than 50 people. FALN's objective was to "free" Puerto Rico from U.S. control and bring about a Cuban-like communist dictatorship on the island.
          New York City Councilman Joe Borelli stated, "Commuting his sentence proves that liar-nObama and most liberals are out of touch with reality and [are] willing to sacrifice all norms in the name of progressivism." Meanwhile, leftists like Lin-Manuel Miranda of "Hamilton" fame celebrated, tweeting that he was "sobbing with gratitude." And one-time member of the Weather Underground terrorist group — infamous liar-nObama buddy Bill Ayers — excitedly tweeted, "Oscar Lopez freed!"
          This decision is actually not surprising given liar-nObama's actions in normalizing relations with communist Cuba. He ignored the atrocities committed by Fidel Castro's regime as he has now overlooked the guilt of a similarly un-repentant terrorist, who refused liar-Clinton's offer of a pardon in 1999 on the condition that he disavow the use of terrorism. Talk about un-American. 
~The Patriot Post
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HuffPo Writer Gets Backed Into A Corner...
by Christian Datco
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Huffington Post contributor Alex Mohajer resorted to likening Tucker Carlson and The Daily Caller to noted anti-semite Lyndon LaRouche during a Wednesday evening interview on Fox News... Carlson, who founded The Daily Caller in 2010, first asked Mohajer why he, in his most recent column, he cited a piece from “Executive Intelligence Review.” “It’s published by the Lyndon LaRouche cult,” the Fox News host told Mohajer, who responded he was “aware.” “Tucker Carlson, you were the Editor-in-chief of The Daily Caller which for decades, like a decade, called into question the legitimacy of Barack liar-nObama’s presidency based on his race,” the HuffPo hack added...He still is.
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Major U.S. university creates
'safe space' for Muslims in burqas
by Leo Hohmann
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{wnd.com} ~ The University of Kansas has created a women’s-only lunchroom especially for Muslim students who wear the hijab, or the more extreme face-covering garb such as the burqa and the nijab... It was the brainchild of Muslim Student Association leaders who said Muslim women needed a “safe space” on campus to eat their lunches. After all, it’s not easy to eat while wearing the burqa or nijab, traditional Islamic veils that cover the mouth. “It is mainly used by Muslim women because it allows them a space to remove their hijabs and eat,” Abdoulie Njai, the KU Student Senate director of diversity and inclusion, told the College Fix...What else are you going to give the Muslims? Sharia law?  http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/major-u-s-university-creates-safe-space-for-muslims-in-burqas/
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122 liar-nObama Lies That
 Mainstream Media Mostly Ignored
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ The MSM keep saying that they have to treat Donald Trump differently because they believe so much of what he says is untrue. The Washington Post even published an article called, “Yes, Donald Trump ‘lies.’ A lot. And news organizations should say so.”... The article claimed, “that it looks likely he will continue employing the unprecedented levels of dishonesty he wielded to great effect during the campaign.” Donald Trump, like all candidates, isn’t always truthful and is subject to hyperbole, but what the mainstream media refuses to admit or even cover is that  Barack liar-nObama is a bigger liar. In fact, the MSM refused to cover any liar-nObama mistake/lie. A search of articles on this site for the the term liar-nObama Lies generated 204 pages of post titles. Each page contained about 10 different post titles. Not all of them were about liar-nObama: some were about other people in the liar-nObama Administration who lied, but no one tied the lie back to liar-nObama. The selection was very conservative in blaming the soon to be former president...  http://lidblog.com/122-obama-lies/
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Europe's Jihad against Israel
by Salim Mansur
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ UN Security Council Resolution 2334, adopted as a result of the United States abstention, on the instructions of outgoing President Barack liar-nObama, confirmed the historic bigotry against Jews and Israel entrenched within the United Nations... just as it was within its predecessor, the League of Nations. As previously indicated, Arab and Muslim states could not move a single anti-Israel resolution in the Security Council without the complicity of the Western powers, representing the historically Christian nations. The collusion of the Western powers and the Islamic countries against Jews and Israel is now ostentatious, without any subterfuge. Resolution 2334 was as sickening a surrender to the Arab-Muslim jihad in the name of "peace," as was the surrender of UK Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain to the Adolf Hitler at Munich in September 1938. The gathering in Paris on January 15, at the invitation of French President François Hollande, was further evidence of appeasing the Arab-Muslim world's jihad against Israel...
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'liar-nObama can still
be a thorn in Trump's side'
by Benny Toker
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Caroline Glick, a senior editor at the Maariv and the Jerusalem Post, sat down with Arutz Sheva to discuss the protests against the inauguration of US President-elect Donald Trump... and her expectation that outgoing President Barack liar-nObama will do his utmost to make life difficult for his successor. "There will be a lot of disgust in terms of the radical protests against the president during the inauguration and the reception afterwards." Glick said. "I realized that there was going to be a lot of army officers and police officers around every corner because there are many people who will try to undermine this day." She said that this is the first time that an outgoing president has declared that he will act in opposition to the next president. "Barack liar-nObama, who represents the American left, says that he is not going anywhere and that he would lead the opposition against Trump... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/223587
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Sponsors of Anarchy
by Michelle Malkin
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Hoodlums will be out in full force this Inauguration Day weekend. Count on it.

I’ve covered the left’s criminal anarchist element for more than 20 years — from the animal rights terrorists who have harassed, threatened and firebombed scientific researches across the U.S. and Europe to the anti-capitalist thugs who wreaked havoc on downtown business owners at the 1999 World Trade Organization meeting in Seattle and the 2010 G-20 summit in Toronto to the ANSWER Coalition and Code Pink’s not-so-peaceful peaceniks who disrupted congressional hearings and menaced veterans memorials and military recruiting stations throughout the George W. Bush years to the Occupy Wall Street vagrants and rapists of 2011-12 to the rent-a-rioters who hijacked Ferguson, Baltimore and other Black Lives Matter demonstrations against police.

My favorites over the years? I’ll never forget the seditious mother in Olympia, Washington, who tied bandanas over her kids’ faces and recklessly planted them in the middle of a street 10 years ago to block trucks carrying military shipments. She was so caught up in the excitement of her “direct action” that she dropped her baby on the ground as her anarchist compatriots threw rocks at police and soldiers driving around them.

Then there were the “progressive” nitwits who handcuffed themselves to concrete-filled barrels in January 2015 and shut down traffic in the Boston area risking the lives of crash victims waiting for an ambulance that was blocked)to protest … something or other.

Clenched-fist troublemakers will use any mass gathering as an excuse to undermine civil society. Social media and the irresistible lure of virality have only strengthened their incentive to “FSU” (f—- s—- up). Here’s another thing you can take to the bank: “Mainstream” protesters on the streets of D.C. will look the other way at these lawless vandals who leech onto any available cause. Their common goal is not “social justice.” It’s destabilization and disorder.

In Oakland, California, far-left “activist” Mayor Jean Quan groveled to Occupy agitators and refused to crack down as small businesses were destroyed and cops were attacked.

Oberlin grad Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Democratic mayor of Baltimore, infamously created a safe space for rioters sabotaging inner-city businesses.

The American Civil Liberties Union has written the literal playbook for redefining violent protest as “free speech” and obstructing police planning efforts to defend cities against left-wing chaos.

Kory Flowers, a North Carolina-based law enforcement expert on domestic anarchists and criminal subversive groups, describes the persistent pot stirrers as “cause parasites.” In 2012, at the Democratic National Convention, where international media coverage was assured, Flowers reported that anarchists had manufactured “urine-filled eggs, acid-filled Christmas ornaments, and water guns containing urine, all meant to be used against the law enforcement security forces throughout the city.”

Five years later, investigative journalist James O’Keefe exposed D.C.-based anarchists associated with the #DisruptJ20 (Jan. 20) movement on tape this week as they were plotting to invade inaugural balls with stink bombs, trigger sprinkler systems to force attendees out in the cold, chain themselves to Metro trains and hunt down city officials who act against them.

“If you try to close us down, we will look for your house. We will burn it. We will physically fight the police if they try to steal one of our places. We will go to war, and you will lose,” one plotter threatened.

Many of these guerilla punks employ “Black Bloc” tactics, Flowers notes, wearing all-black clothes “to appear as a unified assemblage, giving the appearance of solidarity for the particular cause at hand,” which allows “virtual anonymity while conducting criminal acts as a group.” They may be a fringe minority, but it’s the continued tolerance of these vandals, looters and terrorist wannabes on the ground by “mainstream” community organizers and politicians that gives them cover — and power.

Lee Stranahan, an independent journalist and blogger who covers protest movements for Breitbart, adds: “It’s important that Americans not be lulled into a false sense of security by such an oversimplification. While it’s been proven that funders like billionaire George Soros and the Democrat party have paid protest organizers and some protesters, groups like the violent Black Bloc typically aren’t motivated by money, but instead come to protests because of their anti-American ideology, base criminal desires and thrill seeking.”

Opponents of President-elect Donald Trump’s have accused him of “inspiring violence” and bringing out the worst in people. Wrong. The active and passive sponsors of left-wing political mayhem are the ones guilty of enabling it over the past quarter-century. Restoring peace and justice starts with restoring law and order. Either you’re against the rule of the mob or you’re with it.

http://www.freedomsback.com/michelle-malkin/sponsors-of-anarchy/

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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
No One Should Take the Democrats
Seriously About Russia Now
by Erick Erickson
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 Top Headlines 
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Great news: One-third of feds won't commit to staying during Trump administration. (Government Executive)
 
Report: 300,000 small business jobs lost due to liar-nObamaCare. (Washington Free Beacon)
 
HHS nominee Price sees "access" to coverage as health reform goal. (The Washington Post)

 
Betsy DeVos hearing highlights the need for less government control in education. (The Daily Signal)
 
Trump EPA nominee Scott Pruitt grilled on climate change at Senate hearing. (Reason)
 
Army plans Dakota Access oil pipeline environmental study. (Associated Press)
 
Donald Trump taps Sonny Perdue as his agriculture chief. (Atlanta Journal Constitution)
 
U.S. military moves to clear "ghost soldiers" from Afghan payroll. (The Wall Street Journal)

 
Congress looks to punish "sanctuary campus" colleges that protect illegal immigrants. (The Washington Times)
 
CIA unveils new rules for collecting information on Americans. (Reuters)
 
Policy: The injustice of commuting Manning's sentence. (National Review)
 
Policy: When it comes to health care, the answer is supply. (The Gazette~The Patriot Post
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Romney Niece Named New RNC Chair
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{newsmax.com} ~ The niece of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has been tapped to replace Reince Priebus as new chair of the the Republican National Committee (RNC)... Ronna Romney McDaniel, who served as state chairman for the Michigan Republican Party and helped Donald Trump win the Wolverine State, will be the new GOP leader, Politico reported. The 43-year-old mother of two is the second woman ever to chair the RNC and "intends to push back against the notion that the Democratic Party is the party of women," the political news website said...  http://www.newsmax.com/Politics/Republican-national-committee-RNC/2017/01/19/id/769448/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1706257_01192017&s=al&dkt_nbr=hhoqrevd
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Our Long National Lecture
Is Finally Over, Trump Era Is Here
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts as the country prepares to enter a new era with Donald Trump as our President. “The national mood, I think you would agree, has brightened, brightened it seems almost every day since Trump was elected... I believe most Americans are now, for the first time in a while, looking forward to our future, positive that President Trump will fulfill his promise to make America great again.” Dobbs says, “And yes, there’s considerable relief that our long ‘national lecture’ is finally over. Last Tuesday Mr. liar-nObama gave his final official speech and today held his last news conference, all to the good, spirits lifted.” He points out, “But Mr. liar-nObama couldn’t resist again lecturing, being obstructionist-in-chief on his way out the door. He commuted the sentence of Chelsea Manning, despite strong objections from the Pentagon and some Democrats. Mr. liar-nObama, self-assured, announced he’s ‘very comfortable’ that justice has been served even though Manning leaked some 750,000 classified documents, identified covert sources and operatives. The Manning commutation only the latest in what has been for eight years a ‘president’ seemingly daily in conflict with an unexpressed ideology or philosophy that seemingly no one understood anywhere.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-long-national-lecture-finally-trump-era/
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Carlson The Merciful – Releases Outwitted
Boycotting Rep To Fight Another Day
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Congressman Dwight Evans is a Philadelphia Democrat who was just elected to the House and has made a career decision, as a Democrat, to be a lemming and boycott the inauguration on Friday... Maybe he could make use of that time with a dictionary, learning what the word “aspect” means and then use it correctly next time he’s on national television. Throwing out two syllable words at the wrong time just because they sound big doesn’t guarantee you’ll look sophisticated. Evans says there’s a couple of reasons why he’s boycotting, “First and foremost I believe that the President-elect doesn’t share the same aspect around the Affordable Care Act, which is basically for the constituents that I represent, it’s very important. “Secondly,” he says, “about the Russian hacking, I believe that also should be taken seriously and there should be an investigation and thirdly now more than a couple about the issue of Congressman John Lewis...
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How liar-nObama’s CIA Manipulated the Media
by Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ The CIA and its media allies have thrown everything but the proverbial kitchen sink at President Donald J. Trump. Media bias, anonymous sources, and intelligence “garbage” have been on display... But the 25-page Intelligence Community report on alleged Russian hacking activities deserves special consideration, since a significant part of it relied on analysts hard at work watching broadcasts of Russia Today (RT) television. You wouldn’t know it by reading the report, but RT has historically been a mouthpiece of “progressives” favorable to the Democratic Party. Indeed, the liar-nObama administration saw RT in the past as part of the “progressive” media organizations supporting left-wing causes. Not only that, but RT was useful in disrupting the 2012 Republican presidential primary. The Federal Election Commission (FEC) dismissed my well-documented 2012 complaint about RT’s open support for libertarian Ron Paul and his pro-Russia views. We cited evidence that RT was funded by the Kremlin and prohibited under law from intervening in U.S. elections. The FEC dismissed the complaint, saying RT was a legitimate press entity and a U.S. corporation with First Amendment rights...  http://www.aim.org/special-report/how-obamas-cia-manipulated-the-media/
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Orrin Hatch Spanks Dems On
liar-nObama Offshore Account Hypocrisy
by Katie Frates
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Sen. Orrin Hatch had to remind Democrats they were being enormously hypocritical when attacking Secretary of the Treasury nominee Steven Mnuchin... Various senators on the Senate Committee on Finance, including Sen. Robert Menendez, pressed Mnuchin on offshore Cayman Island accounts. “One does not go and create offshore entities at the end of the day other than to avoid, in some form or fashion, the tax laws of the United States. That’s pretty simple,” Menendez said. “What you did may have been legal, but it certainly was to help people and entities avoid taxes.” After a contentious sparring match, Hatch jogged his colleagues’ memories about President Barack liar-nObama’s past nominees...
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No One Should Take the Democrats
Seriously About Russia Now
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ With President liar-nObama castrating commuting Bradley Manning’s prison sentence and pardoning General James Cartwright, no one should take him or any of the Democrats seriously about Russia’s involvement in our Presidential election. Their outrage and complaints are clearly motivatived by partisan butt hurt and not by any concern for our national security or democracy.

Though James Cartwright gets little attention, it was Cartwright who leaked the existence of the Stuxnet virus that, along with the Israelis, we used to temporarily incapacitate the Iranian nuclear program. Cartwright’s leak had the effect of undermining both our and Israel’s national security and made it more difficult for us to be able to use such cyber attacks in the future. Likewise, it more likely than not emboldened foreign governments interested in doing the same to us. I am not surprised that Barack liar-nObama would pardon a man who hurt Israel’s national security.

Bradley Manning, too, directly sought to cripple our national security. His advocates claim that Manning was just a whistle blower, but saying so is revisionist history. Manning leaked critical intelligence to Wikileaks that included names of people helping the United States and other valuable national security data. His actions put the lives of our soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines in jeopardy. His actions may have actually cost lives of those who tried to help us against terrorists.

We know for certain Manning’s trial, Osama Bin Laden himself had requested a collection of documents for review that were on Wikileaks’ website. Those documents had been leaked by Manning.

While Bradley Manning has generated sympathy in our identity politics filled world by declaring himself “Chelsea” and seeking taxpayer funded sex reassignment, he is a traitor who aided and abetted our enemies.

That the Democrats are outraged at Russia trying to disrupt our elections, but are cheering on Bradley Manning is another example of how unserious they are. To be upset with Russia, but treat Manning a hero is hypocrisy at its finest. It is worth noting that Manning helped put Wikileaks on the map and Wikileaks would not have had the stature in 2016 to credibly leak DNC emails had Bradley Manning not first helped Wikileaks.

Likewise, it goes without saying that those Republicans who have cheered on Wikileaks for revealing DNC emails, but are upset with liar-nObama pardoning Bradley Manning should rethink their kind words toward Wikileaks.

Finally, we should offer up a small bit of sympathy for both Edward Snowden and Beau Bergdahl who are both, no doubt, considering whether a castration in the next twenty-four hours might aid their pardon efforts. I think it is a fair statement to say that if Bradley Manning had not been a mentally disturbed gay man trying to become a woman, he would not be seen as sympathetically by the American left.

http://theresurgent.com/no-one-should-take-the-democrats-seriously-about-russia-now/

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Fri/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
liar-nObama’s Shame
by Matthew Hennessey
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 liar-nObama's WikiLeaks Deal for Manning 
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By Lee Crockett: This week, WikiLeaks issued this demand: "If Democrats want to see whistle blowers ... under Trump, they need to send a signal: release Chelsea Manning." Within 24 hours, Barack liar-nObama complied.
          Pursuing his legacy makeover, liar-nObama has filled his last month in office with surreal "deals" on behalf of his most ardent constituencies, including one for his homosexual base and his "gay military" agenda.
          On Tuesday, after months of liar-nObama's post-election protests regarding stolen information being funneled to WikiLeaks — which made the machinations of the Democratic Party and his heir-apparent, liar-Hillary Clinton, much too "transparent" — he commuted the sentence of Army Private First Class Bradley "Chelsea" Manning.
          PFC Manning, as you recall, is the gender-dysphoric former Army intelligence analyst who was convicted by courts martial in 2013 of treasonous acts of espionage. Manning funneled almost 750,000 classified documents to WikiLeaks, and on conviction, received a light 35-year sentence with a dishonorable discharge to follow. Manning's espionage, which at the time he intimated was to impress his "partner," ranks near the top of the most treacherous acts of treason in U.S. history. liar-nObama's commutation allows Manning to walk with an honorable discharge less than four years after sentencing — and this after Manning's prosecutors already acquiesced to pressure not to seek the death penalty for treason. 
In September 2016, the ACLU, representing one of Manning's numerous gender confusion cases against the military, announced that the Army would grant his request for "gender reassignment" surgery. liar-nObama will no doubt attempt to justify Manning's commutation by insisting he is a "victim," and confining a transgendered "woman" to an all-male prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is cruel and unusual punishment. Manning, like so many transgendered individuals, did attempt suicide, after all.
          But make no mistake — liar-nObama's commutation is much more than constituent appeasement. It is a middle finger in the face of an American constituency with whom he has the lowest rating — American Patriots in uniform. Only 15% of American military personnel, who have taken a blood oath "to Support and Defend" our Constitution, approve of their commander in chief.
          They will bear the burden of liar-nObama's ill-advised political retreat from Iraq, which gave rise to the Islamic State and an epic humanitarian crisis.
          Few insults are more repulsive to the military community than the commutation of an unquestionably deserved sentence (albeit a light one) for Manning, especially when compared to liar-nObama's forced resignation and prosecution of former CIA Director, Gen. David Petraeus, for discussing minor classified matters with his military biographer. Petraeus pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge.
          Of course, liar-nObama also defended liar-Hillary Clinton's security breaches uncovered during the Benghazi investigation. Clearly he only seeks "justice" when it promotes his agenda and protects his friends.
          The commutation of Manning's sentence, the most recent and arguably most unjustified of liar-nObama's 1,385 commutations (504 of which were life sentences), provides a clear perspective into Barack liar-nObama's anti-American ideology. (For the record, George W. Bush approved only 11 commutations.)
          Speaker Paul Ryan poignantly notes, "liar-nObama now leaves in place a dangerous precedent that those who compromise our national security won't be held accountable for their crimes." Sen. John McCain added, "It is a ... fitting commentary on liar-nObama's failed national security policies that he would commute the sentence of an individual [who] endangered the lives of American troops, diplomats, and intelligence sources."
          Manning's commutation, following the Defense Department's implementation of a myriad of gender disorientation policies, is yet another military morale buster. It cuts deep for service personnel who quietly and humbly do their job day in and day out, even if they disagree with the commander in chief's motives. But after more than 2,500 combat-theater deaths and thousands more casualties under liar-nObama's watch, while he has devoted more time and energy to championing gender-neutral bathrooms on military installations, should we expect anything less?
          If Manning's commutation is any sign of what lies in store for the next 48 hours, our men and women in uniform are praying that Friday gets here quickly.  ~The Patriot Post
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Tom Cotton: The Iran deal is dead
by David M. Drucker
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Sen. Tom Cotton said he expects President-elect Trump step up enforcement of the Iran nuclear deal but stop short of pulling the U.S. out of the agreement. But that won't save the deal... The Arkansas Republican, a vocal opponent of President liar-nObama's deal with Iran to limit the rogue regime's nuclear weapons program, said Tehran is likely to react to stricter policing by the incoming Trump administration by crying foul and refusing to comply going forward. "I believe the Iran deal is dead," Cotton said, during an interview with the Washington Examiner's "Examining Politics" podcast...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tom-cotton-the-iran-deal-is-dead/article/2612295#.WIBQUYecd0E.twitter/?utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Examiner%20Today&utm_source=StructureCMS
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Pope Francis Strengthens Palestinian
Refusal to End Hostilities with Israel
by Giulio Meotti
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Mahmoud Abbas's activities in Rome began on January 14, with the formal opening of the Palestinian Embassy to the Vatican... The "Palestinian president," now in the twelfth year of his four-year term, then met with Pope Francis for the third time since the start of his papacy four years ago. The high-profile get-together took place in the middle of the Palestinian attempt to bypass peace talks with Israel and to internationalize the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. A few weeks ago, the UN Security Council, in Res. 2334, condemned Israel for its "settlements"; failed to mention any wrongdoing, such countless Palestinian stabbings and car-rammings of Israeli civilians, and the liar-nObama Administration, which had planned and orchestrated the UN ambush, refused, for the first time in forty years, to veto the anti-Israel resolution, thereby ensuring it would pass... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9798/pope-francis-palestinians-israel
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Trey Gowdy Joins Intelligence Committee Just
in Time to Tackle Election “Hacking” Claims
by Kosar
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Conservative hero Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) just made a big 2017 announcement. He will start the year as a new member of the House Intelligence Committee!... As Gowdy noted, “Protecting the safety and security of our fellow citizens is the preeminent function of government.” And “when it comes to our national security, we cannot afford to take risks.” The committee has been around for 4 decades and handles classified information that is also managed by 17 federal agencies. This means Gowdy will be front-and-center as Republicans get to the bottom of the “Russian hacking” claims made by liar-Hillary Clinton’s campaign team to cover up their criminally incompetent email security... Conservatives are thrilled about Gowdy’s new job!  http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/trey-gowdy-joins-intelligence-committee-will-get-bottom-election-hacking-lies/?utm_source=SailThru%26utm_newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=TPI%20Newsletter%2001-19-17%20Curated/Horizon%20Tier%201&utm_term=Tier%201%20Real
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If Constitutional ‘Power Bill’ passes,
Erdogan gains near absolute power
by Benjamin de Wolf
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{gatestone.eu} ~ Today, the final round of parliamentary voting on the constitutional amendments package will be held in Turkey... Erdogan’s party feels highly confident the bill will pass. Prime Minister Binali Yildirim told reporters yesterday: There is a chance Yildirim has mixed feelings about the package, as it provides far-reaching powers to the President and pretty much renders the position of the Prime Minister obsolete. On the other hand, he has been loyal to Erdogan for over 20 years and is the co-founder of the AK Party, so there will probably be a nice bonus waiting for him later on. The constitutional amendments package is known as the ‘power bill’, drafted by Erdogan’s AK party and it will extend Erdogan’s term in office until at least 2029, which will come in handy, should Erdogan ever get tired of his palace, and decide to buy a new house (banks value long term employer contracts)...
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John Lewis didn't pay taxes on D.C. townhouse
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{wnd.com} ~ Congressmen who live in tax-delinquent townhouses probably shouldn’t throw stones... Lewis’ boycott of the inaugural inspired other congressional Democrats to announce they too would not be in attendance Friday, but not before Lewis’ claim that this is the first he would miss was shown to be untrue. He also refused to attend George W. Bush’s inaugural in 2001 after the defeat of Al Gore, saying then he didn’t believe Bush was “the true-elected president.” Now, GotNews is reporting that Lewis has failed to pay property taxes on his nearly $1 million townhouse located at 219 3rd Street SE, near the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. The property was assessed at $810,000 in 2012, according to a GotNews Nexis search. The unpaid tax is just over $4,000. In 2010 the congressman was threatened with legal action and foreclosure for failing to pay property taxes...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/john-lewis-didnt-pay-taxes-on-d-c-townhouse/
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liar-nObama’s Shame
by Matthew Hennessey
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{city-journal.org} ~ Give President liar-nObama credit: he didn’t wait until he was in the limousine on his way to Donald Trump’s inauguration to commute Oscar López Rivera’s prison sentence. Had he waited until mid-morning Friday, January 20, to do it, his symbolic sanction of domestic terrorism might have escaped the average American’s notice. Those who did notice might have called him a coward, but their objections would have been drowned out amid the day’s oaths and protests.

As it is, liar-nObama chose to do it on Tuesday afternoon, January 17, at the same time he commuted the sentence of the American traitor Chelsea Manning. In its way, the out-in-the-open quality of these commutations is a statement of principle. Americans of every political stripe now have a chance to consider what the president has done. It was a bold move. It said: This is the real me. This is my idea of justice.

López Rivera is sworn enemy of the United States who admitted to his role as a leader of the Fuerzas Armadas de Liberación Nacional (FALN), the clandestine Puerto Rican nationalists who planted more than 130 bombs during the 1970s, mostly in Chicago and New York. The bill of indictments against the FALN and López Rivera need not be rehearsed here. He never denied anything. You can look it up.

In the 35 years that he has been behind bars, López Rivera has never indicated that he is sorry for the death and destruction he sowed during his days of rage. His steadfast commitment to violence has naturally attracted legions of left-wing admirers. They are, in the main, hashtag guerrillas who lionize the FALN’s twisted ideology and apologize for its murderous deeds from the comfort of their keyboards. Some, like New York City mayor Bill de Blasio and Hamilton: The Musical creator Lin-Manuel Miranda, call López Rivera a “freedom fighter.” They say that there’s no physical evidence that he killed anyone. “The CIA did horrible things in Puerto Rico,” they offer in justification for the FALN’s bombing campaigns. “The U.S. colonized and brutalized a defenseless island.”

The appeal to old grievances is the last resort of the radical poseur. Take it from an Irish-American. I know plenty about what “they” did to “us” during “colonial days.” I know how badly those “imperialist bastards” treated our ancestors. At least in Ireland, the “freedom fighters” mostly confined themselves to attacking British soldiers and each other. The world turned against the Irish Republicans when they began targeting British civilians.

The FALN was always less discriminating. On January 24, 1975, these self-styled freedom fighters planted a ten-pound dynamite bomb in a dining room at Fraunces Tavern in lower Manhattan because, they said, “reactionary corporate executives” would be dining there. Harold Sherbourne, Frank Connor, Alejandre Berger, and James Gezork were killed that day. Civilians all, they lost their lives to the revolutionary vanity of López Rivera and his bandit friends. Then, as now, a tiny fraction of Puerto Ricans support the FALN’s nationalist ambitions.

During his years as the FALN mastermind, López Rivera made women into widows and children into orphans. President liar-nObama is a father, and by all accounts a superb one. I know he can imagine how it would feel for Sasha and Malia to be left fatherless. He’s a smart guy, too, full of empathy, so he must know that the trauma of such a thing would never heal—not even after 42 years. The children of those whom the FALN killed still don’t have fathers. They never will.

Yet, despite his vaunted intelligence and celebrated empathy, Obama went ahead and made this appalling decision. All that mattered, it seems, was that the cool crowd wanted López Rivera to go free. Clearly, liar-nObama wasn’t thinking about Frank Connor’s family or other American families whose lives were blown apart by FALN bombs. Instead, he gave aid and comfort to America’s enemies.

“López Rivera will answer to a higher authority than liar-nObama,” Frank’s son Joe Connor told me last night after the news broke. “And he better be ready.” We’ll see. As for liar-nObama, if the president did anything more shameful during his eight years in office, I must have missed it.

http://city-journal.org/html/obamas-shame-14971.html

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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
 
liar-nObama's Legacy Of Deceit
by Victor Davis Hanson
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 Gun Grabbers Smear Permit Holders 
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As we noted last week, congressional Republicans are working to pass national concealed carry reciprocity. Allowing law-abiding citizens who hold concealed carry permits to use them across all state lines makes sense, both in terms of fighting crime and securing fundamental Liberty. That's why the gun grabbers are so furiously fighting it. The anti-Second Amendment Violence Policy Center (VPC) released an updated report this week ominously titled "Concealed Carry Killers." VPC alleges that firearm permit holders have killed at least 921 people in shootings that did not involve self-defense. Since 2007.
          We emphasize the decade-long date range for a reason — since 2007, FBI crime statistics show there have been 121,649 murders in the U.S., 81,665 of which were committed with firearms. Thus VPC's number represents 0.01% of all such homicides over the last decade. There were nearly 800 murders in Chicago in 2016, most by firearm. VPC lists just three permit-holder homicides in Illinois over a decade.
          By the way, roughly a third of VPC's 921 murders were actually suicides, and not necessarily using firearms. (Side note: Aren't leftists all for assisted suicide?) And a great many of the other 600 are still pending cases — i.e., no convictions yet.
          There are currently more than 14.5 million permit holders in the U.S. So, assuming just one murder per permit holder (excluding suicides), that's roughly 0.000041% of all permit holders who committed murder. What's more, some estimates are that firearms are used 2.5 million times per year in self-defense. How many lives saved does that represent?
          But that doesn't stop the nefarious effort to paint all gun owners as villains. "As the gun lobby gears up to push for federally-mandated concealed carry, the facts show that far too many people with concealed carry permits commit horrendous crimes on a regular basis," warned Kristen Rand, VPC legislative director. "Sadly, it is no longer surprising when a mass shooter — such as the alleged Fort Lauderdale airport shooter — is legally licensed to carry a concealed firearm."
          It is true that concealed carry permit holders are human and sometimes commit crimes, even horrific ones. The permit is not, after all, a certificate of angel wings. But American permit holders are also the most law-abiding demographic. Yes, 921 deaths is awful. One murder is. But VPC's despicable effort to smear gun owners is beyond irresponsible. It reveals a blinding hatred of one of our most sacred rights.  ~The Patriot Post
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 CBO Still Can't See Straight on liar-nObamaCare 
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As Donald Trump's inauguration looms, the Left and Democrats are pulling out all the stops in concerted efforts to stop him from making good on his campaign promises. Arguably the biggest promise is the repeal and replacement of that disastrous law known as liar-nObamaCare. On Tuesday, the Congressional Budget Office released a report on last year's Republican repeal bill (which Barack liar-nObama subsequently vetoed). That bill had no provisions for replacing liar-nObamaCare; it was a political maneuver intended to communicate to the American people that Republicans were serious about ending the law.
          Yesterday's CBO report predicted liar-nObamaCare's repeal would leave as many as 18 million people without health insurance within two years — and that number would grow to as many as 32 million by the year 2026, due primarily to huge premium increases for health insurance. To put it bluntly, the CBO report reads like a doomsday scenario, and predictably it was just what Democrats wanted to hear. Ignoring the fact that liar-nObamaCare itself is untenable and on the verge of collapse, Democrats would rather tout a problematic report based on old and questionable data, rather than support any attempt to make a better fairer law.
          First, it must be noted that this CBO report is based on outdated information. Second, when it comes to liar-nObamaCare, the CBO's past estimates have never been even remotely accurate. For example, the CBO predicted that by 2010 there would be 21 million people enrolled in the liar-nObamaCare exchange; the actual number ended up being 12 million. The report also doesn't take into account the fact that Republicans are seeking to both repeal and replace. Since the replacement plan has yet to be introduced there is no data yet by which to compute the potential impact of the new plan, both on insurance costs and the number of individuals insured.
          As always with the Left, it's really not whether the report numbers are valid, but how those numbers can be used to their advantage. For seemingly decades now, Democrats have been much more effective than Republicans at making their case by focusing on the emotional human impact factor rather than on cold stats. Stories of people suffering without a certain law, or if said law is repealed gains wide play. Republicans need to remind America everyday just how bad liar-nObamaCare is by sharing the real life stories of how the law destroyed someone's small business, how it cost someone their job, how it steps all over religious freedom. These are the real effects of liar-nObamaCare — not potential but actual. Republicans need not be afraid to hit back.  
~The Patriot Post
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Allah's Three Strikes Against Iran's Mullahs
by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC (RET)
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ During the November 2016-January 2017 timeframe, Allah has not been particularly good to Iran's mullahs. Three setbacks have occurred in rather short order... First, Tehran's mullahs undoubtedly counted on liar-Hillary Clinton winning the November 8th U.S. presidential election. Her victory would have assured them a continuation of President Barack liar-nObama's one-sided policy of submission to the theocracy-a policy that has yielded Tehran enormous benefits. While liar-nObama embraced a non-confrontational policy with Tehran for eight years that only encouraged greater Iranian aggression, he also negotiated a nuclear deal-the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA)-paving the way for the mullahs to acquire a nuclear arsenal... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/allahs-three-strikes-against-irans-mullahs?f=must_reads
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One Step Too Far
by JUSTIN O. SMITH
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ One more day should not pass before the United States Congress votes to immediately halt all funding to the United Nations and end our membership in the U.N. ... largely comprised of our enemies, which falsely presents itself as an organization dedicated to worldwide freedom, liberty and "social justice" for all. Not only does the U.N. support terrorism, it is anti-American and anti-Israeli, and through U.N. schemes, like Agenda 2030 and "sustainable development", the U.N. promotes tyranny and the subversion of any mechanism for freedom, such as our U.S. Constitution, thus promoting the suppression of the unalienable rights of all mankind. The U.N. claims that it seeks to create a peaceful world and protect human rights, and yet, many of the world's most troublesome and violent nations and human rights violators -- Russia, China, Indonesia, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Venezuela and Cuba -- sit on the U.N. Human Rights Council. One should recall that the United States was removed from the U.N. Human Rights High Commission in 2001, in retaliation for the U.S.'s defense of Israel, an all-time high point for U.N. hostility towards the U.S. ...Its about time!  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/one-step-too-far?f=must_reads
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Pentagon Head Clashed Fiercely With
liar-nObama Over Manning Release
by Jonah Bennett
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Defense Secretary Ash Carter strongly opposed President Barack liar-nObama’s decision to commute the sentence of former Army soldier and transgender person Chelsea Manning, in effect allowing Manning to walk free on May 17... A U.S. official said that Carter opposed the decision in no uncertain terms, even though the administration in the end pushed the move through for two main reasons, the first being that Manning had already served seven years and the second that Manning showed remorse and accepted responsibility, according to ABC News. On defense-related matters, liar-nObama has repeatedly run up against the recommendations of those he has tapped to lead the Pentagon, which is one of the reasons why he’s been through four different secretaries of defense...  http://dailycaller.com/2017/01/18/pentagon-head-clashed-fiercely-with-obama-over-manning-release/
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Sen. ‘Pocahontas’ (Elizabeth dinky-Warren)
Displays Her Lack of Class At DeVos Hearing
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ It’s a simple common courtesy. When the Senate hearings are over, the candidate shakes the hands of the Senators on the committee... After last night’s confirmation hearing for Education Secretary nominee Betsy DeVos, Democrats asked tons of pointed questions, many of which were the “gotcha” type. Yet throughout the hearing a basic level of civility was respected. After the hearing, Ms DeVos approached the dais. DeVos spoke with Chairman Lamar Alexander and then Democratic Senators Al Franken and Michael Bennet. When she approached Elizabeth dinky-Warren, the senator waved off the Education Secretary Candidate—she didn’t want to shake her hand...dinky-Warren is one sick person.  http://lidblog.com/elizabeth-warren-displays-lack-class-devos-hearing/
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50 killed in Tehran building collapse
by Uzi Baruch
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Dozens of firefighters were feared trapped under rubble after Iran's oldest high-rise, the 15-story Plasco building in downtown Tehran, collapsed on live TV Thursday following a fire... State television said 200 firefighters had been called to the scene and "tens" may have been inside when the building collapsed. Many had already been hurt before it came down, and initial figures said between 30 and 40 firefighters had been injured and seven hospitalized. Dramatic images showed flames pouring out of the top floors of the building, which dated from the early 1960's and included a shopping center and clothing workshops. "The building's caretaker and some firefighters were inside when the building collapsed," said Ahmad, a shop owner in the building. "I've lost my entire stock. Thousands of families have been ruined," he added. The steel frame of the building could be seen bending down to the ground as about 100 fire engines and dozens of ambulances surrounded the area...
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liar-nObama's Legacy Of Deceit
by Victor Davis Hanson
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ In its remaining days in power, the liar-nObama administration suddenly punished Vladimir Putin's Russia for allegedly interfering in the U.S. presidential election. It claimed that Russian or Russian-hired hackers tapped into the records of the Democratic National Committee as well as the correspondence of John Podesta, a liar-Clinton advisor.

But what the liar-nObama administration did not say was that such cyber-crimes are by now old hat. Both the Russian and Chinese governments have been hacking into far more important U.S. records and government archives for years without earning retaliation

The administration also did not mention that the election hacking occurred largely because of Podesta's own carelessness in using his security password. Moreover, it failed to acknowledge that the Republican National Committee was likewise targeted, but apparently had enough safeguards to prevent successful entry into its records. Finally, the administration refused to mention that Wikileaks founder Julian Assange went on the record saying that he did not receive the email trove from the Russians.

The truth is that liar-nObama, throughout his presidency, has appeased Putin. As president, liar-nObama ended the previously agreed-on Eastern European missile defense; he made open-mic promises to be more flexible with Putin after his reelection; he barely responded to Russia's aggression toward Crimea and Ukraine; and he constantly criticized both George W. Bush and Mitt Romney for being inordinately tough on Russia.

Until now, he saw no reason to stop enabling Russia. Had liar-Hillary Clinton won the election, Putin's alleged hacking would not have earned any administration attention. But this time around, an emboldened Putin allegedly went too far and crossed the only red line that liar-nObama might have enforced by supposedly enabling the release of information that might have turned off some voters on liar-Clinton. Blaming Putin for liar-Clinton's loss was a more convenient narrative than admitting that liar-nObama's own policies have turned off even traditional Democratic constituencies and for now reduced the Democratic Party to a minority coastal party.

All administrations play fast and loose with the truth. It is the nature of high politics to fib, cover up, and fudge in order to ensure the success of a so-called noble agenda for the greater good. But not since the Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon administrations have we seen a president so institutionalize misrepresentation.

There are ample examples. It was clear from liar-Clinton's own leaked emails and from real-time memos from intelligence agencies that the September 11, 2012 attack on the American consulate in Benghazi was not a spontaneous riot over an insensitive video produced by a reactionary Coptic zealot residing in the United States, as the administration claimed. But such a concoction fit liar-nObama's 2012 reelection narrative: the recklessness of right-wing Islamophobes endangers national security abroad. In contrast, the reality-a preplanned al-Qaeda-affiliated attack on an unprepared and semi-covert American consulate-challenged liar-nObama's reelection myth that Al Qaeda was "on the run" and that the administration was vigilant in ensuring security for our diplomatic personnel in the Middle East.

The U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. at the time, Susan Rice, went on five Sunday morning talk shows to insist, quite wrongly, that the deaths of four Americans in the attack were the tragic result of ad hoc furor over intolerance. The video-maker Nakoula Basseley Nakoula was abruptly jailed on probation violation charges, in a display of swift American justice never matched by a commensurately prompt arrest and prosecution of real terrorists.

Another example of liar-nObama administration's misrepresentation concerns U.S. army soldier Bowe Bergdahl, who went AWOL from his post in Afghanistan and ended up a captive of Taliban affiliates from June 2009 until his release in May 2014. The liar-nObama administration conducted lengthy and stealthy negotiations to return the deserter to U.S. custody. As part of the bargain, it agreed to release five Taliban terrorists from the detention center in Guantanamo Bay. In an about-face, an Army command announced last year that Bergdahl will soon be facing charges of desertion and misbehavior before the enemy. Yet to gain Bergdahl's release, the liar-nObama administration fabricated a completely different narrative to justify the embarrassing swap and concessions to the Taliban. Bergdahl, in National Security Advisor Susan Rice's words, "served the United States with honor and distinction."

Upon his release, Bergdahl parents were brought to the White House for photo-ops, where his father appeared with a long beard and shaved lip-not unlike the facial hair worn by his son's Taliban captors. Bill Bergdahl thanked the concerned parties and broke into rudimentary Pashto and Urdu, praising Allah for his son's release. The staged press conference was designed to underscore the administration's view that the son of a multicultural family had naively and innocently wondered off from his compound. But now, young Bergdahl was safe with his family, due to the liar-nObama administration. The disturbing truth was more likely that the administration traded prisoners for a U.S. deserter, while pushing the false narrative of returning an American patriot to his parents.

The far more important Iran nuclear deal of summer 2015 followed a similar pattern of dissimulation. "Bold" and "courageous" Middle East diplomacy nonetheless required White House subterfuge and deceitfulness. Ostensibly only Barack liar-nObama was unaffected by past presidents' prejudices against the revolutionary regime in Iran and thus could appreciate the mutual advantages of a breakthrough agreement to deter Iran from acquiring a nuclear bomb-as part of a larger diplomatic effort to return Shiite and Persian Iran to its natural role as a balancing force in the otherwise largely Sunni and Arab Middle East

In exchange for the U.S. and its allies dropping sanctions and commercial penalties-some of them approved by the UN-the theocracy purportedly agreed to reduce its installed centrifuges for 10 years. It promised to put limits on the purity of its enriched uranium and to reduce existing stockpiles. It agreed not to expand its enrichment facilities, while allowing on-site inspections.

But after 18 months, the true character of the deal has been revealed through slow leaks. In a secret side deal, Iran can update and improve its centrifuges; it can also inspect its own enrichment centers and report the results to international authorities; beyond that, Iran received a $400 million ransom payment on the exact day that Iranian-held U.S. hostages were let go.

More recently we learned that Iran got the sanctions lifted before it met all its obligations outlined in the deal. Ben Rhodes, an architect of the swap and deputy national security advisor, boasted about the administration's affinity for deceit. Rhodes, described by a New York Times interviewer as "a storyteller who uses a writer's tools to advance an agenda that is packaged as politics but is often quite personal," explained the methods of concocting an Iran narrative to a guidable media: "All these newspapers used to have foreign bureaus," Rhodes intoned. "Now they don't. They call us to explain to them what's happening in Moscow and Cairo. . . The average reporter we talk to is 27 years old, and their only reporting experience consists of being around political campaigns. That's a sea change. They literally know nothing."

Rhodes's cynicism was reminiscent of the boasts of another administration advisor, the MIT economist Jonathan Gruber, who bragged of the administration's ability to get passed the Patient Protection and affordable Care Act "liar-nObamacare", largely through deliberate deceit about the inevitable consequences of higher premiums and deductibles, the dropping of existing coverage and doctors, and increases in federal outlays. Some of the bill's more obvious and unpopular elements-such as the employer mandate-were not enforced until after liar-nObama's 2012 reelection bid. Gruber admitted that the law was composed "in a tortured way" to delude people into accepting that "healthy people pay in and sick people get money"-a subterfuge that was both necessary and worked because of "the stupidity of the American voter," a fact confirming that the "lack of transparency is a huge political advantage"

Other examples of dissimulation exist-from liar-nObama's about-face on border enforcement, in which he redefined deportation and reneged on his promises to enforce existing law, to the linguistic gymnastics he employed to mask the disastrously abrupt pullout of peacekeepers from Iraq (ISIS as "the "jayvees"). Most recently, the administration has not been candid about the details of its latest estrangement with Israel. liar-nObama and his foreign policy team hid the fact that they had helped to engineer a UN resolution condemning Israel, by suggesting to the public that they were unaware of the depths of apparently spontaneous expressions of anti-Israeli anger.

Why does the liar-nObama administration contort reality and mask the consequences of its initiatives?

Two reasons come to mind. One, liar-nObama advanced an agenda to the left of that shared by most past presidents. liar-nObamacare, the Benghazi catastrophe, the Iran deal, his strange stance toward radical Islam, and the Bergdahl swap were unpopular measures that required politically-driven recalibrations to escape American scrutiny.

Second, liar-nObama's team believes that the goals of fairness and egalitarianism more than justify the means of dissimulation by more sophisticated elites. Thus Gruber "the stupidity of the American voter" and Rhodes "They literally know nothing" employ deception on our behalf. Central to this worldview is that the American people are naive and easily manipulated, and thus need to be brought up to speed by a paternal administration that knows what is best for its vulnerable and clueless citizenry.

Such condescension is also why the administration never believes it has done anything wrong by hiding the facts of these controversies. Its players believe that because they did it all for us, the ensuing distasteful means will be forgotten once we finally progress enough to appreciate their enlightened ends.
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
liar-nObama's scorched-earth betrayal
of freedom-seekers
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 by Barry Farber
 
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 Chicago Police and the Need for Justice 
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By Paul Albaugh: Many people have no doubt heard the familiar phrase, "Power tends to corrupt and absolute power, corrupts absolutely." This phrase is often used in the context of those who hold positions of political power, but it can be applied to other positions as well. Americans have witnessed this phenomenon at all levels of government and have seen CEOs, bankers, members of the military, media giants and even police officers abuse their positions. Humans, regardless of their position, are not immune to the tendencies that occur when given — or even desiring — authority.
          When power is used to create or cause injustice, people's lives end up ruined and communities and organizations are torn apart. In addition, live video footage of police in particular means viewers form immediate impressions, which in turn causes a loss of trust and confidence among the people who are supposed to be served.
          Recent police incidents in Chicago reveal some disturbing trends that have done considerable damage to the entire department and what it is supposed to do — serve and protect. But there's a huge caveat, too.
          Barack liar-nObama's Social Justice™ Department released a report on Friday that ripped the Chicago police department for its actions over the past several years. The report highlighted incidents in which police officers were credibly accused of excessive force, abuse, shooting at fleeing and unarmed suspects, improper non-lethal force procedures and racial bias against blacks and minorities.
          The report also alleges that there is inadequate training for police officers on the front end, and too little accountability on the back end — times when the bad actions of police officers were ignored, or at best there were very minor repercussions for officer misconduct. From the bottom to the top, the Chicago Police Department has many significant flaws, according to the DOJ.
          On one hand, the report shows that there is indeed injustice that occurs from the very people who are supposed to uphold justice and act justly themselves. On the other hand, there is no doubt that leftists created and are using this report, which reveals the bad actions of a few, to paint a broader picture of abuse in order to pander to Democrat constituents.
          Not too long ago, the Justice Department, under then-Attorney General Eric Holder, released findings of injustice from its investigation into the Ferguson Police Department. The DOJ's report indicated that there was "disparate impact" — a favorite, albeit almost entirely fabricated term for liar-nObama — because of what the DOJ determined to be racially motivated misconduct from the city's police force.
          In Ferguson, the police force was predominantly white and the majority of those arrested or involved with incidents with the police were predominantly black. The report was quick to point to racism and the city's thirst for revenue, but mentioned few causes of the problems. The DOJ investigation, combined with a militarized police force everyone saw displayed on TV, no doubt compounded the problems the city faced.
          Predictably, the DOJ's attempt to "help" in Ferguson actually exacerbated the problems. In the ensuing months, police nationwide were discouraged from enforcing the law, while thugs — particularly black ones — were emboldened to commit more crime. The resulting crime increase can be attributed to the Ferguson Effect.
           liar-nObama's Justice Department wants to repeat this using the Chicago PD as an example, all to solidify Democrat votes within the black community.
          The city of Chicago is of course, a much larger city and with a police force of 12,000, so it's natural that there would be more numerous complaints of police misconduct. But that's no excuse for the race-baiters who want to exploit the slightest incident.
          There may be some real problems with Chicago's police practices, and there are certainly other large cities facing similar challenges. There are always a few bad apples, including in police forces. The challenge is addressing potential causes of problems before they become problems. It's worth reminding people that the majority of police officers are the good guys who simply want to do their job — to serve and protect the people of the communities in which they serve.
          And no police officer is guaranteed to return to his family at the end of every shift.
          During the last few years, there has been an increase in disrespect for police officers, fomented by Democrats and leftist organizations like Black Lives Matter. And their accomplices in the mass media pounce on every incident, running wall-to-wall coverage in service of The Narrative. liar-nObama has been at the forefront of this war on cops, and this report on Chicago is the latest salvo. Enough truth to be believable, but enough malice to be used for far worse purposes.
          From a community perspective, the priority should be eliminating Democrat urban poverty plantations where criminals thrive, coupled with a renewed effort at the state and local level to mend trust with police. Until these things occur, Rule of Law and justice will not be served, and communities will continue to suffer.  ~The Patriot Post
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After the Trump “Dossier” Debacle:
An Open Letter to J-Students
by Sharyl Attkisson
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ More surprising than BuzzFeed’s publication of politically-motivated opposition research about Donald Trump’s supposed Russia connections is the defense offered by a one-time bastion of journalism: Columbia Journalism Review (CJR)... To summarize: On Jan. 10, BuzzFeed published unverified, false, salacious opposition research generated by paid political operatives hired during the presidential campaign to collect dirt on Donald Trump. BuzzFeed acknowledged that the allegations in the “dossier” were unverified, and that some of the information was known to be false. A Trump lawyer named in the documents as having met with “Kremlin officials” in Prague, Czech last August reportedly never visited Prague. In her article, CJR Managing Editor Vanessa M. Gezari denunciates The Guardian, The Washington Post, and The New York Times as “self-righteous and self-serving” in their criticism of BuzzFeed for publishing the opposition research. Gezari claims BuzzFeed Editor in Chief Ben Smith “convincingly defended” his decision in a staff memo, “arguing that the dossier was being read and talked about ‘at the highest levels of American government and media’.” Gezari goes on to call BuzzFeed’s approach “well-established” in investigative journalism: “Release what you can when you have it and see what new leads it generates.”...You cause America to believe or doubt your false stories.  https://sharylattkisson.com/after-the-trump-dossier-debacle-an-open-letter-to-j-students/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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EU and Iran to Trump:
‘You can’t renegotiate Iran deal’
by Timon Dias
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{gatestone.eu} ~ A senior unelected EU diplomat from the unelected EU foreign minister’s office, secretary-general of the European Union’s foreign policy service in Brussels Helga Schmid, yesterday stated that US president-elect Donald Trump had misunderstood the Iran deal:.. The Iranian president Rouhani – who has breached the deal several times with impunity – echoed this claim, stating “Renegotiating “is like saying that we should turn a shirt back to cotton.” On multiple occasions, Trump has called the deal a “disaster” and “the worst deal ever negotiated”, and voiced the intent to annul it. Trump’s SecDef, General James Mattis, had been highly critical of the deal when it was signed in 2015 but never insisted it should be overturned completely...I say 'kill it' and re-impose sanctions.   https://gatestone.eu/eu-iran/
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First F-35Cs for West Coast
FRS to arrive next week at Lemoore
by Gidget Fuentes
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{usni.org} ~ The first F-35C Lightning II Joint Strike Fighters will arrive on the West Coast next week as the Navy prepares to ramp up its training pipeline for the next-generation stealth jet designed for carrier operations, Navy officials announced Tuesday... Four of the single-seat, multi-mission Joint Strike Fighters are scheduled to land at Lemoore Naval Air Station, Calif., on Jan. 25 and join Strike Fighter Squadron 125, a former F/A-18 Hornet training squadron the Navy reactivated on Jan. 12, Naval Air Force officials said in a news release. The “Rough Raiders” of VFA-125, will become the Navy’s latest squadron to get the advanced fighter designed for its carrier-based force. The squadron will serve as the west coast-based Fleet Replacement Squadron...
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Huge Development! Comey, Lynch, Holder
 and liar-nObama Are Joining CALEXIT
by Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ Eric Holder has already joined the CALEXIT team which has plans to withdraw from the Union by any means possible. Now, we know that rest of liar-nObama’s administration is headed west as well. Good thing, because California may not have an extradition agreement when all is said an d done.
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How Long Until liar-nObama Admits
He Isn’t Really a Christian?
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ For eight years, Barack liar-nObama has pretended he was not a radical leftist. Then, this week, he commuted the sentence of an unrepentant terrorist who not only refused to apologize for his crimes, but stood by his terrorism... As Ben Domenech noted on Fox News, Oscar Lopez Rivera believes terrorism is a legitimate political weapon. Stephen Miller is right in noting we can abandon all pretenses that Barack liar-nObama is anything other than a radical leftist. Can we finally acknowledge also that he is not the Christian he has pretended, for politics’ sake, to be. Being a person of faith is still a thing in the United States even if the left is currently struggling against it. It would have been a bridge too far for many people to vote for an atheist President so Barack liar-nObama played the role of Christian. He told Democrats, who four years later would boo God at the Democratic convention, that the GOP did not have a monopoly on faith. He hired a faith coordinator to do outreach. Then he and his administration systematically set out to persecute Christians in the United States and ignore them around the world...
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liar-nObama's scorched-earth betrayal
of freedom-seekers
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 by Barry Farber
{wnd.com} ~ Part of America died quietly last week.

There would have been a lot more wailing and mourning if there hadn’t been so much competing interest in an African-American congressman known as a civil rights icon saying he didn’t consider Donald Trump a legitimately elected president, and if there hadn’t been multiple tornadoes surrounding FBI Director James Comey, and if there hadn’t been so much wonderment over how much truth there was in a 35-page “report” on what went on in Trump’s hotel room in Moscow.

Among the many reasons to be proud of America is our long and bright history of offering haven, asylum and protection to the lonely freedom fighter or refugee against the thunderous hoof beats of dictators who can’t wait to get their hands on him. Sorry, Adolf, Josef, Mao, Vladimir and, more specifically here, Fidel and Raul. “We can’t touch him,” the dictator’s “diplomats” try to explain to their raging boss. “He slipped away, handcuffs and all, and eluded our secret police and made it safely to America. We can’t touch him!”

“Come on, now,” screams the foiled bully. “Everybody’s got a price and so does every country. Who do we bribe, and how much? Maybe we gotta hire one of their celebrity lawyers. There’s got to be a way to get him returned to us.” And to America’s everlasting glory, there’s indeed no way. Whether you’re Irish, propelled to America by a potato famine, an Italian playing daily ping-pong with starvation, a Jewish victim of the Russian czar whose pogroms served as an opening act for Hitler or any of dozens of other nationalities who successfully fled to America from countless bad guys, it soon becomes apparent to both the evil dictator and the grateful refugee that America means it!

Or we did until last Thursday!

As long as we’re counting reasons for Americans to be proud, it’s worth a pause here to point out that, contrary to misleading media, the “Yankee Imperialist Bully” has not been “defeated” by the hardy heroes of Stalinist Communism in Cuba. Yes, a Stalinist Communist regime has frustrated America for well over a half-century, but merely because America has too much class to wipe out annoying micro-adversaries like Cuba the way Russia, for instance, ended such sass from little Hungary and little Czechoslovakia. Any day since the Castro ascendancy in 1959 we could have folded Cuba up and stuffed it into our glove compartment before breakfast. We could, but we don’t and won’t.

Until last Thursday America’s policy was richly American. Any Cuban able to reach American soil was free to remain in the United States with the full protection such status guaranteed. Whenever President liar-nObama snarkishly reminded us that “Elections have consequences” we never dreamed he meant he had the right to scorch the earth on his way out! We were wrong. And the sad consequence is that, no matter how many innocent Cuban lives are put at risk or lost, liar-nObama is launching another chapter in his scorched-earth policy, in this case eliminating the “wet foot, dry foot” policy that saved so many Cubans from Communist oppression on that beautiful and dreadfully abused island.

Until last Thursday, America’s policy permitted protection for all Cubans who reach American soil without being apprehended on the high seas. No more! Now, wet foot or dry, the freedom-seeking Cuban gets returned to the tender mercy of Raul’s regime.

Can you imagine World War II President Franklin D. Roosevelt approaching the regime of the late Adolf Hitler and saying, “Adolf, we’re getting a little crowded. If we round up all the Jews who’ve escaped Nazi Germany and made it to freedom in America, would you be willing to accept them back?” Can’t you picture Hitler calling Himmler and shouting, “Stoke up the ovens, Heinrich. America’s finally getting wise!”

That analogy has smooth skin. There’s not a single wrinkle wrong with it.

The sharpest pain for me – sharper than liar-nObama’s blazing non-concern for Cuban life – has a strange salve. First, the pain. The liar-nObama administration actually bragged about its negotiating skills in succeeding in getting the Cuban Communists to “take back” those Cubans who had reached America and had pleaded for asylum!

The salve. Someone in liar-nObama’s regime had the brutalitarian honesty to haul off and say, “Anybody seeking to leave Cuba and attain asylum in the United States must now know he’ll have no home in America!”

Thanks, Barack. I feel like a jailbird innocent, by the way who’s already well into his last week in prison. The part of America that died last week can be brought roaring back to life when President-elect Trump drops that “-elect” part Friday and becomes President Trump. It’ll just take a signature. I await the presidential tweet that declares “Whole new Cuba policy coming up!”

So, back now to liar-nObama’s administration warning that freedom-seekers “will have no home in America.” Let me reply with the words of Emma Lazarus that eventually found their way to the bronze plaque at the base of the Statue of Liberty.

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door!”
 
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Thurs/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Wasting time at the wake that won't end
by Wesley Pruden
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House GOP warns agencies against accelerated hiring in anticipation of Trump's freeze. (Government Executive)
 
Betsy DeVos, Trump's education pick, hints in confirmation hearing at sweeping changes ahead. She won't take a salary for one thing. (Yahoo News)
 
liar-nObama scores the worst legislative record in history, having signed fewer bills into law than one-term Carter. (The Washington Times)
 
The seven most under-covered liar-nObama scandals. (NewsBusters)
 
10 killed, 29 wounded in Chicago MLK Day weekend shootings. (CBS Chicago)
 
Man who shot and beat an Arizona Trooper is illegal immigrant. (Arizona Central)
 
liar-nObama commutes sentence for domestic terrorist Oscar López Rivera, who clearly doesn't deserve it. (Time)
 
liar-nObama orders Secret Service to pay $24 million in decades-old race-bias case brought by black agents. (The Washington Post)
 
liar-nObama gives global climate fund another $500M. (The Hill)
 
Hoax ads in two dozen cities offered protesters up to $2,500 to agitate at Trump inaugural. (The Washington Times)
 
Policy: The Dakota Access Pipeline must be built. (Heartland Institute)
 
Policy: A helpful starting point for rebuilding the military. (American Action Forum~The Patriot Post
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'This was an attack against the State of Israel'
by Yoni Kempinski
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Agriculture Minister Uri Ariel (Jewish Home) responded Wednesday morning to the deadly terror attack in Umm Al-Hiran which left police officer Erez Levy dead and a second officer wounded... “What happened in Hiran was a terror attack against the State of Israel,” said Ariel. “We won’t be deterred from enforcing law and order in the Bedouin sector, along with working to advance legal housing solutions.” Ariel has been charged by the government with finding a solution to the problem of rampant illegal construction in the Bedouin sector and the existence of dozens of unauthorized settlements...
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Tucker Carlson Gets
Hoaxer To Admit Ad Offering
‘$2,500/Month To Protest Trump’ Was Fraud
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ For the crazy liberal still upset that liar-Hillary lost the election it seemed like a great way to make some extra money... Demand Protest an organization that billed itself as “the largest private grassroots support organization in the United States, was hiring people to protest the soon-to be President Trump. On his Tuesday night show, Tucker Carlson got the head-hoaxer operating under the alias Dom Twolipso to admit the ad as well as the job offer was a fraud. Hey also admitted that Peyton Manning was a big fan or was it Chelsea Manning? The at the bottom of the post ran in the New York Backpage, it also ran in Nineteen other major market editions as well. Additionally the story of the ad was covered on TV Networks and The Washington Times...  http://lidblog.com/tucker-carlson-figures-fraud/
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Restoring Justice
by Robert Knight
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{theacru.org} ~ Eric Holder and Loretta E. Lynch have been perhaps the most flagrant partisans ever to hold the office of attorney general... Year after year, they rubber stamped whatever the liar-nObama administration wanted to do, legally or otherwise. So it was an eye-roller when Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, New York Democrat, announced Thursday why he was going to vote against fellow Sen. Jeff Sessions’ nomination for U.S. attorney general: “I am not confident in Sen. Sessions’ ability to be a defender of the rights of all Americans, or to serve as an independent check on the incoming administration,” Mr. Schumer said. The attorney general, who heads the Justice Department, takes an oath to enforce federal laws and uphold the Constitution. We’re at the tail end of an administration in which the highest legal office in the land was weaponized along racial lines and openly attacked laws that the progressive left disliked, such as the federal Defense of Marriage Act and state voter ID statutes...
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O’Keefe Nails Soros BLM
Type Anarchists Plotting Terrorism...
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ James O’Keefe of Project Veritas released another video that goes into greater detail regarding the types of actions the anarchists behind DisruptJ20 are planning to use to disrupt Friday’s presidential inauguration... Blockades have long been known to be a major component of their plan and some details of those plans are discussed, including their intent to block every major ingress point into the city of Washington, DC. One speaker holding orientation, Mike Isaacson, recommends throat punching people, saying it’s “probably a good thing.” They also revealed plans to use chains to disable the Washington Metro rail line. The plotting is recorded and those involved identified with an accompanying narrative that “disabling trains constitutes an act of terrorism under 18 USC 1992, with potential penalties of up to twenty years in prison and the death penalty if someone is subsequently killed as a result...  http://rickwells.us/okeefe-nails-soros-blm-type-anarchists-plotting-terrorism-inauguration/
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Audit: Federal Government Remains
on Unsustainable Fiscal Path
by Ali Meyer
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The federal government remains on an unsustainable fiscal path, with its net operating cost more than doubling over the past fiscal year, according to an audit from the Government Accountability Office... The government collected $3.3 trillion in taxes and other revenues in fiscal 2016, an increase of $11.3 billion from the previous year. The government’s gross costs totaled $4.5 trillion. The government’s net operating cost, the difference between the costs it incurs and the revenue it takes in, rose dramatically to $1 trillion in fiscal 2016. This figure increasing by $533.2 billion in one year, more than double the previous fiscal year...Then why is liar-nObama is giving it away to UN and Iran?
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Wasting time at the wake that won't end
by Wesley Pruden
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Democrats who confuse hating Donald Trump with Mom and apple pie as the all-American recipe to win elections are blowing their chances, such as they are, for the 2018 midterm elections. If you're a Democrat it's never too soon to fret and stew about the prospects.

But Democrats are having so much fun despising the Donald they're forgetting duty to party and responsibility to exploit opportunity. The party on the outs nearly always picks up a few seats in the mid-terms. But sore losers forget the ancient bipartisan admonition that "now is the time for every man to come to the aid of the party." And that includes the women.

Even if the diehard losers can get their act together soon, the job of making a dent in the Donald's Republican prospects will be daunting. Thirty-three seats in the Senate will be up for election in 2018, and 25 of those are now held by Democrats. Additionally, two independents who caucus and usually vote with Democratic senators will be completing their six-year terms.

Republicans, who had to defend a host of incumbents last year, survived with a slightly reduced majority intact, and will have to defend only eight seats two years hence. Other seats may become open, due to appointment to higher office particularly among Republicans, resignations or deaths. It just doesn't look like 2018 will be a year for Democrats to write books about. The arithmetic just isn't there. The chances of taking over the Senate are roughly nil, zero and none. The party is likely to win a few Republican seats in the House, but not nearly enough to flip control.

The action will be in the Senate. Sen. Cory Gardner of Colorado, the campaign chairman for the Senate Republicans, is already at work and the Democrats still have no party chairman. The favorite to be the face of the party is Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota, a Muslim. Mr. Ellison is no doubt the paragon of virture, tolerance and forbearance that Democrats, pundits and Muslim enthusiasts say he is, but any marketing man in America will tell you that Islam is not a hot brand in America just now, and isn't likely to be one soon. Worse, Mr. Ellison is a onetime protags of Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, the particularly harsh strain of the Mohammedan faith who won't win any popularity contests, either.

But it's the continuing inability of the Democrats to get beyond the first stage of grief and mourning that threatens to push the party to the edge, where it would fall into a very deep ditch. The party's in the position of the widow who can't stop crying, even though her man was a scoundrel, knave and wastrel, and was not very nice besides.

The gathering thousands are arriving hourly in the nation's capital to celebrate - and to repudiate - Donald Trump, some with high hopes eager to raise a toast to the nation and the new president with champagne, others with low hopes for a disaster eager to raise a toast with wormwood, bile and gall. The cops, reinforced by the National Guard, are prepared for jerks to do their worst.

One blogger describes the demonstrations and the threat of boycotts, counter-demonstrations and rotten eggs as "a big circus organized by entitled smug celebrities who think they're in charge of the culture." The Democratic women, with a few men riding shotgun so to speak, marching on the day after the Donald is sworn in, will put finis at last on the liar-nObama years. Their goals are not quite clear, but they say they won't rest until women have something called "parity and equity at all levels of leadership in society." That sounds fine and good, like something written for a feminist website, but nobody knows quite what it means. Sisterhood may be more fun than powerful.

The sorehead losers who tried everything they could think of to upset the upset - attempting to subvert the Electoral College and then trying to prevent Congress from affirming the vote of the Electoral College - organized a claque around Rep. John Lewis to declare the Donald the illegitimate president. When that didn't impress anyone, the Democrats went to work to organize a "boycott" of the Inaugural, something like standing in the street to protest not being invited to a neighbor's dinner party. Some of the LGBQTs are even doing that, too, with a dance and kiss-in at Mike Pence's home in suburban Maryland.

This is energy that could be spent to do something positive for the party, which will need all the energy it can muster to get through the next four years. America needs two parties to make the system work - but it doesn't need this one.
 
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists
by Patrick Buchanan
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 liar-nObama's Sand Castle 
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On Sunday, CBS's "60 Minutes" aired its exit interview with Barack liar-nObama as they reminisced on his time in office. As the interview went on, it became increasingly clear that liar-nObama rarely second guesses himself or his decisions. When asked what surprised him most upon taking office he answered, "I was surprised and continue to be surprised by the severity of partisanship in this town." Seriously? The number one contributor to the partisanship over these last eight years has been liar-nObama.
          As Charles Krauthammer commented, it was liar-nObama who tried to govern the nation by pushing a hard "social democratic" agenda onto "a country that is 80% non-liberal." That's a recipe for partisan gridlock if ever there was one. Any yet liar-nObama remains mystified as to how to "crack the code" of the nation's polarization.
          Ironically, the answer liar-nObama gave to a question on how he would advise Donald Trump provides the solution to "cracking the code." liar-nObama said, "The one thing I've said to [Trump] directly — and I would advise my Republican friends in Congress and supporters around the country — is just make sure that, as we go forward, certain norms [and] certain institutional traditions don't get eroded, because there's a reason they're in place." If only the constitutional scholar had taken his own advice and the Constitution seriously.
          In one of the more telling moments, interviewer Steve Kroft asked if liar-nObama regretted his "red line" statement warning Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons on his own people. Instead of owning the fact that it was a mistake because he never followed through, liar-nObama obfuscated, hemmed and hawed and then, incredibly, said, "Regardless of how it ended up playing, I think — in the Beltway, what is true is Assad got rid of his chemical weapons." Talk about revisionist history. Certainly, liar-nObama doesn't want to own his mistakes and miscalculations, but fortunately that's not something he gets to decide for himself.
          So, what should one think of liar-nObama's time in office? Of course opinions will vary, though Krauthammer put it well, saying that liar-nObama may have done a lot, but his accomplishments are "all built on sand." ~The Patriot Post
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 Marketing liar-nObamaCare's Repeal 
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"We're going to have insurance for everybody." That's Donald Trump's promise as he prepares to take office and the GOP congressional majorities begin unraveling liar-nObama's signature legislation. "There was a philosophy in some circles that if you can't pay for it, you don't get it," Trump added. "That's not going to happen with us." He addressed folks losing their insurance, too. "It's not going to be their plan," he said of those covered under liar-nObamaCare (and no, it's not 20 million). "It'll be another plan. But they'll be beautifully covered. I don't want single-payer. What I do want is to be able to take care of people." He also wants to make it less expensive, which shouldn't be too difficult. Simply repealing liar-nObamaCare's coverage standards would go a long way toward reducing prices.
          The challenge for Republicans has always been as much political as practical — how can they repeal a monstrosity while not appearing heartless? Trump is bridging that divide in his way, reassuring people that Republicans aren't just going to abandon them as Democrats would have us believe. But Trump and the congressional GOP also know that serious reforms are necessary to stop or even slow the skyrocketing costs of health care exacerbated by liar-nObamaCare. Repeal and replace will require some serious marketing chops, and Republicans haven't been particularly adept in that department. It's time they improve. 
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Trump: Slams Merkel’s policy, praises Brexit
and pushes British trade deal
by Willem Cornax
{gatestone.eu} ~ In his first combined interview with British and German media, President-elect Donald Trump confirmed his stance on the European Union as a failed project... He once again praised the UK for voting in favour of Brexit. “People, countries, want their own identity,” he said, arguing that the Brexit vote underlined this desire. He also slammed Merkel’s open door policy, calling it the straw that broke the camel’s back: “I think she made one very catastrophic mistake and that was taking all of these illegals, you know taking all of the people from wherever they come from. And nobody even knows where they come from. You’ll find out, you got a big dose of it a week ago. So I think she made a catastrophic mistake, very bad mistake.”...  https://gatestone.eu/trump-on-europe-slams-merkels-policy-praises-brexit-and-pushes-british-trade-deal/
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Fox News superstar to be
on Trump's Supreme Court?
by Chelsea Schilling
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{wnd.com} ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano was spotted for a second time at Trump Tower Tuesday morning, leading to speculation that President-elect Donald Trump may be considering the judge for a position on the U.S. Supreme Court... Napolitano, a former New Jersey Superior Court judge and Fox News senior judicial analyst, is a favorite commentator in conservative and libertarian circles. After he emerged from an elevator at Trump Tower Tuesday, several blogs, including one published by former Rep. Allen West, began speculating about Napolitano’s meeting with Trump. “Trump might be seeking advice from the libertarian analyst — and maybe, just maybe he might be considering the Fox analyst for a Supreme Court position,” wrote PJ Media’s Tyler O’Neil. “While Napolitano is not one of the 21 names on Trump’s SCOTUS list, anything is possible.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/fox-news-superstar-to-be-on-trumps-supreme-court/
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Here’s How Much Money liar-nObama Admin
Transferred to UN During Last Days
by Harry Hibbs
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ The State Department announced Tuesday it would transfer $500 million to the United Nations’ Green Climate Fund (GCF), likely irking Republican lawmakers while keeping what commitments it can to the international community... before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Friday. liar-nObama pledged $3 billion to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) in 2014, but has only sent $1 billion to the program. The administration sent its first $500 million payment to the GCF in March. The UN, however, shouldn’t expect any more money for the GCF in the next four years. President-elect Donald Trump promised to “cancel billions in global warming payments” to the UN, and instead use that money to “support America’s vital environmental infrastructure and natural resources.”...Why can't Congress step in and stop this?  http://gopthedailydose.com/2017/01/17/heres-much-money-obama-administration-transferred-un-last-days-inauguration/
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liar-nObama to Leave U.S. Vulnerable
to EMP Attack
by F. MICHAEL MALOOF
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The liar-nObama administration, on the eve of its transfer of power, is about to impose new standards to protect the nation's life-sustaining electric grid from solar storms... However, the new standards by a Democrat-dominated regulatory board, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, will address only solar activities. Pointedly, it will not protect the vulnerable national grid from a man-made, high altitude, nuclear detonation that could create an electromagnetic pulse. Such an EMP could have a catastrophic impact on the nation's technology-based, life-sustaining critical infrastructures. In an email to WND, William R. Graham, who was director of the Office of Science and  Technology Policy and science adviser to President Ronald Reagan, warned that the FERC has scheduled a ruling on Jan. 19 - the day before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 45th president of the United States - that is supposed to protect the United States from an EMP. However, the FERC's planned ruling "is likely to have far-ranging, seriously counterproductive national security implications."...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/obama-to-leave-us-vulnerable-to-emp-attack?f=must_reads
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Germany's New Propaganda Bureau
by Judith Bergman
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Officials in Germany's Interior Ministry are urging Interior Minister Thomas de Maizière to establish a "Defense Center against Disinformation" (Ab­wehr­zen­trum ge­gen Des­in­for­ma­ti­on) to combat what they call "political disinformation," a euphemism for "fake news."... "The acceptance of a post-truth age would amount to political capitulation," the officials told Maizière in a memo, which also disclosed that the bureaucrats at the Interior Ministry are eager to see "authentic political communication" remain "defining for the 21st century." One wonders whether by "authentic political communication," the officials of the Interior Ministry are referring to the way German authorities scrambled to cover up the mass sexual attacks on women on New Year's Eve a year ago in Cologne?... https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9771/germany-censorship-propaganda
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Reagan and Trump: American Nationalists
by Patrick Buchanan
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Since World War II, the two men who have most terrified this city by winning the presidency are Ronald Reagan and Donald Trump.

And they have much in common.

Both came out of the popular culture, Reagan out of Hollywood, Trump out of a successful reality TV show. Both possessed the gifts of showmen — extraordinarily valuable political assets in a television age that deals cruelly with the uncharismatic.

Both became instruments of insurgencies out to overthrow the establishment of the party whose nomination they were seeking.

Reagan emerged as the champion of the postwar conservatism that had captured the Republican Party with Barry Goldwater’s nomination in 1964. His victory in 1980 came at the apogee of conservative power.

The populism that enabled Trump to crush 16 Republican rivals and put him over the top in Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Michigan had also arisen a decade and a half before — in the 1990s.

A decisive advantage Reagan and Trump both enjoyed is that in their decisive years, the establishments of both parties were seen as having failed the nation.

Reagan was victorious after Russia invaded Afghanistan; Americans were taken hostage in Tehran; and the U.S. had endured 21 percent interest rates, 13 percent inflation, 7 percent unemployment and zero growth.

When Trump won, Americans had gone through years of wage stagnation. Our industrial base had been hollowed out. And we seemed unable to win or end a half-dozen Middle East wars in which we had become ensnared.

What is the common denominator of both the Reagan landslide of 1980 and Trump’s victory?

Both candidates appealed to American nationalism.

In the late 1970s, Reagan took the lead in the campaign to save the Panama Canal. “We bought it. We paid for it. It’s ours. And we’re going to keep it,” thundered the Gipper.

While he lost the fight for the Canal when the GOP establishment in the Senate lined up behind Jimmy Carter, the battle established Reagan as a leader who put his country first.

Trump unapologetically seized upon the nationalist slogan that was most detested by our globalist elites, “America first!”

He would build a wall, secure the border, stop the invasion. He would trash the rotten trade treaties negotiated by transnational elites who had sold out our sovereignty and sent our jobs to China.

He would demand that freeloading allies in Europe, the Far East and the Persian Gulf pay their fair share of the cost of their defense.

In the rhetoric of Reagan and Trump there is a simplicity and a directness that is familiar to, and appeals to, the men and women out in Middle America, to whom both directed their campaigns.

In his first press conference in January of 1981, Reagan said of the Kremlin, “They reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat. … We operate on a different set of standards.”

He called the Soviet Union an “evil empire” and the “focus of evil in the modern world.”

The State Department was as wary of what Reagan might say or do then as they are of what Trump might tweet now.

But while there are similarities between these outsiders who captured their nominations and won the presidency by defying and then defeating the establishments of both political parties, the situations they confront are dissimilar.

Reagan took office in a time of Cold War clarity.

Though there was sharp disagreement over how tough the United States should be and what was needed for national defense, there was no real question as to who our adversaries were.

As had been true since the time of Harry Truman, the world struggle was between communism and freedom, the USSR and the West, the Warsaw Pact and the NATO alliance.

There was a moral clarity then that no longer exists now.

Today, the Soviet Empire is gone, the Warsaw Pact is gone, the Soviet Union is gone, and the Communist movement is moribund.

NATO embraces three former republics of the USSR, and we confront Moscow in places like Crimea and the Donbass that no American of the Reagan era would have regarded as a national interest of the United States.

We no longer agree on who our greatest enemies are, or what the greatest threats are.

Is it Vladimir Putin’s Russia? Is it Iran? Is it China, which Secretary of State-designate Rex Tillerson says must be made to vacate the air, missile and naval bases it has built on rocks and reefs in a South China Sea that Beijing claims as its national territory?

Is it North Korea, now testing nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles?

Beyond issues of war and peace, there are issues at home — race, crime, policing, abortion, LGBT rights, immigration legal and illegal and countless others on which this multicultural, multiracial and multiethnic nation is split two, three, many ways.

The existential question of the Trump era might be framed thus: How long will this divided democracy endure as one nation and one people?

http://www.freedomsback.com/pat-buchanan/reagan-and-trump-american-nationalists/

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Wednesday ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Not Kissing Any Rings
by Erick Erickson
 
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 Top Headlines 
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Trump Effect: GM plans $1 billion U.S. investment. (Bloomberg)
 
Trump Effect: Walmart touts plan to create 10,000 U.S. jobs. (The Wall Street Journal)
 
Martin Luther King III and Trump have "very constructive" meeting. (The Hill)
 
Alveda King, MLK's niece: "I voted for Mr. Trump." (The Washington Times)
 
Why liar-nObamaCare's "20 million" number is fake. (The Daily Signal)
 
Trump's offers Russia end to sanctions for nuclear arms cut. (Reuters)
 
Criminal illegal immigrants sent home after capture at southwest border. (Washington Free Beacon)
 
Wife of Pulse nightclub jihadi Omar Mateen arrested in San Francisco. (ABC News)
 
Monica Crowley bows out of Trump post after plagiarism affirmed. (Washington Examiner)
 
Last man to walk on the moon Eugene Cernan, dies at 82. (Space.com)
 
Policy: Let's end criminalization without representation. (National Review)
 
Policy: $20 Billion in farm subsidies doesn't reach the poor, leaves them hungry. (Inside Sources~The Patriot Post
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Bridgitte Gabriel explains the Hundred Year Plan
Muslims Have to Overthrow America
by William Smith
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ When people take up for the sufferings of those that have little voice, we applaud at Democratbusters... And that’s what we have in Brigitte Gabriel, woman born in the Middle East that has first hand experience of the ills of Islam, and also happens to be a Christian. She talks about how regular Muslims (not just extremists or Islamist jihadis) aim to overthrow every country in the western hemisphere. They plan to do this in several ways.
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Trump Already Leading
Nukes With Russia To One China Policy
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts on “what strong leadership looks and sounds like and what it can all accomplish. President-elect Trump doesn’t take the oath of office until Friday but he’s already outmaneuvering Republican and Democrat leadership in both the House and the Senate... Trump telling the Washington Post he’s wrapping up an liar-nObamacare replacement plan that will include ‘insurance for everybody.'” Dobbs notes, “Senator Rand Paul, Congressman Tom Price with their versions of what the President-elect is calling for. Trump also saying he will target the pharmaceutical industry over drug prices in which drug companies will be competing, if he has his way, for government bids for their drugs. It won’t be simple and it is the right thing to do for healthcare and pharmaceutical consumers no matter how difficult it turns out to be.” “All of this,” says Dobbs, “as he demands Congressional leaders move at his quicker natural pace, not their traditionally glacial pace, to repeal and replace liar-nObamacare and to do everything else on his agenda.  “But Congress is not the only ones being out-maneuvered and being led now by Donald Trump. The President-elect laying out a specific deal with Russia, indicating he could lift sanctions if Putin agrees and signs on to a nuclear arms reduction agreement.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-trump-already-leading-nukes-russia-one-china-policy/
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Thousands of Criminal Illegal Immigrants Sent
Home After Apprehension at Southwest Border
by Morgan Chalfant
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Nearly 4,000 illegal immigrants apprehended by U.S. Border Patrol at the southwest border over a three-year period were allowed to return to their home countries despite having past criminal convictions and connections to criminal networks... The statistic is included in a new government audit exposing shortcomings in the way Border Patrol agents deal with illegal immigrants caught trying to cross the border into the United States. Border Patrol agents use the Consequence Delivery System, or CDS, to classify apprehended aliens using seven criminal and noncriminal categories. They then decide which of eight consequences the apprehended aliens should receive, based on how effective the consequences are in preventing the individuals from trying again to illegally enter the United States. The CDS system plays a major role in the Department of Homeland Security’s efforts to combat transnational criminal organizations and drug smuggling across the U.S. border...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/thousands-criminal-illegal-immigrants-sent-home/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=dfb9c792d5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-dfb9c792d5-45611665
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House Passes Bill to Set
Up Defunding Planned Parenthood,
Not One Single Democrat Votes for It
by Steven Ertelt
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{lifenews.com} ~ On Friday afternoon, the House of Representatives approved a Senate-passed budget resolution that is the first step in defunding the Planned Parenthood abortion business... This repeal resolution is the first step in the process to re-direct Planned Parenthood’s taxpayer funding to legitimate health care entities and repeal liar-nObamacare using the budget reconciliation procedure. President-Elect Donald Trump has promised to sign the bill into law. Not surprisingly, the bill was approved on a party-line vote with almost every Republican supporting the measure and not one single Democrat approving of the resolution that would allow repealing liar-nObamacare and defunding Planned Parenthood. Republicans voted 227-9 for the bill while Democrats voted 189-0 against it...  http://www.lifenews.com/2017/01/13/house-passes-bill-to-set-up-defunding-planned-parenthood-not-one-single-democrat-votes-for-it/
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Fourteen People Busted
For $16 Million WELFARE Fraud:
Are They Used To Support Terrorists?
by William Smith
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Over a dozen retail store operators in and around Baltimore have been busted in a huge welfare and wire fraud scheme – over $16 million dollars scraped out of the welfare state’s taxpayer’s pockets... It was an elaborate “food stamp trafficking” operation and probably involved a lot of white, Christian, white collar, conservative, fat cats.. Or not.. Because while the mainstream media will not tell you WHO is involved, here’s just a few – actually most – of their identities. But I ask you – The indictments allege that the defendants illegally exchanged EBT benefits for cash, instead. To avoid detection, they debited the funds from the card in multiple transactions over a period of hours or days, or called a different store where the transaction was processed manually, the Department of Justice says...  http://gopthedailydose.com/2017/01/17/fourteen-people-busted-16-million-welfare-fraud-used-support-terrorists/
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Not Kissing Any Rings
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ I think the right thing to do moving into the era of the Trump Administration is to call it as I see it — to praise him when I think it is warranted and to criticize when I think it is warranted. I refuse to be on either the Always Trump or Never Trump team post election. Getting the election wrong required admitting I got things wrong and now requires giving Trump the benefit of the doubt, but that is only the benefit of, not serving the role of yes man as some have chosen.

While I don’t regret my choices, I have to admit it hurt professionally and has brought The Resurgent to the brink of going out of business. Any sponsors who did not bolt last year were, at best, forced to scale back. Many of them came under withering attacks and calls for boycott, as did my radio advertisers. It was more effective than I would like to admit, though we kept the lights on thanks to the generosity of others. That may be coming to an end now.

Someone needs to plant their flag for defending conservatism, even against the GOP, whether it be Trump’s GOP or someone else’s. That’s what I intend to do — to call it as I see it. But that only gets me so far without the help of others here and, frankly, our bank account is crossing into critical territory.

Before I started The Resurgent, I asked for help and readers generously gave us over $65,000.00. But this past year, between all the health and personal stuff going on and the professional toll of the campaign, I did not want to push the issue as much as I should have. By the time I got around to really asking, it was just after Thanksgiving. The result is that readers only contributed $19,000.00.

With our advertising revenue, that helped us get through the year, but we ate into our reserves.

The reality is that if we cannot boost ad revenue and, hopefully, count on you guys, we will have to wind things down. I know this will generate laughter from both the alt-right and the left. A conservative site shuttered because of a refusal to kiss a ring does such things.

But I am not kissing any rings and I’ll be damned if I put up any semi-pornographic ads and auto-play video boxes. That is just not going to happen even if I have to close up shop. I would gladly cover all the costs of this site out of my own pocket, but there’s a little thing called medical bills I have to cover right now. Life threw a few curve balls in the last year. I would like to think we can scrape by and perhaps we will have to give it a try. But for now, I figure there is no harm in asking readers for help.

If you want to support honest conservative writing and reporting at a website dedicated to principled conservatism and our Judeo-Christian culture, well, we’d appreciate it. Our only loyalties are to cause and conviction, not candidate.

http://theresurgent.com/not-kissing-any-rings/

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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Way, Expect Riots and Death Threats
by Minister Michael Brown
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 Cory Booker and the Lawless Left 
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By Robin Smith: Never mind that New Jersey Democrat Sen. Cory Booker was deified on the Left for testifying against a fellow member of the chamber considered for a cabinet post. Never mind that as a licensed attorney, he's charged to serve as an officer of the court and, as a senator, Booker takes the Oath of Office to "support and defend the Constitution of the United States against all enemies, foreign and domestic." You know, that "Law of the Land" document called the Constitution.
           Booker was the Left's posterchild in the attempt to personally destroy his Senate colleague and nominee for attorney general, Alabama's Jeff Sessions. Despite glowing remarks and working directly with Sessions, Booker turned his fire on a qualified public servant.
          The content of Booker's comments was largely ignored because he's a sympathetic minority some view as the next Barack liar-nObama. But Booker unloaded on his fellow senator, painting him as a dangerous man who'll allegedly target minorities. And he described the job of the attorney general as more or less the opposite of what it should be.
          We're not going to ignore Booker's comments. Instead, they should be bookmarked for years to come as this ambitious man chooses to ignore his current oath of office. Booker clearly wants an arbitrary approach to the law that's rooted in prejudice and, thus, has demonstrated he should not be trusted with a promotion.
          Sessions is the clear antithesis to his two predecessors: Eric "Fast and Furious" Holder and Loretta "Let's talk about our grandbabies on the tarmac" Lynch. While these two AGs, according to liar-nObama, supposedly served without scandal or corruption, time and factual history will show them to have politicized and even weaponized the Department of Justice to advance a lawless agenda.
          In stark contrast, Sessions, who also served as Alabama attorney general, has always approached the law with respect and the determination to enforce it. For example, not only did Sessions work to ensure racial integration in public schools in his southern state, but he legally pursued the Ku Klux Klan, even prosecuting a leader who was later put to death for his racial crimes. A $7 million successful civil suit resulted against the KKK, bankrupting the hate group, while Sessions lead as chief law enforcement officer in Alabama.
          And, there, friends, is the problem that Booker and every other Democrat has with Sessions: As U.S. attorney general, Sessions might actually keep his pledge to enforce the law without fear, favor or affection, malice or partiality. Horrors!
          Booker's statements were purely political, assigning powers outside the office of AG. "He will be expected to defend the rights of immigrants and affirm their human dignity," Booker lectured. Please don't misread this to be Booker's concern with impartial law enforcement of immigration statutes. Instead, the senator assigns a power outside the Rule of Law in concern for illegal immigrants, who he says should be shielded from the consequence of lawless activity — like the sanctuary city status honored by Booker as mayor of Newark, New Jersey.
          Booker continued, "The next attorney general must bring hope and healing to our country, and this demands a more courageous empathy than Senator Sessions' record demonstrates." This soaring rhetoric was made in context of Booker claiming that Sessions has a racial bias against minorities. And, Booker warned, "Persistent biases cannot be defeated unless we combat them."
          Mr. Booker, why is the statue of Lady Justice always depicted with a blindfold hiding her eyes while she's holding a balance in her right hand and a sword in her left? The blindfolded goddess personifies that authentic justice is blind to extraneous factors. She employs the scales to balance truth and fact, not feeling and empathy, in her determinations. And the downward pointed sword represents that justice includes punishment for those who are unlawful.
          Thus the Left fiercely works to redefine justice, the law and all that would be within the job description of the attorney general. That's because Rule of Law impedes their political agenda.
          But back to a disgusting implication made by Booker and the Left. They issue a call to first prejudge the situation based on minority status, sexual preference or identity, immigration status or any other certified aggrieved person or group on the Left. But, to prejudge is to practice prejudice, the Latin word praejudicium. Essentially, remove the blindfold from Lady Justice and place a thumb on the scales depending on factors identified as "triggers," "privileges" or any other subjective aspect outside of fact.
          On this Martin Luther King Jr. Day, it's worth noting again that Cory Booker and the Democrats clearly illustrate their devotion to politics, even by lawless means, instead of the call of an American icon who prayed that his children would "live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."  ~The Patriot Post
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hanoi-Kerry’s Latest Peace Making
Effort Ends with a Pffft
by David Gerstman
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ In a call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday, January 15, 2017, Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry assured the prime minister that there would be no further United Nations Security Council action taken against Israel in the wake the Paris peace conference... That conference brought 70+ nations together to discuss terms of peace between Israel and the Palestinians, without either party being present. United Nations Security Council resolution 2334, passed in late December 2016, when the United States abstained and failed to protect Israel from a resolution that stated that the Israeli presence in all lands captured in 1967, including parts of Jerusalem, constituted a flagrant violation of international law. The immediate effects of the resolution was to encourage boycotts of Israel and increase Palestinian violence, mostly rock throwing, against Israel...  http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/01/kerrys-latest-peace-making-effort-ends-with-a-pffft/?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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Media Rediscovers its Purpose
After Eight Year Vacation
by Aleister
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Our completely unbiased media has awoken from hibernation. For the first time in a long time, they’re preparing to hold the government accountable, particularly the White House... Jack Shafer of Politico sounds quite excited about this new era of hard hitting journalism: Donald Trump and his forthcoming presidency may be the greatest gift to Washington journalism since the invention of the expense account. His unorthodox approach to politics and governance has vaporized the standard, useful, yet boring script for reporting on a new administration’s doings...  http://legalinsurrection.com/2017/01/media-rediscovers-its-purpose-after-eight-year-vacation/?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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The Islamization of France in 2016
by Soeren Kern
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The Muslim population of France was approximately 6.5 million in 2016, or around 10% of the overall population of 66 million. In real terms, France has the largest Muslim population in the European Union, just above Germany... Although French law prohibits the collection of official statistics about the race or religion of its citizens, Gatestone Institute's estimate of France's Muslim population is based on several studies that attempted to calculate the number of people in France whose origins are from Muslim-majority countries. What follows is a chronological review of some of the main stories about the rise of Islam in France during 2016:...It seems that Muslims are the problem in any country. https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9791/france-islamization
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An Execrable Coup––An Exhilarating Counter-Coup
by JOAN SWIRSKY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In 2009, America experienced a genuine coup d'état, exquisitely formulated and flawlessly executed after decades of planning by the socialists, communists, and jihadists among us... who loathe America and have wished for nothing less than transforming our great country into a mecca of far-left, anti-American policies, punctuated by preposterous liberal constructs like political correctness and multiculturalism, and ultimately subservient to Sharia law. As strange, indeed mind-bending, as this seems, remember that anything that is alien to American values and promises to undermine America's passion for freedom and strength is considered a good thing and heartily embraced by the America-hating left. Hence, their fetish with Islam, a political system-cum-"religion" that is antithetical to every value that sane Americans hold dear. As proof, the policies and laws enacted over the past eight years have consistently militated against America's well-being. This is the proverbial drop in the bucket:..
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Black pastor who marched with John Lewis says
this time he’s on the ‘wrong side of history’
by Michael Dorstewitz
{bizpacreview.com} ~ A prominent black clergyman who once marched with civil rights icon Rep. John Lewis said he and other black lawmakers who delegitimize President-elect Donald Trump’s election are “on the wrong side of history.”... Rev. William Owens, the founder and president of the Coalition of African-American Pastors, appeared on “Fox Report Weekend” and said , “Mr. Trump is our president,” despite the refusal of black lawmakers to attend the inauguration. Bikers for Trump will form ‘wall of meat’ so rioters don’t ruin the inauguration: Bring it, snowflakes! “I think what they are looking at is a way to find out why liar-Hillary Clinton was not elected,” he told Fox News anchor Harris Faulkner....
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When the ‘Enlightened’ Left Doesn’t Get Its Way,
Expect Riots and Death Threats
by Minister Michael Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ After many hours of hard work, I’ve put together an exhaustive list of the prominent celebrities who chose not to perform at President liar-nObama’s inaugural ceremonies in 2009 and 2013 because they were threatened with death, boycotts, or ostracism. The grand total, to my knowledge, is zero, despite the right’s deep antipathy of Barack loiar-nObama.

But when it comes to the inauguration of Donald Trump, Andrea Bocelli, the wonderfully gifted, blind operatic tenor, has decided not to perform, despite being a friend of the president-elect. And reports indicate that it was not just because he was threatened with a boycott; rather, it was because of death threats that his security team deemed too serious to ignore.

Broadway star Jennifer Holliday has also dropped out of the inaugural festivities after being branded an “Uncle Tom.” I thought Uncle Tomes were male, by definition. Claiming she didn’t realize that performing at the inauguration would be interpreted as supporting the president (really?), she wrote, “My only choice must now be to stand with the LGBT community and to state unequivocally that I will not perform for the welcome concert or for any of the inauguration festivities.”

Ironically, Trump offended some of his most conservative supporters by having his openly gay friend Peter Thiel, co-founder of PayPal, speak at the Republican National Convention, while Thiel remains a key member of Trump’s transition team.

Trump also proudly held up a gay flag at one of his rallies, celebrating LGBT’s for Trump, and he recently picked Anthony Scaramucci, a self-described “gay rights activist,” for a senior advisory role.

In fact, it was Scaramucci, as a member of the president-elect’s transition team, who started the rumor that Trump would be “the first American president in US history that enters the White House with a pro-gay-rights stance. Elton John is going to be doing our concert on the mall for the inauguration.” (Fran Curtis, John’s spokesman immediately denied this report to the New York Times, stating, “Incorrect. He will NOT be performing.”)

It appears that the vast majority of LGBT leaders, are not impressed. Standing with Trump means standing against them, and those who stand against them must be punished.

Other celebrities also declined invitations, apparently without any outside pressure being put on them, with John Legend explaining to the BBC: “Creative people tend to reject bigotry and hate."

“We tend to be more liberal-minded. When we see somebody that's preaching division and hate and bigotry, it's unlikely that he'll get a lot of creative people that want to be associated with him.”

Ah yes, the tolerance and enlightenment of the creative left!

I fully understand that President-elect Trump continues to be a highly divisive figure, most recently attacking Congressman John Lewis, a Civil Rights icon, for saying that he did not believe Trump was a “legitimate” president because of Russian hacking of the election. Even some Republican leaders spoke up on Lewis’ behalf, while his constituents, who also felt slighted, lashed out at Trump as well.

And I fully understand that many on the left think the absolute worst about Trump, as if he was another Hitler about to rise to power, genuinely believing their own, nearly-hysterical rhetoric. Leading the way in the hysteria are the Hollywood elites, among whom Caitlyn Jenner said she has a harder time being a political conservative than being transgender.

But having hysterical reactions to an incoming or current president is just as characteristic of the right as it is the left. For the last eight years, I have heard every kind of crazy conspiracy theory about Barack liar-nObama, including the claim that he is a secretly-gay, Muslim member of the Illuminati who is being groomed for his ultimate role as the antichrist. (Some of you reading this are saying in reply, “But he is!”)

My issue is with the reaction of the so-called “tolerant and enlightened” left, the same left that, we are told, tends “to reject bigotry and hate,” yet goes on violent looting riots when it doesn’t get its way and launches death threats against celebrities who stand publicly with Trump.

I’m aware that people burned effigies of liar-nObama after his election, while a liberal scholar writing on the Hill argues that demonstrators “aren’t protesting Trump because he is a white male. These protests are because of the bigotry his campaign has emboldened and the fear of discrimination his presidency has the capacity to perpetuate.”

But that underscores the very point I’m making. Those allegedly protesting bigotry, hatred, and discrimination are themselves engaging in those very things, with some Hollywood elites leading the way with their over-the-top, anti-Trump rhetoric.

It is the hypocrisy of the left, not its rejection of Trump, that is galling.
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
What Happened To The Honeymoon?
by Charles Krauthammer
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 John Lewis Encounters the Trump Effect 
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Over the weekend, Donald Trump's row with civil rights icon and Congressman John Lewis (D-GA) has dominated the headlines, especially given the fact that Monday is the observance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s birth. Friday, in an interview with NBC News, Lewis stated, "I don't see this president-elect as a legitimate president." That's par for the Democrat course on delegitimizing Trump.
          Predictably, Trump responded by tweeting that Lewis was "all talk" and "no action" and that he should "spend more time on fixing" the crime problem in "his district." And, of course the mainstream media had a field day over Trump's attack on a civil rights hero. Indeed, the optics of it looked bad, but there's so much more to the story.
          Politicians love to conflate admiration for past heroic accomplishments with the merits of a political position, as is currently the case with John Lewis, one of the furthest left of representatives in the House. The truth is Lewis' inflammatory rhetoric on Trump is nothing new either. In 2000, Lewis called into question the legitimacy of George W. Bush's presidency; in 2008, he compared John McCain's campaign to that of George Wallace. But of course he's gotten a pass because of his past. And on the merits, Trump is right — inner cities often are little more than Democrat-controlled urban poverty plantations. Whatever his brave deeds 50 years ago, Lewis should be ashamed of his subsequent legislative record that has created dependency.
          What may be different now is how a Republican — Trump — is responding. In the past, Republicans tended to express disagreement, yet remained relatively congenial, not wanting to appear to disparage a hero. The desire to get along out of fear of losing political status was of greater concern. However, Barack liar-nObama so polarized the political climate in this country that it opened the door for Trump to be successful. In the past, Trump's politically incorrect rhetoric would have ended a political career. But for him, it has served only to further strengthen his position. In a way, Trump has out Democrat-ed the Democrats.
          Trump, who can hardly be accused of taking the high road, aggressively hits back at his opponents with similar over-the-top accusations and rhetoric, effectively changing the terms of the debate. That's what makes Trump such an unusual and yet effective political leader for Republicans — his ability to expresses the frustrations of the average American in the manner of a common man who doesn't give two hoots about what the elites in Washington may think.
          It's clear that the old playbook Democrats have so effectively used to shame Republicans into caving to their demands just doesn't work on Trump.  ~The Patriot Post
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 Martin Luther King Jr. 
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"I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' ... I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ... And if America is to be a great nation this must become true." —Martin Luther King Jr.
          Despite King's courage and wisdom, today's Democratic Party protagonists have turned this iconic sovereign's message inside out, as if King had said, "I have a dream that my children will one day be judged by the color of their skin, not the content of their character." They've turned it from a dream into a nightmare, and their failed statist "Great Society" programs have enslaved generations of poor, mostly black Americans on urban poverty plantations. But they are a dependable constituency, inculcated with the belief that the Democrats will take care of them.
          King's 1963 address from the Lincoln Memorial was his most famous, but you have likely never read King's 1966 assessment of racial violence in liar-nObama's hometown of Chicago: "This is the most tragic picture of man's inhumanity to man. I've been to Mississippi and Alabama and I can tell you that the hatred and hostility in Chicago are really deeper than in Alabama and Mississippi." King added, "Those who are associated with 'Black Power' and black supremacy are wrong."
          So you thought racism was just a "deep south problem"? That is what the Democrats and their Leftmedia sycophants would have you believe.
          Three recent headlines from the Windy City serve to illustrate the problem. 2016 was Chicago's bloodiest year in two decades, and it was largely black-on-black crime. But then there was the black on white crime that should have shocked the nation. Instead, liar-nObama's Justice Department is focused on alleged abuse by the Chicago Police Department.
          "Black supremacy" is precisely what was drilled into Barack liar-nObama's psyche by his Marxist mentor Frank Marshall Davis and his religious mentor Jeremiah Wright.
          liar-nObama and his cadres routinely dismissed any criticism of him as being due to racism: "There's no doubt that there's some folks who just really dislike me because they don't like the idea of a black president." Yes, liar-nObama used the anniversary of King's birth to establish that his true legacy is being a half-black president who is nothing more than a race-bait political hustler.
          Regardless of one's conclusion about King's proper place in history (given the historical account regarding his personal character failures), his letter from a Birmingham jail is mandatory reading as it provides a window into the soul of King's vision for all Americans.  ~The Patriot Post
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Democrat Domestic Terror Plot Against Trump...
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ They’re domestic terrorists plotting to disrupt the events surrounding the inauguration of Donald Trump as well as the inauguration itself, if possible... They’re not Islamists, at least they don’t look or sound the part, but the individuals recorded in the latest Project Veritas undercover sting are definitely domestic terrorists. They also operatives working for the Democrats, a criminal mob thinly disguised as a political party. James O’Keefe describes what is happening, saying, “This is undercover video of potential criminal acts being planned. These organizers and activists are talking about setting off butyric acid into the ventilation system and setting off fire alarm sprinklers at a Trump inaugural ball later this week.” “Shortly after the election,” says O’Keefe, “we started getting tips that radical groups were planning to derail President-elect Trump’s inauguration, perhaps even trying to shut down the city of Washington, DC. Various groups, some old, some new, have gathered together under the “disruptJ20″ umbrella.”...  http://rickwells.us/democrat-domestic-terror-plot-trump-captured-okeefes-hidden-cameras/
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“Bigger Man” Cummings Fakes Lewis
Rescue In Another Scripted Attack
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The host on MSNBC tells his guest, racist Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD) that he’d “love to hear your take on the back and forth over the weekend between Congressman Lewis and President-elect Trump.”... Of course he would, it’s another opportunity for the anti-American Democrats to attempt to exert pressure on the President-elect to cower to their demands. Just as scripted and planned, that’s exactly what the scumbag from Baltimore, Mr. Cummings, proceeds to do. He says, “Yeah, I think it’s very unfortunate.” Hold it right there, Elijah. Unfortunate is what you say when a tornado or a flood strikes. It’s not appropriate after a deliberate act of political aggression. The lifelong racist deliberately attacked the legitimacy of the President-elect of the United States because he’s seen as a threat to their agenda. Stupid, moronic, ill-advised, un-called for all are apt descriptions of the actions of John Lewis and fit nicely, unfortunate does not. Cummings then quotes his uneducated share-cropper father, as if we’re to take his words as wisdom, saying, “big can’t get you if small’s got you.” You sure he made through the fourth grade, Cummings? He says, “You just can’t do this” and then presents the President-elect as being at fault for not having his lips firmly implanted where Congressman Lewis seats himself...  http://rickwells.us/bigger-man-cummings-fakes-lewis-rescue-another-scripted-attack/
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liar-Clinton empire begins
to crumble in wake of news probes
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{wnd.com} ~ It looks like the liar-Clintons are running for cover. After Donald J. Trump devastated the once formidable liar-Clinton political machine in November – the liar-Clinton Global Initiative, the centerpiece initiative of the liar-Clinton Foundation... the former first couple’s political and financial power structure – is being shut down.  According to a notice filed with the New York Department of Labor, the liar-Clinton Foundation will lay off 22 members of the liar-Clinton Global Initiative. The initiative apparently became unsustainable after liar-Hillary Clinton’s defeat, as foreign governments began reducing or even withdrawing their donations. The Australian government, for example, ended a decade of funding the organization, and the government of Norway reduced its contribution by more than $15 million...  http://www.wnd.com/2017/01/clinton-empire-begins-to-crumble-in-wake-of-news-probes/
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How the Left’s Narrative on
Crime Makes Communities Worse Off
by Walter E. Williams
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The FBI reported that the total number of homicides in 2015 was 15,696. Blacks were about 52 percent of homicide victims. That means about 8,100 black lives were ended violently, and over 90 percent of the time, the perpetrator was another black... Listening to the news media and the Black Lives Matter movement, one would think that black deaths at the hands of police are the major problem. It turns out that in 2015, police across the nation shot and killed 986 people. Of that number, 495 were white (50 percent), 258 were black (26 percent), and 172 Hispanic (17 percent). A study of 2,699 fatal police killings between 2013 and 2015, conducted by John R. Lott Jr. and Carlisle E. Moody of the Crime Prevention Research Center, demonstrates that the odds of a black suspect’s being killed by a black police officer were consistently greater than a black suspect’s getting killed by a white officer...  http://dailysignal.com/2017/01/11/how-the-lefts-narrative-on-crime-makes-communities-worse-off/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWlRrNFltRmtNVGt6TVRBeSIsInQiOiJ4S2FybHZFYWJmTGJGZUdUbEozWnJySUdDRG9JbUN6am9JOE4zYTNmZXNpejRkMUpObis0QVRlQ2FpUDdTTWlJVlBrTjkxSFg1UDZsSVM4cmFHbnNiQ0dic1JIVDNna2tFcndyZFwvdXc2eWJFUmR5ZWxTZzJDTkJwbzZFWDlIVXAifQ%3D%3D
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The Paris Conference:
The costs of diplomatic delusions
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 by Eran Lerman
{timesofisrael.com} ~ What did the Paris Conference of January 15 produce? At least for the sake of the argument, we might accept the protestations of the French government – and the liar-nObama Administration... that the sole function of the conference was to facilitate a rapid return to the negotiating table, and that the conveners had the hope for peace uppermost in their minds. However, this latest exercise in diplomatic futility, coming hard on the heels of UNSCR 2334 and Secretary hanoi-Kerry’s long and rambling speech, only undermined the very purposes it was presumably meant to serve. The French didn’t manage to bring the Israelis to Paris and, to add to the absurdity, even the Palestinian leader, Mahmoud Abbas, who had endorsed the effort, was a no-show. Mainstream Palestinian factions not-aligned with Abbas’ West Bank government criticized the conference and, no matter how well-intentioned, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault will not get Hamas in Gaza to abandon its firm ideological commitment to violence nor its total rejection of the peace process itself...  http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-paris-conference-the-costs-of-diplomatic-delusions/
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What Happened To The Honeymoon?
by Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ The shortest honeymoon on record is officially over. Normally, newly elected presidents enjoy a wave of goodwill that allows them to fly high at least through their first 100 days. Donald Trump has not yet been sworn in and the honeymoon has already come and gone.

Presidents-elect usually lie low during the interregnum. Trump never lies low. He seized the actual presidency from Barack liar-nObama within weeks of his election — cutting ostentatious deals with U.S. manufacturers to keep jobs at home, challenging 40-year-old China policy, getting into a very public fight with the intelligence agencies. By now he has taken over the presidential stage. It is true that we have only one president at a time, and for over a month it’s been Donald Trump.

The result is quantifiable. A Quinnipiac poll from Nov. 17 to 20 — the quiet, hope-and-change phase — showed a decided bump in Trump’s popularity and in general national optimism. It didn’t last long. In the latest Quinnipiac poll, the numbers have essentially returned to Trump’s (historically dismal) pre-election levels.

For several reasons. First, the refusal of an unbending left to accept the legitimacy of Trump’s victory. It’s not just the demonstrators chanting “not my president.” It is leading Democrats pushing one line after another to delegitimize the election, as in: He lost the popular vote, it’s James Comey’s fault, the Russians did it.

Second, Trump’s own instincts and inclinations, a thirst for attention that leads to hyperactivity. His need to dominate every news cycle feeds an almost compulsive tweet habit. It has placed him just about continuously at the center of the national conversation and not always to his benefit.

Trump simply can’t resist playground pushback. His tweets gave Meryl Streep’s Golden Globes screed priceless publicity. His mocking Arnold Schwarzenegger for bad “Apprentice” ratings — compared with “the ratings machine, DJT” — made Trump look small and Arnold almost sympathetic.

Nor is this behavior likely to change after the inauguration. It’s part of Trump’s character. Nothing negative goes unanswered because, for Trump, an unanswered slight has the air of concession or surrender.

Finally, it’s his chronic indiscipline, his jumping randomly from one subject to another without rhyme, reason or larger strategy. In a week packed with confirmation hearings and Russian hacking allegations, what was he doing meeting with Robert Kennedy Jr., an anti-vaccine activist pushing the thoroughly discredited idea that vaccines cause autism?

We know from way back during the Republican debates that Trump himself has dabbled in this dubious territory. One could, however, write it off as one of many campaign oddities that would surely fade away. Not so, apparently.

This is not good. The idea that vaccines cause autism originally arose in a 1998 paper in the medical journal the Lancet that was later found to be fraudulent and had to be retracted. Indeed, the lead researcher acted so egregiously that he was stripped of his medical license.

Kennedy says that Trump asked him to chair a commission about vaccine safety. While denying that, the transition team does say that the commission idea remains open. Either way, the damage is done. The anti-vaccine fanatics seek any validation. This indirect endorsement from Trump is immensely harmful. Vaccination has prevented more childhood suffering and death than any other measure in history. With so many issues pressing, why even go there?

The vaccination issue was merely an exclamation point on the scatter-brained randomness of the Trump transition. All of which contributes to the harried, almost wearying feeling that we are already well into the Trump presidency.

Compare this with eight years ago and the near euphoria — overblown but nonetheless palpable — at the swearing-in of Barack liar-nObama. Not since JFK had any new president enjoyed such genuine goodwill upon accession to office.

And yet it turns out that such auspicious beginnings are not at all predictive. We could see it this same week. Tuesday night, there stood liar-nObama giving a farewell address that only underscored the failure of a presidency so bathed in optimism at its start. The final speech, amazingly, could have been given, nearly unedited, in 2008. Why, it even ended with “yes we can.”

Is there more powerful evidence of the emptiness of the intervening two terms? When your final statement is a reprise of your first, you have unwittingly confessed to being nothing more than a historical parenthesis.
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
At the Sessions hearing, the business
of government is ... hysteria
by Matt Welch
 
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 Top Headlines 
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Trump's short list for the Supreme Court. (The Daily Signal)
 
Congress OKs budget — first step toward liar-nObamaCare repeal. (Fox News)
 
Dead people get $2.6 billion in food stamps. (Washington Free Beacon)
 
Lockheed Martin CEO meets Trump, says deal to lower F-35 costs is close. (Reuters)
 
California's bullet train is hurtling toward a multibillion-dollar overrun, a confidential federal report warns. (Los Angeles Times)
 
Video: BuzzFeed/CNN DID Push #Fakenews in "Trump Intelligence Memos." (CBS Atlanta)
 
Trump to meet with Martin Luther King III. (Washington Times)
 
Rep. Smith re-introduces bill to provide emergency relief to Christian genocide survivors in the Middle East. (CNS News)
 
liar-Clinton Global Initiative is shutting down after liar-Hillary's loss. (Heat Street)
 
Policy: National concealed carry reciprocity lies and the lying liars who tell them. (NRA-ILA)
 
Policy: Black clergy, big government and black responsibility. (Inside Sources~The Patriot Post
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Illegal Aliens Demand “Rights”
In Demonstrations Across America
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The groups themselves, their members and the left-wing propagandist, both in media and government, label them as “immigrant rights groups,” but that’s deliberately misleading... If they were immigrants, they would have nothing to protest and nothing to fear from law enforcement. They would be legally in the United States. But they’re illegal aliens, not immigrants. The dictionary defines an immigrant as a person who migrates to another country, usually for permanent residence. Illegals migrate for as long as they can get away with it. They enter the arrangement knowing that it’s probably temporary, that they’re criminals every day they’re in the parasitic host nation and that they’ll exist on the fringes of society. They might find a way to pull it off permanently, but that should be the rare exception to the rule. In a normal setting, the jig is up as soon as they drive with a broken tail light and get pulled over. They know going into it that it’s a situation where there is little in the way of rights beyond the basics of survival...That's correct, they have no rights. Their here illegal.  http://rickwells.us/illegal-aliens-demand-rights-demonstrations-across-america/
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CIA Director Brennan Joins Democrat Effort
To Discredit Trump As Illegitimate
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Departing CIA director John Brennan took aim at Russia and the potential for improved relations between our two nations on Sunday, criticizing Donald Trump’s handling of national security matters... Brennan has long been believed to be a practicing Muslim who converted while working in Saudi Arabia. He also may have overridden the decision of his subordinate as the CIA Station Chief in Jeda, and ordered the visas for the 9/11 hijackers approved. He’s known to have a close relationship with Hussein liar-nObama, and clearly they have a lot in common. Brennan is doing his part in the Democrat campaign to discredit Mr. Trump, posing as the objective intelligence professional when he’s actually a compromised political appointee heading an agency that falls short of expectations. Their endorsement of the claims of the Democrats and liar-Hillary Clinton campaign that the Russians are responsible for passing the truth on to the American people have yet to be substantiated. We’re supposed to just take Brennan at his word, he’s at least as honest as liar-nObama...Come to think about it, liar-nObama is the real Illegitimate.  http://rickwells.us/cia-director-brennan-democrat-effort-discredit-trump-illegitimate/
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Political Power Boosts Controversial
Green Energy Financing Scheme
by Lachlan Markay
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{freebeacon.com} ~ As an innovative but controversial green energy financing mechanism picks up steam, hacked communications from a former White House official provide previously unreported insight into the confluence of public policy... private investment, and political money that helped fuel its rise. Property Assessed Clean Energy (PACE) is quickly gaining popularity as a means of outfitting commercial and residential properties with solar panels, energy efficiency improvements, and other environmentally conscious modifications. PACE allows homeowners to finance those modifications through loans from private lenders and to pay back those loans through their property tax bills. Local governments that levy those taxes pass on the assessments to the lenders...  http://freebeacon.com/issues/political-power-boosts-controversial-green-energy-financing-scheme/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=bce1e5e96e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_01_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-bce1e5e96e-45611665
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U.S. Must Investigate and Withdraw
From UN “Education” Agency
by Alex Newman
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The United Nations “education” and “cultural” organization, as well as its controversial Communist Party boss Irina Bokova, are facing growing pressure over corruption, abuse, mismanagement, and other scandals... Several major donor governments including the United States, the United Kingdom, Japan, and Israel have recently been up in arms about the outfit, formally known as UNESCO. Meanwhile, insiders at the UN agency tell The New American that an external independent audit is needed to bring everything to light. And in the United States, where federal law already prohibits U.S. tax funding to the scandal-plagued UN “education” body, calls for a complete American withdrawal are growing louder. The scandals plaguing the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) have been bubbling under the surface for years. Indeed, controversy has surrounded the UN bureaucracy almost from the start, as its leaders, often actual communists, pushed global schemes to promote globalism, humanism, totalitarianism, U.S. disarmament, and other controversial ideologies and beliefs...Pull out of the UN period.
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The Phony ‘Public-Health Crisis’
of Gun Violence 
by Vik Khanna
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{nationalreview.com} ~ Two major medical journals have decided to renew the academic medical establishment’s assault on gun owners. The first shot across the bow appeared in the November 8 Journal of the American Medical Association... where esteemed Stanford University health economist Victor Fuchs published a paper on the problem of life expectancy in the black community. Near the end of his lamentation, Fuchs asserts that increasing life expectancy in the black community “depends more on public health measures such as gun control than on medical care.” The second shot came with the release of the January issue of JAMA Internal Medicine, which has four papers and an editorial devoted to firearms violence, with a heavy emphasis on suicide prevention, which would benefit whites much more than it would the black community...  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/443876/public-health-crisis-gun-violence-debunked?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Trending%20Email%20Reoccurring-%20Monday%20to%20Thursday%202017-01-16&utm_term=NR5PM%20Actives
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At the Sessions hearing, the business
of government is ... hysteria
by Matt Welch
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Code Pink may get a bad rap, disrupting as it does seemingly every significant event on Capitol Hill. But the most hysterical performances at Tuesday's serially interrupted Senate confirmation hearing for attorney general nominee Jeff Sessions came not from scrappy protesters, but from the august senators within.

"I would like to begin," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said to Sessions, "with the second largest criminal industry in this country, which is now - believe it or not, by revenues produced - human sex trafficking."

In other words, the California senator wished to lead off her critical cross-examination of the nation's likely next top cop with a factually insane claim that will probably give him more power.

In order for "human sex trafficking" to be the second largest criminal industry in the United States, it would at minimum need to supplant illegal narcotics roughly $100 billion a year, according to a 2014 Rand Corp. estimate, or Medicare fraud in the ballpark of $60 billion, according to the Government Accountability Office in 2015. So distant is reality from those numbers that even the commonly cited figure of $9.8 billion a year for all trafficking - and keep in mind that human smuggling dwarfs sex trafficking - was given "four Pinocchios" by Washington Post fact-checker Glenn Kessler.

Feinstein wasn't done. "Trafficking victims," she warned, average "12 to 14" in age. ("Four Pinocchios," judged Kessler.)

These fake numbers have consequences. Congress has leaned on such bogus statistics by periodically ratcheting up the penalties of the 2000 Trafficking Victims Protection Act - the 2015 reauthorization, for example, made websites liable for sex trafficking if a minor is found to have advertised services there.

"In 2014 alone, 31 states passed new laws concerning human trafficking," Elizabeth Nolan Brown wrote in Reason magazine 15 months ago. "Since the start of 2015, at least 22 states have done so."

And who is being prosecuted? Besides publishers such as Backpage.com, which shut down its "Adult" section this week after relentless pressure including concurrent hearings on Capitol Hill on Monday, the criminals apprehended are disproportionately adult females who work in the sex industry by choice.

There is a well-established connection between moral panic over disfavored behaviors and laws that produce grotesque injustices. What boggles the mind is how this clear causation seems to elude lawmakers even in the midst of a conversation about the enforcement of federal law.

In fact, the best parts of Tuesday's hearings came when senators grilled Sessions over his opposition to scaling back previous hysteria-based overreaches, such as disparities in sentencings involving crack and powder cocaine. The Alabama senator voted in favor of one such reform, but stands opposed to making the recalibrated sentences retroactive for people still languishing in prison.

Yet those moments were outnumbered by Judiciary Committee members trying to egg Sessions on to enforce laws against the monsters hiding under their beds. Sen. Orrin G. Hatch (R-Utah) favorably cited a new Utah bill that describes pornography as a public health "epidemic," and encouraged Sessions to reopen the Justice Department's porno task force. As recently as President liar-nObama's first term, that unit was producing prosecutions that could have put pornographers in jail for as long as 32 years.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) was a one-man hysteria generator, with each question designed to give the federal government more power. What did Sessions think about the liar-nObama administration interpreting the Wire Act in a way to "allow online video poker"? "I was shocked," Sessions replied.

"Do you believe the threats to the homeland are growing or lessening?" Graham asked. "Growing," said the likely next attorney general. Gitmo? Keep 'er open. Try suspected terrorists like criminals? Hell no!

There are excellent reasons to oppose Sessions' nomination, beginning with his enthusiastic support for the evil practice of civil asset forfeiture, by which the government can lawfully seize the property of citizens who haven't even been charged with a crime. Ninety-five percent of asset forfeiture cases, he has ludicrously claimed in the past, involve people "who have done nothing in their lives but sell dope."

But maybe the most terrifying thing about the man is that he so faithfully reproduces the basic posture of his fellow senators: Everything is a threat, evidence be damned, and the federal government needs more power to keep us safe.

We are at a point in this country where officials in the Justice Department can't even tell you the number of federal crimes, the average American according to the calculations of the civil libertarian Harvey Silverglate commits "three felonies a day," and there is no observable political penalty for grotesquely exaggerating real problems. Jeff Sessions might not be a good pick for AG, but maybe he's the honest one.
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