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 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
In Israel, a reason for celebration: 
Let's stop and make a hard-nosed, 
clear-eyed assessment
Caroline B. Glick
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Can the GOP at Least Slow Iran Deal?  
Republicans are considering their options to thwart the Iran deal and preserve at least some of the sanctions against Iran for as long as possible. They'll do this by rebuking Barack nObama for failing even to abide by the terms of Sen. Bob Corker's ill-advised review deal. Under that law, which nObama signed, he was required to submit all relevant information to the deal, including unbelievably foolish secret side deals, by July 19, after which Congress would have 60 days for review. nObama did not do so, which Republicans argue means the congressional review period never actually began. They have forced a delay in the debate over the deal until nObama hands over the information. In the meantime, the House will vote on two measures laying groundwork for possible legal action: One condemning nObama for violating the law, and another meant-to-fail measure to approve the deal. "The administration has not submitted the deal," Sen. Ted Cruz said, adding, "Republicans in this body should not be facilitating this president yet again disregarding the law and doing so in contravention of the national security interests of this country."
          On the other side of the aisle, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer perhaps the worst endorsement ever: "I have concluded that this is not the best deal the P5+1 could have achieved." Not even close, as detailed by the rest of his statement. "However," he continued, "it is the agreement that the United States agreed to and that is now before the Congress. Although it was a difficult choice, I have decided to oppose a resolution of disapproval, albeit with serious concerns." Try to contain your enthusiasm, there, Steny.  -The Patriot Post 
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  Khamenei: Israel Will Be Gone in 25 Years  
Now that Barack nObama has the necessary congressional minorities to block opposition to his Iran deal, Iran's supreme leader decided to rub some salt in the wound. This time, he's back to threatening Israel. "After nuclear negotiations, the Zionist regime said that they will not be worried about Iran in the next 25 years," Ayatollah Ali Khamenei wrote. "I am telling you, first, you will not be around in 25 years' time, and God willing, there will be no Zionist regime in 25 years. Second, during this period, the spirit of fighting, heroism and jihad will keep you worried every moment." Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned in his March speech to a joint session of Congress that negotiating with the Iranian regime was a fool's errand, and that nObama's "deal will not prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons; it would all but guarantee that Iran gets those weapons — lots of them." Best-case scenario under nObama's deal, Iran is prevented from obtaining nuclear weapons for 15 years. That leaves 10 years in Khamenei's 25-year window to annihilate Israel. In the meantime, nObama will give Iran more than $100 billion in sanctions relief with which to keep the jihad going, just as Khamenei promised. Republicans ought to be doing whatever they can to stop this deal.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Carson Nails Favorite Bible Verses Question  
It wasn't long ago that Donald Trump refused to name any favorite Bible verses (likely because he couldn't). Ben Carson didn't have any trouble with the same question. Carson offered Proverbs 3:5-6 and Proverbs 22:4, both of which he quoted — the latter says, "With humility and the fear of the Lord, that's where life and wealth come from." To be fair, he had time to prepare, but we also don't doubt his sincerity as we do Trump's.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Another September, Another Shutdown Threat  
It’s that time of year again — summer’s end, the hint of falling leaves and the annual talk of a government shutdown. With Congress back in session this week and fewer than 10 working days before the Sept. 30 spending bill deadline, political consultants are once again prepping the spin-fest to ensure that, should a shutdown occur, the other side gets the blame.
          This time, the sticking point isn’t nObamaCare as in 2013, or Barack nObama’s immigration overreach as in 2014, but rather continued government funding for Planned Parenthood. The nation's largest abortion mill (327,653 babies killed in 2013) rakes in more than $500 million per year in taxpayer dollars while dismembering babies and selling their body parts to the highest bidder.
          "[T]his arrangement is not new," notes Terence Jeffrey. "In fiscal 2012, Planned Parenthood says in its immediate past report, it did 327,166 abortions. In the year that ended on June 30, 2013, it got $540.6 million in government money. In fiscal 2011, it did 333,964 abortions, and in the year that ended on June 30, 2012, it got $542.4 million in government money."
          That's $1.6 billion in tax dollars for nearly a million dead babies. Oh, they say no federal money goes to pay for abortions, but is anyone really naïve enough to buy that?   -The Patriot Post 
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 ISIS releases ‘Kill List’ of US cities  
{themuslimissue.wordpress.com} ~The Pentagon has responded to a globally-released ‘Kill List’, asking law enforcement to give extra protection for military personnel whose personal information was released, News Channel 10 reports... CBS News national security correspondent David Martin reports the Pentagon spent the weekend notifying the soldiers who appeared on the list, and urged city police departments and military police to increase patrol in the neighborhoods where the targeted live. The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) published the list days ago, a report that contained names, photos, and home addresses of U.S. Armed Forces personnel, causing alarm in cities potentially at high-risk.   https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/09/12/isis-releases-kill-list-of-us-cities/
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 Senate GOP Should Take "Nuclear Option" To Force Iran Deal Vote  
The senate filibuster is not in the constitution, it is simply a rule of the senate, The nuclear option or dinky Reid Rule allows the senate to vote on an bill or appointee with a simple majority and no worry of filibuster... Senators are very reluctant to resort to the nuclear option, because of the fear that while it is used when they are in the majority, they wont always be in the majority and breaking the long tradition of filibuster protection of the minority may very likely be used against them. That's why it was such a surprise on Hugh Hewitt's radio show on Friday when first John McCain and then Marco Rubio said this may be the time to break the dinky Reid Rule:        https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/14fc1705ed07823e?compose=14fc36d99687ba93
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 50 Spies Say ISIS Intelligence Was Cooked  
{Shane Harris}It’s being called a ‘revolt’ by intelligence pros who are paid to give their honest assessment of the ISIS war—but are instead seeing their reports turned into happy talk... More than 50 intelligence analysts working out of the U.S. military’s Central Command have formally complained that their reports on ISIS and al Qaeda’s branch in Syria were being inappropriately altered by senior officials, The Daily Beast has learned. The complaints spurred the Pentagon’s inspector general to open an investigation into the alleged manipulation of intelligence. The fact that so many people complained suggests there are deep-rooted, systemic problems in how the U.S. military command charged with the war against the self-proclaimed Islamic State assesses intelligence.
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 Two Open Borders Dems Pushing For Huge Increases In Refugees...  
{rickwells.us} ~ Two of the more radical open borders Democrats, Rep John Conyers of Michigan and Zoe Lofgren of California aren’t satisfied with the speed of the decline of the United States of America... under the bombardment of illegal aliens from south of the border that they have engineered. They’ve never seen a willing foreigner they didn’t feel needed to be imported and supported by the citizens of the United States. That includes those that we have to transport from terrorist nations. From their perverse viewpoint, being an American is something every human is entitled to, and they’re working to bring the US domestic population of third world transplants up to the maximum sustainable levels, and well beyond, to the point of terminal overload, just as rapidly as possible. They’re Marxists and aside from their own ruling class, there’s no room for individual wealth or prosperity; equally poor is the rule of the day, and the goal of these two anti-American miscreants.        http://rickwells.us/two-open-borders-dems-pushing-for-huge-increases-in-refugee-numbers-from-terrorist-nations-syria/
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 Solving the European Migrant Problem  
{Barry Shaw} ~ The problem facing Europe is not only the vast number of migrants flooding the continent. It is that, from past experience, these people do not escape the Middle East... They bring the Middle East with them. The result is enormous strain on the social fabric of the host nations. It becomes increasingly difficult to assimilate the immigrants with the people already there, as governments try to accommodate the overwhelming weight of strangers who do not know their customs and do not speak their languages. Multiculturalism was a dream. It failed. In its place seems to be an emerging nightmare of unmanageable proportions. The migrant problem is becoming a huge destabilizing headache for Europe. It should not be. The most humane solution -- respecting the migrant's ethnic and religious origins, and honoring their basic traditions of faith and language -- might be closer to home, at least for the migrants from the Middle East and North Africa. Had these migrants been Jewish you can be sure that Israel would have taken emergency measures to accept and absorb them into the Jewish State.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6491/european-migrant-problem
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 Get Ready Suckers Of America, Here They Come...  
{rickwells.us} ~ In the period between now and the Christmas holiday, actions will be taken in our names without our permission or authorization by the globalist Marxists intent on establishing world communism... Those attempts, if successful, will be devastating to us both from a perspective of our financial well being and our American sovereignty. What we are witnessing and being subjected to now is the soft-sell that precedes the hard-sell and outright usurpation of our independent self-government through dictatorial acts. It’s okay, we are told, it’s for our own good; we’re just to ignorant to understand these things; Trust the government and trust the Pope; neither would ever lie to us. Let there be no mistake, Pope Francis is acting as the chief representative and negotiator for the UN world government under Agenda 21, which also goes by the code words “sustainable development.” It is a surrender of independence to the world governing body, with draconian rules as to what we may and may not do in our private lives. They are regulations that would have most Americans marching in the streets if they weren’t too lazy to do so or to even bother to look it up online.        http://rickwells.us/get-ready-suckers-of-america-here-they-come-we-can-trust-these-guys-right-climate-scam-moves-into-high-gear/
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 Surprise! Iran Finds “Unexpectedly High” Uranium Reserve  
{Leah Barkoukis} ~ Most are not suprised……On the heels of nObama essentially securing a nuclear deal with Iran, which was supposed to be running low on uranium... the rogue nation just happened to “unexpectedly” find the nuclear raw material. What. Luck. “I cannot announce (the level of) Iran’s uranium mine reserves,” the state news agency IRNA quoted Iranian nuclear head Ali Akbar Salehi as saying. “The important thing is that before aerial prospecting for uranium ores we were not too optimistic, but the new discoveries have made us confident about our reserves.” The comments cast doubt on previous assessments from some Western analysts who said the country had a low supply and would sooner or later would need to import uranium, the raw material needed for its nuclear program.
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 Spying on Friends: The U.S. and Israel  
{Machla Abramovitz} ~ The extent to which the US spies on friendly countries, including Israel, was exposed in 2013 by former CIA contractor Edward Snowden. Almost four years earlier, in a top secret document... the Foreign Surveillance Intelligence Court approved certification giving the National Security Agency (NSA) the right to conduct surveillance on over 190 foreign governments and entities. So while Jonathan Pollard was given a life sentence for passing classified information to an ally (Israel), what do the revelations of the NSA imply about the US spying on Israel? Political pundit Daniel Pipes has extensively researched the underbelly of the covert relationship between the US and Israel. From his hotel room in Stockholm, Sweden, he explained the complex nature of this relationship, as well as Pollard's activities and subsequent sentencing within this broader context.
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 Massive Anti-Islamization Demos in Eastern Europe  
{pamelageller.com} ~ Thousands of people joined anti-migrant protests in three eastern European capitals on Saturday after leaders from the Czech Republic, Poland and Slovakia opposed an EU scheme to fix refugee quotas... In the Polish capital Warsaw, nearly 5,000 people, many chanting anti-Islamic slogans, marched through the city, an AFP correspondent said. “Islam will be the death of Europe”, one of the banners said. Organisers claimed the demonstration drew 10,000 people but police refused to confirm the figure. “We’re here so that the government hears our voice and abandons any plans to welcome Muslims,” shouted one of the organisers after starting the march with prayers which identified the participants as Roman Catholics.     http://pamelageller.com/2015/09/massive-anti-islamization-demos-in-eastern-europe.html
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 THE GUILTY MEN  
{Bruce Thornton} ~ In July 1940, after the debacle of Dunkirk and the fall of France, an anonymously published book called The Guilty Men criticized by name 18 politicians for the policy of appeasement that had led to the war... Someday someone will no doubt write a similar exposé of the disastrous nuclear deal with Iran. But there will be more than 18 culprits whose hands will be stained with the blood this capitulation will lead to. Start with the 42 Senators who for now are saving nObama from having to veto the bill intended to slow down an agreement that is a disaster for our security and interests. There are only two explanations for these cowardly votes. Either the Senators endorse the delusional argument that giving away the store to Iran is the only option for stopping the Iranians from acquiring nuclear weapons, or they made a despicable political calculation that their careers depended on staying in the good graces of the party’s hierarchy and its leader. In the end it doesn’t matter if they are naïve idealists, like Neville Chamberlain, or selfish careerists. The dangers are the same. And let’s not forget the scores of House Democrats guilty of the same sins. Patrick Murphy, a Congressman from Florida who plans to run for Marco Rubio’s Senate seat, made a statement that encapsulates the muddled thinking of the deal’s champions:
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In Israel, a reason for celebration: 
Let's stop and make a hard-nosed, 
clear-eyed assessment
Caroline B. Glick
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     {jewishworldreview.com} ~ As we approach Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, the people of Israel need to recognize how lucky we are.
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     True, today, we find ourselves largely alone, set apart from our traditional partners in the Western world. But standing alone isn't always the worst option. Today it is certainly not the worst option.
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     Over the past several years, we have witnessed the growing radicalization and fragmentation of the societies of neighboring lands. Sunnis fight Shi'ites and one another. Minority populations are slaughtered, enslaved and oppressed. Regimes fall, rise and fall again. Today, every Arab society is either in danger or at war. And in almost every case, it isn't good fighting evil but varying degrees of evil and barbarism fighting one another.
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     From the PLO to Islamic State, through Hamas, the Muslim Brotherhood, the Assad regime in Syria, the ayatollahs of Iran, Hezbollah, the Erdogan regime in Turkey and other though Saudi Arabia, every single actor in the region resorts to some degree of torture and oppression.
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And all do so while quoting the Koran.
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Israel has responded rationally to the carnage at our doorstep.
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     We help where we can. For instance, we are assisting the Egyptian regime in its war against jihadist forces in Sinai. We support the Hashemite regime in Jordan. We provide humanitarian assistance to the victims of the bloodbath in Syria.
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And we are securing our borders.
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     After we finished building the border fence with Egypt, we built one along the Syrian border. Now we are fencing off the border with Jordan.
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     These fences may not make good neighbors. But they do keep the bad ones at bay.
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     Similar rationality is in short supply today in Europe and among the smart set in America. Westerners are increasingly at a loss in the face of the break-up of societies throughout the Arab world.
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     Consider for instance Europe's disoriented, confused response to the massive wave of refugees from Syria now washing onto its shores. Perhaps the most notable aspect of the unfolding drama is that it appears the Europeans only just realized that Syria has fallen apart.
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The war in Syria broke out nearly five years ago.
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     Hundreds of thousands have already been killed in the conflict. Ten million people — nearly half of Syria's pre-war population — have been displaced. For the past four years, millions of Syrians have been living in refugee camps in neighboring states — first and foremost in Turkey, Lebanon and Jordan.
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     Most of the refugees now arriving in Europe are coming from these camps, rather than directly from Syria. Rather than help them either resettle in the lands to which they fled, or take action on the ground in Syria to enable them to return to their homes, the Europeans largely ignored them.
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     Part of the reason Europe has ignored Syria, of course, is indifference. So long as it's happening "over there," the Europeans really couldn't care less.
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     But indifference alone does not explain how Europe has been taken by surprise by a humanitarian disaster of the magnitude now unfolding at its borders.
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     Identity politics have played a key role in shaping Europe's failed Middle East policies — in Syria and throughout the increasingly destabilized Islamic world.
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     Identity politics distinguish between various groups based on how they fall on a spectrum of "oppression."
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     Western nations, led by Europe and the US, are all classified as "oppressors," due to their "imperialist" past.
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The Islamic world writ large is classified as "oppressed."
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     All groups that receive "oppressed" status are immune from judgment, much less resistance from those who fall on the side of the "oppressors."
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     Given this taxonomy, Europeans along with the sectors of American society that have embraced identity policies are incapable of recognizing, much less taking action against, radical Islamists.
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     Those who are oppressed by the "oppressed" of the Islamic world — the Yazidis, Christians and Kurds, for instance — can receive no sustained protection from their jihadist oppressors by the "Muslim-oppressing" West.
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     The immunity identity politics confers on "oppressed" population groups adheres even when those groups themselves engage in oppression.
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     There is, however, one group in the Islamic world that identity politics do not immunize from Western opposition. The West can oppose Arab regimes that wish to cooperate with the West in fighting against radical Islamists.
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     Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi for instance is a member of this group. Ever since he overthrew the US-supported Muslim Brotherhood regime two years ago, the US has kept him at arm's length. Washington has imposed a partial weapons embargo and denied US support for its war against jihadist forces in Sinai.
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     Then there is Libya. Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi collaborated with the West against al-Qaida from 2004 until he was assassinated in 2011.
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     That year Gaddafi was overthrown by European forces backed by the US. The West overthrew Gaddafi in order "to prevent genocide."
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     The chaos that ensued in Libya after his overthrow has in turn enabled al-Qaida and Islamic State to take over large swathes of the country.
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The West has had nothing to say about this turn of events.
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     The tyranny of identity politics is not limited to its conferral of immunity on jihadists. Identity politics are a comprehensive, totalitarian world view that dictates responses in all areas of human endeavor.
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     For instance, the "Black Lives Matter" group in the US, which sanctions the murder of policemen, is given a pass by adherents of identity politics. Its followers view all blacks as oppressed. Police, who are perceived as agents of Western oppression, cannot expect sympathy when they are murdered.
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     In Britain, adherents of identity politics not only want to see Britain out of the Middle East, they support their country's unilateral nuclear disarmament, because as they see it, Britain is unworthy of nuclear weapons due to its imperialist past.
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     A testament to the power of identity politics in Britain is the rise of Jeremy Corbyn. The radical Labor parliamentarian is expected to win the race for leadership of the party on Saturday.
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     Corbyn is a shining example of the type of leader produced by identity politics. He opposes British power. He is a foe of free markets and the British military. He supports Hamas and Hezbollah. He has led anti-Israel demonstrations and conferences organized by Islamist organizations. He has contributed to an organization led by a Holocaust denier and participated in its conferences.
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And of course, he opposes Israel and Jews who support it.
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    That's the thing of it. Identity politics define both Israel and Jews in the Diaspora as "oppressors."
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     Many Israelis as well as Jewish organizations in the Diaspora have been trying for years to prove that this is untrue. Israel is after all the victim of both European and Islamic imperialists. Zionism is a national liberation movement.
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     But these protestations have made no impression on anyone. And this is to be expected. It isn't possible to change Israel's classification on the oppression scale, because the scale is completely arbitrary. Even worse, every attempt to question the arbitrary scale simply induces more hostility on the part of its adherents. Questioning whether oppressed groups are in fact oppressed is itself an act of oppression and further proof that those who question are indeed oppressors.
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     In other words, identity politics are a closed intellectual universe immune from all doubts, and logic.
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     According to media reports, British Jewry is in a state of panic at the prospect of Corbyn's imminent takeover of the Labor Party. They understand that if he does win on Saturday, any residual influence they have over the second largest party in Britain will disappear. And the consequences of this loss of even a semblance of power will not be long in coming.
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     This week it was reported that during the past year the UK has seen a 93 percent rise in anti-Semitic attacks. This week's brutal assault on a group of Orthodox Jewish teens in Manchester by three Muslim Jew-haters was just a particularly brutal example of what is now a daily phenomenon in Britain.
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     The violent demonstration against Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu outside 10 Downing Street on Wednesday was similarly to be expected. Britain's kid glove treatment of Muslim violence and racism empowered protesters to trample on the Israeli flag, and call for the destruction of Israel and for Netanyahu to be killed just meters away from where he was meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron.
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     As for the US, identity politics control the lives of university students from the moment they enter the gates of their campus until the moment they leave them. It is due to this stranglehold that anti-Semitism is now rampant in American academia.
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     Quite simply a university that subscribes to identity politics cannot accept that Jews are persecuted by the groups it has deemed oppressed.
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     Identity politics also has significant influence in left-wing ideological circles outside the classroom.
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     The most obvious testament to their power is President Barack nObama's radical shift of US Middle East strategy.
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     The nObama administration's animosity toward Israel is part and parcel of the world view that brought it to support Gaddafi's overthrow and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt. So, too, the administration's refusal to take action to overthrow the Assad regime or destroy Islamic State in Syria and Iraq on the one hand, and its facilitation of Iran's rise to regional hegemony and nuclear empowerment on the other, is a clear indication that identity politics play a key role in determining the administration's foreign policy.
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     But there is still reason to hope that things can change in America. The fact is that two-thirds of Americans oppose nObama's nuclear pact with the mullahs and support Israel. nObama has only been able to promote his radical agenda by pretending it isn't his agenda.
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     As Israel seeks to secure and advance its interests in the identity politics-riven West, we must understand that our ability to impact the views of the other side is limited. The moment a society embraces identity politics, its members become incapable of rationally pursuing their own interests.
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And consequently, they are lost to Israel.
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     As far as securing our relations with the US is concerned, we must take every opportunity to strengthen those who fight against identity politics and for rationality and reasoned analysis of reality.
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     And while we pray for their success, we need to recognize that this is America's fight to win or to lose. We cannot fight it for the American people.
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     But just as we build fences along our borders, we need to prepare for the worst in order to secure our survival.
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     Israel's greatest strategic asset is our willingness to see things for what they are. It is my prayer for the coming year that our vision becomes ever sharper and that through our moral and strategic clarity we rally the Americans and other like-minded nations to our side in our fight for ourselves and for the noblest attributes of humanity.
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Monday ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
A glorious defeat
Caroline Glick
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Blumenthal on backstabber Boehner: The Truth 
From the latest batch of Hilly Clinton's emails, one notable communiqué is from Sidney Blumenthal in response to the 2010 midterm elections, when Republicans retook the House. Blumenthal wrote to Clinton, "[House Speaker John] backstabber Boehner is despised by the younger, more conservative members of the House. ... He is louche, alcoholic, lazy, and without any commitment to any principle. ... He is not [Newt] Gingrich, the natural leader of a 'revolution,' riding the crest into power. He is careworn and threadbare, banal and hollow..." The unfortunate truth is that many conservatives would have agreed with Blumenthal in 2010 and many more would agree with him today. backstabber Boehner has been and remains a colossal failure as speaker of the House, despite the huge Republican victories in both the 2010 and 2014 midterms. Though there have been significant gains in conservative House ranks, backstabber Boehner has put up a gauntlet blocking the ascension of most of those genuine conservatives to positions of power in the House.
          We certainly agree with Blumenthal's assessment about his sobriety, too. In fact, we don't believe backstabber Boehner has been sober at a microphone for years. We've questioned House members close to backstabber Boehner, and they all make excuses for his slurred words and demeanor. Most suggest some variant of, "He is just exhausted." We believe, however, that backstabber Boehner's cadre of House confidants continue to prop him up, sober or not, because he is the House power broker and their meal ticket.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Leading the GOP Field: Candidates With No Prior Office 
CNN has given Carly Fiorina the chance to appear on the stage at the Sept. 16 presidential primary debate after announcing a changed method for determining which candidates would be invited. Instead of picking the 10 candidates who performed best in the polls conducted from July 16 to Sept. 10, CNN will pick candidates who do well in polls conducted from Aug. 7 to Sept. 10. There haven't been as may polls during the late summer as CNN predicted, and some candidates who have been gaining popularity would not have made it onto the stage if CNN kept its metric unchanged. With Fiorina's rise after her stellar debate performance, and Ben Carson closing the gap with Donald Trump in the polls, the Republican field is currently led by three candidates who have never held elected office. It demonstrates that a sizable swath of grassroots conservatives are sick and tired of how the establishment GOP (looking at you, backstabber John Boehner) has run Washington. And who can blame them? The GOP in Congress caved to Barack nObama's demands at the beginning of the year when he sought funding for his executive orders on immigration. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon -nell refuses to consider defunding Planned Parenthood, despite the growing disgust over its baby-parts trafficking. The primary season is the time for the party to decide its agenda and leadership style. The status quo will no longer do, and CNN has done it's part to prevent its rules from rigging that discussion.  -The Patriot Post 
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 No One Died Looking for Bergdahl? 
Bowe Bergdahl, the soldier who abandoned his post in Afghanistan only to be held captive by the Taliban until Barack nObama traded five jihadis for his release last year, was charged with both desertion and now also a rarer crime — misbehavior before the enemy. CBS News explains the significance: "Bergdahl could face a life sentence if convicted of the charge, which accuses him of endangering fellow soldiers when he 'left without authority; and wrongfully caused search and recovery operations.' Observers say the misbehavior charge allows authorities to allege that Bergdahl not only left his unit with one less soldier, but that his deliberate action put soldiers who searched for him in harm's way." That is indisputable as far as we're concerned. But the next sentence in the CBS report is astounding: "The Pentagon has said there is no evidence anyone died searching for Bergdahl." That's preposterous. Beyond the soldiers who died fighting and capturing the Taliban Five, at least six Americans lost their lives in operations to recover Bergdahl. Their names are PFC Matthew Michael Martinek, Staff Sgt. Kurt Robert Curtiss, SSG Clayton Bowen, PFC Morris Walker, SSG Michael Chance Murphrey and 2LT Darryn Andrews. Perhaps these men weren't killed directly by the jihadis holding Bergdahl, but they were on missions related to the search. Operations were put on hold and resources diverted to find Bergdahl. Lives were lost. And for someone at the Pentagon to be giving political cover to nObama in such a way is despicable.   -The Patriot Post 
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 Green Gurus Caught in Dirty Ponzi Scheme 
We're not sure what's less surprising: That a renewable energy endeavor turned out to be a Ponzi scheme, or that it has ties to the Clintons. The Associated Press reports, "Three people were charged Thursday with running a $54 million Ponzi scheme built on promises of a green energy technology that would turn trash into fuel and 'carbon-negative' housing developments, neither of which were ever fully developed, federal prosecutors said. ... Prosecutors said the trio lied to investors that their 'biochar' technology and 'carbon-negative' housing in Tennessee made millions, but they had almost no earnings and used the money to repay earlier investors and for themselves." According to U.S. Attorney Zane Memeger, "The scheme alleged in this indictment offered investors the best of both worlds — investing in sustainable and clean energy products while also making a profit. Unfortunately for the investors, it was all a hoax and they lost precious savings. These defendants preyed on the emotions of their victims and sold them a scam." Sounds like the entire nObama climate change charade. The criminal charges come years after a separate civil lawsuit. "The scam allegedly ran from 2005 until 2009, even after the Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil lawsuit against Wragg and Knorr's Mantria Corp. They were ordered in 2012 to pay $37 million each," the AP adds. The kicker? "Two months before the SEC civil lawsuit, the company was publicly recognized for its stated commitment to 'help mitigate global warming' by former President Bill Clinton's Clinton Global Initiative. The company was cited for its plans to develop the biochar technology that it said would sequester carbon dioxide and reduce emissions in developing countries. Wragg appeared on stage with Clinton at the event in September 2009." Envirofascists slam Big Oil for ostensibly putting profits before principle, yet that's exactly what happened in this case. And wouldn't you know it? The defendants are in good company with the Clintons.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Iranian Defense Minister We Will Continue To Support Terrorists 
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ Iranian Defense Minister, Brig. Gen. Hossein Dehghan was in charge of the Iranian Revolutionary Guard forces that helped Hezbollah blow up the U.S. Military barracks in Beirut killing 241 Marines... His hatred of the U.S. hasn't subsided as he recently told a TV interviewer that the U.S. is still the great Satan, and he has every intention of continuing to help terrorists. On October 25, 1983, a Shiite suicide bomber detonated a water tanker at the U.S. Marine barracks in Beirut, killing 241 Marines; simultaneously, another Shiite suicide bomber blew up the French paratroopers’ barracks in Beirut, killing 58 soldiers. It was Mughniyeh who dispatched both bombers. The order to carry out the attacks was transmitted, and the funding and operational training provided, with the help of the Revolutionary Guard in Lebanon under the command of Hossein Dehghan.
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 Islamists and the radical left: Co-belligerents in a war on America   
{Lawence Sellin PhD} ~ It should surprise no one that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has joined the Black Lives Matter movement... It is logical that CAIR, the unindicted co-conspirator in the prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for providing support to the terrorist group Hamas, should join a group which has contributed to an atmosphere of violent incitement and hatred against police officers across the nation. Although their motivations are different, fundamentalist Islam and the radical political left are both devoted to totalitarianism, have a shared hatred of Western civilization and Judeo-Christian democracy and they are equally determined to extinguish liberty and subjugate the individual, either to Sharia or the state.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/islamists-and-the-radical-left-co-belligerents-in-a-war-on-america/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email090815&utm_medium=email
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 Benghazi: Updates, Hilly Clinton and Stonewalling State Department 
{rickwells.us} ~Now labeling her situation with her removal illegal storage of government documents on her private email server as suffering from a “confusing aspect,” Hilly Clinton continued to dodge the issue as irrelevant while campaigning in Iowa... She said she is “sorry that this has been confusing to a lot of people and raised a lot of questions, but there are answers to all these questions.” They’re not truthful ones in all likelihood, at least not to this point or in the foreseeable future, but there are answers. She went so far as to state that she “takes responsibility and it wasn’t the best choice.” Clinton’s definition of responsibility is different from most of us. For her it’s an admission not of guilt, but recognition that her lies have gotten her trapped and she has no other way out. Trey Gowdy agrees that “Ms Clinton has answered several of the questions; the problem is that every answer she has provided has been demonstrably false, so that’s why we keep asking.”        http://rickwells.us/trey-gowdy-update-on-benghazi-committee-clinton-emails-and-the-stonewalling-state-department/
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 Hanoi John Kerry Selects Clinton Donor As Email Czar 
{rickwells.us} ~ The new “email czar” appointed by Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry to oversee the burgeoning Hilly Clinton email scandal is a Clinton campaign donor who recently made a generous contribution, according to federal records obtained by Judicial Watch... Hanoi Kerry could not have picked a better team player. Jacobs is a big Clinton fan who contributed $2,700 to the Hilly for America presidential campaign fund, Federal Election Commission records obtained by JW show. Can we really expect her to be fair and objective as the new gatekeeper of Clinton’s records? Besides being an admirer and campaign donor of the former Secretary of State, Jacobs has a long history as a State Department insider serving as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Visa Services and Assistant Secretary for Consular Affairs until retiring last year. No cabinet secretary has ever established their own external communication system in an effort to circumvent both the unclassified and classified government systems. Judicial Watch has been a leader in exposing the Clinton email scandal and has a number of lawsuits pending in federal court.        http://rickwells.us/john-kerry-selects-clinton-donor-as-email-czar-obstructionism-in-interest-of-transparency-speed-and-efficiency/
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 Cheney: Nuke Deal Enables Iran to Eradicate Israel In ‘One Day’ 
{Adam Kredo} ~ Former Vice President Dick Cheney warned that the recently inked nuclear deal with Iran is “madness” and that it will enable the Islamic Republic to wage a new Holocaust against Israel that would destroy the Jewish state in just “one day.”... “This deal gives Tehran the means to launch a nuclear attack on the U.S. homeland, it threatens the security of our Arab allies across the middle east, it threatens the security of Europe, and it should not be forgotten this deal has vast implications for the future security of the Jewish people,” Cheney said during a speech Monday morning at the American Enterprise Institute (AEI). “It took Nazi Germany seven years to kill six million Jews,” Cheney said. “It would take a nuclear-armed Iran one day.” Cheney’s remarks come as the nObama administration fights to push the deal through Congress, where Republicans and Democrats are divided on the issue.
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 Bulgaria Blocks Airspace for Russian Planes 
{Daniel Wiser} ~ Bulgaria has blocked Russian planes from flying in its airspace amid mounting concerns about an escalation in Russian support for Syria’s government, according to reports... A spokeswoman for Bulgaria’s foreign ministry told Reuters that officials in the country were concerned about the contents of the Russian military transport planes, which were headed to Syria. Russia is one of the chief allies of Bashar al-Assad’s embattled government in Damascus. “We have enough information that makes us have serious doubts about the cargo of the planes, which is the reason for the refusal,” the Bulgarian spokeswoman said.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/bulgaria-blocks-airspace-for-russian-planes-as-putin-boosts-involvement-in-syrian-war/
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 Bad News For Hilly? Senate Offers Her 'Server Guy' Immunity  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ UH-OH There's more trouble ahead for Hilly Clinton, the State Department staffer who freelanced as the tech guy who set up and managed her home server (Bryan Pagliano)... told investigators that they shouldn't bother with a subpoena because he would just take the fifth. But now Senate investigators are dangling immunity in front of him. Sens. Chuck Grassley and Ron Johnson, the chairmen of two key committees investigating the situation, said they have authority to extend immunity compelling Mr. Pagliano to talk. In related news, Mrs. Clinton reversed course Tuesday and kind of apologized in an ABC News interview for the private server, “That was a mistake. I’m sorry about that. I take responsibility,” she said. But then she taped the Ellen show and retreated to her original story, that she was only sorry it led to confusion.
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 Hilly Knew THIS About Benghazi   
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Democratic presidential candidate Hilly Clinton is facing more questions about what she knew about the fatal terrorist attack on the U.S. Embassy in Benghazi that left Ambassador Christopher Stevens and three others dead... A memo surfaced that indicates that Clinton, then Secretary of State, knew terrorists carried out the attack and also knew the plan was to use protests regarding a controversial You Tube video as a “cover” for the attack. Clinton received the email on Sept. 12, 2012, the day after the attack, from Tyler Drumheller. Drumheller, now deceased, was then a former CIA spy who had challenged information regarding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. That false information was used to invade Iraq. “These officials do believe that the attackers having prepared to launch their assault took advantage of the cover provided by the demonstrations in Benghazi protesting an Internet production seen as disrespectful to the prophet Mohammed (sic).,” the memo said.
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 New Clinton Thumb Drive Lawsuit Filed 
{rickwells.us} ~ One of the many questions that private, everyday Americans who aren’t members of the ruling class have been wondering and asking themselves is just how was it that a security clearance held by Hilly Clinton somehow morphed over to include her attorneys, their staffs and their offices... The potential for the unauthorized accessing of classified information by those not holding a security clearance would seem to be a clear violation of the espionage act. Then again they’re lawyers, so whatever they’re doing it must be legal, right? While the “dogged defenders of liberty” in the establishment media haven’t thought to raise the issue of Clinton Attorney David Kendall and the 30,000 email thumb drive, there are others who take their role as members of the free press much more seriously and are forcing the issue into the sunlight where it can be addressed. Was permission and access granted by the State Department, to whom and to what extent? A lawsuit filed Monday in U.S. District Court by freelance journalist David Brown seeks to find out. Politico reports that Brown is seeking all documents relevant to the decision to grant custody of the thumb drives which have now been proven to have contained sensitive data.        http://rickwells.us/new-clinton-thumb-drive-lawsuit-filed-questions-process-security-access-of-attorneys-others-to-secret-data/
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 Hilly Clinton Makes Speech In Support Of Iran Deal She Helped To Craft   
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ While Hanoi John Kerry and Barack nObama deservedly get the "credit" for bowing down to Iran's Supreme Leader by making concession after concession and ignoring the "redlines"...  created by the Administration (to the point where it seemed as if Hanoi Kerry was shining the Ayatollah's shoes) But it was Hilly Clinton who made the first concession to Iran which was allowing them to continue to enrich uranium, which set up the rest of the deal as an American capitulation.   Maybe that's why today she announced her strong support of the "crap sandwich" she helped to make. According to a report in the Wall Street Journal, In July 2012, Ms. Clinton’s sent her closest foreign-policy aide, Jake Sullivan to a secret meeting with Iranian diplomats in Oman which made no progress. That was a beginning of a subtle change in strategy, the objective was no longer to disable and remove Iran's nuclear weapons program, it became doing what was necessary to make a deal.        http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/09/hillary-clinton-makes-speech-in-support.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a70d75508a-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-a70d75508a-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-a70d75508a-291705165
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A glorious defeat
Caroline Glick
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     {jpost.com} ~ Sometimes you have to fight battles you cannot win because fighting – regardless of the outcome – advances a larger cause.
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     Israel’s fight against the nuclear deal the major powers, led by US President Barack nObama concluded with Iran was such a battle.
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     The battle’s futility became clear on July 20, just six days after it was concluded in Vienna.
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     On July 20, the US administration anchored the deal – which paves the way for Iran to become a nuclear power and enriches the terrorism-sponsoring ayatollahs to the tune of $150 billion – in a binding UN Security Council resolution. Once the resolution passed, the deal became unstoppable.
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Most of the frozen funds that comprise the $150b. would have been released regardless of congressional action. And the nonproliferation regime the US developed over the past 70 years was upended the moment the deal was concluded in Vienna.
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     The fight in Congress itself probably couldn’t have succeeded even if the administration hadn’t made an end run around the lawmakers at the Security Council.
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     After Sen. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, passed the law obligating nObama to secure the support of a mere third of the members of either House to implement his nuclear deal, its implementation was a foregone conclusion. The US Constitution gives sole power to approve international treaties to the Senate and requires a minimum of two-thirds approval for passage. Corker turned the Constitution on its head when he went forward with his bill. Far from curbing nObama’s executive overreach, Corker gave nObama unprecedented power to enact his radical, reckless nuclear agenda.
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     So if the fight against the deal was doomed to fail, why did the Israeli government decide to fight it for all it was worth? And why is Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu still fighting it even though there is no longer any way to stop nObama from enabling Iran to sprint across the nuclear finish line? By fighting nObama’s nuclear deal, Israel seeks to advance two larger efforts. First, it uses the battle to expand its capacity to act without the US to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. Second, it is shaping its relations with the US both for the duration of nObama’s presidency and for the day after he leaves office.
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     As far as Iran’s nuclear program is concerned, nObama’s deal has not impacted Israel’s options for preventing the mullahs from getting the bomb.
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     Even before the US betrayed Israel, its Arab allies and its own national security interests and closed a deal that will transform Iran into a nuclear power and a regional hegemon, there was no chance that the Americans would take action to prevent Iran from developing atomic warheads.
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     That prospect was taken off the table in November 2007. The National Intelligence Estimate on Iran’s nuclear program published that month falsely – and scandalously – asserted that Tehran abandoned its nuclear weapons program at the end of 2003.
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     The NIE was a bureaucratic coup. CIA analysts, notorious since the 1970s for their biased and politicized analyses, used the falsified NIE to block then-president George W. Bush from dealing with Iran. After losing the public’s support for the war in Iraq, and after failing to find Saddam’s WMD (which magically fell into the hands of Islamic State 11 years after the US invasion), Bush was powerless to oppose an official assessment of the intelligence community that claimed Iran was not a nuclear proliferator.
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     As for nObama, in early 2008, even before he secured the Democratic presidential nomination, he announced that he wanted to negotiate with then-Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
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     At no time since was there any evidence supporting the notion that nObama would lift a finger to prevent Iran from going nuclear.
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     In other words, for the past eight years it has been apparent to everyone willing to see that Israel has but option for preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.
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     By fighting so strenuously against nObama’s nuclear deal, Israel improved its ability to carry out a military strike against Iran’s nuclear installations in two ways.
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First, it removed the most serious domestic obstacle to carrying out such a strike.
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     Last week’s publication of audio recordings of former defense minister Ehud Barak discussing of Iran’s nuclear program revealed that for the past several years, Israel’s military and intelligence brass have blocked operations against Iran’s nuclear installations three times. In 2010, 2011 and 2012 the IDF chief of General Staff and senior generals supported by hesitant cabinet members refused to carry out instructions they received from Netanyahu and Barak to prepare to carry out such a strike.
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     There is no doubt that one of the main reasons they opposed lawful instructions was their faith in nObama’s security pledges.
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     For their part, the Americans did their best to subvert the authority of Israel’s elected leadership.
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     Over the past seven years Washington has sent a steady stream of senior officials to “oversee joint Israeli-American efforts” regarding Iran. It is now obvious that this “unprecedented cooperation” was never aimed at strengthening Israel against Iran. Rather, its aim has been to erode the government’s power to make independent decisions regarding Iran’s nuclear installations.
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     Had Netanyahu kept his criticism of nObama’s decision to give Iran a free hand to develop nuclear weapons quiet, the generals might have shrugged their shoulders and expressed gratitude for the shiny new weapons nObama will throw at them to “compensate” for giving nukes to a regime sworn to annihilate the country.
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     By making his opposition public, Netanyahu alerted the nation to the dangers. The top commanders can no longer pretend that US security guarantees are credible. Now they will be forced to kick their psychological addiction to worthless American security guarantees, accept reality and act accordingly.
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Better eight years late than never.
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     The Americans weren’t the only ones paying attention to Israel’s fight. Israel’s Arab neighbors also saw how Netanyahu and Ambassador to the US Ron Dermer left no stone unturned in their efforts to convince Democratic lawmakers to oppose it. And the regional implications are already becoming clear.
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     As the Saudis’ willingness to stand with Israel in public to oppose this deal has shown, our neighbors have been deeply impressed by the diplomatic courage Israel has shown. If and when Israel strikes Iran’s nuclear installations, our willingness to openly oppose the administration will weigh in our favor. It will impact our neighbors’ willingness to cooperate in action aimed at removing Iran’s nuclear sword from their necks and ours.
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     By fighting the deal, Israel has also worked to shape our relations with the US in a favorable way both in the short and long term.
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     nObama has another year and four months in office. (503 days, but who’s counting?) Even before the fight over his nuclear deal began in earnest, nObama made clear that he intends to use his remaining time in office to undermine the US-Israel alliance and to weaken Israel internationally.
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     In the first instance, his Democratic and progressive surrogates’ anti-Semitic assaults against New York Democratic Sen. Charles Schumer, and the Justice Department’s coincidental indictment of pro-Israel New Jersey Democratic Sen. Robert Menendez communicated a clear message to Democratic lawmakers: Any Democrat who supports Israel against nObama will be targeted.
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     By acting in this way, nObama has communicated the clear goal of transforming support for Israel into the foreign policy equivalent of opposing abortion: a Republicans-only position.
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     Internationally, there can be little doubt that until nObama leaves office, he will seek to harm Israel and the UN. He may as well seek to harm our economy by quietly instituting administrative trade barriers with the US and Europe.
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     Israel’s fight against nObama’s nuclear deal has diminished nObama’s ability to use his full power to harm it while preparing the ground for relations to be repaired under his successor.
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     Until Netanyahu spoke before the joint houses of Congress in March, nObama’s nuclear deal was largely outside the American discourse. The fierce public debate began only after Netanyahu’s address. True, on Wednesday n Obama got the support of his 34th Democratic senator and so blocked Israel’s efforts to convince Congress to vote down the deal. But his victory will be Pyrrhic.
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     nObama’s success will backfire first and foremost because thanks to Netanyahu’s move to spearhead the public debate in the US, today two-thirds of Americans oppose the deal. Since Iran will waste no time proving just how devastating a mistake nObama and his fellow Democrats have just made, nObama’s success makes him far less free to enact further steps against Israel than he was before the deal was concluded. The public no longer will give him the benefit of the doubt.
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     Moreover, since the deal is as bad as its opponents say it is, and given that most Americans oppose it, nObama’s successor will face no impediments in canceling the deal and adopting a new policy towards Israel and Iran.
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Then there are nObama’s Democratic followers in Congress.
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     Today some commentators argue that nObama’s victory over opponents of his nuclear deal – first and foremost AIPAC – spells the demise of the pro-Israel lobby in the US.
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Thankfully, they are mistaken.
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     Just as it failed to prevent then-president Ronald Reagan from selling AWACs to Saudi Arabia in 1981, so AIPAC had no chance of preventing nObama from moving ahead with his Iran deal.
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We will only be able to measure AIPAC’s power after the 2016 elections.
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     Given that the nuclear pact will fail, there will be plenty of Democrats challengers who will be eager to use their Democratic incumbent opponents’ support for nObama’s nuclear madness against them. AIPAC’s public fight against the deal has set the conditions for it to extract a political price from its supporters who preferred nObama to US national security.
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     If AIPAC extracts a price from key Democratic lawmakers who played crucial roles in approving the nuclear deal with Iran, it will prevent nObama from turning support for Israel into a partisan issue and emerge strengthened from the fight.
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     On Wednesday, after Maryland’s Sen. Barbara Mikulski became the 34th senator to support nObama’s nuclear deal, PBS’s senior anchorwoman Gwen Ifill tweeted, “Take that, Bibi.”
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     nObama’s win is Bibi’s loss. Bibi failed to convince 12 Democratic senators and 44 Democratic congressmen to vote against the head of their party. But by fighting against this deal, Netanyahu removed the main obstacle that kept Israel from taking action that will prevent Iran from going nuclear. He reduced nObama’s power to harm Israel.
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     The fight strengthened American and American- Jewish opposition to the nuclear deal, paving the way for a Democratic renewal after nObama leaves office. And finally, Israel’s public battle against nObama’s deal paved the way its abrogation by his successor.
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All in all, a rather glorious defeat.
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The Front Page Cover - Saturday

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Iran is Nuclear Now! With Weapons
Development and Delivery Systems
MG Paul Vallely, US Army (Ret) and
LTC Denny Haney, USAF (Ret)
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 Alaska Is More Than a Photo Op 
Barack nObama has no long-term, consistent strategy for Alaska. Well, other than his climate agenda. He's visiting The Last Frontier this week to plug for an even more aggressive approach to "man-made" global warming, as he spoke before an international conference in Anchorage Monday. As The Washington Post pointed out, nObama simply used the wilderness as a visual aid for his arguments. Ahead of the conference, titled GLACIER, NASA said sea levels are rising faster than expected, and nObama matched that level of alarm. "We're not moving fast enough," nObama warned. "None of the nations represented here are moving fast enough." nObama's comments quickly descended into adolescent sniping, as he completely belittled skeptics to his regulation-heavy, Big Government "solutions" to climate change. "The time to heed the critics and the cynics and the deniers is past," he continued. "The time to plead ignorance is surely past. Those who want to ignore the science, they are increasingly alone. They're on their own shrinking island."
          If nObama wants to talk about shrinking islands, he should reconsider the threat Russia poses in Arctic waters. Just like the situation in Ukraine, Russia is pushing boundaries in the Arctic, trying to grab the natural resources that lie under the ice. Currently, Russia operates 40 icebreakers and is making 11 more. The U.S.? It has only two and nObama proposes the U.S. buy one more. But nObama ignores the long-term significance of Alaska and its waters for our nation's security and energy policies to yammer about the temperature and to take a hike with reality TV star Bear Grylls.  -The Patriot Post 
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 About That Rad New Psych Study You Heard Of... 
Apparently, the psych science is not settled. The Guardian reports, "Of 100 studies published in top-ranking journals in 2008, 75% of social psychology experiments and half of cognitive studies failed the replication test." There are many reasons why an experiment might fail to replicate, but more than this the study has highlighted some issues with academic publishing and modern science. University of Virginia psychology professor Brian A. Nosek, who led the effort to reproduce the experiments, told the Guardian, "The key caution that an average reader should take away is any one study is not going to be the last word. Science is a process of uncertainty reduction, and no one study is almost ever a definitive result on its own." And while the media might want to breathlessly report on a study that displays some kind of psychological quirk, the real scientific process is much more involved than one study. Climate alarmists take note...   -The Patriot Post 
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Think Canada Is a Model? Think Again 
Some presidential candidates have pointed to Canada as a model for things like single-payer health care. (That would be Donald Trump, for those keeping score.) Of course, to keep a single-payer system running costs a lot of money, and that money has to come from somewhere. Or nearly everywhere, as it turns out. Reuters reports, "Canadians spend more on taxes than on food, clothing and shelter combined, according to a report released on Thursday, as increases in an average family's tax bill have outpaced the cost of basic necessities in the last five decades." The Frasier Institute report says the average Canadian family brings in about $60,000 (in U.S. dollars), of which 36% goes to cover basic needs and 42% is confiscated by the government. Fifty years ago, those numbers were 56% and 33%, respectively. Oh, and by the way, Canada is now arguably in recession. Call us old fashioned, but the new model doesn't sound like the one best for America.   -The Patriot Post 
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 Email Document Dump Catches Clinton in Serious Lie
Hilly Clinton has repeatedly claimed that she never sent classified emails over her private server. Oh, she might have received some that were unintentionally unmarked, but she claims she was clean as a freshly wiped email server. But in the newest round of Hilly's emails released Monday, the State Department, sure enough, redacted email after email from public view. The Clinton campaign responded with a memo claiming the emails where just a mildly interesting sideshow into the internal communications of a presidential cabinet member. The memo said of the classified portions, "This group of emails include 125 that have had portions classified after the fact, but as confirmed again by the State Department, nothing she sent or received was marked classified." But as The Federalist's Sean Davis reports, the State Department will declassify material 10 or 15 years after the material is either created or after it receives an after-the-fact classification. State chose to declassify this material from the time it was created. In other words, from the moment Clinton's fingers typed up an email and she hit send, the document should have been classified. But her material never went through the proper classification channels, making her argument now a pathetically circular one. Furthermore, she sent some of these emails to Clinton operative Sidney Blumenthal, a person outside the State Department. What's worse? Keep in mind that these are only the emails that survived Clinton's email purge. She knew exactly what she was doing.    -The Patriot Post 
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 Media Nervous Over Hilly Sting Videos 
You know an event is potentially damaging to Hilly Clinton or other top Democrats when Dana Milbank of The Washington Post shows up... Hence, Milbank’s attendance at Tuesday’s James O’Keefe news conference on Clinton campaign violations of federal election law was an indication that the Democrats are concerned. This time, despite video evidence of top staffers for Hilly accepting cash from a known foreign national, most of the media reaction was vintage Milbank. “Is this a joke?” the media wanted to know. In fairness, Milbank’s questions seemed mild, when compared to some of the other media reactions. The joke question came from Olivia Nuzzi of The Daily Beast, with other liberals joining in and wondering what the press conference was all about. The law says that foreigners are strictly prohibited from contributing to U.S. political campaigns, and O’Keefe had dramatic evidence of the campaign law violation. The video was played on a television screen for all to see.
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 Iran Promises to ‘Set Fire’ to U.S. Interests 
{Adam Kredo} ~ A senior Iranian military official has vowed to “set fire” to all U.S. interests in the region and maintained that the Islamic Republic welcomes war with America, according to regional reports demonstrating that Tehran is still committed to fighting the United States in the wake of a recently inked nuclear accord... “In threatening remarks,” a top Iranian commander of the Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) stated that Iran is prepared to “annihilate” U.S. and Israeli war forces should they “take the slightest military move against Iran,” according to Iran’s state-controlled Fars News Agency. “We monitor their acts day and night and will take every opportunity to set fire to all their economic and political interests if they do a wrong deed,” Brigadier General Hossein Salami, the IRGC’s lieutenant commander, was quoted as saying in Tehran on Thursday.
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 Iran Vows to Violate UN Restrictions on Ballistic Missiles 
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani vowed that the Islamic Republic would violate outstanding United Nations restrictions governing the country’s ballistic missile program and that the behavior would not violate the recent nuclear accord... according to a translation of the leader’s remarks performed by the CIA’s Open Source Center. Iran is “not committed to the restrictions on its missile program,” according to a recent comment made by Rouhani, who said  a violation of  international restrictions would not impact the nuclear accord recently reached with global powers. “We have formally announced that we are not committed to these provisions related to missiles mentioned in the U.N. resolution,” Rouhani was quoted as saying in an Aug. 29 Persian language speech broadcast on Iran’s state-controlled television networks. It is written into the nuclear accord that a violation of U.N. bans on Iran’s missile program will not impact the deal. The Senate is making a big mistake in supporting this deal.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-vows-to-violate-un-restrictions-on-ballistic-missiles/
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 Clinton Told Aide to Send Classified Info to Personal Email Address 
{Lachlan Markay} ~ On the same day that the “hacktivist” group WikiLeaks posted tens of thousands of classified State Department communications online, then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton told a top deputy to send now-classified information to her personal email address, newly released emails reveal... “Here’s my personal email,” Clinton told former Sen. George Mitchell, then Clinton’s special envoy for Middle East peace. “Pls use this for reply.” Mitchell responded with details of discussions with Italian foreign minister Franco Frattini. Most of the contents of the email, released by the State Department on Monday night, are redacted pursuant to a Freedom of Information Act exemption designed to protect classified national security information.
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 Cheney: The nuclear deal with Iran and the implications for US security 
On Tuesday, former Vice President Richard B. Cheney spoke at AEI on the consequences of the Iran nuclear agreement... Cheney argued that this agreement will not prevent a nuclear Iran but instead allow a nuclear arsenal and facilitate Iran’s support of terrorists, including those threatening the US and its allies. American allies have watched the Iranians outsmart the United States in these negotiations, and they know the US is simultaneously withdrawing from the region and making cuts to its own nuclear arsenal and defense budget. In this environment, Cheney stressed, our allies will likely determine that they need nuclear weapons for their own security, thus accelerating nuclear proliferation.        http://www.aei.org/events/the-nuclear-deal-with-iran-and-the-implications-for-us-security-a-speech-by-former-vice-president-richard-b-cheney/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=090415
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 Nuclear Jihad 
"Some analysts," writes the historian and former Israeli Ambassador to the United States, Michael Oren, "claimed the president Barack nObama regarded Iran as an ascendant and logical power -- unlike the feckless, disunited Arabs and those troublemaking Israelis... that could assist in resolving other regional conflicts. I first heard this theory at Georgetown back in 2008, in conversation with think tankers and former State Department officials. They also believed Iran's radical Islam was merely an expression of interests and fears that the United States could with sufficient goodwill, meet and allay. ... Iran, according to nObama was a pragmatic player with addressable interest. For Netanyahu, Iran was irrational, messianic, and genocidal – 'worse,' he said, 'than fifty North Koreas.'"Since the signing of the deal at the UN, hot-tempered criticisms and defences have gone into overdrive in the political, journalistic, and diplomatic spheres. Acres have been written and are still being written about the deal, making it the hottest political potato of recent years. Expert analysts such as Omri Ceren and, more recently, Joel Rosenberg have cut through the deliberate obfuscation to show the extent of the dangers the deal presents to the Middle East, the United States, Israel, and the world.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6461/nuclear-jihad
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 Illegal Aliens Sue State DMV For Drivers Licenses 
{rickwells.us} ~ Attorneys for a group of illegal aliens squatting in Georgia filed a lawsuit on Monday against the Georgia Department of Driver Services charging that the state agency is violating their “constitutional rights” by denying them drivers licenses... Neither they nor their attorneys seem to have a grasp of the definition of illegal or the rights of America citizens not applying to non-Americans. Why not try to sign them up for a US passport while you’re at it, boys? The lawsuit states that the plaintiffs, who aren’t named because of “safety concerns” and “possible retaliation,” are under deportation orders and are attempting to have those orders suspended. Some of the individuals are of such outstanding character that their nations of origin have refused to accept them back.
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 Climate Propaganda Paves Way for “Pig Power”  
{Cliff Kincaid} ~ Having been bamboozled into passing a mere bill to thwart the Iran deal, rather than treating the agreement as a treaty, the Republican-controlled Congress is on the verge of being taken to the cleaners again... This time, President nObama is maneuvering to authorize U.S. participation in a United Nations climate change treaty through an executive agreement. The treaty is expected to come out of the December meeting in Paris of parties to the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Rather than submit the agreement to the Senate as an Article II Treaty, it is anticipated that the nObama administration will simply accept the treaty on the basis of what it claims to be “existing” presidential authority. The agreement could establish or propose legally binding limits on carbon emissions, crippling what’s left of our industrial economy, along with new legally binding financial commitments that could run into the trillions of dollars to be “redistributed” from the U.S. and other “rich” nations. nObama has told the U.N. that the United States will meet a pledge of 26 to 28 percent emissions reduction by 2025.        http://www.aim.org/aim-column/climate-propaganda-paves-way-for-pig-power/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email090715&utm_medium=email
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 How Dangerous is ISIS to Israel? 
{Efraim Inbar} ~ ISIS, a radical Islamist group, has killed thousands of people since it declared an Islamic caliphate in June 2014, with the city of Raqqa as its de facto capital... It captured tremendous international attention by swiftly conquering large swaths of land and by releasing gruesome pictures of beheadings and other means of executions. In Israel, concern is increasing as ISIS nears Israeli borders. Yet, several analyses of the threat ISIS poses to Israel seem to be unnecessarily alarmist. ISIS is primarily successful where there is a political void. Although the offensives in Syria and Iraq showed the Islamic State's tactical capabilities, they were directed against failed states with weakened militaries. When and where ISIS has met well organized opposition by non-state entities, such as that posed by Kurdish militias, the group's performance has been less convincing.        http://www.meforum.org/5473/israel-isis
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 nObama Set To Announce Expanded US Syrian “Refugee” Policy 
{rickwells.us} ~ The orchestrated invasion of Europe and the United States is an unfolding, deliberate act. It is being conducted by the global elites whose objective is to create a world government under a UN that they control... It is an evolving process, with the theatrical presentation to the gullible masses being constructed one layer upon another. As with every drama, a villain is needed to make it interesting and believable. For the invasion of Western civilization, they’ve created the most depraved of villains imaginable, ISIS. The threat of ISIS is a multi-function cover which provides a humanitarian premise through which pressure is applied as well as the mechanism by which to vilify anyone who offers resistance as being heartless and selfish. Photos of children who died in the process of fleeing the barbarism will seal the deal. Rational thought is no match for emotional reaction of the masses. Now, as expected, Hussein nObama is engaged in the pre-announcement, trail balloon stage of expanding the number of “refugees” being imported into this country on a basis of the same false humanitarian reasons, our responsibility in recognition of the “need” to respond to the ISIS crisis that he and his ilk have created.
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Iran is Nuclear Now! With Weapons
Development and Delivery Systems
MG Paul Vallely, US Army (Ret) and
LTC Denny Haney, USAF (Ret)
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     {aim.org} - Since 1979, a cabal of nations has aided and abetted Iran in its efforts to develop a robust nuclear program under the guise of generating a nuclear energy system. This cabal is mainly comprised of Russia, China, and North Korea. Since sanctions began being placed on Iran in 1979, with more added since, Iran still had enough free reign to develop its capabilities despite the sanctions regime because of this cabal. All the moving parts are in place, the material is there, and this means they are already nuclear – “break out” is imminent now.
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     During this period, North Korea had evaded sanctions, and like Iran, lied, cheated, and broke virtually every agreement it ever signed with the United Nations. Now North Korea is a nuclear weapons power, and we believe Iran has already done the same. Each had created hidden facilities but only North Korea has actually tested weapons fully. Because Iran has to date only detonated trigger devices that does not mean the Mullahs do not have weapons capability now because they certainly have enough material.
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     Both Iran and North Korea are also fast approaching inter-continental missile capability, and Iranian government observers, research scientists, and senior military officials have been on-site in North Korea for the testing of its systems.  In essence, Iran has had the benefit of having North Korea essentially do their development and testing for them.
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     Iran has tested their launch systems like the Shahab series of launch and delivery vehicles and the attendant guidance and control systems, and they certainly had fine mentors along the way. The cabal has assisted Iran along all the pathways for acquisition of a nuclear weapon; from system requirements, specifications, prototyping, development, and acquisition.  Iran has NEVER had to go it alone.

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These are facts. Please feel free to challenge our findings and discuss where you think we have gone wrong.
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  • The coalition of Russia, China and North Korea have assisted Iran in achieving a nuclear capable weapon.  Since the 1979 sanctions have been in place, Iran has had free reign to develop their nuclear weapons program unabated.  This weapons program was under the guise of a nuclear energy program for domestic energy production.  China and North Korea during this same timeframe developed their nuclear programs, maturing same to include land-based and sea-launch weapons systems, testing their entire launch, delivery and detonation process through actual nuclear detonations.
  • Iranian Government observers, research scientists, and senior Military officials have been on-site in North Korea for all their tests of nuclear component systems.  In essence, Iran has had the benefit of having North Korea essentially do their development and testing for them.
  • Iran was able to test their launch systems (i.e., the Shahab series of launch and delivery vehicles and the attendant guidance and control systems).  Russia, China and North Korea always had the latitude and time to develop and test warhead design, fissionable material and detonation testing.  Iran participated onsite in most all of the scheduled testing.
  • The coalition of Russia, China and North Korea have assisted Iran along all the pathways for acquisition of a nuclear weapon, from system requirements, specifications, prototyping, development, and acquisition.  Iran has NEVER had to go it alone.  The coalition support them 100%.

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     It is now clear that since 2009, the nObama administration has crafted a plan that guarantees Iran will have a nuclear weapon, and the devil is in the details. For instance; the copy of the agreement handed out in English for the American delegation did not fully replicate the copy handed out in Farsi for the Iranians. The American delegation never mentioned this to the West and especially not to the American people nor Congress. The Iranian delegation read both the English and Farsi-worded agreements, and declared that while they agreed with the one in Farsi, the one in English WAS NOT THE SAME, AND WAS IN NO WAY ACCEPTABLE TO THEM.
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     In addition, there are more devils in the details, and these are in the side agreements between Iran and the IAEA. We now know that one of those arrangements calls for Iran to actually be its own inspecting body. The fox gets to be the hen house security team. With nObama’s statement to Russian President Dimitri Medvedev in 2012, incoming President Vladimir Putin knew he had the green light on a host of issues with the now famous “live mike” incident.
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     The green light was not just for missile defense, it also applied to all things Iran. We know this because Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani was seen in Moscow despite a worldwide travel ban, just prior to Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry testifying before Congress on the agreement reached with Iran.
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     Being proven communist sympathizers, Hanoi John Kerry, nObama, and his henchwoman, Iranian born Valerie Jarret, it is demonstrable that their plan has always been to aid that cabal. Prime negotiator Hanoi John Kerry, who has his very own place in Communist Vietnam’s War Memorial with a photo, recently admitted that his daughter married an Iranian-American who has extensive family ties to Iran. Incidentally, Hanoi Kerry’s chief counterpart in the nuclear deal negotiations, Mohammad Javad Zarif’s son was the best man.
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     We remind all that Barack nObama, mentored during his formative years by Frank Marshall Davis, a confirmed member of the American Communist Party, is also demonstrably not only predisposed to support all things Islam, he has a close relationship with the Muslim Brotherhood as has been proven in the “Betrayal Papers” series.
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     Now that the agreement has become a settled international agreement, where the United States would be going it alone if Congress somehow negates our involvement in it, the world will release of up to $150 Billion in Iranian assets all but guarantees funding for their nuclear weapons program and their terrorist proxies, Hezbollah, and Hamas and others, to include Assad of Syria.
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     What better way to wipe Israel off the face of the earth than a well-timed and specifically-delivered nuclear weapon?  And what better time to “negotiate” a pathway to “achieving” a nuclear weapons capability, than when you already have one? It is important to note as well, that Iran has been designing plans for the United States as well, after all, intercontinental ballistic missiles are not intended for neighboring Israel, they are aimed at the United States and they have plans for an EMP already drafted.
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     In January 2014, the Arms Control Association even agreed that “…as Iran progresses down a path towards a nuclear-weapons capability, the difficulties in finding a compromise that would protect against a nuclear-armed Iran while being acceptable to the leadership in Tehran have grown.” nObama and Hanoi Kerry are pushing an agreement upon America that surely many members of Congress have not read, and are not adding to the confidence level needed to ensure Iran does not “go nuclear.”
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IT WON’T BE LONG BEFORE IRAN DETONATES ITS FIRST NUCLEAR DEVICE.
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     In 2015, given that the Iranians have not agreed to any inspection of any facility for many years, and WILL NOT NOW AGREE TO INSPECTION OF NUCLEAR FACILITIES ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS, the odds that Iran already has a nuclear weapon are really quite high. Why is it acceptable to so many that Iran gets to be its own inspector? The likely answer is, they know Iran already has the capability.
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     From the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) web site: “Iran acquired the Soviet R-17 (R-300; NATO: Scud-B) from Libya. Tehran has continued to utilize a number of foreign suppliers to develop a missile production infrastructure. To date, Iran claims to have developed five liquid-propellant ballistic missiles, (the Shahab-1, Shahab-2, Shahab-3, Ghadr-1 and Qiam); the Safir space launch vehicle (SLV); and the solid-propellant Sejjil missile.”
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     With $150 Billion in assets already flowing their way, they will finalize the first series of deliverable weapons. A first-strike launch against Israel? Support of international radical Islam, the global Caliphate, and terrorism will accelerate worldwide. Nothing will stop Iran and its proxies now if the “Iran Deal” goes forward.
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     The so-called “Iran Deal” is moot at this time and not worth the paper it is written on. The cabal wins!
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The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
What's the Attraction?
Tom McLaughlin
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 DISLIKE FOR HILLY INTENSIFIES     Hilly Clinton’s lead in the Democratic nominating contest keeps on sliding and a new poll today from Quinnipiac University shows the trend is intensifying. Clinton’s lead over Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders is down 15 points from last month.           While she might not have to worry too much about Sanders given her 23-point advantage, her 10 point slip from July seems largely attributable to increasing interest in Vice President loose lips Joe Biden, who is mulling a campaign.     
          The best selling point for loose lips Biden backers: Clinton runs considerably worse in head-to-head matchups with potential Republican opponents than loose lips Biden. She runs 4 points ahead of GOP frontrunner Donald Trump, while loose lips Biden doubles that. Even socialist Sanders beats Jeb Bush by more than Clinton.           And surely by now you know the reason why.           Views of Clinton have turned intensely sour in recent weeks as her ongoing email scandal has left her and her campaign in a defensive crouch. Clinton’s net favorability rating among all voters – a more valuable general election metric in the early going than horse-race numbers – is now a dreadful negative 12 points. That puts her in the same neighborhood as Rick Santorum and Martin O’Malley. Probably not the company she expected to be keeping just now.           Clinton’s numbers have come to look a lot like those of her GOP counterpart, Trump. They are the best known candidates, with 92 percent of voters having formed opinions about each of them, and those opinions are not good. Fifty-four percent of voters think ill of Trump, compared to 51 percent for Clinton.           Clinton’s advantage over Trump is that she faces much less resistance in her own party. Three quarters of Democrats have favorable views of Clinton – 10 points less than loose lips Biden, but still sturdy. Trump, on the other hand, is seen negatively by nearly a third of GOP voters.           Only 11 percent of Democrats said they would “definitely not” back Clinton compared to 26 for Trump with the GOP. Third-place GOP candidate Bush can be happy that a quarter of his party is keeping an open mind, but the grim news is that more than twice as many respondents would never consider supporting him (18 percent) than are currently backing his candidacy (7 percent). Only 9 percent of GOP respondents are waiting to hear more about Trump before making up their minds.           The poll shows continued good news for Ben Carson. He’s pulled into second place behind Trump in the race for the GOP nomination and he has the best overall favorability score of any candidate in the race. The best liked candidate among GOP primary voters, though, is Marco Rubio, viewed favorably by 72 percent of his fellow Republicans. Carson is second in the GOP with 62 percent favorability.
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 The Judge’s Ruling: Sweater weather -  From failed operations in Libya and Syria to unsecured email on her private server, Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano asks whether Hilly Clinton has been pulling the wool over our eyes for years. “What if Clinton just doesn’t care whether she has broken any federal laws, illegally caused the deaths of thousands of innocents, and profoundly jeopardized and misled the American people? What if the American people do care about all this? What will they do about it?” Read here.
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 HILLY’S NIGHTMARE HAUNTS DEMS  Democrats should be living the dream. Hilly Clinton is leading challengers by double digits, flush with cash and backed by a massive campaign machine. With the frontrunner set to address the Democratic National Committee summer meeting today, even some chaffing between the campaign and the DNC over shared fundraising has been resolved. So are party officials basking in late August warmth in Minneapolis?  Uh, better grab a sweater.           Instead, delegates are shivering as the nightmarish reality of Clinton’s campaign plays on. Her brand name has been tattooed with “liar,” adding to doubts about her electability. Her response to the email scandal, from joking, to maybe it wasn’t the “best choice” has many Democrats bewildered and donors hedging their bets.           Given Clinton’s presumed nominee status, the party’s options aren’t great. Bernie Sanders is drawing big crowds but has a problems with key elements of the base and his the narrowcast populist platform make electability doubtful as well. Other declared candidates are hardly blips on the political radar screen.           Then there’s loose lips Joe: a sitting vice president wondering aloud to DNC attendees if he has the heart to run. loose lips Biden won’t be in Minnesota, but his backers are and they’ve been selling their man as party’s last best savior. His polling numbers are stronger than Clinton’s against Republicans, but the some of the glow that has built up around loose lips Biden is bound to dissipate if he decides to take the plunge.           As for Hilly, the space she’s been giving loose lips Joe to “make the right decision” has apparently reached its limit. Word is out that her campaign has heard enough loose lips Biden talk and is launching a massive messaging effort at the DNC meeting to counter doubts about her vulnerability. Whether that’s convincing enough to still the jitters among the party elite remains to be seen.           One thing is certain: however effective her presentation may be, the 3-day summer meeting ends this weekend. The drip, drip, drip of Hilly’s email mess will be with her for the foreseeable future.  
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 Clinton aide emails raise conflict questions -  Fox News: “Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, questioned whether Huma Abedin’s status as a Special Government Employee (SGE), which enabled her to hold four positions simultaneously, created conflicts of interest…Grassley’s letter was prompted by emails from Abedin’s official State Department account obtained by Fox News…[in the messages] Abedin discusses diplomatic matters as well as issues related to her work for both the Clinton Foundation and Teneo, a firm co-founded by a longtime aide to former president Bill Clinton.”
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 Pentagon Not Targeting Islamic State Training Camps {BIll Gertz} - The Pentagon has not conducted airstrikes against an estimated 60 Islamic State (IS) training camps that are supplying thousands of fighters each month to the terror group, according to defense and intelligence officials... The camps are spread throughout Islamic State-controlled areas of Iraq and Syria and are off limits in the U.S.-led international bombing campaign because of concerns about collateral damage, said officials familiar with planning and execution of the yearlong bombing campaign. Additionally, the IS (also known as ISIS or ISIL) camps have been so successful that Islamic State leaders are considering expanding the camps to Libya and Yemen. Both states have become largely ungoverned areas in recent years.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-not-targeting-islamic-state-training-camps/

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 Terror mastermind's arrest highlights Iran's role 
{Charles Hoskinson} - Saudi Arabia has arrested the mastermind of the 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers housing complex in which 19 U.S. service members were killed and 372 injured, a Saudi-owned newspaper said Wednesday... Ahmed al-Mughassil was arrested in Beirut and handed over to Saudi custody, the pan-Arab Asharq al-Awsat daily said. A U.S. official, speaking on condition of anonymity, confirmed the capture to the Associated Press. The announcement of his arrest is a convenient reminder for opponents of President Obama's nuclear deal with Iran that Tehran has been a major supporter of terrorist attacks that have killed U.S. service members. One prominent national security expert called the timing of the arrest "suspicious."         http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/terror-masterminds-arrest-highlights-irans-role/article/2570900
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 Now Exposed - Iran is Already Waging War Against Israel 
On August 16, the Israeli Army revealed that Iran has been directing terrorist attacks from Syria against Israelis in the Golan Heights region... Nobody paid attention. Four days later, Iranian-sponsored rockets from Syria struck Israel's Upper Galilee. Is anybody listening now? For weeks, supporters of Israel have been warning that the emerging Iran agreement would give Tehran funds that it could use to wage war against Israel through its proxies. But now it turns out that Iran is already waging that war. The question is, who is paying attention?.        http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17471#.VeMmupuFOwU
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 Pentagon Silent on Top-Secret Data Was Compromised in Clinton Emails 
The Pentagon on Tuesday sidestepped questions about whether top-secret intelligence, including secrets derived from reconnaissance satellites and aircraft, was compromised after being placed on unsecure emails found on Hilly Clinton’s private server... Pentagon Press Secretary Peter Cook, in an inaugural briefing for reporters, would not answer questions about the secret intelligence found by an inspector general in a sampling of emails once stored on Clinton’s unsecured server. The email system was used by the former secretary of state from 2009 to 2013. So far, some 305 emails containing classified data have been found among some 60,000 emails once kept on the private server.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-silent-on-whether-top-secret-data-was-compromised-in-clinton-emails/
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It’s no secret that President nObama and his Democratic Party want to restrict the Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms... In addition, First Amendment religious-freedoms protections have been challenged by nObamacare. And freedom of speech? That’s just fine as long as it lines up with the “same-sex marriage” social agenda. Now, a case is posing a challenge to the Fifth Amendment’s property rights and due process protections along with the Sixth Amendment’s assurance of counsel for those accused of crimes. The U.S. Supreme Court now is posed with the question: Does the government have the right to charge you with a crime and then seize your bank accounts, checkbook, savings and other assets so that you cannot afford to hire a lawyer to defend yourself?        http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/now-feds-targeting-2-more-constitutional-rights/
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 Watch Hilly Get Burned By Fox News Reporter Hilly Clinton’s in hot, hot water. That’s because  while scouring her emails the FBI has found a total of 300+ possibly classified emails, 65 or so of those are certainly classified, and at least 2 are as top-secret as you can get... And there’s an entire email server full of emails to be sorted through. At least that’s what the company who was tasked with securing her email server said. But when Mrs. Clinton was pressed on whether or not she looked to destroy all the emails on the server her response was as bogus as could be and she gets taken to task over her sad responses.
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 China and Russia are Waging War on America 
In a typically cynical article, “GOP presidential candidates have a new country to bash: the People’s Republic of China,” Politico complains about “China-bashing” by various Republican candidates... The story by Nahal Toosi carries the headline, “The Republicans’ Red Scare,” but only mentions one time that China is a “communist-led state.” Politico uses the term “red scare” to suggest that the problem is being greatly exaggerated. If there is any doubt about the “red” in Red China, consider the Chinese Constitution, which declares, “The People’s Republic of China is a socialist state under the people’s democratic dictatorship led by the working class and based on the alliance of workers and peasants. The socialist system is the basic system of the People’s Republic of China. Sabotage of the socialist system by any organization or individual is prohibited.” Mao Zedong, considered by many the greatest mass murderer in history, is pictured on the Chinese currency.
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 Judge Tells Government They Cannot Force nObamacare Mandates 
Monday was a wonderful day in court for conservatives and pro-lifers across the nation. Federal judge Richard Leon handed down his ruling on Monday, permanently prohibiting the federal government from forcing its nObamacare abortion-pill mandate on any pro-life organization – regardless of its religious beliefs... Up until this decision the nObama administration had argued that any organization that was not a church or religious organization could be forced to offer abortifacients and other contraceptives through their health care plans. However, Judge Richard Leon disagreed. Judge Leon found that an organization’s moral objections (religious or otherwise) were enough to keep the government from forcing certain nObamacare provisions on them.
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 Hilly Clinton’s Argument for Private Email Server is Literally Unbelievable 
{Onan Coca} - NBC’s chief political correspondent, Chuck Todd, appeared on NBC’s Today Show Tuesday morning and made a couple interesting points while discussing the ongoing Hilly Clinton email scandal... First, Todd notes that the argument that the Clinton campaign has used thus far to fend off criticism for having a private server is actually the worst possible argument they could have offered. Todd brings up a particular email in the recent crop of released emails that shows Clinton’s chief aide Huma Abedin telling Clinton that the State Department IT department didn’t know about her private email account. Todd then uses this example to wonder how in the world it could be MORE convenient to have a private email account when the State Department offers so much more by way of technical support, privacy, security, etc. Basically, the point is this…There is NO WAY that using her own private email server was more “convenient” than just using the email provided by the State Department.        http://eaglerising.com/23236/hillary-clintons-argument-for-private-email-server-is-unbelievable/
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 Emergency Order: U.S. Opens Door to Yemeni Refugees  
{Adam Kredo} ~ The nObama administration issued a directive late Wednesday to grant Temporary Protective Status (TPS) to Yemeni nationals currently residing in the United States, according to an order approved by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)... Yemeni nationals seeking shelter from the war-torn country, where Iranian-backed militias are seeking to overthrow government forces, will be permitted asylum in America, according to the order, which came as a result of efforts undertaken by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC), a group known for its fierce and sometimes conspiracy-fueled criticism of Israel. The order officially designated Yemen as a TPS nation “for a period of 18 months, effective September 3, 2015, through March 3, 2017,” according to an advance copy of the directive published by the ADC.
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What's the Attraction?
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     {tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} - Looking, as he does, like Mussolini with an orange pompadour, I found it hard to take Donald Trump seriously. For the past few months, however, I’ve been watching, fascinated, as he deals with criticism from members of our media elite who have long taken themselves too seriously.
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     He deals with them as a parent might deal with a confused adolescent, and I have to say I’m beginning to like him. He baffled NBC’s Chuck Todd on Meet The Press last week when he said about illegal immigrants: “They have to go.”
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    “Chuck,” said Trump, but Todd interrupted again, saying “You’re going to deport children?”
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     “No, no,” said Trump. “We’re going to keep families together. We have to keep the families together.”
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     Todd interrupted again. “But you’re going to keep them together — out?”
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“They have to go,” repeated Trump.
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     “What if they have no place to go?” said Todd, interrupting yet again.
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     “Chuck,” said Trump — this time putting his hand on Todd’s arm in an attempt to get him to stop interrupting, “We’ll work with them, but they have to go. Either we have a country or we don’t have a country.”
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     And there it was — a simple, common-sense statement that summed up the whole issue. Either we have a country or we don’t have a country. That’s how Trump is. He speaks extemporaneously. He doesn’t travel with a teleprompter like our dear leader in the White House. He doesn’t read speeches prepared by others. He doesn’t work from note cards. He talks. He explains. When questioned he comes back with real answers, not equivocations.
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     Pundits on both the left and the right are baffled. They said Trump’s popularity was a flash in the pan and he would soon flame out. I thought so too, but he hasn’t. During the first debate, the three moderators from Fox News were loaded for bear and they blasted him from the starting gun, but he hung in there and even started turning it around on them. That was when I realized what was happening.
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     Trump’s growing support is not unlike the phenomenon we called “The Tea Party” a few years ago. That same exasperation with Washington is out there, but now it is without a name. Trump’s support is made up of people who are sick of the status quo. They elected a House Republican majority, then a Senate Republican majority, but those Republicans aren’t doing anything to stop our runaway government the way they promised they would. They’re right in it with the Democrats.
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     Five years ago, I went down to the Mexican border to see for myself what was going on. I rented a jeep and drove along our side of the fence in Nogales, Arizona. The first Border Patrol Agent I spoke to was from Lisbon Falls, Maine and he confirmed to me that the chaos I saw was just how it was down there all the time. He warned me that it wasn’t safe for me to even be there, and I was standing on American soil!
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     About a month later I was invited to voice a conservative viewpoint on a local New Hampshire television show. “Do you represent the Tea Party?” the host asked me.
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     “No,” I said. “The Tea Party is an amorphous group without official leaders or representatives or any real organizational structure, but my views are representative.” Then I explained that we believe the Constitution is being ignored by the federal government, which is seizing too much power and needs to be cut back.
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     Whatever the movement comes to be called this election cycle, it’s already having a huge impact on the presidential race. Templates used to analyze past races don’t apply to this one, and pundits are baffled. Republicans are led by Trump, but right behind him is another non-politician: neurosurgeon Ben Carson. Behind him, non-politician and former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina is rising steadily.
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     Over on the Democrat side, it’s all senators and a governor, but perceived as an outsider because he’s a socialist, Bernie Sanders is coming on strong. One thing he has in common with Trump? He says what he thinks and eschews professional handlers. Ordinary people in the “way down here” like that because they’re sick of political rhetoric. The pundits are still shaking their heads over how Maine Governor Paul LePage ever got reelected. He’s another guy who says what he thinks and people like that. He also does things, his favorite motto being: “When all is said and done, a whole lot more is said than done.”
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Thursday ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Senate Fiddles, Infanticide Continues
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"Rise up together as one voice"
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 Bill to Defund Planned Parenthood Dies in Senate 
The Senate's vote to defund Planned Parenthood seemed to be more about political optics than actually casting votes for the right thing. A bill that would have halted $500 million in annual federal funds from going to Planned Parenthood died when a procedural vote that required 60 votes fell short by seven. This raises questions: How serious are the Senate Republicans in protecting the lives of the unborn? Some GOP senators see this vote as testing the waters, possibly for a political cage fight come fall if the GOP gets enough backbone to attach a PP defunding measure to a spending bill and risk another government shutdown. Commentators like Leon H. Wolf see this vote as Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell cowing to the slightest political pressure. By allowing the bill cosponsored by 45 Republicans to die on a procedure vote, McCon-nell allowed the status quo to remain and a handful of lawmakers were able to vote in a way that would please their constituencies. Meanwhile, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal canceled the contract between Planned Parenthood and Louisiana. Yes, changing the nation's policy takes time — and the Center for Medical Progress has many more videos to prompt debate — but when the time comes for political courage, will McConnell's Senate rise to the occasion? 
 -The Patriot Post 
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 Bad Leadership Sours DHS Immigration Program 
At the beginning of July, the nObama administration started its Priority Enforcement Program, a new approach to how the administration enforces the immigration laws, but it's soured by DHS's past immigration enforcement track record. It's a failure in leadership: Local law enforcement and even groups that would have supported nObama's immigration policies don't trust his new enforcement effort. The supervising attorney for the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Angie Junck, told The Washington Post, "We see this as DHS kind of rebranding to rebuild the trust they lost with a lot of local law enforcement agencies. We are very concerned that it will repeat the mistakes of the past." Does anybody gladly work with nObama on anything any more? He's lost so much trust. No wonder so many cities decided to go it alone and declare themselves sanctuary cities. Home rule is better than rule from a capricious federal government that is rewriting immigration law on the fly by "prioritizing" certain types of deportations. The nObama administration has exacerbated the problems with immigration by destroying the cooperation and trust between levels of government.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Seattle CEO Experiences Fallout of $70K Minimum Wage 
A Seattle CEO is learning firsthand the predictable outcomes that accompany minimum wage hikes. Dan Price, who heads Gravity Payments, a credit card processing firm, became an instant celebrity when he announced earlier this year that none of his 120 employees would earn less than $70,000 a year. In fact, he slashed his own salary of $1 million down to $70,000 to level the playing field. It was a kindhearted move, to be sure, but the ensuing months demonstrated the reality that such a minimum wage has far-reaching repercussions. According to former Gravity Financial Manager Maisey McMaster, Price "gave raises to people who have the least skills and are the least equipped to do the job, and the ones who were taking on the most didn't get much of a bump." The result? Two prominent-turned-disgruntled employees, including McMaster, called it quits. The other one, Grant Moran, intoned a similar frustration: "Now the people who were just clocking in and out were making the same as me. It shackles high performers to less motivated team members." On top of that, The New York Times reports, "[A] few customers, dismayed by what they viewed as a political statement, withdrew their business. Others, anticipating a fee increase — despite repeated assurances to the contrary — also left." And while Gravity Payments won the hearts of other business owners, "those accounts will not start paying off for at least another year," the Times added. "To handle the flood, [Price] has already had to hire a dozen additional employees — now at a significantly higher cost — and is struggling to figure out whether more are needed without knowing for certain how long the bonanza will last."
          But the drama doesn't end there. Gravity Payments co-founder Lucas Price, the brother of Dan, is suing the company, which is adding substantial legal costs. Hot Air's Jazz Shaw put it best: "I'm sure Mr. Price is a very nice man and he clearly cares about people in general. But his move to push his generous nature into his business model is returning precisely the sort of results which the free market predicts." The lesson here? Good intentions don't always make for good policy.   -The Patriot Post 
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 nObama's Clean Power Plan Is Costly Political Theater 
On Monday, Barack nObama announced new rules for his long-dreaded Clean Power Plan. This past spring, we warned that nObama's agenda to combat global warming would be finalized during the hottest days of summer. As with almost every other agenda under nObama, it’s even worse than expected — and all to prevent warming of 0.01 degrees Celsius.
          Winston Churchill once said, "Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. Its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." And make no mistake: nObama's plan has little or nothing to do with climate and everything to do with his social justice worldview, in which he wants to handicap the U.S. ostensibly to the benefit of the rest of the world.
          nObama was originally set to unveil his new rules outside of the White House. However, due to the sweltering heat, he chose to move the announcement inside. Naturally, Leftmedia talkingheads couldn’t pass on the opportunity to blubber that “Mother Nature … was making his point for him.” But newsflash: It’s always hot in August. Clearly, the central planners were aiming for a bit of theatrics.    -The Patriot Post 
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 As Syrian regime teeters, nObama lacks a plan  
{Peter Brookes} ~ Tired of the bantering about the deeply-flawed Iran nuclear deal? No worries, there are plenty of other scary scenarios to mull over during your morning coffee beyond the ayatollahs splitting atoms... For instance, what’s our plan for when the regime of Syria’s Bashar Assad falls? Yes, I said “falls.” If you haven’t noticed, things are looking pretty darned bleak for Bashar & the Boys. Assad even admitted on Sunday that his army is suffering from a “lack of human resources,” according to news reports. “A lack of human resources”? I guess that’s?one way to put it.
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 Falling Star Power? nObama’s Hollywood Base Choosing Israel Over...
{Irickwells.us} ~ t’s not surprising that it happened but it’s very surprising that it took as long as it did, particularly given the large Jewish population in Hollywood. One would have expected that they would have come to the reality that nObama is the enemy closer to the time the rest of us figured it out, seven or eight years ago... The important thing is that 190 Hollywood celebrities, including some big names, have finally come to their senses and signed a letter of support for Israel and in opposition to Hamas. Included in signatories are Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Kelsey Grammer, Bill Maher, Seth Rogan, Jon Lovitz and David Zucker. The letter, which was posted originally at Creative Community For Peace, the sponsoring organization, is below, followed by a complete list of the stars who signed it. The Hollywood stars adding their names to the list of those in support of Israel are:
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 nObama’s Climate Change “Death To America” Proclamation...  
{rickwells.us} ~ The lies start immediately and they never stop coming in this nObama video of his roll out of the newest crippling assault on the American economy and his draconian global government solution to the non-existent problem that he and his minions are fabricating... For most rational people it is at best a chore and at worst torturous to listen to Hussein nObama spew his anti-American rhetoric, so I’ve cut this down, eliminating his lip-biting Clintonesque pauses, his phony moments of “wise reflective consideration” and all but one example of the trained seals applauding our destruction. That one instance is a standing ovation which was painfully long in unfolding. It features nObama’s staff eugenicist and climate Nazi John Holdren right and center. Due to the natural physical repulsion which will be experienced by most attempting to listen to the entire video, I will offer it in shorter, easier to digest segments in the near future. This offering is intended for those who are, for whatever reason, capable of tolerating the mental and physical abuse.
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 FBI Investigating Security Of Hilly's Email Server...  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ The Washington Post and confirmed by Fox News is that the FBI has begun investigating the security of Hilly Clinton's private e-mail server... The inquiry comes days after inspectors general  from the State Department and the intelligence community sent a letter to the Justice Department requesting an inquest into whether classified material was improperly shared or stored on Hilly's private e-mail account. There is no evidence that the FBI has actually examined the server as of yet, the reports are they contacted the Denver-based technology firm that helped manage the email system. Per the Washington Post, "the FBI contacted Clinton’s lawyer, David Ken­dall, with questions about the security of a thumb drive in his possession that contains copies of work e-mails Clinton sent during her time as secretary of state. Kendall confirmed the contact, saying: “The government is seeking assurance about the storage of those materials. We are actively cooperating.” I wonder if the FBI will tell the truth or cover up for Hilly?
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 Iran: Inspectors Will Not Be Allowed into Iranian Military Sites  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ hanoi John Kerry says over and over that the nuclear deal with Iran depends on verification, not trust. Iran's version of verification is different than the nObama administration's... Ali Akar Velayati, a top adviser to Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, appeared on Al-Jazeera on July 31 and was asked about U.N. inspections of Iran’s military sites. “Regardless of how the P5+1 countries interpret the nuclear agreement, their entry into our military sites is absolutely forbidden. The entry of any foreigner, including IAEA inspectors or any other inspector, to the sensitive military sites of the Islamic Republic is forbidden, no matter what.” So which is it? Because if the military sites are off limits guess where Iran is going to do their nuclear work?
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 And When We Are Faced with a Nuclear Iran?  
{Peter Huessy} ~ Iran says its nuclear technology program is totally peaceful. In 31 other countries with peaceful nuclear programs, there are 438 nuclear power plants in operation, and in another 16 countries, 67 plants under construction... Under the terms of the 1969 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, any nation adopting nuclear energy has to comply with International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) rules. Every one of these nearly 50 countries does. Iran does not. For over two decades, in fact, Iran has flouted, bamboozled and cheated the IAEA. What, then, does this pattern of behavior bode for the emerging nuclear deal with Iran?       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6296/nuclear-iran
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 Revelation From White House Insider Could Cripple Clinton For Good  
{teapartyupdate.com} ~ You probably remember Linda Tripp, she was the White House aide who blew the entire Clinton-Lewinsky scandal wide open Tripp had direct access to Mrs. Clinton, even sharing an office in Mrs. Clinton’s “power center.”... And Tripp is coming forward with a new allegation… that Mrs. Clinton purposefully used the Lewinsky scandal to make herself look better and to get her approval ratings to riseThe allegations don’t stop there as Tripp said Mrs. Clinton is a power hungry braggart who should simply not be president as she has nothing but contempt for the public. Western Journalism fills us in on more.
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 Terror Victims' Lawsuit Seeks to Block Iran Deal's Sanctions Relief  
investigativeproject.org} ~ A deal to provide Iran with as much as $150 billion in sanctions relief over its nuclear weapons program should be blocked until the Islamic Republic pays court-awarded damages to American victims of Iranian-sponsored terrorism... a lawsuit filedWednesday in New York federal court said. The plaintiffs, victims of attacks by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, have judgments worth $152 million that they have been unable to collect. Similar lawsuits in U.S. courts have generated billions of dollars more in damages. Iran, the lawsuit said, should not see a dime of sanctions relief until those victims are compensated. By law, the lawsuit said, Iran should not be granted any relief until there is "a certification by the President that Iran is no longer a financier and sponsor of terror. That terrorism condition has not been satisfied."
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 Breakdown of Where Bill and Hilly Clinton’s “Charitable” Donations  
{Doug Ross} ~ According to their tax returns, it turns out that essentially all of the Clinton family’s “charitable donations” were directed back to their own “charities”... As TaxProf notes, the family’s charitable giving from 2007 onward has been a case study in moving money around. Since 2007, the Clintons “made $15 million (10.8 percent of their AGI) of charitable contributions, $14.9 million of which went to the Clinton Family Foundation and the Clinton Global Initiative.” That leaves $100,000 for charitable uses that don’t directly involve the Clinton family and their globalist friends. As a reminder, in April I created a chart illustrating where the Clinton Global Graft Initiative’s various expenditures went. It’s equally amusing.        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/08/funniest-chart-o-the-day-breakdown-of-where-bill-and-hillary-clintons-charitable-donations-went/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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Senate Fiddles, Infanticide Continues
Chris Skates
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Release 1
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     {chrisskates.com} ~ Yesterday the United States Senate failed in its attempt to protect babies from being “crushed here and crushed there” as Dr. Nucatola casually described in the first undercover video of Planned Parenthood’s macabre tactics. It boggles the mind why Democrats employed the so called “nuclear option” in order to pass nObamacare with a simple majority vote, but Republican leadership didn’t feel the health crisis of infanticide was of adequate importance to do so in this instance. At the very least, could the measure to defund not have been attached to a bill that Democrats were strongly in favor of so that it might pass?  Likewise we are told that after their summer break, Republicans will try some procedural maneuvers to stop federal funding to this repugnant organization. At least Republican leaders can salve their conscience secure in the knowledge that they “played fair” and that Senate order has been restored. It is emotionally devastating to consider how many tiny innocent skulls will be crushed in the interim. Never before has the impotence of this Congress been more starkly evident.
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     “It is our obligation to protect our wives, our sisters, our daughters and our grand-daughters from the absurd policies of a Republican Party that has lost its moral compass.”
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     Those were the words of Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid last evening as Republicans attempted to defund Planned Parenthood. So are we to accept that the mutilation of a baby in the womb is now the moral high ground? What type of moral compass is required for a politician to engage in such a perverse twisting of the meaning of words and the logical application of language? Nancy Pulosi meanwhile called outrage over the videos a “manufactured crisis”. Huh? If altering the morally sketchy late term abortion procedures in order to “harvest” body parts desired by the market is not a crisis, what is? If we cannot agree that what has been seen in these videos is immoral, one must wonder, what can we agree on as a nation? And regarding current Democrat party leadership, do words like “crisis” or “morals” even hold anything resembling their actual meaning anymore?
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Wednesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Evil in Camouflage
Tom McLaughlin
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 GOP DEBATE BUZZER BEATER IN CLEVELAND? 
CLEVELAND — With just hours to go before the first presidential debate of the 2016 cycle a spate of new polls have shown up just ahead of the deadline.
          Invitations to the Fox News/Facebook/Ohio Republican Party debate will be based on the most recent, methodologically sound polling of national Republican primary voters. In addition to a fresh poll from Fox News, pollsters for CBS News, and Bloomberg have dropped surveys ahead of the final tabulations.
          The polls all agree that Donald Trump is a center-stage participant in the9 p.m. ET debate for the top ten. And for perennial top-flight candidates like Jeb BushScott WalkerMike HuckabeeBen CarsonTed Cruz,Marco Rubio, and Rand Paul, knocking them off that stage would take a statistical cataclysm.
          But for three candidates — Chris ChristieJohn Kasich, and Rick Perry— they can’t yet be sure whether they will be on at 9 p.m. or with the rest of the herd at a 5 p.m.
          Will there be more data today? The clock is ticking.  -Fox News  
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE 
NPR: “…Military needs have driven food-preservation experiments for centuries. Canning, or bottling, was invented at the turn of the 19th century, when the French army offered a reward for someone who could invent a way to keep foods longer…But as author Anastacia Marx de Salcedo writes, the U.S. Army has taken this research to a whole other level. She says many food innovations trace back to the Natick Soldier Systems Center, a U.S. Army research complex in Natick, Mass. The federal laboratory investigates how to make soldiers’ rations taste good and last longer. She says its initiatives have led to the processed cheese that’s now found in goldfish crackers and Cheetos. The center is also behind longer-lasting loaves of bread and the energy bar, which was originally created to give worn-out soldiers a boost, she says.”  -Fox News  
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 DISTURBED NO MORE: HILLY ALL IN FOR PLANNED  PARENTHOOD  Hilly Clinton previously said she found undercover videos detailing the harvesting of unborn babies’ organs by Planned Parenthood to be “disturbing,” but no more. Clinton released a web video in defense of her longtime political backer and America’s leading abortion provider. Clinton attacked Republicans attempts to defund Planned Parenthood, name-checking Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., and former Govs. Rick Perry, R-Texas, and Jeb Bush, R-Fla, accusing Republicans of mounting a “full-on assault on women’s health.”
 -Fox News  
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 GRACE ALONE 
WKMG: “[Melbourne, Fla.] police arrested a man who they say tried to rob churchgoers during a sermon, but was tackled by the church pastor.John Grace was arrested and charged with armed robbery and 20 additional charges in the Sunday morning incident at The Door Christian Fellowship Church on East Melbourne Avenue. Pastor Les Snodgrasstells Local 6 Grace had attended his church services before but was hardly a regular. During his sermon on ‘The Value of Life,’ he said Grace stood up and showed a gun…‘I just pushed against the wall with all my might,’ [Snodgrass said]. ‘I had him by the shoulders, and as soon as I did that, my son leapt from the platform into the air and pounced on him. He punched him twice in the head.’ Snodgrass said his wife held a stun gun to Grace until Melbourne police officers arrived and arrested him.”  -Fox News  
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 FOX News First EXTRA 
The stage is set for the first presidential debate of the 2016 cycle, hosted by Fox News, Facebook and the Ohio Republican Party at the Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland.
          The results are based on an average of the five most recent methodologically sound public polls. The top 10 in the polling average will be asked to participate in a debate Thursday, August 6th, starting at 9 p.m. ET hosted by Bret BaierMegyn Kelly and Chris Wallace.
           The invitees:
Businessman Donald Trump, former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, retired physician Ben Carson, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, Texas Sen. Ted Cruz, Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, Kentucky Gov. Rand Paul, New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Ohio Gov. John Kasich.
          Those candidates who meet the criteria other than polling but whose names have been routinely offered by national pollsters will be asked to participate in a debate Thursday, August 6th at 5 p.m. ET hosted by Bill Hemmer and Martha MacCallum.
          The invitees: Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, businesswoman Carly Fiorina, South Carolina Sen. Lindsey Graham, former New York Gov. George Pataki, former Virginia Gov. Jim Gilmore.
          Surveys included in the average were conducted for Fox News, Bloomberg, CBS News, Monmouth University and Quinnipiac University.  -Fox News  
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 Why Empower Iran?  
{Alexander H. Joffe} ~ Unless the US Congress votes in opposition, the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) deal with Iran with go through. What really happened and why did it happen the way it did?... What happened is gradually becoming clear. It is revealed daily just how horrendous the deal really is. On every point — enrichment, centrifuges, stocks of fissile material, inspections, sanctions on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps members and businesses, "snapback," etc. — the Obama administration caved completely. Concessions on ballistic missiles and arms sales were thrown in at the last minute; the administration lied about it all, while Iran touted its victories and American capitulation. All this went on amidst a background of Iranian chants of "death to Israel" and "death to America," which entered not at all into American calculations.       http://www.meforum.org/5417/why-empower-iran
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 TV Producer Norman Lear: I'm A Social Conservative  
{Sarah Fisher} ~ Hollywood producer Normal Lear held a press conference on Saturday in Beverly Hills and told the attendees he is a conservative. Lear is best known for producing the 70s hit sitcoms Sanford and Son, The Jeffersons, All in the Family and Maude... The famous producer told Entertainment Weekly, “Everybody knows me to be a progressive or a liberal or lefty or whatever. I think of myself as a bleeding-heart conservative. You will not mess with my Bill of Rights, my Constitution, my guarantees of political justice for all.” Though the producer described himself as a "bleeding heart" on certain issues like "those who need help and aren’t getting the justice that the country promises them and the equal opportunity the country promises," he said he's still a conservative when it comes to social issues. "I'm a bleeding heart, but I think myself to be a total social conservative," said the producer.
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 'Medical Meltdown:' nObamacare Ushers in Doctor Shortages  
{Trey Sanchez} ~ This past weekend, one hundred medical professionals met in California for the 33rd Doctors for Disaster Preparedness meeting and they all warned that healthcare as we have known it is over, thanks to increasing federal regulations and taxes... And as nObamacare rolls across the land, it is leaving in its wake a shortage of doctors and surgeons. According to a Breitbart report, orthopedic surgeon Dr. Lee Hieb told the conference, "What do I mean by medical meltdown? Well, sadly, I’m here to tell you that the medical care you’ve enjoyed in the past in your life is simply not going to be there in the future.” Here's why:       http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/medical-meltdown-obamacare-ushers-doctor-shortages
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 Will nObama Actually Side With Terrorists Over Americans??  
{Brooke Singman} ~ The nObama administration has signaled it may intervene next week in a civil lawsuit in which 11 American families won a potential billion-dollar judgment from the Palestinian leadership over a series of bombings and shootings that killed or wounded dozens of U.S. citizens... a move that critics say would find the government siding with terrorists over its own citizens. The families won a $218.5 million judgment in February after a seven-week trial in Manhattan Federal Court in which a jury found the Palestine Liberation Organization and Palestinian Authority were responsible for a string of attacks from 2001 to 2004 that killed 33 and injured hundreds. A 1992 law that requires damages in such cases to be tripled, as well as interest on the award, would push it to as much as $1.1 billion. The judgment, which the Palestinians are appealing, would equal nearly a third of the Palestinian Authority’s annual operating budget. Late last month, the Department of Justice, which had previously not been involved in the 11-year-old case, informed the court it was considering filing a “statement of interest” in the case by Aug. 10, but officials would not elaborate. A source said the Department of Justice was working with the State Department on the matter.        http://americanactionnews.com/articles/will-obama-actually-side-with-terrorists-over-americans
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 Senators blast State Dept. for playing politics...  
{Susan Crabtree} ~ Senators are preparing to grill State Department officials over a new report that accuses top agency brass of playing politics with its human trafficking upgrades of Cuba and Malaysia over career analysts' recommendations... "Alarming and unacceptable if true," Sen. Bob Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat and a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, tweeted Monday. "We must get to the bottom of this @ hearing on Thursday." Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said there is no doubt in his mind that the rankings were politicized and slammed the administration for allowing a "bunch of political hacks" to taint the State Department's report on human slavery and forced prostitution.
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 Planned Parenthood Caught Selling INTACT Aborted Babies AT...  
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ The Center for Medical Progress released their fifth video today of their investigation of Planned Parenthood... In the video the Director of Research for Planned Parenthood, Gulf Coast, Melissa Farrell, is caught selling fully intact aborted babies. Once again, the Planned Parenthood official discusses selling human baby organs over lunch. What evil people.
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 After Iran Promises To “Annihilate” Israel, They Suffer..."  
{Dom the Conservative} ~ Christians, Jews, and anyone with common sense and an ear to listen knows that when Iran threatens “death to Israel” and “death to America,” they mean exactly that, althoughJohn Kerry wishes to assure us that the hostile chants don’t mean that they want war... However, on the same weekend that Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khameneipublished a new book that vows to “annihilate” Israel, a freak occurrence seems to be plaguing the Islamic country like never before. The Middle East is currently trapped under a life-threatening “heat dome” which experts fear is possibly the worst recorded wave in history, according to Fox News. For more than a week, Iran and Iraq have suffered from extreme temperatures so high that cities are calling off all outdoor activity to prevent death. Iran has made headlines when the heat index reached an excruciating 164 degrees on Friday.
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 Louis Farrakhan, “We Must Rise Up & Kill Those Who Kill Us”  
{noisyroom.net} ~ Louis Farrakhan is at it again… calling for civil unrest and the murder of all whites. No matter how many times he screams for violence from the pulpit, the media just yawns and he is mostly ignored... Except for the 50,000 or so who follow the Nation of Islam and Louis Farrakhan. They are listening very closely and preparing – for war. Late last month, Farrakhan called for blacks to “rise up” and “kill those who kill us” if the federal government fails to “intercede in our affairs.” In other words, if Obama doesn’t step up moving forward towards a race war, the Nation of Islam will do it for him. Farrakhan delivered his calls for an uprising on July 30th in a speech given at Mt. Zion Baptist Church in Miami. Shame on the Baptists for letting this vile race monger preach evil from their church. “The Koran teaches persecution is worse than slaughter. Then it says, retaliation is prescribed in matters of the slain. Retaliation is a prescription from God to calm the breaths of those whose children have been slain,” Farrakhan intoned. “So if the federal government will not intercede in our affairs, then we must rise up and kill those who kill us. Stalk them and kill them and let them feel the pain of death that we are feeling,” he thundered.
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Senator catches nObama Red-Handed violating the Law he Signed  
{Randy DeSoto} ~ Freshman Senator Tom Cotton, R-Ark., found that President Barack nObama is already in direct violation of a law he just signed in late May regarding the Iran nuclear deal... The Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act specifically provides that Congress must receive “all nuclear agreement documents, including any related to agreements ‘entered into or made between Iran and any other parties.’ It expressly includes ‘side agreements.’ This requirement is not strictly limited to agreements to which the U.S. is a signatory,” Sen. Cotton and Rep. Mike Pompeo wrote in a joint op-ed in the Wall Street Journal last week. Cotton and Pompeo recount that they traveled to Vienna a few weeks ago to meet with officials of the U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). There, they learned “that certain elements of this deal are—and will remain—secret.” They further discovered that those involved with the talks, including the nObama administration, specially allowed the IAEA and Iran to have two side deals.   "That is one of the most mind-blowingly stupid things I can ever remember."       http://www.westernjournalism.com/wow-senator-catches-obama-red-handed-violating-the-law-he-just-signed/
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 Netanyahu: Iran Nuke Deal ‘Will Bring War’  
{Adam Kredo} ~ Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rallied more than 10,000 Jewish leaders and activists to reject a recently inked nuclear accord with Iran that the Israeli leader believes “will bring war” to the region... and provide the Islamic Republic with a nuclear weapon within 10 to 15 years. Netanyahu, who spoke Tuesday afternoon on a conference call organized by the Jewish Federation of North America (JFNA), urged those on the call to do all they can to defeat the deal and stop the nObama administration from enacting it.
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Evil in Camouflage
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     {tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ “It’s a lump of cells,” insisted my left-wing opponent, referring to what is removed from a mother in an abortion. I started off the show with the appalling news that Planned Parenthood was selling parts of aborted babies as documented by a series of videos released by the Center for Medical Progress last week. He pooh-poohed it. That’s what the left must do — deny that it’s a human baby being killed in every abortion procedure. He stuck to the protocol. Every two weeks, my Democrat friend, Gino, and I meet in the local Time Warner studio to debate social and political issues of the day on our show called “Left and Right.” The sale of baby parts was big news last week.
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     Left wing Democrats (is there any other kind now?) never say “baby” or “human” or “kill” when discussing abortion. They don’t even like to say “abortion,” preferring to substitute “choice” or “women’s health” as if pregnancy were a disease and abortion the cure. They cannot talk plainly about what really happens during an abortion or people would be horrified. Hence, discussion is antiseptic and language censorious. The undercover videos cut through all that. Abortion doctors working for Planned Parenthood described how they modified abortion technique so as not to “crush” some baby parts and preserve them for sale, all this while chewing on a salad and sipping wine. “We’ve been very good about getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part,” said Dr. Nucatola, medical director for Planned Parenthood nationally, “I’m going to basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.”
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     Clearly it’s not just a “lump of cells.” It’s got a heart, a lung, and a liver because it’s a baby.
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     White House press secretary Josh Earnest insisted last week that the videos were “entirely inaccurate,” then admitted he hadn’t seen them and he was repeating Planned Parenthood’s own talking points. Earnest said they were “selectively edited.” If you’re inclined to believe that, watch one yourself.
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     The first three videos released were bad enough, showing doctors talking about how they do abortions, but the fourth showed images of Planned Parenthood staff poking at the baby parts in a dish, identifying a brain, a kidney, a leg, and a penis, declaring, “It’s another boy!” This, of course, is kryptonite for Democrats.
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     On my show I said abortion is the single most important issue for the Democrat Party, and my Democrat opponent agreed. To allow images of aborted human babies would be death for Democrats so, while claiming the videos were “extremist, right wing” attacks on Planned Parenthood, they went into defensive mode. nObama’s new Attorney General Loretta Lynch announced an investigation — not of Planned Parenthood which was violating federal laws against sale of human baby parts — but of the Center for Medical Progress which was exposing it all!
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     Leftist mainstream media outlets like ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, and the big broadsheet newspapers can be relied on to ignore stories depicting abortion in a bad light. That’s why they refused to cover the Dr. Kermit Gosnell murder trial, which I covered extensively in this column. They’re doing their best to play down the Planned Parenthood videos as well, giving the poached lion in Africa far more coverage than Planned Parenthood selling baby parts in the United States.
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     Boston College philosophy professor Peter Kreeft said: “When I talk about abortion, I often surprise most of my audience, even some prolifers, by saying that not only is abortion always evil but that it is not a ‘complex issue,’ that deep down we all know that it is evil; that Mother Teresa is very clearly right when she says ‘If abortion isn’t wrong, nothing is wrong.’”
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     Kreeft is right. Deep down, we all know it. That’s why most Democrats qualify their support for abortion by saying: “Personally, I’m against abortion, but I believe a woman has a right to choose.” That’s why Planned Parenthood is always blowing smoke about what they actually do, insisting it isn’t really a baby. It’s just a lump of tissue like an appendix or a tonsil. That’s why our left wing media couldn’t cover the murder trial of abortionist Dr. Kermit Gosnell. That’s why even most pro-life people can’t bring themselves to look at pictures of aborted babies. Because we know evil when we see it — all of us. Loretta Lynch is investigating the Center for Medical Progress instead of Planned Parenthood because she wants to shoot the messenger, not the evil perpetrator — which has become an object of worship for Democrats. That’s why Democrats fight state laws requiring women to have ultrasound images of what is in their uterus before having an abortion. Ninety percent of them change their minds when they see it’s not just a “lump of cells.”
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Wednesday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Land of the Freeloaders
Burt Prelutsky
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 The Banality of Evil 
The "banality of evil” became part of the cultural lexicon following the publication of German-born author Hannah Arendt's 1963 book "Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil." The book recounted the trial of Nazi Adolph Eichmann, who was chief of operations for the Gestapo-run Department for Jewish Affairs, and responsible for the deportation of three million Jews to extermination camps. Arendt hypothesized that people who carry out such barbarous crimes may not be inherently evil, but instead fairly ordinary individuals who simply accept the premises under which they operate.
          For the last two weeks, our nation has been rocked by a series of videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress (CMP) revealing that Planned Parenthood (PP) has been involved in the harvesting and selling of fetal organs. CMP has released four of what they say is a series of 12 undercover videos, and each one has been more disturbing than its predecessor. In a bombshell claim, CMP founder David Daleiden revealed to CNN that one of those videos depicts a meeting with top leaders from organ recipient company StemExpress, admitting "they sometimes get fully intact fetuses shipped to their laboratory from the abortion clinics they work with, and that could be prima facie evidence of born-alive infants. And so that’s why they’re trying to suppress that videotape and they’re very scared of it.”
          Indeed, StemExpress sued to keep the video from going public, and they secured a temporary stay from Judge William Orrick, a California federal judge who raised $230,000 for Barack nObama. And, by the way, PP President Cecile Richards has visited the White House 39 times since 2009 — just to be clear how much nObama supports the abortion industry.
          None of what the public has seen so far could be described as banal. Yet for the pro-abortionists and their supporters in government and the media, who ultimately convinced the Supreme Court to decide the entire nation must accept the premise of abortion on demand is an integral part of the auspices under which the nation must now operate, the act that has precipitated every bit of this descent into organ-harvesting darkness has become the essence of banality.  -The Patriot Post 
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 BEAU loose lips BIDEN’S TOP ADVISER JOINS JOE’S  CAMPAIGN IN WAITING 
Vice President loose lips Joe Biden seems to be getting serious. On the heels of a NYT report Saturday that said Biden was seriously considering another presidential run, a former aide to loose lips Biden’s late son Beau Biden announced Sunday he is set to join the Draft Biden super PACJosh Alcorn is described by the AP as the younger loose lips Biden’s “top political and fundraising” aide from Delaware. Alcorn’s move, coupled by the revealing write from NYT’s Maureen Dowd on Beau’s urgent dying wish for his father, signals the serious tip the vice president may actually take the plunge into the race. From MoDo: “Beau was losing his nouns and the right side of his face was partially paralyzed. But he had a mission: He tried to make his father promise to run, arguing that the White House should not revert to the Clintons and that the country would be better off with loose lips Biden values.”  -Fox News    
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 Hilly starts spending -  Clinton, who is up 28 points in Iowa, and 15 points in New Hampshire, put out her first television ads late Sunday night in the early states. Both ads center on her mother, Dorothy, who was abandoned as a child and sent to live with relatives, Clinton says her mother’s story inspired her to run for office. It is a familiar narrative for Clinton who talked a lot about her mother in her 2008 run as well. The videos signal that despite reassurances from the Clinton camp that they are not worried about Vice President loose lips Biden’s run they are also not taking any chances.  -Fox News    
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nOBAMA TO ORDER BIG CUTS IN PLANT EMISSIONS 
Once again wielding his pen in an attempt to cement his legacy, President nObama will finalize an EPA rule today that imposes deep cuts in carbon dioxide emissions from the country’s power plants. Despite political opposition and the virtual certainty of legal challenges from states and industry, the president is upping the ante by announcing steeper reductions – almost a third of 2005 level carbon emissions – than previously floated. Reaction from Republican 2016 candidates to the rule was swift, with several accusing the president of pandering to Democratic “environmentalist billionaires.”  -Fox News    
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 Confirms, backstabber Boehner DOES NOT Have The Votes...  
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ Breitbart News Sunday on Sirius XM Patriot Radio spoke to Florida Republican Congressman Ted S. Yoho, a serious voice for conservatives who believe in limited government, fiscal conservatism, personal responsibility, and free enterprise... Speaking to Breitbart’s senior investigative political reporter Matthew Boyle, Yoho explained why he signed on as a co-sponsor to Rep. Mark Meadows bid to unseat Speaker of the House Rep. backstabber John Boehner. Yoho said that backstabber Boehner spends too much time retaliating against conservatives and has let nObama basically get whatever he wants.        http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/08/03/gop-congressman-confirms-john-boehner-does-not-have-the-votes-to-remain-speaker/
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 Is nObama taking Hilly out?  
{Monica Crowley} ~ Hilly Clinton is not going to be the Democratic nominee for president... Yes, the conventional wisdom is that she is still the prohibitive favorite, armed with big money, big connections, and the Big Dog, Bill. But the so-called “wisdom” is “conventional” for a reason. As a result of endless sordid scandals and predictably Clintonian evasions, her poll numbers on everything from favorability to trustworthiness are in a nosedive. A battery of new polls in key swing states such as Colorado and Iowa show her losing to a number of GOP challengers http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/29/monica-crowley-obama-a-threat-to-hillary-clinton/?page=all#pagebreak
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 Senate fails to advance Planned Parenthood defund effort  
{foxnews.com} ~ The Senate failed Monday to advance a Republican-led measure to halt federal aid to Planned Parenthood... but leaders of the GOP-controlled chamber appear ready to continue the fight, galvanized by a series of unsettling videos about the group. The vote to bring debate on the bill was 53 against to 46 in favor. The measure had not been expected to get the 60 votes needed to move it toward a final vote because Republicans needed several “yeas” from Democrats, who largely support Planned Parenthood.
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 US Will Give Out More Green Cards Than Combined Populations of...  
{Terresa Monroe-Hamilton} ~ This is sheer national suicidal insanity. We are bringing in legally over 1 million new immigrants a year into the US. A country that is on the verge of bankruptcy and whose job market is so bad... that millions have not worked in years. Instead, we bring in low skilled, cheap, slave labor and deprive ever more Americans of even the lowliest of jobs so they can support themselves. Once Americans run out of unemployment benefits, they are forced onto the welfare rolls. Eventually, the whole entitlement system will overload and implode. Cloward and Piven would be proud. No one is addressing this in the US currently except Senator Jeff Sessions who has warned about this emergency forever and who has received nothing but derision for his efforts to save America. In ten years, we will issue more green cards than the combined populations of South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa. If we last ten years, that is.
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 IRAN DEAL: nO'S FOREIGN POLICY nOBAMACARE  
{David Limbaugh} ~ President nObama’s sordid Iran nuke deal is looking more and more like the foreign policy version of nObamacare. It’s duplicitous, secretive, destructive and legacy-driven, and he’s going to have to go full community organizer to get it passed... This deal was born in hell. It is the culmination of nObama’s dangerously flawed philosophy that you enhance national security through appeasement. If we can secure a deal with Satan’s stepchild, after all, we can remake the globe into the peaceful utopia progressives romantically envision. Never mind that this terrorist theocracy, by its own admission, is immune to rehabilitation. “Death to America, death to Israel.” Even in the midst of negotiations with the nObama regime, the mullahs didn’t bother to pretend they had goodwill toward us.
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 nOBAMA DETAINS 27 CHRISTIAN ASYLUM SEEKERS  
{Leo Hohmann} ~ More than two dozen Iraqi Chaldean Christians forced from their homes by ISIS have been detained at an ICE detention center in California for six months after crossing the border from Mexico... The San Diego Union reported July 31 that 20 of the 27 Chaldeans at the Otay Detention Center in Otay Mesa, California, have American family members living in Southern California who are willing to sponsor them. Family members have been holding weekly vigils and rallies to draw attention to the detentions. Large U.S. Chaldean Catholic communities reside in San Diego and Detroit. The family members say they’ve been given few details on why they’ve been detained for so long, despite being refugees from Middle East terror. Barack nObama has been letting countless illegal aliens, not to mention Muslim refugees, storm into America. But apparently he's got a serious problem with some two dozen CHRISTIANS fleeing for their lives from ISIS ...
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 Left Building an Army of Elizabeth Warrens  
{Aleister} ~ If you thought the faith progressives have in Elizabeth Warren was over the top, you ain’t seen nothing yet... So strong is the left’s love of all things Warren, they’re now trying to create an army of political candidates just like her to run for public office. Topics covered in the conference included everything from the basics of campaigning to fundraising and using the internet for outreach. During her personal appearance at the event, Warren offered encouragement to her cult-like horde of devotees:
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 Americans Oppose Iran Deal By Two To One Margin  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ A Quinnipiac University Poll released Monday morning shows that American voters oppose the Iran deal by a  two to one. 57 - 28% margin... Republicans oppose the deal by a huge 86-3% margin. Independents also oppose the deal by a strong 36%, 55-29% margin with Democrats supporting the deal by a strong 52-32% which may be an indication that the Democratic support for the deal has more to do with the president is from their party than a believe the agreement is good for the country.        http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/08/quinnipiac-university-poll-americans.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=916e1d996f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-916e1d996f-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-916e1d996f-291705165
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 The Iran deal’s dangerous precedent  
{John R. Bolton} ~ Had anyone believed President nObama’s mantra that “all options are on the table” to deal with Iran’s nuclear weapons program, the Vienna agreement might have emerged less advantageously for Tehran... But no one took Mr. nObama’s threat of military force seriously — a credibility gap that Israel still fears and Iran still exploits. Even so, Vice President loose lips Joseph R. Biden Jr. is still trying to reassure nervous Democrats in Congress that the Vienna agreement does not preclude America’s use of force. Despite its blasé confidence in the agreement, however, the nObama administration understands the near-certainty that Iran will break its word. Tehran’s potential violations were not merely one of many difficult issues for negotiators; they were the essence of the talks. The deal’s entire structure turns on the issue of how to detect and handle breaches. If Iran is caught transgressing, Mr. nObama’s plan is not to use force, but to apply “snapback sanctions.” His administration has argued repeatedly that such sanctions (or even new sanctions) will deter or punish violations, keeping the deal on track and Iran clear of nuclear weapons. This rationale conforms to the underlying logic for the talks themselves: If sanctions brought Iran to the table, then sanctions will keep the deal viable once implementation begins.
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 Palestinians: The Difference between Us and Them  
{Bassam Tawil} ~ I cannot count the number of times that I heard from Israeli Jews the phrases "I'm ashamed" and "I'm sorry" in response to the horrific crime that claimed the life of Palestinian toddler Ali Dawabsha in the West Bank village of Duma last week... The strong response of the Israeli public and leaders to the arson attack is, truthfully, somewhat comforting. The wall-to-wall Israeli condemnation of this crime has left me and other Palestinians not only ashamed, but also embarrassed -- because this is not how we Palestinians have been reacting to terror attacks against Jews -- even the despicable murder of Jewish children. Our response has, in fact, brought feelings of disgrace and dishonor. While the Israeli prime minister, president and other officials were quick strongly to condemn the murder of Dawabsha, our leaders rarely denounce terror attacks against Jews. And when a Palestinian leader such as Mahmoud Abbas does issue a condemnation, it is often vague and equivocal.
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     {burtprelutsky.com} ~ If Rip Van Winkle slept for a few decades and awoke today, he wouldn’t know where he was. No longer the land of the free and the home of the brave, America has morphed into a place that is part insane asylum, part soup kitchen and part sewer.
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     Think what Mr. Van Winkle would make of traditional marriage. When he pulled the blankets under his chin, the Left was announcing that the institution was outdated and bourgeois, to boot, ensuring that the young and hip, including those who were busy having kids or abortions, would give it a wide berth. Then, suddenly, homosexuals, who would have us believe that they are the youngest and the hippest, decided it was only passé because they weren’t being allowed to partake. Overnight, the Left decided marriage was sacred, and to deny guys the right to marry other guys, and gals the right to marry other gals, was an affront to everything America allegedly holds dear.
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♦ The latest examples of people walking around in public without their brains was presidential candidate Martin O’Malley apologizing to an audience of boorish blacks for insisting that all lives matter when by this time every liberal understands that only black lives matter. If he at least had some guts to make up for his lack of brains, he might have said, “If black lives matter so much, why don’t you do something about all those young black thugs killing blacks in your neighborhood, instead of wasting everyone’s time whining about cops and white people?”
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♦ Proving that he’s every bit the bonehead ex-Gov. O’Malley is, Seattle’s Mayor Ed Murray, having been told that according to Sharia law, Muslims aren’t allowed to pay interest on loans, wishes to offer Muslims in his hometown interest-free home loans, leaving it to Seattle’s suckers to pony up the difference.
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     Frankly, I suspect he’s got it wrong. I expect that Muslims, as it is with orthodox Jews, who aren’t supposed to charge their fellow Jews interest, Muslims are allowed to pay interest on home loans and are just hoping that nobody sets Mayor Murray straight.
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♦ Speaking of Muslims, isn’t it time that when someone named Mohammad Youssuf Abdulazeez opens fire on a Marine recruiting office, we accept that it’s an Islamic act of terrorism without having to wait for a psychological profile to confirm what we all already know?
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♦ In the meantime, the Great Satan who resides in the White House, who saw fit to bathe the place with colored lights in celebration of the Supreme Court’s latest brain freeze, waited five days before caving in to public pressure and ordering that flags be lowered in honor of the sailor and the four Marines murdered by young Abdulazeez.
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♦ Proving that the folks at the Department of Defense are as dense as bricks, but not nearly as useful, the solution they came up with to prevent future carnage at military recruitment centers is that Marines wear civvies on the job. Apparently Washington bureaucrats think that Muslims are as stupid as they are. Do they really believe that when the next jihadists show up at the mall, they’ll simply drive by and then go home, fooled by the fact that the folks sitting at the desks inside aren’t wearing their uniforms?
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♦ America doesn’t need a he-man like Vladimir Putin in the Oval Office. We don’t need a bare-chested hunter of bears, a man who swims in icy waters or a guy who rips Moscow telephone books in half. We do need a president who thinks all American lives matter, not just those of blacks, Hispanics and Muslims. We need a person who is more concerned with America’s future than with his legacy, more concerned with our best interests than with Cuba’s and Iran’s.
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     What we have in Barack nObama is an underachieving fruitcake who came into office believing, mistakenly, that America required a radical transformation. What we require of the next president is that he’ll understand that eight years later, America will desperately need to be radically transformed back to the way it used to be.
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♦ I doubt that any of my readers are dumb enough to take the bet, but I am giving odds that next year’s Nobel Peace Prize will be shared by hanoi John Kerry and Mohammad Javad Zarif. (Are all of those schmucks named Mohammad?)
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♦ I had my own problems with George W. Bush. Mainly, they revolved around the way he conducted the Iraq War, not that he waged it. I objected to the fact that he forced the military to fight with one arm tied behind its collective back. I refer to the fact that he wouldn’t allow mosques to be bombed even though we knew Saddam Hussein was using them as armories and barracks, forcing our soldiers to fight pitched battles in the streets. And let us not forget that, according to Bush’s book of wartime etiquette, we were required to re-build every damn building almost as soon as we knocked it down.
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     I was willing to give him points for his highly publicized greetings of returning vets at the Dallas airport and his visits to military hospitals and even his annual bike rides with wounded vets, although I never lost sight of the fact that if he’d conducted a different kind of war maybe so many of them wouldn’t have been wounded, or worse, in the first place.
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     It didn’t help that he was also the jackass who seemed to devote every waking hour to telling us that Islam was a religion of peace.
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     But ever since the AP reported that in 2012, he gave a speech on behalf of a Texas-based military charity called Helping a Hero, charging them $100,000, and an additional $20,000 for the private jet ferrying him to and fro, I have begun to understand why he and Bill (ka-ching) Clinton seem to get along so well.
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     Lest you think he is really hard up financially, it seems that since leaving office in 2009, Bush has given at least 200 other speeches, earning him in excess of $30 million. That’s not counting the book deals.
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♦ But that is the sort of nation we have become. Our ex-presidents, and some of their wives, seem to think they should be as rich as Midas.
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     But perhaps we shouldn’t expect anything better. After all, if you take a long hard look at America, you’ll find that we have a website dedicated solely to adulterers looking to link up. The garbage pail known as the Internet is full of pedophiles buying and selling child pornography. And just about every day some outfit is sending me email promising to enhance my ------.
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     We have devolved from a once-great nation to an open sewer without borders, a functioning military, and a Constitution that’s treated like toilet paper by the president and five members of the Supreme Court.
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     Sometimes, I swear, it’s only the hope of one day having an enhanced ----- that keeps me going.
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Tuesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Desperate Dems Recycle
Planned Parenthood's Mammogram Lie
Michelle Malkin
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 Lessons From the 50th of Medicare and Medicaid 
Massive unfunded debt is not what the progressive politicians who created Medicare and Medicaid 50 years ago this week told the country their programs would bring. The "Great Society" was supposed to banish poverty from the land while providing care for the elderly and disabled. Today, over a third of the U.S. population is on Medicare and Medicaid, and federal spending has a tendency to be sucked into the programs' gaping maws. Today, more than quarter of every dollar the federal government spends goes to the two programs. They are also the biggest expense for state governments. But for all that spending, the programs' trust fund is on track to run out of money in 15 years. Meanwhile, the Baby Boomer generation is signing up in droves, and $60 billion is lost every year to waste and fraud. This is not what the programs' architects wanted Americans to think would happen. Fifty years ago, they estimated the programs would cost $12 billion in 1990, but it actually cost the government $90 billion. Another government program, now five years old, also promised to trim health care costs through more government intrusion and regulation. Just wait until nObamaCare turns 10, much less 50. 
 -The Patriot Post  
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 Clickbait Crap on the Chattanooga Attack 
Dear Allen West, stop the viral clickbait crap! In our commentary regarding the Islamist assault in Chattanooga on July 16, which cost four Marines and one Navy Petty Officer their lives, we noted that our sources advised there were at least two personal weapons belonging to military personnel recovered at the Reserve Center.
          We also berated the restrictions against such weapons at thousands of similar facilities and recruiting stations, where there are no security personnel. However, we also noted that if any military personnel were in possession of personal weapons, that would be a UCMJ violation and by law, Navy JAG will be obligated to review this case. JAG should not be condemned for doing just that.
          Indeed, Lt. Cmdr. Tim White confirmed that he was in possession of a personal weapon and did return fire — either suppression cover fire to allow his personnel to take cover, or perhaps he fired directly at the assailant.
          Again, by law, this would be subject to review — and that has been understood from the moment personal weapons were recovered, despite the fact they were used for self-defense. In the absence of those weapons, there may have been many more casualties. There are a number of ways White can be absolved — clearly many bases were on elevated security status at the time of the attack, and maybe he can be credited with taking personal initiative in this case. Perhaps he has a legal carry permit in Tennessee and JAG can dismiss further action on that basis.
          Unfortunately, my colleague Allen West has taken it upon himself to short circuit that review — knowing full well the review will have to take place. West has trumpeted what we all already knew! Obviously there is a constitutional obligation to review this case. West distributed an email claiming insider information that the Navy was going to prosecute White — typical of the viral clickbait claims too often circulated among some conservative quarters. In fact, West's sensationalist claim could create more problems for White than it solves.
          Contrary to West's assertions, the Navy has released a statement indicating that they have not charged White, have not prepared charges against White, and are a long way from making any such determination about this tragedy.   -The Patriot Post  
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 Did Garland Jihadist Get a Gun Through Fast and Furious? 
When Nadir Soofi attacked the Muhammad art show in Garland, Texas, he may have used a gun the federal government allowed to walk into his hands as part of the infamous Fast and Furious sting. Eric Holder's Justice Department let American guns float into the hands of Mexican cartels in hopes of tracking the guns through their serial numbers. Instead of an effective crackdown on organized crime, however, the DOJ has the blood of hundreds of Mexicans and at least two American agents on its hands. In 2010, the Islamic terrorist bought a 9mm handgun at Lone Wolf Trading Co. (ironic name, no?), one of the businesses where the ATF was running the sting. While Soofi said he wanted the gun to protect his pizza restaurant, he had a previous criminal record. The Feds placed Soofi's purchase on a seven-day hold, but mysteriously the hold was cleared after 24-hours. The FBI has not released the serial numbers of the weapons Soofi used. In July, Barack nObama told an interviewer, "One area where I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied it is the fact that the United States of America is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient common-sense, gun-safety laws." Here's a common-sense idea: Uphold the laws that, when enforced, keeps guns out of the hands of criminals and terrorists. Meanwhile, to date, no one has been held to account for Fast and Furious.
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 What's the Difference Between a Democrat and a Socialist? 
It may only happen once in a blue moon, but MSNBC's Chris Matthews asked a good question. Speaking with DNC Chief Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Matthews wanted to know if Bernie Sanders, a self-declared Socialist, would get a prime speaking slot at the Democrat Convention when he loses the nomination to Hilly Clinton. Schultz said he would, which surprised Matthews. "What's the difference between a Democrat and a Socialist?" he asked. "I used to think there was a big difference. What do you think it is?" All Wasserman Schultz could do is spin it to the question she wanted to answer — the difference between Democrats and Republicans. (And even that boiled down to "Democrats love everyone, but Republicans hate everything.") She couldn't answer because there is no difference between Democrats and Socialists. As American author Upton Sinclair wrote in 1951 to perennial Socialist presidential candidate Norman Thomas, "The American People will take Socialism, but they won't take the label." That's why Democrats have adopted the platform but not the name, and it's why the question left Wasserman Schultz stammering.   -The Patriot Post  
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 The bold, untold way to fix Washington 'monstrosity'  
{Bob Unruh} ~ The Washington elite in recent weeks have destroyed traditional marriage across America, have redefined English words to save nObamacare, have proposed regulations... that could put your backyard under inspections by the EPA, have pulled off a deal critics say will grant the rogue Islamists in Iran nuclear weapons and more. Too much more even to list. How would you like to see a process to reverse those decisions? To TELL Washington what i’s actually going to do. Think that’s an impossible dream? Just check out Article 5. Officials with Convention of States, a project of the Citizens for Self-Government, say the U.S. Constitution already provides a solution that gives citizens of the U.S. a way to bypass Congress, decide what direction the nation to go and then announce marching orders.
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 Who Is Destroying the Palestinian Dream?  
{Khaled Abu Toameh} ~ The Hamas-controlled Gaza Strip, which Palestinians hope will one day become part of a future Palestinian state, is quickly sliding toward anarchy and chaos... Since its violent takeover of the Gaza Strip in the summer of 2007, Hamas has maintained a tight grip on the area, home to some 1.7 million Palestinians. But now Hamas's totalitarian rule over the Gaza Strip seems to be nearing its end, as the Islamist movement faces increased challenges from various militias and groups in the area. Some of Hamas's rivals belong to more radical terror groups such as the Islamic State and Al-Qaeda-affiliated militias created by salafi-jihadis inside the Gaza Strip. Others belong to the secular Fatah faction, whose members continue to dream of the day when they will be able to topple the Hamas regime and regain control over the Gaza Strip.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6214/palestinian-dream
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 How We Got Into Such a Bad Nuclear Deal with Iran  
{Lt. Col. James G. Zumwalt} ~ Last week, Congress kicked off hearings for its 60-day review of President Barack nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran. Despite Administration assurances-given even before the agreement was concluded-Congress would have this review time... nObama rushed the deal to judgment at the U.N. to bind the U.S. internationally before congressional review could be undertaken. The chief negotiator of an agreement that abandons America’s seven decade-long policy of non-proliferation and violates nObama’s numerous promises to block a nuclear-armed Iran is Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry. In addition to playing the U.N. card, hanoi Kerry is playing the war card with Congress. Both cards seek to hide the real deal. Congressional review needs to include examining the historical context of how we got into negotiating such a bad one.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/how-we-got-into-such-a-bad-nuclear-deal-with-iran/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email073115&utm_medium=email
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 Hilly Clinton’s Lawyer has her Classified Emails on a Thumb Drive  
{Frank Camp} ~ On Friday, the Clinton campaign released a cache of tax records going back to 2007, as well as a letter from Hilly Clinton’s doctor, saying she’s perfectly healthy. Almost simultaneously, yet another round of Clinton emails were released by the State Department... Fox News reports that 37 of the emails were at least partially redacted in the interest of national security. “Under 18 USC 1924 the unlawful removal and storage of classified information is described as when a person ‘knowingly removes such documents or materials without authority and with the intent to retain such documents or materials at an unauthorized location.’ The law sets punishment of a fine or prison term of ‘not more than one year.'” Is the thumb drive in violation of the law? Clinton defenders are saying that Clinton’s attorney has a security clearance, and has been briefed in the proper methods of handling classified material. Detractors are crying foul, and calling the backup copy comparable to Petraeus’ black notebooks. Why didn't Hilly give all of her email to the State Depart rather securty issues to her attorney. Something smells fishy here.    http://www.ijreview.com/2015/08/382740-hillary-clinton-prosecuted-simple-thumb-drive/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=owned&utm_campaign=morning-newsletter
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 Hilly’s Transparency Problem  
{David Freddoso} ~ Arguably the most famous story about Winston Churchill’s wit pertains to an exchange he had with an outspoken Labour MP named Bessie Braddock... She berated him for being intoxicated: “Winston, you are drunk,” she said. “And what’s more, you are disgustingly drunk.” Churchill’s immortal reply: “My dear, you are ugly, and what’s more, you are disgustingly ugly. But tomorrow I shall be sober, and you will still be disgustingly ugly.” here is some controversy as to whether this exchange actually occurred as described here, but either way it is now one of Churchill’s most famous quotations. It also describes the state of the two parties in U.S. politics at this moment.
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 Climate Models Fail to Predict Actual Climate  
{Leslie Eastman} ~ Environmental activists have relied heavily on computer models to predict climate patterns confirming their notion that mankind is toxic... However, recent studies have shown models have failed to consider real world conditions in their calculations. The new desert study concludes that more study is needed…of course. Many of the comments in the desert piece focus on the replacement of the technical name “carbon dioxide” with the word “carbon”. This switch is misleading, as the former co-founder of Greenpeace and climate scare-science skeptic, Dr. Patrick Moore, discusses in the following Prager University video: Moore derides climate models in an wonderful article for Heartland, and he asserts that human emissions have been beneficial:        http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/08/climate-models-fail-to-predict-actual-climate/?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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 nObama's effort to polish climate legacy faces battle from GOP  
{Zack Colman} ~ President nObama wants his signature climate change regulation to be a hallmark of his White House legacy. But whether the rule, which will be finalized Monday, will remain intact won't be decided until after his presidency as Republicans and the energy industry try to kill it through legislation and the courts...  For now, the emissions rules for power plants that nObama will announce at a Rose Garden ceremony Monday afternoon represents a high point for his presidency's environmental credentials. Environmental allies, who challenged nObama early in his presidency to act on the climate after a sweeping cap-and-trade bill collapsed in the Senate, quickly praised the effort, though some contended the regulation didn't go far enough considering the United States has met nearly half the final rule's goal of slashing electricity emissions nationwide 32 percent below 2005 levels by 2030. The rest of the roughly 17 percent of emissions the U.S. power sector must cut to meet the mark will be met largely by imposing limits that will shift the power sector away from coal, which provides about 39 percent of the nation's electricity, and toward renewable energy and natural gas.        http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-effort-to-polish-climate-legacy-faces-battle-from-gop/article/2569443?custom_click=rss
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 U.S. Banned Knowing Details of Iran Nuclear Inspection Agreement  
{Adam Kredo} ~ Iran’s ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said the nuclear inspection organization is barred from revealing to the United States any details of deals... it has inked with Tehran to inspect its contested nuclear program going forward, according to regional reports. Recent disclosures by Iran indicate that the recently inked nuclear accord includes a series of side deals on critical inspections regimes that are neither public nor subject to review by the United States. Reza Najafi, Iran’s ambassador and permanent envoy to the IAEA, stated over the weekend that no country is permitted to know the details of future inspections conducted by the IAEA. In addition, no U.S. inspectors will be permitted to enter Iran’s nuclear sites. This is and one reason to vote against this deal with Iran.         http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-u-s-banned-from-knowing-details-of-iran-nuke-agreement/
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 Disinfo Prep For Next Step In Invasion –“Refugee Release”  
{rickwells.us} ~ Fidel Castro’s nephew, Jose “The Cyclops” Diaz-Balart, somehow just happened to land a position with the major Spanish Language network Telemundo as well as the nObama mouthpiece MSBNC... Those things don’t just happen. Recognizing the high probability that forces behind Castro, Mexico and nObama share common interests, the conversation that takes place in this interview can be viewed in better context. The presentation is not a news person interviewing an actual Congressman. This is a situation where two political operatives who are engaged in promoting the same agenda conduct a pretend interview as the means of presenting their propaganda in advance of the next stage of the invasion. Gutierrez represents illegals, not the people of Illinois, and Balart is an agitator for the Latino invasion. The goal appears to be to set the stage for more DHS illegality under the perpetual false pretense of humanitarian needs, this time the release of illegals being detained while they await phony refugee hearings. Gutierrez is supposedly lobbying the regime and has already visited a facility, arranging for the release of hundreds of invaders.
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 Adm Ace Lyons: Reject Iran Deal then Impeach hanoi Kerry &nObama 
{rickwells.us} ~ Retired Admiral Ace Lyons addressed the thousands in attendance at the “Stop Iran Now” Rally on July 22nd in New York City. Lyons delivered a no nonsense assessment of what has taken place in the nObama regime’s dealings with Iran... and offers some equally direct suggestions as to what now needs to happen. Lyons opens by saying, “Never in my lifetime did I believe I would witness this great country of ours being taken down and withdrawn from our world leadership by our own administration; unbelievable. And when it comes to Iran, I’ve been chasing those guys for over thirty-five years.” He goes on to describe the many times he “had the planes loaded” to wipe them out, but each time, regardless of whether there was a Republican or Democrat in the White House, they all failed. Lyons said, “They failed because we were sabotaged from within.” He includes the current Iran agreement in that number, saying, “This agreement is another example of sabotage from within. It is a total sellout. Of course, that doesn’t bother the likes of Secretary hanoi Kerry because this is the second time he’s sold out his country.”
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Desperate Dems Recycle
Planned Parenthood's Mammogram Lie
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     {townhall.com} ~ The gruesome hits keep coming for the baby butchers of Planned Parenthood. President nObama and his top health officials have one last-ditch response left: Quick, hide behind the imaginary mammogram machine!
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     As more graphic, money-grubbing undercover videos of Planned Parenthood's for-profit aborted baby parts racket emerge thanks to the investigative work of the Center for Medical Progress, desperate Democrats are in full deflection mode. U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell defended federal funding for Planned Parenthood this week by invoking the women's health shield. "What I think is important is that our HHS funding is focused on issues of preventative care for women, things like mammograms," Burwell told the House Education and Workforce Committee.
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     Just one teeny, tiny problem with this defense: It's a completely calculated fabrication.
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     The breast-cancer screening charade casts Planned Parenthood as a life-saving provider of vital health services unavailable anywhere else. You may recall that during the 2012 presidential cycle, nObama himself falsely claimed during a debate that the abortion provider administers mammograms to "millions" of women -- and liberal CNN moderator Candy Crowley let him get away with it.
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     On cue, Hollywood activists Scarlett Johansson, Eva Longoria and Kerry Washington all attacked the GOP ticket for wanting to "end" funding for "cancer screenings" by cutting off government subsidies for Planned Parenthood's bloody billion-dollar abortion business. _The celebrities in the White House and Tinseltown took their script straight from Dr. Deborah Nucatola, Planned Parenthood's senior director of medical services, who purported to speak for countless women for whom Planned Parenthood is "the only way" they can gain access to mammograms. __(If the name sounds familiar, Nucatola is the same wine-swishing Josephine Mengele who was exposed on tape by the Center for Medical Progress two weeks ago lolling through a business lunch negotiating payments for aborted baby parts.)
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Once again, it was undercover pro-life journalists who unmasked the truth.
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     An investigation of 30 Planned Parenthood clinics in 27 different states, conducted by pro-life group Live Action, confirmed that the abortion provider does not perform breast-cancer screenings. "We don't provide those services whatsoever," a staffer at Planned Parenthood of Arizona confessed on tape.
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     Planned Parenthood's Comprehensive Health Center clinic in Overland Park, Kan., admitted: "We actually don't have a, um, mammogram machine at our clinics."
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     Even the liberal Washington Post doled out a three (out of four) Pinocchio rating for the White House's mammogram lies. "The problem here is that Planned Parenthood does not perform mammograms or even possess the necessary equipment to do so," the paper's resident fact-checker reported. "As such, the organization certainly does not 'provide' mammograms in the strict sense. Instead, its clinics provide referrals and direct low-income women toward resources to help pay for the procedure. These services are by no means unique to Planned Parenthood. In fact, the Susan G. Komen Foundation and the American Cancer Society provide them, as well."
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     As I've pointed out previously, Planned Parenthood's purported "referral services" to outside mammogram facilities are negligible -- especially given the widespread availability of these and other free and low-cost breast and cervical cancer screening services across the country supported by both private and public grants.
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     Reluctant to do its job and just call out the president as an outright liar, The Washington Post fell short of giving nObama the full four-Pinocchio treatment for his Planned Parenthood mammogram propagandizing, but acknowledged that he has repeated the lies "too many times in one form or another for this to be considered just playing with words to generate a misleading impression."
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     The nObama HHS apparently needs to be reminded of its own review exposing the mammography deception. In June 2012, the agency responded to a request for information about how many Planned Parenthood clinics were certified to operate mammogram facilities. "Our search did not find any documents pertinent to your request," HHS told the Alliance Defense Fund.
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     Pro-life investigative journalist Lila Rose of Live Action has it right: "It is an alarming dereliction of duty that the Secretary of Health and Human Services refuses to view investigative reports that clearly demonstrate that Planned Parenthood, who receives close to half a million taxpayer dollars a year from the federal government, is engaged in the selling and trafficking of aborted baby body parts for profit," she said this week. "Ms. Burwell should be investigating Planned Parenthood, not covering for them."
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     Ladies, open your eyes and hearts. Watch the videos for yourselves. Get the facts. Unmask the lies. The cackling profiteers of Planned Parenthood don't care about your breasts. They're too busy putting price tags on the baby hearts, livers, lungs and limbs swirling around in bloody pie plates, stacked in their "research" labs, subsidized with your tax dollars and sold to the highest bidders. For "preventative care," of course.
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Tuesday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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nObama strikes again
Caroline B. Glick
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Banking on her -  Fox News: “Donations to the Clinton Foundation by Swiss bank UBS increased tenfold after Hilly Clinton intervened to settle a dispute with the IRS early in her tenure as secretary of state… According to the Wall Street Journal, total donations by UBS to the foundation grew from less than $60,000 at the end of 2008 to approximately $600,000 by the end of 2014. The Journal reports that the bank also lent $32 million through entrepreneurship and inner-city loan programs it launched in association with the foundation, while paying former President Bill Clinton $1.5 million to participate in a series of corporate question-and-answer sessions with UBS Chief Executive Bob McCann.”  
-Fox News  
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 Hilly handler turns in some emails -   Politico: “Long-time Hilly Clinton spokesman Philippe Reines handed the State Department 20 boxes of work-related emails taken in part from a personal email account, State officials said Wednesday, calling into question the extent to which top aides to the former secretary of state also engaged in controversial email practices. State Department top document official John Hackett, who heads Freedom of Information Act requests for the agency, told a federal judge in a court hearing…Reines sent over the document boxes with a cover letter, suggesting they contained a hodgepodge of work related items also mixed with personal messages.”
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 The Judge’s Ruling: Getaway plan gone awry -  Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano brings down his gavel on Hilly Clinton’s claim she did not send or receive classified data using her personal email account to task. “Why did she lie about all this? Because she thinks she can get away with it.”  -Fox News  
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 nObama 'Recovery' Even Worse Than Thought 
The status quo remains unchanged. Newly released figures from the Commerce Department show that in the second quarter — encompassing the months of April, May and June — the U.S. economy grew by just 2.3%, while first quarter growth was adjusted to 0.6%. No matter how you spin it, this isn't progress. In fact, GDP so far in 2015 trails 2014, a year that continued the trend of underperformance. But there was another interesting aspect to the report that is being largely ignored. "The second-quarter report is the first to include new methodology meant to make GDP more accurate," explains MarketWatch. "Over the past several years GDP has slightly underestimated growth in the first quarter and sharply overestimated growth in the third quarter, leading to big swings that confused Wall Street and Washington." After taking into account the new methodology, the results are even less stellar: "Under the new approach, the government has found that the U.S. economy grew somewhat slower from 2012 to 2014: An average of 2% a year instead of 2.3%. That means the slowest recovery since the end of World War II is even weaker than previously believed." The nObama "Recovery" was never as robust as this administration has consistently claimed, as further underscored by new government figures. Maybe that's why so many Millennials are living at home -The Patriot Post  
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 By Popular Demand: Worthwhile Revisions to AP History Exam 
Finally, some good news for a change. The College Board, the nonprofit organization that administers AP exams to high school students, has announced yet another revision to its history framework. But this time it's for the better. Previously, the College Board painted American history in far too negative a light, emphasizing our nation's sins while ignoring or minimizing its uniqueness and greatness. Some Founders, such as Declaration of Independence author Thomas Jefferson and Constitution writer James Madison, were mentioned; that's it — mentioned. But they were taught as examples of Western class, gender and racial evil. And while teachers could choose to teach the Constitution as it's written, they would disadvantage their students by doing so because the real Constitution wasn't on the test. After numerous scholars objected in an open letter, however, the College Board worked to make revisions. Neglected Founders are back, and there's even a new section on the concept of "American exceptionalism." A College Board official insisted they meant no harm, and that American exceptionalism was previously omitted because they assumed they didn't need to spell it out. We don't buy it, and the changes don't go nearly far enough, but perhaps the episode proves that strong, principled voices on the Right can make a difference.   -The Patriot Post  
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 Shocking Proof As To Why We Can No Longer Trust “Science”  
{teapartybulletin.com} ~ The mainstream media has a problem with a lack of perspective. They only see their own one-sided, leftist, pie-in-the-sky, denial-of-reality view of the world... and this comes through in their “news” (if you can call it that) reporting. What many people don’t realize is that 90% of the news outlets are owned by a total of six corporations. That’s not a typo: six corporations. And you wonder why you hear the same stupid, mindless, unthinking schlock from them.
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 Watergate architect: Hilly scandals 'much larger' than Nixon's  
{wnd.com} ~ The chief operative of the infamous Plumbers unit inside the Nixon White House – the man who orchestrated the Watergate building break-in – says that Hilly Clinton’s many scandals are “much larger” that anything of which Richard Nixon was accused... “Bear in mind that nobody even caught a cold at the Watergate office building. But four devoted American citizens, including an ambassador, were left to die in Benghazi,” stated G. Gordon Liddy, the retired radio host, actor and bestselling author who was convicted of conspiracy, burglary and illegal wiretapping for his role directing and organizing the Watergate break-in. The man at the center of the Watergate controversy, a political event whose namesake would go on to define future scandals for decades, Liddy sounded off on a myriad of alleged Clinton misdeeds, including her role in Benghazi as well as the latest events surrounding “email-gate.”       http://www.wnd.com/2015/08/watergate-architect-hillary-scandals-much-larger-than-nixons/
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 MSNBC Guest: Hilly ‘Will Die A Death Of A Thousand Cuts’  
{Christian Datoc} ~ Former SC Democratic party chair Dick Harpootlian told MSNBC’s Steve Kornacki Sunday Vice President loose lips Joe Biden’s consideration of a presidential run actually gives Democrats the best chance of retaining the White House in 2016... Harpootlian said Hilly Clinton’s track record will cause her and the Democrats to “die a death of a thousand cuts,” yet loose lips Biden is “an inspirational figure” that voters can rally around.
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 Majority of House Backs Resolution to Kill Iran Deal  
{Adam Kredo} ~ A majority of House lawmakers now support a resolution to reject the recently signed nuclear agreement with Iran... marking another blow to the White House’s aggressive push to convince Congress to back the deal, according to sources on Capitol Hill. At least 218 Republican lawmakers have signed on to support a resolution expressing “firm disapproval” of the nuclear deal, which would provide Iran with billions of dollars in sanctions relief while enabling it to continue work on ballistic missiles and other nuclear research. The measure, which is being led by Rep. Peter Roskam (R., Ill) and was first reported by theWashington Free Beacon, comes as Congress takes 60 days to review the deal before voting on it.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/majority-of-house-backs-resolution-to-kill-iran-deal/
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 ‘No Meaningful Degradation’ In Islamic State Force...  
{Morgan Chalfant} ~ The Associated Press reported: The military campaign has prevented Iraq’s collapse and put the Islamic State under increasing pressure in northern Syria, particularly squeezing its self-proclaimed capital in Raqqa... But intelligence analysts see the overall situation as a strategic stalemate: The Islamic State remains a well-funded extremist army able to replenish its ranks with foreign jihadis as quickly as the U.S. can eliminate them. Meanwhile, the group has expanded to other countries, including Libya, Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula and Afghanistan. An unnamed defense official, who was not authorized to speak publicly on the matter, admitted that U.S. intelligence has “seen no meaningful degradation in their numbers.”        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-defense-official-no-meaningful-degradation-in-islamic-state-force-from-obama-bomb-campaign/
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 Calif. Bill Will Ban Business Hierarchy – All “Just Comrades”...  
{rickwells.us} ~ There is no limit to the idiocy of the majority of Californians, those identified as Democrats and their legislative representatives. Their unbridled Marxism may have finally reached the tipping point... that of chaos ruling the day and the complete and total destruction of the systems which are critical to the operation of an economic sector. The time may have arrived in which California now chooses to surrender to the inevitable, to get it over with, to go ahead and embrace their unavoidable self-destruction. According to an article at Townhall.com, the treatment-deprived mental patients of the California Legislature are debating a bill which has already passed through committee mandating the elimination of the critical hierarchy within companies of ten or more persons. Far from being the next step in equal rights, this bill will be the next step in relocation for most businesses which understand that chaos is not a workable business structure. It is fortunate for most Americans that we don’t live in their Marxist hellhole, which will soon become the unemployment capital of the United States. The unfortunate reality is that this anti-worker bill will create a mass exodus of Californians into the states where normal people reside, bringing their inevitable contamination with them.
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 Retired General: Some in Military Want to 'Take Out the President'  
{Alex Seitz-Wald} ~ A former top general and current executive at the Family Research Council says members of the military have considered staging a coup d’état against president, but will not because of civilian control of the military... “People I’ve spoken to would like to see the military ‘fulfill their constitutional duty and take out the president,’ ” retired Army Lt. Gen. William Boykin told World Net Daily, a website best known for pushing Obama “birther” conspiracy theories. “Our Constitution puts a civilian in charge of the military and as a result a coup would not be constitutional. You’re not going to see a coup in the military.” “I talk to a lot of folks who don’t support where Obama is taking the military, but in the military they can’t say anything,” Boykin said.        http://www.govexec.com/defense/2013/11/retired-general-some-military-want-take-out-president/73133/
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 nObama to Unveil Biggest Step Ever' in Climate Fight  
{news.discovery.com} ~ President Barack nObama will Monday unveil what he called the “biggest, most important step we’ve ever taken” to fight climate change, a sensitive issue central to his legacy... The White House will release the final version of America’s Clean Power Plan, a set of environmental rules and regulations that will home in on the pollution from the nation’s power plants, setting limits on power-plant carbon emissions. Laying out how climate change was a threat to the health, well being and security of millions of Americans, and adding that time was of the essence, nObama said in a video released early Sunday: “Climate change is not a problem for another generation. Not anymore.”
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 nOBAMA GIVES ILLEGALS MASSIVE HEALTH-CARE PLAN  
{Steve Peacock} ~ The level of health-care services provided to illegal aliens is about to get a huge boost from the nObama administration, which is hiring contractors to provide the equivalent of 5.5 million additional labor hours of treatment to detainees... U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, of the Department of Homeland Security did not provide an estimated cost of these support services over five years. It is leaving it up to vendors to propose how much it will cost. According to a solicitation for bids that WND discovered through routine database research, the purpose of this initiative is “to provide on-site medical staffing services to provide a continuum of health care services to ICE residents/detainees 24 hours a day, seven (7) days per week, and 365 calendar days per year” at various clinic sites. All of the treatment will come from workers who are screened to be politically correct. Where is Congress on this? Defund it.
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 Democrat debates vanish: 6 scheduled, none in works  
{wnd.com} ~ Is the Democratic National Committee dodging debates between its candidates this year?... In May, the DNC announced its plans to hold six primary debates which would be in “the fall of 2015.” Yet as the Republican candidates prepare to square off, there is pointed silence from the Democrats. “We’ve always believed that we would have a competitive primary process, and that debates would be an important part of that process,” said DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said during the springtime announcement of the half-dozen debates.  “Our debate schedule will not only give Democratic voters multiple opportunities to size up the candidates for the nomination side-by-side, but will give all Americans a chance to see a unified Democratic vision of economic opportunity and progress – no matter whom our nominee may be.” In a lead story on the Drudge Report Sunday night, her promise has vanished as Democrats dodge a candidate showdown.
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     {jewishworldreview.com} ~ While Israel and much of official Washington remain focused on the deal President Barack nObama just cut with the ayatollahs that gives them $150 billion and a guaranteed nuclear arsenal within a decade, nObama has already moved on – to Syria.
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     nObama’s first hope was to reach a deal with his Iranian friends that would leave the Assad regime in place. But the Iranians blew him off.
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     They know they don’t need a deal with nObama to secure their interests. nObama will continue to help them to maintain their power base in Syria though Hezbollah and the remains of the Assad regime without a deal.
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     Iran’s cold shoulder didn’t stop nObama. He moved on to his Sunni friend Turkish President Recep Erdogan.
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     Like the Iranians, since the war broke out, Erdogan has played a central role in transforming what started out as a local uprising into a regional conflict between Sunni and Shiite jihadists.
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     With nObama’s full support, by late 2012 Erdogan had built an opposition dominated by his totalitarian allies in the Muslim Brotherhood.
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     By mid-2013, Erdogan’s Muslim Brotherhood- led coalition was eclipsed by al-Qaida spinoffs. They also enjoyed Turkish support.
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     And when last summer ISIS supplanted al-Qaida as the dominant Sunni jihadist force in Syria, it did so with Erdogan’s full backing. For the past 18 months, Turkey has been ISIS’s logistical, political and economic base.
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     According to Brett McGurk, the State Department’s point man on ISIS, about 25,000 foreign fighters have joined ISIS in Syria and Iraq. All of them transited through Turkey.
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     Most of the antiquities that ISIS plunders in Iraq and Syria make their way to the world market through Turkey. So, too, most of the oil that ISIS produces in Syria and Iraq is smuggled out through Turkey. According to the US Treasury, ISIS has made $1 million-$4m. a day from oil revenue.
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     In May, US commandos in Syria assassinated Abu Sayyaf, ISIS’s chief money manager, and arrested his wife and seized numerous computers and flash drives from his home. According to a report in The Guardian published last week, the drives provided hard evidence of official Turkish economic collusion with ISIS.
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     Due to Turkish support, ISIS has become a self-financing terrorist group. With its revenue stream it is able to maintain a welfare state regime, attracting recruits from abroad and securing the loyalty of local Sunni militias and former Ba’athist forces.
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     Some Western officials believed that after finding hard evidence of Turkish regime support for ISIS, NATO would finally change its relationship with Turkey. To a degree they were correct.
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     Last week, nObama cut a deal with Erdogan that changes the West’s relationship with Erdogan.
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     Instead of maintaining its current practice of balancing its support for Turkey with its support for the Kurds, under the agreement, the West ditches its support for the Kurds and transfers its support to Turkey exclusively.
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     The Kurdish peshmerga militias operating today in Iraq and Syria are the only military outfits making sustained progress in the war against ISIS. Since last October, the Kurds in Syria have liberated ISIS-controlled and -threatened areas along the Turkish border.
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     The YPG, the peshmerga militia in Syria, won its first major victory in January, when after a protracted, bloody battle, with US air support, it freed the Kurdish border town of Kobani from ISIS’s assault.
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     In June, the YPG scored a strategic victory against ISIS by taking control of Tal Abyad. Tal Abyad controls the road connecting ISIS’s capital of Raqqa with Turkey. By capturing Tal Abyad, the Kurds cut Raqqa’s supply lines.
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     Last month, Time magazine reported that the Turks reacted with hysteria to Tal Abyad’s capture.
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     Not only did the operation endanger Raqqa, it gave the Kurds territorial contiguity in Syria.
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     The YPG’s victories enhanced the Kurds’ standing among Western nations. Indeed, some British and American officials were quoted openly discussing the possibility of removing the PKK, the YPG’s Iraqi counterpart, from their official lists of terrorist organizations.
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     The YPG’s victories similarly enhanced the Kurds’ standing inside Turkey itself. In the June elections to the Turkish parliament, the Kurdish HDP party won 12 percent of the vote nationally, and so blocked Erdogan’s AKP party from winning a parliamentary majority.
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     Without that majority Erdogan’s plan of reforming the constitution to transform Turkey into a presidential republic and secure his dictatorship for the long run has been jeopardized.
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      As far as Erdogan was concerned, by the middle of July the Kurdish threat to his power had reached unacceptable levels.
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     On July 20, young Kurdish activists convened in Suduc, a Kurdish town on the Turkish side of the border, 6 kilometers from Kobani. A suicide bomber walked up to them, and detonated, massacring 32 people.
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     Turkish officials claim that the bomber was a Turkish Kurd, and a member of ISIS. But the Kurds didn’t buy that line. Last week, HDP lawmakers accused the regime of complicity with the bomber. And two days after the attack, militants from the PKK killed two Turkish policemen in a neighboring village, claiming that they collaborated with ISIS.
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     After refusing for months to work with NATO forces in their anti-ISIS operations, Erdogan announced he was entering the fray. He would begin targeting “terrorists” and allow the US air force to use two Turkish air bases for its anti-ISIS operations. In exchange, the US agreed to set up a “safe zone” in Syria along the Turkish border.
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     Turkish officials were quick to explain that in targeting “terrorists,” the Turks would not distinguish between Kurdish terrorists and ISIS terrorists just because the former are fighting ISIS. Both, they insisted, are legitimate targets.
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     Erdogan closed his deal in a telephone call with nObama. And he immediately went into action.
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     Turkish forces began bombing terrorist targets and rounding up terrorist suspects. Although a few of the Turkish bombing runs have been directly against ISIS, the vast majority have targeted Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria.
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     Moreover, for every suspected ISIS terrorist arrested by Turkish security forces, at least eight Kurds have been taken into custody.
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     Then, too, Erdogan has called on AKP lawmakers to begin criminalizing their counterparts from the HDP. Kurdish lawmakers, he urged them, must be stripped of their parliamentary immunity to enable their arrests.
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     As Erdogan apparently sees things, by going to war against the Kurds, he will be able to reestablish the AKP’s parliamentary majority. Within a few weeks, if the AKP fails to form a governing coalition – and it will – then new elections will be held. The nationalists, who abandoned the AKP in June, will return to the party to reward Erdogan for fighting the Kurds.
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     As for that “safe area” in northern Syria, as the Kurds see it, Erdogan will use it to destroy Kurdish autonomy. He will flood the zone with Syrian Arab refugees who fled to Turkey, to dilute the Kurdish majority. And he will secure coalition support for the Sunni Arab militias – including those still affiliated with al-Qaida – which will be permitted by NATO to operate openly in the safe area.
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     Already the Kurds are reporting that the US has stopped providing air support for their forces fighting ISIS in the border town of Jarablus. Those forces were bombed this week by Turkish F-16s.
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     For their part, despite Erdogan’s pledge to fight ISIS, his forces seem remarkable uninterested in rolling back ISIS achievements. The Turks have no plan for removing ISIS from its strongholds in Raqqa or Haskiyah.
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     The nObama administration is presenting the deal with Turkey as yet another great achievement.
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     In an interview with Charlie Rose on Tuesday, McGurk explained that the deal was a long time in the making. It began with a phone conversation between nObama and Erdogan last October and it ended with their phone call last week.
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     In October, nObama convinced Erdogan not to oppose US air support for the Kurds in Kobani and to enable the US to resupply YPG fighters in Kobani through Turkey. In the second, nObama agreed not to oppose Erdogan’s offensive against the Kurds.
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     Two years ago, in August 2013, the world held its breath awaiting US action in Syria. That month, after prolonged equivocation amidst mountains of evidence, the nObama administration was forced to acknowledge that Iran’s Syrian puppet Bashar Assad had crossed nObama’s self-declared redline and used chemical weapons against regime opponents, including civilians.
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     US forces assembled for battle. Everything looked ready to go, until just hours before US jets were scheduled to begin bombing regime targets, nObama canceled the operation. In so doing, he lost all deterrent power against Iran. He also lost all strategic credibility among America’s regional allies.
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     To save face, nObama agreed to a Russian proposal to have international monitors remove Syria’s chemical weapons from the country.
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     Last summer, the administration proudly announced that the mission had been completed.
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     UN chemical weapons monitors had removed Syria’s chemical weapons arsenal from the country, they proclaimed. It didn’t matter to either nObama or Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry that by that point Assad had resumed chemical assaults with chlorine-based bombs. Chlorine bombs weren’t chemical weapons, the Americans idiotically proclaimed.
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     Then last week, the lie fell apart. The Wall Street Journal reported that according to US intelligence agencies, Assad not surrendered his chemical arsenal.
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     Rather, he hid much of his chemical weaponry from the UN inspectors. He had even managed to retain the capacity to make chemical weapons – like chlorine-based bombs – after agreeing to part with his chemical arsenal.
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     Assad was able to cheat, because just as the administration’s nuclear deal with the Iranians gives Iran control over which nuclear sites will be open to UN inspectors, and which will be off limits, so the chemical deal gave Assad control over what the inspectors would and would not be allowed to see. So, they saw only what he showed them.
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     nObama has gone full circle in concluding his deal with Erdogan. Since entering office, nObama has sought to cut deals with both the Sunni jihadists of the Muslim Brotherhood ilk and the Shi’ite jihadists of the Iranian ilk.
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     His chemical deal with Assad and his nuclear deal with the ayatollahs accomplished the latter goal, and did so at the expense of America’s Sunni Arab allies and Israel.
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     His deal last week with Erdogan accomplishes the former goal, to the benefit of ISIS, and on the backs of America’s Kurdish allies.
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     So that takes care of the Middle East. With 17 months left to go till nObama leave office, the time has apparently come for the British to begin to worry.
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"Know who you are standing with"
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 Cincinnati Cop Caught Killing on Camera 
University of Cincinnati police officer Raymond Tensing, 25, faces 15 years to life in prison for the murder of Samuel Dubose on July 19. His body camera caught the entire traffic stop on film. When Tensing ordered Dubose out of the car, Dubose instead started the car and began pulling away. Tensing yelled "Stop!" and drew his gun, firing a single round into the back of Dubose's head. Tensing later claimed he was being dragged by the car and he feared for his life. But Hamilton County prosecutor Joe Deters said, “He wasn’t dealing with someone who was wanted for murder. He was dealing with someone who didn’t have a front license plate. This was, in the vernacular, a pretty chicken-crap stop. ... I’m treating him like a murderer.”
          There are undoubtedly cops who make terrible errors in judgment and abuse their power. Tensing appears to fall in this category, and we're glad he was wearing a body camera to prove it. That practice should become more common. The one caution we'd add is that even this video doesn't tell the whole story. Dubose had a lengthy record, though nothing violent, and he was not acting aggressively in this case. More important, every time a white officer kills a black man, leftists attempt to paint the entire law enforcement community with the same racist brush. Finally, on any given day in the U.S., there are 40 murders committed, frequently black on black. Who can name one?  -The Patriot Post 
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 A Lesson in Picking Winnable Fights  
Intraparty disagreements are hardly unusual in Congress, but when bickering moves from behind closed doors to the House floor, news is made. And Rep. Mark Meadows (R-NC) captured headlines this week by filing a motion to “vacate” the speaker’s chair — occupied, of course, by bakcstabberJohn Boehner.
          In the motion, Meadows says backstabber Boehner has attempted to “consolidate power and centralize decision-making, bypassing the majority of the 435 members of Congress and the people they represent.” In an interview with radio host Mark Levin, Meadows added that he hopes his “colleagues will see that there’s something inherently wrong with the leadership that we have and it’s time for a change."
          It’s no secret backstabber Boehner doesn’t claim the title of conservative darling. This past January, House Republicans staged the largest defection from a sitting speaker in at least a century, with 25 members, including Meadows, voting for someone other than backstabber Boehner. And last month, 34 Republicans bucked backstabber Boehner by opposing the rule to bring Barack nObama’s trade bill to the floor. In retaliation, three of those members were kicked off the House whip team, and Meadows was given the option of resigning his subcommittee chairmanship or being demoted.
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 IT’S A BLING THING: TRUMP AND HILLY TWO OF A KIND 
They’re both mega-rich New Yorkers with famous hairdos and big baggage, but Donald Trump and Hilly Clinton have much more in common than that. They are both clear frontrunners for the political parties’ presidential nominations who are in the dumps with the general electorate.
          A new national poll from Quinnipiac University says that Clinton’s lead among Democrats is smaller than in the spring, but she still trounces her closest competitor, Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., by a stout 38 points. Her biggest worry for the primary run is the sudden bump in backing for Vice President loose lips Joe Biden, who is weighing a late-summer launch.
          But compared to Trump’s perilous perch, Clinton is as solid as the octopus carpaccio at the 21 Club.
          The Republican frontrunner continues to gobble up vote share from every candidate other than establishment fave Jeb Bush, who held steady from May with 10 percent, and Scott Walker, who actually managed to gain 3 points amid the Trumptation of the GOP to 13 percent and second place. The only other significant gain was Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who muscled his way into the pack at 5 percent.
          And a closer look at Trump’s support tells us why his 7 point lead is so flimsy. While he is tops among self-described “very conservative” respondents, he is also number one with self-described “somewhat conservative” voters as well as moderates and liberals.
          The good news for Trump is that he draws support from multiple channels, as opposed to a candidate like Walker who lags with liberals and moderates. Trump even draws responses from potential voters who otherwise wouldn’t take part in a GOP primary poll.
          Quinnipiac doesn’t say if the ideological proportions shifted post-Trump, so we don’t know how much his arrival has changed the composition of the electorate  The favorites among moderates and liberals prior to Trump’s name being added to the list were Marco Rubio and Chris Christie, who are now specks in the rearview mirror of Trump’s limo. So, some of Trump’s support among the middling-minded is no doubt at the expense of others.
          But – and this is just a guess – Trump’s fame and bombast is bringing in people who normally wouldn’t vote in a Republican primary or identify themselves as primary voters to a telephone pollster. And history tells us that such voters are an unreliable bet come Election Day.
          Clinton’s primary support, by comparison, is anything but unsettled. It’s downright stodgy. Democrats are coming to terms with Clinton, and she shows no signs of bringing new voters into the process. That’s bad in many ways, but good for predictable primary polling.
          But those same polls tell us something very dangerous for Clinton: voters neither like nor trust her. And that’s where she and Trump go together like Cristal and a Hamptons clambake. She is seen by voters as neither honest nor trustworthy by 57 percent of voters while Trump cards an equally abysmal 56 percent.
By way of further comparison, Clinton trails loose lips Biden on honesty and trustworthiness among all voters by 21 points and by 11 points among Democrats. Woof.
          Clinton’s unfavorability rating is only 8 points better than Trump’s 59 percent, but she does have stronger core support, which explains why the poll shows her beating him badly – 12 points – in a hypothetical general election matchup.
          But, for the aforementioned reasons, Trump isn’t going to the big dance. So how does Clinton do against the contenders? She’s essentially tied with both Bush and Walker. That’s a particularly bad sign as it relates to Walker, given how much better known she is than the Wisconsin governor.
          And here’s the kicker for Clinton: loose lips Biden does as well against Walker and Bush as Clinton. When Sheriff Joe sees those numbers, he might decide to saddle up after all.  -Fox News 
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 Intelligence Fears Hundreds Of U.S. Secrets Leaked In Hilly’s Emails  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ Hilly Clinton says that she did not have any classified information on her servers, but then intelligence inspectors general examined forty Hilly emails and found that four of them had info that was classified before she sent the... Now The U.S. intelligence community worried that former Secretary of State Hilly Rodham Clinton’s private email account contains hundreds of revelations of classified information from spy agencies and is taking steps to contain any damage to national security, according to documents and interviews reported by the Washington Times. A U.S. official directly familiar with the the case, who spoke to the Washington Times only on the condition of anonymity, said the notification of possibly hundreds of additional emails with classified secrets came from the State Department Freedom of Information Act office to the Office of Inspector General for the Director of National Intelligence.
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 Russian War Plans to Nuke America  
{Cliff Kincaid} ~ “The Russians have been preparing for a nuclear world war against the United States for a half a century or more,” geopolitical analyst Jeff Nyquist says... During an appearance on America’s Survival TV, Nyquist praised our top generals, including Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, for publicly describing Russia as an “existential threat.” These warnings go against the official position of the nObama Administration. Nyquist also noted that Adm. William Gortney, who leads U.S. Northern Command, or NORTHCOM, had warned the Senate that the Russians are in the process of deploying long-range cruise missiles that can threaten our early warning radars and our ABM defenses in Alaska.
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 nObama’s Disastrous Iran Deal  
{Richard A. Epstein} ~ The deal struck between Iran and various world powers is more than just bad policy; it is a disaster waiting to happen... It will lead to the end of the Pax Americana by showing the United States' allies that we are not serious about guaranteeing their security. These allies, deprived of American leadership, will increasingly turn away from us and towards nations like China and Russia to better serve their own interests. On top of this, the agreement virtually guarantees that Iran will be able to produce a nuclear warhead and the ballistic missiles necessary to deliver such a payload to American shores.
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 Texas Congressman introduces bill to suspend Refugee Resettlement 
{Pamela Geller} ~ nObama has been importing hundreds of thousands of Muslims under the Refugee Resettlement Program. Despite the spike in jihad plots and attacks in the US and the genocide of non-Muslims under sharia, nObama remains unmoved... Under nObama, it’s a world where arrogance rules. It’s always a shock to people when they first find out how Refugee Resettlement works. Instead of giving refuge to the religious minorities that are persecuted, oppressed and subjugated under the sharia, we are opening the floodgates to Islamic supremacists and jihadists. And what most folks don’t know is, it’s the OIC-driven UN that decides who gets refugee status. The mandate of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) determines which of the world’s “huddled masses” comes to the US as humanitarian refugees.
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 nObama's TPP trade deal hits the wall  
{Cyrtus Elllis} ~ President nObama’s hopes for a globalist pact integrating economies on four continents ran aground in Hawaii on Friday... TPP would be the largest-ever economic regulatory treaty, encompassing more than 40 percent of the world’s gross domestic product. Secretary of State John Kerry said the pact will merge the U.S. economy with Mexico and ten others nations, including Canada, Japan, Vietnam, Malaysia and the Islamic Sultanate of Brunei. The latest round of talks in Hawaii had been expected to yield an agreement to conclude the TPP. The president pressed Congress to surrender its ability to amend the pact, saying that would enable him to quickly wrap up the negotiations. The House and Senate agreed, and gave President nObama the enhanced power, known as trade promotion authority, after a series of controversial votes in June. But the president’s promises proved false.
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 Iran publishes book on how to outwit US and destroy Israel  
{Robert Spencer} ~ While Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry and President nObama do their best to paper over the brutality of the Iranian regime and force through a nuclear agreement, Iran’s religious leader has another issue on his mind... The destruction of Israel. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has published a new book called “Palestine,” a 416-page screed against the Jewish state. A blurb on the back cover credits Khamenei as “The flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem.” nObama administration officials likely hope that no American even hears about it. ‘Reclaiming Muslim lands’ Khamenei makes his position clear from the start: Israel has no right to exist as a state.
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 Allen West: Navy to prosecute Chattanooga hero  
{Jay Baggett} ~ According to former congressman and retired U.S. Army Lt. Col. Allen West, the U.S. Navy has decided to bring charges against the naval officer who fired his personal weapon at Mohammad Youssef Abdulazeez... during the ISIS supporter’s July 16 attack on the Chattanooga U.S. Naval and Marine Reserve Center. Abdulazeez, armed with a handgun and an assault rifle, killed four Marines and one sailor. In the posting on his website Saturday, West wrote: “Ladies and gents, resulting from the text message I received yesterday, I can confirm that the United States Navy is bringing charges against Lt. Cmdr. Timothy White for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property. It can't possibly be that a commanding officer who fires his own personal weapon at a terrorist, armed with an assault rifle and intent on killing the servicemen and servicewomen under him, would be punished for his act of bravery.
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 Huma Abedin Facing Criminal Conduct Investigation...  
{allenwestrepublic.com} ~ The swirling vortex of Hilly Clinton’s scandal-ridden past may sink one of her top aides for illegally dipping into the public trough, despite investigators being thwarted by Clinton’s missing emails... Investigators found Huma Abedin, vice chairwoman of Clinton’s presidential campaign, was overpaid by nearly $10,000 because of violations of rules governing vacation and sick time while she served as an official in the State Department, according to a Friday Washington Post story. The finding emerged publicly after Sen. Chuck Grassley–chairman of the powerful Senate Judiciary Committee–sent letters, which were obtained by the newspaper, to Secretary of State John Kerry and others about an investigation into possible “criminal” conduct by Abedin.
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 Here comes loose lips Joe?  
{Amy Chozick} ~ Vice President loose lips Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his associates have begun to actively explore a possible presidential campaign... which would upend the Democratic field and deliver a direct threat to Hilly Rodham Clinton, several people who have spoken to Mr. loose lips Biden or his closest advisers say. Mr. loose lips Biden’s advisers have started to reach out to Democratic leaders and donors who have not yet committed to Mrs. Clinton or who have grown concerned about what they see as her increasingly visible vulnerabilities as a candidate. The conversations, often fielded by Mr. loose lips Biden’s chief of staff, Steve Ricchetti, have taken place through hushed phone calls and quiet lunches. In most cases, they have grown out of an outpouring of sympathy for Mr. loose lips Biden since the death of his son Beau, 46, in May.       http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/us/politics/joe-biden-white-house-2016-presidential-campaign.html?_r=1
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 IS recruitment document seeks to provoke 'end of the world'  
{Sara A. Carter} ~ An apparent Islamic State recruitment document found in Pakistan’s lawless tribal lands reveals that the extremist group has grand ambitions of building a new terrorist army in Afghanistan and Pakistan... and triggering a war in India to provoke an Armageddon-like “end of the world.” The 32-page Urdu-language document obtained by American Media Institute (AMI) and reviewed by USA TODAY details a plot to attack U.S. soldiers as they withdraw from Afghanistan and target American diplomats and Pakistani officials. AMI obtained the document from a Pakistani citizen with connections inside the Pakistani Taliban and had it independently translated from Urdu by Harvard researcher and translator Mustafa Samdani. The Pakistani's identity was shared with USA TODAY, which has agreed not to identify him publicly because of concerns for his safety.        http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/07/28/ami-isil-document-pakistan-threatens-india/30674099/
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Defeating the mortal enemies
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     {jewishworldreview.com} ~ "The enemy has to be defeated," U.S. Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter last week told American forces stationed in the Middle East. That is a simple truth, one that, regrettably, is not heard often from officials in the current administration. Mr. Carter then added: "It will be, because the barbarians are always defeated by civilization." That is a comforting sentiment - one that, regrettably, is not supported by historical evidence.
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     No one has studied that evidence more thoroughly than Bernard Lewis, at 99 the greatest living historian of the Middle East. "The Roman Empire and the medieval Islamic Empire were not conquered by more civilized peoples," he has noted. "They were conquered by less civilized but more vigorous peoples. But in both cases what made the conquest, with the Barbarians in Rome and the Mongols in Iraq, what made it possible was things were going badly wrong within the society so that it was no longer able to offer effective resistance."
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     Would anyone argue that things are going well in America and Europe today? Would anyone argue that Western societies are as "vigorous" as those waging what they call a jihad against us? Would anyone argue that the West is offering "effective resistance" to the barbarians Mr. Carter has in mind: the head-choppers and slavers of the Islamic State who now occupy large swaths of what once were Syria and Iraq?
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     Nor are those our only barbarian enemies. Spokesmen for the Islamic State cover their faces and wield long knives. Spokesmen for the Islamic Republic of Iran display their smiling faces for the cameras and know which forks to use at elegant Viennese restaurants. But is slitting infidel throats any less barbaric than hanging Iranian men for having the wrong sexual orientation, or stoning Iranian women, or persecuting religious and ethnic minorities, or holding innocents hostage or threatening neighbors with genocide? Really?
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     Iran's Islamic Revolution erupted in the winter of 1979. In the autumn of that year, the U.S. embassy in Tehran, sovereign American territory, was seized by a group that came to be known as "Muslim Student Followers of the Imam's Line" - the "Imam" being Ruhollah Khomeini, the founder of the Islamic Republic of Iran. For 444 days, they held hostage American diplomats who under international law were entitled to the Iranian government's protection. They were treated like animals - and tortured.
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     A few years ago we understood that this episode represented "the first battle in America's war with militant Islam" - the subtitle of Mark Bowden's bestselling 2007 book, "Guests of the Ayatollah." When did we stop understanding that?
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     Today, militant Islamic forces are engaged in battles across the Middle East, North Africa and beyond. Of late, a potentially pivotal diplomatic battle has been fought and, in my estimation, decisively won by Iran's rulers. Its outcome is an agreement guaranteed to greatly enrich those rulers and, within a relatively short span of time, allow them to acquire more and better weapons, not excluding nuclear weapons and the means to deliver them to targets anywhere in the world. Those targets will be within what Iranian theocrats call the "House of Unbelief" which, in their theology/ideology, is synonymous with the "House of War."
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     As Iran increases its military capabilities, and as the Islamic State, al Qaeda, Boko Haram and similar groups expand their powers, American leaders continue to shrink the armed forces Secretary Carter oversees. The American Enterprise Institute's Mackenzie Eaglen has pointed out that the U.S. military is today "smaller than it was before 9/11 at the nadir of the Clinton 'peace dividend' drawdown." At the same time, those same American leaders repeatedly proclaim that America has become "war-weary." That can only be music to the ears of all those who declare America an "enemy of God" and who, on that basis, proclaim themselves enemies of America.
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     Does Mr. Carter seriously believe the road we're now on leads to the defeat of these enemies? If so, his belief is based on faith or wishful thinking - not fact, experience or precedent.
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     Let me leave you with one more thought from Bernard Lewis who, I should point out, has for years been reviled by Islamists and those in the West who sympathize with them. In 1990, a decade before the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001 and a decade after the revolution in Iran, he wrote:
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     "Islam has brought comfort and peace of mind to countless millions of men and women. It has given dignity and meaning to drab and impoverished lives. It has taught people of different races to live in brotherhood and people of different creeds to live side by side in reasonable tolerance. It inspired a great civilization in which others besides Muslims lived creative and useful lives and which, by its achievement, enriched the whole world. But Islam, like other religions, has also known periods when it inspired in some of its followers a mood of hatred and violence. It is our misfortune that part, though by no means all or even most, of the Muslim world is now going through such a period, and that much, though again not all, of that hatred is directed against us."
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     If policymakers, legislators, academics and journalists had listened to Mr. Lewis a quarter century ago and formulated a strategic response, the world might be a very different place today. But they did not. And today, for many of the most powerful people in America and Europe, self-delusion retains its appeal. That can change. It's why we have elections. A big one is coming up fairly soon and no issue should be seen as more important than this one.
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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE  
The New Yorker takes a deep dive into the mystery of stage fright. The disease has crippled the most successful performers, and doesn’t seem to let up over time. As they write, “In a number of ways, stagefright doesn’t make sense. Laurence Olivier, when he was in his late fifties, was visited by a spell that lasted, intermittently, for five years, causing him great anguish. At the time, he was the most celebrated stage actor in England. How could he be frightened of failing? Ditto Mikhail Baryshnikov. In the nineteen-seventies and eighties, Baryshnikov was the most famous ballet dancer in the world, and he probably still is, though he ceased classical dancing some twenty-five years ago. Since then, he has built a successful career in modern dance and theatre. But he experiences terrible stagefright, and says that it has only got worse over the years.” -Fox News  
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 Pumped up Hispanic strategy -  Wash Ex’s David Drucker takes a look at Bush’s push for Hispanic voters from hiring Spanish-speaking staffers to hitting Spanish language media. In a field with a lot of Hispanic ties there is stiff competition to capture these voters. But Drucker writes, “Bush appears to have the most developed Hispanic engagement strategy among Republicans.”  -Fox News  
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 Illegal Immigrant With No ID Murders in Ohio 
Barack nObama has said again and again that his immigration policies only deport the illegal immigrants who are the worst of the worst. But in prioritizing certain deportations, a Mexican who had no driver's license, green card or birth certificate allegedly murdered a 60-year-old woman, attempted to rape a 14-year-old girl, and wounded another person. Juan Emmanuel Razo was only taken into custody July 27 after a shootout with Ohio law enforcement. But here's the kicker: Immigration officials questioned Razo July 7 and decided to let him go; he had committed no crime at that point. This incident did not occur because of some local policy creating a sanctuary city — the policy that led to the murder of Kathryn Steinle in San Francisco. But Razo's case is still anecdotal evidence that a tough immigration enforcement strategy might have stopped this violence. (No one said Donald Trump didn't have a point.) Now that Razo's charged with a string of violent crimes, justice demands a reckoning — and sloughing him off to where he came from is not an option. The municipal judge, Judge Michael Cicconetti, said at the arraignment, "I can't set a bond high enough. How in the hell do I even know it's him?" Indeed, how could ICE verify that Razo — if that's his real name — didn't commit a violent crime before?
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 The Planned Parenthood Videos Just Keep Coming 
The Center for Medical Progress (CMP) has a fourth video out this morning, and their press release gives this description: "New undercover footage shows Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains’ Vice President and Medical Director, Dr. Savita Ginde, negotiating a fetal body parts deal, agreeing multiple times to illicit pricing per body part harvested, and suggesting ways to avoid legal consequences." Ginde, who was also a featured part of the third video, says, “We’d have to do a little bit of training with the providers or something to make sure that they don’t crush” a baby's organs during second trimester abortions. She reveals that "sometimes ... someone delivers before we get to see them for a procedure." Which means potentially born-alive infants. Ginde also suggests, "Putting [this harvesting] under 'research' gives us a little bit of an overhang over the whole thing." In other words, they can avoid legal trouble. She goes on to describe talking to attorney Kevin Paul, who she says has "got it figured ... because we talked to him in the beginning, you know, we were like, ‘We don’t want to get called on,’ you know, ‘selling fetal parts across states.’” Finally, the CMP press release says, "As the buyers and Planned Parenthood workers identify body parts from last fetus in the path lab, a Planned Parenthood medical assistant announces: 'Another boy!'" Yes, another murdered and dismembered boy.
          It's no wonder that Planned Parenthood is working to silence coverage in the Leftmedia, which is all too happy to oblige. People know this is so offensive they'd rather get worked up about a poached lion in Africa than dismembered children for sale.   -The Patriot Post  
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 The Ayatollah's Plan for Israel and Palestine  
{Amir Taheri} ~ "The flagbearer of Jihad to liberate Jerusalem." This is how the blurb of "Palestine," a new book, published by Islamic Revolution Editions last week in Tehran, identifies the author... The author is "Grand Ayatollah Seyyed Ali Husseini Khamenei," the "Supreme Guide" of the Islamic Republic in Iran, a man whose fatwa has been recognized by U.S. President Barack Obama as having the force of law. Edited by Saeed Solh-Mirzai, the 416-page book has received approval from Khamenei's office and is thus the most authoritative document regarding his position on the issue. Khamenei makes his position clear from the start: Israel has no right to exist as a state. He uses three words. One is "nabudi" which means "annihilation". The other is "imha" which means "fading out," and, finally, there is "zaval" meaning "effacement."
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 Cotton And Cruz Are Right: hanoi Kerry Is Lying About The Iran Deal  
{George Rasley} ~ hanoi Kerry has been trying to sell the idea that if Congress votes down the deal the world will walk away from the current sanctions regime and Iran will be free to pursue its nuclear weapons program without hindrance... Bloomberg’s Josh Rogin has filed a report that flatly contradicts hanoi Kerry citing Audibert as the source – and he is backed-up by Democratic Rep. Lorretta Sanchez and Republican Mike Turner who met with the French official and received his shocking analysis. According to Rogin’s disputed hanoi Kerry’s claim that a Congressional rejection of the Iran deal would result in the worst of all worlds, the collapse of sanctions and Iran racing to the bomb without restrictions. “He basically said, if Congress votes this down, there will be some saber-rattling and some chaos for a year or two, but in the end nothing will change and Iran will come back to the table to negotiate again that would be to our advantage,” Sanchez told Rogin in an interview. “He thought if the Congress voted it down, that we could get a better deal.”       http://www.conservativehq.com/node/20772
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 Hamas: All Arabs, Attack 'All Soldiers, Settlers'  
{Dalit Halevy} ~ The Hamas terrorist organization vowed attacks in response to the lethal arson in the Arab village Duma in Samaria on Friday, but just before that a senior Hamas source said his group was seeking a long-term temporary ceasefire with Israel... An Arab infant was killed in the arson and four family members wounded, in an attack the IDF has indicated may have been committed by Jewish extremists due to the presence of Hebrew graffiti at the scene. Husam Badran, a key Hamas leader in Judea and Samaria, said inresponse to the arson that "this crime has turned IDF soldiers and settlers into legitimate targets, in any location and situation." His comment comes despite the fact that the identity of the perpetrators remains unknown - and despite the fact that the terror group has constantly attacked soldiers and Jews without any "justification."
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 Congress Members Frustrated by Secret Iran Nuclear Agreements  
{investigativeproject.org} ~ Crucial aspects of the Iran nuclear deal remain hidden from the public, and in some instances, from the American government, Bloomberg reports... In a closed-door session with House members Wednesday, Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry revealed that two side deals between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) were reached. Kerry he neither read nor possesses the secret agreements. According to U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, R-Kan., a member of the House Intelligence Committee who attended the closed-door session, Congress also is in the dark on these agreements.        http://www.investigativeproject.org/4929/congress-members-frustrated-by-secret-iran
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 Three Federal Judges Slam nObama Admin's Noncompliance  
{Guy Benson} ~ A string of federal judges have been angrily slamming their gavels this month, incensed over a similar issue they're encountering... See if you can spot the trend, with a hat tip to Gabriel Malor. On the president's legally-dubious, unpopular immigration fiat: On nObama's corrupt Internal Revenue Service and its smug, unaccountable chief: Judge Sullivan is a Clinton appointee, by the way. And on the nObama State Department's noncompliance on the court-ordered timely release of Hilly Clinton's emails -- at least the ones that weren't permanently deleted: The nObama administration does not believe the rules apply to them.
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/guybenson/2015/07/31/federal-judges-furious-with-obama-administration-n2032726
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 Lawmakers Confirm French Diplomat Supports Rejecting Iran Deal  
{Adam Kredo} ~ Two more lawmakers stepped forward on Friday to confirm recent comments by senior French national security official Jacques Audibert... who reportedly told a delegation of lawmakers in a recent meeting that a congressional rejection of the recent Iranian nuclear deal could be “helpful.” Audibert, a senior diplomatic adviser to President Francois Hollande, is said to have told Reps. Loretta Sanchez (D., Calif.) and Mike Turner (R., Ohio) in a recent meeting that congressional disapproval of the deal could be beneficial and help world powers secure more favorable terms.
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 Federal Judge Orders Hilly Clinton, Huma Abedin and Cheryl Mills To... 
{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch announced today that U.S. District Court Judge Emmet Sullivan ordered the U.S. State Department to request that Hilly Clinton and her top aides confirm, under penalty of perjury... that they have produced all government records in their possession, return any other government records immediately, and describe their use of Hilly Clinton’s email server to conduct government business. The court issued the ruling late today after holding a status hearing in a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information lawsuit that sought records about Huma Abedin, the former Deputy Chief of Staff to Secretary of State Hilly Clinton (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:13-cv-01363)). The lawsuit reopened last month because of revelations about Hilly Clinton’s email records. The text of Judge Sullivan’s minute order, which was issued at 5:46 pm:       http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/all-clinton-records/
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 Gen. Boykin, Frank Gaffney – hanoi Kerry Unfit To Negotiate Dealing  
{rickwells.us} ~ Frank Gaffney asks General Jerry Boykin for his thoughts on the performance of our last two Secretaries of State, the criminal and treasonous Hilly Clinton and the lifelong anti-American agitator and foreign operative hanoi John Kerry... He asks specifically regarding the use of a private, compromised server for email by Clinton as well as the Iranian family connections of hanoi Kerry, with his daughter being married to an Iranian and the best man at their wedding reportedly being the son of hanoi Kerry’s supposed adversary in the nuclear “negotiations.” “Now, that’s just on this issue.” He then addresses hanoi Kerry’s sketchy, un-American Genghis Khan background and asks, “Is this the guy, really the guy that should be negotiating anything that deals with American national security or America’s future given his abysmal track record?”        http://rickwells.us/general-boykin-frank-gaffney-john-kerry-unfit-to-negotiate-anything-dealing-with-americas-national-security/
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 nObama Steps Up U.S. Training of Communist Chinese Military  
{Alex Newman} ~ Even as the Communist Chinese dictatorship ruthlessly oppresses the people of China while stepping up its aggressive rhetoric, espionage, and military activities aimed beyond its borders... the nObama administration has been training Beijing’s troops in U.S. military tactics, techniques, and procedures. Critics have long opposed the high-level “mil-mil cooperation” between the U.S. Armed Forces and one of the most brutal autocracies on the planet. At least one U.S. lawmaker has been expressing concerns. But the nObama administration, which boasts of its actions and has called for even deeper military ties with Beijing, shows no signs of backing down from the highly controversial and potentially dangerous programs. This is unbelievable and yet he is cutting our military.
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 Globalization of Education: Producing Green Global Citizens  
{Alex Newman} ~ For years, Americans have been up in arms over the nObama administration’s unconstitutional efforts to nationalize education, primarily through Common Core... Especially concerning is the White House bribing and bludgeoning our state governments to surrender control over our schools. The outrage is still growing. But a peek beneath the surface reveals that the nationalization of American schools is actually just one component of a much broader global agenda: the globalization of education. This is being openly pushed by the nObama administration, the United Nations, UNESCO, Common Core financier Bill Gates, the Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg summit attendees, and many other powerful forces. It is all public record. What do I mean by “globalizing” education? Just what the term implies: moving away from local, state, and even national control of schools into a brave new world where education policy is largely dictated at the global level. That might sound far-fetched if you’ve never done the research or get your news from the TV, but it is all essentially out in the open.
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Your Personal Data = Trouble
Michelle Malkin
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     {freedomsback.com} ~ It’s the most far-reaching scandal in Washington that no one wants to talk about: Tens of millions of federal employees had their personal information hacked as a result of nObama administration incompetence and political favoritism.
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     Ethnic community organizer-turned-Office of Personnel Management head Katherine Archuleta recklessly eschewed basic cyber security in favor of politically correct “diversity” initiatives during her disastrous crony tenure. This Beltway business-as-usual created an irresistible opportunity for hackers to reach out and grab massive amounts of sensitive data — compromising everyone from rank-and-file government employees to CIA spies.
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     Amid increasing concerns about these massive government computer breaches, the Defense Department is expected to announce the winner of a lucrative high-stakes contract to overhaul the military’s electronic health records system this week.
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     The leading finalist among three top contenders is Epic Systems, a Wisconsin-based health care software company founded and led by top nObama billionaire donor Judy Faulkner. Thanks in significant part to President nObama’s $19 billion stimulus subsidy program for health data vendors, Epic is now the dominant EMR player in the U.S. health IT market.
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     According to Becker’s Hospital Review, CVS Caremark’s retail clinic chain, MinuteClinic, is now adopting Epic’s system, and “when the transition is complete, about 51 percent of Americans will have an Epic record.” Other major clients include Kaiser Permanente of Oakland, Calif., Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkins Medicine in Baltimore, Arlington-based Texas Health Resources, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston, Mount Sinai Health System in New York City, and Duke University Health System in Raleigh, N.C.
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     As I’ve reported previously, Epic employees donated nearly $1 million to political parties and candidates between 1995 and 2012 — 82 percent of it to Democrats. The company’s top 10 PAC recipients are all Democratic or left-wing outfits, from the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (nearly $230,000) to the DNC Services Corporation (nearly $175,000) and the America’s Families First Action Fund Democratic super-PAC ($150,000). Faulkner received a plum appointment to a federal health IT policy panel in 2011. Brandon Glenn of Medical Economics noted that “it’s not a coincidence” that Epic’s sales “have been skyrocketing in recent years, up to $1.2 billion in 2011, double what they were four years prior.”
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     Stunningly, Epic “has the edge” on the gargantuan Pentagon medical records contract, The Washington Post reported on Monday. This favored status comes despite myriad complaints about the interoperability, usability and security of Epic’s closed-end proprietary software. Just last week, the UCLA Health system run by Epic suffered a cyber attack affecting up to 4.5 million personal and medical records, including Social Security numbers, Medicare and health plan identifiers, birthdays, and physical addresses. The university’s CareConnect system spans four hospitals and 150 offices across Southern California.
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     The university’s top doctors and medical staff market their informatics expertise and consulting services to other Epic customers “to ensure the successful implementation and optimization of your Epic EHR.” Will they be sharing their experience having to mop up the post-cyber attack mess involving their Epic infrastructure?
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     UCLA Health acknowledged that the hack forced it to “employ more cyber security experts on its internal security team, and to hire an outside cyber security firm to guard its network,” according to CNN.
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     Now another nObama crony is poised to cash in on her cozy ties and take over the mega-overhaul of millions of Pentagon and Veterans Affairs medical records to the tune of at least $11 billion.
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Saturday ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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2016 Contest Begins to Take Shape
Peggy Noonan
 
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 HILLY CALLS PLANNED PARENTHOOD SCANDAL ‘DISTURBING’   Hilly Clinton was asked by a New Hampshire newspaper about the scandal surrounding her longtime political benefactor, Planned Parenthood. Clinton allowed that she had “seen pictures” from the videos that depict officials from America’s leading abortion provider talking in ghoulish terms about harvesting the organs of aborted babies. Clinton said what she saw was “disturbing” and touted her own efforts in her prior White House stint to reduce the number of elective abortions conducted each year. But Clinton, who is under pressure to return donations from Planned Parenthood, stopped short of criticizing the group. She suggested that her longtime ally was a victim of circumstance, saying that “the whole process” of how aborted babies’ body parts are harvested ought to be scrutinized.
          Two-month gap in Hilly’s emails - Fox News: “A reported two-month gap in emails from Hilly Clinton’s private account during 2012 coincides with a period of escalating violence in Libya and the obtaining of a special exemption by her top aide, Huma Abedin, to work for both the State Department and the Clinton Foundation. The Daily Beast reported late Tuesday that no emails between Clinton and her State Department staff for the months of May and June 2012 are among the estimated 2,000 messages that have been released from the Democratic presidential frontrunner’s account. … If true, that means neither Clinton nor her staff communicated via e-mail during a period that saw three attacks on international outposts in Benghazi, including one on the consulate itself.”
          Taunts Keystone questioners - USA Today: “Hilly Clinton again declined to take a position on the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline on Tuesday, saying that decision currently belongs to President nObama and Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry. ‘If it’s undecided when I become president, I will answer your question,’ Clinton said during a town hall in New Hampshire. Environmentalists oppose the Keystone project, which would move oil from the tar sands of Canada to the Gulf Coast.  -Fox News
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 Who better than loose lips Joe? -  Josh Kraushaar explains how the shifting rationale behind Clinton’s candidacy – from a “warm purple space” to a nObamian slap-chop approach to a base-versus-base election – has opened wide the door to the candidacy of President nObama’s wing man, Vice President loose lips Joe Biden.   -Fox News
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 CONGRESS GETS CLEARED FOR TAKEOFF 
With the August break looming and flights home beckoning lawmakers, a view from the control tower shows some hot button issues jockeying on the tarmac. The traffic: A vote to cut off federal funding for  Planned Parenthood, sparked by videos of the abortion provider hawking fetal body parts, looks likely in the Senate, but not in the House. A 3-month patch appears destined to keep transportation projects running this summer. While the Senate continues to work on six-year highway bill that House leadership has refused to take up, the lower chamber is melding the 3-month fix with “must pass” VA hospital funding before heading for their districts this week. The tactic is expected to result in Senate passage before it leaves next week. The 60-day clock continues to tick on Congressional review of the administration’s Iran nuclear deal, which was met with considerable skepticism by House and Senate panels in testimony this week. Bottom line: and already full pattern faces Congress on their return flights.    -Fox News
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 Senate deep freeze -  Confrontation between Senate Republicans appears to be easing following days of strife over the highway bill The Hill reports“[L]awmakers insisted that the conflict between conservatives and party leaders was not evidence of a splintering caucus, and they predicted they will unify for the fiscal battles that loom on the legislative calendar. The most public peace offering came from Sen.Mike Lee (R-Utah), who issued a joint statement on Tuesday with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) about repealing nObamaCare, following a combative conference meeting late Monday.”    -Fox News
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 U.S.-Trained Anti-ISIS Commander Kidnapped in Syria  
{Anne Barnard and Karam Shoumali} ~ The commander of a group of Syrian fighters trained by the United States has been kidnapped by Al Qaeda’s affiliate in Syria, his group said in a statement Thursday... The commander, Nadeem Hassan, and seven of his fighters were taken by the Nusra Front, a rival of the Islamic State in Syria, as they were returning from a meeting in Turkey. A contingent of 54 fighters from Mr. Hassan’s group, known as Division 30, are the only ones who have graduated from a Pentagon program to train Syrian rebels to fight the Islamic State in Syria. One the fighters taken with Mr. Hassan was his deputy, Farhan Al-Jasem, who commands the fighters who graduated from the American training program.        http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/31/world/middleeast/us-trained-islamic-state-opponents-reported-kidnapped-in-syria.html?smid=tw-nytimesworld&_r=1
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 IT'S A MIRACLE! Lois Lerner Emails Reappear  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ This may be the biggest miracle since the 1969 Mets those missing Lois Lerner emails which were destroyed, dissipated because of a lousy broken hard drive... shot through a cannon and locked in a room with Rosie O' Donnell, have been rescued. Well either that or when a federal judge got angry the IRS finally got off their butts and found the emails. Judicial Watch, which sued to force the miracle production of the Lerner emails,  reported that the emails confirm that Ms. Lerner and her colleagues were aware of the sensitive nature of the cases but appeared to hide details of the massive backlog they were amassing as they held up hundreds of tea party and conservative group applications for nonprofit status.
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 Undermining the military  
{Adm. James A. Lyons} ~ When President nObama announced that he was going to “fundamentally transform” America, not many Americans understood the full depth of that statement... Based on an assessment of his policies over the last six and half years, clearly one of Mr. nObama’s objectives has been to diminish America’s standing and leadership role throughout the world. One result has been that our allies now don’t trust us and our enemies don’t fear us — the worst possible combination. The humiliation of the United States resulting from Mr. nObama’s total capitulation on all our key objectives on Iran’s nuclear weapons program is merely another manifestation of that objective. He went beyond our stated objectives and conceded our national honor. He humiliated this great country before our friends, allies and most importantly, our enemies. This is unconscionable. He has strengthened our sworn enemy, one which has vowed to destroy us. Furthermore, he has not only guaranteed Iran will achieve a nuclear weapons capability, it will also receive the most modern conventional weapons, seriously jeopardizing our position in the Persian Gulf — an area that even President Carter deemed of vital interest to the United States. The silence coming from the Joint Chiefs of Staff on this agreement is deafening. That says it all.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/undermining-the-military/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email073115&utm_medium=emai
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 Gitmo Prisoners Could Be Set Free on U.S. Streets  
{Morgan Chalfant} ~ A retired Navy commander says that if the nObama administration’s plan to bring Guantanamo inmates to the  United States succeeds, “activist” judges could set those prisoners free on American streets... J.D. Gordon, who worked as Pentagon spokesman from 2005 to 2009, penned an op-ed for the Hill during which he pointed out the details of the prison’s impending closure. First, Gordon argued that the current 116 detainees–half of whom are designated with indefinite detention status and a third of whom are confirmed or believed to be returning to terrorism–could go free in the United States. nObama is a worthiness SOB.      http://freebeacon.com/national-security/retired-navy-commander-obama-extends-olive-branches-to-terrorists/
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 Congress Knew Better Than To Confirm...  
{rickwells.us} ~ In the introduction at the 2015 Aspen Security Forum, interviewer Ryan Lizza of the liberal “New Yorker” magazine gives a brief rundown of the current Homeland “Security” Secretary Jeh Johnson’s recent work history, which includes pushing nObama’s grand liberal agenda... Two items that should have screamed “rejection” during his confirmation process were his fundamental roles in eliminating the military’s “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” policy as well as his critical work in advancing the closing of the terrorist detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Obviously his resume was well-known to Republicans in the Senate during the confirmation process, they knew what kind of individual we were being saddled with and yet they still voted to confirm. Now, with every sneer and evasive half-truth, with every foreign invader that is not only allowed to remain in this country but which does so at our expense, with every job that is lost to an illegal granted a work permit or life lost to a foreign criminal, we the American people pay the price for their complacency.
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 Mosques and massacres: Western leaders need to pay attention  
{Ralph Sdiway} ~ “In many Muslim countries … the mosques are monitored by the police on Friday. There is a simple reason for this: many political decisions start from the mosque during the Friday khutba [sermon]... Historians of Islam know that many riots and revolutions were launched from the mosques and that jihad is often proclaimed during the khutba.” On June 26, Saif Rezgui walked on to a beach in Tunisia and opened fire on German, British, and Irish sunbathers in front of the Imperial Marhaba resort hotel, killing 39 and wounding dozens more. If various world leaders are to be believed, the massacre had nothing to do with Islam. In response to the attack which left thirty British citizens dead, Prime Minister David Cameron said the terrorism “is not in the name of Islam. Islam is a religion of peace.” A day later, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott assured the world that “what’s being done by Daesh [the Islamic State] has nothing to do with God, it has nothing to do with religion. There was one notable exception to the usual nothing-to-do-with-Islam mantra. Immediately after the attack, Tunisia’s prime minister, Habib Essid, ordered the closing of 80 mosques.        http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/07/mosques-and-massacres-western-leaders-need-to-start-paying-attention
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 Latinos Target Wayward Democrat Senators With Petition...  
{rickwells.us} ~ We’re regularly reminded by the pro-amnesty, pro-invasion operatives such as the infamous Rep Luis “the Roach” Gutierrez (D-IL), of their position that most of the illegals presently residing in the United States are from all around the world... It is a misconception, they argue, to believe that they are primarily border-crashers from Mexico and Latin America. Gutierrez needs to add the illegal invader activist group Presente.org to his mailing list. They seem to be laboring under the same “distorted” viewpoint as most American citizens; that the invaders are largely of Latino origin. The group has launched a petition drive targeting Senate Democrats they perceive as being soft on the issue of sanctuary cities, singling out three in particular, Senators Dianne Feinstein (D-CA), Barbara Boxer (D-CA) and Dick Durbin (D-IL). It’s curious that they are wasting their efforts on Boxer, as she is retiring after her current term and will never again face the voters. Then again, if they want to waste their money and time who are we mere citizens to get in their way?
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 Rep Louie Gohmert On Iran Nukes And Potentially Worse EMP Threat  
{rickwells.us} ~ On Wednesday’s edition of Family Research Council’s “Washington Watch with Tony Perkins,” Representative Louie Gohmert (R-TX) commented on Hussein nObama’s Iranian nuclear giveaway and the consequences for the United States and the world if it is approved... Rep Gohmert believes that the reason Iran continued to work towards a nuclear weapon was “because they knew that as soon as they had nuclear weapons, then they could use those to blackmail the rest of the world into removing the sanctions.” He remarks that in the wake of the nObama regimes actions, including the release of over one hundred billion dollars, “And now they’ll be able to buy nukes.” Gohmert says, “This is the worst possible deal for Israel, it is the worst possible deal for the people of the United States, it’s far worse than the deal that Neville Chamberlain made with Hitler. This is far worse because Hitler wasn’t on the verge of developing nuclear weapons and actually this is going to help Iran develop nuclear weapons.”        http://rickwells.us/rep-louie-gohmert-on-iran-nukes-and-potentially-worse-emp-threat-resulting-from-obamas-deal/
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 Benghazi details found in Hilly Clinton's emails  
{Bob Unruh} ~ More details have emerged about emails from former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s private server, including that there was classified material from five different agencies..and among the information were discussions about the situation in Benghazi, in which terrorists attacked a U.S. facility and killed four Americans. The new details were released by McClatchy, which found that the Benghazi email was among those released to the public in May by the State Department. It’s just the latest development in the scandal surrounding Hilly Clinton’s setup that used her own private server, instead of a government computer, for all her emails while she was secretary of state. She turned over emails to the government after her tenure that she thought appropriate, and deleted those she wanted to delete.   http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/benghazi-details-found-in-hillary-clintons-emails/
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 Info in Clinton emails came from multiple intelligence agencies  
{foxnews.com} ~ Classified emails stored on former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s private server contained information from multiple intelligence agencies in addition to data connected to the 2012 Benghazi attack, a source familiar with the investigation told Fox News... The information came from the National Security Agency, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National-Geospatial Agency, as well as the Office of the Director of National Intelligence and the Central Intelligence Agency, the source said. A random sampling of emails by the Office of the Intelligence Community Inspector General has identified five emails containing classified information. One of the classified emails was released in full by the State Department on its “reading room”public website for Clinton’s emails.       http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/07/31/information-in-classified-clinton-emails-came-from-multiple-intelligence/?intcmp=hpbt1
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2016 Contest Begins to Take Shape
Peggy Noonan
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     {peggynoonan.com} ~ The weekend will be dominated by back-and-forth on the Iran deal. The administration will argue that some agreement was necessary and this was the best that could be got. They will continue their almost childlike insistence that it proves President nObama is either Ronald Reagan (he negotiates with foes) or Richard Nixon (he reaches out to adversaries).
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     There will be plenty of serious criticism of the deal, accompanied by a generalized sense that the U.S. probably got taken—because Mr. nObama always wants it too much. As with the opening to Cuba, Mr. nObama put his face on it too early, put his name on it too hard, talked about it too much in public, let his aides give background interviews saying this is a crucial effort, a historic gambit, part of the president’s visionary legacy. The adversary sees this, the need and the want—they watch the news too!—and proceeds accordingly.
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     Mr. nObama is an odd one in that when there are rivals close by, in Congress for instance, with whom he could negotiate deals, he disses them in public, attacks their motives, yanks them around with executive orders, crushes them when possible. But when negotiating with actual tyrants he signals deference, hunger. I leave it to others to explain what it means when a man is bullying toward essentially good people and supplicating toward bad ones. But the sense is he always wants it too much and is consequently a poor negotiator, and this will have some impact on U.S. and world reaction.
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     Hilly Clinton has given her tentative support. The day before the deal was announced she gave a big economic speech, at the New School in New York.
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     I wanted to think along with it, but Mrs. Clinton doesn’t give you much to think to. She offers policy clumps wrapped in general sentiments. There was policy jargon—“consumer economy,” “quality, affordable child care,” “paid family leave,” “our fiscal outlook is sustainable.” In the tired rhetoric department there were “currents of change” and getting “our country moving.” There were a few fleeting shots at Republican candidates, which provided the speech with a kind of leavening cynicism.
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     She seemed at times to knock Mr. nObama, or at least distance herself from him. Wall Streeters who tanked the economy in the late 2000s got off with “limited consequences—or none at all.” Who’s been in charge since 2008? She made two references to rising health-care costs. I thought we took care of that.
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     There was a thought worthy of unpacking, which had to do with the “short-termism” that dominates CEOs’ thinking; they are enslaved to a “quarterly capitalism” that leaves them focused on the share price and the next earnings report at the expense of longer-term investment. This is true: They’re all squeezing too tight and missing the big picture because in the general rush of demands they can’t afford to see it. I’m not sure what a president can do about it, but it’s not bad to talk about such things.
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     Along the way she smuggled in a campaign theme: “I want to have principled and pragmatic and progressive policies.” I suspect we’ll be hearing more of the three P’s.
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     There was a nice thought nicely expressed: At its best, “public service is planting trees under whose shade you’ll never sit.” That was pretty.
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     It was a pointillist policy-dot speech meant to add up to a portrait of meaning. The meaning was clear: More progressivism, please. Also: There’s little substantial difference between Bernie Sanders and me other than that Goldman Sachs likes me, which only proves my range. The left doesn’t have to bolt away.
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     A concern for her campaign has to be Mrs. Clinton’s robotic delivery, as if she’s never there in the moment but distanced from herself. As if she’s thinking: I don’t fully believe this, but more important, do I seem to believe it? She seems to be overcoached by people who keep telling her to be natural. But why would someone in public life for more than 30 years need to be instructed in naturalness? I don’t understand her discomfort and wonder what it suggests or portends. You can argue she’s a strong leader; she may be the next president, she may be the acknowledged head of her party, but she is a poor campaigner—a poor giver of interviews and speeches, which is now most of what campaigning is. At the end of the day this will mean something. .
     Meanwhile, Scott Walker announced in Waukesha, Wis. There is still something fresh and awake about him. He’s not all dinged up and slump-shouldered, even though he’s been a target for so long. His subliminal message—actually, it’s liminal—has two parts: I wasn’t born into it, I’m normal like you—but I’ve achieved a great deal, maintained my seriousness, and been a brave governor.
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     He made his announcement in the increasingly popular casual manner, in shirt sleeves with an open collar and casual slacks. They’re all trying to express intimacy by removing barriers—podiums, teleprompters. But that’s superficial. You can make a connection in a suit behind a podium if you sound as if you’re thinking and speaking honestly and with depth. All this physical symbolism has gotten carried away. John Kasich is next. I’m hoping he won’t announce in a T-shirt and underpants.
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     What is most interesting about Mr. Walker is that he has remained in the top tier, often in the top three, while being less in the public eye recently than other candidates. His years as embattled Wisconsin governor have given him a hold on the Republican imagination. As he spoke I thought: He’s from the Republican wing of the Republican Party—blunt, direct, unadorned, Midwestern. His message was workmanlike: “I know how to fight and win.” He is a reform conservative, believes in federalism, is hard-line on foreign policy: Mr. nObama says climate change is the greatest threat to future generations, but “the greatest threat to future generations is radical Islamic terrorism.” Vladimir Putin, like Lenin, probes his adversaries with bayonets: “If you encounter mush, push; if you encounter steel, stop.” Mr. Walker will run hard on his Wisconsin record: “We lowered taxes by $2 billion. In fact we lowered taxes on individuals, employers and property. In fact, property taxes are lower today than they were four years ago. . . . How many governors can say that?”
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     All this will make him highly competitive for the nomination. Is it suited to the mood of the nation in the general election?
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     Mr. Walker, Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, Carly Fiorina, Ted Cruz, soon John Kasich: They are going to be flooding the hustings very soon, and they’re going to hit Republicans on the ground as an embarrassment of riches—interesting, accomplished figures, all with a case to make. They’ll have the money to last because they pretty much all have rich backers. It is going to be hard for Republicans to make up their minds. This primary is going to go longer and end later than anyone knows.
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 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
The Deal to End All Deals
Burt Prelutsky
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 Gun Salesman in Chief Raises Firearm Production by 140% 
Barack nObama is proud of his numerous "accomplishments," but on the issue of gun control, his success rate is admittedly off target. "[T]he one area that I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied … is the fact that the United States is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient, common-sense gun safety laws," he lamented last week — a reality made more bitter by the fact Democrats strategically, and unsuccessfully, blame every nefarious shooter's behavior on the weapons used to inflict harm. Their continuous gratuitous assault on the Second Amendment has America's gun owners equally if not more frustrated. A new report by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives has found, "[U]nder President nObama, gun production has spiked 140 percent to 10.8 million firearms in 2013, the most recent year for which data is available," The Hill reported. If the Left's goal is to reverse gun figures in America, it's utterly failing. Erich Pratt, a spokesperson with Gun Owners of America, quips, "The ATF report confirms what we already know, that Barack nObama deserves the 'Gun Salesman of the Decade' award. People have been rushing to buy firearms because they're afraid that nObama will take away their Second Amendment rights." And for good reason. The administration is attempting to prohibit Social Security recipients from owning firearms if they are judged mentally incompetent. "[T]his amount[s] to the largest gun grab in American history," according to the National Rifle Association. In his final 18 months, nObama will do all he can to ensure his legacy won't go down as a gun salesman but as a gun confiscator. And that's all the more reason to remain vigilant. 
 -The Patriot Post 
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 EPA Extends Deadline on Clean Power Plan 
The Environmental Protection Agency is beginning to realize that it might be asking a bit too much from the American economy. Sources at the EPA have told The Washington Post that it is extending the deadline for when coal plants must reduce their greenhouse gas output. The EPA has yet to release the final version of the regulation, but it said coal plants have until 2022 instead of 2020 to conform to the gospel of green and avoid too much stress on the electrical grid. By ceding ground, the EPA admits the Clean Power Plan demanded too much. On a related note, the new ozone standards that the EPA is working on would set the standards so low on the naturally occurring gas that Yosemite National Park and the Grand Canyon would be in violation, according to the National Association of Manufacturers. Things have gone too far when an agency supposedly established to protect the environment finds nature in violation of its decrees.   -The Patriot Post 
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 nObama Spends $6M to Fly Air Force One to Africa 
In the age of sequestered military spending — reduced forces, grounded Thunderbirds, Blue Angels stripped of their wings and even blockaded memorials — Barack nObama thinks nothing of pulling nearly $6 million from the Air Force budget to fund the 29-hour Air Force One flight to and from Kenya and Ethiopia. Presidential trips abroad are classified information, and no one quite knows how much nObama spent on this trip to visit his extended family and attend the 2015 Global Entrepreneurship Summit. When he visited Africa in 2013, the trip cost an estimated $100 million. Typically, presidents spend more time abroad in their second term. Currently, nObama is not the executive with the most frequent flyer miles — that platinum membership belongs to Bill Clinton — but nObama is close. Michael Tasselmyer, policy analyst at the National Taxpayers Union Foundation, wrote, "The last official accounting of any Presidential travel was conducted over a decade ago in GAO's 1999 report on President Clinton's trips to Africa, Chile, and China. … There are understandable security considerations to keep in mind, but until more information is made available, there can be no public debate on the costs and benefits of international travel." It's not so much the travel money, it's the priorities.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Olympic Size Price Tag Too Much for Boston  
Everybody loves the Olympics, right? The grit, the feats, the glory, the decathlon champ who later decides he's a woman. All kidding aside, every two years (summer and winter, respectively), the world gathers its best athletes to compete for sport and national pride. But is it worth the price of admission?
          Boston and the International Olympics Committee (IOC) came to an agreement of sorts: No, it isn't worth the enormous cost for Boston to host the 2024 Olympic Games.
          It's revealing that both parties agreed because neither wanted to be liable for the inevitable cost overruns. Boston Mayor Martin Walsh refused to sign a host city contract with the United States Olympic Committee that would put Boston's taxpayers on the hook for the extra costs (i.e., absolving the IOC), so the committee cut Boston out of the running. Walsh said, "This is me letting the taxpayers of Boston know ... that I will not sign a document that puts one dollar of taxpayers' money on the line for one penny of overruns for the Olympics."    -The Patriot Post 
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 Strategic Command Focused on Hypersonic Missile Threat  
{Bill Gertz} ~ China and Russia are developing maneuvering high-speed strike vehicles that pose new threats to the United States, U.S. Strategic Command leaders said Wednesday... Adm. Cecil D. Haney, Strategic Command’s (Stratcom) senior leader, said during remarks at a nuclear deterrence conference that despite arms control efforts, hypersonic weapons are among several threatening strategic trends emerging in the world. China has conducted four flight tests of a 7,000 mile-per-hour maneuvering strike vehicle, and Russia is developing high-speed weapons and reportedly tested a hypersonic weapon in February.
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 If We Still Had A Republic...  
{rickwells.us} ~ Mark Levin told his producer “Let’s start from the top,” which is really upper portion of a very deep hole that has been dug for America by the traitors who have hijacked our government, most notably Hussein nObama, Valerie Jarrett, hanoi John Kerry and the DOE hippie yard gnome Ernest Moniz... Mark Levin plays a clip of hanoi John Kerry being questioned about the secret side deals that have been hidden from the American people and Congress in which National Security Adviser Susan Rice proclaims that she’s seen them and will let Congress in on the secret shortly. hanoi Kerry’s playing dumb, which is not a difficult task for him, saying that he doesn’t believe that Susan Rice is telling the truth, that she’s seen the deal. He says he hasn’t seen it, an obvious protective ploy to prevent being questioned further, and says he’s been briefed on it. That’s an equally obvious attempt to dispel the natural concerns that he’s committed the world to arming a terrorist nation with nuclear weapons and he doesn’t know what the heck is going on.
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 hanoi Kerry: We Can't Reveal Contents of Secret Side Deals...  
{Daniel Halper} ~ Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry testified on Capitol Hill today the U.S. government will not be revealing the contents of secret side deals with Iran to the American people... Senator Tom Cotton wanted to know why it can't be made public. "I'd like to stick with you, Secretary hanoi Kerry," Cotton said. "Why can't we confirm or deny the content of these agreements in public? Why is this classified? It's not a sensitive U.S. government document. "Because we respect the process of the IAEA and we don't have their authorization to reveal what is a confidential agreement between them and another country," said hanoi Kerry. Cotton said, "So the ayatollahs will know what they agreed to but not the American people?" I think its time to stop the deal on its tracks.
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 New Report Confirms Findings of Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi  
{Roger Aronoff} ~ Citizens’ Commission on Benghazi (CCB) member Clare Lopez, believes that in 2011 Hilly Clinton’s State Department was orchestrating its own gun running operation to the Libyan rebels... and that arms dealer Marc Turi has been set up to take the fall for these “illicit arms deals.” “The Justice Department has charged Turi with lying on an export-license application, alleging he hid his intent to ship weapons and ammunition to Libya in direct violation of United Nations Security Council Resolution 170,” reports Jerome Corsi for WorldNetDaily. “Marc Turi was set up and framed for something he didn’t do, while others, who actually did collaborate with Qatar and the UAE to deliver the weapons under U.S. and NATO protection and supervision, are not only not prosecuted like Marc Turi, they’re not even mentioned,” Lopez told Corsi.
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 What nObama is allowing to happen to our allies against ISIS...  
{Lt. Col. Allen West} ~ Maslow’s hierarchy of needs places self-preservation at the top of the list – that is true about individuals, and of nations. It’s important to look at the actions of a nation with a careful eye, because patience will reveal its intentions... And these days, you don’t have to wait very long to ascertain what the objectives truly are. Of course, when it comes to Iran, the black-robed crazed clerics tell you exactly who they are and their intentions – as it is with Islamic jihadists. And now we know exactly what the country of Turkey is up to. You see, just within the past week, Turkey granted permission for U.S. warplanes to utilize Incirlik Air Base to engage ISIS. Now you have to understand we’re not heavily bombing ISIS anyway. And I still have a little beef with the Turks since 2003, when we were supposed to enter Iraq from the north, and the Turks pulled their landing and basing rights at the last minute, forcing our entire 4th Infantry Division Task Force to shift, and our equipment to endure additional time at sea – saltwater isn’t good.
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 Op-Ed: nObama Knows Iran will Use its Nukes on Israel  
{Mark Langfan} ~ At first, nObama said we couldn’t talk about his Iranian Nuke Deal unless it was finalized. Then, nObama said we couldn’t talk about his Iranian Nuke Deal unless we read it all - and simply didn’t disclose all of his side-deals... Now, he says Mike Huckabee’s comparison of shipping the Jews of Israel to the new ovens of the Iranian Auschwitz-Nuke is “ridiculous.” Perhaps nObama wants to wait until Iran nukes Israel for it to be politically correct to call Iran’s wiping Israel off the map a “Holocaust.” But, make no mistake, nObama knows full well that Iran intends to wipe Israel off the map with its nObama-blessed Nukes.       http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Articles/Article.aspx/17299#.Vbo2nqRVikq
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 Will voters let Hilly get away with this?  
{Judge Andrew Napolitano} ~ In a column I wrote in early July, based on research by my colleagues and my own analysis of government documents and eyewitness statements, I argued that in 2011 and 2012 then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton waged a secret war on the governments of Libya and Syria... with the approval of President nObama and the consent of congressional leadership from both parties and in both houses of Congress. I did err in that column with respect to an arms dealer named Marc Turi. I regret the error and apologize for it. I wrote that Turi sold arms to Qatar as part of Clinton’s scheme to get them into the hands of rebels. A further review of the documents makes it clear that he applied to do so but was denied permission, and so he did not sell arms to Qatar. Other arms dealers did. I also erred when referring to Qatar as beholden to Washington. In fact, Qatar is in bed with the Muslim Brotherhood and is one of the biggest supporters of global jihad in the world – and Clinton, who approved the sales of arms to Qatar, expecting them to make their way to Syrian and Libyan rebels, as they did, knew that. She and her State Department caused American arms to come into the possession of known al-Qaida operatives, a few of whom assassinated U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/will-voters-let-hillary-get-away-with-this/
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 AMERICA'S NEW WORLD DISORDER  
{Erik Rush} ~ Two weeks ago in this space, I posed the question of why some think Hilly Clinton is unelectable as president due to crimes committed while serving as secretary of state, when the same pro-left media spin machine and gutless Republican leaders are on the scene now as in 2008... when Barack Hussein nObama was elected. Over the last six years, the comportment of GOP leaders in particular, given the unprecedented threat represented by this administration, speaks to a dramatic alteration in course and intention on their part, not unlike that which occurs when the ship captain’s cabin door bursts open and the roaring mutineers pile in. It’s as though the entire Congress, the executive branch, the press and to some extent even the federal judiciary have become a sort of Supreme Soviet (as in the former U.S.S.R.) body of government. Therein, we now have our very own Councils of Ministers, Politburo and Secretariats among elected officials, federal courts and innumerable government departments, bureaus and offices.
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 Palestinians: A Rare Voice of Sanity  
{Khaled Abu Toameh} ~ It is almost unheard of for a prominent Palestinian figure to hold the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas equally responsible for corruption and abuse of power... Dr. Ibrahim Abrash, a former Palestinian Minister of Culture from the Gaza Strip, recently surprised many Palestinians by publishing an article that included a scathing attack on both the PA and Hamas, holding them responsible for the continued suffering of their people. In his article, Dr. Abrash also holds the two Palestinian parties responsible for the delay in rebuilding thousands of houses that were destroyed or damaged in the Gaza Strip during last year's military conflict between Israel and Hamas. He points out that Hamas and the PA have been holding each other responsible for the suffering of Palestinians. "Sometimes, they also put all the blame on Israel for all that is happening in the Gaza Strip," he said.
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 STILL BLIND TO THE COSTS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION  
{Bruce Thornton} ~ Donald Trump’s blunt and clumsy comments about illegal immigration sparked the usual firestorm of criticism from the well heeled of both parties... Particularly vocal were those Republicans who think that an amorphous, make-believe category comprising “Hispanics” or “Latinos” will vote Republican if only Republican meanies like Trump would stop insulting them by complaining about illegal aliens. As usual, willful ignorance or blindness about the costs of illegal immigration underwrites these dubious ideas. Trump’s comments about crimes committed by illegal aliens, for example, were attacked by the usual denial and obfuscation. Various statistics, some mixing illegal and legal immigrants, were touted as showing illegal criminal activity was proportionately less than that of the native-born. But as Brietbart reported, while illegal aliens are 3.5% of the population, based on federal sentencing data they represent 12% of murder convictions. Add state crime data, and according to an analysis at American Thinker illegals commit 10 times more murders than do citizens.
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The Deal to End All Deals
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     {Iburtprelutsky.com} ~ n his hour-long defense of the indefensible deal that had the Ayatollah Khamenei dancing in Tehran, Barack nObama called for Congress and the American people to consider it from every possible angle. But then our own Supreme Leader, the Ayatollah nObama, went on to say that he would veto any attempt to scuttle it, no matter what we all decided.
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     To do what he threatens would require that 34 Democrats in the Senate rush to uphold his veto. Were that to happen, each of them should be regarded as a Quisling and be forced to ring a little bell whenever he or she ventured out in public, alerting decent people that a plague carrier is in the vicinity. Right now, I am shopping for just such a bell so I can send it to Mrs. Clinton, who quickly endorsed the treaty that pretends not to be a treaty.
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     At the last minute, nObama allowed Iran to remove the ban on ballistic missiles, but did nothing to compel Iran to release four American hostages. He then got his nose out of joint when a reporter dared to ask him why he didn’t even try. After several seconds spent seething at such impertinence, nObama said it might have scuttled the deal. It’s my guess, however, that it was because all four are Christians and none of them are black. Time and again, he has shown that blacks and Muslims are the only Americans with whom he sympathizes.
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     A friend of mine was surprised that the Ayatollah didn't demand that nObama release more prisoners from Gitmo. I told him that the bigger surprise is that nObama didn't offer it as a signing bonus.
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     In discussing the $160 billion that we will be releasing to the regime that bankrolls most of the terrorism taking place in the world, Sen. Ted Cruz cleverly and correctly referred to it as the jihadist stimulus bill.
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♦ Jack Engelhard, writing in Arutz Sheva, managed to find a few silver linings in the agreement. To begin with, Israel is once again being recognized as David to Iran’s Goliath, and can no longer be depicted by the anti-Semites as a gigantic ogre lording it over the Hamas-dominated Palestinian swine.
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     Two, the deal even managed to unite Netanyahu and Herzog, the recent opponents in the Israeli election, in their mutual condemnation of the agreement. Moreover, Saudi Arabia and the other Sunni states finally came to recognize, at least temporarily, Israel as a partner, and not merely a scapegoat.
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     And finally, if the Democrats in Congress actually link arms to defend their president, having decided that partisanship counts for more than Israel’s survival and our own nation’s security, everyone will understand that they care more about nObama’s well-being than America’s. They will also belatedly grasp that it wasn’t just a few malcontents at the 2012 presidential convention who were booing loudly every time that Israel was mentioned.
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♦ I believe that those who support Chris Christie in his pursuit of the GOP nomination should keep in mind that if another hurricane hits the Jersey shore anytime soon, the schmuck will go rushing back into the arms of nObama.
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♦ While watching the video of the creature from Planned Parenthood, Dr. Deborah Nucatola, the group’s senior director of medical services, noshing on her salad and sipping her glass of wine, I nearly upchucked my own dinner. While discussing how carefully their abortionists go about crushing embryos in order to avoid destroying the tiny body parts they harvest for re-sale put some in mind of another doctor, Josef Mengele. For my part, I was reminded of Hannibal Lecter’s insistence on fava beans and a nice Chianti being the proper accompaniment to dining on human flesh.
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♦ Baltimore prosecutor Marilyn Mosby, who has spent the past several months demonizing and persecuting police officers over the death of Freddie Gray, has defended herself all along by insisting that she has no bias against the police because, after all, she hails from a family of cops. But it only recently came to light that her father, mother and uncle, had all been booted off the Boston police force for criminal behavior!
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     It would be like Al Capone’s kid claiming he would make a great district attorney because his father had had longtime dealings with law enforcement.
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♦ Speaking of law enforcement, Joaquin Guzman, the 5’6”drug czar better known as El Chapo (“Shorty”), crawled out of a mile-long tunnel that just happened to originate below his shower stall at the Altiplano Federal Penitentiary. Nobody can explain how it happened, least of all the prison guards, who are now driving around in new Lexus SUVs, sporting Rolexes and dating Mexican starlets.
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♦ It used to be that when people wanted to state how obvious something was, they’d ask a rhetorical question, such as “Is the Pope Catholic?” or “Does a bear poop in the woods?” In recent times, the questions have been updated to “Is the Pope a Communist?” and “Does Barack nObama poop on the Constitution?”
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♦ A reader recently asked me how I would sum up liberals without using obscenities. I acknowledged it would be difficult, but that I would give it a try. I came up with the following: A liberal is someone who thinks 14-year-olds should be able to have abortions behind their parents’ back; that eight-year-olds should be able to have their genitalia altered on a whim; and that marijuana should be legalized; but think nicotine is a weapon of mass destruction; that cigarette smoking is an act of terrorism; and believe there should be a 12-step program for those who drink soda pop.
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♦ Another reader asked me if I noticed that the camerawork in movies and TV has become very quirky. I admitted I hadn’t. Mainly what I’ve noticed is that directors and cinematographers are under-lighting every scene, including daylight exteriors. It’s as if they’re suffering under the delusion that they’ve re-invented radio.
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♦ Over the past couple of decades, the language Gestapo has done everything in its power to emasculate English, turning perfectly legitimate words into linguistic eunuchs. These days, like a child learning to cross streets, you are being warned to look both ways before opening your mouth.
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     Oddly enough, the NAACP is the one place where it is still acceptable to refer to blacks as Colored People. And inasmuch as the word that the same-sex marriage crowd enjoys clubbing the rest of us with is “homophobia,” I guess that means we can finally take a deep breath and return “gay” to its former meaning of happy and joyous; and once again refer to the sodomites as “homosexuals” or even “homos,” for short.
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♦ Finally, I think that most of us are at long last aware of the fact that when nObama vowed to radically transform America, he meant it exactly the way Bruce Jenner meant it when declaring that he is now and forever Caitlyn.
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Thursday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Thoughts on the passing scene and Presidential Politics
Chris Skates
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 Revealing Evil, Take 3 
The Center for Medical Progress had a good strategy: Capture and release undercover film of Planned Parenthood's depravity, wait for the inevitable craven defense and denial, and then turn up the heat with subsequent video releases that show even more offensive material. The group's third video release (with more to follow in the "Human Capital" series) is very graphic. It depicts, as feared, the dissected parts of an aborted baby, so viewers beware. A technician working with an 11-week-old aborted baby talks (and laughs) about getting $200-$300 per baby by charging more per organ or part specimen. Dr. Savita Ginde, vice president and medical director of Planned Parenthood of the Rocky Mountains, agrees: “I think a per-item thing works a little better," she says, "just because we can see how much we can get out of it.” That's hardly just a way to "break even," as the Planned Parenthood doctor insisted in the first video. Never mind the abortion itself already costs a bundle. Clearly, money is the driving factor.
          The video primarily features an interview with Holly O'Donnell, a former “procurement technician” at a fetal tissue company. She recounts how she fainted on the first day at work when she was instructed to dissect a newly aborted baby. “I thought I was going to be just drawing blood," she said, "not procuring tissue from aborted fetuses.” She explained the profit motive: “The harder and more valuable the tissue, the more money you can get. If you can somehow procure a brain or a heart, you’re going to get more money. ... I guess that’s an incentive to try and get the hard stuff — because they get more money.” She concludes, "It's basically a huge trafficking of fetal tissues. ... It's a pretty sick company." And the despicable people at Planned Parenthood have the gall to insist the only evil here is the "heavily edited" videos. -The Patriot Post  
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 Boy Scout Board Decrees Homosexual Leaders Okay 
The National Executive Board of the Boy Scouts of America voted 45-12 to allow openly homosexual adults to be troop leaders. While Monday's decision leaves an exception for troops sponsored by religious organizations, homosexual activists are already saying they will challenge, erode and destroy the exception designed to respect religious conscience. Boy Scouts President (and former Defense Secretary) Robert Gates said, "For far too long this issue has divided and distracted us. Now it's time to unite behind our shared belief in the extraordinary power of Scouting to be a force for good." Since Gates took the helm of the BSA in May 2014, he's personally supported rolling back the ban. In May, he called for changing the policy. Despite Gates' assurances of unity, this top-down decree to the groups meeting in church basements and communities nationwide threatens to rend the organization. The Mormon Church said it's consider splitting from BSA to create its own scouting organization. And Rev. Russell Moore of the Southern Baptist Convention said this decision will probably "freeze" the relationship between Southern Baptists and the BSA. Gates brought his political agenda to the BSA, and, as a result, religious liberty is being threatened and the BSA is cheapened. Furthermore, the change is the net effect of having a bunch of wealthy corporate guys fighting for advertising dollars leading the board of a national grassroots organization. There's clearly a huge disconnect between the political agenda of the board and the culture of Boy Scout troops.  -The Patriot Post  
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 Dems' Economic Policies Will Hurt Those They Claim to Help 
Democrats are bickering over how high to raise the minimum wage, even though doing so would hurt constituencies the party claims to represent. Democrats all agree the minimum wage must be raised. The party's establishment politicians — dinky Harry Reid and Nancy Pulosi — propose a minimum wage hike to $12. Democrat presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is calling for a $15 minimum wage, even though the socialist only pays his interns $12 an hour. Is that all he can afford to pay them? A study published by the American Action Forum and the Manhattan Institute for Policy found both proposed minimum wage policies would decimate the jobs held by low-skilled workers who often vote Democrat. If the minimum wage rose to $12 an hour, the economy would lose 3.8 million jobs. If the minimum wage rose to $15 an hour, 6.6 million jobs would disappear. Besides putting the jobs of fast-food workers at risk, the Democrats' plan would hurt their supposed darling constituency: illegal immigrants. Of the 11.3 million illegals in this country, 8.1 million hold jobs. At the same time, there are 9.6 million unemployed Americans — a number that would very well rise if Democrats take a top down, emotional approach to the economy.  -The Patriot Post  
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  Hillynomics: Higher Tax Rates and More Solar Panels  
Anyone who doubts Hilly Clinton is a socialist need look no further than her economic plan for America. Put simply, her proposals will continue Barack nObama's path of economic ruin rather than turning the nation toward economic prosperity.
          Earlier this month, Hilly made a few economic pronouncements, including bashing Republicans for "trickle-down economics" (a.k.a. capitalism). She also blamed GOP presidents for creating messes for Democrats to clean up, yet she never once mentioned the mess she and her own party created.
          Hilly’s initial prescription to solve our nation’s economic woes is to raise the minimum wage, spend more tax dollars on infrastructure and put more women into the workforce. Surely her comments perked up the ears of progressives, but anyone who understands basic economics knows her proposals do nothing to create jobs in a struggling economy.
          Now she's proposed two more facets of her economic agenda, and let’s just say that they are equally terrible.   -The Patriot Post  
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 P5+1 Deal Has An Exit Clause (Iran Can Take The Money And Run)  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ The P5+1 Agreement has an exit clause. As pointed out by Owen Alterman of the Institute for National Security Studies Tel Aviv, Israel, it's right there on page 19, paragraph 36 (the paragraph is at the bottom of this post... As previously discussed the deal is not forever as hanoi John Kerry promised, but most of the key provisions expire after ten years the rest after fifteen.  But according to  paragraph 36 any party, be it Iran, Prime Minister of Great Britain, or a future U.S. president can kill the Iran nuclear deal with 35 days' notice. On the other hand, once Iran has its $150 billion (okay hanoi Kerry says it's only $100 billion) and made some long term oil deals they can give the nuclear agreement the big heave ho and just take the money and run. That way the can go back to the way it was but have a little nest egg to get through the rough sanctions (if the snap back provision actually works). Of course the exit provision also allows a new president to ditch the lousy deal.
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 Oversight Committee To nObama---Get Rid Of IRS Chief Or We Will  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ Finally sick and tired of his obfuscation, Republicans on House Oversight Committee on Monday called on President nObama to oust Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen... for obstructing the committee’s investigation into the tax agency’s targeting of conservative groups. And if the president ignores the committees request, Committee Chairman Jason Chaffetz said the committee was actively considering contempt charges and impeachment proceedings against Mr. Koskinen in the event the president does not remove him from office. In a letter to President nObama, the Committee outlined the findings, thus far, of its investigation into the IRS targeting scandal. The letter explains and provides evidence of the violations on the part of the IRS and Commissioner Koskinen in properly complying with both a congressional subpoena and its own internal preservation order.        http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/07/oversight-committee-to-obama-get-rid-of.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1ee7ccaa27-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-1ee7ccaa27-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-1ee7ccaa27-291705165
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 Netanyahu Coalition in Trouble Over Evacuation of Jews  
{Ryan Jones} ~ Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s fragile coalition looked to be in trouble Tuesday morning hours after police forcibly removed residents from a newly constructed neighborhood in the Jewish townof Beit El north of Jerusalem... Israel’s Supreme Court recently ordered the houses in the new Dreinoff neighborhood of Beit El be demolished following a left-wing petition claiming the structures were built on “Palestinian” land. On Monday, so-called Jewish “settlers” barricaded themselves in the houses to prevent the order being carried out. In the early morning hours of Tuesday, hundreds of riot police showed up to evacuate the neighborhood. Some 50 demonstrators were arrested during the ensuing confrontation.   http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/27074/Default.aspx
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 nObama Administration Defies Federal Judge (Again)  
{totalconservative.com} ~ If President nObama’s underlings don’t watch themselves, they are going to wind up in the slammer, charged with contempt of court... Federal Judge Andrew Hanen – the judge presiding over a multi-state lawsuit against the administration regarding nObama’s amnesty program – has just about had it with the defiance of the federal government. The problems began back in April. Two months after Judge Hanen issued an injunction blocking the president’s amnesty from going into effect, the court found that the administration had already put the wheels in motion. On June 7th, Hanen ordered several top administration officials to appear in court to explain why he should not hold them in contempt. He offered lawyers for the government a chance to avoid that hearing; if they could file a report by the end of July demonstrating compliance with the injunction, he would cancel the contempt of court hearing. Of course, it’s hard to be surprised. If nObama didn’t let the Constitution stand in his way, why would he respect a federal injunction? He doesn’t believe in the law; he believes in his own liberal agenda. His amnesty plan sets the stage for Democratic dominance. He’s not about to let one judge down in Texas ruin this for him. 
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 Whistleblower Speaks Out on Improperly Purged VA Applications  
{insider.foxnews.com} ~ A VA whistleblower who spoke out in an interview with Neil Cavuto says he's faced harassment and retaliation for going public with his allegations about the lack of medical care for veterans... After the interview, Scott Davis says he was asked by his superiors to sign a notice stating that he would not speak publicly again... When Davis refused, he received an email which he interpreted as a threat. "Mr. Davis, with all due respect, the notification that was sent to you and to your representative to appear before the Administrative Investigation Board was not an invitation to which you can decline," read the email from Department of Veterans Affairs HR consultant William Lamm to Davis. Davis, an Eligibility Center program specialist, said today on "Fox and Friends" that he got the email right after his interview with Cavuto, in which he accused the VA in Georgia of improperly purging benefit applications.
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 Arrest Warrants for nObama and Hilly  
{AmyElizabeth} ~ Egypt has issued warrants for both Obama and Hillary for their Muslim Brotherhood shenanigans-Wild Bill for America...  Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14XekcN4oF4
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 3rd Planned Parenthood video: 'Huge trafficking of fetal tissues'  
{Paige Winfield Cunningham} ~ A third Planned Parenthood video was released Tuesday morning that features a whistleblower who says... her biomedical company would compensate Planned Parenthood clinics for fetal organs based on their condition and quality after being extracted from an abortion. Holly O'Donnell is a former technician for California-based Stem Express, a company that contracts with abortion clinics for the tissue. "The more valuable the tissue the more money you get, so if you can somehow procure a brain or a heart you're going to get more money than just umbilical cord," O'Donnell says in the video. "So I guess that's incentive to try and get the hard stuff because they get more money." How does it feel McCon-nell? http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/third-planned-parenthood-video-released-huge-trafficking-of-fetal-tissues/article/2569091?custom_click=rss
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 GOP Congressman Files to Oust backstabber Boehner...  
{Debra Heine} ~ In a move that has reportedly taken Republican leaders completely by surprise, Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) late Tuesday afternoon filed a motion to try to force Speaker backstabber John Boehner from his leadership post... Meadows was one of four conservative House Republicans  disciplined by backstabber Boehner in June for “voting against the party” on trade legislation. At the time, when contacted by Roll Call, the North Carolina Republican declined to comment. That was then, this is now: According to Politico, fellow conservatives have already contacted Meadows to tell him that the move to oust backstabber Boehner right now is not a good idea.
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 Terrible! nObama Promises to Veto anti-Sanctuary City Legislation  
{Tim Brown} ~ The Republican-controlled House Thursday passed legislation that would withhold federal law-enforcement grants from cities that shelter illegal immigrants from federal authorities, part of a campaign to punish what are known as sanctuary cities... The bill, passed 241-179, is the GOP's answer to the shooting this month of Kathryn Steinle, 32 years old, on a San Francisco pier, allegedly by an illegal immigrant who had been convicted of seven felonies and previously deported to Mexico. The Associated Press provided the lame excuse from the nObama administration that the bill would "lead to mistrust between local communities and law enforcement agencies" and, therefore, he would veto the bill. I really hate this president. He needs to go.
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 America’s Enemies Are Laughing at Us  
{Cliff Kinaid} ~ Time magazine is out with a colorful and glossy “Inside the New Cuba” special edition, featuring smiling Cuban kids wearing Communist garb on the cover. Page 64 has a photo showing “Cuban fans” holding up “their national flag”... at a baseball game. It turns out that the really happy Cubans are those who have been defecting from the island “paradise,” as Time magazine calls the prison camp country. Credit goes to Christine Rousselle of Townhall.com for covering these defections. They seem to be developing into a regular feature, with Rousselle providing regular updates about additional defections. So far, eight players from the Cuban men’s field hockey team, four rowers from the Cuban national team, and two members of the Cuban soccer team have defected.
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Thoughts on the passing scene and Presidential Politics
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     {chrisskates.com} ~ As a columnist, I’ve had a hard time keeping up this summer. One can hardly formulate a draft of a column on the historically bad Supreme Court decision on nObamacare before they come out with another worse decision on marriage. One can barely write about nObama’s latest horrible decision before he makes a horrific decision (Like arming Iran with a nuke or giving them 150 Billion dollars.) There there are the macabre videos of Planned Parenthood which have put every American on notice that mass murder and even dismemberment is being subsidized by American taxpayers.
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     It’s just all so overwhelming, which I think is the point. I have several columns in the works on any given week, but I have pulled back from publishing or posting until I see how events play out. For example, last week I deleted a column because by the time I got it completed (I wrote it over a three evening period) real life events had rendered the column outdated.
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     Meanwhile, I haven’t yet commented on the Presidential race. Obviously, I won’t waste my time or yours commenting on any of the proposed Democrat nominees, all are equally awful. Its way too early to predict anything, but I will give you my top five candidates in what is actually a pretty good Republican field:
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     #1) Ted Cruz- I have been in this man’s corner since before he won the Senate seat in Texas. If you’ve read this blog much at all you know what a huge supporter I am of Cruz. This week alone he showed his courage many times.
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     I don’t buy for a second the argument that Cruz can’t win. If he can’t win, who can? A moderate (liberal) like Jeb Busch? Christie? These two are McCain/Romney revisited. Besides, every American better hope a true conservative can win. We have moved so far to the left in just the past 12 months, no moderate will have the fortitude to do what must be done to deliver the country from the brink.
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     #2) Ted Cruz- Again, this is what leadership looks like. Watch him here when Code Pink tried to crash his speech:
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     #3) Scott Walker- Walker is a true conservative. He withstood multiple recalls that he never should have had to face. He has improved Wisconsin’s economy significantly even while having to fight for his life every step of the way.
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     #4) Bobby Jindahl-Another guy I have seen in person. An excellent Governor and solid conservative. He has successfully led a blue state through some tough circumstances and fought back against the Democrat machine which has run Louisianan since Huey Long.
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     #5) Ben Carson- Perhaps the most intelligent and accomplished man that ever ran for the nomination. However, I fear he doesn’t have the ground game to get the nomination or to even get close I am afraid.
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     Honorable Mention-Donald Trump. I don’t trust him (He is a social liberal and said recently at the family forum that he didn’t feel he ever needed God’s forgiveness. Plus I used to watch the Apprentice. The guy has some real liberal ideas on some things. However, give credit where credit is due. The man changed the national conversation on immigration and gave voice to many victims of violent crimes perpetuated by illegals.
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     Next time-Which Republican’s I feel would be a disaster if they become our nominee.
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Wednesday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Israel's 'Nasty' Habit of Bombing 
Nuke Programs Out Of Existence And Saving The World
Jeff Dunetz
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 CT Dems Remove Jefferson and Jackson From Fundraiser 
The leaders of the Democrat Party in Connecticut voted unanimously to remove the names of Andrew Jackson and Thomas Jefferson from an annual fundraiser. At the behest of the NAACP, the enlightend progressives in the Nutmeg State decided to scrub all mention of the two founders of the Democrat Party because Jefferson owned slaves and Jackson instigated the Trail of Tears. Nick Balletto, the recently elected chair of the state party, said, "I see it as the right thing to do. I wasn't looking to be a trailblazer or set off a trend that's going to affect the rest of the country. Hopefully, they'll follow suit when they see it's the right thing to do." As pundit Dan McLaughlin notes, this is also the party of Franklin Roosevelt, the man who signed off on the Japanese internment, and Woodrow Wilson, the anti-Semite who segregated the federal government. Under Barack nObama's leadership, race relations are in the tank, as The New York Times reports about 60% of Americans think race relations are generally poor — down from the two-thirds of Americans who thought race relations were good when nObama first entered office. Thanks nObama. So what's the solution? For the enlightened leftist Nutmeggers, the first step is erasing their party's history and denying that their intellectual forbearers had anything to do with where the country is today.   -The Patriot Post 
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 Pantsuit on Fire — Hilly’s Busted, but Is She Caught? 
Could it be? Could the downfall of the Clinton Crime Family, a political machine that makes Boss Tweed’s Tammany Hall corruption of the late 19th century look like a middle school 4-H club, finally be near?
          “I did not email any classified material to anyone on my email,” Hilly Clinton said of her secret servers in March. “There is no classified material. So I’m certainly well aware of the classification requirements and did not send classified material.”
          But last week, I. Charles McCullough, inspector general of the intelligence community, contacted the FBI about a "potential compromise of classified information" through Clinton's email. The IG found four instances where Clinton handled information labeled “secret" — classified information that he noted should "never have been transmitted via an unclassified personal system." And that was out of a sample size of just 40 emails. Imagine what he'll find in the rest of the 30,000 emails she didn't already destroy.
          In March, the nation discovered that Clinton used a personally owned email server housed in her New York residence to conduct official business on behalf of the State Department. At long last, after five months of curtailed information and growing controversy, it appears Hilly and Bill’s habits of disregarding the law might catch up with them. At least we hope so.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Stunning and credible theory on the secret Iranian nuclear side deals  
{Doug Ross} ~ hanoi John Kerry is lying when he claims he doesn’t know what is in the Iranian side deals. He would rather pretend ignorance than admit their contents... No one calls the ruling class on their lies. With a dysfunctional media — that is now fully intertwined with the government — the American people are left bereft of real news and thoughtful analysis. We live in an alternate reality. Nothing is real, except their lies and only their lies. Lies are now the truth.
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 Top Clinton Fundraiser: Hilly Should Release Server  
{Michael Warren} ~ A former nObama administration official says Hilly Clinton should release her private email server to the public... Steven Rattner, the "auto czar" during the first months of Barack nObama's presidency, said on MSNBC's Morning Joe Monday that Clinton, a Democratic candidate for president, should allow others to access the server she kept in her New York home while serving as secretary of state. Questions have been raised about whether any classified or sensitive information ran through her relatively unsecure server, and two inspectors general have made a criminal inquiry to the Justice Department in order to seek a federal investigation. "Personally, I think she should basically say, 'Yeah, at this point, I have no secrets, you can look at the server, you can see what's there, I'll help you the best I can,'" Rattner replied.
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 nObama presents a false dichotomy on Iran  
{Frederick W. Kagan} ~ President nObama and his supporters have done a terrific job of framing the debate over the Iran nuclear agreement as a choice between taking the deal or opting for war... They continually challenge critics to articulate an alternative to the deal, claiming that there isn’t one. This is a superb debating technique, and it has put critics on the defensive. But it is a false dichotomy. The choice might conceivably be between a deal and war, although that is by no means certain — the Cold War, after all, ended with neither a deal nor war. But the choice at hand is between accepting this deal now or continuing to press and negotiate for a better deal later. Many critics of this particular agreement, including me, believe that it would be far preferable to sign a good deal with Iran than to go to war with Iran — but also believe that this is a very bad deal indeed.       http://www.aei.org/publication/obama-presents-a-false-dichotomy-on-iran/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=072715
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 LIMBAUGH MYSTIFIED: REPUBLICAN BEHAVIOR 'TOO WEIRD'  
{Joe Kovacs} ~ Rush Limbaugh, the top media voice for political conservatives, says recent behavior by Republican leadership is “too weird,” and he cannot explain why the GOP is refusing to oppose Democrats while at the same time targeting its own base... “We are all inundated by each other, every day, with e-mails, phone calls, texts, what have you, of utter incredulity over what’s happened to the Republican Party. It’s just too weird, folks,” Limbaugh said on his national broadcast Monday. “There just isn’t any serious opposition to anything that the Democrat Party wants.” “They’re not even going through the motions,” he complained. “They’re not even voicing phony opposition to Obama in order to placate the base. They’re actively targeting their own base. This is just too weird!”       http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/limbaugh-mystified-republican-behavior-too-weird/
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 Taxpayer-Funded Louisiana Co-Op Under nObamacare Has Collapsed 
{Melissa Quinn} ~ Just two years after nObamacare’s implementation, a Louisiana nonprofit insurer that received nearly $66 million in taxpayer-funded loans is closing its doors... On Friday, the Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that the state’s consumer operated and oriented plan, or co-op, would be discontinuing its operations at the end of 2015. Louisiana’s is the second co-op created under to nObamacare to close. According to the Department of Insurance, the Louisiana Health Cooperative will not be offering plans to consumers next year, but will continue its coverage of the 17,000 Louisiana consumers who are currently receiving health insurance through the co-op.        http://dailysignal.com/2015/07/27/the-taxpayer-funded-louisiana-co-op-created-under-obamacare-has-collapsed/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRohu6%2FKZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ATMNjPa%2BTFAwTG5toziV8R7jHKM1t0sEQWBHm
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 McCon-nell and dinky Reid may have just set a 51-vote threshold...  
{Timonthy P. Carney} ~ Next week, Senate Republicans could pass nObamacare repeal with a simple 51-vote majority as part of the long-term highway bill, according to Sen. Mike Lee... The Utah Republican laid out the argument in a press release after party leaders set the sequencing of votes: "The first nObamacare vote on Sunday will have a 60 vote threshold, and Democrats will likely block it," Lee continued. "But thanks to the sequencing of the votes we just locked in, Republicans will have the opportunity resurrect that nObamacare amendment later on in the process, and put it back before the Senate in a manner that only requires a simple-majority vote."         http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/mcconnell-and-reid-may-have-just-set-a-51-vote-threshold-for-passing-obamacare-repeal/article/2568935?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI%20-%2007/25/15&utm_medium=email
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 What Iran Just Announced Proves They’re Planning for War...  
{Lt. Col. Allen West} ~ The fallout from President nObama’s ill-conceived agreement with Iran has begun... Over the weekend, the Ayatollah Khamenei sent a tweet showing nObama in silhouette with a gun to his head. The text was a blatant threat to the United States that it will be defeated if it engages Iran in combat. It’s clear the Iranian regime feels it has the high ground – especially while nObama was in Kenya being rebuffed for trying to lecture the Kenyan president about gay rights. For all intents and purposes, the international sanctions are over, and new markets will be flocking to Iran—especially oil markets. This means not only hundreds of billions of unfrozen assets for Iran, but also new revenue which will flow to the world’s largest sponsor of Islamic terrorism. And this while our Congress holds hearings and goes on recess in August, kinda like a particularly bad episode of “As the World Turns.” Our Congress, who must achieve supermajority levels of 67 senators and 291 representatives to avoid nObama’s promised veto, has pretty much been relegated to irrelevance due to nObama’s end-around actions with the UN. Even if they can achieve the votes to sink the Iranian agreement, America will only have the ability to levy its own sanctions against Iran. Way to go, you idiot.
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 Iran: Nuke Deal Permits Cheating on Arms, Missiles  
{Adam Kredo} ~ Iran’s foreign minister and lead negotiator in nuclear talks said that under the terms of the recently inked accord, the Islamic Republic is permitted to violate current embargoes on the shipment of arms and construction of missiles... according to recent comments made before Iran’s parliament. Zarif, who spoke to the country’s parliament about the terms of the nuclear deal, also bragged that the finalization of the accord “puts the Zionist Regime in an irrecoverable danger,” according to an independent translation of his Persian language remarks provided to the Washington Free Beacon. Zarif insisted that “violating the arms and missiles embargo” placed on Iran by the United Nations “does not violate the nuclear agreement.” This is no deal, its a giveaway.
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 The nObamacare Exchanges are Complete Failures  
{Mark Horne} ~ So if the nObamacare exchanges don’t work, why does anyone trust the government to deliver healthcare?... This blog reported on the failure of the nObamacare exchanges back in May. The situation is only getting worse. Now, the Associated Press has even admitted to it: “State nObamacare Exchanges Struggling With High Costs and Disappointing Enrollment.” So if the government is so wise and competent, how could they get it so wrong? They promised us it would all work and that we would be much better off with the state exchanges.       http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/07/the-obamacare-exchanges-are-complete-failures/
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 nObama's Gamble with Iran's Theocratic Regime 
{Robert D. Onley} ~ As President nObama and Secretary hanoi Kerry dominated the airwaves with rounds of media interviews to defend the Iran deal last week, German Vice Chancellor and Economic Minister Sigmar Gabriel flew straight to Tehran... for the first of what are certain to be countless meetings by P5+1 leaders to capitalize on new business opportunities in Iran. In Europe, it seems, there is no debate to be had over the Iran deal; rather, it is a fait accompli. But in the United States, the domestic debate is heating up, fueled by a Presidential primary campaign and increasingly justified bipartisan anxiety over the bill. Independent of these political realities, however, the immediacy and tenacity of the White House's defense of the Iran deal (which now has its own @TheIranDeal Twitter account, no less), betrays an acute unspoken discomfort by many Democrats with the practical flaws and global security dangers that the deal presents.
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Israel's 'Nasty' Habit of Bombing 
Nuke Programs Out Of Existence And Saving The World
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     {yidwithlid.blogspot.com} ~ It's true, Israel has this "nasty" habit of preventing Nuclear War, or at the very least preventing tyrants from having the opportunity of using nuclear weapons against the United States or their own people. They bombed Iraq's program in 1981 and Syria's in 2007. And if they have to they will do it again.
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     In 1981 the tiny nation of Israel executed a military plan which was roundly criticized across the world (including the United States). It was only with the hindsight of history that we can now say that Menachem Begin's decision to bomb an Iraqi nuclear reactor may have saved the world from a Sadaam Hussein with nuclear weapons. 
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     Eight years ago we were told that SOMETHING happened in the Syrian desert. Israel was silent and Syria told a tale which changed more often than the IRS changes it's tune about the tea party targeting scandal.  First they said that the IAF dropped a fuel tank in the Syrian desert, then they bombed a strategic location, then they bombed a warehouse, then Syria said that there was NO Raid,  blamed the US for the attacks, and they finally said the IDF bombed nothing important, just a construction site. It turned out to be a nuclear reactor.
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To do justice to both stories, we will break them up into two posts. Today Iraq
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     In the late 1970s, Iraq purchased an "Osiris class" nuclear reactor from France (some things never change). Israeli military intelligence assumed this was for the purpose of plutonium production to further an Iraqi nuclear weapons program. Israeli intelligence also believed that the summer of 1981 would be the last chance to destroy the reactor without exposing the Iraqi civilian population to nuclear fallout. After that point, the reactor would be loaded with nuclear fuel.
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     Just like Iran today, Iraq protested that its interest in nuclear energy was peaceful, at the time Iraq was a signatory to the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT), placing its reactors under International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) safeguards. Some experts remained unconvinced that the IAEA monitoring program was sufficient to guarantee that weapon research was not being conducted. They also claimed that an Osiris class reactor was not particularly useful to countries which have no established reactor programs, but that it was capable of producing plutonium. 
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     Israel first pursued a diplomatic solution to the situation. The villain of the Temple Mount and Israel's foreign minister Moshe Dayan went to the United States for help. However, Israel failed to obtain assurances that the reactor program would be halted. In meetings with the Defense Secretary Casper Weinberger and Secretary of State Alexander Haig, there was agreement about the Israeli assessment regarding the Iraqi nuclear threat. American representatives even verified Israeli assessments that Iraq was working to reach nuclear capability and would exploit the ability to influence and destroy Israel. Despite the American consensus, the Americans refused to act, perhaps because they did not truly grasp the danger, or because they did not want to upset Iraq, then fighting America’s enemy, Iran.
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Yitzchak Shamir, negotiated with French presidents Valery Giscard-D’Estaing and his successor François Mitterand. The French proved intransigent, looking out for their own economic interests as Iraq was by far their top customer for military hardware. The payments to France came mostly in the form of oil. According to Shamir, French Minister for Foreign Affairs Claude Cheysson told him that there were only two major Arab powers: Iraq and the PLO. Despite Shamir’s personal affinity toward the French, as they had sheltered him while he was a member of the pre-state uprising against the British occupation of Israel, he was extremely disappointed when he realized that France was unwilling to cooperate and prevent Saddam Hussein’s Iraq from becoming a nuclear state, despite urgent and emotional pleas by the Israelis that Iraq was preparing a nuclear holocaust against Israel and the Jewish people. (source Yitzhak Shamir, “The Failure of Diplomacy,” Israel’s Strike Against the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor 7 June, 1981, Jerusalem: Menachem Begin Heritage Center: 2003, 13-14.)
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    Just like today with Iran there were political considerations, but this time the politics were in Israel:
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According to Moshe Nissim, it was the need to contend with the danger of an atom bomb in the hands of a dangerous and irresponsible Arab ruler who would not hesitate to use it against Israel that convinced Begin of the urgency and necessity to destroy the Iraqi reactor. In addition, Begin knew the Likud had a chance of losing the upcoming elections. If Labor, led by Shimon Peres, came into power, Begin feared the plans to prevent Iraq from obtaining a nuclear arsenal would be shelved. Begin, however, was not about to let Israel’s security be weakened due to election consideration (Moshe Nissim, “Leadership and Daring in the Destruction of the Israeli Reactor,” Israel’s Strike Against the Iraqi Nuclear Reactor 7 June, 1981, Jerusalem: Menachem Begin Heritage Center: 2003, 21)
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As the IDF reported it:
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     4 pm, the evening before the Shavout holiday, 1981, orders were given to begin operations. At 5:35.a squadron of IAF F-16 fighter aircraft flew over Iraqi skies and dropped a number of bombs. The nuclear reactor was completely destroyed. Mission accomplished. One after another, the pilots shouted the code word "Alpha" into their radios, signaling their success. Zev Raz, Amus Yadlin, Chagi katz, Amir Nahumi, Yiftach Spector, Yisraeli Shapir, and Ilan Ramon- changed history, erasing the nuclear threat of the enemy.
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     Iraq established a nuclear program in the 60's and with the cooperation of the USSR built a nuclear reactor ten km's southeast of Baghdad. 16 years later, Iraq began to broaden their nuclear programs and were supported by France who provided them with a nuclear reactor. The reactor consisted of two buildings, the "Tamuz" 1- the first reactor that produced uranium, and the "Tamuz" 2. The Israeli government convened to discuss the growing nuclear threat in that region. Israel was doubtful about Iraq's claims that the nuclear program was for the benefit of its citizens. Their doubt increased when the IDF Intelligence Branch published intelligence reports that Iraq's operations posed a real threat to Israel's very existence- and Israel was forced to draw up plans to destroy the reactor.
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     On the 14th of May,  Prime Minister  Menachem Begin, authorized the bombing of the nuclear reactor. Ezer Wiezmen, the then Defense Minister, opposed the operation and resigned from the government two weeks later. 
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During a cabinet meeting the plan was formally authorized by Begin.
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     "A large clock is hanging over us, ticking. Iraq's intent to produce nuclear weapons poses a great danger to every man woman and child in the state of Israel", the prime minister remarked. 
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     The plan was kept in complete secrecy. From the get-go it was understood that the most effective way to implement a successful mission would be one conducted by the Israeli Air Force. It was decided that the operations would be done by F-16 fighter aircrafts that the IAF had received the year before. An Israeli Air Force squadron of 8 F-16's heavily armed, as well as a number of F-15's providing air cover and fighter support would implement the mission. One of the primary focuses during the planning stage was which direction the planes would fly. (11,000 km each way), over hostile territory and with a limited supply of fuel dictated the flight path. The plan was set for the seventh of July, zero hour-30 minutes before sunset.
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"We flew over the Tigris river, looking down we saw the nuclear reactor. Our target lay before us clear as day." .
     The pilots that participated in the mission were selected for their impeccable flight records and were trained in secret and requested to implement the operations with no second thoughts. In the afternoon hours of the 6th of June, the plan was set in motion. All the members of F-16 squadron were called up for duty. On the morning of June 7th, 1981 8 F-16 fighter aircraft left Israeli airspace heading west towards the Tigris River, next to Baghdad. The flight to Iraq took upwards to an hour. Radio transmission was silenced. The Iraqis were caught completely off guard. The Iraqi radar system was incapable of picking up on the impending danger.
.      Major General Amus Yaldun, one of the eight combat pilots that participated in the mission and now head of the IDF Intelligence Branch, related, during an interview with IAF journalists, about the famous flight. "Each aircraft flew with three full tanks of gas, two air to air missiles and two bombs each weighing one ton. We flew in two groups of four. The first group was led by Colonel (res.) Zev Raz, the "First Jet" squadron leader, and the second group was lead by Brigadier General (res.)Amir Nehomi, commander of the "Northern Knights". I was number two in the first quadroon. We headed south of the Jordon River, passing over the Saudi desert. We reached the Tigris River in a short amount of time.
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     The blast of the first bombs echoed in the distance. One of them hit the center of the reactors roof. Once the bombs were releases, I felt the impact of the explosions shaking my plane. This was the end of the Iraqi nuclear reactor "Tamuz" 1." The Israeli planes made a roundabout turn west, heading home. "The direction home was facing the sun as to prevent the enemy from following us. We received report of the second squadron's attack on the reactor.
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We felt great. A- Because of completing the mission and B- Because all of us, the whole squadron, had come home in peace."At the time, the attack was widely criticized. Israel responded that its actions were self-defensive and thus justifiable under Article 51 of the United Nations Charter. Critics rejected the idea of "pre-emptive self-defense". France, in particular (again no surprise), was outraged over the loss of a French national as a result of the attack, and since the raid diplomatic ties between France and Israel have remained strained. The United Nations Security Council passed Resolution 487, calling upon Israel "to place its nuclear facilities under IAEA safeguards", and stated that Iraq was "entitled to appropriate redress for the destruction it suffered". Israel has not complied with these requests. The United States supported the resolution condemning the Israeli action — not the country as other nations tried to do. Their course of action was to withhold a contingent of aircraft already promised to Israel
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     Files released by the British National Archives in 2011 show that Britain's ambassador to Washington, Sir Nicholas Henderson, was with US Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger as the news came of the bombing came in:
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"Weinberger says that he thinks Begin must have taken leave of his senses. He is much disturbed by the Israeli reaction and possible consequences," Sir Nicholas cabled London.
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Britain's ambassador in Baghdad, Sir Stephen Egerton, disclosed that the Iraqis had been just as surprised when the Israeli F15 fighters appeared in their skies.
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"The diplomatic corps had a ringside view of the belated ack-ack and missile reactions to the raid when we were gathered for the Italian national day reception on the Bund [waterside]," he wrote
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     Of course the UN General Assembly passed a resolution trashing Israel for saving herself.  
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     Over twenty years later when the world began to face a terrorist threat as never before the world began to realize the service performed by Israel, the IAF and Menachem Begin.
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     Just imagine a world with Iraq or, God Forbid, a terrorist with their hands on a nuclear weapon. If it wasn't for Menachem Begin, a Prime Minister with guts to give the orders to protect Israel, knowing (but not caring) that a world would absolutely freak, and the heroes of the IDF who flawlessly performed their mission, this scary world have happened already.For those who are still questioning PM Netanyhu's reaction to Barack nObama's P5+1 deal, remember what happened thirty-four years ago, and understand that Israel will do anything it takes, no matter what the world thinks, to defend herself. And if they do, eventually the world will say thank you. But it really doesn't matter.
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Wednesday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Immigrants? What Immigrants?
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 Clinton’s Warren moment -  WaPo: “…Clinton will voice a far-reaching critique of the financial sector in a speech Fridaya major victory for Wall Street's critics. The stock market, she will say, has become short-sighted, focused on measures of quarterly performance rather than the future viability of American corporations, according to aides. She'll describe worrisome consequences for investors, employees and the economy as a whole.”
          And she backs Planned Parenthood - NYT“[Clinton] called the video footage, which shows an official from the group discussing the price of providing fetal parts, the latest effort of a years-long “concerted attack” against “a woman’s right to choose.”  -Fox News 
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 Walker trashes Iran deal -  Sacramento Bee: “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker told a sympathetic crowd of state lawmakers from around the country Thursday that he would trash the nuclear deal with Iran on his first day as president, striking a combative tone on how he would govern on a range of domestic and foreign policy issues. Walker addressed the annual meeting of the American Legislative Exchange Council…”  -Fox News 
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 Is the Firearm Background Check System Broken? 
After last Thursday's Lafayette theater shooting, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal called on the nation to bolster background checks for anyone seeking to purchase a firearm. "I think every state should strengthen their laws," the Republican presidential candidate said. "Every state should make sure this information is being reported in the background system. We need to make sure that background system is working. Absolutely, in this instance, this man never should have been able to buy a gun." John Houser cleared his background check when he bought a .40-caliber High-Point handgun from an Alabama pawn shop. But this was after Houser was denied a concealed cary permit in 2006 after he was charged with domestic violence and soliciting arson. It was also after his family committed him involuntarily for psychiatric care in Georgia in 2008. Jindal continued, "In Louisiana, we toughened our laws a couple of years ago. If he had been involuntarily committed here, if he had tried to buy that gun here, he wouldn't have been allowed to do that." While Jindal used the inexact phrase "strengthen their laws," his view is similar to that of Nick Leghorn at The Truth About Guns blog, as both of them believe the current system is broken and must be fixed. Houser likely lied about his history of mental illness on ATF Form 4473, but that lie should have been caught. The system failed because of human error, like it did before the Charleston shooting -The Patriot Post   
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 DOJ Limits Inspectors General 
The Most Transparent Administration in History™ decided that "privacy" is more important than allowing the independent inspectors general to do their jobs. The Department of Justice's Office of Legal Council issued an opinion declaring the organizations within the federal government designed to ferret out waste, fraud and corruption must seek permission from the head of the agency before collecting "statutorily protected information," like grand jury or wiretap information. "In reaching these conclusions," the opinion read, "our Office's role has not been to decide what access [inspectors general] should receive as a matter of policy. Rather, we have endeavored to determine as a matter of law, using established tools of statutory construction, how best to reconcile the strong privacy protections … with the interest in access reflected in … the IG Act." There has been bipartisan condemnation from Congress regarding DOJ's decision, saying that the nObama administration has played verbal gymnastics over a statute that was intended to be plainly read. Think a cabinet member will be beholden more to the bureaucracy than an independent review? It already happened under Eric Holder's DOJ when the inspectors general tried to investigate the Fast and Furious gun walking scandal.   -The Patriot Post   
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 ARABS CONFRONT JEWS ON TEMPLE MOUNT 
{Aaron Klein} ~ The Arabs, described as mostly youth, engaged in violent clashes with Jerusalem Police, who used non-lethal means to push the rioters into the al-Aqsa Mosque to prevent what would have been a major attack on Jewish worshipers Sunday... The Arabs holed up overnight inside the al-Aqsa Mosque, where they set up barricades using shoe racks, iron rods, and ropes to prevent the police from entering. The plan was reportedly to attack Jewish worshipers Sunday as Jews worldwide celebrate the Jewish fast day of Tisha Báv, or the ninth day of the lunar Jewish month of Av. The day marks the anniversary of several major disasters in Jewish history, most notably the destruction of both the First and Second Jewish Temples in Jerusalem.
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 Hilly climate change goals include plan to ‘decarbonize’ America  
{S.A. Miller} ~ Democratic presidential front-runne Hilly Rodham Clinton entered the climate change debate Sunday, setting ambitious goals to “decarbonize” America and blasting her Republican rivals for ignoring scientists... who warn of a looming disaster from global warming. Mrs. Clinton promised that, if elected president, she would set two goals to fight climate change: increase the number of solar panels by more than 500 million across the country by the end of her first term and set a 10-year goal of generating enough renewable energy to power every single home in America. Mrs. Clinton’s goals served as her opening bid to satisfy the Democratic Party’s liberal base, which wants a more aggressive effort on climate change and environmentalism than President nObama has been able to muster. Here we go again, a 3rd term of nObama.     http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/26/hillary-clintons-climate-change-goals-include-plan/
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 Putin Threatens America with Nuclear Annihilation  
{Ciff Kincald} ~ The nation is fiercely debating the Iran nuclear deal and the significance of the Ayatollah’s “death to America” tweets when the real problem is Iran’s sponsor, Russia, and its lunatic ruler, Vladimir Putin... By controlling the media, killing off the opposition, and smearing Ukrainian freedom fighters as Nazis, the former KGB colonel has his country worked into a collective frenzy over a concocted Western threat. Some experts believe Russia is preparing for nuclear war on a global scale. If Putin carries out his threats, America is no more. In this case, the U.S. is facing not only a nuclear weapons program, which is the case with Iran, but what our top generals are calling an “existential threat” to our survival as a nation. As the National Institute for Public Policy documents in the report, “Foreign Nuclear Developments: A Gathering Storm,” Russia has a new military doctrine that anticipates using nuclear weapons, and the regime has embarked on “a massive strategic modernization program to deploy new nuclear weapons and delivery systems.” Not only that, but Russia has a ballistic missile defense to use against us.
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 Congress Must Hold nObama Accountable for His Deception On Iran  
{Andrew McCarthy} ~ By lying and withholding information about the agreement, he gives aid and comfort to America’s enemy... The president “must certainly be punishable for giving false information to the Senate.” One can imagine hearing such counsel from a contemporary United States senator on the receiving end of President nObama’s “full disclosure” of the nuclear deal with Iran. But the admonition actually came from James Iredell, a champion of the Constitution’s ratification, who was later appointed to the Supreme Court by President George Washington.       http://www.aim.org/guest-column/congress-must-hold-obama-accountable-for-his-deception-over-iran/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email072415&utm_medium=email
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 AG Loretta Lynch faces potential minefield with Hilly email  
{Pierre Thomas and Mike Levine} ~ The latest controversy over Hilly Clinton's use of a personal email system while secretary of state is not only a possible drag on her presidential campaign, but it also creates a potential headache for Attorney General Loretta Lynch... The inspectors general for the State Departmentand intelligence community on Friday disclosed that an internal review of Clinton's system concluded some emails contained classified information and that the inspectors general had sent a non-criminal "referral" to the Justice Department over the matter. Lynch and her department must now determine what to do next -- including whether to open a criminal investigation -- and whatever she decides will be under intense scrutiny, especially by Republicans on Capitol Hill.
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 Criminal Hilly’s Facade Of Legitimacy, Destroyed By Judge Pirro  
{rickwells.us} ~ A false and insulated persona that took Hilly Clinton years to establish and erect is taken apart in a little over four minutes by a very on-target Judge Jeanine Pirro... She begins by noting that Hilly Clinton can’t be trusted or believed so it’s ridiculous for anyone to “even think about voting for the woman.” She says, “There is no candidate in recent history for president or any other major office who has skirted the law, pushed the legal envelope or been under investigation as much as Hilly Rodham Clinton.” Judge Pirro points out that two Inspectors General notified Congress the day before regarding a ten percent positive finding for classified information in documents formerly housed on the Clinton basement server. She then plays a clip of Clinton asserting that “she was certainly aware of the classification requirements and that no such materials were part of her communications.
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 Traitor Mitch” McCon-nell Retreats Into His Shell On Abortion  
{rickwells.us} ~ McCon-nell gave a speech recently at the “Faith and Freedom Summit” in which he portrayed himself as the preeminent advocate for the unborn child, promising a vote on the Pain-Capable Unborn Child Protection Act... That bill, which passed the House, now resides in limbo in the Senate Judiciary Committee. As is typical with “Traitor Mitch,” the Senate Pimp only lines up his working girls when the big money comes calling. Everyday Americans and conservatives get a wink, a promise and a cold shoulder. McCon-nell had a chance to include an amendment to defund the human butcher and chop shop that is Planned Parenthood, eliminating the $500 million annual taxpayer contribution to their infanticide by simply attaching it to the highway bill. He decided dead babies aren’t so important to him after all and let that opportunity pass.        http://rickwells.us/post-turtle-traitor-mitch-mcconnell-retreats-into-his-shell-on-abortion-kates-law-but-just-five-weeks-ago/
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 Iran Just Hired a New Security Guard for Its Nuclear Program...  
{patriotsandpolitics.com} ~ In an era when American politicians advocate passing bills before citizens can find out what’s in them, comes the newest “stunning historic mistake”: nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran... While advocates for the deal spin and the media glosses over the details, at least one group has bothered to read the deal that was signed. IranTruth.org has found a couple of clauses buried deep inside the agreement that seem to suggest that the U.S. will be obligated to defend the security of Iran’s nuclear program from countries that may want to see it sabotaged (read: Israel). Annex III.D.10.1-2 of the nuclear deal reads as follows:        http://patriotsandpolitics.com/iran-just-hired-a-new-security-guard-for-its-nuclear-program-and-youll-never-guess-who-it-is/
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 How ISIS Makes Money From The Art Market  
{Abigail R. Esman} ~ Imagine: you are window-shopping on a quiet street, perhaps in London or Paris or New York. Something remarkable catches your eye: an ancient coin, a gold chain, a tiny figurine. Impulsively, you enter the shop... where the owner explains to you that the sculpture comes originally from Mesopotamia, that the necklace is Byzantine. It isn't inexpensive, but the shopkeeper has guaranteed its provenance and the price seems fair; and besides, you quite love it. You say yes, and leave the shop with your new treasure tucked safely in a bag. You may have just handed your money over to the Islamic State. According to antiquities experts and members of the Council on Foreign Relations, the plundering and sale of ancient artifacts from Syria and Iraq has become big business for the Islamic State (ISIS), contributing significantly, as the Guardian reports, to the income stream that has "made it the most cash-rich terror group in the world." Indeed, according to NBC News, "Antiquity plundering - particularly from violence-riddled Syria and Iraq - fuels a $7 billion black market, and some of that money lands in the pockets of terrorists."
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 Nuclear Iran: Is the U.S. Really Suicidal?  
{Bassam Tawil} ~ If the West had studied that important event in Islamic history, they would understand they were enabling Iran to achieve a nuclear bomb and accelerate the national religious war between us, the Arabs, and the Shi'ite Iranians... For Iran's mullahs, the showdown is meant to be apocalyptic. In that respect, the agreement signed by the American-led powers with Iran's rulers is a milestone along the path they have been praying for. The Ayatollahs' wish has long been finally to defeat the divided Arabs, currently at their weakest point since the beginning of the so-called Arab Spring, and then to move on to defeat Israel, and then grandest prize of all: the "Great Satan," the United States. The Shi'ite regime of the Ayatollahs in Iran and their proxies are united. And, since the fall of the Shah, they are, sadly, also radical. Between their terrorist wings and influence in the Middle East and abroad, the Ayatollahs are refreshingly open about their determination to defeat the Arabs and achieve religious and national hegemony. Iran's forcing itself on the rest of the world is a central part of Khomeini's Islamic Revolution. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6234/nuclear-iran-suicide
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Immigrants? What Immigrants?
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     {tommclaughlin.blogspot.com} ~ After reading Ann Coulter’s recently released “Adios America!” I’m conscious of how our mainstream media deal with crimes committed by immigrants, legal and illegal. While some crimes are reported on locally, the status of the perpetrators is ignored. Coulter gives example after example too numerous to mention here, of how immigrants commit heinous crimes all over the United States, but the word “immigrant” is always conspicuously absent when the perpetrators are described.
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     As my wife and I drove through Portland, Maine last week listening to WGAN on the radio, we heard about Jimmy Odong’s crime spree. The twenty-five-year-old man was arrested for a carjacking at gunpoint in Portland and the armed robbery of a bank in nearby Freeport the same day. He’s also the chief suspect in another robbery earlier that day. Last February, Odong was arrested for aggravated assault in a Portland domestic incident.
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     “I’m glad that guy is off the streets,” my wife said as we passed neighborhoods in which some of those crimes occurred.
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     “Yeah, right,” she said. The broadcast never mentioned that Jimmy Odong was an immigrant from Sudan.
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     The next day, I was reading the Portland Press Herald, a leftist paper next to which the Boston Globe appears moderate. In it was a picture of Jimmy Odong in police custody. It turns out that long before his most recent crime spree, Odong was well-known to police. In 2009, he was arrested after he “led police on a two-mile car chase through the city’s Bayside neighborhood and downtown Portland. During the chase, Odong crashed into several parked cars and struck a building. After abandoning his car, Odong fled before he was captured in Congress Square. He was charged with reckless conduct with a dangerous weapon, eluding an officer, operating under the influence, operating without a license and four counts of leaving the scene of an accident.” Nowhere in the story did it mention that Odong was an immigrant. WGME and WCSH covered the story too, but neither of those TV stations mentioned it either.
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     Odong had been in trouble only a week before that 2009 incident when police arrested him for stealing two bottles of vodka from the Hannaford store on Forest Avenue. He resisted and nearly started a riot when a group of young black men surrounded police and shouted: “Killers!” and “Murderers!” Just week before that, police shot a young black immigrant, also from Sudan who had pulled a gun on them. The media identified him as an immigrant only because he could be portrayed as a victim and not a perpetrator. That’s how it is with our mainstream media: if the story is likely to stir up sympathy, mention “immigrant.” If the story is negative, leave it out.
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     We hear much about American white guys being accused of rape — even when the stories are false. Consider Tawana Brawley, Duke Lacrosse, and the University of Virginia cases alone. Our mainstream media were breathless in their coverage although none had any basis in fact. Why? Because the alleged perpetrators were American white guys. They ignore thousands of genuine sexual assaults by illegal immigrants however, and when they do report, they leave out information about race or immigration status.
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     Those of us who don’t limit our information-gathering to mainstream sources know America is experiencing an illegal alien crime wave. In “Adios America!” Coulter reports that fully one quarter of the entire population of Mexico has crossed the border into the United States, illegally in most cases, as well as one fifth of the population of El Salvador. Brietbart.com reports that illegals accounted for 37% of all federal prison sentences in the United States in 2014! Manhattan Institute scholar Heather MacDonald has documented that: “In Los Angeles, 95 percent of all outstanding warrants for homicide (which total 1,200 to 1,500) target illegal aliens.” In 1980, President Carter told Fidel Castro that he could send any Cubans here who wanted to come, so Castro emptied his jails and mental hospitals in the infamous Mariel Boat Lift. Looks like Mexico is taking a cue from Cuba, because we’re certainly not getting the cream of the Mexican crop.
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     Maine became a sanctuary state when Democrat Governor John Baldacci issued an executive order forbidding state employees from inquiring about the immigration status of anyone, anytime, whether applying for benefits or being stopped by police. The result? Thousands of illegal aliens poured into our tiny state, many going on welfare in violation of federal law. Republican Governor Paul LePage is only now turning off the welfare spigot. In 2011, the Center For Immigration Studies reported that, nationally, 57% of legal and illegal immigrants used at least one form of welfare.
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     Coulter contends our media grossly underreport the number of illegal aliens living here. She says there are at least 30 million, most of them on welfare. If this continues, Coulter makes a good case that it’s adios to America as we know it.
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Tuesday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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"Liberalism is a Narcotic"
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"Rise up together as one voice"
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 Secret Side Deals Erode Iran Nuke Accord 
Forget Iran. The least trustworthy party in the Iranian nuke deal may well be the nObama administration. Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) and Rep. Mike Pompeo (R-KS) called on the administration to disclose the whole Iran deal to Congress — even the two secret side deals that could completely discredit the larger nuclear deal. The first deal was between Iran and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and it involved how the two will resolve some military aspects of Iran's nuclear program. The second deal lays out how the IAEA will inspect the Parchin military complex — a shadowy military base where Iran may test ballistic missile technology. Unbelievably, Iran will collect its own soil samples at that and other facilities.
          With such provisions missing from the larger agreement, Congress cannot fully review it. Furthermore, the bipartisan Iran Nuclear Agreement Review Act required the nObama administration to disclose all the documents and side deals. "The failure to disclose the content of these side agreements begs the question, 'What is the nObama administration hiding?'" Pompeo said, "Even members of Congress who are sympathetic to this deal cannot and must not accept a deal we aren't even aware of." nObama adviser Susan Rice admitted the deals do exist, and said that the nObama administration would brief Congress in classified hearings. But even head U.S. negotiator hanoi John Kerry might not know what's in the side deals. It appears that the least transparent administration in history is also the least competent.  -The Patriot Post
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 nObama's Legacy Will Be Undoing Clinton's  
When comparing the presidency of Bill Clinton with that of Barack nObama, it's clear just how far left Democrats have gone in 20 years. Not only that, but it seems nObama's primary legacy will be to undo that of his Democrat predecessor.
          Just one day after nObama delivered a speech before the NAACP in Philadelphia to declare criminal justice reform, Clinton took the stage to admit that his prison reform policies actually made things worse.
          “I signed a bill that made the problem worse, and I want to admit it," Clinton confessed. "In that bill, there were longer sentences. And most of these people are in prison under state law, but the federal law set a trend. ... And that was overdone. We were wrong about that. ... The good news is we had the biggest drop in crime in history. The bad news is we had a lot of people who were locked up, who were minor actors, for way too long."
          nObama is now poised to fix undo Clinton's policy by pushing for prison reform, which both conservatives and liberals agree needs to be addressed. Clinton's approach was viewed as tough on crime, and crime did decline. nObama's approach is essentially to go the other direction — to focus on the community, the courtroom and the cell block by spending money on pre-kindergarten education, reducing or eliminating mandatory minimum sentencing and allowing convicted felons the right to vote. Perhaps nObama recognizes that Hilly needs all the help she can get.
          But the legacy rewrite is more than just prison reform.   -The Patriot Post
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 TROUBLED TIMES FOR HILLY  Today’s revelation of a potential criminal probe into Hilly Clinton’s email account is capping off a tough week for the Democratic frontrunner. A swing state poll on Tuesday shows her trailing top Republican rivals, she’s been scrapping with her base over breaking up big banks and she’s had to staunch earlier self-inflicted wounds with Black voters. And while Clinton has her sights set today on a Wall Street, her use of a personal email account as secretary of state ‘for convenience’ has proven anything but convenient to her presidential bid.   
          Government watchdogs seek criminal investigation- NYT:“Two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hilly Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday. The request follows an assessment in a June 29 memo by the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Mrs. Clinton’s private account contained ‘hundreds of potentially classified emails.’”
            Fox News“Clinton has repeatedly denied sending or receiving any classified information on her personal account….However, the inspectors general wrote in a second memorandum last week that at least one of Clinton’s emails that had been made public by the State Department contained sensitive information…. 
         Clinton presidential campaign spokesman Nick Merrill issued a statement early Friday denying that Clinton had handled classified materials inappropriately. ‘As has been reported on multiple occasions, any released emails deemed classified by the [nObama] administration have been done so after the fact, and not at the time they were transmitted,’ Merrill said.” The statement tiptoes around the question: SHOULD some of the emails have been deemed classified when Clinton transmitted them?
          Senior official told NYT the Justice Department has not decided if it will open an investigation.
          [In New York, Clinton delivers a speech on corporate responsibility and how to encourage long-term thinking and discourage what she calls “quarterly capitalism.”]  -Fox News  
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 U.S. officials dissing Cuba's dissidents  
{Daniel Allott} ~ Until recently, American politicians visiting Cuba would regularly stop off to meet with members of the island nation's dissident community, as a gesture of respect and solidarity... According to an Associated Press report Thursday, in the seven months since the relationship between the United States and Cuba began to thaw, "American politicians have flooded Havana to see the sights, meet the country's new entrepreneurs and discuss the possible end of the U.S. trade embargo with leaders of the communist government." But of the more than 20 U.S. lawmakers who have visited Cuba since February, not one has visited with Cuba's dissident community. This is in part because Cuban officials have made dissing the dissidents, many of whom have spent years or decades in prisons for nonviolently advocating for democracy, a condition for obtaining access to high-ranking Cuban officials.
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 Are We Doomed For More Terror Attacks?  
{Robert Chambers} ~ Between legal immigration, the resettlement of Middle East refugees, illegal immigrants from Islamic countries, the president’s amnesty policy and a sheer lack of resources... the FBI admitted this week that it can’t screen all of the Muslims moving into the country and can’t determine which ones might represent terrorist threats. The admission comes at a time when the FBI failed to stop the terror attack on two military facilities in Chattanooga, Tennessee that killed five U.S. servicemen exposing yet another threat that have stretched FBI resources to the breaking point – home grown terror by self-radicalized lone wolf gunmen. More blunt, are national security experts who say the situation is reaching a boiling point because of President Barack nObama’s immigration policies and the unwillingness of his U.S. Justice Department to re task funds or increase the FBI budget for national security screening efforts.
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 How Much CO2 Is Really In Our Atmosphere?  
{rickwells.us} ~ The author of the book “Climategate,” Brian Sussman, is a well known media personality and meteorologist in San Francisco, who got fed up with the lies and propaganda being spewed by the UN climate alarmists... He’s written a couple of excellent books detailing much, but far from all, of the agenda-driven falsehoods and the corruption that permeate their claims and their dishonest movement. Carbon dioxide, particularly the man-generated variety, is portrayed as an evil villain in their assault on our freedom, in spite of its beneficial and life-giving role and properties. The perception among the uninformed public is that this invisible and beneficial gas is collecting in amounts so excessive that the entire planet is at risk. That’s exactly the perception they hope to create in order to manipulate the people of the world, one which is a deliberate and patently false distortion of the truth. The reality is rather remarkable when taken in contrast with the false misperception that has been created. The amount of man-created CO2 is miniscule, virtually non-existent, when taken in the context of all greenhouse gases and the atmosphere as a whole.       http://rickwells.us/how-much-co2-is-really-in-our-atmosphere-the-epitome-of-much-ado-and-national-suicide-about-nothing/
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 nObama Honors Agitator Illegal Aliens Taking American Jobs  
{rickwells.us} ~ In what can best be described as more of the distorted blurring of truth with fiction, legality with illegality and subversion and treachery against the American people with humanitarian service, Hussein nObama is once again... proudly trotting out one of his illegal programs while simultaneously portraying his lawbreaking as a just, humanitarian act. On Friday nObama opened the doors of the White House to nine illegal alien teachers, honoring them as “Champions of Change,” whatever that means. Changing from a legal society which includes Caucasians to an illegal one that does not, it appears. If it weren’t for the facts that they aren’t Americans and that there is nothing particularly extraordinary about them outside of their penchant for inciting civil unrest that might be a true statement. Truth doesn’t matter, it’s a lie intended to convince the public that illegal foreigners have just as much right to be in America as citizens do.
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 hanoi Kerry Pressures Congress: Israel 'Isolated And More Blamed'   
{rickwells.us} ~ hanoi John Kerry is making his sales pitch at shadow government headquarters, the Council on Foreign Relations. He makes a reference to the Iranian leadership as wanting to have a “different relationship” in the region, inferring that different automatically equates with better... That’s a premise that can be immediately proven false simply by recalling the last six and a half years of change and nObama malfeasance in America. An Iranian driven Middle East nuclear arms race would be different, surrendering the Middle East or an Arab cold war would definitely be something new, and it would all be a creation of Hussein nObama, hanoi John Kerry and their comrades in international chaos. He attempts to place the responsibility for any future fallout should the Congress not tuck their tails and lick hanoi Kerry’s bloody hand on others, in typical nObama regime fashion. His message to Congress and the American peasants is clear; either accept the unconstitutional, illegal deal that we made unilaterally with the Iranians and international co-conspirators or be blamed for any and all of the inevitable consequences they’ve set us all up for.
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 nObama admin restricts investigative powers of inspectors general  
{Kelly Riddell} ~ The nObama administration formally announced that inspectors general will have to get permission from their agency heads to gain access to grand jury, wiretap and fair credit information... an action that severely limits the watchdogs’ oversight capabilities, independence and power to uncover fraud. “I strongly disagree with the OLC opinion,” Michael Horowitz, the Justice Department’s inspector general, said in a statement. “Congress meant what it said when it authorized Inspectors General to independently access ‘all’ documents necessary to conduct effective oversight. Without such access, our Office’s ability to conduct its work will be significantly impaired, and it will be more difficult for us to detect and deter waste, fraud, and abuse, and to protect taxpayer dollars.”       http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jul/23/obama-restricts-investigative-powers-inspectors-ge/
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 Proof Hilly doomed Stevens with 'classified' emails?  
{Aaron Klein} ~ In light of the report, it is instructive to recall that communications from Clinton’s personal email account made public in May by the State Department contained sensitive information regarding the U.S. diplomatic outpost in Benghazi, as first reported by WND... Some of the Benghazi correspondence in question, while not officially designated as classified, betrayed the whereabouts of U.S. Ambassador Chris Stevens while he was stationed in arguably one of the most dangerous zones in the world for any American diplomat. On Friday, the Times reported the inspectors general of the State Department and the nation’s intelligence agencies stated unequivocally that the secretive information contained in the emails should not have gone through Clinton’s personal server or beyond secure government computers.
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 Steinitz Slams hanoi Kerry: No One Has Authority to Threaten Israel  
{Cynthia Blank} ~ Energy and Water Minister Yuval Steinitz (Likud) slammed US Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry on Sunday for suggesting Israel would be blamed if Congress blocked the nuclear agreement with Iran... "The State of Israel will speaks about its view on the Iranian nuclear issue, as related to its security and existence. No one has the authority to threaten it," Steinitz, the Jewish state's point person on Iran, charged. According to Steinitz, arguments against the agreement stem from objective concerns, which are not exclusively felt by Israel. "Criticism of the agreement in the United States in general, and Congress in particular, is due to to the serious flaws and loopholes found it it, transforming the so-called 'tight and intrusive' agreement into a farce."
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 Turkey Uses ISIS as Excuse to Attack Kurds  
{Uzay Bulut} ~Turkey's government seems to be waging a new war against the Kurds, now struggling to get an internationally recognized political status in Syrian Kurdistan... On July 24, Turkish media sources reported that Turkish jet fighters bombed Kurdish PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) bases in Qandil, in Iraqi Kurdistan, as well as the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria. Turkey is evidently unsettled by the rapprochement the PKK seems to be establishing with the U.S. and Europe. Possibly alarmed by the PKK's victories against ISIS, as well as its strengthening international standing, Ankara, in addition to targeting ISIS positions in Syria, has been bombing the PKK positions in the Qandil mountains of Iraqi Kurdistan, where the PKK headquarters are located. There is no ISIS in Qandil.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6223/turkey-isis-kurds
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 nOBAMA approves of Turkey’s attacks on the Kurds  
{gopthedailydose.com} ~ The Kurds have always been a strong American ally and have singly been the most effective fighting force on the ground against the Islamic State (ISIS)... But apparently, Barack nObama has just stabbed the Kurds in the back after Turkey pretends to join the fight against ISIS in order to attack the Kurds. Turkey has now reopened its war on the PKK Kurds in Turkey, Iraq and in Syria. Turkish police rounded up hundreds of Kurdish activists in Turkey and tonight dozens of Turkish fighter planes attacked PKK positions in Syria and Iraq. As the conduit for weapons and supplies to ISIS, Turkey had been reluctant to join the U.S.-led coalition against the Islamic State terror group despite gain made by the group on Turkey’s doorstep. Now, Turkish warplanes are directly striking ISIS locations, which started Saturday in Syria and continued with a bombing run against Kurds in northern Iraq. This proves without a shadow of doubt that nObama is a traitor and is willing to help out terrorist.        http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/07/26/barack-hussein-obama-approves-of-turkeys-attacks-on-the-kurds/
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"Liberalism is a Narcotic"
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     {burtprelutsky.com} ~ Karl Marx was convinced that religion was the opium of the masses. That, no doubt, was the reason he decided to make a religion of his screwy economic theory. Surely it must have occurred to him that if people were willing to accept improbable miracles on faith, they might also be convinced that economic policies that fly in the face of reality and human nature could also gain a foothold.
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     And he was right, in spite of the fact that his notions have failed time and again all around the world, inevitably ending in the tyranny by the few and the enslavement of the many.
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     Nothing, we’ve been told, succeeds like success. But as socialists and communists have shown for the past century, thanks to the terminally gullible, occasionally nothing succeeds like failure.
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♦ Today, in the greatest irony of all, you have major religions following the tenets of Marx while simultaneously ignoring those of Christ. You have a Catholic pope parroting left-wing propaganda and showing far more concern about global warming than about Christians being burned, crucified and beheaded, by Muslims.
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     At the same time, you have Protestant church leaders siding with terrorist groups and calling for the divestment of investments in Israel, in spite of the fact that most American Protestants support the Jewish state and understand that Israel would like nothing better than to live in peace with its neighbors, if only those neighbors would stop trying to exterminate them.
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     Here in the U.S., we have seen the Boy Scouts, Catholic adoption agencies, along with Christian bakers, florists and photographers, all come under attack because they have, to some extent, not accepted sodomy as a norm.
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     We are all told to shape up and accept homosexuality on its own terms because, as five members of the Supreme Court pretty much stated in its majority decision, these people are simply in wuv. The decision I’m anxiously awaiting is the one they will inevitably be called upon to adjudicate, the one involving consenting bigamists and polygamists. I would think that so long as all the petitioners were consenting adults, Anthony Kennedy, for one, would have a very tough time explaining why twenty people should be denied the same right as two people to express their wuv by exchanging wedding vows.
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♦ Speaking of the Supreme Court, whatever your politics or personal beliefs, you have to admit that the Democrats are experts when it comes to seating justices who will see things their way. Republicans, on the other hand, seem content to pull names out of a hat.
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     If you doubt it, consider that between them, Clinton and nObama have appointed Breyer, Ginsburg, Kagan and Sotomayor. No surprises there. Each of them has voted exactly the way dinky Harry Reid, Nancy Pulosi, Chuck Schumer and Hilly Clinton, would if they were on the Court.
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     On the other hand, between them, Reagan and the two Bushes placed seven justices, including one Chief Justice, on the high court. Although they got it right with Scalia, Thomas and Alito, it might as well have been nObama who paved the way for Kennedy, O’Connor, Souter and Roberts, to wear bathrobes to work.
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     One surprising fact I recently discovered about the current Court is that in spite of the fact that fewer than one in four Americans is Catholic or Jewish, all nine justices are either one or the other.
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♦ When I recently suggested that after all their recent computer hacking, the least that China could do was let us know what was on Hilly Clinton’s private server, a couple of readers decided I was being serious. I guess with some people, you have to add a “ha-ha” at the end of a sentence before they know you’re joking.
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     In both cases, they let me know that China would never hand over any damaging email. Instead, they would use it to blackmail Mrs. Clinton. I looked in vain for the “ha-ha,” so I decided they were serious. But the notion of blackmailing Mrs. Clinton strikes me as funnier than my line about the Chinese.
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     After all, we already know what she did and said in connection to Benghazi; we know she used a private server in violation of law and ethics; and that she and Bill were pocketing millions in bribes while she was Secretary of State. In spite of all that, seventy million Democrats are dying to vote for her in 2016. Does anyone really believe that anything the Chinese could disclose, including the alleged affair she’s long been rumored to be carrying on with Huma Abedin, vice-chairwoman of Hilly’s presidential campaign, could cool their ardor? After all, Bill Clinton was elected twice, and tales of his sexual misconduct were more than rumors.
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♦ It’s not just the sorry state of politics that makes our society such an embarrassment. Millions of unmarried women give birth, and they’re celebrated. Moreover, the boy friends get to brag about it with no fear of financial or legal consequences. Actors, actresses, singers and athletes, go on TV and boast of their addictions to booze, drugs and sex, and they’re applauded. Bruce Jenner decides he’s a woman and the Commander-in-Chief praises his courage.
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     Worst of all, not only do most Americans now pride themselves on being non-judgmental, they’ve been taught to regard it as a virtue.
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♦ Finally, when the University of Missouri at Kansas City sought a celebrity to headline a gala marking the opening of a women’s hall of fame, they first reached out to Hilly Clinton. But they were told it would cost them $275,000. I know that sounds like a lot of money to the university and to most of us, but you have to remember that 14 short years ago, she and Bill were flat broke, if you don’t count the $20 million in book advances.
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     Once the organizers of the gala got over their shock, they decided to invite Chelsea Clinton. For a 10-minute address, she agreed to show up for a mere $65,000. Never mind that, on a prorated basis, that still works out to $390,000-an-hour.
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     No one family -- not the Bushes, not the Kennedys, not even the Kardashians -- has more chutzpah than the Clintons. In spite of having billions in the slush fund they refer to as a Foundation, they never weary of griping about the disparity of income in America -- arguing how unfair it is that corporate CEOs make a hundred times as much as their employees . However, they see nothing out of kilter about Chelsea being paid much more for 10 minutes of her time than any of the hardworking waiters, waitresses and busboys, at the event will earn in a year.
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     F. Scott Fitzgerald once wrote: “Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me.” If Fitzgerald had ever met the Clintons, he might have added: “They are hypocrites of the worst kind.”
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Monday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
The irony of the expulsions from Gaza
Caroline B. Glick
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 GEORGE AND BUBBA: BIG PLAYERS IN THE WINGS  Time magazine scored a joint interview with former presidents George W. Bush and Bill Clinton who, “reveal their views on the upcoming presidential campaign which could pit one’s wife against another’s brother.” From the article… “‘I think most of my role will be giving advice if I’m asked for it,’ Clinton told TIME about his position in wife Hilly Clinton’s campaign. ‘And I try not to even offer it at home unless I’m asked. But she’s been pretty good about asking every now and then.’… ‘I’m sure there will be moments where somebody says something about Jeb or somebody writes something about Jeb that will sting,’ Bush says. I shouldn’t say I’m used to it, but the emotions I felt when our dad was criticized really got me for a while. … I think I’ll feel the same thing about Jeb. It’ll be interesting to see how affected I become.’”  -Fox News
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 HILLY’S ECONOMIC PLAN: BOOM OR BUST?  Foreign Policy: “In [Hilly Clinton’s] big economic speech last week, the candidate said she would offer firms a subsidy to give workers a taste of the profits, too. Yet there’s virtually no robust evidence that workers would benefit — in fact, the lowest-paid workers might actually suffer under her plan.”   -Fox News
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 The Politics of the Louisiana Theater Shooting 
People are trying to make sense of Thursday's shooting in the Lafayette, Louisiana, movie theater. Twenty minutes into the 7:10 showing of "Trainwreck," John Russel Houser, 59, stood up and fired a .45 pistol into the audience. He killed two and wounded nine. He tried to escape by blending into the fleeing crowd, but when two police officers quickly responded, the murderer killed himself. Later, police discovered the man's car didn't match its license plate, and the motel room where he was staying contained disguises like wigs and glasses. Police described him as a drifter, and there is a Tea Party Nation page set up by a man with his name. This incident comes just as a Colorado jury decided James Holmes, the man who entered a Colorado movie theater three years ago with the intent of killing as many people as possible, could be sentenced to death for his crimes. The shooting also comes hours after Barack nObama told an interviewer, "[T]he one area that I feel that I've been most frustrated and most stymied ... is the fact that the United States is the one advanced nation on earth in which we do not have sufficient, common-sense gun safety laws." But the greatest demonstration of character came from Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. When asked about gun control, the presidential candidate said, "We're just learning the details ... let's focus on the victims. Tonight's not the night to be political."  -The Patriot Post
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 IRS Used Donor Lists for Targeted Audits 
Another day, another "smidgen of corruption" at the IRS. The intrepid folks at Judicial Watch have stayed on the case, and the watchdog group has issued yet another press release that puts the lie to Barack nObama's bald-faced denial of wrongdoing: "Judicial Watch announced [Wednesday] that it has obtained documents from the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that confirm that the IRS used donor lists to tax-exempt organizations to target those donors for audits. The documents also show IRS officials specifically highlighted how the U.S. Chamber of Commerce may come under 'high scrutiny' from the IRS." Specifically, Lois Lerner and her leftist pals at the IRS targeted high-profile organizations like Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS, and checked their donor lists to identify further subjects for audit. "These documents that we had to force out of the IRS prove that the agency used donor lists to audit supporters of organizations engaged in First Amendment-protected lawful political speech," said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. "And the snarky comments about the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and the obsession with Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS show that the IRS was targeting critics of the nObama administration. President nObama may want to continue to lie about his IRS scandal. These documents tell the truth — his IRS hated conservatives and was willing to illegally tax and audit citizens to shut down opposition to Barack nObama's policies and reelection." Article 2 of the Articles of Impeachment drawn up against Richard Nixon was for allegedly using the IRS to target certain citizens. The reluctance of today's GOP to vigorously pursue justice in this case is deeply disappointing.
          But never mind all that. nObama says the “real scandal around the IRS is that they have been so poorly funded that they cannot go after these folks who are deliberately avoiding tax payments.”  
 -The Patriot Post
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 China Dumps Half a Trillion Dollars: “Something Is Very, Very Wrong”  
{Mac Slavo} ~ We’ve recently reported that China is preparing for something very big in currency markets this October. A wide body of evidence suggests that something is in the works... as economic numbers around the world are revealed to be nothing short of pure conjecture. Yet, despite the clearly disastrous direction in which the world is trending, politicians and media pundits maintain that whatever contagion existed has now been contained. But a shocking report from Zero Hedge suggests otherwise. According to one of the world’s leading financial web sites, major banking institutions like JP Morgan Chase and Goldman Sachs have been left speechless after the release of new data coming out of China. The news isn’t necessarily that China just reported a massive increase in its gold holdings of some 600 tons, but rather, that they have actively dumped hundreds of billions of dollars worth of U.S. Treasuries over the last 15 months, with some $224 billion having been offloaded in just the last 90 days. This has led many to speculate that the end for the world’s reserve currency is nigh.
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 Breaking: Hilly Could Soon Get Blindsided By A Criminal Investigation  
{Norvell Rose} ~ The scandal surrounding emailgate — then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s use of a private email account managed on a personal server — has just been escalated to a higher level that could prove extremely damaging to Mrs. Clinton’s hopes for the White House... The New York Times reports that the Justice Department has been asked to open “a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled in connection with the personal email account Hilly Rodham Clinton used as secretary of state, senior government officials said Thursday.” nd it’s not a Republican politician or a conservative watchdog group that’s requesting the criminal probe of Mrs. Clinton’s email practices. It’s two inspectors general working for the federal government who have reportedly asked for the inquiry into whether Hilly included classified information — sensitive government secrets — in the emails she sent. Mrs. Clinton has denied that she ever included any classified material in her many thousands of official emails when she was the country’s top diplomat.        http://www.westernjournalism.com/breaking-hillarys-hopes-for-the-presidency-may-now-lie-with-obamas-new-attorney-general/
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 hanoi Kerry: Israel Will Be ‘Blamed’ If Congress Rejects Iran Deal  
{Adam Kredo} ~ Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry is under fire from Israeli officials for claiming on Friday that the Jewish state will be blamed if Congress rejects the recently announced Iranian nuclear deal... hanoi Kerry’s comments came during remarks before the Council on Foreign Relations. Analysts and experts on social media were quick to label the comments inappropriate. Michael Oren, the former U.S. ambassador to Israel who recently released a memoir, quickly condemned hanoi Kerry’s remarks in a statement. Congress will not reject the agreement due to pressure from Israel, but because they deem the nObama administration’s deal to be flawed and dangerous, Oren said.
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 Busted Lying And Reckless With Classified Information...  
{rickwells.us} ~ It will come as no surprise to anyone that Hilly Clinton has once again been caught lying and again it involves State Department documents and her unlawfully concealed emails... Perhaps when you’ve gotten away with blatant criminality for so long thecompulsion to consider oneself as being invincible or untouchable is simply too strong to resist. Or maybe she’s just gotten sloppy in her old age. CNS News reported on Friday that a random sampling of forty of the 30,000 Clinton emails conducted by the Inspector General of the Intelligence Community returned four that contained references to classified information. A ten percent positive return of the emailschecked containing classified or references to classified information would indicate roughly 3,000 are among those turned over to the State Department. We can only imagine how many were among those destroyed in the latest Clinton cover-up. The findings were sent by the Inspector General, L. Charles McCullough, to key members of the House and Senate Intelligence Committees as well as DNI James Clapper.        http://rickwells.us/busted-lying-and-reckless-with-classified-information-10-of-hillary-clinton-emails-checked-contained-classified-info/
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 “You Would Have To Be A Blooming Idiot” To Make This Deal...  
{rickwells.us" ~ Rep Louie Gohmert (R-TX) said of hanoi Kerry and his merry band of traitors within the nObama regime, “You would have to be a blooming idiot to make a deal with people... who are saying they’re going to take the money they get from this deal and kill Americans, kill Christians, kill Jews and give them the money anyway. I mean there are going to be consequences for this irresponsibility.” That was a portion of the Congressman’s astute comments which came later in his floor address but which needed to be heard so they are the video twice, once in their normal position towards the end of the video after Rep Gohmert has detailed the absurdities that have been perpetrated and once at the beginning to give you a sense of the nature of Rep Gohmert’s speech. He gets into the meat of the deal, at least to the degree that is possible, given the secrecy that surrounds it, and to the threat that it poses to the American people and the world. He notes how favorable it is to our enemies and the financial windfalls provided to Iran simply for sitting down at the table with the regime. From the perspective of the treatment received, it is much better to be an enemy of America under nObama than to be our friend. Perhaps that’s because he’s our enemy as well.
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 Fed Judge: State Depart will answer for any destruction of emails  
{judicialwatch.org} ~ Judicial Watch announced today that a federal judge warned the State Department that it will “have to answer for” any destruction of Hilly Clinton email records...  U. S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras made the statement at a July 9, 2015 status conference concerning a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act lawsuit for records about the State Department vetting of then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s potentialconflicts of interest (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:15-cv-00688)).  The transcript of the July 9 court hearing is available here.   http://www.judicialwatch.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/7.9.2015.Status.15cv688-2.pdf
At the hearing, attorney Chris Fedeli pressed Judicial Watch’s concerns about the preservation of records, especially email records that were not part of the 55,000 pages of records turned over by Mrs. Clinton to the State Department late last year. In response, Judge Contreras said he was also “concerned” about the preservation of these records:
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 JUSTICE TO PROBE CENTER FOR MEDICAL PROGRESS  
{The Federalist Staff} ~ While congressional committees investigate Planned Parenthood’s practices, the Justice Department agreed to look into whether the group that released the sting videos obtained the footage legally... In response to a request by House Democrats, Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday afternoon that Justice would “review all of the information and determine what the appropriate steps moving forward would be.” Planned Parenthood has staunchly defended its practices and claims that the Center for Medical Progress illegally obtained its footage, then excessively edited it to misrepresent what the organization does. The DOJ investigation of the Center for Medical Progress, which, unlike Planned Parenthood, is not in the business of killing healthy, viable unborn babies in order to sell their organs for cash, was announced after several Democratic lawmakers called for the organization to be targeted: 
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 The Iran Nuclear Agreement: Yes, There Is a Better Alternative  
{James Phillips, Luke Coffey and Michaela Dodge} ~ The nObama Administration has argued that there is no better alternative to its controversial nuclear agreement with Iran... But rather than cutting off all paths to a nuclear weapon, as the Administration initially promised, the so-called Vienna Agreement only temporarily slows down Iran’s progress toward a nuclear weapons capability and, in fact, protects the regime’s nuclear infrastructure and research and development, potentially allowing Iran to become a more robust threshold nuclear breakout state. A credible alternative to this dangerous deal with Iran is to maintain U.S. and U.N. sanctions (or unilateral U.S. sanctions if necessary), keep the military option on the table, and work with partners in the Middle East to force Tehran to accept much tighter restrictions on its nuclear plans.
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 Truth as the Victim of hanoi Kerry’s Promise to Iran  
{David S. Addington} ~ U.S. Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry made an unusual promise to the Islamic Republic of Iran: All senior nObama Administration officials will make every effort to support the Iran deal in their public statements... For any nObama Administration officials who have doubts about all or any part of the Iran deal, or about the likelihood that Iran will actually honor the deal, hanoi Kerry’s formal promise to Iran amounts to a gag order. When Congress summons Administration foreign policy and defense experts and other senior officials to testify on the Iran deal, Congress is entitled to the unvarnished, ungagged truth.        http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2015/07/truth-as-the-victim-of-kerrys-promise-to-iran
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 Britain's Irreconcilable Policy on Islam  
{Douglas Murray} ~ Two very interesting things happened in Britain over the last two weeks. What makes them more interesting is that they are wholly contradictory... Abroad, Britain's foreign secretary, Philip Hammond, put his nation's name to the P5+1 agreement with Iran, lifting sanctions against the Islamic Republic, unfreezing its assets, lifting arms controls on the regime and much, much more, all in exchange for having potential oversight -- with permission requested weeks in advance of any inspection -- of the country's nuclear sites. Britain's signature on this deal appears to have been an accepted and acceptable outcome with no significant opposition from any senior political figure of either main political party, and very little objection in the national press. A few days later, Britain's Prime Minister, David Cameron, gave his best speech to date on the threat of Islamic extremism at home and abroad. In that speech, the Prime Minister defined the challenge that Islamic extremism poses to Britain's way of life and cohesion as a society. He outlined the problem better than perhaps any other Western leader to date:        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6218/britain-islam
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The irony of the expulsions from Gaza
Caroline B. Glick
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     {jewishworldreview.com} ~ Israel's withdrawal from Gaza ten years ago was a strategic disaster. But it could have been much more devastating if the ideologues behind it had had their way.
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     Formally, the withdrawal was supposed to do two things. It was supposed to strengthen Israel's diplomatic position vis-à-vis the US and Europe by demonstrating Israel's commitment to Palestinian statehood, and it was supposed to enhance Israel's security by redeploying the IDF along more defensible lines. Neither argument for the withdrawal was particularly plausible. But due to the media's lockstep support for it, neither was seriously challenged.
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     The truth is, these justifications were never anything more than a smoke screen to hide the true purpose of the withdrawal from the public. The real purpose of the withdrawal from Gaza was to cast a strategic blow at Zionism and the Jewish character of the state.
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      For the ideologues of the Left, like the failed peace process, the expulsion of 8,500 law abiding, productive Israelis from their homes and communities in Gaza was not an end to itself, but a necessary precondition for destroying the Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
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     The destruction of those communities — and the expulsion of the 350,000 Jews who live in them — was also not an end unto itself. For the leftist ideologues who invented the idea of unilaterally withdrawing from Gaza, destroying the settlement enterprise is a necessary precondition for destroying religious Zionism.
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And religious Zionism has to be destroyed in order to destroy Zionism.
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     This true purpose of the Gaza withdrawal was made clear by leftist ideologues in the months that preceded the withdrawal.
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     For instance, Haaretz published an editorial a month before the withdrawal explaining, "The real question is not how many mortar shells will fall, or who will guard the Philadelphia route between Gaza and Egypt, or whether the Palestinians will dance on the roofs of the destroyed communities.
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     "The real question is who sets the national agenda. The disengagement of Israeli policy from its religious fuel is the real disengagement currently on the agenda. On the day after the disengagement, religious Zionism's status will be different."
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     As the leftist ideologues perceived things, it wasn't enough to simply kick the settlers out of their homes and destroy their community. They had to be humiliated and made to suffer in order to ensure that no one would dare to identify with them.
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     As a consequence, when the idea of building new settlement for the evacuees in southern Israel was floated a few months before the withdrawal, the Left firmly opposed it.
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     Haaretz columnist Avirama Golan explained that doing so would empty the expulsions of political significance.
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     In her words, "Transferring the evacuees from Gush Katif to a brand new neighborhood built especially for them along the beautiful strip of Nitzanim transmits a problematic implicit message. This is a message that says to the Jewish settlers in the territories: 'You are a chosen group. You will not be like all the other Israelis.' If this is what the government does in the evacuation of Gush Katif, the main sting of the evacuation of the settlements will be neutralized. It will be as though nothing has been done."
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     The goal of the Left in destroying the Jewish communities, and indeed the goal of the so-called peace movement was laid out explicitly in November 2013 by Ron Pundak, Yossi Beilin's partner in negotiating the Oslo accord with the PLO in 1993.
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     In an interview with the International Crisis Group Pundak explained, "Peace is not an objective by itself. It is a way to transition Israel from one era to another: to an era of what I consider is a normal state. Israelisation of society rather than its judaisation."
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     Demonization and disenfranchisement were key components of the Left's campaign against Jewish Israel. For the withdrawal from Gaza to serve as a stepping stone towards a withdrawal from Judea and Samaria, the public needed to become fully alienated from their fellow Israelis whose lives were being shattered.
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     Opinion makers from Dan Margalit and Ari Shavit to Yair Lapid jumped on the anti-religious bandwagon and sought to outdo one another in stirring up irrational hatred for the 8,500 Jews of Gaza and their supporters.
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     Margalit called the institution of a numerous clausus against religious Zionists serving in the IDF. Strict limits, he said, should be placed on the number of religious Israelis permitted to serve as officers in the IDF.
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     Lapid insisted that the settlers were not his brothers and he wouldn't have a problem going to war against them. Shavit wrote the settlers deserved no protection from the IDF because as far as he was concerned, they weren't even Israelis.
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     Day after day the media machine spewed out hatred and derision against the Jews of Gaza. Day after day the public was told that religious Zionists were fanatics and potential terrorists.
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     The police, public prosecution and Supreme Court all joined the action. The civil rights of opponents of the withdrawal were trampled. Organizers of lawful protests were subjected to warrantless pre-dawn raids on their homes. Protesters, including children were arrested without charge and often held in custody for months.
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      Police interdicted licensed buses en route to lawful demonstrations to prevent law abiding citizens from protesting the planned expulsions.
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     Given the atmosphere of hatred that blanketed the country, as the expulsions approached, the Left had every reason to believe that they were on track to destroy their harshest ideological opponents and so remake Israel in their post-Zionist image.
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     Perhaps the most promising aspect of the expulsions, from the Left's perspective, was that the IDF was tasked with carrying them out. Having the most beloved and revered institution in the country carry out the Left's dirty work meant that any attempt by the settlers to defy the expulsion orders would be viewed by the public as an assault not on the Left, but on the army. And that would finish off whatever residual public sympathy for the settlers that the pre-expulsion demonization hadn't successfully expunged.
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But then someone gummed up the works.
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     Five months before the expulsions, then IDF chief of general staff Lt. Gen. Moshe Yaalon appointed Brig. Gen. Gershon Hacohen to command the expulsions from Gush Katif.
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     Hacohen was a tank division commander appointed to the Northern Command. He was appointed because he was a prince of the national religious community. Hacohen's grandfather had been one of the founders of Mizrahi, the religious Zionist movement. His father was one of the founders of Gush Emunim.
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     After Yaalon appointed him to command the expulsions, Hacohen came under massive pressure from the Right to resign his commission. If you quit in protest, he was told, then the expulsions will be cancelled.
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     But Hacohen felt differently. As he saw it, the minute the Knesset approved the plan, there was no turning back. The expulsions would happen. And if he resigned his commission, the Left would have wrecked his reputation in a heartbeat. As the son of settler leaders, his action would have been immediately explained away as the act of a settler fanatic and as proof that religious soldiers shouldn't be promoted.
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     Hacohen understood the Left. He knew that they meant it when they said that their goal was not only to destroy the settlements in Gaza but to discredit religious Zionism in order to delink Israel from Judaism. Because Hacohen recognized the Left's purpose in conducting the expulsions, he understood that it wasn't simply the fate of Gush Katif that hung in the balance, but the future of Israel itself.
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     And so, when he set about preparing the expulsions, Hacohen conceived an operation that would prevent the expulsions from serving any larger destructive purpose.
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     For the Left's plan to succeed, the expulsions had to be perceived by the public as a physical and ideological clash between the settlers and the soldiers. Hacohen worked to prevent the public from receiving that impression. Rather than prepare the soldiers for a clash with the settlers, Hacohen set up the expulsions as a national tragedy which the soldiers and the settlers would experience together.
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     To this end, in the weeks before the expulsions, Hacohen ordered his officers and soldiers to mingle inside the communities of Gush Katif they were set to evacuate. Rather than treat the villages as hostile zones, soldiers and officers were given the opportunity to see that the settlers were no different from them.
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     By the time the expulsions were carried out, the soldiers felt little alienation from the settlers. Consequently, the clash the Left anticipated never happened.
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     Instead, Israelis glued to their television sets watched as soldiers and settlers prayed and mourned together at the soon-to-be-abandoned synagogues of Gush Katif. They watched as the commander of the Golani brigade embraced the youth of Gadid and cried with them.
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     Far from destroying the Jewish character of the state, let alone destroying the bond between religious Zionism and the state, the expulsions strengthened both.
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     Weeks after the withdrawal was completed, Haaretz's Orit Shochat lamented, "Soldiers who experienced the evacuation won't travel to an ashram in India because they discovered that there is an ashram next door. The same Jewish religion that they hadn't seen up close for a long time embraces them into its fold with song and a tear and a common fate.
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     "They have now sat arm-in-arm at the synagogues in Gush Katif, they have now felt the holiness mixed with sweat, they have now moved rhythmically and sung songs, they have stood in line to kiss the Torah scrolls, they are now half-inside."
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     Shochat was a lone voice on the Left. Most of her comrades didn't understand what had just happened.
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     Ehud Olmert, for one didn't get it at all. When the next year Olmert ordered the police to forcibly evacuate Amona, a neighborhood in Ofra, he expected that it would be easy. He assumed the public would support the move, just as it supported the withdrawal from Gush Katif. In the weeks leading up to the evacuation, the media conducted the same demonization of the settlers in Ofra that they had of their brethren in the Gush Katif.
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     But the public wouldn't stand for it. When the police attacked the youth holed up in the homes set for destruction, the public sided with the settlers, not with the police.
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     Far from preparing the psychological foundation for further expulsions, the IDF's conduct of the withdrawal from Gush Katif destroyed that foundation. The public was no longer willing to accept the lie of settler fanaticism.
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     The settlements of Gaza were destroyed ten years ago. Israel has been paying the physical price of the strategic lunacy of the withdrawal ever since. But due to a significant degree to Hacohen's leadership, ironically, Israeli society emerged stronger, more Zionist and prouder of its Jewishness than ever before.
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Monday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
How and why to kill the deal
Caroline B. Glick
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Continuing Executive Advance on Immigration 
The nObama administration continues its blitzkrieg on executive immigration reform. Sure, there's that pocket of resistance, that suit brought by 26 states, but that's not stopping nObama. "[T]he 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals guidelines remain in place," nObama said in a White House statement. "There are also other important immigration executive actions that continue to move forward." He goes onto list 11 ways he's continuing to tweak the nation's immigration enforcement, and the statement finishes by repeating the tired mantra that only Congress can fix immigration by passing "bipartisan, comprehensive immigration reform." Why doesn't nObama just ask for a unicorn? He really doesn't want reform; that's why he's so thoroughly poisoned the well. His department of Homeland Security proposed a rule that would expand the types of people who could stay in U.S. while waiting for legal status. Such a policy would undermine legal immigration, remove the penalties for illegal immigration and encourage fraud, says the Center for Immigration Studies. nObama's executive actions come at a time when Congress is tackling some immigration reform by considering a bill that would curb sanctuary cities after that policy led to the death of Kathryn Steinle. Despite Congress' unique role in deciding the nation's immigration policies, a group of mayors from some of the nation's biggest cities wrote to Congress supporting sanctuary city policies by making a home-rule argument — a bunch of leftists supporting the status quo, including how immigration is being handled politically. 
-The Patriot Post  
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 nObama Stands by Planned Parenthood 
Most Americans are some combination of outraged and sickened at the revelations that Planned Parenthood is selling babies' body parts after successful abortions. Its doctors are on record talking about how to avoid crushing valuable organs and using a “less crunchy technique” in order to harvest organs while sipping wine and joking about wanting a Lamborghini. A thorough investigation and an end to taxpayer funding of the nation's largest abortion mill is in order. So what does Barack nObama think? His press secretary, Josh Earnest, backed Planned Parenthood. "I haven't spoken to the president about the actual videos. I have read the reports and I'm confident that he has, too, raising significant concerns about the way in which those videos were selectively edited to distort the — not just the words of the individual speaking but also the position of Planned Parenthood." Earnest went on to offer some free PR for Planned Parenthood's "highest ethical standards." Perhaps he misheard — they're selling baby parts. How is that remotely ethical? Unsurprisingly, nObama is more upset about the organization taking the videos than the abortionists selling baby livers. This is a man, after all, who has no problem with partial-birth abortion, and who wants unfettered access to abortion and abortion-inducing birth-control for all women — even mandating Catholic nuns carry insurance that covers it. So forgive us if we're skeptical when Attorney General Loretta Lynch says the Justice Department is "going to review all the information and determine what steps, if any, to take at the appropriate time." Note: That's "what steps, if any." Besides, perhaps she means DOJ will investigate the group taking the videos...  -The Patriot Post  
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 More Details Emerge From Chattanooga  
Details continue to come out about the terrorist attack in Chattanooga last week. One Navy officer and a Marine returned fire when a jihadi rammed through the gate and started shooting. According to Navy Times, "Lt. Cmdr. Timothy White, the support center's commanding officer, used his personal firearm to engage" the assailant. Likewise, one of the slain Marines reportedly had a personal handgun that he used to return fire. But it wasn't only those with guns who acted with bravery. According to reports, some of the fallen Marines essentially sacrificed themselves by drawing fire away from a larger group of Marines. "This could have been a lot worse," an anonymous official said. "It could have been a horrible, horrible massacre — so much worse."
          It was bad enough. Remember the fallen: Sgt. Carson A. Holmquist, Staff Sgt. David A. Wyatt, Gunnery Sgt. Thomas J. Sullivan, Lance Cpl. Squire K. Wells, and Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class Randall Smith.
          Finally, Ed Reinhold, the FBI's special agent in charge in Knoxville, declared during a Wednesday news conference that the perpetrator was a "homegrown violent extremist" and that it was too early to determine whether he had been radicalized. "This is a complex, ongoing investigation, and we're still in the early stages of piecing together exactly what happened and why," Reinhold said. "The FBI has been working almost 400 leads, and has an estimated 250 personnel on the ground in the area, and hundreds more working across the country and around the world on this investigation." We appreciate the deliberate and thorough investigation, but let's call a spade a spade.
          Maybe that failure is why it took Barack nObama five days to call for lowering the flag.  
 -The Patriot Post  
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 Odierno's Parting Shot on the Islamic State  
For four years, Army Chief of Staff Gen. Ray Odierno was in Iraq, spending more time in the theater than any other military leader. He was a key architect of the successful “surge” that gave Iraq a short-lived bout of stability and relative prosperity. And then Barack nObama came along.
          Now weeks away from retirement after a nearly four-decade career, Odierno barely hides his disgust at the decline in Iraq since nObama withdrew American forces. In the debate before the 2011 withdrawal, Odierno requested a force of 30-35,000 troops be maintained in Iraq. Unfortunately, he was overruled by nObama's narcissistic quest for political expediency in the 2012 campaign. He had promised to "end" (note: not win) the war, and Americans were generally war-weary. Never mind that Iraq was always envisioned as part of a Long War against Islamic extremism.
          “It's frustrating to watch" the rise of the Islamic State, lamented Odierno in his interview with Fox. "I go back to the work we did in 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010 and we got [Iraq] to a place that was really good. Violence was low, the economy was growing, [and] politics looked like it was heading in the right direction." He added, “If we had stayed a little more engaged, I think maybe [the Islamic State's rise] might have been prevented. I've always believed the United States played the role of honest broker between all the groups and when we pulled ourselves out we lost that role. ... I think it would have been good for us to stay.”
          Odierno didn't explicitly say so, but he strongly implied that nObama's foolish withdrawal from Iraq is directly responsible for the rise of the Islamic State.   -The Patriot Post  
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 Hilly Refuses to Rebuke Questioner Comparing Israel to Apartheid  
{Jeff Dunetz} ~ Just as she did in 1999 when Suha Arafat accused Israel of poisoning the Palestinians, Thursday Hilly Clinton listened to someone slander the Jewish State, and refused to rebuke the charges... Amongst the people who asked questions during Hilly Clinton's appearance Thursday at the Brookland Baptist Church, Columbia South Carolina, was a woman who asked three questions at once.  The first query was about solving poverty, the second was about the three-strike law, and the third: My third question is about Israel, we spend too much money, $6 billion dollars to Israel funding apartheid! There is not the shared values that we are supposed to share with Israel!  As you can see by the video below Ms. Clinton who,  with the exception of the time from her first campaign New York’s Senate seat in 2000 to her resignation from the Senate to become Secretary of State in January 2009; except for the time she needed New York’s Jewish voting bloc, Hilly Clinton has never been pro-Israel, she dedicated her long-winded 700 word answer to the first two points and said nothing about the anti-Israel apartheid slander.       http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/07/like-she-did-with-mrs-arafat-hillary.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a58d7ded58-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-a58d7ded58-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-a58d7ded58-291705165
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 nObama Intent on Ignoring Congressional Review of His Iran Deal  
{Fred Siegel and Sol Stern} ~ A few months ago, the president guaranteed Congress the right to approve or disapprove any accord reached with Iran. Now, despite his solemn declaration to the contrary, it seems he’s planning to sideline Congress altogether... Fred Siegel and Sol Stern write: Throughout the international negotiations, the White House has essentially served as Iran’s lawyer; now the administration’s rhetoric has created an insuperable dilemma for opponents of the deal. hanoi John Kerry has not so subtly hinted that the administration has no intention of honoring the commitments it made in signing the bill authorizing congressional review. hanoi Kerry’s comments suggest that no matter what happens in Congress, the administration will feel little obligation to carry out the wishes of the people’s representatives on the most important national-security issue of our time.
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 hanoi Kerry Warns Israel: Strike on Iran Would Be 'Enormous Mistake' 
{Ari Yashar} ~ Less than a day after indicating in a Senate hearing that the Iran nuclear deal would have the US defend Iran from Israel, US Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry warned Israel on Friday that a unilateral strike on Iran's covert nuclear program would be a "huge mistake."... Appearing on the NBC "Today" TV show, hanoi Kerry was asked if the Iran nuclear deal sealed last Tuesday would make it more likely that Israel will either physically strike Iran's nuclear facilities, or else launch a cyber attack against them. "That'd be an enormous mistake, a huge mistake with grave consequences for Israel and for the region, and I don't think it's necessary," hanoi Kerry answered in an ominous answer. Just on Thursday he was asked in a Senate hearing about a clause in the deal requiring the West to train Iran to block sabotage attempts against its nuclear program. hanoi Kerry refused to directly answer a question in the hearing as to whether the US would have to defend Iran from an Israeli cyber attack. One question that was not ask, what if Iran strike Israel, would the US protect Israel?
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 Criminal Inquiry Sought Into Hilly’s Scandalous Email Fiasco  
{Dan Spencer} ~ The New York Times reports that two inspectors general have asked the Justice Department to open a criminal investigation into whether sensitive government information was mishandled... in connection with the personal email account Hilly Clinton used as secretary of state. The request for a criminal investigation results from “an assessment” of the inspectors general for the State Department and the intelligence agencies that Hilly’s private account contained “hundreds of potentially classified emails.” The State Department is still reviewing some 55,000 pages of Hilly’s emails some of which are problematic. It is fascinating that the story originated with New York Times, always a Hilly supporter. The Times already seems to have some second thoughts about its big scoop. According to Politico’s Dylan Byers, The Times altered the story in the dead of night without notification of or explanation:
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 THE FOOLISHNESS OF FUNDING OUR ENEMIES  
{Shawn Meyer} ~ We decried the foolishness of the nObama administration in loosing up billions of dollars to a state sponsor of terrorism... Every time the Iranian parliament chants “Death to America!” nObama lets go of our cash. Funding the enemy. Where did he get such an idea? Maybe nObama was watching the Christian community. We’re the pros and we’ve been at it for decades. Back in the 1990’s, I informed an elderly Christian that her choice of long distance providers was aggressively promoting homosexuality. She replied, “Well, I don’t know what I could do about that.” Um, switch providers and stop funding their efforts. There now. Simple and sensible.       http://barbwire.com/2015/07/24/1000-the-foolishness-of-funding-our-enemies/
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 Why nObama’s Vision of a Weakened Iran Doesn’t Add Up  

{John Hannah} ~ It’s not clear precisely what underpins nObama’s remarkable certitude in this regard. In the press conference, he hinted at several factors. An effort by Iran to get nuclear weapons in 15 years, he noted, would “still be in violation of this deal and the commitments [Iran] made internationally.”... Specifically, the president said, Iran’s obligation not to develop nuclear weapons “under the Non-Proliferation Treaty does not go away,” while “the Additional Protocol that they have to sign up for under this deal, which requires a more extensive inspection and verification mechanism … stays in place.” Moreover, the president pointed out that in 15 years, the United States will be “much more knowledgeable about what Iran’s capabilities are, much more knowledgeable about what their program is and still in a position to take whatever actions we would take today” to stop any effort by the mullahs to break out to a bomb. Some of this is not particularly compelling, to say the least. As most Iran experts will tell you, the Islamic Republic does not have a history of taking its international obligations particularly seriously. So the fact that it’s agreed not to develop nuclear weapons, either as part of the JCPOA or its longstanding obligations under the NPT, is hardly reassuring. Indeed, in light of the fact that Iran has been in serial violation of its NPT obligations for most of the past two decades, the president’s argument on this point is just, well, silly. When it comes to the mullahs, it’s a rule of thumb that if you have to start resorting to arguments that “They promised,” you’re already in deep trouble.

http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/john-hannah-why-obamas-vision-of-a-weakened-iran-doesnt-add-up/

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 U.S. State Dept. Bars Christians from Testifying about Persecution  
{Raymond Ibrahim} ~ During theheight of one of the most brutal months oMuslim persecution of Christians, the U.S. State Department exposed its double standards against persecuted Christian minorities... Sister Diana, an influential Iraqi Christian leader, who was scheduled to visit the U.S. to advocate for persecuted Christians in the Mideast, was denied a visa by the U.S. State Department even though she had visited the U.S. before, most recently in 2012. She was to be one of a delegation of religious leaders from Iraq -- including Sunni, Shia and Yazidi, among others -- to visit Washington, D.C., to describe the situation of their people. Every religious leader from this delegation to Washington D.C. was granted a visa -- except for the only Christian representative, Sister Diana. After this refusal became public, many Americans protested, some writing to their congressmen. Discussing the nun's visa denial, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said:        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6141/state-dept-bars-christian-testimony
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 Senate Showdown: Cruz Calls Out McCon-nell  
{Susan Ferrechio} ~ In a stunning floor speech Friday morning, Republican presidential contender Sen. Ted Cruz accused Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell of lying to Senate Republicans... about whether there was a secret agreement to allow a vote on an amendment to extend the Export-Import Bank, which conservatives staunchly oppose. Cruz unleashed his anger at McCon-nell moments after the Senate voted to move ahead on a highway funding bill that will include amendments to extend the Ex-Im Bank and to repeal the Affordable Care Act. The deal doesn't provide Cruz with an equal opportunity to bring up his own amendments, including one that would require Iran to recognize the state of Israel and another that would require members of Congress and the president to enroll in nObamacare.        http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/cruz-accuses-mcconnell-of-flat-out-lying/article/2568909?custom_click=rss
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 Lawmaker: hanoi Kerry doesn't know what's in the Iran side deal  
{Charles Hoskinson} ~ Rep. Mike Pompeo said hanoi Kerry told lawmakers that he has not read the side deals, never possessed a copy of them, and approved the nuclear agreement without knowing their details... "These side deals were essential to getting a deal signed in the first place. Iran believed these side deals to be important to an overall agreement, and so should the United States. It is essential for Secretary Kerry to know what's in the deal, and it is essential for the U.S. Congress to know what's in this deal," the Kansas Republican said. The agreement — signed July 14 by International Atomic Energy Agency Director General Yukiya Amano and Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran — was announced publicly, but parts of it are secret and there may also be secret annexes as well. Lawmakers are accusing the nObama administration of illegally withholding those documents.
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 White House: nObama in final stages of plan to close Gitmo  
{Susan Crabtree} ~ The nObama administration is in the final stages of drafting a plan to shutter the Guantanamo Bay prison facility in Cuba, White House press secretary Josh Earnest told reporters Wednesday... Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., has been openly discussing his talks with the White House about giving him a plan to close the prison that he could try to sell to fellow Republicans in Congress. But this is the first admission by the White House that they are working on such a plan, despite repeated questions about it from theWashington Examiner and other media outlets. What the heck is McCain doing?
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How and why to kill the deal
Caroline B. Glick
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     {jewishworldreview.com} ~ Washington Post columnist David Ignatius -- whose work appears on JWR -- is a reasonable man. After hearing back to back interviews with US Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu about the nObama administration's pact with Iran's ayatollahs, he tried to balance them out.
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     Speaking Sunday on CBS's Face the Nation, Ignatius equivocated that on the one hand, "My takeaway from hanoi Kerry is that the details of this deal are pretty solid, that it's been carefully negotiated, that it will hold up for 10 years or more."
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     On the other hand, he said, "Netanyahu is right. Iran is a dangerous destabilizing force in the Middle East. So somehow good policy seems to me to use the deal to cap the nuclear threat that Iran would pose for 10 years but work on that other problem."
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     Ignatius's remarks serve to justify supporting the deal. After all, if nObama's agreement caps Iran's nuclear program for 10 years, then it's a good thing. As for the other stuff, it can be dealt with separately.
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      Unfortunately, while eminently reasonable sounding, Ignatius's analysis is incorrect. hanoi Kerry's details of the deal are beside the point. The big picture is the only thing that matters. That picture has two main points.
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     First, the deal guarantees that Iran will develop nuclear weapons. Second, it gives $150 billion to the mullahs.
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     The details of the deal — the number of centrifuges that keep spinning, the verification mechanisms, the dispute resolution procedures, etc. — are all debatable, and largely irrelevant, at least when compared to the two irrefutable aspects of the big picture.
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     According to the administration, today Iran needs a year to use the nuclear materials it is known to possess to make a nuclear bomb. Other sources claim that Iran requires several months to accomplish the task.
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      Since these materials will remain in Iran's possession under the deal, if Iran abandons the agreement, it will need at most a year to build nuclear weapons.
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     Then there are the unknown aspects of Iran's nuclear program. We must assume that Iran has ongoing covert nuclear operations in unknown installations through which it has acquired unknown capabilities.
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These capabilities will likely reduce the time Iran requires to make bombs.
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     Under the deal, the US and its negotiating partners are required to protect Iran's nuclear assets from sabotage and other forms of attack. They are required as well to teach Iran how to develop and use more advanced centrifuges. As a consequence, when the agreement expires, Iran will be able to build nuclear bombs at will.
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     If Iran remains a threat, the deal bars the US from taking any steps to counter it aside from all-out war.
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     The agreement ends the international sanctions regime against Iran. With the sanctions goes any prospect of an international coalition joining forces to take military action against Iran, if Iran does walk away from the deal. So sanctions are gone, deterrence is gone. And that leaves only war.
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     In other words, far from diminishing the chance of war, the deal makes it inevitable that Iran will get the bomb or there will be a full scale war, or both.
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Then there is the jackpot payback.
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     Who knows? Maybe the mullahs will use their $150b. to finance new women's universities in Tehran and Mashhad, and a seminary for Islamic liberalism in Qom.
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     Or maybe the money will be used to fund insurgencies and proxy wars and terror campaigns throughout the region and the world.
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     The extraordinary thing about the deal is that the only person who gets a say in how that money is spent is Iran's dictator Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. And Khamenei has been pretty clear about how he intends to use the cash.
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     In back to back anti-American rants on Friday and Saturday, Khamenei repeatedly threatened the US and extolled calls for its destruction. Speaking in front of a banner at Friday prayers which declared "We will trample America," Khamenei praised calls for "Death to America."
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     Saturday he promised to continue to fund and sponsor terrorism and proxy wars. Just as notably, he refused to commit to upholding the nuclear deal with the US and the other five powers.
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     As far as the nObama administration is concerned, now that the UN Security Council has anchored the agreement in a binding resolution and so given the force of international law to a deal that guarantees Iran will receives the bomb and $150b., the deal is done. It cannot be walked back.
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     But this is not necessarily true. Congress may have more power than it realizes to kill the deal before Iran gets the money and before its other provisions are implemented.
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     Over the months leading up to the conclusion of negotiations last Tuesday, nObama refused to acknowledge that he was negotiating a treaty. Rather he said it was nothing more than an executive agreement.
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     Consequently, he argued, the US Senate's sole authority to ratify treaties by two-thirds majority would be inapplicable to the deal with Iran.
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     nObama also said he would further sideline Congress by anchoring the deal in a binding UN Security Council resolution. This resolution would force nObama's successor to uphold the deal after he leaves office.
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     nObama mitigated his position slightly when Senator Bob Corker, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, drafted the Corker-Cardin bill with veto-proof majorities in both houses. The bill, which nObama reluctantly signed into law, requires nObama to submit the deal to an up or down vote in both houses. If more than two thirds of Senators and Congressmen oppose it, then the US will not abrogate its unilateral sanctions against Iran.
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     In other words, nObama agreed that if Congress turned the Constitution on its head by replacing the two-thirds Senate majority required to approve a treaty with a two-thirds bicameral majority necessary to disapprove his executive agreement — then he wouldn't go to the Security Council until after Congress voted.
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     When nObama betrayed his pledge and went to the Security Council on Monday, he gave Congress an opening to reconsider its position, ditch the restrictive Corker-Cardin law and reassert the Senate's treaty approving authority.
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     As former US federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy argued in National Review last week, by among other things canceling the weapons and missile embargoes on Iran, the six-power deal with Iran went well beyond the scope of the Corker-Cardin law, which dealt only with nuclear sanctions relief. As a consequence, Congress can claim that there is no reason to invoke it.
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     Rather than invoke Corker-Cardin, Congress can pass a joint resolution determining that the deal with Iran is a treaty and announce that pursuant to the US Constitution, the Senate will schedule a vote on it within 30 days. Alternatively, Congress can condition the Iran deal's legal stature on the passage of enabling legislation — that requires simple majorities in both houses.
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     Dan Darling, foreign policy adviser to Republican Senator and presidential hopeful Rand Paul wrote Monday that senators can use Senate procedure to force the Foreign Relations Committee to act in this manner. Darling argued that House Speaker backstabber John Boehner can either refuse to consider the deal since it is a treaty, or insist on passing enabling legislation under normal legislative procedures.
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     Monday Netanyahu explained that by keeping US sanctions in force, Congress can limit Iran's capacity to move beyond the current sanctions regime even after it is canceled. Every state and firm considering business opportunities with Tehran will have to weigh them against the opportunity cost of being barred from doing business with the US.
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     Iran for its part may walk away from the deal entirely if Congress acts in this manner. If it does, then the US will not be obligated by any of the deal's requirements. The continued viability of the Security Council resolution will be something for the lawyers to argue over.
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     The devil in nObama's deal with Iran is not in the mind-numbing details, but in the big picture. The deal guarantees Iran will get the bomb. It gives the Iranian regime $150b.
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To secure these concessions, nObama has trampled congressional authority.
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     If the American people think this doesn't advance their national interest, they should encourage their congressional representatives to ditch Corker-Cardin and use their full authority, as a co-equal branch of the government, to scupper it.
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