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 Conservatives Can Win or Whine, but Not Both
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Robin Smith   
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The Gaffable loose lips liar-Joe Biden
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by R. EMMETT TYRRELL, JR.
spectator.org } ~ Recently in Hanover, New Hampshire, former Vice President loose lips liar-Joe Biden — the gaffable loose lips liar-Joe Biden — stitched together a stupendous concatenation of gaffes that ought to put him out of the race for the Democratic nomination... But apparently it will not. This is good news for those of us who like a good laugh or a whole string of good laughs. If loose lips liar-Joe makes it to the Democratic nomination after surpassing socialist-Beto, dinky-Pocahontas, Crazy commie-Bernie, and all the others, the 2020 election will be the most entertaining in American history, and then President Donald Trump can get back to ministering to the economy, the courts, and affairs of state. Yet, first savor loose lips liar-Joe’s Hanover masterpiece. It apparently will be the first of many. The mainstream media is urging him on. In Hanover loose lips liar-Biden said that at the request of a four-star general he, when he was vice president, had traveled to Kunar, a dangerous province in Afghanistan, to pin a medal on the chest of a heroic Navy captain. The Navy captain, loose lips liar-Biden recalled, had rappelled down a ravine under enemy fire and brought out the body of an American serviceman. The general wanted the vice president to fly to the dangerous province and pin a Silver Star on the captain, despite the captain’s complaint that he was unworthy of the award. loose lips liar-Biden even summoned up the hero’s words from memory’s well: “Sir, I don’t want the damn thing…. He the captain’s fallen comrade died. He died.” And loose lips liar-Biden added to the agog New Hampshire audience, “This is the God’s truth.” According to the Washington Post, he even swore, “My word as a loose lips liar-Biden.” It was apparently a very emotional moment. The problem is that, as the Washington Post found out, practically every detail in loose lips liar-Biden’s histrionic rendition of the event was wrong. loose lips liar-Biden visited Kunar province as a U.S. senator, not as vice president. The soldier who performed the act of heroism was a 20-year-old Army specialist, not a captain in the Navy. Finally, the soldier, Kyle J. White, never had a medal pinned on him by loose lips liar-Biden. He got his award six years later from President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, and, oh yes, it was a Congressional Medal of Honor, not a Silver Star. Congratulations, Kyle, but remember you only have earned one more Congressional Medal of Honor than loose lips liar-Joe. As the Post reports, “In the space of three minutes, loose lips liar-Biden got the time period, the location, the heroic act, the type of medal, the military branch and the rank of the recipient wrong, as well as his own role in the ceremony.” As I have mentioned above, this gaffe is truly stupendous. It goes even beyond Senator Elizabeth dinky-Warren’s repeated tales of being an American Indian or of any of the other phonies seeking the Democratic nomination. It is a world record, if world records for such BS are kept. And now we are told the press is encouraging further theatrics from him... loose lips liar should quit while he's ahead.  https://spectator.org/the-gaffable-joe-biden/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=2e7a083b21-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_04_02_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-2e7a083b21-104608113    
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Criminologists Mislead Us
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by Walter E. Williams
dailysignal.com } ~ John Paul Wright, professor at University of Cincinnati, and Matthew DeLisi, professor at Iowa State University, have penned a powerful article titled “What Criminologists Don’t Say, and Why,” in City Journal, Summer 2017. There is significant bias among criminologists... The reason for that bias is that political leanings of academic criminologists are liberal. Liberal criminologists outnumber their conservative counterparts by a ratio of 30-to-1. Ideology almost perfectly predicts the position of criminologists on issues from gun control to capital punishment to harsh sentencing. Liberal criminologists march in step for gun control, oppose punitive prison sentences, and are vehemently against the death penalty. In 2012, the National Academy of Sciences commissioned a study on the growth of incarceration. It showed that from 1928 until 1960, crime rates rose slowly each year. After the 1960s, crime rates exploded to unprecedented levels of violence until the 1990s. Prior to 1980, only 40% of individuals arrested for murder were sentenced to prison and those that were served an average of five years. In 1981, less than 10% of those arrested for sexual assault were sentenced to prison. Those who were sentenced served an average of 3.4 years. Liberal criminologists probably believe that light sentencing for murderers and rapists is just. If criminologists have the guts to even talk about a race-crime connection, it’s behind closed doors and in guarded language. Any discussion about race and crime sets one up for accusations of racism and that can mean the destruction of one’s professional career. Wright and DeLisi say that liberal criminologists avoid discussing even explicit racist examples of black-on-white crime such as flash-mob assaults, “polar bear hunting,” and the “knockout game.” These are cases where black youth seek out white people to physically attack...
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Red Flag Laws Are Lethal Leftist Weapons
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by MARK SMITH
spectator.org } ~ A real gun fight is underway in America today, and it doesn’t target criminals or gang members who possess guns. It’s a fight waged against law-abiding citizens... and their right to own and use firearms of their choice for self-defense or other lawful purposes. Red flag laws are a classic example of how the anti-gun lobby wants to choke off the Second Amendment rights of law-abiding citizens. These laws slowly erode our rights by creating a judicial mechanism that allows law enforcement to come to a gun owner’s home and seize lawfully owned firearms, based on mere accusations about the gun owner’s mental health or his potential dangerous future behavior. It’s fairly obvious that violent convicted felons and people who are seriously mentally ill with violent tendencies should never have firearms. Yet people like this are turned loose by prisons and jails every day to wreak havoc on our streets, with or without guns. In spite of this reality, “progressives” want the law-abiding citizens disarmed. They want ordinary Americans to depend on government to protect our lives — that’s the same government that can’t keep Jeffrey Epstein alive while locked up in a 10-by-10-foot cell. Red flag laws attack the liberties of American gun owners, one person at a time. Not a fan of your firearm-owning ex-spouse, sister-in-law, or neighbor? All you need do is fabricate an accusation that she is a danger to herself or others. All it will take is one person who holds a grudge and is willing to make a phone call articulating a credible story. Red flag laws empower agenda-driven psychologists, police, politicians, and attorneys to move quickly against gun owners with court orders to seize firearms with virtually no due process for those accused. If such laws keep getting passed, gun confiscation could happen to anyone. Red flag laws place law-abiding gun owners at the mercy of social justice “do-gooders” and timid judges who will rubber-stamp confiscation orders simply because an accuser’s allegations meet the “straight face” test. Don’t kid yourself with rhetoric about and delusions of “due process.” All the presumptions built into the court system will weigh against a gun owner in favor of confiscation. Many proposed red flag laws view having an interest in firearms or having recently purchased firearms as a risk factor in favor of taking away firearms...  https://spectator.org/red-flag-laws-are-lethal-leftist-weapons/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=2e7a083b21-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_04_02_02&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-2e7a083b21-104608113  
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Human Smuggler Seen Doing SICK Act: 
Border Patrol Saves Kids
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by Dean Garrison
lidblog.com } ~ The border patrol gets very little appreciation for the job they do, even when they save kids’ lives, which happens often... While they get clobbered by liberals for any perceived mistakes they make, the good never gets reported by the liberal-controlled media. Here’s the latest example of heroic border patrol agents from our friends at Next News Network: Once again, Border Patrol Agents save the day and do it without thanks or glory. So I will say it. Thank You! The media and radical Democrats seem to attack our Border Patrol agents every chance they get. What they don’t show you are the incredible feats of good they do to save lives. A new surveillance video of the US-Mexican border revealed the harrowing moment US Border Patrol Agents saved 2 illegal immigrants from drowning. The video captured this last Saturday shows a human trafficker trying to sneak the illegal immigrants around the border wall by water. When he notices the border patrol is coming, he throws them both into the river and speeds away. Luckily for the two illegal immigrants, Border Patrol agents showed up and quickly pulled them out of the water...  https://lidblog.com/border-patrol-saves-kids/  
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Leader of Hong Kong withdraws 
extradition bill that sparked mass protests
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by Zachary Halaschak
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ The leader of Hong Kong announced that she is withdrawing an extradition bill that has sparked mass protests across the area... Leader Carrie Lam, 62, made the announcement Wednesday. A full withdrawal from the bill, which would have allowed people in Hong Kong to be extradited to mainland China, was one of the main demands that demonstrators had. She had previously suspended the bill in July, although protests continued in the streets. Lam said in a public announcement Wednesday that although the government had responded to protesters’ demands, it “may not be able to address all the grievances of people in society.” She spoke about putting dialogue before violence. “The government will formally withdraw the bill in order to fully allay public concerns. The Secretary for Security will move a motion according to the Rules of Procedure when the Legislative Council resumes,” Lam said, according to CNBC. “Our foremost priority now is to end violence, to safeguard the rule of law and to restore order and safety in society. As such, the government has to strictly enforce the law against all violent and illegal acts,” she added. In addition to withdrawing the bill, Lam said there would be “direct dialogue” with people in the special administrative region and the appointment of two new members to the Independent Police Complaints Commission. Stocks in Hong Kong rallied upon the news, with the Hang Seng index gaining more than 4% value.
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Conservatives Can Win or Whine, but Not Both
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Robin Smith:  During his presidential run, Donald Trump promised that America would soon be back to winning — in stark contrast to bowing to the interests of other nations in trade, tax policy, military engagements, and diplomacy. Trump declared in May 2016, “We are gonna win, win, win. … We’re going to win at everything. And some of you are friends and you’re going to call, and you’re going to say, ‘Mr. President, please, we can’t take it anymore. We can’t win anymore like this, Mr. President. You’re driving us crazy. You’re winning too much.’ … And I’m going to say, ‘I’m sorry, we’re going to keep winning because we are going to make America great again.’”

Well, America is winning again. One of the ways is with jobs. In particular, unemployment for blacks is down to 6.2%, narrowing the gap between Caucasian unemployment from 4.6 percentage points down to 2.9. There are one million more blacks in the workforce and two million more Hispanics than during the Barack scumbag/liar-nObama years. Wage growth is up to a 2.8% annual increase versus the 1.9% of what the media touted as scumbag/liar-nObama’s big economy.

The 2020 election cycle will be one of the most expensive if not the most expensive in American history. With the incumbent president making policy changes that have inarguably improved the economy for Americans, the edge nationally goes to the GOP. However, the ire of those who absolutely despise President Trump (and any who cheer his policies) serves as an artisan well of endless fury that intensifies the commitment of the Democrats.

Winning aside, there’s also whining to contend with. The recent response by a Republican group to a very predictable action of a university leftist faculty expressing such anger offers a moment for all to be a bit reflective on how best to move through the election cycle ahead.

The vice chancellor for student affairs at North Carolina State University recently resigned his post (though he “remains on faculty”) following his social-media posts comparing the College Republicans on campus to the KKK while declaring them to be “neo-Nazis” and “alt-right crazies.” His Twitter account has been replaced by a private account with no trace of his Democrat-approved labels that reveal he too suffers the contagion of Trump Derangement Syndrome that is at epidemic proportions on the Left these days.

His social-media feed didn’t just recently have such posts. Back in November 2018, this same NC State faculty referenced three visitors to campus as “rednecks.” I suppose someone forgot to tell this guy he happens to be vice chancellor to allstudents, not just the disgruntled and downtrodden who virtue signal their moral greatness in tolerance while, interestingly, are grossly intolerant of all who disagree with them.

This academic administrator personified, in his own words, the fact that Democrats instantly label all who disagree with them as racists, bigots, homophobes, xenophobes, and misogynists. They demand uniformity and an apology to come with a safe space to follow. Give the former vice chancellor credit where credit’s due. At least he didn’t hide behind the ultimate demonstration of cowardice by posting on an anonymous Twitter account that hurls insults and criticisms behind the Twitter-is-for-Trolls notion.

The letter issued by the board of the NC State College Republicans serves to inform us all.

It’s reasonable to expect a faculty charged with the duty to lead all students to do just that — lead all students. Clearly, the man has a consistent record of showing his disdain for many walking on the campus entrusted by parents to provide an environment of higher learning based on their political leanings. If his job was chairman of the College Democrats or of the NC State Socialists, his words would be in context. But his public posts provide a couple of snapshots into his undeniable bias.

While his resignation is best, the College Republicans don’t need to mirror the same whining approach taken by their political rivals. Specifically, deeming criticisms as “unsafe” is a bit much when the CRs noted correctly that the administrator’s “comments have affixed Republican students to society’s most egregious and reprehensible groups.” Had their composition ended there, accuracy would have been achieved. But moving to the narrative more characteristic of the entitled was not ideal.

Even more so, adding that the former chancellor used “hurtful rhetoric” and that, “Since 1951, College Republicans at NC State have advocated strongly for respectful dialogue and inclusiveness in the political process.” Um, no!

Mark Bauerlein, professor of English at Emory University, rightly wrote, “Progressives love to call for more dialogue, which usually means, ‘Let’s talk until you agree with me,’ and their inclusiveness is really a form of coercion.” On the Center-Right, parroting the same social-justice script seems to validate an emotion-laden mindset that negates the intellect.

Whether in the 2020 election cycle or in any discussion of issues, Americans need to see that some whine in hopes to appeal to voters’ emotions while others offer a reasoned and principled basis to lead our nation to more winning.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65206?mailing_id=4507&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4507&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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 Hollywood Leftists Blacklist Conservatives
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Harold Hutchison   
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Investigation: Anti- ICE “Never Again Action” 
Not The Spontaneous Grassroots 
Group It Claims To Be
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by Samantha Mandeles
legalinsurrection.com } ~ Over the past several months, Never Again Action (NAA), a purportedly spontaneous grassroots Jewish group, has burst into the public eye by staging and videotaping protests at Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and other government facilities across the country... But, as a joint investigation by the Legal Insurrection Foundation and the Washington Free Beacon has revealed, NAA is not what it purports to be. NAA is a repackaging of the same activists who organize with far-left, anti-Israel groups such as IfNotNow (INN),  American Muslims for Palestine (AMP), Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP), and CodePink. There is every reason to believe that these obsessive anti-Israel activists have a hidden agenda: to insert themselves at the forefront of the immigration issue to hijack the movement and turn it against Israel, as has been done repeatedly since the Ferguson riots in 2014. NAA is not just astroturf, it’s a deception. Launched in late June 2019, Never Again Action claims to be a large grassroots network that spontaneously arose in response to perceived parallels between the humanitarian crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border and the Nazi Holocaust against the Jewish people. Indeed, the phrase “Never Again” has its origin and most common usage in preventing another Holocaust. That analogy is a core tenet of Never Again Action’s philosophy; the group’s focus on the Holocaust seems to have been at least partially inspired by Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s June 18, 2019 tweet and video  comparing U.S.-Mexico border detention centers concentration camps. But in the wake of the controversy, a group of Jews calling themselves Never Again Action emerged—standing in support of commie-Ocasio-Cortez and proclaiming their Jewish-values-inspired outrage at the border “concentration camps.”...
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San Francisco Declares NRA a 
'Domestic Terrorist Organization'
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By Susan Jones 
cnsnews.com } ~ San Francisco, the "sanctuary city" for illegal aliens -- now crowded with homeless people camping and defecating on sidewalks -- has just declared the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization."... The resolution, which the Board of Supervisors passed unanimously Tuesday, urges the rest of the country to "do the same." The resolution accuses the NRA of mustering "its considerable wealth and organizational strength to promote gun ownership and incite gun owners to acts of violence." It accuses the NRA of spreading "propaganda" aimed at deceiving the public about the "dangers of gun violence"; it says NRA leaders promote "extremist positions, in defiance of the views of a majority of its membership and the public, and undermine the general welfare"; and it says NRA "advocacy" has armed terrorists. "All countries have violent and hateful people, but only in America do we give them ready access to assault weapons and large-capacity magazines thanks, in large part, to the National Rifle Association’s influence," the resolution says. The National Rifle Association's lobbying arm says it is "committed to preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." The NRA promotes training, safety and education for law-abiding gun owners, and far from inciting acts of violence, it strongly condemns such acts... SFan Board of Supervisors are going nuts and are stupid to think NRA is a terrorist organization. 
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Our Real Identity Politics 
Is Governed By Almighty God
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By E. Jeffrey Ludwig
americanthinker.com } ~  The Left in American life today, with its emphasis on socialist and communist values, is essentially denying the validity of Judeo-Christian values which have been defended successfully for centuries by blood, sweat, and tears... The Left emphasizes needs rather than rights, equality over liberty, state ownership over private property, a woman’s right to choose death over life, gender fluidity over the eternal reality of a two gender system based on creation of both men and women in the image of God (Genesis 1:27), and world government over national identities. To the Left, the moral values held dear for 3500 years and central in Western consciousness are, at the very least, in need of being modified and updated.  For many of these bitter actors wearing masks of outrage at the mention of just about every traditional view, Judeo-Christian morality should be overturned altogether. Talk to those on the Left. Look at their humorless pomposity for what it is. Listen to commie-Bernie Sanders’ half-talk, half-bark presentations. Or listen to the well-groomed lowlife-Kamala Harris who has a serious expression on her face, yet the words have no gravitas. Has she been prosecuting criminals in California for years? She says nothing that suggests any serious commitment or wisdom gleaned. If there is one word for the Leftocrat candidates, I think it should be: "vacuous." How else could it be if one supports issues that reject in a fundamental way Judeo-Christian moral values? Look at the scowling expressions, and presentations of endless speech trial balloons instead of logical, detailed programs for societal growth and betterment. They sound like pages out of the writings of the philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, who told us in his classic work Thus Spake Zarathustra and other writings that God is dead, and that we are moving into a transvaluation of values where what we hitherto considered good would be evil, and evil good. According to delirious Friedrich, we are evolving towards a new type of human -- the Ubermensch -- who will express this new anti-morality morality, this reversal of priorities.  Humans will be in relation to the Ubermensch as the animal kingdom now is to the human. One of my colleagues said to me ten years ago that “It’s time for a more Nietzschean outlook.” Perhaps he considered himself to be one of the Ubermenschen who was just ahead of his time? Who knows? Nietzsche went into a catatonic state for the last 10 years of his life, marked by occasional outbursts. Some researchers have said that he had an advanced case of syphilitic paresis, while a more recent author points to schizophrenia...  https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2019/09/our_real_identity_politics_is_governed_by_almighty_god.html   
Federal Judge Orders White House 
To Restore Brian Karem's Hard Pass
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by Beth Baumann
townhall.com } ~ A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump Administration to restore the press pass of Brian Karem, Playboy's Senior White House reporter... "Karem has shown that even the temporary suspension of his pass inflicts irreparable harm on his First Amendment rights," U.S. District Court Judge Rudolph Contreras wrote. The decision to revoke Karem's hard pass began at the beginning of August when Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham informed the Playboy reporter that a "preliminary decision" had been made in regards to his press access. The decision came after Karem got into a verbal altercation with Sebastian Gorka in the Rose Garden. At the time, Karem was upset because President Donald Trump wasn't taking questions during a presser following his social media summit. He made a remark about those people being “prone to demonic possession.” That's when Gorka became upset. In case you need a refresher, here's a video from the altercation:  https://townhall.com/tipsheet/bethbaumann/2019/09/03/federal-judge-orders-white-house-to-restore-brian-karems-hard-pass-n2552564  
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Green Tyranny and the Tragedy 
of the Eco-Commons
By John Klar
americanthinker.com } ~ "The tragedy of the commons" is a phrase that describes the societal loss of resources through individual selfishness... In agrarian cultures, sheep, cows or other animals were often maintained in a "commons" where individual farm families would use large shared areas to pasture animals collectively. This worked well, unless an individual farmer exceeded the carrying capacity of the common to increase his personal wealth -- and if all the farmers did that, the common would be destroyed. This model is useful to examine modern environmental policy efforts, where the tragedy of the commons is seen in our oceans, air, soil -- and global warming. An intriguing parallel to this "common" land or water concept is the "House of Commons" in democracy: the legislative body where individuals collect to craft societal rules. This is where the modern world seeks to prevent individuals from destroying the whole: this is where humanity is most abjectly failing. A legislative body, too, must not be despoiled, overtaxed or squandered. Around our nation, Americans are concluding that individuals have crept into their governing commons, like sheep thieves, to appropriate "common" resources for individual or interest-group enrichment. And nowhere is this more evident than the so-called carbon tax. Neither state nor federal government has a track record of protecting Americans from carcinogenic chemicals, yet now many strive to employ these entities to regulate the much more ambitious and ubiquitous substance known as "carbon." In the name of saving the planet, and with no interest in the mathematical restraints of money supply or economics, these self-proclaimed warriors are marching on America's commons legislative bodies to appropriate their own personal harvest at the expense of others. This is easily illustrated in Vermont, where the progressive experimentation has been unstaunched because of a supermajority in both houses of state government. As they rush to fix the carbon balance, one is reminded of Thomas Sowell's "The Quest For Cosmic Justice" -- with each effort, inequities are created which reveal the folly of seeking government-imposed solutions instead of civil calls for collective personal responsibility...
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Hollywood Leftists Blacklist Conservatives
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Harold Hutchison:  If you want a look at just how bad the situation has become regarding freedom of speech, just look at the former stars of the NBC show “Will and Grace,” Eric McCormack and Debra Messing. Over the holiday weekend, both urged the prepublication of attendees to a Donald Trump fundraiser.

Why would they want that? Well, McCormack made it clear it wasn’t to praise these folks for involvement in the process of governing our country by supporting a political candidate they felt would represent them. This is something that has, until recently, been accepted as the right of every single American. McCormack made it clear that the intention of his request was “so the rest of us can be clear about who we don’t wanna work with.”

To put it bluntly, McCormack wanted to know who supported a politician he opposed so that he could use his power and influence to ruin their professional lives at the very least. This is nothing short of a revival of the tactics of Joseph McCarthy. The big difference between McCarthy and the McCormack/Messing combination is the target selection.

Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis stated recently that America’s tribalism is what worries him most. Well, we’re seeing the symptoms, and while Messing and McCormack are two of the more prominent, we have noted this pattern before — both private efforts and efforts by the state of New York under the scumbag-Andrew Cuomo-Letitia James regime.

To compound the problem of tribalism is the fact that there is a clear double standard being applied. If you back the NRA, you are painted as a child-killing domestic terrorist who believes in white supremacy. Efforts to ruin your life through blacklisting are practically celebrated by the Leftmedia. But suppose a Second Amendment supporter in office tried to utilize the same tactics that Cuomo is using on the NRA. We’d never hear the end of how America faces a grave threat to “democracy.”

We noted the same double standards in effect with some recent actions by Rep. Joaquin Castro last week. Doxing Trump supporters? It was practically a non-event that got little, if any, mention — much less condemnation — from mainstream media outlets. This was an action by a sitting congressman, someone who wields no small amount of influence in DC, including with regulatory agencies.

Similarly, when Federal Election Commission chairwoman Ellen Weintraub slammed President Trump for making claims about voter fraud in New Hampshire, we couldn’t help but notice her silence regarding Stacey Abrams’s 10 months of unsubstantiated claims of vote suppression in Georgia. By the way, Weintraub applied her double standard while being responsible for the enforcement of campaign-finance laws.

This also comes as scumbag-James Comey again skates despite another damning report on his behavior from the Justice Department’s inspector general. This is in addition to the other issues that emerged from Spygate — questions Americans deserve the answers to, not to mention the need for accountability.

The frustrating thing is the fact that the double standards that could destroy any confidence in the Rule of Law are perpetrated not just by the legal system but by the studious lack of comment from the Leftmedia. While America can survive when Americans have deep divisions, it cannot survive if legal and moral double standards exist. And if free speech is successfully quashed — whether by Hollywood, academia, or Big Tech — our republic is in serious danger.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65216?mailing_id=4507&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4507&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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The 'Gay Gene' Guessing Game
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Lewis Morris    
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Democrats Continue To Turn
On The Constitution
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By David Harsanyi
thefederalist.com } ~ The state isn’t here to give you everything you want—not even if what you want is extraordinarily popular with your fellow Americans... This is, no doubt, disorientating for voters who grew up believing they live in a “democracy.” In reality, our un-democratic constitutional bulwarks temper the vagaries of the majority. “Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates,” James Madison quipped, “every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.” The left will mock you for making this obvious observation. Yet many progressives don’t seem to understand the distinction between united states and a united state. MSNBC’s Chris Hayes, for instance, recently took some heat from conservatives for claiming that the “weirdest thing about the electoral college is the fact that if it wasn’t specifically in the Constitution for the presidency, it would be unconstitutional.” Of course, there’s nothing “weird” about diffused democratic institutions. There is nothing weird about arguing for federalism. These should be the foundation for every policy debate. Every governing institution in the country, to some degree, is counter-majoritarian. Quite often, the counter-majoritarianism is the entire point. Hayes is under the impression that “one man, one vote” means every ballot needs to be plugged into a direct democracy, which is absurd. Hayes doubled down on “democracy” by arguing that “conservatism is a movement deeply paranoid and pessimistic about its own appeal, increasingly retreating behind counter-majoritarian institutions: the senate, the courts, the electoral college” and that it was “*deeply* revealing that the entire conservative movement gets #triggered if you say the simple truth about the electoral college.” It’s not a simple truth, is it? For one thing, progressives increasingly view voting as the most sacred and determinative act of a citizen and see any counter-majoritarianism as unnatural and unfair...  https://thefederalist.com/2019/09/03/democrats-continue-turn-constitution/?utm_source=The+Federalist+List&utm_campaign=1e77bd67cd-RSS_The_Federalist_Daily_Updates_w_Transom&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_cfcb868ceb-1e77bd67cd-83771801 
The Islamic Republic lashes out
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By Clifford D. May  
washingtontimes.com } ~ It’s been 40 years since I’ve been to Iran. I’d love to return. At present, that seems inadvisable... I went there as a reporter, in the early months of 1979, a time of revolution, a time when many Iranians, perhaps most, hoped they might soon be freer than they had been under the shah and more prosperous, too. My media colleagues regarded Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the leader of the revolution, as an avatar of authentic Third World spirituality and social justice. The U.S. ambassador in Tehran, William Sullivan, compared him to Mahatma Gandhi. I left Iran before summer, and by fall it was clear that Iran’s new rulers were achieving little — unless forcing women to cover up can be considered an achievement. In an attempt to re-ignite revolutionary fervor, militant young followers of Ayatollah Khomeini seized the American embassy and took American diplomats hostage. Though a more blatant violation of international law is hard to imagine, an effective response was not forthcoming. Ayatollah Khomeini famously concluded: “America cannot do a damn thing against us.” Confident of that assessment, the Islamic Republic went on to become the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism, eventually providing “nearly a billion dollars a year” to favored asymmetric combatants, according to the State Department. The regime has been behind terrorist attacks and assassination plots in the Middle East, Europe, Latin America and the United States. At the same time, it’s been building an empire. Hezbollah, essentially its foreign legion, has become the dominant military and political force in Lebanon, even as it works hand-in-glove with international drug cartels...
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Lesson for Democrats: ‘Soft Power’ 
Relies on U.S. Military
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By Hal Brands  
bloomberg.com } ~ President Donald Trump has a talent for latching onto bad ideas that elicit opposing bad ideas from his critics... For a recent example, look no further than the debate about the relationship between American military power and American diplomacy. Since day one, the Trump administration has been disdainful of diplomacy and other tools of “soft power.” In 2017, the administration unveiled what Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s director of the Office of Management and Budget, called a “hard power” budget — one that increased military spending but proposed crippling cuts to the State Department and the foreign-aid budget. Republicans on Capitol Hill made clear that such severe cuts were a non-starter, and in 2018 Congress funded a key initiative — the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation — to compete with Chinese geo-economic influence in the Indo-Pacific region and beyond. But the administration has continued trying to take billions of dollars out of the foreign-affairs and foreign-aid budgets, most recently  calling for a $4.3 billion cut in State Department and U.S. Agency for International Development funding.  Meanwhile, the mix of hostility and indifference with which the White House has treated the foreign policy bureaucracy has depleted the human capital that U.S. diplomacy depends on, spurring an alarming brain drain from the State Department and other agencies. To top it off, the White House has waged a quiet war against the World Trade Organization and other international organizations through which the U.S. has long projected its influence. This transparently counterproductive approach to policy explains why even some of Trump’s Republican allies have opposed his proposed cuts. There is no effective strategy for dealing with China, Russia, Iran or any other rival power that does not feature a well-funded diplomatic and development apparatus that can help the U.S. compete for geopolitical and geo-economic sway...
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Italy: Salvini Down but Not Out
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by Soeren Kern
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Matteo Salvini, Italy's deputy premier and interior minister since 2018, has been shut out of the Italian government after his gambit to force snap elections to become prime minister backfired... As the de facto leader of Europe's anti-mass-migration movement, Salvini's departure from government may set back efforts to slow illegal immigration to the continent. Many analysts, however, believe that Salvini, who continues to lead his rivals in opinion polls, will be back in government soon and in an even stronger position than before. On August 8, after months of public feuding, Salvini declared  the governing coalition between his League party and the anti-establishment Five Star Movement (M5S) unworkable. He  accused M5S of blocking the League's main policies and said that the only way forward was to hold fresh elections. The League and M5S, ahead of an inconclusive election in March 2018, had been political adversaries. Three months later, however, they formed an unlikely alliance. Their June 2018 coalition agreement, outlined in a 39-page action plan,  promised to crack down on illegal immigration and to deport up to 500,000 undocumented migrants. Since then, Salvini has accused M5S of failing to implement parts of the coalition agreement. Tensions came to a head on August 7, when, during a session in Parliament, M5S voted against a project supported by Salvini for a high-speed train link with France. "It is useless to go ahead with 'no's' and quarrels," Salvini wrote on his Facebook page. "Italians need certainty and a government that works, not a Mr. 'No.'" Salvini called for new elections to be held on October 13. In an effort to avoid early elections, which polls show that Salvini would win, M5S reached out to the rival center-left Democratic Party (PD), cutting Salvini's League party out of power. M5S and PD clinched a preliminary coalition agreement on August 28, and a day later Italian President Sergio Mattarella asked Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte, an independent, to form a new coalition government. Although the League is Italy's most popular party, M5S and PD are the two largest forces in parliament...
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Michigan Teachers Subjected 
to Bizarre Islamic Propaganda Training
by patriotnewsdaily.com ~ After filing a Freedom of Information Act request with the Novi Community School District in Michigan...  “We found that the teachers were subjected to two days of Islamic propaganda, where Islam was glorified, Christianity disparaged, and America bashed—all funded by Novi taxpayers,” explained Richard Thompson, president and chief counsel at the Thomas More Law Center. He noted that the school district had not sponsored teacher trainings on Christianity, Judaism, or other religions over the past five years, but solely on Islam. The “cultural competency” expert hired by the Novi Community Schools District in Michigan is Huda Essa of Culture Links LLC, a hijab-wearing woman of Arab descent. After examining numerous documents relating to Essa’s presentation including audio transcripts from her talk, the Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) found that “information on Islam she provided to Novi teachers was riddled with falsehoods and errors of omission that were clearly meant to deceive. ”We recognize that Michigan has become a hotbed for Arab immigration thanks to the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s “anything goes” refugee policies, resulting in terrorist cells, the rise of female genital mutilation, and extremely-questionable decisions in congressional races, but how is this okay? What kind of outrage would we see if these teachers were subjected to two days’ worth of a teacher telling them about the superiority of Christianity. ESPECIALLY if it were paired with the denigration of Islam? We’d never hear the end of it. “Under the banner of promoting diversity, inclusion and a multicultural approach to education, Essa sets about comparing Islam to Christianity, calling them ‘mostly similar.’ The one big difference, she claims, is that Islam is the world’s ‘only purely monotheistic religion,’” explained the TMLC. “Islam’s holy book, the Koran, came straight from Allah to the prophet Muhammad and, unlike the Jewish and Christian scriptures, has never been altered or changed, she told the Novi teachers. Significantly, the Koran commands Muslims to ‘Fight and kill the disbelievers wherever you find them, take them captive, harass them, lie in wait and ambush them using every stratagem of war.’” “Her message was clear: The Koran is superior to the Bible. But she did not address the fact that it calls for the extermination of Christian and Jews,” the TMLC concluded. If we’re going to keep our schools clear of religious teachings, then we need to keep our schools clear of ALL religious teachings. Most especially Islam, which has caused the West and the wider world entirely too much trouble over the last quarter-century and beyond. The last thing we need are teachers being propagandized into this religious nuttery before heading back to the classrooms.  Huda Essa needs to be deported.   http://patriotnewsdaily.com/michigan-teachers-subjected-to-bizarre-islamic-propaganda-training/   
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The 'Gay Gene' Guessing Game
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Lewis Morris:  The findings of a recently released study on the origins of human sexual orientation, the largest of its kind ever conducted, is sure to reignite the debate over homosexuality and whether it is a controlled life choice or the result of an uncontrollable set of genetic circumstances.   

The study determined that genes do have an impact on a person’s sexual orientation, but that it is impossible to predict a person’s sexual behavior solely on their genome. Researchers concluded that different components of different genes in the human genome can contribute to determining a person’s sexuality, particularly in the presence of some external factors, but there is no single so-called “gay gene” that separates homosexuals from heterosexuals.

The study was conducted by researchers and geneticists at the Broad Institute at MIT, Harvard, the University of Queensland, and other institutions. It included surveys conducted among 400,000 UK and Swedish men and women in a British database and approximately 70,000 American customers of the genetic testing service 23andMe. All the subjects are of white European descent, and some 3% of the British sample and a surprising 19% of the American sample admitted to having sex at least once with a same-sex partner.

The sample audience for the study hardly indicates a strong representation of the general adult population, nor did the study spend any time on societal factors such as religion, income, family structure, and so forth. For the purposes of this study, researchers focused solely on genetic factors.

The study is sure to be attacked by the Rainbow Mafia for not quite supporting the party line that homosexuals are “born that way” and are therefore unable to reject that lifestyle. On the flip side, the report also indicates that homosexuality is too complicated to simply be a lifestyle choice.

How will the Left reconcile this study — which purports to lend more nuanced credence to the “born this way” argument — with the “I was born the wrong way” argument of so-called “transgendered” individuals?

On the one hand, leftists insist conversion therapy should be banned for homosexuals because of genetics. As one study author put it, “I hope that the science can be used to educate people a little bit more about how natural and normal same-sex behavior is. It’s written into our genes.” On the other hand, some individuals — including children— should undergo hormone treatment and even surgical alteration because their genetics got their biology wrong.

Some researchers in the study initially questioned the wisdom of going forward with the work. Geneticist Steven Reilly, who leads an LGBT group at the Broad Institute called Out@Broad, told The New York Times, “I deeply disagree about publishing this,” citing fears that the data could be misconstrued — by conservatives — for political purposes.

And the Left would never use homosexuality for political purposes…

Joe Vitti, another researcher at Broad who spoke to the Times, expressed similar close-minded sentiments. “As a queer person and a geneticist, I struggle to understand the motivations behind a genome-wide association study for non-heterosexual behavior. I have yet to see a compelling argument that the potential benefits of this study outweigh its potential harms.”

In the face of discovery, these “scientists” were willing to let their own political views interfere with their ability to conduct and share research for fear of how it might inform political opponents. They even entertained the idea of burying the study. Publicly they claimed fear, but it’s clear that the real motivation is that the study does not comport with their long-held social beliefs. It is the perfect example of what leftists frequently accuse conservatives of doing: using politics to distort reporting scientific fact.

The study was released to the public only after months of internal deliberations. The Times notes that the research team “used suggestions from [Broad] colleagues and outside L.G.B.T.Q. groups to clarify wording and highlight caveats.” Who knows how these so-called suggestions might have changed data as presented in the final report?

One finding of the study that could not be kept in the closet was the discovery of a genetic correlation between same-sex behavior and certain mental-health issues and traits like risky behavior and drug use. Hopefully this information, and the rest of the study, will be used to help people instead of being wielded as a cudgel by the Rainbow Mafia.  

~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65217?mailing_id=4507&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4507&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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 Dems' Assault on the Second Amendment
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Thomas Gallatin  
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“Where are the damned ‘Scope Memos’?” 
 Whitaker’s Response is Interesting
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theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Tonight Lou Dobbs, admitting his own frustration, asked former Acting AG Matthew Whitaker “where are the scope memos”? And a conversation began and within that conversation, Dobbs mentions the number of the scope memos… To wit, Whitaker had a very curious and deflective response. Focusing only on the ‘scope memo’ aspect, why do you think Matthew Whitaker deferred from responding about them?… wouldn’t even put a number to them. It’s a straightforward, curiously overlooked until Dobbs and seemingly inconsequential part of the overall issue. The Mueller investigation is long-since over; so why haven’t we been permitted to see the memos, which Rod Rosenstein created, that authorized the targeting within the investigation by Robert Mueller? The implication from the non-answer, and then the subsequent conversation, would seem to indicate Whitaker knows the Scope Memos name specific targets -outlined/approved by Rosenstein- that were not charged by Mueller for anything ex. Flynn Jr. and therefore that’s the justification for not releasing them. Perhaps a valid point. However, the deflection by Whitaker has piqued Suspicious Cat’s suspicions because the scope memos could be released with non-indicted targets redacted. Who exactly is being protected?  The “targets” or Rod Rosenstein?
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scumbag-Soros-Fueled PAC Paying Salaries
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by Joe Schoffstall 
freebeacon.com } ~ A political action committee largely funded by liberal billionaire scumbag-George Soros is paying salaries to employees at a pro-illegal immigrant group... The Immigrant Voters Win PAC was launched in March with the goal of registering 400,000 new Hispanic voters before the November elections. The PAC is a joint effort between numerous left-wing immigration activist groups as part of the larger "Families Fight Back" campaign organized in opposition to Republican politicians. The group has raised $4 million since its inception, according to the PAC’s financial filings with the Federal Election Commission. scumbag-Soros, who provided a $3 million check to the PAC on March 11, was the only donor to the PAC for nearly two months. The Civic Participation Action Fund, which carries the mission of "Advancing racial equity, economic opportunity and civic engagement," added a $1 million donation on May 31. The PAC disclosed $135,000 in federal operating expenditures, with much of the money going toward salaries to  individuals at America’s Voice, an immigration organization that fights for "A direct, fair, and inclusive road to citizenship for immigrants in the United States without papers." The PAC also disclosed a six-figure reimbursement to the group. Matt Hildreth, the political director of America’s Voice, first received payments from the Immigrant Voters Win PAC on June 21. On that day, three transactions marked "salary" are shown to his name in the amounts of $8,541, $8,541, and $10,541... Why can't the government stop and charge scumbag-Soro?  https://freebeacon.com/issues/soros-fueled-pac-paying-salaries-employees-pro-illegal-immigrant-group/   
Food Kits from U.S. Program to Feed 
Vulnerable Syrians Diverted to Terrorists
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by judicialwatch.org ~ A multi-billion-dollar government program to feed “vulnerable” Syrians has provided food for jihadist militants in a group designated by the United States as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)... American taxpayers have spent a fortune on “emergency food assistance” during the Syrian crisis that began with the 2011 Arab spring and some of it has actually gone to terrorists that hate us and want to kill us. The Al Qaeda affiliate is known as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and it aims to establish a regional Islamic caliphate, according to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA). Since 2012, the U.S. government has provided Syria with nearly $3 billion in emergency food assistance, approximately $1.8 billion to help “vulnerable families” inside the country and more than $1.1 billion for “vulnerable refugees in neighboring countries.” Uncle Sam took action after the United Nations (UN) declared that 11.7 million people inside Syria need humanitarian assistance. Of those, the leftist world body said 9 million require emergency food assistance to meet their basic needs, including 6.5 million people facing “life-threatening food insecurity.” The famously corrupt U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), which has a monstrous budget and little oversight, handles the money and doles out cash to groups, mostly non-governmental organizations (NGOs), that provide food. The groups are known as partners and they receive money from USAID to bring flour to bakeries, ready-to-eat rations to newly displaced populations and prepared food kits throughout Syria. Some of the USAID-funded food kits have been purposely diverted to terrorists, according to a federal audit of the program. Investigations by the USAID Office of Inspector General (OIG) have uncovered numerous instances of confirmed diversions to armed groups in northwestern Syria. Among them is Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham, which split from Al Qaeda a few years ago. In one example cited by the agency watchdog, NGO employees knowingly diverted USAID-funded food kits to the terrorist group by allowing the fighters to be included among program beneficiaries and submitting falsified beneficiary lists. In another case, 27 NGO employees operated a scheme in which USAID-funded food kits were diverted to the same designated terrorist organization. The U.S. spent nearly $50 million on the two programs, according to the audit. This is hardly the first time that terrorists benefit from USAID’s unchecked generosity. The agency has sent Yemen, the Islamic nation that serves as the headquarters of Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP), $768 million in “humanitarian aid.” In its  Country Reports on Terrorism, the State Department reveals that AQAP militants carried out hundreds of attacks including suicide bombers, vehicle-borne improvised explosive devices (VBIEDs), ambushes, kidnappings and targeted assassinations. The media has also documented this for years with one in-depth report   confirming that “Yemen has emerged as the breeding grounds for some of the most high-profile plans to attack the U.S. homeland.” Additionally, dozens of terrorists freed from the U.S. military prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba have joined Al Qaeda in Yemen. Yet the American humanitarian dollars keep flowing with little oversight... This need, needs more control.
Teacher in China accused of 
poisoning kindergarten students
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by cbsnews.com ~ A kindergarten teacher has been arrested in eastern China after 23 students were sickened in a suspected act of deliberate poisoning, police said Tuesday... The teacher, identified by the surname Wang, is believed to have contaminated the children's food with sodium nitrite, the Jiaozuo city police said on their official microblog. Overexposure to sodium nitrite, a white powder most commonly used in fertilizers, can be toxic and even fatal to humans. Police said they were still looking for a motive in last week's incident. Schoolchildren in China have been the target of often fatal attacks by people bearing grudges or considered mentally ill. In October last year, a knife-wielding assailant injured 14 children at a kindergarten in the western Chinese city of Chongqing. The attacker, a 39-year-old woman, was taken into custody but the motive for the assault was unclear. In April a 28-year-old former pupil allegedly seeking revenge for having been bullied stabbed nine pupils to death outside a middle school in northwestern China. Another 10 people were hospitalized with injuries resulting from the rampage in the rural area. China tightly restricts private gun ownership, making knives and homemade explosives the most common weapons in violent crimes, but last week's incident in Jiaozuo wasn't the first suspected case of poisoning. In 2002, 42 people, mostly schoolchildren, died after eating snacks laced with rat poison in the eastern city of Nanjing. The killer, who apparently was jealous of his rivals' thriving business, was swiftly sentenced to death and executed.
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NEW Ohr Docs: FBI KNEW That Christopher Steele was ‘Desperate’ to Stop Trump
"CULTURE OF UNACCOUNTABILITY" at FBI over Sensitive Leaks by Employees
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Dems' Assault on the Second Amendment
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Thomas Gallatin:  Not long ago, Democrats derided any accusation that their political agenda was to see America transformed into a socialist state. Today, the leading Democrat presidential candidates are openly embracing socialism. This hard-left “turn” should come as a surprise to no one, because Democrats have long advocated socialist-based programs while insisting they’re not socialist. In other words, Democrats deny the fundamental reality behind what they are advocating until it becomes impossible to deny it. Then they come out of the closet and celebrate what they have been denying.

This pattern holds true not just with social programs like scumbag/liar-nObamaCare but with issues like Americans’ Second Amendment rights. Democrats love to proclaim that they support protecting Second Amendment rights even if they just want more “sensible” gun control. But as conservatives have regularly pointed out, Democrats’ “sensible” gun control would do next to nothing to stop criminals from committing crimes with firearms. In fact, the vast majority of Democrats’ proposed gun control legislation would only make it harder for law-abiding Americans to exercise their Second Amendment rights.

The fact of the matter is the Democrat Party’s agenda is to essentially eliminate the Second Amendment entirely. On Monday, Democrat presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden insisted there should be “no compromise” on guns. Instead, he bloviated, “We’re talking about loosening access to have guns, to be able to take them into places of worship. I mean, it is absolutely irrational. … The idea that we don’t have elimination of assault-type weapons, magazines that can hold multiple bullets in them, it’s absolutely mindless.” loose lips liar-Biden then absurdly claimed that what he was calling for was “no violation of the Second Amendment.”

Even if loose lips liar-Biden’s statement on banning “magazines that can hold multiple bullets” was a gaffe — the very purpose of a magazine is to hold multiple bullets (cartridges or rounds), and the vast majority of modern firearms use magazines — loose lips liar-Biden’s overall message is a clear attack on the Second Amendment.

Meanwhile, Elizabeth dinky-Warren attacks the Second Amendment by labeling the issue a “public-health emergency.” dinky-Warren pontificated, “We need to treat this as the public-health emergency that it is. And it’s going to take a lot of pieces and a lot of changes that we need to do to bring down deaths from gun violence.” dinky-Warren conveniently ignores the truth — that gun-related deaths due to crime have actually been decreasing for years as gun ownership has gone up — so that she can spin her “public health” narrative with the goal being the effective elimination of the Second Amendment.

Democrats have demonized the National Rifle Association, the nation’s leading advocacy organization for the Second Amendment that historically enjoyed bipartisan support, as a terrorist organization. commie-Bernie Sanders, who in the past stood up for Vermonters’ Second Amendment rights and was endorsed by the NRA, sings a different tune of late. On Saturday, commie-Sanders asserted, “We are telling [President Donald] Trump and [Senate Majority Leader Mitch] McConnell, ‘Listen to the American people and not the NRA.’ And I would hope very much that we can overcome the fear of the NRA and do what the American people want.”

socialist-Beto O'Rourke has no love for the Second Amendment either, as he has taken to dropping F-bombs when expressing his disgust over Americans’ right to possess “weapons of war.” Along with banning “assault weapons” and implementing a national gun registry, socialist-O'Rourke also wants a mandatory buyback (a.k.a. confiscation). “Buy those weapons of war back,” he thundered. “Mandate that. Not voluntary. Let’s be really clear with our fellow Americans.”

It has never been more clear that the radical Left has taken over the Democrat Party. And it sees the  elimination of the Second Amendment as an essential stepping stone to the ultimate elimination of the Constitution.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65221?mailing_id=4507&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4507&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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 Preaching Race-Bait Hate
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Patrick Hampton   
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Wednesday Top News Executive Summary
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Political Editors:  Above the Fold


BORDER FORTIFICATION: “Defense Secretary Mark Esper has signed off on spending $3.6 billion in Defense Department construction funds for 175 miles of wall on the southern border with Mexico. … Use of the money had been frozen by lower courts while a lawsuit proceeded. Last month, however, the U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way for the use of about $2.5 billion. A border wall was a keystone of the president’s 2016 election campaign, but Congress has resisted funding all of it. This year it allocated $1.4 billion, but the president wanted much more.” (Fox News)

VACUOUS VIRTUE SIGNALING: “Walmart said Tuesday it will discontinue all sales of handgun ammunition and sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition that can be used with military-style weapons, following two ‘horrific’ shootings at Walmart stores this summer. It will also stop all handgun sales in Alaska, marking its complete exit from the handguns category. The biggest retailer in the world also is asking customers at Walmart and Sam’s Club to no longer openly carry firearms in stores, in states where ‘open carry’ is allowed, unless they are authorized law enforcement officers.” (CNBC)

Around the Nation


HURRICANE DORIAN UPDATE: “Hurricane Dorian gradually leaves Florida behind Wednesday, setting its sights on the coasts of Georgia and then the Carolinas. These areas face a triple threat of ‘destructive winds, flooding rains, and life-threatening storm surges,’ according to the National Hurricane Center. While Dorian has stayed far enough off the coast to largely spare Florida from the worst of its wrath, it is forecast to make a much closer approach to the coastline of the Carolinas between late Wednesday and Thursday and could even make landfall. Impacts are thus expected to be more severe.” (Capital Weather Gang)

BACKGROUND-CHECK LOOPHOLE: According to National Review, “The lone gunman who killed seven and injured 22 in a series of drive-by shootings in Odessa and Midland, Texas on Saturday obtained the firearm he used in the attack through an illegal private sale. Local police told ABC News and other outlets that the shooter … previously attempted to purchase a firearm from a licensed seller but was denied after failing a background check due to his history of ‘mental illness.’ He then purchased the ‘AR-15 type’ rifle that he used in the attack from a private seller who was under no legal obligation to conduct a background check on him.” This is one of the few legit gun loopholes that conservatives might feel obligated to address.

SOLVING THE BIG PROBLEMS: “The San Francisco Board of Supervisors has passed a resolution declaring the National Rifle Association a "domestic terrorist organization” and urged the federal government to do the same — the latest escalation in the heated rhetoric from Democrats regarding the NRA in the wake of several deadly mass shootings.“ (Fox News)

DISTRICT SMACKDOWN: "A North Carolina court on Tuesday struck down the state’s current legislative districts for violating the rights of Democratic voters, forcing districts to be withdrawn ahead of the 2020 election. The three-judge panel’s opinion says that North Carolina’s General Assembly ‘had a partisan intent to create legislative districts that perpetuated a Republican-controlled’ assembly when drawing maps in 2017.” (The Hill)

Other Notables


WARNING SIGNS: “A key U.S. factory gauge unexpectedly contracted for the first time since 2016, sending stocks and bond yields lower and boosting expectations for interest-rate cuts as global manufacturing woes deepen. The Institute for Supply Management’s purchasing managers index fell to 49.1 in August, weaker than all forecasts in a Bloomberg survey of economists, data released Tuesday showed. Figures below 50 indicate the manufacturing economy is generally shrinking. The group’s gauge of new orders dropped to a more than seven-year low, while the production index hit the lowest since late 2015.” (Bloomberg)

BREXIT BLOCKADE: “British prime minister Boris Johnson’s government was defeated in a 27-301 vote on Tuesday by a group of rebel lawmakers who have opted to seize control of parliament in order to block the no-deal Brexit that Johnson has repeatedly threatened. A block of the Conservative Party sided with the opposition Labour Party in voting to seize control of parliamentary business on Wednesday in order to pass a bill that would prevent Johnson from exiting the European Union on the October 31 deadline without a deal.” (National Review)

HONG KONG CONCEDES: “Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam has said she will withdraw the highly controversial extradition bill which triggered months of protests. The proposal, introduced in April, would have allowed criminal suspects to be extradited to mainland China. The bill was suspended in June when Ms Lam called it ‘dead’, but she stopped short of withdrawing it.” (BBC)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Giving mass shooters the death penalty is a useless virtue signal (Washington Examiner)

POLICY: To lower residential energy costs, “waive” goodbye to the Jones Act (American Enterprise Institute)

SATIRE: Walmart discontinues auto part sales to prevent car accidents (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65253?mailing_id=4509&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4509&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Court Grants Significant New Discovery 
in scumbag/liar-Clinton Email Case
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by judicialwatch.org ~ Judicial Watch announced today that a federal judge granted seven additional depositions, three interrogatories and four document requests related to former Secretary of State scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton’s use of a private, unauthorized email server... scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton and her former top aide and current lawyer Cheryl Mills were given 30 days to oppose being deposed by Judicial Watch (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of State (No. 1:14-cv-01242)). The court rejected Justice and State Department arguments to protect scumbag/liar-Clinton and the agencies from additional discovery and ordered agency lawyers to respond to Judicial Watch’s questions about their knowledge of the scumbag/liar-Clinton email issue. The court granted all of Judicial Watch’s requested discovery but gave scumbag/liar-Clinton and Mills 30 days to file any opposition to the requests to question them in person under oath. The new court-ordered discovery allows Judicial Watch to take testimony and gather evidence of scumbag/liar-Clinton’s handling of emails, specifically in an “after action memo” drafted by Heather Samuelson, scumbag/liar-Clinton’s senior advisor at State and White House liaison. The memo was created in December 2014 to memorialize the scumbag/liar-Clinton team’s processing of the scumbag/liar-Clinton emails. The discovery also asks for when Justice and State Department attorneys learned about scumbag/liar-Clinton’s private email use; and what senior records-keeping officials at the State Department knew about scumbag/liar-Clinton’s emails and when they knewit. This past Friday, Judicial Watch submitted the document request to scumbag/liar-Clinton’s attorneys for the “after action memo” that Samuelson created. The court specifically raised concerns about a scumbag/liar-Clinton email cache recently discussed in a letter to Senator Charles Grassley (R-IA) and wants Judicial Watch to “shake the tree” on this issue...
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Democrat Delusion  
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By JOHN HINDERAKER 
powerlineblog.com } ~ I didn’t make it to the Minnesota State Fair this year, so I didn’t do my usual report on left-wing seed art. But a friend attended the Fair over the weekend and stopped by the DFL booth... They were selling two pins, of which he bought this one: The Democrats apparently think most voters will find it charming that a group of extreme, freshmen Congresswomen call themselves by a name that is otherwise used exclusively by high school girls. I suspect that belief is delusional, and that most voters have heard more than enough from, and about, “the Squad.” The second button for sale at the DFL booth consisted of a single word in Russian. My friend doesn’t speak Russian, so he had to ask. The word is “traitor” in English. I take it this means the Democrats are still trying to sell(albeit, here, in incomprehensible form the Russia collusion hoax. Once again, I think most voters are not that dumb. While most probably couldn’t recite the details, I think it is common knowledge that President Trump has stood up to Russia, like China, far more than his predecessor. With the collapse of the Mueller investigation, the DOJ Inspector General’s blistering denunciation of scumbag-James Comey, the stilll-to-come IG report on the scumbag/liar-nObama administration’s fraudulent FISA search warrant applications, and what could be a comprehensive account of the genesis of the Russia hoax from U.S. Attorney John Durham, calling President Trump a traitor is looking sillier by the day...  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/democrat-delusion.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29   
Aramco IPO Plans Pushed Forward 
Before Oil Prices Drop Further
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thenewamerican.com } ~ Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, known as MBS, just relieved his energy minister, Khalid al-Falih, of his duties concerning the Initial Public Offering (IPO) of his country’s primary asset, ARAMCO (officially, the Saudi Arabian Oil Company)... Plans for that offering, first announced in 2018, were to raise $100 billion for the country’s sovereign wealth fund so it could invest the funds to diversify the economy away from its dependence upon oil revenues and bring it into the 21st century. Plans were delayed for several reasons. First, MBS needed to consolidate his power. Taking control in 2017, he announced a program to fight corruption in the government, leading to the arrest and murder of a number of high-ranking officials while confiscating the wealth of others in exchange for their lives. He also allgedly ordered the murder of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which temporarily tarnished his public persona and delayed further his plans for the IPO. It didn’t help any that U.S. frackers, oblivious to the plans of the crown prince, continued to produce above expectations, putting pressure on world oil prices in the process. Energy Minister al-Falih counseled a wait-and-see approach, urging MBS and the OPEC cartel to cut production further in the hopes that world crude oil prices would rise to at least $80 a barrel. Outside auditors estimate that $80 a barrel is the price the kingdom needs to balance its welfare-state budget. His strategy nearly succeeded. Brent crude oil prices peaked at $85 a barrel briefly last October before plummeting to $50 two months later. Since then, world crude oil prices have languished and curently trade as of Tuesday under $60. The crown prince’s government was running out of money. It had squeezed ARAMCO for a $20 billion special dividend to help close the budget deficit. It sold $12 billion of government bonds for the first time in the country’s history last spring. But the pressure is on and time is running out...  https://www.thenewamerican.com/tech/energy/item/33309-aramco-ipo-plans-pushed-forward-before-oil-prices-drop-further  
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The Landscape Of Despair: 
How Our Cities And Towns Are Killing Us
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by JAMES HOWARD KUNSTLER
dailycaller.com } ~ The incoherence of the debate in the public arena becomes especially stark whenever a mass murder ignites the news wires — which is dismayingly often these days... But the understandable wish to make sense of these horrifying acts, and how our society seems to provoke them, leads to walls of mystification, psychobabble, and the dogmas du jour of the activist class. Some maniac guns down twenty people in a shopping mall, the news media lights up for a week of inconclusive hand-wringing, and then the discussion subsides back into uncomfortable, confounded silence, until the next maniac comes onstage to gun down as many total strangers as possible in his desperate bid for catharsis, and we go through the motions again, along with the pitiful ceremony of setting up the candles and teddy-bears at the crime scene. By the way, I say “his” because overwhelmingly these spectacle shooters are men, often but not always young men under twenty-five one recent exception being Tashfeen Malik  who, with her husband Rizwan Farook, shot up a San Bernardino, CA, social services agency in 2015. Something is going desperately wrong with the development of young men in this land. Many of the forces at work are pretty obvious. But what is uniformly overlooked about the current scene is the physical arrangement of daily life on the American landscape, how it affects us in unreckoned ways, and what a tragic fiasco it has become. I refer to the everyday human habitat known as suburbia, the matrix of single-family home subdivisions, arterial highways and freeways, chain stores, junk food dispensaries, and the ubiquitous wilderness of free parking — the last of these implying just one insidious side-effect of this template for living: mandatory motoring. Though a variety of economic interests were served richly by the colossal project of building suburbia, and took full advantage of its perversities, no claque of evil geniuses cooked up the idea in a lab. It was an emergent phenomenon, the coming together of many historical forces, innovations, and opportunities. The emergence of suburbia comports with my New Theory of History, which states that things happen because they seem like a good idea at the time. The trouble is, circumstances change and what at one time seemed like a good idea turns into a debacle of unintended consequences in another time — which is where we are now...
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Stormy hearings ahead  
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By PAUL MIRENGOFF 
powerlineblog.com } ~ Rust never sleeps and neither do congressional Democrats intent on impeaching President Trump... When the House returns to session next week, the House Judiciary Committee will explore five instances of supposed obstruction of justice by Trump that they say are documented in Robert Mueller’s report. None amounts to actual obstruction of justice. Each, by now, is yawn inducing. But House Dems also plan an inquiry that might gain attention and put Judiciary Committee members in the spotlight. Reportedly, they will investigate Trump’s involvement in paying two women to remain silent about allegedly having sex with him. One of the women is ex-Playboy model Karen McDougal. The other is porn star Stormy Daniels. The payments predate Trump’s presidency. Is it a “high crime and misdemeanor” for a candidate to buy the silence of someone who has damaging information about him? I don’t think so. At worst, it’s a technical violation of campaign finance law, and I doubt it even amounts to that. But why let this stand in the way of sexy hearings? Stormy Daniels and the ex-Playboy model might be able to attract media attention and draw viewers to hearings that otherwise hardly anyone would watch. Might their testimony harm Trump’s image? I doubt there’s anyone left in America who thinks Trump is above having sex with attractive women. I also doubt that any potential Trump voter would fail to understand his effort to keep such matters out of the public’s eye during a presidential election campaign. But maybe Trump will take a minor hit if Daniels testifies that her sexual encounter with Trump occurred not long after his wife had given birth...
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Preaching Race-Bait Hate
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Patrick Hampton:  In my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a recent incident involving black suspects and white law-enforcement officers is proving to be yet another case study of how perennial race-baiting agitators wait for any opening to promote themselves.

The opportunities for such self-aggrandizement have been slim lately, but finally, opportunity rang. Two white Hamilton County deputies stopped a vehicle for having unlawfully dark window tinting — which is to say they could not see inside the vehicle — always dangerous to officers making a stop, which is one of the reasons window tinting is regulated. Because the officers could not see the occupants of the vehicle, it would be difficult to make a “racial profiling” case, but crack cocaine was found in the underwear of a black occupant (a favorite place for concealment) and that is the basis for the race hustlers’ complaint.

The usual race-baiters have their panties in a wad, claiming the suspect, who as it turns out has 40 prior arrests, was “strip searched” in public and subjected to a “cavity search,” despite the fact video footage from two camera angles negates those claims. After a meeting of black community faith leaders convened, most pastors declined to participate in this charade. But a small group of the loudest agitators, along with the leader of hater Louis Farrakhan’s local Nation of Islam cadre, are calling for Sheriff Jim Hammond’s resignation.

My friend Mark Alexander, who has a background in law enforcement, has known Jim Hammond for 30 years, and notes, “Jim is a man with an impeccable color-blind career, an ethical and faithful man who is the most professional Sheriff in HCSO’s history — by a measure of magnitude.” But leftists never let facts get in the way of their agenda.

Meanwhile, Chattanooga, like most urban centers Democrat mayors are turning into slums, had one of the bloodiest weekends of 2019. Among the murder victims was a pregnant 19-year-old and mother of a two-½-year-old girl. But the agitators and community are not coming together to find the assailant or demand justice for this young mother; they are on the government steps blasting the officers that have sworn to protect and serve them.

Pastors and ministers are not called to be race-bait hustlers but peacemakers. Peacemakers are not partial and prejudiced. Ironically, the racially biased behavior exhibited by these local “men of faith” is the same behavior they claim they oppose.

Of course, race-baiting hustlers are nothing new.

Writing about such race agitators in his 1911 book, My Larger EducationBooker T. Washington wrote the following words that are even more relevant to present-day race agitators: “There is [a] class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public… Having learned that they are able to make a living out of their troubles, they have grown into the settled habit of advertising their wrongs — partly because they want sympathy and partly because it pays.”

Washington continued: “Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs… There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who do not want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.”

The real tragedy in this unfortunate situation is that young black men are dying at an alarming rate, most murdered by other young black men.

Pastors, where is your concern for the souls of these citizens? Where is the call to repentance? Where is the strategy to build flourishing Christian families? Where is the Good News of the Gospel that gives your community hope? These are valid questions that challenge these race-bait agitators. Instead of fulfilling the Great Commission, these pastors have been indoctrinated with hatred and black tribalism, fomented by today’s Democrat Party and its cadres of social justice warriors who thrive on dividing us by race and every other measure.

Truth is, the great majority of Hamilton County citizens support our law enforcement, as do real pastors doing the real work of the cross. We will not stand idly by while radical Islamists and agitators sow racial discord in our community. We have worked too hard and too long to build a peaceful city.

As Washington wrote, “Great men cultivate love. … Only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.”  ~The Patriot Post

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Trump Caught Between King Corn and Big Oil
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Political Editors   
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Conservative Leaders, Chamber Clash 
on Trump’s Revised Fuel Standards
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by Fred Lucas
{ dailysignal.com } ~ A coalition of conservatives is supporting the Trump administration’s plan to roll back scumbag/liar-nObama-era fuel efficiency standards, which it says could reduce the cost of cars and light trucks for consumers... The support came a day after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce released a report with a letter urging the Trump administration not to revise Corporate Average Fuel Economy standards, and pushing for a compromise with the state of California, which has much stricter standards. For now, the administration seems to be focused on revising the CAFE standards, which also regulate tailpipe emissions for cars and light trucks. “Revising the current CAFE standards will make vehicles safer and more affordable—saving American families an average of nearly $2,500 on new vehicle purchases,” a senior administration official said Friday. “This move is right in line with President Trump’s deregulation efforts and will benefit all Americans,” the official said. The statement issued by the coalition of conservative leaders, known as the Conservative Action Project, strongly backed President Donald Trump’s proposed change in the standards. It says: Current CAFE standards are both expensive and dangerous. The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that domestic passenger vehicle manufacturers paid more than $77 million for noncompliance with President scumbag/liar-nObama’s CAFE standards—penalties that will get worse unless these unrealistic standards are changed...
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Mattis rules out run for president: 
‘Like a five-year jail sentence’
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by Julio Rosas
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Former Secretary of Defense James Mattis did not have much to say about President Trump during a wide-ranging interview with CBS Sunday Morning... but did warn the president is "unusual" and warned against the "rabid nature of politics." Mattis also said he has no desire to run for president, despite many people wanting him to. Describing a campaign and presidency to one man at his favorite bar in Washington state, he said, "Terry, it would be like a five-year jail sentence." Regarding Trump, Mattis made clear he was not going to "speak ill about a sitting president," indicating he will express his full thoughts when Trump is out of office. Mattis submitted his letter of resignation to Trump over disagreements about pulling U.S. troops out of Syria. Instead of leaving the Defense Department at the end of February 2019, Trump replaced him with Deputy Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan at the beginning of the year. "I will not speak ill of a sitting president. I’m not going to do it," Mattis said, adding, "He’s an unusual president our president is. And I think that especially with just the rabid nature of politics today we gotta be careful. We could could tear this country apart." In an interview with the Atlantic to discuss his upcoming book, Call Sign Chaos, Mattis further explained why he will not criticize Trump at the moment, but again indicated he will not be quiet on the topic for long. “The duty of silence. If you leave an administration, you owe some silence. When you leave an administration over clear policy differences, you need to give the people who are still there as much opportunity as possible to defend the country," he said. "They still have the responsibility of protecting this great big experiment of ours. I know the malevolence some people feel for this country, and we have to give the people who are protecting us some time to carry out their duties without me adding my criticism to the cacophony that is right now so poisonous.” "There is a period in which I owe my silence. It’s not eternal. It’s not going to be forever," he added.
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McConnell trolls Dem rep who challenged 
him to five debates -- by accepting
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By Ronn Blitzer 
foxnews.com } ~ A Democratic congressman from Kentucky backed down Tuesday from his threat to run against Mitch McConnell – and admitted he was just joking... after the Senate majority leader called his bluff and agreed to his demand for five debates. On Monday, Rep. John Yarmuth, D-Ky., was asked by a local news reporter from WHAS-TV if he planned on running against the Republican leader in 2020. Yarmuth initially said he had “no desire” to do so, but then smiled and said: “I will say this: If Mitch McConnell would agree to debate me five times in public, I’d do it.” Yarmuth may not have expected the response. “Accepted. When is the announcement? - MM,” McConnell said Tuesday morning through his campaign’s Team Mitch Twitter account. The post retweeted a local news article that included Yarmuth’s suggestion. Yarmuth’s office, though, responded by making it clear that the congressman has no intention of running against McConnell. “Obviously the congressman was making a joke about Senator McConnell’s long record of refusing to meet with anyone except donors and special interests writing him checks,” Yarmuth’s communications director Christopher Schuler told Fox News. Schuler added: “He does hope that the senator is serious about debating his opponent next year though. Kentuckians deserve to hear him defend his actions, and lack thereof, that have been so destructive to our commonwealth and country.” Meanwhile, McConnell is also facing a Republican primary challenge from former state representative Wesley Morgan.
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United States Imposes More Sanctions on Iran
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by jpost.com ~ The United States imposed sanctions on Iran's civilian space agency and two research organizations on Tuesday... saying they were being used to advance Tehran's ballistic missile program. The U.S. Treasury sanctions targeted the Iran Space Agency, Iran Space Research Center and the Astronautics Research Institute, according to a statement on its website. "The United States will not allow Iran to use its space launch program as cover to advance its ballistic missile programs," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement. He said Iran's Aug. 29 attempt to test a space launch vehicle underscored "the urgency of the threat." The United States has warned Iran against rocket launches, fearing the technology used to put satellites in orbit could help it develop the ballistic missile capability needed to launch nuclear warheads. Tehran denies its activity is a cover for such development. On Friday, U.S. President Donald Trump posted on Twitter a photo of what appeared to be the site of a failed Iranian satellite launch. "These designations should serve as a warning to the international scientific community that collaborating with Iran’s space program could contribute to Tehran’s ability to develop a nuclear weapon delivery system," Pompeo said. Trump withdrew from a 2015 multi-national nuclear deal with Iran, saying it did not go far enough. Earlier on Tuesday, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said Iran will not agree to bilateral negotiations with the United States until all sanctions are lifted. He also threatened to further cut commitments to the crumbling nuclear deal called the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA). “We’ve said it before time and again, and we say it again: we have no intention to hold bilateral talks with the United States,” Rouhani was quoted as saying by Iran’s Mehr News Agency during a parliament session in Tehran. “We never did and never will. This has been the case in the past year and a half, and even in previous years. There have been calls for talks, but we never responded to them. When we talk about negotiations, we only mean it under the situation where all sanctions have been lifted – that is, the situation we previously had under the JCPOA. Our stance is clear.” He said were Washington to lift all sanctions it imposed on Tehran after it unilaterally withdrew from the JCPOA, then there could be multilateral talks with the remaining signatories, the UK, France, Germany, China and Russia.
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'Secret asset': loose lips liar-Joe Biden leans 
heavily on wife Jill as he battles to 
overcome campaign stumbles
by Naomi Lim
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ While loose lips liar-Joe Biden fumbled repeatedly as he campaigned in New Hampshire recently, his wife Jill was almost 1,000 miles away in South Carolina... talking up the former vice president's 2020 White House bid in an altogether smoother manner. It's the sort of division of labor that's sure to happen more frequently as the Democratic primary fight intensifies, but carried risks as the couple present themselves as a two-for-one deal in a way perhaps not seen since scumbag/liar-Bill and scumbag/liar-Hillary Clinton barnstormed through the 1992 presidential campaign. Jill loose lips liar-Biden, 68, has had a strikingly prominent role since her husband, who at 76 is nine years her senior, announced his candidacy in April. With roughly 38 days of campaigning under her belt in contrast to his comparatively light schedule of 70, she's on the road more than half as much as the two-term vice president, a  Washington Examiner analysis shows. The arrangement compensates for the energy of not only younger rivals such as socialist-Beto O'Rourke and Pete Buttigieg, but also commie-Bernie Sanders, who routinely holds more than four events a day while loose lips liar-Biden sticks to one or two. Her initial appearances coincided with a national book tour promoting her 2019 memoir, Where the Light Enters, part of a deal the couple struck following eight years with former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama's administration. It's common for candidates to launch a campaign with a book, much less so for a spouse to do so. After a messy controversy involving a college land deal, Jane Sanders is a quieter presence than in 2016. Chasten Buttigieg, 30, has a cult social media following and headlined the HRC Houston 21st Annual Gala in April, but usually remains in the shadow of his husband. Doug Emhoff, husband of California Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris, has hosted low-key solo engagements. Even their presence, however, is nowhere near the scale of Jill loose lips liar-Biden's. But Jill loose lips liar-Biden, a divorcee who married then-Sen. loose lips liar-Joe Biden, a widower, in 1977 is no ordinary political spouse. The 2020 campaign marks their third White House race together, dating back to the Reagan years. Jill loose lips liar-Biden was at her husband's side as he sought the 1988 Democratic nomination, which ended in failure amid revelations of plagiarism. Twenty years later, they relentlessly toured Iowa ahead of the January 2008 caucuses, but the veteran senator he represented Delaware for 36 years dropped out after a 0.9% showing that left him in fifth place...
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Trump Caught Between King Corn and Big Oil
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Political Editors:  Cronyism coming from either Democrats or Republicans is still cronyism, and one of the biggest crony deals Republicans have long upheld is with King Corn via the ethanol mandate. Recall back in 2016, the only prominent Republican presidential candidate willing to stand up and call for an end to the ethanol mandate was Ted Cruz. At least his position was clear.

Now President Donald Trump finds himself stuck between the gas and oil industry on one side and the ethanol/corn lobby on the other. Trump has been trying to appease both sides, while at the same time fighting a trade war with China.

Earlier this year, in a move aimed at winning support with King Corn, Trump’s EPA extended the sale of E15 or 15% ethanol gas to year-round. This move drew the ire of both the oil industry and environmentalists. However, in a move seen by the ethanol lobby as a means to mitigate the impact of the E15 extension, the EPA increased the number of waivers it issued to smaller refineries, exempting them from the Renewable Fuel Standard mandate. That angered farmers as it reduces demand, but it’s a Faustian bargain to build your business on government support.

Now with China’s targeted tariffs really starting to hurt American farmers, it appears that Trump is looking into ways to increase biofuel demands by raising the level of ethanol in gasoline blends for 2020 and 2021. As Hot Air’s Jazz Shaw observes, “How long can this go on? No matter what Trump does to curry favor with one group, the other one will be up in arms. He wants to play nice with the folks in Iowa, but he also needs to maintain the support of states with a lot of refineries, including Pennsylvania He can’t keep both of them happy at the same time, so it seems obvious that he needs to pick a side and stick with it.” This is just one of the many problems created by cronyism.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65182?mailing_id=4505&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4505&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Tuesday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

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    CA Court Overturns 
Conviction Against Steinle Killer
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Thomas Gallatin
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Walmart to stop selling handgun ammunition
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by Melissa Quinn
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Walmart announced Tuesday it will end the sale of handgun ammunition... a decision that comes as the retail giant faced pressure to curb gun and ammunition sales in the wake of a shooting at its store in El Paso, Texas. In an open letter to Walmart associates, CEO Doug McMillon said that the store plans to discontinue sales of short-barrel rifle ammunition and no longer sell handgun ammunition. The Bentonville, Arkansas-based retailer will also no longer sell handguns at its stores in Alaska, marking a complete exit from the handgun market. Additionally, Walmart is asking its customers to no longer openly carry guns in its stores or in Sam’s Clubs where open carry is allowed under state law. “We know these decisions will inconvenience some of our customers, and we hope they will understand,” McMillon said. “As a company, we experienced two horrific events in one week, and we will never be the same.”The move by Walmart comes after 22 people were killed when a gunman opened fire at one of its stores in El Paso. Days prior to the massacre, a disgruntled Walmart employee in Mississippi shot and killed two other associates. After the rampage in El Paso, 2020 Democratic presidential hopefuls and gun control groups urged Walmart to stop selling all firearms and ammunition, though the retailer refrained from changing its firearm policies in the days following the attack. During a call with investors last month, McMillon noted Walmart makes up roughly 2% of the nation’s firearms market and sells about 20% of the country’s ammunition. The decision to stop selling handgun ammunition will reduce Walmart’s market share to between 6% and 9%... This decision will not stop the shooting.
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'Catastrophic decisions': Mattis savages scumbag/liar-nObama for 'failure'
in foreign policy
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by Kelly Jane Torrance
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Though former Defense Secretary Jim Mattis only mentions his last boss, President Trump, in the opening pages of his new book... the Washington establishment seems certain the tome on leadership is directed at him, with one observer calling it “mainly a 100,000-word subtweet.” Mattis says he won’t discuss a sitting president, though it seems clear he disdains Trump’s leadership style. But he is scathing about a former president in Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, which is released today, and he doesn’t hesitate to name him: Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. The former general's opinion of scumbag/liar-nObama, for whom Mattis was head of U.S. Central Command from 2010 until 2013, might be summed up by a single entry in the book’s index: “scumbag/liar-nObama, Barack, strategic thinking lacking.” That entry points readers to a couple of the book’s most thoughtful passages on the necessity of allies and the dangers of alienating them. Those who have heard Mattis in his publicity campaign emphasize these points assume he’s speaking indirectly of Trump: for example, his disparagement of NATO. But Mattis makes clear in Call Sign Chaos that he believes scumbaqg/liar-nObama bungled Middle East policy and, as a result, sent American allies around the world a dangerous message. Mattis summarizes his time commanding CENTCOM, overseeing military operations in the Middle East and Central Asia until scumbag/liar-nObama fired him, in harsh terms: “It was to be a time when I would witness duty and deceit, courage and cowardice, and, ultimately, strategic frustration.” The general was in charge of two wars, in Iraq and Afghanistan, though one ended on his watch — or so the president said. “You know I say what I mean, and I mean what I say,” scumbag/liar-nObama said in fall 2012, as Mattis notes. “I said I’d end the war in Iraq. I ended it.” Mattis follows this up with an even more succinct statement: “Rhetoric doesn’t end conflicts.”...
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Zarif's Inexcusable Warm Welcome in Europe
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by Mina Bai
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif made a surprise appearance at the Group of Seven (G7) Summit in Biarritz, France, which ended on August 26. Prior to his attendance at the gathering in France, he stopped in Sweden and Norway.. Denmark was not part of his itinerary, of course, due to Copenhagen's rocky relations with Tehran, over last year's assassination attempt against an Iranian Sunni separatist on Danish soil. The purpose of Zarif's trip to Europe, apparently, was to discuss ways to ease tensions in the Persian Gulf and rescue the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action(JCPOA) -- the nuclear deal with Iran from which US President Donald Trump withdrew in May 2018. Zarif's European tour spurred many human rights activists and Iranian opposition groups abroad to protest. Zarif, after all, represents a regime that is widely regarded as one of the world's leading violators of human rights. Those in Iran who raise a voice against Tehran's policies in any realm are often incarcerated: Among them are labor activists, lawyers and women's rights activists, children's rights activists, journalists, members of ethnic and religious minorities, environmental activists and even wildlife activists. Days before Zarif's trip, in fact, UN human rights experts called on the regime in Tehran to release three women recently sentenced to decades in prison for violating the law that women must wear the hijab. The demonstrations in Europe were aimed both at Zarif and at European authorities for hosting him. In Stockholm on August 21, peaceful protesters outside the Swedish Parliament were so harassed and beaten by police that Reza Pahlavi -- the Maryland-based heir to the throne of the former Iranian monarchy his father's ouster coincided with the 1979 Islamic revolution that ushered in the reign of the ayatollahs -- released the following statement...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14804/iran-zarif-welcome-europe   
Hezbollah Setting up Precision Missile 
Site in Lebanon's Bekaa
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By ANNA AHRONHEIM  
jpost.com } ~ Hezbollah has set up a production and conversion site for precision missiles near the town of Al-Nabi Sheeth in Lebanon’s Bekaa... Israel’s military announced on Tuesday, saying the facility was established in recent years as a site for the production of weapons led by Iran and Hezbollah. Various activities to facilitate the manufacture and conversion of precision-guided missiles at the facility have lately been identified, including the establishment of a dedicated assembly line for precision weapons, and the transfer of sensitive and dedicated equipment.  “This facility is of superior importance to the Hezbollah precision-missile project, which is why Hezbollah, in fear of strikes, evacuated precious and unique equipment from the compound to civilian locations in Beirut,” the military said. The facility has a number of machines designed to manufacture the motors and missile warheads for missiles capable of hitting within 10 meters from its target. Iran, the IDF said, is providing special machinery, trains production operators, and regularly provides guidance and support. The facility is divided into different sections, including for motor production, quality assurance, logistics, and the manufacturing of explosives for warheads. Last week the IDF announced that Hezbollah – which has been working on the expensive and classified precision-missile project since 2013 – has been attempting to build factories to produce precision missiles in southern Lebanon, Beirut and the Bekaa under the guidance of senior Iranian officers. Israel was alleged to have struck a base last week belonging to the Palestinian PFLP-GC terrorist group near Qusaya in Lebanon’s Bekaa, close to the border with Syria, causing material damage but no casualties. Hezbollah has over 130,000 rockets and missiles with varying ranges and payloads, and while the group has been working on this project since 2013, they only have several dozen precision missiles.  https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hezbollah-setting-up-precision-missile-site-in-Lebanons-Bekaa-Valley-600515   
Hezbollah Attacks Israel: United Nations 
Force In Lebanon Fails To Keep Peace
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The Hezbollah terror group fired several anti-tank guided missiles at an army base and a military jeep just inside northern Israel’s border with Lebanon on Sunday afternoon, causing no injuries, the Israel Defense Forces said... Military sources said that the vehicle was empty when it was struck, but that soldiers had been inside half an hour earlier. IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus initially said that the armored jeep had been painted with a red Jewish star, identifying it as an ambulance, but later retracted the claim and clarified that the vehicle had been used as an ambulance but was not marked as such. In response to the attack, the Israeli military said its artillery cannons and attack helicopters fired approximately 100 shells and bombs at Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said no Israelis were so much as “scratched” by the Hezbollah attack. “There were no Israeli injuries, not even a scratch,” Netanyahu said, smiling, at the opening of a Honduras diplomatic office in Jerusalem. Clearly the United Nations Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) has failed to maintain peace and ensure that Hezbollah stop their attacks on Israel. U.N. peacekeepers were sent to Lebanon in 1978 following the passage of U.N. Security resolutions 425 and 426. After the 2006 war between Israel and Hezbollah, the U.N. Security Council passed resolution 1701, which in part called on UNIFIL to assist the Lebanese military in establishing an area free of any armed personnel, assets and weapons other than the government and UNIFIL. The budget of UNIFIL for 2018-19 was $481 million. The U.S. is the biggest donor to U.N. peacekeeping, paying around a quarter of its total $6.5 billion budget...
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CA Court Overturns Conviction Against 
Steinle Killer
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Thomas Gallatin:  If there wasn’t already more than enough insult added to injury in the sad case of the death of Kate Steinle at the hands of a five-time deported illegal-alien felon, a California appeals court on Friday overturned the lone conviction against her killer. In the case against Mexican national Jose Ines Garcia-Zarate, the First District Court of Appeals overturned his felony possession of a weapon conviction on a seeming technicality. In its decision, the court noted that the trial judge failed to give the jury “the momentary possession instruction.” The court explained, “It is undisputed that defendant was holding the gun when it fired. But that fact alone does not establish he possessed the gun for more than a moment. To possess the gun, defendant had to know he was holding it.”
 

You might need to read that last sentence again.

So, as things currently stand, all charges surrounding Steinle’s death have been either dismissed or overturned. Even the Steinles’ civil suit against the city of San Francisco for its “sanctuary city” laws, which directly led to Garcia-Zarate being released rather than detained for immigration authorities, was dismissed earlier this year.

Upon hearing the news, acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli responded, “Kate Steinle was tragically killed because San Francisco proudly proclaims itself a sanctuary city. How many more innocents will die [before] sanctuary cities stop harboring violent criminals? This defies common sense, public safety, [and] human decency.”

The good news is, while California has failed to hold Garcia-Zarate accountable, he is still in custody facing federal charges for possessing a firearm and being in the U.S. illegally. That trial is scheduled to begin in January.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65199?mailing_id=4505&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4505&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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    Democrats Embrace Politicized 
'John Doe' Investigations
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Harold Hutchison
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The Return of the Tea-Party-is-Racist Smear
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By Christopher Chantrill
americanthinker.com } ~ Our friends at the New York Times did a retrospective piece August 28, 2019 on the tenth anniversary of the Tea Party that emerged in 2009 after the election of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, the nation’s First Black President... But, according to Tyler O’Neil, the NYT got into trouble because the article did not accuse the Tea Party of racism. So, in due course, Times amended the article to add a retrospective accusation of racism as demanded by the critics. When the Tea Party emerged in the spring of 2009 it represented itself as a political movement in the grand old tradition of American politics, like the folks that staged the Boston Tea Party of 1773. The simplest way of describing the Tea Party’s birth, from the perspective of the post-2016 world, would be that it represented a #Resistance against the results of the presidential election of 2008. Just as lefty Americans were devastated by the Trump ascendancy of 2016 and were moved to protest it, the Tea Partiers felt that the sharp left turn of 2008 represented a threat to their kind of America.  May we be permitted to suggest to our liberal friends, ever so gently, that the good-fellowship and tricorn hats of the Tea Party were rather less “divisive” than the threats and “mostly peaceful protests” of the #Resistance and its iconic AntiFa protesters and feminist pussy-hatters. The accusation of racism against the Tea Party started early, as I recall. I felt at the time that the accusation was, as the postmodernists say, “overdetermined.” If you believe that any political speech that opposes the liberal Narrative is racist, and if you think that white middle class Americans are crypto-racists, and if you think that anyone that opposes any black elected official is racist, and if you think that the white working class are all Archie Bunkers, well, of course you think that the Tea Party was racist. Racist, racist, racist. My most vivid recollection of the great Tea Party’s Taxpayer March on Washington on the National Mall on September 12, 2009 was the white Tea Partiers being overjoyed to meet and greet the few black Americans that turned up at the event. It was even a bit embarrassing to see how pathetically glad they were to see African-Americans joining their parade...
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New Surface Squadron Receiving Unmanned 
Sea Hunter Ahead of Tests with 
Zumwalt Destroyers
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By Gidget Fuentes
news.usni.org } ~ The Navy’s new surface development squadron will soon receive its first unmanned vehicle to begin experimenting with, as the service looks to incorporate new types of manned and unmanned platforms into how it fights at sea... The San Diego-based Surface Development Squadron 1 is in the process of taking administrative and operational controls of the unmanned ship Sea Hunter by Oct. 1, Capt. Henry Adams, commodore of SURFDEVRON 1, told a Surface Navy Association West Symposium audience. “We are five and a half weeks out of pulling the switch and the Navy formally assuming custody,” Adams said, during a panel at the SNA West symposium, held pierside at Naval Base San Diego on Aug. 22. Sea Hunter was developed by the Office of Naval Research and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and will be transferred to the fleet for experimentation. “There’s already a lot of interest in renting Sea Hunter by a variety of organizations to go support their underway operations, to include training,” Adams said. “The value there is beginning to expose the fleet to … an unmanned system, so our sailors get comfortable and competent and confident operating around unmanned systems, because they’re coming.” Adams took command of SURDEVRON — formerly the DDG-1000 only Zumwalt Squadron — on May 22 with the missions of integrating new manned and unmanned surface ships and supporting fleet experiments. SURFDEVRON is responsible for the maintenance, training and manning oversight for medium and large unmanned surface vessels (USVs) – currently limited to Sea Hunter – as well as the three-ship Zumwalt class that will include USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000), USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001) and the future Lyndon B. Johnson (DDG-1002). The first four Littoral Combat Ships, which currently serve to test mission package equipment before fielding, will likely join the SURFDEVRON down the road...
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Voice Of America Currently Employs 
A Former Russian Anti-U.S. Propagandist
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dailycaller.com } ~ The taxpayer-funded Voice of America (VOA) currently employs a reporter for its Russian website who formerly produced anti-U.S. propaganda videos for a Russian outlet... Ilya Kolosov is a “contractor with the VOA Russian language service TV team,” Bridget Serchak, Director of Public Relations at VOA, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. He was previously employed at ONT, a Belorussian state-run TV station and RTVI, a Russian station, according to a report by Belsat.VOA is a U.S. government-funded and state-owned news agency, reaching more than 275 million people around the world every week. VOA is part of the U.S. Agency for Global Media (USAGM), which is a government agency overseeing all U.S. international broadcasting. Kolosov produced  Russian propaganda videos with anti-US and anti-Semitic themes before being hired by VOA. One of the YouTube videos, produced in Russian, alleges that the U.S. has developed the dollar as the main international currency in an attempt to get rich at the expense of other countries. The U.S. currency “unfairly took the world on,” the video says, according to Belsat. The video was uploaded to YouTube by Pravoved TV, a Russian station. The production includes a caricature of a Jewish person and has anti-Semitic references. The video asserts President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated because of his contact with U.S. bankers...
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US airstrike takes out al-Qaida leaders in Syria
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by Ben Marquis
patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ U.S. forces reportedly launched an airstrike on suspected al-Qaida terrorist leaders in the Syrian province of Idlib on Saturday... Forty jihadist leaders were killed by the strike, according to a battlefield monitor, Military.com reported. The aircraft-launched missile strike was confirmed in a brief statement from U.S. Central Command, which noted that the strike had been aimed at a facility north of Idlib. The facility is believed to have been used by Al-Qaeda leaders in Syria. “This operation targeted AQ-S leaders responsible for attacks threatening U.S. citizens, our partners, and innocent civilians. Additionally, the removal of this facility will further degrade their ability to conduct future attacks and destabilize the region,” said Lt. Col. Earl Brown, chief of media operations for CENTCOM. “Northwest Syria remains a safe haven where AQ-S leaders actively coordinate terrorist activities throughout the region and in the West. With our allies and partners, we will continue to target violent extremists to prevent them from using Syria as a safe haven,” the CENTCOM spokesman added. There is reportedly a tenuous cease-fire at the moment in northwestern Syria where the brutal years-long civil war between Bashar al-Assad’s government and anti-Assad opposition forces continues to this day. While the strike on al-Qaida terrorists should be welcome news to all, the Russian government, which backs Assad, appears to be a bit peeved at reportedly being left out of the loop with regard to the strike. Russian media outlet RT reported that the Russian Defense Ministry said it was concerned that the airstrike could endanger the tenuous truce and provoke future attacks on Syrian and Russian forces by the opposition forces. Some of the rebels are allied with U.S. interests, but others are jihadist-orientated and hold no allegiance to any nation-state or international body outside of their own version of Islamic faith...  https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/airstrike-syria-terrorist-leaders/  
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The National Popular Vote Con Job
by DAVID CATRON
spectator.org } ~ The latest attempt by the Democrats to avoid the exigencies of the Electoral College is the National Popular Vote Interstate Compact (NPVIC)... They have been selling this scheme as a conservative compromise between progressives who would abolish the “obsolete” institution outright and reactionaries who wish to preserve an “inequitable and racist” provision of the Constitution. In reality, NPVIC is just another effort to endow the heavily populated, Democrat-dominated regions of the country with even more political power than they already wield. Fortunately, it is doomed to failure. If you haven’t read the official NPVIC pitch, here’s what it would accomplish, according to its official website: The National Popular Vote interstate compact would guarantee the Presidency to the candidate who receives the most popular votes across all 50 states and the District of Columbia. The bill ensures that every vote, in every state, will matter in every presidential election. The bill is a constitutionally conservative, state-based approach that preserves the Electoral College, state control of elections, and the power of the states to control how the President is elected.
How would NPVIC achieve this miracle? There would be a formal agreement among various states controlling 270 or more presidential electors who would be required to cast their ballots for any candidate receiving the most popular votes across the country — even if some other candidate wins a majority in any of the signatory states. A brief perusal of the current signatories to this compact will render its true objective all too clear. Thus far, 15 states and the District of Columbia have joined the movement, and all are owned and operated by the Democratic Party. Among them, they control 196 electors, and they boast that NPVIC “will take effect when enacted by states controlling 74 more electoral votes.” Here is the current list of NPVIC signatory states and the number of electors they control: California (55), New York (29), Illinois (20), New Jersey (14), Washington (12), Massachusetts (11), Maryland (10), Colorado (9), Oregon (7), Connecticut (7), New Mexico (5), Rhode Island (4), Hawaii (4), Delaware (3), Vermont (3), and the District of Columbia (3). There are seven additional states in which at least one legislative chamber has thus far approved the measure and another in which both houses of the legislature have approved it. If they pass the measure, the NPVIC states will claim the right to choose the president. This claim will conflict with at least two constitutional provisions, including the 12th Amendment, which states: The Electors shall meet in their respective states and vote by ballot for President … and transmit sealed to the seat of the government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate — The President of the Senate shall, in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all certificates and the votes shall then be counted … the person having the greatest number of votes for President, shall be the President if such number be a majority of the whole number of electors appointed...  https://spectator.org/the-national-popular-vote-con-job/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=9fdc0793ae-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_03_02_56&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-9fdc0793ae-104608113  
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Democrats Embrace Politicized 'John 
Doe' Investigations
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Harold Hutchison:  “John Doe” is not exactly a memorable name — indeed, it is often used for someone that can’t be identified in one context or another. But that name is something that Americans need to be aware of, especially as it applies to the state of Wisconsin, where it stands for an abuse of power that may have affected at least one state-wide election.
 

In 2015, our Arnold Ahlert reported on the “John Doe” investigations into conservative activists in the state of Wisconsin. While they were eventually shut down by the state supreme court, the abusers — including the district attorney in Milwaukee — got off scot-free. In essence, they got away with using a phony criminal investigation to punish political opponents.

Scott Walker would lose a bid for a third term by a very narrow margin in the 2018 election. We will never know for sure, but there is a chance that the lack of punishment, and the abuses that went on in the name of the “John Doe” law did suppress conservative activism and grassroots support for Walker just enough to swing that race.

That is not the only abuse of people who have exercised their first Amendment rights to oppose left-wing policy goals. New York has been very active on this front, with Andrew Cuomo targeting both the National Rifle Association and opponents of his environmental agenda. The abuses are so blatant that the ACLU sided with the National Rifle Association in its litigation (which is proving to be very expensive). Even if the internally fractured  NRA should prevail, the fight is drawing funds way from legislative and political activities.

Again, look at close races like Walker’s in Wisconsin, the McSally-Sinema Senate race in Arizona, or a number of seats in the House of Representatives that went to the Democrats. Could an NRA not fighting abuses from the scumbag-Andrew Cuomo-Letitia James regime have swung those elections the other way? It may never be known for sure, but we have our suspicions.

The scary thing is that more Democrats are adopting these tactics. Elizabeth dinky-Warren is promising to sic the IRS on the NRA. In essence, an army of liar-Lois Lerners could be unleashed on Americans who dissent from her politics as early as Day One of a dinky-Warren presidency, and with the full approval of President dinky-Warren in the name of “accountability.”

But it won’t just be the NRA that gets targeted — just look at the actions of Representative Joaquin Castro, whose brother is running for president. He doxed Trump donors in his district.

Of course, imagine if the roles were reversed. If the governor of Texas was targeting Bloomberg’s gun-control groups, or if the state of Florida tried to pressure banks into dropping Planned Parenthood as a customer, do you think the media would be silent? There’s a better chance People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals will endorse veal farms.

Here’s how bad the bias is: A number of media outlets are giving Stacey Abrams, the loser of the 2018 gubernatorial election in Georgia, a platform to outline her agenda for “reform.” None have challenged her claims on air. The media also covered when Federal Election Commission Chairwoman Ellen Weintraub bashed President Donald Trump’s claims of voter fraud.

But Weintraub has been silent about the fact that for almost 10 months now, Abrams has made charges, without evidence, of voter suppression in the election she lost. The media has been silent about Weintraub’s double standard. As The Patriot Post team noted when discussing Robert Mueller and Spygate, America cannot survive double standards, much less the imposition of a two-tiered justice system.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65142?mailing_id=4501&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4501&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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   College-Educated Women Outnumber 
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Tuesday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


DORIAN UPDATE: “Hurricane Dorian will finally begin its long-awaited march up the Southeast coast today after delivering one last punishing blow over the storm-fatigued northwest Bahamas. Dorian’s wind intensity has backed off from Sunday’s peak, currently a Category 3 hurricane. Regardless of its intensity and track, Dorian will have significant, damaging impact from Florida’s Atlantic coast to parts of Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and possible southeast Virginia this week.” (The Weather Channel)

ANTI-GUN BLUSTER: “Democrat presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden went far to the left on the issue of guns on Monday, telling reporters that he wants to ban magazines that hold ‘multiple bullets’ — which means all magazines,” The Daily Wire reports. loose lips liar-Biden declared, “This is no compromise. This is one we have to just push, and push, and push, and push, and push.” Some people believe this is yet another loose lips liar-Biden faux pas. Regardless, magazine and firearm bans are the Democrat Party’s endgame. Additional methods to undermine the Second Amendment include this one as revealed by The Washington Free Beacon: “Liberal billionaire scumbag-George Soros’s advocacy organizations are lobbying lawmakers on Capitol Hill to repeal an act protecting firearms manufacturers from liability for gun crimes including murder, disclosure forms show.”

Politics & National Security


WITCH HUNT: “House Democrats are set to open an investigation into President Trump’s involvement into payments made to porn star Stormy Daniels and former Playboy model Karen McDougal. … Democrats said they have enough evidence to name the president as a co-conspirator after Michael Cohen, his former attorney and fixer, plead guilty in August 2018 to campaign-finance charges that stemmed from payments made to Daniels and McDougal.” (Washington Examiner)

PANDORA’S BOX: “Democratic presidential candidate scumbag-Cory Booker on Tuesday released a $3 trillion dollar plan to combat climate change after several of his opponents released their versions in recent weeks. The New Jersey senator’s plan aims to make the U.S. a 100 percent carbon-neutral economy by 2045 and combines two of his priorities, addressing economic inequality at the same time.” (National Review)

NEGOTIATING WITH THE DEVIL: “The Taliban on Tuesday defended their suicide bombing against an international compound in the Afghan capital that killed at least 16 civilians and wounded 119 people, just hours after a U.S. envoy said he and the militant group had reached a deal ‘in principle’ to end America’s longest war. … Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told The Associated Press that ‘we understand that peace talks are going on … but they must also understand that we are not weak and if we enter into talks … we enter from a strong position.’ He said the attack was a response to raids by U.S. and Afghan forces on civilians in other parts of the country.” (The Washington Times)

Culture & Heartland


CALIFORNIA TRAGEDY: “At least 25 people were confirmed dead and nine others still missing after a tragic boat fire early Monday near an island off the Southern California coast. The dive-boat Conception, far out to sea in the middle of the night, became fully engulfed in flames as 30 passengers on a recreational scuba diving trip slept below deck.” (Associated Press)

RAINBOW MAFIA TRIGGERED “A few Kansas University faculty members are not fans of allowing Chick-fil-A to be served on campus because they believe the chain violates ‘safety and inclusion.’ The faculty council, filled with ‘extreme frustration,’ wants America’s favorite restaurant removed from campus for being a ‘bastion of bigotry’ after KU administrators relocated a Chick-fil-A from a basement to ‘prime real estate’ on campus to the Memorial Union. But worse yet, to the council, is the ‘Chick-fil-A Coin Toss’ at the start of the Jayhawks’ football home games.” (Fox News)

RAINBOW MAFIA RETALIATES: Author of hoax gender-studies papers punished by Portland State University (The Resurgent)

Around the World


CAPITULATING: Hong Kong adopts China’s language of terrorism to describe pro-democracy protests (Washington Examiner)

IRAN ROCKET FAIL: “After days of silence, Iran has finally acknowledged satellite images showing that there was an explosion at a rocket site last week. Iran on Monday said that the photos that have been circulating since last week and show a blast at the Imam Khomeini Space Center are accurate. The explosion came before a planned satellite launch by Iran that the U.S. has criticized.” (Washington Examiner)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Death of the “gay gene” (National Review)

POLICY: Was the U.S. recovery from the Great Recession a success? (Foundation for Economic Education)

HUMOR: Trump changes Labor Day to “Capitalism Day” because without capital, labor is just slavery (Genesius Times)  

~The Patriot Post
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Will IG’s FISA Report Spur Criminal Charges?  
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By JOHN HINDERAKER  
powerlineblog.com } ~ We have gotten to the point where, when the Department of Justice’s Inspector General releases a harshly critical report on former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey... finding repeated instances of scumbag-Comey violating FBI regulations and his own employment agreement to advance a political agenda, but the Attorney General decides not to press criminal charges, scumbag-Comey declares victory and demands apologies from his critics. “I am not a crook!” is the proudest claim scumbag/liar-nObama’s FBI Director can make. Of course, that report dealt only with scumbag-Comey’s mishandling of his memos on conversations with President Trump. The Inspector General’s second report, expected around mid-September, will deal with the more explosive misconduct of the scumbag/liar-nObama Department of Justice which mostly continued in place into President Trump’s first term in obtaining FISA warrants to spy on candidate Trump and his associates under false pretenses. Congressman Andy Biggs of Arizona, a member of the House Judiciary Committee who presumably has seen some of the evidence relevant to the FISA investigation, said yesterday that he expects criminal indictments in the wake of that report: Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona made the prediction on Fox News’ Sunday Morning Futures, discussing Horowitz’s report last week FBI Director scumbag-James Comey’s mishandling and leaking of memos on conversations he’d had with President Trump to spur the appointment of a special counsel. Biggs accused scumbag-Comey of “dodging and weaving” in the wake of the revelations, and said Horowitz’s next report on FISA abuse would be even more devastating. “I anticipate that we will see some very stark revelations of manipulation of the whole system for political purposes,” Biggs said. “When you see that happen, that’s when I think you’re going to see references or referrals for indictments, and I think you are going to see some indictments.” Let’s hope so. The scumbag/liar-nObama DOJ/FBI/CIA scandal is Watergate x 10,000. Someone needs to wind up in a federal penitentiary.  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/09/will-igs-fisa-report-spur-criminal-charges.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+powerlineblog%2Flivefeed+%28Power+Line%29   
Kansas University faculty wants Chick-fil-A 
banned from campus for fears of 
'safety,' 'mental well being'
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By Caleb Parke 
foxnews.com } ~ A few Kansas University faculty members are not fans of allowing Chick-fil-A to be served on campus because they believe the chain violates "safety and inclusion".... The faculty council, filled with "extreme frustration," wants  America's favorite restaurant removed from campus for being a "bastion of bigotry" after KU administrators relocated a Chick-fil-A from a basement to "prime real estate" on campus to the Memorial Union. But worse yet, to the council, is the "Chick-fil-A Coin Toss" at the start of the Jayhawks' football home games.“ The culture of Chick-fil-A fosters hate and discrimination on multiple levels,” the Sexuality & Gender Diversity Faculty and Staff Council  wrote in a two-page letter, accusing university leaders of being "more concerned about money and corporate sponsorship than the physical, emotional, and mental well being of marginalized and LGBTQ people." While the fast-food chain is celebrated for its exceptional customer service, it has come under fire several times after its president and CEO, Dan Cathy, publicly supported traditional marriage in 2012 and opponents have accused Chick-fil-A of being anti-LGBTQ for its charitable giving to the Family Research Council and Salvation Army, to name a few. The faculty group added: “The arrival of Chick-fil-A in this building is insulting, counterproductive and unacceptable." In response, the College Republicans on campus started a petition for students, alumni, and concerned citizens to send to Chancellor Doug Girod. "Tell our university administration that our community wants Chick-fil-A on this campus," the conservative group wrote... LGBTQ wouldn't face the truth and these few faculty members are just stupid to allow this to happen.
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103 Days – Where Are Rosenstein’s 
Scope Memos to Robert Mueller?
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by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ On May 23rd, 2019, President Donald Trump gave U.S. Attorney General Bill Barr full authority to review and release all of the classified material hidden... by the DOJ, FBI, State Department, CIA, FISA Court, and aggregate intelligence apparatus; 103 days ago... It has been 103 days since President Trump empowered AG Bill Barr to release the original authorizing framework of the Mueller investigation which began on May 17, 2017. A Mueller investigation that concluded six months ago, and yet we are not allowed to know what the authorizing framework was?…. Nor the 2nd DOJ scope memo of August 2nd, 2017?… Nor the 3rd DOJ scope memo of October 20th, 2017?….The released Weissmann/ Mueller report showed there were two additional scope memos authorizing specific targeting of the Mueller probe.  The first scope memo was August 2nd, 2017, and is an important part of the puzzle that helps explain the corrupt original purpose of the special counsel. The second scope memo was issued by Rod Rosenstein to Robert Mueller on October 20th, 2017.  The transparent intent of the second scope memo was to provide Weissmann and Mueller with ammunition and authority to investigate specific targets, for specific purposes.  One of those targets was General Michael Flynn’s son, Michael Flynn Jr. As you review the highlighted portion below, found on pages 12 and 13 of the Weissmann report, read slowly and fully absorb the intent; the corruption is blood-boiling...
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Sheriff Rips Sanctuary County Leader 
After String Of Rapes By Illegal Aliens
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dailycaller.com { ~ A local sheriff criticized a Democratic county executive for overseeing policies that, he says, protect illegal aliens accused of heinous crimes... Sheriff Chuck Jenkins of Frederick County, Maryland, appeared on “Fox and Friends,” responding to the number of illegal aliens accused of rape and sexual abuse in the neighboring Montgomery County. Since July 25, at least seven illegal immigrants in Montgomery County have been arrested and charged with sexual crimes, bringing national attention to the county’s official policy that restricts cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). “It’s really outrageous,” Jenkins said Monday. “What they’ve done now is galvanized the fact that you can commit — in Montgomery County — commit crimes as an illegal alien and you won’t feel the consequences. You’ll be prosecuted for the state crime, but then once you’re adjudicated, you would be released back onto the street to potentially commit more crimes against the citizens.” “What Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich has done effectively is jeopardize public safety throughout the entire central part of Maryland,” Jenkins continued. Emilio Carrasco-Hernandez, a 37-year-old from Honduras, was recently arrested by authorities for allegedly holding a 15-year-old girl down and raping her. Carrasco-Hernadez’s arrest marked the seventh instance in about a month’s time where an illegal alien has been charged for a rape or sexual abuse crime. Other illegal aliens, for example, have been charged with raping an 11-year-old and a 16-year-old, the latter at knifepoint...
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New Reversible Bumper Sticker Can Switch 
Between ‘COEXIST’ And ‘RESIST’ Depending 
On Who The President Is  
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by Joel Berry
babylonbee.com } ~ Mandatory Tolerance, LLC is a Santa Cruz-based internet company that manufacturers bumper stickers, T-shirts, and other merchandise for the left... offering their goods and services on the free market in exchange for money in order to end capitalism. Their latest product is a magnetic, reusable bumper sticker that you can switch between the slogans "Coexist" and "Resist!" depending on who the president is. "If a liberal is in office, all is well---therefore, it's time to use the Coexist sticker to remind people that we can all get along despite our differences," said Lou Panderson, CEO of Mandatory Tolerance. "Once a Republican gets into office, it's on: flip that baby over to RESIST! to show people you will not stop screaming at the sky until peace and order is restored in our land." The company will even email customers helpful "Coexist forecast reports" that tell you when it's a good time to switch over. "Honestly, it looks like we're gonna have our stickers set to 'Resist' for at least another 5 or 6 years," he said sadly. Panderson says the company is also developing a "LOVE WINS" sticker that automatically detects if a Christian is behind you so it can switch to "DIE, BIGOT!"
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College-Educated Women Outnumber Men in U.S. Workforce
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Business Review Board:  For the first time in American history, women now outnumber men in the college-educated workforce. The Wall Street Journal reports, “Since 2013, the female share of college-educated workers has been around the 49% mark, with 2019 being the year that women cross into a very slight majority.” Meanwhile, the overall labor force in the U.S. is still a slight majority male.

The Journal further notes that this milestone has been a long-time coming: “Since the 1980s, women have made up the majority of those seeking bachelor’s degrees. By 1999, women received 57% of bachelor’s degrees, and it has been that way more or less for almost two decades.”

Far from a fluke, this would appear to be the new normal. But how could the “patriarchy” let this happen?

The Federalist’s Helen Raleigh notes that this news puts the lie to a well-worn leftist trope, writing, “Of course, when we talk about women in the workforce, one of the left’s favorite topics is the pay gap between the sexes. We’ve all heard the famous statistic that ‘a woman makes 77 cents for every dollar a man earns.’ They’ve used this number as evidence that the United States is a patriarchal society that discriminates against women or, even worse, that there is a war on women going on in America.”

In fact, Raleigh further observes, “More women in the labor force means more women are creating wealth. It is estimated that by 2030, women will control more aggregate wealth in the United States than men. So far, no activists, no politicians, and certainly no male workers are complaining about this reverse pay gap.”

Clearly, the Left’s canard that American women aren’t getting a fair shake is patently false.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65143?mailing_id=4501&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4501&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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  Mattis Says 'We're Better Than 
Our Current Politics'
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Michael Swartz  
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Mattis blasts ‘indifferent’ loose lips liar-Biden
for bungling Iraq: ‘The enemy gets a vote’
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by Caitlin Yilek
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ Jim Mattis, the former Marine Corps general and Pentagon chief, has lashed 2020 Democratic front-runner loose lips liar-Joe Biden for fueling the rise of ISIS... by insisting on the total withdrawal of U.S. troops in Iraq. "You may want a war over. You may declare it over. You may even try to walk away from it. But the bottom line is the enemy gets a vote, as we say in the military, and we simply have got to understand that terrorism is going to be an ambient threat," he said in an NPR interview. As vice president, loose lips liar-Biden was tasked by President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama with overseeing Iraq policy. In his new book, Mattis, 68, argues that loose lips liar-Biden, 76, was "indifferent" to the consequences of complete withdrawal - consequences that included "tens of thousands of casualties, plus untold misery for millions of innocents," as well as the kidnapping and beheading of westerners, and horrific terrorist attacks across the world. "He wanted our forces out of Iraq," Mattis writes in Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead.” Whatever path led there fastest, he favored. He exuded the confidence of a man whose mind was made up, perhaps even indifferent to considering the consequences were he judging the situation incorrectly. "loose lips liar-Biden had voted in 2002 to authorize the Iraq invasion, after opposing the Gulf war in 1990. scumbag/liar -nObama, who has denounced the Iraq invasion, had campaigned in 2008 on pulling out. The U.S. pulled out its forces from Iraq in 2011, despite warnings from Mattis that this would be folly. At the time, Mattis was head of Central Command, overseeing the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. scumbag/liar-nObama sent forces back to Iraq in 2014 after the Islamic State seized parts of the country...
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Trump Administration Makes Historical Announcement — Democrats Are Infuriated
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by Lawrence Richard
wethepeopledaily.com } ~ For the first time in its history, the United States now recognizes that human life begins at conception... The Trump administration made the historic announcement via a shift in the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) official policy. The ACLJ reports the scientific determination will help allow the Trump administration to protect those in the womb from pro-choice liberals and from a growing abortion industry. The abortion industry is in trouble. For years, HHS has consistently expanded abortion and funneled taxpayer money to abortion. That changes now. HHS has just released its strategic plan for the next four years, stating that it will pursue policies that “protect Americans at every stage of life, beginning at conception.” As these policies are put in place, they could save countless lives. ACLJ Chief Counsel of the American Center for Law and Justice Jay Sekulow responded to the determination, tweeting: “For the first time ever, #HHS has made the official policy of #America that life begins at conception.”...
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China lodges tariff case at WTO against the U.S.
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by reuters.com ~ China has lodged a complaint against the United States at the World Trade Organization over U.S. import duties, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said on Monday... The United States began imposing 15% tariffs on a variety of Chinese goods on Sunday and China began imposing new duties on U.S. crude oil, the latest escalation in their trade war. China did not release details of its legal case but said the U.S. tariffs affected $300 billion of Chinese exports. The latest tariff actions violated the consensus reached by leaders of China and the United States in a meeting in Osaka, the Commerce Ministry said in the statement. China will defend its legal rights in accordance with WTO rules, it said. The lawsuit is the third Beijing has brought to challenge U.S. President Donald Trump’s China-specific tariffs at the WTO, the international organization that limits the tariffs each country is allowed to charge.U.S. officials say that they are penalizing China for theft of intellectual property that is not covered by WTO rules, although many trade experts say that any tariff hike above the allowed maximum must be justified at the WTO. Many experts also decry China’s decision to fight fire with fire, by imposing tariffs on U.S. goods imported into China, also without the WTO’s approval. On Friday the United States published a written defense in the first of the three legal cases, asserting that China and the United States agreed the issue should not be judged at the WTO...
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Maine Senate passes ranked-choice 
voting legislation
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by Jerry McCormick
patriotnewsalerts.com } ~ Maine lawmakers are doing their best to bring the state into the modern age of voting, but they may have moved a little too fast... While they already approved a primary election process to replace the usual caucuses, Maine lawmakers are now pushing the governor to sign ranked-choice voting legislation for the upcoming presidential primary race, according to the Portland Press Herald. The caucus system is a somewhat outdated system of voting, but it is still in place in roughly a dozen states throughout the country. Rather than being a straightforward election, discussions are held to evaluate the candidates, then the citizen votes for his or her candidate. Different states have different rules, as do the party delegations. For instance, in Iowa, Democrats require a precinct with two delegates to have a caucus group of 25 to be viable. Obviously, if you are not in a caucus state, the whole process can get rather confusing — which is no doubt why Maine lawmakers are looking to move away from the process.The ranked-choice voting method is very controversial but becoming more popular. Basically, rather than casting a single vote, you would rank the candidates in order of preference. In the first round of voting, all primary votes are counted and if any one candidate has the outright majority, he or she is awarded victory. If, however, there is no majority, the candidate that had the lowest number of votes is eliminated from the race. Anyone who chose that candidate as their top choice will then have their second choice counted as their vote. This process is repeated until a candidate wins the majority of the vote...  https://www.patriotnewsalerts.com/maine-senate-voting-legislation/  
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Top defense official: In 24 hours, 
Israel attacked various 'fronts'
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by ANNA AHRONHEIM 
jpost.com } ~ Hezbollah’s precision missile program is the State of Israel’s top priority, right after working to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear capability a top defense official said on Monday... admitting, for the first time, that Israel has carried out attacks against different fronts beyond Syria. The official spoke a day after Hezbollah and Israel exchanged blows along the Lebanese border in an attempt by the Iranian-backed guerilla organization to exact a price from Israel for the bombing of a terror cell in Syria in late August. While no IDF troops were injured, Israel fired over 100 artillery shells towards targets in south Lebanon in response to the attack and airlifted two uninjured soldiers to Rambam hospital in Haifa.  “We can’t hide injured troops in Israel for half an hour,” he said, disputing claim in Lebanon that troops had been injured in the attack. A video posted on Hezbollah-affiliated television station reported to show the Hezbollah missile hitting an Israeli military vehicle.   According to the Israeli official, Israel has been operating against Iran in several arenas. “Had we had not acted correctly we would be in a different reality today,” he said. The top official said that while preventing Iran from obtaining a nuclear bomb remains Israel’s top priority, thwarting Hezbollah’s precision missile project has become the second top objective. After those two is preventing Iranian entrenchment in various Middle Eastern countries like Iraq and Yemen. "Due to developments and situational assessments, it was decided three months ago that the precision missile project would be given high priority because of the immediate danger it poses. The military echelons were informed of this decision,” the senior official said, adding that "we cannot afford to be surrounded by thousands of precision missiles that could land and harm the State of Israel."  "Our three targets have one address - Iran," the source continued, adding that Iran’s Quds Force Commander Qassem Soleimani is the address for two of the three threats. He refused to answer how Israel could deal with him...
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Mattis Says 'We're Better Than Our 
Current Politics'
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Michael Swartz:  It’s a phenomenon that seems to come with every Republican president: A former administration official writes a critical book that gets lapped up by an adoring press. (Try naming a similar book from the Barack Obama era.) Former Secretary of Defense Gen. James Mattis is the latest such author, having penned a lengthy Wall Street Journal op-ed adapted from Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead, which hits the shelves on Sept. 3.
 

“Mad Dog,” as you may recall, served less than two years in the Trump administration, and while the official word was that his departure was pre-planned, it came when President Donald Trump announced U.S. withdrawal from Syria, a move Mattis opposed.

In the op-ed, which Mattis framed as “Duty, Democracy, and the Threat of Tribalism,” he outlined a leadership trait he apparently felt was lacking in the current administration. “In any organization, it’s all about selecting the right team,” he argued. “The two qualities I was taught to value most were initiative and aggressiveness. Institutions get the behaviors they reward.” He went on to relate the story of a former colleague whose leadership style he considered “harsh and inconsiderate,” leaving little doubt as to why he brought up that particular anecdote.

Predictably, the various shades of NeverTrump harrumphed in unison.

Hot Air’s Allahpundit, who reluctantly but eventually  climbed onto the Trump bandwagon, speculated that the Mattis tome was an initial step in creating a “coalition of former Trump advisors speaking out about the risks of a second term for POTUS,” while the more strident Quin Hillyer, writing at the Washington Examiner, called the Mattis piece an effective shot across Trump’s bow. “Jim Mattis was one of the most effective generals and defense secretaries in U.S. history,” argued Hillyer. “For him to be writing instead of leading is a sign of an inept, unstable presidency.”

Yet the case can also be made that the op-ed was simply about selling books. After all, taking a swipe at a sitting Republican president is a tried-and-true tactic.

And there’s also the idea about conventional wisdom being turned on its head — a Donald Trump specialty. In his op-ed, Mattis notes that he’d served as an executive secretary to two former defense secretaries appointed by President scumbag/liar-Bill Clinton: William Perry and William Cohen. While political party didn’t play an important role in this apprenticeship — Perry was a Democrat and Cohen was a moderate Republican during his lengthy service in Congress — Mattis’s own long military career may have entrenched him as part of the status quo that’s been the largest pocket of resistance for President Trump. Case in point: When Mattis resigned, longtime Republican consultant and rabid NeverTrumper Rick Wilson noted:

Jim Mattis was a talisman for the Washington and international foreign-policy communities, a point of smarts and stability, a ground-wire to short out Trump’s capricious impulses before they could damage America’s interests and values. While never straying from the chain of command, Mattis knew how to work the process, fight back behind closed doors, and maintain relationships with allies and friends around the world.

In other words, this was a clear clash of philosophies. This was The Swamp (albeit one of its best parts) versus the man who pledged to drain it.

In his op-ed, Mattis makes a good point about our heated political climate, but he doesn’t seem to understand his small part in creating it from his perch in the Pentagon. Indeed, here we have a case where the truth of the matter likely lies someplace between Trump’s brashness and the bluntness of the man whose call sign indeed was “Chaos.” Trump may have made a mistake by pulling out of Syria too soon, but it was a campaign promise kept and it hasn’t been quite the disaster that prematurely pulling out of Iraq was. On the other hand, has Mattis cooled things down with this op-ed (which may or may not reflect the theme of his book), or has he merely fanned the flames?

It’s intriguing that the man who now warns us of a “threat of tribalism” once exhorted his men to “fight with a happy heart and a strong spirit.” Think about it. A man who embodies these very attributes now resides in the Oval Office.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65160?mailing_id=4501&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4501&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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~ Featuring ~ 
 Despotic Judiciary Assaults 
Second Amendment
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Thomas Gallatin  
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AJ+ Is Al Jazeera
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by Raheem Kassam  
{prageru.com} ~ There’s a social media site whose glitzy videos populate your newsfeed... Its content overflows with typical leftist tropes. No, it’s not CNN or MSNBC. You should know what it is and the nefarious people backing it. Raheem Kassam, author of No Go Zones, explains why, when you come across these videos, you should swipe left.  VIDEO:  https://www.prageru.com/video/aj-is-al-jazeera/  
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Border Patrol releases drone footage 
showing miles of ‘new wall system’ being built
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By Greg Norman 
foxnews.com } ~ Drone footage released by the Border Patrol over the weekend shows miles of a “new border wall system” going up at a location in Arizona near where illegal immigrants were seen streaming into America years ago... The construction is taking place near San Luis and is being carried out with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. “CBP has constructed over 60 miles of new border wall system along the SW border since 2017 and expects to complete 450 miles by the end of 2020,” the Border Patrol said in a tweet.The agency also tweeted  footage showing how a 10-foot wall in the area “failed to impede and deny illegal entries” in 2005. “Today, CBP has a triple-layered enforcement zone which includes an 18’ bollard wall,” it added. Elsewhere in Arizona, crews were installing 30-foot steel fencing Friday to replace older barriers next to a border crossing known as Lukeville Port of Entry, which is part of the Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument. Many Arizona residents use the crossing on their way to Rocky Point, a beach destination in Mexico...
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Top Sanctuary City’s Mass Exodus Speeds 
Up – Citizens Can’t Leave Fast Enough
 Over Their Democrat Policies
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By Adam Casalino
patriotjournal.org } ~ The biggest cities in America usually are run by Democrats. Most of them are also sanctuary cities, overrun with crime and filth... It seems like Democrats don’t know how to run a city. Yet they demand we let them run an entire country! You don’t have to look far to see that most liberal states are the most expensive, crowded, and difficult places to live. Heck, even the residents of these cities know that. And more and more are fleeing in record numbers. Including this once “Greatest City in the World.” It’s pretty sad how far it has fallen. Scores of people are leaving the New York City area behind every day. New York leads all U.S. metro areas as the largest net loser with 277 people moving every day — more than double the exodus of 132 just one year ago. Los Angeles and Chicago were next with triple digit daily losses of 201 and 161 residents, respectively.  Woah. New York is losing 277 people a day. That’s a mass exodus if there ever was one. Once upon a time, New York was the place to be. Americans would flock to the Big Apple for a chance at success. It was the business center of the world. A place booming with jobs, opportunity, and excitement...  https://patriotjournal.org/sanctuary-city-exodus-speeds/   
Taliban Launches New Massive Attack 
As The U.S. Nears A Deal To Remove Troops  
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By daniel
redrightvideos.com } ~ The Taliban are at it again. Militants launched an attack on the city of Kunduz, Afghanistan, essentially ambushing them as they approached from all sides... “I can confirm that intense gunbattles are going on around the city, but the Taliban have not been able to overrun any security checkpoint,” said Sayed Sarwar Hussaini, a spokesman for the provincial police chief. The battle between the Taliban militants and the Afghan forces resulted in dozens of Taliban deaths, said Fawad Aman, a deputy spokesman for the Afghan Ministry of Defense. The Afghan Air Force responded with airstrikes, Aman added. Afghan forces had cleared Kunduz of Taliban fighters by Saturday evening, he said, though fighting continued around the outskirts of the city. Amad said 36 Taliban fighters were killed, 10 were injured, and 32 surrendered. He said he did not have details about civilian casualties. These attacks come as the United States and the Taliban have been trying to work out an agreement for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan. This was actually the second attack in the past few days. The first attack, according to Fox News resulted in 60 Taliban fighters having been killed in the assault. The bodies of three civilians and two security force members were taken to a hospital and at least 80 civilians were wounded, including women and children, according to provincial health director Esanullah Fazeli. Nine of the victims were wounded as a suicide bomber detonated his explosives at a major intersection in the city, following a push by Afghan security forces to move the Taliban toward the outskirts, said provincial council member Ghulam Rabani Rabani. The Taliban also took control of several positions in civilian areas, including a hospital, although officials say Kunduz was still in government control.
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Death and Resistance on the U.S.-Mexico Border
 A Democracy Now! Special
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by democracynow.org ~ Democracy Now! travels to the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona to follow the humanitarian activist Scott Warren into the Sonoran Desert... as he accompanies other No More Deaths volunteers as they leave water and food for migrants making the treacherous journey north. Warren is currently facing up to 10 years in prison for his humanitarian work in the Sonoran Desert, where the bodies and bones of more than 3,000 people — nearly all migrants — have been found since 2001. We also speak to the Tucson-based artist Alvaro Enciso, creator of the project Where Dreams Die. He has built and installed over 900 crosses across the treacherous Sonoran Desert to mark where migrants have died. Today, we’re broadcasting from Tucson, Arizona. Just under three months ago, an unprecedented trial took place here. Amidst a catastrophic immigration crisis at the border, ongoing family separation, and cruel and inhumane conditions at immigrant jails across the country, the government put humanitarian activist Scott Warren on trial here in Tucson. His crime? Helping migrants who had arrived on the doorstep of a humanitarian shelter in Ajo, Arizona, seeking help after a perilous journey across the Sonoran Desert. The government charged Scott Warren, a longtime volunteer with the humanitarian aid group No More Deaths, with three felony counts, including conspiracy, for providing food, water and shelter to 23-year-old Kristian Perez-Villanueva from El Salvador and 20-year-old José Sacaria-Goday of Honduras. All three men were arrested January 17, 2018. If convicted on all charges, Warren faced 20 years in prison. At the same time, he and other No More Deaths volunteers also faced separate misdemeanor charges for leaving water jugs and food for migrants on a national wildlife refuge in the remote desert. The trial here in Tucson took eight days. Warren and other No More Deaths volunteers provided hours of testimony on desert conditions and the policies that push migrants deeper into the deadly region each year. After hours of deliberation, the jury returned without a verdict. Eight of the 12 jurors found Scott Warren not guilty. The government will now retry Warren in November, though they’ve dropped the conspiracy charge against him, will try him on two felony migrant harboring charges. If convicted, Scott Warren faces up to 10 years in prison...
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Despotic Judiciary Assaults 
Second Amendment
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Thomas Gallatin:  Another appellate court has failed to defend Americans’ Second Amendment rights. On Thursday, the U.S. Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals  upheld Cook County, Illinois’s ban on so-called “assault weapons.” Last year, a U.S. district judge dismissed a lawsuit brought against the 2006 Blair Holt Assault Weapons Ban, which means a fine for Cook County residents of up to $10,000 and sentences of up to six months in prison if they are found to be in possession of so-called “large-capacity magazines” or “assault weapons.” The fact of the matter is that the law intentionally misclassifies common semiautomatic weapons like the AR-15 as “assault weapons” and misleadingly labels these firearms’ standard-capacity magazines (20 to 30 rounds) as being nefariously “large capacity.”
 

In its unanimous ruling, the court’s three-judge panel wrote, “We have stated repeatedly, and recently, that, absent a compelling reason, we will not overturn circuit precedent.” The precedent was the Highland Park ruling, wherein a three-judge panel ruled 2-1 that municipalities have the leeway to regulate firearms if it makes people “feel safer.” The majority wrote, “If a ban on semi-automatic guns and large-capacity magazines reduces the perceived risk from a mass shooting, and makes the public feel safer as a result, that’s a substantial benefit” [emphasis added]. So, feeling safe trumps Americans’ Second Amendment right to take action to actually be  safe? As Rush Limbaugh famously observed of the Left, it’s “symbolism over substance.”

This ruling once again supports Justice Clarence Thomas’s argument that the Supreme Court needs to stop this erosion of Americans’ Second Amendment rights. As Thomas recently wrote, “The Framers made a clear choice: They reserved to all Americans the right to bear arms for self-defense. I do not think we should stand by idly while a State denies its citizens that right, particularly when their very lives may depend on it.” Justice Thomas may get the opportunity he’s been calling for, as the Illinois State Rifle Association, which sued Cook County over this “assault weapons” ban, plans to appeal to the Supreme Court.

Activist judges are ignoring not only the Constitution but Supreme Court rulings in District of Columbia v. Heller  and McDonald v. City of Chicago. It’s time for the Supreme Court to rectify that rogue behavior. Thomas Jefferson once warned, “The opinion which gives to the judges the right to decide what laws are constitutional and what not, not only for themselves, in their, own sphere of action, but for the Legislature and Executive also in their spheres, would make the Judiciary a despotic branch.”  He was right ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65165?mailing_id=4501&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4501&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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    A 'Lost' Generation?
Cal Thomas
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Lies, Damn Lies, and Special Prosecutors
by GEOFF SHEPARD
spectator.org } ~ Special prosecutors are dangerous animals under any circumstances, but their handiwork uncovered this past week should shock everyone who believes in Equal Justice Under Law... the promise engraved in the West Pediment of the United States Supreme Court building in Washington, D.C. I grant you that it concerns a president who resigned in disgrace over four decades ago, but the same deliberate misrepresentations could be being made today. I opposed the 2011 effort to unseal Richard Nixon’s 1975 grand jury testimony, taken some 11 months after he had resigned as president. I suspected it was a bald-faced attempt by Watergate’s special prosecutors, bitter about the pardon granted by President Ford, to trap Nixon into making false statements about his involvement in the scandal, thus enabling them to bring new charges of perjury, in spite of that previous pardon. I also argued that, if his grand jury testimony was to be unsealed, then so also should be grand jury materials involving other Watergate matters — particularly the infamous “Road Map” that transmitted grand jury information under seal to the House Judiciary Committee (HJC). My effort failed and Nixon’s testimony was unsealed by judicial order on November 10, 2011. There were no bombshells. It proved to be a non-event and was quickly forgotten. My separate effort to unseal the Road Map, however, lay dormant for seven long years, until October 18, 2018, when Chief Judge Beryl Howell ordered its unsealing. I was so confident that this also was a non-event and that I already knew everything worth knowing about Watergate that I didn’t get around to reviewing it until last week — and was astonished at what I found. A little background is in order to appreciate the significance of what is revealed within the Road Map’s contents. Watergate Special Prosecution Force (WSPF) prosecutors learned, in January 1974, that the final “hush money” payment to Howard Hunt’s lawyer, William Bittman, had been made at 10 p.m. on Wednesday evening, March 21, 1973 — a mere 10 hours after John Dean had first informed President Nixon of Hunt’s blackmail demands. Prosecutors concluded, entirely on this circumstantial evidence, that Nixon himself must have ordered that payment — which would constitute an open-and-shut obstruction of justice and be clear grounds for Nixon’s impeachment. In order to perfect their case against Nixon, three things had to have happened in that 10-hour time period...  https://spectator.org/lies-damn-lies-and-special-prosecutors/?utm_source=American%20Spectator%20Emails&utm_campaign=0edde13764-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_09_02_04_41&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_797a38d487-0edde13764-104608113  
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Judge Jeanine Pirro: 
‘There’s A Plot To Remake America’
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by STEPHANIE HAMILL
dailycaller.com } ~ Fox News host Judge Jeanine Pirro believes there’s a “plot to remake America,” which is the theme of her new book “Radical, Resistance and Revenge.”.. Pirro told the Daily Caller’s Stephanie Hamill that she’s very concerned about the direction that America is going.“You can see everything is upside down: the Constitution, the Bill of Rights, freedom of speech, law and order, respect for authority,” said Pirro. She went on to say that she’s worried about the “anger” coming from the left and what she sees as an effort to silence conservatives.I love a two party system, I love that we can debate, and that we can differ, but this is different. They want to shut us down, they hate our president. When you think about all the times they’ve talked about blowing up the White House, killing the president — this is lunacy.  https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/01/judge-pirro-plot-to-remake-america/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9885  
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Erdoğan's Elections: Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
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by Burak Bekdil
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ No one in the saner parts of the world has ever claimed that Turkey's Islamist President, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, is a liberal democrat who never in the slightest rigged election results... But he was, at least, known to respect the ballot box. No longer. Erdoğan has taken to ridiculing even further whatever little remains of Turkey's democratic culture. Claiming vote-rigging, he pressured Turkey's supreme election board for a recount of ballots cast on March 31 in Istanbul, Turkey biggest city, which boasts more than 10 million registered voters. His Justice and Development Party (AKP) had lost municipal elections in Istanbul by a small margin of 13,000 votes. This was the first time Erdoğan's party had lost elections in Istanbul since 1994. The man who is notorious for saying "who wins Istanbul, wins Turkey" immediately ordered a rerun. His cries of irregularities and fraud brought shy smiles to the faces of most foreign observers and Turks. "Sometimes you get the best detectives from the ranks of best thieves," joked a European diplomat who asked not to be named, in a private conversation with Gatestone on April 4. Although the Supreme Election Board did not find any vote-rigging in favor of the opposition, it ruled for a rerun on June 23. Grudgingly, voters changed their travel plans, and cancelled and remade their flight and hotel bookings to be present at the ballot box on June 23. Erdoğan promised party fans a clear election victory in Istanbul -- but lost, this time, by a margin of more than 800,000 votes, compared to only 13,000 in the original race. The Islamist strongman had bitterly to admit defeat: 800,000 votes were just too many to hijack. He simply said there would not be other elections for four and a half years, when Turkey will hold presidential and parliamentary elections. In the original March 31 local elections, along with Istanbul, Ankara and Izmir, Turkey's three biggest cities, his AKP party also lost other large provinces -- including Antalya, Mersin, Adana, Hatay and Bolu -- that typically had voted for it in previous polls. Erdoğan, apparently, did not care much if he adhered to the rules as long as he won power...
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Some Republicans Want The Supreme
Court To Punish scumbag-Comey
There’s One Problem
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by KEVIN DALEY
dailycaller.com } ~ President Donald Trump favorably quoted a Fox News contributor who urged the Supreme Court to punish former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey in a pair of Sunday morning tweets... The contributor, former GOP Rep. Jason Chaffetz of Utah, said Chief Justice John Roberts should hold scumbag-Comey in contempt for alleged abuses of Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC), though Roberts has no such power. It’s not clear whether a live broadcast or a news report prompted the president’s tweets, but Chaffetz pushed for the chief justice’s intervention as recently as Friday. “The chief justice of the Supreme Court — once the inspector general does the FISA report — they could very well hold people in contempt,” Chaffetz said during a Fox News broadcast Thursday. Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz is investigating alleged abuses of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) relating to the Trump campaign. scumbag-Comey might be entangled in that ongoing probe, since he signed FISA warrants targeting former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page. But neither the chief justice nor the Supreme Court has freestanding power to hold individuals in contempt. Though the chief justice appoints the 11 judges who sit on the FISC, he has no authority to supervise the panel, direct its work, or remove its members. The Supreme Court could review a FISC matter that came before them through ordinary legal procedure, but it cannot take any action against FISC or scumbag-Comey on its own...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/09/01/supreme-court-james-comey/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9885   
Grand Jury Secrecy and
scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler
by GEOFF SHEPARD
spectator.org } ~ So, Rep. scumbag liar-Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.), chairman of the House Judiciary Committee (HJC), fresh off his committee’s disastrous session with Robert Mueller... has announced his intent to obtain access to the secret grand jury testimony taken during the Mueller investigation. It matters not that Mueller concluded there was insufficient evidence to bring charges against President Trump; he and his entire two-year investigation are now being disowned by ardent Democrats dead set on impeaching the president. scumbag liar-Nadler’s hope is to uncover some testimony, however remote, that he can claim as the basis for an impeachment initiative. It is settled law, at least within the District of Columbia circuit, that grand jury testimony is to forever remain secret — and cannot be unsealed even by order of a federal judge. D.C. circuit judges made this abundantly clear in the recently decided McKeever case. Their rationale is clear: grand jury testimony is taken without the opportunity for cross-examination or any refutation whatsoever. It is taken in complete secrecy, untested and unchallenged by anyone outside the confines of the grand jury room and under the promise that it will never be made public except under limited circumstances not relevant to our discussion. One way around this problem, of course, is to do what Woodward and Bernstein did during a lull in their Watergate stories. Supposedly, Woodward sweet-talked the Clerk of Court out of the names and addresses of Watergate grand jurors, and then he and Bernstein sought them out for interviews. As the story goes, one of the grand jurors complained to prosecutors and Washington Post counsel Edward Bennett Williams was dispatched to make a personal call on Judge John Sirica to set things right. The task was made easier because Williams was Sirica’s career mentor and Williams and his wife were godparents to Sirica’s daughter. Williams assured Sirica that the duo had not been successful in gaining any interviews. So there things sat until 2012, when an article by Jeff Himmelman in New York magazine, “The Red Flag in the Flowerpot,” revealed that Post editor Ben Bradlee’s files contained seven pages of typed notes from one of Bernstein’s grand juror interviews. Even though they had lied about this for 40 years, falsely claiming information received from that grand juror had actually come from a campaign secretary labeled “Z,” Bernstein was unrepentant, saying such aggression was appropriate under Watergate’s unique circumstances. Chairman scumbag liar-Nadler knows much of this, so he’s either engaged in pure theater, knowing that his demands cannot be met under existing law, or he believes that Trump is not owed any benefit of allegiance to the rule of law. scumbag liar-Nadler and his supporters cite Watergate as the precedent for the transmittal of grand jury information to the House Judiciary Committee — for the specific purpose of helping the Committee to decide whether to recommend a president’s impeachment...
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A 'Lost' Generation?

Cal Thomas
 

There are people in every generation who believe the generation following theirs is either going to the dogs or will ruin the country.

A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll lends credence to that way of thinking, especially where Generation Z/millennials (those born in the mid-1990s to mid-2000s) and Generation X (those born in the early-to-mid 1960s to the early 1980s) are concerned.

The poll of 1,000 adults earlier this month found that “younger generations rate patriotism, religion and having children as less important to them than did young people two decades ago.”

The poll contrasts with a similar survey conducted by the Journal 21 years ago. When asked then which values were most important, respondents sounded like their parents and grandparents, saying “hard work, patriotism, commitment to religion and the goal of having children.”

Not only will these current findings likely impact next year’s election (most of those running for president with more than single-digit polling numbers are much older men and women and thus represent a generation gap), they could also have serious implications for the future of the country.

The Founders and subsequent generations — perhaps excepting the Gilded Age and the horrors of slavery — mostly believed in the virtues younger people either now reject or approach with indifference.

How can this be? What has happened between the World War II generation, which gave so much so their children and grandchildren might enjoy the blessings of liberty, and the current generation, which seems cool to what once seemed to matter most?

Generalizations are always problematic, but I have lived long enough and witnessed the general decline to make some.

Prosperity is one explanation. People who make more money than previous generations and possess a lot of stuff seem less inclined to participate in community (how many of us know our neighbors, who are here today and move tomorrow?). Stuff and the personal satisfaction of achievement lead to a decline in one’s need for God — too much money, too little purpose.

Politicians become a god-substitute and politics their religion. Creeping secularism has affected theological truth to the point where people can believe whatever they want — or nothing at all — and escape correction. Heresy, even apostasy, has infiltrated many churches.

Then there is culture. Younger people are exposed to what we collectively call “media” more than any previous generation. Most of what constitutes culture proceeds from a singular worldview that denigrates, or does not promote, patriotism, belief in God and values previous generations not only took for granted, but instilled in their children.

Unrestricted abortion has cheapened how many young people view the value of human life. For growing numbers of the young, marriage has become passe as children witness the pain of their parents’ divorce and decide that living together without a formal, legal, or spiritual commitment is better than risking the cost and pain of ending a marriage. For some, children are viewed as a financial burden and an intrusion on adult lifestyles.

Sociologists and historians will tell us these things are cyclical, like weather. That has been true in the past when spiritual revivals often followed a fallow period of faithlessness and a focus on self. I’m not sure that cycle will repeat with younger people, given what they are taught at public schools and in liberal universities.

The values that shaped and sustained America through economic downturns and wars had to be taught and instilled in the next generation. Today’s younger people, as reflected in the poll, seem intent on making their own rules (if they can be called rules) and creating their own gods.

They will eventually learn the impossibility of it all as their substitutions will fail them. The question is can America survive when our moral, spiritual, and patriotic foundations are destroyed? If you don’t love your country, what’s the point of having one?  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65116?mailing_id=4499&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4499&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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 A Burning Sensation in Brazil's Amazon
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Political Editors   
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Monday Top News Executive Summary
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


WEEK-LONG HAVOC: “Hurricane Dorian has now stalled, continuing its Category 5 siege of the northwestern Bahamas, but will track dangerously close to a long swath of the East Coast from Florida to Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina and southeastern Virginia this week. … Dorian’s forecast track continues to be the razor’s edge between more severe hurricane impacts reaching land, compared to those impacts staying barely offshore. … Regardless of its exact track, Dorian is likely to be a dangerous hurricane this week near the Southeast coast.” (The Weather Channel)

TEXAS MASS SHOOTING: “A 17-month-old girl was among the 22 injured in a shooting rampage around Odessa, Texas, as the death toll increased to seven victims Sunday,” NBC News reports. “The [perpetrator] was killed in a shootout with police.” The assailant, who had just been terminated from his job, launched his rampage following a traffic stop. The circumstances notwithstanding, Republican Sens. Rick Scott and Pat Toomey envision passing gun-control measures. “I’m hopeful,” Sen. Scott declared. And according to Sen. Toomey, “[Trump] is very interested in doing something meaningful.”

Culture & Heartland


EVADING JUSTICE — AGAIN: “A state appeals court in California overturned the sole conviction of a homeless [illegal] immigrant who admitted to handling a gun that killed Kate Steinle, a San Francisco woman who died on a city pier in 2015. … The 1st District Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the trial judge made a ‘prejudicial’ error when he failed to give the jury ‘the momentary possession instruction.’ ‘It is undisputed that defendant was holding the gun when it fired. But that fact alone does not establish he possessed the gun for more than a moment. To possess the gun, defendant had to know he was holding it,’ the appellate court wrote.” (NPR)

STRAIGHT PRIDE: Via NBC News: “A so-called ‘Straight Pride Parade’ in Boston on Saturday drew as many counterprotesters as marchers in addition to a heavy police presence. The parade, which drew several dozen participants, kicked off at around noon to the sound of Lee Greenwood’s ‘God Bless the USA’ with some floats displaying messages of support for President Donald Trump, with signs such as ‘build the wall,’ ‘Trump nation’ and ‘Blue Lives Matter.’” The too-clever-by-half commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded: “For men who are allegedly so ‘proud’ of being straight, they seem to show real incompetence at attracting women to their event. Seems more like a ‘I-Struggle-With-Masculinity’ parade to me.”

A FITTING VERDICT: “A Montana judge has ordered two men who allegedly lied about having served in the military in an effort to get special treatment in veterans court to wear ‘I stole valor’ signs as part of their parole conditions.” (Time)

SOME PERSPECTIVE ON ‘THE POOR’: America’s poor fare better than average persons in Canada and the UK (Daniel Mitchell, CNSnews.com)

Government & Politics


THE HAZARDS OF GOVERNMENT HEALTHCARE:  The Veterans Administration failed to stop pathologist who misdiagnosed thousands — and showed up drunk for work (Hot Air)

NEW HANDOUT: “U.S. presidential contender commie-Bernie Sanders proposed a plan on Saturday to cancel $81 billion in existing past-due medical debt for Americans, but offered no details on how it would be financed. commie-Sanders … said in a statement that under his plan, the government would negotiate and pay off past-due medical bills that have been reported to credit agencies.” (Reuters)

TRADE-WAR FALLOUT: “A measure of how Americans view the strength of the economy fell to the lowest level in almost three years, reflecting growing worries about the U.S. trade war with China that’s led to higher and higher tariffs. The final consumer sentiment survey fell to 89.8 in August from an early estimate of 92.3 and a 98.4 reading in July, the University of Michigan said Friday.” (MarketWatch)

World


BREXIT BRAWL: “[Boris] Johnson, who took over as prime minister in July, drove a spike into a raw nerve in Britain when he announced last week that he intends to suspend Parliament for five weeks, sharply limiting members’ opportunity to debate the terms of Britain’s Oct. 31 Brexit divorce from the European Union. That maneuver set up a potentially ferocious showdown on Tuesday, when Parliament returns from its summer recess. Jeremy Corbyn, Johnson’s chief rival as leader of the opposition Labour Party, has promised to fight Johnson in the House of Commons, calling his action a ‘smash and grab’ on democracy.” (The Washington Post)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Labor policy is jobs policy (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: How “price gouging” can help Floridians in Hurricane Dorian’s path (Reason)

BELIEVABLE HUMOR: Leftists stand in midst of storm signaling hurricane to go kill their political opponents (The Babylon Bee)  

~The Patriot Post
https://patriotpost.us/articles/65200?mailing_id=4505&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4505&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body     
Over $1 Million Wasted In 
Your Forest Your Future Scam
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by Evalyn Bennett
thewashingtonstandard.com } ~ This article summarizes results from a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request I filed about the Forest Service-Salmon Valley Stewardship (SVS) partnership called Your Forests Your Future (YFYF)... The complete set of FOIA documents can be accessed at this link https://usfs-public.box.com/s/wpev5b7txyn8idxvtbmpztgp0lqwfoz4 .This article focuses on financial information contained on pages 220-243 of the FOIA records. Invoices submitted by the SVS Director to the Region 4 Forest Service office from January 31, 2017 beginning of the partnership to Sept. 30, 2018, total $927,502. When the salary costs of various Forest Service (FS) Intermountain Region and Washington, D.C. office staff that facilitated the partnership are factored in, the partnership easily tops $1 million for that timeframe. Salary information from the FOIA record and www.openthebooks.com Forest Service and other funds in addition to these invoiced amounts were almost certainly provided for this partnership. The FOIA records did not include SVS invoices from October 1, 2018, to present the time the partnership was administered by the FS Washington, D.C. office.  I also did not request financial records pertaining to the second cooperator in the agreement, More Than Just Parks. Finally, the YFYF web site refers to corporate and special interest group sponsors and supporters, but there are no records of those contributions in the FOIA documents. In 2017, while the YFYF partnership’s local personnel were busy supposedly promoting diverse public input about Forest plan revision but actually having very limited contact with the general public in the local planning area, three Salmon-Challis National Forest (SCNF) staff were doing the same public outreach. Taxpayers footed the $436,269 bill for YFYF’s 2017 media campaign AND paid a total of $167,362 in salaries for three SCNF employees to engage local citizens in the SCNF plan revision process.  Salary information fromwww.openthebooks.com Similar Forest Service expenses related to public participation were being incurred throughout the Intermountain Region wherever Forest plan revisions are underway...  https://thewashingtonstandard.com/over-1-million-wasted-in-your-forest-your-future-scam/   
Fierce opposition to Trump 
judicial nominees hits fever pitch
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by wnd.com ~ The battles in the U.S. Senate over President Trump's judicial nominees have been epic... During the confirmation of Brett Kavanaugh, for example, Democrats brought forward salacious and unsubstantiated claims that led to a dramatic, narrow vote along partisan lines. Even nominees for lower courts face partisan opposition, notes a report by First Liberty Institute concluding there is more obstruction of judicial nominees than at "any time in American history." That's even though the American Bar Association found Trump's nominees are as qualified as those nominated by Barack scumbag/liar-nObama and previous presidents. For example, 74.4 percent of Trump's nominees for appeals courts have been rated "well qualified." For district judges, it's about 66 percent. Overall, the figure is 68.4 percent. George W. Bush's overall rate was 65.3 percent and scumbag/liar-nObama's was about 72 percent. Yet at least 54 percent of Trump's nominees have gotten negative confirmation votes. For scumbag/liar-nObama, the figure was only 16 percent, for George W. Bush 4 percent and for scumbag/liar-Clinton 3 percent. First Liberty said the problem boiled down to "partisanship and political theater." "In the last several years, Americans and politicians across the political spectrum have doubled down on the use of the judicial branch as a 'mini legislature,' treating it like a partisan institution to validate their policy preferences. They use the judiciary as a way of working around the normal legislative process in their own states or on Capitol Hill," the report said...
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Hezbollah fires anti-tank missiles at 
military jeep, IDF base; none hurt
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by JUDAH ARI GROSS
timesofisrael.com } ~ The Hezbollah terror group fired several anti-tank guided missiles at an army base and a military jeep just inside northern Israel’s border with Lebanon on Sunday afternoon... causing no injuries, the Israel Defense Forces said. Military sources said that the vehicle was empty when it was struck, but that soldiers had been inside half an hour earlier. IDF spokesman Lt. Col. Jonathan Conricus initially said that the armored jeep had been painted with a red Jewish star, identifying it as an ambulance, but later retracted the claim and clarified that the vehicle had been used as an ambulance but was not marked as such. In response to the attack, the Israeli military said its artillery cannons and attack helicopters fired approximately 100 shells and bombs at Hezbollah targets in southern Lebanon. Conricus said the IDF considered the “tactical event on the ground” to be over as of Sunday evening, but that the larger strategic threat posed by Hezbollah on the border remained. The IDF remained on high alert Sunday evening, officials said. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said no Israelis were so much as “scratched” by the Hezbollah attack. “There were no Israeli injuries, not even a scratch,” Netanyahu said, smiling, at the opening of a Honduras diplomatic office in Jerusalem. The military said Hezbollah operatives fired two or three missiles at a battalion headquarters outside of the Israeli community of Avivim and at military vehicles nearby shortly after 4:15 p.m. Sunday. Several of the projectiles struck their targets but did not cause any casualties, despite claims to the contrary by Hezbollah, the IDF said...
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Sarah Huckabee Sanders launches 
new website amid campaign speculation
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By MAX GREENWOOD
thehill.com } ~ Former White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders rolled out a campaign-style website on Monday amid speculation that she is considering a run for governor of Arkansas... Sanders, who signed on as a Fox News contributor last week, reportedly began giving more thought to a potential campaign after announcing her departure from the White House in June. President Trumphas also encouraged a potential gubernatorial bid, tweeting that same month that he hoped she decided to run. It’s not unusual for television personalities to create personal websites to market themselves. Sanders did not immediately respond to The Hill’s request for comment. Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson (R) was reelected to a second term in 2018, and the office won’t come up to a vote again until 2022. But Hutchinson won’t be able to seek reelection that year due to term limits, leaving room for a fresh face to enter the race. What’s more, creating a personal website, like the one unveiled by Sanders on Monday, allows prospective candidates to begin building email lists that could be used down the line to solicit donations and rally support. If she does eventually mount a bid for the governor’s mansion, Sanders would enter the race with wide name recognition and deep political connections. Her father, Mike Huckabee, served as the state’s governor from 1996 until 2007, and her ties to the president could come in handy, especially in a state that Trump won by roughly 27 points in 2016.  https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/458813-sarah-huckabee-sanders-launches-new-website-amid-campaign-speculation  
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Trump's confidence about Texas 
vexing GOP insiders
by David M. Drucker
washingtonexaminer.com } ~ President Trump’s high confidence in winning Texas is vexing some Republican insiders, who fret that his 2020 campaign is unprepared to handle a generational challenge from the Democratic Party... for control of the state’s critical 38 votes in the Electoral College. The Democrats flipped two suburban Texas congressional districts and another dozen seats in the state house in the midterm elections, while Democrat  socialist-Beto O'Rourke nearly ousted Republican Sen. Ted Cruz. GOP strategists with deep experience in Texas are bracing for the possibility of more turbulence next year, with some worrying that Trump’s top political officials in the state are ill-equipped for the competition. Others are pleased with the campaign’s Texas leadership, but question party strategy. “Personnel are fine,” said a veteran Republican operative with Texas ties who requested anonymity to avoid publicly criticizing Trump or the Republican National Committee. “But I still don’t believe Trump headquarters understands his exposure in Texas.” Another GOP operative, who is based in Texas, said the party needs to update its pitch to voters to account for an electorate that is evolving and becoming less Republican. “This is a very poor sign about a real and needed focus on diverse populations and areas of the state that deserve to have a different campaign approach than what we saw in 2018,” this operative said, referring to the leadership of “Trump Victory” in Texas, which is a joint effort of the Trump campaign and the RNC. There is virtually no scenario in which Trump wins reelection without Texas. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick was recently named honorary chairman of Trump Victory in the state, with Taylor Mattox, a veteran of Gov. Greg Abbott’s successful campaigns, hired as state director. Stephanie Alexander is the regional political director overseeing Texas, along with other states. Patrick is predicting the president will win Texas by more than the 9 points that carried him in 2016. "We have had staff in Texas in 2016, 2018 and 2020. And all we have done is win," RNC spokesman Rick Gorka added. "We fully expect to win in Texas especially when voters compare President Donald Trump’s record versus the socialist policies espoused by 2020 Democrats." Such bold claims have left some Republicans privately uneasy. They wonder if the Trump campaign and the RNC appreciate the Democrats’ growing strength in a state that has supported the GOP consistently in statewide contests since the early 1990s. Democrats there have gained under Trump as white suburbanites that typically voted Republican moved  Left. The Democrats also benefited from transplants who brought their liberal politics with them. Hispanic support for Republicans in Texas has generally remained unchanged...
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A Burning Sensation in Brazil's Amazon
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Political Editors:  The Cato Institute’s Dr. Ryan Maue recaps some of the ridiculous reporting, international reaction, and the actual truth:

The international news coverage of Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fires has been a complete disaster. News outlets published inaccurate yet easily verifiable “facts” about the number of fires, declaring the situation “record-breaking” and “unprecedented.” Social media lit up with misleading claims about the loss of planetary oxygen supply (20 percent, said French President Emmanuel Macron) threatening to asphyxiate us all. Stock photos and images of forest fires from the last two decades including Peru and Bolivia were shared widely and wildly. Celebrities and politicians alike heaped condemnation upon Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro leading to an ongoing geopolitical crisis. …

The origin of this Amazon fire crisis traces back to the beginning of August, when Bolsonaro sacked his Space Institute minister for publishing worrisome data about the 2019 fire season. The dry season in Brazil typically runs from August to November, as farmers use these months to burn dried-out timber previously cut during land clearing operations. Ranchers also prepare the land for cattle grazing.

An important point to remember about these fires, however, is that the rainforests themselves are not entirely or uncontrollably ablaze. Natural fire does not typically occur in these tropical forests due to suffocating humidity, wet dense foliage, and daily thunderstorms. What is burning right now is land near the forests where farmers and ranchers have cleared hundreds and hundreds of acres of trees. This is easily seen in satellite imagery, which scientists finally examined and compared to the past two decades.

As for the fires themselves, Maue writes, “The number of fires and cumulative area burned so far in 2019, on the other hand, is on par with previous years and described as ‘near average’ by NASA.”

So why the hysterics? Climate change. When every ecofascist has a hammer (and sickle), every problem looks like a nail. Wildfires in the American West? Climate change. Hurricanes in the Atlantic? Climate change. Extra rainy season? Climate change. Drought? Climate change.

It’s the all-purpose bogeyman, and the agenda is simple: socialistic economic control. Don’t take our word for it; ask commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s chief of staff.   ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65114?mailing_id=4499&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4499&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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  Cultivated Hopelessness: Americans 
Lose Faith, Patriotism
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Arnold Ahlert  
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When scumbag/liar-nObama Tried 
to 'Red Flag' Vets and Seniors
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By Daniel John Sobieski
americanthinker.com } ~ We saw the presumption of innocence under assault during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court justice Brett Kavanaugh and it is once again under assault with the consideration of so-called “red flag” laws after the mass shootings in Dayton and El Paso... These laws would allow authorities to disarm law-abiding citizens on the basis that it had been somehow determined that they are an “unstable threat” to themselves and to society. This determination can be made based on reports from vengeful former spouses, ex-girlfriends and boyfriends,  former coworkers, hostile neighbors, just about anybody with a grievance, even by government agencies pushing a gun-control agenda. We are assured that the gun owner guilty of no crime can pursue what is laughingly called “due process” and petition the judge to have his legally purchased firearm returned to him by proving to a judge he is not crazy or dangerous. Just how do you do that, pray tell? And just how can a state have a “red flag” law anyway, infringing on a federal and national right established by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution which says the right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed? Which part of “shall not be infringed” do red flag law advocates not understand? As noted at NewsTarget: That’s a process that could take weeks or even months, and in the meantime, you and your family are left defenseless to the world. Plus, there is no guarantee that a court will find that you’re not a threat and authorize police to give you back your guns; maybe the judge is a judicial activist who hates the Second Amendment on principle. As Philip Van Cleave writes at Ammoland: Red Flag laws are unconstitutional “prior restraint” laws that violate our basic civil rights. What's particularly alarming is that to take away a person's Second Amendment rights, such laws violate the protections found in the Fourth, Fifth, and Sixth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution! And all of that based on an unnamed person's secret allegation that someone else “might” do something dangerous to themselves or others in the future…The person accused of being “dangerous” has no notice there is a problem until the police show up, pre-dawn, with guns drawn and confiscate the accused's firearms we have already had on gun owner killed in this exact scenario. The accused is not given due process to defend himself or herself in court from the accusation for weeks or months after the confiscation. It is up to the accused to prove that he or she is not dangerous! Until such proof is provided to the Court's satisfaction, the guns are not returned. This could drag on for months, years, or indefinitely!...
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Delayed by scumbag/liar-nObama, 
Trial of 9/11 Plotters Finally Set for 2021
By ROBERT SPENCER
pjmedia.com } ~ For those of you who weren’t yet born on September 11, 2001, on that day Islamic jihadis killed nearly 3,000 Americans in attacks on the Twin Towers and the Pentagon... A third plane was set to murder even more people by crashing into another landmark in Washington, but it was downed in Pennsylvania by its passengers in order to thwart the jihadis’ plans. Even those who don’t remember the day have probably learned about it in school, but few people are aware of the fact that the surviving plotters have not yet been brought to trial. That is now set to change on January 11, 2021, the day that Air Force Colonel W. Shane Cohen has just set the trial to begin at Camp Justice, at Guantánamo Bay in Cuba. Why has it taken nearly twenty years for these jihadis to face justice? Largely because of Barack scumbag/liar-nObama. The trial will take place nearly nine years after the plotters – Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Walid bin Attash, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, Ammar al-Baluchi, and Mustafa al-Hawsawi – were arraigned. The Daily Mail reported that “Cohen’s announcement marks the first time that a trial judge in the case actually established a date. Prosecutors had tried to get the ball rolling with two previous judges after the 2012 arraignment. ”The trial will also begin nearly twelve years after Khalid Shaikh Mohammed and the others for all intents and purposes admitted their role in the 9/11 jihad attacks, penning a lengthy Islamic defense for their actions in which they never denied plotting the hijacking of planes in order to commit mass murder of American civilians, but justified their actions by claiming that the U.S. was the greater terrorist. They signed the document “the 9/11 Shura Council.” This was not a document obtained under torture, but a closely reasoned explanation of why the 9/11 attacks were justified from the standpoint of Islamic doctrine and belief...
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The Shiite Crescent and Regional Disaster
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americanthinker.com } ~ For decades, the concept of a “Shiite Crescent” anchored by the radical Shiite supremacists in Iran and passing through Iraq, Syria, and Hezb'allah to the Mediterranean Sea has been understood... It would provide Iran not only with closer access to Israel, but also spread across the northern borders of two key Sunni adversaries -- pro-American Jordan, and its most important enemy, Saudi Arabia, guardian of Mecca and Medina. It would further split off Sunni Turkey a historic foe from the other Sunni Middle East states. The Crescent is, for Iran, a single battlefront and the Islamic Republic has spent decades successfully undermining and wrecking each subsidiary member. Iraq is hardly a functional country. But as a staging ground for Iranian militias and weapons depots headed west, Iraq is a prize. Syria is largely a dead zone. But as a launching pad for Iranian military bases and attacks on Israel, Syria is a bonanza. Lebanon is a corrupt satrap of Syria and Iran, governed by a terror organization with a foreign legion and an international money/drug/weapons racket. But its very weakness and its border with Israel make Lebanon invaluable. Each member of this “gang of four” maintains a state of war with Israel and threatens it on a regular basis. Israel’s attacks on weapons centers Lebanon, Syria and Iraq are not an escalation of a fragile situation -- they are a defensive response to a  high-tech military buildup orchestrated by Iran across the region. Israel has the support of the United States for its defensive actions. But until now, U.S. foreign and defense policy have actually made things worse for Israel and others in the region by empowering Iran – and even now, when the administration is aware of its malign nature, and has reimposed economic sanctions on Tehran, it needs a strategy against Iranian gains on the ground...
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commie-Bernie’s receptive to a meat tax 
to save the world from the climate
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By S.Noble
independentsentinel.com } ~ commie-Bernie Sanders has said he’d consider taxing meat in order to limit consumption, therefore saving the world from climate change... In other words, Democrats want to social engineer us into abiding by their will in accordance with their baseless prognostications. If you don’t do it, it will lead us to our climate doom. There is absolutely no basis in fact for this. All they have are computer models and recent temperatures. commie-Bernie Sanders took a question from a woman at a campaign event, saying that Germany has imposed a meat tax in order to battle global warming. She wanted his reaction. commie-Sanders was receptive to the idea. The money from the meat tax would go to pay for free medial care and cars for illegals. If it exists, they will tax it. They want to make us their serfs. This took place at a town hall event in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, Thursday.
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European Dreams vs. Mass Migration
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by Giulio Meotti
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Europe presents itself as the vanguard of the unification of humanity. Europe's cultural roots, as a result, have been put at risk... According to Pierre Manent, a renowned French political scientist and a professor at the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris: "European pride or European self-consciousness depend on the rejection of European history and European civilization! We want nothing to do with the Christian roots and we absolutely want to be perfectly welcoming to Islam". Manent delivered these words to the French monthly, Causeur. He cited, as an example, Turkey: "It was very clear that not only was its massively Islamic character even before Erdogan not an obstacle but a sort of motive, a reason to bring the Turkey into the EU. It would finally have been the definitive proof that Europe had detached itself and freed itself from its Christian dependence". Europe's southern border is now the front line for this mass-migration; Italy risks becoming that refugee camp. In the last few months, Italy has faced a succession of boats from Africa, challenging its policy: first the Sea Watch 3, then the Open Arms and finally the Ocean Viking. Until just before Italy's March 2018 elections, migrants were crossing the Mediterranean at the rate of 200,000 a year. Since European security ministers  failed to agree on the Mediterranean refugee crisis, Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, willing to stand virtually alone, chose to close Italian ports. Although Italian court tried to charge him with "kidnapping" migrants, Salvini's policy worked and landings plummeted. In the first two months of 2019, 262 seaborne migrants reached Italy, compared to 5,200 in the same period last year, and more than 13,000 in the same period of 2017...  https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/14767/europe-dreams-immigration  
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Cultivated Hopelessness: Americans Lose Faith, Patriotism
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Arnold Ahlert:  “Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children’s children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.” —Ronald Reagan

If the trends measured by a recent survey continue, the nation itself is in its sunset years. A new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll reveals that Millennials and Generation Z have significantly less belief in the importance of patriotism, faith in God, and conceiving children. And despite the fact that most Americans remain satisfied by the state of the nation’s economy and their personal finances, a majority of respondents are angry at the country’s political and financial classes, worried about the nation’s economic future, and what kind of country they are passing on to future generations.

“Four years ago, we uncovered a deep and boiling anger across the country engulfing our political system,” explained Democrat pollster Jeff Horwitt of Hart Research Associates, which conducted this survey in conjunction with the Republican firm Public Opinion Strategies. “Four years later, with a very different political leader in place, that anger remains at the same level.”

Horwitt’s Republican counterpart, Bill McInturff, was equally concerned. “There is an emerging America where issues like children, religion, and patriotism are far less important,” he warned. “And in America, it’s the emerging generation that calls the shots about where the country’s headed.”

It’s a decidedly less optimistic emerging generation. In terms of patriotism, nearly 79% of people ages 55-91 considered the concept important, compared to only 42% of Millennials and Generation Z, (those aged 18-38), who had the same outlook. With regard to religion, 75% of Baby Boomers maintained it was an important part of life compared to only 30% of Millennials and Generation Z. And the number of Baby Boomers who considered having children to be important was nearly double that of America’s youngest adult generations. And the overall number of people who considered having children important (just 43%) represented a 16-point drop from 1998.

Columnist Rod Dreher minces no words describing a future America that “is going to be childless, godless, and unpatriotic.” He continues, “Which is to say, there won’t be a future for that kind of America. Changing political leadership will not cause people to believe in God again, or desire children, or love their country more. These things go much deeper than politics.”

He knows where to place the blame: “The American liberal elites are destroying the country’s ability to sustain itself, and the conservative elites — including Donald Trump — are either utterly clueless about the nature of the crisis, or are flailing ineffectively in the face of it.”

Unfortunately, Dreher’s cynicism is not misplaced. The effort to indoctrinate America’s younger generations has been going on for decades. A quote courtesy of John Dewey (1859-1952), a man often referred to as the father of American education, is indicative:

“There is no god and there is no soul. Hence there is no need for the props of traditional religion. With dogma and creed excluded, then the immutable truth is dead and buried. There is no room for fixed and natural law or permanent moral absolutes.”

As columnist David L. Rosenthal aptly notes, the vacuum created by the removal of so-called dogma and creed from education has been filled. “While promotion in public schools of faith-based ideology is supposed to have been prohibited, according to the Supreme Court of the United States, the faith-based ideologies of socialism, Marxism, nihilism, Islamism, Satanism, Darwinism, and others continue to be propagated in public schools,” he writes.

What Rosenthal doesn’t say is that the replacement of Judeo-Christian values with de facto progressive dogma and creed has made the rebuttal of that dogma and creed virtually impossible. Thus, for example, the same school nurse who must call parents if she believe a child requires some sort of medication can direct that same child to an abortion clinic without parental permission or notification, even as she must refrain from offering that child moral perspective regarding the termination of a life.

What about patriotism? In order to be patriotic one has to first believe in the concept of the nation-state. Is there any doubt that a globalist-dominated Ruling Class prefers open borders, unfettered multinational corporatism, and rule by “do as I say not as I do” elitists whose response to their own assertions the planet is headed for irrevocable disaster are belied by a record number of private jets to Davos for a global-warming conference, or the purchase  of a $15 million seaside mansion on Martha’s Vineyard? Isn’t it clear their demands for gun control will never affect their own armed security, or that their policies that have afflicted the nation with crime- and homeless-infested American cities will never intrude on their own guard-gated communities?

Isn’t it becoming clearer every day that the nation’s justice system has bifurcated, and that the guarantee of “equal justice under the law” is becoming a euphemism? Isn’t clear that those with a vested interest in “fundamental transformation” have likened America First approach to “Russian collusion,” “white supremacy,” and “fascism? ”Don’t the same elitists who bemoan the economic implications of our trade war with China blithely ignore the reality of national security impossible to separate from it — even as they are apparently intent on making an American version of that nation’s totalitarian-based credit score system to keep the “deplorables” in their place?

Unfortunately a certain level of nihilism among Millennials and Gen Z is justified. When push came to shove, they watched Wall Street get bailed out by Main Street. They’ve endured the future-wrecking debt accumulation engendered by what amounts to a College-Industrial Complex that demands degrees, even for jobs that don’t require one. And perhaps most important, due to the ubiquity of social media and technology, they’ve never known a single day of genuine, off-the-grid privacy in their entire lives.

That last bit is key. As stated in a previous column, access to social media should be limited to those over 18 years of age, and even more important, tech companies who are currently data-mining children as young as seven should be kicked out of America’s classrooms. In an age where one’s entire past now fair game, the digital trail produced by children too immature to understand the implications — in combination with tech companies intent on commoditizing all of humanity — is utterly unconscionable.

Children? Why bother when the world is going to end in 12 years, or when the future workforce will be completely dominated by artificial intelligence?

“It is time for churches, families, and communities of faith to have some very serious conversations among themselves,” Dreher asserts. “The signs of the times are written in flashing neon.”  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65126?mailing_id=4499&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4499&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body

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 NYT Labels Grassroots Patriots '
Angry,' 'Racist'
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Nate Jackson   
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The House passed stronger background checks 
in February. McConnell won't call a Senate vote
By JASON SILVERSTEIN  
cbsnews.com } ~ The mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton have brought a new wave of attention to a gun control bill that was passed by the House more than five months ago... and has been stalled by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell ever since.  Two New York lawmakers, a Republican and a Democrat, have joined a growing chorus in Congress calling for McConnell to take action. "It would save a whole lot of lives. A whole lot of lives," Senate Minority Leader Chuck scumbag-Schumer said Tuesday about House Resolution 8, also known as the Bipartisan Background Checks Act of 2019. "We have to update the law and make America safer," scumbag-Schumer added. scumbag-Schumer was joined at the Long Island press conference by Rep. Peter King, a Republican, who said politics must be put aside for this legislation. "This should not be in any way a partisan issue, even though too often it becomes that," King said. The Democratic-controlled House passed H.R. 8 in February in a 240-190 vote, with eight Republicans and all but two Democrats supporting it. The bill, sponsored by Rep. Mike Thompson, D-Calif., would only allow person-to-person gun sales if a background check can be conducted. This would close loopholes for certain kinds of gun sales — such as those at gun shows, over the internet or from private dealers — that are currently completed without background checks, potentially putting guns in the hands of people who would otherwise be prohibited from owning them. scumbag-Schumer and King argued that the bill would only keep guns away from people with criminal records or mental health problems, and is not a sweeping restriction on gun ownership for most Americans. "It's not gonna answer all of it, it may only answer a small part, we don't know," King said of the problem of gun violence. "But we do know the bill will save lives, and it will start to make it harder and harder for people who are the most dangerous to obtain weapons."...  https://www.cbsnews.com/news/house-bill-for-stronger-background-checks-on-guns-mitch-mcconnells-stalls-senate-vote/  
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Lindsey Graham Wants scumbag/liar-nObama Questioned Under Oath About Trump 
Campaign Investigation
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By Rusty 
thepoliticalinsider.com } ~ Senator Lindsey Graham expressed interest in seeing former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama questioned under oath about the counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign... Graham (R-SC), appearing in a segment with Fox News host Sean Hannity Thursday night, was discussing the investigation that former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey and a rogue team of investigators undertook in the summer of 2016. He would like answers as to what scumbag/liar-nObama knew and when he knew it. “The bottom line is who briefed President scumbag/liar-nObama if anybody about the counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign?” asked Graham. “And … why did they not tell the Trump campaign that they had concerns about people working for him tied to Russia.” It’s a concern also raised by Kevin R. Brock, former assistant director of intelligence for the FBI, who called scumbag-Comey’s handling of the investigation “not the normal way” to conduct business. Hannity pushed Graham on the issue of whether or not scumbag/liar-nObama had to know what was taking place.“Does that mean that Barack scumbag/liar-nObama, the president at the time should be asked what he knew and when he knew it about all this?” he asked. Graham responded, “I cannot imagine it happening without somebody in the White House knowing about it. And the question for me is who told scumbag/liar-nObama?” Hannity pushed Graham further on the matter. “Do you think he needs to be asked those questions, sir. Under oath?” he bluntly asked. “Absolutely,” Graham responded...
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Judge denies Democrats' request 
to speed up Trump tax return lawsuit
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By NAOMI JAGODA
thehill.com } ~ A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday rejected House Democrats' effort to speed up their lawsuit over their request for President Trump's federal tax returns... "It may be appropriate to expedite this matter at some point, but not now," Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, said in a seven-page memorandum. The House Ways and Means Committee last month filed a lawsuit to get a court to order the Treasury Department and IRS to comply with its requests and subpoenas for six years of Trump's personal and business tax returns. Earlier this month, the committee filed a motion for summary judgment, asking McFadden to direct the administration to provide it with the requested tax returns. And the committee asked McFadden to expedite the case. The Trump administration opposed the committee's motion to expedite, and urged McFadden to have its forthcoming motion to dismiss the case considered before any summary judgment motion by the committee. The administration's motion to dismiss is expected to raise questions about whether the court has the authority to resolve the dispute. McFadden gave several reasons for denying the committee's motion to expedite, as well as denying the motion for summary judgment as premature but allowing it to refile at a later time...
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John Solomon Goes On Hannity & Exposes 
What scumbag-Comey Doesn’t Want Us To 
Know Following Release of I.G. Report  
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illicitinfo.com } ~ Analysis, Speculation and Opinion by Elder Patriot – John Solomon joined Fox News’ Sean Hannity last to discuss the 83-page Inspector General’s Report that was released yesterday... Solomon: “…today is the ultimate vindication of the decision by the Trump Justice Department and President Trump to fire scumbag-James Comey… he was incapable of following his own agency’s rules and his own employment contract.“This report paints a devastating picture. He took, stole, removed secret documents, sensitive documents from the FBI… he gave them to his lawyers. One of those were classified when he gave them to the lawyers.“He authorized a leak…“I can’t remember another time in my thirty years of covering the FBI that I saw an FBI director referred for prosecution and called a detriment to his agency…“It was a very bad day for scumbag-James Comey” The I.G. report summarized the results of an investigation focused solely on scumbag-Comey’s mishandling of a series of memos that he wrote while the director of the FBI. Yesterday’s report has been characterized as the tip of the iceberg compared to the much more serious and comprehensive FISA abuse investigation that initially took place under scumbag-Comey while he was FBI director. Realize what that means. Inspector General Michael Horowitz found so much evidence of scumbag-Comey’s wrongdoing that he thought it necessary to spin off a separate report and to make an unprecedented for an FBI director criminal referral in his conclusion...   https://illicitinfo.com/?p=11021 
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JW Videos of the Week
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JW New scumbag/liar-Clinton Email Discovery, Anti-Trump Coup Exposed  in scumbag-Comey/IG Report And More 
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NYT Labels Grassroots Patriots '
Angry,' 'Racist'
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Nate Jackson:  “The Tea Party Didn’t Get What It Wanted, but It Did Unleash the Politics of Anger.” That’s the title of the latest effort by the racist New York Times to try to bolster its revisionist narrative that America — and especially its president — is racist.
 

There’s a small catch. The original Times story about the Tea Party didn’t mention racism. “A fundamental flaw in this analysis is there is no mention of race and how much racism drove the Tea Party movement,” ABC’s Matthew Dowd complained. “You can’t talk about the rage politics and leave out race.” Other criticism in the same vein followed, and the Times quickly came to heel, adding a post-publication line about how the Tea Party movement was really about “giving cover and a voice to those who wanted to attack the first black president — people who in some cases showed up at rallies waving signs with racist caricatures and references.”

The box was now checked, however false the smear may have been. And Times “economist” Paul Krugman concurs: “It was always, from the beginning, about racial anger.”

Arguably, the Tea Party as an “entity” hasn’t been a unified political force since Republicans retook the Senate in 2014. Republicans never followed through on most of the Tea Party’s demands. For example, scumbag/liar-nObamaCare is here to stay — unless it’s replaced by Medicare for All. President Donald Trump, whose status-quo-smashing victory was the result of the GOP’s failed record, won tax cuts and cut regulations, but federal spending and debt are worse than ever under his leadership. In fact, Trump happily signed the latest spending bill that includes permanently eliminating the Tea Party’s hard-won budget cuts from 2011 on the way to trillion-dollar deficits. Both tax and regulation success and deficit failure illustrate some of the reasons for division among conservatives over supporting him in 2015 and 2016.

But what the coastal leftist elites at the Times really mean to do is malign grassroots Americans. Those “who have signed the Tea Party’s death certificate overlook one way it continues to define the country today,” the Times tells us. “It ignited a revival of the politics of outrage and mistrust in government, breathing new life into the populist passions that continue to threaten the stability of both political parties. Even if the Tea Party’s ideas are dead, its attitude lives on.”

(If that sounds familiar, it’s because Barack scumbag/liar-Obama mocked the “angry mob” of the Tea Party for “waving their little tea bags.”)

Why can’t we all get along? the Times wonders. Because of those angry, racist Tea Party mobs.

No violence, no riots, and no terrorism came from the Tea Party. Those are all hallmarks of the Left — from Occupy Wall Street to Black Lives Matter to antifa.

In any case, as Mark Alexander wrote in 2011, “American Patriotism refers to the steadfast devotion for the First Principles of our nation’s Founding, individual Liberty innately and inherently endowed by our Creator, and the extension of that legacy to our posterity.” There’s nothing angry or racist about that.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65129?mailing_id=4499&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4499&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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MSNBC Forced to Retract Latest 
Anti-Trump Fake News
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Thomas Gallatin    
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Thunderstruck – Flynn Attorney Sidney
Powell Drops Atomic Sledgehammer
of Truth on DC Court
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by sundance
theconservativetreehouse.com } ~ Oh boy… how federal Judge Emmet Sullivan will handle this latest motion from Mike Flynn’s attorney Sidney Powell is an unknown; however, the content is delicious... In an explosive response filing today, which includes the phrase”sunlight is the best disinfectant”, attorney Sidney Powell has outlined the soup-to-nuts construct of the malicious government action taken during their targeting her client Michael Flynn. In the 19-pages  Ms. Powell walks through the history of the DOJ, FBI and intelligence apparatus weaponization against Mr. Flynn and lays out the background behind everything known to have happened in 2016, 2017 through today. From the corrupt DOJ lawyers who were working with Fusion-GPS and Chris Steele, including Mr. Weissmann, Mr. Van Grack and Ms. Zainab Ahmad; to the 2015/2016 FISA database search abuses; to the CIA and FBI operation against Flynn including Nellie Ohr; to the schemes behind the use of DOJ official Bruce Ohr; to the corrupt construct of the special counsels office selections; to the specifics within the malicious conspiracy outlined by hiding FBI interview notes of Mike Flynn,… all of it…. Is a stunning filing that many CTH readers are well prepared to understand...
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Iran Has Stopped Cooperating 
with Nuclear Weapons Inspections
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by Adam Kredo 
freebeacon.com } ~ An upcoming report by the United Nations’ nuclear watchdog organization, known as the International Atomic Energy Agency... includes new language suggesting the Islamic Republic has not been cooperating with international nuclear inspectors who are mandated to provide oversight on the Islamic Republic’s weapons program, according to multiple sources familiar with the contents of the report. The IAEA’s yet-to-be-published report on the matter began circulating late Friday among reporters and Iran watchers in Washington, D.C., and it is said to show that Iran has stopped adhering to its transparency commitments under the landmark scumbag/liar-nObama-era nuclear agreement. Iranian leaders have been warning for months that the country has ended its cooperation surrounding the nuclear portfolio, including efforts by Iran to enrich uranium to levels prohibited under the nuclear deal and necessary for a functional nuclear weapon. The IAEA’s findings, the contours of which were confirmed by sources to the Washington Free Beacon, are likely to fuel calls by Iran skeptics on Capitol Hill for a full snapback of international sanctions on Iran, which were lifted under the JCPOA, the acronym used for the nuclear deal. This issue is more than likely to come to a head as top Trump administration officials and diplomats from across the globe gather in New York City for the U.N.’s upcoming General Assembly meeting. New language in IAEA's latest report indicates claims that "ongoing interactions between the Agency and Iran relating to Iran's implementation of its Safeguards Agreement and Additional Protocol require full and timely cooperation by Iran," according to a portion of the report  published Friday by the Institute for Science and International Security, a nuclear watchdog group that routinely has access to such reports. "The Agency IAEA continues to pursue this objective with Iran."... IAEA and the UN are fools, Iran will never compile.
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The Dangerous Stalinism of the "Woke" Hard-Left
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by Alan M. Dershowitz
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ Civil liberties are in greater danger today from the intolerant hard-left than from the bigoted hard-right. This may seem counterintuitive: There has been far more violence — mass shootings in malls, synagogues and other soft targets... from extremists who identify more with the hard-right than with the hard-left. But the influence of the hard-left on our future leaders is far more pervasive, insidious and dangerous than the influence of the hard-right. People on the "woke" hard-left seem so self-righteous about their monopoly over Truth with a capital T that many of them see no reason to allow dissenting, politically incorrect, views to be expressed. Such incorrect views, they claim, make them feel "unsafe." They can feel safe only if views they share are allowed to be expressed. Feeling unsafe is the new trigger word for demanding censorship. No university student has the right to be safe from uncomfortable ideas, only from physical threats, and any student who claims to be in physical fear of politically incorrect ideas does not belong at a university. The most extreme example of this distortion of the role of higher education took place at my own university when a distinguished dean of a Harvard residential college was fired from his deanship because some "woke" students claimed to feel unsafe in his presence because he was representing, as a defense lawyer, a man accused of rape. We often forget that the concept of "political correctness" originated in the Stalinist Soviet Union, where Truth — political, artistic, religious — was determined by the central committee of the Communist Party and any deviation was regarded as unacceptable. To be sure, there is a vast difference between how Stalin treated political incorrectness and how the "woke" generation treats it. Stalin murdered those who deviated from his Truth, while "wokers" generally shun and discredit, though there has been occasional violence from elements of the hard-left toward those who deviate from their Truth. But both produce a similar result: less dissent, less reliance on the marketplace of ideas and more self-censorship. For many "wokers," freedom of speech is nothing more than a weapon of the privileged used to subjugate the unprivileged. It a bourgeois concept that emanates from an anachronistic white, male constitution that is irrelevant to the contemporary world. Free speech for me — the underprivileged — but not for thee — the privileged. That is what the "wokers" want. Affirmative action for speech!...
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Trump Orders Creation of U.S. Space Command 
to Establish American ‘Dominance’
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by Adam Kredo 
freebeacon.com } ~ President Donald Trump on Thursday directed his administration to establish a U.S. Space Command that will help America achieve "dominance in space."... The space command operation, which was directed by the president and will be undertaken by the Defense Department, will be "established as the newest unified combatant command under the Department of Defense and will include forces from all Military Services."  "When it comes to defending America, it is not enough to merely have an American presence in space. We must have American dominance in space." Trump said. "United States Space Command will be established as the newest unified combatant command under the Department of Defense and will include forces from all military services," according to information provided by the White House. U.S. Space Command will be comprised of military personnel, civilian employees, and contractors, according to the White House. Every branch of the U.S. military will participate in the project "to achieve vital victories in space," the White House said. "Delivering combat power by operating superior space capabilities such as communications, intelligence, navigation, and early missile detection and warning" will be a chief goal of the project. "The establishment of United States Space Command represents a crucial step to improving the nation's space war fighting structure in our ever evolving world," the White House said...  https://freebeacon.com/national-security/trump-orders-creation-of-u-s-space-command-to-establish-american-dominance/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=58a6f5d1e1-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_30_07_21_COPY_234&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-58a6f5d1e1-45611665  
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WTH is going on in Afghanistan? 
Gen. Petraeus explains the US-Taliban deal
by Danielle Pletka, Marc A. Thiessen 
and General David H. Petraeus
aei.org } ~ What the hell is going on in Afghanistan? Why is the United States making a deal with the Taliban?... As the Trump administration and Taliban officials wrap up negotiations, many fear that a US withdrawal could return Afghanistan to the terrorist safe haven it was before the 9/11 attacks. On the brink of the deal’s announcement, Dany and Marc interviewed former Afghanistan commander General David Petraeus to get his perspective on what a deal with the Taliban would mean for US national security and the people of Afghanistan. Gen. Petraeus explains the importance of keeping troops on the ground, discussing his time in the region and the lessons that the US should have taken from the past 18 years of war. Gen. Petraeus is the Chairman of the KKR Global Institute. He served as Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the scumbag/liar-nObama administration and as the commander of Central Command, ISAF, and US forces in Afghanistan. Gen. Petraeus graduated from the US Military Academy and holds MPA and PhD degrees from Princeton University.  http://www.aei.org/multimedia/wth-is-going-on-in-afghanistan-gen-petraeus-explains-the-us-taliban-deal/?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWW1WbE1HVmhPVE5pWmpKaiIsInQiOiJCeVJpRGx5MTZCa25YMWRKT29neWdQWE0zTWNUYUdUb1pcL1wvZTdjSHF3RDVPditPcHN5djNxSTBEUnJ0Q2tsanM4Rm1DMkFXTlRXbFk3eE54enN4SGtFVmtGQ1hRVUp6Q3E0UkdMcWVoVjdiY2xIbmE4MjJWbGVOV3J5ZndNMFpnIn0%3D  
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MSNBC Forced to Retract Latest Anti-Trump Fake News
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Thomas Gallatin:  In the latest high-profile instance of the Leftmedia peddling anti-Trump fake news, MSNBC host Lawrence O'Donnell claimed Tuesday evening on Rachel Maddow’s show that he had a new Trump-colluded-with-Russia bombshell. O'Donnell breathlessly reported that he had information revealing that President Donald Trump had obtained loans cosigned by Russian oligarchs. Wow, finally! O'Donnell has the smoking gun behind the whole Russia-collusion conspiracy. As O'Donnell bloviated, “That would explain every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin.” Except for the fact that O'Donnell’s “information” was phony hearsay.

Trump was quick to respond to the slanderous claim, as his personal attorney sent NBC a letter demanding an immediate retraction of the report. “These statements are false and defamatory, and extremely damaging,” wrote Trump’s lawyer, Charles Harder. He then demanded that O'Donnell and NBC “immediately and prominently retract, correct and apologize for the aforementioned false and defamatory statements.”

On Wednesday, NBC capitulated. O'Donnell ruefully admitted on air, “Last night, I made an error in judgment by reporting an item about the president’s finances that didn’t go through our rigorous verification and standards process. I shouldn’t have reported it and I was wrong to discuss it on the air.” O'Donnell then offered this back-handed apology: “We don’t know whether the information is inaccurate. The fact is we do know it wasn’t ready for broadcast, and for that I apologize.”

Trump’s statement following this last Leftmedia attack perfectly sums up why so many Americans are fed up and have lost all trust in the mainstream media: “The totally inaccurate reporting by Lawrence O'Donnell, for which he has been forced by NBC to apologize, is NO DIFFERENT than the horrible, corrupt and fraudulent Fake News that I (and many millions of GREAT supporters) have had to put up with for years. So bad for the USA!” Indeed, Trump was also right last year when he called Fake News and the Leftmedia’s gross bias “the true enemy of the people.”  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/articles/65128?mailing_id=4499&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4499&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Trump Is Right on the China Threat
Ben Shapiro    
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'I Wouldn't Say scumbag-James Comey Is Out 
of the Woods'; 'This Is Just the Beginning'
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By Susan Jones  
cnsnews.com } ~ Reaction came swiftly on Thursday, after the Justice Department inspector general released a report saying that former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey failed to live up to his responsibility to protect sensitive information... And by using sensitive information to force the appointment of a special prosecutor, the OIG found that scumbag-Comey "set a dangerous example for the over 35,000 current FBI employees -- and the many thousands more former FBI employees -- who similarly have access to or knowledge of non-public information." "I wouldn’t say scumbag-James Comey is out of the woods," Rep. Andy Biggs (R-Ariz.) said. "We're in the pregame show. This is just the beginning," Jay Sekulow, President Trump's attorney said. Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas) said the IG report shows that scumbag-Comey, by leaking information to achieve a personally desired end the appointment of a special counsel "calls into question literally all of the actions and all of the decisions made by scumbag-Jim Comey throughout his tenure." scumbag-Comey, in response to the report, bragged via Twitter that he did not release classified information to the media. And he said it would nice to get a "sorry we lied about you" from "those who defamed me." "I think that we have rarely seen somebody so delusional and self-serving as scumbag-James Comey in public life in America," Biggs, a member of the House Judiciary Committee, told Fox News on Thursday. scumbag-Comey will not be criminally charged for his wrongdoing, but it's not over yet Biggs said: "Well, he might get a pass in some respects on this, but his reputation is shot to pieces...
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The Jihad on Christian Cemeteries
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by Raymond Ibrahim
frontpagemag.com } ~ Although the Islamic persecution of actual, living Christians is certainly more deplorable, Islamic attacks on inanimate Christian symbols are often more indicative of the existential hate borne for the other... Consider, for instance, the phenomenon of Muslims desecrating and destroying Christian cemeteries and their crosses.  While the act itself is largely “symbolic”—in that no living person gets hurt—it is also reflective of a committed, viral hatred that transcends subjective circumstances.  In other words, whereas the persecution of this or that Christian can be motivated by particular circumstances—conflicts, sexual attraction, convenience, gain, etc.—attacks on inanimate Christian symbols reflect an objective, transcendent hatred for Christianity and its followers, one that needs no “reason” and gains nothing in its expression. From one end of the Islamic world to the other—in Arab, African, and Asian nations, and increasingly in the West—this sort of hate is becoming a regular occurrence. A brief list follows; it is ordered by desecrations committed by formal terrorists (“ISIS,” etc.), informal terrorists (Muslim mobs), and Muslim governments: Libya: In March 2012, a video of a Muslim mob attacking a commonwealth cemetery near Benghazi, where WWII British officers were buried, appeared on the Internet. As the vandals kick down and destroy headstones with crosses on them, the man videotaping them urges them to “Break the cross of the dogs!” while he and others cry “Allahu Akbar!” At one point, he chuckles as he tells an overly zealous desecrater to “calm down.” When another Muslim complains that he is unable to kick down a particular stone, wondering if it is because “this soldier must have been good to his parents,” the man videotaping replies, “Come on, they are all dogs, who cares?” Finally the mob congregates around the huge Cross of Sacrifice, the cemetery’s cenotaph monument, and starts hammering at it, to more cries of “Allahu Akbar.” The same scene repeated itself on June 3, 2015: What were described by witnesses as “Salafi” Muslims—that is, Muslims who in word, deed, and dress try to emulate their prophet Muhammad and his companions—were seen destroying crosses and tombstones and digging up graves in the old Christian section of Tripoli...
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Joe DiGenova believes it’s critical Durham, FBI 
grill scumbag/liar-nObama over Trump spying
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by Frieda Powers
bizpacreview.com } ~ Joe diGenova wants to know when former President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama will be questioned by U.S. Attorney John Durham and the FBI... The former U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia believes an interview of scumbag/liar-nObama “must” be conducted, telling a Fox News panel that it will be necessary in order to complete an ongoing investigation into the origins of the Russia probe. Along with his wife and partner, Victoria Toensing, diGenova spoke with Fox News host Sean Hannity on Thursday about the release of the Department of Justice report on the investigation of former FBI Director scumbag-James Comey. “Today we learned what we already knew, that scumbag-Comey is a liar and he violated the law,” diGenova said on “Hannity” Thursday, reacting to the report released by Inspector General Michael Horowitz. While Attorney General Bill Barr will not be prosecuting scumbag-Comey over the findings, and the fired FBI chief gloated over what he saw as an exoneration, the report found that he “violated Department or FBI policy, or the terms of scumbag-Comey’s FBI Employment Agreement.”“As described in this report, we conclude that scumbag-Comey’s retention, handling, and dissemination of certain Memos violated Department and FBI policies, and his FBI Employment Agreement,” the report concluded.  Though scumbag-Comey seemed to have escaped prosecution for now, many felt Attorney General William Barr may be holding off in order to prosecute him for alleged FISA abuse. In a separate investigation, a report by Horowitz is anticipated on alleged Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act abuses in obtaining warrants against former Trump campaign aide Carter Page...
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New Census Bureau partners 
for 2020: Islamic activists
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by wnd.com ~ The Council on American-Islamic Relations has been controversial since its launch by Hamas operatives in the United States... It was named by the Justice Department as an unindicted co-conspirator in a terror funding trial. Its leaders have been caught stating their desire to make America a Muslim nation. Numerous CAIR leaders have been charged or convicted in terror-related cases. Now, the special interest group boasts it has been chosen to partner with the U.S. Census Bureau. The Investigative Project on Terrorism reported  CAIR will "promote participation in the census and advise people how to avoid scams." The Census Bureau did not respond to a request for comment, IPT said. IPT noted the FBI knows enough about the CAIR to order its agents not to engage with the group outside of criminal investigations. Internal documents seized by the FBI show that CAIR and its founders, Omar Ahmad and Nihad Awad, were deeply involved in a Hamas-support network in America created by the Muslim Brotherhood. The group's mission was described as "defending the Islamic cause in Palestine and support for the emerging movement, the Hamas Movement." Nevertheless, CAIR Executive Director Nihad Awad said his group "is proud to partner with the U.S. Census Bureau to ensure American Muslims are fairly and accurately counted in the 2020 Census." "Full participation in the census ensures that American Muslims will be better represented in Congress and that their communities receive an equal share in state and federal programs," he said. CAIR said it wanted to make sure "American Muslim communities" get "a fair share in federal and state funding. IPT noted, however, that the U.S. Census Bureau does not collect data on religious affiliation in its demographic surveys or decennial census. Public Law 94-521 prohibits census workers from asking a question on religious affiliation on a mandatory basis. In some person or household surveys, however, the bureau is allowed to collect information about religious practices on a voluntary basis...  https://www.wnd.com/2019/08/new-census-bureau-partners-2020-islamic-activists/   
Let Them Howl, Boris!
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by Pat Buchanan
townhall.com } ~ Facing a Parliamentary majority opposed to a hard Brexit -- a crashing out of the EU if Britain is not offered a deal she can live with -- Boris Johnson took matters into his own hands... He went to the Queen at Balmoral and got Parliament "prorogued," suspended, from Sept. 12 to Oct. 14. That's two weeks before the Oct. 31 deadline Johnson has set for Britain's departure. The time his opposition in Parliament has to prevent a crash out of the European Union has just been sliced in half. His adversaries are incensed. The speaker of the House of Commons called Johnson's action "a constitutional outrage." Johnson's Tory Party leader in Scotland resigned. Labor Party Leader Jeremy Corbyn said Parliament will start legislating Tuesday to block Johnson. There is talk of a no-confidence vote in the Tory government. One recalls the counsel Benjamin Jowett, Master of Balliol, gave his students: Never retract, never explain, just do it and let them howl! For Johnson has done what he was chosen, and pledged, to do. Though he lacks a majority for a "no-deal Brexit," his suspension of Parliament keeps faith with the hardline Tories who put their trust in him -- that he would honor his commitment to get done by October's end what the British people voted to do in 2016. Whatever may be said of him, Johnson has shown himself as a man of action, a risk-taker, a doer, like Trump, who has hailed Johnson for the suspension. And leaders like Johnson are today shouldering aside the cookie-cutter politicians to dominate the world stage. Matteo Salvini, interior minister, leader of the League party, and the most popular political figure in Italy, brought down his own government to force new elections he felt he would win. His ambition is to take the leadership not only of Italy but of the European populist right. Salvini's boldness backfired when the League's ex-partner in the government, the leftist Five Star Movement, joined the Democratic Party to form a new government from which the League is excluded...
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Trump Is Right on the China Threat

Ben Shapiro
 

President Trump’s latest foray into the world of international economics — his ongoing trade war with China — has been widely derided by his critics. It’s been derided on the grounds that there is no long-term strategy; on the grounds that the trade war will not be, as Trump has bragged, “good and easy to win”; on the grounds that Trump continues to send mixed signals, simultaneously claiming that China is bearing the brunt of his tariffs while desperately urging Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to lower interest rates.

Now, Trump’s trade policy may not be well-considered. His understanding of trade is rudimentary at best — he still operates under the assumption that mutually beneficial trade is actually a zero-sum game. And Trump’s rhetoric may be confusing — it’s unclear whether Trump wants tariffs or wants to alleviate them. But Trump does have one thing absolutely right: China is an imperturbable geopolitical foe. And the United States ought to be taking a serious look at a long-term strategy to contain and then reverse the dominance of the totalitarian communist regime.

Trump is the only president of recent vintage to understand this simple truth. The Chinese regime is strengthening its totalitarianism; market forces have not opened up China’s politics. China’s attempts to strengthen its grip on Hong Kong, its forays into the complexities of Indian-Pakistani politics, its threats of sanctions against American firms over the sale of jets to Taiwan — all of this bespeaks the intent of the Xi Jinping regime, which has a philosophy of political revanchism. The supposed moderation of Dengism — the political philosophy of Deng Xiaoping, which supposedly prized pragmatism over doctrinal adherence to Marxist tenets — is being quickly reversed, with China’s economy placed at the mercy of political leadership. Dengism was always treated with too much optimism by the West: The same regime supposedly pushing for detente with the West stole hundreds of billions in intellectual property every year for years while continuing to build up its military. !

Still, Xi has moved away from even tepid moves toward openness.

Two significant projects in recent years demonstrate the scale of China’s ambitions. First, there’s the so-called Belt and Road Initiative, in which China has helped subsidize building infrastructure in a bevy of countries throughout the world. Up to 68 countries are already taking part. The project is designed to place these countries in hock to the Chinese government; it’s also designed to maximize China’s naval power in the region.

Then there is China’s heavy focus on government-subsidized building of 5G, using Huawei as the tip of the spear. China is offering 5G technology to developing countries at discounted prices, and those countries, hungry for the technology, have been accepting, likely at the cost of their own privacy and security. The goal, as always: maximization of China’s sphere of influence.

Free trade isn’t going to cure this. China’s government has been willing to utilize mercantilism to prop up its global ambitions. Capitalism hasn’t opened China’s politics. Free trade has indeed benefitted China’s citizens, bringing hundreds of millions out of poverty, but the Chinese government has responded with more repression, not less. All of which means that the United States must be pursuing a thorough strategy of opposition to China’s ambitions.

Trump seems to understand this. But if he fails to articulate that to the American people, his economic war with China will fail. That’s because if the American people are asked to shoulder an economic burden without being informed as to the rationale or the cost, they will rightly buck. Trump hasn’t explained that the burden exists, let alone why the American people should shoulder it.

With that said, at least Trump recognizes the threat China represents. The chattering class has, for far too long, ignored that threat, to the detriment of the United States and her allies.  ~The Patriot Post

https://patriotpost.us/opinion/65095?mailing_id=4496&utm_medium=email&utm_source=pp.email.4496&utm_campaign=snapshot&utm_content=body  

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Friday PM ~ thefrontpagecover

TheFrontPageCover
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commie-Sanders Praises Red Chinese 
but Credits Capitalism
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Thomas Gallatin  
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Purging Dude Walls Toward Leftist Utopia
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by David Limbaugh
townhall.com } ~ If the left is so loving, tolerant and inclusive, why is it so driven by unquenchable bitterness? What fuels it to divide Americans?... No, I'm not talking about the Democratic presidential candidates, though any one of them demonstrates the same theme. The American left is just gorged with angst and apparently on a mission to share its misery. The insanity emanating from leftists today is overwhelming. It used to be that when you came across an outrageous story in the news, you just shook your head and thought, "This is weird." But you found solace in realizing it was not representative of the societal norm. Sadly, that's not true anymore. The left has made great strides in normalizing insanity. It's as if each day's news is an orchestrated clinic on how to make society sound crazier today than it was yesterday -- and it was way crazy yesterday. Let me give you a typical example. NPR reported that MSNBC's Rachel Maddow was at Rockefeller University a few years ago to present a prize to a prominent female scientist. Upon entering the auditorium, someone heard her say, "What is up with the dude wall?" One side wall was covered with portraits of award-winning scientists from the university, and Maddow was distressed that they were all men. Maddow was not alone. "One hundred percent of them are men," said Leslie Vosshall, a neurobiologist with the university. "It's probably 30 headshots of 30 men. So it's imposing." Her word choice is instructive. Vosshall explained that Maddow's comment made her realize that for years, she had been uneasy about seeing rooms and hallways at scientific institutions adorned with portraits of white men. "It just sends the message, every day when you walk by it, that science consists of old white men," she said. "I think every institution needs to go out into the hallway and ask, 'What kind of message are we sending with these oil portraits and dusty old photographs?'" Let me stop here and ask you: If you were to see photos or portraits of distinguished men in a university setting, would you feel like the university was sending you a message? Would it strike you as "imposing"? Would you view it through a gender or race prism?... No it won't.
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Trump admin finds a leaker to the media — 
and she was very close to the president  
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by Carlos Garcia
theblaze.com } ~ A personal assistant to President Donald Trump reportedly resigned abruptly on Thursday for divulging information to the media... Madeleine Westerhout, director of Oval Office operations, met with reporters in New Jersey for an off-the-record dinner while the president was on vacation. Westerhout reportedly shared information with the reporters about the Trump family and other affairs in the White House. The Times said that the administration has labeled Westerhout a "separated employee" and will not allow her back into the White House. Westerhout was born in California and worked previously as an intern on the 2012 presidential campaign for rino-Mitt Romney. Some  questioned her loyalty to the president after a recent book about the White House reported that she cried in anguish in 2016 when the election results rolled in. In 2016, she worked as a "greeter girl" for visitors to the Trump Tower during the transition period after the election...
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From Latin America to West Africa, Hezbollah’s complex web of connections is fuelling 
its terrorist activity
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by Emanuele Ottolenghi
fdd.org } ~ When Paraguay announced it was designating Hezbollah as an international terrorist organisation last week, it created a new legal basis to take action against the Lebanese group’s money laundering and terror-financing activities... These fundraising operations criss-cross the globe, from Latin America and the US to West Africa. Hezbollah exploits existing smuggling routes and links to cartels and relies on large family networks to boost its coffers, without having to develop a criminal infrastructure. Latin America is just starting to wake up to the threat. With Hezbollah’s proscription, Asuncion can help reduce the group’s pervasive and destabilising influence, across Latin America. The fight against Hezbollah needs to be global and Latin America, where much of the group’s illicit activities are concentrated, is a good place to start. Until recently, Latin American governments were unwilling to label Hezbollah a terrorist organisation. Last month, however, Argentina took the unprecedented step of doing so, noting Hezbollah’s responsibility for terror attacks against an Israeli embassy and a Jewish community centre on Argentinian soil in 1992 and 1994 respectively. The designations followed Argentina’s creation of a public registry for terror entities and individuals. Argentina’s actions clearly influenced Paraguay, its neighbour to the north, whose government previously refused to acknowledge the obvious. In January, Paraguay’s then foreign minister Luis Castiglioni publicly denied that Hezbollah had engaged in illicit finance activities in the country. Paraguay’s director of the National Intelligence Secretariat Esteban Aquino Bernal echoed his claim, suggesting that the main challenge for financial authorities was not money laundering but tax evasion. Interior minister Juan Ernesto Villamayor also downplayed the issue. Even the Supreme Court’s then president Victor Manuel Nunez Rodriguez weighed in, saying he had no evidence Hezbollah was financing terrorism... They are so wrong and will pay for being wrong.
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Trump: US to keep 8,600 troops 
in Afghanistan after Taliban deal
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thehill.com } ~ President Trump said Thursday he will reduce the number of U.S. troops in Afghanistan to 8,600 but the U.S. will maintain a presence after a deal with the Taliban is reached in the 18-year war... “We’re going down to 8,600, and then we’ll make a determination from there as to what happens,” Trump said in an interview on Fox News radio. Trump stressed the need for a residual presence to prevent an attack on the United States, adding that if such an attack were to happen “we would come back with a force like they’ve seen never before." "Oh yeah, you have to keep a presence," Trump said. "We're going to keep a presence there. We're reducing that presence very substantially, and we're going to always have a presence. We're going to have high intelligence." Trump’s envoy for Afghan peace talks, Zalmay Khalilzad, is in Qatar seeking to put the finishing touches on a deal with the Taliban in the ninth round of talks. The Taliban said Wednesday that a deal was close. The broad outlines of the deal would see U.S. troops withdraw in exchange for Taliban assurances that Afghanistan will not be used as a launch point for terrorist attacks against the United States. The sticking point has been the Taliban’s refusal to engage in talks with the Afghan government, a key U.S. demand. The Taliban considers the U.S.-backed government illegitimate. A drawdown to 8,600 troops would put U.S. troop levels at a couple hundred more than they were when Trump first took office. Right now, the official count of U.S. troops in Afghanistan is 14,000...
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worthless-Omar calls for U.N. 
authority over U.S. border crisis
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By Art Moore
wnd.com } ~ The United States should bring in the United Nations to handle the border crisis on the U.S.-Mexico border... asserts Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. "We should do what any other country does by dealing with this situation in a serious way," worthless-Omar told her constituents Tuesday during an immigration forum in south Minneapolis. "So, we have to bring in the United Nations high commissioner on refugees, an agency that has the expertise and the training to handle massive flows of refugees humanely," she said, according to the Daily Wire. worthless-Omar was the target of a complaint filed Wednesday with the Federal Election Commission accusing her of illegally using campaign funds to pay for travel expenses for the Democratic political consultant whose wife accuses him of having an extramarital affair with the Muslim congresswoman. Nevertheless, the Daily Wire reported, she lectured the Minneapolis audience about losing the "moral high ground" on immigration. worthless-Omar also charged, without evidence, that the federal government was arresting and deporting illegal aliens because they were poor. In February, worthless-Omar called for the elimination of the Department of Homeland Security. "When Democrats stood our ground last month, we proved that Individual does not have the public support to ram his hateful wall through Congress," worthless-Omar tweeted. "Let's stand firm: #Not1Dollar for DHS." In July, Rep. commie-Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., said in an interview she also would like to get rid of DHS. 'Congress has let it happen'...
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commie-Sanders Praises Red Chinese but
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Thomas Gallatin:  Cranky commie-Bernie Sanders lost himself at least one vote after he and his campaign team stopped at a famous California restaurant in San Francisco for dinner. John Konstin, the owner of John’s Grill — which opened back in 1908 and was famously used as a backdrop of the 1941 movie “The Maltese Falcon” — was none too impressed with the socialist Democratic presidential candidate, stating, “It was all very nice, except for cranky commie-Bernie. He was just rude, not friendly. I think he was hungry and just didn’t want to be a politician. He lost my vote.”

Contrast commie-Sanders’s behavior to that of President Donald Trump, who has been described as warm, friendly, and engaging on the campaign trail. As The Atlantic reported back in 2016: “The 70-year-old Republican nominee took his time walking from the green room toward the stage. He stopped to chat with the waiters, service workers, police officers, and other convention staffers facilitating the event. There were no selfies, no glad-handing for votes, no trailing television cameras. Out of view of the press, Trump warmly greets everyone he sees, asks how they are, and, when he can, asks for their names and what they do.”

Perhaps commie-Sanders’s crankiness and rudeness toward the peasantry can be explained by his longtime affinity for totalitarian regimes — which should give every Liberty-loving American serious pause. The man who honeymooned in the Soviet Union is now crediting China’s communist regime for pulling millions of Chinese out of poverty. In a recent interview, commie-Sanders asserted, “China is a country that is moving, unfortunately, in a more authoritarian way in a number of directions. But what we have to say about China, in fairness to China and it’s leadership, is, if I’m not mistaken, they have made more progress in addressing extreme poverty than any country in the history of civilization, so they’ve done a lot of things for their people.”

What commie-Sanders failed to mention was what China did to lift millions of people out of poverty. The reality is that, in 1979, Beijing abandoned socialist economic controls and started to embrace capitalism, which, distorted though it was, quickly ignited a massive economic turnaround — leading to a rapid reduction in the nation’s poverty rate. Ironically, commie-Sanders’s mention of China’s pulling people out of poverty undercuts his own claims that socialism is the way to greater prosperity and economic freedom.

Finally, it’s worth pointing out what commie-Sanders conveniently ignores — Chinese communist dictator Mao Zedong’s solution to poverty was to force a socialist economy onto the populace at the expense of an estimated 65 million lives. As The Heritage Foundation notes, “Anyone who got in his way was done away with — by execution, imprisonment or forced famine.”  ~The Patriot Post

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NYT: Don't Expose Our Journalists' 
Racist Comments
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WaPo Investigation Finds ‘Almost Every Detail’ 
of loose lips liar-Biden War Story False
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by Alex Griswold 
freebeacon.com } ~ A Washington Post investigation found that a war story frequently told by 2020 Democratic presidential candidate loose lips liar-Joe Biden on the campaign trail was false in nearly every detail... At a Friday New Hampshire rally, loose lips liar-Biden told the crowd that as vice president he had once been asked to travel to the dangerous Kunar province in Afghanistan to pin the Silver Star on a war hero who had rappelled down a steep wall to retrieve the body of a fallen comrade. loose lips liar-Biden said he ignored others who warned him not to go. "We can lose a vice president," he remembered saying. "We can't lose many more of these kids." In loose lips liar-Biden's telling, as he pinned the medal to the hero's chest, the tearful Navy captain told loose lips liar-Biden that he didn't deserve the medal because he hadn't saved his friend in time. "This is the God's truth," he told the audience. "My word as a loose lips liar-Biden." Except it wasn't. "Almost every detail in the story appears to be incorrect," the Post reported Thursday. "Based on interviews with more than a dozen U.S. troops, their commanders and loose lips liar-Biden campaign officials, it appears as though the former vice president has jumbled elements of at least three actual events into one story of bravery, compassion and regret that never happened." loose lips liar-Biden did visit Kunar in 2008, but as a senator, not vice president. There, he watched as a major general pinned the Bronze Star to a soldier who successfully saved the life of an injured comrade during a Taliban ambush. The honored soldier, Miles Foltz, was a young Army specialist who pulled his comrade behind a rock, not an old Navy captain who rappelled down a wall... My goodness why would anyone vote for loose lips liar-Biden??  https://freebeacon.com/politics/wapo-investigation-finds-almost-every-detail-of-biden-war-story-false/?utm_source=Freedom+Mail&utm_campaign=9675106a13-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2019_08_29_08_33_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_b5e6e0e9ea-9675106a13-45611665  
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Bret Baier UNLOADS on scumbag-Comey, the “dangerous example” for 35,000 employees
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independentsentinel.com } ~ Bret Baier usually doesn’t offer his opinion on his news show. He does his best to remain neutral, but even he couldn’t take the obnoxious, arrogant and corrupt former FBI director calling for an apology... The Inspector General’s report by no means exonerates him, yet he’s acting as if it did. The truth is quite the opposite. Michael Horowitz portrayed him as a “dangerous example” for the 35,000 employees of the department. The Inspector General found that he violated President Trump’s civil liberties and violated FBI standards in his campaign of leaking a false Russia collusion narrative in vengeance against Trump. CNN admitted the report is damning. Yet, scumbag-Comey went on to Twitter boasting of what he thinks is exoneration. “scumbag-James Comey is essentially crowing about avoiding an indictment from the Department of Justice, which is a little rich if you think about it,” he said following the release of the report. He actually had the gall to say, “I don’t need a public apology from those who defamed me, but a quick message with a “sorry we lied about you” would be nice. Bret Baier summed it up well. Watch the clip.
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Trump Admin Sanctions Hezbollah Terror 
Network in Blow to Iranian-Backed Group
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by Adam Kredo
freebeacon.com } ~ The Trump administration on Thursday issued a new batch of sanctions on the Lebanese terror group Hezbollah in the latest salvo aimed at disrupting the Iranian-backed organization's illicit funding and weapons networks... according to information provided by the State and Treasury Departments. As Iran continues to ratchet up regional support for terror groups that have attacked American and allied forces, the Trump administration is moving to disrupt these terror groups by hitting them in their pocketbooks. The latest sanctions target Lebanon's Jammal Trust Bank SAL, which the Trump administration has identified as providing "illicit financial and banking activities" for Hezbollah. The Trump administration has walked a tricky diplomatic line with Lebanon as it seeks to support the country's legitimate military forces while attempting to ensure money and military hardware does not make its way to Hezbollah operatives, who have bragged in the past about siphoning American weapons from the Lebanese Armed Forces. Hezbollah continues to keep an overwhelming grip on Lebanon's economy, government, and military, making it all the more difficult for the international community to work with the country's government. "Today's designation reflects our determination to counter Hezbollah's terrorist and illicit activities in Lebanon," Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a statement accompanying the sanctions. "We will continue to target individuals and entities involved in financing and providing support to Hezbollah while working closely with the Central Bank of Lebanon and other Lebanese institutions which work to preserve the integrity and stability of Lebanon's banking system."...
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To European Leaders, Jewish Flesh Is Cheap
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by Guy Millière
gatestoneinstitute.org } ~ August 7th. Israel. When Dvir Sorek, an 18-year-old student returned from Jerusalem to his school after having bought some books for his rabbis as an end-of-year gift... he was stabbed to death by two Arab terrorists. As his funeral took place, while his father was delivering the eulogy, the inhabitants of the Arab village of Silwad, two miles North, to celebrate the murder, were setting off fireworks. Sorek was apparently a peaceful teenager who had never hurt anyone. Among the books he brought was one by an Israeli left-wing writer, David Grossman, supporting the need to create a Palestinian state. Sorek's "fault" was to be a Jew. His name extends the long list of Jews killed or wounded by Arab terrorists. Some murders are even more cruel. The man who raped and murdered Ori Ansbacher in February in Jerusalem said, "I wanted to kill a Jew and be a martyr." In 2011, five members of the Fogel family, including three young children, were slaughtered. In 2014, two murderers with axes, knives and a gun entered a synagogue in Jerusalem during morning prayers and massacred five worshipers and a policeman who tried to stop the attackers. On December 13, 2018, at a bus stop near Ofra, two young Jews were shot dead by terrorists. Four days before that, another gun attack injured seven Jews. A wounded young woman survived, but despite the efforts of doctors, the baby she was carrying died. Last week, in a terrorist bombing on a hiking trail near Dolev, north of Jerusalem, a teenage Jewish girl was murdered. Her father and brother were seriously wounded. After each murder, celebrations like those in Silwad take place. Candies and sweets are passed out in the street. If the murderers are shot by the Israeli soldiers or the police, they are proclaimed  martyrs, and are celebrated. Their portraits are displayed in Palestinian towns. Whether the terrorist murders are killed or whether they are arrested, tried and imprisoned in Israel, they or their families are awarded a generous monthly stipend from the Palestinian Authority -- an amount higher than the average Palestinian wage. Sometimes, the mothers of the murderers say how proud they are of the act their sons committed.The depravity built-in to murdering civilians, the celebrations that follow, the prestige granted to racist murderers, the alluring payments granted as a reward, and the pride of the mothers all stem from an incitement to hate Jews that is injected into the minds of the Palestinian Arabs by the people and institutions that lead them...
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Set back scumbag-George Soros, 
support Jonathan Fahey
By PAUL MIRENGOFF  
powerlineblog.com } ~ Earlier this year, scumbag-George Soros heavily funded primary challenges to two veteran Northern Virginia Commonwealth Attorneys... both of who whom have served their counties well and both of whom are Democrats. In Arlington County, scumbag-Soros backed Parisa Dehghani-Tafti, a criminal defense lawyer whose slander of the local police force was her calling card. She narrowly defeated Theo Stamos. In Fairfax County, scumbag-Soros funded Steve Descano in his race against incumbent Raymond Morrogh. Descano promises to end marijuana possession prosecutions, do away with cash bond, and forgo death penalty prosecutions. Like Dehghani-Tafti, Descano is playing the race card. He complains that blacks are prosecuted in disproportionate numbers compared to whites. Has it occurred to him that this might be because blacks commit a disproportionate amount of crime? Backed by scumbag-Soros’s money, Descano was able to defeat Morrogh. That’s the bad news. The good news is that Jonathan Fahey is running against Descano in the general election. Fahey has been a prosecutor for almost 20 years, first in the Fairfax County Commonwealth’s Attorney’s Office and then in the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Northern Virginia. He has prosecuted gang members, drug traffickers, fraudsters, and murderers. Fahey received the Department of Justice’s highest level award for the prosecution of a serial killer. Prosecutors I know swear by Fahey. They describe him as rock solid. This stands in marked contrast to Descano. As far as I can tell, his prosecution experience is limited to six years of prosecuting white collar crimes for the scumbag/liar-nObama Justice Department. Presently, he works in the field of behavioral therapy...
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NYT: Don't Expose Our Journalists' Racist Comments
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Political Editors:  In the latest example of leftist hypocrisy, The New York Times ran a story Monday entitled, “Trump Allies Target Journalists Over Coverage Deemed Hostile to White House.” The story behind that nefarious title boils down to the Times arguing that conservatives and supporters of President Donald Trump should do as the Leftmedia says, not as the Leftmedia does. In other words, what’s fair game for the Leftmedia should be off-limits for those on the Right.

The Times writes, “A loose network of conservative operatives allied with the White House is pursuing what they say will be an aggressive operation to discredit news organizations deemed hostile to President Trump by publicizing damaging information about journalists.” And what is the source of this damaging information on biased “journalists”? Why, it’s their very own public statements.

For example, a senior political editor at the Times, Tom Wright-Piersanti, was recently exposed for having a history of expressing anti-Semitic sentiments. One of his social-media comments from years past came back to bite him, leading to his demotion. Wright-Piersanti had written, “I was going to say ‘Crappy Jew Year,’ but one of my resolutions is to be less anti-Semitic. So… HAPPY Jew Year. You Jews.” Or how about this example out of CNN, whose Mohammed Elshamy tweeted, “More than 4 jewish pigs killed in #Jerusalem today by the Palestinian bomb explode.” It’s important to reiterate that these statements were public on social-media platforms.

It’s not just social-media pronouncements of racism, either. Remember, this is the same New York Times that recently launched its racist and historical-revisionist 1619 Project, asserting that America’s “true founding” was upon the arrival of slaves on the continent.

So, while the scribes and hacks at the Times make a living off of exposing statements made by politicians, celebrities, and other journalists, it is indeed ironic that they themselves cry foul when the standard they apply to others is applied to them.  ~The Patriot Post

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 Tariffs Cost Both Sides, but China 
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Media Editors:  Above the Fold


THE CALM BEFORE THE STORM: “Hurricane Dorian hurtled toward the United States and was on track to become a major hurricane Friday before its expected landfall Monday into Tuesday along Florida’s east coast, forecasters say. The storm was slowly turning west on Friday as it makes it way back toward land and is expected to strengthen in the coming days, the National Hurricane Center said. Dorian is then forecast slam the southeastern United States as a possible Category 4 storm.” (USA Today)

GREAT AGAIN: “President Trump revived the U.S. Space Command in a formal White House ceremony Thursday, putting the commander-in-chief a step closer to launching a military branch focused on the final frontier. … Thursday’s action does not establish a separate ‘Space Force,’ which must be approved by Congress. … Reviving the Space Command was an easier lift for the Pentagon. The command existed decades ago, though it was dissolved into the Strategic Command as part of a military reorganization following the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.” (The Washington Times)

Government & Politics


NOT SO FAST: A few weeks ago, a quintet of Senate Democrats gave the Supreme Court a Second Amendment ultimatum by way of a brief, wherein they bellowed, “Perhaps the Court can heal itself before the public demands it be ‘restructured in order to reduce the influence of politics.’” The GOP is now firing back. “Senate Republicans sent a letter to the Supreme Court on Thursday saying it ‘must not be cowed by the threats’ from Democrats who urged the justices not to take up a gun case next term and warned that the court could be restructured to reduce the influence of politics in its decisions,” NBC News reports. The letter states, “It’s one thing for politicians to peddle these ideas in Tweets or on the stump. But the Democrats’ amicus brief demonstrates that their court-packing plans are more than mere pandering. They are a direct, immediate threat to the independence of the judiciary and the rights of all Americans.”

RACE BAIT: “[Racism is] a white man’s problem,” loose lips liar-Joe Biden declared earlier this week. “White men are responsible for it — not black men.” This is loose lips liar-Biden’s effort to get back in the game — his false war stories notwithstanding — and possibly get Sen. lowlife-Kamala Harris on the phone.

PURGING THE LEAKERS: “President Trump’s personal assistant, Madeleine Westerhout … resigned on Thursday, two people familiar with her exit said. Ms. Westerhout’s abrupt and unexpected departure came after Mr. Trump learned on Thursday that she had indiscreetly shared details about his family and the Oval Office operations she was part of at a recent off-the-record dinner with reporters staying at hotels near Bedminster, N.J., during the president’s working vacation.” (The New York Times)

Science, Health, & Environment


SETTLED SCIENCE? “An ambitious new study — the largest ever to analyze the genetics of same-sex sexual behavior — found that genetics does play a role, responsible for perhaps a third of the influence on whether someone has same-sex sex. The influence comes not from one gene but many, each with a tiny effect — and the rest of the explanation includes social or environmental factors — making it impossible to use genes to predict someone’s sexuality.” (The New York Times)

THE WAR ON DRUGS: “The Department of Justice has broken up a drug ring allegedly responsible for conspiring to distribute 23 million opioid pills. Federal authorities announced on Wednesday that they had arrested 41 individuals after searching 15 pharmacies and six clinics. The case, which brought together multiple federal law enforcement agencies, highlights both how widespread prescription opioid trafficking still is, as well as the efforts of the government to crack down on it.” (The Washington Free Beacon)

AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH: “Climate activists often warn that global warming is stoking forest fires, but it turns out the amount of land burned by wildfires worldwide has plummeted by 25% since 2003, according to NASA. NASA’s Earth Observatory found that the number of total square kilometers burned globally each year has decreased steadily from 2003-19, based on data collected by Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometers (MODIS) on satellites.” (The Washington Times)

Other Notables


DEFIANCE: “A federal appeals court on Thursday upheld a [Cook County, Illinois] ban on assault weapons and limits on magazine capacity,” Newsweek reports. “The three-judge panel rendered a unanimous opinion for the court, including the assent of Trump appointee Judge Amy Joan St. Eve.” The appellate courts clearly have no interest in submitting to the Supreme Court on this issue.

AFGHAN CONTINGENCY: “President Trump said Thursday that the U.S. would leave 8,600 troops stationed in Afghanistan even if it secures a peace agreement with the Taliban. ‘We’re going down to 8,600 [from the current 14,000], and then we’ll make a determination from there as to what happens,’ Trump said on Fox News radio. "Oh yeah, you have to keep a presence. We’re going to keep a presence there. We’re reducing that presence very substantially, and we’re going to always have a presence. We’re going to have high intelligence.‘” (National Review)

Closing Arguments


POLICY: Trump’s fight against progressive agenda at the G-7 will pay off (The Daily Signal)

POLICY: The ugly side of the pursuit for “sustainability” (Issues & Insights)

HUMOR: As summer ends, journalists look forward to new season of hysterical lying (The Daily Wire)  

~The Patriot Post
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O’Donnell Retracts Loan Claim on Trump, 
Admits He Didn’t Bother to Verify It
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thenewamerican.com } ~ MSNBC talker Lawrence O’Donnell has retracted his claim that “Russian  oligarchs” guaranteed loans for President Donald Trump... O’Donnell based his claim on a single source he did not name, and he confessed that he did not attempt to verify the source’s claims, a mortal sin for a journalist, particularly one of O’Donnell’s repute and fame. The left-wing host confessed his negligence in a tweet and on his program last night. On Tuesday O’Donnell claimed that a “single source close to Deutsche Bank,” which loaned money to Trump, told him the German financial giant obtained the president’s tax returns. They showed, O’Donnell averred, that “the president pays very little income tax.” But that won’t be “surprising to people” or “especially politically damaging,” he said, given that Trump has always admitted he pays as little income tax as possible, like most Americans with any sense. But what would matter is this: “This single source close to Deutsche Bank has told me that Donald Trump’s loan documents there show that he has co-signers. That’s how he was able to obtain those loans. And that the co-signers are Russian oligarchs.” “That would explain, it seems to me,” he continued, “every kind word Donald Trump has ever said about Russia and Vladimir Putin, if true — and I stress the ‘if true’ part of this.” Remarkably, an MSNBC producer admitted the network had no documents to prove the reckless, single-source claim, a fact that O’Donnell finally admitted after Trump’s lawyers explained that he might wish to reconsider his claim. Charles Harder, the man who crushed the legal effort to destroy the president by Stormy Daniels and her attorney, Michael Avenatti, issued the warning. “These statements are false and defamatory, and extremely damaging,” he wrote. “The only borrowers under these loans are Trump entities, and Mr. Trump is the only guarantor. Numerous documents for each of these loans are also recorded, publicly available and searchable online.” Then came the threat for which O’Donnell and the leftists at MSNBC weren’t prepared...
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Trump Goes After Another scumbag/
liar-nObama-Era Reg As EPA Plans To Ease 
Rules Affecting Oil Companies
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by CHRIS WHITE
dailycaller.com } ~ The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday a plan to loosen federal rules governing methane emissions... a move that could be a boon for some energy providers and setback for environmentalists, the agency said in a statement. The move will reverse standards set under President Barack scumbag/liar-nObama that require oil companies to install instruments on their pipelines and well heads that curb the release of methane, an emission researchers believe contributes to global warming. President Donald Trump spent his first two years eliminating scores of his predecessor’s environmental legacy. Trump officials believe the fossil fuel industry has an incentive to limit methane because capturing it allows companies to sell more gas, officials told WaPo on the condition of anonymity. Such changes will save the industry between $17 million and $19 million a year, the EPA noted. “EPA’s proposal delivers on President Trump’s executive order and removes unnecessary and duplicative regulatory burdens from the oil and gas industry,” EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler said in a statement. “The Trump Administration recognizes that methane is valuable, and the industry has an incentive to minimize leaks and maximize its use. Since 1990, natural gas production in the United States has almost doubled while methane emissions across the natural gas industry have fallen by nearly 15%. Some of the largest oil companies in the U.S. are not on board with the move. “We believe sound environmental policies are foundational to the vital role natural gas can play in the energy transition and have made clear our support of 2016 law to regulate methane from new and modified onshore sources,” Shell President Gretchen Watkins said in a statement Thursday before the announcement...  https://dailycaller.com/2019/08/29/methane-trump-obama-epa-oil/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=9871  
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The Images and Maps behind Iran's 'Land Bridge'
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by Seth Frantzman
meforum.org } ~ Airstrikes in Iraq between July 19 and August 20 are attempts to interdict Iran's "land bridge" that stretches across Iraq and Syria to Lebanon... This was the assessment published by ImageSat International on August 22. "The Iranian land bridge from Tehran to Syria and Lebanon is under attack in Iraq." The history of Iran's land bridge go back many years. Allegations that Iran is constructing a swath of influence from Iran to Lebanon to link up with its Hezbollah ally, grew as Iran consolidated its influence in Iraq and Syria in the last decades. This was particularly true after the outbreak of the Syrian civil war and the rise of ISIS gave Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps an excuse to intervene in Iraq and Syria. Working closely with Shi'ite paramilitaries in Iraq, the Syrian regime and Hezbollah, Iran's influence grew. How to interpret that influence? One of the early reports to examine it as a "road to the sea" was Martin Chulov in October 2016. He argued that Iranian-backed Shi'ite militias in Iraq were using the war on ISIS to drive on of Iran's "most coveted projects, securing an arc of influence across Iraq and Syria." A map accompanying his article showed Iran's influence going through Baquba, Shirqat, Sinjar, Qamishli to Kobani and then Idlib, Homs and the sea. This was interesting because it showed areas under control of the Kurdish People's Protection Units (YPG), a group in Syria that was working with the US to fight Islamic State, as key to the route. In December 2016 an article at The Tower by Hanin Ghaddar called the bridge a part of Iran's attempt to control Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. In May 2017  Chulov wrote that Iran had changed the course of its road to the Mediterranean coast "to avoid US forces." The new route would go through Tel Afar near Mosul and then to Mayadin and Deir ez-Zor in Syria before crossing the desert to Damascus and continuing to Latakia. Iran's alleged project received an increasing spotlight in 2017 as the war on ISIS appeared to wind down. After Iraqi federal forces, backed by Shi'ite militias, retook Kirkuk and Sinjar from the autonomous Kurdistan Regional Government in October 2017, Iran seemed to gain more influence. An October 2017 article at Strategic Assessment by Franc Milburn analyzed possible routes of the land bridge. His report included a map showing three routes that Iran was using, one through Baghdad and then Syria's Tanf, another through Baghdad and Al-Qaim on the Syrian border and a third through Kirkuk and then northeast Syria...
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David Steinberg: Tying Up Loose 
Threads in the Curious Case
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{ powerlineblog.com } ~ In four intensely reported investigative columns — David Steinberg has explored the evidence suggesting that worthless-Ilhan Omar entered into a sham marriage with her brother in 2009... This is his fifth. He titles it “Meet Leila Elmi: The Missing Link Showing worthless-Ilhan Omar Married Her Brother.” Drawing on his research, interviews, and social media evidence he makes the case that worthless-Omar has engaged in a variety of fraudulent activities and willful misrepresentations related to her marital arrangements. He writes: On October 22, 2008, the U.S. State Department stopped accepting applications for the Priority 3/Refugee Family Reunification program — the process by which refugees can apply for asylum if one family member is already a legal U.S. resident. State halted the program because DNA testing — primarily of Somalis — had concluded that perhaps 87 percent of applicants were fraudulently claiming family relationships. Despite continuing war, Somalia of 2008 was not comparable to the open hell of the early 1990s, when an eight-year-old worthless-Ilhan and her family fled to Kenya’s Dadaab refugee camps. She lived there from 1991 until 1995, aged eight to 12. Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services then helped worthless-Ilhan, her sister Sahra, and their father Nur Said receive asylum in the United States along with thousands of other Somalis. The complicated moral question of fraud, let alone fault, among this 1990s wave of refugees escaping civil war will never be answered with accurate statistics. We will have to settle for adjectives like “widespread” and “rampant.” Yet the negative outcomes cannot be ignored. Even refugees with strong desire to assimilate with Western civic order are hampered by the possible discovery of conflicting documents. And compromising information becomes leverage in a community already difficult to police. Twelve-year-old worthless-Ilhan had no say on the manner in which she arrived in the United States. However, U.S. Congresswoman worthless-Ilhan Abdullahi Omar (D-MN) is now under scrutiny for acts she took beginning in 2009 — not 1995. In 2009, worthless-Omar was a 26-year-old U.S. citizen. She had been a U.S. citizen for nearly nine years. Additionally, the foreign national worthless-Omar apparently helped commit fraud was not fleeing hell in 2009, either. Ahmed Nur Said Elmi was a long-time citizen of the United Kingdom. He even possessed a high school diploma from the United States: Elmi attended a St. Paul, Minnesota high school for his senior year of 2002-2003, and graduated before returning to London. We look to 1995 not to incriminate a kid, but to answer questions about what worthless-Omar did 14 years later as an adult U.S. citizen. Please read the verified evidence below — and read it alongside the three years of verified evidence published by Scott Johnson, Preya Samsundar, and myself. The answers to those questions about 2009 appear to give probable cause to investigate worthless-Omar for eight instances of perjury, immigration fraud, marriage fraud, up to eight years of state and federal tax fraud, two years of federal student loan fraud, and even bigamy...  https://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2019/07/david-steinberg-tying-up-loose-threads-in-the-curious-case.php    
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GOP Approves Resolution To Expel 
worthless-Omar from Congress!
It’s OVER For Her!
by thepatriotsource.com ~ Justin Wise from The Hill reports, Alabama’s Republican Party is urging the state’s congressional delegation to begin the process of expelling freshman Rep. worthless-Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) from Congress.  https://thepatriotsource.com/2019/08/29/breaking-gop-approves-resolution-to-expel-omar-from-congress-its-over-for-her/  
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Tariffs Cost Both Sides, but China Is Taking the Biggest Hit
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Louis DeBroux:  President Donald Trump is playing a dangerous game with the global economy in order to do what should have been done decades ago; reign in the Communist Chinese government’s unfair trade practices.

China has repeatedly refused to act in good faith, blocking or heavily restricting U.S. access to Chinese domestic markets. Beijing has further discouraged foreign imports through a series of tariffs, subsidies, and other barriers to free trade, like its history of currency manipulation, artificially devaluing the yuan in order to make Chinese goods cheaper in the U.S.

Arguably the most damaging tactic used by the Chinese government is industrial espionage and theft of intellectual property. In addition to corporate espionage, the Chinese government, as a precondition for gaining access to Chinese markets, forces foreign companies to hand over intellectual property (inventions, designs, and other “creations of the mind”), passing it along to Chinese companies, which then produce cheaper knock-offs that directly compete with the foreign company.

The U.S. Trade Representative has estimated that America loses as much as $600 billion per year due to intellectual property theft by China.

Enter President Trump, who made immigration enforcement and renegotiating fairer trade deals the centerpieces of his 2016 presidential campaign.

If the official numbers are to be believed, the Chinese economy ($13.4 trillion GDP) ranks second globally behind the U.S. ($20.5 trillion GDP). However, there are a couple of caveats.

One, the Chinese economy, at a third smaller than the U.S., is spread out over four times the population. That population is aging faster than the American population, which means in the coming years it will be less productive and more expensive to care for.

Second, a recent, in-depth analysis by five economists from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and the University of Chicago found the Chinese have been over-reporting economic growth by an average of 1.7% per year for at least a dozen years, meaning the Chinese economy is roughly 20% smaller than officially reported.

And you can be absolutely certain that President Trump is aware of this and much more in his negotiations with China, which have been chaotic and tumultuous of late.

One day President Trump is praising Chinese President Xi Jinping, the next calling him an “enemy.” Such hyperbolic and inflammatory rhetoric is part of the “whiplash” strategy that Trump says is his M.O., but it sends waves of panic through economic markets. Trump’s recent demand that U.S. companies pull out of China made for even more uncertainty.

Then, of course, we have escalating tariffs.

In early 2018, President Trump levied $9 billion in tariffs on imports such as solar products and large appliances, months later adding $25 billion in new tariffs on steel and aluminum imports. Then, in the last year, Mr. Trump targeted another $200 billion in imports from China for tariffs, with another $300 billion targeted by the end of 2019.

To state the obvious, tariffs are bad. They drag down economic growth by taxing American consumers, who are spending more in the form of higher-priced imports, reducing their purchasing power. The damage is compounded by increasing uncertainty in economic markets, which sidelines capital and reduces investment, and therefore job creation and economic growth. Retaliatory actions taken by China are another painful blow.

The U.S. trade deficit with China was roughly $420 billion in 2018, but trade deficits are not necessarily bad. Most of us have a “trade deficit” with Walmart and Amazon, but because their lower-priced goods allow us greater purchasing power, our lives are considerably better for the arrangement. With China, the issue is not so much the trade deficit as the unfair practices that drive it.

President Trump claims we are winning the trade war, but in a trade war even winning is painful. It is the economic equivalent of chemotherapy — painful and destructive, but the hope is you purge the disease (in this case, China’s unfair trade practices) while harming the patient as little possible.

The president is well aware of this, as evidenced by his recent admission of second thoughts about the trade war, and the acknowledgment it could lead to a short recession. The Congressional Budget Office predicts the average American family will pay an extra $580 for goods next year due to the trade war.

President Trump feels he has a very strong hand, touting a new U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement that is a net benefit for the U.S., and hinting that a new U.S.-Japan trade agreement will be announced soon. Plus the fact that the U.S. is far and away the world’s most powerful economy.

After Chinese Vice Premier Liu He was quoted as saying “an escalation of the trade war is against the interest of China, the U.S. and the entire world,” President Trump said we are “winning” the trade war. He appears confident China will be ready to make a deal soon, saying, “I don’t think they have a choice.” On Monday, he praised President Xi as “a great leader,” adding that “one of the reasons that China is a great country is they understand how life works.”

While even top Democrats agree this trade war with China is necessary to force China to act in good faith, it will be better for all when it is over. Previous tariff skirmishes under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack scumbag/liar-nObama resulted in higher prices for American consumers, lost jobs, and slower economic growth.

And that benefits no one unless the results of the fight recoup the cost.  ~The Patriot Post

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