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Wednesday Morning ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 10, 2015 at 3:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Hilly’s Libya Emails

Stephen F. Hayes

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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HILLY GOES UGLY EARLY WITH RACISM CLAIMS
If Hilly Clinton is concerned enough about her candidacy to already be making accusation of racism against her potential Republican rivals, this is going to be a long election cycle for her and for the rest of the country.
Down in Texas for a campaign event aimed at restoring her relationship with black Democrats who rejected her 2008 candidacy, Clinton said that laws requiring voters to show identification at polls were part of “a sweeping effort to disempower and disenfranchise people of color, poor people and young people from one end of our country to the other.” Note the language here. It’s not a misguided effort with an unfortunate result, it is a deliberate effort to prevent minorities from voting. That’s not just racist, that’s evil.
Clinton even made it personal, saying potential general election foes Jeb Bush, Scott Walker and Rick Perry were “deliberately trying to stop” minority voters from participating. It’s language that might even give voter-ID opponent President nObama some pause, but Clinton tore into her topic with evident relish. In this candidacy, Clinton has seemed at times uncertain and usually vague. When it came to racially charged, partisan attacks, however, she was imbued with a new vitality and was nothing if not direct. In an ironic turn, Clinton accused Republicans of “fear-mongering about a phantom epidemic” as she intoned against urgent dangers to civil rights.
Why would a politician go so bananas over policies that are supported by something like seven out of 10 Americans? The standard media take on Clinton’s overheated rhetoric is that she is still determined to avoid her 2008 fate by pandering to, one by one, each of the parts of the Democratic coalition. It’s been rolling out at the rate of about one group and one policy reversal or expansion a week. And that is surely the biggest part of this.
But when a candidate, especially a person of pallor such as Clinton, is out making over-the-top charges of racism at this point in an election cycle it certainly does not suggest a confident candidate or campaign. While Republicans might take heart that the woman who remains ahead in hypothetical matchups against anyone in their field is throwing haymakers 17 months before Election Day, they also ought to remember what else this gambit says about Clinton: She will do whatever it takes to win.
COUNTERMEASURES
“Hilly Clinton’s rejection of efforts to make it easier to vote and harder to cheat not only defies logic, but the will of the majority of Americans. Once again, Hilly Clinton's extreme views are far outside the mainstream.” – Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wisc., in a statement. -Fox News

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Under fire for China deal - Detroit Free Press: “Despite expressing her concerns on the campaign trail now, national Republican party officials are questioning why Hilly Rodham Clinton did not intervene in the controversial 2013 sale of high-tech battery plants in Michigan to a Chinese firm when she was secretary of state and could have done so. At a campaign stop in New Hampshire last month, Clinton, the leading Democratic candidate for president, decried the sale of A123 Systems — built with millions in government aid — along with those of other new energy firms, to Chinese investors, calling them ‘unfortunate’ and a ‘serious’ problem for high-tech industries in the U.S.” -Fox News

WILL DEMS LET HILLY SLIDE ON FOREIGN POLICY?
Hilly Clinton is at odds with her party on foreign policy, but neither her opponents nor the press seem much inclined to say so. Can Linc Chafee help push the discussion a few kilometers down the path? Washington Free Beacon Editor and avoirdupois enthusiast Matthew Continetti and National Journal Political Editor Josh Kraushaar mull that one over with Chris Stirewalt. WATCH HERE.

-Fox News

WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
Just in time for Saturday’s 71st anniversary of the D-Day landings at Normandy, Global News describes how a Canadian documentary crew discovered part of “Fortress Europe,” a German machine gun bunker that had been buried for decades beneath the sands of Juno Beach. “The [crew] scouted the area for three days…using ground penetrating radar and aerial photos from shortly after the Second World War, which narrowed down the locations where the concrete shelters might lie beneath the sand. But it was a muffled ‘clunk’ of a shovel that alerted them their mission was a success….[revealing] the spot where German soldiers would have fired on the 3rd Canadian Infantry Division on June 6, 1944.…More than 350 Canadian soldiers who lost their lives that day.”
[While newsreels and photos of the D-Day landings have become iconic, stateside images are less familiar. Honoring the anniversary, National Journal offers a mix of photos of America during the war years.] -Fox News

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Kim’s Nukes, China’s ‘Islands’ Ominous Signs in Asia

(Peter Brookes) ~ The storm clouds of confrontation continue to form over East Asia – even since I scribbled about it in these pages last month (see my May 1 Herald column, “U.S. should up its game to protect Asian interests”)... Like a threatening weather pattern stalled ominously over the region, the chances of the dark gray thunder clouds of conflict clearing out anytime soon isn’t likely. For instance, last month I wrote that the Pentagon assesses that North Korea now has an operational (nuclear-capable), road-mobile, intercontinental ballistic missile – the KN-08 – that is capable of reaching the United States. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/kims-nukes-chinas-islands-ominous-signs-in-asia/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email060815&utm_medium=email

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nObama Administration Cover-ups Continue

(Roger Aronoff) ~ President nObama’s administration has blocked more than half a million Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests in the last six years, reports WorldNetDaily... This blatant circumvention of the law is causing some in the mainstream media to finally voice their concerns about how President nObama is running the government. That is, unless you’re David Brooks of The New York Times. “And I have my disagreements, say, with President nObama, but President nObama has run an amazingly scandal-free administration, not only he himself, but the people around him,” Brooks declared on the PBS Newshour on May 29. “He’s chosen people who have been pretty scandal-free.” That’s simply absurd. Perhaps, for the nObama administration, it’s proven easier to deny the media’s access to information that might reveal further scandals than to admit the truth about its own deep-seated corruption. But as we’ve written, the derelict mainstream media leave “many scandals uninvestigated, minimized, or outright ignored,” including Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS scandal, and even the maltreatment of veterans or endangerment of our air travel. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/obama-administration-cover-ups-continue/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email060815&utm_medium=email

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Retired NASA Scientists Take on Pope

(Cliff Kincaid) ~ With the papal encyclical on climate change scheduled for a June 18 release, the liberal media can be expected to portray the Vatican document as a major step forward for the United Nations agenda of controlling and taxing the use of natural resources by governments and people... But a group of retired NASA scientists is taking on the pope directly, armed with the expertise that has come through decades of planning U.S. space missions and dealing with the most complex and difficult issues of climate science. Their verdict: the pope is risking his moral status and his credibility. In fact, this group is directly warning Pope Francis that if he embraces the climate agenda of the United Nations, he will be violating both scientific principles and the religious values he embodies that are supposed to be reflected in direct aid for the poor people of the earth. But the pope is apparently counting on his status as “the most popular person on the Earth,” in the words of Dan Misleh, executive director of the Catholic Climate Covenant organization, to make the “moral” case that we live on “an abundant yet finite planet,” and that global limits to industrial growth have to be imposed on a worldwide basis. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/retired-nasa-scientists-take-on-pope/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email060815&utm_medium=email

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How Much Did Senators Get Paid To Betray Americans On TPP?

(rickwells.us_ ~ US trade representative Michael Froman described his ten year process of crafting the sovereignty-killing TPP trade bill as now being “in the endgame.” We could say the same thing about the takeover of our nation... The Senate just voted to abdicate their constitutionally mandated responsibility of advice and consent on treaties to the dictatorial executive branch and to lower the threshold for passage down to a simple majority. They also are handing away their ability to offer and vote on amendments as well as the ability to filibuster. In short, they and our sovereign nation are being purchased, twenty dollar bills are being tucked into their g-strings as they strut around like cheap, worn-out old peacocks. This week brings the same test of character to the House that the treasonous prostitutes in the Senate failed last week. http://rickwells.us/how-much-did-traitorous-senators-get-paid-to-betray-americans-on-tpp-interesting-numbers/

Supreme Court strikes down 'born in Jerusalem' passport law

(foxnews.com) ~ The Supreme Court struck down a disputed law Monday that would have allowed Americans born in Jerusalem to list their birthplace as Israel on their U.S. passports in an important ruling that underscores the president's authority in foreign affairs... The court ruled 6-3 that Congress overstepped its bounds when it approved the law in 2002. It would have forced the State Department to alter its long-standing policy of not listing Israel as the birthplace for Jerusalem-born Americans. The policy is part of the government's refusal to recognize any nation's sovereignty over Jerusalem, until Israelis and Palestinians resolve its status through negotiations. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/08/court-strikes-down-born-in-jerusalem-passport-law/

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Smoking-gun document proves nObama-Muslim Brotherhood ties

(Garth Kant) ~ The White House isn’t commenting on the exposure of a secret presidential directive, but critics tell WND it confirms what they feared: The nObama administration has an official policy of backing so-called “moderate Islamists,” including the jihadist group the Muslim Brotherhood... A source familiar with the document told the Washington Times the “policy of backing the Muslim Brotherhood is outlined in a secret directive called Presidential Study Directive-11, or PSD-11.” The governments of Saudi Arabia, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates officially consider the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, but the presidential directive reportedly shows the White House considers the group a “moderate” alternative to ISIS and al-Qaida. Critics blasted that notion. Former federal prosecutor Andrew McCarthy, who has written extensively on the subject, told WND the Muslim Brotherhood “is not moderate” and “there is no such thing as a moderate Islamist.” http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/smoking-gun-document-said-to-prove-obama-muslim-brotherhood-ties/

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Jew-baiting Turkish Erdogan’s party loses parliamentary majority

(William A. Jacobson) ~ I was against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan before it was cool to be against Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan... My first post warning of his anti-democratic, anti-Israel, anti-Semitic tendancies was on January 31, 2009, barely four months after the launch of Legal Insurrection in mid-October 2008. We continued to follow Erdogan’s progression over the years, as he became more and more authoritarian and Islamist, undermining secular institutions such as the judiciary and military, repressing the press, and cracking down on social media. Erdogan was an obsessive Israel hater long before the deaths on board the Gaza Flotilla Erdogan’s party helped organize in 2010. http://legalinsurrection.com/2015/06/jew-baiting-turkish-bully-erdogens-party-loses-parliamentary-majority/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LegalInsurrection+%28Le%C2%B7gal+In%C2%B7sur%C2%B7rec%C2%B7tion%29

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrbQsHkVQ_4

Crowd Sends Message To nObama By Booing Treasury Secretary

(Jeff Dunetz) ~ One commentator suggested that booing Jack Lew at the Jerusalem Post conference today would "piss off nObama." What most don't realize is that the boos were the pro-Israel communities way of telling the administration that they are tired of being "pissed on by nObama."... Playing the role of the nObama "house Jew" Treasury Secretary and Orthodox Jew Jack Lew spoke on Sunday to the 4th annual Jerusalem Post conference in New York. As he was tried to defend the most anti-Israel administration in history, Lew was met with catcalls, screams of "nonsense," and even some boos by the pro-Israel crowd upset that the administration official was "peeing on their legs and saying it was raining." While Lew wasn't the real target of the crowd's anger (his boss the president was) he brought the crowds wrath upon himself by spinning nObama's anti-Israel policies and acting as the nObama administration's “house Jew”. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/crowd-sends-message-to-obama-by-booing.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=f868a9bb82-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-f868a9bb82-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-f868a9bb82-291705165

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpuceeC1KjI

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What Trey Gowdy Just Said Will SCARE THE HELL Out of nObama!

(thepoliticalinsider.com) ~ Conservative hero Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC) is back in the news, with a question which which cuts to the very core of a corrupt, criminal Presidential administration... Gowdy, former undefeated prosecutor, has been digging for truth about the Benghazi terrorist attacks. And while grilling a Secretary of State bureaucrat – Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer Joyce A. Barr – he went over ever detail of Hilly Clinton’s illegal private server which handled official emails. And Barr sheepishly replied they had been “assured” that nothing the State Department would need to be compliant with the law were on the scrubbed server. In reply, Gowdy asks a very important question: Does Barack nObama have his own private email server? http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/what-trey-gowdy-just-said-will-scare-the-hell-out-of-barack-obama/

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EBT Fraudsters Busted In Massive Raid Money Was Sent To Yemen

(Shae Weatherall) ~ In a massive operation, multiple levels of law enforcement and other government agencies conducted a months long investigation into EBT fraud in the Birmingham, Alabama area... When the sting operation was launched earlier this week, it resulted in 17 people being arrested and 11 corner stores being shut down. According to Alabama.com, it all began last February, when a shoplifter at a Gardendale Walmart admitted to police that the steaks he had stolen were to be delivered to two separate stores in the vicinity of Jefferson County. After further investigation, authorities unearthed a widespread scam involving owners of 11 corner stores who were illegally buying EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) cards from the people to which they were legally issued. The purchasers would give the recipients approximately half of the card’s food value in cash. They would then take the cards to big box stores, buy items in bulk, and then sell them in their stores at jacked up prices. Apparently, shoplifting for resale was also a practice some of the stores were involved in, and the arrest of the steak thief led to one of the biggest EBT fraud busts ever executed. http://madworldnews.com/ebt-fraudsters-massive-raid/

Hilly’s Libya Emails

Stephen F. Hayes

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(weeklystandard.com) ~ A little more than three hours after the State Department released 848 pages of Hilly Clinton’s emails, the Daily Beast had seen enough to render its judgment: “Sorry GOP. There’s No Smoking Gun In Hilly Clinton’s Benghazi Emails.” The subhead: “Conspiracy-minded conservatives, be warned: The trove of Clinton emails doesn’t prove much about her culpability for the infamous 9/11 anniversary attacks.”

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It’s the media version of Frank Drebin: Please disperse, there’s nothing to see here. Trey Gowdy, pack your bags and go home.

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Of course, no one actually believed that this batch of emails would produce a smoking gun on Benghazi. Hilly Clinton has sought to avoid public scrutiny of her emails since before she was sworn in as secretary of state. When she did turn over some of her emails to the State Department, it was Clinton and her lawyers who decided which ones they would make available and which they would withhold. While it might be useful for Clinton defenders to pretend otherwise, there was no expectation that Clinton would voluntarily share incriminating emails, especially now, in the first weeks of her presidential campaign.

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Yet for journalists interested in reporting on Clinton’s emails rather than hastily exonerating their author, the hundreds of pages released last week included a number of disclosures, some of them inadvertent, that raise new questions about Hilly Clinton, the State Department, Libya, the Benghazi attacks, and presidential politics. The good news: Some journalists are looking for answers. And so are the investigators who work for the House Select Committee on Benghazi.

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Sidney Blumenthal is at the heart of those new questions. A noted conspiracy monger and longtime Clinton confidant, Blumenthal provided Clinton a steady stream of outside intelligence on Libya while she was secretary of state. Some of his information was accurate and some of it was not, but Clinton thought enough of Blumenthal to circulate his reports to top State Department advisers, sometimes with notes ordering them to take some kind of action in response. Clinton downplayed the Blumenthal emails as “unsolicited” thoughts from an old friend. That doesn’t quite capture the dynamic.

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For Blumenthal, friendship with the Clintons came with considerable benefits. Blumenthal had been banned from State Department employment by the nObama administration, and it appears that if he couldn’t collect a government check for advising the Clintons, he would collect one from the Clintons directly. Politico’s Ken Vogel reports that Blumenthal was paid $10,000 a month as an employee of the Clinton Foundation from 2009 to 2013 and the same sum as a consultant after he left the payroll in 2013 through March 2015. According to the New York Times, Blumenthal had access to private intelligence on Libya because he was advising “business associates . . . as they sought to win contracts from the Libyan transitional government.”

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The deteriorating security situation in Libya generally, and Benghazi specifically, was a dominant theme in the emails. Clinton defenders have sought to insulate her from criticism of inadequate security before the attacks by suggesting that decisions about security for U.S. diplomatic personnel were made well below her level. There are many reasons to be skeptical of those claims. The emails make clear that Clinton was deeply involved in virtually every aspect of Libya policy; one internal State Department email lays out the many ways she drove administration decision-making on Libya. Was Clinton a deeply engaged, hands-on manager of every aspect of Libya policy other than security?

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If Clinton wasn’t involved in security decisions, the emails make clear that she should have been. Reports that Clinton received and circulated, from both official and unofficial channels, demonstrate the dire security challenges for Americans in Libya.

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It’s not just Blumenthal’s emails that raise additional questions. An email sent at 9:17 a.m. on September 15, 2012—four days after the fatal attack in Benghazi—by an aide advises Clinton that Dan Pfeiffer, the director of communications at the White House, “has some sensitive items that he would like to personally show you when he arrives.” Clinton slept in and missed the meeting and wrote back later in the morning to request that Pfeiffer return to brief her. It’s possible that these “sensitive items” had nothing to do with Benghazi. But the request for a meeting came after a flurry of emails the previous evening between officials from the White House, the State Department, and various national security agencies. Those emails concerned edits to the administration’s much-discussed Benghazi “talking points” and included strong objections from the State Department’s “building leadership” to some of the language. White House officials emailed the group to assure everyone that the objections would be addressed the following morning at a meeting of the Deputies Committee.

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An email sent to several top administration officials, including top Clinton aide Jake Sullivan, at 11:08 that same morning is introduced this way: “Per the discussion at Deputies, here are the revised TPs for HPSCI [talking points for the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence]. Let me know what you think.” The language in the revised talking points is redacted in its entirety.

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Given what we know about the various iterations of the talking points, it’s unlikely that these redactions conceal anything not already known. But as that example suggests, what’s missing from the emails is often as provocative as the content. On April 8, 2011, Clinton forwarded a Blumenthal email to Sullivan. In the version of that email released by the State Department, most of Clinton’s note is redacted. It reads: “FYI. [Redacted].” But the same email was obtained and published by the New York Times before the State Department release, and in that version, the sentence is unredacted. It reads: “FYI. The idea of using private security experts to arm the opposition should be considered.”

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Why did the State Department—or Clinton herself—want that sentence redacted? That’s unclear. And there may well be an innocent explanation. But the note raises additional questions. Did the idea of supplying arms to the Libyan opposition through private security experts receive the consideration Clinton wanted? Did it happen? Was Blumenthal involved?

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Beyond these questions, the Select Committee on Benghazi notes several “inexplicable gaps” in Clinton’s email records “during key times of her involvement with Libyan policy.” There are no emails between September 14 and October 21, 2011, five weeks surrounding Clinton’s trip to Libya. (The committee notes that this was when a “now-famous picture of Clinton on her BlackBerry was taken.”) There is another gap between October 21, 2011, and January 5, 2012, “when the State Department was extending the Benghazi mission for another year.” And a third major gap occurs between April 27 and July 4, 2012, a period of “increased security” when the U.S. compound and the British ambassador were both attacked.

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It’s hardly necessary to be a conspiracy-minded conserv-ative to be skeptical of the claim that Clinton—who, by the State Department’s own account, drove Libya policy—neither sent nor received any Libya-related emails during these long stretches of heavy Libya-related policy-making.

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Perhaps the most important effect of these latest emails is the simplest one. They demolish the claim that we already know the answers to the important questions about the attacks and the administration’s response.

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There is much more to learn. The nObama administration only recently turned over related emails to the Accountability Review Board, the State Department’s internal and highly politicized investigation of Benghazi. And the State Department started to provide the Select Committee on Benghazi with emails from Clinton’s top advisers just last week.

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This belated, halfhearted cooperation is hardly an indication that the nObama administration is prepared to assist the investigation going forward. The committee continues to press Clinton and the State Department to turn her email server over to a neutral third-party for a thorough examination. Lanny Davis, a most ardent Clinton defender, originally said she would have no problem providing it. But Clinton has since made clear she has no intention of doing so voluntarily.

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That doesn’t sit well with the Benghazi committee or House speaker backstabber John Boehner. And while sources in both offices caution that no final decisions have been made, every day that passes increases the likelihood that the House will subpoena the server.

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That day should come sooner rather than later.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/hillary-s-libya-emails_958456.html?page=1

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Tuesday Afternoon ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 9, 2015 at 10:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Forget Cuba or health care reform, nObama's real legacy is Middle East nuke

KT McFarland

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

~~~lll~~~

U.S. Economy Prepares for Leisurely Summer Months

It's summer, and college students are putting down their laptops and picking up temporary jobs. And a few days ago, the Commerce Department revised their estimate for the nation's GDP; from January to March, the nation's GDP output shrank by 0.7%. These events mean the May jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is a mixed bag. The headlining numbers look good. In May, the U.S. added 280,000 jobs and the unemployment rate has stayed essentially unchanged since January at 5.5%. The U6 unemployment rate, which also measures the people struggling through long-term unemployment and people stuck in part-time jobs, held at 10.8%. Wages rose, however, as hourly earnings rose eight cents so the average American worker is earning $24.96 an hour. With the numbers comes the greater chance that the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in September, reports CNBC. But much of the notable job gain comes just ahead of the summer months, a possible sign that Americans have more discretionary spending, notes Market Watch. Leisure and hospitality fields added 57,000 jobs last month, and another 29,000 jobs were added to the field of arts, entertainment and recreation. This raises questions about the kind of industry on which the nation is building the economy. -The Patriot Post

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Most Americans Want Income Redistribution

A recent poll conducted by The New York Times and CBS News finds that not only are Americans concerned with inequality but they want the government to go after the rich and redistribute their wealth. Paul wants the government to rob Peter. "The poll found that a strong majority say that wealth should be more evenly divided and that it is a problem that should be addressed urgently," the Times reports. "Nearly six in 10 Americans said government should do more to reduce the gap between the rich and the poor, but they split sharply along partisan lines. Only one-third of Republicans supported a more active government role, versus eight in 10 of Democrats." The report goes on to say inequality of wealth may become a prominent issue in the larger 2016 election. It's a convenient narrative for nObama. His redistributionist policies — from an ill-conceived and ill-targeted "stimulus" to nObamaCare — have clearly stalled the nation's economic engine, but he and his acolytes can simply continue to tell the poor and middle class that the deck is stacked against them. The Left media, of course, dutifully parrots this false narrative, and the means to create wealth continue to languish. -The Patriot Post

Protecting Nonprofits From SCOTUS Marriage Ruling

The Supreme Court is considering a case that would hand down the definition of marriage nationwide. As U.S. Solicitor General Donald Verrilli told the court, the fact that some religious nonprofits will decide not to hire people due to their beliefs in same-sex marriage is "certainly going to be an issue." In the possible fallout of the coming ruling, a Christian school could lose its nonprofit status if, say, it refused to hire an openly homosexual man. Rather than waiting for the Court's decision, Sen. Mike Lee plans to introduce legislation that would protect religious nonprofits. "Discrimination by private parties against private parties — that's one issue," he said. "There is a different issue when the government is itself the discriminator. … That's a problem and that's what we're trying to protect here." The bill Lee would introduce is similar to the 2013 Marriage and Religious Freedom Act. While the courts have tended toward interpreting U.S. law broadly when it comes to religious liberty, the issue has become unnecessarily politicized in legislatures across the country. The First Amendment was drafted to ensure that diverse opinions were never driven from the public square. But that fundamental principle is at odds with the Left's agenda. More... -The Patriot Post

Inevitable Hilly Calls for Universal Vote

The media and the Democrat establishment have done a fine job trying to convince the American people that Hilly Clinton is going to be the next president of the United States. We only need to sit back and accept it like we would the next sunrise. But all isn't well with the Clinton brand these days. In fact, the case could be made that her road to the White House is not nearly as foregone a conclusion as we've been told.

The lengthy list of Clinton scandals hasn't seemed to stop the Hilly machine just yet, but the Clinton Foundation’s numerous sketchy dealings are beginning to take their toll.

The latest chapter in the Clinton Slush Fund's ongoing improprieties includes FIFA, the world soccer body whose executives appear to have been engaging in corrupt acts for two decades. It now turns out that Qatar, the host country for the lucrative World Cup in 2022, was a regular donor to the Clinton Foundation and was a sponsor of the 2013 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting. By that point, there were widespread allegations that the country had bribed its way into hosting the 2022 tournament. There were also accusations that unsafe working conditions in the building of its soccer stadiums for the World Cup led to the deaths of numerous immigrant workers.

Donations to the Foundation from Qatar and FIFA had been ongoing since 2006 and continued through Hilly’s term as secretary of state. In public, Hilly was calling for a stronger stance against Middle Eastern regimes and Bill was decrying the abuse of migrant workers. In private, however, Qatar was donating between $1 million and $5 million to the Clintons.

Bill’s response to all this is to shrug and move on. He told attendees at a Foundation event in March, “My theory about all this is disclose everything and then let people make their judgments.”

-The Patriot Post

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The Coming Democratic Panic

(Fred Barnes) ~ When a CNN poll last week showed Hilly Clinton leading Rand Paul by a single percentage point (48-47) and only three points ahead of Marco Rubio (49-46) and Scott Walker (49-46), it was mildly shocking... In April, her lead over the three Republican presidential candidates had been in double digits: Paul (58-39), Rubio (55-41), and Walker (59-37). But wait. If the next CNN survey shows Clinton actually behind one or two or three of the GOP candidates, it won’t be just shocking. It will send Democrats into a near-panic over the possibility of losing the White House in 2016, even with their preferred candidate, Clinton, as nominee. Such a poll result isn’t far-fetched as we watch Clinton’s campaign deteriorate. True, head-to-head matchups this early in the presidential cycle are almost never predictive. But in this case, it’s the psychological impact that matters. http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/coming-democratic-panic_965001.html

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Hilly Confidant Blumenthal Gets Deposition Date From Benghazi Com.

(sharylattkisson.com) ~ Hilly Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal will give sworn testimony, under subpoena, in a deposition before the House Benghazi Committee on Tues. June 16. The committee made that announcement this week... In May, the New York Times reported that Blumenthal had business associates interested in Libya around the time of the Sept. 11, 2012 terrorist attacks on the U.S. compounds in Benghazi. Though the Times says the Obama administration had “barred” Blumenthal from working at the State Department with Clinton, he communicated privately about Libya’s security status and other matters with Hillary Clinton on her controversial private server while she served as Secretary of State. According to the New York Times: Read the New York Times report ( http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/19/us/politics/clinton-friends-libya-role-blurs-lines-of-politics-and-business.html?_r=1 )

https://sharylattkisson.com/hillary-clinton-confidant-blumenthal-gets-deposition-date-from-benghazi-committee/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29

CAIR files lawsuit to prevent ICE from asking Muslims entering US

(Ralph Sidway) ~ If these allegations are true, it’s about time. Now ICE must start preventing Muslims from entering the U.S. ... U.S. border officials are using a questionnaire about religion to harass Muslim travelers, a Muslim advocacy group charges. The Immigration and Customs Enforcement questionnaire was released by the Department of Homeland Security in response to a lawsuit by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Intercept reports. The questions that were revealed — the document was heavily redacted — include “Have you participated in any formal religious training or schooling?” “What house of worship do you attend?” and “Do you have any relatives or friends who have been martyred fighting in the defense of your beliefs?” Derek Benner, deputy executive associate director of homeland security investigations for ICE, said the document’s purpose is “to provide guidance to special agents who are called upon to conduct a certain type of investigatory review of persons.” http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/06/cair-files-lawsuit-to-prevent-ice-from-asking-muslims-entering-us-about-jihad-related-activities-relatives

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Rand Targets GOP Opponents For Voting Fast-Track nObama Power

(rickwells.us) ~ Sen Rand Paul (R-KY) took aim at his fellow Senators and House members, including his opponents for the GOP presidential nomination, for their votes to approve fast-track trade authority, transferring their legislative powers to Hussein nObama... It is particularly offensive in light of the fact that most have not even read the secret text of the deal, leaving them the option of “plausible” deniability when the contents are ultimately discovered. His opponents, Cruz, Rubio and Graham all voted in support of the secretive, unconstitutional and anti-American treaty which, as Senator Jeff Sessions said, sets America down a path to global government. It’s clear to most of the American people that this bad deal is being kept secret for nefarious reasons and even if it weren’t, it is totally irresponsible and reckless to vote without knowledge of what one is voting on. It is an abdication of duty that is completely contrary to their obligations as representatives of the American people. We the people, have a right to know too; it’s our country. http://rickwells.us/sen-rand-paul-targets-his-gop-opponents-for-voting-to-bestow-fast-track-obama-power/

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U.S. Intel: nObama Coalition Supported Islamic State in Syria

(Alex Newman) ~ A newly released intelligence report from the Pentagon shows that the U.S. government knew that supporting jihadists in the fight against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would produce a fundamentalist Islamic State in Eastern Syria — and that nObama’s supposed “anti-ISIS” coalition knowingly backed ISIS and other Islamic terrorists for precisely that purpose... The heavily redacted Defense Department report, obtained by watchdog Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, shows once again that, contrary to the false narrative peddled by the establishment press, the rise of the savage terror group known as ISIS was actually deliberate policy. Now, the fruits of that plot are becoming clearer as the body count continues to skyrocket. The 2012 Defense Intelligence Agency report is very blunt about the objectives. “The West, Gulf countries the Islamic regimes ruling Saudi Arabia, Qatar, United Arab Emirates, etc., and Turkey support the Syrian opposition,” it explains, adding that, as The New American reported at the time, al-Qaeda supported the Syrian uprising from the beginning as well. “There is the possibility of establishing a declared or undeclared Salafist [fundamentalist Islam] principality in Eastern Syria (Hasaka and Der Zor), and this is exactly what the supporting powers to the opposition want, in order to isolate the Syrian regime.” (Emphasis added.) Of course, that is also exactly what happened when ISIS declared the establishment of its “caliphate” in Eastern Syria and parts of Iraq. http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/20943-u-s-intel-obama-coalition-supported-islamic-state-in-syria

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nObama Toots His Own Horn, Judge Jeanine Rips Him a New One

(AmyElizabeth) ~ Declaring his foreign policy to be a raging success based on some unnamed “poll,” Barack nObama has invited derision and laughter... Here, Judge Jeanine samples his “accomplishments” and asks how he could possibly make such a claim.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Onp9f9BeNzc

The Fat Lady Hums A Few Notes

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(Terresa Monre-Hamilton) ~ Amidst all the other emergencies, real and concocted here in the US, one has gone almost virtually unnoticed. But it’s a kicker. The Bird Flu is sweeping the country like wildfire and has now killed 45 million chickens and turkeys here in the US… 20 million 2 months ago and 25 million last month. Nearly 80 percent of those are egg-laying hens, a reality that has been crippling for the egg industry. That’s staggering. And to goose the visuals for a little perspective, take a gander:

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Oh look… they’re killing all the chickens and turkeys – so many they are burying them in humongous trenches and burying them. Wonder what that portends for all of us? Well, in Texas, the egg rationing has begun. H-E-B, one of the largest grocery chains in the nation, limits you to purchasing three dozen eggs. The suppliers of liquid eggs are running dry – they supply restaurants, bakeries and other food producers. Prices are beginning to skyrocket as well. Don’t believe me? Ask the USDA: http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/06/the-fat-lady-hums-a-few-notes/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+NewZeal+%28New+Zeal+Blog%29

Believe Them!

(ActionToimpact.com) ~ No Nukes For Iran! We prepared a NEW e-mail and we will send it to your elected officials on your behalf... Our system will always allow you to preview the e-mail before it sends it. Make your voice count! It takes less than a minute. Visit: www.ActionToimpact.com/iranEmail

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Social Security overpaid nearly half on disability, watchdog says

(foxnews.com) ~ Social Security overpaid nearly half the people receiving disability benefits over the past decade, according to a government watchdog, raising questions about the management of the cash-strapped program... In all, Social Security overpaid beneficiaries by nearly $17 billion, according to a 10-year study by the agency's inspector general. Many payments went to people who earned too much money to qualify for benefits, or to those no longer disabled. Payments also went to people who had died or were in prison. Social Security was able to recoup about $8.1 billion, but it often took years to get the money back, the study said. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/07/social-security-overpaid-nearly-half-on-disability-watchdog-says/

Video at the site.

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Progressive Calls For An “Overthrow” of the American System

(P.W. Adams) ~ It has become all too apparent that the battle for America’s soul is being waged by basically two types of people. Those who wish to return the nation to its former glory as a beacon of liberty for the American people and the world... and those who wish to see the Constitution and all it stands for burn in the fires of collective tyranny. An example of the latter was recently demonstrated during a New York fundraiser for Seattle Socialist Councilwoman Kshama Sawat. FDL reports that during a speech given at the event Progressive author and journalist Chris Hedges called for the overthrow of the American system:

“The only response, if we are going to recover a country that does not slip into a corporate, oligarchy tyranny…is if we overthrow the system,” Hedges said. “Let me repeat that word in case anyone from Homeland Security is here and that’s overthrow.”

This isn’t the first time Chris Hedges has openly called for a revolution. During an interview in 2013 Mr. Hedges stated that, “I’m calling for the overthrow of this system”. http://www.progressivestoday.com/progressive-journalist-calls-for-an-overthrow-of-the-american-system-at-socialist-fundraiser/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFU2eLMeHFw

(Note: This is a progressive site and I wanted to let you know whats going on on the other side. No, I did not ask for permission to reprint.)

Forget Cuba or health care reform, nObama's real legacy is Middle East nuke

KT McFarland

(ktmcfarland) ~ President nObama recently sat down for a long, wide-ranging interview with Thomas Friedman, the New York Times’ premier columnist and multiple Pulitzer Prize winner. It was supposed to be an elevated discussion between two intellectuals about the weighty foreign policy issues not just of the day, but of the modern era. nObama kept referring to broad, sweeping words of wisdom – the deal with Iran is a “once in a lifetime” chance. He hinted at a similar deal with Cuba.

And he announced, “You asked about an nObama doctrine. The doctrine is: We will engage, but we preserve all our capabilities.

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Sadly, we have seen that the alternative to American leadership isn’t world peace, but rising regional hegemony – or even worse, chaos. China, Russia, Iran and the Islamic State don’t want to play by our rules. They want to kick over the global chessboard and establish their own rules.

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It was vintage nObama – vague, but important sounding. It could mean whatever you wanted it to mean. Anyone could read into it what he wanted. It would mean all things to all people. It was a Rorschach test: How you interpreted it depended more on what you thought than what he said. It was complete gobbledygook.

The nObama administration has spent six years in search of a doctrine worthy of the Chosen One. At first it was “Leading from Behind.” But that didn’t work, because rather than take our cue, others rushed to fill the void created by our withdrawal from the front of the pack.

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Then it was “don’t do stupid stuff.” But the administration kept doing stupid stuff, like the premature withdrawal from Iraq that gave birth to ISIS, or the Libyan war that left the country in jihadist chaos, or the decision to blame the Benghazi terrorist attacks on an obscure YouTube video.

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More recently, the nObama administration claimed its doctrine was “strategic patience” and made references to the great arc of history bending in our direction. But that’s like saying – even though the world seems to be “exploding all over,” to quote former Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel – don’t worry, everything will turn out well in the end. It’s basing America’s national security on “fingers crossed.”

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The president talks in every speech about the “global community” and the “rules-based international community.” He puts his faith in the creation of new entities based on common interests and shared values to deal with everything from governing the Internet to global warming. He believes that if America takes a step back, other nations will step forward and planetary kumbaya will ensue.

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Previous attempts at an nObama Doctrine had come from White House aides or Cabinet officers, but in his interview with Friedman nObama himself took a turn at defining the nObama Doctrine. Doubtless, it was focus-group tested and designed to offend the fewest people. It sounds like we want to stay involved in world affairs, but not expend too much effort. It’s so vacuous, it’s meaningless.

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Compare this to James Monroe’s doctrine that great powers should stay out of our hemisphere, or Theodore Roosevelt’s “speak softly and carry a big stick,” or Ronald Reagan’s Peace through Strength. Those were unambiguous. They made clear that we did not seek war, but we would remain strong enough to defend ourselves if necessary.

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President nObama is about to get his nuclear deal with Iran, which he believes will be the crowning achievement of his historic, transformational presidency. Yet wise and respected diplomats like former Secretaries of State Henry Kissinger and George Shultz, who are no strangers to historic treaties, have warned that the agreement will not do what he has promised. Instead of preventing a nuclear arms race, it will have the opposite effect, and nuclear weapons will spread throughout the Middle East.

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President nObama and Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry are in search of greatness. The president will sign an agreement with Iran on behalf of the United States but without the concurrence of its elected representatives. In effect, that allows Iran to get nuclear weapons and ignites a nuclear arms race in the Middle East.

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Presumably, the president believes that if he grants Iran this right, its leaders will have a sudden change of heart on their terrorist ways, stop chanting “death to America” and abandon their goal of “annihilating Israel.”

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But if he is wrong, he has just bet America’s security, and the world’s, on an agreement that can neither be adequately verified nor successfully enforced with a handful of messianic mullahs who are convinced they’ve been chosen to rule the world.

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If so, others will write the nObama Doctrine, and it won’t be pretty. President nObama will be known as the man who allowed nuclear weapons into the Middle East in exchange for one vainglorious moment.

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In 1938 British Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain traveled to Munich to sign a pact with Adolph Hitler. Chamberlain returned to London to cheers, parades and congratulations, declaring he had achieved “peace in our time.” A year later, however, the very war he’d been seeking to avoid had begun. Chamberlain’s naiveté and appeasement policy were blamed for one of the world’s most devastating and destructive wars. The threats we face today are even more ominous -- Hitler never got his hands on nuclear weapons.

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If, in a few years, the Middle East is awash in nuclear materials and weapons of mass destruction, the likelihood they will be used will go up exponentially – whether they’re used intentionally, accidentally or even inadvertently. If so, the blame will fall squarely on nObama’s shoulders. Chamberlain’s capitulation and folly will look minor compared to his.

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Then we will finally have an explanation of the nObama Doctrine. President nObama’s legacy will not be “peace in our time.” It will be introducing nuclear weapons into the most unstable and dangerous part of the planet into the hands of people who will not hesitate to use them.
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http://www.ktmcfarland/

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Tuesday Morning ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 9, 2015 at 3:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

nObama again threatens

possibility of allowing UN vote on

Palestinian statehood, more

Christi Parsons and Michael A. Memoli

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

~~~lll~~~

IS LIBYA FALLING APART BEFORE OUR EYES?
“For all the focus given to ISIS in Iraq and Syria, Iran’s actions in Yemen, the ongoing nuclear negotiations with Iran and the latest provocations by China, there is not much talk about Libya. This is from a global security group tracking the latest developments there:
“The UN has announced the official Libyan Government is heading towards bankruptcy. As a result civil servants, over 50% of the country’s employed workforce, have not been paid for 2 months. If police and military services start to strike, this will only increase the chaos engulfing the country and allow ISIL to make further progress.”
A bleak update. In addition, ISIS is believed to have consolidated positions in the country and the terrorist Army we’ve seen roll through Iraq, is believed to be heading West to the Libyan port of Misrata. There are questions about the control of the Libya’s oil and gas sector while various factions inside the country are trying to fend off ISIS.
Clearly, this is one of many issues on the foreign policy front that will come up in the 2016 race with Secretary Hilly Clinton’s unique role in setting the U.S.-Libya policy.
But more importantly, it appears Libya is being added to a growing list of ungoverned or chaotic countries that are becoming Petri dishes growing new more experienced strains of radical Islamic terrorists.” – Bret Baier -Fox News

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JUDGE’S RULING: NEITHER SECURITY NOR LIBERTY
The Patriot Act and the Freedom Act do away the probable cause requirements of the Constitution, says Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano. And the data collection the laws authorize is too unwieldy to keep us safe. “The government’s job is to keep us free and safe. If it keeps us safe but not free, it has failed to do its job. Today it does neither.” Read more here. -Fox News

HILLY PLAYS TO BASE AS DEM DOUBTS GROW Hilly Clinton is slated to issue a base-boosting call on voting rights today in her latest leftward lurch. Clinton is trying to shore up support among black liberals who decry voter identification laws as the “new Jim Crow.”. The presumptive nominee is using a speech at historically black Texas Southern University to denounce voting laws in swing states North Carolina, Florida and Wisconsin as well as Texas and push states to adopt a new national standard of three weeks or more of in-person voting, including weekends and evenings.
Clinton’s speech comes as a new Fox News poll underscores how dark the clouds of scandal surrounding her have become. Fully 61 percent of respondents think it likely the Clintons were selling influence to foreign contributors to the Clinton Foundation and almost a third of likely Democratic primary voters are concerned about allegations of her dishonesty and unethical behavior. As with other recent polls, Clinton is still far ahead of her challengers but her character problems make the general election forecast look gloomy. -Fox News

TORTURE POLICY REVERSED
Fortune: “On Wednesday, at a meeting with 3,000 store employees in Fayetteville, [Ark.], top U.S. Walmart execs announced new strategies to make employees happy including new cash incentives and a looser dress code. But one strategy that elicited a particularly loud ovation from the crowd: An end to the constant loop of Celine Dion and Justin Bieber music blasted into stores from headquarters. Instead, the company is bringing back Radio Walmart after 9 years, meaning an actual DJ will keep things fresh, rather than playing the same handful of CD’s over and over as many stores did, driving countless associates (and customers, too, probably) batty. -Fox News

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Lawmakers Sidestep nObama, for Ex Marine Jailed in Iran

(gopthedailydose.com) ~ Though President Barack nObama is the commander in chief of the U.S. armed forces, he hasn’t done anything whatsoever to bring home a jailed U.S. Marine who has been held captive in an Iranian prison cell for over three years... To begin the process of bringing home Amir Hekmati, a former Marine Corps sergeant, a large group of lawmakers has banded together to sidestep nObama’s dereliction of duty in an attempt to convince Iran to free him. The lawmakers trying to free Hekmati, headed by Rep. Dan Kildee, D-Mich., are using their platform to spread the word about Hekmati’s imprisonment in one of Iran’s most infamous prisons and will address a House Foreign Affairs Committee hearing to discuss Hekmati’s situation along with the status of three other Americans being held by Iran. He is no commander in chief. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/06/06/lawmakers-sidestep-obama-make-huge-move-in-case-of-ex-marine-jailed-in-iran/

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Shyster nObama Injecting Foreign Troublemakers Into American...

(rickwells.us) ~ Michael Savage has an interesting and accurate analogy for the campaign of destroying the natural fabric of American life by injecting non-cohesive outsiders into the mix, particularly in the targeting of suburban white neighborhoods... Savage compares what nObama is doing to the Section 8 housing program set up by the criminal Clintons during his tenure in the White House. Savage notes that nObama is injecting Muslims from Syria into all-white communities in America and the infections that were spawned by his dispersal of diseased Central America children throughout the United States last year, including the Enterovirus D68 that caused polio-like symptoms in children, including paralysis and deaths. He says that what nObama is doing is Section 8 housing on a national scale. He described Section 8 saying, “You take an all white middle class community somewhere in suburban America and in this all-white suburban community you inject low income trouble makers with free housing. And then you let the games begin. That’s Section 8 housing; it’s all under the guise of doing good.” http://rickwells.us/shyster-obama-injecting-foreign-troublemakers-into-american-society-like-a-virus-michael-savage/

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Despicable Dem Joins Turncoat Republicans, Pledges Vote For TPP

(rickwells.us) ~ Another so-called Congressional “Representative” has announced he plans to roll over, abdicate his responsibility and vote for dictatorship under a new North American Union... The latest scoundrel to earn to scorn of the American people is Rep Derek Kilmer (WA). With his announcement Kilmer becomes the 17th Democrat in the House to announce that he will vote to subordinate the Constitution to an international, North American form of the European Union. Of course, when it happens, he’ll claim he had no idea what was in the bill he voted for so he’s innocent. That’s a ludicrous argument. It’s his job to read the bills before he votes on them. He does not represent the people of his state by voting in ignorance or out of treasonous self-enrichment or empowerment. http://rickwells.us/despicable-dem-joins-turncoat-republicans-pledges-vote-for-tpp-fascist-fast-track/

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Levin: Chinese Govt Hacked Federal Computers – An Act Of War

(rickwells.us) ~ Mark Levin notes that the recent hack of federal government computers which compromised the personal data of over four million federal employees was not, as the lapdog media reports it, the work of Chinese hackers... He points out that nothing of this nature can happen in China without their government approval and in this case, their support and enabling. He references the long history of Chinese technology theft from America, the method by which they’ve successfully built their military and space capabilities. He also mentions the treasonous Republicans who are pushing “free trade” with China and now wanting to include them in the anti-America TPP fast track sellout of the American people. He talks of their expansion into the South China Sea and the East China Sea and their threatening posture upon the other nations of the region, a program which includes the construction of new islands. Those islands, which are being created through dredging, are now being stockpiled with weapons. Levin describes the hacking as an act of war, remarking, “And we sit here and we take it. We’re unilaterally disarming, on every front, with this pathetic excuse for a president. And the Republicans, they hand him all the power he wants, all the power he wants.” http://rickwells.us/mark-levin-chinese-govt-hacked-federal-computers-an-act-of-war-by-obamas-bffs/

How Corn Ethanol Is Worse For Climate Change Than The Keystone

(Emily Cassidy, Research Analyst) ~ Do you think the federal government couldn’t order something worse for the environment than the Keystone XL oil pipeline? Think again... Using the Environmental Protection Agency’s own estimate, we calculate that the corn ethanol mandate has been worse for the climate than projected emissions from the controversial Keystone XL pipeline. What makes matters worse is that the EPA just mandated that more corn ethanol must go into American gas tanks. Today the EPA proposed new minimum volumes of corn ethanol that refiners would be required to blend into gasoline this year and the next. Congress set this policy, called the Renewable Fuel Standard, in the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007. At the time, lawmakers hoped that using ethanol and other renewable fuels would reduce carbon emissions and American dependence on foreign oil. No, they are greatly mistaken but keep on being mislead. http://www.hawaiifreepress.com/ArticlesMain/tabid/56/ID/15346/How-Corn-Ethanol-Is-Worse-For-Climate-Change-Than-The-Keystone-Pipeline.aspx

Wake Up Media --Pamela Geller Is NOT The Issue

(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Ever since Pamela Geller was named as a target of the ISIS connected terrorist in Boston, the anti-Terrorism activist has been on all the news shows talking about the threat... One would think that Pamela's (BTW her name is not Pam) wanted to make the appearances to talk about her efforts to fight radical Islam and Jihadism and how the latest threats against her is another example of the Islamists attempt to control speech in this country, despite the first amendment. Instead, just as they did during the recent incident during a draw Mohammed contest in Texas, most interviewers make the issue Pamela's intentions, why she chose radical Islam as her fight. Perhaps the most ridiculous question came out of the mouth from Erin Burnet who asked Geller if she relished being the target of a terrorist who wanted to cut of her head. We didn't hear the media interview the "artist" who placed a Crucifix in urine asking if he was just trying to get publicity? Of course there weren't a gang of Christians trying to behead the supposed artist. Nor were is a gang of Jews going after the Daily Kos for their cartoons suggesting that Jews are blood-thirsty vampires. I also don't remember the mainstream media interviewing Markos Moulitsas about why his his website taunts Jews. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/wake-up-media-pamela-geller-is-not-issue.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3772465178-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-3772465178-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-3772465178-291705165

McCon-nell Says nObama No More Votes On His Federal Judge Appt

(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-KY) was a a guest on Thursday Evening's Hugh Hewitt show and made a controversial statement that President nObama would get no more of his judicial appointments approved... till the end of the present term, which also happens to be the end of nObama's time in office. During the last Senate term the Democrats shook the upper house by changing the rules and eliminating the filibuster for the votes confirming presidential appointments. While the Senate seems to be more productive overall under McCon-nell when compared to the dinky Harry Reid controlled Senate, the only Judges that have been approved are ones that have been signed off on by Republican Senators. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/mitch-mcconnell-says-obama-gets-no-more.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3772465178-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-3772465178-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-3772465178-291705165

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LW3J1TzlMJc

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Spain in the Eye of the Storm of Jihad

(Soeren Kern) ~ Spanish security forces have arrested a total of 568 jihadists over the past ten years in 124 separate operations against Islamic terrorism, Spanish Interior Minister Jorge Fernández Díazrevealed at an African security conference in Niger on May 14... Fernández Díaz said that "constant police and judicial actions" have helped Spanish authorities prevent another large-scale terrorist attack similar to the March 2004 Madrid train bombings, in which nearly 200 people were killed and more than 2,000 were injured. At the same time, Fernández Díaz has warned that it is "very probable" that Islamic terrorists will strike Spain at some point in the future; he has estimated the probability of an attack to be 70%. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5888/spain-jihad

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Is the USA even worth saving anymore?

(Sher Zieve) ~Do real (aka legal) numbers of US citizens really care if the USA lives or dies and is taken over by Islamists and Nazis? From the questions asked of people on the street by Jesse Watters of "Watters' World" the answer is no... and it's always a surprise to me that these people can actually get out of bed and dress themselves. The late Peter Jennings' television series "The Dumbing Down of America" has, ultimately, been proven to be oh so correct. Is this a country even worth bothering to save? Or has it been so corrupted and perverted from its original path that there is no longer anything to save? The Guttmacher Institute's piece "Abortion in the United States" writes "About half of American women will have an unintended pregnancy, and nearly 3 in 10 will have an abortion, by age 45." That's millions and millions of legal murders being committed every year. Mr. Obama and his syndicate are bringing in millions of illegal Muslims and others into the USA to replace and destroy US citizens (see stats on the site 'Center for Immigration Studies') who won't go along with the planned Islamo-Nazi subjugation...while Congress yawns and SCOTUS supports nearly everything nObama proposes to destroy America as founded. Is this a country worth saving? http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/zieve/150606

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House Committee Drops Funding for Climate Change Programs

(gopthedailydose.com) ~ Just before what’s called the most “important” U.N. climate conference in years, appropriators in the House of Representatives have cut funding for the Presidents “international climate change funding.”... Mainly because, it’s supposed to be a national security bill. An appropriations bill for the State Department and foreign operations, released Tuesday, excludes funding for three major climate initiatives – the Green Climate Fund, the Clean Technology Fund, and the Strategic Climate Fund – and also removes funding for the U.N.-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). The bill eliminates funding for these “lower-priority international programs,” the House Appropriations Committee said in a statement, in order to meet what it views as top priorities – including “funding for security activities around the world,” support for key allies, and increased funding “for embassy and diplomatic security to address new needs identified after the Benghazi terrorist attack.” http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/06/06/house-committee-drops-funding-for-climate-change-programs/

nObama again threatens

possibility of allowing UN vote on

Palestinian statehood, more

Christi Parsons and Michael A. Memoli

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(jewishworldreview.com) ~ President Barack nObama took a step toward a tougher line with Israel in an interview released Tuesday, raising the possibility that the U.S. will allow a United Nations vote on issues related to the Palestinians if the two sides make no meaningful movement toward peace.

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In an interview with an Israeli television station, nObama noted that his administration has "up until this point" quashed such efforts at the U.N. while insisting that the Israelis and Palestinians must negotiate a resolution. But he said it is a challenge for the U.S. to keep demanding that the Palestinians negotiate in good faith if no one believes the Israelis are doing the same.

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"How do we move off what appears right now to be a hopeless situation and move it back towards a hopeful situation?" nObama asked in the interview. "That will require more than just words. That will require some actions. And that's going to be hard work, though, because right now I think there's not a lot of confidence in the process."

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The comment was the latest sign that nObama has concluded that the U.S. must rethink its stance on the Mideast peace process if it is to maintain credibility in the world.

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His thinking on the matter was clearly spurred this spring by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's stand against Palestinian statehood during his election campaign. Even though Netanyahu has since publicly reversed his position, nObama said in the interview that Israel "as a whole loses credibility" on the point.

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"If, in fact, there's no prospect of an actual peace process, if nobody believes there's a peace process, then it becomes more difficult to argue with those who are concerned about settlement construction, those who are concerned about the current situation," nObama said. "It's more difficult for me to say to them, 'Be patient and wait because we have a process here' — because all they need to do is to point to the statements that have been made saying there is no process."

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nObama's critical tone toward Netanyahu, describing him as someone who is "predisposed" to "think perhaps that peace is naive," appeared to return to the tough language that marked administration statements earlier this spring, around the time of the Israeli election. More recently, the White House had seemed to be trying to mend fences.

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The apparent shift in tone seems "hard to understand," said a Democratic strategist with close ties to the White House. Previous White House criticisms of the prime minister clearly strengthened Netanyahu electorally, he said, speaking on condition of anonymity to avoid alienating White House officials. "These kind of attacks don't really hurt him. They help him."

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nObama's veiled threat about Palestinian statehood lands hard at a time when the U.S. and other world powers are in high-stakes negotiations with Iranian officials to limit their country's nuclear program. Israel deeply opposes the deal on the grounds that it will bolster Iran's nuclear efforts and its economy and boost its aggression in the Middle East; some of Iran's leaders have said Israel does not have the right to exist. The deadline for a deal, a major foreign-policy priority for nObama, is at the end of the month, and the president is already gearing up for the difficult sales job ahead of him if an agreement is reached. Congress has demanded a chance to review the deal, a point nObama has ceded, but the deep opposition from Israel could complicate his attempts to gain approval from U.S. lawmakers who ardently support Israel.

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In advance of that prospect, nObama recently visited a prominent Washington synagogue to talk about his deep love of Israel. Close advisers and friends have tried to underscore the point, with former senior advisor David Axelrod telling Israeli Channel 2 that nObama feels a deep personal affinity for the Jewish people.

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And in an interview with the Atlantic magazine last week, nObama also talked about his personal commitment to the security of Israel, and idea he mirrored in the new interview with Channel 2's Ilana Dayan.

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nObama told Dayan that the U.S. assistance to Israel on security, intelligence and military matters "doesn't go away" because it is part of a "solemn commitment that I've made with respect to Israel's security."

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But there may be a "practical consequence" if there are new resolutions introduced in the U.N., he said.

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The peace process could become a bigger problem for nObama in his complicated ties with Israel, but analysts say he has been trying to simplify that relationship lately by explaining himself directly to the Israeli public.

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As he prepares to talk about a possible resolution with Iran over its nuclear deal, said one, nObama's primary message is about his intent.

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"He has to persuade the Israeli audience that he is preoccupied with the security of Israel," said Jon Alterman, head of the Middle East program at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Did wearing a kippa and speaking in a prominent synagogue do the trick? It certainly reinforced a sense of affinity and reassured some people of the nature of his ties to Israel."

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As he spoke with Dayan, nObama drew his own parallels between the African-American experience and the Jewish one.

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"In my mind, there is a direct line between the Jewish experience, the African-American experience, and as a consequence, we have, I hope, a special empathy and a special regard for those who are being mistreated because of the color of their skin or the nature of their faith," nObama said.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0615/obama_threatens_again.php3

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Monday Afternoon ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 8, 2015 at 10:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT

KT McFarland

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

~~~lll~~~

Rick Perry Asks for a Second Look

Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry announced his second presidential bid today. Perry's claim to fame is simple: jobs. Between 2007 and 2013, Texas created 1.5 million jobs while the rest of the nation lost 400,000. (What was that about Barack nObama's recovery?) In 2014, Texas created a record 457,900 jobs. During his entire tenure, the Lone Star State was responsible for more than a third of America's jobs. Even so — and with a current downturn in the oil industry slowing Texas' growth — Perry has made a concerted effort to expand his appeal beyond the economy. His generally successful 14-year tenure as governor of a large state should push him toward the top of the field, but he'll have to overcome two things: A phony indictment that amounts to charges of governing while Republican, and first impressions from the 2012 campaign. The latter could be harder, as his infamous "oops" moment in one of the last cycle's debates may have defined him too well. Naturally, he's trying to redeem himself from a bumbling 2012 run, which he blames on ill preparation and the after effects of major back surgery. One person who thinks he can do it is Matt Rhoades, Mitt Romney's campaign manager. “Gov. Perry has worked hard and done the right things to reposition himself for a run in 2016,” Rhoades said. “I believe his candidacy will have a major impact on the primary and voters will give him a second chance.” America is all about second chances, right? -The Patriot Post

Texas Campus Carry Ain’t Radical

In yet another advancement for the Second Amendment, the Texas legislature passed a bill May 30 allowing concealed handgun carry on the state's college and university campuses. The bill has compromises, though, as it allows state schools to create supposed gun-free zones, and it gives private schools the option of forbidding guns on their campuses — like most other private businesses have the right to do. Texas Gov. Greg Abbot said he would sign the bill, making Texas one of 10 states that allow firearms on college campuses. But by the way some people are talking, you'd think the Lone Star State proposed some radical idea. Baylor University professor Lynn W. Tatum said, "The perception in academia will be that Texas is a free-fire zone with yokels in the classrooms packing heat." The underlying assumption is that college students are not mature enough to strap on a gun every morning. It's part of the condescending attitude that although they are legal adults, old enough to vote and be drafted into the military (where they carry guns, by the way), college students are still not recognized as fully adult. Besides, with all the focus on campus rape, Texas did well to remember that an armed society is a polite society. -The Patriot Post

nObama’s Perplexing Iran Dealings

Less than one month before the deadline to reach a final nuclear deal with Iran, things are going swimmingly. Or not.

Despite Barack nObama’s announcement that Iran’s nuclear program has been “frozen” during the past 18 months of negotiations, the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said in its latest report that Iran’s stockpile of nuclear fuel has actually grown by about 20% during that time. And according to the Center for Security Policy’s Fred Fleitz, were Iran to enrich this uranium to weapons grade, it would be enough to make at least nine nuclear weapons. How comforting.

The New York Times reported that two potential reasons for the growth are “technical” difficulties preventing Iran from converting some of the uranium into fuel rods for reactors and attempts to gain an “edge” in the event negotiations fail. According to Fleitz, though, it’s what the Times didn’t report that is more troublesome: namely, “serious concerns … that Tehran may be trying to get the international community to allow it to have more centrifuges in a final nuclear agreement by manipulating the output of centrifuges it is currently operating to make them appear less efficient.” -The Patriot Post

http://patriotpost.us/digests/35602

NO DO-OVERS FOR PERRY
Keep a good thought for poor Rick Perry. In his road to personal political redemption, he can’t even catch a break on his announcement day. On the day that Perry had long planned to kick off his presidential do-over, the former Texas governor finds himself upstaged by Jeb Bush’s announcement of an announcement now set for June 15 and Hilly Clinton’s visit to Perry’s native Texas.
Perry’s announcement woes are a microcosm of his challenges in this cycle compared to the last one.
Four years ago, Perry had the biggest boots of any candidate other than frontrunner Mitt Romney, whom Perry would quickly surpass in national polls. Relying on that stature, Perry made a cocky move with his announcement, dissing Iowa’s then-relevant straw poll and holding an event in South Carolina. He didn’t just skip Iowa’s big weekend, he tried to overshadow it.
It didn’t sound so crazy back then. Perry was in second place and trailed frontrunner Romney by 8 points in the Fox News poll out just before his announcement in the first week of August 2011. By the end of the month, Perry was in first place, leading Romney by 8 points. Perry would hold the lead for all of the next month, sometimes with margins of almost 20 points over Romney in polls.
But after a painful September in which Perry looked flat-footed as Romney and others savaged him over immigration and Perry’s call for a Social Security overhaul, Perry fell from the top spot and never recaptured it. Conventional wisdom wrongly remembers Perry’s collapse as tied to his infamous “oops” moment at a November CNBC debate. But that was the coda to his collapse, not its cause. By then, the Fox News poll had him in fourth place with just 7 percent of the vote.
By the time Perry got to the Iowa caucuses two months later, he would finish fifth at a moment when he badly needed a solid showing. Caucus goers no doubt remembered his big-foot act from the summer and shunned him. Perry tried to cash in on his South Carolina credit line, but facing insurmountable odds, dropped out two days before the vote and endorsed Newt Gingrich for president of the United States.
This time, Perry is focused on avoiding the mistakes of the past but his situation is entirely different. Perry is in the long-shot category. He is in a tie for ninth place and drawing just 4 percent of the vote in this week’s Fox News poll. There hasn’t been a poll on Texas’ March 1 primary for nearly four months, but at that point, Perry was in fourth place with 8 percent of the vote in the state he governed for 14 years.
While Perry made his own weather four years ago, this time he is riding out storms of others’ making. Humility is almost always an attractive quality in politicians, but less so when it is so clearly merited as in Perry’s case.
Republicans were eager for a fresh-faced conservative alternative in 2012. Last time, Perry was the only credible candidate who met that definition, now Republicans have a half-dozen or so choices in that regard. With Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and others on offer, it’s hard to see the necessity of Perry in this already crowded race. And getting an elbow on announcement day from his old enemies in Bush world shows that Perry’s payback continues.
Perry’s wife, Anita, told CNN on Wednesday that she blamed herself for pushing her husband into his first run even though he was bound for a painful and complicated back surgery and recovery. It’s a sad story for a couple and a candidate, but not a rationale for a candidacy.

-Fox News

foxnewsfirst.com

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nObama struggling to sway Dems on trade push, as unions oppose

(Kara Rowland - foxnews.com) ~ President nObama, despite launching a full-court press to woo skeptical Democrats, is struggling to cobble together the votes for his trade agenda in the House... as union leaders ramp up their own pressure campaign to kill it. The so-called fast-track trade bill -- which would limit Congress' ability to amend future trade deals negotiated by the White House -- cleared the Senate last month with the help of 14 Democratic senators. But the White House faces an even bigger lift in the House, where progressive lawmakers aligned with labor groups are urging their colleagues to oppose the Trade Promotion Authority bill. The issue has flipped the script in Congress, with Republican leaders backing it and rank-and-file Democrats largely opposed. Democratic leaders remain officially undecided, as the president fights for the 218 votes needed to pass. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/04/obama-struggling-to-sway-dems-on-trade-push-as-unions-crank-up-opposition/

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PENTAGON: IRAN MILITARY DOCTRINE IS 'DEFENSIVE'

(Garth Kant) ~ A Pentagon report claims Iran’s military doctrine is primarily “defensive,” but one of the nation’s top specialists on the Islamic theocracy calls the assertion “completely off the mark.”... In fact, Clare Lopez of the Center for Security Policy points out the Pentagon actually contradicts that claim itself, in its own report. “In one sentence, the report describes the regime’s ‘aggressive policies, such as use of covert action and terrorism’ and then reverses itself by calling such policies ‘primarily defensive,’” Lopez told WND. “This is the very definition of incoherence,” she added. The Washington Free Beacon obtained a copy of the report, which is dated January 2015, and was due to Congress at the start of the year. Analysts told the Beacon, “the delay appeared designed to avoid upsetting Tehran and the nuclear talks.” How many more Americans does this regime get to kill before Pentagon officials are required to honor their oath to protect and defend the Constitution against ALL enemies foreign and domestic? http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/pentagon-iranian-military-doctrine-is-defensive/

Sunni Tribes Need Arms and Support to Fight ISIS

(Daveed Gartenstein-Ross) ~ While American officials point their fingers at the Iraqi military’s shortcomings, the Islamic State’s recent conquest of Ramadi is a U.S. policy failure. The United States still has an opportunity to turn that around, but the window is rapidly closing... Ramadi had for years been a symbol of the errors made by ISIS’s predecessor, Al Qaeda in Iraq. The Awakening movement — in which Sunni tribes rebelled against Al Qaeda’s excesses during Iraq’s civil war — was announced in Ramadi in September 2006. The anti-Qaeda uprising served as a model that was exported throughout Iraq, with the U.S. military playing a key role. This method of tribal engagement was central to Al Qaeda’s defeat in 2007-08. It is thus natural that U.S. officials hoped Sunni tribal engagement could similarly counter the Islamic State. But the U.S. was slow to arm the tribes, even after ISIS launched an offensive in September 2014 that captured several Anbar cities. This offensive culminated in the massacre of over 700 members of the Albu Nimr tribe. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/gartenstein-ross-daveed-sunni-tribes-need-arms-and-support-to-fight-isis/

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Next Up: Nuclear Talks With North Korea?

(Claudia Rosett) ~ Beyond the sound and fury of the Iran nuclear talks lies a big follow-up question: What, if anything, does President nObama propose to do during his final stretch in office about the growing nuclear threat of North Korea?... Just this April, The Wall Street Journal reported that according to China’s estimates, “North Korea may already have 20 warheads, as well as the capability of producing enough weapons-grade uranium to double its arsenal by next year.” As far as nObama has displayed any policy toward North Korea to date, it has consisted chiefly of his administration’s amorphous “strategic patience,” which some have dubbed “strategic neglect.” This has entailed a hodge-podge of toothless scoldings, scattered sanctions and U.S. backing for ineffective United Nations Security Council Resolutions, marking such occasions as North Korea’s 2009 and 2013 nuclear tests. http://www.defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/claudia-rosett-next-up-nuclear-talks-with-north-korea/

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Iran Will Walk

(Lawrence A, Franklin) ~ Most intelligence analysts and journalists assume that because Iran's leadership endorsed the negotiations and has been the beneficiary of several key concessions by the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the UN Security Council, plus Germany)... that an agreement is imminent. Forecasters have been predicting what the likely consequences of such a deal would be: negative. But what if the Iranians walk? Sanctions never hurt the regime's ruling class; lifting them only helped the regime to solidify its power over its people. A nuclear deal combined with an improvement in the commercial and business relations with the West would be inimical to IRGC interests. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5895/iran-will-walk

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Maajid Nawaz Just Indirectly Called 2 CAIR Officials "Insane"

(investigativeproject.org) ~ The National Union of Students, a confederation of 600 student unions representing more than 95 percent of all higher education unions in the United Kingdom, passed a motion Tuesday to align with the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign as part of a worldwide effort to boycott Israel... The same group rejected a motion in October condemning ISIS out of concerns it would "become a justification for war and blatant islamophobia." The failed motion called for support to "Iraqis trying to bridge the Sunni-Shia divide to fight for equality and democracy, including defence of the rights of the Christian and Yazidi-Kurd minorities." It also specifically condemned the Islamic State and expressed support for the Kurdish Peshmerga fighting it. Seeing that fail, but a boycott of Israel pass, promptedMaajid Nawaz, a Liberal Democrat candidate in the 2015 parliamentary elections and prominent anti-extremism activist, to tweet his disapproval, saying it represents "Everything wrong with the Modern Left." In a subsequent comment, Nawaz, a former recruiter for the radical Islamist group Hizb-ut-Tahrir who now combats the Islamist narrative, said that anyone who "entertains the idea" that Israel is as bad as ISIS "is frankly insane." http://www.investigativeproject.org/4870/maajid-nawaz-just-indirectly-called-2-cair

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Supreme Court Decides Islam is More Important than 2nd Amendment

(Onan Coca) ~ On Monday, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of a Muslim woman who sued Abercrombie & Fitch on the basis of discrimination because they denied her a job because she refused the dress code banning headscarves while at work... First of all, I wonder if the court would rule in the same way if the girl in question was a Christian and was denied a job because she refused to remove a cross from around her neck. But I digress. Let’s just focus on the 8-1 decision by the Supreme Court to award damages to Samantha Elauf. Of course the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is thrilled because this is a feather in their cap after they sued on behalf of Elauf. http://eaglerising.com/19333/supreme-court-decides-islam-is-more-important-than-the-2nd-amendment/

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House Looks to End Operation Choke Point

(fixthisnation.com) ~ Of all the nObama administration’s sneaky efforts to undermine the Second Amendment, Operation Choke Point may be the sneakiest... This Justice Department initiative – still shrouded in layers of secrecy – was supposedly intended to protect consumers against fraud by discouraging banks from doing business with “high risk” establishments. Chief among those establishments are pawn shops, payday lenders, and gun dealers. Critics say that, in practice, Operation Choke Point has shut down reputable businesses. Now the House of Representatives has approved the Commerce, Justice, Science, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act with an amendment that prohibits funding Operation Choke Point. Rep. Blaine Luetkemeyer of Missouri, the amendment’s sponsor, said it was a necessary step for freedom. “My colleagues and I will continue to ensure the Justice Department and FDIC enforcement actions are focused on actual threats and risks and not politics and ideology as we continue to move forward with the fight to end this illegal program once and for all.” http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/house-looks-to-end-operation-choke-point.

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Sessions to nObama: Why nObamatrade's is a Secret?

(Matthew Boyle) ~ Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee’s subcommittee on Immigration and the National Interest, has written a scathing new letter to President Barack nObama pressuring him to explain why nObamatrade has been so secretive... “On May 6th of this year, I sent you a letter (enclosed) regarding your request for Congress to grant you fast-track executive authority,” Session wrote to nObama on Friday in a letter provided exclusively to Breitbart News ahead of its public release. “Under fast-track, Congress transfers its authority to the executive and agrees to give up several of its most basic powers. “These concessions include: the power to write legislation, the power to amend legislation, the power to fully consider legislation on the floor, the power to keep debate open until Senate cloture is invoked, and the constitutional requirement that treaties receive a two-thirds vote. “The latter is especially important since, having been to the closed room to review the secret text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, it is clear it more closely resembles a treaty than a trade deal. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/05/exclusive-sessions-to-obama-why-are-you-keeping-obamatrades-new-global-governance-secret/?utm_source=Liberty_Headlines_Is_Giving_Your_Site_Free_Traffic_for_Now&AID=7236

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Border Chopper Brought Down, Fired From Mexican Side Of Border

(rickwells.us) ~ It’s doubtful that the Mexicans or the White House will even acknowledge the event, the latest act of war against the United States by our hostile enemy to the south... They’re already conducting a full scale invasion of our nation with the blessing of he complicit White House occupant. He’s probably fine with a little warning shot to the Border Patrol not to get in the way of a peaceful smuggling operation. Breitbart Texas has learned that a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) helicopter was shot down or forced to initiate an emergency landing in Laredo, Texas due to receiving gunfire from the Mexican side of the border. The helicopter was interdicting a narcotics load and working alongside agents from the U.S. Border Patrol, who operate under the umbrella of the CBP. The helicopter was operating in the Laredo Sector of Texas, immediately across the border from the Los Zetas cartel headquarters of Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. http://rickwells.us/border-chopper-brought-down-fired-upon-from-mexican-side-of-border-militarizing-the-invasion/

IRAN NUCLEAR AGREEMENT

KT McFarland

(kt@ktmcfarland.com) ~ If press reports are accurate, the nObama Administration is negotiating an historic deal with Iran which is both unverifiable and unenforceable. And, since the President refuses to present it to Congress as a treaty requiring ratification, it’s probably also unconstitutional. Without anytime/anyplace inspections the agreement is unverifiable. If sanctions are lifted on Day One, Iran has little incentive to abide by the agreement on Day Two. If the President tries to ‘snapback’ sanctions on Day Three, he will run into enormous pressure from all the companies that don’t want to give up lucrative business contracts.

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The President is betting if he gives the Iranian regime everything it wants, the mullahs will abandon their support for terrorist movements, forsake their expansionist policies, and stop chants of death to America and their calls for the annihilation of Israel.

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If the President’s bet is wrong, he will have enabled Iran’s economy to surge, blessed their nuclear weapons program, and guaranteed the survival of the Iranian regime to continue its aggressive policies. And he will have ignited a nuclear arms race in the most unstable, dangerous part of the world.

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Iran’s neighbors have already stated their intention to create – or purchase - nuclear programs of their own. We have seen that governments can fall in Arab world seemingly overnight. If nuclear weapons end up in the hands of radical extremists we will have the scenario that has terrified us since the dawn of the atomic age: nuclear weapons in the hands of people who want to use them.

Better to have no deal than this deal.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4160361297001/kt-mcfarland--better-to-have-no-deal-than-this-deal/?playlist_id=933116651001#sp=show-clips/primetime

Iranian leaders demand sanctions be lifted when deal signed.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4163601684001/iranian-leaders-demand-sanctions-be-lifted-when-deal-signed/#sp=show-clips

nObama is going to let Iran get nukes, and France and Saudi Arabia’s stance on Iran’s nuclear program.
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/4218195842001/kt-mcfarland-obama-is-going-to-let-iran-get-nukes/#sp=show-clips

Iran deal as 'unverifiable' and 'unenforceable'.
http://video.foxnews.com/v/4223670818001/mcfarland-iran-deal-is-unverifiable-and-unenforceable/?playlist_id=2114913880001#sp=show-clips/daytime

('' YOUR OPINION IS IMPORTANT TO ME WHAT DO YOU THINK ? '')

Monday Morning ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 8, 2015 at 2:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

The Entitlement Squeeze

There’s just no money for all the stuff government wants to do

MILTON EZRATI

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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Party pooh bah plumping for Hilly - Politico reports that the guy who is supposed to be raising money for the whole Democratic Party is also raising funds for one Democrat in particular: Hilly. The former nObama fundraiser-turned-DNC finance chair, Henry R. Muñoz III, made calls on behalf of Clinton’s fundraiser in the Lone Star State today, according to local county chairman Manuel Medina. -Fox News

Nevada hits establishment, keeps caucus - The Hill: “The Nevada state legislature on Tuesday failed to pass a measure changing its presidential caucuses to a primary election, dealing a blow to former Gov. Jeb Bush’s (R-Fla.) hopes in the early-voting state, while boosting Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.)…top-tier Republican presidential contenders like Bush, Sen. Marco Rubio (Fla.) and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker…could have been in good shape if the state had moved to a primary, which tend be higher turnout affairs that favor well-funded candidates who spend a lot of time and money on the ground.” -Fox News

backstabber BOEHNER MAKES TRADE PITCH
Speaker backstabber John Boehner continues to push hard for the Trade Promotion Authority bill. In a new video, backstabber Boehner’s voiceover explains why this bill is good for America as drawings depict examples of what he’s saying. For those who don’t care to watch the one minute flick, backstabber Boehner offers a simple summary: “TPA stands for jobs.” (gives more power to nObama) -Fox News

CAN YOU TAKE THAT IT IN A LUMP SUM?
WANE: “The Hoosier Lottery is selling a $2 bacon scented scratch-off ticket with instant prizes up to $10,000 and five chances to win a 20-year supply of bacon paid in $250 annual installments. The Bringin’ Home the Bacon tickets went on saleTuesday. As part of the “summer of bacon”, the Hoosier Lottery has partnered with Indiana Pork to sponsor the Sizzling Day of Bacon on June 28 in Schererville, featuring the Bacon Brothers with Kevin Bacon.” -Fox News

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Gen. Petraeus: If We’re Not Winning Against ISIS We’re Losing

(rickwells.us) ~ Petraeus diplomatically describes it as worrisome, acknowledging that the fall of Ramadi is “both an operational and a strategic setback, a significant one.”... He recommends a reevaluation of the American strategy, what there is of it, saying, “This is a moment at which I think you sit back and say what do we need to do in the military arena, what also do we need to do in the political arena?” He’s asked if ISIS is a threat to the United States, to which Petraeus responds that it is clearly a threat to the United States and to our partners around the world. Petraeus believes more American participation is needed but perhaps not a completely new strategy. He recommends a review and augmentation as needed, included tactical air controllers on the ground. He acknowledges that carries with it some risk of loss of life but adds that there is also a risk of us not winning this fight. http://rickwells.us/general-petraeus-if-were-not-winning-against-isis-were-losing-still-can-turn-it-around/

Video: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/petraeus-more-u-s-participation-needed-to-fight-isis

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Treason Of The Highest Order, Trade Deal Details Classified For 5 Year

(rickwells.us) ~ As the walls of secrecy surrounding the TPP, The TTIP, and the TiSA trade and subversion pacts start to crumble, the insidious nature of their content and construction leaks out as well... Common sense and experience tells us that politicians who were doing something to benefit the people would be planted in front television cameras, touting their actions at every opportunity. The silence on the deal itself and most of the members of Congress’ refusal to admit to having read the document indicate that they know it’s a bad deal, are in on the scam and want plausible deniability in the future. Poor performance as an elected official carries with it some consequences, but much less than blatant betrayal. In a Thursday article, Brietbart News reported that the information surrounding the TiSA is leaking out, thanks in large part to the efforts of Julian Assange and WikiLeaks. One overall disturbing element of their story was the revelation that “The cover sheet of the leaked TiSA documents records that the text of the deal should not be de-classified until five years after negotiations are closed and the regulations implemented to extend the extraordinary secrecy of what the deal entails. The secrecy of the deal is designed to be a buffer between legislatures and citizens alike to suppress government accountability and explicitly goes against the foundation of a democratic society.” http://rickwells.us/treason-of-the-highest-order-trade-deal-details-classified-for-5-years-after-implemented/

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“CockRoach” Gutierrez Demeans Texas, Exalts Illegal Invaders

(rickwells.us) ~ In a performance that would have warmed the cold heart of Fidel Castro or Hugo Chavez, the Congressional cockroach Luis Gutierrez delivered a speech in Spanish on the floor of the House of Representatives... taking a page out of the nObama playbook to mock white Christians in doing so. He repeated the worn-out arguments that revenue trumps the law, citing a supposed justification for rewarding lawbreaking as the payment of taxes, more specifically, the “fair share” of the illegal aliens’ taxes. Their true fair share of the U.S. tax payments should be and is zero. They should be contributing to the treasury of Mexico, Costa Rica, Honduras or whatever other toilet they first crawled out of, but not here in America. http://rickwells.us/cockroach-gutierrez-demeans-texas-exalts-illegal-invaders-impersonates-fidel-castro/

Video: http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=69016&siteSection=breitbartprivate&videoId=29187631

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EPA finds fracking poses no direct threat to drinking water

(Ben Wolfgang) ~ Fracking does not pose a direct threat to drinking water supplies, the nObama administration said Thursday in a major study that represents a serious blow to environmentalists and other vocal opponents of U.S. oil and gas production... The landmark Environmental Protection Agency report, nearly five years in the making, found that the drilling technique had no “widespread, systemic impacts on drinking water.” The conclusion casts doubt on the wisdom of President nObama’s latest regulations for governing fracking on public lands and undermines the claims of environmentalists, many Democrats, some liberal media outlets and others who have led the charge against fracking. The EPA study did identify several “potential vulnerabilities” in the fracking process and found several instances in which spills at drilling sites found their way into water supplies. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/4/epa-fracking-doesnt-harm-drinking-water/

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nObama secretly backing Muslim Brotherhood

(Bill Gertz) ~ President nObama and his administration continue to support the global Islamist militant group known the Muslim Brotherhood... A White House strategy document regards the group as a moderate alternative to more violent Islamist groups like al Qaeda and the Islamic State. The policy of backing the Muslim Brotherhood is outlined in a secret directive called Presidential Study Directive-11, or PSD-11. The directive was produced in 2011 and outlines administration support for political reform in the Middle East and North Africa, according to officials familiar with the classified study. Efforts to force the administration to release the directive or portions of it under the Freedom of Information Act have been unsuccessful. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/3/inside-the-ring-muslim-brotherhood-has-obamas-secr/

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nObama’s “Reevaluation” Of Climate Data Exposed As More Trickery

(rickwells.us) ~ The last thing the nObama regime needs in the lead up to their UN Paris power grab by climate in November is for the supposed problem to have disappeared... Since it is a manufactured emergency to begin with, the logical remedy is to just manufacture some new supportive “science,” or to simply reevaluate the existing mumbo-jumbo into a more agenda-friendly form. The propagandists of choice are the good bark and bug eaters at NOAA, the people we grew up with and knew as our hurricane watchdogs have now devolved to professional liars and tools of regime politics. One look at their URL, the banners and content of theirwebsite at climate.gov removes any doubt of their mission. They apply a false label of scientific credibility to the global plot in much the same manner as that of the IPCC with the UN. For nearly two decades the previous warming trend that has been used as the foundation for the hysterics has experienced what has been termed as a hiatus by those who study such things. They could have simply described it as having ended, but calling it a hiatus is more helpful in advancing the alarmist position, as it implies that a return to the previous trend will eventually present itself. http://rickwells.us/obamas-reevaluation-of-climate-data-exposed-as-more-trickery-to-enable-un-rule/

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Secret Surveillance Agency More Powerful Than the NSA

(Joe Wolverton, II , J.D.) ~ The National Security Agency (NSA) may have been forced to take a stutter step in its surveillance program (or resort to methods not made public) earlier this week regarding the collecton of metadata under the PATRIOT Act... but there is another agency that is more secretive, more invasive, and has more information on you than could be gathered from your metadata. Gawker’s Phase Zero reports on the scope of this shadow agency’s surveillance: If you have a telephone number that has ever been called by an inmate in a federal prison, registered a change of address with the Postal Service, rented a car from Avis, used a corporate or Sears credit card, applied for nonprofit status with the IRS, or obtained non-driver’s legal identification from a private company, they have you on file. The agency is the National Security Analysis Center (NSAC), a shadow branch of the U.S. Justice Department that employees over 400 people (including nearly 300 analysts) and boasts an annual budget of over $150 million.

http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/20998-secret-surveillance-agency-more-powerful-than-the-nsa?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=bf78124e63-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-bf78124e63-289778381

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UN “Death Targets” Will Mean Reduced Healthcare for Elderly

(Alex Newman) ~ Elderly people in the United Kingdom and potentially worldwide are likely to be treated as “second-class citizens” and even denied life-saving medical treatment under proposed “highly unethical” United Nations “death targets,” healthcare and aging experts declared in an open letter last week... The radical UN “Sustainable Development Goals,” which would put virtually every realm of human activity in the crosshairs, include, among other controversial provisions, proposed global “targets” for reducing premature deaths from various causes. To meet those targets, the experts said, government-run healthcare systems such as the U.K. “National Health Service” (NHS) are likely to focus more resources on easier-to-save younger people — at the expense of the elderly whose deaths would not be counted as “premature.” Some critics are even saying the plan heralds the advent of “death panels.” http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/europe/item/21005-un-death-targets-will-mean-reduced-healthcare-for-elderly?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=bf78124e63-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-bf78124e63-289778381

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House Passes Bill Denying Funds for nObama Immigration Case

(Warren Mass) ~ On June 3, The House of Representatives passed by a 222-204 vote an appropriations bill (H.R. 2578) that denies funding for the nObama administration to file appeals in the case wherein a federal judge enjoined the administration from implementing its executive actions granting amnesty to four million illegal aliens... U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas in Brownsville issued the injunction against the administration on February 16. The United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans rejected the administration’s request for an emergency stay of that order on May 25, but will hear further arguments in the case next month. The defunding was the result of an amendment offered by Representative Steve King (R-Iowa). “My amendment prohibits any of the funds from being used to further defend this unconstitutional amnesty position,” explained King. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/immigration/item/21003-house-passes-bill-denying-funds-for-obama-immigration-case-appeals?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=bf78124e63-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-bf78124e63-289778381

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State's Attorney Seeks Protective Order for Freddie Gray Autopsy

(Raven Clabough) ~ Baltimore City State's Attorney Marilyn Mosby (shown, center) is raising eyebrows by seeking a protective order that would prevent the release of Freddie Gray’s autopsy report, as well as a gag order on those involved in the case... Mosby claims that she wants to “ensure a fair and impartial process” while she prosecutes the six police officers involved in Gray’s arrest. Defense attorneys have claimed that Mosby has done her best to leave them in the dark, denying an outline of evidence against the officers. They also state they have not been permitted to inspect a knife taken from Gray during his arrest. Last month, Mosby submitted a request in Baltimore City Circuit Court for a gag order to prevent participants from discussing the case publicly, the Associated Press reports. The Associated Press is one of 19 news organizations contesting the gag order request. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/crime/item/21002-baltimore-state-s-attorney-seeks-protective-order-for-freddie-gray-autopsy?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=bf78124e63-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-bf78124e63-289778381

The Entitlement Squeeze

There’s just no money for all the stuff government wants to do

MILTON EZRATI

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(city-journal.org) ~ For all the promises made by politicians on both sides of the aisle, budget math makes clear how little room exists for new government spending. The federal budget is on autopilot. Spending for entitlements will soon crowd out most of what Washington does. Any new initiative that requires major financing is suspect.

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The underlying budget realities are stark. Some 70 percent of all federal spending goes to entitlements—Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid, unemployment insurance, and the still relatively small (for now) costs of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). These spending flows continue to grow automatically; Congress doesn’t even debate them. Legislative discretion does come into play regarding the next-largest budget item—defense, at about 17 percent of the total—but even here, little room for maneuver exists, given past cuts and today’s deteriorating geopolitical situation. Interest obligations on outstanding federal debt eat up another 6.5 percent of the total. That leaves barely 6.5 percent of the budget for everything else Washington does— including education, infrastructure spending, and all the other things that the political class discusses and about which it makes its most lavish promises.

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And entitlement spending promises to narrow the choices still further. For decades, through both Republican and Democratic Congresses and presidential administrations, entitlement-spending growth has outstripped the growth of the rest of the budget, steadily enlarging its share of the total. The rate of gain has slowed from time to time, but it has never paused for long, let alone declined. In five years, entitlement spending could command three-quarters of the federal budget. The swelling ranks of retiring baby boomers and the new spending obligations imposed by the ACA could push that percentage even higher.

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Other realities will bring even more pressure to bear. Outlays for interest payments on the national debt will take a larger share of the budget—perhaps doubling to 13 percent within a few years—not only because the size of outstanding debt is increasing but also because the cost of financing the debt will rise. Until now, a relative drop in Pentagon spending has offset the impact of increased entitlement spending on the rest of the budget. Today’s 17 percent Defense Department share is a far cry from the 1960s, when national defense commanded as much as 50 percent of the federal budget. Even additional outlays for the War on Terror pushed the Pentagon’s spending share only as high as 20 percent—and only for a short time.

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Washington has only two ways out of the entitlements squeeze. The first is for government to take more out of the economy, either through higher taxes or greater levels of borrowing. Neither Congress nor the public is likely to endorse such moves. The second alternative—enacting reforms that would slow or reverse the growth of entitlement spending—would be unpopular as well. But action can be postponed for only so long. Keep that in mind this year, and especially next, when political candidates unleash their usual array of promises and plans.

http://www.city-journal.org/2015/25_2_snd-entitlement.html

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Saturday Morning ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 6, 2015 at 3:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

War Zones Here and Abroad

Burt Prelutsky

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

~~~lll~~~

Congress Cuts the Line on NSA Data Collection

The Senate passed the USA Freedom Act Tuesday without amendment, and Barack nObama signed it, curbing the NSA's mass collection of every American's phone records. While it's a victory for privacy advocates, work remains in ensuring that the U.S. government respects the Fourth Amendment. Instead of scraping up records on every call in the U.S., the act dictates that private phone companies will keep the records and the government can request the information. The Senate's 67-32 vote split the Republican Party between its leadership and the more libertarian-leaning lawmakers. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell complained, "There are a number of us who feel very strongly that this is a significant weakening of the tools that were put in place in the wake of 9/11 to protect the country." But Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the author of the Patriot Act, said some of those "tools" (i.e., mass data collection) were never meant to be given. Notably, Sen. Rand Paul, perhaps the most prominent advocate for NSA reform, voted against the USA Freedom Act, saying it didn't go far enough. With Sen. Ron Wyden, Paul proposednine amendments that would have required the government to offer greater justification before it spied on a citizen. For over a decade, the country has been in a constant state of war, allowing an erosion of Fourth Amendment rights because it feared a "lone-wolf terrorist" attack or another 9/11. But a state of fear is not a mark of a free people. -The Patriot Post

The TSA Is Groping for Relevancy

In a recent internal investigation into the TSA's airport screening process, "red teams" working for the Department of Homeland Security were able to sneak bombs and other weapons through the TSA's line 95% of the time. In other words, of the 70 times DHS tested the system, the TSA caught only three attempts. For an agency with "security" as its middle name, that's a dismal and dangerous track record. In a statement, DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson tried to downplay the findings. "The numbers in these reports never look good out of context," he said, "but they are a critical element in the continual evolution of our aviation security. … The Inspector General's preliminary test results are classified, and it is not appropriate or prudent to publicly describe these results." But the findings were serious enough for Johnson to order a special briefing on the report. Then the axe fell swiftly, as the acting head of the TSA was reassigned Monday. Acting Deputy Director Mark Hatfield Jr. will take over. As Reason's J.D. Tuccille notes, the vulnerabilities in TSA's security net have been "revealed, complained about, and baked in for years." The Heritage Foundation's David Inserra argues that perhaps it's time for the TSA to step aside and let private security firms do the job cheaper, friendlier and better. Clearly, bureaucrats groping grandma didn't make us more secure. -The Patriot Post

Warren Won't Run, Nobody Hardest Hit

Say it ain't so! Time magazine reports on the demise of the movement to draft Elizabeth Warren to run for president: "Six months after launching 'Run Warren Run,' a quixotic campaign to draft Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren into the 2016 presidential race, the two progressive organizations behind it will call it quits and focus more broadly on a populist agenda in the 2016 presidential race, according to a spokesman." Warren has long been the great "Native American" hope for leftists who can't stomach Hilly Clinton, but she's been pretty consistent in saying she won't run. Ironically, Warren is more powerful in the Senate and among Democrats in general because of her decision not to run. Had she challenged Hilly and failed, she would've quickly been relegated to backbencher status. But now she can benefit from the unquenched thirst of her acolytes. And she didn't even have to build that. -The Patriot Post

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THE MEDIA’S MISSING LINC
Former Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln Chaffee is not a suitable Democratic nominee. He’s a party switcher from a tiny state and who has a less-than-stellar track record. But as Chaffee launches his candidacy today why isn’t he getting the kind of loving attention that the even more unsuitable Sen. Bernie Sanders has received? After all, Chaffee is so far showing far more courage in taking on his party’s establishment than Sanders. And unlike Sanders and former Gov. Martin O’Malley so far, Chaffee is willing to hit presumptive nominee Hilly Clinton where it hurts: foreign policy. Liberals have cheered on Sanders for moving Clinton to the left but Democrats and the establishment press seems ready to give her a free pass on foreign policy.
As CNNs new poll confirms, President nObama’s Iraq war is at least a political disaster, whatever you say about the tactics. It is as unpopular as George W. Bush’s Iraq war prior to the 2007 troop surge and says equal numbers of Americans blame Bush and nObama for the rise of ISIS. The WaPo/ABC News poll substantially concurs, giving nObama a 31 percent approval rating on his ISIS policy overall. Even assuming Democrats back nObama at a higher rate than the general population, there are deep problems here. What would Clinton do differently? How would she solve the crisis? How does she explain the rise of ISIS in Libya after the rebellion she backed there went awry? These are far more important questions for the former secretary of state than how many brands of deodorant she believes as just society would offer.
Clinton can keep playing patty-cake with her party’s left wing by just talking. Clinton can elicit oohs and ahs just for using liberal buzzwords on income inequality, police policies, immigration and sexual practices. But on the question of what she would do today about ISIS, Iran, Libya and a bevy of other foreign policy issues: zilch.
Lincoln Chaffee is not quite as unlikely to be the Democratic nominee as Sanders, but the fact that his prosecution of Clinton’s record is ignored while Sander’s long-shot run gets so much coverage may tell you all need to know about Clinton’s structural advantages with the press.

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Chris Matthews Interviews Pres. Of Anti-Israel J Street...

(Jeff Dunetz) ~ MSNBC's Mr. Thrill Up My Leg, Chris Matthews invited the President of the Anti-Israel Organization J Street to discuss the much-derided comment by President Barack (Chaim) nObama to David Axelrod about being the closest thing to a Jew ever to sit in the Oval Office... J Street, founded in 2008 with money from progressive sugar daddy George Soros, markets itself as kind of left-wing AIPAC. From the very beginning the group went out of its way to emphasize its motto of “pro-Israel, pro-peace.” But as fellow progressive Alan Dershowitz said about the group, "J Street is neither pro-Israel or pro peace." The group has little legitimacy in the Jewish Community, but was promoted by Barack nObama as an important organization. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/chris-matthews-interviews-anti-israel-j.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b917b1cec8-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-b917b1cec8-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-b917b1cec8-291705165

Hilly: State Depart Sold Toxicological Agents To Foundation's Donor

(Jeff Dunetz) ~ An investigation by the International Business Times points out that during the Arab Spring the Hilly Clinton led State Department approved huge increases in "Category 14" exports to Arab countries who made similarly large donations to the Clinton Foundation... The specific category 14 exports were most probably tear gas used to quell the anti-Govt. uprisings (Category 14 exports are defined as "toxicological agents,” a broad designation that included chemical and biological weapons, as well as vaccines). For example during the uprising in Egypt as then President Mubarak was cracking down on the protesters who, with the help of President nObama drove him out of office, Ms. Clinton was publicly calling for the Egyptian govt. to restrain themselves from using violence in the crackdown. At the same time the State Dept. was privately clearing Mubarak for continued purchase of Category 14 exports. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/did-sec-of-state-clinton-sell-more-tear.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b917b1cec8-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-b917b1cec8-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-b917b1cec8-291705165

The Evolution Of The Oil Weapon

(noisyroom.net) ~ In the age of derivatives, swaps, and electronic money transfers, a new form of warfare has emerged: financial warfare... Recently, the US has passed sanctions on countries such as Syria, Venezuela, and North Korea , but the majority of energy related sanctions passed have been targeted at Iran and Russia. An estimated 68 percent of Russia’s government revenue is derived from oil and gas exports, while 80 percent of Iran’s revenue comes from oil exports. That presents a very large target for the use of financial weapons. To understand why financial warfare is now so commonplace, one must understand how it came into existence and what has been achieved taking such an approach. http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/06/04/the-evolution-of-the-oil-weapon/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29

FEDS PROTECT NEITHER FREEDOM NOR SAFETY

Judge Andrew Napolitano) ~ In their continuous efforts to create the impression that the government is doing something to keep Americans safe, politicians in Washington have misled and lied to the public. They have violated their oaths to uphold the Constitution... They have created a false sense of security. And they have dispatched and re-dispatched 60,000 federal agents to intercept the telephone calls, text messages and emails of all Americans all the time. In the process, while publicly claiming they only acquire identifying metadata – the time, date, location, duration, telephone numbers and email addresses of communications – they have in fact surreptitiously gained access to the content of these communications. http://www.wnd.com/2015/06/feds-protect-neither-freedom-nor-safety/

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IRS unsigned letter to brush off demands for Clinton investigation

(Pete Kasperowicz) ~ The IRS responded to a Republican request for an investigation into the Clinton Foundation's tax-exempt status with a one-page form letter that starts with "Dear Sir or Madam."... In May, more than 50 House Republicans asked the IRS to review the Clinton Foundation's tax-exempt status, after it became clear that the foundation had failed to report millions of dollars in grants from foreign governments. In response, the IRS sent Blackburn a form letter, which Blackburn received late Wednesday. The letter thanked her for submitting the request, and said the IRS has an "ongoing examination program" to ensure tax-exempt groups comply with tax law. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/irs-sends-congress-unsigned-form-letter-to-brush-off-demands-for-clinton-foundation-investigation/article/2565634?custom_click=rss

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Hilly Blindsided Big Time By This Awesome ‘Gift’ From Texas Repub

(Norvell Rose) ~ Though she’s still keeping her distance from the media, Hilly Clinton is making herself very available to rich supporters who pay big money to rub elbows and break bread with the Democrats’ top 2016 aspirant... Wednesday night, as The Daily Mail reports, Clinton hobnobbed with high-living Texans who filled the $11.4 million mansion of a couple of personal injury lawyers who are ready for Hilly. The $2,700-per-plate political affair in a posh suburban Dallas neighborhood drew not only Democrat donors to the home of the Texas trial lawyers, it also attracted a number of Republican activists who stood in the street with signs that read such things as, “I did not have textual relations w/ that server.” The reference, of course, was to the Emailgate scandal that continues to grow around Mrs. Clinton and her controversial use of a private, personal server for official government communications when she was secretary of state. http://www.westernjournalism.com/hillary-just-got-blindsided-big-time-by-this-awesome-gift-from-texas-republicans/?utm_source=MailChimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=top-story&utm_campaign=DailyEmail06.04.15

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An nObamacare replacement that works

(Ramesh Ponnuru) ~ Tom Price, the chairman of the House Budget Committee, is the latest Republican to unveil a conservative health-care plan to replace nObamacare... It’s a good plan, although it could be made better — and it helps to clarify some of the trade-offs involved in health policy. Price’s plan would give people tax credits to buy health insurance. The credits would be based on age but not on income. Everyone between 35 and 50 would get $2,100 a year, for example. Both the Affordable Care Act and some other conservative health-care bills, such as the one proposed by Senator Orrin Hatch and colleagues, instead phase out tax credits with income. The credits could be used to buy insurance in a much less regulated market than nObamacare creates: No longer would insurance policies have to cover a federally approved list of essential health benefits, for example. http://www.aei.org/publication/an-obamacare-replacement-that-works/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=060415

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Reviewing US policy toward the Islamic State

(Michael Rubin) ~ On September 10, 2014, against the backdrop of the Islamic State (ISIL, ISIS, Daesh)’s murder of American journalists, President Barack nObama addressed the nation... “Our objective is clear,” he declared, “We will degrade, and ultimately destroy, ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy.” Recent Islamic State victories in Ramadi, the capital of the al-Anbar province, and in Palmyra, a central Syria town straddling strategic crossroads and home to ancient ruins, show that almost nine months later, the U.S. objective is not on track to being met. Talk of an offensive against Mosul, Iraq’s second largest city, common just a few weeks ago, now seems fantastic. Indeed, it seems more likely that the Islamic State will move this summer against Kirkuk, an oil-rich and multi-ethnic city in northern Iraq or try to strike at pilgrims or shrines in the Shi’ite holy city of Karbala, than retreat from Iraq as American policymakers hoped just a few weeks ago. Clearly, the President’s stated strategy is not working. Questions to consider are why, and what policies could strengthen the fight against the Islamic State. http://www.aei.org/publication/us-policy-towards-the-islamic-state-after-its-seizure-of-ramadi-and-palmyra/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=060415

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Democrat Wants to Prosecute Climate Skeptics

(fixthisnation.com) ~ According to Democratic Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, the government should deal with global warming skeptics the same way the courts dealt with the tobacco companies... Writing in the Washington Post, Whitehouse cites the U.S. District Court’s 2006 decision that determined that tobacco companies had been engaged in a fraudulent racketeering attempt to “maximize industry profits.” According to Whitehouse, this is exactly the case when it comes to climate change. Covering his bases, he adds a little disclaimer to the end of his op-ed. “To be clear: I don’t know whether the fossil fuel industry and its allies engaged in the same kind of racketeering activity as the tobacco industry. We don’t have enough information to make that conclusion. Perhaps it’s all smoke and no fire. But there’s an awful lot of smoke.” And that’s an awful big allegation to make, especially when it’s coming from an elected official. One might expect a bit of prudence from someone sworn to defend the Constitution. Especially when he is advocating the use of RICO laws against people who are exercising their right to free speech. If you needed any further proof that today’s Democratic Party has disappeared into its own…donkey…then this should be enough to clear up the confusion. http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/democrat-wants-to-prosecute-climate-skeptics/

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Harvard, Syracuse Researchers Lying to Boost nObama Climate Rule

(Steve Milloy) ~ E-mails obtained from the Environmental Protection Agency show that Harvard University, Syracuse University and two of their researchers appear to have falsely claimed a study supporting EPA’s upcoming global warming rules was conducted “independent(ly)” of the agency... In early May, a study published in the journal Nature Climate Change purported to support a key EPA claim about its forthcoming global warming rules aimed at coal-fired power plants. The New York Times’ headline, “EPA Emissions Plan Will Save Thousands of Lives, Study Finds,” typified the media coverage. Are we to believe that a group of researchers who had previously received some $45 million in grants from EPA, no doubt hoping for more in the future, could possibly not have any dog in this fight? It’s probably not necessary to ask how this slipped past the incurious mainstream media. http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/06/04/harvard-syracuse-researchers-caught-lying-to-boost-obama-climate-rules/

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War Zones Here and Abroad

(burtprelutsky.com) ~ I really would like to put the recent riot in my rearview mirror, but nObama and the clucks running Baltimore won’t let me.

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For instance, what nObama took away from the creeps running wild was that urban police should not be allowed to use the best equipment available to protect themselves or their cities from the barbarians. Instead of dropping the hammer on those who riot, nObama has decided that cops should be deprived of riot gear.

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For her part, Marilyn Mosby, the prosecutor who assured the mob that she would deliver justice on their behalf, has urged a judge to place a gag order on the six cops she indicted and their lawyers. In the meantime, she constantly attacks the defendants in the media. Unless the entire state wishes to see itself humiliated, Ms. Mosby must be called on the carpet by the Maryland Bar Association for displaying such obvious contempt of the First Amendment.

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It is a strange world in which states, cities and major corporations, condemn Indiana for passing a law guaranteeing the religious rights of business owners, but absolutely nobody suggests boycotting Baltimore, whose mayor essentially rolled out the red carpet for vandals and arsonists, and then essentially begged the mob for forgiveness.

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Mayor Rawlings-Blake even went so far as to invite Loretta Lynch’s Justice Department to investigate the Baltimore P.D. for institutional racism. Keep in mind that Baltimore is just possibly the blackest major city in America. Its population is 68% black, as is its police force. Its fire department is 58% black, its school district 86% black and its city council is 90% black. Its Mayor is black, as is its Chief of Police and its congressional representative, Elijah Cummings.

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But with all that, 54% of its population is on welfare, and the blame for that is naturally directed at white conservatives.

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Liberals, as well as some bottom-feeding Republicans, blame black poverty on all sorts of things, but rarely mention fatherless homes and a 71% rate of illegitimate births. We all know that black kids seeking an education are often taunted for “acting white.” I wonder if black men who are married to the mothers of their children and who help support their families are also demeaned for “acting white.”

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We are all very much aware of the exceptional blacks -- people like Thomas Sowell, Condoleezza Rice, Walter Williams, Larry Elder and Milwaukee Sheriff David Clarke, Jr. -- but what constantly confounds me are the millions of hard-working, responsible blacks who get an education, learn a trade, stay off drugs and raise their children, but who still vote for the same sleazy plantation owners as those sucking up welfare as if it's their birth right.

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Another staple of black apologists is to blame the staggering incarceration rate of black men on a racist legal system. But a fair number of blacks being sent to jail are judged by black juries, sentenced by black judges and defended by black lawyers. So it is rather difficult to blame white society for all the black criminals serving time.

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To begin with, there are 320,000,000 Americans. Of the 320 million, whites number 206 million; Hispanics, 54 million; blacks, 38 million; Asian, 18 million, American Indian and Alaskan natives, four million. But when you study the prison population, the numbers are so out of whack, that you either have to accept that ours is an even more corrupt legal system than the one run by the Nazis, or that certain groups of people simply commit a disproportional percentage of crimes.

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Whites constitute roughly 65% of the population at large, but constitute only 24% of those in jail; Hispanics are 17% of the population, but 35% of those behind bars; blacks are 13% of the population, but an astonishing 37.5% of those in the cooler. Although they represent 5.3% of the population, Asians are clearly underachievers in this one particular area, representing a meager 1.5% of America’s prison population.

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Only a liberal would look at those numbers and blame the system. And only nObama would move to decriminalize drug dealing as a way to make those numbers look better. But as the Wall Street Journal’s black editorial writer, Jason Riley, has pointed out, even if we stopped jailing drug dealers, the black prison percentage would only drop from 37.5% to 37%.

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♦ As bad as liberal policies are for America, they are even worse around the world. Because nObama is so adamant about having what only he regards as a major foreign policy achievement on his resume, he is leaving Israel and the Gulf nations to swing in the breeze while he offers Iran the entire Middle East in exchange for a signature on a nuclear deal.

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If he had a single ounce of red blood in his veins, nObama would have sent our military over there months ago to wipe out ISIS before they burned, beheaded or crucified any more people. Instead, nObama and his stooges defend his inaction by insisting that Americans are war-weary. I beg to differ. What we’re sick of is engaging in wars we have no desire to win unconditionally.

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If an American president ever pledged himself to wipe out those in the Middle East and North Africa who target Christians for extermination, who kidnap young girls and turn them into sex slaves and who exhort their pea-brained followers in the U.S. and Britain to execute soldiers, cops and civilians, I feel reasonably confident that his approval rate would hover well above 80%.

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♦ Speaking of the shame of a nation, a reader recently let me know that he agrees with those who compare nObama to the totalitarian tyrants of the 20th century. I replied that I had no doubt that he shared the instincts of Stalin, Hitler, Franco, Mao, Castro and Mussolini, but, fortunately, he lacks their power to kill dissidents or even have them exiled to Siberian gulags. The most he can do is sic the IRS on them, which is contemptible, but not fatal.

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My reader then wrote back to say that, unlike the way things were even in the 80s and 90s, thanks to current technology and mass education, we now have a lot of people who have amassed huge amounts of information, but only a few who have enough sense to put a washer on a screw before assembling something and wrenching a nut on it.

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In response, I wrote: “Going back even further, we had a bunch of guys named Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Adams, who even knew how to put a washer on a new nation they’d just invented. But now everything is coming undone because of one loose nut in the Oval Office.”

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Friday Afternoon ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 5, 2015 at 10:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Republican Field, Mellow Edition

Peggy Noonan

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

~~~lll~~~

FRANCE FAULTS IRAN NUKE DEAL
“A day after President nObama told an Israeli reporter, ‘The best way to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon is a verifiable, tough agreement’ and a day after Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry called into new Iran negotiations before being rolled into surgery for a broken leg, there is a new development. The French are vocally skeptical and concerned about any Iran nuclear deal that doesn’t allow international inspectors access to Iran’s military sites and other secret facilities – something opponents on Capitol Hill have repeatedly mentioned. The French foreign minister went on to say in an interview with the WSJ that the nuclear deal, as is, would likely spark a nuclear arms races in the Middle East – another point opponents often mention.
The White House insists that Iran has agreed ‘in principle’ to inspections of military facilities, but Iran’s leaders have publicly contradicted that claim. In 2013, the same French foreign minister warned that Washington risked being ‘suckered into a fool’s game’ in the Iran talks. While Secretary hanoi Kerry is on the sidelines now trying to fix up a wobbly broken leg, it appears the French are the ones standing strong on the international stage when it comes to Iran.” –Bret Baier
“For the president to use a legalistic definition, to say because he ordered major combat operations to be over that we’re not at war – that this is supposed to encourage us at tee-ball practice – is not going to cut it and the polls continue to tell us that Americans feel very unsafe, in some cases as unsafe as they were in the shadow of 9/11.” – Chris Stirewalt on “The Kelly File.” Watch here. -Fox News

WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
What about your first cup of coffee? For those trying to limit their caffeine intake to something under radioactive levels, the secret may not be stopping earlier but rather starting later. WaPo looked at the evidence and found that the habit of gulping down coffee first thing in the morning may diminish the effect of the caffeine and actually reduce energy levels. The right times appear to be the parts of the day when your body’s production of cortisol, a hormone that helps us to feel more awake and alert, typically lags. Your sunrise coffee might actually interfere with cortisol production and take you straight from a temporary chemical high right into a late-morning cortisol crash. But could you really wait until 10 a.m. for your cuppa? -Fox News

Walker ready to sign late-term abortion ban - Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: “Gov. Scott Walker said Monday he’s prepared to sign a 20-week abortion ban bill that has no exception for cases of rape or incest. Asked Monday about the bill following a speech at a Boys & Girls Club event in Delavan, Walker said he would sign the measure banning the procedure after 20 weeks whether or not it had those exemptions. The Republican governor and likely presidential candidate made his comments before a public hearing scheduled for Tuesday on the fast-moving bill before committees of both the Assembly and Senate… [the bill] could reach Walker's desk before the Senate and Assembly begin floor debate on the state budget this month.” -Fox News

GOP STILL SEARCHING FOR BENNET FOE
The Hill: “Rep. Mike Coffman (R-Colo.) will seek reelection to his House seat in 2016, depriving Republicans of their top recruit to take on Sen. Michael Bennet (D-Colo.) in a swing state the GOP might need to protect its majority in the upper chamber…National Republicans had been giving Coffman a hard sell to enter the race. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) met with Coffman recently to discuss the opportunity.” -Fox News

WHAT COULD GO WRONG?
(Minneapolis) Star Tribune: “Some parents are outraged after the leader of a small Minneapolis private school took about a dozen middle- and high-school-aged students on a sex education field trip to an adult novelty store late last week. ‘It’s just a major breach of trust,’ said Lynn Floyd, whose 11- and 13-year-old daughters were part of the outing to the Smitten Kitten. ‘You just can’t erase those images.’ A leader of Gaia Democratic School and the host of the field trip defended the outing, saying the visit capped a monthslong sex education class. Director Starri Hedges, who also teaches the school’s sex education class, said she wanted to provide a safe and welcoming environment for students to learn about human sexual behavior. … Gaia is a K-12 school with a motto promising academic freedom, youth empowerment and democratic education. Parents say the school has about 25 students, including several described by administrators as transgender.” -Fox News

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EPA’s Useful Idiot McCarthy Won’t Answer A Direct Question

(rickwells.us) ~ EPA Chief Gina McCarthy is an average alarmist and a mediocre propagandist. She’s not a scientist nor does she profess to have any familiarity with climate science other than memorizing UN talking points and knowing “some great scientists” who share her supposed belief in our impending doom... McCarthy’s incomplete and vague answers to simple questions expose her duplicity. It’s clear that she’s protecting the hoax and doesn’t want to get into specifics. Specifics destroy the weak alarmist arguments. Vague hysteria and declarations that we must obey the anonymous “scientists” who have spoken are much safer paths to tread, but they do have their risks. Senator Sessions demonstrated that in no uncertain terms in the video below. Blind trust of the “benevolent government” is a common theme for the EPA and McCarthy. The Daily Caller referenced a recent interview with Big Think in which McCarthy equated her job at the EPA to that of a science interpreter. Her agency translates the “complicated” climate science into terms that simpletons such as the population of the United States can understand. http://rickwells.us/epas-useful-idiot-mccarthy-wont-answer-a-direct-question-just-trust-her-and-believe/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9RE8PJ2gjrY

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ISIS Secretly Communicating With 1,000’s Of U.S. Followers Daily

(rickwells.us) ~ Rep Mike McCaul (R-TX), Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, gives his take on the current situation with domestic terrorism and the ability of ISIS and their like-minded followers and others to communicate and coordinate their attacks... He addresses the level of sophistication of our enemy and notes that it is a problem unlike the terrorists of the past. He addresses the levels of communication, the threat posed by their communication on social media, as well as the encryption and other platforms that make it impossible for authorities to know what is being plotted and to take preemptivemeasures. http://rickwells.us/rep-mccaul-isis-secretly-communicating-with-1000s-of-u-s-followers-daily-we-cant-listen/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_RwrMLogjmc

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Illegals Don’t Need To Have Filed Returns To Access Tax Credits

(gopthedailydose.com) ~ Illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty can claim back tax credits for work they performed illegally, even if they never filed a tax return during those years... IRS Commissioner John Koskinen has confirmed to Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-IA). In a written response to questions Grassley, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, asked Koskinen following a February hearing on the IRS budget, the IRS commissioner clarified his earlier assertions that illegal immigrants granted executive amnesty — and Social Security numbers — can access Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) for years they were working in the country illegally. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/06/03/irs-amnestied-illegals-dont-need-to-have-filed-returns-to-access-tax-credits-for-illegal-work/

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Iranian Nukes, the Arab Gulf, and nObama's Seductive Summitry

(Steven J. Rosen) ~ From Mr. nObama's point of view, the summit was a success, in spite of the snub by Saudi King Salman and the other key Gulf leaders who declined to attend... Putting aside their doubts, the GCC leaders in the end signed a joint statement endorsing "a comprehensive, verifiable [Iran nuclear] deal that fully addresses the regional and international concerns, " saying it would serve "the security interests of GCC member states." At least some of the council leaders thought their side did well at the summit too. GCC Assistant Secretary-General Abdel Aziz Abu Hamad Aluwaisheg told a press conference May 15 that the Camp David summit "exceeded the expectations of most of us" by reassuring GCC states of an "unequivocal" commitment to their security. They were impressed when Mr. nObama described his commitment to their security in expansive language: "First, I am reaffirming our ironclad commitment to the security of our Gulf partners." Perhaps they did not look too closely at what the president actually promised, because the specific terms of the commitment he made, in fact, fell far short of the security guarantee the GCC partners were seeking and may have thought they received. The joint communique limits Mr. nObama's security guarantee to "an external threat to any GCC state's territorial integrity that is inconsistent with the U.N. http://www.meforum.org/5289/obama-iran-gcc-summit

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Shameful Americans Rely on Wikileaks To Be Informed

(rickwells.us) ~ While he’s arguably a less-than-admirable character within the United States Congress for a variety of reasons, Rep Alan Grayson (D-FL) is willing to be vocal when he sees a need and he’s speaking out against the TPP... and the process of secrecy that surrounds it as well as the lack of debate over dictatorial fast-track authority being seized by our would-beemperor. Grayson notes that we don’t have star chambers in America, nor do we pass laws in secret. The secretive nature of the TPP is a strong indicator of the nature of its content. He decries that fact that in the United States, the American people have been forced to rely upon WikiLeaks for a window into the activities of our “government.” Wasn't it the same way nObamacare was passed. http://rickwells.us/on-tpp-shameful-that-americans-must-rely-upon-wikileaks-to-be-informed-about-our-own-govt/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3qj9Wsa9_o

Look What’s Happening to a Special Forces Vet who Dared...

(Lt. Col. Allen West - Retired) ~ We’ve been a loud advocate for 1LT Lorance, and his mother has been featured on radio and TV news programs – nah, not MSNBC or CNN, mind you... And even with the knowledge that the Army withheld evidence – just as they did in the case of 1LT Michael Behenna, young Clint remains incarcerated in the same facility as Nidal Hasan. Have y’all noticed that even with a petition that collected more than the necessary 100,000 signatures, there’s been no word from the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, and certainly not the White House? We live in a time when the family of a deserter is celebrated but ask yourself, has Clint Lorance’s mom been invited to the White House? Of course not. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/look-whats-happening-to-a-special-forces-vet-who-dared-to-be-a-whistleblower/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email060415&utm_medium=emai

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State Dept FOIA Chief – We Blindly Accept Hilly Clinton’s Assurance

(rickwells.us) ~ Why wouldn’t she trust the distinguished public servant Hilly Clinton? Why wouldn’t Joyce Barr, the State Department Chief FOIA Officer just accept Clinton’s word... that either there was nothing damning in her secret emails and that the only things that were deleted from her hijacked government records were strictly personal in nature? The reason she shouldn’t is because that would be a naïve and ridiculously foolish acceptance of a prejudiced assurance from a self-serving, manipulative and corrupt lifelong political parasite. But naïve and foolish are exactly what this woman is, asserting that she has to take Clinton’s word for it that everything she worked so hard to hide was included in the records that were turned over. Rep Trey Gowdy had some questions, including “What assurance can you give the public that State Department has everything that would be considered a public record from her tenure as Secretary of State?” Barr replied in part, “We’ve accepted her assurance that she’s given us everything that she had that should be a part of our official records.” http://rickwells.us/state-dept-foia-chief-we-blindly-accept-hillary-clintons-assurance-we-have-everything-we-should/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9MgiKjbUpKo

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ISIS threaten Hamas being too liberal and failing to impose Sharia law

(Cristina Silva) ~ Islamic State group supporters in Gaza have given ruling Hamas leaders a 48-hour deadline to stop a crackdown on them. The militants also claimed responsibility for a rocket fired at Israel from Gaza last week... The rocket landed near Gan Yavne in southern Israel, Israeli military officials said. The threat to Hamas sent to Middle East reporters on Monday did not specify what would happen if the crackdown continued. Hamas has targeted Islamic State radicals in recent weeks after a series of unclaimed bombings. The crackdown resulted in the arrest of dozens of Salafi-jihadists who are affiliated with the Islamic State group, local media reported. Hamas also destroyed in May a mosque belonging to a group known as the “Supporters of the Islamic State in Jerusalem.” The Salafi group said Hamas had demolished the mosque “in a manner that even the Jewish and American occupation has not done,” the Egyptian daily newspaper Al-Masry al-Youm reported. https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/palestine-isis-supporters-in-gaza-threaten-hamas-for-being-too-liberal-and-failing-to-impose-sharia-law/

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Egyptian president’s visit to Germany ends in chaos

(hemuslimissue.wordpress.com) ~ A Muslima who apparently loves male abuse and barbarity – clearly an Isis and Muslim Brotherhood supporter – called Abdul Fatah al-Sisi a “nazi”. What a delusional hater these women can be. Germany needs to deport this burka terrorist asaps... Sisi is no Nazi. Far from it. Sisi is a true hero of historic proportions. It’s almost unreal how he managed to quickly take control of Egypt while it was quickly descending into the hands of the mothership of all Islamic terrorism: the Muslim Brotherhood. The man is a saint. In addition, he has demanded that Muslim clerics take a deep look at themselves for what they teach in mosques, accusing them of breeding terrorism. One can only wonder how far it will be before we hear of murder attempts on Sisi. https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/06/03/egyptian-presidents-visit-to-germany-ends-in-chaos-as-mb-supporters-crash-press-conference/

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This BOLD Move by House Republicans...

(Wayne Dupree) ~ Most of the Republicans in the U.S. House endorsed Iowa Congressman Steve King’s latest attempt to block President nObama’s executive actions that shield some undocumented immigrants from deportation... King’s amendment to a bill that outlines spending for the U.S. Justice Department forbids the agency from using federal funds to defend legal challenges to the president’s action. You have to admire Rep. King. I wish he could get some comprehensive ENFORCEMENT reform going to free this country of all the illegal aliens. They are destroying this country and if something isn’t done about it now, we WILL soon be a third-world country. They say the immigration system is broken. No, what is broken is the ENFORCEMENT. http://www.thepoliticalinsider.com/amnesty-supporter-will-not-be-happy-with-what-the-house-just-did/

Republican Field, Mellow Edition

Peggy Noonan

(peggynoonan.com) ~ I find myself feeling mellow on the subject of 2016. I have nonspecific affection and sympathy for everyone. Actually when I think of the Republican field the picture that comes to mind is of Cloris Leachman in the movie “Spanglish.” Merrily: “I love you. I love everybody, that’s what killed me.” I am interested that wherever I go people say “Who’s going to win?” and when I say I have no idea they say, “No, really?” There are many Americans these days who think there are other Americans who have the lowdown inside scoop and should share it. I told a woman the other day that when I ask 20 Republicans who they like I get a lot of different answers including, often, “I don’t know.” She looked skeptical. Who do you like, I asked. She said, “I don’t know—any of them!” Republicans strike me right now as both chipper and dour. Chipper: Whoever we get, it will be better than the guy in the White House. Dour: But maybe America will just go for Hilly. They all follow the polls. They should take heart from the terrible pre-election polls in Britain. There may be a lot of shy Tories in America, too. Slay me, Nate Silver.

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Having listened a few times to to Megyn Kelly and Jeb Bush on Iraq, I have to think he misunderstood the question either honestly or conveniently.

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Kelly: “On the subject of Iraq . . . knowing what we know now, would you have authorized the invasion?”

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Bush: “I would have, and so would have Hilly Clinton, just to remind everybody, and so would have almost everybody that was confronted with the intelligence they got.”

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Kelly: “You don’t think it was a mistake?”

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Bush: “In retrospect the intelligence that everybody saw, that the world saw, not just the United States, was faulty.”

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Bush seems at first to be answering the question, “Would you as president in 2003 have invaded Iraq as your brother did?” And he seems to answer in the affirmative: Yes, because of the intelligence, and Hilly Clinton would have done the same.

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But that isn’t what Kelly asked. She said: Knowing what we know now would you have invaded? Meaning, knowing how it turned out—knowing we would not find weapons of mass destruction, knowing a destabilized Iraq would produce many bitter outcomes, knowing 12 years later the war would be unwon, knowing we had illusions about Iraq’s ability or willingness to transform itself into a peaceful constitutional democracy—would you have invaded? He doesn’t answer that question.

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So he’ll be asked it again, and should be prepared.

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If his honest answer is, “No, knowing what we now know I would not have invaded,” it will be a big story for a while, with headlines like “Jeb: Iraq Was a Mistake—Breaks With Brother on Most Consequential Decision of Presidency.” But as an answer it will be in line with the thinking of the majority of Americans. If the answer is “Yes, I still would have invaded even knowing what we know” that will likely set off a firestorm, and last longer.

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It is hard for me to believe he doesn’t think invading Iraq was a blunder. I wonder if he feels he can say it.

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In any case he’ll be asked again. There was never going to be any dodging of this question.

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A friend this morning sent a note, jeering at Scott Walker for having significant personal debt. He linked to this story. My friend’s tone suggested the debt makes Walker look less impressive as an individual and less viable as a presidential candidate.

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My reaction was the opposite. To me the story made Walker look normal. (That in fact was my impression of him when I met him about a year ago for coffee at a New York restaurant. I was late. He was at a small table alone, reading some papers. No aides, no staff, no security, just a guy at a table, a Midwestern businessman having a cup of coffee between meetings. He also acted normal. This was so startling to me—politicians now are so often weird, outsized, faintly deranged—that I couldn’t stop thinking about it.) According to the piece Walker owes up to $50,000 to Sears and some perhaps similar amount on another card. His spokeswoman said well, yeah, he’s got two kids in college and his parents live with him. His yearly salary is $144,423. More jaw dropping: his net worth is minus $72,500. Meaning he has done a great deal of work and accomplished many things over the years and never bothered to make himself rich. This is so refreshing—public service that is not, apparently, a self-enrichment project—that I can’t help but think we should tip our hats. Good for him for doing it the old-fashioned way. As for its impact on his appeal, unless I’m very wrong, a lot of Americans will feel not derisive about his financial condition but almost touched. “Harry Truman had no money either.”

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My friend said Walker’s lack of wealth suggests he can be bought. I’m seeing it the opposite: if he hasn’t sold himself yet, it suggests he is not for sale.

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The other day I spoke to Mike Huckabee. He’d announced just the day before. I liked his speech, kind of warmly fiery. He’s under great pressure for not joining the call to cut entitlement spending. But the way he argued for his position cut through, had a certain moral force, and will have plenty of appeal:

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“Some propose that to save safety nets like Medicare and Social Security, we need to chop off the payouts for the people who have faithfully had their paychecks and pockets picked by the politicians promising that their money would be waiting for them when they were old and sick. You were forced to pay for Social Security and Medicare for 50 years. The government grabs money from our paychecks and says it will be waiting for us when we turn 65. If Congress wants to take away someone’s retirement, let them end their own congressional pensions—not your Social Security. As president, I promise you will get what you paid for.”

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That’s written in a way—you’ll get what you paid for—that might give him room to maneuver as president. Here I note that it is the politician who has a natural, visceral and well-known opposition to something who is best situated to do it and get away with it. Nixon could go to China because he was rather on record as not liking commies; Reagan could raise taxes in 1983 because he hated them, so if he did he probably had to. I suspect it is an amnesty foe who will be best situated to down the road get some form of immigration reform through. Huckabee, viscerally opposed to reform that comes on the backs of the people, and with a reputation as a spender as governor, could be well-positioned to get some sort of entitlement deal through.

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From our telephone interview:

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What is Huckabee conservatism? “Taxes ought not to punish productivity and reward irresponsibility. That’s why I’m a proponent of the fair tax. Second, that we would turn loose true capitalism but not crony-insider capitalism that dominates the American economy today.” He referred to “the Washington-to-Wall Street axis of power.” He said: “Outside that loop there’s no sense of recovery.”

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That sounds pretty populist. Is he a populist? “People say ‘Huckabee is a populist.’ If it means I have a connection to those who do not have any connection to that axis of power than yes.”

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What is the American mood right now? “I think the mood is frustrated with a dysfunctional government that is so disconnected with the lives people really live. . . . The economy isn’t in recovery. You need to talk to the people I talk to each day. Their economy is stumbling. No one in Washington cares less about what’s going on in their lives, across all the demographics of race, gender, age, religion.” You see the detachment from real life in the “inane questions from journalists” who obsess on polls and process. “I’m thinking seriously, there are millions out of work, high rent, foreclosures.” It is producing a national “loss of dignity of which Washington, D.C., is not aware.”

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What is the biggest misconception about you? That he’s “a big government guy.” He feels he governed effectively “in a hard-core Democratic state . . . with a structure that was far more partisan. . . . A lot of the think tanks that evaluate states have a template that does not account for the political dynamics (in those states), who has power to do what. They compare Arkansas to Texas or California. They’re not applicable.”

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I asked if he thought the impact of his popular Saturday-night show on Fox, and his radio broadcasts, might be comparable in effect to the television and radio work of Ronald Reagan. Does he think the impression he made might have a residual power that isn’t sufficiently appreciated? “Gosh, I hope it does.” He thinks it will help protect him from attacks. “One of the things that was very evident was where I was easily defined eight years ago by opponents, now when people throw the nastiest stuff . . . people being polled say, ‘No, I like Huckabee, I see him on TV, hear him on the radio.’”

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There’s a “misguided narrative” of the 2008 campaign that says he had only evangelical support. “Where I had most support was working-class people disconnected from the political elite, and some were evangelical and some not.” He sees “disaffected, struggling” working-class people as his natural base. “I wanna be faithful, speak not just to them but for them.”

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Are you too kind of Southern/hokey/cornball to get the nomination in a party that after eight years of nObama is feeling tougher, hungrier, maybe harder? You can’t see someone bridle over the phone but I sensed bridling. “What people want more than geography, region or accent is a history of leading. I went into a harsh Democratic environment as governor of Arkansas and got 95% of my record passed. If they really want to win they need someone not only with a history of fighting but winning.”

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He ended with political philosophy. “Elections are won vertically, not horizontally. Horizontal politics is liberals versus conservatives, Democrats versus Republicans. But the people in the middle who swing the election, they don’t think or vote horizontally. They are not left and right, they are ‘Are you taking me up or down?’ If they see your optimism and record they’ll vote for you. People perceived nObama vertically, not horizontally.”

http://www.peggynoonan.com/republican-field-mellow-edition/

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Friday Morning ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 5, 2015 at 3:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

On Leadership and Courage

Chris Skates

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

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HILLY’S SCANDALS SINK IN WITH VOTERS
It was three months ago today that news broke about Hilly Clinton’s use of a secret email server. In that time we have been told that Clinton’s email practices wouldn’t hurt her chances and wouldn’t amount to more than “a bunch of people flapping they jaws about nothing.” Of the allegations that the former secretary of state did favors in office for donors and benefactors we have been told endlessly that without a “smoking gun” voters would not fault her. As for her effort to avoid the scandals by shunning the media in favor of canned events, it was “surprisingly effective.” But two new polls out today suggest that the toll is mounting for the presumptive Democratic nominee.
One from CNN and another from WaPo/ABC News show Clinton has sustained serious damage. The CNN poll shows Clinton at her lowest favorability rating since any time since 2001 and has her advantage over potential Republican rivals collapsing, most notably against Sens. Marco Rubio and Rand Paul and Gov. Scott Walker, with Walker closing the gap by 19 points since April to trail by only 3 points. And remember, this poll is of all adults not just registered voters, who tend to be less Democratic. In the same poll, Clinton was deemed honest by 42 percent of respondents, an 8-point slide since April.
The WaPo/ABC News poll has similar if less acrid findings for Clinton’s stature and this explains why: “Half of all Americans disapprove of the way she has handled questions about the Clinton Foundation, and 55 percent disapprove of how she has handled questions about her personal e-mails as secretary of state. Meanwhile, half also disapprove of the way she has dealt with questions about the attack on a U.S. diplomatic post in Benghazi, Libya, on Sept. 11, 2012…”
There’s no secret that the Clinton campaign is hoping that it can duck the questions long enough for the concerns to dissolve and stick to the scripted campaign events to prevent a gaffe that would reignite the issues. But the truth is that these attitudes will harden and deepen if they are not replaced with a new narrative. The problem for Clinton is that she can’t offer one. There are too many questions before and since her last real press conference 12 weeks ago. Rather than diminishing, the scandal grew horns with the revelations in the book “Clinton Cash.” And now we are getting ready for a congressional inquest and continued email dumps. The idea that Clinton can live in alternate universe and still be president in this one is wearing paper thin. -Fox News

Meanwhile in the swing states… - NYT: “Hilly Rodham Clinton’s top campaign lawyer has filed a second voter-access lawsuit accusing a Republican-led state of trying to suppress the vote — this time in Wisconsin, home to Scott Walker, the governor and likely Republican 2016 presidential candidate.”
Never mind - The group Run Warren Run is throwing in the towel. The other group looking to draft Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., into the 2016 race, Ready for Warren, vows to press on despite the seeming accord reached between Warren and her party’s presumptive nominee. -Fox News

O’Malley fighting Hilly for Hispanics - WaPo:“Former Maryland governor Martin O’Malley is making a special effort to target Latino voters during the first week of his presidential campaign, appearing on the Spanish-language television channel Univision, offering interviews on immigration policy to major news outlets and speaking to the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce…Immigration is among the issues where O’Malley has sought to draw distinctions between himself and Hilly Rodham Clinton…In April, after Clinton announced her support for providing immigrants with limited driver's licenses, O’Malley said he was ‘glad she’s come around to that position now, too.’”

-Fox News

SENATE VOTES TO ADVANCE NSA BILL
The NSA effectively out of the business of bulk records collection, the Senate voted to cut off debate today on the House-passed Freedom Act, which puts phone records into the hands of telecom companies that the intelligence agency can obtain only through court order. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon- nell sought a voteMonday night but was thwarted by an objection by 2016 candidate Sen. Rand Paul. Paul, who has been taking heavy fire for blocking attempts to salvage the NSA program, could play a last card today by delaying a Senate final vote on the measure until Wednesday. Senate security hawks are also expected to consider amendments today to toughen up the Freedom Act. Any changes would send the bill back to the House and could ignite new opposition as well as delay restoration of now dark NSA capabilities under the Patriot Act.
[Poll: Security rules - A new CNN poll says 6 in 10 Americans back a renewal of the NSA bulk collection program, a bi-partisan sentiment according to the survey.] -Fox News

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IRS Employee Steals $326K Using Taxpayer's Identities

(foxnewsonline@foxnews.com) ~ An IRS employee who worked in the agency’s St. Louis, MO., office pled guilty this week to charges of tax fraud. Demetria Brown netted $326,000 in a fraud in which she stole taxpayer identities and created fake tax returns to steal refunds... Her plea was made the same week that IRS Commissioner John Koskinen told Congress Russian criminals were behind the hacking of the agency’s website that resulted in the identity theft of more than 100,000 individuals. Brown was able to create the fake tax returns using names, Social Security numbers and dates of births for victims without their consent. It’s not known whether the information came from IRS files. She requested refunds be direct deposited to one of six bank accounts in five different states. The scheme lasted four years from 2008 to 2001. Brown faces up to 42 years behind bars and $750,000 in fines. Sentencing is not expected for months. http://americanactionnews.com/articles/irs-employee-steals-326g-by-using-taxpayer-s-identities

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nObama Just Got Smacked Down By George W. Bush

(Norvell Rose) ~ How many times have Barack nObama, his defenders, and apologists tried to blame George W. Bush for something that’s gone wrong?... How many times have we heard the finger-pointing excuse, “It’s George Bush’s fault?” Well, given the results of a new poll, that move in the administration’s blame game may be off the table. But from the headline CNN politics has attached to the story of the poll results — “Warming on W.: More Americans like George W. Bush than dislike” — you’d never know that President nObama has now clearly fallen behind his predecessor in terms of favorability. http://www.westernjournalism.com/what-the-american-people-just-said-about-bush-vs-obama-will-have-the-white-house-shrieking/?utm_source=MailChimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=top-story&utm_campaign=DailyEmail06.03.15

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Pro-Russian Separatists Launch Attack

(Nolan Peterson) ~ In the predawn hours Wednesday, pro-Russian separatist tanks and artillery bombarded Ukrainian troops in the eastern town of Marinka, spurring Ukrainian military officials and media to speculate whether a major separatist offensive, anticipated for months, had begun... “There were many casualties. Krasnohorivka and Marinka are on fire,” Ukrainian Member of Parliament and Kyiv-1 Battalion Commander Yevhen Deidei wrote on his Facebook page Wednesday. “Close combat is taking place along the front line,” he added. “The militants are going for a breakthrough.” According to the Ukrainian military, about 1,000 pro-Russian separatists launched the attack around 3 a.m. Wednesday in an attempt to encircle Ukrainian forces. http://dailysignal.com/2015/06/03/pro-russian-separatists-launch-attack-as-ukraine-braces-for-possible-offensive/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailydigest&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRogu6TMZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4JS8NgI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D

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Pulosi rips Rubio for not being a 'good Catholic'

(Michael F. Haverluck) ~ Congresswoman Pulosi (D-Calif.) claimed to have the Bible and the Roman Catholic Church on her side last week while admonishing Senator Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) about what it means to be a good Catholic... The outspoken liberal lawmaker from America's most populous state rebuked the conservative senator from the Sunshine State for not conforming to society's Left-leaning take on a key biblical issue. "When Rubio expressed his (very Catholic) opposition to same-sex marriage, Pulosi responded by pulling out her purported superior Catholic credentials, crowing that she had grown up in a 'mainstream' Catholic family," Breitbart reported. "She expressed her belief that Rubio's opposition to same-sex marriage is 'polarizing,' which threatens 'mainstream Christian thinking.'" University of Notre Dame suggests Nancy Pulosi needs to become more familiar with orthodox Catholic beliefs on marriage before pontificating for the LGBT cause – or find herself a new church. http://www.onenewsnow.com/church/2015/06/03/pelosi-rips-rubio-for-not-being-a-good-catholic?utm_source=OneNewsNow&utm_medium=email&utm_term=16781218&utm_content=565493864984&utm_campaign=19398

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nObama just tossed away his last card on Iran’s nukes

(John Podhoret) ~ In an astonishing interview with Israel’s Channel 2, the president declared that “the best way to prevent Iran from having a nuclear weapon is a verifiable, tough agreement... “A military solution will not fix it, even if the United States participates. It would temporarily slow down an Iranian nuclear program, but it would not eliminate it.” Why is this astonishing? Because nObama is publicly eliminating any American possibility that we will bomb Iran’s nuclear sites even if the deal in which he has invested so much collapses. Despite his declaration at a Washington synagogue last week that “Iran must not, under any circumstances, be allowed to get a nuclear weapon,” the president is in fact making it very clear Iran will go nuclear, and with his implicit assent. http://nypost.com/2015/06/02/obama-just-tossed-away-his-last-card-on-irans-nukes/

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Pentagon: Iran Continuing Work on Nuclear Systems

(Bill Gertz) ~ Iran is continuing to develop missiles capable of delivering nuclear weapons despite an interim agreement on its nuclear programs, according to a Pentagon report... “Although Iran has paused progress in some areas of its nuclear program and fulfilled its obligations under the Joint Plan of Action (JPOA), it continues to develop technological capabilities that also could be applicable to nuclear weapons, including ballistic missile development,” a one-page unclassified summary of the report says. The report was due to Congress in January but was not sent to the Armed Services Committee as required by law until this month. Analysts said the delay appeared designed to avoid upsetting Tehran and the nuclear talks. Don't upset them for cheating? What kind of deal is that? http://freebeacon.com/national-security/pentagon-iran-continuing-work-on-nuclear-systems/

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State Depart Struggles to Answer Questions About Iranian Cheating

(Adam Kredo) ~ For the second day in a row, State Department Spokeswoman Marie Harf faced pointed questions about Iran’s growing nuclear stockpile for around 15 minutes... The questions followed strong denials by the nObama administration on Tuesday regarding a New York Times report disclosing that Iran’s stockpiles of nuclear materials had grown 20 percent during the last 18 months. Such a growth in Iran’s nuclear stockpile—which was initially discovered by United Nations inspectors—is viewed by some as a violation of an interim nuclear deal struck with Western powers in 2013. The nObama administration has repeatedly touted that deal as completely freezing the most controversial aspects of the Islamic Republic’s nuclear program. Do we really believe the answers we are getting from this administration? http://freebeacon.com/national-security/state-department-struggles-to-answer-questions-about-iranian-nuke-cheating/

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Bill Clinton’s Swedish Secret Exposed

(Andrew Stiles) ~ Former President Bill Clinton established a separate fundraising arm of the Clinton Foundation in Sweden that was never disclosed to the State Department during his wife’s tenure as Secretary of State, the Washington Times reports... The entity, incorporated in Sweden as the William J. Clinton Foundation Insamlingsstiftelse, raised $26 million in donations at the same time the Swedish government was lobbying the State Department against tighter sanctions on Iran, on the grounds that increased restrictions would harm Swedish businesses: As the money flowed to the foundation from Sweden, Mrs. Clinton’s team in Washington declined to blacklist any Swedish firms despite warnings from career officials at the U.S. Embassy in Stockholm that Sweden was growing its economic ties with Iran and potentially undercutting Western efforts to end Tehran’s rogue nuclear program, diplomatic cables show. http://freebeacon.com/blog/bill-clintons-swedish-secret-exposed/

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nObama Now Admits China “May Be” A TPP Signatory

(rickwells.us) ~ China having veto or dictatorial authority over the United States just came on step closer with the release of comments made by Hussein nObama on Wednesday in a public radio interview... nObama indicated that, just as Senator Jeff Sessions has been arguing in the Senate, China is a probable participant in the TPP at a point in the not too distant future. That’s the problem with a living document and a less than majority threshold required to change the deal. Chinese membership would entitle them to participate in decisions regarding the internal affairs of the United States which are now subject to the Constitution. If this “trade” deal is all it is feared to be, or even fractionally as bad as is believed, a United States that is in a subservient position to China is a very real possibility. In comments made on public radio’s “Marketplace” program, nObama disclosed that China is already sending out overtures to Treasury Secretary Jack Lew indicating an interest in joining the pact. http://rickwells.us/obama-now-admits-china-may-be-a-tpp-signatory-deciding-u-s-domestic-affairs/

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Hilly’s “Stayed Out Of Jail, Got Four Americans Killed...

(rickwells.us) ~ The Thursday speech at Texas Southern University in Houston is drawing widespread attention and criticism of the untouchable candidate for whom answering a straight question is the equivalent of being forced into confession... Her political Miranda rights have put her safely behind a perpetual concrete barricade and no questions are allowed, per her attorney and her campaign manager. But it is the theoretical purpose of Clinton being at Texas Southern that is truly odd. Clinton is supposedly headed to South Texas to talk about “voting rights,” which means “enabling illegal voting” in Democrat-speak as she picks up an award. How is that Hilly Clinton? Other than fund raising for her foundation and pulling legal and illegal maneuvers to cover her royal pant-suited derriere, what has she done in the last year to merit an award? A prison sentence, absolutely, but an award? If you extend the considerations to include multiple years, aside from her role in losing Libya and getting four Americans killed, what did she accomplish? Are they speaking of her Senate career, really pushing the envelope, what did she achieve as a New York Senator. Yes, she was supposedly a woman during all of those times, but there are lots of women in America. The bar must be a little higher, one would think. http://rickwells.us/hillary-clintons-stayed-out-of-jail-got-four-americans-killed-destroyed-govt-documents-award/

On Leadership and Courage

Chris Skates

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“The timid civilized world has found nothing with which to oppose the onslaught of a sudden revival of barefaced barbarity, other than concessions and smiles.”--Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

(chrisskates.com) ~ A woman and boy were shot in the head yesterday in Baltimore, making this the deadliest month in Baltimore history with 38 murders; we have a President who actually espouses the potential for rational negotiations with Iranian anti-semitic zealots; and China, meanwhile, is building artificial islands in the South China Sea (a region that the US has kept open to shipping since WWII) and orders our military aircraft to leave international airspace.

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When debating issues such as these with liberals, one is confronted with the same general defense: “You (the conservative) don’t understand the complexity of the issue. The issue has no clear cut right or wrong answer. It is much more nuanced than any conservative can grasp.” Poppycock.

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In the final analysis, the arguments from liberals on this and many other issues require something that they themselves are not capable of…moral clarity. The positions they take are not about nuance, they are about cowardice. They are a reflection of the continued refusal by the left to see even the problem of Islamic extremism in anything resembling a realistic way. Better to pretend the problem doesn’t exist, or that appeasement isn’t appeasement, than to be forced to make courageous decisions to confront it.

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The man quoted above, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, was a brilliant Christian writer who lived under the thumb of a different evil, Soviet Communism. He spent years in a gulag because he spoke out against that evil. In a 1978 speech to Harvard University, he warned this nation about this pattern of cowardice that he had already noticed developing in our leadership. In that same speech he also said this:

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“A decline in courage may be the most striking feature which an outside observer notices in the West. The Western world has lost its civil courage…Such a decline in courage is particularly noticeable among the ruling groups and the intellectual elite, causing an impression of loss of courage by the entire society.Of course there are many courageous individuals (our military and a handful in Congress) but they have no determining influence on public life...”

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How prophetic Solzhenitsyn was. At a time such as this, when the world can be said to be dangerous in more different places than at any time since WWII, we are living in a culture rife with political correctness (another term for cowardice). As a citizen I long for political leaders who demonstrate valor over expediency and who do not seek nuance within issues that are quite black and white. ISIS should have been destroyed weeks ago and Iran should have been properly dealt with thirty-five years ago. Rather than shrink our navy in the face of a grave Chinese threat to shipping, we should be building it up and modernizing it. Many of the problems facing this nation could be corrected if only they were approached with solutions that were as straightforward as the threats. We need to elect leaders who will do so…and soon.

http://chrisskates.com/new-column-today-on-townhall/

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Thursday Afternoon ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 4, 2015 at 10:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

A summer break from campus muzzling

George F. Will

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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THE ASPARAGUS UPRISING
Fox News: “Police in rural northeastern Germany rushed out to track down a reported mob of up to 15 people armed with knives and sticks. Instead, they found a group of asparagus harvesters. Police in the town of Ludwigslust said a man called their emergency number Saturday to report having seen ‘10 to 15 people armed with knives and sticks’ on a local road. Within minutes, six police cars were on their way to the scene. Officers quickly discovered, however, that the group was asparagus harvesters walking along the road with their work tools as they went to take a lunch break. White asparagus is a popular delicacy in Germany and a ubiquitous sight on restaurant menus in late spring.” -Fox News

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Actor Supports Guns in Schools, Hollywood Goes Hysterical

It takes courage to come out conservative in Hollywood. And actor Vince Vaughn, known for his roles in "assembly-line comedies," has stepped into the political crosshairs. "You think the politicians that run my country and your country don't have guns in the schools their kids go to? They do," Vaughn told UK-based Sky News. "And we should be allowed the same rights. Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won't rid the world of criminality. … In all of our schools it is illegal to have guns on campus, so again and again these guys go and shoot up these ... schools because they know there are no guns there. They are monsters killing six-year-olds." Hollywood and UK media quickly labeled Vaughn an idiot. But Charles C. W. Cooke notes that Vaughn's thinking is correct, if a bit underdeveloped, as Vaughn never specifies how he envisions guns in schools. But Vaughn gets the concept of self-defense: “It’s well known that the greatest defense against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back.” Given that Hollywood hypocrites make so much money from gratuitous violence, it's refreshing to hear an actor support the Second Amendment. -The Patriot Post

May Concludes With 43 Homicides in Baltimore

In recent years, Chicago has been the focal point of attention regarding violence among minorities in large cities, but Baltimore has rocketed up the chain after a record-setting number of homicides in May. Criminal activity jumped following the death of Freddie Gray, and the spree continued on Sunday with three additional felonious deaths. The month ended with a staggering 43 murders, the most of any May and "the deadliest month since the early 1970s, when 44 people were killed in December 1971 and 45 people in August 1972," USA Today reported. Unsurprisingly, the upward swing in homicides is commensurate with a precipitous drop in the number of suspects being apprehended (32% by one estimate). The city has registered 116 homicides year-to-date. And while that may not sound impressive compared to areas like Chicago, on a per-capita-basis Baltimore in its current climate is actually far more dangerous. As Daily Caller contributor Derek Hunter writes, "The 48 murders in Chicago [in May] are disturbing, but the city has a population of 2.7 million people. In the month of May, there was one murder for every 56,250 Chicagoans. Meanwhile in Baltimore, a city with a population of only 622,000, their 43 murders puts them at a rate of one murder for every 14,465 residents." In other words, "Residents of Baltimore were 3.8 times more likely to be murdered than residents of Chicago in the month of May," Hunter concludes. Most alarmingly, imagine the homicide figures in a city like Chicago if it were to experience a Freddie Gray-type incident. -The Patriot Post

About MSU's Study on 'Far Right' Groups

This is the key question: How do the National Institute of Justice and Michigan State University define "far right" groups? Through the NIJ, the Department of Justice awarded a $585,719 grant to MSU to study how "extremist groups use web forums, social media, and technology to enculturate and radicalize individuals to violence." It's a question worth studying, as the U.S. government currently worries about supposed "lone-wolf" terrorism. While the study aims to analyze extremists' social networks to "identify the hidden networks of individuals who engage in extremist movements based on geographic location and ideological similarities" (which is a good descriptor of Jihadistan), the study will look at three jihadist forums — but four from the "far Right." There are questions about what the nObama administration considers to be dangerous right-wing groups. MSU could be studying the sovereign citizen movement. But in 2009, Mark Alexander warned that nObama's government was warily eyeing the Tea Party movement. In that same year, the Department of Homeland Security thought veterans returning from combat could be dangerous. If MSU wants to remain objective, it should also study the communications of far-Left groups. But then again is objectivity the point? More... -The Patriot Post

EPA Proposes More Corn for Fuel, Not Food

Compared to this time last year, Americans are paying much less at the gas pump. Enjoy it while you can, though, because gas prices are about to rise. The expected price increase isn't due to chaos in the Middle East or a shortage of fossil fuels. No, it’s due to the Environmental Protection Agency and its newly released proposal to increase ethanol production. By the way, do you like your food bill? Get ready, because that’s about to increase too.

The EPA's proposed three-year ethanol mandate will increase the amount of biofuel mixed into the gasoline supply. This may sound great to supporters of so-called renewable energy, but it’s actually doubling down on a terrible idea.

Why? Well, there are several problems with requiring more ethanol in America's fuel.

First, several gasoline refiners have warned that the proposal “moves more quickly than the market can support.” In 2007, when Congress expanded the Renewable Fuel Standard, only half of all gasoline contained 10% ethanol. Right now, nearly all of the gasoline produced and used in the U.S. contains 10% ethanol. However, the decrease in demand for gasoline due to more fuel-efficient vehicles means a corresponding decrease in demand for ethanol. The EPA would rather ignore reality and aims to increase ethanol production anyway. -The Patriot Post

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Free speech opponents enforce Islamic law, challenge our freedoms

(Retired Adm. James A. Lyons) ~ The First Amendment to our Constitution states... “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.” It is these words of this First Amendment that make America different from every other country in the world. However, all too frequently we are now seeing these cherished rights come under attack by not only Islamic totalitarian regimes, but also the West’s politically correct activists and progressive fellow travelers. The takeaway: Don’t criticize or take a position that might “offend” the seventh-century sensibilities of the followers of Islam, who view our freedoms of expression as heresy. According to the politically correct activists, it is better to submit than to offend the followers of Islam, who might get violent and go on a “justifiable” rampage. I say to them all, leave, go back from where you came from if you can't obey our rules and laws. http://www.aim.org/guest-column/free-speech-opponents-enforce-islamic-law-challenge-our-fundamental-freedoms/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email060315&utm_medium=emai

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Senator Wants RICO Climate Investigation – Start With Him

(rickwells.us) ~ Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) is a liar, a blowhard and a Marxist agitator. He’s a global warming alarmist who promotes unsubstantiated hysteria as climate science in the conduct of the greatest fraud ever perpetrated upon mankind... He’s attacking the American people, our sovereignty and our Constitution in the furtherance of the elite criminal operation, a conspiracy he is engaged in with the nObama regime and the United Nations as well as the globalist oligarchy which controls the United States. He recently wrote an article published in the Washington Post in which he makes the argument in favor of prosecuting Democrat climate conspirators. That wasn’t his intent, he was actually targeting climate realists, but his points fit perfectly into a case against the Democrats and their subversive conspiracy against the United States. If there ever was a case for RICO, the climate change hoax is it. Citizens of RI, re-elect another Senator who is a conservative. http://rickwells.us/senator-wants-rico-climate-investigation-start-with-him-and-crony-alarmist-profiteers/

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It’ll Never Work – More Eeyore Jeh Johnson Failures

(rickwells.us) ~ In its recently released Semiannual Report to the Congress, the DHS Inspector General reported that ICE “no longer supervises some ISAP participants.’ ISAP is an acronym for the Intensive Supervision Appearance Program... a program which they revealed to be much less intense than the name would indicate. According to the report, DHS admits that they no longer track some foreigners that they have chosen to release back into the communities of America. The reasons are the same we’ve heard from Secretary Jeh Johnson, the human Eeyore, more times than we can recall. Excuses like, “It’ll never work because we have to prioritize, it’ll never work because we don’t have the funding,” or “It’ll never work because we’re taking over the United Statesand this is our invading, occupying force.” ISAP is little more than an honor system with a promise to appear for a deportation hearing and an ankle bracelet, both easily broken. http://rickwells.us/itll-never-work-more-eeyore-jeh-johnson-failures-come-to-light-in-dhs-honor-amnesty-system/

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AG Lynch – Dems Not Responsible For City Crime, Schools Are

(rickwells.us) ~ What is happening with the parasitic urban centers of America is that, in spite of their incessant failures, the socialist Democrats continue to be supported and subsidized under a false humanitarian label by the producers of America... It is federal wealth redistribution from those who are willing to work and do what it takes to find a job wherever they can find one, to those who prefer to sit on the couch and watch Oprah. They might be persuaded to take a job if an employer walked up to their door with an offer, but it had better be a good one. If the Democrats in charge had chosen to become doctors they’d be guilty of malpractice and be standing amid heaping piles of corpses. Having chosen political careers, they are still guilty of malpractice and feeding a massive body count. Marxism doesn’t work but a misdiagnosis of the problem will hide the true root cause. Attorney General Loretta Lynch blames the public schools, who are dealing with a lack of discipline and respect for policies and the law from their hoodlum students. It is they, she claims, who are at fault for eliminating the offenders from their populations in the interest of educating the other students and their safety. http://rickwells.us/ag-loretta-lynch-democrats-not-responsible-for-inner-city-crime-the-schools-did-it/

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Top House Republican: Oil exports 'can be a win'

(Zack Colman) ~ House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton issued his strongest comments yet about lifting the U.S. ban on crude oil exports Tuesday, but stopped short of endorsing the end of the 40-year-old policy... "Oil exports can be a win for the American people and a win for our allies," the Michigan Republican said at a committee hearing, later adding, "The case for creating more jobs by expanding the market for American oil is a key reason why oil exports should be on this committee's agenda this year." However, he later told reporters that his comments did not mean he endorses ending the ban. "I stopped short of endorsing the legislation but I think that we need to look at the policy," Upton said. "I carefully wrote those remarks. So I don't want to go beyond that at this point." Why mention it if he didn't want to ban the oil export? http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/top-house-republican-backs-ending-crude-export-ban/article/2565452

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Jarrett Pushing Corporations To Support Of Climate Change Summit

(rickwells.us) ~ The brainwashing and behind the scenes manipulation and maneuvering continues within the White House as they press their offensive against the Constitution and the American people through the United Nations under the guise of protecting us from the air and water monsters... The Iranian insider, Valerie Jarrett, with assistance from her climate henchman, Robert Diamond, are enlisting the aid of their corporate comrades in pushing America towards submission to the United Nations this November in Paris. The move is being choreographed to coincide with a Pope Francis climate encyclical and his personal sales trip to New York in September. Since we have already devolved into a largely a fascist-controlled nation at this point, it is important for the regime to enlist the aid of and visibly present a united front with their corporate partners. It’s a move that Jarrett has already begun, as a letter obtained by the Daily Caller, which is reproduced below, clearly shows. http://rickwells.us/disinformation-campaign-jarrett-pushing-corporations-to-pledge-support-of-climate-change-summit/

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Whistleblower Sheds Light On Billions In Violation Of Federal Law

(Jonah Bennett) ~ A culture of “lawlessness and chaos” reigns at the Department of Veterans Affairs when it comes to purchasing goods and services for the Veterans Health Administration, according to senior official Jan R. Frye... Frye, deputy assistant secretary for acquisition and logistics, first brought to light problems of abuse back in March. He decided to air the information publicly after his 35-page memorandum to VA Secretary Robert McDonald went completely unanswered. The sum total of the chaos amounts to at least $6 billion in wasted funds spent in violation of federal contracting rules, The Washington Post reports. http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/15/va-whistleblower-sheds-light-on-billions-spent-in-violation-of-federal-law/

Interview With Ronald Reagan’s Former Budget Director Turns Ugly

(pro.dentresearch.com) ~ In the video, David and I not only outline what is inevitable to happen, and why it is getting increasingly imminent, but we additionally give you practical steps you can take to protect you and your loved ones...

Video: http://pro.dentresearch.com/BNBSTOCK4/LBNBR604?h=true

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While no one's watching, Congress does its worst

(conservativehq.com) ~ Last November, many people were jubilant at the Republican sweep of Congress, assuming that when it came to fiscal issues, our job was done or at least would get far easier... These last few weeks, says our friend Jonathan Bydlak at The Coalition to Reduce Spending, show just how wrong that assumption was. While many grassroots limited government constitutional conservatives and conservative pundits have been focused on the reauthorization of the Patriot Act and the headline grabbing battle over the NSA's domestic spying program the real work of Congress – spending your tax dollars – grinds on. With a newly installed Republican majority that campaigned as fiscal conservatives one would expect big government Democrats to be howling in pain about all the "unfair budget cuts," but unfortunately big government Republicans are doing as much or more spending as would be expected from the Democrats.

http://www.conservativehq.com/node/20392

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The Myth that Republicans are Growing More Extreme

(Matthew Vadum) ~ Today’s Democratic Party makes common cause with the criminals who burn down poor people’s neighborhoods in American cities. And yet the Right is somehow alleged to be more susceptible to “extremism.”... Sharpening her class-warfare guillotine, Hilly Clinton calls for the “toppling” of the one percent. She copycats her potential rival, Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), claiming that “the deck is stacked” in favor of the wealthy and powerful. Yet Republicans, who haven’t singled out identifiable social groups for destruction, somehow get tagged as the radicals. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/the-myth-that-republicans-are-growing-more-extreme/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3ef83918a0-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-3ef83918a0-156509103

A summer break from campus muzzling

George F. Will

(unionleader.com) ~ COMMENCEMENT SEASON brings a respite from the sinister childishness rampant on campuses. Attacks on freedom of speech come from the professoriate, that herd of independent minds, and from the ever-thickening layer of university administrators who keep busy constricting freedom in order to fine-tune campus atmospherics.

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The attacks are childish because they infantilize students who flinch from the intellectual free-for-all of adult society. When Brown University's tranquility of conformity was threatened by a woman speaker skeptical about the "rape culture" on campuses, students planned a "safe space" for those who would be traumatized by exposure to skepticism. Judith Shulevitz, writing in The New York Times, reported that the space had "cookies, coloring books, bubbles, Play-Doh, calming music, pillows, blankets and a video of frolicking puppies."

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The attack on free expression is sinister because it asserts that such freedom is not merely unwise but, in a sense, meaningless. Free speech is more comprehensively and aggressively embattled now than ever before in American history, largely because of two 19th-century ideas. One is that history - actually, History, a proper noun - has a mind of its own. The other is that most people do not really have minds of their own.

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Progressives frequently disparage this or that person or idea as "on the wrong side of history." They regard history as an autonomous force with its own laws of unfolding development: Progress is wherever history goes. This belief entails disparagement of human agency - or at least that of most people, who do not understand history's implacable logic and hence do not get on history's "right side." Such people are crippled by "false consciousness." Fortunately, a saving clerisy, a vanguard composed of the understanding few, know where history is going and how to help it get there.

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One way to help is by molding the minds of young people. The molders believe that the sociology of knowledge demonstrates that most people do not make up their minds, "society" does this. But progressive minds can be furnished for them by controlling the promptings from the social environment. This can be done by making campuses into hermetically sealed laboratories.

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In "The Promise of American Life" (1909), progressivism's canonical text, Herbert Croly said, "The average American individual is morally and intellectually inadequate to a serious and consistent conception of his responsibilities as a democrat." National life should be "a school," with the government as the stern but caring principal: "The exigencies of such schooling frequently demand severe coercive measures, but what schooling does not?" "Unregenerate citizens" can be saved "many costly perversions, in case the official school-masters are wise, and the pupils neither truant nor insubordinate." For a survey of today's campus coercions, read Kirsten Power's "The Silencing: How the Left is Killing Free Speech."

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In "Kindly Inquisitors" (1993), Jonathan Rauch showed how attacks on the free market in speech undermine three pillars of American liberty. They subvert democracy, the culture of persuasion by which we decide who shall wield legitimate power. (Progressives advocate government regulation of the quantity, content and timing of political campaign speech.) The attacks undermine capitalism - markets registering the freely expressed choices by which we allocate wealth. And the attacks undermine science, which is how we decide what is true. (Note progressives' insistence that the science about this or that is "settled.")

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For decades, much academic ingenuity has been devoted to jurisprudential theorizing to evade the First Amendment's majestic simplicity about "no law ... abridging the freedom of speech." We are urged to "balance" this freedom against competing, and putatively superior, considerations such as individual serenity, institutional tranquility or social improvement.

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On campuses, the right of free speech has been supplanted by an entitlement to what Greg Lukianoff of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education calls a right to freedom from speech deemed uncongenial. This entitlement is buttressed by "trigger warnings" against spoken "micro-aggressions" that lacerate the delicate sensibilities of individuals who are encouraged to be exquisitely, paralyzingly sensitive.

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In a booklet for the "Encounter Broadside" series, Lukianoff says "sensitivity-based censorship" on campus reflects a broader and global phenomena.

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It is the demand for coercive measures to do for our mental lives what pharmacology has done for our bodies - the banishment or mitigation of many discomforts. In the social milieu fostered by today's entitlement state, expectations quickly generate entitlements.

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Students are taught to expect intellectual comfort, including the reinforcement of their beliefs, or at least those that conform to progressive orthodoxies imbibed and enforced on campuses. Until September, however, the culture of freedom will be safe from its cultured despisers.

http://www.unionleader.com/article/20150531/OPINION02/150539940/-1/opinion02

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Thursday Morning ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 4, 2015 at 3:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

The Trigger-Happy Generation

Peggy Noonan

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

~~~lll~~~

2016 GOP POWER INDEX: PAUL FIGHTS HIS WAY DOWN
Sen. Rand Paul is in step with his party on most issues. He’s pro-life, a big backer of gun rights, a small-government conservative and he’s an unabashed critic of President nObama and Hilly Clinton. And yet, Paul is again in the spotlight talking about his disagreements with his own party. For months, Paul has been focused on reducing criminal penalties for drugs. Last week, he blamed GOP hawks for the creation of ISIS. Now, he has succeeded in pulling off a one-man blockade of the Patriot Act.
Like his other views, Paul’s stand is no doubt sincere and he couldn’t control the timing of the deadline. But even if he’s not acting out of political calculation, Paul’s obstruction is also no doubt necessary given his core supporters’ views on the subject. Presumably, the current effort will cement his status as the real libertarian in the race. But how will that help him grow his stagnant 7 percent? Conservativesgenerally share

Paul’s concerns about over-broad surveillance, but that doesn’t mean that they will like what he’s doing. Even some voters disposed to like Paul are uneasy.
Paul, who suggested some of his critics were hoping for a terrorist attack during the Patriot Act lapse as fodder for political attacks against him, clearly sees himself as a man locked in an epic struggle with wicked people. Paul could take credit for the changes that will be made once his procedural efforts expire, but instead he is casting himself in a similar, if less damaging, role that Ted Cruz filled during the 2013 nObamaCare government shutdown.
Attacking him has become a cottage industry for hawks in general and neo-conservatives in particular. It’s hard to imagine Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., debuting his long-shot bid today without Paul in the race, and Graham and others will do their best to keep Paul pinned down defending his national security stances. And like his father in his 2008 and 2012 runs, Paul will become a piñata for other second-tier candidates looking to grab a headline or demonstrate foreign policy bona fides.
Paul can grab attention and he can be heard above the din of a crowded GOP field. But if he wants the GOP nomination, he will have to find a way to use those gifts to turn his fight back toward Democrats or he will become a marginal figure in fast fashion. -Fox News

Jeb backs upping Social Security age to ‘68 or 70’ - The Hill: “Jeb Bush wants to push back the retirement age for Social Security by as many as five years. Instead of allowing Americans to collect full benefits at age 65, the former Florida governor and likely GOP presidential candidate suggested on Sunday that it should be pushed back to 68 or 70. ‘I think it needs to be phased in over an extended period of time,’ he said on CBS’s ‘Face the Nation.’”
“This is hard for me, to be honest with you, to – I have to do the Heisman on my brother that I love. This is not something I’m comfortable doing. But I’m my own person. I have my own life experience. And I will be successful, if I’m a candidate, when I share my heart and talk about what I have done as governor of the state…” –Former Gov. Jeb Bush on CBS News.
[Bush’s pseudo-campaign, Right to Rise, released a new video of Bush’s trip to Michigan last week. Bush emphasizes the need for innovation as he tours an antique car museum.] -Fox News

Walker says U.S. shouldn’t be ‘world’s policeman’ - Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: “Tough talk about taking on America’s foes has been a staple of Gov. Scott Walker’s rhetoric in the run-up to his likely presidential bid. But on a weekend swing here, he mixed his fighting words with some qualifiers. He’s not for ‘open-ended excursions,’ he told GOP activists on a cruise on Lake Winnipesaukee. ‘We don’t need to get into open-ended, endless engagements,’ he said at a banquet speech in Manchester. ‘I don’t think we should be the world's policeman,’ he told his audience at the Snowshoe Club in Concord. ‘I don’t think we should go in everywhere.’”
Iowa’s favorite - DMR: “Scott Walker’s popularity streak in Iowa is real: He’s seven percentage points ahead of his nearest competition in the presidential horse race here, chased by a tight pack of four in a clear top tier: Ben Carson, Rand Paul, Jeb Bush and Mike Huckabee.” -Fox News

HILLY TOOK BIG BUCKS FROM KEYSTONE BACKERS

HuffPo: “Two Canadian banks tightly connected to promoting the controversial Keystone XL pipeline in the United States either fully or partially paid for eight speeches made by former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton in the period not long before she announced her campaign for president. Those speeches put more than $1.6 million in the Democratic candidate's pocket. Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and TD Bank were both primary sponsors of paid Clinton speeches in 2014 and early 2015…Both banks have financial ties to TransCanada, the company behind the Keystone XL pipeline… Further,

Gordon Giffin, a CIBC board member and onetime U.S. ambassador to Canada, is a former lobbyist for TransCanada and was a contributions bundler for Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign….
More from HuffPo: “While serving as secretary of state, Clinton said that she was ‘inclined’ to approve the pipeline. Since then, she has been mum on the issue, even as environmentalists -- with their major grassroots and money sway in the Democratic Party -- have made stopping the pipeline a priority…. Whether the U.S. government will approve further construction of the pipeline was a hot topic in each of the Q&A sessions hosted by the bank executives. And at every turn, Clinton refused to answer.” -Fox News

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The public pension funding trap

(Andrew G. Biggs) ~ State and local government pensions were national news during the recession, as unfunded liabilities rose into the trillions of dollars and overheated commentators predicted that rising pension costs could push governments into bankruptcy... Today attention has faded and the public-pension industry claims that plans are back on track. Don’t be too sure. Governments are still failing to make their full contributions; as recently as this week New Jersey’s chief budget analyst deemed it not “fiscally or physically possible” for the state to make its nearly $3 billion full pension contribution this year. Public pensions are taking greater investment risk with the money they do receive. If those investments fail to pan out, the budget picture for many governments will once again be grim. http://www.aei.org/publication/the-public-pension-funding-trap/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=060215

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China is gambling nObama doesn’t respond to its land grab

(Michael Auslin) ~ You may not have noticed, as ISIS expands its reach across Iraq and Russia fuels conflict in Ukraine, but the odds of an armed confrontation between the United States and China just dramatically increased... After years of ignoring China’s growing assertiveness in Asia, the nObama administration has been taken unaware by a major land and power grab by Beijing. Over the past several years, China has steadily expanded its territorial ambitions, including a claim that the entire South China Sea is under its dominion. http://www.aei.org/publication/china-is-gambling-obama-doesnt-have-will-to-respond-to-its-massive-land-grab/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=060215

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Diplomatic Activism Won't Bring Israeli-Palestinian Peace

(Efraim Inbar) ~ The Europeans have decided that the Arab-Israeli conflict in the Holy Land, over a hundred years long, must finally end. High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs Federica Mogherini recently came to Israel to convey the EU's impatience with the impasse in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations... France intends to bring the matter to the U.N. Security Council to set an 18-month deadline on the resolution of the conflict. The European intentions are laudable, but seem to be removed from the Middle Eastern reality. While partition of the Land of Israel between the Jews and the Arabs living in this small part of the world is desirable, the Palestinian national movement has proven to be the wrong partner to implement partition and is largely responsible for the failure of the two-state solution. http://www.meforum.org/5282/eu-peace-process

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Alert: ISIS Could Soon Acquire this Game-Changing Weapon

(patriotsandpolitics.com) ~ In the latest issue of the ISIS propaganda magazine, Dabiq, British photojournalist and ISIS hostage John Cantlie alerts readers to the possibility of the group acquiring a nuclear weapon... Cantlie suggests that owing to their rapid expansion and the vast finances the group controls, the purchase could come within a year. Cantlie, who has been held by the terror group for more than two years, is often used as a pawn in their propaganda, including numerous appearances in the YouTube series, “Lend Me Your Ears.” The article itself makes the bold claim that ISIS has transcended its roots as “the most explosive Islamic ‘group’ in the modern world” to become “the most explosive Islamic movement the modern world has ever seen.” And they have managed it all in less than one year. http://patriotsandpolitics.com/isis-warns-of-plans-to-buy-nuclear-weapon/

nObama Misses the Mark on Iranian Anti-Semitism

(Jeffrey Herf) ~ Something unusual has begun in the Washington-New Yorkcorridor. Journalists and policy analysts have begun a critical public discussion about President nObama's understanding (or misunderstanding) of the significance and nature of the anti-Semitism of the Iranian regime... They are asking how his view on that subject affects prospects for a nuclear deal to stop the ayatollahs from getting the bomb. Insights about the history and nature of anti-Semitism that we historians have elaborated over the years are finding their way into the pages of several of our major newspapers and at least one important policy-related international relations journal. The President himself, apparently stung by criticism that his approach to Iran is facilitating rather than preventing its path to the bomb and that he bears primary responsibility for the tensions in American-Israeli relations, initiated this discussion when he recently gave an extensive interview to Atlantic magazine journalist Jeffrey Goldberg on May 21. http://www.meforum.org/5283/antisemitism-iran

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Congress approves bill to resume, overhaul NSA surveillance

(foxnews.com) ~ The Senate gave final approval Tuesday to legislation that would restart -- but also overhaul -- controversial government surveillance programs that went dark over the weekend after lawmakers missed a key deadline... In a 67-32 vote, the chamber approved the so-called USA Freedom Act. The legislation, which already won approval in the House, now goes to President nObama's desk. The vote comes after key surveillance programs -- most notably, the National Security Agency's bulk collection of Americans' phone records -- were suspended Sunday after Congress missed the deadline for reauthorization. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/06/02/legislation-to-resume-overhaul-nsa-surveillance-clears-key-senate-hurdle/

Video: http://video.foxnews.com/v/4271503520001/white-house-nsa-reform-bill-strikes-the-right-balance/?playlist_id=2694949843001#playlist_id=2694949843001&sp=show-clips&v=4271503520001

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ISIS Seized $1 Billion of U.S. Military Aid, Iraqi Leader Admits

(Alex Newman) ~ The so-called Islamic State, a brutal terrorist group also known as ISIS, seized 2,300 U.S. military Humvees and other weaponry from Iraq’s U.S. taxpayer-funded armed forces in Mosul, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al-Abadi admitted in a TV interview over the weekend... ISIS militants then paraded the captured U.S. military equipment, reportedly worth over $1 billion, through the streets of the city. They then proceeded to use the American Humvees to lynch and burn Iraqi troops — many of whom had dropped their U.S. supplies and fled — before putting the vehicles to work in suicide bombings and other attacks. One of them was used on June 1 in a suicide strike in Baghdad that killed some 45 people. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/foreign-policy/item/20986-isis-seized-1-billion-of-u-s-military-aid-iraqi-leader-admits?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=352f89bc35-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-352f89bc35-289778381

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GOP Put Big Bite Behind Gowdy’s Bark Over Foot-Drag On Benghazi

(Norvell Rose) ~ Chairman Trey Gowdy and Republican members of his House committee investigating the Benghazi attacks have long complained that nObama’s State Department has been dragging its feet in responding to a number of subpoenas demanding documents related to the deadly assault in 2012... The committee has been loudly complaining that officials at State have stalled and offered all sorts of excuses for not turning over the requested material, especially Hilly Clinton’s official emails when she was secretary of state. Now, in a move sure to encourage conservatives and anger liberals, House Republicans are, in a sense, putting their money where their mouth has been.Politico reports that the fed-up GOP lawmakers are “using their most obvious weapon to hold State’s feet to the fire: the power of the purse.” “House Republicans are threatening to withhold a large chunk of State Department funding until officials speed up their responses to document requests, including House demands for documents pertaining to the Benghazi investigation and probe of Hilly Clinton’s emails.” http://www.westernjournalism.com/house-gop-just-put-big-bite-behind-gowdys-bark-over-state-dept-foot-drag-on-benghazi/

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Journalists: Bureaucrats Make FOIA Process ‘Useless’

(Ethan Barton) ~ Members of a House oversight committee were outraged during a bizarre hearing Tuesday in which congressmen listened to journalists discuss how government agencies intentionally botched formal requests for information... The reporters told the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform of numerous instances where agencies needlessly delayed, denied or redacted Freedom of Information Act requests. The FOIA guarantees the public access to all government documents, subject only to nine exemptions such as for privacy, commercial privilege and national security. The journalists also suggested that government employees who violate the FOIA law should be prosecuted. There are currently no consequences to bureaucrats who don’t abide by the statute that has been on the books since 1966. Sharyl Attkisson is that jornalists. http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/02/journalists-tell-oversight-committee-bureaucrats-make-foia-process-useless/

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European Leaders Demand Regime Change in Iran

(Adam Kredo) ~ Some 200 European officials are calling for Iran’s hardline Islamic government to be dissolved and for the country to allow international inspectors to take inventory of all Iranian sites suspected of housing an illicit nuclear weapons program, according to a letter sent to European Union (EU) Foreign Policy Chief Federica Mogherini on Tuesday... The delegation, comprised of 221 members of the European Parliament from 28 EU member states, slams Iran’s “destructive meddling” throughout the region and criticizes its human rights record, which is ranked among the worst in the world. The delegation also backs regime change aimed to bring down Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his hardline inner circle of allies, according to the letter, which was spearheaded by Friends of a Free Iran (FoFI), a European Parliament group formed in 2003. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/european-leaders-demand-regime-change-in-iran/

The Trigger-Happy Generation

Peggy Noonan

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(peggynoonan.com) ~ Readers know of the phenomenon at college campuses regarding charges of “microaggressions” and “triggers.” It’s been going on for a while and is part of a growing censorship movement in which professors, administrators and others are accused of racism, sexism, homophobia, classism, gender bias and ethnocentric thinking, among other things. Connected is the rejection or harassment of commencement and other campus speakers who are not politically correct. I hate that phrase, but it just won’t stop being current.

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Kirsten Powers goes into much of this in her book, “The Silencing.” Anyway, quite a bunch of little Marats and Robespierres we’re bringing up.

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But I was taken aback by a piece a few weeks ago in the Spectator, the student newspaper of Columbia University. I can’t shake it, though believe me I’ve tried. I won’t name the four undergraduate authors, because 30 years from now their children will be on Google, and because everyone in their 20s has the right to be an idiot.

Yet theirs is a significant and growing form of idiocy that deserves greater response.

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The authors describe a student in a class discussion of Ovid’s epic poem “Metamorphoses.” The class read the myths of Persephone and Daphne, which, as parts of a narrative that stretches from the dawn of time to the Rome of Caesar, include depictions of violence, chaos, sexual assault and rape. The student, the authors reported, is herself “a survivor of sexual assault” and said she was “triggered.” She complained the professor focused “on the beauty of the language and the splendor of the imagery when lecturing on the text.” He did not apparently notice her feelings, or their urgency. As a result, “the student completely disengaged from the class discussion as a means of self-preservation. She did not feel safe in the class.”

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Safe is the key word here. There’s the suggestion that a work may be a masterpiece but if it makes anyone feel bad, it’s out.

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Later the student told the professor how she felt, and her concerns, she said, were ignored. The authors of the op-ed note that “Metamorphoses” is a fixture in the study of literature and humanities, “but like so many texts in the Western canon it contains triggering and offensive material that marginalizes student identities in the classroom.” The Western canon, they continue, is full of “histories and narratives of exclusion and oppression” that can be “difficult to read and discuss as a survivor, a person of color, or a student from a low-income background.”

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That makes them feel unsafe: “Students need to feel safe in the classroom, and that requires a learning environment that recognizes the multiplicity of their identities.” The authors suggest changing the core curriculum but concede it may not be easy. Another student, they report, suggested in her class that maybe instead they could read “a Toni Morrison text.” A different student responded that “texts by authors of the African Diaspora are a staple in most high school English classes, and therefore they did not need to reread them.” That remark, the authors assert, was not only “insensitive” but “revealing of larger ideological divides.” The professor, they report, failed at this moment to “intervene.”

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The op-ed authors call for “a space to hold a safe and open dialogue” about classroom experiences that “traumatize and silence students,” with the aim of creating environments that recognize “the multiplicity” of student “identities.”

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Well, here are some questions and a few thoughts for all those who have been declaring at all the universities, and on social media, that their feelings have been hurt in the world and that the world had just better straighten up.

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Why are you so fixated on the idea of personal safety, by which you apparently mean not having uncomfortable or unhappy thoughts and feelings? Is there any chance this preoccupation is unworthy of you? Please say yes.

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There is no such thing as safety. That is asking too much of life. You can’t expect those around you to constantly accommodate your need for safety. That is asking too much of people.

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Life gives you potentials for freedom, creativity, achievement, love, all sorts of beautiful things, but none of us are “safe.” And you are especially not safe in an atmosphere of true freedom. People will say and do things that are wrong, stupid, unkind, meant to injure. They’ll bring up subjects you find upsetting. It’s uncomfortable. But isn’t that the price we pay for freedom of speech?

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You can ask for courtesy, sensitivity and dignity. You can show others those things, too, as a way of encouraging them. But if you constantly feel anxious and frightened by what you encounter in life, are we sure that means the world must reorder itself? Might it mean you need a lot of therapy?

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Masterpieces, by their nature, pierce. They jar and unsettle. If something in a literary masterpiece upsets you, should the masterpiece really be banished? What will you be left with when all of them are gone?

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What in your upbringing told you that safety is the highest of values? What told you it is a realistic expectation? Who taught you that you are entitled to it every day? Was your life full of . . . unchecked privilege? Discuss.

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Do you think Shakespeare, Frieda Kahlo, Virginia Woolf, Langston Hughes and Steve Jobs woke up every morning thinking, “My focus today is on looking for slights and telling people they’re scaring me”? Or were their energies and commitments perhaps focused on other areas?

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I notice lately that some members of your generation are being called, derisively, Snowflakes. Are you really a frail, special and delicate little thing that might melt when the heat is on?

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Do you wish to be known as the first generation that comes with its own fainting couch? Did first- and second-wave feminists march to the barricades so their daughters and granddaughters could act like Victorians with the vapors?

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Everyone in America gets triggered every day. Many of us experience the news as a daily microaggression. Who can we sue, silence or censor to feel better?

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Finally, social justice warriors always portray themselves—and seem to experience themselves—as actively suffering victims who need protection. Is that perhaps an invalid self-image? Are you perhaps less needy than demanding? You seem to be demanding a safety no one else in the world gets. If you were so vulnerable, intimidated and weak, you wouldn’t really be able to attack and criticize your professors, administrators and fellow students so ably and successfully, would you?

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Are you a bunch of frail and sensitive little bullies? Is it possible you’re not intimidated but intimidators?

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Again, discuss.

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By the way, I went back to the op-ed and read the online comments it engendered from the Columbia community. They were quite wonderful. One called, satirically, to ban all satire because it has too many “verbal triggers.” Another: “These women are like a baby watching a movie and thinking the monster is going to come out of the screen and get them.” Another: “These girls’ parents need a refund.”

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The biggest slayer of pomposity and sanctimony in our time continues to be American wit.

http://www.peggynoonan.com/the-trigger-happy-generation/

('' YOUR OPINION IS IMPORTANT TO ME WHAT DO YOU THINK ? '')

Wednesday Afternoon ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 3, 2015 at 10:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

A Bush-League Candidate

Burt Prelutsky

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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DOJ Planning Next Assault on Gun Rights

If Barack nObama can't push gun control through the nation's lawmaking body, then he'll pile on the regulations. By November, the Department of Justice and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives are expected to finalize regulations that would restrict who is qualified to exercise their Second Amendment rights. "The regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements," The Hill reports. "Chief among them is a renewed effort to keep guns out of the hands of people who are mentally unstable or have been convicted of domestic abuse. … As proposed, the regulation makes it illegal for some who has been convicted of a misdemeanor domestic violence offense to own a gun." The Left has been test firing these regulations since 1998, but it is revising the proposed regulation binge because of Sandy Hook and "public health." Furthermore, what constitutes domestic assault and mental illness is subject to social mores, and rights guaranteed by the Constitution are not tied to majority rule. -The Patriot Post

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Patriot Act Expires After Last-Minute Senate Fight

The Senate allowed the Patriot Act to expire Sunday after opposition, led by Rand Paul, derailed the efforts of Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell to renew the act and endorse the NSA's mass metadata collection efforts. The chamber did, however, vote 77-17 to take up the House-passed USA Freedom Act, which would revise the Patriot Act to specifically prohibit the NSA's domestic spying program — a program ruled illegal by a federal court. Unfortunately, congressional efficiency being what it is, leadership waited too late to bring either bill up for debate, almost ensuring unnecessary drama. That means the good of the Patriot Act was thrown out with the bad. Yet as Reuters reports, "Intelligence experts say a lapse of only a few days would have little immediate effect. The government is allowed to continue collecting information related to any foreign intelligence investigation that began before the deadline." Fighting terrorists is critical, but collecting data from every American to create the proverbial haystack doesn't strike us as an efficient or trustworthy way to go about doing that. And it's time Congress took its national security responsibly more seriously than leaving important work to the last minute. -The Patriot Post

O'Malley Officially Challenges Hilly

The symbolism was a bit off, or a telling example of what the future may hold if Martin O'Malley wins the White House. With the Baltimore skyline in the background, the former mayor of the city announced announced Saturday that he would seek the Democrat nomination for president. Between the idealistic socialist Bernie Sanders and the conniving politician Hilly Clinton, O'Malley doesn't seem to have much of a chance winning the Democrat Party's horse race. Publisher of the Rothenberg and Gonzales Political Report, Stuart Rothenberg, told the Baltimore Sun, "The only way he's going to have a path, is if [Clinton] stumbles. Right now, it's not about O'Malley and I don't believe it ever will be about O'Malley." While we know Clinton's track record on foreign policy, we know O'Malley's track record on domestic issues through his leadership in Maryland. It was he that brought tough, zero-tolerance policing to Baltimore — the policing strategy that contributed to the riots that recently rocked the city. Furthermore, it was the guitar-playing politician's progressive economic strategies as governor that drowned Maryland in taxes and waterlogged the state's economic engine. That economic policy caused Maryland to have the third slowest economic growth of all the states from 2011 to 2013, The Wall Street Journal reports — something the nation's economy cannot bear after years of implementing nObama's economic ideas. -The Patriot Post

Breaking the Tyranny of DC Gun Laws

The left-wing ruling class in the District of Columbia continues its relentless fight against the God-given freedom recognized by the Second Amendment — the right to bear arms, the palladium of liberties. Of course, to the Left, the thought of a constitutional right that doesn’t involve the redefinition of marriage or legalizing the dismemberment of a baby in the womb seems ludicrous.

This chapter in the ongoing saga revolves around a federal judge’s ruling last July that overturned the city’s 40-year ban on carrying firearms for self-defense. In response to the ruling, the leftist DC government designed a very restrictive right-to-carry permit process — one that approved as few applications as possible.

That, too, has been struck down in a federal decision joining the Supreme Court's 2008 Heller ruling that overturned the District of Columbia’s complete ban on handgun ownership. Since that restoration of rights, over 3,000 handguns have been registered in DC, but only for use in protecting one’s home. -The Patriot Post

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United Church of Christ and The "Big Lie"

(Susan Warner) ~ In just a few weeks, on June 26-30, the opening gavel will sound on United Church of Christ (UCC) General Synod. Two of the many proposals this national Synod will entertain call on the church to divest from Israel, and one of them will propose declaring that Israel's actions towards the Palestinians constitute "apartheid."... The UCC, representing approximately 1.2 million members in 5,100 churches in the USA, is just one of the member churches of the World Council of Churches (WCC), which insists on making Israel the whipping boy of a misguided "peace and justice" agenda. In June, UCC member delegates will have an opportunity to determine the direction of their denomination. Sadly, the UCC delegates' choices regarding Israel will be based on documents, "proofs" and appeals built upon a foundation of lies, false choices and political fantasies that accuse Israel of being an "Apartheid State" and an "illegal occupier of Palestinian land." http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5862/united-church-of-christ

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Pentagon’s aviation plan headed for a dead stick landing

(Mackenzie Eaglen) ~ It is time for Congress to end the charade and throw out the Pentagon’s annual aviation report—or demand that it be fixed... Otherwise, the plan will remain an expensive waste of time for both its readers and its writers. It has changed over time, making comparisons from year to year near impossible and rendering the document indecipherable. The report remains a messy and near-useless product that spurns the demand of Congress for a reliable assessment and outlook of America’s military aviation fleets. Further, these shortcomings are likely obscuring the extent of the problems of a smaller, older Air Force that faces currently insurmountable budgetary challenges in the next decade. Even through the fog of inadequate data, policymakers can tell that the Air Force is in a far worse position than previous plans estimated it would be in at this point in time. Saving America’s Air Force should be the focus of Congress, as that is the only true way to turn its aviation health (and reporting) around. http://www.aei.org/publication/pentagon-aviation-report-dead-stick-landing/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=060115

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Deception Or Delusion? nObama Claims US Most Respected Country

(rickwells.us) ~ nObama may be conducting his own opinion polls on the side, phrasing the questions in just the right manner as to elicit the desired response. It’s either that or he’s gone completely insane, or he’s just lying through his teeth again... Whatever the reason, nObama is inexplicably claiming that the United States is more respected now than it was when he took office. He then embarks on a fanciful trip into his world of make believe, explaining how wonderful he is and just how he imagines he was able to turn things around for us. Charles Krauthammer has a different opinion, as do a majority of world leaders and any clear-headed, rational thinking Americans. He cites a long list of examples as to why the nObama drivel is not a true statement, both as it relates to foreign policy and our problems domestically. He is insane. http://rickwells.us/deception-or-delusion-obama-claims-us-now-most-respected-country-on-earth/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76L0vWT6ijY

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West Wing Livid Over Military Revolt

(gopthedailydose.com) ~ White House staff are reportedly livid following a series of publicly aired disagreements between President nObama and top military officials... Things became so bad this afternoon, a senior White House adviser is said to have yelled out during a phone conference with a group of Senate Democrats, “You remind those assh*les who they take orders from!” Two days earlier it was the top military officer in the nation, Army General Martin Dempsey, who informed Congress ground troops were to be a viable option in the war against ISIS. For days Barack nObama had stated publicly ground troops were not an option. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/06/01/developing-west-wing-livid-over-military-revolt-you-remind-those-asshles-who-they-take-orders-from/

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nObama Releases Lead Balloon – Pitches Iran Nuclear Arms

(rickwells.us) ~ nObama is presenting his case that the best way to prevent Iran from having nuclear weapons is to sign his deal that gives them nuclear weapons... He’s got his work cut out for him; it’s a tough sell. In a Friday interview with Israel’s Channel 2 television reporter Ilana Dayan, nObama said that a “verifiable, tough agreement” on nuclear weapons is the best deal for Israel and the world. That might be the case, but a verifiable and tough agreement is not what he’s “negotiated” with Iran. He’s put them on a timetable to nuclear weapons in fifteen years, with Iran refusing to allow compliance verification through on-site inspections. What he’s give Israel and the world is simply a nuclear weapons development agreement. To label it anything else is pure deception. nObama argues that military action won’t work to stop Iran. One thing we’ve learned after six years under this restrictive, bent-on-failure commander-in-chief, is that nothing works, militarily, under his direction. Yes indeed, he is insane. http://rickwells.us/obama-releases-lead-balloon-pitches-iran-nuclear-arms-giveaway-to-israel-media

Few Takers--Hilly Allows Men Buy Tkts. To Event 'Just For Women'

(Jeff Dunetz) ~ What happens when you throw a fund raiser and nobody buys tickets? Well if you are Hilly Clinton you "invite" men... Successful attorney and champion of many liberal causes Silda Wall Spitzer (who is also the ex wife of client #9 Elliot Spitzer) threw a $2,700-per-person, “just for women” meeting with the presumptive Democratic Party nominee yesterday in New York, New York, the city so liberal they tax you twice. Because there weren't enough rich/powerful women who felt like attending, at the very last minute they invited men to fill the 60% of the seats still unsold. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/no-one-wanted-to-go-so-hillary-allows.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=79bfb70930-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-79bfb70930-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-79bfb70930-291705165

Hilly Gave Sweetheart Arms Deals To Clinton Foundation Donors

(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Here's an interesting coincidence, countries that donated to the Clinton Foundation "just happened" to get approvals for a bigger cache of weapons from the Hilly Clinton-run Department than the countries that didn't donate... And the real interesting part about this revelation was it was discovered and published by the ultra-liberal Salon. The Secretary of State is in charge of “the continuous supervision and general direction of sales” of arms, military hardware and services to foreign countries. In practice, that meant that Clinton was charged with rejecting or approving weapons deals — and when it came to Clinton Foundation donors, Hilly Clinton’s State Department did a whole lot of approving." http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/hillary-gave-sweetheart-arms-deals-to.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=79bfb70930-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-79bfb70930-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-79bfb70930-291705165

nObama Silent? PA TV Teaching Kids Jews Are Barbaric Monkeys

(Jeff Dunetz) ~ Remember on Israel's election day when President nObama flipped out when Bibi Netanyahu complained that, "Arab voters are going en masse to the polls” and thus threatening the country’s “rightwing government."... Netanyahu didn't say stop them from voting he said so my supporters better come out and vote. But that still is only part of what Bibi said soon after the video was posted, Netanyahu clarified that “what’s wrong is not that Arab citizens are voting, but that massive funds from abroad from left-wing NGOs and foreign governments are bringing them en masse to the polls in an organized way, thus twisting the true will of all Israeli citizens who are voting, for the good of the Left.” President nObama had a cow over what he claimed was Bibi's racism. But if nObama is so concerned with racism why isn't he slamming the Palestinians for what they call Jews their official TV network? As reported by Palwatch.org: http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/06/why-is-obama-silent-palestinian-tv.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=79bfb70930-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-79bfb70930-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-79bfb70930-291705165

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Congressman: Fourth Amendment “Is Not Absolute”

(Suzanne Hamner) ~ In these trying days of political dog and pony shows with every Mitch, hanoi John and Nancy telling the American people what the Constitution says... it behooves every American to have a couple of copies of the Constitution of the united States of America and read it thoroughly, each time some politicians tells you what's in it. The latest interpretation of the Fourth Amendment to the Constitution has been brought forth by Sen. Angus King (I-ME). According to Sen. King, the Fourth amendment "is not absolute." Sen. King stated, "But the Fourth Amendment is not absolute. It said people shall be free of unreasonable searches and seizures. We are always trying to strike the balance between those two principles, in light of risk and in light of technology." It seems Sen. King left out a great deal of information imparted by the Fourth Amendment. http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/06/congressman-fourth-amendment-is-not-absolute/

Hamas-Affiliated Group Wins Seat on UN Body

(investigativeproject.org) ~ A United Nations (UN) committee on Monday awarded "observer" status to a UK-based Palestinian organization, which advocates for Israel's destruction, Fox Newsreports... The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC), which allegedly serves as a Hamas front, earned the important designation on the UN Committee on Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs), enabling the radical group to receive official UN badges and complete access to UN facilities. The PRC's new status also allows it to partake in UN debates in New York, Geneva, and Vienna. The UN Committee features a 19-member panel including countries notorious for committing human rights violations such as Iran, Sudan, Pakistan, Venezuela, Russian, and China. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4862/hamas-affiliated-group-wins-seat-on-un-body

A Bush-League Candidate

Burt Prelutsky

(burtprelutsky.com) - When Megyn Kelly asked Jeb Bush if he would, knowing what we know now, have invaded Iraq in 2003, it was not a gotcha question. She is not a liberal shill looking to eviscerate every GOP presidential candidate. She was actually giving him the opportunity to separate himself from his big brother, even though big brother George had already said that absent faulty intelligence, he would not have gone after Saddam Hussein.

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Jeb’s problem was that, like most politicians, he prefers the sound of his own voice to that of all others. He was so anxious to give his canned answer that he tuned out the all-important “Knowing what we know now.” The fact is we have all misheard and misspoken on occasion. The problem is that he didn’t immediately say, “Oh, sorry, Megyn, I was preoccupied, worrying about my father’s failing health” or something equally self-serving. Instead, he and his people wasted a few days trying to make sense of his response.

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In other words, like every other political hack, he relies on his staff to translate what he says into coherent speech. Frankly, I am sick of political handlers and spin-masters speaking on behalf of the political lamebrains. As I said, we have all committed verbal transgressions, but we didn’t job it out to twenty other people to explain what we meant to say. We did it ourselves.

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The more these buffoons rely on others to smooth over their gaffes, the less respect I have for them. And in some cases, you’d think that would be virtually impossible.

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♦ Liberals are always accusing those of us on the Right, and I might add “in the right,” of confusing societal issues with political matters. They’re the ones who push for same-sex marriages; for abortions on demand, even for teenagers, even into the 35th week; and for an abandonment of drug enforcement laws; and then when conservatives push back, they cry “Foul!” Worse yet, they accuse us of bringing religion into politics, and even lambaste clerics for speaking out on moral issues.

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Political life is often determined by unpredictable events beyond our control. After all, in January, 2001, when he was sworn in, George Bush had no idea that within eight months, an Islamic sneak attack on New York’s Twin Towers would toss his political agenda out the window.

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On the other hand, when it comes to public policy dealing with moral issues, those are eternal matters, involving our values and our religious freedom.

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Speaking of liberals, they are constantly telling us that they’re the ones providing safety nets for the neediest and most vulnerable Americans; what they neglect to mention, however, is that it’s their economic programs and regulations that necessitate all those damn nets in the first place.

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♦ But it’s not fair to simply blame the Democrats. After all, after 50 years, if 95% of blacks continue to vote for the presidents, senators, congressmen and mayors, who have profited from their dependency, you can’t argue that they’re blameless. And when Al Sharpton continues to show up at the riots and to further inflame the mob, and not once get tarred-and-feathered or ridden out of town on a rail, it becomes increasingly difficult to give the black masses a pass.

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In the bad old days, when generals were given to ordering their troops into suicidal missions (“Into the Valley of Death rode the 600”), soldiers were referred to as cannon fodder. It meant that their lives were inconsequential; that the only point of their needless deaths was to somehow reflect gloriously on the be-medaled frauds who watched them die from atop hills far from the bloodletting.

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Today, the Democrats might as well refer to their black constituents as ballot fodder.

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♦ The latest sign of the times is that in Oakland, CA, because so many black students are being suspended from school for cussing, mouthing off to teachers, fighting and unexcused absences from class, the city and school administrators have decided that the solution is to suspend suspensions. They will also end expulsions and transfers to other schools for multiple infractions.

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As I see it, they’re merely picking up on my suggestion to reduce crime in the inner-city by decriminalizing theft, rape and murder. So perhaps I’m partly to blame. It just never occurred to me that when I make jokes, Democrats would take them seriously.

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♦ But it’s not just vote-trolling liberals who pamper and coddle the thugs. I mean, when the nuts from the Westboro Baptist Church disrupt military funerals, the media readily acknowledges that they’re a bunch of inbred misfits. However, when urban blacks chant: “What do we want? Dead cops!” we see elected officials defend them, and from the collective media we hear nary a word of moral condemnation.

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♦ Another bone I’d like to pick with Democrats involves their parroting the demand that everyone pay his fair share of taxes. For one thing, there’s no such thing, especially when tens of millions of Americans not only don’t pay taxes, but receive some of the money the rest of us have to fork over. Besides, the federal government is no better than a drunken spendthrift, and could make out very nicely with half of what it receives if it didn’t waste so much of the dough we’re compelled to send to the IRS.

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But as if all that’s not bad enough, some of the loudest voices we hear calling for higher and higher taxes belong to such tax scofflaws as Charley Rangel, Warren Buffet, Al Sharpton and Timothy Geithner, liberals all.

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For a change, I would like to hear angry voices raised in Washington, D.C., as well as in our various state legislatures, about all those welfare junkies who don’t do their fair share of work. Or any work, come to think of it.

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♦ Recently, as a great many people know, my computer was hacked and, as a result, they all received news about some product or service that had allegedly been mentioned by Oprah Winfrey. Of course they weren’t fooled. For one thing, the email address wasn’t mine. For another, I recall quite clearly how hard she sold Barack nObama in 2008, so I would never take her word about anything.

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But when one of the email recipients wrote to me, just to make certain I hadn’t sent it, I assured him he could rest easy. I went on to say that I would make all crimes that people commit for no other reason than to annoy other people, capital offenses. Why not? There are over seven billion of us, so we can easily afford to start thinning the herd of troublemakers. It would not only make life far more pleasant for the rest of us, but it would open up a lot of additional parking spaces and speed up the lines at the supermarket.

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Wednesday Morning ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 3, 2015 at 3:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Barack nObama's anti-Semitism test

Caroline B. Glick

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

~~~lll~~~

Secrecy Surrounds Dennis Hastert's Indictment

The Department of Justice unveiled an indictment against former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Thursday, accusing him of lying to the FBI and withdrawing cash in such a way as to hide the fact he was paying someone "$3.5 million in order to compensate for and conceal his prior misconduct." It's stunning enough that federal prosecutors brought charges against a politician of Hastert's caliber. But the question of the hour is why he was so willing to pay someone $3.5 million. Before entering politics, Hastert taught high school history and coached wrestling in Yorkville, Illinois. Someone in the U.S. attorney's office apparently believes paying a bribe is a greater crime than Hastert's misconduct. So they covered up the information because it's embarrassing to the former politician. He was once one of the most powerful politicians in the country and we are denied the ability to know whether this affected his leadership.More... -The Patriot Post

Surprise! First Quarter GDP in the Tank

A month ago, the government pegged GDP growth at a tentative 0.2% for the first quarter of 2015. However, as we noted at the time, revisions knocked last year's first quarter GDP down by a staggering two percentage points — from 0.1% to -2.1% — meaning the economy actually contracted to start off 2014. That inevitably raised the question: Is a repeat in the offing? We now know the answer to that question, and it's a resounding yes. Today, Commerce Department revisions showed first quarter GDP was lower than initially reported. Instead of 0.2% growth — an already sluggish number — January-March GDP now stands at -0.7%. The Wall Street Journal reports, "The latest downgrade came after new data showed a wider trade deficit and a slower pace of restocking by firms than earlier estimates, damping demand at factories and service providers. Those developments added to an already bleak picture of weak consumer spending and a downturn in business investment." And according to Reuters, "With growth estimates so far for the second quarter around 2 percent, the economy appears poised for its worst first-half performance since 2011." A myriad of rehashed excuses are already flooding in — from winter weather woes to flawed government methods to a mere hiccup — but it's not like the economy ever gained much footing under the nObama recovery to begin with. -The Patriot Post

Los Angeles Labor Leaders Want Minimum Wage Exemption

Oh the irony. Fourteen Los Angeles council members recently voted to incrementally raise the city's minimum wage to $15 an hour. Considering a whopping 50% of the city's workforce makes minimum wage, the new law is bound to have significant ramifications — which may explain this oddity from the Los Angeles Times: "Labor leaders, who were among the strongest supporters of the citywide minimum wage increase approved last week by the Los Angeles City Council, are advocating last-minute changes to the law that could create an exemption for companies with unionized workforces." Rusty Hocks with the Federation of Labor defended the proposed exemption by opining, "With a collective bargaining agreement, a business owner and the employees negotiate an agreement that works for them both. The agreement allows each party to prioritize what is important to them." Yet, as the Times notes, "For much of the past eight months, labor activists have argued against special considerations for business owners, such as restaurateurs, who said they would have trouble complying with the mandated pay increase." In other words, labor leaders want the flexibility to negotiate a mutually fair hourly wage — one that may very well fall below $15 — while forcing non-unionized businesses to comply with an admittedly harmful law. The Left, it seems, doesn't want to raise the minimum wage so much as coerce businesses into joining a union, which would then translate into political capital. -The Patriot Post

The Debate Over the Death Penalty Has Just Begun

Nebraska lawmakers voted Wednesday to make that state the 19th to ban the death penalty. Republican Governor Pete Ricketts vetoed earlier in the week the bill that sought to repeal the state's death penalty statute. According to Nebraska law, it takes 30 of 49 senators in the unicameral legislature to override a gubernatorial veto. And 30 votes are exactly what death penalty opponents got. The original bill was passed last week and sent to Ricketts with 32 votes.

Ricketts stated in his veto of the original legislation, "Repealing the death penalty sends the wrong message to Nebraskans who overwhelmingly support capital punishment and look to government to strengthen public safety, not weaken it."

The governor burned phone lines and called in favors in an effort to sustain his veto, but he was ultimately unable to do so. Still, with a thin majority supporting the original ban, and the thinnest of majorities overriding Ricketts' veto, it is almost guaranteed that this issue will come up again next term. The governor vowed, "While the legislature has lost touch with the citizens of Nebraska, I will continue to stand with Nebraskans and law enforcement on this important issue."

-The Patriot Post

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Why Do Liberals ‘Blame the Victim’ When It Comes to Islam?

(patriotsandpolitics.com) ~ When the outspoken critic of Islamic extremism, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, visited Bill Maher on his show ‘Real Time’, the two had much to say on the subject of the liberal targeting of Hirsi Ali and the overwhelming tendency of liberals to ‘blame the victim’ when it comes to Islam... Hirsi Ali has worked tirelessly to shed light on the treatment of women in Islam and during the interview, gave a very clear definition of Sharia law and what it means for those who have been deemed guilty according to its standards: Maher and Hirsi Ali agreed that the stance liberals have taken on Islam — to “try to justify so much in a culture that’s decidedly illiberal” is the improper one. Hirsi Ali called what radical Muslims do, “an assault on liberalism.” http://patriotsandpolitics.com/ayaan-hirsi-ali-bill-maher-blame-the-victim-alive-and-well-among-liberals-when-islam-involved/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLJOenmfR2g

 Houthi rebels in Yemen are holding multiple Americans prisoner

(Greg Miller & Adam Goldman) ~ The rebel group that has seized power in Yemen has taken at least four U.S. citizens prisoner, according to U.S. officials who said that efforts to secure the Americans’ release have faltered... One of the prisoners had been cleared for release in recent days only to have that decision reversed by members of the Houthi rebellion that toppled the U.S.-backed government earlier this year and now controls most levers of power in Yemen. The Americans are believed to be held at a prison in Sanaa, the Yemeni capital, which has been bombed repeatedly as part of an air campaign led by Saudi Arabia aimed at dislodging the Houthis from power. The United States has provided intelligence support to that operation. http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/houthi-rebels-in-yemen-are-holding-multiple-americans-prisoner/2015/05/29/ac349cc8-0618-11e5-8bda-c7b4e9a8f7ac_story.html

US support for Iranian-backed Shiite militias ‘should not alarm us

(Bill Roggio) ~ In an interview with CBS News, General (retired) John Allen, the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition To Counter ISIL, or the Islamic State, attempted to assure Americans that they should not be concerned with the US providing military and other support for Shiite militias, many of which are backed by Iran... Allen attempts to separate the “extremist elements” from the Popular Mobilization Force (or Committee), when the distinction is practically meaningless. The problem with Allen’s comments is that these so-called “extremist elements” are indeed the largest part of the Popular Mobilization Committee. In fact, when the Iraqi press and government refer to deploying the Popular Mobilization Committee, one or more of these groups are in the lead. If one read the post above your views would be different than Gen. John Allen. http://www.longwarjournal.org/archives/2015/05/us-support-for-iranian-backed-shiite-militias-should-not-alarm-us-general-allen-says.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+LongWarJournalSiteWide+%28The+Long+War+Journal+%28Site-Wide%29%29

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 Mosque Protesters Call Jihadists Bluff – Jihadis Back Down

(Tim Brown) ~ The protest, referred to as Freedom of Speech Rally Round II, took place at 6pm on Friday. In response to the event, Islamists took to Twitter to post threats against protesters, even posting the event organizer's, Jon Ritzheimer, home address via Twitter... Then, Islamists loudmouthed an attack on the event. Did it stop the event? Did protesters cower in fear? Did they shrink back from cowardly Islamists? Nope. Just the opposite. They showed up in droves and stood their ground and no jihadis raised their devilish heads. But make no mistake, they wanted the organizer, and other infidels dead. They just didn't have any courage to even attempt it like the two in Garland. http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/05/mosque-protesters-call-jihadists-bluff-jihadis-back-down/

 Mark Steyn Turns Hilly Clinton Upside Down, Heels Over Head!

(politibrew.com) ~ The ever interesting and straight to the point, Mark Steyn appeared on Hannity last evening and brought his cut to the chase style with him, like a steam locomotive with a cow catcher mounted up front working overtime... The main cow caught and tossed in this case is running for president on the prog side of the political spectrum. She's a rich angry white woman whose name rhymes with distillery. Before Hannity went to Mark though, he showed some clips of Hilly deigning to answer a press question or two on camera after emerging from her self-imposed quarantine. She's like a BS extruder isn't she? I mean it just oozes from the rotting flesh and bone contrived contraption she is. "Yikes! Hey Mr. Brew. That was way harsh, sir!" I know little camper. Shhh, I'm not done yet. Mark Steyn starts by saying that Hilly Clinton is treating the American electorate as if they're dumber than a bunch of rocks, which could be a spin-off to Jeff Foxworthy's show about adults competing with fifth graders. He also said Clinton's lawyer misled congress about her use of private e-mails, then he calls ABC's George anchor "George Stuffhispantswithcash". http://politibrew.com/politics/2462-mark-steyn-turns-hillary-clinton-upside-down-heels-over-head

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Terrorist Rockets Hit Israel

(Adam Kredo) ~ A terrorist rocket fired from the Gaza Strip landed in Southern Israel near the heavily populated town of Ashkelon, the Israeli Army confirmed Tuesday afternoon... It was not clear if Hamas or another splinter faction was responsible for the attack, which comes following a relatively long period of calm between Israel and the Palestinians following an intense war last summer. Israeli Defense Forces spokesman Peter Lerner confirmed that “at least one rocket launched from Gaza struck Southern Israel” late Tuesday. No one has been reported as injured as a result of the strike. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/terrorist-rockets-hit-israel/

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 Federal Judge Denies DC’s Request to Immediately Stay Gun Ruling

(Stephen Gutowski) ~ A federal judge on Thursday denied the District of Columbia’s request for an immediate administrative stay on a ruling declaring part of the city’s gun carry law unconstitutional... In a ruling issued on May 18th, Judge Frederick J. Scullin said the District’s requirement that applicants for a gun carry permit demonstrate a “good reason” to carry a gun violated the Second Amendment. The DC Attorney General’s Office filed a request on May 26 for an immediate administrative stay in order to avoid issuing permits to those denied under the “good reason” clause while they filed an appeal. Thursday's order rejects that request and schedules a July 7 hearing on whether to grant a long-term stay pending the city’s appeal of the May 18 decision. The Second Amendment Foundation (SAF) praised Judge Scullin’s decision. http://freebeacon.com/issues/federal-judge-denies-dcs-request-to-immediately-stay-gun-ruling/

 U.S. Intelligence: Iran Sending More Fighters to Yemen

(Bill Gertz) ~ Iran has dispatched additional paramilitary forces to Yemen to aid pro-Tehran rebels seeking to take control of the strategic southern Arabian state, according to recent U.S. intelligence reports... The Iranian leadership earlier this month ordered militants from the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force, along with Lebanese Hezbollah fighters, to Yemen, where Saudi Arabia and other Sunni Arab states are seeking to defeat an insurgency led by Houthi rebels that currently control large parts of the country. A State Department official said the Sunni Arabs in nearby states are opposing the Houthis and seeking to prevent Iran from establishing a foothold on the peninsula. http://freebeacon.com/national-security/u-s-intelligence-iran-sending-more-fighters-to-yemen/

Jeanine Pirro to nObama

(AmyElizabeth) ~ Why Aren’t We Focusing on Inevitable ISIS Attacks?...

Video: http://launch.newsinc.com/embed.html?type=VideoPlayer/Single&widgetId=1&trackingGroup=69016&siteSection=breitbart_cali&videoId=29162311

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Agenda 21 Inspectors are at it Again, Knocking on Doors to go Inside

(rickwells.us) ~ We have two choices; demand and insist on the return of our government to our rightful hands or we can continue to accept the encroachment of authoritarianism under the UN banner... This video highlights some areas of abuse which are currently under way in this nation. It can no longer be denied by any rational-thinking adult. We must face the truth and deal with it. We are under attack in every imaginable way by those who have hijacked our government. Their agents reside in the global capital building in New York City, the UN Building. That domed building in Washington DC is just a façade. We no longer have a representative government. We also don’t have a lot of time to correct it. http://rickwells.us/energy-star-appliances-are-govt-snitches-control-devices-un-agenda-21-home-inspections-already-happening-in-america/

Barack nObama's anti-Semitism test

Caroline B. Glick

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(jewishworldreview.com) - Is US President Barack nObama an anti-Semite? This question has lingered in the air since his first presidential bid in 2008. It first arose due to the anti-Semitic sermons that Jeremiah Wright, his pastor for more than 20 years, made as nObama and his family sat in the pews.

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Throughout the six-and-a-half years of his presidency, nObama has laughed off the concerns.

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But he has not dispelled them. And this failure has hurt him.

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So last week, nObama went to significant lengths to answer the question about his feelings toward Israel and the Jewish people once and for all.

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The timing of his charm offensive wasn't coincidental.

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nObama clearly believes he has to dispel doubts about his intentions toward Jews and Israel in order to implement the central policy of his second term in office. That policy of course is his nuclear deal with Iran.

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nObama's agreement with the mullahs is supposed to be concluded by the end of next month.

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nObama argues that his deal will prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power. But as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu explained in his address before the joint houses of Congress in March, from what has already been revealed about the nuclear deal nObama seeks to conclude, far from preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear arms, the deal will provide several pathways for Iran to at a minimum become a threshold nuclear state, capable of developing nuclear weapons at the drop of a hat. If Iran cheats on the deal, it can develop nuclear weapons while the agreement is still in force. If it abides by the agreement, it can develop nuclear weapons as soon as the agreement expires.

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Beyond his desire to conclude a nuclear deal that will empower a regime that has pledged to destroy Israel, there are nObama's reported plans for changing the way the US relates to Israel at the UN Security Council.

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For the past half-century, the US has used its veto power at the Security Council to prevent substantive anti-Israel draft resolutions from passing. But nObama and his top advisers have hinted and media reports have provided details about his intention to end this 50-year policy.

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nObama reportedly intends to enable the passage of a French draft resolution that would require Israel to withdraw to the indefensible 1949 armistice lines.

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As these two policies, which bear directly on Israel's ability to defend itself and indeed, to survive, near implementation, nObama is faced with the fact that he has a credibility problem when it comes to issues related to the survival and existence of the Jewish state.

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In a bid to address this credibility problem, last week he invested significant time and effort in building up his credibility on Jewish issues. To this end, he gave an extensive interview to Jeffrey Goldberg at The Atlantic, and he gave a speech before Adas Israel, a large, liberal Conservative synagogue in Washington, DC.

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To a degree, nObama was successful. He did put to bed the question of whether or not he is anti-Semitic.

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In his interview with Goldberg, nObama gave a reasonable if incomplete definition of what anti-Semitism is. nObama said that an anti-Semite is someone who refuses to recognize the 3,000-year connection between the Jews and the Land of Israel. An anti-Semite is also someone who refuses to recognize the long history of persecution that the Jewish people suffered in the Diaspora.

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According to nObama, an anti-Semite is someone who refuses to understand that this history of persecution together with the Jews' millennial connection to the Land of Israel is what justifies the existence of Israel in the Land of Israel.

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Moreover, according to nObama, anti-Semites refuse to understand that Israel remains in mortal danger due to the continued existence of anti-Semitic forces that seek its destruction.

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And that isn't all. As he sees it, even if you do understand the legitimacy of Israel's existence and recognize the continued threats to its survival, you could still be an anti-Semite.

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As nObama explained to Goldberg, there is still the problem of double standards.

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In his words, "If you acknowledge those things, then you should be able to align yourself with Israel where its security is at stake, you should be able to align yourself with Israel when it comes to making sure that it is not held to a double standard in international fora, you should align yourself with Israel when it comes to making sure that it is not isolated."

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To his credit, nObama provided a clear, well-argued and constructive definition of anti-Semitism.

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But there's a bit of a problem. Right after nObama provided us with his definition of anti-Semitism, he endorsed and indeed engaged in the very anti-Semitism he had just defined.

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As Goldberg, who is sympathetically inclined toward nObama, put it, nObama "holds Israel to a higher standard than he does other countries."

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Both in his interview with Goldberg and in his speech at the synagogue, nObama judged Israel in accordance to what he defined as Jewish values.

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According to nObama, Jewish values require Jews to prefer the interests of others over their own interests in order to "repair the world."

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As nObama reads Israeli history, the state's founders didn't only seek to build a Jewish state.

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They set out to build Utopia.

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nObama explained, "I care deeply about preserving that Jewish democracy, because when I think about how I came to know Israel, it was based on images of... kibbutzim, and Moshe Dayan, and Golda Meir, and the sense that not only are we creating a safe Jewish homeland, but also we are remaking the world. We're repairing it. We are going to do it the right way. We are going to make sure that the lessons we've learned from our hardships and our persecutions are applied to how we govern and how we treat others. And it goes back to the values questions that we talked about earlier — those are the values that helped to nurture me and my political beliefs."

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In his address at the synagogue, nObama made his expectations of Israel explicit. As he sees it, Israel's concerns for Palestinians should outweigh its concerns for itself. "The rights of the Jewish people... compel me to think about a Palestinian child in Ramallah that feels trapped without opportunity. That's what Jewish values teach me."

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In other words, when nObama thinks about Israel, he cannot avoid blaming Israel for the feelings he assumes Palestinian children feel.

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It is important to mention that in neither of his attempts to address concerns about his perceived biases regarding Jews did nObama note the behavior of the Palestinian Authority. He ignored its endemic corruption and authoritarianism.

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He ignored the wild anti-Semitic incitement and indoctrination practiced at all levels of the Palestinian governing authority. He ignored the longstanding Palestinian refusal to accept an independent state that would peacefully coexist with the Jewish state.

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So in the end, nObama's charm offensive did provide a clear answer to the question of whether he is anti-Semitic.

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It bears noting that the fact that nObama failed his own test of anti-Semitism doesn't necessarily mean that he hates Jews. It is certainly possible that he likes Jews.

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But loving Jews and being an anti-Semite are not mutually exclusive.

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Consider anti-black bigots. Over the years, plenty of racists have professed, and perhaps even felt, love for black people.

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They discriminated against blacks not because they hated them but because they believed that blacks were inferior to whites. It was due to their "love" for blacks that they insisted on holding them to lower standards than whites, or on segregating them from whites, lest they be embarrassed or set up for failure.

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In other words, the fact of their "love" didn't make them less bigoted.

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Likewise, the possibility that nObama loves Jews doesn't make his compulsion to judge Israel by a separate standard from other states and nations, including the Palestinians, any less bigoted.

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On the other hand, both in his interview with Goldberg and in his speech at Adas Israel, nObama gave reason for concern that he harbors little goodwill for Jews or sensitivity to the unique dangers they face.

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Goldberg raised the concern that the anti-Semitism at the heart of the world view of Iran's dictator Ali Khamenei makes him irrational. nObama didn't merely reject the notion, while denying the long history of eliminationist anti-Semitism, nObama rejected the notion that anti-Semitism can outweigh rational interests like regime survival and economic prosperity.

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In his words, "Well the fact that you are anti-Semitic, or racist, doesn't preclude you from being interested in survival. It doesn't preclude you from being rational about the need to keep your economy afloat; it doesn't preclude you from making strategic decisions about how you stay in power; and so the fact that the supreme leader is anti-Semitic doesn't mean that this overrides all of his other considerations."

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If that wasn't enough to show that nObama rejects the notion that anti-Semitism can and often does serve as the deranged anchor of policy- making by anti-Semites, he proceeded to equate Iran's annihilationist anti-Semitism with the country club anti-Semitism American Jews once were subjected to by their fellow Americans.

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"If you look at the history of anti-Semitism...there were deep strains of anti-Semitism in this country," he said.

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By rejecting the policy significance of anti-Semitism for the Iranian regime, nObama exhibited yet another anti-Semitic behavior. nObama asserted that if you fail to recognize the danger that anti-Semitism constitutes for Israel's survival, then you are an anti-Semite.

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nObama's statements about the Palestinians also indicate that he feels little love for Jews. As has been his consistent practice since assuming office, in his charm offensive last week, nObama continued to ignore the fact that if the Palestinians were primarily interested in a state, rather than in the destruction of the Jewish state, they could have had one at almost any time since the release of the Peel Commission report in 1937 that first suggested partitioning the land west of the Jordan River between a Jewish and an Arab state. His consistent refusal to deal with this simple fact, and his insistence on blaming Israel for the Palestinians' expressed misery despite Israel's repeated offers to partition the land in exchange for peace raise serious questions about his intentions toward the Jewish state.

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As nObama rightly understands, in the coming months, as he tries to sell his nuclear deal with Iran and his anti-Israel positions at the UN to the American public, the question of whether or not he is an anti-Semite will become more salient than ever before.

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Now that he has answered the question, Israel needs to act in accordance with Jewish values, and choose life even at the expense of good relations with the nObama administration.

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Tuesday Afternoon ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 2, 2015 at 10:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Catechism is Hate Speech?

Tom McLaughlin

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

~~~lll~~~

State Department cash flowed to Clinton donors - WashEx: “Countries and companies that donated to the Clinton Foundation or paid Bill Clinton heavy fees for speeches saw an increase in State Department activity while Hilly Clinton served as secretary of state… A Washington Examiner analysis of Clinton Foundation donors suggests the State Department ramped up its diplomatic activity, foreign assistance and/or investment in countries that gave to the Clinton Foundation and hosted Bill Clinton for high-profile speeches.” -Fox News

WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
If you think Congress is feeling the heat now, consider the scene this last weekend of May in 1932. With a deepening economic depression, many unemployed veterans of WWI demanded that Congress pay out a $1,000 bonus 13 years early. Led by former National Guardsman Walter Waters, the nearly 20,000-member “Bonus Army” began to converge on Washington, DC. They were initially encouraged when the House of Representatives passed the Patman Bill, which satisfied their requests. However, the measure later failed by a wide margin in the Senate. As tempers flared, several thousand veterans that had been camping in vacant federal buildings along the Anacostia River flats, refused to vacate the capital. The protest would end in a violent conflagration. Read all about it and the role of future Gen. Douglas MacArthur from “The American Experience.” -Fox News

WEEKEND RUMBLE OVER NSA PITS PAUL AGAINST BOTH PARTIES
With the NSA’s bulk telephone data collection program set to shutdown at midnight Sunday, the Senate will meet to take a second run at the House-passed Freedom Act, which allows the collection to continue but storing the data with private companies. Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell and senate security hawks, who want a clean extension of the NSA program, blocked the measure last week and negotiators have been trying to hammer out a face-saving deal during the Senate recess.
[WSJ: “House Speaker backstabber John Boehner is so far refusing to come back early from Memorial Day recess before the May 31 hard deadline—cornering Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell with a take-it-or-leave-it ultimatum. Thus the Senate Majority Leader can either release the House bill, which effectively ends the bulk collection of telephone metadata records and impairs the National Security Agency amid rising global threats. Or he can allow the larger legal architecture of U.S. antiterror defenses to collapse.”] -Fox News

BELGIAN BEATDOWN
When it comes to breakfast, you just don’t stand between vacationers in Western Michigan and their waffles. Travelers at America’s Best Value Inn in Pere Marquette Township learned just how seriously some take their first meal of the day when a woman cut the line to the waffle maker. “One lady walked up to another lady and asked if she was in line for the waffle maker thing and the lady never answered her,” Mason County Sheriff Kim Cole told WWJ. “So the first lady went and made a waffle, and when she went to go and take it this other gal tried to take it from her and that started the fight over the waffle.” What then ensued was a breakfast battle royale that resulted in nearly 30 people being ejected from the hotel. “We had two-thirds of our road patrol tied up on this fiasco,” Cole said. -Fox News

A WORD FROM CHARLES
“[Hilly Clinton] has no legacy as secretary of state. I mean, if that’s it, where essentially it was the beginning of a trade treaty where she said it was the gold standard but it means so little to her that she now says I have no idea what’s in it, I don't know how I’m going to end up, tells you what the four years were spent doing and amounts to essentially zero in terms of accomplishment.” – Charles Krauthammer on “Special Report with Bret Baier.” -Fox News

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nObama Warns Fellow Democrat to Pipe Down

(fixthisnation.com) ~ In an interview with Fox & Friends Wednesday, Representative Henry Cuellar (D., Texas) told the hosts that the White House isn’t happy about his outspoken criticism of the President... Cuellar has had little choice but to criticize the administration over its lackadaisical approach to border control, but it appears the White House wants him to keep his mouth shut. The hosts asked him if he’d received a tongue-lashing from the nObama camp. “Yes, I have,” Cuellar said. “But let me just say that I’m more concerned not about who gets angry at me at the White House; I’m more concerned about my constituents who want to find a practical solution to this question that we’re facing down there at the border.” Cuellar declined to tell the program who it was that had called and didn’t elaborate on the message he received, but the point was made. It didn’t have an effect on the Democratic House member’s criticism of the situation, however – a crisis that is threatening to have an indelible impact on nObama’s second-term legacy. http://www.fixthisnation.com/conservative-breaking-news/obama-warns-fellow-democrat-to-pipe-down/

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EPA Using Taxpayer Funds to Cheer Horrendous New Water Regs

(Dr. Tom Borelli) ~ It’s another day and Americans are waking up to another nightmare of executive overreach by President nObama and the inability of the GOP-led Congress to stop his assault on our liberty... This week, it was the turn of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to expand government reach by jointly issuing a new clean water regulation. Known as the “Waters of the U.S. United States,” the new regulation aims to protect drinking water by expanding regulatory control to upstream waterways, such streams and wetlands that drain into larger bodies of water like lakes and rivers. The larger water bodies serve as a source for drinking water. http://joemiller.us/2015/06/epa-using-taxpayer-funds-to-cheer-horrendous-new-water-regs/?utm_source=JoeMiller.US+List&utm_campaign=7cb79a59ee-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_065b6c381c-7cb79a59ee-230998701

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nObama Surrenders on Largest nObamnesty Program Covering 5 Mil

(Steven Ahle) ~ The nObama administration sent out the word to their minions in the tamestream press this week that the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals misread the law... and that’s why they upheld the injunction against nObama’s largest amnesty program which would have given work permits and Social Security cards to almost 5 million illegal aliens. But despite their insistence that the Fifth Circuit Court got it wrong, they have decided not to appeal it to the Supreme Court, ostensibly because they want to concentrate on the merits of the program. I call bullshit. nObama is just trying to save himself a heap of embarrassment. Obviously, neither Judge Haren nor the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals will rule in his favor and the main case will have to go to the Supreme Court or be forgotten about altogether. http://redstatements.co/obama-surrenders-on-his-largest-obamnesty-program-covering-5-million/

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Jihad threat in Ohio is “scary,” public doesn’t get “the gravity of it”

(Robert Spencer) ~ There is no reason to believe that Ohio is special or unique in this. It just happens that a couple of jihadis in Ohio have recently been caught. They are elsewhere as well, but most Americans have no clue about that, and even the FBI... with its official policy of ignoring and denying the ideology that gives rise to this, is not doing nearly enough to prepare citizens for what is coming. The new head of the FBI’s wide-ranging Cincinnati division says the threat of homegrown terrorists in her native state is surprising and scary. Angela Byers became special agent in charge of the office that covers 48 of Ohio’s 88 counties in late February, just after back-to-back arrests of young men in Cincinnati and Columbus in separate cases alleging they were plotting attacks in the United States. Both have pleaded not guilty to all charges. http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/05/fbi-jihad-threat-in-ohio-is-scary-public-doesnt-get-the-gravity-of-it

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13 States, DC Adopt Common Core Global Warming Brainwashing

(rickwells.us) ~ The common core propagandist are doing exactly what was feared would happen with a national education system, the youth of America are being indoctrinated into a false ideology based upon subjective, fraudulent, and agenda driven misinformation... Thirteen states and the District of Columbia have committed the children of their citizens to the common core brainwashing and are mandating that the false “science” be accepted as fact in their curriculum and testing. Labeling what someone tracked across the carpet as common core’s “Next Generation of Science Standards,” the same junk science that is being peddled by the UN to adults is being forced upon young and malleable children, indoctrinating them into the global citizen, anti-American camp. http://rickwells.us/13-states-dc-adopt-common-core-global-warming-brainwashing-now-taught-as-fact/

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hanoi Kerry: The Internet To Be Under The Authority Of The UN

(AmyElizabeth) ~ In a speech today in South Korea, Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry said that the Internet “needs rules to be able to flourish and work properly.” This, according to hanio Kerry, is necessary even for “a technology founded on freedom... Speaking on behalf of the nObama administration, hanoi Kerry said that Internet policy is “a key component of our foreign policy.” hanoi Kerry made his remarks in the context of talking about how international law is applicable to the Internet. “As I’ve mentioned, the basic rules of international law apply in cyberspace. Acts of aggression are not permissible. And countries that are hurt by an attack have a right to respond in ways that are appropriate, proportional, and that minimize harm to innocent parties. We also support a set of additional principles that, if observed, can contribute substantially to conflict prevention and stability in time of peace. We view these as universal concepts that should be appealing to all responsible states, and they are already gaining traction,” said hanoi Kerry. Boy is he twisted and wrong. http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/05/31/watch-john-kerry-calls-for-the-internet-to-be-placed-under-the-authority-of-the-united-nations/

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Hilly's top aide with terror ties saw all emails

(Aaron Klein) ~ A full review of Hilly Clinton’s personal emails released last Friday by the State Department finds Clinton’s senior aide, Huma Abedin, was exposed to highly sensitive U.S. government information... It was Abedin who forwarded to Clinton’s personal email address details about the initial establishment of the U.S. special mission in Benghazi, updates about security threats to both the mission and Ambassador Chris Stevens, intelligence on the growing terrorist threat in Libya and insider information on the Sept. 11, 2012 attack in Benghazi. Abedin was privy to emails that contained the exact movements of Stevens while he was stationed in arguably one of the most dangerous zones in the world for any American diplomat. http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/hillarys-top-aide-with-terror-ties-saw-all-emails/

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KATHLEEN WILLEY: HILY A 'MONEY-HUNGRY HYPOCRITE'

(Joe Kovacs) ~ Kathleen Willey, the former White House aide who claims President Bill Clinton sexually assaulted her in 1993 during his first term, now suspects the former president suffers from dementia, and calls Hilly Clinton a “money-hungry” hypocrite who looks “awfully haggard” and is the “worst role model for a wife and a mother and a politician.”... She is now seriously questioning the mental health of both of the Clintons. “Hilly is really looking awfully haggard these days,” Willey said. “After watching Bill's performance with NBC News' Cynthia McFadden, when he said that I’ve gotta pay my bills, I think he’s showing early signs of dementia or something. He’s not the old Bill Clinton that we all remember. I mean, he was all over the place. Now you’re seeing clips of Hilly talking to herself all the time. I think that I want somebody in there who knows what they’re doing, and money isn’t the No. 1 issue for them. They have enough money. They made $30 million … in the last 15 months on speaking engagements. Isn’t that enough?” http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/kathleen-willey-hillary-a-money-hungry-hypocrite/

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The Cash Clinton Has No Answer For

(David Sirota) ~ Among all the rivers of money that have flowed to the Clinton family, one seems to raise the biggest national security questions of all: the stream of cash that came from 20 foreign governments who relied on weapons export approvals from Hilly Clinton’s State Department... Federal law designates the secretary of state as “responsible for the continuous supervision and general direction of sales” of arms, military hardware and services to foreign countries. In practice, that meant that Clinton was charged with rejecting or approving weapons deals — and when it came to Clinton Foundation donors, Hilly Clinton’s State Department did a whole lot of approving. http://americanactionnews.com/articles/the-cash-clinton-has-no-answer-for

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Already 41 U.S. Citizens Arrested on Terror-Related Charges in 2015

(barbwire.com) ~ I knew it was bad. And as I’ve documented many times recently, getting worse–seemingly by the day. But upon first glance, the number of American citizens that have been arrested by U.S. authorities this year for supporting ISIS and other Islamic terror groups still stunned me... My friend Patrick Poole, one of America’s leading investigative journalists and a top authority on all the latest developments in the global jihad, wrote this week that no less than 41 U.S. citizens have been arrested on Islamic terrorism charges—overwhelmingly ISIS-related—since January 1st of this year alone. To put it in even more stark terms, that averages out to roughly two U.S. citizens arrested every week since the beginning of this year for supporting ISIS. And according even to nObama administration officials, not exactly the most forthcoming bunch when it comes to admitting the

severity of the jihadist threat, the trend shows no sign of slowing down. http://barbwire.com/2015/06/01/0900-the-year-of-homegrown-jihad-already-41-u-s-citizens-arrested-on-terror-related-charges-in-2015/

Catechism is Hate Speech?

Tom McLaughlin

(tommclaughlin.blogspot.com) ~ About three years ago I began wearing a crucifix 24/7. It identifies me as a Christian. Among Christians, it identifies me as a Roman Catholic. Atheists who see it may think me an intellectual lightweight who could just as easily believe in the Tooth Fairy, or that the earth was created six thousand years ago.

Back in 2002 when the homosexual priest scandal broke, I almost left the Catholic church. There are still issues the American Conference of Catholic Bishops champion that make me cringe. Some things Pope Francis says make me uncomfortable too. Nonetheless, to follow the Magisterium (official teachings of the Catholic Church) is to believe abortion kills a human being and homosexuality is “intrinsically disordered.” That puts me on a collision course with the progressive Thought Police who would force me to shut up about what I believe.

Chicago’s Cardinal Francis George, who I’ve quoted in this space before, died a few weeks ago. Five years ago, he said something prophetic: “I’ll die in my bed. My successor will die in prison. His successor will die a martyr. His successor will pick up the shards of a ruined society and slowly help rebuild civilization, as the church has done so often in human history.” Two years later in 2012, he said he was being “overly dramatic.” Here in 2015, however, rhetoric coming from Democrat and Republican candidates for president in 2016 indicate he was more right than he knew.

The late Cardinal Francis George

He did die in his bed. Will his successor die in prison? That might have been plausible if Pope Francis appointed conservative Cardinal Raymond Burke to take his place after removing him from a key Vatican post. Burke stands his ground, and that’s probably why he didn’t fit in at the Vatican. Instead Pope Francis banished the conservative Burke to Malta and appointed someone more likely to go with the “progressive” flow in Chicago.

Last month, the leading Democrat presidential candidate for 2016 said: “Laws have be backed up with… political will… and deep-seated cultural codes, religious beliefs and structural biases have to be changed.” Hilly Clinton was speaking about “reproductive health care,” her favorite euphemism for abortion, but her remarks indicate how far the left may go pushing their social/political agenda. They’re throwing down the gauntlet for conservative Christians — ready to use the power of government to make us change what we believe about the very nature of God and human life. nObamacare mandates to pay for abortion-inducing drugs were only the beginning.

Republican presidential candidate Marco Rubio seemed to pick up Hilly’s gauntlet when he said last week that anyone who believes marriage is between one man and one woman is labeled: “a homophobe and a hater. The next step is to argue that the teachings of mainstream Christianity, the Catechism of the Catholic Church, is hate speech…”

Canada’s Supreme Court ruled two years ago that biblical speech opposing homosexual behavior is a “hate crime.” The Province of Alberta passed its Education Act three years ago under which “homeschoolers and faith-based schools will not be permitted to teach that homosexual acts are sinful as part of their academic program.” How long until such rulings are passed down in the USA?

It’s not as if the Catholic Church in America is conservative. With the exception of Cardinal Burke and a few others, it’s not. I attend mass every Sunday in Maine or New Hampshire, and never in the last ten years have I heard a sermon about abortion. Only once was homosexual “marriage” discussed when Maine’s Bishop Malone urged parishioners to vote against a homosexual “marriage” referendum in 2009. Rather, parish priests seem to go out of their way to avoid those subjects. That’s why I was surprised to hear Pope Francis say: “We cannot insist only on issues related to abortion, gay marriage and the use of contraceptive methods… it is not necessary to talk about these issues all the time.”

Perhaps it’s different in Rome or in Argentina where Pope Francis comes from, but up here in Maine and New Hampshire, they’re not talked about “all the time.” They’re not discussed at all, and silence implies assent. Prior to Francis, we had two conservative popes in Benedict and John Paul II. Although Francis hasn’t tried to modify the Magisterium, he’s signaling a willingness to bend, even cozying up with President nObama on several issues. Leftists who dominate in our mainstream media are predictably thrilled. Out here in the trenches, however, conservative Catholics are dismayed.

What difference does it make?

Some of us feel we have more in common with conservative protestants than with many of our Catholic leaders in the United State, in Europe, and in the Vatican itself.

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2015/06/catechism-is-hate-speech.html

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Tuesday Morning ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 2, 2015 at 3:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

The Hilly Enigma

Alan Caruba

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

~~~lll~~~

HILLY’S HAWKS DUMP ON nOBAMA’S ISIS FIGHT
We have been reading a lot lately about the biggest blemish on Hilly Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state: the woebegone Libyan rebellion. Clinton was the principle advocate for U.S. military intervention to help Islamist rebels depose strongman Muammar Qaddafi. The results have been dire, but President nObama made clear from the beginning that he was an unwilling combatant – hence “leading from behind” – and has probably been relieved to see so much of the blame circle back to the hawkish Clinton and her coterie. But now it is Team Clinton’s turn.
The Center for a New American Security looks like the foreign policy shop for Clinton’s potential return to the White House. Clinton helped launch it in 2007 and its leadership includes the woman widely expected to be secretary of defense in a Clinton restoration, Michele Flournoy. So it’s not just the ordinary wonk talk when the Clintonite group puts out a damning indictment of nObama’s policy in Iraq and Syria. Clinton herself previously blamed nObama’s inaction in Syria for worsening the crisis, but did so in an oblique way. Now, her foreign policy familiars are making things more explicit saying that the plan is “failing” and “misguided” but potentially “counterproductive.”
While the White House is pushing hard to emphasize the Iraqification of the war effort against ISIS and trying to prop up the Baghdad government and strengthen its military forces, the Clinton-affiliated group is calling for more U.S. boots on the ground and bypassing Baghdad with aid to directly help Sunni provincial groups. In a CNN interview this week, Flournoy, who withdrew from consideration as nObama’s Pentagon boss, said the U.S. has “under-resourced this strategy”
The administration is obliged to respond to such sharp criticism from former officials, and we see here the beginning of the next round in the Clinton v. nObama foreign policy feud. This will complicate nObama’s effort to stay the course on his ISIS containment strategy but also may expose Clinton to liberal anxieties about her more hawkish nature.
[“We’re fighting a politically correct war. We're fighting a public relations war. We're not really fighting to win that war. And when you don't fight to win against someone who wants to win, you're not going to win. We're going to lose.” Former Sen. Rick Santorum, R-Pa., on “The Kelly File” Thursday. Watch the full interview here. ] -Fox News

WHAT KIND OF COVERAGE DOES HILLY MERIT?
Is it appropriate to give Hilly Clinton’s campaign the same coverage as a normal presidential run? Despite her refusal to abide by the norms of access and accountability amid ongoing revelations from the scandals that dog her run, reporters are still providing Clinton a platform from which to make her case.
There is an argument to be made for a prismatic approach in which coverage of the campaign is seen through the controversies themselves. But what about regular horse-race coverage, especially in a one-horse race?
Reporters on Thursday granted Clinton campaign flacks the privilege of extolling their wonderfulness in the form of an anonymous background briefing. Reporters would be allowed to say that Clinton officials said their campaign was going just dandy and that the drumbeat of ethical concerns was pure piffle, but not report the names of the individuals who were doing the piffle touting. Why? We’re not talking about edifying reporters on a foreign policy controversy that might embarrass an ally. We’re talking about the spin and logistics of a presidential campaign.
While attending, hearing out campaign officials and pressing for real information would be one thing, some reporters went right to the kind of gushy account that the campaign was surely hoping for. Does a detail like “Clinton’s staffers described her as happy and glad to be leading her campaign rather than letting her campaign lead her, as was often the case in 2007 and 2008” really require the veil of secrecy? Is that an appropriate privilege for a campaign that is kneecapping the press?
Given her canned events and walling off reporter questions, how should the media be covering Hilly Clinton’s campaign? Periodic misanthrope and columnist Charles Hurt and The Hill’s Kevin Cirilli give Chris Stirewalt their takes. WATCH HERE. -Fox News

For the people - Tampa Bay Times: “Hilly Clinton brings her presidential campaign to Florida today but average people and reporters won’t have much of an opportunity, if any at all, to see her up close. When her visit was announced last week aides said she would do a public event. Now that seems off the table, but she might go for something small with little notice — a simple reach for a photo or clip on the TV news." A campaign spokesman would not comment on what she may do. Who will get to see her? People with a lot of money. Clintons is fundraising in Miami-Dade, Broward and Orlando.” -Fox News

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Gun Insurance – New Democrat Proposal

(eanrightamerica.org) ~ Long-time enemy of freedom Carolyn Maloney (D-N.Y) has a new trick up her sleeve. The House Rep has introduced a bill that would require gun owners to purchase liability insurance to cover their firearms... Called The Firearm Risk Protection Act, the bill would impose a $10,000 fine on any gun owner found not to have adequate insurance coverage. The bill exempts law enforcement officers and military service members from the requirement. "We require insurance to own a car, but no such requirement exists for guns,” Maloney said in support of her bill. “The results are clear: car fatalities have declined by 25 percent in the last decade, but gun fatalities continue to rise.” According to Maloney, requiring gun owners to purchase insurance would be a way to regulate violence without infringing on the Second Amendment. “An insurance requirement would allow the free market to encourage cautious behavior and help save lives,” she said. “Adequate liability coverage would also ensure that the victims of gun violence are fairly compensated when crimes or accidents occur.” Maloney, you are one idiot. How is this going to enforce criminals to pursuits insurance for guns? http://www.leanrightamerica.org/uncategorized/gun-insurance-new-democrat-proposal/

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UN Ministry Of Disinformation Set Up By “News” Icons To Takeover

(rickwells.us) ~ When your supposedly objective national news sources team with maniacal madmen to engage in blatant propaganda, they are no longer part of a free press but have become merely disinformation dissemination services and agitators... That is the situation Americans and, to a large degree, much of the world now find themselves in, as is evidenced by a new United Nations foundation called, quite unimaginatively, the UN Foundation. CNN founder and leftist billionaire Ted Turner, no stranger to misinformation, has joined the Reuters organization in its creation. The foundation is training what Fox News described as “a squadron of journalists” and is subsidizing media content in 33 countries, including the United States and Britain. Their goal is to put a friendly face on and convince the people of the world to accept UN authoritarianism under Agenda 21, or “Sustainable Development,” as they like to refer to it. It’s an effort to drag the adoption of their global government across the finish line later this year at two world government summits, one in New York in September and another in December in Paris. Six million dollars has been put into the start up by those who hope to reap many times over that amount through the power they hope to wrest for themselves. http://rickwells.us/un-ministry-of-disinformation-set-up-by-news-icons-to-promote-un-takeover-17-goals-for-world-control/

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Schlafly: nObama is 'waging war on America'

(Paul Bremmer) ~ President nObama is instigating a war on the United States, according to longtime conservative icon Phyllis Schlafly. But the president hasn’t dropped a bomb or fired a shot; rather, he has opened the country to tens of millions of immigrants and refugees from all over the world, including from Muslim countries that hate America... “It is waging war on America,” Schlafly told WND. “Muslims would like to take over the world and establish their caliphate, and nObama has let so many Muslims in. I don’t think he should let any Muslims in this country. There’s no reason why they should come in.” The State Department, which oversees the refugee resettlement program, aims to resettle 70,000 total refugees a year. It is estimated that roughly 40 percent of all refugees come from predominantly Muslim countries. WND has reported the U.S. has accepted nearly 2 million refugees from Muslim countries since 1992. The State Department, which oversees the refugee resettlement program, aims to resettle 70,000 total refugees a year. It is estimated that roughly 40 percent of all refugees come from predominantly Muslim countries. WND has reported the U.S. has accepted nearly 2 million refugees from Muslim countries since 1992. http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/schlafly-obama-is-waging-war-on-america/

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 Welfare Jihad in Europe

(Soeren Kern) ~ More than 30 Danish jihadists have collected unemployment benefits totaling 379,000 Danish krone (€51,000; $55,000) while fighting with the Islamic State in Syria, according to leaked intelligence documents... The fraud, which was reported by Television 2 Danmark on May 18, comes less than six months after the Danish newspaper BT revealed that Denmark had paid unemployment benefits to 28 other jihadists while they were waging war in Syria. The disclosures show that Islamists continue to exploit European social welfare systems to finance their activities both at home and abroad — costing European taxpayers potentially millions of euros each year. I guess we are not the only country being soaked by the wefare system. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5856/welfare-jihad

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nObama's DOJ to Circumvent Congress with Dozen Gun Controls

(Awr Hawkins) ~ Liberals try to say these laws would have stopped Sandy Hook. But they confidently forget that he stole the guns that he used. The way to have stopped Sandy Hook would have been to have teachers who conceal carry... Criminals don’t go after hard targets. nObama’s Department of Justice is working on “more than a dozen” new gun control regulations it plans to begin implementing apart from Congress. Some of the regulations are set to be put in place by November, others simply by the end of the nObama administration. According to The Hill, “the regulations range from new restrictions on high-powered pistols to gun storage requirements” and the issuance of “new rules expanding criteria for people who do not quality for gun ownership.” http://www.breitbart.com/big-government/2015/05/31/obamas-doj-to-circumvent-congress-with-more-than-a-dozen-new-gun-controls/

Video: http://video.breitbart.com/?ndn.trackingGroup=90085&ndn.siteSection=breitbart_nws_us_sty_vmppap&ndn.videoId=29159802&freewheel=90085&sitesection=breitbart_nws_us_sty_vmppap&vid=29159802

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Palestinians Attacked for Marching With Israelis

(israeltoday.co.il) ~ Palestinian participants in a co-existence march with Israelis were attacked by fellow Palestinians on Thursday... The victims were taking part in the annual “Jerusalem Hug” march, the purpose of which is, according to the group’s website, “…to promote a peaceful experience, a life of freedom and joy to all people. The ‘Jerusalem Hug’ focuses on love, respect and unity between all people…and symbolizes a different way to achieve peace: the way of the heart.” A significant number of Arabs both from inside sovereign Israel and from Palestinian Authority-controlled areas joined the demonstration, only to be set upon as they neared Jerusalem’s Damascus Gate. http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/26693/Default.aspx

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Islamic Jizya: Fact and Fiction

(Raymond Ibrahim) ~ Muslim demands for non-Muslim "infidels" to pay jizya on pain of death are growing, even as the West fluctuates between having no clue what jizya is and thinking that jizya is an example of "tolerance" in Islam... In the video where the Islamic State slaughters some 30 Christian Ethiopians in Libya last April, the spokesman repeatedly pointed out that payment of jizya (which the impoverished Ethiopian migrant workers could not render, nor the 21 Copts before them) is the only way for Christians around the world to safeguard their lives: When the Islamic State invaded ancient Christian regions around the Ninevah Plain last June, it again declared: "We offer them [Assyrian Christians] three choices: Islam; the dhimma contract—involving payment of jizya; if they refuse this they will have nothing but the sword." One question, why do we infidels need to be suggest to Muslims? http://www.meforum.org/5275/jizya-fact-fictio

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US Senate Starts Debate Over National Security Surveillance

(voanews.com) ~ The U.S. Senate, in an unusual Sunday session, has started debating whether to extend its authorization of the country's vast national security surveillance operation, or let it lapse at midnight as the current law expires... Lawmakers gathered in Washington just hours after the U.S. intelligence chief warned that global terrorists are looking to take advantage of any halt in the spying effort. Central Intelligence Agency director John Brennan, in an appearance on CBS's Face the Nation, urged the Senate to approve new authorization for the surveillance. That would continue to give the clandestine National Security Agency access to the records of millions of phone calls made by Americans and suspected terrorists, to possibly help in thwarting attacks on the U.S. http://www.voanews.com/content/obama-steps-up-pressure-renewal-surveillance-measures/2799208.html

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Have We Lost the Cultural War?

(Cliff Kincaid) ~ Paul Kengor’s new book, Takedown: From Communists to Progressives, How the Left Has Sabotaged Family and Marriage,provides a detailed explanation of why, according to a new Gallup poll... “Americans are more likely now than in the early 2000s to find a variety of behaviors morally acceptable, including gay and lesbian relations, having a baby outside of marriage and sex between an unmarried man and woman.” Gallup notes, “Moral acceptability of many of these issues is now at a record-high level.” What we are witnessing is a “shift to the left” that has been carefully orchestrated and planned over the course of decades. It is a phenomenon known as “cultural Marxism,” the application of Marxism to culture rather than the economic sphere. Kengor’s book, published by an arm of WorldNetDaily, outlines how this movement has operated, naming the names of the individuals and organizations that have been part of it, and how they have reached their zenith under the presidency of Barack nObama and the Democratic Party. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/have-we-lost-the-cultural-war/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email060115&utm_medium=ema

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(Not) Defeating ISIS and Iran

(Michael Ledeen) ~ Policy-making by committee rarely works well, as the five-man team at the Washington Institute demonstrates to near perfection. The quintet of (truly) distinguished policy-makers has produced something termed a Strategy to Defeat ISIS and Iran, but it does neither... I’ve been through it several times and can’t find a single proposal that would “defeat” either one. In fact, at one point Messrs Hadley, Ross, Jeffrey, Berger and Satloff state quite categorically that while we might prevail militarily against ISIS, …military action is only one dimension; ISIL cannot be defeated unless it is also discredited. Only Muslims can undermine ISIL’s fanatical ideology, and they must take the lead in doing so. Whenever I read such language—which is not rare—I have to suppress a scream, because a lot of the history of 20th century totalitarianism shows that fanatical ideologies (fascism, Nazism and communism, for example) were fatally undermined by military defeat. Both IS and the Iranian regime claim their imperialism is blessed by Allah. Their military success is attributed to the support of the Almighty. If they are defeated, especially by infidel American, or American-led fighters, what does that do to the ideology? Did Allah go over to the other side? http://www.aim.org/guest-column/not-defeating-isis-and-iran/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email060115&utm_medium=email

The Hilly Enigma

Alan Caruba

(factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - Does it strike anyone as strange that the only candidate for the Democratic Party’s nomination to be the next President of the United States is the wife of a former President? There is no historic precedent for this, no way to measure this against how Americans have selected Presidents in the past.

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Like most Americans, I first took notice of her when Bill began his campaign to become President. I recall being struck by the fact that in 1969 as a student at Wellesley College, her 92-page senior thesis was devoted to the community organizer, Saul Alinsky’s book. The title of the thesis was “There is Only the Fight…”: An Analysis of the Alinski Model.” She would request Wellesley to deny access to it.

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Alinksy was a Communist. His twelve rules for radicals, unlike the Ten Commandments, are devoid of a moral message. Instead, the message is “this is how you can win.” Hilly would do well to review Rule 7, “A tactic that drags on too long becomes a drag.” She was already old news when she announced her candidacy and it is becoming older with every passing day as she fails to take questions from the media, participating in totally staged events to look like “one of the people.”

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She and Bill are not one of the people. They, like the Bushes, are political royalty. They have both been around a very long time.

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Hilly, however, despite the millions of words that have been written about and by her remains an enigma. Other than being farther to the Left than Bill, she is a woman whose “achievements” in life have largely been the result of having married Bill. She would spend eight years in the White House as the First Lady and, pursuing her college dreams of political power, they would move to New York State where she ran and won a Senatorial election.

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There isn’t a single Senate bill that she introduced or that is credited to her. She is said to have worked hard and gotten along well with her colleagues, but her Senate years are a blur in her public life. Then she made a bid to be the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate in 2008 and along came Barack Hussein nObama with whom the voters fell in love. When he was elected, he asked her to become his Secretary of State.

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With the exception of the Benghazi tragedy on September 11, 2012, a clear failure of judgment and duty, and about which she lied, her years as Secretary of State reflect her years in the Senate; nothing of any significance resulted, no major treaties, no major anything, except for one more scandal.

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So the question remains; who is Hilly Rodham Clinton? What are her fundamental principles beyond the acquisition of political power? And money. Lots of it while uttering nonsense such as she and Bill being “dead broke” when they left office?

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What are we to make of her deletions of thousands of emails on her private server—something she was not supposed to use as Secretary of State—and her assertion that those we may never see were of no importance? They’re important if, as is widely believed, foreign governments hacked her private email server and thus had access to information about policies affecting themselves and others. She may not have broken a law, but she surely did not obey nObama White House policy regarding the emails.

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Alinski’s Rule 1 is “Power is not only what you have, but what the enemy thinks you have. Power is derived from two main sources—money and people.”

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We are told that Hilly has a huge amount of money with which to wage a campaign to become the first woman President. In light of the revelations about the Clinton Foundations, virtual slush funds, and the millions earned by her and Bill to give speeches, there is little doubt of that.

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You cannot, however, buy trust and the polls indicate that is seeping away.

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Her die-hard supporters probably know as little about her as the rest of us, but it is their trust she is depending on right now. Should she actually receive the Democratic Party’s nomination, the distrust of independent voters, disaffected Democrats, and of course Republicans, will play a crucial role in who is elected in 2016. It is not likely to be Hilly Clinton.

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It is not likely because, as we have already seen, she seems to have reached a point where her political abilities have grown tired and out-of-date. These are not the 1990s. A whole generation has been born since Bill was President.

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Like her, the Democratic Party seems tired as well. Can you believe there is not another Democrat, a Governor or Senator who could emerge to represent the Party? How devoid of any real leadership has the Democratic Party become if the only candidate they can offer is a former First Lady? That has been her primary claim to fame despite the two offices she has held since the 1990s.

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I suggest that Hilly ceases to be an enigma if you just think of the Wellesley student who thought the best topic for her senior thesis was the book by a dedicated Communist, Saul Alinsky.

http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-hillary-enigma.html

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Monday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on June 1, 2015 at 4:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Abortion vs. Capital Punishment

Burt Prelutsky

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

~~~lll~~~

WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
On this day in 1987, a West German teenager determined to prove PresidentRonald Reagan wrong ended up helping Reagan win the Cold War. Mathias Rust, a then-19-year-old with a love of flying, was extremely disheartened at the American president’s refusal to accommodate Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev at the Summit in Reykjavik, Iceland. He set out to prove that the Soviets were serious about peace by safely penetrating their omnipotent military and fly straight to Moscow. Rusttold Air and Space magazine in a 2005 interview: “How would Reagan continue to say it was the ‘Empire of Evil’ if me, in a small aircraft, can go straight there and be unharmed?” Although he didn’t broker the deal, a young pilot changed the international dialogue and showed that the world’s most feared military arsenal wasn’t so fearsome after all on this day in history.

-Fox News

BLUMENTHAL ON CLINTON PAYROLL WHILE HUNTING PROFITS IN LIBYA
Longtime Clinton confidant Sidney Blumenthal was being paid “about $10,000 a month as a full-time employee of the Clinton Foundation” while he was providing intelligence on Libya to then Secretary of State Hilly Clinton, Politico reports. The payments, which reportedly continued under a consultant contract until March, add a new dimension to scrutiny of Blumenthal’s financial relationship with the Clintons, and raise new questions about his Libya memos emailed to Clinton via her private email account.
Politico: “The memos — and Blumenthal’s concurrent work for the foundation…and a pair of businesses seeking potentially lucrative contracts in Libya — underscore the blurred lines between her State Department work and that of her family’s charitable and political enterprises. Blumenthal has been subpoenaed by the U.S. House committee investigating the 2012 attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi, Libya, and Clinton’s handling of it….The committee is said to be interested in exploring Blumenthal’s connections to any entity that may have stood to benefit from Clinton’s decisions in Libya.”
[Blumenthal trail - Fox News: “Recently released emails detail then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s interest in arming Libyan opposition groups using private security contractors before the fall of Muammar Qaddafi in 2011 – though at the time, the opposition was not formally recognized by the U.S. or United Nations, which prohibited arming without following strict guidelines and oversight.]
Clinton Cash, campaign edition - Clinton is making her first visit as a candidate to two states today starting off in Atlanta with a breakfast fundraiser at the home of Georgetown Capital equity firm founder A.J. Johnson. Then it’s off to the Miami area for a pair of big-donor encounters. Clinton will be hosted by trial lawyer and Clinton Foundation donor Ira Leesfield at his home in Coconut Grove, and in Coral Gables at the home of Nilda Milton. The give for all three events ranges from $2,700 to $50,000. The Miami Herald reports the Florida Republican Party plans to hold press conference outside one of the stops to highlight the Democratic frontrunner’s lack of press conferences. -Fox News

CHA-CHA-CHA-CHANGES ON SAME-SEX MARRIAGE David Drucker looks at the evolution of the GOP and its presidential contenders on the issue of same-sex marriage: “Even as recently as four years ago, then-Texas Gov. Rick Perry, in the midst of his first run for president (he's running again in 2016), had to backtrack after initially citing the Tenth Amendment as his reasoning for being okay with the state of New York legalizing same-sex marriage. Perry, a traditional marriage purist, had angered social conservative activists. This time around, no less than Sen. Ted Cruz has said that his position is grounded in the Constitution.”
“…That, by the way, is the greatest victory of all of the proponents of same- sex marriage is they have absolutely made it unacceptable to have any discussion. And you know what politicians will do in time? They’ll learn the lesson from watching what happened to Marco Rubio today and others and they'll say, ‘I’m just not going to talk about this.’” – Chris Stirewalt on “The Kelly File” -Fox News

The Judge’s Ruling: Patriot Act must go - With section 215 of the Patriot Act about to expire, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitanoreviews its history and points to a recent Justice Department Inspector General report that concludes “the bulk collection of data has not stopped a single act of terror or aided a single federal terrorism prosecution since the Patriot Act became law on October 26, 2001.” “The government’s bulk collection of data must go,” Napolitano writes, “It assaults freedoms, and it fails to enhance our safety.” More here. -Fox News

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NY Times- Liars and Cowards

(shoebat.com) - The New York Times’ hypocrisy regarding displays of “offensive” religious imagery runs unabated... An article yesterday about the sale of Chris Ofili’s controversial painting showing the Virgin Mary clotted with elephant dung against a porn-collage background, was accompanied by a photo of the offensive work. No fear of violent reprisal, but fear of “causing offense.” So why does Ofili’s dung-clotted Virgin Mary get a pass? As noted before, the Times isn’t afraid to run all religiously offensive images. The paper has in the past run approving pictures of Ofili’s painting, which caused controversy when it hung in the Brooklyn Museum in 1999. On Friday, ignoring its previous self-righteous comments on not offending “religious sensibilities” when it comes to Muhammad, the Times once again ran a photo of the Virgin Mary. http://shoebat.com/2015/05/30/sharia-compliant-new-york-times-wont-publish-mohammed-cartoons-but-just-published-painting-of-virgin-mary-covered-in-elephant-poop-again/

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Libyan prime minister threatens to retaliate if the EU use force

(Darren Boyle) - Libya’s prime minister has warned European Union navies against targeting people traffickers in his nation’s territorial water or face retribution... A multi-national force, including Britain, Ireland, Italy and Greece have deployed naval vessels in the Mediterranean as part of a humanitarian mission to rescue desperate migrants trying to travel into Europe. However, Khalifa al-Ghweil, who leads one of the rival governments accused the west of having a ‘colonial mentality’ which is ‘completely unacceptable in the modern world’. https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/05/30/libyan-prime-minister-threatens-to-retaliate-if-the-eu-stops-isis-people-smugglers-sending-ships-to-italy/

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Why new green fuel rules could damage car engines

(John Siciliano) - The new Renewable Fuel Standard, or RFS, sets annual blending requirements for 2014, 2015 and 2016, outlining a substantial uptick in the amount of low-carbon biofuels refiners must purchase... EPA's new proposal retroactively sets the total renewable fuel requirement at 15.93 billion gallons in 2014, and drives up the standard to 16.30 billion gallons in 2015, and 17.40 billion gallons in 2016. EPA is prepared to finalize the rules by November 30. Oil companies fear the amount of renewable fuel required in 2015 and 2016 could exceed the current E10 blend level, which means 10 percent of gasoline must be comprised of ethanol. The industry wants the E10 standard reduced further, and has warned that going beyond the current "blend wall" would lead to engine damage in cars. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/why-new-green-fuel-rules-could-damage-car-engines/article/2565241

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 Now the Government Wants to Ban Holding Your Breath

(Selwyn Duke) - If you want our freedoms restored, well, as they say, don’t hold your breath waiting — especially since holding your breath may soon be against the law, at least in a certain context... In an effort many would described as the nanny-state run amuck, there’s a movement afoot to ban “prolonged breath holding” in public pools. Reuters Barbara Goldbergreports: Goldberg tells us that New York City and Santa Barbara, California, have, along with perhaps some other U.S. cities, already outlawed the practice. And on the surface this may make sense to some if even aspiring Navy Seals can die engaging in it. But unlike with serious swimmers, the perils for society become greater when policy-makers’ analyses stay on the surface. Goldberg also reports that “in New York state [sic] alone, four people aged 17 to 22 and ‘known to be advanced to expert swimmers’" died in breath holding incidents from 1988 to 2011.” http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/item/20969-now-the-government-wants-to-ban-holding-your-breath?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=b27de52877-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-b27de52877-289778381

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 What Is nObama Hiding About Bergdahl? You’ve Got To See This!

(Robert Rich) ~ There’s no doubt that Barack nObama traded American deserter Bowe Bergdahl for five of the world’s most deadly terrorists for political reasons during his 2012 campaign... Although it wasn’t long before inquisitive minds were able to shoot holes in nObama’s false narrative on the matter, it appears there was something definitely worth hiding. We know just about all the facts — nObama negotiated with terrorists in an unprecedented trade, releasing five detainees for a single American deserter. Despite that Bergdahl openly walked off base in search of terrorists and denounced his citizenship, nObama still tried to play hero by bringing home a “captured” American. http://linkis.com/madworldnews.com/7rJa4

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i82pXdfayFw

Megyn Kelly Loses It...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1qE6onrdCo&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs

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Hilly Emails - Trey Gowdy Lays It Out

One of the most important videos of the decade. Trey Gowdy lays out what will likely become the end of the line for Hilly Clinton. This is her "checkmate" video... I don't personally believe it is about the Benghazi emails that she is scared. I think her emails could expose some serious shit with her foundation. This just my feeling. The more she tries to run from the scene of the crisis, the guiltier she appears. I would have loved to leave this video open to comments, but as you might have guessed, the liberals in the crowd are in full blown panic mode. They have been making the dumbest comments you can imagine and just generally can't get along with people who have the ability to think for themselves. So sadly, they will not be permitted to comment on this video.

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxG--qEHVx8&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs

US military pilots complain hands tied in ‘frustrating’ fight against ISIS

(Lucas Tomlinson) ~ U.S. military pilots carrying out the air war against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria are voicing growing discontent over what they say are heavy-handed rules of engagement hindering them from striking targets... They blame a bureaucracy that does not allow for quick decision-making. One Navy F-18 pilot who has flown missions against ISIS voiced his frustration to Fox News, saying: "There were times I had groups of ISIS fighters in my sights, but couldn't get clearance to engage.” He added, “They probably killed innocent people and spread evil because of my inability to kill them. It was frustrating." http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/28/us-military-pilots-complain-hands-tied-in-frustrating-fight-against-isis/

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Hizballah Deepens Its Involvement in Syria

(Jonathan Spyer) ~ The latest reports from the Qalamoun mountain range in western Syria suggest that Hizballah is pushing back the jihadis of Jabhat al-Nusra and Islamic State... The movement claims to have taken 300 square kilometers from the Sunni rebels. The broader picture for the Shia Islamists that dominate Lebanon, however, is less rosy. The Iran-led alliance of which Hizballah is a part is better organized and more effectively commanded than its Sunni rivals. Its ability to marshal its resources in a centralized and effective way is what has enabled it to preserve the Assad regime in Syria until now. http://www.meforum.org/5271/hezbollah-lebanon-syria

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 Nancy Pulosi: ‘The Clintons Will Have To Answer For The Foundation’

(Al Weaver) - House Minority Leader Nancy Pulosi said Friday that Bill and Hilly Clinton will need to answer for the donations taken in by the Clinton Foundation... Pulosi told MSNBC’s Thomas Roberts that there’s “no question” the donation scandal “raises questions” that the former secretary of state will need to answer for. She made the remarks after Roberts asked her to respond to a New York Times story showing that former President Clinton appeared at a charity event, but only after they gave a $500,000 donation to the foundation.

http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/29/nancy-pelosi-the-clintons-will-have-to-answer-for-the-foundation-video/

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Abortion vs. Capital Punishment

(burtprelutsky.com) - When liberals set out to prove that conservatives are hypocrites, they will generally point out that many of the same people who are most opposed to abortions turn around and support capital punishment.

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In doing so, the liberals merely confirm they lack anything even faintly resembling a moral compass. After all, who but a leftist would ever equate the life of an innocent baby with that of a cold-blooded sadist? When comparing human lives, it helps if those on both sides are recognizably human. To suggest that some degenerate who has raped and murdered a child or eviscerated an entire family be allowed to live simply because he possesses fingerprints and human DNA seems fatuous at best, repugnant at worst.

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But, then, on those occasions when liberals aren’t immoral, their tendency is to be amoral, seemingly unaware that there are principles and values without which we are no better than the beasts of the jungle.

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Instead, what passes for morality on the Left tends to be an eagerness to take up for those they determine to be underdogs. So they side with rampaging black thugs, illegal aliens and even the Palestinians, having decided that their terrorist activities are merely the actions of freedom fighters opposing Israeli oppression.

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What’s more, because leftists are as merciless as Islamic throat-cutters, they will never hesitate to lie if they feel it serves their purpose. For instance, in the aftermath of the Hobby Lobby case, they insisted that the company had refused to offer contraception to its employees. That was a patent falsehood, and what’s more they knew it. Hobby Lobby had simply refused on religious grounds to offer four of the 24 contraceptive methods currently available, because they were deemed not to prevent conception, but, instead, to cause abortions.

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In the aftermath, all the Left talked about were the four exclusions, not the other 20. For my part, in a nation where sex education appears to begin in the second or third grade and where contraceptive meds and devices are readily available, I’d think abortions would be a thing of the past. The question, why, at this late date, a million abortions a year are still taking place should be the topic under discussion, not whether Christians should be deprived of their religious rights.

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But, of course, liberals are never concerned with anyone else’s freedoms and liberties, but only their own. That is why they oppose even a 20-week deadline for abortions. So far as they’re concerned, women should be able to abort a baby even in the delivery room. If you think I exaggerate, Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, head of the DNC, refused to come up with a cutoff date after which women should ever be denied an abortion. When asked if curtailing abortions even after the seventh or eighth month of pregnancy might be appropriate, she simply kept insisting that it was entirely up to the woman.

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Also, let us not forget that as a member of the Illinois state legislature, Barack nObama voted to allow the killing of babies who managed to survive botched abortions, meaning that even post-partum murders are okey-dokey with this crowd.

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I suspect, based on the evidence, that a sizable number of those on the Left would favor aborting 17 and 18-year-olds if the mothers sensed conservative tendencies cropping up in their offspring.

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The more I see and hear liberals, the more convinced I become that they are those monstrous creatures one finds in sci-fi movies who come here from another planet, possessing the ability to transform themselves into things closely resembling human beings, lacking only a conscience and a soul to make the masquerade complete.

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♦ After writing about capital punishment recently, I heard from several people. Because of the nature of my readership, I didn’t hear from any of those saps who oppose the ultimate punishment for the ultimate crime. For the most part, the readers divided into two camps. On the one hand, there were those who proposed various ways to execute with the least pain possible, while others competed to come up with the most gruesome executions, some involving dungeons and ravenous rodents.

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In rebuttal to one, who had recently been rendered unconscious while having his cataracts removed, and felt that a little more of whatever he received from the anesthetist would do the trick, no muss, no fuss, I readily acknowledged that he was more compassionate than I am. But I felt that his empathy was somewhat misplaced because it seemed to ignore the pain experienced by the victim and the irreplaceable loss to his or her loved ones.

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I went on: “Frankly, providing sadistic killers a painless death is really low on my list of priorities. Unfortunately, liberals have done a great job of garnering influence over the legal system. In the old days, you could appeal a death sentence only if you came up with new evidence showing that the cops had perjured themselves, the prosecutor had withheld evidence beneficial to the defendant or, in those rarest of instances, when someone else confessed to the crime.

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“But these days, the defense lawyers merely have to dig up a liberal judge who’ll grant them one stay of execution after another while the killer lives on and on, outliving his victim by 20 or 30 years, often hanging on until a liberal governor decides to commute his sentence.

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“In the meantime, because of all the stalling tactics, a backlog builds up on Death Row, so that those opposed to capital punishment can argue that it would be barbaric to execute hundreds of individuals. What they invariably neglect to mention is that the backlog of sadists and serial killers only exists because these assorted shysters and sob sisters prevented the executions from taking place in a timely fashion.”

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♦ One other source of constant annoyance to me is Pope Francis. From the very beginning of his papacy, I had the feeling that he hadn’t been elected by the Congress of Cardinals, but by the Comintern. He mouths the same leftwing platitudes as the Castros, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. But perhaps his most offensive act yet was his recent recognition of Palestine as an independent state, giving Hamas, the terrorist group governing the Palestinians, just the sort of legitimacy jihadists crave.

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I am reminded that the late Abba Eban, Israel’s onetime ambassador to the United States, once said, after the Arabs had, as usual, stormed out of a peace conference, “The Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss an opportunity.”

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Eban, one of the few diplomats who has ever managed to give diplomacy a good name, also suggested that “History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely only after they’ve exhausted all other options.”

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After Israel’s miraculous victory in 1967, when it was attacked simultaneously by Egypt, Jordan and Syria, in what became known as the Six Day War, Eban wryly commented: “I think that this is the first war in history that on the morrow the victors sued for peace and the vanquished called for unconditional surrender.”

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Instead of consorting with the tawdry likes of Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry and the representatives of Islamic terrorist groups, I would advise Pope Francis to pay closer attention to the wise words of Eban, who, from his position as Ambassador to the U.N., noted: “If Algeria introduced a resolution declaring that the earth was flat and that Israel had flattened it, it would pass by a vote of 164 to 13, with 26 abstentions.”

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Unfortunately, with nObama in the White House and Francis in the Vatican, the vote today would be 165 to 12.

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Saturday Afternoon ~ The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 30, 2015 at 10:22am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Barack “Climate Change” nObama

Alan Caruba

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

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EPA Expands Authority Over America's Waterways

More than a year after initially proposing it, and despite efforts by congressional Republicans to block such a move, the Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Army Crops of Engineers, citing authority under the Clean Water Act, enacted a new rule that gives the federal government additional control over waterways. "The nObama administration issued a rule on Wednesday putting more small bodies of water and wetlands under federal protection to ensure clean drinking supplies," The Wall Street Journal reports, a power grab that "is estimated to put about 3% more waterways throughout the U.S. under new federal jurisdiction." nObama officials say they're simply maximizing existing legal authority. According to EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy, "This rule is about clarification, and in fact, we're adding exclusions for features like artificial lakes and ponds, water-filled depressions from constructions and grass swales." However, the Journal adds, "The rule seeks to require those kinds of permits for only those waterways that have physical features of flowing water."

And that's exactly the concern, explains Hot Air's Jazz Shaw: "The physical feature of flowing water? Depending on the conditions, the slope of the land and how much it rains on any given day, that could apply to pretty much anything." Moreover, "People who own property adjacent to or including swampy areas with poor drainage can (and already have) run afoul of the feds if they want to improve the drainage to dry out a section for construction or just a better looking lawn." As Mark Alexander wrote last month, Democrats, led by the powerful EPA, leverage environmental concerns to conceal their real agenda — the constriction of free enterprise. Their objective is to incrementally implement centralized economic control through regulatory requirements justified by ever-expanding "mandates." In implementing its newest rule — "one of nearly 10 that the EPA is slated to complete in coming months," the Journal notes — the agency is essentially saying, "Trust us." That's a dangerous thing to oblige when Liberty is at stake. -The Patriot Post

Krauthammer: How Amnesty Smackdown Hurts Republicans

Fox News political analyst Charles Krauthammer offered his two cents on Tuesday's decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to keep a temporary injunction in place blocking executive amnesty. According to Krauthammer, "For the Republicans, it's a problem." Here's why: "It's like the case going forward on nObamaCare and the thing about the exchanges and the subsidies. The problem is what happens if you win? Because if you win then the issue gets thrown back into the political arena." He argues, "If somehow this would be completely tossed out, then the question will be, 'what's your plan on immigration reform,' if anything. I think up until now, you can say, 'well it's in the hands of the courts.' But at a certain point it's not going to be and you're going to have to answer." Like or not, he's right. Immigration is a sour topic, but taking Barack nObama's diktats to court isn't enough. Lest they want to commit political suicide, conservatives will eventually have to rally around viable solutions to the illegal immigration problem and present them in an articulate manner. -The Patriot Post

Santorum Announces Second Attempt at Presidency

Rick Santorum, the former senator from Pennsylvania who appealed to conservative evangelical voters during the 2012 presidential election, announced Wednesday he will once again seek the GOP nomination for the White House. Traditionally known for his value-voter stance on same-sex marriage and abortion, Santorum may try to broaden his appeal this time around. On May 21, Santorum told the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, "We are not going be successful unless we have a message that talks to the people who are struggling to rise." But while he came second place to Mitt Romney four years ago, he faces longer odds this time around. Statistics blog FiveThirtyEight says Santorum is running in a more crowded field this time around. This places him around 10th place in the popularity polls, right around the cutoff of the number of candidates Fox News and CNN says they will invite to preliminary presidential debates. In other words, Santorum does not only have to fight about issues, he's running an underdog fight that may be felled by the arbitrary rules created by a media company. More... -The Patriot Post

Your Viewing Guide to Sunday's Showdown Over the Patriot Act

In the wake of Sept. 11, 2001, passing the Patriot Act seemed the inarguably patriotic thing to do. Nearly 14 years later, however, the lines of patriotism are less clearly drawn. Up for reauthorization, the act is facing staunch opposition — and creating strange bedfellows — in the wake of increasing concerns over government spying on the American people.

Last week, the House, by a vote of 338-88, passed not a reauthorization of the full Patriot Act but the equally patriotic sounding USA Freedom Act, which would continue the Patriot Act's surveillance powers but end specific practices including the NSA's data collection program (recently deemed illegal by a federal court), roving wiretaps and so-called lone-wolf surveillance tactics. Among other things, the USA Freedom Act would move the storage of telephone data from the federal government to telecommunications companies.

Between the House and president, however, the Senate stands. With 60 votes needed, the upper chamber came up short of passing the USA Freedom Act, producing just 57 votes before heading home for Memorial Day. At issue are competing views of liberty within the Senate. -The Patriot Post

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 AIM Editor Talks About Stephanopoulos and Media Corruption

(aim.org) - AIM Editor Roger Aronoff was a guest last week on the Philadelphia, PA Conservative Commandos radio show with Rick Trader to talk about Aronoff’s recent column “Stephanopoulos Fiasco is Par for the Course.”... ABC’s host George Stephanopoulos interviewed Clinton Cash author Peter Schweizer on April 26, in a confrontational broadcast designed to cast the author as a partisan out to tar the reputation of the Clinton family. As Aronoff pointed out on Trader’s show, Stephanopoulos “proceeded to do an interrogation more than a question-and-answer where you’re really trying to learn information from the author and what he has in the book.” This is par for the course for the mainstream media, argues Aronoff. The incestuous relationships between media and the administration are so extensive that disclaimers are necessary to alert viewers. Yet, where would that end? It would be a constant refrain, if the media were to be diligent in announcing all of their conflicts of interest. http://www.aim.org/aim-column/aim-editor-talks-about-stephanopoulos-and-media-corruption/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email052915&utm_medium=email

 Video Proves Mainstream Media Hates Conservative Free Speech

(fromtheright.com) - It really is remarkable that people who make their living based on the principle that we have free speech rights really don’t give a crap if they’re taken away from others... I’m talking of course, about the news media and how happily they jump to shut down free speech – when it’s used by conservatives of course. t’s getting kinda scary out there – I would have guessed that more people would have jumped in to defend our right to free speech once ISIS-inspired maggots started attacking Americans on our own soil. But liberals hate us so much, they’d rather shut up conservatives than oppose Islamists. Amazing isn’t it? http://fromtheright.com/latest/this-video-proves-mainstream-media-hates-conservative-free-speech/

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 House Panel Meets the Press In Probe of FOIA Woes

(Ben Geman) - An unusual House hearing next week will feature reporters testifying before a congressional committee hearing instead of covering it... The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee's probe of barriers to receiving federal documents under the Freedom of Information Act features three journalists and New York Times assistant general counsel David McCraw among the witnesses on June 2. One journalist is Sharyl Attkisson, a former CBS investigative reporter and author ofStonewalled, a 2014 book celebrated by conservatives that targets nObama administration "efforts to monitor journalists, intimidate and harass opposition groups, and spy on private citizens." Vice News investigative reporter Jason Leopold and Newsweek investigative reporter Leah McGrath Goodman will also testify, according to the committee. http://www.nationaljournal.com/domesticpolicy/house-panel-meets-the-press-in-probe-of-foia-woes-20150528

 Frustrated Pilots Speak Out Against nObama’s Fubar Air War

(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - Within the U.S. Air Force, there’s mounting frustration that the air campaign against ISIS in Syria and Iraq is moving far more slowly than expected... Instead of a fast-moving operation with hundreds of sorties flown in a single day—the kind favored by many in the air service—American warplanes are hitting small numbers of targets after a painstaking and cumbersome process. The single biggest problem, current and former Air Force officers say, is the so-called kill-chain of properly identifying and making sure the right target is being attacked. At the moment, that process is very complicated and painfully slow. “The kill-chain is very convoluted,” one combat-experienced Air Force A-10 Warthog pilot told The Daily Beast. “Nobody really has the control in the tactical environment.” https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/05/29/frustrated-pilots-speak-out-against-obamas-fubar-air-war-against-isis/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2BZYuB3FXw

Iraq No Longer Exists

(rickwells.us) - Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense underPresident Ronald Reagan, K T McFarland, has a much less rosy view of the situation in the war against ISIS” than that which is being served up by the nObama regime through its spokesperson Josh Earnest... She says that what we’re doing isn’t working and asks “How many times are you going to try before you find something new to try because it’s not succeeding?” McFarland points to a UN assessment of the alarming ISIS growth and strength, which she says is probably a conservative, “low ball” number. Bill Hemmer notes that Josh Earnest “did not say we’re winning.” Winning is a claim that the nObama operatives seldom expressed as being desirable outcome. McFarland asks how many times we need to refight this fight, or essentially, how long are we going to continue to kid ourselves? She notes how on two separate occasions, in Mosul and in Ramadi, the Iraqi forces should have easily been victorious, facing an outnumbered and outgunned opponent. In both instances they chose instead to turn tail and run away. http://rickwells.us/k-t-mcfarland-iraq-no-longer-exists-that-might-be-enough-to-label-obamas-strategy-as-failed/

Pastor spills secret on kids summoning 'demons' (wnd.com) - Young people around the world are trying to summon a demon in the latest trend sweeping social media – but a well-known pastor and Christian author believes those who participated in the “Charlie Charlie challenge” are fooling themselves about the realities of the spiritual realm... Pastor and bestselling Christian author Carl Gallups told WND: “The ‘Charlie Charlie’ trick is just that – a trick. In fact, it’s an old bar room parlor trick that originally involved putting two cigarettes on top of each other, only now it’s two pencils. It’s very easy to manipulate and make it look like something is happening by itself when actually it’s just someone breathing on the pencils, usually the person filming the ‘challenge.’ So these kids are not actually summoning demons or anything like that.” In the “Charlie Charlie Challenge,” participants align two pencils in the shape of a cross and ask, “Charlie, Charlie are you here?” Supposedly, the pencils then move to indicate the entity’s presence. On YouTube, videos of participants filming themselves doing the “challenge” are racking up tens of thousands of views. http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/pastor-spills-secret-on-kids-summoning-demons/ Video: http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/pastor-spills-secret-on-kids-summoning-demons/#ooid=w1djZkdTrqMN2a6q7aLHnejGxEx3Aku2

 Judge Blasts Admin Lawyer In Congress' Separation Of Powers

(Jeff Dunetz) - Today was the first day in court for House of Representatives v. Burwell, et al., the often criticized lawsuit brought by the House against President nObama's overreached use of executive power... in changing elements of the nObamacare bill without a congressional vote. Specifically the actions being contested include authorizing Treasury payments to healthcare insurers without the funding being agreed by Congress and delaying implementation of the law's employer mandate, which required employers with more than 50 employees to provide healthcare coverage. The Administration of course began by trying to have the judge toss the lawsuit. They argued the House lacks standing to sue, citing a section of U.S. law that means the House would have to prove it has been directly harmed. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/05/judge-blasts-administration-lawyer-in.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a2cb67d20c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-a2cb67d20c-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-a2cb67d20c-291705165

 Shameless Liar: The Strange Dishonest World of David K. Shipler

(Daniel Greenfield) - David K. Shipler’s new book Freedom of Speech: Mightier Than the Sword isn’t about freedom of speech. It’s about varieties of speech that Shipler likes and doesn’t like... The book is less of the searching look at freedom of speech that it claims to be and more of a grab bag of dishonest political attacks on people and things that its author, a former New York Timesian notorious for his sympathy for terrorists, hates. Shipler suggests that Muslim terrorists don’t have the same freedom to advocate violence as Republicans. “What a right-wing politician can approvingly say about armed revolution cannot be spoken with impunity by a Muslim preacher,” he complains. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/shameless-liar-the-strange-dishonest-world-of-david-k-shipler/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=942f636ffc-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-942f636ffc-156509103

 Iran doubles down in the fight for the Middle East

(J. Matthew Mcinnis) - The Deputy Commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps’ (IRGC) Quds Force, Brigadier General Esmail Ghani, finally admitted on May 23 that Tehran has been training the Houthi rebels in Yemen... For those watching the situation closely, the Quds Force’s (and certainly Lebanese Hezbollah’s as well) direct role in the Yemeni conflict was expected, but Ghani’s public confirmation was not. We are unlikely to see another heroic publicity campaign with Quds Force Commander Major General Qassem Soleimani rallying and guiding Houthi forces—as we did with Iran’s Shia proxies in Iraq after the fall of Mosul to ISIS last year. Ghani’s announcement signals, though, a new willingness for Iran to deepen its military involvement in Yemen, even as Tehran voices support for negotiations. Nor was this Iran’s only move in the past two weeks to show how far it will—or must—go in its multi-front regional contest with ISIS, Saudi Arabia, Israel and the United States. http://www.aei.org/publication/iran-doubles-down-in-the-fight-for-the-middle-east/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=052915

Cuba removed from US terror sponsor list

(foxnews.com) - The U.S. has taken Cuba off its list of state sponsors of terrorism... Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry has signed an order removing Cuba from the U.S. terrorism blacklist as part of the process of normalizing relations between the Cold War foes. hanoi Kerry acted 45 days after the nObama administration informed Congress of its intent to do so. Lawmakers had that much time to weigh in and try to block the move, but did not do so. http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/05/29/cuba-removed-from-us-terror-sponsor-list/

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Barack “Climate Change” nObama

Alan Caruba

“Woe to the land that’s governed by a child.”

– Shakespeare, Richard III

(aim.org) - I have been wrestling for some kind of explanation why the President of the United States, Barack nObama, would continue to talk about climate change and urge the global transition from fossil fuels to wind, solar and bio-energy. I have concluded that he thinks everyone, not just Americans, are idiots.

We know he lies about everything, but these two topics are clearly near and dear to his heart.

My friend, Paul Driessen, is a policy analyst for the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow, a free market think tank. Among the pundit class he’s ranked very high by his colleagues. Here’s what he has to say about climate change:

“Earth climate always has changed, is always changing, and always will change—but not from fossil-fuel use. Solar fluctuations, deep ocean circulation patterns, and other powerful natural forces have driven climate change and weather events throughout Earth’s history and will continue to do so.”

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“President nObama’s hubris is breathtaking. He now thinks an army of regulators can control our planet’s temperature and climate by tweaking emissions of plant-fertilizing carbon dioxide, a mere 0.04% of the atmosphere.”

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“America’s communities do not need to be protected from climate change. They need to be protected from the excesses of authoritarian presidents and bureaucrats.”

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Driessen and I look at and listen to nObama and wonder if others too see and hear someone uttering some of the most absurd claims about the climate. Then we worry that this someone is the President of the United States with the power to turn his ignorance into national policy.

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At this point we have suffered his initial failure to respond to the recession he inherited from the 2008 financial crisis. More than six years later the economy has barely moved toward a normal rate of growth. Then we were gifted with nObamaCare and the disruption of what was widely regarded as the best health system in the world. And, for good measure, he imposed Common Core on an already weakened educational system. It is being repealed and opposed in many states. For good measure, his foreign policy, if he has one, is widely regarded as a total failure.

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How is it a former “community organizer” possesses a seemingly vast understanding of meteorology? Did they also teach that at the Harvard Law School? “Climate change,” said nObama, addressing a graduating class of the Coast Guard Academy, “constitutes a serious threat to global security, an immediate risk to our national security, and make no mistake; it will impact how our military defends our country.”

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“Our military and our combatant commanders,” the President told the Academy graduates, “our services—including the Coast Guard—will need to factor climate change into plans and operations, because you need to be ready.” For what? For a rainstorm? For snow? Wind?

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This is the same President who sees no threat to our national security from Iran whose leaders shout “Death to America” every day when they aren’t also shouting “Death to Israel.” He has zealously been pursuing a deal that would enable Iran, the leading supporter of terrorism, to have nuclear weapons. Meanwhile Islamic State (ISIS) is taking over more territory in northern Iraq and into Syria. nObama might as well be dropping bags of marshmallows on them.

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He blamed climate change in the form of “severe droughts” for the rise of Islamism in the Middle East and Africa. Someone needs to tell nObama that there have always been severe droughts somewhere on the planet, and floods, and forest fires, and blizzards, and hurricanes. Even so, in the last eighteen years, there have actually been LESS of these natural events, along with the flatlining of the planet’s overall or average temperature—there has been no warming!

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Not content to blame climate change for the rise of terrorism, the White House issued a report that was described as “a doomsday scenario of health, security, economic and political issues.” The thing about climate is that it measured incenturies, not years. As for the weather, while records are maintained, it is usually reported as today’s news with a forecast of the coming week.

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So you shouldn’t be surprised that the report blamed “asthma attacks” on climate change!

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Suffice to say there isn’t a glimmer of hard evidence to support anything the President is saying these days about climate change.

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And this is the same President that wants the U.S. and the rest of the world to give up the use of fossil fuels—coal, oil and natural gas—to “stop climate change.”

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IF nObama’s climate change idiocy is just a way to distract Americans from the real problems we have encountered thanks to his failure to address them, then it is purely cynical and political.

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IF nObama really believes this stuff, he is unfit to be President.

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Saturday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 30, 2015 at 4:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

The Slow Death of Common Core

Alan Caruba

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

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FIORINA, KASICH CRACK TOP 10 IN NEW Q POLL
Marco Rubio skidded. Jeb Bush slid. Ben Carson zoomed. Mike Huckabee bounced. Scott Walker stayed steady. And that’s how you end up with a five-way tie for first place in the latest Quinnipiac University national poll on the GOP Sixteeners. Put another way: With five candidates evenly dividing half of the vote, there is no first place. While Rubio lost a third of his support and Bush continued to droop, losing three points for the second month in a row, all five can say with confidence that they will meet the polling criterion for the first GOP debate, hosted by Fox News and Facebook on Aug. 6 in Cleveland.
Aside from having filed as candidates – including required financial disclosures – and paid their candidate filing fees, a candidate must be among the top ten in the average of five methodologically sound national polls taken before the debate. Huckabee, Bush, Carson and Rubio may be sowing some volatility, but they can expect to be there with Walker on the big day.
But the real drama right now is about the bottom, not the top. Quinnipiac looks at the back half of the pack: “Rounding out the top 10 for televised debates are U.S. Sen. Rand Paul of Kentucky at 7 percent, U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas at 6 percent, Donald Trump at 5 percent, New Jersey Gov. Christopher Christie at 4 percent and Carly Fiorina and Ohio Gov. John Kasich at 2 percent each.” -Fox News

Artfully edited Walker ultrasound comments start media feeding frenzy - WashEx: “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker believes forced ultrasounds are ‘just a cool thing for women,’ a handful of online news sites reported Wednesday. Problem is: That's not exactly what the Republican governor and likely 2016 presidential candidate said. In an interview Friday with conservative radio host Dana Loesch, Walker defended a bill that he signed into law in 2013 mandating that women seeking abortions must also be provided with ultrasounds. … The Wisconsin governor, who is also the father to two sons, then marveled at the technology behind ultrasounds. ‘…I think about my sons are 19 and 20, you know we still have their first ultrasound picture. It’s just a cool thing out there,’ he said. … Newsrooms took it from there, editing together Walker’s comments so that they could claim in headlines that the Republican lawmaker said ‘forced ultrasounds’ are ‘cool.’” -Fox News

Fiorina mocks Hilly’s grassroots campaign - After a day on the campaign trail in South Carolina lacerating Hilly Clinton for ethical misconduct and unaccountability, Carly Fiorina took her Clinton stakeout online. Her campaign launched a new site called Ready to Beat Hilly. The site includes video and photos of Fiorina campaigning against Clinton, and making obvious comparisons between the two, highlighting her major campaign point that it will take a woman to beat a woman candidate for president. -Fox News

Santorum makes immigration hard line a campaign centerpiece Byron Yorkwrites: “In his June 6, 2011 speech declaring his first run for the presidency, former Sen. Rick Santorum didn't mention immigration. On Wednesday, announcing a second race and seeking to win the support of displaced and discouraged American workers, Santorum laid out the toughest position on immigration of any candidate in the large 2016 GOP field. … As proof of his bona fides, Santorum pointed to high marks he received recently from the head of the restrictionist group Federation for American Immigration Reform. ‘Santorum is really the only one who is drilling down into the nuts and bolts and is looking into the job market and how immigration is really hurting American workers,’ Dan Stein, head of FAIR, said recently during a debate sponsored by the Washington Times. In his announcement, Santorum touted FAIR’s assessment.” -Fox News

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Megyn Kelly Hits Back at CNN Host

(newsinc.com) - Thursday morning, during a contentious interview with Pamela Geller, CNN’s Chris Cuomo attempted to draw an analogy between holding a Muhammad cartoon contest and saying the “n-word.”... As he put it, “the ‘n-word’ gets treated the same way that depictions of Muhammad does. We don’t say it because it’s offensive, not because legally I can’t.” This idea not only rubbed Geller the wrong way but also appeared to bother Fox News’ Megyn Kelly, who invited National Review editor Rich Lowry on her show tonight to discuss it. “His view is she’s not allowed to have a ‘Draw Muhammad’ contest because in his view, he has pronounced that is offensive,” Kelly said of Cuomo. “The question is offensive to whom, Chris?” she asked later. “There is a group that finds this offensive, and there are tens if not hundreds of millions who have no issue with it whatsoever.” Lowry, in turn, defended Geller’s right to run cartoons of Muhammad on Washington, D.C. buses, saying, “they may be offensive, but they’re not gratuitously offensive because she wants to include the line ‘support free speech.’ That is a political message and a political message that should be entirely unobjectionable.”

Video: http://launch.newsinc.com/share.html?trackingGroup=91575&siteSection=libertyalliance&videoId=29153248

Guess Who Wants Americans to Surrender Internet to U.N.

(teapartyupdate.com) - It’s bad enough we’ve got trolls like the NSA snooping through our personal data courtesy of nObama and his executive order on data collection... But now we’ve got a high level politician calling for the Internet to be controlled entirely by the UN. Who might it be None other than Hilly Clinton’s successor, Mr. hanoi John Kerry. hanoi Kerry maintains in order to protect people across the globe the UN should be in control of the Internet. http://teapartyupdate.com/guess-who-wants-americans-to-surrender-internet-to-u-n/

 Rep Gohmert Reveals The Amnesty Secret Attack Hidden In NDAA

(rickwells.us) After applauding the decision by the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to uphold the injunction against the nObama amnesty issued by Judge Andrew Hanen, Rep Louie Gohmert (R-TX) exposes some of the motivations, aside from the basic illegality on the part of the nObama regime... behind the hard-fought opposition to the insertion a Democrat amendment to the NDAA. That amendment would have permitted the military service of illegal aliens and would have quite possibly led to the overturning of Judge Hanen’s injunction by the Fifth Circuit. The nObama attorneys could certainly have made a compelling case, according to Rep Gohmert. He explains just how close we might have come to the flood gates being thrown open. Had the Democrat amendment remained in the bill, it could have been interpreted as an endorsement of the amnesty itself, which would have put the injunction in serious jeopardy. http://rickwells.us/rep-louie-gohmert-reveals-the-amnesty-secret-attack-hidden-in-ndaa-a-stealth-bullet-dodged/

 China Seizing Territory In South China Sea

(rickwells.us) - The Chinese program of taking by force disputed island territory in the South China Sea has reached a point where the United States felt compelled to issue a meaningless threat against the aggressive behavior of our financial and, in many ways, political masters... Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter issued a warning saying, “There should be no mistake about this, the United States will fly, sail and operate wherever international law allows.” Ambassador John Bolton is asked if he believes our response to China was sufficiently strong. He describes it as “woefully inadequate, and it has been for the last six years.” He says, “What China is trying to do here is take what are now international waters in theSouth China Sea and turn it into a Chinese lake. That’s important for two reasons. One, it would give them control over the oil and gas and other mineral assets under the water and second, every barrel of oil that goes to Japan, South Korea and Taiwan from the Middle East goes through the South China Sea. So it would give China hands around the throats of those economies.” http://rickwells.us/china-seizing-territory-in-south-china-sea-american-response-is-woefully-inadequate-john-bolton/

 IRS Official Subpoenaed After Agency Refused to Testimony

(sharylattkisson.com) - The House Oversight Committee today issued a subpoena to compel the testimony of a public IRS official. That after the IRS failed to voluntarily allow the official, the Director of Privacy, Government Liaison and Disclosure, to confirm she would appear at a hearing next week examining federal agencies’ failure to follow Freedom of Information Act law... In theory, the Freedom of Information Act entitles members of the public and the press to obtain access to public information from federal agencies within 20 business day. In reality, federal agencies routinely ignore, delay and obfuscate such requests with impunity. There’s some irony in the IRS’ refusal to voluntarily let its officer in charge of public disclosure testify to Congress. It might be humorous if it weren’t such a sad commentary on the state of government transparency today. https://sharylattkisson.com/irs-official-subpoenaed-after-agency-refused-to-allow-voluntary-testimony/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29

 Canary Mission Website Gives Hard Left a Taste of Its Own Medicine

(Raheem Kassam) - There's a website called "Canary Mission." I don't know who's behind it. Nor, it seems, does anyone else. But I think it's a great exercise in turning the tables on anti-Israel activists who have been 'shaming' people online for years... Canary Mission says its aim is to "expose individuals and groups that are anti-Freedom, anti-American and anti-Semitic in order to protect the public and our democratic values." And while I'm kind of sad that political activism in both the United States and the United Kingdom has sunk to this level, it isn't new, and thusly there shouldn't be the outcry over it that there has been online. http://www.meforum.org/blog/2015/05/canary-mission

 Big Brother FCC Plans New Internet Tax

(rickwells.us) - There is no pretext too petty or insignificant that a redistributive-minded control-freak politician won’t use it to impose their global Marxist agenda upon the American people... Free speech is a right protecting by the First Amendment. They’re unilaterally adding a right to “free stuff” to the Constitution too, including a phone and Internet access, so that they can further control every aspect of our lives. The nObama regime already taxes Americans to provide “sponge phones,” also known as “nObama Phones” to the lazy social parasites that feed upon us, but that was just the foot in the door. They’re just getting started.Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler announced on Thursday that the program is about to get bigger, and naturally, much more expensive, to now include “free” internet for those who might grow weary of watching Oprah all day on the couch. http://rickwells.us/big-brother-fcc-plans-new-internet-tax-expansion-to-control-what-happens-inside-our-homes/

 nObama – ISIS Spreading, Gaining Support In Southeast Asia

(rickwells.us) - The failure of the nObama regime to put anything other than the pretense of efforts into the worldwide battle against Islamic terrorism and the forces of ISIS is showing in an increased presence of the terrorist organization in Southeast Asia... ISIS has been successful in expansion in that region to the degree that they now boast an entire terrorist military unit from Indonesia, Malaysia and Singapore. That is not merely terrorist propaganda; those are the words of the Singapore Prime Minister, Lee Hsien Loong, who estimated their numbers to include more than 500 Indonesians and dozens of Malaysians, as well as a few Singaporeans. “This is why Singapore takes terrorism, and in particular ISIS, very seriously,” Lee said. “The threat is no longer over there, it is over here.” http://rickwells.us/great-terrorist-strategy-obama-isis-spreading-gaining-support-in-southeast-asia/

 DOJ Official: Slavery to Blame for Riots in Ferguson and Baltimore

(J. Christian Adams) - Vanita Gupta, head of the Department of Justice Civil Rights Division, has told a lawyers group in Colorado that slavery and Jim Crow helped fuel the Ferguson and Baltimore riots... The last few days have seen a number of fanciful stories with the Obama administration seemingly questioning the authority of local police. I’ve long maintained that the administration is nakedly seeking to federalize policing standards — but get rid of local police? No way, that sounds like something broadcast from a shortwave station in Austin, Texas. But then up steps Vanita Gupta to lend some credibility to the idea that some want to disband local police and replace police powers with the federal government. Speaking to a group of left-wing lawyers in Colorado. http://pjmedia.com/jchristianadams/2015/05/19/doj-official-slavery-to-blame-for-riots-in-ferguson-and-baltimore/?singlepage=true

 Judge orders Clinton Foundation racketeering case to trial

(Sarah Westwood) - A Florida judge has set a trial date in the racketeering case against the Clinton Foundation and Bill and Hilly Clinton... Judge Donald Middlebrooks of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida ordered the racketeering, influenced and corrupt organizations, or RICO, case to head to trial January 20, 2016. The order, entered Friday and obtained by the Washington Examiner, came days after Larry Klayman of Freedom of Watch filed a lengthy civil complaint against the Clintons and their foundation in the same court. While the Clinton legal team could settle the case or enter a variety of motions in an effort to derail the lawsuit before the trial, the judge's swift decision means the matter could go to court before the Feb. 1 Iowa caucus and Feb. 9 New Hampshire primary. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-trial-date-set/article/2565272

The Slow Death of Common Core

Alan Caruba

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(factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - Think about the major policy undertakings of the nObama administration over the past six and a half years. It began with a “stimulus” that wasted trillions in the quest of generating jobs, but did little to nothing in achieving that goal. That was followed by nObamaCare which most agree has been a disaster for the nation’s healthcare sector and, finally, Common Core, a one-size-fits-all testing program intended, we were told, to improve learning standards in the nation’s schools. The only thing it has achieved is the opposition of parents, teachers unions, and entire states.

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In the April edition of The Heartland Institute’s School Reform News, one could find headlines that included “Arizona House Votes to Repeal and Replace Common Core”, “Arizona House Votes to Repeal Common Core”, ”West Virginia House Passes Common Core Repeal Bill”, and “Ohio Bill Would Protect Students Opting Out of Common Core Tests.” In March, some 19 states had introduced legislation to either halt or replace Common Core. Do you see a trend here?

One trend of significance was noted in a commentary by Jason L. Riley in the May 6 edition of The Wall Street Journal. “The Soccer Mom Revolt Against Common Core” cited a national poll released by Fairleigh Dickinson University earlier this year that put “approval for the new standards at 17%, against 40% who disapproved and other 42% who were undecided. A breakdown by gender had Common Core support 22% for men and only 12% for women.”

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Perhaps the greatest surprise among these numbers is that the nation’s largest teachers union, the National Educational Association, as Rob Bluey of the Heritage Foundation noted in February “is no longer a cheerleader for Common Core national education standards.” In a letter to the union’s three million members, its president, Dennis Van Roekel, took Common Core to task for its failure to even provide information for implementing it in their classrooms. The American Federation of Teachers had raised similar concerns nearly a year earlier!

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Writing on September 2014, Joy Pullman, a Heartland Institute research fellow whose expertise is education held forth on the “Top Ten Things Parents Hate About Common Core.” Among them was “The senseless, infuriating math.” “If Common Core hadn’t deformed even the most elementary of our math abilities so that simple addition now takes dots, dashes, boxes, hashmarks, and foam cubes, plus an inordinate amount of time”, you are not going to get the right answer.

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Parents in growing numbers have discovered, as Pullman notes, that “when they do go to their local school boards, often all they get are disgusted looks and a bored thumb-twiddling during their two-minute public comment allowance.” Pullman says, “The bottom line is, parents have no choice whether their kids will learn Common Core, no matter what school they put them in.” That, obviously, is changing as state after state pulls out of the Common Core program.

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In a new book by Samuel Blumenfeld and Alex Newman, “Crimes of the Educators: How Utopians are Using Government Schools to Destroy America’s Children”, Blumenfeld points to “Growing levels of illiteracy, plunging international rankings, the decline of critical-thinking skills, mushrooming decadence, mass shootings, and companies that can’t find the skilled workers they need—these have become some of the atrocious hallmarks of U.S. public schools.”

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“Common Core schemers are engaged in what can only be described as consumer fraud with monumental implications for education and the future of America.” The bottom line is that “the scheme was never field-tested before being foisted on America.”

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There is no part of student’s education that Common Core does not impede or corrupt. In the area of science, Blumenfeld says “Instead of teaching children about science—real science—the standards will offer students a steady stream of controversial propaganda presented as unchallenged fact.” Regarding climate change “students will be required to learn that human activities are mostly to blame, even though this notion is disputed by countless scientists and a vast, growing body of actual scientific observational evidence.”

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Closest to home are Common Core’s “National Sexuality Education Standards” aimed to begin the “sexualization of children in kindergarten” says Blumenfeld. “Is learning about ‘homosexual marriage’ before first grade in government schools really ‘age appropriate’ or necessary?” But it gets more radical “with graphic lessons promoting everything from masturbation and fornication to transgenderism and homosexuality.”

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We shouldn’t be surprised at the backlash Common Core has received from both parents and teachers unions among others. Like the “stimulus” and nObamaCare, Common Core demonstrates a thorough lack of understanding of the values of individuality that have underwritten our nation’s free market economy, helped create a respected healthcare system, and which parents have expected the educational system to pass on to new generations.

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It cannot be removed from our nation’s schools soon enough.

http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/05/the-slow-death-of-common-core.html

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Friday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 29, 2015 at 10:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

You Want Hypotheticals? Here's One

Charles Krauthammer

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

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FAKE CAMPAIGNS DON’T DESERVE REAL CAMPAIGN COVERAGE
If Hilly Clinton was running a real campaign, today would be a fascinating moment for the presumptive nominee. She’s in South Carolina where she needs to make amends with black voters who not only rejected her in 2008 but rebuked her and her husband for their presumptuous approach. On the question of whether Clinton can run and win a return to the White House as an unabashed liberal, enthusiasm of black voters is a paramount consideration. But alas, she is not running a real campaign. She is instead running something more akin to a legal defense or corporate PR after an oil spill.
It would be fascinating to know whether Bill Clinton was sorry for how he treated Rep. Jim Clyburn, D-S.C., in 2008 or if Bubba now felt sheepish about bragging about being called “America’s first black president.” It would also be fascinating to hear what Hilly thought about nObama’s record on issues like black poverty and joblessness or hear her defend criticism of police and stiff drug penalties in light of the rising violence in places like Baltimore. It would be fascinating to know… if there weren’t a flock of turkey vultures circling the actual, substantive issues relating to her character and fitness for office.
We are not likely to hear her on any of those issues in part because she will be inside her dome, interacting with party officials and a curated collection of “minority women small business owners.” The topic is Clinton’s enthusiastic support for equal pay for women. If anyone asks about the Clintons and their 2008 comeuppance with black voters it will be a result of a catastrophic staff failure, not the actual give and take of campaigning among real people and real reporters. Clinton isn’t even likely to be asked about an on-topic awkwardness.
If Clinton does briefly speak to reporters, the kinds of answers and laughing brush-offs she offers are worse than useless. They are simply untethered scraps of lawyer-approved defenses or just outright evasions. Painful to watch. But those who suggest that Clinton is making a mistake in not opening up herself to the press and public suppose that she could somehow answer the questions before her. She can’t talk about how her erstwhile foundation employee was trying to profit from the Libya war she sold. She can’t explain what her husband’s unreported consulting firm was doing. She can’t explain the specifics of a Russian uranium deal she helped get approved that profited one of her patrons. She certainly can’t stand by her prior claims of why she established a secret server for emails or talk at much length about the process for reviewing those she ordered destroyed.
Any substantive interview would devolve into something that sounded way too much like one of her depositions than an actual chat. And while you can “plead the Fifth” in court, you can’t use it in an interview. And so that leaves Clinton doing the only thing she can: damage control in hopes that reporters will eventually tire of covering the story and start covering a non-existent horse race. But every good reporter knows that covering a phony campaign like a real one would be malpractice.
Until she gets past her corporate damage control campaign and takes her medicine, the only apt topic for Clinton coverage are the scandals and controversies from which she is hiding. -Fox News

CARLY TROLLS HILLY SO HARD IN S.C.
Weekly Standard: “Democrat Hilly Clinton and Republican Carly Fiorina will both be campaigning in Columbia, South Carolina, on Wednesday, and the Fiorina campaign is making sure reporters know its candidate will be answering questions. Fiorina will be available to speak to the press, says deputy campaign manager Sarah Isgur Flores, shortly before speaking with Republican state legislators at the state capitol. The former Hewlett-Packard CEO will also travel to Spartanburg later in the day for another event. ‘Our events tomorrow are all open to the press,’ said Flores in an email to reporters. ‘And by open press, we mean we'll actually take questions. That's right. We've answered hundreds of questions from reporters because we believe the American people will not and should not elect a president that can't answer for her record, won't explain her positions or for whom the truth is whatever she can get away with.’” -Fox News

nOBAMA’S LEGACY ON THE DOCKET
An appellate court smacked down an administration bid to get President nObama’s executive amnesty program up and running while a suit from 26 states seeking to block the measure works its way through the courts. But that’s just one piece of the heavy docket on nObama’s legacy projects. In the final years of the nObama era, courts will be passing judgment on the president’s priorities. Issue by issue, WaPoexamines how nObama’s legacy is in legal jeopardy: “President nObama’s second-term agenda, it seems, is in the hands of the courts. Same-sex marriage. nObamacare. Climate change. And now immigration. And in many cases, there is significant doubt about whether his signature initiatives will stand legal scrutiny.” And why? Because he was unable or unwilling to work through Congress and opted to push the limits of executive power. -Fox News

WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE
Flannery O’Connor’s harsh and painful depiction of the human spirit’s journey to grace may have shocked audiences of her time, but her place as one of America’s great authors is sealed. The U.S. Postal Service announced that O’Connor will be the latest addition in the forever stamp collection with her signature peacock feathers flanking her portrait. A Georgia native and devout Roman Catholic, O’Connor is best known for her grippingly honest tales of the religious enlightenment, such as “A Good Man is Hard to Find,” a story about a family who encounters trouble on their way to a vacation home exhibits grace even in the darkest situation. -Fox News

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nObamacare: Republicans Can’t Win For Losing?

(sharylattkisson.com) - If the plaintiffs win the current Affordable Care Act (ACA) case before the U.S. Supreme Court, King v. Burwell, millions of Americans who bought health insurance through the federal marketplace or “exchange” will lose the federal tax dollars they’re getting to help buy their policies... That’s because the Court would have ruled the ACA only allowed subsidies to be given to those buying policies on state-established exchanges; not the federal website. It would theoretically be a victory for Republicans who oppose nObamacare: Americans would likely find the health care law less palatable if tax money isn’t helping pay for their mandatory policies. They would suddenly be exposed to the reality faced by those who aren’t getting subsidies: insurance may cost more, come with higher deductibles, and provide less coverage. But some Congressional Republicans are more worried about winning the Supreme Court case than losing it. https://sharylattkisson.com/obamacare-republicans-cant-win-for-losing/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_med

Hilly the Arms Dealer

(Matthew Vadum) - While presidential candidate Hilly Clinton was America’s top diplomat the Department of State that she oversaw approved $165 billion worth of commercial arms sales to 20 nations whose governments forked over millions of dollars to the now-embattled Clinton Foundation... According to an International Business Times report by David Sirota and Andrew Perez, “at least seven foreign governments that received State Department clearance for American arms did donate to the Clinton Foundation while Hilly Clinton was serving as secretary.” The article identified the seven nations as Algeria, Australia, Kuwait, Norway, Oman, Qatar, and Thailand. Mainstream media’s surprisingly probing coverage of the unfolding Clinton Foundation donations-for-favors scandal suggests that reporters have turned on the Clintons in the age of nObama. http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/hillary-the-arms-dealer/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a938a0a2b2-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-a938a0a2b2-156509103

Trial of Jason Rezaian raises red flags about proposed nuclear deal

(Michael Rubin) - Tuesday a revolutionary court in Tehran began trying Washington Post Iran correspondent Jason Rezaian on charges of espionage... Rezaian, who has already been held for more than ten months, is but one of four American hostages which the Islamic Republic holds. Former FBI agent Robert Levinson just passed his 3,000th day in Iranian prison. Monday, on Memorial Day, retired U.S. Marine Amir Hekmati spent his 1,367th day in an Iranian prison. He was picked up by security in Tehran while visiting his grandmother. His visit was not careless; he had secured permission from the Iranian Interest Section in Washington, D.C., before making his trip. The fourth hostage is Saeed Abedini, an Iranian-American pastor from Idaho whom Iranian authorities arrested in 2012 while he, too, was visiting family. http://www.aei.org/publication/trial-of-jason-rezaian-raises-red-flags-about-proposed-nuclear-deal/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=052715

nObama is Putting Our Nuclear Navy at Risk

(redstate.com) - The search for the next Chief of Naval Operations has not drawn much interest from the media, but there’s good reason it should... By nominating Admiral John Richardson, the current head of the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program, President nObama is jeopardizing a tradition of excellence stretching back since America first developed nuclear submarines. John Lehman, who served as President Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy for six years, does an excellent job explaining this in hisWall Street Journal editorial that ran this past Sunday. First, he explains the historical reasons behind our nuclear Navy’s excellence: http://www.redstate.com/2015/05/26/obama-putting-nuclear-navy-risk/

Fundamental Transformation of the Military

(S. Noble) - Ostensibly, to accommodate Muslims and other religious groups streaming across our borders legally and illegally, Barack nObama has altered military guidelines to allow for skullcaps, turbans, facial hair, long, uncleansed head hair, piercings, religious body art, and so on while they are on military duty... Muslim headscarves will probably also be permitted. It isn’t a blanket approval and will be approved on a case-by-case basis but it’s basically the open door. There is a different standard for American Christians. Our military in Afghanistan have to abide by Ramadan diets and they had to take the steeple off their church and remove the windows with crosses. Military personnel can wear crosses but only if they are hidden. Christmas trees at Christmas time are frowned upon or banned. nObama is a jerk.

http://www.independentsentinel.com/fundamental-transformation-of-the-military-starting-with-skullcaps-turbans-facial-hair-et-al/

Clinton Foundation hit with racketeering lawsuit

(Sarah Westwood) - Bill and Hilly Clinton and the Clinton Foundation have been hit with a racketeering lawsuit in Florida court... The lawsuit, filed by Larry Klayman of Freedom Watch, includes a legal request to have the Florida judge seize the private server on which Hilly Clinton and her aides hosted their emails while she served as secretary of state. Klayman has filed dozens of lawsuits against the Clintons and other prominent politicians. The racketeering, influenced and corrupt organizations, or RICO, case alleges the former first couple and their family philanthropy traded political favors for donations or generous speaking fees for Bill Clinton while his wife was the nation's chief diplomat. http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/clinton-foundation-hit-with-racketeering-lawsuit/article/2565069?utm_campaign=Fox%20News&utm_source=foxnews.com&utm_medium=feed

Confirmation of “Operation Zero Footprint” – Libyan Arms Deals

(theconservativetreehouse.com/) - If you are familiar with The Benghazi Brief you’ll note what is being described in this discussion of Hilly Clinton’s 2011 arms shipments is actually, Operation Zero Footprint... Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUW_8FzkGeo

Emails: Clinton Talking About Arming Libyan opposition leaders

(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - The hits keep on coming for Hilly Clinton and her amazing, technicolor emails. The latest batch released by the State have Hilly discussing the idea of sending “private security experts” to arm Libyan opposition leaders... Moreover, in heavily redacted testimony on November 15, 2012, CIA Director Mike Morell and Director of National Intelligence James Clapper confirmed that the US intelligence community was aware that weapons were moving from Libya to Syria. Hilly Clinton, of course feigned shock and surprise during a Senate hearing in January of 2013, when queried by Rand Paul about the transfer of weapons out of Libya to Syria. https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/05/27/video-latest-emails-show-clinton-talking-about-arming-libyan-opposition-leaders/

WTO Ruling Blasts U.S. Sovereignty; TPP Threatens More of Same

(William F. Jasper) - As the World Trade Organization delivers another blow against U.S. sovereignty, President nObama’s Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is poised to add more international judicial attacks against American liberty and independence... The May 18 ruling by a WTO appellate tribunal declaring a U.S. federal law illegal should have caused giant shock waves across America and should have sunk any hopes of congressional passage of the TPP, which, twinned with the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), forms the centerpiece of the nObamaTrade globalist agenda. Both the TPP and the TTIP would create international courts that could (and would) override American federal, state, and local laws, as well as federal and state court decisions, and even federal and state constitutions, as The New American has reported previously. http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/20954-wto-ruling-blasts-u-s-sovereignty-tpp-threatens-more-of-same?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=03fc465888-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-03fc465888-289778381

 Muslims Won't Listen to Hirsi Ali

(Tarek Fatah) - Ayaan Hirsi Ali, the incredibly courageous, Somali-born author, has written a new book, Heretic, in which she calls for "nothing less than a Muslim Reformation."... Her Muslim critics may spew vitriol at her, but they cannot take away from the unflinching resolve she has demonstrated — in the face of death threats — as she critiques Islam, the religion of her childhood that she has abandoned. She is reaching out to Muslims, but I feel her gesture will resonate only with those who have already abandoned Islam, not those who remain inside its cauldron. http://www.meforum.org/5266/hirsi-ali

You Want Hypotheticals? Here's One

Charles Krauthammer

(freedomsback.com) - Ramadi falls. The Iraqi army flees. The great 60-nation anti-Islamic State coalition so grandly proclaimed by the nObama administration is nowhere to be seen. Instead, it’s the defense minister of Iran who flies into Baghdad, an unsubtle demonstration of who’s in charge — while the U.S. air campaign proves futile and America’s alleged strategy for combating the Islamic State is in free fall.

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It gets worse. The Gulf States’ top leaders, betrayed and bitter, ostentatiously boycott President nObama’s failed Camp David summit. “We were America’s best friend in the Arab world for 50 years,” laments Saudi Arabia’s former intelligence chief.

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We are scraping bottom. Following six years of President nObama’s steady and determined withdrawal from the Middle East, America’s standing in the region has collapsed. And yet the question incessantly asked of the various presidential candidates is not about that. It’s a retrospective hypothetical: Would you have invaded Iraq in 2003 if you had known then what we know now?

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First, the question Is not just a hypothetical, but an inherently impossible hypothetical. It contradicts itself. Had we known there were no weapons of mass destruction, the very question would not have arisen. The premise of the war — the basis for going to the U.N., to the Congress and, indeed, to the nation — was Iraq’s possession of WMD in violation of the central condition for the cease-fire that ended the first Gulf War. No WMD, no hypothetical to answer in the first place.

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Second, the “if you knew then” question implicitly locates the origin and cause of the current disasters in 2003. As if the fall of Ramadi was predetermined then, as if the author of the current regional collapse is George W. Bush.

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This is nonsense. The fact is that by the end of Bush’s tenure, the war had been won. You can argue that the price of that victory was too high. Fine. We can debate that until the end of time. But what is not debatable is that it was a victory. Bush bequeathed to nObama a success. By whose measure? By nObama’s. As he told the troops at Fort Bragg on Dec. 14, 2011, “We are leaving behind a sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people.” This was, said the president, a “moment of success.”

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Which nObama proceeded to fully squander. With the 2012 election approaching, he chose to liquidate our military presence in Iraq. We didn’t just withdraw our forces. We abandoned, destroyed or turned over our equipment, stores, installations and bases. We surrendered our most valuable strategic assets, such as control of Iraqi airspace, soon to become the indispensable conduit for Iran to supply and sustain the Assad regime in Syria and cement its influence all the way to the Mediterranean. And, most relevant to the fall of Ramadi, we abandoned the vast intelligence network we had so painstakingly constructed in Anbar province, without which our current patchwork operations there are largely blind and correspondingly feeble.

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The current collapse was not predetermined in 2003 but in 2011. Isn’t that what should be asked of Hilly Clinton? We know you think the invasion of 2003 was a mistake. But what about the abandonment of 2011? Was that not a mistake?

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Mme. Secretary: When you arrived at State, al-Qaeda in Iraq had been crushed and expelled from Anbar. The Iraqi government had from Basra to Sadr City fought and defeated the radical, Iranian-proxy Shiite militias. Yet today these militias are back, once again dominating Baghdad. On your watch, we gave up our position as the dominant influence over a “sovereign, stable, and self-reliant Iraq” — forfeiting that position gratuitously to Iran. Was that not a mistake? And where were you when it was made?

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Iraq is now a battlefield between the Sunni jihadists of the Islamic State and the Shiite jihadists of Iran’s Islamic Republic. There is no viable center. We abandoned it. The nObama administration’s unilateral pullout created a vacuum for the entry of the worst of the worst.

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And the damage was self-inflicted. The current situation in Iraq, says David Petraeus, “is tragic foremost because it didn’t have to turn out this way. The hard-earned progress of the surge was sustained for over three years.”

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Do the math. That’s 2009 through 2011, the first three nObama years. And then came the unraveling. When? The last U.S. troops left Iraq on Dec. 18, 2011.

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Want to do retrospective hypotheticals? Start there.

http://freedomsback.com/charles-krauthammer/you-want-hypotheticals-heres-one/?utm_source=bh&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4984964

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Friday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 29, 2015 at 4:00am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Capital punishment’s slow death

George F. Will

"Rise up together as one voice"

"Be careful where you stand"

~~~lll~~~

nObama Amnesty Suffers Another Stinging Rebuke

The nObama administration's legal woes continued on Tuesday after government lawyers failed to convince a federal appeals court to overturn a temporary injunction against executive amnesty issued by U.S. District Judge Andrew S. Hanen. In February, Hanen blocked the first phase of the Deferred Action for Parental Accountability program and reaffirmed his decision in April partly because government lawyers misled the court, granting work permits to 100,000 illegals before the executive action was temporarily blocked. Two of the three judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit — Jerry Smith and Jennifer Walker Elrod — "found that the states had sufficient legal grounds to bring the lawsuit and that the administration had not shown that it would be harmed if the injunction remained in place and the programs were further delayed," The New York Times reports. Tuesday's ruling isn't a final verdict — the case could eventually make it to the Supreme Court — but the administration is now 0-for-2, and it's looking likelier it will strike out. nObama spokesman Brandi Hoffine responded to the decision by insisting they know the Constitution better than anyone, saying Judges Smith and Elrod "chose to misinterpret the facts and the law in denying the government's request for a stay." If that's the case, how do Democrats expand this nugget from The Washington Post? "nObama's second-term agenda, it seems, is in the hands of the courts. Same-sex marriage. nObamacare. Climate change. And now immigration. And in many cases, there is significant doubt about whether his signature initiatives will stand legal scrutiny." Tell us again who "chose to misinterpret the facts and the law"? -The Patriot Post

IRS Data Breach Leaves Tax Info of 100K in Hackers' Hands

Using the service to request former tax returns and filings from the IRS, a group of hackers stole confidential information on over 100,000 taxpayers. Using the information, the hackers can file false tax returns, stealing directly from the American taxpayer. "Eighty percent of the identity theft we're dealing with and refund fraud is related to organized crime here and around the world," IRS Commissioner John Koskinen said. "These are extremely sophisticated criminals with access to a tremendous amount of data." It's easy to see that the agency is running damage control. It's not saying if the hackers were foreign or domestic, and Koskinen said people filing fraudulent tax returns only netted $50 million this year. However, the IRS gave identity thieves $5.8 billion in 2013. As Hot Air's Mary Katharine Ham notes, only 6% of Americans believe the U.S. government does a good job protecting their information. With this news, we guess the IRS will get a budget boost in the next few months — whether it needs it or not.More...

-The Patriot Post

Now's a Good Time to Develop a Strategy Against ISIL

With the fall of Ramadi, it may be a good time for the nObama administration to pause, take a step back and reconsider what it has tried and what that has done against ISIL. On Sunday, Defense Secretary Ashton Carter blamed the fall of the strategic city on the Iraqi army. "The Iraqi forces just showed no will to fight," Carter said on CNN. "They were not outnumbered. In fact they vastly outnumbered the opposing force and yet they failed to fight and withdrew from the site. ... We can give them training, we can give them equipment. We obviously can't give them the will to fight." Meanwhile, it appears the U.S. has the equipment, but it too doesn't have the will to fight. The New York Times reports that U.S. planes only fly 15 strikes a day against ISIL, compared to the 800 flown every day during the 2003 Iraq War. Furthermore, only during one out of four flights does the pilot fire munitions. Part of this is due to concern that any civilian deaths would translate into propaganda for ISIL. Part of the hesitation is because the pilots cannot rely on soldiers on the ground pointing out targets and delineating allies. There's plenty for Carter and the rest of the nObama administration to consider. How about sending arms and training to the Kurds? Or sending more U.S. troops to spot U.S. airstrikes? More... -The Patriot Post

GOP, Prepare for SCOTUS's nObamaCare Ruling

If the Supreme Court rules against the "Affordable" Care Act in King v. Burwell sometime in late June, it could leave the act in deep water, or it could leave Republicans with the dilemma of fixing a problem they didn't create. So says conventional wisdom.

SCOTUSblog.com writer Amy Howe discusses the case: "There are three key parts to the ACA. The first is the 'non-discrimination' rule... The second is the individual mandate, which the Court upheld three years ago... Third, because everyone has to buy insurance, there are tax subsidies to make sure that lower- and middle-income Americans can afford to comply with the individual mandate by buying insurance."

David King is the primary plaintiff in King v. Burwell. He and three other Virginians, for their own reasons, decided they did not want to buy insurance. Virginia, incidentally, joined the federal marketplace, and King has insurance that would cost him $648 per month, but with his subsidy, costs $275. His suit was tossed out of a lower court, but with the help of the American Enterprise Institute he got a writ of certiorari, and he and his fellow plaintiffs' case was picked up by the Supreme Court.

The fight is about four words — "established by the State" — just a few found in the 2,700-page act. -The Patriot Post

http://patriotpost.us/digests/35435

Hezbollah: Human Shields, Tunnels, And Missiles For War With Israel

(Jeff Dunetz) - The reports keep coming...Hezbollah is gearing up for war against the State of Israel. Back in January Former Israeli National Security Adviser, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror, outlined the threats to the Jewish State from non-state entities in a report released by the Begin Center for Strategic Studies (BESA)... The most serious existential threat to the Jewish State by non-state entities is the terrorist group Hezbollah, with 150,000 missiles, which according to the General is a “rare and substantial firepower apparently even exceeded the firepower possessed by most of the European states combined.” After having been accustomed to a situation in which large regular armies with armor, artillery, hundreds of aircraft and thousands of troops were arrayed on Israel’s borders, there can be no doubt that Israel has moved into a different world. Since then there has been an onslaught of reports that Hezbollah empowered by the successful Iranian negotiations against an impotent Barack nObama was planning to use those missiles against Israel. http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/05/hezbollah-has-human-shields-and-tunnels.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=6ad6390c8f-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-6ad6390c8f-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-6ad6390c8f-291705165

Catholic Group Exposes Red Influence in the Vatican

(Cliff Kincaid) - Doing the research and investigative work that the major U.S. media have all but abandoned, an organization called the American Life League (ALL) has uncovered dramatic evidence of links between the highest levels of the Roman Catholic Church and an international communist group known as the World Social Forum... The evidence suggests overt Marxist influence on the climate change movement that Pope Francis and his top advisers are now embracing. The ALL report, a 76-page PowerPoint presentation complete with original source material and numerous photographs, documents how Caritas Internationalis, the Vatican’s top social justice organization, is actually “providing leadership” to the communist group. The report’s author, Michael Hichborn, stated, “This is a very serious problem. Given how intimately connected the World Social Forum (WSF) has been with the promotion of communism, abortion, and homosexuality since the very beginning, it’s impossible to see how any Catholic can participate in it, or even speak positively about it, let alone have any involvement in its governance. But Caritas Internationalis does!” http://www.aim.org/aim-column/catholic-group-exposes-red-influence-in-the-vatican/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email052715&utm_medium=email

What’s Wrong With TPP? How About Corporate Extortion Courts

(rickwells.us) - Senator Elizabeth Warren addressed the United States Senate earlier this year in an effort to prevent the blind passage of the TPP, without its having been read and in direct conflict with the will of and what is best for the American people... The Senate Majority Leader, the new Dingy Mitch, didn’t bother to listen. He’s got people to please and they’re all much richer than the common peasants who elected him. He’s got a six year license to steal before he has to face the voters again and he’s getting started now. Warren points out how the agreement provides for external, unelected commissions to rule rather than American courts on disputes involving corporations and signatory nations. It’s called “Investor Dispute Settlement”, ISDS, a kangaroo court composed of corporate cronies deciding issues on each others’ behalf in disputes against sovereign nations, such as the United States. It would have the effect of overruling our laws and our own judicial system. http://rickwells.us/whats-wrong-with-tpp-how-about-corporate-extortion-courts-able-dictate-american-law/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xzfxv2XQoPg

Al Jazeera Poll Destroys the Myth of the Tiny Minority of Extremists

(David Wood) - When jihadists attacked the World Trade Center, politicians and the media assured us that extremists represent only a tiny minority of Muslims, and that nearly all Muslims support peace, tolerance, democracy, etc... After terrorist attacks in Spain, Great Britain, Russia, and so on, world leaders and news networks continued to proclaim that only a tiny minority of Muslims have radical views. (These extremists, of course, just need jobs.) There's only one problem with the narrative of politicians and the media: It's empirically false. Poll after poll, study after study have shown that the number of Muslims who support blasphemy laws, the death penalty for apostates, terrorist attacks, etc., is quite large. The Al Jazeera news network accidentally let the cat out of the bag recently by asking readers whether they support Islamic State victories. After more than 40,000 readers responded, the network found that more than 80 percent supported ISIS.

http://www.answeringmuslims.com/2015/05/al-jazeera-poll-destroys-myth-of-tiny.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+answeringmuslims%2FynNl+%28Answering+Muslims%29

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmXiSaVHN1E

U.S. Intel: nObama Coalition Supported Islamic State in Syria

(Alex Newman) - A newly released intelligence report from the Pentagon shows that the U.S. government knew that supporting jihadists in the fight against Syrian dictator Bashar al-Assad would produce a fundamentalist Islamic State in Eastern Syria... and that nObama’s supposed “anti-ISIS” coalition knowingly backed ISIS and other Islamic terrorists for precisely that purpose. The heavily redacted Defense Department report, obtained by watchdog Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit, shows once again that, contrary to the false narrative peddled by the establishment press, the rise of the savage terror group known as ISIS was actually deliberate policy. Now, the fruits of that plot are becoming clearer as the body count continues to skyrocket. http://www.thenewamerican.com/world-news/asia/item/20943-u-s-intel-obama-coalition-supported-islamic-state-in-syria?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=4336171292-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-4336171292-289778381

Support Our Troops: Get US Out of the United Nations!

(John F. McManus) - The complete text of the UN Charter’s Article 25 states: “The Members of the United Nations agree to accept and carry out the decisions of the Security Council in accordance with the present Charter.”... That clearly stated requirement supersedes adherence to the U.S. Constitution. That any U.S. government official would agree to that is incredible. When the UN’s Security Council decides to act, our nation’s membership requires the United States to “accept and carry out” what the Security Council wants done. It is true that our nation possesses a veto that can be used to block passage of any Security Council resolution. But U.S. leaders don’t exercise this veto power. It was a UN Security Council resolution that got our nation into the 1950 Korean War, not a required congressional declaration. Had there been a declaration of war and if its inherent goal had been to gain victory, the Korean War could have been won. But victory was denied (by the UN) and as a result our nation still has tens of thousands of troops in South Korea — all of whom serve in the overall UN Command. http://www.thenewamerican.com/reviews/opinion/item/20944-support-our-troops-get-us-out-of-the-united-nations?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=4336171292-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-4336171292-289778381

U.S. PUSHBACK AGAINST MUSLIM REFUGEES 'GROWING'

(Leo Hohmann) - WND has discovered what amounts to the government playbook for countering the rising “backlash” against the secret planting of Muslim refugees into cities and towns across America... Now, WND has learned the government and its contractors have a stock plan on how to deal with what they call “backlash” to refugee resettlement in American cities. Titled “Resettlement at Risk: Meeting Emerging Challenges to Refugee Resettlement in Local Communities,” the report by one of the federal government’s top resettlement contractors admits that communities “across the country” are pushing back against the refugee program, especially when it involves the infusion of Muslims into their city or town. In the wake of the report, the nObama administration has handed out millions of dollars in grants to organizations like Welcoming America, which works to “educate” elected officials and the public in “receiving communities” before refugees arrive. Welcoming America was started in 2010 with seed money from George Soros’s Open Society Institute.

Senate Passes Trade Bill that Could Increase Foreign Workers

(fairus.org) - On Friday, the Senate passed legislation granting President nObama fast track trade promotion authority (TPA). (Senate Roll Call Vote 193) With TPA, President nObama will be able to implement part of his immigration agenda through trade agreements... rather than through legislation passed by Congress. Specifically, President nObama — who opposed TPA when he served in the Senate — claims he needs TPA in order to finalize the Trade Pacific Partnership (TPP), a large trade deal with 11 Latin American and Asian countries. Although the specifics of TPP are being intentionally withheld from the public, the outline of the TPP released by the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative indicates that a "key feature" of the TPP is a "temporary entry" guest worker program. The TPA authorizing bill now moves to the House. It is currently uncertain whether the bill has enough votes to pass. http://www.fairus.org/legislative-updates/legislative-update-5-27-2015#1

"Secular" Turkey

(Uzay Bulut) - When many Western analysts discuss the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) in Turkey, they rightfully criticize it for its religious intolerance, authoritarianism and lack of respect for secular principles and minorities... They also tend to compare the AKP to former Kemalist governments, and draw a distinction between the Islamist AKP and former non-Islamist governments. They claim that Turkey was "secular" and somewhat "democratic," until the AKP came to power. A deeper look into the history of Turkey, however, reveals that, unfortunately, Turkey has never been either truly secular or democratic. The modern Turkish state, since its founding in 1923, has never kept its hands off religion. It has engaged in religious matters on almost all levels -- by institutionalizing Sunni Islam and by persecuting (or annihilating) other faiths. Intolerance, even hatred, for non-Muslims was openly promoted -- even by the heads of the state -- from day one. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5833/secular-turkey

Clinton Confidant Revealed as Source of Benghazi Misinformation

(Helle Dale) - One of the mysteries surrounding the Benghazi scandal appears to have been solved with the release of the private emails of former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton... The question was who came up with the false narrative of the cause of the attack on the U.S. Benghazi consulate on Sept. 11, 2012. The answer, according to emails obtained by The New York Times, is Sidney Blumenthal, former journalist and longtime confidante of the Clintons. Both the Department of Defense and the State Department immediately identified terrorism as the cause of the attack on Benghazi. But it was Hilly Clinton, in remarks at the U.S.-Morocco Strategic Dialogue on Sept. 13 of that year, who first suggested the activity at the Benghazi consulate began as a demonstration over an anti-Islam YouTube video. And now compelling evidence in the email trail points to Blumenthal as the source of that narrative. But this nObama admin continue to give out misinformation, even when knowing the truth. http://dailysignal.com/2015/05/26/clinton-confidant-revealed-source-benghazi-misinformation/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRojsqvNZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4JScNrI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D

Capital punishment’s slow death

George F. Will

(washingtonpost.com) - Without a definitive judicial ruling or other galvanizing event, a perennial American argument is ending. Capital punishment is withering away.

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It is difficult to imagine moral reasoning that would support the conclusion that an injustice will be done when, years hence, the death penalty finally is administered to Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the Boston Marathon terrorist who placed a bomb in a crowd and then strolled to safety. Sentencing to death those who commit heinous crimes satisfies a sense of moral proportionality. This is, however, purchased with disproportionate social costs, as Nebraska seems to be concluding.

. Nebraska is not a nest of liberals. Yet on Wednesday its 49-member unicameral legislature passed a bill abolishing the death penalty 32 to 15. Gov. Pete Ricketts, a Republican, vows to veto it.

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This comes at a time when, nationwide, exonerations of condemned prisoners and botched executions are dismayingly frequent. Nebraska’s death penalty opponents, including a majority of Nebraskans, say it is expensive without demonstrably enhancing public safety or being a solace to families of murder victims. Some Nebraska families have testified that the extended legal processes surrounding the death penalty prolong their suffering. That sentiment is shared by Bill and Denise Richard, whose 8-year-old son was killed by Tsarnaev.

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Last month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments about whether one component of a three-drug mixture used in lethal injection executions — and recently used in some grotesquely protracted ones — is unreliable in preventing suffering that violates the Eighth Amendment proscription of “cruel and unusual punishments.” States use the drug in question because more effective drugs are hard to acquire, partly because death penalty opponents are pressuring drug companies not to supply them.

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For this, Justice Antonin Scalia blamed a death penalty “abolitionist movement.” Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. asked, “Is it appropriate for the judiciary to countenance what amounts to a guerrilla war against the death penalty, which consists of efforts to make it impossible for the states to obtain drugs that could be used to carry out capital punishment with little, if any, pain?” Justice Anthony M. Kennedy wondered, “What bearing, if any, should be put on the fact that there is a method, but that it’s not available because of opposition to the death penalty? What relevance does that have?”

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The answers are: Public agitation against capital punishment is not relevant to judicial reasoning. And it is not the judiciary’s business to worry that a ruling might seem to “countenance” this or that social advocacy.

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The conservative case against capital punishment, which 32 states have, is threefold. First, the power to inflict death cloaks government with a majesty and pretense of infallibility discordant with conservatism. Second, when capital punishment is inflicted, it cannot later be corrected because of new evidence, so a capital punishment regime must be administered with extraordinary competence. It is, however, a government program. Since 1973, more than 140 people sentenced to death have been acquitted of their crimes (sometimes by DNA evidence), had the charges against them dismissed by prosecutors or have been pardoned based on evidence of innocence. For an unsparing immersion in the workings of the governmental machinery of death, read “Just Mercy” by Bryan Stevenson, executive director and founder of the Equal Justice Initiative.

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Third, administration of death sentences is so sporadic and protracted that their power to deter is attenuated. And the expensive, because labyrinthine, legal protocols with which the judiciary has enveloped capital punishment are here to stay. Granted, capital punishment could deter: If overdue library books were punishable by death, none would be overdue. But many crimes for which death is reserved, including Tsarnaev’s crime of ideological premeditation, are especially difficult to deter.

. Those who favor capital punishment because of its supposed deterrent effect do not favor strengthening that effect by restoring the practice of public executions. There has not been one in America since 1937 (a hanging in Galena, Mo.) because society has decided that state-inflicted deaths, far from being wholesomely didactic spectacles, are coarsening and revolting.

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Revulsion is not an argument, but it is evidence of what former chief justice Earl Warren called society’s “evolving standards of decency.” In the essay “Reflections on the Guillotine,” Albert Camus wrote, “The man who enjoys his coffee while reading that justice has been done would spit it out at the least detail.” Capital punishment, say proponents, serves social catharsis. But administering it behind prison walls indicates a healthy squeamishness that should herald abolition.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/capital-punishments-slow-death/2015/05/20/f3c14d32-fe4f-11e4-8b6c-0dcce21e223d_story.html

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Wednesday Morning - The Front Page Cover

Posted by Rudy Tirre on May 27, 2015 at 3:30am

The Front Page Cover

"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"

Featuring:

Baltimore & Beyond

Burt Prelutsky

"Know who you are standing with"

"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"

~~~lll~~~

Cleveland Settles With DOJ Over Policing Investigation

It's become a trend in cases involving police shootings: While the individual officer is let off the hook for using lethal force and sparking protests in the community, the Department of Justice usually finds something wrong with the larger department. Cleveland has reached a settlement with the DOJ after the agency accused the city's finest of engaging in patterns of "unreasonable and unnecessary use of force," including tasing and punching handcuffed suspects. The investigation was launched after a 2012 car chase involving 100 police officers ended with officer Michael Brelo standing on the roof of the Chevy Malibu used to flee from the police and firing 15 times into the vehicle. On Saturday, Cuyahoga County Common Pleas Judge John O'Donnell found Brelo not guilty of killing the two suspects because it was not clear if it was Brelo's rounds that killed them. When issuing his verdict, O'Donnell said, "Guilty or not guilty, the verdict should be no cause for a civilized society to celebrate or riot." Still, on Saturday night, some protestors grew violent and 71 were arrested. It just goes to show that improvements still need to be made before we can have a civilized society. More... -The Patriot Post

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House Considers Fast-Tracking nObama's Pacific Trade Deal

In the coming days, members of the House will decide whether Congress should fast-track approving nObama's trade deal with Pacific countries, or whether to defend its constitutional role of advisor when the U.S. enters into treaties. Already, 48 Republicans and 14 Democrats in the Senate approved fast-track legislation Friday, a move that would only give the legislative body the ability to approve the treaty with a yes-no vote. While everyone from nObama to the GOP leadership agrees that a trade deal is needed and beneficial (especially because of China's growing aggression in the South China Sea), lawmakers question the way it's coming about. Rep. Jim Jordan said, "I'm concerned about giving this president the authority" to be the sole person negotiating deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership. Furthermore, the House is the young blood of the lawmaking body, as only 55 members were around when Congress deliberated over the North American Free Trade Agreement in 1993. Members in office because of the 2014 Republican wave should remember they are in office because voters wanted change, not nObama's status quo.

-The Patriot Post

Another Holiday Regulatory Dump

Friday was the dawn of a holiday weekend, which could mean only one thing: Time for another big regulatory release from the nObama administration. It wasn't exactly a Friday news dump, as it came outThursday, but, as The Hill points out, "The White House is notorious for releasing its Unified Agenda on the cusp of a holiday when most people are headed out of town to celebrate the long weekend. The release of the spring 2015 edition was no exception, coming one day before the long Memorial Day weekend." According to The Daily Signal, there are 136 significant rules in this release: "These include an Environmental Protection Agency rule tightening already-tight carbon emission regulations for power plants, Food and Drug Administration regulations for all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes and cigars, and new Consumer Product Safety Commission safety standards for off-road vehicles." The cost of Barack nObama's enormous regulatory burden is a serious drag on the economy. In fact, compliance costs nearly $15,000 per American household, but it's a cost that's more easily hidden than taxes. Still, it's no wonder nObama likes to bury regulation releases just before a holiday. -The Patriot Post

Emails Cast More Guilt on Clinton and nObama

On Friday, the State Department made public some 300 messages from Hilly Clinton's email collection pertaining to Libya and the Sept. 11, 2012, Benghazi terrorist attack that left Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans dead. The Friday afternoon document dump was no doubt timed with the long weekend in hopes that the information contained in these emails would be downplayed in the holiday shuffle.

Fortunately, no such luck. The Benghazi attack and the cover-ups and stonewalling by the nObama administration and presidential candidate Clinton have made this particular embarrassment hard to bury. Despite the best efforts of the administration and its minions in the media, the hunger for more information at this point seems insatiable.

The batch of emails released last week shed a little bit of light on questions that the House Select Committee on Benghazi has been asking since it was formed in May 2014. A number of emails released from Clinton's once-private collection include information about growing concerns over the deteriorating security situation in Libya going back to April 2011. In fact, Stevens, who at the time was an envoy, voiced concerns about safety.

"The situation in [the Libyan town of] Ajdabiyah has worsened to the point where Stevens is considering departure from Benghazi," states an April 10, 2011, message. "The envoy's delegation is currently doing a phased checkout."

Stevens ultimately stayed in Libya, but his concerns and the concerns of CIA analysts ultimately fell on deaf ears.

-The Patriot Post

http://patriotpost.us/digests/35407

Clinton Foundation Donor Records Tell a Shocking Story

(patriotsandpolitics.com) - With Clinton Foundation donor records reading like a veritable “Who’s Who” of media organizations and individuals, it lends credence to the oft repeated claims of liberal bias in the media... (See the list at the site) This short list of donors gives a clear image of how pervasive the media’s ties to the Clinton Foundation, and by extension, their ties to 2016 Presidential candidate Hilly Clinton are. What do you think? Should media organizations and members of the media be allowed to make charitable contributions to a foundation belonging to active political figures? Does it tarnish their credibility? http://patriotsandpolitics.com/is-media-bias-real-clinton-foundation-donors-revealed-stephanopoulos-only-the-beginning/

Ashton Carter Equates nObama With Cowardly Iraqi Military

(rickwells.us) - The reason the most powerful military on the planet is losing to a ragtag, satanic horde of subhumans armed with knives, guns and laptops is simple and was revealed by Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter on CNN “State of the Union” on Sunday... Carter said that’s what happens when you have no will to fight. It’s not always a matter of fighting ability, armaments, numbers or strategy. The enemy has the will to win and our political “leadership” does not. That was not the admission of Secretary Carter directly; that the nObama regime itself is the reason America is losing, although the facts speak loudly for themselves. They were comments he made regarding the failure of the Iraqi forces to succeed against ISIS in Ramadi, and it’s a critique and logic which can be applied with equal veracity to the efforts of the nObama regime in fighting this war or, pretending to fight it. Carter noted that in spite of having ISIS vastly outnumbered, and having sufficient equipment to fully engage and defeat ISIS in Ramadi, the Iraqi army did little more than operate as a delivery service for tanks and heavy weaponry to our enemy, leaving them in the field of battle as they immediately retreated. http://rickwells.us/defense-secretary-ashton-carter-inadvertently-equates-obama-with-cowardly-iraqi-military/

Sen. Sessions explains nObamatrade in key Senate speech

(Howard Richman) - Senator Sessions’s floor speech against nObamatrade on Friday could go down as one of the most important Senate speeches ever. Already it is getting rave reviews... Rush Limbaugh hailed it (Odds are nObamatrade screws America): “Jeff Sessions had a massive op-ed piece and floor speech in the Senate about this.” Michelle Malkin gushed: “I wish that Sen. Jeff Sessions would run for president, because I would sign up in a heartbeat.” Democratic Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon set the stage for Sessions’s speech by lauding nObamatrade as “the most progressive trade policy in our country’s history” because it regulates much more than just trade: http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2015/05/sen_sessions_explains_obamatrade_in_key_senate_speech.html

The UK's Rape Jihad: A Survivor's Tale

(Pamela Geller) - On Friday, I published at Breitbart the horrifying reminiscences of a British woman who suffered repeated gang rapes, beatings and abuse from a Muslim rape gang, while police dismissed her complaints with total indifference... Now this courageous woman has revealed to me more details of what she and other girls have suffered at the hands of these rape gangs: If British authorities don’t act to save this girl and all the others like her, Britain is finished, and doesn’t even deserve to be saved. http://www.breitbart.com/national-security/2015/05/22/the-uks-rape-jihad-a-survivors-tale/

'IMPEACH HILLY' PETITION: 'UNFIT, BEYOND VINDICATION'

(Cheryl Chumley) - Special Operations Speaks PAC, an organization to educate Americans about threats to the United States, has started a petition to impeach Hilly Clinton – and so far, nearly 31,000 have signed.... “Fact is, congressional precedent dictates that all elected officials remain subject to impeachment and disqualification from holding office even after resignation,” SOS said, on its website. As such: the PAC says Clinton must go. “SOS is calling on the United States Congress to impeach former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton for ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ pursuant to Article II, Section 4 of the Constitution of the United States.” The organization lists three reasons to impeach Clinton. First, she “absented herself from the besieged in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, costing four American lives.”... http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/impeach-hillary-petition-unfit-beyond-vindication/

Woodward Shoots Down Story That Bush Lied to Get U.S. in Iraq War

(Dave Urbanski) - Legendary journalist Bob Woodward shot down the notion that President George W. Bush lied to get America involved in the Iraq War in 2003 — and strongly implied President nObama didn’t make the right call by ordering the U.S. troop pullout... Appearing on Fox News Sunday, the Washington Post icon and bestselling author noted that Bush made mistakes leading up to the war — but came down hard on the “line” saying Bush lied. “I spent 18 months looking at how Bush decided to invade Iraq … lots of mistakes, but it was Bush telling George Tenet the CIA director, ‘Don’t let anyone stretch the case on WMD.’ And he was the one who was skeptical,” Woodward told host Chris Wallace. http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/05/24/bob-woodward-shoots-down-story-that-bush-lied-to-get-u-s-in-iraq-war-implies-obama-troop-pullout-was-wrong-move/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Firewire&utm_campaign=Firewire%20-%20HORIZON%205-25-15%20FINAL

How Anti-Israel Incitement Backfires

(Khaled Abu Toameh) - Various Palestinian groups have also recruited women and children to harass the Jewish visitors and any police officers accompanying them. The women, who are hailed as Murabitat("the Steadfast"), have one main mission... to harass the Jewish visitors. They claim that their chief goal is to protect the Al-Aqsa Mosque against Jewish "aggression." Some of the women receive monthly salaries of up to 1500 shekels (about $400) to try and block the Jewish visitors. But now those who have been inciting against Jewish visitors have fallen victim to their own campaign. Palestinian and Jordanian officials who recently visited the Temple Mount received a firsthand lesson in what incitement can lead to. The officials themselves have fallen victim to hecklers who shouted profanities at them and forced them to flee the holy site. The latest victim was Sheikh Ahmed Helayel, the Chief Islamic Judge of Jordan, who arrived at the Aqsa Mosque last Friday at the head of a leading Jordanian government delegation that also consisted of the kingdom's Minister of Wakf Affairs. http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5813/temple-mount-incitement

Research on the Islamic State

(Aymenn Jawad al-Tamini) - Aymenn Jawad al-Tamimi, a research fellow at Middle East Forum's Jihad Intelproject, is one of world's leading experts on the Islamic State (IS) group terrorizing Iraq and Syria, also known as ISIS... The overwhelming majority of his writings and translations are too detailed or esoteric for distribution to a general audience, so instead MEF compiles periodic updates providing links and summaries for those who wish to follow the groundbreaking work of this prolific researcher. For other research summaries and more general interest writings by Jawad al-Tamimi, click here. ( http://www.meforum.org/author/Aymenn+Jawad+Al-Tamimi ) http://www.meforum.org/5257/research-isis-syria-iraq

“nObama Did Nothing” – Iranian General Responds To U.S. Claims

(rickwells.us) - The Iranian Revolutionary Guard’s commander of foreign operations, Qassem Suleimani, responded to Defense Secretary Carter and Joint Chiefs chairman Dempsey’s comments that Iranian Army forces had turned tail and run, cowardly allowing Ramadi to fall... Suleimani countered that the U.S. under Hussein nObama was the one who had done nothing, that no help was provided to Iraqi forces battling ISIS in Ramadi. He said in a speech on Sunday, “Mr. nObama, what is the distance between Ramadi and Al-Asad base where U.S. planes are based? How can you be in that country under the pretext of protecting the Iraqis and do nothing? This is no more than being an accomplice in a plot.” http://rickwells.us/obama-did-nothing-iranian-general-responds-to-u-s-claims-iraqi-military-ran-from-ramadi-fight/

TEXAS Senate Passes Anti-Sharia Bill

(Walid Shoebat) - The Texas Senate last night passed and sent to Governor Greg Abbott a measure that would prevent any 'international/sharia law' from being used in Texas civil courts, a bill that Muslim detractors and some of their far left allies say is 'Islamophobic.'... WOAI: State Sen. Donna Campbell (R-New Braunfels) doesn't mention Islamic Koranic law, or 'Sharia Law' in her bill. She simply says it guarantees that no laws for 'foreign courts' will be adopted by Texas civil court judges. "It's just to provide some belt and suspenders to make sure that, with judicial discretion, we don't trump Texas law, American law, with a foreign law regarding family law," Campbell said. http://freedomoutpost.com/2015/05/texas-senate-passes-anti-sharia-bill/

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xFvg0Ikijo

Baltimore & Beyond

(burtprelutsky.com) - Afew readers have taken me to task for blaming Larry Hogan, the Republican governor of Maryland, along with Baltimore’s Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, for not allowing the National Guard to prevent the mob from committing arson, vandalism and theft. I was aware that it was the mayor’s order for the Guard to stand down and to allow the thugs to destroy other people’s property without fear of confrontation.

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However, what I can’t accept is that Gov. Hogan didn’t have the authority to go over her pointy head. After all, it’s the Maryland National Guard, not the Baltimore National Guard. If he currently lacks the authority, he should make certain he gets it because I can guarantee that he’ll need it sooner or later. And if justice manages to prevail and the six cops go free, it will be sooner.

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It wasn’t that long ago that just about everyone shared the same attitude when it came to mobs. But ever since urban blacks and Muslims have taken on this aura of sainthood, more and more people seem reluctant to speak honestly about their multitude of sins and failings.

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These days, the language police have even decided that “thugs” is code for “niggers.” (Sorry, folks, but I don’t engage in baby talk, and I regard using “the n-word” to be nothing more than political cowardice passing itself off as good manners. It’s just a word, after all, and so long as it’s not directed at an individual, it’s neither obscene nor insulting.)

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Furthermore, “thugs” is not a synonym for blacks, unless, of course, they happen to be engaged in thuggish behavior. But as thuggery has become more and more the norm in the inner-cities of America, I’m afraid the word is here to stay.

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One sidebar to the events in Baltimore is that Toya Graham, who warmed all our hearts by whacking the daylights out of her teenage son, would be facing child abuse charges if she had been a white woman, as white women and fathers all over America have discovered if they so much as gave their kid a well-deserved smack on his bottom.

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♦ Speaking of kids, there is now a group that is waging a campaign to give children, ages 5 to 12, the right to decide if they’re boys or girls, and by what name they wish to be called. This loony transgender fad has now moved into very dangerous territory. It’s one thing for a fool like Bruce Jenner to decide in his 60s that he’s dying to use the lady’s room and be called Jennie. But leaving it up to pre-pubescent kids to determine their own gender identity is lunacy raised to new heights. Imagine asking an eight-year-old tomboy, who envies boys their freedom to climb trees and play football, if she’d like to be a boy and be called Harry!

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♦ Moving on, I can’t get over how many pundits are taking aim at Pamela Geller, blaming her and not the Muslim converts for the jihadist attack in Garland, Texas. She wasn’t, after all, the one who showed up to massacre hundreds of Americans for no other reason than that they were exercising their First Amendment right – and I might add, God-given responsibility – to ridicule the schmucks sworn to kill us.

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Voltaire famously said: “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” But in the wake of Muslims butchering those who display the appropriate contempt for the blood-thirsty pedophile who founded their religion, we see millions of our countrymen defending the Islamo-fascists right to alter the wording to read: “I disapprove of what you say, and I’ll cut out your tongue if you say it.”

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Considering that the two freaks were killed and nobody else was harmed in Garland, I would like to see a series of sting operations take place around the country, gulling Islamists to show up at similar events, only to be greeted by a hail of police bullets.

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My only regret is that the cartoon that won the $10,000 prize was not replicated on the front page of every newspaper in America. For one thing, it exemplifies the cowardice of the media. For another, unlike the childish scrawls published in France by Charlie Hebdo, Bosch Fawstin’s work was first-rate. It depicted a snarling Muhammad coming straight at you with his sword raised, but with the hands of the artist holding a pencil, putting the finishing touches on Muhammad’s robes. Muhammad is shouting “You can’t draw me!” with the cartoonist replying in a little dialogue balloon, “That’s why I draw you.”

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It is worth noting that Mr. Fawstin is not only a fine artist, but he is a former Muslim.

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♦ We keep hearing about the sad plight of Iraqis and Syrians being forced to flee their homes in the wake of ISIS attacks. I, for one, will start worrying about them when the Islamic refugees stop tossing their Christian countrymen off the boats headed to Italy. Good luck to Italy having to deal with these savages.

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♦ A prerequisite for too many college students must be Liberal Logic 101. How else can they see millions of people sneaking into our country and degrading our sovereignty and still insist that it is our moral duty to not only unite these interlopers with the wives and children they left behind, but to feed, clothe, house and provide them with health care?

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Now, like most conservatives, I believe in keeping families intact. But, unlike liberals or dunces like Jeb Bush, my approach would be to quickly return them to their loved ones…and to shoot them if they try it again.

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♦ When I recently wrote that it is inexcusable that the feds have never gone after such criminal enterprises as the Crips and the Bloods the way they went after the Mafia, a reader suggested it was because we can’t get blacks to infiltrate the gangs, either because of racial solidarity or fear of reprisal. To which I replied, “You could be right, except that a lot of the cases brought against the Mafia didn’t rely on law-abiding people testifying. They often built cases on the testimony of 'soldiers' who faced long prison terms and were plea-bargained into testifying against the mob bosses in order to save their own bacon.

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“I suspect that just as Clinton pulled our troops out of Somalia because he didn’t want the 6 o’clock news to show our soldiers killing black people, our own cops, mayors and the Justice Department, don’t wish to be seen hauling hundreds of young blacks and Hispanics out of the hood and the barrio.”

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♦ Another reader took conservatives to task for raising conspiracy fears over the military drills known as Jade Helm 15 due to take place this summer in several southwest cities. I replied: “I am not a conspiracy nut, but even I can’t understand why these drills can’t take place on military bases. And while I don’t believe for a second that the U.S. military would ever betray the oath they took to defend the nation and the Constitution, after six years of nObama, Americans have every reason to regard paranoia as a perfectly rational state of mind."

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♦ To a reader who explained that he never goes to the movies because he can’t stand the liberal hypocrites who infest Hollywood, and refuses to spend his money and make them even richer than they already are, I wrote “If a movie is worthwhile, it’s worthwhile. Besides, even though Hollywood is full of self-important hypocrites, it is also full of hard-working conservative costumers, make-up artists, technicians and stuntmen, who despise the actors, writers, directors and producers, even more than you do because they actually have to work with them.”

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♦ Finally, when I look at the black barbarians who are constantly turning our cities into swamps and jungles, and the politicians and journalists who delight in defending them, I am reminded of my favorite bumper sticker: “We should have picked our own damn cotton!”

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