In celebration of motherhood, I would like to wish every mother a Happy Mother's Day! Each child is a blessing from God. Motherhood is a noble calling. And while it is not always easy, what an important role it is! Whether you are a mom or not, pass this along to a mother you love, appreciate, and adore!

 BILLIONAIRE DONOR STEYER GETS HILLY HOUSECALL 
Billionaire Tom Steyer and his wife Kat Taylor host Hilly Clinton at their home in upscale Pacific Heights-San Francisco today. The “Conversation with Hilly,” in which the presumptive Democratic nominee will likely be pressed for her position on the Keystone XL pipeline, kicks off a three-day California fundraising swing. Steyer is a green-energy mogul whose business depends on government subsidies and government regulation of his fossil-fuel competitors. Though Clinton has been officially non-committal on Keystone, don’t be surprised if her leftward shift continues as she plays up to West Coast donors.
          [Down the tube? - An environmental group calling on Clinton to outline her plan for addressing climate change, including opposition to Keystone XL, is staging a rally outside the Steyer fundraiser today.]  -Fox News  

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 The host with the most -   Steyer has been touted as “the most influential environmentalist in American politics.” He pumped more than $73 million into PACS pushing climate change in the midterms – and has been cast as a liberal counterforce to the Koch brothers. Steyer’s prolific fundraising for President nObama and subsequent visits to the White House on environmental issues have gone hand-in hand with benefits to his ‘clean energy” interests. The scope of Steyer’s kingmaker status has driven Democrats to stage events like their one-party climate change talkathon in Congress last year and Sen. dinky Harry Reid’s annual clean energy summit. Keynoting last year’s Las Vegas gathering of industry leaders – you guessed it: Hilly Clinton.  -Fox News  

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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE  
CNET: “In Tom Clancy's sensationalist novel ‘Debt of Honor,’ a disgruntled pilot decides to avenge his lost honor by crashing a fuel-laden 747 directly into the U.S. Capitol, causing the giant building to explode and collapse. The scope of that fictional disaster was hard to fathom prior to the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. But even before 9/11, anyone who had been in Lakehurst, N.J., on May 6, 1937, would have had a pretty good sense of just how big an explosion Clancy had in mind. Because that day, the Hindenburg, a German zeppelin that was famous the world over for ferrying the rich and powerful across the Atlantic, blew up as it attempted to land, a catastrophe that rocked the globe, kickstarted the news industry, and closed the book for good on a form of travel that, while far beyond the means of most people, unquestionably appealed to the romantic notions of the masses.”   -Fox News  

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 Sixteeners split on GOP budget vote -   The three declared Republican presidential candidates in the Senate were divided in casting their ballots on the GOP budget plan Tuesday. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, and Sen. Rand Paul, R-Ky., voted against the measure, while Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., voted yea.  The 10-year non-binding blueprint passed 51-48 and will serve as a starting point for spending bills later this year.  -Fox News  

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 BIBI IN A JAM AFTER ALLY DEFECTS TO OPPOSITION  
AP: “With the clock ticking, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu raced to put together a governing coalition Tuesday or face the prospect of being forced out of office by a former ally. Netanyahu’s Likud Party won March 17 elections, emerging as the largest single party in parliament. But he has had a tough time striking deals with other parties to secure a 61-seat majority in the 120-seat parliament. If he fails by the end of the day Wednesday, President Reuven Rivlinmust give someone else the job.”  -Fox News  

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 FBI Director Warns: Potentially ‘Thousands’ Of ISIS Followers In US 

(gopthedailydose.com) - The FBI currently has hundreds of investigations of potential homegrown terrorists under way, with cases open in every state... FBI Director James Comey warned that there are as many as “thousands” of people inside the United States taking in ISIS’ online “poison.” Comey noted as recently as two years ago that the FBI could focus on tracking those within the U.S. who visited jihadi websites, but a shift to social media by ISIS sympathizers has changed all that. Who are we going to believe, the experts or the FBI?       http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/05/08/fbi-director-warns-potentially-thousands-of-isis-followers-in-us/

 ER Visits Supposed To Drop Like A Lead Balloon Under nObamacare  

(rickwells.us) - One of the many promises made in the selling of nObamacare was the idea that once people received their socialized medicine, they would stop visiting hospital emergency rooms for standard, non-emergency care... That appears to be, in practice, nothing but another of the many claims made by Democrats that proved in practice to be a total falsehood. In a moment of feigned financial responsibility, Hussein nObama is shown campaigning for the passage of his mandatory health care plan based upon the premise that we shouldn’t be forced to ultimately pay for an unneeded emergency room visit caused by an uninsured patient. Now we’re not only forced to pay for that visit, we’ve got an insurance premium of our own to go along with it, plus our subsidies to pay other people’s coverage. What’s the excuse now, nObama and is there a plan “B?”        http://www.rickwells.us/er-visits-were-supposed-to-drop-like-a-lead-balloon-under-obamacare-another-obama-falsehood/

 Vote For The Biggest Crook, Hilly Promises More Lawbreaking  

(rickwells.us) - It wasn’t long ago that an adherence to the values of honesty, the rule of law and a patriotic respect of our national sovereignty were an intrinsic part of the American ideal and significant components of what America looked for in choosing a president... Those days are long gone, at least when it comes to the Democrat half of the equation. These days gender, race and other insignificant factors, as well as a willingness to violate the Constitution and American law for the right “cause” are what many voters are looking for. Some of those who vote will, by design, be members of the class of illegals who will benefit directly from Democrat lawbreaking. One of those pandering for the lawbreaker vote is the career criminal who many ignorant Americans plan to vote for based simply upon the type of plumbing she was born with, Hilly Clinton. On Tuesday she declared that she would not only maintain the lawless direction of the current occupant of the White House, but she would expand upon it. This last statement should wake up a lot of voters.        http://www.rickwells.us/vvote-for-the-biggest-crook-hillary-clinton-promises-more-lawbreaking-to-entice-criminal-voters/

 Texas Senate Acts To Substitute New Texas State Border Law  

 “Climate” Criminals Won’t Admit Plan To Bypass Congress  

(rickwells.us) - The most opaque administration in history is once again operating in secret as it attempts to snare the United States inextricably in an international web of extorted payments and sovereignty compromises under the United Nations... The pretext upon which these crimes are being perpetrated is their current favorite, the false pseudo-religion based upon global gullibility and greed, man-caused climate change. Senator John Barrasso (R-WY) knows what’s up, and he’s got the questions to prove it. In Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee hearings on Wednesday he asked State Deapartment Acting Assistant Secretary Judith Garber some questions as to the methodology that is being used to force the un-American and destructive treaty past Congress and upon the American people.

http://www.rickwells.us/state-dept-un-climate-criminals-wont-admit-plan-to-bypass-congress-impose-anti-american-dictates/

Video:  http://www.mrctv.org/videos/state-dep-t-official-sidesteps-question-whether-global-climate-deal-will-be-submitted-senate

(hannity.com) - Last week, Rep. Matt Salmon (R-AZ) joined Sean to inform him of a sophisticated illegal smuggling tunnel built at the Arizona-Mexico border... According to Border Patrol agent, Chris Cabrera, the agency was aware of the tunnel (and wanted to patrol it), but were told not to by their superiors. Below is Rep. Salmon's letter to DHS secretary Jeh Johnson which details his concerns about the tunnel:       http://www.hannity.com/articles/news-476261/unbelievable-feds-complicit-in-illegal-border-13571151/

 What to Do About ISIL?  

(Charles Crawford) - At a recent conference, I found myself bemoaning the ineffectiveness of Western military action against the Islamic State (ISIL). We in the West had decided to attack ISIL, but seemed to be pulling our punches... Why were their banking, propaganda and other facilities that support their terrorist operations not being blown to bits? Imagine the surprise when a senior U.S. expert on these issues replied that by far the best thing to do with ISIL was precisely nothing: the Middle East and wider "Muslim world" was doomed to a massive revolting civil war, so let them get on with it and take stock of the situation once it clarified. That, perhaps, is rather easier for an American to say. European leaders stare aghast at the rising death toll among refugees ("migrants") in boats in the Mediterranean. Is it moral to do Nothing? But does doing Something simply encourage more terrified people to try to cross to Europe and stay there? Where does such a process end? Whose continent is Europe anyway?       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5694/isil-policy

 HILLY FLIPS FOR AMNESTY  
Hilly Clinton is looking to unload some more baggage from her campaign van today. The presumptive Democratic nominee campaigns in Nevada where her campaign told several news outlets that she will embrace “a full and equal path to citizenship” for illegal immigrants. In 2008, Clinton wasn’t even a supporter of the mainstream Democratic position of allowing illegal immigrants to have driver’s licenses. Now she is ready to go for a full amnesty. USA Today reports that Clinton is embracing President nObama’s immigration policy and campaign style today: “She will chat with Rancho High School students who are DREAMers, the term used for young undocumented immigrants who were brought to the United States as children.”
          This latest reversal follows Clinton flips on tough-on-crime drug laws and gay marriage. Presumably more will follow. Remember that this is the woman whose former fellow cabinet member Robert Gates said admitted opposing the Iraq surge to win support among anti-war Democrats. Despite a new poll that shows that a stout majority of Democrats think a Clinton coronation will be just fine, she’s not taking any chances this time, either. One supposes that the major threat for Clinton now is not an external foe but the ongoing self-destruct sequence as the campaign tries and fails to put to rest mounting allegations of corruption against the candidate and her family. The same poll from the WSJ and NBC News that shows Democrats taking a submissive posture shows Clinton crashing with the general electorate. She’s seen as untrustworthy by a 2-to-1 ratio.  -Fox News  

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 RUBIO ROCKET RIDE CONTINUES, WALKER HAS ROOM TO  GROW -   

The same WSJ/NBC News poll shows Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., continuing his post announcement surge. As Republicans increasingly tune in to the wide-open race, Rubio may trail bush by 5 points, but his 41 percent combined first and second choice is very impressive. He’s drawing from two wings of the party while Jeb Bush’s support remains in an establishment Republican stovepipe. Everyone knows him and most don’t like him. But Scott Walker is hovering in deep water waiting for his moment. While Rubio is well known from his time in the Senate and frequent national television appearances, Walker still has very low name identification, even among Republicans. He’s in third place, but 21 percent of GOP primary voters don’t even know his name compared to 9 percent for Rubio and 1 percent for Bush. Those that know him seem to like him and he has not yet announced. Walker, as Bush might say, has a right to rise.  -Fox News  

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 Walker scorches nObama, Clinton on Islamist threat -   The Hill: “[Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker] said he was “disturbed” that Clinton spent four years as nObama’s closest advisor on foreign policy matters. “We need a president for this country who will look the American people in the eye and have the courage to tell them the truth,” Walker boomed. “It could be a day, a week, a month or a year, but we know it’s not a question of if there will be another attempt on American soil, it’s question of when there will be another attempt on American soil…and I’d rather take the fight to them than let them bring the fight to us.” … “Now more than ever America needs a commander-in-chief that will stand up and declare radical Islam is a threat to us all,” he said to a standing ovation. “We need a president who identified for once and for all that Israel is an ally and actually starts acting like it.”  -Fox News  

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 DECISION TIME FOR MCCON-NELL ON IRAN NUKE BILL 
The bill giving Congress the power to review a nuclear deal with Iran is at a critical stage in the Senate as Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell decides whether to shut down debate on the measure, The Hill reports. “McCon-nell  is seeking an agreement to allow votes on several controversial amendments backed by conservatives that supporters of the bill say would kill it…The full [Republican] conference is expected to talk about the Iran bill at their Tuesday lunch….[S]ome Republicans predicted McCon-nell may have no choice but to file cloture to end debate…While this could anger conservatives, it would also save a carefully crafted compromise drawn up by Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) and reluctantly endorsed by the White House.”  -Fox News  

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 dinky Reid threatens nObama trade pact -   Minority leader dinky Harry Reid says Senate Democrats will block Senate consideration of President nObama’s top trade priority until a transportation funding measure and reforms to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act are passed first. dinky Reid, who has been openly opposed to the president’s Trans-Pacific Partnership authority, told HuffPo he’s confident Democrats will stick together on the demand. “‘I’m not willing to lay over and play dead on trade until we have some commitment from them on surface transportation,’ he said. The same goes for FISA, he said.”  -Fox News  

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 The FBI Sent Innocent People To Their Deaths For Decades  

(Alex Jones) - Questionable tactics have been employed by U.S. government agencies for ages. And underneath J. Edgar Hoover the FBI set an unfortunate precedent by which they managed to get innocent people framed for years...And recent confessions by top forensic analysts has cast a significant shadow on convictions secured by the FBI. Turns out they faked data to get their guys.   http://survivaljoe.net/blog/fbi-makes-disgusting-admission-we-framed-people/

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pf2BfqwnHy8

 Mexican Helicopters Fired on US Border Patrol Agents  

(Jeff Dunetz) - The folks at Judicial Watch obtained documents from the U.S. Border Patrol confirming that on June 26th of last year a Mexican Police helicopters crossed over the border into U.S. airspace and fired on US Border  Patrol Agents...According to the documents, the helicopters fired at Agents in four cars two of which were clearly marked as official bored patrol vehicles. Immediately after the incident it was reported to the Mexican government who denied the American's version of the events.  As reported by the New York Daily News at the time. “It is clear that the Mexican government has little regard for the sovereignty of the United States,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Our border is insecure and the Mexican government has contempt for our sovereignty.       http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/05/mexican-helicopters-fired-on-us-border.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2740e34ec1-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-2740e34ec1-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-2740e34ec1-291705165

 French Parliament Approves Sweeping Surveillance Law  

(Soeren Kern) - The French parliament has approved a landmark intelligence-gathering law that gives the state sweeping powers to spy on citizens...The government says the new law — which was fast-tracked after the Charlie Hebdo attacks in Paris in January — is aimed at preventing Islamic terrorism. But privacy groups say the law, which has been referred to as "the French Patriot Act," is so vague and intrusive and centralizes surveillance power to such an extent, that it poses an unacceptable threat to civil liberties in France.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5703/france-surveillance-law

 Iran Cheating — And Not Retreating  

(Christopher S. Carson) - Which is the greater cave-in—cutting a terrible nuclear deal with Iran, or letting it flout the terms of even that deal? The question is now academic...Let’s revisit the anticipated “Comprehensive Agreement on the Iranian nuclear program,” struck in outline form back on April 2nd and supposed to be finalized by June 30th. Foreign Minister Zarif announced at the time, “No agreement has been reached so we do not have any obligation yet.” We should be so lucky. Under the deal, nothing will be done to stop Iran’s exporting of terrorism and its drive to dominate the Middle East, including its giving Hamas (a Sunni terrorist group) millions of dollars to re-dig new terror-tunnels in Gaza. Hamas’ Fedayeen use the tunnels to attack Israeli citizens. Iran was supposed to stop all uranium enrichment. Now it gets to keep enriching, but only to 3.67% purity. Iran is now “required” to reduce its stockpile of already-enriched uranium to 300 kg., over 15 years. It promised a month ago to give the remaining 10,000 kg. to Russia. Sounds great, but not even three weeks later, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister Nabas Araqchi told the Iranian media that there is no question of sending the uranium abroad—it won’t happen. Apparently Iran will get to keep its 10,000 kilograms of enriched uranium after all. Why make a deal if Iran is going to cheat?       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/christopher-s-carson/iran-cheating-and-not-retreating/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b78e7d1b72-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-b78e7d1b72-156509103

 Why nObama Will Just Keep Making the Middle East Worse  

(Daniel Greenfield) - A few years ago it was the Muslim Brotherhood. These days it’s Iran. Next week it may be ISIS or Al Qaeda. nObama stands with the worst elements in the Middle East. That’s always been his philosophy...If the left had a foreign policy, it would be, “The squeaky wheel gets the grease.” But the wheel is a sword and it’s lubricated with blood. The squeakiest wheels and the bloodiest swords get the most grease from the State Department because they hate us the most. And hating us the most means that somewhere along the way we must have hurt them the worst. They hate us, therefore we’re guilty. The squeaky wheel runs on blood and on American guilt. The worse they are, the guiltier we must be. Instead of reinforcing the moderates, whose shortage of ravening hatred suggests that they don’t have any legitimate complaints about us worth listening to, the left seeks out the extremes of extremists.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/dgreenfield/why-obama-will-just-keep-making-the-middle-east-worse/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=b78e7d1b72-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-b78e7d1b72-156509103

 DoD Announces Army Reorganization, Inactivation Plans  

(John Vandiver) - The Army will lose about 25 Germany-based Apache attack helicopters and a series of other choppers as part of an Army reorganization that will force the service to rely more on rotational forces to maintain much of its aviation firepower in Europe, according to a Pentagon announcement Wednesday...In addition, the Ansbach-based 12th Combat Aviation Brigade will lose about 1,900 troops and 2,850 family members in moves that also will force the closure of two Defense Department schools in the area by the end of this school year — Illesheim and Rainbow Elementary, according to military and school officials. “The 12th CAB restructuring will mean that while some U.S. personnel and assets will no longer be permanently assigned to Ansbach, aviation capabilities will be maintained by augmenting remaining aviation assets and personnel through a continuous rotation,” U.S. Army Europe stated in a release.       http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/04/30/dod-announces-army-reorganization-inactivation-plans.html?ESRC=army.nl

 Why Ariel Sharon Thanked Scooter Libby  

(Arie Genger) - On January 3, 2006, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon of Israel did something he had been meaning to do for a long time. Sitting in his office on the eve of his hospitalization for surgery, he picked up a copy of his autobiography, Warrior, and inscribed this message... 

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Dear Scooter!
A dedicated servant to your country, a true friend, always there when needed!
With deep appreciation,
Shalom from Jerusalem,
Sincerely,
Ariel Sharon

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The next day, a devastating stroke effectively brought Sharon’s life’s journey to a shocking end. As a friend and close adviser to the prime minister, I can’t help thinking that, in paying tribute to I. Lewis (“Scooter”) Libby, he had somehow sensed that, for him, it was now or never. Libby, who during the early years of the George W. Bush presidency served as chief of staff and national-security adviser to Vice-President Richard Cheney, has been back in the news thanks to a recently published memoir by the veteran journalist Judith Miller. In it, Miller reveals that in 2007, she was tricked by the special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald into mistakenly incriminating Libby, thereby helping to convict an innocent man of perjury.       http://mosaicmagazine.com/observation/2015/05/why-ariel-sharon-thanked-scooter-libby/

 nObama Administration Blocks Efforts to Stop Non-Citizen Voting  

(Noel Johnson) - Approximately 6.4 percent of non-citizens voted in the 2008 presidential election, according to a study released last year by professors at Old Dominion University and George Mason University...The figure for the 2010 midterm elections was 2.2 percent. The nObama administration doesn’t care. In fact, it is trying to stamp out state-led efforts that would help ensure that only American citizens are electing our leaders. The latest bureaucratic roadblocks have been erected in Arizona and Kansas, which simply want people to verify their citizenship before voting. To implement their commonsense measures, Arizona and Kansas asked the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) —- a small federal agency that exists primarily to assist the states in creating the federal form citizens use to register to vote by mail —- to add the proof-of-citizenship requirement to the registration instructions specific to Arizona and Kansas. Their request was denied because of the decision of one federal employee in Washington, D.C.        http://www.theacru.org/the-obama-administration-blocks-efforts-to-stop-non-citizens/

(Pete Kasperowicz) - The Senate vote was largely along party lines, although two Republicans, 2016 presidential candidates Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.) voted against it...Conservative Republicans have said the budget doesn’t do nearly enough to trim spending — earlier in the day, for example, a Paul spokesperson said the plan relies on a “gimmick” to appear to achieve balance after 10 years. Back in March, Cruz praised the Senate’s passage of a budget plan, but also said “gimmicks” were keeping him from supporting it in the end. Democrats have spent several weeks railing about the plan, which they say would make deep cuts to social programs. It also repeals nObamacare, and includes instructions to several key congressional committees to write legislation to repeal and replace nObamacare.       http://www.theblaze.com/blog/2015/05/05/senate-passes-gop-budget-plan-that-would-also-repeal-obamacare/?utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_term=Firewire&utm_campaign=Firewire%20-%20HORIZON%205-6-15%20FINAL

Anti-Semitism Goes to School

Anti-Semitism on American college campuses is rising—and worsening.

Where does it come from, and can it be stopped?

Ruth Wisse

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(mosaicmagazine.com) - “I never dreamed that it could come to this!”

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     In February, a Jewish college student was hospitalized after being punched in the face at a pro-Palestinian demonstration on a campus in upstate New York. His family has insisted on maintaining the boy’s privacy, but other such incidents, some caught on camera, include a male student punched in the face at Temple University, a female student at Ohio University harassed for defending Israel, and a male student at Cornell threatened physically for protesting anti-Israel propaganda. On three successive days last summer, the Boston police had to protect a student rally for Israel from pro-Palestinian mobs shouting “Jews back to Birkenau!” At the University of California-Irvine, this year’s Israel Independence Day festivities were blocked and shouted down by anti-Israel demonstrators. Every year, some 200 campuses now host a multiday hate-the-Jews fest, its malignancy encapsulated in its title: “Israel Apartheid Week.”

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     The Louis D. Brandeis Center in Washington, founded in 2011 to protect against such intimidation, has reported being startled by the results of its own 2013-14 survey: “more than half of Jewish American college students have personally experienced or witnessed anti-Semitism.” The film Crossing the Line 2: The New Face of Anti-Semitism on Campus faithfully captures scenes of the violence that often attends this new academic experience.

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     Nor are students the only targets. At Connecticut College, to cite but the most recent example, a quietly pro-Israel professor of philosophy has been maliciously singled out and hounded as a “racist” in a campaign instigated by Palestinian activists, endorsed by numerous faculty members, and at least tacitly complied with by the college administration and the campus Hillel organization. At the annual meetings of prestigious academic associations, boycott resolutions against Israel and Israeli academic institutions are routinely aired and often passed.

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     As one of its first acts in December 1945, the Arab League called on all Arab institutions and individuals to refuse to deal in, distribute, or consume Jewish and Zionist products or manufactured goods. Seventy years later, calls for boycott of Israel, under the acronym BDS—boycott, divestment, and sanctions—have become a staple of American university agendas, extending not only to Israeli companies like SodaStream but to Israeli scholars in the humanities and social sciences. Last year, a petition by “anthropologists for the boycott of Israeli academic institutions” garnered the signatures of the relevant department chairs at (among others) Harvard, Wesleyan, and San Francisco State. The American Studies Association attracted the “largest number of participants in the organization’s history” for a vote endorsing a boycott of Israeli academic institutions.

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     In his introduction to a timely volume of essays, The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel, Paul Berman provides a witty summary of the efforts by university boycotters to frame their campaigns as “modern and progressive” when in fact they are “disgraceful and retrograde.” But the truth is that anti-Semitism never needed a sophisticated veneer in order to win susceptible recruits among the educated and the allegedly enlightened. Urgent as it is to expose the undeniably disgraceful and retrograde nature of the boycott movement, some of its ancillary effects are already playing themselves out in modern institutions and in “progressive” ways.

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     One of those effects is the scandalous insult—the undreamed-of this!—that cracked the patience of my academic colleague quoted at the head of this article. The “this!” emanated in reports first from UCLA, then from Stanford. At both universities, Jewish students running for election to the student government had been challenged on the grounds that their “strong Jewish identity,” manifested by travel to Israel, made them untrustworthy candidates for office. For my colleague, who had tried until now to treat anti-Israel agitation as a legitimate political activity, this now-naked move to place Jewish students under automatic suspicion for being Jewish made it impossible to maintain any longer the distinction between anti-Zionism (permissible) and anti-Semitism (impermissible). To be sure, there had always been some kind of link between incitement against Jews in Israel and incitement against Jews elsewhere, but how was she now to distinguish between the two when her colleagues, peers, and students blithely insisted on conjoining them?

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     For the moment, most of the American public seems free—solidly free—of the anti-Semitism that infects American universities. According to the most recent Gallup poll, seven in ten Americans view Israel favorably, up substantially from the 47 percent that viewed it favorably in 1991 around the time of the first Gulf war. It would be hard to imagine greater enthusiasm for a foreign leader than that shown to Benjamin Netanyahu when he spoke at a joint session of Congress in 2011 and again this year. Appreciation for Israel seems secure when the Wall Street Journal, widely considered America’s most influential newspaper, is also its most effective editorial champion of Israel, with the FOX News channel not far behind.

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     Jewish students running for election to student government have been challenged on grounds that their “strong Jewish identity” makes them untrustworthy candidates for office.

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     Which is not to say that grounds are lacking for larger concern. In addition to the catalog of academic offenses I’ve briefly summarized here, a growing number of anti-Jewish incidents—from a swastika-desecrated Jewish cemetery in New Jersey to fatal shootings at a Kansas City Jewish community center—has been registered by agencies like the Anti-Defamation League and the American Jewish Committee. At the government level, more ominously, and perhaps for the first time in recent American history, it is the White House, rather than the once notoriously Arabist State Department, that has taken the lead in threatening to isolate the Jewish state. President nObama’s frankly contemptuous treatment of Israel’s prime minister smacks more of the university than of the Senate in which he once served, but he is the president, and his words and actions give license to others.

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     At any rate, the basic truth is this: Israel and the United States, unlovingly paired by their Islamist enemies as the Little Satan and the Big Satan, are prime targets of the same antagonists. It remains to be seen, then, whether the rise of anti-Semitism in America—itself an extension of the Arab- and Muslim-led war against Israel and the Jewish people—will fatally penetrate America’s thick constitutional culture, in which some of us still place our trust.

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Universities are the obvious place to begin investigating that question.

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http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2015/05/anti-semitism-goes-to-school/

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 DEMS LOOK TO SHIFT BALTIMORE BLAME TO GOP  
The Hill: “Democrats on and off Capitol Hill are linking the recent violence in Baltimore to a dearth of government programs aimed at elevating poverty. They’re calling for broader government commitments to education, workforce training, summer jobs programs and other initiatives aimed at fighting unemployment, while hammering the Republicans’ new budget proposal for cutting those same measures. ‘There are a whole constellation of problems here, but there are some systematic underlying problems that should be addressed by government, both at the local level, the state level, the federal level,’ Rep. Chris Van Hollen (Md.), senior Democrat on the House Budget Committee, said on CNN’s ‘State of the Union’ program.”
          “I wouldn’t think of announcing any place else [to announce presidential candidacy]. Baltimore, this has been a setback for us.  But our story is not over. We’re not defeated as a city and we are not about to throw in the towel on our country.” – Former Gov. Martin O’Malley, D-Md., to NBC News.  -Fox News 

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 DEMS MAKE BIG BET ON RETAKING STATEHOUSES  
The sweeping wave of last year’s midterms left the GOP with an historic edge: controlling 68 of 98 state legislative chambers. Counting Republican governors, the GOP dominates the governments of 24 states (to six for Democrats). But the nObama administration and top congressional liberals like Sen. Elizabeth Warren have formally embraced a new big-money effort to turn back the Republican tide. With the party control of redistricting and voting rules at stake in many states, Matt Walter, President of the Republican State Leadership Committee, and the Democratic Legislative Campaign Committee’s National Political Director, Kurt Fritts, join Chris Stirewalt to discuss how they plan to get more of their candidates elected. WATCH HERE.  -Fox News 

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 ISIL Claims Responsibility for Texas Attack  

During a radio broadcast in Syria, ISIL, a.k.a. the Islamic State, claimed responsibility for the attack at the art contest and show featuring images of Muhammad in Garland, Texas. Jihadist roommates Elton Simpson and Nadir Soofi drove 1,000 miles from Arizona to launch an attack with rifles, body armor and copious amounts of ammunition. Simpson had been monitored by the government since 2006. In 2010, the FBI charged Simpson with trying to travel to Somalia to engage in jihad, but the charges were dropped. After wounding an unarmed security guard, the two jihadists were stopped by a traffic cop who used a few well-aimed shots from his pistol to drop the terrorists. Regardless if Simpson and Soofi actually had a connection to ISIL, the group used the opportunity to threaten the U.S. "We tell … America that what is coming will be more grievous and more bitter and you will see from the soldiers of the Caliphate what will harm you, God willing," ISIL said in its radio broadcast. But after all that effort and planning, this attack was stopped by a lone cop with what may possibly be his standard-issue sidearm. At their peril, jihadists forget that, unlike France, the U.S. is armed. More...  -The Patriot Post  

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 No More Democrat 'Leadership' Is Not What Baltimore Needs  

Rep. Donna Edwards (D-MD) pontificated on the Baltimore rioting and what she believes is contributing to poverty and, ultimately, violent behavior among minorities. Fox News anchor Chris Wallace brought up the city's excessive crime rates, high unemployment and stunning student illiteracy and wondered if liberal policies are to blame since Baltimore has been under Democrat leadership for five consecutive decades. "No, I think it's been unevenly spread," Edwards responded. "I mean I would say, for example with our schools, just prior to the Freddie Gray incident, Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake was actually prevailing upon our Republican governor to release money for school funding." When host Chris Wallace pointed out that "Baltimore spends the third highest amount per capita on its public schools," Edwards rebutted, "There's uneven spending in the public schools." 

          But if the solution is simply to invest more money, how do Democrats explain the city's past spending? Baltimore threw more money at the problem, courtesy of Barack nObama, and it failed spectacularly. According to The Washington Free Beacon, "Baltimore received over $1.8 billion from President Barack nObama's stimulus law, including $467.1 million to invest in education and $26.5 million for crime prevention. President nObama claimed last Tuesday that if the Republican-controlled Congress would implement his policies to make 'massive investments in urban communities,' they could 'make a difference right now' in the city, currently in upheaval following the death of Freddie Gray." What we need is less government and more parental involvement. No amount of funding can fill the void left by dysfunctional, single-parent families. And that's why liberal policies, well-intentioned as they may be, are to blame for urban unrest.  

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 Number of ER Visits on the Rise. Thanks, nObamaCare  

For an increasing number of Americans, it's easier to go to the emergency room than a doctor's office. A wide majority of ER physicians, 75%, say they've seen the number of people walking through their doors increase, according to a poll by the American College of Emergency Physicians. This trend is, in part, due to the "Affordable" Care Act because it places a greater number of people on Medicaid. Many doctors don't accept patients on Medicaid because of its low reimbursement rate. In other words, the government created a larger demand for doctors' services while mandating how much doctors will get paid, contrary to the laws of economics. As a result, patients face long wait times for appointments, so they look for alternatives. Dr. John O'Shea, a senior fellow at The Heritage Foundation, said, "I've seen it personally. I've seen patients who come into the ER because their primary care physician couldn't see them for weeks or months." The Left sold nObamaCare on the promise that it would decrease the number of ER visits, but having state-mandated health insurance does not make people healthier, nor does it create timely access to a doctor. More...  -The Patriot Post  

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 UN Tool Wants Americans To Eat Bugs As Part Of Climate Change  

(rickwells.us) - Former UN Secretary General and globalist pirate Kofi Annan has crawled out from under his rock to join the UN sales team in peddling their “surrender and bow in worship to Earth theology...The UN cockroach has a surprise twist for us, though. Part of his “smart” and “sustainable” climatocracy includes the prospect of switching to a bug diet. While Kofi and his fellow Africans might view a hissing Madagascar cockroach in his mouth as a rare treat, most Americans have watched enough Fear Factor for that idea to leave a bad taste in our mouths. In an interview with the Guardian, Annan is prepping us all for the upcoming UN climate summit, attempting to weaken the resolve of the thinkers of the world and to bully us into mindless acceptance of their naked power and money grab. The truth is that if the planet is warming or cooling it would be a natural event that we had no part in and couldn’t do anything to alter even if we wanted to. We’re not in control of the Earth, we’re simply along for the ride. Kofi and company plan to take us for a ride as well. The Guardian is a mouthpiece for the climate change alarmists and it was no accident that they were chosen as the vehicle for spreading the propaganda.        http://www.rickwells.us/un-tool-wants-americans-to-eat-bugs-as-part-of-climate-change-surrender-hell-still-be-eating-steak/

 Loretta Lynch Following In Eric Holder’s Ferguson Footsteps  

(rickwells.us) - Just as her predecessor Eric Holder met with “community leaders” and the family of dead thug Michael Brown when they initially started stirring the pot of racial animosity back in August of last year, Loretta Lynch is personally injecting herself into the Baltimore situation...On Tuesday Lynch met with the family of Freddie Gray as well as a cadre of parasitic “community leaders,” proving that loose lips Joe Biden was correct in his assertion that Lynch and Holder were cut from the exact same cloth. They share the same racial preference agenda as well. Lynch described the current state of affairs in Baltimore saying, “This is a flashpoint situation” and noting for those who hadn’t seen the side show exhibition put on by Baltimore’s thuggery that, “We lost a young man’s life and it begins to represent so many things.”        http://www.rickwells.us/loretta-lynch-following-in-eric-holders-ferguson-footsteps-meeting-with-gray-family-agitators/

 nObama Can’t Wish ISIS Away – When You Fight Monsters   

(rickwells.us) - Lt Col Ralph Peters agrees that the nObama regime just doesn’t want to hear about ISIS anymore, saying that their indifference has allowed what was once a minor problem to escalate into a global one...He notes how the administration, as well as the political operatives within the Pentagon claim that we are rolling back ISIS and points out that is absolutely false, that ISIS has continued to expand. Peters says there is no way around the fact that the terrorists were on the ropes when Bush left office and that nObama has allowed them to regain and surpass their former levels of strength. O’Reilly asks where is the sixty nation coalition that supposedly was put together and where is their central command? Peters notes the public hand-wringing that went on after nObama’s drone apology speech for the death of two al-Qaeda hostages and yet there was silence in the subsequent week as hundreds were butchered by ISIS.       http://www.rickwells.us/ralph-peters-obama-cant-wish-isis-away-when-you-fight-monsters-in-human-form-you-kill-them/

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=va64rDHbGuw

 nObama’s Flood Gates Of Voter Fraud In States  

(rickwells.us) - Catherine Engelbrecht, the President of the organization “True the Vote,” joins J.D. Hayworth to discuss the vulnerabilities of America’s election system to voter fraud, a situation that has been engineered and is now being exploited by the con artists which are the Democrat Party...Hayworth asks, “How big of a problem have you found nationwide?” Engelbrecht describes an ongoing state by state effort by her organization to determine exactly that, and points to some serious deficiencies in the process that they have already uncovered. In California, for example, there is no distinction made by the Democrat operatives in control of public records between a citizen or a non-citizen as far as state databases are concerned. There is nothing to prevent the illegals from voting. There is not even a mechanism for determining who is a citizen and who isn’t. It is a system perfectly engineered to be vulnerable to fraudulent manipulation, in keeping with the anti-American administration’s unconstitutional intent.     http://www.rickwells.us/obamas-flood-gates-of-voter-fraud-in-california-oregon-other-states-opening-for-illegal-alien-vote/

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zYRLeK8HGM

 nObama’s Latest Lie – Mexicans Vital In Winning WW2  

(rickwells.us) - The latest opportunity for Hussein nObama to tell a bald-faced lie or two came in recognition of the Mexican pseudo-holiday of Cinco de Mayo...While acknowledging that the United States has made Cinco de Mayo a celebration of our own, he completely fabricates the reasons behind it. Mexican food tastes great, as do margaritas. It is an opportunity for restaurants and bars to have big days and for Americans to partake. That’s all there is to it, but nObama had to assign a deeper meaning, whether it’s true or not makes no difference. He must have borrowed some of the UN writers for today’s whopper, a tale of a grassroots effort by grateful Americans for the assistance of Mexico in fighting World War 2, “when states and cities across the country sought to recognize Mexico and Mexican-Americans for their contributions to the war effort, recognition of Cinco de Mayo in the United States took off.” Where does he get off telling a big lie to the American people? I wonder if his family believes every word he says? I don't.     http://www.rickwells.us/obamas-latest-lie-mexicans-vital-in-winning-ww2-cinco-de-mayo-is-our-way-of-saying-gracias/

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1uVTSo417QA

 Is ISIS already living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue?  

(L. Todd Wood, WCJ) - So now even our Secretary of Defense is warning American citizens that The Islamic State is coming for them and is preparing to attack the United States in a major way. He tells the American people to Be Ready...Excuse me, but I thought the number one responsibility of the President of the United States was to protect the American public and, as Commander in Chief, defeat our enemies. That is what the Constitution calls for; but that is not the agenda of this president, our Dear Leader. Rather, President nObama has created a scenario for the destruction of the United States. We’ve talked over and over on these pages about the out of control spending on wealth redistribution and the burgeoning federal deficit that is approaching twenty trillion dollars. The deficit has come down somewhat recently but is scheduled to skyrocket as expenses for nObamacare kick in. This explosion of debt has crowded out spending on needed priorities such as military spending, which is the first and foremost responsibility of the federal government. Our military is being downsized to irresponsible levels at the exact moment when the threats against this country are ballooning all over the world. I believe the run up in debt and the resulting reduction in military spending by the United States is on purpose.       http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/05/05/simple-math-is-isis-already-living-at-1600-pennsylvania-avenue/

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 New sanctions in works – against U.S. businesses  

(Aaron Klein) - In an extraordinary move that could mean billions lost to the American economy, Gulf monarchs meeting Tuesday in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, took a closed-door decision to potentially withhold investments from U.S. military firms if the terms of any final agreement with Iran causes significant harm to the Sunni Arab states...The meeting of the Gulf Cooperation Council brought together leaders from Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. All of those countries, aside from Oman, participated in the Saudi-led strikes targeting Iranian-backed rebels in Yemen. According to a source who took part in the discussions, the Gulf countries talked about the possibility of providing a future advantage in weapons deals to European firms, particularly those based in France, Germany and Britain, along with companies in China. The move would take place pending the outcome of any final deal between Iran, the nObama administration and Western powers.     http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/new-sanctions-in-works-against-u-s-businesses/

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 "Jihad Intel" Launched by the Middle East Forum  

(meforum.org) - The Middle East Forum announces Jihad Intel, a project to provide U.S. law enforcement with detailed information on violent Islamist groups...Jihad Intel,  http://jihadintel.meforum.org,  gives police tools to identify terrorists acting on behalf of Islam and to connect the dots before a terrorist incident takes place. Not only does the FBI admit that the threat of ISIS attacks in the West is "not even close to being under control," but there are hundreds more jihadi organizations, with new ones forming continually. Most are active on social media, recruiting globally.        http://www.meforum.org/5223/jihad-intel-launched-by-the-middle-east-forum

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 Does Islam Prohibit Drawing Mohammed? 

(Tarek Fatah) - Thanks to a quick-thinking traffic police officer, both men, carrying assault rifles, were shot dead in a 15-second exchange of gunfire that left an unarmed security officer injured...Islamic clerics in Texas denounced the terror attack, but also called on Muslims "not to be baited" into anger. The hint behind this message was that contest organizer Pamela Geller had provoked Muslims into acting violently. At the root of Muslim protestations is the false belief that Islam prohibits the depiction of Prophet Mohammed. There is no prohibition on creating images of Prophet Mohammed in the Qur'an. Up until the 14th century; such depictions were common in the non-Arab Muslim world. On my website, www.tarekfatah.com, I have posted many depictions of Prophet Mohammed, drawn mostly by Muslim artists. Even if it were true that such depictions were prohibited, the prohibition would not be applicable to non-Muslims.       http://www.meforum.org/5222/islam-drawing-mohammed

 

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Judicial Watch Files Lawsuit

for Hilly Clinton Email-Related Records

Sharyl Attkisson

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Can Judicial Watch once again get

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     (sharylattkisson.com) - The conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch has filed a lawsuit to try to get documents regarding former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton’s efforts to gain approval for use of an iPhone or iPad to conduct official business.

.      Judicial Watch has had unmatched success in recent years obtaining documents under both the Bush and nObama administrations through its Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits challenging the government’s withholding of public information. The group has been able to get documents that even Congressional subpoenas were unable to shake loose.

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     Judicial Watch filed the Clinton lawsuit after it says the State Department failed to comply with its March 10, 2015, FOIA request seeking:

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     Any and all records of requests by former Secretary of State Hilly Rodham Clinton or her staff to the State Department Office Security Technology seeking approval for the use of an iPad or iPhone for official government business; and Any all communications within or between the Office of the Secretary of State, the Executive Secretariat, and the Office of the Secretary and the Office of Security Technology concerning, regarding, or related to the use of unauthorized electronic devices for official government business.

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     The State Department did not respond to the request within the legally required 20 business days. This lack of compliance with the law has become a routine practice among federal agencies.

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     Judicial Watch’s effort to obtain the records stems from the alleged contradictions in statements Clinton has made about her email practices. According to the group,

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     “On March 31, 2015, The Associated Press reported that Clinton, while secretary of state, had used an iPad to email members of her staff, contradicting her statements that she had used a secret email account so that she could conveniently conduct official business on one electronic device alone.

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     Judicial Watch states that it has 18 lawsuits and 160 FOIA requests that could be affected by Mrs. Clinton and her staff’s use of secret email accounts to conduct official government business.

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[Note: The State Department has also failed to properly respond to my FOIA requests for public information that includes Clinton email material.]

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 BUBBA SAYS SPEECHES TO CONTINUE: ‘I GOTTA PAY OUR  BILLS’ -   Former President Bill Clinton reportedly raked in $104.9m for paid speeches in the first 12 years after he left office, including some that have triggered accusations of payola for favors from his wife’s State Department. But despite those worries, he will continue to give speeches for sums as much as $500,000, telling NBC News “I gotta pay our bills.” The network, which formerly employed Clinton’s daughter, Chelsea, joined Clinton on a trip for donors to his family’s scandal-scarred foundation to get a look at the charitable work done by the group. The former president rejected allegations of pay-for-play in pure Clintonian fashion: he said the foundation never said anything “knowingly false.” This, combined with presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton’s “dead broke” debacle, suggests that the former first family has Romnesian levels of difficulty in talking about their vast fortune.  -Fox News  

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 Bubba took more than two dozen trips on uranium deal billionaire’s jet -  WaPo: “Clinton has also gained regular transportation, borrowing [Frank Giustra’s] plane 26 times for foundation business since 2005, including 13 trips in which the two men traveled together. The numbers on Clinton’s use of the plane, never previously reported, were provided by a spokeswoman for Giustra. … The MD-87 aircraft is a full-size passenger jetliner with comfortable seating areas and a private bedroom. The doors have gold-colored fixtures, and an art collection hangs on the walls. … Clinton has said that he was aware of Giustra’s pending purchase while in Kazakhstan but did not discuss it or do anything to help its progress. … Giustra said it was ‘beyond ludicrous’ to suggest that Clinton engaged on the deal, in part because the former president has very little interest in business. ‘You have to understand something about Bill Clinton. He doesn’t care about that stuff,’ Giustra said. ‘His eyes would glaze over.’”  -Fox News  

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 Colombia oil deal, too -   WaPo: “A few weeks after returning from Kazakhstan in 2005, Giustra attended his first meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative in New York. There, he was introduced to the leader of another country where he had business interests: Álvaro Uribe of Colombia. … The Colombia connections of the Clintons and their patron, Giustra, were evident in June 2010. Bill Clinton and Giustra had flown in together on the businessman’s jet, while Hilly Clinton had arrived for an official visit as secretary of state. The three dined together in Bogota. The next morning, Bill Clinton met privately with Uribe at the presidential house. A few hours later, Hilly Clinton held her own meeting with the Colombian leader. In a subsequent televised interview, she announced that she was inclined to support a much-sought-after free-trade deal with Colombia — a reversal in position since her 2008 presidential campaign.”  -Fox News  

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 The $6 billion question -   Chris Cillizza asks: “Is Hilly Clinton honest enough to be president. That question — phrased in a thousand different ways but always with the same doubts in mind — sits at the heart of a campaign that will span the next 18 months and on which billions of dollars will be spent.”
          “It means that Hilly Clinton has been part of the political establishment for many, many years.  I have known Hilly for some 25 years.  I respect her and I like her, but I think what the American people are saying…[is] maybe it’s time for a real political shakeup in this country and go beyond establishment politics.” –Sen.Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., to ABC News.   -Fox News  

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 Benghazi testimony looms -   Rep. Trey Gowdy, R-S.C., told USA Today that Hilly Clinton’s testimony on the 2012 Benghazi attacks and subsequent doctored talking points has tentatively been set for May 18. Gowdy said he also wants to hear from National Security Advisor Susan Rice and nObama administration spokesman Ben Rhodes.  -Fox News  

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 Almost Half Of nObamaCare Exchanges Struggling Financially  

(Randy DeSoto) - Nearly half of the nObamaCare state exchanges face financial troubles, according to a new report...The Washington Post reports that some of the factors contributing to the woes include high costs and less-than-anticipated enrollment: Currently, there are 17 state exchanges with the rest of the states using healthcare.gov. Some states, like Minnesota, Vermont, and Hawaii, are considering handing over some or all the functions of their exchanges to the federal government. Oregon abolished its state exchange in March. The nObama Administration has admitted it has no back-up plan in place.       http://www.westernjournalism.com/report-almost-half-of-obamacare-exchanges-struggling-financially/?utm_source=MailChimp&utm_medium=email&utm_content=top-story&utm_campaign=DailyEmail05.05.15

 States, energy industry push to kill ban on oil exports  

(John Scicliao) - States, industry and energy security advocates are converging on Washington this week to add strength to a growing effort in Congress to kill a federal ban on oil exports...The centerpiece of the week's push will be an "Energy Exports Summit" on Tuesday organized by a group representing Western state attorneys general and a relatively new organization called the Energy Independence Coalition. The summit follows the start of efforts in both the House and Senate to repeal the ban. American Petroleum Institute CEO Jack Gerard joined a growing contingent of House Republicans and Democrats last week to tout a bill to repeal the ban, which the lawmakers and the industry see as a barrier to advancing the market for U.S. crude oil abroad.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/states-energy-industry-push-to-kill-ban-on-oil-exports/article/2563984?utm_campaign=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205&utm_source=Conservative%20Inbox:%20Top%205%20-%2005/05/15&utm_medium=email

 Baltimore and the Betrayal of Black Dignity  

(Bruce Thornton) - Baltimore is the latest American city to become a stage for the farce that is our national racial discourse. The swift, politicized indictment of 6 police officers for the death of Freddie Gray––which brought down, for now, the curtain on this performance by abandoning all the canons of procedural justice–– is a fitting end to this sorry spectacle...The winners of this shameful display are obvious, as they always are after these riots. Local thieves, gangsters, and thugs; bourgeois white “anarchists” out on a lark; junior-high posers indulging adult-sanctioned destruction; well-heeled black politicians fanning the flames and leveraging the violence for career advancement; race-baiting vultures like Al Sharpton, and the sensationalist national media all benefitted. Most important, the false narrative of a national conspiracy of racist cops itching to murder innocent black men was yet again perpetuated by race hustlers and their progressive enablers.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/bruce-thornton/baltimore-and-the-betrayal-of-black-dignity/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=49c98d2d18-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-49c98d2d18-156509103

 Disunity in Asia is an opportunity for China  

(Michael Mazza) - The US and Asia have just been through two busy weeks of diplomacy. The annual summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) wrapped up in Kuala Lumpur last week...just as Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe kicked off a weeklong stay in the US Against the backdrop of Chinese military expansion and Beijing’s launch of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank in the face of US opposition, this summitry came at a crucial time. Before the Asean summit, Philippine President Benigno Aquino said he would push for a joint statement denouncing China’s menacing island-building in the South China Sea. He didn’t get it. Asean members agreed that “We share the serious concerns expressed by some leaders on the land reclamation being undertaken in the South China Sea, which has eroded trust and confidence and may undermine peace, security and stability”—but this careful language didn’t condemn or even name China. It didn’t suggest any united front among Asean’s 10 member states.        http://www.aei.org/publication/disunity-in-asia-is-an-opportunity-for-china/?utm_source=paramount&utm_medium=email&utm_content=AEITODAY&utm_campaign=050515

 More VA cover-ups  

(washingtonexaminer.com) - It should be quite clear by now that the bureaucracy of the Department of Veterans Affairs needs a drastic purge. Its perfidy became obvious about a year ago when Americans learned that various officials had been gaming the system in order to preserve their own performance bonuses and give the appearance that veterans were getting timely care...The practice was widespread and many were complicit as veterans died and suffered in silence without the medical treatment they were promised. Since then, a great many other problems in the agency have been revealed, including cover-ups of lethal infections at VA facilities, hospitals that consume resources and serve no patients, and pill mills. The Washington Examiner's Luke Rosiak recently reported on how one patient died. It occurred after a doctor at a VA facility in Puerto Rico performed an unnecessary procedure without consulting the patient's primary physician. The doctor was subsequently given a slap on the wrist and then promoted. As it happens, he may have performed the procedure in order to help his wife, a medical trainee whom he was supervising, gain the experience.       http://www.http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/more-va-cover-ups/article/2563857?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI%20-%2005/04/15&utm_medium=email/more-va-cover-ups/article/2563857?utm_campaign=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI&utm_source=Washington%20Examiner:%20Opinion%20Digest%20PMI%20-%2005/04/15&utm_medium=email

 The Texas Terror Connection To Congressman Keith Ellison’s  

(gopthedailydose.com) - An Islamist radical recruited to Somalia from Minneapolis inspired the would-be “Texas Terror” killers, who were gunned down in Garland, Texas Sunday night by a sharp-shooting law enforcement officer before they could carry out their mass-murder plot at an art exhibit sponsored by First Amendment heroine Pamela Geller...It’s just the latest example of how and why Minneapolis—and specifically the congressional district of Muslim Democrat Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)—has become ground zero for the threat to the United States from Islamist terror groups such as ISIS and Al-Shabaab.AsMinnesota CBS affiliate WCCO reports:       http://gopthedailydose.com/2015/05/05/the-texas-terror-connection-to-muslim-congressman-keith-ellisons-minneapolis-district/

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 Hamas Accused of Burning Down Salafist Mosque (investigativeproject.org) - An Islamic State (ISIS) affiliate accused Hamas of destroying one of its mosques in the Gaza Strip on Sunday, the Jerusalem Post reports...On Monday, an ISIS-affiliated organization reportedly detonated an explosive devicenear Hamas' security headquarters used to train police recruits. These developments indicate rising tensions exist between Hamas and groups affiliated with the Islamic State in Gaza. Before Monday's bombing, the ISIS affiliate threatened various Hamas security officers, publishing some of their names and photos, after Hamas arrested several Salafist jihadi supporters. The ISIS affiliate called on "all of our soldiers" to act against Hamas if the Salafist prisoners were not released. "Hamas and its security forces have 72 hours from the release of this statement to free all Salafist (jihadist) prisoners...all options are open to us to respond to Hamas," read the statement. http://www.investigativeproject.org/4846/hamas-accused-of-burning-down-salafist-mosque

(coachisright.com) - It is laughable that the District of Columbia, the most powerful City state in the world, puts the phrase, “Taxation without Representation” on its automobile license plates...Their whining is ridiculous. The government of the District of Columbia is the federal government of the United States of America and because of this the District of Columbia is omnipotent. It is we, the people of the United States who suffer Taxation without Representation. Supposedly acting in our name, because it funds almost everything to one extent or another, the federal government puts its hand into our lives multiple times a day; yet it never seems to demand an end to the libertine, unfettered lifestyles of the people it forces us to support. When it comes to the conduct of people in our inner cities, minorities, poor Whites and illegal aliens we are not even allowed to ask how the money Washington steals from us to buy their votes is spent. This is truly “Taxation without Representation.”        http://www.coachisright.com/as-american-taxpayers-all-we-have-is-taxation-without-representation/

 Contrary To Bill’s Claim, Clintons Obtained To $7.4M Capital Gains  

(Chuck Ross) - Bill Clinton’s claim that he and Hilly have paid “almost no capital gains” in the past 15 years was put in doubt Monday following reports showing the former first couple booked nearly $400,000 in capital gains between 2000 and 2006...But a Daily Caller analysis shows the Clintons may have incurred vastly more capital gains than that: between $2 million and $7.4 million. “Over the last 15 years, I’ve taken almost no capital gains and I’ve given 10 percent away,” Bill Clinton said in an interview with NBC that aired on Monday. Buzzfeed and The New York Times fact-checked that by analyzing the power couples’ publicly available IRS filings. According to filings for the period between 2000 and 2006 — the only years available — the Clintons reported $371,000 in capital gains, mostly from the sale of property. But Hilly Clinton’s 2007 Senate financial disclosure report shows the couple may have recorded capital gains as much as 20 times larger than that.        http://dailycaller.com/2015/05/04/contrary-to-bills-claim-the-clintons-obtained-up-to-7-4-million-in-capital-gains/?utm_source=Liberty_Headlines_Is_Giving_Your_Site_Free_Traffic_for_Now&AID=7236

The Scooby Doo Needs An Overhaul

     (burtprelutsky.com) - When Hilly Clinton decided to give her campaign vehicle a cutesy pie name, I can only imagine that she and Bill preferred that the media would say that they were throwing people under the Scooby Doo rather than under the bus.

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     After all, it is impossible for a Democrat to run for president without leaving a wake of people with tire tracks on their carcass. In 2008, let us remember, nObama tossed his friend and religious mentor, Jeremiah Wright, under the wheels once we all began to hear the vile remarks that Rev. Wright had spewed for 20 years while the nObamas sat savoring every reprehensible word in a front row pew.

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     That same year, when former V.P. candidate Geraldine Ferraro, at the time serving as a major advisor to Mrs. Clinton, said what everyone was thinking -- namely, that nObama would not have been running for the presidency if he hadn’t been black -- Hilly didn’t even wait for the bus to slow down before giving her the old heave-ho.

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     In the meantime, the Clinton scandals keep piling up at a rate that makes nObama look like an underachiever. It now appears that not only did the Clintons clean up during her term as Secretary of State, but they went so far as to allow the Russians to wind up owning about a third of our uranium output, thus providing Iran with as much as they need to build not only a nuclear bomb, but a nuclear arsenal.

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     The idea that Mrs. Clinton might actually succeed nObama in the White House makes my blood run cold. It would say something, something really awful, about America’s voters if they saw fit to replace nObama’s empty suit with Hilly’s equally empty pantsuit.
     The question that leaps to mind about the Clintons is whether there is anything at all they won’t do for money. When you see how low these two older people have stooped in their pursuit of dollars, euros, pesos and rubles, you have to wonder if they have ever heard that you can’t take it with you. Or is it just possible that they, along with such elderly creeps as George Soros and Warren Buffet, have discovered a loophole?

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     ♦ Speaking of Russia, every time I hear Barack nObama, hanoi John Kerry or Josh Earnest, refer to those working on the nuclear deal with Iran as our negotiating partners, I feel the bile rising through my esophagus. In what universe, would America ever regard the likes of Russia and China as honest brokers? Would anyone with a brain in his head ever enter into a partnership with individuals who carried even the tiniest percentage of baggage those two nations cart around?

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     But, then, who else but someone with the anti-American mindset of nObama would ever pretend Iran will abide by an agreement that required the Ayatollah Khamenei to change his evil aspirations even slightly?

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     Nothing nObama does that proves harmful to America’s best interests surprises me. That is why, with a straight face, the schmuck can refer to the U.N. as a community of nations. How many times do we have to be reminded that the U.N.is a collection of well-dressed thugs representing the worst despots the world has to offer? If this is a community, it’s one in which no rational person would ever choose to live.

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     ♦ Some Republican presidential contenders are being derided about not being specific enough about what they’d do if elected. To which I say, whoever is elected in 2016 won’t be taking office for another 21 months. A lot can happen between now and then. I can assure you that in May, 1999, George W. Bush had no idea that he’d wind up being a wartime president.

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     Also, the next president, assuming it’s a Republican, will have his or her hands full just trying to undo the damage nObama and Holder have wreaked on the economy, on race relations and on America’s relationships with friends and foes around the world.

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     Like a cleanup crew that shows up after a natural disaster, the first order of business will be clearing out the rubble. Only then can architects, carpenters, plumbers, electricians, interior decorators and gardeners, get to work with reconstruction plans.

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     ♦ On the other hand, Republicans can only be trusted so far and no farther. For instance, what is the point of having a Senate controlled by the GOP if ten of the louts break ranks in order to confirm Loretta Lynch, who should have been voted down if only because she was Eric Holder’s hand-picked successor? But if that wasn’t enough, the fact that during her confirmation hearings, she announced that Barack nObama’s amnesty edict was based on solid constitutional grounds should have spelled her doom.

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     In case you missed hearing the names of the 10 ignoramuses, they were, in alphabetical order: Kelly Ayotte (NH), Thad Cochran (MS), Susan Collins (ME), Jeff Flake (AZ), Lindsey Graham (SC), Orrin Hatch (UT), Ron Johnson (WI), Mark Kirk (IL), Mitch McCon-nell (KY) and Rob Portman (OH). Re-elect these oafs at your own and America’s peril.

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     ♦ When it comes to the Republican contenders, I am still mystified that Dr. Ben Carson continues to hover near the top in the polls. But, then, I don’t know why anyone thinks that having a medical background is good preparation for politics. Ron Paul was a doctor, after all, and I’m convinced he’d have done more good if he’d made house calls instead of House votes. And I would prefer that his son re-hang his own shingle or at least stay put in the Senate and not get within a country mile of the Oval Office.

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     Judging by some of Carson’s statements about gun ownership, homosexuality and Jesse Jackson, I’m not sure he could even pass a conservative litmus test. It doesn’t help that he wasn’t even a registered Republican until 2014. He only joined then because he was considering making a run for the White House, and regarded it strictly, he admitted, as “a pragmatic move.”

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     If Maryland resident Dr. Carson is looking to dip his toe into politics, why not run to replace retiring Senator Barbara Mikulski (D-MD)? That is an election he could probably win.

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     ♦ After mentioning in a recent piece that I liked Carly Fiorina, some people reminded me that it was her ill-fated decision to merge Hewlett Packard with Compaq, which didn’t pan out, and was the reason that the H-P board of directors removed her as CEO.

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     It so happens that I don’t expect a candidate for president to be omniscient. Mrs. Fiorina made a business decision and it wound up costing her. That’s life in the business world. She didn’t whine about it. She didn’t insist they only fired her because she’s a woman. She behaved like a grown-up, accepted her severance check and moved on.

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     Just imagine how much better life would be for all of us if our politicians had to pay for their mistakes and not simply utter the four most meaningless words in the English language: “I take full responsibility.”

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     Wouldn’t it be heavenly if politicians had to pay a price for nObamaCare; for pulling all our troops out of Iraq, thus rolling out the bloody red carpet for ISIS; for sending the national debt soaring to 18 trillion dollars; for turning the IRS dogs loose on Tea Party patriots; and for allowing four Americans to be massacred in Benghazi and then lying about it?

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     Carly Fiorina made one lousy business decision and paid for it with her job. When politicians make their endless number of mistakes, we’re the poor saps who pay for it.

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 If Hilly is the Democrats’ Romney, is Bernie her Ron Paul? -   John Dickerson explains why Hilly Clinton is just ducky with having Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., as a sparring partner: “When pressed about donations to the Clinton foundation, Sanders said it concerned him before quickly changing the subject to the Koch brothers and how much worse their influence is in politics. That is what Clinton allies do. If this continues to be the Vermont senator's approach, Sanders will be more of a help to Clinton's presidential chances than he will be to his own. … In 2012 Rep. Ron Paul and Mitt Romney had a symbiotic relationship in the Republican campaign. Paul elevated his own profile and gave his voters an outlet, but he never pointed out the yawning gaps between what he claimed to believe so deeply and the positions of the man who was on his way to being the party's inevitable nominee.”  -Fox News  

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 Gowdy: Hilly could stop email probe -   USA Today: “‘If she were, under some theory, able to say, ‘yes, I can promise you under penalty of perjury you have every single document you're entitled to,’ that would probably shut off that line of inquiry,’ he told Capital Download. ‘If she can, then it will be a short conversation.’”  -Fox News  

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 BUDGET VOTE HOT SEAT FOR BLUE STATE GOP 
The Republican budget plan passed Thursday by the House and headed for the Senate next week opens a political dilemma for some GOP members of the upper chamber. Facing the prospect that voters in the blue states they represent might give them the boot in 2016, vulnerable Republican Senators are on the spot. Senators like Mark Kirk, R-Ill., Ron Johnson, R-Wis., Kelly Ayotte, R-N.H., Rob Portman, R-Ohio and Mike Toomey, R-Pa., will weigh how the budget blueprint – which boosts defense spending, slashes social welfare programs and targets nObamaCare – will play at home. With potential challengers and Democratic opponents ready to exploit incumbent voting records, the politically charged GOP plan is just one of many tests they face over the next 17 months. For those most vulnerable (Kirk tops the list) arm-twisting by Senate leadership will likely fall flat. And while some get-out-of-jail-free passes will allow politically pinched Senators to buck the party, how many and who gets them is up to Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell.  -Fox News  

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 Jihadists Attack Texas Art Exhibit of Muhammad Images  

The kind of terror jihadists unleashed when they attacked the Charlie Hebdo office in Paris because the paper mocked Muhammad came to Texas Sunday night. But instead of a massacre, the two attackers were killed by Garland, Texas, police officers. The American Freedom Defense Initiative held an art exhibit and contest for images of Muhammad at Garland's Curtis Culwell Center. On Twitter, followers of the Islamic State were writing their threats. One wrote last week, "Brothers in Garland Texas Please go to there with your weapons, bombs or with your knives. Threaten your enemies & the enemies of Allaah [sic]." The event was wrapping up around 7 p.m. when suspected jihadist Elton Simpson of Arizona drove up to the event with his roommate and opened fire. The duo wounded unarmed Garland ISD officer Bruce Joiner in the ankle before police officers returned fire. The American Freedom Defense Initiative paid $10,000 to hire 40 officers to provide extra security. President of the group Pamela Geller said in February, "That's what we call the high cost of freedom." Indeed, the Garland attack shows how the freedom of expression is protected from an assassin's veto only with the Second Amendment. More... 

-The Patriot Post  

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 Are the Charges Against the Baltimore Officers an Overreach?  

The six police officers involved in the death of Freddie Gray have been tried in the court of public opinion and have been found guilty. Marilyn Mosby, who is three months into her job as Baltimore City State's Attorney, threw the book at the six officers, pinning charges ranging from second degree depraved heart murder to second degree assault to false imprisonment. But those may be inflated charges carried along by the rhetoric of rioters in Baltimore's streets, as Hot Air's Jazz Shaw points out. As Mosby said at the press conference announcing the charges: "To the people of Baltimore and demonstrators across America, I heard your call for 'No Justice, No peace.'" Furthermore, Mosby has connections that may become conflicts of interest. For example, she has a professional and personal relationship with Gray's family lawyer. The Baltimore City Fraternal Order of Police believed so strongly that an injustice was being committed with Mosby's overreach on charges, it wrote an open letter. "None of the officers involved are responsible for the death of Mr. Gray," president of the order Gene Ryan wrote. "To the contrary, at all times, each of the officers diligently balanced their obligations to protect Mr. Gray and discharge their duties to protect the public." In overcharging the officers, Mosby may have simply embittered a mob that will break out in violence if it doesn't receive what it demands.  -The Patriot Post  

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 Weaponized IRS Targeting Victim Catherine Englebrecht  

(rickwells.us) - Catherine Engelbrecht, president of True the Vote, a high-profile victim of the IRS’s targeting of conservative groups, isn’t playing the government four corner offense any longer...They’ve gone into a sort of full court press of their own, which she describes and updates. She notes that her group is now appealing a decision they lost last summer when a court ruled against them in the mistaken belief that the IRS was honest in their assurances that the missing emails were unrecoverable. Since many have now surfaced and that assertion is now known to have been false, they are anticipating a reversal as a result.       http://www.rickwells.us/time-for-irs-answers-prosecution-perp-walk-weaponized-irs-targeting-victim-catherine-englebrecht/

Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSgeCx4_0kQ

 Sessions Vs. backstabber Boehner, McCon-nell, Ryan, nObama TPP  

(rickwells.us) - There aren’t many people in either house of Congress who fulfill their duty to represent and safeguard the interests of the American people as well as Senator Jeff Sessions (R-AL)...There conversely are few who are as flagrantly self-serving tools of the establishment elite as Hussein nObama, and his comrades   Mitch McCon-nell (R-KY), backstabber John Boehner (R-OH) and Paul Ryan (R-WI). Even if information as to how bad this deal is hadn’t leaked out, the track records of those on both sides of the issue is enough to tell us who benefits by its passage; special interests, including those wanting to import a workforce or voters, win and the American citizens lose. Common sense also tells us that if it were a good deal, the narcissistic politicians would be parading themselves in front of every available camera and microphone, spilling every detail in the effort to be recognized and associated with it. It is not difficult to ascertain what motivates their silence and secrecy and it speaks volumes.   http://www.rickwells.us/jeff-sessions-vs-boehner-mcconnell-ryan-obama-on-tpp-whos-got-our-back-dumb-question/

 The Not-So-Public Business of HealthCare.gov  

(sharylattkisson.com) - In 2009, when President nObama ordered federal agencies to be more open and err on the side of releasing material to the public, this can’t be what anyone had in mind...thousands of pages of HealthCare.gov public business conducted via email by public officials yet somehow deemed so sensitive, so secret in nature, that we are not to see it. These are just a few of the highly-redacted emails turned over to me so far in my Freedom of Information lawsuit against the federal government for its failure to respond lawfully to my 2013 request regarding HealthCare.gov. As you can see, even when the government is forced to belatedly produce public documents under the threat of court action, the end result is often useless. Public disclosure has gotten to be so bad that the overused b(5) exemption to turning over material has been nicknamed the “withhold it because you want to” exemption.        https://sharylattkisson.com/the-not-so-public-business-of-healthcare-gov/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+SharylAttkisson+%28Sharyl+Attkisson%29

Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter hugs and kisses Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas as they meet in Ramallah on May 2, 2015. Carter said the same day that he did not ask to meet Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Israel and the PA, because "it would be a waste of time to ask."

 Palestinians Need Reforms, Not Elections  

 The Anti-Cartoon Jihad Comes To America  

(Matthew Vadum) - Two gunmen were killed by police Sunday night after they opened fire wounding a security officer at a Texas art competition featuring works depicting the Muslim prophet Muhammad, a practice that is strictly forbidden in Islam...As of very early Monday morning, the identity of the two attackers was unclear, but it is hard to believe the assault was not carried out by Islamists. Watchdog group Judicial Watchhas claimed the Muslim terrorists of Islamic State (a.k.a. ISIS or ISIL) are operating a training camp in Mexico about eight miles from the U.S. border near El Paso, Texas. The fact the event was attacked is proof that free speech needs protection in America, event organizer and author Robert Spencer told this writer in a late-night telephone interview. “The shooting shows how much the event was needed,” Spencer said. “The shooting shows freedom of speech is under violent assault in the United States. It shows that the jihadis are willing to kill to enforce our obedience to Shariah law.”     http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/the-anti-cartoon-jihad-comes-to-america/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3b7f0741f3-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-3b7f0741f3-156509103

 House will struggle to pass spending bills that adhere to caps  

(Susan Ferrechio) - It was supposed to be the easy one. A bill to fund military construction and veterans affairs for fiscal 2016 was expected to sail through the House on Wednesday...but at the last minute Republicans postponed a vote when it became clear a Democratic amendment to blow up the legislation actually stood a chance of passing with GOP support. The legislation was poised to eventually pass, Republican leaders insisted, but the floor struggle over the measure foreshadows what will be a difficult few months as Congress attempts to pass 12 spending bills that stick to federally-mandated spending caps that lawmakers in both parties despise. A bill to fund the Departments of Labor and Health and Human Services as well as legislation to pay for the Departments of Transportation and Housing and Urban Development are expected to be impossible to pass, due to the mandated spending limit.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/house-will-struggle-to-pass-spending-bills-that-adhere-to-caps/article/2563851?utm_campaign=Prospect:%20Politics%20Today%20pmi&utm_source=Prospect:%20Politics%20Today%20pmi%20-%2005/04/15&utm_medium=email

Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening - NYPD Officer Shot In Queens...

Judge Jeanine Pirro Opening - Police: Curfew Remains In Place - Baltimore, MD - Allen West...

Judge Jeanine Pirro - 6 Baltimore Police Officers Charge In Death Of French Gray...

Judge Jeanine Pirro - America's Power Grid In Danger...

 Retail apocalypse: Major chains closing 6,000 stores  

(wnd.com) - The long feared “Retail apocalypse” may be hitting with little or no fanfare if a growing list of store-closing plans by major chains is any indication...Major U.S. retailers have announced the closing of more than 6,000 stores from coast to coast. The list includes only those retailers which have announced plans to close more than 10 outlets this year and next. For example, 1,784 Radio Shack stores are vanishing, 400 of the Office Depot/Office Max chain by 2016, and 340 Dollar Tree/Family Dollar stores. The growing list of stores getting shuttered coincides with the decline in discretionary consumer spending over the past six months. “Expect to see more storefronts closed at malls across the country,” one retail watcher told WND. “It’s getting ugly out there.”        http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/retail-apocalypse-6000-chains-closing-stores/

The Marshall Islands' cautionary tale

Caroline B. Glick

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     (jewishworldreview.com) - On Tuesday, the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps forcibly commandeered the Maersk Tigris as navigated its way through the Straits of Hormuz. Iran controls the strategic waterway through which 40 percent of seaborne oil and a quarter of seaborne gas transits to global markets.

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     The Maersk Tigris is flagged to the Marshall Islands. The South Pacific archipelago gained its independence from the US in 1986 after signing a treaty conceding its right to self-defense in exchange for US protection. According to the treaty, the US has "full authority and responsibility for security and defense of the Marshall Islands."

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     Given the US's formal, binding obligation to the Marshall Islands, the Iranian seizure of the ship was in effect an act of war against America.

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     In comments to Bloomberg hours after the ship was seized, Junior Aini, chargé d'affairs at the Marshall Islands Embassy in Washington, indicated that his government's only recourse is to rely on the US to free its ship.

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     Immediately after the incident began, the US Navy deployed a destroyer to the area. But that didn't seem to make much of an impression on the Iranians. More significant than the naval movement was the fact that the nObama administration failed to condemn their unlawful action.

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     If the administration continues to stand by in the face of Iran's aggression, the strategic implications will radiate far beyond the US's bilateral ties with the Marshall Islands. If the US allows Iran to get away with unlawfully seizing a Marshall Islands flagged ship it is treaty bound to protect, it will reinforce the growing assessment of its Middle Eastern allies that its security guarantees are worthless.

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      As the Israel Project's Omri Ceren put it in an email briefing to journalists, "the US would be using security assurances not to shield allies from Iran but to shield Iran from allies."

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     But President Barack nObama apparently won't allow a bit of Iranian naval piracy to rain on his parade. This week nObama indicated that he feels very good about where his policy on Iran now stands. And he has every reason to be satisfied.

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     With each day that passes, the chance diminishes that his nuclear deal with the mullahs will be scuppered.

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     On the one hand, the Iranians are signaling that they are willing to sign a deal with the Great Satan. And this makes sense. For them the deal has no downside.

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     First there's the money. Last week the State Department indicated that it won't rule out paying Iran a $50 billion "signing bonus."

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     The $50b. would be an advance on Iranian funds that have been frozen in Western banks under the terms of the sanctions regime that would be lifted in the event a deal is concluded.

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     Iran is spending $3b. a month to finance its war in Syria. With $50b. in their pockets the ayatollahs can fight for another year and a half without selling a barrel of oil.

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     According to a report earlier this week on Channel 10, during Syrian Defense Minister General Fahd al-Freij's visit to Tehran this week, he was instructed to enable Hezbollah to open a front against Israel on the Golan Heights. Iran's "signing bonus" would pay for Iran's new war against Israel.

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     As for their nuclear weapons program, even nObama admitted that when his deal expires in 10 years, Iran will have the capacity to build nuclear weapons at will.

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     Iran can get around the ideological issue of signing with its theological foe by focusing its hatred on the US Congress, something Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif did effortlessly at a press conference in New York on Wednesday.

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     At home as well, nObama no longer faces serious opposition to his Iran policy. The Iranian Nuclear Agreement Review Act, the bill now being debated on the Senate floor, ensures that Congress will have no ability to stand in the way of the deal. In contrast to the provisions of the US Constitution that require a two-third Senate majority to approve an international treaty, the Senate bill requires a two-third majority of senators to block the implementation of nObama's nuclear deal with the greatest state sponsor of terrorism.

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     nObama has successfully bullied centrist Democrat senators into abandoning their concern for US national security and supporting his deal.

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     They in turn have convinced centrist Republicans — and AIPAC — to push forward the legislation and so turn Congress into partner in nObama's nuclear gambit.

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     Attempts by Republican senators, including presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, to attach amendments to the bill that would require Congress to either treat the deal as an international treaty, or at the very least require a simple majority to reject it, have been strenuously opposed not only by the Democrats, but by the Republican leadership as well.

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     nObama's confidence that his deal will go through has freed him up to mark the next target of his foreign policy in what he recently referred to as the "fourth quarter" of his presidency: Israel.

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     According to a report in Foreign Policy, the administration is now seeking to delay anti-Israel resolutions at the UN Security Council — including a French draft resolution that would require Israel to surrender all of Judea and Samaria and northern, southern and eastern Jerusalem to the Palestinians — until after the deal with Iran is concluded at the end of June. According to the report, the administration doesn't want to upset pro-Israel Democrats while it still needs them to approve the deal with Iran.

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But nObama has no problem with marking the target.

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     And so, on Monday, Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Wendy Sherman did just that.

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     In an address before Reform Jews, Sherman issued a direct threat against Israel.

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     In her words, "If the new Israeli government is seen to be stepping back from its commitment to a two-state solution, that will make our job in the international arena much tougher... it will be harder for us to prevent internationalizing the conflict."

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     In an apparent attempt to soften the harsh impression Sherman's statement made on the Israeli public, on Wednesday US Ambassador Dan Shapiro gave an interview to Army Radio.

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     Although his American-accented Hebrew is always a crowd pleaser, Shapiro's statements were simply a more diplomatic restatement of Sherman's threat.

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     As he put it, "We are entering a period without negotiations between Israel and the Palestinians and this leads us to two important challenges.

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     One — how do we make progress toward the two-states for two-peoples solution, and two — negotiations have always been critical to preventing the delegitimization of Israel."

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     In other words, Shapiro signaled that the nObama administration expects Israel to make significant concessions to the Palestinians in return of nothing, in the absence of negotiations.

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     And if we fail to make such unreciprocated concessions, we will have no legitimacy and the US will have no choice but to act against Israel at the UN.

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     That is, by Shapiro's and Sherman's telling, Israel's unwillingness to bow to Palestinian and US demands for concessions to the Palestinians is what has caused and what feeds the international campaign to delegitimize its right to exist.

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     For anyone who entertains the thought that Shapiro and Sherman are correct to blame Israel for the movement to delegitimize it, this week we received new proof of its falsity.

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     This week, the leaders of the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement condemned Israel not for failing to make concessions to the Palestinians. This week they condemned the Jewish state for helping Nepal earthquake victims.

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     Ever since the Israeli humanitarian aid mission set off for Nepal earlier this week, leading figures in the BDS movement have been working overtime to attribute ill and even demonic intentions to their mission.

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     Kenneth Roth, the executive director of Human Rights Watch, tweeted on his Twitter account, "Easier to address a far-away humanitarian disaster than the nearby one of Israel's making in Gaza. End the blockade!" Max Blumenthal, a Jewish anti-Semite who has risen to prominence in the BDS campaign, tweeted, "For a country responsible for so many man-made catastrophes, natural disasters can't come often enough."

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     Ali Abumiah, the editor of Electronic Intifada, intoned that Israel was racist to evacuate newborn infants born to surrogate mothers in Nepal and leave the surrogates behind. He also tweeted, "Propaganda operation goes into high gear to exploit Nepal earthquake to improve Israel's blood-soaked image."

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     These assaults, which attribute malign, exploitative designs to Israel's humanitarian relief efforts, make clear that there is no connection between Israel's actions and hostility toward Israel.

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     The purpose of the BDS movement is not to pressure Israel to make concessions to the Palestinians.

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     Its purpose is to delegitimize Israel's right to exist and delegitimize support for Israel's right to exist.

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     If Israel is evil for sending hundreds of soldiers and relief workers to Nepal to rescue earthquake victims, clearly Israel will be attacked as evil for making concessions to the Palestinians that the Palestinians and the nObama administration will insist are insufficient.

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     Shapiro's claim that negotiations between Israel and the PLO, or Israeli unilateral concessions to the Palestinians, protect Israel from its Western detractors is totally unfounded.

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There is a thread that runs between Obama's policy toward Iran and his policy toward Israel.
     That common threat is mendacity. nObama's actual goals in both have little to do with his stated ones.

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     nObama claims that he wishes to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. But as we see from his willingness to allow Iran to become a nuclear threshold state while running wild in the Straits of Hormuz, committing mass slaughter in Syria, building an empire that includes Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen, and threatening its Arab neighbors and Israel, the purpose of the administration's negotiations with Iran is not to prevent Iran from becoming a nuclear power.

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     The purpose of the negotiations is to build an American-Iranian alliance on Iran's terms.

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     So, too, nObama says his goal is to advance the cause of peace between Israel and the Palestinians.

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     But his pressure and hostility toward Israel does nothing to achieve this goal. The goal of a policy of acting with hostility toward Israel is not to promote peace. It is to distance the US from Israel and align America's Israel policy with Europe's preternaturally hostile treatment of the Jewish state.

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     Three days after a ship sailing under their flag was seized by Iran's Revolutionary Guards, citizens of the Marshall Islands discovered that their decision to place their security in America's hands is no longer the safe bet they thought it was 29 years ago.

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     Anyone who entertains the belief that Israel will gain diplomatic acceptance or even a respite from American pressure if it makes concessions to the Palestinians is similarly making a high risk gamble.

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 BUDGET BROUHAHA SETS UP nOBAMACARE FIGHT  
Senate and House Republicans announced a unified budget plan Wednesday that allows them to bypass Democrats and send legislation that repeals or revises nObamaCare to the president’s desk, while balancing the federal budget within 10 years. Though the plan is non-binding and spending bills must be passed, the proposal lays out the Republican vision of how to handle the taxpayers’ money. With the 2016 political battlefield in sight reaction was swift. Democrats called it a “gimmicky” plan that paves the way for tax break for the wealthy, while Republicans said it would make Washington “live within its means.” A vote in the House is expected Friday with the Senate following suit next week.  -Fox News 

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 Early snag on VA spending bill over war fund -   The Hill: “House Republicans delayed a vote Wednesday night on their first spending bill of the year amid concerns that a controversial bipartisan amendment to eliminate use of a Pentagon war fund for military construction projects might have the votes to pass….[House] leadership decided to push back votes on the legislation…untilThursday. The amendment offered by [Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Rep.Mick Mulvaney, R-S.C.,]… would strike provisions of the bill for military construction projects that use funds from the Pentagon's war fund known as the Overseas Contingency Operations account. Both Van Hollen and Mulvaney argued it represented a budgetary ‘gimmick’ to avoid spending caps established by the 2011 budget deal known as the Budget Control Act (BCA).”  -Fox News 

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 MCCON-NELL LAUNCHES SURPRISE OFFENSIVE ON EPA  
WashEx: “Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell said he plans to use a little-known, little-studied, little-used Clean Air Act clause to undercut a key element of the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to cut carbon emissions from power plants. The Kentucky Republican cited language in the Clean Air Act, the federal law under which the EPA is crafting its climate change regulation, that he said requires Congress to approve regional cap-and-trade plans and other compacts. That’s key because the EPA has touted multi-state plans as the best, most cost-efficient way to meet its proposed rule’s goals, and some states are planning to use that strategy.”  -Fox News 

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 Freddie Gray Investigation Handed Over to Prosecutors  

Baltimore city officials are mum after the police department handed its investigation into the death of Freddie Gray over to state prosecutors Thursday, a day before they said the investigation would be completed. The public still doesn't know the details surrounding the 25-year-old's death. Maryland State Attorney Marilyn Mosby said, "While we have and will continue to leverage the information received by the department, we are not relying solely on their findings but rather the facts that we have gathered and verified. We ask for the public to remain patient and peaceful and to trust the process of the justice system." Prosecutors will decide whether or not to bring charges against the six police officers who are currently suspended from the Baltimore police force.

          Meanwhile, the likes of Al Sharpton are in Baltimore, and they will not be satisfied if the prosecutors' decision doesn't go their way. Daniel Henninger writes in The Wall Street Journal, "When Al Sharpton popularized the chant, 'No justice, no peace,' it was unmistakably clear that 'no peace' was an implicit threat of civil unrest. Not civil disobedience, as practiced by Martin Luther King Jr. Civil unrest." Now is the time for conservatives to focus on ways to rebuild Baltimore to counter Sharpton's race baiting and give residents better paths to prosperity. More...  -The Patriot Post 

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 In Campaign, Hilly Clinton Distances Herself From Bill  

On April 29, Hilly Clinton stood before an audience at Columbia University and criticized America's criminal justice system, the system her husband helped create in 1994 with the passage of his Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act. "We have allowed our criminal justice system to get out of balance," Ms. Clinton said. "And these recent tragedies [in Baltimore and Ferguson] should galvanize us to come together as a nation to find our balance again." This is not the only instance where Hilly has positioned herself directly opposing the legislation and policies that her husband's administration instituted some 20 years before. Bill signed the Defense of Marriage Act into law; Hilly now says same-sex marriage is a constitutional right. Bill's administration repealed the Glass-Steagall Act; Hilly wants it restored. The Washington Free Beacon reports that this distancing extends all the way to edits of Hilly's official campaign bio. In 2008, her biography said "she followed her heart and a man named Bill Clinton to Arkansas" instead of pursuing a career at a big law firm. Eight years later, Clinton's bio now says she skipped the big-law career path because she wanted to fight for children and families at the Children's Defense Fund. With all the revisions, it seems Hilly only kept the name "Clinton" for the name recognition. More... 

 -The Patriot Post 

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 Russia Conducts Nuclear Bomber Flight Near Alaska  

(Bill Gertz) - Two Russian nuclear-capable bombers intruded into the U.S. air defense zone near Alaska last week in the latest saber rattling by Moscow, defense officials said...The Tu-95 Bear H bombers flew into the Alaska zone on April 22. But unlike most earlier incursions, no U.S. interceptor jets were dispatched to shadow them, said defense officials familiar with the latest U.S.-Russian aerial encounter. The incident was the first Russian bomber incursion of a U.S. or Canadian air defense zone this year. Officials said it likely signals the start of Russia’s long-range aviation spring training cycle. Further aerial incursions are expected.        http://freebeacon.com/national-security/russia-conducts-nuclear-bomber-flight-near-alaska/

 Clinton Charities Raked in Millions of Taxpayer Dollars  

(Elizabeth Harrington) - The Clinton Foundation and its major health charity have raked in more than $7 million from the U.S. government in recent years, according to an analysis of public records conducted by the Washington Free Beacon...The Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI), chaired by Bill Clinton and run by the former president’s long-time associate Ira Magaziner, has received $6,010,898 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) since 2010. CHAI, the biggest arm of the Clinton family’s charitable efforts, accounting for 60 percent of all spending, received $3,193,500 in fiscal years 2010, 2011, and 2012, according to federal contracts, during Hilly Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. The organization received an additional $2,817,398 from the CDC in FYs 2013, 2014, and 2015.        http://freebeacon.com/politics/clinton-charities-raked-in-millions-of-taxpayer-dollars/

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 Reps King And Brooks Angry After Six GOP Sellouts Votes  

(rickwells.us) - On Wednesday the House Armed Services Committee approved an amendment by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) to the National Defense Authorization Act of 2016 that gives backhanded approval to the illegal violation of immigration law being committed by Hussein nObama...his henchman Jeh Johnson of DHS, and the unfortunate Americans in that department who are forced to choose between obeying the law, defending our nation and their careers. Six sellout RINOs joined with Democrats in a 33-30 vote in favor of the amendment which “encourages” the Secretary of Defense to waive military enlistment requirements for illegal aliens who receive sanctuary from their lawbreaking under the lawbreaking of the occupant of the White House. DACA protected illegal aliens would be treated in a manner similar to that which would have been prescribed under the DREAM Act if it had passed. Since it didn’t pass, those in the minority have apparently found a way to circumvent the wishes of the majority, placing a tacit stamp of approval on the unconstitutional acts of the “president.” Six pro-lawbreaking Republican Congressmen voted with their always anti-American Democrat counterparts in support of the amendment. The six who conveniently forgot which country they supposedly represent are Mike Coffman of Colorado, Chris Gibson of New York, Frank A. LoBiondo of New Jersey, Thomas MacArthur of New Jersey, Martha E. McSally of Arizona, and Ryan Zinke of Montana.        http://www.rickwells.us/rinos-vs-patriots-reps-king-and-brooks-angry-after-six-gop-sellouts-vote-for-illegals-in-military/

(TruthRevolt) - Sarah Silvermanman getting paid less than a male stand-up comedian. The Rape Culture at the University of Virginia. Memories Pizza refusing service to Gay People...Treyvon Martin and Michael Brown assassinated in cold blood for the crime of being black. Racism pervading the Tea Party. All of it shocking, disgraceful and repugnant... if only any of it were... you know... true.       Video:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QvkZ9JKGoSY

 Illegal Muslim ‘migrants’ set up camps in central Paris  

(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - You think you would be safe walking through that area at night? Think again. Calais, Lampedusa, Ceuta and Melilla have turned into total crime ghettos where people have lost their safety...the value of their homes and land, their everything. All due to EU complacency. After all, the left-wing Eurocrats don’t have to put up with anything. They get exaggerated high salaries, chauffeur driven cars, generous bonus packages, pay no tax, and are provided security should they need to. The concerns of the rest of society is not even real to them. This is ridiculous. The French are a pest. They are a constant problem bringing in more and more Muslim immigrants. Who will provide security against all the rape, the assaults, the riots, the arsons, the threats, the terrorism? Africa is a HUGE continent, larger than all of Europe combined. It is also a booming economy with massive Chinese investment capitals building infrastructure and trade. Are the French so uneducated they want to convince us that all of Africa is on fire and doesn’t have a single square mile fpr these people to be “safe” on? There is absolutely nowhere else in Africa these people can go to?? Seriously? Its completely ridiculous to house a single one of these people in France at all. Send them straight back.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/05/02/slums-of-paris-illegal-muslim-migrants-set-up-camps-in-central-paris/

 'Freedom to worship' – nObama's next bait & switch  

(Bob Unruh) - Early in President nObama’s tenure in the White House, Catholic Online and other media outlets reported what appeared to be a deliberate attack on the Constitution’s “freedom of religion” protections...The report noted a crucial change in nObama’s language between his June 2009 speech in Cairo, Egypt, where he spoke of a Muslim America and its “freedom of religion,” to the November 2009 memorial for the Fort Hood soldiers gunned down by a radical Muslim, where he termed it “freedom of worship.” From that point on, “freedom of worship” has become the term of choice, the report said. Now, the Daily Signal reports, the federal government has been using the term “freedom of worship” instead of the constitutional “freedom of religion” when it tests immigrants who wish to become citizens on their knowledge of the Constitution.

http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/freedom-to-worship-obamas-next-bait-switch/

 New move to strip federal courts of marriage cases  

(Greg Corombos) - As the Supreme Court hears oral arguments on whether states have the right to define marriage as they see fit and whether to recognize same-sex marriage performed in other states, one congressman is looking to take the issue away from the courts altogether...Rep. Steve King, R-Iowa, is sponsoring the “Restrain Judges on Marriage Act of 2015.” “If my bill becomes law, then the states will make the decision from that point forward on marriage,” King said. “Any enforcement funds would also be blocked. In the end, states would decide what marriage is. There are only two questions: What is marriage, and who’s going to decide?” He argued, “Not nine judges, or more likely five of nine judges, but the people need to make a decision on marriage.”       http://www.wnd.com/2015/05/new-move-to-strip-federal-courts-of-marriage-cases/

 About Half Of State nObamacare Exchanges May Go Belly Up  

(Lena H. Sun & Niraj Chokshi) - According to the Washington Post about half of the nObamacare heath insurance exchanges set up by the states are real danger of financial collapse...The solutions being created range from getting more money from the taxpayers to closing down shop and transferring their members to the federal exchange. However consideration of moving to the federal exchanges has to wait until after next months Supreme Court decision about whether people who signed up to those exchanges are electable for the same subsidies dictated by the ACA as those who live in states with their own healthcare marketplace. The Supreme Court will decide by the end of June whether consumers in the 34 states using the federal exchange will be barred from receiving subsidies to buy insurance.

http://yidwithlid.blogspot.com/2015/05/about-half-of-state-obamacare-exchanges.html?utm_source=The+Lid+List&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=027744e456-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_term=0_597b72c01c-027744e456-291705165&goal=0_597b72c01c-027744e456-291705165

 What Every Christian Needs To Know About Islam  

(shoebat.com) - This is something that  Hiliare belloc the great English Historian of the 20th Century had prophetically states in his work  “the great Heresies”. In this book written in the late 1930’s he states that “Millions of modern people of the white civilization—that is, the civilization ofEurope and America—have forgotten all about Islam...They have never come in contact with it. They take for granted that it is decaying, and that, anyway, it is just a foreign religion which will not concern them. It is, as a fact, the most formidable and persistent enemy which our civilization has had, and may at any moment become as large a menace in the future as it has been in the past. The suggestion that Islam may re-arise sounds fantastic but this is only because men are always powerfully affected by the immediate past: one might say that they are blinded by it. “ The fact that most of the Mohammedans are mainly located in the far east is because the people known as today’s  “Arabs”, from whom Islamic religion spread,  were descendents of Ishmael, the son of Abraham who was born of the slave woman agar to whom God said he would multiply her seed. This is why the Ishmael is recognized as a prophet in the Islamic Religion (he is placed after Abraham but before Isaac). These sons of Agar dwelt on the Arabian peninsula and were roughly divided between a nomadic and a more or less urban oasis culture.       http://shoebat.com/2015/05/02/what-every-christian-needs-to-know-about-islam/

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Israel Will Attack Iran Soon

Alan Caruba

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     (factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - The Israelis will destroy several Iranian nuclear facilities and my educated guess is that they will do so before the end of this year.

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     Israel has no margin of error when it comes to nuclear reactors in nations that threaten its existence. While President nObama does everything in his power to enable Iran to create its own nuclear weapons, it is a good idea to recall that in June 1981 the Israelis destroyed a reactor in Iraq. It was the first air strike against such a facility. In September 2007, the Israelis destroyed a Syrian reactor. There was no reprisal in either case.

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    From Wednesday, April 22 to Friday April 24 the Israelis struck Hizbollah and Syrian military targets in the Walamoun Mountains on the Syrian-Lebanese border. The calculations were that the location, a site for long-range missiles, would be safer from the Israelis. They were wrong.

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     In September 2014, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu addressed the United Nations General Assembly warning “don’t be fooled by Iran’s manipulative charm offensive. It’s designed for one purpose and for one purpose only. To lift the sanctions and remove the obstacles to Iran’s path to the bomb.”

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     “Once Iran produces atomic bombs, all the charm and all the smiles will suddenly disappear. They’ll just vanish. It’s then that the ayatollahs will show their true face and unleash their aggressive fanaticism on the entire world.” He offered a comparable message to a joint meeting of Congress in March of this year.

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     Is anyone listening? Not President nObama. On April 25, writing in The Wall Street Journal, Mortimer Zuckerman, the chairman and editor in chief of the U.S. News and World Report, said “President nObama has been chasing a rainbow in his negotiations with Iran. He has forsaken decades of pledges to the civilized world from presidents of both parties. He has misled the American people in repeatedly affirming that the U.S. would never allow revolutionary Iran to acquire nuclear weapons.”

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     It’s bad enough when you can’t trust your nation’s enemies, but when you cannot trust your own President you have a very big problem because Iran is not just a threat to America and Israel, but to the entire world.

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     nObama’s anti-Semitism is obvious to anyone paying the least attention. He particularly loathes Israel. In early April the White House let its unhappiness be known that Netanyahu had, in its words, failed to tone down “hostile and aggressive language” of the Passover religious service. What were those words? “Next year in Jerusalem.”

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     This is an ancient Jewish prayer that sustained generations of Jews over the course of two millennia, expressing their hope to return to their homeland. To the White House, however, it was “affront to the Palestinians, not to mention a slap in the face to President nObama himself who has worked tirelessly for peace despite Israeli intransigence.” The Jews returned to Israel, declared its independence in 1948, and have had the support of every President since…until nObama.

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     The Israelis know this. Since their independence the Israelis have fought seven recognized wars, two Palestinian intifadas, and a series of armed conflicts in the broader Arab-Israeli conflict. Most recently they put down Hamas in the Gaza once again for its repeated rocketing.

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     Despite or because of this, the Israelis have sought to demonstrate good will toward their Arab neighbors. There is an untold story of the December 2014 meeting of six Gulf Cooperation Council rulers in the Qatari capital of Doha to discuss steps to respond to challenges that include Iranian aggression and clamping down on the Muslim Brotherhood.

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     Sources close to event report that Netanyahu has achieved close coordination with the most important Arab leaders that include Egypt, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates. Other members of the Council include Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, and the United Arab Emirates.

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     The Israelis have no choice, nor do I anticipate that Iran will do much, if anything, to respond in the wake of the ashes of those facilities. No other nation will come to their aid.

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http://factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com/2015/04/israel-will-attack-iran-soon.html

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