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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 10, 2016 at 5:00pm
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
liar-Hillary Isn’t Out of the Legal Woods Yet
by Ed Klein
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 Reining in the EPA 
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By now it should come as no surprise that Donald Trump is making good on his campaign promises. Yesterday, Trump nominated Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt to head the EPA. Pruitt has a record of waging legal battles with Barack liar-nObama's over-regulating EPA. In fact, he's currently one of the leaders suing the EPA over its Clean Power Plan, which would create significant price increases for Americans' power bills while having negligible impact on the environment. Pruitt is a big proponent of states' rights over and against the unconstitutionally powerful EPA. Trump's transition team stated in its announcement that Pruitt is "an expert in Constitutional law [who] brings a deep understanding of the impact of regulations on both the environment and the economy."
          Maybe the best endorsement for Pruitt has come from those ecofascist groups who, with an almost religious fervor, shout their opposition. Michael Brune, executive director of the Sierra Club, said, "Having Scott Pruitt in charge of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is like putting an arsonist in charge of fighting fires. He is a climate science denier who, as attorney general for the state of Oklahoma, regularly conspired with the fossil fuel industry to attack EPA protections." And Rhea Suh, president of the Natural Resourced Defense Council, lamented, "The mission of the EPA and its administrator requires an absolute commitment to safeguard public health and protect our air, land, water and planet. If confirmed, Pruitt seems destined for the environmental hall of shame."
          Pruitt responded to his critics: "It should come as no surprise that I am working diligently with Oklahoma energy companies, the people of Oklahoma, and the majority of attorneys general to fight the unlawful overreach of the EPA and other federal agencies."
          This is indeed good, because, especially over the last eight years, two of the most abusive and unaccountable federal agencies have been the IRS and the EPA. Now it appears that needed change will be coming in a big way, protecting Americans' freedoms and saving the nation from unneeded expensive and oppressive regulations.  ~The Patriot Post
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 No Accountability (Yet) for IRS, Koskinen 
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On Tuesday, the House voted against impeaching IRS Commissioner John Koskinen and referred the matter to the Judiciary Committee. This decision allows Koskinen to continue leading the IRS, effectively delaying any potential accountability for the beleaguered commissioner. Conservative representatives quickly voiced their opposition to the House's decision. Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said, "We think Mr. Koskinen has to go. Koskinen [was] brought in to clean up the mess, and he has done, in my judgement, just the opposite." That "mess" being the political targeting of conservative groups that continues to this day.
          Republican Study Committee Chairman Bill Flores (R-TX) emphasized why the House should have voted to hold Koskinen accountable, stating, "IRS Commissioner Koskinen has willfully misled Congress, refused to comply with House subpoenas, and violated the trust of the American people. Commissioner Koskinen should be impeached and removed from office."
          While the IRS's Tea Party targeting scandal did not start during his watch, Koskinen has done little to nothing to clean up the corruption. In fact, he has proven to act mostly as a roadblock to Congress's investigation of the scandal. The GOP-lead House's failure to even hold a vote to impeach Koskinen means that the IRS chief will still be heading the agency during most of the first year of Donald Trump's presidency, as his term isn't up until November 2017.
          However, several Republicans argued that the decision was simply a postponement to allow for the incoming Congress to take up the issue and vote on it. While it remains to be seen if that indeed will be the case, it does leave one wondering if this isn't yet another example of Congress merely kicking an uncomfortable issue further down the road. If it is, Koskinen will enjoy a cozy retirement just like Lois Lerner is. ~The Patriot Post
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Truth Hurts – liar-Clinton, Dems “Fake News”
Campaign To Kill Speech They Don’t Control
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s helpful when listening to one of these attacks on what the crooked Democrats are labeling “fake news,” to remember that the real purveyors of falsehoods are the mainstream media outlets... What lying hacks such as liar-Hillary Clinton and the rest of the establishment and globalist attack poodles are calling fake news is most often simply the truth. It’s the same truth that their mainstream outlets avoided like a plague in their effort to get their criminal candidate of choice elected. It is that truth, our First Amendment in action, that also exposed them for the complicit propagandists that they are when Mr. Trump was victorious. Were it not for those the truth reported by “fake news” outlets, liar-Hillary Clinton’s medical conditions, including her face plant outside the 9/11 memorial ceremony would not have been covered. We would never have heard about the emails that were found on Anthony Weiner’s laptop, or Huma Abedin’s problems with her security clearances or Mrs. liar-Clinton’s bad memory when under FBI questioning. They all told us there was nothing to this email story until they could no longer pretend pressured by the “fake news” citizen journalists. Were it not for the truth of “fake news,” liar-Hillary Clinton would now be president-elect...
Jihadi Jeh Johnson’s DHS Caught Illegally
Breaking Into State Computer System
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ What was Homeland Security doing attempting to access the State of Georgia Secretary of State’s computer system a week after the election? ... Nobody gave them permission and no state officials had knowledge of the intrusion in advance. That’s a question that Brian Kemp, the Georgia Secretary of State wants an answer to and he’s written to the obstructionist, lawbreaking DHS Secretary, jihadi Jeh Johnson for an explanation. Since even high ranking members of Congress, whom he must obtain funding from, are routinely given a hand gesture that indicates they’re number one by Johnson, it’s unlikely that a lowly state official would get a response. It’s even less likely given that he seems to have been caught in the act of committing a cyber attack against one of our states. Given the nature of the offense, his past examples of arrogant, dictatorial conduct and his short time remaining in office, there’s no way Johnson is even considering actually explaining himself...  http://rickwells.us/jihadi-jeh-johnsons-dhs-caught-illegally-breaking-into-state-computer-system/
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China Prepares for Anti-Satellite Missile Test
by Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ China is preparing to conduct a flight test of a new missile capable of destroying satellites in space, one of Beijing’s most potent asymmetric warfare weapons... Test preparations for the Dong Neng-3 anti-satellite missile were detected at a military facility in central China, according to Pentagon officials familiar with reports of the impending test. Intelligence agencies were alerted to the impending test by China’s announcement of air closure zones covering the expected flight path of the DN-3...
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Marines Eye More Cyber, Information Ops
Roles With Troop Increase
by Morgan Chalfant
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The Marine Corps plans to use a troop level increase approved by Congress this week to strengthen its cyber and information operations capabilities... The Senate on Thursday approved in a 92-7 vote a sweeping defense policy bill that increases the end strength of the active U.S. armed forces, delivering the bill to President liar-nObama’s desk for him to sign. The Marine Corps will receive 3,000 additional active-duty troops from the current baseline of 182,000 Marines with the passage of the fiscal 2017 National Defense Authorization Act. Gen. Robert Neller, the Marine commandant, said Wednesday that the service will use the troop increase to add roles to cyber, information operations, intelligence analysis, and electronic warfare capabilities...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/marines-eye-cyber-information-ops-roles-troop-increase/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=6f417f819c-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_08&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-6f417f819c-45611665
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Tax Reform Requires Transparency
by Cody Kallen, Aparna Mathur, Matt Jensen
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{aei.org} ~ As the tax reform debate heats up, Congress and the public will want to know the budgetary impact of tax reform proposals, putting revenue estimators like those at the Joint Committee for Taxation in the limelight... Right now, the assumptions made by these estimators, which will help determine whether tax proposals live and die in Congress, are kept as closely guarded secrets. It’s time to bring those assumptions into the light of day. For a case study on the importance of these assumptions, let’s consider an example from recent memory: liar-Hillary Clinton’ proposed 4 percent surtax on taxpayers with adjusted gross income over $5 million. The liar-Clinton campaign calculated that the 4 percent surcharge would reap $150 billion in revenue over a decade. But that claim assumed that those paying the higher tax rate wouldn’t make an effort to reduce their taxable income – whether through shifting income into nontaxable forms or simply working and saving less...  http://www.aei.org/publication/tax-reform-requires-transparency/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=120916
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liar-Hillary Isn’t Out of the Legal Woods Yet
by Ed Klein
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{townhall.com} ~ Although Donald Trump has signaled that he doesn't intend to appoint a special prosecutor to investigate liar-Hillary Clinton, knowledgeable sources tell me that liar-Hillary is far from out of the legal woods.

And, these sources add, it’s liar-Hillary’s own fault that she’s still in trouble.

Trump tried to be magnanimous toward his vanquished adversary. “I don’t want to hurt the liar-Clintons,” he said in an interview with Lesley Stahl of 60 Minutes. “They’re good people. I don’t want to hurt them.”

But Trump was irate when sore-loser liar-Hillary joined forces with Green Party candidate Jill Stein and asked for a recount in Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania.

Now, Trump is listening to a chorus of vengeful Republicans who don’t want to let liar-Hillary skate on her use of a private email server and her pay-to-play conflict of interest with the liar-Clinton Foundation.

A sure sign that Trump is reconsidering his position came when he announced he was asking the renowned prosecutor Preet Bharara to stay on as U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York.

As I reported in my recent New York Times bestseller Guilty As Sin, Bharara, who has specialized in rooting out public corruption, is a close friend of James Comey, the director of the FBI, who still has an open criminal investigation of the liar-Clinton Foundation.

Bharara’s jurisdiction extends to Chappaqua, New York, where liar-Hillary stashed her home brew email server. And Bharara and Comey have discussed the liar-Hillary email case on several occasions.

“If Bharara agrees to prosecute the liar-Hillary case,” I wrote, “he could bring it to the chief judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She would assign the case to one of the Southern District’s forty-four judges, who in turn would then empanel a grand jury either in Manhattan or in White Plains, the county seat and commercial hub of Westchester County. The jury would decide whether the case against liar-Hillary should go to trial.”

http://townhall.com/columnists/edklein/2016/12/06/hillary-isnt-out-of-the-legal-woods-yet-n2256002?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Sat/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 10, 2016 at 12:30pm
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
The Messy Truth About Van Jones
by Michelle Malkin
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 liar-nObama's Pentagon Waste and Outsourcing 
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Lewis Morris: Now that we have a real businessman headed to the White House, "business as usual" in Washington may start getting a little un-usual. At least for Beltway insiders, anyway. For the rest of us, we're hoping to see some common sense kick in.
          This week it seems to be the defense industry that's getting the attention. But the Pentagon may have brought that on itself by attempting to bury a report that revealed $125 billion in wasteful and fraudulent spending.
          An in-depth exposé in the Washington Post explains how the Pentagon commissioned a study in 2014 to look for ways to make its "enormous back-office bureaucracy more efficient and reinvest any savings in combat power."
          The study was conducted by the Defense Business Board, a federal advisory panel made up of corporate executives and consultants from McKinsey and Company. The final report identified $125 billion in wasteful spending to be cut over five years by streamlining bureaucracy through attrition, early retirements, and curtailing high-priced contractors.
          Top brass, however, were terrifically embarrassed by such a large amount of waste in the Defense Department. To give some life to their concern, consider the fact that $125 billion represents about 20% of the Pentagon's annual budget. On top of that, the number of back-office civilian and military personnel is roughly equal to the total number of troops on active duty, a one-to-one ratio. And if that isn't enough to shock you, 298,000 of those back-office personnel are military, not civilians or contractors.
          It's little wonder that the Pentagon wanted to bury this report, and Barack liar-nObama was no doubt a big supporter — if not instigator — of that decision. Remember the days of the sequester when liar-nObama was blaming Republicans for leaving our national defense vulnerable because of "reckless cuts"? Cuts that were his idea for political gain. Well, if the Pentagon had followed the Defense Business Board's recommendations, it would have found the savings it needed to balance out the sequester cuts, which was what was intended at the time anyway. But liar-nObama opted instead to close DC memorials and national parks so as to score more political points.
          To liar-nObama's White House, it was never about cost savings or reduced spending, or about keeping jobs and dollars in the U.S. And in its twilight days, the administration has not learned the right lesson.
          With liar-nObama's blessing, Air Force Secretary Deborah Lee James and Defense Secretary Ashton Carter are working out a deal to build Lockheed Martin's F-16 and Boeing's F/A-18 fighter jets in India.
          The F-16 is being phased out by the U.S. military, but the aircraft is still popular in other countries. There are still a lot of jobs to be had for building and servicing the aircraft, though both the administration and the two companies insist American jobs will be repurposed, not lost. It may make some business and logistical sense to move this manufacturing overseas, but it seems to us there are some things that just shouldn't be outsourced. America's iconic military jets are one of them.
          In the wake of President-Elect Donald Trump's recent work to stop jobs from being shipped overseas, the Indian government is wondering if the deal will still hold. It may; it may not. But Trump is definitely making his presence known now in other areas.
          In fact, Boeing is now feeling the heat from The Donald for its deal to build two new planes to fly as Air Force One. The new 747s are sorely needed as the current pair of retrofitted planes flying as the airborne White House are around 30 years old. The price tag, however, seems to have climbed past the point of fiscal responsibility — at least according to Trump's latest Twitter declaration.
          The replacement program for the planes was originally budgeted at $2.87 billion for fiscal years 2015-2021, but this was apparently only for research and development, testing and evaluation, not the cost of the planes themselves. However, a Government Accountability Office report from earlier this year claimed the program would cost $3.21 billion, planes included.
          That was too much for Trump, and now Boeing is finding itself on the defensive. The Donald couldn't resist pointing out that his own 747 is posher than Air Force One, which may very well be true, but it doesn't have defense countermeasures nor can it operate as an airborne command post during a nuclear attack. That we know of...
          The point here is that Trump is acting on campaign promises he made to keep jobs in the United States and to make America more economically competitive. He's also already signaled with his pick of James "Mad Dog" Mattis for defense secretary that the Pentagon could use some cleaning up. After eight years of liar-nObama, that's going to be a herculean undertaking.     ~The Patriot Post
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Al Qaeda Assessment Off the Mark
by Daveed Gartenstein-Ross
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Throughout his two terms in office, President Barack liar-nObama faced an array of challenges from both al Qaeda and ISIS. In an interview with The Cipher Brief, Daveed Gartenstein-Ross... Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, explained that the liar-nObama Administration’s evaluation of al Qaeda was “not correct.” I would divide it into domestic and foreign counterterrorism policy. On a domestic level, the paradigm that the administration has employed can be described as countering violent extremism (CVE), a term that’s used frequently. CVE emphasizes what are often dubbed softer approaches, ranging from community engagement to engagement with such partners as the tech industry, to try to forge creative solutions to such problems as ISIS recruitment. Engagement aside, many of the law-enforcement tactics that have been used under liar-nObama were also part of the Bush administration playbook – sting operations, for example, in the case of people who are radicalizing and thought to be a danger...
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Good riddance Harry dinky-Reid
by Washington Examiner
{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ In a Thursday op-ed in the New York Times, Democratic Leader Harry dinky-Reid of Nevada wrote ruefully on the occasion of his retirement, addressing what many liberals have described as the "post-truth" world... After all, how else could they have lost the 2016 election? "Much of the responsibility for separating what is real and what is fake," dinky-Reid solemnly asserted, "will fall on Democrats." What claptrap! And how ironic! For dinky-Reid will be best remembered not for his parliamentary skill, not for any bill he sponsored, not even for the controversial way in which he changed the rules of the Senate. Rather, he will be remembered for the amoral dishonesty of a hoax he played on the Senate floor, for which he remains completely unrepentant to this day. This is fitting, because there is no incident in dinky-Reid's career that better exemplifies the cynical leadership he brought to his party as its Senate leader...  http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/good-riddance-harry-reid/article/2609245
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House Bill Introduced For US Govt to Stop
Funding and Arming Terrorists
by Activist Post
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{activistpost.com} ~ Congresswoman Tulsi Gabbard introduced the Stop Arming Terrorists Act yesterday... The legislation would prohibit the U.S. government from using American taxpayer dollars to provide funding, weapons, training, and intelligence support to groups like the Levant Front, Fursan al Ha and other allies of Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, al-Qaeda and ISIS, or to countries that are providing direct or indirect support to those same groups. Rep. Tulsi Gabbard said, “Under U.S. law it is illegal for any American to provide money or assistance to al-Qaeda, ISIS or other terrorist groups. If you or I gave money, weapons or support to al-Qaeda or ISIS, we would be thrown in jail. Yet the U.S. government has been violating this law for years, quietly supporting allies and partners of al-Qaeda, ISIL, Jabhat Fateh al Sham and other terrorist groups with money, weapons, and intelligence support, in their fight to overthrow the Syrian government.”...Its about time.
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Finding Rare Common Ground
in Health Care’s Future 
by ROBERT PEAR
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{msn.com} ~ With self-congratulatory zeal and smiles all around, huge bipartisan majorities in Congress have just passed legislation to speed the discovery of cures for killer diseases... At the same time, Republican leaders have been devising a strategy to undo the Affordable Care Act, which has done more than any law in a generation to treat people with those diseases. “It is a real contradiction,” said Dr. Otis W. Brawley, the chief medical officer at the American Cancer Society. In recent years, few major bills have commanded as much support as the 21st Century Cures Act, which sailed to passage by votes of 392 to 26 in the House on Nov. 30, and 94 to 5 in the Senate a week later. Once it is signed by President liar-nObama on Tuesday, as the White House has said it will be, the law will allow for money to be pumped into biomedical research and speed the approval of new drugs and medical devices. It also includes provisions to improve mental health care and combat opioid abuse...  http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/finding-rare-common-ground-in-health-care%E2%80%99s-future/ar-AAlkxtz?li=BBnb7Kz
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Yes Democrats, Shut Down the Government
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ Senate Democrats are contemplating shutting down the federal government because they want more money for coal miner benefits. They should shut it down... The nation can survive a government shut down and shutting down the government would obstruct the liar-nObama Administration’s efforts to push through last minute regulations. Because regulations preparation is not paid for out of monies collected through fines and other sources outside Article I funding, if the government shuts down they can’t regulate. I hope Senate Democrats refuse to settle for short term funding for coal miners. They should shut down the government. Show the coal miners that they care. And in the process, that shut down would stop the EPA’s regulatory assault on coal miners...
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The Messy Truth About Van Jones
by Michelle Malkin
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{townhall.com} ~ They never learn.

The grand journalism pooh-bahs at CNN were humiliated this election cycle when WikiLeaks revealed that former CNN contributor and interim DNC chair Donna Brazile had shared a question with the liar-Hillary Clinton campaign in advance of a March Democratic primary town hall debate. According to CNN, "activist anchor" Roland Martin and his production team at CNN's debate partner and identity politics network TV One were responsible for the leak. CNN host Jake Tapper called the episode "very, very troubling" and condemned the breach:

"Journalistically, it's horrifying," he told WMAL radio.

CNN president Jeff Zucker declared after an internal investigation that the network "would not partner ever again" with TV One.

But instead of weeding out left-wing partisans masquerading as mainstream political analysts from their lineup, CNN is doubling down. This week, the network debuted a news special called "The Messy Truth" hosted by "political commentator" Van Jones.

Yeah, that guy.

Before he was pontificating on CNN airwaves, he was a top environmental official of the liar-nObama administration. The special advisor for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality held a special place in liar-nObama senior advisor Valerie Jarrett's heart. The Chicago power broker took full credit at a fringe Daily Kos blogger conference for recruiting him and closely following his career.

"You guys know Van Jones?" she asked to roaring applause.

"Ooh. Van Jones, all right!" she cooed. "So, Van Jones. We were so delighted to be able to recruit him into the White House. We were watching him, uh, really, he's not that old, for as long as he's been active out in Oakland. And all the creative ideas he has. And so now, we have captured that. And we have all that energy in the White House."

One of Jones's more "creative ideas" was signing a petition in 2004 calling for congressional hearings and an investigation by the New York attorney general into "evidence that suggests high-level government officials may have deliberately allowed the September 11th attacks to occur."

That's right. Valerie Jarrett took credit for recruiting a 9/11 truther who endorsed a petition peddling the crackpot theory that President George W. Bush "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war."

Under fire, Jones disavowed the statement he had attached his name to -- and decried those who dared to hold him responsible for his "creative ideas." It was conservative bloggers, not "real journalists," who exposed Jones's long record of radicalism to the public -- leading to his resignation in September 2009.

Van Jones did not just accidentally slip through the cracks of the liar-nObama vetters. They knew what he espoused before they installed him. So did his bosses at CNN who hired him in 2013.

It wasn't his expertise in political science, political history, electoral trends or journalism that got him the job. It was his social justice resume. He rose to public prominence as a race-baiting agitator at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, funded by the George Soros-supported Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, the liberal Ford Foundation and the Rockefeller Foundation. He became a public fixture in the Bay Area after crusading to free convicted cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal for a Marxist organization and lambasting moderate civil rights leaders for objecting to politicizing the classrooms.

In 2011, the late great Andrew Breitbart pulled no punches in describing Jones as a "commie punk" and a "cop killer-supporting, racist, demagogic freak." Jones had employed classic, radical Saul Alinsky-inspired campaign tactics to have Breitbart banned from a website he helped create -- the left-wing Huffington Post -- simply for writing articles providing alternative views of the tea party and for reporting on the liar-nObama administration's transparency-stifling measures.

Bending to the censorious mob, HuffPo assailed Breitbart's "ad hominem" attack on Jones, which violated "the tenets of debate and civil discourse we have strived for since the day we launched."

The progressives had nothing to say, of course, about Van Jones's own ad hominem attacks when he obscenely and publicly assailed Republicans as "a--holes" -- and when he financed, produced and participated in cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal's rap album, which railed against "imperialist" America and white "mother------s" as the "true terrorists."

Now, Jones -- who most recently race-baited Donald Trump supporters by blaming them for a "whitelash" -- has reinvented himself as a roving correspondent traveling the nation to analyze the election results and to lecture others to "be passionate. But be compassionate, too" with fellow citizens who hold different political viewpoints.

This is CNN: Enabling a lifelong, extremist demagogue -- who has actively stifled and smeared conservatives, law enforcement and honorable public servants -- to pose as a reasonable news personality Van-splainin' the world.

This goes beyond the sin of "fake news." It's gross media malpractice of the highest order.

http://townhall.com/columnists/michellemalkin/2016/12/07/the-messy-truth-about-van-jones-n2256193?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 10, 2016 at 7:30am
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Clues in exposing Trump's foreign policy hand
by Caroline B. Glick
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Amnesty International Attacks Democracies,
Forgives Islamist Tyrannies
by Giulio Meotti
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ According to Amnesty International, the centers that host migrants arriving in Italy, known as "hotspots," are like concentration camps. This is what you learn from Amnesty International's new report... which accuses Italy of nothing less than "torturing" migrants. The report features a sequence of testimonies, never proven, that describe methods worthy of a South American military junta. In the new Amnesty International report, a "witness," under the name of only "Adam," speaks of "a kind of clamp with three ends" by which Italian policemen allegedly grabbed his testicles. Evidence? Medical reports attesting to this violence? The version of the Italian police? Not in the wonderful world of Amnesty International, where a Western democracy can be safely accused of "torture" with flimsy, sub-standard, unverifiable "evidence" -- the same as Amnesty's many spurious charges against Israel. The Italian police and Interior Ministry denied all the charges, calling them ridiculous...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9342/amnesty-international-tyrannies
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Shooting attacks foiled in Jerusalem
by Ido Ben Porat
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Israeli security forces recently foiled a string of terror attacks aimed at the capital, the Shin Bet internal security agency reports... A joint operation by the Shin Bet and Israeli police broke up a terror cell consisting of eight Arab residents of Jerusalem, from the Sur Baher and Sheikh Jarrah neighborhoods. The Hamas-linked terror cell had been planning a series of shooting attacks in the capital, including against an IDF base and targets on Mount Scopus, home to the Hebrew University and Hadassah Hospital... http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221495
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Democrats: We Won’t Help GOP
Replace liar-nObamacare
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{fixthisnation.com} ~ In Wednesday’s edition of his Washington Post column, The Plum Line, Greg Sargent related an interview with Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer in which Schumer said his caucus would rather let American health care burn... to the ground than work with Republicans on an liar-Obamacare replacement. “We’re not going to do a replacement,” Schumer told Sargent. “If they repeal without a replacement, they will own it. Democrats will not then step up to the plate and come up with a half-baked solution that we will partially own. It’s all theirs.” The full details of the GOP’s plan to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act have not been released, but the winds are currently blowing toward a repeal-first, replace-later strategy. Several leading Republicans have endorsed the strategy, which would see liar-nObamacare officially repealed in early 2017, followed by a phaseout period that could last up to three years. With this approach, Republicans hope to force Democrats to the negotiating table with a hard deadline...Schumer, why are you being a hard head?  http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/democrats-we-wont-help-gop-replace-obamacare/
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Reaction of Geert Wilders to His Conviction
by Geert Wilders
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Dear friends, I still cannot believe it, but I have just been convicted. Because I asked a question about Moroccans... While the day before yesterday, scores of Moroccan asylum-seekers terrorized buses in Emmen and did not even had to pay a fine, a politician who asks a question about fewer Moroccans is sentenced. The Netherlands have become a sick country. And I have a message for the judges who convicted me: You have restricted the freedom of speech of millions of Dutch and hence convicted everyone. No one trusts you anymore. But fortunately, truth and liberty are stronger than you. And so am I. I will never be silent. You will not be able to stop me. And you are wrong, too. Moroccans are not a race, and people who criticize Moroccans are not racists. I am not a racist and neither are my voters. This sentence proves that you judges are completely out of touch...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9530/geert-wilders-conviction
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Don’t Let Iran Off The Hook
For Chemical/Biological Weapons
by Benjamin Weinthal
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ The Trump administration will need to be on its toes to enforce the 2015 Iran nuclear agreement—and stop the Islamic Republic’s developing chemical and  biological weapons programs... President-elect Donald Trump called the nuclear deal a "lopsided disgrace" and the "worst deal ever negotiated." Aggressive enforcement of the deal—assuming  Trump does not scrap the pact—will need to be a top priority. Take the example of Iran’s violations before the ink was even dry on the deal. Tehran’s rulers continued to seek to acquire nuclear technology in Germany after the January 2016 implementation date. Just last week, Iran illegally exceeded for a second time the limit on sensitive material used for nuclear facilities, the UN atomic watchdog agency said. Moreover, Iran has repeatedly conducted missile tests in defiance of UN resolutions and sanctions...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/benjamin-weinthal-dont-let-iran-off-the-hook-for-chemical-biological-weapons/
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Clues in exposing Trump's foreign policy hand
by Caroline B. Glick
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ In the US and around the world, people are anxiously awaiting US President-elect Donald Trump’s announcement of his choice to serve as secretary of state. There is no doubt that Trump’s choice for the position will tell us a great deal about the direction his foreign policy is likely to take.

But the fact is that we already have sufficient information to understand what his greatest focus will be.

Trump’s announcement last week that he has selected Marine General James Mattis to serve as his defense secretary is a key piece of the puzzle.

Mattis has a sterling reputation as a brilliant strategist and a sober-minded leader. His appointment has garnered plaudits across the ideological spectrum.

In 2013, US President Barack liar-nObama summarily removed Mattis from his command as head of the US Military’s Central Command. According to media reports, Mattis was fired due to his opposition to liar-nObama’s strategy of embracing Iran, first and foremost through his nuclear diplomacy. Mattis argued that Iran’s nuclear program was far from the only threat Iran constituted to the US and its allies. By empowering Iran through the nuclear deal, liar-nObama was enabling Iran’s rise as a hegemonic power throughout the region.

Mattis’s dim view of Iran is shared by Trump’s choice to serve as his national security adviser. Lt. General Michael Flynn’s appointment has been met with far less enthusiasm among Washington’s foreign policy elites.

Tom Ricks of The New York Times, for instance, attacked Flynn as “erratic” in an article Saturday where he praised Mattis.

It is difficult to understand the basis for Ricks’ criticism. Flynn is considered the most talented intelligence officer of his generation. Like Mattis, liar-nObama promoted Flynn only to fire him over disagreements regarding liar-nObama’s strategy of embracing Iran and pretending away the war that radical Islamists are waging against the US and across the globe.

Flynn served under liar-nObama as the director of the Defense Intelligence Agency. He was fired in 2014 for his refusal to toe the administration’s mendacious lines that radical Islam is not the doctrine informing and inspiring the enemy, and that al-Qaida and its fellows are losing their war.

What liar-nObama and his advisers didn’t want to hear about the US’s enemies and about how best to defeat them Flynn shared with the public in his recently published book Field of Fight, which he coauthored with Michael Ledeen, who served in various national security positions during the Reagan administration.

Flynn’s book is a breath of fresh air in the acrid intellectual environment that Washington has become during the liar-nObama administration. Writing it in this intellectually corrupt atmosphere was an act of intellectual courage.

In Field of Fight, Flynn disposes of the political correctness that has dictated the policy discourse in Washington throughout the Bush and liar-nObama administrations. He forthrightly identifies the enemy that the US is facing as “radical Islam,” and provides a detailed, learned description of its totalitarian ideology and supremacist goals. Noting that no strategy based on denying the truth about the enemy can lead to victory, Flynn explains how his understanding of the enemy’s doctrine and modes of operation enabled him to formulate strategies for winning the ground wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan.

And win them he did. As he explains in his book, Flynn oversaw the transformation of the US’s strategies for fighting in both theaters from strategies based on top-down decapitation of the enemy’s leadership to a groundup destruction of the terrorist networks.

Flynn’s strategy, which worked in both countries, was based on the premise that it wasn’t enough to kill “high value” targets. The US needed to develop a granular understanding of the terrorist networks from the village level up the line. Only by taking out the local terrorist leaders would the US be able to destroy the ability of the likes of al-Qaida, the Iranian-controlled Shi’ite militias and the Taliban to quickly mobilize new forces and reignite fighting shortly after every successful US operation.

Flynn’s book contributes three essential insights to the discussion of the global jihad. First, he explains that the Bush and liar-nObama administrations were both unable to translate military victories on the ground into strategic victories because they both refused to join their military war with a war of ideas.

The purpose of a war of ideas is to discredit the cause for which the enemy fights. Without such a war, on the one hand the American people sour on the war because they don’t understand why it is important to win. On the other hand, without a war of ideas directed specifically at the Islamic world, Muslims worldwide have continued to be susceptible to recruitment by the likes of ISIS and al-Qaida.

As Flynn notes, the popularity of radical Islam has skyrocketed during the liar-nObama years. Whereas in 2011 there were 20,000 foreign recruits fighting for ISIS in Iraq and Syria, by 2015, the number had risen to 35,000.

Flynn’s second contribution is his forthright discussion of the central role the Iranian regime plays in the global jihad. Flynn chronicles not only Iran’s leadership of the war against the US in Iraq and Afghanistan. He shows that their cooperation is global and predates 9/11 by several years.

Flynn recalls for instance that in 1996 British troops confiscated an al-Qaida training manual written by Iranian intelligence in a terrorist training facility in Bosnia. Six Iranian “diplomats” were arrested at the scene.

Flynn is unflinching in his criticism of the liar-nObama administration’s moves to develop an alliance with Iran. And he is almost equally critical of George W. Bush’s war against terror.

For instance, Flynn argues, “It was a huge strategic mistake for the United States to invade Iraq militarily.”

Iran, he said was the main culprit in 2001 and remains the main enemy today.

“If, as we claimed, our basic mission after 9/11 was the defeat of the terrorists and their state sponsors then our primary target should have been Tehran, not Baghdad, and that method should have been political – support of the internal Iranian opposition.”

Flynn’s final major contribution to the intellectual discourse regarding the war is his blunt identification of the members of the enemy axis. Flynn states that the radical Islamic terrorist armies operate in cooperation with and at the pleasure of a state alliance dominated by Russia and Iran and joined by North Korea, Venezuela and other rogue regimes. Flynn’s frank discussion of Russia’s pivotal role in the alliance exposes the widely touted claims that he is somehow pro-Russian as utter nonsense.

In Flynn’s view, while Russia is Iran’s primary partner in its war for global domination, it should not be the primary focus of US efforts. Iran should be the focus.

In his words, the best place to unravel the enemy alliance is at its “weakest point,” which, he argues, is Iran.

Flynn explains that the basic and endemic weakness of the Iranian regime owes to the fact that the Iranian people hate it. To defeat the regime, Flynn recommends a strategy of political war and subversion that empowers the Iranian people to overthrow the regime as they sought to do in the 2009 Green Revolution. Flynn makes the case that the Green Revolution failed in large part because the liar-nObama administration refused to stand with the Iranian people.

Flynn is both an experienced commander and an innovative, critical, strategic thinker. As his book makes clear, while flamboyant and blunt he is not at all erratic. He is far-sighted and determined, and locked on his target: Iran.

Whoever Trump selects as secretary of state, his appointment of Mattis on the one hand and Flynn on the other exposes his hand. Trump is interested in ending the war that the forces of radical Islam started with the US not on September 11, 2001, but on November 4, 1979, with the seizure of the US embassy in Tehran.

With Mattis and Flynn at his side, Trump intends to bring down the Iranian regime as a first step toward securing an unconditional victory in the war against radical Islam.
 
http://jewishworldreview.com/1216/glick120716.php3
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 9, 2016 at 5:00pm
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Keith Ellison's Disinformation Campaign
by Steven Emerson
 
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 liar-nObama's False Reality 
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Yesterday, Barack liar-nObama delivered his final lecture, er, speech to the U.S. military. In his all-too-familiar pattern, liar-nObama wove an eloquent farce. Seeking to deflect responsibility for facilitating the rise of the Islamic State, liar-nObama said, "There's been a debate about ISIL that's focused on whether a continued U.S. troop presence in Iraq back in 2011 could have stopped the threat of ISIL from growing. And as a practical matter, this was not an option. ... In addition, maintaining American troops in Iraq at the time could not have reversed the forces that contributed to ISIL's rise." liar-nObama seeks to have it both ways: Claim credit for keeping his ideologically driven campaign promise to end the war in Iraq, while blaming George W. Bush for allegedly creating a situation where liar-nObama was unable to keep a sizable military presence in Iraq.
          liar-nObama then pivoted and suggested that ISIL is not really the significant threat to the U.S. that many Americans know it to be. He stated, "Today's terrorists can kill innocent people, but they don't pose an existential threat to our nation, and we must not make the mistake of elevating them as if they do." For liar-nObama, the only significant "existential threat" facing the nation is climate change.
          The outgoing commander in chief has at times acted as though he were the most limited president in history, while at other times he has exercised almost dictatorial power to go around Congress in order to implement his agenda. liar-nObama has always had an excuse ready for why his policies have failed. Either A) it wasn't his plan so it's not his fault or B) Congress prevented him from acting according to his policy plans so it's not his fault. Some people might think liar-nObama is an eloquent speaker, but speeches don't create reality. There's a reason fairytales are sold in the fiction section of the local book store.
          After eight years under liar-nObama's watch, America finds itself facing a terrorist threat every bit as dangerous as we faced on 9/11. Sadly, liar-nObama, rather than take the enemy seriously, has sought to convince the American people that the Islamic State really isn't that big of a problem. It makes one wonder if he believes he can perform what he once errantly called a "Jedi mind meld" on the American populace. ~The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Ariel Rabkin: "In America, we allow both broadsheet newspapers and supermarket tabloids to be sold. The underlying philosophy of the First Amendment (and free speech generally) is that society should leave people to make their own truth judgements, and should not rely on appointed authorities to promulgate truth and suppress falsehood. The technology industry stands on solid philosophical ground with its desire to concentrate on building content-neutral platforms, rather than to be the world's arbiter of fact. We should be humble about the capacities of our current technology. If you Google 'does New Zealand exist,' the search results include a factbox titled 'New Zealand: The Country That Doesn't Exist.' If Google's technology can be made to doubt the existence of a sizeable English-speaking democracy that shows up in satellite imagery, it might be overly ambitious to expect them to solve the general problem of separating truth and fiction. ... The history of science, politics, and philosophy demonstrate that even intelligent, educated, and well-meaning humans often believe foolish things. Technology is not going to change that. Intellectual honesty has always been a difficult virtue to practice, and no algorithmic cleverness is likely to change that."  ~The Patriot Post
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Tucker Carlson Humiliates, Wipes The Floor
With Distorting Dem Congressman
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Tucker Carlson opens what is a very entertaining segment with Democrat Congressman Adam Schiff with a quote from a letter he was a signatory to a letter seeking a briefing on supposed Russian hacking during the election campaign... Carlson quotes the letter, which claims that “Russia hacked our political institutions by, among other things, giving us access to John Podesta’s emails in WikiLeaks.” Carlson states that he is against hacking personal emails but asks that once it has occurred is it a bad thing if it enabled the voters to help assess the candidate. Schiff incorporates the idea that the hacking was conducted by Russia throughout his comments, and attempts to make a case for a Democrat response in the interest of protecting ourselves from “further Russian meddling in the future.” He says, “We’re going to have to call them out on it, we’re going to have to inform the American people about it.”...  http://rickwells.us/tucker-carlson-humiliates-wipes-floor-distorting-dem-congressman/
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Recount uncovers serious fraud in Detroit
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{wnd.com} ~ There’s something fishy going on in Michigan, where a full one-third of precincts in Wayne County – which includes Detroit – were unable to have ballots counted due to discrepancies with ballot counts... And one person reports single ballots being counted as many as six times. On Wednesday, a federal judge halted Michigan’s recount after two days of ballot counting, saying there’s not a legitimate reason to continue. After all, Green Party candidate Jill Stein, who asked for the recount – suggesting the possibility of vote fraud and stating, “We must have a system we can be confident in” – never even had a chance of winning with just 1 percent of the vote. But the judge’s decision came just after news reports began surfacing of possible vote fraud...  http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/recount-uncovers-serious-fraud-in-detroit/
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In Texas, Republicans Fight New
Sanctuary Cities in Wake of Trump Victory
by Josh Siegel
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{dailysignal.com} ~ In the border state of Texas, the Republican governor and state Legislature are promising to combat a new trend since the election of Donald Trump, in which cities and localities vow to limit how much they assist federal authorities with removing immigrants living illegally in their communities... Sally Hernandez, the Democratic sheriff-elect in Travis County, home to the liberal state capital of Austin, ran on a platform opposing cooperation with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) when it seeks to deport illegal immigrants held in the county jail. “The sheriff’s office will not be part of a deportation force that sacrifices hundreds and thousands of people, our neighbors, to a broken federal immigration system,” Hernandez said during a Nov. 17 press conference...  http://dailysignal.com/2016/12/08/in-texas-republicans-fight-new-sanctuary-cities-in-wake-of-trump-victory/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTmpBeU5EZzRNalUyWkdFeiIsInQiOiJpam9DRG05TzJTSGh5bXlvT2tmbFllbGRFOGNwRWc1SlwvVWVac0RoVHNvS0FlZDhsTitndnYrYnQ3cTdiaHR0MVBBV1czNlI0MlVMV0NrTzMxcmNzXC9mY0dtQVBoclB4eTJpbmNjTEZpZis4PSJ9
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liar-nObama and Democrats Continually Lie About
liar-nObamacare Coverage...
by Jay Caruso
{redstate.com} ~ Look around Twitter, television, Facebook and other places where news and statements are made, and you’ll likely see a Democrat saying, “Since passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, 20 million people have gained coverage.”... Democratic Vice Presidential candidate (Loser – VA), Tim Kaine tweeted it recently: The figure is total nonsense and what’s worse is, the media, who are having a collective cow over “fake news,” repeat the claim without challenge. Worse yet, they repeat it in two different directions. They parrot the coverage number and have been repeating the false claim that “20 million people would lose coverage under Donald Trump’s plan.”...  http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/12/08/obama-democrats-continually-lie-obamacare-coverage-figure/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Federal Judge Orders Discovery To Begin In
liar-Hillary Clinton Email Lawsuit
by Spencer S. Hsu
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{washingtonpost.com} ~ A federal judge on Tuesday ruled that State Department officials and top aides to liar-Hillary Clinton should be questioned under oath about whether they intentionally thwarted federal open records laws by using or allowing the use of a private email server... throughout liar-Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. The decision by U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan of Washington came in a lawsuit over public records brought by Judicial Watch, a conservative legal watchdog group, regarding its May 2013 request for information about the employment arrangement of Huma Abedin, a longtime liar-Clinton aide. Officials with the State and Justice departments said that they were aware of the order but declined to comment further, citing the ongoing litigation. Discovery orders are not readily appealable. An attorney for Abedin declined to comment...
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Keith Ellison's Disinformation Campaign
by Steven Emerson
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Confronted by his own words and facing a direct threat to his bid to become the next Democratic National Committee (DNC) chairman, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison flagrantly lied. We are releasing the full audio and transcript to prove this.

After the Investigative Project on Terrorism released audio (at the end) of Ellison during a 2010 political fundraiser, criticizing what he saw as the inappropriate and disproportionate influence Israel carries over American foreign policy.

"The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million," said Ellison, D-Minn. "Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right? When the Americans who trace their roots back to those 350 million get involved, everything changes. Can I say that again?"

In a statement Thursday, the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) said it found Ellison's comments "deeply disturbing and disqualifying." That's because, "whether intentional or not, his words raise the specter of age-old stereotypes about Jewish control of our government, a poisonous myth that may persist in parts of the world where intolerance thrives."

In an open letter to the ADL, Ellison falsely claimed that "the audio released was selectively edited and taken out of context." He also claimed that he was merely "responding to a question about how Americans with roots in the Middle East could engage in the political process in a more effective way." And then he chose to attack the messenger.

None of Ellison's comments are true.

We have released the full audio of his remarks to show no edits were made and to show the full context. Let him also explain this other clearly anti-Semitic comment he made: "But it makes all the sense in the world when you see that that country has mobilized its diaspora in America to do its bidding in America."

Ellison and Context

As we reported, Ellison's 2010 comments came during a fundraiser for Esam Omeish's state assembly campaign. Omeish is a former president of the Muslim American Society (MAS), a group created by Muslim Brotherhood members in the United States. In 2007, Omeish was forced to resign from a Virginia immigration panel after the IPT produced video of him praising Palestinians in 2000 for learning that "the jihad way is the way to liberate your land." A second video, shot two months earlier, shows Omeish congratulating "our brothers and sisters in Palestine for their bravery, for their giving up their lives for the sake of Allah."

Just this week, Omeish posted a paean to the Muslim Brotherhood on Facebook.

Nihad Awad, the only executive director the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has ever had, also attended the Omeish fundraiser. Court records show Awad was a member of a Muslim Brotherhood created Hamas support network in the United States called the Palestine Committee. So was CAIR, the organization he leads.

Awad attended a pivotal 1993 gathering of committee members in Philadelphia, convened to discuss ways to "derail" the U.S. brokered Oslo Accords.

Palestine Committee members opposed it because it included recognition of Israel's right to exist and because it empowered the secular Fatah movement over the Islamists in Hamas. We know this because the FBI secretly recorded the meeting.

He has never explained why he joined the others present in referring to Hamas in the agreed-upon, yet crude code of reversing the spelling and speaking about "Samah."

Six months later, Awad appeared in Miami, where he publicly stated that, after some research, "I am in support of the Hamas movement more than the PLO."

When Keith Ellison stands before Omeish and Awad and asks whether it makes sense that America's Middle East policy "is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people," or when he says "that country [Israel] has mobilized its diaspora in America to do its bidding in America," the context seems pretty clear.

Democrats should choose the candidate they think can best lead their party to success in the future. They might decide Ellison fits that description.

They do so armed with greater understanding of Ellison's true feelings toward an issue pivotal for a lot of voters of all political persuasions.
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Fri/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 9, 2016 at 12:00pm
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 

The spreading revolt of the peasants
by Wesley Pruden
 
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Gen. John Kelly tapped for Department of Homeland Security, another great Trump pick, but Leftmedia fear "too many generals." (The Daily Signal)
Now that Trump's won, media suddenly notices that a lot of new jobs are crappy. (Hot Air)
Stein's Wisconsin recount for liar-Clinton produces net gains ... for Trump. (Fox News)
Judicial order halts Stein's Michigan recount for liar-Clinton. (Detroit Free Press)
WashPo columnist repeats fake news while complaining about repeating fake news. (Washington Examiner)
The latest and hopefully last chapter of liar-nObama's social engineering military experiments — Naval Academy hosting "Transgender 101" training for midshipmen. (Washington Free Beacon)
Two charged with arson in Gatlinburg wildfires that killed 14. (Fox News)
Two police officers shot, one killed, in Georgia. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution)
How long will Hollywood put up with social justice warriors after latest attacks? Probably always. (National Review)
Despite objections and a pending congressional resolution, Black History Museum has "no plans" to recognize Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. (The Washington Times)
Policy: A pro-growth agenda for the 115th Congress. It would be about time. (Competitive Enterprise Institute)
Policy: Short-term spending bill: The good and the bad. (The Daily Signal)  ~The Patriot Post
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  OPINION IN BRIEF 
Larry Elder: "Following Mitt Romney's 2012 defeat, Democrats and pundits predicted GOP defeats as far as the eye could see, because there aren't enough white voters for Republicans to win. But now the narrative is, 'Trump won by appealing to white voters.' Could they please pick one and stick to it? ... If Democrats truly believe that racism carried the day for Trump, they're even more out of touch than initially thought. Given that line of reasoning, they will be hard-pressed to get back the middle-class and working-class Americans they lost this cycle. If Democrats think Trump won by 'catering to racists,' just wait until the economy improves under Trump, and more Latinos and blacks stop voting like victicrats. Just wait until blacks and Hispanics start voting to continue the policies that caused an improvement in their economic conditions and for education policies like Trump's pro-voucher stance. Then Democrats will 'really' start losing."  ~The Patriot Post
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Watch What Iran Does, But Also
Listen To What They Say
by Kenneth R. Timmerman
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ President-Elect Trump will be tested by the Islamic state of Iran soon after taking office on January 20. It could come the very day of his inauguration with an enormous, if superficial head-fake... as they gave President Reagan by releasing our U.S. diplomat-hostages the very minute he swore the oath of office. Or it could come later, in a less benign form. But this much is certain: that test will come, and the foreign policy establishment in Washington will fail to see it coming and mistakenly interpret it once it occurs. Again. Establishment analysts focus on Iran’s actions. In itself, that is not a bad thing, but it’s kind of like buying a peach at an American supermarket because of its wonderful good looks, only to cut it open at home to find it wooden and tasteless...
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Nation of Islam Tears Down
Keith Ellison's Lies About His Past
by Daniel Greenfield
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Keith Ellison, his apologists and his defenders have kept telling one lie about his past with the Nation of Islam. The refrain is that all he did was help out with the Million Man March. Just like liar-nObama... Of course that's a lie. As has been often documented, he had an extensive history with the racist hate group which believes that white people were created by a mad scientist and will be exterminated by UFOs. (It varies from vanilla Islam in some ways.) Keith Ellison and I were then both 31 years old. He was on record as defending Farrakhan’s anti-Semitism since at least 1989, under the alias of Keith Hakim. But unlike the CBC, which immediately suspended its ties with the Nation of Islam after the vote, Ellison apparently saw no reason to rethink his position. In fact, he continued to identify with Farrakhan and work actively for the Nation of Islam for years after Muhammad’s speech...
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Lawmakers Hit Stein With Horrible News…
Move to Confiscate Recount Warchest
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ Americans from both major political parties have been outraged over former Green Party nominee Jill Stein’s attempts to launch recounts in Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin... states that were key to President-elect Donald Trump’s victory. In Michigan especially, where taxpayers would have had to fork over millions for the recount, some lawmakers were trying to pass legislation that would ensure that something like this never happens again — while leaving the door open for the possibility of legitimate recount efforts in the future, Detroit Free Press reported. A bill that passed the Michigan House Elections Committee on Tuesday would make it so that candidates who lose the election by more than 5 percent would have to pay the entire cost of the recount...  http://conservativetribune.com/lawmakers-hit-stein-news-recount/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTBreaking&utm_content=2016-12-08
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Trump Early Successes, Popularity
Driving Liberal Media Berserk
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs offers a few thoughts on the “national left-wing media that continues to grapple uncomfortably with President-elect Trump’s success... Trump’s popularity today hit a new high in the latest Bloomberg survey, 50% favorability, that’s up from 37% Election Day, up from 33% back in August. And with 42 days left until Trump’s inauguration and Mr. Trump’s negotiating skills may be responsible yet for another coup targeting the 700,000 Apple employees working in China.” Dobbs notes, “Foxconn, the largest electronics company manufacturing Apple products and assembling them now in preliminary discussions apparently to expand operations where? Well, the United States, of course. It follows, doesn’t it? The news comes right after Trump’s meeting with the CEO of Japan’s SoftBank and another deal to invest $50 Billion in the United States, potentially creating 50,000 new jobs...
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Funding Terrorism - The Buck Stops Here
by PATRICK DUNLEAVY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ "Follow the money" - that fundamental rule for investigating organized crime - also holds true for uncovering terrorist organizations. But if the search leads to your own doorstep, immediate and decisive action must be taken... This may be the case for the U.S. government in light of recent statements by Mahmoud Abbas, the current president of the Palestinian Authority. The 81-year-old Abbas, who has been president since 2005, is calling for unifying the Fatah party government with Hamas, which controls the Gaza Strip. President Bill liar-Clinton's executive order first labeled Hamas as a foreign terrorist organization in 1995. Hamas was included among terrorist groups whose "grave acts of violence ... disrupt the Middle East peace process and constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security, foreign policy, and economy of the United States."...
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The spreading revolt of the peasants
by Wesley Pruden
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The populist saber continues to cut the elites down to size. The elites, who think they know it all and are uniquely qualified to tell everyone else how to live, took another pasting Sunday in the Italian elections. Prime Minister Matteo Renzi felt so humiliated by voter rejection of his proposals for constitutional reform that he quit on the spot.

That's 3 for 3 for the peasants. Europe hasn't seen such a sacking fit in years. David Cameron quit as prime minister in Britain after the kingdom voted earlier this year to say goodbye to Europe, and then Francois Hollande, the president of France, looked back and saw something gaining on him.

The most unpopular president since 1940, when France was about to fall, said he has had enough, and wouldn't stand for an election that everybody said he couldn't win, next year.

The Germans have a chance to make it 4 for 4 next year, when Angela Merkel stands for a fourth term, and though she may be the favorite, in the present climate she's anything but a sure bet, and maybe not even a good one. Throwing the rascals out has become a game everyone wants to play, and the world has rarely seen so many deserving rascals.

Barack liar-nObama, who is Europe's favorite American president, can only be pleased that he isn't running for anything next year but the streetcar, to take him to his new digs just down the street from the mosque where he might be content to listen to the evening call to prayer, which he calls "the prettiest sound on earth," but this par­ticular mosque plays no such call. He'll have to get it on YouTube. The neighborhood is fairly finicky about noise.

Only yesterday the big media was agog with speculation about the funeral rites for the Republicans, who were about to be drowned and good riddance by the coming tidal wave bringing liar-Hillary Clinton office. Alas, the tide turned, as tides will do, and brought the Donald to power if not yet much glory instead.

Now it's the Democrats who are lepers in the land. The same wise men who were writing obituaries for the Grand Old Party are recycling them as obsequies for the party of the people. That would be the party that lost the White House, the Senate, the House and so many governors, mayors and state houses that everybody but Jill Stein has quit counting.

The Democratic grassroots, however, are bubbling and on the boil, if not with optimism at least innovation. Students at California State College at San Marcos think white folks are the problem and the solution is getting rid of them.

The students organized a "Whiteness Forum," setting up more than a dozen displays with imaginative themes, including "Gentrification is the New Colonialism" (no one ever met a real-estate developer in a home­less shelter), "Whiteness in the Courts" (blacks are five times more likely to go to prison than white folks and Latinos are three times more likely), and "the hegemonic ideals of the beauty standard" must go. The First Amendment, which not so long ago everybody regarded as the most important item in the Bill of Rights, continues to get a bad rap on campus.

Jake Goldberg, a student at Tufts University, offered a resolution to the Student Senate affirming free speech and it was defeated 26 to zilch.

The Senate president chided Mr. Goldberg for even offering the resolution.

"I think clarity in itself is subjective so I don't really know what we're voting on, which is why I oppose it."

Another senator said 50 percent of Tufts students are from other countries where there is no free speech and free-speech issues are handled better than in America, and saying First Amendment rights are the best kind of rights "is not okay." Hurt­ing someone's feelings is the most heinous of all crimes on campus.

The best news for the Republicans this week is not from Europe or the campus but from Nancy Pulosi, fresh from winning another term as the leader of the Democratic minority in the House. She told a CBS interviewer that her party doesn't have to worry because "I don't think the people want a new direction."

The interlocutor, John Dickerson, reminded her that over the past eight years "the numbers are ghastly for the Democrats, with the party getting clobbered at every level, over multiple elections. That seems like a real crisis for the party." No, no, Mrs. Pulosi replied. "You're forgetting that we went up so high in 2006 and 2008."

According to the five stages of grief, everybody should be moving on by now.

But some folks are still stuck in denial.
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 9, 2016 at 7:30am
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Trump's Mad Dog is the sane warrior we
need to make the world safer
by Niall Ferguson
 
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Time's Person of the Year: Donald Trump. Who else? (Time)
liar-nObama's top labor arbiters have overturned a cumulative 4,500 years of legal precedent over the past eight years, in 91 decisions without a Republican vote. (Washington Free Beacon)
GOP leaders reveal stopgap spending bill that includes path for Mattis confirmation. (The Hill)
Medicare looms over Trump-Ryan alliance. What will the pair do to reform it? (The Hill)
liar-nObama's IRS commissioner evades impeachment. (The Daily Signal)
Trump announces Japanese telecom company will invest $50 billion and 50,000 jobs in the U.S. (Hot Air)
liar-nObama sent rep to Castro's funeral, but not Margaret Thatcher's funeral... (The Daily Signal)
Congress objects to secret liar-nObama deal for 2,400 Middle Eastern refugees rejected by Australia. (The Washington Times)
Angela "Let the Refugees Come" Merkel calls for a ban of full facial veiling — i.e., Islamic burkas. (NBC News)
liar-nObamaCare shutters Texas restaurant. (The Washington Times)
Ukraine peace deal delayed by liar-nObama's confusion and obfuscation. (Reuters)
Policy: Fake news is not a technology problem. (Tech Policy Daily)
Policy: Trump's realistic thinking on climate change. (InsideSources)  ~The Patriot Post
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Michelle Malkin – Paul Ryan Is
Not Donald Trump’s Friend
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs characterizes it as the false flag being cut from the yardarm, the skull and cross bones are flying and here we go – “Kevin McCarthy and Speaker Ryan are going to be obstructionists again.”... Michelle Malkin agrees, saying, “Yes, as they always are. These people have learned nothing in the same way that so many of the establishment Democrats and the establishment liberals in the media have learned nothing.” “And they will double down,” says Malkin. “I believe that this current GOP so-called leadership is going to pose even more headaches and will be a bigger threat to Donald Trump and his American sovereignty agenda than the outright liberals will be. And that’s always been the case as long as I’ve covered politics over the last twenty-five years. It’s these Republicans who pretend and pay lip service to American workers, the American economy, strong borders, again and again and again. They’ve been shown to be phonies and liars and we’re going to go through it all over again...
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Veterans See Potential Advocate for
Afghan Visa Program in Mattis
by Morgan Chalfant
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Veterans pressing Congress to allocate more visas for Afghan interpreters see a potential ally in retired Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, who is likely to become secretary of defense in the Trump administration... Members of Veterans for American Ideals have been pushing for more visas under the State Department’s Special Immigrant Visa program, arguing that the 1,500 new visas allocated by Congress for fiscal year 2017 are not enough. The veterans recently held several dozen meetings with lawmakers to lobby for more visas for Afghan interpreters who worked with the U.S. military. The veterans see potential allies in military generals who have been floated as possible choices to fill out Trump’s cabinet, particularly Mattis, given his service in the Middle East. Retired Gen. David Petraeus, a former CIA director, has also been rumored as a potential pick for secretary of state...  http://freebeacon.com/national-security/veterans-see-potential-advocate-afghan-visa-program-mattis/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=359d72fa2b-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_06&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-359d72fa2b-45611665
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Homeland Security Just Got Real – Trump
Announces Gen Kelly For DHS Secretary
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ The USA men’s Olympic Basketball team that was the original definition of a dream team has nothing on the group of capable individuals that Donald Trump is surrounding himself with... The more he gets into the process of cabinet selection the more obvious it becomes, he’s serious about his campaign promises and assembling a group that can produce some serious results and is capable of hitting the ground running. That reality was reinforced today with his announcement of General John F. Kelly to head the Department of Homeland Security. That incessant whining sound we hear in the distance is the banks of shredders the current occupant of that position is employing to “pull a Lerner” or a “liar-Clinton,” destroying the evidence that would be used to prosecute him for treason. Johnson can’t be feeling too comfortable right now. He can be sure that Kelly will, at a minimum, take him up on his oft-repeated mantra of “if you see something, say something” once he is engaged in his new duties...  http://rickwells.us/homeland-security-just-got-real-trump-announces-gen-kelly-dhs-secretary/
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liar-nObama’s Terrorism Claim Hides
an Inconvenient Truth
by David Inserra
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{dailysignal.com} ~ On Tuesday, President Barack liar-nObama stated that “Over the last eight years, no foreign terrorist organization has successfully planned and executed an attack on our homeland.”... Talk about something actually deserving of being labelled as “fake news.” liar-nObama’s statement obscures the reality that the U.S. has faced 66 Islamist terrorist plots against the U.S. homeland during liar-nObama’s time in office, 13 of which were successful...  http://dailysignal.com/2016/12/07/obamas-terrorism-claim-hides-an-inconvenient-truth/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWm1ZeFptVmpNamswWkRGayIsInQiOiJ5NE1FTWRreHY5VUdyTkpoTFZVSFZ1WGk1bjQ2RDZ1Q2hMZG9VUElaaTJZRHZraDVJelltbTdnMHJJMHNhSDlOWms1M0VjeGRFcE9nM1p0WDdPeDFPQnh5b2s2UmlMVmFZMW5SaGg0NXZOTT0ifQ%3D%3D
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Shari'a Law Meets the Internet
by Denis MacEoin
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Haitham al-Haddad is a British shari'a council judge, and
sits on the board of advisors for the Islamic Sharia Council
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The UK has for several years faced problems with its growing number of shari'a councils often misleadingly called courts. These councils operate outside British law, yet frequently give rulings on matters such as divorce, child custody, inheritance and more... which are based on Islamic law and in contradiction of the rights of individuals usually women under UK legislation. Many Muslim communities in cities such as Bradford, Birmingham, Luton, or boroughs such as Tower Hamlets in London are both sizeable and close-knit; individuals in them are made to live lives in accordance with Pakistani, Bangladeshi and Islamic traditional norms. This means that contact with British life at large is often restricted, with a lack of assimilation that traps many women and girls into lives very close to the lives of their sisters in Muslim countries...This is what is called, 'taking over a country.'
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Trump's Mad Dog is the sane warrior we
need to make the world safer
by Niall Ferguson
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ "The press takes Trump literally, but not seriously. Voters take him seriously, but not literally." This, by Salena Zito, was the smartest thing written about the 2016 election and deserves a place in every dictionary of quotations.

Now let me give you some advice about General James Mattis, who has been named Donald Trump's secretary of defence. Take him both literally and seriously.

The new defence secretary is not only a fearsome soldier, he is deep strategic thinker.

Mattis is a dictionary of quotes in his own right. I like the way he meets and greets. "Do not cross us. Because if you do, the survivors will write about what we do here for 10,000 years." Or: "I come in peace. I didn't bring artillery. But I'm pleading with you, with tears in my eyes: if you f*** with me, I'll kill you all."

With Mattis, however, you get much more than just words. You get deeds. As the commander of the 1st Marine Division in the 2003 invasion of Iraq, Mattis earned a daunting reputation as a master of kinetic warfare. During the push to Baghdad, he relieved a colonel of his command for not advancing fast enough.

In 2007 he wrote, with General David Petraeus, the Counterinsurgency Field Manual, the template for the successful "surge" in Iraq. So fond of combat was Mattis that the marines' affectionate nickname for him was "Mad Dog". Full disclosure: Jim Mattis and I are both fellows of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. I admire him and consider him a friend. In person he is neither deranged nor canine, but softly spoken and erudite. Mattis is not only a fearsome warrior, he is a deep strategic thinker, a soldier-scholar in the mould of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, whose Meditations he carried with him in Iraq and Afghanistan.

You might have expected such an inspired appointment to receive a warm welcome. Dream on. The liberal media, humiliated by Trump's triumph, have sought to misrepresent his transition as chaotic. As it happens, Mattis's nom de guerre was "Chaos". In both cases it is the kind of chaos you inflict on your enemies. Trump is not re-enacting Celebrity Apprentice; he is assembling what would once have been called "a ministry of all the talents".

True, the choice of Mattis is unorthodox. He will be the first general to run the Pentagon since Harry Truman appointed George Marshall in 1950. All other defence secretaries have been civilians, reflecting a long-standing American belief that "brass hats" need to be reined in by "frock coats".

Trump has decided to ignore that convention, as well as to ask Congress to waive the rule that a general must spend seven years in retirement before he can take the defence secretary job. Cue flapping frock coats. But I think this is the best decision Trump has taken since his historic victory three weeks ago.

Not that the others have been bad. For Treasury secretary Trump has nominated Steven Mnuchin, who has been almost as successful financially as Mattis has been militarily. Cue liberal lamentations that "Government Sachs" is back in business.

But Mnuchin left Goldman Sachs 14 years ago. Everything he has touched since then — from the movie Avatar to the failed housing lender IndyMac to the Trump campaign itself — has turned to gold. Elaine Chao for transport is another smart choice. It doesn't hurt that she's married to the Senate majority leader, Mitch McCon-nell. Trump needs to govern with Congress, not against it.

Secretary of state is the toughest call and Trump is right to weigh his options. The former presidential candidate Mitt Romney bad-mouthed him during the campaign and is on the record as a Russia-basher — hardly the ideal candidate when the No 1 item on Trump's foreign policy agenda is to do a "great deal" with President Vladimir Putin.

As a strategist, Petraeus is up there with Mattis, but it may be too soon after his rap for unauthorised disclosure of classified documents, and another general might give the administration the look of a junta. The former mayor of New York Rudy Giuliani is a Trump loyalist who badly wants the job, but Senator Bob Corker looks the safer bet.

Yet Mattis at defence could prove to be the most important appointment of all. True, the secretary of state usually gets more headlines. But, as Donald Rumsfeld proved for better and for worse under George W Bush, the man who runs the Pentagon has more resources by far at his disposal and can easily turn that military muscle into political power. It is in Trump's interests to make Mattis his right-hand man. Here's why.

As president, Trump has the enticing opportunity to fix America's broken foreign policy. His deal with Putin could end the war in Syria and resolve the not-so-frozen conflict in eastern Ukraine. A comparable deal with China could address the economic grievances of Middle America while creating a new basis for peaceful coexistence with the Middle Kingdom, addressing key flashpoints in the Asia-Pacific region such as North Korea, the South China Sea — and Taiwan.

The Trump presidency can also change the game in the Middle East by abandoning the liar-nObama administration's ill-conceived tilt towards Iran. And it can jolt continental Europeans out of their complacency, so that Nato ceases to be an alliance paid for by Americans and taken for granted by Germans.

However, to achieve all this will require more than Kissingerian diplomatic skill; it will also need the credible threat of force — for without that, America's enemies and allies alike will take advantage of the businessman Trump just as they took advantage of the law professor liar-nObama. This is where Jim Mattis comes in.

First, Mattis has unrivalled credibility. It is not only marines who love the man. Even Michèle Flournoy, who would have had his job if liar-Hillary Clinton had won, speaks of him with reverence.

Second, Mattis is a hawk on Iran. Indeed, some say it was his readiness to contemplate military action against Iran that led to his being sacked from US Central Command by President liar-nObama. He is unrepentant. In a lecture in April he called the Tehran regime "the single most enduring threat to stability and peace in the Middle East".

Nevertheless, he argued against ripping up liar-nObama's nuclear deal with Iran. Mattis will advise Trump to keep the agreement, but to punish any future Iranian breaches of it with military retaliation. He will also propose tougher action against Iranian regional proxies, notably Hezbollah.

Third, unlike Trump, Mattis has no illusions about Putin. He has spoken out against the Russian invasion of Crimea and eastern Ukraine in 2014, and has implicitly criticised the liar-nObama administration for not being tough enough.

Finally, Mattis has a playbook for the Chinese, too. In his testimony before the Senate armed services committee in 2015, he stated that "efforts in the Pacific to keep positive relations with China" must be "paralleled by a policy to build the counterbalance if China continues to expand its bullying role in the South China Sea and elsewhere".

Theodore Roosevelt's mantra was to "speak softly and carry a big stick". Under liar-nObama, the US has lectured loudly and carried a limp twig. All that is about to change. Unlike Trump, Mattis speaks softly. And that big stick he carries is sharp, too. Take him literally. Take him very, very seriously.
 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1216/ferguson120616.php3
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Thurs/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 8, 2016 at 12:30pm
Merry Christmas
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
The Left's Gambles
by Thomas Sowell
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 Facebook's Transformation to 'Fakebook' 
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Paul Albaugh: It has been nearly a month since the election and most mainstream media outlets are still in angst over Donald Trump's defeat of liar-Hillary Clinton. As the election result proved, most Americans didn't buy into the grossly leftist bias of main stream media — what we have long called "dezinformatsiya," or deliberate misinformation — and many Americans chose to get their news from alternative sources via the Internet. In fact, Facebook became the go-to news source this election year. This has caused a new level of concern for leftist thought police. In fact, they have stooped to a new low, decrying the high volume of "fake news" that populated the pages of Facebook users' news feeds during the election, and now Facebook intends to make some changes.
          Earlier this year, Facebook came under fire for de-emphasizing news from conservative sources in its "trending" section, choosing instead to push news sources that Facebook wanted users to read. Conservatives were rightly upset with this revelation, but of course, Facebook, as a private company has the freedom to push whatever news stories it wants to be "trending." Equally, however, Facebook users have the freedom to deactivate their account or simply look to other news sources.
          Leftists always seek to suppress and discredit conservative news and thought, so it should come as no surprise that Facebook would choose to push stories from media outlets it favors.
          Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg has been hammered by leftists over the past several weeks for not doing a more thorough job of censoring "fake news" that supposedly helped propel Donald Trump to victory over liar-Hillary Clinton. In other words, Leftmedia news outlets deem any news — especially conservative news — that is outside of the leftwing, socialist umbrella as unworthy to read.
          But as National Review's Jim Geraghty quips, "[I]t's a little rich to hear the sudden media-wide panic over "fake news." Just ask Dan Rather about those memos. Or ask Brian Williams about his war stories. Or ask Rolling Stone about those ritualistic gang rapes on the University of Virginia's campus." And the list goes on.
          What to do to counter this pressure? Facebook is now gearing up to change how it pushes news to users. The company that was built by millions of Americans and billions of people worldwide is looking to use a tool that allows it to push curated articles from "valid sources" to the news feed of its users. The aim of this new tool is to cut back on the "fake news" in order to provide its users with "reliable and valuable content."
          Zuckerberg, who days after the election commented that he didn't think "fake news" contributed to Trump's success, has since changed his tune. He announced that there will be new policies coming forth to "help identify and crack down on the spread of fake news, including writing algorithms that can automatically detect false content, placing warning labels on news that may be fake, and allowing users to flag content they find suspicious on their own."
          Facebook's new feature is called "Collections" and it will function similar to Snapchat's Discover section, which "showcases" news stories, videos and other content by handpicked media outlets.
          These handpicked outlets are of course full of leftist drivel, and they hope to use Facebook as a means of pushing their content and their content only. Advertising on users' news feeds will no doubt increase as well, which will in turn bring revenues to both Facebook and the major media outlets.
          So instead of making any attempt to implement objective journalism that reports the facts, major media will be pimping social media to help spew propoganda. As discouraging as this may be to many readers who enjoy using Facebook and other social media, the reality is that the leftist propaganda machines are simply taking things to the next level. Meanwhile, we in our humble shop and those who fight on our side will continue to relentlessly counter this horrible ideology with the message of Liberty.  ~The Patriot Post
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On liar-nObama’s Nod, Major Defense
Contractors Plan To Build Jets In India
by Ryan Pickrell
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{dailycaller.com} ~ The liar-nObama administration gave the defense industry the go-ahead on plans to build classic American fighter jets in India... With the support of the current administration, both Lockheed Martin and Boeing have been in talks with the Indian government to build the F-16 Fighting Falcon and the F/A-18 Super Hornet for the Indian Air Force in India, according to the Washington Post. The companies intend to move their production facilities to India. Lockheed may relocate its entire F-16 assembly line, moving manufacturing from Texas to India...What the heck is liar-nObama doing? What a jerk.  http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/06/on-obamas-nod-major-defense-contractors-plan-to-build-jets-in-india/
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Democrats Express Solidarity with Islamic
Extremists in Wake of Election
by JOHN ROSSOMANDO
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Democratic politicians eager to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community and speak against hate in the wake of the recent heated presidential election threw their support behind some of its most extreme elements... Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, together with local Democratic politicians from Northern Virginia, made this evident when they showed up at a Veterans Day event at the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va. Dar al-Hijrah stands in infamy as the mosque attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers and where the late Al-Qaida terrorist leader Anwar Awlaki served as an imam. A 2002 U.S. Customs and Border Protection database report obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) described Dar al-Hijrah as a "front for Hamas operatives in the  U.S." A 2007 report said the "mosque has been under numerous investigations for financing and providing aid and comfort to bad orgs and members."...  http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/democrats-express-solidarity-with-islamic-extremists-in-wake-of-election?f=must_reads
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France: Decomposing in Front of Our Eyes
by Yves Mamou
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ France will elect a new president in May 2017. Politicians are already campaigning and debating about deficits, welfare recipients, GDP growth, and so on, but they look like puppets disconnected from the real country... What is reality in France today? Violence. It is spreading. Not just terrorist attacks; pure gang violence. It instills a growing feeling of insecurity in hospitals, at schools, in the streets -- even in the police. The media does not dare to say that this violence is coming mainly from Muslim gangs -- "youths," as they call the in the French media, to avoid naming who they are. A climate of civil war, however, is spreading visibly in the police, schools, hospitals and politics...
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Jill Stein and liar-Hillary’s Recount Effort Just
Stopped in Michigan, Failing in Pennsylvania
by Kosar
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ Jill Stein and liar-Hillary Clinton’s shameful recount efforts are a fraud, and are wasting millions in taxpayer dollars. Now, states are finally becoming so frustrated with the legal process that they are rejecting recount requests!... The state of Michigan recount was just stopped, after the Michigan Court of Appeals agreed that Stein is not an “aggrieved candidate” and therefore the count must stop. This is because Stein received fewer than 1% of the vote, which made her statically irrelevant. In the meantime, the recount has been costing the state $12 million, despite any evidence of technical errors or fraud:...
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DHS: Hamas-Tied NJ Imam Must Prove
Why He Shouldn't Be Deported
by John Rossomando  
{investigativeproject.org} ~ Evidence being used against him in the Department of Homeland Security's effort to deport him is the product of torture and is not credible, a Hamas-connected imam testified Tuesday in a Newark, N.J. immigration court... Mohammad Qatanani is imam at the Islamic Center of Passaic County. Immigration officials have been fighting to deport him since 2006, alleging he failed to disclose connections with Hamas when he applied for permanent residency. When he came to the United States 10 years earlier, he claimed he had never been arrested or belonged to any terrorist groups. That history makes Qatanani subject to deportation, DHS says. Tuesday's hearing centered on Qatanani's October 1993 arrest and conviction by an Israeli military court on charges he provided support to Hamas. He claims Israeli authorities detained him and never charged him...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5723/dhs-hamas-tied-nj-imam-must-prove-why-he-shouldnt#
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The Left's Gambles
by Thomas Sowell
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{townhall.com} ~ Sometimes life forces us to make decisions, even when we don't have enough information to know how the decision will turn out. The risks may be even greater when people make decisions for other people. Yet there are some who are not only willing, but eager, to take decisions away from those who are directly affected.

Something as personal as what doctor we want to go to has been taken out of our hands by liar-nObamaCare. What job offer, at what pay rate, someone wants to accept has been taken out of their hands by minimum wage laws.

Sick people who are dying are prevented from trying a medication that has not yet completed all the long years of tests required by federal regulations -- even if the medication has been used for years in other countries without ill effects.

One by one, innumerable decisions have been taken out of the hands of those directly affected. This is not just something that has happened. It is a central part of the agenda of the political left, even though they describe what they are doing in terms of the bad things they claim to be preventing and the good things they claim to be creating.

Minimum wage laws are described as preventing workers from being "exploited" by employers who pay less than what third parties want them to pay. But would people accept wages that third parties don't like if there were better alternatives available?

This is an issue that is very personal to me. When I left home at the age of 17, going out into the world as a black high school dropout with very little experience and no skills, the minimum wage law had been rendered meaningless by ten years of inflation since the law was passed. In other words, there was no minimum wage law in effect, for all practical purposes.

It was far easier for me to find jobs then than it is for teenage black high school dropouts today. After the minimum wage was raised to keep up with inflation, for decades the unemployment rate for black male 17-year-olds never fell below TRIPLE what it was for me -- and in some years their unemployment rate was as much as five times what it was when I was a teenager.

Yet many people on the left were able to feel good about themselves for having prevented "exploitation" -- that is, wage rates less than what third parties would like to see. No employer in his right mind was going to pay me what third parties wanted paid, when I had nothing to contribute, except in the simplest jobs.

As for me, my options would have been welfare or crime, and welfare was a lot harder to get in those days. As it was, the ineffectiveness of the minimum wage law at that time allowed me time to acquire job skills that would enable me to move on to successively better jobs -- and eventually to complete my education. Most people who have minimum wage jobs do not stay at those jobs for life. The turnover rate among people who are flipping hamburgers was found by one study to be so high that those who have such jobs on New Year's Day are very unlikely to still be there at Christmas.

In short, the left has been gambling with other people's livelihoods -- and the left pays no price when that gamble fails.

It is the same story when the left prevents dying people from getting medications that have been used for years in other countries, without dire effects, but have not yet gotten through the long maze of federal "safety" regulations in the U.S.

People have died from such "safety." Police are dying from restrictions on them that keep criminals safe.

San Francisco is currently trying to impose more restrictions on the police, restrictions that will prevent them from shooting at a moving car, except under special conditions that they will have to think about when they have a split second to make a decision that can cost them their own lives. But the left will pay no price.

One of the most zealous crusades of the left has been to prevent law-abiding citizens from having guns, even though gun control laws have little or no effect on criminals who violate laws in general. You can read through reams of rhetoric from gun control advocates without encountering a single hard fact showing gun control laws reducing crime in general or murder in particular.

Such hard evidence as exists points in the opposite direction.

But the gun control gamble with other people's lives is undeterred. And the left still pays no price when they are wrong.

http://townhall.com/columnists/thomassowell/2016/12/06/the-lefts-gambles-n2255465?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 8, 2016 at 8:00am
Merry Christmas
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 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
The video France doesn’t want you to see
 by George F. Will
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Forget Fox News, Media Matters
declares war on new targets
by Bob Unruh
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{wnd.com} ~ Media Matters, the far-left organization that monitors media, was caught a few years ago promoting as fact the disputed claim that the White House talking points on the Benghazi attack were edited to preserve a criminal investigation...  Then it was caught fabricating quotes to smear a liar-Hillary Clinton critic, and later founder David Brock admitted his nonprofit organization defended liar-Clinton from political attack, apparently in defiance of federal requirements that nonprofits avoid taking sides. So when it announced it will “pivot” from its focus on Fox News and now attack “fake news,” no one expected it to begin  scrutinizing the work of David Muir, Diane Sawyer and George Stephanopoulos of ABC; John Berman and Mark Preston of CNN, Amy Chozik, Gail Collins and Jonathan Martin of the New York Times; and the like...  http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/forget-fox-news-media-matters-declares-war-on-new-targets/
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Dark Web Plot to Assassinate Trump and Pence
by Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ Most people have never heard of it. What is it? It would be the dark net. If you want drugs, the dark net is your place. IF you want to have sex with underage children, the Dark Net is your place... And if you want a President assassinated, it would appear that you can get that done as well. What is the Dark Net and what is its role in the planned assassination of Donald Trump and Mike Pence. http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/12/06/dark-web-plot-to-assassinate-trump-and-pence/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=dark-web-plot-to-assassinate-trump-and-pence
Would Reducing the US Corporate Tax
Rate Increase Employment in the United States?
by Martin Feldstein, Jason Furman & Betsey Stevenson
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{aei.org} ~ Reducing the corporate tax rate and changing the rules for taxing the foreign earnings of US corporations would have many favorable effects, including an increase of employment in the United States... First, a brief description of the current corporate tax arrangements. The federal government now imposes a statutory tax rate on corporate profits of 35 percent, the highest tax rate among all the industrial countries of the world. In addition, the individual states levy corporate tax rates that average 9 percent. Since that state tax is a deductible expense in calculating income subject to the federal corporate tax, the combined tax rate is approximately 40 percent. Profits that are paid out to shareholders as dividends are subject to an additional personal income tax at both the federal and state levels. The federal tax on dividends is now 20 percent, and the state taxes average about 5 percent. Profits that are not paid out increase the value of the corporation and are subject to capital gains tax when shareholders sell their shares...  http://www.aei.org/spotlight/would-cutting-the-corporate-tax-rate-significantly-increase-jobs-in-the-us/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign
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liar-nObama’s Deceitful, Deliberately
Misleading Claims On Terror Are
Dangerous And Irresponsible
by Caleb Howe
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Gary Mendoza, and his son Michael pay their respects
shooting victims in San Bernardino
{redstate.com} ~ As Jay pointed out last night, President liar-nObama in a speech on Tuesday made the ridiculous claim that he has overseen eight years without a foreign terror attack on American soil... and suggesting, as Democrats frequently incorrectly do, that this is because of him somehow. Whether he thinks it is from his bungling of every foreign policy incident, his refusal to recognize terror as a national security threat rather than a criminal act, his “JV team” idiocy, his pathetic Iran deal, or some other aspect of his term in office is not specified. Whatever reason they wrongly believe this stupid trope, it remains stupid and wrong... http://www.redstate.com/absentee/2016/12/07/president-obamas-deliberately-misleading-claims-terror-dangerous-irresponsible/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Michigan Appeals Court Order to Halt Recount
Sets Up Conflict with Federal Courts
by Kemberlee Kaye
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Failed Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein sued for a recount in Michigan. That suit has created tension between Michigan’s state government and the federal government... Tuesday evening, Michigan’s Court of Appeals ordered a halt to the recount, saying Stein was not an aggrieved candidate who would benefit from a recount. At the same time, the 6th Circuit ruled the must proceed... http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/12/michigan-appeals-court-order-to-halt-recount-sets-up-conflict-with-federal-courts/
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The video France doesn’t want you to see
by George F. Will
{nypost.com} ~ The word “inappropriate” is increasingly used inappropriately.

It is useful to describe departures from good manners or other social norms, such as wearing white after Labor Day or using the salad fork with the entree. But the adjective has become a splatter of verbal fudge, a weasel word falsely suggesting measured seriousness. Its misty imprecision does not disguise, it advertises, the user’s moral obtuseness.

A French court has demonstrated how “inappropriate” can be an all-purpose device of intellectual evasion and moral cowardice. The court said it is inappropriate to do something that might disturb people who killed their unborn babies for reasons that were, shall we say, inappropriate.

Prenatal genetic testing enables pregnant women to be apprised of a variety of problems with their unborn babies, including Down syndrome. It is a congenital condition resulting from a chromosomal defect that causes varying degrees of mental disability and some physical abnormalities, such as low muscle tone, small stature, flatness of the back of the head and an upward slant to the eyes. Within living memory, Down syndrome people were called Mongoloids.

Now they are included in the category called “special needs” people. What they most need is nothing special. It is for people to understand their aptitudes, and to therefore quit killing them in utero.

Down syndrome, although not common, is among the most common congenital anomalies at 49.7 per 100,000 births. In approximately 90 percent of instances when prenatal genetic testing reveals Down syndrome, the baby is aborted. Cleft lips or palates, which occur in 72.6 per 100,000 births, also can be diagnosed in utero and sometimes are the reason a baby is aborted.

In 2014, in conjunction with World Down Syndrome Day (March 21), the Global Down Syndrome Foundation prepared a two-minute video titled “Dear Future Mom” to assuage the anxieties of pregnant women who have learned that they are carrying a Down syndrome baby.

More than 7 million people have seen the video online in which one such woman says, “I’m scared: what kind of life will my child have?” Down syndrome children from many nations tell the woman that her child will hug, speak, go to school, tell you he loves you and “can be happy, just like I am — and you’ll be happy, too.”

The French state is not happy about this. The court has ruled that the video is — wait for it — “inappropriate” for French television. The court upheld a ruling in which the French Broadcasting Council banned the video as a commercial. The court said the video’s depiction of happy Down syndrome children is “likely to disturb the conscience of women who had lawfully made different personal life choices.”

So, what happens on campuses does not stay on campuses. There, in many nations, sensitivity bureaucracies have been enforcing the relatively new entitlement to be shielded from whatever might disturb, even inappropriate jokes.

And now this rapidly metastasizing right has come to this: A video that accurately communicates a truthful proposition — that Down syndrome people can be happy and give happiness — should be suppressed because some people might become ambivalent, or morally queasy, about having chosen to extinguish such lives because…

This is why the video giving facts about Down syndrome people is so subversive of the flaccid consensus among those who say aborting a baby is of no more moral significance than removing a tumor from a stomach. Pictures persuade.

Today’s improved prenatal sonograms make graphic the fact that the moving fingers and beating heart are not mere “fetal material.” They are a baby. Toymaker Fisher-Price, children’s apparel manufacturer OshKosh, McDonald’s and Target have featured Down syndrome children in ads that the French court would probably ban from television.

The court has said, in effect, that the lives of Down syndrome people — and by inescapable implication, the lives of many other disabled people — matter less than the serenity of people who have acted on one or more of three vicious principles: That the lives of the disabled are not worth living.

Or that the lives of the disabled are of negligible value next to the desire of parents to have a child who has no special, meaning inconvenient, needs.

Or that government should suppress the voices of Down syndrome children in order to guarantee other people’s right not to be disturbed by reminders that they have made lethal choices on the basis of one or both of the first two inappropriate principles.
 
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 7, 2016 at 5:00pm
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
The Democrats’ George W. Bush Problem
by Erick Erickson
 
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 Pearl Harbor 75 Years Later 
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In October 1940, President Franklin D. Roosevelt declared, "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." This was a reiteration of his earlier assertion, "We are keeping out of the wars that are going on in Europe and in Asia. ... Our opponents are seeking to frighten the country by telling people that the present administration is deliberately ... drifting into war. You know better than that."
          Roosevelt campaigned on neutrality in 1940. Roosevelt assured his constituents, "I give ... to the people of this country this most solemn assurance: There is no secret treaty, no secret obligation, no secret commitment, no secret understanding in any shape or form, direct or indirect, with any other government, or any other nation in any part of the world, to involve this nation in any war."
          Unfortunately, Germany's Führer Adolf Hitler and Japan's Prime Minister Hideki Tojo didn't cooperate.
          On December 7, 1941, 75 years ago today, 353 Japanese planes attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, killing 2,390 American servicemen and civilians and wounding 1,282. The attack sank or damaged eight battleships, three cruisers, three destroyers and one minelayer and destroyed 188 aircraft. It took four years and the full military-industrial capability of the United States to defeat Japan. There was no more devastating surprise attack on the United States until 9/11.
          After the attack, Roosevelt stated: "December 7, 1941 — a date which will live in infamy — the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. ... Always will we remember the character of the onslaught against us. No matter how long it may take us to overcome this premeditated invasion, the American people in their righteous might, will win through to absolute victory. ... With confidence in our armed forces, with the unbounded determination of our people, we will gain the inevitable triumph — so help us God."
          Historian Victor Davis Hanson writes, "After Pearl Harbor, the United States went into a rearmament frenzy the likes of which had never been seen in history. America produced more airplanes and ships than all World War II powers combined. The U.S. military grew to 12 million soldiers. American military leadership in the Pacific — led by Admirals William Halsey Jr., Chester Nimitz and Raymond Spruance, along with Generals Curtis LeMay and Douglas MacArthur — proved far more skilled than their Japanese counterparts. And the American soldier, sailor, airman and Marine, after a bruising learning experience in early 1942, proved every bit as ferocious as veteran Japanese fighters."
          Much has happened since the 74th anniversary of this attack. In May, Barack liar-nObama became the first American president to visit Hiroshima, where he offered a not-quite-apology for the U.S. having dropped two atomic bombs to end World War II. He also pushed again for a nuclear-free world. Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will reciprocate by becoming the first Japanese leader to visit Pearl Harbor later this month while liar-nObama vacations in Hawaii. Japan and the U.S. are, of course, now close allies, so in a way these visits put to rest old grievances. Let's hope that's truly what happens.
          It is with honor and respect for those who died or suffered terrible injuries that Sunday morning that we should never again fall into the slumber that allowed such a tragedy as Pearl Harbor — or the attack on Sept. 11, 2001 — again.  ~The Patriot Post
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Domestic Terrorist Camps Claim Trump
Election A Signal Of End Times
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Ryan Mauro of the Clarion Project joined Stuart Varney for a discussion of a terrorist organization operating inside the United States... Somehow, despite Mauro and his group having previously published videos of the group, Muslims of America and their training camps, they still are operating multiple training facilities under the radar. Although many Americans are aware of the groups existence, many more are not. Mauro’s group has been quite active in attempting to raise the level of awareness for many years. The group has had one of their camps shut down in Colorado in 1992 as the result of an investigation following a terror attack, but the other locations are still fully operational. Mauro says that in addition to their standard terrorist training camp operation, Clarion Project has now obtained breaking news that the group has modified their goals and purpose following the election of Donald Trump. Now, according to Mauro, they make the claims that their end times prophecies are coming together for them. They recognize Mr. Trump as being part of a satanic Jewish conspiracy and they are now actively making preparations for their camps to be raided by federal or other authorities and to fight back...
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How Trump will and won’t transform
the Supreme Court
by Betsy McCaughey
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{aim.org} ~ The battle lines are forming over Donald Trump’s anticipated Supreme Court nominee. A conservative advocacy group is running TV ads urging Trump to appoint a justice in the mold of the late Antonin Scalia... New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer fires back that Democrats will try to block any nominee who isn’t “mainstream.” Trouble is, anybody who disputes the Democrats’ left-wing definition of the Constitution as a malleable “living” document is outside their mainstream. Meanwhile, pro-choice groups are panicked about losing abortion “rights.” For now, it’s much ado about nothing. No matter whom Trump appoints this time, there are already five pro-choice justices on the court, counting Justice Anthony Kennedy. It would take a second Trump appointment to tilt the court the other way...  http://www.aim.org/guest-column/how-trump-will-and-wont-transform-the-supreme-court/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email120616&utm_medium=email
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liar-nObama Pentagon Dept. Deceived Congress,
Hid Study Exposing $125B in Waste
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{libertyheadlines.com} ~ Senior defense officials suppressed a study documenting $125 billion worth of administrative waste at the Pentagon out of fears that Congress would use its findings to cut the defense budget, the Washington Post reported late Monday... The report, which was issued in January 2015 by the advisory Defense Business Board (DBB), called for a series of reforms that would have saved the department $125 billion over the next five years. Among its other findings, the report showed that the Defense Department was paying just over 1 million contractors, civilian employees and uniformed personnel to fill back-office jobs. That number nearly matches the amount of active duty troops — 1.3 million, the lowest since 1940...
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Yes: Havens for Alien Criminals Should
Lose Federal Funding
by Han von Spakovsky
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{theacru.org} ~ President-elect Donald Trump has promised to do what no prior administration has done: end sanctuary cities. Thank goodness... The federal government should crack down on cities that violate federal immigration law. In the process of flouting the law, these cities wind up creating havens for criminal predators who murder, rape, molest, rob and otherwise victimize law-abiding residents. Sanctuary policies ban local officials, particularly law enforcement personnel, from contacting the Department of Homeland Security about illegal aliens who have been arrested, detained or otherwise stopped...  http://www.theacru.org/yes-havens-for-alien-criminals-should-lose-federal-funding/
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Col. Andrew Wood: U.S. Rescue Team Was on Its Way to Benghazi, But Ordered To Turn Back
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ The evidence is overwhelming that the United States had several rescue teams ready to go during the 2012 Benghazi attacks, but someone — possibly the president himself — prevented them from acting... So said Emmy Award-winning journalist Sharyl Attkisson to talk show host Steve Malzberg in an interview on Wednesday. This week on her show, “Full Measure,” Attkisson looked into the aborted rescue mission in an in-depth two-part report, “Rescue Interrupted.” She spoke with a Green Beret commander who told her that there were actually Special Forces on their way to Benghazi who were turned back. Col. Andrew Wood had once commanded a Special Forces anti-terrorism team protecting Ambassador Chis Stevens and other diplomats in Libya. In October of 2012, Woods told Congress that one month before the attacks in Benghazi, his team had been removed from Libya by the liar-nObama administration, despite the numerous warnings of impending terrorist attacks. Wood told Attkisson that Special Forces the ones mentioned in the “spinning up” email from Jeremy Bash were on their way to Benghazi, but were ordered to turn back...  http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/12/06/col-andrew-wood-u-s-rescue-team-way-benghazi-ordered-turn-back/

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The Democrats’ George W. Bush Problem
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ Historically, it is a very rare event for a President’s party to hold on to the White House for three terms. Martin Van Buren succeeded Andrew Jackson after Jackson’s two terms. George H. W. Bush succeeded Ronald Reagan after Reagan’s two terms. Both served only one term after people realized they were their own men instead of deep reflections of the popular men who came before them. Both also dealt with economic downturns and did not have the personal popularity to withstand a turn of public sentiment.

Given that only two Vice Presidents in American history were able to survive an election after the two terms of their popular predecessor, and in both cases were subsequently defeated, it is no wonder Joe loose lips-Biden did not run for President of the United States. The odds would have been against him. But even for liar-Hillary Clinton, after World War II, the ability of either party to hold the White House for more than two consecutive terms borders on being the jackalope of American politics. It has only happened once.

What has happened twice since World War II, however, is something now playing out in spectacular fashion. A President chose a Vice President who decided not to turn for the presidency himself. Consequently, the party jumped back in history and replaced the President with the candidate he beat eight years previously. The party had to refight many of the same fights it had eight years ago, the elders of the party settled on different solutions this time, the base of the party was unhappy and sought to drag out the fight to no avail, then the new nominee could not run fully on the legacy of the existing President, but also could not fully walk away from that legacy. The result was not just defeat, but a party thrown into civil war largely over the legacy of the outgoing President.

While that fact pattern is the pattern of the 2016 Presidential election, it is also the pattern of the 2008 Presidential election. Dick Cheney did not run for President after George W. Bush. Consequently, the incumbent President did not make the sorts of political calculations necessary to ensure his own party sided with his version of the party. Without having to worry about his Vice President’s chances, the President’s actions were not tempered with a desire to help his Vice President. The voters of his party were denied the ability to affirm or reject Bush’s legacy by their affirming or rejecting Dick Cheney as Vice President.

The great consequence of this was the Republican Party going back to 2000, siding with John McCain, and refighting all the fights that led to Bush securing the 2000 nomination, but this time the party sided with McCain. It was a disaster. The base was put off by the nominee they had rejected in 2000. The party leadership seemed to accommodate a man much of the party viewed as an obstacle to President Bush’s policies. The result was a party that wandered the political wilderness for eight years, becoming increasingly angry, until it ultimately had a race wherein the legacy of George W. Bush could be put to pasture. His brother was rejected as his proxy and Donald Trump, who explicitly ran against George Bush’s policies, became the nominee.

As Trump was on the way to becoming the Republican nominee, the Democrats were fighting as the Republicans had fought. They nominated the woman Barack liar-nObama had beaten in 2008. They refought many of the same issues the base of the Democratic Party thought had been put to bed. The party base revolted unsuccessfully with Bernie Sanders as party leaders seemed to coalesce and stack the deck in favor of the loser from 2008. The result is a party now at war with itself headed into the political wilderness.

The only fundamental difference between the two races is that George W. Bush left with high unpopularity while Barack liar-nObama remains popular. But the parties bases were less than excited to embrace the person they had repudiated eight years before and they resisted unity.

With both Martin Van Buren and George H. W. Bush, the Vice Presidents were able to win a third term for their parties by being a proxy for the incumbent. liar-Hillary Clinton could never serve in that role. Neither could John McCain. Only Joe loose lips-Biden and Dick Cheney could have served as proxy. Given Barack liar-nObama’s popularity, Joe loose lips-Biden really had a chance. In the future, if a party wants to legitimately fight for a third term in the White House, they will need a sense of history. The President must fill the Vice President’s office with someone willing to serve as a third term proxy and unapologetic defender of the incumbent’s legacy. Otherwise, the party will descend into chaos.

The Democrats, moving forward, need to note one more bit of history. In 2010, Republicans swept back into power in Congress. They took this to mean 2008 had been a fluke. They put off further changes to the party and reinstalled as the faces of the party the very men the voters had rejected in 2006 and 2008. They had completely misread the election as the Democrats appear to be doing now. Democrats consoling themselves that racism lost them this election will only show increasing antipathy to the liar-nObama voters who lined up behind Trump in 2016.

Republicans had one great advantage after their 2008 loss that Democrats do not have. Republicans had a media hostile to them that challenged them and forced them to come to terms with their defeat. Democrats will only have a self-affirming media nodding vigorously that the nation has been ceded to bigots, racists, and rubes.

http://theresurgent.com/the-democrats-george-w-bush-problem/

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Wed/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 7, 2016 at 12:30pm
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
The 'Fixer Uppers': Who are these monsters?
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 by Michael Brown
 
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 Trump, Carrier and Cronyism 
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Robin Smith: During the presidential campaign, Donald Trump became the voice of the forgotten working class. He clearly declared that the movement of American companies to Mexico and China, taking American jobs with them, was unacceptable, and he pledged to reduce corporate taxes and excessive regulation to aid U.S. workers in keeping their jobs. So it was no surprise that even before taking office Trump renegotiated a deal with Carrier, an Indiana-based subsidiary of United Technologies, to keep the company from moving 1,000 jobs to Mexico. Trump leveraged this event as a major campaign promise made and kept even before the Inaugural.
          As for the details, the state of Indiana provided Carrier with a decade's worth of tax incentives valued at $7 million. It was mighty handy to have VP-elect Mike Pence still serving as governor of the Hoosier state to facilitate such an incentive package. Generally absent from mainstream discussions, however, was the leverage that Trump-Pence had with parent company United Technologies. As a recipient of about $10 billion in subsidies to export aircraft engines via the controversial Export-Import Bank, the government-run corporation that finances and insures foreign purchases, United Technologies likely understood that the air conditioning bone might be connected to the aerospace bone in Trump's book of anatomy.
          The Carrier deal has opened the door for a healthy discussion on America's tax policy and two questions that must be answered: Are America's economic markets actually free? Is global trade free and fair?
          Before tackling those questions, let's stipulate that America's tax policies are generally unfavorable for business. The federal corporate tax rate is 35% (with another average 4% tacked on by states and local governments), making it the world's third highest. The global average is 22.5%, and all of our major competitors, from China to Germany to the UK, have rates between 20% and 30%. Ireland's is just 12.5%. Team Trump-Pence has promised to reduce America's corporate tax rate to 15%.
          Now, to those two questions about free and fair markets and trade. Unfortunately, much of the criticism of Trump's Carrier deal is valid. Cronyism is still cronyism when Trump does it.
          But any criticism of Trump's deal should likewise be dealt to each and every state for similar deals. The incentives offered by the state of Indiana to Carrier are really no different from favors dealt by any other state, or sometimes by the federal government (Solyndra, anyone?). Incentives range from educational grants for workforce development and retraining to childcare to site development to actual tax credits per job created to the subsidized price of energy. That's how our system works. It's not ideal, but Trump's only playing the same game.
          According to Good Jobs First, which tracks corporate deals and state incentive packages, for the last two decades, New York State has awarded in excess of $25 billion to businesses through more than 77,000 subsidies. Louisiana follows second in the ranking with $16 billion in subsidies in just over 8,200 awards. The top 10 is rounded out with Michigan, Washington, New Jersey, Indiana, Kentucky, Texas, Oregon and Missouri. But every single state and the District of Columbia incentivizes companies with taxpayer-funded deals.
          What about the question regarding trade. Is the global trade market free and fair?
          Did you know that 148 of America's trading partners have tariffs by other names, such as a value-added tax (VAT) or goods and service tax, on their nation's imports ranging from 2% to 27%? So while America generally refuses to apply tariffs to imports to meet the terms of trade deals, American products are taxed by our competitors. Is that fair?
         It's unfortunate that Trump threatened to use tariffs against American companies if they move jobs offshore. It could be that his threat will keep jobs here, but if it doesn't and he carries through, it'll just be a tax on American consumers.
          Did you know that in China, more than $15 trillion in assets is produced by 150,000 state-owned enterprises (SOE) employing more than 30 million Chinese citizens? These SOE's — or "zombie corporations" — have one boss: the Communist Chinese government. If market share is being lost, forced mergers occur. If overhead increases, wages are manipulated, as is their currency. The Chinese not only ignore intellectual property of competitors, once stolen, their communist companies reproduce at a fraction of the cost and send back to America. Is this free or fair trade?
          Within America, our governments at the local, state and federal level have interfered with free markets. That's the current system.
          Within the realm of globalism and corporatism, trade deals have been crafted to operate on a sliding scale of variants that permit some to avoid any types of regulations or standards that match those applied within the U.S. That's the current system.
          Trump has announced to the world that these systems are going to be used to protect American jobs first as reforms occur to boost the economy for Americans, not the citizens of the world. Principled policy always looks good on paper, but in America and internationally, it's not practiced. Trump promised to "drain the swamp" and to overturn the status quo. If Carrier's any indication, he's not off to a great start. Then again, the Americans who kept their jobs and anybody who's rooting for other Americans to keep theirs won't mind seeing Trump work the art of the deal.    ~The Patriot Post
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liar-nObama Pushes $44 Billion
in Midnight Regulations
by Tim Brown
{freedomoutpost.com} ~ Barack Hussein liar-nObama Sobarkah Soetoro is clearly a dangerous man in these final days of his second term. While the administration is looking to advance $75 billion worth of new regulations (consider it unconstitutional restrictions on liberty)... $44 billion of those regulations were "midnight" regulations that will be published sometime after Election Day and prior to liar-nObama's last day in office, according to a report. The American Action Forum (AAF) compiled a list of 40 rules scheduled to be published in the Federal Register since November 2016. "The $75 billion estimate contains roughly 40 monetized figures out of what will be hundreds of potential final rules," Sam Batkins, AAF's director of regulatory policy, wrote in a report on potential midnight regulations...  http://freedomoutpost.com/obama-pushes-44-billion-in-midnight-regulations/
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Dobbs – Media Distraught Trump Disobeyed
Jimmy Carter, Talked To Taiwan
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs has a few thoughts “on our President-elect’s brilliant campaign to upset and upend the calcified orthodoxy of the political establishment in Washington and to tick off leaders of the People’s Republic of  China at the same time... And all he had to do was just pick up the phone and start talking with the President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen.” Dobbs notes, “Donald Trump doesn’t even take office for another 45 more days but he’s already making history, from his victory to making deals with businesses like Carrier and now talking with Taiwan’s president, the first time a US leader has spoken directly with Taiwan’s leadership in 35 years.” “The left-wing national media slamming Trump for daring to do such an outrageous thing,” Dobbs observes, ” the daffy, utterly laughable left of the media having itself quite a little fit. The New York Times all snarky and complaining in their articles today but without an original, sound thought about how did such rigidity in American thinking ever form in the first place.”...  http://rickwells.us/dobbs-media-distraught-trump-disobeyed-jimmy-carter-talked-taiwan/
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Trump handed 'trigger' to end sanctuary cities
by Leo Hohmann
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300 sanctuary cities and counties in the U.S.
{wnd.com} ~ Rep. John Culberson, R-Texas, says he’s got a plan already in place that will likely eliminate sanctuary cities on Day 1 of the Trump administration... At least 14 cities have spoken out defiantly in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump’s surprise victory last month, saying they will continue to offer sanctuary to illegal criminal aliens regardless of Trump’s attempts to end the sanctuaries, Culberson says. But Culberson says the power of the purse is something Congress has at its disposal, and he intends to help Trump shut off the flow of federal dollars to sanctuary cities...  http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/trump-handed-trigger-to-end-sanctuary-cities/
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The West's Politically Correct Dictatorship
by Giulio Meotti
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The brave work of the artist Mimsy, satirizing the brutality of ISIS
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ It might look like a golden age for free speech: more than a billion tweets, Facebook posts and blogs every day. But beneath this surface, freedom of expression is dramatically retreating... Students at the City University of London, home to one of Britain's most respected schools of journalism, voted to ban three newspapers from its campus: The Sun, Daily Mail and Express. Their "crime", according to the approved motion, is to have published stories against migrants, "Islamophobic" articles, and "scapegoating the working classes that they so proudly claim to represent." City University, supposedly a place dedicated to openness and questioning, became the first Western educational institution to vote for censorship, and ban "right wing newspapers." The filmmaker David Cronenberg called this self-censorship, after the massacre at Charlie Hebdo: "a weird, serpentine political correctness." It is one of the most lethal ideological poisons of the 21st century. It is not only closed-minded and ridiculous, it makes us blind to the radical Islam that is undermining our mental and cultural defenses...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/9491/politically-correct-dictatorship
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Trump May Release Iran
Nuke Deal Docs liar-nObama Hid...
by Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ According to the Daily Beast the private files outlining hidden agreements made as part of the Iran nuke deal may be released in one of President Trump’s first actions in office... Senior officials who will be part of the Trump administration are already discussing what so-far-unseen information about the Iran agreement they will be able to make public after January, according to an individual who has participated in those conversations. Last month Bloomberg View reported the Trump team was looking at declassifying and releasing potentially “embarrassing” Iran nuke deal-related documents that the liar-nObama administration had made classified, including documents linking Iran to Sunni terror groups and outlining cash transfers to Iran...  http://lidblog.com/iran-nuke-deal-docs/
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The 'Fixer Uppers': Who are these monsters?
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 by Michael Brown
{wnd.com} ~ For years I have said that gay activists and their allies would overplay their hand and that their bullying would backfire. It is happening today in front of our eyes as a Christian couple, Chip and Joanna Gaines, who recently graced the cover of People magazine, is now being attacked simply for attending a Christian church. Oh, the thought of it!

Yes, if you are a public figure and you attend a church that preaches that marriage is the union of one man and one woman and you actually believe that homosexuals can be changed by the power of the gospel, you should be shamed, ridiculed and perhaps even fired.

That is the obvious offshoot of BuzzFeed’s recent article that carried the headline, “Chip And Joanna Gaines’ Church Is Firmly Against Same-Sex Marriage.” How terrible!

Chip and Joanna attend a church that actually believes what the Bible says? They’re part of a congregation that preaches what the church has taught for 2,000 years? Worse still, “Their pastor considers homosexuality to be a ‘sin’ caused by abuse,” although, “whether the ‘Fixer Upper’ couple agrees is unclear.” Horror of all horrors. What kind of monsters are these two?

And note that the Gaines’ crime was not making a public statement against homosexuality, as Duck Dynasty’s Phil Robertson did, after which he was promptly (albeit briefly) suspended by A&E.

Their crime was not making ministry-related statements against abortion and homosexual practice, as the Benham Brothers did, because of which they were promptly fired by HGTV after that network was bullied by radical left activists.

Their crime was not preaching in their own church that homosexuality was a sin, as Dr. Eric Walsh did, because of which he was fired by the state of Georgia as public health director.

Their crime was not writing a book that made passing, negative reference to homosexual practice as did Kelvin Cochran, because of which he was fired by the city of Atlanta as fire chief.

Their crime was not penning an op-ed piece in a local newspaper, taking respectful issue with the notion that gay is the new black, as Crystal Dixon did, because of which she was fired as associate vice president of human resources at the University of Toledo.

Their crime was not even signing a petition after a church service that called for a popular vote on same-sex “marriage” in the state of Maryland rather than letting legislators decide this, as Dr. Angela McCaskill did, because of which she was placed on leave by Gallaudet University in Washington, D.C., where she served as associate provost of diversity and inclusion a position, by the way, which made no reference to sexual issues in its description.

No, the crime of Chip and Joanna Gaines was simply that they attend a gospel-preaching church. How much further will these witch hunts go?

The Gaines and their representatives have not even issued a statement as to their own beliefs if they do, I sure hope they affirm what their church teaches, nor has there ever been the slightest hint that anything they said on or off the show has been offensive, mean-spirited, or hateful. Still, the very fact that they are popular, conservative Christians has put a target on their backs.

I repeat: This kind of shaming and bullying will backfire, and it will backfire sooner rather than later.

That’s why the left-leaning Washington Post already published an article by Brandon Ambrosino, himself open and proudly gay, taking issue with the BuzzFeed article and noting that almost 40 percent of Americans are “not on board” with same-sex “marriage.” In response to this Ambrosino asks, “Is the suggestion here [meaning, on BuzzFeed] that 40 percent of Americans are unemployable because of their religious convictions on marriage? That the companies that employ them deserve to be boycotted until they yield to the other side of the debate – a side, we should note, that is only slightly larger than the one being shouted down?”

Under no circumstances can gay activists and their allies wave the flag of Equality, Diversity and Tolerance when it comes to the BuzzFeed article. No, this is an overt and explicit attack on equality, diversity and tolerance and is, itself, an example of bigotry and intolerance of the highest order.

So, here’s a word of wisdom for BuzzFeed and those applauding their attack on Chip and Joanna Gaines: The Bible will be here long after you are gone, and the words of Moses, Jesus and Paul will be quoted for generations to come, while articles like the current hit piece on Chip and Joanna will be here today and gone tomorrow.

Put another way, as Bible-believing followers of Jesus, we’re not backing down or cowering in a corner or going underground. We’re here to stay, we are not ashamed, and the more you attack us, the stronger we become.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/the-fixer-uppers-who-are-these-monsters/
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 7, 2016 at 7:30am
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
by Tom McLaughlin
 
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 Top Headlines 
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As Trump endeavors to stop flow of jobs overseas, liar-nObama proposes deal to make fighter jets in India. (The Washington Post)
liar-nObama administrators at Pentagon bury study exposing $125 billion in bureaucratic waste. (Fox News)
liar-nObama wishes America a Happy Holidays with $44 billion in midnight regulations. (Washington Free Beacon)
UN "Human Rights" Council commemorates murderous dictator Fidel Castro. (CNS News)
Joe loose lips-Biden jokes about a 2020 presidential run. He must be kicking himself for not running this year. (The Wall Street Journal)
Al Gore just had "an extremely interesting conversation" with Trump on climate change — whatever that means. (The Washington Post)
North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory concedes election, though the state legislature remains strongly conservative. (Fox News)
Fake news on "settled" science: A widely reported study on the longevity of homosexuals was faked. (National Review)
The murder trial against North Charleston police officer Michael Slager ends in a mistrial. But the case isn't over. (ABC News)
Policy: Five things Ben Carson can do right away to improve public housing and reduce government dependency. (City Journal)
Policy: Fracking-contaminated groundwater: The myth that failed. (Real Clear Energy) ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46294
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Thomas Sowell: "Something as personal as what doctor we want to go to has been taken out of our hands by liar-nObamaCare. What job offer, at what pay rate, someone wants to accept has been taken out of their hands by minimum wage laws. Sick people who are dying are prevented from trying a medication that has not yet completed all the long years of tests required by federal regulations — even if the medication has been used for years in other countries without ill effects. One by one, innumerable decisions have been taken out of the hands of those directly affected. This is not just something that has happened. It is a central part of the agenda of the political left, even though they describe what they are doing in terms of the bad things they claim to be preventing and the good things they claim to be creating. ... In short, the left has been gambling with other people's livelihoods — and the left pays no price when that gamble fails."   ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46294
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BDS activist stopped at Ben-Gurion Airport
by Uzi Baruch
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Dr. Isabel Phiri, Associate General Secretary for the World Council of Churches for Public Witness and Diakonia, serving the poor and oppressed, was blocked on Monday from entering Israel after landing at Ben-Gurion Airport with a tourist visa... The World Council of Churches (WCC) established several highly biased and politicized groups including the Ecumenical Accompaniment Program in Palestine and Israel (EAPPI), which brings activists to Israel to gather images and stories of Israeli Jews oppressing Palestinians. Through various organizations and campaigns, the WCC promotes BDS and demonizes Israel for its “apartheid,” “collective punishment,” “war crimes” against Palestinians, and “illegal occupation of Palestinian lands.” After consultations between the Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, the Immigration Authority, and the Strategic Affairs Ministry, Deri decided to refuse entry to Phiri...  http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221311
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The ADL's new bedfellows
by CAROLINE GLICK
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ In an interview this week with the Australian media, Jordan's King Abdullah became the latest Arab leader to express hope that President-elect Donald Trump and his team will lead the world's to date failed fight against jihadist Islam... Like his counterparts in Egypt and Saudi Arabia, Abdullah effectively ruled out the possibility that President Barack liar-nObama will take any constructive steps to defeat the forces of global jihad in his last months in power. Speaking of the humanitarian disaster in Aleppo for instance, Abdullah said, "I don't think there's much we can do until the new administration is in place and a strategy is formulated." Egyptian President Abdel Fatah a-Sisi was among the first Arab leaders to welcome Trump's victory. Sisi has been largely shunned by the liar-nObama administration. President Barack liar-nObama supported the Muslim Brotherhood regime that Sisi and the Egyptian military overthrew in 2013... http://www.familysecuritymatters.org/publications/detail/the-adls-new-bedfellows?f=must_reads
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ABC, NBC Knock Trump for Taiwan Call,
Ignore Weapon Sales Under Obama
by Nicholas Fondacaro
{newsbusters.org} ~ The liberal media was still up in arms Monday night over President-Elect Donald Trump accepting a congratulatory phone call from the president of the island of Taiwan... “Already, Trump has caused quite a stir on the world stage,” whined ABC’s Jon Karl on World News Tonight, “Ruffling China’s feathers by talking to the president Taiwan.” While chastising the president-elect for his phone call and selected defense tweets, they failed to mention the nearly two billion dollars in arms sales to Taiwan under President Barack liar-nObama. The ABC reporter complained that Trump was not seeking advice from the current administration on how to deal with foreign countries. “And Trump has held many other calls with foreign leaders, but none of them with experts who could brief him on sensitive diplomacy,” Karl stated, “The current secretary of state all but begging Trump to hear them out.”...  http://www.newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/nicholas-fondacaro/2016/12/05/abc-nbc-knock-trump-taiwan-call-ignore-weapon-sales-under?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWTJFM1pERmpOamM0WkRReiIsInQiOiJwMjI3SXdsTFQ2ekg0emo3UE1oNGR2N2VlaGxPRnpMelpUN3B4UFBiU1pZMElhQ0dLZDV0b2xsakV3WDdNNFp5OStTTkgyQ1wvRUZsQytudHpXUU1KaHd0VHNUYzArcVNiNGNVNzNtZkpjZ2c9In0%3D
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Dobbs – Bills To Stop Refugee Programs
Stalled By Ryan, Trump Is Coming
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Rep Brian Babin (R-TX) has two bills that he’s trying to get passed through the House, an effort that has been ongoing for him for about a year and a half. Both deal with the problems of an easily exploited “refugee” program that is designed to fail and putting Americans at great risk... Rep Babin says, “We cannot afford to be so willfully blind and wind up in the same situation that Western Europe is in. One of the bills puts an immediate stop to the refugee program completely until Congress can reclaim the responsibility. The second version stops the program from the radical terrorist hotspots  the other pauses refugees from terrorist nations. Babin provides a lot of details but Lou Dobbs one question Rep Babin can’t provide an answer to. He asks, “What I don’t understand and what I’m asking is, why in the world won’t Ryan get behind it?” Rep Babin says he’s been acting as a surrogate speaker for President-elect Trump and once he comes into power, expects this “refugee” issue to have a pile-driver behind it...
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Why Was Al Gore Peddling His Climate
Hoax To Trump And Ivanka?
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ On the surface this is not good news. It is being reported, albeit by MSNBC, but by other MSM outlets as well, that Al Gore, the most dishonest scam artist this side of George Soros and Hussein liar-nObama, spent an hour and a half trying to convince President-elect Trump to buy into his climate hoax... Worse yet, Trump’s daughter Ivanka supposedly has a desire to make imposing this garbage on the people of America and the world “one of her signature issues in the next four years.” The fact that he was making a sales call does not necessarily mean we are standing up to our knees in dark green doo-doo, but that is a long time to spend on something that is so clearly a scam. While there’s no denying Gore was in the building and there were folks tracking how much time he spent upstairs, he may not have been as convincing as he thinks he was in peddling his load of crap. According to the reporter, Gore wants to make the argument that going green is good for business...  http://rickwells.us/why-al-gore-peddling-climate-hoax-trump-ivanka/
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Oh Little Town of Bethlehem
by Tom McLaughlin
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Pope Francis prays at Bethlehem wall. Message?
 
{tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~“Too much history, not enough geography.” That was how a veteran of the 1948 Israeli War for Independence described Israel. His name was Dan and he came to our house for dinner about ten years ago in the company of some old friends from San Francisco. My wife and I later toured Israel in May, 2007 and I can attest to Dan’s summation. It doesn't take long to drive the length and breadth of that tiny nation. There’s a definite lack of geography and every bit of it is contested almost constantly. In Jerusalem, it’s not unusual to see Jewish civilians walking around with automatic rifles slung over their shoulders while pushing a baby carriage. They’re in a constant state of war. Israel is located at what has been a crossroads between empires for millennia — throughout recorded history, actually.
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Last month, Italian journalist Giulio Meotti wrote a short piece objecting to how the Vatican advertises tours of “Palestine,” or “The Holy Land,” but not tours of “Israel.” It seems the Vatican has as much trouble saying “Israel” as soon-to-be-former President liar-nObama has saying, “Radical Muslim Terrorism.” Israel is a constant victim of radical Muslim terrorism — hence the profusion of AR-15s I saw there — and I’m thinking my church and my president are both refusing to recognize what is quite obvious to anyone visiting Israel.
“Catholic pilgrims spend virtually all their time visiting holy sites in Palestinian-run territory,” wrote Meotti, “staying in Palestinian Arab hotels and listening to Palestinian Arab tour guides. As a result, these pilgrims return filled with hatred towards Israel.”
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Bus advertisement in Rome
 
That reads true because it’s exactly what our tour was like. We had a Palestinian guide and bus driver who were Christians from Bethlehem. In spite of the harassment Palestinian Christians were receiving from Palestinian Muslims, however, our guides were loyal to the Muslim view of things in that troubled land. For example, three times our bus passed the Battle of Hattin site in northern Israel at which Saladin defeated a Crusader army in 1187. Each time, our guide proudly described how Saladin outsmarted the Christians and slaughtered them. I was dismayed, but none of the other Mainers on our tour were disturbed by it.
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Notre Dame Guest House in Jerusalem
 
Our first hotel was the Vatican-owned Notre Dame Guest House just outside the New Gate to the Old City of Jerusalem. Outside it, I could see bullet holes from battles during 1967’s Six-day  War during which Israel took control over Jerusalem for the first time since the Revolt of the Maccabees in 164 BC. The entire hotel staff was Palestinian and I was awakened by a Muslim call to prayer broadcast from a minaret just inside the Old City wall.
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Inside the Church of The Nativity in Bethlehem
 
From there, we traveled to nearby Bethlehem’s Church of the Nativity — the oldest church in Christendom. Five years before, it had been seized by about Muslim terrorists who held hostages for 39 days, until an agreement allowed them to leave for Gaza. While we were there, Hamas terrorists in Gaza were fighting other terrorists from the Palestinian Authority — Yasser Arafat’s organization. Bethlehem was peaceful when Jesus Christ was born there during the Roman occupation, but it was relatively brief respite.
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Your's Truly outside Seven Arches Hotel
 
At the end of our tour we stayed at the Seven Arches Hotel in East Jerusalem overlooking the Temple Mount and Dome of the Rock, but were instructed not to venture outside the hotel because it wasn't safe for Americans. This was the neighborhood where they danced in the streets following the September 11th attack.

Celebrating in East Jerusalem 9/11/01
I was surprised to learn that populations of both Bethlehem and Nazareth are majority Arab Muslim. When I asked why the Palestinian Christian populations of Nazareth and Bethlehem were leaving after 2000 years, both the bus driver and the guide said it was because they were looking for better jobs in America. I knew different, but neither would acknowledge that much of the migration is because of severe Muslim harassment. I saw posters of Yasser Arafat on buildings and each time we passed through an Israeli checkpoint going into and out of the West Bank they complained. Neither, however, would answer my questions about the war then raging between Hamas and the Palestinian authority even though we had to cancel our trip to Hebron’s tomb of Abraham because of it.
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Yasser Arafat poster in Bethlehem
Finally, they said we would go to a dinner in Bethlehem at which the police chief and other municipal officials would be present and I could get answers to my questions. The restaurant was right beside the tall, Israeli-built, black wall. As we got in, however, the music was so loud conversation was impossible. Instead, we had to watch a solo dance performance by a Palestinian  using his Yasser Arafat keffiyah as a prop. I could go on, but yeah, Meotti got it about right.
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 6, 2016 at 5:00pm
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Ohio State Stabbing and the Rise of
Immigrant-Related Terrorism
by Susan Stamper Brown

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Pulosi Unhinged – Fears “Distrubingly Unqualified”
Carson Will Expose Democrats
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ House Democrat Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi’s doesn’t necessarily hate and target all black Americans, they just have to know their proper place on the plantation and stay there... And they always have to be members of her Democrat party or they simply cannot be regarded as legitimate and qualified to hold office. Being a thoughtful, world renown, respected pediatric neurosurgeon is nothing, she would have us believe, when it comes to qualifying to serve as HUD Secretary. The only surgeons she truly values are the ones than piece her face together. If sorting through the regulatory spaghetti of HUD is harder than the web of nerve endings and tissue in a human brain then perhaps it needs to be simplified. Maybe a guy who is used to cutting through to the problem with a scalpel in his hand is the perfect choice. Maybe that’s just what she’s afraid of. He’s certainly more qualified than a communist agitator who was, in 2008, elected to be pretend ‘president.’ Pulosi had no problems with liar-nObama’s lack of experience in the job or in anything beyond scamming climate credits, commie rabble-rousing against the “oppressive capitalists” and a partial term in the Senate at the time...  http://rickwells.us/pelosi-unhinged-fears-distrubingly-unqualified-carson-expose-democrats/
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Be Very Afraid OPEC: US Oil Comes
Roaring Back As Prices Rise
by Andrew Follett
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{dailycaller.com} ~ American energy companies are already reactivating oil rigs after OPEC agreed to cut oil production, sending prices skyward... Chevron reactivated seven new rigs in West Texas, adding to the 477 U.S. oil rigs currently in operation. The company plans to spend $1.5 billion annually searching for and drilling new oil in Texas and expects to increase investments there as prices continue to rise. Continental Resources is reactivating two new rigs in South Texas, and other shale oil producers, including EOG Resources Inc., Devon Energy Corp., and Whiting Petroleum Corp. Shale oil stock prices are soaring, leaving petrol companies flush with cash to invest in ramping up production... 
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Stein Recount Charade Sets Up Racism Basis For
Lynch DOJ Stealing Election From Trump
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ There’s no doubt who Jill Stein is representing in her speech and her actions to challenge the results of the Presidential Election. George Soros’ filthy fingerprints are all over her back, right where the puppeteer inserts his hand... though there is surely no shortage of hands engaged in the pulling her strings. She claims she is outside Trump Tower to demand a “vote that is accurate, secure and fair and just, in which every vote counts and every vote is counted.” Stein blames things not panning out the way she and George had hoped in Pennsylvania on judicial and electoral systems that she described as “politically entrenched and has been fighting this process at every step.” That means her first tactical choice to manipulate a recount failed and they’ve moved on to plan “B.” Soros has plenty of cash to finance any attack so they’re on to Federal Court to “ask the court to please support and stand up for our constitutional right to vote, as expressed in the decision last night by the Michigan judge.” That judge, U.S. District Judge Mark Goldsmith, appointed by Hussein liar-nObama, ordered Michigan election officials to begin the massive undertaking of recounting over 4.8 million ballots by hand, beginning at noon Monday...  http://rickwells.us/stein-recount-charade-racism-basis-lynch-doj-stealing-election-trump/
VIDEO:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUmc0JyhdNM
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Illinois Governor Vetoes Chicago Bailout Bill
by Bob Adelmann
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{thenewamerican.com} ~Illinois Governor Bruce Rauner vetoed a bill on December 1 that would have provided a $215 million bailout of the Chicago public schools. So certain were school officials that he would sign it... allowing them to make a past-due payment to the Chicago Teachers’ Pension Fund — that they made it a part of their budget for next year. The original bill passed by Democrat supermajorities in both houses was for $700 million, but during negotiations Rauner, a Republican, agreed to $215 million instead, in exchange for a promise that the Democrats would institute real pension reform. Once the bill hit Rauner’s desk, however, all deals were off: Give us the money, said the Democrats, and forget pension reform. Rauner’s veto message is instructive in several regards. It shows how difficult it is for recalcitrant Illinois Democrats to grasp hard reality, and how willing they are to make agreements in order to get what they want — agreements they had no intention of keeping. The governor stated:...  http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/24768-illinois-governor-vetoes-chicago-bailout-bill
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Michigan Bill Would Nullify Executive Orders
and Other Presidential Edicts
by Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ A nullification bill to be considered by the Michigan state legislature in 2017 would block enforcement of unconstitutional executive orders inside the borders of that sovereign state... House Bill 5989 would effectively nullify any attempt by a president of the United States to see any of his monarchical declarations afforded the color of law within the Great Lakes State. Specifically, the measure introduced by state representative Jim Runestad and 11 other co-sponsors prohibits:...Why wasn't this done 8 years ago. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/24762-michigan-bill-would-nullify-executive-orders-and-other-presidential-edicts
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Ohio State Stabbing and the Rise of
Immigrant-Related Terrorism
by Susan Stamper Brown
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{townhall.com} ~ As President liar-nObama once said, “Elections have consequences.” Consequences, indeed. Eight years of a weak liar-nObama administration emboldened our enemy, inspiring the rise of terrorism domestically and abroad, making it risky for everyday Americans to do everyday things.

As I previously wrote, in a 12-hour span in September, Americans saw that it is not safe to shop in a mall in Minnesota, or run a 5k in New Jersey or walk in New York City without risk of terrorism.

Now, it’s not safe to attend college. All those “safe spaces” are worthless, given what happened November 28 when a Somali immigrant mowed down students with his car, then went on a stabbing spree until he was killed by a police officer.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that at his funeral while bidding her son, Abdul Razak Ali Ratan, goodbye, Ratan’s mother said, “I love you my son. I know they kill [sp] you for no reason.”

For no reason? Obviously, immigrating to America from a verifiable jihadist conflict zone does not an America-loving citizen make.

Even so, liar-nObama doubles-down on his irresponsible policies, allowing immigration from places like Somalia, Syria and Afghanistan to carry on.  Maybe it’s time for Democrats who cheer-on this nonsense to be held accountable when terrorism strikes.

While details of the investigation are still fluid, the Heritage Foundation determined there is enough evidence to add this latest event to its list of Islamist terror attacks and plots, making the Ohio State University [OSU] attack the 93rd attack or plot since 9/11 and the 12th, I repeat 12th this year.

It’s been a banner year for immigrant-involved attacks, making it seem as if the bloody eye-for-an-eye culture of the Middle East has come home to roost on Main Street U.S.A.

On June 12, the son of Afghan immigrants, Omar Mateen, who reportedly pledged his allegiance to ISIS, implemented the deadliest terror attack since 9/11 when he killed 49 people and wounded 53 at a gay nightclub in Orlando.

After the September 17 bombings in New Jersey and New York in which 31 people were injured, Afghan immigrant Ahmad Khan Rahimi was indicted by a federal grand jury on eight criminal counts. Rather than journaling about how glad he was to be in America, officials said the blood-stained journal found on Rahimi referenced his heroes like deceased al-Qaeda leader Anwar al-Awlaki and Osama bin Laden.

This year has also seen its share of immigrant-related mass stabbings, with one at a mall in Minnesota and two now in Ohio. With one of the largest Somali immigrant populations in the U.S., Ohio’s capital has had its share of immigrant-related terrorism under the liar-nObama administration’s watch.

The Columbus Dispatch reports that in 2011, Ahmed Hussein Mahamud was arrested by the FBI for allegedly providing money and assistance to al-Shabab. In 2015, a federal grand jury indicted Abdirahman Sheik Mohamud for planning and attempting to recruit others “to carry out an act of terrorism in the United States.” Additionally, his half-brother and former Columbus resident, Abdifatah Aden, was killed in 2014 engaging in violent jihad in Syria.

According to WBNS-10TV in Columbus, four Ohio immigrants were also indicted in 2015.  The two sets of brothers, Asif Ahmed Salim and Sultane Roome Salim and Ibrahim Zubair Mohammad and Yahya Farooq Mohammad “were charged with conspiring to travel to Yemen to provide thousands of dollars” to “support violent jihad against U.S. military personnel.”

The story of an Afghani or Somali or Syrian immigrant is like any other immigrant success story, until it isn’t. As House Homeland Security Committee chairman Michael McCaul said last year, officials have “direct evidence and intelligence” that ISIS terrorists plan to exploit refugee programs to enter the United States. And many here legally, like the Ohio State stabber’s mom, ignore the American ideal of assimilation when they cross the border.

Sorry Liberals, not every refugee story belongs on the Hallmark channel.

http://townhall.com/columnists/susanstamperbrown/2016/12/05/ohio-state-stabbing-and-the-rise-of-immigrantrelated-terrorism-n2255015?utm_source=thdaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl&newsletterad=

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Tues/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 6, 2016 at 12:00pm
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Most Dems regard Israel as a 'burden' on US with too
much influence over policy: prestigious lib think tank
by Shibley Telhami
 
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 SHORT CUTS 
The Gipper: "Government is like a baby. It is an alimentary canal with an appetite at one end and a no sense of responsibility at the other."

Magnanimity: "Don't forget — I hit Mitt [Romney] pretty hard also, I mean, before the fact. And so I understand how it all works." —Donald Trump on why he's considering Romney for secretary of state

Demo-gogues: "I don't think that people want a new direction. Our values unify us. And our values are about supporting America's working families." —Nancy Pulosi on winning the Democrat leadership post again (Boy did she miss the point of the 2016 election.

Color us skeptical: "I don't think liar-Hillary has any interest in running again." —Gov. Terry McAuliffe (The liar-Clintons are incapable of avoiding the spotlight.)

Journalism: "Some Americans have found a new folk hero in a familiar face: liar-Hillary Clinton, comfortably dressed suburban retiree." —New York Times

And last... "To my knowledge, no one has ever burned a flag at a trade school. I wonder why that is?" —Mike Rowe 
~The Patriot Post
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Priebus – Yeah, Millions Of Illegals Could
Have Voted In CA And Elsewhere
by Rick Wells
{rickwells.us} ~ CBS News is no friend of the Trump administration so it’s not surprising that their “Face the Nation” program would include an assertion by its host John Dickerson that Donald Trump is a liar... It would be surprising if he had similarly identified Hussein liar-nObama, for even one of the innumerable times his mouth was moving, but that’s not going to happen. He’s also not going to allow anything to diminish the claim of the Democrats that liar-Clinton won the popular vote. It’s a critical component of their effort to de-legitimize and diminish Mr. Trump’s landslide victory, one that he pulled off in spite of their fraud. Ignore the size of their crowds and the years-long campaign to outlaw voter ID requirements and to flood the country with illegals. Ignore the fact that there were people on their own and George Soros’ payroll, directed by the White House and liar-Clinton, who beat up Trump supporters and incited riots. Democrats would never do anything dishonest to “win” and election. Just ignore all of it, you sorry excuse for journalists...  http://rickwells.us/priebus-yeah-millions-illegals-voted-ca-elsewhere/
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liar-nObama Legacy Smothering Americans
In Regulations – Even As He Hits The Curb
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Fox News’ James Rosen reports on the regulation push by the control freak in the White House, noting that his replacement, President-elect Trump has stated that his biggest surprise as a politician is the fact that regulation, not taxation, is cited by business leaders as the biggest drag on growth... In his speech announcing that some jobs would be remaining from Carrier, he noted that over the course of the last six years 260 new federal regulations have gone into effect, 53 of them that impacted that facility. The government is running employers out of the country. Rosen says the liar-nObama regime is on pace to enact over 3,700 new rules and regulations this year, which would be a new record. The Federal Register is on pace to exceed 87,000 pages. White House spokesliar Josh Earnest defends the regulatory inundation by the regime, saying it won’t “be characterized by a last minute rush on the way out the door.” Instead, it’s a constant tsunami that never ends...  http://rickwells.us/obama-legacy-smothering-americans-in-regulations-even-as-he-hits-the-curb/
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Veterans center employees resign
after gruesome discovery
by Sara Gonzales   
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{theblaze.com} ~ A total of four staff members employed at the Department of Veterans Affairs in Talihina, Oklahoma, have resigned after maggots were discovered in the wound of a resident who had been hospitalized at the facility... The resident, who later died, was originally hospitalized at the facility for an unspecified infection. Executive Director Myles Deering said last week that although the maggots were found in the man’s wound before he died, his cause of death was sepsis and was determined to be unrelated to the parasites. “He did not succumb as a result of the parasites. He succumbed as a result of the sepsis,” Deering stated. Three nurses, including the director of nursing, and a physician’s assistant resigned after the investigation started. Shane Faulkner, a spokesman for the department confirmed, “All four chose to resign before the termination process began.”...  http://www.theblaze.com/news/2016/12/04/veterans-center-employees-resign-after-gruesome-discovery/
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Trump Assembles a War Cabinet
to Meet Foreign Threats
by Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ With the selections of General James N. “Mad Dog” Mattis as Secretary of Defense and Lt. General Michael T. Flynn as national security adviser, President-elect Donald J. Trump has indicated that he is prepared to meet foreign threats from Russia, China, and global Islam... Indeed, Flynn argues in his book, The Field of Fight, that the U.S. is facing a “working coalition” of enemies that includes radical Islamists, Russia, China, North Korea, Iran, Syria, Cuba, Bolivia, Venezuela and Nicaragua. The subtitle, How We Can Win the Global War Against Radical Islam and Its Allies, suggests that radical Islam is the main enemy. But the content of the book suggests something else—that Russia and China are behind this “enemy alliance” of countries and movements trying to destroy us. “We face a formidable group of terrorists and hostile countries, and we’ve got to be better prepared to compete or we will need to be ready to destroy them,” says Flynn...  http://www.aim.org/aim-column/trump-assembles-a-war-cabinet-to-meet-foreign-threats/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email120516&utm_medium=email
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White House (not the Army) halts Dakota
Access Pipeline work yet again
by Jazz Shaw
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{hotair.com} ~ Remind me again… how many more days is it until this administration is finally gone? Throwing yet another wrench into what has long since been settled law in the courts... the Army Corps of Engineers (CoE) issued another conflicting announcement this weekend in which they claimed that an easement for the Dakota Access Pipeline to go under Lake Oahe would not be granted. This, of course, had the professional protesters in the area celebrating and the company building the project shaking their heads in disbelief. (CNN)). As NBC News was reporting yesterday, both Energy Transfer Partners (the owners of the project) and both of the state’s senators called foul and said that these delays and harassment would end once liar-nObama leaves office...  http://hotair.com/archives/2016/12/05/white-house-not-the-army-halts-dakota-access-pipeline-work-yet-again/?utm_source=hadaily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Most Dems regard Israel as a 'burden' on US with too
much influence over policy: prestigious lib think tank
by Shibley Telhami
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ President liar-nObama is considering what legacy to leave for Trump towards a key U.S. ally, including whether to take any action on the conflict during his remaining weeks in office. Brookings Institute Nonresident Senior Fellow Shibley Telhami conducted two surveys -- one before and one after the U.S. elections -- on American public attitudes toward the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Below are several key findings:

Is Israel an Ally or a Burden to the United States?
  1. Most Americans, 76%, across party lines, agree that Israel is a strategic asset to the U.S. At the same time, a majority of Democrats (55%), say that Israel is also a burden.
  • A large majority of Americans (76%) agree that Israel is an important ally to the United States as it provides essential military and intelligence cooperation and plays a regional

*A large majority of Americans (76%) agree that Israel is an important ally to the United States as it provides essential military and intelligence cooperation and plays a regional role that's helpful to American interests.

*A majority of Republicans, Democrats, and Independents agree that Israel is an important ally to the United States, however, Republicans (85%) are more likely than both Democrats (70%) and Independents (68%) to agree with this. Democrats and Independents (26% for both) are more than twice as likely as Republicans to disagree with this statement.

*Americans who are 55 years of age or older and more likely to say that Israel is an important ally to the United States (86%). A majority of 18 to 34 year olds and 35 to 54 year olds also feel this way with 70% and 71% respectively.

*Slightly more than half of Americans (54%) disagree with the concept of Israel being a burden to the U.S. as Israel's actions in the region generate hostility toward the United States in Arab and Muslim-majority countries whereas 40% of Americans feel this way.

*Across party lines, significantly more Republicans disagree with this (71%) compared to Democrats (39%) and Independents (52%). Less than a quarter of Republicans agree that Israel is a burden (24%) whereas more than half of Democrats do (55%). Just about more than half of Independents (52%) disagree that Israel is a burden and 41% agree that it is.

*Sixty-one percent of people who are 55 years of age or older disagree that Israel is a burden to the U.S. and 31% agree that it is a burden. More than half of 35 to 54 year olds disagree with this (51%) and slightly less than half of 18 to 34 year olds do (49%).

Israeli Influence on American Politics and Policies

  1. Americans remain highly divided with 55% of Democrats saying Israel has too much influence compared with 54% of Republicans who say that Israeli influence is at the right level.

*Overall, 44% of Americans say that the Israeli government has about the right level of influence, 39% say it has too much influence, and 15% say it has too little influence.

*When broken down by party, more than half of Democrats believe that Israel has too much influence (55%) and more than half of Republicans believe that it has about the right level (54%). Republicans are evenly split in their opinion on whether Israel has too little or too much influence with 22% believing it has too much and 22% believing it has too little influence.

*Compared to one year ago, the number of Republicans who agree that Israeli influence is at about the right level slightly increased from 52% to 54%. For Democrats, the percentage who agree that Israel has too much influence increased from 49% to 55%.

President liar-nObama and the United Nations

  1. Pluralities of the American public support liar-nObama Administration action at the United Nations on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict before leaving office.

*A plurality of Americans (46%) say that they either strongly or somewhat support the liar-nObama administration backing or sponsoring a United Nations resolution that outlines the parameters for ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict before liar-nObama leaves office. A quarter of Americans neither oppose nor support this resolution, while 27% either strongly or somewhat oppose it.

*Democrats are far more likely than both Republicans and Independents to support this resolution. Seventy percent of Democrats support it compared to 22% of Republicans and 37% of Independents.

*On the issue of President liar-nObama supporting or sponsoring a United Nations resolution to end Israeli settlement construction in the West Bank before he leaves office, a plurality of Americans (40%) either strongly or somewhat support this. Twenty-three percent of Americans neither oppose nor support and 33% either strongly or somewhat oppose this resolution.

*When asked what they believe the new Trump administration will in fact do, the differences in numbers are not as great. Sixty-two percent of Republicans believe that it will lean toward Israel and 55% of Democrats and 46% of Independents believe that this is what the new administration will in fact do. Independents are more likely to say that the new administration will in fact lean toward neither side (42%) with 35% of Republicans and 27% of Democrats believing this.

President-Elect Trump and the Israeli-Palestinian Issue

  1. Most Americans want President Trump to lean towards neither side in mediating the Israel-Palestinian conflict, but most expect him to lean toward Israel.

*Most Americans want the new Trump administration to be even handed on the Israeli-Palestinian issue, with 57% saying that he should lean toward neither Israel nor the Palestinians in mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. However, when asked what they believe the new Trump administration will in fact do, most Americans said that they believed he would not be even handed and would instead lean toward Israel (57%).Across party lines, there are significant differences in what side Americans believe the new Trump administration should lean in mediating the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

*A majority of Republicans believe that the new administration should lean toward Israel (56%), which is more than three times the amount of Democrats (17%) and almost double the size of Independents who say this (29%). A majority of both Democrats and Independents believe that it should lean toward neither side with 69% and 66% respectively. Forty-two percent of Republicans believe that it should lean toward neither side and less than one percent of Republicans believe that the new administration should lean toward the Palestinians.

*When asked what they believe the new Trump administration will in fact do, the differences in numbers are not as great. Sixty-two percent of Republicans believe that it will lean toward Israel and 55% of Democrats and 46% of Independents believe that this is what the new administration will in fact do. Independents are more likely to say that the new administration will in fact lean toward neither side (42%) with 35% of Republicans and 27% of Democrats believing this.

Reaction of the United States to Israeli Settlements

5.The American polarization on how to react to Israeli settlements has expanded over the past two years as 60% of Democrats now support imposing economic sanctions or more serious action.

*Americans continue to be highly polarized along party lines on imposing some economic sanctions or taking more serious action on Israeli settlements but the gap has widened over the past year. In November 2016, a majority of Democrats (60%) supported imposing some economic sanctions or taking more serious action compared with 49% in November 2015. Looking at Republicans over these years, 31% supported imposing sanctions and taking more serious actions in November 2016 and 26% supported this in November 2015.

*In November 2016, when asked how they believed the U.S. should react to new settlements, a majority of Americans (52%) supported the U.S. doing nothing or limiting opposition to words. Republicans and Independents were more likely to agree with this (68% and 54% respectively) than most Americans and Democrats were less likely (37%).

*Over the past year, the support for imposing economic sanctions and taking more serious measures has gone up overall. In November 2015, 37% of Americans supported this compared to 46% November 2016.

UN Security Council and the Establishment of a Palestinian State
6. Overall, Americans supporting a U.S. veto of a UN resolution on Palestinian statehood remain a minority (31%), including 51% of Republicans but only 16% of Democrats.
 
*When asked what they think the U.S. should do as a member of the UN Security Council if the UN considers a plan to endorse the establishment of a Palestinian state, 32% say that the U.S. should abstain from voting, 31% say that the U.S. should vote against endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state, and 34% believe the U.S. should vote in favor of endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
 
*Independents are more than twice as likely (59%) than both Republicans and Democrats to think that the U.S. should abstain from voting (29% for both). A majority of Republicans (51%) think that the U.S. should vote against endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state and a majority of Democrats (51%) think the U.S. should vote in favor of endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state.
 
*Compared with last year (November 2015), the percentage of Democrats who support the establishment of a Palestinian state has increased from 39% to 51%. In addition, the number of Democrats who believe the U.S. should abstain from voting has decreased from 42% to 29%. For Republicans, there has been a decrease in support for abstaining from voting, which dropped from 37% to 29% in the past year. The number of Republicans who think the U.S. should vote against endorsing the establishment of a Palestinian state increased from 43% to 51%.
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1216/dems_disregard_israel.php3
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 6, 2016 at 7:30am
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Secret's out! Why Trump really
met with Romney
by Gina Loudon
 
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 Taiwan Calling Trump 
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Over the weekend, the Leftmedia was pulling out its collective hair over news that Donald Trump had accepted a congratulatory phone call from Taiwanese president Tsai Ing-Wen. Once again Trump has rocked the Washington bureaucratic elites' boat by breaking with a long-running precedent. Since 1979, no president or president-elect has spoken with a sitting president of Taiwan, due to China's "one China" policy — a policy the U.S. has acknowledged but never officially adopted.
          On Sunday, VP-elect Mike Pence reacted to the media's over-reaction by pointing to its blatant hypocrisy: "It's a little mystifying to me that President liar-nObama can reach out to a murdering dictator in Cuba in the last year and be hailed as a hero for doing it and President-elect Donald Trump takes a courtesy call from a democratically elected leader in Taiwan and it's become something of a controversy."
          While some have suggested that this is yet further evidence that Trump doesn't know what he's doing when it comes to foreign affairs, it's a better bet that this was a calculated move aimed at challenging China over its recent power-plays in the East and South China Seas. As The Wall Street Journal stated, "Mr. Trump shouldn't concede Beijing's power to intimidate the world's democracies into isolating Taiwan. The U.S. has an interest in supporting Taiwan as a model for China's future development. And adapting Taiwan policy could benefit the wider U.S.-China relationship."
          Barack liar-nObama's policy with the "People's Republic" has done little to dissuade China's growing expansionist appetite. A newer approach is needed to both encourage U.S. allies in the region and warn China that the U.S. stands committed to promoting its allies' continued independence and sovereignty. Clearly, Trump is not afraid to take the call. 
~The Patriot Post
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 Castro Vehicle Breaks Down, Just Like His Policies 
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A fitting final metaphor for Fidel Castro's puppet Soviet regime: The Russian UAZ-469 light utility vehicle hauling Castro's corpse in the state funeral procession experienced engine failure and had to be pushed by soldiers along the "Caravan of Liberty." That was the ironic name Castro's communist guerrillas gave their 1959 march from Santiago to Havana to topple the Batista government.
          By the way, all the mainstream media are referring to this vehicle as a "Jeep." Cease and desist! Jeeps were the primary light four-wheel drive vehicle used by the U.S. Army and our allies in World War II, Korea and Vietnam and are now a popular SUV. That broken-down piece of socialist junk pulling Castro's carcass is not a Jeep!
          And while we're on the subject of hogwash, Fidel's brother Raul declared, "The leader of the revolution rejected any manifestation of a cult of personality and was consistent in that through the last hours of his life, insisting that, once dead, his name and likeness would never be used on institutions, streets, parks or other public sites, and that busts, statues or other forms of tribute would never be erected." And why should he? He's got plenty of help in the media's cult of propaganda.  ~The Patriot Post
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The North Korea Card
by DR. PETER VINCENT PRY
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Contrary to bipartisan conventional wisdom of Washington, D.C.'s foreign policy elites - the looming nuclear missile threat from North Korea cannot be addressed by playing "the China card."... Republican and Democratic administrations have for years begged Beijing to use China's economic leverage to compel North Korea to abandon its illegal development of nuclear missiles, to no avail. Evidence is overwhelming that China, far from being the solution to a nuclear-armed North Korea, is co-conspiring with Russia to build a nuclear missile "North Korea card" to play against the United States:...
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hanoi-Kerry: Bennett's ideas are 'profoundly disturbing'
by David Rosenberg
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{israelnationalnews.com} ~ Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry made a foray into internal Israeli politics on Sunday night, slamming the Israeli cabinet and singling out Education Minister Naftali Bennett (Jewish Home) by name... saying that Bennett’s recent statements on the future of Judea and Samaria were “profoundly disturbing”. hanoi-Kerry spoke Sunday evening at the annual Saban Forum, hosted by the left-leaning Brookings Institute, one of whose overseas branches is in Qatar. The Secretary spoke at length about his feelings towards Israel and Zionism, and his belief that Israel is headed in the wrong direction – and that the future of Israel is at risk...hanoi-Kerry failed to mention the illegal building by the Palestinians. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/221266
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Tucker Carlson DESTROYS Muslim Prof
Who Blames Right-Wingers For Muslim Terrorism
by Onan Coca
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{lidblog.com} ~ Muslim Professor Engy Abdelkader is a darling of the left when it comes to the issue of “Islamophobia” in America. She routinely blames the evils of  Muslim Terrorism  on the victims in Western culture... Here in America, she chides innocent people who have done no evil to the Muslim immigrants that our nation has taken in for the acts of violence done in the name of “Allah.” For example, this is what Abdelkader said in the pages of TIME magazine about Muslim terrorism… “Islamophobia, including xenophobic political rhetoric that excludes refugees, exacerbates cultural homelessness because it erodes a sense of purpose while feeding the extremist narrative that our societies are anti-Islam and anti-Muslim.” Why yes, she did just blame the victims for the crimes of her fellow Muslims...  http://lidblog.com/tucker-carlson-muslim-terrorism/
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Democrats Express Solidarity with Islamic
Extremists in Wake of Election
by John Rossomando
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Democratic politicians eager to stand in solidarity with the Muslim community and speak against hate in the wake of the recent heated presidential election threw their support behind some of its most extreme elements... Virginia Attorney General Mark Herring, together with local Democratic politicians from Northern Virginia, made this evident when they showed up at a Veterans Day event at the Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Va. Dar al-Hijrah stands in infamy as the mosque attended by two of the 9/11 hijackers and where the late Al-Qaida terrorist leader Anwar Awlaki served as an imam. A 2002 U.S. Customs and Border Protection database report obtained by the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) described Dar al-Hijrah as a "front for Hamas operatives in the U.S." A 2007 report said the "mosque has been under numerous investigations for financing and providing aid and comfort to bad orgs and members."...  http://www.investigativeproject.org/5716/democrats-express-solidarity-with-islamic
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ISIS Declares War on
Trump’s Inauguration Day!
by Walter White
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ President-elect Donald J. Trump takes office in less than two months, and ISIS is using his inauguration on January 20th to declare war, calling it “Bloody Friday.”... It is being reported that in addition to declaring war on Trump’s inauguration day, ISIS has recruited multiple English-speaking operatives to communicate their deadly message. In addition to the ISIS threat, U.S. special forces will be on “high alert” during Trump’s inauguration, “But security analysts have been following communications between members of the group who are planning large scale attacks on that day, it has been claimed.”...
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Secret's out! Why Trump really
met with Romney
by Gina Loudon
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{wnd.com} ~ Many of Donald Trump’s most ardent supporters thought it was crazy that the president-elect met with Mitt Romney twice.

Maybe it was, instead, crazy like a fox.

Just like so many times during the campaign, some of us are playing checkers while Trump is playing chess. Here’s why I think there is a special psychology to President-elect Trump’s strategy with Romney. And here is why I believe there is no way he actually picks Romney as secretary of state, even though Romney is said to be on the short list and has had the most highly publicized meetings with Trump.

Romney was one of the most ardent enemies of candidate Trump during the race. He was solid in his disdain for the billionaire, rogue candidate. He was arguably the head of the octopus in the “Never Trump” movement.

In one of Romney’s only public speeches during the presidential campaign, Romney called Trump a “phony,” “fraud,” “con man” and “fake.”

“His domestic policies would lead to recession,” Romney added. “His foreign policies would make America and the world less safe. He has neither the temperament nor the judgment to be president. And his personal qualities would mean that America would cease to be a shining city on a hill.”

Romney appeared on Fox News and demanded Trump release his taxes saying, “Either he’s not anywhere near as wealthy as he says he is, or he hasn’t been paying the kind of taxes we would expect him to pay. Or perhaps he hasn’t been giving money to the vets or the disabled, like he’s been telling us he’s been doing.”

Romney even went so far as to recruit a Utah Mormon, Evan McMullin, to run for president as an independent in an effort to cause Trump to lose the Republican state of Utah and possibly the Electoral College vote.

Looking back after the election, we now see Trump did not need Utah. Trump’s electoral win was so big, he could have lost Utah and Florida the state every expert said Trump must win and still won the presidency.

Romney now looks foolish and on the wrong side of history after Trump beat McMullin handily in Utah, outperformed Romney with every demographic and won six states that Romney couldn’t pull off in 2012.

After the election, President-elect Trump began meetings with potential Cabinet members, and Romney gladly accommodated, because it was his only shot at relevance other than “two-time loser for president.”

Trump knew exactly what he was doing, in my opinion.

He wants to silence the “Never Trump” movement entirely so he can act as president without the little dogs nipping at his heels.

Now that Romney has not only met with the president-elect in his home at Trump Tower, but has also dined with Trump at the most exquisite of his restaurants, how can Romney possibly criticize Trump ever again in the future?

Like a child he wanted to punish, President-elect Trump knew that if Romney took the bait and came to these interludes, he would be asked about them afterward. Naturally, desperate to be relevant again through an appointment of some sort, Romney would praise the same Donald Trump he trashed and recruited against for the last year and a half.

Now imagine the position in which Romney finds himself. No matter what happens, if he ever says an unkind thing about President Trump or his family, Romney will look schizophrenic. First he hates him, then he praises him. He can’t go back to disparaging him now that Trump has put him in this position.

Crazy like a fox, indeed. Always playing chess while the rest of us are left scratching our heads and speculating about his demise with the American public.

Analysts like me are going to have to remember to go deeper, and sometimes to shut up and wait to comment, because Trump is likely strategizing again beyond the level of sophistication that many in media can even extrapolate.

He did it in his campaign over and over. How many times was he counted out because of a misstep or a hurdle that experts said he could never overcome?

Remember when he said he was going to “build a wall” and many concluded “he’s done”?

Remember when he called for the Muslim ban?

Remember when Trump hit his ceiling in the polls at 20 percent, then 30 percent, then 40 percent?

The fact of the matter is, the average person, especially the average media or political personality, is reading from a different playbook. The elite in this country honestly believe they are better than the “deplorables” out there in rural America. They believe the American voter is to be manipulated, not courted.

Donald Trump demonstrated again this week that his relationship with the American people is a courtship and one that he is willing to engage, even in victory. He showed us his favorite place to be isn’t sitting in Trump Tower entertaining dignitaries and wiping his feet on his enemies, but that he wanted to be at a rally, with average Americans. He wants to have a conversation again with those who have been silenced. He didn’t want to celebrate with the New York City cake eaters. He wanted to celebrate with the millions of voiceless Americans for whom he ran.

So he did.

Right after he finished his interviews with Cabinet possibilities and effectively silenced his white-gloved enemies, he went directly to where he really loves to be – with the American people.

The strategy of candidate Trump in this election was positively fascinating for this psychological analyst to watch, and I have to admit, I am even more excited to watch his presidency. But, we must be careful not to view Trump’s actions through the prism of the old political playbook or we will continue to misjudge and underestimate him just as we have for the past 17 months.
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 5, 2016 at 5:00pm
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
On a Sunday Morning
by Paul Beston
 
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Stein Wants Straight Popular Vote – Recount
To Discredit Both Trump, Electoral College
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Chris Wallace asked Jill Stein some questions that were on the minds of many Americans observing her antics in calling for a recount, though he did fail to mention George Soros by name... On Fox News Sunday Wallace raised the issue of Stein being an agent of liar-Clinton, noting that she was going to be holding an event across from Trump Tower and asking why she chose that location, saying, “What’s he got to do with it?” She says she wants to hold her conference where she can stand up loud and strong to say she won’t be intimidated and obviously where she can target Mr. Trump as her opponent. She could just say that’s where George told me to go, but she can’t be that obvious. It’s okay, we understand. Stein appears to be unhappy with the challenges filed by Trump in response to her frivolous attacks, something she reveals in shifting to and raising complaints about his actions. Stein says, “We will not be intimidated, we will not be frightened by having to jump through all these legal hoops. We say what is Donald Trump frightened of because he is obstructing, he is delaying these cases. Apparently not rolling over and challenging what is itself a delaying tactic aimed at denying Mr. Trump his electoral votes is intimidating her and equally likely, costing her Uncle George more money than she had originally been given in her allowance...  http://rickwells.us/stein-straight-popular-vote-recount-discredit-trump-electoral-college/

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liar-nObama Administration Sides With Protesters,
Halting Construction of Dakota Access Pipeline
by Jamie Gregora
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The Department of the Army handed protesters of the Dakota Access pipeline a victory Sunday when it announced the project would be re-routed. The decision came on the eve of the government’s Monday deadline for protesters to evacuate their encampment... For the past several months, members of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe have waged a campaign against the pipeline, drawing the support of environmentalists and liberal entertainers. They were upset that the pipeline would cross under Lake Oahe in North Dakota. Now, the company installing the 1,172-mile pipeline will have to find another route or appeal to the incoming Trump administration in 2017. “Although we have had continuing discussion and exchanges of new information with the Standing Rock Sioux and Dakota Access, it’s clear that there’s more work to do,” Jo-Ellen Darcy, the Army’s assistant secretary for civil works, said in the statement Sunday. “The best way to complete that work responsibly and expeditiously is to explore alternate routes for the pipeline crossing.”...  http://dailysignal.com/2016/12/02/why-the-dakota-pipeline-protesters-wont-evacuate-by-deadline/?utm_source=TDS_Email&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=MorningBell&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTnpWbVpHWXdORFEyWVdKaCIsInQiOiJUVElrMklkVFJIdXRqWFl0YkluSGw1NE9pK0tQNmdOYWdldFhJQ1dzMjluUU01OHVqb1wvYUxoU3o1VHRLT0Uwd1dob2FJUzh2SWdMNkhJcHdGOElpTDFDS3Y5R2V5dTJZb0ZXNmtkd2t2WWM9In0%3D
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The Real Illegal Settlements
by Bassam Tawil
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An example of massive illegal Palestinian construction
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ As the international community continues to slam Israel for construction in Jewish settlement communities, Palestinians are quietly engaging in massive construction of entire neighborhoods in many parts of the West Bank and Jerusalem... In addition to overlooking the Palestinian building project, the West has clearly been neglecting a crucial difference between the two efforts: while the construction in the Jewish settlements of the West Bank and neighborhoods of Jerusalem has long been carried out within the frame of the law and in accordance with proper licenses issued by the relevant authorities, the Palestinian construction is illegal in every respect. In this behind-the-scenes endeavor, which does not meet even the most minimum standards required by engineers, architects and housing planners, the Palestinian goal is to create irreversible facts on the ground. A quick tour of the areas surrounding Jerusalem from the north, east and south easily exposes the colossal construction that is taking place there. In most cases, these high-rise buildings are slapped together without licenses or any adequate planning or safety concerns...
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GOP: It Could Take Us Three Years to
Repeal/Replace liar-nObamacare
{restoreamericanglory.com} ~ With control of the White House and both chambers of Congress, Republicans know they’ve used liar-nObamacare as a campaigning tactic for the last time. It’s time to put up or shut up, and their voters are not in the mood for another massive GOP betrayal... Which may be why top Republican lawmakers are now preaching patience as they try to figure out how to best go about repealing and replacing the Affordable Care Act. According to Politico, the GOP wants to “repeal” liar-nObamacare as early as possible in 2017, but they are planning to include within that legislation a delay that could keep the healthcare law in place for as long as three years. “We’re talking about a three-year transition now that we actually have a president who’s likely to sign the repeal into the law. People are being, understandably cautious, to make sure nobody’s dropped through the cracks,” Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn told the website...  http://www.restoreamericanglory.com/health/gop-it-could-take-us-three-years-to-repealreplace-obamacare/
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Germany Submits to Sharia Law
by SOEREN KERN
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ A German court has ruled that seven Islamists who formed a vigilante patrol to enforce Sharia law on the streets of Wuppertal did not break German law and were simply exercising their right to free speech... The ruling, which effectively legitimizes Sharia law in Germany, is one of a growing number of instances in which German courts are - wittingly or unwittingly - promoting the establishment of a parallel Islamic legal system in the country. The self-appointed "Sharia Police" sparked public outrage in September 2014, when they distributed yellow leaflets which established a "Sharia-controlled zone" in the Elberfeld district of Wuppertal. The men urged both Muslim and non-Muslim passersby to attend mosques and to refrain from alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, gambling, music, pornography and prostitution...
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On a Sunday Morning
by Paul Beston
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{city-journal.org} ~ In the early 1970s, when I was approaching school age, my mother needed some flooring laid in our home and hired a man named Ockie to do the work. I remember little about him other than that he was the first person of Japanese descent whom I had seen in my young life. Years later, she told me that Ockie had been interned as a youngster, along with his parents, in California during the war. “He was very angry about it,” she remembered; he had pointed out that his father was an American citizen. At the time, all I knew was that Ockie was Japanese, and that America had fought the Japanese, but that we were friends now, as my mother assured me. Adults were funny: they blew things up to the heavens and then sat in quiet kitchens, pricing linoleum by the square foot.

Even then, I knew the two words—Pearl Harbor—and I had images to go with them, especially that of the smoldering USS Arizona, pictures of which I’d seen in the World Book encyclopedia. Pearl Harbor meant “sneak attack” and December 7, 1941, a “date which will live in infamy.” I had heard Franklin Roosevelt’s voice saying these words, his cadence sealing them into permanent memory. In the original draft of this speech, the president had written that the day would live in “world history,” but he struck that phrase in favor of the archaic-sounding, morally fearsome “infamy.” You didn’t need to know what the word meant. You only needed to hear him say it.

I’m sure that my mother and Ockie had at least one thing in common: they both knew where they were when they heard about the attack on Pearl Harbor. For a younger generation, the “where were you when” moment is September 11, 2001, an atrocity that prompted comparisons with Pearl Harbor, whose survivors were preparing to mark the 60th anniversary of the attacks that year. The two cataclysms had much in common—they were unexpected, horrific, and destroyed thousands of lives—but they also quickly took on the character of their very different cultural epochs. Pearl Harbor aroused American resolve that channeled itself into a unified war effort, one that would produce an industrial war-making machine such as the world has never seen—just what was needed to win a war such as the world had never seen. September 11, by contrast, spawned a short-lived autumn of flag-waving that soon reverted to parochialism, political factionalism, and the by-now well-rehearsed cultural message that somehow, we must have deserved it. Ours is an age more inclined to apologize for rendering judgment than to condemn the deeds that prompt the judgment.

It was different in 1941. To the generation that lived through Pearl Harbor, and especially those who were there that day, Roosevelt’s words rang true.

Seventy-five years later, the oil is still leaking from the Arizona; droplets come to the surface in ghostly rainbow patterns. “Black tears,” survivors called them. The Arizona is the most visible symbol of the American catastrophe of that day. Of the ship’s 1,511 crewmen, 1,177 perished—nearly half of the 2,403 lost at Pearl Harbor, on the Hawaiian island of Oahu. The ship was doomed by a 1,700-pound Japanese bomb that blasted through its storage area, which held 1 million pounds of ammunition and 180,000 gallons of gas. These incendiaries acted in the same way that aviation fuel did on 9/11, turning the battleship into an inferno. Sailors could barely stand on deck without hopping from one foot to the other because of the heat, and they could smell the burning oil spilling into Pearl Harbor. Some of those who survived the wreck had to brave swimming through the fiery waters.

The Japanese had struck that morning shortly before 8 am, Hawaiian time—early afternoon in Washington, D.C. Their attack was long planned, even as diplomatic talks continued between Tokyo and Washington in an attempt to resolve disputes involving Japanese aggression in China and Southeast Asia and a resulting U.S. oil embargo. An armada of Japanese destroyers and aircraft carriers steamed across the Pacific toward Hawaii in complete radio silence, avoiding detection.

On the morning of December 7, the Japanese launched 353 planes, in two waves. Their main targets were the American airfields—Hickam, Wheeler, Ford Island, Kaneohe Naval Air Station, and Ewa Marine Corps Air Station—and Battleship Row, where, along with the Arizona, a host of American battleships were sitting in port. These included the Nevada, West Virginia, California, Oklahoma, Tennessee, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. As luck would have it, no U.S. aircraft carriers were at Pearl Harbor that day.

It was Sunday morning, peacetime. Many American seamen were getting some extra sleep or making their way back to their ships after a Saturday evening out. Defenses were down. Radar was primitive in 1941, though it did pick up the Japanese squadron moving into Hawaiian airspace at 7 o’clock. An American commander dismissed the sighting, assuming that it was the expected arrival of American B-17s from San Francisco.

When the bombs started dropping at about 7:55, many assumed that it was a drill. The Navy and Army ran frequent bombing tests. On board the Nevada, Oden McMillan was about to lead his band in morning colors, which started promptly at 8. As the band lined up, they saw planes dive-bombing Ford Island, but they thought nothing of it until low-flying Japanese planes dropped a torpedo, aimed at the Arizona, and then flew over the Nevada, strafing it with fire. The band knew now that the attack was real—but kept playing. It had never occurred to McMillan, Walter Lord wrote in his classic Day of Infamy, “that once he had begun playing the National Anthem, he could possibly stop.” The band made its way through “The Star Spangled Banner,” the ship’s deck wobbling and splintering below the musicians’ feet. “Not a man broke formation until the final note died,” Lord wrote. “Then everyone ran wildly for cover.”

All told, in a two-hour attack, the Japanese sunk or damaged 18 American ships, including eight battleships, though most would be salvaged. Only the Arizona and the Oklahoma, which was capsized, suffered total loss. These repairs might have been much slower in coming had the Japanese not opted to abort a third phase of the attack, on Pearl Harbor’s fuel-oil storage and ship-rebuilding facilities. Admiral Chūichi Nagumo, seeing that the Americans were beginning to pick off more of his strike force with antiaircraft fire, decided to play it safe and terminate the mission.

As it was, the devastation was immense. For days afterward, rescue crews worked to cut holes through the Oklahoma’s hull to rescue the men trapped inside. Some were saved; many others died of asphyxiation or drowning. But the grimmest fate was that of three young sailors—Clifford Olds, Ronald Endicott, and Louis “Buddy” Costin—on board the West Virginia, which had sunk to the bottom of Pearl Harbor, trapping the men inside the pump room. It was well-provisioned, with food rations and fresh water. But there was no feasible way to drill through the pressurized hull underwater to rescue the men without causing a blowout that would kill their rescuers. No rescue was attempted, though the seamen made themselves heard, banging away in the hope that someone above would save them. They survived for more than two weeks in these agonizing circumstances. “Pretty soon nobody wanted to do guard duty, especially at night when it was quiet,” said Marine Corps bugler Richard Fiske. “It didn’t stop until Christmas Eve.”

The Japanese also destroyed 188 American aircraft and damaged another 159—many of them lined up at Hickam Field in neat rows, easy targets for Japanese bombers. Army lieutenant general Walter Short, worried about Japanese saboteurs on Oahu, thought that they would be better protected that way. Like naval admiral Husband E. Kimmel, commander-in-chief of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, Short dismissed chances that the Japanese might attack Pearl Harbor. Kimmel believed that any Japanese attack would happen at sea. Short and Kimmel would both lose their commands after the attack and spend the rest of their lives defending their decisions. Still, Kimmel didn’t need to be told what the attack meant for his future. Watching the bombing from his office window, he ripped his four-star admiral shoulder boards off of his sleeve and replaced them with two-star shoulder boards. By one account, after a bullet whizzed through the window and narrowly missed the admiral, Kimmel said, “It would have been merciful had it killed me.”

Not just its human losses, but also the images of a devastating military rout, with the mighty U.S. fleet in flames, coupled with the chilling success with which the Japanese had caught us unawares, ensured that Pearl Harbor would stay forever in the minds of Americans who lived through the events. Those up in arms about “fake news” today should have heard some of the fake news that proliferated after the attacks about Japanese saboteurs, who were seemingly everywhere. According to one rumor on Oahu, Japanese milk delivery drivers used radio transmitters to help guide in the enemy planes. “The stories spread faster than they could possibly be disproved or checked,” Lord wrote. Two months later, Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, mandating internment.

Hindsight offers consolations, not only the advantage of knowing that we would win the war, but also that the heroism that would make that feat possible was present on December 7, too, almost everywhere one looked.

John William Finn, a chief petty officer in the Navy, was stationed at Kaneohe Bay. The bombs woke him from a Sunday morning slumber; he drove over to the base, only about a mile from his home, and he saw the bombers in the air. By the time he arrived, many of the base’s seaplanes had already been destroyed. The base had no antiaircraft guns, so Finn detached the machine gun from one of the planes, mounted it on a stand in an exposed area, and started firing—and barely stopped for the next two hours, though he suffered 21 separate wounds from shrapnel, one of which caused him to lose feeling in his left arm. His Medal of Honor citation described his “complete disregard for his own personal safety.” He later shrugged: “It just wasn’t my day to die.” At 99, he stood next to President liar-nObama at Arlington Cemetery on National Medal of Honor Day.

It certainly seemed that it was 19-year-old Donald Stratton’s day to die. On board the Arizona, the seaman first class could see the Japanese pilots’ faces, they flew so low; some were smiling, even waving. Stratton suffered burns across 70 percent of his body and survived only when Joe George, a boatswain’s mate on board the USS Vestal, a repair ship docked alongside the Arizona, disobeyed orders and threw out a line to Stratton and other desperate Arizona crewmen. They climbed across, hand over hand, 70 feet to the Vestal. Stratton spent about a year in the hospital—at one point, doctors put maggots on his body to eat the masses of dead skin—before being discharged and sent home to Nebraska. He reenlisted, endured another boot camp, and fought at Okinawa, where he dodged death again.

Many other Arizona survivors might not have made it without the heroics of Lieutenant Commander Samuel Fuqua, who was knocked unconscious by one of the first bombs, came to, and got busy fighting the ship’s fires. After the Arizona took its fatal blow, which killed many of its men in an instant, Fuqua became the ship’s senior surviving officer. Strafed constantly by enemy fire, he led the ship’s evacuation. “I can still see him standing there, ankle deep in water, stub of a cigar in his mouth, cool and efficient, oblivious to the danger around him,” said a crewman, Edward Wentzlaff. On his way in to shore on a boat, under heavy fire, Fuqua hauled survivors out of the water.

Perhaps the most inspiring moment of the day on the American side was the sight of the USS Nevada, though damaged by bombs, pulling out of the harbor, the only ship from Battleship Row to get moving. The Nevada managed to shoot down a handful of Japanese planes, but, at risk of sinking, it was grounded off an area known as Hospital Point. Many, like Seaman Thomas Malmin, who was aboard, recalled seeing, through clouds of black smoke, the ship’s flag flying on the fantail. Malmin “recalled that ‘The Star Spangled Banner’ was written under similar conditions, and he felt the glow of living the same experience,” Lord wrote. “He understood better the words of Francis Scott Key.”

Less dramatic gestures of resistance were also plentiful. “Praise the lord and pass the ammunition,” said the chaplain on board the New Orleans as its men attempted to fire back at the marauders. A boatswain’s mate on the Monaghan, waiting for ammunition to be brought up to the deck so that he could begin firing at the Japanese, threw wrenches at their planes in the meantime. At Ewa, the Marine air base, a lone Marine, armed only with a pistol, stood beside a ruined plane, firing away at the Japanese bombers, even as they swooped down on him. Japanese lieutenant Yoshio Shiga, one of those enemy pilots, called him the bravest American. The defiance extended to the infirmaries, too. A doctor refused a navy seaman’s request for orange juice, thinking that it might be fatal, since the seaman had a serious stomach wound. When he protested, the doctor told his nurse to get the juice; the patient would probably die anyway, he whispered. “I heard you, doctor,” the seaman called out, “and I still want orange juice.” He didn’t die.

The hardiness extended as well to the nation’s political leaders. Roosevelt’s speech set the tone, with its stark opening sentence and its direct, euphemism-free admission of what had occurred: “The attack yesterday on the Hawaiian Islands has caused severe damage to American naval and military forces. I regret to tell you that very many American lives have been lost.”

The president’s Republican adversaries in Congress, including isolationists who had accused him of trying to get the United States into war, now lined up behind him. “There is no politics here,” said Joseph W. Martin, the House minority leader. “There is only one party when it comes to the integrity and honor of the country.”  He was echoed by the Senate minority leader, Charles L. McNary of Oregon. “The Republicans will all go along, in my opinion, with whatever is done.”  And the isolationist congressman Hamilton Fish of New York, a World War I veteran and reservist, urged Americans to get behind the president. “And if there is a call for troops,” Fish added, “I expect to offer my services to a combat division.”

Behind the unity was anger and a desire for putting things right. “I am an old-time Yankee,” said Congressman Charles A. Eaton of New Jersey, a Republican, “and when people start shoving us around I’m ready to shove back.” Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia agreed. “All American resources should be mobilized to wipe Japan off the map,” he said, in words that, if uttered today, would surely require a public retraction. “The only course open to America is to declare war on Japan and I hope this will be done tomorrow by unanimous vote of Congress.” Close enough: on December 8, the Senate voted 82-0 and the House 388-1 to declare war. The holdout was Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana, a committed pacifist and the first woman to serve in Congress.

Perhaps the most marked contrast with our time can be found in the tones of the paper of record. In its editorial the morning after Pearl Harbor, the New York Times sounded a clarion for American unity and commitment to victory, not just of the nation but of its principles: “The time has come to forget pride of judgment, throw partisanship to the winds and rally to the flag of the United States. Let us close our ranks without a moment’s loss of time. . . . Let every patriot take his stand on the bastions of democracy. We go into battle in defense of our own land, of our present and our future, of all that we are and all that we still hope to be, of a way of life which we have made for ourselves on free and independent soil, the only way of life which we believe to be worth living.”

No wonder we won.

After 9/11, plans got underway nearly immediately for a memorial, and commemoration ceremonies have been held on every anniversary. By contrast, in the years immediately after Pearl Harbor, while the date was noted and some ceremonies conducted, winning the war took precedence. In 1943, FDR made this clear when he vetoed a bill declaring December 7 Armed Services Honor Day. In a message to Congress, he explained why: “Dec. 7, two years ago, is a day that is remembered in this country as one of infamy on the part of a treacherous enemy. The day itself requires no reminder, and its anniversary should rather serve to cause all the people of the nation to increase their efforts contributing to the successful prosecution of the war.”

Once victory was accomplished, more expansive anniversary remembrances began. Books and films proliferated. The Arizona memorial opened in 1962; it sees more than 2 million visitors every year. In 1966, on the 25th anniversary, the island had a surprising visitor: 64-year-old Mitsuo Fuchida, the Japanese Navy commander who led the air attack. Now a Christian evangelist, Fuchida had published a book about his conversion, From Pearl Harbor to Calvary, and he spent much time in the United States in his later years. As the decades passed, some Japanese and American veterans of Pearl Harbor gathered together in reconciliation. Others, like Donald Stratton, preferred to stay away. He’d have to forgive the men, like Fuchida, who had killed so many of his friends in the next life, he said, when he would have a better heart.

Fuchida’s saga tells an instructive story about American tolerance—but not the kind we normally hear. A generation commonly branded today as backward-thinking, prejudiced, and provincial welcomed a man who once led a deadly invasion that slaughtered its sons; it even let this former invader’s children live and work in the United States. A generation in its prime of life today, meanwhile, sparing no hosannas to itself for its tolerance and progressive values, needs pointers from the New York Times on how to talk to family members who voted the other way in a presidential election.

“We were not extraordinary men, those of us who fought on that infamous date in December seventy five years ago,” Stratton writes in his magnificent new memoir, All the Gallant Men. “We were ordinary men. What was extraordinary was the country we loved. We loved who she was, what she stood for. We loved her for what she meant to us, and for what she had given to us, even in those meager times. It didn’t matter where you hailed from, whether you came from the mountains or the prairies, a sprawling city or a small coastal town: you loved her. We all did.” That love helped bring this country through the fire.

Seventy-five years later, a small band of survivors, including the 94-year-old Stratton, who will attend with his wife of 66 years, gathers on Oahu. It will be, almost surely, the last milestone anniversary involving participants. From our distant perch, it seems impossible to understand and fully absorb the magnitude of Pearl Harbor: in that vanished world, young men did things that we cannot imagine, and the events themselves, while framed by formidable scholarship and many excellent narrative histories, are also shrouded in myth. We cannot stand where Americans stood then or feel what they felt, but we can remind ourselves that there is no hell on earth like war, no bravery or love of fellows more surpassing than that seen in the armed forces—and no hardship we face now that compares remotely with the darkness that that American generation confronted, across two oceans. It all started on that quiet Sunday morning, 75 years ago. On December 7, pause a moment if you can.
 
 
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
liar-nObama's last licks
by Caroline B. Glick
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UK: Another Massive Charity
Commission Whitewash
by Samuel Westrop
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The head of the Islamic Education and Research Academy
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ On November 4, the British charity regulator, the Charity Commission, published a report of its inquiry into the Islamic Education and Research Academy (iERA), a British Salafist group and religious training organization... The inquiry was initially welcomed by moderate Muslim groups and counter-extremism analysts, but many will be disappointed with the Charity Commission's recommendations. More than a dozen pieces have been written for the Gatestone Institute examining the iERA's links to extremism, as well as the failure of government, media and even Jewish organizations to tackle this fast-growing Salafist group. In 2014, one of these articles exclusively revealed that the "Portsmouth Five," a notorious group of ISIS recruits from southern England, were all members of an iERA youth group. In 2014, the Council of Ex-Muslims of Britain published their own comprehensive report, which looked even more closely at the officials, preachers and extremist links of the iERA. In the wake of significant media coverage, the Charity Commission launched their investigation. The "inquiry's scope," the Charity Commission claims, was to look at the iERA's extremist links, as well as its "financial management."...
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Moment of truth for Muslim DNC chief candidate
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{wnd.com} ~ The Democratic National Committee is having a big problem finding a new face to fill its critical vacancy as chairman in the wake of its loss of the presidency and its continued minority role in both houses of Congress in 2016... U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first black Muslim ever to be elected to Congress, has emerged as the leading candidate, but has been entangled in a controversy over recent and older anti-Semitic public statements caught on recordings. While the Anti-Defamation League had previously defended his candidacy, the recordings changed the minds of the leadership, which has since labeled them as “deeply disturbing and disqualifying” for the position...Are Democrats seriously going to make this lightning rod their top leader?   http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/moment-of-truth-for-muslim-dnc-chief-candidate/
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Judge Jeanine – Trump Economic Adviser Moore,
Carrier Symbolizes Plan
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Trump Economic Adviser Stephen Moore joins Judge Jeanine for a discussion of the meaning of the Carrier deal and what lies ahead. Moore says... “This is just the start of something big,” noting that Trump won’t be endeavoring to save American industry one company at a time.”  He says, “But I think he was sending a message here to the voters of Pennsylvania, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, for those Midwestern states, that he cares about them and he is going to fight for their jobs. And that’s what they’ve wanted to hear for a long time.” Moore references a clip Judge Jeanine played earlier in which liar-nObama said, ‘Well, there’s nothing we can do about it.’ Yes there are things we can do,” says Moore, “to bring jobs back to factory workers and the hardworking middle class people who’ve lost their jobs. We can lower our taxes, we can lower our regulatory costs, we can lower our energy costs and make America a very competitive place, and this is just the start.”...  http://rickwells.us/judge-jeanine-trump-economic-adviser-moore-carrier-symbolizes-plan/
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Sheriff Babeu – In A Month We’re Going After The
Criminals liar-nObama’s Been Protecting
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{rickwells.us} ~ Sheriff Paul Babeu can barely contain his enthusiasm for what lies ahead after January 20th. It’s a time when he and other law enforcement professionals, both local and at the federal level, finally get to return to doing the job the people pay them to do... It’s the wondrous time when the obstructionist scofflaws currently occupying and abusing positions will be kicked to the curb. They play a couple of quotes from President-elect Trump during his thank you tour stop in Cincinnati. In one he pledges to restore our sovereignty, a huge commitment that is diametrically opposed to what we would have been enslaved to under the corrupt globalist Democrats. In two others Trump says “We will finally end illegal immigration” and “We will construct a great wall at the border.”...  http://rickwells.us/sheriff-babeu-month-going-criminals-obamas-protecting/
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Electoral College Under Attack Again
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{conservativebyte.com} ~ The Memphis Democrat filed a constitutional amendment Thursday that calls for eliminating the electoral college and allowing for direct election of the president and vice president... The congressman’s amendment comes as Democrat liar-Hillary Clinton’s lead in the popular vote in last month’s presidential election topped 2.5 million. liar-Clinton lost the electoral college – and the presidency – to Republican Donald Trump. “For the second time in recent memory, and for the fifth time in our history, we have a President-elect, who lost the popular vote,” said Cohen, the top Democrat on the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice…This would be a big mistake.  http://conservativebyte.com/2016/12/electoral-college-under-attack-again/
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liar-nObama's last licks
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Israel’s coalition crisis over the settlements regulation bill is not a normal power struggle between overweening politicians. It is not popularity contest between Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon and his Kulanu Party and Education Minister Naftali Bennett and his Bayit Yehudi Party.

It is also not about contenders for the helm challenging Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s political primacy.

The settlement regulation bill proposes to extend the authority of the Military Government in Judea and Samaria to seize privately owned land. That authority is now limited to seizure for military purposes. The bill would allow the Military Government to seize land for the purpose of private construction as well.

The political fight over the bill is not merely a fight over the community of Amona, which will be destroyed by order of the High Court if the law isn’t passed before December 25.

The fight over the law is a fight about the character of Israel.

Opponents of the bill argue that the law undermines the power of the Supreme Court and endangers Israel’s international standing. Proponents of the bill argue that Israel needs to ensure the primacy of the Knesset. They further argue that there is no point in bowing to the will of an international community that is constitutionally incapable of ever standing with Israel.

In case you were wondering, proponents of the bill have it right.

The settlement regulation bill is not a radical bill. It is a liberal reform of a legal regime that harms the civil rights of both Palestinians and Israelis.

Palestinians today are denied their full property rights. Shortly after its establishment in 2004, the Palestinian Authority made selling land to Jews and Christians a capital offense. Dozens of Palestinians have been murdered over the past two decades in extrajudicial executions by both Palestinian security forces and by terrorist militias working hand in glove with Palestinian security forces for the “crime” of selling their land to Jews.

Earlier this year, the Israeli group Ad Kan documented employees of the European-financed far-left groups Ta’ayush and B’Tselem conspiring to hand over to Palestinian forces a Palestinian landowner who expressed interest in selling his land to Jews. During surreptitiously recorded exchanges, they acknowledged that the PA would likely execute him.

The settlement regulation bill empowers the military commander to seize privately owned land and compensate the owners. In other words, it provides a means for willing Palestinian sellers to sell their property to willing Jewish purchasers without risking the lives of the owners.

As I noted in a column on the subject of the bill last week, the legal opinion published by Attorney- General Avichai Mandelblit opposing the settlement regulation bill included four arguments.

Prof. Avi Bell from the Bar-Ilan University School of Law rebutted all of Mandelblit’s claims in an article published two weeks ago in Yisrael Hayom.

As Bell showed, Mandelblit’s claim that the proposed law breaches international law is both irrelevant – since Knesset laws supersede international law, and at best arguable.

Mandelblit further argued that the Knesset has no right to pass laws that supersede international laws pertaining to the belligerent occupation of land seized in war. But Bell demonstrated that the opposite is true. For instance, Israel’s Golan Heights Law from 1981 canceled the military government on the Golan Heights and applied Israeli law to the area.

Mandelblit claimed that eminent domain cannot be used to seize land for private construction projects. But as Bell showed, there are dozens of decisions by US courts permitting eminent domain to be used in just such cases.

Finally, Mandelblit argued that the Knesset doesn’t have the authority to pass laws that contradict High Court decisions. Here too, Bell showed that the opposite is the case.

Israel’s constitutional order is based on its Basic Laws. Basic Law: Knesset defines the Knesset as the highest legislative authority. In line with this, the Knesset has passed numerous laws over the years that have overturned High Court decisions.

On the basis of Mandelblit’s last argument, on Monday, Kahlon announced that Kulanu would not support the settlement regulation law.

Kahlon insisted that his party would not support any law that undermines the court’s authority and since the court ruled that Amona must be destroyed and its residents rendered homeless by December 25, Kahlon will take no action to save the community.

Kahlon insists that he is motivated by a desire to protect the court’s prerogatives. But when assessed in the context of actual laws, it is clear that his position doesn’t primarily defend the court. Rather it undermines the Knesset, and through it, Israeli democracy.

If the Knesset doesn’t have the right to pass laws that run counter to Supreme Court decisions, then the public that elected the Knesset is effectively disenfranchised. Far from securing Israel’s democracy and constitutional order, opposition to the settlement regulation bill undermines both.

Then there is the issue of Israel’s international standing.

On Monday the security cabinet convened to discuss the settlement regulation bill. According to leaked accounts of the six-hour meeting, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Bennett that passage of the bill is liable to cause the International Criminal Court’s Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda to indict Netanyahu as a war criminal.

He also warned that passage of the bill is liable to induce US President Barack liar-nObama to enable an anti-Israel resolution to be adopted by the UN Security Council.

Netanyahu’s claims are deeply problematic.

Insofar as the ICC is concerned, three points counter Netanyahu’s argument. First, Bensouda is already conducting an investigation of Israel.

She opened her investigation shortly after she wrongly admitted “Palestine” as a state member of the ICC.

The ICC will continue to investigate Israel whether or not the Knesset passes the settlement regulation law. And the merits of the bill will have no impact on the ICC’s decision to prosecute or close the investigation.

The second problem with Netanyahu’s claim is that just by making it – and leaking it to the media – he empowered the ICC.

The ICC is becoming weaker by the day. Angry over the political nature of its prosecutions, African states are abandoning it. Russia also has announced it is walking away.

Israel should welcome this development.

The Treaty of Rome which established the ICC made clear that one of the court’s purposes is to criminalize Israel.

By arguing that the ICC will respond to the passage of the regulation bill by indicting Israel, Netanyahu is lending credence to the false claims that there is something unlawful about the bill on the one hand, and that the ICC’s politically motivated investigation of Israel is legally defensible on the other hand. Indeed, by claiming wrongly that passing the bill will expose Israel to ICC investigation, Netanyahu is effectively inviting the ICC to persecute him.

The ICC, like its comrades in the lawfare campaigns worldwide, always target those perceived as vulnerable to pressure. This is why leftists like former justice minister Tzipi Livni are targeted for war crimes complaints while current Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked is left alone.

The most extraordinary example of this sort of political targeting came on Monday. The same day Netanyahu was making the case for the ICC and liar-nObama in the cabinet, word came that Palestinian immigrants in Chile have filed a war crimes claim against three High Court justices. Former Palestinians from Beit Jala, south of Jerusalem, filed war crimes charges against retired Supreme Court president Asher Grunis and sitting justices Uzi Vogelman and Neal Hendel, all being accused of committing war crimes for their decision last year regarding the route of the security barrier around Jerusalem.

There is no governing institution in Israel more sensitive to war crimes accusations than the Supreme Court. To avoid just such charges, justices routinely second-guess military commanders and the government and deny them the right to use their best professional judgment to defend the country.

In the decision for which they are accused of war crimes, the three justices gave qualified approval to the IDF to complete the security barrier around Jerusalem on land owned by the petitioners in Beit Jala. In their ruling, the justices actually sided with the petitioners’ claim that the proposed routes harmed their rights and insisted that the IDF prove that it had no means of defending the capital without building the barrier along the proposed routes.

And for their efforts, the justices are now being accused of war crimes.

The same flawed premise at the heart of Netanyahu’s claim that approving the bill will cause Israel to be prosecuted for war crimes stands at the heart of his claim that passing the law will increase the possibility that liar-nObama will allow an anti-Israel resolution to pass in the UN Security Council.

The problem with this argument is that it ignores the basic fact that liar-nObama’s desire to stick it to Israel at the UN Security Council has been a consistent feature of his presidency for eight years. liar-nObama has wielded this threat against Israel without regard for its actual policies. He has threatened us when the government froze Jewish building rights. He has threatened us when the government respected Jewish building rights. If liar-nObama decides to enable an anti-Israel resolution to pass through the UN Security Council during his remaining seven weeks in office, he will do so regardless of whether the Knesset passes or scuppers the settlement regulation bill.

The only thing likely to prevent liar-nObama from harming Israel at the Security Council at this point is a clear message to the UN from the incoming Trump administration.

For instance, if President-elect Donald Trump announces directly or through an intermediary that Security Council action against Israel over the next seven weeks will induce the Trump administration to withhold US funding from the UN, UN officials will likely stuff draft resolutions to this effect into a drawer.

Netanyahu’s actions do more to harm his future relations with Trump than advance his current relations with liar-nObama. If Netanyahu blocks passage of the settlement regulation bill, he is likely to enter the Trump era as the head of a government on the verge of collapse. Rather than be in a position to reshape and rebuild Israel’s alliance with the US after eight years of liar-nObama’s hostility, Netanyahu may limp to his first meeting with the new president, the head of dysfunctional government beyond his control, and at the mercy of a legal fraternity and an international judicial lynch mob that he will have just empowered.
http://jewishworldreview.com/1216/glick120216.php3
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 5, 2016 at 7:30am
Merry Christmas
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The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
ADL Retracts Ellison DNC Endorsement
by The Investigative Project on Terrorism
 
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 Plugging the Swamp Drain at Treasury? 
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Michael Swartz: For more than 16 months, Donald Trump ran a populist campaign based on supporting Main Street instead of Wall Street. But a sign hat the rhetoric isn't going to meet reality was Trump's appointment of Steven Mnuchin, a onetime partner of the much-maligned Goldman Sachs, as his finance chairman. Once elected, it was no surprise that Trump tapped Mnuchin for his treasury secretary. He's made many smart cabinet moves to shore up various constituencies, and with this one, he's thrown Wall Street a bone.
         Remember, this was the candidate who accused fellow Republican Ted Cruz on Twitter: "Goldman Sachs owns him, he will do anything they demand. Not much of a reformer!" Add to this the facts that Mnuchin is second-generation Goldman Sachs, worked for a time for a firm controlled by radical leftist financier George Soros, and has donated millions of dollars to Democrats over the years, and it seems a curious choice. Then again, Donald Trump admitted he wasn't running as a conservative, so this shouldn't be completely unexpected.
          Nor is the Goldman Sachs-to-Washington connection stopping with Mnuchin. High on Trump's short list for a high-level position is Goldman Sachs President Gary Cohn. We also shouldn't forget that the much-reviled Trump chief strategist Steve Bannon spent time there in the 1980s. It's a series of selections that's turning heads, and bringing some to ask: How much Goldman Sachs is too much?
          And while Trump's pick for Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur Ross, isn't a Goldman Sachs alumnus, he's associated with Rothschild, another Wall Street firm. But Ross, until recently a longtime Democrat donor as well, made his billions buying and selling distressed businesses in the coal and steel industries, among others.
          Assuming all of Trump's selections are confirmed, the finance portion of his cabinet will look more like Wall Street than Main Street. Obviously they will be experts in the financial field, but the question is whether they will be using the same playbook Trump used to win election. This holds especially true for Trump's tax plan, which Mnuchin said would be the "largest tax change since Reagan" while warning that the changes would not address the extremely progressive nature of the tax code. "Any reductions we have in upper-income taxes will be offset by less deductions, so that there will be no absolute tax cut for the upper class," said Mnuchin. While it sounds like those in the top 1% of households are greedy because they make 17.2% of the income, they pay more than their fair share according to the Tax Policy Center — 28.7% of all federal taxes. In any case, it's a sure bet Democrats will be restoring their mantra of "no tax cuts for the rich" no matter what Mnuchin does.
          And if nothing else, the incoming treasury secretary is already on the Democrats' bad side: As an investor in several blockbuster films (as part of a financial entity called RatPAC-Dune Entertainment), he was a backer of the film "American Sniper." Some colleges banned the film from campus because a few Muslim students were offended.
          Donald Trump won election by cutting against the political grain. That doesn't mean he's always going to cut against that grain. And his election doesn't mean the swamp will be drained overnight. The question about his money men is whether they'll help drain it.  ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46244
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 SHORT CUTS
Insight: "Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage." —Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
          For the record: "Candidates must shape policies that appeal to a broad range of people, not just coastal liberals or southern conservatives. Just how badly did liar-Hillary Clinton fail in that regard? In a nation of 3,142 counties, parishes, and boroughs, liar-Hillary Clinton won less than five hundred of them. The left's interpretation of that loss is to attack Trump voters as bigots, racists and homophobes. But increasingly we are seeing true bigotry on the left. They are, on a near daily basis, affirming so many people's votes for Donald Trump. —Erick Erickson
          A bridge too far: "BuzzFeed can't argue that the same-sex-marriage issue is ethically settled, because it isn't for a sizable population of our country and our world. It is no longer okay — indeed, it never was — to write cutesy articles shaming religious people as homophobic for simply being one of the many millions of Americans in 2016 who attend a religious congregation that does not support same-sex marriage. That is not a good move for activism or journalism." —homosexual Brandon Ambrosino in The Washington Post
          Wishful thinking: "I thought I'd just come by and tell you how exhilarated I am by the strong vote that I have from my colleagues as we go forward. ... This is so much bigger than politics. It's about the character of America, the responsibility to the people, our obligation to our founders, our gratitude to our men and women in uniform and our respect for the aspirations of America's children and our families." —Nancy Pulosi
          Braying Jackass: "I know that the president-elect has indicated that he deserves credit for ... [the Carrier] announcement, and I guess what I would observe is that if he is successful in doing that 804 more times, then he will meet the record of manufacturing jobs that were created in the United States while President liar-nObama was in office. There were 805,000 manufacturing jobs that weren't just protected or saved, but actually created while President liar-nObama was in office." —Josh Earnest
          And last... "The death of Fidel Castro reminds us that the respectable press, the 'two-sources' press, the press that enforces standards and performs reality checks and practices 'shoe leather' journalism and all that, has been peddling 'fake news' about Cuba and Castro for 60 years." —Mona Charen  ~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/digests/46244
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Iran Threatens to Walk Away From Nuke Deal,
Retaliate Against U.S. for New Sanctions
by Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Iran is threatening to walk away from the nuclear deal with the United States and pursue forms of retaliation, including a national boycott of American goods, as a result of Congress’s overwhelming vote on Thursday... to level new sanctions against Iran for another 10 years, according to multiple comments by senior Iranian officials. Following the Senate’s 99-0 vote to renew economic sanctions on Tehran, senior Iranian officials said the United States is in violation of last summer’s nuclear deal and that Iran is prepared to retaliate, which could include abandoning the agreement. The comments come as the liar-nObama administration scrambles to preserve the deal in its final months in office, ahead of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump, who has been assembling a cabinet filled with fierce opponents of the accord...This agreement was never voted upon by Congress. Why are they treating as such.   http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-threatens-walk-away-nuke-deal-promises-retaliation-u-s-new-sanctions/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=791f5920e5-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2016_12_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-791f5920e5-45611665
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Republicans Praise Trump; China Launches Complaint
by Sandy Fitzgerald
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{newsmax.com} ~ Republican lawmakers are praising President-elect Donald Trump for talking to Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen by telephone, but on Saturday, mainland China launched a complaint about the phone call... amidst concerns that the call could jeopardize United States relations with Beijing. "America has always been a champion of democratic values and individual freedoms, and I applaud the President-elect for making a strong statement in support of those values around the world," Rep. Matt Salmon, R-Arizona, who chairs the House Foreign Affairs subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, told The Hill in a statement about Friday's phone call. "I commend President-elect Trump for reaching out to the democratically-elected President of Taiwan, Tsai Ing-wen."...  http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/GOP-Praise-Trump-China/2016/12/03/id/761973/?AID=7236
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liar-nObama DHS Smuggling Massive Hordes
Of Unknown OTM Illegals Into US?
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ If this report is accurate in its location there are, at a minimum, some serious questions that need to be answered. If it is true, what appears to be and is reported to be by the author of the video... non-English and non-Spanish speaking foreigners, are lined up outside an immigration facility on the Mexico-US border. They also appear to be being processed in some manner and then enter the US. If we accept, for vigilance’s sake, the idea that this is occurring, the troubling next question is why and there is no easy, non-nefarious answer for that. Has Hussein liar-nObama moved forward to the next step in his lawless fundamental transformation of America with the blatant smuggling of illegal aliens of unknown origin into the United States? Sure, he’s been importing various sub-categories of illegal aliens from neighboring countries for years now. He’s relied upon a contorted legal distortion that DHS uses as their excuse for violating federal law and committing treason. This would follow the progressive model from that lawlessness to a greater offense...
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Judge Jeanine Reveals Ugly Truth
About Democrat Leadership
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ Judge Jeanine Pirro offered some hard truth to a Democrat Party still reeling from presidential nominee liar-Hillary Clinton’s devastating loss in November... Appearing “Fox & Friends,” Pirro said that by refusing to accept the election results and learn from them, Democrats were risking their future. “We’ve got a Democratic Party that cannot come to grips with what has happened,” she said. “We had a terrific candidate and they had a candidate who should have been indicted 86 times.”...  http://conservativetribune.com/judge-jeanine-democrat-party/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_campaign=CTDailyEmail&utm_content=2016-12-03
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Look who's really generating phony stories!
by Joseph Farah
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Matt Vizer of the Boston Globe
{wnd.com} ~ This was the headline in a Politico story Friday: “Trump inherits liar-nObama boom.” Written by Ben White, the publication’s chief economic reporter, not I must point out, Barack liar-nObama’s chief speech writer... the fake news story was apparently designed to persuade Americans that we are living in what he characterizes as “a fairly robust economy with the lowest jobless rate in nearly a decade, record home and stock prices and a healthy growth rate.” For this reason, White states: “Trump instead will take office with an economy at near full employment and wages and spending rising. The economy is in such strong shape that the Federal Reserve is likely to raise interest rates again later this month to try and cool things off.”...  http://www.wnd.com/2016/12/look-whos-really-generating-phony-stories/
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ADL Retracts Ellison DNC Endorsement
by The Investigative Project on Terrorism
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison's 2010 comments about Israeli political influence, first reported Tuesday by the Investigative Project on Terrorism, are "deeply disturbing and disqualifying" to his bid to become head of the Democratic National Committee, the Anti-Defamation League announced in a statement Thursday afternoon.

In remarks given at a private fundraiser, Ellison, D-Minn. implied Israel enjoyed disproportionate and inappropriate control over U.S. foreign policy. The IPT obtained a recording of those comments:

"The United States foreign policy in the Middle East is governed by what is good or bad through a country of 7 million people. A region of 350 million all turns on a country of 7 million. Does that make sense? Is that logic? Right? When the Americans who trace their roots back to those 350 million get involved, everything changes. Can I say that again?"

Thursday's statement, ADL chief executive Jonathan Greenblatt said Ellison's comments expose a belief that American policy is driven not by the country's best interests, but by "religiously or national origin-based special interests ... Additionally, whether intentional or not, his words raise the specter of age-old stereotypes about Jewish control of our government, a poisonous myth that may persist in parts of the world where intolerance thrives, but that has no place in open societies like the U.S."

Greenblatt defended Ellison last week against criticism of his past association with the Nation of Islam and his close relationships with Islamist groups like the Muslim American Society (MAS) and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), both of which were created by members of the Muslim Brotherhood.

Ellison "long ago ... disassociated himself from the Nation of Islam and apologized for its anti-Semitism," Greenblatt wrote. And, "we have seen no concrete evidence of any link between Ellison and the Brotherhood."

"He has been outspoken about anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry in his role as a congressman. Local Jewish leadership in his district speaks highly of him," Greenblatt wrote.

But the 2010 comments exposed by the IPT changed all that. Bipartisan support for Israel, "our most important ally in the region, a democracy whose emphasis on equality and commitment to the rule of law stands in stark contrast to the anarchy and authoritarian regimes that prevail in much of the Middle East" is vital, Thursday's statement said. The next head of the Democratic Party should "have fidelity to these timeless ideals at all times."

The DNC is expected to choose its next leader in early 2017.
 
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1216/ellison_adl.php3
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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 3, 2016 at 5:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
It's liar-nObama, Not the American People,
Who Won't Listen
by David Limbaugh
 
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 The Top School Choice 
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Allyne Caan: While most leftists have spent the last 23 days bemoaning the election results and pushing for recounts for no reason other than they lost, President-Elect Donald Trump has been building a cabinet that has some refreshingly solid picks. His list includes Sen. Jeff Sessions for attorney general, Sen. Tom Price for HHS secretary, former Labor Secretary Elaine Chao to head Transportation, Gov. Nikki Haley as UN ambassador, Rep. Mike Pompeo as CIA director, banker Steve Mnunchin for Treasury, and financier Wilbur Ross for Secretary of Commerce. Some more prominent posts are yet to be filled, but the rumor mill includes some intriguing names.
          As National Review's Jim Geraghty writes, "We may quibble with a few here and there, but overall it's a really good group ... [and] a pretty darn conservative cabinet." Indeed, for anyone concerned Trump's cabinet may include more Fruity Pebbles than brain food, his picks thus far should help allay those fears.
          And while we've noted before that it's difficult to select our least favorite federal agency (there are so many), Trump's choice of Betsy DeVos to lead a consistent contender — the Department of Education — is particularly encouraging. A longtime school choice advocate and chair of the American Federation for Children, a pro-school choice organization, DeVos is a firm believer in empowering parents — especially those from low-income families — to choose the best educational options for their children. In her state of Michigan, DeVos helped pass the state's first charter-school bill. Who better to lead an agency whose stated mission is "to promote student achievement and preparation for global competitiveness by fostering educational excellence and ensuring equal access"?
          In DeVos, children will finally have an advocate who cares more for their educational opportunity than for carefully preserving a government behemoth that condemns too many students to mediocrity and even complete academic failure.
          Unfortunately, some would rather see the behemoth saved and children sacrificed. No sooner had Trump named DeVos than the usual suspects in the battle against educational opportunity — the teachers unions — emerged in full force. National Education Association (NEA) president Lily Eskelsen Garcia claimed DeVos has "undermine[d] public education," "lobbied for failed schemes, like vouchers," and "consistently pushed a corporate agenda to privatize, de-professionalize and impose cookie-cutter solutions to public education."
          And American Federation of Teachers (AFT) president Randi Weingarten tweeted, "Trump has chosen the most ideological, anti-public education nominee since the creation of the Dept of Education," adding Trump's choice makes "maks [sic] it clear his admin will focus on privatizing, defunding and destroying public edu [sic]."
          Of course, as Wall Street Journal editorial writer Jason Riley notes, "Since what's good for the unions is often bad for the schools, and vice versa, Ms. Weingarten's apoplexy is reason to cheer."
          Indeed, while critics claim Michigan's charter schools are examples of what doesn't work, National Review Senior Editor Ramesh Ponnuru blasts craters in this argument, noting the purported "disaster" of Michigan's charters led to "more learning in a year" for charter students than for traditional public school students.
          But that matters little to the unions who care more for maintaining their own political power than for educating children. As we've noted before, charter school teachers aren't unionized; ergo, they don't pay union dues. Traditional public school teachers, on the other hand, are often forced to pay the union as a condition of employment. Cha-ching. And as Star Parker points out, in the 2016 election cycle, the NEA and AFT spent more than $33.6 million in political contributions and more than $3 million on lobbying. Do you think they were lobbying for educational opportunity for kids? No, they were lobbying for things like higher taxpayer-funded pensions for teachers. That and they were donating to Democrats.
          Riley writes that while DeVos has stated she hopes to "tear down the mindset that assigns students to a school based solely on the zip code of their family's home," Weingarten "has fought to keep persistently failing schools open because they still provide jobs for her dues-paying members."
          Bottom line: Those who categorically reject the belief that parents should be able to choose the best educational environment for their child will never approve someone like DeVos, a fierce advocate for children.
          Thankfully for the thousands of students hoping for a shot at a better education, DeVos doesn't need their approval. 
~The Patriot Post
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Sanctions against Hezbollah
in Latin America too often limited
by Emanuele Ottolenghi
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Sanctions against terror financiers are believed to be among the most effective tools the U.S. government has in its economic warfare arsenal... In practice, however, these measures have only a limited impact. U.S. sanctions against Hezbollah in Latin America are a perfect illustration of this. Since 2004, the U.S. Department of Treasury has periodically sanctioned Hezbollah financiers in Latin America. Yet many remain active in illicit trade and finance, are able to travel abroad, and likely enjoy significant access to the global financial system. Their defiance highlights the need for urgent countermeasures...
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Egypt’s Unlikely Ardor for Trump
by Oren Kessler
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ More than three weeks after the election, the American public remains divided over Donald Trump’s surprise victory. Six thousand miles away, however, one U.S. ally has demonstrated a far more unified response... Egyptians, particularly those of a pro-government bent, are among the world’s happiest about the Trump win. That may seem odd for a Muslim-majority country, given that Trump has floated the idea of a ban on Muslim immigration to the United States and even a registry for Muslims already in the country. To understand Trump’s appeal to Egyptians, therefore, it’s critical to look at the candidate he defeated. liar-Hillary Clinton is hugely unpopular in Egypt—a function primarily of her having served as secretary of state under U.S. President Barack liar-nObama during the 2011 Egyptian revolution, which toppled longtime leader Hosni Mubarak. Tendays into the revolution, liar-nObama demanded that his Egyptian counterpart, a three-decade U.S. ally, heed protesters’ demands and immediately step down. For those Egyptians who were positively inclined toward the military-led regime—and even for much of the apolitical middle,  which is concerned above all with stability—the move was a betrayal. It paved the way for the Muslim Brotherhood’s election a year later and its subsequent, bloody removal by a new military regime in July 2013. liar-Clinton’s close relationship with her aide Huma Abedin—whose family some critics allege is sympathetic to the Brotherhood —didn’t help her favorability ratings in Egypt...
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liar-nObama Strikes ‘Classified’ Deal to Accept 2,500 Refugees Australia Rejected
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{minutemennews.com} ~ Nearly 2,500 refugees from terrorism hotspots around the world are bound for the U.S. after being rejected by Australia, but not even top lawmakers can get answers about who they are... In an unprecedented move, the U.S. State Department has classified details on refugees to be resettled in America via a secret deal made with Australia. The bi-lateral agreement, which Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull called a “one-off,” involves 2,465 people currently being held in Papua New Guinea and Nauru who will now be transferred onto U.S. soil...liar-nObama is a complete jerk.
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Threatening Electors Violates Federal Law.
So Why Isn’t Loretta Lynch Doing Anything About It?
by Hans von Spakovsky
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{theacru.org} ~ Before Donald Trump’s stunning victory on November 8, liberals called for acceptance of election results. But since the election didn’t go as they’d planned, some have taken to harassing and intimidating electors in an attempt to change the election results... Some of these threats may violate federal law, yet the Justice Department acts strangely uninterested in investigating. Following the election, a coalition of liberal activist groups launched #NotMyPresident Alliance, an organization dedicated to fighting the inauguration of President-elect Trump. As part of that effort, #NotMyPresident distributed personal contact information —- including telephone numbers and addresses —- of electors in states that voted Republican. According to Buzzfeed, Maddie Deming, a strategist for the group, said they wanted to put electors in the spotlight and “to hold them accountable for their decision.” Whatever the intent, the initiative has produced a deluge of threats...  http://www.theacru.org/threatening-electors-violates-federal-law-so-why-isnt-loretta-lynch-doing-anything-about-it/
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DHS Officials Engaged In Treasonous Alien Induction Should Face Prison
by Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ DHS has abandoned even the facade of border enforcement, further enticing a flood of illegals to the American border. We can only hope that those responsible... including DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, CBP Commissioner R. Gil Kerlikowske, Chief of the U.S. Border Patrol Mark Morgan, Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas, and of course, Hussein liar-nObama will be charged, prosecuted and imprisoned for their treasonous actions and the creation of both a humanitarian and national security crisis. Having progressively veered away from enforcement of our border and immigration laws, and adopted a perverted definition of a refugee as well as an overly broad interpretation of our laws, there no longer remains any semblance of border security or enforcement. What our Border Patrol is now engaged in is a shameful, lawless mass induction, the processing of foreign invaders into our nation, in direct violation of federal law and their oaths to protect our nation and uphold the Constitution...
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It's liar-nObama, Not the American People,
Who Won't Listen
by David Limbaugh
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{townhall.com} ~You have to give President Barack liar-nObama credit for one thing: consistency. Nothing is ever his fault. Nothing will ever be his fault. Faulting Fox News and the American people, on the other hand, now that's a different story.

Do you remember when liar-nObama traipsed around the country and desperately pleaded with Americans to vote for liar-Hillary Clinton because his agenda and his legacy were on the ballot? He made a similar pitch before the shellacking his party took in the 2014 congressional elections.

Yet did he acknowledge after this 2014 failing that he had anything to do with it? Does he own up to his leading role in last month's presidential election?

Let's rewind the tape further, to liar-nObama's reaction to his party's stunning defeat in the 2010 congressional elections, which was largely about liar-nObamacare. He didn't acknowledge any personal culpability for visiting that monstrosity on the American people through trickery and deceit. He simply lamented that he hadn't done a good enough job getting the message out to the American people about it, despite his 50 propaganda speeches trying to persuade us to ignore our lying eyes.

Do you see the pattern here? liar-nObama's view is that the American people -- those in the red states, anyway -- are a little slow, paranoid and bigoted and need to be brought along carefully into the 21st century, where progressivism has ushered in a new age of enlightenment. His only failing has been in inadequately re-educating the bitter clingers.

Let me give you another example. Remember liar-nObama's depiction of the Islamic State group as "a JV team"? How about his claim, the night before the terrorist massacres in Paris, that the Islamic State was "contained"?

Did he ever acknowledge his errors there? No. Again, his only failing was in not having communicated sufficiently his counterterrorism strategies to the American people. He said his strategy against the Islamic State was working. This was before, as I recall, his admission that he had no policy. The problem was that saturated media coverage after the Paris attacks was fueling terror fears in the United States. He said: "We haven't, on a regular basis, I think, described all the work that we've been doing for more than a year now to defeat" the Islamic State. "If you've been watching television for the last month, all you've been seeing, all you've been hearing about is these guys with masks or black flags who are potentially coming to get you. And so I understand why people are concerned about it."

Again, there's nothing to see here. It's not a terrorism problem but a perception problem. There's no liar-nObamacare problem; it's just that the American people don't get it.

Even liberal New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd acknowledged, in 2012, that liar-nObama and his wife, Michelle, are condescending and aloof. The liar-nObamas "do believe in American exceptionalism -- their own, and they feel over assaulted and underappreciated," she wrote. The liar-nObamas haven't disappointed Americans; "we disappointed them."

Even earlier, in February 2010, liar-nObama pledged to "listen" to Republicans at a health care summit. But, as columnist Joseph Curl wrote, "turns out he meant he'd be listening to his own voice. By the end of the televised event, Mr. liar-nObama had spoken for 119 minutes -- nine minutes more than the 110 minutes consumed by 17 Republicans. The 21 Democratic lawmakers used 114 minutes, giving the president and his supporters a whopping 233 minutes."

And why do the rubes keep misperceiving liar-nObama's greatness? Fox News, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity.

In a recently published interview with Rolling Stone, liar-nObama denied that he and his party overlooked the "cohort of working-class white voters" that supposedly accounted for Donald Trump's victory. Absolutely not his fault. "Part of it," said liar-nObama, "is Fox News in every bar and restaurant in big chunks of the country, but part of it is also Democrats not working at a grass-roots level, being in there, showing up, making arguments."

The challenge Democrats have, according to liar-nObama, is not that they've neglected these communities from a policy perspective. "What is true, though, is that whatever policy prescriptions that we've been proposing don't reach, are not heard by, the folks in these communities. And what they do hear is 'liar-nObama or liar-Hillary are trying to take away your guns' or 'they disrespect you.'"

I repeat: This guy is remarkably, incorrigibly consistent. He has made no policy errors; his message just isn't getting through, partly because the conservative media are lying about it and partly because people are just too darned dense.

I hate to keep bringing up the past, but his war on the conservative media is nothing new, either. I wrote about it in 2010 in my book "Crimes Against Liberty." He began snubbing Fox reporters at news conferences for insufficiently pandering. The White House blog regularly denounced Fox News and other critics. White House communications director Anita Dunn recommended a "rapid response" to counteract "Fox's blows" against the administration, calling Fox News "part of the Republican Party." Presidential adviser David Axelrod said Fox News Channel is "not really a news station."

Remember when liar-nObamacare's principal architect, Jonathan Gruber, openly admitted that the liar-nObama administration was able to deceive the American people about liar-nObamacare and chalked it up to "the stupidity of the American voter"?

So go ahead and cry us a river about how the conservative media are mistreating you, Mr. liar-nObama, and misleading the public. You have been trying to deceive us for eight years, and the public has been onto you for at least 6 1/2 of those years. Now voters have handed you your biggest spanking yet, and you still will not listen. You can't listen. It's not what you do. But the American people have been listening, and they do understand your policies. And it's a new day in America.

 
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Sat/Noon ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 3, 2016 at 12:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
After a Mere 25 Years, the Triumph
of the West is Over
by Charles Krauthammer
 
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 Top Headlines 
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Democrats doubt "rigged" election and insist liar-Clinton has a "good chance" in the contested recount. (Hot Air)

  • Senators promoting full legal status for illegal immigrants — a.k.a. future Demo voters. (Washington Times)

  • The latest pollaganda: Only 1 in 4 want Trump to repeal liar-nObamaCare. Don't believe it. (CBS News)

  • Anti-Defamation League: Ellison's past remarks about Israel "disqualifying." (The Hill)

  • The Rainbow Mafia is ganging up on the Gaines family, but are silent on Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison and his anti-homosexual imam. (National Review)

  • Latest VA no-accountability incident — 600 veterans at risk of HIV and Hepatitis infection. (Miami Herald)

  • The Ohio State jihadi was taking a class about microaggressions. Either it didn't work ... or it did. (Reason)

  • Dakota Access pipeline protesters accused of destroying the environment — no irony here, move on... (Washington Times)

  • Congress ignores liar-nObama's threat, overwhelmingly passes new Iran sanctions. (Washington Free Beacon)

  • Disgraced French president Hollande is forgoing re-election. Has France had enough socialism?(Reuters)

~The Patriot Post
 OPINION IN BRIEF 
David Harsanyi: "Trump's crony bailout of Carrier Corp. is disturbing because it sounds a lot like the 'economic patriotism' agenda of the left. It's the standard cronyism in which we've seen one administration after the next indulge. Cronyism. Bullying. It's a bad deal for American workers in the long run, but sadly, 'picking winners and losers' is not outside the norm of big-government politics. If liar-nObama had pulled off the Carrier deal, the same people would have been complaining on opposite sides of the issue. Moreover, Trump's contention that giant infrastructure bills and government spending are economic drivers is also something conservatives should oppose. But that doesn't make this the era of Trump; it means we're still in the era of Washington, D.C. Freak out accordingly."   ~The Patriot Post
 
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Iran Denies Existence of 7% of Its Population
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{clarionproject.org} ~ Five-million Iranians have simply disappeared. That’s if you believe the country’s latest report to the U.N. on its work with minorities within the country... The report’s authors chose to ignore the existence of one of the largest minorities, the five-million Ahvazi Arabs. The human-rights organization of the Ahvazi people noted the omission of the Ahvazi Arabs, and indeed the failure to mention the existence of Arabs in the country at all. This apparent neglect comes despite the fact that the vast majority of the Ahvazis are Shiites – which is the major religious denomination in the Islamic Republic of Iran...  https://www.clarionproject.org/news/iran-denies-existence-7-its-population
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Senate, in 99-0 Vote, Sends Iran Sanctions
Bill to liar-nObama’s Desk
by PATRICK GOODENOUGH
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Despite Iranian complaints and administration arguments that the move is unnecessary, the U.S. Senate on Thursday approved legislation extending the Iran Sanctions Act (ISA) for another ten years - by a vote of 99-0... Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont did not vote. The Iran Sanctions Extension Act, which passed in the House in a 419-1 vote a fortnight ago, now goes to President liar-nObama's desk. Unlike other pending Iran-related legislation, the White House has not indicated that liar-nObama would veto the bill - the scale of support indicates a veto would be overridden in any case...
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Can Trump Stop Muslim Brotherhood’s
‘Civilization Jihad’?
by LT. COLONEL JAMES G. ZUMWALT, USMC (RET)
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{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ Twenty years ago, we paid al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden's war declaration against America little heed. On 9/11, we suffered the consequences of doing so... Six years ago, not only did we pay Muslim Brotherhood leader Muhammad Badie's war declaration against America little heed, but President Barack liar-nObama openly embraced the group, inviting its leadership to the White House. Meanwhile, allies Egypt, Saudi Arabia and later the U.K. denounced Muslim Brotherhood for its Islamist ideology. Sen. Ted Cruz introduced legislation earlier this year declaring it a foreign terrorist organization for promoting radical Islam's Wahhabism via its various proxies. Approved by the House Judiciary Committee, referred to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, liar-nObama stalls the bill's progress. Despite Badie's 2010 war declaration, the Brotherhood initiated a secret war plan much earlier, discovered by accident in 2004, hidden in a Muslim activist's home during a warranted search...
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How Trump will and won't transform
the Supreme Court
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by BETSY MCCAUGHEY, PHD
{familysecuritymatters.org} ~ The battle lines are forming over Donald Trump's anticipated Supreme Court nominee. A conservative advocacy group is running TV ads urging Trump to appoint a justice in the mold of the late Antonin Scalia... New Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer fires back that Democrats will try to block any nominee who isn't "mainstream." Trouble is, anybody who disputes the Democrats' left-wing definition of the Constitution as a malleable "living" document is outside their mainstream. Meanwhile, pro-choice groups are panicked about losing abortion "rights." For now, it's much ado about nothing. No matter whom Trump appoints this time, there are already five pro-choice justices on the court, counting Justice Anthony Kennedy. It would take a second Trump appointment to tilt the court the other way. During the campaign, Trump pledged to appoint justices who would uphold "the Constitution as it was meant to be." Trump's victory suggests the public agrees...
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American Renewal
by Clifford D. May
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Slowly and perhaps even surely, Donald Trump is pulling together a team he believes can help him achieve his goals. Which are what exactly? The most basic are given to him in Article II, Section One, Clause 8 of the U.S. Constitution... On Jan. 20, 2017, Mr. Trump will swear to “faithfully execute the Office of President of the United States,” and to the best of his “ability, preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” Faithful execution implies a presidential obligation to enforce the laws of the land. What about laws he objects to as a matter of principle or policy? He can work with Congress to repeal them. But to disregard them as one might argue President liar-nObama has done is to violate his oath...  http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/may-clifford-d-american-renewal/
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After a Mere 25 Years, the Triumph
of the West is Over
by Charles Krauthammer
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Twenty-five years ago — December 1991 — communism died, the Cold War ended and the Soviet Union disappeared. It was the largest breakup of an empire in modern history and not a shot was fired. It was an event of biblical proportions that my generation thought it would never live to see. As Wordsworth famously rhapsodized about the French Revolution, “Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive/ But to be young was very heaven!”

That dawn marked the ultimate triumph of the liberal democratic idea. It promised an era of Western dominance led by a pre-eminent America, the world’s last remaining superpower.

And so it was for a decade as the community of democracies expanded, first into Eastern Europe and former Soviet colonies. The U.S. was so dominant that when, on Dec. 31, 1999, it gave up one of the most prized geostrategic assets on the globe — the Panama Canal — no one even noticed.

That era is over. The autocracies are back and rising; democracy is on the defensive; the U.S. is in retreat. Look no further than Aleppo. A Western-backed resistance to a local tyrant — he backed by a resurgent Russia, an expanding Iran and an array of proxy Shiite militias — is on the brink of annihilation. Russia drops bombs; America issues statements.

What better symbol for the end of that heady liberal-democratic historical moment. The West is turning inward and going home, leaving the field to the rising authoritarians — Russia, China and Iran. In France, the conservative party’s newly nominated presidential contender is fashionably conservative and populist and soft on Vladimir Putin. As are several of the newer Eastern Europe democracies — Hungary, Bulgaria, even Poland — themselves showing authoritarian tendencies.

And even as Europe tires of the sanctions imposed on Russia for its rape of Ukraine, President liar-nObama’s much touted “isolation” of Russia has ignominiously dissolved, as our secretary of state repeatedly goes cap in hand to Russia to beg for mercy in Syria.

The European Union, the largest democratic club on earth, could itself soon break up as Brexit-like movements spread through the continent. At the same time, its members dash with unseemly haste to reopen economic ties with a tyrannical and aggressive Iran.

As for China, the other great challenger to the post-Cold War order, the administration’s “pivot” has turned into an abject failure. The Philippines has openly defected to the Chinese side. Malaysia then followed. And the rest of our Asian allies are beginning to hedge their bets. When the president of China addressed the Pacific Rim countries in Peru last month, he suggested that China was prepared to pick up the pieces of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, now abandoned by both political parties in the United States.

The West’s retreat began with liar-nObama, who reacted to perceived post-9/11 overreach by abandoning Iraq, offering appeasement (“reset”) to Russia and accommodating Iran. In 2009, he refused even rhetorical support to the popular revolt against the rule of the ayatollahs.

Donald Trump wants to continue the pull back, though for entirely different reasons. liar-nObama ordered retreat because he’s always felt the U.S. was not good enough for the world, too flawed to have earned the moral right to be the world hegemon. Trump would follow suit, disdaining allies and avoiding conflict, because the world is not good enough for us — undeserving, ungrateful, parasitic foreigners living safely under our protection and off our sacrifices. Time to look after our own American interests.

Trump’s is not a new argument. As the Cold War was ending in 1990, Jeane Kirkpatrick, the quintessential neoconservative, argued that we should now become “a normal country in a normal time.” It was time to give up the 20th-century burden of maintaining world order and of making superhuman exertions on behalf of universal values. Two generations of fighting fascism and communism were quite enough. Had we not earned a restful retirement?

At the time, I argued that we had earned it indeed, but a cruel history would not allow us to enjoy it. Repose presupposes a fantasy world in which stability is self-sustaining without the United States. It is not. We would incur not respite but chaos.

A quarter-century later, we face the same temptation, but this time under more challenging circumstances. Worldwide jihadism has been added to the fight, and we enjoy nothing like the dominance we exercised over conventional adversaries during our 1990s holiday from history.

We may choose repose, but we won’t get it.

http://freedomsback.com/charles-krauthammer/after-a-mere-25-years-the-triumph-of-the-west-is-over/

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Saturday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on December 3, 2016 at 8:00am
The Front Page Cover
 The Events of the Week -- Featuring: 
Is Flag Burning Protected Speech?
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
 
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 Fixating on the Fixer-Uppers 
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Expressed by the "inclusive" message of "conform or die, you backward bigots," tolerance as defined by the Left has more in common with the Inquisition than Webster's Dictionary. The latest intolerant lynching comes from the Internet's leading "lolcat" gif distributor, BuzzFeed, which occasionally takes a stab at journalism. The site unearthed a "shocking" possibility about two HGTV superstars with the headline, "Chip and Joanna Gaines' Church Is Firmly Against Same-Sex Marriage." What's so shocking about Christians holding the orthodox view that homosexual behavior and same-sex marriage are sinful? Nothing, but from the Rainbow Mafia's perspective, this "intolerant" belief must not be tolerated or allowed to go unpunished.
          But what's the story here? A lovable Christian couple with a hugely popular fixer-upper show may believe something — that has never been mentioned on the show — that the Left deems offensive. Clearly, this hit piece was designed not to report a story, but to threaten a popular couple should they not disavow beliefs the Left finds reprehensible. Buzzfeed is merely acting as the thought police.
          The template for this is simple. Back in 2014, the Benham Brothers, who own a successful real estate company in North Carolina and happened to be conservative Christians, were fired from HGTV after the Rainbow Mafia bullied the network. BuzzFeed knows they can foment a major "issue" because HGTV is so otherwise flamboyantly "gay." This is also reminiscent of Mozilla's CEO Brendan Eich being forced out of his job over donations to California's Prop. 8 on same-sex marriage. Or the Oregon bakers who were put out of business and fined $135,000 for declining to cater a lesbian wedding. The list of examples is growing all the time.
          One reason why a large majority of evangelicals voted for Donald Trump was to push back against the leftist social engineering and destruction of America's values — specifically these kinds of threats to religious liberty. Obviously, the Rainbow Mafia intends to double down, and Chip and Joanna Gaines are just the latest victims.  ~The Patriot Post
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 Climate Regs Impede Carbon Reductions 
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Under the terms of the Kyoto Protocol, participating nations were to pursue a roughly 5% emissions reduction, relative to 1990 levels, by 2012. The endeavor was considered a success by most environmental warriors. As a newly released Breakthrough Institute study notes,    "Every country achieved their emissions reduction commitments." But was the agreement really all it's cracked up to be? The aforementioned Breakthrough study goes on to reveal that, no, it's not.
          "Overall, the carbon intensity of economies that were party to the Kyoto Accord fell more rapidly in the decade before the agreement was signed than in the decade after," according to the report. "In the 10 years before signing, the compound annual growth rate for carbon intensity was -0.7%. In the 10 years after signing it was only -0.2%."
          "Similarly," the study continues, "the low-carbon share of energy was growing at an annual rate of 1.0% in the ten years prior to 1997, and only at a rate of 0.3% annually for the ten years after, meaning deployment of clean energy stalled or slowed in comparison to fossil fuels in these countries after they signed Kyoto." What's the explanation? "What becomes clear in looking at climate policy as it has been implemented at the international level is that most countries have only been willing to commit to decarbonization targets that are consistent with expected business-as-usual trends, accounting for measures that they have intended to take in any event."
          Thankfully, America did not participate in this scheme, thanks to the Republican Senate blocking Bill liar-Clinton and Al Gore. And though the liar-nObama administration cosigned the U.S. to last year's Paris climate accord, past efforts to implement a carbon-reducing system would have fallen short, just like the Kyoto Protocol. According to Reason's Ronald Bailey, "[T]he Breakthrough analysts conclude that U.S. carbon dioxide emissions have actually fallen faster since 2010 than they would have had the the Waxman-Markey cap-and-trade scheme been adopted by Congress. The U.S. trend toward lower carbon dioxide emissions was helped along by the global financial crisis, a weak recovery, and the ongoing switch from coal to cheap natural gas for electricity generation."
          As for what comes next, Breakthrough says, "Even should the next administration withdraw from the Paris Agreement and abandon the Clean Power Plan, the United States might outperform the commitments that the liar-nObama administration made in Paris if it keeps the nation's nuclear fleet online, continues tax incentives for deployment of wind and solar energy, and stays out of the way of the shale revolution. By contrast, a Democratic administration indifferent to the fate of the nation's existing nuclear fleet and hostile to shale gas production might ultimately slow US decarbonization trends."
          Given these circumstances, the most pertinent question is this: Why are ecofascists hampering our ability to reduce emissions, which can be accomplished without onerous government regulations? ~The Patriot Post
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Self-Censorship: Free Society vs. Fear Society
by Giulio Meotti
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Mohammed cartoon                    Flemming Rose
{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ In the summer of 2005, the Danish artist Kåre Bluitgen, when he met a journalist from the Ritzaus Bureau news agency, said he was unable to find anyone willing to illustrate his book on Mohammed, the prophet of Islam... Three illustrators he contacted, Bluitgen said, were too scared. A few months later, Bluitgen reported that he had found someone willing to illustrate his book, but only on the condition of anonymity. Like most Danish newspapers, Jyllands-Posten decided to publish an article about Bluitgen's case. To test the state of freedom of expression, Flemming Rose, Jyllands-Posten's cultural editor at the time, called twelve cartoonists, and offered them $160 each to draw a caricature of Mohammed. What then happened is a well-known, chilling story. In the wave of Islamist violence against the cartoons, at least two hundred people were killed. Danish products vanished from shelves in Bahrain, Qatar, Yemen, Oman, the UAE and Lebanon. Masked gunmen stormed the offices of the European Union in Gaza and warned Danes and Norwegians to leave within 48 hours. In the Libyan city of Benghazi, protesters set fire to the Italian consulate. Political Islam understood what was being achieved and raised the stakes; the West did not...
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Scoop Jackson Republicans
by Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ Senator Henry “Scoop” Jackson was a Democrat in the era of pro-life, conservative Democrats who hated communists, loved America, and could relate to the blue collar workers of the rust belt... Jackson was loved by labor unions, hated by communists, and hated by liberals. He was a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination in 1972 and 1976, losing first to McGovernor and then to Carter. If you heard any of Donald Trump’s speech in Ohio last night, you’ll hear the echoes of Jacksonian democracy in it — Scoop with a scoop of Andrew to go with it. Trump’s speech was all about “made in America,” build up American infrastructure, hire Americans, and build up the military. He wanted less business regulations, tax reform, and he is going to make America awesome...
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Oregon School District Thinks Santa Claus Is Disrespectful and Insensitive To Others
by Jay Caruso
{redstate.com} ~ When exactly did we become a nation of whiny babies? When was that plateau reached? A school district in Oregon sent a memo to staff telling to decorate their doors for the upcoming Christmas season... but asked them to remember to be sensitive and respectful to others and avoid images of a fat elf in a red suit that goes by the name of Santa Claus. For real. You may still decorate your door or office if you like, but we ask that you be respectful and sensitive to the diverse perspectives and beliefs of our community and refrain from using religious-themed decorations or images like Santa Claus. How about a snowflake?...Here they go again. AGAIN.  http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/12/01/oregon-school-district-thinks-santa-claus-disrespectful-insensitive-others/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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U.S. soldiers plead guilty in military
human smuggling ring
by Sharyl Attkisson
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ Two U.S. Army soldiers caught with two illegal immigrants in their vehicle last June have reportedly plead guilty to human smuggling. Marco Antonio Nava, Jr. and Joseph Cleveland were arrested last June... They told authorities it wasn’t the first time they’d smuggled illegal aliens into the U.S. for payments of $1,000 or $1,500. They named other military peers they said were involved in the ring at Ft. Bliss in El Paso, Texas. No word on the status of the investigation into the rest of the alleged smugglers. The illegal immigrants had been picked up at a trailer, then dropped off at a house 30 minutes north of Houston, Texas. According to Nava, each of the soldiers involved was paid $1,000 cash for that successful smuggling trip. They were to be paid $1,500 for the June 18 run a week later that Border Patrol agents intercepted. Border agents were able to review text messages exchanged between six soldier smugglers...  https://sharylattkisson.com/u-s-soldiers-arrested-for-allegedly-smuggling-illegal-immigrants/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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ISIS Sets Eyes on Creating New ‘State’
by David Harris
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{clarionproject.org} ~ Despite taking heavy losses in a battle with the Philippines military, an ISIS-affiliate has reportedly raised its flag over municipal buildings in a southern city in the South-East Asian country... This led one expert to forecast Islamic State will announce a new province on one of Philippines largest islands. Senior Analyst at IHS Jane's Terrorism and Insurgency Centre Otso Iho believes (Arabic link) it is only a matter of time before ISIS controls swathes of southern Philippines with its base on Mindanao, the country’s second-largest island with a population of 20 million. Several Islamist terror organizations have already pledged allegiance to ISIS, including Abu Sayyaf and Maute. Iho expects they will be ready to merge under the ISIS flag. Right now there is little to prevent these groups from operating freely in Mindanao, he said...  http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/isis-sets-eyes-creating-new-%E2%80%98state%E2%80%99
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Is Flag Burning Protected Speech?
by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation, it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion or other matters of opinion." — U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert H. Jackson

Is flag burning protected speech? This old issue returned front and center earlier this week after President-Elect Donald Trump tweeted that he found it so reprehensible, it should be criminal. He even suggested a punishment — loss of citizenship or one year in jail. Is the president-elect correct? Can the government punish acts that accompany the expression of opinions because the government, or the public generally, hates or fears the opinions?

Here is the backstory.

Last weekend, in a series of continued emotional responses to the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, and prodded by the death of Fidel Castro — the long-time, brutal, profoundly anti-American dictator of Cuba — students on a few American college campuses publicly burned American flags. These acts regenerated the generation-old debate about the lawfulness of this practice, with the president-elect decidedly on the side of those who condemn it.

For the sake of this analysis, like the U.S. Supreme Court, which has addressed this twice in the past 17 years, I am addressing whether you can burn your own American flag. The short answer is: Yes. You can burn your flag and I can burn mine, so long as public safety is not impaired by the fires. But you cannot burn my flag against my will, nor can you burn a flag owned by the government.

Before the Supreme Court ruled that burning your own flag in public is lawful, federal law and numerous state laws had made it criminal to do so. In analyzing those laws before it declared them to be unconstitutional, the Court looked at the original public understanding of those laws and concluded that they were intended not as fire safety regulations — the same statutes permitted other public fires — but rather as prophylactics intended to coerce reverence for the American flag by criminalizing the burning of privately owned pieces of cloth that were recognizable as American flags.

That is where the former statutes ran into trouble. Had they banned all public fires in given locations, for public safety sake, they probably would have withstood a constitutional challenge. But since these statutes were intended to suppress the ideas manifested by the public flag burning, by making the public expression of those ideas criminal, the statutes ran afoul of the First Amendment.

The First Amendment, which prohibits Congress from enacting laws infringing upon the freedom of speech, has consistently been interpreted in the modern era so as to insulate the public manifestation of political ideas from any government interference, whether the manifestation is by word or deed or both. This protection applies even to ideas that are hateful, offensive, unorthodox and outright un-American. Not a few judges and constitutional scholars have argued that the First Amendment was written for the very purpose of protecting the expression of hateful ideas, as loveable or popular ideas need no protection.

The Amendment was also written for two additional purposes. One was, as Justice Jackson wrote as quoted above, to keep the government out of the business of passing judgment on ideas and deciding what we may read, speak about or otherwise express in public. The corollary to this is that individuals should decide for themselves what ideas to embrace or reject, free from government interference.

In the colonial era, the Founding Fathers had endured a British system of law enforcement that punished ideas that the King thought dangerous. As much as we revere the Declaration of Independence for its elevation of personal liberty over governmental orthodoxy, we are free today to reject those ideas. The Declaration and its values were surely rejected by King George III, who would have hanged its author, Thomas Jefferson, and its signers had they lost the American Revolutionary War. Thank G0D they won.

Justice Jackson also warned that a government strong enough to suppress ideas that it hates or fears was powerful enough to suppress debate that inconveniences it, and that suppression would destroy the purposes of the First Amendment. The Jacksonian warning is directly related to the Amendment's remaining understood purpose — to encourage and protect open, wide, robust debate about any aspect of government.

All these values were addressed by the Supreme Court in 1989 and again in 1990 when it laid to rest the flag burning controversies by invalidating all statutes aimed at suppressing opinions.

Even though he personally condemned flag burning, the late Justice Antonin Scalia joined the majority in both cases and actively defended both decisions. At a public forum sponsored by Brooklyn Law School in 2015, I asked him how he would re-write the flag burning laws, if he could do so. He jumped at the opportunity to say that if he were the king, flag burners would go to jail. Yet, he hastened to remind his audience that he was not the king, that in America we don't have a king, that there is no political orthodoxy here, and that the Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, leaves freedom of expression to individual choices, not government mandates.

The American flag is revered because it is a universally recognizable symbol of the human sacrifice of some for the human freedom of many. Justice Scalia recognized that flag burning is deeply offensive to many people — this writer among them — yet he, like Justice Jackson before him, knew that banning it dilutes the very freedoms that make the flag worth revering.
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