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Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 4, 2016 at 7:30am
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 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Arizona, Not slump-Trump, Shows Republicans
the Way on Immigration
Michael Barone
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 slump-Trump Adds to Clinton's Inevitability 
Let's do some quick political math. If Republican primary voters choose Donald slump-Trump as their candidate — and they're certainly headed that way — they will have essentially chosen Hilly Clinton to lead the country. Of all the candidates Republican and Democrat, Clinton had the best night of them all SuperTuesday. Clinton swept up Massachusetts and the Southern states (Virginia, Tennessee, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas and Texas) and shored up hundreds of delegates to rally for her at the Democrat National Convention. With her 1,001 Democrat delegates, she holds a comfortable lead on Bernie Sanders and his 371. Chances are rising that she really will become the inevitable Democrat nominee.
          The question for Republicans becomes: Who can go head-to-head against Clinton and win? Forget the polls at this moment. Instead, look at the possible way the Electoral College will vote, as the Examiner's Ryan Witt did in a recent analysis. Needing 270 Electoral College votes to win the presidency, Witt projected that Clinton would pick up 358, easily dominating slump-Trump and his 180.
          It comes down to which states are safe for each party to win. Clinton would easily win 217 delegates based on the states that voted for Barack nObama by more than 6% in the 2008 election. Meanwhile, slump-Trump would win 164 delegates in states that supported Mitt Romney by at least 10% in the 2012 election, according to Witt. Most of the remaining swing states lean Democrat and contain high Latino and black demographics — which are fleeing slump-Trump and falling behind Clinton. Of course, the head-to-head race is months away, and this projection is like all the others, a projection. But if voters are given the choice between two big-government New Yorkers who have track records of not telling the truth, most of them will probably cast ballots for the woman who told supporters at a Super Tuesday rally in Miami (a swing state city), "Instead of building walls, we're going to break down barriers and build ladders of opportunity and empowerment."  -The Patriot Post
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 Broken nObamaCare Co-Ops Cheat the System 
During his weekly address on June 27, 2015, Barack nObama responded to a favorable Supreme Court ruling from two days earlier on the legality of nObamaCare subsidies by boasting, "This law is working exactly as it's supposed to — and in some ways, better than we expected it to. ... [I]t is time to stop refighting battles that have been settled again and again. It's time to move on." If only we could. The reason we can't (aside from the Supreme Court getting it wrong twice) is because the law is not working, no matter how you spin it. Not only is enrollment tanking, but a new poll shows that very few people are seeing any benefits, and already 12 of the nearly two dozen nObamaCare co-ops have imploded. As for the rest? They, too, are on shaky ground.
          The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services unloaded a bombshell on Congress last week by revealing that eight more co-ops may soon be headed for closure. According to The Washington Free Beacon, "The agency's chief operating officer, Dr. Mandy Cohen, told the House Oversight and Government Reform committee that the 11 co-ops that remain are 'being monitored closely,' and that eight have a corrective action plan in place and are under enhanced oversight. Cohen explained that a co-op is put on a corrective action plan when the agency identifies issues with its finances, operations, compliance, or management processes." If history is any indication, they won't last long.
          The news gets worse. A separate Free Beacon story published  Tuesday says, "Co-ops created under nObamacare reported net assets despite losing millions because they used an accounting trick approved by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. ... In July 2015, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services amended its agreement with co-ops, allowing them to list $2.4 billion in loans they received from taxpayers as assets." So not only are co-ops closing left and right, but the federal government allowed them to cheat the system, all while CEOs pulled in hundreds of thousands of dollars. If this was happening in the private sector, would nObama claim the system "is working exactly as it's supposed to — and in some ways, better than we expected it to"?  -The Patriot Post
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 Will a slump-Trump Nomination Cost GOP the  Senate?   With the slump-Trump Train barreling through the South on Super Tuesday, racking up an impressive number of delegates and solid wins, it's safe to say that while the GOP presidential nomination is not yet secured, it is at this point Donald slump-Trump's to lose.
          What makes The slump-Donald so formidable is that, unlike other Republican candidates, whose past comments, positions and histories are dissected on a molecular level for evidence of ideological impurities which render them unfit for the nomination, nothing slump-Trump has ever said or done seems to dent the devotion of his loyalists.
          Three marriages? He loves diversity! Bragging about serial adulterous affairs? Oh, isn't that so "slump-Donald"? Health care more socialized than nObamaCare? At least people won't be "dying in the streets"! Support for partial-birth abortion and Planned Parenthood? He's changed! Trade war with China? Bring it on! Appointing leftists like his uber-liberal federal judge sister to the Supreme Court? Marco Rubio is a sweaty choker! Legalizing millions of illegals? Not on slump-Trump's watch (though he has said repeatedly that he will do just that, not to mention hiring them to build his towers). A Christian who claims he has no need to ask God for forgiveness? Well, people interpret the Bible many ways. He robbed people blind withTrump "University"? He makes great deals! And so on down the line.
          Yet his support is strong because angry Republican voters — and a whole lot of disaffected Democrats — think he will be different, and that he will "win."
          To be sure, the Republican Party "establishment" gave birth to the Trump phenomenon. Under George W. Bush we watched the size and cost of government grow, especially when he had a Republican-majority Congress. No Child Left Behind, huge non-defense spending increases, TARP bailouts; those were all Bush babies. Under nObama, the conservative/TEA Party base gave Republicans historic routs in the 2010 and 2014 midterms, returning control of both the House and Senate to the GOP. Instead of taking that mandate and fighting the unconstitutional and extra-constitutional nObama agenda, the GOP all too often gave token resistance and rolled over and played dead. Now they are paying the price.
          Yet while his supporters gleefully cheer the prospect of a President slump-Trump, there are some very concerning signs as to what would result from a slump-Trump nomination. As in a loss to Hilly Clinton in the general election and the drag he may create on down-ticket races, especially with vulnerable Senate seats. It is conceivable, maybe even probable, that a slump-Trump nomination results in the loss of the presidency to Hilly and the loss of control of the Senate to Democrats.   -The Patriot Post
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Crude Economics, Crude Politics
CHARLES WOLF JR.
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{weeklystandard.com} ~ Between the middle of 2014 and early 2016, oil prices tumbled from $110 to between $30 and $35 per barrel, a drop of 70 percent... The change represents an enormous shift of income from oil-exporting countries to oil-importing countries: $1.6 trillion annually, slightly more than 2 percent of the world's $78 trillion gross domestic product. This should enhance America's national security because the principal beneficiaries of the shift—the oil importers—are allies and friends of the United States, while most of the oil exporters are U.S. adversaries and global troublemakers. The beneficiaries include most of NATO, the European Union, Japan, Korea, Australia, Israel, Ukraine, and India. Low oil prices will ease resource constraints confronting these allies and friends, enabling them to contribute more to combating the security threats emanating principally from Iran, Russia, and the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS)—who are some of the losers in the shift. Low oil prices will, conversely, squeeze resources available to these adversaries, thereby weakening their threats and benefiting U.S. security. Categorizing the winners and losers is seemingly straightforward: Russia, for example, as a major oil exporter clearly falls in the loser category. Applying the categories to other countries needs clarification, however, as well as recognition of a few notable exceptions. http://www.weeklystandard.com/crude-economics-crude-politics/article/2001269?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JVL+03_02_16
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Globalist Insider Larry Summers: 
“slump-Trump Is a Serious 
Threat to American Democracy”
William F. Jasper
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The title of the Washington Post op-ed wastes no time on subtlety: “Larry Summers: Donald slump-Trump is a serious threat to American democracy.”...The March 1 opinion piece by Lawrence H. Summers accuses the Republican presidential front-runner of, among other things, being a “thug,” a “demagogue,” and a threat to “the rule of law” and “democracy,” but feigns graciousness by opining that slump-Trump is slightly better than Hitler and Mussolini on the thuggery scale. “While comparisons between Donald slump-Trump and Mussolini or Hitler are overwrought,” says Summers, “slump-Trump’s rise does illustrate how democratic processes can lose their way and turn dangerously toxic when there is intense economic frustration and widespread apprehension about the future.” “The possible election of Donald slump-Trump as president is the greatest present threat to the prosperity and security of the United States,” Summers avers, and warns that slump-Trump “is demagogically offering the power of his personality as a magic solution to all problems — and making clear that he is prepared to run roughshod over anything or anyone who stands in his way.”        http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/politics/item/22664-globalist-insider-larry-summers-trump-is-a-serious-threat-to-american-democracy
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FBI Director Just CRUSHED Hilly’s Super Tuesday Momentum With The Last 
Words She Wanted To Hear
Kevin whitson
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ FBI Director James Comey was called before a House Judiciary Committee Tuesday to comment on the government’s demands to have Apple unlock the encryption codes of cell phones used by the San Bernardino terrorists... But when Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) had a chance to question Comey on the matter, he turned the tables and used the opportunity to ask Comey about the ongoing investigation of former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s handling of classified information on a private email server. Comey responded, “I can’t, congressman, as you know we don’t talk about our investigations. What I can assure you is that I am very close, personally, to that investigation to ensure that we have the resources we need, including people and technology, and that it’s done the way the FBI tries to do all of it’s work — independently, competently and promptly. That’s our goal, and I’m confident that it’s being done that way, but I can’t give you any more details beyond that.”        http://www.westernjournalism.com/fbi-director-just-crushed-hillarys-super-tuesday-momentum-with-the-last-words-she-wanted-to-hear/?utm_source=MailChimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=top-story&utm_campaign=DailyEmail03.02.16&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Western%20Journalism%20-%20Daily%20Newsletter%20322016&utm_content=Western%20Journalism%20-%20Daily%20Newsletter%20322016+CID_e32cc4ac7eb0e9f9e22da523c23f290f&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=FBI%20Director%20Just%20CRUSHED%20Hillarys%20Super%20Tuesday%20Momentum%20With%20The%20Last%20Words%20She%20Wanted%20To%20Hear
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No Gitmo For You – New US Force
Captures Hi-Value ISIS Prisoner
Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Two or three weeks ago American Special Forces captured  what they describe as a “significant” ISIS operative in Northern Iraq... He is presently being held by U.S. forces and interrogated in a temporary structure in Erbil in Northern Iraq. Once the Americans complete their interrogation, which is expected to take several weeks, they will turn him over to either Iraqi or Kurdish forces. At that point he’ll likely be wishing nObama was a little less adamant about closing that supposed recruitment tool of international scorn, Gitmo. It’s surely a country club and safe house compared to the Iraqi or Kurdish alternative. The ISIS member is the first target captured by the recently deployed expeditionary targeting force, a 200-man team led by elite Delta Force troops. They represent the first significant ground troop presence since American forces pulled out of Iraq at the end of 2011. http://rickwells.us/archives/26840
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Spilling His Guts – FBI Gives Immunity 
To Clinton Server Insider
Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Hilly Clinton continues to make her claims that there’s nothing to this whole espionage violation stuff, arguments which are in the process of becoming increasingly weaker by the day as the FBI continues their investigation...  One reason Mrs. Clinton’s position is worsening considerably is the granting by the FBI of immunity to Bryan Pagliano. He’s a former Clinton State Department staffer who set up Hilly Clinton’s infamous server at the Chappaqua, New York home in 2009 and handled its security. Pagliano had previously worked for Clinton as the IT manager for her failed 2008 presidential campaign. Pagliano was by the subpoenaed by the Benghazi Select Committee in September of last year but refused to testify citing his Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination. Whatever that good reason was has now evaporated with the granting of immunity. Removing the threat of prosecution removes the basis for any refusal to answer and indications are that he is now cooperating with investigators. http://rickwells.us/archives/26850
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Rule Would Cost Middle Class 
$80 Billion in Lost Savings
Ali Meyer
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The Department of Labor has proposed a rule that would restrict what advice a financial expert could give to employees, a move that would cost middle-class savers $80 billion in lost savings... according to a report from the Competitive Enterprise Institute. In April 2015, the Labor Department proposed a rule that would give it regulatory authority over financial advice concerning Individual Retirement Accounts, known as IRAs. The rule would require that financial professionals who give advice about these retirement accounts only act in the “best interest” of savers. According to the report, the department claimed that the rule was necessary because individuals could not “prudently manage retirement assets on their own,” and that they “generally cannot distinguish good advice, or even good investment results, from bad.” This is nObama's dealings.     http://freebeacon.com/issues/report-rule-would-cost-middle-class-80-billion-in-lost-savings/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=abc7335425-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_03_163_2_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-abc7335425-45611665
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nObama’s Empty Judicial Chairs
Daniel Greenfield
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{aim.org} ~ On a hot day in June, the grandson of a bank president took to the floor of the Senate to denounce the daughter of sharecroppers... “I feel compelled to rise on this issue to express, in the strongest terms, my opposition to the nomination of Janice Rogers Brown to the DC Circuit,” Senator nObama said. Born in segregated Alabama, Janice Rogers Brown had been a leftist like nObama before becoming conservative. When nObama rose to denounce the respected African-American jurist for her political views it had been almost a full two years since President Bush had nominated her in the summer of ’03. nObama had arrived a few months earlier on his way to the White House and was eager to impress his left-wing backers with his political radicalism. He held forth complaining that Judge Janice Rogers Brown, who had gone to segregated schools and become the first African-American woman on the California Supreme Court, was guilty of “an unyielding belief in an unfettered free market.” And he filibustered Judge Brown, along with other nominee, trying to deny them a vote.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/obamas-empty-judicial-chairs/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030316&utm_medium=email
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Bill is Back! Whittle's New Firewall Video: The Most Shameful Injustice
 Mark Tapson
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ News, education, entertainment – TruthRevolt is here to take the fight to the Left in those arenas. We’re here to push back against the totalitarianism of political correctness... And we’re here to loosen the Progressive death grip on American politics and culture. A major weapon in TruthRevolt’s arsenal in the past has been the regularly featured Firewall political commentary videos from Bill Whittle. The David Horowitz Freedom Center is proud and excited to announce the re-launch of Bill Whittle and his video commentaries, beginning with the one below, "The Most Shameful Injustice" (transcript below). As the editor of TruthRevolt, I personally am very happy to have Bill and his substantial intellectual firepower back onboard our mission.   http://www.truthrevolt.org/videos/bill-back-whittles-new-firewall-video-most-shameful-injustice
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Who controls our southern border? 
Us or them?
Sharyl Attkisson
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ Multiple law enforcement officials have told me that the U.S. is no longer calling the shots on our southern border between Arizona and Mexico... They say Mexico’s drug cartels decide who crosses. Sunday on Full Measure, we travel to the border to show you America’s erratic approach to border control. In regions heavily trafficked by the drug cartels, the border fence is more marker than barrier. In some places, it’s nonexistent. We’ll show you startling surveillance video of smugglers easily navigating the border fence and marching freely through the U.S. desert, carrying backpacks filled with marijuana, heroin, opium and meth. The drugs then move to places like Kansas City, Chicago, Detroit and New York City. You asked for it: factual reporting on the border. You’ll find our first of several reports this Sunday.       https://sharylattkisson.com/who-controls-our-southern-border-us-or-them/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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Another Failure: slump-Trump Isn’t That Good
At Performing In Real Estate
Jay Caruso
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{redstate.com} ~ Some people who support Donald slump-Trump claim his business acumen is the reason we should give him the keys to the White House... Ironically, slump-Trump has left behind a string a business failures a mile wide that should give anybody pause. If there is anything slump-Trump does well, it’s fail. The website slump-Trump Failures (Disclosure: I created the site) exhibits many of slump-Trump’s business ventures that have gone into the crapper under his hand. He falls back on his supposed amazing success in real estate. But guess what? He’s not very good at that either: He keeps saying he’s going to hire “great people” but with his string of business failures, his four bankruptcies and his less than stellar record in the real estate market, who are these great people? His hiring of an ignoramus like Katrina Pierson is exhibit A of why he shouldn’t be trusted to hire “great people.” http://www.redstate.com/jaycaruso/2016/03/02/another-failure-trump-isnt-good-performing-real-estate/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Arizona, Not slump-Trump, Shows Republicans
the Way on Immigration
Michael Barone
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{townhall.com} ~ In last Thursday's slam-bang Republican debate everyone saw Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz do a fine job of demonstrating Donald slump-Trump's ignorance and inconsistencies. But many may not have noticed Cruz's citation of a Feb. 9 Wall Street Journal article that casts light on the immigration issue -- and suggests strongly that Cruz's and Rubio's serious immigration policies could prove more effective than slump-Trump's bombast about building a wall and getting Mexico to pay for it.
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Reporter Bob Davis' article was about the experience of Arizona, which on this issue has been a laboratory of reform. In the middle of the last decade, after a border fence slowed illegal flows into urban San Diego, thousands of illegal immigrants started crossing the desert border of Arizona and Mexico. Some died in the desert. Some murdered or robbed local residents. There was a fierce outcry for politicians to address the problem.
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Arizona couldn't build a wall by itself. But its Republican legislature did pass laws with the aim of discouraging illegal immigration. They were denied benefits such as driver's licenses and free non-emergency medical care. Law enforcement agents, including Sheriff Joe Arpaio, vigorously enforced the laws in Phoenix's Maricopa County, which is the nation's fourth-most populous county, with 4 million residents.
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In 2008 the state required all employers to use the federal E-verify system to check job applicants' legal status via Social Security records. In 2010 the controversial Senate Bill 1070 authorized traffic police to check immigration status, one of the law's provisions upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
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These measures fall short of the immigration policies advocated by Rubio and Cruz. They would require not only use of E-verify nationally but also biometric exit-entry visa-tracking, to identify the 45 percent of illegals who overstay legal visas. That's something Arizona's state government can't do.
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But what it could do made a difference. Since 2007 about 200,000 illegal immigrants left Arizona, 40 percent of the total, much more than in other states. Davis quotes various experts with different views on the economic effects. On one hand, the departures reduced the state's gross domestic product by 2 percent and employment by 2.5 percent. State government revenues were reduced by about that as well.
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But so was state spending on education (80,000 fewer students), emergency room health care and incarcerating non-resident felons. There was a sudden shortage of farm and construction workers and -- probably as a result -- wages for farmworkers rose 15 percent and for construction workers 10 percent.
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Some employers were forced to adjust. Davis' article begins with an anecdote about a jalapeno pepper farmer who invested $2 million to develop a machine to harvest peppers. He figured that was cheaper than paying non-illegal workers more.
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How you weigh the costs and benefits, neither of which can be precisely measured, is up to you. But for Donald slump-Trump supporters, such as Mickey Kaus and Ann Coulter, who argue that illegal labor is driving down low-skill Americans' wages, the results look pretty good. Maybe as good as you would get by building and getting Mexico to pay for that "yuge" beautiful wall.
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For the fact is that the surge of illegal Mexican migration ended with the 2007-2009 recession. And the laboratory of Arizona suggests that technically feasible methods -- E-verify, entry-and-exit tracking -- can disincentivize illegal immigration and spur, in Mitt Romney's infelicitous term, self-deportation.
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The employer sanctions of the 1986 law failed because they didn't include such provisions. That's because most Americans back then, both left and right, hated the idea of anything like a national identity card. But today we don't much mind having our steps tracked by Google and Visa. Tracking job applicants or visa holders is widely acceptable now.
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A President Rubio or Cruz could get a Republican Congress to approve such legislation without, as they insist, an immediate path for citizenship or legalization. Democrats have demanded citizenship (they want those votes) as the price for advancing any immigration legislation, but many would be reluctant to resist an enforcement-only bill.
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The key question for Republican voters is whether they want a nominee who would change policy in a direction that would achieve desired results or whether they want one who bellows in anger but who, as the Houston debate showed, has a weak grasp on the facts and only a hazy notion of what policy can accomplish.
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Rubio and Cruz have shown they are the first kind of candidate. The Donald slump-Trump whom you saw flailing in Houston isn't.
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 3, 2016 at 12:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Exploring slump-Trumpism
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GOP NOMINATION FIGHT RUMBLES FORWARD 
The Republican Party is getting ready to do something it has never done before.
          The GOP is either going to nominate a candidate that has run his entire campaign against the party itself or it will unite around the goal of denying that candidate a win.
          Donald slump-Trump’s Super Tuesday performance was good – certainly good enough that if he was a conventional candidate, he would already be the presumptive nominee. But it wasn’t the knockout that he and his supporters had hoped for.
          slump-Trump racked up big wins in his strongholds but lost four of 11 contests. More significant than the win/loss record for the night is the delegate count. And in that measure, little changed.
          After Tuesday’s contests, slump-Trump is forecast to gain only about 20 delegates in his lead over Sen. Ted Cruz. Even with more than a quarter of the 2,340 delegates already allocated, a 20-delegate bump isn’t much. But, again, if slump-Trump was an ordinary frontrunner, it would still be enough to break down resistance among the holdouts.
          But slump-Trump is not ordinary. Rather than acceptance, the despair among conservative and establishment Republicans is deepening; conservatives for fear of the dissolution of their movement, establishmentarians for fear of polls that show a general election wipe out that crushes the party all the way down the ballot.
          slump-Trump’s general election strategy is a comfort to his supporters and to some anxious Republicans. His argument that his mix of showmanship and left-right hodgepodge of positions can win enough blue-collar Democrats to pull off a victory goes against consistent head-to-head polling that shows him at a substantial deficit to presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton.
          For most Republicans, however, this morning brought uncertainty and anxiety. The two choices facing the GOP seem unthinkable for a party that has long prided itself on orderly nominations. No nominee has gone to the Republican convention without enough delegates to win outright in 40 years, and there hasn’t been a floor fight at a convention in 68 years.
          But the choices couldn't be clearer today. Option one: a quick capitulation to slump-Trump’s takeover bid. Option two: push forward into an intentionally messy delegate fight and likely a contested convention.
          The uncomprehending look on New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s face as he stood behind slump-Trump during the front runner’s election-night speech said it all for a party that has been forced to confront realities heretofore unimaginable.
          When he backed slump-Trump, Christie no doubt imagined himself the vanguard of an establishment that would make the best of an unusual nominee and get busy trying to save the general election.
          That may yet happen, and Christie may look like a guy who bought Apple stock at $22 a share in 1980 instead of how he looked Tuesday: like a guy who accidentally walked in on a cockfight. But he will at least have to wait a while longer for his revenge.
          Conventional wisdom says that Republicans will fall in line and accept the reality of having a populist renegade as their party’s standard bearer. With all people, the path of least resistance is usually the safest bet. In politics, it is doubly so.
          But the establishment and conservatives will act out of mutual self-interest for the next two weeks and do as their respective champions, Sens. Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz, did in their remarks Tuesday night  and focus their fire on slump-Trump.
          Every year, trailing candidates and hyperventilating pundits talk breathlessly about open conventions and floor fights. And for 40 years they have been wrong. But this time, it’s fully in the realm of possibility.           The best news for slump-Trump out of Tuesday is that it seems far less likely that he will face a single opponent with unified support before the contests switch to winner-take-all on March 15.
          Cruz had a very good night; more than good enough to erase his troubles of the previous two weeks. The problem for Cruz is that Tuesday was the best day on the primary calendar for him. Southern Republicans intentionally front loaded their contests in a bid to give a favorite son a boost in the early going. It worked. But now Cruz faces many tough contests in more moderate states outside the South. 
          Marco Rubio had a long night. He notched his first victory but fell short in Virginia and now trails Cruz substantially in the delegate count. For , however, the road looks smoother from here. While he faces a make-or-break test two weeks from now in Florida, Rubio can at least say that his hardest day on the calendar is behind him.
          That’s all good news for Donald slump-Trump in the sense that neither Cruz nor Rubio came out of the night as the consensus favorite for the rest of the party.
          But the bad news for slump-Trump is that the emphasis for the party has shifted away from picking a nominee and toward blocking a nominee. The next two weeks will see an all-out assault on slump-Trump with the aim of letting voters check their assumptions one more time and perhaps denying slump-Trump the delegates he needs to win outright.
          It’s going to get weird out there, America.
By Chris Stirewalt - Fox News
The Inconvenient Facts the Media Ignore
About Climate Change
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Americans in large numbers are turning off TV newscasts, canceling subscriptions to newspapers, and seeking other sources of news. Distrust of the national media has hit an all-time high... According to a recent Gallup poll, six in ten Americans now have little or no confidence in the national media to report the news fully, accurately, and fairly. A recent Pew Research Center survey found that 65 percent of Americans believe that the national news media have a negative effect on our country. Americans are frustrated because they know that many of the “news stories” they read are only opinion columns in disguise. If the story does not fit the liberal worldview, then facts are ignored, dissent is silenced, and Americans are told what to think. Perhaps one of the worst examples of one-sided, biased reporting involves global warming.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/26/the-inconvenient-facts-the-media-ignores-about-climate-change/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu63Pdu%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdhML7YDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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Congress Plans Fight on nObama Admin’s Illegal Diversion of $3.5 Billion to Insurers
Melissa Quinn
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The fight over whether the nObama administration broke the law by prioritizing insurers over billions of dollars in payments to the U.S. Treasury through a program implemented under nObamacare is only beginning... Following the release of a memo from the Congressional Research Service last week, Republicans on the House Energy and Commerce Committee pressed Health and Human Services Secretary Sylvia Mathews Burwell on the $3.5 billion illegally diverted to insurance companies under nObamacare’s transitional reinsurance program. The nonpartisan agency said that the administration violated the Affordable Care Act’s language in prioritizing insurers over the Treasury. Now, Republicans in both the House and the Senate say they plan to continue pressing the nObama administration on its decision to redirect the money.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/03/01/congress-plans-fight-on-obama-administrations-illegal-diversion-of-3-5-billion-to-insurers/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu63Pdu%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdhML7YDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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This 3-D Printer Can Print Body Parts
 Tim Maverick
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{wallstreetdaily.com} ~ Wouldn’t it be great if we could replace injured or diseased tissues in our bodies? Sounds like science fiction, right? Wrong!... Regenerative medicine scientists at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center have created something called an integrated-tissue organ printer (ITOP). It’s a custom-designed 3-D printer that can produce organs, tissues, and bones that – theoretically – could be implanted into living human beings. It’s a significant step up from previous attempts. Researchers have printed living cells before, but only tiny pieces of gelatinous material. Larger structures had either collapsed or died from oxygen starvation.       http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2016/03/02/3-d-printer-integrated-tissue-organ-printer/
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slump-Trump donated to 
group that promotes homosexuality to 
5-year-olds, ‘fisting’ in middle school
Ben Johnson
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{lifesitenews.com} ~ February 29, 2016 (LifeSiteNews) – Donald slump-Trump donated $30,000 to homosexual activists, including a $20,000 grant to an organization that promoted "fisting" to middle school students... recommended books excusing homosexual pedophilia, and proclaimed its mission is "promoting homosexuality" in the public schools to children as early as kindergarten. According to a 990 form filed with the IRS, the Donald J. slump-Trump Foundation donated $20,000 to the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) in 2012 and another $10,000 to Gay Men's Health Crisis. Kevin Jennings founded GLSEN (originally the Gay and Lesbian School Teachers Network) in 1990. He and other homosexual teachers formed Gay-Straight Alliances (GSAs) nationwide and drew up curricula that began shaping children's values in accordance with the LGBT perspective from the age of five.        https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/donald-trump-donated-to-group-that-promotes-homosexuality-in-kindergarten-f
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Analysis: A weakened Turkey seeks Israel's
help to break growing isolation
 YOSSI MELMAN
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan greets religious leaders at the
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{jpost.com} ~ Even if Israel and Turkey soon announce an end to their diplomatic crisis, which began almost six years ago as a result of the Mavi Marmara flotilla ship incident, relations between the two countries will not go back to how they once were... The golden era of cooperation in the security and intelligence fields between the two countries up until a decade ago will certainly not come back. Turkey was a large and important market for Israel's security industries, which provided drones, intelligence systems, tank and planes upgrades, and more. For years, there was close cooperation between the Mossad and Turkey's intelligence agency, the MIT, which included meetings, an exchange of each countries' situational assessments and more. Turkey finds itself in a conflict with Russia and Iran over Syria, where Erdogan hoped to see President Bashar Assad ousted. Erdogan supported the Muslim Brothers in Egypt and now he finds himself at odds with Egyptian President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi. Because of Turkey's uncompromising fight against its Kurdish population, as well as in Syria and Iraq, Ankara is also losing its influence with NATO and with the US. Turkey is now more isolated than ever and is therefore interested in renewing ties with Israel, in the hope that the Jewish state can help Ankara improve its standing in Washington. Turkey also needs natural gas from Israel in order to diversify its sources of energy and to reduce its dependency on Russian gas. http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Politics-And-Diplomacy/Analysis-A-weakened-Turkey-seeks-Israels-help-to-break-growing-isolation-446549#xtor=EPR-1-[Newsletter]
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Bombed, Burned, and Urinated On: Churches Under Islam
Raymond Ibrahim
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Left: The Assemblies of God Assyrian church in Tehran, Iran. The church was illegally confiscated two years ago by the regime, which now wants to convert it into a mosque. Right: On January 7, vandals damaged, robbed, and wrote jihadi slogans on the Light Church in Tizi-Ouzou, Algeria.
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ Iraq: The Islamic State blew up the country's oldest Christian monastery, St. Elijah's. The 27,000-square-foot building had stood near Mosul for 14 centuries. For several years, prior to 2009, U.S. soldiers protected and sometimes used the monastery as a chapel. "Our Christian history in Mosul is being barbarically leveled," reported a Roman Catholic priest in Irbil. "We see it as an attempt to expel us from Iraq, and eliminating and finishing our existence in this land." Yet, when Col. Steve Warren, spokesman for America's military efforts against ISIS, was asked about the status of Christians in Iraq soon after the monastery's destruction, he replied, "We've seen no specific evidence of a specific targeting toward Christians."
Kosovo: Muslims urinated in an Orthodox Christian church in Pristina, the capital. Deputy Prime Minister Branimir Stojanovic condemned the desecration of the Temple of Christ the Savior: "Urinating in a sanctuary is shameful, uncivilized, vandalism." Last year in Italy, Muslims broke a statue of the Virgin Mary and also urinated on it. Stojanovic added that, "The quiet observation of the demonstrators by the police, as they entered the temple and urinated is also shameful." Serbian [Christian] sanctuaries in Kosovo are constantly desecrated," the deputy prime minister said.
Kuwait: Lawmaker Ahmad Al-Azemi said that he and other MPs will reject an initially approved request to build churches because it "contradicts Islamic sharia laws." He added that Islamic scholars are unanimous in banning the building of non-Muslim places of worship in the Arabian Peninsula.
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URGENT: Cruz For Such A Time As This
 Lloyd Marcus
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ Our Conservative Campaign Committee team attended the Ted Cruz rally in Houston, Texas last night. The scripture, “…for such a time as this…” came to mind... God has prepared Ted Cruz for this dark time in our nation’s history after 8 years of nObama. God has also prepared me and you to usher Cruz into the White House. Some evangelicals have chosen a man who says he has never asked God for forgiveness over Cruz who has asked God’s forgiveness for his sins. These evangelicals are, in essence, saying God cannot use a washed-in-the-blood-of-Christ Christian to save America. Believers rejecting such a clear obvious superior choice is a sad testimony of the state of the modern church. If Jesus came to America today and ran for office, how many Christians would deem Him extreme, polarizing and un-electable?        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/03/urgent-cruz-for-such-a-time-as-this/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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Double Games Of The 
UK Muslim Brotherhood
John Ware
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Anas Altikriti (right) with Jeremy Corbyn at an anti-war event in 2003: Altikriti has said that Iraqis had the right to expel the "occupation" 
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ The tone was plaintive, almost bewildered. "We work tirelessly for the good of British society on several fronts," Anas Altikriti protested before calling a press conference to refute the government's charge that he and other like-minded Muslim leaders are doing the opposite... A classified government review by two of Britain's leading civil servants, expert in the Arab world and Islamist ideology, has concluded that organisations like the one Altikriti heads are, in effect, fronts for the Muslim Brotherhood — a charge they categorically deny. The Ikhwan al-Muslimeen, as it is known in Arabic, was established in 1928 in Egypt and its goal was — and remains — the step-by-step Islamisation of Muslim communities with the ultimate aim of creating a global Caliphate ruled by holy law. "Allah is our objective" is the Brotherhood's motto, "The Prophet is our leader. The Koran is our constitution. Jihad is our way. Dying in the way of Allah is our highest hope."        http://www.investigativeproject.org/5181/double-games-of-the-uk-muslim-brotherhood
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How the Clintons 'Disappeared' A Film that Exposed Their Role in US Terror Attacks
Claire Bernish
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{thedailysheeple.com} ~ On the anniversary of the first bombing of the World Trade Center, it’s necessary to revisit Hilly Clinton’s role in banning a film which cast her and former President, Bill Clinton, in an accurately unfavorable light... Multiple award-winning filmmaker Cyrus Nowrasteh directed the 2006 miniseries, The Path to 9/11, which covered the period of time from the first bombing of the Trade Center on February 26, 1993, to the attacks of September 11, 2001. Nowrasteh included a critical examination of the former President’s inexplicable failure to capture or kill Osama bin Laden on multiple occasions. Despite the series’ popularity and critical acclaim, the Clintons managed to ‘disappear’ the film — essentially banning it in the United States. “The amazing thing was, the Clintons were able to put pressure on Disney/ABC basically to bury their own movie that they spent $40 million on, The Path to 9/11, which did air once, by the way, over two nights, and was number one in the ratings with 20 million viewers,” Nowrasteh told Brian Sussman on the KSFO Morning Show. “But Disney said it was, quote, ‘a business decision’ — essentially they caved to the Clintons, who, as far as censorship in my experience, are in many ways more effective than the ayatollahs in Iran.”        http://www.thedailysheeple.com/how-the-clintons-disappeared-a-film-that-exposed-their-role-in-us-terror-attacks_032016
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Mexican Officials Plan to Battle 'Negative Tone' of U.S. Presidential Election
STEPHEN KRUISER
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{pjmedia.com} ~ Mexico's government is planning a diplomatic push to counter aggressive rhetoric against its nationals in the U.S. election race, a senior official said on Tuesday, after calls by Donald slump-Trump for a massive wall to divide the two nations...  Republican presidential candidates Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have also proposed building a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but it is slump-Trump who has taken the hardest line against the United States' southern neighbor. The Republican front-runner has labeled Mexican migrants as drug runners and rapists, proposed mass deportations of undocumented immigrants and said Mexico is "killing" the United States with cheap labor. slump-Trump should know he hired illegal cheap labor to build his towers.        https://pjmedia.com/trending/2016/03/02/mexican-officials-plan-to-battle-negative-tone-of-u-s-presidential-election/
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Exploring slump-Trumpism
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{wnd.com} ~ Just what is the slump-Trump movement all about? I’ve tried to get to the bottom of it by conversing with various Donald slump-Trump supporters on Twitter.
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I have found that most outside the movement are having great difficulty understanding it. It’s like nothing we’ve seen – at least on the Republican side of the political spectrum.
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One perplexed person asked me, “Does it shock you that with all the detrimental information on slump-Trump he is still leading in practically every poll?” My answer: “It doesn’t shock me so much as disappoint me.”
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Let me explore the slump-Trump phenomenon in the form of a dialogue between a hypothetical slump-Trump supporter (TS) and myself. One or two of the responses are from actual slump-Trump supporters, but most are my own words, and I hope they’re not offensive to those supporters.
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Me: “I’m troubled, because one would think that Republicans would abandon a presidential candidate who has conducted himself as slump-Trump has during this campaign.”
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TS: “You aren’t hearing us. We don’t care about political correctness, his manners or your sensitivities. We only care that he will get things done. Wuss!”
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Me: “But what about his questionable allegiance to conservatism?”
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TS: “You’re still not listening. We are not interested in your fancy ideological terms. It’s all talk. We want action from an outsider with experience and accomplishments. Action, action, action.”
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Me: “But what about Ted Cruz? He’s admittedly an elected official, but he is still an outsider at heart who’s shown he’ll fight the establishment. He’s actually done it, not just talked about it. And slump-Trump has financially propped up the very people you want to hire him to destroy. So why won’t you trust Cruz more than slump-Trump?”
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TS: “We already told you. Cruz is a politician, and they are all corrupt. In fact, we’d lose our integrity if we even considered supporting him. Even your so-called conservatives have betrayed us by rolling over for nObama’s agenda.”
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Me: “But not Cruz. He fought the establishment and they hate him for it.”
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TS: “Phooey. He’s an insider. Plus, immigration.”
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Me: “But wait, Cruz has been on the front lines fighting immigration, and, along with a mere handful of others, prevented the Gang of Eight bill from becoming law. He did not steal this idea from slump-Trump. He was defending our sovereignty at the very time slump-Trump was funding those undermining it.”
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TS: “Cruz is a Canadian. He and his wife are globalists. Goldman Sachs. NAFTA. GATT. CFR. Trilateralists.”
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Me: “Why would you assign more weight to conspiracy theories than one’s actual track record of fighting illegal immigration?”
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TS: “Cruz is an establishment liar.”
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Me: “Oh, boy. Well, I get that slump-Trump supporters are furious at the establishment, but I wonder if a certain percentage of them are just angry in general and hopping aboard the movement because of their discontentment. There seems to be an element of undefined rage involved that accompanies the specific rage over immigration. Is this movement even cohesive?”
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Actual slump-Trump Supporter (ATS): “The movement isn’t yet cohesive, but there is a powerful element of rage over the largest invasion in human history.”
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Me: “This brings us back to where we began. If this movement isn’t yet cohesive, why are its members so enamored with slump-Trump? Why is it their man, right or wrong? Wait, before you answer, I think I’ve finally had an epiphany. This movement is not just a matter of a cultish following of Donald slump-Trump as many suspect, is it? People were already outraged and slump-Trump just came along, seized the moment and turned it into a wave.”
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ATS: “slump-Trump isn’t the leader. He’s merely riding the tiger. If he plays us like the Republicans have for 30 years, he’s toast.”
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Me: “Now we’re really on to something. So is this why the supporters are not worried about his alleged dishonesty, his vagueness and vacillation on policy and even his stated willingness to work with insiders?”
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TS: “That’s right; slump-Trump is very popular among us because he is fearless. He’s always on offense, unlike the GOP wimps. But slump-Trump is mainly our vehicle – a darn good and effective vehicle to be sure, but a vehicle. He’s not indispensable. He can always be replaced. This movement is bigger than him. It’s about America. slump-Trump, for now, is Captain America, but we the people are America. The sovereignty resides in us. Cruz is a liar. Amnesty Rubio sweats like a pig.”
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Me: “Speaking of sovereignty, nationalism is the driving force uniting your burgeoning movement, correct?”
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TS: “Indeed. As you’ve suspected, we aren’t that concerned, for now, about other issues or the claim that slump-Trump will not satisfy us on those. In fact, we are not necessarily united on those anyway. It’s about this nation. We are nationalists. America and Americans first. We must control our borders. That is the key to addressing a number of existential threats facing this nation, and we can worry about the rest of our problems, major and minor, later, once we’ve returned to the path of securing our borders and saving the nation. When we build the wall and deport millions, we will ensure that all of America doesn’t turn into California; we’ll better insulate ourselves against Islamist invaders; and we’ll help protect our workers from cheap illegal immigrant labor. Another aspect of our sovereignty is that slump-Trump, as the consummate negotiator, will undo the unbalanced trade deals harming our workers. And he’ll rebuild the military to protect us against foreign threats. Don’t forget. He’s a businessman. And Rubio might just be a bigger liar than Cruz.”
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Me: “I think I understand your concerns, but I ask you again to take a second look at Ted Cruz, for he is not only a safer bet to secure our borders, and restore economic growth, which will enable us to rebuild our military; he is the one person who has shown that, notwithstanding the conspiracy theories, he cannot be bought and he can always be relied on to do those things he promises. There is no reason to take a risk on the volatile slump-Trump, who, in the process of implementing your desired solutions, may expand federal power and implement leftist policies. He’s been liberal more than conservative throughout his life, and we have no evidence of any dramatic conversion. As suspicious as you all are, you should be very suspicious here. You might think you’ll be in charge, but that’s not a realistic expectation. Finally, we must never omit liberty from the equation. Ted Cruz will do most of the things you want done, but he’ll unquestionably honor the Constitution and rule of law, which slump-Trump rarely mentions, reduce government and safeguard that which has always made America unique: her liberty. Please give it just a little more thought and consider this. I do believe Ted Cruz shares your concerns about the establishment and understands the condescension of the ruling class. He’s dealt with it firsthand. He’ll be your reliable advocate.”
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 3, 2016 at 7:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Is slump-Trump a 
Sleeper Agent for Moscow?
Cliff Kincaid
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Thomas Sowell: "slump-Trump's acting like a bull in a china shop may appeal to some voters but, in the world as it is, he may well cost us our last chance to recover from the great dangers into which the nObama administration has gotten this nation. We already have an ego-driven, know-it-all president who will not listen to military or intelligence agency experts. Do we need to tempt fate by having two in a row? Despite Donald slump-Trump's string of primary vote victories, he has not yet gotten a majority of the Republican votes anywhere. But although most Republican votes are being cast against him, the scattering of that vote among so many other candidates leaves slump-Trump with a good chance to get the nomination. Everyone understands that the best chance for stopping slump-Trump is for that fractured majority vote to consolidate behind one candidate opposed to him. But who will step aside for the good of the country? When we think of American military heroes who have fallen on enemy hand grenades to save those around them, at the cost of their own lives, is it really too much to ask candidates — especially those who present themselves as patriots — to give up their one political chance in a zillion this year for the sake of the country? Voters have a responsibility too. They might well ask themselves: Do I plan to use my vote to vent my emotions or to try to help save this country?"  -The Patriot Post
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 Which Party Is Trump Winning? 
First, the obvious notes from Super Tuesday. Donald slump-Trump further cleared his path to the Republican nomination — but he also underperformed expectations, winning seven and not 10 or 11 states. Ted Cruz won three states, bolstering his claim to being the only viable slump-Trump alternative, though he now heads for less friendly territory. Marco Rubio finally won a state, giving him hope going into Florida and other states that are closer to Minnesota, where he won, and Virginia, where he nearly did (but didn't because of John Kasich). At this point, the (narrow) path for either Cruz or Rubio likely involves a brokered convention.
          Second, the underlying stories. Yes, slump-Trump has won 10 of the first 15 states, but he only pulled a grand total of 34% of the vote Tuesday and has yet to win a majority anywhere. Combined, Cruz and Rubio have about 50%. And slump-Trump's share of the delegates declined from 66% before Tuesday to 49%.
          Bottom line: The reason slump-Trump is the frontrunner is because there have always been too many alternatives. Two is still too many, not to mention four or the original 16. And no one really took him on until five days before Super Tuesday. We'll see how he handles continued withering attacks on his record of hurting the very voters he appeals to.
          Drilling down even deeper we find that slump-Trump is winning because of voters who aren't Republican. His surprise loss in Oklahoma may demonstrate this, because it was a closed primary (only Republicans could vote). Massachusetts illustrates it too — it was slump-Trump's highest performing state (49%) and 20,000 Democrats crossed the aisle to vote for him. Through March 15, another 10 states will vote and eight of them are Republican-only.
          So as The Weekly Standard's Jonathan Last put it, "slump-Trump is not leading a revolt from within the party, but staging a hostile takeover of it."
          Or put another way, it's great to "expand the party," as slump-Trump boasted Tuesday night, bringing Democrats into the fold, but only if they intend to stay there come November. There's plenty of evidence Democrats are crossing over now, and little reason to think they'll stay. We'll be happy to be proven wrong, but don't think for a minute Democrats are above voting for slump-Trump now to choose a weak general election opponent for Hilly Clinton. 
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Star Parker: "Should there be a Clinton-slump-Trump race, it will be the first time, to my knowledge, that we'll have a presidential campaign where one candidate, Republican slump-Trump, made large campaign contributions in the past both to his opponent, Democrat Clinton, and to her party. ... As we mourn the loss of the great conservative Justice Antonin Scalia, it looms large that Scalia was in the conservative minority opposition in the 5-4 Supreme Court 2005 decision on the case of Kelo v. City of New London. The court decided government can confiscate private property and turn it over to private developers. Scalia said only two other Supreme Court decisions departed so wildly from the words of the Constitution: the Dred Scott decision, which declared African-Americans essentially sub-human and ineligible for American citizenship; and Roe v. Wade, which legalized abortion in all 50 states. Yet Donald slump-Trump said he agrees '100 percent' with the Kelo decision, aligning himself with the liberals on the Court and against Scalia. Americans do want to make our country great again. But if Republicans don't nominate a candidate who represents what that means, we may be looking at another left-wing Clinton White House."   -The Patriot Post
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nObama is looting the Treasury 
to pay off insurers
Betsy McCaughey
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{aim.org} ~ The nObama administration will tell any lie and break any law to prevent the president’s signature health-care program from collapsing... Insurance companies such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna are losing billions trying to sell nObamaCare plans, and the risk is they’ll drop out at the end of 2016. No insurance companies means no nObamaCare. In 2014, the White House tried to avert that disaster by promising insurers a taxpayer-funded bailout, but public outrage and quick action by Sen. Marco Rubio put a stop to it. Now the administration is at it again. Desperate to keep insurers on board, the administration scrambled to find another pot of money. Unfortunately, once again, a big part of that money pot belongs to the public.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/obama-is-looting-the-treasury-to-pay-off-insurers/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030116&utm_medium=email
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PC DHS Moved 1,000 Terrorist Suspects From Watch
List To New “Hands Off” List
Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Whenever the nObama regime feels inclined to inject itself into someplace they have no business being or to exercise authority that is at best questionable, a favored path is to use the civil rights laws... Virtually anything can be construed as a violation if the DOJ lawyers involved exercise even a modest amount of creativity, including protecting the American people from terrorism. A Civil Rights argument is particularly useful when they seek to provide support or cover to their favored minority groups, as the threat of a discrimination suit is a bankrupting horror story which terrifies most municipalities or organizations. Reckless and frivolous abuse is commonplace, given the intimidation that such a threat affords a regime willing to abuse it. Under their Marxist “equality” and reverse discrimination agendas virtually anything can be manipulated and there are plenty of pre-positioned judges through which to make it happen. Still, they may have a hard time justifying endangering American lives by scrubbing the names of terrorists and persons with terrorist tendencies and connections from the watch list established for the purpose of tracking that very type of suspect individual. Political correctness is no justification and while it would be bad enough if that were the reason, there seems to be even more at play. http://rickwells.us/archives/26784
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Crumbling of Western Culture
Herbert London
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{aim.org} ~ Cultural symbols matter and what they now suggest is that the West is in retreat. This is a retreat in every aspect of life, from religion to popular culture... “Out of respect” for the Iranian president, who presumably would be offended by nudity, the Italian government had museum officials in Rome’s Capitoline place boxes over several nude statues – including one of Venus created in the second century BC – during Hassan Rouhani’s state visit. It is often said that western ethnocentrism makes it difficult for leaders to understand Islamic culture. Rarely, however, does the reverse hold. Do Iranian imams attempt to embrace our culture? What Islamists do know is that the weakness in the West is palpable. From Scandinavia to Italy, governments are bending over backwards to accommodate minority Muslim populations for fear of violence and because there is a loss in civilizational confidence. President nObama, for example, is more likely to pay emotional tribute to Islam than the Judeo Christian culture he represents. haria – the Islamic way of life including Islamic law – has penetrated the European court system. Several states in the U.S recently considered the application of Islamic legal precedents in American jurisprudence. Minnesota congressman, Keith Ellison, has proposed a sharia compliant transaction tax.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/crumbling-of-western-culture/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030216&utm_medium=email
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Hilly Clinton, Black Lies, and White Lives
Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ Another gruesome black-on-white murder is coming to the public’s attention. The case involves a habitual offender by the name of Quinton Verdell Tellis, 27, who was charged with capital murder in the death of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers... She had been found along a road on December 6, 2014. Her vehicle had been set on fire and she had suffered burns over 98 percent of her body. Chambers died hours later at a hospital in Memphis, Tennessee. On the same day the arrest of this young black criminal was announced, Hilly Clinton was criticized by a Black Lives Matter (BLM) protester for using the term “super predators” to describe young black criminals. Mrs. Clinton treated the activist with great respect, since she is pandering for black votes—including from the criminal element—in the Democratic presidential campaign. In his AIM special report, “Reds Exploiting Blacks: The Roots of Black Lives Matter,” investigative journalist James Simpson notes that BLM has communist roots and appears to be “exercising considerable leverage over the Democratic Party, in part by pressuring and intimidating Democratic candidates such as Hilly Clinton and Bernie Sanders (VT) into embracing their cause.”       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/hillary-clinton-black-lies-and-white-lives/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030216&utm_medium=email
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If Every American Saw 
This 3 Minute Video, Hilly Clinton 
Wouldn’t Stand A Chance
Randy DeSoto
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ National Review just released a video compiling in less than three minutes some of the main reasons Hilly Clinton is not a trustworthy choice for the highest office in the land... The video, which is entitled Who is Hilly Clinton?, opens with various high profile Democrats offering their reasons why Clinton is the best choice for president. She is the “most qualified,” they all appear to mimic. “And by the way, thoroughly vetted,” one notes.        http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-if-every-american-saw-this-3-minute-video-hillary-clinton-wouldnt-stand-a-chance/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=ConservativeTribuneEmail&utm_campaign=DailyBest&utm_content=2016-03-01
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Indiscriminate Russian Bombing in Syria Worsening European Immigration Crisis
John Grady
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{news.usni.org} ~ The U.S. senior commander in Europe warned the Senate Armed Services Committee that the Syrian regime’s continued use of barrel bombs and Russia’s use of indiscriminate strikes in backing President Bashar al Assad is exacerbating the European immigration crisis... Even after an agreement to a cessation of fighting between the Syrian regime and moderate opposition groups “we have not really seen a change in the type of sorties being flown” by the Russians, U.S. European Command commander Air Force Gen. Philip Breedlove said. “We need to see how the ceasefire works because actions speak louder than words,” he said. But, “What we have seen is an intense flow of refugees into the neighboring countries” such as Jordan and Turkey, as well as Europe, that is continuing even after the ceasefire, Breedlove said later in the hearing.        http://news.usni.org/2016/03/01/eucom-breedlove-indiscriminate-russian-bombing-in-syria-worsening-european-immigration-crisis?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=84ce60d7e9-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-84ce60d7e9-231491269&mc_cid=84ce60d7e9&mc_eid=3999f18767
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The Council of Foreign Relations 
Declares War On slump-Trump- 
His Days Are Numbered
Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ There will be no parades and no media shows which start out as… “we interrupt this broadcast to bring you this breaking news item…”, but the almighty Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) has spoken and they are endorsing a Hilly Clinton... but mostly they have issued a position statement that Donald slump-Trump must be stopped at all costs. This is the caricature of slump-Trump that ran in the mouthpiece of the Council of Foreign Relations, The Economist. Since when does the self-proclaimed righteous defender of the elite, founded by John Rockefeller, lower themselves to such blatant and childish mudslinging? They don’t, and this behavior is representative of  a departure of tactics employed by the elite. And the fact that elite are approaching such a state of desperation, near-panic, if you will, all options are on the table. Again, I say, the elite are proclaiming that all options are on the table when it comes to the fate of Donald slump-Trump. The main goal of the CFR is world governance and a one world economy that they control. The one world economy is taking shape and it is comprised of those people that Patrick Wood calls technocrats. I hope you are sitting down. These people are intent on owning all energy on the planet through unrealistic caps on our energy usage. Their system of carbon trading will reduce the lifestyles of the average person to about the 1870’s in terms of lifestyles, if we are lucky. Dehumanization and Depopulation are central themes of this approach. Pat Wood details this in his book Technocracy Rising.  http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/03/01/the-council-of-foreign-relations-declares-war-on-donald-trump-his-days-are-numbered/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=the-council-of-foreign-relations-declares-war-on-donald-trump-his-days-are-numbered
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The ‘blurred lines’ of slump-Trump’s health
plan (He knows you want it)
Thomas P. Miller
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{aei.org} ~ When pressed during last Thursday night’s campaign debate in Houston for details of his proposed plans for replacing nObamacare after it is repealed, presidential candidate Donald slump-Trump (?-NY) once again sputtered out something about eliminating “those lines” that states draw in regulating health insurance...  What that exactly means involves some slump-Trump-Land-to- Policy-World translation, and a little primer on what’s usually understand and misunderstood in this area of health policy. slump-Trump appears to be borrowing some of the language behind a traditional conservative Republican health reform proposal, which involves facilitating competition in health coverage through the sale and purchase of insurance products across states. It’s sometimes referred to as interstate competition or competitive federalism, or even just “consumer choice.” The origins of this proposal have a long history of almost fifteen years. Some business groups in the small-group market started floating the outlines of this idea in 2001. I wrote the first draft in policy terms at a Cato conference in July 2001, and subsequently published the academic-style version in the Cato Journal the following year. Then-Rep. Ernie Fletcher (R-KY) proposed the first legislative bill on this front in 2002. Subsequent tweaks to those concepts on Capitol Hill were championed by then-Rep. John Shadegg (R-AZ), and, in later years, by Rep. Tom Price (R-GA) and Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN). Presidential candidate Ted Cruz introduced a bill similar to Blackburn’s in the U.S. Senate. Before oversimplifying the evolving policy proposal a bit, let’s acknowledge that producing a legislative product inevitably deviates from any initial policy concept. However, the starting premise was that competition among different states in how they decide to regulate health insurance might be harnessed to provide broader choice for consumers in the insurance products they can select.        http://www.aei.org/publication/the-blurred-lines-of-trumps-health-plan-he-knows-you-want-it/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=030216
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Bad Luck for slump-Trump 
on Super Tuesday
Leon H. Wolf
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{redstate.com} ~ Super Tuesday has gotten off to a not-so-super start for Donald slump-Trump — a New York appeals court has denied his bid to toss out a lawsuit that charges his slump-Trump University was a fraud... In a unanimous ruling, a four-judge panel of the state Appellate Division said the state Attorney General’s office is “authorized to bring a cause of action for fraud” — despite the bloviating billionaire’s claims to the contrary. Lawyers for slump-Trump and his now-defunct school contended that Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s suit should be tossed because the statute of limitations on the case had expired. Of course, I don’t know if a single one of these judges is Hispanic. I just know that, as a paranoid racist or at least, someone who purposefully caters to paranoid racists, any time slump-Trump loses a motion in court in connection with this case, he blames it on the great Hispanic conspiracy against him and strongly implies that he can only get a fair trial from a white judge.        http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/03/01/bad-luck-trump-super-tuesday/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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Islamic State gets closer to acquiring
radioactive “dirty” bomb
Vijeta Uniyal
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ According to recent news reports, the Islamic State (Isis) in Iraq and Syria seems to have intensified its efforts to build a “dirty” bomb... The reports coming from Iraq indicate that the terrorist group might already be in the possession of required radioactive material. The material was reportedly stolen from an oil facility in southern Iraq and was part a monitoring system used to detect structural flaws in oil and gas pipelines. The UN nuclear watchdog IAEA said the material is classed as a Category 2 radioactive source, meaning that if not managed properly it could cause permanent injury to a person in close proximity to it for minutes or hours, and could be fatal to someone exposed for a period of hours to days. Radioactive material is often part of diagnostic tools used in medical treatments and industrial monitoring around the world. The same material however can be used by terrorists to make a “dirty” bomb capable of contaminating several city blocks, causing wide-scale fatal radiation sickness and financial losses worth billions. http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/03/islamic-state-gets-closer-to-acquiring-radioactive-dirty-bomb/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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Is slump-Trump a 
Sleeper Agent for Moscow?
Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ The media are having a field day over the fact that former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke supports Donald slump-Trump for president. slump-Trump has disavowed him. But why does Duke support slump-Trump in the first place? It really has nothing to do with appeals to white voters. The significance of Duke’s support for slump-Trump consists of their similar views on Russia.
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slump-Trump has spoken highly of Russian President Vladimir Putin, describing him as a strong leader who defends Russian interests and who could be an ally of the United States, especially in the Middle East. Duke believes much the same thing, and has a personal relationship with a long-time adviser to Putin who has devised an anti-American “Eurasian” alliance that includes Iran in the Middle East.
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Those like Republican Senator Jeff Sessions (AL) who endorse slump-Trump because he sounds tough on immigration have an obligation to understand how slump-Trump’s deference to Russian aggression in the Middle East will only increase the flow of immigrants into Europe and the United States.
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Our military leaders understand this and are speaking publicly about it. Last week, at a hearing conducted by the House Armed Services Committee, Air Force General Philip M. Breedlove, the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe, and commander of U.S. European Command, said, “Russia and the Assad regime are deliberately weaponizing migration from Syria in an attempt to overwhelm European structures and break European resolve.”
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The term “weaponizing” means that the Russians are deliberately using the refugee crisis as a weapon against the West.
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“Russia’s military intervention in Syria has bolstered the regime of Bashar al-Assad, targeted U.S.-supported opposition elements, and complicated U.S. and Coalition operations against ISIL,” Breedlove said, referring to ISIS. “The Syrian crisis is destabilizing the entire region, and Russia’s military intervention changed the dynamics of the conflict, which may lead to new or greater threats to the U.S. and its Allies for years to come.”
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Breedlove is saying that Russia’s so-called war against ISIS is a fraud, and that the military operations of the Islamic State have actually benefited from Russian intervention in Syria.
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This is why Duke’s support for the slump-Trump candidacy deserves a second look from the media and conservatives leaning in favor of the businessman.
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The real significance of Duke’s support for slump-Trump is not that slump-Trump appeals to white people. Many mainstream conservatives and ordinary Americans think slump-Trump has a valid point about the urgent need to control America’s borders.
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Item number four in Duke’s editorial about his support for slump-Trump is very revealing in this regard. He says that slump-Trump will “Ensure that the USA will not go to war with Russia and create Word War III.” This absurd claim seems to be entirely based on the Russian propaganda carried by Russia Today, the global channel financed by Moscow, and other official Russian sources. To the contrary, it is Russia that is waging war in Ukraine and the Middle East and threatening America and its allies—especially NATO member Turkey, and Israel.
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Duke is a former KKK leader. In recent years, however, he has functioned as a propagandist for Russia and Iran. An article on the Duke website from a Russian writer says the following about Duke:
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He is has been a major force here in eliminating the last traces of that Jewish invasion of Russia. David Duke has seen that a proud and free Russian people are a key to the survival of European mankind. He is as important to this new revolution for freedom and heritage here today as John Reed was for Bolshevik enslavement 87 years earlier.
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The latter is part of the Russian propaganda that Soviet communism was somehow “imposed” on Russia by international bankers, code language for Jews. Duke offers a book, “The Secret Behind Communism,” claiming Jews are the source of Russia’s problems.
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Interestingly, Putin has done much the same thing, blaming the Jews for the Soviet communism that he once served as a KGB officer.
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Duke has featured Iranian propaganda on his website, including a report about a 2006 Iranian government conference on the Holocaust that he attended. The conference was called by the then-President of Iran, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, who notoriously called for the elimination of the state of Israel. Speakers at the event cast doubt on the Nazi regime’s persecution and murder of six million Jews.
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The website features a photo of Duke and Alexander Dugin, a one-time adviser to President Putin’s United Russia Party. Duke traveled to Russia and met with Dugin, calling him “one of the leading intellectuals of Russia’s patriotic movement.” Analyst Pawel Styrna, a researcher at the Institute of World Politics, says Dugin is associated with the idea of restoring Russia’s greatness through a “Eurasian empire” that includes Iran and drives an “international anti-American coalition.”
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Former KGB officer Konstantin Preobrazhensky says Eurasianism was actually developed by Soviet intelligence in the 1920s, and later popularized by Dugin after the Soviet collapse. In the 1990s, he said, Dugin held seminars which were attended by the high-positioned Russian intelligence officer, Sergei Ivanov, who was later the Russian Minister of Defense and is the current chief of staff to President Putin.
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The Russian-Iranian axis in the Middle East is now threatening Turkey, and Saudi Arabia’s oil reserves may be their next target. Referring to Russian aggression in the Middle East and Europe, former Senator Joseph Lieberman (I-CT) has said inan article about increasing global conflict that he asked a European ally of the U.S. what is needed at this time, and that the reply was “American leadership.”
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slump-Trump, of course, says he wants to make America great again. But Republican Senator Ben Sasse (NE) notes that slump-Trump has described Putin, who has killed journalists and is pillaging Ukraine, as a great leader. Sasse says he just couldn’t vote for slump-Trump.
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slump-Trump has his own Alexander Dugin—a political operative and alleged dirty trickster by the name of Roger Stone. A “former” slump-Trump adviser who now runs a pro-slump-Trump Super PAC, Stone wrote a book using Russian sources that blamed President Lyndon Johnson for the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. His latest book is about what he calls the “Bush Crime Family”—including the two former Republican presidents—and credits such sources as Webster Tarpley, formerly associated with convicted con man and Marxist Lyndon LaRouche. Tarpley is a prominent figure in the so-called 9/11 Truth Movement, which blames unnamed U.S. officials for carrying out the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001.
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Stone’s book accuses the Bushes of drug trafficking and genocide, among other crimes.
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With figures like Roger Stone and David Duke in his corner, the conclusion of conservative journalist Fred Barnes that Donald slump-Trump’s candidacy will destroy the Republican Party and elect Hilly Clinton as president starts making more and more sense. As the campaign goes on and slump-Trump appears increasingly likely to get the GOP presidential nomination, the Republican candidates who have been reluctant to take him on will be replaced by news organs in the media anxious to look behind the curtain. We already know that, beyond such fringe characters as David Duke and Roger Stone, we find close associates of Putin like Russian billionaire Aras Agalarov.
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Indeed, it appears that slump-Trump’s recipe for a new Republican Party has all the earmarks of the nationalist and populist parties in Europe that either take Russian money or sing Putin’s praises. Such a development would mean the end of American foreign policy leadership and the destruction of American allies, especially in the Middle East.
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Wednesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 2, 2016 at 1:30pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
.Last Chance for America?
THOMAS SOWELL
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 Justice Clarence Thomas Speaks 
"Ms. Eisenstein, one question." And with that, Justice Clarence Thomas broke his 10-year silence on the bench. The last time Thomas asked a question during oral arguments was Feb. 22, 2006. He reportedly keeps silent out of respect for the lawyers presenting their cases. Perhaps he spoke up because of the recent death of his longtime colleague and friend Antonin Scalia. The two were ideologically close, and perhaps Thomas felt he needed to be a louder conservative voice on the bench.
          The court was hearing the oral arguments to Voisine v. United States, a challenge to the law forbidding anyone convicted of domestic violence from owning a firearm. Assistant Solicitor General Ilana Eisenstein was presenting the state's defense, about to wrap up, when Thomas piped up. "This is a misdemeanor violation," Thomas said. "It suspends a constitutional right. Can you give me another area where a misdemeanor violation suspends a constitutional right?"
          Thomas long has been a quiet supporter of the Second Amendment. For years, government has argued it could curtail the right to bear arms for the sake of public safety. A domestic violence incident might not have anything to do with firearms. A felony might not have anything to do with violence. Yet a conviction in either results in the loss of Second Amendment rights. As Reason's Jacob Sullum notes, Thomas is implying legislators have been too quick to strip self-defense rights from citizens. For the record, Eisentein couldn't think of another example where a misdemeanor resulted in the permanent loss of a constitutional right.  -The Patriot Post
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 slump-Trump University: A Model for Making  America Great?   For all of the self-hype about Donald slump-Trump's great successes as a businessman, his business failures are even more instructive. While failure in business can certainly be overcome and there can be valuable lessons learned from mistakes, there are also instances when the business itself becomes more important than the people it's supposed to be helping or serving. One such example is slump-Trump University.
          Thankfully, during the last Republican presidential debate, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz finally started going after the frontrunner instead of each other. Rubio landed a good punch, sarcastically conceding that he didn't "know anything about starting a fake university."
          Naturally, slump-Trump defended his creation of slump-Trump University. During an interview with NBC's "Meet the Press," he insisted he would do it all over again because, he boasted, "98% of the people who took the courses approved the courses" and "said they were great." As usual slump-Trump left out many, many details.
          What exactly was slump-Trump University? David Marcus notes, "To understand what slump-Trump University was, it is important to understand what it wasn't — namely, a university." In fact, a lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general in 2013 forced slump-Trump University to change its name to slump-Trump Entrepreneur Initiative. It turns out that slump-Trump U was operating illegally as a non-accredited university and did not offer any degrees or well-rounded curriculum. slump-Trump ignored warnings dating to 2005.
          What did it offer? It offered educational products, some with a price tag of $35,000, which were designed to teach students how to make big profits in real estate. At the lower levels, seminars were offered to teach students how to flip properties but they were designed to upsell the student to the next higher level course. Indeed, upselling was the name of the game, and many students were coaxed into paying a hefty price for useless information.
          It was a classic bait-and-switch scam — a lie, a fraud. People paid generous sums of money to attend these courses that benefitted not the students but the businessman Donald slump-Trump. And his outfit is now the defendant in three lawsuits.
          In slump-Trump's introductory video for slump-Trump University, he states, "We are going to have professors and adjunct professors that are absolutely terrific — terrific brains, successful. We are going to have the best of the best. Honestly, if you don't learn from them, if you don't learn from me, if you don't learn from the people that we will be putting forward — and these are all people who are going to be handpicked by me — then you are just not going to make it in terms of the world of success."
          Fact-check time.
          First, according to Michael Sexton, the top executive for slump-Trump University, "None of the instructors at the live events were handpicked by Donald slump-Trump." That's right — none.
          Second, as mentioned before, slump-Trump boasted of the 98% approval rating from those who took the courses. In an interview with Fox News Sunday, he went on to claim that slump-Trump University had an A rating from the Better Business Bureau. Yet the Better Business Bureau rated slump-Trump University a D- in 2010. In addition, slump-Trump University  closed its seminars in Texas in January 2010, following a "civil investigative demand" mailed to slump-Trump's corporate offices after Texas assistant Attorney General Rick Berlin began a probe of whether slump-Trump's operation was in violation of Texas' Deceptive Trade Practices Consumer Protection Act. Instead of responding and returning the requested documents, slump-Trump University ceased doing business in Texas.
          Third, slump-Trump claims he has helped so many people but in recent TV ads courtesy of the American Future Fund, the people giving testimony present a far different picture.
          In the first ad, one single mom says she "made a huge mistake trusting him." She thought that she would get the best — the best experts, advice and contacts. But she ended up paying more than $35,000 for what amounted to "just a fake" and "got hurt badly" by slump-Trump. 
          In the second ad, a man tells how he was "duped by The slump-Donald" into believing he was attending a legitimate university because of its name. He explains that at the $1,495 seminar the professors pressed for students to increase their credit lines so they could afford the higher priced courses and become part of a group who would receive access to some of slump-Trump's condos, which could be flipped quickly for a profit. In addition, there were promises of access to "hard money lenders" but no contacts were ever provided.
          Finally, in the third ad, another man states that he fell for slump-Trump University because he thought he could use the information to earn extra money to pay off debts. After the first two seminars, he was convinced by the presenter to increase his credit card limit so he could afford the $25,000 Gold Elite program. But again the hard money lenders did not exist. He found himself unable to get financing unless he had a deal with a seller and he couldn't make a deal unless the financing was in place. He asked for help but was told to work harder. In the end he had to sublet his house and move into a studio apartment due to accumulation of debt and because the billionaire huckster refused to refund any of his money. "slump-Trump is just a fraud, a misrepresentation, a BS artist," the man says.
          In line with slump-Trump's usual desire to silence dissent, he is demanding the ads be pulled.
          Is slump-Trump University a model for greatness or a model for failure? People who hoped for a brighter future were told they could gain valuable information and the tools for success from slump-Trump University. But they were lied to and essentially robbed. The man they thought they could trust betrayed them. And this is just one example of slump-Trump's misdoings and deceitfulness in business. Check out the debacle of slump-Trump Mortgage for another, or ask the questions of his unreleased tax returns for still one more.
          So as voters head to the polls for Super Tuesday and beyond, the question is simple: Is slump-Trump the kind of man who will help make America great again?   -The Patriot Post
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9th Circuit Affirms Iran’s Terror 
Victims Can Seize Funds
Jonathan Levin
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a judgment allowing victims of Iranian terror to attach a judgment owed to Iran... This is separate from the Bank Markazi case argued before the Supreme Court last month... In this case –  Ministry Of Defense And Support For The Armed forces Of The Islamic Republic Of Iran v. Frym – ten victims of Iranian terrorism who hold valid judgments against Iran from previous cases seek to collect by attaching a judgment owed to Iran in yet another previous dispute.  All of the victim/Plaintiffs are U.S. citizens and have successfully navigated a welter of procedural and jurisprudential pitfalls. The case is a good reminder of Iran’s global reach and commitment to terror.  It’s also fairly complicated, so bear down.     http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/02/9th-circuit-affirms-irans-terror-victims-can-seize-funds/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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CONFIRMED: nObama Sent Weapons to
Muslim Terrorists in Benghazi
Daniel Greenfield
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{directorblue.blogspot.com} ~ One of the few interesting items in the New York Times' whitewash of Hilly and nObama's illegal Libyan war is the confirmation of weapons shipments... nObama ultimately took her side, according to the administration officials who described the debate. After he signed a secret document called a presidential finding, approving a covert operation, a list of approved weaponry was drawn up. The shipments arranged by the United States and other Western countries generally arrived through the port of Benghazi and airports in eastern Libya, a Libyan rebel commander said. “Humvees, counterbattery radar, TOW missiles was the highest end we talked about,” one State Department official recalled. “We were definitely giving them lethal assistance. We’d crossed that line.” The story blames the problem on Qatar aiding Jihadists and nObama's unwillingness to defy the terror oil state. But the claim that we had to arm terrorists to fight Qatar's arming of terrorists doesn't hold up too well. Furthermore we already know that US forces were told to turn a blind eye to Qatar's weapons shipments. We could have blocked them instead.       http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2016/02/confirmed-obama-sent-weapons-to-muslim.html
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NY Times RIPS Hilly Clinton About Libya
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ On Sunday, the New York Times began a three-part series about how Libya evolved into a failed terrorist state... As of Monday two segments have been published and it paints a horrible picture of Hilly Clinton, first pushing the country into the Libyan”civil” war, and then doing nothing about the threat of what came next. President nObama was deeply wary of another military venture in a Muslim country. Most of his senior advisers were telling him to stay out. Still, he dispatched Mrs. Clinton to sound out Mr. Jibril, a leader of the Libyan opposition. Their late-night meeting on March 14, 2011, would be the first chance for a top American official to get a sense of whom, exactly, the United States was being asked to support. Once Ms. Clinton pushed America into the war, and Qaddafi was deposed and executed Hilly ignored the warnings when, “militias refused to disarm, neighbors fanned a civil war, and the Islamic State found refuge.” But Ms Clinton was too busy bragging to care:        http://lidblog.com/ny-times-rips-hillary-clinton-about-libya/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=493e1b6480-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-493e1b6480-291705165
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“Honest slump-Donald” won’t
release his tax returns – exaggerated wealth?
Planned Parenthood donations?, Mafia ties?
Trevor Loudon
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ Donald slump-Trump made a big deal about nObama’s birth certificate, yet he refuses to release his own tax records….The only major GOP candidate yet to do so... What is “honest slump-Donald” hiding? Maybe nothing… but given his known tendency to exaggerate, his long time support for leftist causes, and even well documented business ties to mob controlled companies, voters are right to be concerned. Is slump-Trump innocent, a hypocrite, a liar or a crook? At the very least, if he’s this secretive now, what might he be like in the White House?       http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/03/honest-donald-wont-release-his-tax-returns-exaggerated-wealth-planned-parenthood-donations-mafia-ties/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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WATCH: How many more red flags do you
slump-Trumpsters need?
Trevor Loudon
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ After almost a century of consistent and ongoing attacks to limited government as envisioned by America’s founding fathers, perhaps it is no surprise that Americans no longer look to the Constitution for answers... Because if Americans did value separation of powers and self-governance, Donald slump-Trump would not be the front-runner for the Republican party. After toying with the idea for many years, Donald slump-Trump finally jumped headfirst into the presidential race as a candidate for the Republican party. At first, this author wrote several articles defending the slump-Donald from the usual mainstream media attacks, but as time went on, several things started to become clear. As Conservative icon Andrew Breitbart – who endorsed Ted Cruz just weeks before he met his tragic and untimely death – observed, “a potential Donald slump-Trump candidacy is a bad sign for America.”        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/02/how-many-more-red-flags-do-you-trumpsters-need/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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The Mullahs Execute Every Man 
in Anentire Village
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Where is the professional journalism the mainstream media keeps talking about?... While they have been focusing on Iran’s artificial democratic elections, the mainstream liberal outlets seem to have intentionally ignored one of the most heinous and egregious acts that the ruling mullahs of Iran committed during the elections. The Islamist henchmen of the Islamic Republic executed every man in a village in the province Sistan-Baluchestan, according to the latest report coming from Iran. Shahindokht Molaverdi, the vice president for women and family affairs, called for increased protection for the families of the executed as she claimed to a Persian news outlet that “We have a village in Sistan-Baluchestan province where every single man has been executed.” In addition, while liberal journalists often report on the mass executions that are being carried out by the non-state militia -- the Islamic State -- they have chosen to ignore larger scale of human rights violations by a powerful Islamist state, Iran.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261993/mullahs-execute-every-man-entire-village-dr-majid-rafizadeh
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Marsha Blackburn: slump-Trump’s 
Answer on David Duke and 
the KKK Not Acceptable
Melanie Hunter
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Rep. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) told CNN’s “State of the Union with Jake Tapper” on Sunday that GOP presidential candidate Donald slump-Trump’s response on whether he would disavow support of David Duke and the Ku Klux Klan is not an acceptable answer... As CNSNews.com reported, Tapper asked slump-Trump if he would "condemn unequivocally" the racism of former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard David Duke and "say that you don't want his vote or that of other white supremacists." “And that in his debate performance -- you know, that in his debate performance the other night suggests that, you know, there's some chinks in his armor, and one of them is that he's not confident enough to simply say, I disavow the Ku Klux Klan,” former NAACP President Ben Jealous said. He does know who David Duke is and the Ku Klux Klan are. He is lying.  http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/melanie-hunter/marsha-blackburn-trumps-answer-david-duke-and-kkk-not-acceptable
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Homeland Security A Shambles, Falling
Apart Under Jihadi Jeh Johnson
Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s bad enough that the mission of the Department of Homeland Security has been redirected from preventing the invasion of America to facilitating it and from enforcing immigration law to negating and nullifying it... Additionally, a recent Inspector General report outlines how the condition of our facilities have deteriorated dramatically under the criminal mismanagement and neglect of anti-American subversive and Homeland “Security” Secretary Jeh Johnson. Johnson only manages like an imbecile because it suits the regime’s open borders, Marxist purposes. He’s not stupid, he’ a Columbia-educated lawyer who served as General Counsel for the Department of Defense. What he’s doing to our border enforcement has to be deliberate. The report, which was released on February 9th, details a litany of situations in which problems have been ignored which impact our security and the ability of agents to do their jobs. There are also health concerns and instances of critical facilities not even being open and staffed.        http://rickwells.us/archives/26745
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FBI Holding One Clinton Email, The 
Smoking .50 Cal
Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Catherine Herridge reports that of the most recent tranche of Hilly Clinton emails just released, 261 contain classified information and of those 23 were classified at the high level of secret... What is potentially most damaging for the former Secretary of State and current presidential candidate is withholding of one of two emails which was done at the request of law enforcement. Herridge says that it is her belief that the email is wanted by the FBI as part of their case against Clinton because it speaks to the intent of the perpetrators, that those using the system understood they were sending classified material at the time and it was not something that was a surprise to them later. Herridge is asked upon what basis she makes that determination. She describes receiving a tip several months ago that at least one email included the type of smoking gun she references. She believes that the one email being withheld must be a very important piece of the FBI’s case, and that the establishment of intent is, in her opinion, the underlying reason for the email being withheld.        http://rickwells.us/archives/26752
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George Soros Had White House Meeting
With nObama’s ISIS Czar
Brent Scher
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Liberal billionaire George Soros was at the White House late last year to meet with President nObama’s controversial top adviser on ISIS, according to the White House visitor log... Soros, joined by top aide Michelle’s Vachon and Bulgarian political scientist Ivan Krastev, met with White House ISIS czar Rob Malley late in the afternoon on October 8, 2015 in the Executive Office Building, according to a recent update of the log. The White House did not return a request for comment on the topic of the meeting with Malley, the senior advisor to the president for the counter-ISIL campaign in Iraq and Syria. Though Malley wouldn’t be named ISIS czar until a few weeks later, the terrorist force was almost certainly the topic of discussion at the meeting.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/george-soros-had-white-house-meeting-with-obamas-isis-czar/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=fd812e3291-WFB_Morning_Beacon_03_01_162_29_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-fd812e3291-45611665
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.Last Chance for America?
THOMAS SOWELL
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{freedomsback.com} ~ The “Super Tuesday” primaries may be a turning point for America — and quite possibly a turn for the worse. After seven long years of domestic disasters and increasing international dangers, the next President of the United States will need extraordinary wisdom, maturity, depth of knowledge and personal character to rescue America.
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Instead, if the polls are an indication, what we may get is someone with the opposite of all these things, a glib egomaniac with a checkered record in business and no track record at all in government — Donald slump-Trump.
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If so, the downward trajectory of America over the past seven years may well continue on into the future, to the point of no return.
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Democrat Susan Estrich says that it is “fun” watching Donald slump-Trump. She may be able to enjoy the spectacle because slump-Trump is Hilly Clinton’s best chance of winning the general election in November. Even if the FBI’s investigation leads them to recommend an indictment, the nObama administration is not likely to indict Hilly.
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No doubt “The slump-Donald” is entertaining, and he has ridden a wave of Republican voter anger against the Republican establishment, which has repeatedly betrayed them, especially on illegal immigration.
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But these political problems are a sideshow, in a world where Iran is guaranteed to get nuclear weapons and North Korea, which already has them, is developing long-range missiles that can reach American cities. Iran is also developing long-range missiles.
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Then there are the international terrorist organizations from the Middle East — many sponsored by Iran — whose agents have had easy access to the United States across our open border with Mexico.
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We will need the cooperation of nations around the world to keep us informed of these terrorist organizations’ activities, and to help disrupt the international money flows to terrorists.
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Those nations know that helping the United States makes them targets of terrorism. So they have to weigh how much they can rely on America, before they risk their own national survival by cooperating with us against the terrorists.
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Is Donald slump-Trump someone who would inspire such confidence among leaders of other countries? Already slump-Trump’s irresponsible rhetoric has caused a backlash in Mexico and there has also been an attempt in Britain to ban him from setting foot on British soil.
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We need all the allies we can get, from countries around the world, including Muslim allies in the Middle East. The last thing we can afford, at this crucial juncture in history is a president who alienates allies we have to have in a war against international terrorists.
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On the campaign trail, Donald slump-Trump’s theatrical talents, including his bluster and bombast, may be enough to conceal his shallow understanding of very deep problems. But that will not cut it in the White House, where you cannot clown or con your way out of problems, and where the stakes are matters of life and death.
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slump-Trump’s acting like a bull in a china shop may appeal to some voters but, in the world as it is, he may well cost us our last chance to recover from the great dangers into which the nObama administration has gotten this nation.
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We already have an ego-driven, know-it-all president who will not listen to military or intelligence agency experts. Do we need to tempt fate by having two in a row?
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Despite Donald slump-Trump’s string of primary vote victories, he has not yet gotten a majority of the Republican votes anywhere. But although most Republican votes are being cast against him, the scattering of that vote among so many other candidates leaves slump-Trump with a good chance to get the nomination.
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Everyone understands that the best chance for stopping slump-Trump is for that fractured majority vote to consolidate behind one candidate opposed to him. But who will step aside for the good of the country?
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When we think of American military heroes who have fallen on enemy hand grenades to save those around them, at the cost of their own lives, is it really too much to ask candidates — especially those who present themselves as patriots — to give up their one political chance in a zillion this year for the sake of the country?
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Voters have a responsibility too. They might well ask themselves: Do I plan to use my vote to vent my emotions or to try to help save this country?
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Wednesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 2, 2016 at 8:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Commentary: What if Christian Terrorists
Were Blowing Up Muslims?
Truth Revolt
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OPINION IN BRIEF 
Rebecca Hagelin: "It's no wonder that Donald slump-Trump still supports and extols the virtues of Planned Parenthood, the organization that betrays women and girls at the most vulnerable time in their lives; the organization that encourages our teen daughters to be sexually active; the organization that is now notorious for selling baby body parts. It is the very philosophy of Planned Parenthood that Donald slump-Trump uses to justify his decadent lifestyle choices. To both, women are largely sexual objects and men are allowed to treat them that way. ... Rest assured, the truth about slump-Trump will [eventually] be headlines and the fantasy war on women will become a credible narrative. And whichever liberal, socialist Democratic candidate is nominated will easily be elected President of the United States. Worse still, every Evangelical leader who cozied up to Mr. slump-Trump and was seduced into supporting him will be embarrassed and shamed, and the body of Christ will suffer. I've spent much of my adult life fighting pornography because it is evil, because it victimizes and degrades women and destroys men and families. It is beyond tragic that so many of my Republican and Christian brothers and sisters have forgotten that it is the moral fiber of a country that determines its ultimate destiny. If the GOP disregards moral, principled leaders in favor of one who promises only great riches, then we deserve neither. Yes, Donald slump-Trump promises to 'Make America Great Again.' What he and his supporters fail to realize is that America will never be great again if we are not first good again."  -The Patriot Post
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 Time for Us to Vote 
It's Super Tuesday, and that means those of us here in our humble shop will be voting in either the Tennessee or Georgia primaries. And just in case it hasn't been clear, we will not be voting for Donald slump-Trump. Not that we don't expect him to win "yuge" today, maybe even sweeping all 11 states — in addition to ours, Alabama, Arkansas, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Oklahoma, Texas, Vermont and Virginia will vote. But America's First Principles aren't always guided by a majority, or even a dominant plurality. It wasn't a majority that fought for American independence, but, as Sam Adams described it, a "tireless minority, keen on setting brush fires of freedom in the minds of men." All we can do is our best to light those brush fires, and to defend Liberty at every turn.
          None of the states today are winner-take-all, which means strong second- or third-place finishes for Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio will still net them some of the 595 delegates up for grabs. (slump-Trump currently leads 82, 17, 16, respectively, needing 1,237 to win.) Regardless, Cruz and Rubio face incredibly long odds as things stand. John Kasich and Ben Carson will also be on the ballot.
          "We're getting people into the party that they've never had before," slump-Trump boasted Tuesday. "I can tell you the one person Hilly Clinton doesn't want to run against is me." The first claim is probably true; the second ... perhaps, perhaps not. Mark Alexander speculated yesterday that "it's likely that some of slump-Trump's primary voter support is coming not from Republicans but from Clinton crossovers, who want to ensure slump-Trump is her opponent." There's evidence of the switch, if not the motive, at least in Massachusetts, where 20,000 Democrats quit the party to vote GOP.
          On the Democrat side, Hilly Clinton is likely to win big almost everywhere, but that may not mean Bernie Sanders packs up and goes home. He's what National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru calls "a cause candidate" whose motivation isn't winning but sending a message. It's likely the only thing standing in Clinton's way now is an indictment over her email.  
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 Final Batch of Clinton Email Released 
The State Department released the last batch of emails from Hill y Clinton's homebrew email server Monday. It marks the last of the 52,000 emails now in the public record. In total, more than 2,000 emails were redacted at some level. While State says none of the documents were marked classified, figures in the intelligence committee said the information was classified at the time. It's a distinction Clinton likes to exploit against low info voters.
          In this last batch of 3,900 emails, 261 were redacted by State. Those redacted emails described meetings Clinton had with world leaders, including Mid-East leaders after the Egyptian Revolution in 2011 — sensitive information that should have been protected from foreign spies. Most importantly, these emails show Barack nObama knew of Clinton's private email and Clinton was well aware that she handled classified information through it. One email was classified because it was because it was an exchange between the chief executive and his cabinet member. On April 22, 2012, Clinton emailed her staffer Jacob Sullivan about a document that was emailed her: "If it's not classified or otherwise inappropriate can you send to the NY Times reporters who interviewed me today?" She had to ask, implying that she never fostered a culture where sensitive information was automatically forbidden from the technology.
          At the beginning of this email debacle, Clinton admitted that her team deleted an additional 30,000 emails, saying they were personal. But if the vetted emails have 2,000 classified emails, what do the 30,000, which were recovered by the FBI and are being reviewed, reveal about the woman who wants to run this country?  -The Patriot Post
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McCon-nell Prepping GOP Senators To
Split From slump-Trump
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{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) is advising vulnerable Republican senators to break with Donald slump-Trump if he wins the GOP nomination, according to a bombshell New York Times report Saturday... McCon-nell has reportedly advised Republicans that they can run ads against slump-Trump to create separation from the polarizing GOP front runner if they believe it can help their reelection efforts. The majority leader is also preparing to pitch the Senate as a necessary check to an inevitable Hilly Clinton presidency if slump-Trump is the GOP’s nominee, according to the Times. Republicans risk losing their 54-46 Senate majority with several vulnerable incumbents up for re-election this year. Republican analysts and pollsters have predicted dire consequences for Republican legislators if slump-Trump wins the GOP nomination, stifling their re-election chances. http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/02/29/mcconnell-prepping-gop-senators-to-split-from-trump/
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Special Counsel Says VA Sought to Attack,
Discredit Whistleblowers
Alana Goodman
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Oversight officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs failed to properly investigate medical misconduct allegations at multiple VA hospitals and issued reports that attempted to discredit and attack whistleblowers... according to a review by the U.S. Office of Special Counsel. In 2014, the Office of Special Counsel asked the VA inspector general’s office to look into claims of “secret waiting lists” at two veterans hospitals after receiving whistleblower complaints. Employees at the facilities claimed veterans would often be forced to wait months or longer for appointments, but this information was kept outside of the VA’s official electronic records system so that administrators could dodge federal requirements and take home cash bonuses. The VA inspector general’s office conducted two investigations, one at the Overton Brooks VA Medical Center in Louisiana and another at the Hines VA Hospital in Illinois. The office reported that it was not able to substantiate the allegations made by the whistleblower at Overton Brooks, and was only able to substantiate limited parts of the allegations at Hines. http://freebeacon.com/issues/special-counsel-says-va-sought-to-attack-discredit-whistleblowers/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=42fd12008b-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_29_162_28_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-42fd12008b-45611665
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Why Closing Gitmo Is Still a Terrible Idea
Andrew McCarthy
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{aim.org} ~ Less than a week ago, French lawmakers voted to extend the state of emergency initiated in November after the Paris jihadist attacks that left 130 dead and 367 wounded... By law, the emergency status vests police with expanded powers to conduct raids, seize property, and detain persons without judicial oversight, much less trial. It was impossible not to think of France this morning as President nObama once again agitated for the closing of the detention camp at Guantanamo Bay. It is an unkept promise to the hard Left from his 2008 campaign that the president has been working on since his first full day in office seven years ago. The case has not gotten better with time, unless we factor in the extortionate tactics of the community organizer. nObama has released so many jihadists to other countries that the Gitmo prisoner population is down to 91 according to the New York Times. nObama, in his brass knuckles way, is telling Congress, “Either shutter this place or I’ll spring even more committed terrorists to return to the jihad.” The threat is his most persuasive argument.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/why-closing-gitmo-is-still-a-terrible-idea/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022616&utm_medium=email
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The Media’s Support for Hilly, and Buyer’s
Remorse for slump-Trump
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ The liberal media are doing their best to feed the street fight that the GOP primaries have become, pushing for greater, and fiercer, attacks on Republican front-runner Donald slump-Trump... At the same time the media are doing their best to protect Hilly Clinton in many different ways: by minimizing her legal and ethical troubles, avoiding discussions of her foreign policy record, and deliberately ignoring the close ties between the media and the Clintons. After her resounding primary victory in South Carolina, the relief is palpable that Mrs. Clinton appears well on her way to wrapping up the nomination in the next few weeks, avoiding a protracted battle. We’ll see. But in the meantime, the mainstream media are clearly trying to help her. For example, Maria Cardona appeared on air 50 times between August 2015 and February 2016. Yet, according to Lee Fang of the left-wing website Intercept, 40 of those appearances “presented her as a neutral Democratic strategist or CNN contributor.” In reality, Fang writes, “…in none of her appearances was it disclosed that Cardona’s firm, the Dewey Square Group, has been retained for consulting work by the Clinton Super PACs or that her colleagues at the firm are working on behalf of the Clinton campaign.” Cardona has many reasons to support the Clintons, yet her loyalty to Hilly is not being regularly disclosed. My goodness, two of the worst people on this earth.        http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-medias-support-for-hillary-and-buyers-remorse-for-trump/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022616&utm_medium=email
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UN Persecution of Whistleblowers 
Shocks U.S. Congress
Alex Newman
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Miranda Brown
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The United Nations' persecution of whistle-blowers who expose wrongdoing at the international outfit and its agencies is a major threat, said shocked U.S. lawmakers and former UN officials during a congressional hearing this week investigating the issue... But despite the seriousness of the offenses, this is hardly the first time the UN has been exposed engaging in severe retaliation against those who blow the whistle on UN crimes. The implications of the case are enormous: If left unaddressed, UN officials who know of wrongdoing and criminality will be unlikely to report it, knowing that their lives will be destroyed and nothing will change anyway. But lawmakers did pledge to act. The whistle-blower scandal probed this week by Congress — one of many similar scandals at the UN — surrounds the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization, or WIPO, and its director-general, Francis Gurry. According to current and former employees of the agency, which runs the international intellectual-property regime, the UN agency boss sent sensitive U.S. technology to the dictatorships ruling Iran and North Korea, in defiance of U.S. law and international sanctions. The reason, whistle-blowers said, was to secure the votes of those regimes in Gurry's reelection contest. When WIPO officials found out, though, they realized something was wrong, and attempted to take action. In response, Gurry retaliated against them in what observers described as an “outrageous” and potentially criminal abuse of power.        http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/22642-un-persecution-of-whistleblowers-shocks-u-s-congress
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Oil Industry Facing Massive Challenges
Bob Adelmann
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Despite claims to the contrary during the CERAWeek conference in Houston last week, energy producers are facing challenges that are threatening the existence of not only marginal, highly-leveraged producers, but large companies as well... Canadian-based Suncor is just one example. Known for its Sunoco brand now Petro-Canada, Canada’s largest crude-oil producer reported three weeks ago that it suffered a fourth-quarter loss of $1.45 billion and that it was slashing its capex capital expenditures for 2016 by 10 percent, forcing its expected 2016 production to fall by the same amount. It is also selling assets in order to keep paying its dividends to nervous investors. But Steve Williams, the company’s CEO, told equally nervous participants that “We will be one of the last guys standing.” Lamar McKay, BP’s deputy chief executive, did the same: “Times are tough. You’d almost call them brutal right now. But we will adapt. We will make it.” This from the world’s sixth-largest oil and gas company which lost $6.5 billion in 2015 and was forced to lay off more than 3,000 employees. http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/22647-oil-industry-facing-massive-challenges
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Gov. Brown's Water Restrictions
Backfire, Killing Trees, Raising Taxes, Clogging Sewers
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ No good deed goes unpunished, especially when it comes to "saving" the environment and battling climate change... Learning this difficult lesson currently is liberal California Gov. Jerry Brown, who is experiencing a spate of unintended consequences from his sweeping water restrictions in hopes of battling his state's extreme drought conditions of the last few years. But what has happened as a result of those restrictions is having adverse effects on the environment and the public's pocket books: foul-smelling air, clogged sewage drains, thousands of dead and dying trees, taxes rising, and utility rates about to go up. It's the kind of consequences that University of California at Davis professor George Tchobanoglous says no one thinks about. "It really is a double-edged sword," he added. His expertise in civil and environmental engineering has helped him pinpoint a major problem with Gov. Brown, or anyone for that matter, asking citizens to conserve water: the utility systems already in place require higher volumes of water to work efficiently.     http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/gov-browns-water-restrictions-backfire-killing-trees-raising-taxes-clogging-sewers
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nObama Pushes Quietly to Increase Number of Syrian Refugees US Takes
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Despite mounting evidence proving there is no way to properly vet refugees and weed out those with nefarious intentions... Despite the fact that a Christian genocide is taking place, but less than a miniscule fraction of incoming refugees are Christian. Despite a pathological problem among migrants across Europe who burn, loot, rape, assault and otherwise spit on their host countries at will. Despite European cities' impending collapse. Despite pleas from citizens' concerned for their safety and well-being. President nObama is quietly pushing for more -- not less -- Syrian refugees to gain entry into the U.S. Can we truly not say that the president is deliberately thumbing his nose at the American people? The Washington Examiner reports the nObama White House is indeed pushing to up the number of asylum seekers: Governors across the nation are understandably more than a bit concerned, according to the report:      http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/obama-pushes-quietly-increase-number-syrian-refugees-us-takes
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Elimination of the First Amendment Is
a Precondition to Genocide
Dave Hodges
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ History renders a hard judgment for a society that eliminates free speech. History shows that very dark days lie ahead when government seeks to control the narrative at any expense... In the past 60 days, I have been told by multiple sources that I will one day, be prosecuted for anti-Muslim rhetoric by the Federal government. Loretta Lynch is a Muslim, by practice, and is abusing her position to silence any talk against RADICAL and EXTREME Muslim speech even in the aftermath of the murder of 14 Americans by an ISIS sympathizer. This marks the end of the First Amendment in the eyes of the most powerful Justice official, namely, the Attorney General of the United States, and she is a racist to boot. Lynch is using her position as Attorney General to promote her racist views. One should look at her background as being anti-Jewish when she was a member of  the Harvard Black Law Students Association (BLSA) from 1981-1984 who advocated for several anti-Jewish positions. Lynch and the BLSA had their First Amendment rights protected. Now that the shoe is on the other foot, we need to be asking Lynch, who speaks and stands for the Jews?http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/02/29/elimination-of-the-first-amendment-is-a-precondition-to-genocide/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=elimination-of-the-first-amendment-is-a-precondition-to-genocide
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Donald slump-Trump Secretly Told The
New York Times What He Really 
Thinks About Immigration
Ben Smith
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{buzzfeed.com} ~ The New York Times is sitting on an audio recording that some of its staff believes could deal a serious blow to Donald slump-Trump, who, in an off-the-record meeting with the newspaper, called into question whether he would stand by his own immigration views... Sources familiar with the recording and transcript — which have reached near-mythical status at the Times — tell me that the second sentence is a bit more than speculation. It reflects, instead, something slump-Trump said about the flexibility of his hardline anti-immigration stance. So what exactly did slump-Trump say about immigration, about deportations, about the wall? Did he abandon a core promise of his campaign in a private conversation with liberal power brokers in New York?     http://www.buzzfeed.com/bensmith/trump-tape#.vtnBD64xm
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Commentary: What if Christian Terrorists
Were Blowing Up Muslims?
Truth Revolt
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Liberal Saudi journalist Nadine Al-Budair, who lives in Qatar, wrote an article in the Kuwaiti daily Al-Rai in which she observed that the popularity of Donald slump-Trump's anti-Muslim messages is the logical outcome of Muslim aggression against the West.
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She wondered how Muslims would have reacted if Christians had committed suicide bombings among them, or tried to force their faith on them and called on the Muslim world "to be introspective and enact reforms, instead of condemning Western attitudes towards it," said MEMRI, the Middle East Media Research Institute.
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"Imagine a Western youth coming here and carrying out a suicide mission in one of our public squares in the name of the Cross," wrote Al-Budair. "Imagine that two skyscrapers had collapsed in some Arab capital, and that an extremist Christian group, donning millennium-old garb, had emerged to take responsibility for the event, while stressing its determination to revive Christian teachings or some Christian rulings, according to its understanding, to live like in the time of Jesus and his disciples, and to implement certain edicts of Christian scholars…
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"Imagine hearing the voices of monks and priests from churches and prayer houses in and out of the Arab world, screaming on loudspeakers and levelling accusations against Muslims, calling them infidels, and chanting: 'God, eliminate the Muslims and defeat them all.'
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"Imagine that we had provided an endless number of foreign groups with visas, ID cards, citizenships, proper jobs, free education, free modern healthcare, social security, and so on, and later a member of one of these groups came out, consumed by hatred and bloodlust, and killed our sons on our streets, in our buildings, in our newspaper offices, in our mosques and in our schools.
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"Imagine a Frenchmen or a German in Paris or Berlin leading his Muslim neighbor somewhere in order to slaughter him and then freeze his head in an ice box, in a cold and calculating manner... as one terrorist did with the head of an American in Riyadh years ago.
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"Imagine that we visited their country as tourists and they shot at us, blew up car bombs near us, and announced their opposition to our presence [there] by chanting: 'Remove the Muslims from the land of culture.'
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"These images are far from the mind of the Arab or Muslim terrorist because he is certain, or used to be certain, that the West is humanitarian and that the Western citizen would refuse to respond in this manner to the barbaric crimes of the Muslim terrorists. Despite the terrorist acts of Al-Qaeda and ISIS, we Muslims have been on [Western] soil for years without any fear or worry. Millions of Muslim tourists, immigrants, students, and job seekers travel to the West with the doors open to them, and the streets safe for them."
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"However, how much longer will this last? Today things are different. Western anger at Muslims is apparent, and they make scary declarations. One who recently championed these views is Donald slump-Trump, who demanded to bar Muslims from entering the US.
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"It is strange that we Muslims believe we have the right to condemn such statements rather than address the implications of some of our extremist curricula, our education, and our regimes, and be ashamed of them... It is strange that we condemn the West instead of addressing what is happening in our midst - the extremist ways in which we interpret the shari'a and our reactionary attitudes towards each other and the world. It is strange that we condemn instead of apologizing to the world.
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"How would you react if a European blew up a theater in your city or a café that your son frequents? What would you do if you heard curses against your religion and faith every Sunday, as they hear against theirs from some of our imams on Fridays and other days?
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"Imagine being in Amsterdam, London, or New York and knowing that students there learn as part of their curricula that you are an infidel, and that killing you is jihad that leads to the virgins of paradise. Would you extend your stay there to the end of the summer, or stay away? Would you blow yourself up as the Muslim terrorists do, or would you do less than that: Merely conquer your rage and demand to ban Christians from entering Arab countries. What would you do?
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"Imagine the war that would break out had Westerners shed their values in the face of the bloody crimes committed by foreigners, and if Western or Christian counter-radicalism had emerged in our Arab cities?
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"After all these farces, some Arab analyst comes out touting a pathetic message, and reciting the same words in his friend's ear that he has repeated millions of times: 'Those Muslims who commit terrorism do not represent Islam, but only themselves.'
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"This is all we know how to do – absolve ourselves of guilt."
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 1, 2016 at 1:30pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
While nObama fiddles …
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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 Who Speaks for Us? 
If there's one thing the current election cycle has made clear, it's the reality that millions of Americans feel utterly disenfranchised. Their anger and frustration are driven by the daunting realization that neither political party represents their interests. This despicable status quo begs the simplest question, one every candidate running for elective office in 2016 should be forced to answer: Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where there is a clear understanding of right and wrong, not one dominated by the "anything goes" cultural sewage churned out on a regular basis by Hollywood and the mainstream media. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation that puts Americans first — one with definable, enforceable borders and one where Rule of Law is paramount — not one that gratifies the desires of millions of illegals and their cadre of elitist supporters aiming to fundamentally transform our national character, using cheap votes and cheap labor to do so. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where we no longer cater to the lowest common denominator of human behavior to accommodate "root causes," the "soft bigotry of low expectations," or a multiculturalist mishmash that excuses misogyny, anti-Semitism, and racism under the rubric of "celebrating our differences." Who speaks for us?
          We want to live a nation with an educational system that teaches children how to think, not what to think. A system where ideological indoctrination social promotion, grade inflation, worthless diplomas, "creative" math, and the generalized dumbing-down of vulnerable children is tossed on the ash heap of history. Who speaks for us?  
          We want to live in a nation where merit and excellence matter, not one where millions of "snowflakes" have been cushioned by trigger warnings, micro-aggressions, speech codes and helicopter parents who believe everyone should get a trophy just for showing up. A nation where the content of one's character is far more important than the color of one's skin, one's gender, one's sexual orientation, or one's membership in a particular grievance group. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where the Constitution is defended for what it actually says, not what some people would like it to mean because a "living" interpretation of the document accommodates their agenda, political correctness or the latest trend. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where we don't burden our children and grandchildren with unconscionable levels of debt that will destroy their standard of living, one where able-bodied people are expected to work for a living, and one where the free-market capitalism that rewards ambition, risk-taking and talent isn't subsumed by a government-controlled crony-capitalist oligarchy that stifles competition and picks winners and losers. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation with the strongest military in the world, not one debased by social engineering. A military that only sends men and women into harm's way when our national security is threatened, and one that utterly rejects such nonsense as "winning hearts and minds," restrictive and dangerous Rules of Engagement, and politically correct warfare that elevates concerns for collateral damage above the lives of American soldiers. A military with only one objective in mind when it becomes necessary to put the nation's blood and treasure at risk: unambiguous victory. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where states' rights are once again paramount, where 50 separate constituencies would be given maximum freedom to innovate, to compete, and do anything else to improve the lives of their citizens without the interfering heavy hand of the District of Columbia. A nation where people intuitively understand government operates best from the local level outwards, not the federal level inward. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where we treat our allies like the friends they are, and our enemies with the suspicion they have earned. A nation where foreign policy is grounded in reality, not faculty-lounge-inspired wishful thinking. A nation that will no longer send foreign aid to people who hate us, based on the dubious assertion we can buy their loyalty and admiration. Who speaks for us?
          We want to live in a nation where we celebrate our exceptionalism, not identify only by our shortcomings. Those who insist otherwise should be asked to explain why people all over the world are beating a path to our shores. Who speaks for us?
          As the opening of the Constitution states, "We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity..."
          "We the people" is us, not a bunch of self-interested politicians and their well connected benefactors. A "more perfect" union is an aspiration. We must not allow our pursuit of that perfection to be the enemy of our goodness. Same goes for establishing justice and insuring domestic tranquility.
          As for the next two items, it's important to note the critical distinction between providing for the commence defense and promoting the general welfare. It is the government's constitutionally mandated duty to provide protection for the nation. It is not the government's duty to provide for the peoples' welfare, but rather to promote the conditions that allow a free people to provide for their own welfare, that of their families and those Americans who are truly in need.
          As for the blessings of Liberty, the implication is clear: There is a higher power from which those blessings are secured and it does not emanate from Washington, state legislatures or local governments. As Thomas Jefferson so eloquently explained in the Declaration of Independence, all men are "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights." There are millions of Americans who cherish that wisdom, even as they still understand it is the ultimate foundation of the greatest nation ever devised by man.  -The Patriot Post
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Vince Foster 'suicide' shocker: 
2nd wound documented
LEO HOHMANN
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Hilly Clinton and Vincent Foster were friends and business associates at the Rose Law Firm in Arkansas, and Foster followed the Clintons to the White House soon after
Bill Clinton’s election as president.
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{wnd.com} ~ It’s been 23 years since Deputy White House Counsel Vincent Foster was found dead in a Virginia park, setting off one of the biggest controversies of the Clinton administration... Foster, a boyhood friend of Bill Clinton and partner of Hilly Clinton at the Rose Law Firm in Little Rock, Arkansas, was discovered on July 20, 1993, lying in Fort Marcy Park with a fatal gunshot wound. Two independent investigations, the first led by Robert Fiske and the second by Kenneth Starr, concluded Foster suffered a single, self-inflicted wound. A simple suicide. Case closed. But newly discovered evidence unearthed from boxes stored deep in the National Archives lend credence to theories about foul play and cover-up that have been hinted at by at least three books and countless articles.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/vince-foster-suicide-shocker-2nd-wound-documented/

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The United Nations, Immigration 
and Gun Control
DAVID RISSELADA
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{sonsoflibertymedia.com} ~ Since the elections in 2014 we have watched the Republican majority sellout to the nObama agenda on one issue after the other. First it was the budget due to fears of being blamed for a potential government shutdown... then it was the Trans Pacific Partnership Treaty, and finally, it was the Iran deal. Under the U.S. Constitution, treaties require two thirds vote of all senators present in order to be ratified. The Iran deal changed that with the passage of the so called Corker Bill. Under this new law the Iran deal would require two thirds vote to stop it from being implemented. What we have witnessed is a gradual conditioning process where lawmakers are incrementally implementing an international agenda in order to surrender U.S. sovereignty to the United Nations and the next item on the chopping block is your right to keep and bear arms, in case you haven’t noticed. One thing the Republican controlled Senate seems to have done right is refuse to ratify the U.N. Small Arms Treaty. Signed by John hanoi-Kerry, the nObama administration seems intent in ensuring its ratification by passing gun control laws that push towards the treaties ultimate end; gun confiscation. While the Republicans may have taken a bold and brave stand against nObama by refusing to ratify, it doesn’t change the fact that they have caved on every other issue, and as of today, have done little to stop nObama’s executive actions against the second amendment. Could this be part of the conditioning process? Sadly the answer to that would have to be yes.       http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2016/02/the-united-nations-immigration-and-gun-control/
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House intel committee blasts 
Pentagon over ISIS files
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{cnn.com} ~ The Republican-led House intelligence committee wants the Pentagon to provide what it believes are illegally deleted intelligence files pertaining to the U.S. military campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq... Committee Chairman Devin Nunes of California blasted the Pentagon, citing the allegations that classified intelligence files and emails about the war on ISIS were deleted. "We have been made aware that both files and emails have been deleted by personnel at CENTCOM, and we expect that the Department of Defense will provide these and all other relevant documents to the committee," Nunes said at a hearing Thursday on worldwide threats.     http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/25/politics/house-intel-committee-pentagon-isis-files/?iid=ob_homepage_deskrecommended_pool&iref=obnetwork
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Iran Expert: Election Results Signify
Victory of ‘Bad Over Worse’ 
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{algemeiner.com} ~ Because the Iranian elections were engineered prior to the day when they actually took place, the choice for voters was extremely limited, an expert on the subject told The Algemeiner on Sunday... Pooya Dayanim, the California-based president of the Iranian Jewish Public Affairs Committee (IJPAC), was responding to the results of Friday’s elections for the Majlis (parliament) and Assembly of Experts, which are being touted in Western media outlets as a “victory for the reformists.” The final thing Dayanim asserted was that most people outside of Iran, other than those actually studying it and who are aware of its internal workings, “do not grasp that only one third of the Iranian regime is run by elected officials – and even those are pre-screened by the revolutionary Council of Guardians – and the rest is run by shadowy figures.” “The supreme leader still pulls the strings,” he concluded. “And when he dies, in spite of the outcome of these elections, the Assembly of Experts is going to pick someone just like him.” http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/02/28/iran-expert-election-results-signify-victory-of-bad-over-worse-interview/
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How Oregon’s $14.50 Minimum Wage Will Hurt
Those It’s Supposed to Help
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Good intentions can produce terrible results. Recently the Oregon legislature passed an unprecedented minimum wage hike in effort to help workers within their state, but the legislation will hurt the workers it’s supposed to help... By 2022, the state’s minimum wage will rise to $14.50/hour in the Portland area, $12.50/hour in rural areas, and $13.25/hour elsewhere. In six years, even rural Oregon will have the highest minimum wage in the country. Economists examining the 2007-2009 federal minimum wage hike found that affected workers’ weekly earnings dropped by an average of $150 month. This is because while some workers got higher pay, others lost their jobs—or could not find work to begin with.       http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/25/how-oregons-14-50-minimum-wage-will-hurt-those-its-supposed-to-help/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu63Kd%2B%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdhNbrYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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North Korea's Nuclear Missile Threat: 
Very Bad News
Peter Pry and Peter Huessy
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Kim Jong Un, the "Supreme Leader" of North Korea, supervises the April 22 test-launch
of a missile from a submerged platform.
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The mainstream media and their stable of "experts" consistently underestimate North Korea's missile and nuclear weapon capabilities... The gap between how the media report on the North Korean nuclear missile threat and the reality of the threat has become so wide as to be dangerous. In the aftermath of North Korea's latest nuclear test on January 6, 2016, for instance, and its launch of a mock satellite on February 7, 2016, the American people were told that North Korea has not miniaturized a nuclear warhead for delivery by missile nor could the missile strike the U.S. with any accuracy. Mirren Gidda, for example, writing in Newsweek, inexplicably claims "International experts doubt that North Korea has manufactured nuclear weapons small enough to fit on a missile." Yet this commonplace assertion that North Korea does not have nuclear-armed missiles is simply untrue.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7512/north-korea-nuclear-missiles
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Ted Cruz is Correct, Donald slump-Trump Does
Have Organized Crime Ties
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ On ABC’s This Week, Texas Senator Ted Cruz brought up Donald slump-Trump’s alleged mafia ties... Was Cruz making up those ties, was he simply slandering slump-Trump out of desperation? No Cruz wasn’t making anything up. There is ample evidence of slump-Trump’s ties to organized crime well beyond the Mafia. Something that was research and laid out by Dana Loesch earlier this month:        http://lidblog.com/is-cruz-correct-does-donald-trump-have-organized-crime-ties/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=176f021c75-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-176f021c75-291705165#
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Senators Introduce Bill to ‘Ensure Prompt Return of Unaccompanied Alien Children’
Barbara Hollingsworth
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Unaccompanied alien children at a Border Patrol holding center in Arizona
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Senators Jeff Sessions (R-AL) and Ron Johnson (R-WI) introduced a bill that would “ensure a prompt return of unaccompanied alien children (UAC) who illegally cross the southern border”... after their numbers more than doubled during the first four months of the current fiscal year. According to U.S. Customs and Border Protection, there was a 102 percent increase in the number of unaccompanied alien children (20,455) who were apprehended at the southwest border between Oct. 1, 2015 and Jan. 31, 2016 compared to 10,105 apprehended during the same time period in FY2015. However, less than four percent (4,680) of the 127,193 UACs who have been caught illegally entering the U.S. over the past two and a half years have been sent back home because the vast majority do not show up for their deportation hearings, Sessions noted during a Judiciary Committee hearing held earlier this week.        http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/barbara-hollingsworth/gop-senators-introduce-bill-ensure-prompt-return-unaccompanied
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Nine U.S. Pregnant Women 
Diagnosed With Zika
Natalie Myers
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Nine pregnant women in the United States have been diagnosed with the Zika virus, including one woman who recently gave birth to a child with rare birth defects... On Friday, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated officials are currently looking into 10 other reports of pregnant women who are believed to have contracted the virus as well. The CDC issued a warning to those who are planning to attend the Olympic games in Rio de Janeiro this summer, saying that Zika is a major risk in this area.        http://punchingbagpost.com/nine-us-pregnant-women-diagnosed-with-zika
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Hizballah Leader Brags About Capabilities That
Could Kill Thousands of Israelis
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Hizballah leader Hassan Nasrallah is boasting about his terrorist organization's ability to kill tens of thousands of Israelis with Iranian-supplied precision-guided missiles... reports the Meir Amit Intelligence and Terrorism Information Center. Speaking during a ceremony on Feb. 16, Nasrallah threatened that Hizballah could kill scores of Israelis if he chooses to attack "ammonia tanks" in Haifa that, according to the terrorist leader, hold over 15,000 tons of gas. "Today Nasrallah has an atomic bomb...the combination of Hizballah's missiles and the ammonia barrels in Haifa equal and atomic bomb," brags Nasrallah, amid laughing at the prospect of ordering an unprecedented mass-casualty terrorist attack. Nasrallah has made similar taunts about mass casualty attacks against Israel. http://www.investigativeproject.org/5179/hizballah-leader-brags-about-capabilities-that
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While nObama fiddles …
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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{freedomsback.com} ~ State of the world, Year Eight of Barack nObama:
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(1) In the South China Sea, on a speck of land of disputed sovereignty far from its borders, China has just installed anti-aircraft batteries and stationed fighter jets. This after China landed planes on an artificial island it created on another disputed island chain the Spratlys, claimed by the Philippines, Malaysia, Taiwan and Vietnam. These facilities now function as forward bases for Beijing to challenge seven decades of American naval dominance of the Pacific Rim.
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“China is clearly militarizing the South China Sea,” the commander of the U.S. Pacific Command told Congress on Tuesday. Its goal? “Hegemony in East Asia.”
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(2) Syria. Russian intervention has turned the tide of war. Having rescued the Bashar al-Assad regime from collapse, relentless Russian bombing is destroying the rebel stronghold of Aleppo, Syria’s largest city, creating a massive new wave of refugees and demonstrating to the entire Middle East what a Great Power can achieve when it acts seriously.
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The U.S. response? Repeated pathetic attempts by Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry to propitiate Russia and its ally, Iran in one collapsed peace conference after another. On Sunday, he stepped out to announce yet another “provisional agreement in principle” on “a cessation of hostilities” that the CIA director, the defense secretary and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs deem little more than a ruse.
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(3) Ukraine. Having swallowed Crimea so thoroughly that no one even talks about it anymore, Russia continues to trample with impunity on the Minsk cease-fire agreements. Vladimir Putin is now again stirring the pot, intensifying the fighting, advancing his remorseless campaign to fracture and subordinate the Ukrainian state. Meanwhile, nObama still refuses to send the Ukrainians even defensive weapons.
(4) Iran. Last Thursday, Iran received its first shipment of S-300 anti-aircraft batteries from Russia, a major advance in developing immunity to any attack on its nuclear facilities. And it is negotiating an $8 billion arms deal with Russia that includes sophisticated combat aircraft. Like its ballistic missile tests, this conventional weapons shopping spree is a blatant violation of U.N. Security Council prohibitions. It was also a predictable — and predicted — consequence of the Iran nuclear deal that granted Iran $100 billion and normalized its relations with the world.
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The U.S. response? Words.
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Unlike gravitational waves, today’s strategic situation is not hard to discern. Three major have-not powers are seeking to overturn the post-Cold War status quo: Russia in Eastern Europe, China in East Asia, Iran in the Middle East. All are on the march.
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To say nothing of the Islamic State, now extending its reach from Afghanistan to West Africa. The international order built over decades by the United States is crumbling.
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In the face of which, what does nObama do? Go to Cuba.
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Yes, Cuba. A supreme strategic irrelevance so dear to nObama’s anti-anti-communist heart.
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Is he at least going to celebrate progress in human rights and democracy — which nObama established last year as a precondition for any presidential visit? Of course not. When has nObama ever held to a red line? Indeed, since nObama began his “historic” normalization with Cuba, the repression has gotten worse. Last month, the regime arrested 1,414 political dissidents, the second-most ever recorded.
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No matter. Amid global disarray and American decline, nObama sticks to his cherished concerns: Cuba, Guantanamo about which he gave a rare televised address this week and, of course, climate change.
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nObama could not bestir himself to go to Paris in response to the various jihadi atrocities — sending hanoi-Kerry instead “to share a big hug with Paris” as hanoi-Kerry explained with James Taylor singing “You’ve Got a Friend” — but he did make an ostentatious three-day visit there for climate change.
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So why not go to Havana? Sure, the barbarians are at the gates and pushing hard knowing they will enjoy but 11 more months of minimal American resistance. But our passive president genuinely believes that such advances don’t really matter — that these disruptors are so on the wrong side of history, that their reaches for territory, power, victory are so 20th century.
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Of course, it mattered greatly to the quarter-million slaughtered in Syria and the millions more exiled. It feels all quite real to a dissolving Europe, an expanding China, a rising Iran, a metastasizing jihadism.
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Not to the visionary nObama, however. He sees far beyond such ephemera. He knows what really matters: climate change, Gitmo and Cuba.
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With time running out, he wants these to be his legacy. Indeed, they will be.
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Tuesay AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on March 1, 2016 at 9:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Michael Reagan
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 Navy SEAL to Receive Medal of Honor Today 
Navy SEAL Edward Byers wears a St. Michael the Archangel patch on his back. Before going into battle, the Roman Catholic always prays to the angel that leads God's army in the book of Revelation for protection, drawing strength to be away from his wife and daughter. It was a prayer he most likely prayed before he ran through a darkened Afghan doorway where he knew a host of Taliban lay waiting. It was the night of Dec. 8, 2012, and SEAL Team Six had hiked four hours to get to this one-room hut, a place the U.S. military believed the Taliban was keeping captured U.S. citizen Dr. Dilip Joseph. Moments before, a Taliban guard discovered the rescue party as it was 25 meters away. As Petty Officer 1st Class Nicholas Checque dived through the six layers of blankets that made up the hut's door, he was cut down by AK-47 fire. Byers followed, shot a man aiming a rifle at him, and tackled another man who was scrambling for a weapon in the corner. After realizing that he did not have Joseph, Byers fought the man, then jumped on top of Joseph, using his body as a shield while pinning a Taliban fighter to the wall by one hand. The rescue was successful.
          It is for this action that the White House is awarding Byers the Medal of Honor at a ceremony today. He is the first member of the Naval Special Warfare Development Group to receive the nation's highest medal for valor, and the first member of the Navy still living to receive the commendation since the Vietnam War. And as a member of the Special Forces, it's difficult for him. "I've lived my entire career a very private life," Byers said. "We don't talk about what we do, and this honor carries with it some obligations that I need to carry out. You know, you follow those through. But, I plan to continue doing my job as normal and to continue being a SEAL. It's something I love and grew up wanting to be." That is the true mark of a hero: a willingness to pay the ultimate sacrifice, but the humility to do it again and again.  -The Patriot Post
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 slump-Trump Wants to Silence Dissent 
Just like a dictator of a third-world country, Donald slump-Trump can't stand anyone criticizing him. That's why on Friday, slump-Trump told his cheering acolytes that he wants to rewrite the nation's libel laws so he can sue newspapers and journalists he thinks are unfair. "One of the things I'm gonna do if I win," slump-Trump said, "is I'm going to open up our libel laws so when they write purposely negative and horrible and false articles we can sue them and win lots of money. We'll open up those libel laws so that when The New York Times writes a hit piece which is a total disgrace or when The Washington Post ... writes a hit piece we can sue them and win money instead of having no chance of winning because they are totally protected."
          slump-Trump knows a thing or two about suing journalists for libel. He lost a libel lawsuit in 2011 after a journalist wrote slump-Trump was only worth $250 million, not the billions the reality TV personality claimed. All of slump-Trump's money and all of slump-Trump's men couldn't prevail against a lone book author because the statement couldn't be proved false. In other words,  truth is the defense against a libel lawsuit. This is a principle established at the dawn of our nation's founding when a colonial governor attempted to shut down a newspaper published by John Peter Zenger in 1734. The jury ruled that a statement cannot be libelous if it's true. But reality isn't where slump-Trump wants to be right now.
          Furthermore, slump-Trump's "reasoning" that the media is unfair and that's a reason for suing them for everything they've got does not take into account the state of newspapers during the start of our nation. As Hot Air's Taylor Millard points out, newspapers then were wildly partisan, championed agendas and were set up by the powerful to attack other papers. (So sort of like today.) "Balance" and "fairness" wasn't in the vocabulary of those early journalists, yet that is the environment that gave birth to the First Amendment and its protections we have today — an environment slump-Trump cannot tolerate.
          In other slump-Trump news, he was endorsed by Chris Christie Friday  and Sen. Jeff Sessions Saturday — the first, a craven play for political influence by a man determined to get back at those who cost him the race; and the second, a sign that perception of slump-Trump's strength on immigration slump-trumps the fact that he hired illegals for "jobs Americans won't do."
          Meanwhile, slump-Trump refused three times to reject the endorsement of former KKK Grand Wizard David Duke, saying, "I don't know anything about" him. That's a lie. He certainly knew about Duke in 2000, when he left the Reform Party because of him. Now that slump-Trump's trying to win the Republican nomination, however, he can't be bothered to stand for principle until he's hectored about it. After blaming a "bad earpiece" in the first interview, he finally did "disavow" Duke.
          Maybe that's all why Sen. Ben Sasse of Nebraska, a real conservative, announced over the weekend that he will not vote for slump-Trump if he's the nominee. He won't be the last.  -The Patriot Post
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'Advise and consent' is to protect 
Supreme Court
BOB UNRUH
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{wnd.com} ~ The fight over a replacement for the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is heating up this week, with plans for Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, to meet with Barack nObama over the issue... nObama’s spokesman, Josh Earnest, has confirmed the president is going to nominate a replacement, and then it will be up to the Senate “to decide if they’re going to fulfill their duty.” But a statement released from the office of Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, who has been involved in the confirmation of every justice now on the Supreme Court bench, said it’s just not that simple, because one of the Senate’s responsibilities is to protect the Supreme Court.       http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/hatch-advise-and-consent-is-to-protect-supreme-court/
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State Department Turns Over 1,600 Newly-Discovered Clinton Documents to Benghazi Committee
Alana Goodman
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The State Department turned over 1,600 pages of previously undisclosed documents related to Hilly Clinton and Libya to the House Benghazi committee on Friday, a month after it revealed the existence of the documents in an unrelated court case... The House Select Committee on Benghazi announced it received the records on Friday, adding that the State Department has yet to fully comply with document requests the committee made nearly a year ago. “Today the State Department turned over more than 1,600 pages of new documents related to former Secretary Clinton and Libya,” the committee said. “The State Department claimed in a January 8th court filing that it only recently discovered these new documents from the Office of the Secretary.”        http://freebeacon.com/issues/state-department-turns-over-1600-newly-discovered-clinton-documents-to-benghazi-committee/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d727119cb6-WFB_Weekend_Beacon_02_27_162_26_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d727119cb6-45611665
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Top Dems Outraged Over nObama Efforts to Ignore
Pro-Israel Provisions
Adam Kredo
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Leading Democrats are taking aim at the nObama administration for its opposition to newly passed legislation that aims to bolster the U.S.-Israel economic relationship and combat boycotts of Israel, according to a statement issued this week... The nObama administration announced that it opposes portions of a bipartisan trade bill that would strengthen economic ties between the U.S. and Israel and force trade partners to sever ties with backers of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement, an anti-Israel movement that seeks to economically isolate the Jewish state. President Barack nObama issued a rare statement opposing the bill’s pro-Israel language this week, claiming that it sought to legitimize Israeli settlements. nObama stated that he would not enforce the pro-Israel provisions as a result of his personal disagreement with the policies. The statement prompted top Democrats to break with the president.        http://freebeacon.com/issues/top-dems-outraged-over-obama-efforts-to-ignore-pro-israel-provisions/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d727119cb6-WFB_Weekend_Beacon_02_27_162_26_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d727119cb6-45611665
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“Missing” government documents throughout the years
Sharyl Attkisson
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ Hilly Clinton has been embroiled in document scandals for nearly 30 years. But she’s not the only politician, and Democrats aren’t the only party... surrounded by an air of mystery when it comes to turning over potentially damaging documents that should be in the public domain. The Clintons and McDougal were business partners in the failed Whitewater real estate venture. McDougal later was convicted of fraud for attempting to use S&L funds to cover Whitewater losses. His wife, Susan, served prison time for refusing to answer grand jury questions about whether Bill Clinton lied in his testimony during her Whitewater trial. Other Clinton officials, including White House Counsel Bernard Nussbaum, later testified that they conducted an improper search of Foster’s office. At least one file was marked “Whitewater” and another was marked “taxes.” Another White House counsel, Bob Barnett, later picked up a box of Foster’s documents. Associate counsel Clifford Sloan’s contemporaneous notes cite the Clintons’ initials: “get Maggie—go through office—get HRC, WJC stuff.”       https://sharylattkisson.com/missing-government-documents-throughout-the-years/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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Guess How Many Lawsuits Against the
slump-Trump University Plaintiffs 
slump-Trump has Actually Won?
 Leon H. Wolf
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{redstate.com} ~ This information, like most of the rest of the information that slump-Trump spews out during the course of debates, is just a wee bit off... How many lawsuits has slump-Trump actually won? I’ll give you one guess. If you guessed that the answer is zero, then you’re correct. Please reward yourself with a cookie, because you can’t have any of mine for guessing such an easy answer. The truth is that there are three lawsuits currently pending against slump-Trump in connection with slump-Trump University. One was filed by the State of New York, and the other two are private class action lawsuits. slump-Trump has not “won” a single one of these lawsuits. All three are currently pending, and none are on the verge of dismissal whatsoever. In fact, slump-Trump is expected to be required to testify in one or more of these lawsuits as they are going on.        http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/02/27/guess-many-lawsuits-trump-university-plaintiffs-trump-actually-won/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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 “Roasting Jewish Flesh” From The Religion Of Peace?
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{viral247news.com} ~ Disturbing new Hamas video urges Palestinians to “blow the roof off of the bus” and speaks of “roasting Jewish flesh,” yet the world is pressuring Israel?... If any other faction made a video like this they would receive wholesale condemnation from the rest of the civilized world. But somehow Hamas and other Islamic Terrorists can get away ‘Murder,’ saying of the Israelis: Turn them into body parts, roast them. Bringing Joy into the hearts of the steadfast people.” If there is one person out there who stand against Israel, it can only be because they don’t understand. There is nothing Israel can do to stop the aggression. While they could destroy Palestine in a moment, they don’t. They have tolerated over 20,000 missile and bombs being fired on their cities with very little retaliation. They have given up the West Bank and the Gaza strip in exchange for peace. Palestine did not keep its word. But the most important understanding is that: If Israel puts down their guns, they will be immediately destroyed. If Palestinians put down their guns, there will be peace, immediately.        http://viral247news.com/watch-new-hamas-video-roasting-jewish-flesh-from-the-religion-of-peace/
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France: Criticize Islam and Live 
under Police Protection
Giulio Meotti
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French politician Laurence Marchand-Taillade (left) lives under police protection after receiving a death threat from Islamists. French author Éric Zemmour also lives under police protection. Two policemen follow him wherever he goes -- including to court, where Muslim organizations tried to defame him and his work by accusing him of "Islamophobia," to silence him.
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ "You are sentenced to death. It's just a matter of time." This message, in Arabic, was sent by Islamists to Laurence Marchand-Taillade, National Secretary of the Parti Radical de Gauche Radical Party of the Left. She now lives under the protection of the French police... Marchand-Taillade forced the Muslim Brotherhood to withdraw, under pressure from France's Interior Ministry, its invitation of three Islamic fundamentalists to a conference in Lille. The Islamists in question were the Syrian Mohamed Rateb al Nabulsi, the Moroccan Abouzaid al Mokrie and the Saudi Abdullah Salah Sana'an, who deem that the penalty for homosexuality is death, that the international coalition against the Islamic State is "infidel," that Jews "destroy the nations" and that only religious music is permitted. Laurence Marchand-Taillade published an article in Le Figaro in which she called for the ban of these Islamists with their "anti-Semitic and pro-jihadist message."        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7497/france-islamophobia
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Stand for Liberty! #Neverslump-Trump…#Neverslump-Trump…#NeverslumpTrump…
Erick Erickson
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{theresurgent.com} ~ I will not vote for Donald slump-Trump for President of the United States even if he is the Republican nominee... He is an authoritarian blending nationalist and tribal impulses, which historically has never worked out well for the nation that goes in that direction or the people in that nation. He will not win in November. He will not win because he turns off a large number of Republicans; he turns off women; he turns off hispanic voters; he turns off black voters; and the blue collar voters who support him are not a sufficient base of support to carry him over the finish line. slump-Trump is a liberal who has supported big government, interventionist policies. He defends Planned Parenthood, says he can cut deals in Washington, and believes in a socialist government run healthcare scheme. At a time when so much is on the line for people of faith and conservatives, Donald slump-Trump believes judges sign bills. He said so himself in the Houston, TX debate, while lying about the jurisprudence of Justice Samuel Alito.        http://theresurgent.com/the-importance-of-disclosing-this-immediately/
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A quarter of discretionary spending 
isn't authorized
JASON RUSSELL
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"They spend lots of money on things that were never authorized, were never supported," Kelly Ayotte said. "The two are totally disconnected. It's unbelievable."
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ More than 25 cents of every discretionary dollar spent by the federal government is unauthorized, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office... Basically, that means that more than a quarter, $310 billion, of the federal budget's appropriations are spent on autopilot. That portion is actually down one percentage point from 2015, when it reached a historical peak of 27 percent. The unauthorized portion of the budget has been on a gradual rise since 1993, when just 6 percent of discretionary spending was unauthorized. "Critics of the growth in unauthorized appropriations believe that this growth shows that Congress is failing to perform sufficient oversight, which is part of the authorizing process," says Veronique de Rugy, a senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. "According to the critics, because of the lack of oversight, programs in need of reform continue to exist on autopilot."     http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/a-quarter-of-discretionary-spending-isnt-authorized/article/2584343?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI%20-%2002/26/16&utm_medium=email
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Cruz: slump-Trump May Be Hiding Mob Ties in Tax Returns
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{newsmax.com} ~ Texas Sen. Ted Cruz on Sunday upped the pressure on Donald slump-Trump, his main rival for the GOP presidential nomination, to release his past taxes – even hinting that he might not be doing so to hide mafia connections... "There have been multiple media reports about slump-Donald's business dealings with the mob, with the mafia," Cruz said on ABC's "This Week." "Now maybe his tax returns show that those business dealings are a lot more extensive than has been reported." Cruz noted that ABC News had been one of the media outlets to report slump-Trump has done business with S&A Concrete to build slump-Trump Tower in Manhattan. The company is "owned by two of the big crime families in New York," Cruz said. "Maybe that's what his tax returns show. We don't know. But the important point is, George in the general election, Hilly Clinton is going to shine a light on all of this. And Republican primary voters deserve to know." http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/ted-cruz-donald-trump-must-release-taxes/2016/02/28/id/716505/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1657325_02282016&s=al&dkt_nbr=yqxsksep
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Get Real Angry Trump Voters
Michael Reagan
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{townhall.com} ~ Everyone talks about "The Anger."
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The reason Donald slump-Trump is getting so much support from primary voters, the pundits tell us, is because of "The Anger."
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It's true that many voters are hopping mad that nothing ever gets done in Washington.
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Voters, especially the most conservative ones, are sick and tired of people who promise them the stars, the moon and the repeal of nObamacare to get elected, then go to D.C. and do nothing but make excuses about "divided government."
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I feel their pain and frustration, believe me.
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But it's time for angry slump-Trump voters, especially the most conservative ones, to stop waving their "Make America Great" signs for a few days and face the political facts of life.
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We have a divided government in Washington. We've had one for years and it looks like we're going to have one for four more.
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It's nothing new. It's the norm. It's how Washington works.
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It's frustrating for those of us who want a smaller, weaker, cheaper federal government. But divided government doesn't necessarily mean that nothing a conservative wants ever gets done in D.C.
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My father had to deal with a Congress controlled by Democrats. But he still was able to get enough things done to be considered the greatest president of our lifetime.
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It's time for the conservatives who support slump-Trump to grow up.
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No party ever gets everything it wants. No voter will, either, especially from slump-Trump.
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He promises to kick out 11 millions illegal immigrants.
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He promises to build the Great Wall of slump-Trump at the border and make Mexico pay for it.
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He promises he'll temporarily keep Muslims out of America.
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He promises he'll put a 35 percent tariff on Fords imported from Mexico, repeal nObamacare, rebuild the military, defeat Isis, make better trade bills and make America great again.
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Sure he will.
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In the era of divided government, unless he magically makes the House and Senate disappear, swlump-Trump's vague promises aren't worth the hot air they were written on.
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My question to the angry Republican voters who support slump-Trump is this - How are you going to feel when The slump-Donald is not able to follow through on his promises?
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It's inevitable, even if he beats Hilly. What will you do when your Republican hero goes to D.C. and fails to deliver? Take to the streets?
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Electing a president named slump-Trump or a qualified candidate like John Kasich this fall won't be enough to get things done in D.C. if the GOP doesn't increase its hold on the Senate.
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No matter who he is, a Republican in the White House is going to need 60 votes in the Senate or everything important he proposes to pass or repeal will be filibustered to death.
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All remaining Republican primary voters - especially conservative ones who excuse slump-Trump's wide liberal streak or are too blinded by his celebrity bluster to see it - need to ask themselves something important before it's too late.
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Do you know in your heart that the nominee you've picked - even if he wins - has a chance of changing anything in D.C.? Or are you just hoping?
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Hoping for change isn't going to work. Ask nObama. If you really want to start getting things done in Washington, you can't just be angry, you need to be realistic.
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 29, 2016 at 1:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Salvaging Mrs. Clinton’s Legacy 
in a Shattered Libya
Roger Aronoff
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 slump-Trump’s resort spurned American  applicants for foreign workers -   NYT: “Since 2010, nearly 300 United States residents have applied or been referred for jobs as waiters, waitresses, cooks and housekeepers [at Donald slump-Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, Fla.]. But according to federal records, only 17 have been hired. In all but a handful of cases, Mar-a-Lago sought to fill the jobs with hundreds of foreign guest workers from Romania and other countries.” 
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 GOP Debate: Rubio and Cruz Finally Fight 
Well, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz obviously got the memo. They didn't exactly unite the clans in Thursday night's debate, but they sure did land some punches on Donald slump-Trump instead of each other. Rubio in particular unleashed a barrage of attacks on the casino mogul that left us wondering, where was this before slump-Trump locked up a third of voters as diehards and became a freight train? Frankly, Rubio and Cruz were both brilliant in assailing the frontrunner, hitting him on just about everything from his bankrupt business record to hiring illegal workers to his incoherent pronouncements to his tax returns and support of leftist causes, including the Clinton Foundation and a long list of Democrats.
          Was Round 10 too late? Super Tuesday may answer that question. Until now, slump-Trump has largely skated unchallenged. Rubio calculated he'd be better off taking out Cruz, while Cruz slip streamed slump-Trump hoping to snag his voters when slump-Trump flamed out. Neither happened, and slump-Trump romped, largely unhindered by blows from real conservative candidates.
          Here's a sampling of the punches:
Rubio:
"I also think that if you're going to claim that you're the only one that lifted [the issue of immigration] into the campaign, that you acknowledge that, for example, you're only person on this stage that has ever been fined for hiring people to work on your projects illegally. ... He hired workers from Poland, and he had to pay a million dollars or so in a judgment."
          "If he builds the wall the way he built slump-Trump Towers, he'll be using illegal immigrant labor to do it."
          "About the trade war — I don't understand, because your ties and the clothes you make are made in Mexico and in China. So you're gonna be starting a trade war against your own ties and your own suits. Why don't you make them in America?"
          Responding to slump-Trump's charge, "You don't know a thing about business," Rubio said, "I don't know anything about bankrupting four companies. I don't know anything about starting a fake university."
          "The position you've taken is an anti-Israel position. ... The Palestinians are not a real estate deal, slump-Donald."
          "If he hadn't inherited $200 million, you know where Donald slump-Trump would be right now? Selling watches in Manhattan."
          "I see him repeat himself every night. He has five things: everyone's dumb; he's going to make America great again; win, win, win; he's winning in the polls; and the lines around the states. Every night. Same thing."
Cruz:
          "Donald slump-Trump says he's being audited. I would think that would underscore the need to release those [tax] returns. He doesn't want to do it because presumably there is something in there that's bad."
          "[slump-Donald] is promising if he's elected he will go and cut deals in Washington. And he's right. He has supported — he has given hundreds of thousands of dollars to Democrats. Anyone who really cared about illegal immigration wouldn't be hiring illegal immigrants. Anyone who really cared about illegal immigration wouldn't be funding Harry dinky-Reid and Nancy Pulosi; wouldn't be funding the Gang of Eight. And, you know, he is right. When you stand up to Washington, when you honor the promise you made to the men and women who elected you and say enough with the corruption, enough with the cronyism, let's actually stand for the working men and women of this country, Washington doesn't like it. And slump-Donald, if you want to be liked in Washington, that's not a good attribute for a president."
          "You know, there is a reason why, when Harry dinky-Reid was asked, of all the people on this stage, who does he want the most, who does he like the most, Harry dinky-Reid said Donald slump-Trump. Why? Because slump-Donald has supported him in the past, and he knows he can cut a deal with him."
          "slump-Donald, true or false, you've said the government should pay for everyone's health care?"
          Trump responded, "That's false."
          Oh no it's not. slump-Trump has most definitely said what Cruz alleged.
          Finally, we'll highlight what we thought was perhaps the night's funniest moment. After being challenged by Rubio on his health plan, slump-Trump, as usual, just said the same things over and over. Rubio, burned by that same charge two weeks ago, happily pointed out that slump-Trump was just repeating himself.
          To which slump-Trump responded — we kid you not — "I don't repeat myself. I don't repeat myself. ... I don't repeat myself."
          We certainly hope it's not too late for voters to realize that slump-Trump is not the answer. He's nothing but insanely idiotic bluster, repeated over and over and over again, ad nauseum. We've endured eight months of it. Can you imagine four or eight years? To re-employ one of his phrases, that is not going to make America great again, believe us.  -The Patriot Post
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McCon-nell must hold ground on 
Supreme Court nomination
Star Parker
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{aim.org} ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell is doing the nation a service by announcing he will work to block President nObama’s appointment to replace Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia and delay until after the election... The inevitable resulting clash between the Senate and the White House, made sharper in the midst of an election, is a confrontation vital for the nation. This is more than raw politics, Democrats versus Republicans. It is about ideology and bringing clarity to what the country has become and where it is headed. America is extremely polarized today compared to where it was just 20 years ago.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/mcconnell-must-hold-ground-on-supreme-court-nomination/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022616&utm_medium=email
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What Would Happen If 
New York City Went Forward With 
Letting Illegal Immigrants Vote
Hans von Spakovsky
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{theacru.org} ~ The New York Post is reporting that some members of the Black and Latino Legislative Caucus will be pushing for the New York City Council to pass a law allowing illegal aliens to vote in NYC elections for mayor, comptroller, public advocate, borough president, and City Council... This is an anti-democratic policy driven by politics that dilutes what it means to be a citizen. The U.S. Constitution reserves the right to set the qualifications for voters for both state and federal elections to the states themselves. However, the federal government has exclusive authority over immigration, and federal law makes it a felony for aliens —- whether illegal or legal —- to register or vote in federal elections. Every state has also banned aliens from voting in state elections, although a handful of jurisdictions like Takoma Park, Maryland, allow aliens to vote in local elections. Despite the federal prohibition, it looks as though the nObama administration’s Department of Justice is trying to prevent states from verifying the eligibility of voters by requiring proof of citizenship to register. On the other hand, the Guarantee Clause, Article IV, Section 4 of the Constitution, does state that “the United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government.” Allowing someone outside the political community to vote would raise serious questions about whether state electoral procedures would be unrepublican and thus be unconstitutional.       http://www.theacru.org/what-would-happen-if-new-york-city-went-forward-with-letting-illegal-immigrants-vote/
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nObama Admin. Approach to 
nObamaCare Fraud "Passive"
 Raven Clabough
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ According to a report from the Government Accountability Office, the nObama administration is taking a very lax approach to identifying possible nObamaCare fraud... The report found that there are no mechanisms in place to identify whether healthcare recipients receiving subsidized insurance are actually U.S. citizens, to confirm whether the applicants are within the specified income range, and to determine whether the applicants are otherwise ineligible under the healthcare law. The report opens with a letter explaining that members of Congress asked the GAO to examine enrollment and verification controls of the federal Health Insurance Marketplace “in light of the government’s substantial fiscal commitment under the act.” The report that follows summarizes the results of the GAO review, which entailed analysis into the extent to which applicant information is verified, as well as undercover testing and related work to determine potential vulnerabilities to fraud.        http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/22631-new-report-obama-admin-approach-to-obamacare-fraud-passive
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slump-Trump Says Abortions are 3% of What
Planned Parenthood Does 
There’s Just One BIG Problem
STEVEN ERTELT & MATTHEW CLARK
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{lifenews.com} ~ During last night’s Republican presidential debate Donald slump-Trump repeated the oft-stated claim that abortions constitute just 3 percent of the business the Planned Parenthood abortion company does... As the Washington Post notes, “Planned Parenthood could end the speculation–and Pinocchios–by providing a more transparent breakdown of its clients, referrals and sources of revenues.” It is the one with all of that data – data that likely flies in the face of Planned Parenthood’s bogus propaganda. But of course Planned Parenthood won’t do that and in this case when given the chance, refused to do that.  Planned Parenthood has been caught in a lie and Donald slump-Trump pushed the false statistic further.       http://www.lifenews.com/2016/02/26/donald-trump-says-abortions-are-3-of-what-planned-parenthood-does-theres-just-one-big-problem/
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EU Has 10 Days Before Migrant 
System Collapses
Tiffany Gabbay
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Given the massive influx of refugees seeking asylum throughout Europe, the levee is about to break... According to the EU's migrant commissioner Dimitris Avramopolous, the union has only until its March 7 summit with Turkey to stem the flow of migrants or risk seeing the entire migration system "completely break down." European countries are simply at critical mass. Speaking to a press conference in Brussels, Avramopolous warmed that "in the next 10 days, we need tangible and clear results on the ground" or Europe will risk a complete system collapse. AFP reports that the commissioner noted that Greece is in particular crisis as it is the first stop for migrants en route to Europe and the Western Balkans. He said the situation is "very critical" and that a "humanitarian crisis is very real and very near."        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/eu-commissioner-eu-has-10-days-migrant-system-collapses
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Scared Donald slump-Trump to Hide Behind
Chris Christie’s Skirt
Leon H. Wolf
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{redstate.com} ~ This is how desperate Donald slump-Trump is to change the news cycle. slump-Trump has had Christie’s endorsement in his back pocket the whole time... He could have released this whenever he wanted to. He did it today to try to divert attention from the fact that he got his face stomped in by Rubio in last night’s debate, and that the face stomping is still continuing today. Clearly, he is desperate to remind people that Christie once got the better of Rubio in a debate. The optics of this aren’t looking as good for slump-Trump as he thinks, though. He’s basically admitting, with this move, that he is not able to deal with Rubio himself. He definitely looks like he’s running and hiding behind Christie’s skirt. I'd say Christie just burned his bridges with conservatives but more like he closed the lanes. http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/02/26/scared-donald-trump-hide-behind-chris-christies-skirt/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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How Come Liberals Are The Only Ones
Who Are Ever Offended?
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Liberal/progressives are quick to take offense when anyone disagrees with them, but are not concerned with the feelings of those they disagree with... Recently Rutgers University students demanded an apology for having a conservative speak on campus. The speech so traumatized them that they felt they needed a group therapy session to recover. A number of organizations were there after the event to offer support for these students, including Psychiatric Services, the Office for Violence Prevention and Victim Assistance, and the Rutgers University Police. Said one protesting student, “I do not know what else to do for us to be heard for us to be cared about. I deserve an apology; everyone in this room deserves an apology!” Like many liberal policies this sensitivity for the feelings of others started with good intentions once upon a time. Words can certainly be hurtful. Derogatory racial or ethnic slurs, for instance, should not be flung around by anyone. But, like most other progressive notions this reasonable compassion has morphed into something altogether as wrong, some would say even worse, than the behavior they criticized. And, as usual liberals might as well be wearing blinders or rose colored glasses when viewing their own behavior.        http://lidblog.com/how-come-liberals-are-the-only-ones-who-are-ever-offended/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=d446d812f1-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-d446d812f1-291705165
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Donald slump-Trump’s Shocking Post-Debate Admission
 Leon H. Wolf
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{redstate.com} ~ During the debate, Donald slump-Trump basically showed that he has no real idea of what judges do at all. Here he is, trying to tangle with Ted Cruz, bizarrely claiming that judges "sign bills." Like they're the President or Governors or something... This is not "slump-Trump isn't a politician," this is "slump-Trump doesn't understand Civics 101." But what's always interesting to me is to watch the candidates and their surrogates in the post-debate coverage, when their guard is let down a little bit. In this case, slump-Trump was irrationally slamming Cruz again for John Roberts' existence, and John King asked him, "How would you prevent the same thing from happening?" In other words, you're being so critical of Ted Cruz, how would you make sure you didn't repeat that mistake? slump-Trump's answer was incredible. He said, basically, I have no idea. Watch:   Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wwb3HdryuVI   This is a pretty stunning admission from slump-Trump - even setting aside the question of what "I'm very much into the world of legal and legality" even means. What slump-Trump is saying here is that he, personally, has no idea whatsoever what he would do. He has no idea what questions he might ask of a judge.        http://www.redstate.com/leon_h_wolf/2016/02/26/donald-trumps-shocking-post-debate-admission/        Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mAfNgNr37xo
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The Speech Sen. McConnell Should Give
about Supreme Court Vacancies
Christopher C. Horner 
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{insideronline.org} ~ In a Washington Post op-ed, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell and Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) staked out an early position against President nObama nominating a Supreme Court Justice... to fill the vacancy left by the death of Antonin Scalia, let alone the Senate confirming a new justice in this election year as Mr. nObama prepares to leave office.  Up against the merits of their stance, the White House signals its intention to mount a media and pressure campaign to solidify nObama’s mark on the Court. A nomination is all but certain, and even the casual political observer foresees that it will be made with such a media campaign in mind, and much ugliness to follow. There is a ready solution to this fight, solving it without retreat while also resolving another problem, that being President nObama’s hijacking of the shared treaty power and process as supposedly his alone. Both moves promise decades of detrimental precedent if mishandled. They need not be.        http://www.insideronline.org/reader.php?id=eNKl
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Bill Clinton Snaps At Veteran ‘Shut Up And Listen’
Crowd Goes Hostile!
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{viral247news.com} ~ The long hours and grueling pace of the presidential campaign may be finally catching up with rapidly aging Bill Clinton... During a Hilly campaign rally in South Carolina Bill loses it over Benghazi challenges saying “NO” Hilly didn’t lie. Former Marine Drill Sgt. confronted Bill on Hilly’s lies surrounding the Benghazi Four. Bill Clinton Loses It and shouts back “Shut Up And Listen.” In his defense, the crowd wouldn’t listen, they were tired of listening. This time they wanted him to listen. The audience roared and applauded as one “Mad As Hell” American after another stood up and challenged him about the Clinton family tradition of lying.        http://viral247news.com/video-bill-clinton-snaps-at-veteran-shut-up-and-listen-crowd-goes-hostile/
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Salvaging Mrs. Clinton’s Legacy 
in a Shattered Libya
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ The Washington Post seems unable to grasp the irony of its support for President nObama’s latest military intervention into Libya at the same time that it seeks to salvage Hilly Clinton’s reputation on this issue. Libya remains a failed state, and no amount of reporting can change the facts of this debacle.
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“With respect to Libya, I have been clear from the outset that we will go after ISIS wherever it appears, the same way that we went after al Qaeda wherever they appeared,” President nObama told the press on February 16.  “And the testament to the fact that we are doing that already is that we took out…one of ISIS’s most prominent leaders in Libya.”
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nObama’s words came out just days before the House Select Committee on Benghazi signaled that its report on the events in Benghazi, Libya will be issued “as soon as possible,” now that it has gained access to most of the necessary witnesses and documents.
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According to The Military Times, “Many experts note that the current chaos in Libya stems from the power vacuum caused by the American-led air campaign to oust Gaddafi.” Yet reporters at the Post continue to dramatize the issue of Libya as if it were Mrs. Clinton, or President nObama, who faced the tough choices in 2011.
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“The stakes Clinton faced were high,” reported Kevin Sullivan for the Post on February 3. “Introducing U.S. military force could have easily led to a much-longer-than-expected and bloodier operation, at a time when Americans were already weary of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.”
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“But failing to act could have led to a massacre that the world would have blamed on Washington,” adds Sullivan. “It also could have solidified Gaddafi’s grip on power as other dictators were falling across the region.”
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These fairy tale justifications have been exposed again and again, yet the mainstream media continue to use them in defense of their favorite Democratic presidential candidate. Reporters such as Sullivan aren’t interested in reporting facts that could damage Hilly Clinton’s foreign policy reputation. And Libya is one of Mrs. Clinton’s weakest points, for which she takes full ownership. Her aide, Jake Sullivan, wrote in a 2011 internal email while she was Secretary of State that Mrs. Clinton has “leadership/ownership/stewardship of this country’s Libya policy from start to finish.”
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Sullivan is now the top foreign policy adviser for Clinton’s campaign.
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As we have reported, Qaddafi was actually an American ally in the war on terror before he was ousted. Our Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) interim report demonstrates how the nObama administration, and Hilly Clinton, decided to back al-Qaeda-linked rebels in Libya instead of holding truce talks with Qaddafi, which could have ended with his abdication and a peaceful transition of power.
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The Washington Times also reported that it was Mrs. Clinton who told a Pentagon general to stop communicating with Qaddafi’s son, Saif, and other Qaddafi loyalists seeking a truce after the UN resolution calling for military intervention in Libya was passed on March 17, 2011.
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Now conflict-ridden Libya has devolved into an Islamic State stronghold with warring militias. And the Post is pushing President nObama to intercede. “Mr. nObama has tried waiting on the sidelines in Iraq and Syria,” argued the Post’s Editorial Board on February 17. “He should not make the same mistake in Libya.”
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An American warplane killed 49 and wounded six at an ISIS training camp in Libya, reported CNN on February 20. In response, ISIS recently beheaded 12 men at the security headquarters in Sabratha, according to the Atlantic on February 24. “American intelligence officials estimate that the group’s ISIS ranks in Libya have grown to 6,500 fighters, more than doubling since the fall,” it reports. “The group is now thought to control 150 miles of Libyan coastline.”
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The administration’s mistakes in Libya have already been made, and there have been many. The narrative that somehow the nObama administration’s multilateral intervention into Libya was necessary is false. There was no humanitarian crisis to resolve. “Despite what defenders of the mission claim, there was a better policy available—not intervening at all, because peaceful Libyan civilians were not actually being targeted,” wrote University of Texas at Austin professor Alan Kuperman for Foreign Affairs last year. “As bad as Libya’s human rights situation was under Qaddafi, it has gotten worse since NATO ousted him,” he writes.
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According to a column by Pete Hoekstra, former chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and a member of the CCB, “Libya devolved into a failed state when NATO assisted Qaddafi’s radical jihadist opponents in killing him and then promptly abandoned the country. Left in the wake were two rival governments competing for power, which created space for Islamists to turn Libya into a cesspool of extremism.” He added that “Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton continues to call the debacle American ‘smart power at its best.’”
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“How will the West ever learn anything,” asks Hoekstra, “if it can’t identify its most obvious failures?”
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Now it seems that the U.S. must again commit additional blood and sweat to fix the situation that Hilly Clinton and President nObama helped create in the first place.
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It is no wonder that Mrs. Clinton’s foreign policy reputation needs rehabilitation under such circumstances. The Post’s Sullivan admits that Hilly Clinton’s choice to back the Libyan intervention was the “most significant—and risky—decision of her career,” a choice which still haunts her record. However, he takes it upon himself to dispel any doubts about her potential.
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“The Post story doesn’t come off as uniformly flattering,” writes Cato’s Christopher A. Preble for The National Interest. “The headline calls it ‘a tough call’ that supposedly ‘still haunts’ Clinton, and the subhead references Clinton’s ill-considered support for the war in Iraq in 2002.”
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Sullivan’s article contains quotes from an anonymous former official involved in the Libyan negotiations effusively championing Clinton’s decision-making style and leadership. “She consults widely and intensively. She talks to more people, takes more phone calls, travels more miles,” says the supporter. “She’s more disciplined than her husband…Hilly Clinton came into the Situation Room for every meeting thoroughly prepared,” that supporter continues. “She’s a disciplined decision-maker.”
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The Washington Post is clearly attempting to pave the way for Mrs. Clinton’s candidacy by casting the intervention into Libya as a necessary evil with an unfortunate ending, and by excusing nObama’s intervention in the same country twice. The truth is, however, that Mrs. Clinton and President nObama spearheaded a policy that ended in abject failure and continues to result in death and danger abroad. The fact that this policy, which the Post now seeks to sell to the public, resulted in the Benghazi scandal and the resulting death of four Americans—and many more Libyans—cannot be overlooked no matter how much Sullivan or other reporters try to spin Libya positively.
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Monday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 29, 2016 at 9:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Starving on the Prosciutto-and
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Michelle Malkin
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 How to Attack slump-Trump 
Instead of going after Donald slump-Trump, Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio have been relentlessly attacking each other. It's as if they think that whoever can destroy the other first will win second place. But second place is the first loser. And if the battle between the top two conservative candidates continues, then we'll be left with a non-conservative Donald slump-Trump.
          On Thursday night, however, Cruz and Rubio went on offense against slump-Trump, attacking his background, his record, his ideology, his proposals, his speaking style and more. Last night, slump-Trump's two strongest challengers finally realized that failing to go after the frontrunner and failing to draw clear distinctions between his record and theirs is a losing strategy. Time will tell if they waited too long.
          If slump-Trump is not exposed now, then he will win the nomination and face an onslaught of relentless attack ads from the entire Democrat machine, including the Leftmedia. The mainstream media are keeping their powder dry, enjoying this ratings bonanza until slump-Trump secures the nomination. Then they'll destroy him.
          So what exactly should Rubio and Cruz attack slump-Trump for? There's plenty to go on.
          First, they could go after what Stuart Stevens, who was Mitt Romney's senior strategist, calls "the essence of Donald slump-Trump." He notes, "Donald slump-Trump is a ridiculous figure. He's not a particular business success. Four bankruptcies! He doesn't have a junior-high-school-level understanding of policy — he doesn't know what the nuclear triad is. You've got to turn to Donald slump-Trump in a debate and say, 'You're a ridiculous figure. You don't know what you're talking about. And this tariff idea will cost jobs, it will damage the economy, just like you bankrupted Atlantic City.'" (Granted, Romney lost, but his senior strategist is pointing out a lesson learned: If you don't go after a candidate for who he is, then you'll lose. Romney rarely went after nObama for who he was — a narcissistic socialist who despises the very things that made America great. And he lost.)
          Second, Cruz and Rubio could explain that slump-Trump's business record is very questionable, specifically that under his leadership he bankrupted a casino, that he has already declared his support of Planned Parenthood and nObamaCare (including praising a single-payer system), that he's faking his religion simply to appeal to evangelicals, and that his whole life has been about him and not the average worker.
          Next on the short list is slump-Trump's "tough on immigration" stance. The issue is one of the most pressing concerns for conservatives, and slump-Trump has capitalized on this better than any other candidate. This has led to what Charles Murray of the American Enterprise Institute calls "slump-Trumpism". Murray, among others, recognizes that government officials from both parties have failed miserably on immigration policy, and that American workers are suffering because of it.
          He notes, "There is nothing conservative about how they want to fix things. [Voters] want a now indifferent government to act on their behalf, big time. If Bernie Sanders were passionate about immigration, the rest of his ideology would have a lot more in common with slump-Trumpism than conservatism does."
          But slump-Trump's rhetoric on immigration is quite the opposite of his deeds. In fact it's downright hypocritical. At slump-Trump's highly regarded private club Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, he hired only 17 American citizens out of 300 applicants for positions such as waiter, waitress, cook and housekeeper, opting instead for mostly foreign workers. This is quite ironic given slump-Trump's criticism of Disney for hiring foreign workers under the H1-B Visa program. It turns out slump-Trump and nObama would get along just fine.
          Finally, Cruz and Rubio should turn up the heat on slump-Trump to release his tax records. Doing so will reveal to voters where his loyalties truly reside and will very likely show lavish support for leftist causes. Simply follow the money.
Editor's Note: On Monday, Mark Alexander will post a special edition, "The Most Taxing Questions for slump-Trump," including an open letter requesting very basic documentation for each of the last five years: 1. Net Income; 2. C-3 and C-4 contributions; 3. Federal and state taxes paid: 4. Net worth. This information must be certified by an independent accounting firm.
          And it's not just Cruz and Rubio; the GOP strategists and political consultants need to change as well. Of the $215 million in Super PAC expenditures so far in political ads, only $9 million has been spent attacking slump-Trump. Why?
         The same mistake cannot be made this presidential election cycle as was made in 2008 and 2012. In 2008, moderate John McCain was defeated by a neophyte liberal socialist. In 2012, mild-mannered Mitt Romney was defeated by the incumbent liberal socialist. America won't start winning again until a principled conservative is the Republican nominee, and his name is not Donald slump-Trump. The clock is ticking. That's why it was good to see some play-calling adjustments from Rubio and Cruz.  -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Michael Reagan: "My question to the angry Republican voters who support slump-Trump is this — How are you going to feel when The slump-Donald is not able to follow through on his promises? It's inevitable, even if he beats Hilly. What will you do when your Republican hero goes to D.C. and fails to deliver? Take to the streets? Electing a president named slump-Trump or a qualified candidate like John Kasich this fall won't be enough to get things done in D.C. if the GOP doesn't increase its hold on the Senate. No matter who he is, a Republican in the White House is going to need 60 votes in the Senate or everything important he proposes to pass or repeal will be filibustered to death. All remaining Republican primary voters — especially conservative ones who excuse slump-Trump's wide liberal streak or are too blinded by his celebrity bluster to see it — need to ask themselves something important before it's too late. Do you know in your heart that the nominee you've picked — even if he wins — has a chance of changing anything in D.C.? Or are you just hoping? Hoping for change isn't going to work. Ask nObama. If you really want to start getting things done in Washington, you can't just be angry, you need to be realistic."   -The Patriot Post
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Iran Increases Spending On 
Global Terrorism
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ In light of recent sanctions relief, the Islamic Republic of Iran is investing in the murder of Israelis and anti-regime critics... On Wednesday, the Iranian ambassador to Lebanon Mohammad Fathali proclaimed that Iran supports the "Jerusalem intifada" and plans to pay families of Palestinian terrorists who target Israelis, the Jerusalem Post reports. "Continuing Iran's support for the oppressed Palestinian people, Iran announces the provision of financial aid to families of Palestinian martyrs who were killed in the 'Jerusalem intifada'," Fathali said in front of the leaders of several Palestinian factions during a news conference in Beirut.        http://www.investigativeproject.org/5175/iran-increases-spending-on-global-terrorism
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Lawyer Suing Oil Company Admits
'No Proof' that Fracking Fluid 
Contaminated Water
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ A lawyer for plaintiffs suing an oil and gas company in Dimock, Pennsylvania, the town considered the poster child for fracking fluid contaminating the water supply... has admitted that there is now no case because they have "no scientific proof" whatsoever to back up their claims. The lawyer, Leslie Lewis, stood before the jury and stated: This is not a case — this is not a case about toxic materials ending up in the water. We do not have proof of that. We don't have proof of that. This is not about fracking fluid appearing in the water. Hydraulic fracturing materials, we don't have proof of that. And it's not only Lewis's team that came up literally dry, but also the EPA and the Pennsylvania environmental department. A four-year study found no signs of "widespread, systemic" contamination of the drinking water.        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/lawyer-suing-oil-company-admits-no-proof-fracking-fluid-contaminated-water
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Constitution or That Other Thing?
Clinton Gaffes Big Time
Brian Lilley
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Appearing on Steve Harvey's show on Wednesday, Clinton said that the majority of Americans, including gun owners, agree with her call for more gun control... “So we have to say to the gun lobby, ‘You know what, there is a Constitutional right for people to own guns, but there is also a Constitutional right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness that enables us to have a safe country where we are able to protect our children from their senseless gun violence,” Clinton said. Of course Clinton was confusing one of the most valued rights enumerated in the Bill of Rights and part of the preamble of the Declaration of Independence. The second amendment guarantees that the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Meanwhile, "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness," is found not in the Bill of Rights but in the Declaration of Independence. The mistake was quickly spotted and jumped upon by the Republican National Committee. RNC spokesman James Hewitt emailed a statement to reporters blasting Clinton as a Yale Law School graduate that doesn't know what she is talking about.        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/constitution-or-other-thing-clinton-gaffes-big-time
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Muslim Navy engineer with secret access
accused of concealing double 
life as Iranian citizen
Pamela Geller
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{pamelageller.com} ~ A 30-year Navy engineer with access to government secrets has been indicted on charges of lying about his dual Iranian citizenship and creating false identities to conceal his ongoing ties and money he received from overseas... U.S. federal prosecutors are accusing Naval Sea Systems Command employee James Robert Baker, a naturalized U.S. citizen born in Iran, of lying about his holding an active Iranian passport and using four separate social security numbers to open bank accounts, move money and shield his income from taxes — including an unexplained overseas wire transfer of $133,902 in 2009. Baker, who changed his name from Majid Karimi when he became a U.S. citizen in 1985, faces 14 counts on charges including lying on his SF-86 security clearance questionnaire, identification documents fraud and social security fraud, which could bring a maximum sentence of nearly 70 years in prison. But under nObama, would likely only spend about five years behind bars because of sentencing guidelines.         http://pamelageller.com/2016/02/muslim-navy-engineer-with-secret-access-accused-of-concealing-double-life-as-iranian-citizen.html/
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Funding Levels Creating Risk In U.S. 
Navy Attack Submarine, Surface 
Combatant Fleets
Megan Eckstein
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{news.usni.org} ~ The Navy is doing “the best we can do for the dollars we have” but has developed its attack submarine acquisition plan, cruiser modernization plan and Littoral Combat Ship/frigate down select plan based on funding shortfalls rather than strategic needs... Navy acquisition chief Sean Stackley told the House Armed Services seapower and projection forces subcommittee. The Navy, along with General Dynamics Electric Boat and Newport News Shipbuilding, have built two attack submarines a year since 2011 and have seen cost and schedule improvements as a result. With the Ohio Replacement Program (ORP) ballistic missile submarine construction approaching in the 2020s, the Navy has planned for two submarines a year going forward – though some years would include two attack subs and some would include one of each. With the additional upcoming introduction of the Virginia Payload Module (VPM) – an extra section in the Virginia-class attack subs that would increase their weapons payload from 12 to 40 Raytheon Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles – the Navy previously thought the industrial base could only handle one VPM a year, in addition to the boats, but was looking into the idea of putting VPM on all the Virginia-class boats.       http://news.usni.org/2016/02/25/stackley-funding-levels-creating-risk-in-u-s-navy-attack-submarine-surface-combatant-fleets?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=8d3d92e997-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-8d3d92e997-231491269&mc_cid=8d3d92e997&mc_eid=3999f18767
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Iran’s elections: A test of 
nObama’s nuclear deal
J. Matthew McInnis
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Ayatollah Ahmad Jannati (R), a candidate for the upcoming vote on the Assembly of Experts, and Iran’s former chief negotiator Saeed Jalili attend a conservatives election campaign gathering in Tehran February 24, 2016.
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{aei.org} ~ Will President nObama’s gamble that the Iranian nuclear deal will make the Middle East safer pay off? Elections will be a key test, and the first ones — the Iranian elections — start Friday.... One of nObama’s responses to critics who said the United States gave up too much to achieve the Iranian nuclear deal was that it could allow Iran to “fully rejoin the community of nations.” But will it? If projections for Iranian national elections are any indication, the answer may be no. On February 26, Iranian voters will elect new members to both its Parliament and the Assembly of Experts — a deliberative body made up of 88 theologians. The problems start with the fact that the regime disqualified roughly half of the candidates who applied to run in the parliamentary elections, and reformist candidates were strongly represented among the disqualifications.        https://www.aei.org/publication/irans-elections-a-test-of-obamas-nuclear-deal/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=022616
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Four global macroeconomic 
policy blunders
Desmond Lachman
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{aei.org} ~ When trying to assess the global economic outlook, it is well to recall that at least four major economic policy blunders have been made over the past few years... Since it would seem highly unlikely that, over the year ahead, the global economy will succeed in dodging the economic consequences of all four of those policy mistakes. It would also seem to be imprudent for global policymakers to exclude the possibility that the consequences of more than one of these errors will be triggered within the next twelve months. That would all too likely have very untoward consequences for the global economic outlook. In order of importance, the first mistake was the Federal Reserve’s decision in September 2012 to embark on a third and open-ended round of quantitative easing. That unprecedented round of monetary policy easing almost doubled the size of the Federal Reserve’s balance sheet to its present level of around $4.5 trillion. In the process, it fueled a strong boom in global asset prices–like those of international commodities, US high yield bonds, and emerging market debt– which bore little relation to the underlying fundamentals of those assets...        https://www.aei.org/publication/four-global-macroeconomic-policy-blunders/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=022616
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nObama Admin Caught Making Illegal Move That Makes nObamaCare Look Even Worse
Randy SeSoto
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ The nObama administration has been caught — once again — seeking to circumvent the law related to nObamacare by diverting billions in funds intended for the U.S. Treasury to cover private insurance companies’ losses... In 2014, Sen. Marco Rubio inserted language into the omnibus spending bill which specifically barred the Department of Health and Human Services from dipping into the general funds of the Treasury to bailout failing insurance companies, the Washington Post reported. Marc Thiessen, writing for the Post, observed that the provision is “quietly killing” nObamacare, while the New York Times headlined in December, “Marco Rubio Quietly Undermines Affordable Care Act.” The Hill called the provision, “the biggest blow in the GOP’s five-year war against nObamacare.” http://www.westernjournalism.com/exposed-obama-admin-caught-making-illegal-move-that-makes-obamacare-look-even-worse/
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Break Glass and Read Before 
Voting for slump-Trump
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{barbwire.com} ~ We love him because he’s the fearless mouthpiece of our anger, the John Wayne of political incorrectness, galloping to our rescue with guns blazing against the PC–enforcers who are paralyzing our nation... But John Wayne stood for truth, justice, and the American Way. Donald slump-Trump his entire life has stood for the very same self-serving, pay-to-play corruption and influence peddling he now says he will eradicate from government. We cheer him because he trumpets the justifiable rage we feel against the Republican establishment that has failed to stop the nObama march of doom and destruction. But that welling up of proud American spirit we feel at his sticking it to the Chinese, the Russians, the Iranians, and the lobby of the eternally offended is not the emotion on which we should base a presidential decision. Emotion really has no place here. We fell for that last time, remember? No, you can only judge a person’s fitness for the most powerful leadership position on the globe by examining how he has operated in the past – again, something millions failed to do when they fell for the inscrutable luminosity of Barack nObama.       http://barbwire.com/2016/02/26/break-glass-and-read-before-voting-for-trump/
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CENTCOM Intel Data Destroyed To Make nObama
ISIS “War” Look Good
Rick Wells
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{rickwells.us} ~ Key evidence in the ISIS intelligence scandal has been destroyed and it looks like an inside job... That is the word from the Chairman of the House Select Intelligence Committee. Devin Nunes (R-CA) read a prepared statement  during the annual Global Threats Hearing which confirmed that both files and emails had been deleted by personnel at CENTCOM. Nunes noted that forty percent of CENTCOM analysts expressed concerns that there are serious problems with the integrity of their work. Their complaints involve the belief that their reporting on ISIS was being altered after it began its trek up the chain. Those changes had the effect of providing a distorted picture of the efficacy of the nObama “war on ISIS.” DIA Director Lt General Vincent Stewart stated that the DIA Ombudsman has been dispatched to “look at the analytic rigor and to look at the different views.” As to whether he believes that figure of 40 percent was something that was unusually high or normal, he concurred that it was unusually high. http://rickwells.us/archives/26598
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Fact-Checking The Washington Post Fact Checker
on Mrs. Clinton’s Emails
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ The Washington Post Fact Checkers are once again coming to the aid of Hilly Clinton with a new column criticizing the popular comparison of former General David Petraeus’s mishandling of classified information to Mrs. Clinton’s abuse of classified information on her private email server... The Post politicizes the comparison from the beginning by using quotes from Republican presidential candidates Donald slump-Trump and Senator Ted Cruz (TX), both controversial figures in their own right. But many more people than these two politicians have compared the Petraeus case to Mrs. Clinton’s mismanagement of classified information. “His [Petraeus’s] offense involved conduct narrower in scope than Mrs. Clinton’s systematic transmission and storage of classified information on her private system,” argues National Review’s Andy McCarthy, former Chief Assistant U.S. Attorney in New York who successfully prosecuted the Blind Sheikh for the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. Former federal prosecutor, Joe DiGenova, says that Clinton’s actions amount to “the negligent handling of classified information, which is prohibited by statute, and this is a gross example of it, and it dwarfs the information in the Petraeus case.” A similar case was made by Sidney Powell, also a former federal prosecutor, and yet again the case was made by former U.S. Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey.        http://www.aim.org/aim-column/fact-checking-the-washington-post-fact-checker-on-mrs-clintons-emails/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022616&utm_medium=email
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Starving on the Prosciutto-and
-Brie Poverty Diet
Michelle Malkin
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Heed  the cry of an entitled young American hipster: Woe is me, me, me, me, me!
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Talia Jane, a 25-year-old melodramatic millennial, made social media waves last week with her "open letter" to the CEO of crowd-sourced review website Yelp. The indigent English major in smart glasses lamented her deplorable plight toiling in the company's San Francisco-based customer support office of its food delivery and takeout division Eat24 -- oh, the poetic injustice -- as she bravely battled hunger pangs.
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Sure, she had "great" benefits, she admitted, including "vision, dental, the normal health insurance stuff?." Normal? I've been in the workforce 25 years and never had vision benefits. Have you?
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But, she complains, the inhumane co-pays were killing her: "$20 to see a doctor or get an eye exam or see a therapist or get medication. Twenty bucks each is pretty neat, if spending twenty dollars didn't determine whether or not you could afford to get to work the next week."
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Call the wahmbulance ASAP.
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The ululations of the aggrieved swelled as Pained Jane kvetched about her bills, bills, bills. "Will you pay my phone bill for me?" she needled Yelp CEO Jeremy Stoppelman. "I got paid yesterday ($733.24, bi-weekly) but I have to save as much of that as possible to pay my rent ($1,245) for my apartment that's 30 miles away from work because it was the cheapest place I could find that had access to the train, which costs me $5.65 one way to get to work. That's $11.30 a day, by the way. I make $8.15 an hour after taxes. I also have to pay my gas and electric bill. Last month it was $120."
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Utilities. Transportation. Taxes. Budgeting. The fiscal responsibilities of adulthood border on human rights abuse. But wait, Talia Jane's anguish knows no bounds.
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"I've since stopped using my heater," the call-center indentured servant lamented in between diatribes about Yelp's complimentary coconut water and pistachio nuts for employees. "Have you ever slept fully clothed under several blankets just so you don't get a cold and have to miss work? Have you ever drank a liter of water before going to bed so you could fall asleep without waking up a few hours later with stomach pains because the last time you ate was at work? I woke up today with stomach pains. I made myself a bowl of rice."
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The Bataan Death March survivors have nothing on Baby Jane!
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Look, poverty and starvation are no joke. But this woman's self-indulgent hyperbole is beyond parody.
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Somehow, Jane was able to un-double herself up from her hunger-induced fetal position to get on her smartphone to tweet constantly. She also maintains a Tumblr site on which she routinely derided her (now former) employer, along with her own eponymous blog and separate Paypal, Venmo and Square Cash accounts to collect reader donations in the aftermath of her wholly justified firing.
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While Narcissa by the Bay wallowed in public self-pity over her inability to afford groceries ("bread is a luxury to me"), her social media accounts were filled with food, glorious food.
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Eagle-eyed Internet users archived Instagram and Twitter images of Talia Jane indulging in a spa day with a fashionable facial mask made of Lush-brand coffee grounds; showing off her well-stocked kitchen, where she baked sumptuous cupcakes, "prosciutto-brie-cilantro-garlic biscuits," "brie-stuffed meatballs topped with brie and rosemary sprigs," "roast chuck marinated in herbs," "a s--- ton of Swedish potatoes au gratin," and "mini pumpkin pies."
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In one of her richer moments (pun intended), Jane brags about having Bulleit Kentucky Bourbon delivered to her office through a smartphone app. "I've been meaning to buy whiskey," she burbles, but I always forget until after I'm phone and my pants are off" presumably when she's under all her blankets shivering from cold and deprivation. "Alcohol delivery services aren't available where I live because I'm in the suburbs," so "I had alcohol delivery to my job. Oddly enough, no one asked about it."
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Starving on a "living wage" with booze delivered straight to her desk. The struggle is so real.
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My husband and I immediately read this fraud's screed to our 15-year-old and 12-year-old children as an object lesson in how not to be a grown-up:
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Demand more than you are worth.
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Expect all the benefits of autonomy without any of the accountability.
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Saturday PM ~ TheFrontPsgeCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 27, 2016 at 11:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
When Manliness Goes Missing
BEN SHAPIRO
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 The Only Way to Beat slump-Trump? 
Once upon a time, the idea of Donald slump-Trump's securing the Republican nomination for the presidency existed only in the realm of fantasy. But as primaries in four states now reside in the history books, and The slump-Donald has claimed three wins and 81 delegates, fantasy is merging with possibility, if not quite yet reality.
          True, slump-Trump has a long way to go to reach the 1,237 delegates needed to cinch the nomination, but with Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio a distant second and third (17 and 16 delegates, respectively), and the slump-Trump train racing full-speed ahead, Republican "leadership" sentiment is shifting from "It will never happen" to "We'd better make sure it never happens."
          Short of slump-Trump's dropping out (sorry folks, not happening) or a sudden political catastrophe that stops his momentum — very unlikely since the more crazy things he says, the more his supporters like him — some are positing that a Rubio-Cruz unity ticket might be the way to derail the slump-Trump train. Jonah Goldberg, for example, wrote, "One possibility [to stop slump-Trump) would be for Rubio and Cruz to cut a deal. Republican disarray is largely attributable to the fact that no so-called 'establishment candidate' secured much support from the conservative grass roots, and no grass-roots candidate secured much support from the establishment. If the two factions — which make up the overwhelming majority of Republican voters — could be unified, it might be enough to stop slump-Trump."
          Of course, the key word is "if." And judging by the present state of affairs, it's a pretty hefty "if."
          After all, the Cruz-Rubio feud has pitted the two against each other in an attempt to "out-conservative" the other, while slump-Trump — anything but a conservative — climbs atop the mayhem en route to the plurality podium.
          As Mark Alexander noted yesterday, "Shamefully, one of the key factors propelling slump-Trump's candidacy among the larger field of contenders is the absurdly self-defeating fratricidal attacks between Republicans, most notably Cruz and Rubio." Cruz is trying to paint Rubio as an "establishment" candidate. Meanwhile, Rubio is touting his refusal to attack fellow Republicans; namely, slump-Trump — while simultaneously attacking fellow Republicans; namely, Cruz. (Though there are signs Rubio is starting to go after slump-Trump.)  -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Jeff Jacoby: "nObama makes no secret of his eagerness to visit Cuba, but as recently as December he insisted that there would be no such trip until human rights and civil liberties on the island had improved. ... By all accounts, the Castro regime's repression has grown worse, not better, since the renewal of diplomatic ties with the United States in 2014. Beatings and arrests of dissidents have soared. There has been a crackdown on churches and religious groups. ... [H]is desire to go to Havana isn't about the plight of Cuba's dissidents. It's about making his diplomatic embrace of the Castro government a permanent fact of life. As deputy national security adviser Ben Rhodes told reporters Thursday, the president's goal is 'to make this an irreversible policy.' So far, nObama's 'engagement' with the Castros hasn't opened even a crack in their Stalinist system. It is folly to imagine that his trip next month will do anything to expand freedom or justice for Cuba's beleaguered people. But, oh, what a boon it will be for their brutal rulers: the ultimate stamp of approval for the only totalitarian regime in the Americas. ... From Cape Verde to Belize to Taiwan, there are worthy destinations aplenty for a president seeking to make a statement about American values and friendships. Cuba isn't one of them, and nObama shouldn't be going." 
  -The Patriot Post
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 ROMNEY’S TIMELY slump-TRUMP TROLLING  Donald slump-Trump argues that Mitt Romney is in no position to be asking for the 2016 Republican frontrunner’s tax returns on the grounds that Romney lost the 2012 general election. Romney is also, slump-Trump wrote, a “dope.”
          But Romney is arguably the very best Republican to be asking slump-Trump about his tax returns given how successfully Democrats exploited Romney’s filings to alienate potential voters. Democrats essentially called Romney a tax cheat for his low rates and the attack stuck. And it is a line, in some form or another, which Democrats will be sure to repeat against the billionaire slump-Trump if he becomes the Republican nominee.
          Romney began releasing his tax returns amid pressure from his rivals in early Republican primaries in 2012. But because slump-Trump’s rivals have neglected to actually attack the frontrunner very much, slump-Trump is only just now being pressed on this crucial general election issue.
          Romney’s troll timing is perfect. slump-Trump is either less than a week away from starting to put the Republican nomination in the bag or facing lengthening odds in his unlikely but so-far successful quest. He is also facing tonight what promises to be his most challenging debate yet.           slump-Trump’s detractors to this point have mostly knocked slump-Trump for insufficient conservativeness, or flip flopping, or being of poor character. But voters primarily interested in conservative orthodoxy and personal virtue are probably not part of slump-Trump’s long-term coalition. slump-Trump’s voters don’t seem to care about his politics. They just want a winner.
          What few have hit the frontrunner on are his business failures and the unhappy chapters of his career. His business troubles and his finances have been a long-running part of slump-Trump’s media feuds in the past but have oddly not been part of the political discussion. It is particularly odd given how much of a focus Romney’s relatively tame business record was four years ago.  -Fox News
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Bad Terrorist! hanoi-Kerry Says –
He’s Not “Supposed To Be Doing That”...
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{rickwells.us} ~ During Senate hearings before the State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Subcommittee of the Senate Appropriations Committee, Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry made a couple of revealing and unsettling statements... hanoi-Kerry is shown a blown up picture of former Gitmo detainee Ibrahim al Qosi, who hanoi-Kerry and nObama released back into the fight as part of their “empty Gitmo at all costs” program. His Sudanese captors, which the US handed him over to, let Qosi go. They did so in spite of supposed assurances made to the naive fools at the State Department and White House of his continued incarceration. Nobody, be they American or foreigner respects either of those two. During the hearing, Sen. Mark Kirk (R-IL) referenced the release and said to hanoi-Kerry, “Now that he’s out, I would hope we would end the policy of issuing terrorists to terrorist nations, and where they can get out.” "He’s Not “Supposed To Be Doing That”. What a joke.        http://rickwells.us/archives/26536
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Islamic State expanding in Libya and across
wide area of Africa
Robert Spencer
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ “The rising threat from Libya comes as President nObama is being asked by many of his top military and intelligence advisers to approve the broader use of American military force in Libya... to open another front against the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL.” He created this opportunity for the Islamic State with his ill-considered backing of jihadis against Gaddafi. Now he is reaping the consequences. The Islamic State’s branch in Libya is deepening its reach across a wide area of Africa, attracting new recruits from countries like Senegal that had been largely immune to the jihadist propaganda — and forcing the African authorities and their Western allies to increase efforts to combat the fast-moving threat. The American airstrikes in northwestern Libya on Friday, which demolished an Islamic State training camp and were aimed at a top Tunisian operative, underscore the problem, Western officials said. The more than three dozen suspected Islamic State fighters killed in the bombing were recruited from Tunisia and other African countries, officials said, and were believed to be rehearsing an attack against Western targets.        http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/02/islamic-state-expanding-in-libya-and-across-wide-area-of-africa
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Jeff Sessions Not Buying Excuses Of
nObama Immigration Obstructionists
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{rickwells.us} ~ It’s too bad that neither Hussein nObama or DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson were in attendance as Senator Jeff Sessions  explained in Tuesday hearings how an immigration system is supposed to work... They clearly missed a learning opportunity as it relates to what must surely be a difficult concept for them to grasp, protecting the nation or, as it’s called these days, Homeland Security. At the heart of Senator Sessions informative narrative was the concept of an immigration system that is controlled by the people of the United States. That’s a far cry from the current open borders, accommodate all invaders philosophy of the nObama regime. Maybe Johnson or nObama can get their hands on the video. Sessions was questioning the ICE Executive Associate Director for Enforcement and Removal Operations, Thomas Homan, asking him if it is a criminal offense for someone to enter the United States unlawfully. Mr. Homan showcases his legal knowledge by agreeing and citing the statute as well. There’s clearly a difference between knowing the law and enforcing it. Senator Sessions  addresses his next comments to Juan Osuna,  the Director of the Executive Office for Immigration Review of the Department of Justice. Senator Sessionssays, “Mr. Osuna, the reason you say they’re not showing up is they have a lack of information about the process.” Isn’t it amazing that people who are charged with enforcing the law, to whom violators are prohibited legally from lying to, offer such weak and pathetically obvious lies in their own testimony? There’s no way they Osuna would accept such a weak statement as truth from someone he was interviewing. The upper levels of our Justice Department is populated with liars, who must be covering some type of misdeeds.  http://rickwells.us/archives/26544
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nObama Admin to Waive Counter-Terror
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration has announced that it will not enforce new counter-terrorism measures passed by an overwhelming bipartisan majority in Congress because they could harm Iranian business interests... according to new instructions issued by the Department of Homeland Security. The administration’s decision to waive portions of a new counter-terrorism law aimed at preventing terrorism-linked individuals from traveling to the United States comes on the heels of a lobbying effort by pro-Iran organizations and other Arab advocacy groups, including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. Congress last year tightened restrictions on the Visa Waiver Program, which facilitates travel between the United States and 38 other partner countries, to ensure that individuals from Iran and other countries with a terrorist footprint do not enter the United States without first obtaining a visa.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-to-waive-counter-terror-measures-to-aid-iran/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=76a95f43ea-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_25_162_24_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-76a95f43ea-45611665
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Speaker Ryano – oObama May Tell Military
To Break The Law, Knowingly
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{rickwells.us} ~ A Reporter asked Speaker Ryano on Wednesday about the likely attempts by nObama to unilaterally close Gitmo, under a claim that the NDAA violates the separation of powers as it pertains to detainee transfers... Ryano appears to recognize it as a typical nObama false assertion of authority based upon the flimsiest of premises. He indicates that it’s not going to work, saying nObama can try and boasting a veto-proof majority in both parties. Ryano also notes that they are making preparations in case nObama attempts to break the law. Given nObama’s record, there’s a better than even chance that he’ll do exactly that. Normally we would expect the Republicans to fold and find a way to semi-gracefully give in to whatever demand the nObama regime is placing upon them. Ryano sounds a little different this time around than his usual foundation laying for a subsequent cave in. He might actually be planning to fight on this one. Ryano adds, “And what boggles my mind, is that the ‘president’ is contemplating directing the military to knowingly break the law.” Those comments may be for effect, to put nObama on notice or for some other purpose, as nObama has directed and permitted DHS, DOJ and the State Department to break the law on a consistent and ongoing basis. He has also instructed the military to doctor intelligence to more closely match his claims regarding the terrorist threat and the success of his tepid “war on ISIS.” nObama regularly instructs others to break the law; it can’t be a shock to Ryano.       http://rickwells.us/archives/26551
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America’s Deadly Embrace
Peter Huessy
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{aim.org) ~ Stephen Kinzer’s 2008 book All the Shah’s Men traces the roots of today’s Middle East terror to when the United States and Great Britain engineered the return of the Shah of Iran to power in Iran in a 1953 “coup.”... The Iranian mullah leadership have embraced Kinzer’s view and repeatedly describe America as “The Great Arrogance.” And since the mullahs seized power in 1979, the Iran “terror masters” have been the primary terror threat to the U.S., murdering thousands of Americans in Beirut, Lockerbie, Khobar Towers, the African Embassies, the World Trade Center on 9-11, and in Afghanistan and Iraq. Iran is an Islamic revolutionary power seeking to expand its writ by terror. Obviously, the set of standards of international behavior established by the western powers upon the end of World War 2 stand in the way of Iran’s ambitions thus their anger at the U.S. and the West for such “great arrogance.”       http://www.aim.org/guest-column/americas-deadly-embrace/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022516&utm_medium=email
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Former nObama Intel Chief Calls on Hilly
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{patriotsandpolitics.com} ~ Former Defense Intelligence Agency chief Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn told CNN’s Jake Tapper that for the sake of the nation, Hilly Clinton should “step down.”... He recommended that she suspended her campaign at least until the FBI investigation into the use of her private email server has concluded. Flynn surmised that if he had done what Clinton has done with regard to classified email, “I would have been out the door and probably in jail.” The FBI investigation has been ongoing for several months and as the release of each new batch of emails, the number of those found to have contained classified information continues to grow. Currently, there are at least 22 emails that contain information so sensitive that even heavily redacted versions cannot be released.        http://patriotsandpolitics.com/former-obama-intel-chief-calls-on-hillary-to-do-the-one-thing-she-dreads/
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slump-Trump's companies have sought visas
to import at least 1,100 workers
 MICA ROSENBERG, RYAN MCNEILL, MEGAN TWOHEY AND MICHELLE CONLIN
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{reuters.com} ~ Donald slump-Trump is staking his run for U.S. president in part on a vow to protect American jobs. But this month, one of his companies... the elite Mar-a-Lago Club resort in Florida, applied to import 70 foreign workers to serve as cooks, wait staff and cleaners. A Reuters analysis of U.S. government data reveals that this is business as usual in the New York property magnate's empire. slump-Trump owns companies that have sought to import at least 1,100 foreign workers on temporary visas since 2000, according to U.S. Department of Labor data reviewed by Reuters. Most of the applications were approved, the data show. Nine companies majority-owned by Trump have sought to bring in foreign waitresses, cooks, vineyard workers and other laborers on temporary work-visa programs administered by the Labor Department.
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America 2016: Ben Shapiro and Friends vs The
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{nicedeb.wordpress.com} ~ On Thursday, author/commentator/blogger/talk show host Ben Shapiro went ahead with his speech at CSULA that was cancelled by university president William Covino earlier this week and then “uncancelled” at the last minute... Shapiro had announced that he was going ahead with the speech regardless of it being cancelled. Two hundred or so “student-activists, outside agitators, and professors” formed a mob at the university student union to protest the event, with many of them blocking people from entering the auditorium. “This is what democracy looks like!” As Shapiro spoke to a relatively calm audience inside, protests erupted outside the event room. Protesters assaulted, harassed, intimidated, shouted down, and berated event-goers, according to Daily Wire reporters on the scene. One attendee claimed that he got “punched in the ear” by a protestor. Before the speech began, members of the school’s black student union reportedly assaulted Breitbart journalist Adelle Nazarian.
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WAR ON COPS: Occupy Denver Activist
Accused of Killing Deputy, 
Wounding Two Others
 LEE STRANAHAN
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{breitbart.com} ~ Martin Wirth, an Occupy Denver activist who had run for State Senate on the Green Party ticket in 2014, allegedly shot three Colorado Sheriff deputies on Wednesday, killing one... Park County Sheriff Cpl. Nate Carrigan was killed and two other deputies wounded as they were part of an eight man force serving a “contentious eviction” notice. Wirth had defaulted on his house in 2013 and was facing foreclosure proceedings. Police say 58-year old Wirth opened fire first. As a leader in the Occupy Denver movement, Wirth spoke out against corporate welfare, big banks, the cost of higher education, and in favor of sustaining and expanding public transportation in his run for Senate. He also claimed to be a gun rights advocate who supported the Constitution. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2016/02/25/war-on-cops-occupy-denver-activist-accused-of-killing-deputy-wounding-two-others/
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When Manliness Goes Missing
BEN SHAPIRO
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{freedomsback.com} ~ By most available information, Donald slump-Trump will win the Republican nomination. He’s not a conservative in any meaningful sense — he shifts his positions at whim, preaches about the worth of big government and suggests that he will personally “win for America.” But after eight years of Barack nObama’s passive-aggressive emasculation of Americans, many conservatives have embraced slump-Trump because of his unbridled masculinity. He’s Joe Pesci in “Goodfellas”: a toxic dude who’s fun to watch, but who might occasionally shoot somebody just for the hell of it. On Fifth Avenue, apparently. And receive plaudits from his followers.
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This is the natural effect of the unmanning of American politics.
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nObama told Americans for years on end that they were racist, sexist, bigoted homophobes who just didn’t understand that our brash, confident attitude alienated people all around the world and led to terrorism against us. Hilly Clinton is running for president on the basis of her X chromosomes; America, she says, needs a female president. Bernie Sanders says that our unchecked aggressive instincts have ill-served us; we need a kinder, gentler America.
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Meanwhile, the Republicans have self-castrated. Senator Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., spent years telling conservatives that nObama couldn’t be stopped, and that attempts to stop him would be uncivil and counterproductive. Former Speaker of the House John backstabber-Boehner did the same. So, too, has new Speaker of the House Paul Ryano. George W. Bush ran on the basis of “compassionate” conservatism, implying that traditional conservatism was too musky for metrosexual America. Marco Rubio’s brand of politics relies on a feelings-first approach; Rubio said last week, “If a significant percentage of the American family believes that they are being treated differently than everyone else, we have a problem. And we have to address it as a society and as a country.” This is pure nObama, Republican-style.
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slump-Trump, however, doesn’t bother with the niceties. He’s a big, swinging set of political testicles. He says, just like a good mafia boss would, that he’ll take care of all of your problems. He threatens his political opponents — he tells protesters he wants to see them roughed up, and he tells donors to his opposition that he’ll target them. He swears like a sailor in public. He unmans his competition: Jeb! Bush is “low-energy,” Ted Cruz a “p——,” Ben Carson a “pedophile,” Rubio a “lightweight,” Carly Fiorina a problem “face.” He’s gross and chauvinistic: He calls women “pieces of a—” and rips Megyn Kelly for bleeding from her “wherever.”
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He is, in short, a man in the locker room, in all of his ugly glory. He’s toxic masculinity. He’s not a gentleman, and he’s proud of it. He’s here to win, and he’ll bully, threaten, and beat you until you submit.
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Normally, the masculinity gap in American politics could be filled by an upstanding man — a man, yes, but one tied to values, a man who uses the aggressive instinct in pursuit of defending the innocent and punishing the guilty. But the feminist movement has made such men obsolete. Men were simply too dangerous; it was safer to emasculate them. Now men are expected to be betas; the only alphas left are toxic alphas willing to break every taboo and violate every standard.
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There’s still a space for masculinity in American politics. But thanks to the vacuum of decent men, indecent men rise. Men like Donald slump-Trump.
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 27, 2016 at 8:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Donald slump-Trump relishes 
wrecking the GOP
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 Former NSA Chief Skeptical of FBI's Backdoor Demand   When news broke last week that the FBI was demanding a backdoor into the iPhone of a San Bernardino terrorist, we cautioned that doing so wasn't just a case of breaking into just this one phone this one time. The FBI was really asking two things: a backdoor to iPhones in general, and a legal precedent for using it. Apple is fighting the demand.
          They're not alone. No less than Michael Hayden, the former chief of both the NSA and CIA as well as a retired four-star Air Force general, isn't convinced the government is right. "In this specific case," he said, "I'm trending toward the government, but I've got to tell you in general I oppose the government's effort, personified by FBI Director Jim Comey. Jim would like a backdoor available to American law enforcement in all devices globally. And, frankly, I think on balance that actually harms American safety and security, even though it might make Jim's job a bit easier in some specific circumstances."
          Indeed, the government has more phones for Apple to crack.
          Hayden also said rather honestly, "Look, I used to run the NSA, okay? Backdoors are good. Please, please, Lord, put back doors in, because I and a whole bunch of other talented security services around the world — even though that back door was not intended for me — that backdoor will make it easier for me to do what I want to do, which is to penetrate. ... But when you step back and look at the whole question of American security and safety writ large, we are a safer, more secure nation without backdoors [because] a lot of other people would take advantage of it."
          And speaking of precedents, Apple CEO Tim Cook noted, "If a court can ask us to write this piece of software, think about what else they could ask us to write. Maybe it's an operating system for surveillance. Maybe it's the ability for law enforcement to turn on the camera. I mean I don't know where this stops." In other words, what is the limiting principle for government power?
          Perhaps that's one reason why Apple's already developing a way to thwart the workaround the FBI seeks...  -The Patriot Post
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 Rick Perry Cleared of Governing While  Republican   After costing him time, money, effort and possibly tarnishing his presidential bid, former Texas Governor Rick Perry on Wednesday was finally cleared of charges that he abused his office when he threatened a veto and then issued it in 2013. His real crime? "Governing While Republican."
          Perry said he would veto a bill funding the state's Public Integrity Unit if its head, then-Travis County District Attorney Rosemary Lehmberg, didn't step down. Why? Lehmberg had been arrested for driving with a blood alcohol level three times the legal limit, and she was so belligerent with police officers that they strapped her into a restraint chair and slipped a spit mask over her. When she refused to resign, Perry vetoed the bill.
          To a Democrat-influenced grand jury, Perry's actions of, well, governing, meant he coerced a public servant and abused his office, and they issued an indictment. But Judge P.J. Keller, who wrote the court's majority opinion dismissing the case, disagreed. "No law passed by the Legislature can constitutionally make the mere act of vetoing legislation a crime," Keller wrote, and the court system cannot "examine the motives behind the veto or second-guess the validity of a veto." Nevertheless, the frivolous prosecution did serve the Left's goal: to stall a strong conservative's political career. How much more support could the cowboy-boot wearing governor have generated if donors and voters weren't wary that the indictment would stick? 
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 When Hunters Leave Africa 
Last year, the bleedin' heart liberals lost their collective mind over the fact that dentist Walter Palmer shot and killed a lion named Cecil during a hunting trip to Zimbabwe. Big whoop. Hunters go to Africa. They kill animals, and the licensing fees help the conservation efforts on the continent. But thanks to the outcry, hunters are no longer booking trips to the African Savanna. Now, the place where "Cecil the Lion" was bagged and tagged is facing a bit of a lion problem. The lion population at Bubye Valley Conservancy has ballooned to more than 500 felines. Combined with a dry summer that caused the grassland to grow stunted, the lions are laying waste to the other animal populations. As a result, the conservancy is saying it might have to go out and kill 200 lions.           "The astronomical fees foreign hunters paid to shoot animals in Africa directly supported the continent's conservation efforts," wrote  The Truth About Guns' Nick Leghorn. "It was a mutually beneficial, self-sustaining system. Now that the hunters are gone, there isn't enough money to support Hwange National Park's operation and the ecosystem is out-of-whack. Lions will be killed, anyway, without any of hunting's enormous economic benefits."
          Furthermore, think of the economic loss to the region. Think of the lost jobs, the money not coming into the area because there are not the hunters willing to pay for lodging, food, transportation and guides. Anti-hunting groups had their field day, but they aren't going to be concerned about the effects of their rabid protesting.  
19-Year-Old Jessica Chambers Burned to Death In Her Car Now the Mystery’s Finally Been Solved…
CONOR SWANBERG
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{injo.com} ~ The grizzly murder of 19-year-old Jessica Chambers captured the nation in 2014 after she was burned alive in her car on a remote road in Mississippi... Firefighters and police officers found Jessica lying next to her burning car, barely alive, around 8pm. At the scene she was able to give them a name, but it would still take a long time before they figured out who committed the disturbing crime. Jessica was taken to a hospital where she succumbed to her burns, which covered 98% of her body. Her mother made it just in time to see her daughter before she died.     http://injo.com/2016/02/545262-man-finally-charged-with-the-murder-of-19-year-old-jessica-chambers/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=morning-newsletter
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nObama Opens the Border to More STDs
Jon Feere
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{gopusa.com} ~ In his first year in office, President nObama lifted an entry ban on foreigners with HIV. In his final year in office he will lift the entry ban on three more sexually transmitted diseases (STDs)... The president’s own Health and Human Services department says this guarantees more infections in the United States, proving once again that immigration is the defining issue for politicians like nObama. Increased immigration trumps all other concerns. First, some background. In 1993, a clause specifically designed to reduce the spread HIV/AIDS into the United States was added to the Immigration and Nationality Act. It passed the Senate with a vote of 76 to 23. It reads: Any alien who is determined in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to have a communicable disease of public health significance, which shall include infection with the etiologic agent for acquired immune deficiency syndrome [AIDS] … is inadmissible. He is once again breaking the law.        http://www.gopusa.com/?p=6128?omhide=true
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Chicago Cubs chairman: 'Surreal when slump-Trump threatens your mom'
GABBY MORRONGIELLO
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The Ricketts family has been criticized before for its public participation in
conservative political causes
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Donald slump-Trump had some choice words earlier this week for the Ricketts family, who owns the Chicago Cubs, over their contributions to a super PAC that is running ads against him... But Cubs chairman Tom Ricketts said Wednesday his family is simply standing up for their beliefs. "It's a little surreal when Donald slump-Trump threatens your mom," Ricketts told reporters Wednesday during a press conference at spring training in Mesa, Ariz. "The fact is, whether it's my mom or dad on his Ending Spending stuff, or my sister on marriage equality or my brothers what they do, or what we do as a team, we're pretty much an open book," he said. "We stand up for what we believe in; we support the causes we think are important. That's what America should be." http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2584099
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Head of UN Agency Who Sent US Computers to North Korea ‘Told Me That He Didn’t Care What the US Thought … 
Patrick Goodenough
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World Intellectual Property Organization director-general Francis Gurry
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{cnsnews.com} ~ The head of a U.N. agency which gets a significant proportion of its budget from U.S. patent applicants transferred U.S.-origin computer equipment with dual-use potential to North Korea... and cracked down harshly on whistleblowers who sought to expose his behavior, U.S. lawmakers were told Wednesday. Despite the alleged actions and lawmakers’ earlier appeals, the nObama administration allowed Francis Gurry to be re-elected in 2014 for a new six-year term as director-general of the Geneva-based World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), a joint hearing of three House Foreign Affairs subcommittees heard. The administration did so, a witness told the hearing, at the request of a close ally, Australia; Gurry, whose career at WIPO spans more than three decades, is believed to be the highest-ranking Australian in the U.N. system.       http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/patrick-goodenough/us-did-not-block-re-election-un-bureaucrat-despite-claims-it
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Appellate Court Ruling Could Revive
Rasmieh Odeh's PTSD Defense
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Rasmieh Odeh
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Rasmieh Odeh's claim that she was abused while in Israeli custody 45 years ago may yet be heard by a federal court in Detroit... The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursdayremanded her 2014 immigration fraud convictionback to district court to reconsider whether a psychologist's testimony about alleged post-traumatic stress is admissible. Odeh was convicted of bombing a Jerusalem grocery store and a British Consulate building for the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) in 1969. The grocery store attack killed Hebrew University students Leon Kanner and Edward Joffe. She was set free after 10 years in a prisoner exchange and made her way to the United States. When she applied for naturalization as a United States citizen in 2004, she claimed she never had been arrested or convicted of a crime. At one point, she claimed she thought the questions only applied to her time in America. The immigration officer who interviewed Odeh testified that, as a rule, she asks applicants whether they ever were arrested or convicted "anywhere in the world." http://www.investigativeproject.org/5174/appellate-court-ruling-could-revive-rasmieh-odeh
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Bauer: 'No recess' for Senate
Chad Groening
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{onenewsnow.com} ~ Concern is rising that President Barack nObama is trying to circumvent the U.S. Senate by making a recess appointment to the United States Supreme Court... nObama said last week that he would nominate a candidate for the Supreme Court while the Senate is in session — foregoing a recess appointment. A leading conservative activist and former presidential candidate argues that the Senate leadership needs to make sure that this attempt to capitalize on the situation does not happen. Bauer has some strong advice for the current Republican Senate Majority Leader, who he believes must do the job he was appointed to do.        http://www.onenewsnow.com/politics-govt/2016/02/25/bauer-no-recess-for-senate?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16783214&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=23807
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How nObamaCare Reduces 
Competition and Rations Care
 Michael Tennant
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The Affordable Care Act (ACA) was ostensibly enacted to protect average Americans from big insurance companies and to ensure that, as President Barack nObama put it, insurers “are limited in the ability to extract profits and deny coverage.”... But as is often the case with laws supposedly designed to benefit the “little guy,” nObamaCare has instead stimulated consolidation in the healthcare sector and rationing of care, according to a recent report from the American Action Forum (AAF), a center-right think tank in Washington, D.C. Until recently, most physicians maintained independent solo or small-group practices; few were employed by hospitals. Lately, however, hospitals — particularly those that had previously merged into local near-monopolies — “have been forming physician groups, which have in turn been buying up physician practices at a rapid rate,” wrote AAF’s Robert Book, a health economist. In addition, noted Book, “Hospital groups across the country have also started forming their own health insurance companies — either on their own, or as joint ventures with established insurance companies — with their own facilities and physicians as the main in-network providers.”   http://thenewamerican.com/usnews/health-care/item/22626-how-obamacare-reduces-competition-and-rations-care
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Will Britain Leave the European Union?
Steve Byas
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Great Britain will stage a national referendum on June 23 on whether to leave the European Union... British Prime Minister David Cameron has made it clear that he supports continued British membership in the EU, and admits that his efforts to win “concessions” from the EU’s 27 other member states are designed to make the EU more palatable to its opponents in his own country. Those concessions, however, are illusory and would not be legally binding. This is the clear position of Nigel Farage, a British member of the European Parliament, and the leader of Britain’s United Kingdom Independence Party (UKIP), who challenged European Council President Donald Tusk about the concessions Cameron hopes to win. http://thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/22629-will-britain-leave-the-european-union
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nObama-Zuckerberg's Plans: 
Slavery or Annihilation
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{wnd.com} ~ I’m sure my readers were positively titillated by the buzz emanating from the Mobile World Congress Conference this week... What is the Mobile World Congress Conference, you ask, and why should anyone with the intelligence to navigate this publication care? Well, although the MWC conference is essentially a bunch of high-level computer geeks stroking each other’s egos, in another sense, the conference illustrated a juxtaposition of two very different future possibilities, neither of which is particularly pleasing. Over the last few years, mobile Internet surpassed desktop and laptop computers as the premier digital platform, so the computer industry in all its vastness is heavily invested in mobile technology. The Mobile World Congress is a creation of the Groupe Speciale Mobile (GSM), itself a creation of the Confederation of European Posts and Telecommunications (CEPT), the largest European telecommunications industry association.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/obama-zuckerbergs-plans-slavery-or-annihilation/
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ISIS Stones Teen Girls To Death For “Being Teenagers”
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{rickwells.us} ~ ISIS has once again proven that their manhood is highly suspect by preying upon those who are defenseless and much weaker, this time by brutally murdering two teenage girls... The atrocity took place on Tuesday in the city of Deir ez-Zor in eastern Syria. The murder was carried out execution style, through stoning, and with the “sanitizing” of a determination of guilt under their perpetual blanket of impunity and immunity, Islamic law. The girls, Hasna, 17, and Madiha, 16, were stoned to death after the barbarians determined they were guilty of committing adultery. Their ages were not mitigating factors under ISIS Sharia. Nothing stands in between these good old boys and a round of Allahu Akbars. Letthe fun begin. ARA News quoted a local media activist, Ahmed Ramadan, who said, “The execution took place in the Hamidiya district of Deir ez-Zor on Tuesday afternoon, where hundreds of people gathered to witness the stoning of the two young girls.”        http://rickwells.us/archives/26517
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Donald slump-Trump relishes 
wrecking the GOP
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{washingtonpost.com} ~ Lyndon Johnson simply was exasperated. Barack nObama’s mischief was methodical.
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Four days before the 1966 congressional elections, Johnson, asked about criticism from Richard Nixon, testily responded: “I do not want to get into a debate . . . with a chronic campaigner like Mr. Nixon.” Johnson’s disparagement endeared Nixon to Republican voters, thereby propelling him toward the presidency.
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Four days before Saturday’s South Carolina primary, nObama improved Donald slump-Trump’s standing with Republicans by volubly deploring him and cannily placing him in the Republican mainstream: “He says in more interesting ways what the other Republican candidates are saying.” Not exactly.
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Certainly not last week when slump-Trump said, “I like the nObamacare mandate.” He thereby disparaged one of conservatism’s greatest recent achievements — persuading five Supreme Court justices that the mandate is not justifiable as a regulation of interstate commerce, so the Constitution’s Commerce Clause is not an infinitely elastic empowerment of Congress.
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[Danielle Allen: The moment of truth: We must stop slump-Trump]
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slump-Trump was not saying “what the other candidates are saying” when last week he said: “Every single other Republican candidate is going to cut the hell out of your Social Security.” slump-Trump so relishes causing Republican wreckage that he went on to attack House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (Wis.). Recalling the Democrats’ 2011 ad depicting a Ryan-like figure pushing an elderly woman in a wheelchair off a cliff, slump-Trump suggested that the ad was fair commentary on Ryan’s proposed entitlement reforms. slump-Trump’s plan for reforming entitlements probably is to get Mexico to pay for them, after it finances “The Wall.”
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Many South Carolina evangelicals, like those in Iowa, showed, shall we say, Christian forgiveness toward slump-Trump, who boasts of his sexual athleticism, embraces torture and promises to kill terrorists’ families. Or perhaps these remarkable evangelicals think his myriad conversions-of-convenience his serial adjustments of his “convictions” in time for this campaign constitute being “born again.” This is an interesting interpretation of John 3:7.
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As the Republican Party contemplates putting forward this florid face, the Democratic Party, clinging to Hilly Clinton like a shipwrecked sailor clinging to a spar, celebrates her Nevada achievement. ‘Twas a famous victory.
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Trailing clouds of seediness sufficient already to have convinced 56 percent of Americans that she is neither honest nor trustworthy, Clinton won only 53 percent against an opponent who says that, after seven years of a Democratic presidency, America is a fetid swamp of rising inequality and multiplying injustices. Criticizing Bernie Sanders for criticizing nObama, Clinton promises continuity with an administration that according to a Gallup poll this month has convinced 71 percent of likely general election voters that America is on the wrong track.
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[Five myths Donald slump-Trump tells about Donald slump-Trump]
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Her Nevada triumph was sealed by African Americans, and she evidently plans to erase Sanders by stoking racial insecurities and grievances. If she plans to win the presidency by reassembling and reinvigorating the nObama coalition, she has work to do with another component of it: In three contests now, Sanders has crushed her among 18- to 29-year-olds, voters most of whom are too young to remember either her husband or when she was not an establishment fixture.
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The Republican process of picking Clinton’s opponent already has, before the fourth delegate selection event, pruned the field from 17 to five, with only four — slump-Trump, Ted Cruz, Marco Rubio and John Kasich, but not Ben Carson — with arguable paths to the nomination. Cruz is counting on volunteers wielding smartphones loaded with analytics — Boss Tweed meets Steve Jobs — to counter slump-Trump’s surfing on an endless wave of free media. Rubio needs Kasich, the only remaining governor, to wither while waiting for the process to reach states thought to be congenial. When Kasich became the last candidate other than Jim Gilmore to enter the race, one of his senior advisers pointed far ahead to Michigan’s March 8 primary. Kasich’s narrow path is: Become the sole center-right alternative, one-on-one with slump-Trump or Cruz in the industrial Midwest, and move from a strong Michigan showing to a March 15 victory in winner-take-all Ohio. Cruz wants protracted campaigns from both Rubio and Kasich. slump=Trump wants to delay the day when he has only one opponent and might learn that his ceiling is approximately what he won in South Carolina — 32.5 percent.
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In 2011, slump-Trump said he had dispatched investigators to Hawaii to unearth the sinister truth about nObama’s birth. He said, “They cannot believe what they’re finding.” No one has seen his astonishing discoveries — or his tax filings, which might illuminate unsavory business practices and exaggerations of his wealth. He thrives by determining the campaign’s conversation. It is time to talk about his tax records.
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Friday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 26, 2016 at 1:30pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Two Scandals on Hold as Presidential Primaries Unfold
Roger Aronoff
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AG Lynch Dodges Questions About 
Clinton Prosecution
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Attorney General Loretta Lynch dodged questions Wednesday over whether the Justice Department will pursue prosecution of former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton for her use of a private email server to send classified documents... Speaking during a House Appropriations Committee hearing, Lynch would only say: This will be conducted as every other case and we will review all the facts and all the evidence and come to an independent conclusion as to how to best handle it. Lynch offered very little to Rep. John Carter (R-TX) who raised a concern shared among his colleagues who are worried that politics have affected the investigation, when he asked, "If the FBI makes the case that Hilly Clinton mishandled classified information and put America's security at risk, will you prosecute the case? Do you know of any efforts underway to undermine the FBI investigation?"        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/ag-lynch-dodges-questions-about-clinton-prosecution
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Billions in nObamacare Subsidies
Probably Fraudulent
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Democrats love to tout how nObamacare is working, but according to the United States Government Accountability Office (GAO)... there could be billions of dollars that have been paid out to applicants who are ineligible to receive the promised federal subsidies under the Affordable Care Act offers. In its study, GAO found that there was no system put in place that could reconcile all of the information gathered from various government sources in order to spot any inconsistency with applications. The federal watchdog submitted its report Congress and explained why they did the study: "The Congressional Budget Office estimates the cost of subsidies and related spending under PPACA at $37 billion for fiscal year 2015. GAO was asked to examine the enrollment process and verification controls of the federal Marketplace."        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/billions-obamacare-subsidies-probably-fraudulent
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ISIS in Buffalo, NY: KILL LIST of...
Pamela Geller
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{pamelageller.com} ~ More news the media won’t cover, even though this jihadist called for the beheading of one media personality... Buffalo Muslim Yassin posted a list of towns of residence and phone numbers of approximately 150 U.S. Air Force personnel, with the following quote: “Rejoice, O supporters of the Caliphate State, with the dissemination of the information to be delivered to lone wolves … Allah said: ‘And slay them wherever you may come upon them.’” Remember that when mullah nObama says, “the Islamic State is not Islamic.” In the affidavit, Lane stated that on Aug. 24, 2015, Yassin tweeted a link containing photographs, addresses, other contact information and even credit-card information of United States service men and women and State Department employees. She also allegedly said that a media personality “would be better off without her head.” http://pamelageller.com/2016/02/isis-in-buffalo-ny-kill-list-of-air-force-fbi-govt-officials-military-slay-them-wherever-you-find-them.html/
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2017 Budget Request Supports Priorities Despite
DoD-Imposed Changes
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A Raytheon SM-6 launched from an Aegis guided missile destroyer
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{news.usni.org} ~ The Navy fared well during late-in-the-game Fiscal Year 2017 budget negotiations with the Defense Department, despite a widespread initial concern about cuts to the Littoral Combat Ship/Frigate program, Navy leadership told USNI News... After a budgetary argument between Defense Secretary Ash Carter and Navy Secretary Ray Mabus became public in December, many in the Navy and industry became worried about the direction the Navy was being pushed in, particularly after being told to cut 12 ships in a time when the service is trying to build the fleet back up to more than 300 ships. But Vice Adm. Joseph Mulloy, deputy chief of naval operations for integration of capabilities and resources, told USNI News that, despite the shipbuilding challenges the Navy still faces, the Navy actually came out better over the five-year Future Years Defense Plan than previously thought.        http://news.usni.org/2016/02/24/navy-2017-budget-request-supports-priorities-despite-dod-imposed-changes?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=3fae6fdd6c-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-3fae6fdd6c-231491269&mc_cid=3fae6fdd6c&mc_eid=3999f18767
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The closing of the military mind?
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{aei.org} ~ George Washington resigned as commander-in-chief of the Continental Army on December 23, 1783, ending a career that spanned more of his adult life than his combined years in the Continental Congress and as president... Today, just two days after his birthday, I wonder what Washington would think about the role education plays in the development of our military, particularly given our long season of war. On one hand, Washington would be pleased to know that men and women of the armed forces are among the best and brightest of their generation. According to data from George Washington University, in 2010, 82% of military officers held at least a bachelor’s degree. Ninety-three percent of enlisted soldiers had a high school diploma. Yet while recruiting America’s brightest for the armed forces remains a national priority, there has also been an alarming rise in the number of men and women ineligible for military service in recent years. In 2010, for example, a group of retired military leaders commissioned a report titled Too Fat to Fight. The report found that 75% of Americans age 17 to 24 are unable to join the military because they “failed to graduate high school, have criminal records, or are physically unfit.” In fact, the Army’s Accessions Command has estimated that 9 million men and women could not join the military if they wanted to because they are unable to pass the fitness test.       https://www.aei.org/publication/the-closing-of-the-military-mind/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=022516
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slump-Trump Heading to Trial Over
slump-Trump University Fraud Charges
Kemberlee Kaye
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Hilly Clinton is not the only presidential contender muddling through legal battles this election season. An upcoming trial scheduled for May 6 could pull Donald slump-Trump off the campaign trail... Listed as a witness by both sides of the bench, slump-Trump will likely be required to testify in a trial over the now defunct slump-Trump University which has been accused of fraud. Here’s a part of the political calendar that nobody in the Republican Party seems to have noticed: This spring, just as the GOP nomination battle enters its final phase, frontrunner Donald slump-Trump could be forced to take time out for some unwanted personal business: He’s due to take the witness stand in a federal courtroom in San Diego, where he is being accused of running a financial fraud.        http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/02/trump-heading-to-trial-over-trump-university-fraud-charges/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29
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US Presidential Candidates Slam Palestinian Authority
 Israel Today Staff
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{israeltoday.co.il} ~ With Super Tuesday, the biggest day in the US presidential primaries, fast approaching (March 1), candidates on the Republican side are looking to bolster their pro-Israel credentials and win the Evangelical Christian vote... Earlier this month, frontrunner Donald slump-Trump suggested he’d be “neutral” in his dealing with Israel and the Palestinians. One of his top challengers, Senator Marco Rubio (Florida), said at a rally in Houston on Wednesday that he’d take the exact opposite approach. Senator Ted Cruz (Texas), said he view on the topic went far beyond the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: “I am not neutral between murderers and the innocent citizens murderers are targeting. I am not neutral at home or abroad between radical Islamic terrorists and the targets of their terror.”  http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/28403/Default.aspx
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World Council of Churches Starts Seven Weeks of Brainwashing
Malcolm Lowe
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Israel spent hundreds of millions of dollars in the last few years to build water desalination plants on its Mediterranean coast, so that now Israel has an abundance of water. At the same time, Palestinian propagandists constantly disseminate false accusations that Israel steals Palestinian water. Pictured above, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Daniel Shapiro tours the Hadera Desalination Plant on July 26, 2012. 
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ February 12, 2016, was a day of fresh hope for the suffering Christians of the Middle East. Pope Francis of Rome and Patriarch Kirill of Moscow met in Havana, Cuba, to issue a joint message to the world... After pledging themselves to change the history of schism between Eastern and Western Christianity, they placed the contemporary merciless persecution of Christians at the top of their agenda: "Our gaze must firstly turn to those regions of the world where Christians are victims of persecution. In many countries of the Middle East and North Africa whole families, villages and cities of our brothers and sisters in Christ are being completely exterminated. Their churches are being barbarously ravaged and looted, their sacred objects profaned, their monuments destroyed..." These were not empty words. The Moscow Patriarchate has collected large sums of money from its faithful to help the persecuted Christians of Syria. Likewise, the Roman Catholic Church, and specifically the Franciscan Order, is working at its own peril on the ground in Syria to relieve the suffering.   http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7487/seven-weeks-of-water
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Charlie Rangel Retiring: He’s Perhaps The Most
Corrupt Man In Congress
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Perhaps the most corrupt person in Congress Rep. Charlie Rangel  (D-N.Y.) confirmed on Wednesday that he is not running for reelection and will retire at the end of the year... Rangel claimed he wants to leave office at the same time as the first black president. However, based on his Congressional tenure the most likely reason for Charlie Rangel to retire is thanks to nObama the economy is so bad there’s no graft money left for him to make. Charlie Rangel has a more “impressive” list of ethics violations than anyone else in Congress. Perhaps his most famous act of illegality during his congressional tenure was in regards to a rental income Mr. Rangel purchased in 1987 at the Punta Cana Yacht Club in the Dominican Republic. In 2009 the National Legal and Policy Center looked at Mr. Rangel’s House financial disclosure forms in August, it noted that his reported income looked suspiciously low. In 2004 and 2005, he reported no more than $5,000, and in 2006 and 2007 no income at all from the property.    http://lidblog.com/charlie-rangel-retiring-hes-perhaps-the-most-corrupt-man-in-congress/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=31f439afc7-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-31f439afc7-291705165
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Romney claims ‘bombshell’ in slump-Trump taxes – 
here’s slump-Trump’s blunt response
 Michael Dorstewitz
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{bizpacreview.com} ~ The real estate developer and GOP frontrunner didn’t take the accusation well. The 2012 Republican presidential nominee told Fox News’ “Your World” host Neil Cavuto that he’s holding off supporting any one candidate until he sees “their positions on issues in some detail” … as well as their back taxes... “Donald slump-Trump and Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz have” yet to reveal their taxes from previous years. “And this was an issue in my campaign,” he said. “Frankly, we have good reason to believe that there is a bombshell in Donald slump-Trump’s taxes,” Romney said. When asked to explain further, Romney said it could be that slump-Trump’s not as wealthy as he claims, that he’s not paying the amount of taxes others would expect, or that his donations to veterans groups were lacking in previous years.        http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/02/25/romney-claims-bombshell-in-trump-taxes-heres-trumps-blunt-response-309847
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Two Scandals on Hold as Presidential Primaries Unfold
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ It appears that, with only one week left until Super Tuesday, the mainstream media are content with the slow pace of the various investigations into Hilly Clinton’s malfeasance. Come March 15, over half of the states will have voted for their favorite primary candidates. Yet the FBI investigation into Mrs. Clinton’s email server and her handling of classified material, along with the House Select Committee’s Benghazi investigation, may be going nowhere.
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“Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy [SC] has said he hopes to wrap up interviews with witnesses in February,” reported Sarah Westwood for The Washington Examiner on February 18. “His committee will then release a highly-anticipated report on its findings.”
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But that report may not effectively tell the story of Benghazi if, as Gowdy says, he is going to allow his audience to draw their own conclusions. “It’s not my job to tell you what happened,” said Gowdy on the Don Smith radio show. “It’s my job to tell you what the witnesses say. I wasn’t there.”
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Gowdy also said that he was “pleased and frankly proud” of the effort his committee had made that revealed to the public that Clinton was using a private server for all of her emails.
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However, the Select Committee wasn’t established so that its report would be issued by a stenographer. It was established to get to the truth of what happened, even if reporters and broadcasters alike dismiss the search for the truth as a “phony scandal.” So far, the committee does not appear to have interviewed outside experts—authoritative figures who could shine some light on the testimony of bureaucrats with ulterior motives.
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This committee also has a greater responsibility than to simply report what the witnesses said; it must also connect the dots, and draw conclusions. Then the Democratic minority on the committee can include a minority report.
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Similarly, it is the FBI’s job to compile evidence that could lead to an indictment of Hilly Clinton—not to let the evidence speak for itself, but to be woven into a convincing narrative outlining the case for legal action. If there is no such evidence, then Mrs. Clinton deserves that the government lift that cloud of suspicion while primary voters consider their options.
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It remains important that the Select Committee tell a true and convincing story about the events in Benghazi without getting bogged down in the unnecessary search for additional smoking guns.
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The Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) laid out the big picture of what happened in Benghazi—and the period leading up to it—nearly two years ago in its April 2014 interim report, and additional evidence has since validated our findings. It has been made abundantly clear that both Hilly Clinton and Barack nObama deceived the public by blaming the attacks on a YouTube video while knowing these attacks were perpetrated by terrorists; it is also readily apparent that the United States failed to send available military forces to aid those in Libya. And that is just scratching the surface.
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We understand that the nObama administration has stonewalled and slow-walked the Select Committee’s investigation. But at some point the Select Committee must go with what they’ve got. When will Congressman Gowdy release his committee’s report? Will it be after more than half of the United States loses the opportunity to cast an educated vote?
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Worse still is the nObama administration’s ongoing interference into the FBI investigation of Clinton’s email server and possible corruption. Fox News’ Catherine Herridge reported in January that the FBI and Justice Department became “super pissed off” when the White House made public comments about Clinton not being a target of the investigation.
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“What I know that some officials over there have said is that she is not a target of the investigation, so that an indictment does not seem to be the direction that it’s trending,” announced Press Secretary Josh Earnest at the time. “But I’m certainly not going to weigh in on a decision or in that process in any way. That is a decision to be made solely by independent prosecutors but again, based on what we know from the Department of Justice, it does not seem to be headed in that direction.”
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This isn’t the first time that the nObama administration has improperly prejudged an ongoing investigation. The Associated Press (AP) has previously compared nObama to former President Richard Nixon, citing examples of both of them speaking out and declaring defendants guilty of murder. In Nixon’s case it was Charles Manson; in nObama’s it was Khalid Sheikh Mohammad.
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President nObama has also come very close to endorsing Mrs. Clinton. “She is my friend. She would make an excellent president,” said President nObama last year,according to The Washington Post. In his February 16 remarks, the President referred to former Secretary Clinton as “an outstanding secretary of state” without making a similar compliment about socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders (I-VT). Just last month the White House had insisted it wasn’t going to endorse a Democratic primary candidate.
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That Post article fails to mention the gravity of a president nearly endorsing a candidate who may face criminal charges.
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This comes at a time when, as the Los Angeles Times is reporting, Mrs. Clinton’s campaign is struggling financially, writing, “Clinton finds herself under financial stress.” Maybe the Clinton Foundation could loan the campaign a billion dollars, thus cutting its size in half. Or the campaign could draw on the other billion the Clintons have collected, as reported by The Washington Post, for “the Clintons’ political races and legal defense fund.” The Post article is titled, “Two Clintons. 41 Years. $3 Billion.”
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Some on the left are starting to panic that Mrs. Clinton will win the nomination and take the Democratic Party down to defeat. Salon, one of the far-left’s favorite websites, argued in a piece this past weekend titled “Hilly Clinton Just Can’t Win,” that “Bernie Sanders is the only Democratic candidate capable of winning the White House in 2016. Please name the last person to win the presidency alongside an ongoing FBI investigation, negative favorability ratings, questions about character linked to continual flip-flops, a dubious money trail of donors, and the genuine contempt of the rival political party. In reality, Clinton is a liability to Democrats, and certainly not the person capable of ensuring liberal Supreme Court nominees and President nObama’s legacy.”
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With 150 agents working on one of the FBI’s cases against Mrs. Clinton, it seems incumbent upon the Bureau to push the Justice Department to indict Hilly Clinton if it finds the corruption it is searching for. And, given recent evidence, it seems unlikely that the agency could do anything but charge her with mishandling classified information.
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Mrs. Clinton’s main defense has been that the information from her emails now deemed classified wasn’t marked as classified at the time. However, in 2011 Secretary of State Clinton instructed an aide, Jake Sullivan, to remove the classified markings before sending information to her private, unsecured email. Besides, it doesn’t matter legally whether this information was marked classified or not. That is a smokescreen. It is her professional obligation to recognize classified material.
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Yet President nObama has already put his finger on the scale of justice, asserting that Clinton’s email server “is not a situation in which America’s national security was endangered.”
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FBI Director James Comey faces a politically untenable choice—to pursue a case against the President’s wishes or to tarnish the impartiality of the law. Comey has a reputation as a straight-shooter to the extent that if he makes a criminal referral to the Department of Justice and they don’t act on it, he might well go public, or resign. Time will tell.
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These two investigations—along with the State Department’s probe into potential conflicts of interest between the Clinton Foundation and Mrs. Clinton’s actions as secretary of state—should have been done by the end of last year, well before we got this far down the road of the presidential primaries. In both cases these investigations reflect upon the nObama administration as well as on Mrs. Clinton. Yet as each entity—the Select Committee and the FBI—wait to issue their reports, the findings in both cases will be seen by large segments of the population as primarily political. That is, unless Hilly is somehow exonerated. Then the mainstream media will assure us that they knew all along that these investigations were nothing but politics from the start.
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Friday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 26, 2016 at 7:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
slump-Trump, Sanders and 
the American Rebellion
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 Debunking the Latest Sea Level Scare  
Well, so much for sleeping a little easier knowing the earth naturally curbs rising ocean levels by soaking up water like a sponge. Yet another new study says that man-made global warming is causing oceans to rise at an unprecedented rate. As summarized in USA Today, "Global sea levels stayed fairly steady for about 3,000 years. Then, with the Industrial Revolution, global sea levels began to rise, the study said. Scientists say the seas rose 5.5 inches from 1900 to 2000, a significant increase, especially for low-lying coastal areas." That combined with projections of even swifter ocean level rise has alarmists very concerned that our coastal cities will soon be submerged.
          But before you begin work on an ark, read the response meteorologist Joe Bastardi had in an email to The Patriot Post: "When I moved to New Jersey in 1965, after the '62 storm, there was fear the barrier islands would be gone by 2000. Well, they aren't. There is constant shifting going on and a 4-8 inch rise in a century is well within natural bounds. Greenland and Antarctica are fine overall." The more important question, he posits, is how were sea levels being measured 50 years ago? Were the same methods used then as they are today? "The PDO/AMO shift coming will retard" the sea level rise, Bastardi says. "When they are warm, as they are now, sea levels are higher." In other words, just like the earth sponge study showed, it's all part of earth's design. 
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 Barack nObama: Another Castro Brother 
Barack nObama has always gravitated toward the worst of humanity, being an apologist and a cheerleader for them, accommodating them and seeking to expand their influence. His upcoming trip to Cuba is par for the course.
          He got his political start in the home of radial leftist domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dorhn. Frank Marshall Davis, a devout communist (and likely pedophile), was a father figure to him. His mother, father and stepfather all hated America. In his autobiography "Dreams From My Father," nObama spoke of how, as a college student, he gravitated toward Marxist professors and leftist radicals.
          Before he ran for president, he spent two decades in the church of the racist, hate-spewing Jeremiah "G-D America" Wright. After being elected president, nObama canceled a missile defense system with our Eastern European allies that would have protected them from Russian aggression. When Iranians took to the streets in peaceful protest following the rigged election of hardliner Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, nObama was virtually silent as Iranian police and the Basij (paramilitary) clubbed, kicked, beat, and shot the demonstrators.
          Deeply embedded in his ideological DNA, nObama has followed this pattern throughout his presidency. So it was disgusting, but not all surprising, when nObama in 2014 announced that he was reversing decades of U.S. policy regarding the murderous, communist Castro regime, and re-opening the U.S. embassy in Havana as part of a resumption of diplomatic relations. This week, nObama announced that he would be the first U.S. president to visit Cuba since President Calvin Coolidge in 1928 — though that was under far different circumstances.  -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Walter Williams: "The first law of thermodynamics, translated into plain English, states that 'there is no such thing as a free lunch.' Conservation of energy is a basic law of physics that cannot be violated. ... Tyrants do not trust free markets and what they imply, voluntary exchange, because people acting voluntarily might not do what the tyrant thinks they should do. That is why they favor compulsion in the forms of tariffs and quotas to stifle peaceable, voluntary exchange with foreigners. By the way, some of the political obfuscation about foreign trade is lifted when we recognize that it is not really nations trading with one another. In other words, the U.S. Congress does not trade with the federal government of Mexico, England's or France's parliaments or Japan's Diet. It's individual Americans who, through private intermediaries, trade with: Mexican Ford manufacturers, English clothing manufacturers, French wine producers and Japanese automakers. Too many Americans believe in the possibility of a free lunch. Politicians exploit that gullibility. The unpleasant task of a good economist is to teach that fundamental principle: One cannot get something for nothing."   -The Patriot Post
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Rubio Part Of OUTLAW Govt Violating 
Our Laws, Constitution
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{rickwells.us} ~ Lou Dobbs starts off by asking Senator Sessions about one of the countless instances in which this country under the criminal nObama administration is not following the law in their handling of illegal aliens... the dumping of 90,000 dangerous criminal illegals back onto our streets. Senator  Sessions describes it as unbelievable and shocking what has been happening to our country, saying “This administration has devastated law enforcement.” He points out that “The Ice Officers, the federal law officers, sued their supervisors and the administration, in effect saying, ‘You have caused us to violate our oaths to enforce the law.’ They are being told by policies and regulations and executive orders throughout this entire system that makes it virtually impossible to create a lawful system of immigration.” Dobbs brings up the dispute between Chris Crane and Senator Marco Rubio. Crane was snubbed during the gang of eight push by Rubio, who has since attempted to discredit him and deny the facts once the public became aware of Rubio’s duplicity.        http://rickwells.us/archives/26477
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Libya disaster: Have Western 
leaders learned anything?
Pete Hoekstra
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{aim.org} ~ That the U.S. has launched airstrikes against ISIS in Libya should demonstrate once and for all the total disaster of the NATO-led adventure to overthrow Muammar al-Qaddafi in 2011... Libya devolved into a failed state when NATO assisted Qaddafi’s radical jihadist opponents in killing him and then promptly abandoned the country. Left in the wake were two rival governments competing for power, which created space for Islamists to turn Libya into a cesspool of extremism. Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton continues to call the debacle American “smart power at its best.” Other presidential candidates still argue that it was the right thing to do. How will the West ever learn anything if it can’t identify its most obvious failures?     http://www.aim.org/guest-column/libya-disaster-have-western-leaders-learned-anything/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022416&utm_medium=email
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White Folks Gonna Have To Give Up Stuff,
Sacrifice – For Black Lives Matter
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Marissa Jenae Johnson
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{rickwells.us} ~ With arguments consistent with those of the race-baiters Hussein nObama and Eric Holder, Black Lives Matter co-founder Marissa Johnson blames white people for everything that’s wrong with her life... When she can’t deal with reality it’s because her reality is too hard. There are lots of white people going hungry; her life seems to be much easier than theirs. She doesn’t want a real reality, she wants a separate, on demand, “more fair reality,” crafted for her by a redistributive Marxist government. She claims that it is white people who are to blame for creating the conditions that “require” a phrase like black lives matter. It’s not because the phrase “I’m getting up off my whiny, lazy butt and gonna stop feeling sorry for myself” was already taken, it’s because they want something for nothing. Work involves eh…work. The over-acting agitator asks, “Do you know what I’d give to live in a world where I didn’t have to say black lives matter? Do you know how horrific it is to grow up as a child in a world that so hates you that you have to literally say to other people, ‘my life matters?’” She mocks a response of the “white people” saying that every life matters and then complains that blacks are being shot in the streets or being rounded up and mass incarcerated.        http://rickwells.us/archives/26486
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SCOTUS Justice Smacks nObama 
HARD With Inconvenient Truth 
About Scalia Vacancy
V Saxena
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{conservativetribune.com} ~ Speaking at the Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., this Tuesday, Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito explained exactly what the vacancy spawned by late Justice Antonin Scalia’s death meant for the court.... “We will deal with it,” he bluntly told an audience of  law students, according to Associated Press. He added that the court has in the past functioned just fine with a reduced number of members and that the Constitution does not mandate that the court maintain a certain size.        http://conservativetribune.com/scotus-justice-smacks-obama/?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=MailChimp&utm_content=featured-stories&utm_campaign=DailyEmail02.24.16&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Conservative%20Tribune%20-%20Daily%20Newsletter%202242016&utm_content=Conservative%20Tribune%20-%20Daily%20Newsletter%202242016+CID_0234b8b5af9569b55a1548cb3ad8424c&utm_source=CampaignMonitor&utm_term=SCOTUS%20Justice%20Smacks%20Obama%20HARD%20With%20Inconvenient%20Truth%20About%20Scalia%20Vacancy
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Gitmo Propaganda Is A Myth nObama Is
Using For Political Advantage
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{rickwells.us} ~ General Jack Keane gives Hussein nObama the benefit of the doubt that he’s only misguided or misinformed in his drive to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility... That’s pretty generous of the General, given that nObama has access to the most up to the minute intelligence. Even better than that, he can have it specially written for him when the truth doesn’t fit his needs. The chances that he’s simply mistaken aren’t very good. Keane says of nObama, “Well certainly he has very strong feelings about closing it and he did back in 2007 when he first mentioned it. But the reality is the assumptions upon which he’s making that judgment; the world has changed so dramatically.” He notes, “Radical Islam is morphing into a global jihad; it’s on the rise. We have to have someplace to put people who are in this very special category as terrorists, who don’t qualify as POWs because they’re not representing a nation state and yet cannot fulfill all the requirements of evidence to enter into the judicial system.        http://rickwells.us/archives/26501
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slump-Trump Tells YUGE Lie
About Position On Federal Land
Renee Nal
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ The unconstitutional land grab predominantly in the west by the federal government goes against everything that the founding fathers wanted to achieve with the American experiment... An effort from the 1970’s and 80’s to return the land to the states called the Sagebrush Rebellion was very much justified and Ronald Reagan  even claimed himself to be a rebel. Last year, in an article titled “The Republican war on parks,” MSNBC slammed Ted Cruz for his amendment “that would cap federal land ownership, and transfer any excess land to state taxpayers.” Donald slump-Trump, who has taken fire for his own abuse of land in the form of unconstitutional use of eminent domain, does not trust the states to be stewards of their own land, as revealed at The Right Scoop. Here is the relevant portion of an interview from Field & Stream from just last month:   http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/02/watch-trump-tells-yuge-lie-about-position-on-federal-land-video/
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Sessions Exposes DHS’ – 97% Stay –
“Just Don’t Show Up At Court” Policy
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{rickwells.us} ~ During hearings in which the DHS policies towards children  are being examined, Senator Jeff Sessions sliced beyond the baloney that every member of DHS that testifies seems to have been coached in the exact same manner to serve up... They don’t admit to failing to do anything, they claim to be doing everything, and they provide evidence of virtually nothing. Senator Sessions states for the record that dealing with children is a sensitive issue, one in which we need to ensure that we are doing the right thing in “how we handle this subset of illegal immigration.” He says, “Most immigration, illegal, is adults but we’re focusing on this particular area. He continues, “And particularly, this dramatic alteration of the immigration flow from Central America where large numbers of unaccompanied children are arriving in our country.”        http://rickwells.us/archives/26509 
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Atheists Might Convert In Droves After They See
What Was Found In Israel
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{teapartyupdate.com} ~ Unlike agnostics, who say they’re not Christians because they’re just not sure about the whole believing in God thing, Atheists refuse to believe because of a lack of proof... While extra proof of Jesus’ existence isn’t necessary to validate the deity of God or the nature of Christianity, archaeological discoveries always add more to the historicity of the Bible. Some of those finds? The tomb of Jesus’ brother, James, which was found in 2002, and the ossuary of Caiaphas, which was discovered in 1990.  There’s a preponderance of evidence out there to help convince any atheist into belief. Perhaps you’ve heard of the book, A Case For Christ, written by Lee Strobel. http://teapartyupdate.com/atheists-might-convert-in-droves-after-they-see-what-was-found-in-israel/
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Clinton Spox Says Judge’s Decision on Email Scandal Is Part of Right-Wing Conspiracy — Then...
Jon Street
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{theblaze.com} ~ Hilly Clinton campaign manager Robby Mook said a federal judge’s ruling that Clinton and her top aides should be questioned under oath about the candidate’s private email server is part of the ring wing’s effort to hurt her chances of becoming president... he was then confronted with an inconvenient fact. Asked by CNN anchor Jake Tapper about the latest development in the months-long email scandal, Mook tried to dismiss the judge’s ruling as a “right-wing” group’s attempt to hurt Clinton’s chances of becoming president. Tapper was quick to point out that Judge Emmett Sullivan, who sits on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, was appointed by Clinton’s own husband, Bill Clinton. Right-Wing conspiracy - BALONEY!http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/02/23/clinton-spox-says-judges-decision-on-email-scandal-is-part-of-right-wing-conspiracy-then-news-anchor-drops-inconvenient-fact/
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House Committee Approves Bill Demanding
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John Rossomando
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{investigativeproject.org/} ~ The House Judiciary Committee passed a bill Wednesday calling on the State Department to classify the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist group by a 17-10 party-line vote... The GOP leadership under Speaker Paul Ryano supports the legislation, a high-ranking Republican source told the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT) on background. This makes floor passage more likely. The bill states that it is the "sense of Congress that the Muslim Brotherhood meets the criteria for classification as a foreign terrorist organization."        http://www.investigativeproject.org/5172/house-committee-approves-bill-demanding-mb-terror
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slump-Trump, Sanders and 
the American Rebellion
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{peggynoonan.com} ~ What is happening in American politics?
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We’re in the midst of a rebellion. The bottom and middle are pushing against the top. It’s a throwing off of old claims and it’s been going on for a while, but we’re seeing it more sharply after New Hampshire. This is not politics as usual, which by its nature is full of surprise. There’s something deep, suggestive, even epochal about what’s happening now.
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I have thought for some time that there’s a kind of soft French Revolution going on in America, with the angry and blocked beginning to push hard against an oblivious elite. It is not only political. Yes, it is about the Democratic National Committee, that house of hacks, and about a Republican establishment owned by the donor class. But establishment journalism, which for eight months has been simultaneously at Donald slump-Trump’s feet “Of course you can call us on your cell from the bathtub for your Sunday show interview!” and at his throat “slump-Trump supporters, many of whom are nativists and nationalists . . .” is being rebelled against too. Their old standing as guides and gatekeepers? Gone, and not only because of multiplying platforms. Gloria Steinem thought she owned feminism, thought she was feminism. She doesn’t and isn’t. The Clintons thought they owned the party—they don’t. Hedge-funders thought they owned the GOP. Too bad they forgot to buy the base!
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All this goes hand in hand with the general decline of America’s faith in its institutions. We feel less respect for almost all of them—the church, the professions, the presidency, the Supreme Court. The only formal national institution that continues to score high in terms of public respect 72% in the most recent Gallup poll is the military.
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A few years ago I gave a lecture to a class at West Point, the text of which was: You are entering the only U.S. institution left standing. Your prime responsibility throughout your careers will be to keep it respected. I then told them about the Dreyfus case. They had not heard of it. I explained how that scandal rocked public faith in a previously exalted institution, the French army, doing it and France lasting damage. And so your personal integrity is of the utmost importance, I said, as day by day that integrity creates the integrity of the military. The cadets actually listened to that part.
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I mention this to say we are in a precarious position in the U.S. with so many of our institutions going down. Many of those pushing against the system have no idea how precarious it is or what they will be destroying. Those defending it don’t know how precarious its position is or even what they’re defending, or why. But people lose respect for a reason.
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To New Hampshire: The rejection of the establishment’s preferred candidates in both major parties is a big moment. It is also understandable, the result of 15 years of failed presidencies. It is a gesture of rebuke toward the political class—move aside.
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It’s said this is the year of anger but there’s a kind of grim practicality to slump-Trump and Sanders supporters. They’re thinking: Let’s take a chance. Washington is incapable of reform or progress; it’s time to reach outside. Let’s take a chance on an old Brooklyn socialist. Let’s take a chance on the casino developer who talks on TV.
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In doing so, they accept a decline in traditional political standards. You don’t have to have a history of political effectiveness anymore; you don’t even have to have run for office! “You’re so weirdly outside the system, you may be what the system needs.”
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They are pouring their hope into uncertain vessels, and surely know it. Bernie Sanders is an actual radical: He would fundamentally change an economic system that imperfectly but for two centuries made America the wealthiest country in the history of the world. In the young his support is understandable: They have never been taught anything good about capitalism and in their lifetimes have seen it do nothing—nothing—to protect its own reputation.
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It is middle-aged Sanders supporters who are more interesting. They know what they’re turning their backs on. They know they’re throwing in the towel. My guess is they’re thinking something like: Don’t aim for great now, aim for safe. Terrorism, a world turning upside down, my kids won’t have it better—let’s just try to be safe, more communal.
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A shrewdness in Sanders and slump-Trump backers: They share one faith in Washington, and that is in its ability to wear anything down. They think it will moderate Bernie, take the edges off slump-Trump. For thus reason they don’t see their choices as so radical.
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As for Mr. slump-Trump, it is not without meaning that his supporters have had eight months to measure the cost of satisfying their anger by voting for him. In New Hampshire, 35% of the electorate decided that for all his drama and uncertainty they would back him.
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The mainstream journalistic mantra is that the GOP is succumbing to nativism, nationalism and the culture of celebrity. That allows them to avoid taking seriously Mr. slump-Trump’s issues: illegal immigration and Washington’s 15-year, bipartisan refusal to stop it; political correctness and how it is strangling a free people; and trade policies that have left the American working class displaced, adrift and denigrated. Mr. slump-Trump’s popularity is propelled by those issues and enabled by his celebrity.
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In winning, Donald slump-Trump threw over the GOP donor class. Political professionals don’t fully appreciate that, but normal Americans see it. They get that the guy with money just slapped silly the guys with money. Every hedge-fund billionaire donor should be blinking in pain. Some investment!
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This leads me to Citizens United. Conservatives applauded that Supreme Court decision because it allowed Republicans to counter the effect of union money that goes to Democrats. But Citizens United gave the rich too much sway in the GOP. The party was better off when it relied on Main Street. It meant they had to talk to Main Street.
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Mr. slump-Trump is a clever man with his finger on the pulse, but his political future depends on two big questions. The first is: Is he at all a good man? Underneath the foul mouthed flamboyance is he in it for America? The second: Is he fully stable? He acts like a nut, calling people bimbos, flying off the handle with grievances. Is he mature, reliable? Is he at all a steady hand?
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Political professionals think these are side questions. “Let’s accuse him of not being conservative!” But they are the issue. Because America doesn’t deliberately elect people it thinks base, not to mention crazy.
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Anyway, we are in some kind of moment. Congratulations to the establishments of both parties for getting us here. They are the authors of the rebellion; they are a prime thing being rebelled against.
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Connected to that, something I’ve noticed. In Washington there used to be a widespread cliché: “God protects drunks, children and the United States of America.” I’m in Washington a lot, and I’ve noticed no one says that anymore. They stopped 10 or 15 years ago. I wonder what that means.
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Thursday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 25, 2016 at 12:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
The Lie of Pro-Palestinian Activism
Caroline Glick
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 KNOWING WHERE THE BODIES AREN’T  BURIED   Nevada is a sparsely populated state filled with stories and legends of the Old West. One such legend involved the state’s prized accomplishment: Hoover Dam. Las Vegas Review-Journal brings us the story: “Southern Nevada legend has it that during the five years of Hoover Dam construction, some workers were killed on the job and accidentally buried in the dam’s cement structure. Ninety-six construction workers died constructing the historic dam from 1931 to 1936, according to a report from the United States Bureau of Reclamation. Over 100 additional dam workers died off the job from causes including pneumonia, meningitis and typhoid fever. But none of them could have been buried in the Hoover Dam itself, said Dennis McBride, director of the Nevada State Museum who once worked for the Bureau of Reclamation at the dam… ‘The forms were big enough that the concrete, that pore, would only come up maybe to about a worker’s ankles,’ McBride explained. ‘So there couldn’t have possibly been anyone buried.’” - Fox News
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 slump-Trump's Royal Flush 
Alternate headline: "Casino mogul wins gambling capital." Donald slump-Trump is on cruise control (or, if you prefer, Cruz control) and headed for the Republican nomination. His decisive 20-point win in Nevada is just the latest marker along that road. "Now we're winning, winning, winning the country," slump-Trump said in his victory speech, "and soon the country is going to start winning, winning, winning." That is the draw for gamblers, isn't it?
          True, Nevada is an outlier (that will lose its No. 4 position in the primaries in 2020), but slump-Trump barely even had to try to win the state where the tallest residential building bears his name. It almost goes without saying that slump-Trump's New York values play well in a state made famous by Sin City. While Marco Rubio (second place) and Ted Cruz (third) spent time and money in the Silver State, slump-Trump held two rallies. Two. And he won across pretty much every demographic and interest. He ran the table.
          One might say that's easier to do when your supporters are the poll workers. The odds are always in favor of the house, after all. But voter fraud isn't why slump-Trump won. No, this election cycle is, again, a perfect storm of anger, populist rhetoric and media adulation that slump-Trump has exploited expertly.
          Finally, after Tuesday, the theory that many, including us, have espoused — that slump-Trump can be stopped by unified opposition — is looking less certain. In short, that's because infighting has taken its toll. Cruz voters don't think Rubio is conservative (which is laughable), and Rubio voters don't think Cruz is honest or electable. Uniting the clans would be a herculean, if not impossible, task, and it's getting tougher every day to see a viable path for any non-slump-Trump.
          Now we move on to the 11 states voting on Super Tuesday, March 1. slump-Trump leads in every state but Texas.  -The Patriot Post
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 Senate GOP: We Won't Consider Any nObama  Nominee  In a letter to Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, the Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee said they will ignore any person Barack nObama nominates to fill the vacancy in the Supreme Court. "Because our decision is based on constitutional principle and born of a necessity to protect the will of the American people, this committee will not hold hearings on any Supreme Court nominee until after our next president is sworn in on Jan.20, 2017," the 11 senators wrote.
          Republicans are winning nObama's political battle over constitutional powers by opting not to play. As Sen. Orrin Hatch said, by cracking the door through signaling the judiciary committee might hold a hearing for an nObama nominee, it would only create more political posturing instead of answering a constitutional question. The principled stand comes with risk, though. A Pew poll found only 38% of Americans think the Senate should suspend the judge search until after a new administration comes into the White House, and 10% of those Americans could change their mind based on who nObama nominates. With many GOP seats on the line in November, the Senate could flip to Democrats.
          In making this decision, the senators pointed to the precedent that no SCOTUS judge was appointed during the final months of a lame duck presidency since 1932. They also threw the hypocritical words Democrats  made in the past arguing for the blockage of Republican nominees back into their faces. The letter cited the words Sen. Harry dinky-Reid said in 2005: "The duties of the Senate are set forth in the U.S. Constitution. Nowhere in that document does it say the Senate has a duty to give the presidential nominees a vote." Goose, meet gander. 
What the left is leaving out of the 
'free college' debate
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{aei.org} ~ It’s now an article of faith among progressives that public college should be free. Their logic is simple: Tuition is increasingly expensive, and high prices keep high school graduates from enrolling at all... cause some that do enroll to drop-out before earning a degree, and force students and families to take on student loan debt. Free college proponents argue that the only way out of this mess is via brute financial force: spend billions in federal and state money to lower tuition to zero. One of their favorite rhetorical tools in this and other social policy debates is to compare America, land of high tuition, to other countries that have publicly-funded free tuition. In a Washington Post op-ed from October of last year, for instance, 2016 presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders argued: “In Finland, Denmark, Ireland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden and Mexico, public colleges and universities remain tuition-free. They’re free throughout Germany, too. … The short answer is, it’s a mixed bag. But in general it doesn’t appear that free college countries are far ahead of those who charge tuition; and some free college countries lag behind. First, a caveat: Countries obviously differ dramatically in terms of the politics, public policies and culture, so isolating the effect of one policy isn’t possible. But if the relationship between free college and educational outcomes doesn’t run in the predicted direction, it at least encourages us to ask why.  https://www.aei.org/publication/dont-believe-in-free-college-as-a-panacea/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=022416
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What John Oliver Got Wrong 
About Abortion Laws
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John Oliver
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{dailysignal.com} ~ On Sunday, late night comedian John Oliver spent 16 minutes of his HBO show cracking jokes about abortion in a crass attempt to satirize reasonable state laws requiring abortion clinics to follow minimum health and safety standards... The brunt of Oliver’s mocking attack was aimed at a 2013 Texas law that iscurrently being reviewed by the Supreme Court. The law, known as H.B. 2, in part requires doctors performing abortions to have admitting privileges at nearby hospitals and abortion clinics to meet the same basic safety and cleanliness standards as other facilities that perform invasive outpatient procedures. Regulations like H.B. 2 are common sense and much-needed policy measures. The dangerous, unsanitary conditions of Philadelphia late-term abortionist Kermit Gosnell’s “house of horrors” shocked the nation when they came to light during his 2013 murder trial.       http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/23/what-john-oliver-got-wrong-about-abortion-laws/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zNdO%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjPLHYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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Republicans on Judiciary Committee Slam Door
on Any nObama Supreme Court Nominee
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Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa
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{dailysignal.com} ~ All Republican members of the Senate Judiciary Committee promised Tuesday to block any candidate nominated by President Barack nObama to fill the Supreme Court seat vacated by the death of Justice Antonin Scalia... In an open letter to Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, the 11 Republican senators said they plan “to exercise our constitutional authority to withhold consent on any nominee to the Supreme Court submitted by this president.”  Under the leadership of Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, the group effectively has barred any nObama nominee to succeed Scalia from advancing to the Senate floor through the regular process.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/23/republicans-on-judiciary-committee-slam-door-on-any-obama-supreme-court-nominee/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zNdO%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjPLHYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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Hilly conspiracy to evade FOIA through server?
Judicial Watch gets to find out
William A. Jacobson
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ In a ruling sure to keep the Hilly Clinton email scandal alive through the summer, if not longer... a federal just has granted Judicial Watch the right to take discovery as to whether Hilly’s home server was part of an effort to evade the Freedom of Information (FOIA) law by shifting federal records off-site and into the sole control of Hilly, her attorney’s and consultants. We have been following Judicial Watch’s federal lawsuit seeking State Department records regarding Huma Abedin’s outside employment. The FOIA request giving rise to the suit also has given rise to much obfuscation by State, which even resulted in the Court ordering Hilly Clinton to provide a declaration under oath as to records. Given the difficulty of obtaining records, particularly in light of the destruction of at least some records maintained on Hilly’s home server, let Judicial Watch to seek discovery, including depositions of key officials. Such discovery is not routine in FOIA cases, and good cause needs to be shown to obtain discovery.        http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/02/hillary-conspiracy-to-evade-foia-through-server-judicial-watch-gets-to-find-out/
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Newly Released Documents Show
A Pattern Of Clinton Deception
Micah Morrison
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Aficionados of complex financial crime will want a look at a new, never-before-seen document obtained by Judicial Watch... Last month, Judicial Watch released 246 pages of previously undisclosed Office of Independent Counsel (OIC) internal memos on criminal charges against Hilly Clinton in the Whitewater investigation. On February 9, this reporter provided  more details on the case, based on a newly obtained confidential document. The document included a description of the case against Mrs. Clinton “in the legal terms of an indictment.” The new document, disclosed today by Judicial Watch, goes further. A thirty-two page OIC memo titled “HRC Order of Proof,” it spells out in great detail the evidence that would have been presented at Mrs. Clinton’s trial.        http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/22/why-whitewater-matters-newly-released-emails-show-a-pattern-of-clinton-deception/
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Iran Celebrates nObama Billions W/New
Bounty on Salman Rushdie
Daniel Greenfield
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Everyone knew that Iran was going to put nObama's billions to use financing terrorism, but I don't think anyone expected them to bring back that terror classic... But there's nothing like Muslims when it comes to grudges. The Sunnis and Shiites are still mad at each other over a thousand year grudge. So don't expect them to forget about Salman Rushdie anytime soon. Forty state-run Iranian media outlets have jointly offered a new $600,000 bounty for the death of British Indian author Salman Rushdie, according to the state-run Fars News Agency. Fars News Agency, which is closely affiliated with the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), was among the largest contributors. Next time anyone quotes Fars, here's a little reminder, it's an actual terrorist organization. So is the entire regime. The one nObama decided to pump billions into while Iran continues pursuing its nuclear weapons program.        http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261939/iran-celebrates-obama-billions-wnew-bounty-salman-daniel-greenfield
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War is Over, Prison Camp Closes
nObama’s closing Guantanamo shows again that he doesn’t even believe we’re in a war
Robert Spencer
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ Barack nObama announced Tuesday that he was finally fulfilling one of his foremost campaign promises and closing the Guantanamo Bay detention center... Usually the closing of a prison camp for enemy combatants signals the end of the war, and since nObama has never acknowledged that the U.S.’s defense against the global jihad is a war at all, it is fitting that he should end his presidency by closing the camp that so notoriously demonstrated otherwise. And besides, the jihadi leadership ranks need replenishing. Certainly nObama has replenished them a great deal already. With as many as thirty percent of prisoners freed from Gitmo returning to the jihad, one would think that the nObama administration would pause and consider their plan very carefully before releasing more or transferring them to far less secure prisons inside the United States. That is, administration officials would pause and consider if they had any genuine concern for national security, but it is increasingly clear that they do not. After all, in January, al-Qaeda bomb expert Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al-Sawah was released from Guantanamo. What could possibly go wrong? What benefit could jihad terrorists possibly get from a bomb expert? And just last week, Fox News reported: “When Ibrahim al Qosi was released from Guantanamo Bay in 2012, a lawyer for the former Usama bin Laden aide said he looked forward to living a life of peace in his native Sudan. Three years later, Qosi has emerged as a prominent voice of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, appearing in a number of AQAP propaganda videos — including a 50-minute lecture calling for the takeover of Saudi Arabia.” http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261933/war-over-prison-camp-closes-robert-spencer
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Speaker Ryano: 'We Are Making Legal
Preparations if the President 
Tries to Break the Law'
Susan Jones
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{cnsnews.com} ~ President nObama "can try" to go around Congress in his attempt to close the detention center at Guantanamo Bay Cuba, House Speaker Paul Ryano told news conference on Wednesday. "He has no authority to do so," Ryano added... Ryan reminded reporters that Congress voted overwhelmingly for the National Defense Authorization Act, which contains a provision saying the president may not move Guantanamo inmates to U.S. soil. "We are making legal preparations if the president tries to break the law," Ryano said. "And what boggles my mind, is that the president is contemplating directing the military to knowingly break the law. "Our law is really clear, and by the way, Democrats wrote this law when they were in the majority, when they ran Congress, which is, these detainees cannnot come to American soil. Open your eyes Ryano, he is doing it. http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/speaker-ryan-we-are-making-legal-preparations-case-obama-tries-break-law
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With GOP nomination looming,
slump-Trump is slated to take
witness stand in fraud trial
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{yahoo.com} ~ Here’s a part of the political calendar that nobody in the Republican Party seems to have noticed... This spring, just as the GOP nomination battle enters its final phase, frontrunner Donald slump-Trump could be forced to take time out for some unwanted personal business: He’s due to take the witness stand in a federal courtroom in San Diego, where he is being accused of running a financial fraud. In court filings last Friday, lawyers for both sides in a long-running civil lawsuit over the now defunct slump-Trump University named slump-Trump on their witness lists. That makes it all but certain that the reality-show star and international businessman will be forced to be grilled under oath over allegations in the lawsuit that he engaged in deceptive trade practices and scammed thousands of students who enrolled in his “university” courses in response to promises he would make them rich in the real estate market. Although the case has been winding its way through the courts for the past five years — and slump-Trump has denied all wrongdoing — the final pretrial conference is now slated for May 6, according to the latest pleadings in the case. No trial date has been set, but the judge has indicated his interest in moving the case forward, the pleadings show.       https://www.yahoo.com/politics/with-gop-nomination-looming-trump-slated-to-take-191550876.html?nhp=1
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U.S. general: nObama 'aiding 
and abetting the enemy'
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U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
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{wnd.com} ~ President nObama is urging Congress to approve the closing of the detention center at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, allow for the transfer of remaining detainees to the U.S. and try them in U.S. courts... In calling for the policy change, nObama said the move would save taxpayers money without compromising security. In fact, nObama argues that America is less safe because of the facility. “For many years, it’s been clear that the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our national security. It undermines it,” said nObama Tuesday. “This is not just my opinion. This is the opinion of many in our military. It’s counterproductive to our fight against terrorists because they use it as propaganda in their efforts to recruit.” Retired three-star U.S. Air Force Gen. Tom McInerney isn’t buying it.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/u-s-general-obama-aiding-and-abetting-the-enemy/
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The Lie of Pro-Palestinian Activism
Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Last Thursday, yet again, we learned that pro-Palestinian activists couldn’t care less about Palestinians.
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For them, the Palestinians whose rights they claim to champion are nothing more than means to another end.
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Our latest lesson came from the University of Chicago.
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Last week, Palestinian human rights activist Bassam Eid was abused and threatened by supposedly pro-Palestinian and pro-peace activists as he tried to inform his audience about the state of Palestinian human rights today.
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Bassam Eid has dedicated his life to defending the human rights of the Palestinians. From 1967 through 1994, Israel administered the population centers of Judea, Samaria and Gaza. From 1994, with the establishment of the Palestinian Authority until today, the Palestinians have been ruled by the PLO and Hamas.
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As a human rights activist, until 1994, Eid directed most of his criticisms against Israel. Since then, Eid has defended Palestinian human rights from abuse at the hands of the PLO and Hamas.
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Until 1994, Eid’s human rights activism made him the darling of the far Left. He was a co-director of B’tselem. He was invited to prestigious anti-Israel forums worldwide and given platforms where he presented his accusations against Israel to international acclaim.
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But since the PA was formed, those who once upheld him as a hero have turned their backs on him. In so doing, they have shown their true colors.
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During his talk at the University of Chicago, those colors came shining through.
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Eid talked about the human rights abuses and repression of Palestinians not at the hands of Israel, but at the hands of the PA and Hamas. In other words, Eid held the Palestinian leadership accountable for its failure to respect the rights of the Palestinians it claims to speak for.
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This, it turns out, is a big no-no.
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Eid was attacked by two distinct groups for daring to hold the Palestinian leadership accountable for its abuses of Palestinian human rights. In their collusion, we see the truth about those who proclaim their commitment to “justice for the Palestinians” on the one hand, and those who proclaim their devotion to “peace” on the other hand.
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The first group to attack him was Students for Justice in Palestine. In leading the assault on Eid, SJP members interrupted him, threatened him and demonized him.
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“You must never again speak about the Palestinians!,” some yelled in English at a man who has devoted his life to defending Palestinian rights.
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In the meantime, other SJP members reportedly threatened Eid in Arabic with physical violence.
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While revolting, the SJP activists’ behavior was not in the least surprising. Indeed, it was eminently predictable.
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All the SJP goons did was implement their hate group’s official tactics and strategy guidelines.
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In October 2014, the Amcha Initiative, which documents anti-Jewish campaigns on US university campuses, published an internal SJP document from SUNY Binghamton. The document, titled, “Declaration of Principles and Strategies of Binghamton University Students for Justice in Palestine,” laid out SJP’s goals and tactics and strategies for action.
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SJP’s goal is to demonize Israel and anyone who dares to stand up for Israel or support the Jewish state even tangentially.
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SJP accomplishes this goal by among other things pushing for a boycott of Israel and blackballing all groups that support Israel. Indeed, not only does SJP rule out cooperating with pro-Israel groups, it rejects cooperation with campus groups that cooperate with pro-Israel groups. That is, anyone who accepts that students have a right to support Israel is himself illegitimate.
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To make it impossible to defend Israel on campuses, SJP seeks to make any student who in any way supports Israel socially toxic for his fellow students.
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In other words, SJP’s goal is to treat Israel’s campus supporters as subhuman.
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As to its direct actions against pro-Israel speakers – or in Eid’s case, speakers that do not direct their attacks solely against Israel – the SJP SUNY Binghamton document instructs SJP members to disrupt and shut down such events on campus. Among other things, this goal is to be achieved through “political theater to protest the event,” as well as acts of “disruption.”
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SJP members at the University of Chicago, like their comrades who rioted and shut down former Shin Bet director Ami Ayalon’s speech at King’s College in London last month, and those that rioted in Chicago last month against a Shabbat reception held by an American Jewish-Israeli gay rights group at the National LGBTQ Task Force’ annual convention showed through their actions that they couldn’t care less about the Palestinians as people.
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And again, this apathy is inherent to their movement.
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The internal document from SUNY Binghamton makes clear that SJP doesn’t have a vision for Palestinian freedom. Rather, SJP will “support any and all visions of Palestinian liberation.”
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In other words, if “Palestine” is ultimately a liberal democracy or an Islamic theocracy is none of their business. Whether Palestinians end up with no rights, or full civil rights, is completely irrelevant.
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SJP is about one thing only – demonizing Israel and booting its supporters out of the public square.
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This then brings us their Jewish collaborators.
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Eid’s speech was abruptly adjourned after he was threatened by an SJP member during the question and answer session. But before it was adjourned, two self-identified Jews, one of whom introduced herself as a member of J Street Chicago – the University of Chicago branch of J Street – contributed to the hostile atmosphere by asking Eid the same question.
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Emma from J Street put it this way, “I hear from you... a lot of disappointment in your own leadership.
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I’m wondering what are you doing bringing this message to a room full of Americans, many of us Jews?” Emma from J Street continued, “Why do you think it is an important message to bring to us in particular...without sort of talking about the issues that the Americans need to base decision on like the occupation and settlements?” Got that? For J Street, Eid committed a crime by teaching the American public – and first and foremost, the American Jewish community – that the absence of peace isn’t entirely Israel’s fault.
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As Emma – and her Jewish comrade – see things this is completely unacceptable.
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There is a narrative. That narrative places all the blame for the absence of peace and Palestinian suffering on “the occupation and settlements.” Any deviation from this narrative is a crime against peace.
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Eid explained that for 68 years, the Palestinians have blamed Israel for all their suffering. He insisted that the time has come for the Palestinians to take responsibility for their actions and stop shirking that responsibility by blaming Israel for their own crimes.
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For forcing her to hear this calumny, Emma from J Street had no choice but to condemn him for the crime of deviating from the narrative.
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The final questioner, or protesters, as the case may be, failed to cite his affiliation. But he brought the two sides together.
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He demanded that Eid justify his decision to speak publicly about the Palestinians despite the fact that his speech “wasn’t sponsored by any Palestinian clubs on campus.”
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Both Arab and Jewish “pro-Palestinian” activists cheered him for his statement.
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Indeed, how dare he teach people who claim to care about the Palestinians about the Palestinians? How dare he say that Palestinians are people, and are not driven only by their collective hatred of Israel and rejection of its right to exist? How dare he mention that Palestinians have the right to work wherever they want and that Jews in Judea and Samaria aren’t inherently evil and actually provide livelihoods for thousands of Palestinians who work with them? How dare Eid come to University of Chicago and mention that neither Fatah nor Hamas have built governing institutions built on the notion that Palestinians have the right to freedom, but rather they have built institution geared toward forcing the Palestinians to seek Israel’s destruction, while trampling their human rights? How dare he not bow and scrape before SJP and accept its positions as a condition for speaking on campus? And so, once again, last Thursday we learned the big lie at the heart of the supposedly pro-Palestinian movement. None of its members – whether from SJP, J Street, or any of their comrades – care about the Palestinians or their rights.
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All they care about is attacking Israel.
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None of this is new information. It’s been obvious for several years now that the pro-Palestinian movement is merely a means to demonize Israel and its supporters. The only real question at this point is what is it going to take for US law enforcement bodies, legislatures and university administrations to finally take action against these hate groups, to the benefit of Palestinians, Israel and the cause of human rights?
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Thursday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 25, 2016 at 8:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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The Lure of Socialism
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 FBI Had a Way to Circumvent Farook's  Passcode  Amidst the FBI's demands that Apple create software to break the security the tech company engineered into the iPhone, the under reported fact is that the government bungled its initial attempts to access the cell phone the San Bernardino County Health Department gave to eventual terrorist Syed Farook. The first mistake was the county didn't set up the phone so that it had administrative access over the device. If it had taken that preemptive step, investigators could have easily gathered everything the phone could provide.
          The second mistake was hours after the shooting when San Bernardino, working with the FBI, reset the phone's iCloud password, allowing investigators to see the data the phone was automatically backing up to a remote location on Apple's servers. Problem was, the last time the phone updated to iCloud was on Oct. 19 — weeks before the Dec. 2 shooting. There was information still on the phone. Investigators [could have teased that information from the phone by turning on the phone's automatic updates, going to a location frequented by Farook and the device would have automatically sent information to iCloud. Voilà! With the recent information in the cloud, then investigators could have reset Farook's iCloud password. Instead, the government is trying to force Apple to destroy the security protocols it has built into its current devices because a series of government mistakes.
          "Do we have freedom of speech, or freedom to speak only what law-enforcement can monitor?" wrote National Review's Andrew McCarthy. "Does the Fourth Amendment guarantee freedom from unreasonable searches, or afford only whatever expectation of privacy the government, not the society, decides is reasonable — and cabined by what the government is technologically capable of searching?" What the FBI misses is that our rights are given by the Creator, not an incompetent mid-level bureaucrat.  -The Patriot Post
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 Who Loses VA Musical Chairs? Vets Do 
Instead of firing misbehaving administrators, the Department of Veterans Affairs simply shuffled the bureaucrats off to another VA hospital in another state. After crunching the data, the Daily Caller found that almost 100 VA administrators worked in at least three states over the last eight years — often at the cost of pay bumps and hefty relocation fees. When it comes to doctors or pharmacists, some of whom ran afoul with disciplinary or licensing issues, the VA simply played bureaucratic musical chairs, shuffling about 600 VA employees across the country. "Whatever the reasons," wrote Luke Rosiak, investigative journalist for The Caller, "Secretary Bob McDonald, who promised a transformation of the VA when he took over in 2014, is trying to fix past mistakes by moving around the same people who oversaw them, not bringing in new leaders." Recently, the Deputy Secretary for the VA Sloan Gibson said he stood by his decision to fire a VA medical center director in Albany, despite the decision being reversed by the department's Merit Systems Protection Board. The bureaucracy in the state-run health care system is entrenched, protecting its own at the expense of those it is supposed to serve — veterans.   -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Stephen Moore: "When I was a smart-aleck college student, I had a sign on my dorm-room door that read: 'Reality is for those who can't handle drugs.' Maybe the 2016 version should go like this: 'Bernie Sanders and socialism are for those who can't handle reality.' Socialism's comeback is mystifying to most clear-thinking people. Do people who support Sanders and socialism walk around with shutters over their eyes so they don't have to observe the reality of what is happening in the world around them? The remarkable thing about the rise of Bernie Sanders is that his popularity runs in the counter-direction to how socialism is actually working. ... Economic freedom is, of course, the opposite of socialism. Nations that are economically free have freer trade, smaller welfare states, lower taxes, a lighter hand with regulation, private ownership of the means of production and the rule of law. Countries that are economically free have five times the per capita average annual income ($55,000) of countries that are the least free ($9,000). Not only that, economic freedom is also highly correlated with better education, improved health and a cleaner environment. The poor do better in nations that are economically free and worse in Bernie Sanders land. In short, countries that are economically free are healthy, wealthy and wise. This reality seems to be lost on those high on the drug of socialism."   -The Patriot Post
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IDF Racing to Restructure Itself for 
New Middle East Warfare
Yaakov Lappin
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is in a race against time, and it is a race that is relevant to how other Western powers will also deal with the rise of radical, armed, Islamic groups proliferating across the Middle East... As the IDF's commanders look around the region, they see heavily armed, hybrid, Islamic sub-state foes that are replacing states. The traditional threat of hierarchical armies is fading quickly away, into obscurity. The Sunni and Shi'ite jihadist entities on Israel's borders – Hamas, Hizballah, ISIS-affiliated groups in Syria, Jabhat Al-Nusra, as well as elements of Iran's IRGC forces – are all building their power and preparing for a future unknown point in time when they will clash with Israel. The IDF is preparing, too, but it is not only counting how many soldiers, tanks, fighter planes, and artillery cannons it can call up in the next round. The IDF is in a race to adapt to 21st century Middle Eastern warfare, which bears no resemblance to how wars were fought in the 20th century. http://www.investigativeproject.org/5169/idf-racing-to-restructure-itself-for-new-middle
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nObama and Juan Williams Need a Lesson on the Constitution and the Facts 
on Judicial Nominations
Hans von Spakovsky and Elizabeth Slattery
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{theacru.org} ~ Someone should remind President nObama and Juan Williams what the Constitution actually says about confirming nominees. They seem unaware of how the process works... They also appear ignorant of the facts regarding the many judicial nominees the president has had confirmed over the past seven years. First of all, the claim by Juan Williams that race “has something to do” with Republicans’ supposedly not moving on President nObama’s appointments is completely false —- and the numbers prove it. The U.S. Senate has confirmed 321 individuals nominated to the federal bench during nObama’s presidency: 264 district court judges, 55 appeals-court judges, and two Supreme Court justices. That represents more than one third of the entire federal judiciary. At the same point in the term of President George W. Bush, only 296 federal judges had been confirmed. That included two Supreme Court justices, the same number as nObama has placed on the Court. When nObama took office, ten of the 13 federal circuit courts of appeals had a majority of judges appointed by Republican presidents; today, nine are majority Democratic.        http://www.theacru.org/obama-and-juan-williams-need-a-lesson-on-the-constitution-and-the-facts-on-judicial-nominations/
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The nObama Administration Wants to
Make Sure Non-Citizens Vote 
in the Upcoming Election
Hans von Spakovsky
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{theacru.org} ~ Several well-funded organizations —- including the League of Women Voters and the NAACP —- are fighting efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting illegally in the upcoming presidential election... And the United States Department of Justice, under the direction of Attorney General Loretta Lynch, is helping them. On February 12, these groups filed a lawsuit in D.C. federal court seeking to reverse a recent decision by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC). The Commission’s decision allows Kansas and other states, including Arizona and Georgia, to enforce state laws ensuring that only citizens register to vote when they use a federally designed registration form. An initial hearing in the case is set for Monday afternoon, February 22. Under federal law, the EAC is responsible for designing the federal voter-registration form required by the National Voter Registration Act, or Motor Voter, as it is commonly called. While states must register voters who use the federal form, states can ask the EAC to include instructions with the federal form about additional state registration requirements. Some states are now requiring satisfactory proof of citizenship to ensure that only citizens register to vote. Under Article I, Secion 2 and the Seventeenth Amendment to the Constitution, states have the power to set the “Qualification requisite for electors.” As with many issues, the Left disdains the balance the Framers adopted in the Constitution and objects to this delegation of power to the states. They prefer to see power over elector eligibility centralized in Washington, D.C.       http://www.theacru.org/the-obama-administration-wants-to-make-sure-non-citizens-vote-in-the-upcoming-election/
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Republicans on nObama's Gitmo Plan: 
'It Is Against the Law'
Sandy Fitzgerald
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{newsmax.com} ~ Republicans Tuesday struck out at President Barack nObama's long-promised plan to close the United States' detention center at Guantanamo Bay... with several insisting that his plan to transfer detainees to American soil is against the law. "After seven years, President nObama has yet to convince the American people that moving Guantanamo terrorists to our homeland is smart or safe," House Speaker Paul Ryan said shortly after nObama's announcement, and he doesn't seem interested in continuing to try." Further, said Ryan, nObama's extensive proposal "fails to provide critical details required by law, including the exact cost and location of an alternate detention facility. Congress has left no room for confusion. It is against the law — and it will stay against the law — to transfer terrorist detainees to American soil. We will not jeopardize our national security over a campaign promise." http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/republicans-obama-gitmo-plan/2016/02/23/id/715693/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1656555_02232016&s=al&dkt_nbr=wt7y9exg
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Stop China Buyout of Chicago Stock Exchange: Congressmen to nObama
 William F. Jasper
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ When the board of directors of the Chicago Stock Exchange announced on February 5 that it had “entered into a definitive agreement” to be purchased by a Chinese company, the statement received rather ho-hum treatment by the American mainstream media... most pointing out that the Chicago Stock Exchange is a bit player in the grand scheme of things, as compared to the volume of stock sales at the NASDAQ and the New York Stock Exchange. Bloomberg News, for instance, reported that the 134-year-old Chicago Stock Exchange “only handles about 0.5 percent of U.S. stock trading.” On a recent trading day, the Bloomberg  story noted, the NYSE “handled 31 times more trading volume” than its little brother bourse in Chicago, which “is a far less vital part of global finance.” However, not everyone is so nonchalant regarding the pending sale. “It is outrageous that a communist Chinese company — a front for the communist Chinese government — will be given access to trillions of dollars in the struggling US economy and secure information about US businesses,” says Congressman Walter Jones, a North Carolina Republican. “I strongly urge the nObama administration to investigate this firm and stop this purchase,” Rep. Jones said in a press statement released last week. Acquisition of the Chicago Stock Exchange by the Chongqing Casin Enterprise Group (CCEG) of China means, says Jones, that “a firm with ties to the communist Chinese government will have access to trillions of dollars in the US economy.  This access raises financial, economic, and cyber-security concerns.”        http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/22609-stop-china-buyout-of-chicago-stock-exchange-congressmen-to-obama
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Russia Wants to Fly Over the U.S. Using
Its Latest Spy Technology
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ According to the Associated Press, Russia is about to ask permission of the Open Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC) in Vienna, Austria, to fly its latest reconnaissance aircraft, the Tu-214ON (shown), over the United States... The airplane will have the latest in spy technology, including video, optical panoramic and framing cameras for daylight photography; infrared line scanners, giving it day/night capabilities; synthetic aperture radar, providing it day/night/all-weather capabilities, along with its “digital electro-optical sensor." Image quality, thanks to the latest digital technologies, will allow Russian analysts the ability to distinguish between a military tank and an 18-wheeler from miles above U.S. territory. It’s making U.S. military officials nervous. Admiral Cecil Haney, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, wrote: “The Treaty on Open Skies has become a critical component of Russia’s intelligence collection capability directed at the United States," adding: In addition to overflying military installations, Russian Open Skies flights can overfly and collect on Department of Defense and national security … critical infrastructure. The vulnerability exposed by exploitation of this data and the costs of mitigation of such exploitation are increasingly difficult to characterize.   http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/history/item/22599-russia-wants-to-fly-over-the-u-s-using-its-latest-spy-technology
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Watch Idiocy in Action on Behalf 
of the Government
S. Noble 
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{independentsentinel.com} ~ In New York City, the City Council is planning to allow public spitting and urinating on the city streets but if you dare to display foods more than four feet from your storefront, they will take your goods and destroy them... The pointless law is being ruthlessly enforced. What can you expect from a commie mayor and his commie sidekicks. Provided by Gary Schlesinger, CEO of ParCare Health & Medical Center, the raw footage shows New York City sanitation workers taking boxes of fresh fruits and vegetables and throwing them into a waiting garbage truck. Big Brother is alive and well in the Orwellian city of New York where the people once were free until they decided to vote their rights away and elect a communist to the highest office in the city. Thats why its so important in voting for the right person to be our leaders.         http://www.independentsentinel.com/watch-idiocy-in-action-on-behalf-of-the-government/
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PACOM Needs More Subs, Long-Range Missiles
To Counter Chinese Threats
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{news.usni.org} ~ China’s recent actions to militarize the South China Sea have changed the operational landscape, and the U.S. Pacific Command needs more attack submarines and long-range surface missiles to keep up with the evolving threat... PACOM commander Adm. Harry Harris told the Senate Armed Services Committee today. China’s 10,000-foot runway in the Spratly Islands, as well as the addition of surface-to-air missiles and high-frequency radar systems on the islands over the past week, are pushing regional partners closer to the U.S. military but also forcing PACOM to look at addressing the region differently. “I think China’s… surface-to-air missiles, on Woody Island; its radars, new radars on Cuarteron Reef over here; the runway, the 10,000-foot runway… on Fiery Cross Reef and other places; these are actions that are changing, in my opinion, the operational landscape in the South China Sea,” Harris told the senators. “The DF-21 ballistic missile, which they have, and the DF-26, which they are developing, could pose a threat to our carriers. I think, though, our carriers are resilient and we have the capability to do what has to be done”       http://news.usni.org/2016/02/23/harris-pacom-needs-more-subs-long-range-missiles-to-counter-chinese-threats?utm_source=USNI+News&utm_campaign=39fe9c0837-USNI_NEWS_DAILY&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_0dd4a1450b-39fe9c0837-231491269&mc_cid=39fe9c0837&mc_eid=3999f18767
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A Vote for Donald slump-Trump, 
Is a Vote for This….
Dave Hodges
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Is he for real? Will he survive his challenge to the autonomy and power of the globalists?
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ I am sorry, but I have to step off of the Fool’s Gold Express. slump-Trump cannot save this country, only God can... But please tell me, what has America done to deserve redemption in the eyes of God? Assuming we have an election in November, I am checking the box next to slump-Trumps name. However, I hold no illusion that my vote and our collective vote is going to change a thing. I am merely casting a symbolic vote. There is no question that Donald slump-Trump is saying some of the magic words that have been missing from the American lexicon for quite some time, like, “Let’s Make America Great Again”. In reality, if you think any candidate is going to accomplish this magic feat, you may as well save your campaign contributions and vote for Santa Claus.       http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/02/23/a-vote-for-donald-trump-is-a-vote-for-this/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=a-vote-for-donald-trump-is-a-vote-for-this
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How to tell which candidates understood
the financial crisis
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{aei.org} ~ Echoes of the 2008 financial crisis continue to reverberate through election year politics, regulatory policy discussions, and even Hollywood films like The Big Short... Below are five questions about the crisis that are currently receiving attention, and that presidential candidates should be equipped to answer, together with my own answers. The simplest way to think about the financial crisis is that the largest investment banks and commercial banks got into financial trouble by acquiring and holding risky mortgages or mortgage backed securities based on these risky loans. This was permitted for both of them before Glass-Steagall was “repealed,” and it was permitted afterward. In other words, if Glass-Steagall had never been touched by Congress in any way, the financial crisis would have unfolded exactly as it did in 2008. Calls to reinstate Glass-Steagall are disingenuous; many of those in Congress and elsewhere who back this idea know that it is a meaningless proposal, but also that their case for tighter regulation of the financial system is helped if they can claim some connection between reduced regulation and the financial crisis.        https://www.aei.org/publication/5-questions-every-presidential-candidate-should-answer-on-politics-and-the-financial-crisis/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=022416
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The Lure of Socialism
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{townhall.com} ~ Many people of mature years are amazed at how many young people have voted for Senator Bernie Sanders, and are enthusiastic about the socialism he preaches.
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Many of those older people have lived long enough to have seen socialism fail, time and again, in countries around the world. Venezuela, with all its rich oil resources, is currently on the verge of economic collapse, after its heady fling with socialism.
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But, most of the young have missed all that, and their dumbed-down education is far more likely to present the inspiring rhetoric of socialism than to present its dismal track record.
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Socialism is in fact a wonderful vision -- a world of the imagination far better than any place anywhere in the real world, at any time over the thousands of years of recorded history. Even many conservatives would probably prefer to live in such a world, if they thought it was possible.
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Who would not want to live in a world where college was free, along with many other things, and where government protected us from the shocks of life and guaranteed our happiness? It would be Disneyland for adults!
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Free college of course has an appeal to the young, especially those who have never studied economics. But college cannot possibly be free. It would not be free even if there was no such thing as money.
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Consider the costs of just one professor teaching just one course. He or she has probably spent more than 20 years being educated, from kindergarten to the Ph.D., before ending up standing in front of a class and trying to convey some of the knowledge picked up in all those years. That means being fed, clothed and housed all those years, along with other expenses.
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All the people who grew the food, manufactured the clothing and built the housing used by this one professor, for at least two decades, had to be compensated for their efforts, or those efforts would not continue. And of course someone has to produce food, clothing and shelter for all the students in this one course, as well as books, computers and other requirements or amenities.
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Add up all these costs -- and multiply by a hundred or so -- and you have a rough idea of what going to college costs. Whether these costs are paid by using money in a capitalist economy or by some other mechanism in a feudal economy, a socialist economy, or whatever, there are heavy costs to pay.
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Moreover, under any economic system, those costs are either going to be paid or there are not going to be any colleges. Money is just an artificial device for getting real things done.
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Those young people who understand this, whether clearly or vaguely, are not likely to be deterred from wanting socialism. Because what they really want is for somebody else to pay for their decision to go to college.
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A market economy is one in which whoever makes a decision is the one who pays for that decision. It forces people to be sure that what they want to do is really worth what it is going to cost.
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Even the existing subsidies of college have led many people to go to college who have very little interest in, or benefit from, going to college, except for enjoying the social scene while postponing adult responsibilities for a few years.
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Whether judging by test results, by number of hours per week devoted to studying or by on-campus interviews, it is clear that today's college students learn a lot less than college students once did. If college becomes "free," even more people can attend college without bothering to become educated and without acquiring any economically meaningful skills.
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More fundamentally, making all sorts of other things "free" means more of those things being wasted as well. Even worse, it means putting more and more of the decisions that shape our lives into the hands of politicians and bureaucrats who control the purse strings.
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nObamacare has given us a foretaste of what that means in reality, despite how wonderful it may sound in political rhetoric.
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Worst of all, government giveaways polarize society into segments, each trying to get what it wants at somebody else's expense, creating mutual bitterness that can tear a society apart. Some seem to blithely assume that "the rich" can be taxed to pay for what they want -- as if "the rich" don't see what is coming and take their wealth elsewhere.
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 24, 2016 at 7:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Clinton Email Scandal Gets Worse
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 Stumbling Toward War 
A spate of stories published last week all point in one troubling direction: America's adversaries have taken the measure of our commander in chief — and found him seriously wanting.
          We begin with the news that Russian President Vladimir Putin met with Iran Defense Minister Brigadier General Hossein Dehqan regarding the purchase of the S-300 air defense system and offensive weapons that include Moscow's most sophisticated T-90 tanks and Su-30 Flanker fighter jets. Thus one of the key provisions of the Iran nuclear deal, a.k.a. UN Resolution 2231 — requiring Tehran to get UN permission before acquiring "battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large calibre artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems" — is on the verge of being ignored. Adding insult to injury, Gen. Dehqan is believed to be the architect of the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed 241 American service members.
          Iran is also expected to thumb its nose at the same resolution this month when they test a Simorgh space launch vehicle characterized by U.S. officials as the basis of their covert program to develop long-range nuclear missiles. An unnamed State Department official who spoke with The Washington Free Beacon epitomized the administration's flaccid response to the prospect, declining to speculate as to whether such a launch would violate the agreement, but promising to address any Iranian actions "inconsistent with any relevant U.N. Security Council resolutions ... through the appropriate channels." Iran insists the space launch vehicle's 220 pound payload is too small to carry a first-generation nuclear warhead. The Beacon's Bill Gertz reveals otherwise: "Space launch technology is identical to long-range missile technology."
          And from whom is Iran getting the technological expertise for such an effort? An April exposé by Gertzreveals that while the nuclear negotiations with Iran were proceeding, North Korea supplied the mullahs with "several shipments of missile components" that also "appear to violate UN sanctions on both countries." That would be the very same North Korea that South Korea's National Intelligence Service (NIS) asserts is planning a terrorist attack orchestrated by Kim Jong Un. The same North Korea that launched a long-range rocket of its own this month — following January's test of hydrogen bomb components. 
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Peggy Noonan: "The closest you can come to public peace in resolving the question of Scalia's replacement is to take a step wholly unusual, even unprecedented, and let the American people make the decision themselves, this year, with their 2016 presidential vote. ... That they made the decision will allow people to accept the outcome more easily — either a real change in the ideological makeup of the court, or a court whose rough and not always predictable balance has been preserved. We take a swerve or stay where we are. But it will be the people who swerved or stayed. For President nObama to leave the Scalia replacement to the next president would be an act of prudence and democratic courtesy. ... There is something increasingly unappeasable in the left. This is something conservatives and others have come to fear, that progressives now accept no limits. We can't just have court-ordered legalized abortion across the land, we have to have it up to the point of birth, and taxpayers have to pay for it. It's not enough to win same-sex marriage, you've got to personally approve of it and if you publicly resist you'll be ruined. It's not enough that we have publicly funded contraceptives, the nuns have to provide them. This unappeasable spirit always turns to the courts to have its way."   -The Patriot Post
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 Democrat Double Standards 
To paraphrase William Shakespeare, the villany Democrats teach, Republicans will execute, and it shall go hard but they will better the instruction. It wasn't so long ago that the power was flipped in the Senate.
          George W. Bush controlled the White House and Democrats controlled the upper chamber from 2001 to 2003. Bush nominated 32 judges during that time. Not one of them even made it to the Judiciary Committee for a hearing. In 2005, Democrats — including Barack nObama, Joe loose lips-Biden, John hanoi-Kerry, Harry dinky-Reid and Hilly Clinton — filibustered the nomination of Samuel Alito. That same quintet is now leading the chorus calling for the Republican-controlled Senate to do its "constitutional duties" and rubber stamp whomever nObama nominates.
          When Bush had a year and six months left in his last term, Sen. Chuck Schumer said unless something extraordinary happened, the Senate shouldn't approve any Bush nominee. Going back to the last few weeks of George H.W Bush's administration, loose lips-Biden said Bush shouldn't nominate anyone until after the 1992 presidential election was completed — the same thing Republicans are saying to nObama. But now that he's co-captain in the Oval Office, loose lips-Biden conveniently insists that "lengthy speech on the Senate floor about a hypothetical vacancy on the Supreme Court" ... "is not an accurate description of my views on the subject."
          When members of the current administration occupied seats in the Senate, its views on the Senate's role in the nomination of a Supreme Court Justice was robust. After all, the Senate offers its consent and advice, per the Constitution. But the Democrats' interpretation of the Constitution changes with the political winds.
 -The Patriot Post
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FLASHBACK: Sen. loose lips-Biden Staunchly Advised Against Filling SCOTUS Vacancy During Election Year
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ In the hours and days after the death of conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, Democrats quickly raised their voices to condemn any Republican plan to block them from rushing to fill that most crucial vacancy... When Republicans suggested waiting until after the election, Democrats scoffed at them. But back in 1992 when Vice President Joe loose lips-Biden was a Delaware senator and chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee under President George H.W. Bush, he made a rather vociferous plea for President Bush to hold off on naming a nominee, if and when a vacancy arose, as a "majority of his predecessors" did. At the time of loose lips-Biden's remarks, there was no empty court seat. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/flashback-sen-biden-staunchly-advised-against-filling-scotus-vacancy-during-election-year
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Here’s Why Insurance Premiums Are ‘High and Rising’
for Obamacare Enrollees
Mariana Barillas
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Rising health insurance premiums under nObamacare will continue to hit Americans this year, according to a new report from the Congressional Budget Office... “High and rising premiums for private health insurance are a matter of concern for nObamacare enrollees. They also affect the federal budget, because the federal government subsidizes most premiums—directly or indirectly—at a cost of roughly $300 billion in fiscal year 2016,” the CBO said. The nonpartisan agency and the staff of Congress’ Joint Committee on Taxation projected that in 2016, “the average premium for an employment-based insurance plan will be about $6,400 for single coverage and about $15,500 for family coverage.”        http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/16/heres-why-insurance-premiums-are-high-and-rising-for-obamacare-enrollees/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zKe%2B%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjPLvYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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New Poll Confirms Democrats 
Okay With Socialism
Aleister
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ The term ‘socialist’ once was used as an epithet in American politics. Perhaps no more... In a year in which Bernie Sanders, a self-described ‘Democratic Socialist,’ is running a competitive primary campaign for the White House, a new survey finds that a healthy portion of Democratic primary voters are favorably inclined toward socialism. Nearly six-in-ten Democratic primary voters believe socialism has a ‘positive impact on society,’ according to polling conducted this month for the right-leaning issue advocacy group American Action Network and provided to POLITICO.
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World Council of Churches 
Demonizes Israel - Again
Thomas Smith
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The Lutheran Church of the Redeemer in Jerusalem, Israel
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ It was an impressive group of seasoned activists for Palestine who gathered for a ten-page prefabricated liturgy during an hour-long church service... The few people in the pews were to be sensitized about an alleged injustice to the Palestinian people: the supposed deprivation of rightful quantities of water by supposedly evil Israelis. In order to bring some action into this otherwise flow of distorted information, each participant got a cross of ash on his forehead -- possibly one of the few remnants of the Christian custom of Lent. In regular Lenten services, for seven weeks until Easter, solemn memories of divine mercy on the sinners of the world take center stage for Christians. But not in this liturgy. Center stage was instead given solemnly to committing a sin of evil speech: launching a lie about an Israeli-made water shortage suffered by Palestinians, a sin that all present were invited to commit daily for the next seven weeks; a sin in which all the member churches of the WCC are invited to participate. Those leaders of the Protestant churches, turned into political propagandists without even any hindrance, used the pulpit of Jerusalem unjustly to call upon the Protestant faithful worldwide to listen to Palestinian water libels against the State of Israel. This liturgy abused the biblical readings as a means of invigorating the equally false Kairos Palestine message, that Israel takes the Land of Palestine and has no right to be where it is.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7460/world-council-churches-israel
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Black Lives Matter Slams ‘Racist’ Library For Not
Barring Whites From Meetings
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ For months, the Nashville chapter of Black Lives Matter had been meeting at the North Branch Library in Nashville, Tennessee at the exclusion of white people... Library officials had assumed during that time that their meetings had been made open to the public, until one library customer alerted officials of a meeting advertisement indicating that white people were not invited. Library officials then notified the Black Lives Matter group of the public library’s policy about meetings, namely that they are to be open to the public and the news media, and the group may not exclude anyone. This news outraged the Black Lives Matter activists, and they decided to relocate to a Methodist church nearby where they reiterated that only “black or non-black people of color” were allowed to participate. They attributed the public library’s policy to “white supremacy in our local government.” http://lidblog.com/black-lives-matter-slams-racist-library-for-not-barring-whites-from-meetings/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=429be428f0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-429be428f0-291705165
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Almost 90,000 dangerous illegal immigrants go free
PAUL BEDARD
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Nearly 60 percent of illegal immigrants identified by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement as criminal threats are not deported and are eventually released... the latest example of the nObama administration's failed immigration policy. Internal ICE figures show that in fiscal 2015, the agency encountered 152,393 illegal immigrants labeled a criminal threat, mostly in jails, but charged 64,116. About another 88,000 were not processed for deportation, according to the Center for Immigration Studies' Jessica Vaughan. The numbers are even worse for those who ICE asks local police and sheriffs to detain but never collect. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/almost-90000-dangerous-illegal-immigrants-go-free/article/2583597
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nObama Makes Last-Ditch Effort 
to Close Gitmo
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{newsmax.com} ~ President Barack nObama released his long- awaited plan for closing the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba... saying transferring as many as 60 of the detainees captured during the war on terrorism would eliminate a recruiting tool for extremists and save the U.S. money. “For many years it’s been clear that our detention facility at Guantanamo Bay does not advance our fight against terrorism,” nObama said in a statement at the White House. The continued existence of the prison “doesn’t not advance our national security, it undermines it,’’ he said. The proposal, demanded by lawmakers who have resisted nObama’s attempts to close the facility, calls for spending up to $475 million to transfer 30 to 60 of the detainees to facilities in the U.S. There are 13 potential sites that could be used for the prisoners, but the plan outlined by the Pentagon doesn’t identify a specific location. nObama is undermining our national security.        http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/US-attacks-prison-justice/2016/02/23/id/715627/
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EPA Spends $15,000 to Give 
‘TrashWalls’ to the Poor
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The Environmental Protection Agency is investing nearly $15,000 to provide walls made out of trash to the poor to heat their homes and reduce their carbon footprints... The project is being financed through an EPA student design competition for “Sustainability Focusing on People, Prosperity and the Planet.” The program provides funding for college students to test green energy ideas. Past projects include a device to monitor how long hotel guests spend in the shower. Students at Washington State University came up with “TrashWalls.” The university received $14,798 in taxpayer funding to build insulation made from solid waste to combat what it calls the “perverse incentives” of renters having to pay utility bills.      http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-spends-15000-to-give-trashwalls-to-the-poor/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=b28bc8549e-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_23_162_22_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-b28bc8549e-45611665
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Hilly Clinton lying for 13 minutes straight
Bethany Blankley
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{constitution.com} ~ Youtube extraordinaire Michael Armstrong compiled thirteen minutes worth of flip-flops, contradictions, “mis-statements,” backtracking, and/or “lying” on a plethora of issues about which she supported, later didn’t and vise-versa, or might have or might not have opposed...        http://constitution.com/must-watch-video-13-minutes-of-hillary-contradicting-herself/
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Radical Canadian Imam: 
"Rome Will Be Conquered"
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ A radical Canadian imam called for Muslims to "look forward" as "Rome will be conquered," in a Friday sermon posted on the Internet on Feb. 16 and translated by the Middle East Monitoring Research Institute (MEMRI)... "The prophecies of the Prophet Muhammad came true. But some prophecies have not come true yet. Look forward to it, because the Prophet Muhammad said that Rome would be conquered! It will be conquered," preached Imam Shaban Sherif Mady. Mady, based in Edmonton, also spoke of restoring the "rightly-guided" Islamic Caliphate. His reference to conquering Rome mirrors a similar call by Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.        http://www.investigativeproject.org/5168/radical-canadian-imam-rome-will-be-conquered
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Clinton Email Scandal Gets Worse
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{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch does more than almost anyone else in DC to educate the public about the duplicity of high ranking government officials.  I have another extraordinary example of this in the Clinton email scandal.
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JW just recently obtained State Department records showing that the nObama agency asked Hilly Clinton to return emails in July 2014. This contradicts statements made in court that State only requested via a November 2014 letter a version of which was sent to several former secretaries of state that Mrs. Clinton return records to the State Department. Other new emails show the State Department has separate policies for handling the documents of State Department senior officials “and the rest of the department.”
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The emails are found in a batch of 189 pages of documents produced under court order in a major Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit specifically seeking all of Clinton’s emails and records about her email practices.
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An astonishing email from Cheryl Mills, Hilly Clinton’s former counselor and chief of staff, to David E. Wade, then-chief of staff to Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry, shows that the State Department asked for the Clinton emails in July 2014.
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Judicial Watch filed this new email with U.S. District Court Judge Emmett Sullivan, who is now considering whether to grant discovery in another JW lawsuit seeking information on the “special government employee” status of Huma Abedin. The court specifically asked the State Department about how and when it requested that Mrs. Clinton return records. In our latest court filing, Judicial Watch states:
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This Mills email indisputably shows that the State Department first asked Mrs. Clinton to return records as late as July 2014, not November 2014 as the State Department would have this Court and Judicial Watch believe.
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Hilly Clinton also misled the American people, as she suggested during her infamous March 2015 United Nations press statement that she turned over the emails only after a request in October 2014 and responded “right away.” In fact, these new emails show it took at least five months for her to turn over only half of the emails in question.
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Another email, on the heels of the initial Clinton email story in the New York Times, details how a top State Department official tried to allay the concerns of National Archivist Paul Wester about the Clinton email issue. Margaret Grafeld, deputy assistant secretary of global information systems, recounts to other top State Department officials a March 3, 2015, call with National Archives:
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I just had a very cordial 45 minute conversation with Paul Wester regarding the press coverage of the HRC email personal account and State records, focusing on State actions and those NARA will take today.
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I explained to Paul the environment in which State operates and the bifurcated management of records for principals vs the rest of the Department, as well as steps that M and others have initiated to ensure that we are compliant with laws and regulations.
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In short, we can expect a letter from Paul to me later today covering the alienation a legal term of art of the former Secretary’s records [Redacted] requesting an explanation both of what happened and what we are doing to remedy the situation. I requested that he cc M on the letter as the Senior Agency Official for Records Management, which shall be done.
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I will share the letter with you all as soon as I receive it.
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Don’t you love the phrase “bifurcated management of records for principals vs. the rest of the Department”!  That phrase is Orwellian bureaucratese for: “We treated Hilly Clinton as if she were above the law.”
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The special treatment of Hilly Clinton continued after she left the State Department. Another email suggests the State Department provided Mrs. Clinton’s lawyers with a “two drawer safe” in which to store classified emails from the Clinton email server. The documents also show that a report was to be prepared regarding security issues with the Clinton emails, which included a security inspection made of the Clinton lawyers’ offices. One related email states:
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Please ask the appropriate DS subject matter experts to contact Clinton lawyer Kathleen Turner to arrange for appointment to do a thorough security review to include physical security of area/safe in which document/electronic versions are being kept, who has access to the area/safe, do those individuals have appropriate clearances, when the electronic version is uploaded on a computer is it a stand-alone computer, when the disk/thumb drive is removed is any residual information deleted from the computer and any other appropriate questions. This review/inspection needs to be carried out as soon as possible.
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The records also show that, as of December 2, 2014, the Select Committee on Benghazi was still in the dark about the separate Clinton email system. Mrs. Clinton would return some of the requested emails to the State Department on December 5, 2014, but the Select Committee was not informed of this transaction until March 2015. In fact, a December 29, 2014, letter from Mr. Kendall responding to the December 2 request for documents simply refers to the Committee’s request to the State Department with no mention of the Clinton email transfer that took place over three weeks earlier.
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Last week, this same lawsuit produced records that included a State Department letter to Hilly Clinton’s lawyers that includes a list of classified records to be either deleted or returned to the State Department. In September 2015, Judicial Watch released State Department documents showing a nearly five-month gap in the emails that Clinton chose to return to the State Department. Shortly afterward, Judicial Watch released correspondence from Under Secretary of State for Management Patrick F. Kennedy asking Hilly Clinton’s lawyer, David Kendall, to destroy or return all copies of a classified email “forwarded by Jacob Sullivan to Secretary Clinton … Subject: Fw: FYI – Report of arrests – possible Benghazi connection.” Kendall rejected the request, as Congress and other investigators had demanded electronic records be preserved.  The correspondence also shows Hilly Clinton ignored a demand to turn over all electronic copies of the approximately 55,000 pages of emails she previously returned in paper form.
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The State Department and Mrs. Clinton have been misleading the American people, the Congress, and the courts about when the State Department asked her for the government emails she took with her when she left State. The new emails show that Hilly Clinton was specifically and separately asked for her government emails months earlier than what the State Department represented to the courts and what Clinton told the American people. These new documents ought to be of keen interest to the FBI and federal prosecutors investigating Hilly Clinton and her colleagues in the nObama administration.  Were the White House and John hanoi-Kerry in on this deception?
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You can see how the Clinton email controversy is only worsening. So as America waits for the FBI and a compromised Justice Department to act – and as Congress is completely AWOL – your JW is doing the work of getting to the truth about this truly historic scandal.
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Tuesday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 23, 2016 at 1:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
What a former head of the Mossad revealed 
that left me troubled but enlightened
Caroline B. Glick
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 Justice Scalia Laid to Rest 
The politics were subdued Saturday as the Scalia family laid their patriarch, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to rest. Yes, Liberty lost an articulate and bold defender and the political scrabble surrounding his replacement's nomination will be one for the history books, but the ceremony at the largest Catholic church in the country, Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception, focused on a great man and a higher truth.
          "We are gathered here because of one man," eulogized Rev. Paul Scalia, the son of the justice. "A man known personally to many of us, known only by reputation to even more. A man loved by many, scorned by others. A man known for great controversy, and for great compassion. That man, of course, is Jesus of Nazareth. It is He whom we proclaim. Jesus Christ, son of the father, born of the Virgin Mary, crucified, buried, risen, seated at the right hand of the Father. It is because of him. because of his life, death and resurrection that we do not mourn as those who have no hope, but in confidence we commend Antonin Scalia to the mercy of God."
          Washington elites such as AG Loretta Lynch, Joe loose lips-Biden and Chief Justice John Roberts filled the pews. But one man was noticeably absent: Barack nObama. He released a photo of himself carrying a thick binder with what he said were potential Supreme Court nominees that he would go through over the weekend. That was Friday. On Sunday, rain interrupted his golf game. Nothing better than scoring political points.  -The Patriot Post
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 The GOP Race and the nObama Effect 
The results from South Carolina are in with few surprises, unless perhaps it would be Marco Rubio's second-place finish after coming in a dismal fifth in New Hampshire. Ted Cruz came in third (though only about 1,000 votes behind Rubio) in a state that should have been tailor-made for him. Donald slump-Trump performed strongly despite praising nObamaCare and essentially calling the last Republican president a war criminal. Perhaps he can, as he recently boasted, "stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and [not] lose any voters."
          The slump-Trump Train remains impossible to derail until the field is down to two. Yes, Jeb Bush dropped out, but John Kasich and Ben Carson remain in the race, diluting the not-slump-Trump vote. As Rubio put it, "[O]ver 70% of Republicans nationally have basically said we're not voting for Donald slump-Trump. And as long as that 70% is being divided up ... of course he's the frontrunner." That's assuming slump-Trump has reached his ceiling. He's defied all conventional wisdom so far, but it does seem that 30-35% is his plateau in the primary. Until Rubio or Cruz bows out, slump-Trump has the clearest path to the nomination — followed by what at present appears to be a significant loss to Hilly Clinton.
          The trouble is that neither Rubio nor Cruz has any reason to leave the race yet. They virtually tied in South Carolina, and are polling neck-and-neck in Nevada (which votes Tuesday). Most unfortunately, they've spent most of their time in recent weeks attacking each other, which has made both of them less appealing.
          As we have said before, slump-Trump's card is the ace of anger affirmation — he's tapping into an entirely justified swell of frustration among voters. And for that, we can thank Barack nObama and the failure of the GOP establishment to effectively stop him. If slump-Trump wins the nomination, it may simply be the Republican establishment reaping what it sowed. That's all well and good, but we think it will ultimately lead to Clinton carrying on nObama's legacy from the White House. What will that have accomplished?  -The Patriot Post
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 Jeb! Loses All Energy to Continue Campaign 
With the results of the South Carolina primary placing him in fourth, Jeb!™ Bush dropped out of the GOP presidential primary, saying, "The presidency is bigger than any one person." Winning South Carolina was key to Bush's campaign. It was where his brother and father picked up their support in their races. But the possibility of a Bush family dynasty and the crass rhetoric of Donald slump-Trump doomed the former Florida governor's efforts.
          "I have had a front row seat to this office for much of my adult life," Bush said in the speech announcing the end of his campaign. "I have seen fallible men rise up to the challenges of our time, with humility, and clarity of purpose ... to make our nation safer, stronger, and freer. I firmly believe the American people must entrust this office to someone who understands that whoever holds it is the servant, not the master. Someone who will commit to that service with honor and decency."
          And with those comments, Bush demonstrated his respect for voters, the office and the process. As conservative blogger Rod Dreher wrote, it was Bush's good character that prevented him from stooping to slump-Trump's level. It was what made him, in part, appear "low energy." If it wasn't for the toxic name of "Bush," Jeb could have been one of the front runners in this primary. And despite not being the ideal candidate for 2016, his dropping out means there's one less man of character in the race.   -The Patriot Post
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U.S. Scrambles to Contain 
Growing ISIS Threat in Libya
ERIC SCHMITT
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Senegalese commandos during a recent United States-led training exercise in Senegal
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{mobile.nytimes.com} ~ The Islamic State’s branch in Libya is deepening its reach across a wide area of Africa, attracting new recruits from countries like Senegal that had been largely immune to the jihadist propaganda... and forcing the African authorities and their Western allies to increase efforts to combat the fast-moving threat. The American airstrikes in northwestern Libya on Friday, which demolished an Islamic State training camp and were aimed at a top Tunisian operative, underscore the problem, Western officials said. The more than three dozen suspected Islamic State fighters killed in the bombing were recruited from Tunisia and other African countries, officials said, and were believed to be rehearsing an attack against Western targets. Even as American intelligence agencies say the number of Islamic State fighters in Iraq and Syria has dropped to about 25,000 from a high of about 31,500, partly because of the United States-led air campaign there, the group’s ranks in Libya have roughly doubled in the same period, to about 6,500 fighters. More than a dozen American and allied officials spoke of their growing concern about the militant organization’s expanding reach from Libya and across Africa on rules of anonymity because the discussions involved intelligence and military planning.  http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/02/22/world/africa/us-scrambles-to-contain-growing-isis-threat-in-libya.html?referer=http://www.drudgereport.com/&_r=1
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White House slashed NYC terror funding to punish Schumer, former top cop says
DAN FRIEDMAN
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There's a certain amount vindictiveness on the part of Washington aimed at Sen. Chuck Schumer," Ray Kelly, New York City's police commissioner under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ New York City's former top cop said Sunday that the nObama administration cut funding to fight terrorism in the city to retaliate against Sen. Chuck Schumer for opposing a nuclear deal with Iran... "There's a certain amount vindictiveness on the part of Washington aimed at Sen. Chuck Schumer," Ray Kelly, New York City's police commissioner under former Mayor Michael Bloomberg, said in an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York. "Apparently they remember very well that Sen. Schumer did not support their Iran deal," Kelly said, arguing the proposed cut "was aimed at getting a reaction from Sen. Schumer." http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2583819
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Cruz: We Cannot Let This Guy Get Away
Lloyd Marcus
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ My wife Mary and I are in Nevada with our Conservative Campaign Committee team campaigning for Ted Cruz. We awoke this morning to snow. Mary asked me to walk several blocks from our hotel to Walgreen’s to pick up a few things... With my headset plugged into my smart phone, I listened to Ted Cruz’s press conference during my trek. Wow! Cruz’s brilliant bold performance at that press conference showcased why America desperately needs Ted Cruz in the White House. The MSM (Democrat operatives) tried to use nObama’s talking points to pressure Cruz and the GOP into allowing nObama to appoint a flaming liberal to the Supreme Court in his remaining months. Cruz did not fall for it. He firmly said no; not happening. Cruz went on to say: “And I believe we should make 2016 a referendum on the US Supreme Court. If the Democrats want to jam in a liberal judicial activist to undermine the First Amendment, to undermine the Second Amendment, to take away our religious liberty, we should make that an issue for the American people.”        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/02/cruz-we-cannot-let-this-guy-get-away/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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America’s second-worst charity 
agrees to shut down
Tampa Bay Times staff
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{revealnews.org} ~ Remember Cancer Fund of America? It came in at No. 2 on the list of America’s Worst Charities in 2013, when the Tampa Bay Times, The Center for Investigative Reporting and CNN teamed up to find the most wasteful charities in the country... Back then, here’s what we said about the charity: While Cancer Fund provides care packages that contain shampoo and toothbrushes, the people in charge have personally made millions of dollars and used donations as venture capital to build a charity empire. Less than 2 cents of every dollar raised has gone to direct cash aid for patients or families, records show. For years, Cancer Fund founder James T. Reynolds Sr. and his family have obscured that fact with accounting tricks, deceptive marketing campaigns and lies.        https://www.revealnews.org/blog/americas-second-worst-charity-agrees-to-shut-down/?utm_source=Reveal%20Newsletters&utm_campaign=3e5c69bbb0-The_Weekly_Reveal_02_15_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c38de7c444-3e5c69bbb0-229916753
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Here’s how California could be missing
pesticides’ cancer risk
Andrew Donohue
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{revealnews.org} ~ California’s pesticide police could be missing a serious health concern for residents and farm workers by failing to monitor what happens when pesticides get mixed together... As a new report from UCLA highlighted today, California studies only how each individual pesticide affects human health. Often, however, workers and residents are exposed to a number of pesticides at the same time. That can happen when pesticides get mixed together before they’re applied to fields or when different pesticides are used in the same field on the same day. A growing body of science is showing that the chemical cocktails could create greater health risks than each pesticide does on its own.       https://www.revealnews.org/blog/heres-how-california-could-be-missing-pesticides-cancer-risk/?utm_source=Reveal%20Newsletters&utm_campaign=3e5c69bbb0-The_Weekly_Reveal_02_15_16&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c38de7c444-3e5c69bbb0-229916753
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Trigger Warnings in Annapolis
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Midshipmen from the U.S. Naval Academy
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The immediate subject of Joanna Williams’s depressing but compellingly written chronicle of the threats to Anglo-American academia over the last several decades is the concerted attack... first by the professors themselves and now by students, against the academic freedom of the title. Academic freedom is the ability of the professorate to express, explore, and teach even those ideas that don’t happen to be cut to this decade’s fashions. Thus academic freedom and its enemies may seem initially to be a narrow issue, of interest to few outside the now dwindling number of tenured professors who thought they were free to follow truth, and who discover instead that they can be shouted down by colleagues or students who feel that what the professor is saying “supports oppression.” Even worse, in Williams’s view, are those who self-censor to get their writing published and gain advancement while avoiding disapproval. However, the issues Williams addresses are of far wider importance than the professional interests of academics. First of all, most of the people reading a review like this will have been students at such institutions, and now may well have children going to them or hoping to do so. Indeed many readers may themselves be associated with such institutions—so central to our national economic health that President nObama suggests that virtually all young people should, for their own benefit and that of the country, go to college. Universities matter to the nation.        http://freebeacon.com/culture/trigger-warnings-in-annapolis/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=465d68d2a1-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_22_162_21_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-465d68d2a1-45611665
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Congress Moves to Boost Investment 
in Israeli Technology
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An Iron Dome missile interceptor overlooking Haifa, Israel 
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Congress is seeking to boost U.S. investment in Israeli security technologies and other sectors in response to efforts by international anti-Israel groups to promote economic boycotts of the Jewish state... according to a copy of a measure obtained by the Washington Free Beacon. As lawmakers pave the way for U.S. states to divest taxpayer funds from anti-Israel companies, another group of legislators is pushing a measure that would encourage the nObama administration to invest in new Israeli technologies, including those that could prevent cyber security attacks and other national security threats. The latest measure comes in response to efforts by anti-Israel supporters of the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement, or BDS, to convince U.S. companies to stop operating in the Jewish state. http://freebeacon.com/issues/congress-moves-to-boost-economic-investment-in-israel/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=465d68d2a1-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_22_162_21_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-465d68d2a1-45611665
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Gowdy – Cummings Can’t Complain, He And
Dems Delayed Benghazi Hearings
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{rickwells.us} ~ Wolf Blitzer asks Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) to comment on remarks made by the ranking Democrat on his Benghazi  committee, Rep Elijah Cummings (D-MD)...  Blitzer asked Cummings the previous day’s broadcast, “Are you learning new information that’s going to be useful to the American public?” Cummings replied, “No, it’s the same rehashing of information we already know, period. I think the Republicans are trying to draw this out into the election. I think they’ll try to go probably until August or November if they can. But this has been dragged out too long, again, six million dollars we’ve spent already and counting. So it needs to be shut down and we need to move on.” Blitzer asks Gowdy, “Are you trying to drag it out until November as he suggests?” Gowdy replies, “No Wolf, we’d like to get it done as quickly as possible. If he would help just a little bit; he spent more time talking to you than he has the agencies trying to get us the documents we’re entitled to.”        http://rickwells.us/archives/26415
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Phone Fight with the Government Shows
How Apple Misled the Public
Fred Fleitz
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{aim.org} ~ The conflict that arose this week when Apple CEO Tim Cook said his company will resist a court order to provide the FBI with “reasonable technical assistance”... to break into an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino terrorists stunned many observers, because Apple was saying just a few months ago that the encryption on its latest smartphones was so secure that even Apple could not break it. But it turns out the FBI thought of a way to break into iPhones by having Apple disable a feature that destroys information on a phone if too many incorrect passcodes are entered. This reportedly would be done by Apple using its “master key” to update the phone’s operating-system software to disable this feature. Getting the information on this phone is crucial to U.S. national security. Its user, Syed Farook, likely was working with others in addition to his wife, Tashfeen Malik, in amassing what law enforcement called a bomb factory in their home. Farook and Malik both swore allegiance to ISIS. Questions need to be resolved as to whether the couple were involved in a broader terrorist conspiracy and whether they were in contact with ISIS members in Syria and Iraq.     http://www.aim.org/guest-column/phone-fight-with-the-government-shows-how-apple-misled-the-public/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022216&utm_medium=email
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What a former head of the Mossad revealed 
that left me troubled but enlightened
Caroline B. Glick
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Recently I found myself in a chance conversation with a former head of the Mossad’s Directorate of Operations. The former master spy, whom I had never met before, knew that I am a journalist.
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He was aware of my political views.
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Directing his remarks at a friend of mine, he declared that 99 percent of Mossad and Shin Bet officers are leftists. He then added triumphantly that according to a former commander of the air force whose name he cited, 99% of the air force’s pilots are similarly leftists.
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Initially, I dismissed his comments as obnoxious chest-beating by a man who felt like irritating a group of right-wingers.
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But given the source, it is impossible to simply brush off what he said. And to be clear, far more troubling than the prospect that Israel’s security establishment is uniformly leftist is the notion that there is any intellectual or ideological uniformity of any kind in the ranks of our defense community.
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But given our defense community’s record in recent years, there is ample reason to believe that there is more than a grain of salt in the spy chief’s boast.
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Consider Israel’s handling of Gaza.
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According to a number of senior officers, at the end of Operation Protective Edge in 2014, the IDF’s senior commanders convened in Tel Aviv to determine how to handle the Hamas regime going forward.
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During Protective Edge, Israel learned a few things about Hamas and about the strategic balance of power between Israel and Hamas in the region and the world.
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On the ground Israel learned that Hamas bases its offensive capabilities on civilian infrastructure.
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Hamas placed its missiles, its communications centers and its operational commands inside civilian buildings including private homes, hospitals, clinics, schools, mosques and UN offices.
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As far as the strategic balance and resources of both sides, during the war Hamas enjoyed the de facto backing of the nObama administration.
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Throughout the war, the administration pressured Israel to accept Hamas’s cease-fire terms as dictated by its state sponsors Qatar and Turkey.
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On the other hand, Israel was able to avoid bowing to the US’s pro-Hamas demands because throughout the conflict we enjoyed the open support of Egypt, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates.
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In other words, during the war, Israel discovered that Hamas’s military strategy was based entirely on an implicit alliance with the West, which attacked Israel for targeting Hamas’s military infrastructure, which, again, was all based in civilian structures.
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It might have been assumed that the IDF senior commanders would have based their post-war deliberations on these lessons. But according to senior IDF sources, that didn’t happen.
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At the outset of that postwar meeting, IDF commanders were told that Israel’s best option was to assist in the reconstruction of Gaza – that is, the reconstruction of Hamas’s civilian-based military machine.
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The discussion then moved to the question of how best to achieve that goal.
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The notion that Israel is best off when Gazans are not living in the streets is certainly a legitimate one.
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Perhaps it would have withstood scrutiny if it had been subjected to scrutiny. But it wasn’t.
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And in hindsight, it is obvious that it should have been.
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In keeping with the decision to support the reconstruction of Gaza, according to the Foreign Ministry, over the past year and a half Israel has permitted 3.4 million tons of building materials to be imported into Gaza. And yet, according to a recent report by the UN, 74% of the civilian buildings that were destroyed in Protective Edge have yet to be rebuilt.
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In the meantime, Hamas has replenished its missile stores and rebuilt its military infrastructure, including its subterranean attack tunnels that traverse the border into Israel.
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Both the continued suffering of the Gazans, and the sounds of drilling under the homes of Israelis living along the border with Gaza, indicate that at a minimum, the security establishment’s immediate post-war determination that Israel must permit building materials to enter Gaza was a bit hasty.
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Then there is Iran.
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Iran’s illicit nuclear program was first exposed in 2003. At the time, it probably made sense for Israel to follow the US’s lead in blocking Iran’s nuclear ambitions. But then, the Americans’ continued stumbles in Iraq made clear from as early as 2004 that perhaps the Bush administration wouldn’t be up to the challenge of blocking Iran’s path to the bomb.
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The early suspicions that then-president George W. Bush would not block Iran’s nuclear ambitions became an all-but certainty in the wake of the publication of the 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate.
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The NIE made the dubious claim that Iran had abandoned its military nuclear program in 2003.
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Despite the fact that the claim was contradicted by the report itself, in light of Bush’s political weakness at the end of his second term, the NIE rendered it politically impossible for Bush to order a military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations. It also made it politically possible for President Barack nObama to initiate his pro-Iranian Middle East policy a year later.
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As for nObama, despite his oft-stated claim that “all option remain on the table” for dealing with Iran’s nuclear program, any thought that he might be serious became patently absurd after he sided with the regime during the 2009 Green Revolution that followed its falsification of the results of the presidential elections.
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None of this, however, made an impression on the security brass. Led by the Mossad, for more than a decade our senior commanders insisted that Israel could trust the US on Iran.
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Last week Russia announced that it will sell Sukhoi Su-30 combat fighters to Iran. According to former senior Pentagon official Stephen Bryen, the sale will tip the strategic balance in the Persian Gulf in Iran’s favor and over time, give Iran “an answer to Israel’s air power.”
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Iran’s acquisition of the Su-30s is but one of a panoply of weapons deals the regime has signed with suppliers since the sanctions regime was canceled last month. These sales, together with Iran’s clear path to nuclear capabilities mean that Iran’s rise to the position of regional hegemon is unimpeded.
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This then brings us to Israel’s options, moving forward. Amazingly, it would seem that Israel continues to take its signals on Iran from the Americans.
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After all, at least on the surface, Israel’s security establishment and our political leaders seem most concerned today with concluding a deal for supplemental US military assistance in the wake of nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
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Perhaps a reassessment is overdue.
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If Iran’s empowerment is now more or less a done deal, then the nature of the regime becomes the central variable that it may still be possible to change.
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In the years that preceded the 2009 Green Revolution in Iran, a small group of former Mossad officers joined forces with a small group of American Iran experts in beseeching the government – and first and foremost the Mossad – to support the Iranian opposition in its bid to overthrow the regime. These calls were ratcheted up throughout the months of the Green Revolution in 2009 and early 2010.
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These Iran experts argued that all Israel needed to do was provide secure communications to the opposition to enable its members to organize effectively, and to broadcast their messages to the public in Iran through radio, television and Internet servers maintained abroad.
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Arming Iran’s many disaffected groups, including the Azeris, Baluchis, Kurds, Ahwaz Arabs, unions and women, wouldn’t be necessary, they said, although it certainly would be helpful. They argued further that from Israel’s perspective, helping the opposition made sense even if the opposition failed to overthrow the regime. After all, the more time the regime was forced to devote to fending off challenges from home, the less time it would have to wage its campaigns against Israel directly and through its terrorist proxies.
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These calls were dismissed out of hand by the security establishment. Our intelligence services in particular insisted that Israel could trust Washington to deal with Iran. Moreover, they maintained, Israel didn’t have a real dog in the fight over who leads Iran. This despite the fact that Israel is surprisingly popular among Iran’s citizenry, over a million of whom regularly listened to Voice of Israel Farsi broadcasts.
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Six years on, there is no doubt that regime opponents are weaker than they were on the eve of the Green Revolution. But even today in the wake of the nuclear deal, they are far from a spent force.
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The regime continues to fear the Iranian people – which continues to hate it – more than it fears anything else. This is why the regime rejected some 90% of the candidates running in the national elections later this month. This is why the regime outlawed every direct and indirect reference to Valentine’s Day this week.
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This is why politically driven arrests and executions have increased massively since the supposedly reformist president Hassan Rouhani came to power in 2013.
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THE NEED FOR the IDF to open itself up to unorthodox views manifested itself in a seemingly unrelated incident this week.
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On Sunday Channel 2 broadcast footage of IDF Chief Rabbi Brig.-Gen. Rafi Peretz dancing at a wedding with a rabbi identified with the far Right.
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Following the report, the IDF Spokesman’s Office announced that Rabbi Peretz had been summoned to the office of OC Manpower Maj.-Gen. Hagai Topolanski for clarifications.
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The IDF’s response is alarming for the message it sends the officer corps and through it, to the security community as a whole. That message is that it is unacceptable for officers to have any contacts – let along an intellectual exchanges – with people who stand beyond a narrow spectrum of views.
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This is bad enough for the elitist social message it sends. But given the threat environment Israel faces, narrowly defining the boundaries of permitted social and intellectual contacts is dangerous.
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Today Israel is facing complex, multifaceted security challenges that exist and grow in an equally complex, multifaceted diplomatic environment. To develop the means of dealing with the challenges, our security establishment needs to cultivate a permissive intellectual climate among our commanders that rewards free thinking and promotes free thinkers.
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Perhaps that retired Mossad commander was just a blowhard. Perhaps he was giving an accurate accounting of the intellectual climate in the senior ranks of Israel’s national security establishment. In all likelihood, the truth lays somewhere in the middle.
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But what is clear enough is that the time has come to air out the ranks of our national defense establishment.
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Our senior commanders need to reassess their operational assumptions in order to develop plans going forward that are based on a broad spectrum of ideas.
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Tuesday AM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 23, 2016 at 8:00am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Hilly's Manservants, Exposed
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Great Power Realignment - To Russia?
Shoshana Bryen
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U.S. President Barack nObama, perhaps sensing futility, called Russian
President Vladimir Putin last weekend. The Kremlin's report of the 
phone call posits the U.S. and Russia getting closer -- 
although, it appears, on Russia's terms. 
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The shelling of Syrian soldiers by the Turkish military is one more step back into Great Power politics -- historic Turkish-Russian enmity played out over Kurds and Syrians... The U.S. appears to believe 21st century wars cannot be won by military force and that battling parties can be induced to set aside their national and religious aims for a negotiated "peace." Meanwhile, the parties to the conflict are using their armies to pursue victory. Last week, Turkey attacked Kurdish fighters who were struggling to connect Kurdish territory in northern Iraq with a Kurdish enclave in northern Syria along the Turkish border. The Kurds, backed by Russian air power, want to oust Turkish-backed Syrian rebels from the Azaz region, in order to create contiguous territory from northern Iraq to Syrian Kurdistan, and prevent the Syrian rebels from being resupplied by Turkey. The net effect is to boost Kurdish-Russian cooperation; to provide relief for Assad's army in the north; to increase Turkey's hostility toward Russia; and possibly to put Turkey on a collision course with the U.S. -- if Ankara believes its position in NATO will protect it from Russian fallout. It should be noted that although Turkish troops attacked Syrians, they stayed clear of threatening Russia directly. The U.S. has urged both Turkey and the Kurds to decrease hostilities, but Turkey dismissed U.S. calls for a ceasefire. Attacks on the Kurds continued as Turkey began to fire on Syrian forces, and Turkey's President Tayyip Recep Erdogan did not rule out a ground attack inside Syria.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7453/us-russia-syria-realignment
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Cuba's Dissident Crackdown Peaks Ahead of
nObama's Historic Visit
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{bloomberg.com} ~ Even some supporters of President Barack nObama’s moves to strengthen relations with Cuba are questioning the timing of his planned visit to the Communist island next month... after arrests of dissidents by Raul Castro’s government reached a five-year high. nObama vowed Thursday that he’ll promote human rights during his historic visit, the first by a sitting American president since 1928. But more than a year of warming relations between the nations, separated by just 90 miles, have so far failed to slow the Cuban government’s crackdown on political dissidents. The Madrid-based Cuban Observatory on Human Rights said 1,474 people, including 512 women, were “arbitrarily” detained in January. The arrests have been climbing since the December 2014 announcement that the two governments would improve ties.        http://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2016-02-18/cuba-s-dissident-crackdown-peaks-ahead-of-obama-s-historic-visit
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This Government Agency Offends the Constitution
and Needs to Be Eliminated
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{dailysignal.com} ~ A little-known federal government agency, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, imposes enormous costs on consumers and financial service providers through costly and unwarranted command-and-control regulation... What’s more, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau runs afoul of the constitutionally mandated separation of powers. Thus, both economic and constitutional concerns indicate that it is time for Congress to abolish the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and reallocate those of its functions that merit being retained to other existing federal regulatory agencies.  Creation of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was a key feature of the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010, which, as Heritage scholars have explained, represents a failed attempt to address the causes of the 2008 financial crisis in fact, it makes future financial crises and bailouts more likely.       http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/16/this-government-agency-offends-the-constitution-and-needs-to-be-eliminated/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saturday&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zLcO%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjMrnYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDH3rhbLOWYxceLV9yOhlovnyjDE%3D
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nObama the Obstructionist
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{dailysignal.com} ~ What a shock. Now that he’s at the White House—and facing GOP opposition to appointing a new Supreme Court justice in the mere months before a new president is elected... President Barack nObama seems to have changed his tune a decade after serving as a U.S. senator. As we detail in the below video, nObama used to think it was appropriate for senators including himself to block judicial nominees. In fact, he filibustered Justice Samuel Alito’s confirmation to the Supreme Court along with circuit court nominees Janice Rogers Brown, William Pryor, and Leslie Southwick. But White House press secretary Josh Earnest said Wednesday that nObama sees things a little differently now. Speaking about filibustering Alito’s nomination, Earnest said, per The Hill, “That is an approach the president regrets.” Thats a lie.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/18/obama-the-obstructionist/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=saturday&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zLcO%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjMrnYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDH3rhbLOWYxceLV9yOhlovnyjDE%3D
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slump-Trump Accused Of 
Financially Threatening Woman 
Suing slump-Trump University
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Court papers reveal that Donald slump-Trump is accused of threatening to financially ruin a former student of slump-Trump University who is suing the Billionaire Bloviator for fraud... In 2005, slump-Trump opened slump-Trump University, a for-profit but non-accredited school where he would bestow his industry expertise upon the masses — aka anyone who forked over up to $60,000. That same year, he licensed his name to an affiliate program called the slump-Trump Institute. slump-Trump University wasn’t a real school it a series of real estate workshops in hotel ballrooms around the country. In 2010, four students sued the “university” for “offering classes that amounted to extended ‘infomercials,’ ‘selling non-accredited products,’ and ‘taking advantage of these troubled economic times to prey on consumer’s fears.’” 2011 saw the enterprise go belly up and in 2013, the New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman sued slump-Trump and slump-Trump University for allegedly defrauding students. In three pending lawsuits, including one in which the New York attorney general is seeking $40 million in restitution, former students allege that the enterprise bilked them out of their money with misleading advertisements. http://lidblog.com/trump-accused-of-financially-threatening-woman-suing-trump-university/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=0f13eff3a0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-0f13eff3a0-291705165
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Americans Oppose Invasion 
– Why Can’t We Stop It?
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{rickwells.us} ~ The South Carolina GOP primary provided a chance to harvest information aside from simply which candidate the Republican voters prefer... The American people are watching as their country is being destroyed, our sovereignty eroded and our borders erased under the regime of Hussein nObama and his henchmen, Jeh Johnson at DHS and John hanoi-Kerry at the State Department. The record turnout provided an unprecedented opportunity to poll the average South Carolinian to get a feel for where they stand on several issues, two of them relating to foreigners entering and remaining in our country. On the issue of illegal aliens, individuals who have no right to be in the United States and do so in violation of our federal immigration laws, over forty percent of the voters favored deportation. As for a temporary pause on the immigration of people from Muslim countries, the sentiment is strongly in favor of such an action, with 73 percent indicating support for such a freeze and only 24 percent against the idea. The numbers in New Hampshire were similar, with 65 percent favoring a pause.       http://rickwells.us/archives/26377
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Chilling Details: Hamas Plot to
Assassinate Netanyahu in Terror Attack
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{algemeiner.com} ~ Details of a thwarted Hamas-hatched plan to assassinate Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu were revealed for the first time on Sunday, after a two-month interrogation of the suspects involved, the Hebrew news site Walla reported... According to the report, the plot was made public with the Attorney General’s indictment last month of two of the terrorists, including the head of the cell, a 25-year-old from Kfar Yassuf in the West Bank who had rented an apartment in the Abu Dis neighborhood of east Jerusalem. Ahmed Azzam was in the advanced stages of establishing Hamas infrastructure in the West Bank and east Jerusalem, with funding and direction from Hamas in Gaza, the indictment said. To this end, he had purchased chemical materials and rented the apartment in east Jerusalem, where he set up an explosives lab. Also, according to the indictment, Azzam recruited the terrorist who was tasked with transporting the bombs beyond the Green Line.        http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/02/21/chilling-details-emerge-from-thwarted-east-jerusalem-hamas-plot-to-assassinate-netanyahu-in-public-terror-attack/
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Palestinians: hanoi-Kerry and 
the Game of Obfuscation
Khaled Abu Toameh
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Palestinian Authority leaders, official television, schools and media outlets often display maps showing Palestine stretching from the River Jordan to the Mediterranean Sea. The maps do not show the existence of Israel.
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ U.S. Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry is back in town. This time he is meeting with Jordanian and Palestinian leaders about "ongoing security issues in the region and continued tensions between Israel and the Palestinians."... For those not involved in political newspeak, here is a translation: "Ongoing security issues" = the Islamic State terror group (ISIS). "Tensions between Israel and the Palestinians" = the ongoing wave of Palestinian stabbing, car-ramming and shooting attacks that began October 2015. Jordan and the Palestinian Authority (PA) fighting ISIS? Now that's an idea! Jordanian King Abdullah and PA President Mahmoud Abbas ending "tensions" between Israel and the Palestinians? Let's think about that.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7480/palestinians-john-kerry
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The Growing Threat of ISIS Unleashing a
Weapon of Mass Destruction
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The apocalyptic ideology that propels the Islamic State (also known as ISIS) is by now well known. Much less widely known are the use of chemical weapons by ISIS in Iraq and Syria... and the disappearance of radioactive materials in Iraq that could be used in a “dirty bomb,” a radiological weapon of mass destruction (WMD). Reuters reported the disappearance of 10 grams of a “highly dangerous” radioactive isotope used to test oil and gas pipelines in southern Iraq, which Iraqi authorities fear may have fallen into the hands of ISIS. The Iridium-192 material, classified as a Category 2 radioactive source, could permanently injure people exposed to it for only a few hours, or kill people exposed to it longer. The radioactive isotope was stolen in November from a storage facility in the southern city of al-Zubair, which is more than 300 miles away from ISIS-controlled territory. But ISIS has launched attacks nearby.    http://dailysignal.com/2016/02/19/the-growing-threat-of-isis-unleashing-a-weapon-of-mass-destruction/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRonu6zLe%2B%2FhmjTEU5z16uwlXaS1iokz2EFye%2BLIHETpodcMTcdjMrzYDBceEJhqyQJxPr3NLtQN191pRhLiDA%3D%3D
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Expert: U.S. military could topple 
like Jenga blocks
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{wnd.com} ~ An expert on military preparedness says the United States armed forces could topple like a Jenga block tower if President nObama’s social agenda is allowed to continue... “If the nObama administration continues to remove resources from the Jenga block tower’s base, while loading burdens of social engineering on the top, the structure will become increasingly unstable and eventually fall,” contends a new report from the Center for Military Readiness, referring to the block-stacking game. CMR is run by Elaine Donnelly, who was appointed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger to the Defense Advisory Committee on Women in the Services. Later, President George H.W. Bush appointed her to the Presidential Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces. She also the author of “Constructing the Co-Ed Military” and wrote a chapter called “Defending the Culture of the Military,” published by the Air Force University Press in 2010 in the book “Attitudes Are Not Free – Thinking Deeply About Diversity in the U.S. Armed Forces.”        http://mobile.wnd.com/2016/02/expert-u-s-military-could-topple-like-jenga-blocks/?cat_orig=politics
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Hilly's Manservants, Exposed
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{townhall.com} ~ Liberals who remember "Doonesbury" surely recall the joke about George H. W. Bush pledging to "put his manhood in a blind trust" so he could be Ronald Reagan's vice president. But when it comes to covering Hilly Clinton, reporters now have been exposed putting their own manhood in a blind trust. It turns out they submit to orders made by her longtime publicist, Philippe Reines.
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They have tossed aside all vestiges of objective journalism -- in fact, journalism itself -- to please the boss.
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It's an ugly set of transactions, conducted in secret. To try and gain access to the very inaccessible Clinton, flattery is one method, but press dictated by the campaign is the real coin of the realm.
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Gawker used the Freedom of Information Act to get to the exchanges between reporters and Reines, the Hilly Clinton gatekeeper. Their new find is Marc Ambinder of The Atlantic, who has worked in the political-news departments at ABC and CBS. The headline: "This Is How Hilly Clinton Gets the Coverage She Wants."
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In July 2009, Hilly was delivering a speech at the Council on Foreign Relations. Ambinder wanted an advance copy of the speech, a normal request, sometimes granted, sometimes not. Reines had a novel response. He insisted on conditions. "You must describe her tone as 'muscular,' and you must note that her most prominent underlings at the State Department George Mitchell, Richard Holbrooke would be seated in front of her to convey her command of the staff."
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"Got it," Ambinder shot back. Later that day, he published a story doing Clinton's bidding right at the top, touting a "muscular speech" Clinton would deliver that day in front of her rival "power centers" in the State Department.
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Mike Allen at Politico and Mark Landler at The New York Times also used copy that showed Reines was orchestrating Clinton's press clips with them as well. Both reporters used the adjective "muscular" and both cited the other envoys in front of her. They needed to stay on Team Hilly.
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Ambinder never stopped being a lap dog. Days later, he emailed Reines to coo over a "Meet the Press" appearance: "She kicked A on MTP." A 2010 email from Ambinder to Reines on a press conference covering the WikiLeaks outrages oozed: "This is an awesome presser. ... She is PITCH f#$*& PERFECT on this stuff."
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When contacted by Gawker, Ambinder pleaded that this was an "incomplete" record:
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"The exchange is probably at best an incomplete record of what went down. That said, the transactional nature of such interactions always gave me the willies. ... At no point at The Atlantic did I ever feel the pressure to make transactional journalism the norm."
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The Atlantic added this lame note on their website above Ambinder's 2009 piece: "On February 9, 2016, Gawker called the reporting of this post into question. It is The Atlantic's policy never to cede to sources editorial control of the content of our stories."
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No it's not. That answer is about as honest as The Atlantic's reporting.
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Last November, Gawker exposed Mike Allen at Politico emailing Reines offering to host Chelsea Clinton at a very cozy Politico brunch: "No one besides me would ask her a question, and you and I would agree on them precisely in advance. ... The interview would be "no-surprises'."
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Monday PM ~ TheFrontPageCover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 22, 2016 at 2:00pm
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Featuring:
Win One For Nino
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 Counterterrorism Logjam: Apple vs. FBI 
"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety." —Benjamin Franklin
          The attempt to find balance between Liberty and security is the primary challenge facing our efforts to fight terrorism in modern America. That debate is now playing out between the FBI and Apple over the iPhone that belonged to San Bernardino terrorist Syed Farook.
          U.S. Magistrate Judge Sheri Pym gave tech giant Apple until Feb. 26 to decide whether to help unlock Farook's iPhone (bypass the 10-attempt limit on the passcode) so that investigators can look for evidence of connections with other terrorists. "Despite ... a warrant authorizing the search," said prosecutors, "the government has been unable to complete the search because it cannot access the iPhone's encrypted content. Apple has the exclusive technical means which would assist the government in completing its search, but has declined to provide that assistance voluntarily."
          When a warrant is served, a locked door shouldn't stand in the way. The national security arguments for actually being able to serve this of all warrants are obvious. No one wants terrorists to succeed in killing innocents, and if the information contained on the phone could thwart future attacks, lives could be saved. And Apple notes it has already "worked hard to support the government's efforts to solve this crime." Apple provided all of Farook's data in its possession and had its own engineers advise the FBI.
          But Apple has refused to create a way to unlock this phone. Why? It has, on 70 prior occasions since 2008, helped investigators access other iPhones. Why, as Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) put it, has "Apple chose[n] to protect a dead ISIS terrorist's privacy over the security of the American people"?  -The Patriot Post
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 OPINION IN BRIEF 
Charles Krauthammer: "Appointing a Supreme Court justice is a two-key operation. The president proposes, the Senate disposes. There is no reason McCon-nell cannot hold the line. And he must. The stakes here — a radical generation-long reversal of direction of the Supreme Court — are the highest this Senate will ever face. If McCon-nell succeeds, he will have resoundingly answered the 'what did we get for 2014?' question. Imagine if the Senate were now in Democratic hands. What we got in 2014 was the power to hold on to Scalia's seat and to the court's conservative majority. But only for now. Blocking an nObama nominee buys just a year. The final outcome depends on November 2016. If the GOP nominates an unelectable or unconservative candidate, a McCon-nell victory will be nothing more than a stay of execution. In 2012, Scalia averred that he would not retire until there was a more ideologically congenial president in the White House. 'I would not like to be replaced,' he explained, 'by someone who immediately sets about undoing everything that I've tried to do for 25 years.' Scalia never got to choose the timing of his leaving office. Those who value the legacy of those now-30 years will determine whether his last wish will be vindicated. Let McCon-nell do his thing. Then in November it's for us to win one for Nino." 
 -The Patriot Post
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE  Warren Throckmorton, professor at Grove City College, explains  why  Thomas Jefferson edited his own copy of the Bible stripped of the supernatural and miraculous works of Jesus, and how he came up with the idea: “In 1804 and around 1820, Thomas Jefferson took two copies of the New Testament and cut out verses that he believed truly came from Jesus. In several letters to friends, Jefferson described the process of assembling the philosophy of Jesus as being as simple as plucking diamonds from a dunghill. Jefferson had a lot of confidence that he could tell the difference between Jesus’ actual teaching and teaching added later by his followers. A copy of the 1804 abridgement of the Gospels has not survived.”  -Fox News
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nObamacare Will Bankrupt the U.S.
Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ One topic of conversation in the Republican race for the White House has been whether President nObama has been incompetent, or actually knows what he’s doing... On the matter of nObama’s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and nObamacare, self-declared socialist Professor Gerald Friedman seems to agree with conservatives that it can’t and won’t work. Friedman, a supporter of Senator Bernie Sanders’ (I-VT) “Medicare for All” single-payer plan, says that nObama and his advisers knew that the ACA was a “bad idea” that would not control costs, and that a total federal takeover of the health care system was inevitable. The problem with a federal takeover of health care is that it would bankrupt the U.S., leading to left-wing demands for even more federal control. This is how socialism is coming to America.        http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obamacare-will-bankrupt-the-u-s/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email021916&utm_medium=email
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China Cash and Movie Moguls — The Disturbing New Hollywood-Beijing Axis
William F. Jasper
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ It's “Leftward, Ho!” for Chollywood (yes, even though you thought the denizens of Tinseltown had no further Left to go), as the big film studios hop into bed with the corporate fronts of China’s Communist Party... First there was the buyout/takeover of AMC Theaters in 2012 by China’s Dalian Wanda Group led by Wang Jianlin, usually referred to now as “China’s richest billionaire.” More recently, Wang “force of nature” Jianlin has gobbled up Legendary Entertainment, the film studio behind such blockbusters as Jurassic World, 300, the Batman/Dark Knight trilogy, Pacific Rim, Godzilla, and Man of Steel. Wang paid $3.5 billion for that acquisition — and is hungry for more. The $2.5 billion purchase of AMC, the second-largest theater chain in the U.S., catapulted Wanda Group to the status of world’s largest cinema operator, with more than 5,000 screens at nearly 400 locations in six countries. In addition, AMC’s more than 26,000 employees in the United States and Canada also have given Wang Jianlin, a top functionary in the Communist Party of China (CPC) a growing toehold for leverage over American workers dependent on foreign companies for their paychecks. But the AMC acquisition was only an opening wedge in Wang’s strategy for transforming Hollywood’s global reach into a propaganda vehicle and revenue stream for the communist regime in Beijing.  http://www.thenewamerican.com/culture/item/22579-china-cash-and-movie-moguls-the-disturbing-new-hollywood-beijing-axis
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Libya disaster: Have Western 
leaders learned anything?
Pete Hoekstra
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ That the U.S. has launched airstrikes against ISIS in Libya should demonstrate once and for all the total disaster of the NATO-led adventure to overthrow Muammar al-Qaddafi in 2011... Libya devolved into a failed state when NATO assisted Qaddafi's radical jihadist opponents in killing him and then promptly abandoned the country. Left in the wake were two rival governments competing for power, which created space for Islamists to turn Libya into a cesspool of extremism. Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton continues to call the debacle American "smart power at its best." Other presidential candidates still argue that it was the right thing to do. How will the West ever learn anything if it can't identify its most obvious failures?       http://www.investigativeproject.org/5165/libya-disaster-have-western-leaders-learned
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Hilly Railed Against GOP Senators Over Scalia Replcaement, Then...
Kevin Whitson
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{patriotupdate.com} ~ The fight to replace recently deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia is heating up, with both Democrats and Republicans weighing in on the matter... Hilly Clinton tweeted out what MSNBC called a “firestorm” of tweets, charging the Senate with the task of swiftly confirming a nomination for the vacant SCOTUS seat. However, as even MSNBC noted, moving swiftly to confirm a SCOTUS nomination wasn’t something Clinton tried to do when George W. Bush was president in 2005. Clinton’s recent tweets telling the Senate to quickly approve a Scalia replacement when nObama presents a nominee are in complete contrast with Clinton’s full and active participation in the delay of a Supreme Court nominee while she was a senator, an apparent hypocrisy which MSNBC noted on Tuesday.        http://patriotupdate.com/hillary-railed-gop-senators-scalia-replacement-video-surfaced/       Video:  http://patriotupdate.com/hillary-railed-gop-senators-scalia-replacement-video-surfaced/
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nObama’s Phony Geraldine Accent Makes
A White House Appearance
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{rickwells.us} ~ nObama held an “it’s all about me and my skin color” event at the White House on Thursday following a planning session with black race-baiters and agitators... While addressing the attendees, nObama included his observation of how we can tell that it’s Black History Month. He says it’s “When you hear somebody say, ‘Hey Michelle,’” as he impersonates one of the more vocal attendees who was basking in the royal couple’s presence. That may be how he can tell, but many of the rest of us who haven’t been blessed with a sufficient amount of pigment to be given our own history month, which were born evil and with privilege can recognize through another telling sign. nObama is utilizing that “neighborhood street corner accent on-demand” that he saves for when he’s in with the right group of black people, so that he fits in, so they identify with him and repeat the mistake of believing he’s truly “one of them.” It’s a diction that he generally reserves for the funerals of black people, addresses to black colleges or “civil rights” special preference holidays. Black History Month isn’t a holiday, but it does last considerably longer. In some ways it’s become a year round celebration of anti-whiteness. One that even some of the privileged seem to have infiltrated, providing that “token diversity,” though not from the front rows.       http://rickwells.us/archives/26360     
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Clinton Teams Up With Pro-Tehran 
Lobby For Fundraiser
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Democratic presidential candidate Hilly Clinton is scheduled to host a fundraiser this weekend with key members of a pro-Tehran lobbying outfit that is working to kill new anti-terrorism laws that would prevent Iranians from travelling to the United States without first obtaining a visa permit... Clinton is scheduled to travel to Silicon Valley this weekend for three fundraisers with wealthy tech moguls, many of which have expressed skepticism about the candidate. Clinton will participate in a Menlo Park fundraiser on Sunday hosted by Twitter executive Omid Kordestani and his wife Gisel Hiscock, as well as National Iranian American Council (NIAC) board member Lily Sarafan and Noosheen Hashemi, who serves on the board of the pro-Iran advocacy group Ploughshares, a major funder of pro-Iran efforts.
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Homeland “Security” Is Our Vulnerability
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ If DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson weren’t so preoccupied with diluting the American citizen’s influence, representation and ownership of our own country and weakening our defenses, he might actually have time to engage in some homeland security... The inclusion of the word “security” in the title at DHS is merely a deceptive misdirection under this regime. Insecurity, vulnerability and a full blown invasion are what Johnson brings us; it is what he works toward every day. As testament to the Johnson and nObama malfeasance, a report by the Homeland Security Inspector General details the most basic security measures are being left lacking. Rudimentary security items such as routine maintenance, operating security cameras and the shutting of gates are deficiencies left unaddressed in this current administration. The IG report identifies four bases near the Mexico border which have non-functioning security cameras. Whether those were random breakdowns or deliberately sabotaged to allow for safe passage of criminal elements is not known, but the failure to repair them for this length of time indicates that someone within the upper levels of the organization is pleased to have them offline. http://constitutionrising.com/archives/26334
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EPIC Beatdown as Conservative Pundit Destroys #BlackLivesMatter Defender!
Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ AM 770 KTTH is a lone conservative voice in the wilderness of the liberal Northwest. The radio station broadcasts in Seattle, Washington and the surrounding area and has worked hard to reach out to their community with the truths of conservatism... This past year the station hosted a debate between two liberal #BlackLivesMatter activists and two conservative activists -- the brilliant Ben Shapiro being one of those conservatives. What followed was an hour and a half long debate drubbing that even seemed to turn the tide of opinion in the audience. Here are the highlights for you to enjoy – 5 minutes of awesome.        http://eaglerising.com/30548/epic-beatdown-as-conservative-pundit-destroys-blacklivesmatter-defender/
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nObama Propped Up, Armed ISIS
– Putin Deserves Nobel Prize
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{constitutionrising.com/} ~ With what he graciously calls an incompetent moron droning away in the background, Michael Savage soon has had enough and has him shut off in order to take a moment to “set the record straight.”... He notes how nObama has completely upset the whole world order and that Putin should get a Nobel Prize for taking on ISIS and putting them on the run. Savage says of nObama, “This guy propped up ISIS and did nothing for three years. He let ISIS metastasize into a rape machine, a kidnap machine, a murder machine. It was nObama who fed ISIS the weapons. He continues, saying, “Everybody who’s studied this knows that. It was Putin who stepped in as the hero of the world and he hates Putin because he knows Putin’s a better man than he.” He reminds us that “Hussein may not be on the side that you think he’s on. Never ever forget that his loyalties are questionable. Look back, he won’t even say Islamic terrorism, look back at every event that’s occurred he’s swept it under the rug.” http://constitutionrising.com/archives/26347
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EPA Stalling on Underground Fire
Near Nuclear Waste Dump
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Near  the St. Louis suburb of Bridgeton, there is one of two massive landfills filled with radioactive waste... Below it, according to The Washington Post -- some 60 to 200 feet down -- is rapidly decomposing waste that is smoldering in a "sub-surface burning event." "The underground burn is only a few thousand feet from a Superfund site filled with waste from the World War II-era Manhattan Project," the report goes on to say. Managing the Superfund site is none other than the Environmental Protection Agency, which has not been doing a great job of protecting much of anything lately. And when it comes to this site, the report states, the EPA "has done little to stop the burn from reaching the radioactive waste." Concerned neighbors and state officials have taken notice and are wondering what is going on. One mother featured in the Post's story is worried that living only a mile away from the site has caused her six-year-old son's hair to fall out. He suffers from the autoimmune disease alopecia areata, which causes extreme hair loss. http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/epa-stalling-underground-fire-near-nuclear-waste-dump
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Win One For Nino
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Let’s understand something about the fight to fill the Supreme Court seat of Antonin (“Nino”) Scalia. This is about nothing but raw power. Any appeal you hear to high principle is phony — brazenly, embarrassingly so.
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In Year Seven of the George W. Bush administration, Sen. Chuck Schumer publicly opposed filling any Supreme Court vacancy until Bush left office. “Except in extraordinary circumstances.” None such arose. Surprise! Today he piously denounces Republicans for doing exactly the same for a vacancy created in Year Eight of Barack nObama.
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Republicans, say the Democrats, owe the president deference. Elections have consequences and nObama won re-election in 2012.
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Yes. And the Republicans won the Senate in 2014 — if anything, a more proximal assertion of popular will. And both have equal standing in appointing a Supreme Court justice.
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It’s hard to swallow demands for deference from a party that for seven years has cheered nObama’s serial constitutional depredations: His rewriting the immigration laws by executive order stayed by the courts; his reordering the energy economy by regulation stayed by the courts; his enacting the nuclear deal with Iran, the most important treaty of this generation, without the required two-thirds of the Senate by declaring it an executive agreement.
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Minority Leader Harry dinky-Reid complains about the Senate violating precedent if it refuses a lame-duck nominee. This is rich. It is dinky-Reid who just two years ago overthrew all precedent by abolishing the filibuster for most judicial and high executive appointments. In the name of what grand constitutional principle did dinky-Reid resort to a parliamentary maneuver so precedent-shattering that it was called the nuclear option? None. He did it in order to pack the U. S. Circuit Court for the District of Columbia with liberals who would reliably deflect challenges to nObamacare.
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On Tuesday, nObama loftily called upon Congress to rise above ideology and partisanship in approving his nominee. When asked how he could square that with his 2006 support of a filibuster to stop the appointment of Samuel Alito, nObama replied with a four-minute word salad signifying nothing. There is no answer. It was situational constitutional principle, i.e., transparent hypocrisy.
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As I said, this is all about raw power. When the Democrats had it, they used it. The Republicans are today wholly justified in saying they will not allow this outgoing president to overturn the balance of the Supreme Court. The matter should be decided by the coming election. Does anyone doubt that Democrats would be saying exactly that if the circumstances were reversed?
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Which makes this Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell’s moment. He and his cohorts have taken a lot of abuse from “anti-establishment” candidates and media for not using their congressional majorities to repeal nObamacare, defund Planned Parenthood, block executive orders, etc.
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What was the 2014 election about, they say? We won and got nothing. We were lied to and betrayed by a corrupt leadership beholden to the “Washington cartel.”
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As it happens, under our Madisonian Constitution, the opposition party cannot govern without the acquiescence of the president, which it will not get, or a two-thirds majority of the Congress, which it does not have.
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But no matter. Things are different now. Appointing a Supreme Court justice is a two-key operation. The president proposes, the Senate disposes. There is no reason McCon-nell cannot hold the line. And he must. The stakes here — a radical generation-long reversal of direction of the Supreme Court — are the highest this Senate will ever face.
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If McCon-nell succeeds, he will have resoundingly answered the “what did we get for 2014?” question. Imagine if the Senate were now in Democratic hands. What we got in 2014 was the power to hold on to Scalia’s seat and to the court’s conservative majority.
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But only for now. Blocking an nObama nominee buys just a year. The final outcome depends on November 2016. If the GOP nominates an unelectable or unconservative candidate, a McCon-nell victory will be nothing more than a stay of execution.
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In 2012, Scalia averred that he would not retire until there was a more ideologically congenial president in the White House. “I would not like to be replaced,” he explained, “by someone who immediately sets about undoing everything that I’ve tried to do for 25 years.”
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Scalia never got to choose the timing of his leaving office. Those who value the legacy of those now-30 years will determine whether his last wish will be vindicated. Let McCon-nell do his thing. Then in November it’s for us to win one for Nino.
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Posted by Rudy Tirre on February 22, 2016 at 8:30am
The Front Page Cover
 2016             The truth will set you free 
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Border Surge Solution: Send 'Em to Camp David!
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 Clinton: 'I Don't Believe I Ever Have' Lied to  Voters  In an interview with CBS, Hilly Clinton tried to channel the integrity of Jimmy Carter when she said she doesn't remember ever misleading the American public. "I ... see in the eyes of the people I'm meeting with, 'Okay, tell me something I can believe. Don't over-promise. Tell me what I can believe you will do for me and my family.' And that's what I've tried to do." When CBS pointed out that on the campaign trail Carter promised voters that he would not lie to them, Clinton responded, "Well, I have to tell you I have tried in every way I know how, literally from my years as a young lawyer all the way through my time as secretary of state, to level with the American people."
          The problem for Clinton is that over two-thirds of voters immediately think her statement is horse pucky. A recent Associated press/GfK poll found that Sanders is increasingly gaining traction as a viable candidate in the eyes of Democrat voters. Why? Because Democrat voters see him as more honest than Clinton. Across the spectrum of American voters, only 30% regard Clinton as honest. This reputation has always followed Clinton, too, World Magazine founder Joel Belz noted. Twenty years ago, Belz wrote a column about Clinton's "growing disregard for telling the truth." Today, that reputation is reflected in popular polls, and in the mainstream press. While Clinton runs on her experience in politics, her track record of lying might cost her the Democrat primary. 
 -The Patriot Post
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 slump-Donald vs. slump-Trump, Christian  Edition  Speaking with reporters Thursday, Pope Francis criticized Donald slump-Trump's rhetoric and even challenged his faith. "A person who thinks only about building walls, wherever they may be, and not building bridges, is not Christian," Francis said, adding he wasn't sure if slump-Trump had actually expressed that kind of rhetoric.
          On the policy question, the pope is just plain wrong. If our nation doesn't enforce its borders, it will cease to be a nation — regardless of what a Marxist pope may say. He invoked the "Golden Rule," but while that's great for interpersonal relationships, it's a deadly immigration policy.
          As for the faith question, slump-Trump might have simply thanked the pontiff for helping him win votes in Evangelical South Carolina. Instead, slump-Trump issued a statement firing back at the pope. "For a religious leader to question a person's faith is disgraceful," slump-Trump said. "I am proud to be a Christian and as President I will not allow Christianity to be consistently attacked and weakened, unlike what is happening now, with our current President."
          Never mind the spectacle of the Catholic leader challenging a (self-proclaimed) Presbyterian. There have been more than a few disagreements about that over the years...
          But in all fairness, the thin-skinned wanna-be Constantine-in-chief has a questionable track record with Christianity. You will know him by his fruits. The man wrote a book on how to screw people in business. And while he says it's the second-best book in the world after the Bible (nice humility there), when slump-Trump was asked his favorite passage from the Bible, he couldn't name one. Most importantly, slump-Trump boasts that he never asks forgiveness from his Creator, revealing that he either misunderstands Christianity entirely or rejects its tenets.
          What's perhaps most fascinating, though, is that slump-Trump is so narcissistic that he believes whatever he says today (slump)trumps what he was actually recorded as saying previously. Less than a week ago, he wondered, "How can Ted Cruz be an evangelical Christian when he lies so much and is so dishonest?" He has also questioned Ben Carson's faith. Could it be that slimp-Trump's true religion is uniquely slump-Trump-based?  -The Patriot Post
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 Oppose an nObama SCOTUS Nominee? You're  Racist  Published in The New York Times is an intriguing new piece, "Blacks See Bias in Delay on a Scalia Successor." The article, as the title implies, promotes the view arrogated by Democrats — and blacks in particular — that Republicans are chauvinist for refusing Barack nObama another Supreme Court appointee.
          Among those quoted in the Times is a black resident from South Carolina who said, "They've been fighting that man since he's been there. The color of his skin, that's all, the color of his skin." Another stated, "Let's talk like it is, it's because of his skin color." Similarly, adds yet another, "I guess many of them are using this in the strictest construction that Barack nObama's serving three-fifths of a term or he's three-fifths of a human being, so he doesn't get to make this choice." And North Carolina Rep. G. K. Butterfield asserted, "It's more than a political motive — it has a smell of racism. ... [I]f this was any other president who was not African-American, it would not have been handled this way."
          The Times agrees, sympathetically writing: "After years of watching political opponents question the president's birthplace and his faith, and hearing a member of Congress shout 'You lie!' at him from the House floor [he did lie, of course], some African-Americans saw the move by Senate Republicans as another attempt to deny the legitimacy of the country's first black president. And they call it increasingly infuriating after Mr. nObama has spent seven years in the White House and won two resounding election victories. ... [A] growing chorus of black voices is complaining that such a refusal to even consider a Supreme Court nominee would never occur with a white president." {thats another lie. What about Bush 43 nominees}
          The only explanation we can come up with is that their memory is borked. Note at the introduction the phrase "another Supreme Court nominee." While Republicans fight against faux accusations of racism, both Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan were nominated by nObama and confirmed by the Senate. A Scalia successor would be nObama's third pick to the nation's highest court. Moreover, their confirmation votes (68-31 and 63-37, respectively) were higher than that of black Justice Clarence Thomas, who barely squeezed through after being nominated by George H.W. Bush in 1991. He took the bench after a 52-48 vote. Republicans could have played the race card, but the reality is that Thomas' hurdle had to do with the fact that he, like Scalia, is a conservative stalwart. Democrats have sold their snake oil quite successfully when the only explanation all these folks can think of for opposing a president's SCOTUS nominees is that he's (half) black.
  -The Patriot Post
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Mark Levin: 'Time for All Conservatives to Come
Home Now and Do the Right Thing'
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Mark Levin, a staunch defender of conservatism and the Constitution, told South Carolinians Thursday night that the next election is "a choice between liberty and tyranny."... "It's time for all conservatives to come home now and do the right thing. And if you're a conservative, you know what the right thing is. And you know what I mean." "We're here today to make it crystal clear...that we are proud, true, unapologetic conservatives. We are not going to take a backseat to anyone, any group, or any political party.       http://www.cnsnews.com/news/article/susan-jones/mark-levin-we-seek-take-our-country-back-those-who-fundamentally-screwed-it
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nObama's reckless foreign policy has
put Israel in dire jeopardy
Pete Hoekstra
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ President Barack nObama's foreign policy over the past seven years has undermined Israel's security by heightening threats to its existence... The perceived alienation of Israel by the U.S. has emboldened Israel's enemies. Administration engagements in the Middle East and Africa have left behind failed states that are hornet nests of extremism and jihadists enlisted by Iran. Fueled by Iranian resources, regional Islamist organizations are more committed than ever to Israel's destruction. A fraudulent nuclear agreement between Iran and a group of world powers furthered the genocidal ambitions of its radical theocratic leaders against the Jewish people. nObama's repeated snubs and slights against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu signal to Israel's antagonists that American support is less than absolute.        http://www.investigativeproject.org/5164/obama-reckless-foreign-policy-has-put-israel-in
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Iran Promotes the Terrorist Behind the
Deaths of 241 Americans
Dr. Majid Rafizadeh
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Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ In 1983 a horrific act of terrorism killed 241 American servicemen (220 Marines, 18 sailors, and three soldiers) in Beirut, Lebanon... The bombing marked the deadliest attack on Americans overseas since World War II. All the evidence pointed the mastermind behind the crime as Brigadier General Hossein Dehghan, then commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps, and thirty years later in 2013 -- under “moderate” Iranian President Hassan Rouhani -- Hossein Dehghan was appointed Minister of Defense. In other words, Iran instigated one of the most horrendous terrorist acts against America and promoted the man who did it. This year the same General Hossein Dehghan also seems to be in charge of the recent arrest of Americans sailors in an attempt to humiliate and mock the US. Iranian State TV showed one of the US Navy sailors crying in captivity and later showed Iranians cheering and celebrating in the streets at the humiliation the sailors went through.        http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/261875/iran-promotes-terrorist-behind-deaths-241-dr-majid-rafizadeh
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McCain Blocks Clinton – “M” Brotherhood
Investigation, Attacks Republicans
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Senator John McCain has had many questionable relationships and done some things which are very hard to explain from a national security, America first point of view... He spoke from the Senate floor in defense of Hilly Clinton’s longtime aide and Muslim Brotherhood linked insider, Huma Abedin. McCain claims to have been close to Abedin, although he repeatedly, throughout the entire video  pronounces her name incorrectly, as the “H” is silent. He also mispronounces her last name on at least one occasion. At the time of his address, in 2012, Abedin’s name hadn’t become familiar through television broadcasts. In light of current events, it’s worth a second look. He defends the daughter of Muslim Brotherhood founders in the vaguest of terms as he insults a fellow Republican for expressing legitimate concerns about what she and four of her colleagues believed was a potentially serious security breach. The open door to Islamic radicals at the White House is well known and something McCain surely knows as well. What appears to have been going on was an attack on Michele Bachmann, the Republican he’s targeting, in order to deflect any damage away from the Muslim Brotherhood agent Abedin. Now we know why he will not be re-elected.      http://constitutionrising.com/archives/26264
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Iran’s Supremo: 
“The global Zionism network dictates the
US and many EU members’
Robert Spencer
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ Escalating his rhetoric against the United States and Israel, Iran’s supreme leader claimed Wednesday that a Zionist “network” dominates US and EU policy... and that Iranian slogans of “Death to America” are a natural response to US “hostility,” an Iranian news site reported. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei “said the global Zionism network dictates the US and many EU members’ policies vis-a-vis Iran,” the Fars news agency said. It quoted him telling a large audience “from East Azerbaijan province” in Tehran on Wednesday that “the US and many European governments’ policies are dominated by this Zionist network, and the Americans’ dealing with Iran’s nuclear issue should be understood within this particular framework.”     http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/02/irans-supremo-the-global-zionism-network-dictates-the-us-and-many-eu-members-policies-vis-a-vis-iran
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CIA’s New Standards 
– Normal White Guys Keep Walking
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ If you’re in the CIA, lying convincingly can be just part of the job. Making up and carrying out a plausible story as needed is what you’re paid to do, at least in field work or as the director... CIA director John Brennan has a mission to sell the recruitment of the sexually confused and an “anybody but straight white guys” policy to the people of the US and his agency. He could be honest and say it’s done to be politically correct and to pander to the nObama liberal Democrat base. He could say it’s intended to degrade the morality of America. Or he could make up a line of nonsense about inclusion and diversity. Of course, he’s part of the nObama regime, he went with the line of nonsense; it’s the official  position. The “Office of Racism, Quotas and Discrimination,” also called the Diversity and Inclusion Office, has launched a program of recruiting more non-whites, veterans, women, homosexuals, cross-dressers and people who’s mind and plumbing don’t quite match up into vacant positions. They’ve also set a plan into place to control the response of existing employees who aren’t stupid and recognize what’s going on. Their agency is being turned into a “diversity and tolerance” side show. Just like the military was socially engineered to advance perversion, the same thing is being done with the next group of guinea pigs.        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/26289
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Vitter Seeks Answers From IRS on Congress’s
nObamacare Contradiction
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Sen. David Vitter (R., La.) 
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Sen. David Vitter (R., La.) is demanding answers from the IRS after Congress was issued tax forms designating it as a large employer despite its registering as a “small business” through the Washington, D.C., health care exchange... The Republican senator sent a letter to IRS Commissioner John Koskinen inquiring whether it was a violation of the Internal Revenue Code for Congress to declare to the IRS that it was a large employer while declaring to the D.C. government that it was a small business. Congress’s efforts to comply with nObamacare regulations have been dogged by controversy since the bill’s passage in 2010. An amendment to the Affordable Care Act required congressional employees to sign up for coverage through the health care exchanges but offered no provision for subsidies.  http://freebeacon.com/issues/vitter-seeks-answers-from-irs-on-congresss-obamacare-contradiction/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=5b18b26f44-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_19_162_18_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-5b18b26f44-45611665
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nObama Admin Could Halt New
Iran-Russia Weapons Deals
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Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu and Iranian Defense Minister Hossein Dehghan shake hands during their meeting in Moscow, Russia, Tuesday, Feb. 16
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The United States has the authority to block new multi-billion dollar arms deals between Iran and Russia though the administration is not expected to exercise this authority... which was granted under United Nations Security Council resolutions pertaining to the recently implemented nuclear agreement. Senior Iranian and Russian officials held discussions this week about inking a new arms pact expected to be worth about $8 billion. Iran has reportedly sent Moscow a “shopping list” of various arms and military hardware it is seeking to purchase. News of the latest deal—which comes in addition to several other Iranian-Russian arms deals inked over past months—drew ire from some on Capitol Hill, where lawmakers remain concerned that Iran is exploiting economic sanctions relief in order to carry out a massive military buildup.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/obama-admin-could-halt-new-iran-russia-weapons-deals/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=5b18b26f44-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_19_162_18_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-5b18b26f44-45611665
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John hanoi-Kerry’s Ridiculous Trip to Hollywood
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John hanoi-Kerry meets with LA studio executives / Credit: John hanoi-Kerry's Twitter
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Oh, to have been at John hanoi-Kerry’s meeting Tuesday with a dozen Hollywood executives at Universal Studios. To have sat in one of the cushy leather chairs beneath a vintage poster for The Phantom of the Opera, sipping bottled water... relaxing in the Mediterranean climate of southern California, and been solicited by the U.S. secretary of State for advice on how to defeat radical Islam. What a confirmation of one’s status in the film industry, of one’s place in the global economy, of one’s importance to the Democratic Party. “Great convo w studio execs in LA,” hanoi-=Kerry tweeted after the discussion, “Good to hear their perspectives & ideas of how to counter #Daesh narrative.” If there is one thing we know about Hollywood executives, it is that they are full of perspectives, have plenty of ideas. You need to tell our story, Mr. Secretary. Fix the plot point in Act Two. The tweets we are sending to convince young Muslim men not to join the Caliphate—do they have character arcs? Are they bankable? We can work with the Chinese on this; they keep telling Jeffrey about their problem with the Uighurs. Perhaps we could enlist actors to speak out against ISIS. A public service announcement, with Hillary Swank gazing sadly into the camera—that might make Ahad al Islam think twice about taking a Yazidi sex slave. Or have Steven Spielberg direct a short film on American efforts to combat Islamophabia...        http://freebeacon.com/columns/john-kerrys-ridiculous-trip-to-hollywood/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=5b18b26f44-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_19_162_18_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-5b18b26f44-45611665
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Cruz, Rubio Eligibility To Be President 
– A Legal Opinion
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Joanna Ruth Martin
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ “Publius Huldah” (AKA Joanna Ruth Martin) is a Florida lawyer with her degree from the Florida State University College of Law... She offers her views on the question of the definition of a natural born citizen and whether Senators Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz meet the constitutional requirements to run for president of the United States. She notes how the original series of presidents who were born prior to the Declaration of Independence were born as subjects of the King of England. She says they, as well as average Americans born before July 4th, 1776, were transformed into citizens by means of the Declaration of Independence. She states that our first presidents were naturalized citizens. The US Constitution, which was ratified on June 21st, 1788, provides the requirements for becoming president. She provides other evidence and information she uses to make her determination that neither Cruz nor Rubio meets the eligibility requirements to be president.  She explain show she makes that determination, providing other information as well. That’s her legal opinion; surely there will be those who disagree. That’s what a healthy debate is all about. http://constitutionrising.com/archives/26299
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Border Surge Solution: Send 'Em to Camp David!
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{townhall.com} ~ Colorado dodged a bullet. After a stinging backlash from local leaders and Rocky Mountain politicians in both parties, the nObama White House retreated this weekend from plans to dump in our state 1,000 minors who immigrated here illegally.
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Good riddance to the feckless feds, and don't come back, y'all.
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Now, let this be a lesson for other communities facing the D.C.-engineered human flood. You can and should say no -- and force Washington to put first things first.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services had unveiled a hastily drawn scheme just two months ago to convert a Denver Federal Center warehouse in preparation for another springtime surge of Central American migrants coming through Mexico. Look past the sob stories. The recent surges were cunningly engineered by drug cartels and human traffickers.
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As Brandon Judd of the National Border Patrol Council testified on Capitol Hill recently: "The cartels understood that the unaccompanied minors would force the Border Patrol to deploy Agents to these crossing areas in order to take the minors into custody. I want to stress this point because it has been completely overlooked by the press," he told the House Judiciary Committee. The unaccompanied minors could have walked right up to the port of entry and requested asylum if they were truly escaping political persecution or violence. "Why did the cartels drive them to the middle of the desert and then have them cross over the Rio Grande only to surrender to the first Border Patrol Agent they came across?" Judd challenged.
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"The reason is that it completely tied up our manpower and allowed the cartels to smuggle whatever they wanted across our border."
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This is just another maddening example of nObama's warped priorities at work. Instead of building effective walls and enforcing our borders to prevent the coming illegal immigration waves manufactured by criminal racketeers, this administration rushes to build welcome center magnets that shelter the next generation of Democrat voters.
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With an estimated 125,000 Central American unaccompanied minors apprehended by the besieged Border Patrol at the southern border since 2012, HHS now oversees more than 100 child migrant centers in a dozen states.
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But not in Colorado -- for now.
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nObama's fantastical construction proposal in the Denver suburb of Lakewood came on the heels of the feds' black-hole fiasco at the nearby Aurora Veteran Administration hospital. That project broke ground in 2010, is $1 billion over budget and over five times its original estimate, is at least two years behind schedule, and has been riddled with contract corruption and fraud.
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Pressed for details by wary Coloradans in the wake of that scandal, HHS bureaucrats admitted the planned migrant center renovations would cost up to $40 million and take at least a year to complete. At least.
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Now what?
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The White House is preparing to ship border surgers to temporary facilities in Texas, Florida and Holloman Air Force Base in New Mexico. Mum's the word on other potential illegal immigrant extended stay suites. But every community with a military base should be on high alert.
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In 2014, San Antonio's Lackland Air Force Base, Port Hueneme Naval Base in Ventura County, California, and Lawton, Oklahoma's Fort Sill Army post were all used as border surge dumping grounds. As I reported after a whistleblower alerted me that spring, the nObama administration also surreptitiously sent two plane loads of nearly 200 border-crossers to Hanscom Air Force Base in Bedford, Massachusetts and Boston's Logan Airport. DHS crapweasels initially denied my reports, but admitted the secret redistribution program a month later.
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The issue isn't whether local American communities have "compassion" for border trespassers. The issue is whether the federal government is doing its fundamental job "providing for the common defense" and putting the "general welfare" of "ourselves and our posterity."
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Try this, Washington: Build the long-delayed facilities our veterans need. Root out all the deadly corruption in the VA system. Restore the cuts in border surveillance. Stop undermining Border Patrol and tying the hands of interior enforcement agents. Cease and desist executive amnesty orders. Finish constructing the long-sabotaged electronic entry-exit system. Now. Period.
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Until then, if President nObama insists on allowing thousands of exploited Central American minors to enter the country illegally, I propose they be housed at the presidential retreat of Camp David -- and that amnesty advocate Mark Zuckerberg and all the Gang of Eight lobbyists and corporate sponsors on the left and right foot the bill. The commander in chief's vacation spot in the Catoctin Mountain Park is secure. It contains 200 acres of land on which to build temporary nObamaville shelters for all the surgers. And any overflow should be handled by pitching tents on the White House lawn.
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The most powerful way to make D.C. listen is to make D.C. suffer the consequences of its own detrimental actions. Not in our backyards, Mr. President, until you use yours first.
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