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Thursday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Green Slander
Alan Caruba
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
~~~lll~~~
 
 
 
 
 Backs Bibi -   Walker penned an op-ed for NRO declaring his support for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on Tuesday: “If the president continues to call into doubt our friendship with Israel while seeking rapprochement with Iran, he will harm more than just the U.S.–Israeli relationship. He will undermine the trust of our remaining friends and partners in the Middle East.”  -Fox news 
 
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 Says nObama desire for Iran nuke deal trumps ISIS war -   Palm Beach [Fla.] Post: “President Barack nObama’s desire for a nuclear deal with Iran is blocking the military defeat of Islamic State forces, Republican Sen. Marco Rubio contends. … But in an interview with The Palm Beach Post on Saturday, Rubio argued that while Iran has ‘tolerated some U.S. airstrikes on a limited basis,’ it sees a larger U.S. role as a threat…”
          [So much for spring break in Caracas - Rubio is among a group of officials and politicians who were banned from entering Venezuela over the weekend by President Nicholas Maduro.]   -Fox news 
 
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 FIORINA BRISTLES AT ‘TOKEN’ TALK 
In an interview with David Drucker following her standout CPAC performance, Carly Fiorina drew a line between running for president because she is a woman and being a woman who is running for president: “I’ve never been a token in my life, and, if I run, I’m not running because I am a woman. The facts are, I am a woman, and as a woman, I think I bring the perspective of 53 percent of voters today who are also women and a voice that is too often missing.”  -Fox news 
 
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE... 
Is puny planet Pluto about to get a big head? Some scientists think so. While everyone knows the distant orb is tiny (smaller than our moon) throw in its atmosphere and Pluto’s planetary stature becomes, well, big. Buzzfeed: “Michael Summers, a NASA scientist working on the New Horizons mission to Pluto, posted [an] image on the mission’s blog last week. He wrote: The “outer limit” of Pluto’s atmosphere is very difficult to define, although we know that it is very far from the surface. If one defines it similar to the way we define the exobase of Earth’s atmosphere, then Pluto’s atmosphere has an outer limit of at least seven times Pluto’s radius above it surface. This means that the volume of Pluto’s atmosphere is over 350 times the volume of Pluto itself!” The New Horizons mission will be taking measurements in plutospace later this year.  -Fox news 
 
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 backstabber BOEHNER READY TO RUN THE RAPIDS ON   IMMIGRATION 
National Journal: “After cutting a last-minute deal Friday night to fund the Homeland Security Department for one week, [Speaker backstabber John Boehner] now has a vital choice to make: Does he stand with the conservative members of his party who insist that the funding measure must be used as a chance to block President nObama’s immigration action, or does he work with Democrats and the moderates in his own party to pass a clean funding measure that avoids a DHS shutdown but leaves immigration alone…Despite the last week’s tumult, there’s no real indication right now that backstabber Boehner’s speakership is in jeopardy…. But this week, with the shutdown clock again running may just set the tone for the duration of his leadership and show whether or not he’s able to keep his party together while ensuring that the government stays open.”
          “We do have some members who disagree from time to time over the tactics that we decide to employ. But, remember, Republicans are united in this idea that the president has far exceeded his constitutional authority.  And we all want to do things to stop the president from his illicit activity.” –Speaker backstabber John Boehner, R-Ohio, on CBS’s “Face the Nation”.   -Fox news 
 
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 Trey Gowdy on Strengthening Our Interior Enforcement  
(politibrew.com) - Here's Trey Gowdy speaking about a new bill which will empower states and local jurisdictions to enforce federal immigration laws. It will also prevent future Presidents from deciding which laws to enforce and which to ignore. This is awesome...The House Judiciary Committee is considering this bill and Gowdy shows you how you can learn more about it. "We introduced the Michael Davis, Jr. in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act, to strengthen the interior enforcement of our immigration laws. We trust state and local law enforcement officers to enforce every other category of law from murder to child sex cases to narcotics trafficking. If we trust them to do all that, we should give them a role in enforcing our immigration laws."
Here's a Benghazi press conference with Trey Gowdy and company. Hillly's e-mails are involved.
Here's Trey Gowdy earlier today on Fox News talking about Hilly Clinton's Secretary of State e-mails.
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 US ambassador to South Korea injured in knife attack  
(foxnews.com) - The U.S. ambassador to South Korea was slashed by a man screaming demands for Korean unification Thursday morning in Seoul, and was hospitalized with wounds to his face and wrist...Media images showed a stunned-looking Mark W. Lippert examining his blood-covered left hand and holding his right hand over a cut on the right side of his face, his pink tie splattered with blood. The attack occurred at a performing arts center in downtown Seoul where Lippert was about to give a lecture on the prospects for peace on the divided Korean peninsula. The U.S. Embassy said Lippert was in stable condition after surgery at a Seoul hospital.       http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/03/05/us-ambassador-to-south-korea-injured-in-attack/?intcmp=latestnews
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State Lawmakers Pushing Back Against Federal Overreach 
 State Lawmakers Pushing Back Against Federal Overreach
(Jack Kenny) - The issue of federal government overreach is often talked about in 21st-century America, but some state legislators are actually doing something about it... Recently The Hill reported that more than 200 bills have been introduced in state capitols across the country to nullify federal laws or regulations that the bills’ sponsors claim violate the Constitution of the United States. “You have a choice," Diane St. Onge, a Republican state representative in Kentucky, told The Hill. “To sit back and not do anything or say anything and let overregulation continue — or you have the alternative choice to speak up about it and say, ‘We know what you are doing or intend to do and we do not think that it is constitutional and we as a state are not going to stand for it.’ ”       http://www.thenewamerican.com/usnews/constitution/item/20273-state-lawmakers-pushing-back-against-federal-overreach?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=06bb99d169-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-06bb99d169-289778381
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  nObama Announces Creation Of Federal Domestic Police State Force  
(rickwells.us) - The only reason Hussein nObama needed to make the announcement of his federal takeover of local law enforcement, the gradual diversion away from a mission of serving the people to one of serving him, was to hear himself talk and to, as he loves to do, lecture the peasants...Anyone who has been paying attention already knows he is creating his own private domestic army of nObama loyalists, under his faithful servants in the “Justice Department.” On Monday he described the takeover in familiar, ominous terms, saying, “We have a great opportunity, coming out of some great conflict and tragedy, to really transform how we think about community law enforcement relations.”  The determination of just how great this opportunity is depends solely upon one’s perspective. For the American people, the loss of local accountability and control of their community and state policing is the real great tragedy.       http://www.rickwells.us/he-did-it-obama-announces-creation-of-federal-domestic-police-state-force-progressively-so-we-wont-stop-him/
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 Hilly Clinton's Contempt for Transparency  
(Conor Friedersdorf) - On January 13, 2009, Hilly Clinton attended her first confirmation hearing as a Secretary of State nominee...The same day, with Bush officials still under fire for using private email accounts to circumvent public records laws, someone registered Clintonemail.com, a domain that now appears to be at the center of a scandal. "Mrs. Clinton did not have a government email address during her four-year tenure at the State Department," The New York Times reported in a story published late Monday. "Her aides took no actions to have her personal emails preserved on department servers at the time, as required by the Federal Records Act." This was willful, flagrant disregard for public records rules.       http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/03/hillary-clinton-email-transparency-secretary-state/386641/
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 Petulant nObama Schedules Conference To Coincide With Bibi's  
(nicedeb.wordpress.com) - When the word got out that nObama’s schedule was too full for him to listen to Netanyahu’s speech today on the existential threat Iran poses, I figured he would be “busy” watching SportsCenter...But no – this petty, petulant president decided to schedule a video conference with Western leaders at the last minute, ensuring that they missed the speech. Of course any one of these world leaders can view the speech later on YouTube, but as Koffler notes, “what a petty insult to Netanyahu.” Does he think people don’t notice? Is this the behavior of a confident, mentally stable leader? Sources say no…. And he said his schedule was full. Hogwash.      https://nicedeb.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/petulant-president-schedules-video-conference-with-top-western-leaders-to-coincide-with-netanyahu-speech/
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 Petraeus Set To Plead Guilty  
CNN is reporting, through Evan Perez again, that General David Petraeus is expected to plead guilty to a federal probe that he gave classified pillow-talk intelligence to Paula Broadwell during their affair in 2011/2012...It should be noted, however, that Evan Perez was recently the CNN reporter who presented an entirely false story about a DHS report on Soverign Citizens where he portrayed the report as DHS worried about right-wing extremist groups. Nothing in his interpretation of the report was even remotely accurate – it was manufactured from left-wing ideological loin cloth (backstory).       http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/03/03/petraeus-set-to-plead-guilty-remove-himself-from-the-clutches-of-obamaclinton-blackmail/
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 House approves DHS funding bill, ending immigration standoff  
(foxnews.com) - The House voted Tuesday to fund the Homeland Security Department through the end of the budget year, ending a protracted standoff that centered on objections to President nObama's controversial immigration actions...The House voted 257-167 for the legislation, sending it to nObama's desk. The final legislation includes no immigration provisions, and was carried over the finish line with mostly Democratic votes. The result is a victory for the nObama administration. Republicans had tried to use the DHS funding bill as the vehicle to reverse nObama's immigration executive actions. But Democrats repeatedly blocked the move, insisting they pass the spending bill with no riders attached. They are caving and disregarding the peoples wishes.   http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/03/03/sources-house-to-vote-on-homeland-security-bill-without-immigration-conditions/
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 Trey Gowdy Tracking Down Hilly E mails  
(rickwells.us) - Once again the scandal mills that are the nObama regime and the Democrat Party have been found to be hiding their actions from the American people...This incident has all the appearances of being a well-thought out, strategic move by Hilly Clinton to keep all of her activities and actions beyond the reach of the prying eyes of the American public. Ms Clinton, who has come under recent criticism for accepting large amounts of cash from foreign governments through her “foundation,” conducted the people’s business from a server located in her own home, rather than using the proper and fully archived State Department email system. Rep Gowdy notes that this is a problem, that she has improperly made herself the custodian over the people’s records, which she is maintaining at her home. There also is the very real potential for incriminating or damaging records and information being withheld from his investigation into Benghazi at the sole discretion of the former Secretary of State. 
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 Cummings Upset Over Subpoena Of Hilly Clinton’s Secret Emails  
(rickwells.us) - Rep Elijah Cummings is always complaining, incessantly shouting accusations of racism and forever accusing Republicans of partisanship. Aside from Hussein nObama and Eric Holder...he’s one of the most divisive individuals to have disgraced the United States government with their presence. He’s the definition of a Democrat racist partisan. On Wednesday Cummings told reporters, “I did not want to believe it, but everything I’ve seen so far has led me to believe that this is an effort to go after Hilly Clinton, period.” Cummings might have a point, if she is the only criminal, but she’ll probably have lots of company before the investigation is over. He said, “Clearly this has been a very much drawn out process,” implying that it is intended to harm the presidential candidacy of the former “First Tammy Wynette” turned Secretary of State. Cummings is a jerk and a turncoat commie. He has no sense of the law. Gowdy should kick him out of the committee.      http://www.rickwells.us/elijah-cummings-upset-over-subpoena-of-hillary-clintons-secret-emails-if-she-werent-white-it-would-be-racist/
Green Slander
Alan Caruba
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     (factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - It is a sure sign that the advocates of the “global warming” and “climate change” hoaxes know that the public no longer believes that the former is occurring or that the latter represents an immediate, global threat.
 
     Even though the “climate skeptics”, scientists who have produced research proving false methodology and the conclusions based on it are quite few in number, an effort to silence them by smearing their reputations and denying funding for their work has been launched and it is based entirely on a lie. Scientists are supposed to be skeptical, not only of other  scientist’s findings, but their
own. Good science must be able to reproduce the results of published research. In the case of the many computer models cited as proof that global warming was occurring or would, the passing years have demonstrated that none were accurate.

     As Joseph L. Bast, president of The Heartland Institute and Joseph A. Morris, an attorney who has fought in several countries to defend free speech, wrote in a February 24 commentary, “The Crucifixion of Dr. Wei-Hock Soon”, of an article co-authored with Christopher Monckton, Matt Briggs, and David Legates, and published in the Science Bulletin, a publication of the Chinese Academy of Sciences “The article reveals what appears to be an error in the computer models used to predict global warming that leads models to over-estimate future warming by a factor of three.” (Emphasis added) Their commentary has been downloaded more than 10,000 times!
 
     “If the work of Soon et al is confirmed by other scientists, the ‘global warming crisis’ may need to be cancelled and we can all enjoy lower taxes, fewer regulations, and more personal freedom.” However, “having failed to refute the article, environmentalists turned to smearing the authors.”
 
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     Little wonder the “Warmists” are worried; the Earth has been in a cooling cycle since 1996. People are noticing just how cold this record-breaking and record-setting winter is. 

     The attack on Dr. Soon began with a Greenpeace news release that was republished on the front page of The New York Times on February 22nd. Despite its august reputation, The Times' coverage of climate issues has been an utter disgrace for decades. As public interest waned, it eliminated its staff of reporters exclusively  devoted to writing about the “environment.”
 
     Myron Ebell, a climate change skeptic and director of Global Warming and International Environmental Policy at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, noted on February 27th that the Greenpeace attack on Dr. Soon of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics claimed they had secured $1.2 million in funding for his research over the past decade and that it came from energy corporations, electric utilities, and charitable foundations related to those companies.  The truth, however, is “that the grants were made not to Dr. Soon but to the Smithsonian, which never complained while taking its sizable cut off the top.”
 
     Columnist Larry Bell who is also an endowed professor at the University of Houston, disputed the Greenpeace claim, saying, “First, let’s recognize that the supporting FOIA documents referred to an agreement between the Smithsonian (not Dr. Soon) and Southern Company Services, Inc., whereby 40 percent of that more than $1.2 million went directly to the Smithsonian” leaving “an average funding of $71,000 a year for the past eleven years to support the actual research activities.”
     Focusing on Greenpeace and its Climate Investigations Center which describes itself as “a group funded by foundations seeking to limit the risks of climate change”, Bell asked “Do these activist organizations make their estimated $360,000,000 annual funding publicly available?” Bell said “Ad hominem assaults disparaging the integrity of this leading authority on relationships between solar phenomena and global climate are unconscionable.”
 
     In his article, “Vilifying realist science—and scientists”, Paul Driessen, a policy advisor to the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow (CFACT), noted that in 2012 Greenpeace USA was the recipient of $32,791,149 and that this is true of other environmental pressure groups that in 2012 secured $111,915.138 for the Environmental Defense Fund, $98,701,707 for the Natural Resources Defense Council, $97,757,678 for the Sierra Club, and, for Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection, $19,150,215.
     “All told,” noted Driessen, “more than 16,000 American environmental groups collected total annual revenues of over $13.4 billion (2009 figures). Only a small part of that comes from membership dues and individual contributions.”  With that kind of money you can do a lot of damage to scientist’s reputation.
 
     They fear that the public may actually learn the truth about “global warming” and the fear-mongering claims about “climate change” does not stop with just the environmental organizations. At the same time The New York Times was printing the Greenpeace lies, U.S. Senators Ed Market (D-Mass), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) joined together on February 25th to send letters to 107 companies, trade associations, and non-profit groups demanding comprehensive information about all funding of research on climate or related issues.
 
     Among the groups receiving the letter were two for whom I am a policy advisor, The Heartland Institute and CFACT, but others include the Competitive Enterprise Institute, the George C. Marshall Institute, the American Legislative Exchange Council, and the American Energy Alliance.
     Following The New York Times article, Rep. Raul Grijalva (D-AZ), the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee, sent letters to the presidents of seven universities asking them to provide details about seven professors who are either prominent global warming skeptics.

     As Rich Lowrey, editor of the National Review, pointed out on February 27th, that "Science as an enterprise usually doesn't need political enforcers. But proponents of a climate alarmism that demands immediate action to avert worldwide catastrophe won't and can't simply let the science speak for itself."
 
This is not fact-finding. It is an act of intimidation.
 
     And it looks like a carefully organized effort to quash any research that might dispute “global warming” or “climate change” as defined by the Greens and by both the President and the Secretary of State as the greatest threat we and the rest of the world faces.
 
     The greatest threat is the scores of environmental organizations that have been exaggerating and distorting their alleged “science” in order to thwart development here and around the world that would enhance everyone’s life. Now they are attacking real scientists, those who are skeptical of their claims, to silence them.
 
This is what fascists do.
 
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Thursday Morning - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Left and Right
Tom McLaughlin
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 Hilly Lied, Four Americans Died  
Judicial Watch confirmed Thursday what many Americans already knew: Former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton's attempt to blame the attacks in Benghazi on an "offensive video" was a bald-faced lie. As the result of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the State Department, Judicial Watch obtained a series of critical emails that not only reveal State Department officials knew immediately the American compound in Benghazi was under attack but that the attack was perpetrated by assailants tied to a terrorist group. And despite the infamous exasperated question from the Democrats' likely presidential nominee, the truth does make a big difference at this point. The first email was sent Sept. 11, 2012, at 4:07 p.m. It was forwarded by former Clinton Special Assistant Maria Sand to Clinton's former Chief of Staff Cheryl Mills, former Deputy Chief of Staff for Policy Jacob Sullivan, former Executive Assistant Joseph McManus, and a host of other Special Assistants in Clinton's office. It read as follows: "The Regional Security Officer reports the diplomatic mission is under attack. Tripoli reports approximately 20 armed people fired shots; explosions have been heard as well. Ambassador Stevens, who is currently in Benghazi, and four COM [Chief of Mission] personnel are in the compound safe haven. The 17th of February militia is providing security support." 
-The Patriot Post 
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 2016 POWER INDEX: JEB’S ADVERSARY AND HIS ALTERNATE 
The three top-tier candidates for the Republican nomination came out of the big Conservative Political Action Conference event better than they went in. Frontrunner Jeb Bush took a moderate message to a conservative gathering and came out unscathed. (His team also demonstrated organizational chops in busing in some prepster-looking folks in Jeb! ’16 stickers from the Hill and downtown to fill up empty space in the hall.) Walker scored a surprisingly close second in the event’s closely watched straw poll. While Sen. Rand Paul delivered an expected win with the youngish, libertarian-leaning activists, Walker being just 5 points off the lead with so many conservative alternatives on the ballots is a testament to his surge. And there was no doubt that Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., won new admirers for his nimble, direct answers. And now we start to see some clearer contours of the race.  -Fox News  
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 Different roles -   While Rubio and Walker are far apart in public polling, they are the two people most likely to be the nominee other than frontrunner Bush. But for very different reasons. Walker has emerged as the man most likely to beat Bush, a role the party’s conservatives are eager to fill. In 2012 the establishment-backed frontrunner knocked down a series of “Not Romney” rivals, but this time, conservatives seem to be coalescing behind one well-funded candidate. A similar effect emerged in 2012 for Rick Perry, but he broke down at the first turn. Walker looks much more likely to go the distance. Rubio, on the other hand, looks like a good alternate for Bush if the former Florida governor proves unwilling or unable to pacify his restive party. Rubio, who is less mistrusted by conservatives, has consistently impressed big-money donors both center-right and right-wing. If Bush can’t get the job done, Rubio looks ready.   -Fox News  
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 WALKER WITHDRAWS SUPPORT FOR IMMIGRATION DEAL 
Fox News:  “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, a presumptive 2016 Republican presidential candidate, says he has changed his immigration stance and no longer backs comprehensive reform that would allow illegal immigrants to be penalized but remain in the country…Walker in 2013 said a plan in which illegal immigrants can become United States citizens by first paying penalties and enduring a waiting period ‘makes sense.’ However, he is now saying such a plan is tantamount to amnesty, amid criticism that he has flip-flopped on that issue and others, including right-to-work legislation in his home state. ‘I don’t believe in amnesty,’ said Walker, who finished second Saturday in the Conservative Political Action Conference’s straw poll for potential 2016 Republican presidential candidates…Walker also is among the 25 Republican governors who have joined in a lawsuit challenging the president’s 2014 executive action that defers deportation for millions of illegal immigrants.”  -Fox News  
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 Peace with Perry -   WaPo: “[Texas Gov. Rick Perry] also addressed a small dust-up between himself and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who appeared to compare labor protesters in the United States to Islamic State terrorists during a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday. Responding to the remarks, Perry told MSNBC that the comparison was ‘inappropriate.’ During the CNN interview Sunday, however, the former Texas governor said he accepted Walker’s explanation. ‘I think the initial response when I heard that: ‘That’s not right. You don’t make that connect.’ The governor has gone back and clarified his remarks since then and clearly said that’s not what he was talking about,’ Perry said. ‘I respect that clarification and support him on that.’”
          “And I want to make it clear right now.  I’m not comparing [ISIS and government worker unions]. What I meant was it was about leadership. The leadership we provided under extremely difficult circumstances, arguably, the most difficult of any governor in the country, and maybe in -- in recent times. To me, I apply that to saying if I were to run and if I were to win and be commander-in-chief, I believe that kind of leadership is what's necessary to take on radical Islamic terrorism.” –Gov. Scott Walker, R-Wis., on “Fox News Sunday” Watch here.  
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 Netanyahu, Churchill and Congress  
(Richard Kemp) - There are striking similarities between the objectives of Churchill's speech nearly 75 years ago and Netanyahu's today; both with no less purpose than to avert global conflagration. And, like Churchill's in the 1930s, Netanyahu's is the lone voice among world leaders today...There is no doubt about Iran's intent. It has been described as a nuclear Auschwitz. Israel is not the only target of Iranian violence. Iran has long been making good on its promises to mobilize Islamic forces against the US, as well as the UK and other American allies. Attacks directed and supported by Iran have killed an estimated 1,100 American troops in Iraq in recent years. Iran provided direct support to Al Qaeda in the 9/11 attacks. Between 2010 and 2013, Iran either ordered or allowed at least three major terrorist plots against the US and Europe to be planned from its soil. Fortunately, all were foiled.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5302/netanyahu-congress-speech
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 America’s locust years  
(Jim Talent) - According to a Washington Post story, the German army is so poorly funded that it cannot afford machine guns for its armored vehicles. German soldiers tried to hide the fact — and you have to give them credit for ingenuity — by using broomsticks instead...They painted the broomsticks black and mounted them on top of their vehicles during a NATO training exercise last year. America’s military isn’t using broomsticks, at least as far as I know, but it too is in a steep decline, largely as a result of the spending cuts imposed four years ago by the Budget Control Act. The Navy should have, as a minimum, 325-346 vessels; it has about 280 ships and is headed down to 250 or below. The Air Force is smaller, and flying older aircraft, than at any time since the inception of the Service. Less than half of its combat squadrons are fully ready. The Army has been cut by 80,000 troops in the last three years and will shrink to pre–World War II levels. Other readiness and modernization issues abound, and are getting worse.       http://www.aei.org/publication/americas-locust-years/?utm_source=today&utm_medium=paramount&utm_campaign=AEIToday030215
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 Retaking Mosul  
(Thomas Donnelly) - “Mr. Secretary, do you plan to halt bombing during Ramadan?” “My answer would be .  .  . I’m not going to tell you. Yes?” Under the command  of Barack nObama, the traditional idea that “loose lips sink ships” has gone out of fashion...In mid-February, anonymous officials from U.S. Central Command told reporters of a coming assault to wrest Mosul, Iraq’s second-largest city, from the grip of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. ISIS has held Mosul, which had nearly two million residents, since June 2014. The announcement was a surprise to new defense secretary Ashton Carter and to the White House. It was also disturbing to many in Congress; senators John McCain and Lindsey Graham complained to the president about the leak of the detailed campaign plan, writing: “Never in our memory can we recall an instance in which our military has knowingly briefed our war plans to our enemies.”       http://www.aei.org/publication/retaking-mosul/?utm_source=today&utm_medium=paramount&utm_campaign=AEIToday030215
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 God is Sending a Warning to America!  
(Mathew D. Staver) - This week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is scheduled to address a joint session of Congress to warn lawmakers of the impending danger to Israel and the United States...if the nObama administration moves forward in allowing Iran to obtain nuclear weapons. It appears that President Barack Obama and his Secretary of State, John Kerry, have actually joined with those who seek the “destruction of the Jewish state.” There is no other option for American Christians than to stand in opposition to the destructive actions and policies of the Obama White House.       http://barbwire.com/2015/03/02/0800-god-is-sending-a-warning-to-america/
 
 
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 Hanoi Kerry Blasts UN Council's 'Obsession' With Israel  
(Pamela Dockins) - U.S. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry criticized the United Nations Human Rights Council for what he calls its “obsession with Israel.”...In a Monday speech in Geneva before the U.N. intergovernmental body, Hanoi Kerry said the group’s heavy focus of Israel’s human rights records “risks undermining the credibility of the entire organization.” “We will oppose any effort by any group or participant in the U.N. system to arbitrarily and regularly delegitimize or isolate, Israel,” Hanoi Kerry said. He said no country should be free from scrutiny on human rights, but no country should be subjected to “unfair or unfounded bias.” Hanoi Kerry finally did something right.       http://www.voanews.com/content/kerry-criticizes-un-human-rights-councils-obsession-with-israel/2664290.html
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 Pentagon doc suggests secret U.S. detention facility  
(Aaron Klein) - Information contained in newly declassified Pentagon documents may resurrect questions about claims the U.S. was running an interrogation center or secret prison in Benghazi, Libya, prior to the Sept. 11, 2012, attacks there...Last week, the Pentagon produced 486 pages in response to a Judicial Watch Freedom of Information Act lawsuit asking the Defense Department to release “any and all” records produced by the U.S. Africa Command Operations Center concerning the Benghazi attacks. One document was entitled, “Commander U.S. Africa Command request for forces.”       http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/pentagon-doc-suggests-secret-u-s-detention-facility/
 
 
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 Hanoi John Kerry Ruins White House’s Anti-Israel Party  
(Nicholas Kurch) - On the eve of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s arrival to the United States, where he will give a speech to a joint session of Congress, Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry contradicted National Security Advisor Susan Rice...Netanyahu’s speech will focus on the threat of Iran and the possibility that the Iranians possess nuclear weapons. Rice has said that Netanyahu speaking in front of Congress would be “destructive” to relations between the U.S. and Israel. As the NY Times reported: But Hanoi Kerry has stated that the U.S. should welcome Netanyahu. As the Secretary of State said in an exclusive interview on ABC’s This Week:       http://www.ijreview.com/2015/03/260938-trouble-among-ranks-kerry-contradicts-rice-netanyahu-speech-congress/?utm_source=afternoonalert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=email
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 The Real Crisis in U.S.-Israel Relations Lies Ahead  
(Steven J. Rosen) - The brouhaha over Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's March 3 speech to Congress is diverting attention from more important U.S.-Israel controversies that will escalate soon after this comparatively minor contretemps fizzles out...At the U.N., the Palestinians and Europeans will press forward after the March 17 Israeli election, submitting draft United Nations Security Council resolutions that they postponed at the request of Secretary of State Hanoi John F. Kerry. They are pressuring the administration to join this effort to impose terms on Israel, and not to veto. In the Iran talks, there either will or won't be a framework agreement by the March 31 target date, and either way there will be a clash between friends of Israel and the nObama administration — either about the terms of the agreement, or about intensified sanctions in the absence of an agreement.    http://www.meforum.org/5064/crisis-us-Israel
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 They’re Lying – Hilly Clinton, nObama Knew Benghazi Was Terrorist  
(rickwells.us) - Aside from their natural propensity to lie, the reason why the nObama regime chose to manufacture a ridiculous fairy tale about the nature of the Benghazi attacks rather than admit the truth...is still a topic which will certainly be debated. The fact that Hussein nObama and his operatives, including Secretary of State Hilly Clinton, made a conscious decision to deceive the American people and attempted to cover up the events that took place can no longer be disputed. Judicial Watch has obtained multiple emails, two of which in particular prove beyond any reasonable doubt that the excuse of an inflammatory YouTube video as the cause of the attacks was a complete fabrication. The emails show that Clinton and her staff knew almost immediately that approximately 20 terrorist were engaging in an assault on our facilities. There was no mention of a demonstration or a response to a video and no other supposed motivation other than terrorism was indicated.       http://www.rickwells.us/proof-theyre-lying-hillary-clinton-obama-knew-immediately-benghazi-was-terrorist-attack-foia-documents-reveal/
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 Military Judge Orders Replacement Of “Hurry Up And Release Them”  
(rickwells.us) - The nObama mad rush to empty Gitmo by determining as quickly as possible that most of the prison population has abandoned their terrorist ways now simply wish to live out their days in the company of goats or as rehabilitated agricultural workers has hit a snag...A military judge, Air Force Col. Vance Spath has determined that the overseer of war crimes tribunals at Guantanamo Bay has been improperly attempting to accelerate the process and in doing so has exerted unlawful influence. The culprit is retired Marie Corps Maj. Gen Vaughn Ary. The pivotal point that led to his removal was an order he issued requiring Guantanamo judges to move to the U.S. Naval Base in Cuba to focus on hearings related to the fast-track emptying of the prison. The relocation was ordered in spite of the fact that the affected judges already have other cases on their calendars.       http://www.rickwells.us/not-so-fast-military-judge-orders-replacement-of-hurry-up-and-release-them-gitmo-overseer-of-tribunals/
Left and Right
Tom McLaughlin
 
     (tommclaughlin.blogspot.com) - You could call it the “Wayne’s World” of politics. Every other Wednesday, I go to the Valley Vision studio in North Conway, New Hampshire and argue politics for an hour with a liberal named Gino. We call the show “Left and Right” but I keep suggesting we call it “Right and Wrong” instead. Gino doesn’t agree. Each episode runs over and over in different time slots for two weeks until we tape another. Only people who subscribe to the local Time Warner Cable franchise can watch it on channel three, and we have no idea how many tune in. I think my mother would, but she has a satellite dish.
 
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     Gino and I are both political junkies who keep up on issues of the day. Each of us keeps notes on whatever is happening to bring up on the show, but I have an advantage: I used to be a liberal and I remember how I thought back then when I was young and foolish. Gino, however, was never a conservative. It would be accurate to say that I’m a personification of the adage: “If you’re not a liberal when you’re twenty, you have no heart. If you’re not a conservative when you’re forty, you have no brain.”
 

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     The left/right dichotomy has strongly influenced my life for decades. When I was teaching in the public schools, my history textbooks were slanted liberal. I provided balance by offering a conservative point of view to contrast the book’s perspective. Lately I’ve been teaching a group of ten home-schooled, high school-age students in Auburn with whom I’m doing something I’ve always wanted to try: using both a liberal text and a conservative text, and assigning them readings on a particular period in history from two perspectives. Each student has “A People’s History of the United States” by the late Howard Zinn - a closet communist. They also have “A Patriot’s History of the United States” by Schweikart and Allen. I’ve got students only once a week for two hours, and we cannot cover too much in one year, but it’s very instructive to compare and contrast the two points of view. Authors of both books claim to be unbiased, but neither Zinn nor Schweikart, nor Allen are of course. Neither am I, but I try to be. No one is really, but we should keep our minds open.

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     When I started teaching in 1975, I was pretty far to the left. After dropping out of college in 1972, I worked with liberals in Hanoi John Kerry’s failed congressional campaign in the Massachusetts 5th district that year. I also worked with “community organizer” disciples of Saul Alinsky and Noam Chomsky in Lowell, Massachusetts. After all that I went back to school to become a teacher and began my long metamorphosis from left to right. When I first started publishing columns in 1989, I was still straddling the fence. By about 1993, however, I had become a full-fledged conservative.

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     Around that time, I began publishing regular weekly columns for local newspapers in which I expressed my opinions without reserve. Many readers on the left assumed I taught my history classes the same way I wrote my columns. At first, they wrote letters to the editor suggesting I was unfit to teach and these were published frequently. Several leftists went further by trying to influence principals, superintendents, school boards, and state teacher licensing agencies to discipline me, silence me, or pull my teaching certification. By the time I retired, I had amassed quite a paper trail documenting their efforts.

     For the past three years, I’ve been working on and off writing a book about this, being careful to get it all down as it happened. Last month, I thought, “Okay, I’m done. It’s all down there in black and white.” I printed it off, made some copies, and asked friends to read it with the condition that they be ruthless in their feedback. Well, that feedback is trickling in and I’m thinking maybe I’m not all done. Looks like I need to expand it. Some suggest I add more on what caused me to move from left to right. Others said it reads too much like “just the facts, ma’am” written by a detective or a reporter, and I need to put in more about what it felt like as events unfolded.

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     Then there’s the business of book publishing. It’s not like publishing columns, except that both are changing rapidly. The more I look into it, the more I realize how much I still have to learn. It looks like I may have been premature when I announced on the “Left and Right” show that my book about moving from left to right was finished. It was hard enough to get down what happened. Now I’m going to have to write about my feelings? That’s not something I’m used to or very good at either, but it appears to be still another thing I have to learn.

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2015/03/left-and-right.html

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Wednesday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
In Israel’s hour of need
Carline B. Glick
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
~~~lll~~~
 
 
 GOP Rends Over Immigration Fight  
Congressional Republicans tried to defund Barack nObama's unconstitutional immigration actions through a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security, but instead they suffered a political defeat that leaves the party uncertainly plotting the next move. As the Friday deadline loomed, Republicans taking a hard line on the immigration fight helped defeat House Speaker backstabber John Boehner's bill to fund the department for three weeks. It was Nancy Pulosi who saved the night, telling Democrats to support a bill funding DHS for a meager seven days. Now, there are rumblings that some Republicans will try to force backstabber Boehner from his speaker position. And House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy suggests the Senate should simply press the red button and deploy the nuclear option. That's the wrong answer. A Wall Street Journal editorial concludes, "Republicans need to do some soul searching about the purpose of a congressional majority, including whether they even want it. If they really think Mr. backstabber Boehner is the problem, then find someone else to do his thankless job. If not, then start to impose some order and discipline and advance the conservative cause rather than self-defeating rebellion." This weekend showed Republicans have leadership issues, which nObama continues to exploit. More...  -The Patriot Post 

 Left Changes Tone as Netanyahu Arrives in Washington  
Just a few weeks ago, the White House threatened there would be consequences for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's visit to Congress. This Sunday, Netanyahu touched down in Washington to talk about the U.S.'s deal with Iran, and everybody has put on their politician smiles. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry essentially denied the nObama administration was plotting to undermine both the event and Netanyahu's administration. "The prime minister is welcome in the United States at any time," Hanoi Kerry told ABC. "We have an unparalleled close security relationship with Israel, and we will continue to. I talk to the prime minister regularly, including yesterday. We don't want to see this turned into some great political football. Obviously, it was odd, if not unique, that we learned of it from the speaker of the House and that an administration was not included in this process. But the administration is not seeking to politicize this." Politicize this? Democrat legislators have issued sound bite after sound bite saying Netanyahu doesn't speak for them, or that they'll boycott the speech. And that's not to mention nObama's political shenanigans. No, the Left has already succeeded in making a foreign policy speech by one of America's closest allies into a partisan brouhaha. More...  
-The Patriot Post 

 Lerner's Email Cover-Up 'Potential Criminal Activity'  
Timothy Camus, Treasury deputy inspector general, told the House Oversight Committee "there is potential criminal activity" in how the IRS refused to give Congress Lois Lerner's emails when it was investigating the agency's political targeting of conservative groups. The Daily Caller reports, "Treasury Department inspectors general testified Thursday that they cannot provide any relevant information related to their search for Lois Lerner's missing emails. But at least three bits of information came out: the investigation is on hold over software issues, there is potential criminal wrongdoing, and nobody at the IRS even asked for Lerner's backup email tapes from the people in New Martinsville, West Virginia, who had them." The IRS told Congress Lerner's emails were destroyed and irretrievable. But the IG got the emails after two weeks of searching, and that may warrant a criminal investigation. It's perhaps confirmed one thing that Americans have long suspected, though: The IRS is run by criminals. Oh, and by the way, one of Lerner's emails to a colleague was this gem: "No one will believe your hard drive and mine crashed within a week." No, no one will believe that. More...  -The Patriot Post 

 Durbin: Constitution Was 'Fatally Flawed'  
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) defended Barack nObama's executive amnesty in the Senate by declaring nObama was just doing what was necessary to save the Constitution from itself. "Before any of us can serve in the United States Senate, we stand in the well of the Senate chamber and publicly take an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United States," Durbin said. "I know we all take that seriously, as we should." (Pause for laughter.) He continued, "This is not just another government document. It is really the inspiration of this government and it still governs our actions to this day. Yet, if we view this document with honesty, we know that it was fatally flawed from the start. It got the issue of slavery wrong, in addition to some other issues. It got the issue of race wrong. And since the days when the document was drafted and signed, we have struggled as a nation to right that wrong. It has taken a long, long time." There's no question that the Constitution, as a human document, has its flaws. That's why our Founders set up an amendment process. But Durbin and his fellow Democrats think they are more enlightened than the Founders and, therefore, can do whatever they want with the Constitution -- abandoning the legitimate amendment process altogether. And then they have the gall to claim they take their oaths seriously.  -The Patriot Post 

 Who Vets Fox News 'Experts'?  
STUPID, particularly when it comes to the Second Amendment, is almost exclusive to the Left, but occasionally it slips under the wire on the Right. That is certainly the case with this analysis from Tucker Carlson's Fox News "2A expert" Regis Giles. Commenting on the absurd ATF ban of 5.56 M855 AR-15 rifle cartridges, Giles' remarks were so profoundly ignorant that FNC should have preceded her segment with one of their ubiquitous "FOX NEWS ALERT!" graphics.
          According to Giles, "To say that this [5.56 M855 round] is going to pierce through the armor of cops is ridiculous because it's a tiny bullet like this big [demonstrating the size with her fingers]. And to say that the cop's Kevlar isn't tough enough to handle that ammunition is ridiculous. And, like the FBI said, no one has used this in a handgun to shoot a cop."
          Who vets Fox News guests? Giles must have been smoking "green tips."
          Now, for the record, according to the ATF and FBI, there IS NO RECORD of a police officer being murdered with a 5.56 M855 round -- and, of course, the ATF ammo ban really has nothing to do with "protecting police" and everything to do with nObama's incremental encroachment on the Second Amendment. But come on Carlson -- giving a platform to Giles did nothing to help 2A rights.  -The Patriot Post 

 
 
 
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(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - Pro-Palestinian rallies and groups are being used to aid the rise of Islamic State (ISIS) in Europe, according to a book the group released this month – united under the front of “bringing down Zionsim.”...The book, Black Flags from Rome, encourages European Muslims to rise up and aid ISIS from within, according to a report on the PJ Media website – and notes that terror cells have already been formed. “There were small armies of the Islamic State within every country of Europe by late 2014, and the intelligence agencies didn’t even know about it!” the book exclaims.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/islamic-state-pro-palestinians-in-europe-are-actually-isis-sleeper-cells-called-to-rise-up-conquer-rome-by-2020/
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 Will nObama’s Iran Deal Be the Worst Deal Ever Made?  
(Roger L Simon) - It seems hyperbolic to say that nObama’s nuclear agreement with Iran — if Ayatollah Khamenei, in his “wisdom,” allows it to happen — will be the worst deal ever made. But if what we have been learning about it is true, it almost certainly will be...To begin with, the agreement is said to have a sunset clause of 10-15 years.  Whatever the number turns out to be, that tells us that Iran is free to do anything it wants in the nuclear weapons field after a set amount of time, assuming that it hadn’t disobeyed the strictures of the agreement before then — a monumental assumption given past history. (Ironically, in this one way Iran is not unlike other states, all of which, to my knowledge, do their best to hide their nuclear programs, including the U.S.).      http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2015/03/01/obamas-iran-deal/
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 Liberals Defend Secret Science for EPA  
(Mark Horne) - Why is Congress considering a bill to outlaw the EPA from using secret science as the basis of their regulations? Because we live in an insane dictatorship...We live in a country where the President and the security agencies operate on secret interpretations of laws about which the people who passed the laws had no clue. Naturally, the Environmental Protection Agency has been developing it’s version of secret law.  I assume the EPA can’t enforce secret regulations. (Or maybe they can! Is it possible they could tell a specific company to change their practices and threaten them with penalties if they tell anyone?) But their regulations are only legitimate to the extent that they are truly protecting the environment. That requires reliable scientific findings about what does or does not damage the environment. Otherwise, they are no longer the Environmental Protection Agency, but rather the Environmental Control Agency.       http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/03/liberals-defend-secret-science-for-epa/
 
 
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 nObama, LaRaza Plotting To Replace Americans  
(rickwells.us) - We all know there’s undeniably something un-American about Hussein nObama. In fact, the list of what is American about him would very closely resemble a blank sheet of paper...Susan Payne, a contributor to WCBM Baltimore and co-host of the Pat McDonough Radio Show, reveals to Mark Levin how she was able to listen in on a conference call in which the Marxists of the nObama regime, including a representative of each of 16 cabinet secretaries, as well as Cecilia Munoz, director of the White House Domestic Policy Council, and representatives of the Latino racist organization LaRaza, were gathered to discuss their plot to destroy America from within. She references an nObama creation called the “Task Force on New Americans.” Munoz also is chairperson of that task force, more accurately described as “The Task Force on Replacement Americans.”     http://www.rickwells.us/mark-levin-smoking-gun-of-treason-conference-call-whistle-blower-obama-laraza-plotting-to-replace-americans-with-country-within-a-country/
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 “Trust-Verify”, Hanoi Kerry’s Trust Because They Won’t Let Us Verify  
(rickwells.us) - The future of the world is being negotiated by a person who is naïve enough, if we are to believe his words, to trust the supposed science of global warming, in spite of overwhelming evidence of fraud and data manipulation by the IPCC on behalf of the UN...If he’s not just gullible, then he’s a lying political opportunist promoting a false agenda through his connections and power, forcing the world into a state of carbon compliance slavery. Giving Hanoi Kerry the benefit of the doubt that he is only an inept boob or that he deserves more time to prove irrefutably that he’s digging us into a political pit is a risky proposition. Hanoi John Kerry is the next to last guy that should be negotiating an agreement which could determine the life and death of untold numbers of people, and offers the potential for nuclear war. Hussein nObama is the last.       http://www.rickwells.us/from-reagans-trust-but-verify-to-kerrys-trust-because-they-wont-let-us-verify-americas-nuclear-weakness-in-negotiations/
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 ISIS Captures 350 Christians, Kills 15 Of Them  
(Theodore Shoebat) - Theodore Shoebat on ISIS capturing 350 Christians, killing 15 of them, and their plan to create major killing fields...       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coib3Z-egPc
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 Iran behind cyber-attack on Adelson’s Sands Corp. 
(Robert Spencer) - Adelson is “a leading U.S. supporter of Israel and of Republican political candidates.”...Since nObama is relentlessly courting Iran and making concession after concession to the mullahs, this is unlikely to be taken in the highest circles in Washington as a belligerent act. After all, they hate Adelson, too. The top U.S. intelligence official confirmed for the first time that Iran was behind a cyber attack against the Las Vegas Sands Corp. last year.       http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/03/iran-behind-cyber-attack-on-adelsons-sands-corp?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=ac33a0115c-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-ac33a0115c-123451509
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 Netanyahu’s Full AIPAC Speech: “This is a Bipartisan Issue”  
(nicedeb) - “Ladies and gentlemen, the purpose of my address to Congress, tomorrow, is to speak up about a potential deal with Iran that could threaten the survival of Israel,” Netanyahu explained...He pointed out that Iran is the foremost state sponsor of terrorism around the world, and went on to say that he has a “moral obligation” to warn against the dangers of an American nuclear deal with Iran.  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=34uE1affLl4
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 nObama’s claim that Keystone XL oil ‘bypasses the U.S.’  
(Glenn Kessler) - President nObama, seeking to explain his veto of a bill that would have leapfrogged the approval process for the Keystone XL pipeline, in an interview with a North Dakota station repeated some false claims...that had previously earned him Pinocchios. Yet he managed to make his statement even more misleading than before, suggesting the pipeline would have no benefit for American producers at all. he Fact Checker obviously takes no position on the pipeline, and has repeatedly skewered both sides for overinflated rhetoric. Yet the president’s latest comments especially stand out. Let’s review the facts again.
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 Hero of the Middle East: King Abdullah II of Jordan  
(Bassam Tawil) - King Abdullah II is not like U.S. President Barack nObama, who is afraid to fight Islamic terrorism and afraid of an Iran that aspires to be nuclear, even as it threatens all of us, including the U.S. ...What does President nObama, leader of the greatest power on earth, think Iran is building intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) for? Iran does not need them to strike Israel, or ISIS or the Sunni countries of the Middle East. It can already do that without ICBMs. Yet His Majesty King Abdullah ibn Hussein, king of one of the smallest countries in the world, is ready to fight heroically to protect his people. ISIS sleeper cells are in place throughout Jordan. It is now clear to Jordanian security officials that because of religious and ideological ties, the Muslim Brotherhood in Jordan is now ISIS's fifth column.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5297/king-abdullah-jordan-hero
In Israel’s hour of need
Carline B. Glick
 
     (.aim.org) - It is hard to get your arms around the stubborn determination of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu today. For most of the nine years he has served as Israel’s leader, first from 1996 to 1999 and now since 2009, Netanyahu shied away from confrontations or buckled under pressure. He signed deals with the Palestinians he knew the Palestinians would never uphold in the hopes of winning the support of hostile US administrations and a fair shake from the pathologically hateful Israeli media.

     In recent years he released terrorist murderers from prison. He abrogated Jewish property rights in Jerusalem, Judea, and Samaria. He agreed to support the establishment of a Palestinian state west of the Jordan River. He agreed to keep giving the Palestinians of Gaza free electricity while they waged war against Israel. He did all of these things in a bid to accommodate US President Barack nObama and win over the media, while keeping the leftist parties in his coalitions happy.

     For his part, for the past six years nObama has undermined Israel’s national security. He has publicly humiliated Netanyahu repeatedly.

     He has delegitimized Israel’s very existence, embracing the jihadist lie that Israel’s existence is the product of post-Holocaust European guilt rather than 4,000 years of Jewish history.

     He and his representatives have given a backwind to the forces that seek to wage economic warfare against Israel, repeatedly indicating that the application of economic sanctions against Israel – illegal under the World Trade Organization treaties – are a natural response to Israel’s unwillingness to bow to every Palestinian demand. The same goes for the movement to deny the legitimacy of Israel’s very existence. Senior administration officials have threatened that Israel will become illegitimate if it refuses to surrender to Palestinian demands.

     Last summer, nObama openly colluded with Hamas’s terrorist war against Israel. He tried to coerce Israel into accepting ceasefire terms that would have amounted to an unconditional surrender to Hamas’s demands for open borders and the free flow of funds to the terrorist group. He enacted a partial arms embargo on Israel in the midst of war. He cut off air traffic to Ben-Gurion International Airport under specious and grossly prejudicial terms in an open act of economic warfare against Israel.

     And yet, despite nObama’s scandalous treatment of Israel, Netanyahu has continued to paper over differences in public and thank nObama for the little his has done on Israel’s behalf. He always makes a point of thanking nObama for agreeing to Congress’s demand to continue funding the Iron Dome missile defense system (although nObama has sought repeatedly to slash funding for the project).

     nObama’s policies that are hostile to Israel are not limited to his unconditional support for the Palestinians in their campaign against Israel. nObama shocked the entire Israeli defense community when he supported the overthrow of Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak, despite Mubarak’s dependability as a US ally in the war on Islamist terrorism, and as the guardian of both Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel and the safety and freedom of maritime traffic in the Suez Canal.

     nObama supported Mubarak’s overthrow despite the fact that the only political force in Egypt capable of replacing him was the Muslim Brotherhood, which seeks the destruction of Israel and is the ideological home and spawning ground of jihadist terrorist groups, including al-Qaida and Hamas. nObama then supported the Muslim Brotherhood’s regime even as then-president Mohamed Morsi took concrete steps to transform Egypt into an Islamist, jihadist state and end Egypt’s peace with Israel.

     Israelis were united in our opposition to nObama’s behavior. But Netanyahu said nothing publicly in criticism of nObama’s destructive, dangerous policy.

     He held his tongue in the hopes of winning nObama over through quiet diplomacy.

     He held his tongue, because he believed that the damage nObama was causing Israel was not irreversible in most cases. And it was better to maintain the guise of good relations, in the hopes of actually achieving them, than to expose the fractures in US-Israel ties caused by nObama’s enormous hostility toward Israel and by his strategic myopia that endangered both Israel and the US’s other regional allies.

     And yet, today Netanyahu, the serial accommodator, is putting everything on the line. He will not accommodate. He will not be bullied. He will not be threatened, even as all the powers that have grown used to bringing him to his knees – the nObama administration, the American Jewish Left, the Israeli media, and the Labor party grow ever more shrill and threatening in their attacks against him.

     As he has made clear in daily statements, Netanyahu is convinced that we have reached a juncture in our relations with the nObama administration where accommodation is no longer possible.

     nObama’s one policy that Netanyahu has never acquiesced to either publicly or privately is his policy of accommodating Iran.

     Since nObama’s earliest days in office, Netanyahu has warned openly and behind closed doors that nObama’s plan to forge a nuclear deal with Iran is dangerous. And as the years have passed, and the lengths nObama is willing to go to appease Iran’s nuclear ambitions have been left their marks on the region, Netanyahu’s warnings have grown stronger and more urgent.

     Netanyahu has been clear since his first tenure in office in the 1990s, that Iran’s nuclear program – as well as its ballistic missile program – constitutes a threat to Israel’s very existence. He has never wavered from his position that Israel cannot accept an Iran armed with nuclear weapons.

     Until nObama entered office, and to an ever escalating degree until his reelection in 2012, preventing Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons has been such an obvious imperative among both Israelis and Americans that Netanyahu’s forthright rejection of any nuclear deal in which Iran would be permitted to maintain the components of its nuclear program was uncontroversial. In some Israeli circles, his trenchant opposition to Iran’s acquisition of nuclear capabilities was the object of derision, with critics insisting that he was standing strong on something uncontroversial while buckling on issues like negotiations with the Palestinians, where he should have stood strong.

     But now we are seeing that far from being an opportunist, Netanyahu is a leader of historical dimensions. For the past two years, in the interest of reaching a deal, nObama has enabled Iran to take over Iraq, Syria, Lebanon, and Yemen. For the first time since 1974, due to nObama’s policies, the Golan Heights is an active front in the war against Israel, with Iranian military personnel commanding Syrian and Hezbollah forces along the border.

     Iran’s single-minded dedication to its goal of becoming a regional hegemon and its commitment to its ultimate goal of destroying the US is being enabled by nObama’s policies of accommodation. An Iran in possession of a nuclear arsenal is an Iran that can not only destroy Israel with just one or two warheads. It can make it impossible for Israel to respond to conventional aggression carried out by terrorist forces and others operating under an Iranian nuclear umbrella.

     Whereas Israel can survive nObama on the Palestinian front by stalling, waiting him out and placating him where possible, and can even survive his support for Hamas by making common cause with the Egyptian military and the government of President Abdel Fattah al-Sissi, the damage nObama’s intended deal with Iran will cause Israel will be irreversible. The moment that nObama grants Iran a path to a nuclear arsenal – and the terms of the agreement that nObama has offered Iran grant Iran an unimpeded path to nuclear power – a future US administration will be hard-pressed to put the genie back in the bottle.

     For his efforts to prevent irreparable harm to Israel Netanyahu is being subjected to the most brutal and vicious attacks any Israeli leader has ever been subjected to by an American administration and its political allies. They are being assisted in their efforts by a shameless Israeli opposition that is willing to endanger the future of the country in order to seize political power.

     Every day brings another serving of abuse. Wednesday National Security Adviser Susan Rice accused Netanyahu of destroying US relations with Israel. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry effectively called him a serial alarmist, liar, and warmonger.

     For its part, the Congressional Black Caucus reportedly intends to sabotage Netanyahu’s address before the joint houses of Congress by walking out in the middle, thus symbolically accusing of racism the leader of the Middle East’s only liberal democracy, and the leader of the most persecuted people in human history.

     Radical leftist representatives who happen to be Jewish, like Jan Schakowsky of suburban Chicago and Steve Cohen of Memphis, are joining Netanyahu’s boycotters in order to give the patina of Jewish legitimacy to an administration whose central foreign policy threatens the viability of the Jewish state.

     As for Netanyahu’s domestic opponents, their behavior is simply inexcusable. In Israel’s hour of peril, just weeks before nObama intends to conclude his nuclear deal with the mullahs that will endanger Israel’s existence, Labor leader Yitzhak Herzog insists that his primary duty is to defeat Netanyahu.

     And as far as Iran is concerned, he acts as a free loader ad a spoiler. Either he believes that Netanyahu will succeed in his mission to derail the deal with or without his support, or he doesn’t care. But Herzog’s rejection of Netanyahu’s entreaties that he join him in Washington next week, and his persistent attacks on Netanyahu for refusing accommodate that which cannot be accommodated shows that he is both an opportunist and utterly unworthy of a leadership role in this country.

     Netanyahu is not coming to Washington next Tuesday to warn Congress against nObama’s nuclear deal with Iran, because he seeks a fight with nObama. Netanyahu has devoted the last six years to avoiding a fight with nObama, often at great cost to Israel’s national security and to his own political position.

     Netanyahu is coming to Washington next week because nObama has left him no choice. And all decent people of good will should support him, and those who do not, and those who are silent, should be called out for their treachery and cowardice.

http://www.aim.org/guest-column/in-israels-hour-of-need/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email030215&utm_medium=email

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Wednesday Morning - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
How big is the target
the government has put on your back?
Kevin “Coach” Collins
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 Cruz: ‘Demand action, not talk’ -   Dallas Morning News:
“Sen. Ted Cruz warned conservative activists Thursday not to buy claims from 2016 rivals that they’re true conservatives. None, he said, would ever actually stand up and confess: ‘Actually I’m a squishy moderate who stands for nothing.’ Better, he urged, to look for the candidate who bears the scars of ideological combat. In other words, someone like him. ‘Demand action, not talk,’ …”  -Fox News  
 
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 FIORINA AUDITIONS AS HILLY HATCHET WOMAN 
From Benghazi to buckraking, potential 2016 GOP contender Carly Fiorina blasted Democratic frontrunner Hilly Clinton at CPAC Thursday. National Journal: “Unlike every other Republican presidential hopeful at CPAC, Fiorina is uniquely able to criticize Clinton without having to worry about cries of sexism. ‘This is not leadership,’ she said of nObama. ‘Nor is it leadership when Secretary Clinton asks what difference does it make when our embassy is deliberately attacked by terrorists and four Americans are murdered,’ Fiorina said. ‘It makes all the difference, Mrs. Clinton, and the required response has never come.’ … ‘She tweets about women’s rights in this country and takes money from governments that deny women the most basic human rights. She tweets about equal pay for women, but won’t answer basic questions about her own office’s pay standards’ [Fiorina said] ‘Hilly may like hashtags, but she does not know what leadership means.’”
          [Report: Hilly knew Benghazi attack was terrorists - National Review: “From the very first moments of the terrorist attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi on September 11, 2012, then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton and her top aides were advised that the compound was under a terrorist attack. In fact, less than two hours into the attack, they were told that the al-Qaeda affiliate in Libya, Ansar al-Sharia, had claimed responsibility. These revelations and others are disclosed by a trove of e-mails and other documents pried from the State Department by Judicial Watch in a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit.”]  -Fox News  
 
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 nOBAMA’S EXECUTIVE ACTION TO BAN BULLETS 
Wash Ex: “As promised, President nObama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic, with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56 mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president.”  -Fox News  
 
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 WHAT DO FEDERAL INTERNET REGS MEAN FOR YOU? 
Christian Science Monitor: “What every side does agree on, though, is that the results of today’s vote will affect everyone who uses the Internet. Anyone who goes online does so through an ISP, and increasingly these companies are lobbying to provide services on their own terms. Without net neutrality rules, companies like Comcast and Verizon could cherry pick which content is easy to access. And that means that consumer access to specific online content could slow down or speed up noticeably.”
          404 - The Hill: “Partisan tensions over the drafting of new net neutrality rules might not fade so quickly on the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Thursday’s 3-2 vote on the rules came after months of accusations of misconduct and antipathy from the commission’s two Republicans, and they don’t appear entirely confident that everything can be smoothed over.”  -Fox News  
 
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 backstabber BOEHNER PUTS PRESSURE BACK ON SENATE IN   DHS FUNDING FIGHT 
National Journal: “Speaker backstabber John Boehner on Thursday night finally laid out a plan to avert a partial shutdown of the Homeland Security Department: kick the can a little farther down the road. Yet even that may fail. With just one day left until funding runs dry for DHS, backstabber Boehner urged his conference to pass a three-week extension of current funding and try to force Senate Democrats into a conference committee to resolve their differences. The only alternatives, he told his members behind closed doors, would be to let the department shut down or capitulate to the Senate by passing a clean full-year funding bill. But passing the measure in the House will not be easy. backstabber Boehner’s partial solution comes after a weeks-long deadlock, and he is stuck between angry conservatives adamant about blocking President nObama’s executive action on immigration and moderates concerned about the politics of a shutdown.”   -Fox News  
 
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 nObama Can’t Be Happy, Franklin Graham Accused Him of Doing  
(teapartypolitics.com) - Just short of calling nObama a liar, Franklin Graham, son of famed evangelist Billy Graham, said nObama has been misleading Americans about Islam...In particular he took issue with how 21 Christians were executed on video and the President refused to identify them as Christians, instead calling them “citizens” and “innocents.”   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ttrYO0pms8  “The president is ignoring the fact that these are Islamic extremists,” Rev. Graham told Greta Van Sustren while appearing on her show. “And they are bent on destroying the West. They’ve already said they want the flag of Islam to fly over the White House.”       http://teapartypolitics.com/obama-cant-happy-franklin-graham-just-accused/
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Former U.S. Secretary of State, Hillary Clinton speaks at the U.S. Agency for International Development at "Cookstoves Future" summit in New York, November 21, 2014. REUTERS/Brendan McDermid
 Hilly Clinton, coin-operated policymaker  
(Timothy P. Carney) - The latest tales of State Department ethics violations, foreign money, and special access would be surprising if they were about anyone but Hilly Clinton...Throughout her political career Clinton has always blended cash and policy. She’s not merely corporatist by disposition, like, say Tim Geithner or Lindsey Graham. She’s not simply sloppy on ethics, like Bob McDonnell or John Kitzhaber. Hilly is blatantly transactional in her fundraising and policymaking. And she wants to be president. Here’s the background on the latest Clinton story:    http://www.aei.org/publication/hillary-clinton-coin-operated-policymaker/
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 Austrian Parliament Bans Foreign Funding For Islamic Organizations  
(investigativeproject.org) - The Australian parliament passed legislation on Wednesday prohibiting foreign funding for Islamic organizations in an attempt at curbing the spread of Islamist radicalism, Newsweek reports...The law specifically bans foreign funding for imams and mosques from some Muslim nations including Saudi Arabia and Turkey. Under the new legislation, Austria's 450 Muslim organizations must exhibit a "positive approach toward society and the state" in order to continue receiving official authorization. Sebastian Kurz, Austria's integration minister, said that the new provisions would inhibit specific Muslim countries from exerting "political influence" in Austria via financial mechanisms.       http://www.investigativeproject.org/4793/austrian-parliament-bans-foreign-funding-for
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 nObama Threatened To Shoot Down Israeli Air Force if...  
(theconservativetreehouse.com) - An alarming report from Kuwait has surfaced which outlines a 2014 Israeli decision to bomb part of the Iranian nuclear facility, and President nObama finding out -through a U.S. State Dept source- about the plan...According to the report the U.S. administration told the diplomatic couriers the U.S. would challenge any Israeli flight and would shoot down if needed. The Kuwaiti media report, while using numerous unnamed U.S. sources, holds a great deal of credence if read by anyone who has researched the players and their historical positions within the U.S. as it relates to nObama’s ideology. Specifically the aspect of Zbigniew Brzezinski who we know holds a tremendous amount of historical sway with President nObama. Can't believe he would threaten Israel. He is definitely an enemy of America.        http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/03/01/report-president-obama-threatened-to-shoot-down-israeli-air-force-if-iaf-mounted-strike-against-irans-nuclear-facilities/
Samantha Power of the Kennedy school and a nObama advisor calls for a military invasion of Israel to create a palestinan state.        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2oFkmcZt4OQ
Another report of nObama threating to shoot down Israel Jets by WMD.COM
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 Report: nObama threatened to shoot down Israeli jets  
(wnd.com) - President Barack nObama thwarted an Israeli military attack against Iran’s nuclear facilities in 2014 by threatening to shoot down Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran...according to a Kuwaiti newspaper cited by the Bethlehem-based news agency Ma’an. In the wake of nObama’s purported threat, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was said to be forced to abort the strike on Iran. Israel National News published an account of the report from Al-Jarida. It said the Netanyahu government decided to attack Iran “some time in 2014 soon after Israel had discovered the United States and Iran had been involved in secret talks over Iran’s nuclear program and were about to sign an agreement in that regard behind Israel’s back.” The report claimed an unnamed Israeli minister who has good ties with the nObama administration disclosed details of the attack plan to U.S. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry, and that “nObama then threatened to shoot down the Israeli jets before they could reach their targets in Iran.”      http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/report-obama-threatened-to-shoot-down-israeli-jets/
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 “All” violence against Jews in France are committed by Muslims  
(pamelageller.com) - Finally, the truth. And with it the falling out. The idea that nazis are the problem is just a cover for Islamic Jew-hatred. The nazis were defeated...Their partners in the war against the Jews, the Muslims, were not. And they are the problem. Notice how people have begun to admit to what I have been saying for a decade. The Muslims refuse to confront this. Instead of facing the problem, they get angry at anyone who speaks of it. Why? Because they support Islamic Jew-hatred — it is a tenet of their religion, a religious imperative.       http://pamelageller.com/2015/02/frances-top-jewish-leader-unequivocal-all-violence-committed-against-jews-in-france-today-is-committed-by-muslims.html/
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 Legitimizing Iran as a Threshold Nuclear Power?  
(Yaakov Lappin) - The essential problem with the would-be deal is that it will leave Iran with an enhanced ability to enrich uranium -- an ability that can lead Iran to nuclear weapons production in a relatively short time...The purpose of an agreement is to push Iran away from the ability to make nuclear weapons. According to reports surfacing from the talks, the proposed arrangement will likely leave a good portion of Iran's known centrifuges, which enrich uranium, intact. Such a deal fails to provide any guarantee that this same infrastructure will not later be used to get Iran quickly to the nuclear weapons production stage.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5294/iran-threshold-nuclear
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 nObama Judge Invites Repatriated Illegals To Return, Seek US Jobs  
(Neil Munro) - President Barack nObama’s government is inviting many repatriated illegal immigrants back to work in the United States under a deal approved this week by a federal judge...The deal was finalized by nObama’s deputies and their ideological allies in the American Civil Liberties Union, via a courtroom negotiation under the supervision of an nObama-app0inted judge. The deal also provided $700,000 to the ACLU for the lawyers’ fees. The new deal creates a legal precedent that can be used to argue for the return of millions more illegal immigrants. That new policy is strongly backed by nObama, who says he welcomes the political changes brought by immigrants, and recently threatened law enforcement officers to resist his effort to rollback enforcement of immigration law. So far, the GOP leadership has failed to mount an effective or organized campaign to uphold the nation’s immigration law.     http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/27/obama-judge-invites-repatriated-illegals-to-return-seek-us-jobs/?AID=7236
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 Ted Cruz spills secret of GOP amnesty sabotage 
(Garth Kant) - U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, strongly suggested the fix was in from the beginning by GOP leaders to sabotage the fight against nObama’s amnesty, saying, “The cake was baked from the start.”...The senator said that was evident to him immediately when GOP leaders chose a bill funding the Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, as the vehicle to try to stop the amnesty President nObama granted to five-million illegal immigrants by executive order in November. If the GOP leadership had really wanted to stop amnesty, Cruz explained, they would not have attached the provision defunding nObama’s amnesty to the DHS funding bill. They would have attached it to a bill defunding the Environmental Protection Agency, “or some other non-essential agency.”     http://www.wnd.com/2015/03/ted-cruz-spills-secret-of-gop-amnesty-sabotage/
 
 
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 Christians, Kurds and volunteers join to fight Islamic state  
(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - These poor Christians! What horrendous things they go through. Yet not even one country has come forth to offer them military protection, aid or finances. The Kurds initially lead Isis to the locations of the Christians and Yazidis and refused to hand them guns to defend themselves...The Iraqi military also lead Isis to their victims, to be massacred like lambs. It appears the Kurds are now collaborating more to work together with the Christians to battle against Isis. It should be of no surprise. Kurds although Muslims are a small minority group and one of the many infamous ‘kafir’ Muslims, always a target of persecution from the Muslim majority. Christians and volunteers from around the world have also started to come together to fight back against the horrendous Islamic massacres and persecution they go through. Why are billions of dollars handed to Gaza – created out of terrorism – while not even one cent is contributed to the Christians to defend themselves? In Iran Christians have now been asked to leave the country or face to be killed. And yet, nObama administration wants to deal with them.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/03/02/christians-kurds-and-volunteers-from-around-the-world-join-to-fight-islamic-state/
How big is the target
the government has put on your back?
Kevin “Coach” Collins

     (coachisright.com) - Our friends at Americanfreedomfighters.com have examined hundreds of US Government documents and developed a clear list of characteristics Barack nObama’s Administration thinks are “red flag” indications that make us terrorists in their eyes.

     All of these characteristics can be fully examined using the links provided by the authors.

     All of the following “forbidden” thoughts or actions will make you suspect in nObama’s eyes.

     Barack nObama thinks you are a terrorist threat if you talk about individual rights; support the idea of states’ rights; want to make the world a better place; identify with the colonists who fought the American Revolution; want to defeat Communism; believe America’s interests are separate from those of other nations; consider the state unnecessary; are intolerant toward other religions; are anti-Gay, anti-immigrant and/or anti-Muslim.

     Further, anyone aligned with the following thoughts or organizations is suspect in nObama’s mind: the patriot movement; against equal rights for Gays/Lesbians; the Family Research Council or the American Family Association; believes there is a conspiracy to establish a North American Union; have joined a citizens border patrol – an immigration reform group, the Tennessee Freedom Coalition or the Christian Action Network.    

     The red flags continue with: opposing the “New World Order;” seeing conspiracies in government programs; opposing Agenda 21and/or FEMA camps; fearing gun confiscation; joining a militia movement; belief in citizen sovereignty, not paying taxes and speaking out against “bias” in our public life.      

     Here are more red flags: doubts the “value of mainstream” ideas; attending rallies nObama doesn’t like; showing religious “intolerance”; holds a “personal” grievance; suddenly acquires “weapons;” organizes a protest supporting “extreme ideas” nObama doesn’t approve of; being a “right wing extremist;” having patriotic or anti-UN bumper stickers; fierce nationalism; being afraid of attacks by government agents; believing religion should not be part of our government; or and being a member of the Army of God.

     The “List” concludes by citing those who are anti-abortion; anti-Catholic; anti-nuclear; pro Second Amendment; support Ron Paul; Chuck Baldwin; and/or Bob Barr; who fly the “Don’t Tread on Me” flag; those that believe in “end of times” prophecies and of course Evangelical Christians.

     If you are NOWHERE on this list you are probably not reading this on a conservative website, meaning you are quite possibly part of the problem, not part of the solution.

http://www.coachisright.com/big-target-government-put-back/

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 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Why nObama Won’t Call the Jihadis Islamic
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 The Islamic Threat -- It's Already Here  
There are varying opinions about the threat the Islamic State poses in the Middle East and Europe, and apparently there is no consensus about the coinciding Islamic threat against U.S. domestic targets. That confusion was on full display from the White House to Capitol Hill this week. After three Islamists were arrested in New York for plotting to either join 20,000 other foreigners now among ISIL's ranks, or turn their sites on domestic targets, FBI Director James Comey warned, "We have investigations of people in various stages of radicalization in all 50 states. ... This isn't a New York phenomenon or a Washington phenomenon, this is all 50 states. ... [Radicalization prospects] exist in every state. I have homegrown violent extremist investigations in every single state." Apparently, the primary domestic terrorists threat is not "right wing," as errantly asserted by DHS on the heels of Barack nObama's faux Summit on Countering Violent Extremism-The Patriot Post  
 
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 Trying to Reverse a Homeownership Slide 
Earlier this week the Census Bureau released more bad news for the c
urrent regime: The rate of homeownership has fallen to a 20-year low, continuing a slide that began at the apex of the housing market in 2004. Ten years ago, 69% of Americans owned homes, but that has fallen to 64.5% in 2014. As loose lips Joe Biden keeps telling us, Barack nObama's economy is terrible: "The middle class is being killed." Unfortunately, the economic conditions that led to the dramatic increase in the decade from 1994 to 2004 can't be duplicated today. What was once an era of steady, mainly full-time employment and ample economic growth has now stagnated to a point where those most likely to enter the housing market and become owners are saddled with part-time gigs and staggering student loan debt. Meanwhile, older generations have been struggling with issues of their own, as the equity they once possessed in their homes has long since been wiped out, leaving some unable to keep the dwellings they once owned. After the housing bubble a decade ago led to the economic devastation of 2008, it would make sense to tighten the housing market and have banks ensure that borrowers are more qualified. But recent steps by Barack nObama's Federal Housing Administration indicate the desire to return to the reckless practices that wrecked our economy in the first place.   -The Patriot Post  
 
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 HIGH WIRE ACT FOR JEB AT CPAC 
Will Jeb Bush make his case to the GOP base or will he stand his ground as a moderate willing to “lose the primary to win the general?” That’s the question hanging over today’s packed schedule at the Conservative Political Action Conference outside of Washington. CPAC, which is kicking the GOP nominating process into high gear, will afford the former Florida governor his best chance yet to make his case to the party’s conservative activist core. Bush will be interviewed this afternoon by Sean Hannity, who has been tough on issues like Bush’s support for citizenship for illegal immigrants and Common Core federal school curricula. Bush’s decision to emphasize his moderate stances or his areas of agreement with the party base, particularly on abortion, will tell us a great deal about what kind of campaign to expect from the GOP frontrunner.

          Jeb says he ‘won’t cower’ on immigration - Wash Ex: “In perhaps his most campaign-style speech so far, not-yet-official GOP presidential candidate Jeb Bush vowed Thursday not to alter his views on immigration despite intense opposition among some parts of the Republican base. ‘If I go beyond the consideration of running, I'm not backing down from something that is a core belief,’ Bush told a gathering of the conservative Club for Growth here in Florida. ‘Are we supposed to just cower because at the moment people are all upset about something? No way, no how.’”  -Fox News 
 
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 RUBIO SKETCHES OUT IMMIGRATION PLAN 
David Drucker
nabbed a sit-down with Sen. Marco Rubio in which the Florida Senator laid out a few policy targets for a hypothetical presidency. Rubio spoke forcefully about undoing President nObama’s agenda on foreign policy and health insurance, but also hinted at what his immigration agenda would look like. WashEx: “Rubio indicated that he would immediately call for passage of legislation to secure portions of the border that remain ‘largely’ unprotected; implement new enforcement tools, including an entry-exit system to track visa overstays; and modernize employment verification to discourage the hiring of illegal immigrants. ‘Once that system is in place and functioning, I believe that that’s the key that opens the door to, one, modernizing our legal immigration system towards a merit-based system; and two, dealing with those who are here illegally but have been here for a long period of time and have otherwise not violated our laws,’ Rubio said.”  -Fox News 
 
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 WALKER ROCKED CROWD, BUT HAS TO CLEAN UP ISIS   REMARKS 
Wash Ex: “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has walked back a remark in which he equated pro-union protesters in Wisconsin with the Islamic State. Speaking to a crowd at the Conservative Political Action Conference on Thursday, Walker was asked how he would address national security threats including the Islamic State. ‘I want a commander in chief who will do everything in their power to ensure that the threat from radical Islamic terrorists does not wash up on American soil," Walker said. "If I can take on 100,000 protesters, I can do the same across the world.’ After the comment sparked blowback, Walker said later he did not mean to equate the protestors in Wisconsin, who opposed Walker's move to limit collective bargaining, with terrorists. ‘My point was just, if I could handle that kind of a pressure and kind of intensity, I think I'm up for the challenge for whatever might come, if I choose to run for president,’  Walker clarified to Bloomberg Politics.”  -Fox News 
 
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 Oil Smuggling Highlights Challenges in Shutting Down IS Finances  
(Sharon Behn) - In the span of one year, Islamic State militants made more than half a billion dollars by seizing government banks, illegal oil sales, kidnapping and extortion, making them one of the wealthiest terrorist organizations in the world...The United States, its allies and the United Nations are making efforts to shut down the money flows. Airstrikes in Iraq and Syria have knocked out oil fields and refineries. The United Nations Security Council has adopted strongly worded resolutions to prevent oil smuggling. Pentagon spokesman Rear Admiral John Kirby said Friday that the Islamic State "certainly continues to get revenue from the oil industry black market" but that airstrikes have made a dent.       http://www.voanews.com/content/oil-smuggling-highlights-challenges-in-shutting-down-is-finances/2662884.html
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 Adm. James Lyons Explains nObama, MB & ISIS Almost to the Depths  
(Arlen Williams) - This morning, Andrea Shea King conducted a brief (half-hour) and for the only major media -informed, very revelatory interview with retired Admiral James A. Lyons...It concerned the realities of Barack Hussein nObama, Muslim Brotherhood’s nObama-accelerated but longstanding infiltration of American halls of power, the use of the U.S. Department of State, and just a smidge about “our” corrupt (anti-)American exploits in “Arab Spring” lands. Of special interest to me, at the 16:40 point, Ms. King asks Adm. Lyons why the Gowdy committee on Benghazi is moving at a “glacial pace,” and the latter gives more of the answer than one usually hears, about what has become obvious. Why don’t you listen to it, rather than my transcribing?       http://noisyroom.net/blog/2015/02/27/adm-james-lyons-explains-obama-muslim-brotherhood-isis-almost-to-the-depths/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Noisyroomnet+%28NoisyRoom.net%29
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Palestinian members of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement (Reuters / Mohammed Salem)
 Egyptian court declares Hamas a terrorist group  
(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - An Egyptian court has declared the Palestinian movement Hamas a terrorist organization. The group, an offshoot of the Muslim Brotherhood, called the decision “shocking and dangerous,” saying it shows that Egypt is “serving the Israeli enemy.”... “The court ruled that Hamas should be included as a terrorist organization,” Samir Sabry, a lawyer involved in the case, told Reuters. The decision follows an Egyptian court’s ban on the Izza-Din al-Qassam Brigades, an armed wing of Hamas, in January. Authorities accused the group of smuggling weapons into the country to provide assistance to Islamists fighting against the current government. They also alleged Hamas’ armed wing had planned and carried out terrorist attacks in Egypt, including a shooting in Sinai on January 29, in which 33 people were killed.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/02/28/breaking-news-egyptian-court-declares-hamas-a-terrorist-group/
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 300-400 Syrian Christians Kidnapped by ISIS - USA Responds 
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Onan Coca) - The U.S.-led coalition has launched three air strikes on the Islamic State in northeastern Syria...An estimated 300-400 Syrian Christians were abducted by militants in the region, according to Kino Gabriel, a commander for the Syriac Military Council. The strikes succeeded in slowing the movement of Islamic State forces. Speaking to The Daily Caller News Foundation via Skype from Syria’s northeastern Al-Hasakah province, Gabriel said Islamic State militants started setting tires on fire in order “to generate smoke to cover their movement, heavy weapons and machines.” Air strikes won't cut it.       http://lastresistance.com/10333/300-400-syrian-christians-kidnapped-isis-usa-responds/
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 Judge Jeanine To Dangerous Hanoi Kerry, nObama  
(Rick Wells) - Judge Jeanine asks if it’s her or does nothing coming out of Washington make sense these days? She then plays a clip of Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry making the untrue statement...instructing us that in spite of all the chaos of the world, including ISIS, we are “actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people of the world” than what is normal.  She immediately follows those comments up with a statement by James Clapper in which he states that when all of the accounting is done, 2014 will have been the most lethal year for global terrorism in the forty-five years such data has been compiled. Hanoi Kerry is lying with a straight face, unbelievable.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3174wmGB0A
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 Above The Law, Defying the Court Injunction On Amnesty  
(rickwells.us) - Under the nObama regime, the law is only intended for the peasant citizens of America, the little, insignificant and meaningless people who are the backbone of this nation...whose ancestors created it, and who are presently the host of their parasitic leadership. The elites in power have demonstrated repeatedly that they feel themselves to be above law, as are their new imported replacement population of illegal aliens. In this particular instance, the regime is doubling down on their criminality. They are violating an injunction issued in response to a previous violation of federal law. We need to understand that these are not common criminals; they are the communist operatives who fully intend to overthrow the government of our nation from within and that process is well underway. As such, our laws mean nothing to them. They are mere words on paper, or “worthless” parchment in the case of our Constitution.       http://www.rickwells.us/above-the-law-defying-the-court-injunction-on-amnesty-sheriff-arpaio-blows-whistle-on-outlaw-dictatorial-duo-of-obama-and-Johnson/
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 Military Could Have Been Funded With $120B nObama Threw Away  
(rickwells.us) - Senator Jim Inhofe has long been the chief and sometimes the only voice of reason in the insanity of the chorus alarmism which is globalist push for their license to rape and pillage our nation the call manmade climate change...He’s an expert on the topic and the political motivations behind the UN and international push towards wealth redistribution in the name of Earth worship and global government. He’s authored a book on the subject title “The Greatest Hoax” that is a very easy and very informative read. Senator Inhofe is interviewed after drawing attention by tossing a snowball inside the Senate, one that came from outside in the freezing temperatures of “global warming.” Senator Inhofe addresses the fact that they’ve voted on cap and trade five times and notes that under its current reincarnation as with others, it would be the largest tax increase in history on the people of America. He also refers to nObama’s former EPA director Lisa Jackson as stating that even if something were passed it would have no effect. It would simply be all pain and no gain, an act of utter foolishness.       http://www.rickwells.us/senator-jim-inhofe-military-could-have-been-funded-with-120-billion-obama-threw-away-on-global-warming-hoax/
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 IRS Caught Lying About Lerner – What Are They Hiding? 
(rickwells.us) - There’s something going on at the IRS, and it’s called a cover-up...New information coming to light over the past week has shown beyond a reasonable doubt that the agency was attempting to block the investigation into the Lois Lerner incident and related potential criminality. The supposed DOJ investigation, a fruitless “effort” under the guidance of an Obama partisan is also seemingly tainted with the stain of ubiquitous nObama corruption.       http://www.rickwells.us/irs-caught-lying-about-lerner-an-active-criminal-investigation-what-more-will-be-learned-what-are-they-hiding/
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 Australian Senator threatened with beheading unless...  
(themuslimissue.wordpress.com) - Let’s stop continuing this sharade. Let’s stop pretending we have the bottomless funding, resources, knowledge or even energy and interest to be absorbed in this Muslim sewage and savagery...The most rational, cost effective and easy solution to this rapidly spreading disease is to deport them all and make it illegal to allow any further residency, asylum or refugees from Muslim countries or backgrounds. Ban Islam, tear down mosques and ban all trade with the Muslim world which is an endless resource for terrorism. Stop giving them the income to terrorize others. Stop constantly engaging with this pest and get engaged in their assumed rights and wants. Freeze them out completely and refuse to deal with them in any way, shape or form. Stop engaging and meddling into their issues all the time, pretending to understand what they are all about. Stop constantly handing them exaggerated human rights protection. Human rights is for human beings, not for demons. The history of endless wars have constantly been triggered by Muslims and the biggest mistakes the West has done, is to take arms to protect Muslim interest, fighting on the wrong side, whether it was WW1, WW2 and the Islamic holocaust, Lawrence of Arabia and his aid to Caliphate expansion, the allottment of entire countries to Muslim rulers, the assignment of oil contracts to illiteral savages. All of this meddling with them has been nothing but an endless disaster and source of suffering.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/03/01/australian-senator-threatened-with-beheading-unless-she-helps-to-introduce-sharia-law/
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 Iran: Muslim cleric vows to “raise flag of Islam on White House”  
(Robert Spencer) - As nObama continues to show weakness, the bellicose rhetoric from those who consider themselves to be at war with the United States continues to heat up. How long will pretending that we are not at war work as a war strategy?...A senior Iranian cleric with close ties to Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei vowed on Friday that “we will raise the flag of Islam over the White House” in response to the killing of Hezbollah and Revolutionary Guards operatives on the Golan Heights last month.       http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/iran-muslim-cleric-vows-to-raise-flag-of-islam-on-white-house?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=460c746a5b-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-460c746a5b-123451509
Why nObama Won’t Call the Jihadis Islamic
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     (frontpagemag.com) - Barack nObama aroused controversy over his affinity with Islam yet again in February 2015, when a photo surfaced from the U.S.-African Leaders’ Summit in August 2014, showing nObama passing by a group of African delegates with his right index finger raised in a gesture strongly reminiscent of the Islamic State’s now notorious one-finger salute.

     For the Islamic State and other Muslims, this gesture signifies allegiance to Islam’s absolute monotheism. Whatever nObama may have meant by it, the revelation that he had made the gesture — coming so soon after his renewed refusal at his “Countering Violent Extremism” summit to identify Islamic jihadists as Islamic — raised new questions about nObama’s relationship with Islam. Why won’t nObama identify Islam as having anything to do with the jihadis, when they themselves consistently explain and justify their actions solely in Islamic terms? Why won’t he do anything about mosques in the U.S. with ties to jihad terror? Why does he coddle the Muslim Brotherhood? Why, in sum, does he seem to love Islam so much, even if he isn’t a practicing Muslim?

     And it does seem most likely that nObama is indeed not a practicing Muslim, despite the remarkable persistence of rumors and suspicions to the contrary. It is extremely unlikely that a Muslim would publicly proclaim himself a Christian over and over, as nObama has. While it is possible that this would be justified under Islam’s doctrines of deception, there is no evidence that Muslims have ever behaved this way. Ground Zero Mosque imam Faisal Abdul Rauf did say several years ago, “I am a Jew,” but he only said it once, in the context of ecumenical generosity; he didn’t try to pass himself off as one. There is a way in which a Muslim could say he is a true Jew or true Christian because he follows the true teachings of the Torah and the Gospel, but there is no known case of a Muslim behaving this way in a sustained manner. If nObama were a secret Muslim, he would be the first Muslim to carry out such a sustained deception of claiming not to be a Muslim.

     There is little doubt, however, given his consistent policies throughout his presidency, that nObama holds Islam in high regard, for whatever mix of personal affection (his father and stepfather were both Muslims) and political calculation (he may believe that calling the jihadis Islamic will alienate Muslim allies of the U.S., such as Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Pakistan, however unreliable those alliances have been). His Administration backed the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Egypt with such loyalty that Egyptian protesters held signs accusing nObama of supporting terrorism. He aided Islamic jihadis to overthrow Gaddafi in Libya and continues to aid those trying to overthrow Assad in Syria. (He insists that those he is backing in Syria are “vetted moderates,” but they have ransacked churches, terrorized Christians, and collaborated with the Islamic State too often for that to ring true.) He has repeatedly called for self-censorship to conform with Islamic blasphemy laws, most memorably declaring at the United Nations, “The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.”

     And while his Justice Department aggressively pursues businesses and educational institutions to compel them to grant special privileges and accommodations to Muslims, it has shown no similar energy regarding terror-tied mosques in the U.S. Not only do these mosques remain open and their leaders uninvestigated and unprosecuted, but all too often the only contact law enforcement officials have with them is for “outreach.”

     Only nObama knows what he may be thinking in all this, but a few conclusions seem obvious: he is afraid that speaking honestly about the jihadis’ motives and goals will alienate actual and potential Muslim allies. Since he believes Islam to be a peaceful religion, he doesn’t accept the idea that Muslims become jihadis because the Qur’an and Sunnah exhort them to do so. That leaves only the grievances that Islamic advocacy groups (and jihad groups) endlessly retail as the fundamental engine of the “radicalization” of Muslims – so nObama apparently sees redressing those grievances as the primary means of preventing Muslims from becoming terrorists.

     This has led to foreign and domestic policies of accommodation and appeasement, along with an ominously cavalier stance at best toward the First Amendment’s protection of the freedom of speech. Coupled with a dogmatic refusal to identify properly those who have vowed to destroy the United States and address their belief system and ideology, nObama’s stance toward Islam is a recipe for catastrophe. The United States is weaker and more vulnerable for it.

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Tuesday Morning - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Growing Up in California
Burt Prelutsky
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
~~~lll~~~
 
 
 A.G. nominee to advance today -   The Senate Judiciary Committee is expected to endorse today the confirmation of President nObama’s nominee to replace Eric Holder as attorney general. Former U.S. Attorney Loretta Lynch is likely to receive some bipartisan support from the committee, but her embrace of nObama’s executive amnesty for illegal immigrants will set up a contentious vote in the full Senate.  -Fox News 
 
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 HOUSE GOP TO CHALLENGE ADMINISTRATION CLAIMS ON nOBAMACARE BACKUP   PLAN 
Health Secretary Sylvia Matthews Burwell will face tough questions today about her claim that the administration has no plan to deal with a federal lawsuit that could eviscerate the nObamaCare. In a letter earlier this week, Burwell said her agency had no backup plan if the Supreme Court strikes down nObamaCare subsidies in states that did not establish exchanges. But according to a preview provided to Fox News by House Republicans, Rep. Joe Pitts, R-Pa., chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee’s subcommittee on health, has reason to believe those claims may not be true.  -Fox News 
 
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 Sasse offers plan to use ‘Cobra’ coverage -   “First, in the event that the court strikes down the subsidies as illegal, Congress must be prepared to offer immediate, targeted protection to those hurt by this administration’s reckless disregard for the rule of law. nObamaCare took these patients hostage. Conservatives have a duty to save them. So within a week I will introduce legislation that uses the 1985 ‘Cobra’ law as a temporary model to protect those harmed by nObamaCare…Second, Republicans need to unify around a specific set of constructive, longer-term solutions, and then turn the 2016 presidential election into a referendum on two competing visions of health care. Simply opposing nObamaCare isn’t enough. Republicans must address this country’s health-care crises, cost and uninsurance, both of which have been exacerbated chiefly by excessive federal meddling.” --Sen. Ben Sasse, R-Neb., in WSJ op-ed -Fox News 
 
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 VETS GROUP RELEASES REPORT ON HEALTH CARE TODAY 
Concerned Veterans for America is releasing today its report and recommendations for improving veterans’ health care. The group previewed the findings in this online video. The group is also hosting a summit today in Washington. Expected participants include Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., Rep. Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. and House Veterans Affairs Committee Chair Rep. Jeff Miller, R-Fla.  -Fox News 
 
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 HIGH DRAMA AS nOBAMA INTERNET REGS DEBUT 
Fox News: “The Federal Communications Commission is driving toward a landmark vote Thursday on a sweeping plan that critics warn would impose a new era of regulation for how Americans use and do business on the Internet, even as eleventh-hour appeals inject added drama behind the scenes. The so-called net neutrality proposal has been the subject of fierce debate, in part because the 332-page plan is being kept from public eyes. President nObama’s vocal push for aggressive Internet rules also has raised questions on Capitol Hill over undue influence by the White House -- but House Republicans who had planned a hearing on that very subject said Wednesday they would postpone after Chairman Tom Wheeler allegedly refused to testify.”  -Fox News 
 
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IMF Seeks to Bypass U.S. Veto in Bid to Empower Self, Tyrants 
 IMF Seeks to Bypass U.S. Veto in Bid to Empower Self, Tyrants  
(Alex Newman) - Right now, the International Monetary Fund is trying to forward controversial “reforms,” changes that are strongly supported by the nObama administration and most IMF member regimes, that would massively expand the institution’s power and the burden it imposes on taxpayers...particularly American taxpayers — by doubling IMF resources. The scheme would also diminish U.S. influence in IMF decisions while boosting the voice of the communist dictatorship ruling mainland China, Putin’s Kremlin, the pro-Castro Brazilian government, and various other regimes that the UN refers to as “emerging markets.” As it stands, however, the U.S. government has veto power because it controls more than 15 percent of the voting shares, and 85 percent approval is required to adopt the reforms. And the International Monetary Fund is facing a U.S. Congress that has refused to do its bidding — so far at least.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/item/20223-imf-seeks-to-bypass-u-s-veto-in-bid-to-empower-self-tyrants?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=4d136d5238-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-4d136d5238-289778381
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 DHS Fails to Cite Any Law Authorizing nObama to Give SS Numbers  
(Lauretta Brown) - When asked to do so at a Thursday press briefing, Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson failed to cite any law that authorized President Barack nObama to give Social Security Numbers to illegal aliens...CNSNews.com asked Johnson: “A federal court in Texas v. United States has said giving an illegal alien a Social Security Number is not an act of prosecutorial discretion. What specific law gives the president the authority to give a Social Security Number to a foreign national in the country illegally?” Rather than answer the question, Johnson instead noted that the administration has appealed the court’s injunction against the administration’s unilateral action on immigration.       http://cnsnews.com/news/article/lauretta-brown/dhs-secretary-fails-cite-any-law-authorizing-obama-give-social-security
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 Netanyahu Knows A Secret, About What nObama Is Doing With Iran  
(rickwells.us) - Information revealed by an aid travelling with Prime Minister Netanyahu upon his arrival in the United States is shedding light on what may be the actual reason upturned nObama nose seemed excessively bent out of shape by the Israeli Prime Minister’s visit...It seems nObama’s got a secret. He’s “negotiating” a bad deal with his BFF pen pals in Tehran, and he doesn’t want Netanyahu to mess things up for him by letting the word slip out to Congress. The “Times of Israel” reported that a senior Israeli official traveling with the Israeli Prime Minister confirmed that Netanyahu will be revealing, to a limited degree, information about a nuclear deal which is yet unknown to the American lawmakers in his Tuesday speech.       http://www.rickwells.us/netanyahu-knows-a-secret-its-about-what-obama-is-doing-with-iran-and-hes-going-to-tell-congress/
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 Hatred as an Article of Faith  
(Mark Durie) - The Islamic State sent me a letter this week, in the form of a short film produced by ISIS's Al-Hayat Media centre. This was not addressed to me personally, but to all Christians everywhere. Its title was A Message Signed with BLOOD to the Nation of the Cross...This was a video of the ritual slaughter of the 21 Egyptian Christians. Their blood flowing in the ocean waves was the 'signature' at the end of the video. As I write this it is Ash Wednesday. This is the start of forty days of Lent, a period of fasting and contemplation for Christians all over the world. For many centuries it has been a custom of Christians to receive a mark of the cross in ash upon the forehead as a sign of repentance. As I received this mark of the cross today I was thinking of the 21 Egyptian Christian martyrs. Copts permanently bear the sign of the cross, tattooed on their wrists, as a sign that they will refuse to renounce their beliefs.       http://www.meforum.org/5060/hatred-as-an-article-of-faith
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 Texas Report Shows Terrorists, Cartels Using Mexican Border  
(rickwells.us) - The Texas Department of Public Safety has no reason to sugar-coat the border situation for the Marxists in the White House. As a source for the real situation on the border...we can choose to either believe a report by those who are engaged on their own soil in the fight against foreign invaders or the empty proclamations of the distant regime which is enabling it. A recently leaked report headed Border Surge Report and marked Unclassified/Law Enforcement Sensitive tells the story. The report notes successes that Texas has seen as a result of their increased State-funded operations which fill the vacuum left as a result of DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson’s refusal to allow effective federal border security operations. The report, which reveals much about the border situation, recommends as the “Foremost Priority” the security of the Texas-Mexico border, zone by zone, beginning with the areas of greatest cartel traffic. They recommend a mixture of technology and personnel to accomplish the objective.       http://www.rickwells.us/texas-report-shows-terrorists-cartels-and-gangs-using-mexican-border-as-a-high-speed-super-highway-into-u-s/
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 Trey Gowdy Introduces States’ Rights, Immigration Enforcement Bill  
(rickwells.us) - Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has a solution for the current problem America faces with a lawless “president” who bends the law and rewrites it to his own political ends, at least to the extent that White House criminality is applied in the circumvention of immigration law...He’s authored a bill that contains specific language which prevents the very methods through which the law is currently being violated by the Obama regime. It also allows states the rights which should already be theirs under the Constitution, to defend their own sovereignty and enforce immigration law in the absence of or as a supplement to federal enforcement. The bill, “The Michael Davis, Jr. in Honor of State and Local Law Enforcement Act,” is named after the brave Placer County California Sheriff Deputy Michael Davis, Jr, who was killed in October of last year by a twice deported illegal alien who had returned across the wide-open southern border with Mexico. Oddly, Deputy Davis’ father was a police officer who was also killed in the line of duty, on the same date, exactly 26 years before.       http://www.rickwells.us/trey-gowdy-introduces-states-rights-undo-obama-destruction-and-liberal-idiocy-immigration-enforcement-bill/
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 Arabs: Why is nObama Siding with Supporters of Terrorism?  
(Khaled Abu Toameh) - Many Arabs and Muslims see the meeting between nObama and Qatar's al-Thani as a gift to Qatar for its continued support of Islamic radical groups across the Middle East, including Iraq, Syria, Egypt, Lebanon and the Gaza Strip...On the eve of nObama's meeting, Egyptian sources revealed that Qatar was providing weapons and ammunition to members of the Islamic State in Libya. The sources said that 35 Qatari aircraft were involved in transferring munitions. Arab political analysts are also concerned about nObama's ongoing attempts to appease Iran, which continues to expand its presence in Arab countries such as Yemen, Iraq and Lebanon -- as well as in Syria, where it is deeply involved in backing Hezbollah and operating along the border with Israel. A Reuters report revealed that Iran also has hundreds of advisors in Iraq.       http://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/5269/terrorism-supporters-Obama
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 Democrat Senator Saw The Incriminating Question Coming  
(rickwells.us) - It seems awfully obvious. The word has gone out among Democrats to use the decision by Judge Hanen to issue an injunction against the lawbreaking of their party and its top leadership as protective cover to hide behind and avoid answering even the most simple questions...The horrific condition of what still is referred to as our government, which is bordering on our overlords, is something that must be addressed. The current situation, in which the supposed representatives of the people have become nothing more than pillaging parasites, pilfering and exploiting their way to personal enrichment and power at the expense of the nation, cannot continue. The Democrats know what they are doing is illegal, in violation of the Constitution and a violation of their oaths of office, otherwise they wouldn’t be trying to conceal their actions. Were they private citizens, the common variety of white collar criminal, they would have already been targeted by the FBI for RICO violations. In this case, the Attorney General is part of the cabal leadership, they their mob criminality continues.       http://www.rickwells.us/she-wasnt-injured-democrat-senator-saw-the-incriminating-question-coming-ducked-just-in-time/
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 Documents: Relationship between bin Laden, al-Qaeda and Iran  
(shoebat.com) - In a stunning development, some of the documents recovered from Osama bin Laden’s compound by Navy SEALS were introduced by federal prosecutors as evidence in the trial of a terrorism suspect...The documents reveal and confirm an actual working relationship between Iran and al-Qaeda. That same memo reveals that Abu Anas al-Libi, a terrorist wanted in connection with the 1998 Kenya / Tanzania bombings who was apprehended by U.S. officials in Libya in 2013, traveled to Pakistan from Iran. While the documents introduced into evidence by the prosecutors don’t indicate collaboration between al-Qaeda and Iran relative to the 9/11 attacks, this new development does indeed bolster the case that there was a relationship.       http://shoebat.com/2015/02/27/explosive-revelation-documents-show-working-relationship-between-osama-bin-laden-al-qaeda-and-iran/
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 Republicans Who Defied backstabber Boehner to Defund nObama  
(conservativetribune.com) - Barack nObama is about to have a very bad day. Over 50 House Republicans just voted to KILL the bill to fund nObama’s DHS because his amnesty plan is illegal and they refuse to sign their names to his unconstitutional acts...This is the stand off we’ve been waiting for. The GOP controls the House AND the Senate, so the idea they should immediately cave and refuse to even negotiate with the president is not only hideous strategy, but is also a rejection of the original purpose of the three branches. Here are the 52 congressmen and congresswomen who have defied both backstabber Boehner and nObama by doing their jobs:       http://conservativetribune.com/house-defies-dhs/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
Growing Up in California
Burt Prelutsky
 
     (burtprelutsky.com) - Shortly after I turned six, my family left Chicago and moved to L.A. Because even at that age, the smell of wet woolens hanging in the kindergarten cloakroom was already a stench I found as unappealing as my mother’s Friday night special, barley soup, I was happy to move to the land of eternal sunshine.

     In those days, California was the state that was to be the model for America’s future. Its schools were the best, industry was booming, the San Joaquin Valley produced most of the nation’s fruits and vegetables, Hollywood was still a magnet for the most talented people in the world and Republicans were winning most of the statewide elections.

     Over the decades, all of that changed, but it is still a template for much of the nation. The problem now is that the schools are indoctrination centers for the Left; there is no industry; thanks to the environmentalists, the San Joaquin Valley is now the San Joaquin Desert because the water has been cut off from the farmers for the sake of a two-inch inedible fish known as the delta smelt; Hollywood has become a magnet for zombies spewing left-wing talking points; and no Republican can even come close to winning a statewide election.

     On top of all that, we now have about 40 million people, many of them here illegally, tying up traffic, overcrowding schools and jails, and pushing up tax rates.

     The state legislators, 70% of whom are Democrats, naturally believe that feeding and clothing illegal aliens is more important than jailing criminals and has adopted the fishing technique known as catch-and-release. Only instead of releasing fish too small to catch legally, they’re releasing car thieves, drug dealers and child molesters, by simply declaring certain felonies to be misdemeanors.

     In their endless search for ways to decrease the prison population, one fully expects that the next logical step will be to simply decriminalize bank robberies, rapes and homicides.

     • When you see how casually nObama and Hanoi Kerry are carrying on negotiations with Iran, refusing to even threaten increased sanctions as a means to apply pressure, one might assume they don’t see any reason to fear a nuclear Islamic theocracy. Pushed for an explanation, they might argue that nuclear bombs have been with us for a long time and so far nobody has dropped one in anger. And when you realize that among the nations that have nuclear bombs – the U.S., the U.K., Russia, France, China, India, Pakistan, Israel and North Korea – four are vile and one, North Korea, is pathological, they might seem to have a point.

     However, the reason that none of the nine, however sorely tempted, has done so is out of fear. No matter how Kim Jong-un may feel about South Korea, he’s not about to drop the bomb because he doesn’t want to risk having one dropped on his head. In diplomatic circles, it’s called the nuclear deterrent.

     But Iran is a whole different can of worms. Its leaders are as crazy as Kim Jong-un, but it’s a different sort of crazy. Kim Jong-un wants to continue living, if only to keep having Dennis Rodman over to talk basketball. But as we’ve seen after decades of suicide bombings, including 9/11, Islam is not a religion whose practitioners place a great deal of value on life -- their own or anyone else’s.

     Perhaps because nObama and Hanoi Kerry never had reason to learn that you don’t bring a knife to a gun fight, they don’t understand that you never let the guy who doesn’t mind dying for his religion, get his hands on a nuclear bomb. As policy, the rule in such a case is that you nuke him first and send a condolence card later.

     • Because Scott Walker not only stood up to the unions in Wisconsin, but has sprinted to the lead in a great many polls, the Democrats have already begun attacking him. But if the attacks are going to gain any traction with most Americans, they’ll have to do better than point out, as they recently did, that he dropped out of Marquette University before graduating and that his worst subject was French. For some of us, those are two additional reasons to vote for the guy.

     • Sometimes even I am taken aback at the stupidity of liberals. For instance, how is it that so many of them continue to promote socialism as a way of life? I mean, if it was merely a theory, I can see how it might appeal to some. However, we have not only seen how it inevitably morphs into communism, but we have seen the ugly results in the Soviet Union, Nazi Germany, Cambodia and Cuba. Even in places that started out with socialism, such as China and Israel, the leaders eventually saw the error of their ways and converted to capitalism.

     But, then, leftists simply aren’t very bright. Otherwise, they would have asked themselves just how was it possible to provide health care for 40 million uninsured Americans and still manage to save the average family $2,500.

     • Because I take baseball more seriously than I take a great many other things, I was disgusted when I found out that the Little League baseball team from Chicago had cheated its way to the national title by using out of the district ringers on the team. Furthermore, the fact that the team was named after the great and courageous Jackie Robinson made it even more shameful.

     But, as often happens when politicians and the media get involved with any story, it only got worse. I was hearing TV news people and Chicago’s Mayor Rahm Emanuel spinning the story as only they can. The conclusion they came to was that the coaches should have been punished, but it was wrong to take the title away from the kids because they had done nothing wrong.

     Of course they had. They had stolen the thrill of honest victory from the teams they had defeated. I can assure you that every single kid was aware of the fact there were players on their team who had no business being there. They knew they had cheated in order to win, and they were just fine with it.

     Then, compounding the problem, instead of being chastised for cheating, the grown-ups, including their parents, essentially told them that their only mistake was getting caught. But, then, that’s the same message that San Francisco Giants fans sent Barry Bonds when they cheered him for breaking home records they knew were tainted, and just as fans of the Cubs, Cardinals and Yankees, did when they rooted for Sammy Sosa, Mark McGwire and Alex Rodriguez.

     • Finally, when I heard that without warning, Jon Stewart suddenly announced he was leaving his show, my initial thought was that the man who had been born Jonathan Leibowitz had belatedly come to his senses, and decided that he could no longer, in good conscience, spend his life ridiculing conservatives.

     But after thinking about it, I realized that he would be leaving his show at Comedy Central at just about the same time that Brian Williams would be ending his six month suspension at NBC. Wouldn’t it make sense that Williams, who regards himself as a born comedian, and Stewart, who takes himself very seriously as a political pundit, would simply swap jobs?
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Monday Afternoon - The Front Page Cove

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Remembering Malcolm X Fifty Years Later
Daniel Pipes
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 backstabber Boehner Bids for Time in Immigration Fight With   nObama  
There are only hours left until the clock strikes midnight and the Department of Homeland Security runs out of funding. While Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell seemingly kissed up to the filibustering Democrat minority, passing a clean DHS funding bill that gives the department money to fund Barack nObama's immigration executive actions, House Speaker backstabber John Boehner is not so compromising. When a reporter asked Thursday if backstabber Boehner would propose a clean DHS funding bill, he blew defiant kisses in reply. At the same press conference, backstabber Boehner said, "We passed a bill to fund the department six weeks ago. Six weeks ago! It's time for the Senate to act. How many times do I have to say it?" So as a counteroffer, backstabber Boehner introduced a continuing resolution that would simply fund DHS for three weeks. While it buys the GOP more time, a defiant president waits at the end of the legislative process. nObama recently said if congressional Republicans "want to have a vote on whether what I'm doing is legal or not, they can have that vote. I will veto that vote." Lawmakers, he says, don't have the power to make laws.  -The Patriot Post 

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 Here Comes 'Net Neutrality'  
As expected, the Federal Communications Commission on Thursday approved so-called net neutrality rules. Fox News reports, "[T]he rules, more broadly, would put the Internet in the same regulatory camp as the telephone by classifying it like a public utility, meaning providers like Comcast or Verizon would have to act in the 'public interest' when providing [an Internet] connection to your home or phone. Republican Commissioner Ajit Pai, who delivered some of the most scathing criticism of the plan Thursday, warned the policy represents a 'monumental shift' to 'government control of the Internet.'" Pai also criticized FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler for his secrecy and the length of the "332-page Internet regulation plan." According to FCC counsel Gigi Sohn, however, only eight of those pages contain actual regulation -- the rest is supporting documentation. Clearly this is not a black-and-white subject, and the jury is still out on whether the FCC's ruling will do more good than harm, but that's mostly because it doesn't go to the crux of the problem, which is lack of competition. The FCC's action won't create more of it. Indeed, it's not at all clear it will usher in a neutral net. What is clear, however, is that the greatest invention since Gutenberg's printing press will now be regulated by a bureaucracy that still struggles to build a functioning website. More...   -The Patriot Post 

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 And the GOP Presidential Primaries Begin  
It's CPAC time, baby! Yesterday, the Republican Party's presidential hopefuls addressed the 10,000 grassroots conservatives gathered at the Conservative Political Action Conference, hoping to drum up support in what The Wall Street Journal calls one of the most populated primary contests in recent history. After eight years of Barack nObama, the GOP needs to decide how the party will grow. Some highlights: Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker told the audience, "In America we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it." Sen. Ted Cruz warned establishment Republicans are "cutting a deal" with the Left on Immigration. Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal blasted the constitution-breaking president, saying, "It is time for our Republican leaders in Congress to grow a spine" to confront him. It's all tough talk aimed at tickling the ears of the defenders of Liberty who live far-removed from the Beltway. But in the end, when the temporary tattoos wash away, the NRA rifle is raffled off and everybody goes home, what matters is how these politicians did or did not defend Liberty in the positions they now occupy. More...  -The Patriot Post 

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 Walker Doesn't Care What the Media Thinks  
In an op-ed for USA Today, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker responded indirectly to the grilling he received over Rudy Giuliani's recent comments about Barack nObama's patriotism. "Americans believe our nation is facing some substantial challenges," Walker wrote. "Government spending is out of control. Terrorists seek to destroy our way of life. Our economic recovery has been slow. Our borders aren't secure. The federal government has usurped powers that rightly belong to our states." In other words, these issues are the serious ones. He concluded, "There has been much discussion about a media double standard where Republicans are covered differently than Democrats, asked to weigh in on issues the Democrats don't face. As a result, when we refuse to take the media's bait, we suffer. I felt it this week when I was asked to weigh in on what other people said and did and what others' beliefs are. If you are looking for answers to those questions, ask those people. I will always choose to focus on what matters to the American people, not what matters to the media." That approach is just one reason why Ronald Reagan was so successful.   -The Patriot Post 

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 Emily Miller Only One of 16 DC Residents Okayed for a Gun Permit   Journalist Emily Miller's journey to navigate the snarls of the District of Columbia's gun laws began in 2011, when she inadvertently came face-to-face with a criminal while armed with only her cell phone. Her quest for a handgun in the nation's most anti-gun city is nearing its conclusion as she was recently approved for a permit to carry in the city. But even after the Heller decision, the process is insurmountably high for citizens to exercise their right to bear arms because citizens have to demonstrate they have a reason (the Constitution evidently isn't sufficient) to convince the police to okay their firearm permit. "I got the police reports from two different threats against me, as well as an FBI warning that a terror group is targeting journalists," Miller wrote. "I turned in my application at the end of November. … I didn't hear anything until early February. … Keep in mind, any American can apply for a D.C. gun permit. But so far, only 76 have done so. Thirty-one were denied. Five cancelled their own applications. And 16 were approved." This is what the Second Amendment looks like under a mayor who declared she hates guns. While she swore to "protect the Constitution and what the courts say," she promises to do the opposite: "I will do it in the most restrictive way as possible."   -The Patriot Post 

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 Hilly Caught Abusing Taxpayer Dollars in Massive Act of Corruption  
(conservativetribune.com) - Hilly Clinton may have just been caught with her hand in the cookie jar. Watchdog organizations are raising red flags over lucrative deals that Bill Clinton made while his wife Hilly was secretary of state...There is strong evidence that the former president made significant money from speaking appearances and donations while Hilly used her influence to “green light” the engagements. Under an ethics agreement that the Clintons made with the nObama administration, certain paid speeches made by former President Clinton had to be reviewed to ensure that there was no conflict of interest. Without exception, however, those speaking engagements were immediately approved by Hilly’s State Department without a second glance.       http://conservativetribune.com/hillary-massive-corruption-2/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
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In this Nov. 17, 2014 file photo, navigator Dianelys Dominguez, left, assists Giovanny Vega, 18, of Miami, right, sign up for health insurance under the Affordable Care Act at the Borinquen Medical Center in Miami. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)
 Supreme Court ruling could increase nObamacare premiums 700%  
( Robert King) - If the government loses in a major nObamacare challenge before the Supreme Court, it will result in premium increases of up to 700 percent for nearly 8 million people, a new analysis claims...The analysis from think tank Avalere Health was released Thursday as the nObama administration continues to take heat from Congress for having no backup plan in case the Supreme Court ruling in King v. Burwell doesn't go their way. Oral arguments are set to start on Wednesday for the case, which has the potential to cripple the healthcare law. The case challenges the government's authority to dole out subsidies to the 37 states with federal-run exchanges. Plaintiffs say the Affordable Care Act specifically only allows for states that set up their own exchanges to receive subsidies, while the government says the plaintiffs are misinterpreting the law.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/court-ruling-could-raise-obamacare-costs-700/article/2560828
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 Early Muslim Extremists In American History  
(youtube.com) - Early Muslim Extremists In American History presented by Glenn Beck & David Barton....       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlT1IXSv830&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
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 A Deeper Healing (Joni Eareckson Tada) Strange Fire Conference  
(Grace To You) - Strange Fire, part of Grace to You's Truth Matters conference series, evaluates the doctrines, claims, and practices of the modern charismatic movement, and affirms the true Person and ministry of the Holy Spirit...       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NI22o5u32z0
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 On The Kurdish Front Line In The Fight Against ISIS  
(Journeyman Picture) - In the disputed area on the edges of IS-controlled territory are the last outposts of Kurdish resistance to IS. With incredible access this report meets the hardened fighters and embittered refugees among them...Since the start of the Syrian war, nearly 13.6 million people have been displaced, crossing bridges and passing through checkpoints at great peril to escape the violence. Mosul is one of the towns to recently fall under IS control. "IS controls everyone's daily routine. Everything you hear about them is true", says a man who fled the town. He has made it to Erbil, recently recaptured by Kurd forces, who are waging a bloody war with Islamic State to protect their land. Gunfights, car bombs and aerial attacks are a daily reality for the soldiers and the displaced who occupy this zone, mere kilometres from the waving flags of the Islamic State.       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00s8h3DIKEs&feature=em-subs_digest-vrecs
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 An Ottoman Relic—and Turkish Ambitions in Syria—are Re-laid to Rest 
(Burak Bekdil) - Turkey's dramatic miscalculation over Syria is pushing it into weird acts. The latest was the forced relocation of a pre-Ottoman Turkish commander's tomb from its spot in Syria to another spot in Syria, this time a stone's throw away from the Turkish border...Relocating the tomb seems to have been prompted by the fear of an attack from radical Islamists -- who, ironically, Turkey wanted discreetly to support. Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu, who in 2001 authored the 600-page book, "Strategic Depth," hoped at the start of the Arab Spring, when he served as Foreign Minister, that a belt of (Sunni) Muslim Brotherhood-ruled regimes would proliferate in Syria, Egypt, Tunisia, Lebanon and Libya, and be subservient to an emerging Turkish empire. To start with Syria, therefore, the Nusayri strongman of the country, President Bashar al-Assad, had to go.       http://www.meforum.org/5061/turkish-relics
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CPAC 2015 - PolitiBrew.com
Scott Walker...
Bobby Jindal...
Rich Perry...
Marco Rubio...
Ted Cruz...
Dr. Ben Carson...
Carly Fiorina...
Rand Paul...
Mark Levin...
Newt Gingrich...
Sara Palin...
Phil Roberson (Duck Dynasty)...
John Bolton...
Jeb Bush...
Chris Christie...
Donald Trump...
Laura Ingraham...
Brent Bozell...
Did I miss anyone?
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Allen West: Who I Am Backing For President  
(AllenBWest.com) - I had to tell one interviewer that I don’t cheerlead any person but rather rally to my country. As well it’s far too early to start fawning over any one person. But what I told most interviewers was that I am not focused on the individual but rather I am looking through a certain prism...I want find the person who can be seated in a room with very dangerous dictators, despots, autocrats, and theocrats and stare them down. I’m looking for that leader who can sit across from Vladimir Putin and non-verbally send a message. I’m looking for the leader that can send a message of strength, exceptionalism, and resolve without uttering a word — a commanding presence.       http://libertyalliance.com/allen-west-who-i-am-backing-for-president/#
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 Education Depart Floods Schools With New Rules And Regulations 
(LibertyUnyielding.com) -Recently, a task force of college presidents chronicled massive regulatory overreaching by the U.S. Department of Education, which, on a daily basis, floods America’s schools with new rules and obligations...that Congress never intended. Most of these rules are not even listed in the Code of Federal Regulations, and have never gone through the formal rulemaking process, much less been adequately vetted. “The Report of the Task Force on Federal Regulation of Higher Education: Recalibrating Regulation of Colleges and Universities” correctly notes that:       http://libertyalliance.com/education-department-floods-schools-with-new-rules-and-regulations/
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 Charting nObama’s Crackdown on National Security Leaks  
(Cora Currier) - Despite promises to strengthen protections for whistleblowers, the nObama administration has launched an aggressive crackdown on government employees who have leaked national security information to the press...With charges filed against NSA leaker Edward Snowden this June, the administration has brought a total of seven cases under the Espionage Act, which dates from World War I and criminalizes disclosing information “relating to the national defense.” Prior to the current administration, there had been only three known casesresulting in indictments in which the Espionage Act was used to prosecute government officials for leaks. The administration has also targeted journalists. In May, it was revealed that the Department of Justice had secretly seized AP reporters’ phone recordswhile investigating a potential CIA leak, and targeteda Fox News reporter as part of a criminal leak case (outlined below). No journalist  has been chargedwith a crime. But the news prompted an outcry that nObama’s hard line on leaks could have a "chilling effect" on investigative reporting that depends on inside sources. (In response, the Justice Department issued new guidelines limiting when journalists’ records can be sought.)       http://www.propublica.org/special/sealing-loose-lips-charting-obamas-crackdown-on-national-security-leaks
Remembering Malcolm X Fifty Years Later
Daniel Pipes
 
     (danielpipes.org/blog) - On this date fifty years ago, the man best known as Malcolm X was killed by a Nation of Islam (NoI) hit squad while speaking on in Harlem, New York.

     Born Malcolm Little in Omaha on May 19, 1925, to a Baptist minister father and West Indian mother, both politically involved, he lived on the streets of various eastern U.S. cities until he was jailed in February 1946, where, a year later, he began his self-education program. He first learned about the NoI from his brother in about April 1948 and joined it later that year. Three weeks after his release from jail in 1952, he met Elijah Muhammad, the NoI leader, and commemorated his new identity by throwing off his "slave name" in favor of Malcolm X.

     From 1953 on, he devoted himself full time to building the Nation. In an eye-opening experience, he traveled to the Middle East in 1959, after which he began to adopt normative Islamic practices and become more critical of NoI, eventually changing his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz and then breaking with the NoI in March 1964, when he started a new movement, the Muslim Mosque, Inc. He went on the hajj to Mecca a month later, followed by other Middle Eastern and African travels. Outraged by what he perceived as Malcolm X's treachery, Elijah Muhammad had him murdered on February 21, 1965, apparently under the supervision of Louis Farrakhan. Were he still alive, Malcolm X would be approaching his 90th birthday.

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A 1999 postage stamps in his honor symbolizes the establishment's acceptance of Malcolm X (1925-65).

     What to make of the Malcolm X legacy on this 50th anniversary? He was a quick study, a natural politician, and a powerful orator, as well as a highly original political figure, He played a major role both in the large-scale conversion of African-Americans to Islam in both its NoI and normative variants (his Autobiography continues to be cited as a major inspiration for becoming Muslim), and to the development of black nationalism, a milder form of his preferred solution that blacks withdraw from the United States and form their own country.

     His presence remains alive; and thanks to Spike Lee's movie about him, a U.S. postal stamp in his honor, and other signs of mainstream acceptance, he has become a somewhat anodyne figure. Here's how NBC News characterized him today, on the anniversary: "By the time he died, the Muslim leader had moderated his militant message of black separatism and pride but was still very much a passionate advocate of black unity, self-respect and self-reliance."

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Spike Lee's movie built the Malcolm X myth.

     But Malcolm X was anything but mainstream and the passage of a half century should not soften attitudes toward him. To the end, he remained a radical, polarizing, bigoted figure, Martin Luther King's evil Doppelgänger. To support this description, recall two notorious statements. The first dates from Dec. 1, 1963, shortly after the assassination of John F. Kennedy, when Malcolm X responded with the comment that, "Being an old farm boy myself, chickens coming home to roost never did make me sad; they've always made me glad."

     The second came in the course of a meeting with the Ku Klux Klan (itself a insight into his extremism) intended to win white racist support for the NoI black separatism project. According to a FBI report, Malcolm X assured the Klansmen that Jews were behind the integration movement they both despised. Joshua Muravchik concludes from this incident that Malcolm X "was a vociferous anti-Semite in both public and in private."

     Malcolm X should accurately be remembered as the extremist he was. (February 21, 2015)
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Monday Morning - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
There Will Always Be War
Alan Caruba
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 THREAT MATRIX… 
“When Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry decided to try to put the threat from ISIS into perspective in congressional testimony, he raised some eyebrows in the intelligence community. Hanoi Kerry told lawmakers, ‘Our citizens, our world today, is actually, despite ISIL, despite the visible killings that you see and how horrific they are, we are actually living in a period of less daily threat to Americans and to people in the world than normally; less deaths, less violent deaths today, than through the last century.’
          That prompted a quick response from lawmakers and from inside the intelligence community. Retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, former head of the Defense Intelligence Agency under President nObama told Fox News, ‘Secretary Hanoi Kerry is out of touch with reality, he clearly is not listening to the entire U.S. intelligence community, he is not reading any of the intelligence or other things that have been written over the last few weeks, months, years. …[ F]or him to make those statements is totally irresponsible and he should be challenged by anyone who cares about the future of this country.’ Hanoi Kerry’s comments appear to be part of a pattern. The president, for example, recently told
Vox that he believed the media was hyping the threat from terrorists.
          But we have a reminder today about the relentless enemy we face. It was on this day 22 years ago that terrorists detonated a truck bomb in the North Tower of the World Trade Center in New York.  It killed six Americans and injuring hundreds more, but it didn't have the intended effect of bringing down the tower. Eight years later, though, the terrorists would not only accomplish that goal, but bring down both towers in the most audacious attack on U.S. soil since Pearl Harbor.
          The administration’s assurances would be comforting if true. But the people we talk to in and around the intelligence community – the people who actually analyze the data – see things very differently. They see a threat matrix exponentially more deadly than it was 22 years ago today.” – Bret Baier-Fox News
 
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 The Judge’s Ruling -   Citing challenges to the protection against unreasonable search and seizure provided by the Constitution’s Fourth Amendment, Fox News Senior Judicial Analyst Judge Andrew Napolitano ponders the notion of a government fearful of freedom: “What if invading our freedoms keeps us less safe? What if the president has failed to keep our freedoms safe? What if the government doesn’t like freedoms? What if the government is afraid we will exercise them?”  -Fox News 
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 nOBAMA VOWS ‘AGGRESSIVE’ RESPONSE ON COURT DEFEAT   FOR AMNESTY: ‘THIS   IS JUST ONE JUDGE’ 
The Hill: “Participating in a town hall-style immigration forum in Miami, [President nObama] said a recent ruling against his new immigration policies by a federal judge in Texas was wrongly decided and promised to use all his legal options to ensure the new programs are ultimately adopted. ‘This is just one federal judge. We have appealed it very aggressively. We’re going to be as aggressive as we can,’ nObama said during the event at Florida International University, hosted by MSNBC and Telemundo, the Spanish-language media giant. ‘I’m using all of the legal power vested in me in order to solve this problem.’”  -Fox News 
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 Denied using immigration for a political advantage -   Rejecting accusations that he failed to push through immigration reform when Democrats controlled Congress, President nObama blamed Republicans, then and now, and seemed a perturbed when asked if both parties are playing “political ping pong” with immigration. “That’s just not true,” nObama said. “Democrats have consistently stood on the side of comprehensive immigration reform.” “You do a disservice when you suggest that, Ah, nobody was focused on this," the president added. “Because then you don't know who's fighting for you and who's fighting against you.”   -Fox News 
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 Homeland funding fight will return to House -   WaPo: “The Senate voted Wednesday to move ahead with a bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security after Democratic leaders dropped an earlier pledge to block it unless they get assurances from House Republican leaders that it would pass their chamber. The bill advanced on a procedural vote by a 98-2 margin. The only dissenters were Republican Sens. James Inhofe (Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (Ala.) Final passage could come before Friday when current funding will run out at DHS. ‘We're going to do everything we can to make sure it passes by an overwhelming vote,’ Senate Minority Leader dinky Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) told reporters. He said he looked forward to working with Republicans "in the next 24 hours" to get this done.  Even if the bill clears the Senate, it's unclear how the House will respond.”  -Fox News 
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 REID AGREES TO MEET WITH BIBI 
The Hill: “Senate leaders from both parties will meet with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during his visit to Washington, D.C., next week. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) and Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid (D-Nev.) will meet with Netanyahu on Tuesday afternoon, after his address to a joint session of Congress on the Iranian nuclear threat. On Wednesday, Netanyahu declined an invitation to meet only with Senate Democrats, fearing it would ‘compound the misperception of partisanship’ surrounding his visit. The bipartisan invite comes amid rising tension between the nObama administration and Netanyahu.” 
-Fox News   
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 Megyn Kelly Played This Video from George W. Bush  
(Matthew Burke) - On FOX News’ The Kelly File  on Thursday, host Megyn Kelly played an eerily prophetic, timely, and applicable video from George W. Bush in 2007 warning about the consequences of pulling out of Iraq too early (WATCH VIDEO BELOW)...Bush was roundly criticized for the comments at the time, but considering the horrific events in the Middle East excalating while nObama works on lowering his golf handicap, Bush’s words have even deeper impact.        http://www.tpnn.com/2014/09/05/megyn-kelly-played-this-video-from-george-w-bush-and-liberal-heads-are-exploding/
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 MAJOR U.S. Company Bows to Shariah Law  
(tpnn.com) - The United Stated is in a moment of crisis. While we have a longstanding history of religious tolerance and allowing for the free and open worship of all faiths, it would be less-than-truthful to claim that the United States is not engulfed in a cultural war surrounding religion...As the nObama Administration cracks-down on Christian institutions and principles while citing the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment as their supposed justification, the nObama Administration conspicuously coddles the religion of Islam in order to display a sort of tolerance to Muslims strictly denied to Christians.      http://www.tpnn.com/2014/11/01/major-u-s-company-bows-to-shariah-law/
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 Taliban Suicide Bomber Strikes NATO Diplomatic Convoy in Kabul  
(Bill Roggio) - The Taliban suicide bomber rammed his car into the NATO convoy as it traveled in the Wazir Akbar Khan area, a neighborhood in the Afghan capital which hosts foreign embassies, a NATO base, and other sensitive installations...The attack took place “shortly after 8:00 am, not far from the Iranian embassy,” a senior Afghan interior ministry official told Ariana News. Resolute Support Mission in Afghanistan, NATO’s new command in the country, confirmed that one “service member died as a result of an attack in Kabul today.” But “the NATO Senior Civilian Representative,” who previously was Turkey’s ambassador to Afghanistan, “was not involved and is unharmed.”       http://defenddemocracy.org/media-hit/bill-roggio-taliban-suicide-bomber-strikes-nato-diplomatic-convoy-in-kabul/
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Superfish Spying Scandal has Mired PC Maker Lenovo
 Famous PC Maker Exposed in Shocking Scandal  
(Greg Miller) - Another day… another appalling spying scandal. One that would even shock infamous whistleblowers, Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. But we’re not talking about the government skimming through a few emails or phone records, or snapping your photo with a surveillance camera and adding you to a database...This was an egregious act of corporate larceny perpetrated by one of the world’s biggest companies. Think of Lenovo (LNVGY), and you probably picture a company renowned for designing and manufacturing personal computers. And you’d be absolutely right. The Chinese firm is the biggest PC manufacturer in the world. But there’s a dark side to the company, too.       http://www.wallstreetdaily.com/2015/02/27/lenovo-superfish/
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 Fines Remain Rare Even As Health Data Breaches Multiply  
(Charles Ornstein) - In a string of meetings and press releases, the federal government’s health watchdogs have delivered a stern message: They are cracking down on insurers, hospitals and doctors offices that don’t adequately protect the security and privacy of medical records... “We’ve now moved into an area of more assertive enforcement,” Leon Rodriguez, then-director of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office for Civil Rights, warned at a privacy and security forum in December 2012. But as breaches of patient records proliferate – just this month, insurer Anthem revealed a hack that exposed information for nearly 80 million people – federal overseers have seldom penalized the health care organizations responsible for safeguarding this data, a ProPublica review shows.
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 Kurdish Fighters Seize Key Islamic State Stronghold in Syria  
(voanews.com) - Kurdish fighters say they have "liberated" a northeastern Syrian town that has been a key stronghold of Islamic State militants...A spokesperson for the People's Protection Units, or YPG, confirmed to VOA that the Kurdish fighters had seized the city of Tal Hamis, in Hassakeh province. “This victory is a huge blow for IS terrorists because they orchestrated their attacks against Qamishli and other Kurdish cities in Syria and Sinjar region in Iraq from this city," he told VOA's Kurdish service. "In this operation a significant number of local Arab forces also helped them because people came to realize that there is no future under this terrorist organization."       http://www.voanews.com/content/kurdish-fighters-seize-key-islamic-state-stronghold/2661793.html
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 Empowering Jihad: The Deadly Myth of a 'Root Cause'  
(Phyllis Chesler) - Reports that "Jihadi John," the British-accented narrator of ISIS snuff videos, is Mohammed Emwazi — an educated young man from a middle-class background — ought to put the final stake in the pretense that poverty and a lack of education and opportunity fuel Islamist hate. This mistaken idea seems to be nObama administration policy...Marie Harf, the US Department of State deputy spokesperson, recently said: "We cannot win this war by killing jihadists. We need to go after the root causes that lead people to join these groups, whether it is lack of opportunity for jobs. . . We can work with countries around the world to help improve their governance. We can help them build their economies so they can have job opportunities for these people." Of course, the news about "Jihadi John" is only the latest evidence to the contrary. These terrorists are often well educated and even wealthy. Osama bin Laden certainly was.       http://www.meforum.org/5059/jihad-root-cause-myth
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 In Plain Sight: A National Security “Smoking Gun”  
(Terresa Monroe-Hamilton) - The first article of the Betrayal Papers asserted that the Muslim Brotherhood was not only influential in the United States government, but in fact dominated the administration of President Barack Hussein nObama...This article will name several key people who were or are in the nObama administration and who have various, documented associations with organizations which are directly tied to and/or funded by the Muslim Brotherhood and the State of Qatar (home to Brotherhood’s Spiritual Leader, Yusuf al-Qaradawi). These individuals have helped dictate national security policies that have crippled counterterrorism efforts at home and abroad.       http://www.trevorloudon.com/2015/02/betrayal-papers-part-2-in-plain-sight-a-national-security-smoking-gun/
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 Stopgap DHS funding bill fails in House  
(foxnews.com) - A stopgap bill to keep money flowing to the Homeland Security Department past a midnight deadline failed in the House late Friday, in a surprise turn of events that again raises the possibility of a partial agency shutdown...The vote was 224-203 against the measure, as 52 Republicans defected and joined Democrats in opposing the leadership-backed legislation. The first group was upset because the legislation had been stripped of changes to President nObama's immigration policy, and the second because it lacked full-year funding for the sprawling department.       http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/27/congress-prepares-to-punt-amid-impasse-on-dhs-funding/
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 Islamist Terrorists Are In America, Mexico Partially Responsible  
(rickwells.us) - Neil Cavuto references a sixty-eight page report which was just issued by the Texas Department of Public Safety which states that not only are illegal aliens with terrorist ties currently crossing into the United States unchecked, they have been doing so for quite a long time...Lt Col Tony Shaffer agrees with the report and notes that this is information known to the federal government as well.  He also notes that al-Shabaab, the terrorist organization that has threatened the Mall of America has conducted a similar operation in Kenya, adding credibility to their threats. Shaffer points out that FBI director James Comey has already stated that we are tracking about 200 suspected terrorists, with suspects in every state of the Union. He asks, “What about the 1,000 to 2,000 we’re not tracking who have come through the border?” He reiterates his point, “We know they’re coming through. We know we’re not detecting them.”       http://www.rickwells.us/islamist-terrorists-are-in-america-mexico-partially-responsible-is-military-action-against-mexico-part-of-the-solution/
There Will Always Be War
Alan Caruba
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     (factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - We begin with the reality that the United States and many other nations are at war with militant Islamists. They are a growing army of religious zealots murdering Christians, Jews, others who are not Muslim, and even other Muslims.

     In my youth America knew how to win wars. In Europe it bombed Germany into submission, leading its allies in an invasion that left Germany divided for decades until the Soviet Union collapsed. In Asia Truman dropped two atomic bombs on Japan because they didn’t get the message when Hiroshima was destroyed on August 6, 1945. It took a second bomb on Nagasaki on August 9 to bring about Japan’s surrender.
 
     Millions died in World War II but the alternative would have been the loss of freedom for millions worldwide.
 
     If one spends any time learning history, the primary lesson is that war has been a constant factor from the beginning of what we call civilization about five thousand years ago.
 
     The Bronze Age introduced new weapons that gave the residents of the Fertile Crescent in the Middle East a distinct advantage over invading nomadic people, but the invaders introduced chariots and it took the Egyptians and Babylonians a while to catch up. War has always been about new, more lethal weaponry.
 
     Why would we be surprised to learn that the Assyrians who originated in what is now northern Iraq or the Islamic State (ISIS) were the most violent and bloodthirsty of the ancient world’s peoples? Known to all their neighbors by 1300 B.C.E., their army become a source of terror for the Middle East during the ninth century. They destroyed the Kingdom of Israel around 732 B.C.E., but the southern part of the Kingdom of Judah survived. In time the Babylonians would defeat the Assyrians.
 
     Not all wars involved religion. The Greeks fought each other and then fought the Persians. Alexander the Great, a Macedonian, loved waging war and was very successful. The constant factor, however, was war and, of course, Rome would become the greatest empire of its time, beginning around 509 B.C.E., fighting three Punic wars with Carthage, but losing an estimated 400,000 in the first war and 150,000 in the second.
 
     Eventually, Rome was so powerful it imposed a “Pax Romana” on the entire Mediterranean area it controlled. In time, Rome would be destroyed by the “barbarians”, Visigoths, Vandals, Ostrogoth’s, and Burgundians. By 476 C.E., the Roman Empire was history.
 
     After establishing a group of followers in the Arabian Peninsula as the “last prophet”, proclaiming Islam as the one, true faith, Muhammad died in 632 C.E. Within ten years, the Arabs had conquered Jerusalem and were taking aim at Damascus and Cairo. Baghdad and the Libyan Desert were the next to be conquered. They moved on to Spain and Central Asia.
 
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     After taking the southern half of Spain, the Muslim army was poised to take all of Europe, but their 732 C.E. defeat in the Battle of Tours put an end to further expansion. Their momentum in Asia was stopped in 751 C.E. with a defeat in the Battle of Talas. As Crompton notes, “in the century that followed the Prophet’s death, the Arabs took over ninety percent of all the urban centers in the Western world, and their conquests equaled those of ancient Rome.”
 
The Crusades
 
     Which brings us to the first Crusade; it began when Pope Urban II in 1095 told a gathering of 10,000, mostly French and German knights, that a “new accursed group”, the Muslims, had taken control of the holy land were preventing pilgrims from visiting holy sites. The knights responded to his call to liberate Jerusalem by chanting “Deus Volt! Deus Volt!”—God wills it.
 
     They were joined by a “Peasants Crusade” between 1095 and 1096. By June 1099 the knights arrived outside Jerusalem and what followed was a wholesale murder of everyone there. In 1185, Saladin, the emir of Cairo and Lord of Damascus, proclaimed a jihad—a holy war—against the Christians in the Kingdom of Jerusalem. The knights defending it were defeated.
 
     A Second Crusade followed in 1147 C.E. but accomplished little and the Third Crusade had the same result. A Fourth Crusade resulted in the Europeans taking control of Constantinople in August 1204 C.E. They would rule it for the next fifty years. Years later, in 1489, a war drove the Muslims from Spain.
 
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     The spokeswoman from our Department of State who said that the present generation of Muslim holy warriors can’t all be killed doesn’t know that this is the way wars are won. You kill the enemy until the enemy decides that dying for their cause is not worth it.
 
     If ISIS is insane enough to bring the war to our homeland (and even if it doesn’t), a war of total destruction will be the only way to end the present conflict. Currently, the Jordanians and the Egyptians are doing what they can to resist ISIS, but recent polls confirm that Americans are beginning to conclude that our active boots-on-the-ground participation is the only way this will end.
 
     nObama is merely going through the motions of conducting a war against ISIS, but retired generals and diplomats have told Congress that only full-scale war will end the threat they represent.
 
     Meanwhile, ISIS is committing genocide against the Christians of the Middle East while Boko Haram is doing the same in Africa. Hezbollah would do the same against Israel if it could. Given nuclear arms, Iran will assert control over all of the Muslim warriors, threatening both Israel and the U.S.
 
     Our next President will have to commit to destroying ISIS. There is no alternative. That is history’s primary lesson.
 
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Sunday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
A rallying call for our nation’s defense
Jim Talent, Eric Edelman
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 SHOW TIME: CPAC KICKS OFF NEXT PHASE OF GOP CAMPAIGN 
Every major player for the Republican presidential nomination knows where to be this week: the Conservative Political Action Conference in suburban Washington. It’s always a big deal, but CPAC takes on new significance this year as Republicans try to sort through a bumper crop of presidential contenders. And they will all, with the exception of Ohio Gov. John Kasich and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, make the trip to Prince George’s County, Md. to audition for the party’s activist base. Think of it this way: There a two concurrent contests going on in the GOP. One is a fundraising drag race in the first eight months of the year. We’ll see the results as quarterly filing come in. But the other fight is for the hearts and minds of issue-driven activists – social, fiscal, libertarian, national security and even more niche concerns –who propel the party. We’ll know by Saturday who’s in the lead for that prize. 
-Fox News 
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 Schlapp-ed  The American Conservative Union, under the leadership of new Chairman Matt Schlapp has rebooted the event, which had in recent years come to cater to the party’s libertarian wing, in favor of the more broad-spectrum Reaganite conservatism that animated the organization at its outset. The response has been dramatic. Moderates (Jeb Bush), social conservatives (Rick Santorum), libertarian leaners (Rand Paul) and defense hawks (Marco Rubio) will all be making their case to attendees and competing in the event’s annual presidential straw poll. And rather than just canned speeches, candidates are consenting to be questioned by conservative opinion-makers like Laura Ingraham, who will be sautéing Gov. Chris Christie, R-N.J., today.   -Fox News 
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 Fearless forecast -   Walker has the most to gain or lose as he is arriving amid a rapid ascent to frontrunner status. Here’s the Fox News First fearless forecast: Several candidates will get a boost out of the weekend but at least one will start to see the window close on his or her presidential hopes. In a field this crowded, the same rule applies as to college admissions and suspensions: “Easy in, easy out.”   -Fox News 
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 CLINTON CASH VIOLATED ETHICS RULES 
WaPo: “The Clinton Foundation accepted millions of dollars from seven foreign governments during Hilly Rodham Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state, including one donation that violated its ethics agreement with the nObama administration, foundation officials disclosed Wednesday. Most of the contributions were possible because of exceptions written into the foundation’s 2008 agreement, which included limits on foreign-government donations. The agreement, reached before Clinton’s nomination amid concerns that countries could use foundation donations to gain favor with a Clinton-led State Department, allowed governments that had previously donated money to continue making contributions at similar levels. The new disclosures, provided in response to questions from The Washington Post, make clear that the 2008 agreement did not prohibit foreign countries with interests before the U.S. government from giving money to the charity closely linked to the secretary of state.”
          [Clinton’s fundraising flap has not hurt her with Iowa Democrats. Quinnipiac University’s first poll of potential Iowa Democratic caucus shows Clinton leads with 61 percent, followed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., at 19 percent, and Vice President loose lips Joe Biden at 7 percent. All other contenders were at 5 percent or below.]   -Fox News 
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 #TBT -   The Atlantic looks at the Democratic candidates seeking to retake the Senate in 2016, including Ohio’s Ted Strickland, Wisconsin’s Russ Feingold, North Carolina’s Kay Hagan and Pennsylvania’s Joe Sestak, and what they have in common with their party’s presumptive presidential nominee. They’re all aging baby boomers who have lost before. “Clinton isn’t that old—she'll be 69 on Election Day 2016—but all this talk of age has some Democrats worried about the graying of the party’s pool of candidates, and the shallow bench of youngsters behind them. Many in the party are worried about the age of party leaders in Congress. But one of the clearest demonstrations of the age gap is in races for the U.S. Senate, where Democrats hope to recover control in 2016.”   -Fox News 
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 More Smoking Guns Confirm Benghazi Cover-up  
(Roger Aronoff) - We have repeatedly exposed how the mainstream media consistently ignore the “phony scandal” of the multiple terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya in 2012, and the unnecessary deaths of four brave Americans, including Ambassador Chris Stevens...Indeed, the mainstream media shy away from covering this scandal or, alternatively, dismiss efforts to expose the ongoing government cover-up as an attack on Hilly Clinton’s presidential chances. But the media should be furious because they—alongside of the American public—were sold a lie by the nObama administration. And the media became one of the tools through which that lie was disseminated. The latest disclosures have come to light thanks to the ongoing efforts of Judicial Watch.       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/more-smoking-guns-confirm-benghazi-cover-up/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022715&utm_medium=email
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 Erdoğan's Western Enablers  
(Burak Bekdil) - The question of who lost Turkey is no doubt too late and futile to ask. A quick, but realistic answer, is probably "the Turks themselves," or, related to this, "it was destined to get lost."...After all, how Turkey is being governed today is a perfect reflection of what constitutes the predominant cultural, sociological and political values/norms in the country – each with economic derivatives of same or similar variables. We are all accountable by how rightly or wrongly we assessed the political phenomena; journalists by what accuracy their archives dating back to 10 or so years ago would produce, and politicians by their statements in the same retrospect. Any randomly selected opinion in this column since 2002 would too boringly portray the gloomy country we live in today, often with a note that "wished to be wrong."       http://www.meforum.org/5057/erdogan-western-enablers
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 Iran Working as Strategic Partner with Hezbollah Against Israel  
(Jonathan Spyer and Benjamin Weinthal) - All is not quiet on the northern front between Israel and Syria/Lebanon. The recent Hezbollah attack on an Israel Defense Forces convoy in the Har Dov area close to Israel’s border with Lebanon...in which two Israeli soldiers were killed, was the latest move in a dangerous and high stakes game that is now underway on Israel’s northern frontier. Israel and Hezbollah are not the only players. The Islamic Republic of Iran, which the U.S. defines as the leading state-sponsor of terrorism, is also a key presence as Hezbollah’s strategic partner. The attack at Har Dov was the second move by Iran/Hezbollah in response to the Israeli operation on the Syrian Golan Heights on January 18th.  In the Israeli operation, a senior Iranian Revolutionary Guards officer, Mohammed Allahdadi, was killed, as was Jihad Mughniyeh, the son of a famous Hezbollah commander.       http://pjmedia.com/blog/iran-hezbollah/
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 Ben Shapiro: First They Came for the Jews  
(TruthRevoltOriginals) - President nObama does not stand up for Christians murdered by Islamic Terrorists. Is there anyone President nObama will stand up for?...Ben Shapiro explains why the answer is probably 'no.'I know that by posting this video, I can expect more than a few comments by Jew haters.  So be it.      https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQqvttVTBb0
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 Jihadis hack to death noted American writer, Avijit Roy, wife injured  
(pamelageller.com) - It’s not just France and Denmark and Europe, it’s anywhere Muslims live and practice sharia. This savage war is on freedom of thought, freedom of expression, freedom of and from religion, and freedom of speech...In other words, imposing Islamic law by any means possible. These are dark days, my friends, and growing ever darker. The eminent blogger and his wife were returning from a book fair……Eminent Blogger and writer Avijit Roy has been killed and his wife, blogger Rafida Ahmed Bonna, severely injured when unidentified miscreants hacked them at TSC of Dhaka University on Thursday night. Avijit, son of former DU teacher Dr Ajay Roy and also the founder of Mukto-mona Blog, and his wife have been admitted to Dhaka Medical College Hospital in critical condition immediately after the attack.       http://pamelageller.com/2015/02/jihadis-hack-to-death-noted-writer-scientist-and-thinker-avijit-roy-wife-injured.html/
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 The New Israel Fund Are Extremists and Anti-Israel  
(pamelageller.com) - Democratic political strategist Hank Sheinkopf noted in The Observer, “Those who stand with New Israel Fund are standing against Israel. To suggest otherwise is a lie...I urge anyone affiliated with the NIF to stop supporting this organization financially. The New Israel Fund must be ostracized by the Jewish community.” The New Israel Fund thinks suicide bombings are bad. How about throwing rocks? How about shooting rockets? Notice, Sfard did not deny testifying for the PLO – nor did the New Israel Fund  deny that they support BDS, or that they collaborate with Palestinian enemies of Israel at the United Nations and worldwide. Clearly, this campaign to shame donors and expose the New Israel Fund must continue. Sfard’s friends at the Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian Authority were held liable for real acts of terror this week. And we will continue to shame NIF donors. When most American Jews think of Jewish agencies, they think of social services, senior care, childcare, food and educational programs, or they think of support groups for various Israel causes. The New Israel Fund is none of that.       http://pamelageller.com/2015/02/the-new-israel-fund-are-extremists-and-anti-israel-read-our-reply-to-their-statement-ujafedny.html/
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 Retracing the legislative history behind King v. Burwell - ACA  
(Thomas P. Miller) - Remember the case of the dog that did not bark in the night? If you want to count the “digital” and “paper” versions of trees that have been killed in trying to argue about the upcoming Supreme Court review of the legal challenge to an IRS rules...that tried to authorize tax credit subsidies for insurance coverage in federal-established health exchange under the Affordable Care Act, go ahead. I’ve lost count and given up, and that’s just looking at the official briefs filed on both sides. However, another astute Washington, DC-based attorney recently pointed out to several critics of the ACA, including me, how that isn’t the end of this legal story, which shows that the actual law passed by Congress never authorized tax credits for federal exchanges:       http://www.aei.org/publication/retracing-legislative-history-behind-king-v-burwell/?utm_source=today&utm_medium=paramount&utm_campaign=AEIToday022715
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 The New Shiite Crescent  
(Majid Rafizadeh) - While the nObama administration’s agenda and policies with regard to fighting the Islamic State have been counter-productive, the administration is ignoring other larger threats in the region...The profusion of Iran-trained Shiite militias in the region (particularly in Iraq, Syria, and Yemen) is unprecedented and represents the height of Iran’s support to militia groups. The incentives to recruit Shiite fighters can be either driven by financial means or religious/sectarian motives. The emergence of this new Shiite Crescent has unintended consequences for regional and global powers. Currently, an estimate of 120,000 Shiite militants are fighting in Iraq and Syria including fighters from Abo Al-Fadl Al-Abbasbrigade, Al-Imam AlHossein brigade, Tho Al-Faqar brigade, Kafil Zainab brigade, Asaib Ahl Alhaq, Ammar Bin Yasser brigade, Hezbollah Al-Nujaba’ movement, to name a few.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/majid-rafizadeh/the-new-shiite-crescent/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a744fa4868-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-a744fa4868-156509103
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 Students For Justice in Palestine Hides True Intentions  
(Ross Beroff) - Next week, our campus will be hosting Israel Apartheid Week (IAW), a series of events hosted by Students For Justice in Palestine (SJP) chapters across the country...It is time that this event and this group are exposed for what they truly are. SJP does not stand for justice, instead they are a hate group and a more fitting definition of the acronym would be, “Students for Jewish Persecution.” Let’s start with the naming of IAW. The use of the word “apartheid” in conjunction with Israel is not only false, but an insult to those who actually experienced true apartheid in South Africa. Most simply stated, there is no country in the Middle East that gives Arabs or other minorities more freedom than Israel does. Arabs can own land, vote, practice their chosen religion and speak their minds.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/ross-beroff/students-for-justice-in-palestine-hides-true-intentions/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a744fa4868-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-a744fa4868-156509103
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 At UCLA, the Power of Negative Emotions  
(David Suissa) - For several years now, a nasty anti-Israel group called Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) has bludgeoned Israel’s image on college campuses. They take no prisoners. They have little interest in polite and civil debate...They are lethal at manipulating the college bureaucracy to win Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) votes against Israel. They invite speakers linked to terrorists groups. They don’t even hide the fact that their beef with Israel goes much deeper than Israel’s disputed occupation of the West Bank. It’s all of Israel they have a problem with. When SJP talks about justice for Palestinians, they don’t mean justice for the millions of Palestinians living in misery in refugee camps in Jordan and Lebanon. They’re only interested in Palestinians that are connected to Israel– those living in the West Bank and Gaza—because only those Palestinians can accommodate SJP’s agenda to bash the Zionist enemy. Their contempt for Israel knows no bound. I challenge anyone to visit their Web sites, attend their demonstrations or read their literature and find one genuine gesture of recognition for Israel’s side of the story. UCLA was one of the campus that I was thinking of attending at a young age. The UCLA administration has gone to far and letting this group operate on campus.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/david-suissa/at-ucla-the-power-of-negative-emotions/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=a744fa4868-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-a744fa4868-156509103

A rallying call for our nation’s defense
Jim Talent, Eric Edelman
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     (aei.org) - Last week, the government confirmed that Kayla Mueller had died while in the custody of ISIS. In the weeks prior, we learned about the brutal murders of three innocent people — the beheading of two Japanese citizens and the immolation of a Jordanian pilot. That followed news that Russia was stepping up its aggression in Ukraine, which followed the overthrow of the Yemeni government by an Iranian proxy, which followed the Charlie Hebdo killings, which followed the North Korean cyber attack on an American company. The Pentagon has announced more troop deployments to the Middle East. Boko Haram is still kidnapping people in Nigeria, tensions are still high in the South and East China Seas, and Iran is still positioned to develop a nuclear bomb. China continues its massive military build-up, which is shifting the balance of power in its favor in the Western Pacific.

     What more needs to happen before our leaders begin to take the defense budget seriously?

     The nObama Administration has sent its FY 2016 defense budget to Congress. It contains a modest increase, but only when measured against the current baseline, and that baseline is almost $100 billion less than the amount that the Administration said, only four years ago, it would need to spend on defense in FY 2016.

     That’s because since 2011, the government has — with full knowledge of the consequences — funded defense at a level that it knows is far less than needed to protect the vital interests of the United States.

     In the spring of 2011, then-Secretary of Defense Bob Gates, after two years of paring back Pentagon spending, offered a ten-year budget with modest annual increases for his department. The increases didn’t even keep up with inflation, but they would at least have allowed the Defense Department to maintain its end strength, begin building up the Navy, and start to recapitalize its inventories after ten years of hard fighting.

     Within a few months, President nObama proposed in a speech to cut $400 billion dollars from his own recently submitted budget. Later in the same year, he signed the Budget Control Act and sequester, which together imposed caps on defense spending that cut a trillion dollars from the Gates’s budget. There was no pretense that these cuts were warranted or even tolerable; in fact, at the same time as Congress and the President were enacting the cuts, the new secretary of defense Leon Panetta said that they would be “devastating”, and General Martin Dempsey, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, said that they were “like shooting ourselves in the head.”

     They were correct. When the Pentagon is squeezed for money, it will typically cut first force structure and then modernization budgets; the last thing it cuts is day-to-day readiness, the ability of the current force to carry out its current missions. When the 2011 cuts fully hit, the Defense Department was forced to take the money from readiness. All of the services cut training and maintenance. The process created a backlog which still exists today. Since then, the Department has been cutting modernization programs and end strength. The Army, for example, is scheduled to shrink to pre-WWII levels.

     The monstrous irony of the cuts is that they will end up costing money. At some point, the government will have to begin repairing the damage to the armed forces. That will take years and will certainly cost more than if the reductions had not occurred, just as the Reagan buildup in the 1980s cost more than it should have because the military was hollowed out during the Carter years. So the effect of the cuts is this: They have masked the size of the short term deficit — taking some of the pressure off Congress to address the real budgetary challenges — while increasing the longer term fiscal shortfall, unraveling American power, and compromising the credibility and security of the United States.

     Irresponsibility of this magnitude is unprecedented, even in Washington. Senator John McCain was right when, in his speech to the Munich Security Conference, he referred to the “collective insanity of sequestration—arbitrary defense cuts that all of our military leaders testified to Congress two weeks ago are putting American and allied lives at risk.”

     Last year, Congress created a bipartisan Independent Panel to review the condition and future plans of the Department of Defense. The panel was co-chaired by former Secretary of Defense Bill Perry and retired General John Abizaid. To no one’s surprise, the panel unanimously condemned both the cuts and the process by which they were enacted, finding that “today the Department is facing major readiness shortfalls that will, absent a decisive reversal of course, create the possibility of a hollow force that loses its best people, underfunds procurement, and shortchanges innovation. The fact that each service is experiencing degradations in so many areas at once is especially troubling at a time of growing security challenges.”

     Such reports are usually quite careful in their language and guarded in their recommendations. This one wasn’t. In the Introduction to the report, the panel stated that. “in fact—and this bears emphasis—we believe that unless recommendations of the kind we make in this Report are adopted, the Armed Forces of the United States will in the near future be at high risk of not being able to accomplish the National Defense Strategy.”

     The panel recommended that 1) funds be appropriated to restore near term readiness, 2) the Department develop a plan based on realistic budgets for the future, and 3) in the meantime Congress return to at least the budget baseline which Secretary Gates proposed in 2011, which was the last time the Department was allowed to engage in anything approaching real defense planning.

     In sum, it was a stunning rebuke of the defense policies of the last four years. For a more thorough discussion, see here.

     Until recently, Congress had at least a political excuse for not removing the caps on defense. The House and Senate were controlled by different parties, making common action on anything quite difficult, and national security was not a priority issue in the minds of the public.

     But the environment has changed. The Republicans now have complete control of Congress, and the events of the last year have awakened the American people to the risks that are accumulating around the world. National security will be a major issue in the next presidential election. Candidates of both parties are quite likely to attack the defense policy of the last four years, for two reasons. First, that policy is a poster child for exactly the kind of bipartisan Washington dysfunction that voters hate. Second, no one who contemplates exercising the responsibilities of the presidency, and who is not named Barack nObama, wants to try to defend American security with a military which, in the panel’s words, will be at “high risk of not being able to execute the national defense strategy.”

     Senator Marco Rubio and Governor Bobby Jindal have already given strong speeches condemning the defense cuts; other likely Republican candidates will almost certainly follow suit; and the signs are that Hilly Clinton will also support returning to the Gates’ baseline. Former undersecretary of defense Michele Flournoy, who heads the list of likely defense secretaries in a Hilly Clinton administration, was a member of the panel, supported its report, and has testified and spoken out strongly in favor of its recommendations.

     Anyone who reads the Constitution will see right away that “providing for the common defense” is the priority responsibility of the federal government. In fact, it is the government’s only mandatory function; all of the other powers granted to Congress in Article I are permissive in nature, but Article IV of the Constitution states that the government “shall protect the each of them (the States) from invasion.” Neither the states, nor the people in them, are being sufficiently protected now, and the time is drawing near when there will be a political accounting for what has happened.

     The Congressional Republicans now have a chance – probably their final chance – to take a leadership role on behalf of a strong national defense. They can pass a defense appropriations bill for FY 2016 at substantially above the president’s request, and they can pass a ten year budget which returns defense spending to the Gates’ baseline while at the same time retaining the sequester levels for non-defense spending.

    In other words, the Republicans could fund what the Constitution deems important and otherwise hold the line in the name of fiscal restraint. That would be a conservative budget. More important, it would be the single most consequential act this Congress could take to protect American security during the two years that remain of the nObama Administration.

http://www.aei.org/publication/rallying-call-nations-defense/?utm_source=today&utm_medium=paramount&utm_campaign=021815

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Sunday Morning - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
The End of Freedom in America
Alan Caruba
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
~~~lll~~~
 
 If An ICE Agent Crosses nObama on Immigration... 
Let's suppose there's an enterprising Immigrations and Customs Enforcement agent who doesn't follow the "prioritized deportation" policies handed down by a lawmaking president, but instead, follows the letter of the law. MSNBC's Jose Diaz-Balart asked Barack nObama, "How do you ensure that ICE and Border Patrol won't be deporting people like this. What are the consequences?" And mObama answered that agent would have trouble. "The bottom line is that if somebody's working for ICE," nObama said, "and there's a policy, and they don't follow the policy, there's going to be consequences to it. So I can't speak to a specific problem. What I can talk about is what's true in the government generally. In the U.S. military, when you get an order, you're expected to follow it." In effect, nObama is saying his executive action on immigration -- although unconstitutional and stayed by a federal judge -- has the force of law and his authority as commander in chief behind it. Beware any lowly law enforcement official who doesn't fall into line. More...  -The Patriot Post 
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 Senate Funds DHS, Will Consider Immigration Separately  
After weeks of impasse over blocking Barack nObama's executive amnesty, the Senate finally moved. "The stalemate over funding for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was broken Wednesday as the Senate voted 98-2 to proceed to legislation that would prevent a partial government shutdown," The Hill reports. "Democrats agreed to support the DHS bill after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) agreed to strip out provisions inserted by the House that would reverse President nObama's executive actions on immigration. The only votes against proceeding to the bill came from Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.)." Now the legislation will move back to the House, where Republicans have steadfastly rejected doing anything less than blocking nObama. We appreciate the sentiment, but the battle has become House vs. Senate and Republican vs. Republican rather than the GOP Congress against nObama. That's not going to win much.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Aspiring Terrorists in Brooklyn Are No 'Lone Wolves'  
The nObama administration says ISIL isn't a domestic threat. All these terror attacks you hear about around the globe, they claim, are just demonstrations by "lone wolves" who can't find jobs or something. And, hey, nObama's economy is swell, so what's the worry? Well, this, courtesy of NBC 4 New York: "Three Brooklyn men who allegedly plotted to travel to Syria to join ISIS and posted online messages about planting a bomb on Coney Island and shooting police officers were taken into custody during FBI and NYPD terror raids Wednesday. ... The men, 24- and 30-year-old Uzbekistan citizens and a 19-year-old Kazakhstan citizen who all lived in Brooklyn, allegedly planned to return to New York to commit a domestic act of terror if they failed to join the group overseas, law enforcement officials said." Does that sound like "lone-wolf terrorism"? Whether it's an attack carried out by Islamists in the United States, Canada, Britain, France, Syria, Iraq or Australia, the common denominator is a twisted ideology that calls for slaying the infidel in service to Jihadistan. And while aspiring terrorists in the U.S. have for the most part kept underground, they have found new inspiration in ISIL, which is indirectly recruiting through the power of propaganda. More...  -The Patriot Post 
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 Hanoi Kerry Blasts Netanyahu for Iraq War Support  
We get it. The nObama administration really doesn't like Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry made that clear again Wednesday in testimony before Congress, saying we can't trust Netanyahu because he supported invading Iraq. "The prime minister was profoundly forward-leaning and outspoken about the importance of invading Iraq under George W. Bush. We all know what happened with that decision," Hanoi Kerry lectured. Indeed, it was the impetus for his infamous "botched joke" about uneducated people getting "stuck in Iraq." There's also the small detail of Hanoi Kerry having voted for the war. We know he was for it before it was against it, but come on, Mr. Secretary. Have a little self-awareness.   -The Patriot Post 
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 loose lips Biden Wants to Emancipate the Wealth of the One   Percent  
loose lips Joe Biden's comments commemorating Black History Month careened right past the struggle for civil rights and mired into full-on socialism. On Monday, Creepy Ol' Joe hosted a Black History Month event where he said, "A lot of wealthy white and black people aren't bad, but they control 1% of the economy and this cannot stand. It's not fair because the business experts are saying that concentration of wealth is stunting growth. So let's do something that's worthy of emancipation." loose lips Biden continued, explaining Abraham Lincoln's Emancipation Proclamation: "What happened is not only did we move toward freeing black Americans but also the conscience of white Americans." Per loose lips Biden's usual rhetorical "style," these comments are filled with muddled metaphors and thoughtless arguments. Is he saying "emancipating" the wealth belonging to the Scrooge McDucks of the nation would be good for their souls? If wealthy white and black people are the problem, how is this in any way connected to the civil rights struggle of the '60s? Finally, why is he equating today's dollars with enslaved, antebellum blacks? While nothing is officially announced, loose lips Biden may be starting his campaign for president -- by signaling he'll continue Barack nObama's socialist engineering of America. More...  -The Patriot Post 
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 Rep Steve King To Sellout Republican Senators  
(Rick Wells) - Congressman Steve King (R-IA) is not impressed with the actions of the sellouts in the Senate, those who are wringing their delicate little hands from underneath their desks, fearful that someone in the regime or Pravda-USA might have something bad to say about them...he disgusted statesman and defender of the American people said in a Thursday Breitbart interview, “I’ve listened to some senators over there, Republican senators, whine about being blamed [for defunding DHS].” King said, “This is a constitutional issue and they all took the same oath to the Constitution that we did. And there is no clause in that oath that says ‘support and defend the Constitution, unless you might get blamed for inconveniencing some people.’”       http://www.rickwells.us/rep-steve-king-to-sellout-republican-senators-if-youre-afraid-to-defend-the-constitution-go-home/
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MRC Business has a project dedicated to following liberal philanthropist George Soros.
 Soros, Ford Foundation shovel $196 million to 'net neutrality' groups  
(Paul Bedard) - Liberal philanthropist George Soros and the Ford Foundation have lavished groups supporting the administration’s “net neutrality” agenda, donating $196 million and landing proponents on the White House staff, according to a new report...And now, as the Federal Communications Commission nears approving a type of government control over the Internet, the groups are poised to declare victory in the years-long fight, according to the report from MRC Business, an arm of the conservative media watchdog, the Media Research Center.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/soros-ford-shovel-196-million-to-net-neutrality-groups-staff-to-white-house/article/2560702
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 Cuccinelli rips Republicans: 'They don't have any backbone!' 
(
Greg Corombos) - Senate Conservatives Fund President Ken Cuccinelli calls Senate Republicans’ decision to push Homeland Security funding that includes money for President nObama’s amnesty a “total surrender” that proves GOP leaders “really don’t have any backbone.”...Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky., decided earlier in the week to stop pushing a Department of Homeland Security, or DHS, appropriations bill that strictly forbids funding for nObama administration executive action on immigration in 2012 and 2014. With Democrats blocking debate, McCon-nell agreed to bring a “clean” bill forward in exchange for Democrat promises to vote on a separate bill to defund nObama’s unilateral November action to legalize five million people in the country illegally. The latter bill has virtually no chance of passing.So is this an example of Republicans letting nObama get away with an unconstitutional act, or was it the only realistic way to keep Homeland Security efforts funded?       http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/cuccinelli-rips-republicans-they-dont-have-any-backbone/
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 Christian Genocide, America Needs Leadership In Fight Against ISIS  
(Rick Wells) - Greta Van Susteren addresses the expansion of ISIS, noting their current Christian abduction campaign, saying that there is no denying their steady expansion...Allen West asks the rhetorical question if the U.S. has already surrendered to ISIS, and explains. He notes how our military is in the process of being decimated and that we cannot fight at previous levels. He notes that because of that we are unable to address the threats in multiple combat theaters. He also speaks to the paralysis in Washington DC. He talks about how he keeps hearing that America is war-weary, but notes there are only about two percent who have been out there serving in uniform and that they are still more than willing to go and fight this enemy.”       http://www.rickwells.us/col-allen-west-christian-genocide-america-needs-leadership-in-fight-against-isis-obama-is-clearly-obstructing/
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 Oliver North - Shameful, To An Enemy nObama Refuses To Identify  
(Rick Wells) - Retired Lt Col Oliver North spoke at CPAC on behalf of America’s military, addressing the sacrifices they and their families make in the name of protecting the American people...Col North said, “I’m talking about the 2.5 million young Americans who have deployed to difficult and dangerous places in support of operation Enduring Freedom and operation Iraqi Freedom. Many of them have served seven, eight, nine, even ten or more deployments. That kind of “optempo,” as it’s called, has strained and often broken family relationships.” He says, “Some 6,849 Americans lost their lives in Iraq and Afghanistan, to an enemy this administration cannot even identify. Tens of thousands more have returned home wounded, but every American who served in those theaters of combat and their families have been impacted. Each of them has left a piece of their body or a part of their soul on those battlefields.”       http://www.rickwells.us/lt-col-oliver-north-shameful-6849-u-s-dead-in-iraq-to-an-enemy-obama-regime-refuses-to-even-identify/
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 Rep Jim Jordan – Mysterious Vanishing IRS Email Records Found  
(Rick Wells) - In House Oversight Committee hearings held on Thursday, Rep Jim Jordan (R-OH) questions Deputy Inspector General for Investigations Timothy Camus regarding missing IRS emails...the Inspector General’s successful efforts to obtain them and the apparent lack of effort on the part of the IRS to find the supposedly missing records. The attempts to retrieve the elusive documents were simple matters of making a phone call and driving over to the location where they were stored. Inspector General Camus simply phoned the record depository, determined that the records were there, got into his car and  drove over to that location, and taking possession of 744 tapes. Rep Jordan asks Mr. Camus if he had inquired of the record keepers as to whether the IRS had made an effort to gain the records they were supposedly looking for. Camus said he did ask and that the IRS had not already been there, according to the people he talked to.       http://www.rickwells.us/rep-jim-jordan-mysterious-vanishing-irs-email-records-found-potential-criminal-activity-indicated/
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 Australia: Muslims outraged at PM’s “aggressive rhetoric”  
(Robert Spencer) - What was his “aggressive rhetoric against Muslims”? What were his “incredibly reckless” remarks? He said: “I’ve often heard Western leaders describe Islam as a religion of peace…I wish more Muslim leaders would say that more often and mean it.” And: “The Islamist death-cult has declared war on the world.” In response, instead of declaring their loyalty to Australia and showing themselves to be on his side against the terrorists, Muslim leaders in Australia are claiming victim status. How unfortunately predictable. Muslim community leaders have voiced their anger at Prime Minister Tony Abbott over his national security speech on Monday, saying it did nothing but inflame tensions and belittle the efforts of Muslims leaders working to decrease community antagonism. Sorry, but I stand with PM Tony Abbott.        https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iib89Zy_8rM
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 Can We Impeach Now? - Can We? We Should!!  
(Erick Erickson) - First Barack nObama decided to overreach and extend amnesty by executive order. One judge in Texas has told him no and Republicans are hanging their hat on that judge’s order...Then the FCC decided to declare internet a public utility. They overreached, rushed it through, and committed to as little transparency as possible to make it happen. Congress did nothing on this front and the FCC decided to replace the Congress on the matter. Now there are reports that Barack nObama, by executive order and agency regulation, will curtail the manufacture of certain ammunition. Again and again and again the President of the United States has met the boundaries of his powers and stepped across them. The Senate is now on the verge of confirming his Attorney General appointee who sees no limits to the power of Octavius nObama. Given Barack nObama’s continuous overreaching of power, I must now ask if it is time to consider impeachment proceedings. Is it even possible?       http://www.redstate.com/2015/02/27/can-we-impeach-now/
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 Hanoi John Kerry: disingenuous blowhard  
(streiff) - Yesterday, our alleged Secretary of State, Sen, Hanoi John Kerry, accused Israeli Prime Minister of doing something akin to cheerleading America into war with Iran...This is the kind of blood-libel-lite the left uses. Just as conservative Jews are accused of having “mixed loyalties,” Israeli officials who are trying to prevent their nation from being destroyed as part of a liberal Democrat undergraduate seminar in international relations regularly get accused of tying to involve America in wars. From the always slavishly stenographic TPM:       http://www.redstate.com/2015/02/26/john-kerry-disingenuous-blowhard/
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 nObama Dares GOP: ‘Vote on Whether What I’m Doing Is Legal  
(Craig Bannister) - Pres. nObama is daring Republicans to vote on whether or not his executive actions are legal...Discussing opposition to his executive amnesty orders at an immigration town hall Wednesday, nObama said he would veto the vote because his actions are “the right thing to do”: “So in the short term, if Mr. McCon-nell, the leader of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House, backstabber John Boehner, want to have a vote on whether what I’m doing is legal or not, they can have that vote.  I will veto that vote, because I’m absolutely confident that what we’re doing is the right thing to do.” Congress take up his dare and show him he is in the wrong. Then impeach him.        http://www.mrctv.org/blog/obama-go-ahead-have-vote-whether-what-i-m-doing-legal-i-will-veto
The End of Freedom in America
Alan Caruba
 
 
 

     (aim.org/guest-column) - The America that has existed from the days of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, when its sovereignty was acknowledged by a treaty with England 1783, and its founding in 1788 with the ratification of the Constitution is no more. The America for which thousands fought and gave their lives is no more.

     That America ends on February 26 when the Federal Communications Commission, under intense pressure from the nObama White House and with the votes of its Democratic Party commissioners asserts government control over the Internet with a 332-page set of regulations, dubbed “Net Neutrality.”

     Writing in the Feb 22nd Wall Street Journal, columnist L. Gordon Crovitz summed up what will occur saying “nObamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn’t broken…The permissionless Internet which allows anyone to introduce a website, app, or device without government review, ends this week.”

     “The big politicization came when President nObama in November demanded that the supposedly independent FCC apply agency’s most extreme regulation to the Internet.” Of course nObama wants the Internet regulated and of course the Democratic Party will support this move to control who gets to put up a website or blog and, more importantly, who gets to say anything critical of the President.

     The Democratic Party has been in everything but name the Communist Party in the United States for several decades. nObama was raised and mentored to be a Marxist. What we are witnessing is nothing less than tyranny replacing democracy.

     Crovitz warned that “This week Mr. nObama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block  nObamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it.”

     Earlier this week, as reported by Giuseppe Macri in The Daily Caller the FCC’s two Republican commissioners, Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly, asked Chairman Tom Wheeler “to delay the vote and release his proposal to the public. ‘We respectfully request that FCC leadership immediately release the 332-page Internet regulation plan publicly and allow the American people a reasonable period of not less than 30 days to carefully study it.'”

     There is some evil at work here because, as the Republican commissioners point out, “the plan in front of us right now is so drastically different than the proposal the FCC adopted and put out for public comment last May.”

     Shades of nObamaCare! Even the Democrats who voted that monstrosity into law had not read it. Now neither Congress, nor the rest of America is being permitted to see regulations that will determine what can and cannot be posted to the Internet, the greatest instrument of free speech ever invented since the printing press.

     Commissioner Pai says that the FCC is “adopting a solution that won’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist using legal authority we don’t have.” He estimates that the regulations will add up to $11 billion in new taxes on Internet access.

     In a commentary, “Neutralize nObama’s Hijacking of the Internet”, Judi McLeod, the editor of CanadaFreePress.com, said “Forget NSA, the FBI, the CIA, and all warnings sent by Edward Snowden. They’ve got nothing on how Net Neutrality will silence you.”

     “Someday in the near future when you type in the words “Islamic terrorists” in an Internet post, you will be knocked off the Net and find it all but impossible to climb back on again.”

     Do I think the Congress will exercise its oversight responsibilities and stop this tyrannical power grab? No. Do I think our court system will do anything other than bow to precedent set by earlier FCC regulations? Yes.

     As a nation founded on and devoted to freedom of speech, I think February 26, 2015 will go down in the history books as the day when that freedom came to an end in America.

     Thanks to a National Security Agency we no longer have any privacy regarding anything we say using telephones, the Internet or any other form of communication.

     If the Democrat-controlled FCC has its way, the Internet will slow your access and could eliminate access countless sites that provide news and express opinions the federal government finds offensive. That’s what tyrannies do.

http://www.aim.org/guest-column/the-end-of-freedom-in-america/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022615&utm_medium=email

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Saturday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
 Why the Fake Story About the Mossad
Contradicting Netanyahu?
Jonathan Tobin
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
~~~lll~~~
 
 
 FCC BOSS DITCHES NET REGULATION HEARING 
The Hill: “The House Oversight Committee has postponed a hearing to explore whether the White House had undue influence on the Federal Communications Commission’s development of net neutrality rules. The announcement came after FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler declined to testify at Wednesday’s hearing, which would have come just a day ahead of the commission’s vote on the new regulations. Wheeler has agreed to testify at a later date, according to the FCC. House Oversight Chairman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) and House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-Mich.) said they were ‘deeply disappointed’ in Wheeler’s decision but promised that their probe would continue.  ‘So long as the chairman continues to insist on secrecy, we will continue calling for more transparency and accountability at the commission,’ they said. ‘Chairman Wheeler and the FCC are not above Congress. This fight continues as the future of the Internet is at stake.’”
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WaPo: “Sen. John Thune (R-S.D.) isn’t giving up on net neutrality legislation. In fact, he’s still interested in finding alternatives to what the Federal Communications Commission has proposed as the strongest rules on Internet providers the country has ever seen. Contradicting a report by the New York Times Tuesday that Thune had ‘all but surrendered’ to Democrats and the FCC days ahead of an agency vote on net neutrality, a committee spokesperson said that the chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee is still committed to finding a legislative solution…”] 
-Fox News  
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 Why should you care? -   Aside from the philosophical question of whether the government can or should have the power to regulate the internet, the regulations themselves could cause your binge-watching habits to be slightly more frustrating. With the new FCC rules, no Internet provider would be allowed to buy faster lines than another provider. So whether you have Comcast’s Xfinity or Time Warner, Frank Underwood’s diabolic takeover will take the same time to load.  -Fox News  
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 IMMIGRATION STANDOFF LIKELY TO END WITH A WHIMPER,   NOT A BANG 
WaPo: “The Senate moved closer Tuesday to a deal to avert a partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, but the proposal faced an uncertain future in the House…Under [Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell’s] proposal, the Senate would vote first on the funding measure and then hold a separate vote on a bill to undo nObama’s new immigration initiatives. McCon-nell hopes to assuage conservatives who are determined to confront the president on what they see as abuse of his executive authority…. But House Speaker backstabber John A. Boehner (R-Ohio) did not immediately warm to the proposal, and it was not clear whether he could marshal enough backing in his chamber to complete the deal to keep DHS open beyond Friday, when its spending authority expires. House Republicans will huddle behind closed doors Wednesday morning.”  -Fox News  
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 AEI nabs big names for Georgia forum -   Bloomberg: “Held at the remote, luxury Sea Island resort in Georgia, the 2015 American Enterprise Institute World Forum will bring together several potential GOP candidates and members of the business and media…Among the scheduled speakers at the exclusive event, which will be held from March 5-8, are Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker, former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum, former Texas Governor Rick Perry, Indiana Governor Mike Pence, Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal, South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie, and former Florida Governor Jeb Bush, all of whom have been contemplating entering the 2016 presidential race.”   -Fox News  
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 ACT NOW, AND HE’LL THROW IN HIS DIRTY DISHES   
Boston Globe reports Kyle Waring of Massachusetts decided to sell the snow over the internet. Waring charges 89 dollars for six pounds of snow, which he ships in an insulated container to prevent melting. He sold four boxes of snow in 24 hours, and expects the trend to continue. “At this rate, it’s going to be July until the snow melts,” he said. “But I’ve thought about taking this idea and running with it for other seasonal items. Maybe I’ll ship some fall foliage.”  -Fox News  
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 nObama Has Decimated Our Military  
(Rowan Scarborough) - The U.S. military is shedding so many troops and weapons it is only “marginally able” to defend the nation and falls short of the nObama administration’s national security...strategy, according to a new report by The Heritage Foundation on Tuesday. “The U.S. military itself is aging. It’s shrinking in size,” said Dakota Wood, a Heritage analyst. “And it’s quickly becoming problematic in terms of being able to address more than one major conflict.”       http://clashdaily.com/2015/02/shocking-stats-obama-has-decimated-our-military-while-islamic-state-recruits-globally/#
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 Syria's Civil War Could Stabilize Its Region  
(Daniel Pipes) - Population shifts resulting from Syria's four-year long civil war have profoundly changed Syria and its three Arabic-speaking neighbors: Iraq, Lebanon, and Jordan. (Turkey and Israel have changed too, but less so.)... Ironically, amid tragedy and horror, as populations adapt to the brutal imperatives of modern nationalism, all four countries are becoming a bit more stable. That's because the fighting has pushed peoples to move from ethnic minority status to ethnic majority status, encouraging like to live with like. Before looking at each country, some background:       http://www.danielpipes.org/15552/syria-war-demographics
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 Whose Idea Was This Amnesty Defunding Mess Anyway?  
(CHQ Staff) - The Capitol Hill Republican establishment leadership is now on the verge of caving-in to the Senate Democrats on defunding nObama’s unconstitutional “executive amnesty,” so it is fair to ask how, in the face of the overwhelming victory Republicans won in the 2014 midterms...they find themselves in the middle of this mess. The answer is they put themselves there, because back in December they wouldn’t fight for conservative principles and instead chose to worm their way out of the immediate crisis of passing the hated “CRomnibus” to fund the government, get off to their Christmas and holiday vacations, and avoid a potential government wide “shutdown” that fighting nObama’s amnesty then would have entailed. The answer to worm their way out of that crisis was to split DHS funding off, pass the CRomnibus and promise they would fight nObama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty when they had majorities in both Houses of Congress.      http://www.conservativehq.com/article/19775-whose-idea-was-amnesty-defunding-mess-anyway
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 Target Practice? Iran blows up “U.S. aircraft carrier”  
(pamelageller.com) - Iran has warned that US carriers will be targeted. nObama legitimized these savages and turned over billions of dollars...In addition to the carrier attack, the drill included the Guard shooting down a drone and planting mines at sea. nObama’s response it to has been to aggressively go after Israel. Like all thugs and autocrats, he targets the victim. No matter how much Iran publicly humiliates and mocks nObama (and by proxy us, of course), nObama is on a jihad to broker a nuclear deal with these savages. What does he expect will happen when Iran gets nukes?       http://pamelageller.com/2015/02/watch-video-target-practice-iran-blows-up-u-s-aircraft-carrier-in-explosive-tv-spectacle.html/
5.
 Saudis Ready to Help Israel Attack Iran   
(Israel Today Staff) -  European officials say that Saudi Arabia is just as concerned as Israel over the details of the nuclear agreement the nObama Administration is currently negotiating with Iran...and is even prepared to facilitate an Israeli airstrike on Iran’s nuclear facilities, should it come to that. “The Saudis have declared their readiness for the Israeli Air Force to overfly Saudi air space en route to attack Iran if an attack is necessary,” an unnamed senior European diplomat was cited as saying by Israel’s Channel 2 News. The source added that Saudi Arabia is “completely coordinated with Israel on all matters related to Iran.”       http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/26134/Default.aspx?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=No-sidebar-news-1&utm_content=1621
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Satellite image of Iran's secret Lavizan-3 nuclear facility as revealed by satellite maps.
 New Secret Iranian Nuclear Facility Revealed  
(Ryan Mauro) - An Iranian opposition group has disclosed the existence of a secret uranium enrichment site in Iran that has been operating since 2008...The revelation comes as the U.S. and Iran come close to an "historic compromise" on its nuclear program ahead of a March 31 deadline for a deal. The National Council of Resistance of Iran (NCRI), a controversial opposition group, is known for its expansive intelligence network inside Iran that regularly delivers detailed information about the regime’s secret activities. In 2002, NCRI exposed that Iran had a secret uranium enrichment facility at Natanz and was building a heavy water reactor at Arak suitable for making plutonium-based nuclear weapons. The Iranian regime was forced to admit their existence and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) has inspected the sites.       http://www.clarionproject.org/analysis/new-secret-iranian-nuclear-facility-revealed
7.
 HHS Terminates nObamacare Coverage for 90,000  
(JERYL BIER) - The nObama administration in recent weeks has been trumpeting the number of signups for health insurance through the nObamacare marketplaces for 2015, but at least 90,000 consumers who had coverage last year are losing it...In this week's Affordable Care Act open enrollment report, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that processing has been completed for most accounts with "citizenship and immigration data matching issues," and those unable to provide appropriate documentation have had their coverage terminated. A relevant portion of the item posted on the HHS blog is below.      http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/hhs-terminates-obamacare-coverage-90000-lack-citizenship-immigration-documents_866947.html?utm_campaign=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest&utm_source=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest%20-%2002%2F26%2F15&utm_medium=email
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Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton
 Smoking gun: Hilly's Benghazi lie blown out of the water  
(Jerome R. Corsi) - State Department emails released through a lawsuit by Judicial Watch show then-Secretary of State Hilly Clinton knew while the Sept. 11, 2012, attack on the U.S. compound in Benghazi was under way that it was being carried out by terrorists...Clinton blamed the attack on “rage and violence over an awful Internet video” when she spoke at a ceremony at Andrews Air Force Base on Sept. 14, 2014, as the remains of the four Americans, including Ambassador Christopher Stevens, were returned to the United States. The emails were made public Thursday by the Washington, D.C., legal watchdog group. “These emails leave no doubt that Hilly Clinton’s closest advisers knew the truth about the Benghazi attack from almost the moment it happened,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/hillary-knew-emails-during-benghazi-attack-reported-terrorism/
9.
 Judge Denies DOJ's Request to Lift Ban on Immigration Action  
(Bradford Thomas) - U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen has denied the Justice Department's request to stay his injunction against nObama's executive action on immigration...The nObama administration submitted a request Monday for Judge Hanen to lift his temporary ban on the executive amnesty program by Wednesday, hoping that Hanen would allow the program to go forward while the case worked its way through court. Hanen, however, denied the request, explaining that he has given those challenging the administration's actions until Monday to respond to the Justice Department.        http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/judge-denies-dojs-request-lift-ban-immigration-action
10.
 nObama to ban bullets by executive action  
(Paul Bedard) - It’s starting. As promised, President nObama is using executive actions to impose gun control on the nation, targeting the top-selling rifle in the country, the AR-15 style semi-automatic...with a ban on one of the most-used AR bullets by sportsmen and target shooters. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives this month revealed that it is proposing to put the ban on 5.56 mm ammo on a fast track, immediately driving up the price of the bullets and prompting retailers, including the huge outdoors company Cabela’s, to urge sportsmen to urge Congress to stop the president. nObama is overstepping his bounds and is creating an ugly mess.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2560750
 Why the Fake Story About the Mossad
Contradicting Netanyahu?
Jonathan Tobin
Why the Fake Story About the Mossad Contradicting Netanyahu? 

     (.jewishworldreview.com) - The headlines in the Guardian and Al Jazeera trumpeted what seemed like a very juicy story.

      According to leaked South African intelligence cables obtained by Al Jazeera and shared with the Guardian, the Israeli intelligence agency Mossad had come to conclusions that "contradicted" Prime Minister Netanyahu's assertions about Iran's nuclear program in his 2012 speech to the General Assembly of the United Nations.

     The charge was repeated in a story published by the New York Times. If true, then Netanyahu's speech, best remembered for the cartoon bomb illustration he brandished, would be exposed as political hyperbole.

     But a closer look at the speech and the leaked cable shows that the headlines aren't justified. In fact, they are downright false. That leads us to ask the question why major media outlets are seeking to discredit Netanyahu with misleading stories just at the moment when details about President nObama's latest nuclear offer to Iran has become public.

     The answer reveals a great deal about both the bias of the press and the stakes in the Iran nuclear debate.

     Unpacking the assertions in the Al Jazeera/Guardian story isn't difficult. As Mitch Ginsburg points out in the Times of Israel, the crux of that story is that the leaked documents say that in 2012, the Mossad told its South African counterparts that, "Iran at this time is not performing the activity necessary to produce weapons." That led both papers (dutifully echoed by the Times a day later) to claim that Netanyahu's "inflammatory rhetoric" and "alarmist tone" about the prospect of an Iranian bomb was not only unjustified but a lie made out of whole cloth.

     That is damning stuff indeed. But what exactly did Netanyahu say in September 2012 while brandishing a picture of a Wile E. Coyote-style bomb?

     By next spring, at most by next summer, at current enrichment rates, they will have finished the medium enrichment and moved on to the final stage. From there, it's only a few months, possibly a few weeks, before they get enough enriched uranium for the first bomb.

     Let's be clear about this. Netanyahu did not say that Iran would have a bomb in a few months. He just said they were enriching enough uranium to create a bomb. That is not a minor distinction. And on that point, there was no disagreement between the Mossad and the prime minister. Which is to say this big story is no story at all. But the much-ballyhooed "contradiction" which was not actually a contradiction is still being reported throughout the world and on cable news networks as a flaw in Netanyahu's arguments and a blow to his credibility.

     It is true that the heads of Israel's intelligence agencies have at times clashed with Netanyahu. That was particularly true in 2012 when rumors were rife that the prime minister and his former rival and then coalition partner Ehud Barak, serving as defense minister at that time, were thinking seriously about ordering a military strike on Iran's nuclear facilities. The spooks were worried that such a plan couldn't work, would alienate the United States and, more to the point, might be rendered unnecessary by covert activities such as cyber attacks on the Iranian program and assassinations of scientists.

     As it turns out, the spy agency and its American counterparts overestimated the damage that their Stuxnet attack on the Iranian computer systems could do. Though Tehran experienced a setback, all indications are that covert action conclusively failed to halt the Iranian program.

     But the decision to go big with a story undermining Netanyahu this week is no accident. We learned that Israel's warnings that the U.S. was offering massive concessions to Iran in the nuclear talks were entirely true. The administration told the press that it was presenting the Iranians with a proposal that would not only allow them to keep most of their existing nuclear infrastructure and lift sanctions but that all they were asking them to do was to freeze their development for ten years after which restrictions would be lifted.

     Combined with the latest report from the International Atomic Energy Agency that showed the Iranians were continuing to stonewall efforts to inspect sites that would allow the UN body to discover how much progress had been made toward weaponization, and what you get is a picture of a negotiating process whose only aim is to foster détente between the U.S. and Iran, not one whose purpose is to spike their nuclear ambitions.

     The weaponization aspect of that report is significant particularly in light of the attention given the Mossad's 2012 conclusions. At that time it wasn't clear whether the Iranians were close to a bomb.

     Neither the U.S. nor Israel knows the answer to that question today either. But what we do know is that Netanyahu's predictions about Iran's capabilities were not only vindicated but may well become accepted by the West in the wake of President nObama's proposal. Thus at this moment, damaging Netanyahu's credibility, even if it means shading the truth or inventing a contradiction when there is none, has become vital for those who believe confronting Iran over its nuclear program is a mistake.

     No matter how many brickbats are hurled at him by the media or how many tactical mistakes he and his staff may make as they are being outmaneuvered in Washington by the White House, the fact remains that Iran's nuclear ambitions are a deadly threat to the security of the West and the moderate Arab nations as well as an existential challenge to Israel's existence.

     But the president's apologists will have to do better than a misleading Mossad story if they are to succeed in silencing the critics of nObama's Iran appeasement.

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0215/tobin022515.php3

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Saturday Morning - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Hanoi Kerry defends Iran nuclear talks as dissidents claim proof of Tehran deception
Guy Taylor  
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
~~~lll~~~
 
 Even Holder Can't Pin Civil Rights Violations on Zimmerman  
Nearly three years to the day since George Zimmerman killed Trayvon Martin in what was ruled self-defense, the nObama Justice Department finally admitted its investigation found "insufficient evidence" to charge Zimmerman with violating Martin's civil rights. Attorney General Eric Holder grudgingly conceded the evidence didn't meet the "high standard for a federal hate crime prosecution," though he insisted we "continue the dialogue" about racial tension. Holder, Barack nObama and the usual suspects of professional racial grievance immediately seized on Martin's death as a platform for their brand of "social justice." That included nObama's infamous pronouncement, "If I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon." But attempting to make him a poster boy for "hate crimes" diverts attention from a terribly inconvenient truth: A grossly disproportionate number of murder victims in any year are black men, women and children -- about 9,000 annually. And most of these victims are murdered by other blacks -- with only a handful of cases that might be associated with racism. More...  -The Patriot Post 
 
 
 The Welcome Mat for Muslims  
Barack nObama's Summit on Countering Violent Extremism went over about as well as one might expect from an administration determined to deny the truth regarding that extremism's origins. But the problem is much worse than just semantics. Paul Sperry writes at Investor's Business Daily, "Between 2010 and 2013, the nObama administration imported almost 300,000 new immigrants from Muslim nations -- more immigrants than the U.S. let in from Central America and Mexico combined over that period. ... Many of the recent Muslim immigrants are from terrorist hot spots like Iraq, where the Islamic State operates. From 2010-2013, nObama ushered in 41,094 Iraqi nationals from there. Now the State Department says it will quadruple the number of refugees brought here from Syria, where IS is headquartered." Perhaps many or most of these people are truly refugees. But maybe some are jihadis looking for an American gun-free zone to attack. It's clear that combining nObama's immigration policies with his views on national security is dangerous, and it could have dire implications for our nation. More...   -The Patriot Post 

 A Stupid Deal With Iran  
Barack nObama once claimed his foreign policy was based on the principle, "Don't do stupid s---." Well, here is one of the most egregiously stupid ideas in recent memory: The U.S. is reportedly considering accepting a deal with Iran that would simply kick the can down the road by a decade or so, allowing Iran to continue its nuclear developments in the meantime and even allowing for reduced restrictions toward the end of the agreement period. (Hanoi John Kerry, of course, denies the report.) Deputy Secretary of State Antony Blinken, displaying a keen mastery of the obvious, said any such deal would require highly intrusive inspections to verify Iran was meeting the deal's terms. Perhaps fellow State Department deep thinker Marie Harf could explain to him that we are in this mess precisely because Iran has refused to live up to its previous intrusive inspection requirements under the Non-Proliferation Treaty. After 12 years of lying, cheating, hiding facilities, hindering inspectors, etc., now we're supposed to believe Iran will agree to a new deal's inspection terms? Despite all the technical arguments and political dynamics, the problem is a very simple one. Iran is obligated under the Non-Proliferation Treaty to give the International Atomic Energy Agency full, unrestricted access to inspect and verify Iran's peaceful use of nuclear energy. Iran has refused to do so for more than a decade, openly dismissing the IAEA's authority and even more openly mocking the UN's ability to force Iran to comply. Pretending the previous 12 years never happened and accepting Iran's word that this time it really, truly means it when it pledges to accept intrusive inspections is the very definition of "doing stupid s---."  -The Patriot Post 
 Cue the GOP Immigration Disaster  
It's been less than 100 days since the Republican Party won Congress in the midterm elections. And in that time, it has garnered Barack nObama's veto of the Keystone XL pipeline and a fight over immigration that could gridlock Congress for the rest of the legislative session. On Feb. 27, the Department of Homeland Security will run out of money and partially shut down if Congress doesn't reauthorize its budget. But Senate Democrats are blocking the vote because Republicans tied the issue to funding DHS, the department tasked with discharging nObama's unconstitutional executive actions legalizing five million illegals -- or as the administration now calls them, "Americans-in-waiting." Three times Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell brought forward a bill to fund DHS but defund nObama's immigration policies. Three times Senate Democrats covered for their president, blocking even the consideration of the bill, in order to show how the GOP is frozen with infighting. If DHS is funded fully as Democrats want, then nObama continues his executive reign unchecked. If the GOP stands its ground, Democrats will score a political victory, as DHS would shut down and the Leftmedia talkingheads would skewer the GOP for it. nObama's plan was shrewd.  -The Patriot Post 
 HILLY STATE DEPARTMENT AUTHORIZED BUBBA’S SKETCHY   CHINA SPEECH 
Politico: “Less than a year after Hilly Clinton became secretary of state, former President Bill Clinton asked the State Department to approve a paid, videotaped speech he was asked to make at a gala in Shanghai, sponsored by a Chinese sports foundation. Wealthy hedge fund manager Kai Jiang wanted to pay the former president an undisclosed amount through a charity fund set up by his wife, Crystal Huang, a Chinese TV and film star who regularly serves as fodder for the Chinese tabloids. But unlike hundreds of big-dollar Bill Clinton speeches that sailed through a State Department ethics approval process while Hilly Clinton served as America’s top diplomat, this one raised a note of caution that the Chinese government might actually be funding the speech or planning to profit from it.”

          Early warning  - Bubba’s overseas buckraking raised eyebrows last summer, as reported by WashEx: “A joint investigation by the Washington Examiner and the nonprofit watchdog group Judicial Watch found that former President Clinton gave 215 speeches and earned $48 million while his wife presided over U.S. foreign policy, raising questions about whether the Clintons fulfilled ethics agreements related to the Clinton Foundation during Hilly Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state. …State Department officials charged with reviewing Bill Clinton's proposed speeches did not object to a single one.” 
          Famed Chinese dissident contradicts Hilly’s claimed heroism - The Telegraph: “Hilly Clinton’s account of one of her crowning moments as secretary of state has been flatly contradicted by a leading Chinese activist. Chen Guangcheng, a blind lawyer who escaped house arrest and caused an diplomatic crisis between China and the US by taking refuge in the American embassy in Beijing in 2012, accused the nObama administration and Hilly Clinton of “giving in” to Chinese negotiators.”  -Fox News 
 
 
 
1.
Bio weapon: Ministry of Defence scientists have been assessing the risk of the Ebola virus being used by terrorists such as ISIS or Al-Qaeda to attack the UK
 MoD assess threat of Ebola used by ISIS or Al-Qaeda  
(Sara Malm) - Ministry of Defence scientists have been exploring the possible use of Ebola as a biochemical weapon, newly released documents confirm...Staff at the MoD’s research centre at Porton Down, Wiltshire, have been assessing the risk of the virus being used by terrorists such as ISIS or Al-Qaeda to attack the UK. The documents, released under the Freedom of Information Act, reveal that scientists have been looking into at least three potential scenarios.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/uk-mod-assess-threat-of-ebola-used-by-isis-or-al-qaeda-to-attack-britain/
2.
 Breaking stalemate, Senate votes 98-2 to debate ‘clean’ DHS bill  
(Jordain Carney) - Democrats agreed to support the DHS bill after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell (R-Ky.) stripped out provisions inserted by the House that would reverse President nObama’s executive actions on immigration...The only votes against proceeding to the bill came from Sens. James Inhofe (R-Okla.) and Jeff Sessions (R-Ala.). “Democrats will support getting on the House Homeland Security funding bill. In exchange, the leader will provide the only amendment, it will be a clean Homeland Security funding substitute,” Senate Minority Leader dinky Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said.       http://thehill.com/blogs/floor-action/senate/233836-senate-advances-clean-dhs-bill-in-98-2-vote
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 Trey Gowdy’s Warning to Dems on Immigration  
(Pete Kasperowicz) - Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-S.C.) on Wednesday warned Democrats and others that their support for President Barack nObama’s executive action on immigration will only undermine the rule of law, potentially in ways they’ll regret years from now... “You may benefit from the president’s failure to enforce the law today,” Gowdy said at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on nObama’s action. "But I’ll make you this promise,” he warned. “There will come a day where you will cry out for the enforcement of the law. There will come a day when you long for the law to be the foundation of this republic.” “So you be careful what you do with the law today, because if you weaken it today, you weaken it forever,” he concluded.   http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/02/25/watch-trey-gowdys-warning-to-dems-on-immigration-be-careful-what-you-do/
4.
 Posing for the Cameras While the Islamic Threat Grows  
(Cliff Kincaid) - Rep. Michael McCaul  (R-TX), chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, says the danger is great that the thousands of Syrian refugees coming into the United States will include terrorists who want to kill Americans...So what is he doing about it? He told Sean Hannity of Fox News the other night that he has sent a letter! He said, “I sent a letter to National Security Advisor Susan Rice asking her to explain why she’s doing this, and to try to stop this from happening. My job as chairman of Homeland Security is to protect the American people. I believe this will put Americans at risk.” “Keep up the good work,” said Hannity.       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/posing-for-the-cameras-while-the-islamic-threat-grows/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022615&utm_medium=email
5.
 Black Ministers Defy CBC, Will Welcome Netanyahu  
(Peter Malcolm) - Defying leaders of the Congressional Black Caucus who are boycotting Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s speech to Congress on March 3, claiming...that the invitation from Speaker of the House backstabber John Boehner bypassed and showed disrespect to their leader, President nObama, some black ministers, along with Star Parker, the founder and president of The Center for Urban Renewal and Education (CURE), a public policy think tank, plan to welcome Netanyahu to Congress. Parker blasted the CBC on CURE‘s website, asserting: “While the Congressional Black Caucus claims it has 'consistently been the voice for people of color,' it seems this brazenly political move couldn’t be further from the voice of black Christians in America.”       http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/black-ministers-defy-cbc-will-welcome-Netanyahu
6.
 Republicans Fear Net Neutrality Could Lead to UN Internet Powers  
(Brendan Sasso) - The U.S. government's plan to enact strong net neutrality regulations could embolden authoritarian regimes like China and Russia to seize more power over the Internet through the United Nations, a key Senate Republican warned Wednesday...Senate Commerce Committee Chairman John Thune of South Dakota argued that by claiming more authority over Internet access for net neutrality, the Federal Communications Commission will undermine the ability of the U.S. to push back against international plots to control the Internet and censor content.       http://www.nationaljournal.com/tech/the-future-of-broadband/republicans-fear-net-neutrality-plan-could-lead-to-un-internet-powers-20150225
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 Senate panel OK's nObama attorney general pick  
(Associated Press) - The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved Loretta Lynch's nomination to be attorney general, sending it to the full Senate...The vote was 12 to 8, with three Republicans joining all committee Democrats in voting in favor of Lynch. She is also expected to win approval by the full Senate, though the timing is uncertain.  The 55 -year-old Lynch now serves as U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of New York. She would replace Eric Holder and become the first black woman to hold the nation's top law enforcement job.       http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/26/senate-panel-ok-obama-attorney-general-pick/?intcmp=latestnews
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G20 Mexico
 Clinton DID Take Money While Secretary of State   (theconservativetreehouse.com) - The defenders of Hilly Clinton have stated that during her tenure as Secretary of State the Clinton foundation (Clinton Global Initiative, or CGI) did not take money from foreign governments...You might have heard that ‘talking point’ repeated frequently over the past two weeks whenever the issue was raised. However, recent inquiry and admissions by the Clinton Team now indicate that talking point is not true.  Not even close to being true. As the Washington Post points out, the Clinton Foundation DID TAKE money from the governments Hilly was visiting and dealing with while she was Secretary of State. The only thing that changed during her tenure was that no NEW governments were allowed to participate.   http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/02/26/clinton-did-take-money-while-secretary-of-state-hillary-has-a-serious-conflict-of-interest-problem/
9.
Al Sharpton's Politics Nation is set to lose its nightly slot on MSNBC
 Al Sharpton to get the bullet  
(dailymail.co.uk) - MSNBC is set to pull the plug on contentious Reverend Al Sharpton in a last ditch attempt to revive dwindling audience numbers...The liberal anchor's nightly Politics Nation show is to be shelved by broadcasting bosses as they make drastic changes in the hope of clawing back viewers. Company President Phil Griffin is believed to be placing his faith in a swing from the left in their Congress coverage - insisting that the station's Republican bashing glory days are now firmly in the past. Its about time.       http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2970133/Al-Sharpton-bullet-MSNBC-bins-left-wing-programming.html
10.
 What if the government fears freedom?  
(Judge Andrew Napolitano) - What if the current massive spying on Americans began with an innocent secret executive order signed by President Reagan in 1986? What if Reagan contemplated that he was only authorizing American spies to spy on foreign spies unlawfully present in the U.S.?...What if Reagan knew and respected the history of the Fourth Amendment? What if the essence of that history is the colonial revulsion at the British use of general warrants? What if general warrants were issued by a secret court in London and authorized British agents in America to search wherever they wished and to seize whatever they found? What if the revulsion at this British government practice was so overwhelming that it led to the Revolutionary War against the king?       http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/what-if-the-government-fears-freedom/
Hanoi Kerry defends Iran nuclear talks as dissidents claim proof of Tehran deception
Guy Taylor  

 

     (jewishworldreview.com) - Secretary of State Hanoi John F. Kerry defended the nObama administration's pursuit of a nuclear deal with Iran in the face of mounting bipartisan scrutiny from lawmakers Tuesday - even as an Iranian dissident group claimed to have fresh proof that Tehran has lied to world powers about its drive to obtain a nuclear weapon.

     With Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu heading to Capitol Hill next week to argue against the deal, Mr. Hanoi Kerry told lawmakers not to judge the deal until it is completed.

     "I caution people to wait and see what these negotiations produce," Mr. Hanoi Kerry said in response to news reports suggesting that the administration is close to a deal in which Iran would be allowed to increase its nuclear activities after a 10-year period of restrictions and inspection from outside powers.

     "Anybody running around right now, jumping in to say, 'Well, we don't like the deal' doesn't know what the deal is. There is no deal yet," Mr. Hanoi Kerry told a Senate Appropriations subcommittee Tuesday morning during the first of two State Department budget hearings.

     He told a subsequent Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing that the administration's policy is still to prevent Iran from developing a nuclear weapon but to do so diplomatically, in a way that avoids a military confrontation.

     Mr. Hanoi Kerry's plea seemed to have little effect on critics, including some Democrats.

     Sen. Robert Menendez of New Jersey, the ranking Democrat on the Foreign Relations Committee, told Mr. Hanoi Kerry that he was concerned about news "leaking from the negotiations" that Iran will be left with "a vast majority of its nuclear infrastructure" under the proposed deal.

     Any deal that relieves Iran of Western sanctions while allowing it to "go from being a threshold to an actual nuclear weapons state is no deal at all," Mr. Menendez said.

     Noting that the nObama administration suggested a 20-year pact with Tehran, Mr. Menendez said, "Now we're talking about a 10-year time frame - if it's true - and with relief in the five latter years of the 10 years. That's problematic."

     Mr. Hanoi Kerry insisted that the administration and its negotiating partners - Britain, France, Germany, Russia and China - want a long-term deal under which Iran's pathways to a bomb are "closed off." Specifically, he said, inspections would prevent any weapons development activity at Iran's Natanz, Arak and Fordow nuclear facilities.

     "Covert, of course, is the hardest," Mr. Hanoi Kerry said. "You need to have verification and intrusive inspection to be able to find covert" facilities.

Cheating accusations

     While Mr. Hanoi Kerry spoke, an Iranian dissident group that exposed past Iranian nuclear deceptions was arguing that the problems with inspection and verification would remain - that Tehran hasn't come clean about its nuclear programs.

     That Iran's government has been lying for years to United Nations nuclear inspectors, the National Coalition of Resistance of Iran asserted that scientists in the Islamic Republic have been running a secret uranium enrichment operation at a facility buried deep beneath the ground in the northeastern suburbs of Tehran since 2008.

     The facility, known as "Lavizan-3," has been used for clandestine nuclear program research and development, as well as for enrichment with advanced IR-2m and IR-4 centrifuge machines, according to the resistance coalition.

     Its claim was not immediately verifiable, and the dissident group has a controversial history in Washington. However, the group is thought to have deep sources inside Iran's nuclear community, and its members are credited with making game-changing revelations about Tehran's activities in the past.

     The group said its latest claims were the result of a 10-year "detailed, risky and complex" intelligence gathering effort by members of the Mujahedin-e Khalq. The "MEK" is a main component of the coalition of resistance but has long drawn scrutiny in Washington because the State Department had listed it as a terrorist organization until 2012.

     Although the MEK appears to be virulently opposed to the regime in Tehran, U.S. officials have said the group's terrorist listing was related to attacks its members carried out against U.S. interests in the Middle East decades ago.

     The National Coalition of Resistance of Iran said Tuesday that MEK operatives have "highly placed sources within the Iranian regime as well as those involved in the nuclear weapons projects."

Iranian officials have long argued that their nuclear program is for purely peaceful and civilian purposes. The U.S. and its allies say Tehran has secretly tried to build a bomb in violation of orders from the U.N. Security Council, and Western powers for years have leveled economic sanctions and pursued a global embargo on Iranian oil.

     The resistance coalition's accusations did not come up at either of Mr. Hanoi Kerry's congressional hearings Tuesday.

     Apart from Iran, the hearings covered a range of issues facing the nObama administration's foreign policy, including the Islamic State, Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba and the president's $50.3 billion budget request for the State Department and USAID through next year.

     One key difference from the last fiscal year budget request is a $3.5 billion line item for State Department efforts - separate from those of the Pentagon - to counter the Islamic State.

     Mr. Hanoi Kerry took issue Tuesday with lawmakers who raised questions about the seriousness of the nObama administration's commitment to defeating the extremist group. "The president's goal is to degrade and destroy" the Islamic State forces, he said.

     He defended comments from department spokeswoman Marie Harf citing the need for economic development and jobs for young people in the Middle East as part of the effort to combat terrorism.

     "She never set out to say the solution is give them jobs," Mr. Hanoi Kerry said. "She talked about a much broader array of things we have to do. And if we can't have a serious conversation about this, without politicizing it on cable TV and making it a scoring point for one day, we're in trouble."

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0215/kerry_defends_Iran_deal.php3

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Friday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
CNN, DHS And SPLC’s Blame-Righty Hit Job
Michelle Malkin
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
~~~lll~~~
 
 
 
 GOTCHA: WALKER RIPS MEDIA ‘NONSENSE’ 
WSJ: “Gov. Scott Walker on Monday said news reporters had created ‘gotcha moments’ that are of little concern to most people and that he would seek to build a campaign that addresses issues important to ‘everyday Americans.’ ‘You’ve seen in the media a lot of talk over the last few days about these self-made, gotcha moments from the media,’ the Wisconsin Republican governor told a convention of religious broadcasters. ‘And they want to talk about things that I don’t think most Americans want to talk about. Our commitment is going forward, we’re going to talk about the things that matter to everyday Americans, and we’ll leave the nonsense to the media aside.’”  -Fox News
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 NERDHERD TAKE NOTE 
 
The American Enterprise Institute, the Brookings Institution, and the Center for American Progress released a new report today. “‘States of Change: The Demographic Evolution of the American Electorate, 1974–2060,’ includes detailed analyses on the nation as a whole and on every state… [and outlines] 10 broad trends from their findings that together suggest the scale of the transformation the country is living through and the scope of the challenges it will face in the future.. ‘We at AEI are proud to collaborate with the Center for American Progress and the Brookings Institution,’ said Arthur C. Brooks, president of AEI. ‘This research is crucial to understanding our national landscape and how demographics will change in the years to come. We’re excited to reveal the first-year results at our conference today and look forward to what the future of the project will bring.’”  -Fox News
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 APIPE PACKED WITH SEA COWS  
 
Terrestrial mammals aren’t the only ones feeling chilly during the deep freeze. Reuters reports that early today, about 20 manatees, aka sea cows, were rescued from a storm drain in Cape Canaveral, Fla. These creatures habitually flee the colder ocean waters in winter, and head inland to warmer canals, but this group must have taken a wrong turn. This is a rare mishap for the highly intelligent animal. Seems the frigid temperatures have made even the smartest creatures delirious.  -Fox News
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 Congress to Attempt to Override Keystone Veto  
Yesterday, Barack nObama whipped out his Cross Townsend roller-ball pen and vetoed authorization of the Keystone XL pipeline. In his veto message, nObama wrote, "[B]ecause this act of Congress conflicts with established executive branch procedures and cuts short thorough consideration of issues that could bear on our national interest -- including our security, safety, and environment -- it has earned my veto." nObama vetoed Keystone for all the wrong reasons. First, he's arguing that Congress is infringing on the power of the executive branch -- ironic, considering nObama's recent politicking over immigration. Second, this veto is the pet crusade of ecofascists. It's clear nObama bent his ear to their lobbying efforts. Finally, a Keystone veto only means less security, as oil is shipped by rail to meet the demand. Freight trains derail. Oil gets spilled and boom: Environmental disaster. Now the bill is back in Congress, where Republican leadership will need to court Democrats to override nObama's veto. Already, four Democrat senators promised to vote with Republicans.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Justice for Chris Kyle  
On Feb. 2, 2013, famed Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, a Patriot from Texas and author of the book "American Sniper" on which the movie of the same name is based, and his colleague Chad Littlefield were murdered in Texas. On Tuesday, a little over two years after the tragic slaying, a verdict was rendered. "It took an Erath County, Texas, jury less than two hours to convict Eddie Ray Routh of capital murder," Fox News reported. "State District Judge Jason Cashon sentenced Routh to life in prison without the possibility of parole." Routh pleaded not-guilty by reason of insanity, which proved unsuccessful. According to Fox, "[P]rosecutors said ... that whatever episodes Routh suffers are self-induced through alcohol and marijuana abuse." District Attorney Jane Starnes argued, "That is not insanity. That is just cold, calculated capital murder." In the end, the jury agreed, and Routh will now spend the rest of his life behind bars. There's no bringing back Chris Kyle, but there's at least some consolation knowing his murder won't go unpunished.  -The Patriot Post 
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 DHS Box Canyon? What A Buncha Bums! Coulda Been Somebody!  
(Written by Brew) - When dinky Harry Reid was Majority Leader he was able to block legislation and votes. Now that he's Minority Leader, he's only able to block legislation and votes. See the difference? Neither do I...The Democrats seem to control things either way. Why is that? Because they and the MSM have no scruples or honor, and the Republicans have no courage, spine, character, or core values. Oh sure, they pretend to have all of those things, but have none of them, with the exception of a very few. At least now, dinky Harry looks the part of Union mob boss, albeit after stumbling On The Waterfront. The Republicans coulda had class. They coulda been somebody, instead of a buncha bums, which is what they are. Let's face it. It was you, Mitch. It was you too, Johns A and B.       http://politibrew.com/politics/1934-dhs-box-canyon-what-a-buncha-bums-coulda-been-somebody
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 Let's Unfriend ISIS  
(A.J. Caschetta) - As absurd as "unfriending" a terrorist organization sounds, the Obama administration's use of social media to counter what it euphemistically calls "violent extremism" has been equally feckless...On Jan. 7, White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest acknowledged "the need to counter some of the extremist ideology that ISIL is propagating, using some pretty sophisticated social media strategy." Five days later ISIS hacked Centcom's social media accounts. Sadly the U.S. has been slow to recognize the strategic importance of the Internet and social media in what has become known as the "theater of terror." Al-Qaeda spent the 1990s growing its capabilities and establishing new ways of communicating. On some of the earliest terrorist websites, Al-Qaeda told its followers "We must make the Internet our tool." By contrast, on 9/11 the inadequacy of the FBI's computer system became apparent.       http://www.meforum.org/5050/let-unfriend-isis
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 UN Climate Boss Resigns in Scandal, Says Mission Is “Religion”  
(Alex Newman) - As if to confirm the widespread view among skeptics of man-made climate-change theories that global-warming alarmism is akin to a religious cult, United Nations “climate science” boss Rajendra K. Pachauri admitted in his resignation letter this week...that his crusade to purportedly save the planet from CO2 is more than just a mission — it is his “religion.” The chairman of the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) was forced to step down this week after 13 years on the job amid accusations and court proceedings surrounding alleged sexual harassment, stalking, and criminal intimidation of a female researcher.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/environment/item/20195-un-climate-boss-resigns-in-scandal-says-mission-is-religion?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=f23ed9343a-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-f23ed9343a-289778381
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 Rep Trey Gowdy – One Person Does Not Make Law In A Republic  
(Rick Wells) - Rep Trey Gowdy (R-SC) has had enough of the lawless abuse of power being exhibiting and inflicted upon the American people by the outlaw currently occupying the White House...Rep Gowdy describes the illegal amnesty declaration of November as being “one of the largest extra-constitutional acts ever by a chief executive.” He notes that not only did nObama redefine prosecutorial discretion as a means of rewriting the law, but “he also conferred benefits on those same people.” Gowdy notes, “You may like the policy, you may wish the policy were the law, but one person does not make law in a republic. If you enjoy a single person making law you should investigate living in another country. Because our framers did not give us, nor have generations of our fellow citizens fought and served and sacrificed for a single person to make law in a unilateral way. So removing consequences for breaking the law is one thing. Bestowing benefits such as work authorization and immigration benefits is another.”       http://www.rickwells.us/rep-trey-gowdy-one-person-does-not-make-law-in-a-republic-prosecutorial-discretion-not-a-synonym-for-anarchy/
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 Ralph Peters Calls nObama ‘The Reincarnation of Pontius Pilate  
(nicedeb) - On Fox News’ America’s Newsroom, Wednesday morning, Lt. Col Ralph Peters (Ret.) used biblical terms to describe the president’s wanton disregard for the ongoing slaughter of Christians that is ongoing in the Middle East...Describing the bloodletting as a holocaust, in which our president is doing nothing, Peters called nObama a reincarnation of Pontius Pilate washing his hands, but he said this blood is not coming off. Host Bill Hemmer wondered if ISIS was bent on genocide, “or is it land they want.” “They certainly would like land,” Peters replied. “But the immediate target are Christians, Jews, Yazidis, other minorities – but especially Christians because Christian civilization in that region predates Islam. It’s been there for 2,000 years. Bill the first 1000 years of Christianity, in the greater Middle East and North Africa – those were the cities where the saints – the theologians – there were far more Christians in the Middle East back then, than there were in Europe.”       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UzqgCjHpI4
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 Brother Rachid - ISIS are true Muslims  
(Tim Brown) - A former Muslim, whose father is an imam blasts Barack Hussein nObama on the issue of Islam. Of course, I'm not expecting nObama to actually take heed to this man's comments simply because nObama is a stealth jihadist... "I'm a former Muslim," said Rachid. "My dad is an imam. I spent more than 20 years studying Islam. I hold a bachelor's degree in religious studies and I'm in the middle of my Master's degree in terrorism studies. I can tell you with confidence that ISIL speaks for Islam." In correcting nObama (something nObama doesn't need because he knows exactly what the Muslim religion teaches), Rachid said, "ISIL is a Muslim organization."       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iZ6u-vqUxc
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 BETRAYAL – Phony Patriots Surrender  
(Rick Wells) - Pretty words mean nothing unless they are accompanied by similar, parallel action. The votes of sellout Senators, including some of the more notable former champions of the American people against amnesty...Ted Cruz, Mike Lee and David Vitter, as well newcomer Tom Cotton prove their words to be hollow and completely empty drivel. If we never hear another long-winded diatribe from Senator Cruz in which he preaches the value of standing for the Constitution and the rule of law it will be too soon. His actions and those of his fellow traitors to the citizens of this nation speak much louder than any of his squirm-inducing lectures. Only two patriots remain in the Senate, Jeff Sessions of Alabama and Jim Inhofe of Oklahoma. The other ninety-eight anti-American criminals voted on Wednesday to capitulate to the Marxists in the White House and their representatives in Congress and fund the dictatorial amnesty. We've been betrayed and lied to by the ones whom we depended on.       http://www.rickwells.us/betrayal-phony-patriots-surrender-join-with-treasonous-democrats-to-subvert-u-s-constitution-forsake-american-people/
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 nObama – Above The Law, Congress, Now Above The Judiciary  
(Rick Wells) - Americans have a very serious problem on our hands and it threatens our very survival as a free nation. The communists in the White House don’t respect our laws, they don’t respect our nation and they fully intend to invalidate, destroy and replace our representative government...Clearly the Senate is lost as a governmental body of the people and with it is gone the ability of the American people to use the mechanism of impeachment to rid themselves of a despotic traitor who has usurped the office of president. The Senate has proven that their loyalty is to the man that occupies the White House by funding his amnesty and that they no longer represent the American people. The severity of the problem is now coming clearly into focus.       http://www.rickwells.us/dictatorial-obama-above-the-law-above-congress-now-above-the-judiciary-24-state-amnesty-plan-under-consideration/
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 America’s Two-Party System, Democrats And Democrat-Lites  
(Rick Wells) - On his Wednesday broadcast, Rush Limbaugh addressed the complete capitulation in the Senate to the demands of Democrats to fund the unconstitutional dictatorial amnesty, saying, “You would have thought that there wasn’t an election last November...and then you would have thought that the election that was last November was not won in a landslide by Republicans.  If you just landed here from Mars and were looking at politics in Washington, you would have assumed that maybe there isn’t a Republican Party, when in fact the Republican Party won a landslide last November.” He added that “the Republicans are caving on amnesty.  They’re caving on the whole Department of Homeland Security thing, which is a separate thing from amnesty in part, and they’re all ready to cave on net neutrality.  They’re caving on everything.” He said, “It just doesn’t appear that we have any opposition to the Democrat Party in Washington.       http://www.rickwells.us/americas-two-party-system-democrats-and-democrat-lites-collect-checks-and-go-to-parties-as-america-implodes/
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Islamic State has acquired a cache of deadly chemical weapons in Libya, an expert warned. Pictured, shells contained mustard gas near the southern Libyan town of Waddan in 2011
 Expert warns ISIS possess sarin and mustard gas  
(Abul Taher and Paul Cahalan - Islamic State has acquired a cache of deadly chemical weapons in Libya which pose a significant threat to European security, a British expert has warned...According to Middle East reports, the terror group has unconfirmed quantities of sarin and mustard gas after defeating government forces in southern and central Libya. Former British Army officer Hamish de Bretton-Gordon told The Mail on Sunday that the weapons remain dangerous, even though they are likely to be ten years old, and in a degraded state. Mr de Bretton-Gordon based his warning on President Assad’s use of one tonne of sarin in Ghouta, Syria, in August 2013, which killed as many as 1,000 people.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/02/26/expert-warns-isis-possess-sarin-and-mustard-gas-which-poses-threat-to-european-security/
CNN, DHS And SPLC’s Blame-Righty Hit Job
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     (freedomsback.com) - The Department of Homeland Security refuses to release a report on “right-wing” terrorism that somehow found its way into CNN’s hands last week during the farcical White House summit on Don’t Say Islamic Extremism.

     Your tax dollars are once again hard at work — defaming conservatives, deflecting from worldwide murderous jihad and denying the public access to information they funded.

     CNN splashed the big scoop on its website: “DHS intelligence report warns of domestic right-wing terror threat.” The fear-mongering piece featured a huge map of 24 alleged acts of “violence by sovereign citizen extremists since 2010.” CNN’s Evan Perez and Wes Bruer prominently quoted Mark Potok of the widely disgraced propaganda outfit the Southern Poverty Law Center. Potok claimed that “there are as many as 300,000 people involved in some way with sovereign citizen extremism.”

     This is the same SPLC that was forced to apologize to famed neurosurgeon Dr. Ben Carson just last week for categorizing him as an “extremist” because he supports the traditional definition of marriage.

     This is the same hate-instigating SPLC whose target map and list of social conservative groups were used by left-wing domestic terrorist Floyd Lee Corkins to shoot up the Washington, D.C., office of the Family Research Council in 2012.

     This is the same SPLC whose explicit aim, according to Potok, is to “destroy” its political opponents and which admits it is “not really set up to cover the extreme left.” Harper’s Magazine’s Ken Silverstein called the SPLC and its work “essentially a fraud” that “shuts down debate, stifles free speech, and most of all, raises a pile of money, very little of which is used on behalf of poor people.”

     None of these facts was mentioned in CNN’s report promoting the threat of “right-wing” terrorism. So you can see why I was curious to know more about the “24 violent sovereign citizen-related attacks” the cable network kept citing without specifics. I asked both CNN and DHS for a copy of the assessment. CNN’s Bruer brusquely told me on Twitter: “Not public doc. But not new that gov’t lists sov. citizens as terror threat.”

     Sure, it’s “not new.” But CNN’s report was new (and conveniently timed to coincide with the White House agenda of talking about every other kind of terrorism besides jihad). I wanted to read the new document, not just what CNN and the SPLC want the public to know and think about it.

     Liberal media outlets have a bad habit of purposely misclassifying terrorist incidents as “right-wing.” Last April, both CNN and MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow joined with the SPLC to foment fear of conservative Americans by claiming that “right-wingers” have killed 34 people since 9/11 for “political reasons,” while jihadists have killed 21.

     But a closer look at the rigging of that phony factoid simply confirms the malevolent intention of so-called objective journalists and “hate watch” groups to marginalize conservative political speech and dissent. The CNN/MSNBC/SPLC smear job involved both the dishonest deflating of left-wing and jihadist incidents, and the dishonest inflating of “right-wing” incidents.

     First, carving out the 3,000-person death toll from the 9/11 jihadist attacks is a rather convenient way to rig the scales, isn’t it? So is omitting the 10-person death toll from the jihad-inspired Beltway sniper spree of 2002.

The conservatives-are-worse-than-jihadists casualty data counted Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter James Von Brunn, who killed a heroic security guard, as a “right-winger.” But Von Brunn was neither “left” nor “right.” He was a rage-filled maniac and 9/11 truther who hated Fox News, the Weekly Standard and Rupert Murdoch.

     Also counted as “right-wing” in the CNN/MSNBC/SPLC data: Andrew Joseph Stack. He’s the lunatic who flew a small plane into an Austin, Texas, office complex that contained an Internal Revenue Service office in 2010. Stack’s ranting suicide manifesto targeted George W. Bush, health care insurers, the pharmaceutical industry and the “capitalist creed.”

     Also listed as “right-wing:” Richard Andrew Poplawski. He was the disgruntled, unemployed loser who shot and killed three Pittsburgh police officers in a horrifying bloodbath in 2009. Left-wing publications asserted that the “heated, apocalyptic rhetoric of the anti-nObama forces,” along with Fox News and Glenn Beck, motivated Poplawski to slay the officers. But Poplawski was a dropout from the Marines who threw a food tray at a drill instructor, had beaten his girlfriend, and demonstrated violent, racist tendencies that had nothing to do with politics. Poplawski was outraged that his mother wanted to kick his unemployed ass out of the house.

     Joshua Cartwright, another serial woman abuser, also murdered two police officers in the aftermath of a domestic violence call. Left-wing operatives focused on a single remark from Cartwright’s victim about his views on President nObama to paint him as a “right-wing radical,” whitewashing his long history of violence against his partner and senseless paranoia.

     Were any of these falsely classified incidents included in the DHS assessment hyped by CNN and SPLC last week? We’ll never know. When I asked DHS public affairs officer S.Y. Lee for the document, he told me it’s “not for public release” because it’s “an FOUO document (for official use only). Same as many DHS products to law enforcement.” I asked whether CNN now qualifies as “law enforcement.”

No response.

http://freedomsback.com/michelle-malkin/cnn-dhs-and-splcs-blame-righty-hit-job/?utm_source=bh&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=4759638

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
The End of Freedom in America
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"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 Hangover for Hilly –   What does Hilly Clinton think about the pipeline project?  She was seemingly for it before she went silent. In 2012, as her boss buoyed the green base with a further delay, one pipeline opponent observed: “She doubtless figures four years is a long time, and – even though it’s the one environmental issue in decades that’s brought big crowds of environmentalists into the streets – that voters will forget her stance on the pipeline.” But those years have come and gone and the issue is still alive, thanks to the president’s obduracy. Given the support the Clinton Foundation has reportedly received from Keystone proponents, greenies will demand answers from the presumptive Democratic nominee.
          That was then - “We’ve not yet signed off on it. But we are inclined to do so…” –Hilly Clinton in a 2010 speech.
          This is now - “We have differences and you won't get me to talk about Keystone because I have steadily made clear that I'm not going to express an opinion. It is in our process and that’s where it belongs.” –Hilly Clinton to an audience in Canada on January, 21 2015. 
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 HILLY RE-EMERGES FOR EVENT WITH CORPORATE BACKERS 
After not appearing before an American audience in more than two months and with questions swirling about foreign donations to her family foundation, presumptive Democratic nominee Hilly Clinton is back on the speaking circuit today. She’s on stage for a Silicon Valley gig touting the gender equality policies of some of her most influential corporate patrons. McClatchy: “Clinton will serve as the keynote speaker [today] at a conference sponsored by a series of major companies that have donated to her political campaigns or her family’s foundation, helped pay her hefty speaking fees at other events and lobbied her when she served as secretary of state. Some of their employees have been involved in her campaigns or initiatives at the Bill, Hilly and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. Many have multiple ties to the Clintons.

          “Cisco, a California networking-equipment company, donated thousands of dollars to Clinton through its political action committee, and its general counsel served as a bundler and a policy adviser for her 2008 presidential campaign. Ericsson, a Swedish communications company, donated between $50,000 and $100,000 to the foundation, and its president participated in a group discussion at the related Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting last year. Morgan Stanley, a New York investment firm that’s Clinton’s sixth largest donor, spent at least $14 million lobbying the federal government, including the State Department, during her term on issues related to China, India and currency-exchange oversight, according to public records.”
          [WaPo: “For Clinton, the Bay Area represents perhaps her biggest opportunity to expand her fundraising base from 2008, when she raised $6.2 million from the affluent counties of San Francisco, Santa Clara and San Mateo, according to campaign finance data compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics. nObama brought in $9.8 million from donors in those counties during the same time period.”]  -Fox News
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 Campaign motif will be gender war –   National Journal: “Already, recent words and actions hint at the ways [Hilly Clinton will] bring gender into the 2016 campaign—by talking about issues like pay equity, affordable child care, and paid family leave, referencing her past work for women and children, and gushing about her new granddaughter. That soft approach will be coupled with a sharp-edged assault by supporting organizations outside of her camp. Some of them, including the abortion-rights group EMILY's List and the Democratic National Committee, have begun playing offense against the Republican field, painting many of the 2016 GOP hopefuls as anti-woman.”  -Fox News
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 ‘GETTING TO YES’ ON IRAN NUKES… 
“As more and more details are starting to leak out about a possible U.S.-Iran nuclear deal, an increasing number of U.S. allies appear to be getting very nervous. Israelis, for obvious reasons, are the most concerned. So much so that the conventional wisdom that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would see serious political backlash for speaking to the U.S. Congress about Iran without a White House blessing is being turned around completely. Some Israeli pundits and commentators even called for Netanyahu’s opponent in the upcoming election, Isaac Herzog, to stand alongside the prime minster when he addresses Congress. Herzog declined, but the conversation itself is a sign of the shifting Israeli politics on the issue.

          The structure of the deal is being dramatically reframed by the nObama administration. As Bloomberg reports, gone is the idea of a grand bargain that would empower moderates and lead to lasting change in Iran’s leadership. This now appears to be just a temporary arms deal that could leave Iran at the brink of having nuclear weapon. That prospect looks different, though, after reading this piece from the Weekly Standard that lays out details of the funding of Al Qaeda operations. It is no wonder that Israel and Gulf State nations are worried. In a remarkable switch, these allies seem to be hoping for the ayatollah in Tehran to have a change of heart and turn the deal down. Because at this point, it seems the nObama administration is trying extremely hard to – in the president’s words – ‘get to yes.’”  - Bret Baier-Fox News
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE...Chilies 
The Atlantic examines the phenomenon of how the body registers effects of capsaicin, the active chemical in chilies that causes the burning sensation through a pain receptor, TRPV1. Receptors are found throughout the body, researcher John Hayes, said, and “This is why when you chop chilies, and then rub your eyes, or use the bathroom, without washing your hands, you are in for a world of hurt.” Though it feels like a burn, there isn’t an actual burn occurring, but rather a chemical evolution, “The chili pepper evolved a chemical that fits into that molecular receptor [TRPV1] and lowers the activation energy from 43 [degrees] Celsius to about 34 [degrees] Celsius,” he said. Hayes and fellow researcher Nadia Byrnes, both agree that it is possible to increase tolerance through repeated exposures, particularly at young ages. “Basically, if you don’t like something, the more you eat of it, the more you’ll like it,” Byrnes said.  -Fox News
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 Hanoi John Kerry – Sure There’s A Risk In Giving In To Iran  
(Rick Wells) - Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry, in testimony Tuesday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, described the nuclear negotiations with Iran as sort of a crap shoot, and a chance that they, as is the case with every gambler, are willing to take...You never know what might happen. We could get lucky; Iran might decide to play nice. They might all convert to Christianity too, but Hanoi Kerry shouldn’t base his negotiations upon either taking place any time soon. Hanoi Kerry said, “The fact is that on Iran, sure, it’s controversial and it may have some risks.” Controversial? May have some risks? Those comments are surely in the running for the political understatement of the year. Insane, foolhardy and an invitation to a catastrophic apocalyptic confrontation might have been better choices forwords to describe the suicide pact he is negotiating on our behalf with the terrorist nation.       http://www.rickwells.us/john-kerry-sure-theres-a-risk-in-giving-in-to-iran-but-theyre-gamblers-and-its-only-nuclear-war/
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 Jordan furious over Pentagon leak of secret anti-ISIS training camp  
(Robert Spencer) - “Either the official made a mistake or is deliberately leaking information to put the administration’s plans for Syria in a better light in an attempt to defuse criticism that the administration has bungled efforts to aid Syrian rebels”...in other words, playing politics yet again instead of dealing with the jihad threat in any adequate manner. The Pentagon let slip that one of its training camps to help fight Islamic State terrorists is in Jordan — information the pro-U.S. kingdom had specifically requested be kept private, and the latest gaffe in a series of sensitive leaks coming out of the Department of Defense. In order to hide its flub, which was first announced to reporters during a briefing last week, the Pentagon has scrubbed its public transcripts of any mention of the training camp.       http://www.jihadwatch.org/2015/02/jordan-furious-over-pentagon-leak-on-secret-anti-islamic-state-training-camp?utm_source=Jihad+Watch+Daily+Digest&utm_campaign=fec0c10cc5-Daily_Digest&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_ffcbf57bbb-fec0c10cc5-123451509
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 Pentagon Benghazi Documents Expose Administration Lies  
(news.investors.com) - Heavily redacted documents show a military response had been drafted in answer to the Benghazi terrorist attack by a group supporting "an Islamic state" in Libya. It also showed the attack wasn't inflamed by a video...It's taken Judicial Watch two years to obtain from the most transparent administration in history the 486 pages of documents pertaining to the military response to the Sept. 11, 2012, terrorist attack on our Benghazi diplomatic mission. They confirm what we have said repeatedly, that the Benghazi tale spun by President nObama and former Secretary of State Hilly Clinton was indeed a lie agreed upon.       http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/022315-740536-judicial-watch-documents-show-pentagon-response-to-benghazi.htm?p=full
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 A simple cure for nObamacare: Freedom  
(Phil Gramm) - On March 4 the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in King v. Burwell, with a decision expected in late June. If the court strikes down the payment of government subsidies to those who bought health insurance on the federal exchange...Republicans will at last have a real opportunity to amend nObamaCare. Doing so, however, will be politically perilous. The language of the Affordable Care Act states that subsidies should only be paid through state exchanges. The bill’s authors perhaps believed that pressure from citizens and the health-care providers who would benefit would entice states to set up exchanges. But, faced with mounting technical problems in setting up the exchanges, the nObama administration decided—legally or illegally—to allow subsidies to be paid through a federally run exchange. Therefore, political pressure that might have convinced states to set up exchanges never developed.
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 Averting the disability-insurance meltdown  
(Andrew G. Biggs) - Sometime next year Social Security’s $150 billion disability-insurance program will become insolvent...The program, which offers income supplements to those who cannot work full time due to physical or mental disabilities, has buckled as the number of beneficiaries has soared to more than 11 million in 2014, from 3.8 million in 1984. The bipartisan Social Security Advisory Board has urged reforms. Yet the nObama administration’s 2016 budget proposes the opposite of reform: an unconditional transfer of revenues from Social Security’s retirement program. The president’s proposal will likely be blocked thanks to a House budget rule that forbids unconditional revenue transfers. The question now is: Will serious reform be a reality under President nObama?       http://www.aei.org/publication/averting-disability-insurance-meltdown/
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 More energy, more power: A new opportunity to pivot in Asia  
(Dan Blumenthal, Derek M. ScissorsIf) -  American political leaders turn the nation’s increased energy production into power, the United States will have good strategic options to deal with any new Chinese challenge...This strength is the safest, best way to persuade China to choose comity over rivalry. Despite an announced “Asia pivot,” there has been little new substance to the US approach to the region. Yet Washington needs a more robust Asia policy: the region is becoming the center of geopolitical gravity and China seems determined to dominate it. A focus on energy policy would bolster US influence in the region.       http://www.aei.org/publication/energy-power-new-opportunity-pivot-asia/
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 Cruz, Sessions, Lee & Tea Party Patriots Wade In Against McCon-nell  
(George Rasley) - Yesterday we told you about Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell’s plan to pass a “clean” DHS funding bill and then attempt to bring up a separate bill that purports to defund President nObama’s unconstitutional executive amnesty...McCon-nell said he wanted to take away Democrats’ excuse for not voting against nObama’s 2014 actions, which several centrist Democrats had previously criticized. We called this the old (and failed) Capitol Republican tactic of trying to use legislative slight-of-hand to simply get him by the immediate pressure point – the February 27 deadline for funding the Department of Homeland Security.       http://www.conservativehq.com/article/19761-cruz-sessions-lee-tea-party-patriots-wade-against-mcconnell-dhs-funding-plan
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 New York City Lays Out Limits on Restraints And Suspensions  
(Annie Waldman) - New York City educators will face new restrictions on handcuffing students or suspending them from school, as part of regulations proposed earlier this month by the city’s education department...If the proposals are adopted as expected, schools will also have to begin tracking the number of times students are tied down or otherwise restrained. Last year, an investigation by ProPublica and NPR showed that restraints are frequently used in schools across the country. Hundreds of students are injured each year. Our reporting also found that many of the nation’s largest school districts, including New York City, do not report the number of restraints to authorities despite being required to do so by the federal government. Los Angeles and Chicago, the country’s second and third largest school districts, also reported zero restraints.       http://www.propublica.org/article/new-york-city-lays-out-limits-on-restraints-and-suspensions?utm_source=et&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=dailynewsletter&utm_content=&utm_name=
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 Republicans Surrender the Internet!  
(Sara Noble) - The NY Times reported Tuesday afternoon that Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota and chairman of the Senate Commerce Committee, conceded all efforts to overturn the coming ruling for Net Neutrality...because Democrats are lining up with President nObama in favor of the F.C.C. It’s hard to believe the Republicans won the last election and have control of Congress. Lost in all this is the fact that the president is using an agency to usurp congressional authority.   http://www.independentsentinel.com/republicans-surrender-the-internet/
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 nObama defies judge, forges ahead with amnesty  
(Bob Unruh) - President nObama’s amnesty juggernaut has taken another step forward despite a federal judge’s order to halt it in its tracks...The president’s plan to delay the deportation of as many as 5 million illegal aliens through memos issued by appointees moved ahead Tuesday when the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services announced the extension of a program allowing spouses of certain visa holders to obtain work permits. According to the Washington Times, the move will, in 90 days, allow some 180,000 immigrants to be eligible for the benefit “in the first year.”       http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/obamas-amnesty-moves-ahead-despite-judges-order/
The End of Freedom in America
Alan Caruba
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     (factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - The America that has existed from the days of the Declaration of Independence in 1776, when its sovereignty was acknowledged by a treaty with England 1783, and its founding in 1788 with the ratification of the Constitution is no more. The America for which thousands fought and gave their lives is no more.
     That America ends on February 26 when the Federal Communications Commission, under intense pressure from the nObama White House and with the votes of its Democratic Party commissioners asserts government control over the Internet with a 332-page set of regulations, dubbed “Net Neutrality.”
Writing in the Feb 22nd Wall Street Journal, columnist L. Gordon Crovitz summed up what will occur saying “nObamanet promises to fix an Internet that isn’t broken…The permissionless Internet which allows anyone to introduce a website, app, or device without government review, ends this week.”
     “The big politicization came when President nObama in November demanded that the supposedly independent FCC apply agency’s most extreme regulation to the Internet.” Of course nObama wants the Internet regulated and of course the Democratic Party will support this move to control who gets to put up a website or blog and, more importantly, who gets to say anything critical of the President.


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     The Democratic Party has been in everything but name the Communist Party in the United States for several decades. nObama was raised and mentored to be a Marxist. What we are witnessing is nothing less than tyranny replacing democracy.
     Crovitz warned that “This week Mr. nObama’s bureaucrats will give him the regulated Internet he demands. Unless Congress or the courts block nObamanet, it will be the end of the Internet as we know it.”
     Earlier this week, as reported by Giuseppe Macri in The Daily Caller the FCC’s two Republican commissioners, Ajit Pai and Michael O’Rielly, asked Chairman Tom Wheeler “to delay the vote and release his proposal to the public. ‘We respectfully request that FCC leadership immediately release the 332-page Internet regulation plan publicly and allow the American people a reasonable period of not less than 30 days to carefully study it.’”
     There is some evil at work here because, as the Republican commissioners point out, “the plan in front of us right now is so drastically different than the proposal the FCC adopted and put out for public comment last May.”
     Shades of nObamaCare! Even the Democrats who voted that monstrosity into law had not read it. Now neither Congress, nor the rest of America is being permitted to see regulations that will determine what can and cannot be posted to the Internet, the greatest instrument of free speech ever invented since the printing press.
     Commissioner Pai says that the FCC is “adopting a solution that won’t work to a problem that doesn’t exist using legal authority we don’t have.” He estimates that the regulations will add up to $11 billion in new taxes on Internet access.
 
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     In a commentary, “Neutralize nObama’s Hijacking of the Internet”, Judi McLeod, the editor of CanadaFreePress.com, said “Forget NSA, the FBI, the CIA, and all warnings sent by Edward Snowden. They’ve got nothing on how Net Neutrality will silence you.”

     “Someday in the near future when you type in the words “Islamic terrorists” in an Internet post, you will be knocked off the Net and find it all but impossible to climb back on again.”
     Do I think the Congress will exercise its oversight responsibilities and stop this tyrannical power grab? No. Do I think our court system will do anything other than bow to precedent set by earlier FCC regulations? Yes.
     As a nation founded on and devoted to freedom of speech, I think February 26, 2015 will go down in the history books as the day when that freedom came to an end in America.
     Thanks to a National Security Agency we no longer have any privacy regarding anything we say using telephones, the Internet or any other form of communication.
      If the Democrat-controlled FCC has its way, the Internet will slow your access and could eliminate access countless sites that provide news and express opinions the federal government finds offensive. That's what tyrannies do.
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Thursday Afternoon - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Case Against Islamic Terror Groups
Goes to New York Jury
Stav Ziv  
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
~~~lll~~~
 
 
 Hollywood Blames Constitution for Pay Gap  
Women don't get equal pay in America, says actress Patricia Arquette, and she blames the Founders. "To every woman who gave birth, to every taxpayer and citizen of this nation, we have fought for everybody else's equal rights," Arquette said in her Oscar acceptance speech. "It's time to have wage equality once and for all. And equal rights for women in the United States of America." The supposed pay gap has been largely discredited, but never confuse a liberal (especially one from Hollywood) with facts. Worse, Arquette went on to blame the men who fought to secure Liberty and who authored our Constitution. "It's inexcusable that we go around the world and we talk about equal rights for women in other countries when we don't have equal rights for women in America," Arquette lectured. "And we don't because when they wrote the Constitution, they didn't intend it for women." In the Heritage Foundation's Guide to the Constitution, Tiffany Jones Miller explains, "Contrary to popular belief, the United States Constitution of 1787 is a gender-neutral document. Throughout the original text, the Framers refer to 'persons' -- as opposed to 'male persons' -- and use the pronoun 'he' only in the generic sense. The word 'male' did not even appear in the Constitution until the Fourteenth Amendment was ratified in 1868." In other words, Arquette suffers from something common to men and women on the Left: ignorance.  -The Patriot Post 
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 Al Sharpton Named in Racial Discrimination Suit  
For years, race-baiter Al Sharpton has made bank by telling companies to pay him to avoid being accused of racism. Now, Sharpton himself is named in a $20 billion lawsuit accusing him of facilitating racism at Comcast in order to "whitewash Comcast's discriminatory business practices." The National Association of African-American Owned Media sued over the merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable, alleging such a merger would discriminate against black-produced media. "Despite the notoriously low ratings that Sharpton's show generates," the suit said, "Comcast has allowed Sharpton to maintain his hosting position for more than three years in exchange for Sharpton's continued public support for Comcast on issues of diversity." Ouch. While Comcast calls this suit frivolous, Sharpton may not fare well in the near future. There are rumors swirling at MSNBC that the company is struggling because leftist opinion isn't making the money it used to. Sharpton may lose his 6 p.m. weekday slot for a less desirable time on the weekend. We know what Sharpton would say of the change: It's discrimination! More...  -The Patriot Post 
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 DEM REVOLT BEGINS ON nOBAMA AMNESTY 
After maintaining a weeks-long filibuster of a Republican bill to fund the Department of Homeland Security but roll back president nObama’s executive actions granting amnesty and work permits for millions of illegal immigrants, Senate Democrats are starting to splinter. Unable to break the Democratic logjam, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell announced that he would instead offer a standalone bill to block nObama’s amnesty gambit before resuming the funding fight. Appearing on “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Joe Manchin, D-W.Va., said he would vote to “prevent the president from his executive action” and suggested that there might be the five other Democrats necessary to advance the legislation.

          “Well, this bill removes those excuses. It sets up a simple political equation: Either stand in defense of extreme overreach, or stand with constituents in support of shared democratic values.” –Senate Majority leader Mitch McCon-nell in a floor speech today.  -Fox News
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 Tick-tock -   While nObama would almost certainly veto the bill, significant Democratic objections to his policies combined with the federal court ruling against the administration on the actions could start to shift the debate. The president will prove today that he doesn’t mind vetoing popular, bipartisan legislation as he spikes the bill approving an oil pipeline from Canada, but if there is a Democratic rebellion it is harder to argue that he is doing the will of the people. Plus, getting Democrats on the record as protecting the amnesty is always helpful to the GOP. But big questions remain. Can the House and Senate cough up an emergency, stopgap spending plan to keep the agency running while the debate plays out? The deadline is Friday and time is running out quickly.
          “The American people are demanding more than that and seeing through these antics which are designed to protect the president in his lawlessness in defiance of a constitutional system.” –Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, on “The Kelly File” Watch here -Fox News
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 IN SLAP TO UNIONS, nOBAMA TO CAN BIPARTISAN KEYSTONE   BILL 
Fox News: “The Senate will send the Keystone XL pipeline bill to President nObama on Tuesday, senior congressional sources tell Fox News. … The House passed a final version of the bill about two weeks ago, but the sources told Fox New that leaders of the Republican-controlled Congress intentionally waited to send it to the White House. They purportedly wanted Congress, which last week was on break, to be in session if and when the president vetoes the bill so they can draw more attention to the issue.”

           “The White House’s recommendation of a veto has nothing to do with the aforementioned merits of the project. Instead, the administration claims the bill will ‘cut short’ the process for approving the project. We disagree. If anything, the process has been needlessly drawn out: more than 2,300 days have passed since the Keystone application was first filed. This level of delay is extreme, even for Washington. In fact, approving these types of pipelines was once routine.” –Rep. backstabber John Boehner, R-Ohio and Sen. Mitch McCon-nell, R-Ky. in a USA Today op-ed -Fox News
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 The massacre of the Assyrian Christians Is On The Way  
(Walid Shoebat) - Shoebat.com reported yesterday before it became news, that ISIS attacked the Assyrian villages in the Hasaka province in northeast Syria where ISIS fighters were met by members of Natorehs...a Christian brigade which is also called The Assyrian Guards where Assyrian fighters were killed running low on ammunition and help from anyone in the West while killing tens of ISIS fighters. And the fighting is still ongoing in Tel Tamar. In the process an estimated 117 Christians, elderly, women and children were kidnapped by ISIS. The massacre of the Christian Assyrians is on its way with no help coming from the Western powers. nObama instead is aiding The Free Syrian Army working with Turkey to train 5000 Islamist fighters in order to oust Bashar Al-Assad. Yet it was the Syrian army whom nObama wants to end were the only ones reportedly 3-5 kilometers from Tel Hurmiz has offered assistance.       http://shoebat.com/2015/02/24/the-massacre-of-the-assyrian-christians-is-on-the-way-isis-kidnaps-117-christians-in-syria-while-christian-fighters-tried-to-defend-them-ran-out-of-ammunition-because-they-had-no-help-from-western-p/
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 Sweden’s Multicultural Expert on Islamophobia Joins ISIS in Syria  
(Jim Hoft) - Michael Nikolai Skråmo, who also calls himself Abo Ibrahim Al Swedi, is a former multicultural expert on Islamophobia in Sweden. That was before he joined ISIS...This week al Swedi appeared in an ISIS propaganda video wearing desert camouflage and clutching an assault rifle. He proceeds to give practical and motivational encouragement to would-be jihadis. Al Swedi tells Islamists to come join him in the caliphate. Al Swedi moved to Syria with his wife and two children in September. Boy, he is going to be sorry he did join.       http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2015/02/swedens-multicultural-expert-on-islamophobia-joins-isis-in-syria/
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 Global Corporate Govt – nObama Makes His Pitch For Fascism  
(Rick Wells) - In light of the fact that it is becoming increasingly difficult for all of us, including this author to listen to the vile filth that pours out of the septic hole beneath the upturned nose of Hussein nObama...the video below, taken from the official White House website. was clipped of some of the most offensive portions, with only the content relevant to this article remaining. Please bear that in mind and make an effort to tolerate a little more than a minute of the inevitable gastric discomfort in order to get an understanding of the latest attack being leveled by this anti-American subversive against our nation. If there’s two things we have learned since January of 2009, they are first, if nObama is talking he’s lying and secondly, anything he wants is bad for America. The examples are limitless and the proof lies in his words and deeds.       http://www.rickwells.us/global-corporate-government-obama-makes-his-pitch-for-fascism-and-tpp-fast-track-approval-authority/
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 FCC refuses to let public see new internet regulation proposal  
(Scott Russell) - Three days before the Federal Communications Commission is scheduled to vote on the most significant Internet regulations in history, two commissioners are asking Chairman Tom Wheeler to delay the vote and release his proposal to the public...The current FCC plan is drastically different than the one they released in May, but Tom Wheeler refuses to allow the public to see it. Despite serious concerns of government over-regulation, the FCC is predicted to pass their sweeping proposal with a 3-2 partisan vote.       http://www.conventionofstates.com/fcc_leadership_refuses_to_let_public/?recruiter_id=11724
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 El-Sisi Calls For Unified Arab Miltary Force To Fight Terrorists  
(Peter Malcolm) - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, courageously leading the way to combat Islamic extremism, said on a national broadcast Sunday that Arab countries should create a joint military force to fight terrorist groups. El-Sisi said...  “The need for a unified Arab force is growing and becoming more pressing every day.”  After 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians were beheaded, the Egyptian air force started bombing targets believed to be held by terrorists in the northeast Libyan city of Derna. Rumors of a joint Arab military force comprised of Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait came to light recently, but Sisi's statement was the first time the subject had been broached publicly. He said Egypt had received offers of support from Jordan and the UAE.       http://www.truthrevolt.org/news/el-sisi-calls-unified-arab-miltary-force-fight-terrorists
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FCC to Vote on Net Neutrality Rules on Thursday
 FCC to Vote on Net Neutrality Rules on Thursday
(Bob Adelmann) - On Thursday consumers will finally be able to see and read the FCC’s (Federal Communications Commission) planned new rules to regulate the Internet...Deliberately hidden from public view, the 332-page document is expected to be passed by the FTC, as demanded by President nObama last November when he told FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to adopt the “strongest possible rules” in regulating the Internet. Leaks from the document were inevitable, and critics have slowly pieced together the latest attack on Internet freedom. Five times legislation has been offered in Congress to mandate “net neutrality,” and five times it has failed. Twice courts have struck down previous efforts to regulate the Internet. This time, however, ignorance and momentum are likely to rule the day, and the Internet.       http://www.thenewamerican.com/economy/markets/item/20183-fcc-to-vote-on-net-neutrality-rules-on-thursday?utm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=0b685a1f8f-The_Editors_Top_Picks_3_12_143_12_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_8ca494f2d2-0b685a1f8f-289778381
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 Sheila Jackson Lee Contradicts DHS, Admits Dems Blocking Funding  
(Rick Wells) - When you’ve got a political party made up almost exclusively of self-serving anti-American liars, as is the composition of the Democrat Party, it’s sometimes difficult for them to all get their stories straight...If there’s going to be an inadvertent slip of the tongue, what better source than the Texas Tesla, Rep Sheila Jackson Lee (D-TX). In spite of claims to the contrary by the Democrat leadership, including the DHS Secretary, Jeh Johnson himself this past Sunday, Jackson Lee boastfully admits that the Senate Democrats are preventing the DHS bill from being considered. Asked what the endgame of the DHS funding debate is in her mind, Jackson Lee first has to make the obligatory humanitarian argument for rewarding criminal behavior while pointing out how caring the Democrats are before she begins to “sort of answer” the question.       http://www.rickwells.us/the-talking-box-of-rocks-sheila-jackson-lee-contradicts-dhs-proudly-admits-democrats-blocking-funding/
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 Judge Napolitano Just Nuked nObama’s Pro-Amnesty Argument  
(Norvell Rose) - One week after a federal judge in Texas blocked implementation of President nObama’s executive amnesty orders, the administration officially asked that same judge to admit his injunction was wrong and to issue a stay on his own decision...Judge Andrew Hanen ruled that allowing nObama’s unilateral action to defer deportations for millions of illegal immigrants to proceed would cause “irreparable harm” to the states. “The government wants to break the law so it can help other law breakers stay here,” Napolitano stated. “I have never heard the government make an argument like that.”       http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-how-judge-napolitano-just-nuked-obamas-pro-amnesty-argument-as-weird-bizarre/#OjUIw6OdDVrp4FYl.97
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 McCon-nell & Other Senators Afraid nObama Will “Blame Them”  
(Rick Wells) - The members of Congress in both the Senate and the House of Representatives assured the American people when they voted to pass the CRomnibus spending bill that there was no need to be concerned as far as funding the dictatorial nObama amnesty...They guaranteed us a fight on the DHS funding for the implementation when the temporary funding resolution expired. Our guarantee must have come with some fine print. Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell, who has been at best a weak opponent of amnesty, has been looking for an excuse to cave to the White House since he assumed his position. The problem is that when McCon-nell assumes his favored, submissive position he drags the rest of us along in his perverse political debauchery. While he may be quite comfortable with that type of thing, the American people aren’t desirous of Democrat domination, particularly when it results in the destruction of our nation.       http://www.rickwells.us/sen-jeff-sessions-mcconnell-and-other-cowardly-senators-afraid-obama-will-blame-them-for-standing-up-for-america-against-his-criminal-acts/
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 Muslim Immigration Poses Serious National Security Threat  
(Paul Sherry) - Investor's Business DailyFrance, Belgium and now even liberal Denmark regret letting in so many immigrants from Muslim countries. Their swelling Islamic communities have become breeding grounds for terrorists...So why is the U.S. opening the floodgates to foreign Muslims? The threat Muslim immigrants pose to homeland security was not addressed during the White House's three-day summit on terrorism. Instead, Vice President loose lips Joe Biden assured Muslim groups gathered during one session that the "wave" of Muslim immigration is "not going to stop." Wave? More like a tsunami.       http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials-perspective/021915-740118-our-borders-are-threatened-by-upsurge-in-muslim-immigration.htm?p=full
Case Against Islamic Terror Groups
Goes to New York Jury
Stav Ziv    

     (jewishworldreview.com) - Jury deliberations were set to begin Friday in the case of Sokolow v. PLO, in which U.S. citizens who were injured or whose family members were killed in terrorist attacks in Israel have sued the Palestinian Authority (PA) and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) for damages.

     The lawsuit, filed in 2004, covers six attacks that took place between 2002 and 2004, during the second intifada, or uprising, in which 33 were killed and more than 450 were wounded. The prosecution argues that the PA and PLO supported the shooting and bombing attacks—whether via direct involvement or assistance in the form of material support or training. The organizations also allegedly paid the perpetrators of the attacks and continue to compensate those who were imprisoned as well as the families of those who died.
 
     All 10 plaintiffs are American families, and thus the case is being tried in the U.S. under the Antiterrorism Act signed into law by Bill Clinton in 1996, which gives American courts jurisdiction over acts of terrorism that harm U.S. citizens abroad.
 
     Although lawyer Nitsana Darshan-Leitner and her Israel-based law office, Shurat HaDin, have been filing lawsuits against the Palestinian organizations for years, she tells Newsweek that this case marks the first time the PA has defended itself in court in a full trial in front of a jury.

     “They would come into court, filing motions to dismiss,” says Darshan-Leitner, whose office’s tag line is “Bankrupting Terrorism—One Lawsuit at a Time.” The defendants “say they have sovereign immunity and thus don’t have to litigate the case,” she explains, but “a plaintiff can go after them to enforce judgment even if they don’t appear in court.”

     In this case, too, the defendants filed several motions to dismiss before it reached a jury trial, but the motions were denied by U.S. District Court Judge for the Southern District of New York George B. Daniels. In November, the judge cleared the way for the case to proceed when he reaffirmed a 2008 decision stating his court had jurisdiction over the claims.
 
     Kent Yalowitz of Arnold & Porter LLP’s New York office, who also worked as an attorney for the 10 families, told jurors that money could not make up for the lives lost and injuries suffered in the attacks, Reuters reports. "But if the only thing you can give them is money, then money has to stand in as compensation for the unspeakable loss," he said in his closing arguments Thursday.
 
     “Money is oxygen for terrorists,” he said. “Take away their money by making them pay their fair share for what they did.”

     On the other side of the courtroom, the PA and PLO denied that senior officials of the organizations, including the late PLO leader Yasser Arafat, aided Hamas and the al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, saying the attacks were carried out by low-level employees without approval.

     “There is no concrete evidence that the senior leadership of the PA or the PLO were involved in planning or approving specific acts of violence,” defense lawyer Mark Rochon said.

     “It is not the right thing to hold the government liable for some people doing crazy and terrible things,” said Rochon, who claimed the plaintiffs “exaggerated testimonies to make the Palestinian Authority look bad.”

     The plaintiffs are seeking $350 million, an amount that could be tripled under the Anti-Terrorism Act.

     “This case, the first in the U.S. to go to full trial will be a test of the effectiveness of the Anti-Terrorism Act which was enacted following the Achille Lauro hijacking episode, specifically to address the brutality of Palestinian terrorism against Americans traveling abroad,” Darshan-Leitner said in a statement emailed to Newsweek after the closing arguments were completed Thursday. “The families and their counsel are hopeful that they can achieve a measure of justice and some closure in their lives.”

     The case could also set a precedent for future legal action. If the court rules in favor of the plaintiffs, the decision may set the stage for future terrorism trials in American courts. It would make “a very clear statement,” Darshan-Leitner says, that “nobody can kill American citizens and go free.”

     From the Israeli perspective, she adds, “we’ll prove that the Palestinian Authority was responsible for the suicide bombings and terror attacks taking place during the years of intifada and now have to pay for it.”

     “I think the significance of this ruling would be to deter the Palestinian Authority from ever getting involved again with supporting terrorism,” Darshan-Leitner says. It will “teach the Palestinian Authority that it’s too costly.”

     The trial coincided with Palestinians gaining access to the International Criminal Court (ICC) and has concluded less than two months before they can formally join on April 1. The Palestinian Authority joined the ICC seeking to file war crimes charges against Israel.

     Darshan-Leitner predicts the jury will return with a verdict in Sokolow v. PLO early next week. 

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Thursday Morning - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Corsi: nObama Determined to Defy
Federal Courts on Amnesty 
Dr. Jerome Corsi
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
~~~lll~~~
 
 
 Government bank under fire yanks public info -   The Hill: “Critics of the Export-Import Bank are seething over the removal from a government Web site of previously public data earlier they say helps them detect cronyism. Between January 29 and February 13, officials at the bank removed disclosures listing businesses that applied for financing at the bank but were denied, a source at the bank told The Hill. "During a regular quarterly review, it was decided to reformat the way data is presented," the source said. Under the changes, bank officials are no longer disclosing denied applicants.  But critics of the Ex-Im, created to help U.S. companies finance overseas endeavors, say that information helps illuminate how the bank chooses which businesses to finance.”  -Fox News 
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 HOMELAND BOSS SAYS 'VIOLENT EXTREMISM' EUPHEMISM AT   BEHEST OF MUSLIMS 
Fox News: “Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson said on Sunday that President nObama’s decision not to say the actions of the Islamic State is a form of “radical Islam” is at the behest of the Muslim community. ‘The thing I hear from leaders in the Muslim community in this country is ISIL is attempting to hijack my religion,’ Johnson told ‘Fox News Sunday,’ referring to the terror group also known as Islamic State, or ISIS. Johnson said the leaders argue their religion is about peace and brotherhood and ‘resent’ that Islamic State is ‘attempting to hijack that from us.’ nObama is facing sharp criticism, even from within his own party, for instead using the term ‘violent extremism’ to describe the actions of ISIS and other terror groups that are based on a form of Islam…” 
-Fox News 
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 Will Congress Take the Immigration Off-Ramp?  
Senate Republicans are starting to concede on the efforts to authorize Department of Homeland Security funding and stop Barack nObama's executive overreach on immigration. Given the judicial off-ramp, why should they try? A Texas judge issued an injunction, and if DHS loses its funding the executive branch would make it a political nightmare. Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell introduced a bill that opposes nObama's executive actions but does not strip those diktats of funding. It's an effort to gain votes from sympathetic Democrats to override a certain veto. On the Senate floor, McCon-nell said, "Some Democrats give the impression they want Congress to address the overreach. But when they vote, they always seem to have an excuse for supporting actions they once criticized. So I'm going to begin proceedings on targeted legislation that would only address the most recent overreach from November. It isn't tied to DHS' funding. It removes their excuse." It used to be that the greatest power against an out-of-control president Congress had was its control of the purse. Clearly, however, Republicans are struggling to stop a presidential action a court already said is unconstitutional. McCon-nell's answer may be their only way out. More...  -The Patriot Post   
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 Only Now Does DHS Secretary Brings Up Terrorism Threat  
An African terrorist group, the al-Qaida-affiliated al Shabab, called for attacks on U.S. shopping malls, including the Mall of America in Minnesota. Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson addressed the issue, saying, "We've seen this a number of times now where a group will call for an attack on a country, on a specific location. So, we've got to be vigilant. ... I am not telling people to not go to the mall. I think there needs to be an awareness. There needs to be vigilance. We're in a new phase right now, and that involves public participation in our efforts." So why is this news? Terrorists are known for calling for one attack or another against the West (anyone remember when al-Qaida called for jihadis to start forest fires?) and DHS has operated the See Something, Say Something campaign for years. Johnson only talks about the threat on national television because, at the end of the week, the funding for his department will dry up unless lawmakers pass a funding bill with or without monies for Barack nObama's immigration actions. Nothing like a good crisis, eh? More...  -The Patriot Post   
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 'Plenty of Reasons That Suggest nObama Might Not Love America'  
The Washington Post's Ed Rogers is a "sufficiently intimidated, mostly tame Republican," and he "won't say" he shares Rudy Giuliani's opinion of Barack nObama's love of country. But Rogers also says there are "plenty of reasons that suggest nObama might not love America." For example, he writes, "It's easy to imagine Bill Clinton and either President Bush getting teary-eyed at the proverbial Fourth of July parade, as the veterans wave and flatbeds filled with 4-H kids roll by. It's hard to imagine nObama in a similar situation." Far more important than simple imagery, however, Rogers points to nObama's "willingness to accommodate America's traditional enemies and at times, disregard old friends, [which] has been a nagging and persistent pattern" in his presidency. Of nObama's lecture about the Crusades, Rogers says, "It was just another example of how the president appears willing to try to understand — if not justify — the actions of those who hate America. When the president is slow to condemn our enemies, it raises doubts about what he really thinks of their case against America." In other words, if nObama loves America, he's not exactly offering a lot of proof. More...  -The Patriot Post   
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 Would DoD Plan ‘Destroy’ Commissaries?  
(Tom Philpott) - The Defense Department’s fiscal 2016 budget request would slash taxpayer support of base grocery stores by $322 million in 2016 and by $1 billion next year, enough to “destroy” the shopping benefit, warns the American Logistics Association...ALA, which represents manufacturers, distributors and brokers of products sold in commissaries and base exchanges, released a position paper that contrasts DoD’s plan to “wreck” commissaries with less onerous recommendations of a blue-ribbon panel to consolidate all base store operations to gain efficiencies.       http://militaryadvantage.military.com/2015/02/dod-plan-would-destroy-commissaries-say-industry-reps/
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Al-Shabab terrorist on propaganda video seeking to inspire lone-wolf attacks on malls, including the Mall of America in Minnesota.
 DHS hides crucial fact on 'terrorist influx'  
(Leo Hohmann) - Homeland Security Chief Jeh Johnson warned that a Somalia-based terrorist group is encouraging “independent actors” to carry out attacks in Western countries, with the Mall of America in Minnesota among the specific targets...but he failed to mention that the U.S. continues to import hundreds of high-risk Islamic refugees from Somalia every month. The U.S. State Department’s refugee-resettlement program has placed more than 100,000 Somalis into U.S cities and towns since the early 1990s – all of them Muslims hand-selected by the United Nations refugee agency. And Minnesota has become the most popular destination, with secondary hotspots in Maine, Ohio, Colorado and southern California. More than 800 new refugees from Somalia arrive in the United States every month, according to Refugee Resettlement Watch.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/dhs-hides-crucial-fact-on-terrorist-influx/
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 BOMBSHELL: Illegal Alien National Guardsman Busted  
(conservativetribune.com) - Thanks to nObama’s willingness to allow undocumented illegal immigrants into the U.S. military, a situation bound to happen finally did...A 34-year-old Arizona Army National Guardsman NCO by the name of Raul Portillo was recently busted in an undercover sting and accused of helping Mexican drug cartels safely transport large loads of cocaine and marijuana over the border. Portillo, a man suspected of living in Mexico, yet serving in the Ariz. National Guard, was using his official military credentials and position to make sure cocaine shipments were brought into the United States without trouble. He often used his military license to freely cross back and forth over the border without being subject to searches at checkpoints — even using military vehicles and military issued weapons to make his runs.       http://conservativetribune.com/illegal-alien-runs-drugs-military/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
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 Gum will be on Democrats’ shoe if court upends health law  
(Joel M. Zinberg) - Much ink has been spilled over what Republicans must do if the Supreme Court decides, in the upcoming case of King v. Burwell, that the Affordable Care Act does not authorize the government to provide subsidies to people enrolled on federal healthcare exchanges...Such a decision would cripple ACA implementation, imperil health coverage for millions and, so the thinking goes, put pressure on state and congressional Republicans to save the subsidies and the statute. But conventional wisdom has it backwards — as long as Democrats remain unwilling to consider ACA alternatives, they are the ones who face fallout from such a decision.       http://www.aei.org/publication/gum-will-democrats-shoe-court-upends-health-law/
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 This Is How We Should Approach National Security  
(Brian Slattery) - In one of his first actions as secretary of defense, Ashton Carter met over the weekend with top U.S. officials to determine a path forward in the fight against ISIS...This radical Islamic group has increasingly shown the gruesome lengths it is willing to go to achieve its goals, and has also shown a knack for expanding its reach with atrocities such as a recent mass execution of Egyptians in Libya. This alone is enough to consume much of the defense secretary’s time and effort, but it is only one of the threats the United States faces all over the globe.       http://dailysignal.com/2015/02/24/u-s-grapples-global-threats-approach-national-security/?utm_source=heritagefoundation&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=morningbell&mkt_tok=3RkMMJWWfF9wsRoiuqvKZKXonjHpfsX56%2BQpWqS%2BlMI%2F0ER3fOvrPUfGjI4ERcpqI%2BSLDwEYGJlv6SgFQrLBMa1ozrgOWxU%3D
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 Many Arab Voters Want Integration With Jewish State  
(Tsvi Sadan) - The amount of nonsense Israelis are subjected to as election campaigns heat up is diverting attention the new United Arab List that poses a serious problem for the Jewish state...The list is a merger of four Israeli Arab Knesset factions that run the gamut from communists to extreme Islamists. If this list wins the 12 seats surveys say it will win, the Knesset will play host to a powerful political faction that takes order and money from Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas. Yet the consequences of such a large and subversive party in the Knesset are brushed aside by the Israeli media.       http://www.israeltoday.co.il/NewsItem/tabid/178/nid/26119/Default.aspx?utm_source=news&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=No-sidebar-news-1&utm_content=1617
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 Terror Apologist Named to Federal Anti-Terror Post  
(Matthew Vadum) - President nObama is appointing an openly terrorist-sympathizing Muslim to head a government office dedicated to countering Islamic State propaganda...In April, Rashad Hussain will take over as director of the Center for Strategic Counterterrorism Communications, a small office within the U.S. Department of State that nObama plans to make bigger. A new component called the Information Coordination Cell will be added to the expanded center and will reportedly be staffed by intelligence analysts. It will have a staff of around 80 people and will coordinate with other government agencies. And whats going to happen with the FBI and CIA?       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/terror-apologist-named-to-anti-terror-post/
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 nObama's Secret Iran Strategy  
(Michael Doran) - President Barack nObama wishes the Islamic Republic of Iran every success. Its leaders, he explained in a recent interview, stand at a crossroads...They can choose to press ahead with their nuclear program, thereby continuing to flout the will of the international community and further isolate their country; or they can accept limitations on their nuclear ambitions and enter an era of harmonious relations with the rest of the world. “They have a path to break through that isolation and they should seize it,” the president urged—because “if they do, there’s incredible talent and resources and sophistication . . . inside of Iran, and it would be a very successful regional power.”       http://mosaicmagazine.com/essay/2015/02/obamas-secret-iran-strategy/
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 Army Testing Stackable Grenades for Infantry  
(Matthew Cox) - U.S. Army testers recently evaluated a new type of hand grenade that allows soldiers to connect up to three sections of explosive for a more powerful blast...The Scalable Offensive Hand Grenade offers conventional soldiers a new capability. Unlike the standard fragmentation grenade, this design offers mainly a blast effect that can be doubled or tripled to suit the job. It has also been fielded to U.S. Special Operations Command since 2010.       http://kitup.military.com/2015/02/army-testing-stackable-grenades.html?ESRC=army.nl
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 Pentagon Chief 'Open to Reconsidering' Military Retirement System  
(Jon Harper) - Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter said Sunday he is open to altering the military retirement system but would not want changes forced on current or former servicemembers...A congressionally chartered Military Compensation and Retirement Modernization Commission submitted proposals last month to lower personnel costs in the Defense Department. It recommended changes to entice troops to opt out of the current pension system, which gives substantial retirement pay to those who serve 20 years or more but none to those who serve less time. The panel suggested all troops be automatically given a savings plan account that would sock away 3 percent of pay along with a contribution from the military. The panel also recommended that Tricare health insurance be replaced with a range of private provider options.       http://www.military.com/daily-news/2015/02/23/new-pentagon-chief-open-reconsidering-military-retirement-system.html?ESRC=army.nl
Corsi: nObama Determined to Defy
Federal Courts on Amnesty 
Dr. Jerome Corsi
     (Dr. Jerome Corsi) – Last week, after Federal District Judge Andrew Hanen’s 123-page opinion shut down Barack nObama’s implementation of hi DHS-engineered “amnesty” plan with a temporary restraining order, the White House defiantly went in search of a federal court willing to issue an emergency order to move forward.
     The problem is that the way nObama issued his amnesty “executive action” has some fatal legal flaws, as I predicted and explained weeks ago in writing my new eBook entitled “Amnesty – the Plan nObama Designed to Break America’s Back,” available here at TeaParty.org.
     The opening sentence of Judge Hanen’s opinion makes clear the injunction is issued not to block the implementation of an executive order signed by President nObama, but a memorandum issued by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson.
     “This is a case in which twenty-six states or their representatives are seeking injunctive relief against the United States and several officials of the Department of Homeland Security to prevent them from implementing a program entitled ‘Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents,” Judge Hanen wrote.

     Noting that the case does not involve either a law passed by Congress or an executive order signed by President nObama, Judge Hanen noted, as my eBook explains, that the White House promoted the idea that President nObama had signed an executive order by having nObama fly to Las Vegas on Nov. 21, 2014, the day following the public address to the nation on immigration, where following his speech at Del Sol High School, nObama invited the press to witness his signing of two presidential executive orders on unrelated immigration issues.

     “Finally, both sides agree that the President in his official capacity has not directly instituted any program at issue in this case,” Judge Hanen noted. “Regardless of the fact that the Executive Branch has made public statements to the contrary, there are no executive orders or other presidential proclamations or communiqué that exist regarding DAPA [Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents]. The DAPA memorandum issued by Secretary Johnson is the focus in this suit.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6RY3GtPlSg

     In granting the injunction to the twenty-six states, led by Texas, that brought the case to court, Judge Hanen made clear his opinion that the DHS memorandum signed by DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson on November 20, 2014, was unconstitutional in that the DHS does not have the authority to grant millions of “DREAMER Parents” what amounts to amnesty by extending to them the deferred prosecution by extending to them the protection to remain in the United States lawfully established for the DREAMER children when in 2012 then-Secretary of DHS Janet Napolitano created the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals [DACA] program.

     “The DHS was not given any ‘discretion by law’ to give 4.3 million removable aliens what the DHS itself labels as ‘legal presence,’ ” Judge Hanen concluded wrote in issuing an injunction. “In fact, the law mandates that these illegally-present individuals be removed. The DHS has adopted a new rule that substantially changes both the status and employability of millions. These changes go beyond mere enforcement or even non-enforcement of this nation’s immigration scheme.”

     But no matter how intent Barack nObama is to cause a constitutional crisis with the courts to get his way in declaring amnesty for millions of illegal immigrants, these technical but fatal flaws will dog and defeat White House attorneys trying to overturn Judge Hanen’s injunction.

     The truth is that nObama as president does not have the authority to ignore or over-rule a federal court, which is why amnesty is headed to the Supreme Court.

     But last week, we got more evidence nObama and his open-borders supporters on the radical left are determined to legitimate with an amnesty decree millions of illegal immigrants that have broken U.S. laws to enter the country and remain here.

     Approximately 2,000 illegal alien inmates in a Texas prison near the border rioted and set off fires last week in a disturbance that required a massive mobilization of Texas law enforcement to secure the border and restore order.

     Local Texas television reported the uprising began at a federal prison in Raymondville, Texas, when a group of prisoners became agitated about the medical services in the private prison facility.

     According to Breitbart News, this occurred after the illegal immigrant rioters broke out of the housing areas and set fires in three separate units of the facility, while tearing down tents used for their housing and shaking the perimeter fence as they chanted their grievances.

     These are the lawbreakers that President nObama wants to give amnesty, Social Security numbers, work permits, a full range of state and federal welfare payments including food stamps, the right to apply for state driver’s licenses and the right to vote?

     Maybe nObama has become desperate to get his amnesty approved by the courts because the Democratic Party has realized their presidential candidate will lose in 2016 unless nObama can get millions of illegal immigrants the same right to vote that citizens enjoy, to counterbalance with lawless illegal aliens the tens of millions that are finally seeing through nObama’s socialist Cloward and Piven plan to destroy the United States from within.

     Two weeks ago, Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, urged Congress to shut down the Department of Homeland Security if that is what it takes to stop funding for Barack nObama’s unconstitutional amnesty executive actions.

     “nObama is now talking about allowing all those people to whom he’s given unconstitutional amnesty the ability to bring in extended family members,” Gohmert said. “They’ll call it immediate family, but the five million could turn into 20 million or 25 million once you start bringing in all the other family members. That’s part of nObama’s plan to fundamentally transform America.”

     This is why I felt it was urgent to write my new book entitled Amnesty – the Plan nObama Designed to Break America’s Back, and to get it in print as fast as possible as an eBook, so you have no delay in getting the information we need to stop nObama into your hands immediately.

     My eBook has 9 Chapters that I believe you will find important to understanding the nObama secret plan for using illegal immigration to destroy America.

     Tea Party Loyalists must let the new GOP majority in Congress know where we stand.

     We are the last line of defense for the Constitution and the rule of law in America.

     We must encourage House Speaker backstabber John Boehner and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McCon-nell to hold firm, defunding the Department of Homeland Security, if that is what it takes to strip nObama of the money the administration needs to implement his unconstitutional amnesty executive actions.

     Please also join me in sending to all 100 U.S. Senators and to all 435 members of the House of Representatives a TeaParty.org Fax Blast that says  “No to Amnesty!”

     Tea Party Loyalists are the last line of resistance to “America’s Fraud President” who is attempting to deprive us of our Constitutional rights in his effort to debase America to a police-state maintaining order in a second-class nation.

Our voices must and will be heard.

     We must say “No To Amnesty!” by reminding Congress they owe allegiance first to the U.S. citizen and the legal immigrant.

     In November 2014, Tea Party Loyalists issued a strong statement that we are prepared to repeat in November 2016, defeating any and all incumbent members of Congress – Republicans and Democrats alike – who do not stand with us to defend the United States of America.

http://www.teaparty.org/obama-determined-defy-federal-courts-amnesty-85198/

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"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
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Alan Caruba
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
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 nOBAMA GIVES WARREN A LIFT IN WALL ST. WAR 
USA Today: “President nObama will order the Labor Department on Monday to begin developing new rules for financial managers who handle retirement accounts for working Americans. … nObama will make the announcement during Monday afternoon visit to the offices of AARP, according to the White House schedule. Among guests at the speech: Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., an outspoken critic of some Wall Street practices.”
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Pressure is growing from Hilly boosters for Warren to make it official and endorse the frontrunner now.]  -Fox News 
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 Hilly shucked in Iowa over foreign fundraising -   Ken Thomas checked in with Iowa Democrats to see how the flap over foreign contributions to the Clinton foundation was playing: “‘There was a reason they stopped taking foreign government donations when [Hilly Clinton]was secretary of state,’ said Mike Carberry, a Johnson County, Iowa, supervisor and former county Democratic chairman. He said the foundation should reinstate the policies used from 2009 to 2013. ‘It doesn’t seem right.’ … Beyond the headlines, many Democrats say it shows the need for Clinton to begin actively campaigning and build an apparatus better suited to rapidly respond to these types of critiques. ‘There’s a vacuum,’ said Tom Henderson, the chairman of the Polk County, Iowa, Democrats, who noted potential candidates such as former Maryland Gov. Martin O’Malley and former Virginia Sen. Jim Webb are visiting soon. ‘She isn’t doing anything’ in Iowa, he said.”  -Fox News 
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 WITH YOUR SECOND CUP OF COFFEE... 
A young photographer and a group of Marines staked their claim on history with a flag and a message. Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal saw a few Marines raising an American flag in the rubble atop Mt. Suribachi on the island of Iwo Jima, scene of one of the most intense battles of World War II. Just as he reached the scene to capture the moment, however, the flag was already up. Rosenthal saw another group raising an even larger flag nearby, and seized his chance. He took the photograph that would go on to win him a Pulitzer Prize and a place in American history. The image of the Marines captured on this day 70 years ago served as the model for the Marine Corps War Memorial and continues to serve as a symbol of the determination and pride that the Marines embody. Semper Fidelis.  -Fox News 
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 SENATE DEMS KEEP UP BLOCKADE FOR nOBAMA AMNESTY 
With just days left to avoid a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security, Senate Democrats are expected to block a fourth attempt to start debate on a House-passed bill that would fund DHS while rolling back President nObama’s temporary amnesty for illegal immigrants. The impasse continues amid reports that Senate Republicans are considering a plan in which they would split off legislation attacking the president’s executive actions, but it’s unclear whether conservative Republicans would go along with de-coupling it from DHS funding. “‘We would try to have a vote on just that issue,’ a Republican aide told the Hill. ‘Does it have to be addressed as part of DHS, or can it be addressed separately? If we can get to that issue and have a vote on that issue, then you come back to DHS appropriations.’” With the House returning Tuesday evening, just three days remain for Congress to work out a legislative solution. 
 -Fox News 
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 nObama’s pen to find new use this week -   NYT: “Wielding the weapon of his pen, President nObama this week is expected to formally reject a Republican attempt to force construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline. But in stopping the transit of petroleum from the forests of Alberta to the Gulf Coast, Mr. nObama will be opening the veto era of his presidency. The expected Keystone veto, the third and most significant of Mr. nObama's six years in office, would likely be followed by presidential vetoes of bills that would make changes in the Affordable Care Act, impose new sanctions on Iran and roll back child nutrition standards, among others.”  -Fox News 
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 Cables Show CIA Tried to Connect with Hamas Despite U.S. Ban  
(investigativeproject.org) - Spy cables reveal that the CIA attempted to interact with Hamas, despite U.S. government prohibitions on contact with the designated Palestinian terrorist organization, the Guardian reports...The cables, obtained by the Al Jazeerah network, indicate that American intelligence was eager to establish connections with Hamas and recruit agents within the Gaza Strip. According to the leaked documents, a CIA officer and South African intelligence agent met in East Jerusalem during fighting between Hamas and Israel. A cable sent to Pretoria on June 29, 2012 revealed that the CIA agent "seems to be desperate to make inroads into Hamas in Gaza and possibly would like SSA [the South African State Security Agency] to assist them in gaining access." In return, the South African agency suggested that the SSA would be able to access American intelligence priorities and understand CIA collection methods throughout the proposed interaction between the CIA and Hamas.       http://www.investigativeproject.org/4785/cables-show-cia-tried-to-connect-with-hamas
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Governors Bill Haslam, Nikki Haley and Pat McCrory discuss the current standoff with President Obama over immigration. (Getty)
 GOP governors: nObama is an obstructionist  
(David M. Drucker) - Republican governors on Monday blasted President nObama for resisting compromise with the GOP-controlled Congress...During a news conference after meeting with nObama at the White House, Republican governors criticized the president for vowing to veto legislation authorizing the construction of the Keystone XL oil pipeline, and similarly threatening to reject a House-passed bill that would fund the Department of Homeland Security while reversing his executive immigration order. The GOP tied language reversing “executive amnesty” to legislation funding the Department of Homeland Security, which runs out of money on Saturday.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/gop-governors-obama-is-an-obstructionist/article/2560585
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 Beef producers say nObama is trying to kill their industry  
(FoxNews.com) - A panel of nutrition experts recruited by the nObama administration to craft the newest dietary guidelines suggested last week that the government should consider the environment when deciding what people should eat...The report, which was presented to the U.S. Department of Agriculture, bills itself as a way to “transform the food system” and that’s got a lot of people in the heartland and those elected to represent them in Washington fuming. “Generations of cattle farmers and ranchers have been and continue to be conscientious about conserving limited natural resources,” Sen. Chuck Grassley R-Iowa, told FoxNews.com. “They rely on the land and the environment for their livelihood. Those facts get lost in Washington and in arguments that eating red meat hurts the environment.” How can environmentalist associate eating red meat hurts the environment. This hogwash.        http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2015/02/23/beef-producers-say-obama-is-trying-to-kill-their-industry-telling-americans-to/?cmpid=NL_fntop
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 Israeli Security forces nab terror cell planning series of attacks  
(Stuart Winer) - Israeli security forces busted a Hamas ring in the Hebron area planning a series of terror attacks, including suicide bombings, the Shin Bet security service said Monday...The Shin Bet said it arrested 11 members of the cell in January, and that the group had carried out a failed bomb attack on Israeli troops in the West Bank. Along with the arrests, security forces seized two sub-machine guns and explosives the cell allegedly planned on using to target Israelis, the Shin Bet said.
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 Dem Equates Black American Citizens With Illegal Alien Squatters  
(Rick Wells) - In many ways the people of the state of Oregon suffer from the same liberal brain infection as their neighbors to their immediate south. The liberals of California spread their political perversion like an aids patients at a bath house orgy, infecting all of those around them in a race to see who will succumb to their disease first...There is no cure for California liberalism; one can only avoid contact, which requires extreme vigilance. Just as many Muslims who flee oppressive societies bring with them a need to transplant that seed of oppression, liberals of California move to neighboring states and inevitably bring with them their endemic expansive government, erosion of American values and degradation of individual liberty.       http://www.rickwells.us/lying-democrat-equates-black-american-citizens-with-illegal-alien-squatters-wheres-eric-holder-or-scumbag-Sharpton/
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 Senate Democrats For The Fourth Time Deny DHS Funding  
(Rick Wells) - Are Senate Democrats simply cowards, lying partisan hacks, or treasonous traitors to their nation and its people? It’s apparent that every one of the 46 Democrats is suited to, at a minimum, wear the wretched hat of an outright traitor to America and its citizens...Most deserve recognition under the first two shameful monikers as well. On Monday, for the fourth consecutive time, every Senate Democrat faced a choice between honoring and upholding their oath to the Constitution, our nation and the American people, or siding with their criminal communist leadership. They unanimously chose to turn their backs on their nation. Each one opted to violate their own oaths of office and to aid in the destruction of our representative government by aligning themselves with the illegitimate dictator who has usurped their own powers. They clearly are immoral cowards, lying to their constituents and betraying our nation.       http://www.rickwells.us/pleased-to-help-democrats-for-the-fourth-time-deny-dhs-funding-support-tyranny-over-constitution-american-people/
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 Dems run away from nObamacare penalty they imposed  
(Byron York) - The Democrats who wrote and passed the Affordable Care Act were sure of two things: The law had to include a mandate requiring every American to purchase health insurance, and it had to have an enforcement mechanism to make the mandate work...Enforcement has always been at the heart of nObamacare. The Internal Revenue Service is the enforcement arm of nObamacare, and with tax forms due April 15, Americans who did not purchase coverage and who have not received one of the many exemptions already offered by the administration are discovering they will have to pay a substantial fine.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/dems-run-away-from-obamacare-penalty-they-imposed/article/2560591
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 Media Accepting nObama’s Spin on the Economy  
(Roger Aronoff) - With as many lies and distortions that proceed from this scandal-plagued administration, one might think that mainstream reporters would turn a skeptical eye toward another one of President nObama’s carefully crafted narratives...Each narrative is designed to push “progressive” policies or to cover up administration mismanagement. But our corrupt media reflexively cheer whenever the leftist agendas for amnesty, nObamacare, climate change, and economic regulation are mentioned. Add to the list of official narratives the hyped state of the economy, the successes of which cannot fail to be championed because they reflect on the viability of the current President’s policies. Yet President nObama’s claims about how his administration’s efforts have boosted the economy, or that the economy is actually improving, are based on cherry-picked data.       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/media-accepting-obamas-spin-on-the-economy/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022415&utm_medium=email
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 Healthcare.gov Still Not Finished and Costing Money  
(Mark Horne) - Way back in December 2013, Bob Allen pointed to the Wall Street Journal’s report on the White House claim to have fixed Healthcare.gov...This weekend miracle defies other evidence, such as the recent admission by an HHS official that 30% to 40% of the exchanges are still unfinished. Much of this involves the “back end” of the exchange operation that provides information to insurers but that consumers don’t see. Now it is 2015. Guess what? The “back end” of the website still doesn’t work! 
Why is Healthcare.gov still not finished when we have spent so much money on it?
http://politicaloutcast.com/2015/02/healthcare-gov-still-not-finished-and-costing-money/
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 The media's slimy assault on Gov. Walker 
(
David Limbaugh) - I’m not sure which is more absurd, for the media to be up in arms about former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s statement that he doesn’t believe President nObama loves America or for them to mug Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker for declining to weigh in on the subject...Many of us have been speculating for years about nObama’s affinity for this country as founded. He promised to fundamentally transform this nation – something he wouldn’t have done if he embraced the American idea. There is so much evidence that nObama has a different feeling about America than all of our past presidents that it borders on disingenuous to pretend otherwise.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/the-medias-slimy-assault-on-gov-walker/
The Arab Armies
Alan Caruba

Arab Armies

     (factsnotfantasy.blogspot.com) - The ongoing Syrian conflict, the fall of the Yemeni government, the burning of the Jordanian pilot, and other events make one wonder why even those Arab nations with significant military capabilities tend not to use them against a common enemy.

    The attacks on ISIS by the Jordanian air force have been a dramatic example of what could be done to eliminate this threat to the entire region if the other military forces would join in a united effort.

     This raises the question of why the armies of various Middle Eastern nations do not seem to be engaged in destroying the Islamic State (ISIS). The answer may be found in a casual look at recent history; these armies have not been successful on the field of battle. Most recently what passed for the Iraqi army fled when ISIS took over much of northern Iraq.

     Since 1948 the Arab nations that attacked Israel were repeatedly defeated. The Iraq-Iran war conducted by Saddam Hussein finally stalemated after eight years. Later it took the leadership of the U.S. to drive Saddam’s Iraq out of Kuwait.

     In October 2014, the Business Insider published a useful ranking of Middle Eastern militaries put together by Armin Rosen, Jeremy Bender, and Amanda Macias. Ranked number one should surprise no one. It was Israel which has a $15 billion defense budget, 176,000 active frontline personnel, 680 aircraft, and 3,870 tanks.

     Unlike previous administrations dating back to Truman, while the U.S. is technically still an ally of Israel, in reality the nObama administration has demonstrated animosity toward the only democratic nation in the region. Indeed, the U.S. has been engaged in lengthy negotiations with Iran that would ultimately permit it to become a nuclear power. There isn’t a single Middle Eastern nation that wants this to occur and it has greatly harmed U.S. relations with them.

     Ranked second militarily is the Turkish Armed Forces with an $18.1 billion defense budget, 410,000 active frontline personnel, 3,675 tanks and 989 aircraft. This nation has shifted heavily toward being an Islamist state as opposed to the secular one it had been since the end of the Ottoman Empire in the last century. Its military hasn’t been involved in a conflict since the Turkish invasion of Cyprus in 1974. It is a NATO-allied military but that doesn’t mean it will support NATO in a future conflict. It was used against the Kurdish separatist movement in the 1980s, but these days the Kurdish Peshmerga, between 80,000 and 100,000 strong is now ranked as “one of the most formidable fighting forces in the Middle East” and it is likely the Kurds will carve their own nation out of an Iraq which barely exists these days.

     Number three among the Middle East militaries is Saudi Arabia with a $56.7 billion defense budget, 233,500 active frontline personnel, 1,095 tanks, and 652 aircraft. It has been closely allied with the U.S. for decades, but the nObama Iranian nuclear negotiations have negatively affected that relationship. One can assume the same from its other allies, Kuwait, Bahrain, and the United Arab Emirates. Saudi Arabia has also provided “substantial assistance” to post-coup Egypt.

     The rankings put the United Arab Emirates a #4, Iran at #5, Egypt at #6, Syria at #7, Jordan at #8, Oman at #9, Kuwait at #10, Qatar at #11, Bahrain at #12, Iraq at #13, Lebanon at #14, and Yemen at #15.  The Business Insider article noted that “The balance of power in the Middle East is in disarray” and that’s putting it mildly.

     Debka File, an Israeli news agency, reported on February 5 that “The group of nations U.S. President Barack nObama assembled last September for an air offence against ISIS inroads in Iraq and Syria is fraying.”

     It deemed the participation of the UAE, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Bahrain as “more symbolic than active” noting that Iraq has no air force to speak of and an army in name only while the Saudis “allotted a trifling number of planes to the effort” and Bahrain has no air force at all. The UAE has the biggest and most modern air force and it has reportedly joined with Jordan to attack ISIS strongholds.

     Debka reported that the coalition is “adamantly opposed to nObama’s policy…and loath to lend their air strength for its support” and that is very good news for ISIS, but not for the rest of the Middle East.

     In October, Commentary magazine published an analysis by Ofir Haivry, vice president of the Herzl Institute in Jerusalem, about the “Shifting Alliances in the Middle East.”  It began with the observation that “The old Middle Eastern order has collapsed” as “the ongoing Arab uprisings that begin in late 2010 have unseated or threaten to unseat every Muslim government in the region.”

     Postulating ‘five broad, cross-regional, and loosely ideological confederations”, Haivry concluded that “Perhaps our biggest challenge is not a new Middle East, but a new United States in paralysis. Under the Obama administration, America’s historic aspiration to shape events in the region has given way to confusion and drift.”

     It should not come as that much of a surprise that Israel has been developing intelligence and security relations with several Arab nations, including what the Middle East Monitor described as “growing secret cooperation between Israel and Saudi Arabia.”  That sounds like very bad news for Iran and very good news for the rest of us.

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Featuring:
Netanyahu's true electoral rival
Caroline B. Glick
 
"Rise up together as one voice"
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 Before Roe v. Wade, There Was Jack Willke  

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Dr. Jack Willke, who is considered the father of the modern, pro-life movement, died unexpectedly at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was 89. Even before the Supreme Court's fiat in 1973 struck down most state abortion laws, Willke stopped delivering babies in the '60s to lobby and protest against the practice. The former president of both the International Right to Life Federation and the National Right to Life Committee, Willke was a thought leader in the pro-life movement because he authored such work as "Abortion Questions & Answers" and a recently published history of the fight against abortion. Later in his life, Willkes headed the educational organization Life Issues Institute. Executive Director of Life Issues Institute Bradley Mattes told Life Site News, "Jack has been my mentor and colleague for over 23 years and was a second father to me." He continued, "I can only imagine the greeting Jack received in heaven -- millions of babies who he tirelessly worked to saved, joyfully welcoming him home." R.I.P. More...  -The Patriot Post

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 Fruit According to the Seeds  
The Leftmedia have been asking a lot of questions of Republicans who have the audacity to confront the words and deeds of Barack nObama. Prompted by former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani's remarks about nObama's conspicuous lack of love for the country, Scott Walker, Marco Rubio and Bobby Jindal have all been pressed to answer the question of the week: "Does Barack nObama love America?" First, let's state the obvious: The Leftmedia is an extension of the Democratic National Committee. Most mainstream journalists ascribe to the philosophy of the Left and serve to camouflage reality -- earning, for the purpose of this text, the distinction "presstitutes." Once upon a time, professional journalists reported news and conveyed facts. Today's crop, however, is invested in protecting the incompetence and lies of Barack nObama. In part, that's due to their own failure to do the job exposing the anti-American and racially divisive orchard in which America's 44th president was grown. Does Barack nObama love America?  
-The Patriot Post
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 2016 POWER INDEX: UNSTEADY WALKER STILL JEB’S TOP   RIVAL, BUT PRESS PILE ON CONTINUES 
Oddly, the cardinal attribute now sought in a presidential candidate is the ability to successfully evade horrid questions. And Scott Walker is learning that the hard way. The Wisconsin governor’s most recent error was complaining aloud about a puerile question posed by the WaPo about what Walker believed President nObama believes about Jesus Christ. In so doing, Walker gave the kind of response his questioners were hoping for, because the words “I don’t know” were part of a soliloquy on media bias. A question like this is the rhetorical equivalent of throwing a wolverine at a man’s face and then writing the headline: “Candidate struggles with wolverine attack.” Well, yeah... But the wolverines will keep coming, and so will the honey badgers, ferrets, otters and the rest of the family Mustelidae. And if you want to be president, you’d better find a way to deal with it.

          This is Walker’s second such error. On a trip to London earlier this month, Walker let his internal monologue slip out when he said he was going to “punt” a crummy question about evolution. When being treated like a native shipped back to England by Captain Cook, it would be tempting to say much worse than that. But even announcing the “punt” was bad enough. What Walker said subsequently was just fine. But his blurted intention to evade was all that anyone will remember. If you want to dodge, just look to the president, who has punted for more yards in Washington than anyone since Sammy Baugh. The president just boots that sucker down to the other end zone, the ball carried aloft on great gusts of windy words.
          In order to fulfill the media narrative in which Jeb Bush is the sensible candidate trying to tame an insane Republican Party, Scott Walker must be made into an insane person. He is trying hard not to oblige the press, but if he wants to win, he will have to stop telegraphing his evasions and do what every other successful politician does and just dropkick his answers.
  -Fox News  
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 Government worker unions reeling under Walker rules -   WaPo: “The anti-union law passed here four years ago, which made Gov. Scott Walker a national Republican star and a possible presidential candidate, has turned out to be even more transformative than many had predicted. Walker had vowed that union power would shrink, workers would be judged on their merits, and local governments would save money. Unions had warned that workers would lose benefits and be forced to take on second jobs or find new careers. Many of those changes came to pass, but the once-thriving ­public-sector unions were not just shrunken, they were crippled. Unions representing teachers, professors, trash collectors and other government employees are struggling to stem plummeting membership rolls and retain relevance in the state where they got their start.”  -Fox News  
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 Poll: Cruz, Walker all tied up in Texas -   Texas Tribune: “Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has erased U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz’s strong lead among Texas Republicans in the volatile and still-developing race for the party’s 2016 presidential nomination, according to the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll.  Cruz’s 25 percentage-point lead over Walker in October has vanished: The Texan won the support of 20 percent of the state’s registered voters to Walker’s 19 percent — a statistical tie. Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and author Ben Carson were tied at 9 percent, and former Texas Gov. Rick Perry was next at 8 percent.”  -Fox News  

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 President’s Boot Lickers Still Pretend nObama is a Christian  
(Erick Erickson) - They routinely lament on twitter that there surely must be more important things than conservatives focused on Benghazi, Fast and Furious, the IRS scandal, the Libyan disaster, the Syrian disaster, the growth of ISIS, the resurgence of Al Quaeda, etc., etc., etc...They lament that we are a frivolous society easily distracted from important things. They give awards to deep thinkers who write 20,000 word pieces on subjects no one cares about outside of the Circle of Jerks who make up the political press. Then Rudy Giuliani, the former mayor of New York and failed Presidential candidate who will never serve in public office again, suggests President nObama does not love America (he doesn’t, by the way). The very same Circle of Jerks who lament a lack of seriousness in American discourse, immediately swing into action to protect their precious. These are Barack nObama’s boot lickers.        http://www.redstate.com/2015/02/23/all-the-presidents-boot-lickers-still-pretend-obama-is-a-christian/
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 The Islamic ‘Ghosts on the Roof’  
(Francis P. Sempa) - Seventy years ago, Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Joseph Stalin met at Yalta to lay the foundations of the post-World War II world order. Less than one month after their historic meeting, TIME magazine on March 5, 1945, published an unsigned article entitled “Ghosts on the Roof.”...The article was written by Whittaker Chambers, then TIME’s foreign news editor and formerly a member of a Washington, D.C.-based Soviet espionage ring. Chambers broke with communism in the late 1930s and in doing so remarked to his wife that they were joining the “losing side” in the great world struggle between communism and the West.       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/francis-p-sempa/the-islamic-ghosts-on-the-roof/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1881c66feb-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-1881c66feb-156509103
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 Rep. Keith Ellison: Apologist for Jihad  
(Matthew Vadum) - America is the root cause of violent extremism, Congress’s foremost apologist for Islamic terrorism told a White House conference last week...In rambling remarks Feb. 18 at President Obama’s so-called Summit on Countering Violent Extremism, U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.) used the opportunity to smear America, downplay Muslim violence, and urge law enforcement to go easy on suspected Muslim terrorists. How do we allow this Muslim Rep to be elected. What is wrong with Minnesota?       http://www.frontpagemag.com/2015/matthew-vadum/rep-keith-ellison-apologist-for-jihad/?utm_source=FrontPage+Magazine&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=1881c66feb-Mailchimp_FrontPageMag&utm_term=0_57e32c1dad-1881c66feb-156509103
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 When Saudi-backed Terrorists Come Home to Roost  
(Raymond Ibrahim) - In a move reminiscent of ancient history, Saudi Arabia is building a 600-mile-long "Great Wall"—a combined fence and ditch—to separate itself from the Islamic State to the north in Iraq...The irony here is that those Muslims that Saudi Arabia is trying to keep out are the very same Muslims most nurtured and influenced by a Saudi — or "Wahhabi," or "Salafi" — worldview. Put differently, Saudi Arabia is again appreciating how jihad is a volatile instrument of war that can easily backfire on those who support it. "Holy war" is hardly limited to fighting and subjugating "infidels" — whether the West in general, Israel in particular, or the millions of non-Muslim minorities under Islam — but also justifies fighting "apostates," that is, Muslims accused of not being Islamic enough. The USA couldn't build a 600 mile fence in the last 8 years, let alone now.       http://www.meforum.org/5047/when-saudi-backed-terrorists-come-home-to-roost
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 ‘Islamic state fighters, disorganized and high on drugs  
(Julian Robinson) - A British soldier who left to fight alongside Kurdish militants has described ISIS as little more than ‘office workers and villagers’ who are high on drugs because they are so terrified...Jamie Read from Lanarkshire, Scotland, served in the British Army for four years before travelling to Syria in 2014 to join the battle against Islamic State extremists. Having returned home he has revealed he would be prepared to rejoin the fight – despite the fact that he and his family have been targeted by militants.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/02/23/fighting-isis-islamic-state-fighters-are-scared-disorganized-and-high-on-drugs-to-stay-courageous/
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 Tough Questions That Are Impossible To Refute nObama’s Policies  
(Walid Shoebat) - Years ago, hints on questioning nObama’s loyalty to the U.S. was considered conspiracy theory. Today  Americans are becoming increasingly more suspicious struggling to find rhyme or reason for nObama’s latest Middle East policies...Rudy Giuliani seems to attribute nObama’s policies to be influenced through his affiliations with radical socialists like Frank Marshall Davis. But serious questions will prove that nObama’s policies are not different than a Muslim who supports the revival of the Muslim grand caliphate. Was nObama influenced only by a Marxist-Leninist agenda or did he also not grow up Muslim, having learned how to recite the Muslim call to prayer in the classical Arabic tongue as he clearly admits? Can anyone even deny that nObama’s Middle East policies mimics Erdogan’s, especially when it comes to the two most powerful secular Arab states, Syria and Egypt?       http://shoebat.com/2015/02/21/tough-questions-impossible-refute-proves-obamas-policies-part-master-plan-revive-grand-muslim-caliphate/
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 Jury Finds Palestinian Authority Liable for Intifada Terror  
(investigativeproject.org) - Palestinian Authority (PA) policies, including direct financial support to employees convicted by on terrorism charges, and payments to families of those killed waging terrorist attacks, make it liable for damages in attacks which killed wounded Americans, a New York jury decided Monday...Jurors awarded $218.5 million in damages to the victims and their families. Provisions in the U.S. Anti-Terrorism Act triple that to $655.5 million. The jury's award "will not bring back these families' loved ones, nor heal the physical and psychological wounds inflicted upon them, but it truly is an important measure of justice and closure for them after their long years of tragic suffering and pain," said Nitsana Darshan-Leitner of Israel's Shurat HaDin law center, said after the jury award was announced. Darshan-Leitner has helped bring numerous civil cases against sponsors of terrorist attacks, saying the aim here, as in the other cases is "making the defendants pay for their terrorist crimes against innocent civilians and letting them know that there will eventually be a price to be paid for sending suicide bombers onto our buses and into our cafes."       http://www.investigativeproject.org/4784/jury-finds-palestinian-authority-liable-for
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Putin’s Long Arm  
(TED R. BROMUND) - In Chechnya, Georgia, and Ukraine, Russia works through bribery, fear, and force to destroy its opponents. In the West, it works through Interpol and the U.S. Treasury...If Moscow decides to target you, being in the United States won’t protect you from Russian harassment. In fact, it makes you a better victim.
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Contrary to what you see in the movies, Interpol isn’t an international police force. It doesn’t arrest anyone. It’s more like a global bulletin board for national law enforcement agencies. Every country is a member except North Korea. And one of the privileges of membership is that you can request that Interpol issue a “Red Notice,” which asks other members to detain and extradite a wanted individual. By the terms of its 1956 constitution, adopted in large part to assure Washington that the organization would not pursue asylum-seekers from behind the Iron Curtain, Interpol is not supposed to engage in activities of “a political, military, religious, or racial character.” In other words, it’s supposed to pursue only ordinary crimes. But in 2013, Interpol issued 8,857 Red Notices—about one every hour. At that rate, it’s impossible for Interpol to be sure that it’s only pursuing murderers, child molesters, rapists, and the like. It has to trust its member nations.       http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/putin-s-long-arm_859638.html?utm_campaign=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest&utm_source=Weekly%20Standard%3A%20Daily%20Digest%20-%2002%2F23%2F15&utm_medium=email
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 The State Backlash Against Obamacare Is On!  
(Tea Party) - A breaking story from Reuters announced that Five Republican governors say they will not rescue a crucial part of nObamacare if the Supreme Court strikes down the highly unpopular law...The Republican governors of Louisiana, Mississippi, Nebraska, South Carolina and Wisconsin say that they will not create state exchanges to support the subsidies of the failing program. These local insurance exchanges constitute the core of this legal controversy.       http://www.tpnn.com/2015/02/23/breaking-news-the-state-backlash-against-obamacare-is-on/
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Phased Iran-US nuclear deal taking shape  
(BRADLEY KLAPPER and GEORGE JAHN) - The Associated Press is outlining the construct of the final negotiations between the U.S. and Iran. In essence, the short version is that Iran is going to be able to produce nuclear weapons, period...
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Despite the incredible ramifications, and the very predictable arms race now virtually certain in the region, this should not come as a surprise. Iran had to work swiftly, while President nObama was still in office and the U.S. is in a weakened state, due to the specifically intentional policies of the nObama administration. There have been many indicators of this outcome over the past several months and years.
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Against this now evident reality the visit by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu takes on an even more controversial dynamic. Netanyahu is widely anticipated to make the case of why Iran should not be allowed to possess nuclear weapons, and outline the ramifications therein. Hence, the White House held a strategy meeting to generate ideas of how they could destroy Netanyahu using “Alinsky Tactics” last week.
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Those who do not learn from history are doomed to repeat it….
Netanyahu's true electoral rival
Caroline B. Glick
 
     (jewishworldreview.com) - Officially, the election on March 17 is among Israelis. Depending on how we vote, either Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu will remain in office and form the next government led by his Likud party, or Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni will form a government.

     But unofficially, a far greater electoral drama is unfolding. The choice is not between Netanyahu and Herzog/Livni. It is between Netanyahu and US President Barack nObama.

     As the White House sees it, if Herzog/Livni form the next government, then Jerusalem will dance to nObama’s tune. If Netanyahu is reelected, then the entire edifice of nObama’s Middle East policy may topple and fall.

     Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry made clear the administration’s desire to topple Netanyahu last spring during his remarks before the Trilateral Commission. It was during that memorable speech that Hanoi Kerry libeled Israel, claiming that we would automatically and naturally become an apartheid state if we didn’t give Jerusalem and Judea and Samaria to the PLO, Jew free, as quickly as possible.

     Despite Israel’s venality, Hanoi Kerry held out hope. In his words, “if there is a change of government in Israel, or a change of heart, something will happen.”

     Shortly after Hanoi Kerry gave his Israel apartheid speech, his Middle East mediator Martin Indyk attacked Israel and the character of the Israeli people in an astounding interview to Yediot Aharonot.

     Among other things, Indyk hinted that to force Israel to make concessions demanded by the PLO, the Palestinians may need to launch another terror war.

     Indyk also threatened that the Palestinians will get their state whether Israel agrees to their terms of not. In his words, “They will get their state in the end – whether through violence or by turning to international organizations.”

     Indyk made his statements as an unnamed US official. When his identity was exposed, he was forced to resign his position. Following his departure from government service he returned to his previous position as vice president and director of the Brookings Institution and the director of its foreign policy program. Last September, The New York Times reported that the Brookings Institute received a $14.8 million, four-year donation from Qatar, the chief financier of Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

     This week, Indyk was back in Israel to speak at the annual conference of the Institute for National Security Studies. There he provided us with a picture of what we can expect from the nObama administration in its remaining two years in office if Netanyahu forms the next government.

     On the Palestinian front, Indyk warned that Israel shouldn’t be worried about the Palestinians getting an anti-Israel resolution passed in the UN Security Council. Rather, it can expect that the US will join with the other permanent members of the UN Security Council to pass a resolution “against Israel’s will” that will “lay out the principle of a two-state solution.”

     As Indyk intimated, Israel can avoid this fate if it elects a Herzog/Livni government. Such a government, he indicated, will preemptively give in to all of the Palestinians demands and so avoid a confrontation with the US and its colleagues at the Security Council.

     Indyk explained, “If there is a government in Israel after these elections that decides to pursue a two-state solution, then there is a way forward. It begins with coordinating an initiative with the United States. And then, together with the US, looking to Egypt and Jordan and the resurrection of the Arab Peace Initiative.”

     As for Iran, Indyk shrugged at Israel’s concerns over the agreement that nObama is now seeking to conclude with the Iranian regime regarding its nuclear weapons program. That agreement will leave Iran as a threshold nuclear state. Indyk suggested that the US could assuage Israel’s concerns by signing a bilateral treaty with Israel that would commit the US to do something if Iran passes some nuclear threshold.

There are only three problems with such a deal.
 
     First, as former ambassador to the US Itamar Rabinovich noted, such a treaty would likely render Israel unable to take independent action against Iranian nuclear sites.

      Second, the US has a perfect track record of missing every major nuclear advance by every country. US intelligence agencies were taken by surprise when India, Pakistan and North Korea joined the nuclear club. They have always underestimated Iranian nuclear activities and were taken by surprise, repeatedly, by Syria’s nuclear proliferation activities. In other words, it would be insane for Israel to trust that the US would act in a timely manner to prevent Iran from crossing the nuclear threshold.

     Third of course is the demonstrated lack of US will – particularly under the nObama administration – to take any action that could prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons. So Israel has no reason whatsoever to believe that the US would honor its commitment.

     But then, since the nObama administration believes that Herzog and Livni will be compliant with its policies, the White House may expect the two will agree to forgo Israel’s right to self-defense and place Israel’s national security in relation to Iran in nObama’s hands.

And this brings us to the real contest unfolding in the lead-up to March 17.

     When Speaker of the House of Representatives backstabber John Boehner announced last month that he had invited Netanyahu to address the joint houses of Congress on the threat emanating from Iran’s nuclear program and from radical Islam, he unintentionally transformed the Israeli elections from a local affair to a contest between nObama and Netanyahu.

     nObama’s response to Netanyahu’s speech has been astounding. His ad hominem attacks against Netanyahu, his open moves to coerce Democratic lawmakers to boycott Netanyahu’s speech, and the administration’s aggressive attempts to damage Israel’s reputation in the US have been without precedent. More than anything, they expose a deep-seated fear that Netanyahu will be successful in exposing the grave danger that nObama’s policies toward Iran and toward the Islamic world in general pose to the global security.

Those fears are reasonable for two reasons.

     First due to a significant degree to the administration’s unhinged response to the news of Netanyahu’s speech, backstabber Boehner’s invitation to Netanyahu sparked a long-belated public debate in the US regarding nObama’s strategy of appeasing the Iranian regime. Generally consistent nObama supporters like The Washington Post editorial board have published stinging indictments of this policy in recent weeks.

     These analyses have noted for the first time that in pursuing Iran, nObama is alienating and weakening America’s allies, enabling Iran to expand its nuclear program, and empowering Iran regionally as the US does nothing to prevent Iran’s take of Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and Yemen.

     Second, it is possible that in his remarks about Iran and radical Islam, Netanyahu will manage to discredit nObama’s approach to both issues. This is possible because nObama’s approach is difficult to understand.

     Last week, following the decapitation of 21 Egyptian Coptic Christians by Islamic State, the nObama administration stood alone in its refusal to note that the victims were murdered because they were Christians. When Egypt retaliated for the massacre with air strikes against Islamic State training camps and other facilities in Libya, the nObama administration refused to support it ally. Instead it criticized Egypt for acting on its own and called for a political solution in Libya, which is now governed by two rival governments and has become a breeding ground for Islamic State terrorists who transit Libya to Sinai.

     Following Islamic State’s massacre of the Christians, the group’s leaders threatened to invade neighboring Italy. Italy’s Prime Minister Matteo Renzi promised a strong response, and then called on the UN Security Council to do something. The nObama administration responded with coolness to a similar Egyptian call last week.

     Hamas (which is supposedly much more moderate than Islamic State despite its intense cooperation with Libya-trained Islamic State forces in Sinai) warned Italy not to attack Islamic State in Libya, lest it be viewed in the words of Salah Bardawil as beginning “a new crusade against Arab and Muslim countries.”

     While all of this has been going on, nObama presided over his much-touted international conference on Confronting Violent Extremism. Reportedly attended by representatives from 60 countries, and featuring many leaders of Muslim Brotherhood- linked groups like the Council on American- Islamic Relations, nObama’s conference’s apparent goal was to deemphasize and deny the link between terrorism and radical Islam.

     In his remarks on Wednesday, nObama gave a lengthy defense of his refusal to acknowledge the link between Islam and Islamic State, al-Qaida and other Islamic terrorist groups. He insisted that these groups “have perverted Islam.”

     nObama indirectly argued that the West is to blame for their behavior because of its supposed historical mistreatment of Muslims. In his words, the “reality... is that there’s a strain of thought that doesn’t embrace ISIL’s tactics, doesn’t embrace violence, but does buy into the notion that the Muslim world has suffered historic grievances, sometimes that’s accurate.”

     nObama’s insistence that Islamic State and its ilk attack because of perceived Western misbehavior is completely at odds with observed reality. As The Atlantic’s Graeme Wood demonstrated this week in his in-depth report on Islamic State’s ideology and goals, Islam is central to the group. Islamic State is an apocalyptic movement rooted entirely in Islam.

     Most of the coverage of Netanyahu’s scheduled speech before Congress has centered on his opposition to the deal nObama seeks to conclude with Iran. But it may be that the second half of his speech – which will be devoted to the threat posed by radical Islam – will be no less devastating to nObama. nObama’s stubborn refusal to acknowledge the fact that the greatest looming threats to global security today, including US national security, stem from radical Islam indicates that he is unable to contend with any evidence that jihadist Islam constitutes a unique threat unlike the threat posed by Western chauvinism and racism.

     It is hard to understand either Israel’s election or nObama’s hysterical response to Netanyahu’s scheduled speech without recognizing that nObama clearly feels threatened by the message he will deliver. Surrounded by sycophantic aides and advisers, and until recently insulated from criticism by a supportive media, while free to ignore Congress due to his veto power, nObama has never had to seriously explain his policies regarding Iran and Islamic terrorists more generally. He has never endured a direct challenge to those policies.

     Today nObama believes that he is in a to-the-death struggle with Netanyahu. If Netanyahu’s speech is a success, nObama’s foreign policy will be indefensible. If nObama is able to delegitimize Netanyahu ahead of his arrival, and bring about his electoral defeat, then with a compliant Israeli government, he will face no obstacles to his plan to appease Iran and blame Islamic terrorism on the West for the remainder of his tenure in office
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 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
It's Not Easy Being Green
Tom McLaughlin
"Know who you are standing with"
"Show me your friends and I'll show you your future"
~~~lll~~~
 

 ANOTHER nOBAMACARE DELAY 
WaPo: “One of these days, employers will experience the full effects of nObamacare, but not yet. In the latest in a long string of delays in enforcing the rules under the health care overhaul, the Internal Revenue Service and Treasury Department announced on Wednesday that they will wait until summer to start enforcing financial penalties on small businesses that provide so-called Health Reimbursement Arrangements to their employees. Under HRAs, employers provide spending accounts that their workers can use to cover a portion of the cost of buying individual health plans.”  -Fox News

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 nObama Administration Fights Judge's Immigration Injunction  
The nObama administration does not recognize the lawful check on its power brought about by a Republican Congress, a federal judge in Texas and 26 states. Last week, Barack nObama's November executive amnesty was blocked with an injunction, but the administration responded by undermining the judge's order. On Friday, nObama's spokesman Josh Earnest announced the Justice Department would file for a stay. Meanwhile, the commissioner for Customs and Border Protection, Gil Kerlikowske, emailed agents, telling them to ignore the judge's order because the court "did not enjoin the Secretary's overall prioritization of DHS enforcement resources or the existing 2012 DACA policy." Meanwhile, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson insisted congressional Democrats are not blocking debate on a bill that would fund DHS, sans funds for nObama's immigration actions. "We should have the debate about immigration reform," Johnson said. "But you should not tie that to the funding for the third largest department of our government, 240,000 people." In other words, Democrats are open to debate, once nObama's orders are the de facto law of the land.  -The Patriot Post 
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 CNN: 'Right-Wing Extremists' Bigger Threat Than ISIL  
nObama administration officials will do whatever it takes to divert attention from Islamic terrorists and the threat posed by jihadis, and so too will their lemmings in the Leftmedia. Every day, the Islamic State one-ups itself with inhumane depravity, which has more Americans wondering what it will take for a proper U.S. response and how long until terrorists organize another attack here at home. The threat is real, and public opinion is clearly shifting on what to do about it. CNN is concerned about other things, though -- like "right-wing extremists." During Friday's telecast, anchor Carol Costello worried that "ISIS isn't the only threat for Americans." She elaborated, "According to an intelligence report by the Department of Homeland Security, authorities are also concerned about right-wing citizen extremists right here in the United States. That may be, in some cases, more dangerous than foreign Islamic terror groups." CNN didn't come right out and say it, but substitute "right-wing citizen extremists" with "Tea Party terrorists" and you'll understand what they were getting at. More...  -The Patriot Post 
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 800,000 Wrong nObamaCare Tax Forms Sent  
The nObamaCare rollout began with mandate waivers, a busted website and canceled plans nationwide. This year, millions of Americans face some unwelcome subsidy news when they file their taxes -- not to mention if the Supreme Court nullifies federal subsidies per the language of the law itself. And now this from the Associated Press: "About 800,000 HealthCare.gov customers got the wrong tax information from the government, the nObama administration said Friday, and officials are asking those affected to delay filing their 2014 returns." The messed up forms mean all those taxpayers must wait to file, and the 50,000 who already have filed now need to re-file. For those awaiting refunds, that's going to hurt, but for the numerous filers who are going to be blindsided by nObamaCare's taxes it's perhaps a blessing in disguise. Go figure. No wonder the nObama administration just announced a new, second enrollment period. 
  -The Patriot Post 
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 nObama Repeats Low Gas Prices Boast  
Once again, Barack mObama happily takes credit for cheaper prices at the gas pump. "As Democrats, we believe in reducing our dependence on foreign oil and protecting our planet," nObama said Friday. "Today, America is number one in oil; number one in gas; number one in wind power. Every three weeks, we bring online as much solar power as we did in the entire year of 2008. And thanks to lower gas prices and higher fuel standards, the typical family should save about 750 bucks at the pump." As we have said every time he repeats this empty boast, nObama has nothing to do with lower oil prices, unless "despite his efforts" counts. According to The Daily Caller, "The U.S. went from producing 5 million barrels per day in 2008 to nearly 7.5 million barrels per day in 2013 -- a huge increase, but one that almost exclusively took place on private and state lands. nObama has little to no control over private and state lands. He does, however, have control over federal lands where oil production has been faltering. ... From 2009 to 2013, crude oil production [on federal lands] fell from 1.8 million barrels per day to 1.7 million barrels per day, according to the Congressional Research Service." nObama knows low gas prices benefit everyone -- especially the middle class he's so fond of these days -- but if it were really up to him we'd all be driving Chevy Volts and paying $10 a gallon. More...   -The Patriot Post 
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 The U.S. and Great Britain Block Egypt’s Military Intervention in Libya  
(theconservativetreehouse.com) - It should not come as a surprise to followers of the U.S. position in Libya to discover that both the U.S. and British political apparatus are trying to block Egypt’s request to the Security Council for intervention in Libya...What comes as more of a surprise is the stark contrast between espoused public positions from both President nObama and Prime Minister Cameron about fighting “Islamic Extremism” when contrast against their less public -but far more damaging- positions about allowing the elements of ISIS to have free reign amid the Libyan geography. Are we not against the same enemy? Then why block Egypt?       http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/02/22/the-u-s-and-great-britain-block-egypts-requests-for-military-intervention-in-Libya/
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 Swedish socialist left-wing PM under fire over Saudi arms deal  
(Admin) - The Swedish government was on Friday coming under increased pressure over a military arms deal with Saudi Arabia, as three Social Democrat MPs called for Prime Minister Stefan Löfven to end the agreement...Löfven has previously stated he wants to renegotiate the deal, but three of his own MPs argued on Friday that Sweden should pull out completely. Johan Büser, Sara Karlsson and Lawen Redar wrote in a debate article in newspaper Dagens Nyheter: “It is not defensible to export weapons to a cruel regime”.      https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/swedish-socialist-left-wing-pm-under-fire-over-saudi-arms-deal/
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 Secret Phone Taps Reveal Turkish Military Aiding ISIS  
(theconservativetreehouse.com) - It has been outlined by independent journalists that Turkey has been aiding ISIS in various conflicts around Turkish border region. There was video smuggled out of Turkey which showed ISIS members meeting with Turkish Police...An American journalist, Serena Shim, who reported on the Turks aid for the Islamic Terror State, was mysteriously killed soon after outlining a very similar story. At each occurrence the official position of Turkey and Recep Erdogan is that they have NOT aided ISIS, despite the numerous and frequent accusations of the Kurds who have outlined the support.       http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2015/02/22/secret-phone-taps-reveal-turkish-military-aiding-isis-in-northern-iraq-and-syria/
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 Secret memo reveals Pollard sentence a sham  
(Aaron Klein) - With little fanfare and no news media coverage, a dramatic, potentially game-changing development in the Jonathan Pollard spy case quietly occurred three months ago...After years of failed efforts petitioning the government and the court system to gain access to the classified material used to sentence their client, Pollards’ security-cleared attorneys finally won an appeal for declassification last fall. As a result of the appeal, key sections of a 28-year-old classified document that was the central justification for Pollard’s unprecedentedly harsh sentence were declassified and released Nov. 13, 2014.       http://www.wnd.com/2015/02/exposed-secret-memo-reveals-pollard-sentence-a-sham/
 
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 Stop the Islamic Affirmative Action  
(Sean Aland) - Affirmative action gives individuals or groups special or preferential treatment, and in some cases what they have not earned. The program plays favorites and gives no incentive to succeed by adhering to the rules in place...Since 9-11 we have treated Islam with kid gloves and allowed them special treatment even when not deserved. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) was quick to coin the term Islamaphobic to silence anyone who would speak out against Islam, when they are Xenophobic, Christophobic and Ameriphobic. They point the finger, probably the middle one, at anyone holding the Islamic world accountable. I will state right up front that I have Muslim friends and served with Muslims in the military that I respect and trust because I know how much they love the US by how they served honorably. For all others unwilling to speak out against the barbaric acts of Islamic extremists, and militant Islam it is time to start or stop crying when assumed to be the problem.       http://patriotupdate.com/articles/stop-the-islamic-affirmative-action/
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 Bald-Faced Liar, Homeland Vulnerability Secretary Johnson  
(Rick Wells) - DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson, as the architect of illegal amnesty, certainly has a dog in the fight. His job is to deconstruct our national security and sovereignty...Illegal amnesty, together with lax immigration enforcement, is a key component of that effort. He’s been on the stump making the argument for a “clean” funding bill ever since the CRomnibus was passed with the February DHS funding expiration. Lying to the American people, as with most of the members of Team nObama, is just part of Johnson’s job. With Marxists the end justifies the means, and for anti-American operatives such as Johnson, breaking the law, violating the Constitution and deception are simply what he does and who he is. Just as with the government shutdown showdown of 2013, Democrats are maneuvering their way into a position in which to attempt to force Republicans to cave to their demands and endorse the criminality of the White House, violate their oaths, violate the Constitution and seriously endanger American sovereignty. Be strong Republicans for most of America are behind you. Don't weaken.       http://www.rickwells.us/bald-faced-liar-homeland-vulnerability-secretary-johnson-democrats-are-not-blocking-debate-just-stonewalling/
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 nObama’s Open Borders, Puts American Families At Risk  
(Rick Wells) - Every cognizant American outside of the nObama regime is acutely aware of the fact that if you import people from terrorist nations you are inevitably going to import terrorists as well...If you have lax and ineffective vetting of those individuals, the situation becomes much worse and the risk of attack much greater. It is the American people, not the criminally irresponsible or complicit politicians who will pay the price for their reckless actions. Even though we recognize and are vocal in opposition to what the power elites are doing to us, are calls go unanswered. The list of terrorist nations from which we draw the “must have” imported population they are flooding us with increases every year as do their numbers, with ineffective screening and vetting providing a only the flimsiest veil of rationality or security.       http://www.rickwells.us/obamas-open-borders-islamist-importation-putting-american-families-at-risk-mall-of-america-threatened/
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 Senate Republicans eye new strategy in immigration fight  
(Alexander Bolton) - Senate Republican leaders are plotting a new strategy that they hope will allow them to prevent a shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) next week...They are considering a plan in which they would split off legislation attacking President nObama’s executive action on immigration from funding for DHS, according to a Senate GOP aide familiar with the discussions. Senate GOP leaders are also looking at dropping any effort to overturn nObama’s 2012 executive action, which set up the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. Polls suggest this program is more popular because it helps illegal immigrants who came to the country as children.       http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/233393-senate-republicans-eye-new-strategy-in-immigration-fight
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 The Mysterious “Frank” Returns  
(Cliff Kincaid) - Yesterday’s news became big news on the Fox News Channel on Thursday when former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani brought up the name of President Barack nObama’s childhood mentor, Frank Marshall Davis...It was almost seven years to the day when we published our seminal piece about Davis, “nObama’s Communist Mentor.” Davis was a member of the Communist Party and a suspected Soviet espionage agent. He was included in the FBI’s security index, meaning that Davis could be arrested or detained in the event of a national emergency. The FBI file on Davis documents his anti-white and pro-Soviet views, infiltration of the Hawaii Democratic Party, and other activities. Giuliani’s public identification of Davis and discussion of his role in grooming a young Barack nObama marks the first time, in my memory, that a top Republican has ever mentioned the Davis-nObama relationship. It was done in the context of Fox News’ Megyn Kelly of questioning how Giuliani could dare ask whether nObama loves America.       http://www.aim.org/aim-column/the-mysterious-frank-returns/?utm_source=AIM+-+Daily+Email&utm_campaign=email022315&utm_medium=email
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 16 States Who Have All Launched Legislation to BAN Shariah Law  
(conservativetribune.com) - When state legislators begin talking about banning Shariah law, Islamic groups come out of the woodwork in an effort to dampen or completely stop it from happening...especially groups like the Council on Islamic-American Relations...Their primary argument is always the same — “Islamophobia.” That’s the same argument used when conservative media reports terrorist attacks from the Islamic State group and when parents get upset when their child brings home Islamic propaganda for homework assignments. Sometimes it even scares courts into favoring Islamic law over American law and that’s a serious problem. But the good news is that CAIR identified a growing list of states who’re simply not worried what groups like CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood have to say. All they’re interested in is the outright ban of Shariah law and are attempting to pass laws to do so.       http://conservativetribune.com/16-states-banning-shariah/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
It's Not Easy Being Green
Tom McLaughlin

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Portland Harbor from South Portland February 2015

     (tommclaughlin.blogspot.com) - Portland Harbor froze over for the first time in thirty-five years. That presents a dilemma for people around the southern Maine area for several reasons. Ice breakers are necessary to keep shipping lanes open. Ferries to the islands get more difficult too, but the hardest thing is explaining how this could happen when you and your fellow greenies — the dominant species around the greater Portland area — have been wailing about the dangers of global warming for decades. The polar ice cap was supposed to have disappeared by now, but locals are looking over their shoulders this winter for fear that ice cap may creep south and take over our state the way it did four times before — and melting the last time only 12,000 years ago. This month will go down at the coldest February on record. 

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     Adam Souza’s car was destroyed in Portland last weekend when huge ice chunks fell on it from a five-story building. “They told me my insurance doesn’t cover an act of nature,” he said. I have to wonder: what if the car had been submerged by rising ocean waters the greenies predicted? Would he be able to sue oil companies? Would he have been able to insist it was human-caused, and not an act of nature? Other Portland residents are reminded they have to shovel snow off sidewalks in front of their houses, but they wonder where they’re going to put it. Snowbanks are already so high they have to drive halfway onto the street to see if there are any cars coming. Body shops say there are three times more cars with collision damage compared to past winters.

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     Then there are the endless stories from other greenies in Boston where winter snows keep piling up and below normal temperatures prevent any of it from melting back. Environmental cassandras like Robert Kennedy Jr and Bill McKibben are still insisting it’s all caused by global warming. “Climate change is a time test,” claims McKibben. “If we don’t act very quickly — well, Boston is getting a taste right now of what a changed climate looks like.” He’s the leading cassandra of the global warming movement and likely will be the last to admit it’s really mass hysteria.

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     Kennedy, meanwhile, is trying to convince Harvard to divest from fossil fuels to prevent catastrophic global warming. He wants to lead “Heat Week” sit-ins for students to pressure the university. They’re going to have to shovel out some space for the students to sit, unless they want fashion Cambridge’s enormous snow banks into chairs somehow.
 
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     Greenies at the Washington Post are struggling desperately to keep their “climate change” house of cards from collapsing with a recent headline: “What the massive snowfall in Boston tells us about global warming.” They just won’t give up, insisting: “It doesn’t yet for most of us, but sooner or later we’re going to have to get past the idea that global warming and huge amounts of snow are somehow contradictory.” Contradictory? Who would ever think that? Kermit The Frog warned us all a long time ago that it’s not easy being green. These are indeed very difficult times for greenies. As Kermit sang:

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When green is all there is to be
It could make you wonder why, but why wonder?
Why Wonder, I am green and it'll do fine, it's beautiful!
And I think it's what I want to be.
 

     Penn State’s Michael Mann, author of the dubious “hockey stick graph” touted by Al Gore, still insists all this snow and cold is indeed caused by global warming: “storms will be feeding off these very warm seas, producing very large amounts of snow as spiraling winds of the storm squeeze that moisture out of the air, cool, it, and deposit it as snow inland.” Warm seas? They don’t appear warm to me when I look out over the ice in Portland Harbor.

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Portland from Bug Light Park last week

     Scott Peck, a psychiatrist who had some best-selling books back in the 1980s, described the greenie dilemma well: “Our view of reality is like a map with which to negotiate the terrain of life.” He said we construct one in adolescence and try to use it without modification throughout life. It’s tough to admit we’ve been wrong even in the face of overwhelming evidence. “Life is difficult,” he said. To even consider we may be wrong about the way we understand things is hard enough. Admitting it to ourselves and others is even harder. Constructing a new life map is the hardest of all, so most of us never undertake the effort
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Portland Head Light last week

     It’s especially hard for the head greenies like President nObama and Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry, who keep insisting that global warming is more dangerous to us than Islamic terrorism, I mean “extremist violence.”

http://tommclaughlin.blogspot.com/2015/02/its-not-easy-being-green.html

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Tuesday Morning - The Front Page Cover

 The Front Page Cover 
"I pray that the eyes of your heart may be enlightened"
 
Featuring:
Judge Napolitano:
The nObama Amnesty Plan Is Dead 
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"Rise up together as one voice"
"Be careful where you stand"
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 But don’t tell ISIS, okay? -   Fox News: “A U.S. military official on Thursday outlined plans to retake the key Iraq city of Mosul from Islamic State terrorists as early as April…A senior U.S. Central Command official said that the ‘shaping’ for the battle is currently underway. The Iraqi military hopes to begin operations in the ‘April, May timeframe’ and retake the city before Ramadan begins on June 17.”  -Fox News 
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 KASICH MAKES AGGRESSIVE CASE FOR COMMON CORE 
While Ohio Governor John Kasich’s, push for a balanced budget amendment is reaping “amens” from conservatives,  his support for Common Core is evoking concern about the potential 2016 GOP contender. Bucyrus (Ohio) Telegraph-Forum: “Kasich called opposition to Common Core ‘a runaway Internet campaign,’ reaffirming his support for the educational standards on a trip to South Carolina, as Ohio students began taking tests based on them this week…. [A]sked: ‘Why are candidates like you and Jeb Bush running away from the Common Core, your past support of the Common Core standards?’ [Kasich responded:] ‘That is not something that Barack nObama is putting together. ... It’s local school boards developing local curriculum to meet higher standards. I cannot figure out what's wrong with that. ...’To a large degree, it's a runaway Internet campaign, as far as I'm concerned in Ohio.’”
          [A recent NBC News poll found that 46 percent of South Carolina Republicans said they would find a candidate who supported Common Core standards to be “unacceptable.”] 
-Fox News 
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 Bolton to New Hampshire -   Former UN Ambassador John Bolton is the featured speaker at today’s installment of “Politics & Eggs” in New Hampshire. He is also launching the Foundation for American Security and Freedom [FASF], a nonprofit organization that aims to restore and protect America’s vital national security interests and preserve America’s way of life. 
  -Fox News 
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 BALDWIN LAWYERS UP OVER VETS SCANDAL 
Green Bay Press Gazette: “Sen. Tammy Baldwin has hired a powerful Washington lawyer to represent her as she continues to grapple with the fallout from her office’s handling of the Tomah Veterans Affairs crisis. Attorney Marc Elias offered the first public acknowledgment on behalf of Baldwin that she fired top Wisconsin aide Marquette Baylor for her actions after the senator received a critical inspection report about opiate prescription practices at the Tomah VA Medical Center. Baldwin did not act on the report for four months, despite repeated pleas from a whistleblower, who urged Baylor to do something about the report last fall. … Elias did not provide a copy of the agreement or disclose what the accompanying cash payout would have been. His statement was initially reported by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel.”   -Fox News 
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 Schock flights may violate House rules -   USA Today: “Rep. Aaron Schock, R-Ill., has repeatedly spent taxpayer and campaign funds to rent aircraft that are not certified charter services, despite House rules and federal law that generally prohibit the use of private aircraft for official and campaign use. House rules have some exemptions, such as an Ethics Committee waiver that allows a lawmaker to use a private plane. Neither Schock nor his representatives, however, replied to repeated e-mails and calls about whether he obtained permission for the flights.”  -Fox News 
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 Amnesty: Docs Expose nObama’s Secret Response to Judge’s Ruling  
(conservativetribune.com) - A federal judge has ordered a halt to President Barack nObama’s amnesty program — but instead of respecting that decision, it appears that the administration is purposely ignoring the ruling...Just days ago, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen signed an injunction intended to stop the government from enacting nObama’s amnesty. True to form, the administration is moving forward anyway. “The administration appears to have no intention of slowing down while the Justice Department drafts an appeal,” stated the independent organization Judicial Watch. Instead, there is strong evidence that nObama is pushing forward. A government document indicates that the administration is trying to contract companies to provide services for incoming aliens and give them the same privileges as legal citizens. There is no doubt or question, he needs to be impeached.       http://conservativetribune.com/obama-secret-response-amnesty/?utm_source=feedblitz&utm_medium=FeedBlitzEmail&utm_content=936184&utm_campaign=0
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 Faked hate: Muslim arrested for threatening mosque in Austin, Texas  
(pamelageller.com) - The coverage a few days ago was all victimhood. A February 17 story quoted a local Muslim saying: “Muslims, we are not discouraged in our worship of God if anything it draws us closer to God.”...But now it has been revealed that the person making the threats was a Muslim, Azzam Ahmed Baytie. We often find that these threats and acts of vandalism are done by Muslims in order to give proof to the islamophobia lie. The charge of “islamophobia” is a device designed to crush any criticism of Islam. It is the knee-jerk response to jihad carnage — victimizing the victim. And the media gives such credence to the  Muslim victimhood myth, it encourages these lies and acts of sabotage within the Muslim community. These bogus news stories get front page treatment but when it comes out that it was perpetrated by a Muslim – that runs in the back of the book, if it runs at all.       http://pamelageller.com/2015/02/more-faked-hate-muslim-arrested-for-threatening-mosque-in-austin-texas.html/
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 Hanoi John Kerry On Wrongheadedness  
(Rick Wells) - The third day of the “Islamic Image Reformation Summit,” falsely advertised as an effort to combat violent extremism, brought one of the most bizarre, irony-riddled and nonsensical speeches of recent memory...Secretary of State Hanoi John Kerry is one of the chief practitioners of our supposed war on terror that is largely devoid of strategy or any meaningful action. Under his regime’s “leadership,” we’re anemically targeting a generic terrorist group, the Islamic State, that Hanoi Kerry and company say only thinks they’re Islamic, whose ideology they refuse to recognize. Against that backdrop of ineptitude, Hanoi Kerry ludicrously urges the attendees to approach the problem from a position of humility.       http://www.rickwells.us/ironic-john-kerry-on-wrongheadedness-we-need-to-approach-terrorism-with-humility-aka-cowardice-and-open-wallets/
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 Americans Are Looking For A Strong Commander In Chief  
(Judge Jeanine) - Critics abound in the wake of the three day group Band-Aid application that was held in Washington, DC, in an effort to shore up the tattered image of Islam, a result of the actions of their terrorist wing...Not many people are buying the “violent extremism” nomenclature, and most could see through the obvious deception. We recognize what was clearly an inappropriate, fabricated event in which nObama delivered his customary lectures and America bashing for what it was, a pro-Islamic, anti-West, anti-American theatrical presentation.       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFkUDbEOU-E
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 Mobster DHS Secretary Jeh Johnson Violation Judge’s Order  
(Rick Wells) - When you are above the Constitution and the separation of powers, and working for the nation’s de facto dictator, does it really matter when some “insignificant federal judge” tells you not to do something, forbids you from doing it? Apparently it does not...The scofflaw who runs the now erroneously named Department of Homeland Security, Jeh Johnson, was caught red-handed by Judicial Watch violating and ordering others to violate the injunction issued by Texas Federal District Judge Andrew Hanen to cease all activities involved in the implementation of the illegal amnesty dictate.       http://www.rickwells.us/above-the-law-mobster-dhs-secretary-jeh-johnson-rushed-through-amnesty-bid-solicitation-violation-judges-order/
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 ISIS 'special forces' video reveals ludicrous training  
(Simon Tomlinson ) - It was no doubt intended to strike fear into the hearts of their enemies, but the Islamic State's latest video appears far more playground than battleground...ISIS today released footage from its training camps, showing recruits disguised as bushes and performing clumsy roly-polies in scenes that could come straight from hit satirical film Four Lions. The video bears all the hallmarks of the slickly edited propaganda material regularly pumped out by the terror group's media arm to dramatic effect. From this evidence, however, their next generation of 'special forces' are far from being a well-oiled machine.       http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2959969/Rolling-floor-dressing-bush-smashing-tiles-heads-ISIS-special-forces-video-reveals-ludicrous-training.html?utm_content=buffer8ba94&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook.com&utm_campaign
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 Terror group names Mall of America as its next target  
(FoxNews.com) - A new video from Al Shabaab purportedly shows the terror group calling for an attack on Mall of America, in Bloomington, Minn...According to Fox 9, the mall is one of three similar targets the terror group specifically names, including West Edmonton Mall in Canada and the Oxford Street shopping area in London. The video purportedly shows 6 minutes of graphic images and the terrorists celebrating the 2013 Westgate Mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya, that killed more than 60 people.       http://www.foxnews.com/world/2015/02/22/al-shabaab-reportedly-calls-for-attack-on-mall-america-in-new-video/
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 Pro-Isis Turkey move 600 troops into Syria to ‘guard Ottoman tomb’  
(Admin) - Hm, really? Is it about the tomb or about positioning themselves to collaborate with Qatar and Saudi Arabia to attack and remove Assad? One of the last kafir obstacle to a caliphate must be removed before they can all proceed to Israel...We wouldn’t trust Turkey with a six-year old virgin. The 38 men had been guarding the tomb of Suleyman Shah, grandfather of the Ottoman Empire’s founder, inside a Turkish enclave in Syria’s war-shattered province of Aleppo. Reports had been swirling that soldiers were trapped at the mausoleum, and that the tomb had been caught in crossfire between Isil militants and the Kurdish forces who are trying to halt their advance across Syria and Iraq.       https://themuslimissue.wordpress.com/2015/02/22/pro-isis-turkey-move-600-troops-into-syria-to-guard-ottoman-tomb/
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 nObama kept reform Muslims out of summit on extremism  
(Charles Hoskinson) - The White House excluded members of a prominent group of reformist Muslims from its terror summit this week, apparently because President nObama rejects their argument that such groups as Islamic State of Iraq and Syria are actually motivated by Islam...A group of 23 prominent Muslim reformers signed a full-page ad in the Sunday New York Times on Jan. 11 asking "What can Muslims do to reclaim their 'beautiful religion'?" But nObama and officials throughout his administration deny any connection between Islam and the terrorists beheading and burning their victims in a reign of terror in the Middle East.       http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/obama-kept-reform-muslims-out-of-summit-on-extremism/article/2560525
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 nObama Pushes For GOP Capitulation In DHS Dispute  
(Neil Munro) - President Barack nObama’s spokesman is rejecting any compromise over the 2015 budget for the Department of Homeland Security, which is now being filibustered by pro-amnesty Democrat senators...even though a new poll shows that 60 percent of Americans want the amnesty and budget problems separated. “The President believes that the Congress, particularly Republicans in Congress who now have the majority in both the House and the Senate, should fulfill their responsibility to ensure that the Department of Homeland Security doesn’t shut down at the end of this month,” spokesman Josh Earnest said Feb. 20. Senate Democrats are filibustering the House’s DHS 2015 budget until the Senate GOP majority removes House-drafted language that bars nObama from spending money to implement his Nov. 20 Oval Office amnesty.     http://dailycaller.com/2015/02/21/obama-pushes-for-gop-capitulation-in-dhs-dispute/#sthash.gVz7I6lJ.dpuf
Judge Napolitano:
The nObama Amnesty Plan Is Dead 
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     (nicedeb( - Megyn Kelly  interviewed Fox News Legal Analyst Judge Napolitano and  Senator Ted Cruz, Tuesday night, asking for their reactions to the federal judge’s injunction blocking the president’s executive order on immigration, which was set to start distributing work permits millions of illegal immigrants Tuesday. Napolitano called the court’s decision “devastating,” adding that “the nObama amnesty plan is dead.”

     Napolitano explained that the conservative Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals would likely not interfere with the Judge Hanen’s decision.

He went on to say that the Supreme Court will probably not take up the case.

     “This is devastating for the administration,” Napolitano said. “This is a preliminary injunction which means the court viewed the court’s documents and challenger’s documents…and he made two conclusions. 1) At the end of the case, the challengers will probably prevail, meaning the president probably overstepped his bounds and he has ordered the Department of Homeland Security to create new law.

     “And 2) if he does not impose the temporary restraints that he imposed last night, actually, irreparable harm will be visited upon the 26 states,” he continued.

     “In my opinion, the nObama amnesty plan is dead. Absolutely dead. I don’t think the appeals court will interfere with this decision, And I think it will take this trial judge for the duration of President nObama’s term to rule on this with finality.”

Cruz  told Kelly that the judge’s decision is “a major victory for the rule of law.”

Via Fox News Insider:

Cruz also slammed Democrats for filibustering the Department of Homeland Security spending bill because it would not fund nObama’s executive action plan. Cruz called it “reckless and irresponsible” to filibuster at a time when Congress needs to fund the DHS due to growing threats at home and abroad.

“They’re holding national security hostage in order to defend the president’s illegal amnesty,” he said of Democrats.

Cruz also weighed in on nObama’s remarks today that the law is on the side of his executive action plan.

“He says the law is on his side – there’s at least one person who calls himself a legal scholar who disagrees, and his name is Barack nObama,” Cruz said. “Twenty-two times President nObama has admitted he doesn’t have the authority to issue unilateral amnesty.”

Through nObama’s executive action plan, Cruz said that the administration is basically counterfeiting immigration documents.

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