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The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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The Left’s Manufactured Muslim Crisis
Daniel Greenfield
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 Has Rubio Timed His Surge Impeccably?
The politician to watch in this lap of the Republican presidential primary is Marco Rubio. Many GOP candidates have had their day in the sun. For example, there was interest in Carly Fiorina and Ben Carson but their popularity waned. Interest in Rubio comes just when it matters the most — when the party is casting its votes. During the Iowa Caucuses he went from the perception that he was mired in the middle of the pack with the likes of Jeb Bush and Carson to finishing with a strong, third-place finish, just a percentage point behind Donald slump-Trump. With the New Hampshire primary on Tuesday, the question has become how Rubio will perform in the state where slump-Trump leads by a wide, albeit narrowing, margin.
          Rubio has surged in the polls in the past few days, and if he performs as well with late deciders in New Hampshire as he did in Iowa, it could be a good night for him next Tuesday. But more telling than some suspect poll aganda is the number of endorsements that Rubio has collected. The statistic wonks over at FiveThirtyEight reports Rubio collected more endorsements from leaders in the GOP than any other candidate. "There has been a lot of debate this presidential campaign about how much influence party elites have on the nominating process," FiveThirtyEight's Aaron Bycoffe writes, "but endorsements have historically been among the best signs of which candidates will succeed in primaries."
           Recently, Rubio has received endorsements from the likes of Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) and Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC). With South Carolina's delegation supporting the Florida senator, it might not be long before the governor of the Palmetto State, Nikki Haley, also endorses Rubio. The Establishment and its faux conservatism backs slump-Trump, so it's worth reiterating that both Cruz and Rubio stand for strong conservative principles. As we noted after the results in Iowa, Rubio pulls nearly universal perfect ratings from the American Conservative Union, Citizens Against Government Waste, National Right to Life and the NRA. The fact he's doing well is an encouraging sign for conservatism and Liberty. -The Patriot Post
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Clinton's Wall Street Connections Hurt
Wednesday's forum between Hilly Clinton and Bernie Sanders in New Hampshire didn't help Clinton win hearts and minds in that state. After the virtual tie in Iowa, the Democrat candidates headed over to New Hampshire to campaign before the primary. Socialist Bernie Sanders essentially has home-field advantage, what with New Hampshire populated with white liberals going gaga over the senator from their neighboring state. Yet Clinton has unleashed her ground game in hopes of mitigating her losses.
          At the forum hosted by CNN, Sanders said his goal was nothing short of upending the U.S. political system. "What this campaign is about is not just electing a president," Sanders said. "It is creating a political revolution where millions of people, many of whom have not been involved in the political process, stand up and demand a government which represents all of us, not just wealthy campaign contributors."
Meanwhile, Clinton was left defending her deep Wall Street connections, and defending the health care system her socialist competitor wants to replace with single-payer. Sanders attacked Clinton for having a Super PAC. And when moderator Anderson Cooper asked Clinton why she had to be paid $675,000 in speaking fees from Goldman Sachs, the once "dead broke" candidate stammered, "Well, I don't know. Um, that's what they offered, so..."
          We noted last month that connections to Wall Street have hurt candidates on both sides of this race, as Wall Street is unpopular with both grassroots liberals and conservatives. But Clinton had her scapegoat: That vast right-wing conspiracy again. Now, it's in the open, Clinton shrilled, and, "It's gotten even better funded." Last night, Clinton partied like it was 1999, while Sanders partied like it was 1949 — in China. -The Patriot Post
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VA Officials Get Away With Fraud
Know an ethics violator in need of job security? Try hooking them up with a lucrative position at the Department of Veterans Affairs. In addition to providing lackluster care to millions of veterans, numerous agency officials were found abusing their executive authority, such as Kimberly Graves and Diana Rubens. The duo was recently demoted from the Senior Executive Service sector of the VA. Government Executive provides a quick backstory:

In September, the VA inspector general concluded the two improperly helped create vacancies at their respective offices and volunteered to fill them. The two employees occupying the Philadelphia and St. Paul director jobs at the time were relocated to jobs they did not volunteer for to make room for Rubens and Graves, who were working elsewhere at the time in positions with more responsibility, according to the watchdog. VA paid roughly $274,000 in relocation expenses for Rubens, and about $129,000 for Graves, for a total of more than $400,000.

The VA, which hasn't exactly been quick to enact policy reforms, did address the situation, though the "punishment" amounted to nothing more than a slap on the wrist. Instead of pulling in salaries of more than $175,000 each, Rubens and Graves were paid only about $123,000 in their new roles. But even that was considered too harsh. In separate rulings issued Wednesday and Monday, the Merit Systems Protection Board struck down the demotions and reinstated the duo's former jobs. They were also awarded back pay. And their legal bills? All covered, courtesy of taxpayers. One judge, Chief Administrative Judge William Boulden, absurdly stated, "I find that there is a significant problem created by the inconsistent treatment of a comparable employee, and that this makes the penalty unreasonable under the circumstances." Translation: Because others are getting away with it, Rubens and Graves should too. Does that logic apply to tax frauds? -The Patriot Post  http://patriotpost.us/digests/40468

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nObama's Pay Gap Lies
Matthew Vadum
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ President nObama used the seventh anniversary of a law based on lies to push the Left's long-running lie that American employers discriminate against female employees...  The Left perpetuates the cult of the victim because it needs clients. Independent, self-reliant, self-respecting women who succeed on their own don't need leftist social programs and they're less likely to vote for Democrats. Sadly, the leftist lie that women earn less than men will probably never die because it is essential to the Left's narrative that America is inherently unfair. And it’s not that nObama is necessarily economically illiterate -- as a Marxist ideologue he simply doesn't care about the laws of economics, which he regards as obstacles to be overcome in the furtherance of social progress.
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Ryano, McCarthy to Chaffetz: 
Stay Away From Hilly
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{newsmax.com} ~ Stay far away from Hilly! That's the loud-and-clear message House Speaker Paul Ryano and Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy delivered to Rep. Jason Chaffetz on Wednesday... telling the Utah Republican in a closed-door meeting he cannot go forward with any probe involving Hilly Clinton, Politico reports. Multiple sources familiar with the meeting told Politico that the reason for the private powwow was a story published by the political news website in which Chaffetz, chair of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, was quoted. According to that article, Chaffetz said a pending probe into government record keeping practices would not be "specifically trying to target the secretary, but when she creates her own private email system, she's ensnarled herself."        http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/speaker-paul-ryan-kevin-mccarthy-hillary/2016/02/04/id/712772/?AID=7236#CommentSection
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With TPP Signed, Opposition Explodes
Across Political Spectrum
Alex Newman
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ With the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) signed today in New Zealand by officials from the 12 governments and dictatorships ensnared in the sovereignty-smashing “free trade” regime, opposition to the plot — dubbed “nObamatrade” by critics.. is surging across the political spectrum and around the nation. In the presidential primaries, virtually nobody, not even known establishment candidates, dares to express support for the scheme. In Congress, members of both parties are up in arms, calling on their colleagues to crush the TPP before it crushes America. And among the grassroots, Americans of all political persuasions are outraged, ranging from labor unions and environmental groups to conservative, libertarian, and constitutionalist forces. All 12 of the governments involved are facing their own homegrown opposition, too. As usual, the nObama administration is calling on U.S. lawmakers to rubber-stamp the agreement as quickly as possible. Indeed, nObama administration Trade Representative Michael Froman, a member of the extremist global government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations, even  threatened that America would face “costs” if Congress did not promptly submit to nObama's demands. Considering the reactions of lawmakers so far though — even among Republicans who stabbed voters in the back by campaigning on a platform of stopping nObama, then empowering him with “Fast Track” authority to ram TPP through Congress — the White House is likely to face major hurdles in getting TPP ratified before the November election, if ever. Even the most “progressive” members of nObama's party are fervently denouncing what nObama called the “most progressive trade agreement in history.”
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Did Hilly Just Implicate Bill?
Monica Crowley
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{washingtontimes.com} ~ There has been scant mention of the former president’s possible role and potential exposure in the server/classified material controversy... which now represents an existential threat to Mrs. Clinton’s presidential ambitions. But perhaps his role may be more central that we’ve been led to believe. Rather than simply focusing on Mrs. Clinton’s actions as secretary of state, the FBI investigation may be proceeding along two tracks: his and hers. So far, two areas of focus have been mentioned. One is the possible abuse of highly sensitive information by Mrs. Clinton through her use of a private, unsecured server. The other involves possible violations of public corruption law: whether she and Mr. Clinton used her position as secretary of state to further the interests of the Clinton Foundation. When these two apparently separate tracks are looked at conjointly, two major questions arise concerning Mr. Clinton.
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Aiding Disaster
Annie Sparrow
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{foreignaffairs.com} ~ Conducting humanitarian operations in war zones is inevitably challenging. Delivery of effective aid demands adherence to the four key humanitarian principles laid out by the International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in 1965... The first two, humanity alleviating suffering and impartiality prioritizing those in greatest need, are ethical principles that make the difference between merely doling out charity and providing humanitarian relief. The second two, neutrality not taking sides and independence from the government, are pragmatic principles for operating in conflict settings. In combination with international humanitarian law governing the conduct of warring parties, which affirms the right to give and receive assistance, the four principles generate the humanitarian space required to operate in war zones. Providing humanitarian relief during civil wars as opposed to international conflicts is particularly difficult—perhaps never more so than during the war in Syria, where the government’s military strategy relies on attacking civilians in opposition-held areas in an effort to render life there impossible. Since getting aid to those in greatest need contradicts the government’s goal of maximizing civilian suffering in opposition -held territory, Damascus has continued to do everything it can to obstruct relief—asserting sovereignty at the diplomatic level while targeting doctors, hospitals, ambulances, and convoys on the ground. Not only does the government deny humanitarian workers access to suffering populations, it denies that it is denying access. It tries hard to justify its targeting and obstruction by insisting that there are no civilians left in opposition-held areas, just terrorists. Yet recent pictures of children starving to death in Madaya, where 40,000 civilians are under siege by the government, undermine the government’s obscene arguments.        https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/syria/2016-02-01/aiding-disaster?cid=nlc-twofa-20160204&sp_mid=50627082&sp_rid=cnVkeXRpcnJlQGdtYWlsLmNvbQS2&spMailingID=50627082&spUserID=MTczMTAzMTU3MTM2S0&spJobID=860494379&spReportId=ODYwNDk0Mzc5S0
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Congress Surrenders To nObama – Open Border
Catch & Release Returns
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ The catch and release policy of non-enforcement of the United States borders by DHS Secretary Jihadi Jeh Johnson and Hussein nObama is back... With every month that passes the US gets closer and closer to being little more than a geographic region on the map, with no meaningful borders and a complete absence of enforcement. J. D. Hayworth asks Jessica Vaughn of the Center for Immigration Studies for her reaction to the policy change, which she describes as “stunning.” Vaughn reveals that “Border patrol agents are told not to process people that they catch unless they actually see them physically cross the border. They’re not even trying to enforce the law or even put any pretense of enforcing the law now. It’s absolutely crazy, reckless, policy, like putting up a white flag to illegal immigration. It makes no sense at all.” Hayworth notes that there are a lot of members of Congress who are happy to be rolled on this issue, and asks Glen Downs, a former Congressional Chief of Staff for Rep Walter Jones (R-NC), if he believes that the ascension of pro-amnesty, open borders Paul Ryano to the Speaker’s position and his full-funding in the omnibus of the nObama agenda had anything to do with the new emboldened nObama positions.        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25689
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nObama is WRONG - Islam is Not 
"Woven Into" America's Fabric
Gary DeMar
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{eaglerising.com} ~ President nObama claimed in his visit to a mosque that Islam is “woven into the fabric” of the United States since our nation’s founding and is a religion of peace... President nObama went on to say that “Jefferson and John Adams had their own copies of the Koran” and that “Benjamin Franklin wrote that even if the Mufti of Constantinople were to send a missionary to preach to us, he would find a pulpit at his service.” President nObama is engaged in myth making. He’s counting on people not actually looking into America’s early dealing with Islam. These things are rarely taught in our nation’s government schools so as not to offend.
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Trash-mouth press trashes slump-Trump
T. BECKET ADAMS
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Members of the press have long been saying things that are just as bad, or worse, about their political opponents as what Trump has said.
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Donald slump-Trump's willingness to go after his adversaries with "ugly rhetoric" has some pundits worried about the state of modern political discourse... but members of the press themselves have long been saying things that are just as bad, or worse, about people with whom they disagree. The casino tycoon has dominated the 2016 presidential election with his many uncensored, unpredictable and sometimes "crass" attacks on media personalities and GOP primary rivals. He shocked reporters in August 2015 when he seemed to suggest in an interview with CNN that Fox News' Megyn Kelly was menstruating when she moderated the first GOP primary debate.        http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/trash-mouth-press-trashes-trump/article/2582490
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D'Souza Destroys Bill Ayers Over 
Criminal Justice Inequality
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ nObama chum and unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers was left defenseless to the truth-bomb conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D'Souza set off against him during a criminal justice inequality debate for the Young America's Foundation Freedom Lecture Series... a chum and unrepentant domestic terrorist Bill Ayers was left defenseless to the truth-bomb conservative filmmaker and author Dinesh D'Souza set off against him during a criminal justice inequality debate for the Young America's Foundation Freedom Lecture Series. The question was, "Do either of you feel our criminal justice has become too political?" Ayers, clad in a "Black Lives Matter" T-shirt, began saying, "Our political justice system is a catastrophe and what was exposed in Ferguson that the criminal justice system is powered, the financing of it, is powered by the targeting of poor people."Going more personal, Ayers called out D'Souza's prior felony political donation, saying politics can be bought and sold to the highest bidder. He mocked the conservative, who spent one night in jail after his arrest, saying at the time, he offered to write the judge on behalf of D'Souza to spare him from prison and instead send him to North Carolina and register voters "which would fit the crime of corrupting the political process in New York," Ayers said. D'Souza reared back and let Ayers have it: The inequity of our criminal justice system is on full display right on this podium right here. So, I gave $20,000 of my own money over the campaign finance limit, I got eight months in overnight confinement. You bombed the Pentagon and tried to bomb all kinds of other things, wild audience applause. How much time did you do in the slammer? Boom.
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Super 'Toilet' Bowl: City scorched 
for open-air 'pee' wall
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San Francisco’s open-air urinal 
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{wnd.com} ~ Just as America’s attention turns to California’s Bay Area for Super Bowl 50, the City by the Bay is offering open-air public urination stations – without doors or walls – where men can do their business within eye-shot of unsuspecting passersby... San Francisco has spent $15,000 to build a semi-circular public urination wall, according to the Pacific Justice Institute. “This is a new low even for San Francisco. It is also blatantly illegal,” PJI President Brad Dacus said in a statement. “The city has not even attempted to comply with its own ordinances, much less state or federal law. We intend to hold them accountable. Public urination is bad enough; spending taxpayer money to promote it is indefensible.” PJI says some local residents have complained about the urination wall at the corner of Church and 20th Streets, which is positioned right next to a public park and public transit station.
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The Left’s Manufactured Muslim Crisis
Daniel Greenfield
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{aim.org} ~ Men and women, some whose clothes were still marked with gray ash, walked dazedly toward Union Square. Many did not know what to do or where to go. So they kept on walking. They knew the country was under attack, but they did not know how bad it was or what might still be heading for them.
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Behind them lay a changed city and thousands of American dead. Ahead was the bronze statue of George Washington, facing into the devastation and raising his hand to lead his men forward in victory. Around its base, with the destruction of the World Trade Center as their backdrop, leftists had set up shop, coloring anti-war posters even while rescue workers were risking their lives at Ground Zero.
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In the coming days, the statue of Washington would be repeatedly vandalized by leftists drawing peace signs and “No War” and “War is Not the Answer” slogans on it. But that moment crystallized my realization that while Muslim terrorists had carried out the attack, it was the left we would have to fight.
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While some New Yorkers had gone to help the victims of Islamic terrorists, the left had rushed to aid the terrorists. Unlike the rest of us, they were not shocked or horrified by the attack. They were treasonously working on ways to spin the murder of thousands of Americans to protect the enemy.
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The greatest obstacle to defeating Islamic terrorism is still the left.
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The left helped create Islamic terrorism; its immigration policies import terrorism while its civil rights arm obstructs efforts to prevent it and its anti-war rallies attack any effort to fight it. In America, in Europe and in Israel, and around the world, to get at Islamic terrorists, you have to go through the left.
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When a Muslim terrorist comes to America, it’s the left that agitates to admit him. Before he kills, it’s the left that fights to protect him from the FBI. Afterward, leftists offer to be his lawyers. The left creates the crisis and then it fights against any effort to deal with it except through surrender and appeasement.
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Islamic violence against non-Muslims predated the left. But it’s the left that made it our problem. Islamic terrorism in America or France exists because of Muslim immigration. And the left is obsessed with finding new ways to import more Muslims. Merkel is praised for opening up a Europe already under siege by Islamic terror, Sharia police, no-go zones and sex grooming and groping gangs, to millions.
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The left feverishly demands that the whole world follow her lead. Bill Gates would like America to be just like Germany. Israel’s deranged Labor Party leader Herzog urged the Jewish State to open its doors.
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And then, after the next round of stabbings, car burnings and terror attacks, they blame the West for not “integrating” the un-integratable millions who had no more interest in being integrated than their leftist patrons do in moving to Pakistan and praying to Allah on a threadbare rug. But “integration” is a euphemism for a raft of leftist agenda items from social services spending to punishing hate speech though never that of the Imams crying for blood and death, but only of their native victims to a foreign policy based on appeasement and surrender. Islamic terrorists kill and leftists profit from the carnage.
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The ongoing threat of Islamic terrorism is a manufactured crisis that the left cultivates because that gives it power. In a world without 9/11, the nObama presidency would never have existed. Neither would the Arab Spring and the resulting migration and wholesale transformation of Western countries.
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In the UK, Labour used Muslim immigration as a deliberate political program to “change the country.” In Israel, Labor struck an illegal deal with Arafat that put sizable portions of the country under the control of terrorists while forcing the Jewish State into a series of concessions to terrorists and the left. The same fundamental pattern of Labour and Labor and the whole left is behind the rise of Islamic terrorism.
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Muslim terrorism creates pressure that the left uses to achieve policy goals. Even when it can’t win elections, Muslim terrorism allows the left to create a crisis and then to set an agenda.
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The left’s patronage of Islamic terrorists for its own political purposes follows a thread back to the origin of Islamic terrorism. Islamic violence against non-Muslims dates back to the founding of Islam, but the tactics of modern Islamic terrorism owe as much to Lenin as they do to Mohammed.
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Today’s Islamic terrorist is the product of traditional Islamic theology and Soviet tactics. The USSR did not intend to create Al Qaeda, but they provided training and doctrine to terrorists from the Muslim world. The “secular” and “progressive” terrorists of the left either grew Islamist, like Arafat, or their tactics were copied and expanded on, like the PFLP, by a new generation of Islamic terrorists.
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The earlier phase of Islamic organizations, such as the Muslim Brotherhood, had been inspired by fascists who were seeking to use them in their own wars. Over this layer of secret societies plotting takeovers and building networks of front groups, the Soviet Union added the terror tactics that had been employed by the left. And the leftist mad bomber became the Muslim suicide bomber. Terrorism in the Muslim world has evolved from functioning as a Third World proxy army for the left, in much the same way as guerrillas and terrorists from Asia, Africa and Latin America had, to a diaspora whose migrations lend a domestic terror arm to a Western left whose own spiteful activists have grown unwilling to put their lives on the line and go beyond tweeting words to throwing bombs.
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With the Muslim Brotherhood, the origin organization of Al Qaeda, ISIS and Hamas, among many others, so tightly integrated into the American and European left that it is often hard to see where one begins and the other ends, Islam has become the militant arm of the purportedly secular left. Western leftists and Islamists have formed the same poisonous relationship as Middle Eastern leftists and Islamists did leading to the rise of the Ayatollah Khomeini and the Arab Spring. Leftists expected Islamists to do the dirty work while they would take over. Instead the Islamists won and killed them.
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Having learned nothing from the Hitler-Stalin pact, the left has replayed the same betrayal with the Mohammed-Stalin pact in the Middle East and now in the West. But the end of the Mohammed-Stalin pact will not be a Socialist totalitarian utopia, but an Islamic theocracy of slaves, terror and death.
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On September 11, I saw with my own eyes how eager and willing leftists were to rush to the aid of Islamic terrorists even while their fellow Americans were dying. Nothing has changed. Every Islamic act of brutality is met with lies and spin, with mass distraction and deception by the treasonous left. Every effort to fight Islamic terrorists is sabotaged, undermined and protested by the enemy within.
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Since September 11, the left has trashed the FBI’s counterterrorism and has now succeeded in destroying the NYPD’s counterrorism while transforming the FDNY into an affirmative action project. What the September 11 hijackers could never accomplish on their own, the leftists did for them by defeating the three forces that had stood against Islamic terrorists on that day. And it would not surprise me at all if some of the “No War” scribblers have gone on to play an influential role in that treason.
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The left has crippled domestic and international counterterrorism. American soldiers are not allowed to shoot terrorists and the FBI and NYPD can’t monitor mosques or even be taught what to look for. Islamic terrorism has achieved unprecedented influence and power under nObama. ISIS has created the first functioning caliphate and Iran marches toward the first Jihadist nuclear bomb. The mass Muslim migration is beginning a process that will Islamize Europe far more rapidly than anyone expects.
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The Jihad would not be a significant threat without the collaboration of the left. Without the left standing in the way, it’s a problem that could be solved in a matter of years. With the aid of the left, it threatens human civilization with a dark age that will erase our culture, our future and our freedom.
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We cannot defeat Islam without defeating the left. That is the lesson I learned on September 11. It is a lesson that appears truer every single year as the left finds new ways to endanger us all.
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Saturday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
nObama's Dubious Mosque Choice
Steven Emerson
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 Perhaps Peace Hasn't Broken Out Everywhere 
Well, so much for the "Pacific Pivot." That was the term coined for the nObama administration's attentive shift to the Far East in light of saber-rattling by China and North Korea. The "pivot" is yesterday's news: It's less a pivot now and more like a full-on spinning top. After seven years of his relentless onslaught against American military might, Mr. America's-Not-Exceptional has done everything in his power to ensure that America is not, in fact, exceptional. Now we learn the tab for this disturbingly naive worldview is coming due even while Barack nObama still occupies the Oval Office. All we can say is, God help the next commander in chief.
          Acting as the better-late-than-never voice of reason for the administration, Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter announced a 2017 budget request of $3.4 billion to better defend Europe. The request more than quadruples the current budget for the region, and not a moment too soon. The money will fund weapons, armored vehicles, supplies and personnel to provide an increased U.S. military presence in Central and Eastern Europe, in an attempt to finally counter the largely unchecked Russian aggression in the region. The administration's stated goal for the increased budget is to ensure NATO has the ability to maintain a full combat armored brigade in the region. And just think: It only took one downed, fully-loaded Boeing 777, the takeover of two sovereign nations and an ongoing war against another to spur Team Hope to action. Who said nObama is slow to act?
          nObama's listless war on the Islamic State also would get a shot in the arm — a 35%, or $7 billion, increase. The European increase is ostensibly a "one-time request," but we're pretty sure that's how all these efforts start out. It's hard to put the toothpaste back in the tube.
          Our (ahem) "strategic partner" — Russia — was also quick to remark that Carter's announcement is "destabilizing and detrimental to the European security." That's rich. Russia of course knows a thing or two about the subject — just ask Ukraine, Georgia or Crimea. In any case, it's good that the White House stated the increased budget would allow for "continuous armored brigade rotations" in Central and Eastern Europe because at the rate we're going, we'll soon need continuous armored brigade rotations. 
 -The Patriot Post
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 THE EDGE: IOWA LOSS TURNS DOWN  slump-  TRUMP’S VOLUME IN N.H.   We know that Iowa caucus results can change the discussion in New Hampshire and here’s the proof. Prior to Monday night, Donald slump-Trump dominated media mentions within the state of New Hampshire the same way he dominated polls. But, according to research by The New Analytics Company, slump-Trump’s lead in mentions has been cut in half.
          Second-place Marco Rubio slipped a fraction of a point but slump-Trump’s share of media time was robbed by a host of other candidates, especially those who are placing long-shot bets on the Granite State. slump-Trump’s slippage brings him nearly into parity with Rubio in the New Hampshire media.
          Iowa winner Ted Cruz got a boost and now the overall discussion in the first-in-the-nation primary state reflects what polls have been showing: a three-man race with no one else even close.  -Fox News
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 DEBATE, POLL FORETELL LONG SLOG FOR  HILLY   A contentious, sometimes nasty, Democratic debate between presumptive nominee Hilly Clinton and her rival, socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., foreshadowed a long, ugly march to victory for Clinton. And a new poll out today shows just how long it might be.
          The Quinnipiac University national poll shows Clinton’s support has collapsed since the last survey in December, losing nearly 20 points to fall into a statistical tie with Sanders. Clinton is still popular with Democrats, but hard sentiment seems to be growing. Some 22 percent of Democrats hold unfavorable views of Clinton, more than double Sanders. The Vermont senator also holds the highest overall favorability among any candidate in either party at 44 percent and performs better in the general election matchup against all Republicans than Clinton. That’s strong evidence that her electability argument isn’t working.
          Clinton’s battering of Sanders in Thursday’s debate suggests she is aware of her predicament. But she likely worsened her plight as she not only went scorched earth after Sanders but also made several head-scratching claims including that she was not part of the Democratic establishment.
          She can still be considered a lock for the nomination but it is almost as if her preparations for a long, ugly process was a prediction rather than a precaution.  -Fox News
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EPA has No Answer Why They Didn't
Inform Public About Lead Water 1 Yr Ago
Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Joel  Beauvais is the Deputy Assistant Administrator for the Office of Water for the Environmental Protection Agency... So with that title, it would be assumed he should know exactly why the citizens of Flint, Michigan weren't told en masse that they were ingesting and bathing in poisonous lead water. Except he doesn't.  Before the House Oversight Committee, Mr. Beauvais came prepared with exactly no answers as to why Flint citizens were kept in the dark for nearly a year that the water in their homes was making their children sick. Calling him out on this was chairman of the committee Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT). Chaffetz wanted to know why it took so long to get the information to the public even though EPA regulations manager Miguel Del Toral knew there were extremely high levels of lead in the water of Leanne Walters' home all the way back in February 2015. Walters was responsible for bringing this issue to light after telling state officials that her children's hair was suddenly falling out in chunks.        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/watch-epa-has-no-answer-why-they-didnt-inform-public-about-lead-water-1-yr-ago
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SECDEF Carter Confirms Navy Developing
Supersonic Anti-Ship Missile 
for Cruisers, Destroyers
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Launch of a SM-6. US Navy
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{news.usni.org} ~ Secretary of Defense Ash Carter confirmed the Navy was developing a modification to the Raytheon Standard Missile 6 that will give the service a supersonic anti-ship weapon to reach a target more than 200 nautical miles away... “We are going to create a brand-new capability,” Carter told reporters in San Diego on Wednesday. “We’re modifying the SM-6 so that in addition to missile defense, it can also target enemy ships at sea at very long ranges.” With a top speed of Mach 3.5, the SM-6 will extend the lethal range of the CRUDES force well beyond the reach of the current Boeing RGM-84 Harpoon anti-surface missile – first introduced in the late 1970s.
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nObama and Clinton vs. 
The People of the United States
Dave Hodges
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nObama and Clinton redefine the word “Treason”
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{thecommonsenseshow.com} ~ This article contains material from Paul Preston, Scott Bennett, Bob Chapman and myself. Some of the material is well documented, often using public sources and some of the complementary material... is derived from deep-cover sources in which the source of the information would risk their lives if their identity were to be known. The collection of material repeals a pattern that is so consistent and compelling, that any aware and open-minded person would conclude that the nObama administration is morally reprehensible and represents a mafia type structure to their regime. The corruption and treason of this administration is unparalleled in United States history to the point where I feel like chanting “bring back Nixon”.       http://www.thecommonsenseshow.com/2016/02/04/obama-and-clinton-vs-the-people-of-the-united-states/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=obama-and-clinton-vs-the-people-of-the-united-states
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Find Out If Your Lawmaker Voted to
End Operation Choke Point
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The House of Representatives concluded a tense debate Thursday by voting 250-169 to end a controversial nObama administration program called Operation Choke Point... Critics say the secretive program, run by the Department of Justice, has been used to target politically unpopular industries such as gun sellers. “We’re elated,” Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer, R-Mo., one of the bill’s co-sponsors, told The Daily Signal after the vote. “We’ve been working on this for two and a half years—we’ve been lied to, put off and dissed by the different regulatory agencies, and we’ve prevailed.”
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Democrats Put nObama’s Iran Appeasement
Above National Security
Jonathan Levin
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ The disastrous JCPOA and President nObama’s political compulsion to hide Iranian wrong-doing have infected the entire Democratic Party...  Instead of responding to Iran’s support for terrorism and violations of its international commitments by imposing penalties, President nObama – and now his Democratic allies in Congress – are running cover. David Gerstmen wrote last month that “nObama’s Passivity in Face of Aggression Puts Iran in Driver’s Seat” and in October, Iran tested a nuclear-capable ballistic missile that was later determined by the United Nations to have been in violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 1929.  The administration, in response to Congressional pressure, was set to impose new sanctions on Iran at the end of 2015, but retreated when threatened by Iran. To do nothing is the weakness of a president. Puts America in danger.
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Young & Prudent: Parents 
Just Don’t Understand
Samantha Solomon
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{wallstreetdaily.com} ~ My parents have no idea why I’m up here in the mountains. They don’t understand why, after finishing a master’s degree... I decided to quit my nice job in the city and move to rural Vermont to live and work at a meditation retreat center for almost no money. When my parents were my age, they already owned a home and were raising three kids. Both of them were securely locked into their careers, which they would stay in for the next 30 years. Their financial plan was all mapped out: Pay off the mortgage, save for the kids’ college tuition, and retire around 65. So, of course it’s hard for them to understand that even as my 30th birthday approaches, I’ve chosen to live in a dorm at a place that feels very much like meditation summer camp for adults.        http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2016/02/05/young-prudent-millennial-adulthood/
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Horowitz: The Other Border Crisis: Castro’s
Immigration War on America  
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{conservativereview.com} ~ The American people are sending a message loud and clear to the political elites: America is not a dumping ground. .. Nothing embodies the rationale behind this outrage more than the recent surge in Cuban migrants both at the Florida coast and through the Texas border via Central America. In addition to the surge in Central American migrants crossing the border, there has been a torrent of Cuban nationals entering our country at levels not seen in years.  During FY 2015, roughly 43,000 Cubans entered the U.S., double the level of the previous year; and according to a new report, 7,000 Cubans are expected to come through the Texas border in the coming days. So far, 86,000 migrants have already arrived this year. But unlike Mexicans and Central Americans, Cubans cannot be deemed as illegal aliens. Pursuant to the Cuban Adjustment Act of 1966 and a subsequent act in 1976, any Cuban who finds his way to our shores is essentially granted a green card immediately. And unlike other immigrants, they are eligible for welfare from day one. This got to stop.        https://www.conservativereview.com/commentary/2016/02/the-other-border-crisis-castros-immigration-war-on-america
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Border agent: 'We might as well abolish our
immigration laws altogether'
PAUL BEDARD
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ In a shocking reversal of policy, U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents are being told to release illegal immigrants... and no longer order them to appear at deportation hearings, essentially a license to stay in the United States, a key agent testified Thursday. What's more, the stand down order includes a requirement that the whereabouts of illegals released are not to be tracked. "We might as well abolish our immigration laws altogether, "suggested agent Brandon Judd, president of the National Border Patrol Council. This president is destroying our country.
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Flying in the Face of U.S. Sanctions
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Mahan Air is an Iranian passenger airline that also happens to be a favorite with the country’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. The IRGC uses Mahan planes to ferry weapons and personnel to aid the Syrian regime... That’s according to the U.S. government, which has repeatedly committed itself to grounding the airline. Yet Mahan continues to fly the friendly Middle East skies and is even expanding its operations. Of all Iranian entities still under U.S. sanctions, Mahan is arguably the most significant. The U.S. Treasury sanctioned it in October 2011 for “providing financial, material and technological support to the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps-Qods Force (IRGC-QF)” and for providing transportation services to Iran’s Lebanese terror proxy, Hezbollah. In October 2012, Treasury blacklisted 117 Iranian commercial planes, including all of Mahan’s aircraft, because “Iran used Iran Air and Mahan Air flights between Tehran and Damascus to send military and crowd control equipment to the Syrian regime.” The Islamic Republic continued to rely on civilian aircraft to supply the Assad regime throughout the talks leading to last year’s nuclear deal. A Western intelligence report leaked to Reuters in 2012 confirmed that Mahan was at the center of the IRGC airlift to the Assad regime. So has a United Nations panel in charge of monitoring implementation of international sanctions against Iran.      http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/emanuele-ottolenghi-flying-in-the-face-of-us-sanctions/
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Dutch Intelligence Report Gives Glimpse of
‘Deplorable’ Conditions in 
ISIS-Controlled Areas
Barbara Hollingsworth
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ISIS militants
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Dutch citizens who travel to ISIS-controlled areas do so knowingly and support the jihadist group’s use of violence to create an Islamic caliphate, according to a recent report by the Dutch Intelligence Directorate (AIVD)... But few are prepared for the “deplorable’ living conditions in ISIS-controlled areas. “ISIS propaganda paints an idyllic life in the ‘caliphate’ which is not consistent with reality,” according to a translated version of the report, which was based on 18 months of “intelligence-based research.” Although “ISIS has gone to great lengths to keep alive the myth of a successful state…ISIS is facing significant problems, such as military setbacks and internal tensions,” AIVD reports, “Information Research shows that the conditions are just deplorable…marked by hardship and mutual distrust.”
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nObama's Dubious Mosque Choice
Steven Emerson
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{jewishworldreview.co} ~ Barack nObama is scheduled to visit the Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB) today, his first visit to a U.S. mosque since becoming president.
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ISB leaders have amassed a record of support for radical Islamic causes over the years, including endorsing the Chechen jihad and Palestinian suicide bombings. Its former imam was active in a charity later linked to terror financing including Hamas, the Taliban, and for providing "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to Osama bin Laden.
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More recently, a resident scholar described homosexuality as a threat to societal health, in stark contrast to the president's views on the issue.
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It's safe to assume the White House vetted the ISB and found it an acceptable venue for a presidential appearance despite this history. And that is not surprising. The nObama administration has repeatedly embraced contact with the Muslim Brotherhood, repeatedly meeting with its officials during and after the Arab Spring while ignoring secular democracy advocates. It praised the early tenure of Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi when he briefly served as Egypt's president. The administration also helped a Brotherhood delegation skip routine screening by U.S. Customs and Border Protection upon landing in America.
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And, as we reported in December, a White House meeting also aimed at standing by the Muslim-American community featured representatives of Islamist groups, including some with consistent records of opposing U.S. law enforcement counter-terrorism efforts.
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ISB officials have worked closely with one of those groups, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). In 2014, two ISB officials joined with CAIR in a news conference blasting Israeli military actions in Gaza. The conflict, known as Operation Protective Edge, started when Hamas operatives kidnapped and murdered three Israeli teens and continued its incessant campaign of firing rockets with the hope of killing Israeli civilians.
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Those rockets were fired from densely populated areas, including near schools and houses of worship.
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But Hamas' murders and ongoing efforts to carry out more were never mentioned by the CAIR and ISB officials. Instead, they blamed Israel when raids aimed at rocket launchers and other Hamas targets inadvertently killed and injured civilians.
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ISB President Muhammad Jameel recklessly invoked "genocide in the name of self-defense" and said that, "as an American I am ashamed to stand here."
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Abid Husain, the ISB's general secretary, joined Jameel in calling for the U.S. to pressure Israel into opening Gaza's borders, ending an embargo that was enacted to stop the flow of weapons and materials used to make them.
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"The U.S. government must not remain silent about Israel's indiscriminate assault and unjust use of force," Husain said. "The right of a nation to defend itself does not extend to unrestrained aerial bombardments of civilian populations and must be condemned."
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Far from genocide, which is the systematic elimination of a people, and from an indiscriminate attack, Israel campaign against Hamas "went to extraordinary lengths" to minimize civilian casualties, said Gen. Martin Dempsey, then-chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff. Israel dropped leaflets and called residents of buildings targeted for bombing in hopes the residents would heed the warnings and seek safer locations.
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After the conflict ended, Dempsey sent a team of senior officers to learn from Israeli military leaders to study the tactics in Gaza to minimize civilian casualties. "In this kind of conflict, where you are held to a standard that your enemy is not held to, you're going to be criticized for civilian casualties," he said.
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As the Daily Caller reported, a past ISB imam worked with an Islamic charity later shuttered by the Treasury Department for supporting terrorists.
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Mohamad Adam El Sheikh was a regional representative for the Islamic Africa Relief Agency (IARA) in Baltimore the same time that he was an ISB imam and director.
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An archived ISB action alert says that the "Islamic Society of Baltimore was recently visited by an IARA representative who brought the attached pictures of atrocities committed by Russians against the Muslims in Chechnya."
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Although links to several pictures from the Chechen jihad are still available on ISB's archived web page, the actual pictures are no longer accessible.
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"Despite all of this, by the grace of Allah, the Mujahidin in Chechnya have been able to defend themselves and remains a formidable threat to heavily armed Russian Army. However, it is also our responsibility as Muslims all over the world to help them in their Jihad effort," the action alert added.
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The action alert further solicited donations "to help the Refugees and Mujahidin in their struggle."
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In 2004, El-Sheikh justified Palestinian suicide bombings, saying they are acceptable when "certain Muslims are to be cornered where they cannot defend themselves, except through these kinds of means, and their local religious leaders issued fatwas to permit that."
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Another page on the ISB's archived "Official English Site" links to a feature on the "Jihad in Chechnya" on the Azzam Publications website. Azzam publications was an al Qaida-tied website that was "one of the most well-known supporters of jihad, or holy war, on the internet." The site is replete with material promoting jihad and martyrdom operations and includes a photo and link to a biography of Osama bin Laden's mentor, Abdullah Azzam.
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Just after 9/11, the ISB hosted speakers who would become prominent advocates of jihad, including American-born al-Qaida cleric Anwar al-Awlaki, who was killed in a 2011 U.S. drone strike. Awlaki's online sermons remain some of the most watched, most effective terrorist recruiting material online.
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A page from ISB's archived website links to the homepage of Muslim Brotherhood spiritual leader Yusuf Qaradawi. Qaradawi has issued fatwas or religious rulings in support of terrorism and described suicide operations as "heroic martyrdom operations." In a 2004 fatwa, Qaradawi called abducting and killing Americans in Iraq is "a religious duty."
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At a 1995 conference held by the Muslim Arab Youth Association (MAYA) in Toledo, Ohio, Qaradawi called for the "conquest" of Europe and America through Dawa, or proselytizing. "We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through sword but through Dawa," he said.
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The ISB's leaders have had connections with radical Islamists and espoused extreme viewpoints throughout its history.
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During an appearance on Fox News Monday, Jasser said he was insulted by the president's choice of the ISB. It continues an administration policy of working with Islamist groups and ignoring Muslims like him who stand against theocracy.
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"It's disgraceful that this is one of the mosques - or the mosque - that he's picked to be the first visit," he said. ISB's website looks like "a covert operation. There's no name on it. It basically has pictures of individuals, but no names."
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For an event that is expected to focus on tolerance, diversity and inclusion, nObama made a puzzling choice in the ISB. Its leaders sympathize with terrorists, hate homosexuals and treat women as less than equal.
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Saturday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Glick: The IDF's Misplaced Trust in the PA
Caroline Glick
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 A Big Win for the Second Amendment 
It's been a bad week for What's-His-Name. Former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley dropped out of the Democrat presidential race Monday night after a predictably pitiful showing in Iowa. Then on Thursday, the Fourth Circuit Court struck down his signature "assault weapons" ban, rammed through in Democrats' exploitative gun-grabbing frenzy after Sandy Hook. The Maryland law — a ban he promised to replicate at the national level if elected president — prohibited some semiautomatic rifles and so-called high-capacity magazines (by which they mean standard capacity). But the court concluded those instruments meet the Supreme Court's measure of being "in common use by law-abiding citizens," and the three-judge panel sent the case back to U.S. District Court with instructions to apply "strict scrutiny."
          Here's the money quote from the ruling: "In our view, Maryland law implicates the core protection of the Second Amendment — 'the right of law-abiding responsible citizens to use arms in defense of hearth and home,' District of Columbia v. Heller, 554 U.S. 570, 635 (2008), and we are compelled by Heller and McDonald v. City of Chicago, 561 U.S. 742 (2010), as well as our own precedent in the wake of these decisions, to conclude that the burden is substantial and strict scrutiny is the applicable standard of review for Plaintiffs' Second Amendment claim." In other words, though other appeals courts have failed to uphold the Constitution, the Fourth Circuit says the Maryland ban clearly violates the Second Amendment, and the lower court needs to figure that out.
          Gun writer Bob Owens explains the significance, writing, "If the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals decision stands (it will almost certainly be appealed) and the courts hold that strict scrutiny should apply to Second Amendment cases as they do every other law restricting constitutional rights, then most of the gun control laws in the United States will eventually fall like dominoes."  -The Patriot Post
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 Like Cheap Gas? How About a New Oil Tax? 
Accompanying his proposed budget for the Department of Transportation, Barack nObama will issue a plan to increase the government's investment in "clean energy" infrastructure by 50% with a $10 tax on each barrel of oil sold by the nation's oil companies. The plan would supposedly fund high-speed rail, public transportation and research into self-driving vehicles in hopes of reducing the nation's greenhouse gas emissions. It follows the formula that the government uses when it taxes cigarettes. Higher prices will mean fewer people pick up smoking, and the revenue, in theory, goes to anti-smoking initiatives. A White House fact sheet on the transportation plan read: "By placing a fee on oil, the president's plan creates a clear incentive for private sector innovation to reduce our reliance on oil and at the same time invests in clean energy technologies that will power our future."
          This is the man who, just a month ago in his State of the Union Address, took credit for the nation's low gas prices. Don't think for a minute that the oil companies would simply absorb this tax, either. For the last year, the oil industry has been sloughing off jobs. It's not exactly a profitable business to be in at the moment, so the tax on oil companies will be picked up by everyone driving a car.
          Taxes are like nicotine: Once the government is hooked, it's hard to funnel the money into programs that will destroy the flow of money. While cigarette taxes are supposed to fund anti-smoking programs, much of that money has simply flowed into governments' general funds. nObama's plan will do more to handicap the economy on which Americans currently rely than to create a green transportation infrastructure.  -The Patriot Post
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 Sanders Attacks Clinton's Corruption, Round  Two   Was it Groundhog Day? Thursday night, Hilly Clinton and Bernie Sanders took the stage for a debate ahead of the New Hampshire primary next week. The two covered much of the same ground they did the night before at a forum hosted by CNN: Sanders attacked Clinton's Wall Street connections and Clinton once again tried to defend herself.
          "I just absolutely reject that, Senator," Clinton said to Sanders regarding his claim that special interest groups corrupted her, "and I don't think these attacks by insinuations are worthy of you. ... But you will never find that I've changed my view or my vote because of any donation I ever received. And I've stood up and I've represented my constituents to the best of my ability. ... I think it's time to end the very artful smear that you and your campaign have been carrying out in recent weeks."
          This is part of the tussle the two have been having on who is the most progressive. Sanders is most ideologically pure. Clinton says she is a pragmatic and realistic progressive. But there are several instances where Clinton has changed her vote because of money. In 2004, then-professor Elizabeth Warren said that, at the end of Bill Clinton's term, she met with the then-first lady to discuss a bill that would have reformed bankruptcy law. After her talk with Warren, Clinton got her husband to defeat the law. But when she turned senator, Clinton voted for the law. Warren said Clinton was swayed by money. And let's not forget the pay-to-play culture fostered by the Clinton Foundation. Thanks to a donation to the Clinton Foundation, this is probably why Russia controls 20% of uranium production in the United States. Both candidates would damage the nation. Clinton would do it through corruption.  -The Patriot Post
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Mixed emotions about the 
Kotel compromise
Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
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Rabbi Yitzchok Adlerstein
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{jewishjournal.com} ~ What’s the definition of mixed emotions, asks the old gag line: Finding out that your business competitor and rival has just driven off a cliff — in your new Lamborghini... The Orthodox community has to greet news of the Kotel agreement similarly. We can hope that it will bring relief from the ugliness of acrimonious battles between brothers and sisters, all under the critical gaze of the non-Jewish world wondering whatever happened to the much-vaunted Jewish unity. But what a horrible price to pay for a cease-fire! The resistance of the heterodox movements to the mechitzah in the Kotel plaza means that they have erected an even larger, more ominous one between millions of Jews. With all our differences, all of us directed our hearts for centuries to that remnant of the outer wall of the two Temples. Having miraculously gained physical control of it in 1967, fulfilling what had long been only a dream, we find ourselves unable to maintain enough unity to preserve a single place in the entire world where we can come together and express our Jewishness in prayer. It is a tragedy that we will live with, but a tragedy.  
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New bull's-eye on nObama's
'unconstitutional' gun grab
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{wnd.com} ~ The lawyer who brought the first legal challenge to the brand-new gun limits announced by President nObama last month now is asking a judge for a quick ruling, insisting there’s really nothing to argue over... The new motion for summary judgment was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, Palm Beach Division, by civil rights activist attorney Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch. His recent lawsuit reasoned that there is “nothing in the U.S. Constitution which offers any authority or role of the executive branch with regard to legislating to change the rights under the Second Amendment.”
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White House: GOP Congress Must Approve TPP “nObamatrade” Soon
 Alex Newman
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Following a signing ceremony on February 4 in New Zealand, the nObama administration is calling on the GOP-controlled Congress to hurry up and approve the massive “free-trade” regime known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)...  Despite fierce opposition and the ongoing presidential primaries, nObama's Trade Representative, Michael Froman, said he was confident that Republican lawmakers would comply with the White House's demand in the months ahead, warning of “economic consequences” if Congress did not make haste. At this point, though, approval appears to be far from certain. Dubbed “nObamatrade” by critics, the deeply controversial treaty has opponents up in arms all across the political spectrum, despite support from the establishment wing of both parties. Conservatives have blasted, among other elements, the agreement's full-blown assaults on national sovereignty and self-government. Liberals, meanwhile, are decrying what they view as a lack of serious protections for labor, the environment, and more. On both sides of the political spectrum, opponents also worry that the scheme could facilitate a stepped-up exodus of U.S. jobs, businesses, and manufacturing.
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New nObama Regulations Will Make It Harder
to Hire and Promote White Men
Selwyn Duke
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The nObama administration is obsessed with race and sex. Many know about the administration’s scheme to collect information on the racial composition of American communities in an effort to force neighborhoods to “diversify.”...  Now the government is applying the same philosophy to businesses in order to “equalize” wages. It’s an effort, critics point out, that will make it harder for white men to find jobs. Writes the New York Post’s Betsy McCaughey: Claiming women aren’t getting paid enough, President nObama wants to make it easier to accuse employers of gender discrimination and hit them with class-action lawsuits. A new regulation proposed on Friday will require all employers with 100 or more workers to report how much their workforce is paid, broken down by race and sex. The rule, slated to go into effect in September 2017, will cause headaches for employers and anyone — man or woman — who works hard and expects to get ahead based on merit. The winners are federal bean counters, class-action lawyers and the Democratic Party, which is playing up the inter-sex “wage gap” as usual during this election year.
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Voice of Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck
Joe Alaskey dies at 63
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 Joe Alaskey, the voice of Daffy Duck, attends the "Daffy Duck for President Campaign Rally" press conference to celebrate the release of the Looney Tunes Golden Collection Volume Two DVD at Sherman Oaks Galleria October 20, 2004 in Los Angeles, California. 
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{foxnews.com} ~ Joe Alaskey, best known for providing the iconic voices of "Looney Tunes" legends Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tweety, Sylvester and Marvin the Martian, died Wednesday after a battle with cancer. He was 63... Alaskey's spokesperson, K.P. Lynne, shared the news on the actor's Facebook fan page, writing in part, "Never doubt that Joe loved each and every one of you. Your comments and posts always made his day and brought joy to his heart and life." Alaskey was one of the most celebrated successors of legendary voice actor Mel Blanc, who originated the voices of many of Warner Bros.' beloved cartoon characters.
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Putin ignores hanoi-Kerry plea, instead deploys
Top Gun fighter jet to join Syria battle
 Lucas Tomlinson and Jennifer Griffin
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{foxnews.com} ~ Russia seemingly has ignored Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry’s appeals to stop bombing civilians and allow critical humanitarian aid to starving Syrians...and is instead escalating its military involvement, deploying four of its most capable fighter jets to Syria, two defense officials confirmed to Fox News. The decision to send the Su-35S jets poses yet another hurdle for hanoi-Kerry’s efforts to proceed with peace talks. The Su-35S is Russia’s most advanced warplane, capable of air-to-air and air-to-ground missions, one official familiar with the jet said. Already, continued Russian airstrikes against Syrian opposition fighters, some backed by the CIA, were enough to derail proposed peace talks in Geneva Wednesday.   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2016/02/04/russia-ignores-kerry-plea-to-stop-syria-bombing-sends-advanced-fighter-jets.html?cmpid=NL_fntop
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Sen Sessions Compares Criminal 
Illegals To Largest NH Cities
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Senator Jeff Sessions, Chairman of the Senate Subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, posted some information illustrative of the complete and total lack of immigration enforcement by the nObama regime... With New Hampshire now the focus of the presidential primary process, he posted a statement and chart on his Senate website comparing the number of criminal illegal aliens that were presently under order to leave the country with the major cities of New Hampshire. The number of illegal aliens ordered out but allowed to remain dwarfed the city populations. It was approximately the total of the two largest New Hampshire cities, Nashua and Manchester combined, or roughly fifty percent larger than the population of its largest city, Manchester. Background From Subcommittee On Immigration And The National Interest: According to data provided to the Subcommittee by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), there are at least 179,027 aliens in the United States who not only have been ordered to leave the country for violating our immigration laws, but who have also been convicted of a criminal offense, and have not left as required or been removed by ICE.
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Pulosi Pushes Islam at National 
Prayer Breakfast
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{truthrevolt.org} ~On the heels of President nObama's visit to a terrorism-linked mosque, where he urged Hollywood to create Muslim characters who aren't terrorists, declared that Muslims are keeping Americans safe... and reiterated a version of his threat that "the future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam," House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi opened the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington D.C. this morning with a quote from "the Prophet Muhammad." Referring to passages in the Bible's Book of John about loving one another, Pulosi went on to make sure the audience gets the message that we're not just a nation of Judeo-Christian values, but of Judeo-Christian-Muslim values: “As we hear these words from John 13:15 and 17 we know that this message, this command of love, is not confined to the New Testament,” she said. “The same message stands at the center of the Torah and the teachings of the Prophet Muhammad too.” Pulosi is totally mislead and totally untrue, like she has always been.
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nObama Looks to Boost Oil Price, 
With a Tax
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ The falling price of oil may benefit consumers but it is hurting some in the energy industry by making some oil wells and projects less economical... President nObama has a plan though that would boost the price of oil. The only problem is, it wouldn't help unemployed oil workers -- it would only make the government richer. As Reuters reports, the White House is proposing a big tax on oil: U.S. President Barack nObama will propose a $10-a-barrel fee on oil in his budget plan next week, as the White House seeks to boost the nation's investments in clean transportation projects, the White House said on Thursday. The fee, which would be paid by oil companies, is likely to fall flat in the Republican-controlled Congress.
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Glick: The IDF's Misplaced Trust in the PA
Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Ajmad Sakari made no effort to hide his feelings and intentions towards Israel. The soldier in the Palestinian security forces filled his Facebook page with paeans to Saddam Hussein. Last weekend he published two posts indicating his imminent plan to carry out a terrorist attack.
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In other words, if the PA forces he served had been serious about preventing their members from carrying out terrorist attacks, they could have easily prevented Sakari from driving to an IDF checkpoint between Ramallah and Beit El Sunday morning, opening fire and wounding three soldiers – one critically. Sakari, who was killed in the course of his attack, was the third member of the US-backed PA security forces who engaged in terrorism in the past two months.
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On December 3, Mazen Ariba, an officer in the PA's US-sponsored Preventive Security Forces opened fire on Israelis at the Hizma checkpoint north of Jerusalem. Ariba wounded two Israelis – one critically – before he was shot and killed.
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Ariba, was PLO Secretary General Saeb Erekat's nephew. Erekat made a very public condolence call to Ariba's home. Ariba was posthumously hailed as a hero.
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Two weeks ago, the Shin Bet arrested Ala'a Barkawi, an officer in the PA's US-supported intelligence services. Barkawi was a member of a three-man terror cell that carried out a shooting attack against IDF forces operating in Tulkarm earlier last month.
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Sunday night Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu demanded that PA President Mahmoud Abbas condemn the terrorism carried out by forces operating under his command. Abbas rejected Netanyahu's demand and instead doubled down in supporting terrorism.
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According to Channel 2, in US-mediated discussions between the two leaders, Abbas demanded that Israeli hand over Sakari's body.
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The IDF's relationship with the Palestinian security forces is becoming a source of concern. The now five month old Palestinian terror campaign is entering a new phase, with direct attacks inside Israeli communities becoming a new major threat.
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While many commanders on the ground in Judea and Samaria hold few illusions about the long-term viability of their cooperation with their US-trained Palestinian counterparts, senior IDF commanders serve as their greatest advocates and apologists. Following the murders of Dafna Meir and Shlomit Krigman late last week, the IDF's senior commanders insisted yet again that Israel must do nothing to harm the PA security forces.
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Sakari's attack didn't dampen their enthusiasm.
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In a radio interview Monday morning, Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon reported that Palestinian forces foil about twenty percent of the terror plots. In so proclaiming the day after a Palestinian security officer gunned down three IDF troops, Yaalon made clear that the IDF will change nothing in its cooperative position towards them.
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For their part, almost immediately after word got out that Sakari served in the PA forces, senior IDF commanders set out to control the damage. Sakari, they told reporters, was but a marginal figure in an unimpressive unit. He did not serve in any of the seven battalions deployed to the Palestinian population centers that were trained by the US military in Jordan. His actions, they insisted, were not indicative of a wider phenomenon within the PA security forces.
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Both Yaalon and his senior commanders were doubtlessly telling the truth. But that doesn't mean that all is well with the PA security forces.
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Sakari served as a driver for the PA's General Prosecutor Ahmed Hanoun. As such, he may have been a member of an unimportant unit, although certainly he had access to some of the most senior members of the PA. But as intelligence officers, Ariba and Barkawi were members of the core of the forces.
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But in the final analysis, whether or not Ariba, Barkawi and Sakari were important operatives is beside the point. The main problem with the Palestinian security forces is that by their very nature, they are inherently hostile to Israel and supportive of terrorism.
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PA forces are commanded by terrorists from Fatah and other affiliated PLO terror groups. The tens of thousands of men under arms in these forces are recruited from these terrorist groups.
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The Palestinian Authority which they serve itself supports terrorism. On a practical level, as Deputy Foreign Minister Tzipi Hotovely relayed in a Wall Street Journal op-ed last week, the PA spends 16 percent of its donor financed annual budget paying salaries to terrorists jailed in Israeli prisons and stipends to their families. Moreover, the PA's heroes are all terrorists. Its media and school system daily incite Palestinians to take up arms against Israelis and murder them. Murad Adais, who murdered Dafna Meir in her home in Otniel two weeks ago told investigators that he decided to murder Jews after watching incendiary PA media broadcasts.
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In trusting the security cooperation they receive from the PA, our military leaders are mistaking inputs for outputs. That is, they assume that because they receive cooperation from these forces, these forces are inherently friendly. But again, the opposite is the case.
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The PA is cooperating with the IDF today for two reasons. First, at present, Abbas believes that he has more to gain from cooperating with Israel than he does from Hamas. Second, at present, Abbas controls the bulk of his forces.
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Both of these variables are likely to change, and Israel can do nothing to keep them constant.
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In the past, both Abbas and his predecessor Yassir Arafat assessed at various points that they were better off cooperating with Hamas against Israel than with Israel against Hamas. Their decisions in 1996, from 2000 to 2007, and intermittently ever since, have had little to do with Israel's positions. Indeed, their shifts from Israel to Hamas have often occurred at times when Israel did the most to support them.
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As for Abbas's control over his forces, this too can change on a dime. For years, Palestinian sources have insisted that these forces feel no intrinsic loyalty to Abbas. They stay with Abbas because he pays them.
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Ideologically, these men under arms are free floaters. Nothing they believe is a bar for shifting their loyalties to Hamas. More to the point, all the US financial transfers to the PA security forces won't stop any of the US-trained Palestinian forces from moonlighting as Hamas, Fatah or Hezbollah terrorists. They've done it in the past and they will do it again.
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The instrumental, and necessarily temporary nature of Palestinian security cooperation with the IDF tells us three things.
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First, the IDF needs to ditch its current counterterror strategy which is based on the wrongheaded assumption that we can rely on the PA security forces. Central Command needs to develop contingency plans for neutralizing these forces. These contingency plans don’t need to be made public. But to the extent that aspects of the plans can be quietly implemented, they should be implemented as quickly as possible.
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Second, IDF commanders need to stop praising these hostile forces. At some point in the not so distant future the IDF will be required to fight these forces. When that day comes, the IDF's enthusiastic tributes to their great cooperation with these terror-supporting forces will come back to haunt us. How will we be able to explain why our actions are necessary to allies to whom we have praised these hostile forces? This brings us to the final thing we need to recognize about these Palestinian forces. It was a major strategic blinder for Israel to support the US's decision to train them. By supporting the US training program, Israel has given the US an incentive to deny the hostile nature of these forces.
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Even worse than guaranteeing that the US will be unwilling to accept that in training these forces its military built a terror army, is that threat these forces pose. Today seven US-trained Palestinian combat battalions are deployed close to Israel's major urban centers. Their fighting skills far surpass anything Israel has had to deal with in campaigns to date against Palestinian terror onslaughts.
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As IDF commanders have warned over the years, due to the American training these terror-supporting anti-Israel forces have received, they can overrun small Israeli communities. They can carry out mass terror onslaughts in larger ones, on both sides of the armistice lines.
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Following Sakari's attack, Monday morning the IDF encircled Ramallah, barring non-residents from entering the city. The move was first announced by Palestinian security forces. So clearly the IDF coordinated the move with them before implementing it.
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It is all well and good that the Palestinians continue to cooperate with the IDF, to the extent that the do. But Sakari's attack must serve as a wake-up call. The defense establishment needs to quit relying on and praising this cooperation.
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Because it will end. And if we are not prepared, the end will be very bad for Israel, and for the IDF.
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Friday ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Israel finally starts pursuing domestic and
foreign-funded 'fifth columnists'
William Booth & Ruth Eglash
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 Who's Up for Another nObama Lecture on 'Who  We Are'?   In a show staged to curry Muslim favor and propagate the myth that any connection made between the Religion of Peace™ and violence is inherently hateful, bigoted and entirely un-American, Barack nObama Wednesday made his first visit to a U.S. mosque — one with what he called an "all-American story." His visit had less to do with any religious tendencies and more to do with jockeying for position for his post-presidential career. nObama's religion is himself and whatever it takes to advance his political viability.
          Speaking to the Islamic Society of Baltimore, nObama lamented that this is a "time of fear" for Muslim-Americans who are being "targeted or blamed for the violent acts of the very few." He lectured in his all-too-familiar pattern: "That's not who we are. We are one American family, and when any part of our family starts to feel separate or second-class or targeted, it tears at the fabric of our nation."
          In the wake of beheadings, rapes and even reports of hundreds of children being burned alive in the name of Islam, nObama had the gall to opine, "When any religious group is targeted, we all have a responsibility to speak up." What has he ever said about Muslims perpetrating those attacks — the Muslim fanatics currently wiping ancient Christian communities off the map in the Middle East? Not much, though at last year's National Prayer Breakfast he chided Christians for attacking Muslims ... in the Crusades.
          "You've seen too often people conflating the horrific acts of terrorism with the beliefs of an entire faith," he said Wednesday. He claimed groups like the Islamic State "twist" the Koran, and he promised, "I refuse to give them legitimacy. We should never give them that legitimacy. We shouldn't play into terrorist propaganda."
          It's hardly "giving them legitimacy" or "playing into propaganda" to note that radical Islamic ideology motivated attacks on the World Trade Center (1993 and 2001); assaulting the U.S.S. Cole; the attack on the U.S. military recruiting office in Little Rock, Arkansas; the Fort Hood rampage; the Boston Marathon bombing; the Garland, Texas attack; the Chattanooga and San Bernardino murders; the Charlie Hebdo attacks; the Paris massacre — and the list goes on, and on, and on.
          And it's hardly propaganda to note, as we've done, that there is plenty in the Koran and the Hadith (the teachings of Muhammad) advocating death to infidels. Yet the silence from many high-profile Muslims who are not  unequivocally condemning these and countless other acts of terror is deafening. Indeed, the world is still waiting to hear a Muslim outcry — vocal and without exception or caveat — denouncing terrorist acts perpetrated in the name of Islam.
          Undeterred, nObama lectured "my fellow Christians" that "we have to understand an attack on one faith is an attack on all our faiths." Christians and Muslims, despite his insistence that we're all "descendants of Abraham," do not serve the same God.
          nObama is afflicted with an extreme case of a blinding Islamophilia — so much so that he is more concerned with protecting Muslims from alleged offense than with facing deadly reality. He bemoaned, "We've seen children bullied, we've seen mosques vandalized," while ignoring the fact that Americans are worried about a jihadi shooting up the local military base, recruiting center, or gathering of coworkers — all of which have happened on nObama's watch.
          Now, back to the supposed "all-American story." So intent is nObama on denying the obvious that he chose to visit a mosque with terrorist ties in order to demonstrate Islam's supposedly peaceful agenda. As Investor's Business Daily (IBD) reports, nObama's mosque of choice "happens to be controlled by a radical Muslim Brotherhood front group his own Justice Department has implicated in the largest terrorist fundraising plot in U.S. history."
          Indeed, the Islamic Society of Baltimore is part of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). In 2007, federal prosecutors named ISNA as an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator in a plot to send more than $12 million to Hamas suicide bombers. It's been under FBI surveillance as well. What's more, IBD reports that Imam Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh from the mosque told The Washington Post in 2004 that suicide bombings are "acceptable (as a method for Muslims) to defend themselves."
          While Islamic radicals wage war for a caliphate not only in the Middle East but worldwide, nObama keynotes at a terror-linked mosque to give Islam some free PR. As outrageous as this is, it's hardly surprising, as it's been nObama's strategy both at home and abroad since Day One: Apologize your way to world peace.
          Unfortunately, nObama's denial of reality has not made America — or the world — a safer place. And a premier mosque performance will not do so either.  -The Patriot Post
Islam Is Not an Abrahamic Religion
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Do Muslims, Jews And Christians Worship The Same God?
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{joemiller.us} ~ This basic question must be addressed and answered in the negative if Western Civilization is to begin to forge an effective defense against Islamic jihad... Dr. Mark Durie, an Australian Anglican theologian, has written the definitive analytical book, “Which God?: Jesus, Holy Spirit, God in Christianity & Islam,” that debunks the accepted conventional wisdom that Islam, Judaism, and Christianity share Abrahamic roots. Dr. Durie’s book incontestably demonstrates that YHWH and Allah are not the same god. Consequently, Christians and Jews are being misled about the shared identity of the three religions’ divinity. This deception is a key component in the overt and covert war being conducted by the political forces of Islam in order to subjugate the Judeo-Christian religions and their societies. One of the most dangerous avenues of covert attack is contained in this Muslim assertion that Islam shares Abrahamic roots with Christianity and Judaism. Dr. Durie explains the Islamic covert attack plan in the following paragraph.
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Horowitz: Senator Perdue Blocks 
Open Borders Judge 
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Sen. David Perdue (R-GA)
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{conservativereview.com} ~ As we often highlight studies in cowardice and betrayal here at Conservative Review, it’s satisfying to finally have the opportunity to spotlight a profile in courage, especially from someone not named Cruz, Lee, Paul, or Sessions... Today I’d like to commend Sen. David Perdue (R-GA) for his work in derailing another nObama judicial nomination. Last month, we noted that the GOP-Senate plans to confirm more nObama judges this year, allowing him to cement his control over the judiciary.  Rather than simply saying “no more judges who don’t believe in the Constitution,” most Republicans are running scared.  After all, Mitch McCon-nell has already announced he wants to avoid all confrontation with the White House this year. In recent months, the home state Republican senators of these nObama nominees have been instrumental in convincing leadership to schedule votes for their confirmation.  Rather than leading the fight against them, these home state senators, ahem…you know who you are, tend to buckle to pressure from liberal judicial groups and local newspaper articles.  Senator Perdue has gone in the opposite direction. 
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Most Dangerous States in the United States in 2015 according to the FBI
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{examiner.com} ~ The annual list of the most dangerous states in the United States has been released by Law Street, according to a Reboot Illinois piece on Tuesday... The list is compiled via Law Street’s Crime Team’s methodology which uses the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s four major violent crime categories in creating a standard measure of violent crimes-per-100,000 people among all cities reporting its crime data to the FBI that have at least 100,000 persons in its borders. Those four major violent crime categories are: murder, aggravated assault, robbery, and incidents of forcible rape.
 
The Top 10 Most Dangerous States in the United States in 2015

Alaska   New Mexico   Nevada  
Tennessee Louisiana   South Carolina  Delaware   Maryland   Florida   Arkansas
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Fox News’ Judge Nap Puts The 
SLAP DOWN ON The Ted Cruz 
Election FRAUD Accusation!!
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{thepoliticalinsider.com} ~ In a special segment on Fox News, legal expert Judge Napolitano weighed in on slump-Trump’s accusations that Ted Cruz committed election fraud in the Iowa caucus. But The Donald won’t like what he says!!
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Massive Cybersecurity Breach,
NSA Software Compromised
Alice Greene
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Are foreign enemies looking through government files right now?
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Looks like Hilly’s server isn’t the only threat to national security these days... A recent discovery suggests the National Security Agency (NSA) may have been using compromised software for as many as three years – potentially exposing sensitive information to foreign spies. NSA software has been blamed for the problem, with experts claiming that a defect originated from an encryption “back door” hidden within the code. This vulnerability was discovered in December when IT company Juniper Networks which makes IT products for the government reported unauthorized code in its ScreenOS program.  “There’s a lot of very sketchy stuff here,” said cryptology expert Matthew Green. Green has been working furiously to reverse-engineer the code.        http://punchingbagpost.com/massive-cybersecurity-breach-nsa-software-compromised
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Dems Abandon a Crooked Hilly
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{wnd.com} ~ This has not been a good week for Hilly Clinton. She prevailed over Sen. Bernie Sanders in the Iowa Democratic presidential caucuses by less than four-tenths of 1 percent of all votes cast... after having led him in polls in Iowa at one time by 40 percentage points. In her statement to supporters, standing in front of her gaunt and listless-looking husband, she was not able to mouth the word “victory” or any of its standard variants. She could barely hide her contempt for the Iowa Democrats who deserted her. Sanders isn’t even a Democrat. According to official Senate records, he is an “Independent Socialist” who votes to organize the Senate with the Democrats and sits on the Senate floor with them. Clinton, of course, is the heiress to the mightiest Democratic political apparatus in the land. Hence the question: What do the Iowa Democrats know that caused thousands of them to flee from her? They know she is a crook. On the Friday before Monday’s caucuses, the State Department, which Clinton headed in President nObama’s first term, revealed that it discovered 22 top-secret emails on the private computer server to which Clinton diverted all her governmental email traffic. This acknowledgment marks a radical departure from previous State Department pronouncements and is a direct repudiation of Clinton’s repeated assertions.
http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/dems-abandon-a-crooked-hillary/
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Who Are The Real 
Knuckle-Dragging Troglodytes?
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{wnd.com} ~ Now that the Iowa caucuses are behind us, I suspect that we can count on this election season to become even more hyperbolic all the way around... I am basing this on the trends I’ve seen to date, with the increasingly bizarre deportment of all concerned. Conservative voters and pragmatists are aware that the stakes are higher than they’ve ever been, taking into account the incomprehensible damage that has been done to this nation by the current administration. Meanwhile, the election cycle is showcasing two of the most dangerous leftists the Democratic Party could conjure up as presidential hopefuls: the larcenous, ambulating obscenity Hilly Clinton – who is probably more personally evil than anyone in the nObama cabal – and the geriatric Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders, whom the conservative press references as a socialist, though his political views are more closely aligned with communism. http://www.wnd.com/2016/02/who-are-the-real-knuckle-dragging-troglodytes/
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John hanoi-Kerry Will Reform 
Iran With His Words
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Like a teacher who lavishes praise on an unruly student when he turns in his homework for once, Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry hopes his words will have a reforming effect on Iran... Since the implementation of the Iran nuclear deal on January 16, hanoi-Kerry has expressed “deep respect” for and given “enormous credit” to “our partners” in Tehran for their “seriousness of purpose,” “professionalism,” and “deep commitment” to peace and the brotherhood of man. The Iranian leadership, hanoi-Kerry said, wants to use the nuclear deal “as a departure point for something new.” hanoi-Kerry has pointed to the Islamic Republic’s decision to unplug its centrifuges and ship most of its enriched uranium to Russia as evidence that we are witnessing the dawn of a new Iran. Iran took these steps in exchange for at least $50 billion plus sanctions relief on its top military commanders, financiers, and nuclear scientists.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/john-kerry-will-reform-iran-with-his-words/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=e7521eb127-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_04_162_3_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-e7521eb127-45611665
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Disclosure: TSA Cannot Verify 
Employees’ Criminal Histories
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Government oversight officials informed Congress on Wednesday that the Transportation Security Administration continues to operate in disarray... failing to record basic security details for thousands of employees and not tracking official IDs and badges that allow access to the most sensitive areas of an airport. Lawmakers described the security agency as operating “in chaos” and expressed frustration with nObama administration officials as they informed the House Oversight Committee about a range of security shortfalls that continue to endanger the nation’s 450 commercial airports. TSA’s inability to properly screen and track employees has been well documented for years. However, the administration has failed to enact multiple reforms aimed at tightening security and making it more efficient, lawmakers said.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/disclosure-tsa-cannot-verify-employees-criminal-histories/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=e7521eb127-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_04_162_3_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-e7521eb127-45611665
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Clinton Corruption Leads 
to Russian Aggression
Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ The New York Times endorsed Hilly Clinton for the Democratic presidential nomination, calling her “one of the most broadly and deeply qualified presidential candidates in modern history.”... There was one big problem with the editorial. Her policy toward Russia laid the groundwork for the Russian aggression that the Pentagon now has to spend billions of dollars to prepare for. The paper somehow forgot to mention that. The nObama/Clinton Russian “reset” policy in 2009 set the stage for Russian wars of aggression and military intervention in Ukraine and Syria, and Vladimir Putin’s decision to give sanctuary to NSA defector Edward Snowden. Snowden’s stolen documents have assisted the rise of ISIS. The liberal paper is entitled to endorse anybody it pleases. But to endorse Mrs. Clinton and not explain or justify her failed policy with regard to Russia is an oversight that borders on dishonesty.        http://www.aim.org/aim-column/clinton-corruption-leads-to-russian-aggression/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email020316&utm_medium=email
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Israel finally starts pursuing domestic and
foreign-funded 'fifth columnists'
William Booth & Ruth Eglash
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Israeli right-wing politicians and their allies are going after human rights activists, artists and pro-Palestinian voices on the left with tough new laws and scorching ad campaigns that reveal how deep and bitter the divide between the two camps are these days.
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Officials from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's conservative government are attempting to pass legislation seeking something akin to "loyalty oaths" from artists who receive state money. They also want members of nonprofit groups who get money from foreign governments to wear special badges in parliament.
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Meanwhile, a once obscure but now viral ultranationalist group called Im Tirtzu has launched a social media campaign attacking artists, including two of Israel's best-known and liberal authors, Amos Oz and David Grossman, calling them "foreign agents in the cultural world" and "moles."
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Im Tirtzu on Wednesday began naming people in film, theater, television and the arts that they charge are provocateurs supported by foreign governments and such groups as the U.S.-based New Israel Fund, working against the interests of the state of Israel.
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Opponents of Im Tirtzu described their actions as an Israeli version of "McCarthyism." Im Tirtzu said, essentially, that McCarthy was right.
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Yet even Netanyahu and national religious pro-settler Education Minister Naftali Bennett, a vocal opponent of liberal nongovernmental organizations, said Im Tirtzu had gone too far. "The campaign against the artists is embarrassing, needless and disgraceful," Bennett said on Twitter.
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All this heated rhetoric comes as the Israeli parliament prepares to debate a contentious bill next week that supporters say will bring needed transparency to Israeli NGOs, especially those critical of the Israeli military and its operations in Gaza and the West Bank.
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Opponents of the bill warn that it could undermine Israel's democratic principles and stigmatize human rights advocates.
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The proposed "transparency bill" would require Israeli organizations that get more than half their funding from "foreign government entities," including U.S. aid, to be labeled as such in media and reports. It may also obligate members of those groups to wear special badges when they appear in the Israeli parliament.
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The sponsor of the bill, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, told The Washington Post that her legislation "has nothing to do with left and right" but is merely an attempt to force such groups to reveal from whom they get their money.
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Shaked said Israel is fighting a global campaign to undermine its legitimacy and that some NGOs funded by foreign governments are used to hurt Israel in international forums, such as the United Nations. When asked for an example, Shaked pointed to Israeli human rights reports that were used as source material for the U.N. Independent Commission of Inquiry on the 2014 Gaza Conflict, which found breaches of international law on both sides. The United Nations relied on nongovernment reports in part because the Israeli government refused to allow the commission to enter Gaza and refused to cooperate.
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European nations support hundreds of large and small pro-Palestinian projects, anti-occupation and human rights groups in Israel; the European Union is pressing Israel these days to go back to negotiations with the Palestinians and has ramped up criticism of the ongoing expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank - settlements that Europe considers illegal, though Israel disputes this.
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Many Israelis are put out by what they see as Europe's meddling and point to what they see as soaring anti-Semitism on the continent.
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In a recent editorial, Shaked said: "We have discovered in recent years the danger posed by the existence of forces financed by foreign money. We have discovered that hundreds of millions of dollars are sent to NGOs in Israel from countries that seek to decide the existing dispute between Israel and the Palestinian Authority."
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Leaders of the Israeli groups targeted by the proposed law, such as Gisha, Peace Now, B'Tselem and Breaking the Silence, say the legislation is designed to punish them for opposing Israel's 49-year military occupation of the West Bank and for highlighting mistreatment of Palestinians.
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Breaking the Silence is perhaps the most popular target. The group is composed of current and former Israeli soldiers who say their mission is to present testimony, often anonymous, to Israelis about the reality of war and occupation.
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Shaked said the group exists to smear Israel abroad and expose the country and its soldiers to war-crimes charges.
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Im Tirtzu, the group that charged that Israeli artists were disloyal to the state, recently accused the leaders of the left-wing groups of being "moles" in the employ of foreign governments.
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Daniel Sokatch, head of the New Israel Fund, a U.S. organization that donates around $25 million a year to about 100 progressive and civil society organizations in Israel, called the bill "an ugly anti-democratic piece of legislation that does not provide any more transparency than already exists."
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Sokatch charged that right-wing organizations such as Im Tirtzu are colluding with the Netanyahu government to incite against the liberal groups.
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The U.S. ambassador to Israel, Daniel Shapiro, took the unusual step of wading into this fray, meeting with Shaked earlier this month to express American "concerns" about her legislation and suggesting the bill could undercut Israel's standing as a thriving democracy.
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Netanyahu has waved away such concerns and said he supports the legislation but wants to remove the special badges requirement as Jews being forced to wear badges created a stir here and struck some as an eerie if unintended echo of the Holocaust.
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"I fail to understand how greater transparency is undemocratic," Netanyahu told reporters earlier this month.
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The legislation appears likely to pass, though it could be amended in committee meetings.
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Roy Folkman, a parliament member from the center-right Kulanu party, told the Israeli newspaper Haaretz that he would vote for the bill - even though he thinks it stokes the "atmosphere of a witch hunt."
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"We think the law is superfluous, unnecessary and will cause international harm to Israel," Folkman said.
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Gerald Steinberg, founder of a watchdog group called NGO Monitor, said that "the debate is actually more important than any bill passed."
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Although he called the bill toothless and symbolic, Steinberg argued that the millions of dollars that pass through a handful of liberal Israeli organizations were worthy of scrutiny.
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Sharon Abraham-Weiss, the executive director of Association of Civil Rights in Israel, said the bill's sponsors may be surprised that some of the NGOs they are targeting do not receive the majority of their funding from foreign governments.
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Her organization, for instance, gets 20 percent of its budget from friendly governments.
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That aside, she said one flaw of the bill is that it focuses exclusively on the alleged undue influence of foreign governments - but not the funding provided to right-wing NGOs from private sources, including wealthy Americans.
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She suggested that it might be better to look at the influence wielded by billionaire casino magnate and GOP megadonor Sheldon Adelson, for example, who funds dozens of projects in Israel, including a free pro-Netanyahu newspaper with the largest circulation in Israel.
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"Israeli government projects getting foreign funding is fine, Israeli organizations getting private money from abroad is fine, but only Israeli NGOs are being singled out," she said.
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Thursday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Why This Female Cannot Support 
Donald slump-Trump
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 $12 Trillion Won't Save the World 
Two degrees Celsius. That's the maximum amount of future global warming environmentalists say the world can tolerate. Anything more, they claim, and our efforts to stave off a climate catastrophe will fall flat. It's a spurious magic number, but one that was formally adapted into the Paris climate agreement in December. And it won't come cheap.
          "If the world is serious about halting the worst effects of global warming, the renewable energy industry will require $12.1 trillion of investment over the next quarter century," according to a new report published in Bloomberg. For perspective on just how much money we're talking about here, consider that gross domestic product in the United States was $17.4 trillion in 2014, according to the World Bank. That's good for number one in the world. But China, which came in at number two, produced $10.4 trillion in GDP. That means an entire year's worth of Chinese economic output wouldn't be enough to cover the low-carbon investments the Bloomberg report says is needed over the next quarter century. So it comes as no surprise that current funding projections are well short of the goal:

The findings from Bloomberg New Energy Finance and Ceres, a Boston-based coalition of investors and environmentalists, show that wind parks, solar farms and other alternatives to fossil fuels are already on course to get $6.9 trillion over the next 25 years through private investment spurred on by government support mechanisms. Another $5.2 trillion is needed to reach the United Nations goal of holding warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit) set out in the climate agreement."

And no doubt that gap will be filled via wealth redistribution. Even worse, these numbers aren't as bad as depicted in other studies, such as the International Energy Agency's $16.5 trillion cost estimate. And that's just through 2030. Instead of redistributing trillions of dollars, the better option would be for poorer countries to invest in energy sources we already know save lives — and let the free market figure out the future of energy.  
-The Patrot Post
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 The Primary Known Unknowns 
The results of the Iowa caucuses have shown us several important things. 1) Everybody hates the establishment of both parties. 2) No one trusts the media anymore. 3) Pollsters have no clue how to conduct polling in the fast-paced world of smartphones and social media.
          Ted Cruz easily won the Iowa caucuses on the Republican side, despite trailing Donald slump-Trump by as much as 20 points in some polls, and despite the GOP establishment and the ethanol lobby doing their best to take him down. In fact, the establishment's scorn is a huge part of Cruz's appeal. Cruz's net favorability leads all Republican candidates with a rating of +45% (61% favorable, 16% unfavorable) among Republicans and Republican-leaning independents, according to a recent Gallup poll. Establishment favorite Jeb Bush has a net favorability of -1%.
          The top five vote-getters on the GOP side were all anti-establishment /outsider candidates: Ted Cruz (28%), Donald slump-Trump (24%), Marco Rubio (23%), Ben Carson (9%) and Rand Paul (5%) (though Paul just announced he is ending his campaign). That is an astonishing 89% of votes cast. And before anyone claims that Rubio, among the first Tea Party candidates elected, is now an establishment guy, ask yourself why the  establishment attacks against him are second in intensity only to those waged against Cruz. Rubio has a lifetime American Conservative Union rating of 98 (out of 100). He has a perfect NRA rating. Citizens Against Government Waste gives him a 95, and National Right to Life gives him a 100. Without Rubio's participation in the Gang of Eight fiasco, he would arguably be the undisputed favorite at this point, with heavy support from the conservative grassroots — because he's a genuine conservative.
          Now the questions are these: What does this all mean? Is slump-Trump now mortally wounded? Does Cruz have a clear path to the nomination? Is Rubio's rise a growing fire or a shooting star?  
 -The Patrot Post
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 Maple Menace Alert: Illinois rules Cruz can run WashEx: “Texas Sen. Ted Cruz secured two major victories Monday, winning the Republican Iowa caucuses and also receiving a favorable decision from the Illinois Board of Elections, which confirmed his U.S. citizenship met the state’s primary ballot requirements. The Illinois news got lost in the caucus coverage, which lagged into Tuesday morning and absorbed much of the media’s attention. The GOP senator has had his presidential bid challenged in recent months by Iowa GOP runner-up Donald slump-Trump, who claimed Cruz's Canadian birthplace disqualifies him from being president.”  -Fox News
Plans For Hidden IT Network To Help
Clinton Skirt Rules Uncovered
{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch announced today that it recently received records from the Department of State disclosing plans by senior State Department officials to set up a “stand-alone PC” so that Clinton could  check her emails... in an office “across the hall” through a separate, non-State Department computer network system. Referencing the special Clinton computer system, Under Secretary for Management Patrick F. Kennedy, writes Clinton Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, “The stand-alone separate network PC is a great idea.”  The emails are from January 23-24, 2009, a few days after Clinton was sworn in as Secretary of State. The new emails were obtained by Judicial Watch in response a court order in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit for State Department records about Hilly Clinton’s separate email system  (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00689)). In the email chain, Lewis Lukens, former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the secretariat, responds to a request from Mills by informing her, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and Kennedy that the new personal computer “in the secretary’s office” would be “connected to the internet but not through our system.” Abedin responds, “We are hoping for that if possible.”        http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-new-state-department-emails-reveal-plan-to-set-up-separate-pc-computer-network-at-state-so-clinton-could-skirt-government-network-system-to-access-emails/
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House fails to override president's veto 
of nObamacare repeal
Erin Kelly
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{usatoday.com} ~ The House on Tuesday failed to override President nObama's veto of a bill that would have repealed key provisions of nObamacare and stripped federal funding from Planned Parenthood... The 241-186 vote to override the veto fell short of the two-thirds needed, ensuring that the Affordable Care Act will remain in place at least through the final year of nObama's term. Republican leaders, who have been criticized by Democrats for failing to come up with an alternative to nObamacare, said they plan to craft a replacement plan this year as a kind of preview for what they hope to do in the next Congress. The vote came just hours after the president met with House Speaker Paul Ryano, R-Wis., and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., to talk about issues where the White House and Congress might be able to work together. Those issues include criminal justice and mental health reform, the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership, Puerto Rico's financial crisis, the opioid epidemic, the Zika virus and efforts to cure cancer.
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hanoi-Kerry too! Used non-official email account
to send classified info to Hilly
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{bizpacreview.com} ~ John hanoi-Kerry, too? The level of incompetence within the nObama administration reached a new low when it was discovered that Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry used a private email account to send Hilly Clinton information in 2011 that has since been classified... The State Department confirmed on Tuesday that while in the U.S. Senate, hanoi-Kerry used a “non-official” email address to send information that was later upgraded to “secret,” according to the Washington Examiner. JUST IN: State Dept. confirms John hanoi-Kerry sent Hilly Clinton classified information from a private email address.        http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/02/03/john-kerry-too-used-private-email-account-to-send-classified-info-to-hillary-state-dept-just-confirmed-301793
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Iraqi Journalist Dispels Myth that ISIS 
Has No Ties to Islam
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Iraqi journalist Fadel Boula challenged the claim that the Islamic State (ISIS) and other jihadi organizations have no relationship to Islam... in an article featured in Iraq's Al-Akhbar newspaper and translated by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI). Boula argued that these terrorist organizations follow a radical Salafi ideology and believe their objectives coincide with Allah's will and the core tenets of Islam. "Since its inception, this movement of terror has espoused a Salafi ideology that champions religious extremism, and brainwashed people of all ages have rallied around its flag, people who were trained to kill themselves and kill others in order to attain martyrdom," Boula wrote in the November article, "Does Terror Truly Have No Religion?"
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So it begins here: U.S. city 'overrun' 
with criminal refugees
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The federal government is working with churches and NGOs to bring foreign refugees, including some from Syria, to small towns in Montana, including Helena and Missoula.
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{wnd.com} ~ More than 120 people braved the snow and ice Monday to rally in front of the Missoula County Courthouse, protesting an effort by the nObama administration and its army of community organizers to plant foreign “refugees” into small cities in western Montana... One of the speakers was a woman who moved recently to Montana from Amarillo, Texas, which has been inundated with thousands of refugees over the past 15 years. “Amarillo is overrun with refugees,” said Karen Sherman, who stood and spoke to the crowd amid blowing wind and falling snowflakes. Sherman just moved to Missoula, a college town that serves as home to the University of Montana. Sherman said Amarillo, a city of just more than 200,000 people, has gang violence that has surpassed that of much larger Texas cities such as Fort Worth. She fears U.S. cities like Amarillo and Minneapolis, Minnesota, could be in line to become the next Rotherham, England, or Cologne, Germany, or Stockholm, Sweden, where mass rapes by Muslim men have gained much attention in Europe.
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Brilliant DHS Plan – Increased Illegal
Crossings Call For Drastic 
Cut In Surveillance
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ The answer to the question is simple, but Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Democrat US Rep Henry Cuellar have to be diplomatic, pretending they don’t know what Homeland “Security” Secretary Jeh Johnson is really up to... They can’t just come out and challenge him as to why he isn’t doing his job and why he is instead weakening our defenses and our borders. That would be seen as impolite, bordering on bullying and maybe even hate speech.  They must be gentle, we’ve had enough tearful crybaby officials with nObama and backstabber-Boehner. But Johnson doesn’t just cry, he’s a whiner too, habitually complaining he needs more funding in order to better not do his job. His decision to cut a request for support from the Department of Defense by 50 percent for Operation Phalanx is a temper tantrum that uses the threat of terrorism as the hammer. Operation Phalanx utilizes DoD resources to provide persistent aerial detection, situational awareness, and monitoring capability along the border. Since the program was fully funded by Congress, the fifty percent cut by Johnson lacks any justification.        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25572
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A TOXIC Hilly Scandal She 
Thought She Buried
Randy DeSoto
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{westernjournalism.com} ~ Even as FBI continues its investigation into Hilly Clinton’s use an unsecure, private email server to store highly classified material... her presidential candidacy is spurring others to take a closer look at other alleged incidents of wrong-doing from her past. The Fiscal Times reports that one of those incidents happened in the late 1970s, when an investment of the then attorney made nearly a 100-fold increase from trading cattle futures within a matter of several months. “Under the guidance of an attorney representing Tyson Foods, Hilly Clinton made a $98,540 profit from a $1,000 initial investment in less than one year trading commodity futures. Further, “In Hilly Clinton’s case, her $1,000 initial investment was well below the $12,000 deposit required by the Chicago Mercantile Exchange for the first trades she executed. So not only did Hilly make an extraordinary profit for a novice investor, she did so without following the rules…,” the Fiscal Times reported.
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Hilly Taps Most Corrupt AG in American History
To Appear in Campaign ads in S.C.
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{nicedeb.wordpress.com} ~ The most corrupt AG in American history has agreed to appear in some T.V. spots in South Carolina to endorse the most corrupt presidential candidate in American history - Eric Holder... As I was just saying at PJ Media, there’s been a troubling lack of activity at the DOJ regarding Hilly’s email investigation. Yeah, the Regime is trying to put the fix in, but Comey’s FBI is poised to put a major hitch in their plans. What ever the Regime tries – it ain’t gonna go as smoothly as they like. And I still say Hilly doesn’t make it to the finish line. The Huffington Post notes that in the spots, “Holder specifically mentions Clinton’s push to strengthen gun laws and police accountability.” Keeping police accountable certainly sounds like a crumb included to mollify the #BlackLivesMatter crowd, which has cautiously thrown most of its support to Bernie Sanders. That’s awesome. Good for her. The guy was held in criminal contempt of congress for his failure to turn over documents related to the criminally insane Fast and Furious fiasco that resulted in hundreds of innocent people dead in Mexico, and two dead American law enforcement officers.  https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2016/02/03/hillary-taps-most-corrupt-ag-in-american-history-to-appear-in-campaign-ads-in-s-c/
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Chinese Defector Reveals 
Beijing’s Secrets
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Ling Jihua, pictured, provided sensitive documents to his brother, defector Ling Wancheng 
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{freebeacon.com} ~ A defector from China has revealed some of the innermost secrets of the Chinese government and military, including details of its nuclear command and control system, according to American intelligence officials... Businessman Ling Wancheng disappeared from public view in California last year shortly after his brother, Ling Jihua, a former high-ranking official in the Communist Party, was arrested in China on corruption charges. Ling Wancheng, the defector, has been undergoing a debrief by FBI, CIA, and other intelligence officials since last fall at a secret location in the United States, said officials familiar with details of the defection who spoke on condition of anonymity. The defector is said to be a target of covert Chinese agents seeking to capture or kill him.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-defector-reveals-beijings-secrets/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=be70c24bf9-WFB_Morning_Beacon_02_03_162_2_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-be70c24bf9-45611665
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Mystery Victim Sucked Out At 14,000 Ft 
In Likely Terrorist Bomb Blast
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ It’s always a good idea to keep your seat belt fastened while seated in an airplane in case unexpected turbulence is encountered... There’s another reason that it is a good idea, as one passenger on a flight from Mogadishu, Somalia to Djibouti may have learned on Tuesday. That is just on the off chance that someone has planted a bomb in your seat. There are mixed reports of whether or not a passenger was sucked out of the airplane just five minutes into the flight. At that point the “fasten seat belts sign” would have still been lit, the plane was still climbing and had only reached 14,000 feet. Then again, maybe the seat belt was blown up too. The Daily Mail reports that an elderly man, badly burned from the blast, was sucked out of the plane to his death, while the Mirror has a different take on things, reporting that everyone survived.        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25578
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Why This Female Cannot Support 
Donald slump-Trump
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{townhall.com} ~ How any female in America could support Donald slump-Trump, the American version of former Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, is beyond me.
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Call me old school, but I have a real problem electing a man to public office who the Washington Post reported has a “Twitter feed and history of public comments” describing women as a “dog,” “fat” and “disgusting.” Even still, some conservatives give him a pass.
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I know. We’re electing a president, not a pastor. Or at least that’s what we hear from certain evangelical leaders who think it’s okay to endorse a “Biblically-illiterate strip club owner” who trades his wives in for newer models, as Freedom Outpost described in their January 27 column.
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How about electing a president with principles, that is, assuming principles still matter?
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Sure, presidents are just people who put their pants on one leg at a time like we do, but am I asking too much to have a president who has a history of keeping his pants on? Conservatives had a lot to say about Bill Clinton’s improprieties when he was in office and they still do. In 1994, the LA Times reported the late evangelist Jerry Falwell, Sr. marketed a video “featuring an assortment of allegations involving President Clinton ranging from sexual misconduct to murder…” My, how far from the tree some have fallen.
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Boasting about his sexual exploits with married women in his book “The Art of the Comeback,” slump-Trump bragged, “If I told the real stories of my experiences with women, often seemingly very happily married and important women, this book would be a guaranteed best-seller…” slump-Trump’s appeared on the Howard Stern show multiple times discussing his female conquests in a way that might even make Bill Clinton blush. Maybe.
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It’s odd that prominent evangelicals like Dr. Jerry Falwell, Jr. endorsed a man who once said he couldn’t recall ever seeking God’s forgiveness, saying he just tries “to make it right…I don’t bring God into that picture…” It’s amazing these leaders actually believe an unprincipled man who seems to have no problem breaking marital vows and brags about helping married women break theirs would keep his promise to be a defender of Christianity.
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slump-Trump’s decision to not participate in the Fox News-Google debate simply because he believes he was treated unfairly by a female is troubling in that it displays how terribly self-involved he is and vindictive toward whomever he perceives as his “enemy.” Narcissism is a huge character flaw conservatives notice in President nObama, but with slump-Trump, not so much. America needs a leader who loves America more than he loves himself.
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Given the recent evangelical Christian endorsements, it’s starting to get lonely out there as a believer, but I cannot in good conscience endorse slump-Trump – even if I am the last Christian standing. Yes, I will vote, because that’s my duty as an American. But I cannot endorse a man who spent his lifetime supporting progressives and espousing just about everything I don’t believe, while simultaneously gaming the political system to pad his wallet. I also have grave concerns about his mean-spirited, uncontrolled speech and relentless flip-flopping.
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Of course, no candidate is perfect. But some are less flawed than others. Let us remember that “earthly” kings and presidents will always fall short. The longing we have inside for justice and righteousness will never be satisfied by looking at another human. So look up. Seek truth and don’t allow anger to overcome reason or common sense.
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Even as distasteful as a slump-Trump Presidency is for me to consider, I am reminded that Jesus, who was known as a friend of sinners, would seek an audience with Donald slump-Trump to remind him that there is a reason why it is easier for a camel to fit through the eye of a needle than a rich man to find peace with God. If slump-Trump found that peace, he might be unstoppable.
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Thursday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
America's 'Last Chance'
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 Economic Reality vs. Obama's Economic  Fantasy   With the first month of the year 2016 behind us, expectations of economic growth remain one of the top concerns for voters in this year's election cycle. Most presidential candidates have laid out their proposals for addressing the nation's economic woes. Granted, the president of the United States doesn't run the economy, but the ability to influence economic policy is a key characteristic of the presidency, and more often than not, a president's success or failure is attributed to his ability to lead the nation in economic growth.
          Economic growth has been scarce during the last seven years. Barack nObama may boast otherwise, but claims that aren't backed up by evidence are completely meaningless. For starters, the advance report for U.S. Gross Domestic Product (GDP) — the value of everything a nation produces — shows that the economy expanded at a paltry 0.7% for the last quarter (Q4) of 2015. That is a significant drop from the 2% growth in the fall and 3.9% last spring.
          Overall, the U.S. economy grew only 2.4% for 2015, which matches economic growth from 2014. Many factors contribute to the sluggish growth. In Q4 for instance, consumers spent less, mainly on higher ticket items such as cars; exports fell 2.5%; and businesses spent less on new equipment.
          Yet some economists contend that the economy is healthy and well on its way to fully recovering. Consumers actually spent more money in 2015 than in the previous decade, but this is likely attributed to the decline in oil prices and lower energy costs due to more favorable weather conditions overall.
          However, the overall picture of the economy is abysmal when compared with economic growth in the decades following World War II. According to James Pethokoukis of the American Enterprise Institute, we have essentially suffered "a lost decade" — at least by American standards. From WWII until 2005, the U.S. economy grew at an average rate of 3.5%. That was the norm, but not in nObama's America.  -The Patriot Post
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 Bernie Sanders Represents New Dem Party 
For liberals across the nation, the rest of the primary race will be tainted with the question: Was it Bernie Sanders who actually won the Iowa Democrat Caucus? Early Tuesday morning, the Iowa Democrat Party declared Hilly Clinton the winner by the thinnest of margins. Despite calls from the Sanders campaign to recount, the party's chair said the results are final. But there's plenty to question. At least six precincts reportedly chose their candidate through coin flips, but an accurate number is unknown. Furthermore, Democrat caucus attendees reported ill-trained caucus chairmen, long lines and chaos. And due to the Democrat's method of simply counting people standing in groups, the official tally cannot be recounted.
          One stark fact has emerged from Monday night's chaos: The socialist Sanders, a politician relatively unknown on the national stage a year ago, has become the philosophical leader of the Democrat Party. As columnist David Harsanyi wrote, "a socialist nearly won Iowa" — and that's a big deal. The wild-haired Vermonter captured the imagination and votes of Millennials, as 84% of Iowans under 30 "felt the Bern." As the older Hilly supporters step out of the political process, the Democrat Party will embrace full-on socialism.
          Columnist Peggy Noonan hypothesized this is because of Millennials' experience with the U.S. economy. "If you are 20 or 30 you probably see capitalism in terms of two dramatic themes," Noonan wrote. "The first was the crash of '08, in which heedless, irresponsible operators in business and government kited the system and scrammed. The second is income inequality. Why are some people richer than the richest kings and so many poor as serfs? Is that what capitalism gives you? Then maybe we should rethink this!"
          Unless the message of Liberty is communicated in a persuasive manner, Millennials appear poised to repeat the mistakes of the last century. "Socialist governments traditionally do make a financial mess," Margaret Thatcher said in 2000. "They always run out of other people's money."  -The Patriot Post
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 $19 Trillion and Counting 
When Barack nObama took office, the national debt stood at about $10.6 trillion. He called the spendthrift Bush administration "unpatriotic" for running up the tab. But nObama's on pace to nearly double the debt during his tenure in office. "On Monday the U.S. national debt hit a new record: $19,012,827,698,418,"reports The Daily Signal. "This is the first time the national debt has ever exceeded $19 trillion. That's more than $58,000 for each person that lives in the U.S. today (including children)." Major entitlements like Medicare and nObamaCare are going to put that increase ever more on autopilot.
          nObama and the Democrats in particular, with some aiding and abetting from Republicans, used the 2008 fiscal crisis to expand not the economy but government. Last year, Congress effectively suspended the debt ceiling — not that it was doing much good. Presidents and Congresses of both parties happily spend whatever they want when in power, raising the debt ceiling whenever they reach it based on phony fears of default. And the reason is simple: Most Americans don't actually want smaller government if it means cutting their own favorite spending. Politicians in Washington didn't sell out the American people. They heard exactly what the people were saying. Until and unless that really changes, U.S. debt will continue to grow at a tremendous rate. -The Patriot Post
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The increasing unaffordability of Affordable Health Care
Sharyl Attkisson
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ New evidence that forcing people to buy health insurance doesn’t mean they will get health care. In fact, sometimes, the result is the opposite... Millions of Americans gained health insurance under nObamacare. But for millions more, their insurance costs much more and covers less. Preventive services may not be covered, after all, depending on the doctor you see. That free birth control? Not so fast…you pay full price if your prescription isn’t one the insurance company approves, even if your doctor certifies it’s a medically necessary formulation. Covered services? First, you have to meet a hefty deductible. The result, for millions, is they have to pay the rising cost of their premiums and the rising deductibles before their health care is covered in any meaningful way. It can easily mean that families spend tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket before getting a significant benefit. For many, that’s unaffordable health care. It’s causing an untold number to avoid getting medical care.
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Supreme Court Justice Who? – This Guy Just
Had To Open His Big Mouth
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ There’s something unseen, a hidden mental disability that is responsible for changing what would otherwise be typical, rational and normal Americans and other Westerners into self-destructive liberals... What’s most distressing is that, as their ranks are steadily increasing, they are not satisfied with merely allowing themselves to be manipulated into political tools of self-loathing and inflicting damage upon themselves. Liberals are compelled to take the rest of us down the drain with them. Watching the expressions on the faces of Hilly Clinton and the zombies in her audience is like looking at a group of participants in some kind of sick science experiment in which hallucinogenic drugs or other methods of mind control are used to satisfy some sick curiosity. It’s something along the lines of “I wonder what they’ll do if we give em a dose of this and double the electric shock levels?” Both Hilly and Bill Clinton’s default mouth position when appearing before their adoring public involves the combination of a half-smile, open-mouthed, dry-drool grin combined with a full halfwit gaze. Clinton displays it as she responds in faux-amazement that someone might have come up with a position in the US government by which nObama could continue his maniacal destruction.
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The FBI is Closing in on Hillary Clinton as
News Breaks that Her Server 
"Put Lives at Risk"!
Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ Over the last few days the Clinton email scandal has grown uglier and more dangerous, not just for the nObama administration, but for the United States as well... Last week, we learned that Clinton had left deeply secret information unprotected, perhaps even endangering the lives of American operatives. Now, we’ve discovered that at least 22 of Clinton’s emails were so secret that the State Department still can’t release them even the redacted versions are still too classified for general consumption! However, the scandal may soon be spreading even further as the latest revelations implicate Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry in similar lawlessness and prove that President nObama has been lying to us for years! Let’s start with President nObama’s lie about Hilly’s private email server. Remember when he said this: So, he didn’t know huh? That’s interesting because the latest data dump proves that the President and Secretary Clinton had emailed each other on at least 18 separate occasions. The White House does not deny that the correspondence took place, but they are also arguing that nObama had no idea that the server being used was of private origin despite the obviously non-governmental email address. The White House is also implying though not guaranteeing that these 18 instances are the only times that the two had any email contact. “Of the 55,000 pages of traffic that was handed over by former Secretary Clinton to us for us to go through for release through FOIA, we have found these 18, and I do not expect that there will be more,” State Department spokesman John Kirby said late last week.        http://eaglerising.com/29516/the-fbi-is-closing-in-on-hillary-clinton-even-as-the-obama-administration-fights-to-defend-her/
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New Clinton Email: Top Aide Cited Classification
Laws to Hit GOP Leader
 JOHN HAYWARD
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{breitbart.com} ~ Hilly Clinton’s close associate, Sidney Blumenthal, told her that former Rep. Eric Cantor (R-VA) might have committed a felony violation of the Espionage Act by disclosing classified information... according to email correspondence recently released by the State Department. That’s another problem for Clinton’s team, because it shows they were aware of the laws governing the handling of classified information, even as they were transferring secret data from a closed government network into her home-brew, unprotected email network. The email was uncovered by watchdog group Judicial Watch, which is still plugging away at a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit pertaining to Clinton’s emails and the Benghazi attack.
Clinton Voter Fraud Live on C-SPAN?
 Trey Sanchez
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ While C-SPAN cameras were rolling at the Polk County, Iowa Democratic caucus Monday night, voter fraud may have been caught live on-air... The clip was posted anonymously to the C-SPAN website and a Reddit user described the scene. Keep in mind this is a Reddit page in support of Bernie Sanders): FIRST VOTE: 215 Sanders 210 Clinton 26 O'Malley 8 Undecided 459 TOTAL. After this, the groups realign and another count was conducted. Sanders's group leads performed a FULL recount of all the supporters in his group. The Clinton team only added the new supporters gained to her original number from the first round of voting. I did not see another recount of the Clinton supporters taking place. It would have been very hard to miss that activity. In the video, a red-shirted Sanders supporter can be seen taking a physical recount. But when it comes to the Clinton camp, the precinct chair in blue, Liz Buck, simply adds the new voters to the old total without a physical recount. Yet, suddenly the math doesn't add up. So, Buck suggests, "Well, somebody must have left." Caucus chair Drew Gentsch agreed and decided, without conducting a recount, that it was three people that must have left.        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/clinton-voter-fraud-live-c-span
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Memorial for Murdered Social Worker  BANNED
so as not to UPSET Muslim 
PAMELA GELLER
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Alexandra Mezher
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{pamelageller.com} ~ No memorial for the young girl murdered by Muslim migrants, so as not to offend savages... It’s the same vicious cowardice and submission we saw after the Garland jihad attacks on our free speech conference. The council said that the decision to ban was to secure the wellbeing of the “children” — the same “children” who murdered Alexandra, who are raping senior citizens and rampaging through Europe. Migrant centre banned from holding memorial to Swedish social worker ‘stabbed to death by Somali boy, 15’ in case it upsets refugee children.
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Little Known Pentagon Office Key to U.S. Military Competition with China, Russia
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A test shot of an electromagnetic railgun
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{news.usni.org} ~ A little publicized Pentagon office tasked with tweaking existing U.S. military capabilities for new roles and missions is a key player in the Department of Defense effort to stay ahead of Russian and Chinese weapon programs... “Russia and China are developing weapons and ways of war that seek to achieve their objectives rapidly, before they hope we can respond. Because of this, and because of their actions to date – from Ukraine to the South China Sea – DoD has elevated their importance in our defense planning and budgeting,” Secretary of State Ash Carter said in a speech on Tuesday previewing Fiscal Year 2017 budget. In the speech Carter singled out the work of the Strategic Capabilities Office to “confound potential opponents” and held up the SCO (pronounced SkOh) as a key component of future U.S. military technology development.
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Your Tax Dollars Will Fund the Next 
Global Bailout
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The Financial Times reports that officials “from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank are heading to Azerbaijan to discuss a possible $4 billion emergency loan package in what risks becoming the first of a series of bailouts stemming from” tumbling world oil prices... Not surprisingly, other corrupt, oil-cursed countries have caught the whiff of “free” money and are getting in line to seek their own IMF bailouts. They include Iraq, Ecuador, and economic basket case Venezuela, which is on the verge of bankruptcy. Bloomberg reports an IMF forecast of inflation hitting 720 percent in Venezuela in 2016. Actually, that’s not inflation—that’s verging on hyperinflation. Where did all that new IMF cash come from? From U.S. taxpayers, of course.
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Feds Cover Up Numbers On Fake Science
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L: A doctor looks into a microscope. R: People count money
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{dailycaller.com} ~ One of the largest federal sponsors for academic research doesn’t report how many funding requests are rejected for skyrocketing misconduct like plagiarism and faked data... The National Science Foundation (NSF) awards about $7 billion for research annually, but an agency report on the foundation’s merit review process doesn’t mention “plagiarism” or “misconduct” – problems that have increased tenfold since 2004, according to NSF’s inspector general. “You will need to submit a FOIA request for more specific information than what’s contained there,” NSF spokeswoman Jessica Arriens told The Daily Caller News Foundation.        http://dailycaller.com/2016/02/03/feds-cover-up-numbers-on-fake-science/
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America's 'Last Chance'
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{townhall.com} ~ On the eve of the Iowa caucuses, where the first ballots for the next president are cast, Senator Jeff Sessions, R., AL, who has not endorsed a candidate, gave a round of interviews declaring that 2016 "is the last chance for the American people to take back control of their government."
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"This election is different because we have pell-mell erosion of law, the constitutional order, where President nObama has pushed an agenda that eviscerates the immigration legal system, and pushed this trade agreement that will commence decades of transferring American economic power to an ever-expanding international commission. It's just not going to stop."
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"This is the way the European Union began," he added. Daily news reports are now vividly describing how the EU is disintegrating, making Americans mighty glad we never joined any proposed North American Union.
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Europe has been in an uproar for months over Germany's decision to admit 1.1 million refugees, mostly young men of fighting age from war-torn countries, and German Chancellor Angela Merkel has finally started to backtrack from that reckless decision. Merkel announced that refugees will be sent back home after the war is over in their homeland, and she even suggested that border guards should shoot at migrants who try to enter Germany illegally.
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In Britain, meanwhile, Prime Minister David Cameron has been trying to get permission from the Eurocrats to impose a four-year waiting period for the most generous welfare benefits, in order to discourage new immigrants from other EU countries. A spokesman for the grassroots organization called Leave. EU points out that even if Cameron's proposal were approved, "we are not even asking for an end to the supremacy of EU law over national law, genuine control over migration or independent representation on global bodies and the power to make our own trade deals."
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Our nation's sovereignty depends on control of both immigration and trade, and that's why Senator Sessions urges voters to choose a candidate who promises to kill the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal with nearly a dozen Asian nations. A new study by economists at Tufts University predicts that U.S. ratification of the TPP would shrink our GDP by $100 billion, leading to a loss of 448,000 American jobs.
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"This election will be the last chance for Americans to get control of their government," said Sessions, after 30 years of promises to end illegal immigration. "I think this election is the big one.
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"To win, Republicans need to demonstrate that they care about the average person who goes to work every day," he added. Average Americans are tired of paying billions in welfare handouts to immigrants who are undermining U.S. wages.
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"People should have total confidence and a clear commitment on those issues. If they don't, then they don't have my vote," he said.
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The importance of Sessions' statements on key issues in the presidential race -- especially immigration and TPP -- should not be underestimated. Sessions warned that, if the next president approves the TPP, it would put our trade with Asia under a powerful international commission on which the United States would have just one vote.
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Our immigration policy has been anti-American, decade after decade, and the voters need to know that 2016 might be our last chance to elect a president who can reduce this tide of illegals crossing our borders. The interests of working Americans, their jobs, their wages, their hospitals, their schools, and the public safety, must "be put first," Sessions urged.
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"We need a president with the credibility to tell the world that the time of illegality is over. Do not come to this country unlawfully," he said.
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"Make sure -- because this could be the last chance -- that the vote you cast is for a person who is going to, with courage and steadfastness, fix the immigration system that's so broken and is adversely impacting Americans' safety, their wages, their hospitals, their schools, those kind of things," Sessions said during an appearance on the Howie Carr radio program, which is heard throughout New Hampshire.
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"And also we need to know with absolute clarity: are you for or against the Trans-Pacific Partnership," he added. "It must not pass."
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"This may be the last opportunity the American people will have to have their will imposed and create a lawful immigration system that serves the national interest," Sessions emphasized. "I know we have to talk about the economy, national security, and the military, and the budget, and it's hard to know who's got the best idea," Sessions said.
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"But on these two issues immigration and TPP, I think the voters should say, 'If you're not going to be right on those, I'm not voting for you in this primary and I'm not going to vote for you as president.' I really think it's that important."
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Wednesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
US, Britain -- under a secret 
program called 'Anarchist' -- hacked into 
feeds from Israeli drones and fighters
Dan Lamothe
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New UN Climate Czar Will Make America
Pay For Complacency
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ The UN is attempting to keep the momentum going of the climate fraud summit of last December. Nobody’s been indicted, particularly the most vulnerable of criminals in the United States... They’re safe for now, the Americans and the rest of the world are asleep. The green light for the green fraud is on; put the pedal to the floor. With the success of pushing their Marxist agenda upon the unaware global population, the UN has now established a senior adviser for the climate scam. An article on the UN website quotes that person, Janos Pasztor, as declaring the “climate agreement” to already be a “decisive turning point.” In typical UN fashion, he doesn’t offer any explanation as to why that might be the case, just a proclamation that it is. UN royalty doesn’t explain themselves. They aren’t to be challenged. He said, “Much has been happening since Paris – the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that 2015 was the hottest year on record, not just by a little but by a lot.”
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Conservatives Oppose Mass
Criminal Release
Cliff Kincaid
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{aim.org} ~ With the presidential race the focus of most of the media attention, a major division among Senate Republicans over so-called “criminal justice reform” has gotten little attention... But the liberal media are now beginning to notice that conservatives are mounting a campaign to stop a piece of legislation that has been advertised as a major part of President nObama’s left-wing legacy. The Sentencing Reform and Corrections Act (S. 2123) would release thousands of criminals back on the streets at a time of rising crime rates, in the name of reducing what liberals call “mass incarceration.” In a major story on the new developments, The New York Times noted that the effort to pass the bill “has been driven by an unusual right-left alliance that includes the conservatives Charles G. and David H. Koch and the American Civil Liberties Union,” but that Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) has now taken a strong leadership role against the bill.        http://www.aim.org/aim-column/conservatives-oppose-mass-criminal-release/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email020116&utm_medium=email
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22 Clinton Emails Withheld Because Release
Would Be ‘Too Damaging’ 
to National Security
Andrew McCarthy
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{aim.org} ~ News outlets are reporting that the State Department is withholding 22 emails that were transmitted through and stored on Hilly Clinton’s private server because the Intelligence Community has determined that releasing any part of them – i.e., even redacted versions—could be gravely damaging to national security... Fox News’s Catherine Herridge and Pamela Brown report that the emails in question include intelligence from “special access programs” (SAP), among the most closely guarded information in the intelligence community—the kind of information whose exposure can destroy vital intelligence collection programs and reveal the identities of intel operatives, potentially putting them in grave danger. To get a sense of the level of sensitivity we are talking about here, recall that the State Department has already released, in redacted form, some 1340 Clinton emails containing classified information. With those, it was concluded that any risk could be eliminated by redacting the sensitive information whether the substance of the intelligence or the methods and sources by which it was obtained. With the 22 at issue, by contrast, the intelligence is deemed to be of such magnitude that no part of the emails could be disclosed. If this is the case, then she should be indicted no matter what she says.   http://www.aim.org/guest-column/22-clinton-emails-withheld-because-release-would-be-too-damaging-to-national-security/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email020116&utm_medium=email
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Tech-challenged Pentagon searches 
for a Silicon ally
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Col. Gregory Jones, commander, 129th Rescue Wing, says farewell to Secretary of Defense Ash Carter as Carter departs Moffett Field, Calif., Aug. 29, 2015, following a trip to California. Department of Defense 
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{aei.org} ~ Silicon Valley is a popular destination for the feds lately. President nObama’s intelligence team trekked there last month to ask for help defeating Islamic State’s propaganda on social media... Less noticed has been the steady parade of Pentagon leaders heading west. Last summer the Pentagon leased 12,000-square feet of Class A real estate in Sunnyvale for a new office: the Defense Innovation Unit-Experimental. Why? Commanders are worried about the accelerating erosion of the American military’s technological superiority. They believe Silicon Valley’s talent and tech can restore agility and innovation. But Defense Secretary Ash Carter faces two challenges. The first is getting Americans and their elected representatives to recognize the technological stagnation. Today almost none of the new military equipment coming online is revolutionary in design or technology; most is merely an upgraded version of something from the Cold War. A half-century ago, the Pentagon had more than a dozen combat aircraft in development. Last year it had only the late and overbudget F-35 and a new bomber. The American public believes its military is No. 1, but its commanders and its enemies increasingly know differently.        http://www.aei.org/publication/tech-challenged-pentagon-searches-for-a-silicon-ally/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=020216
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Clinton Had Plans to Use 
Hidden IT Network to Bypass 
State Department Rules
Kemberlee Kaye
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Judicial Watch obtained records that could implicate State Department officials in Hilly Clinton’s ongoing email scandal... According to those records, State Department officials planned to provide Clinton with a non-DOS computer. In the email chain, Lewis Lukens, former deputy assistant secretary of state and executive director of the secretariat, responds to a request from Mills by informing her, top Clinton aide Huma Abedin, and Kennedy that the new personal computer “in the secretary’s office” would be “connected to the internet but not through our system.” Abedin responds, “We are hoping for that if possible.” The email exchange discussing plans to provide Clinton a separate computer to skirt the internal State Department computer network begins with a message from Mills to Lukens in which she requests Clinton being able to access her emails through “a non-DOS computer.” The email discusses how the stand-alone computer can be set up and why it is “a great idea’ and “the best solution:”
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Hamas: The "Merchants of War" Who 
Seek to Destroy Israel
Khaled Abu Toameh
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In the words of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh (left), the tunnels Hamas digs from Gaza into Israel (right) are not only to "defend the Gaza Strip, but to serve as a launching pad to reach all of Palestine."
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ The myth that Hamas uses tunnels to smuggle food and other necessities to the "besieged" Gaza Strip has been buried under the rubble of the tunnel that collapsed last week east of Gaza City... The incident, in which seven members of Hamas's armed wing, Ezaddin Al-Qassam, were killed when the tunnel they were working in collapsed, provides further proof that the Islamist movement has stayed true to its charter, which calls for the total destruction of Israel. The Hamas men who were killed in the tunnel collapse belonged to the movement's elite "Tunnel Unit." According to Ezaddin Al-Qassam, the men were busy repairing one of the tunnels damaged during the 2014 war with Israel when it collapsed due to severe weather conditions. Contrary to popular belief, the tunnel was not being renovated to allow Palestinians to smuggle basic goods from Egypt to the Gaza Strip. This was one of many tunnels that Hamas has dug over the past few years to infiltrate Israel and carry out terror attacks.      http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7352/hamas-tunnels-war
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‘I Take Classified Information Seriously,’ Boasts Hilly Clinton, Despite Evidence
 JOHN HAYWARD
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{breitbart.com} ~ “I take classified information seriously,” Hilly Clinton declared on CNN. “People are selectively leaking and making comments that have no basis in anything I’m aware of.”... Doubling down on this is shrewd politics, because Clinton’s guilt has been laid bare by the latest round of email revelations. Her hope now is for pure political immunity, making herself too big to prosecute by sewing up the Democratic presidential nomination. Her highest priority is to reassure nervous Democrat voters and power brokers that she’ll survive the email scandal. There is no real question that she violated security protocols, repeatedly, and a strong case to be made that she put lives in danger by doing so.  
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Mystery Surrounds Muslim Cleric
in U.S.Mountain Compound
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{cbn.com} ~ The influential Muslim cleric lives quietly on a gated 26-acre compound in the Pocono Mountains, where he prays, works, meets admirers and watches from afar as terrorism accusations that have landed him on Turkey's most-wanted list unfold in court... Rarely seen in public, Fethullah Gulen has long been one of Turkey's most important scholars, with multitudes of followers in his native country and around the world. More recently, Turkey's increasingly autocratic president, Recip Erdogan, has accused Gulen of plotting to overthrow the officially secular government from his Pennsylvania idyll some 5,000 miles away. Gulen's supporters call the charge baseless and, so far, the U.S. has shown little inclination to send him back to Turkey to face a trial that began without him Jan. 6 and is expected to last several months. A second trial, involving accusations that his movement took part in espionage, opened Monday. If the reclusive leader worries about the possibility of deportation, he hasn't shared it with confidants, they say.        http://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2016/February/Mystery-Surrounds-Muslim-Cleric-in-US-Mountain-Compound
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Intelligence Official Confirms, 
Hilly Emails Put Live at Risk
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Fox News’ Catherine Herridge who has been at the forefront of exposing the severity of the security risks from Hilly Clinton’s use of a private non-secure server while secretary of state, has done it again... Herridge is now reporting that those emails deemed to damaging to release even on a redacted basis, which she revealed on Friday, “contain ‘operational intelligence’ – and their presence on the unsecure, personal email system jeopardized “sources, methods and lives,” a U.S. government official who has reviewed the documents told Fox News.” The official could not discuss the specific contents of the emails but confirmed the description given to Herridge referred to the 22 top secret emails that the State Department announced Friday could not be released in any form, even with entire sections cut out. The U.S. government official’s description provides confirmation that the emails contained closely held government secrets. “Operational intelligence” can be real-time information about intelligence collection, sources and the movement of assets.
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Clinton’s Technological Ignorance 
is a Problem
{fixthisnation.com} ~ According to a newly-released email from 2009, incoming Secretary of State Hilly Clinton did “not know how to use a computer to do email” at the time. The email, which originated from State Department official Lewis Lukens, appeared to be in response to Clinton’s chief of staff, Cheryl Mills... Mills had earlier worried that Clinton’s inability to use anything other than her Blackberry might be a “problem.” In the email, though, Lukens seems unconcerned. He wrote that it “would not take much training to get her up to speed.” Of course, as The Hill points out, there’s no evidence that Clinton ever did figure out how to use her computer to “do email.” She has said that she never had a computer in her State Department office, apparently content to use her mobile devices as her sole method of electronic communication. Now, the Clinton staff will probably use this story as a way of reinforcing their claim that the former secretary rarely used email at all. Or they will use it as a way of showing Clinton as being technologically incompetent, as though that’s an excuse for her wanton disregard for informational security. It’s a little like her “wipe the server” comment a few months ago, where no one could quite figure out whether or not she was joking. Increasingly, it looks like she really thought “with a cloth?” was a relevant answer.
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US, Britain -- under a secret 
program called 'Anarchist' -- hacked into 
feeds from Israeli drones and fighters
Dan Lamothe
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ The United States and Great Britain combined to hack into Israeli drone and fighter jet surveillance feeds as part of secret program that in part watched for a potential Israeli military strike against Iran, according to a new report published along with corresponding photos.
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The Intercept reported that the secret program was called "Anarchist." It was carried out by Britain's Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ, and the National Security Agency from a mountaintop Royal Air Force base in Cyprus, according to report.
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"GCHQ files provided by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden include a series of 'Anarchist snapshots' - thumbnail images from videos recorded by drone cameras," The Intercept reported. "The files also show location data mapping the flight paths of the aircraft. In essence, U.S. and British agencies stole a bird's-eye view from the drones."
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An Israeli official downplayed the significance of the report on Friday, telling the Israeli news service Haaretz the revelations weren't "very dramatic." Israeli military operations were not harmed in the process, the source told Haaretz, adding that "it goes without saying that foreign intelligence elements in the Middle East detect our operations, just like we detect the operations of other states in the region."
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Officials at the NSA couldn't immediately be reached for comment, and have historically declined to comment on classified programs.
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Anarchist was first started in 1998, according to The Intercept. It occasionally hacked into the feeds of drones operated by Syria and Hezbollah, but the bulk of the effort was focused on Israel, which has long had a complicated relationship with the United States when it comes to spying and intelligence collection. A summary of the CIA's budget, also released by Snowden, notes that Israel is a "priority" target for U.S. counterintelligence operations. Although allies, the United States and Israel have a history of spying on one another.
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Photographs from the program appear to show Israeli drones equipped with missiles. Israel has long declined to discuss the arming of any of its unmanned aircraft, saying they are used for surveillance and to mark targets so that fighter jets and others manned aircraft can carry out airstrikes.
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A 2008 British military document quoted by The Intercept suggested the Anarchist program was "indispensable" for maintaining an understanding of Israeli military operations and gaining insight into possible future developments in the region.
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"In times of crisis," it said, "this access is critical and one of the only avenues to provide up to the minute information and support to U.S. and Allied operations in the area."
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Military technology experts do not consider hacking into a video feed from a manned jet or drone to be difficult. In 2009, for example, U.S. defense officials acknowledged in media reports that Iranian-backed militants in Iraq had used off-the-shelf software costing about $26 to hack the video feeds of Predator drones.
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Air Force officials said that year that they were working toward encrypting all feeds by 2014. It is not clear if that has occurred.
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Wednesday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Islamic State threatens feds, military 
after theft of personal data
Joe Davidson
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 The 'Stupid People of Iowa'? 
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"How stupid are the people of Iowa?" Donald slump-Trump asked at a rally in November, though for all we know he's asking that same question after his second-place finish in Monday's Iowa caucus. He asked it while marveling that Ben Carson was surging in the polls two (long) months ago. It wasn't Carson who knocked Trump off his pedestal Monday, though; it was Ted Cruz. And Marco Rubio came very close to doing likewise (slump-Trump and Rubio won the same number of delegates). Cruz's victory is clearly the headline of the night — not least because the one guy unequivocally opposed to ethanol subsidies won the most caucus votes ever in the state that most benefits from those subsidies. But Rubio's late surge and likely momentum going forward may be the more interesting story. His path seems much clearer now than 10 days ago. That said, slumpTrump remains formidable and certainly has the ability to win the nomination.
          Another key story is how wrong the polls were. Cruz won with 28%, slump-Trump got 24% and Rubio finished with 23%. The Real Clear Politics average: slump-Trump (28%), Cruz (24%) and Rubio (17%). Oops. Once again, the only poll that matters is the one on Election Day.
          One factor in slump-Trump's loss might have been his increasingly  vitriolic attacks on Cruz, accusing the Texas senator of lying (by using slump-Trump's own words, by the way) and insisting that everybody hates Cruz. Evangelicals also proved decisive for Cruz and perhaps grew increasingly wary of slump-Trump.
           Some final notes on the GOP side: Mike Huckabee, who won Iowa in 2008, ended his campaign Mondaynight. Rick Santorum, the 2012 Iowa winner, can't be far behind. And what did $155 million in campaign cash buy Jeb Bush? A sixth place finish with less than 3% of the vote.
          Now for the Democrats. Hilly Clinton managed to pull near-defeat from the jaws of victory, and a narrow loss for Bernie Sanders is still a "win" for him. As we go to press, Clinton leads by less than a percentage point. After her machine spent a year building a get-out-the-vote operation and a 12 point lead as recently as two weeks ago, she collapsed, surely leaving many to wonder if this isn't a repeat of 2008. Her bitter tone in her speech clearly reflected her wounded sense of entitlement.
          By the way, former Maryland Gov. Martin O'Malley dropped out of the race. Yes, until last night he was still in it.  -The Patriot Post
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 Islamophile nObama to Visit Radical Mosque 
Can somebody say "Blinding Islamophilia"? On Wednesday, Barack nObama is scheduled to visit a Baltimore mosque to show his support for the Islamic community. A White House staffer emailed The Washington Post saying nObama is going "to celebrate the contributions Muslim Americans make to our nation and reaffirm the importance of religious freedom to our way of life. ... As the President has said, Muslim Americans are our friends, and neighbors; our co-workers, and sports heroes — and our men and women in uniform defending our country." The Muslim Public Affairs Council told the Post that it helped the White House to pick which mosque to visit, and that the Islamic Society of Baltimore was an "average Joe mosque."
          But the mosque isn't exactly filled with the "moderate Muslims" nObama and the rest of the Left like to say make up the majority of adherents to the Religion of Peace™ in the United States. As Investor's Business Daily reports, the mosque is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America, a group the Justice Department named in 2007 as an unindicted coconspirator for giving $12 million to Hamas. Furthermore, the mosque's former imam of 15 years, Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh, left to replace Anwar Awlaki — the al-Qaida leader who was influential for the Fort Hood jihadi, and later killed by an nObama drone strike — at a Virginia mosque where some of the 9/11 hijackers attended. El-Sheikh also founded a Muslim organization that U.S. prosecutors say is the U.S. franchise of the Muslim Brotherhood. If this mosque is what the Obama administration says represents moderate Muslims, will Muslim leaders condemn this visit?   -The Patriot Post
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 Electric Vehicle Expectations Short Circuit 
With the per-barrel cost of crude oil hovering below $35 and showing no signs of spiking, gasoline prices continue to drop. Today, the national average for a gallon of regular unleaded fuel is a remarkably low $1.79. The steady decline throughout 2015 no doubt propelled the auto market on its way to setting a new benchmark. Last month, the Associated Press reported that "U.S. auto sales hit a record high of 17.47 million in 2015, topping the old record of 17.35 million set in 2000." The report added, "Analysts expect sales could go even higher this year as unemployment continues to decline and more young buyers enter the market."
          However, the outlook for the electric vehicle market is far less sublime. Recall this prediction from Barack nObama's 2011 State of the Union address: "With more research and incentives, we can break our dependence on oil with biofuels, and become the first country to have a million electric vehicles on the road by 2015." But with 2015 in the history books, the report card is rustier than a decades-old junk car. According to statistics provided by hybridcars.com, a total of 411,120 plug-in electrified vehicles (PEV) have been purchased in the United States since 2008. nObama's prediction would be right if he was talking globally — about 1.2 million PEVs have been sold worldwide — but he wasn't, which means he only reached about 41% of his goal. In other words, good enough to earn an "F." But who said anything about graded tests? This is government, after all.
          The ironic thing is that both cheap gasoline and the struggling electric vehicle market are the result of failed policies. Instead of depending less on gasoline-powered vehicles, millions of Americans are buying them in droves despite nObama taking undeserved credit. And hybridcars.com notes, "Last year the U.S. purchased 2.8 percent fewer PEVs than it did in 2014." No wonder Tesla CEO Elon Musk says "the industry as a whole, I think, will definitely suffer from lower oil prices." The trends are completely opposite what nObama said they would be. But he'll gladly take credit for them anyway. Only in government is missing your goal by 59% considered a success.  -The Patriot Post
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Contradicting hanoi-Kerry, Iran Claims
$100 Billion in Sanctions 
Relief ‘Fully’ Released
 Patrick Goodenough
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Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry holds a one-on-one conversation with Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif on the sidelines of the nuclear talks, at the Palais Coburg in Vienna on July 3, 2015.
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{cnsnews.com} ~ Iran now has access to more than $100 billion in formerly frozen assets that has been “fully” released as a result of the nuclear deal... regime spokesman Mohammad-Baqer Nobakht has claimed in an interview with state-owned television. “These assets have fully been released and we can use them,” Press TV quoted Nobakht as telling the Alalam TV network late Sunday. He said much of the money – Iranian oil revenues – had been held in banks in China, India, Japan, South Korea and Turkey for years because of sanctions imposed over the nuclear program. With Iranian banks now reconnected to SWIFT – the global cross-border financial transactions system from which Iran was excluded in 2012 – those funds could now be repatriated. However, he said much of it would not be brought directly home, but instead be used for purchases and investments abroad.
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Why Is Small Town America Being Inundated
With Muslim Immigrants?
Terresa Monroe-Hamilton
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ Looks like my old stomping grounds in Montana are heating up. People there are not taking nObama’s plan to force refugees on them lying down... There was a protest in Missoula, Montana at 10 a.m. this morning over that very issue. It is just one of many battles brewing out there in small town America. Small towns in the sparsely populated parts of America are the perfect place to relocate these refugees. Especially, if your agenda includes politically terraforming the country. The West is historically conservative in their politics. Many are Republicans and Libertarians. Even the Democrats hearken back to an earlier time when they were more conservative in nature. nObama and the Democrats can’t have that. They need to have an entire country willing to submit to Marxist diktats. They need areas seeded with those who will vote Democrat and ensure that they stay in power no matter what. And it’s not just voting demographics that are pushing this move either. I personally believe that there is a warped logic to all of this. That if Islam can be made the predominant religion in America, people will be more easily controlled. That’s insane of course and won’t work, but there you have it. Instead, Shariah law will be implemented and you will see the same atrocities occurring in Europe happen here. The big difference being, that at least for now, Americans are armed and will use those weapons to protect their neighbors, loved ones and country.  http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/02/why-is-small-town-america-being-inundated-with-muslim-immigrants/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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Eight Signs the Democrats Are Sabotaging
the Benghazi Investigation
{americanactionnews.com} ~ Hilly Clinton’s most important donation in this campaign may be the $2 million of taxpayer money Democrats have spent obstructing justice in the House Select Committee on Benghazi’s investigation of the terrorist attack... “While Democrats on the Benghazi Committee have made a big show of pretending to care about the cost of this investigation, they’ve made zero meaningful contributions and spent virtually all of their time and effort on undermining and obstructing the committee’s work, directly contributing to its length and cost,” says Committee spokesman Matt Wolking. “Their incessant politicization of legitimate congressional oversight is appalling and grotesque, and only proves that the process could have been completed much faster if Democrats had helped with the work instead of delay it,” says Wolking. “Of course, their motivations are obvious: they’ve endorsed the former Secretary of State for president, and will no doubt continue to act as a full-fledged arm of her campaign, wasting taxpayer dollars on everything but getting answers for the families of the victims who were left without adequate security on September 11 in one of the most dangerous places in the world.”        http://americanactionnews.com/articles/eight-signs-the-democrats-are-sabotaging-the-benghazi-investigation
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Soros and CFR Exploit Refugee Crisis 
for New World Order
Alex Newman
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George Soros
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ After having literally created the refugee crisis from start to finish — destroying multiple Middle Eastern nations and then demanding that Europe accept the millions of displaced victims — the internationalist establishment is now exploiting the chaos it unleashed to push more globalism and statism... Europe, Africa, and the Middle East are all in the cross-hairs of billionaire George Soros, the global government-promoting Council on Foreign Relations, and other key globalist forces. Among other efforts, the refugee-crisis instigators are using the horror they unleashed as a pretext to erode what remains of national sovereignty in those regions — all while further empowering supranational institutions such as the United Nations, the European Union, the African Union, and even a globalist-backed “Middle East Union” yet to be formally unveiled. A new “Marshall Plan” and even an EU paramilitary force with unprecedented powers are also on the agenda, all on the road toward what establishment voices regularly refer to as a "New World Order."  With the refugee situation quickly spiraling out of control across parts of the continent — the mass sexual assaults on New Year across Germany and beyond, the implosion of law and order around Calais in France, the widely reported overrunning of Stockholm's central station by refugee youths, and more — the public is now growing increasingly outraged. Indeed, as The New American  reported last week, even the establishment forces responsible for unleashing the chaos are now loudly denouncing it. The New York Times, an establishment mouthpiece that dutifully promoted the globalist wars that sparked the refugee crisis, and then the subsequent flooding of the West with the victims of those wars, ran an op-ed pointing out that Germany was “on the brink” due to the crisis. Top European political bosses have also been sounding the alarm.        http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/22447-soros-and-cfr-exploit-refugee-crisis-for-new-world-order
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As Oil Price Drops, Iraq Faces 
Existential Threat 
Bob Adelmann
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ In Iraq the culture of dependency is so great that the drop in the price of oil threatens the country’s very existence... With every Iraqi dependent upon the government for essentials like sugar, tea, rice and cooking oil, and the government dependent upon oil for more than 90 percent of its budget, the existential threat is real. In January 2015 the government, headed up by President Fuad Masum and Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, passed a budget that cut 16 percent from spending the year before. After assuming that oil would sell for $56 a barrel and that it would export 3.3 million barrels of it every day, it was still facing a deficit of almost 10 percent of the country’s gross domestic product. Other measures were employed: introducing a sales tax on airline tickets, vehicle sales, alcohol, and cigarettes. But oil prices dropped down into the $40s, and the outdated and war-torn oil delivery system was only able to export an estimated two million bpd. So government payrolls were cut.
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nObama's Dubious Mosque Choice
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{investigativeproject.org} ` Barack nObama is scheduled to visit the Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB) Wednesday, his first visit to a U.S. mosque since becoming president... ISB leaders have amassed a record of support for radical Islamic causes over the years, including endorsing the Chechen jihad and Palestinian suicide bombings. Its former imam was active in a charity later linked to terror financing including Hamas, the Taliban, and for providing "hundreds of thousands of dollars" to Osama bin Laden. It's safe to assume the White House vetted the ISB and found it an acceptable venue for a presidential appearance despite it's history. And that is not surprising. The nObama administration has repeatedly embraced contact with the Muslim Brotherhood, repeatedly meeting with its officials during and after the Arab Spring while ignoring secular democracy advocates. It praised the early tenure of Brotherhood member Mohamed Morsi when he briefly served as Egypt's president. The administration also helped a Brotherhood delegation skip routine screening by U.S. Customs and Border Protection upon landing in America.
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Sheriff Clarke – Clinton, nObama, State Dept
Contradict – Somebody Is Lying
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Catherine Herridge gives an update regarding the offenses Hilly Clinton is alleged to have committed against the American people, which include, as she details, operational security, which could have placed American lives at risk... Herridge has spoken with a government official who has reviewed the 22 emails which are too sensitive to be released in any form, who described them as containing operational intelligence, real-time information about sources, methods and individuals. Revelations of information contained in those documents could have resulted in lives being put at risk. There’s also the matter of the Special Access Program SAP classified information which Herridge reminds the audience is beyond top secret. They also discuss the existence of emails that are between the State Department, Hilly Clinton and nObama, which she puts at “a little shy of two dozen,” emails that are also being withheld in full. The State Department claims that they don’t contain classified  information but that they are being held because they were with nObama and they don’t want to set a precedent of providing documents on demand. Herridge points out that Clinton is being disingenuous when she claims that she wants these emails released, as she knows that they won’t be.
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Patrick Kennedy to Testify Before
Benghazi Committee
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U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya 
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Hilly Clinton’s deputy at the State Department will testify before a closed-door meeting of the House Benghazi Committee on Wednesday, where he will likely be pressed on why the State Department has failed to produce certain documents requested by the committee... Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy will be the 72nd witness interviewed by the committee, Chairman Trey Gowdy (R., S.C.) said in a statement on Tuesday. Kennedy’s testimony comes on the heels of newly released emails that show the under secretary discussed creating a “stand-alone” network for Clinton to check her emails while at her State Department office. Gowdy said in a statement that the committee would also question Kennedy about the security lapses at the Benghazi consulate:
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TPP Smoke Screen Shows It’s A
World Govt Slippery Slope
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ A debate between the nObama regime, special interests and congressional Republicans and Democrats over tobacco is providing a glimpse into the enormous mountain of profiteering and problems that are engineered into the Trans-Pacific Partnership, TPP...  It is not a free trade agreement that will provide economic security for the American people as the politicians and money changers would have us believe; it is the exact opposite. TPP is a set of rules written by big business and their lobbyists that ensure those who wrote the deal receive a host of major advantages. The biggest losers are the American people and our self-determining system of government. Just how bad this deal is for America is illustrated by a report from The Hill in which what they call “public health groups” are pressing for Democrat support of TPP because of a carve-out that denies tobacco companies “protection” under dispute settlement provisions. That protection would provide reimbursement for lost “estimated revenue” by a government regardless of the reasons or routine nature of the causes or their legitimate service to the citizens. It’s international corporate extortion. The decision is final; there is no appeal.
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nObama Admin Has Not Prosecuted a
Single Palestinian Terrorist
Who Killed Americans
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The nObama administration has not prosecuted a single Palestinian terrorist responsible for killing Americans abroad, despite a congressional mandate ordering the Justice Department to take action against these individuals, according to disclosures made by lawmakers on Tuesday... Palestinian terrorists have murdered at least 64 Americans, including two unborn children, since 1993. Yet the U.S. government has failed to take legal action against those who committed the crimes, lawmakers disclosed during a Tuesday hearing on the Justice Department’s failure to live up to its mandate to bring these terrorists to justice. Many of the terrorists continue to roam free across the Middle East, with one hosting a Hamas-affiliated television show in Jordan.
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Islamic State threatens feds, military 
after theft of personal data
Joe Davidson
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ Charges against arrested ISIS-linked hacker reveal terror threats against federal employees and military members.
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The federal workforce, already shaken by a massive cybertheft of personal data, now confronts another reality - ISIS has some of that same information.
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Ardit Ferizi, 20, from Kosovo, was in federal court last week on charges he provided the brutal terrorist organization names, email addresses, passwords and locations of federal employees and military members.
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It's worth noting up front the number of people whose information was stolen for ISIS is small -- 1,351, compared to the 21.5 million people whose background security clearance data was poached in the cybertheft announced last year.
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Also, there is no reported harm -- physical, financial or otherwise -- to the cyber victims from ISIS. The FBI's criminal complaint against Ferizi, however, paints a frightening picture of what the terrorist group, aka ISIL, planned for that information. More broadly, this case, like the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge occupation, is another indication of the particular threat federal government personnel and workplaces face from extremists, foreign and domestic.
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"Specifically, the PII (personally identifiable information), stolen by Ferizi was knowingly provided to ISIL to be used by ISIL members and supporters to conduct terrorist attacks against the US government employees whose names and locations were published," according to the document filed in federal district court in Alexandria by FBI Special Agent Kevin M. Gallagher.
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It's one thing if a cyber identity thief goes on a Best Buy shopping spree at your expense. It's quite another if your personal information is obtained by those who practice mass murder.
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This has to raise concern for public servants who must trust their employer to safeguard their information, despite serious indications that Uncle Sam, as well as many in the private sector, really can't be trusted in that department. No one is safe. In October, a teenager claimed responsibility for hacking the private AOL email account of CIA Director John Brennan. The New York Post said the account held his security clearance information, including family Social Security numbers.
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Last month, the White House outlined the measures the nObama administration is taking to strengthen cyber protections, including stronger authentication for computer systems, increasing scans for compromise and tightening practices for privileged users. Also, OPM has created the position of senior cyber adviser to help cut the risk of future intrusions. In October, the White House released its plan to modernize federal cybersecurity.
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The complaint by Gallagher, formerly an independent contractor for two intelligence agencies, says Ferizi stole the information from the computer server that hosts the website of an unnamed business, referred to as "Victim Company." Little was revealed about the firm, except it is a retailer "that sells goods via the Internet to customers in multiple states." The server is located in Phoenix, but Gallagher noted that some theft victims live in the Eastern District of Virginia, which includes an area from the District's suburbs to Richmond and the Hampton Roads region. This part of the state probably was cited because it's the jurisdiction of the district court.
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Ferizi allegedly stole personal information belonging not to just federal employees and service members, but to about 100,000 people in total, according to Gallagher. But the suspected intended use of the government personnel data is chilling.
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Sometime between June 13 and August 11, 2015, Ferizi provided the personal information "to ISIL, intending it to be used by and for ISIL, and knowing that ISIL would use the PII against the US personnel, including to target the US personnel for attacks and violence," the complaint reads.
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On August 11, Junaid Hussain, "a known ISIL member" who received stolen information from Ferizi, reposted an Islamic State Hacking Division tweet, according to the FBI. The tweet linked to a 30-page document with a warning to the "Crusaders:"
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"We are in your emails and computer systems, watching and recording your every move, we have your names and addresses, we are in your emails and social media accounts, we are extracting confidential data and passing on your personal information to the soldiers of the khilafah, who soon with the permission of Allah will strike at your necks in your own lands!"
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The following 27 pages in the document listed the names, email addresses and passwords, locations and phone numbers for U.S. personnel, according to the FBI. The complaint says the Islamic State Hacking Division, which the FBI says is linked to Ferizi, posted a "Kill List" in March that purportedly included the names and addresses of 100 U.S. service members.
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Ferizi was arrested in Malaysia last year. Using the handle Th3Dir3ctorY, he led an Internet hacking group of ethnic Albanians called Kosova Hacker's Security (KHS), the FBI said.
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KHS has hit government and private websites in Israel, Serbia, Greece and Ukraine. The group claims it has hacked more than 20,000 websites, including Interpol, the international police organization, IBM research and Microsoft's Hotmail, according to the complaint. KHS also claimed responsibility for having posted more than 7,000 Israeli credit card numbers in January 2012.
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When five top administration officials announced new measures for background investigations several days ago, they said "we are committed to protecting the security of not only our systems and data, but also the Personally Identifiable Information of the people we entrust with protecting our national security."
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Is that a commitment they - or anyone - can keep?
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Tuesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Palin and the GOP’s Uncertain Trumpeters
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 Picking to Pack the Supreme Court 
55, 61, 62, 66, 68, 78, 80 and 83.
          No, these aren't the latest Powerball numbers. They're the ages of the nine justices of the Supreme Court as of Jan. 20, 2017. Assuming all of them survive this year, it's likely that our next president could select three or more new members to the Court.
          Those three highest numbers actually belong to four members of the Supreme Court: Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will be 83, both Anthony Kennedy and Antonin Scalia turn 80 this year, and right behind them is Stephen Breyer. There are two each from the "conservative" and "liberal" wings of the Court — if Kennedy, who was appointed by Ronald Reagan after Senate Democrats shamefully "borked" Robert Bork, can be deemed something other than an unreliable and incoherent swing vote.
          And while it may seem logical for Ginsburg and Breyer to step down now while a Democrat president can still appoint their replacements, the feisty Ginsburg, who is battling pancreatic cancer, has consistently thumbed her nose at those fellow liberals who suggested it. Back then, Democrats still had the Senate; liberals now know that window has closed. Barack nObama can name anyone he wants, but it's not likely the Republican Senate would roll over without a fight for a SCOTUS nominee, even though they mostly have done just that for lower courts of late. Moreover, the Senate has an unwritten rule that they won't act on filling judicial vacancies during the waning months of a president's term.
          But the impact of a president can be felt long after he is gone based on the Supreme Court justices he selects. Both Scalia and Kennedy were Reagan appointees, and they are still on the court 27 years after he left office and almost 12 years after his death. Imagine, for example, what sort of impact a President Ted Cruz or President Marco Rubio could have with three or four Supreme Court appointees.  -The Patriot Post
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 Some Clinton Email Too Classified to Release 
"I take classified information very seriously," Hilly Clinton insisted Sunday. "You know, you can't get classified information off the classified system in the State Department to put onto an unclassified system, no matter what that system is." She's not exactly correct, but it would take a herculean effort to strip classification markings — which is apparently what she did. "There is absolutely no evidence that I ever sent or received any email marked classified." Marked is the key word in Clinton parsing, and even former Clintonista George Stephanopoulos cornered her on that one: "You've said many times that the emails were not marked classified. The non-disclosure agreement you signed as secretary of state says that that's really not that relevant. It says classified information is marked or unmarked classified and that all of you are trained to treat all of that sensitively and should know the difference." Bingo, though her comments above were, astoundingly, in reply to his charge.
          It's certainly inconvenient that the State Department just announced it would not release 22 of her emails at all because revealing the information contained in them — even if redacted — would be too damaging to national security. The State Department has already released more than 1,300 of Clinton's classified emails, but these 22 are so serious as to merit holding them. (Those and 18 more that are direct communications with Barack nObama, who famously claimed he only found out about Clinton's email practices "through news reports.")
          Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy sums up the problem: "The reasoning behind that conclusion is alarming. It is not just that the intelligence community (IC) understandably wishes to keep top secret national-defense information under wraps. Because of how recklessly Clinton and her top aides handled classified information, the IC must operate under the assumption that there are copies of these 22 emails floating around — whether in the possession of current or former government officials but unaccounted for or, worse, in the possession of, say, foreign governments that managed to hack into Clinton's unsecured private system. If the State Department were to release publicly even redacted copies of the emails, those who may have complete copies will be able to figure out the SAP information and use that knowledge both to compromise government sources and programs, and in analyzing other U.S. government information to which they've gained access. In other words, it is potentially catastrophic."
           Heck, even Bernie "Sick and Tired of Her Damn Emails" Sanders now thinks Clinton's malfeasance is "a very serious issue," though he swears, "I'm not going to politicize it."
          Finally, on a related note, Defense Secretary Ash Carter has decided not to pursue further punishment for Gen. David Petraeus over mishandling of classified information. Perhaps Carter is simply trying to make life easier for Clinton. -The Patriot Post
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 Is Cruz a Liar? 
"Donald slump-Trump and Hilly Clinton and Bernie Sanders have the identical position on health care, which is they want to put the government in charge of you and your doctor," Ted Cruz said Sunday, attacking his rivals' health care plans. "Fact checking" site PolitiFact rated this statement false — because Clinton is the least leftist of the three, as she wants to preserve nObamaCare.
          The next day, slump-Trump called into ABC to defend his position. "Look, Ted Cruz is a total liar," Trump said. "I'm so against nObamaCare. I've been saying it for two years in my speeches. I'm going to repeal and replace nObamaCare."
          So the question is this: What will slump-Trump replace nObama's failed policy with? Currently, slump-Trump has not released a detailed health care plan. But if his past comments are any indicator, he will support some sort of single-payer health care system, similar to that of the socialist candidate. In 2000, while slump-Trump was pondering a third-party presidential run, he published a book, "The America We Deserve." In it, he wrote in praise of single-payer health care systems like the one in Canada: "We must have universal health care. I'm a conservative on most issues but a liberal on this one."
          In this weekend's interview with ABC, slump-Trump insisted he did not support single-payer, but he was downright idealistic regarding providing health care — and he sounded eerily like the liberals that condemn conservatives for their focus on fiscal responsibility: "We'll work something out. That doesn't mean single-payer and maybe [Cruz has] got no heart. And if this means I lose an election, that's fine because frankly, we have to take care of the people in our country. We can't let them die on the sidewalks of New York, or the sidewalks of Iowa, or anywhere else."
          The results, we fear, will be that slump-TrumpCare would expand government even further and fulfill the ideological policy goals set by nObama.  -The Patriot Post
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America’s Economic Freedom Has Rapidly
Declined Under nObama
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{dailysignal.com} ~ Millions of people around the world are emerging from poverty thanks torising economic freedom. But by sharp contrast, America’s economic freedom has been on a declining path over the past decade... According to the 2016 Index of Economic Freedom, an annual publication by The Heritage Foundation, America’s economic freedom has tumbled. With losses of economic freedom in eight of the past nine years, the U.S. has tied its worst score ever, wiping out a decade of progress. The U.S. has fallen from the 6th freest economy in the world, when President Barack nObama took office, to 11th place in 2016. America’s declining score in the index is closely related to rapidly rising government spending, subsidies, and bailouts.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/31/americas-economic-freedom-has-rapidly-declined-under-obama/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovvKXPZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASMpgMa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm
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After Facing Questions on Abortion, 2 nObama
Judicial Nominees Fail to Advance
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{dailysignal.com} ~ The Senate Judiciary Committee is holding up two of President Barack nObama’s judicial nominees for federal judgeships in Pennsylvania... Robert Colville and John Younge, both nominated for lifetime judicial positions, did not receive a vote at Thursday’s committee meeting. Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, said the move was meant to give senators more time to review “their records and answers to written questions.” Colville and Younge were nominated by nObama in July to serve as U.S. district judges in Pennsylvania. Their delay comes as conservatives have called for the Republican-controlled Senate to stop confirming nObama’s judicial nominees.        http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/29/after-facing-questions-on-abortion-2-obama-judicial-nominees-fail-to-advance/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovvKXPZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASMpgMa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm
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Michael Reagan to slump-Trump:
You’re No Reagan Republican
Fuzzy Slippers
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ Many conservatives opine that what we need after nObama’s disastrous presidency is the same cure we had after Jimmy Carter’s disastrous presidency: a Ronald Reagan... This desire isn’t lost on the Republican candidates for president. Many are comparing themselves to President Reagan in the hopes of stoking, even fulfilling, that hope. One such comparison to President Reagan was recently made by Donald slump-Trump who compared his very recent Democrat background to that of President Reagan. The Hill reported at the time: In response to questions about the business mogul’s previous status as a card-carrying Democrat, slump-Trump said that he was in good company.  http://legalinsurrection.com/2016/01/michael-reagan-to-trump-youre-no-reagan-republican/?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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Oil Firms Delaying Projects
Tim Maverick
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{wallstreetdaily.com} ~ The 18-month plunge in global oil prices continues unabated... The price is now below $28 per barrel, thanks to even more supply streaming in from Iran. The International Energy Agency warns that the oil market “could drown in oversupply.” The collapse in the oil price has gotten so bad, some sources report that the Fed has told banks not to market their loans to energy companies. The Fed, of course, has denied those reports.
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‘This was all planned’: Former IG says Hilly,
State Dept. are lying
Paul Sperry
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Secretary of State Hilly Clinton in 2010
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{nypost.com} ~ The State Department is lying when it says it didn’t know until it was too late that Hilly Clinton was improperly using personal emails and a private server to conduct official business... because it never set up an agency email address for her in the first place, the department’s former top watchdog says. “This was all planned in advance” to skirt rules governing federal records management, said Howard J. Krongard, who served as the agency’s inspector general from 2005 to 2008. The Harvard-educated lawyer points out that, from Day One, Clinton was never assigned and never used a state.gov email address like previous secretaries. “That’s a change in the standard. It tells me that this was premeditated. And this eliminates claims by the State Department that they were unaware of her private email server until later,” Krongard said in an exclusive interview. “How else was she supposed to do business without email?”
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Secret Fed Docs Show nObama Misled Congress,
Public During Debt Limit Crises
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{dailycaller.com} ~ Federal Reserve Bank of New York officials secretly conducted real-time exercises during the 2011 and 2013 debt-limit crisis that demonstrated the federal government could function during a temporary shutdown by prioritizing spending... even as Treasury Secretary Jack Lew publicly claimed many times that such efforts were “unworkable,” according to a new report by the House Financial Services Committee obtained by The Daily Caller News Foundation. The staff report, to be released Tuesday, charges that Lew and other nObama administration officials deliberately misled Congress and the public during the federal budget and debt limit showdowns in both years. The committee will convene a public hearing on the report Feb. 2. The report also states that the nObama administration crafted actual contingency plans to pay for Social Security and veterans benefits, as well as principal and interest on the national debt if the government was temporarily unable to borrow more money. The Committee concludes that over the last two years the Treasury Department has “obstructed” congressional efforts to get to the bottom of the administration’s real-time policy during the two showdowns.        http://dailycaller.com/2016/01/31/exclusive-secret-fed-docs-show-obama-misled-congress-public-during-debt-limit-crises/
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slump-Trump's Negative Image
Frank Newport
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{gallup.com} ~ Most political and media commentators have at this point installed Donald slump-Trump as the GOP front-runner on the eve of the first actual voting set to begin on Monday in Iowa... But this narrative tends to obscure the fact that slump-Trump is the most unpopular candidate of either party when the entire U.S. population is taken into account -- and that he has a higher unfavorable rating than any nominated candidate from either of the two major parties going back to the 1992 election when we began to track favorability using the current format. At this point (two-week average through Jan. 27), 33% of Americans view Trump favorably and 60% unfavorably. It's that 60% unfavorable figure that I can focus on here. Hilly Clinton currently has a 52% unfavorable rating among all Americans, while Jeb Bush is at 45%, Chris Christie 38%, Ted Cruz 37%, Marco Rubio 33%, Bernie Sanders 31% and Ben Carson 30%. Trump's 60% is clearly well above all of these. Putting his favorable and unfavorable ratings together yields a net favorable of -27 for Trump, far above the -10 for Clinton and for Bush, the next lowest among the major candidates.
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FBI “Super Pissed Off” At nObama, Earnest
Over Latest Clinton Cover Up
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ For most Americans, the threat of being charged with obstruction of justice would be enough to prevent us from lying about and covering up criminal activity, particularly when it’s that of someone else... For White House spokes liar Josh Earnest it’s his job. He represents nObama, and nObama will protect him as he protects nObama. Fox’s Catherine Herridge cites a statement made by Earnest in an earlier press briefing and then offers some insight. In the clip  Earnest quotes the anonymous “some officials over there,” meaning non-existent FBI officials intended to be used to direct opinion, “have said that she Hilly Clinton is not a target of the investigation, so that does not seem to be the direction that it’s trending.” Having weighed in on the decision and the process Earnest immediately vows he’s “certainly not going to weigh in on a decision or in that process in any way,” claiming “That is a decision to be made solely by independent prosecutors.” No independent prosecutor has been appointed in the Clinton case as that would lead to a certain indictments and convictions of not only Clinton but probably the entire  nObama regime inner circle.  There is no independence at the DOJ as Loretta Lynch serves entirely at the pleasure of the “president” and it pleases him to have the entire issue of Clinton’s wide-ranging criminality to be forgotten.
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What nObama Just Did To Help Muslim
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{teapartyupdate.com} ~ While nObama is prepared to pass an executive order that’ll restrict Americans who are on an unconstitutional no fly list from owing a gun he’s completely fine with relaxing protocol in place that’ll allow Muslim terrorists into the country... That makes zero sense. Make it easier for violent Muslims to get in the country while making it harder for Americans to defend themselves. Thanks nObama. The nObama administration on Thursday eased visa rules for certain European travelers who have visited terror hotspots in the Middle East and Africa, triggering a backlash from congressional lawmakers who sought the restrictions for security reasons.        http://teapartyupdate.com/tragic-news-what-obama-just-did-to-help-muslim-terrorists-will-horrify-you/
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Is North Korea Ready To Launch An ICBM?
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{nicedeb.wordpress.com} ~ Apparently Japan thinks so, and so does the US. Both countries are actively countering any perceived missile threat from the regime in North Korea... For Japan, among other things, they have recently stood up Patriot anti-missile batteries scattered throughout metropolitan areas. So far, JASDF has admitted installing Patriot batteries near Tokyo and Okinawa as well as deploying ship-based Aegis anti-missile defenses. For the US, one of the several things we have done is that we have pulled our latest radar range missile-tracking ship: the USNS Howard O. Lorenzen hull designation T-AGM-25 from its primary patrol area off the Persian Gulf/Diego Garcia and sent it to the Far East US base at Sasebo, Japan about a month ago. Well, why not? The Iranians are our new best buds, right? They give us our sailors back and don’t blow up our ships. That is might friendly of them eh? So now, the Lorenzen is on station somewhere patrolling in the Sea of Japan between North Korea and Japan. We know it is “on station” because its transponder was shut off sometime after it left Sasebo. https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2016/01/31/is-north-korea-ready-to-launch-an-icbm/
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Palin and the GOP’s Uncertain Trumpeters
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{peggynoonan.com} ~ Sarah Palin’s public performances continue to be distinctive. Her endorsement of Donald Trump was less speech than podium jazz scat, with some early Elvis thrown in. “Trump’s candidacy, it has exposed not just that tragic, the ramifications of that betrayal of a transformation of our country, but too, he has exposed the complicity on both sides of the aisle that has enabled it, okay?” Essentially: Bee-bop-a-lula he’s my baby. She was scattered, rambly; at moments she foraged through her notes in a way that was almost endearing, looking for lines that would connect and explode. But it’s not as interesting as it used to be because it’s not new.
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If you’re in the mood for irony, here’s one. The great foes of Sarah Palin now are the people who made her a national figure in 2008, defended her and attacked her critics. It is the GOP establishment that now most furiously disses and denigrates her. Everything has switched around in the GOP the past eight years. It is a world turned upside down.
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In the short term her endorsement is said to help in Iowa. It would have helped Ted Cruz if she’d chosen him, because for the first time it would have drawn a line, for some people, between real conservatives and Mr. Trump. So it’s good for Mr. Trump she’s off the table and on his side. But in the long run it’s probably a wash. Mrs. Palin brings her own mad excitement, but at this point she sort of helps you with people who already like you and hurts you with people who already don’t.
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She may become a distraction from Mr. Trump’s daily appearances and statements, which will probably get on his nerves. I wonder if his people are already telling her: Thanks, you’ve done exactly what we wanted and you can go home now. She won’t want to—this is her comeback tour. If she stays on the stump Mr. Trump’s people may ask her to stay on message. She’s heard that before. She was invented by an establishment playing Dr. Frankenstein; the monster could turn on Dr. Trumpenstein too.
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The clever thing she did in her remarks was to bring up Phyllis Schlafly, still a generally uncredited force in the making of modern conservatism and a brave woman. Mrs. Schlafly supports Mr. Trump because she believes the conservative thing to do about a rotting edifice—the Washington political establishment—is to tear it down. Mr. Trump will “defeat the king-makers,” Mrs. Schlafly told Breitbart.com. I’d note that for those who admire the conservative philosopher-statesman Edmund Burke, this sounds radically at odds with his frequent counsel of restraint and respect for history.
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But Mrs. Schlafly’s view, too, has Burkean antecedents. When he thought something so corrupt as to be destructive of British character and national life, he went at it root and branch, as he did with the East India Company, which existed at the heart of and was a symbol of the British establishment. He challenged imperial practices, which is to say imperial corruptions. The point here, again, is that what is at issue in the party right now is not the end of conservatism but what a conservative approach would consist of at this point in history.
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What Mr. Trump really needs is to be endorsed not by Mrs. Palin but by a political figure with stature, some sane member or members or administrations past who could lend him credibility. He needs a gravitas injection. Trumpism suffers among its critics for a reputation for intellectual carelessness—it’s all political joyriding. Mrs. Palin’s presence does nothing to knock that criticism down, and in fact underscores it.
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To a larger point. Eventually in this campaign some candidate is going to have to address Donald Trump and his rise in a thoughtful, serious way. The obvious one is Jeb Bush, by virtue of his name and its association with the way the party used to be—the old, orderly conservatism. Why doesn’t he do it? He insults Mr. Trump—“a jerk,” “unhinged.” He told the Journal’s Mary Kissel this week: “Donald Trump’s not a serious candidate.” Mr. Bush uncorks witless, prefab soundbites: Mr. Trump is a “chaos candidate.” What does that even mean? Mr. Trump’s burly supporters wouldn’t mind a little disruption, an exploding of the elites—that is, chaos.
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Why not make a serious argument? Jeb especially has little to lose—Mr. Trump’s people will never like him—and, potentially, much to gain in terms of his own standing.
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Here’s where he could start:
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What is Trumpism? Define it.
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What’s wrong with Trumpism? Tell us. Is it a threat? To what?
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Is it an attitude and not a plan? In a country split down the middle between leftish and rightish, why would it be harmful to have a new category?
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If Mr. Trump is not a conservative, why is that bad? That is, what’s good about conservatism? Why is it pertinent and necessary? If the GOP base is a big, broad jumble that includes people reliant on entitlements who also see progressive social ambitions as destructive to the nation, how does conservatism speak to them?
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What do you imagine a Trump presidency would look like? His supporters think he’ll go in there and clean out the stables. Would he? Could he? Can you?
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What’s wrong with a little disorder? Does Trumpism enliven our political life with zest and unpredictability, or does it diminish our political life with unthinking emotionalism and shallowness?
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Why is it important that a president have previous governmental experience? Here I will add that I have seen longtime officeholders start out with fire and idealism, only in time to learn too well what isn’t possible. “We can’t get that through.” “We lost on that one last time.” They quietly give up; their sense of reality becomes a lethargic pessimism. Mr. Trump, new to political office, would not know what’s impossible. Leaders like that, if they also have talent, wisdom, popularity and organization, can occasionally make the impossible happen. Is it worth the chance?
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Most important, did Mr. Trump come from nowhere? Did the GOP establishment make any mistakes the past 15 years? If so, how can the damage be repaired? Was the Republican elite, like the Democratic one, essentially uninterested in the eroding power and position of the American working class? Were GOP leaders insensitive, cynical and selfish regarding public disapproval of and anxieties about illegal immigration?
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What do you see when you look at Trumpism? Aside from what Robert Oppenheimer saw when the bomb exploded: “I am become death, destroyer of worlds.” Is Trumpism in part a hopeful tendency, or just a throwing in of the towel?
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Imagine such a speech—a serious, respectful, historically grounded one.
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And why not? History is serious. It isn’t just the beeps and bops of daily events in a political year, it has to do with major outcomes in the life of a people. This moment is part of the political history of the United States.
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Have some imagination! Sarah Palin just entered the picture. This will make people hungrier than ever for thoughtful, candid, sober reflection. Someone has to be as big as history.
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Tuesday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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The three-cornered fight for the 
soul of the GOP
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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 Iowan Votes Matter! 
It's Iowa Caucus Day! Finally, after months of talk, donations, debates and ads, the corn meets the harvester when Iowans cast their votes — or in terms of the Democrat caucuses, stand by their candidates. Iowa delegates make up only 1% of the total available delegates nationwide, but because the Hawkeye State holds its caucus first, it's the state that often sets the tone for the rest of the election. While the returns will start rolling in at 8:30 p.m. EST, the forecasts predict that Hilly Clinton will end up victorious, though if Bernie Sanders comes from behind for a win, it could handicap Clinton. The GOP race is mainly a competition between Ted Cruz and Donald slump-Trump, with slump-Trump favored with a 46% chance of winning, according to polling website FiveThirtyEight.
          This means the race may come down to whoever can run a better get-out-to-vote campaign. Cruz is burning the shoe leather in a get-out-to-vote campaign that features 12,000 volunteers going door to door. Meanwhile, slump-Trump is relying on the energy generated through his rallies to get his supporters — many potential first-time caucus-goers — out to their precincts tonight. Meanwhile, Marco Rubio, currently the GOP's third-place candidate, has seen a bump in the polls. Rubio really needs a stronger-than-expected finish to propel him forward to wins in future battleground states. Regardless of what happens, tonight is when the presidential race really gets its start.  -The Patriot Post
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 You Will Know Them By Their Fruits 
In this most unconventional election cycle, there have been a few things that have remained constant. One of them is the effort on the campaign trail to appeal to Christians.
          Call them by whatever name of the era — the "Moral Majority," the "Religious Right" and now "evangelicals" — those who generally affiliate with the Republican Party due to non-negotiable issues of their faith comprise a large number of voters. That's especially true in early contest states like Iowa and South Carolina.
          In the 2012 Iowa Caucus, those who self-identified as "evangelical" or born-again Christians in an entrance poll by Edison Research numbered 57% of all participants. The value of this group of voters is undisputed; yet winning the hearts and minds of these voters seems to be awkward for many campaigns, which, alone, should convey a message.             Evoking surprise from some candidates and their Beltway consultants, these voters are driven by their faith in the civic arena to pursue obedience in Christ's command to be "the salt of the earth" and "the light to the world." These same values voters aren't looking for a preacher but are sure quick to spot the inconsistencies of pandering politicians who fall back on props and catch phrases.
          A few weeks back when Donald slump-Trump took the platform at Liberty University, the audience of the Christian school, founded by evangelical stalwart and pastor Jerry Falwell, caught the real-estate tycoon making reference to a Bible verse in a manner that exposed his unfamiliarity with Scripture. Instead of quoting "Second Corinthians," slump-Trump referenced "Two Corinthians."
          Gaffe of the century? Hardly, but his cavalier dismissal of questions about his faith made it something to ponder.  -The Patriot Post
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 IOWA’S REAL JOB 
Every four years, Iowa bashing is style, especially for the supporters of candidates bound to lose. Why should Iowa go first? Why not a big state, or a more diverse state or a state that likes your candidate?           The simplest answer is that barring the development of some new system, some state will have to be the first one and Iowa has done a very good job over the past 40 years.Iowa has a special role to play in the presidential nominating process. While Iowans don’t always pick their parties’ nominees, they do cull the fields.
          After tonight, struggling campaigns will enter a death-watch phase, and some will even quit outright. And for a Republican field that has been as bloated as an omnibus spending bill passed at midnight on a voice vote, Iowa has never been more essential.  -Fox News
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Americans Deserve America-First
Immigration Policies, Candidates
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Senator Jeff Sessions joined Lou Dobbs to discuss some of the symptoms of the anti-Americanism that has taken hold among the legislators and executive branch of this country... Dobbs sets up the discussion by citing the damage that Angela Merkel unilaterally inflicted on Europe through her invasion invitation and the millions more on the way. He also cites the open border invasion of the US from Mexico and nObama importing as many as 300,000 Islamists into the United States this year. Dobbs asks how important these issues are in this campaign, wondering why they aren’t getting the attention they deserve. Senator Sessions describes them as “very important,” and notes that the people of the United States need to understand “We cannot be the nation that accepts everybody from any war-torn area of the world. It just cannot be.” He says we need to try to help, close to their homes, and to help them get back home as soon as possible. It doesn’t need nor can it be help by making everyone a US citizen or giving them a visa into the country.
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Super Bowl 50 jihad threat
Robert Spencer
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ The FBI and local authorities have stepped up security surrounding Super Bowl 50, including F-16 fighter jets, helicopters and K-9 teams, CBS Local reported Wednesday... Levi Stadium in Santa Clara, California, where the Super Bowl is to be held, can hold up to 68,500 people, and the threat of terrorism has increased in the wake of a growing terror threat worldwide…The threat of terrorism was raised throughout the world — in particular on “soft targets,” or civilian areas — following a spate of attacks that occurred Nov. 13, 2015, in Paris. At least nine Muslim terrorists, all of them Belgian or French nationals, descended upon the city, slaughtering 130 people in restaurants, cafes, a concert hall and a stadium. The attack on the Stade de France, a French sports arena, was foiled by security guards who did not allow the terrorists entry to the game, and security detail for the Super Bowl has been carefully monitoring the potential threat of a similar attack.       http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/super-bowl-50-jihad-threat-f-16-fighter-jets-fbi-k-9-units-helicopters-ready
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Trio Of Traitors – nObama McCon-nell And Ryano To Scheme In WH Tuesday
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ There are always several anti-American assaults actively underway with lifelong communist Hussein nObama...  He hates everything about the United States with the exception of our easy access treasury, the way our system allows the corrupt to manipulate it, his current job as illegitimate usurper and our golf courses. Next week the trio of the three greatest domestic threats to the United States, nObama, Mitch McCon-nell and Paul Ryano, will get together to talk over their combined assault on the United States. nObama is rumored to be planning to sign the TPP next Monday, and it seems Ryano and McCon-nell are joining nObama to coordinate the associated attack. TPP subverts our Constitution, empowers foreign commissions over it as well as immigration policy and fraudulent climate spending and regulations. It also gives unfair and separate legal advantages to the money class while killing the American economy.
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Insider warns elites heading toward 
'one-world solutions'
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{wnd.com} ~ The annual World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, has just wrapped up after a focus on a “Fourth Industrial Revolution” and other issues the global elites consider important to the entire world community... But an insider who once set up such conferences, has held a United Nations post, mingled with the top players in Washington and lists multiple foundation board memberships on his resume warns “old-fashioned values” are being left behind. “I think we’re moving in the direction of more and more globalism, which I would distinguish from globalization, which is more an integrated kind of trading and investment pattern,” said Theodore Roosevelt Malloch. He said the elites’ discussions of problems and solutions have taken on a global tone, as epitomized by Davos.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/insider-warns-elites-heading-toward-one-world-solutions/
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Generals Fear Benghazi 2 in Libya
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The late Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi
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{wnd.com} ~ As Washington prepares to take “decisive military action” in Libya against the alarming growth of ISIS, retired generals have told G2 Bulletin they are concerned that the United States may go it alone, according to a new report in Joseph Farah’s G2 Bulletin... They ask which allies, if any, will join a coalition and attempt to work with a Libyan government that barely exists. At a news conference last week, Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Marine Gen. Joseph F. Dunford Jr. said the U.S. is “looking to take decisive military action” against ISIS in Libya and that a decision would be coming “in weeks” but “not hours.” “It’s fair to say that we’re looking to take decisive military action against ISIS in conjunction with the political process” in Libya, Dunford said. “The president has made clear that we have the authority to use military force.”
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LA Police Warn Residents to Arm Themselves
Because of Long Response Times
Philip Hodges
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{constitution.com} ~ The Los Angeles Police Protective League – the labor union for the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) – warned residents that they’d better “be able to protect themselves,”... because of long police response times resulting from being understaffed. According to the Police Protective League President Jamie McBride, in the West LA division on Thursday morning, there were only three patrol cars covering 65 square miles and 200,000 residents. He thinks there should be at least seven, two-man units patrolling the area. In an interview with the local CBS affiliate, Bride told reporter Randy Paige, “The citizens need to know they need to be able to protect themselves because if they call 911, we can’t guarantee we’re going to get there in time to help you…West Los Angeles, at the minimum, should have seven patrol units, two-man units working.” CBS2 reported:        http://constitution.com/los-angeles-police-warn-residents-to-arm-themselves-because-of-long-response-times/
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stump-Trump Slams Evangelical Leader
Vander Plaats on Twitter
Greg Richter
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{newsmax.com} ~ Republican presidential front-runner Donald stump-Trump unleashed a slew of Twitter attacks on Iowa evangelical leader Bob Vander Plaats Sunday morning, the second time he has done so in less than a week... stump-Trump says that Vander Plaats, head of the Iowa-based Family Leader, asked him to stay in his hotels for free and also requested he speak at an event while seeking $100,000 for himself.  He made the same statements on Tuesday in a similar Twitter storm. At that time, Vander Plaats said he and his family stayed for free in stump-Trump's hotels because stump-Trump insisted he do so in hopes of getting his endorsement. When Vander Plaats instead backed Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, stump-Trump attacked, Vander Plaats said.        http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/trump-bob-vander-plaats-iowa-evangelical/2016/01/31/id/712059/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1652965_01312016&s=al&dkt_nbr=xzvtknhz
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How Many Times Has Hilly Lied
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{americanactionnews.com} ~ America Rising PAC just put out a devastating new ad chronicling all the times Hilly's lied about her server... Republican candidates have flip flopped on a number of issues, but imagine having to vote for a candidate whose entire legacy consists of lies, evasions, and criminal investigations. Let's hope the FBI gets to the bottom of this and prevents this criminal from returning to the White House.
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Navy Successfully Tests Common Control System On Unmanned Underwater Vehicle
Megan Eckstein
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A surrogate Large Displacement Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (LDUUV) is submerged in the water in preparation for a test to demonstrate the capability of the Navy’s Common Control System (CCS) at the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Keyport in Puget Sound, Wash. in December      2015. 
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{news.usni.org} ~ The director of unmanned warfare systems (OPNAV N99) will keep a particularly close eye on the Common Control System as it continues through development, after a demonstration last month proved that the system that was first tested on an unmanned air vehicle could also control an underwater vehicle, the director said Friday... Rear Adm. Robert Girrier said at an event co-hosted by the U.S. Naval Institute and Center for Strategic and International Studies that the Common Control System will be important to the Navy’s future portfolio of unmanned vehicles – in addition to avoiding the cost of developing unique command and control capabilities for each new unmanned system that comes along, CCS will provide a common user interface and the ability to match up new combinations of unmanned vehicles and payloads. N99’s role for most unmanned technologies will be to take requirements from around the fleet, find technologies to guide through the precarious advanced development and prototyping phase, and then turn the successful technologies over to resource sponsors – the the surface warfare directorate or air warfare directorate, for example – to buy and field.
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New Government Rule Could Make It
Harder for You to Buy Furniture
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{dailysignal.com} ~ According to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), new regulations are necessary to protect helpless consumers from predatory lenders... The chief villain in the CFPB’s tale is the payday lender, but the new rules will impact much more than payday advances. Every year, a variety of companies provide billions in credit through all sorts of small short-term loans that banks don’t provide. These products include, among others, payday advances, title loans, and what are traditionally referred to as installment loans. Many of the companies that provide these loans, particularly installment loans, have been around for more than a century precisely because they help people. Consumers use all types of small-dollar loans to help with all kinds of expenses, some of which arise unexpectedly. These various forms of credit give people access to products ranging from appliances and furniture to rent and emergency vehicle repairs. This means Americans could be out of luck next time they need to go buy a new couch, washing machine, or car.    http://dailysignal.com/2016/01/28/this-government-agency-is-crusading-after-small-lenders/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRovvKXPZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ASMpgMa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm
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The three-cornered fight for the 
soul of the GOP
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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{freedomsback.com} ~ It’s hard to believe that the United States, having resisted the siren song of socialism during its entire 20th-century heyday the only major democracy to do so, should suddenly succumb to its charms a generation after its intellectual demise. Indeed, the prospect of socialist Bernie Sanders, whatever his current momentum, winning the Democratic nomination remains far-fetched.
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The Dems would be risking a November electoral disaster of historic dimensions. Yet there is no denying how far Sanders has pulled his party to the left — and how hard the establishment candidate, Hilly Clinton, has been racing to catch up.
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The Republicans, on the other hand, are dealing with a full-scale riot. The temptation they face is trading in a century of conservatism for Trumpism.
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The 2016 presidential race has turned into an epic contest between the ethno-nationalist populism of Donald Trump and traditional conservatism, though in two varieties: the scorched-earth fundamentalist version of Ted Cruz, and a reformist version represented by Marco Rubio and several so-called establishment candidates — and articulated most fully by non-candidate Paul Ryan and a cluster of highly productive thinkers and policy wonks dubbed “reformicons.”
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Trump insists that he’s a conservative, but in his pronouncements and policies, conservatism seems more of a rental — a three-story penthouse rental with Central Park-view, to be sure — than an ideological home. Trump protests that Ronald Reagan, too, migrated from left to right. True, but Reagan’s transformation occurred in his 40s — not, as with Trump, in his 60s.
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In radically different ways, Trump and Sanders are addressing the deep anxiety stemming from the secular stagnation in wages and living standards that has squeezed the middle and working classes for a generation. Sanders locates the villainy in a billionaire class that has rigged both the economic and political system. Trump blames foreigners, most prominently those cunning Mexicans, Chinese, Japanese and Saudis who’ve been taking merciless advantage of us, in concert with America’s own leaders who are, alternatively, stupid and incompetent or bought and corrupt.
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Hence Trump’s most famous policy recommendations: anti-immigrant, including the forced deportation of 11 million people; anti-trade, with a 45 percent tariff on Chinese goods and a 35 percent tariff on U.S. manufacturing moved to Mexico; and anti-Muslim, most notoriously a complete ban on entry into the U.S. Temporarily only, we are assured, except that the ban applies “until our country’s representatives can figure out what is going on” — a standard so indeterminate as to be meaningless.
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Trump has limited concern for the central tenet of American conservatism and most especially of the tea party movement — limited government. The most telling example is his wholehearted support for “eminent domain,” i.e. the forcible appropriation by government of private property. Trump called it “wonderful.”
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Trump has not yet called Vladimir Putin wonderful but he has taken a shine to the swaggering mini-czar who seems to run his trains on time. When informed that Putin kills opponents and journalists, Trump’s initial reaction was, “Well, I think that our country does plenty of killing, also,” the kind of moronic what-about-the-Crusades moral equivalence that conservatives have railed against for decades. Although, to be fair, after some prompting, Trump did come out against the killing of journalists.
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Cruz is often lumped with Trump in the “anti-establishment” camp. That suited Cruz tactically for a while, but it’s fairly meaningless, given that “establishment” can mean anything these days. And given the huge gulf between the political philosophies of the two men. Cruz is a genuine conservative — austere, indeed radical, so much so that he considers mainstream congressional conservatives apostates. And finds Trump not conservative at all, as he is now furiously, belatedly insisting.
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My personal preference is for the third ideological alternative, the reform conservatism that locates the source of our problems not in heartless billionaires or crafty foreigners, but in our superannuated, increasingly sclerotic 20th-century welfare-state structures. Their desperate need for reform has been overshadowed by the new populism, but will make its appearance this year in Congress in Speaker Ryan’s promised agenda — boring stuff like welfare reform, health care reform, tax reform and institutional congressional reforms such as the return to “regular order.”
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Paired with a President like Rubio or Chris Christie or Carly Fiorina, to go long-shot, such an agenda would give conservatism its best opportunity since Reagan to become the country’s governing philosophy.
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Unless the GOP takes the populist leap. In which case, a conservative restoration will be a long time coming.
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Monday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Glick: Hope is Not a Strategy
Caroline Glick
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 Finally, a Debate Without Petty Insults 
For the first time this election cycle, last night featured a Republican debate  with only Republicans on stage. Yet it was the "elephant" not in the room that dominated pre- and post-debate coverage. As for those on stage, we have two primary observations.
          First, as Mark Alexander predicted yesterday, Marco Rubio and Ted Cruz were baited into attacking each other, especially on immigration. That was Donald Trump's strategic play. By not being present, he pitted his chief rivals against each other without getting caught in the crossfire just ahead of the Iowa caucus. That said, Cruz began the night by humorously pretending to play the part of Trump: "I'm a maniac and everyone on this stage is stupid, fat and ugly. And Ben [Carson], you're a terrible surgeon. Now that we've gotten the Donald Trump portion out of the way..."
          In fact, many of the questions were negative attack bait, roughly following the formula: You or someone else said something awful or outrageous... explain why your remark wasn't terrible, or attack the other candidate. The questions were largely designed to generate fratricidal arguments between the Republican candidates rather than focus on how each Republican would approach policy matters different from Democrats.
          Second, the Google/YouTube/ advertising sponsorship, as with the Facebook sponsorship in the last debate was at best, grating. As they previously did with Facebook "mentions," the efforts to incorporate "search words" and videos into the debate — including one YouTube question from a Bernie Sanders supporter (seriously!) — was ridiculous and little more than cross-platform advertising.
          Finally, the quote of the night might just go to Rubio, because he managed to pack so much about himself and why he'd be a formidable general election candidate into one answer: "[L]et me be clear about one thing. There's only one savior and it's not me. It's Jesus Christ, who came down to Earth and died for our sins. ... As far as the polls are concerned, Iowa, on Monday night you're going to go to a caucus site and you'll be the first Americans that vote in this election. You will be the first Americans that get to answer a fundamental question: 'What comes next for this country after seven disastrous years of Barack nObama?' Let me tell you what the answer better not be: It better not be Bernie Sanders. Bernie Sanders is a socialist. I think Bernie Sanders is good candidate for president — of Sweden. We don't want to be Sweden. We want to be the United States of America. And Hilly Clinton — Hilly Clinton is disqualified from being the commander in chief of the United States. In fact, one of her first acts as president may very well be to pardon herself because Hilly Clinton stored classified information on her private server and Hilly Clinton lied to the families of those four brave Americans who lost their lives in Benghazi, and anyone who lies to the families of Americans who have died in the service of this country can never be commander in chief of the United States."  -The Patriot Post
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 Trump Didn't Want to Be at His Own Veterans  Benefit   
As with his 9/11-card play in the last debate, Donald Trump's veteran-card play is nothing more than a crass political charade. While seven GOP candidates had a policy-focused debate Tuesday night, Trump eschewed questioning from Fox News anchor Megyn Kelly and instead held an event cross town that was supposedly to benefit veterans. But Trump admitted the event really wasn't for the men and women who risked their lives for the country. It was all about him. "I didn't want to be here, I have to be honest," Trump said. "I wanted to be about five minutes away. ... But you have to stick up for your rights. When you're treated badly, you have to stick up for your rights."
          Trump was betting that he was the only reason the large broadcast news organizations were getting good ratings during the televised debates. But viewer estimates and the number of people searching Google for live streams of the debate versus Trump's event show that the debate was still more popular than the frontrunner's stunt. As for the event, it was as phony as Hilly Clinton's email security. His staff quickly posted a webpage, "Donald Trump for Vets," asking visitors to "Honor their valor. Donate now to help our Veterans." But the proceeds go to Trump's personal foundation, which has given more than $100,000 to draft-dodging Bill Clinton and his wife — far more than to veterans' causes.
          Oh, and if Trump showed up for the debate, perhaps Kelly could have asked him why he wanted veterans, who are doing their best to make ends meet as street vendors, kicked off of 5th Avenue. Trump wrote a letter to his leftist friend, former mayor Michael Bloomberg, complaining of the vendors, "Whether they are veterans or not, they should not be allowed to sell on this most important and prestigious shopping street. The image of New York City will suffer." He concluded, "I hope you can stop this very deplorable situation before it is too late." The same could be said of his candidacy.  -The Patriot Post
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 Oregon's Social Agenda Has No Moral Basis 
Oregon is so politically correct it's wrong. Harmony Daws used to work at Sparkling Palaces, a cleaning business based in Portland. But when her boss learned that she was recently elected as president of a pro-life group, she fired her, saying Daws' pro-life beliefs caused her to discriminate against other employees. In a statement, Daws said, "Firing someone based on their religious or political beliefs is a civil rights violation. I'm a libertarian and I support my former employer's right to hire and fire as she chooses. … [Fifty]-eight million children have lost their lives since 1973. Losing a job in my stand for their right to life was a small price to pay."
          Last July, Oregon's Labor Commissioner ordered a small bakery pay $135,000 to a lesbian couple after the bakery refused to bake a cake for the couple's state-sanctioned same-sex wedding. But Oregon isn't just holding the line on the Left's social agenda. Heck, even Martin Luther King Jr. isn't "diverse" enough for some of the "enlightened" liberals in the state. At the University of Oregon, the Oregon Student Union discussed removing MLK's quote — "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character" — from the wall of the student center because the definition of "diversity" is, oh, so much more complex today than it was back then. The state is using its power to force an agenda that lacks any moral basis, ties to history or even rational thought.  -The Patriot Post
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European Governments 
Ignoring Security Warnings?
Judith Bergman
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Swedish Security Service chief Anders Thornberg recently said: "The Islamist environments have grown considerably in the past five years and tensions are growing between various population groups. We need all of society to help fight the radicalization, there are limits to how much faster a security service can run."
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ These are sentiments that are rarely, if ever, voiced by official Norway or Sweden. Apparently, the fear of offending Muslim sensitivities has thus far overridden security concerns... But even Sweden, which sees itself as a "humanitarian superpower," and up until recently had sworn to keep its doors open to all migrants and refugees, has had to reassess its policy. At the end of November 2015, Sweden's Deputy-Prime Minister Asa Romson, reluctantly and in tears, said that the government had been "forced to take reality into account," given the huge number of migrants that entering the country. Sweden and Denmark tightened their border controls a few weeks ago. It is questionable, however, whether the warning cries of the Scandinavian security services will have any noticeable impact on the fundamental political course of their political leaders, especially if the latest statements by Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Löfven are anything to take into account. Prime Minister Stefan Löfven is a complete idiot and is totally wrong on the sexual harassment by immigrates.
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Sessions: Choose carefully America, 
2016 is 'THE LAST CHANCE'
PAUL BEDARD
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Alabama Sen. Jeff Sessions, a leading voice on trade, immigration and executive powers, is urging Americans to choose their next president carefully... because 2016 "is the last chance for the American people to take back control of their government." In a sober interview with Secrets, the Republican warned that liberal special interests, Wall Street moguls, and international media conglomerates are fast turning the United States into just another member of the European Union and that the effort is being led by a Democratic president eager to go his own way with executive orders. "This election is different because we have pell mell erosion of law, the constitutional order, where President nObama has pushed an agenda that eviscerates the immigration legal system, and pushed this trade agreement that will commence decades of transferring American economic power to an ever-expanding international commission. It's just not going to stop" unless voters take action, he warned.        http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/sessions-2016-is-last-chance-to-take-back-control-of-government/article/2581874
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Is a secret sniper killing off Isil's 
high command in Libya?
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Mystery gunman: nobody knows who the Libyan sniper is
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{telegraph.co.uk} ~ As befits all the best practitioners of his shadowy trade, no-one is quite sure whether he is one man or many, or even simply an urban legend... But after a string of assassinations of its local henchmen, the Islamic State's new "Caliphate" in the Libyan city of Sirte is abuzz with talk that an anti-Isil sniper is at work. In recent weeks, no fewer than three Isil commanders in Sirte have been shot dead from long range, according to local media.   http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/libya/12129837/Is-a-secret-sniper-killing-off-Isils-high-command-in-Libya.html
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WH says Hilly will get away with email scandal,
based on what they know
Carmine Sabia
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{bizpacreview.com} ~ In case anyone thought Hilly Clinton might finally face justice White House spokesman Josh Earnest all but ended those thoughts... During his daily briefing Earnest was asked by a reporter if he could “say with certainty and confidence that Secretary Clinton will not be indicted because of this email scandal.” Earnest was careful with his answer but indicated prosecution was unlikely. “That will be a decision that is made by the Department of Justice and prosecutors over there,” he told the reporter. “What I know that some officials over there have said is that she is not a target of the investigation, so that does not seem to be the direction that it’s trending. 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 kn from the Department of Justice, it does not seem to be headed in that direction.” This is a crime and a cover up for sure.   http://www.bizpacreview.com/2016/01/30/white-house-says-hillary-will-get-away-with-email-scandal-based-on-what-they-know-300213
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Islam and Islamism in America in 2015
Soeren Kern
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Left: In June 2015, the New York Police Department issued parking tickets to more than 100 Muslim cab drivers parked illegally outside a mosque on the Upper West Side during Ramadan. Right: In January 2015, after complaints from Muslim students at the University of Minnesota, the university ordered that posters depicting a caricature of Mohammed be taken down. The ban was later rescinded.
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ April 1. Ahlam Ahmed, an 18-year-old year-old from Queens, said she wanted to become the first female Muslim firefighter in New York City... Ahmed stands five feet tall and weighs just 105 pounds. In an interview with the Village Voice, Ahmed expressed more concern over the dress code than the physical requirements for the job. "I have to be covered," she said. "I love wearing the scarf. It's for protection." FDNY press officer Elisheva Zakheim said: "We try to accommodate religious practices, but safety is our first concern, be it male or female. We approach a lot of these questions on a case-by-case basis." April 2. A study by the Washington, DC-based Pew Research Center forecast that, if current trends continue, there will be more Muslims in North America than Jews by 2035. The study, "The Future of World Religions: Population Growth Projections, 2010-2050," states that in the United States, Muslims will comprise 2.1% of the population in 2050, up from 0.9% in 2010. Jews, meanwhile, will fall to 1.4% of the U.S. population from 1.8% in 2010. April 2. A newsletter distributed by the Republican Central Committee in Bonneville County,Idaho, included an article, "Islam in Idaho," which warned that Muslims are "infiltrating" the state, and that Muslims have been taught to "be ready to rise up and kill" non-Muslims. The article called on readers to "demand that our lawmakers and law enforcers pay attention and ascertain whether or not there is a potential threat."
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The Merkelites, Johnsonites, And Obamanistas
Are Here – Who Are They?
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ The commandment was given by Angela Merkel that the hordes of protected imported terrorist apprentices not be held accountable for their actions... The Cologne assaults were just one example of the official cover-up, but there are many more and they continue. She decreed to a willing Mark Zuckerberg back in September and just this month that his company must conduct police state speech censorship. The purpose is both to protect the barbaric offenders as well as Merkel’s ample, well-exposed rear end.  The predicted results of her open invasion must be hidden. Victims must not be allowed to communicate among themselves and perpetrators must be shielded from their pool of potential targets. In their view, what’s good enough for Germany is good enough for the world. The Facebook approach to the issue of identifying and reporting the atrocities of the “refugees” and other imported Islamist thugs has been to ban or restrict access to the “offending” pages without warning and without explanation. Those exercising free speech are treated as criminals and the criminals of whom they write are protected. It’s gotten to the point that use of the words Muslim or Islam are not allowed and violations can easily bring about a Facebook sanction. Something in the area of two weeks is customary for a first offense. Repeated offenses invoke penalties up to and including one’s page being permanently shut down.
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Hilly Project on track 'to take her out'
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The scandal-prone Clintons
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{wnd.com} ~ The Hilly Clinton Investigative Justice Project has reached its first threshold, having raised sufficient funds to continue its investigative series into the presidential candidate for illegal activities... and to prepare a series of hard-hitting reports for WND that will lead to criminal charges being filed against her at the state level, if the Justice Department fails to indict her. The investigative research began with a series of more than 20 articles written by WND senior staff writer Jerome Corsi beginning in April 2015 portraying the Clinton Family Foundation as a vast, criminal enterprise, designed to enrich the Clintons personally as well as their close friends. “In the coming weeks and months, WND plans to present undeniable and irrefutable evidence of actual crimes, gross Internal Revenue Service violations, as well as national security breaches by Hilly Clinton currently under investigation by the FBI,” said Joseph Farah, editor of WND. “Though Barack nObama’s U.S. Justice Department appears unwilling to indict her for these crimes, we believe there is a strong likelihood that one or more state attorney generals will do so if provided with the evidence. That’s what the Hilly Project is all about.”        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/hillary-project-on-track-to-take-her-out/?AID=7236
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SOCOM Wants Quiet! 
American Lives in Danger
Dan De Luce
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{news.yahoo.com} ~ The general overseeing U.S. special operations forces has written a memo to Defense Secretary Ash Carter demanding the Pentagon stop talking about what his elite troops are up to in Iraq or elsewhere... saying the commandos require a veil of secrecy to do their job, Foreign Policy has learned. Gen. Joseph Votel, the chief of U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM) who has been nominated to take over U.S. Central Command, issued the complaint in a Dec. 8 memo — days after Carter and White House officials announced that a force of about 200 special operations forces (SOF) would be deployed to Iraq to target Islamic State militants. “I am concerned with increased public exposure of SOF activities and operations, and I assess that it is time to get our forces back into the shadows,” Votel wrote, according to an excerpt newly provided to FP by a defense official.        http://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-chief-u-commandos-warns-192517463.html
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Mideast Christian Suffering, U.S. Denial
Raymond Ibrahim
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{gatestoneinstitute.org} ~ When a 1,400-year-old Iraqi Christian monastery was destroyed by the Islamic State (ISIS) most of the world condemned the demolition -- except for spokesman for the U.S. military's Operation Inherent Resolve, Col. Steve Warren... "Thousands of Iraqi Christians have been killed, hundreds of thousands have been forced to flee," said CNN's Wolf Blitzer in an interview with Col. Warren the other week. "There is legitimate fear -- you're there in Baghdad -- that the long history of Christians living peacefully, productively in Iraq, is coming to an end. How worried should we be about the Christian community in Iraq?" Col. Warren's response: "Wolf, ISIL doesn't care if you're a Christian ... We've seen no specific evidence of a specific targeting towards Christians." Except that roughly two-thirds of Iraq's 1.5 million Christian citizens have been killed or forced to flee the country by ISIS and its jihadi predecessors over the past decade. This has nothing to do with their religious identity?        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/7325/mideast-christian-suffering
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Terrorists Likely Hiding in Un-Policed
'Jungle' Camp in France
Joe A. Gilbertson
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Tented migrant camp called the Jungle, near Calais France
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Former Chief of Counter Terror in London visited the "Jungle" migrant camp near Calais, France, a tented city completely un-policed, where crime is flourishing... According to the Daily Mail, he was told there are definitely Jihadists in this camp. He later stated this is a 'potential hiding place'for ISIS supporters who can wait here for a chance to be smuggled in the UK. Kevin Hurley, who is Surrey’s police and crime commissioner and a former head of counter-terrorism at City of London police, went with a BBC documentary team to visit the ‘Jungle’, the tented city on the edge of Calais that has become a magnet for migrants trying to sneak into Britain. Calais, at the northern tipe of France, is a major historical transportation route between France and Britain.         http://punchingbagpost.com/terrorists-likely-hiding-in-un-policed-jungle-camp-in-france
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Glick: Hope is Not a Strategy
Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Our government is playing games with itself. And losing.
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On Wednesday Chaim Levinson reported in Haaretz that for the first time in nearly two years, last week the Civil Administration of Judea and Samaria approved new building plans for a small number of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
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Levinson also reported that last month Jerusalem’s municipal planning and building commission gave final approval to plans to build nearly 900 housing units in the southern neighborhood of Gilo. Initial approval was granted back in 2012.
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But in the intervening three years, the commission refused to allow them to go forward.
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From the report, we learn that the government’s critics in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria who claimed that it was barring Jewish building were right all along. Despite the government’s denials, the fact is that for at least the last year and a half, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his ministers maintained an undeclared freeze on construction for Israeli Jews in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria.
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During this period, Jews have only been permitted to build in these areas either on the basis of plans that had received final approval before the unofficial freeze took effect, or in cases where refusal to approve building would have involved admitting that a freeze was in effect. So, for instance, in areas where the rights of Jews to their property in Judea and Samaria have been challenged before the Supreme Court by EU-financed Israeli NGOs like Yesh Din, the government has defended those rights and so given permission for Jews to exercise their property rights.
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The government opted to enact this unofficial building freeze, and so trample the civil rights of hundreds of thousands of Israeli citizens, in the hopes of convincing the nObama administration to protect Israel from Palestinian efforts to pass anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council.
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It might have been possible to justify the government’s behavior – or at least to understand it – if it had brought about the hoped for benefits.
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If President Barack nObama had responded to Netanyahu’s radical concession by burying the hatchet and supporting Israel at the UN and on the international stage more generally, then perhaps the move would have been worth it.
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But that didn’t happen. Over the past 18 months, the administration – backed by much of the Israeli Left – has escalated its anti-Israel policies and rhetoric. Even as the government curtailed the property rights of Israeli Jews in the hopes of appeasing him, nObama along with Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry has led the charge in wrongly blaming Israel for the absence of peace with the Palestinians.
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nObama and hanoi-Kerry have engaged in acts of deliberate libel by falsely accusing Israel of institutional racism against the Palestinians in Judea and Samaria.
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As for the UN, both nObama and hanoi-Kerry – along with their advisers – have repeatedly threatened to allow anti-Israel resolutions to be passed in the Security Council.
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The message the administration is sending through its continued aggression is plain to see. It has no interest in being appeased by Israel, and as a result, no concessions Israel makes will satisfy it or diminish its desire to downgrade the US-Israel alliance and weaken Israel diplomatically.
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nObama’s beef is not with building for Jews beyond the 1949 armistice lines. Attacking Jewish building is merely a means for attacking Israel.
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In the absence of such building, nObama and his advisers have been quick to make up new excuses for condemning Israel.
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The undeclared and unrewarded building freeze isn’t the only policy the government has implemented to the detriment of Israel’s national interest in the unfounded hope of satisfying hostile foreign governments.
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There is also its policy in regard to Israeli-registered NGOs that operate as agents of foreign governments in their efforts to subvert the government and harm the state.
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According to a report published earlier this month by NGO Monitor, between 2012 and 2014, foreign governments transferred a whopping NIS 169,728,500 to 27 organizations registered as Israeli nonprofits. Foreign government funding comprised 65 percent of overall funding for these highly political, anti-Israel groups.
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Twenty of the 27 groups in question receive the majority of their funding from foreign governments either directly or through third party organizations. Since these groups are registered as nonprofits, the funds they receive from foreign governments are tax exempt. In other words, Israeli taxpayers are subsidizing agents of foreign governments.
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These groups, which include the likes of B’Tselem, Breaking the Silence, Yesh Din, Machsom Watch, the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, and Adalah, work together and separately in a bid to make it impossible as a practical matter for Israel to defend itself against terrorist groups or to respect the civil rights of its Jewish citizens, including their rights to property and self-defense. Moreover, they work to criminalize Israel’s leaders and soldiers internationally while promoting BDS.
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Given their activities and goals, it is self-evident that these groups are a threat to the national interests of Israel. They cause it great harm both domestically and internationally.
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As the public’s awareness of the threat posed by these foreign government-funded groups has grown in recent years, Knesset members have repeatedly introduced legislation geared toward curbing their activities.
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Not surprisingly, given the fact that foreign governments – principally from the EU and its member states – are funding and so directing the actions of these groups, each time the Knesset tried to rein them in, those efforts have been immediately and viciously attacked by the governments of Europe, the EU, the nObama administration, the groups themselves, the international media and the Israeli Left.
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Each time, the attacks have been the same. The foreign governments and their allies in the media and the Israeli Left, including their employees, have insisted that any move by the Knesset to restrain, regulate or otherwise expose their hostile activities constitutes nothing less than a deadly assault on Israeli democracy.
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The criticism is absurd on its face, and represents pure projection. After all, it is hard to imagine a more direct assault against a nation’s democratic system than foreign governmental funding of domestic groups whose goal is to delegitimize and vilify their government and country.
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These ridiculous attacks on government attempts to regulate the actions of foreign-funded anti-Israel groups beg for an unapologetic counter assault from the government. Distressingly, rather than strike the necessarily blow, time after time the government has crumpled.
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One after another, NGO bills have been abandoned or watered down to the point of fecklessness.
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Today Israel is being subjected yet again to the coordinated assault of the phony “champions of democracy.” As in the past, the nObama administration has joined forces with the EU, the Israeli Left and the Western media to attack the government for its support for Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked’s NGO Transparency Bill.
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Given the unhinged nature of the attacks, one could reasonably assume that this time, the government is serious. But alas, as in the past, one would be wrong.
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There is nothing in Shaked’s bill that will do significant damage to either the Israeli groups or their foreign governmental funders. For instance, Shaked’s bill does not remove these groups’ nonprofit status. Under the Shaked bill, foreign government- funded groups that vilify the IDF and its soldiers like Breaking the Silence will continue to enjoy the same tax exemptions as real nonprofits like the IDF’s widows and orphans fund.
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Shaked’s bill only treats as foreign agents organizations that receive the majority of their funding from foreign governments. But the distinction between Yesh Din, which receives 93% of its funding from foreign governments, and Machsom Watch of which Yesh Din is a spinoff, which receives 47% of its funding from foreign governments, is entirely arbitrary. Both groups are beholden to foreign governments. Both are foreign agents.
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Like its decision to freeze Jewish building projects, the government’s decision to water down the NGO Transparency Bill was clearly motivated by its hope of winning points with hostile governments. It is hard not to sympathize with this hope. But the fact that it comes from an understandable impulse doesn’t make the government’s behavior rational. As the unhinged criticisms directed at the bill from the US and EU make clear, they are not impressed, indeed they couldn’t care less about the government’s attempt to mollify them by advancing a bill devoid of substance.
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The lesson from these miserable experiences is clear enough. Since Israel is going to be attacked no matter what it does, we might as well do things that advance our interests.
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Since we will be vilified for building “settlements” even when the government freezes construction, we might as well build settlements.
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Since the price for expanding existing buildings is the same as the price for building new neighborhoods and communities, there is no reason to pay full price for a fraction of the benefit. Indeed, since the nObama administration and the EU plan to attack us no matter what we do, we might as well go ahead and apply Israeli law to the Jordan Valley and Gush Etzion.
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Likewise, since the same forces will viciously condemn us for advancing legislation that will do nothing to curb their funding for Israeli agents or curtail the hostile actions of those agents, we might as well get viciously attacked for doing something to curb their funding and curtail their actions. Given the ferocity of the criticism Israel is enduring over the Shaked bill, it makes sense to redraft the bill and turn it into something useful.
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We get it. The nObama administration and the EU aren’t attacking Israel because we did something wrong. They’re attacking us because they want to hurt us. That is their goal. Recognizing this sorry truth, the public elected the Likud and its coalition partners to defend our interests and our rights. Hope is not a strategy. Building new communities and neighborhoods, expanding the writ of Israeli law and curtailing the activities of subversive foreign agents is a strategy. And a good one.
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Monday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
How a Balanced Budget Amendment Gives the
Feds Power over Whatever They Want
Publius Huldah
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 Green Beret Punished for Protecting Child 
In 2011, two Green Berets in a remote outpost in Afghanistan discovered that a commander in the Afghan Local Police (ALP) had kidnapped a young boy and raped him. When the rapist admitted what he did and laughed about it, Captain Dan Quinn picked up the man and slammed him into the ground. Sgt. First Class Charles Martland joined in, helping to drag the man outside the compound. The two told the rapist to never return. But the Army has policies to respect Afghan "culture," and beating a child rapist is evidently in violation of those rules.
          After Army Human Resources Command recommended Martland be removed from service, Rep. Duncan Hunter sent a letter to Sen. Pat Roberts asking him to assist in keeping Martland in the Army. "I am not offended by, nor do I take any issue with, Martland's confrontation of the child rapist," Hunter wrote. "Martland was part of a small team of Green Berets, entrusted to keep America safe in ways that often go unreported or unnoticed, whose mission was being put at risk due to the illegal action of a corrupt ALP commander. The Afghan justice system continually failed to uphold individual human rights, and we would expect any of our elite warriors to protect a child from a known and admitted rapist." 
          If nothing else is done, then Martland's military career will end March 1. Meanwhile, the nObama administration is content to let Army bureaucracy run its course, as nObama spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters last year that Afghanistan has its legal system to handle these sorts of cases. Or not handle it. Because cultural sensitivity is more important to nObama than our soldiers.  -The Patriot Post
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 Civil Disobedience Only Works for Liberals? 
A couple of stories this week are indicative of a society increasingly unmoored to common sense and common decency, much less Rule of Law.
          In Houston, the results of that city's investigation of a Planned Parenthood clinic's trafficking in baby parts has resulted in an indictment — of the whistleblowers. Californians David Daleiden and Sandra Merritt have been charged by a Harris County grand jury for tampering with a governmental record, a second-degree felony with a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. Adding insult to injury, Daleiden, the leader of the videographers from the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) that published the exposé, was also charged with the same misdemeanor he had accused Planned Parenthood of committing — namely the purchase or sale of the organs of unborn babies.
          "As I stated at the outset of this investigation, we must go where the evidence leads us," said Harris County District Attorney Devon Anderson, a registered Republican. "All the evidence uncovered in the course of this investigation was presented to the grand jury. I respect their decision on this difficult case."
          Their decision is a travesty. The series of videos published by CMP are a compendium of outrages. In one, the organization's Chief Medical Director, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, is shown casually discussing the various abortion techniques employed to preserve as much fetal tissue as possible. In another, Dr. Mary Gatter, president of the Planned Parenthood Medical Directors' Council, is shown discussing the "less crunchy" abortion techniques needed to procure "whole specimens," and haggling over fetal tissue sales prices because she wants "a Lamborghini." In still another, Melissa Farrell, Director of Research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, promotes that branch's track record of fetal tissue sales, and its ability to "get the best specimens."
          Planned Parenthood claimed the videos were "heavily edited," but that is simply a lie. Nothing was cut or juxtaposed, and the videos are available in full at the CMP website.   -The Patriot Post
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 FBI continues probe into Hilly server -  The Hill: “Six months after it began, the federal investigation into Hilly Clinton’s private email server shows no signs of slowing down. Former FBI officials said the length of the probe is not unusual, and speculated that a decision on whether to file charges against Clinton or her top aides could come later this year, during the heat of the general election campaign. ‘I don’t know that there’s any magical cutoff date,’ said Ron Hosko, the FBI’s former assistant director of the criminal investigative division and a 30-year veteran of the bureau. For Democrats, the extended investigation has become a source of some anxiety, with Republicans gleefully raising the prospect of their presidential front-runner being indicted.”  -Fox News
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Another nObama concession to Iran: $10 million
claim dropped in prisoner deal
Robert Spencer
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Nader Modanlo
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ Nader Modanlo was accused of taking an illegal $10 million payment from Iran... “U.S. Attorney Rod Rosenstein said the evidence against Modanlo had been disclosed in court and proved ‘beyond any reasonable doubt that Mr. Modanlo secretly helped Iran launch a satellite for $10 million.'” The U.S. dropped the $10 million claim against him as part of the recent prisoner swap, thereby annoying Modanlo, who wanted to appeal his conviction. But Modanlo is free in any case, and the larger issue here is that it appears that the Obama Administration will stop at absolutely nothing and make any concession it can possibly make in order to appease the Iranian mullahs.
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Netanyahu: “The words of the 
U.N. secretary general give a 
tailwind to terrorism”
Robert Spencer
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“Netanyahu Chides Ban Ki-moon for Settlement Remarks,”
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ Hours after an Israeli woman who was stabbed by Palestinian assailants in a West Bank settlement died on Tuesday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel rebuked the United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon... who criticized Israel’s settlement activity and said it was “human nature to react to occupation.” Addressing the Security Council in New York, Mr. Ban condemned the recent wave of Palestinian attacks against Israeli civilians, including the stabbings of two Israeli women on Monday in the settlement of Beit Horon. But he added, “Palestinian frustration is growing under the weight of a half-century of occupation and the paralysis of the peace process.” Mr. Ban described Israel’s continued settlement activities as “an affront to the Palestinian people and to the international community.” He added, “So-called facts on the ground in the occupied West Bank are steadily chipping away the viability of a Palestinian state and the ability of Palestinian people to live in dignity.”        http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/netanyahu-the-words-of-the-u-n-secretary-general-give-a-tailwind-to-terrorism
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nObamacare’s rising costs out 
of reach for many
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{sharylattkisson.com} ~ President nObama says that most Americans can find a health insurance option for $75 or less per month. Independent analyses for 2016 are painting a much more difficult picture for the average consumer... The average “Silver” plan premium (that most people have) costs about $300 a month. That’s not the biggest problem, according to analysts. For many, their health insurance has dramatically changed under nObamacare. Deductibles and out of pocket expenses are higher, so many of their medical expenses are no longer covered. Some consumers who say they had good, affordable plans prior to the Affordable Care Act say they can no longer afford the new plans, which are substandard in terms of what they cover.        https://sharylattkisson.com/obamacares-rising-costs-out-of-reach-for-many/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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CNN Stages Town Hall to 
Boost Clinton Candidacy
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ Who ever heard of a presidential primary debate or town hall meeting opening with a kiss on the cheek between the moderator and the frontrunner?... It’s safe to say that didn’t happen between Fox News’ Megyn Kelly and Republican frontrunner Donald Trump. And not just because he didn’t show up for Thursday night’s debate in Iowa. But if you tuned in to the January 25 CNN Democratic town hall, you would have seen that kiss between the moderator Chris Cuomo, and Democratic frontrunner Hilly Clinton. And that was just for starters. The event featured softball after softball question in a continuous love-in for the candidates, but especially so for Mrs. Clinton. This was a far cry from the December CNN Republican debate. Of course, the Cuomo family has a history of favoring Clinton. Chris Cuomo’s brother, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, recently helped introduce the former New York senator  when she received a gun control award named after his father, Mario Cuomo, who had also served as New York governor. Governor Cuomo has also endorsed her presidential run.
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IDF Preparing for Arrival of 
ISIS on Syrian Border
Yaakov Lappin
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ As conflict and mayhem continue to rage across Syria, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) is preparing to encounter the threat of ISIS and al-Qaida forces right on its borders, and could encounter such threats in the coming months... The preparations come as the Syrian civil war shows no sign of letting up. This is a conflict that has led to the violent deaths of 300,000 Syrians, and the displacement of more than 10 million others, 4.5 million of whom have fled the country. Today, the IDF's Military Intelligence Directorate views Syria as a former state that has broken apart into multiple 'Syrias.' The Assad regime controls barely 30 percent of Syria and is fully reliant on the foreign assistance of Russia, Hizballah, and Iran. Sunnis and Shi'ites wage daily war on one another.
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nObama nukes Hilly, admits server
contained top U.S. secrets
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{wnd.com} ~ The nObama administration leveled a devastating blow to Hilly Clinton on Friday by admitting for the first time that her personal email server contained the highest levels of classified U.S. intelligence... The White House said 22 emails from former secretary of state’s “home brew” server must be censored from public view when the State Department releases its final batch on Friday. Diplomatic Security and Intelligence and Research bureaus will now try to determine if any of the emails were marked classified at the time of transmission, the Associated Press reported Friday.
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Issa: FBI wants Hilly, Huma prosecuted 
in 'slam dunk' case
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{wnd.com} ~ California Rep. Darrell Issa says the FBI has a “slam dunk” case against former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton and senior aide Huma Abedin that it’s itching to prosecute... The former House Oversight chairman’s statement on Friday comes just days after former Republican House Majority Leader Tom DeLay said his contacts in the agency will “blow the whistle and go public” if Attorney General Loretta Lynch does not prosecute. “I think the FBI director would like to indict both Huma and Hilly as we speak,” Issa said at Florida Sen. Marco Rubio’s New Hampshire campaign headquarters on Thursday, the Washington Examiner reported. “I think he’s in a position where he’s being forced to triple-time make a case of what would otherwise be, what they call, a slam dunk.”
http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/issa-fbi-wants-hillary-huma-prosecuted-in-slam-dunk-case/
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Planet Earth to Janet Yellen
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Federal Reserve Chairman Janet Yellen listens to a reporter’s question during a news conference to announce raised interest rates in Washington December 16, 2015
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{aei.org} ~ Coming so soon after the FOMC’s ill-advised interest rate hike last month, yesterday’s FOMC statement underlines how out of touch the Federal Reserve has become about global financial market and economic developments...  Indeed, by giving no intimation that it is now ruling out a March interest rate hike, or that it is now reconsidering the interest rate hike path upon which it believes itself to be on, the Fed seems to be repeating the same mistake it made in 2008 of being overly sanguine about the US and global economic outlooks. Minutes of the 2008 FOMC meetings reveal that as late as August 2008, the Fed had no inkling about the magnitude of the sub prime crisis that was about to hit the US and global economies later that year. There are at least three reasons why the Fed is mistaken about now not pursuing a more dovish monetary policy. The first is that it is clear that the credit cycle has turned and that the market has already raised corporate borrowing costs substantially. Market estimates consider that the sharp market interest rate rises in recent months, especially in high-yield corporate borrowing costs, constitutes the equivalent of between three and four increases in the Fed’s federal funds rate. If the market is doing the tightening for it, it would seem that there is little reason for the Fed to further increase its interest rate.        http://www.aei.org/publication/planet-earth-to-janet-yellen/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=012915
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The Iran-North Korea Nuclear Nexus:
Unanswered Questions
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ Is there a nuclear proliferation nexus between Iran and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK)? Pyongyang tested a nuclear weapon in early January – its fourth such test in a decade and its third since President Barack nObama took office...A top Iranian official overseeing Tehran’s nuclear program was present during the last test, in 2013, and if experience is any guide, the Islamic Republic may have sent representatives to this year’s as well. And just as North Korea unilaterally withdrew over a decade ago from the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty and proceeded to conduct nuclear tests, an Iranian repeat of such a “breakout” scenario remains a disconcerting possibility. Despite nearly two decades of Iranian denial and deception pointing to an ultimate objective of obtaining nuclear weapons, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) gave its go-ahead for the implementation of the nuclear agreement signed by Tehran and the P5+1 the United States, United Kingdom, Russia, China, France, and Germany in July 2015. This approval came despite the fact that Iran had not addressed many of the most troublesome aspects of its nuclear program – the so-called possible military dimensions. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/content/uploads/documents/Iran_DPRK.pdf
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Maryland Public School System Sued for
Pushing Islamic Propaganda
PAMELA GELLER
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{pamelageller.com} ~ A public school system in Maryland is being sued for promoting Islam over other religions... The lawsuit was filed in federal court Wednesday on behalf of a former Marine and his wife who fought back at their daughter’s high school for forcing students to complete assignments that endorsed Islam. The Thomas More Law Center filed the civil rights complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland, accusing leaders at the Charles County Public Schools of violating the plaintiffs’ constitutional rights.
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How a Balanced Budget Amendment Gives the
Feds Power over Whatever They Want
Publius Huldah
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The Language of Liberty
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{coachisright.com} ~ Does our existing Constitution permit the federal government to spend money on whatever they want? No! It contains precise limits on federal spending.
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Federal spending is limited by the enumerated powers delegated to the federal government. If you go through the Constitution and highlight all the powers delegated to Congress and the President, you will get a complete list of the objects on which Congress is permitted to spend money.
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Here’s the list: • The Census (Art. I, §2, cl. 3) • Publishing the Journals of the House and Senate (Art. I, §5, cl. 3) • Salaries of Senators and Representatives (Art. I, § 6, cl. 1) • Salaries of civil officers of the United States (Art. I, §6, cl. 2 & Art. II, §1, cl. 7) • Pay the Debts (Art. I, §8, cl. 1 & Art. VI, cl.1) • Pay tax collectors (Art. I, §8, cl.1) • Regulate commerce with foreign Nations, among the several States, and with Indian Tribes (Art. I, §8, cl.3)  • Immigration office (Art. I, §8, cl.4) • The mint (Art. I, §8, cl. 5) • Attorney General to handle the small amount of authorized federal litigation involving the national government (e.g., Art. I, §8, cls. 6 & 10) • Post offices & post roads (Art. I, §8, cl. 7) • Patent & copyright office (Art. I, §8, cl. 8) • Federal courts (Art. I, §8, cl. 9 & Art. III, §1) • Military and Militia (Art. I, §8, cls. 11-16) • Since Congress has general legislative authority over the federal enclaves listed in Art. I, §8, next to last clause, Congress has broad spending authority over the tiny geographical areas listed in this clause. • The President’s entertainment expenses for foreign dignitaries (Art. II, §3); and • Since Congress had general legislative authority over the Western Territory before it was broken up into States, Congress could appropriate funds for the US Marshalls, federal judges, and the like for that Territory (Art. IV, §3, cl. 2).
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That’s what Congress is authorized by our Constitution to spend money on. Did I leave anything out? Take a few minutes and, armed with a highlighter, read carefully through the Constitution and see for yourself.
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Congress is to appropriate funds to carry out this handful of delegated powers; and it is to pay the bills with receipts from taxes. 
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Pursuant to Article I, §9, clause 7, the federal government is to periodically publish a Statement and Account of Receipts and Expenditures. Citizens could use this Statement and Account – which would be so short that everyone would have time to read it – to monitor the spending of their public servants.
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So that’s how our existing Constitution limits federal spending: • If it’s on the list of enumerated powers, Congress may lawfully spend money on it. • But if it’s not on the list, Congress usurps powers not delegated when it appropriates money for it.
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It was unconstitutional spending and unconstitutional promises(Social Security, Medicare, etc., etc., etc.) which got us a national debt of almost $19 trillion, plus a hundred trillion or so in unfunded liabilities.
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Since the Constitution delegates to Congress only limited and narrowly defined authority to spend money; the Constitution doesn’t provide for a budget.
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We never had a federal budget until Congress passed the Budget and Accounting Act of 1921. By this time, the Progressives controlled both political parties and the federal government.
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The Progressives wanted a federal budget because they wanted to spend money on objects which were not on the list of delegated powers.
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A balanced budget amendment (BBA) would substitute a budget for the enumerated powers, and thus would legalize the current practice where Congress spends money on whatever they or the President put in the budget.
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The result of a BBA is to legalize spending which is now unconstitutional – it changes the constitutional standard for spending from whether the object is on the list of enumerated powers to a limit on the total amount of spending.
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• To add insult to injury, the limits on spending are fictitious because they can be waived whenever Congress votes to waive them.
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And because a BBA would permit Congress to lawfully spend money on whatever is put in the budget, the powers of the federal government would be lawfully increased to include whatever THEY decide to put in the budget.
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So a BBA would fundamentally transform our Constitution fromone of enumerated powers only to one of general and unlimited powers – because the federal government would then be authorized by the Constitution to exercise power over ANY object they decide to put into the budget.
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You must read proposed amendments and understand how they change our Constitution before you support them.
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Endnotes: (1) Our original Constitution authorized only excise taxes & tariffs on imports (Art. I, §8, clause 1), with any shortfall being made up by an apportioned assessment on the States based on population (Art. I, §2, clause 3).
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(2) Compact for America’s (CFA) version of a BBA permits spending limits to be waived whenever Congress and 26 States agree. CFA’s version also authorizes Congress to impose a national sales tax and a national value added tax in addition to keeping the income tax! 
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Saturday ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Anti-Establishment 
Does Not Mean Pro-Conservative
BEN SHAPIRO
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 Strange Bedfellows Lead to the Iowa Caucus 
With the Iowa caucuses less than a week away, the Republican race is the strangest nomination process in memory. After the flame-out of both establishment favorites and conservatives with experience, the race is quickly coming down to Donald Trump and Ted Cruz, though Marco Rubio may still have an outside shot. How did we get here?
          Cruz is loathed by the GOP establishment as a "whack job" because of his unbending allegiance to conservative principles, and for calling out the GOP leadership and establishment for their failures to govern according to the promises on which they campaigned.
          Trump is the circus sideshow, a lifelong liberal Democrat with New York values, a reality TV star and casino mogul supposedly without a chance of winning the more conservative Southern states — an absolute must for any Republican. He's the narcissist who can't stand to be out of the limelight, and he'll insult anybody and everybody to get attention. He's proclaimed he won't participate in Thursday night's debate moderated by Fox News, all because he's seemingly afraid of Megyn Kelly, whom he's already grossly insulted. Instead, he claims, he'll host an event to raise money for veterans. We'll believe it when we don't seem him on stage, but has there ever been a politician with thinner skin?
          But a funny thing happened along the way. Cruz quietly built up an impressive campaign war chest that made him a force to be reckoned with, and his principled conservative record and message, plus his refusal to attack Trump, led to a steady rise in the polls. Trump has defied all political wisdom and held a perpetual lead in the polls based almost entirely on his unapologetically un-PC rhetoric and his brash (if inconsistent) populism on illegal immigration, combating Islamic terrorism, and the economy. Angry voters consider him the best vehicle to express their outrage.  -The Patriot Post
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 Silver Linings — Challenger STS-51-L 
This day 30 years ago was a day so tragic for my friend June Scobee Rodgers and her children that I can't imagine the anguish they experienced. June, and the families of other crew members, watched as her husband's Challenger Space Shuttle disintegrated just after liftoff. At T+68, Commander Dick Scobee confirmed, "Roger, go at throttle up" — the last communication she, and the nation, heard from Challenger. That evening, President Ronald Reagan addressed the nation, saying, "The crew of the space shuttle Challenger honored us by the manner in which they lived their lives. We will never forget them, nor the last time we saw them, this morning, as they prepared for their journey and waved goodbye and 'slipped the surly bonds of earth' to 'touch the face of God.'"
          In the years that followed, June has turned that tragedy into a triumph, honoring the loss of her beloved husband and his crew with the establishment of the Challenger Centers for Space Science Education. There are now 40 Challenger STEM learning centers across the nation inspiring countless young people toward careers in the sciences. I know few people who embody June's level of character and integrity. You can read her story in a tribute, "A Silver Lining to Storms of Sorrow." Watch an interview with June filmed this week about her experience that day
 -The Patriot Post
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 Trump, Fox and 'The Veterans' 
Donald Trump says he'll be a no-show for the GOP debate tonight in Iowa. He claims it's because he has "zero respect for Megyn Kelly," adding "I don't think she is very good at what she does. I think she is highly overrated." Recall if you will, that Kelly asked Trump at an earlier debate, "You've called women you don't like 'fat pigs, dogs and disgusting animals.' ... How will you answer the charge from Hilly Clinton that you are part of the war on women?" After the debate, Trump responded, "You could see there was blood coming out of her eyes. Blood coming out of her — wherever."
          Actually, here's the real reason why Trump is declining the debate: First and foremost, it's a good strategic play. By not being present, he pits Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio against each other without getting caught in the crossfire. Second, just ahead of the Iowa caucus, he won't have to defend his typical elitist and derogatory references, in this case comments like, "How stupid are the people of Iowa?" He won't have to excuse his liberal "New York values," or his own assertions about how his "views are different than if I lived in Iowa." And third, he won't get called out on the fact that he disgracefully played the "9/11 Card" in the last debate, using the victims of that attack as political fodder to dodge questions about his New York values.
          "I like debating," Trump claims. "I just don't like being used." But Trump is a master user, and once again he is playing the now-familiar "Veterans Card," using veterans as political fodder to dodge this debate. Trump perfected that play when he threatened to skip the CNN debate unless Jeff Zucker, president of CNN, donated all the ad revenues to "the veterans." Of course, Trump showed up for the debate, and CNN didn't send a dime to any veterans support group. Trump merely invokes "the veterans" in a play to rally support from those of us who hold veterans in high regard. But as with the "9/11 Card" play in the last debate, this is nothing more than a crass political ploy.
          Regardless of whether Trump shows for the debate or not, the reality-TV billionaire will remain the focus of the media.  
 -The Patriot Post
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Hilly's Criminal Mind
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{wnd.com} ~ Hilly Clinton’s nightmare is not the sudden resurgence of Bernie Sanders. It is the fidelity to the rule of law of the FBI... The recent revelations of the receipt by Clinton of a Special Access Program email as well as cut and pasted summaries of state secrets on her server and on her BlackBerry nearly guarantee that the FBI will recommend that the Department of Justice convene a grand jury and seek her indictment for espionage. Here is the backstory. It seems that every week, more information comes to light about Clinton’s grave legal woes. Her worries are in two broad categories: One is her well-documented failure to safeguard state secrets and the other is her probable use of her position as secretary of state to advance financially her husband’s charitable foundation. The FBI is currently and aggressively investigating both. What I will describe below is in the state secrets category. It is apparently not new to the FBI, but it is new to the public.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/hillarys-criminal-mind/
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GOP Disunity Could Doom Us All
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{wnd.com} ~ In all candor, I feel as though it would be remiss for me not to share a certain discomfort at the deportment of some Republican and conservative likely voters as this campaign season has progressed... The world is currently facing the mobilization of a profoundly hostile, barbaric creed – Islam – which has the goal of nothing less than global domination. Currently, it is engaged in an invasion of Europe, which socialism has nearly destroyed already. America’s relations with her allies are at an all-time low, and telegraphed weakness has greatly emboldened her enemies. The allies Washington has not alienated outright have been subverted further into potentially disastrous policies, leading to a destabilization of Europe on several fronts. The Middle East and parts of Africa are hotbeds of continuous warfare and atrocity. Back at home, the White House, its surrogates, the press and even their ostensible detractors have minimized Islam’s threat; this has manifested in ongoing bizarre and surreal assertions that Muslims are no more a threat than Methodists to national security and domestic tranquility. We now live in a country wherein school sports teams get excluded from leagues and events because they are “too good”; grade school children are suspended from school from pointing their fingers and saying “bang”; homeowners can face prosecution for killing armed home invaders; and murder and mayhem on the part of Muslims is rationalized while Christian merchants are forced to cater to the whims of sexual deviants. Over 90 million Americans are out of work, yet the government and the press continue to report a 5 percent unemployment rate. The level of endemic corruption and its cavalier practice among those in government are not to be believed.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/gop-disunity-could-doom-us-all/
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U.S. Congressman Warns of Data Breach
‘You Haven’t Heard About’
Taryn O'Neill
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{legalinsurrection.com} ~ A security breach discovered at a California-based software and hardware company has many officials worried, including U.S. Congressman Will Hurd of Texas... Rep. Hurd expressed his concerns over the breach in a Wall Street Journal op-ed explaining that foreign hackers may “have been reading the encrypted communications of U.S. government agencies for the past three years.” Juniper Networks provides network equipment and routers to the U.S. government that are believed to be used by the Defense Department, FBI, Justice Department, and Treasury Department. The company announced last month that an unauthorized backdoor had been been written into its ScreenOS software and that it may have occurred as early as 2013. Someone managed to gain access to Juniper’s systems and write “unauthorized code.” The added code or unauthorized backdoor “could allow a knowledgable attacker to gain administrative access.”
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LaVoy Finicum, “Summarily Executed” 
By Federal Agents
photo.jpg Joe Miller
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{joemiller.us} ~ KrisAnne Hall, the legal advisor for the Coalition of Western States, was interviewed today on The Joe Miller Show. Ms. Hall, who was just in Burns, Oregon this last week teaching several constitutional law courses, spoke with protesters present at the refuge... She also discussed what happened regarding LaVoy Finicum’s shooting with Ammon Bundy’s sister. Ms. Hall states that no shots were fired by any of the protesters, but that there were multiple shots fired by federal agents at the protesters’ car. She characterized the stop as an “ambush.” Additionally, Ms. Hall states that LaVoy Finicum was “summarily executed,” shot while he was on the ground with his hands in the air. She contends that because of the Patriot Act, the federal government will likely never release the video of the stop. Ms. Hall asks, “Does the federal government have the right to execute these people” without due process? Listen to the full interview here:
http://joemiller.us/2016/01/krisanne-hall-lavoy-finicum/?utm_source=JoeMiller.US+List&utm_campaign=93e02be2d9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_065b6c381c-93e02be2d9-230998701
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There’s More to Being President 
Than Deal-Making
Kenneth Blackwell
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{.theacru.org} ~ Politically we appear to be living in the year of the outsider. Donald Trump has shocked the established political class and its loyal journalistic following... Senators Ted Cruz and Bernie Sanders are upsetting governing elites almost as much as Trump. The public says it is angry and isn’t going to take it anymore. Yet the prescription offered by these three candidates is very different. The Donald constantly trumpets that he is a deal maker. Cruz and Sanders are more interested in the substance of the deal and always ready to say no deal. There’s no doubt that politics involves compromise. Even such dominant figures as Franklin Roosevelt, Lyndon Johnson, and Ronald Reagan had to accept less than what they wanted.
http://www.theacru.org/theres-more-to-being-president-than-deal-making/
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Texas City Councilman Caught 
Smuggling Illegal Aliens!
Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ A city councilman in Crystal City, Texas was recently arrested attempting to smuggle three illegal immigrants into the United States!... Councilman Marco Rodriguez has apparently been engaging in a bit of side work when he was supposed to be acting in his city’s best interests. The arrest happened Saturday at a post office in Big Wells. The feds say that Rodriguez was pulled over by a Border Patrol agent. They chatted briefly before Rodriguez allegedly tried to run away. Eventually, Border Patrol caught up to him and the three undocumented immigrants he was with.
Trump hits Megyn Kelly for GQ photos
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{wnd.com} ~ Donald Trump used a sexual GQ photo shoot Fox News’ Megyn Kelly posed for in 2010 to slam her for hypocrisy on Thursday... The Republican front-runner jabbed the Fox host just hours before the network’s 9 p.m. EST. Republican debate at the Iowa Events Center in Des Moines, Iowa. Trump made political shock waves on Wednesday by dropping out of the event to host a fundraiser for veterans at Sheslow Auditorium at Drake University at 7 p.m. EST. CNN, CBS and YouTube have all decided to broadcast the event. “And this is the bimbo that’s asking presidential questions? Criticizes Trump for objectifying women … Poses like this in GQ Magazine,” a tweet shared by Trump said Thursday. The image attached showed Kelly posing seductively in a tiny black dress. “You once told a contestant on ‘Celebrity Apprentice’ it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president, and how will you answer the charge from Hillary Clinton, who is likely to be the Democratic nominee, that you are part of the war on women?” This time he has gone a bit to far. http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/trump-hits-megyn-kelly-for-gq-photos/
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Citizens United demands to know why Clinton
donor wasn’t jailed after causing multiple deaths
Richard Pollock
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{libertyunyielding.com} ~ Citizens United, a conservative advocacy group, is seeking federal records on why the Department of Justice (DOJ) ignored a federal grand jury indictment of a major Democratic Party donor who ordered illegal medical procedures that killed five elderly patients, The Daily Caller News Foundation has learned... A federal grand jury named Hansjörg Wyss, former CEO of Synthes, Inc., as “Person No. 7” in a 2009 indictment that stated he directed subordinates in executive management meetings to conduct illegal human drug trials using an untested but potentially lucrative medical compound for spines. Synthes and its subsidiary, Norian Corporation, inserted a new compound into unsuspecting patients even though the drug was not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). At the time of the indictment, FDA identified three patients who had died — two more died in the years thereafter.
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Iran’s Atomic Energy Chief: World Powers Enabled Acceleration of Nuclear Activities
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Ali Akbar Salehi
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{algemeiner.com} ~ A senior Iranian official said that the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) signed with world powers enabled the Islamic Republic to accelerate some of its nuclear activities... Iran’s semi-official state news agency Mehr reported on Wednesday. Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, said that, among other things, the JCPOA has allowed Iran to grow its reserve of “nuclear material” from 550 to 770 tons. “Exploration, extraction, enrichment, research reactors, and R and D are the major components of the nuclear program; JCPOA did not completely stymied the program, and we have only been slower in terms of progress,” Mr. Salehi told a meeting of Iran’s Strategic Council on Foreign Relations. “In other activities even we have accelerated the pace, including in the volume of nuclear material which was 550 ton before, now we have 770 tons of nuclear material; this is a fact known to IAEA. With heavy water, we secured the project along with R and D, extraction and exploration.”
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300 Scientists Tell Congress – NOAA Climate
Data Re-Writes May Be Criminal
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ The math just doesn’t add up for the global warming alarmists at NOAA, the National Oceanographic  and Atmospheric Association, which has become quite politicized under the nObama regime... Their revisionist claims on the temperature of the planet are meeting with some new skepticism as well. As part of their press to have their wild claims of man-caused global warming accepted as factual science, the scheming alarmists often cited a statistic that 97% of the world’s top climate scientists support their fairy tale. Now a group of elite scientists and others are on the record disputing those claims, and in numbers that would also challenge those who throw out that 97% consensus figure. With the alarmists allowing for only three percent of the scientific community to be in opposition to their claims, the three hundred would conversely commit the global warming crowd to a minimum of 9,700 accredited experts in support of their claims, if every scientist in opposition signed the letter. Are they prepared with names and endorsements to substantiate those assertions?
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Anti-Establishment 
Does Not Mean Pro-Conservative
BEN SHAPIRO
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Donald Trump will change everything.
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This seems to be the consensus among anti-establishment Republicans. According to the latest ABC News/Washington Post poll, Trump leads among anti-establishment primary voters with an actual majority of 51 percent. And a full 51 percent of Republicans think Trump is “the best choice to bring needed change to Washington, perhaps the single most crucial attribute to leaned Republicans.”
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Trump makes this case, too. He’s said that he’s the establishment’s worst nightmare. He says he’s too rich too be bought, too independent to care about what his enemies say, too powerful to be stopped. He’ll stand up for the American people by standing against the powers-that-be.
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Then he turns around and says he’ll make deals. “I think the establishment is warming up,” Trump said this week. “I want to be honest, I have received so many phone calls from people that you would call establishment, from people — generally speaking … conservatives, Republicans — that want to come onto our team. We are getting calls from everybody that it’s actually amazing. I’m actually surprised.”
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Why? Because, says Trump, unlike his chief rival, Senator Ted Cruz, R-Texas, he’ll make deals. He’s a deal-maker! “Guys like Ted Cruz will never make a deal because he’s a strident guy,” Trump said. “That’s what the country’s about really, isn’t it?”
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And Trump will make deals. He isn’t lying. He’s friendly with everybody on the Democratic side of the aisle. Here’s Trump on House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi, D-Calif.: “I think I’m going to be able to get along with Pulosi — I’ve always had a good relationship with Nancy Pulosi.” Here’s Trump on Senate Minority Leader Harry dinky-Reid, D-Nev.: He “always treated me nicely. We need that in Washington.” Here’s Trump on Senator Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., godfather of amnesty: “I think I’ll be able to get along well with Schumer, Chuck Schumer. I was always very good with Schumer. I was close to Schumer in many ways.”
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For that matter, here’s Trump on Hilly Clinton circa 2012: “Hilly Clinton I think is a terrific woman.” Here’s Trump on President nObama circa 2009: “I think he’s doing a really good job. … He’s really a champion.”
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It’s not that Trump represents the establishment. He’s still anti-establishment because he’s not taking cues from them. He’s running his own campaign, and he’s following his own advice. But just because you oppose the establishment doesn’t mean that you’re a conservative. Trump opposes the establishment because he thinks of himself as a political outsider. The base opposes the establishment because they don’t want Republicans in the establishment cutting bad deals with Democrats. Which means that Trump’s anti-establishment viewpoint doesn’t match up with that of the conservative base.
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Trump may change Washington, D.C., but not in a way conservatives will like. He could be a Republican Barack nObama, but he won’t be a conservative one. And another egomaniac without Constitutional strictures is the last thing we need.
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Friday ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
A Tale of Two Tapes: Teen Cruz and
Terror-Coddler nObama
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 The More Voters See of Clinton, the More They Don't Like    According to the most recent Fox News poll, Hilly Clinton is bleeding followers nationally. A month ago, she was riding a wave of 56% support among Democrats. Sanders had a 34% following and 4% of the respondents didn't know who they would support. In the poll conducted Jan. 18-21, Clinton's support dropped to 49%, Sanders is up to 37% and 10% of Democrats don't know who they should support in the rapidly approaching primaries.
          One of the factors driving uncertainty in the Democrat Party is that her campaign might suffer a sudden death if Clinton is prosecuted by the FBI for mishandling classified information — more bad news dropping this week. The other is that Clinton's policies lack the pop that Sanders' have. For instance, Sanders said he wants to hike taxes so that the government confiscates another $20 trillion over 10 years. Clinton's tax plan proposes raising taxes by $498 billion over that same period — comparatively weak sauce for "progressives" wanting to stick it to the "rich."
          According to an analysis by the Tax Foundation, Clinton's tax proposal would shrink U.S. GDP by 1%. Furthermore, as Reince Priebus, chair of the Republican National Committee, said, "Hilly Clinton's tax hike plan is an absolute disaster. Not only do Clinton's tax increases fail to pay for her $1.2 trillion spending spree, they will slow economic growth, drive down wages, and kill the equivalent of hundreds of thousands of full-time jobs." And to think that the economic damage caused by Clinton's tax hikes will be nothing to what Sanders might unleash on the economy. 
 -The Patriot Post
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 CBO Lowers nObamaCare Enrollment  Prediction   Both the nObama administration and the "nonpartisan" Congressional Budget Office predicts a lackluster number of Americans signing up for health care through the federal exchange. In October, the administration estimated there would be 10 million signups in 2016, a modest increase from 2015. The CBO this week, however, revised down its prediction for the number of people getting their health care through Barack nObama's system. Last year, the CBO estimated 20 million Americans would use nObamaCare in 2016, but now they say it'll be just 13 million. Remember: The actual numbers of signups have come in well below past projections. Still, the nObama administration has just enough wiggle room to call the downgraded numbers a "success."
          But as the editorial board for The Wall Steet Journal pointed out, "The truth is that liberals can either adapt to the same economic reality that businesses confront or they can keep their regulations in the name of fairness and social justice. If they continue to do the latter, they may find the system is so fair that no one can afford to participate." The economic winners in the years after nObamaCare was implemented were the large insurance companies. But as WSJ reports, the profit margin for UnitedHealth Group has shrunk to 3.7% from 4.3%. While all other sectors of its business have made money, the health care exchange has cost the company money, thanks to the rules the nObama administration established. As a result, UnitedHealth Group is threatening to leave the nObamaCare exchange, which would be a clear sign the whole system is not working.  -The Patriot Post
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 Wages Lead to Trouble in Walmart-Land 
Walmart has announced that it's closing 154 stores, most of them the company's Express stores operating in small communities. After moving into rural communities, and often choking out independent small businesses, Walmart is tweaking its business model. The reason? The rising cost of wages has overtaken the profit margins of those stores. On one hand, Walmart raised wages to keep workers, but it also announced the move in response to political pressure to raise the minimum wage. $15 an hour, anyone? The company also backed out of establishing stores in the District of Columbia, making the city's liberal politicians "blood mad." After all, the stores would have created jobs in some of the city's poorest neighborhoods, while providing options for residents to buy groceries and goods. This led the editors at Investor's Business Daily to write, "Sorry, but forcing employers of unskilled, largely untrained labor to pay higher prices for their labor is a recipe for automation, layoffs and no job creation. It punishes the poor, unskilled and uneducated most of all. The leftist demagogues who push this nonsense should be ashamed." And liberal politicians wonder where the jobs have gone.  -The Patriot Post
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Save the Manatee? Not if It Interferes 
With the Climate Agenda
Charles Scaliger
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ Florida’s manatees are among the world’s animals most vulnerable to human activity. The three living species of manatees (also known as sea cows) are, along with the dugong of the Indian Ocean... the only surviving members of an ancient order of mammals known as sirenids, which are thought to be distant aquatic kin of the elephant. They are also thought to have been the inspiration for mermaid legends, although manatees bear little resemblance to the fabled water maidens. Manatees are slow-moving, docile, and trusting, making them easy prey for anyone wanting to use them for target practice and vulnerable to boat propellers and other hazards (a fifth modern species of sirenid, the gigantic Steller’s sea cow of the Bering Sea, was wiped out by hungry Russian sailors within two decades of its discovery in the late 1700s). They browse on aquatic vegetation in the warm waters of the Amazon, the Caribbean, and Florida’s inland waterways. Back in the 1960s, the manatee was close to extinction in Florida, owing to habitat loss and frequent collisions with boats. Manatees are also — because of their very low metabolism — exceptionally vulnerable to cold temperatures, and typically sicken and die if water temperatures fall much below 68 degrees Fahrenheit. And it is this sensitivity that has brought the charismatic manatee into direct conflict with the agenda of the climate-change fanatics.
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Top Scientist: UN “Climate Finance”
Is Subsidy for Kleptocracy
Alex Newman
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Dr. Fred Singer
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The international wealth-redistribution schemes of the United Nations, justified under the guise of battling alleged man-made global warming... are really a massive subsidy to kleptocrats ruling poor countries paid for by the poor and middle classes of wealthier and freer nations, according to internationally renowned physicist Dr. Fred Singer. On top of that, the professor emeritus of environmental sciences at the University of Virginia said, the burden of proof in attributing climate changes to human activities is on man-made global-warming theorists seeking to regulate and control carbon dioxide, and not on skeptics. And so far, the alarmists have failed to demonstrate that mankind is responsible for any measurable impact on the climate, he said. Speaking at the Heartland Institute's “Day of Examining the Data” conference in Paris, which took place during the UN's COP21 climate summit last month, Singer and other scientists from around the world denounced the global-warming alarmism coming out of the nearby UN confab. Among other concerns, the experts said there was no climate crisis — much less a man-made one — and that the real agenda of the UN involves primarily money and power, not the climate.
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Judge Slams Hilly for “Mocking the Seriousness”
of the FBI Email Probe
Onan Coca
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{eaglerising.com} ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano once again took on Hilly Clinton’s current email imbroglio when he discussed her recent amazing not in a good way interview on NBC’s Meet the Press with Chuck Todd... During her conversation with Todd, Clinton was asked about the email scandal that she finds her self embroiled in. Her response turned heads around the country. When the FBI email investigation was broached, Clinton said “she wasn't "concerned" about whether the ongoing FBI investigation into her private email server will affect the way people vote, charging Republicans with continuing to leak information. Judge Napolitano sees this disgusting misdirection as more evidence to Clinton’s unscrupulous character. How can someone who is the center of such a serious criminal investigation simply shrug it off as if she has no opinion about what’s going on? This is not a GOP witch-hunt but an investigation into very serious and already proven criminal activities! Whether or not Mrs. Clinton meant to break the law, the media has already proven that the way in which she handled classified information has sent lesser government officials to prison!        http://eaglerising.com/29198/judge-slams-hillary-for-mocking-the-seriousness-of-the-fbi-email-probe/
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hanoi-Kerry Finally Admits Something Chilling
About nObama’s Iran Deal
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{patriotsandpolitics.com} ~ The nuclear deal with Iran that nObama and his minions have been so proud of has been clearly rejected by all those who have eyes to see the truth... Giving a country that has promised time and again to wipe Israel off the map a fast pass to a nuclear weapon is foolish to begin with, but when you factor in that we’ll be handing over more than $150 billion dollars to the world’s largest state sponsor of terror, it makes the Iran deal seem like a clear loser. Of course, nObama and his lackey John hanoi-Kerry have denied all the way down the line that easing the sanctions on Iran and giving them a massive payday would result in increased terrorism. But now that the deal has gone through and it’s too late to prevent the fallout from this unprecedented brain fart, hanoi-Kerry has finally admitted, somewhat half-heartedly, that what all the critics of this deal have been saying is true. This money is going to fund terrorism.
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Is FBI Director Comey About to Resign in Protest
over Hillary’s email scandal?
Jim Geraghty
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{nationalreview.com} ~ Could the Hilly Clinton e-mail saga end with FBI Director James Comey resigning in protest?... As FBI Director, Comey was completely in the loop on the decision to bring charges against Petraeus, so Clinton’s case is familiar territory for him. Cuccinelli says that if the FBI’s handling of Petraeus is any guide, Comey’s agents are likely to recommend a Clinton indictment to the Department of Justice. Then, the issue becomes really high-stakes. There is no time limit on how long Attorney General Loretta Lynch and the DOJ can take in reviewing the FBI’s recommendation and the evidence on which it’s based. But if the Department of Justice gives the signal that they’re going to ignore the FBI’s investigations, or drag out their own review past election day, Cuccinelli — along with Judge Andrew Napolitano, Roger Stone, Charles Krauthammer, and other observers — predicts that Comey will resign in protest, and other high-level FBI officials could follow him out the door. Not many people remember that Comey almost resigned a high-profile law-enforcement job once before, upset because he thought White House politics were overruling the law. Back in 2004, Comey was Attorney General John Ashcroft’s top deputy. The Justice Department determined that the Bush administration’s domestic-surveillance program, run by the National Security Agency, was illegal. Ashcroft was hospitalized at the time with a pancreatic ailment, and his authority had been transferred to Comey during the hospitalization. Then–White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales and President Bush’s chief of staff, Andrew H. Card Jr., went to the hospital to persuade Ashcroft to re-authorize the program. Comey and then–FBI director Robert Mueller raced to the hospital to lobby Ashcroft against signing the authorization papers.  http://www.nationalreview.com/article/430343/hillary-clinton-email-scandal-fbi-director-james-comey-resign-protest
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Clinton Threat Of Prison Keeping Her In nObama
Camp – Congressman Details
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ We all know that if Hilly Clinton were anyone else or if she were herself with less “dirt” on other people, particularly people of power like Hussein nObama, she’d already be locked up... Rep Louie Gohmert (R-TX) shares his views on why she’s echoing the nObama agenda and they likewise all revolve around her staying out of prison. While they describe her motivations as being to avoid indictment, which is a serious deterrent in itself, the logical progression to incarceration is a more persuasive element. He indicates covering her own bad decisions as well as providing cover for nObama may be at the root of the whole thing. Gohmert must know these two are as intertwined as a DNA strand in this corruption. There is a strong possibility that if either of them goes down the other will likewise be spending time in a gated federal facility that is not the White House. Rep Gohmert offers his insight and it isn’t positive for the future of the Democrat presidential prospect. At some point this is all going to come falling down around her. When it does, she’s going to have exhausted all of her cover stories as well as her allies. She’ll be facing that justice she thought she was above, and maybe have some well deserved company in the process. http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25366
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Almost 400 Syrian Trained Jihadis 
In Sleeper Cells...
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ The appropriate response to this problem seems obvious, if there are terrorist candidates going to Syria to train and fight, a responsible government would act to intercept them in either direction at their earliest possible moment... in a manner consistent with their conspiratorial and other crimes. For those in power positions in the German government, the simplest, most common-sense actions seem to be hopelessly beyond their comprehension or capability. Just as the orchestrated invasion of Europe could have been avoided by denying access, it was allowed to take place because Angela Merkel’s EU puppeteers wanted it to happen. Similarly, a failure to act decisively in an appropriate and timely manner is allowing individual terrorists to transit between the Syrian war zone and Germany, creating potential terrorist cells inside Germany. On Wednesday, Germany’s domestic intelligence agency reported that “Its latest evidence shows 790 people so far have made the trip from Germany to link up with militant groups in the Mideast, up from 750 in October.” Most sobering was the fact that about one third of them have already returned to Germany. It’s a small matter for the terrorists trained fighters of one EU nation to transit to any other member nation, just as it would be for the resident of one state in the US to relocate to another within our own borders. Hans-Georg Maassen, the agency head, said, “the security situation is serious.”      http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25378
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ISIS and Antiquities: The Missing Pieces
Alexander H. Joffe
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ISIS decapitates "humanity" and "human heritage" in this Arab cartoonist's rendering
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{meforum.org} ~ Why does ISIS destroy and loot antiquities? Two explanations have been offered. This first is Islamic antipathy towards the pre-Islamic past... The second is that the group profits from selling looted antiquities. But there is a third and equally sinister reason that has barely been mentioned. Both destruction and looting comprise a system of social control over captive populations, a system that strives to regulate individual behavior down to the level of digging holes in the ground. ISIS's ideological animosity is clear enough. It is loudly trumpeted in their propaganda videos that show the destruction of antiquities sites and museums. It is also patiently explained in their online magazine Dabiq, which taunted, The enemies of the Islamic State, who were furious at losing a 'treasured heritage.' The mujahidīn, however, were not the least bit concerned about the feelings and sentiments of the kuffar. . . The kuffar had unearthed these statues and ruins in recent generations and attempted to portray them as part of a cultural heritage and identity that the Muslims of Iraq should embrace and be proud of. Yet this opposes the guidance of Allah and His Messenger and only serves a nationalist agenda.
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Syrian refugees admitted into US since
Paris jihad murders in November
Robert Spencer
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ Relax, kaffir. What could possibly go wrong? Barack nObama and John hanoi-Kerry have magic powers that shelter them from the consequences of their actions... They need not be concerned about the fact that last February, the Islamic State boasted it would soon flood Europe with as many as 500,000 refugees. And the Lebanese Education Minister recently said that there were 20,000 jihadis among the refugees in camps in his country. Meanwhile, 80% of migrants who have recently come to Europe claiming to be fleeing the war in Syria aren’t really from Syria at all. So why are they claiming to be Syrian and streaming into Europe, and now the U.S. as well? AnIslamic State operative gave the answer when he boasted in September, shortly after the migrant influx began, that among the flood of refugees, 4,000 Islamic State jihadis had already entered Europe. He explained their purpose: “It’s our dream that there should be a caliphate not only in Syria but in all the world, and we will have it soon, inshallah.” These Muslims were going to Europe in the service of that caliphate: “They are going like refugees,” he said, but they were going with the plan of sowing blood and mayhem on European streets. As he told this to journalists, he smiled and said, “Just wait.” We are waiting in the U.S. as well.        http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/syrian-refugees-admitted-into-us-since-paris-jihad-murders-in-november-525-muslims-1-christian
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U.S. Should Prepare for ‘Higher-Intensity’ Cyber
\Attacks From North Korea
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The United States should prepare for “higher-intensity” cyber attacks from North Korea by developing stronger policy to respond to attacks, according to a new report... Current U.S. policy is insufficient to respond to cyber attacks from North Korea and discourage future attacks, according to the report from the Center for Strategic International Studies on North Korea’s cyber operations. As a result, current policy puts the United States “in the position of being repeatedly assailed by low-intensity attacks without concrete mechanisms to effectively respond.” These low-intensity attacks, the report warns, could cost the U.S. government and private companies millions of dollars and degrade public confidence in the country’s ability to deter such attacks.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-should-prepare-for-higher-intensity-cyber-attacks-from-north-korea/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=c568d32d87-WFB_Morning_Beacon_01_28_161_27_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-c568d32d87-45611665
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A Tale of Two Tapes: Teen Cruz and
Terror-Coddler nObama
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{townhall.com} ~ The crack media buzzed this week with the discovery of a totally front-page, news-breaking, breathtaking videotape.
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GOP presidential candidate and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, CNN reported, was caught on camera confessing how he "sought 'world domination.'"
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Gasp! This is something voters need to know.
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Left-wing rag Mother Jones vigilantly covered the damning film clip and dove into the "eerie" details of Cruz's "five-year plan" in which he "began plotting his path to the White House." The New York Daily News ominously reported that the "unearthed" video showed that "Even when he was a teenager, 2016 contender Ted Cruz craved power."
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Yep, teenager. The supposedly blockbuster viral videotape leaked by an anonymous classmate was made twenty-eight years ago, back when VHS players still existed and Cruz was a snarky, glib and overly grandiose 18-year old-high school student.
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Newsflash: If you are not snarky, glib, and overly grandiose at 18, you may be from a different planet.
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If you like Ted Cruz as I do, you'll find the vintage late '80s video charming and funny.
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If you hate Ted Cruz, as so many in the Beltway media and political establishment do, you'll find it an appalling confirmation that he's the worst thing since Spam, lead poisoning and the dentist who killed Cecil the Lion.
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The same journalism industry that hyped the light-hearted antics of a teenage Ted Cruz -- and investigated the juvenile delinquencies of Ben Carson, Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney with CSI-level fervor -- actively suppressed video of an adult Barack nObama partying with convicted domestic terrorists and an international terrorist mouthpiece.
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In 2003, when nObama was a 42-year-old state senator and rising Democratic star in Illinois, he delivered a gushing address at a farewell gala for Rashid Khalidi.
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At the time, Khalidi taught international studies and Middle Eastern studies at the University of Chicago, where nObama served as a law school lecturer. Khalidi is now an Arab Studies professor at Columbia University and directs the school's federally subsidized Middle East Institute named after his anti-Israel, Blame America mentor, Arab academic Edward Said.
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In the 1970s, Palestinian-American Khalidi was quoted extensively as a de facto mouthpiece for Yasser Arafat and his State Department-designated terrorist outfit, the Palestinian Liberation Organization.
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Khalidi denies any official PLO role, but veteran journalist Martin Kramer compiled an extensive laundry list of articles and attributions describing Khalidi as "a PLO spokesman," "a director of the Palestinian press agency Wafa" where his wife, Mona, also worked, and "an American-educated Palestinian who teaches political science at the American University of Beirut and also works for the P.L.O."
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Khalidi and his wife founded the Arab American Action Network, which as David Horowitz's Discover TheNetworks.org reported, was "noted for its view that Israel's creation in 1948 was a 'catastrophe' for Arab people." The group received money from the left-wing Woods Foundation, whose board included nObama and Weather Underground convicted domestic terrorists Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn.
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The Khalidis, nObamas, and Ayers and Dohrn were a cozy little circle of soft-on-terror apologists in Chicago, dining frequently at each other's homes and funding each other's pet causes. All were in attendance at the confab for Khalidi in 2003, a tape of which was obtained by the Los Angeles Times in 2008.
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Despite a clamor from conservative bloggers and independent scholars and anti-jihad analysts, the paper refused to release the videotape.
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"Why is the Los Angeles Times sitting on a videotape of the 2003 farewell bash in Chicago at which Barack nObama lavished praise on the guest of honor, Rashid Khalidi -- former mouthpiece for master terrorist Yasser Arafat?" former New York antiterrorism prosecutor Andrew McCarthy asked. "Is there just a teeny-weenie chance that this was an evening of Israel-bashing nObama would find very difficult to explain? Could it be that the Times, a pillar of the nObamedia, is covering for its guy?"
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Blogger Jim Hoft summed up the double standards on disclosure and vetting succinctly in 2011: "LA Times Won't Release nObama-Khalidi Tape But Posts 24,000 Sarah Palin Emails." After Breitbart News offered a $100,000 reward for access to the tape, the Times condescendingly lashed out against the "Khalidi video mythology," refused to release even just a full transcript of the event, and insisted that we should all just trust and thank them for controlling the narrative. Because journalism!
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This is transparency, liberal media-style: Teen Cruz video goes viral. Terror-coddler nObama video gets deep-sixed. As always, selective media coverage of our politicians' pasts reveals more than it conceals.
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Thursday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Glick: Ted Cruz’s American Restoration
Caroline Glick
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 Hilly's Continuing Saga of Malfeasance 
Anyone who works in the intelligence community, defense industry or any other capacity that requires a secret clearance or higher knows that there is information that must be safeguarded at all costs. A breach of security, mishandling of classified information and failure to follow policies results in termination, fines and/or imprisonment. For the average worker, these penalties are enforced rather quickly. Yet in the case of Hilly Clinton, this is not the case — at least not yet.
          The FBI's investigation into Hilly's malfeasance has most recently revealed that her private server contained not just classified material, but also information that an intelligence agency has identified as being extremely sensitive and "HCS-O." According to two sources who were not authorized to speak on the record, this is the code used for reporting on human intelligence sources in ongoing operations.
          This new evidence, along with the Special Access Programs (SAP) that were identified by the FBI last week, is very damaging for our national security. Dan Maguire, former Special Operations strategic planner for Africom, states, "There are people's lives at stake. Certainly in an intel SAP, if you're talking about sources and methods, there may be one person in the world that would have access to the type of information contained in that SAP."
          Despite the mounting evidence against her, Clinton continues to lie about her deliberate mishandling of classified information. In fact, during a recent interview on "Meet the Press," she insisted again, "I never sent or received any material marked 'classified.' I cannot control what the Republicans leak and what they are contending." So it's the Republicans' fault (vast right-wing conspiracy, anyone?), it's all made up and they are only doing it to derail her campaign for the presidency.
          In the Democrats' town hall Monday night, she repeated her claim of innocence: "[N]othing I did was wrong. It was not in any way prohibited."
          Both of her claims are outright lies.  -The Patriot Post
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 Cruz hits Trump hard in Iowa -  Dallas Morning News: “Entering the Iowa homestretch under attack and still overshadowed by Donald Trump, Ted Cruz hit back Monday by painting the billionaire as a phony conservative and evangelical. And he projected confidence that he’ll finish strong in the first test of the 2016 contestnext Monday night. He asserted that Trump supports taxpayer funding for Planned Parenthood and “Bernie Sanders-style socialized medicine.’ And he launched a coordinated effort to portray Trump as a ‘New York liberal.’”  -Fox News
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 nOBAMACARE MISSES MARK 
NYT: “When the Affordable Care Act was drafted, the Congressional Budget Office expected people to sign up quickly for new health insurance. Now, two years into the law, it’s clear that progress is going to be slower. The nObama administration acknowledged as much in late 2014, and again in October, when it presented its own modest predictions. Monday, the budget office also agreed, slashing its 2016 estimate by close to 40 percent. … The new budget and economic outlook now predicts that about 13 million people will get their health insurance through the nObamacare market places this year, down from an earlier estimate of 21 million. The budget office’s estimates for future years won’t be released until March, but it seems reasonable to assume they will also come down. Currently, the 2017 estimate is 24 million.”
 -Fox News
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Chinese Military Revamps Cyber Warfare,
Intelligence Forces
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{freebeacon.com} ~ A recent Chinese military reorganization is increasing the danger posed by People’s Liberation Army cyber warfare and intelligence units that recently were consolidated into a new Strategic Support Force... The announcement of the military reorganization made on Dec. 31 by the Chinese government provided few details of what has changed for three military intelligence units formerly under the now-defunct General Staff Department. However, U.S. officials and China analysts say the major cyber warfare and intelligence-gathering groups were elevated into the new Strategic Support Force, a military service-level force equal in standing to China’s army, navy, air force and missile services.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/chinese-military-revamps-cyber-warfare-intelligence-forces/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d4dec35cc4-WFB_Morning_Beacon_01_27_161_26_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d4dec35cc4-45611665
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Emails Show Steyer-EPA Coordination to
Undermine Agency Critics
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Tom Stever
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The business arm of billionaire Democrat Tom Steyer’s political advocacy network worked behind the scenes with senior administration officials to undermine a study by a federally commissioned group that criticized environmental regulations, internal emails show... Advanced Energy Economy (AEE), a Steyer-funded trade association, briefed senior administration officials on ways to preemptively debunk an anticipated study questioning EPA regulations’ impacts on the U.S. power grid. Leading AEE’s effort was an executive who just months earlier had left a prominent position at the EPA. However, the agency says that he did not meet the statutory definition of a “senior official” and hence was not subject to lobbying restrictions placed on recently departed federal employees.  http://freebeacon.com/issues/emails-show-steyer-epa-coordination-to-undermine-agency-critics/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=d4dec35cc4-WFB_Morning_Beacon_01_27_161_26_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-d4dec35cc4-45611665
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Hostages, Hostages, and Other Deals
Dr. Michael Ledeen
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{aim.org} ~ Ransoming hostages is nothing new, indeed it’s routine for most countries and happens with increasing frequency for the U.S. Government and American corporations... The current minifuror over the “swap” of 7 Iranian criminals (plus lifting sanctions on 14 others) for 5 American hostages is based on the entirely understandable desire to avoid the sinking feeling that comes when you do such a thing. But that sinking feeling may yet drive us to take this war seriously instead of playing our enemies’ games. First, let’s review the bidding. We thought we knew about four Americans in the grip of the ayatollahs: the Marine, the priest, the journalist and the businessman. As it turned out, there were six, two of whom we’d never heard of. The businessman-Namazi-isn’t likely to get out soon, since the Iranians seem to believe he’s a real enemy, having taken the Revolutionary Guards to court for non-fulfillment of a natural gas deal with his Dubai company, and winning a big judgment. A billion or two. The Marine, the priest and the journalist are out, along with the two unknowns. Over here, we paid the ransom, in the form of the release or pardon of seven convicted or accused criminals, plus the removal of many Iranian names from the international no-fly list, plus more than a hundred billion in “sanctions relief.” And one will get you five that the bonus payment of 1.7 billion is part of the deal. That’s what the Iranians say, and their willingness to say it is a real change. Previously they had never publicly acknowledged their involvement in the hostage business; now they are bragging about it.
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Largest Ever Solar System Discovered:
Planet 2Mass J2126-8140 Orbits 
a Star 1 Trillion KM Away
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{creationrevolution.com} ~ The largest solar system ever recorded has been found, say astronomers... Scientists were studying a planet that they thought was just aimlessly wandering through space, but they discovered it is actually orbiting a host star roughly one trillion kilometres away from it. The planet that the scientists were researching – known as 2MASS J2126-8140 – was first believed to not have a parent star, but scientists were surprised when they found it was orbiting a red dwarf star, which has been called TYC 9486-927-1. The distance between the planet and the star is 7,000 times longer than the Earth and the Sun, report the astronomers in the Monthly Notices of The Royal Astronomical Society. The gap between the planet and star is so big that one full orbit takes the equivalent of almost a million years. That means that on average, one UK family would go through nearly 13,000 generations before 2MASS J2126-8140 completes a full orbit of TYC 9486-927-1.        http://creationrevolution.com/largest-ever-solar-system-discovered-planet-2mass-j2126-8140-orbits-a-star-1-trillion-km-away/
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Protester killed in 
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{wnd.com} ~ Ammon Bundy and seven of his fellow militiamen are in FBI custody near the site of their Oregon stand-off and will face federal felony charges, authorities said... Two people, LaVoy Finicum and Ryan Bundy, Ammon’s brother, were shot during an altercation with police on Highway 395. Finicum, was killed, CNN reported. Federal authorities initially refused to release much information about the incident. “One individual who was a subject of a federal probable cause arrest is deceased,” the FBI said in a news release.
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Is Sexual Assault of Women 
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 Tony Costa
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{answeringmuslims.com} ~ Following  New Year's Eve celebrations the world was shocked to learn that over 600 women in Cologne, Germany were sexually assaulted en masse by men who were described as predominantly as "North African" and "Arab"... News later appeared that this was not an isolated incident, but that other similar attack took place in other cities in Europe. The media kept this disastrous news under wraps for about four days before reporting on it. Reports also suggested that the police were also complicit in keeping this story under cover. There is a practice in Arab world known as Taharush, an Arabic word meaning "harassment" usually associated with sexual harassment. Where does this practice come from and what is the motivation for it? Is it cultural? If so, then we have a culture that actually endorses the sexual harassment of women. So much for the politically correct view, better known as social Marxism or cultural Marxism that pervades most if not all of Western societies today which views all cultures as essentially equal. But the question must be asked, is this practice endorsed by Islam and its sacred texts? Islamic scholars who have weighed in to the events of Cologne have actually blamed not the perpetrators of these sexual assaults and rapes, but the victims, namely the women because they were wearing perfume and were not modestly dressed! As is becoming more and more common as evidenced in the media, the victims become the guilty party, and the perpetrators become the innocent party. While the Qur'an does not explicitly say that men should sexually harass in public, there is an interesting passage in the Qur'an 33:59 which seems to implicitly infer that if women are not properly covered, they may become subject to molestation. I have provided a number of English translations below of Qur'an 33:59 and have highlighted in bold the relevant words:
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How stupid and vicious do 
elites think ‘we’ are?
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A memorial to the victims of the San Bernardino terrorist attack still remains outside as workers return to work for the first time at the Inland Regional Center (IRC), California, January 4, 2016
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{aei.org} ~ How stupid and vicious do they think we are? That’s a question that I think explains a lot of things about politics and society today — and about this year’s unpredictable presidential race... The “we” in that question are ordinary citizens and the “they” are political and media elites who hold them in contempt. Which they do over and over again by trying to obfuscate and cover up the source and motives of terrorist attacks. Barack nObama, who refuses to use phrases akin to “Islamist terrorism,” is a prime offender, but far from the only one. His predecessor George W. Bush, after the attacks of September 11, made a point of visiting mosques and calling Islam a religion of peace.
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Hilly's Tax Plan: Robs From the Rich,
Steals from the Poor
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Hilly Clinton  promised her tax plan would be fair, and it just might be as she claimed.  According to analysts just about everyone in the country will be poorer thanks to her plan... Fair enough, Hilly’s tax plan screws rich and poor alike. In other words she will be Barack nObama ‘s third term…only worse. Perhaps her “eat the rich” strategy is not what it’s cooked up to be. Even worse that average $19 Billion in added revenue/year will do little to stem the Federal deficit which the CBO projected to increase to  $544 billion in fiscal 2016.        http://lidblog.com/hillarys-tax-plan-robs-from-the-rich-robs-from-the-poor/?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_campaign=eb3696849f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-eb3696849f-291705165
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Press Misleads Nation on 
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{totalconservative.com} ~ According to a new report from the Justice Department, illegal immigrants are being prosecuted at a much lower rate over the last five years... Recently released statistics show that criminal prosecution has fallen 36 percent from 2011 to 2015, partly because local and state authorities are shying away from detaining illegal immigrants on behalf of the feds. In the meantime, The Washington Post analyzed a report this week from the Center for Migration Studies, which says that the number of illegal immigrants in the United States has fallen by more than a million individuals since 2008. In part, the CMS study says, because Mexican illegals have decreased in number by about 600,000 since President nObama took office. The report, coming as it does in the middle of an election cycle, is meant to portray this administration (and, by proxy, Democratic contender Hilly Clinton) as being tough on illegal immigration. Of course, the Washington Post’s story neglected to mention that nObama presided over mass legalization of these immigrants. Nearly a million illegals who came here as children were given amnesty as a result of the president’s 2012 executive order. That number alone is almost enough to completely nullify any decline in the total illegal immigrant population. That, of course, is if we have any reason to believe that the federal government has a good grasp on that population to begin with.        http://totalconservative.com/press-misleads-nation-on-illegal-immigration/
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Russia Could Trade East Ukraine 
For Sanction Relief
Natalie Myers
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry used the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland as a platform to announce that relations between Russia and the West may be warming up... hanoi-Kerry stated that sanctions against Russia could be completely lifted with the next few months, which suggests that perhaps Russia has agreed to trade East Ukraine in exchange for this economic relief. Russia may be desperate to save a plummeting economy that has been deeply impacted by the fall in oil prices and Western sanctions. It was recently reported that the Russian economy saw its steepest decline in GDP, 3,7%, since 2009.        http://punchingbagpost.com/russia-could-trade-east-ukraine-for-sanction-relief
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Glick: Ted Cruz’s American Restoration
Caroline Glick
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Under President Barack nObama, the United States has been fundamentally transformed. From the land of the free and the home of the brave, seven years into the nObama presidency, America acts like the land of the over regulated and the home of the risk averse.
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In the Middle East, the new America is treacherous, and pathetic. It is despised by its allies and scorned by its enemies.
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Consider the state of America’s relations with Saudi Arabia.
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Following US Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry’s trip to Vienna last week, where together with his European sidekicks he met with Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammed Zarif and announced the end of the international sanctions against Iran, the top US diplomat traveled to Saudi Arabia.
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The purpose of the trip was to demonstrate America’s continued commitment to its chief ally in the Persian Gulf.
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It was a bluff and no one fell for it.
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The deal nObama and hanoi-Kerry concluded with Iran sells Saudi Arabia and the rest of the US’s allies in the Middle East down the river. Quite simply, you cannot be pro-Iranian and pro-Israel or pro-Arab Gulf states at the same time.
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The Saudis know it. They have given up on America.
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hanoi-Kerry’s only major media appearance in the kingdom was at the US embassy. Speaking before an audience of people whose paychecks he signs, hanoi-Kerry insisted emptily, “We have as solid a relationship, as clear an alliance and as strong a friendship with the kingdom of Saudi Arabia as we have ever had, and nothing has changed because we worked to eliminate a nuclear weapon with a country in the region.”
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It is a sign of America’s reduced status that no one bothered to question hanoi-Kerry’s ridiculous pronouncement. Seven years into nObama’s fundamental transformation of America, no one cares what the Americans say.
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America’s spurned allies are making their peace with its global self-destruction. But that doesn’t mean they aren’t praying that America will come to its senses. Unfortunately, history cannot wait forever. Time is running out.
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Incremental change simply will not do. The world is changing too quickly and dangerously for a hesitant successor or one that fails to recognize that the entirety of nObama’s foreign policy must be rejected from the outset.
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And no, although it is impossible to know what tomorrow will bring, the safe bet is that the US can’t afford to elect the wrong leader in November. 2020 will in all likelihood be too late.
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And so, a week before the first votes are cast in the 2016 presidential election, who among the candidates has the courage and the competence to enact a counterrevolution in American foreign policy?
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Who has the courage and the competence to restore America’s greatness at home and abroad, restoring its stature not only as the land of the free and the home of the brave, but as the most trustworthy ally and feared enemy throughout the world?
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Seeing as both former secretary of state Hilly Clinton and Vermont’s socialist senator Bernie Sanders have endorsed nObama’s foreign policy, the Democrats are not the answer.
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This leaves us with the Republicans. According to Real Clear Politics, 64 percent of Americans believe that their country is going in the wrong direction. An angry electorate historically goes with the party that has been out of power. So the Republicans have every reason to believe that they can win in November.
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But which candidate is up to the task? Although the field of candidates remains large, the polls indicate that the race today has become a contest between businessman Donald Trump and Texas Senator Ted Cruz. Florida Senator Marco Rubio remains the choice of the Republican elite, despite his low polling, and so must also be considered.
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On the face of it, both Trump and Cruz answer the yearning of voters for an American restoration. Both channel the anger Republican primary voters feel toward their congressional leadership and party elite which voters believe refuses to fight for them. Both highlight their outsider status.
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Trump’s anti-establishment bonafides are based on the fact that he has never held elected office. True, Trump admits that as a businessman he played politicians and politics to maximize his profits, and so benefited from the worst aspects of the American political system.
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But, Trump insists, with some credibility, since he is self-funding his campaign, as president he will be able to act against the wishes of the donor class to whom presidential candidates are generally beholden, due to their dependence on political contributions.
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Cruz is a much different person. Cruz is, to borrow Margaret Thatcher’s term, a conviction politician. He isn’t in politics to make a deal. He is in politics to make a difference.
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By all accounts, Cruz is one of the most gifted living litigators. If Cruz had wanted a successful career outside of politics, he would have had his pick of top firms and corporations beating a path to his door.
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In other words, if he had wanted to make billions and be a deal maker like Trump, the road was open before him.
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Cruz opted out of a lucrative career in the private sector because he believed that it was more important for him to serve his country. Over his four years in the Senate, Cruz has worked tirelessly to block nObama’s domestic and foreign policy agenda. He has been Israel’s most outspoken ally. He has been the most outspoken critic of nObama’s nuclear and financial capitulation to Iran and his betrayal of America’s Sunni allies.
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Cruz has used all the power of his office as senator to fight the nObama administration’s radical policies. But that is not all he has done. Cruz has worked with grassroots organizations in Texas and throughout the country to empower the public to stand up for its rights.
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One of the strangest lines of attack against Cruz has been the claim that he is an opportunist. Cruz, it is argued, doesn’t actually believe in the causes he fights for. He’s just doing it to get donations, or media exposure, or votes.
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But this is preposterous. Most of the things that Cruz has done for Israel for instance, have brought him no advantage. Cruz did more than any other Republican to force the administration to end its ban on US flights to Israel during Operation Protective Edge. The same is true of his leading role in galvanizing opposition to nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran.
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No large Jewish donors have rallied to Cruz’s side as a result of his tireless efforts to defend Israel and the US alliance with the Jewish state. Conservative Jewish commentators have lined up behind Senator Marco Rubio, who has taken the lead far less often than Cruz in defending Israel.
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Even worse, unlike Cruz, Rubio has supported some of nObama’s worst policies in the Middle East. These include nObama’s decision to support the overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak and instigate the overthrow of Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. These policies, which Rubio and his conservative Jewish supporters backed, rival nObama’s nuclear pact with Iran in terms of their disastrous impact on pro-American governments, including Israel, on global security and on US national security.
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In perhaps one of the strangest developments of the Republican race, not only have conservative Jewish commentators lined up behind Rubio, they have directed inordinate ferocity and hatred toward Cruz, whom they oppose more than they oppose Trump.
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Trump, for his part, has advocated Middle East policies that are barely comprehensible and wracked with inconsistency and surprising hostility toward Israel.
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On the one hand, Trump continuously insists that as president he will be the greatest thing that ever happened to Israel.
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But on the second hand, a month ago, he told Jewish Republicans that he won’t recognize that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital and blamed Israel for the absence of peace with the Palestinians.
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But on the third hand, a week ago, he told an evangelical Christian reporter that he backs moving the US embassy to Jerusalem “one hundred percent.”
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Got that?
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And that brings us back to the key question of whether America wants to be great again, trusted by its allies, feared by its enemies, and safe at home. Because if so, voters need to ask not who channels their rage the best, but who has the courage and the competence to roll back nObama’s policies. How can Rubio, who supported some of nObama’s most devastating policies, or Trump who has no coherent policies, be expected to do what needs to be done?
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Through Ted Cruz’s willingness to match his words with his deeds, and do what he believes even when doing so bring him no benefit, and through his clear recognition that American foreign policy must rest on the simple rule of being good to your allies and bad to your enemies, Ted Cruz has proven that he alone has the courage and the competence to lead an American restoration.
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Thursday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
The GOP Gets The Iran Prisoner Swap Wrong
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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 Who Is the True Heir to nObama? 
Bernie Sanders and Hilly Clinton continued to draw differences with each other Monday night at a forum in Des Moines — a last attempt to sway voters in Iowa days before the caucuses. Sanders said in order to make this nation a social democracy that wages war against the rich, he wants to bring back "the era of big government," and cause government spending to increase about 10 times the amount the government planned to spend on nObamaCare. Meanwhile, Clinton painted herself as a "proven fighter" (though she would be more honest to describe herself as a morally ambiguous anti-hero) who will, somehow, do what Barack nObama didn't and work with Republicans. A fighter who wants to bury the hatchet. Ironic.
          As for nObama, it's pretty clear his choice for an heir is his former secretary of state. "[The] one thing everybody understands is that this job right here — you don't have the luxury of just focusing on one thing," he told Politico  in an interview about the Democrat primaries. But nObama's pick is a pragmatic one. Clinton will preserve what nObama created. Sanders wants what nObama originally envisioned. Commentator Charles Krauthammer said, "Sanders is the one who wants to achieve the ultimate dreams of nObama over the ones he couldn't. He was the one who openly said he would prefer a single-payer system like the Canadian system, he obviously wasn't able to achieve it. Sanders is the one you would expect to be his ideological heir." And thus, Democrats continue their slow, incremental push toward ever more socialism.  -The Patriot Post
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 Clash of Billionaires: Donald vs. Michael 
Hey ho! Welcome to the 2016 elections, where everything is a clamorous tumult and past conventions don't matter. For at least 100 years, third-party runs for the White House ended up splitting votes so the candidate with the minority views gained power. But former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is testing the water for a third-party run. And it's not the craziest thing to say that the man who launched a regulatory crusade against salt and big soda cups while mayor of the Big Apple just might do well. "Mr. Bloomberg is a serious man who wouldn't waste his money or time if he didn't sense an opportunity,"wrote The Wall Street Journal's editorial board. "If we've learned anything so far in this tumultuous election season, it's that the electorate is volatile enough that anything can happen."
          Bloomberg is a lifelong liberal Democrat who claimed "Republican" status for his first NYC mayoral run, but is now back in his Demo comfort zone. (Shades of Donald Trump...) He is most loathed by conservatives for his persistent assault on the Second Amendment via his Every town for Gun Safety organization. He also is an abortion and homosexual marriage advocate, along with a long slate of other leftist social agendas, and, as you recall, was the most outspoken supporter of the "ground zero mosque." Bloomberg is flush with potential campaigning cash, as he has about nine times the wealth of Trump and has strong Wall Street connections. "He'd be able to tap into the anti-establishment fervor roiling both parties," blogger Ed Morrissey wrote, "and add in his extensive executive experience in both the private and public sectors, something which none of the current top contenders offer at the moment." The prospects of Clinton, Sanders, Trump and Bloomberg candidacies all pose a perilous threat to Liberty.
          Trump has described Bloomberg as "a friend of mine over the years," saying Bloomberg "called me to help him out." Last fall, Bloomberg joked, "I've always said that the country is not ready for a divorced, Jewish billionaire from New York City. But after watching a divorced, Christian billionaire from New York City shoot to the top of the polls ... I've decided to become a candidate." Maybe he wasn't joking. For the record, if Bloomberg runs and none of the candidates secure an outright electoral college victory, then the election would be decided by the Republican majority in the House.  -The Patriot Post
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 With Budget Problems Looming, Fewer  Americans Care   The Congressional Budget Office released a report on the future of the federal government's budget and the projections aren't good. In 10 years, the federal government could hold a $30 trillion pile of debt, the Washington Times reports. That means any meager gains in fiscal responsibility made under the Republican Congress tugging on the purse strings to reduce the deficit will vanish. During the nObama administration, the amount of money the government spent while exceeding its budget declined, though it helps that he quadrupled the deficit before lowering it. In the 2015 fiscal year, we had a deficit of "only" $439 billion. But in the 2016 fiscal year, that number is supposed to climb to $544 billion, and the CBO sees more fiscal irresponsibility in the future. The solution includes searching for candidates with the fiscal chops to tackle the problem. However: "Voters care more about the economy and terrorism, and there's good sense to that," The Wall Street Journal editorial board opined. "The deficit will never vanish without faster economic growth, and the various tax reform plans that Republicans are offering would spur growth. By all means let's debate growth." But that might not be enough. For a dramatic shift in deficit reduction, the nation needs to take a difficult look at programs like Medicare, Medicaid and Social Security, the programs contributing most to the national debt, according to The Heritage Foundation's Romina Boccia. Tax hikes and budget cuts are only temporary fixes; what this nation needs is reform.  -The Patriot Post
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Hilly Clinton Choking At Event-
More Evidence She’s Unfit?
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Hilly Clinton didn’t seem to have inadvertently allowed the truth to pass across her lips, but that is one probable explanation for her choking attack while speaking at the Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines... She’s impervious to lies so that couldn’t have been the trigger. As she gags it’s hard not to think of the last moments of those she left to die in Benghazi, of the cattle-prod used on Ambassador Stevens and how those who were abandoned struggled for air in the thick smoke during the attacks. Some might say she’s got this and much more due and coming. Her health has been a source of both whispers and questions from her opponents, most notably Donald Trump, who has on numerous instances questioned why she makes an appearance and then disappears for extended periods of time, questioning whether she has the stamina to be president or to even be a candidate.
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Taxpayers Targeted at Higher Rates 
Under Democratic Presidents
Joe Schoffstall
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{freebeacon.com} ~ The Internal Revenue Service targets individual taxpayers and corporations for audits at higher rates when Democrats are in control of the White House... according to a study highlighted by Harvard University’s Shorenstein Center for Media, Politics and Public Policy. The study by Sutirtha Bagchi, an assistant professor of economics at Villanova University, examined IRS budget and personnel figures dating back to 1978 to determine “whether presidential administrations use executive power to affect IRS resources and priorities and thus influence the effective tax rate to support their larger policy goals,” according to the Shorenstein Center. The study found a statistically significant correlation between the party of the president and the number of individual income tax returns audited by the IRS. On average, four percent more individual income tax audits were performed under Democratic administrations than under Republican   administrations.         http://freebeacon.com/issues/study-taxpayers-targeted-at-higher-rates-under-democratic-presidents/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=2356265527-WFB_Morning_Beacon_01_26_161_25_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-2356265527-45611665
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Hundreds Of Millions Lost Playing nObama’s
Green Car Roulette
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ The record for nObama’s many “green” energy investments is one of failure in a realm which is structured in a manner which should make it incredibly easy to succeed... The risk is largely placed upon the American taxpayer though grants, start up funding and subsidies. With that favorable economic environment, you’d almost have to be trying to fail, to be involved just to get your hands on the front end money in order to book a loser. We’re all familiar with Solyndra, but the electric car business is also a great way for nObama and his raiders to fleece the American people. Of course there’s absolutely no justification for him playing auto mogul with our money, but he’s the dictator so he’ll do what he wants. Just let us try and stop him. He’s got “justifications” based upon the number of jobs he’s building and other empty arguments that convince the stupid among us. The government isn’t our investment arm and we shouldn’t be the captive investors. It’s not his money.
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South Carolina Democrat Withdraws
Support for Hilly Clinton
Morgan Chalfant
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{freebeacon.com} ~ A South Carolina lawmaker withdrew his support for Hilly Clinton Monday, instead electing to back Sen. Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) for president... South Carolina state representative Justin Bamberg decided that Sanders unveiled a superior platform to better the lives of individuals living in the South and across the nation, the New York Times reported. “Hilly Clinton is more a representation of the status quo when I think about politics or about what it means to be a Democrat,” Bamberg said. “Bernie Sanders on the other hand is bold. He doesn’t think like everyone else. He is not afraid to call things as they are. ” Like a socialist country. Bamberg you're an idiot. 
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Sen Jeff Sessions Was Censored...
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ ATTENTION  AMERICANS – THIS POST WAS DELETED BY FACEBOOK UNDER THE TITLE OF: Sen Sessions – DHS Ignores Overstays, Temporary Visas Become Permanent Illegals... It is now reposted under the words of a United States Senator specifically, although they were pretty much in line to begin with. UPDATE – A Second attempt wouldn’t work either. We were forced to remove the word “Visa” as that subject is apparently now forbidden by our dictators, nObama and Zuckerberg. We also changed the picture  – who knows what these self-righteous anti-American tyrants object to? This is the same European Merkel Nazi-sytle FACEBOOK CENSORSHIP that is spreading from that continent to ours. This is an assault on free speech, nothing new to Facebook in how they deal with patriotic Americans. It’s nObama and Zuckerberg playing god. They refused to allow the words of a sitting US Senator to be posted verbatim. Maybe they’re just too ignorant to know who he is or the Indians in the call center don’t know what a Senator is. The article continues below with the heading in its original form. On Monday Senator Jeff Sessions posted a summary of just how lax, sloppy, unprofessional and dangerous things are at the Department of Homeland “Security.”  Perhaps in the interest of civility, maintaining a working relationship or because he’s naturally a gentleman, the Senator didn’t phrase his comments using those words. There’s no mistaking the message, DHS is not doing their job, they’re not serving the American people, and they’re causing us great harm.        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25275
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Answer: Who Really Is Guilty 
of Hijacking Islam?
Lt. Colonel James G. Zumwalt, USMC 
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{aim.org} ~ The 2016 presidential race provides the ideal venue for addressing a critical question yet to be asked of any candidate... Its answer is critical both to the conduct of our nation’s foreign policy and protection of our homeland. Yet, if asked, not a single candidate is qualified to respond. In a world plagued by “violent extremism“—President Barack nObama’s non-descript term for “terrorism”-by those allegedly acting in Islam’s name—a link he will not make—the question is: Does the disconnect between Islam and terrorism stem from Islamic extremists hijacking a peaceful religion, giving it a violent interpretation, or from Islamic moderates hijacking a violent religion, giving it a peaceful interpretation?        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/answer-who-really-is-guilty-of-hijacking-islam/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email012616&utm_medium=email
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Hilly Clinton Faces Legal and Political Obstacles
in Presidential Bid
Roger Aronoff
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{aim.org} ~ This is not how Hilly Clinton’s run for the White House was supposed to go: full of never-ending scandals, with a close primary competitor, and two FBI investigations... There is but one week to go before the Iowa caucuses, where the first votes in this year’s presidential race will finally be cast. While Hilly Clinton is still the clear leader in national polls and likely to receive the nomination, the numbers are  extremely close in Iowa between Hilly and the democratic socialist candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). And in the first actual primary, the following week in New Hampshire, Mrs. Clinton is trailing in a CNN poll by almost 30 points. Yes, New Hampshire is right next to Sanders’ home state of Vermont, but Sanders’ potential victories in Iowa and New Hampshire could dramatically alter the dynamics of the race. But winning the Democratic presidential primary might be the least of Mrs. Clinton’s worries. As the State Department continues its monthly release of Mrs. Clinton’s emails, in compliance with a federal judge overseeing their release, the news keeps getting worse and worse. In the meantime, the weekend snowstorm served as an excuse for the State Department to try to get an extra month to release the final batch of emails, which would conveniently be after—instead of before—the first four states’ primaries and caucuses.
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No Cure Or Vaccine – Zika Virus Targets
Infants With Brain Damage, 
Exploding Across Americas
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ The information is chilling and the threat life-altering. The World Health Organization is warning that the Zika virus will likely spread to every country in the Americas except for Canada and Chile... That puts the United States and the health of unknown numbers of future newborn American babies at risk of the associated brain damage. The outbreak is currently restricted to the Caribbean and Latin America, but that is expected to change soon. Marina Portnaya cited statements from the Director General of the World Health Organization describing the outbreak as “extremely worrisome.” To date the infection has been found in 21 countries, in North America, Central America, South America and the Caribbean. The number of nations impacted as well as the number of cases are expected to grow. While the actual transmission of the Zika virus has not yet been reported to have occurred within the United States, over twenty cases have been reported in the United States to those who traveled in the affected regions, with one Hawaiian baby having been born with the associated microcephaly  following a trip to Brazil by its pregnant mother. Characteristics include an undersized brain, brain damage and an unusually small head.        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25252
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DeLay’s “Friends” say FBI won’t 
Delay Hilly Indictment
Andrew McNealy
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{citizen-action.com} ~ Tom Delay knows a thing or two about indictments. The former congressman from Texas was indicted in 2002 for violating election law. The former Majority Whip was convicted nearly a decade later but the ruling was eventually overturned... Appearing on NewsMax TV, Delay told the host “I have friends that are in the FBI and they tell me they are ready to indict.” DeLay was referring to the ongoing scandal surrounding Hilly Clinton’s use of unsecure email servers for confidential and secret communications. In the event the FBI recommends indictment and nObama’s attorney general chooses not to indict, DeLay says that the FBI will go public with the information that they have.
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Social Security Inching Its Way Toward
Bankruptcy, Says CBO
Bob Adelmann
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{thenewamerican.com} ~ The latest report from the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on the financial condition of Social Security merely confirms what the Social Security trustees have been saying for years... The welfare-state program that spent nearly a trillion dollars last year isn’t sustainable. In July Treasury Secretary dazzled the press with his waffle: The program is safe and sound, but it faces problems: Social Security is secure today and will remain secure in the years to come but it faces challenges that need to be addressed. It's either secure, or it isn’t. Each year since 2010, the program has spent more than it received, and each year that gap has widened. It’s either solvent, or it isn’t. Insolvency is when a program is unable to pay its bills. Bankruptcy is the formal recognition by a court of that fact.  http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/22389-social-security-inching-its-way-towards-bankruptcy-says-cbo
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The GOP Gets The Iran Prisoner Swap Wrong
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER
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{freedomsback.com} ~ Give President nObama credit. His Iran nuclear deal may be disastrous but the packaging was brilliant. The near-simultaneous prisoner exchange was meant to distract from last Saturday’s official implementation of the sanctions-lifting deal. And it did. The Republicans concentrated almost all their fire on the swap sideshow.
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And in denouncing the swap, they were wrong. True, we should have made the prisoner release a precondition for negotiations. But that pre-emptive concession was made long ago among many others, such as granting Iran in advance the right to enrich uranium. The remaining question was getting our prisoners released before we gave away all our leverage upon implementation of the nuclear accord. We did.
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Republicans say: We shouldn’t negotiate with terror states. But we do and we should. How else do you get hostages back? And yes, of course negotiating encourages further hostage taking. But there is always something to be gained by kidnapping Americans. This swap does not affect that truth one way or the other.
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And here, we didn’t give away much. The seven released Iranians, none of whom has blood on his hands, were sanctions busters and a hacker, and sanctions are essentially over now. The slate is clean.
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But how unfair, say the critics. We released prisoners duly convicted in a court of law. Iran released perfectly innocent, unjustly jailed hostages.
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Yes, and so what? That’s just another way of saying we have the rule of law, they don’t. It doesn’t mean we abandon our hostages. Natan Sharansky was a prisoner of conscience who spent eight years in the Gulag on totally phony charges. He was exchanged for two real Soviet spies. Does anyone think we should have said no?
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The one valid criticism of the Iranian swap is that we left one, perhaps two, Americans behind and unaccounted for. True. But the swap itself was perfectly reasonable. And cleverly used by the administration to create a heartwarming human interest story to overshadow a rotten diplomatic deal, just as the Alan Gross release sweetened a Cuba deal that gave the store away to the Castro brothers.
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The real story of Saturday, Jan. 16, 2016 — “Implementation Day” of the Iran deal — was that it marks a historic inflection point in the geopolitics of the Middle East. In a stroke, Iran shed almost four decades of rogue-state status and was declared a citizen of good standing of the international community, open to trade, investment and diplomacy. This, without giving up, or even promising to change, its policy of subversion and aggression. This, without having forfeited its status as the world’s greatest purveyor of terrorism.
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Overnight, it went not just from pariah to player but from pariah to dominant regional power, flush with $100 billion in unfrozen assets and virtually free of international sanctions. The oil trade alone will pump tens of billions of dollars into its economy. The day after Implementation Day, President Hassan Rouhani predicted 5 percent growth — versus the contracting, indeed hemorrhaging, economy in pre-negotiation 2012 and 2013.
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On Saturday, the Iranian transport minister announced the purchase of 114 Airbuses from Europe. This inaugurates a rush of deals binding European companies to Iran, thoroughly undermining nObama’s pipedream of “snapback sanctions” if Iran cheats.
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Cash-rich, reconnected with global banking and commerce, and facing an Arab world collapsed into a miasma of raging civil wars, Iran has instantly become the dominant power of the Middle East. Not to worry, argued the administration. The nuclear opening will temper Iranian adventurism and empower Iranian moderates.
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The opposite is happening. And it’s not just the ostentatious, illegal ballistic missile launches; not just Iran’s president reacting to the most puny retaliatory sanctions by ordering his military to accelerate the missile program; not just the videotaped and broadcast humiliation of seized U.S. sailors.
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Look at what the mullahs are doing at home. Within hours of “implementation,” the regime disqualified 2,967 of roughly 3,000 moderate candidates from even running in parliamentary elections next month. And just to make sure we got the point, the supreme leader reiterated that Iranian policy — aggressively interventionist and immutably anti-American — continues unchanged.
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In 1938, the morning after Munich, Europe woke up to Germany as the continent’s dominant power. Last Sunday, the Middle East woke up to Iran as the regional hegemon, with a hand — often predominant — in the future of Syria, Yemen, Iraq, the Gulf Arab states and, in time, in the very survival of Israel.
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And we’re arguing over an asymmetric hostage swap.
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Wednesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Terrorism pays: 
How to flummox the White House, 
the EU --- and defeat the 'Palestinians'
Caroline B. Glick
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 Cause and (Ferguson) Effect? 
Crime data released by the FBI last week show that murders increased by 6.2% in the first six months of last year. The increase seemingly validates a speech made by FBI director James Comey at the University of Chicago Law School on Oct. 23. "Far more people are being killed in America's cities this year than in many years," Comey stated. "And let's be clear: Far more people of color are being killed in America's cities this year. And it's not the cops doing the killing." The cause? "Comey has suggested the increase may be partly due to what police officials call the 'Ferguson effect' — a greater reluctance on the part of police officers to engage with suspects for fear of being criticized for alleged abuse or discrimination," explains The Wall Street Journal.
          The so-called Ferguson effect refers to the shooting of Michael Brown by then-Ferguson, Missouri, police officer Darren Wilson, and the subsequent rioting that followed. The ongoing unrest was engendered in large part by an utterly irresponsible mainstream media that enshrined the "hands up, don't shoot" lie thoroughly debunked by a grand juryand a subsequent Justice Department civil rights investigation led by former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder. Both exonerated Wilson, but the lie itself lives on.
          Comey was not the only nObama administration official taking that stance. Last November, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chief Chuck Rosenberg said Comey's assessment was "spot on." "I've heard the same things," Rosenberg said. "I think it's worth talking about. I don't know if it will turn out to be right or wrong. That's why Comey called for better data. The data that we have is limited. It just is."
          Not any more. According to released figures, murder has increased 9.9% in the Midwest, 8.6% in the South, and 1.3% and 1.6% in the Northeast and West, respectively. Nonetheless, the Justice Department pushed back, with spokesman Patrick Rodenbush insisting "it is too early to draw any long-term conclusions," further noting the overall violent crime rate remains historically low.  -The Patriot Post
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 Perry endorses Cruz, joins him on the campaign  trail -  Politico: “Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry is endorsing Ted Cruz in the Republican presidential primary, Perry told POLITICO in an interview  Sunday night…Perry, who is famously skilled at retail politics, will campaign with Cruz Tuesday across Iowa, and will join Iowa GOP Rep. Steve King to stump for Cruz again Wednesday. Perry and King will both join Cruz at a Des Moines rally Wednesday night.”  -Fox News
 HILLY SAYS SHE’LL WIN DEM NOD, NO NEED  FOR BLOOMIE   Time: “Despite a tightening race, Hilly Clinton said Sunday she’s confident she’ll secure the Democratic nomination, dismissing speculation that former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seeking an independent bid for the White House. ‘He’s a good friend of mine,’ Clinton said. ‘The way I read what he said is if I didn’t get the nomination, he might consider it. Well, I’m going to relieve him of that and get the nomination so he doesn’t have to.’ With only 8 days until the Iowa caucuses, Clinton said she feels ‘great’ about her ground game in the state, which is working to ensure enthusiasm is ‘not just here today, gone tomorrow.’”   -Fox News
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Is There Enough Evidence to 
Indict Hilly Clinton?
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{townhall.com} ~ As both Ed and Katie noted this morning, the New York Post is reporting that the Federal Bureau of Investigation's ongoing, expanded probe into Hilly Clinton's potential crimes has turned to the question of how extremely sensitive classified information "migrated" from secure government servers to Hilly's improper, unsecure private server... This prohibited crossover is "specifically forbidden," according to a former CIA official who recently weighed in on the controversy, who added that there is "zero ambiguity" on this point. At this point, we know that federal investigators are looking into habitual, serious mishandling of classified information -- including intelligence that rose to the levels of secret, top secret and 'beyond top secret' (SAP). One by one, Hilly and her allies have erected excuses for her willful, national security-endangering scheme; one by one, those excuseshave crashed and burned under scrutiny. We also know that the feds are exploringwhether Team Hilly obstructed justice to cover up her conduct, and whether she violated anti-corruption laws in her capacity at the State Department. Those 30,000-plus "personal" emails she unilaterally ordered deleted may come into play on those fronts. The FBI has reportedly recovered the contents of those messages, several of which have already been exposed as work-related. But where does all of this lead, from a legal perspective? Katie touched on it in her piece, but it's worth taking a closer look at analysis from former federal judge and US Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who penned a compelling op/ed in the Wall Street Journal over the weekend.  He makes the case that based on publicly-known details alone, criminal charges are in order:
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Earth's Geodynamo: An Energy Crisis
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{crev.info} ~ A new theory to maintain Earth’s magnetic field looks like a case of special pleading to rescue a dogma... Keeping Earth’s magnetic field going for billions of years is a major problem, because its strength is steadily decaying. Geophysicists know this but rarely mention it, because they already “know” in their hearts that the earth is billions of years old. A new paper by Caltech scientists O’Rourke and Stevenson appeared in Nature trying to patch up the age problem with what looks like an ad hoc theory rescue device. It involves adding magnesium at the core-mantle boundary so that it precipitates into the core. Bruce Buffett explains this new idea in his summary, “Another energy source for the geodynamo,” also in Nature. The details of the new theory are not as interesting as the admissions in both articles about how inadequate the received wisdom is.        http://crev.info/2016/01/earths-geodynamo-energy-crisis/
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Cruz Has Been Right All Along
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{wnd.com} ~ I believe Donald Trump’s meteoric and sustained rise is a direct result of nObama’s largely successful campaign to fundamentally transform America and the establishment Republicans’ unwillingness to fight back... Grass-roots conservatives have wanted someone to stand up to nObama and stand up for our nation – and they are sick and tired of Beltway politicians and pundits alike patronizingly assuring them that nothing extraordinary is occurring and to calm down. “We’ll take care of it after we’re re-elected.” Sure. Yes, some of these establishment, moderate or, if you prefer, unexcitable types have finally come around, belatedly acknowledging nObama’s intentions but failing to admit they were slow on the uptake, much less that they’re sorry for branding the rest of us who caught on years before they did as mean-spirited, extremist or kooky.        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/cruz-has-been-right-all-along/
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Islamic Rage Erupts Over Christian March
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A mob of Muslim men swarmed a “Christian patrol” organized by the political group Britain First 
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American hero: 
nObama's military a 'girly man outfit'
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{wnd.com} ~ One of America’s greatest heroes is charging the commander in chief with deliberate sabotage of the nation’s armed forces... The serious accusation leveled against Barack nObama comes from retired Army Maj. Gen. Patrick Brady, a recipient of the Medal of Honor, who told WND bluntly, “nObama loathes the military.” “His goal is to reduce the military to impotence,” Brady said in an interview. “That way, during his reign, which, thank God, is almost over, he could point to an emasculated military and say he didn’t have the capability to do anything about it. If it came to a confrontation, I don’t think he would fight.”        http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/american-hero-obamas-military-a-girly-man-outfit/
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Clinton Email Delay Fought by Reporter
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ A court will decide this week whether the State Department can act as part of the Hilly Clinton campaign and delay the release of thousands of pages of emails from Clinton's time as Secretary of State... The emails were ordered released by the end of January until officials stopped the release of thousands of pages saying they need another month in order to consult. If allowed to stand, the delay would make sure early state voters know nothing of the email contents and possible controversies. Clinton's emails, run through a personal rather than government email account and routed through a personal server, have been the focus of much attention over the last year. So far it has been revealed that Clinton told her daughter that Benghazi was a terrorist attack even as she was telling the American people it was all due to a video. There are possible violations of the law found within the emails and classified information was put at risk of being hacked.        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/clinton-email-delay-fought-reporter
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How to Resist the End of Europe
DANIEL JOHNSON
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{mosaicmagazine.com} ~ I am deeply honored that my essay, “Does Have Europe Have a Future?,” elicited such substantial responses from four distinguished writers... All four have not only entered fair and useful comments on the essay but also contributed their own answers to the question posed in my title. Peter Berkowitz  and Wilfred McClay agree with me that the nation-state is not the source of Europe’s ills. And I agree with Berkowitz, following Alexis de Tocqueville, that European nations need to recover their tradition of freedom, just as I agree with McClay that such liberty must be limited by law, human or divine. It is refreshing to hear Americans encouraging Europeans to take pride in their patriotism and their national identities; in this respect, McClay rightly contrasts the grand traditions of European civilization, which gave birth to the United States and to so much else, with a European Union that is anything but united. On this point, I part company with Claire Berlinski even as I’m grateful for her superb tour d’horizon and the weight she properly gives to the threat posed to Europe by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. To her, the only answer to the external threats menacing Europe is a single foreign and defense policy, which means strengthening and indeed uniting the European Union. I beg to differ: however much some European leaders may dream otherwise, the EU is not a military alliance. Nor do I recognize her description of German, French, and other EU military officers “eager” to “unleash” their forces against Europe’s enemies. That was not the case even during the cold war, much less now.
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ISIS Has Whole Fake 
Passport 'Industry,' Official Says
BRIAN ROSS, MICHELE MCPHEE 
and LEE FERRAN
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{abcnews.go.com} ~ The terror group ISIS has created a whole “industry” out of the production of fake passports, a high-level French official said today... French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told reporters that through ISIS’s operations in Syria, Iraq and Libya, the group has acquired blank passports and has now set up a “real fake document industry.” Cazeneuve made the statement following a meeting with top European officials where he proposed setting up a new task force to help nab people attempting to come into the European Union with fake papers. Last month ABC News reported that U.S. intelligence suspected ISIS had acquired thousands of blank Syrian passports and at least one passport printing machine after taking over government offices in Syria. Officials from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) said in a 17-page report that the terror group has likely been able to print legitimate-looking Syrian passports since at least last summer – and raised the possibility that people using the forged documents have snuck into America.        http://abcnews.go.com/International/isis-fake-passport-industry-official/story?id=36505984
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Bombshell Video: New Hilly Email
Revelation-Outed by State Dept Staffer
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ On Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier,” Ed Henry uncovered a bombshell new video that shows top State Department employee Wendy Sherman bragging about the use of Blackberries to send and receive classified material... Despite the fact that in 2009 the Assistant Secretary for Diplomatic Security Eric Boswell, Boswell strongly advised that blackberry devices not be allowed, especially for top state department staff. In the 2013 video, Sherman gives a 2011 example of Secretary Hilly Clinton emailing during a U.N. General Assembly meeting, while carrying on sensitive Middle East negotiations, and she received on her Blackberry the email below which as you can see was redacted for classified information. In the video embedded below, Wendy Sherman accidentally outs her boss:
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Commentary: The consequences of 
our secret elections
John Dunbar
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{publicintegrity.org} ~ It was six years ago this week that the U.S. Supreme Court dramatically altered the American political landscape with its landmark ruling in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission... essentially deciding that corporations and labor unions can spend millions of dollars getting candidates elected to federal office. As long as the funds didn’t go directly to the candidate, or were not spent in coordination with the candidate, there would be no law broken. Corporate and union donations to the campaigns were still illegal. As a result of the ruling, super PACs were born, giant pools of money that act as shadow campaign committees, often run by people with close ties to the campaigns themselves. The organizers of these PACs must report all their donors and expenditures. They’re also — in theory, anyway — prohibited from “coordinating” with the candidate. But in politics, it seems, there’s always a way to dodge the rules and obfuscate what’s really happening. http://www.publicintegrity.org/2016/01/22/19179/commentary-consequences-our-secret-elections?utm_source=email&utm_campaign=watchdog&utm_medium=publici-email&goal=0_ffd1d0160d-26df709a87-100318285&mc_cid=26df709a87&mc_eid=19f9d76dda
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Terrorism pays: 
How to flummox the White House, 
the EU --- and defeat the 'Palestinians'
Caroline B. Glick
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{jewishworldreview.com} ~ I’m proud of him.”
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That’s what the father of Dafna Meir’s murderer said when the Palestinian media asked him what he thinks of his cold-blooded son Murad Adais.
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On Sunday afternoon, Adais butchered Meir in her home, in front of her children.
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Whether Adais Sr. is really happy that his son will rot in prison is less important than the fact that he said what he said to his home crowd.
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He knows that his audience thinks his son is a hero. And so he played to his audience.
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Since last September when the Palestinians began their current terrorist onslaught, killers like Adais have been characterized as lone wolves. But a study published last November in Mosaic online journal by Shalem College’s Daniel Polisar shows that this characterization is both wrong and unhelpful.
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Polisar studied Palestinian public opinion data from surveys conducted by four independent research groups over the past 25 years. His data exposed three key aspects to Palestinian positions about Israel that all bear directly on the current Palestinian terrorist offensive.
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His first finding is that throughout most of the past quarter-century a solid majority of Palestinians have supported terrorism against Israelis.
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Moreover, the more murderous an attack, the more it is supported.
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Polisar’s second finding was that the vast majority of Palestinians hate Israelis and believe that Jews have no right to the Land of Israel, and therefore our state has no right to exist.
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Taken together, these first two insights lead to one clear conclusion about the nature of the current Palestinian terrorism campaign against Israelis. As Polisar explained, they show that this campaign is not being carried out by “lone wolves,” who have been incited by Palestinian Authority propaganda. Rather, that propaganda reflects the murderous hatred that the vast majority of Palestinians feel toward Israelis and Israel.
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Adais and his comrades may or may not be members of terrorist groups. But they are the loyal representatives of their terrorism-supporting society.
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Obviously, any talk of a peace process in this climate is utter folly. The most Israel can aspire to is to deter the hate-soaked Palestinians from attacking us.
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This brings us to the third insight of Polisar’s study. Twenty-five years of survey data make clear that most Palestinians believe that terrorism pays.
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And the plain fact is that they are right. For the past generation, the Palestinians have only benefited from killing Israelis through terrorism.
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The fact that Israeli concessions to the Palestinians have strengthened their conviction that terrorism pays rather than convinced them to make peace shows that all concessions in the face of terrorism are dangerous.
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While the majority of Israelis have learned this lesson and so elected governments that oppose appeasement, the Palestinians have learned that the Israeli public does not have the final word on whether or not they will be rewarded for their crimes against humanity.
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The Palestinians believe that Israel is dependent on Western goodwill. So to the extent that the West pressures Israel surrender to Palestinian demands, the US and the EU work hand in glove with Palestinian terrorists and prove that they are right to murder mothers in their homes in front of their children.
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This week US Ambassador Dan Shapiro proved the Palestinians right, yet again.
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At the outset of his speech before the Institute of National Security Studies on Monday, Shapiro issued a pro forma condemnation of “barbaric acts of terrorism” against Israelis at the outset of his remarks.
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But that was just clearing his throat. In his substantive remarks, Shapiro accused Israel of institutional racism in Judea and Samaria.
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Shapiro’s slanderous accusation channeled and escalated his boss Secretary of State John hanoi-Kerry’s anti-Israel libel from two years ago. In early 2014, hanoi-Kerry alleged that if Israel didn’t cough up Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem soon, it risked becoming a criminal apartheid state in the future.
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By falsely alleging that Israel uses one lenient law against Israelis and another iron fisted law against Palestinians, Shapiro gave substance to hanoi-Kerry’s two-year-old assault. And in claiming that this state of affairs exists today, he transformed hanoi-Kerry’s incendiary claim of an apartheid future into a defamatory rap sheet for current imaginary offenses.
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The timing of Shapiro’s blood libel was significant for two reasons. First, the day after a Palestinian murdered Meir, and hours after another Palestinian stabbed another Jewish mother in the late stages of pregnancy, the US ambassador told the Palestinians that America blames Israel for their barbarism.
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Shapiro maligned Israel just as the Council of Europe announced it was firming up its rules for labeling Jewish-made products from Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem and published a document on its plans for handling a unicorn called “the Middle East Peace Process.”
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Both the EU’s announcement about labeling Jewish products and its document about the nonexistent “Middle East Peace Process” were notable for two reasons. First, they made no mention whatsoever of terrorism. As far as the Europeans are concerned, the only side preventing peace is Israel. And to bring peace, the EU calls for the Jewish state to be treated like Jews in Europe – that is, singled out for discrimination, abuse and insults.
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The near simultaneity of Shapiro’s slander and the EU’s latest discriminatory steps against Israel tells the Palestinians that they should keep up their attacks. Israel will be hard pressed to launch an effective counterattack with the Americans and Europeans breathing down its neck demanding concessions.
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The message these statements communicate to Israel is actually worse than that. The simultaneity of these remarks was not coincidental.
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Neither was State Department spokesman James Kirby’s condemnation of Israel’s lawful land policies in the Jordan Valley, which was followed immediately by a similar condemnation by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and a call by the PA for a UN Security Council resolution against Israel. Taken together they show that we are in the midst of a coordinated US-led political offensive against Israel.
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How is Israel supposed to defend itself against this coordinated terrorist-diplomatic onslaught? How can Israel keep the Americans and Europeans at bay and deter the Palestinians from murdering its citizens? Beyond the counterterror measures that are already being carried out, Israel needs to act on three levels.
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On the diplomatic front, the government needs to change the focus of its public diplomacy.
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The government currently accepts the false claim that the Palestinian terrorist onslaught is being carried out by lone wolves. Its public diplomacy is limited as a consequence to condemning official Palestinian Authority incitement.
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This line is wrong and counterproductive.
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It lends credence to the false conclusion that the assault is limited and can therefore be overlooked by Westerners eager to attack Israel.
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In their public pronouncements, our officials should direct their remarks against Palestinian society as a whole. So too the government should attack the radical Left in Israel and in the West that supports a society that seeks to annihilate Israel, applauds barbarism and kills anyone who wishes to live at peace with Israel.
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Wednesday, a storm erupted in England following The Sun’s publication of the findings of an undercover investigation of so-called human rights groups broadcast on Channel 2’s investigative news magazine two weeks ago. That investigation showed senior “human rights” activists Ezra Nawi from Ta’ayush and Nasser Nawaja from B’Tselem plotting to turn over to the Palestinian security forces a Palestinian who wished to sell land to Jews. Nawajah and Nawi acted with the full knowledge that he would be tortured and killed. In a heated debate in the British Parliament, lawmakers demanded to know why the government was funding B’Tselem with taxpayer funds. In other words, the lawmakers showed that a policy of exposing the barbarism of Palestinian society and the fanaticism of its Western supporters is effective.
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The second area where the government must act is in its settlement policies. Although it will be difficult for Israel to face down the nObama administration and respect Jewish property rights in Judea, Samaria and Jerusalem in the coming year, nothing is stopping it from destroying illegal EU-financed Palestinian construction in Area C.
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The government should act forcefully to remove all of the EU-constructed illegal Palestinian settlements in Area C of Judea and Samaria. The place the government should begin demolition is at the illegal Palestinian settlement outside the national heritage site of Sussiya, just kilometers from where Dafna Meir was murdered. The dual purpose of that specific EU-financed illegal building project is to threaten the Israeli communities of Sussiya and Mitzpe Yair and to deny the historic significance of the ancient Jewish city of Sussiya.
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Destroying the squatter community will send a potent message to the Palestinians and their Western abettors.
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At the same time, the government should speed up the pace of building new Israeli communities across the armistice line from Sussiya in the northern Negev around Arad in state lands being threatened by the EU-supported Beduin who are working in coordination with the Palestinian squatters in the South Hebron Hills.
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The final thing that Israel needs to do in the face of the Palestinian terrorism supported by Western political warfare is to rub the EU bureaucrats’ faces in the fact that Israel is succeeding where their governments are failing. It isn’t enough for Israel to call for the Jews of France and the rest of Western Europe to make aliya. Over the past two years, aliya from Western Europe has reached all-time highs. As the governments that single out the Jewish state for abuse prove on a daily basis that they cannot protect their Jewish citizens, more and more European Jews are heeding the call and moving to Israel.
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But over the past several months, it has become apparent that for all our goodwill, Israel has not figured out how to absorb its newest citizens. Dentists, pharmacists and other professionals are chewed up and spit out by a bureaucracy of professional guilds whose protectionist licensing requirements are convincing many people to turn around and go back to Europe. The government must make it an urgent priority to break the guilds. It is far more important to enable Jewish professionals from France to work in their fields in Israel than to protect the antiquated licensing requirements of hidebound professional cliques.
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Israel is under a coordinated assault by the Palestinians who hate us and the Europeans and Americans who are hostile to us.
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Our options for dealing with this assault are not optimal. But they are formidable. If we make judicious use of them, we can flummox the White House and the EU, and at a minimum, we can begin to prove to the Palestinians that their faith in terrorism is no longer justified.
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Wednesday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Malkin: Mayor de Blasio:
Hypocrite Hooked on Hollywood Cash
Michelle Malkin
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 Sentinel at the Tomb — The Story Behind the Image 
Several years ago, during another snowstorm that shutdown Washington, DC, The Patriot Post published an image of a Sentinel keeping watch at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in the midst of heavy snowfall. We distributed it in several versions, which were shared virally across social media platforms.
          At the time, we knew the photo was about 30 years old given that Sentinels now wear a winter cap instead of the barracks cover seen in the photo. We determined this Sentinel was SGT Charles Lee "Chuck" Gauldin, Tomb Badge #248, 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment (The Old Guard). However, we were not able to locate him or his family.
          Within days of posting this image, though, we received the following message:

"Thank you so much for posting the picture of the Honor Guard at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier. You see that man — my late husband — meant the world to me then as he does now. That picture was taken when I was pregnant with the first of our two children. Charles died unexpectedly in 1997. His family and I are touched and honored by the picture and thank you and The Patriot Post staff for posting it. What a sweet, sweet memory for us."

Carmen Gauldin

In the most recent storm to hit the East Coast, national media outlets promoted our Sentinel image and the spirit of honor it reflects, but did not acknowledge who he was. Now you know. God bless the Gauld in family   -Patriot Post
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 Sanders Beats Trump? 
There is a possibility that despite the most conservative and qualified GOP field in recent history, the Republican nominee may be former Democrat Donald Trump. And it's also possible he'll face not the inevitable Hilly Clinton but rather admitted socialist Bernie Sanders. If so, voters will stand at the ballot box come November and ask themselves: What kind of big government do we want? Clinton may face prosecution for her illegal mishandling of classified information, which leaves the avowed socialist holding his party's nomination by default. Trump and the followers of his personality cult think this is great news. Nothing, Trump says, can shake his high-flying standing in the polls. "The polls, they say I have the most loyal people," Trump boasted at an Iowa campaign rally Saturday. "Did you ever see that? Where I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn't lose any voters, okay? It's, like, incredible." Additionally, a Gallup poll from last year found that 50% of the nation wouldn't vote for a socialist.
          But Sanders too is feeling confident. "There would be nothing more in this world that I would like to take on Donald Trump," Sanders recently said. "We would beat him and we would beat him badly."
          He might be right. A recent survey conducted by The Wall Street Journal and NBC say that it would be Sanders who would win in a Sanders/Trump general election — by a 15-point margin. The pollsters asked respondents from Jan. 9 to 13, "If the election for president were held today, and Donald Trump were the Republican candidate and Bernie Sanders were the Democratic candidate, for whom would you vote?" Sanders got 54% of the support and Trump received 39%.
          There are a lot of 'if' and 'buts' associated with that poll question. We haven't even had the first presidential debate between Republican and Democrat — and that will be a game changer. Furthermore, polls this early in the game (heck, even exit polls on Election Day) are unreliable, especially polls about hypothetical situations. Often, they amount to "pollaganda," or the use of polls to influence public opinion instead of describing it. And you wonder why the media is doing everything it can to keep Trump front and center.   -Patriot Post
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 'Every Single One of Us'? 
On the Roe v Wade anniversary Friday, Barack Obama declared he would defend abortion laws against "efforts to undermine or overturned them." He also said, "In America, every single one of us deserves the rights, freedoms and opportunities to fulfill our dreams."
          Apparently not "every single one of us."
          Slaves and indentured servants lacked Civil Rights in America in the 19th century because their standing was considered less than human. In "Abortion and the Conscience of the Nation," Ronald Reagan wrote, "Lincoln recognized that we could not survive as a free land when some men could decide that others were not fit to be free and should be slaves. Likewise, we cannot survive as a free nation when some men decide that others are not fit to live and should be abandoned to abortion."
          Jews lacked Civil Rights in Russia and Germany between 1917 and 1945 because their standing was considered less than human. Indeed, history is replete with the slaughter of innocents who were considered less than human. The killing of 58 million unborn children since Roe is now one of the ugliest chapters in that history.
          Meanwhile, the Leftmedia generally ignored the fact that tens of thousands of people gathered in Washington, DC, Friday — undaunted in the face of the oncoming blizzard — to March for Life. The Washington Post called it "a small, faithful crowd." It's true the crowd was smaller than in previous years, though with the weather shutting down many transportation methods that's to be expected. What is also completely expected by now is for the national media to ignore the movement of public opinion on the issue of life.   -Patriot Post
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Truth About Lates Israel 'Settler' Controversy:
Herbon is Occupied Territory
Jeff Dunetz
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{lidblog.com} ~ Last week the IDF removed Jewish families from two buildings they purchased in Hebron... Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said at Sunday’s cabinet meeting that the people would be allowed back in once the purchases are confirmed. Netanyahu said that the moment the purchases are confirmed, families will be allowed back into the homes, “as we have done in similar cases in the past.” If the Jewish families are allowed back in,  the nObama administration and other anti Israel governments across the world will have a canary. They will claim that Hebron is “occupied territory,” and they will be correct. Hebron is a Jewish city occupied by the Arabs. Hebron’s occupation began on a  Friday evening in August almost 87 years ago when a group of Arab terrorists massacred the Jews of the city while the British who ruled over the Holy Land know what was happening but did not lift a finger to prevent the horrible event.
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Davos on Migrant Crisis: 
The Worst is Yet to Come
Natalie Myers
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ As the World Economic Forum kicks off in Davos, Switzerland, a number of issues are on the table for discussion, most importantly the migrant issue... The group’s 2016 Global Risks report named the migration crisis the biggest risk because of its high likelihood, with climate change also ranking high due to the potential impact. The recent refugee levels currently are about 50% higher than they were at the height of World War II, with around 60 million displaced people from Syria to Sudan. Davos leader, Klaus Schwab, predicts that the global economic crisis slowly forming due to plunging stock markets and uncertainty with China will eventually lead to a tsunami of immigration.        http://punchingbagpost.com/davos-on-migrant-crisis-the-worst-is-yet-to-come
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US Senate To Declare 
“International Martial Law” — 
Give President “Unlimited” Military Powers
Justin Gardner
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{activistpost.com} ~ The U.S. Senate is poised to give President nObama and the next president unprecedented war powers that amount to declaring martial law upon the entire world... Majority leader Mitch McCon-nell surprised almost everyone last week by saying he has a war resolution ready to be voted on at any time. The resolution is a new authorization for use of military force (AUMF) for declaring war on ISIS. It would give the president even more power than the AUMF granted to Bush after 9/11, which is still in place today. Considering what Bush and nObama did with the 2001 AUMF—invading and occupying countries in “pre-emptive” war, CIA black sites, extrajudicial killings, inventing the term “enemy combatants” to bypass international law, new forms of torture, drone bombing women and children, and assassinating U.S. citizens—the specter of a new and expanded AUMF is truly frightening.        http://www.activistpost.com/2016/01/us-senate-to-declare-international-martial-law-give-president-unlimited-military-powers.html?utm_source=Activist+Post+Subscribers&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=25b97ca888-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_b0c7fb76bd-25b97ca888-387888649
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Clinton Staffers Cut and Pasted 
Classified Info Into Emails
Daniel Greenfield
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ The most obvious thing here is the arrogance. These are people to whom classified information means nothing and national security takes a backseat to convenience and Clinton agendas... Somehow, highly classified information from SIPRNet, as well as even the super-secure JWICS, jumped from those closed systems to the open system and turned up in at least 1,340 of Clinton’s home e-mails — including several the CIA earlier this month flagged as containing ultra-secret Sensitive Compartmented Information and Special Access Programs, a subset of SCI. SAP includes “dark projects,” such as drone operations, while SCI protects intelligence sources and methods.        http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/261594/clinton-staffers-cut-and-pasted-classified-info-daniel-greenfield
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Israeli-Palestinian Conflict:
Simple Answers to False Claims
Dr. Shmuel Katz
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{frontpagemag.com} ~ It took the Arab propaganda machine decades of persistent, aggressive effort to convince many oblivious individuals – including some world leaders – of the canard that Jews illegally occupy Arab land, having "stolen it from Palestinians."... This view permeates the Palestinian movement: Palestinian Islamic Jihad, Hezbollah's "Party of God," and Hamas acronym for Islamic Resistance Movement all share the goal of destroying Israel. Mahmoud Abbas' political party – "Fatah" – is the name of chapter 48 of the Koran which describes Mohammed signing a "peace treaty" as a way to gain leverage and launch an attack. At the root of Palestinian ideology is this "phased plan" to destroy Israel. Palestinian statesman Faisal Husseini described peace agreements with Israel as a Trojan Horse:
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Gorka – Clinton Emails Nuclear Level Secrets –
Foreign Govt Blackmail Target
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ Threat Knowledge Group chairman Sebastian Gorka is asked in an interview just how serious of a risk it was for Hilly Clinton to have these SAP emails on her server or servers, given that there are now reports coming out that she may have had more than one... Gorka says, “This is absolutely enormous. We’ve talked about numerous smoking guns, this is the biggest, this is the .44 Magnum of smoking guns. SAP, for those who aren’t familiar, SAP is one of the highest  classifications out there. If you think about it, our nuclear weapons programs fall under SAP.” He continues, “The idea that we’re putting these onto private, unguarded servers, this means that any enemy nation could penetrate and get access to those secrets, which undermines our national security or could lead to the Secretary being blackmailed.”        http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25196
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Cybercom: OPM Hack Highlights 
China Big Data Spying
Bill Gertz
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{freebeacon.com} ~ China’s theft of millions of records on Americans was part of a Big Data spying program conducted by Beijing that has prompted the Pentagon to take new steps to secure large data concentrations... That was the assessment of U.S. Cyber Command commander Adm. Mike Rogers who on Thursday called the compromise of 22 million records from the Office of Personnel Management, as well as millions of heath care records in an earlier attack disclosed last year, a new form of cyber spying. The Chinese cyber attacks from 2014 “get more to the idea of what’s acceptable, what’s not acceptable, what’s within established norms,” Rogers said during remarks at the Atlantic Council on Jan. 21.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/cybercom-opm-hack-highlights-china-big-data-spying/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=906a1006b3-WFB_Morning_Beacon_01_25_161_24_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-906a1006b3-45611665
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Sen Sessions On Dirty Deal 
Of dinky-Reid / McCon-nell /nObama 
To Grab Our Property Rights
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ There was never any doubt from the time the Marxist anti-American foreign trash began his occupation of our White House that Hussein nObama was and is the enemy of the American people... While it took some Americans longer to see the truth than others,  many of us saw him for what he was before he even ascended to the throne. The Satanic shroud is off. The nature of this beast and his agenda should be painfully clear to all observers now, even those demented liberals who once believed and reveled in the lie. The squatter in our house conducts the affairs of his criminal administration from a posture that recognizes the  American people as the enemy. Their goals and overwhelming driving force in every regard is geared towards the subjugation of our rights of self-determination and the insertion of their illegitimate authoritarian government as a mechanism of control, an obstacle to the exercise of our free will and an impediment to the rights codified in the Constitution. This regime works incessantly to enslave the American people at every turn. None of the unconstitutional actions of this illegitimate anti-American imposter should be given the standing of the office and should be immediately challenged by the House and a trial held in the Senate. We’ve lost our representatives.  Aside from the Senator from Alabama who wrote the short message below, we’re basically devoid of a Congress in any regard other than as a destructive force that exists in name only.
http://constitutionrising.com/archives/25206
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13 Hours Confirms nObama’s and
Hilly Clinton’s Lies about Benghazi
Deroy Murdock
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{aim.org} ~ It is impossible to experience the gripping new film 13 Hours and escape this conclusion: nObama and Hilly Clinton have lied through their teeth, gums, and cheeks about Benghazi... Despite nObama’s and Clinton’s recurring lies to the contrary, the deadly attacks of September 11, 2012, on U.S. diplomatic and intelligence facilities in Benghazi, Libya, had no connection with political protests. In director Michael Bay’s political-action thriller, which Paramount Pictures calls “a true story,” these two outposts get slammed ferociously by growing waves of well-armed jihadists who know exactly what they are doing. As if mocking nObama’s and Clinton’s lies, they do not drop their picket signs and then suddenly grab grenades, rocket launchers, and mortar shells. Instead, these killers skip the placards and head straight for the firepower. None of Benghazi’s mayhem depicted in 13 Hours involves Innocence of Muslims, the anti-Mohammed Internet video that nObama and Clinton faulted for the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, State Department technical officer Sean Smith, and private security contractors and former Navy SEALS Glen Doherty and Tyrone Woods. This disconnect reinforces the untruth of nObama’s and Clinton’s synthetic claim.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/13-hours-confirms-obamas-and-hillary-clintons-lies-about-benghazi/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email012516&utm_medium=email
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Israel Sees Short and Long-term
Repercussions in Iranian Sanctions Relief
Yaakov Lappin
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{investigativeproject.org} ~ Away from the vociferous disputes that continue to rage around the Iranian nuclear deal, the Israel's Military Intelligence Directorate and General Staff have been engaged in detached analysis of the short and long-term effects, and they have come away with three central conclusions... Details of their assessments, though shared with defense reporters over recent months, were publicly presented for the first last week by IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Gadi Eisenkot during a conference in Tel Aviv, organized by the Institute for National Security Studies. The most immediate consequence of the nuclear deal will be felt in the realm of expanding Iranian regional influence, and the looming increase in the trafficking of weapons and funds to terror organizations, made possible by sanctions relief.
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Malkin: Mayor de Blasio:
Hypocrite Hooked on Hollywood Cash
Michelle Malkin
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Because the crime rate is zero, the potholes are all fixed and homelessness has been completely eradicated, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio now has time to focus on what really matters to Big Apple taxpayers:
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Racial quotas in Hollywood.
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Social justice warrior de Blasio took to Twitter last week to lambaste the 2016 Academy Awards nominations, which did not include any black actors or actresses.
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"#OscarsSoWhite says it all," de Blasio carped. "Wife @Chirlane and I are sick of only one kind of America being celebrated."
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Radical race-hustling director Spike Lee is leading a boycott of the awards ceremony scheduled next month in Los Angeles. Actress Jada Pinkett Smith, whose actor/director husband Will Smith was snubbed for his performance in the NFL drama "Concussion," took to Facebook this week to rally "people of color" not to watch or attend the gala event. Director Michael Moore hitched himself to the whiny wagon of 1 percenters. Pressure is mounting on host and comedian Chris Rock to bow out in solidarity.
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A panicked Cheryl Boone Isaacs, the president of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who is black, is promising expedited "change" to mollify the grievance mob led by shakedown artist Al Sharpton.
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They'll never admit it, but for the guardians of the Academy, "change" means inevitable quota-based admissions to their elite club, where new candidates must traditionally be sponsored by two current members and demonstrate "exceptional achievement in the field of theatrical motion pictures."
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The transformation is "not coming as fast as we would like," Isaacs bleated as she vowed to take more aggressive steps to "diversify" as part of the Academy's "A2020" plan.
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Is this what "people of color" in the performing arts really want?
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Fealty based first and foremost on skin tone and not on talent and ability?
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Specially appointed members of the Academy chosen solely because of their race, gender or oppressed status who will be beholden to vote only for fellow tokens from their respective tribes?
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What exactly will make the likes of Spike Lee and company happy if not de facto or de jure Oscars quotas and affirmative action points for minority entertainers?
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Do they think ghettoized new categories for "Best Black Actor" and "Best Black Actress" constitute progress and equality?
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Do they honestly believe that casting doubt on the achievements of all non-white thespians who earn nominations as a result of this politically correct hectoring is good for the profession?
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Now, let's call de Blasio and his bean-counting wife out on the red carpet.
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If this "diversity"-driven duo is truly "sick" of Hollywood's white cis-hetero-patriarchal oppressors, are they ready to boycott the billions that the entertainment industry pours into New York City until their utopian ideals of manufactured racial parity are achieved?
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In an open love letter to Tinseltown in 2014, de Blasio boasted that since 2004, "Hollywood's financial imprint on our city has grown from $5 billion to $7.1 billion." The self-proclaimed warrior against income inequality enthusiastically doubled down on government subsidy programs to the Hollywood elite, vowing to "maintain the policies and practices that spurred this expansion while strategically investing in new projects to grow and diversify the industry."
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"Investing," of course, means using the power of government to redistribute the hard-earned tax dollars of lower- and middle-income workers to millionaire and billionaire studio owners in the TV and film industry. On top of the city's subsidies, New York State offers myriad special tax breaks, credits, and rebates worth an estimated $420 million to lure Hollywood to the East Coast.
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De Blasio's bowing and scraping bordered on an R-rating. "In New York City, the TV and film industry has a true partner," he gushed, "not to mention a mayor who will always be slightly in awe of the work you do."
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Hooked on Hollywood cash, de Blasio's outrage about #OscarsSoWhite is so contrived it bounces like a fake check.
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As usual, the left's hashtag warriors are all show and no go.
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Tuesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
The Iran nuclear agreement 
is national security fraud
Fred Fleitz  
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Environmental Disaster: 
The Renewable Fuel Standard
Marlo Lewis
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{insideronline.org} ~The bipartisan disaster called the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) has all the usual characteristics of bureaucratic central planning... It features unrealistic actually, impossible goals, hidden taxes and regulatory burdens, and costly “unintended” consequences, and it’s carried out by anonymous, unelected, unaccountable government officials. Meanwhile, RFS reduces the mileage of motor vehicles, funnels money from consumers to well-connected “crony capitalists,” raises the price of food for the world’s poor, destroys rain forest and wetlands, and expands a dead zone the size of Connecticut in the Gulf of Mexico. It was supposed to make us more energy independent. It was supposed to protect the environment, yet it is responsible for converting millions of acres of wetlands and wildlife habitat to corn plantations. Even the “greens” have turned against it. And, like many a horror-movie villain, it’s immortal. http://www.insideronline.org/reader.php?id=PKqR
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Supreme Court bombshell: 
Does nObama’s immigration guidance 
violate the Take Care Clause?
David Bernstein
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{insideronline.org} ~ In the process of granting review of the decision, by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit, invalidating the nObama administration’s immigration guidance granting de facto albeit revocable legal status to hundreds of thousands of undocumented residents of the United States... the Supreme Court unleashed a bombshell. Without any explicit request from the parties, the court added the following question for review: “Whether the Guidance violates the Take Care Clause of the Constitution, Art. II, §3.” This is a stunning development. The clause states that “The President shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed.” This is the first time, to my knowledge, that the Supreme Court, maybe any court, has suggested that the Take Care Clause is justiciable i.e., that the president’s inactions are subject to judicial review under the clause. I’m not sure that any Supreme Court litigant has ever even seriously pursued an argument under the clause. While opponents of judicial activism might be horrified by this turn of events, we should consider why the court seems to have volunteered to involve itself in what has traditionally been seen as a “political question” not subject to judicial intervention. Caveat: No one — not even Supreme Court experts — seems to know how many votes it takes to add an issue to cert. grant, or, assuming it takes four or five, whether the justices typically defer to their colleagues if one or more of them feel strongly about adding an issue. So we don’t know how many justices really wanted to decide the Take Care Clause issue.
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Senate foreign affairs chief bemoans
lack of oversight for Iran deal
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Senator Bob Corker (left), speaks while flanked by ranking member Sen. Bob Menendez during a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Capitol Hill, in Washington, DC, March 11, 2015
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{timesofisrael.com} ~ At the first Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing since implementation of the Iran nuclear deal... committee chair Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) expressed consternation that the international coalition responsible for holding Iran accountable for its obligations lacks the will to do so. After the United Nations Security Council didn’t address Iran violating its own ban on ballistic missile testing in recent months, it’s more than unlikely that an international partnership would respond effectively to more violations as European countries begin conducting business with the Islamic Republic, Corker indicated Wednesday. “The thinking that we are going to easily put that coalition back if there is something so out of bounds and egregious when everybody is in Tehran doing business right now is just not going to happen,” he said at this week’s hearing. “There now is no coalition and to me that is one of the greatest flaws of this deal now that they have what they want.”
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North Idahoans Defeat Progressive
Mayor’s ‘Refugee’ Resolution
 Dan Lyman
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{trevorloudon.com} ~ Last week, I published a piece detailing a conflict manifesting in my semi-rural community in North Idaho, with the understanding that our local issue is merely a microcosmic snapshot of analogous events taking place around much of the world, especially across the pond in Europe... Ruthless globalists, war mongers, and political architects have systematically turned the Middle East and neighboring regions into the ultimate pit of despair, and like an ant colony smashed by a juvenile’s savage shoe, its inhabitants are pouring out in a historic mass exodus – all according to the overarching game plan. Indeed, the Western-backed Islamic State (ISIS) explicitly promised to flood Europe with refugees and jihadists as part of their quest for worldwide domination. They weren’t just making empty threats. Now, bleeding heart liberals and conniving progressives across the West have taken up the mantle to joyously welcome these ‘refugees’ to infiltrate our countries, cities, and villages, with little thought given to immediate safety and security issues, or the irreversible long-term cultural and financial ramifications of inviting colonization by non-assimilatory, Third World welfare dependents. They also don’t know or care that the majority of these ‘migrants’ are military-aged males, legions of whom are ready for war, rape, and pillaging.        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2016/01/north-idahoans-defeat-progressive-mayors-refugee-resolution/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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Hilly emails so secret senior
lawmakers can't read them
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{wnd.com} ~ Emails on Hilly Clinton’s “home-brew” email server were so sensitive that senior lawmakers with the highest levels of security clearance must sign additional nondisclosure agreements before viewing them... Senior members of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and other key lawmakers do not have authorization to view intelligence known as “special access programs,” or SAP, on Clinton’s server, a source told Fox News on Thursday. The former secretary of state has been dogged with new questions on her handling of classified documents since news of the SAP intelligence was reported Tuesday. A Jan. 14 letter from Intelligence Community Inspector General I. Charles McCullough III to lawmakers and officials confirmed SAP intelligence passed through Clinton’s server. The letter was exclusively obtained by Fox.
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Lying Loretta Lynch – 
AG Pretending nObama Gun 
Dictates Actually Fix A Problem
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{constitutionrising.com} ~ As incredible as it seems, Paul Ryan inexplicably left something off of Hussein nObama’s “Winter Festival” omnibus gift as it was stacked up next to this year’s “Holiday Tree.”...  It certainly seemed like everything nObama could have possibly wanted was included in that most dastardly of Ryan misdeeds. Surely the naughtiest of boys knew the importance of making their lists and checking them twice. Yet there’s poor Loretta Lynch, forced to go with her tin cup in hand to the Senate Appropriations Committee, asking Republican Senators to support the regime in the one area in which they have a spine to stand in resistance, the protection of the Second Amendment. nObama, Lynch and the other America haters already had their scheme to infringe by converting gun rights into gun privileges set when Ryan’s gift was delivered. It’s not possible that they left the funding component to chance. Something else must be in the works. They’re always scheming and ready to pounce on the crisis that can’t be allowed to go to waste, even creating crises from time to time as needed. Maybe it will be another of the convenient mass shootings that will provide the next opportunity for a teary-eyed “onion-finger nObama” to remind us just how mad he is and demand our submission to make him feel better. If such an event does occur we might expect the declared perpetrators to have an appearance more in line with the nObama agenda, white men, those most exploitable “mentally unstable militia types,” or the lone wolf “white supremacists.”
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Military Martial Law Bill 
Sneaked Through by Senate
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{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Bill gives nObama power to deploy military anywhere – including on U.S. soil... “The Authorization for Use of Military Force put for­ward by Mc­Con-­nell would not re­strict the pres­id­ent’s use of ground troops, nor have any lim­its re­lated to time or geo­graphy,” Defense One reported. In other words, the authorization allows the president to deploy the military anywhere at his discretion – both foreign and domestic – for as long as he wants. Several senators, including Sen­ate Ma­jor­ity Whip John Cornyn, were surprised by McCon-nell’s decision to fast-track the bill after a year of deep in-fighting over similar measures in the Senate. “He did?” he asked the Na­tion­al Journ­al on Thursday morn­ing when reporters informed him about the bill. Even some Senate Democrats have an issue with a new authorization without geographical restrictions placed on the president. http://gopthedailydose.com/2016/01/23/breaking-military-martial-law-bill-sneaked-through-by-senate-video/
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New York's Michael Bloomberg 
Weighs US Presidential Candidacy
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{voanews.com} ~ Former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg is weighing a late entry into the 2016 U.S. presidential contest as an independent candidate... The 73-year-old Bloomberg served three terms as the mayor of the biggest U.S. city and, since leaving office two years ago, has unsuccessfully sought to win support for tighter gun control laws in the U.S. Bloomberg, with a net worth of more than $40 billion, is one of the wealthiest of Americans, his fortune in part stemming from the widespread use of what many in high finance and media circles know as the "Bloomberg machine," a vast and costly collection of financial data about companies and economies from across the globe.
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Jury-Nullification Activist 
Delivers In-Your-Face Defense
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{wnd.com} ~ A Michigan man charged with felony obstruction of justice and jury tampering for handing out a leaflet on jury nullification in front of a courthouse contends the local prosecutor’s objection to the contents of his material doesn’t make his actions a crime... Keith Wood, a former pastor, was arrested Nov. 24 on the orders of Mecosta County District Court Judge Peter Jaklevic while he was handing out leaflets published by the Fully Informed Jury Association to members of the public on public property. Wood was charged with felony “obstruction of justice” for giving members of a jury pool what prosecutors described as “a pamphlet that encouraged the jurors to violate their oaths and directly contradicted the instructions the jurors would be given thereby tainting the entire jury pane.” He’s also charged with attempting to “influence the decision of a juror in a case by argument or persuasion that was not a part of the proceedings in open court in the trial of the case.”
http://www.wnd.com/2016/01/jury-nullification-activist-delivers-in-your-face-defense/
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Benghazi victim’s sister unhappy with
Clintons’ breezy Benghazi attitude
Moe Lane
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{redstate.com} ~ Fox News had on Kate Quigley, the sister of Glen Doherty one of the people killed by Islamist terrorists at Benghazi*... and to say that Ms. Quigley was appalled by the way that both former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton and former President Bill Clinton have brushed off Secretary Clinton’s deadly incompetence with regard to Benghazi is to understate the case.  Basically, Bill Clinton had been ostentatiously upset that his dear, dear wife was put through oh, so many tough questions by those awful Republicans from Congress. As you might imagine, this did not go over well with  someone whose memories of Benghazi include a coffin. There are many things in that article/video that will make you grit your teeth in frustration and anger at the cavalier way the Clintons’ breeze through murderous foreign policy disasters of their own making, but this particular passage will probably focus matters a bit for you:
http://www.redstate.com/2016/01/23/benghazi-hillary-clinton-glen-doherty/?utm_source=rsmorningbriefing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl
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The Iran nuclear agreement 
is national security fraud
Fred Fleitz  
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{aim.org} ~ As the nObama administration celebrates what it claims is a great victory for its nuclear diplomacy with Iran, many Americans are scratching their heads and wondering how we got to this point given the many examples of Iranian bad faith and belligerent behavior since the nuclear deal was announced last July. For example…
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-Because the IAEA declared that Iran met the requirements to roll back its nuclear program to what the nuclear deal calls “Implementation Day,” it will receive approximately $150 billion in sanctions relief even through Iran is still designated by the United States as a state sponsor of terror and was listed in a June 2015 State Department report as the world’s leading terrorist state.
-Over the last six months, Iran increased its support to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and Hezbollah, its terrorist proxy.
-Iran is threatening Saudi Arabia by backing a Shiite insurgency in Yemen.  Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states broke off diplomatic relations with Iran this month after the Saudi embassy and a consulate in Iran were ransacked.
-Iran tested ballistic missiles in October and November even though President nObama and Secretary hanoi-Kerry said last July that under the deal Tehran would abide by U.N. Security Council resolutions for eight years calling on it to halt its missile program.  (The Treasury Department imposed sanctions on Iran for the missile tests yesterday but Foundation for Defense and Democracy Executive Director Mark Dubowitz called them “symbolic and ineffective.”)
-Iran fired rockets last month near a U.S. aircraft carrier.  It also detained and humiliated 10 U.S. Navy sailors last week.
-At the same time, few Americans understand that Iran keeps its nuclear infrastructure under the nuclear deal and will be allowed to expand it.
-Iran will continue enriching uranium under the nuclear deal with 5,000 uranium centrifuges and will be developing more advanced centrifuges while the deal is in effect. This will occur even though when Barack nObama became president, his administration supported the Bush administration’s effort to stop the spread of uranium enrichment technology and strengthened a nuclear technology sharing agreement with the UAE which required it to not to pursue this technology.
-Although Iran agreed to remove the core of a plutonium-producing heavy water-reactor, it will be rebuilt and redesigned with Chinese assistance.  While the redesigned reactor will produce less plutonium, it also will help Iran to master this technology.
-Although President nObama and Secretary hanoi-Kerry said Iran sent all of its enriched uranium out of the country, they failed to mention that this was a swap for an equivalent amount of uranium ore that can be converted into enriched uranium in a few months.
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President nObama said last July that the issue of Iran’s past nuclear weapons work would be addressed. The IAEA issued a report on this issue in December that said Iran failed to fully cooperate and provided some answers to investigators that were false. The report also said Iran engaged in nuclear weapons research until 2009.  Despite this report, the United States voted with other IAEA members last month to close the IAEA’s file on this issue.
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Although nuclear deal has weak verification provisions, the Iranian parliament made them even weaker last October when it ratified an amended version of the deal containing new language on dismantling Israel’s nuclear weapons program, requiring that sanctions under the agreement be cancelled and not suspended, forbidding IAEA inspections of military installations, and barring IAEA interviews of Iranian military officers and scientists.
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And then there is the issue of the “swap” of five American hostages for seven Iranian criminals held in U.S. prisons and the removal of 14 other Iranian criminal and terrorists from the INTERPOL wanted list.  As objectionable as this sounds, President nObama and Secretary hanoi-Kerry failed to mention that Oman paid Iran $500,000 ransom each for the release of the Americans and that several were brutally mistreated while incarcerated.  At least two other innocent Americans plus a U.S. green card holder are still being by Iran.
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Given these factors, how can the nObama administration claim Iran has complied with the nuclear agreement?
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How can it justify providing over $150 billion in sanctions relief that Tehran is likely to spend on terrorism and destabilizing the Middle East?
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How can the United States reward a state that used Americans as hostages to advance its policy goals?
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How can nObama officials say this nuclear deal is a great diplomatic success?
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The answer to these questions is this: because the nObama administration wanted a legacy nuclear agreement with Iran so badly they made any concession necessary to get one.
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When Iranian officials refused to give up their uranium enrichment program, the U.S. said they could keep it.
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When Iran balked on including restrictions on ballistic missile tests in the agreement, they were removed.
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To get around Tehran’s refusal to answer questions about its past nuclear weapons work, this issue was moved into a secret side deal between the IAEA and Iran.
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The nObama administration also took Iran’s sponsorship of terror and its meddling in the Middle East off the table. The deal drops U.N. and EU sanctions on Iranian terrorist individuals and entities. Even worse, the U.S. encouraged Iran to play a more active role in Iraq which is driving tensions between the Shiite government and Iraqi Sunnis.
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The Iran nuclear agreement is national security fraud. It will not stop or slow Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons.
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The deal’s weak verification provision will not detect Iranian cheating.
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Seeing itself as the big winner in the nuclear deal, Iran probably will beem boldened to expand its efforts to destabilize its neighbors and sponsorship of terrorism using the estimated $150 billion in sanctions relief it won in the deal.
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How did Iran reach the nuclear deal’s Implementation Day?  Because the nObama administration rigged the game by setting the bar so low that Iranian compliance was assured.
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That’s how desperate President nObama was to get his legacy nuclear deal with Iran.
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That’s what led to a disastrous agreement that will may do enormous damage to international security for decades to come.
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Tuesday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

The Front Page Cover
 2016             The turth is the gold of today 
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Featuring:
Krauthammer: EmailGate Now
‘Worse than What Snowden Did’
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 National Review Bucks the Trump Train 
The magazine whose writers developed the political philosophy embraced by Ronald Reagan, uniting a broad swath of America under a banner of Liberty, has opposed Donald Trump in its most recent edition. The editors of National Review wrote in their editorial, "If [the Republican Party] cannot advance a compelling working-class agenda, the legitimate anxieties and discontents of blue-collar voters will be exploited by demagogues. We sympathize with many of the complaints of Trump supporters about the GOP, but that doesn't make the mogul any less flawed a vessel for them. Some conservatives have made it their business to make excuses for Trump and duly get pats on the head from him. Count us out. Donald Trump is a menace to American conservatism who would take the work of generations and trample it underfoot in behalf of a populism as heedless and crude as the Donald himself."
          Predictably, Trump took to his Twitter feed to rant about the criticism  Thursday night. "National Review is a failing publication that has lost it's [sic] way," he mocked. "It's [sic] circulation is way down w its influence being at an all time low. Sad!" In his next quip, Trump said, "Very few people read the National Review because it only knows how to criticize, but not how to lead." The lack of self-awareness is astounding.
          Already, the principled stand for the publication comes at a price. The Republican National Committee dropped the magazine from co-sponsoring debates and forums, like the forum scheduled for Feb. 25, because NR expressed a bias against one of the participants. Trump may gloat, but he and his "New York Values" are no Reagan 2.0. Reagan stood for Liberty — something that doesn't seem to be as popular as it used to be.
          Did we mention that Trump has never once voted in a Republican primary? He's also changed his registration four times in the last 16 years, and endorsed Barack nObama in 2008.  -The Patriot Post
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 What Ever Happened to the Tea Party? 
On Dec. 16, 1773, "radicals" from Boston, members of a secret organization of American Patriots called the Sons of Liberty, boarded three East India Company ships and threw 342 chests of tea into Boston Harbor. This iconic event, in protest of oppressive British taxation and tyrannical rule, became known as the Boston Tea Party. So one might say those of us on the Liberty side of the aisle have always been a rowdy bunch.
          Three years after that very first Tea Party, the rebellion had grown to such extent that our Founders were willing to give up their fortunes and lives, attaching their signatures to the Declaration of Independence, which said, "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
          The Founders didn't take back their country; they created it and gave it to their posterity, all by overthrowing the establishment.
          Fast forward to today and there has been much debate over the direction the modern Tea Party has taken. In response to the Democrats' outrageous spending spree in 2009 and 2010, the Tea Party rekindled under the banner of limiting government, particularly in the areas of taxing and spending. -The Patriot Post
 Honoring the Sanctity of Life 
Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the two most tragic Supreme Court decisions in American history, Roe v. Wade and Doe v. Bolton. Those decisions sparked a contentious debate between those who would deny legal protection for babies in the womb, and those who rightly acknowledge that those babies constitute "life" as understood throughout history and affirmed in our Declaration of Independence. Tragically, that right has been denied to 58 million unborn children sacrificed on the altar of "choice" since 1973.
          The biggest news in the last year on this front was, of course, the  undercover videos exposing Planned Parenthood for trafficking in unborn baby parts. While it was long known that Planned Parenthood is the nation's largest abortion provider, it was not common knowledge that the organization was harvesting organs and other tissue for sale. The revelation led to a funding battle on Capitol Hill, as pro-lifers sought to have half a billion dollars a year in taxpayer money pulled from the organization. Planned Parenthood claims this doesn't fund abortion, but let's be honest — they're claiming that dumping water in the deep end of the pool doesn't affect the shallow end.
          Though this issue will never be resolved until the yearly number of abortions is zero, there are encouraging prospects to note as we consider the sanctity of human life. And every life saved is a victory.
          Yet more and more ministries and public figures are pointing out the absurdity of a movement centered on choice that leaves a woman no choice at all. Online for Life is using the power of the Internet to reach out to those who search for pregnancy options. Former Planned Parenthood nurse Abby Johnson's ministry And Then There Were None is giving a voice and a choice to those who desire to no longer work for the nation's largest abortion mill.  Project Rachel and Abortion Changes You, among many other such ministries, are coming alongside the hurting women who have already experienced the pain of abortion.Save the Storks takes compassion to those who are in need with a mobile resource center housed in a luxury bus. Students for Life has a wide presence on college campuses.
          In our own home town, we're proud to support Choices Pregnancy Resource Center and the efforts of the wonderful people there to love women, men and their children.
          These are just a few of the innovative ministries that are leading the way to a stronger, more understanding and more effective pro-life movement.  -The Patriot Post
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Don’t reward rogue behavior: 
Opposing view
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ While we can all breathe a collective sigh of relief that the nightmare for five Americans is over and they are now out of Iranian custody, the White House’s decision to yield to the demands of a state sponsor of terrorism is cause for deep concern on several fronts... For one, we’ve released seven convicted Iranian sanctions busters and financial criminals, and expunged international arrest warrants against an additional 14, in exchange for innocent Americans who should have never been incarcerated. President nObama and others who claim this was a diplomatic victory are ignoring that our citizens were held hostage on bogus charges, and that calling this a prisoner swap draws a dangerous equivalency. Moreover, this capitulation will likely encourage Tehran or its terrorist proxies to take more Americans hostage, as they have over three decades. Iran sees, yet again, that there is no price to pay for its rogue behavior. The nuclear deal signed this summer was bad enough. We agreed to fork over an estimated $100 billion in sanctions relief to the regime for temporarily mothballing parts of an illicit nuclear program it should have never built in the first place. We have since failed to respond meaningfully to Iranian ballistic missile launches, human rights violations, and support for terrorism worldwide.        http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/schanzer-jonathan-dont-reward-rogue-behavior-opposing-view/
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The threat to America’s national existence
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{defenddemocracy.org} ~ President nObama judged the Islamic State the “JV team,” boasted that he’d set al Qaeda “on its heels” and implemented successful counterterrorism policies in Yemen... He insists that both the nuclear deal and the hostages-for-felons swap he concluded with Iran’s rulers are triumphs of diplomacy. In his State of the Union address last week, he reassured us that our enemies do not “threaten our national existence.” Why am I not filled with optimism? “Existential threat” is a term that has been most commonly used in recent years about Israel, a nation-state that Islamists aim to exterminate. As Iran’s rulers have noted, the detonation of just one nuclear weapon on Israeli soil could be the quickest means to achieve that goal. The United States, being bigger and stronger, is obviously more resilient. But a nuclear attack, an electromagnetic pulse attack, a biological attack or even a series of attacks of the sort that took place in San Bernardino would profoundly transform America — even if “our national existence” did not come to an end. My grandchildren would inherit a country very different from the one my parents’ generation — the “Greatest Generation,” whose members fought and defeated the tyrants of the 20th century — bequeathed to us.
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The Fight for Democracy in Libya
Continues as the UN backs a new Government
Kerry Lear
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{punchingbagpost.com} ~ As a last stitch effort to end the civil war in Libya, a new United Nations-backed government has been put in place... However, this road to peace seems to be a long one, since two existing parliament leaders are showing opposition.  The UN has been deliberating for over a year if they should intervene with this government. The chaos in Libya has been at an all-time high. Starting in 2011, after the country’s former leader was murder by a mob of militiamen, Libya was left fractured and divided. With the country’s vulnerable state, the dark forces of ISIS have taken control over Libya and most of North Africa. "Over the last four years, Libya has become a key node in the expansion of Islamic radicalism across North Africa... and into Europe. If events in Libya continue on their current path, they will likely haunt the United States and its Western allies for a decade or more,” said Ethan Chorin of Foreign Policy.
http://punchingbagpost.com/the-fight-for-democracy-in-libya-continues-as-the-un-backs-a-new-government
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nObama releases al Qaeda 
bomb expert from Guantánamo
Robert Spencer
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{jihadwatch.org} ~ There you go worrying again. Don’t you know by now that Barack nObama and John hanoi-Kerry have the mystical power to do an unlimited number of reckless things and not ever suffer any of the consequences?... The Pentagon on Thursday announced the transfer of two Guantánamo detainees, including an al Qaeda explosives expert who developed bombs to target U.S. forces. Tariq Mahmoud Ahmed al-Sawah, 58, was transferred to Bosnia, where he holds citizenship. He is an admitted member of the terror group who developed specialized bombs, or improvised explosive devices (IEDs), to use against U.S. military forces and civilians, according to his official file posted by The New York Times.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/01/obama-releases-al-qaeda-bomb-expert-from-guantanamo
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Congress Moves to Block Payment to Iran
of $1.7 Billion in Taxpayer Funds
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{freebeacon.com} ~ Congress is considering legislation that would bar the nObama administration from moving forward on a cash payment to Iran of $1.7 billion in taxpayer funds, according to a copy of the legislation provided to theWashington Free Beacon...   nObama administration officials confirmed to the Free Beacon earlier Thursday that it is using a taxpayer-funded account to pay Iran $1.7 billion as part of a settlement agreement reached with the Islamic Republic ahead of the release of five imprisoned Americans. Critics of the agreement allege that the administration agreed to the payment to spur Iran to release the five Americans, who were freed over the weekend.
http://freebeacon.com/national-security/congress-block-payment-iran-of-1-7-billion-taxpayer-funds/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=9f71a52259-WFB_Morning_Beacon_01_22_161_21_2016&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-9f71a52259-45611665
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Latest Hilly Clinton Email Dump Reveals
Suggested Push For Palestinian Protests
Clare Lopez  
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{aim.org} ~ Hilly Clinton’s personal email server continues to yield a treasure trove of information. Most recently, a series of emails suggest Clinton had considered a plan to incite Palestinian protests against Israel... The email, surfacing thanks to the dogged efforts of Judicial Watch, is an 18 December 2011 message from former U.S. Ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering in which he suggests that then-Secretary of State Clinton should consider a plan to re-energize the stalled Israeli-Palestinian peace talks by inciting Palestinians to ‘non-violent’ demonstrations and protests against Israel. Pickering, who serves on the Board of Advisors to the notorious National Iranian American Council (NIAC – widely viewed as a lobbying front for the Iranian regime), described a clandestine campaign by the U.S. to whip up anti-Israel sentiment intended to cudgel our Israeli allies into re-engaging in negotiations with the Palestinians. Of course, he emphasized that Clinton should keep confidential the whole nefarious idea as, clearly, they did not want Israel to learn of it:
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Cornyn: Indict Hilly Clinton
JOEL GEHRKE
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{washingtonexaminer.com} ~ Hilly Clinton should be indicted for mishandling classified information on a private system, according to Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn... although he doubts the nObama administration will take that step. "The Attorney General is a political appointee, serves at the pleasure of the president," the Texas Republican, a former state attorney general, told conservative talk radio host Hugh Hewitt. "I find it hard to believe that she would indict Secretary Clinton during this time. But it's clear the FBI views this as a very, very serious matter as they should." Cornyn asked Attorney General Loretta Lynch to appoint a special counsel to investigate Clinton months ago, after the inspector general for the Intelligence Committee found classified information on Clinton's private server and referred the case to the Justice Department. His latest comments follow a report that the inspector general informed lawmakers that Clinton's server contained information beyond the level of top secret.        http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cornyn-indict-hillary-clinton/article/2581094
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Muslims Claim Offense at National Anthem:
It’s Part of “OppressiveCampaign”
Tim Brown
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{sonsoflibertymedia.com} ~ America better wake up to what the usurper-in-chief and his minions, along with a complicit Congress, are allowing into America’s borders. A good lesson could be learned from the folks down under in Australia, who recently offended Muslims for having them sing the country’s national anthem... While I’m not one that seeks to “force” anyone to do anything, the reality is that Islam presents no system for real justice nor has an Islamic system been established that ensures the liberty of men. Rather, for its 1400 year history, Islam has been notorious for oppression, not freedom. “It’s not enough that you obey the law, no, you have to adopt our values,” Mr Badar told the conference. Right, and in Islamic countries Mr. Badar, how does that work? Do they impose their culture and values on outsiders? You bet your bottom dollar they do!        http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2016/01/muslims-claim-offense-at-national-anthem-its-part-of-oppressive-campaign/
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Hilly Clinton: I Don't Understand
What 'Establishment' Means
Tiffany Gabbay
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{truthrevolt.org} ~ Hilly Clinton is dubbed the "sharpest woman in the room" until feigning ignorance proves more politically expedient... During an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, the Democrat frontrunner was asked if she is "part of the Democrat/D.C. establishment." Clinton, of course, refused to answer directly, instead saying she doesn't even "understand" what establishment even means. As if being a member of the establishment only consists of how long one has served in public office. A person can be a junior senator with less than one year under his or her belt and still be "establishment" in terms of political agenda, votes and initiatives. Of course the former senator knows this well, but chose to play the bewildered card instead. That's convenient.       http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/hillary-clinton-i-dont-understand-what-establishment-means
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Judicial Watch 
Uncovers New State Department Records
Confirming Arab Smuggling “Cells,”
Al Qaeda Leader in Mexico.
Judicial Watch
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{realisticobserver.blogspot.mx} ~ For more than a decade the U.S. government has known that “Arab extremists” are entering the country through Mexico with the assistance of smuggling network “cells,” according to State Department documents... obtained by Judicial Watch that reveal among them was a top Al Qaeda operative wanted by the FBI. Some Mexican smuggling networks actually specialize in providing logistical support for Arab individuals attempting to enter the United States, the government documents say. The top Al Qaeda leader in Mexico was identified in the September 2004 cable from the American consulate in Ciudad Juárez as Adnan G. El Shurkrjumah. The cable was released to Judicial Watch under the Freedom of Information Act. The new intelligence records were released as a result of an ongoing JW investigation into the critical national security threats on the southern border, specifically those created by Islamic terrorists teaming up with Mexican drug cartels to infiltrate and attack the U.S. In response to JW’s reporting in the last two years the nObama administration—through various spokespeople, including FBI Director James Comey—has vehemently denied that Islamic terrorists are operating in Mexican towns near American cities or entering the U.S. through the famously porous southern border. The State Department documents, which include substantial redactions supposedly to protect classified and personal information, contradict this. JW obtained them as part of an investigative series into Shukrijumah, an Al Qaeda operative also known as Javier Robles. In December, 2014 Shukrijumah was killed by the Pakistan Army in an intelligence-borne operation in South Waziristan. But before he died Shukrijumah helped plan several U.S. attacks, including plots to bomb Oprah Winfrey’s studio and detonate nuclear devices in multiple American cities. For years Shukrijumah appeared on the FBI’s most wanted list and, despite being sought by the agency, he crossed back and forth into the U.S. from Mexico to meet fellow militant Islamists in Texas. JW has reported that, as one of the world’s most wanted terrorists, Shukrijumah piloted an aircraft into the Cielo Dorado airfield in Anthony, New Mexico.
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Krauthammer: EmailGate Now
‘Worse than What Snowden Did’
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{nicedeb.wordpress.com} ~ The Fox News’ Special Report panel reacted Tuesday evening to new revelations from the Intel IG that  several dozen of the emails on Hilly Clinton’s personal server were  “above top secret” classification.
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According to the reporting of Fox News chief intelligence correspondent Catherine Herridge, Clinton’s personal server contained intelligence from the U.S. Special Access Programs, also known as SAP.
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The Daily Caller’s Tucker Carlson called the new revelations a “smoking gun” and a “pivot point” for Hillary’s campaign.
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He pointed out that the intel community believes that Clinton’s server – with at least dozens of highly classified data points, was penetrated by foreign intelligence services.
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“If this were a member of the uniformed military who had done this, or a CIA operation’s officer, they’d be in jail,” Carlson said.
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Mara Liasson, whose first instinct was to defend Clinton, found herself agreeing that this looks exceedingly bad for her. “If it’s true, it’s extremely serious,” she conceded.
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Weak tea, but we’ll take it, Mara.
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Krauthammer said, “what people have to understand is that there is nothing higher, more secret than an SAP. From some people I have talked to, this is worse than what Snowden did because he didn’t have access to SAP.”
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He explained that the reason the material is so sensitive is because “if it’s compromised, people die.”
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Charles continued,  “it also means that operations that have been embedded for years and years get destroyed and cannot be reconstituted. This is very serious. Petraeus, as was mentioned earlier, he pled guilty because precisely this kind of information he shared. And I don’t see, given the fact that he is the inspector general of the intelligence community who was writing this officially to the intelligence committee heads in Congress that there is any way to contradict this. It is not a news story. This is an investigative story. And now it’s in the hands of the FBI. It’s hard to imagine that the Department of Justice will ignore this or wave it away.”
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