WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE  
The Atlantic looked at height and income and found some correlations. This used to make more sense when jobs were labor based and required a larger, stronger man to do them. But even in today’s economy it holds true. Why? Well, read on...  -Fox News  

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 What about his Senate seat? –   Drama is growing around the race for Rubio’s Florida Senate seat. The Republican side has current Lt.Gov. Carlos Lopez-Cantera, who is taking a page from Jeb Bush and focusing efforts on his super PAC. On the Democratic side, mercurial trial lawyer Alan Grayson is threatening to run, making party elders nervous about that seat and his potential for national embarrassment.  -Fox News  

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 A FAINTING GOAT HAS GOT TO BE PRETTY EASY TO STEAL 
Folks in two North Carolina counties are on the lookout for the next goat-grab. Over the past year an estimated $1,750 worth of goats have been snatched – seven goats stolen in the last two months. The Hickory Record reports that last week the Weaver family, who’ve been raising fainting goats for two generations, discovered thatNanny-Bell and Star-Bell were the latest victims. “[Friday morning] Gail Weaver…went out to discover that Nanny-Bell had kidded during the night and the brand-new goat seemed to be healthy. But the mother was nowhere to be found. The Weavers checked all over their property thinking Nanny-Bell may have defied her mothering instinct…And then they saw that Star-Bell was missing too. “I knew she wouldn’t leave that baby,” Eric Weaver said. ‘I knew someone had to have taken her.’… Weaver is friendly and he has a gentle demeanor. But he’s hurt and angry….‘I just wish I’d seen someone climbing over my fence that night.’ [he said] ‘I keep a double-barreled shotgun loaded with double-aught buckshot right beside the bed. I wouldn’t shoot to kill, but I’d sure have burnt their hind-ends up.’”

 -Fox News  

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 GOP GETS DOWN TO BUSINESS WITH DEBATES 
The first debate of the 2012 presidential cycle was held on May 5, 2011 with five participants, only one of whom was an elected official, Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas. Only two on the stage, Paul and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, would still be in the race by the time of the Iowa Caucuses.
          The first presidential debate of the 2016 cycle will be held on Aug. 6 and will likely include at least three sitting senators and two sitting governors, and quite possibly more of both. The non-office holders in the top flight are clouty, too. The average polling share for the participants in the debate four years ago was less than 4 percent. Now, the average for the top 10 candidates and crypto-candidates is more than double that.
          Republicans were right that their 2012 nominating process was too long and too damaging to their already disadvantaged eventual nominee. But their problem in 2016 is the opposite. Rather than having too few candidates, they have too many. That was a cycle in which many Republicans contemplated nominating a reality show host. This is a cycle in which the two-term governor of a state with a population of 10 million couldn’t make a ripple in the pond.
          As Hilly Clinton starts building out her swing-state operation and assembling a war chest that would make Suleiman I blush, the Republicans lack a clear frontrunner and are poised instead to set off this fall what promises to be a very bloody, very costly period of civil strife. It might have made sense for Republicans to have done for Mitt Romney what Democrats are doing with their own fragile frontrunner this cycle and have carried him on a stretcher to the convention. This time, though, the party still has to find out who the real frontrunners are.
          The first debate is 11 weeks from today. The Iowa Caucuses are six months after the first debate. There is no guarantee that the Iowa winner or the eventual nominee will be on the stage when the Fox News team first grills the frontrunners.
          Moreover, there’s no guarantee that the best candidate for president will be on the debate stage – or is even in the race. (Most Americans of both parties probably think that someone outside of politics would make a better president than anyone who is running.) But Americans do not select their presidents based on merit but rather by contested elections. To lead the government you have to win a hard, complicated, expensive game. And now the game is afoot.

 -Fox News  

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 Atty General Loretta Lynch Returns To Scene Of Her Crime  

(rickwells.us) - It didn’t take long for Attorney General Loretta Lynch to return to her bankster-rewarding roots. Just as she failed to indict criminals involved with money-laundering and racketeering with HSBC, she’s just let five of the largest banks in the nation off with a similar slap on the financial wrist... As Greta Van Susteren notes, if any non-elite American citizen were to do what these super-wealthy bank executives have done, they would be facing serious prison terms. Justice isn’t blind in America, and she can hear that money jingling in your pockets as well. Van Susteren describes it as the American people getting rolled, and she’s outraged. Lynch proves once again, just as in her testimony during her pointless confirmation hearings; the rule of law doesn’t matter anymore. Laws are merely suggestions, to be applied subjectively based upon who you are, who you know, your political affiliations and your wealth.        http://rickwells.us/atty-general-loretta-lynch-returns-to-scene-of-her-crime-rewards-crooked-banksters-with-no-jail/

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQ3HCqoI7LM

 “What Did Hilly Clinton Accomplish As Secretary Of State?  

(rickwells.us) - Some might consider it to be an unfair or unanswerable question, to ask what Hillary Clinton’s accomplishments were as Secretary of State... There were no positives but she does have some achievements. She was able to succeed in converting Libya into a chaotic terrorist breeding ground, getting four Americans killed in the process. She managed to fill her foundation’s coffers with untold wealth. She boldly went where none had gone before in terms of document theft, compromising America’s national security in the process through an open security portal to our enemies. She elevated the Muslim Brotherhood and other terrorist organizations to positions within the government and levels of access and cooperation that they had never before achieved. He intimate friend, aide and Muslim Brotherhood insider Huma Abedin had unfettered access to the most sensitive information. All of these are unprecedented and would have been unimaginable for an American official prior to Clinton’s tenure. None of those achievements, as noteworthy as they are, came to mind for these panelists. They were searching desperately for something positive for our nation. That’s a much tougher assignment.        http://rickwells.us/empty-silence-is-the-answer-what-did-hillary-clinton-accomplish-as-secretary-of-state-the-question/

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GhZxDrJi9U.

 Bin Laden Document Dump An nObama Attempt To Divert Attention  

(rickwells.us) - Colonel Ralph Peters isn’t fooled by the convenient timing of the Bin Laden document dump, noting that it comes as Ramadi is falling to the ISIS barbarians, saying that there gime is “reverting to their one foreign policy win in six and a half years” as a diversion from the rest of their pathetic record... including the current situation. He characterizes the administration as being in denial and struggling desperately to show that it’s keeping us more secure in the face of no evidence to support those claims. Peters says the nObama administration is focused on the wrong thing, with everything based upon the false pretense that the Humpty Dumpty Iraq can be put back together. He says, “Iraq’s over, it’s dead, it’s finished. And as a result of that we’re not focused on what we should be focusing on which is killing Islamic State militants wherever we can find them.”       http://rickwells.us/col-ralph-peters-bin-laden-document-dump-an-obama-attempt-to-divert-attention-from-ramadi/

 ISIS ISSUES NEW CHILLING THREAT TO AMERICANS  

(teapartypolitics.com) - The attack on the “Draw Mohammed” convention in Garland Texas a few weeks ago was in retaliation to our unique ability to speak as we please here in the U.S. Not something the Islamic group ISIS is fond of... Which is why two thugs associated with the terrorist state attempted to level their perverted sense of justice. They must have forgotten they were in Texas, where the average citizen is born with a .45 in their hand. After being put down by a police officer, ISIS was forced to come to terms with their failure. Now they’re saying they’re going to come after Texas (and the rest of America) and their next attack will be 

devastating.  “Don’t mess with Texas…or the rest of the U.S.”    

http://teapartypolitics.com/isis-issues-new-chilling-threat-for-americans/

 ISIS rides the Istanbul Metro in Turkey  

(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - When you got a leader like Recep Tayyip Erdoğan prepping you up to expand the Caliphate, you have no worries to openly displaying your support (or membership) of Isis... That’s what these two young men did in Turkey, who even display their Isis emblems openly while riding on the public transport amongst tourists and locals. They could very well be terrorists. They keep checking their shiny kafir-produced expensive cellphones, probably wanting to know how many bombs went off that day. NATO member Turkey acts as a safe haven for ISIS allowing them entry into Syria for the removal of “infidel” Assad who doesn’t follow the right version of Islam to be appealing to his Sunni neighbours.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/05/21/video-isis-supporters-ride-the-public-transport-in-turkey/

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMMWrLH4_JI

 Cut State Depart Funding To Persuade Cooperate On Benghazi  

(rickwells.us) - In the face of endless stalling and a complete lack of cooperation by the executive branch into the House investigation of the events surrounding the Benghazi attack, House Republicans seem to be realistically considering actually using their constitutional power of the purse to force the administration to cooperate... The target of their withholding of appropriations would be the State Department, the chief offender in the Benghazi cover-up. Rep Kay Granger of Texas, the chairwoman of the House Appropriations subcommittee which oversees State Department funding and foreign aid said, “There’s a discussion. We haven’t come to a conclusion yet,” without being more specific, while indicating that the national security interests of the U.S. and our allies would be not be negatively impacted as a result. The Hill reported that likely targets would include less critical offices, such as the Legislative Affairs and Public Affairs and the Office of the Secretary. Embassy security would not be affected.       http://rickwells.us/republicans-may-cut-state-department-funding-to-persuade-regime-to-cooperate-on-benghazi/

 What Does Blumenthal Know About nObama?  

(Cliff Kincaid) - It appears that Hilly Clinton adviser Sidney Blumenthal has a network of military and intelligence connections that made him anathema to the nObama White House... Blumenthal must know something about nObama that kept him from getting a State Department job under Hilly. Congress has the power to compel Blumenthal to testify in public about how he collected intelligence information on nObama and other matters for the use of Mrs. Clinton, before and during the time she was Secretary of State.       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/what-does-blumenthal-know-about-obama/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email052115&utm_medium=email

(Kevin Collins) - It comes as no surprise that Hilly Clinton is a liar; everything about her is fake. What is new about her is that she has filled the public arena with so many lies that they can no longer be covered up by the sycophantic media... Through the tenacious work of Judicialwatch.com over 100 pages of documents that were heretofore classified as “secret” by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the State Department have been forced into the light of day and none of them is helpful to Hilly. Here are some of her lies that have been unmasked by Judicial Watch.        http://www.coachisright.com/the-media-cannot-shield-hillary-from-judicial-watch-tenacious-digging-into-her-lies/

Social Injustice

     (burtprelutsky.com) - Afew years ago, I gave a talk at a local Rotary Club. During the Q&A session, a member of the audience identified himself as a liberal and took me to task over something I’d said about Muslims. After trying, and no doubt failing, to set him straight, I asked him why he was a liberal. He puffed himself up, as these jerks are prone to do, and said it was mainly because he believed in social justice.

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     I’m not sure if I called him a fool or only thought it, but I did point out to him that justice is justice, and doesn’t require any adjectives. In fact, once you begin to modify it, you’re perverting its meaning. The ideal, I explained, was one set of rules for rich and poor, black and white, men and women, young and old, liberals and conservatives, Muslims and Christians.

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     It was bad enough having to explain all this to a fellow American. What made it worse is that he had identified himself as a lawyer.

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     But we are seeing this foolishness played out all over the place. A black thug gets shot in Ferguson while avoiding arrest and we see the President and the Attorney General promise to deliver justice to the rioters.

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     In Baltimore, we saw the prosecutor promise, not merely to see justice rendered, but to see it rendered to the satisfaction of the mob.

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     This pandering to the vandals has been going on for some time, and it is only getting worse. As destructive as so-called social justice is to America, you will notice that it is only employed when the presumed victim is black. In the same way, only whites are prosecuted for hate crimes, although blacks are far likelier to target their victims specifically because they happen to be Caucasians.

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     I have no doubt that however the trials of the six indicted cops turn out, Marilyn Mosby will become the next mayor of Baltimore just as soon as Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake uses her own new found celebrity to run for Congress, no doubt with Al Sharpton’s endorsement.

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     Theoretically, every defendant in America is presumed innocent. But thanks to liberals and their corrupt cohorts in the media, cops are the exception. Even if no charges have been leveled, be it in L.A., Ferguson, Staten Island or Baltimore, the folks who risk their lives to safeguard our own are always presumed guilty.

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     ♦ A reader insisted that, contrary to what I wrote in a recent piece, politicians and bureaucrats rarely say “I take full responsibility.” I corrected her, pointing out that they actually utter those words every time they’re discovered causing mischief. The problem is that in the old days, those four words were a prelude to a resignation or an indictment. Today, the miscreants say it the way a cop at the scene of an accident says, “Nothing to see here. Now let’s move along.”

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     ♦ When another reader shared the news that CVS was actually planning to rebuild its store in Baltimore’s war zone, I replied, “Well, you know the old saying: Burn me down once, shame on you. Burn me down twice, shame on me.”

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     ♦ A third reader let me know that his favorite drawings at the Muhammad cartoon festival in Texas, where a couple of jihadists got to meet their Maker thanks to a quick-thinking, quick-shooting, cop, were the two chalk outlines on the sidewalk.

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     Speaking of which, I couldn’t believe the idiots who, like Bill O’Reilly, said that the group should never have sponsored such a provocative event. Fortunately, O’Reilly’s Fox colleague, Megyn Kelly, reminded him that this is still America. Thanks to the First Amendment, we still have the right to ridicule everyone and everything – and that certainly includes the pedophile who founded Islam, the very same religion that 1,400 years later is encouraging its savage followers to burn, behead and crucify, non-believers. So, thanks all the same, Bill, but neither I nor America really needs a schmoe like you to look out for us.

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     ♦ Some teams seem predestined. For instance, Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy were mediocre silent screen comedians until Hal Roach saw something in them that, if combined, would be magical. Ginger Rogers had been in a series of lousy, low budget, RKO films for years before Fred Astaire came along and danced “The Continental” with her in “Flying Down to Rio.” Astaire, himself, had already been dismissed by a studio executive as looking like a whippet who could dance a little. But once they became Astaire and Rogers, it was said that he gave her class and she gave him sex appeal, and, together, they provided us with four or five of the most charming musicals ever produced.

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     Then we have the Clintons. Some marriages are said to be made in Heaven, but God only knows where their union was forged. But it, too, seems predestined. After all, who else could either of them have possibly married who would have put up with his sexual depravity or her pathological lying?
     ♦ Finally, a personal note to my dear readers: I appreciate your thinking of me, but I really wish you’d all stop sending me links and videos. For some reason, when I’ve emailed this message to individuals, they sometimes take it as a personal affront. Considering how much time I devote to responding to my readers’ text messages, I don’t know why anyone would be offended. There is, after all, only so much time in the day and, frankly, I prefer dealing with email pertaining to something I’ve written, be they comments, questions or even insults.

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     I suppose some people are so ultra-sensitive that they even take bad weather personally. But, as I see it, if you offer me some candy and I don’t care for candy or am dieting or suffering from diabetes, you certainly wouldn’t take my refusal the wrong way.

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     So, please, no more candy…unless, of course, it’s those irresistible peanut M&Ms.

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 nObama's Nuke Deal Gets Loads of Skepticism 

Once Barack nObama signs his deal with Iran, that's it. Re-imposing sanctions or striking down the nuclear deal will become very hard — even if Iran does weaponize its nuclear program. On Thursday, Congress 

passed its resolution watering down its role in treaty negotiation by requiring a 30-day review of nObama's treaty before voting on it. Essentially, nObama's deal can be struck down only by veto-proof majorities in Congress. Meanwhile, Russia announced it will not allow an automatic snapback of sanctions if Iran is found stuffing fissile material into missiles, and it can use its position as one of the veto votes on the UN Security Council to prevent such a diplomatic move. By doing so, Russia is currying favor with Iran.

          Finally, nObama hosted leaders of countries in the Persian Gulf at Camp David Thursday, trying to assure them that this nuclear deal is in their best interest. But after reading the joint statement released after the meeting, Charles Krauthammer said, "That was a prepared statement for a summit that is meant to assure the Gulf Arabs that we're not selling them out. That was a sellout announcement. … They should be terrified." Another win for nObama.  -The Patriot Post 

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 The DOJ Is on a Mission to Stop Racist Pollution 

Under the current administration, we've come to expect an ideologically activist Department of Justice that seeks out instances of pollution and racism and acts accordingly. But when the DOJ looks for instances where pollution itself is racist, the department veers into injustice. National Review's Roger Clegg pointed out a DOJ publication that touted this approach in its spring edition. According to a memorandum issued by Bill Clinton during his administration: "In accordance with Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, each Federal agency shall ensure that all programs or activities receiving Federal financial assistance that affect human health or the environment do not directly, or through contractual or other arrangements, use criteria, methods, or practices that discriminate on the basis of race, color, or national origin." That means if an organization receiving federal funds — like a city government — needs to somehow affect the environment, it needs to justify that it's not racist to boot. Justice thus assumes that creating a landfill or creating a facility that deals with harmful chemicals in a certain location may have racist intent when in fact the intent may be purely economic. Furthermore, labeling neighborhoods "black" or "white" fails to take into account their evolution, as when they undergo white flight or gentrification. But never mind all this when social justice -- rather than colorblind justice -- is the DOJ's ultimate goal. More...   -The Patriot Post 

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 No, Antarctica Is Not Experiencing Rapid Ice Melt 

Antarctic sea ice is so expansive that researchers are exploring ways to avoid more embarrassing mishaps. Writing in The Daily Caller, Michael Bastasch says, "50 scientists have gathered in Tasmania to discuss more accurate ways to predict Antarctic sea ice levels so researchers don't get stuck in ice pack when traveling southward." So it was richly ironic when CBS News reported this week that "Antarctica is melting from above and below." The article, which documents a new alarming study on how global warming is supposedly eating away at the giant ice cap, begins with an outrageous claim — "It's no secret that ice shelves in Antarctica are thinning" — and warns that "warming air temperatures and warmer ocean currents together could explain why the Antarctic Peninsula's floating ice shelves are losing volume and becoming more vulnerable to collapse." The truth? As of Wednesday, sea ice extent was breaking the previous record high set just last year, according to data from the National Snow & Ice Data Center, and the trend for decades now has been a steady increase in a real ice coverage. In fairness, the exception is the western portion of the continent, where ice is lagging behind the 1981-2010 average. But averages are based on the whole, not cherry-picked portions of the data. This is nothing more than selective outrage. 

 -The Patriot Post 

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 The Woulda, Shoulda, Coulda Approach to Foreign Policy 

As a leading GOP presidential candidate and brother of the former president, Jeb Bush had to know he was going to be asked about Iraq sometime during the campaign. That “sometime” came this week as Megyn Kelly of Fox News asked him whether, “knowing what we know now,” he would have authorized the invasion of Iraq. Jeb used the answer to both speculate that Hilly Clinton would have done (in fact, did) the same thing and declare that, “if they’re trying to find places where there’s big space between me and my brother, this might not be one of those.”

          The blowback was predictable, and he quickly walked back his answer, insisting he'd misheard the question. He did seem to answer the "knowing what we knew then" version. Now he says flatly, "I would not have gone into Iraq."

          Needless to say, there’s been a lot of debate about the fitness of the younger Bush’s initial answer. Conservatives ponder whether he needed a better one, made "a rookie mistake," or was exactly right. There are also those who thought the question itself was “completely stupid."  

          Stupid or not, the question was bound to come up as a result of the ongoing mess we’re dealing with in the Middle East, and we now have over a decade of hindsight at our disposal. There weren’t the quantities of weapons of mass destruction everyone — even those who quickly pretended otherwise — originally believed were in Iraq. Intelligence estimates at the time were all George W. Bush had to go on, not "what we know now." There was also Saddam Hussein's established record of atrocities, belligerence and threats to U.S. interests. So, we eliminated a bloody dictator, the byproduct of which convinced Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi that he should abandon his own efforts at a WMD program.  -The Patriot Post 

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 Grayson erupts after off-shore funds exposed by Florida newspaper  

(Ed Morrissey) - There have been few progressives as angry about off-shore investment accounts as Rep. Alan Grayson (D-FL). In 2011, not coincidentally while Mitt Romney readied his presidential campaign, Grayson wrote at the Huffington Post that Barack nObama should order “the IRS to audit every one of the Fortune 500″ corporations... Grayson wanted to stop them from “evading taxes through transfer pricing and offshore tax havens.” Grayson may have known more about that than first thought. Adam Smith of the Tampa Bay Times found out that Grayson himself had incorporated two funds in the Caymans later that same year, the same kind of tax structure that Grayson found so distasteful in January 2011. Based on disclosure statements, Grayson has somewhere between $5 million and $25 million put away in the fund, although he’s drawing no income from it.       http://hotair.com/archives/2015/05/14/grayson-erupts-after-off-shore-funds-exposed-by-florida-newspaper/

 Egyptian court sentences President Mohammed Morsi to death  

(foxnews.com) - An Egyptian court on Saturday sentenced ousted President Mohammed Morsi to death over his part in a mass prison break that took place during the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak... As is customary in passing capital punishment, Judge Shaaban el-Shami referred his death sentence on Morsi and others to the nation's top Muslim theologian, or mufti, for his non-binding opinion. He set June 2 for the next hearing. Morsi, Egypt's first freely elected president, was ousted by the military in July 2013 following days of mass street protests by Egyptians demanding that he be removed because of his divisive policies.       http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/05/16/egyptian-court-sentences-ousted-president-mohammed-morsi-to-death/?intcmp=latestnews

 Col North – nObama Regime Censors News From Iraq  

(rickwells.us) - Colonel Oliver North notes that Ramadi, Iraq used to be a city of 600,000 with only about 400,000 remaining after one third of the city fled in advance of the approaching ISIS butchers. He describes holding Ramadi as “absolutely crucial” in the Iraqi government’s efforts to maintain control of Iraq’s largest province, Anbar... He characterizes the potential loss of Ramadi as a devastating blow to the Baghdad government and proof that the Iraqi military force is not capable of securing the nation and not up to the task of reclaiming Mosul, which has a population of close to four times that of today’s Ramadi. He says, “The idea that they could be going after Mosul is lunacy.” North says that rather than getting updates on progress from the White House we are seeing an effort on their part to censor the news. He also points to how ineffective our airstrikes have been in diminishing the enemy. The limited nature of our military campaign is responsible for our failures. It is not the inability of our military to do the job but a lack of the will to win on the part of the person who presently occupies the White House.       http://rickwells.us/col-north-obama-regime-censors-news-from-iraq-blames-networks-for-old-video/

 CA Citizens Now Paying For Drought Crisis Dems Exploiting  

(rickwells.us) - California is often, if not usually at the forefront of the adoption of bad or unconstitutional liberal policies. They’ve been allowing Democrats and enviro-Nazis to run roughshod over their state since the seventies and it’s really gotten out of hand since the nineties... when George H W. Bush and Bill Clinton got together to force UN Agenda 21down our sleeping throats. Now that they’ve successfully eliminated California’s water storage in the name of a meaningless bait fish, the state is under authoritarian dictates by its Democrat leadership, particularly Enviro-Nazi Governor Jerry Brown, and there is a finally an awakening being forced upon the people of that state. The videos below were taken in part at a water meeting in Rancho Cucamonga, in Southern California. They’re importing huge numbers of illegal resource users from other nations as they face what many believe is a contrived water shortage. Those in government who are acting in a more local capacity simply point to the dictates of the governor as they explain that “their hands as well as those of the citizens of California are tied” as a result of the dictates of one man, their governor.        http://rickwells.us/ca-citizens-now-paying-for-drought-crisis-dems-exploiting-implementing-agenda-21/

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2wjel93sEDg

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 A New Baghdad Bob Emerges As ISIS Takes Over Ramadi  

(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - As ISIS took over Ramadi, Friday, routing Iraqi troops, who fled for their lives along with thousands of civilians, Brig. Gen. Thomas D. Weidley, chief of staff for Combined Joint Task Force Operation, wants the American public to believe that Islamic State forces are on the defensive and that the situation is going just according to plan... Leave it to nObama to produce a military spokesman as impressively mendacious as Iraq’s own Mohammed Saeed al-Sahhaf – aka Baghdad Bob. Never-mind the weaselly – “ultimately” destroy verbiage. We’re not even “ultimately” degrading them. Degraded armies don’t keep gaining ground. This is a new low for the United States. For God only knows what reason – the leader of the free world is handing Iraq over to savages. And now we’ve got our own Baghdad Bobs telling us we’re not seeing what we’re seeing. The disaster playing out before our eyes, they tell us is really the enemy being “degraded” by our broad coalition.       https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/05/15/a-new-baghdad-bob-emerges-as-isis-takes-over-ramadi-video/

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(Uzay Bulut) - "Every year we publish an annual report on the death penalty in Iran. About 50% of Iran's execution cases included in the report have not been announced by the official sources... We only include the cases that we manage to confirm through two independent sources. It is a difficult task, but important. People who send information about the human rights abuses can be persecuted and get heavy sentences. "We went to Pakistan as refugees and two years later, we were sent by the UN to Norway. At that time, Ayatollah Khomeini had closed the universities and expelled most of the scholars and students (including my sister) if they were not regarded as 'loyal' to the Islamic Republic. "At that time no one believed that a theocratic system with medieval laws could rule a relatively modern country such as Iran for more than few years. So most Iranians who left Iran at that time believed that they would be returning home after few years." After 35 years, however, the human rights of Iranian people are still being destroyed daily at the hands of Iranian mullahs. "We have observed a dramatic increase in the number of executions since the election of Mr. Rouhani,"says Moghaddam.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5723/iran-isis

The Return of nObama’s 

Hoax-Spreading Bitter Half

Michelle Malkin

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(freedomsback.com) - She’s baaaaaaaack. And she’s maaaaaad.

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     First lady Michelle nObama delivered the commencement address at Tuskegee University last weekend. She’ll do it again at Ohio’s Oberlin College — the UC Berkeley of the Midwest, Ground Zero for racial grievance-mongering and fake hate crimes — next week.

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     Commencement FLOTUS is not the same first lady who shows up on “Ellen” or “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon” wearing her pastel cardigan, Chuck Taylors and a megawatt grin. No, this frowny-faced Michelle nObama talks and squawks like Al Sharpton in Jimmy Choo kitten heels. At Tuskegee, FLOTUS traded her affable TV persona for the divisive social justice complainer we all came to know and loathe during her husband’s first presidential campaign.

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     nObama’s resurrected bitter half inspired the graduates by complaining about people complaining about her. She complained about the “sting” of “daily slights” throughout her life and her poor, beleaguered husband’s. And then she complained. And complained. And complained some more.

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     She clucked at the “folks” (read: white folks) who allegedly “crossed the street in fear of their safety” at the sight of the nObamas.

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     She called out unnamed “clerks who kept a close eye on us in all those department stores.”

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     She decried the racist “people at formal events who assumed we were the ‘help.'” (Funny, the only time I recall this happening in the nObama White House was when Valerie Jarrett mistook four-star Army Gen. Peter Chiarelli, who is white, for her waiter. But I digress.)

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     Reaching into her deep well of indignation, Mrs. nObama then assailed “those who have questioned our intelligence, our honesty, even our love of this country.”

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     Let me take out my teeny-weeny bow and play the world’s smallest violin at the thought of Mrs. nObama being subjected to the “sting” of impolite questions about her honesty. Using my best slow vibrato: Waw-waw-waw-wawwww.

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     It’s hard to take Mrs. nObama seriously, because she has been caught so brazenly lying about the racial discrimination she supposedly still faces today even as first lady of the United States. When she told the Tuskegee students about being watched “in all those department stores,” she neglected to mention that just five months ago, one of her most famous anecdotes of retail racism went up in smoke.

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     What? You forgot already? Using almost the exact same language in a People magazine interview that she used in her Tuskegee commencement speech, the first lady deplored the “sting” of “racist experiences” that she and her husband allegedly still suffer.

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Get her some Calamine lotion STAT!

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     “Even as the first lady,” she bemoaned, “not highly disguised, the only person who came up to me” at a Target store “was a woman who asked me to help her take something off a shelf.” Remember: ABC News reported that Mrs. nObama claimed such “incidents are ‘the regular course of life’ for African Americans and a ‘challenge’ for the country to overcome.”

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     The anecdote turned out to be a tall tale — with the emphasis on “tall.” The reason the 5-foot-11 first lady was asked to get detergent off the Target shelf was that her vertically challenged fellow shopper couldn’t reach it. How do we know this? Because Mrs. nObama said so herself in a radically different version of the Target story she told David Letterman three years ago.

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     “I reached up, ’cause she was short, and I reached up, pulled it down,” the first lady described with that megawatt grin, and the shopper said, “Well, you didn’t have to make it look so easy.” Far from psychologically debilitated by any racial “sting,” Mrs. nObama told Letterman, “I felt so good” helping out the short woman.

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     I don’t care what color you are: This arrogant exercise of first lady privilege — invoking false stories to stoke racial hostility and score political points — is patently offensive. There’s enough demagoguery in the public square. The Aspen ski-vacationing, haute couture-wearing, Hollywood elite-chumming first lady’s delusional discrimination fables are fuel on a raging fire her husband has failed to alleviate with billions of dollars of government “investments,” programs, summits and photo-ops.

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     It is especially irresponsible of Mrs. nObama to be spreading her cultural gasoline on college campuses, where the excesses of identity politics and multiculturalism continue to poison young minds.

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     Don’t like suffering the “daily slights” of questions about your honesty? Stop lying.

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 RUBIO ROCKS IN SPEECH TO HAWKS  
Miami Herald: “Marco Rubio … on Wednesday addressed one of the key questions facing many candidates this election. Would he have gone to war in Iraq, given what we know now? Rubio, a freshman Republican senator, said no. After giving his first major policy speech since announcing his candidacy a month ago, Rubio was asked the question that rival and former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush was recently asked. Bush has said he misunderstood the question and backed away from his response, which initially was to say he would have authorized the war — even knowing what we know now. … Rubio said no. “Not only would I not have been in favor of it, President [George W. Bush] would not have been in favor of it. And he said so.”  -Fox News 

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 Welcome home, Walker -  Prosecutors dig in against Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., on allegations that his campaign illegally coordinated with the conservative group Club for Growth. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel outlines the expensive, rocky legal road Walker’s foes continue to climb in their bid to topple the governor. This comes as Walker returns home from Israel to face a budget fight in Madison and a looming presidential launch in June.  -Fox News 

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 REMATCH: FEINGOLD MAKES IT OFFICIAL 
AP: “Democrat Russ Feingold has decided to run for his old Senate seat in Wisconsin against Republican Ron Johnson, who defeated him in 2010. Associated Press obtained Feingold’s announcement Thursday before it was to be sent in a video message to supporters. He was widely expected to get into the race, and no other Democrat has publicly expressed interest.”

 -Fox News 

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 STAND FOR SOMETHING  
Members of the wounded warrior support group SoldierSocks were in Washington to drum up backers for their initiative to buy and donate exoskeleton devices (at more than $100,000 a copy) that help paralyzed service members stand and walk again. The demonstration, held in Honeywell’s D.C. office, hushed the gabby crowd and ended in applause. The group says there are more than 125 already in use in VAs  and other hospitals around the country for therapy. But the near-term goal is to develop a device that helps users live beyond the bounds of a wheelchair. Co-founder Chris Meek led the presentation for a crowd that included Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., Sen. Shelley Moore Capito, R-W.Va., Sen. Joni Ernst, R-Iowa, Rep. Jackie Walorski, R-Ind., and area badass Katie Pavlich. Stranded in New York, but there in spirit, was the munificent Martha MacCallum, who serves on the group’s advisory board.  -Fox News 

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 HOW ABOUT PEECEE WAY? 
(London) Telegraph: “An MP has complained to a council on behalf of a gay couple outraged at a ‘homophobic’ road named Bangays Way. The street sign was erected in the village of Borough Green, near Sevenoaks, Kent last month - and the row centres on adding the letter ‘s’ to the Bangay name. The cul de sac in a new residential development was named in memory of well-known villager Frank Bangay who died in 1999. But a married gay couple, who have lived in the village for almost seven years and have asked not to be named, want it changed. One of them said: ‘My husband and I went to look round the new development. Having got over the initial humour, we reflected that this street name was actually pretty offensive.’”  -Fox News 

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(Aaron Klein) - Despite the presence of the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt off the coast of Yemen, the Iranians succeeded in smuggling Scud B and C missiles to the rebels fighting in Yemen, Jordanian security officials told WND... The security officials described the possession of the missiles by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels as potentially game-changing and as a direct threat to the Saudi kingdom and its oil fields. While the Scuds have not yet been used, the Shiite Houthi rebels on Tuesday already escalated tensions with the Saudis when they fired rockets into Saudi Arabia on Tuesday, killing at least three people. The Jordanian officials said the Scuds, if utilized, could endanger Saudi Arabia and potentially disrupt the global oil market.        http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/game-changing-development-threatens-saudi-oil-fields/

 The Supreme Court has No Authority to Re-Define Marriage  

(David L. Goetsch) - The Supreme Court heard oral arguments concerning the legalization of same-sex marriage recently. This means that a decision concerning the re-definition of marriage will be forthcoming this summer... Notice that I used the term “re-definition” rather than “definition.” This is a key point. The Supreme Court is not being asked to define marriage, it is being asked to re-define it. Marriage was defined for all time several thousand years ago by an authority much higher than the Supreme Court. Consequently, regardless of how the Supreme Court rules on this historic case, its decision will be wrong (unless, of course, the justices rule that they lack the authority to rule). Re-defining marriage exceeds the authority of the Supreme Court as set forth in Sections 1 and 2 of the U.S. Constitution. Section 2 of the Constitution clearly states that “The judicial power shall extend to all cases, in law and equity, arising under this Constitution, the laws of the United States, and treaties made, or which shall be made, under this authority…”        http://patriotupdate.com/articles/the-supreme-court-has-no-authority-to-re-define-marriage/

 Trey Gowdy: State Dept. Blocking Clinton Benghazi Testimony  

(newsmax.com) - The chairman of the House committee investigating the 2012 attacks in Benghazi, Libya, said Thursday that he can't set a date for Democratic presidential candidate Hilly Clinton to testify before his panel... because the State Department has been slow in producing needed documents. In a letter Thursday to Secretary of State hanoi John Kerry, Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., complained that the department has delayed providing emails and other documents involving Clinton, a former secretary of state. "Simply put, the committee must have the records of communication requested more than six months ago before the secretary's appearance can be scheduled," Gowdy wrote.        http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/gowdy-state-department-block-hillary-clinton/2015/05/14/id/644693/?ns_mail_uid=29878495&ns_mail_job=1620930_05152015&s=al&dkt_nbr=zv9xtufq

 Erdogan's Dream: The Sultan Rules  

(Burak Bekdil) - t is election time in Turkey. On June 7, the Turks will go to the ballot box to elect a government and a prime minister who will rule the country for four years... In reality, they will go to the ballot box to decide whether they want an elected Sultan or not. Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, wants more than just to win a parliamentary majority for his Justice and Development Party (AKP). He wants a two-thirds majority, so that the constitution can be amended to introduce an executive presidential system and the Sultan can once again officially rule.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5719/erdogan-sultan

 Muslim Leader Said Israel is ‘Enemy of God’ Invited to White House  

(Joe Kaufman) - Regardless of the circumstances, when a representative from CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a group with close ties to Hamas, is allowed into the White House, a serious, indeed dangerous, problem exists... One day after the brutal death of his cousin – a revenge attack following the murder of three Israeli teens – Tariq Abu Khdeir, a 15-year-old boy who had traveled to Israel from Tampa, Florida, found himself arrested and beaten by an Israeli officer. On the day of his being taken into custody, authorities alleged Khdeir was masked, armed and actively participating in rioting against officers. They said, as well, he had resisted arrest. A video purporting to be of the beating went viral, and an Israeli investigation into the footage commenced.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/joe-kaufman/muslim-leader-who-said-israel-is-enemy-of-god-invited-to-white-house/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=0e57729a06-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-0e57729a06-156509103

 nObama's embarrassing mistake as he greets Saudi princes  

(Barbara Boland) - Yesterday, two Saudi crown princes arrived to meet with President nObama at the Oval Office, after King Salman refused to meet nObama at the Gulf summit or at the White House... White House officials should have been careful to make sure everything with the two top Saudi officials went smoothly — but instead, nObama flubbed on the deputy crown prince's name and the name of the king who forged America's relationship with Saudi Arabia, King Abdul Aziz ibn Saud. The prince sat stony-faced as nObama makes the error.        http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/watch-obamas-embarrassing-mistake-as-he-greets-saudi-princes/article/2564508#.VVXzhRMMRr4.twitter

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 From The ForAmerica War Room  

(foramerica.org) - On the program front, ForAmerica released our second video declaring Jeb Bush “Unelectable... ”Background: In 2013, nearly a year to the day of the anniversary of the Benghazi attacks, Jeb Bush presented Hilly Clinton a lifetime achievement award for “public service” (you read that right) thanking both Mrs. Clinton and former President Bill Clinton for their “love of country” and dedication to “public service.”  Instead of re-hashing the alphabet soup of scandals the Clintons have been involved in while in “public service” – Benghazi, missing emails, illegal foreign contributions, Monica Lewinksy, Whitewater, the list goes on and on…and on — let’s focus on the political ramifications this footage has for Mr. Bush.        http://www.foramerica.org/2015/05/from-the-foramerica-war-room-3/

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Punishing parents who deviate from the government-enforced norm

George F. Will

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     (washingtonpost.com) - Controversies about “free-range parenting” illuminate today’s scarred cultural landscape. Neighbors summon police in response to parenting choices the neighbors disapprove. Government extends its incompetence with an ever-broader mission of “child protection.” And these phenomena are related to campus hysteria about protecting infantilized undergraduates from various menaces, including uncongenial ideas.

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     The Meitivs live in suburban Montgomery County, which is a bedroom for many Washington bureaucrats who make their living minding other people’s business. The Meitivs, to encourage independence and self-reliance, let their 10- and 6-year-old children walk home alone from a park about a mile from their home. For a second time, their children were picked up by police, this time three blocks from home. After confinement in a squad car for almost three hours, during which the police never called or allowed the children to call the Meitivs, the children were given to social workers who finally allowed the parents to reclaim their children at about 11 p.m. on a school night. The Meitivs’ Kafkaesque experiences concluded with them accused of“unsubstantiated” neglect.

.      Today’s saturating media tug children beyond childhood prematurely, but not to maturity. Children are cosseted by intensive parenting that encourages passivity and dependency, and stunts their abilities to improvise, adapt and weigh risks. Mark Hemingway, writing at the Federalist, asks: “You know what it’s called when kids make mistakes without adult supervision and have to wrestle with the resulting consequences? Growing up.”

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     Increased knowledge of early childhood development has produced increased belief in a “science” of child rearing. This has increased intolerance of parenting that deviates from norms that are as changeable as most intellectual fads.

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     “Intensive parenting” is becoming a government-enforced norm. Read “The day I left my son in the car” (Salon.com), Kim Brooks’s essay on her ordeal after leaving her 4-year-old in the car as she darted into a store for about five minutes.

.      Writing in the Utah Law Review, David Pimentel of Ohio Northern University notes that at a moment when “children have never been safer,” government is abandoning deference to parents’ discretion in child rearing. In 1925, the Supreme Court affirmed the right of parents “to direct the upbringing and education of children.” Today, however, vague statutes that criminalize child “neglect” or “endangerment” undermine the social legitimacy of parental autonomy. And they ignore the reality that almost every decision a parent makes involves risks. Let your child ride a bike to school, or strap her into a car for the trip? Which child is more at risk, the sedentary one playing video games and risking obesity, or the one riding a bike? It is, Pimentel says, problematic for the legal system to enforce cultural expectations when expectations, partly shaped by media hysteria over rare dangers such as child abductions, are in constant flux.

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     Time was, colleges and universities acted in loco parentis to moderate undergraduates’ comportment, particularly regarding sex and alcohol. Institutions have largely abandoned this, having decided that students are mature possessors of moral agency. But institutions have also decided that although undergraduates can cope with hormones and intoxicants, they must be protected from discomforting speech, which must be regulated by codes and confined to “free speech zones.” Uncongenial ideas must be foreshadowed by “trigger warnings,” lest students, who never were free-range children and now are as brittle as pretzels, crumble. Young people shaped by smothering parents come to college not really separated from their “helicopter parents.” Such students come convinced that the world is properly devoted to guaranteeing their serenity, and that their fragility entitles them to protection from distressing thoughts.

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     As Penn State historian Gary Cross says, adolescence is being redefined to extend well into the 20s, and the “clustering of rites of passage” into adulthood — marriage, childbearing, permanent employment — “has largely disappeared.” Writing in the Chronicle of Higher Education, Cross says that “delayed social adulthood” means that “in 2011, almost a fifth of men between 25 and 34 still lived with their parents,” where many play video games: “The average player is 30 years old.” The percentage of men in their early 40s who have never married “has risen fourfold to 20 percent.”

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     In the 1950s, Cross says, with Jack Kerouac and Hugh Hefner “the escape from male responsibility became a kind of subculture.” Today, oldies radio and concerts by septuagenarian rockers nurture the cult of youth nostalgia among people who, wearing jeans, T-shirts and sneakers all the way, have slouched from adolescence to Social Security without ever reaching maturity.

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 Democrats Exploit Train Wreck to Derail Republicans 

Regarding the Philadelphia train crash, the blood of the seven dead was not dry on the tracks before Democrats attempted to convert this tragedy into political capital. Congress was deliberating Amtrak funding and, in keeping with Rahm Emmanuel's maxim to "never let a good crisis go to waste," Democrats immediately asserted that the crash was related to an "infrastructure failure." nObama's White House mouthpiece Josh Earnest got in on the act, saying, "The president has been a leading advocate ... for investing in our infrastructure." He added, "Unfortunately, we have seen a concerted effort by Republicans for partisan reasons to step in front of those kinds of advancements." According to investigators, the train was traveling over 100 mph, or twice the posted track speed. Notably, this was very similar to the crash in Spain last year, when another train was traveling into a leftward turn at twice the posted track speed. Fortunately, Republicans have not (yet) bowed to Demo tactics, and Amtrak, which is as inefficient and bankrupt as the Post Office, has not yet received even more taxpayer funds. Isn't $1 billion a year enough?  -The Patriot Post 

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 Congress Takes NSA Hot Potato  

The NSA's mass metadata collection efforts have come to a head. Last week, the Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled the program violated the Patriot Act, despite the NSA claiming Section 215 authorized it. Indeed, Rep. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI), primary author of the original Patriot Act, said, “That program is illegal and based on a blatant misinterpretation of the law." But the law is up for renewal by June 1, so Congress has to act. The House on Wednesday voted 338-88 to pass the USA Freedom Act, which specifically ends bulk data collection. That sets up a fight with the Senate, where Republicans are more eager to actually authorize the NSA's phone metadata program. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell warned the House bill would put undue limits on intelligence collection and said the Senate won't vote on it. House Speaker backstabber John Boehner promised not to let the Patriot Act expire because it's "critically important to keep Americans safe." But the fundamental debate is how much power the government needs to do that. How much Liberty do we give up for security?   -The Patriot Post 

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 UVA Dean Sues Rolling Stone Over Rape Story  

It's devilishly hard for someone in America to successfully sue a publication for libel. Not only does the plaintiff have to convince the court that what was published was false and caused harm, but the plaintiff also has to prove that the publication acted with malicious intent. In response to Rolling Stone's grossly irresponsible false report on a supposed rape on the University of Virginia campus, the college's Associate Dean of Students Nicole Eramo filed a $7.5 million suit against the magazine and the author of the story, Sabrina Rubin Erdely. Based on the complaint, it appears Eramo has a case. She alleges Erdely never attempted to get documents that would have disproven "Jackie's" story. And the reporter hid her work by using pseudonyms to describe people in the story she didn't talk to and dismissed concerns by a Rolling Stone copy editor who wondered why Erdely didn't talk to the accused. The complaint alleges even Jackie was uncomfortable with how the magazine portrayed Eramo. But Erdely was trying to fit this story into a template, the one she used in the past when writing about rape — a template that produced several factually challenged stories. As Jonah Goldberg wrote last month, journalistic ethics are "all based on a very simple rule: Tell the truth." More...  -The Patriot Post 

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 The Left's Twisted Concern for Premature Black (Voter) Deaths 

"Blacks die sooner than whites. How many votes has this cost Democrats?" So headlined The Washington Post over the weekend. It's not so much that black lives matter, you see, as black votes matter to Democrat politicians.

          Writing in the Post, University of Massachusetts at Amherst Professor Dean Robinson takes a look at the research of Javier Rodriguez, Arline Geronimus, John Bound and Danny Dorling, four university professors who attempt to calculate how different election outcomes might have been if the voting-age blacks who died between 1970 and 2004 had lived and voted (Democrat).

          According to Robinson, "Rodriguez and colleagues estimate that excess deaths among blacks totaled 2.7 million between 1970 and 2004, that 1.74 million would have been of voting age, and that 1 million would have voted in the 2004 election. Combining excess mortality with the consequences of felon disenfranchisement, they find that about 1 in 7 blacks (15 percent) did not have the opportunity to vote in 2004 for one of these two reasons." 

          While the study authors conclude the 2004 presidential election would not have turned out different, they assert the "[o]utcomes of 7 senate and 11 gubernatorial races could have been reversed."  -The Patriot Post 

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 US Senate Votes to Advance nObama's Secret Bill  

(americanactionnews.com) - The Senate voted to advance President nObama's Trade Promotion Authority bill this afternoon by a vote of 65 - 33. The Problem? Hardly anyone, including those voting on it, has read the bill... The text of this piece of legislation is held under lock and key in the basement of the US Capitol. The only people who can see it are members of Congress and some of their staff.       http://americanactionnews.com/articles/us-senate-votes-to-advance-secret-bill-hardly-anyone-has-read

 Top House Republican unveils nObamacare replacement  

(Philp Klein) - House Budget Committee Chairman Rep. Tom Price, R-Ga., on Wednesday unveiled a plan to repeal President nObama's healthcare law and replace it with an alternative... The move is the latest effort by Republicans to show that they have a vision for reforming the healthcare system beyond merely undoing nObamacare. With Republicans taking over the Senate, a looming Supreme Court decision, and the 2016 campaign heating up, there has been increased pressure on the GOP to offer alternatives. Price, an orthopedic surgeon who in January took over the budget panel from Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., has been one of the leading voices on healthcare policy among Republicans.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/top-house-republican-unveils-obamacare-replacement/article/2564446?utm_campaign=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205&utm_source=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205%20-%2005/14/15&utm_medium=email

 Alan Colmes: FBI should 'absolutely' investigate Clinton 

(Barbara Boland) - "She's got to answer questions. She's got to stand up and answer to the press," said liberal radio show host Alan Colmes about presidential candidate Hilly Clinton... Hilly Clinton promised that the Clinton Foundation would stop accepting foreign donations, but she has not followed through on that promise, pointed out Fox host Bill Hemmer. "The FBI might want to look into this statement that there was not a conflict of interest between her work as secretary of state and any money that went to the Clinton Foundation," said Colmes.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/alan-colmes-fbi-should-absolutely-investigate-clinton/article/2564445?utm_campaign=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205&utm_source=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205%20-%2005/14/15&utm_medium=email

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 Nuclear Plant Fire North of NYC Brings Back Relicensing Concerns  

(Clark Mindock) - A sheen of oil and chemicals wound down the Hudson River toward New York City this week after Saturday’s fire and explosion in a nuclear power plant transformer 40 miles upstream from the nation’s largest metropolitan center. Awkward timing... The explosion came as the plant’s owner, Entergy Corp., is lobbying federal lawmakers and agencies for relicensing to keep the facility open, with some New York lawmakers mounting a fight against the bid. For opponents of the Indian Point plant’s continued operations, like Rep. Nita Lowey(D-N.Y.), Saturday night’s explosion provided an opportunity to once again question the wisdom of keeping the power plant going. Oh  my gosh, should we close down the trains also?     http://www.opensecrets.org/news/2015/05/nuclear-plant-fire-north-of-nyc-brings-back-relicensing-concerns/?utm_source=CRP+Mail+List&utm_campaign=9ab46aacc1-Newsletter_5_14_15&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_9df8578d78-9ab46aacc1-210943657

(Michael Warren) - Ryan is the chairman of the House Ways andMeansCommittee, which makes the memento all the more fitting. For decades, the concept illustrated by Laffer’s curve—that raising the rate of taxation past a certain point actually lowers revenue... has been the organizing principle of the Republican policy of lowering taxes by cutting marginal rates. Republicans aren’t ready to abandon that idea in spirit, but as the 2016 presidential election nears, there are signs of some divides within the party about what’s a priority—and what isn’t—when it comes to tax reform. Ryan himself is pretty direct about where he sees the debate over taxes. Recently, a reporter in Washington asked him if lowering individual and corporate tax rates is still a top priority for him. “Yes,” he said immediately. Has interest in lowering rates waned? “No,” he said just as quickly. Is the goal to push the top marginal rate down below 30 percent? “Absolutely,” he said.     http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/taxes-and-gop-candidates_941097.html?utm_source=newsletters&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=JVL+5_14_15

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 Where Did the Islamic State Come From?  

(Elliot Friedland) - Last summer the Islamic State shocked the world with its lighting conquests of swathes of Iraq and Syria... But the group is much older than that. It has its roots in Al-Qaeda and the global jihadist movement that developed from the 1980s onwards. What is now the Islamic State began as a group called Jamaat al-Tahwid wa-i-Jihad (JTWJ), founded in 1999 by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, who first became a jihadi in Afghanistan.  Zarqawi was killed by a United States airstrike in 2006. http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/where-did-islamic-state-come

 Leaders of the Lynch Mob  

(Matthew Vadum) - Leaders of the “Black Lives Matter” movement are obliquely endorsing killing cops and rioting as legitimate forms of political activism as the radical community organizers of the so-called Black Spring ramp up political violence and civil unrest... For example, on-the-record statements by Twitter stars DeRay Mckesson, 29 and Johnetta Elzie, 26, are all over the Internet. Mckesson and Elzie are influential activists who have become legacy-media darlings by using social media to push their racial-grievance agenda. Both of these community organizers bounce between reverence for nonviolent action and a refusal to condemn violent activism, which this writer would argue is tantamount to endorsing violent activism.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/leaders-of-the-lynch-mob/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=201ae684af-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-201ae684af-156509103

 Where in the World Is hanoi John Kerry?  

(Daniel Greenfield) - hanoi John Kerry returns from his latest Russian visit bearing two baskets of potatoes and a t-shirt... The t-shirt, given to him by Foreign Minister Lavrov, might as well say, “I wasted my time in Russia and all I got was this shirt.” It’s a diplomatic success only in relation to hanoi Kerry’s previous humiliations such as the time that Russia’s adeptly slimy foreign minister kept him waiting for a week before returning his call while the State Department spokeswoman announced to the world that hanoi Kerry was “ready to talk whenever Foreign Minister Lavrov can find the time.” The Putin regime enjoys humiliating the United States, but even it seems to have tired of degrading hanoi Kerry who ruins their fun by failing to realize what is going on. Instead hanoi Kerry has become a nonentity; a forgotten messenger boy. It’s a fitting purgatory for the formerly tireless leftist activist in the Senate.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/where-in-the-world-is-john-kerry/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=201ae684af-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-201ae684af-156509103

 "Breaking the Silence" Report Isn't Journalism. It's Propaganda  

(Matti Friedman) - Last week, a report by an Israeli group called Breaking the Silence made headlines in the U.S., Britain, and most of Europe, becoming one of the week’s biggest international stories... The subject was the Gaza war of 2014. The headline in theWashington Post was representative: New report details how Israeli soldiers killed civilians in Gaza: “There were no rules.” This report is worth dwelling on because there will be more rounds of fighting in Gaza, and more reports like this one, and more reporting of this kind—and because, for all observers of the Israel-Palestinian conflict, it is important to understand the sources of information that shape our thinking.       http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/05/the-latest-breaking-the-silence-report-isnt-journalism-its-propaganda/

A Nation of Illegals

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     (burtprelutsky.com) - Living in California as I do, I have long been aware of the myriad of problems that illegal aliens (aka undocumented immigrants; hard-working people who do the jobs Americans won’t do; future Democrats) bring with them. But until I read a speech delivered by Heather MacDonald, a Thomas W. Smith Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, my knowledge barely scratched the surface.

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     For instance, under the Secure Communities program, when an illegal alien is booked into a local jail, an automatic alert is sent to the folks at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), so that ICE agents can pick him up and start deportation proceedings. Although I have a problem with deportation, which only sticks a criminal across a line in the sand at the border, and would prefer to see him jailed, there are about 300 jurisdictions, including New York and California, that refuse to cooperate.

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     But even without these so-called sanctuary cities and states, in 2012, 400,000 illegal aliens were arrested, but only 19% of them were deported, while half of the 81% who were not exiled soon committed another crime.

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     The reason that the problem has only gotten worse in the decades since Reagan got gulled by the Democrats into signing the amnesty in the mid-80s is because the various presidents and Congress had no real stake in the outcome. The Democrats saw illegal aliens as millions of potential votes, while Republicans, representing farm and other business interests, saw a constant flow of cheap labor. It’s only society at large that pays the price of being flooded with low-skilled, basically illiterate, foreigners. The fact that we continue to offer citizenship to babies born on our turf to people who have no business being here merely compounds the problem, and makes a mockery of what citizenship is supposed to mean. It’s worth noting that these babies, innocent though they are, happen to be the only people in America allowed to directly benefit from the commission of a crime.

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     Something I was unaware of was that the majority of those identified as “long term English learners,” or, in other words, people who don’t know how to speak our language were born in the United States. In fact, according to Ms. MacDonald, 30% of the long-termers in the nation are third generation Americans.

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     In the past, whether parents originally came over from Germany, Italy, Russia, China, Japan, Egypt or Argentina, their children, let alone their grandchildren or great-grandchildren, were becoming doctors, judges, lawyers, accountants, architects, police officers and scientists. But even the slow learners quickly learned the difference between “is,” “are” and “were.”

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     ♦ We are still welcoming educated foreigners. Unfortunately, they tend to be technical workers being brought over from India by the likes of Silicon Valley and Disney in order to undercut the wages of Americans already doing the job.

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     ♦ As you may have noticed, the liberals are looking to have it both ways when it comes to the rioters in the big cities. So far as schmucks like nObama and Sharpton are concerned, the vandals are expressing long-time grievances against a racist society. But when Baltimore Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake decides to defend her order to the city’s cops to stand down while the thugs burned homes, cars and businesses, it was because they were just a bunch of high school kids with a smattering of outside agitators.

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     If those are the troublemakers, stop talking about underlying causes and longstanding resentments. Then it all comes down to young jackasses who just enjoy burning and breaking things, and anarchists, who also enjoy burning and breaking things.

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     Let us remember that when it came to granting suffrage to 18-year-olds, liberals told us that if they were old enough to go to war, they were old enough to vote. At the time, I granted that was a good argument for allowing young soldiers to vote, but it fell apart when applied to those still living at home and collecting a weekly allowance. Likewise, as a defense for vandalism, it fails to hold water. If you’re old enough to be running loose in the streets without parental supervision, you’re old enough to pay the consequences. And when you’re a Balti-moron destroying the lives of your elders, the consequences should involve jail time and just possibly getting your head conked by a billy club.

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     ♦ In other news, I’m getting annoyed with all the controversy over the means by which murderers are sent off to meet their Maker. The way the louts have gone from opposing electric chairs and hangings to firing squads and chemical cocktails, you would think they were all residing on Death Row. The truth is that those opposed to executing the vilest members of the human race will never be satisfied.

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     In the beginning, those who objected to lawful executions based their objection on the misinterpretation of the Commandment against killing, arguing that the State has no more right to kill than the individual. When people started to catch on that the actual translation from the Hebrew prohibits murder, not state-authorized executions, the self-righteous busybodies had to change their tactics. They then made it their mission to make executions such a rarity that they could then trade on the use of the word “unusual,” as it appears in the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition of “cruel and unusual punishment.”

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     About 10 years ago, when many of the same people argued that Terri Schiavo should be taken off life support, they insisted, as if they knew, that being deprived of food and water wouldn’t cause the 41 year old woman to experience the least bit of pain. I admit I was skeptical at the time, no matter Mrs. Schiavo’s cognitive state, but if starvation is agreeable to the other side, I am more than willing to deprive the sadists and serial killers on Death Row of food and drink for as long as it takes.

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     Because, I confess, providing the monsters with a painless death is the least of my concerns, I would prefer to make them listen to nObama’s six State of the Union addresses. Unless I miss my guess, by the middle of number four, they’ll be begging for the noose or even for Old Sparky.

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     ♦ Sen. Bernie Sanders, the so-called Independent from Vermont, who hasn’t had an opinion in 70 years that wasn’t in line with either the DNC or the Communist Party of the United States, launched his presidential campaign by attacking the big money in American politics.

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     Predictably, the man who has spent his entire political career living up to his initials only mentioned the Koch brothers. Not a word about George Soros, Tom Steyer or the Clintons.

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     ♦ As for the Kochs, in their pathetic attempt to prove they’re not the heartless ogres dinky Harry Reid has labeled them, they have decided they will no longer ask potential employees if they have criminal records. In a nation in which 40% of the adults lack full time employment, and a majority of them lack a rap sheet, is that the best that these two titans of conservatism can do?

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     Is it any wonder that liberals are going to keep booting us in the rump as long as rich dopes like Mrs. Koch’s little boys, Charles and David, are going to walk around with “Kick Me” signs on their backs?

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