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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:
The Point of No Return
Burt Prelutsky
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 EMAILS SHOW WEIRD WORLD OF HILLY 
Did you hear? There was “no smoking gun” in the 3,000 pages of Hilly Clinton emails disgorged by the State Department on Tuesday night? There was “no incriminating evidence,” said the NYT. Since there wasn’t an email in which the then-Secretary of State wrote, “Hey guys, make sure to fake the Benghazi riot so that we can get away with this,” should we all just move on down the road?
          In real life, we know that while there may not be prima facie “incriminating evidence” here, they are anything but exculpatory. What we see here is a woman running a government within the government – a semi-autonomous entity with not just private email system but also privately funded, secret minister without portfolio, speechwriter, intelligence bag man and political fixer, Sidney Blumenthal. Clinton called Blumenthal an “old friend” who passed along some tips “unsolicited.”
          That simply is not the true according to these emails that show Blumenthal, deemed unacceptable for an administration post by the White House, carried on in a quasi-official but unaccountable capacity throughout her tenure. Making matters worse, Blumenthal was being paid by Clinton’s family foundation, which we now know was taking unreported donations from foreign governments and entities with business before Clinton and her department.
          What a debacle. And, in fact, one might even say that as far as gun smoke goes, there is a strong whiff of cordite around Clinton when it comes to her claims about Blumenthal.
          And through it all is an effort to elevate her role in the administration but not her subservience. How much of her autonomy and secrecy were the result of her own aloofness or mistrust of President nObama and his team and how much was a result of nObama shunning Clinton and her team we will likely never know. But inside the emails we get examples small and large of the depth of the dysfunction. We see Clinton passing along an email from her former campaign strategist lambasting one of the president’s speeches on Afghanistan and suggesting she ramp up her role; Clinton eyeing an email from Blumenthal touting nObama’s crumbing poll numbers in Ohio.
          Most telling, perhaps, is that the senior White House adviser and even the chief of staff had to go ask for Clinton’s email address many months after the administration had begun. Not only does this weaken White House claims of ignorance about Clinton’s secret, unsecure server but also shows how fraught the relationship was between the two camps. The chief of staff, the captain of the cabinet, asking permission to email a cabinet secretary? Woof.
          The picture that comes into focus is of a woman who did not join a team of rivals, but persisted in an exile partly by the sentence of the president and partly of her own making. A remarkable moment comes when Clinton, obviously peeved, tells her staff that she has been called to the White House a second time for a meeting that was cancelled. Another time she hears of a cabinet meeting on the radio (!) and writes to her team to ask if it is so and if she can go.
          People have compared the Clintons many times to the ruthlessly effective Underwoods of “House of Cards.” In this batch of emails we see a figure much more like the lead character of another show: Selina Myer of “Veep.”
          [“In thinking about the Kissinger interview, the only issue I think that might be raised is that I see POTUS at least once a week while K saw Nixon every day…” – Hilly Clinton in an email to her staff.
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 June's Job Gains Are Good, but the Devil's in the Details 
The U.S. economy is like a car that won't shift from second gear into third: It's moving forward and that's great, but we're not on the road that brings 3% GDP growth. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its June jobs report this morning and the economy did generally what economists predicted it would do. The economy added 233,000 jobs and the unemployment rate declined to 5.3%. The U-6 measure of labor underutilization dropped to 10.5%. But here comes the frustrating part. The percentage of Americans who are working declined by 0.3% to 62.6%, the lowest since 1977. In fact, 432,000 Americans left the workforce — about twice the number that joined last month. Additionally, wages didn't rise from last month's $24.95 average hourly wage. After a couple months in which wages increased, another bump in pay would have indicated that the U.S. economy was healthy. The kinds of jobs added in June were encouraging, as there were increases in architectural and engineering services, health care and computer systems design. Interestingly, BLS reports that the gains in the financial sector increased mostly around insurance carriers. "Commercial banking employment declined by 6,000," the report read. "Employment in financial activities has grown by 159,000 over the year, with insurance accounting for about half of the gain." While Americans have been buying more insurance, coerced or otherwise, fewer of them have been frequenting their local bank. Could this be a small sign of the decline of the middle class?  -The Patriot Post 
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 Leftmedia: Say, There Are Too Many Guns Out There  
A new survey asserts that nearly a third of American adults own a gun. Who knew? Frankly, we wish that number were higher. But as it is, the study's author and the Leftmedia couldn't be more concerned. “Considering the presence of deeply rooted gun culture and the estimated number of guns in the U.S. to be 310 million, we (suspected) that social gun culture is associated with gun ownership,” said vexed lead author Bindu Kalesan of the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University in New York. The researchers' math depended on a 2013 online survey of 4,000 people from all 50 states and DC, so it's hardly a conclusive measure. Undeterred, however, researchers and their accomplices in the press insist that more guns lead to more accidents, injuries and homicides. Lefty journalist Ed Kilgore, for one, is downright petrified, and he identifies the problem: conservatives. "[T]here is something fundamentally disquieting about the fact that the Americans most likely to own guns are also the Americans most likely to embrace a political rationale for gun ownership and most likely to believe they’re getting outvoted by people who don’t share their values," he frets. "Somewhere in these overlapping circles is a hard core of dangerous folks who are being told constantly by Republican politicians that they are losing or have already lost their most fundamental rights. And this is why political extremism is a bad thing even if its devotees lose most elections." That dreaded "gun culture" may concern leftists, but we prefer to call it Liberty.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Chick-fil-A Keeps Doing It Right 
It's interesting that just days after the Supreme Court ruled same-sex marriage is a heretofore undiscovered constitutional right Chick-fil-A came out on top in a customer service satisfaction survey. In fact, the Atlanta-based fast-food chain registered the highest score in the history of the survey. What does same-sex marriage have to do with fried chicken? Recall that, in 2012, the company became the Rainbow Mafia's number one target after Chick-fil-A CEO Dan Cathy voiced his support for biblical marriage. Leftists tried to organize a boycott, but it fell flat as a conservative counter-boycott gave franchises their longest lines ever as people flocked to grab a tasty sandwich on Chick-fil-A Appreciation Day. The lesson: Stand by solid principles and make a great product, and people will come. They'll like it, too.  -The Patriot Post 
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 U.S. Govt. “Routinely Breaks Freedom of Info. Laws”  
(sharylattkisson.com) ~ In June of 2015, the House Oversight Committee convened hearings to examine failure of the government to comply with federal Freedom of Information Law. The witness list is below... “The hearing on Tuesday began with Sharyl Attkisson, a former CBS journalist, who called FOIA ‘a pointless, useless, shadow of its intended self’ that is ‘broken by design.’ Attkisson talked about a particular request that she made when her daughter was 8 years old that was not answered until her daughter left for college. ‘In 2013, the Defense Department finally responded to a FOIA request I’d made in 2003. Too late to be of use for the news story I was working on back them,’ Attkisson testified.” [see full opening statement below]        https://sharylattkisson.com/u-s-govt-routinely-breaks-freedom-of-info-laws/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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 FOIA Request CDC Officials Fully Aware nObama Is A Marxist  
(rickwells.us) ~ The tireless watchdogs at Judicial Watch have once again gotten their hands on some interesting documents related to the offenses of the nObama regime against the citizens of the United States... CDC documents recently obtained relevant to last summer’s orchestrated “invasion of the Central American children” included internal emails with some familiar characterizations of the nObama regime. It’s a little unexpected to learn they are being made by those on the inside as well. Judicial Watch was seeking records related to the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC)activation of an Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to deal with the huge influx of illegal alien minors and the associated reintroduction of diseases which had been eradicated in the US.
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 President nObama Wants To End Independence Day As We Know It  
(Drew Johnson) ~ Enjoy Independence Day while you still can. If President nObama gets his way, this could be the last Fourth of July worth celebrating... New ground-level ozone standards being pushed by nObama and the Environmental Protection Agency would result in widespread bans on fireworks shows, backyard grilling and other Independence Day traditions. Because the proposed ozone rule is set so low, things as harmless as a few backyard chefs grilling burgers in the same area at the same time, or even festive fireworks being launched during an Independence Day celebration, could cause an area to violate federal ozone standard thresholds. Such a violation of the EPA’s unreasonably low ozone limit would result in fines and other penalties for local governments from federal regulators.
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 France Is Fighting Islamic Terrorism As DHS Warns Us  
(rickwells.us) ~ nObama vetoed the Keystone XL pipeline because it would have made the United Statesless dependent on Middle East oil and would have likely dropped the price per barrel, negatively impacting the bottom of line of some of his “associates.”... But there’s one pipeline that he has personally constructed, with help from hanoi John Kerry and Jeh Johnson, the Islamic terrorist pipeline. It’s up and running, with the flow steadily increasing and expected to expand exponentially over the coming years. It’s all part of the Islamification of America, a key component of our destruction. Hussein nObama and his government refuse to admit to the Islamic component of Islamic extremism, France recognizes both and has taken action to deport those behind the movement. France is far from perfect. Their society is unarmed and Frenchmen are largely incapable of defending themselves against armed terrorists, but at least their leadership is willing to properly identify the problem and taking measures to eliminate the source.       http://rickwells.us/france-is-fighting-is
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 Only One In Custody In Illegal Alien Murder of American  
(rickwells.us) ~ There is blood once again covering the hands of Hussein nObama and Jeh Johnson as they have engineered another American murder at the hands of their “New Americans,” illegal aliens... It is their open-border free for all that has filled America with the criminals who are perpetrating this violence against our people. Hussein nObama and Jeh Johnson caused this woman’s murder.  They are responsible for her death and it is far past time for them to be held accountable. nObama has spent the last couple of weeks blaming southerners for the actions of one American who, as vile as he is, had a right to be in the country. We’ve all witnessed his disgraceful attempts to vilify the Confederate flag as a symbol of what is wrong with America. As usual, that’s just more nObama lies and disinformation intended to advance the Marxist agenda. The real symbols of what is wrong in America are the hammer and sickle of his regime and the red, white and green of our hostile neighbor to the south. On Wednesday a five-time deported illegal alien, 45-year-old Francisco Sanchez, shot and killed 32-year-old Kate Steinle as she was walking innocently with her father and a friend on San Francisco’s famous Pier 14. She was struck in the chest and died two hours later in what appears to have been a random act of violence.        http://rickwells.us/three-suspects-only-one-in-custody-in-illegal-alien-murder-of-american-no-pandering-eulogy-expected/
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 Arizona vs ACA: First Step to Nullify the ACA Goes into Effect  
(Tenth Amendment Center) ~ Introduced State Reps. Justin Olson and Vince Leach, House Bill 2643 was passed by both state Houses in Arizona earlier this year... and signed into law by the Governor in April. It goes into effect on July 3rd. The new law prohibits the state in various ways “from using any personnel or financial resources to enforce, administer or cooperate with the Affordable Care Act.”
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 Federal official rips nObama as 'worst,' 'amateur,' 'Marxist'  
(Bob Unruh) ~ President nObama is an “amateur,” a “Marxist” and the “worst” president ever, charged a federal official responsible for protecting public health... That’s according to internal email messages obtained by Judicial Watch, the Washington watchdog on government. Judicial Watch said the emails were obtained as part of a review of the activation of a Centers for Disease Control Emergency Operations Center that was intended to “deal with the barrage of illegal alien minors” that arrived in the U.S. in 2014. The records included emails between agency officials working at the center, Judicial Watch said.
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 World powers, Iran reach tentative deal on sanctions relief  
( GEORGE JAHN AND BRADLEY KLAPPER) ~ World powers and Iran have reached tentative agreement on sanctions relief for the Islamic Republic... among the most contentious issues in a long-term nuclear agreement that negotiators hope to clinch over the next several days, diplomats told The Associated Press on Saturday. The annex, one of five meant to accompany the agreement, outlines which US and international sanctions will be lifted and how quickly. Diplomats said senior officials of the seven-nation talks, which include US Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry and Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, still had to sign off on the package. The diplomats, who weren’t authorized to speak publicly on this past week’s confidential negotiations in Vienna, said the sanctions annex was completed this week by experts from Iran and the six world powers it is negotiating with: the United States, Britain, China, France, Germany and Russia. They did not provide details of the agreement. A senior US official did not dispute the diplomats’ account but said work remained to be done before the issue could be described as finalized. This is one big mistake.     http://www.timesofisrael.com/tentative-agreement-on-iran-sanctions-relief/?utm_source=The+Times+of+Israel+Daily+Edition&utm_campaign=06a50d946f-2015_07_04&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_adb46cec92-06a50d946f-54638825
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 UK: Politicians Urge Ban on the Term "Islamic State"  
(Soeren Kern) ~ The BBC has rejected demands by British lawmakers to stop using the term "Islamic State" when referring to the jihadist group that is carving out a self-declared Caliphate in the Middle East... Lord Hall of Birkenhead, the BBC's director general, said that the proposed alternative, "Daesh," is pejorative and using it would be unfair to the Islamic State, thereby casting doubt upon the BBC's impartiality. Prime Minister David Cameron recently joined the growing chorus of British politicians who argue that the name "Islamic State" is offensive to Muslims and should be banned from the English vocabulary. Oh my goodness, now you don't want to offend Muslim murders.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6095/uk-ban-islamic-state
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 Vicious Sid's State Department  
(washingtonexaminer.com) ~ The big find in the first dump of emails from Hilly Clinton's secret email server, aside from a few insulting comments about Cuban Floridians, is the fact that The New York Times was on to a much bigger story in May than it realized... Sid Blumenthal, the former Clinton hatchet-man from the 1990s, was not just sending Secretary of State Clinton briefings about the situation in Libya, but was briefing her about nearly every corner of the globe. Though barred by President nObama's minders from any official job in the administration, vicious Sid had constant access to Clinton. Blumenthal's sense of self-importance in these communiques is as absurd as his undue influence over Clinton is scandalous. Under the centered, all-caps header of "CONFIDENTIAL," he offers up one assessment after another of British, Iranian, Italian and Afghan affairs as if he were some kind of mobile CIA station chief.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/vicious-sids-state-department/article/2567488?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI%20-%2007/02/15&utm_medium=email
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The Point of No Return
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     (burtprelutsky.com) ~ When an airplane having engine trouble is closer to its final destination than it is to its home base, it is said to have reached the point of no return. I’m afraid that’s where America now finds itself.
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     This tragic fact was brought home for me when I watched a three-minute video produced by an outfit calling itself Government Gone Wild. It started out by telling us that if you type in the words “How do I qualify for…” on your computer, the top 10 sites on any search engine will tell you how to qualify for such things as food stamps, Medicaid, disability and earned income credit. In other words, you and millions of illegal aliens will learn how to latch onto the government teat.
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     The video also shared the alarming news that 41% of all births and 60% of elderly long term care is paid for with our tax dollars, and that one of every three households, accounting for 144,000,000 people, receive food stamps, subsidized housing, cash welfare and free health care.
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     It also divulged the fact that as investments go, being poor provides a greater return than silver, gold or stocks, because for every dollar paid in taxes of one kind or another by a poor person, he receives ten dollars in welfare. What’s more, the feds are funding a marketing program to get even more people on food stamps.
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     Assuming you haven’t been in a coma for the past 30 years, you should have noticed that the problem just keeps getting worse. Under Reagan, 19% of adults paid no income tax. Under Clinton, the percentage rose to 25% and, under George W. Bush, it jumped to 30%. Under Barack nObama, it has soared to 47%. In other words, 53% of us are paying for every government giveaway.
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     Hard to believe the Boston Tea Party launched the American Revolution over a penny tax on tea. Of course the rallying cry was “No taxation without representation,” which might translate into “It’s not the penny, it’s the principle.” But if they’d had any idea that one day their countrymen would be burdened by a legion of blood-sucking mayors, councilmen, assemblymen, state senators, congressmen, senators, a vice president and Barack nObama, I like to think they’d have spared us the grief and paid the extra penny.
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 Because I always look for the silver lining, I am hoping that China, having now hacked the government’s computers, not to mention Sony’s and those of several other American companies, will do the right thing and make public what they discovered on Hilly Clinton’s private server.
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 In recent years, one of the staples of Hollywood has been movies about cliques of mean girls in high school and college. The clique leaders are generally hard-bitten blondes who have it in for a nice girl, who has innocently caught the eye of her boyfriend. It seems to me that they should set one of those movies in Washington with a cast that includes Kirsten Powers, Marie Harf, Jen Psaki and Debbie Wasserman-Schultz. When it comes to cold eyes, snarky smiles and a bratty attitude, Central Casting couldn’t come close to matching this quartet.
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 Apparently, Neil Young, a Canadian citizen who supports Bernie Sanders, was offended that Donald Trump used his “Rockin’ in the Free World” as a musical accompaniment when announcing his run for the White House. In rebuttal, the Trump team announced they had paid a fee for the song, reminding some of us of Ronald Reagan’s announcing he had paid for the microphone.
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     My question, though, is why Republican candidates keep picking songs composed by left-wing pinheads. John McCain, Marco Rubio and Mitt Romney, have all been ratted out. Does their musical knowledge go back no further than the 60s? Do they really think that the Beach Boys, Neil Young, Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen, are the be-all and end-all of American music? Are they all tone-deaf? Have they never heard of Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Richard Rodgers, Frank Loesser, Harry Warren, Vernon Duke, Harold Arlen and George Gershwin, all of whom, on their worst days, wrote better songs than the current crop?
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 It used to be that only politicians and criminal defense attorneys lied for a living, but it has become something of a growth industry. In just the past few months, we have seen Brian Williams, George Stephanopoulos, Tom Brady and Rachel Dolezal, caught fibbing. I guess because Williams and Stephanopoulos have spent so many years hanging with politicians, they were pretty good at it.
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     However, Brady, a football player and Dolezal, a psychotic community organizer, confirmed their amateur status by lying so badly, it was embarrassing. In poker circles, when you subconsciously tip off whether or not you’re bluffing, it’s called a “tell.” In Brady’s case, when asked if he had knowingly cheated by using a deflated ball against the Indianapolis Colts, he said: “I don’t believe so.” That was also how Ms. Dolezal responded when she was asked if she was lying when she claimed to be a black woman.
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     “I don’t believe so” is the appropriate response when asked if one would like to have seconds at a dinner party or if someone asks you if America’s safety and well-being is of primary concern to Barack nObama. On the other hand, when asked if you lied or cheated, “I don’t believe so” runs a close second to “Oh, shoot, how did you guess?”
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 Although I personally regard Donald Trump’s entry into the GOP primaries as a breath of fresh air in a room filled to the rafters with mealy-mouthed politicians, I must confess I got a kick out of a recent poster I saw bearing his likeness, captioned: “We Shall Overcomb.”
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Saturday 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:
nObama's Make-Believe Life
Alan Caruba 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 IT WAS THE SHIRTS, WASN’T IT? 
TIME: “In an attempt to show her support of the Chicago Pride Parade on SundayLady Gaga instead championed the world of mariachi performers. Gaga shared a photo on Instagram Sunday from the balcony of her Chicago apartment overlooking what appears to be a huge gathering of people down below. ‘Watching over Chicago Pride from my apartment and smiling so big,’ the ‘Born This Way’ singer, 29, wrote. ‘So many happy people. Happy pride!’ In the image, Gaga goes shirtless, instead bearing the words “Gay Pride” across her chest and stomach. The issue? The singer wasn’t anywhere near the city’s pride parade. The gathering was in fact the Chicago Mariachi and Folklórico Festival. The event, honoring the Mexican folk music, was held at the recognizable Jay Pritzker Pavilion at Millennium Park.”  -Fox News
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 Man Who's Never Had a Real Job Makes Rules for Businesses 
With a wave of his magic wand, Barack nObama just gave five million workers a raise — or so he'd like you to believe. In an op-ed explaining his new regulations on overtime pay for salaried workers, nObama wrote, "We've got to keep making sure hard work is rewarded. Right now, too many Americans are working long days for less pay than they deserve. That's partly because we've failed to update overtime regulations for years — and an exemption meant for highly paid, white collar employees now leaves out workers making as little as $23,660 a year — no matter how many hours they work. ... [M]y plan [is] to extend overtime protections to nearly 5 million workers in 2016, covering all salaried workers making up to about $50,400 next year." And who doesn't want a raise? Naturally, his proposal will be popular with those who think they stand to benefit, as well as those in need of an Economics 101 refresher. The real-world results will be that employers hire fewer workers, pay lower base wages, cut hours and nix benefits like work-from-home scenarios for employees who now have to scrupulously track their hours. Just mandating higher wages doesn't mean businesses can afford to pay them. The conservative approach is to actually grow the economy — which, notably, nObama has not done. As John F. Kennedy once said, "A rising tide lifts all boats." Not just the ones nObama points to with his wand.  -The Patriot Post  
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 State Dragging Its Feet During Clinton Email Release 
Last night, the State Department released 3,000 pages of Hilly Clinton's email from when she served as secretary of state. This is the first batch of emails it released in response to a judge ordering the department to place Clinton's emails in the public record on a rolling basis. Americans will get an email dump every month until the Democrat primary in January. Cue a Hilly headache. Nate Jones, expert in the Freedom of Information Act at the National Security Archive housed at George Washington University, said he would be watching how much information the State Department redacts. "The emails were unclassified, so it will be eyebrow-raising if any more content is retroactively classified by State," Jones said. "It will be extremely troubling if State wastes its resources to unnecessarily censor 'deliberative process' emails which Clinton herself stated she wants released." Sure enough, the State Department redacted 25 emails because it deemed them classified. It also went ahead and struck the name of a man whose birthday Clinton's office was celebrating. Last week, the House Select Committee on Benghazi discovered through interviewing Clinton lackey Sidney Blumenthal that Clinton's staff sanitized the emails before dumping them on State. For all the platitudes, the effort to get the Clinton docs in the public record is all but sincere.  -The Patriot Post  
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 Justices to Rule on Forced Union Dues 
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to add to next term's docket Friderichs v. California Teachers Association, a lawsuit that could significantly loosen teachers unions grip over California and 19 other states. Because those states abide by the "closed shop" rule, collective bargaining requires that public teachers, even non-unionized ones, turn over portions of their paychecks to Democrat activists masquerading as unions. That's not a bargain at all, which is why lead plaintiff Rebecca Friedrichs, a frustrated teacher veteran, filed a lawsuit two years ago to abolish the arbitrary system. Terry Pell, president of the Center for Individual Rights, the firm representing the plaintiffs, said in 2013, "We are going to get this case to the Supreme Court and win, and if we do, we will eliminate the close shop rules." He was right about the first part, but we won't know about the second for another year. But Reason's Robby Soave believes that SCOTUS will get this one right. "The conservative 5-4 majority in 2012's Knox v. SEIU essentially invited such a challenge, and the decision today by the Court to hear the case is a very good sign," he writes. Furthermore, "A big win for Friedrichs could have massive consequences. California is just one of 20 'closed-shop' states that require non-members to pay union dues. Compulsory unionization could be ruled unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds nationwide." Recent rulings — namely on nObamaCare — caution us against high expectations, but unions have been put on high alert either way. Even an unfavorable ruling won't silence the growing, vocal opposition to union contortions. 
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 Making Patriots  
(Karlyn Bowman) ~ Samuel Johnson once called patriotism “the last refuge of scoundrels.” Was he right? Recent events, such as the bombing of federal buildings and the formations of threatening militias in the name of patriotism, suggest that he may have been on to something... But the United States has also seen its share of heroes: patriots who, over the course of history, have willingly put their lives at risk for this country and, especially, for its principles. This is even more remarkable given that the United States is founded on the concepts of equality and democracy–tenets that encourage individuality and autonomy far more readily than public spiritedness and self-sacrifice. Walter Berns’ “Making Patriots”is a stirring and provocative essay on precisely this paradox. How is patriotism inculcated in a system that, some argue, is founded on self-interest? Expertly and intelligibly guiding the reader through the history and philosophy of patriotism in a republic, from the ancient Greeks through contemporary life, Berns considers the unique nature of patriotism in the United States and its precarious position as we enter the 21st century. He argues that while both public education and the influence of religion once helped to foster a public-minded citizenry, the very idea of patriotism is currently under attack.        http://www.aei.org/publication/making-patriots-2/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=070315
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 Who Is Damaging Relations Between Arabs and Jews?  
(Khaled Abu Toameh) ~ Once again, it is time to remind the representatives of the Arab citizens of Israel in the Knesset (parliament) who their real constituents are... It is time to remind these representatives that they were elected by Arab citizens of Israel, and not by Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The reason why the Arab Knesset members need to be reminded of who their real constituents are is because some of them seem to have forgotten that the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip have their own leaders, spokesmen and representatives. In recent years, some of the Arab Knesset members have devoted much of their time and efforts to helping the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, at the expense of their own constituents in Israel.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6082/arabs-jews-relations
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 WHAT HILLY IS HIDING  
(Kenneth R. Timmerman) ~ The left-wing media establishment is turning against Hilly Clinton. It’s happening long after the rest of us understood that Mrs. Clinton bore a unique responsibility for the tragic and avoidable disaster in Benghazi that cost the lives of four brave Americans, so please: there is no need for applause... After all, the New York Times, the Washington Post, CBS Sixty Minutes, and NBC News are just doing their jobs. Finally. Well, almost doing their jobs. For most of these, the Clinton “story” is all about process. As more emails turn up that Hilly “overlooked” when she scoured her personal server, the New York Times wonders if any serious discrepancy will emerge, and gives Hilly’s spokesperson’s effort to bury the story far more credit than he deserves. Here is Hilly’s problem: not only did she conduct official business on a private server, apparently with the blessing of a key lackey, Undersecretary for Management, Patrick Kennedy; but as copies of those emails surface, key elements of the story she has tried to suppress from Day One are emerging.     http://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/259320/what-hillary-hiding-kenneth-r-timmerman
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 Five Lies About Hilly's Secret Emails  
(Guy Benson) ~ Let's review a handful of false statements and claims offered by Hilly Clinton, her lawyers, and her supporters, pertaining to the secret email scandal that continues to unfold:
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 Your Honor! More Americans Want States to Ignore Federal Courts  
(Selwyn Duke) ~ While dissenting from the recent Supreme Court decision rubber-stamping same-sex “marriage,” Justice Antonin Scalia warned his colleagues that with “each decision... unabashedly based not on law” the Court moves “one step closer to being reminded of its impotence.” And a new poll shows that another such step has in fact been taken, with more Americans supporting the idea that states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings. Writes Rasmussen Reports, “A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 33% of Likely U.S. Voters now believe that states should have the right to ignore federal court rulings if their elected officials disagree with them. That’s up nine points from 24% when we first asked this question in February. Just over half (52%) disagree, down from 58% in the earlier survey. Fifteen percent (15%) are undecided.” This shift is clearly influenced not just by Obergefell v. Hodges (the marriage ruling), but also a late June nObamaCare decision so contrary to the “Affordable Care Act’s” text that Justice Scalia lamented to the Court, “Words no longer have meaning.” Not surprisingly, there was an ideological divide among poll respondents.        http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/21190-pound-sand-your-honor-more-americans-want-states-to-ignore-federal-courts?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=89a8ab1a52-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-89a8ab1a52-289778381
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 The enemy within is now setting the narrative  
(Bradless Dean) ~ America has now been warned by the Department of Homeland Security that there are potential Islamic terror attacks planned for the Fourth of July... The DHS and FBI recently posted a map where they would set up command posts within the United States so you can report things you may find suspicious. Or do they mean so those willing to come forward to be informants can find them? Apparently, there are those among us who are more than willing to be useful to their own demise. What, will the enemies not see this post? How ridiculously obvious can this get before America awakens to who her real enemies are? Keep in mind that DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson stated that it was his job to “give voice to the plight of the Muslims.” It’s the same department to which Barack Hussein nObama has appointed Muslims with terrorist ties to oversee the American people (Deuteronomy 28:36; Jeremiah 5:6). This administration has been involved in funding, training, supplying and even in the entertaining of America’s sworn enemies in the people’s White House.       http://www.wnd.com/author/bdean/
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 hanoi Kerry's invite to boss of Vietnam Communist Party  
(Daniel Greenfield) ~ Maybe that headline should be rewritten as, "Head of American Communist Party to host head of Vietnam Communist Party."... Sure that sounds a little over the top, but Hillary's main opponent is an open Socialist and we've got Bill Moyers lecturing us on how Americans invented Socialism, FDR was a Socialist and Socialism is really awesome. How long until we're told that Communism is really All-American? So why not open an embassy in Havana before there is one in Jerusalem and throw open the doors for the head of the Vietnam Communist Party, the ideology which so many Americans died fighting against. http://www.frontpagemag.com/point/259343/kerrys-invite-boss-vietnam-communist-party-daniel-greenfield
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 New Revelations From Hilly Clinton’s Latest Emails  
(Doug Ross) ~ I’m working my way through the latest Clinton email dump and there are several observations that stick out... Hilly and her crew thought Barack nObama was a clueless amateur; “Journalist” David Broder of the Washington Post apparently allows Clinton ghost writers to pen his columns; disgraced, unindicted criminal Sandy Berger (of the shredded Top Secret Bill Clinton/Bin Laden memos) was a key adviser to Clinton; and, based upon the dozens and dozens of pages of fully redacted material, Granny Catlady was definitely sending and receiving tons of classified information through her compromised email server (which gives the feds the right to seize that box).        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/07/new-revelations-from-hillary-clintons-latest-emails/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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 Israel goes on the alert on her Sinai border  
(israeltoday.co.il) ~ The Islamic State (ISIS) organization launched an offensive against Egyptian security forces on Wednesday killing dozens. The fighting which is now in the third day is the largest battles that have taken place in the Sinai peninsula since the 1973 Yom Kippur war... The IS caught the Egyptian forces in north-western Sinai off guard with their surprise attack carrying out a well coordinated simultaneous attack on 15 posts and centers of the Egyptian security forces in northern Sinai. Egypt quickly received clearance from Israel to move additional weapons, including tanks armored personnel carriers, Apache helicopters and F-16 fighter jets, into the Sinai. The battles taking place between the Egyptian army and the ISIS fighters could also develop into rocket and mortar fire towards Israel, and the Central Command is preparing for that too. In the meantime, it seems that the IS fighters are busy battling the Egyptian army, which is attacking them from the air and from the ground, but the heightened state of alert on the Israeli side will likely continue for a few more days, as experience shows that ISIS will try to create provocations on the border with Israel in a bid to cause a friction between the IDF and the Egyptian army and affect the relationship between Egypt and Israel.   http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/26921/Default.aspx
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 Why are Jewish groups “scampering” to save Muslim refugees?  
(Ann Corcoran) ~ Good question isn’t it!  It is a question I’ve wondered about for 8 years, ever since I first heard of HIAS and Muslim refugees... But, now that I know more, it is not too complicated to answer—they are doing it because they are politically-correct hard Leftists working to change America, and they are doing it for the money they receive from the US taxpayer to resettle Muslims in America. I’m speaking specifically here of the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society (HIAS), one of the groups mentioned in this editorial in the Jewish Voice entitled: HIAS & ADL Spend Jewish $ to Bring Muslims to the US?       https://refugeeresettlementwatch.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/why-are-jewish-groups-scampering-to-save-muslim-refugees/
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nObama's Make-Believe Life
Alan Caruba 
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     (factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) ~ I have this theory about Barack nObama. I think he’s led a kind of make-believe life in which money was provided and doors were opened because at some point early on somebody or some group took a look at this tall, good looking, half-white, half-black, young man with an exotic African/Muslim name and concluded he could be guided toward a life in politics where his facile speaking skills could even put him in the White House.
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     In a very real way, he has been a young man in a very big hurry. Who else do you know has written two memoirs before the age of 45? “Dreams From My Father” was published in 1995 when he was only 34 years old. The “Audacity of Hope” followed in 2006. If, indeed, he did write them himself. There are some who think that his mentor and friend, Bill Ayers, a man who calls himself a “communist with a small ‘c’” was the real author.
His political skills consisted of rarely voting on anything that might be deemed controversial. He went from a legislator in the Illinois legislature to the Senator from that state because he had the good fortune of having Mayor Daley’s formidable political machine at his disposal. 
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     He was in the U.S. Senate so briefly that his bid for the presidency was either an act of astonishing self-confidence or part of some greater game plan that had been determined before he first stepped foot in the Capital. How, many must wonder, was he selected to be a 2004 keynote speaker at the Democrat convention that nominated hanoi John Kerry when virtually no one had ever even heard of him before?
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     He outmaneuvered Hilly Clinton in primaries. He took Iowa by storm. A charming young man, an anomaly in the state with a very small black population, he oozed “cool” in a place where agriculture was the antithesis of cool. He dazzled the locals. And he had an army of volunteers drawn to a charisma that hid any real substance.
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     And then he had the great good fortune of having the Republicans select one of the most inept candidates for the presidency since Bob Dole. And then John McCain did something crazy. He picked Sarah Palin, an unknown female governor from the very distant state of Alaska. It was a ticket that was reminiscent of 1984’s Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro and they went down to defeat.
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     The mainstream political media fell in love with him. It was a schoolgirl crush with febrile commentators like Chris Mathews swooning then and now over the man. The venom directed against McCain and, in particular, Palin, was extraordinary.
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     Now, nearly a full year into his first term, all of those gilded years leading up to the White House have left him unprepared to be President. Left to his own instincts, he has a talent for saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. It swiftly became a joke that he could not deliver even the briefest of statements without the ever-present Tele-Prompters.
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     Far worse, however, is his capacity to want to “wish away” some terrible realities, not the least of which is the Islamist intention to destroy America and enslave the West. Any student of history knows how swiftly Islam initially spread. It knocked on the doors of Europe, having gained a foothold in Spain.
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     The great crowds that greeted him at home or on his campaign “world tour” were no substitute for having even the slightest grasp of history and the reality of a world filled with really bad people with really bad intentions.
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     Oddly and perhaps even inevitably, his political experience, a cakewalk, has positioned him to destroy the Democrat Party’s hold on power in Congress because in the end it was never about the Party. It was always about his communist ideology, learned at an early age from family, mentors, college professors, and extreme leftist friends and colleagues. 
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     nObama is a man who could deliver a snap judgment about a Cambridge, Massachusetts police officer who arrested an “obstreperous” Harvard professor-friend, but would warn Americans against “jumping to conclusions” about a mass murderer at Fort Hood who shouted “Allahu Akbar.” The absurdity of that was lost on no one. He has since compounded this by calling the Christmas bomber “an isolated extremist” only to have to admit a day or two later that he was part of an al Qaeda plot. 
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     He is a man who could strive to close down our detention facility at Guantanamo even though those released were known to have returned to the battlefield against America. He could even instruct his  Attorney General to afford the perpetrator of 9/11 a civil trial when no one else would ever even consider such an obscenity. And he is a man who could wait three days before having anything to say about the perpetrator of yet another terrorist attack on Americans and then have to elaborate on his remarks the following day because his first statement was so lame.
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     The pattern repeats itself. He either blames any problem on the Bush administration or he naively seeks to wish away the truth. 
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     Knock, knock. Anyone home? Anyone there? Barack nObama exists only as the sock puppet of his handlers, of the people who have maneuvered and manufactured this pathetic individual’s life. 
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     When anyone else would quickly and easily produce a birth certificate, this man has spent over a million dollars to deny access to his. Most other documents, the paper trail we all leave in our wake, have been sequestered from review. He has lived a make-believe life whose true facts remain hidden.
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Saturday 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:
Understanding Islam
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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 Hilly’s Email Troubles Reach Beyond Benghazi 
The Left sees the issue of Hilly Clinton's emails as a liability for the Right. If Republicans aren't careful, that may prove true.
          In March, nObama adviser David Axelrod tweeted, "The email trap: If the Rs make HRC email an obsessive fixation, to the exclusion of larger concerns of people, they will pay a price. Again."
          Thanks, Axelrod. An enemy multiplies kisses. After all, there are concerns about the economy, nObamaCare, immigration and what to do with a Supreme Court bent on making this nation ruled by a five-vote majority of a nine-judge panel. But Hilly Clinton's emails are the perfect profile of Machiavellian politics that she hopes lead to a Clinton White House 2.0.
          On Tuesday, the State Department released 3,000 pages of Clinton's email from her time as secretary of state. This release is simultaneously huge and insignificant. Finally, after years of failed requests via the Freedom of Information Act, journalists and the public can start reading the email exchange showing Clinton telling retired four-star general John Podesta to "please wear socks to bed to keep your feet warm."
          It's a massive document dump — 3,000 pages of Clinton scheduling meetings, replying to intelligence reports or firing off curt replies. Yet, it's only a fraction of the 55,000 pages of emails the State Department will release over the next few months. And it only happened because a federal judge ordered it after VICE News sued -The Patriot Post 
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 WALKER ENTERS RACE IN BEST SPOT TO BEAT JEB 
Scott Walker will declare himself a candidate for president today. A Walker aide told Fox News that the Wisconsin governor will file a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission today but wait until July 13 to publicly launch his campaign at a rally in Waukesha, Wisc.
          This makes for an odd 11 days in which Walker is a candidate for president but not discussing it publicly. (Welcome to the world of failed election laws.) But whenever Walker goes from exploring to declared to announced, he arrives in the race as the person best situated to deny former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush the nomination.
          Establishment-backed candidates have won every nomination since 1980 when Bush’s father got knocked out by Ronald Reagan. And while there are others who might pull off an upset, at this point Walker is the top underdog.
          Walker is in second place behind in the Real Clear Politics Average, but the field is in flux. Donald Trump has crashed into second tier candidates, particularly Sen.Ted Cruz, R-Texas, like an unguided missile. This is probably a good thing for Walker.  Even though the government-union foe has lost some of his vote share in this impossibly crowded field, his lead over everyone else who isn’t Bush has remained durable.
          In Iowa, for example, Walker dropped from 21 points in May’s Quinnipiac poll to 18 points this week, but maintained the same 8-point lead.
          The other candidate who poses a real threat to Bush right now is Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., but he has had a rough run in national and early state polls. With the bounce following his April launch gone, Rubio is getting back on the circuit. Rubio heads to New Hampshire for Independence Day weekend ahead of his Tuesday policy speech in Chicago and is bound for Iowa later this month.
          Unlike Cruz and others, though, Rubio’s damage has not come from the Trumpedo blast. Rubio is being smothered by his onetime mentor Bush. Bush’s campaign has picked up speed and establishment voters seem to be rallying to him in a way that they were reticent to do before. While Bush generates little love among movement conservatives, he is now thriving with the third of the party closer to the center.
          That has been trouble for his fellow Floridian who’s candidacy is in many ways an argument against the Bush’s general election viability. Rubio is young, Hispanic, brimming with energy and of humble origins. Bush is none of those things. Rubio will certainly, though, be back.
          Walker’s core support seems to be somewhere on the ideological intensity spectrum between Bush at one end and Cruz at the other. Rubio, having been upstaged by Bush, will now have to get serious about knocking off Walker. And that likely means emphasizing his conservative policy points and pushing the discussion to Walker’s weak spot: foreign policy.
          The duel between Walker and Rubio promises to get very intense by the time debate day arrives on Aug. 6.
          [Walker rolled out the welcome mat for President nObama today ahead of his visit to Wisconsin today. Read what Walker had to say here. -Fox News  
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF LIBERTY 
Fox News First will not be published tomorrow in observance of Independence Day. (America and the celebration of it are too good and too important to be marred by the grime of politics.) But as you go about celebrating the founding of this “last, best hope of earth” take with you the knowledge of the magnitude of the blessing you hold.
          Of all the resources with which America has been gifted, none perhaps was so remarkable as the intellect, decency, character and foresight of our founders. There were some rogues among them, perhaps, and some certainly had roguish sides, but that a group of men so large and of such competing personal interests and beliefs could unite for the common cause of founding the first truly free nation is without equal in history. That they did so in opposition to the world’s greatest superpower is nothing short of miraculous.
          If they could have conceived of the size of the task ahead of them on this date in 1776, this Saturday would likely bring no celebration. Perhaps like Canada did this week, we would have a modest recognition of greater autonomies granted by a benevolent monarch. Instead, we will have something large, loud and chaotic – filled with explosions, streaked with barbeque sauce and smelling faintly of spilt whiskey. It will be, in the parlance of our times, highly problematic.
          Thank God.
          America has been highly problematic from the start. All of the good order, virtue and discipline that allowed this experiment to take shape and to endure was needed because of the utter wildness that was driving the movement. George Washington is rightly loved and revered for his self-sacrificing virtue and discipline, but it was the wildness of this new and ambitious people that led him to his work. The country he saw as a young surveyor in the Ohio Valley was full of danger and possibility.  Foreigners coming here today are still are often unsettled by the scope of this land and how much of it remains undeveloped – wild and free. America, like most beautiful things, comes with a hint of danger.
          So, it is good that the patriots in Philadelphia 239 years ago didn’t know the size of the struggle before them or how many would suffer personally in the war already begun. But they certainly had an idea. Treason is not a lark and the British Army was not for trifling. But the wildness in them – the “barbaric yawp” – drove them ahead where reason and rationality would not take them.
          And when it comes to that wildness, there is none better than Patrick Henry. And there could be no better Independence Day meditation than the closing words of his speech to the members of the disbanded Virginia House meeting at St. John’s Church in Richmond on March 23, 1776.
          Have a wild, wonderful holiday. We’ll be back with you on Monday.
          “The battle, sir, is not to the strong alone; it is to the vigilant, the active, the brave. Besides, sir, we have no election. If we were base enough to desire it, it is now too late to retire from the contest. There is no retreat but in submission and slavery! Our chains are forged! Their clanking may be heard on the plains of Boston! The war is inevitable -- and let it come! I repeat it, sir, let it come!
          It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, ‘Peace! Peace!’ -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty, or give me death!”  
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 Secret Court Revives NSA Bulk Surveillance  
(Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.) ~ On June 29, a secret court ruled that a federal court and Congress were wrong to end the NSA's bulk collection of phone metadata; therefore, the mass sureillance can carry on as before — for now... National Journal reports: "The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court [FISC] approved a government request to renew the dragnet collection of U.S. phone metadata for an additional five months—a timeframe allowed under the Freedom Act, a newly enacted surveillance reform law that calls for an eventual end to the mass spying program exposed by Edward Snowden two years ago."       http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/21179-secret-court-revives-nsa-bulk-surveillance?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=d3e186432e-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-d3e186432e-289778381
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 Climate Change: Is a Deadly Ice Age on the Horizon?  
(Selwyn Duke) ~ The last ice age ended approximately 12,000 years ago, and since then we’ve been enjoying a pleasantly warm “interglacial period.”... But given that an interglacial may last only 12,000 years, we’re confronted with a scary prospect: Another ice age may be nigh. And this could have devastating effects on mankind. So says atmospheric and space physics expert S. Fred Singer, professor emeritus at the University of Virginia and a founding director of the Science & Environmental Policy Project. While he has never been worried about global warming — emphasizing that climate alarmists’ predictions have been consistently wrong — he writes at American Thinker today that he has “recently become quite concerned about ice ages and the dangers they pose to humans on our planet — and indeed to most of terrestrial ecology.” In fact, he’s so concerned that he proposes we try to mitigate any cooling that may occur.
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 Silent spread of Caliphate: Saudi govt funding private Islamic schools  
(/themuslimissue.wordpress.com) ~ Saudi’s have been found secretly funding the creation of mosques all over the West. The Saudi’s hook their nails into a local mosque, watch it as it grows from a distance... At some stage they suddenly appear from nowhere and start offering large amounts of money to the leaders of the local mosque to “expand” or “rebuild” it. If the mosque agrees to this exchange of money and the construction goes ahead, at a later date the Saudi’s suddenly show up on their doorstep, unannounced, and demand a change of management. And what happens? The mosque is then taken over by a Salafi affiliated management and the sermons and educational books now follow Mecca Salafism and demand that children are taught the Hadiths and the extreme hate preachings. The local mosques may not even had any knowledge of this development until its too late. The reason the Saudi’s sneak around like this is that they know that local government’s in the West would add restrictions to permits of opening or operating a mosque if they immediately knew it was a Saudi operated one, so they use an existing, preferably small one, and act as a parasite on the host. In this way they avoid detection and red lights from both authorities and from the local government.
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 Exposing Hollywood Pedophiles  
(Cliff Kincaid) ~ Director Amy Berg exposed the cover-up of pedophilia in the Catholic Church in her 2006 Oscar-nominated documentary, “Deliver Us from Evil.” On Friday night, July 3, New Yorkers can see her new explosive documentary on how pedophiles operate in Hollywood and cover up their crimes... Her film, “An Open Secret,” is being shown at the Cinema Village at 22 East 12th Street in New York City. Several journalists are included in the film, with one describing his attempt to document the sexual crimes committed by top Hollywood figures and how his story exposing this criminal conduct was killed. Even more shocking, director Berg was quoted as saying last November that she could not find any company willing to distribute her film. That has changed with the showing on Friday night in New York, and the opening in the Los Angeles area on July 17 at Laemmle’s Music Hall in Beverly Hills.        http://www.aim.org/aim-column/exposing-hollywood-pedophiles/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email070315&utm_medium=email
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 ‘Let’s Make a Deal’ nObama Says to Iran’s Death-to-America Crowd  
(Deroy Murdock) ~ While the date may be extended slightly, today marks the official deadline for concluding a U.S.-Iranian atomic-weapons deal. One might think that nObama’s supposed partners in peace would use conciliatory words befitting the occasion... Instead, top Iranians keep kicking hot gravel in his face. But not even that was enough for the ayatollahs. They organized yet another Death to America conclave this month in the town of Hamdan. None of this seems to deter the enthusiasm of Team nObama, which is as enthralled as ever about a deal. As Fredrik Stanton, author of Great Negotiations: Agreements That Changed the Modern World, observes, “Perhaps the most astonishing thing about the negotiation is how the unwavering hostility of the Iranian government is exceeded only by the tenacity of the nObama Administration’s wishful thinking.”
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 Iran Violates Past Nuclear Promises on Eve of Deal  
(Adam Kredo)~ Senior nObama administration officials are defending Iranian nuclear violations in the aftermath of a bombshell report published Wednesday by the United Nations indicating that Iran has failed to live up to its nuclear-related obligations, according to sources apprised of the situation... The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) disclosed yesterday that Iran has failed to meet its commitments under the interim Joint Plan of Action to convert recently enriched uranium gas to powder. While Iran has reduced the amount of enriched uranium gas in its stockpiles, it has failed to dispose of these materials in a way that satisfies the requirements of the nuclear accord struck with the United States and other powers in 2013. And nObama still wants a deal.
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 Standing Up For Parents Against Homosexual Activist School Board  
(rickwells.us) ~ The citizens and parents of Fairfax County, Virginia have a right to be outraged... They are faced with a corrupt, pro-homosexual agenda driven school board which is violating the law and dictating the teaching of homosexuality as a legitimate lifestyle choice to their seventh grade and above students, in spite of overwhelming, near unanimous opposition. This is the true nature of the nObama pro-homosexual, same sex marriage movement. It is about destroying the family, inserting the federal government into the role of the parents, diminishing the parental influence on their children, and perverting society into a state-dependent unisex mass of humanity. Just as with the federal government forced nObamacare, nObamatrade, homosexual marriage and amnesty down the throats of the American people against our wishes, this school board is conducting their affairs in the same dictatorial manner. Americans are quickly becoming powerless in their own affairs, reduced to being mere subjects of the “crown” rather than the sovereign citizens with the rights guaranteed in our Constitution.        http://rickwells.us/standing-up-for-parents-against-homosexual-activist-school-board-parents-lose-marxists-win/
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 Whatever nObama Says on Immigration, Assume the Opposite is True 
(Bob Dane) ~ After years of separating fact from fiction, we can conclude two things. First is that as the deceptions have become more dazzling and audacious, they have become easier to debunk with almost embarrassing ease... Secondly, we can advise with a high level of confidence that whenever nObama, or one of his officials, makes a statement regarding immigration, it’s always prudent to assume that the exact opposite is more likely true. nObama’s earliest deceit was revealed, not by us, but simply by the passage of time and the president himself. During his first term, nObama promised to act on behalf of “kids who were brought here through no fault of their own,” thus implying a limited amnesty for a small population. That claim was unabashedly exposed the moment nObama unilaterally ordered two massive amnesties covering not just “kids,” but most illegal aliens up to age 30 and all of their parents. Those combined actions represent a wholesale amnesty for 6-8 million illegal aliens, more than half of all in the U.S.        http://immigrationreform.com/2015/06/27/whatever-obama-says-on-immigration-just-assume-the-opposite-is-true/
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 Benghazi Lies Began With nObama and Hilly?  
(judicialwatch.org) ~ When the complete history is written of the 2012 terrorist attack in Benghazi, Libya, the dishonesty and duplicity of the nObama White House will be an inescapable fact... As we celebrate Independence Day, Americans ought to be disturbed about the ethical quality of the men and women in high office. The signers of the Declaration of Independence would surely be aghast at the unethical, lawless leadership in Washington, D.C. However, I’d like to think the Founders would be happy with the vigilance and persistence of Judicial Watch in holding our government leaders accountable for their misdeeds. To that end, this week we released new State Department documents showing that Hilly Clinton and the State Department’s response to the Benghazi attack was immediately determined by top nObama White House officials, particularly Ben Rhodes, then-White House deputy strategic communications adviser, and Bernadette Meehan, a spokesperson for the National Security Council. The new documents were forced from the State Department under court order in aJudicial Watch Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit.        http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/weekly-updates/benghazi-breakthrough/
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 The Clinton Foundation A cauldron of conflicts and cronyism  
( Barbara Joanna Lucas) ~ The former fi rst family’s philanthropy has always been a vehicle to promote the careers of the Clintons. It does some good things that help people but in recent years it has functioned more like an unoffi cial campaign headquarters for Hilly Clinton’s 2016 presidential bid... And if there is one thing the Clintons are good at, it’s getting paid. The Clintons said the charity would not accept donations from foreign governments while Mrs. Clinton served as Secretary of State. They must have been crossing their fingers behind their backs because it was recently revealed that the Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from foreign governments during Mrs. Clinton’s tenure at the State Department. Making matters worse, Hilly Clinton’s cavalier approach to U.S. national security has also spilled over into her family’s foundation – and a new book called “the most anticipated and feared book of a presidential cycle still in its infancy” is to be published this month. The Clinton Foundation may soon dominate news cycles, but not the way the Clintons wanted.        http://capitalresearch.org/wp-content/uploads/FW0515.pdf
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Understanding Islam
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     (burtprelutsky.com) ~ For a long time after 9/11, a great many non-Muslims felt compelled to read the Koran to better understand the enemy. Even back then, I knew that was a waste of time. If you want to know the heart of a person, you don’t need to read a book or even figure out how he thinks, you just need to know how he behaves.
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     That was the reason that I have never bothered trying to distinguish good Muslims from bad ones. Although I knew that only a relatively small percentage of them would blow up a school bus or kill someone because they had drawn a depiction of Muhammad, I also knew that a majority of them in the Middle East celebrated the destruction of the Twin Towers and the murder of 3,000 Americans.
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     I also knew that even after that massacre, a great many American Muslims were contributing to the terrorists in Hamas and Hezbollah until the FBI put to a stop to it. It was also no secret that Muslim clerics were in our prisons converting prisoners, usually black ones, to their vile cult. Furthermore, I knew that American Muslims were plotting mischief in their mosques and that, instead of placing a bounty on Osama bin Laden’s head, they were whining about being profiled.
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     That is why I would counsel Israel to never enter into a deal with those sworn to kill all the Jews. As for pandering to so-called world opinion, Israel should never even consider it. Most of the world hates Jews, but the existence of Israel provides them with cover. It allows people like Vanessa Redgrave, Emma Thompson and the administrators at a great many American universities to pretend it’s Israeli national policies they find objectionable, when in reality the only policy they really oppose is the one that calls for self-preservation.
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     ♦ The reason that so many creeps in Europe and America respond to the siren’s call of ISIS is because for many, license to kill and pillage is irresistible. As we all know, it is far more difficult to build than to destroy, and the path of least resistance is always going to appeal to a certain number of people, whether they’re in Ramadi or Baltimore.
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     In the meantime, we have a man in the Oval Office who only objects to going to war with Muslims, but would delight in decimating Republicans, whom he regards as more dangerous and a far greater threat to all he holds dear than a bunch of savages burning and beheading Christians in the name of Allah.
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     ♦ China has conducted several successful cyber attacks on our government, on our corporations and even on our citizens, managing to steal our military and industrial secrets, along with personal information about millions of us.
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     But in spite of what some people think, we haven’t been asleep at the switch. In retaliation, our State Department can proudly boast that we now possess the recipe for authentic mushu chicken, Shanghai shrimp and hot and sour soup.
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     ♦ To the age old question as to whether a glass is half full or half empty, Michael Bloomberg and his environmental minions would simply insist that your glass is twice as large as it should be, and would flog you for using it.
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     ♦ One of my readers, Karl Jenkins of Scottsdale, AZ, wrote to me recently to report on his recent visit to his physical therapist. When she told him that because her name is Caitlyn, she’d recently been the brunt of a great many Bruce Jenner jokes, he asked her if she thought Jenner might be mentally impaired. She said: “No, I think he’s brave.”
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     He then posed the following scenario: “Before I come in next time, I’m going to call you and say that I am now a cat. When I arrive, I want a litter box in the corner. I want everyone to call me ‘Kitty.’ During therapy, I want my back scratched. I’m also going to declare myself female, so I’d like all staff members to refer to me as ‘she.’ I’d also like you to call me brave.
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     “If I did all this, would you think I was mentally ill? Without a moment’s hesitation, she replied: ‘Yes, I never thought of it that way.’
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     “I reminded her that no matter what Bruce Jenner does to himself, a DNA test will always reveal the truth. Yet the media tries to convince us that he’s perfectly sane, and that we should lie to our children and tell them to lie as well.”
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     What’s more, Barack nObama, who knows less about courage than I do about Sanskrit, has told us that Bruce Jenner is courageous, just as he insisted was the case with basketball player Jason Collins and football recruit Michael Sam, when they outed themselves. And yet he never felt impelled to say the same about American sniper Chris Kyle, who spent years risking his own life in order to protect the lives of his fellow soldiers. .
     As a side note, it’s worth mentioning that Jenner is the very first Republican about whom nObama has ever said a kind word.
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     ♦ I believe it is the endless repetitions of videos showing incidents in places like McKinney, Texas, that makes everyone believe we are having an epidemic of cops misbehaving. When you combine the videos that are run incessantly even on Fox along with race pimps like Al Sharpton, Jesse Jackson and Marilyn Mosby, inciting the brainless black mobs, it doesn’t take much to set our cities ablaze.
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     If the Justice Department and the White House weren’t part of the problem, these people would all be in prison along with the creep who, in spite of knowing there’s not a whiff of smoke in the crowded theater, nevertheless hollers “Fire!”
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     ♦ I have long subscribed to the belief that among the most important influences in determining how a person will turn out is his last name. Some names are just so imposing that it is nearly impossible to imagine that Churchill, Hemingway and Rembrandt, wouldn’t make their mark on the world.
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     But a name needn’t have nine letters, which, coincidentally, “Prelutsky” just happens to have, to facilitate success. For instance, I don’t think Walt Disney would have been nearly as successful if he’d had a different moniker. What he had was a perfect name for someone involved with cartoons and animation. “Disney” almost sounds like it could have been the name of one of Snow White’s dwarves, along with Dopey, Sleepy and Sneezy.
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     I mean, what if his name had been Gustav Schmidlapper? Would people be equally excited about visiting Schmidlapperland? Hardly. And would Schmidlapper World still be the happiest place on earth? I think not.
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Friday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Hilly Will Glide Above It All
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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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 CHRISTIE’S MONEY MAN LOWERS EXPECTATIONS AHEAD OF  LAUNCH 
New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie will formally announce his presidential bid in the gymnasium of his former high school. But before Christie could launch his long-shot run, his primary benefactor further dampened expectations. Ken Langone, founder of Home Depot, has long been seen as Christie’s financial ace in the hole, will not keep Christie afloat the way other billionaires did for 2012 long-shots like Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum.
          In an interview with National Journal, Langone made it clear: “‘Whoo-oo-oa, whoooa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa,’ Langone interrupted, when asked if he would make such a donation from his own bank account. ‘Would I write a check for $10 million? No, no I wouldn't. But I do something better than that,’ Langone said. ‘I go out and get a lot people to write checks, and get them to get people to write checks, and hopefully result in a helluva lot more than $10 million.’ In the wide-ranging discussion, Langone spoke about the primary calendar (‘the hell with Iowa’), the key to a Christie comeback (‘a strong showing in New Hampshire’), and his assessment of the 2016 field (‘George Pataki, give me a break’).”
          Christie’s numbers are almost Trumpian: high name identification, but strong disapproval. No candidate aside from Donald Trump faces more strenuous opposition from the party. In a Fox News poll earlier this month, 37 percent of Republicans said they would “never” back Christie. In the poll out last week, Christie carded just 2 percent support.
          One can attribute Christie’s woes to the scandals that have wreathed his second term and the struggles of his home state. And that is certainly a factor for big-dollar donors and New York-area establishmentarians who have watched Christie’s rise and fall in the local press. But to explain how Christie collapsed with rank-and-file Republicans from a high in 2011 to today’s low, look to his odd convention speech, October 2102 embrace of President nObama (to say nothing of Jerry Jones) and subsequent demands for federal spending.
          But Christie’s biggest problem is one of comparative value. He was a unicorn when he opted against a 2012 run: a blue-state, blue-collar Republican governor who talked tough and took on entrenched interests. But now, he is one of many. Part of the reason why having a Wall Street benefactor is so important for Christie is that he will have to outlast those with some or all of his best attributes but without his liabilities: Jeb BushScott Walker and John Kasich to name a few. 
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Today is the last day of the second quarter, the key fundraising period for presidential campaigns. Those who are happy about what they and their super PACs have done (at least compared to expectations) are more likely to be leaking estimates. Those who have come up short are likely to wait for the official release next month. The pressure is greatest for Jeb Bush, who needs to show that he isn’t just the biggest fish in the pond, but a whale that dwarfs any establishment contenders.   USA Today has the yardstick out.  
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 WaPo discovers that law firms pay successful politicians more Reporters continue to trawl through Marco Rubio’s finances, with the WaPo today looking at how Rubio’s financial fortunes improved dramatically upon his ascension to the speakership of Florida’s House of Representatives. As he became speaker, Rubio’s income more than doubled to nearly $350,000 after he went to work for one of the state’s top lobbying and law firms. This is pretty tame stuff in politics, though. Hilly Clinton, for example, may have been a great lawyer but her being married to Arkansas’ attorney general and then governor probably didn’t hurt her chances at one of the state’s top firms. And it surely wasn’t business acumen that helped the Clintons go from an income of less than $150,000 in 1989 to $25 million in the 16 months prior to her April financial disclosure. And as WaPo reported Monday, when Jeb Bush was Rubio’s age, he was not above trading on his father’s influence to enhance his own income. The paper notes how common the practice is of preferential treatment for politicians, but still…  -Fox News  
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 Walker union battle heats up as budget negotiations continue 
Daily Caller:“As the budget plan is written at the moment, it doesn’t even remove tenure like some unions are claiming. As the committee spokesman detailed, the proposal only transfers authority on tenure to the Board of Regents which is already in charge overseeing community colleges in the state. The board could cut tenure, keep it the same or change it in other ways…Though unions are blaming Walker, the proposed budget was approved by members of the committee and was not proposed by the governor.”  -Fox News  
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 Our big fat Greek problem  
(Desmond Lachman) ~ It is all too easy for us in the United States to dismiss the Greek economic crisis as something happening to a very small country on a distant shore that is of no great concern to us... However, to do so would be a big mistake, since an intensification in the Greek crisis could send ripples across the global financial system that could materially affect our economy. Of equal concern, it could allow the Russians to gain a firm foothold in the Balkans that would be to our geopolitical disadvantage. The basic reason that Greece now demands our attention is that the country is well on its way to exiting the euro. Negotiations with its International Monetary Fund and European Union creditors on a financial support program have broken down irreparably, while the European Central Bank is refusing to provide Greek banks with additional financial support. This has forced Greece to declare a bank holiday for a whole week and it will soon force the country to default on its IMF and European Central Bank loans.
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 Turkey's Wrong Bet on Syria  
(Burak Bekdil) ~ It was supposed to be simple: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's days in power were numbered; the Nusayri(Alawite) man would be toppled by Syria's Sunni majority in a popular revolt... The Sunni majority would set up in Damascus a Muslim Brotherhood type of regime that would be subservient to Ankara, and Turkey's southern border with Syria would be now be a borderless Sunni "Schengen" zone; cross border trade would flourish with the free movement of labor and capital. Peace would prevail along the 900-km border, and Turkish and Syrian Sunni supremacists would advance their agenda in the not-always-so-Sunni lands of the Middle East. Today, instead of the free movement of labor and capital, there is, around the border area, the free movement of bombs and bullets. Turkey's miscalculated foreign policy on Syria has led to the creation of a neighboring Peshawar (Afghanistan) across its border. Turkey's Islamist rulers were unhappy with Assad as their neighbor. Their efforts to unseat Assad have dramatically resulted in creating even less pleasant neighbors: an unknown number of jihadist groups, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) and Kurdish militants fighting to create an autonomous enclave.       http://www.meforum.org/5355/turkey-syria-gambit
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 Explosive Helium Leaking From Deep Earthquake Fault Zone in S. Ca.  
(worldtruth.tv/) ~ An American geologist has discovered high levels of the explosive helium-3 leaking from the Southern California’s earthquake fault zone which appeared deeper and more significant than previously thought , a new study shows... UC Santa Barbara geologist Jim Boles has found that high levels of helium-3 (3He) have been leaking across a 30-mile stretch of the Newport-Inglewood Fault Zone in the Los Angeles Basin. He presented his findings in the a new study recently published in Geochemistry, Geophysics, Geosystems (G-Cubed), a journal of the American Geophysical Union and the Geochemical Society. “We show that the Newport-Inglewood fault is not only deep-seated but also directly or indirectly connected with the mantle,” Boles said as cited by the university press release. He added that the findings indicate that the fault is a “lot more important than previously thought.”
“This paper shows that the mantle is leaking more at the Newport-Inglewood fault zone than at the San Andreas Fault, which is a new discovery,” the author said.         http://worldtruth.tv/explosive-helium-leaking-from-deep-earthquake-fault-zone-in-s-california/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+ConsciousnessTv+%28Consciousness+TV%29
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 Palestinians: More Missed Opportunities  
(Bassam Tawil) ~ We Palestinians continue to miss one opportunity after the other. Now, we are about to miss yet another opportunity for peace... The geographic and political reality of the Middle East does not smile on the Palestinians. The countries that, until the Arab Spring, exerted the most pressure on Israel to negotiate with us have become weak. Some of them are disintegrating and others, in this world of strange bedfellows, consider the Israelis partners in the struggle against their common enemy, Iran. Our Arab brothers now consider us a nuisance, marginal to their struggle to survive in the face of the threats from the Ayatollahs' increasing nuclear power in Iran and radical Islamists such as ISIS.
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 Blame Supremes for 'clash' with 1st Amendment  
(Bob Unruh) ~ Think the courts were busy with same-sex “marriage” cases before? Wait until you see what happens as a result of the Supreme Court’s opinion that “invented” same-sex “marriage” for the United States... That’s the opinion of several outspoken leaders who have fought, or watched, battles on the issue, from a sitting judge to a key attorney in the battle, and even a sitting state attorney general whose opinion conflicts directly with the “five lawyers” in Washington who ruled recently. Alliance Defending Freedom attorney Ken Connelly, who has been involved in the issue extensively, told WND on Wednesday that the old characterization of conflicting rights is essentially right.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/07/blame-supremes-for-clash-with-1st-amendment
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 HILLY'S SECRET WAR 
(Judge Andrew Napolitano) ~ In the course of my work at Fox News, I am often asked by colleagues to review and explain documents and statutes. Recently, in conjunction with my colleagues Catherine Herridge, our chief intelligence correspondent, and Pamela Browne, our senior executive producer... I read the transcripts of an interview Browne did with a man named Marc Turi, and Herridge asked me to review emails to and from State Department and congressional officials during the years when Hilly Clinton was the secretary of state. What I saw has persuaded me beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty that Clinton provided material assistance to terrorists and lied to Congress in a venue where the law required her to be truthful. Here is the back story.
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 Congress Demands nObama Step Back From Iran Nuclear Deal  
(Ari Yashar) ~ Leading members of Congress are pressing US President Barack nObama to abandon his attempts to force through a nuclear deal with Iran, after the deadline for talks was extended on Tuesday to July 7 in a last gasp week-long reprieve... In response to the desperate efforts to reach a deal despite the obvious differences in position that continue to prevent an agreement from being reached, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-KY) blasted the nObama administration in an op-ed for Politico. "President nObama and Secretary of State Kerry should use the opportunity to pause negotiations, take a step back and re-examine the point of the talks in the first place," said McCon-nell.       http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/197604#.VZUuVBtViko
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 Why is nObama Blocking Weapons to Kurds Fighting ISIS?  
(Ari Soffer) ~ Arab and European states have been unable to provide Kurdish fighters with badly-needed weapons to fight ISIS - because the US is blocking the weapons transfers... According to the UK's Daily Telegraph, the nObama administration's hesitation and lack of clear strategy means that US commanders, who are directing the anti-ISIS coalition efforts, are not authorizing moves to directly arm Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria. This, despite the fact that the Kurds have proven by far the most effective force in fighting ISIS, having taken and held territory from the jihadists in northern Iraq and Syria, despite being outgunned. Citing "high level officials" from the Gulf Arab states involved in the fight against ISIS, the paper claimed some are becoming so frustrated with Washington's lack of leadership in the campaign that they are preparing to "go it alone" and directly arm the Kurds in spite of US opposition. http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/197613#.VZUwKhtVi
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 nObama Bashed For Sweeping Iranian Violations Under The Rug  
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ With great fanfare on Tuesday, the State Department reported that Iran has complied with a key condition of the interim agreement; significantly reducing its stockpile of enriched uranium... It was an accurate statement as long as one ignores Iran’s violations. And now a leading non-proliferation think tank is bashing the Administration for trying to sweep the violations under the rug. Iran is obligated by the interim Joint Plan of Action (JPOA) to do two things by the end of every 6 months:        http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/07/obama-administration-gets-bashed-for.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=8e9f207ca3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-8e9f207ca3-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-8e9f207ca3-291705165
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 Celebrate the 4th: Impeach Kagan and Ginsburg  
(Cliff Kincaid) ~ Justice Antonin Scalia said in his dissent in the same-sex marriage case that the ruling was a threat to our democratic form of government and constitutes a “judicial Putsch,” or secret power grab... He didn’t just say the majority was wrong or misguided; he essentially said they had conspired to overthrow our form of government. His position on the Court may have made it impossible to supply specifics. But one possible explanation of what he meant is that he saw a conflict-of-interest on the part of members of the majority, which required their recusal from the case. Rather than investigate what Scalia is hinting at, our media have opened fire on Scalia for blowing the whistle on judicial corruption.
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Hilly Will Glide Above It All
Peggy Noonan
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     (peggynoonan.com) ~ Some observations on the announcements of Hilly Clinton and Jeb Bush, and on a looming problem for the Republican Party.
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     Mrs. Clinton’s announcement, last Saturday on Roosevelt Island, was first of all a concession that her April announcement, in a pretty, content-free video, didn’t quite do the job. As a speech it was largely anodyne, did the candidate no harm and probably a little good. The crowd of some 5,000 was small for a June morning in deep-blue New York. The speech quickly took on a State of the Union laundry-list quality, as if her campaign calculated the recitation of policy proposals would yield an impression of substantive depth.
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     Her awkwardness—the sense of always being one beat off in her words and gestures; her habit, when she comes out to applause, of bowing forward and applauding back—seems to me a kind of public shyness and is almost endearing. Mrs. Clinton doesn’t seem to enjoy crowds, which is odd since she’s in the crowds business. She is not an extrovert in the same way as her husband, and there was a moment after the speech, when the family gathered on the stage, when Bill started to bring up his arm in a dynamic pointing movement and then suddenly let it flop back down, as if he remembered he wasn’t supposed to dominate the shot.
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     When it was over I thought how odd it is, when the nation has never been so preoccupied with politics, that Mrs. Clinton, the president she seeks to replace, and one of her main Republican opponents show so little joy in the fleshy part of politics—the politicking, the sheer personal interplay. Mr. nObama is good on the stump, and Mrs. Clinton and Jeb Bush are not especially. But all operate at a certain remove.
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     Mr. Bush in his announcement had to make it new so that people would give him a second look. After the generally poor impression of the past few months, expectations were low. He exceeded them. He wished the production to have a Latin/New America flair that showed the vibrancy of America’s big ethnic and racial mix. It did. Those donors who were getting anxious about their investment probably came away calmed.
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     The Bushes associate the showbiz of politics with shallowness and insincerity. Jeb should get over this. It’s part of the fun of politics, as Chris Christie and Ted Cruz know. Sometimes when Mr. Bush delivers a good line he looks around at the end as if he’s thinking, “I hope you don’t mind, I had to do a good line.” That’s a kind of public shyness and awkwardness, too.
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     Mr. Bush always seems embarrassed at his ambition, embarrassed you’d think he wants power. This is an odd quality in one who wants power.
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     He often says voters want to see what’s in his heart. I’m not sure that’s true; it strikes me as old playbook. Republican voters have gotten cooler over the years; they want to know what’s in your head. I could imagine a skeptical but open-minded Democrat, however, coming away impressed.
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Meanwhile the Republican establishment, such as it is, should be thinking hard on this:
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     Mrs. Clinton is almost certainly about to glide to her party’s nomination. There will be a few bumps. She will occasionally be pressed and challenged on various questions. There will be back and forth. But her Democratic opponents will not attack her character, her history, her financial decisions, her scandals. They will not go at her personally. She will emerge dinged but not damaged. No one will ravage the queen.
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     The Republican primary, on the other hand, will be all hell bursting loose. The candidates will spend the next year tearing each other apart on everything and anything. Super PACs are furiously raising money, some of which will be used to take down and slam GOP opponents in negative ads and videos.
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     At least a few of them will do what Newt Gingrich so effectively did to Mitt Romney in South Carolina in 2012. Mr. Gingrich hit hard on Mr. Romney’s investment firm, Bain Capital, and his tax returns. He painted Mr. Romney as a cold, rapacious capitalist who’ll close your factory and take your jobs. Mr. Gingrich described Mr. Romney’s line of work as “rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company.” Mr. Romney’s South Carolina numbers began to sink in the last days of the campaign. Mr. Gingrich enjoyed a surprise win.
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     The nObama re-election campaign was of course watching the fun, and went on to kill Mr. Romney with Mr. Gingrich’s themes. They’d likely have done it anyway but the attacks were given added legitimacy by GOP provenance.
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     The Democrats have an enforcement mechanism to keep all their candidates in line. Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley know without being told that the party will kill them if they tear apart the assumed nominee. Their careers will be over if they go at her personally.
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     A GOP opposition-research veteran said of the Democrats’ enforcement mechanism, “As an upstairs-downstairs party, the upstairs is a fairly concentrated place. The Democrats as the ‘in’ party—the party of Silicon Valley and academia—has interlocking pools of money, brains and talent.” When they turn on you, it is like facing “the Death Star.” And “on top of that, you have the Clintonian tropism toward score settling and vengeance. What you have in the end is discipline.”
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     The Republicans? “They stand to beat the hell out of each other for months to come.” The GOP is not concentrated but spread out, geographically and culturally—“everything from establishment types to evangelicals to hedge-fund gods and farmers.” Candidates reflect diverse denominations: “It’s a party of dissenters” and operatives who have no motive to avoid hurting another group’s favorite.
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     Half a dozen candidates are clustered near the top, so the fight this year will be fierce. The Republicans have no old-style enforcers—no establishment figures everyone is afraid of crossing. Republicans are by nature entrepreneurs—they’ll do a lot not to lose market share.
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     So Republicans this cycle will likely go after each other in a personal, rough way, bloody each other, and damage the eventual nominee, while Mrs. Clinton will glide along relatively untouched. Democrats will watch the fisticuffs, determine what line of attack worked best on the GOP nominee, and mine it deeper in the general election.
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     Is the GOP thinking about setting 2016 ground rules? Is it thinking about penalties—publicly warning candidates that if they go at contenders on anything but the issues they’ll face the wrath of the party? Is there any way to put teeth in such a threat?
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     Here it should be noted that Republicans often speak of Ronald Reagan’s 11th Commandment, “Thou shalt not speak ill of a fellow Republican.” He didn’t mean don’t attack them. He himself tried to take out a sitting Republican president and went at Gerald Ford hammer and tongs—on the issues. It was never personal, and it had nothing to do with “oppo.” It was about great questions, not small people. That’s not only how to win, it’s how to win with meaning.
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Friday 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:
Hilly Clinton’s dodginess
 is overpowering her message
George Will
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Some Liberties Are More Equal Than Others 
One day before the Supreme Court ruled on same-sex marriage, ACLU deputy legal director Louise Melling wrote of the organization's newly announced hostility to Christians and religious liberty, specifically regarding its withdrawal of support for the Religious Freedom Restoration Act. "The ACLU supported the RFRA's passage at the time because it didn't believe the Constitution, as newly interpreted by the Supreme Court, would protect people ... whose religious expression does not harm anyone else. But we can no longer support the law in its current form. For more than 15 years, we have been concerned about how the RFRA could be used to discriminate against others. As the events of the past couple of years amply illustrate, our fears were well-founded. While the RFRA may serve as a shield to protect [some], it is now often used as a sword to discriminate against women, gay and transgender people and others. ... Yes, religious freedom needs protection. But religious liberty doesn't mean the right to discriminate or to impose one's views on others." It's not exactly surprising that the ACLU would find a way to oppose such laws once Christians found refuge in them. But this is an organization that has gone to bat for the KKK and the American Nazi Party. And the irony is too much: Melling decries the imposition of views while having no problem with homosexuals forcing bakers, photographers and florists to provide their services against their consciences. Now that the Supreme Court has found a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, more imposition and discrimination will occur. And the ACLU will be leading the charge. Because "love wins," right?  -The Patriot Post 
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 Puerto Rico Wants a Pass on $72 Billion Debt 
"Death spiral" — that's how Puerto Rico Governor Alejandro García Padilla describes the commonwealth's debt. Over the last few years, the island racked up a debt of $72 billion, or 3.5 times the amount that bankrupted Detroit. Padilla, who once vowed to repay the loans accrued by his and past administrations, now says it's impossible and creditors should "share the sacrifices." Problem is, Puerto Rico has been a popular place for retirees to invest because the commonwealth’s bonds are tax-free. The problem becomes stickier, as Puerto Rico cannot file for Chapter 9 bankruptcy. The island used to be an economic powerhouse, filled with manufacturing and a vibrant port. But Deepak Lamba-Nieves, research director for the think tank Center for a New Economy, said in 2013, "You cannot pay daily expenses with your credit card, and that's what Puerto Rico has been doing for years. We borrowed just to keep the lights on." Padilla doesn't appear ready to make the difficult cuts, firing government workers, tightening its belt and getting serious about the debt. Like Detroit, Puerto Rico was destroyed by liberal politicians and their failed economic theories. Now, some will say the only way to save the commonwealth is with a bailout. Barack nObama says he won't do so, but don't be surprised if he proposes to "fix" the problem by floating Puerto Rico statehood again — in order to firm up some Latino support. While the offer is hollow, a narcissist like nObama would certainly be pleased with a legacy of altering the American flag.  
-The Patriot Post 
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 Brady Center's Frivolous Suit Against Ammo Company Backfires 
After the massacre at the Aurora movie theater, The Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence went after the company from which the murderer bought his ammunition. The center filed suit against Lucky Gunner because it sold its ammunition online, arguing that's "unreasonably dangerous and create[s] a public nuisance." But not only did the judge disagree, he reprimanded the Brady Center because he said it was filing suit simply to make a high-profile political point. Judge Richard Matsch wrote in his ruling, "It is apparent that this case was filed to pursue the political purposes of the Brady Center and, given the failure to present any cognizable legal claim, bringing these defendants into the Colorado court where the prosecution of James Holmes was proceeding appears to be more of an opportunity to propagandize the public and stigmatize the defendants than to obtain a court order." Furthermore, Matsch said the Brady Center had to pay Lucky Gunner's legal fees. Lucky Gunner said those funds would be donated to pro-Second Amendment groups. For groups with deep pockets and a bitterness toward Liberty, an effective strategy is to silence the lovers of Liberty through suits, frivolous or no. Judge Matsch put a damper on that strategy.   -The Patriot Post 
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 All Isn't Lost, as SCOTUS Rebukes EPA 
The Supreme Court proved it still has a little bit of respect left for Rule of Law in its decision yesterday in Michigan v. EPA. In a 5-4 ruling that predictably followed partisan lines with Justice Anthony Kennedy swinging to the right, the High Court ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency did not properly consider the high costs of regulation of emissions from coal-fired power plants.
          That this Court — the one content to rewrite nObamaCare in order to save it, twice — found the EPA went too far in rewriting the law is saying something.
          The EPA, which has been pursuing the ecofascist dream of completely wiping the coal industry off the face of the earth, released a series of regulations in 2012 that would force energy producers to comply with limits on mercury and air toxins released in coal energy production. The National Federation of Independent Business said the regulations, known as Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS), are among the costliest ever issued.
          The EPA estimated the new rules would cost close to $10 billion annually, while bringing direct annual benefits of no more than $6 million. Bureaucrats also made the un-provable assertion that the rules would prevent up to 11,000 premature deaths and 130,000 asthma cases each year. In developing its regulations, the EPA was expected to adhere to the Clean Air Act’s “appropriate and necessary” standard. But the agency arbitrarily determined that cost had no bearing in the development of the regulations, essentially flouting the decades-old law and choosing to make up its own rules. The EPA determined that its work protecting the environment justified whatever actions it saw fit.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Yes, Clinton lied about her emails  
(washingtonexaminer.com) ~ It is rare for news events, even as momentous as the past week's, to drown out absolute proof that a candidate for president has lied willfully to the public and Congress... Yet precisely such proof has emerged, and it has appeared not only in this newspaper but also in The New York Times (albeit with a headline designed not to draw attention). But not to worry — the former secretary of state swore that she had diligently preserved and passed to the State Department every email she had written in the course of her job. Even though she destroyed all the evidence by wiping the server afterward, she assured the public that everything related to her conduct of official business had been kept and turned over, as the law requires. It turns out that this is not true. Not only did Clinton fail to turn over work-related emails, but she or her staff also edited some of those emails before submitting them, as the Examiner's Sarah Westwood reported Saturday.        http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/yes-clinton-lied-about-her-emails/article/2567368
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 IDF Creates Special Unit To Prepare For Attack On Iran  
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ There is report that Israel is creating a special team to examine and evaluate military options against Iran. Israel has been evaluating military options against Iran for years, so the question raised is this a new effort, or is it a warning to the United States and Iran?... Certainly the deal as it is being formed will not stop Iran from building nukes so Israel may feel in the end they will have to take care of the situation by themselves. Interestedly the leak of this info comes the same day the U.S. announced they have given up on trying to inspect Iran's nuclear sites and the P5+1 negotiators are extending the deadline to reach a deal with Iran to July 7th.        http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/report-idf-creates-special-unit-to.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b0c59b2fe0-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-b0c59b2fe0-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-b0c59b2fe0-291705165
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 ACLU No Longer Supports Religious Freedom for Christians  
(Trey Sanchez) ~ In an op-ed for The Washington Post, American Civil Liberties Union's deputy legal director Louise Melling announced that the historic civil rights organization no longer supports the Religious Freedom Restoration Act because Christians can use it as a "sword to discriminate."... This reversal flies in the face of the ACLU's stated mission of being the "nation's guardian of liberty," ensuring every American citizen's individual rights are protected as outlined in the Constitution. If they were being fully transparent, their mission statement would now read: "to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties that the Constitution and laws of the United States guarantee everyone [except for Christians] in this country."        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/aclu-no-longer-supports-religious-freedom-christians
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 Iranian-backed Hizballah and Hamas Bolster Worldwide Terrorist  
(investigativeproject.org) ~ While the West extends nuclear negotiations with Iran, the Islamic Republic continues to enhance its international terrorism infrastructure through its proxies... Hizballah has 950 active operatives in the Western European state while Hamas maintains 300 operatives, according to a German intelligence report summarized by the Jerusalem Post. The number of Islamists in Germany rose from 43,190 in 2013 to 43,890 in 2014, the report said. Radical Islamists are "the greatest danger to Germany...Germany is on the spectrum of goals for Islamic terrorists," said Hans-Georg Maassen, president of German's domestic intelligence agency – the Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (BfV).        http://www.investigativeproject.org/4896/iranian-backed-hizballah-and-hamas-bolster
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 Turkey helping millions of Muslims to cross illegally into Europe  
(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) ~ The Turkish Islamist dominated parliament has signed visa free travel treaties with most Muslim countries, allowing Millions of Muslims to travel to Turkey and cross the border into Greece and Europe illegally in a further bid to Islamize Europe... The Ottoman Empire nearly invaded all of continental Europe on several occasions, having finally been stopped in Vienna in 1683, but not before invading all of Asia minor, destroying and replacing the Byzantine Empire, invading Greece, Cyprus and most of South East Europe. Today the tactics are not swords, but Western apathy and left wing complicity.        https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/07/01/turkey-helping-millions-of-muslims-to-cross-illegally-into-europe/
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 Why Mitch McCon-nell Is So Utterly Useless – In His Own Words  
(rickwells.us) ~ It’s to be expected that the Democrat posing as a Republican, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-KY), would adopt a position in support of Hussein nObama... What would be surprising would be the farcical notion of him at any time genuinely working inopposition to anything put forth by the Democrats or their dictator. Unfortunately, Mitch McCon-nell surprised nobody with his responses in his Tuesday interview at local Kentucky station WDRB. Traitor Mitch is no fighter unless he’s been told to attack the American people. He’s talking about the heightened threats to religious liberty in the wake of the court acting in the role of Congress, legislating what is and what is not marriage. He acts as if he would actually take a stand on the issue, but of course that won’t happen. As to the point of challenging the usurpation of states rights in violation of the Tenth Amendment or legislatively affirming the traditional and correct definition of marriage through legislative action, that’s not in his nObama-approved talking points which means it’s not part of his job description. He’s safely diverting the issue to one of religious freedom, which is not yet officially made its way to the short list of nObama targets.        http://rickwells.us/why-mitch-mcconnell-is-so-utterly-useless-in-his-own-words/
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 Iran Repatriates 13 Tons of Gold Under Sanctions Relief  
(Adam Kredo) ~ Iranian officials said Monday that the Islamic Republic’s Central Bank has successfully repatriated 13 tons of gold as part of a package of sanctions relief provided to Iran by U.S. and Western powers... The gold was transferred to Iran by the government of South Africa, which had been holding onto the assets due to harsh sanctions meant to pressure Tehran to rein in its rogue nuclear program. The gold appears to have been released as part of a sanctions relief package that will have awarded Iran nearly $12 billion in unfrozen cash assets by the time negotiations wrap up next week. Iran received $4.2 billion in unfrozen assets under the 2013 interim agreement with the United States and was then given another $2.8 billion by the nObama administration last year in a bid to keep Tehran committed to the talks. No wonder they're smiling, they just suckered the West.       http://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-repatriates-13-tons-of-gold-under-sanctions-relief/
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 Union, Teacher Greed Force Mass Layoffs In Chicago  
(rickwells.us) ~ Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel has a tough job managing a Democrat Ponzi scheme that is imploding, his city’s budget. On Wednesday the Mayor was forced to take drastic measures by an immovable Chicago Teachers Union and state-mandated pension payments... Something had to give and that something is the education of Chicago’s already underserved youth. Grand proclamations are made about how the system fails, with responsibility always being shifted away from the Democrats who are running things into the ground and towards an open palm of federal bailouts. The real bailout is the hypocrisy of the greedy, over-compensated educators and the parasitic union officials. Elections have consequences and buying electoral success is expensive for the city that inevitably coughs up the dough for the backroom deals made. With not enough money to go around and the first priority being the payment of pensions to retired teachers, Emanuel was forced to announce on Wednesday that 1,400 teachers and staff would be losing their jobs. The city’s pension debt is roughly $634 million and the layoffs will account for $200 million. The rest of the money will be borrowed, delaying the inevitable accountability.        http://rickwells.us/gravy-train-derailed-union-teacher-greed-force-mass-layoffs-in-chicago-public-schools/
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 Judge Vs Dictator, Hanen Vs nObama, Lawman Against Outlaw  
(rickwells.us) ~ Hussein nObama has already shown that he considers himself to be above the reach and confines of the legislative branch when it comes to writing laws himself... The legislative branch, under the inept and highly questionable “leadership” of baclstabber John Boehner and Mitch McCon-nell, has similarly demonstrated that they are more than willing to serve as nObama’s deputies. The charade of a legitimate Supreme Court was shattered last week for any who still clung to belief in judicial independence and a lawful, restrained and thoughtful Judicial Branch. In many cases, particularly with the Supreme Court, and the 9th and the DC Circuit Courts, dispensing justice involves interpreting the law in a manner that is compliant with the wishes of the Marxist in the White House. That is not the case with the 5th Circuit Court and Judge Andrew Hanen, which has forced the regime into a decision as to whether they will take a position in outright defiance of the judiciary or acquiesce to their rulings and obey their lawful orders.        http://rickwells.us/texas-showdown-july-31st-judge-vs-dictator-hanen-vs-obama-lawman-against-outlaw/
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 Castro’s WH Ally Giving Away The Farm, And Guantanamo  
(rickwells.us) ~ America can aspire to one day regain its former stature under Hussein nObama of a paper tiger. Presently, under this progressive, submissive Marxist who surrenders even when he isn’t being asked, America has moved “forward” beyond our previously unimaginable low point... We are now more of a paper pussy cat, or a young, naïve, paper puppy with a fearful master holding our leash. The low points just keep coming under nObama. Who would have ever imagined that Cuba would one day be dictating to America and the American “president” would be circling at the Castro feet with his tail between his legs? Some predicted when nObama first announced his intentions to normalize relations with Cuba that he was secretly planning planned to surrender the American Guantanamo Bay facility to them. Now he’s announced the opening of an “almost embassy” in Havana, one which provides him with a pretense for giving up the facility just as his predecessor in failure, Jimmy Carter, manipulated us into giving away the Panama Canal. All he has to do is present it as an obstacle that is “unnecessarily preventing us from moving “forward” in our relationship and make a few speeches. The fix is obviously already in. Maybe Boehner wants a new boat or McConnell a golf vacation home; Ryan might like a new Cuban girlfriend.       http://rickwells.us/obamas-havana-homie-castros-wh-ally-giving-away-the-farm-and-guantanamo/
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Hilly Clinton’s dodginess
 is overpowering her message
George Will
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     (washingtonpost.com) ~ Hilly Clinton’s reticence is drowning out her message, which is that she is the cure for the many ailments that afflict the United States during a second Democratic presidential term. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has called her “the most opaque person you’ll ever meet in your life,” but when opacity yields to the necessity of answering questions, here are a few:
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     Your first leadership adventure was when your husband entrusted you with health-care reform. Using a process as complex as it was secretive, you produced a proposal so implausible that a Democratic-controlled Congress would not even vote on it. Your legislation was one reason that in 1994 Democrats lost control of the House for the first time in 40 years. What did you learn from this futility and repudiation?
     Three times in your memoir “Hard Choices” you say that as secretary of state you visited 112 countries. Do you think “peripatetic” is a synonym for “effective”? You tell readers that at a 2009 meeting with Chinese officials you said, “We need to build a resilient relationship that allows both of us to thrive and meet our global responsibilities without unhealthy competition, rivalry or conflict.” Does it trouble your environmental conscience that trees died to produce the paper on which you recycled that thought?
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     President George W. Bush said that when he looked into Vladimir Putin’s eyes he saw a “very straightforward and trustworthy” man. You looked into Putin’s regime and saw an opportunity for a cooperative policy “reset.” Were you or was Bush more mistaken?
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     In March 2003, Bush launched a war of choice to accomplish regime change in Iraq, mistakenly believing that it was developing weapons of mass destruction. In March 2011, Barack nObama and you launched a war of choice against Libya for the humanitarian purposes of preventing, it was said, as many as 10,000 deaths at the hands of Moammar Gaddafi. Since March 2011, in Syria, where the regime continues to use chemical weapons that it supposedly agreed to surrender, the civil war has killed more than 320,000. Why humanitarian intervention in Libya instead of Syria?
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     Bush sought, and you as a senator gave, approval for his war of choice. nObama and you, arguing that the thousands of airstrikes that killed thousands of Libyans did not constitute “hostilities,” never sought approval for the Libyan war. Who was more lawful, Bush or nObama and you? What criteria suggest that the world is safer than before you became secretary?
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     In this month’s Wisconsin Democratic convention straw poll, you defeated Bernie Sanders 49 percent to 41 percent. Sanders says he is a “socialist.” Do you have fundamental differences with him? If not, are you a socialist? He does not think a 90 percent top income tax rate is too high. Do you? He says that “almost all of” the United States’ wealth “rests in the hands of a handful of billionaires.” Forbes magazine says the combined net worth of the United States’ 536 billionaires is $2.566 trillion. Is it a grave problem that the 536 have 3 percent of the nation’s $84.9 trillion wealth? Is it deplorable that the Waltons became a family of billionaires by creating Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest private-sector employer? Do you regret that Apple products made Steve Jobs a billionaire? Are any of your however many phones iPhones?
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     Sanders vows “to make tuition in public colleges and universities free.” Do you agree that the 68 percent of Americans without college degrees should pay the tuition for those whose degrees will bring them lifetime earnings significantly higher than the earnings of the noncollege graduates who will have paid much of the cost of the “free” tuition?
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     Another progressive goal is “debt-free college.” The average amount owed by the 69 percent of graduates with college debt is $28,400, which is $11,000 more than the difference between what a college graduate and a high school graduate earn in one year of employment. So, what exactly is the student debt “crisis”?
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     Sanders favors a $15 minimum wage. Do you? Why not $16? Democrats are — we know because they say so — respectful of science, including, presumably, economics. So, do you agree with nObama that ATMs and airport ticket kiosks cause unemployment?
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     Finally: Having said, “It is tempting to dismiss the Charleston shooting as an isolated incident,” you resisted that temptation and detected in the incident large social symptoms. Do you believe, as nObama now says, that racism is in America’s “DNA,” meaning it is encoded in our nation’s nature?
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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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Featuring:
Holy Hypocrisy and Hot Air
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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 nObama's Funeral Platform for Gun Control 
On Friday, Barack nObama delivered the eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, the slain pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston. Naturally, he exploited the occasion — metaphorically stood on Pinckney's casket — to repeat the need for his policy preferences, namely more gun control. "For too long, we've been blind to the unique mayhem that gun violence inflicts upon this nation," nObama thundered. "Sporadically, our eyes are open: When eight of our brothers and sisters are cut down in a church basement, 12 in a movie theater, 26 in an elementary school. But I hope we also see the 30 precious lives cut short by gun violence in this country every single day; the countless more whose lives are forever changed. ... The vast majority of Americans — the majority of gun owners — want to do something about this. ... None of us should believe that a handful of gun safety measures will prevent every tragedy. ... But it would be a betrayal of everything Reverend Pinckney stood for, I believe, if we allowed ourselves to slip into a comfortable silence again." In this instance, he did mention the lives lost every day — though he neglected the fact that they're black lives lost to the gang culture festering on his own party'surban poverty plantations. But he doesn't speak at their funerals. That's because he couldn't make the blacks who murder other blacks into the supposed carbon copies of the racist Charleston murderer, as he did with whites across the nation that twice elected him president. nObama's race-baiting, anti-gun tirade was despicable, and all the more so because of the true grace shown by the families of the Charleston victims.  -The Patriot Post 
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 One Year Later, Islamic State ‘Caliphate’ Remains Entrenched 
In theory, declaring a caliphate should have painted a huge target on the Islamic State's back. But after the group (née "the JV team") announced that it established a caliphate in Iraq and Syria last June, it has continued to hold onto its territory as the coalition fighting the jihadists slowly picks away at the "state." Indeed, Islamic State-linked jihadists have launched attacks as far away as Pakistan, Algeria and Yemen, and those inspired by the Islamic State have struck both the U.S. and Europe. Now, officials in Afghanistan say the group is in that country, placing the Islamic State in competition with the Taliban over whose caliphate should be established. However, the Islamic State's strategy has made it less of a threat to the United States than al-Qaida, writes Scott Stewart for Stratfor Global Intelligence. "Al Qaeda argues that the caliphate can be established only after the United States and its European allies have been defeated, to the extent that they can no longer interfere in Muslim lands… The Islamic State takes the opposite tack. It has adopted a more urgent 'why wait?' approach and concentrates its efforts on immediately taking, holding and governing territory." This comes as the levels of terrorism at home and abroad are on the rise and as Independence Day weekend coincides with the month of Ramadan. So much for Barack nObama's campaign to degrade and decimate our jihadist foes.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Greeks Scramble for Cash as Financial Crisis Comes to a Head 
Fourteen years ago, Greece entered the Eurozone by using a Trojan Horse: It doctored its finances to make them appear more stable than they actually were. For a run of a few years, the country let its finances go. The party ended during the Great Recession as the country needed bailout after bailout to keep the partial-archipelago afloat. Now, the piper must be paid. But instead of tightening belts and making the tough decisions to get out of debt and onto firm footing, the Greeks elected the Syriza Party to power because it promised that it would lessen the burden of debt by resisting the demands for reform and negotiating further with the nation's creditors. But those talks with the creditors broke down over the weekend and Greece may be booted from the Eurozone. On hearing the news, Greeks started lining up at ATMs, withdrawing as much money as they could before the cash ran out. In response, Greece started capital controls, keeping banks closed this week. "Appeasing Syriza's demands could spread political contagion to Spain, Portugal and other countries that might think they too can avoid reform and still be rescued," writes The Wall Street Journal editorial board. "A last-minute reprieve is possible, but if not the Greeks will have committed suicide by ignoring economic reality. Voters in Europe, Japan and the U.S., take note." As we watch the slow-motion crash of Greece, we should remember that this nation has a growing debt that is being made larger by growing entitlement spending. Someday, the piper must be paid here, too.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Having Dispensed With God, Leftists Now Aim for Christians 
1-2-3-4-5. Five leftist lawyers, currently abusing their authority as Supreme Court Justices, unleashed their activism upon the U.S. Constitution Friday and created a non-existent right to same-sex marriage. The Fourteenth Amendment may provide equal protection under the law, but by applying it to expand the definition of marriage the Court has created a constitutional crisis in America. The First and Tenth Amendments, which respectively promise freedom of individual religion and award jurisdiction to the States of all powers not enumerated in the Constitution, have now been placed in direct conflict with the Fourteenth Amendment.
          “Love Wins”? Not here it doesn’t, nor does anything but the will of five judicial despots, followed by the bullying mob rule of the Left and its Rainbow Mafia. Need proof?
          In 2008, before the Saul Alinsky-ite Barack nObama and his Chicagoland gang occupied the White House and began “fundamentally transforming” our nation, there was debate, dissent and dialogue about all sorts of issues, including those issues fomented by the hard Left in order to label the response of the Christian Right as extremist.
          In 2008, homosexual couples could enter into a legal, binding contract for shared property, power of attorney for making health care decisions, probate of wills, etc., and were, in most cases, receiving health care benefits from employers. These same homosexual couples were consummating their relationship in the privacy of their own domicile without harassment.

          In 2008, Christians could speak their opinions and stand on their faith while understanding their voice was respected in the public square.                                                                                            In 2015, however, those same Christians are in grave danger of losing legal standing because their beliefs are pitted against a brand new, heretofore undiscovered constitutional right. Tolerance is only for those who agree with the mob-rule Left.  -The Patriot Post

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 Alabama Chief Justice Issues Order in Defiance of Supreme Court  
(conservativepost.com) ~ Same-sex couples in Alabama will have to hold on and wait a few weeks before proceeding with their nuptials, thanks to an order issued by the Alabama Supreme Court... The court issued an order on Monday that essentially prohibits probate judges in the state from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples for 25 days. This has effectively stalled the Supreme Court’s gay marriage ruling in Alabama, while providing time for interested parties to file motions and petitions contesting the ruling.        http://conservativepost.com/breaking-alabama-chief-justice-issues-massive-order-in-defiance-of-u-s-supreme-court/
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 nObama Concessions to Iran Worse than Previously Known  
(Clare Lopez) ~ To no one’s surprise, the nuclear talks with Iran that were supposed to produce an agreement by tomorrow have been extended. Critics of the nuclear deal sought by President nObama fear that this will be a dangerous deal because of too many one sided U.S. concessions to Iran... These include allowing Iran to enrich uranium and build advanced enrichment centrifuges while an agreement is in force. Iran will keep all of its nuclear infrastructure, including a plutonium-producing heavy-water reactor. (It is supposed to be re-engineered to produce less plutonium.) Iran also will be allowed to keep its entire stockpile of the uranium it’s already enriched (although it’s supposed to dilute it down to a form less-readily usable to make a bomb). Nor does Iran have to come clean about its past nuclear weapons work. And the U.S. reportedly has now pledged to provide Iran technical assistance to further develop its nuclear program.
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 See Jihadist Bringing Terror to the Streets of America  
(gopthedailydose.com) ~ There has been a domestic terrorist attack on American soil. It was not perpetrated by a Tea Partier, Pro Lifer or a returning Veteran. It was done in the name of Allah. Again... Good luck hearing about it. Only a few recent Fox News reports have mentioned the “lone wolf” terrorist who attacked a 19 year old rising sophomore at the University of Richmond. Brown and his accomplice, Jeremy Villagran, shot Tevlin ten times with a 9 mm Luger. A devout Muslim, Brown believed that he had the right to “take a life for a life” as he disagreed with U.S. military presence in Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran and Syria. According to court documents and NJ.com, Brown quoted that he felt it was his “mission” to kill Tevlan. He was seeking retribution.       http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/07/01/see-jihadist-bringing-terror-to-the-streets-of-america/
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 Veterans Affairs Inspector General Steps Down Amid Controversy  
(sharylattkisson.com) ~ Veterans Affairs Inspector General Richard Griffin is stepping down from his watchdog post amid allegations that he has been obstructing Congress’ investigation into the “Candy Land” VA hospital in Wisconsin... A congressional investigation into a “Candy Land” physician who allegedly “doped up” and “zombified” veterans has uncovered disturbing new details. The probe has faced stonewalling and hostility from federal agencies, according to the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs.
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 Rev Manning Warns Patriots Of Inside GOP Swindle  
(rickwells.us) ~ Reverend James David Manning is never one to shy away from controversy or making controversial statements. He’s not starting now and has some words of both praise and warning regarding the upcoming presidential elections... He applauds the straight talk of Donald Trump while having some harsh criticisms of both the “dunghead” mainstream media, including Fox News, as well as the leadership of Tea Party organizations. He contends that while the Tea Party members are largely patriotic and loyal Americans who deeply love their country, it is his opinion that their leadership does not embody the ideals of their members.       http://rickwells.us/rev-manning-warns-patriots-of-inside-gop-swindle-his-belief-only-one-republican-can-win/
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 BUSTED ! David Axelrod Claimed Not To Know About Hilly Email  
(Al Weaver) ~ Emails released Tuesday by the State Department show that former W.H. advisor David Axelrod knew Hilly Clinton had a private account despite recent claims... According to the latest batch, two email chains show Axelrod did indeed correspond with the then-secretary of state — once in June, 2009 and again in July, 2009. The emails contradict recent comments by Axelrod to MSNBC’s Joe Scarborough and Mika Brzezinski, in which he said he would have “asked a few questions” and shared his “concerns” had he known about Clinton’s private email account and server.        http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/30/hillary-emails-reveal-axelrod-knew-about-private-account-despite-past-claims-video/
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 EPA – Preying On What They Also Believe Are “The Stupid People”  
(rickwells.us) ~ The competition at the White House is fierce in the category of “Greatest Program of Disinformation and Lies by a Federal Agency” and there are many truly notable nominees which would, in any other administration, would be a hands-down winners... But this is the nObama regime, where lying is much more than the method of operation, it has become a form of public pornography, an obscene art form displayed in every hall and every office throughout the government. The EPA, with its yard gnome Chief Gina McCarthy, is an agency designed for deception and corruption; an activist group disguised as a federal agency, intent on destroying the American energy capacity and with it our economy. They are a key agency in facilitating the destruction from within that is underway at the hand of Hussein nObama.        http://rickwells.us/criminally-insane-epa-preying-on-what-they-must-also-believe-are-the-stupid-people/
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 nObama Signs Unconstitutional TPA as CFR Looks to Bring China in  
(Tim Brown) ~ On Monday, Barack nObama signed the unconstitutional Trade Promotion Authority legislation... After failing to fully get through the House on a first attempt, Republicans snuck it back in the very next week under cover of the Charleston shooting and later helped to pass it in the Senate with a vote of 60-38. However, neither House Speaker backstabber John Boehner (R-OH) nor Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-KY would attend the signing of the legislation. nObama claims that such legislation will "reinforce America's leadership role in the world." If that is the case, then why was the Trade Adjustment Assistance? It's because, to their credit, Democrats realized that this is going to cost Americans jobs and they wanted to unconstitutionally offer welfare from the federal government for those losses.
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 nObama’s Unconstitutional Schemes to Nationalize Police  
(Alex Newman) ~ Efforts to nationalize state and local police forces across America go back decades, but the nObama administration has accelerated that push and is now openly working to turn your local cops into extensions of federal power... In addition to being unconstitutional, this is an absolutely terrible idea for a number of reasons. First, let’s talk about nObama’s scheming on this front. Before openly complaining about the militarization of police, nObama was militarizing American police departments at an unprecedented rate. At the same time he was attacking the rights of Americans with slogans like “weapons of war don’t belong on our streets,” he was flooding our streets with actual weapons of war — tanks, armored personnel carriers, grenade launchers, and more to local police. There are alot of things that nObama has done are Unconstitutional but no one is going to stop him. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/21162-obama-s-unconstitutional-schemes-to-nationalize-police?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=06d8ee6f67-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-06d8ee6f67-289778381
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 White House DID KNOW About Hilly's Emails  
(Brendan Bordelon) ~ New Hilly Clinton e-mails released late Tuesday night by the State Department reveal that, despite denials to the contrary, top nObama-administration officials were aware... within the first nine months of President nObama’s first term, of then–secretary of state Hilly Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server to conduct government business. The White House has not said when President nObama and his lieutenants first learned of Clinton’s use of a private e-mail server, noting only that they became aware in August 2014, after Republican lawmakers got hold of the information, that it could become a political problem.
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Holy Hypocrisy and Hot Air
Michelle Malkin
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     (freedomsback.com) ~ Unlike Pope Francis, I believe that air-conditioning and the capitalists responsible for the technology are blessings to the world.
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     Perhaps the head of the Catholic Church, who condemned “the increasing use and power of air-conditioning” last week in a market-bashing encyclical, is unaware of the pioneering private company that has donated its time, energy and innovative heating, ventilating and air-conditioning equipment to the Vatican’s most famous edifice for more than a decade.
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     That’s right. While the pontiff sanctimoniously attacks “those who are obsessed with maximizing profits,” Carrier Corporation — a $13 billion for-profit company with 43,000 employees worldwide (now a unit of U.S.-based United Technologies Corp.) — ensures that the air in the Vatican’s Sistine Chapel stays clean and cool.
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     Last fall, Carrier unveiled a groundbreaking HVAC system for the Vatican to help preserve Michelangelo’s masterpieces against pollution caused by the estimated six million visitors who descend on the Sistine Chapel every year to see its famous frescoes.
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     As the company described it, their new solution “uses two Carrier AquaForce(r) 30XWV water-cooled chillers with Greenspeed(r) intelligence, each with 580 kilowatts of capacity. It leverages specially designed software and components, as well as patented, energy-saving technologies to maintain optimal climate conditions for the protection of the paintings within the chapel.” State-of-the-art intelligent controls “anticipate visitor levels and adjust its performance intuitively.” It also “delivers twice the efficiency and three times the capacity of the former system, which was built and installed by Carrier in the early 1990s.”
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     Here’s the lesson about air-conditioning capitalists that Pope Francis fails to appreciate: Carrier’s technological know-how and breakthroughs didn’t just descend from the clouds. As I recount in my latest book, “Who Built That,” every perfectly chilled home, office, movie theater, mall, factory, hospital, lab and museum owes its existence to the profit-seeking pioneers of manufactured weather: Willis Carrier and Irvine Lyle.
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     These early 20th-century inventive giants brought air-conditioning to the market and to the masses. Willis Carrier was the scientist-tinkerpreneur whose prolific stream of experiments and epiphanies, beginning in 1902, fueled historic technological advances in heating, refrigeration and air-conditioning. Irvine Lyle was the mechanical engineer-turned-salesman who imagined countless new commercial applications for Carrier’s work — and successfully turned those ideas into a multibillion-dollar business through relentless promotion, pitches, networking, advertising and outreach.
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     The scientists and their core team begged, borrowed and made stock sales to friends and neighbors. Carrier even enlisted his dentist for cash to get Carrier Engineering Corporation up and running in 1915. Carrier, Lyle and five founding engineers together pitched in $32,600 in start-up funds. .
     The Carrier capitalists risked it all in defiance of an economic depression and amid the tumult of world war. They couldn’t afford their own factory and scrounged for made-to-order parts wherever they could find them. They dug into their own pockets to cover salary shortfalls. The wealth wasn’t handed to them. Carrier and Lyle, farm boys who both graduated from Cornell, drove their men hard and themselves harder.
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     The Carrier team sold its products to businesses, large and small, that spanned the spectrum of human needs and wants. The pope should know that in addition to sparing countless lives from death by heat wave, Carrier designed a special system for Jonas Salk that helped maintain constant temperatures in the vats where Salk’s poliovirus strains grew. The Salk vaccine saved thousands of lives and spearheaded the vaccine revolution.
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     From Hollywood to the pharmaceutical industry to textiles to the retail industry to the military to homeowners, there isn’t a sector of the American economy that Carrier and Lyle didn’t help transform. Their zealous focus on helping businesses provide better products at cheaper costs resulted in the invaluable byproducts of increased health, comfort and happiness.
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    While the pope blames commercial enterprises and the “global market economy” for causing “environmental degradation,” it is a worldwide commercial enterprise made in America that solved the human-caused degradation of, and environmental damage to, the Vatican’s most prized art and assets.
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     If the pontiff truly believes “excessive consumption” of modern conveniences is causing evil “climate change,” will he be shutting down and returning the multimillion-dollar system Carrier generously gifted to the Vatican Museums?
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     If not, I suggest, with all due respect, that Pope Francis do humanity a favor and refrain from blowing any more hot air unless he’s willing to stew in his own.
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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:
Beware, Bibi, you war criminal! Shocking U.N. report calls for your -- and other Israelis' -- arrest
Anne Bayefsky
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Wut? Sanders down to single-digit deficit in Granite State Poll  WMUR: “Less than two months ago, former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton held a 21 percentage point lead over her nearest competitor in the New Hampshire Democratic presidential primary campaign. Now, her edge is down to 8 percentage points over Vermont U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders. Clinton leads Sanders, 43 to 35 percent, in a new WMUR/CNN Granite State Poll, which was conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center from June 18 to 24. The poll included 360 likely 2016 Democratic primary voters and has a margin of error of 5.2 percent, meaning Sanders is close to being in a statistical dead heat with the frontrunner.”  -Fox News 
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 McAuliffe re-emerges as Hilly’s inside man -  Politico: “[Virginia Gov. Terry McAuliffe] a former Democratic National Committee chairman and a consummate political animal, just can’t keep his fingers away from the flame. Despite the daily demands of running the state he was elected to lead in 2013, he’s emerging as Hilly’s informal liaison to governors and the party’s biggest donors, while also keeping a finger on the pulse of the camp’s central operations in Brooklyn.”   -Fox News 
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 CROSSING JORDAN  Bret Baier traveled to Jordan for an exclusive interview with King Abdullah and his country’s fight against Islamist militants. But off the battlefield, Jordan is also helping Christians who face death at the hands of ISIS. Hear the heartrending stories of Christians and other persecuted minorities fleeing torture, massacre and chemical weapons. And in an exclusive Fox News investigation, learn for the first time about a modern-day underground railroad delivering persecuted Christians into America. “Fox News Reporting: Crossing Jordan – Escape from Terror,” And check out a preview here.   -Fox News 
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE 
Staring out at your lovely garden you might not be aware that there is chemical warfare raging all around you. Smithsonian Magazine took a look at the development of mustard, and how this tiny seed survived over time. Mustard is from the Brassicaceae family – a tough bunch that developed a defenses, called glucosinolates by scientists but more commonly known as the mustard oil that gives its flavor to horseradish, cabbage and, of course, mustard. These evolving compounds create a deterrent so if the insects do consume them they will get sick or die. Over time, though, insects developed their own defense so they can consume the plants without injuring themselves. The clear winner in the struggle, though, are humans who love the sinus-clearing tastes of the combatant plants.  
-Fox News 
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 Fox News Comes Forward With PROOF Hilly Committed Treason 
(gopthedailydose.com) ~ Federal court documents recently obtained by Fox News show that Hilly Clinton, as secretary of state, supported a covert exchange of weapons to the rebels in Libya who subsequently carried out the attack on the American diplomatic compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012... The attack took the lives of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens, U.S. Foreign Service Information Management Officer Sean Smith, and two CIA contractors, Glen Doherty and Tyrone S. Woods. In sworn testimony to the District Court of Arizona on May 5, 2015, CIA officer David Manners said, “It was then, and remains now, my opinion that the United States did participate, directly or indirectly, in the supply of weapons to the Libyan Transitional National Council.” Manners’ testimony was part of a grand-jury investigation of Marc Turi, an American defense contractor, who is suspected of facilitating the secretive flow of weapons into Libya as part of an effort to overthrow the regime of Moammar Qaddafi.       http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/06/29/breaking-fox-news-comes-forward-with-proof-hillary-committed-treason-in-benghazi/
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 nObama’s Social Engineering Gives ISIS A Huge Recruitment Tool  
(rickwells.us) ~ There’s simply no limit and no end to the sanctimony of the nObama regime. The Marxist ideology upon which it is based is in itself hypocrisy of the most vile kind which, due to the very nature of their system, must be spread through disinformation and lies... If they told the truth, nobody aside from those in exploitative leadership positions would be foolish or self-destructive enough to join their ranks. Some noteworthy insincerity was exhibited in the recent regime victory in which the perverted Supreme Court Justices donned their legislative robes and redefined the institute of marriage in a manner totally different from what it has been since the beginning of time. Now the institution of marriage has been corrupted to include homosexuals, with the most offensive component the adoption of children, their futures sacrificed as they are indoctrinated into a life of deviance. It will now also be promoted as a normal choice all across the spectrum of Elitist-owned media, including television and films and falselydeclared to be representative of America and our values. In advancing that portion of his agenda, nObama has displayed once again the most blatant of hypocrisy.        http://rickwells.us/obamas-social-engineering-gives-isis-a-huge-recruitment-tool-hes-worried-about-gitmo/
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 John Roberts has constitutional blood on his hands 
(David Limbaugh) ~ Last week’s Supreme Court rulings on nObamacare (Burwell) and same-sex marriage (Obergefell) were enormously dispiriting for reasons beyond the substantive issues of socialized medicine and same-sex marriage... I couldn’t be more opposed to socialized medicine, which I believe is the endgame of nObamacare, and I am opposed to the societal sanctioning of same-sex marriage – but those are not my greatest concerns with these two rulings. In both cases, the court flouted the Constitution, the rule of law, the English language and the truth itself. People who appreciate the unique American system of government and those who value truth itself should be very concerned.
http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/john-roberts-has-constitutional-blood-on-his-hands/
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 Rush Limbaugh: Here's what's next for marriages 
(Chelsea Schilling) ~ Get ready: Polygamy is the new “gay” movement – and talk-radio giant Rush Limbaugh warns the June 26 legalization of same-sex marriage by the U.S. Supreme Court makes spouse collecting in America “inevitable.”... “Look, folks, you can think all you want, but there’s no legal basis to stop it now,” Limbaugh told his listeners on Monday’s show. “There is no intellectually honest way to distinguish the reasoning on gay marriage from applying the same reasoning to supporting polygamy.” Limbaugh explained the case for same-sex marriage was “all rooted in self-esteem and dignity and not being denied things that make you happy.”        http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/1-wife-is-not-enough-polygamy-now-inevitable/
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 Israeli official: Syria is dying, the funeral will be declared in due time 
(jpost.com) ~ A senior Israeli defense  official said President Bashar Assad controlled just a fifth of Syria and may end up in charge of a rump state dominated by his minority Alawite sect... Israel and its neighbor Syria are long-term enemies, but the remarks by Amos Gilad, director of the Political-Military Affairs Bureau at the Defense Ministry, reflect concerns by states across the region that Syria is undergoing a de facto partition after four years of civil war. "Syria is gone. Syria is dying. The funeral will be declared in due time. This Bashar Assad, he will be remembered in history textbooks as the one who lost Syria," Gilad told an intelligence conference organized by the Israel Defense journal on Monday.
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 nObama: US could 'walk away' from Iran nuclear talks, extended  
(foxnews.com) ~ President nObama threatened to "walk away" from a nuclear deal with Iran if it fails to keep tabs on the country's compliance, as the negotiations were extended past their original Tuesday deadline amid sharp disagreements... The president addressed the shaky talks during a joint press conference in Washington, alongside visiting Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. He spoke shortly after the State Department confirmed that the Iran talks were being extended another week. "My hope is they can achieve an agreement," nObama said. But he added that, "I've said from the start, I will walk away from the negotiations if in fact it's a bad deal."       http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/30/negotiators-extend-deadline-for-iran-nuclear-talks/
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 Let’s Drop the Charade: The Supreme Court Is a Political Branch  
(Andrew McCarthy) ~ But this Court is not a legislature.” Chief Justice John Roberts actually published that sentence in his same-sex marriage dissent on Friday . . . a mere 24 hours after his maestro’s performance in the Supreme Court’s legislative rewrite of the Affordable Care Act – formerly known as “nObamacare,” but now etched in memory as “SCOTUScare,” thanks to Justice Antonin Scalia’s withering dissent. Roberts’s denial that the Court legislates is astonishing in its cynicism: In saving SCOTUScare, the chief justice not only usurped Congress’s law-writing role with gusto; he claimed the powers, first, to divine legislative purpose from its contradictory expression in legislative language, and, then, to manufacture legislative ambiguity as the pretext for twisting the language to serve the contrived purpose. It takes a Clintonian quantum of cheek to pull that off one day and, on the next, to inveigh against the very thought of it.
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 Activist ‘Disarm NYPD’ Planning to do THIS in NYC Independence Day 
(allenwestrepublic.com) ~ Last week, we created an event called "Burn the American Flags", which has invoked quite a reaction from people, both positive and negative... What we had intended to be a decidedly small, unspectacular gathering of burning symbols of oppression has been shared thousands of times and has been picked up by the press. We feel that we should take this opportunity to further clarify our position on the subject. Despite this, many people are rather offended by our decision to burn the American flag. We find it a sign of the times that people can care so much about a piece of cloth, while at the same time be so quiet about black churches being burned all over the country. Perhaps this is the great difference between us and the so-called "patriots". While they express their loyalty to symbols, we express our loyalty to the lives of the oppressed.
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Thomas Sowell
 Supreme Court disasters  
(Thomas Sowell) ~ The highest court in America has once again demonstrated that the freedom for which whole generations have fought and died is gradually but increasingly being taken away from us with smooth and slippery words... Many people are looking at the recent Supreme Court decisions about nObamaCare and same-sex marriage in terms of whether they think these are good or bad policies. That is certainly a legitimate concern, for both those who favor those policies and those who oppose them. But there is a deeper and more long-lasting impact of these decisions that raise the question whether we are still living in America, where "we the people" are supposed to decide what kind of society we want, not have our betters impose their notions on us.       http://www.onenewsnow.com/perspectives/thomas-sowell/2015/06/30/supreme-court-disasters
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 Ayaan Hirsi Ali's "Islamic Reformation." Can It Work?  
(investigativeproject.org) ~ It is cocktail hour on an April afternoon in 2004. The sun is hot on Amsterdam's canals, and I am sitting at Café den Leeuw on the Herengracht with Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Hirsi Ali is still a member of the Dutch Parliament, and we talk about Islam... Specifically, we talk about the concept of "moderate Islam," or what she calls "liberal Islam." And she has one word for it. "It's absurd," she says. "It's complete nonsense. There is no 'liberal Islam.'" Things change.
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Beware, Bibi, you war criminal! Shocking U.N. report calls for your -- and other Israelis' -- arrest
Anne Bayefsky
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     (jewishworldreview.com) ~ Arrest Benjamin Netanyahu and any other "suspected" Israeli war criminals wherever and whenever you can get your hands on them. That is the shocking bottom line of a scandalous report released today from the U.N. Human Rights Council in Geneva.
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     The report emanates from a board of inquiry the Council created in the midst of the 2014 Gaza war. In legalese, the call to arrest Israelis either for trial before the International Criminal Court (ICC), or before any court in any country that the U.N. labels "fair," reads like this:
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     The board "calls upon the international community … to support actively the work of the International Criminal Court in relation to the Occupied Palestinian Territory; to exercise universal jurisdiction to try international crimes in national courts; and to comply with extradition requests pertaining to suspects of such crimes to countries where they would face a fair trial."
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     To be fair, the U.N. report says this could apply to both parties. In other words, the democratic state of Israel, with a moral and legal obligation to defend its citizens, and the Palestinian attackers bent on genocide are moral equals. Throughout the 183-page tome, the U.N. council "experts" play the old "cycle of violence" trick, otherwise known as "it all started when you hit me back."
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     An infamous photo from the Third Reich shows eminent Jewish lawyer Michael Siegel, beaten and bloodied after going to police headquarters on behalf of a Jewish client who had been sent to Dachau, forced to walk through the streets of Munich with a sign around his neck saying: "I am a Jew, but I will never again complain to the police."
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     The similarity with today's U.N. authorities is painfully clear. When Israel responds to Palestinian rocket fire — 750 rockets in 2014 alone prior to the war's start — or Palestinian terrorists emerging from tunnels into Israel bent on carnage, it is Israel who is accused of war crimes. The only acceptable response, apparently, is to hang their heads or make a U.N. speech.
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     In part, the war criminal charge is just one more U.N. slander. U.N. meetings routinely consist of wild allegations of Israel committing genocide, ethnic cleansing, apartheid and crimes against humanity, and frequently analogizing Israelis to Nazis. The anti-Semitic dimension of these attacks is palpable, with constant references to the offense of "Judaization" — the criminalization of the presence of Jews in what is supposed to be Judenrein Arab territory, or what is in practice apartheid Palestine.
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     While the point of all this hate speech is to demonize and delegitimize Israel, the war crimes label takes the campaign one step further. It deliberately ravages Israel's right of self-defense.
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     Self-defense is the essence of sovereignty. In the words of the U.N. Charter: "Nothing in the present Charter shall impair the inherent right of … self-defence if an armed attack occurs against a Member of the United Nations …" The United Nations was not intended to be a suicide pact.
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     But incredibly, the U.N. council report purports to address legal responsibility for casualties in Gaza without once mentioning "self-defense."
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     It was exactly the outcome that the council had planned. The Council gave the board of inquiry its marching orders on July 23, 2014, just 16 days into the war. It named June 13, 2014, as the starting line because Palestinian terrorists kidnapped three Israeli teenagers on June 12. It said the Council "condemns … the violations … arising from the Israeli military operations." Guilty before proven innocent is how it all began.
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     The board's first chair, William Schabas, was forced to resign after it was revealed he had been a paid legal adviser to the Palestinian Authority. On his way out the door in February, Schabas admitted the "fact-gathering" was "largely completed," and yet the U.N. denied the obvious conclusion that the result was irrevocably tainted. Consequently, a Palestinian legal adviser chaired the inquiry for more than half of its 10-month existence.
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     Impartiality was equally alien to American Mary McGowan Davis, who took over from Schabas. She had already chaired a Council committee about the 2008/09 Gaza war, and she declared in a March 2011 report that Israel's legal system did not meet standards of independence or impartiality, or make "accountability" possible. Those criteria are both the pre-conditions for the ICC's ability to throw Israelis in prison and the subject matter of her 2014 job.
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     In short, the Council gave the same person the same assignment on almost the same fact situation … and surprise! Israel is guilty as charged. .
     In 2011, McGowan Davis described the misogynist, homophobic, anti-free speech, "de facto authorities in Gaza" (i.e. Hamas) — infamous for throwing political opponents off tall buildings — as "generally tolerant of local human rights organizations."
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A U.N. "human rights" expert par excellence.
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     Little wonder that the report is riddled with lies and libels. It claims Israel was "directing attacks against civilians," and acted "in utter disregard of…the civilian population…" It omits that Hamas rejected or violated a total of 11 cease-fires that would have reduced Palestinian casualties by 90 percent. It says the intent of "Palestinian armed groups" in constructing and using tunnels cannot be "conclusively determined" — photographic evidence of weapons caches and terrorists emerging from openings terrifyingly close to Israeli villages to the contrary.
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     It even goes so far as to lament that Palestinian "armed groups" don't have more room for their criminal enterprise: "…the obligation to avoid locating military objectives within densely populated areas is not absolute. The small size of Gaza and its population density make it difficult for armed groups to always comply with this requirement."
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     The U.N. has reached a new low. The United States should start by resigning from the Human Rights Council effective immediately.
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Wednesday ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
New State Department Low: 
Report Minimizes Palestinian 
Incitement to Violence
Steven Emerson
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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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 SUPREME DELIVERANCE FOR GOP 
Republicans may not much agree with the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn state bans on same-sex marriage, but just like the other ruling this week sparing nObamaCare, it is a political deliverance for their party.
          Had the court rejected the case and restored same-sex marriage bans struck down by lower courts, the Republican 2016 field would have been in a quandary. With a socially conservative base but a general electorate that has shifted dramatically on the subject in the past decade, GOP contenders would have been obliged to take positions on 31 state bans that were resurrected by the court.
          The list would have included swing states Ohio, Virginia, North Carolina and Florida and each candidate would have had to take a position on the subject. No good answers – either flip-flop or be called an extremist.
          Managing to anger social conservatives directly and libertarians by way of precedent for judicial activism, the high court has stoked a righteous anger on the right. While Republicans may be increasingly accepting of gay marriage, its imposition by court order will hardly enhance the good vibes.
          But there is enormous relief among GOP strategists that this issue is mostly off the table for 2016.
          As it stands, social conservatives can call for a federal amendment to reverse the decision – as Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wisc., already has – but since there is no chance of a two-thirds majority in the Senate, and not even likely to be a vote, this comes with lower risk.
          Moreover, the Republican base, already inflamed over fears of lost religious liberty, will bring a new focus to the subject and new activists and donors for the cause. The target will shift from the social issue itself to the issue of government and religious overreach.
          No matter who the Republicans nominate, Hilly Clinton will declare them to be extremists on the subject of gay marriage. But as of today, the Supreme Court has declared the issue moot.  -Fox News 
  
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 Hilly, nObama take credit for gay marriage trend they resisted WaPo: “Hilly Clinton's campaign is list-building off the [Supreme Court decision on same sex marriage] while President nObama spoke at an LGBT Pride event at the White House Wednesday, where he noted that the number of states in which same-sex couples can marry has grown from two when he took office to 37 today. ‘A decade ago politicians ran against LGBT rights; today, they're running towards them,’ he said. What was left unsaid, of course, was that he and Clinton are among those who used to run against same-sex marriage but have since changed their tune. … In fact, they jumped on-board well after gay marriage attained overwhelming majority support among Democrats. nObama came out in support of same-sex marriage in 2012, and Clinton in 2013, half a decade after a majority of Democrats already supported it in public polling.”  -Fox News 
  
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 DIVIDE ON EMAILS THREATENS HILLY’S STORY 
Fox News: “The State Department said Thursday it cannot locate 15 work-related emails from Hilly Clinton's private server released this week by the committee probing the 2012 Benghazi attacks -- indicating she never turned them over, in a revelation the committee chairman described as ‘significant and troubling.’ The emails consist of more in a series of intelligence reports passed to her by longtime political confidant Sidney Blumenthal, officials told The Associated Press. … When asked for comment by Fox News, a Clinton official said ‘not only did she turn over all emails that she had from Blumenthal, she actually turned over more than a dozen emails that were not included in what he handed over to the House committee. We do not have a record of other correspondence between her and Mr. Blumenthal beyond that which was turned over to the State Department. In terms of the documents provided by Mr. Blumenthal to the House committee, we do not recognize many of those materials and cannot speak to their origin,’ the official said.”  
-Fox News 
  
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 The takeaway -  A crack has emerged between Hilly Clinton and her former team at the State Department. Her process for culling the emails was demonstrably flawed and now further open to charges of wrongdoing. The choice to destroy 31,000 emails looks increasingly suspect. The campaign may hang Blumenthal out to dry on this, but this becomes a stickier web all the time. Prosecutors know the way to win is to divide the suspects, and that may be what congressional investigators are doing.  -Fox News 
  
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 Hilly Flubs So Hard Even Liberals Gag                                                           
(teapartyupdate.com) ~ This is perhaps the most ironic thing to happen lately. Hilly Clinton has been dogged with more accusations of dirty money making its way over to her and her nonprofit the Clinton Foundation... Allegations the Clinton foundation has received funds from more than a few foreign sources seem indisputable. The evidence being so concrete a district court judge even moved forward with a federal RICO case (RICO stands for racketeering, influenced and corrupt organizations) against her foundation. Which is why when Hilly said the endless flow of dirty money into politics should stop, even commentators can’t help but scoff.        http://teapartyupdate.com/video-hillary-flubs-so-hard-even-liberals-gag/
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 Supreme Court blocks Texas abortion-clinic rules                                        
(foxnews.com) ~ The Supreme Court refused on Monday to allow Texas to enforce restrictions that would force 10 abortion clinics to close... The justices voted 5-4 to grant an emergency appeal from the clinics after a federal appeals court upheld new regulations and refused to keep them on hold while the clinics appealed to the Supreme Court. The Supreme Court order will remain in effect at least until the court decides whether to hear the clinics' appeal of the lower court ruling, not before the fall.        http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/29/supreme-court-blocks-texas-abortion-clinic-rules/
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 Clinton Email Scandal – CNN Says it “Has New Legs”                                
(Onan Coca) ~ Folks, I know that keeping up with all of the political happenings can become a bit tedious, but don’t get complacent when it comes to the Clinton email scandal... On CNN’s Inside Politics this Sunday morning, host John King told his audience to pay attention in the coming days because the Email scandal had grown a new set of legs when the State Department admitted that Clinton never gave them some emails that clearly discuss State Department business. King then went on to lay all of the blame for the scandal that he believes to be a big nothingburger, squarely at the feet of Hilly Clinton, saying, “Now, will some Republicans blow this out of proportion or wander into the realm of conspiracy theory? Perhaps, even probably, but as Democrats accuse them of being partisan or reckless, remember this: This would not be an issue if Clinton hadn’t erased her email server and if she followed the wishes of her boss, nObama about how to handle cabinet-level emails.”       http://freedomforce.com/4645/dont-forget-about-the-clinton-email-scandal-cnn-says-it-has-new-legs/
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 WH blocking release of Clinton/nObama phone call during Benghazi      
(Catherine Herridge) ~ New documents released by a federal court show President nObama called then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton on the night of the 2012 Benghazi attack -- but the contents are being withheld by the State Department...  It had previously been disclosed that Clinton and nObama spoke the night of the terror attacks. But the documents offer additional information about the timing of the call -- after the initial attack on the U.S. consulate, but before the second wave where mortars hit the nearby CIA annex and killed former Navy SEALs Ty Woods and Glen Doherty. The contents of the call, however, are being withheld, not because the information is classified but because the administration claims they represent internal deliberations about the 2012 terror assault. The claim comes as Clinton also faces accusations that she withheld Benghazi-related emails from her private server in the trove of emails handed over to the State Department. 
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 Govt Wipes Recent Vaccine Injury Data From Website                                
(sharylattkisson.com) ~ In March, the federal government removed the latest vaccine injury court statistics—more than a year’s worth of data—from one of its publicly reported charts. It was an abrupt departure from the normal practice of updating the figures monthly... Wiping the latest data means the “adjudication categories by alleged vaccine” chart on a government website no longer reflects the recent, sharp rise in court victories for plaintiffs who claimed their children were seriously injured or killed by one or more vaccines. Since January of 2014, the number of flu vaccine cases conceded by the government is more than double the previous eight years combined. The adjudication chart only reflects half of the current number.
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 State Department Ejects Free Beacon Reporter from Briefing                    
(Adam Kredo) ~ Officials with the Department of State threatened to call security Monday on a Washington Free Beacon reporter who was attempting to report on a briefing held by senior nObama administration figures in Vienna on the eve of an expected nuclear agreement with Iran... Two State Department officials booted theFree Beacon from a room where Wendy Sherman, the undersecretary of state for political affairs, was talking to reporters, despite the Free Beacon’s being credentialed by the Austrian government for the ongoing Iranian nuclear talks. Western observers present in Vienna for the talks linked the State Department’s behavior to jitters over media coverage revealing a still growing list of concessions being made to Iran by the nObama administration. Melissa Turley, a State Department official, approached a Free Beacon reporter and demanded that he leave the room.        http://freebeacon.com/issues/state-department-ejects-free-beacon-reporter-from-briefing/
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 US Helped Release Iranian Prisoners As Sweetener for Nuclear Talks   
(Daniel Wiser) ~ The nObama administration helped to secure the release of several Iranians detained in the United States and the United Kingdom, some convicted of illegal arms smuggling, according to a report that comes as U.S. prisoners languish in Iranian jails... The Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday that, as part of a “wish list” Iran presented to the United States in 2009 before the current nuclear negotiations, U.S. officials helped expedite the release of four Iranian prisoners in 2012 and 2013. Three were convicted of illegally sending arms or other banned materials to Iran while the international community sought to enforce sanctions on the country’s nuclear program. U.S. officials said that some of the prisoners had already served their full sentences, though authorities worked with Oman—a Persian Gulf country that helped facilitate the first clandestine nuclear talks between the United States and Iran—to swiftly return them to Tehran. One of the Iranian detainees, Mojtaba Atarodi, a scientist, reentered Tehran just days after he was convicted of transporting illicit materials to the country. This is about him, nObama and everything else is means nothing.       http://freebeacon.com/national-security/us-helped-release-iranian-prisoners-as-sweetener-for-nuclear-talks/
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 UN Idiot Robert Redford Regurgitates To The World Govt Climate           
(rickwells.us) ~ A man who gets paid large amounts of money for regurgitating the words of others, actor Robert Redford, was playing his familiar role of uninformed climate blabber-mouth again on Monday... His venue was the modern version of the Tower of Babel, the United Nations building in New York City. Redford has admitted in the past that he knows only what the UN tells him about the subject, which is 100% adulterated garbage and falsified science hysteria. Still, he’s doing his part to hype the upcoming Paris UN power-grab summit in December as the world’s “last chance” to save the planet from climate change. Actually what it is is their next best chance to force global government upon the world through UN climate regulations and all of the usual suspects are getting in on the push to press those who know their treachery into submission.        http://rickwells.us/un-useful-idiot-robert-redford-regurgitates-to-the-world-govt-climate-choir/
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 Witness Telling Freddie Gray Was Jumping Around “Like A Madman”   
(theconservativetreehouse.com) ~ Oh, how we’ve seen this entire story play out before. Donta Allen 2015, is Rachel Jeantel 2013 !! A prosecution witness that actually deconstructs the prosecution. Now we know why Baltimore State Attorney Marilyn Mosby wants to block public awareness of the evidence... According to Megyn Kelly part of the “Brady evidence” turned over by prosecutors to the defense team in Baltimore includes video of van passenger Donta Allen giving his statement to “investigators”. Both teams, Crump/Corey in 2012/2013, and Gardner/Mosby in 2015, are presenting ridiculously fraudulent cases, assembled upon a foundation of lies, and supported by fraudulent witnesses.  Here’s the backstory on Gardner/Mosby.       http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/06/29/whoopsie-baltimore-evidence-includes-transport-van-witness-donta-allen-on-video-telling-investigators-freddie-gray-was-jumping-around-like-a-madman/
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New State Department Low: 
Report Minimizes Palestinian 
Incitement to Violence
Steven Emerson
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     (jewishworldreview.com) ~ The U.S. State Department's Country Reports on Terrorism 2014 issued Friday minimizes official Palestinian incitement to violence against Israel and completely overlooks Palestinian glorification of terrorists.
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     The annual report lists major terrorist incidents worldwide and outlines each country's counterterrorism efforts and legislation. Terrorism attacks and their resulting deaths spiked last year, the report found, an increase largely driven by attacks by the Islamic State and Nigeria's Boko Haram terrorist groups.
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     With respect to the Palestinian Authority (PA), the report praises the PA for taking "significant steps to ensure that official institutions in the West Bank that fall under its control do not create content that leads to incitement to violence." The report acknowledges that "some instances of inciting taking place via official media" still occur, listing only three examples. However, the report diminishes the fact that incitement to violence is a systematic and institutionalized PA phenomenon.
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     The State Department assessment also ignores the direct participation of senior PA officials in praising terrorists and inciting violence against Israelis and Jews.
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     For example, the report does not mention PA President Mahmoud Abbas' call last October for Palestinians to prevent Jews from going to the Temple Mount compound "in any way." The video clip of Abbas' Oct. 17 speech was shown 19 on PA television times in three days, implicitly calling for Palestinians to use violence against Israelis.
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     Instead, the report described PA efforts "to ensure" Friday sermons in more than 1,800 mosques controlled by the PA "do not endorse incitement to violence ... the guidance is that no sermon can discuss political or lead to incitement to violence."
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     In February, however, the PA Minister of Religious Affairs and other prominent religious officials resorted to an age-old blood libel accusing Jews of attacking Muslims sites and that Israel is trying to destroy the al-Aqsa Mosque, Palestinian Media Watch (PMW) reports. Such accusations are baseless and encourage Palestinians to conduct terrorist attacks against Israel.
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     The State Department report also omits any reference to official Palestinian glorification of terrorists.
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     For example, after the October shooting of Rabbi Yehuda Glick, Abbas sent a condolence letter to the family of terrorist Mutaz Hijazi who was killed by Israeli authorities in a firefight during a raid for his capture. In the letter, Abbas called the terrorist a "Shahid," a martyr, who "rose to Heaven while defending our people's rights and holy places," PMW reported.
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     Moreover, a senior Fatah official claimed that Hijazi was a Fatah operative and expressed pride in his actions, a PMW translation shows.
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     These blatant omissions from the report leave create a sense that examples of Palestinian incitement to violence and glorification of terrorists are sporadic occurrences. In reality, the Palestinian Authority institutionalizes a systematic campaign of violent incitement and continues to praise terrorists for killing Jews and Israelis, while encouraging other Palestinians to follow in their footsteps.
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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:
Long Time To Pass
Tom McLaughlin
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 IRS DOCUMENTS DESTROYED ‘MOST LIKELY’ INCLUDE LERNER EMAILS 
Fox News: “A congressional hearing Thursday morning is expected to reveal evidence was destroyed during the investigation into the IRS targeting scandal, months after the agency was told to preserve documents, Fox News is told. J. Russell George, the Treasury inspector general for tax administration, is expected to tell the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee his office found no direct evidence the destruction was intentional. But the destruction nevertheless defied a preservation order, and is sure to raise suspicions over motive. The IG will specifically reveal that IRS employees erased computer backup tapes a month after officials discovered thousands of emails related to the tax agency's Tea Party scandal had been lost. As many as 24,000 emails were lost because 422 backup tapes were erased. George says those tapes ‘most likely’ contained emails to and from former IRS official Lois Lerner…”  -Fox News  
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 NPS Removes Battle Flag From Battlefield 
The hive mind appears to be taking over. While we can at least understand the push to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state capitol grounds, the rush to jerk it from all store shelves or any public view is astounding. From the "General Lee" of Dukes of Hazzard fame, to Apple pulling Civil War games from the App Store, to the National Cathedral removing stained glass over the mere presence of the Confederate flag, the reaction quickly became absurd. Now, the nation's first National Military Park, Chickamauga, a park established in 1890 for reconciliation between veterans of the Confederate and Union forces after the War Between the States, has removed Confederate battle flags from its gift shops. Gettysburg has done so as well. Undoubtedly there was a memo from the National Park Service requiring this asinine measure — in order to propagate nObama's race-bait narrative. It has been said that ignorance is bliss, but the fact is, ignorance is miserable.
          Meanwhile, nObama no doubt will be promoting his race bait later today when delivering the eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, who, again, supported the flying of the Confederate flag at the SC capitol. If black lives really matter, then why does nObama not deliver eulogies for the other 20 blacks murdered every day on average, most by other blacks? Simple: It doesn't fit the race-bait narrative.
          Finally, of course, the American flag flew over those 13 rebellious states before the Confederate battle flag was ever flown. Better get that American flag down next.
 -The Patriot Post 
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 Clinton Strings Along Investigators With Hidden Emails 
We're still trying to grasp all we don't know about Hilly Clinton's cannon of destroyed documentation. On Thursday, the State Department admitted that nine full emails and six partial emails that Clinton lackey Sidney Blumenthal handed over to the Select Committee on Benghazi were not in the reams of printed emails Clinton dumped on the department. Clinton had to have known this. Earlier this year, Clinton said she handed over all the emails regarding her tenure as secretary of state, though she admitted that she destroyed half of her emails because they were "private." Clinton swears she told the truth, but it was not the whole truth and nothing but the truth about the events leading up to the day when jihadists killed four Americans in Benghazi. "This has implications far beyond Libya, Benghazi and our committee's work," Benghazi Committee Chair Trey Gowdy said. "This conclusively shows her email arrangement with herself, which was then vetted by her own lawyers, has resulted in an incomplete public record. … The revelation these messages were not originally produced to the State Department by Clinton is significant and troubling." The emails show that Clinton was encouraging Blumenthal to send her intelligence reports on Benghazi, despite Clinton's claim that the reports were unsolicited. So why is the State Department cooperating with the Benghazi investigation now? It's very possible Hilly, Blumenthal and Co. are contriving these releases as a red herring designed to tie up Republican political capital on an issue that may be a nonstarter. Barack nObama did the same thing with his birth certificate.  -The Patriot Post 
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 House Republicans Mull Impeachment of IRS Head 
Last February, Barack nObama glibly claimed there was "not even a smidgen of corruption" at the IRS. A month later, at the height of the scandal over the IRS targeting conservative nonprofits, the agency destroyed 422 backup tapes that might have contained 24,000 of Lois Lerner's emails. Here's what the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee learned at their hearing yesterday: Yes, the IRS knew of significant gaps in the public record. Yes, Congress issued a preservation order and a subpoena. But still, records were destroyed. Furthermore, eight days after former chair of the House Ways and Means Committee David Camp sent a letter to the IRS in June 2011 inquiring about the targeting of Tea Party groups, Lerner's hard drive somehow crashed. Tim Camus, the deputy inspector for investigations, calls the whole email-destroying frenzy an "unbelievable set of circumstances." As for Republican lawmakers, they think the unbelievable set of circumstances is grounds for the impeachment of IRS commissioner John Koskinen. A Republican on the House Oversight committee told National Review, "We've briefed the leadership's counsel, and I think that they're open to it, but it's the type of thing where this town is like, 'oh, that's not how we do things, it's not really been used lately.' But, quite frankly, we really haven't had executive branch officials behave this way like we do now."  
 -The Patriot Post 
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  Al-Jazeera Disclosures Deserve a Closer Look…By the Feds                 
(Steve Emerson) ~ Al Jazeera’s run of bad publicity got a little worse this week, when the online Arabic newspaper New Khalij published an article citing part of a cable from the Saudi Embassy saying the network answers to the Qatar government and is stocked with reporters who are part of the Muslim Brotherhood... “Whatever has been said about the impact of the journalists working in Al-Jazeera, having their weight and their agenda, and most of them belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood or being sympathizers with it, the final say in the end is with Qatari decision makers, with them the ones who determine its objectives, and the ones who identify the direction of the channel to achieve their objectives,” the New Khalij report says, citing the Saudi cable. The cable added that “the existence of a number of prominent journalists belonging to the Muslim Brotherhood in the channel is a matter worthy of concern, as the rulers of Qatar and its Sunni people are of the Hanbali school, and believe in the movement of Sheikh Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab, and the Muslim Brotherhood does not have roots the Qatari society.”        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/al-jazeera-disclosures-deserve-a-closer-lookby-the-feds/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email062915&utm_medium=email
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 Uprising: Indiana Governor Won’t Comply With EPA                                   
(fixthisnation.com) ~ Indiana Governor Mike Pence (R) is certainly no stranger to controversy. Pence made national headlines earlier this year as he battled the LGBT agenda and fought to protect Indiana’s right to religious freedom... Now he’s at it again, insisting that unless there are big changes to the EPA’s proposed Clean Power Plan, his state will not be participating. He wrote a bold letter to President nObama informing the administration of his stance against the environmental regulations. “If your administration proceeds to finalize the Clean Power Plan, and the final rule has not demonstrably and significantly improved from the proposed rule, Indiana will not comply. Our state will also reserve the right to use any legal means available to block the rule from being implemented,” Pence wrote.        http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/uprising-indiana-governor-wont-comply-with-epa/
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 Texas AG: State workers can deny licenses to gay couples                       
(Betsy Blaney) ~ Texas' conservative Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton called the Supreme Court decision giving same-sex couples the right to marry a "lawless ruling"... and said state workers can cite their religious objections in denying marriage licenses. He warned in a statement Sunday that any clerk, justice of the peace or other administrator who declines to issue a license to a same-sex couple could face litigation or a fine. But in the nonbinding legal opinion requested by Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, Paxton says "numerous lawyers" stand ready to defend, free of charge, any public official refusing to grant one. http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_GAY_MARRIAGE_TEXAS?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2015-06-28-20-53-42
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 Gary Hart: America’s Founding Principles Are in Danger of Corruption  
(Gary Hart) ~ Welcome to the age of vanity politics and campaigns-for-hire. What would our founders make of this nightmare?... Four qualities have distinguished republican government from ancient Athens forward: the sovereignty of the people; a sense of the common good; government dedicated to the commonwealth; and resistance to corruption. Measured against the standards established for republics from ancient times, the American Republic is massively corrupt. From Plato and Aristotle forward, corruption was meant to describe actions and decisions that put a narrow, special, or personal interest ahead of the interest of the public or commonwealth. Corruption did not have to stoop to money under the table, vote buying, or even renting out the Lincoln bedroom. In the governing of a republic, corruption was self-interest placed above the interest of all—the public interest.        http://time.com/3937860/gary-hart-america-corruption/
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 Republican Candidates Should Stand Together to Block Iran Deal          
(Roger L. Simon) ~ All the Republican candidates, announced or unannounced, should stop what they are doing and band together over the July 4 weekend to stop the Iran Deal... In so doing, they should reach out not just to their fellow Republicans, but to all Americans, including especially their colleagues on the other side of the aisle. This is an emergency. Sometimes world events reach a level that petty politics must be put aside and true patriotism come to the fore. September 11, 2001, and Pearl Harbor were such instances. The about-to-be-signed (between June 30 and July 6) nuclear deal with Iran is another. According to the Corker-Menendez bill, Congress only has thirty days to review the deal and (unfairly) needs to muster a two-thirds majority to overthrow it. Allowing the mullahs a glide path to the bomb, this agreement shifts the international balance of power as nothing since Chamberlain’s famous appeasement of Hitler at Munich. The Iran deal is therefore tantamount to a suicide of the West. And, ironically, the only one who can block it at this point is  Ayatollah Khamenei. Barack nObama seems willing to give the Iranians just about anything they want in order to get an agreement. He might as well load a couple of dozen nuclear-tipped ICBMs on the USS Harry S. Truman and sail them over to Bandar Abbas for off-loading.
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 Israel Turns Back 'Freedom Flotilla'- Hands Out Snarky Bibi Letter          
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ The so called "freedom flotilla" has been stopped from entering Gaza and is being towed to the Israeli port of Asdod. The IDF released a terse statement... In accordance with international law, the Israeli Navy advised the vessel several times to change course. Following their refusal, forces visited and searched the vessel in international waters in order to prevent the intended breach of the maritime blockade of the Gaza Strip. The forces have reported that use of force was unnecessary, and that the process was uneventful. The vessel is currently being escorted to Ashdod Port and is expected to arrive within 12-24 hours. Truth is while ships are not allowed to head to Gaza, groups can send as much aid to the terrorist controlled area as they wish. Their cargo, however must be sent through Israel so it can be checked for arms. In the past Israel has intercepted ships filled with arms from Iran and other terrorist supporting countries. Of course the mainstream media never explains that fact, they claim it's an embargo of consumer goods.       http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/israel-turns-back-freedom-flotilla.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=24587fd9fa-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-24587fd9fa-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-24587fd9fa-29170516
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 The Strategic Consequences of "Grexit"                                                          
(Peter Martino) ~ Last weekend, Greece failed to reach an agreement with its three creditors, the European Commission, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund. A bankruptcy of the Hellenic Republic is now imminent... If it materializes, a so-called Grexit will follow: Greece will be forced to leave the Eurozone -- the group of 19 European Union (EU) member states that use the euro as their common currency. Leaving the Eurozone automatically means that, under the EU treaties, Greece will also have to leave the EU. Grexit is likely to lead to economic and political turmoil in Greece, a hugely important strategic country, which borders on an increasingly unstable part of the world. Greece lies on the Mediterranean, fewer than 350 kilometers to the north of the Libyan coastal town of Derna, a stronghold of the Islamic terrorists of ISIS. It was here that, last February, ISIS beheaded 21 Coptic Egyptian prisoners, and vowed to conquer Europe. The threat to Greece's eastern borders is even greater. Greece is currently being inundated by illegal immigrants, arriving from Turkey by sea. Each day in June, human traffickers were transporting between 650 and 1,000 migrants by boat from Turkish ports to Greece. Last January, ISIS revealed that it is smuggling terrorists into Europe by hiding them among the migrants leaving Turkey.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6071/grexit-consequences
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 What Scares Lt Col Allen West About America’s Future And Present     
(rickwells.us) ~ Perhaps it’s just as well for Lt Col Allen West that he is no longer in the United States Congress. As a patriot who is informed and a man of integrity who cares deeply for his country, he didn’t really belong in the company of most of the riffraff that populates that legislative body anyway... He’s still working to restore our nation to greatness and there is more than enough to keep him and the rest of us Americans who share his concerns quite busy. Col West published a list he called “Twenty Things That Cause Me To Fear For My Nation,” a serious and damning list of things that he put down right off the top of his head. In addition to the content, the fact that it was so easy for him to come up with a list of that length is indicative of the trouble our nation is in.        http://rickwells.us/however-you-add-it-up-what-scares-lt-col-allen-west-about-americas-future-and-present/
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 Alfonzo Rachel Thinks Democrats are the Party of Slavery                       
(http://gopthedailydose.com) ~ Alfonzo Rachel is hated by the liberal crowd. He’s black, he believes in traditional, moral values, and he understands that America is not intrinsically racist. Watch the video below and try to see if anything he says is off-base...
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 Israeli official: nObama's got Muslim Daddy issues                                      
(wnd.com) ~ During a radio interview Sunday, former Israeli ambassador to the U.S. Michael Oren reinforced his position that President nObama’s relentless outreach to the Muslim world may be motivated by nObama’s being abandoned by two Muslim father figures... Last week, Oren had speculated Obama’s purported abandonment issues may have caused him to seek acceptance from the Muslim world. Sunday, Oren maintained  “it’s a legitimate question” to ask whether the “abandonment” of nObama’s Kenyan Muslim father and Indonesian Muslim stepfather have been partially driving nObama’s policy toward Islam , the Middle East, the war on terrorism and Iran. Oren was speaking on “Aaron Klein Investigative Radio” broadcast on New York’s AM 970 The Answer and Philadelphia’s NewsTalk 990 AM.        http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/israeli-official-obamas-got-muslim-daddy-issues/
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Long Time To Pass
Tom McLaughlin
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     (tommclaughlin.blogspot.com) ~ I now belong to an exclusive club no one wants to join: parents who have lost a child. “I cannot imagine how you must feel,” say other parents not in the club. Neither could I before it happened but I knew it would be awful, and it is.
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     What happened wasn’t my worst fear, but close. I feared our son might die alone, and he didn’t. He lingered in the ICU for nine days. During the first five he was in and out of consciousness, knew all his loved ones were with him and had the Last Rites. There’s nothing for me to fear anymore, but sadness and grief have taken fear’s place. Those two will be with me, and my family, a long time I think.
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     I don’t know which is worse but fear had become familiar. Addiction is a terrible thing, debilitating for the addict, but also for his family and for everyone else who loves him. It’s a progressive disease and a fatal result was inevitable unless he could stop, and he couldn’t. Ten years ago I joined a 12-step group for families of alcoholics and it helped me cope, helped me live with the fear and anxiety. The program reduced but didn’t eliminate those two crippling emotions. Now there are two more with which to wrestle.
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     We buried our son’s body last week but I know his spirit survives, and I will see him again when my own body finally gives out. That knowledge is a comfort, and will it ultimately trump both sadness and grief. He passed peacefully, even if life offered little peace during his last years. He has eternal peace now. I know that, but sometimes I forget and have to remind myself that he’s in a better place.
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     Our family was open about what caused Ryan’s death. All of us contributed to his eulogy which my wife bravely read at his funeral mass with me standing beside her. Having done three eulogies in one year, the last being one for my brother at which I got very choked up and could barely get through, I didn’t think myself capable of doing one for my own son. While we were both thinking of whom to ask, my wife declared she was going to deliver it. I told her that morning I believed I could find the strength to do it, but she said no, I want to, and she did. We were all proud of her.
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     As a columnist for twenty-two years, editors have tried to influence me to write more about this or that, but I’ve always written about what was most on my mind any given week — except my son’s addiction. Very often that was what I thought most about, but I’ve never written about it until now. Readers of the newspapers in which this column runs know my son died because his obituary appeared in their pages, but other readers around the country don’t know. Hence, this piece.
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     My wife and I are helping each other through this ordeal and I’m grateful to have her. Our children and our grandchildren help too. While we were sitting next to our son’s coffin tearfully listening to the priest’s homily, our four-year-old granddaughter, Lila, came into our pew to hold our hands and console us. She helped enormously. When days later I thanked her, she said: “Friends are supposed to help each other.”
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     Before Ryan died, we had been at the hospital more than a week consulting with doctors and other specialists. Most of another week was taken up with funeral arrangements. People in our church community and friends in the wider community were sympathetic and solicitous. Everyone in our immediate family gathered pictures to display at the reception in our church hall following the burial. Assembled pictures of Ryan were both endearing the heartbreaking to look at. People hugging me and expressing their condolences triggered more tears. It’s going to take a long time to wring them all out but, as my wife the therapist says, “If you can let it flow, you can let it go.” And that’s the goal, isn’t it? I have to let him go.
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     I’ve had some practice with that. I’ve had to let go of my obsession with his addiction. My program teaches the “Three Cs”: You didn’t cause it. You can’t control it. You can’t cure it. I had to love and support my son as he struggled for all those years. Thirteen times he went into treatment. He had stretches of sobriety lasting several months, but always slipped back. He was much harder on himself than we ever were on him, and now his struggles are over.
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     Knowing I won’t be able to talk with him anymore this side of heaven makes me miss him desperately. It’s going to be a while before that longing diminishes to bearable levels, but with God’s help, I’ll make it. When it gets hard I have to consider all the good things in my life, and there are many.
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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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Featuring:
The Media’s Vile Attacks on 
Conservative Assimilationists
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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 New Yorkers Say 'No' to SAFE Act 
The New York State Police initially shot down inquiries into how many "assault weapons" have been registered with the state after its legislature enacted the SAFE Act in 2013, and we now have a pretty good idea why — because compliance is abysmal. On April 30, New York Supreme Court Judge Thomas McNamara ordered the State Police to disclose registration statistics. According to the figures, which were made public this week, just 23,847 gun owners have registered a total of 44,485 military-looking weapons. For perspective, that's less than the 50,000 firearms registered under a similar law in Connecticut. Keep in mind, Connecticut has a population of 3.6 million, according to the Census Bureau. New York's is 19.8 million. Just a small disparity. Keep in mind also that New Yorkers own somewhere around 1,000,000 of these so-called assault rifles, which would mean just 4% of eligible firearms have been registered. Leah Barrett, executive director of New Yorkers Against Gun Violence, tried to put a positive spin on the numbers, responding, "Tens of thousands of people have complied with the law. That's important. It shouldn't be overlooked." What shouldn't be overlooked either is that the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers are exercising civil disobedience by rejecting a blatantly unconstitutional law. And they aren't afraid to be jailed for it, either.  -The Patriot Post  
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 Pope's Science Adviser's Political Agenda Exposed 
An old adage from the Gospel of Matthew warns, "Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves" (7:15). Unfortunately, Pope Francis did just the opposite when writing the environmental portion of his encyclical. Microbiologist Hans Schellnhuber is a science adviser to the Vatican, and also a fraud. Schellnhuber is in fact a strong believer in the Gaia hypothesis — in a nutshell, the worship of Mother Earth. "When Francis' encyclical was leaked last week, we wondered if his position on the man-made global warming question was 'a misuse of the authority of the Roman Catholic Church and the church at large,'" writes the Investor's Business Daily editorial board. "Our conclusion has only been solidified by the revelation that the pope was in league with Schellnhuber. ... From atheists to strong-arm redistributionists, this pope is unequally yoked with those who don't share the tenets of his faith — but who are happy to use that faith to achieve their political aims. Yes, there's truly something wrong here."  -The Patriot Post  
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 NEW POLL, NEW TROUBLE FOR HILLY IN EARLY STATES 
How far left will Hilly Clinton have to go to placate her party’s base? While Republican frontrunner Jeb Bush has the advantage of his party’s conservative wing fragmenting rather than consolidating, Hilly Clinton is watching the left side of her party coalesce around Sen. Bernie Sanders. The latest Fox News poll shows Sanders still trailing Clinton nationally, with 15 percent to her 61 percent, but in the crucial early primary states of Iowa and New Hampshire we see the big gains for the Vermont socialist.
          A pair of new polls from Bloomberg and local media partners in the states with the first two nominating contests shows Sanders slicing Clinton’s lead. He now boasts a quarter of the vote in New Hampshire and in Iowa. Sanders is perhaps even less likely than newly minted GOP candidate Donald Trump to be his party’s nominee, but Sanders may have a greater effect on the outcome. So far, Democrats are still spurning the entreaties of former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley. But Sanders’ strength combined with Clinton’s endless ethical problems continues to show that there is room in the party for a real challenge. While time is running out, there are still probably a couple of months for a person with high name identification to jump into the race – we’re looking at you loose lips Joe Biden and Indian Elizabeth Warren.
          So how many flops must Clinton flip before her party is satisfied that she will not sprint to the middle in the general election? And on what topics? While Clinton has been a perfect pander bear on social issues, touting her hatred for the Confederate Battle Flag and deep, if newly acquired, support for same-sex marriage, will she be forced to take damaging stances on tax rates, government-run insurance and other items that could do her damage against the eventual GOP nomination?
          There’s still almost no scenario in which Clinton doesn’t end up as the nominee, but the condition in which she arrives and what new liberal positions she is obliged to pack in her baggage when she gets there are now very much up in the air.  -Fox News
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 Webb defends -  “The Confederate Battle Flag has wrongly been used for racist and other purposes in recent decades. It should not be used in any way as a political symbol that divides us. But we should also remember that honorable Americans fought on both sides in the Civil War, including slave holders in the Union Army from states such as Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware, and that many non-slave holders fought for the South.” – Former Sen. Jim Webb, D-Va., in a statement.   -Fox News
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 The Eye of the Goon                                                                                        
(steynonline.com) ~ Guest-hosting The Rush Limbaugh Show last week, I mentioned an outrageous and very direct assault on free speech by the Government of the United States... As I said on the air, federal prosecutors are demanding Reason, the libertarian mag, cough up any identifying information on readers who posted comments in relation to the Silk Road case. That was the trial in which the Silk Road drugs impresario, Ross Ulbricht, wound up being sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole. This would not happen, obviously, in Sweden or New Zealand or anywhere else, but even by the standards of American courtrooms it was unusual: Judge Katherine Forrest gave Ulbricht a tougher sentence than the prosecution had asked for. Commenters at Reason, who aren't big on the "war" on drugs, were unimpressed by Judge Forrest:       http://www.steynonline.com/7018/the-eye-of-the-goon
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 ISIS in Jerusalem                                                                                                   
(israeltoday.co.il) ~ Flyers made their appearance in the North Jerusalem neighborhood of Beit Hanina on Thursday last week, signed by the "ISIS in Palestine" organization, with threats against Arab Christians of the area... Christians are threatened with slaughter if they do not evacuate the area by Eid al-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan. The flyer went on to say that one month is enough time and warning for Christians to flee the area to avoid a massacre. The news of the flyers spread quickly amongst the Arabs in Israel on social networks. Some expressing doubts at the authenticity of the flyers while others took the warning seriously. There are groups of Arabs, both christian and Muslim, that either do or don't believe that there is an active branch of ISIS in Jerusalem. One local Arab, on condition of anonymity, said to Israel Today that, "it may simply be an attempt to intimidate local Christians. I do not fear. We are here in Israel, I do not think that Israel will allow that," he added.       http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/26879/Default.aspx
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 Isis Expansion Along U.S. Borders                                                               
(siouxlandnews.com) ~ Our southern border is long and U.S. border patrol agents work to fight illegal activity like illegal immigration, drugs and now according to an FBI consultant, the border could be an attractive region for ISIS thanks in part to powerful drug lords... "Drug dealers have found a way to move money without it being followed,” said Tyrone Powers, Former FBI Agent. “They found a way to move people in and out and they found a way to move product." That product powers refers to is tons and tons of meth, heroin and pot transferred through a labyrinth of tunnels from Mexico. Drugs that are headed for the streets of the U.S. But these tunnels could easily be an underground highway for ISIS to spawn its brutality here.        http://www.siouxlandnews.com/story/29413634/isis-expansion-along-us-borders
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 Texas two step and Recusal Refusal at Supreme Court                           
(Suzanne Eovaldi) ~ This week’s Supreme Court decision in regard to legitimacy of homosexual marriage just well may be illegitimate itself whatever way the Court decides... And because of this very fact, 2016 and its crucial election must include initiatives to institute TERM LIMITS for SCOTUS along with a swift and very definitive process for removal of any member of the U.S. Supreme Court! Just consider the fact that their rabid feminism pushed both Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and Justice Elena Kagan to “marry” two same-sex couples though they knew full well they were being called upon to give definitive judgment in the Obergefell case. Also, “Justice Ginsburg had gone so far as to strongly suggest in public that the time for same-sex marriage had arrived.” (1) Both female judges are insulting America’s highest legal authority, insulting ethical restraint in regards to conflict of interest, insulting the American family and, in fact, insulting the basis of our country’s rule-of-law underpinnings.       http://www.coachisright.com/texas-two-step-and-recusal-refusal-at-supreme-court/
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 Lawmaker: Congress can halt same-sex 'marriage' in tracks                     
(Bob Unruh) ~ A state lawmaker with expertise in constitutional issues says there’s a strategy that would allow Congress to halt the legalization of same-sex “marriage” by the U.S. Supreme Court in its tracks... But Virginia Delegate Robert G. Marshall contends Congress “can immediately take action on a strategy to block the nObama administration’s implementation of the court’s decision through the use of riders to appropriations bills which will come before Congress this summer and fall.” “Suggested by James Madison, both liberals and conservatives have successfully used this strategy to change public policy over the past 50 years,” he wrote. “This approach is constitutional. It can be set in motion within days, if not on the very day of a Supreme Court decision. … And, if pursued by defenders of real marriage, this approach will require every 2016 congressional and presidential candidate to take a position on marriage.” The Founders' Constitution ... it's not dead yet!
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 America’s only remaining choices – civil disobedience or collapse           
(Lawrence Sellin) ~ The United States no longer has, as the Constitution designed, a government composed of executive, legislative and judicial branches, separate, but equal in power... The federal government is now an alliance of branches, devoted to the preservation of government itself, separate, not from each other, but from the American people and dedicated to tyranny. The policies pursued by the Obama Administration and facilitated by cowardly politicians and a compliant media are not simply the intersection of radical ideology and incompetence, but a dangerous subversive element of an anti-American and anti-Western strategy.       http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/06/americas-only-remaining-choices-civil-disobedience-or-collapse/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium
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 Former NAACP President defends Confederate flag                                    
(gopthedailydose.com) ~ A former president of the North Carolina NAACP – and one of the few African–American members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans – stood in front of a monument in Asheville, North Carolina... on Wednesday to tell those passing why he wanted the Confederate flag to continue to fly. H.K. Edgerton stood waving the flag, telling anyone who would listen why he thought the Stars and Bars stood for something other than hate and racism. He said the flag is a symbol of the South’s struggle with civil rights over the last 150 years.       http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/06/29/former-naacp-president-defends-confederate-flag-black-folks-earned-a-place-of-honor-and-dignity/
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 It Starts: Liberals Dictate Gay Marriage Beliefs                                               
(leanrightamerica.org) ~ When the Supreme Court came down Friday with their unconstitutional ruling on gay marriage, they did more than merely make state bans a thing of the past. As was feared by the dissenting judges (and a whole host of critics), they also changed the way you can think, feel, and talk about the subject... The change won’t come all at once, but it’s not going to be subtle, either. The president’s speech was not the only indication that things are getting ready to change. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania’s The Patriot-News decided Friday that they would no longer print letters to the editor that expressed opposition to gay marriage. The backlash was swift, leading the editorial board to make a quick but rather insignificant amendment to the policy. “Clarification,” wrote Editor John Micek, “We will not foreclose discussion of the high court’s decision, but arguments that gay marriage is wrong/unnatural are out.” So in other words, you can disagree with the ruling on legal grounds, but there is no more room for debate when it comes to the morality of the decision. Just like that, it’s no longer okay to be against gay marriage in America. And while you can argue that this is just one small newspaper, it’s an argument that ignores history. This is always the way it starts. In another five years – and that’s a very conservative estimate – opposing gay marriage will be akin to opposing racial integration. This is exactly what Christian leaders warned us about. It’s the exact slippery slope that every liberal promised was not going to happen. Now it’s here.        http://www.leanrightamerica.org/uncategorized/it-starts-liberals-dictate-gay-marriage-beliefs/
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 Gays launch their dreamed of attacking the Catholic Church's Marriage 
(Kein 'Coach' Collins) ~ It is my deepest wish that none of the following should ever happen, but logic says it will... The Supreme Court has taken its place at the head of the charge to destroy the Roman Catholic Church in America. Under all the impassioned arguments about “love winning out” the leering minions of hate and lies have won a major victory. Now they can gather their forces to attack their real enemy, the one that has always been the unspoken target: The Roman Catholic Church in America. For all its faults and self-inflicted damage, the Catholic Church in America is still the last significant obstacle to the left’s dream of destroying morality in our nation.  The SCOTUS decision to legalize violating God’s law has put the Catholic Church in a corner that the whole country had better hope She can get out of.        http://www.coachisright.com/gays-will-launch-their-long-dreamed-of-attack-on-the-catholic-church-demanding-marriage-by-priests
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 Overthrow the Judicial Dictatorship                                                                  
(Cliff Kinaid) ~ Commentators have missed the real significance of Justice Antonin Scalia’s dissent in the gay marriage case. He calls the decision a judicial “Putsch,” an attempt to overthrow a form of government—ours... His dissent, joined by Justice Clarence Thomas, was written “to call attention to this Court’s threat to American democracy.” His comment about the Court using the kind of reasoning we find in a fortune cookie is a funny line. But there is much of the Scalia dissent that is not funny and which serves as a warning to the American people about what the Court has done to us. Scalia understands the power and meaning of words and he chose the word “putsch” for a specific purpose. One definition of the term means “a secretly plotted and suddenly executed attempt to overthrow a government…” Another definition is “a plotted revolt or attempt to overthrow a government, especially one that depends upon suddenness and speed.”
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The Media’s Vile Attacks on 
Conservative Assimilationists
Michelle Malkin
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     (freedomsback.com) ~ I have had enough of smug liberal elites wrapped in their “Celebrate Diversity” banners tearing down minority conservatives.
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     Look in the mirror, media and academia bigots. Your own reflexive racism and divisive rhetoric are poisoning public discourse. There’s nothing “progressive” about attacking the children and grandchildren of immigrants who proudly embrace an American identity.
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We are not “self-hating.” You just hate what we believe.
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     The most recent grenade tossed by the jack-booted Enforcers of Ethnic Authenticity came from The Washington Post this week. The Beltway fish-wrapper hyped a 2,100-word investigation of GOP Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal with a condescending quote from Professor G. Pearson Cross, who sneered: “There’s not much Indian left in Bobby Jindal.”
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     Has pallid Professor Cross invented an ambient diagnostic test to measure sufficiently acceptable levels of ethnicity?
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     The Post quoted a grand total of one disgruntled Democratic donor who railed against Jindal for “forgetting” his “heritage” and his “roots.” But that was more than enough for the apartheid-lite adherents to heed the dog whistle immediately. The Post’s splashy attack on Jindal’s assimilationist ethic spawned a vile Twitter hashtag game: #BobbyJindalIsSoWhite.
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     Left-wing racists mocked his skin color, his kids and his decision to change his name from “Piyush” to “Bobby.” A New York Times digital editor, Shreeya Sinha, gleefully linked to a BBC compilation of “The best of #BobbyJindalisSoWhite.” NBC News gloated over tweets from liberal Indian-Americans who mocked the accomplished governor, Rhodes scholar and father of three as a “Jindian.”
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     It’s the same old, same old from radical academics and reporters who spurned assimilation as a common goal long ago. As I’ve long observed, the media-ivory tower complex’s fidelity lies with bilingualism (a euphemism for native language maintenance over English-first instruction), ethnic militancy, extreme multiculturalism and a borderless continent.
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     If we conservatives “of color” refuse to promote the welfare state, unfettered abortion, affirmative action and massive immigration, we are guilty of “selling out.”
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     Conversely, if I point out that my skin is far darker than that of the TV progressives of pallor who presume to know more than me about what it’s like to experience prejudice, I’m accused of exploiting my ethnicity.
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     We’re coconuts, bananas and Oreos (brown, yellow or black on the outside and “white” on the inside).
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     We’re accused of “thinking” and “acting” white if we quote the Constitution, shoot, hunt, oppose high taxes, homeschool, take personal responsibility or demand that government leave us alone.
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     You can’t win with these insane identity-mongers who preach compassion and peace while practicing vicious demagoguery. Black conservatives are “Uncle Toms.” Jindal is an “Uncle Bobby.” And GOP Gov. Nikki Haley, born to Indian Sikh parents, has been derided as a “female Uncle Tom.” Jindal is “trying to be white” even though his parents are Indian and his wife’s parents are both from India. Meanwhile, haters have accused me of being an “Auntie Tomasina” for marrying outside my race and taking my husband’s name.
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     Marriage choice and marriage equality are sacred rights for everyone except minority conservatives.
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     Jindal and Haley are just the latest targets. Last month, it was son of Cuban immigrants Ted Cruz. White liberal journalist Mark Halperin took it upon himself to drill Texas GOP Sen. Cruz on his “favorite Cuban food” and demanded that he welcome socialist Sen. Bernie Sanders to the presidential race “en Espanol.”
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Que estupido.
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     The civility police and tolerance mob find nothing wrong with their ad hominem assaults and vulgar litmus tests. They’re just trying to make the world safe from the liberated minds of minority conservatives. Those of us who dare to succeed in America without relying on tribalist entitlements must be dragged back and down by the resentful, seething crabs in the collectivist bucket.
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We are scorned for abandoning the militant hyphenated fetishism of the left.
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     We are punished for rejecting rigid boxes and boundaries and one-drop blood rules and permanent castes.
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     Assimilation is a Class A felony in the liberal rule book and a threat to the Democratic grievance racket. Tell me who the real racists and bigots are again.
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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 Iranian-American nuclear project
Caroline B. Glick
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 nOBAMA SOFTENING HOSTAGE POLICY 
Using executive orders and a presidential directive, President nObama will announce sweeping changes today in U.S. policy that will allow the government to communicate and negotiate with hostage takers. In a speech, the president will also say that the U.S. will no longer threaten criminal prosecutions against American families who attempt to contact and pay ransoms to extremist groups holding their relatives hostage. The moves are part of a long-awaited policy review in response to the death of U.S. hostages held by ISIS and other militant groups. nObama is quickly coming under fire, with critics claiming the policy overhaul will give terrorists an incentive to kidnap.
          “This doesn’t fix anything, this doesn’t fix a thing…I mean, you’re going to have to have the government now facilitating payments from the families here to the terrorists there, while at the same time we have troops on the ground in Iraq and Syria fighting the same people that we’re paying money to.” – Rep. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., on “Fox and Friends”   
-Fox News 
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 PENCE ‘WILL NOT COMPLY’ WITH nOBAMA EPA REGS 
Indiana Gov. Mike Pence will announce today his intention to not comply with new EPA clean air regulations if implemented as drafted. The Indiana Republican’s team tells Fox News First, he will make his intentions known in a speech today in Evansville, the heart of coal country. Pence is the first governor to say his state will not comply with the new rules, which he calls “ill-conceived and poorly constructed.” In a letter to President nObama, Pence writes: “My administration continues to believe the plan should be withdrawn because it will raise electricity costs on Hoosiers, result in less reliable electricity and impede economic growth and prosperity in Indiana and the rest of the country. If your administration proceeds to finalize the Clean Power Plan, and the final rule has not demonstrably and significantly improved from the proposed rule, Indiana will not comply. Our state will also reserve the right to use any legal means available to block the rule from being implemented.”  
 -Fox News 
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 Walker signs new gun laws lifting restrictions -  WaPo: “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker (R) plans to sign two new laws on Wednesday that expand the rights of gun owners by removing a 48-hour waiting period for those looking to purchase a firearm and allowing off-duty or retired police officers to carry concealed weapons at public schools. This action will come one week after a suspected gunman shot and killed nine people in an African American church in South Carolina, yet again prompting a national discussion about gun laws in the U.S.”   -Fox News 
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 Slain SC Pastor Teaches One Last Lesson 
The murderer in Charleston almost didn't commit his crime because the people of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church were so kind to him when he entered the building. And even after his grisly act, family members of the slain extended grace to him. Unfortunately, that's not true of out-of-town rabble rousers who came Tuesday night to disturb the memorial. Protesters with bullhorns shouted, "Arm yourself or harm yourself," and "Never forget, never forgive." That, of course, is the antithesis of the Christian message. Church members and other locals discouraged the protesters, who eventually left. Meanwhile, the Left exploited the tragedy to take on the Confederate flag, demanding the one flying on the state capitol grounds be removed (never mind it was put there by Democrat Gov. Ernest "Fritz" Hollings in defiance of federal civil rights legislation). Many Republicans even joined in calling for the flag's removal. But here's an interesting fact you won't see on the nightly news: Pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was killed in the attack, voted in 2000 as a South Carolina state senator in favor of the compromise that kept the flag on capitol grounds. That sends a pretty powerful message that he didn't seem to think the Confederate flag was a symbol worth censoring.  -The Patriot Post  
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 Statement On The Supreme Court Decision       
(David Barton) ~ The Supreme Court decision in Obergefell v. Hodges that established homosexual marriage as national policy is unambiguously wrong on at least three crucial levels: Moral, Constitutional, and Structural... On the Moral Level The Court’s decision violates the moral standards specifically enumerated in our founding documents. The Declaration of Independence sets forth the fundamental principles and values of American government, and the Constitution provides the specifics of how government will operate within those principles. As the U. S. Supreme Court has correctly acknowledged: On the Constitutional Level The Constitution establishes both federalism and a limited American government by first enumerating only seventeen areas in which the federal government is authorized to operate, and then by explicitly declaring that everything else is to be determined exclusively by the People and the States (the Ninth and Tenth Amendments). On the Structural Level The Constitution stipulates that “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a republican form of government” (Article IV, Section 4). A republican form of government is one in which the people elect leaders to make public policy, with those leaders being directly accountable to the people. More than thirty States, by their republican form of government, had established a definition of marriage for their State. The Supreme Court decision directly abridges the constitutional mandate to secure to every state a republican form of government.       http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/06/27/david-barton-statement-on-the-supreme-court-decision/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29
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 nObama Dump THOUSANDS of Muslims in U.S. ...  
(AmyElizabeth) ~ We all know that President Barack nObama invented the immigration crisis for political reasons. He wants to import Democrat voters and grow the welfare state... But now, we’re learning that nObama is also eager to import thousands of of Muslims into America… some of whom are radicalized and support terrorism. Under the State Department’s U.S. Refugee Admissions Program those Muslim refugees come from civil war torn countries in Africa and the Middle East, such as Syria. And they will end up living in parts of Idaho, even though the FBI can’t possibly conduct proper background checks on all of them! Other refugees are being moved to Spartanburg, S.C. — the home state of conservative hero Rep. Trey Gowdy! Gowdy is not pleased with the nObama administration carelessly putting residents of South Carolina at risk, and he fired off an angry letter to nObama’s State Department, demanding the program be put on hold until these questions are answered:       http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/06/27/obama-wants-to-dump-thousands-of-muslims-in-u-s-trey-gowdy-is-fighting-back/
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 MEGYN KELLY JUST CAME OUT OF THE CLOSET  
(teapartypolitics.com) ~ Megyn Kelly has just issued a shocking announcement. One that’s going to miff most Fox viewers. Turns out she’s not a Republican... The good news is she’s not a Democrat either. She’s an independent. Given the state of American politics it’s not surprising she identifies as an Independent. The shocker is she’s working for Fox as an independent. Here are 6 other things you might not know about the popular commentator (from IJ Review):        http://teapartypolitics.com/megyn-kelly-came-out-of-the-closet/
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 Who is Responsible for the Atrocities in the Muslim World?  
(Uzay Bulut) ~ Every time the ISIS, Boko Haram, Iran, or any terrorist group in the Muslim world is discussed, many people tend to hold the West responsible for the devastation and murders they commit... Nothing could be farther from the truth. Blaming the failures in the Muslim world on Western nations is simply bigotry and an attempt to shift the blame and to prevent us from understanding the real root cause of the problem. When these Islamic terrorist groups abduct women to sell them as sex-slaves or "wives;" conduct mass crucifixions and forced conversions; behead innocent people en masse; try to extinguish religious minorities and demolish irreplaceable archeological sites, the idea that this is the fault of the West is ludicrous, offensive and wrong. Western states, like many other states, try to protect the security of their citizens. What they essentially need, therefore, are peaceful states as partners with which they can have economic, commercial and diplomatic relations. They do not need genocidal terrorist groups that destroy life, peace and stability in huge swaths across the Muslim world.        http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6059/atrocities-muslim-world
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 U.S. Troops In Middle East Get THESE Forced Restrictions  
(Jeryl Bier) ~ A top commander in southwest Asia reminded U.S military personnel stationed in Muslim countries in the Middle East of the restrictions placed on them during Ramadan... According to a report by the U.S. Air Forces Central Command Public Affairs, Brig. Gen. John Quintas, 380th Air Expeditionary Wing commander in Southwest Asia, said that the U.S. is "committed to the concepts of tolerance, freedom and diversity." But he added that soldiers should "become more informed and appreciative of the traditions and history of the people in this region of the world... [R]emember we are guests here and that the host nation is our shoulder-to-shoulder, brothers and sisters in arms, risking their lives for our common cause to defeat terrorism." During the 30-day religious celebration of Ramadan, even non-Muslims are expected to obey local laws regarding eating, drinking, and using tobacco in public. Violators can be fined up to $685 or receive two months in jail. A spokesperson for United States Central Command [CENTCOM] said that "we are not aware of any specific instances of anyone being arrested" for such violations.        http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/us-troops-face-eating-drinking-restrictions-during-ramadan_979081.html
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 Stunned Judge Napolitano Reveals How Supreme Court Just Pulled...  
(Randy DeSoto) ~ Judge Andrew Napolitano believes Chief Justice John Roberts, in his majority opinion in King v. Burwell engaged in “bizarre and odd contortions” to reach its decision... “My immediate reaction is that the chief justice has yet again resorted to a nearly unheard of construction in order to save the statute,” Fox News’ senior judicial analyst told Bill Hemmer. He noted that Roberts has now saved the law twice, first ruling in favor of its constitutionality and now in re-interpreting the plain language of the statute. “Last time around when the government said it was not a tax and the challengers said it was not a tax, the chief justice ruled it was a tax and that saved it,” the judge said. “This time around he took the plain meaning of ordinary words, ‘established by the states,’ and somehow held that they were ambiguous, and that he could — and that that the majority could — correct the ambiguity according to what they thought the drafters meant.”
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 Doc faces boot for citing 'gay' health dangers  
(Jack Minor) ~ Citing government statistics and offering warnings about the dangers of “gay” sex has one prominent doctor facing the possible loss of his job and what effectively could be a banishment from his work, and he’s not taking it without a fight... Dr. Paul Church, a veteran urologist who has been on the staff of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center for nearly 30 years, is appealing a board decision against him, and is planning for a hearing in July on his fight over his right to warn people that the facts prove “gay” sex is a dangerous lifestyle. Church, who also is a member of the Harvard Medical School Facility and has conducted life-saving research on diagnosing bladder and prostate cancer, told WND, “It is incredible to think they would be able to silence me and revoke my ability to be on the staff as a result of my raising valid health concerns over a risky lifestyle.”
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 nObama Giving Millions Of Taxpayer Dollars To SC Victims’ Families  
(rickwells.us) ~ Hussein nObama is taking his core Marxist beliefs of wealth redistribution to new lows by sending over three million dollars per victim of taxpayer money to the families of the Democrat Party agitators who were murdered by Dylann Roof... Aside from the fact that it is our money and not his, how and why are these people more “entitled” to compensation than military families or those of police officers murdered by criminals? What about the Ft. Hood victims of Islamic terror who were completely ignored to the point of not being able to claim full benefits out of deference to his favored religion? What gives him the right to play Robin Hood with the federal treasury for political gain? Who made him king? According to Reuters, “The Justice Department will fast track the sending of $29 million to South Carolina to help families of victims of the mass murder of nine churchgoers at a historic black church in Charleston, a Justice Department spokesman said on Friday.”        http://rickwells.us/raiding-our-treasury-obama-giving-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars-to-sc-victims-families/
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 Exclusive: The Arming of Benghazi  
(Catherine Herridge & Pamela Browne) ~ The United States supported the secret supply of weapons to Libyan rebels while Hilly Clinton was Secretary of State according to federal court documents obtained by Fox News... In a sworn declaration to the District Court of Arizona May 5th 2015, a career CIA officer David Manners said, "It was then, and remains now, my opinion that the United States did participate, directly or indirectly, in the supply of weapons to the Libyan Transitional National Council."   The timing matters because in the Spring of 2011 the Libyan opposition was not formally recognized, and the direct supply of arms was not authorized. At that time, the CIA Director was David Petraeus. Manners testified before a grand jury investigating American defense contractor Marc Turi who faces trial this September on two counts that he allegedly violated the arms control export act by making false statements.        http://www.foxbusiness.com/economy-policy/2015/06/27/exclusive-arming-benghazi/
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 Five activist Judges cannot Constitutionally Legislate for Three Million 
(rickwells.us) ~ One of the few and arguably the most vocal supporter and defender of the United States Constitution and the rights of the American people in the Senate, Jeff Sessions (R-AL), issued a press release in the wake of the Supreme Court’s judicial activism of this week... He also noted the complicity of the Congress in delegating away the self-governing rights of the American people through their representatives to the person least qualified to have it, the dictatorial occupier of the White House. Senator Sessions spoke to the unconstitutional nature of the actions of this cabal of political corruption composed of those who are supposedly the enlightened guardians of objectivity and propriety in our system, and how far they’ve strayed from both their authority and their purpose.
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The Iranian-American nuclear project
Caroline B. Glick
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     (.jewishworldreview.com) ~ Under President Barack nObama, the US has implemented policies toward Iran that are catastrophic for Israel specifically, for US Middle East allies more generally and for US national security itself.
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Consider, first, the known details of the soon-to-be- concluded nuclear deal.
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     In an article published by The New York Times this week, Prof. Alan Kuperman explained that nObama's central justification for the agreement — that it will lengthen Iran's breakout time to the bomb from the current two months to 12 months — is a lie.
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     Based on nothing more than the number of centrifuges Iran will be allowed to possess and the amount of enriched uranium necessary to make a nuclear bomb, Kuperman demonstrated that far from prolonging Iran's nuclear breakout time by 10 months, the deal will only prolong its breakout time by one month. In other words, the deal is worthless.
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Actually it's worse than worthless.
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     Wednesday, the Associated Press reported on the details of one of the agreement's five secret annexes.
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     Titled "Civil Nuclear Cooperation," the annex demonstrates that, far from merely failing to block Iran's development of nuclear weapons, the deal will facilitate Iran's development of nuclear weapons.
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The leaked secret annex has two central components.
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     The first involves the underground uranium- enrichment facility at Fordow. Built inside a mountain, the Fordow complex is considered resistant to air strikes.
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     According to the AP report, the Iranians have agreed to re-purpose the installation from uranium enrichment to isotope production. In turn, the six powers have agreed to provide the Iranians with next-generation centrifuges to operate it. Yet, as the AP report makes clear, "isotope production uses the same technology as enrichment and can be quickly re-engineered to enriching uranium."
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     In other words, the six powers will teach Iran how to operate advanced centrifuges capable of quickly enriching uranium in an installation that is protected from aerial bombardment.
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     The second section of the annex relates to the heavy-water reactor at Arak. The reactor, whose construction is near completion, will be capable of producing plutonium-based atomic bombs.
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     According to the AP report, the six powers have agreed to provide Iran with a light-water reactor that is less capable of producing bomb-grade plutonium.
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     Yet, as Omri Ceren from the Israel Project explains, a sufficient number of light-water reactors are capable of producing bomb-grade plutonium. Moreover, since the reactors are powered by uranium, the very existence of the light-water reactors provides Iran with justification for expanding its uranium-enrichment operations.
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Then there are the US's stated redlines in negotiations.
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These have collapsed in significant ways over the past few weeks.
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     Because the US agreed that Iran can continue to enrich uranium, perhaps the most critical means of preventing Iran from acquiring military nuclear capabilities involve requiring Iran to expose all of its previous nuclear work that is still unknown, and requiring Iran to agree to unfettered inspections of is nuclear work and access to its personnel involved in its nuclear work on the part of UN nuclear inspectors.
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     Clearly, without meeting both requirements, Iran will be able to breach its commitments easily and the agreement will be worthless.
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     Due to the general understanding of these requirements, the administration's public position has been that it will require Iran to both expose its previous nuclear work with possible military dimensions and permit the US unfettered access to all its nuclear installations.
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For its part, Iran refuses to accept either demand.
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Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei reiterated this refusal on Tuesday.
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     Rather than present Iran with an ultimatum that it either abide by these basic requirements or receive no nuclear deal, the administration abandoned its position.
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     Last week, Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry insisted that there is no reason for Iran to expose its previous nuclear work because, "We know what they did. We have no doubt. We have absolute knowledge with respect to the certain military activities they were engaged in. What we're concerned about is going forward."
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     This statement is a lie. As Yukiya Amano, the head of the UN's nuclear watchdog IAEA, reiterated just weeks ago, "We don't know whether they have undeclared activities or something else. We don't know what they did in the past. So, we know a part of their activities, but we cannot say we know all their activities. And that is why we cannot say that all the activities in Iran are for peaceful purposes."
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     Another key position that the nObama administration has staked out on behalf of the nuclear deal is that the sanctions that would be canceled under the deal are limited to those that were instituted in retaliation for Iran's illicit nuclear program. The other sanctions, levied due to Iran's illicit work on ballistic missiles, its support for terrorism and its human rights abuses, would remain intact.
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     But, on June 10, AP reported that the administration intends to cancel both the nuclear-related sanctions and those imposed due to Iran's illicit ballistic- missile development. As a consequence, tens of billions of dollars will become available for Iran's Revolutionary Guard Corps.
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     Then, there are Iran's repeated breaches of sanctions restrictions. Under the Iran-North Korea Sanctions Act of 2006, the State Department is supposed to submit a report of sanctions violations to Congress every six months. This week Al-Monitor reported that the General Accounting Office issued a report blasting the State Department for failing to uphold its legal commitment. The last report submitted was in 2014 and its reporting covered the period up to 2011. The previous report had been submitted nearly two years earlier.
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     Among the reasons for the delays, according to the report, "Officials told the GAO that negotiations and relations with counties can delay the process."
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     In other words, the State Department's failure to uphold the law owes to the administration's desire to shield Iran from further sanctions.
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     James Clapper, nObama's director of national intelligence failed to list either Hezbollah or Iran as threats to the US in this year's Worldwide Threat Assessment.
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     And the State Department has yet to submit its annual Human Rights Report. This failure is allegedly due to the administration's reluctance to report on Iran's miserable human rights record.
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     Not only does the nObama administration refuse to view Iran and its terrorist arms as threats to the US, this week Bloomberg reported that US forces in Iraq are arming, training and providing close air support for Iranian controlled Shi'ite militia and terrorist groups led by the commander of Hezbollah forces in Iraq Abu Mahdi al-Muhandis.
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     So, too, US forces deployed to the Taqqadum base in Anbar share the base with Shi'ite terrorist groups.
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     Several of the terror operatives are reportedly spying on US forces at the base. Terrorist commanders have participated in US operational briefings ostensibly provided to official Iraqi security forces.
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     As one senior administration official told Bloomberg, "Even if these guys don't attack us... Iran is ushering in a new Hezbollah era in Iraq, and we will have aided and abetted it."
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     Beyond rendering US forces in Iraq hostages of Iranian-controlled terrorists now sharing a base with them, US support for Iranian controlled militia, as well as its policy of only transferring military assistance to forces fighting Islamic State through the Iranian-controlled Iraqi government and security forces, has facilitated Islamic State's territorial expansion.
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     As Jacob Siegel and Michael Pregent explained last month in the Daily Beast, a key reason for Islamic State's success in Ramadi and Mosul is the Baghdad government's refusal to arm Sunni militias. As they explained, the security forces, guided by Iran, will only fight in areas important to the Shi'ites. So they refused to defend Mosul or Ramadi.
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     Siegel and Pregent argued that if Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi were to arm Sunnis to fight Islamic State in Anbar province, he would likely lose the support of Iran and the militias, and so be ousted from power. Consequently, Sunnis who oppose Islamic State are no obstacle to the march of the jihadists.
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     By supporting the Iranian controlled government, and refusing to directly arm Sunni or Kurdish forces, the US is supporting Iran and its terrorist groups on the one hand and abetting Islamic State expansion on the other.
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     The nature and scope of the nObama administration's collusion with Iran require us to draw a number of conclusions.
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     First, from an American perspective, under the nObama administration, the US has destroyed its reputation as a responsible and trustworthy ally. It has endangered its allies, its armed forces and its own national security.
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The US alliance system in the Middle East has collapsed.
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     In the short term, all that Congress can do to check nObama is reject his nuclear deal with Iran with a two thirds majority. Although the possibility that a sufficient number of Democratic senators will oppose the deal to override a presidential veto is remote, it is critical that every resource be used to convince them to do so.
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     In the medium term, in order to secure US national security, the next president will have to cancel US acceptance of the nuclear deal with Iran. To this end, US Jewish groups and other organizations must demand that all presidential candidates — including Hilly Clinton — commit themselves to canceling the agreement in the event they are elected.
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     If the US fails to reverse nObama's policies toward Iran in the next two years, it is hard to see how it will be able to rebuild its strategic posture in the future.
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     The pace of change in the region and the world is too rapid today to rely on past achievements as a basis for future power.
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     As for Israel, it is now clear that there is no "crisis" in Israel-US relations. The nObama administration is betraying Israel. The centerpiece of nObama's foreign policy is his desire to transform Iran's illicit nuclear program, which endangers Israel's existence, into a legal Iranian-American nuclear program that endangers Israel's existence.
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     Consequently, the last thing Israel should worry about is upsetting nObama. To convince fence-sitting Democratic senators to vote against nObama's Iran deal, Israel should expose all the ruinous details of the nuclear agreement. Israel should let the American people know how the deal endangers not just Israel, but their soldiers, and indeed, the US homeland itself.
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     By doing so, Israel stands a chance of separating the issue of Democratic support for nObama from Democratic opposition to the nuclear deal. nObama wants this deal to be about himself. Israel needs to explain how it is about America.
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     At the end of the day, what we now know about US collaboration with Iran brings home — yet again — the sad fact that the only chance Israel has ever had of preventing Iran from getting the bomb is to destroy the mullahs' nuclear installations itself. If Israel can still conduct such an operation, it makes sense for it to be carried out before Iran's nuclear program officially becomes the Iranian-American nuclear project.
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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:
Israel’s great opportunity
Caroline 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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 JEB CALLS OUT nOBAMA ON CYBER SECURITY 
With the number of hacking victims growing, Jeb Bush writes on Medium.com that President nObama has ceded the cyber security battle to our enemies. He pens, “We have ceded the initiative to those who wish to steal, disrupt, and destroy the intellectual property, personal information, and treasure we entrust to the internet, and, in so doing, we have allowed these adversaries to threaten our citizens’ inherent right to a trusted, free and open internet.” 
 -Fox News 
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 Rubio chimes in on China -  The Hill: “[Sen. Marco Rubio] urged nObama to use [summit] talks to convey to China that ‘as additional evidence comes to light, the U.S. will consider imposing sanctions against any Chinese government agencies or commercial enterprise found to have been involved in the recent cyber attack.’ The presidential hopeful also wants the administration to ‘immediately impose financial sanctions and pursue criminal charges against individual hackers implicated in the historic breach of U.S. government networks once they are identified.’”  -Fox News 
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 For Walker, all is not quiet on the homefront -  Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:“Bucking GOP Gov. Scott Walker, a majority of Assembly Republicans told the likely presidential candidate Monday that they won't let their outstate districts take the whole hit to save southeastern Wisconsin from cuts to state road funding…A letter sent to Walker on Monday underlined how the stalemate in the state budget is continuing in Walker’s absence as he travels to California for two days in support of his undeclared run for president.”
          [The Daily Caller talked with Walker about everything from Harley’s to television shows to superheroes. Batman is his favorite. As Walker says, “I love Batman. As a kid I dressed up like him all the time. I suppose it was just part of all that. I liked him, because he was tough.”]
 -Fox News 
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 Carly’s got the tech chops -  Fox News: “Whether voters will warm to a candidate who has no legislative experience and has never won an election remains to be seen, but [Carly Fiorina’s] supporters believe she can use her understanding of the tech industry to reimagine government and engage those who feel disconnected. They believe her understanding of how the tech sector affects the U.S. economy will help innovation flourish, which could be crucial for the next president of the United States.”
          And her videos are going viral - Daily Caller: “Viral videos aren’t a new thing for Carly Fiorina…But in her SuperPAC’s latest effort, ‘Titles Are Not Accomplishments,’ Fiorina seems to have found a way to gain online traction – without the gimmicks. Indeed the video – which is now approaching 500,000 views (OK, so maybe technically it has to hit a million to be “viral”?) – is all about sending a very serious and specific message: Unlike Hilly Clinton, Carly Fiorina has “actually accomplished something.”  
-Fox News 
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE 
One of the most beautiful genres of literature also serves a utilitarian purpose. Great novels like War and PeaceCrime and Punishment, and The Brother Karamazovnot only give insight into Russian life, but also the character and spirit that drives a people to follow a leader like President Vladimir Putin. Foreign Policy magazine pulls the defining characteristics from each novel to show the collaborative picture of what makes the people of Russia who they are. In One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, for example, the protagonist is a convict in Siberia who finds numerous ways to get by with the little he has, often reveling in his own suffering. The article draws a similarity to the Russian people living under strict Western sanctions, and suggests that the Russian people enjoy the challenge of overcoming the West in the name of Mother Russia.
 -Fox News 
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 I am DISGUSTED by nObama’s new hostage policy  
(Lt. Col. Allen West) ~ Sadly, President nObama just put every American at risk by allowing families to pay ransoms to Islamic terrorists... He announced more government agencies, but said nothing about killing the terrorists who’d think about kidnapping Americans. nObama just abdicated the responsibility of the federal government to protect Americans. He has abandoned Saeed Abedini, Amir Hekmati, Jason Reznian and Robert Levinson. Now, his vision is for the federal government to be a broker between the families and Islamic terrorists. The nObama administration was accused Wednesday of giving terrorists an incentive to kidnap as it unveiled a hostage policy overhaul allowing families of U.S. hostages to pay ransom – and allowing the U.S. government to help families communicate with captors.
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 A few contingencies for the King v. Burwell contingency plan  
(Joseph Antos) ~ “A Contingency Plan for King v. Burwell,” published recently by the American Enterprise Institute, lays out a proposal that Congress and the president could adopt if the Supreme Court invalidates the payment of premium subsidies in states that rely on the federal health insurance exchange rather than building their own exchanges... As one of the nine authors of the “Contingency Plan,” I support the recommendations of that report. However, there are important issues that deserve further discussion and clarification, and there are both political and practical uncertainties that must be resolved if the Supreme Court’s decision opens up a new opportunity to adopt market-based reforms of our health financing system. What follows are my views on several of these issues.
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 American Special Forces Under Command Of Foreign Entities?  
(ibertyalliance.com) ~ Extortion 17 was the call sign of a chinook helicopter carrying 17 Navy SEALs, who were a part of SEAL team six (who allegedly took out Osama bin Laden), along with a few Army Rangers, National Guard Pilots and at least 7 unknown Afghan soldiers... In a recent book, author and former Navy JAG officer Don Brown had outlined things about the largest one-day loss of life in the Afghan ware that many simply refuse to report on. In an exclusive interview, Brown, told Freedom Outpost that is looking at all of the relevant evidence that his conclusion is that American Special Forces in Afghanistan have, in essence, been under the command of the Afghan government. Don Brown confirms the interview that I conducted in August of 2012 with Billy Vaughn, father of fallen Navy SEAL Aaron Vaughn, who told me that the nObama administration had an agreement with the Afghanistan government to allow them to see everything that was going on with US troops, including Special Forces.        http://libertyalliance.com/american-special-forces-under-command-of-foreign-entities/
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 Awesome! Justice Scalia Goes Nuclear In nObamacare Dissent  
(weaselzippers.us) ~ At least we have a few judges who can read and understand the meaning of words... 1. “Words no longer have meaning if an Exchange that is not established by a State is ‘established by the State.’” 2. “Under all the usual rules of interpretation, in short, the Government should lose this case. But normal rules of interpretation seem always to yield to the overriding principle of the present Court: The Affordable Care Act must be saved.”       http://www.weaselzippers.us/227409-awesome-justice-scalia-goes-nuclear-in-obamacare-dissent-we-should-start-calling-this-law-scotuscare/
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 nObama Admin Forfeiting IAEA Inspections of Iranian Military Sites?  
(Yaakov Lappin) ~ The coming days represent a fateful stage in U.S.-led attempts to reach a diplomatic solution with Iran over its nuclear program, and disturbing signs are emerging that the nObama Administration is prepared to relinquish demands by the international community for Iranian transparency... Negotiators from the five permanent United Nations Security Council countries, plus Germany (known as the P5+1 countries) had hoped for a smooth final round of talks leading to a comprehensive agreement. Instead, they find themselves facing a firm Iranian refusal to allow international inspectors to visit military installations in Iran where suspected work had been carried out on a military nuclear weapons program.        http://www.investigativeproject.org/4893/is-the-obama-administration-forfeiting-iaea
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 Cruz: It’s Time to Break Washington's Crony Cartel  
(conservativehq.com) ~ Yesterday, in our article, Marco Rubio Provides The Final Vote To Give Away More American Jobs, we told you about Marco Rubio’s vote to give nObama the power to negotiate trade deals that nObama has already signaled will open America’s borders... undermine the quality of life and economic future of millions of American families and destroy American sovereignty. In that article we quoted Professor Ron Hira of the Economic Policy Institute who said of expanding guest worker visa programs, "H-1B guest workers are cheaper than American workers and don't have much bargaining power, and any company would be foolish not to take advantage of this highly lucrative business model that has beeninadvertently created by Congress and multiple presidential administrations," writes Hira, who recently published a book on outsourcing and also teaches at Howard University. Now Senator Ted Cruz has weighed in on this with a powerful speech at the Heritage Foundation that we think every American should see.    
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 Conservatives Smack Down Team nObama-Boehner Over Retribution 
(William F. Jasper) ~ House Speaker backstabber John Boehner’s rampage against House members who defied him on the nObamaTrade vote has begun to backfire — and he may be starting to back-pedal, due to public pressure... As The New American reported here yesterday, Representative Ken Buck (R-Colo.) was the latest in a string of conservative House members that have been targeted by backstabber Boehner in reprisal for failing to support “the team” on TPA/Fast Track authority for nObamaTrade, the president’s pseudo-free trade package involving the TPP, TTIP, and TiSA. The rebellious House members, most of whom are members of the House Freedom Caucus, saw voting their consciences — in this case, upholding the Constitution and the interests of their constituents — as being more important than supporting “the team,” which, in this case meant Team nObama-backstabber Boehner and their corporatist TPP paymasters. As a result, backstabber Boehner and his GOP capos began stripping rebels of their leadership positions.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/congress/item/21136-conservatives-smack-down-team-obama-boehner-over-retribution?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=321951367a-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-321951367a-289778381
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 SCOTUScare Decision: Laws No Longer Mean What They Say  
(Fred Lucas) ~ In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court handed President Barack Obama his second major win on his signature health care law, upholding nationwide tax subsidies for millions of Americans... Chief Justice John Roberts, again siding with the court’s liberal wing, said in the majority opinion that Obamacare allows for residents of states that did not set up their own insurance exchanges to still receive subsidies to pay for their health coverage. “Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them,” Roberts wrote.        http://joemiller.us/2015/06/breaking-supreme-court-just-issued-this-landmark-ruling-on-obamacare/?utm_source=JoeMiller.US+List&utm_campaign=24c3538e94-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_065b6c381c-24c3538e94-230998701
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 State Dept: Hilly Clinton Did Not Turn Over All Emails  
(sharylattkisson.com) ~ The State Department has informed the House Committee on Benghazi that former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton failed to turn over all of her records related to Benghazi and Libya... That’s according to a statement today from Committee Chairman Trey Gowdy, R-South Carolina. The news contradicts claims from the Clinton camp which said all relevant emails had, in fact, been handed over. “This confirms doubts about the completeness of Clinton’s self-selected public record and raises serious questions about her decision to erase her personal server—especially before it could be analyzed by an independent, neutral third party arbiter,” said Gowdy in a statement.        https://sharylattkisson.com/state-dept-hillary-clinton-did-not-turn-over-all-emails/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29
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IRS erases 24,000 Lois Lerner emails after they were subpoenaed  
(sharylattkisson.com) ~ Another incredible account of federal officials failing to follow federal law... The IRS has acknowledged destroying 400 backup tapes containing 24,000 Lois Lerner emails. This happened, inadvertently the agency says, after Congress subpoenaed the material in its investigation into the IRS improperly targeting conservative groups. Lerner was an IRS manager at the center of the controversy. She and the IRS claimed that emails Congress wanted were destroyed. Congress discovered that they were, in fact, contained on backup tapes, though the IRS had not volunteered that fact. Congress then subpoenaed the tapes. Now, the IRS has revealed it erased the backups after receiving the subpoena and a protective order prohibiting the destruction of the emails.  
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Israel’s great opportunity
Caroline Glick
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SPIRITUAL LEADER Sheikh Muafek Tarif
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     (jpost.com) ~ Over the past decade Israel has managed to destroy its regional reputation.
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     With our own hands, we have twice shown our neighbors they have little reason to tie their fates to ours. We are unreliable.
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     In 1994, Israel betrayed the Palestinians in Judea, Samaria and Gaza who had helped us fight against PLO terrorists for decades. Open season on our Palestinian allies officially began in July 1994 with the entrance of thousands of PLO terrorists – led by Yasser Arafat – into Gaza and Jericho. Arafat’s henchmen did not limit their murderous wrath to the Palestinians who saved countless Israeli lives by working with the Shin Bet and the IDF. They killed Palestinians who sold their lands to Jewish buyers. Palestinians who simply enjoyed normal work relations with Israelis found themselves targeted as suspected “collaborators.”
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     Six years after Israel betrayed its Palestinian allies, we abandoned our allies in south Lebanon. .
     After 18 years of fighting shoulder to shoulder with the IDF, Israel left the soldiers and commanders of the South Lebanese Army and their families to face Hezbollah alone.
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     In its helter-skelter withdrawal from the security zone in south Lebanon on May 31, 2000, Israel left most of the SLA soldiers and their families behind. Those who managed to cross the border to Israel were treated shamefully by the Israeli bureaucracy.
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     We caught a glimpse of the suffering we caused those who remained behind during the Second Lebanon War in 2006. As IDF soldiers returned to Lebanon they were beset by the families of SLA soldiers who seized on their return to make a run for the border. Men, women and children sprinted across fields to the newly returned IDF units with whatever they could carry.
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     When we returned to Lebanon that summer, no Lebanese militia offered to fight at our side.
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     And indeed, after we betrayed our allies, it was hard to imagine a situation where anyone would again agree to fight alongside us. And yet, thanks to the demise of the Syrian and Iraqi states, Israel has a chance to undo the damage. We can rebuild our credibility with our neighbors by helping the Druse in Syria.
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     Twice in the past 90 years, the Syrian Druse had the potential for independent action. In 1921, when the French established their mandatory rule in present-day Syria and Lebanon, they divided the territory into six “independent,” or autonomously ruled, “states.”
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     The Druse received a state of their own centered in Jebl Druse – the Druse Mountain. The area under their control stretched across the Syrian side of the tri-border area with Israel and Jordan. The Druse state existed until 1936, when the French reorganized the mandate and set up a central government in Damascus.
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     The possibility of establishing a Druse state arose again, fleetingly, in 1967. During the Six Day War, then-labor minister Yigal Allon put together a plan to establish a Druse state, again centered on Druse Mountain. He tried but failed to convince then-defense minister Moshe Dayan to send the IDF units that had just taken over the Golan Heights south to Druse Mountain rather than eastward toward Damascus.
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     In 2007 the transcripts of a series of taped memoirs Allon recorded a year before his death in 1980 were made public. Of his plans regarding the Druse, Allon explained, “I had visited Sweida the capital of Druse Mountain several times and I dreamed a dream of a Druse Republic that would stretch across southern Syria...that would be in military alliance with Israel. I had great expectations from the Druse in Israel, that were already serving in the IDF. I believed they could serve as a bridge between us and the other Druse.”
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     Today Allon has a strategic heir in the government of Israel – and he is a Druse.
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     Deputy Regional Cooperation Minister Ayoub Kara is probably the most powerful Druse in the world today. The Druse of Syria and Lebanon take him seriously. We should too.
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     Like Allon before him, Kara views the Druse of Israel as a bridge between Israel and the Druse of Syria. Like Allon, he views his brethren across the border as potential allies for Israel.
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     Over the decades, the Druse of Syria were just as loyal to the Assad regime as the Druse of Israel have been loyal to the Jewish state. Their loyalty to Bashar Assad has continued apace during the civil war. As a result, now that the regime is on the verge of military collapse, all the forces that have been fighting the regime – from Islamic State and the Nusra Front to the Free Syrian Army – view the Druse as their enemies.
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     Yet while they have maintained their ties to the regime, the Syrian Druse have also been quietly reconsidering their views of Israel. This revised attitude has reverberated among their brethren in the Druse villages of the Golan Heights.
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     Like their Syrian kin, the Druse of the Golan Heights have publicly rejected Israel and upheld their Syrian ties. Despite the fact that they have had the right to Israeli citizenship since 1981, until the Syrian civil war began, few applied for it.
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     As the political situation in Syria unraveled, and as the Syrian Druse began taking a second look at Israel, a significant number of Druse from the Golan have applied for citizenship.
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     Today, the plight of the Druse grows more dire from day to day. With the regime on the verge of collapse, the government ordered the units that had been securing the Druse villages along the border with Israel on the northern Golan to return to Damascus. Some 30,000 Druse centered around the village of Hader are surrounded by rebel forces.
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     In a conversation with The Jerusalem Post on Wednesday evening Kara promised in the name of the Israeli Druse, “We will not allow them to die. We will take care of them.
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     “Over the past few weeks,” he added, “the Druse of Israel have raised and transferred $3 million to supply humanitarian assistance to our brethren in Syria.”
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     While Kara refuses to discuss the types of assistance he is asking the government to provide them, Israel’s options are fairly obvious.
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     First, in the humanitarian realm, Israel can set up refugee camps on the Syrian side of the border. We can arm the Druse villagers. We can protect them from the air.
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     As for the nearly three-quarters of a million Druse at Druse Mountain, according to Kara, they wish to defend and govern themselves in an autonomous region for the foreseeable future.
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But to fend for themselves, they need weapons.
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     Without arms, with the regime’s collapse seemingly imminent, it is possible that the Druse will be unable to survive. It is also possible that if Israel doesn’t provide them with weapons, someone else – perhaps Hezbollah – will arm them and so buy their loyalty.
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     As Kara sees it, if the Druse are able to secure autonomy, their area would stretch along 150 kilometers of Israel’s border with Syria, from the tri-border area with Jordan in the south to the northern Golan Heights.
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     “Israel and Jordan have an interest in a strong Druse presence,” he argues.
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     If the government decides to act along these lines, it doesn’t mean that we’ll be in a position to start making long-term strategic plans that rely on Druse support. Ariel Sharon’s greatest mistake during the First Lebanon War in 1982 was that he overestimated the capabilities of Israel’s Lebanese Christian allies. The Druse of Syria today are extremely week. It is unimaginable that they will be able to accomplish anything other than survive – with outside assistance – for the foreseeable future.
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     On the other hand, even in their weakness the Druse present Israel with a great opportunity.
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     By helping them we can signal to others – for instance the Kurds – that we can be trusted.
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     Israel can help the Druse without spending too much time coordinating its steps with the US, because the Druse have no great regional significance. Given our own Druse community, our moral duty and national interest in ensuring their survival is self-evident.
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     Unlike the Druse, the Kurds are viewed as pivotal regional actors for the US and for other regional powers. Today, the greatest obstacle preventing Israel and the Kurds from working in alliance against common foes is the nObama administration. Under the administration, the strategic assumption of US Middle East policy is that the US should strengthen and curry favor with Iran.
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     Iran fears an independent Kurdistan in Iraq and Syria because of the likely impact such a state will have on Iran’s large Kurdish minority.
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     Consequently, the US is refusing to directly arm the Kurds in their war against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.
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     Yet in spite of America’s denial of support, the Kurds are pushing forward in their campaign against Islamic State. This week they cut off Islamic State’s supply chains from Turkey to the terrorist group’s capital in Raqqa by taking control over Tel Abayid close to the Turkish border.
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     If a year and a half from now a new administration in Washington changes the US’s regional policy, and if, during this period, Israel manages to form and maintain an alliance with the Druse, the Kurds will recognize that Israel is willing to do the hard work of building and maintaining alliances again.
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     Allon’s strategic brilliance owed to his willingness to view our neighbors on their own terms.
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     While others of his generation, and most Israeli strategists since, have insisted on viewing the Arab world as a monolith, Allon viewed it as a vibrant tapestry. He saw opportunities for cooperation with our neighbors based on our shared interests with distinct groups.
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     Had we followed his advice during the Six Day War and in its aftermath, we probably would be in a much stronger regional and global position than we are today.
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     And now, 48 years later, with the world around us in greater flux than it has been since the 1920s, Allon’s way of thinking is more relevant than ever before.
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     As the heir to Allon’s dream, when Kara looks with worry at the Druse of Syria, he doesn’t only see a looming humanitarian disaster that Israel has a moral duty to prevent. He sees a strategic opportunity that Israel has a strategic duty not to miss.
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“I want Israel to win the trust of this region,” he says.
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     If we help the Druse of Syria, “then we will find people who will want to be our partners in fights against cruel common foes like ISIS.”
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     On the other hand, he warns, “If we think that we’re alone in the Middle East, we will lose ethnic groups that could be our allies.”
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Saturday Afternoon ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
So what if Greece leaves 
the European Union?
George F. Will
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 Pentagon Ships Military Off to Battle 'Climate Change' 
In January 2012, Barack nObama said, "As we look beyond the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan ... we'll be able to ensure our security with smaller conventional ground forces." In other words, even though America's military is being downsized, our military prowess will remain untarnished. "[Y]es, our military will be leaner, but the world must know the United States is going to maintain our military superiority with armed forces that are agile, flexible and ready for the full range of contingencies and threats," he explained. Who knew that meant documenting the effects of climate change — even as terrorism-fueled crises in the Middle East rage on? According to The Washington Times, "Though stretched thin by the aftermath of two wars and the current fight against the Islamic State, the nObama administration has enlisted the Pentagon to measure the shrinking ice in the Arctic in the latest example of the president's climate agenda being extended to the military. A recent Government Accountability Office report examined the Defense Department's role in the Arctic, which increasingly will include 'monitoring the changing Arctic conditions,' such as ice levels." America's retreat — not climate change, as this administration posits — facilitated the Islamic State's rise. And pulling even more resources away from the real fight to wage war on a straw man isn't going to make them go away.  -The Patriot Post  
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 Charleston and the Confederate Flag Battle 
With every murderous rampage committed by a sociopath, the Left exploits the tragedy to push its agenda of taking Liberty from all of us. In recent years, that's generally meant two things: gun control or racial grievance. The horrific murders of nine black Christians in Charleston by a white supremacist provided an opportunity to bring the two issues together.
          Barack nObama, as usual, weighed in on both. He called for more gun control, and then he denounced the Confederate flag flying on the grounds of the South Carolina capitol as a racist symbol. It's the latter that's become a rallying point for leftists as well as Republicans eager to shed the racist label.
          South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley, a Republican, said Monday, "It's time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds." Sen. Lindsey Graham, a GOP presidential candidate, and Tim Scott, the first black Republican senator elected in the South since Reconstruction, likewise called for its removal. That provides political cover for state Republicans to vote to take it down.
          Of course, given the prominence of South Carolina in the presidential primary season, the Left media gleefully makes the Confederate flag an issue for Republicans every presidential cycle.  -The Patriot Post  
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 HILLY FINDS ROOM FOR RACE AMID CASH RUN 
Hastening to capitalize on the turbulent winds following the Charleston shootings, Hilly Clinton holds a discussion of the massacre and race relations in Missouri today. The open to press event was added to Clinton’s fundraising tour Monday and is sandwiched between a pair of private high-dollar Midwest donor stops and Wednesday’s star-studded concert for the Democratic front runner in New York.  It comes a day after President nObamawho has not lived up to expectations on improving race relations, created a stir by using a racial epithet in an interview to express his frustration on the issue. Clinton’s campaign has been pushing race to forefront since the shootings and is holding today’s discussion in a church not far from Ferguson, where racial tensions boiled over last year. With the press allowed in, Clinton is again selectively surfacing on issues with direct appeal to her base, even as she avoids those where the direction of the political wind is less certain.  
-Fox News  
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 Flag controversy fades -  While Clinton and her rivals pounced following the Charleston tragedy, a Republican 2016 field that has been taking intense flack for favoring a South Carolinian solution to the Confederate flag controversy, got one.AP: “Republicans with presidential aspirations rushed Monday to embrace South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley’s call to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol, eager to move past a vexing issue that challenges the GOP’s effort to win over the diverse coalition of voters it likely needs to win back the White House.”
          [How Jeb dealt with Florida’s flag flap - WSJ: “When former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush quietly took down the Confederate battle flag from the state capitol in 2001, he was called ‘spineless’ and ‘racist to Southern people,’ and was accused of ‘pandering’ to African-Americans. He was also repeatedly warned he would be defeated in the next election…As Mr. Bush did throughout his two terms, from 1999 to 2007, he personally responded to several emails he received on the issue from constituents who condemned and hailed his decision…To those who attacked him for his decision, Mr. Bush responded tersely but politely, at times with deadpan humor, emails released earlier this year show.”]
          Graham opts to heal his home state - Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., released a statement shifting from an earlier ambiguous position to a clear stance. Graham said, “I hope that, by removing the flag, we can take another step towards healing and recognition – and a sign that South Carolina is moving forward”
          [WashEx’s David Drucker observes it was evident the political sand trap for Republicans over South Carolina’s flag controversy was causing high anxiety in the national party. “There was Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus on Monday, standing behind Gov. Nikki Haley in Columbia as she announced that the Confederate battle flag should come down…” ]  
-Fox News  
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 nObama’s Race War – Shabazz : Kill SC “Crackas And Their Families”  
(rickwells.us) ~ On June 23rd nObama’s messenger in his campaign to promote anti-white hatred and racial anarchy among black American’s, the evil Malik Shabazz of the “New Black Panther Party,” called for the killing of white people and their families in a public Charleston, SC, rant... He opened with the typical chants to get the “crowd” fired up and get the juices of hate flowing faster and pumping harder, “Black Power, Black Power, by any means, by every means.” In Marxism the end is professed to justify the means. We know who and what nObama is, we know who these operatives are as well. nObama is entering the active assault stage of his plan to create order out of chaos, to become the American dictator. He’s got a year and a half left before his scheduled departure. He’s got that long to make sure he doesn’t have to relinquish power to anybody.
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 Senate Snake Pit – These 48 GOP Traitors Voted For nObama  
(rickwells.us) ~ The following list contains the names of the unworthy holders of the office of United States Senator who voted Tuesday to surrender the self-governing authority of the American people as well as much of their Congressional power... They voted to trust that the criminal Hussein nObama would be a benevolent dictator. These wholly purchased puppets, with their access, must have known at least as much as we lay people do, that they were voting to end American sovereignty. They cannot deny their actions based upon well-intentioned ignorance. They knew, Senator Sessions argued repeatedly on the floor of the Senate exposing their actions. They took deliberate action against our nation. 
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 nObama extending amnesty to illegals in prisons, jails  
(Stephen Dinan) ~ The nObama administration has ordered agents to begin ignoring many of the illegal immigrants they encounter in local prisons and jails, as the president begins to implement a lesser-known part of his deportation amnesty program — a move that’s not sitting well with either side in the immigration debate... The move is a nod to sanctuary cities, who had begun to refuse to cooperate with federal authorities on immigration enforcement. After having court challenges, Mr. nObama bowed to those cities, counties and states and announced the changes as part of his November 2014 amnesty policy. Agents will still troll local prisons and jails looking for immigrants, but they will no longer try to deport those with drug possession offenses, theft or fraud if it involved stealing an identity in order to further their unlawful presence in the country, the House Judiciary Committee said Tuesday.        http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/23/obama-amnesty-reaches-illegals-prisons-jails/
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 Rush Is Right                                                               
(Erick Erickson) ~ This morning at 6:15 am ET, I will be on Fox & Friends. The kicking off point for the conversation is Rush Limbaugh’s comment that the Confederate flag is just the starting point for a leftwing assault on American culture at large... The left is led by a President who himself has said our nation is not really special. After all, every other nation thinks it is special too. In Colorado, black protestors have burned the American flag. Ironically, it was the American flag that Dylann Roof burned too. In California, public schools banned students wearing the American flag on clothing to avoid offending immigrants. The University of California at Irvine’s student government considered banning displays of the American flag on campus. But it is not about the flag. That was Rush’s point. He and we all see where this is headed. It’s like the gay marriage left. Ten years ago they were saying what they wanted was not marriage, but civil unions. Then they not only forced homosexual marriage down our throats, but are now driving from business any who dissent. On the cusp of an undemocratic victory, they are now starting to walk back all their talk about polygamy not being their next goal.        http://www.redstate.com/2015/06/25/rush-is-right/
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 Iran Demands More Nuke Concessions  
(Adam Kredo) ~ Iran is insisting the United States and world powers deliver more concessions at the negotiating table, including consenting to demands that any final nuclear agreement last less than 10 years... The call for greater concessions was made in a speech Tuesday by Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, who accused the United States of “seeking to destroy Iran’s nuclear industry” and of being “on the opposite side of everyone in Iran.” Iran’s bid to pressure Western powers came amid reports that the United States promised in secret documents to deliver to Tehran “high-tech reactors and other state-of-the-art equipment” that would modernize and improve its nuclear program. This portion of the agreement appears to reverse decades of U.S. policy towards Iran.
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 Democrat, GOP Trickery To Flood America With Foreigners  
(rickwells.us) ~ Dick Morris joins J.D. Hayworth with some perspective on the deception that is going on regarding the TPP, TPA fast track and TiSA, the next bitter, anti-American pill that is being prepared for forced ingestion by the American people and the hands of their traitorous government... Hayworth points to a memo from the outlaw that runs Homeland Security, Secretary Jeh Johnson in which he claims to be enforcing immigration law by ignoring it and by releasing invaders to roam freely around the country. The technicality upon which Johnson and nObama are basing their lawbreaking this time around is a distortion of the definition of a refugee. The throwing open of those flood gates, in conjunction with the new open immigration made possible under fast track will truly change the composition of America and destroy our standard of living.
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 nObama’s Mobster Brotherhood Includes Republicans Under...  
(rickwells.us) ~ As most patriotic Americans have long ago concluded, our supposed two-party system is a failure and a fraud. It is wholly owned by anti-American forces that have used it as the mechanism by which to hijack our government... In addition to determining the candidates of both major parties through campaign contributions, they obstruct challengers through contorted ballot requirements and are on the verge of successfully destroying our nation. We the people have no representation. What exists is a single two-headed snake which is controlled by the moneyed global elites. It has a Marxist head that is the Democrat party, currently under the public personification of an emerging dictator in Hussein Obama and it has a Fascist head which has exposed its Republican form in the legislative branch under Boehner and McConnell. The fascists head was the one utilized to force the transformation to a new, unelected and unconstitutional subservience to a Pacific Union over the last couple of weeks by the Congressional puppets.        http://rickwells.us/the-untouchables-obamas-mobster-brotherhood-includes-republicans-under-boehner-and-mcconnell/
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 Protecting the right to hate preserves freedom   
(Judge Andrew Napolitano) ~ The tragedy of a mass murder in Charleston, South Carolina, last week, obviously motivated by racial hatred, has raised anew the issue of the lawfulness of the State expressing an opinion by flying a Confederate flag at the Statehouse... and the constitutionality of the use of the First Amendment to protect hate speech and hate groups. The State has no business expressing opinions on anything, and it is required to protect hate. Here is the law. Let’s start with the proposition that hatred of persons is a profound disorder, and it is no doubt motivated by far deeper errors of thought and judgment than admiration for a flag. I recognize that to some in our society, the Confederate flag represents resistance to federal authority enforced by military aggression; while to others, it represents racial oppression under color of law bringing about the worst violations of the natural rights of born persons in American history – namely slavery. To me, it represents both. Yet, the government has no business flying it.         http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/protecting-the-right-to-hate-preserves-freedom/
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 Why there can be no coexistence with the left    
(Erik Rush) ~ Assuming they can take a break from bitterly clinging to their guns and religion for a few minutes, I’m going to set a bona fide goal for those liberty-loving Americans out there with a passion for our founding principles and the Constitution... What may surprise some in that camp is that it’s the very same goal toward which those on the political left strive. At first blush, some of these patriots – perhaps many – will find this goal rhetorically indelicate, if not undemocratic, or even (dare I say it?) – “extreme.” The goal is simple, and it is as follows: We must utterly vanquish the political opponents we currently face. One can see why I said it’s identical to the ultimate goal of the left, and why they never articulate it openly. While they espouse love of country, liberty, the democratic process and say they believe we have as much of a right to our ideals and beliefs as they do theirs, these are patent deceptions.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/why-there-can-be-no-coexistence-with-the-left/
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 Anti-Semitism and the New Russian Idea  
(Walter Laqueur) ~ Vladimir Putin’s steely nationalist rule has raised fears in the West of a return to Soviet-style dictatorship in Russia. But what many outsiders fail to understand is that the country is still in a period of ideological transition, with a new national idea gradually emerging from the Marxism-Leninism of old... Among the more noteworthy aspects of this new “Russian idea” is the explanation it provides for the upheavals of the 20th century and the country’s perceived current decline. Unfortunately, as is often the case with such overarching narratives, Jews play a disproportionately significant role. Home to a prominent anti-Semitic tradition under the tsars, and again under the Communist regime that replaced them, Russia has long been seized by the “Jewish question.” During the Soviet Union’s first two decades, many among its key leaders were themselves Jewish—and Marx himself, of course, was of Jewish origin—but within the party apparatus, though less strong at the top than in the middle and lower echelons, there was a great deal of animosity toward Jews.       http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/06/anti-semitism-and-the-new-russian-idea/
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So what if Greece leaves 
the European Union?
George F. Will
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Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras 
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     (washingtonpost.com) ~ Now come Greeks bearing the gift of confirmation that Margaret Thatcher was right about socialist governments: “They always run out of other people’s money.” Greece, from whose ancient playwrights Western drama descends, is in an absurdist melodrama about securing yet another cash infusion from international creditors. This would add another boulder to a mountain of debt almost twice the size of Greece’s gross domestic product. This protracted dispute will result in desirable carnage if Greece defaults, thereby becoming a constructively frightening example to all democracies doling out unsustainable, growth-suppressing entitlements.
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     In January, Greek voters gave power to the left-wing Syriza party, one third of which, the Economist reports, consists of “Maoists, Marxists and supporters of Che Guevara.” Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, 40, a retired student radical, immediately denounced a European Union declaration criticizing Russia’s dismemberment of Ukraine. He chose only one cabinet member with prior government experience — a former leader of Greece’s Stalinist Communist Party. Tsipras’s minister for culture and education says Greek education“should not be governed by the principle of excellence . . . it is a warped ambition.” Practicing what he preaches, he proposes abolishing university entrance exams.
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     Voters chose Syriza because it promised to reverse reforms, particularly of pensions and labor laws, demanded by creditors, and to resist new demands for rationality. Tsipras immediately vowed to rehire 12,000 government employees. His shrillness increasing as his options contract, he says the European Union, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund are trying to “humiliate” Greece.
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     How could one humiliate a nation that chooses governments committed to Rumpelstiltskin economics, the belief that the straw of government largesse can be spun into the gold of national wealth? Tsipras’s approach to mollifying those who hold his nation’s fate in their hands is to say they must respect his “mandate” to resist them. He thinks Greek voters, by making delusional promises to themselves, obligate other European taxpayers to fund them. Tsipras, who says the creditors are “pillaging” Greece, is trying to pillage his local governments, which are resisting his extralegal demands that they send him their cash reserves.
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    Yanis Varoufakis, Greece’s finance minister, is an academic admirer of Nobel laureate John Nash, the Princeton genius depicted in the movie “A Beautiful Mind,” who recently died. Varoufakis is interested in Nash’s work on game theory, especially the theory of cooperative games in which two or more participants aim for a resolution better for all than would result absent cooperation. Varoufakis’s idea of cooperation is to accuse the creditors whose money Greece has been living on of “fiscal waterboarding.” Tsipras tells Greece’s creditors to read “For Whom the Bell Tolls,” Ernest Hemingway’s novel of the Spanish Civil War. His passive-aggressive message? “Play nicely or we will kill ourselves.”
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     Since joining the euro zone in 2001, Greece has borrowed a sum 1.7 times its 2013 GDP. Its 25 percent unemployment (50 percent among young workers) results from a 25 percent shrinkage of GDP. It is a mendicant reduced to hoping to “extend and pretend” forever. But extending the bailout and pretending that creditors will someday be paid encourages other European socialists to contemplate shedding debts — other people’s money that is no longer fun.
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     Greece, with just 11 million people and 2 percent of the euro zone’s GDP, is unlikely to cause a contagion by leaving the zone. If it also leaves the misbegotten European Union, this evidence of the E.U.’s mutability might encourage Britain’s “euro-skeptics” when, later this year, that nation has a referendum on reclaiming national sovereignty by withdrawing from the E.U. If Greece so cherishes its sovereignty that it bristles at conditions imposed by creditors, why is it in the E.U., the perverse point of which is to “pool” nations’ sovereignties in order to dilute national consciousness?
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     The E.U. has a flag no one salutes, an anthem no one sings, a president no one can name, a parliament whose powers subtract from those of national legislatures, a bureaucracy no one admires or controls and rules of fiscal rectitude that no member is penalized for ignoring. It does, however, have in Greece a member whose difficulties are wonderfully didactic.
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     It cannot be said too often: There cannot be too many socialist smashups. The best of these punish reckless creditors whose lending enables socialists to live, for a while, off of other people’s money. The world, which owes much to ancient Athens’ legacy, including the idea of democracy, is indebted to today’s Athens for the reminder that reality does not respect a democracy’s delusions.
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Saturday 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:
On nObamacare, John Roberts helps
overthrow the Constitution
George Will
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 EMAILS: HILLY WANTED MORE INTEL FROM SID 
Wash Ex: “Roughly sixty new emails published by the committee Monday suggest Clinton relied heavily on what lawmakers have called ‘unvetted intelligence’ from [Sidney Blumenthal] in the months before and after the 2012 terror attack in Benghazi. Many of the emails indicate she implored Blumenthal to funnel information about Libya to her, despite her recent claims that her ‘old friend’ Blumenthal simply sent her ‘unsolicited emails.’”
        Clinton cash dash - Bloomberg: “Clinton is set to attend 26 fundraisers between Monday and July 3, including 11 in New York City, according to a review of her public schedule and newly obtained invitations. Many events come with a recommended contribution of the $2,700 legal maximum for her primary campaign or require attendees to raise at least $27,000. After the quarter ends, the Clinton campaign is required to file disclosures with the Federal Elections Commission. Allies have tried to downplay expectations, stressing that because Clinton is only accepting primary cash, the total may not be as impressive as the first quarter of President Barack nObama’s 2012 re-election campaign.”
        Hilly hires potential veep’s staffer - BuzzFeed: “The latest high-profile Latina hire by Clinton is Betsaida Alcantara, who is leaving the communications department at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development to join the Clinton campaign as director of media planning….[HUD Secretary Julian Castro] has often been floated as a possible vice presidential nominee to join Clinton should she win the Democratic nomination…”  -Fox News  
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 AND NOW A WORD FROM CHARLES 
“Had the flag not existed or been on the ground of the capitol this massacre would have happened in any case. But it’s the standard liberal impulse, something happened really bad. So there’s got to be a problem, there has to be a solution, we must do something, even if the something is entirely irrelevant.” – Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report with Bret Baier” Watch here.  
 -Fox News  
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 Database Hack at OPM Even Bigger Than Thought 
The Office of Personnel Management has officially said only 4.2 million federal employees were affected by the database intrusion by China. But CNN is reporting that number is much, much higher, as the FBI Director told the Senate recently that an estimated 18 million Americans were affected. This number includes former and current government employees and even people who only applied for government work.
          Let's be clear: The nObama administration's lack of leadership contributed to this intrusion and its lack of leadership will make the situation worse. In a June 17 press conference, nObama spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters that nObama is standing behind OPM Director Katherine Archuleta, who just happened to be National Political Director for nObama's 2012 re-election campaign. "Director Archuleta, in one of her first priorities that she identified after taking that job, was to upgrade the OPM computer network, particularly their cyber defenses," Earnest said. "And this is obviously an ongoing process, and the president does have confidence that she is the right person for the job." Archuleta had a job, but she didn't do the job. Now some of the most sensitive employee data in the nation is in Chinese hands.
          nObama could have prevented the hack — or at least lessened the effect of the attack — by being a strong leader, making tough decisions, following through with his promises and nominating qualified leaders. But his character is only emboldening enemies.  -The Patriot Post  
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 Here Come the Gun Control Crusaders After Charleston 
Senators Joe Manchin (D-WV) and Pat Toomey (R-PA) are at it again. After the Sandy Hook massacre, Toomey — a gun-owning, NRA A-rated politician — jumped on Barack nObama's bandwagon and introduced legislation that would toughen the nation's background check legislation. The bill was defeated 54-46 in 2013, but Manchin and Toomey told The Washington Post Tuesday night that they would like to revive the bill in response to the massacre in Charleston. Nothing like standing on the caskets of victims to advance a few extra yards in the political game. Toomey, when he appeared on MSNBC Wednesday morning, admitted the bill is mostly a crapshoot. "Honestly, I don't want to build up any false expectations," he said, "I'm not aware that we have the votes to do what Sen. Manchin and I attempted. Is it possible that some portion of that, some subset of what we focused on is possible? Honestly, probably not likely." Still, it shows the tenacity of the forces driving gun control. Every time a front page blares that a crime was committed with a gun, there will be another call for gun restrictions. And the politicians will blow the dust off their tired gun control bills in hopes that maybe this atrocity will have the emotional clout to carry it through. -The Patriot Post  
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 AIM Responds to Supreme Court Decision on nObamacare  
(Roger Aronoff) ~ The Supreme Court bent over backwards today in an attempt to save nObamacare from its own tortured language by reinterpreting the statute, making the plain phrase “Exchange established by the state” signify both the state and federal exchanges... The mainstream media, in turn, are triumphal, having helped sway the final decision. We have repeatedly written about The New York Times’ biased reporting regarding the King v. Burwell case and nObamacare in general. Today, the Times’ Editorial Board came out and said what Americans already knew, having read many of this paper’s farcical health care columns masquerading as reporting. The Times condemned the plaintiffs as having spearheaded a “blatantly political effort to destroy the Affordable Care Act,” called the case an “ideological farce dressed in a specious legal argument,” and claimed “the court should never have taken review of it to begin with.” “The somersaults of statutory interpretation they [the Justices of the Supreme Court] have performed …will be cited by litigants endlessly, to the confusion of honest jurisprudence,” concludes Justice Antonin Scalia in his dissent, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Sam Alito.       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/aim-responds-to-supreme-court-decision-on-obamacare/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email062615&utm_medium=email
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 Rules of Engagement Amount to an Impeachable Dereliction of Duty  
(Andrew McCarthy) ~ David and Jonah are obviously right that the immoral rules of engagement (ROE) the commander-in-chief has imposed on our troops have encouraged Islamic State jihadists to endanger civilians – not that terrorists need much encouragement in that regard... As David observes, this turns the laws of armed combat on their head. I’ve been venting about this for a number of years now. The driving purpose of international humanitarian law is the protection of civilians. What makes honorable combatants honorable, and what triggers the international-law protections they are owed if captured, is their adherence to venerable standards requiring that they, among other things, identify themselves as soldiers, carry their weapons openly, and confine their combat operations to legitimate military objectives.        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/our-immoral-rules-of-engagement-amount-to-an-impeachable-dereliction-of-duty/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email062615&utm_medium=email
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 backstabber Boehner $5 million, Ryan $2 Million, McCon-nell $9 Million  – Any  Doubt Why TPA Passed?                                                                                                                                    
(rickwells.us) ~ The politicians like to keep the money trail brushed as clean of their footprints as possible, to make it less blatantly obvious that they are exchanging votes for “campaign” cash...  Money talks in DC. In our current government it is the only language other than Orwellian double speak which is understood. backstabber John Boehner, Paul Ryan, Mike McCarthy and other House members did quite well for themselves financially in the pursuit of their corporate masters’ dreams of overthrowing the United States government. Anyone who wonders how millionaires or billionaires are made on a Congressional salary can get some good insight from this information, published by Maplight.org. (  http://maplight.org/us-congress/bill/114-hr-1314/6832028/total-contributions.table?sort=asc&order=%24+From+Interest+Groups%3Cbr+%2F%3EThat+Supported&party[D]=D&party[R]=R&party[I]=I&vote[AYE]=AYE&vote[NOE]=NOE&vote[NV]=NV&voted_with[with]=with&voted_with[not-with]=not-with&state=&custom_from=10%2F01%2F2012&custom_to=09%2F30%2F2014&all_pols=1&uid=53150&interests-support=K1000-F2100-F1100-F3100-F5100-F3300-D2000-H4300-J1100-J1200-C4100-T5100-M2300-G2900-E1620-E1600-A1000-F3200-B1000-F1400-E1110-M1000-F3400-C5120-H4100-F2300-E1100-C5140-G4300-T7100-E1140-A3000-A2000-E1150-A5000-G4500-C2100-C1100-A4000-A1300-T2310-G2100-C5110-G2400-T6200-T2100-G2820-M2100-C5130-C4300-A1400-C2000-F5000-H4500-G2600-M5000-B6000-G5210-C5000-A2300-G4000-A1500-G1000-T1200-C5100-A1600-G5000-A5200-C2400-A4200-G2300-G5290-A4100-M3300-M1500-G1200-M8000-H2000-M1300-C2600-B5200-M3100-G4100-G4600-E1220-H4000-C4600-M2400-G4800-C0000-M9000-T9000-C1300-H4600-A3100-G2200-X5000-G1100-A4300-E4100-C4000-T8300-M2200-T6000-A0000-M0000-M1600-T2000-G5280-M4200-M3200-T2400-G4400-M3600-T7000-M4300-M3000-M3500-T1000-M1700-G3500-G1300-J4000-E1230-G1400-M2250-X3300-A6500&interests-oppose=J1100-J1200-L1300-L1500-J7400-C5120-C5140-LM100-JE300-H1700-L1200-LT000-LT300-L1100-LG100-LC100-A6000-LM150-J7300-LG000-X7000-J7200-JH100-J7000-L0000-J3000-JI200&from=10-01-2012&to=09-30-2014&source=pacs-nonpacs&campaign=congressional&politicians=  )
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 Supreme Court Rules Gay Marriage Is a Constitutional Right  
(Katie Pavlich) ~ The Supreme Court has struck down state bans on gay marriage and has ruled 5-4 same sex marriage is a constitutional right. Same sex couples can now marry in all 50 states and states must perform same sex marriages... Marriages performed in each state are to be recognized in all states. Justice Anthony Kennedy wrote the opinion and Chief Justice John Roberts wrote the dissent, joined by Justices Antonin Scalia, Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas. As My wife said and I agree, this is the beginning of the end times.       http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2015/06/26/breaking-supreme-court-upholds-state-bans-on-gay-marriage-n2017268?utm_source=thdailypm&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=nl_pm&newsletterad=
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 Supreme Court Gets Slapped On Gay Marriage By Franklin Graham  
(Norvell Rose) ~ Many of the 1.7 million people who like Franklin Graham’s Facebook page are giving a big thumbs-up to his reaction to the Supreme Court’s same-sex marriage decision... That message was posted by the head of the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association shortly after the high court ruled 5-4 that same-sex couples have a nationwide right to marry, no matter what individual states or their residents might say. As of this writing, more than 130,000 people have liked Graham’s statement, which reads in part: “With all due respect to the court, it did not define marriage, and therefore is not entitled to re-define it.” And the number of Facebook likes for the pastor’s reaction is growing rapidly.
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 Judicial Activism From Supreme Court on Marriage  
(Ryan T. Anderson) ~ Today is a significant setback for all Americans who believe in the Constitution, the rule of law, democratic self-government, and marriage as the union of one man and one woman. The U.S. Supreme Court got it wrong... It should not have mandated all 50 states to redefine marriage... This is judicial activism: nothing in the Constitution requires the redefinition of marriage, and the court imposed its judgment about a policy matter that should be decided by the American people and their elected representatives. The court got marriage and the Constitution wrong today just like they gotabortion and the Constitution wrong 42 years ago with Roe v. Wade. Five unelected judges do not have the power to change the truth about marriage or the truth about the Constitution. At the federal level, the First Amendment Defense Act is a good place to start. It says that the federal government cannot discriminate against people and institutions that speak and act according to their belief that marriage is a union of one man and one woman. States need similar policies. Recognizing the truth about marriage is good public policy. Today’s decision is a significant setback to achieving that goal. We must work to reverse it and recommit ourselves to building a strong marriage culture because so much of our future depends upon it.       http://dailysignal.com/2015/06/26/judicial-activism-from-supreme-court-on-marriage-heres-how-to-respond/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRogvq3IZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4IT8VkI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
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 The Iran Nuke Deal Gets Worse Every Day-The Latest Capitulation  
(Jeff Dunetz) ~An exclusive Associated Press report has revealed the U.S. and its P5+1 allies are prepared to reward Iran with the latest cutting edge, advanced tech equipment if the terrorist nations cuts its programs which enable it to produce nuclear arms... What this document reveals is this is no longer a pact intended to stop the Iranian nuclear program. It’s degenerated into a deal to let the Iranians perfect their nuclear program with international assistance and under international protection. One of the draft appendices entitled “Civil Nuclear Cooperation,” promises to replace Iran’s nearly completed heavy-water facility at Arak (which if completed will be able to produce enough plutonium for several nuclear weapons/year) with less menacing light-water nuclear reactors. It also details how the U.S. and its partners would supply Iran with the nuclear fuel needed to run the reactors, remove the expended fuel, “and offers help in the ‘construction and effective operation’ of the reactors and related hardware. It also offers to cooperate with Iran in the fields of nuclear safety, nuclear medicine, research, and other peaceful applications.” And as the centrifuges are being developed they’ll be spinning non-nuclear elements, but once they’re perfected the Iranians will be able to use them to enrich uranium. Therefore the P5+1 powers will literally be investing in helping Iran achieve a zero breakout.         http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/the-iran-nuke-deal-gets-worse-every-day.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f9d46de708-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-f9d46de708-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-f9d46de708-291705165
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 Behind the French "Peace Initiative"  
(Bassam Tawil) ~ The latest missile to split the skies over the Middle East is not a rocket; it is the French "peace" initiative... No one in the Middle East has the slightest doubt that whatever its objective may be, it will not promote peace between Israel and the Palestinians. It is a desperate attempt by the French government to buy a few more days of quiet from its Muslim community, especially from the members of the Muslim Brotherhood and the terrorist organizations to which it gave birth -- all waiting for the order to run riot through the streets of France. We, the Palestinians, have suffered, and continue to suffer, from the creation of the Islamist terrorist organizations within the Palestinian Authority territory; it is they who keep us from reaching a peace agreement with the Jews.
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 Scalia Slams Roberts on SCOTUS nObamacare Ruling  
(Sarah Fisher) ~ Justice Antonin Scalia wrote a "fiery" dissent opinion the Supreme Court decision today to uphold federal subsidies to the states in the King v. Burwell decision. And his ire was directed at Chief Justice John Roberts... In a fiery dissent, Scalia lashed out at Chief Justice John Roberts for his key vote to save a key provision of the Affordable Care Act that allowed the federal government to provide healthcare subsidies to Americans in 34 states that did not set up their own healthcare exchanges. "We should call this SCOTUScare," Scalia wrote in the dissent. The center of the ruling was the phrase "established by the state" and whether or not the law meant what it LITERALLY SAID, which is that only the states that established healthcare exchanges were eligible for federal subsidies.
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 IS THERE STILL HOPE FOR AMERICA?                                                      
(Leo Hohmann) ~ As the Supreme Court came down with its 5-4 decision to legalize same-sex marriage in all 50 states, the supporters of the movement danced and celebrated their historic victory... Dozens of Christian leaders such as Franklin Graham, James Dobson and John Hagee had already signed a petition before the ruling assuring the Supreme Court that they would defy any decision that came down redefining the 6,000-year-old definition of marriage. “A totally unbelievable decision yet totally believable for our society as we are definitely in the swirly mode headed down the toilet,” said Pastor Mark Biltz, author of “Blood Moons: Decoding the Imminent Heavenly Signs.” “The Bible says as it was in the days of Lot so will it be when the Messiah comes. The sewer floodgates are opening for all filth to come pouring in. “The very fabric of what makes up a moral society is being ripped apart. As a nation we are becoming more and more narcissistic.” In opting to redefine marriage the Supreme Court did “a 180-degree turn away from the biblical intent for marriage — as the Court also pushed aside states’ rights and voters’ voices,” said Richard Land, president of Southern Evangelical Seminary near Charlotte, North Carolina. He said the decision throws away God’s meaning for marriage.        https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/14e31151355923dc?compose=14e31a521fe886c3%2C14e31ab42a5bee3e
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On nObamacare, John Roberts helps
overthrow the Constitution
George Will
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     (washingtonpost.com) ~ Conservatives are dismayed about the Supreme Court’s complicity in rewriting the Affordable Care Act — its ratification of the IRS’s disregard of the statute’s plain and purposeful language. But they have contributed to this outcome. Their decades of populist praise of judicial deference to the political branches has borne this sour fruit.
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     The court says the ACA’s stipulation that subsidies are to be administered by the IRS using exchanges “established by the State” should not be construed to mean what it says. Otherwise the law will not reach as far as it will if federal exchanges can administer subsidies in states that choose not to establish exchanges. The ACA’s legislative history, however, demonstrates that the subsidies were deliberately restricted to distribution through states’ exchanges in order to pressure the states into establishing their own exchanges.
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     The most durable damage from Thursday’s decision is not the perpetuation of the ACA, which can be undone by what created it — legislative action. The paramount injury is the court’s embrace of a duty to ratify and even facilitate lawless discretion exercised by administrative agencies and the executive branch generally.
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[Adler: To save nObamacare, John Roberts rewrites the law]
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     The court’s decision flowed from many decisions by which the judiciary has written rules that favor the government in cases of statutory construction. The decision also resulted from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr.’s embrace of the doctrine that courts, owing vast deference to the purposes of the political branches, are obligated to do whatever is required to make a law efficient, regardless of how the law is written. What Roberts does by way of, to be polite, creative construing (Justice Antonin Scalia, dissenting, calls it “somersaults of statutory interpretation”) is legislating, not judging.
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     Roberts writes, almost laconically, that the ACA “contains more than a few examples of inartful drafting.” That is his artful way of treating “inartful” as a synonym for “inconvenient” or even “self-defeating.”
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     Rolling up the sleeves of his black robe and buckling down to the business of redrafting the ACA, Roberts invents a corollary to “Chevron deference.”
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     Named for a 1984 case, Chevron deference has become central to the way today’s regulatory state functions. It says that agencies charged with administering statutes are entitled to deference when they interpret ambiguous statutory language. While purporting to not apply Chevron, Roberts expands it to empower all of the executive branch to ignore or rewrite congressional language that is not at all ambiguous but is inconvenient for the smooth operation of something Congress created. Exercising judicial discretion in the name of deference, Roberts enlarges executive discretion. He does so by validating what the IRS did when it ignored the ACA’s text in order to disburse billions of dollars of subsidies through federal exchanges not established by the states.
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     Chevron deference does for executive agencies what the “rational basis” test, another judicial invention, does for legislative discretion.
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Since the New Deal, courts have permitted almost any legislative infringement of economic liberty that can be said to have a rational basis. Applying this extremely permissive test, courts usually approve any purpose that a legislature asserts. Courts even concoct purposes that legislatures neglect to articulate. This fulfills the Roberts Doctrine that it is a judicial function to construe laws in ways that make them perform better, meaning more efficiently, than they would as written by Congress.
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[Bernstein: Why the Affordable Care Act is so messed up]
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     Thursday’s decision demonstrates how easily, indeed inevitably, judicial deference becomes judicial dereliction, with anticonstitutional consequences. We are, says William R. Maurer of the Institute for Justice, becoming “a country in which all the branches of government work in tandem to achieve policy outcomes, instead of checking one another to protect individual rights. Besides violating the separation of powers, this approach raises serious issues about whether litigants before the courts are receiving the process that is due to them under the Constitution.”
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     The Roberts Doctrine facilitates what has been for a century progressivism’s central objective, the overthrow of the Constitution’s architecture. The separation of powers impedes progressivism by preventing government from wielding uninhibited power. Such power would result if its branches behaved as partners in harness rather than as wary, balancing rivals maintaining constitutional equipoise.
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     Roberts says “we must respect the role of the Legislature” but “[A] fair reading of legislation demands a fair understanding of the legislative plan.” However, he goes beyond “understanding” the plan; he adopts a legislator’s role in order to rescue the legislature’s plan from the consequences of the legislature’s dubious decisions. By blurring, to the point of erasure, constitutional boundaries, he damages all institutions, not least his court
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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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 POLL: BUSH, RUBIO HEADED FOR FACE-OFF 
A new WSJ/NBC News poll shows a narrowing gap between GOP frontrunner Jeb Bush, and political protégé Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla. Seventy-five percent of Republicans say they could see themselves supporting Bush, versus 22 percent who couldn’t. The five point gain from the April’s (70 percent – 27 percent) poll shows promise for the former Florida governor’s rebranding as Jeb! instead of Jeb Bush. But for Rubio news is even better. While Bush tops the list as the candidate the most people could support, nearly a quarter of people who still say they couldn’t support him. Rubio’s support comes second in the poll at 74 percent, but only 15 of voters say they couldn’t support him. Rubio’s numbers haven’t changed since the April poll, an indication his dialogue has kept him in steady favor with voters. The poll was also conducted after Bush’s campaign officially kicked off showing that his launch didn’t give him much of a surge ahead of the competition.  -Fox
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 Walker tax plan dispels GOP myths - National Review: “[Scott Walker’s] tax policy helps address the GOP’s biggest weakness, the perception that it is the party of the rich and doesn’t ‘care about people like me.’ Polls since 2012 have consistently shown that Americans think the economy is unfairly tilted toward the rich and that the Republicans are the party of the rich. A tax policy that essentially says America isn’t doing enough for rich people is unlikely to help the GOP nominee in 2016.” -Fox News
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 Say, That Gruber Guy Actually Did Work Closely With nObama 
Remember Jonathan Gruber, the MIT professor who served as a key architect of nObamaCare? The one who mocked "the stupidity of the American voter" as he and his elitist buddies crammed the law down our throats? The one whose string of condescending remarks on nObamaCare's deceptive core were caught on video and released to the public? Naturally, Barack nObama tried to throw Gruber under the bus once he had become politically inconvenient, dismissing him as "some adviser who never worked on our staff" and had little to do with crafting nObamaCare. But according to a series of emails sent from the House Oversight Committee to The Wall Street Journal, Gruber had quite a lot to do with nObamaCare after all. "His proximity to HHS and the White House was a whole lot tighter than they admitted," said Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), chairman of the House Oversight Committee. "There's no doubt he was a much more integral part of this than they've said. He put up this facade he was an arm's length away. It was a farce." Indeed, Jeanne Lambrew, a top administration official at HHS, thanked Gruber for being an "integral part" in foisting nObamaCare on the nation. And Gruber was in contact with the highest level nObama advisers on the law, from Lawrence Summers to Peter Orszag to Jason Furman to Ezekiel Emanuel. This is simply more confirmation of nObamaCare's foundation of lies. As if we needed any more proof.  -The Patriot Post
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 SCOTUS and the Raisin Hope for Property Rights 
Marvin Horne of Fresno, California, has been vindicated. Yesterday, the Supreme Court ruled 8-1 that if the Raisin Administrative Committee was going to take Horne's raisins it needed to compensate the farmer. In Horne v. Department of Agriculture, Horne refused to give up his raisins to the Raisin Administrative Committee and the agency was fining him at the tune of $695,000. The committee is a New Deal-era program designed to control the supply of raisins so the prices remain artificially high. It would take a portion of farmers' grapes and either donate them to school lunch programs or sell them overseas. Farmers used to be compensated, but then the payout dwindled to nothing. The Ninth Circuit Court originally ruled in favor of the administrative committee, saying the Constitution's Taking Clause only covered real estate, but Chief Justice John Roberts, writing the majority opinion, ruled, "Government has a categorical duty to pay just compensation when it takes your car, just as when it takes your home." This ruling comes 10 years after the bungled SCOTUS ruling in Kelo v. New London, which said the city of New London could take the home of Susette Kelo and give her property to a private developer. Currently,Kelo's pink home is demolished and the lot stands empty. While the raisin ruling is a step in the right direction, it will take years before the government fully moves past Kelo and respects the property of the citizens.  -The Patriot Post
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 ISIS Mutants Become More Sadistic as They Lose Ground In Syria  
(nicedeb.wordpress.com) ~ For months now, ISIS militants have been getting their asses kicked by Kurdish fighters in Syria. In fact they’ve been on a losing streak since the YPG defeated the them in Kobane back in January... Kurdish troops in Syria have managed to retake around two dozen towns and villages in the country’s northeast with the help of coalition airstrikes. Last week, Kurdish forces liberated Tal Abyad, a key ISIS outpost that was an access point to its self-declared capital of Raqqa. Now they’ve captured an ISIS-held military base thirty miles from Raqqa. As Islamic State ghouls have lost ground, they’ve also lost whatever shred of humanity remained in their black and shriveled souls. These horrific recent stories from Iraq and Syria include drownings, electrocution, sexual slavery and the torture of children. The headlines range from terrible —  to the stuff of nightmares.
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 Land seized and sold in a controversial Supreme Court case  
(Benjamin Weingarten) ~ As eminent legal scholar and takings expert Richard Epstein notes at National Review, June 23, 2015 marks the 10 year anniversary of one of the Supreme Court’s most controversial cases relating to private property, in Kelo v. City of New London... For those unfamiliar with the case, in a five-to-four decision the Supreme Court ruled in Kelo that New London, Connecticut could use the power of eminent domain to seize private property from its owners and sell it to developers as part of a broader economic development plan. Specifically, the Court ruled that the development of the property would qualify as a “public purpose,” constituting a “public use,” thereby representing a Constitutional taking pursuant to the Fifth Amendment, given the public benefits to be gained through the developer’s use of the seized land. While government has a right to take private property for public use if it provides just compensation, the case proved highly controversial because the government was taking private property — specifically homes — from several parties, and not using it for say a public school or public transportation, but rather selling it to another private party that claimed it could generate greater economic activity from the property.        http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/06/10-years-later-heres-what-happened-to-the-land-seized-and-sold-to-developers-in-a-controversial-supreme-court-case/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29
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 Investigation Exposes AMP Leaders' Ties...  
(investigativeproject.org) ~ Federal investigators shut down a massiveHamas-support network in the United States between 2001 and 2008, prosecuting some elements and freezing the assets of others... But the Investigative Project on Terrorism finds that many of the same functions – fundraising, propaganda and lobbying ­– endure, now carried out by a group called American Muslims for Palestine (AMP). The IPT investigation identified at least five AMP officials and speakers who worked in the previous, defunct network called the "Palestine Committee." It was created by the Muslim Brotherhood to advance Hamas' agenda politically and financially in the United States.        http://www.investigativeproject.org/4891/investigation-exposes-amp-leaders-ties-to-former
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 Senate Approve Fast-Track For Second And Final Time  
(Connor D. Wolf) ~ The Senate approved for a second time Wednesday a measure granting President Barack nObama fast-track authority in a move that will greatly increase the chances of eventually passing his massive international trade deal... Trade Promotion Authority, also known as fast-track, has been the primary point of tension for the president and many within his own party. The measure passed just a day after the Senate approved a procedural move to cut off debate and now just needs to be signed by the president — which he is likely to do. With fast-track the president could submit a finalized trade deal to Congress, like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), that could not be amendment or filibuster and only need a straight up or down vote. The trade deal, which the president is negotiating between 11 other countries, has attracted a lot of criticism with many arguing it will benefit corporations and special interests at the expense of working Americans and the environment.       http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/24/senate-approve-fast-track-for-second-and-final-time/
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 nObama wants Iran Nuke Deal To Keep A Promise To Muslims  
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Many have claimed that Barack nObama is recklessly pursuing a nuclear deal with Iraq because he wants a foreign policy achievement for his presidential legacy... According to Michael Oren, former Israeli ambassador to the US that claim is true, but not in the way people may think. He is not trying to preserve his legacy to the American People, he is trying to preserve his legacy to the Muslim world by keeping the promise he made during his 2009 speech at Cairo University in Egypt. President nObama's speech in Cairo was historic.  No other President has gone to a foreign nation to so publicly throw a strong ally under the bus., he gave  unprecedented support for the Palestinians and recognized Iran's right to nuclear power,  downplayed the role of terrorism, and made Hamas look like a rowdy Boys Glee Club. Former Ambassador Oren related in recent Foreign Policy article that every policy move made by the nObama administration toward the Muslim world was signaled in that speech. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/obama-demanding-iran-deal-as-its-his.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=043689f390-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-043689f390-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-043689f390-291705165
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 The Scorpion, The Frog and The Pope  
(Susan Warner) ~ Pope Francis recently declared Palestine to be a state. Thus, he writes a new chapter in the divisive history between Catholics and Jews... The history of the Catholic Church is a two-thousand year old story of anti-Judaism, conspicuous by frequent massacres, murders, forced conversions, torture, pogroms, expulsions, demonization and other unspeakable acts of violence and offense. The fable of the Scorpion and the Frog illustrates the notion that certain acts are not merely random chance but are as predictable as a "DNA" profile.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/6034/pope-francis-jews-israel
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 Another Kind of Unity  
(Haviv Rettig Gur) ~ Edward Grossman’s essay captures in an impressionistic sweep the intertwined fears, joys, and dangers that make up the present-day Israeli experience... Looming over it all is the distant yet imminent Persian menace—a menace that, Grossman fears, Israel’s fractured political class may not be up to. Hence his call for a new politics of unity in the Jewish state. While the essay neatly captures much of the Israeli condition, something important is missing. Grossman’s question, “Can Israel Unite?” seems to be premised on the assumption that the factional nature of Israeli parliamentary politics somehow mediates and reflects a deeper absence of solidarity within Israeli society itself. But in an important sense, in the most important sense, Israel is already unified, however masked that fact may be by our arguably worsening culture of political divisiveness, problems of social marginalization, growing economic and educational disparities, and all the other challenges we face.     http://mosaicmagazine.com/response/2015/06/another-kind-of-unity/
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 Nation’s poor to the FCC: ‘We’re way ahead of you’  
(Mark Jamison) ~ Last week the FCC adopted a proposal that, according to the agency, takes “significant steps to modernize its Lifeline program.” Lifeline is a 30 year-old telecommunications subsidy program for low-income households... After 30 years, you would think that the program has made a demonstrable impact on making “phone service affordable for low-income Americans,” as the FCC put it. You would be wrong. As I think most American’s would agree, the FCC is right for caring about the poor, but the agency’s plan doesn’t put that care into action. Despite Chairman Wheeler’s statements to the contrary, as quoted in the National Journal, this isn’t a partisan issue. It’s an evidence issue.
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 nObama’s Actions on Immigration Lack Accountability  
(Michael Cutler) ~ On June 17, 2015 the Subcommittee on National Security and the Subcommittee on Health Care, Benefits and Administrative Rules conducted a joint hearing concerning “A Review of the President’s Executive Actions on Immigration.”... Inspector General (IG) John Roth testified at this hearing along with Sarah R. Saldaña, the Director of ICE (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) and León Rodríguez, the Director of USCIS (United States Citizenship and Immigration Services). For those not familiar with the federal government, the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) is comparable to “Internal Affairs” where police departments are concerned. Before we begin to consider the Inspector General’s testimony and what it tells us about the administration’s use of what is claimed to be “prosecutorial discretion,” I want to begin by calling attention to what I hope is obvious to everyone: The Congressional Subcommittee on National Security was one of the two subcommittees that called this hearing, thereby reenforcing the nexus between immigration and national security — a nexus that was identified by the 9/11 Commission.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/michael-cutler/obamas-actions-on-immigration-lack-accountability/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1c83ac2404-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-1c83ac2404-156509103
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  Importing a Potential Epidemic  
(Arnold Ahlert) ~ By now most Americans are familiar with the nObama administration’s ongoing effort to force-feed amnesty for illegals to a largely recalcitrant American public... The most egregious part of this effort occurred during last year’s border “surge” when the administration not only embraced the admittance of tens of thousands of Unaccompanied Alien Children (UACs) into our nation, but the purposeful andsecret dispersal of them into all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. What Americansdon’t know is that the nObama administration ignored Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) guidelines that apply to legal immigrants and prevent the unvaccinated, or those with a “communicable disease of public health significance,” from entering the country. As a result, it is quite possible the outbreak of unknown diseases or those mostly eradicated in the U.S. for quite some time is no coincidence. The administration’s stance on the issue? A combination of silence, denial, or blame-shifting to the anti-vaxxer crowd.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/arnold-ahlert/importing-a-potential-epidemic/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1c83ac2404-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-1c83ac2404-156509103
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The Creepy 
Consequences of Oppression Chic
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     (freedomsback.com) ~ Why was America so shocked by homegirl hoaxer Rachel Dolezal?
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    The spray-tanned con artist, who resigned this week as head of the Spokane chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of (Artificially) Colored People, is the inevitable outcome of academia’s cult of manufactured victimhood.
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     College campuses have been grooming a cadre of professional minority fakers and fraudsters for decades.
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     The notorious pretendians Ward Churchill and Elizabeth Warren faked their Native American status to bolster their faculty credentials at the University of Colorado and Harvard, respectively. It was a mutually beneficial racket for all poseur parties involved. Churchill and Warren basked in their tenured glory. The schools racked up politically correct points for adding the right flavors to their employment rolls.
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     Churchill was specifically granted a “special opportunity” position that his school created to increase “diversity” on the teaching staff. Warren falsely listed herself as a minority professor in a law school directory. Harvard officials eagerly touted Warren’s bogus background, the Boston Herald reported, to “bolster their diversity hiring record in the ’90s as the school came under heavy fire for a faculty that was then predominantly white and male.” Based solely on what Warren later admitted was unsubstantiated “family lore,” the Fordham Law Review called her the “first woman of color” at Harvard Law.
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    The pressure to conform and cash in on the cult of oppression chic is even more virulent among the student body. Race-based affirmative action is a primary catalyst.
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     Take Vijay Chokal-Ingam, brother of TV star Vera Mindy Chokalingam. He pretended to be black in 1998-99 in order to gain admission to St. Louis University School of Medicine.
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     “In my junior year of college, I realized that I didn’t have the grades or test scores to get into medical school, at least not as an Indian-American,” he wrote. “So, I shaved my head, trimmed my long Indian eyelashes and applied to medical school as a black man. … Vijay the Indian-American frat boy become Jojo the African-American Affirmative Action applicant to medical school.”
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    From the moment they apply to the nation’s elite institutions of higher learning, applicants are rewarded for playing up racial division, ethnic strife and identity politics.
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     “I told Harvard I was an undocumented immigrant,” Dario Guerrero bragged in The Washington Post last fall. “They gave me a full scholarship.”
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     In the 1990s, top-tier schools introduced a “diversity essay” requirement for undergrad admissions. The online “Common Application” used by hundreds of colleges and universities directs prospective students to “describe an experience that illustrates what you would bring to the diversity in a college community, or an encounter that demonstrated the importance of diversity to you.”
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    More recently, the University of California at Berkeley mandated that all graduate school hopefuls supply a “personal history statement” with “information on how you have overcome barriers to access opportunities in higher education.”
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     And that’s not enough. Applicants for every U.C. Berkeley graduate program must provide “evidence of how you have come to understand the barriers faced by others, evidence of your academic service to advance equitable access to higher education for women, racial minorities and individuals from other groups that have been historically underrepresented in higher education, evidence of your research focusing on underserved populations or related issues of inequality, or evidence of your leadership among such groups.”
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    These “progressive” schools then herd their young charges into color-coded dorms and segregated academic departments, where they can stew even deeper in their “otherness” and gripe about “white privilege.”
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 We’ve moved from “separate, but equal” to “separate is superior.”
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     In addition, I’ve chronicled dozens of cases of minority students over the years who have faked hate crimes when they were dissatisfied with their level of systemic oppression. Instead of being punished, many of these p.c. performance artists have been praised by college administrators and faculty for “raising awareness” of social injustice.
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    Is it any wonder, then, that lying liar Rachel Dolezal learned from historically black Howard University to loathe the skin she was born in?
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     After receiving a full art scholarship based on her portfolio of “exclusively African-American portraiture,” she reportedly encountered bigotry from campus officials who had assumed she was black when she applied. She lost a lawsuit against the university in which she described an atmosphere “permeated with discriminatory intimidation, ridicule and insult” for being white. Soon after, according to her family, she began to make her creepy transition and continues to “identify as black.”
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    If you can’t beat ’em, join ’em. If you can’t make it, fake it. In the ivory tower, the most afflicted and the most offended are at the top of the food chain.
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Thursday AM ~ The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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"Rise up together as one voice"
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 REPORT: GRUBER PLAYED KEY ROLE IN nOBAMACARE  
As President nObama’s health law teeters ahead of a Supreme Court ruling, a trove of emails show that MIT economist Jonathan Gruber – who claimed the authors of nObamaCare took advantage of the “stupidity of the American voter,” – played a much bigger role in drafting the law than previously known. Some 20,000 pages, WSJ reports, “…cover messages Mr. Gruber sent from January 2009 through March 2010…[that] show frequent consultations between Mr. Gruber and top nObama administration staffers and advisers in the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services on the Affordable Care Act. They show he informed HHS about interviews with reporters and discussions with lawmakers, and he consulted with HHS about how to publicly describe his role…
          “The White House has described Mr. Gruber as having a limited role in crafting the law. President Barack nObama in 2014 said Mr. Gruber was ‘some adviser who never worked on our staff.’…The emails show Mr. Gruber was in touch with key advisers such as Peter Orszag, who was director of the Office of Management and Budget… Jason Furman, an economic adviser to the president, and Ezekiel Emanuel, who was then a special adviser for health policy at nOMB. One email indicates Mr. Gruber was invited to meet with Mr. nObama. In a July 2009 email, he wrote that Mr. Orszag had ‘invited me to meet with the head honcho to talk about cost control.’ In an August 2009 email, Lawrence Summers – then a top economic adviser in the administration – emailed Mr. Gruber and asked ‘if you were POTUS, what would u do now?’ Mr. Gruber responded that Mr. Obama should hold out for enough money to do universal coverage.”  -Fox News 
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 CLINTON TEAM LOWBALLS IOWA EXPECTATIONS 
WSJ: “…The Clinton campaign is working hard to tamp down expectations for the Iowa caucuses next year. Clinton aides are telling everyone who will listen that it’s exceedingly rare for a Democratic candidate who’s not a sitting president to capture more than 50% in Iowa. The idea isn’t so much to paint Mrs. Clinton as a scrappy insurgent; it’s to beat back perceptions that she’s a wounded front-runner should she fail to demolish all comers in Iowa.”  
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 Website washout -  Daily Caller: “The Hilly Clinton campaign’s first major interactive website program has attracted little participation outside of a small group including past and present Clinton campaign staffers and volunteers. Hillyclinton.com recently invited supporters to add their own annotations to Clinton’s Roosevelt Island campaign kickoff speech, to allow people to share what specific Clinton sentences and paragraphs meant to them…The site’s 126 annotations come from only 43 different accounts, many of them completely anonymous, after one week of mild annotating.”  -Fox News 
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE 
Amid talk of dangerous convicted criminals on the loose in New York it seems fitting to remember the man who mastered the art of being on the run. James “Whitey” Bulgernotorious Boston mobster, became an FBI informant on organized crime in the city in exchange for immunity. Problem with that was Bulger was actually the ring-leader of his own crime ring, which he continued to operate. Bulger reported to an FBI contact, John Connolly, who had grown up in their tight-knit neighborhood of South Boston. Connolly was aware Bulger hadn’t given up a life of crime, but turned a blind eye. When authorities figured out Bulger’s side-jobs Connolly tipped him off, and Bulger went on the run. He remained on the lam for 16 years until his capture on this day in 2011.  
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 Hilly Tries To Explain Scandal But Gets Decimated...  
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Finally Hilly Clinton responded  to Peter Schweizer's book "Clinton Cash." Well, sort of. Interviewed Sundayon New Hampshire program CloseUP with Josh McElveen on WMUR the presumptive Democratic Party nominee tried to make everything go away... But in a New York Post oped, Peter Schweizer decimated her ignoble attempt to obfuscate the truth. When McElveen asked Hilly Clinton why her State Department allowed the transfer of 20 percent of all US uranium to the Russians, she claimed she had no involvement the State Department’s decision to approve the sale of the company Uranium One to Russia. “I was not personally involved because that wasn’t something the secretary of state did,” said Clinton. Schweizer responded incredulously, "The transfer of 20 percent of US uranium — the stuff used to build nuclear weapons — to Vladimir Putin did not rise to the level of Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s time and attention?" He then provided three reasons why she had to know (or should have known): 
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 When It Comes To Iran nObama's Worse Than Charlie Brown  
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ In the comics it happened every time, Charlie Brown would be running to kick the football and just as his leg started to swing Lucy pulls the ball away.  We all knew it was going to happen, even Charlie Brown knew it was going to happen. But before each time Lucy convinces Charlie that this time it's going to be different... nObama is a lot like that, he desperately want's to kick the football, or in his case reach a nuclear agreement with Iran, each time he thinks he gets close, the Iranian's pull the ball away. But unlike Charlie Brown, nObama forgets that he ever wanted to kick the football. On Sunday Iran's parliament voted oppose the inspections of government military sites as part of a pending, multi-nation agreement to curb the country’ nuclear program -- potentially complicating a final deal ahead of aJune 30 deadline.       http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/obamas-worse-than-charlie-brown.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=de21e87163-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-de21e87163-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-de21e87163-291705165
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 Benghazi Attack Preplanned, al-Qaeda-Linked, Religiously-Motivated  
(sharylattkisson.com) ~ A terrorist group linked to the Sept. 11, 2012 attacks on U.S. compounds in Benghazi, Libya was tied to al-Qaeda and acting on a Muslim religious ideology... Members of the group planned the attacks at least ten days in advance and trained daily, “focusing on religious lessons and scripture including three lessons a day of jihadist ideology.” That’s according to an internal intelligence report provided by the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) shortly after the attacks. The document was made public this week for the first time after the watchdog group Judicial Watch sued the government under the Freedom of Information Act to obtain improperly withheld public documents. The information was sent, at the time, to then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton, then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, the Joint Chiefs of Staff and the White House National Security Council. nObama officials had claimed they had no indication the attack was preplanned. They blamed, instead, a “spontaneous” uprising of ordinary Libyan citizens angered by a YouTube video.
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 The United Nations Has Israel’s Blood On Its Hands  
(Ronn Torossian, Hank Sheinkopf and George birnbaum) ~ In response to the United Nations report issued today which accused Israel of war crimes... Israeli Foreign Ministry officials thundered that “it is well known that the entire process that led to the production of this report was politically motivated and morally flawed from the outset.” We agree. Across the political spectrum in Israel, the United Nations report was condemned – noting its purpose was simple – to undermine Israel’s right to defend its citizens from attack.        http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/ronn-torossian-and-hank-sheinkopf/the-united-nations-has-israels-blood-on-its-hands/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6677d599b9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-6677d599b9-156509103
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 Hilly and History  
(Thomas Sowell) ~ There are no sure things in politics, but Hilly Clinton is the closest thing to a sure thing to become the Democrats’ candidate for president in 2016... This is one of the painful but inescapable signs of our time. There is nothing in her history that would qualify her for the presidency, and much that should disqualify her. What is even more painful is that none of that matters politically. Many people simply want “a woman” to be president, and Hilly is the best-known woman in politics, though by no means the best qualified. What is Hilly’s history? In the most important job she has ever held — Secretary of State — American foreign policy has had one setback after another, punctuated by disasters.         http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/thomas-sowell/hillary-and-history/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6677d599b9-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-6677d599b9-156509103
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 U.S Is At Highest Threat Level We Have Ever Faced  
(washington.cbslocal.com) ~ The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee warns that America is dealing with “the highest threat level we have ever faced in this country.”... Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., told CBS’ “Face the Nation” on Sunday that the threat is coming from the radicalization of young people and foreign fighters heading to Iraq and Syria to join terror groups. “They’re very good at communicating through separate avenues where it’s very difficult to track,” Nunes said. “That’s why when you get a young person who is willing to get into these chat rooms, go on the Internet and get radicalized, it’s something we are not only unprepared [for], we are also not used to it in this country.”        http://washington.cbslocal.com/2015/06/22/devin-nunes-us-threat-level/
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 Giuliani on new hostage policy  
'You can't pay ransom'. Former New York City mayor says US invites trouble by announcing changes to hostage policy...
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 Clinton Aide Worked on UAE Project While at State Department  
(Alana Goodman) ~ Hilly Clinton’s top aide Cheryl Mills held several outside roles, including a board position with a UAE-funded university in Abu Dhabi, while working as chief of staff and counselor at the State Department, theWashington Free Beacon has learned... After joining the State Department in the beginning of 2009, Mills continued to serve as general counsel for New York University for several months. She also sat on the board of the “NYU in Abu Dhabi Corporation,” the fundraising arm for the university’s UAE satellite campus. The school is bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi government and has been criticized by NYU professors and human rights activists for alleged labor abuses. Mills resigned both positions in May 2009, according to a university spokesperson. Although she did not receive a direct salary from the Abu Dhabi board, she collected $198,000 over four months from NYU.        http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-aide-worked-on-uae-project-while-at-state-department/
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 U.S. Power Grid Being Hit With ‘Increasing’ Hacking Attacks  
(Adam Kredo) ~ Major attacks on the U.S. power grid system are “increasing,” with hackers stepping up efforts to penetrate critical systems and to implant malicious software that could compromise the power grid and result in a nationwide crisis, according to a government report... While experts have long signaled that the U.S. power grid and related systems are vulnerable to physical attacks by terrorists and other individuals, the U.S. government is now warning that sensitive computer systems that maintain the grid are increasingly being attacked, according to a Congressional Research Service (CRS) report that was not made public until the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) disclosed it this month. The report warns that hackers potentially affiliated with terrorist groups or rogue nations have the ability to insert harmful malware into the internal systems governing the U.S. grid, which increasingly are being hooked into the Internet.
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 Valerie Jarrett’s Hardcore Communist Roots Subject FBI Investigation 
(rickwells.us) ~ Many Americans are familiar with the communist common thread that winds through the Chicago mob that has taken over our White House... There is hardly a single member of the core nObama cadre that doesn’t have significant communist or other anti-American roots and at a minimum present day Marxist sympathies. As it turns out, there are those within the federal government who are not part of the Chicago mob who also are aware of the anti-American feelings of those in the highest positions within what was formerly our government. Thankfully, included in their ranks are some who can potentially help to keep them in check, our FBI. Judicial Watch is, once again, at the forefront of bringing this information to the American people. In a June 22nd articlethey wrote:
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Hysteria, Inc.
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     (burtprelutsky.com) ~ Recently, I realized the reason that liberals are so unhappy is that everything throws them into a panic. I’m not just referring to things like armed men in uniform, be they members of the military or law enforcement, but, literally, everything, including the weather. In fact, in the midst of a world that sees the Russian bear expanding westward, the Chinese dragon expanding eastward and the entire Middle East going nuclear, we have such liberal icons as Barack nObama and Pope Francis insisting the greatest threat facing mankind is global warming. They base this contention on unscientific computer models, while ignoring the fact that the earth’s temperature has remained stable for the past 17 years. 
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     What’s more, none of the nonsense Al Gore began spouting in the 1990s about rising sea levels, melting icebergs and drowning polar bears, has come to pass. But when one’s actual mission isn’t to save the planet, but to destroy capitalism and to become enormously wealthy doing it, facts are simply an inconvenient truth. 
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     ♦ But this is always the case with the Left. In 1962, Rachel Carson wrote a book called “Silent Spring,” warning of the ecological disaster wrought by DDT. Because the same pinheads were running things back then, she succeeded in getting the safest pesticide ever invented taken off the market. In Africa, alone, she was the reason that millions of people have died from malaria over the past half century. 
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     A byproduct of Ms. Carson’s work is that the EPA was created and the cult of environmentalism was born.
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     A similar alarmist was Paul R. Ehrlich, who also hit the best seller list with his 1968 jeremiad, “The Population Bomb,” a literary effort that insisted the world’s population was expanding so quickly that we would soon run out of food and that people would be killing each other over a crust of bread. 
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     Apparently, the decade of the 60s has a lot to answer for, besides Yippies, Nehru jackets, LBJ and bell-bottom trousers. 
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     ♦ But we currently have our own sorry band of Chicken Littles, who, when they’re not running around in circles screaming about rising temperatures, enjoy pointing out that some people actually make more money than other people. They don’t bother considering whether some people are smarter or more creative than other people or work harder or that a great many of the whiners don’t work at all. Instead they reply to poll questions in the following manner: Is the distribution of wealth fair? Answer: 66% no, 27% yes. Should the government do more to address the gap? Answer: 57% yes, 39% no. 
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     The worst thing about this class envy is that those who do the most to promote it are often those with the most money. But, apparently, so long as you condemn wealth disparity, it grants dispensation to the likes of the Clintons, the nObamas, Warren Buffet, George Clooney, Glyneth Paltrow, Oprah Winfrey, Ted Turner and all the other hypocrites who show up at nObama’s $35,000-a-plate fundraisers. 
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     As you may have noticed, they’re the same crowd who go around pretending that black voters, who actually vote at a higher rate than white people, are being disenfranchised in America, and who insist with a straight face that voter identification is a plot to bring back slavery. It’s very off-putting to hear those running the plantations pretending that would be a bad thing. 
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     ♦ Speaking of politicians, will the day ever come when one of them takes the stage and doesn’t pretend to spot an old chum in the crowd? The Clintons have it down to a science. They almost manage to carry it off, too, as Bill makes the initial discovery, touches Hilly’s arm and they then engage in the joint wave. The fact is, unless the guy is waving a check for $500,000, neither of them has the slightest interest in anyone not named Clinton. 
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     Moreover, the Clintons have no long-lost friends. Every person they’ve known since exiting the birth canal has been dunned constantly for campaign contributions, speaking fees and bribes. The only thing that’s long-lost with these two creeps are ethics and whatever tiny vestige of decency that may have miraculously managed to survive their several decades in the public arena. And in those cases, they’re not indicating recognition, they’re waving bye-bye. 
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     ♦ In case it’s escaped your notice, ours is a sexually-obsessed society. It explains why pornography is one of the few growth industries left in America. It also explains why the same people who pushed Viagra on the world are now trying to push an aphrodisiac for women. It just so happens that a lack of interest or potency is God’s way of saying, “Give it a rest. You’ve screwed enough for one lifetime.” 
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     This obsession also helps explain the plethora of daily bulletins regarding Bruce/Caitlyn Jenner, whom my friend Tom Pflimlin refers to as Trans-Jenner. It should give Americans pause when all the obnoxious things the Islamics say about us turn out to be true. 
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     ♦ It also doesn’t help our nation’s image when nObama, who can’t help showing his contempt for Christians, Benjamin Netanyahu and gun owners, goes out of his way to pass along his congratulations to homosexual football players and commending Jenner for his “courage.” 
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     ♦ Probably the worst thing to be said about us, though, is that our media is as corrupt as that which is state-run in China, Russia and North Korea. It’s the media, after all, that influences how Americans think about the issues and how we vote. 
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     For instance, the media has relished the opportunity to drag the Duggar family through the gutter, not because one of their 19 children inappropriately touched his younger sisters several years ago while still a teenager, but because the Duggars, who take their religion seriously, have spoken out against same-sex marriages. 
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     I would argue that if most people considered what sodomy involves, they wouldn’t be so quick to regard its practitioners as cuddly little teddy bears, all thanks to their positive depiction in movies and on TV. At the same time, the same folks in the media who wish to tar-and-feather the Duggars regard Bill Clinton, who has been a sexual predator most of his adult life, as a sterling character. 
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     The media condemns all the Duggars, although only one of the 21 did anything wrong. I dare them to randomly pick any 21 people out of the phone book or out of Congress, for that matter, and find a lower percentage of criminal or sinful behavior. 
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     Or, better yet, consider how the media treated the Kennedy clan. Even though Papa Kennedy was a bootlegger, Jack was a satyr, Ted was guilty of manslaughter, and a whole bunch of the younger ones have been drunks, addicts and rapists, the media still hasn’t stopped heaping praise on the Camelot of them. 
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     ♦ The latest example of malfeasance in political reporting comes to us from the NY Times. The paper, obviously embarrassed to have been responsible for reporting on a few of Hilly Clinton’s endless number of scandals tried to get back into the good graces of its readership by front-paging the news that Mr. and Mrs. Marco Rubio had collected 17 speeding tickets over the past 19 years.
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     It probably bugged the Times that he had only gotten four and his wife had collected the other 13. What’s more, the Rubios apparently paid all of them in timely fashion and never once attempted to use his influence to quash them.
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     If the paper was trying to derail his candidacy, it was a lame attempt. After all, if Rubio garners the nomination and defeats Hilly in the general election, neither of the Rubios will ever drive again. In fact, they might even consider handing out bumper stickers reading: “Vote for Marco Rubio. Keep Jeanette Rubio Off Our Roads.” 
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     ♦ Finally, it is time once again to conduct a Prelutsky Poll. So cast your vote for the man or woman you would most like to see as the GOP presidential candidate in 2016, not whom you suspect will be the nominee. 
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     I ask only two things of you, Dear Reader: Please vote for just one person and type his or her name in the subject line so that I don’t even have to open the email in order to count your vote. Also, please don’t explain yourself. Save that for another time when I’m not busy counting noses.
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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:
U.S.-Israel Alliance 
Won't Be Fixed Without Honesty
Jonathan Tobin
 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE 
In a culture that doesn’t flinch at grown women wearing ill-fitting yoga pants to travel on an airplane or adult men wearing tennis shoes to work in an office, what’s the point of “dressing up?” In a society where vulgarians are everywhere ascendant, what’s the point of being polite? And in a world where perfect strangers think nothing of calling adults, even their elders, only by their first names, what’s the point of courtesy? Being formal today is often seen as not just pointless but also priggish. So parents and others weary sentinels on the frontier between civilization and idiocracy often struggle with the “why” of keeping social order. In his commencement address to students at a California charter school, Prof. Harvey Mansfield provides the most powerful alternative to “because I said so.” And The Weekly Standard has made it available to you.  -Fox News 
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 HOUSE ENERGY AND COMMERCE GETS PERSONAL IN PITCH 
The House Energy and Commerce Committee’s unanimously passed 21st Century Cures measure would redirect spending and regulation in a bid to spur innovation in healthcare. While the measure is waiting on a final vote, the committee has a new video out to highlight the patients who are urging its passage. Watch here.
          [The American Conservative Union Foundation hosts a Capitol Hill forum today on the continuing Iran deal talks. Participants include: Senior Fellow KT McFarland, retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and AEI scholar Michael Rubin. RSVP here for the11:30 a.m. event in the Cannon Caucus Room.]  
-Fox News 
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 HAIL, WEST VIRGINIA! 
Saturday marks the 152nd anniversary of West Virginia’s statehood. The 35th state is the only one born of the bloodshed of the Civil War, rending itself from the rest of Virginia when the mother state left the Union. Although incorrectly considered part of the South by the Census Bureau, West Virginia is very much Appalachian in nature, as reflected in the state motto: Montani Semper Liberi (“Mountaineers are Always Free”).  
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 Signed, sealed, delivered -  This commitment to freedom is illustrated on the state seal, the most interesting part of which may be the most inconspicuous. A hat at the center of the two crossed rifles referred to as the “liberty cap” comes from ancient Rome, and was given to slaves when their owners granted them freedom. The liberty cap, called the Phrygian cap in ancient Rome, is also worn by the Magi that follow the star to the birth of Christ in most depictions, and is worn by the freedom statue at the top of the Capitol building in Washington. Any who celebrate the triumph of freedom over slavery ought to take a moment to observe West Virginia Day on Saturday.
          [For those who don’t know what a blessing it is to be a West Virginian, the indispensable Hoppy Kercheval has a brief meditation that is very much worth reading.]
  -Fox News 
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 Press is on to Pressure Supreme Court into Saving nObamacare  
(Roger Aronoff) ~ President nObama is once again telling lies about nObamacare while bullying the Supreme Court to decide in his administration’s favor inKing v. Burwell, a court case which will likely be decided this month and which has the potential to gut the law’s subsidies... On cue, the mainstream media have marshaled their forces in defense of nObama and his signature legislation. And the media, just like the President, have been peddling many of the same lies about this law at the expense of the health and welfare of average Americans. A recent health care poll from the Kaiser Family Foundation, popular with many in the media, asked whether Congress should intervene on behalf of low-income persons who might lose their subsidies. Not surprisingly, six in ten responded, “Yes.” But that poll does not appear to have asked the deeper question of whether all three branches of the federal government should respect the law as written.
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 Terrorists and Criminals Yes, Trans Fats No  
(Deroy Murdock) ~ nObama’s tragicomic reign recently has taken several truly frightful turns. On his eagle-eyed watch, we now learn, easily preventable homicides actually occurred, and designated potential terrorists are manning the secure areas of U.S. airports... Meanwhile, nObama deployed the federal government’s ferocious power . . . against a food additive. For starters, nObama’s hands are soaked with the blood of  as many as 121 people who were murdered by illegal-alien criminal convicts after he failed to deport them and, instead, released them onto America’s streets. Thanks, nObama!        http://www.aim.org/guest-column/terrorists-and-criminals-yes-trans-fats-no/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email062215&utm_medium=email
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 UN Wants "Urgent Measures" to Control Guns  
(Joe Wolverton, II, J.D.) ~ Not to be outdone by Barack nObama and Hilly Clinton in calling for civilian disarmament, the United Nations is taking advantage of the Charleston shootings to join the chorus of confiscators... In a statement issued on June 19 by the United Nations Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent (yes, that actually exists), committee chairwoman Mireille Fanon Mendes-France demanded that “urgent measures must be taken to prevent gun violence.” Making a point of distinguishing this crime for its effect on “the security of Afro-Americans,” the UN group sent their “heartfelt condolences to the people of the United States of America.” A United Nations group has called on the United States to take "urgent measures" to reduce gun violence. They have no rights to force our hands in gun violence.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/21102-un-wants-urgent-measures-to-control-guns-after-charleston-killings?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=37647fb605-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-37647fb605-289778381
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 300,000 Christians Gather Together To Combat The Antichrist Attack  
(Theodore Shoebat) ~ 300,000 Christians gathered together in Rome’s San Giovanni Square to combat the antichrist attack against Christianity throughout the West. They rallied against the evil homosexual agenda and the demonic system of abortion... You can never get rid of Christianity, nor the roots of Christian tradition that so keep together civilization. No matter how much the wicked governments succeed in establishing evil and diabolical laws, no matter how much the wicked think they are winning, there will always be Christians to be here to tell let them know that they will never extinguish the fire of Christianity. In the words of St. John of Damascus, “God is a fire consuming all evil.” (Orthodox Faith, 1.9, trans. Chase, Jr.) And so we, being images of God, must be lights that shine forth and dispel the darkness into pieces.        http://sonsoflibertymedia.com/2015/06/300000-christians-gather-together-to-combat-the-antichrist-attack-against-christianity/
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 New emails show Benghazi deception by Hilly Clinton, nObama  
(Stephen Dinan) ~ Congress released nearly 200 pages of newly uncovered emails involving former Secretary of State Hilly Rodham Clinton, raising questions Monday about whether the nObama administration and the Democratic presidential candidate herself were truthful when they said they turned over all of her email communications on Benghazi... Rep. Trey Gowdy, chairman of the select House committee looking into the 2012 terrorist attack in Libya, demanded the State Department say whether it has the emails — a way of testing whether the administration withheld them against the wishes of the committee, or whether Mrs. Clinton never turned them over in the first place, contradicting her public statements.        http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/22/new-emails-reignite-hillary-clinton-email-scandal/
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 The Palestinians' Real Strategy  
(Khaled Abu Tomameh) ~ All signs indicate that the Palestinians are planning to step up their efforts to force Israel to comply with their demands. But as the Palestinians are not united, they are working on two fronts to achieve their goal... One party, headed by the Palestinian Authority (PA), believes that, with the help of the international community, Israel will be forced to fully withdraw to the pre-1967 lines, including east Jerusalem, and accept the "right of return" for millions of refugees and their descendants to their former homes inside Israel. The second party, represented by Hamas, Islamic Jihad and several other terror groups, continues to reject any form of compromise, and insists that the only solution lies in the elimination of Israel. Unlike the first party, this one believes that direct or indirect negotiations with the "Zionist enemy" are a waste of time and that terrorism is the only means for the Palestinians to achieve their goal.
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 Ayatollah Khamenei Calling the Shots on the Nuclear Deal  
(Joseph Puder) ~ The end of June 2015 is when the 5+1 powers are supposed to conclude a nuclear deal with Iran.  With just a few weeks to go it appears that serious issues remain unresolved... Resolution of the outstanding issues depends on a few actors in this political drama. U.S. President Barack nObama desperately wants to conclude a deal, which he believes will be his primary legacy in foreign affairs. The second U.S. actor is the U.S. Congress, dominated by the Republican opposition, which wants to insure that the deal with Iran has teeth that will guarantee that Iran does not continue to violate agreements – as it has done all along. The Congressional leadership wants inspections – not “guided tours” by the Iranians, which include military facilities and interviews with Iranian scientists. Three figures are the main actors on the Iranian side: the decisive one however, and the final authority is the Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. He is trying to achieve a consensus with the two others: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani, whose election was approved by the Ayatollah Khamenei, and was given the mission to end the international sanctions, which have crippled the Iranian economy. His future rests on his ability to do so, and he, like President nObama, desperately wants a deal to be consummated.        http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/joseph-puder/ayatollah-khamenei-calling-the-shots-on-the-nuclear-deal/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3b4f269dac-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-3b4f269dac-156509103
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 The Left Is Eating Itself  
(Daniel Greenfield) ~ In the hot days of summer, the progressive revolution that took over cities and even the national government is frenziedly devouring itself... The media is pounding away at Hilly Clinton, not because it cares about her foundation’s dirty deals or the contents of her email server, but because it doesn’t trust her ideological commitment. If the media were sure of that, both stories would have been treated like Benghazi; mocked, ridiculed, falsely fact checked and then buried in a haunted Indian graveyard under the New York Times building at midnight.        http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/the-left-is-eating-itself/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3b4f269dac-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-3b4f269dac-156509103
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 Straying away from strength in numbers  
(Thomas Donnelly) ~ “God is on the side of the big battalions.” The historical record is opaque about whether it was Napoleon, Turenne, Voltaire, or indeed any identifiable Frenchman who made that statement, but, in this age of supposedly post-industrial warfare. He has apparently changed His mind... Equipped with an iPhone and GPS-guided munitions, God has broken the phalanx, emptied the battlefield, and super-empowered the individual. Mass—particularly the large military formations of the modern era: infantry divisions and corps, aircraft carrier battle groups, tactical air wings—has gone out of style. Ironically, the United States, which became history’s “sole superpower” by crushing Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan and outlasting the Soviet Union, has become the leading exponent of strategic “agility” and operational “mobility”—or, anything except durability. The impulse has reached the level of farce in the campaign to roll back the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.  President nObama has repeatedly lamented the inability to formulate a “complete strategy” for the war, complaining that while ISIS forces are “nimble and they’re aggressive and they’re opportunistic,” his cumbersome coalition of US advisers, the vanishing Iraqi army, and Iranian-backed Shi’a militias is not.       http://www.aei.org/publication/straying-away-from-strength-in-numbers/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=062215
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U.S.-Israel Alliance 
Won't Be Fixed Without Honesty
Jonathan Tobin
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     (jewishworldreview.com) ~ The nObama administration isn't very happy about Michael Oren's new book.
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     The revelations in the memoir by the former Israeli ambassador to the United States aren't particularly shocking for anyone who has been following the news since January 2009. President nObama came into office with some set ideas about creating daylight between Israel and the United States and has followed with more than six years of quarrels and public animosity.
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     As John Podhoretz writes about the book in the July/August issue of COMMENTARY,"The sheer unfriendliness of the administration is startlingly present on nearly every one of his memoir's 374 pages of text—and runs far deeper than the problematic relationship between the president and Oren's boss, Benjamin Netanyahu."
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     But though Oren, a respected historian and no right-wing ideologue, tempers his account with paeans to the goodwill of some figures in the administration and stops well short of attributing to nObama any ill wishes about Israel's survival, the reaction to his book from Washington has been furious.
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     That rage and the willingness of some Israeli politicians to kowtow to the pretense that everything is awesome between the Jewish state and nObama won't fix the problem that Oren has illustrated. To the contrary, if the relationship is to be repaired in the coming years, it will require the kind of honesty Oren has displayed.
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     The official position of the administration about Oren's book is that his account doesn't reflect reality and that he is nothing more than a politician who is seeking to sell books. State Department Spokesman Dan Kirby, who made a fool of himself on his first day on the job by trying to claim that Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry had not reversed himself on the conditions for an Iran deal, called the book "absolutely inaccurate and false" without actually contradicting a single fact in it.
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     hanoi Kerry and U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro similarly trashed Oren, claiming his account of nObama's hostility to Israel during last summer's war when the U.S. not only stopped arms shipments but also handed Hamas a victory by stopping American flights to Ben Gurion Airport was "imaginary."
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     Not satisfied with that, they demanded that Prime Minister Netanyahu disavow Oren's accounts of events. That Netanyahu refused to so even though Oren joined a different political party and didn't hesitate to criticize the prime minister, both in the book and in the campaign for the Knesset earlier this year, is very much to his credit.
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     Less honorable was the speed with which Oren's political ally, Kulanu Party head Moshe Kahlon, denounced the book and praised nObama. The same was true of Likud politician Gilad Erdan who rushed to attack Oren.
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     The motives for these denunciations are obvious. The president knows that the truth about his hostility to Israel is not only politically damaging but extremely ill timed. With the Iran nuclear agreement likely to be signed this summer, the administration wants to portray itself as a loyal friend to Israel in order to convince a skeptical Congress that this weak pact isn't a betrayal of the Jewish state.
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     On the other hand, unprincipled and opportunistic Israeli politicians like Kahlon and Erdan want to be viewed favorably in Washington because they think it gives them a leg up at home.
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     Is there an argument to be made for keeping quiet about the way nObama has sought, as Oren tells us, to downgrade the alliance? Might not Israel be better served by pretending that everything is okay while waiting and hoping for the election of a better ally next year? That's the instinct of many Israelis but they are mistaken. There may be times when silence is wise but given the nature of the threats to Israel and the extent of the damage done by nObama over the past years, now is the time for some truth.
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     The angry denials of tension by the Americans and the obsequious flattery of nObama by some Israelis might lead us to think that Oren is exaggerating things. But the former ambassador, whose even-handed account is highly critical of some decisions made by Netanyahu's government, merely wrote what everyone who follows the Middle East knows.
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     This administration came into office seeking to distance itself from Israel and has not missed an opportunity to ambush the Israelis and to tilt the diplomatic playing field in the direction of their foes.
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     There is also no secret about the fact that these efforts did nothing to advance the cause of peace or the interests of the U.S. or Israel. And that is why Oren's truth telling is so important at this moment in history.
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     nObama's hostility to Israel has deepened the conviction on the part of the Palestinians that they needn't compromise to make peace. Similarly, Iran has come to view the nObama administration as not only a soft touch in the nuclear negotiations but also not a stalwart ally to either Israel or the Arab nations that fear Tehran as much as Jerusalem does.
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     What has happened on nObama's watch has not merely created tension in the U.S.-Israel alliance, it has undermined the ability of the United States to be a force for stability or good in the Middle East.
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     Though, as Oren has made clear, the security relationship between the two countries remains strong, the perception that the U.S. no longer may have Israel's back at the United Nations or when it is under attack by terrorist foes like Hamas makes the already dim chances for peace even slimmer.
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     nObama may long, as he made clear in a recent speech, for a mythical Israel of the past but the more complex vibrant democracy that exists in reality is materially damaged by his efforts to isolate it.
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     Honesty about the problems he has created is the first step toward fixing them and re-establishing the united front between the two allies that is the prerequisite for stability in the Middle East.
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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:
Proving Nietzsche correct
Jonah Goldberg
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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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 DEMS CONFRONT PAST FAILURES ON GUN CONTROL 
“When I ran in 2008, I in fact did not say I would fix it. I said we could fix it.” –President nObama at a Beverly Hills fundraiser discussing the mass murder at a Charleston, S.C. church.
          The only really clear mandate after President nObama’s 2012 re-election was to not be Mitt Romney. nObama had won more in spite of his policies than because of them, but had successfully convinced voters that Romney was too risky a pick.
          After the grindingest grind of an election in presidential political history, nObama had won another term of what, exactly? Endless battles with the GOP House on taxes and spending? Foreign policy headaches? More scorched earth fights protecting nObamaCare? Blech.
          But at that very moment, a meteor crashed into American public life: The senseless slaughter of 20 children and six educators at a Connecticut elementary school less than two weeks before Christmas. A fatherless, mentally ill 20-year-old had killed his mother, stolen her guns and laid waste to a group of students at a nearby school, all aged 6 and 7.
          nObama wept in private and shed tears in public, as most parents must have. He also found new purpose for the second term of his presidency. Two days after the murders, nObama would make a mighty vow: “In the coming weeks, I will use whatever power this office holds to engage my fellow citizens … in an effort aimed at preventing more tragedies like this.”
          As an orthodox liberal, nObama had always been a proponent of gun control. But it had hardly been a top-drawer concern. For example, when a gunman killed 13 people at an immigration center in Binghamton, N.Y. in April of 2009, nObama called it “senseless violence,” but did not demand that the Democratic-controlled Congress push through gun control.
          The Connecticut killings, different in nature and coming as they did when nObama was looking to do more than just defend his legacy, spurred him headlong into the divided Congress with demands for the most sweeping gun control legislation since the Clinton era. Even though the legislation wouldn’t have prevented the shooting had it been in place, gun violence became the animating issue for the Democratic Party.
          The legislation was cued up and public pressure was enormous. The daily shouts from television, social media and elsewhere were for action, action, action. But before too long, Democrats lost their nerve. Then-Senate Majority Leader dinky Harry Reid ended up killing even a compromise package that would have required background checks at gun shows and for private sales. All the thunder came to naught.
          And here we are again.
          This time it is nine Christians at worship at a historic church in Charleston, S.C. The place that once heard the exultant cries of freed slaves heard the anguished ones of murder victims.
          It would be wholly unfair to say that the legislation proposed by the president would have in any way prevented the killings. But one wonders why a party and a president who believed that more gun regulations would save lives gave up so easily.
          “Can government save you? Can government be the be-all end-all? The reason I ask is that I meet with pastors, and they're looking at government for the answers. I look back at them and I say, 'I'm looking at you for help.'" – Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., at a meeting of the Faith and Freedom Coalition.
          “I hope we, the American people, can come to the understanding that we are not each other’s enemies.  The enemies are those who are stoking the flames of division, trying to divide us into every category and weakening us as a society.” –Ben Carson on “The Kelly File”  -Fox News 
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 ‘CLINTON INC.’ PAID EVEN BIGGER BUCKS TO BLUMENTHAL 
Fox News:  “Clinton confidant [Sidney Blumenthal] under scrutiny on Capitol Hill over detailed Libya memos he sent to then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton told lawmakers earlier this week he has been pulling in $200,000 a year from Clinton ally David Brock’s media operation, congressional sources tell FoxNews.com.….The money was in addition to the $10,000 a month he was getting for work with the Clinton Foundation.  ‘He was getting, from Clinton, Inc., $320,000 a year,’ one source told FoxNews.com…. The source said Blumenthal has been working with Media Matters, American Bridge and Correct the Record…. Though it's unclear exactly what Blumenthal was paid to do, Politico reported his work entailed giving high-level strategy and messaging guidance, and the Benghazi debate was likely part of that. The groups above have busily defended then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton from GOP broadsides.”  
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 Clinton doubles down on executive amnesty –  USA TODAY: “SpeakingThursday before the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials, Clinton [said]… she would fight for comprehensive immigration reform that includes ‘a real path to citizenship’ for the more than 11 million undocumented immigrants who have settled in the United States…oppose any move to deport the young immigrants known as ’Dreamers’ or to undo President nObama’s executive actions that are shielding millions of immigrants from enforcement action. And that if Congress continues to balk at acting on immigration reform, ‘as president I will do everything possible under the law to go even further than what President nObama has attempted to achieve,’ she said.” -Fox News 
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 Billionaire Dem donor tweaks Hilly -  Nat Journal: “[D]eep-pocketed Democratic donor [Tom Steyer] who has pushed President nObama and Hilly Clinton on environmental issues took advantage of Pope Francis's climate-change encyclical to call on the next president to act on global warming. And he effusively praised Martin O’Malley for taking the lead. Steyer thanked O'Malley, the long-shot Democratic 2016 contender, for urging the rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline and spelling out a detailed plan of action to confront Earth's rising temperatures.”
          No drought for nObama’s golf - WashEx: “President nObama is expected to spend the weekend golfing in the lush environs of Southern California's verdant desert resorts near Palm Springs — resorts that are among the state's top guzzlers of water.  
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 Supreme Court caught messing with marriage case?  
(Bob Unruh) ~ A series of events that has been described as a “troubling turn” has been found to have taken place at the U.S. Supreme Court regarding the justices’ looming decision on marriage – whether they will affirm the millennia old standard of one man and one woman or whether they will create a right to homosexual “marriage.”... The report is from the law firm of William J. Olson, P.C., the workplace of Olson, who served in several positions for the Reagan administration, and Herb Titus, a longtime constitutional law professor. The organization has issued a series of reports on the issue of marriage, under funding from the United States Justice Foundation.    
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 PENTAGON CONFIRMS ISIS 'DIRTY BOMB' CLAIMS  
(F. Michael Maloof) ~ The Pentagon has confirmed to WND that the Islamic State has seized enough radioactive materials from captured Iraqi facilities to develop “dirty bombs,” just as ISIS’ recent English-language magazine, Dabiq, claimed... The ISIS claim had alarmed the Australian intelligence service, which initially revealed the prospect that ISIS fighters have seized sufficient radioactive and biological materials from research centers and hospitals – which previously were under Iraqi government control. Such seizures were first revealed at a meeting of the Australia Group in Perth, Australia, at which Australian Foreign Minister Julie Bishop expressed the deep concern of members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and regional partners over the potential use by ISIS of the seized materials.
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 Anatomy of an nObamacare 'death spiral'  
(Robert King) ~ The court is expected to rule soon on King v. Burwell, a case that challenges the federal government's authority to provide subsidies for 34 states that did not set up their own healthcare exchanges... More than 6 million people could lose subsidies if the court rules in favor of King. If such a ruling occurs and no action by Congress is taken, there is a "100 percent chance" of a death spiral for the insurance marketplaces in those states, said Gary Claxton, vice president of the left-leaning Kaiser Family Foundation. A death spiral occurs when an insurance market is no longer sustainable. It commonly starts when there are too many sick people in the insurance pool and insurers are forced to raise prices to pay for their care.        http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/anatomy-of-an-obamacare-death-spiral/article/2566684
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 Toby Keith Has a BRUTAL MESSAGE for Barack nObama  
(hepoliticalinsider.com) ~ Famous country singer Toby Keith is a patriot and proud American. He has been an unapologetic defender of our military, with songs about the invasion of Iraq and the struggles veterans face when they return home... Keith is tired of President nObama’s pathetic leadership on foreign policy… But after seeing nObama’s response to the church shooting in South Carolina by 21-year old Dylann Roof, he spoke out in a huge way! As the Associated Press reported, Toby Keith was asked at the Songwriters Hall of Fame gala if he agrees with nObama’s push for stricter gun control in the wake of this racially motivated tragedy. Keith didn’t hesitate when explaining how criminals don’t follow gun laws anyway:        http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/famous-country-singer-toby-keith-has-a-brutal-message-for-barack-obama-about-south-carolina-murders-must-read/
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 Justice Frank Murphy
 The progressive roots of NSA's privacy violations  
(conservativehq.com) ~ Conservatives are becoming more attuned to how the Fourth Amendment protects the security of quintessential personal and property rights from lawless, Orwellian big government... Today CHQ contributor Mark Fitzgibbons has an op/ed at Washington Examiner that helps explain why the NSA’s controversial, warrantless collection of metadata of all Americans is not only a radical expansion beyond previous Fourth Amendment interpretation, but has roots in progressive New Deal ideology. That progressive ideology is hostile to property and individual rights that have made America exceptional. In "The progressive roots of NSA's privacy violations," Fitzgibbons writes: “A 1946 (New Deal) opinion in Oklahoma Press Publishing Co. v. Walling . . . upheld judge-less “administrative subpoenas” issued by bureaucrats. One justice dissented. Citing the Declaration of Independence and even hinting that judge-less administrative subpoenas approved in that case were the stuff that had previously contributed to "successful revolt," liberal Democrat Justice Frank Murphy’s dissent warned his Democrat-appointed brethren about the consequences of their dangerous direction.”        http://www.conservativehq.com/node/20500
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 Wave Of Terror Hits Israel After It Gives In To nObama’s Demand  
(gopthedailydose.com) ~ As is typical during the Muslim fast, Ramadan, Israel is witnessing a surge in Palestinian terror attacks... Last Friday, a Palestinian terrorist gunned down two Israeli men near the Israeli settlement of Dolev in Samaria (Northern West Bank). Danny Gonen, 25, an electrical engineering student from Lod and the eldest of five siblings, was shot several times at point blank range and was killed. His friend, Netanel Hadad, was moderately injured. The lone gunman flagged down their car, asking for assistance as they drove slowly on a gravel path from the Ein Buvin spring where they had been swimming. When they got out of the car to help him, the Palestinian pulled out a gun and murdered Gonen in cold blood before wounding his friend.        http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/06/22/wave-of-terror-hits-israel-after-it-gives-in-to-obamas-demand-for-trust-building-measures-with-palestinians/
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 George W. Bush Wins Father of the Year  
(Onan Coca) ~ This past week a special celebration took place in New York City. The award for “Father of the Year” was given to a very famous ex-President. Former President George W. Bush was named the Father of the Year on June 18th and his daughter Barbara was on hand to present him with the award... During the ceremony he let the crowd have a inside glimpse at his life, reading from a book that he wrote about his father, George H.W. Bush, he said;  “I also learned of unconditional love. It’s one of the greatest gifts a dad can give a child, which leads me to a fitting reading I’m about to do and a practical one. Fitting because I’m about to read from the book that I wrote about my dad. Practical because I’m retired and I hope people buy it. It may be a little confusing for some up here to know that not only can I read, I can write.”       http://lastresistance.com/12322/george-w-bush-wins-father-of-the-year-following-in-ronald-reagans-footsteps/
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 How Did Valerie Jarrett Pass A Background Check  
(Denise Simon) ~ Now this also begs the question, what did nObama know, did he approve and what is he going to do now?... FBI Files Document Communism in Valerie Jarrett’s Family. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) files obtained by Judicial Watch reveal that the dad, maternal grandpa and father-in-law of President Obama’s trusted senior advisor, Valerie Jarrett, were hardcore Communists under investigation by the U.S. government. Jarrett’s dad, pathologist and geneticist Dr. James Bowman, had extensive ties to Communist associations and individuals, his lengthy FBI file shows. In 1950 Bowman was in communication with a paid Soviet agent named Alfred Stern, who fled to Prague after getting charged with espionage. Bowman was also a member of a Communist-sympathizing group called the Association of Internes and Medical Students. After his discharge from the Army Medical Corps in 1955, Bowman moved to Iran to work, the FBI records show.     
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 Frivolous Feminism and the $10 Bill  
(totalconservative.com) ~ In one of the most obvious bits of pandering we’ve seen from this administration, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew announced this week that there will soon be a woman gracing the front of our $10 bills... That the federal government is taking action on this now speaks to the effectiveness of the feminist movement to put a woman on the $20. Apparently by going with the ten-spot instead, nObama believes he can avoid looking like he bends whichever way the wind blows. Mission, ah, failed. Now, clearly there’s nothing wrong with putting a woman on the currency. It’s probably long overdue. But one has to wonder why it matters at all. Is this really moving forward women’s equality in the world? If nObama gives women the $10, will women agree not to vote for Hilly Clinton? Let’s have a little give and take here. The feminists can have Harriet Tubman or whoever on the money, and we’ll put another man in the White House in 2016. Fair? Everyone in agreement? Good, let’s move on.
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 nObama Says “N” Word In Describing Race Relations  
(rickwells.us) ~ In the midst of one of his lecturing philosophical “Know It All” dissertations, Hussein nObama did what for any white president would have been political suicide. He used the “N” word... It wasn’t a slip, he made no apology at the time, and he said what he meant to say. nObama always preaches one thing and does another, and this is no different. His Marxist equality for all presidents regardless of skin color doesn’t apply to their words. Just as the law doesn’t apply to him and his underlings, neither does good taste or proper presidential etiquette. It’s understandable; he’s not a proper president. Why should he be expected to speak like one?        http://rickwells.us/obama-says-n-word-in-describing-race-relations-leftist-do-as-i-say-dont-say-as-i-do/
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Proving Nietzsche correct
Jonah Goldberg
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     (jewishworldreview.com) ~ "G0D," Friedrich Nietzsche famously declared, "is dead."
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     But before the German philosopher departed this mortal coil, he had some interesting things to say. Nietzsche argued that one of the most powerful forces in society was "ressentiment." Similar to the everyday word "resentment," ressentiment lay at the heart of new kinds of morality. In ancient times, nobility was associated with power. The downtrodden, the poor, the weak, the enslaved were ignoble.
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     The masses of have-nots, to use a more modern language, resented their plight for understandable reasons. But they were too weak to launch a real, armed revolution. Instead, the powerless resorted to a moral revolution, assaulting the concepts of nobility, goodness and morality and rendering them evil in the popular imagination.
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     Wrote Nietzsche in his "Genealogy of Morals": "It was the Jews who, with awe-inspiring consistency, dared to invert the aristocratic value-equation (good = noble = powerful = beautiful = happy = beloved of G0D) and to hang on to the inversion with their teeth ..., saying 'the wretched alone are the good; the poor, impotent, lowly alone are the good; the suffering, deprived, sick, ugly alone are pious, alone are blessed by G0D ...'"
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     Nietzsche wasn't a historian, but a literary philosopher. He didn't rely on many primary sources -- and it wouldn't have occurred to him to cite actual data of any kind. And he certainly had the devil's gift for quoting scripture. So one needn't agree with all he said, never mind take it as authoritative, to see that he was on to something about the cycles of civilizations. One can reject his writings completely while still acknowledging his impact on our society.
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     In 2015, our society is shot through with Nietzschean ressentiment. Today it is a great sin on college campuses -- and elsewhere! -- to make anyone other than the "privileged" feel uncomfortable, challenged or otherwise psychologically threatened by the use of the wrong words or concepts.
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     The University of California recently issued a set of guidelines about the terrible danger of "micro-aggressions" -- small, usually unintended slights that allegedly hurt the feelings of the newly anointed classes of victims. One must no longer say that America is a "melting pot," for to do so is to suggest that minorities should "assimilate to the dominant culture," according to the new moralists at the University of California.
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     And one mustn't say anything that advances "the Myth of Meritocracy." Saying "America is the land of opportunity" or "everyone can succeed in this society if they work hard enough" is now a form of bigotry.
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     Of course, the surest way to guarantee that America is not a meritocracy is to teach young people not only that it isn't one, but that it's evil to say it is, or should be, one.
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     Ressentiment is first and foremost the psychology of blame. It surveys the social landscape and blames the failures and hardships of the alleged have-nots on the successes of the haves. It is more than envy, which is a timeless human emotion -- and one of the seven deadly sins. It is a theory of morality that says the success of the successful is proof of their wickedness.
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     Such is the allure of ressentiment today that it produces creatures like Rachel Dolezal, the blue-eyed white woman who had to invent an entire narrative around her stolen fictional identity as an oppressed black woman.
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     Such is the political power of ressentiment that Hilly Clinton, who earns in a one-hour speech five times what the average American makes in a year, feels compelled to campaign as a "champion" for all those who feel micro- (or macro-) aggressed by a system rigged by the very same institutions she is happy to shake down for donations. (When asked to explain the contradiction on "Fox News Sunday," a Clinton spokeswoman pointed to the fact that Clinton's mother had been downtrodden in her youth.)
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     When Nietzsche said "G0D is dead," he meant that there was no longer an ideal outside of ourselves to which we're all answerable. Everything was a contest of power and will. America isn't there yet, thank G0D. But it surely seems like that is where we are heading.
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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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Featuring:
Islam & Liberalism
Burt Prelutsky
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 STIMULUS WHISTLEBLOWER: ‘WE MISLED CONGRESS’  Judson Berger has the goods: “On paper, it sounded like a true government success story: The Social Security Administration in September opened a ‘state-of-the-art’ data center in Maryland, housing wage and benefit information on almost every American, ‘on time and under budget.’ However, six years after Congress approved a half-billion dollars for the project -- the largest building project funded by the 2009 stimulus -- a whistleblower says the center was built on a lie. ‘We misled Congress,’ Michael Keegan, a former associate commissioner who worked on the project, told [Fox News].”  -Fox News 
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 Maybe It's Not a 'Gun Problem' 
It took Barack nObama just 12 hours to classify the senseless killings in Charleston as a "gun problem," exploiting the blood of innocents as political fodder to advance his gun control agenda. In a press conference Thursday, nObama asserted, "At some point, we as a country will have to reckon with the fact that this type of mass violence does not happen in other advanced countries." Unless you count all the "mass violence ... in other advanced countries" like the recent Charlie Hebdo attack in France, where eleven were murdered. Oh wait, the Paris hate crime was perpetrated by Islamists — nObama doesn't count those (see Ft. Hood attack). But it was a nice sound bite. Moreover, other countries have not deliberately institutionalized urban poverty plantations, which have become mass breeding grounds for such violence. That is the inconvenient truth nObama will never mention. Alveda King, NAACP member, Christian civil rights activist and niece of civil rights leader Martin Luther King, Jr., acutely observes, "To politicize this by calling for gun control — we already know that gun control is not going to stop the violence. Only a change of heart is going to do that."  -The Patriot Post 
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 GOP Must Decide nObamaCare Policy Before SCOTUS Rules 
The Supreme Court could issue a ruling as early as Monday in King v. Burwell, the case regarding whether the federal government overstepped its authority in paying out subsidies to those purchasing health insurance on the federal nObamaCare exchange. The GOP has been preparing for this moment for awhile now. If the Court strikes down the subsidies, a legislative fix will be needed, and proposals have been coming in from all sides of the conservative spectrum. Sen. Ron Johnson proposed extending the subsidies to 2017, as a Republican administration may occupy the White House then. The Heritage Foundation suggested repealing the subsidies. And Rep. Paul Gosar unveiled his Premium Reduction and Insurance Market Reform Act, a bill that would end subsidies and also end regulations like the age rating restriction. Now it is up to the Republican leadership in Congress to plot a policy and strategy to enact a conservative reform to nObamaCare. Chief Executive for Heritage Action for America Michael Needham said, "A continuation of illegal subsidies will simply cover up the law's costs while giving the impression Republicans believe subsidies are necessary for Americans to afford health insurance." But that option is tempting GOP leadership, as Barack nObama and the Left will make a King v. Burwell fallout politically fraught.   -The Patriot Post 
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 Texas to Take Back $1 Billion in Gold From the Fed 
Texas no longer trusts our nation's central bank to safely store its gold in New York City. For years, the Lone Star State has kept its $1 billion in gold in the hands of the Federal Reserve Bank, which has safeguarded the bullion of the U.S. government, foreign governments and other major organizations. But now, the state is setting up its own bullion depository and will soon withdraw its gold from Fed control. "Today I signed HB 483 to provide a secure facility for the State of Texas, state agencies and Texas citizens to store gold bullion and other precious metals," Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said in a statement June 12. "With the passage of this bill, the Texas Bullion Depository will become the first state-level facility of its kind in the nation, increasing the security and stability of our gold reserves and keeping taxpayer funds from leaving Texas to pay for fees to store gold in facilities outside our state." The move could be as simple as Texas stepping up and taking responsibility for its own assets, as well as providing a place for Texas citizens to store gold. Or, as CBS notes, it could be a step toward establishing a currency if Texas were to secede from the union. Regardless, it's a Texas two-step toward greater autonomy.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Pope An Argentine Jesuit Socialist With No Infallibility On Climate  
(rickwells.us) ~ The question asked of Patrick J. Buchanan is whether the Pope’s advocacy on behalf of the hoax of climate change has now made it apostasy for Catholics to count themselves among the realists who understand his false proclamations... Buchanan, a Catholic and a climate realist who recognizes that a fraud is being perpetrated, doesn’t hold back in his criticism of the climate-based world government maneuvering. In keeping with his religious beliefs, Buchanan accepts as infallible whatever the Pope says on the issues of his religion. He has a decidedly different opinion when Francis addresses matters outside of his church, which are none of his business.        http://rickwells.us/pat-buchanan-pope-an-argentine-jesuit-socialist-with-no-infallibility-on-climate-change/
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 Boehner, McCarthy And Scalise Need The Cantor Treatment  
(rickwells.us) ~ Politics is not often pretty but the abuse of power currently being displayed by the vindictive, dictatorial backstabber John Boehner is particularly offensive and downright ugly...  Voting one’s conscience in the interests of the citizens is not acceptable behavior in backstabber Boehner’s kingdom. Those who do so risk paying a political price. backstabber Boehner ordered one of his underlings, the surprisingly ruthless Jason Chaffetz (R-UT), to relieve Rep Mark Meadows of his position as a subcommittee chairman under his House Oversight and Government Reform Committee. It seems they take oversight seriously on Chaffetz’s committee, to the point of blind, unquestioned obedience to commands. Perhaps the reform needs to start with the committee itself. backstabber Boehner is sending a message, as he did by removing three disobedient members, Lummis, Pearce and Franks from the Whip Team. Losing the subcommittee chairmanship is the most severe of the penalties yet to be meted out by backstabber Boehner to those showing signs of independent thought.        http://rickwells.us/three-to-go-mark-levin-boehner-mccarthy-and-scalise-need-the-cantor-treatment/
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 Clare Lopez Speaks On Benghazi and Iran  
(gopthedailydose.com) ~ Barack Hussein nObama together with Hilly Clinton decided to aid and abet al-Qaeda terrorists and Libyan Muslim Brotherhood jihadists to overthrow U.S. ally Muammar Ghaddafi and replace all the secular leaders in the Middle East with sharia-compliant Muslim Brotherhood governments... Former CIA Operations and Intelligence Analyist, Officer, Clare Lozez, says that “America has switched sides in the war on terror under Barack nObama.” She said the global war on terror had been an effort to “stay free of Sharia,” or repressive Islamic law, until the nObama administration began siding with such jihadist groups as the Muslim Brotherhood and its affiliates.        http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/06/21/watch-did-you-know-that-ambassador-christopher-stevens-was-the-first-american-envoy-to-al-qaeda/
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 Hilly an unethical, dishonest lawyer, a liar and conspirator  
(Suzanne Eovaldi) ~ Circulating throughout Conservative sites this week is information about Hilly being fired by her Watergate supervisor, US HOUSE Judiciary Watergate committee counsel Jerry Zeifman... A close analysis of this bold assertion puts the whole flap into real perspective. When asked in an interview why he terminated Hilly’s employment, Zeifman responded, “Because she was a liar.She was an unethical, dishonest lawyer; she conspired to violate the Constitution, the rules of the HOUSE, the rules of the committee and the rules on confidentiality.”  A Rush Limbaugh transcript stays very close to this syntax. In an article written after a 2008 campaign appearance by candidate Hilly Clinton in Connecticut, Zeifman admitted his regret “…that, when I terminated her employment on the Nixon impeachment staff, I had not reported her unethical practices to the appropriate bar associations.”        http://www.coachisright.com/hillary-an-unethical-dishonest-lawyer-a-liar-and-conspirator-says-watergate-committee-counsel/
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 Report: Iran Boosts Terror Activities Across Globe  
(Adam Kredo) ~ Iran has increased its efforts to finance and carry out terrorist activities across the world and a remains a top nuclear proliferation threat, according to a new State Department assessment... Iran is funding and arming leading terrorist groups in the Middle East and elsewhere,according to the State Department’s 2014 Country Reports on Terrorism, which thoroughly documents how Tehran continues to act of a leading sponsor terror groups that pose a direct threat to the United States. The report comes as Western powers work to finalize a nuclear deal with Iran ahead of a self-imposed June 30 deadline, though it is unclear whether the new findings will come up in negotiations. And yet, nObama wants a nuclear deal.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/report-iran-boosts-terror-activities-across-globe/
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 Wake Up Kentucky – Mitch McCon-nell Will Be Killing Your Economy  
(rickwells.us) ~ We have to wonder if the people of Kentucky realize that their Senator, Mitch McCon-nell, is pushing for an international agreement which will quickly destroy their state... Their economy will implode as TPA forces their coal industry out of business, cripples America and enables predatory nations and corporations around the world to parasitically feed off of the carcass of our once vibrant nation. McCon-nell would be well-advised to move to Washington DC permanently before his fellow Kentuckians wake up, figure out what he’s done to them and go for the tar, feathers and their pitch forks. There’s still a lot of pitchforks in that part of the country and a lot of people who know how to use them. He has completely and undeniably betrayed his neighbors and those he swore to protect from the very type of “climate” legislation which is secretly a component of this pact. Maybe DC isn’t far enough. Cuba’s opening up and McCon-nell would fit right in with the Castro brothers.        http://rickwells.us/wake-up-kentucky-mitch-mcconnell-will-be-killing-your-economy-on-tuesday-and-america/
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 Russia – The Horseman of War  
(Terresa Monroe-Hamilton) ~ Putin has been hot for the Ukraine and to continue his expansion of the Motherland. However, he seems to have backed off somewhat due to global pressure and financial worries... The radicals within Russia didn’t like that at all and pushed Putin even harder to militarily expand Russia’s reach. At this point, Putin began to bring together a coalition to protect himself and he began transferring power from the Federal Security Bureau to the Ministry of the Interior. That’s akin to taking power from the CIA and giving it to DHS. These two agencies do not play well together. On March 10th, Putin just up and disappeared for ten days. There were a lot of wild theories from the birth of a love child, to a coup. But no one has definitive proof yet. The most plausible explanation is that Putin was held against his will, while power was consolidated within Russia for the FSB and the fascists. He was told to play ball or get ready for the afterlife. This was a show of force by the FSB, Alexander Dugin and the fascists. I’m sure he was told in no uncertain terms to up the military aggression and the process of restoring the motherland. Someone like Putin doesn’t just ‘disappear’ for ten days for no reason. Along with Putin, Victor Zolotov, who controls 200,000 troops for the Ministry of Interior, disappeared with him. One of Putin’s closest crony allies also packed up his whole family, fled the country and simply vanished as well. So, the lines have been drawn in Russia and sides have been taken. Whoever wins, it will be bad for the rest of the world, trust me.       http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/06/21/russia-the-horseman-of-war/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29
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 Tensions build as Supreme Court readies blockbuster rulings  
(Lawrence Hurley) ~ Tensions are building inside and outside the white marble facade of the U.S. Supreme Court building as the nine justices prepare to issue major rulings on gay marriage and President Barack nObama's healthcare law by the end of the month... Of the 11 cases left to decide, the biggest are a challenge by gay couples to state laws banning same-sex marriage and a conservative challenge to subsidies provided under the nObamacare law to help low- and middle-income people buy health insurance that could lead to millions of people losing medical coverage. Many legal experts predict the court will legalize gay marriage nationwide by finding that the U.S. Constitution's guarantees of equal treatment under the law and due process prohibit states from banning same-sex nuptials.
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 EPA to Monitor Family’s Water Use in Colorado  
(Elizabeth Harrington) ~ The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is looking to monitor how much water families use in Boulder, Colorado... The agency submitted a solicitation Thursday, announcing its plans to hire a contractor for the purpose of “Water Monitoring Equipment and Collection of Data” of apartments in the city. “Region 8 of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency intends to issue a Request for Quotes (RFQ) for installation of water monitoring equipment,” the solicitation said. “Once installed the contractor will integrate the equipment with existing software system that will monitor water usage in multi-family housing units. The work will be performed in Boulder, Colorado.”       http://freebeacon.com/issues/epa-to-monitor-familys-water-use-in-colorado/?utm_source=Liberty_Headlines_Is_Giving_Your_Site_Free_Traffic_for_Now&AID=7236
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 Whoops! Nobody verified Clinton Foundation a legal charity  
(Jerome R. Corsi) ~ Along with filing financial reports filled with errors and misstatements, “Big Four” accounting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers neglected to verify whether the Clinton Foundation obtained tax-exempt status for its various sub-entities, including its AIDS charity, contends respected Wall Street analyst Charles Ortel... As WND has reported, Ortel’s six-month investigation indicates the Clintons have diverted tens millions of dollars donated for charitable purposes to the personal enrichment of themselves and their close associates. He says PWC neglected to exercise due diligence in fulfilling its professional responsibilities in conducting even the most basic inquiries required of an honest audit.
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Islam & Liberalism
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     (burtprelutsky.com) ~ One of the great mysteries of our time is why jihadism is a growth industry. All one should have to do is take a look at the places in the world where Islamics rule the roost to conclude that the only plausible explanation is that those attracted to it must be two-legged swine who, like their four-legged, curly-tailed cousins, long to wallow in mud and slop.
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     I feel the same way about those who call themselves liberals. In what perverse universe would anyone choose to associate with and support the likes of Barack nObama, the Clintons, Elizabeth Warren, Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, dinky Harry Reid, Nancy Pulosi, Al Sharpton, Charley Rangel, Bernie Sanders and Martin O’Malley?
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     ♦ It’s no surprise that America’s media prefers ridiculing the GOP for its plethora of presidential candidates rather than pointing out that the three announced Democratic contenders are, one, a woman whose only actual achievements consist of lying, cheating and combining the worst features of Evita Peron, Imelda Marcos and Eva Braun; two, a crazy old coot, Bernie Sanders, who votes like a Democrat, labels himself for marketing purposes as an Independent, but boasts that he’s really a socialist; and, three, the ex-governor of Maryland, Martin O’Malley, who insists he should be the next president, but is too much of a partisan toady to point out all the reasons Hilly Clinton shouldn’t be.
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     As for the Republican contenders, it’s probably a good thing at this early stage that there are so many in the race that nobody can waste our time bad-mouthing the competition and, instead, has to at least try to make a case for him or herself.
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     Of course, that hasn’t prevented the pinheaded Rand Paul from indicting those whom he refers to as Republican hawks for the rise of ISIS. When you couple that with his war on the NSA, going so far as to accuse those Republicans who disagree with him of hoping for another 9/11 just so they can blame him, you wonder if his secret wish is to be Hilly’s running mate.
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     It was bad enough when the diminutive Napoleon Bonaparte had a Napoleonic complex. But at least the Little Corporal, as he was called, managed to lead a major nation and conquer a good portion of Europe before meeting his Waterloo. But, it’s really unseemly for the junior senator from Kentucky, a twerp given to unproductive filibusters and little else, to constantly flaunt his own Napoleonic shortcomings.
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     ♦ When liberals address riots and murders in the inner cities of America, they are always claiming the cause is poverty. We all know or should know that’s a lie. What’s lacking, by and large, in the black community isn’t money, but character, values and a sense of personal responsibility. This was brought home when I received the following email from a reader: 
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     “I am a white American living in rural Southeast Missouri. The county in which I live is almost all white, and extremely poor. The people I know live on far less than the average rioter in Baltimore. Jobs out here in the country are rare and hard to get, and even if you land one, they don’t pay very well.
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     “However, crime in my part of the woods is almost non-existent. There is a gun in every home, and most years our murder rate is zero. I haven’t locked my backdoor in 20 years and I sleep just fine. There are only two sheriff deputies in the whole county and, at any given time, they are at least 20 minutes away.
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     “According to Democrats, we have every reason to riot. But we don’t. I wonder how they’d explain it.”
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     “They wouldn’t bother,” I replied, “because they know you folks won’t vote for them, no matter how many lies they tell in your defense or how much of other people’s money they offer you.”
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     ♦ In the same way, we keep hearing from the Islamic Bund (aka CAIR) every time a Muslim thinks somebody has looked at him cross-eyed. But government statistics bear out the fact that even since 9/11, there have been more acts of violence and vandalism directed at Jews than at Muslims in America and, no doubt, far more verbal assaults on Christians.
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     ♦ After pointing out recently that liberals like to portray conservatives as hypocrites because we defend capital punishment while objecting to abortion, it occurred to me that the real hypocrites are those who raise moral objections to executing serial killers, but strongly support murdering innocent babies.
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     But, then, nobody should be terribly surprised that Margaret Sanger, who created Planned Parenthood and provided it with that misnomer, thus earning her place in the Pantheon of Liberalism, alongside the likes of Woodrow Wilson, FDR, LBJ, the nObamas and the Clintons, was a eugenicist widely admired by Adolph Hitler. And why wouldn’t he have a soft spot for Sanger? After all, he shared her conviction that certain groups of people, including blacks, Jews and the feeble-minded, should be eliminated for the good of society.
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     ♦ Those of us of a certain age were raised on the truism that in America absolutely anyone could grow up to be president. But is it really necessary that every four years we need to have that point driven home by some mediocrity named Bush or Clinton?
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     ♦ Speaking of which, a friend recently reminded me that Pogo, the eponymous possum in Walt Kelly’s old comic strip, was famous for having observed: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
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     That led me, in the wake of Hilly Clinton’s telling a congressional committee that it made no difference who slaughtered four brave Americans in Libya; nObama’s telling us that everything’s coming up roses in Iraq; and the Pope’s insisting that global warming is the greatest catastrophe facing the world; to fully grasp that the wronger the opinion is, the stronger it will be stated and defended.
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Monday PM ~ The Front Page Cover

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
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Featuring:
Against Judicial Activism
Defending the Constitution from those who would rewrite it
Adam Freedman
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 Donald Trump Brings Levity to Presidential Race 
Donald Trump would be a mere sideshow curiosity in the 2016 elections if it were not for his name recognition and entertainment factor. According to Real Clear Politics, Trump is polling higher than Rick Perry, Carly Fiorina, Rick Santorum, Lindsey Graham and Bobby Jindal. But even if he's fired in the end — and we hope he is — he will provide some much-needed humor. After Tuesday's announcement, Politico pulled Trump's 10 best lines. Notably, however, Politico missed the best one: "When did we beat Japan at anything?" Well, there was that whole WWII thing in the Pacific... But to put things in perspective, as absurd as the Trump vanity campaign is, he is far more qualified than Barack nObama was in 2009 — or today! For example, nObama put loose lips Joe Biden on his ticket. When Trump was asked who he wanted as a running mate, he replied, “I think Oprah would be great. I’d love to have Oprah." Frankly, presidential elections could use a little levity. It's been a long time since the last billionaire vanity campaign kept us amused, compliments of Ross Perot!  -The Patriot Post  
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 White Male Targets Blacks in Charleston 
A young white male in his early 20s murdered nine blacks who were attending a Wednesday night prayer service in Charleston's Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church. It's still a developing story, as the murderer has not yet been apprehended and the names of the victims have not yet been disclosed, but according to Charleston Police Chief Greg Mullen, "We believe this is a hate crime; that is how we are investigating it." But already some anti-Second Amendment crusaders are exploiting the tragedy to advance their pet policy proposals. Charleston Mayor Joseph Riley was the first to do so, wasting no time advocating for greater gun control as a diversionary ploy. “I personally believe there are far too many guns out there, and access to guns, it’s far too easy," he said. "Our society has not been able to deal with that yet." Make no mistake: This story is newsworthy. But it's also worth noting that, on average, there are between 30 and 40 homicides every day in America, most of which are black-on-black. If "black lives matter" to the Leftmedia, why aren't these other victims covered in the news?  -The Patriot Post  
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 HILLY TAPPED FUTURE CAMPAIGN NETWORK FOR BENGHAZI    SPIN  
Politico: “While still secretary of state, [Hilly Clinton] emailed back and forth with [Sidney Blumenthal] about efforts by one of the groups, Media Matters, to neutralize criticism of her handling of the deadly assault on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, sources tell POLITICO. ‘Got all this done. Complete refutation on Libya smear,’ Blumenthal wrote to Clinton in an Oct. 10, 2012, email into which he had pasted links to four Media Matters posts criticizing Fox News and Republicans for politicizing the Benghazi attacks and challenging claims of lax security around the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, according to a source who has reviewed the email exchange. Blumenthal signed off the email to Clinton by suggesting that one of her top aides, Philippe Reines, ‘can circulate these links,’ according to the source.”  
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 The Judge’s Ruling: Hidden failure -  Against the backdrop of quiet arms deals that put weapons in the wrong hands and secretive alliances that lead to failed states and terrorist breeding grounds, Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitanoasks, “What do we do about lawless government by secrecy? What do we do about government officials who act as if they are above the law? What do we do if one of them lives in the White House and controls all federal prosecutions? What do we do if another of them is presently on her way there?”
          [Visit the Judge’s Chambers to get Socratic on the Libya and Syria wars. Watch here.]
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 HAMILTON TAKEN IN LEW OF A DEMOCRAT 
Founding Father Alexander Hamilton, the first Treasury secretary, will be demoted from his place on the $10 bill. Why Hamilton? A previous petition argued that President Andrew Jackson, founder of the modern Democratic Party and slave owner, should be removed from the $20 bill, but Wednesday Treasury SecretaryJack Lew decreed that Hamilton would take the fall. Hamilton spent his whole life preserving the currency while Jackson did everything he could to break the big banks. While the reasoning behind the decision seems unclear it’s safe to say it’snot going over so well.  
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 nOBAMA NAILED FOR ILLEGALS MURDERING AMERICANS  
(Leo Hohmann) ~ President nObama is catching heat from two U.S. senators for releasing violent criminals onto the streets who then went on to murder 121 Americans between 2010 and 2014... And there are new concerns about the possibility of violent crimes being committed by the nearly 30,000 illegal Cuban immigrants who are walking U.S. streets with criminal records.        https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/?shva=1#inbox/14e0e7e865e342c2?compose=14e1115b76b9b8bf%2C14e111822603d630
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 Z Street Court Victory May "Blow The Doors" Off The IRS Scandal  
(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Prehaps the smallest and least funded organization involved in the IRS Scandal Z Street, a Zionist rather than a Teaparty group, which sued the IRS before Lois Lerner admitted the bias, may turn out to be the group that blows the cover off the entire scandal... The pro-Israel organization Z Street was today, once again, vindicated in a court of law in its now nearly five year effort to redress the violation of its Constitutional rights by the Internal Revenue Service. The judges in their Opinion were far more restrained than their reactions to the IRS arguments during the oral argument which took place on May 4, but their conclusion was the same. In a unanimous Opinion issued Friday, June 19, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals agreed with and affirmed the D.C. District Court's ruling that the pro-Israel organization Z Street correctly brought a lawsuit alleging the Internal Revenue Service violated Z Street First Amendment rights by engaging in viewpoint discrimination.       http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/todays-z-street-court-victory-may-blow.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=e16fce133e-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-e16fce133e-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-e16fce133e-291705165 
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 nObama Blames His Failed Presidency On Congress And Others  
(Brian Anderson) ~ The good news is nObama has finally admitted his presidency has been an unmitigated failure. Remember all that “hope and change” he promised?... Well, the President is ready to concede that he didn’t deliver. He however predictably can’t own up to his shortcomings and blames it all on Congress and the American people because that just how narcissists roll. During his bi-monthly fundraising trip to California, nObama made the stunning admission at Tyler Perry’s house in front of a who’s who of liberal Hollywood elitists. He is still blames other for his shortcomings.       http://downtrend.com/71superb/obama-blames-his-failed-presidency-on-congress-and-the-american-people
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 Federal Judge Orders nObama IRS to Court  
(judicialwatch.org) ~ Try telling the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) that you lost some tax documents and then magically found them again once legal pressure was applied. What do you think the end result would be for you if you tried to operate this way?... Judicial Watch is succeeding in court in its effort to remind the nObama IRS that it isn’t above the law.  But it’s clear to us after reviewing a seven-page court filing the IRS finally submitted in response to a court order that the tax agency is working to stonewall our efforts. So, late last Friday President nObama’s recalcitrant IRS agency finally complied with Judge Sullivan’s June 4 order requiring the agency to provide answers to Judicial Watch. Contrary to previous agency claims that the emails were lost and unrecoverable, the IRS finally admits that it has as many as 6,400 new Lerner emails but won’t promise to turn them over to us just yet. Even though the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) already identified and removed emails that are duplicates, the IRS is in “the process of conducting further manual deduplication of the 6,400” emails, rather than reviewing them in response to Judicial Watch’s Freedom of Information Act requests that are more than two years old now.        
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 A Guy Who’s Fighting ISIS Just Did Something EPIC  
(Elizabeth Dickerson) ~ When Tom Locks of Britain got the chance to fight against ISIS, he took it. Locks, following the footsteps of a growing number of individuals, sold his home and possessions, left his job and the comforts of everyday life, said goodbye to his friends and loved ones, and headed to the front lines of Kurdistan... Now fighting on foreign soil, the former bouncer is putting his construction skills to good use. He is helping rebuild anything he can. When he isn’t building, he is wielding a weapon. He was asked about the leadership in England, as well as the leadership in the U.S. and their stance on ISIS and lack of a strategy. Locks said: “of course Barack nObama has not got a strategy to combat Daesh, neither does David Cameron. That’s why there are people like us out here on the front line, getting mortared and shot on a daily basis. It’s a joke! Not only do they not want to commit people, but they won’t commit a single pound to helping us deal with the world’s biggest problem.” He hopes, in the meantime, that the U.S. and Great Britain wake up to the very real threat of ISIS.        http://www.westernjournalism.com/a-guy-whos-fighting-isis-just-did-something-epic-to-utterly-embarrass-barack-and-michelle/?utm_source=MailChimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=featured-stories&utm_campaign=DailyEmail06.20.15
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Brigitte Gabriel
 Brigitte Gabriel Speaks at 2015 Watchment on the Wall Conference  
(ACT for America) ~ Brigitte Gabriel recently addressed the gathering of pastors attending the annual Family Research Council "Watchmen on the Wall” event. She gave a fantastic speech about the dangers facing our country from radical Islam, and what we must do as a nation to confront this very real threat...         
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David Malone of the Green Party in UK
  Same Global Trade Scam In Britain...  
(rickwells.us) ~ David Malone is a member of the Green Party in the UK. His message is not one of party nor is it merely related to his own nation, though that is his point of reference... His country is facing the same kind of organized criminal elite conspiracy disguised as a trade agreement as we are in the United States. The tactics used by the corporate cabal in Britain are remarkably similar to those being used against the American people. This video was about an hour and a half in its original form, taken from a February 2015 presentation. It’s cut down here in the interest of time, for the sake of distributing it to as many interested people as possible. The link to the full presentation appears below the edited version. Listen for the first 1:08, to hear how they’re attempting to force it through without ratification and declare it in effect simply by virtue of the negotiations having been completed. The practice of dictatorial imposition by fascist decree is not limited to McCon-nell and backstabber Boehner. It’s happening in Europe too. http://rickwells.us/same-global-trade-scam-in-britain-what-happened-to-them-is-happening-to-us/
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Pope Francis
 Pope Francis Included Islamic Passages In Climate Hoax Encyclical  
(rickwells.us) ~ Pope Francis was not content with merely spreading the politics of Marxist wealth redistribution in his “climate change” fairyhoax encyclical, arguably the whole reason for its creation in the first place... He also chose to reinforce its supposed legitimacy by featuring a passage from an Islamic poet, Ali al-Khawas. As reported in Breitbart News, the “climate” encyclical included a depiction of the Muslim poet as cautioning people not to “put too much distance between the creatures of the world and the interior experience of God.” The symbolism of incorporating this Islamic text into the encyclical is much more significant than the actual words. What he did is as close to including Islamic teachings in a Catholic document as he could without actually quoting the Koran, an act which should have Catholics around the world scratching their heads, asking themselves “who is this guy and what is he up to?” Certainly that is what many non-Catholics are doing. There was no need for him to do what he did, either with the encyclical itself or with the Islamic inclusion and none of it is happening accidentally. 
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 The First Arabic Language School Coming To Texas  
The nObama Regime Has Mandated That Arabic Language And Culture Be Taught In Texas Public Schools...
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Will your state be next? How long until Christian, Jewish, & other non-Muslim students will be forced to drop down and raise their asses to Allah in prayer?
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Bill Maher and Ann Coulter
 Ann Coulter Cages Doomed Chihuahua Luis Gutierrez With Facts  
(rickwells.us) ~ Ann Coulter kicks the Chihuahua nipping at her ankles, the one barking loudly and lunging from a safe distance, whose primary purpose as a Congressman is to reward foreigners for invading our country based upon racist criterion... While that agenda is characteristic of many Democrats, there’s only one Chihuahua, Illinois’ Luis Gutierrez. If someone is a foreign Latino, Gutierrez is their dog in Congress. Coulter and Gutierrez were both the guests of Bill Maher, with Coulter bringing facts and reason to the conversation while Gutierrez came armed with the usual political rhetoric, talking points and racial threats.  
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Against Judicial Activism
Defending the Constitution from those who would rewrite it
Adam Freedman
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     (city-journal.org) ~ The meaning of the United States Constitution is “fixed by the original meaning of its words,” according to the authors of a highly engaging new book titled, simply, The Constitution: An Introduction. That proposition—music to the ears of originalists like Justice Antonin Scalia—underlies the book’s central theme: defending the Constitution’s text against those politicians and judges who “seek to rewrite its terms in the service of what are thought to be desirable policies.”
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     The Constitution is the product of a multi-year collaboration between Michael Stokes Paulsen, a professor of law at the University of St. Thomas, and his non-lawyer son, Luke. The book’s first half provides an overview of the Constitution’s key provisions and an introduction to the major schools of constitutional interpretation, including the authors’ own originalist perspective. The second half offers a condensed history of American constitutional law. With sidebars on many of the personalities who shaped constitutional doctrine—not just judges, but politicians and litigants, too—the book does an excellent job of placing legal controversies in historical context.
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     The Paulsens are at their best when critiquing the modern era of judicial activism. In their telling, the Warren Court (1953–69) produced “careless” decisions, because the justices were focused on achieving policy goals rather than upholding the law. The nadir of this results-oriented jurisprudence was, as the authors correctly point out, the Court’s 1973 decision in Roe v. Wade, which invented a federal right to abortion on demand. The authors assail Roe as “the most extreme example of judicial activism in the twentieth century.” They even compare the decision—unfavorably—to Dred Scott, the notorious pro-slavery decision that helped provoke the Civil War. “Not even Dred Scott,” they argue, “so completely seemed to disregard the text as Roe did.”
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     Rather than citing the Constitution’s actual language, the Roe Court relied on the doctrine of “substantive due process,” the idea that the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment empowers judges to strike down laws that they consider flawed, even if not strictly unconstitutional. That doctrine had been strongly endorsed by the Court eight years earlier in Griswold v. Connecticut, in which Justice William O. Douglas famously discovered a constitutional right to privacy hidden in “penumbras, formed by emanations” of the First, Third, Fourth, Fifth, and Ninth Amendments.
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     Justices O’Connor, Kennedy, and Souter come in for heavy criticism from the authors for their less-than-courageous decision in Planned Parenthood v. Casey (1992) to reaffirm Roe “whether or not mistaken” for fear of provoking a political backlash. Rather than engaging in honest jurisprudence, the three justices were motivated by delusions of “fashioning a political compromise they thought should settle the abortion issue once and for all.”
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     The authors take aim at many other sacred cows of progressive jurisprudence. The famous police warnings mandated by Miranda v. Arizona (1966) reflected the Court’s “policy judgment” and not the text of the Fifth Amendment. The Court’s rejection of school prayer in Engel v. Vitale (1962) was based on a notion of the separation of church and state that is “found nowhere in the Constitution.” The Court’s 2013 decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act was “cryptic and meandering in its reasoning.” Lawrence v. Texas (2003)—which struck down state anti-sodomy laws—is portrayed as an abrupt reversal of an earlier precedent (Bowers v. Hardwick) driven by certain justices’ desire to legislate from the bench. On affirmative action, the authors take a hard line: the plain meaning of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment “renders nearly all forms of state affirmative action programs illegal”—notwithstanding the Court’s continued tolerance of certain forms of affirmative action.
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     While The Constitution makes a compelling case against judicial activism, the book is not without its flaws. In order to arrive at its critique of the modern Supreme Court, the authors have crammed too much Supreme Court history into a simplified narrative in which “substantive due process”—the legal doctrine at the heart of activist decisions like Roe v. Wade—is the central villain. The authors assert, for example, that substantive due process was invented by Chief Justice Roger Taney in Dred Scott, but fail to acknowledge that Taney never used the term “substantive due process” and, in fact, made only a single fleeting reference to “due process” in the course of his 50-page opinion.
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     Turning to the years after the Civil War, the book faithfully describes the rise of substantive due process culminating in Lochner v. New York(1905), in which the Supreme Court struck down state business regulations, ostensibly for violating the “liberty” protected by the due process clause, but more likely because the justices simply thought the regulations unwise. The Paulsens, however, don’t merely criticize the so-called Lochner Era of cases; they label the entire period of 1876 to 1936 as one of constitutional “betrayal.” The years 1936–60, when the Court repudiated Lochner, is celebrated in a chapter called “Restoration.” But this is painting with too broad a brush. While the Lochner Era including some regrettable activist decisions, the pre-1936 Court was generally quite faithful to the Constitution’s overarching design of a limited federal government. In Hammer v. Dagenhart (1917), for example, the Court correctly struck down the federal Child Labor Act as beyond Congress’s enumerated powers. In order to stay within their narrative of “betrayal,” the authors condemn Hammer for “curbing the national government’s ability to address important social problems”—a criticism grounded more in policy than on constitutional interpretation.
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     The authors are left trying to shoehorn the Court’s New Deal decisions into a tale of constitutional “restoration.” Alas, this was the era in which the Court tore down the Constitution’s express limitations on federal power in order to clear the way for FDR’s massive increase in federal power. The most extreme New Deal decision, Wickard v. Filburn (1942)—which upheld the power of the federal government to dictate how much wheat a farmer could grow for his own use—is depicted as “restoring the broad interpretation of national legislative power” asserted by Chief Justice John Marshall in the early years of the Republic. But that’s an odd kind of restoration—rather than restoring the Constitution’s text, the Court was restoring the (already-overbroad) interpretations that Marshall had asserted and that later courts had rejected. In reality, the Court in Wickard did exactly what the Paulsens argue against: it rewrote the Constitution to further its desired policy goals.
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     In attacking the Court’s “rights revolution” of the 1960s and 1970s, the authors have to some extent accepted one of the basic premises of judicial activism: the idea that the Constitution is primarily about rights. It isn’t. The Constitution is a structural document—its purpose is to create a central government and simultaneously to limit that government’s scope. The document’s framers cared deeply about rights, but they believed that the best way to protect Americans’ rights was to limit the power of the federal government. The right to local self-government—ultimately enshrined in the Tenth Amendment—was the right that would safeguard all others. Though the Paulsens rightly identify federalism as one of the Constitution’s core themes in the book’s early chapters, they shy away from states’ rights throughout the historical narrative. They depict Jefferson’s doctrine of nullification, for example, as a tool that would be used to perpetuate slavery. In fact, the doctrine was invoked more often by abolitionists. With respect to the sovereign right of states to resist unconstitutional federal laws, the book claims that “the Civil War settled that issue once and for all”—an odd proposition for authors who insist that constitutional interpretation must be based on the text alone.
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     Happily, the authors are on much firmer ground when discussing separation of powers—the other essential structural feature of the Constitution. The Court’s decision in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld (2006), striking down the use of military tribunals to try captured al Qaeda war criminals was an “extraordinary” curtailment of executive power and one that President George W. Bush would probably have been justified ignoring entirely. The authors make the important point—one that continues to elude the mainstream media—that President Barack nObama has gone far beyond Bush in his assertion of unilateral executive power by claiming the right “to deploy offensive military force against other nations whenever he alone judged the use of force to be in the national interest, without any authorization by Congress” (emphasis in the original).
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     All in all, The Constitution is an excellent resource for non-lawyers and lawyers alike looking to understand the role of constitutional law in American history. Though the book would have benefited from a more nuanced narrative and a greater attention to structural issues, the Paulsens’ piercing attack on judicial activism is well worth the price of admission.
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